The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, September 23, 1954, Image 1
Battalion Number 274: Volume 53 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1954 TAKING OATH—Four hundred and fifty-six cadet officers from grade of lieutenant to colonel were sworn in as com missioned cadets in this first public ceremony of its kind at A&M in the G. Rollie White coliseum Tuesday. Senate Seating Yell Leader Election Won By Carpenter Bobby E. Carpenter, com mander of squadron 10, copped the vacancy of senior yell lead er yesterday in a senior elec tion held in the Memorial Stu dent- Center. Carpenter won by a margin of 81 votes against his oppon ent Chuck Newman. Carpenter polled 142 votes, Newman 56. Silver Taps Ceremony Planned Silver Taps wil be obsei-ved some time next week, paying respect to all Aggies that were registered last spring and died this past sum mer. The Housing office requests that anyone knowing of any Aggie that died during the summer should re port it as soon as possible. Supreme Court Sets Segregation Talks By Associated Press De-Segrega tion Tension Lessens WASHINGTON, Sept. 23— The Supreme Court yesterday fixed Dec. G for the start of arguments on how to end public school seg regation. The timing raised a pos sibility that final decrees may not come until about the time' for the Spring windup of classes. Announcing the December date, Supreme Court Clerk Harold B. Willey said this was the earliest time the ai-gument could be heard. The court’s argument schedules for October and November already Were filled. The decision on the date was reached at a closed conference of seven justices. Justice Douglas and Minton have not returned from their vacations, but they commu nicated their agreement with the decision and thus made it unan imous. The new arguments will pick up not Jmly the question of how to order the end of school segregation which was unanimously declared unconstitutional last May 17, but also a major question will be the timing in final orders for desegre gation. The court’s opinion last May asked interested attorneys to dis cuss whether decrees should re quire admission of Negro children “forthwith” to schools nearest their homes, or whether there should be an “effective, gradual adjust ment.” Attorneys also were asked to dis cuss whether in event orders were issued for gradual integration, the court •■should give detailed instruc tion, appoint a special master to study and recommend methods, or Weather Today CLEAR Weather forecast is fair. Yes terday’s high was 88 and low was 62. allow lower federal courts to de vise detailed arrangements. The five cases directly involved in the May decision—those from South Carolina, Virginia, Kansas, Delaware and the District of Co lumbia—have been allotted a total of 10 hours on the December ar gument. s c h e d-u 1 e. Atty. Gen. Brownell was given an hour. Seven states not directly involv ed in the decision have notified Willey they wish to file “friend of the court” briefs or take pai’t in December’s oral argument. They are North - Carolina, Arkansas, Texas, Florida, Maryland, Tennes see and Oklahoma. Willey did not say how many of. these seven intend to present oral argument, .but he said all may do so if - they wish and may have an hour each. Under normal court routine, the justices listen to arguments in open session and then discuss the issue in later closed conference. Periods of a month or six weeks often elapse from the time argu ments are heard until the court makes known its decision. Fre^- quently the time lapse runs into several months. Some lawyers felt that in the segregation cases, months may pass before final orders are hand ed dowm. They expect several of the arguments in December to stress the need for time in woi'k- ing out integration. Ast. Atty. Gen. Robert Trotti of Texas said in Austin he was “very surprised.” that the court will al low Texas and other states not di rectly involved to make oral argu ments in December. “This is very unusual,” Trotti said. “I’ve never heard of a friend of the court being allowed to argue.” Squadron 6 Wins Tech Sign Contest Squadron 6 w r on first place in the unit football sign contest last w'eek. The sign was on dormitory 2. Second place was A annor, and squadron 15 v'as third. The first sergeant of squadron 6 can pick up the $5 first-place prize at Loupot’s store at the North Gate. Judges for the contest were Theo Lindig,. F. E. (Sonny) Tutt and John Benefield, all of the cadet corps staff. The signs will be judged each week, according to J. Fi'ank Ford, cadet corps comamnder. MSC. Directorate Plans Policies The Memorial Student Center directorate held their first meet ing of the year Tuesday night, to review summer activities and set policies for the coming academic year. Gary Bourgeois gave a report on the MSC’s summer program, in cluding hideaway dances, Sunday concerts, and film society movies. It was requested that each com mittee chairman have a report on the goals of his committee turned in to David H. Morgan, president, by Monday. Key i^equirements [for each committee’s members are 'also due this week. After setting meeting dates for the various committees Bud Whit ney, MSC council vice-president, concluded the agenda with a re port on the newly formed Great Issues and Recitals committee. Herman Hassel is chairman of the committee and Tyree Hardy heads the recital group. ~ x v . SCHOLARSHIP WINNER Arlen C. Cornett, one of ten 1954 Conoco Scholar ship winners, has enrolled in A&M and plans to study chemical engineering-. He has received a check fbr $250 for the first semester. The scholarship is renew able to cover four years, providing- the winner main tains satisfactory grades. Music Consultant Visits School Here Miss Lucy Beddoe, Cincinnati, Ohio, music consultant in an 18 state area for the American Book company, spoke Monday to the fac ulty of the A&M Consolidated ele mentary school on the purpose and scope of the music programs and ways to make music meaningful to all children. Miss Beddoe demonstrated the use of some of the American Book Company’s records along with the music text books which have been adopted by Texas public schools. By The Associated Press Tension created by attempts to integrate Negro students into white classrooms appeared to be lessening somewhat in several sec tions of the nation Wednesday. A strike by 21 white students against admittance of three Neg roes to Sherman high school at Seth, near Madison, W. Va., ap parently was over. Half a dozen white students were Natives Astir Over Leader’s Polygamy JAKARTA, Indonesia (TP) —The news that Indonesia’s President Soekarno eloped to the mountains with a divorcee and took her as wife No. 2 has stirred a tempest over poly gamy in this far-flung island re public. It’s all legal under the Moslem religion and Indonesian civil law but—newspapers talked of political repercussions and twenty- four women’s organizations summoned by feminist groups campaigning for a women’s bill of rights met in the nation’s capital to discuss plu- x-al matrimony in the presidential place. The Pi-esident, a Moslem, may have as many as four wives. A leader of the feminist group fight-- ing polygamy said the President’s example now “may have adverse effects on our goal.” The women met in closed session and were reported to have agreed that a delegation be sent direct to the presidential household “to ob tain official information.” Then, an informed feminist source said, the women would meet again and plan action. Jakarta newspapers headlined the story of the President’s second marriage on their front pages. The sudden splm-ge of publicity and the feminist reaction clearly shocked Indonesian government circles. Several newspapers said they feared the issue would be seized upon by Soekamo’s political opponents and “made a political football.” The President’s new wife was Mrs. Half ini Suwondo, mother of five children. The marriage took place befofe a Moslem priest at the mountain resort of Tjipanas in June. The President has been mar ried for twelve years to his first wife, 29-year-old Fatmawati Soe- kamo, by whom he has four chil dren. enrolled at Lincoln university, Jef ferson, Mo., a imivei-sity estab lished 80 years ago for Negroes only. No incidents were reported. Students at Carthage high school, Carthage, Mo., elected two Neg roes as class officers. Charles Scott was named vice-president of the senior class and Dub Cheney was picked as reporter for the junior class. In Washington the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would hear ar guments Dec. 6 on how to carry out its decision against racial seg regation in the public schools. Court opens in October, but Har old Willey, clerk of the higli tri bunal, explained the week of Dec. 6 was the earliest available date for the arguments. Briefs are ex pected to be filed by North Car olina, Arkansas, Texas, Florida, Mai’yland, Tennessee and Oklaho ma. On the other side of the picture efforts to stop what was termed segregation in the public schools in Hillsboro, Ohio, failed in U.S. District Court at Cincinnati. U.S. Judge John H. Druffel de nied a motion for a temporary re straining order against the Board of Education in Hie Southwestem Ohio city of 5,100. He set Sept. 29 for hearing pbtitions for a tem porary injunction and a permanent injunction. The court denied the temporary restraining order because the de fendants had not been notified such a suit would be filed. The case is believed to be the first court test involving segrega tion to be filed in a northern state since the Supreme Court ruled against separating whites and Neg roes in public schools. At Milford, Del., two schools re mained closed due to telephoned threats against Negro pupils. Dr. Ramon C. Cobbs, Milford school superintendent, said the schools would not open until Monday at least. The Milford school board and the state Board of Education scheduled a meeting for Thursday night in an effort to solve the in tegration problem. The Brewton, Ala., Board of Ed ucation announced 1’eceipt of a pe tition from Brewton members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People asking immediate action to permit Negro ptipils to attend white schools. Alabama legislative leaders have recommended their state join other southern states that have moved to abolish public schools in order to maintain segregation. The other states are Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina. Price 5 Cents Will Discuss Arrangement Corps, Non-Regs May Be Separated The usually hot discusion on the Kyle field seating arrangement will come before the Student Sen ate tonight at the group’s first meeting of the new school year. The main issue involved in the debate each year is over how to separate the civilian students from the corps. Last year, the civilian students sat above the cadets. Senate President Jerry Ramsey said, however, that he expects to refer action on the seating ar- rangtment to a committee. As for changes, Ramsey said the only probable changes would be in al- loting space to meet* the new en rollments for each class. Ideal Situation “The ideal situation would be to have students of each class, civilian and military, ' seated together,” Ramsey said. “But I imagine the two groups will be segregated again this year.” Also on the agenda for the meet ing tonight is the proposed $760 budget for the senate. The amount of the budget was approved by the Student Life committee last spring, but it is up to the senate to allo cate its funds as it sees fit. Ramsey did not expect the bud get allotments to be approved as they were drawn up by the senate last spring. He said he had talked to Wallace Eversburg, treasurer^ who had recommended some changes in the allocations. Other items to be discussed by the senate are the selection of a senate chaplain aaid the distribu tion of the revised constitution. Other officers besides Ramsey and Eversburg are F. E. (Sonny) Tutt, vice-president; B. A. (Scotty) Parham, recording secretary; Paul Holladay, corresponding secretary, and Lawrence Laskoskie, parlia mentarian. Senate Members Senate members this year are seniors, Robert Alcbck, Bill Bass, John Benefield, W. R. Canon, Bob by Carpenter, John Dewald, Buck O. Isbell, Robert Rowland, Tony Specia, Bill Utsman and Pat Wheat. Juniors, Stewart Coffman, Jerry L. Johnson, Clay McFarland, Gus S. Mijalis, Ronald A. Miller, David C. Parnell, Johnnie Petter, and William Stubblefield. Sophomores, Glynn Chandler, Jon Cobb, James Patterson, Jim Row land, Stephen Scott and Carl Wag ner; Non-regs, George Allen, Col lege View, Jerry Schnepp, Mitchell hall, and Dave Lane, day students. Others will be elected from Pur- year, Leggett, Milner, Walton, Law and Bizzell. The vice-presidents of each class are members of the seriate also. They are Charley Seely, senior; Glenn Buell, junior, and Joseph Sander, sophomore. Parking Space To Be Studied By Council Recommendations for new parking lot space will be sent to the Academic council for approval Tuesday night, said Bennie A. Zinn, head of the student affairs department. The recommendations were agreed on by Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant, and Zinn. Roughly, the proposal is for added parking lots to relieve the crowded condi- tiotts on the campus. Students; have to park in the wrong places, if they want their cars on the campus, because of the crowded parking lots. Anytime a car is found parked in the wrong place, the campus security office finding it is compelled to give a ticket or lose his job, Zinn said. A student can lose the privilege of parking on the campus by get ting five traffic tickets, but this does not mean a car cannot be thrown off before the five tickets are received. Cars can be thrown off any time proper authorities deem it necessary. Zinn would not release the full contents of the recommendations until the council had approved all or part of it. Attlee Condemns Chaing Kai-Shek LONDON, Sept. 23—(A>)—Back from Moscow and Peiping, Labor Leader Clement Attlee called on the West today to get rid of Gen eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek at once. Simultaneously, Attlee’s lieuten ants supported the principle of West German rearmament in the face of determined opposition from left wing and pacifist groups at a meeting of the Labor party’s Na tional Executive Committee. Both developments will influence the course of events at the party’s annual conference next week at Scarborough, a Yorkshire seaside resort. Arriving home after talks with top Russian and Chinese Commu nist leaders, Attlee stepped from a plane at London airport, greeted his two daughters and a grand child, and said: “Personally speaking, I think the sooner we get rid of Chiang Kai-shek and his troops the bet ter.” Long ago Attlee went on record in favor of giving Peiping repre sentatives the United Nations seat held by Nationalist China, a war time ally of the Western powers. The man who was Prime Min ister when Britain recognized Mao Tze-tung’s Red regime in 1950 de scribed Formosa — island strong hold of Chiang’s Chinese National ist troops—as “the biggest diffi culty of all” in the Orient. Further, Attlee told reporters he< had the impression there has been a relaxation of tension in the Far East following the Indochina truce agreement at Geneva. Attlee led a Laborite delegation that visited the Soviet Union and Red China in August. He was the last member of the party to re turn, making a trip around the world and coming back via Aus tralia, New Zealand and the North American continent. Sorrels Featured At Police Seminar Forrest V. Sorrels of Dallas, a supervisory agent of the U.S. Se cret Service, was one of the* fea tured sepakers this week at the Municipal Police School in session on the Texas A&M campus. Sheriff J. E. (Bill) Decker of Dallas County and three officers from the Department of Public Safety, Austin, also were on the program. The latter were Joel Tisdale, supervisor of photog raphy; Glen McLaughlin, chief of the Bureau of Identification and Records, and C. G. Conner, Texas Highway Patrol inspector. About 20 police officers from cities in every section of the State are enrolled in the class, which also took a field trip this week to the state penitentiary at Hunts ville. The four-weeks’ course will end