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Number 41: Volume 54
Battalion
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1955
Price 5 Cents
TOPS IN 1954—College Station’s Man and Woman of the Year for 1954, Mayor Ernest
Langford and Mrs. W. A. Price, hold the certificate of appreciation for service to the
community presented to them yesterday by the College Station Development Association
and Chamber of Commerce.
For Great Issues
Stassen, Scott To Speak
Within a five-day period, two
Great Issues speakers will give
their views on problems created
by recent developments in the Far
East.
First of the speaker’s will be Sir
Robert Scott, Britain’s top authori
ty on Far Eastem affairs, who
will speak Thursday at 1:30 p.m.
in the Memorial Student Center
ballroom on “The British Ap
proach to Asian Problems.”
Second ranking British diplomat
in the U.S., Scott will be the guest
of President David H. Morgan at
a luncheon Thursday in Sbisa hall
preceding the talk. Other luncheon
guests will be the student mem
bers of the Great Issues committee
and deans of the college.
Reason for the afternoon speak
ing engagement, Bud Whitney,
Legislature Faces
Shortage of Money
AUSTIN—OP)—A money report
splattered with red ink went to the
desks of lawmakers here for to
day’s opening of the 54th general
session of the Legislature.
Comptroller Robert S. Calvert’s
bad news was that they will have
to dig up 26 million dollars more
-— presumably in new taxes — to
World
News
By the ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Federal Judge
Irving R. Kaufman yesterday re
voked the bail of 13 convicted sec
ond-string Communist leaders and
ordei’ed their immediate arrest.
The U. S. Supreme Court earlier
yesterday ^ had refused to review
the case. This had the effect of
permitting their convictions and
sentences to stand.
"At 'At Vk'
WASHINGTON —The council
of the Organization of American
States yesterday urged Costa
Rica and Nicaragua to keep the
peace pending a review Wednes
day of Cosita Rica’s charges that
it is threatened with an invasion.
keep the state’s business running
for the next two years at current
levels of taxing and spending.
Calvert’s report to the Legisla
ture and governor was the first
official prelude to the high noon
opening of the session already be
sieged with scores of tough prob
lems.
The lawmakers—working under
a pay raise authorized by the vot
ers in November from $10 to $25
a day-—have 120 days in which to
revise the insurance laws, study
the veterans land program, im
prove water conservation, re-draw
congressional and court bound
aries, and decide what to do about
desegregation of the schools.
After 120 days, pay of legislators
drops to zero. If they have un
solved problems then, they may go
on working free or put them off
until another time.
Lawmakers arriving a day ahead
of the session opening were loaded
with rough drafts of bills they plan
to introduce.
They had or were working on
scores of such matters as tighter
divorce laws, laws regulating com
ic books and other juvenile prob
lems, more enforceable nai’cotics
regulations, labor, more modem
methods of committing the insane
to state hospitals and education.
chairman of the MSC forum group
said, was to pemiit Scott to attend
a kick-off dinner that evening in
Houston for the newly-organized
Institute on Foreign Relations at
which Sen. Robert Knowland will
be the principal speaker.
BULLETIN
Btii’r Whitney, chairman of the
MSC Great Issues committee,
received the following telegram
from Harold Stassen late this
morning:
“Regret to advise it is now
apparent I will not return from
OEEC meeting in Paris in time
to enable me to participate in
the Great Issues lecture series
Jan. 17 at College Station. Im
possible to foresee now future
date when we might work this
out.”
Harold E. Stassen, director of the
foreign operations administration
and former governor of Minnesota,
will speak at 7:30 p.m. Monday on
“The East—Far, Middle, Near—
Which Way Now.”
The topic is the same Stassen
was scheduled to discuss in No
vember when important confer
ences in Washington forced can
cellation of his speaking date.
Stassen, Republican leader and
Minnesota’^ youngest governor at
31, announced his candidacy for the
Republican nomination for presi
dent nearly two years before the
1948 national conventions because
he wanted to steer his party along
a “truly liberal path.” His name
was again offered at the 1952 con
vention before the delegate land
slide toward President Eisenhower
began.
At 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, a re
broadcast of the American Broad
casting system program Town
Meeting of the Air will be carried
over WTAW in which Stassen and
Scott discussed “How the Western
Alliance Can Aid Asia.” The net
work carried the program Sunday.
CS Woman, Man Of The Year
Named By Civic Organization
Businessmen
Present Panel
Here Tonight
A panel of five Texas busi
nessmen will attempt to an
swer all questions about
American business and in
dustry tonight at the College
Town Hall, sponsored by the Texas
Manufacturers association.
The program will be held at
7:30 in the assembly room of the
Memoiial Student Center.
Arch H. Ely jr., activities chair
man of the Business society, which
made arangements with the TMA
for presenting the pregram, said
that it will be a “no holds barred”
type of meeting, with no speeches,
and the subjects to be discussed
will be determined entirely by
questions from the audience.
Membei’s of the panel are E. F.
Graham, vice-president of South-
westem Gas and Electric Co., Mar
shall; Erwin S. Heinin, CPA, Erast
and Erast of Houston; Geoi’ge Laf-
ferty, CPA, Cheatham, Brady &
Co., Houston; Ralph Parsons, pro
duction engineer. Diamond Alkali
Co., Pasadena; and John Reno, di
rector of industrial and public re
lations, Reed Roller Bit Co., Hous
ton.
The moderator for the program
will be James W. Rushing, director
of public relations for the TMA
of Houston.
The College Town Hall forums
were started during the 1950-51
school year by TMA to provide an
opportunity for college and univer
sity students to discuss business
problems and policies and current
social and political issues with suc
cessful businessmen. Tonight’s ap
pearance will be the fourth at
A&M.
T. W. Leland, head of the busi
ness administration department,
said that all interested students
were invited to attend the forum.
Honor Committee
Not Yet Approved
The honor committee set up by
the student Engineer council to
form a college-wide honor code
has not been approved by the other
councils.
The Agriculture council and the
Arts and Sciences council have yet
to discuss the honor code.
“Until these councils approve the
honor committee, we are at a
standstill,” said James Henderson,
chairman of the committee appoint
ed by the council to study and re
vamp the honor code of the School
of Engineering.
The honor committee when ap
proved will constitute representa
tives from all the student academic
councils to work on the honor code.
Leighton Attends
R. E. Leighton of the daily hus
bandry department will hold a
dairy short course at Kirbyville,
Jan. 31 through Feb. 4. Grady
King, Jasper county agent, is
handling local arrangements for
the course.
Mayor Ernest Langford
Mrs. W. A. Price Named
Mrs. William Armstrong Price and Mayor Ernest Lang
ford yesterday were named College Station’s 1954 woman and
man of the year by the College Station Development Asso
ciation and Chamber of Commerce.
A certificate of appreciation for services rendered to the
community was presented to Mrs. Price and Langford by K.
A. Manning, president of the association.
“We have no set qualifications for choosing the man and
the woman of the year,” he said, “but we decide on them
from among persons who have benefitted the community
from a civic standpoint.”
Both Mrs. Price and Langford expressed surprise and
♦'pleasure at being named for
this honor.
“I just try to do my duty
to the community which ev
ery citizen should,” said Mrs.
Price.
Mrs. Price is the wife of Dr.
Armstrong Price, well known re
search oceanographic geologist.
She is a member of the Episcopal
church and chair-man of the Thomas
Bittle chapter of the Women’s Aux
iliary. A member of the Lincoln
school recreation council, she is
chairman of the recreation pro
gram.
In 1952 Mrs. Price served as
chair-man of the Red Cross mem
bership drive in College Station,
and is a past director of Brazos
County Chapter of the American
Red Cross. She also serves as
Gray Lady at Bryan air force base.
She was a director of the. College
Station Community Chest.
Mrs. Price is vice-president and
program chairman of the A&M
Garden club. She is a member of
the College Women’s Social club,
and is director of Community
House kindergarten that was or
ganized in September, 1954.
The Prices, who moved to College
Station about four years ago, live
at 900 Park Place. They have two
sons; Bill, a graduate of Massachu
setts Institute of Technology, who
is doing graduate work at A&M,
and John, a student at A&M Con
solidated high school.
Langford was a member of the
first city council when it was incor
porated in December, 1938. He
served with the council until he was
elected mayor of the city in April,
1942, in which capacity he has
served ever since. City govern
ment has been his hobby, and he
has given of his time and energy
without monetary compensation.
Since being elected mayor, he
has brought the city from an ini
tial indebtedness of $1,000 to a
city-owned properties value of
nearly one-half million dollars and
an annual budget of $236,000. His
administration succeeded in getting
needed improvements in utilities,
streets, sanitary services, expan
sion of the city’s boundaries and a
home-rale charter.
Langford’s outstanding accom
plishment for 1954 was his success
ful promotion, backed by the coun
cil, of much needed sanitary serv
ices for the welfare of the com
munity by the voting of bonds for
a comprehensive sewerage system.
At the meeting yesterday, five
new directors for the association
were named for 1955. They are
Mrs. R. D. Lewis, E. R. Alexander,
W. S. Manning, E. O. Siecke and
Harold Sullivan. .
March 1 Is
Deadline For
Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair deadline has
been set for Mai-ch 1, accord
ing to Lolan Pullen and Harry
Tilley, Aggieland co-editors.
Two five-by-seven or eight-
by-ten pictures of each con
testant are necessary; one full
length and the other head and
shoulders only.
Finalists will be chosen
from these pictures and will
appear the Friday night be
fore the senior ring dance,
when a winner will be picked.
Senior favorites should be
turned in by March 15, said
Tilley.
The first 19 pages of the
Aggieland ’55 were taken to
Taylor Publishing company
last week. Tilley and Pullen
toured the company while in
Dallas.
Bill Willis Named
To MSC Council
Bill Willis was named last night
as junior-sophomore representa
tive to the Memorial Student Cen
ter council.
The council elected Willis to re
place Jerry Schnepp, who was sus
pended from school.
The council also named Cyrus
Johnston to be chairanan of the
Film society, and approved a
$328.50 budget for the film society
next semester. The budget pro
vides for eight films, including
four foreign films.
Bub Whitney, chairman of the
MSC foram group, reported that
A&M had an “excellent chance” of
establishing a student foreign
policy study conference here.
Note Sent Here
From Hospital
The McClosky Veterans hospital
in Temple has written A&M thank
ing the students for the more than
800 books and magazines sent to
the hospital’s patients by students
here.
The hospital’s special service of
fice said “the men really appreci
ated your work and enjoyed the
books and magazines.”
Another magazine collection
drive will be held in the spring.
A&M Items Will Be On Legislature’s Calendar
By HARRI BAKER
Battalion Co-Editor
The Texas Legislature convened today, and part of the
business of their session will directly affect A&M.
Items of interest to A&M that the Legislature will dis
cuss include the appropriations for the next two years, the
formation of a Commission on Higher Education, and a com
pulsory student activity fee.
Also, the A&M system will
ask for Legislative permission
on buildings and land trans
fer.
“Of first concern is the ap
propriation for the next two
years,” said Dr. M. T. Harrington,
chancellor of the A&M System.
The Legislature makes the ap
propriation for teaching at this
session, and the appropriation will
go into effect in the fall of 1955
and be good for two years, until
the next session.
If the Legislature follows the
method it has used in the past,
A&M’s appropriation will be based
on the number of student credit
houi-s, as of the fall enrollment.
The amount alloted for each stu
dent credit hour last session was
$8.33.
That means that if you are tak
ing 18 hours, the legislature gives
the college $149.44 to pay for your
education. Added to this is the
$25 matriculation fee you pay each
semester.
This pays only for teaching
costs: teachers’ salaries, labora
tory equipment, and other items
connected directly with classroom
teaching. Money for buildings
and facilities comes from a separ
ate building fund.
Student Activity Fee
The compulsory student activity
fee is being proposed by the Coun
cil of College Presidents, com
posed of the presidents of the 18
institutions of higher learning in
the state.
It would provide that each
school be allowed to charge its
students a required activity fee,
the amount to be set by each
school’s board.
The schools used to have a com
pulsory activity fee, but the 1953
legislature told the colleges they
couldn’t make it compulsory.
At the present time, A&M has a
$21.90 optional activity fee, which
includes the Aggieland, subscrip
tion to The Battalion, subscription
to one student magazine. Town
Hall, Great Issuqe and Recital Se
ries, and admissibn to all home in
tercollegiate athletic events.
“The people of the state expect
the colleges to provide cultural,
recreational, and health facilities,
but since these are not educational
they cannot be included in the ed
ucational appropriation,” Harring
ton said. “The Council of College
Presidents thinks the student
should pay for them.”
Opposition says that only stu
dents who use the facilities in the
activity fee should pay for them,
and proponents say that all stu
dents should use them, and that
the activities involved can’t plan
their activity unless they know
how many students will pay.
Higher Education Commission
The temporary Commission of
Higher Education, set up by the
last legislature, will make two
recommendations.
One is that the commission be
set up as a permanent agency of
the state, forming in effect a
board of directors over the boards
the colleges.
Its function would basically be
to coordinate the activities of the
colleges, and to provide a central
agency for plans and recommen
dations.
(See LEGISLATURE, Page 2)
Civilian Croup
Plans Dance
During May i
A civilian dance was plan
ned for May 14 at the Civil
ian Student Council meeting-
last night in the Memorial
Student Center.
The council decided that this
was the best date, since most of
the other weekends already have
activities scheduled for them. A
place for the dance was not set,
but Wl D. (Pete) Hardesty, bus
iness manager of student activi
ties, said it would probably have
to be held in the Grove.
The council also decided that the
dance be semi-formal for the civil
ians and formal for their dates.
Committees to do the actual plan
ning for the dance were appointed
and Hugh Lanktree was named
general chairman.
In other action, the council form
ed a committee to study a way of
solving the problem of civilian
students wearing letter jackets
earned at other schools. The com
mittee will report at the next meet
ing of the group, Feb. 7.
The council also asked that a
letter be sent to the Student Sen
ate asking that an additional sen
ator from College View and a sen
ator from the Project Houses be
added to the senate to give more
equal representation.
Dr. David H. Morgan, president
of the college, was a guest at the
meeting. He told the council that
he “liked what the council was
doing, and the way you have or
ganized.”
The main problem the council
faces, he said, was that of what
power they actually have. “And
that is a question this group must
decide for themselves,” he said.
Councilmen absent from the
meeting were John Henderson, day
student representative, and Joe
Mixon, councilman from Bizzell.
Dewey In Austin
For Legislature
State Representative B. H. Dew
ey of Bryan left Sunday for Austin
and the opening of the 54th Legis
lature today.
He will be sworn in for his sec
ond term as state representative
from Brazos county.
Dewey will stay at the Guada
lupe hotel at 18th and Guadalupe
in Austin, and can be reached at
the capitol at the house reception
room, phone 6-0611.
When the house is not in session,
Dewey will be in his law office in
the Varisco building, Bryan.
Blackburn Elected
Dennis Blackburn, a veterinary
medicine major, has been elected
president of the Edwards Plateau
club. Other officers are Frank
Davis, vice-president; Jimmy Mc
Mullen, secretary-treasurer; and
Mitchell McLendon, repoi-ter.
Weather Today
CLEAR
The outlook for today is fair
with high scattered clouds. Yes
terday’s high was 46, low 35. The
temperature at 11 a.m. today was
44.