Battalion
Number 10: Volume 54
JINGLE, JANGLE—Two freshmen show one of the perils
of the week before the A&M-SMU football game, when
freshmen wear wire spurs to signify “riding the Ponies”.
All tangled up are Mike Moloy (left) of Robstown, and
Don Lummus of Denison.
Jones Named Head
Of Civilian Council
John Jones, junior business ad
ministration major*, was elected
president of the Civilian Student
Council yesterday.
Other permanent officers elected
Were John Cozad, vice-president;
Pete Goodwin, secretary, and Joe
West, parliamentarian.
The officers elected yesterday
replaced temporary president, Co
zad, who was elected at the group’s
first meeting. At their first meet
ing, the council decided to wait
until members had a chance to
know each other before they elected
permanent officer's.
Professors Dine
In Duncan Hall
The corps staff, in an effort to
better corps-faculty relations, has
started a program of inviting pro
fessors to dine with the corps in
Duncan hall for Wednesday even
ing meals.
The program began last Wednes
day when eight new faculty mem
bers were invited. Jerry Ramsey,
corps scholastic officer, and Burton
Young, corps scholastic sergeant,
met the faculty group in the dor
mitory 10 lounge and escorted
them to the west side of Duncan
hall to watch a corps pass-by.
Ramsey said better corps-faculty
relations was a main objective of
the corps this year. He felt that
getting to know each other better
is the best way to accomplish this
objective.
Weather Today
PARTLY CLOUDY
The forecast for today is contin
ued cloudy with occasional light
rains in the afternoon and eve
ning. Yesterday’s high was 61,
low 44. The temperature at 10:30
this morning was 48.
In other action, the council sent
a recommendation to the Student
Senate that all students have the
option to purchase the student ac
tivities ticket or any part of the
ticket at the present price of the
individual parts. The recommen
dation was sent to the senate since
the Civilian Student Council has
authority over matters concerning
just the civilian students.
The council also recommended to
the senate that every car register
ed on the A&M campus be required
to have liability insurance as is
required by state law.
The council set a permanent
meeting date as 7 p.m. on the sec
ond and fourth Monday of each
month.
Shode Will Speak
Tomorrow Night
Dr. R. R. Shode of the genetics
department will speak on “Refer
ence Materials and Laboratories”
at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the as
sembly room of the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
Dr. Shrode’s talk is the third lec
ture in a seminar program for all
gi-aduate students and new staff
members in the School of Agricul
ture. Each lecture is presented
by a man recently chosen by the
students as an outstanding profes
sor in the school.
Dr. R. L. Skrabanek of the de
partment of agricultural economics
and sociology, T. E. McAfee of the
agronomy department and Dr. H.
O. Kunkel of the animal husbandry
department are the other speakers.
; Yankee Club’
To Organize
A group of A&M’s out-of-state
students are trying to form a “yan-
kee club.”
The club, which would be open
to all A&M students who live north
of the Mason-Dxon line, will have
an organizational meeting at 7:30
p.m. Thursday in the bowling area
of the YMCA.
Senate To Meet
The Student Senate will meet at
7:30 p.m. Thursday to discuss the
evaluation forms for professors
and courses and make health com
mittee appointments. The meeting
will be in the senate chamber of
the Memorial Student Center.
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1954
Price 5 Ceuta
Demos Edge Toward Win;
Amendments Approved
Republican Alger
Wins in Dallas
By WILBUR MARTIN
Associated Press Staff
Bruce Alger, a Republican and political novice, forged
a startling lead in his bid for Congress Tuesday as the rest
of Texas again branded itself Democratic.
By midnight lie htd a 2,125 vote lead over Wallace Sav
age, Democrat and ex-mayor of Dallas.
The former B29 bomber pilot who entered the race be
cause “people who I respected said I could win and render
a service,” appeared near victory.
By overwhelming majorities, Allan Shivers nailed down
a third term as governor and Lyndon Johnson a second term
in the Senate.
Eleven amendments to the state constitution also ap-
♦•peared to have won approval, in
ly • • 1 | eluding the controversial one that
Kiwanis L lub
Hears Speech
On Foreign Aid
“There is no institution in
the world that compares with
a land grant college,” said D.
W. Williams, vice chancellor
for agriculture, at the Ki
wanis club luncheon yesterday.
“We’ve always had a lot of visi
tors on the campus, but never in
such numbers as last year;” he said.
His speech was centered around
technical assistance program.
The technical assistance pro
gram sends American help to for
eign countries. The five phases
to the program are training of peo
ple for professional foreign serv
ice, bringing foreign students in
for training, loaning of some of
our personnel to other countries,
foreign visitors coming to us for
help and the giving of grants in
aid.
A&M has a $1,700,000 contract
with Pakistan. It is connected
with seven different schools at
tached with the University of Pa
kistan. Some of the personnel sent
to foreign countries stay for two
years while others stay for only
two or three months.
“A&M would not seek any con
tract but was approached several
times," he said.
Election of officers was also held
at the meeting. The results of the
ballot are as follows: Bob Cher
ry, president; Charles LaMotte,
fii*st vice president; Woody Biiles,
second vice president; Bill Hensel,
Bill KrUger, Dial Martin, Robert
L. McCarty and J. W. Sorenson
were elected board members.
Deadline Nov. 9
For Civil Service
Applications for Civil Service ex
aminations covering a wide i*ange
of activities in the fields of sci
ence and agriculture will be re
ceived until Nov. 9.
Ralph H. Rogers, official recruit
ment representative of the United
States Department of Agriculture
suggests that applicants consult
W. R. Horsley at the Placement
office for details and application
forms.
3,000 Aggielands
Given Out So Far
More than 3,000 ’54 Aggielands
have been given out, said Harry
Tilley, co-editor of the ’55 annual.
Distribution center has been moved
to the office of student publica
tions, room 207, Goodwin hall.
A meeting of new staff mem
bers for the ’55 edition will be
held Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the
Aggieland office, room 204 A,
Goodwin hall. All interested stu
dents, corps and civilians, ai-e in
vited to attend.
would permit women to serve on
juries.
Two other Republican candidates
for congress appeared to have lost
and a third—for congress-man-at-
large—was definitely defeated.
The Texas Election Bureau didn’t
even bother to issue bulletins as
Martin Dies of Lufkin piled up a
one-sided margin over Republican
Tom Nolan.
Returns to the unofficial bureau
at 1 a.m. from 199 of 254 counties,
36 complete:
Governor — Shivers 302,218,
Adams 35,261.
Senator—Johnson 279,925, Wat
son 50,748, Spangler 1,928.
Amendments:
1. Old Age Assistance Approv
al 236,108, Against 79,026.
2. Retirement Credits Approval
175,673, Against 92,309.
3. Employee Benefits Approval
170,614, Against 82,722.
4. Confederate Pension Fund
Approval 204,520, Against 61,788.
5. State Salaries Approval 161,-
353, Against 99,964.
6. Toll Road Grants Approval
171,517, Against 104,195.
7. Women Jurors Approval
170,407, Against 126,851.
8. Four-Year Terms Approval
159,373, Against 126,216.
9. Hospital Districts Approval
173,134, Against 101,502.
10. Military Voting Approval
215,035, Against 61,346.
11. Tax Officials Approval
200,481, Against 63,190.
There could have been 1,863,619
votes cast in Tuesday’s general
election. But there weren’t. The
forecast was that the total would
be less than a half million.
Cold, Gloomy weather blanketed
the state and may have cut the
turnout.
For Texas, the result Tuesday
was a return to its traditional rale
in the Democratic party. In 1952,
for the first time in a generation,
the state w r ent for Republican
President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The two top democrats in Con
gress are Texans—Johnson, Sen
ate minority leader, and Rep. Sam
Rayburn, Bonham, House minority
leader. Rayburn will return to his
old job as Speaker of the House if
the democrats win congress. John
son would be majority leader.
Statewide, the Republicans were
steamrollered.
Adams, the GOP candidate for
governor, failed to carry his owm
home box. He got 30 votes and
Shivers 82.
The total Republican vote ap
parently was going to fall below
the 200,000 votes the party wmuld
have to get for Adams in order
to be required to hold primary elec
tions in 1956.
Apparently, the GOP will nomi
nate its candidate by convention
next time—as it did before the
1952 election.
Moore Will Speak
Dr. A. V. Moore of the dairy
husbandry department w r ill speak
at the annual Dairy Industry con
ference at Oklahoma A&M college
Nov. 4-6.
One-Third Of
Local Voters
Go to Polls
About one-third of the quali
fied voters in College Station
turned out Tuesday to vote in
the general election, according to
precinct chairmen of the two
boxes.
V. J. Boriskie, chairman of the
College Hills Precinct 16 box,
said the 218 who voted there rep
resented about one third of the
registered voters, while H. E.
Burgess, precinct 3 chairman,
said the 363 voters at the Consol
idated School box also was about
one third of its eligible voters.
The eleven amendments to the
Texas constitution met with
overwhelming approval at both
boxes, but two of the amend
ments found stormier going in
two county boxes, A. B. Syptak,
county clerk said.
In the Wellborn box, the
amendment concerning women
jurors and the one favoring four
year terms for county and dis
tinct office holders did not carry,
Syptak said. The same two fail
ed to carry at the Steele’s Store
box but the voter turnout there
was extremely small, he said.
Although the vote was light
and precinct chaimen were noti
fied the county clerk’s office
would remain open until 9 p.m.
Tuesday to receive precinct vote
totals, only 5 out of 18 county
boxes had reported by closing
time.
Senate Race may
End in Tie
By the ASSOCIATED PRESS
Resurgent Democrats fought their way early today to
ward control of the U. S. House of Representatives. But
they had in sight no better than a Senate tie that would
toss the crucial, deciding vote to Vice President Nixon.
In New York state, Democrats toppled the 12-year gov
ernorship regime installed by Republican Thomas E. Dewey.
For only the second time in 70 years they put their man in
the Pennsylvania Statehouse. And they reinstalled their
“venerable Veep,” Alben W. Barkley, in the Senate from
Kentucky.
Millions of Amencans, voting in perhaps record off-year
numbers, seemed to be saying “no” to President Eisen
hower’s bid for a completely Re-4———
publican Congress to back his pro-
Squadron to Sell
Christmas Trees
Squadron 22 will soon have the
motor pool overflowing with
Christmas trees, under a plan orig
inated by the squadron to raise
money for the outfit fund.
The trees will be from three to
twenty feet tall, according to Mike
Barron, squadron commander.
Stands will be put on the trees by
the freshmen in the squadron at
the buyer’s request.
The squadi'on will canvass the
College Station-Bryan area, in
cluding churches, businesses, pro
fessors and military instructors on
the campus.
gram in his second two years in
the White House.
To some extent, the outcome
seemed likely to have a bearing
on whether Eisenhower might try
for another term in 1956 and on
his possibility of winning. That
applied also to Democrat Adlai E.
Stevenson.
Democrats went into the election
needing a net gain of only two
Senate and three House seats to
take control of both branches of
the 84th Congress.
They apparently were within
striking distance of House Control
but it was a different stoiy with
the Senate.
At 1:45 a.m., EST, the Demo
crats had won 16 seats, 12 of them
in the usually Democratic South.
With Barkley, they bagged only
one Republican seat, from GOP
Sen. John Sherman Cooper in Ken
tucky.
They were victors in Alabama,
Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Loui
siana, Mississippi, North Carolina
(2), Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Ten
nessee, Texas, Virginia and West
Virginia.
Republicans had harvested four
repeat victories in Kansas and
Maine in a September election and
two in New Hampshire.
Democrats had a net gain of 6
House seats, in Delaware, Indiana,
New York, Pennsylvania, Mary
land, and two in Missouri. A Re
publican was elected in Florida in
an upset for the only Republican
gain.
Democrats were leading in 21
districts now held by Republicans,
while the GOP had a lead for five
seats now held by Democrats. If
those margins hold, Democrats
would gain 16 more seats.
No Word On
Called Meeting
Of Council
The Academic council had
a special called meeting yes
terday, but college officials
refused to say whether or
not the proposed general cur
riculum military plan was discuss
ed.
Last week, college officials an
nounced that A&M was consider
ing changing the army ROTC pro
gram here from specific branch in
struction to general curriculum in
struction.
The Academic council must ap
prove this change.
“The meeting was to consider
some topics left over from the last
meeting,” said President David II.
Morgan. “We have no official
news release.”
He would not say what the topics
were. He said the council talked
about “American Education week
and other things.”
The council usually meets the
fourth Tuesday in each month.
Morgan said they met yesterday
so they could have a meeting be
fore the A&M system board of di
rectors meets in Austin Nov. 24.
Electric Metermen
An electric metermen’s short
course will be held Nov. 8-12 here.
It is sponsored by the electrical
engineering department. Registra
tion will be held Nov. 8 in Bolton
hall at 9 a.m.
YMCA COFFEE—A coffee hour between 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. has been set up by
the YMCA. All students and faculty members.are invited to come by the YMCA during
this time each morning for a cup of coffee, said J. Gordon Gay, YMCA secretary. En
joying coffee are, left to right, Gay, Ronald Hudson, Roland Baird, Stew Coffman and
Jim Neighbors.