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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.