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Battalion Number 13: Volume 54 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS J TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1954 Price 5 Cents /, I A AF Seniors Flight Application Deadline Nov. 30 All category T and TA air science seniors who will graduate in May must file applications for flight training by Nov. 80 or be dropped from the air science program, ac cording to the air science depart ment. " 1 Category I and TA students are those who indicated when they ac cepted an air ROTC contract that they would apply for pilot or ob server training after graduation. The directive from air ROTC headquarters says that these stu dents will be considered as “not having fulfilled one of the require ments” if they do not apply for flight school. Col. John A. Way, PAS, did not know whether students who do not file the applications would be dropped from air science immedi ately or allowed to finish the se mester. Housing Office Has SSS Test Applications Applications for the Selec tive Service System college qualification test, Dec. 9, may be picked up in the housing office. These applications must be filled out and mailed to Science Research associates, Chicago, Ill., by mid night, Nov. 23. Self-addressed en velopes are provided at the housing office. The lower half of the application is mailed back, and this half has a ticket printed on it which the applicant for the test must present pt the time of the examination. To be eligible for the Selective Service tests, a student must meet the following requirements: • Intend to request deferment js a student. • Be satisfactorily pursuing a full-time course of instruction. • Must not previously have tak en the qualification test. Present criteria for deferment as an undergraduate student are either a satisfactory score of at least 70 on the test, or specified rank among the male members of the class. Local boards are not required to defer students meeting the criteria. If a local board refuses to defer a student meeting the criteria, he has the right to appeal his case. 1 Categoiy I and IA students who graduate after summer camp i next summer must file the applications by Jan. 1, and those who graduate in August, 1955, must file by Jan. 30. These students are also liable to discharge if they do not file the ap plications. A&M has 178 category I air sci ence seniors and 49 category IA seniors. The rule does not apply to he 64 air science seniors in categories II, III, and IV. Category II is en gineering students, category III is non-flying, non-technical students, and category IV is veterans. Way urged the category I and IA students to turn in their appli cations as soon as possible, because those who turn in earlier applica tions are assigned to earlier flight classes. Way jglso said he had “no rea son to believe we can’t commission” all air science graduates this year. City Council Approves Sewerage Bond Issue The Rev. William G. Pollard “.Secrecy, Security, and Science” First Great Issues Pollard Here Tomorrow Dr. W. G. Pollard, executive di rector of Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies, will speak at 7:30 tomorrow night in the Memorial Student Center on “Secrecy, Secur ity and Science.” Pollard is the year’s first Great Issues speaker. This series in un der the direction of the Great Is sues committee, sponsored by the MSC council. Besides being a noted scientist, Pollard is also very active in re ligion. He was vestryman and lay reader at St. Stephens church, Oak Ridge; postulant for Holy Order, Diocese of Tennessee, Episcopal; Cafe Rue Pinalle Friday in MSC Cafe Rue Pinalle will present en- tertainers from Huntsville Friday night from 8:30 p.m. until mid night yell practice. The entertainers are Betty Treadway, vocalist; James Stokes, piano soloist; Schalamahr Brunson, dancer; and Ernie Martelino’s combo. Reservations can be made at the bowling alley desk in the Memorial Student Center. Rue Pinalle will be held in the ping pong area of the MSC. ordained deacon; ordained priest; member of the Guild of Scholars of the Episcopal church; and mem ber of the editorial board for The Christian Scholar. In science, Pollard holds a fellow in physics, Master of Arts and Doc tor of Philosophy from Rice insti tute; and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Tennessee; He has been an assistant professor and a professor of physics at Ten nessee; research scientist at the Columbia university division of war research; member of the boaixl of directors and acting executive director of the Oak Ridge institute. He was appointed executive direc tor in 1947. Pollard is a member of Phi Kap pa Phi, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, and Sigma Pi Sigma, and received the 1950 distinguished service award of the Southern Association of Science and Industry. Note of Thanks The A&M student body received a note of appreciation yesterday from Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Taylor of Kilgore, parents of Bill Taylor who was killed in an automobile accident* Oct. 23, for the sympathy and kindness expressed by A&M. Since 1933, he has published 14 articles in various technical publi cations. He also has written many religious articles. Pollard was married in 1932, and has four children, ages 20, 18, 15, and 13. 1 r* % iFIN * *' Jr i Iranian Man Visiting Here This Week The commanding general of the Imperial Iranian air force will be staying at the Memo rial Student Center tonight. The commander, Maj. Gen. Hedayat Guilanshah, is on an inspection tour that includes Bi’yan air force base, but he requested that reservations be made for him at the MSC. He arrived yesterday and will leave Wednesday. During his stay, he will meet with Habiballah Nassr, an A&M entomology student from Iran. Nassr is A&M’s only Iranian student. China Leads List Of Post Graduates Forty-five students from 19 foreign countries are enrolled in the graduate school at A&M. China with 11 graduate students leads the list. Other countries represented are Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Egypt, Holland, India, Iraq, Japan, Korea, Pakistan, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, Philippines, Portugal, Spain, Italy and Para guay. Election Dec. 1 Decides Proposed CS System By RALPH COLE Battalion City Editor The College Station City council last night voted unani mously to hold a sewerage bond election Dec. 1. The council voted bonds, if approved in election, up to $300,000. All of the proposed bonds will not be issued unless necessary. The sewer line is designed to serve all of the presently developed areas of the city and future development for the next 25 to 50 years along any of the watersheds south of the city It involves two outfall lines. One begins east of Con solidated school and runs east and southeast following the creek through the Dobrovolny property and continues along 1 ♦■this creek to the disposal plant. The second line follows the present location from College Park southeast to the ceme tery and then eastward to join the other outfall at the plant site. The West Park and Negro area would be served by gravity with a line following the creek through that area until it intersects the creek through the Clark property. The system involves no pumping and places the plant far outside of the pi’esent city limit. It re quires greater lengths of line, but saves the cost of pumping stations and the cost of pumping sewage and maintaining the pumping sta tions. The design on the sewer system is based on the following assumed populations and quantities: Sew age flow, 100 gallons per capita per day; infiltration, 30,000 gal lons per mile per day; present pop ulation of the area east and south of the campus, 5,000; future popu lation in the area which can be served by the system, 10,000. The estimated date that the future pop ulation will be reached is 1985. No preliminary designs have been made for the treatment plant. The estimated cost of the sewer lines is $165,000 and the treatment plant is estimated at $150,000. The total cost of this plan, including engineering and contingencies cost, is $346,500. The council has $110,000 voted in another election to be used on the sewerage system. The $300,000 will not be exhausted unless it is necessary. A town hall meeting was set by the council for 7 p.m. Nov. 18. The meeting place will be announced at a later date. The meeting will be held to give the people of College Station both sides of the issue. Homer A. Hunter of Dallas is the consulting engineer. MSC Council Awaits Revised Constitution The Constitution and By- Laws committee is in the pro cess of re-writing the Memor ial Student Center council constitution with r e e o m- mended changes but deferred its report until the next council meet ing, Doug Krueger said last night at the council meeting. Each council member will receive a copy of the revised constitution before the next scheduled meeting, Krueger said. In other action taken, the resig nation of Jules Vixeau as chairman of the Film Society and the resig nation of Jerry Schnepp from the constitution and by-laws commit tee were accepted by President Charles Parker. A budget of $75 was approved for a parliamentai’y procedure course with Mrs. Emmett Wallace of Bryan as instruator. The 12- hour course will meet for two hours three times weekly and will be open to both students and non-stu dents with $1 charged for students and $3 for non-students. The course would be especially beneficial to organization presi dents who encounter difficulty in carrying out meetings in orderly procedures, Parker said. Respon sibility for working out details of the course was turned over to the Forum Group. Need for a course in etiquette was expressed by Dave Ashcroft, chairman of the etiquette commit tee, but permission to present a report at the next council meeting was requested. Bud Whitney, chairman of the great issues committee, said ar rangements are complete for the talk by Dr. W. G. Pollard, execu tive dh’ector of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies, who is the first speaker in the great is sues series. “Secrecy, Security and Science” will be the topic of Dr. Pollard’s talk Wednesday night in the MSC Ball Room. Art Displayed Until Nov. 15 An art exhibit, consisting of 25 pictures, will be on display until Nov. 15 in the Memorial Student Center. The owner, Miss Janet Turner, has exhibited her works in 39 ex hibitions and has been honored by presenting 25 one artist shows. Civilian Council Hears Reports On Problems The Civilian Student Coun cil last night set up commit tees to study proposals aimed at strengthening relations be tween civilian and corps stu dents. The first committee to report asked that each councilman get the names of all civilian students who would volunteer to guard the bonfire while the corps is eating in the dining halls. Chairman of the committee is John Cozad, who ask ed each member of the council to turn the names in to him by Mon day. The council also voiced opinions in favor of encouraging civilian participation in the bonfire work, which will begin next week. Another, item discussed by the council concerned the discipline of civilian students attending campus functions, particularly dances. Councilman Charles Cocanougher suggested that a system be adopted similar to that used by the corps. The cadet officer of the guard and the officer of the day handle any disturbances that arise during cam pus functions. A committee was appointed to study the matter. A report was also heard con cerning a possible civilian student dance next spring. The council asked each representative to find out how many students would be interested. Councilmen absent from last night’s meeting were Tommy Mix on, Bizzell hall; Ronald Frances, Milner hall; William Rains, Wal ton hall, and Joe West, Student Life committee representative and council parliamentarian. Kiwanians To Sell Lunches for Game The Kiwanis club will sell box lunches before the A&M-Rice foot ball game Saturday, said W. E. (Woody) Briles, chairman of the Kiiwanis finance committee. Two pieces of chicken, cookies, pickles, olives, potato chips, an ap ple and two slices if bread with butter will make up the lunches which sell for $1. The food is prepared by the A&M Consolidated high school cafeteria and packed by Kiwanis club members. Lunches will be sold from 10:30 a.m. until game time. Saturday Night TwoSMUFloatsBurned Hidalgo-Starr Club Elects Officers Joe Bob Snodgrass was elected president of the Hidalgo-Starr county hometown club. Other officers are Jesse Russell, vice president; Bill Dietrich, sec retary; Jerry Herndon, treasurer; and Clarence Sissell and Larry Hill, reporters. Weather Today TIMED-While Frank Ford cadet colonel of the corps, gives Aggie Sweetheart Judy Nuhn the traditional kiss at the corps trip foot ball game (right picture), Frank Westmoreland and Larry Kennedy (above) time him with a stop watch and blank pistol. Ford claims he set a new record —36 seconds. Two Southern Methodist univer sity homecoming floats burned over the weekend, and Dallas police are checking on the license number of an automobile seen near one of the fires. Two SMU students said they saw the car near the scene of one of the fires. They said the car had A&M decals on the rear window and the occupants were shouting ‘gig ’em.” One of the fires caused an esti mated $500 damage to the float of Delta Delta Delta sorority. The float, which was parked in front of the DDD house on the campus, burned about 7:15 p.m. Saturday. Dallas fire department officials said the fire had been set, and was not caused by spontaneous combus tion of electrical short circuit. The other float, which belonged CS Lions Sponsor Boy Scout Troop The College Station Lions club was presented the Boy Scout char ter for troop 450 by Dr. Harry Rankin, pastor of the First Meth odist church in Bi’yan, at the Lion’s luncheon yesterday. Troop 450 is sponsored by the Lions, and recently took a camp ing trip to Round Rock, accom panied by M/Sgt. T. M. Bufford of the Lions club. Guest at the luncheon included Maj. Bob Goforth, and Ron Logan, scoutmaster of troop 450. to Chi Omega sorority, burned about 2 a.m. Sunday. It was parked behind the sorority house. No estimate of the damage of the Chi Omega float was available. The car was reported seen near this fire. Mayne Longnecker, SMU’s dean of students, said yesterday, “At the present time we don’t have enough evidence to accuse anyone.” He also said he was reasonably sure SMU students did not set the fires, but that it might have been high school students. The floats were two of those that were displayed on the field during the halftime of the A&M- SMU football game Saturday aft ernoon. They had been built for SMU’s homecoming parade Friday night. PARTLY CLOUDY The forecast for today will be partially cloudy and warmer with possible thundershowers to light rains late this afternoon. Yes terday’s high was 76, low 53. The temperature at 11 this morning was 70.