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Number 25: Volume 54
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1954
Price 5 Cents
Hutchins To Speak
Sunday in Guion
For Great Issues
Dr. Robert M. Hutching, an edu
cator who believes students should
think, will speak here Sunday at
2:30 p.m. in Guion hall.
Hutchins is being brought here
by the Memorial Student Center’s
Great Issues series.
, Hutchins, who is never shy about
saying what he thinks, is consid
ered one of the most coloi-ful and
controversial figures in American
education.
He is the former chancellor of
the University of Chicago and is
now president of the Fund for the
Republic, Inc.
When he became president of
the University of Chicago in 1929,
Hutchins began his new program
of education by saying . . we
have confused science With infor-
YMCA Offers
Three Services
For Students
The YMCA is offering
three services for students
during the approaching
Christmas season, said Gar
rett Maxwell, president of the
YMCA.
A printed sheet of Christmas
carols is available to all units,
said Maxwell. Representatives
from each outfit may pick up this
sheet at the front desk of the
YMCA. A note has been sent to
all unit commanders advising them
about this publication, he added.
Students are invited to use the
free Christmas wrapping service,
either wrapping for the mail or for
individual gifts. Gift wrapping
will continue from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
each day, said Maxwell.
Students are asked to allow a
few" hours for their gifts to be
wrapped. This is the tenth year
the YMCA has offered this service
for A&M students.
The YMCA is selling decorations
to all outfits wishing to decorate
their dormitories for Christmas.
* Profits from this service will be
sent to the World Student Christ
ian federation in Geneva, Switzer-
* land, for world universities service,
said Maxwell.
The funds will be distributed
among-colleges to help financially
handicapped people attend college.
Most colleges in the United States
have a special drive for this or
ganization/he said, but A&M con
tributes the profits from the dec
oration sale.
mation, ideas with facts, and
knowledge with miscellaneous da
ta,” and that . . students must
primarily come to college to think.”
In keeping with his belief that
colleges are for education, he abol
ished intercollegiate athletics at
the University of Chicago in 1939.
He also once announced that he
believed all babies should be given
college degrees at birth, so they
could concentrate on getting an ed
ucation instead of a degree.
Hutchins attended Oberlin col
lege and Yale university, getting
his BA, MA, and PhD in law. He
served as dean of Yale for several
yeax-s.
He was president of the Univer
sity of Chicago from 1929 to 1945,
and chancellor from 1945 to 1951.
He resigned to become associate
director of the Ford foundation.
Last May he was elected presi
dent of the Fund for the Republic,
Inc.
After World War IT, Hutchins
campaigned for the establishment
of a World Organization and for
international civilian control of
atomic energy.
From 1933 to 1936 he was chair
man of the Commission on Interna
tional Economic Relations. In
1943 he was named chairman of the
Commission on Freedom of the
Pi'ess. In 1945 he was elected pi’es-
ident of the Committee to Frame
a Woxdd Constitution, a position he
still holds.
Immediately after his talk, the
Gx-eat Issues comxnittee will spon
sor a reception for Hutchins in the
Birch x’oom of the MSC. Attending
will be both studexxts and faculty
axui staff members.
The students of the Great Is-
sxxes committee will have a dinner
for him at 6:30 that night.
He will ai'ilve hex-e from Houston
Saturday aftenxoon, and will leave
Sunday.
Dr. Robert M. Hutchins
“. . . studexxts must think.”
Blockade Possible;
China Defense Set
Kiwanians Hold
Annual Toy Drive
The annual Christmas toy di’ive,
sponsoi’ed by the Kiwanis club is
ixx full swing, according to Dick
Hervey, px-esident.
Members of the club are collect-
ixxg toys and repairing them for
distribution among needy childi'en
of this area. The first x*epair ses
sion will be held tonight ixx the
A.&M Consolidated wox-k shop, ac-
coi'ding to Taylor Riedel, principal
of junior high.
Anyone having unwanted or
brokexx toys can take them to the
CHS or call Riedel at the school.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (A 3 ) _
Secretary of State Dulles said to
day the United States might block
ade Red Chixxa if peaceful means
fail to pi’otect the rights of citizens
like the 13 Americans jailed by
Peiping on spy charges. He said
he was confident, but not certain,
that peaceful means would be
sxxfficient.
Dulles made the statement dui*-
ing a xxews conference which he
opened by announcing- agreement
with Nationalist China on a mu
tual defense treaty pledging the
United States to retaliate, prob
ably against the Communist-held
China xnainland, if the Reds attack
the Nationalist stronghold of For
mosa.
The ti’eaty, Dulles said, would be
signed sometime this week. He
said it is “another link in the sys
tem of collective security” against
Communist aggx-ession in the West-
ei-n Pacific.
Dulles’ remarks aboxxt blockad
ing Red China came when report-
ei’s sought clarification of his
statements in a speech Monday
night at Chicago. The secretary
said then the United States would
“exhaust peaceful means of sxxs-
taining our international rights
and those of oxxr citizexxs.” He ruled
out for the present any blockade
of Red Chixxa such as Senate Re
publican Leader Knowland, of Cal
ifornia, has called fox-.
He recalled that he had said at
Chicago that the United States had
a duty, as a peaceful nation, to
exhaust all methods short of war.
If those failed, he said, a reap-
praisal was in order.
Dulles said the effect of the Foi'-
mosa treaty would be a declaration
to the world, particularly the Com
munists, that Formosa was not on
the block in any deal for stability
in that area. In this regal’d, he
said, the treaty had its dijxlomatic
as well as its military aspects.
Directory Sales
Now Underway
The 1954-55 student direc
tory are now on sale and may
be purchased from dormitory
salesman, the office of student
publications anounced yester
day. Price is 75 cents.
A new addition to the direc
tories this year is a directory
of all offices of the college.
Besides dormitory sales, di
rectories may be ordered from
student publications by send
ing 75 cents for each directory
wanted, said Mx-s. Cecilia Pri-
hoda of the office of student
publications.
Construction --2
Bond Issue Approved
y CS Voters
-20
New Lot
Being Opened
For Students
A new parking lot is being
opened today for students in
the Law-Puryear dormitory
ai’ea, according to Howard
Badgett, manager of the A&M
physical plants.
The lot will make room for
about 100 cars, and should take
care of everyone now parking
on the streets in the area, he
said. These streets are Jones
street, which runs in front of
the px-esident’s home, and West
Boulevai'd, which x’uns along
the north side of the drill field
Notices will be placed on
cars who are now parking on
these streets, said Fx-ed Hick
man, chief of campus security.
Construction May
Start Next Spring
Colleg-e Station voters yesterday approved by a land
slide vote of 431 to 20 the proposed $300,000 bond issue for
building a new sewage disposal system.
The voting by wards, out of 451 total votes, was as
follows: Ward 1, 205 for and 9 against; Ward II, 193 for
and 9 against; Ward III, 33 for and 2 against.
City Manager Ran Boswell said last night it would prob
ably be at least next spring before contracts can be let on
the new disposal system because of the details that have to
be finished.
“We have to print up the bonds and then sell them,” he
said, “and the engineer has to complete his plans and speci
fications.” He indicated that'*
after the contracts are let it
Seniors Hear
GE Executive
Lecture Today
James M. Crawford, vice-
president and general man
ager of the motor and genera
tor division of the General
Electric Co., spoke to electrfc-
cal and mechanical engineering
seniox-s at 8 a.m. today in Bolton
hall.
Crawford was graduated from
A&M, and joined GE in 1922. In
1929 he x-eceived the Charles A.
Coffin award, the company’s high
est honor to an employee. After
early assignments as assistant su
perintendent of the motor and
generator manufacturing division,
the turbine manufacturing plant
at Syracuse, N.Y., and the Schen
ectady works testing division, he
became assistant to the Schenec
tady works manager in 1947. Later
that year he was named manager
of the lax-ge motor and generator
division, and was appointed man
ager of the transformer and allied
pi-oducts division in 1950.
Mr. Crawford is on the campus
at this time to attend the initia
tion ceremonies of the Texas Del
ta chapter of the Tau Beta Pi as
sociation.
Several Buildings Get Repairs
should be about 15 to 18
months before the system is
c o m p 1 e t e d, including the
$138,000 treating plant.
“We appreciate the expression
of confidence by the voters,” Bos
well said. “The results of the
election show a definite interest of
the people in seeing their city con
tinue to gx-ow and progress.”
Mayor Ex-nest Langford said,
“Naturally, the council is pleased
with the vote of confidence of the
people of College Station. Give us
a little time now, and we will be
on our way toward cleaning up a
lot of conditions which have been
woirying us for yeax-s.”
The bonds will be paid from an
increase in sex-vice charges. For
the average home owner, the
monthly charge would be about
$1.50 and each additional connec
tion would cost 75 cents.
The new system will cost $365,-
000. Howevex*, $110,000 of this
amount was authox-ized in 1951 but
not issued. The city will keep
$45,000 of the bonds for future
improvement and expansion.
Langford said the plan will mean
adequate sewer and a disposal
plant and “every lot within the
city limits will be accessible to a
sewer line.” It will also take care
of expansion toward the south, he
added.
At the present rate of growth,
Boswell said the system would be
adequate for “at least_ the next
25 yeax-s.” He described the plan
as the “finest system for any
town this size.”
The City Council will hold a
special meeting today at 5:15 p.m.
to canvass the election returns.
Employees to Hold
Christmas Dinner
The annual Christmas dinner fox-
college system employees will be
held Dec. 17 at 7 p.m. in Duncan
hall in honor of those who have
given 25 yeax-s of service.
Tickets will be on sale at the
desk of the Memox-ial Student Cen
ter until noon Dec. 15, W. R.
Horsley, general chaii-man, has an
nounced.
CHS Students
To Attend Meet
Staff members of the Round-Up,
A&M Consolidated high school pa
per, will attend the Texas High
School Press association meeting
at TSCW in Denton. The group
will leave College Station Friday
and will return Sunday.
Those attending the meet are
Tom Ivy, Maurice Olian, Barbara
Ax-lt and Mary Lou Ergle.
News
of the
World
By the ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOSCOW—Red China’s ambas
sador to Moscow said yesterday
his countx-y’s millions stand “shoul
der to shoulder” with Russia and
2 “not afraid of a wax- directed
against aggx-ession.” He assex-ted
the Western powers would “suffer
a fate worse than Hitler’s” if they
fight the Communist countx-ies.
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WASHINGTON — The Senate ’
condemned last night by a vote
of 67-20 the conduct of Sen. Jo
seph R. McCarthy on the first
of three censure charges against
him and cleared the way for final
action on two other counts today.
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AUSTIN—Comic books sold in
Texas are being screened at both
wholesale axxd retail levels for ob
jectionable material, a repox-t to
Atty. Gen. John Bem Shepperd said
yesterday. Shepperd said C. J. M.
Roesch, chairman of a committee
of distributors and retailers which
has undertaken a pi-ogi-am to eli
minate undesirable comic books,
repox-ted the scx-eerxing actioxx as the
latest step in the campaign.
F 'At ★
NEW ORLEANS—Democratic
National Chaii*man Stephen
Mitchell said yesterday the time
has come “to drop such adjec
tives as ‘Southern Democrats’
and ‘Northern Democrats’ and
think instead in terms of a na
tional party.”
Council To Hold
Joint Initiation
The College Station council of
the Knights of Columbus will hold
a joint initiation with the Bx-yan
council Sunday.
Initiation begins at 10 a.m. un
der the direction of Jerome Zubik,
Grand Knight of the Bx-yan coun
cil.
(Editor’s note: This is the
second in a series of articles
on recent and future con
struction at A&M.)
Some of the most noticeable
woik done on the campus in the
last year is the renovation of
Several classx-oom buildings, and
for a few of the buildings it was
the first time such major repair
woik had been done since they
were built.
The Animal Industries building,
for instance, was entirely i-epainted
inside, and a new acid resistant
non-skid tile floor was laid in the
meats laboratory and stox-age vaxxlt.
This was the first such work done
on the building since 1935 when it
^vas built.
Another ovei’hauling was done
on the Agricultui*al Experiment
-Station building, which is now be
ing used by the agronomy depaxt-
m'ent. It was remodeled and re-
Weather Today
The forecast for today is con
tinued cloudy with fog in the area
late this evening. Yesterday’s
high was 81, low 57. The tempex 1 -
ature at 11 a.m. was 57.
paix-ed, an asphalt floor was laid,
and hew lights were installed. It
now houses most of the personnel
of the experiment station, exten
sion sex-vice, and all but one teach
ing laboratory of the agromony de
partment.
Guion hall got trimmed up dur
ing the summer with repainting
and repair of the outside of the
building. The next project for the
building will be a new x*oof, ac-
cox-ding to Howax-d Badgett, man
ager of the A&M physical plants.
The interior of the Civil Engi
neering building was repainted, re-
paii’ed and x-efinished, along with
the installation of new floors. Re
maining to be done in the near
future are the installation of new
lights and Venetian blinds.
The electrical engineering build
ing x-eceived new tile floors and
the basement laboratories were
painted. It also now needs Venetian
blinds and new lights before the
job is complete.
Among some lesser jobs wex-e the
interior axxd exterior painting and
enclosing of the base of all 10
temporary classx-oom buildings (the
shacks); moving of the journalism
depax-tment from the house across
from the Mexnorial Student Center
to Building J; and the painting of
the exterior of the MSC.
The library was releveled, re
painted,/ x-elighted and repaired.
The building is now ready for thx-ee
additional stories over the stacks
of the libi-ax-y to give more book
shelves.
Two moi'e large jobs were done
on the Academic and the Agricul
ture buildings. The Acadexxxic build
ing has been repainted, replastered
where needed, leveled, and refloor-
Sophomore Class
Votes Assessment
The sophomore class voted in fa
vor of 'a proposal to assess each
member a dollar for the yearly
class fund at a class meeting held
x-ecently in the chemistry lectux-e
room.
“We want to build the fund large
enough to pay for the sopohmore
ball and have money for other class
functions,” Doug DeCluitt, class
president, said. “Last year, we
did not have enough. This is the
only time this year that the class
membex-s will be asked to contrib
ute,” he added.
A sophomore in each dorm will
be appointed to collect the money.
ed. It was last painted in 1946.
Badgett says plans are now under
way to install arm type chairs in
all the classrooms, since the bench
type chairs have “probably been
in the building since it was built.”
The Agriculture building was re
modeled and refinished, and re
painted. New lights and floors were
put in the gx-ound floor.
Also on the list of Improvements
was the relighting of the lectux-e
x-ooms in the Petroleum Engineer
ing building and the Mechanical
Engixxeei-ing building. Work has
stax-ted on the repainting of the
first two floors of the Petroleum
bxxilding.
Dormitory work inclxxded interior
plaster repairs and interior and ex
terior painting in Milner, Mitchell,
Leggett, Law, Pxxryear and Hart.
The biggest job was in Milner, Bad
gett said.
For sidewalks, curbs and glitters
the last year the college spent
about $35,000. An additional
$20,000 is being" spent now to
further the work.
These projects are what Badgett
considered the “majox*” items done
in the past year, and he said there
“were always many minor jobs be
ing done.”
ONE MORE VOTE—Cotton Price, College Station insurance man, casts his ballot in
the sewerage bond election yesterday at the A&M Consolidated school box. Recording
are election clerks Mrs. W. W. Armistead (left), and Mrs. C. B. Godbey.