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.