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    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.
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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