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1 Battalion Editorials Page 2 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1954 The Start of a Solution At last some concrete steps are being taken to relieve A&M’s parking conditions. A series of new lots and some proposed traffic regulations designed to give people a place to park their cars and room to move them in are being put into effect. A&M’s parking problems, like those of other schools, are the result of lack of plan ning—or more properly, lack of foresight. A&M’s campus grew as the school grew, with an overall plan being created as it was needed. While the campus was being built,. there was no way for the planners to know that by 1954 about one-third of the students would have cars here with them. Just as it was in the day of the horse, transportation is an all-important factor in the big state of Texas. And A&M’s isola tion from metropolitan areas has increased the necessity for automobiles here. The current plan, the result of many months of hard work by many people, is a good one. But it cannot stop there. Pro visions must be made for the future—both for an increase in enrollment and an increase in the percentage of students owning cars. Some allowances for growth have been in cluded in this plan. But the planners must keep their eye to the future. Now is the time to start planning for the future. As we said, the men responsible for this plan—Howard Badgett, Bennie Zinn, and Fred Hickman, to name a few—have done a good job. They will probably continue to recom mend more changes; the plans must be made in advance, before problems arise. For the Good Of A&M: Vote Once again Aggies have a chance to show their interest in the school and its affairs. A student election is scheduled for to morrow to pick student senators, a member of the election commission, and representa tives to the student publications board. Each of these positions is important; each of the men elected will have somethino' to say about how A&M is run. The man who doesn’t vote is the man who is not particularly interested in the wel fare of his school. Air Force Ball Committees Selected Committees have been formed for the air force ball, to be held in the fall this year for the first time. The informal dance, which is usually held in the spring-, will be Oct. 29, the Friday before the University of Arkansas football game here. Pat Wheat and Dale Fisher, air force wing commanders, will be in charge of the dance. Assisting them will be TuHos Franks, Theo Lindig, and Mike Barron, dance; Bob Alcott and Jim Starke, decorations; Jimmy Whitfield, Larry Brockman, Gor don Tate, and Paul Breen, tickets and invitations; Chester Slawson and Robert Willis, sweetheart; and Harri Baker, publicity. The dance has been tentatively set for 9 p.m. to midnight, with the place to be announced. Collections of pictures for the air force sweetheart contest has started, with first sergeants taking up pictures in each unit. Finalists will be selected from the pictures, and the sweetheart will be selected at the dance. Deadline for turning in pictures to first sergeants is Saturday. Cadet Slouch KV Earle I KEEP WAVING PEEUMG WE'RE , BElMCi w&tcmejd/ Li mfMMM News Briefs DR. JAMES G. POTTER, head of the physics department, will serve as a consultant at the Na tional Science Teachers association meeting Oct. 14-17 at Lake Tex- homa. Teachers from eight states will attend. NINETY PERSONS arc expect ed to attend the Texas poach grow ers conference Oct. 12-13, at the MSC. Bluefford G. Hancock will act as chairman. SURPRISED—New Aggie sweetheart Judy Nuhn throws her hands to her throat in astonishment as she hears her name announced as the winner. Candidates shown, left to right, are Rusty Skinner, Judy, Madelyn Pulver, Betty Ready, Frances Gonzales, Shirley Bradley, Carolyn Dietert and Lucinda Bailey. VISITORS REGISTERED on the campus during the month of Sep tember totaled 1,7GB, while 6,399 were counted for the combined months of June, July, August and September. DR. O. B. WILLIAMS of the de partment of bacteriology at the University of Texas will be the principal speaker at the winter meeting of the Texas Institute of Food Technologists to be held here Nov. 13. EUGENE E. SCHILHAB, ’53, of Houston has finished the U.S. Naval Pre-Flight school at Pensa cola, Fla. He has been assigned to Whiting Field, Milton, Fla. for primary flight training. This week... 451 * people who never flew before got there FASTER and FRESHER on PIONEER! Wouldn’t YOU like to fly PIONEER and < • arrive fresher—ride tn clean, pleasant comfort • solve the problem of traveling with children • arrive 3 times faster — avoid monotonous, dangerous highway travel • arrive with economy — save travel money witfi Pioneer's family fare plan — or 10% on yoxar return trip Flights timed to go whom you won# to go to 11 ALL AS j 38 m i ng _ J.v 7 :05 am, 2:15 pm , FT. WORTH • 2 hrs„ 7 mins. Lv 7:05 am, 2:15 pin HOUSTON 42 mins. JLv 3:30 pm, 8:31 pm Sweetheart (Continued from Page 1) el, followed by breakfast in Hub bard hall. The Aggies then retired from the group and selected Miss Nuhn as sweetheart. The official an nouncement was made at 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Representing the corps on the selection committee were Frank Ford, Conrad Cummings, F. E. (Sonny) Tutt, Dale Fisher, Tullos Franks, Bobby Carpenter, Bill Utsman, John Benefield, Wallace Eversberg, and Roy Cline. Civilian Students were Pete Goodwin, Art Garner, Allen Pen- gelly, John Cozad, and Dick Craw ford. s'G'V.y-ALLUS WONDERED WHUT IT FELT LIKE —T'FALL IN LOVE —NOW, AH KNOWS— LETTERS AGGIES CHOICE—Judy Nuhn beams with pleasure as she stands by Frank Ford, colonel of the corps, after the decision of the selection committee was announced. The Battalion The Editorial Policy of The Battalion Represents the Views of the Student Editors The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechan ical College of Texas, is published by students four times a week, during the regular school year. During the summer terms, and examination and vacation periods, The Battalion is published twice a week. Days of publications are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year, and Tuesday and Thursday during examination and vacation periods and the summer terms. Subscription rates $9.00 per year or $ .76 pel month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas under the Act of Con gress of March 3, 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Advertising Services, Inc., at New York City, Chicago. Los Angeles, and San Fran cisco. BOB BORISKIE, HARRI BAKER Co-Editors Jon Kinslow.. Managing Editor Jerry Wizig Sports Editor Ralph Cole, Don Shepard News Editors Nora Burge Woman’s Editor Editors: The Battalion Dear Occupants (from 10:50-11:00 p.m. before Silver Taps) of the Top Center Room of the East Side of the YMCA: I wish to praise your splendid behavior. We appreciated your light and your loud profane lan guage the few minutes before Sil ver Taps. Your remark, “Don’t get all shook up,” when asked to “shut your lights off” added to the solemnity of the occasion Martin S. Burkhead, ’55 Mitchell Hall i VO' FEELS LIKE VO' COULDN'T BEAR T'BE WlFOUT TH'ONE VO' LOVES.V— LIKE, IF HE LEFT YO; YO'D DIE GET LOST- m. W-WHUT DO THET MEAN ? U ill f a Frankie's eves gleam — at what *? THAR?- OH, THASS ) THASS WHUT'S BREAK/N'. It HAPPENS T'ORDINARY GALS, ALL 30 TH'TIMET 1 1 EVERY OTHER BABE I EVER SAW —I HAD TO KISS—TO KNOW IF ^ SHE “SENT" ME/.'— BUT-JUST LOOKING AT YOU - DOE IT/.'- YOU'RE FOR me/.'- V WHO IS? facing Paul B gave h T1 prepar urday work i knock A, tfce 31 them. The be in 1 the sea Conga] Hall, w games, the Bull Yeste praise “They d I’m proi had a 1c Stalling end, an good, pj “Sincl Schroed very fir Hooked Barre for us i also pla 1 Bryan pleased (von the hard wa times tl gia’s er score ai Butts’ c: “Wc i ing pun< bally p, back a| defensiv defense, of the c to be wi The Ing th and tl urday. ed out A&M yards yard) It’s ing n On a fourtl white- field to try The South this j ficiall an a-v dered of 23 again; Parking (Continued from Page 1) would be better than the existing lots. “We can’t find any place suit able and convenient for all stu dents,” he said. Space for 85 cars was added about a year ago in the Law-Pur- year parking lot. This year, there have been so many cars in the area that the street north of the di’ill field and the street in front of the president’s home have been used to handle the overflow. Bad gett estimated more than 1,000 cars were being parked on these streets. Cost of the improvement project will be about $30 for each parking space built, Badgett said. PtgASg pon't mexxupT right NOW, PE AC’— AS I WAS SAVIN' JUST 0H£ m2P, Ml NP YOU, OP INSTRUCTION NOW'" UET MS JUST TEU.VOU KSEPA SWARP eVg OUT " SHARP SYS" FOR ©TRANSERS HUH'HUH-HUM- „ LET MS RNISH, PtEASE, jgbnjfcA &£AC’- wevs known bodu EACH OTHER a long TIME. ) kill WANT IS ONE Lime 15 ~ 'FMOQ- KEEP A SHARP EVE OUT-" JUST THAT ONE VV0RP IS ALL l-UH’ s&fWHypw’r yoSmwrer yeft PATCH HKB xioueyou?" I i the 1 Georj utes they stripe shirts penet Jimm big 1< Bratl had slim until the 5 tik, -v game the £ lor, dowr grea SarhopeN IP REP" PROW ! 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