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The Battali Number 12: Volume 54 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1954 Price 5 Cents Community At $14,707 Chest Goal Is Set For This Year A&M Corps Visits Dallas for Game IT’S ALL OVER — The Aggie freshmen put on their Pony - riding spurs for the last time this morning, as students began leaving for the SMU corps trip in Dallas. Pictured are (left to right) Alexander Garza, Warren Smith, Morris Endler, and Ronnie Redman. Gamma Globulin Given 490 CS School Children By RALPH COLE Gamma globulin, the wonder drug for polio, has been adminis- | tered to about 490 students in the A&M Consolidated elementary school. There are about 508 students in the elementary school. Those not taking the shots were in one of three classes—children who had the innoculation at another com munity, children whose parents preferred not to have their child ren innoculated, and part of the children who had polio before. Those who had polio before took the shot upon the recommendation of their doctor. Three Polio Patients Three children in the school have been diagnosed as polio cas es in recent weeks. They are Hank Halstead, Sara Ann Walker and Pete Zinicki. Hank is now home, but the po lio has settled in his throat and has affected his swallowing. His mother,. Mrs. Maurice Halstead, is a registered nurse and is caring for him. Sara Ann, daughter of Mrs. Inna Walker, is still in Wa- to at the Crippled Children’s hos pital. She can only move her toes and fingers and cannot sit up. Doctors say she will be in the hospital for an indefinite time. The other child, Pete Zinicki, "is doing real well,” according to Dr. Nena Harris, family physician. Pete contracted the non-paralytic type polio. “These are the only cases re ported in Consolidated schools this year,” said Mrs. H. S. Cres- well, principal of the elementary school. The drug cost approximately $6 for 2 cc and two-tenths of a cc is given for each pound of weight. This means that a 150 pound man would have to pay about $90 for one shot of the drug which only lasts for six to eight weeks. More than $16,500 was the cost of the gamma globulin used in the innoculation, according to Dr. E. S. Freeman, head of the Bryan- Brazos County Health unit. The shots were administered free a person will come in contact with the disease. It is not a conta gious disease. The only thing a person can do when polio is in his community is to take gamma globulin shots. Polio cases are just as bad as they used to be except now they are recognized sooner. When a case is recognized sooner, the shots and treatment can be start ed and the disease usually cured before it gets too bad. The incu bation period for polio is 14 days. Another preventative for polio is the salk vaccine. It differs from gamma globulin in that it is a culture grown on different parts of the body. About 19 doctors, nine nurses, and six persons from the local health unit helped in the innocu lation. The doctors were D. W. Andres, R. H. Benbow, J. M. Cox, E. H. Kirk, J. W. Martin, R. B. Drause, J. W. Geppert, G. M. Cole and R. B. Grant. Nena Harris, R. H. Garrison, E. E. Holt, J. E. Marsh, jr., Roy Smith, T. O. Walton, jr., A. G. McGill and O. C. Cooper Nurses who helped were Mes- dames Pat Larsen, W. H. Badgett, George M. Watson, J. D. Lindsey, T. R. Spence, E. R. Lemon, Joan Huff, Maddie Cox Hollingsworth and Lt. Mary Bebo. Persons from the local health unit were Dr. E. S. Freeman, A. C. Allen, J. W. Wilder, Mrs. Ida May Parr, Mrs. Agnes T. Neal and Miss Louise Dishman. k By HARRI BAKER Battalion Co-Editor The campus is dead today, with only a few A&M students left— it’s corps trip time. With no classes scheduled tomor row, all students who wanted to go to Dallas for the A&M-SMU foot ball game and corps trip left today. And as usual, there were the eager few who left yesterday. The Tessies who have an official coips trip this weekend too, start the activities tonight with their anual corps trip dance at Denton. Aggies at the dance will have : yell practice about 11:30, and some students will stay on the TSCW campus tonight. Tomorrow morning the corps of cadets shows off for Dallas, parad ing- up Main street at 10 a.m. Winter greens and white gloves are the uniform for the parade and the game that afternoon. The A&M-SMU football game will be at 2 p.m. in the Cotton Bowl. The embattled Aggies meet the team that is leading the con ference in offense and defense in a game SMU has to win to stay in the race. A&M will crown its sweetheart, Tessie Judy Nuhn of New Braun fels, during the half-time. Frank Ford, cadet colonel of the corps, will crown Sweetheart Judy, while the band plays for her. It’s a festive weekend for SMU too—the school’s annual homecom ing. They will have a parade to night, and the winning floats fi-om the parade will be shown during half-time at the game tomorrow. They will also crown their home coming queen during half-time. SMU homecoming will end Sat urday night with a dance featuring Ralph Marterie. A&M students have been invited to attend the dance, which will be at the Dr. Pepper ballroom, Greenville and Mockingbird. Election Date Will Be Set By Council The College Station City Council will hold a special meeting Monday night in the city hall to set a date for a bond issue to pay for a pro posed sewerage system. The system, approved by the council,, will provide ade quate sewerage for the city and will also be able to take care of any future develop ment along the watersheds south of the city. At Ohio University Scholarships Open Extracted From Blood The cost of gamma globulin is high because of the processing it goes through. It has no harmful effects on the person taking it. Gamma globulin is extracted from the globulin in human blood It contains antibiotics which coun teract the polio germ. One cc of gamma globulin is contained in each pint of blood. The old pre ventive for polio was blood from a person with the disease A shot was administered to other persons in the muscle. The blood con tained the antibiodics which work in the same manner as the gamma globulin. This drug is not only useful for polio but may also be used as a preventative drag for mumps and whooping cough. Cause Unknown The cause of polio is unknown at the present time. If and when the cause of the disease is known, a positive cure may then be work ed out. Being in a crowd doee not mean By BILL FULLERTON Battalion News Editor The Graduate School of Ohio State university has announced its fellowships and scholarships for the year 1955-66. These fellowships and scholar ships are as follows: Postdoctoral fellowships and scholarships, an nual maximum stipends of $3600. University fellowships and scholarships. Valued at $600-$800 and exemption from fixed fees ex cept maltriculation for scholax*- ships; fellowships are worth j $1,000. Special fellowships in various departments provided exemption from fees except maltriculation. Stillman W. Robinson fellow ship. It provides $1,000 annually for a mechanical, civil or electri cal engineering graduate. Nathaniel Wright Lord fellow ship. Annual value of $1,350 for graduate research on solid fuels or products derived from solid fuels. John A. Bownocker fellowship and the scholarships, $800 each. Battelle Memorial Institute fel lowships. Each fellowship is worth $1,200 annually for grad uate work in the general field of applying science to indsutry. Edward Orton Junior Ceramic Foundation fellowship. It is worth $1,200 annually for grad uate work in the field of ceramics. Muellhaupt Scholarships in Bi ology. $3,000 - $4,500 granted an nually to candidates likely to pr-o- mote, by original research, one of the biological sciences. Elizabeth Clay Howard scholar ship carries a stipend of $3,600. Out-of-State Tuition scholar ships. Each year, fifty out-of- state scholarships are awarded by the Graduate School. These schol arships pi’ovide for the remission Weather Today MSC Plans Formal For Dancing Class The Memorial Student Center dancing classes will have a formal dance for the dancing class stu dents next Tuesday. The Aggieland combo, dh’ected by Bill Turner will play for the dance, which will be from 8 to 11 p.m. in the MSC ballroom. The 500 members of the dancing classes are invited to attend, said Michael Kuich, chairman of the classes Corps students are to wear dress unifoi-ms, and civilian stu dents are to wear dark suits. of the non-resident tuition fee. $255 annually. In addition to these scholar ships and fellowships, a number of graduate assistantships may be had in different departments. On ly graduate students working to ward degrees may hold these pos itions. The assistants usually re ceive $900 for nine months. Stu dents desiring to apply for these positions should write directly to the chairman of the department in which the position is desired. Students desiring to apply for the scholarships and fellowships or who may want more informa tion should write to: The Dean of the Graduate School The Ohio State University Columbus 10, Ohio. Radio Station Joins Network A&M’s amateur radio station is now a member of the Mutual Aid network, a division of the civil defense program designed to pro vide radio communication for dis aster areas. The “ham” station, which is op erated by the Memorial Student Center Radio club, joined the net work this summer, but it has al ready had disaster experience. It was handling communications 45 minutes after the tornado hit Waco last year, and members of the club stayed at the radio 24 hour’s a day for two days after the tornado. Since joining the network, the club has participated in one na tional and two state civil defense drills. Wayne Leverkuhn, president of the club, said that the members are now ready to provide “fast and reliable radio communication in any emergency.” Twelve Agencies Present Requests At Budget Hearing The 1954 A&M college - College Station Community- Chest ha8 set its goal at $14,707. This is the largest goal ever set by the chest. Last year’s goal was $13,070. About 95 pfer cent of this amount was collected. The Chest held a budget meeting Wednesday night to hear requests from participating agencies. The agencies and their requests are Brazos County Tuberculosis association, $1,200; Girl Scouts, $1,887; Boy Scouts, $2,200; Salvation Army, $750; Local Chest Charity fund, $1,500; Brazos County Charity Hospital fund, $500; and the College Station Recreation council, $1,500. College Station Y M C A,* - $400; United Service organi zation, $400; College Station Youth committee, $1,080; Community Center Inc., $1,040; and American Red Cross, $2,250. The drive has„been set for Nov. 8-22. This year’s chairman is C. W. Price. About 45 workers come from the participating agencies. The committee, which had met one before, consists of 20 mem bers. At the last meeting, only seven of the 20 were present. Officials of participating agen cies also presented a list of work ers when they presented their re quests. These lists will be used in organizing the soliciting com mittees. There will be 11 zones, six at A&M and five others. Each zone committee will be responsible for the collection in their zone. The Community Center Inc. re quested aid for the first time. The money will be used for a Ne gro day nursery, epened this fall. The nursery opened with 27 child ren at the first of September, but now has about 40. The Commun ity Center plans to expand their program to a full recreational cen ter. Meetings have been se for Nov. 16 and 23. Local Children Visit Houston To See Circus About 2,400 school child ren of the College Station- Bryan area left today for the Shrine Circus in Houston. Children met at school where busses took them to the railroad station. Two trains, one for the Bryan group, and the sec ond for the College Station-Nava- sota group were chartered. The trains were met in Houston by busses provided by the Hous ton Shrine club. From there they will be taken to the circus, and afterwards, the busses will return them to the railroad station. More than 200 parents and teachers from College Station and Bryan accompanied the children. The children will be divided in to groups headed by an adult. Trains will return to College Station about 9 p.m. tonight and school busses will pick them up and take them back to school where parents will meet them. Students Donate Pints of Blood UNSETTLED Clear to partly cloudy through out the day. Yesterday’s high was 65, low 35. The temperature at 10:30 this morning was 54. Forecast for the weekend will be continued fair with a slight warm up. Corps Trip Changes Slant A large part of The Battalion’s regular readers aren’t here today to read this paper, so we’ve tried to slant our news toward the other part of our readers, the residents of College Station. Since most of the students will have left the campus by the time this paper is circulated, city news is played prominently in this issue of The Battalion. Policement Attend School in MSC Twenty - four policemen from cities throughout Texas are attend ing the ninth Texas Municipal Po lice school now being held in the Memorial Student Center, through November 19. “The school teaches basic funda mentals of policing,” Wallace D. Beasley co-ordinator of the school, explained. The school is operated by the en gineering. extension service of the A&M system and is sponsored by the Texas City Manager’s associa tion. Although the school is limited to 24 men each session, any police man in Texas may enroll for one of the four sessions. “The pm^pose of the school is to provide cities which have no train ing department, with a school t( train their men,” Beasley said. Topics being discussed at the present school are human relations in police work, selling the police services to the public, narcotic vio lations, traffic laws and violations, and accident prevention and inves tigations. Yet Seniors Attenc Thirty veterinary seniors are attending the Southwest Veterin ary Medicine symposium at the Hilton hotel in Fort Worth under the sponsorship of the Tarrant County Veterinary Medical asso ciation. The Bloodmobile collected 184 pints of blood from A&M students during its visit to the campus Wednesday. There were about 50 students who were rejected because they had colds, and this caused A&M to fall below its quota of 200 pints, said Jerry Ramsey, chair man of the blood drive. Ramsey said he was well pleased at the turnout of the student body and their cooperation in the drive. Aiding in the drive were about 50 College Station women and 12 pre-medical students. Cold drinks given the donors before they gave blood, were furaished by the Bry an Coca-Cola company. The Col lege Station Chamber of Com merce and the Kiwanis club fur nished the other refreshments. Kirkham Is First In Design Contest F. C. Kirkham won first place at A&M in an architectural con test to design a teen-age youth center. Other winners are J. B. Dutton, second; R. L. Fowler, third; D. B. Green, honorable mention, and J. S. Wright, honorable mention. Prizes were awarded in the con test sponsored by the Texas So ciety of Architects and the Feath- erlite corporation to design a teen-age youth center for a Cen tral Texas town. Other Texas schools participa ted in the contest. An over-all winner will be picked from each school’s three top entries at the Texas Society of Architects con vention in Fort Worth this week. The other schools are Texas Tech, Rice institute, and the Uni versity of Houston. DOG FOOD—This is squadron 16’s winning sign for the A&M-SMU football game t% morrow. The signs was picked as the best out of the 64 unit signs by a selection tea^J 1 of cadet officers.