Battalion
Number 14: Volume 54
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1954
Price 5 Cents
CouncilAdoptsHonor
Bonfire Buildinj
Begins Monday
Dick Jurgens
6 That Band Again’
Work on the annual bonfire for
the A&M - Texas game will be
gin on Nov. 15, according to How
ard Childers, senior yell leader and
bonfire chief.
Cutting site for this year’s bon
fire will be four miles southeast of
the college on land owned by Dr.
W. E. Street, head of the engineer
ing drawing department.
Centerpole for the bonfire was
donated by Dr. Spencer Buchanan
of the civil engineering depart
ment. The pole, which is 72 feet
long, ten feet longer than last
year’s, will also be set by Dr.
Buchanan.
Committees organized for the
bonfire and their chairmen are:
woodcutting, Sam Akard and Ernie
Golub; stacking, Red Dowling; sup
ply, Theo Lindig; communications,
A1 Heimer; first aid, George Knip-
ple; guard duty roster, Bud Fair;
refreshments, James Caffey and
Garrett Maxwell; building super
visors, Frank Davis, David Bailey
and Paul Holiday.
Coordinators for the committees
are regimental and wing comman
ders Dale Fisher, Pat Wheat, John
Leimbrook and Bill Utsman. Bob
Jurgens To Play for Dance
Dick Jurgens—the “here’s that
band again” Jurgens—will play for
an all-college dance here Saturday
night.
Auditions Open
For Talent Show
Applications for auditions for the
Aggie Talent Show can be obtain
ed in the directorate office of the
Memorial Student Center, Mike
Rriffin, show chairman, said yes
terday.
Sponsored by the music group of
the Memorial Student Center, the
Aggie Talent Show is open to all
students. All types of acts may
audition, Griffin said, and the win
ner will represent A&M in the In
tercollegiate Talent Show March
18 and will also receive a plaque.
In addition, his name will be en
graved on a trophy to be placed
in the MSC.
Show judges will be faculty
members and auditions will be held
Nov. 9, 10 and 12.
The can-can line, hit attraction
of last year’s show, will be re
peated this year and anyone wish
ing to become a member of the
special talent group may audition,
Griffin said.
The 14-piece band will play for
the dance in Sbisa hall from 9 to
12 and for a concert in Guion hall
at 7 p.m. Tickets for both perform
ances are available in the student
activities office, Goodwin hall.
Jurgens, who started his music
career by participating in his fam
ily band when he was seven years
old, is the composer of such hit
songs as “Elmer’s Tune,” “Care
less,” “One Dozen Roses,” and “I
Won’t Be Home Anymore When
You Call.”
His band, known for its “sweet”
versions of popular tunes and old
favorites, has three trumpets, two
trombones, four saxophones, bass,
drums, piano, and guitar.
Two Vocalists
A1 Galante and Paul Allen are
featured as vocalists. Jurgens him
self plays the trumpet, and a tem
porary inability to play the tram-
pet led to his becoming a band
leader.
An automobile accident injured
his lip, and rather than retire dur
ing the two years it would take to
heal, he became a band leader.
The Jurgens neighbors in Sac
ramento, Calif., always suspected
something like that would happen,
because they had to put up with
the Jurgens’ family orchestra —
Dick on trumpet, his brother Will
on saxophone and clarinet, sister
Ruth on violin, and sister Elsa on
piano.
Ruth and Elsa gave up music
for marriage, and Will is now the
business manager for the band.
Dick calls him “Brain.”
Studied Electricity
Jurgens almost didn’t take up
music at all, even after being a
seven-year-old trumpet player. He
says it was a toss-up between mu
sic and electricity. He at one time
wanted to become a radio engi
neer—he says he didn’t because
“the trumpet paid off first.”
During the first two years of his
enlistment in the Marines, he did
get to use his knowledge of elec
tricity, serving as a radio techni
cian.
But he was transferred to head
ing the only entertainment unit the
Marines ever had, touring the
South Pacific.
Since he got out of the service
and started back into band lead
ing, he has built the recorder and
public address system the band
uses, valued at $7,000.
He has also built three—count
’em—three television sets.
So if it hadn’t been for a cut lip
and a trumpet that paid off first,
Dick Jurgens wouldn’t be here Sat
urday night. But he will be—Sbisa
hall, 9 p.m.
Carpenter is assistant to Childers.
Trucks and saws have already
been obtained for use in getting the
logs. However, more trucks are
needed for transporting the wood
and chain and power saws for cut
ting the wood, Childers said. Any
one having access to these may
contact Childers.
Full cooperation from all the ca
dets is needed to make this year’s
bonfire bigger and better, than any
one in the past, Childers said.
Orders Open
For Senior
Announcements
Orders are now being tak
en at the office of student
activities for graduation an
nouncements.
Thi'ee types of announcements
are available—a leather-bound type
which includes the class roll, a
cardboard -bound announcement
which also contains the class roll,
and a Frenchfold type which does
not contain the class roll. Prices
on the announcements are 95 cents
each for the leather-bound, 45 cents
each for the cardboard-bound, and
25 cents for two of the Frenchfold.
Calling cards are also available
in both printed and engraved
styles. Prices on these are $1.95
per hundred for the printed style
and $2.'95 per hundred for the en
graved cards.
Deadline for ordering is Dec. 8.
Delivery will be within approxi
mately three-and-a-half weeks aft
er the deadline or about Jan. 5,
which will give the seniors two
weeks to get them mailed before
graduation, said W. D. (Pete) Har
desty, business manager of student
activities.
Corps Trip Parade
Won By Aggie Band
The Aggie band won first place
in competition with 48 other units
in the Dallas corps trip review Sat
urday, according to the military
department.
Other top placings were A engi
neers, second; B anti-aircraft ar
tillery, third; A anti-aircraft ar
tillery and A ordinance, tie for
foui’th; and B engineers and D in
fantry, tie for sixth.
A anti-aircraft artillei’y has top
comulative standing as a r-esult of
three pass-bys. The band is in sec
ond place.
The next graded review will be
Saturday morning.
For Military Day
Saturday Classes Changed
Classes will meet earlier and for
shorter times Saturday to allow the
corps of cadets to prepare for the
Fall Military Day parade.
The parade, which will begin at
11 a.m., will honor visiting military
men and civilians, including six
generals and Rice institute staff
members.
The guests will also attend a
luncheon at the president’s home
and the A&M-Rice football game
that afternoon.
Included in the guest list are
Dr. W. V. Houston, president of
Rice, several Rice faculty members,
and Floyd Cross of Coloi*ado A&M,
representing the American Veteri
nary Medicine association.
Congressman Olin Teague of Col
lege Station will attend he ceremo
nies, bringing with him Maj. Gen.
James M. Gavin, army assistant
chief of staff for operations, and
five A&M graduates now assigned
to the Pentagon.
They are Col. C. W. Hahn, Lt.
Col. William A. Becker, Lt. Col.
Dorsey E. McCory, Lt. Col. Lee L.
Stewart, and Lt. Col. Victor M.
Wallace.
Becker was cadet colonel of the
corps while he was a student and
was senior instractor in field ar
tillery from 1946 to 1948.
Also in Teague’s party will be
Oliver Meadows, chief counsel for
the House committee on veteran
affairs.
Lt. Gen. I. D. White, commanding
general of the Fourth army, will
attend with two members of his
staff, Maj. Gen. Haydon L. Boat-
ner, former A&M commandant, and
Brig. Gen. W. M. Breckenridge.
Flying from the West Coast will
be Maj. Gen. Robert H. Terrill,
commanding general of the 15th
air force, headquartered at March
field, Calif.
Terrill, who will bring his wife
and 15-year-old daughter, plans to
pilot a private lightplane to A&M.
Other guests will include Brig.
Gen. Robert M. Ives of Houston,
assistant commander of the 36th
division, Texas National Guard;
Col. Albert A. Homer of Austin,
chief of the Texas Military dis
trict; Col. Norman L. Callish, com
mander of Ellington air foi’ce base;
Col. James A. Gunn, commander of
Biyan air force base; Col. Majes
C. McGeehee, deputy for operations
Yankees Elect
Arch H. Ely jr., of Madison,
Wis., has been elected pi'esident of
the Yankee Hometown club. Other
officei's elected were J. P. Husk,
Ballston Spa., N.Y., vice-pi’esident;
N. J. Sprague, Manchester, Conn.,
secretai’y-treasurer, and P. M. Mar
tin, Belmont, Mass., reporter.
Voluntary System
Set for Ag Classes
By BOB BORISKIE
Battalion Co-Editor
The student Agricultural council Monday night adopted
an honor system for not only the School of Agriculture but
all freshman courses in the agriculture curriculum, George
Munns, agricultural council president, announced yesterday.
The council favored the honor system by a 15 to 1 vote
with 3 abstaining. Students who objected to certain provis
ions of the proposed system declined to vote, although they
approved in general the idea of an honor system, Munns said.
Subject to the approval of the dean of the School of
Agriculture, the following statement will be posted in each
agriculture classroom:
“Holding my integrity to be of primary importance
+ in my scholastic endeav-
Rise f orecast
In Fnrollment
I960
During
College enrollment in Texas
won’t change much until
1960, when it is expected to
rise rapidly, according to a
report of the Southern Re
gional Educational board.
The repox-t, entitled “Future
School and College Eni’bllments in
the Southern Region,” says that
for evei'y four students in Texas
colleges now, there will be seven
in 1970.
“We expect Texas to have about
215,000 to 225,000 college students
by 1970, or 90,000 more than the
1952 enrollment,” the report says.
The board expects the increase
to be lai'gest in the graduate
schools, with as many as 250 per
cent more graduate students ex
pected in 1970.
The report says that enrollment
in all educational levels will in
crease in the next 30 years, with
a 70 per cent increase expected at
the college level.
One of the factors on which the
predictions are based is the expect
ed increase of about 100 per cent
in the number of high school grad
uates.
Discounting the percentage of
high school graduates who do not
attend college, this will result in
about a 70 per cent inci’ease in the
number of collage students.
Morgan Gives Talk
President David H. Morgan made
thd principal address last night at
the annual appreciation dinner for
Scoutei’s of the eighth Boy Scout
distinct. He spoke on “Leader
ship.” He returned to A&M after
the talk. \
ors, I hereby pledge that
I will not lie, steal, cheat,
or take unfair advantage
of my fellow students in
this course.”
Space for signatures will be left
under the pledge, but 100 per cent
participation in each classroom
will not be required, Munns said.
Purpose of the system, he said, is
to give those Who feel so moved
an oppoi’tunity to sign, in the be
lief that a class member who
chooses to sign the pledge will up
hold it.
In order to explain the honor
system to the various classes, rep
resentatives of each department
of the School of Agriculture will
attend the agriculture classes and
instruct the members on how the
system woiks.
Agriculture Council members
will also visit dormitories to ex
plain the honor system to fresh
man and sophomore agriculture
students.
Class pi'ofessors will be present
during the exams, Munns said, and
are not involved in the pledge. The
object of the system is to build a
feeling of individual responsibility
and integrity in agriculture stu
dents.
About 1,300 agriculture students
will have a chance to participate
in the honor system, which does
not put anyone in a position where
he is expected to report or inform
oh a classmate.
One of the x'easons the school
wide honor code failed last'year
was that students were obligated
to infonxx on fellow students and
many preferred to vote against
the code rather than accept that
moral responsibility, Munns said.
The object of the agriculture
honor system is to develop the
sense of personal pride in the in
dividual, Munns said, and although
complete participation may not oc
cur at first, that is the ultimate
goal.
Reception
After Talk
Honors Pollard
The Great Issues commit
tee of the Memorial Student
Center will .have a reception
tonight for Dr. William G.
Pollard, who will make the
first talk in the Gi’eat Issues seines
tonight.
Pollard, executive director of the
Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear
Studies, will talk on “Secrecy, Se
curity, and Science.”
The talk will be at 7:30 p.m. in
the MSC balh’oom. About 50 per
sons ai'e on the guest list for the
reception.
Pollard has been executive direc
tor of the Oak Ridge Institute since
1947, and in this position he has
been active in the development of
atomic studies.
Although he did his undergrad
uate work at the University of
Tennessee, Pollai’d got his MA and
PhD degrees from Rice institute.
He taught physics at Termessee
until \Vorld War II, when he be
came a research scientist at Colum
bia university. After the war he
became a member of the board of
the Oak Ridge institute and was
later made executive director.
He is also an ordained priest of
the Episcopal church. He start
ed in church work in 1948 as a
vestryman and lay reader at St.
Stephen’s church in Oak Ridge
His talk is the first in the Great
Issues series, which will also in-
dlude Harold Stassen and Robert
Hutchins.
Stassen speaks here Nov. 17.
Aggie Players
To Present Play
The Aggie Players will open
their 1954-55 season Monday at
8:15 p.m. in Guion hall with “Mis
alliance,” one of George Bernard
Shaw’s comedy successes.
Under the direction of C. K. Es-
ten, English department instruc
tor, the play will be presented
nightly through Thursday, with a
matinee scheduled for Tuesday at
2 p.m.
Members of the cast will be Ted
Castle, Florence Delaplane, Aim
Tishler, Vic Wiening, Harry Good
ing, Bill Gilbert, Bill Swann, Iris
Bullard and Don Powell.
Weather Today
Forecast for today is partly
cloudy throughout the day with
widely scattered thundershowers
in the vicinity.
Yesterday’s high was 76, low
53. The temperature at 11 this
morning was 67.
of Flying Training air force at
Waco.
John H. Lindsay of Houston, A.
O. Nicholson of Dallas and Frank
S. Kelly of Shreveport, members
of the executive boai'd of the For
mer Students association, and
George Fuerman of the Houston
Post, will also be special guests.
Bill Rappleye, of Houston, Time-
Life Inc. Southwestern correspon
dent, will also be on the campus for
the day.
He is writing an article on A&M
for Sports Illustrated magazine.
The cadet corps will not march
into the game Saturday afternoon,
because of the review that morning.
Here is the class schedule for
Saturday morning:
Scheduled
8
9
10
11
Will Meet
.7-7:45
7:50-8:30
8:40-9:20
9:30-10:10
THE BIG DANCE—The Memorial Student Center dancing classes had their annual for
mal dance last night, with about 500 persons attending. Chaperones were Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Terry, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hass, and Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Stark. The Aggie-
land combo played.