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I he ion Number 43: Volume 54 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1955 Price 5 Cents TOP DESIGNER—William Charles Bailey, junior from Dallas, looks over a picture of his model automobile that won him a $3,000 scholarship last year, fie received the award for placing- second in the nation in the annual Fish er Body contest. Auto Model A&M Junior Gets National Honor By JON KINSLOW Battalion Managing- Editor One junior here is attending A&M oil a scholarship that many boys have often dreamed of win ning, but it took him five years and a lot of hard work to get it. The student, William Charles Bailey, mechanical engineering ma March of Dimes Needs Funds Says Chairman The fight against polio is at a critical stage and we need more funds than ever before, said Mrs. John V. Per ry jr., co-chairman of the Brazos County March of Dimes. Mrs. Perry returned yesterday from a state meeting of polio drive leaders at San Antonio. Approx imately 350 March of Dimes vol unteer* leaders from throughout Texas attended the meeting, she said. Basil O’Connor, national pres ident of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, reported on the new Salk polio vaccine which was tested last spring on close to Vwo million children. The results on whether the new raceme will prevent paralytic polio is due in April, said Mrs. Perry. If the field tests prove successful, the vaccine will be given to ap proximately 7,750,000 first and sec ond grade school children in the United States and some of its ter ritories. “In the meantime, polio contin ues to strike,” she said, “and the biggest item in the 1955 March of Dimes’ need of $64,000,000 is some $30,000,000 to pay for the care of polio patients.” Brazos county contributed $10,- 000 last year, and this year’s goal is $20,000. Donations may be sent to the campaign headquarters at the United Furniture store in Bry an. jor from Dallas, placed second in 1954 in the Fisher Body Crafts man’s Guild model car competition. He was given a $3,000 scholarship after his model car, a hardtop con vertible, was judged to be the sec ond best of 20 cars that were en tered for the national honors. Fisher Body, a subsidiary of General Motors, offered Bailey $900 for the mo4el, but he refused because of “sentimental reasons.” Last year*, however, was not the first time that Bailey has walked off with honors for one of his models. In fact, he won honors each of the five years that he entered, but last year was the first time that he received national recognition. He won the state competition three times and twice won regional. The other two years he placed sec ond and third in the state. Bailey’s award, though, was not for the Texas division since he only recently moved to this state. He moved to Dallas from Kansas City, Kan., where he also attended junior college for two years. As for how much time it took to construct his pi'ize-winning mod el, Bailey said it took most of his spare time for about eight months. From the time he entered his first model until his auto was selected as second in the nation, Bailey de scribed it all as being a “long pull.” About the future, Bailey says he naturally would like to do auto motive engineering or even auto motive design, and he said he had received much valuable training from his work on the model cars. “If you are interested in that line it helps quite a bit,” he added. A trophy citing Bailey’s achieve ment will be presented to the col lege during a seminar meeting at 10 a.m. Friday. One thing he slightly regrets is that he cannot enter the compe tition again since he is over the age limit now and also because of his national honor-. “I was just lucky,” he said. “I just made it in under the wire.” News of the World By The ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN JOSE—Costa Rica’s spreading- warfare crackled at half a dozen points over the country yesterday. Mystery planes attacked four towns, including this capital where President Jose Figueres declared: “We don’t scare with the splattering of bullets.” ★ ★ ★ BURLINGTON—Fifteen persons died yesterday as a TWA Martin Sky liner and a privately owned DC3 col lided in the air and crashed a half mile apart. There were no survivors to explain the accident. ★ ★ ★ AUSTIN—Senate investigators yesterday took their probe into the state veterans land program behind closed doors and announced they plan to subpoena witnesses for a closer look at alleged irregularities. ★ ★ ★ LONDON—Moscow radio yesterday accused U. S. interests of starting the fighting in Costa Rica. “Once again the U. S. monopolies are trying to disrupt the peace,” it said in an English language broadcast heard here. Probation Review Set Thirty-Three Apply Southwestern Executives To Attend Course Here Thirty-three executives from some of the largest Texas and southwestern business and indus trial firms have been accepted for the third annual Executive Devel opment course here Jan. 30-Feb. 19. Response to the course! has been so enthusiastic that additional ap plications were returned to keep the classes from becoming too big for effective teaching, Henderson Shuffler, A&M System director of information and publications, said yesterday. Created in 1953 at the request of industrial leaders of the south west, the course is designed to train executives of rapidly expand ing industries to view their organ izations as a whole instead of merely the departmental activities to which they have been limited. Recognized national authorities will discuss the current economic and industrial situation as a back- RY’s, Band March In Austin Tuesday The A&M band and the Ross Volunteers will march in the gov ernor’s inauguration parade Tues day morning at Austin. Allen Shivers will be inaugurat ed for his third full term, after defeating Ralph Yarborough in a run-off election Aug. 28. The group will leave early Tues- Collegi e Head From Mindanao Now At A&M Z o g i m o T. Montemayor, president of Mindanao Agri cultural college, the Philip pines, is now studying at A&M. A veteran of 27 years in public school work from both the instruc tion and administration sides, Mon temayor is here under auspices of the Foreign Operations administra tion of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. He is studying ad vanced agricultural economics, adult education and industrial ed ucation. He also is spending part of his semester here visiting typical Texas farms and studying 4-H clubs and Future Farmers of America activities. One reason for his visit at this time is study of new methods and crops which might prove useful in improving* his school. Mindanao Agricultural college is now estab lishing- itself on 10,000 acres of virgin land and lai*ge acres of new land are being opened up for home steading. day morning, said Paul E. Gentry, band commander. The band will march with all 240 members, and the parade route will be up Con gress avenue, he said. “We have been invited to the in auguration ball if we wish to at tend,” he added. The RV’s have made definite plans to appear in two other pa rades besides Tuesday’s appear ance. The Mardi Gx-as, held in New Orleans, Feb. 19-22; and Holi day in Dixie in Shreveport Apx-il 27-May 11, said Joe Bob Walker, RV commander. Among the RV’s other activities are appeax-ances for Mothei-s Day, and a rifle squad for Silver Taps and the Aggie Muster, April 21. Student Life Won't Meet; No Business The Student Life committee, scheduled to meet next Mon day, won’t meet. They have a pretty good reason for calling it off. According to the notice sent to members of the committee, there’s nothing for the group to talk about. Smith To Attend Frank Smith, manager of the College Station Western Auto-as sociate stoi-e, will attend a show ing of Western Auto’s new spring and summer mex-chandise Jan. 23 in Houston. Smith has been manager of the store here since it was stax-- ted in October. Crackdown On Illegal Started Parking The city of College Station has stax-ted a crackdown on illegal pax-king around the Nox-th Gate business area, and have already is sued 29 tickets for violations this month. The main offenses, according to Patrolman Melvin Luedke, are par allel pax-king on the wx-ong side of the stx-eet, and backing into diag onal pax-king places. Parking on the wrong side of the stx-eet means anyone who paiks on the side to the driver’s left. Dux-ing November and Decem ber only 10 tickets ,wex-e issued by the College Station police fox-ce. This month, in addition to the 29 tickets for parking violations, four speeding tickets have also been is sued. “A lot of people don’t know that thei-e is an ordinance against these two dangex-ous parking px-actices,” said Ran Boswell, city manager - . 1 Some Student Offenders Some of the offenders have been A&M students, who also said they didn’t know the law. On the cam pus, where parking is permitted on only one side of a street, there ax-e no restrictions against park ing on the left side, according to Fred Hickman, chief of campus security. “However, I don’t advocate this type of pax-king because of the dan ger it creates,” Hickman added. Luedke said the reason for tickets being issued was that in both types of violations the dx-iver must cross the opposing lane of traffic when he entex-s and leaves the parking space. “If an illegally paxked car is involved in an accident, the owner may be liable,” Luedke said. Other Traffic Problems Boswell said the other traffic headache was keeping traffic mov ing dux-ing the i-ush houx*s, espe cially the noon hour. The worst intex-section is Spence stx-eet (the first stx-eet west of the cix*cle), but rubber markers are put up each day and the traffic moves “all right,” he said. Weather Today The outlook for today is clear with little change. Yestei'day’s high was 63, low 46. The temperatui-e at 11 this morn ing was 47. ground for intensive study of spe cific industx-ial problems of the southwest. The fix-st day of the course will be devoted to registx-ation of the student executives in the after noon, followed by an informal re ception that evening at which Pres ident David H. Morgan will offi cially welcome the group. Intro duction of the staff and explana tion of the course objectives by F. C. Bolton, president emex-itus and course director, will conclude the activities for the evening. Lecturers who will conduct class sessions include Ralph D. Paine ji\, publisher of Fortune magazine; Lax-i-y L. Ellis, partner in Booz, Al len and Hamilton of Chicago; Wat- x-ous Ix-ons, px-esident of the Fed- ex-al Reserve bank of Dallas and J. B. Thomas, pi*esident of Texas Electric company of Fort Worth. Paine will discuss American Bus iness Today in oxxe of the early sessions while the others will talk on such topics as Management Ap praisal, Business Measurements and Industries of the Southwest— Power Industry. Two or three lecture sessions are scheduled for each day during the course which all takes place in the Memorial Stxident Centex-. The ex ecutives will attend all the lec tures, exchange ideas and woxk out solutions to industilal px-ob- lems px-esented during the sessions. Question pex-iods and class discus sion will follow each lectux-e." The executive students attending the course are selected by the com pany they represent and ax-e usu ally men who have rapidly worked up to cex-tain level in the ox-ganiza- tion where a broader knowledge of their organization’s pax-t in the na tional economy is needed, Shuffler said. Reg-istration fee, which covex-s cost of ixxstruction, books and ma terial, is $300 per man and the sessioxxs are limited to those en- i-olled in the course. Certain even ing sessions, however, will be open by invitation to other executives of southwestern industry. Potter Will Head Physics Group Dr. J. G. Pottex-, head of the phy sics department, has been elected chairman of the Texas Section of the American Association of Phy sics Teachers which meets concui'- rently and cooperatively with the Texas Academy of Science. “The newly created oi’ganization fulfills a need which has been felt and expressed throughout physics circles over the state thx-ough the yeax-s,” Potter said. Action Is Result Of Panel Findings The Executive committee will review soon the terms of the probation by which last year’s members of the Tonkawa Tribe secret fraternity are now in school. President David H. Morgan said the review will be made “in the light of the findings of Tuesday’s military panel.” A military panel Tuesday dismissed Tom McDade on the grounds that he had violated the probation by “putting con stantly before the student body reminders of the secret organization that was disbanded last spring”, and by having excess demerits. McDade was one of seven students who are in school under probation because they were members of the TT’s last '♦’spring. Seventeen were indefinitely Dog Owners Urged To Get Tags For Pets City Manager Ran Boswell yesterday urged citizens to buy their dog licenses before Feb. 1, or face the risk of having their dogs picked up. The x-easoxx fox- the plea was that only 47 tags have been sold fox- this year. There were 22 tags is sued last year. The $1 fee can be paid at the city hall, and a certifi cate of rabies vaccinatioxx must be px-esented. The city ordinance re quiring x-og registration applies to all dogs mox-e than three months old. Included in the untagged dogs for this year is the owner of the 1954 tag 144—Reveille, the A&M mascot. During the dog-tagging campaign last year Boswell said that even" Reveille would have to have a tag- “or she might get pick ed up.” “When a dog is' picked up, the owner has 48 hours in which to claim him at the city pound,” he explained. “In addition to the li cense, a pounding fee of $3.50 is chai-ged.” Dog owners will probably have until the end of the month to buy the licenses, and then a campaign of picking- up all strays will begin, Boswell added. Stxident Senate To Host TISA The Texas Intex-collegiate Stu dents association will meet hex-e Feb. 12 in the Memox-ial Student Center, said Jerry Ramsey, presi dent of the student soaxate. According to Ramsey, the asso ciation will hear x-epox-ts on dis tinct px-ojects and make plans for the annual meeting at Txnnity. The student senate is acting as host for the delegates fx*om ap proximately 65 schools expected Sox- the meeting, he said. Influenza Leads Influenza was the leading dis ease in the College Station-Bx-yan area last week with 38 repox-ted cases. suspended after an investiga tion last spring disclosed that they were members of the seex-et fratexnxity. They were al lowed to x-etux-n to A&M this se- mestex-, after signing a statement saying that they would be on con duct probation, would not x-oom with another fox-mer member of the TT’s, and could not hold any elected or appointed campus posi tions for a year. This is the px-obation McDade was convicted of violating, and the px-obation the Executive committee will x-eview. Within a Week Morgan said he had “no idea” of what the x-esult of the i-eview would be. The Executive commit tee set the tex-ms of the present probation. The review will be made within a week, Morgan said. Mox-gan said that there would not be a committee set up to inves tigate the possibility of the secret group being ox-ganized or active. Such a committee was established last yeax*. “There is no evidence of any ox-- ganized activity of the secret fra ternity this year,” Morgan said. The militai*y panel also said they did not feel that the group was ox-ganized this year. McDade’s Statement McDade, a senior business major fx-om El Campo, was to have left the campus yesterday. He gave the following prepared statement to The Battalion yester day: “All I have to say is—T don’t have anything bo say.’ If I said what is in my heart, I may or may not regret it—it’s over. I am an Aggie, first, last, and always! The reason for no other statement be ing that I do not care to leave through the South Gate; rather, I prefer to leave via the North Gate. “Sometimes you just can’t ex- px-ess in words your love and bit terness for the same thing. It’s a great school, and I’ve caused enough talk, so let us say that I have nothing to say in order to prevent any after effects in the cox-ps. “Finally, I’m sorry I’m leaving. I’ll never be back, but the best and kindest of my own personal re- gax-ds to the entire Cadet Corps and Texas A&M.” v?—- WHAT TO DO?—College Station Patrolman Melvin Luedke scratches his head and won ders what to do about people who park illegally such as the car on the right The city has been carrying on a campaign against parking violations in the Nor^h Gate business area, and have already given 29 tickets this month.