Battalion
Number 278: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1954
Price 5 Cents
JOBES HONORED—Carl Jobe, manager of student publications who is leaving tomor
row, and his wife and daughter were honored last night at an informal party. Mrs.
Jobe is shown examining an automatic cof fee-maker presented by the students of
student publications. Jobe resigned to become assistant to the publisher of the Record
Publishing company in Dallas.
More Than 650
Extension Workers Meet Here
More than 650 Agricultural Ex
tension service personnel are now
dn the campus for the annual Ex
tension conference.
The week-long- meeting will fea
ture speakers of national promi
nence.
Dr. Evelyn Duvall spoke this
morning on “What Teen-Agers Are
Really After” and “The Profes
sional Person as a Family Mem
ber.”
She is family relations consult
ant with headquarters at Chicago,
Ill. A nationally known author,
her books include “Building Your
Marriage,” “Facts of Life and
Love,” “Family Living,” “Keeping
Up with Teen-Agers,” “Marriage is
What You Make It,” and others.
She has written numerous ar
ticles for popular and professional
periodicals and has appeared on
“America’s Town Meeting of the
Air” and many other network pro
grams.
She is regional consultant for the
American Institute of Family Rela
tions, advisory board member of
the Child Study Association of
America, pgst-executive of the Na
tional Council on Family Relations,
MSC Offers Television
For World Series Games
The Memorial Student Center will have television sets
at different places in the building during the world series
baseball games between the New York Giants and the Cleve-
\and Indians.
Here is a schedule for the rest of the week:
Thursday, sets will be in the main lounge and the foun
tain room.
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, sets will be in room 3D,
the assembly room, the main lounge, and other areas if
needed.
Since the series may end Sunday, a schedule for Monday
and Tuesday has not been made.
1 However, Wayne Stark, MSC director, said sets would
be available on those days if games are being played.
Petroleum Club
Hears Executive
Joe M. Alford, executive secre
tary of the petroleum branch of
AIME, spoke recently at the first
meeting of the Petroleum Engi
neering club on the “Advantages
of becoming a student associate
member of the AIME, petroleum
branch.
After the talk, club members
elected the following officers for
the year:
Frank E. Patterson, secretary;
j£jck C. Lonquist, treasui’er; A1
Nickols, junior representative to
the engineering council; and
George S. Teutsch, reporter.
Weather Today
PARTLY CLOUDY
Partly cloudy to cloudy with oc
casional thunder showers and mod
erate rain showers tonight and to
morrow. Morning fog early to
morrow.
Stored Baggage
Must Be Picked Up
Students who have not picked up
their baggage stored through the
summer must do so before 5 p.m.
today. ,
Extra cost will be charged if the
baggage is left overtime.
The baggage is in ramp K of
Walton hall, and in the basement
of dormitory threei
and a member of numerous profes
sional and honorary societies.
Other speakers for the meeting
were Frances Scudder, director of
the Federal home economics pro
grams; Reba Staggs, of the Chi
cago Livestock and .Meat board;
Dr. Sumpter S. Arnim, University
of Texas dentistry school; William
Kramer, Sears, RoAuck, and com
pany; and L. R. Quinlan, Kansas
State college.
Workshop sessions have included
gi'oup work in animal husbandry,
crops and soils, dairy husbandry,
entomology, horticulture, market
ing, pastures, and poultry husban
dry.
The workshops, held each after
noon, are led by extension special
ists.
The conference will close with
a general session Friday.
E. W. Harrison
Dies Wednesday
In South Bend
E. W. Harrison, member of
the board of directors, died at
his home in South Bend Wed
nesday morning - . Cause of
his death was a heart attack.
Funeral services will be held in
Graham at 3 p.m., Friday.
Harrison was first appoint
ed to the board in 1944 to fill the
unexpired term of F. M. Law. He
had been reappointed since that
time and had served continuously
since his appointment.
A 1913 graduate of A & M,
Harrison had ranching and oil in
terests in Young county.
Rearmament Settlement Near
Between Big Three Powers
News of the World
By the ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON—Sen. Jenner (R-Ind.) chair
man of the Senate Rules Committee, disclosed yes
terday he intends to review certain phases of the
inquiry which resulted in a recommendation that
Sen. McCarthy be censured for some of his official
conduct.
if it it
WASHINGTON—The United States and France an
nounced agreement late yesterday on a broad new plan to
save Indochina from further Communist conquest. American
officials said it called for more than 700 million dollars an
nually in U. S. Aid.
it if if
WASHINGTON—The Army announced yester
day it will increase the number of its combat-equip
ped divisions to 24 during the next two years. The
five additional divisions will be composed of present
training divisions which will be given the structural
organization, equipment and designation of combat
divisions—but which will not be at anything like
full combat manpower strength.
★ ★ ★
AUSTIN—Proposals for a statewide teacher recruitment
program to relieve the critical shortage in Texas will be dis
cussed by the State Board of Examiners for Teacher Educa
tion here tonight.
★ ★ ★
AT-BANY—Vice President Nixon declared last
night that “left wing elements” in the Democratic
party would rule Congress if the Republicans lost
control—and he saw an uphill fight for the GOP
over House seats.
College Conference
Set Here Oct. 4-5
Approximately 75 administra
tors, deans and faculty representa
tives from all the junior colleges
in Texas will convene Oct. 4-5 at
A&M for their 11th annual confer
ence.
Dr. John D. Moseley, president
of Austin college at Sherman, will
speak at the Monday evening ban
quet highlighting the two - day
program.
His topic will be “Junior Col-
leg-es have a Challenging Respon
sibility in Higher Education in Tex
as.”
John R. Bertrand, dean of the
Basic Division, will preside at the
banquet. Invocation will be given
by Dr. E. J. Howell, president of
Tarleton State college at Stephen-
ville.
Reverend To Speak
To New UN Club
The Reverend Forest Eisenbise,
Southwest regional secertary of the
American leprosy mission, will
speak to the United Nations club
at their first meeting Friday, Oc
tober 1st, at 7:30 p.m., at the
YMCA.
Reverend Eisenbise will speak
on his recent trips to India, Italy,
and the Holy Land and show slides
of these trips.
Dr. Monroe S. Carroll, dean of
Baylor University, will preside at
one of the opening day sesisons.
Others on the slate of speakers in
clude Prof. Royal B. Embree jr.,
of the University of Texas and Dr.
Walter H. Delaplane, dean of
A&M’s School of Arts and Sciences.
Discussion of junior college li
braries, student personnel work,
visual aids for effective teaching
and conference-leading techniques
are main parts of the program.
Silver Taps Set
For Bennett, Blum
The flag is being flown at
half mast today and silver taps
will be observed tonight for
two A&M students who died
during the summer.
The students were Edwin
Bennet of Mission and Clyde
Blum of Clifton.
Bennett drowned July 11
while swimming near Phoenix,
Ariz., where he was attending
summer camp.
Blum, a graduate student,
died July 11 after he had con
tracted bulbar polio several
days earlier. He was moved
to Waco after his case was
diagnosed as polio.
Praised Aggies
Council Rebukes SMU Fighters
U. S. Issues Warning;
Britain Gives Promise
LONDON—UP)—The United States and Britain, with a
threat and a promise, Wednesday night brought France near
a long-sought agreement to rearm West Germany in defense
against Communist attack.
First, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles warned the
nine-nation conference discussing the problem that American
troops may have to be pulled out of Europe if France rejects
plans to line up German land, air and sea forces within the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Next, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden announced a
British offer to keep four divisions, plus a tactical air force,
on the European mainland indefinitely provided the confer-
^ence agreed on bringing a re
armed Germany into NATO.
The B r i t i s h - American
broadside appeared carefully
timed to assure the success of
the conference, which had been
called to figure out ways of free
ing West Germany and rearming
her as a full and equal 15th mem
ber of NATO.
West German Chancellor Kon
rad Adenauer, as soon as the nine
foreign ministers ended their ses
sion, confidently told newsmen he
thought the conference would end
in success Thursday night.
And a high American source in
dicated Dulles .expects the windup
within a day or two. This inform
ant said the secretary has ordered
his plane to be ready to fly him
back to Washington Sunday.
Adenauer, 78, told newsme-n:
“I think we can take a deep
breath if the rest of the confer
ence takes its expected course.”
That course was unofficially in
dicated by officials attending the
talks:*
1) The United States, Britain
and France probably will announce
their intention to end the occupa
tion of West Germany, restoring
to the federal republic virtually
full control over its internal and
external affairs.
The Germans in turn will issue
a counter-declaration offering to
join NATO and a new seven-na
tion European alliance — where
they will be allowed to rearm witK-
in clearly marked limits.
2) The Brussels alliance of 1948
—A 50-year British - French - Bel
gian - Dutch - Luxembourg pact
against agression—will be revised
to admit West Germany and Italy,
both enemies of the Allies in World
War II. Experts of the seven na
tions will be assigned to write a
protocol—-or supplement — to the
treaty giving the alliance some
powers to control the arms and
armies of its continental members.
Four More
File for Nine
Student Posts
Four more students filed
yesterday for one of the nine
positions to be filled by stu
dent election, bringing the to
tal number of applications to
six.
Positions open are civilian stu
dent senators for Bizzell, Law,
Puryear, Leggett, Milner, and Wal
ton; a civilian student and one
corps student for the student pub
lications board, and one senior to
serve on the election commission.
So far, one application has been
made for day student senator, one
for Law hall senate, one repre
sentative from College View for
civilian student council, two for
student publications board, and
one far the election commission.
Student senators must have a
1.0 grade point ratio, and must
have attended A&M for the two
previous semesters.
Representatives on the student
publications board must have a 1.5
grade point ratio.
Qualification for the election
commission is a 1.0 grade point
ratio.
Face Lifting
WEST POINT, Va.— (-S’) —This
town’s bigger and better garbage
truck will change the face of things
quite a bit.
A survey showed it could not
get through the alleys until the
power company moved 41 poles,
the telephone company 39 and
property owners some 125 other
various obstructions.
Southern Methodist university’s
student council has voted unani
mously to rebuke the SMU students
involved in fights with A&M stu
dents last weekend.
And the SMU student body
agrees with their student council
“almost to a man,” according to
Carleton Wilson, editor of ' the
Campus, SMU’s student newspa
per.
The fights, which happened
early Sunday morning, involved
at least two groups of A&M stu
dents and a group of SMU boys
reported numbering about 20.
Disciplinary action against the
SMU students is ki progress, Wil
son said. Mayne Longnecker,
SMU dean of students, is calling
in witnesses and interviewing stu
dents connected with the affair.
The probable next step will be
calling the SMU students before a
faculty disciplinary committee,
composed of 10 faculty members
and called the “supreme authority”
on disciplinary matters at SMU,
Wilson said.
“The dean may decide to handle
the case himself and not call the
board,” Wilson said, “but the stu
dents here want to throw the book
at them.”
The case will probably be de
cided Friday, he said.
He said that some of the SMU
students involved were probably
athletes, but that the SMU stu
dent body wanted no favoritism
shown them.
At least two affairs are report
ed. In one, as told by A&M stu
dents Robert Wilkinson and Lloyd
Fite, a group of “30 or 30” SMU
students approached them as they
were taking their dates back to
SMU dormitories at 12:30 a.m.
Sunday.
The group of students said they
“wanted some senior boots, but
would settle for your uniforms,”
Wilkinson said. Wilkinson and
Fite are juniors.
Wilkinson said one of the SMU
students pushed him against a car
and then to the ground. Wilkin
son’s serge uniform was ruined in
the scuffle.
Ivan Irwin, SMU student body
president, promised full payment
for the uniform in a letter to
Jerry Ramsey, Student Senate
president.
In another incident, described
by SMU student Bob Dobbs, a
law student and a former stu
dent government officer, the
same group of SMU students
surrounded an A&M senior and
several freshmen, again saying
they “wanted some uniforms.”
Dobbs, who said he and several
other SMU students were trying
to break up the group, paid two
of the Aggie freshmen for hats
that were taken during the inci
dent.
Dobbs said the incidents started
at about 12:30 a.m. and lasted for
about an hour. He described the
group of SMU students as “roam
ing around looking for Aggies” on
the campus.
“Not at any time did any of
the A&M students act like any
thing but perfect gentlemen,”
he said. “We’re sorry for the
way our students acted, and we
hope there are no hard feelings
on the A&M campus.”
Wilson also expressed regret at
the incidents, and said he spoke
for the rest of the SMU students
in. condemning the SMU students
involved and praising the Aggies.
BLOOMING BEAUTY—With the Texas Rose festival
only days away, pretty Bettie Shamburger, daughter of a
Tyler rose grower, gathers an armload of pink floribundas
in one of the many rose fields that dot the nearby land
scape. The festival is scheduled for Oct. 1-3. (AP Photo)