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T BatteiHon Number 285: Volume 53 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1954 Price 5 Cents Fish Stanine Tests Won 'iCount;Sophs Can Re-Enroll Air EOTC headquarters has thrown out the results of the Sta nine test given to air science fresh men last year, and sophomores who got out of the corps or trans ferred to army ROTC because of those results will be allowed to re enroll in air science. Sophomores who did not enroll in any military science this semes ter because of the test will be al lowed to re-enroll in air science immediately, if their dean approves adding a course. * “We’ll be responsible for seeing that they catch up with the class,” said Col. Joe E. Davis, comman dant. Sophomoi’es who transferred to army ROTC because of the test will be allowed to re-enroll in air ROTC at the end of the semester. The Executive committee approv ed these two provisions yestei'day afternoon. Here’s the full stoi’y: The Stanine test, officially call ed the “Air Force Officers Qualify ing Test,” is a combination apti tude and attitude test. Part of Project Last fall, air ROTC headquar ters asked A&M to give the test 4,o air science freshmen as part of a project. The class was to be given the % test once each year throughout their four years, to see if their grades on it changed any. Only one other college participated in the project. When they took the tests, the freshmen were told that the grade they made would have no effect on whether they got advanced air ROTC contracts. Decision Reversed After the tests were given, the freshmen were told the grades would be a factor in determining who got contracts. Some freshmen were told they could not get a contract as their grades on the test were below pass ing. Because of this, some men did pot enroll in military science this year, and some transferred to army ROTC. Neither Davis nor J. P. Abbott, dean of the college, know how many men are involved. The local air science detachment tiled during the summer to have the results of the tests discount ed, but were told they could not be. Last week, Col. John A. Way, PAS, mentioned the matter in a telephone call to Brig. Gen. M. K. Deichelman of air ROTC headquar ters, and received permission to throw out the results. Now the tests will be given each year to sophomores, during the spring semester. The results of this test will be considered when the cadet applies for a contract, Way said. For Game Saturday DANCING GIRLS—This can-can line will perform at the Memorial Student Center’s Rue Pinalle floor show Friday night. The girls are from Mrs. Mildred France’s School of Personalized Dancing in Houston. Ernie Martelino and his combo will play for dancing, beginning at 8 p.m. and ending before the midnight yell practice. Box Lunches Will Be Sold Peach Growers End Meet Today The annual Texas Peach Growers conference closes in the Memorial Student Center today, after two Mays of talks and discussions on improving the Texas peach crop. The meeting started yestei’day with a welcome by W. N. William son, assistant director of the Tex as Agricultural Extension service. Dr. Leon Havis, senior horticul turist of the U. S. department of agriculture, spoke on the govern ment’s peach and plum research program, and two A&M men spoke on peach and plum research in Texas. They were Fred Brison and A. H. Krezdom, both of the horticul ture department. Tuesday afternoon the group toured the plum rootstock test at A&M’s horticulture farm. *' Panels on handling, harvesting, insects, and irrigation completed the meet. Weather Today PARTLY CLOUDY Continued cloudy and warm with southerly winds. The high yester day was 94, low was 70. At 10:30 a.m. the temperature was 84. Kiwanis box lunches will be available at seven selling stations around College Station Saturday, as aproned Kiwanians try to sell the chicken lunches to football vis itors. The lunches, which cost $1, will contain a thigh and a drumstick, bread and butter, potato chips, pickles and olives, cookies and an apple. The selling stations and Kiwan ians who will man them are as fol lows: • South of the city limit sign on highway 6. Seller will be W. M. Potts. • East Gate. Sellers will be R. O. Berry and W. M. Potts. • Highway 6 and Jersey. Sellers wil be K. A. Manning and Don Dale. • A&M Consolidated high school. Sellers will be Jim Baty and Doyle Letbetter. • West Gate. Sellers will be Charles LaMotte and E. B. Rey nolds. • Jones Bridge road. Sellers will be Ed Ivy, R. E. Leighton, and Roy Wingren. • The traffic circle. Sellers will be Sid Loveless, Mike Krenitsky, and S. A. Kerdey. College Station Cub Scouts will help the sellers. Signs will be placed at each station, and the sell er’s will wear bright aprons and chef’s hats. Preparation for the Saturday selling day will begin Friday night, when a crew of Kiwanians gather at A&M Consolidated school’s cafe teria to fold the boxes and do part of the lunch packing. Box-folders will be C. A. Bon- nen, Nelson Durst, Eugene Rush, C. L. Godfrey, Harry Thiers, Ches ter Rowell, C. F. Richardson, W. F. Adams, and R. L. Skrabanek. Early Saturday morning another crew will complete the packing job and get the lunches to the selling stations. Packers will be H. O. Kunkel, Ed Ivey, L. S. Richardson, Frank Anderson, J. W. Quisenberry, Charles LaMotte, Howard Gravitt, and J. G. McNeely. Sales will begin at 10 a.m. and will last until the game starts. If there are any lunches left over, they will be sold after the game, said W. E. (Woody) Briles, chair man of the Kiwanis box-lunch committee. Fiscal Fees Are Due Oct. 22 Second installment fees are now payable at the fiscal of fice and are due by Oct. 22. The payment includes board, $39.35, room rent, $10.65, and laundry fee, $3.45, for the per iod ending Nov. 24. A fine of one dollar a day is charged for each day the payment is late. News Briefs ALLEN GUNNELS and Tommie G. Hall, recent graduates of A&M, were among 4,000 college men and women who participated in the Marine corps reserve officer train ing program at the Marine Corps school, Quantico, Va. . =1: * * FORMER STUDENT, Marine 2nd Lt. Charles H. O’Brien of Port Arthur, qualified as a carrier pilot after six landings aboard the light aircraft carrier USS Monterey in the Gulf of Mexico. * * * DIARRHEA was the leading dis ease in the College Station-Bryan area last week with 13 cases re ported. Strept throat was second with 10 cases, and influenza third with six. * * * FORMER STUDENT, Cpl. Cecil W. Labhart of Fort Worth, will appear in battle scenes of Univer sal-International’s forthcoming “To Hell and Back,” dramatizing the life of Medal of Honor Winner Au- die Murphy. Murphy is an hon orary A&M cadet colonel of the corps. Sport Shorts To Be Back Battered, beaten, but still undaunted, The Battalion’s sports editor, Jerry Wizig, will be back with Sport Shorts Fri day and his predictions on the Southwest Conference games to be played Saturday. Although he had a rough time with his last set of pre dictions — picking the winner in only one out of six games— Wizig still has a season aver age of 60 per cent correct pre dictions. As to last week’s games, Wizig’s only comment was, “Look how close the scores were in the games I missed.” Civilian Council Sets Organization Thursday Four Reunions Set For This Weekend More than 600 A&M former stu dents will be here this weekend attending four class reunions and the A&M-Texas Christian univer sity football game. The four classes are ’29, ’34, ’39 and ’44. The A&M band will honor the former students during the half-time ceremonies, and the exes will have a section reserved for them at the game. “This is one of the largest groups of former students we have had for a reunion weekend,” said J. B. (Dick) Hervey, former students secretary. All four of the classes will have luncheons in the Memoi’ial Student Center before the game. After the game, each class will have a sep arate function. The class of ’29 will have a bar becue at Hershel Burgess’ farm that afternoon. Burgess, a Col lege Station insurance man, is in charge of the local arrangements for the class. The class of ’34 will have dinner at Maggie Parker’s dining room in Bryan. Jack Sloan of the Agri cultural Extension service is in charge of local arrangements for this class. The class of ’39 will meet after the game in the MSC for an in formal reception and dinner, with O. D. Butler of the animal hus bandry department in charge. The class of ’44 will also have a reception in the MSC after the game. Fred Walters of the main station farm is in charge of their local plans. News of the World By the ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON—Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson received the nation’s farewell Tuesday at funeral services in Washington cathedral. More than 1,000 mourn ers including' Chief Justice Warren and the seven remaining associate justices honored the man who won international fame as a jurist. Jackson died Saturday of a heart attack at 62. ★ ★ ★ GEORGETOWN, Del.—State Atty. Gen. H. Al bert Young asked the Court of Chancery Tuesday to return 11 expelled Negroes to the all-white Milford High School and promised that Delaware would pre serve law and order. ★ ★ ★ DETROIT—Defense Secretary Wilson said Tuesday his now-famous “dog” story had been distorted in an effort to make political capital against the Republicans. ★ ★ ★ NEVADA CITY, Calif.—The City Council vot ed last night to legalize jaywalking, because the blocks are so long. A jaywalker, however, must walk straight across the street, not diagonally. ★ ★ ★ PARIS—Premier Pierre Mendes-France won a vote of confidence 3-to-l from the French National Assembly to day on the London conference plan to rearm West Germany in the alliance against Communist aggression. ★ ★ ★ CHICAGO—American League club owners to night approved a switch of the Philadelphia Athlet ics to Kansas City, but must wait until Monday to learn if Roy and Earle Mack will sell their stock in the club. Bloodmobile Here For Drive Nov. 3 The bloodmobile will make the first of two visits to the campus this year Nov. 3. Goal for the first visit is 250 pints, but -“we’re hoping for more,” said Jerry Ramsey, student chair man of the drive. A&M has ex ceeded its goal each time the blood unit has been here. Military unit commanders and civilian housemasters will receive permission forms today fo<r donors between the ages af 18 and 21. No one under 18 may donate, and persons over 21 may donate with out permission from their parents. College Station residents are also invited to donate to the drive, Ramsey said. The blood collected here is used for defense purposes only, unless an injured A&M student needs a transfusion. I lalloween To Be Setting At Dinner Club A n informal masquerade dance with a Halloween set ting has been planned for the October social of the A&M College Employes dinner club on Oct. 21. Dinner will be served at 7:30 p.m. in the assembly room of the Memorial Student Center and af terwards there will be dancing as usual with Lee Thompson provid ing music. Mrs. Henry Rakoff, assisted by J. F. Pierce and Walter Matzen, will be in charge of the dinner menu, table arrangements and dec orations. Capt. G. H. Libby, Mrs. K. A. Manning and Mrs. D. D. Bur- chard are responsible for publicity. A. F. Isbell, chairman of the din ner club committee, has appointed G. W. Sehlesselman to handle tick ets and has named Mrs. Manning and i Mrs. D. H. Kimberling to as sist on the music committee. Also serving on the general com mittee this year are Wayne Stark and David R. Fitch. “These monthly socials are plan ned for the entertainment of all college personnel,” Mr. Isbell said, “and includes graduate assistants and part time college employees as well as staff members.” Tickets for the Halloween dance will go on sale at the main desk of the MSC Monday morning and will be available until 2 p.m. Wed nesday, Oct. 20. Although costumes will be op tional, all guests will be asked to come masked. Extension Men Officiate At Fair F. Z. Beanblossom, poultry mar keting specialist of the Texas Ag ricultural Extension service, is serving as general poultry super intendent for the State Fair of Texas in Dallas. Others on the project from A&M and the extension service are George H. Draper, Bill Doran, Charles Hensarling, Kermit Schlamb, George J. Mountney and E. D. Parnell. Committee Needs Non-Reg Member The senior class gift committee needs one more student member. Applicants for the committee should see John Liembrook, chair man of the committee, in dormitory 14, room 232. All suggestions for the senior class gift should be turned in at the same room as soon as possible, said Bil Bradshaw, member of the gift committee. V YEA AGGIES!—Yell leaders at A&M get ready. They are, left to right, David Bailey, Beaumont; Bobby Eugene Carpenter, Dallas; Howard Childers, Amarillo, head yell leader; Frank Davis, Austin, and Paul Holliday, Baytown. Officers, Seating Plan To Be Discussed An organizational meeting of the Civilian Student Coun cil will be held Thursday at 7 p.m. in the office of the head of the department of student affairs, Bennie Zinn, stu dent affairs head said Tuesday. Purpose of the. meeting, Zinn said, is to ‘elect officers, to decide how many times per month to meet and what night of the week to meet. The new seating arrange ment at football games will also be discussed. Councilmen already elected in clude John Cozad, Mitchell hall; Pete Goodwin, Law hall; Billy J. Johnson, Puryear hall; Ray H. Lammert, Hart hall; William Bar nes, Milner hall; William Rains, Walton hall; John H. Jones and Burl Purvis, College View. Bennie J. Camp, Project houses and Charles Cocanougher, Hugh Lanktree and Joe E. West, who are automatically council members as the three civilian student mem bers of the Student Life commit tee. | Run-off Needed The Leggett hall councilman has not been selected since the Wed nesday election for student senator ended in a tie between Earl L. Han sen and William A. Hill. The run off will be held today in Leggett between 5 and 6 p.m. Day students are also eligible to have a student representative on the civilian student council but they had no one to run, Zinn said. First step in selecting council- men took place when floor repre- sensative met with the dor mitory student senator and the stu dent housemaster and the group voted on one of the floor repre sentatives to be the dormitory councilman. Senators Invited Dormitory student senators are invited to attend the council meet ings to obtain information for stu dent senate meetings, but they have no vote on the council, Zinn said. In case of a necessity of holding closed sessions for some special reason the invitation to student senators may be withdrawn for that meeting, Zinn said. The invitation to student sena tors to sit in on meetings demon- stx*ates the purpose of the council, which is to promote unity between civilian students, to encourage greater participation by civilian students in activities open to them and to encourage closer coopera tion between the civilian and mil itary student groups, Zinn said. A&M Farm Lands Now Coordinated A new farm department has been formed to handle all farm lands operated by the A&M college sys tem in Brazos and Burleson coun ties under a coordinated program. The lands, to be known collec tively as the A&M college farms, are composed of what formerly was the college farm, the main station farm, the Brazos river valley lab oratory and the college plantation. Lands in Brazos county will be called the upland farm, and those in Burleson county will be called the plantation. J. E. Roberts, formerly superin tendent of the main station farm, will head the new farm department. Requests for services on the up land farm will be made to Roberts.. Requests dealing with the plan tation will be made to L. C. Eakin, who will serve as plantation su perintendent, responsible to Rob erts. Council Meets The Interfaith council held it^ first steak-fry of the year last night at Hensel park. President David H. Morgan spoke to the group, which is composed of rep resentatives from each campus church.