Battalion
Number 272: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1954
Price 5 Cents
Students Can Take
Advanced ROTC
As an Elective
By DON SHEPARD
Battalion News Editor
Some students will be allowed to
take advanced ROTC as an elective,
Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant,
announced.
“Those allowed to informally en
roll in military or air science,”
Davis said, “will be students who
show leadership ability and can
add something to the corps of ca
dets. They will not be enrolled
just for the prestige they would
receive from being in the corps.”
binder the regulations, students
falling in one of the following cat
egories may enroll informally in
ROTC if selected by the professor
of air science or professor of mili
tary science and tactics and ap
proved by the commandant:
a. Students who have failed the
air force or army officer’s quali
fying test but who are otherwise
qualified for a contract,
b. Students with minor physical
defects which prohibit them from
receiving a contract but which will
not prohibit them from fulfilling
the requirements of the ROTC
program,
c. Students who do not receive
a contract due to limitation in the
number of contracts to be awarded,
d. Students with a grade point
deficiency or a deficiency in hours
who have four academic semesters
remaining before graduation and
who are otherwise qualified for a
cdfcitract may take ROTC as an
elective for one semester only. At
the end of one semester the cadet
will receive a contract or be trans
ferred from the corps,
e. Cadets who are permitted to
take ROTC as an elective will en
joy all the cadet privileges of ca
dets who are under contract in
cluding being considered for cadet
rank.
Students with a grade point de
ficiency or a deficiency in hours
New Tradition
Born at A&M
Last Night
A new Aggie tradition was
born last night, when Paul
(Bear) Bryant, A&M coach
and athletic director, made a
plea for support at the be
ginning of the fourth quarter,
“We need you .n^ost then, 5 ’ Bry-
anf said, speaking to the student
body at All-College night in the
Grove. “When that fourth quarter
starts, yell out and let us know
you’re there.”
Bryant thanked the students for
their support in Saturday’s Texas
Tech football game.
“We really appreciated it,” he
said. “When a team is down or
being licked, they need it.”
“We’re down now,” he said. “But
I’ve been down before and I don’t
like it. I ddn’t intend to stay
down.”
After introducing his coaching
staff, Bryant said, “If we are able
to give the team the type of leader
ship they deserve, we’ll salvage
this season.”
“I’m confident you’ll' hear from
this team before the season is over,
ana 1 what you’ll hear will please
you,” he said.
Weather Today
who have more than four academic
semesters remaining before gradu
ation and who are otherwise quali
fied for a contract may live with
the corps and participate in cadet
drill and ceremonies for one semes
ter only, if selected.
Five year course students may
be selected for a maximum of two
semesters. At the end of that time
the cadet will receive a contract
or be transferred from the corps.
These cadets will not receive aca
demic credit for this work'nor may
they hold cadet rank.
Those desiring to take advantage
of one of the options listed above
must make application in triplicate
to either the professor of air sci
ence or professor of military sci
ence and tactics, Davis said.
All cadets taking military or air
science as an elective will be re
quired to furnish their own uni
forms. They will not receive mili
tary draft deferment nor will they
receive subsistence while informal
ly em-olled in ROTC, he said.
BABY GATOR—Conrad Cummings, corps chaplin, holds
one of the wriggling young alligators caught at Manor
Lake near West Columbia while on Memorial Student
Center retreat last week.
News Briefs
REAVES T. MAGNESS jr., ’53,
recently was promoted to first lieu
tenant while serving with the Ryu-
kyus command ordnance service on
Okinawa. He is from Brecken-
ridge.
* * *
FIRST LT. CURTIS M. BURNS,
’52, was graduated from basic jet
pilot school Sept. 15 at Bryan air
force base and awarded the silver
wings of a United States air force
pilot. He is from College Station
and majored in landscape architec
ture.
* * * i
A JUNIOR COLLEGE confer
ence will be held in the Memorial
Student Center Oct. 4-5. John R.
Bertrand, dean of the Basic Divi
sion, will be chairman.
* =t= *
JOHN D. WHEAT has been ap
pointed assistant professor of ani
mal husbandry at Kansas State
college, Manhattan. He received
his BS degree from A&M in 1942
and his MS in 1951.
* * *
RALPH A. ZINGARO has been
added to the chemistry department
staff. Dr. Zingaro received his
BS degree from the City College
of New York in 1946 and his PhD
from the University of Kansas in
1950.
Cloudy tonight with scattered
showers. High temperature yes
terday 99, low last night 68. Rain
fall at 6:30 a.m., .07 inches.
Five Added
To Department
Of English
Five new members have
been added to the department
of English.
Dr. R. H. Ballinger came
into the department as an
associate professor from the Basic
Division where he had been a coun
selor. Dr. A. L. Bennett from
Eastern Oklahoma state college
joined the staff as an assistant
professor.
New instructors are J. P. Blum-
enfeld, who has been working on a
PhD degree at the University of
Tennessee; L. D. Clark, who has a
MA degree from Columbia univer
sity; and W. D. Kadow, who has
been studying for the PhD degree
at the University of Arkansas.
H. E. Hierth, assistant professor
who has been at the University of
Wisconsin for the past year and a
half studying for the PhD degree,
and W. C. York, instructor who
has been at the University of Penn
sylvania for the past two years
studying for the PhD degree, re
joined the department after a leave
of absence.
New members of the department
of mathematics are assistant pro
fessor Atholl L. Wilson; instruc
tors, Frank N. Huggins, R. S.
Musa, Alvin F. Hildebrandt, Roy
Ellis, William H. Clayton; and
teaching fellows, Harry B. Llenza
jr., Carl M. Pearcy jr, and James C.
Bolen.
SECOND LT. JAMES A. EARL,
’53, was graduated from basic jet
pilot school at Bryan air force
base and awarded silver wings
Sept. 15. He is from San Antonio.
* * *
SECOND LT. ELMO K. WALK
ER was awarded the wings of gold
of a naval aviator during ceremo
nies at the U. S. naval air station
at Pensacola, Fla. He is an ex-
Aggie.
* * *
DEAN W. W. ARMISTEAD of
the School of Veterinary Medicine,
will speak at the 30th annual vet-
terinary short course at the Uni
versity of Missouri Oct. 4-5.
* * *
COUNTY EXTENSION agents
will participate in the second an
nual orientation course program
this week at A&M. Those attend
ing are agents or assistant agents
who have come into the service
between Feb. 1 and July 1, 1954.
Town Hall Series
Set for Coliseum
Town hall programs will be held
in the G. Rollie White coliseum
this year, said W. L. Penberthy,
head of the student activities.
The first program will be Oct.
5 and-wilTfeature the Sau-ter-Fine-
gap orchestra. . The Teltschiks, a
piano duet, will be here Oct. 26 and
Marge and Gower Champion and
the voices of Walter Schuhmann
will furnish the Dec. 14 program.
Others for the rest of the year
will be the Houston symphony or
chestra, Jan. 6; Fred Waring or
chestra and chorus, Feb. 7, 8, 9,
10 or 11; the Serenaders, a male
quartet, Feb. 28 and the “Caine
Mutiny Court Martial,” March 24.
Cadet Officers
To Be Given
Oath of Office
For the first time in A&M
history officers of the cadet
corps will be administered
their oath of office in a form
al and public ceremony sche
duled for 4:15 p.m. today in the
G. Rollie White coliseum.
"Four hundred and fifty-six stu
dents will be sworn into office from
rank of cadet first lieutenant to
colonel.
Dr. David H. Morgan, president,
will be the only speaker in the 30-
minute ceremony. The oath will
be administered by Lt. Col. Taylor
Wilkins, assistant commandant.
The Aggie Band will provide the
music and all members of the corps
will be present.
Conrad Cummings, corps chap
lain, will give the invocation.
Senior officers will sign the fol
lowing oath:
Having been appointed an officer
in the corps of cadets, I do solemnly
swear that I will support and de
fend the laws of the state of Tex
as,. the college regulations, and
that I will bear true faith and al
legiance' to the same; that I will
not participate in, condone, or tol
erate physical hazing or the use
of any instrument upon a cadet’s
body for any reason whatsoever;
that I take this obligation freely,
without mental reseiwation or pur
pose of evasion; and that I will well
and faithfully discharge the duties
of the office upon which I am
about to enter; so help me God.
Board of Directors Lets
Construction Contracts
New construction for the A&M System was the main order of business for the
A&M System board of directors, meeting here Saturday.
Contracts totalling $317,095 were awarded, with the largest single award going for a
new A&M Press building. The $252,625-con tract was awarded to Martin Semands of
Conroe.
The building will be a one-story, industrial-type concrete and brick structure, housing
production equipment, offices and storage rooms.
It will be near the laundry, in the general utilities area of the campus. The Press
is now in the basement of Goodwin hall.
Bonds in the amount of $220,000 for construction of the Press building were sold to
Eddleman Pollock company of Houston.
Other contracts awarded by the board for construction at A&M were $14,203 for a
superintendent’s residence atf
A&M Senior Beaten
After Tech Game
the college plantation and
$25,347 for a feed building at
the Poultry center. Both con
tracts went to the B-W Con
struction company of Bryan.
The board also appropriated
$50,000 for construction of a Farm
Service center, consisting of shop
and warehouse buildings, machin
ery sheds and service and mainten
ance area.
The center will serve the agri
cultural facilities in the dairy-beef
area.
Other appropriations approved
were $4,500 for repainting and re
pairing Walton hall, $9,000 for
plans for a furniture warehouse
and shop building for the buildings
and campus utilities depaifment,
and $2,000 for plans for remodel
ing the buildings in the old veteri
nary hospital area.
The civil engineering department
will move into the. old veterinary
hospital buildings when the remod
eling is complete.
The directors also approved
$100,000 for future construction
at the farm centers, to be allocat
ed at the discretion of the Agri
culture council.
A balance of $352,373 in the
building fund will be used to fur
nish buildings now under construc-
(See BOARD, Page 2)
Enrollment
Increases
3 Per Cent
The enrollment at A&M shows
an increase of slightly more
than three percent over enroll
ment figures for the same per
iod last year, according to a
college release issued Monday.
Friday and Saturday student
registrations totaled 6,007,
while 5,824 registered during
the same two days last year.
Information was not available
Monday on the number of ca
dets and civilian students en
rolled, but 380 late registra
tions last year raised the stu
dent total to 6,204, of which
4,168 were cadets and 2,036
were civilian students.
College officials do not antic
ipate that late registrations will
reach 300, since A&M had a
home football game registration
week and most students plan
ning to attend probably took
advantage of enrolling in time
to see the game.
An A&M senior was attacked
and beaten, but suffered no serious
injuries Saturday night after the
Texas Tech game by unidentified
persons who “wanted his boots.”
Joe E. Crenwelge, senior petrol
eum engineering major from Fred
ericksburg, said he was approach
ed by the youths outside the main
gate of Kyle field about “ten or
fifteen minutes” after the game.
I Got Clobbered
“They said something about
wanting my boots,” Crenwelge
said, “and I told them they would
have to take them off. The first
thing I knew, I got clobbered.”
Crenwelge said the fight was
broken up by a “few guys who
were not in uniform.” He said he
did not know who attacked him,
how many there were, or what
school, if any, they were from.
“All I lost was a little blood and
I got a busted lip, so I didn’t think
it was worth reporting,” he said.
Neither Col. Joe E. Davis, com
mandant, or Lt. Col. Taylor Wil
kins, assistant commandant, had
been informed of the incident by
last night. Davis said if it had been
reported to the college officials he
probably would have heard about
‘it.
Action Wanted
Wilkins said last night if there
had been a fight between A&M
and Texas Tech students, then “we
will start some action with the
dean of Texas Tech.”
“We’ll turn the case over to them
Great Issues Cards
Being Distributed
Students who did not get tickets
to the Memorial Student Center’s
Great Issues and Recital series can
pick them up at the MISC direc
tor’s office.
Students must have a fee slip
showing that they have paid the
student activity fee before they
can get the ticket.
The Center ran out of these cai’ds
at the registration Saturday, so
they are fyeihg given out this way,
said Mrs! Helen Atterbury, MSC
secretary.
and see if they can run down who
did it,” he said.
Wilkins also said there was an
attempt by Texas Tech students
to tear down the goal posts after;
the game. However, he said the
cadet officer of the day and the
cadet officer of the guard stopped
the attempt without violence.
“The cadet officers did a good
job in handling it,” he said.
Board Assures
Press Freedom
To Publications
The much-discussed stu
dent publications board has
been formed, and its first act
was to assure freedom of the
press to The Battalion and
all other student publications.
(See Page 2 for the
committe’s statement in
full.)
Only five persons on the seven-
man board have been named so
far. They are Karl E. Elmquist,
executive chairman, D. D. Bur-
chard. T. W. Leland, Bennie A.
Zinn, and Bobby LeRoy Reid.
Following the provisions of the
board’s by-laws, Burchard repre
sents the journalism department^
Leland represents “a department
other than the journalism depart
ment” and Zinn represents the stu
dent affairs department.
Elmquist will teach half-time in
the English department and Work
half-time on student publications.
Elmquist was named manager of
student publications last March aft
er The Battalion staff resigned in
protest of what they called “an
attempt to censor” The Battalion.
Reid, a graduate student, was
chosen by the Graduate, council to
represent the graduate students.
Two other students, one a senior
military student and one a senior
civilian student, will complete the
board. These will be chosen by
student election.
The faculty members were ap
pointed by the president, on the
recommendation of the Academic
council.
(See PUBLICATIONS, Page 2)
CROWDED HALLS—The picture on the lef t shows the lack of space in the halls of the
old Consolidated high school building. The shot was taken while students were chang
ing classes. Above is a Latin class meeting in one of the houses behind the old build
ing. Overcrowded conditions make it impossible for all students to meet classes inside
the old high school building.