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Number 283 YolumeS:
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1954
Price 5 Cents
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With Coacli Slightly Peeved
Ag Team Heads for Houston
The 30 football players who
made the trip to Georgia, plus
possibly one or two othei’s, will
leave by bus Saturday morning for
the night encounter with the Uni
versity of Houston Cougars at Rice
Stadium.
That is the group who will make
the trip, but who will start the
game is ah open question, Coach
Bffear Bryant said Thursday evening
after a short practice session.
Sitting in the coaches dressing
l^iom, Bryant discussed the 45-min-
lite dummy scrimmage and his an-
fer grew as he spoke.
“We were just dummying, but it
Was disgraceful,” Bryant said. “If
we play Saturday the way we prac
ticed today, Houston will beat us a
hundred points.”
He went on to say the defense
wasn’t too bad, but “nobody seemed
to know what to do on offense.”
Asked who he planned to stai’t
in the contest, Bryant snorted, “By
golly, if we can find. 11 of them
who want to play, they’re the ones
we’ll start.”
Wesleyans Attend
Planning Retreat
The Rev. and Mrs. Robert C.
Monk and 15 members of the A&M
Wesley foundation attended the
planning retreat of the foundation
lit Lakeview last weekend.
Lakeview is the Texas Methodist
camp ground near Palestine.
Attending Were Miss Kathryn
Emith, Miss Earnestine Smith, Mr.
and Mrs. Roland Bhalmann, Hai’ry
Scott, John Chapman, Wallace
Birkes, Joe Blair, Jimmy Griffin,
‘‘Bill Payne, Clay McFarland, Paul
Mason, Bill Wafer, Bill Stephenson
and Larry Lumpkin.
Calendar Listing
The campaign for listings for
the College Station community
birthday calendar is still in prog
ress. To register the dates of
birthdays, anniversaries or club
meetings, localites are asked to
call 4-4807 before Oct. 25.
Referring to Wednesday’s brief
workout, Bryant said the squad
looked pretty good, but that Thurs
day was exactly the opposite.
“We had the worst practice ses
sion I ever saw,” he said, as he
raised out of the chair and headed
for the showers.
Bryant left no doubt he was dis
gusted with the Thursday workout,
but since his thin Aggie squad
scored* an upset 6-0 win over un
defeated Georgia Saturday and
drew raves from writers while do
ing it, indications are that A&M
Paulson Addresses
CS Lions Club
W. E. Paulson, former president
of the Bryan Lions club and now
a member of the College Station
Lions, spoke to the College Station
club on “Why Be a Lion” at their
meeting this week.
The club formed a new boy scout
committee, composed of Dr. Mack
Prescott, Maj. Waldo Burt and Dr.
A. B. Medlen, chairman.’
M/Sgt. Turner Buford, assist
ant scoutmaster of troop 450, spon
sored by the Lions, reported on a
party held for the members of the
troop.
New members accepted into the
club were Dr. Wayne Kirkham of
the veterinary medicine school, and
Frank (Snuffy) Smith, operator of
Western Auto in College Station.
Hagler To Head
Freshman FFA
Jon Hagler was elected president
of the first A&M freshman colle
giate chapter of the Future Farm
ers of America at the first meet
ing Wednesday in the YMCA.
Other officers are Dan Gansky,
vice-president; Arvill Newby, sec
retary; Jim Gartrell, treasurer;
Joe Kelly, reporter; Edward Can-
fal, parliamentarian; Bruce Reat,
historian;' and Edward Harboi'S,
sentinel.
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THIS WEEK’S WINNER—Sign painters of A signal corps
gather around their football sign for the A&M-University
of Houston game, which won first prize in the contest this
week.
will have 11 starters ready to go
Saturday.
Probable starters, based on their
play thus far, will be Bennie Sin
clair and Jack Pardee, ends; Law
rence Winkler and Norbert Ohlen-
dorf, tackles; Ray Barrett and Sid
Theriot, guards; Lloyd Hale, cen
ter; Elwood Kettler, quarterback;
Bobby Keith and Joe Schero, half
backs and Don Kachtik, fullback.
Facing the Aggies from the Cou
gar side of the line will probably
be Kenneth Wind and Ben Wilson,
ends; John Dearen and Wayne
Geddes, tackles; Jim Blackstone
and Wayne Shoemaker, guards and
Billy Mcllroy, center.
In the backfield, the Cougars
probably will start Jimmy Dickey
at quarterback; Kenneth Stegall
and Donn Hargrove at the half
back slots and Jack Patterson at
fullback.
Weather Society
Elects President
Guy Franceschini of the oceano
graphy department was elected
president of the College Station
branch of the American Meteoro
logical society at its first meeting
of the school year Oct. 1.
Other officers are Maj. Ralph
Osborn of. detachment two, 16th
weather squadron at Bryan air
force base, vice-president; Robert
Gilcrest of the oceanography de
partment, secretary; and William
D. Scoates of the engineering ex
periment station, treasurer.
The society meets the first Fri
day of each month, the next meet
ing being Nov. 5.
A&M Student Senate Adopts
Home Seating Arrangement
Plan Determined
By Activity Tickets
The Student Senate last night adopted a Kyle field seat
ing arrangement based on the number of student activity
tickets sold. The student activity ticket includes tickets to
all home football games.
The plan has the civililian students sitting in the top 10
rows of the Aggie section of the stands, and the military stu
dents sitting below them, divided by classification.
(See chart on this page)
The plan, as explained by John Benefield, chairman of
the Student Senate seating committee, was derived this way:
About 5,100 student activity tickets have been sold.
About 99 per cent of the 3,784 corps students have bought the
News
of the
World
By the ASSOCIATED PRESS
ROSWELL, N.M. —Floods bat
tered an 80-mile stretch of the
Pecos Valley of southeastern New
Mexico today, leaving three known
dead, three presumed dead and six
missing. Property damage—which
no officials would stop to esti
mate—ran into the millions.
★ ★ ★
WASHINGTON — Nationalist
China has stopped bombing at
tacks on the Chinese Communist
mainland at the suggestion of
the United States, diplomatic
authorities reported today. The
attacks stopped several days
ago, according to reports re
ceived here from Taipeh, the
Nationalist capital on Formosa.
★ ★ ★
TRIESTE — Allied occupation
troops began pulling out of Trieste
today, their peace-keeping job end
ed by Italian-Yugoslav agreement
on division of the long-disputed
strategic territory. This agree
ment was approved unanimously in
Belgrade today by Yugoslavia’s
powerful Federal Executive Coun
cil.
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SAN ANTONIO—The civilian
attorney for Claude Batchelor
said today he believed the Com
munists would benefit from the
corporal’s conviction last week.
Batchelor, 22, from Kermit, Tex.,
was tried by a court-martial on
a charge of collaborating with
the enemy while a prisoner of
war in Korea, was convicted and
given a life sentence.
'♦'tickets. This leaves the total
number of civilian students
who have paid their activity
fee about 1,350, based on a
total enrollment of 6,200.
Percentage Basis
By percentages, the civilian stu
dents hav§ paid 26.5 per cent of
the total number of activity fees,
so they were alloted seats in this
proportion.
This year’s enrollment distribu
tion is civilian students, about
2,400; corps seniors, 615; corps
juniors, 600; corps sophomores,
1,035; and corps freshmen, 1,534.
The distribution of seats by num
ber is civilian students, 2,670; corps
seniors, 1,058; corps juniors, 1,222;
and corps sophomores and fres-
men, 4,950.
More Than Enrollment
Benefield pointed out that the
civilian students and each corps
classification had more seats in
their section than their enrollment.
Other parts of the plan call for
having 18 ushers, both civilian and
military, to enforce the plan, and
painting the stands to indicate the
sections.
Civilian students will enter the
stands by ramps M, N, O, and P.
Corps seniors and juniors will en
ter by ramps O and P, and corps
sophomores will enter by ramps M
and N.
Civilian senators at the meet
ing raised some objection to the
plan, on the grounds that no pro
visions were made for civilian stu
dents who would buy a regular ad
mission ticket for individual games
instead of the student activity sea
son ticket.
Jerry Ramsey, senate president,
said that those tickets could not be
used in the student section.
The vote on the plan was 28 to 8.
The seating committee recom
mended that seating in the civilian
(See SENATE, Page 2)
Three Aggies Named
Academy Opens in July
By BILL FULLERTON
Battalion Staff Writer
Individuals desiring admission to
the first class of air force cadets at
the U. S. Air Force academy in
July, 1955, should write their sena
tor or representative for necessary
application forms.
Members of Congress must sub
mit their nominations to the Acad
emy Appointment branch before
Feb. 18, 1955. The final selection
of the 300 Air Force cadets will
be made by the Air Fdrce Acad
emy Admission board on the basis
of competitive examinations.
Three Aggies have received no
tice of their nomination for the
first class at the academy. They
are Jackie W. Thurman, junior
from Huntsville; Charles E. Sin
clair, sophomore from Fort Worth
and Ronald L. Patton, freshman
from Dallas.
Final Selection Of Cadets
Forty examining centers have
been established to administer the
first of two series of final qualify
ing examinations for candidates
from all categories. Tests will be
given annually during the first
week of October, December, Feb
ruary and March.
The centers are located through
out continental United States and
in Alaska, Newfoundland, Canal
Zone, Puerto Rica, Hawaii, Phil
ippine Islands, Japan, Germany and
England.
Ellington air force base, Hous
ton, Randolph AFB, San Antonio,
and Sheppard AFB, Wichita Falls,
are the examining centers in Tex
as.
Curriculum
The air force is now selecting
applicants for staff and faculty
positions. Deadline for selection of
both for the first year of operation
is Jan. 1, 1955.
The proposed program of in
struction consists of:
Patton Nominated
For Air Academy
Ronald L. Patton freshman
student, has been nominated by
Congressman J. Frank Wilson
for the first Air Force Academy
class in July, 1955.
Patton, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Max E. Patton of Dallas, has
not been notified of the exami
nation date. Wilson is from the
5th congressional district.
Weather Today
Partially cloudy and warmer.
High yesterday was 89, and the
low was 62.
1. The academic curriculum —
under the direct supervision of a
dean of faculty. This curriculum
is composed of the social-humani
ties division and the scientific di
vision.
Courses will be as follows: First
year—English, history, philosophy
(logic), geography, mathematics,
chemistry and physics; second year
—English, history, comparative
governments, economic and c6m-
parative systems, mathematics and
physics.
Third year — English, history,
law, psychology, mechanics and
mathematics and electrical engi
neering; fourth year—international
relations, military history, foreign
language, thermodynamics, aerody
namics and aircraft design.
2. The airmanship program —
under the direct supervision of a
commandant of cadets. This pro
gram which runs through the four
years includes primary courses in
flying training, military training,
physical training and leadership.
A light plant phase of pilot
training is given during the senior
year, and pilot wings can be wbn
with further training after gradu
ation.
Administration and basic train
ing of the underclassmen will be
(See ACADEMY, Page 2)
Board Approves
Press Freedom
The full membership, of the new
ly - formed Student Publications
board yesterday adopted as a for
mal statement an assurance of
freedom of the press to The Battal
ion and the other student publica
tions.
The statement says in part that
“The Battalion and the other stu
dent publications have freedom of
the press, accompanied by the re
sponsibilities that such freedom en
tails. The editorial policy of each
student publication is determined
by the student editors.”
Present at the meeting was the
full membership of the board: Karl
E. Elmquist, executive chairman;
Bennie A. Zinn, head of the stu
dent affairs department; D. D.
Burchard, head of the journalism
department; T. W. Leland, head
of the business administration de
partment; and Walter Bemdt of
the fiscal department.
Speigle Speaks
To Air ROTC
Senior Students
W. R. Speigle, dean of the
College of Business Adminis
tration of the University of
Texas, yesterday told the air
ROTC seniors that having an
objective is the most important
part of any undertaking.
Speigle said that this principle
applied to business and education,
as well as the armed services.
An objective must be specific,
not vague, he said, and any objec
tive should have efficiency and
economy as its secondary objec
tives.
Also important in either busi
ness or the armed services is con
sideration of the personal element,
Speigle said.
“The personal element must be
considered in working toward obr
jective,” he said. “It marks the
difference between democracy and
autocracy.”
Speigle, who was a fighter pilot
in World War I, has been associa
ted with U. S. Rubber, Chrysler,
General Motors and other large
corporations.
His talk was the first in a series
of talks by business leaders plan
ned by the air science department.
Student representatives to the
board are Jim Yates, civilian stu
dent; Theo Lindig, corps student;
and Bobby LeRoy Reid, graduate
student.
First question to be decided by
the board was whether or not a
•Battalion reporter would be al
lowed to cover the meeting.
The reporter was asked to leave
the meeting while the question was
discussed. The board voted unan
imously to have open meetings,
“unless a majority votes other
wise,” Elmquist said.
“It is not everybody’s intention
that this board act as a board of
censorship over the student publi
cations of the college,” Elmquist
said at the meeting. “Our function
is to be as helpful as possible to
the student editors and carry out
the objectives of student publica
tions.”
He said he considered education
of the student publications work
ers as the primary objective.
Elmquist reported to the board
that he was looking for someone to
fill the position of manager of stu
dent publications vacated by Carl
Jobe.
The board authorized Elmquist
to act as manager until one is
hired.
The board also decided to con
sider bids for printing the Aggie-
land yearbook at its next meeting.
Proposed was a tour of the Taylor
Publication Co., printers of last
year’s annual, to see how year
books are printed.
Time for the next meeting or a
permanent meeting time were not
set.
Items to be discussed at the
next meeting include a program
plan for the year, formal approval
of editors of the publications, and
financial recommendations of the
individual publications.
A&M’s student publications in
clude The Battalion, the Aggieland,
the four school magazines, the stu
dent directory, and the football
programs.
Film Society Meets
The A&M Film society will show
“Twelve o’Clock High” tonight at
7:30 in the Memorial Student Cen
ter ballroom. The film stars Greg
ory Peck, Dean dagger and Millard
Mitchell.
QUEEN NOMINEES—These eight A&M Consolidated
high school girls are the candidates for homecoming queen.
Chosen by the football team, the winner will be chosen Oct.
22. Shown left to right are, top, Anna Beaty, Jean Smith,
Lucy Rogers; center, Ann Fleming, Nell Ross, Jean Buddy;
bottom, Ann Cleland and Carolyn Wilson.