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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.