The Battalion
Number 38: Volume 54
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1955
Price 5 Cents
WASHINGTON—The Federal Reserve Board last night
acted against steeply rising stock market prices by stiffening
its regulations governing the amount of credit which may
be used in stock purchases. The board raised the margin
requirement—the cash down payment which must be used
in the purchase of stocks—from 50 to 60 per cent, effective
immediately.
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WASHINGTON—President Eisenhower yesterday
gave Ben H. Guill of Pampa, Tex., a recess appointment
as a member of the Federal Maritime Board. Guill, a
Republican, has been serving as executive assistant to
Postmaster General Summerfield.
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WASHINGTON—Secretary of State Dulles for a second
time has reduced the authority of his controversial security
chief, R. W. Scott McLeod, this time relieving him of inspec
tion power over U. S. missions abroad.
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AUSTIN—Gov. Allan Shivers yesterday, appointed
J. Earl Rudder, World War II hero from Brady, as State
Land Commissioner to succeed Bascom Giles. The ap
pointment, with which Shivers said he will assume
* “full responsibility” for administration of the land of
fice and the veterans land program, came three days
after Giles resigned while investigation of the land pro-
gram was in progress.
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WASHINGTON—Democrats and Republicans set up
their command organizations for the Senate and House yes
terday, clearing the way for the start of the 84th Congress
at noon today. In a series of closed-door caucuses, both par
ties picked the leaders they were expected to pick and the
Senate Republicans agreed to try to present a “united front”
on controversial issues, thus soft peddling differences within
their party. 1
News of the World Colleges To Ask For Consideration
By The ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wilson’s National Reserve Plan
Military Colleges Also
Plan Benefit Request
Bids for Sewer Outfall Lines
Will Be Taken About Feb. 1
Bids for construction of the out
fall lines in the extension of sew
ers and sanitary services in the
city will probably be taken about
Feb. 1, said Ran Boswell, city man
ager.
There will be two outfall lines.
One begins east of Consolidated
high school and runs east and
southeast to the proposed disposal
plant outside the city limits. The
other line will follow the present
location from College Park south
east to the cemetery and then east
ward to join the other line to the
plant site.
The city council at its next meet
ing Jan. 17 will adopt an ordinance
offering for sale bonds in the
amount of $375,000, according to
Mayor Ernest Llangford. They
are expected to be sold by Feb. 15,
For Town Hall
and will bear interest from the
date of sale.
Twelve months from that date
the city will need approximately
$24,300 to take care of principle
and interest. The city council de
cided the simpliest way to raise
the money was to make a flat ser
vice charge rather than adjust
ments in utility and tax rates. De
cember 20 the council by ordinance
established the following service
charges effective immediately.
• For consumers using sewerage
services for residential purposes,
$1.50 a. month per family.
• For consumers using sewerage
services for apartment houses, one
water closet connection, $1 a
month; for each additional connec
tion, 50 cents a month.
• For consumers using sewerage
services for commercial or indus
trial purposes, first 7,000 gallons
or fraction thereof, 50 cents a
month.
According to the council’s esti
mation of the income to be receiv
ed from this plan, the amount will
be over $24,000, approximately the
amount required for principal and
interest on the first payment in
1956.
Langford announced that pre
liminary agreements have been
reached with most of the owners
over whose property outfall lines
will cross. The council hopes that
these agreements will be complet
ed, together with the purchase of
the site for the disposal plant, by
the time a contract is let.
Homer Hunter of Dallas is the
consultant engineer for the sewer
age system.
Houston Symphony To Play City Receives
No Instruction
On Soviet Ban
The Houston Symphony orches
tra will be the Town Hall produc
tion Thursday night at 8 p.m. in
the G. Rollie White coliseum.
A special matinee will be pre
sented Thursday afternoon for
school children. It will be a pro
gram of lighter music than the
evening performance. The price
of non-student tickets for the mat
inee is $1.
Andor Toth is the conductor of
the orchestra. Included in the
program will be the overture to
“Di6 Fledermaus,” White Peacock
and Symphony number two. Fol
lowing the intermission, Espana,
Hungarian dances numbers one
three and five and the Nutcracker
Suite will be presented.
History of the orchestra goes
back to 1913, when an ensemble
of 35 players was formed under
the direction of Julian Paul Blitz
for a trail concert. The budget
for the first season was $1,500,
which would not cover the cost of
staging one rehearsal of the or-
y chestra today.
In 1930, reorganization of the
orchestra got under way. By 1931,
: they were ready to give their first
• season of concerts under the di
rection of Uriel Nespoli.
Toth is one of the youngest
wielders of the baton to hold such
an important post with a major
symphony orchestra. His profes
sional training covers a decade of
experience in symphony, opera,
ballet, radio and recital activity.
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He was bom and educated in
New York and was graduated from
the Juliard School of Music where
he studied conducting under Edgar
Shenkman and violin with Hans
Letz. His first professional work
began with the Ballet Theatre
where he served as concertmaster
and solo violinist at the age of 18.
During the war, he organized
the first string quartet to be used
for musical therapy purposes,
Andor Toth
working with the army medical
corps in France, Germany and Bel
gium.
Concertmaster of the Houston
Symphony is Raphael Fliegel, a
Texan who made his professional
debut with the orchestra as a guest
soloist at the age of 13.
Fliegel was bom in Chicago but
moved with his family to Texas
at the age of 12. His mother was
a concert pianist and soprano solo
ist, and his four sisters were grad
uated from the Chicago Music col
lege. His father was also a pia
nist.
He won a scholarship to the
American Conservatory when he
was 10 years old, where he studied
with Herbert Butler.
In Houston, twenty subscription
concerts are the backbone of the
symphony’s musical activity. In
these concerts, all the elements
necessary for the construction of
successful programs are combin
ed.
General admission tickets will
be sold at the door for $2 for
adults and $1 for children.
Influenza Leads
Influenza led the list of com
municable diseases this week ac
cording to the Bryan-Brazos coun
ty health unit report, with 27
cases reported. Pneumonia was
second with 13 cases reported.
College Station city offices
have received no official no
tice concerning the action by
the United States in declar
ing one-fourth of the country
off-limits to Russians, according
to Ran Boswell, city manager.
Brazos county was one of 103
Texas counties so declared by the
government in a retaliatory action
against the Soviet Union for sim-
iliar curbs against Americans
there. The State department dis
closed the ruling Monday after
Secretary of State Dulles had noti
fied Soviet Ambassador Georgi N.
Zarubin that the United States had
revised its travel 1’egulations.
“All the information we have on
this matter is what we have read
in the papers,” said Boswell, which
was about what Bryan City Man
ager Casey Fannin said.
“We have no information on the
action,” Fannin said.
Both Boswell and Fannin felt
that Brazos county was included
in the off-limits areas due to Bry
an air force base and A&M.
For the first time, it creates bar
red areas and closed cities in the
United States. Part of 39 states,
most of the Mexican border, and
the Great Lakes section of the
Canadian border are in the banned
area.
Students Get
Another Lot;
Rules Change
A new parking lot for stu
dents in dormitories 1-12 has
been opened and parking reg
ulations for these students
have been changed, effective
yesterday.
The new lot, located east of
dormitory 11 across Spence
street, will park about 200
cars, according to Fred Hick
man, chief of campus security.
He said the following places
have been closed to student
parking: drill field in back of
Duncan dining hall, Lewis
street (in back of Duncan),
Lamar street (in front of the
east dormitory area), and
Coke street from Lamar to
the Music hall.
The American Council on Education will recommend to
Congress later this month that the ROTC program in the
nation’s colleges and universities be given consideration in
Secretary of Defense Wilson’s proposed National Reserve
Plan.
And the Council of Military College PTesidents will ask
the ACE to include special provisions for students of military
colleges, like A&M, in these recommendations.
Both groups will meet Jan. 20, 21, and 22 in Washington
to formulate their recommendations.
Wilson’s National Reserve Plan, announced last month,
provides in part that high school graduates be given six
^months of intensive military
training, then put on reserve
status.
No mention of collegiate
ROTC was made in the plan,
which is scheduled to be discussed
at the first session of the new
Congress.
Detailed consideration on the
plan is the purpose of the ACE’s
conference on military manpower
Jan. 21 and 22 in Washington. The
group’s Committee on Relation
ships of Higher Education to the
Federal Government will then pre
sent recommendations to the Con
gress.
The Council of Military College
Presidents, organized last fall and
composed of the presidents of the
nine military colleges, will tenta
tively meet Jan. 20 in Washington.
This group, of which A&M’s
President David H. Morgan is
chairman, will formulate recom
mendations pertaining to military
colleges, and ask the ACE’s com
mittee to include these in its report
to the Congress.
“I think we’re making progress,”
Morgan said. “We’d like to have
the support of the American Coun
cil on Education.”
A&M is a member of the ACE,
considered to be one of the most
powerful educational groups in the
nation.
The Association of Land-Grant
Tourney Profit
To Purchase
CHS Sidewalk
The ninth annual Kiwanis-
A & M Consolidated high
school basketball tournament,
which starts Friday after
noon at the Tiger gym, was
discussed yesterday at the College
Station Kiwanis club meeting in
the Memorial Student Center.
Profits from the tournament this
year will be used to build an as
phalt sidewalk extending from the
Consolidated schools to highway 6,
said Norman Anderson, chairman
for the tournament. Although def
inite plans have not yet been made,
the city has agreed to pay approx
imately one-third of the cost for
the proposed walk, he said.
This walk will remove a haz
ard that has been a community re
sponsibility for a long time,” said
Anderson.
The dirt along Jersey St. was
graded earlier so children could
walk along there instead of in the
street, but in wet weather they
have to get into the street again,
he added.
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Finals Now Count One-Fourth
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Students who sit down for that
' final examination this semester
will either breathe easier or trem
ble more, depending on the course
average they carry into the exam
*room.
The Academic council voted in
August to make three changes re
garding final examinations and the
week preceding them. The first
is the one which will cause the
mental anguish for students on the
border line, either bai’ely passing
or barely failing.
Final exams, beginning with
this semester, will have a weight
of one-fourth of the final grade
instead of the former one-third.
This means that students who have
a 75 average in the course can
make a 55 on the final and still
pass the course with a 70 average.
On the other hand, a student
with a 65 average going into the
final exam must come up with a
sensational (for him) 85 exam
grade in orde^* to post a final
'grade of 70.
Major benefit of the new grad
ing schedule is that a student must
make a grade considerably worse
than his usual work in the course
in order for his grade to drop a
letter. It will be equally difficult
for him to raise his course grade
a letter.
Second change which affects all
students except graduating seniors
A&M Film Society
Sets Sunday Show
The next presentation of the
A&M Film society, “Mister 880,”
will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the
Memorial Student Center ballroom.
Other movies scheduled for this
semester include “Jim Thorpe All-
American”, Sunday; “The Prince
of Foxes”, Tuesday; “Rhapsody in
Blue”, Jan. 14; and “Of Mice and
Men”, Jan. 21.
All of the films will be shown
at 7:30 p.m. except the Sunday
program, which will begin at 2
p.m.
is that exemptions have been eli
minated. Only those students who
are candidates for baccalaureate
or D.V.M. degrees will not be re
quired to take the final exams.
Third and final change made in
examination procedures concerns
handling of the course review dur
ing the last week of the semester.
Individual instructors are authoriz
ed to conduct review in whatever
manner considered appropriate to
the course, except that no major
or letter quiz will be given during
review week.
These instructions will permit in
structors to adjust review week
according to the needs of the
course, since some courses do not
require three review periods.
The schedule for final exams
this semester has also been revised.
Beginning Jan. 24 at 8 a.m. the fol
lowing schedule will prevail:
Jan. 24, Monday, 8-11 a.m.,
classes^ meeting MWF8.
Jan. 24, Monday, 1-4 p.m., classes
meeting TThS8.
Jan. 25, Tuesday, 8-11 a.m.,
classes meeting MWF1.
Jan. 25, Tuesday, 1-4 p.m.,
classes meeting TThl.
Jan. 26, Wednesday, 8-11 a.m.,
classes meeting MWF10.
Jan. 26, Wednesday, 1-4 p.m.,
classes meeting TThSlO.
Jan. 27, Thursday, 8-11 a.m.,
classes meeting TThS9.
Jan. 28, Friday, 8-11 a.m., classes
meeting MWFU.
Jan. 28, Friday, 1-4 p.m., classes
meeting TThSll.
Jan. 29, Saturday, 8-11 a.m.,
classes meeting MWF2.
Jan. 29, Saturday, 1-4 p.m.,
classes meeting MWF9.
Weather Today
The weather outlook for today
is continued cloudy with occasional
light showers. There is an expec
ted cool front for today. Yester
day’s high was 75, low 56. The
temperature at 10:15 this morning
was 69.
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RESCUE TRAINING—Rescue teams from throughout Texas will be taught how to per
form ladder rescue work like this in the planned rescue training school to be conducted
by the Texas Engineering Extension service of the A&M System. The teams will be pre
pared for action in the event of an enemy air attack or a disaster.