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Battalion Number 281: Volume 53 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1954 Price 5 Cents Russian Atom Plan Draws Approval From UN Group UNITED NATIONS, N. Y„ Oct. 6—-<-< z P)—The U. N. Steering com mittee recommended today that the General Assembly consider Moscow’s new plan for automic control. This action was taken without a record vote at a short .meeting of the committee as Russian sour ces let it be known Moscow still stands for prohibition of the £&omic and hydrogen bombs im mediately and before any system of control is established. m These developments came as Yugoslavia’s foreign minister, Koca Popovic, waxing optimistic with the solution of the Trieste dispute with Italy, called on the East and West to abandon cold war policies and try a new ap proach to international coopera tion. He said lessening of world tension had ci’eated the proper at mosphere for such a move. U.S Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge jr. offered no objection when Rus sia’s Adrei Y. Vishinsky asked the Steering committee to recommend Assembly action on the Russian UH Student Reps To Meet Senate t^The president of the University of Houston student government and a cheerleader from the U of H will be introduced at Student Sen ate meeting Thursday. The U of H students are here as a welcoming committee for the Houston-A&M football game Sat urday. Other items on the agenda are the crowding of Memorial Stu dent Center facilities by short course visitors, lights on during silver taps, formal representation and expense money for the Aggie sweetheart, Judy Nuhn of TSCW, and care of Reveille. Committees will also report, in cluding the Kyle field seating com mittee. The senate will meet in the tCSC. Fish Yell Leaders Have Been Selected Six freshman yell leaders have been selected to lead yells at Fish football games. They are William G. Allen, Da vid M. Cook both of Dallas, W. Sammy Hipp of Houston, John R. Jefferson of Beaumont, and Joe V. Evans of Waco. They were chosen by competition and elimination Monday night. Judges were the members of the yell leading staff. Civilian Council Will Hold Election Election for the Civilian Student Council will be held tomorrow un less a runoff is needed in the elec tion of student senators, according to Bennie A. Zinn, head of the student affairs department. ‘The council will be elected from floor and ramp representatives. Weather Today atomic plan, but before the As sembly last Thursday by Vishin sky after a long attack on the United States. Vishinsky also asked that his proposal be treated as a separate item, but Lodge balked. He and Henri Hoppenot, France, said it should be taken up concurrently with the report of the Disarma ment commission, which is slated to be first on the agenda of the Political committee. PARTLY CLOUDY Scattered clouds tonight, early morning fog tomorrow with visi bility restricted. High yesterday was 90, and low was 68. Col. Brayton Addresses Kiwanis Club “No fire department, no matter how well trained, can take care of its community, ,, Col. H. R. Brayton, director of the Firemen’s Training- school told the Kiwanis club yes terday. Col. Brayton has spent 26 years working with the Fireman’s school. He was introduced by Gibb Gil christ, co-head of the Highway Re search center. Practiced 52 Weeks The fireman’s school is held one week but is practiced 52 weeks of the year, Brayton said. About 9 per cent of all firemen are volun teers, he added. Brayton estimated the value of A & M, College Station and the A&M Consolidated school district at $46 million. He said they had a population of about 8,000 persons. “And to protect this,” he said, “We have a 16-man volunteer fire department with two fire trucks.” “For every dollar lost in fire, four man hours are lost,” he said, “and for one fatally injured man, 800 man hours are lost.” Statistics show that 27 per cent of all fires are caused by careless smokers. At the meeting, a poll was taken to decide when a Kiwanis family picnic could be held. One picnic was postponed because enough tickets were not sold. Two Aggies Nominated For Air Force School Thurman, Sinclair To Take Examination Jtef - .Wm«' BUmHB mil Anita Darian Sauter-Finegan Songstress Tinkle, Bong, Boom Different 9 Music Starts Town Hall With a tinkle, bong and boom, the Sauter-Finegan band opened the Town Hall season before about 6,000 persons in the G. Rollie White coliseum last night. Combining regular band instru ments with a slam-bang percus sion section and an assortment of “special effect” instruments, the band lived up to its motto “music in a different direction.” News Briefs THE EXTENSION director for the Mexican Ministry of Agricul ture will visit the A&M System Oct. 4-7. The director, Joaquin Loredo, is being sent here by the Rockefeller foundation. * * * AN A & M GRADUATE, Capt. Roy C. Jones, is now serving in Germany with the V Corps. His home is Louisiana. His wife, Mar tha Lou, is with him in Germany. * * * TWO GRADUATES of A&M, both of the class of ’32, are now serving in the Korean communica tions zone. They are Daniel B. Porter jr., Belton, and John Mas- singale, Sherman, both lientenant colonels. * * * FIRST LIEUTENANT Thomas W. Woottor, an A&M graduate, is returning to the United States af ter serving with the Korean mili tary advisory group. * * * THE TEXAS NUTRITION con ference will attract an estimated 215 Oct. 13-14. Meetings are to be held in the M.S.C. Ballroom and chairman will be J. R. Couch. * * * B. W. MATTHEWS has been sent to Indonesia as a vocational education specialist. He was grad uated from A&M with a BS de gree in agriculutral education. Homecoming Party Aggies who are ex-students of Cypress-Fairbanks high school are invited to a homecoming dance there Oct. 8. There will be an openhouse during school hours. The dance will follow a football game between Cypress-Fairbanks and Smiley. MUMPS and DIARRHEA lead the Bryan Brazos county health re port this week, mumps with 17 cases and diarrhea with 18. There were 7 cases of mumps in College Station and 7 cases of diarrhea. Measles had 12 cases in the coun ty, nine of these in College Sta tion. Colored Children Attend Nursery Thirty-six colored children are enrolled in a day nursery for col ored children at the Community house on highway six South. The “Community House” is the name temporarily given to the Washington Chapel Baptist church. Use of the building was donated for the nursery. Children, range in age from three to five. When the nursery opened Sept. 1, 18 children were enrolled. A trained college graduate is in charge of the nursery and there is a charge of $1.25 a week for each child. This project was started about a year ago by the College Station council of churches. The council appointed a 12-member board of directors to act as an advisory board for the nursery. The board plans eventually to expand the project to make it a place for social activities also. The building is in need of plumb ing and heating. Appeals are be ing made in the community and cards reading “Friends of Com munity House” are given to do nors. The nursery also needs toys, chairs, beds and playground equip ment. “Different” is the only word for a band that used at one time or another during the evening a ka zoo section, sleigh bells, a clarion, two medieval instruments and the chest of the conductor to give the effect they wanted. Conductor Bill Finegan, half of the team that created the band, pounded his chest to make a noise like a horse on snow for a song called “Midnight Sleigh Ride.” The special percussion section, lively for almost all of the num bers, had the field to itself during “Eddie and the Witch Doctors,” when the two men in the percus sion section and the regular drum mer “talked” to each other. The percussion section contained a thunder drum, kettle drums, tam bourines, a glockenspeil, xylophone, marimba, chimes, street drums, and a toy snare drum. All were well used—as Finegan said, “Some of these pieces may be rather noisy.” On the quieter side, stand-out soloists brightened the slower numbers. The show was only slightly hampered by the lack of familiar music. Vocalists were Andy Roberts and Anita Darian. Miss Darian con tributed to the “differentness” of the band by using her voice as an other instrument on two of the numbers. The next Town Hall program will be the Teltschiks, a twin- piano team, Oct. 26. Delahay To Speak To Chem Society Dr. Paul Delahay, of the chemis try department at Louisiana State university, will addres^ the local section of the American Chemical society Oct. 14, at 8:15 p.m. in the lecture room of the Chemistry building. Dr. Delahay’s topic will be “New Instrumental Methods in Electro chemistry.” An informal dinner with Dr. Del ahay for section members and their wives will be held that even ing at 6:15 p.m. at the Memorial Student Center. After Dr. Dela hay’s lecture, there will be a social hour at the home tof Dr. and Mrs. Fred W. Jensen, 200 Suffolk South. Draft Chairman Resigns After Batchelor Case BIG SPRING, Oct. 5—(iP) The Big- Spring draft board chairman quit today, saying his conscience made him do it because of the life sentence given Cpl. Claude Batchelor, con victed of playing the Communist game in. Korea. Batchelor, 22, was given a life term Thursday by an army court- martial at Ft. Sam Houston on a charge of collaborating with the enemy after he was captured dur ing the Korean'War. Draft Board Chairman H. W. Wright, a Navy veteran of World War II, said he was against col laboration with the Communists by anyone but he believed Batche lor did it because he was brain washed. Batchelor was one of 23 Ameri cans who elected to remain with the Communists after the Korean armistice. He changed his mind and returned to the U. S. side. Wright wrote: “My conscience will not let me be a part of drafting young men who might later be subject to the severe punishment that was ren dered Cpl. Claude Batchelor.” Polls Close At 5 Today For Election Election is being ’held today for six civilian student sena tors, one member of the elec tion commission, and two rep resentatives to the student publications board. The ballot box is in the Me morial Student Center by the post office entrance, and will be open until 5:30 p.m. Results will be in tomorow's Battalion. Houston Function The Houston A&M club will hold its first function of the year Thursday night at the Brazos County A&M clubhouse. Rides will leave from the front of Good win hall at 7:00 p.m. Cadets Jackie W. Thurman and Charles E. Sinclair have received notice of nomination for the first Air Force Acad emy class in July, 1955, Col. John A. Way, professor of air science, said Tuesday. Thurman, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Brannen of Hunts ville, was nominated by John Dowdy, congressman from the 14th congressional district. Sinclair, son of M/Sgt. and Mrs. A1 Venski of Fort Worth, was selected by Wingate Lucas, congressman from the 12th congressional district. Qualifying examination for Sinclair will be held at Sheppard air force base, Wichita Falls, on Oct. 25, but Thur man has not been notified of an examination date, Way said. *■ According to plans of the Defense Department, 255 of the 300 vacancies for the first academy class will he filled by congressional nominations. Each senator and repi’esentative is authorized to nominate 10 can-< didates, but U.S. air force head quarters officials recently revealed nominations are lagging far behind expectations with about 400 names submitted thus far. The remaining vacancies will be filled from presidential and vice- presidential nominations. Eleven have been reserved by the presi dent to be filled on a competitive basis from sons of members of any regular component of the Armed Forces still in service, re tired or who died while serving. Others are reserved for sons of personnel killed in action, sons of Medal of Honor winners, and some are reserved for candidates from the territories. In addition to Thurman and Sin clair, indications are that several other Aggies have submitted ap plications but a complete list ia unavailable, Way said. For those students who may be interested in contacting their con gressional representative to apply for nomination to the Air Force Academy, Way prepared a list of eligibility requirements for admis sion to the academy: 1. Applicant must be a citizen of U.S. 2. He must be of good moral character. 3. He must be over 17 and less than 22 years old as of July 1 of the year) admitted to the academy. 4. He must never have been married. If evidence of marriage is found after he has been admit ted, he will be immediately sepa rated from the academy. 5. He must be based or residing at time of application within con tinental limits of the U.S., or Alas ka, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Panama Canal Zone or on active military duty in any of the overseas areas. 6. He must be medically quali fied for flying training. Since application deadline for congressmen to submit nomina tions is Feb. 18, 1955, air force headquarters urges interested stu dents to contact their congressmen for additional information. The site of the $126 million acad emy will be Colorado Springs, Colo., but academy students will be housed at Lowry air force base, Denver, until the academy’s phy sical plant is completed. During their four years at the academy, cadets will be paid $81.12 per month plus six cents per mile travel allowance going to and from school at vacation and holiday time. They will be graduated with a baccalaureate degree. Requirement Changes Made For 3 Degrees A&M’s premedical, preden tal, and prelaw students can now get a degree from A&M after three years here and one year at an accredited school in their field. Previously, two years of medical school were required to get an A&M degree, and there was no pro vision for giving degrees to pre dental students. The medical or dental school must be Class A. Prelaw students can get a de gree from A&M after three years of work here and one year at an accredited law school. A minimum of 137 acceptable semester hours will be required for any one of the three degrees. Medical and dental students get a bachelor of science degree, and law students get a bachelor of arts degree. A&M has about 100 premedical, predental, and prelaw students, said W. H. Delaplane, dean 6T arts and sciences. He said that some of these stu dents will go ahead and complete four years here, because of the advanced ROTC contract require ments. The new policy does not apply to these students. The Academic council, which ap proved the new policy, felt this will result in an enrollment in crease for the students taking three years here and then going into specialized studies. THE LAST OF ROSS—The last of Ross hall is being spread around among thousands of A&M former students. Two kegs of square, hand-forged nails are being mailed to all development fund contributors. Placing the nails in the letters are P. L. (Pinky) Downs jr. and Miss Maries Scarmardo. Faculty Council Established Here A seven-member faculty council on teacher education has been es tablished, said David H. Morgan, president. Morgan will appoint four mem bers to the committee from the heads of teacher education depart ments and three from the general faculty. The council is to foster high standards in all areas of teacher education. Morgan said the new group will have a broad field for recommen dations to the Academic Council. They will prepare recommendations for certification of teacher educa tion graduates.