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Battalion
Number 42: Volume 54
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1955
Price 5 Cents
smissed On TT Violation
General Dean To Address
Cadets at Commissioning
liy RALPH COLE
Battalion News Editor
Brig. Gen. Fred M. Dean, the
youngest general in the service,
will be the main speaker at com
missioning exercises Jan. 21 at 7
p.m. in Guion hall.
He will also present commissions
to eligible air force cadets.
Brig. Gen. William M. Brecken
ridge, deputy commander of the
fourth army, will present army
commissions.
Uniform
All cadets to, receive commis
sions will be present and seated
by 6:45 p.m. Uniform for the cere
mony will be either a cadet uni-
A&M Club Officers
Meet Here Saturday
Sir Robert Scott
Speaks Tomorrow
British Diplomat
To Speak on Asia
Sir Robert Scott, minister of
the British Embassy in Washing
ton and second highest ranking
diplomat in the U. S., will speak
here tomorrow on “The British Ap
proach to Asian Problems.”
Stassen Talk
Here Canceled;
Not Rebooked
Harold Stassen, director of
the Foreign Operations ad
ministration, who was sched
uled to talk here Monday, has
cancelled his 1 appearance.
Stassen was to speak on “The
East—Far, Middle, Near—Which
Way Now?” as part of the Great
Issues lecture series.
In a telegram to the Memorial
Student Center Great Issues com
mittee, Stassen said that he would
not be back from a meeting in
Paris , he is now attending in time
to make the talk Monday.
He also said “impossible to fore
see future date when we might
work this out.”
“In view of this statement,” said
Herman Hassel, chairman of the
Gi"eat Issues committee, “we will
have to give up trying to have
Stassen in our series.”
Stassen had been originally
scheduled to speak here Nov. 17.
His speech then was cancelled be
cause President Eisenhower called
him to a bipaifisan foreign policy
meeting.
Sir Robert Scott, of the British
legation in Washington, will speak
tomorrow as a part of the Great
Issues series.
Other speakers in the series have
not been definitely set.
Snodgrass Elected
President of SCS
Joe Bob Snodgrass, senior agron
omy major, was elected president
of Soil Conservation Society re
cently. . ,
Other officers elected were Jer
ry Ellis, vice president; George
Cason, secretary; Jesse Russel,
treasurer; Cliff Hobbs, reporter;
and Jerry Ellis and Jim Hanna,
program chairman.
Scott’s talk will be held at 1:15
p.m. in the Memorial Student Cen
ter ballroom and the public is in
vited. Although he is one of the
scheduled speakers in the Great
Issues Series, no entrance fee will
be chai’ged.
Luncheon
David H. Morgan, president of
the college, will honor Scott with
a luncheon before his speech.
C. S. Adams, British counsul-
general for Texas and New Mex
ico; John S. Bennett, British Con
sul for Texas and New Mexico; J
P. Abbott, Dean of the College; W.
L. Penberthy, head of the office of
student activities; Dr. T. R. Timm,
faculty sponsor for the Great Is
sues Series; and J. Wayne Stark,
director of the MSC, will attend
the luncheon.
Scott was assistant under-secre
tary of state for the British for
eign office, in charge of all the
Far Eastern departments before
taking his present post with the
British Embassy in Washington.
Previous to that he was in charge
of the Southeast Asia department.
Following his talk here, Scott
will attend a kick-off dinner in
Houston for the newly organized
Institute on Foreign Relations. He
will be one of the speakers at the
$50-a-plate dinner at which Sen
ator Robert Knowland will speak.
A&M club officers and class
agents will open a two-day meet
ing with a conference for the
agents at 10 a.m. Saturday in the
Memorial Student Center.
Sponsored by the Former Stu
dents association, the conference is
designed to give club officers and
class agents an opportunity to
gather and \liscuss mutual prob
lems and to exchange ideas on club
functions.
About 25 class agents are ex
pected to attend, J. B. (Dick) Her-
vey, association executive secre
tary, and yesterday. W. J. Terrell
of Navasota is chairman of the
class agents committee.
At 1 p.m. Saturday the ninth
annual A&M club officers confer
ence will begin in the MSC. The
conference will include all officers
of A&M clubs and is open to pi-es-
Weather Today
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PARTLY CLOUDY
The weather outlook for today
is continued cloudy with light rain
showers today, tonight and tomor-
row.
Yesterday’s high was 56, low 46.
The temperature at 10:30 this
morning was 54.
Globetrotters
To Play Here
Feb. 16
The original Harlem Globe
trotters, one of the greatest
attractions in the history of
basketball, will play in White
coliseum Feb. 16.
Featuring Reece (Goose) Tatum,
one of the finest individual attrac
tions in the game, and a host of
others, the Globetrotters will fur
nish their own competition. They
travel with three other teams.
Tickets go on sale Feb. 1 in the
office of student activities and at
WSD Clothiers in Bryan, said C. G.
(Spike) White of student activities.
Prices will be $1.25 for general
admission and $2 and $2.50 for
reserved seats. There will be a
special section for Negroes.
Two of the teams that travel
with the Globetrotters will play
the first game of the night. Be
tween games, there will be a 30-
minute show featuring the world’s
champion table tennis player and
other performers.
This is the 28th season for the
Globetrotters. They recently re
turned from a three-month tour of
Europe and have played throughout
the world.
idents and other officers of home
*town clubs who are invited to at
tend the afternoon session, Hervey
said.
A stag dinner will be held in the
MSC ballroom at 7 p.m. Saturday
for all visiting 1 former students
with President David H. Morgan
giving the welcoming address.
Sunday at 9 a.m. a meeting of
the nominating committee will be
held for district and at-large rep
resentatives of the Former Stu
dents Association council. The
committee will nominate two can
didates for councilman to be elec
ted from each of the state’s sena-
torial districts. One will be elec
ted from each district by mail bal
lot.
The committee will also nominate
20 candidates for councilman-at-
large of which 10 will be elected
by mail ballot.
form, consisting of a green blouse
and pink trousers, or the uniform
of the service in which he is being
commissioned.* Both uniforms will
be with blouses.
At about 7 p.m., the distinguish
ed guests will enter the stage and
the audience will be called to at
tention. Following the invocation
and the singing of the “Spirit of
Aggieland,” Gen. Dean will deliver
his speech.
After the address, Col. John A.
Way, PAS, will have the cadets
being commissioned rise and the
mass oath of office will be admin
istered by Maj. O. H. Johnson, air
science instructor.
Presentation of commissions will
then be completed.
After the ceremony, the entire
audience will participate in singing
“The Star Spangled Banner.”
Approximately 147 students will
receive commissions during the
ceremony.
No Exercises
About 234 graduating seniors
will receive degrees this semester,
but there will be no formal grad
uation exercises.
Graduating seniors who paid
their student activities fee and
who will not be in school the spiung
semester, may obtain the refund
on the spring portion of the fee.
Application should be made at the
housing office and Town Hall,
Great Issues and athletic tickets
must be presented.
(See DEAN, Page 2)
Faculty Eligible
For Fellowships
The Council of Southern Uni
versities Inc. is offering through
the Southern Fellowships fund sev
eral fellowiships according to W.
H. Delaplane, dean of the school
of Arts and Sciences. Faculty
members with the rank in instruc-
to or above are eligible to apply.
Application blanks may be ob
tained by writing Robert M. Les
ter, executive director of the
Southern Fellowships Fund, 119
North Columbia St., Box 427, Cha
pel Hill, N. C.
The fellowships are designed to
assist persons now teaching* in
southern colleges to cdrry on ad
vanced study and research leading
to PhD or similar degrees.
Battalion Schedule
Altered For Finals
The Battalion will be on a
limited publication schedule
during final examination week
and between semesters, said
Karl E. Elmquist, chairman of
the student publications board.
The paper will come out
Thursday, Jan. 27, and Thurs
day, Feb. 3. Regular publica
tion will be resumed Feb. 8.
Lions To Honor
Wives With Dance
The College Station Lions club
will hold their annual Ladies’ Night
Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the banquet
room of the Triangle drive-in.
Chicken or fish will be served,
and there will be a hillbilly dance
following the banquet.
Press Club Dinner
Set For March 25
The annual Press club banquet
sponsored by student publications
will be held March 25.
The Student Publications board
recently set up a new plan for
charging admittance to the ban
quet this year, said Karl Elm
quist, acting manager of student
publications. Students in their
last year of college will be ad
mitted free.
Students on student publications
who are not in their last year of
school and receiving awards will
pay one-half price. The office
force of student publications will
be admitted free. Otjier guests
will be invited at their own ex-
pense.
Arrangements for guest speaker
and place of meeting have not been
arranged.
Panel Revokes
Probation Terms
Tom McDade has been dismissed from A&M for viola
tion of the probation by which he was allowed to return to
school this semester as a convicted member of the Tonkawa
Tribe, a secret fraternity.
McDade, a senior business major from El Campo, was
dismissed for “putting constantly in front of the student
body reminders of a student organization (the TT\s) that
was disbanded last spring,” and for excessive demerits.
A five-man military panel decided yesterday after six
hours deliberation that these two offenses constituted vio
lation of McDade’s probation.
The panel was unanimous in the decisions on both the
'♦■guilt and the punishment.
“Dismissal” means perman
ent separation, and normally
means the person must leave
the campus within 24 hours.
McDade gave the panel no indi
cation that he would appeal the
decision. If an appeal was made,
it would go to the Executive com
mittee of the Academic council.
.Lt. Col. Taylox* Wilkins, assist
ant commandant and chairman of
the panel, would not say last night
what the “reminders” McDade was
accused of were.
Reliable sources reported to The
Battalion that McDade has been
seen wearing a pin with the TT em
blem on it, that he had a portrait
picture made wearing this pin, that
he at one time had the double-T
emblem on his automobile, and
that he has frequently been seen
in the company of other students
who were convicted last year of be
ing members of the TT’s.
On the excess demerits charge,
McDade had 32 demerits this se
mester. Twenty-nine is the num
ber allowed a senior before disci
plinary action is taken.
“The concensus of the panel was
that these two charges constituted
a violation of his probation,” Wil
kins said.
McDade, as a condition of his
being allowed to attend A&M this
semester, signed a statement say
ing he would be on conduct proba
tion, would not room with another
TT, and could not hold any elected
or appointed campus position.
Violation of any of these condi
tions would be grounds for dismis
sal, the statement said. McDade’s
parents also signed the statement.
Last spring, 17 students, includ
ing McDade, were indefinitely sus
pended for being TT members.
During the summer, it was an
nounced that they would be allowed
to return to A&M if they would
agi’ee to the terms of this proba
tion statement.
The college regulations also say
that “membership in any group or
organization not sanctioned by the
college” will be grounds for dis
missal.
Wilkins said McDade denied none
of the charges pi’esented to him.
“He was frank and honest about
everything,” he said. McDade had
six character witnesses.
Wilkins also said the consensus
of the panel was that the TT’s
were not active or organized this
year. Col. Joe E. Davis, comman
dant, also said that after review
ing the action of the panel, he
didn’t believe the group was ac
tive.
President David H. Morgan de
clined to comment on McDade’s
dismissal, saying he had not had
chance to review the action of
the panel.
Whether or not McDade vail get
credit for this semester’s work de
pends on how much of each course
he has completed, Morgan, said.
The military panel was compos
ed of two senior cadet officers, a
tactical officer, and an air science
instructor. Wilkins, as assistant
commandant, was chairman without
vote except in case of a tie.
ROTC Policy
Is Announced
By Col. Offer
A new policy for ordering
army graduates to active duty
has been announced by Col.
Robert Offer, PMS&T.
The new plan will mean
that graduates who will be com
missioned between May 1 and Sept.
30 of this year will be called into
active duty between July 1, 1955
and June 30, 1957.
Period Extended
“The new plan extends the pe
riod during which spring graduates
as well as those who will be grad
uates from both semesters of sum
mer school and those being com
missioned after completing sum
mer camp this year will be called
into active duty,” Offer said. Un
der the present system, graduates
are being called into active duty
within 12 months after graduation.
The graduates will be given their
choice' as to when they will be
called “as far as requirements for
the army permit,” said Offer.
They are being given an opportu
nity to make their choice this
week, he added.
According to Offer, distinguished
military graduates who have been
selected for regular army commis
sions will continue to be called into
active service under the present
regulations.
This new plan for calling the
army graduates is only for those
who will be commissioned between
May 1 and Sept. 30, and there is
no indication as to whether or not
this policy will be continued in the
future. Offer said.
40 YEARS, 40 MINUTES—Three students pause on their way to Anchor hall to watch
workmen remove the stump of a tree by the Memorial Student Center. The workmen
said the tree was 40 years old, but it took them only 40 minutes to saw it down and
remove the stump. The students are, left to right, Gary Lemmon, engineering student
from Tyler; Charles Flanagan, civil engineering student from Houston; and Paul Rogers,
architect from Pineville, La. All are freshmen.
Grant Awarded
A grant-in-aid for $80 was
awarded to the Texas agricultural
experiment station by the William
Wrigley company of. Chicago for
the use of ecological study of can-
delilla plants. The studies are be
ing conducted at the animal disease
investigations laboratory at Marfa.