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The Battalion
Number 56: Volume 54
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1955
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THE COLONEL’S MOVED—Workmen are dismantling 1 this house, formerly the home
of Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant, to move it elsewhere on the campus. This house is
one of four along the street that are to be moved this year. Plans are not definite as
to what will be built in the space occupied by the houses.
Gen. Dean Is Main Speaker
At Commissioning Tonight
The youngest general in the
armed forces, Brig. Gen. Fred M.
Dean, will be the main speaker at
7 tonight when 147 cadets will be
commissioned.
Dean will also present commis
sions to air force cadets.
The army commissions will be
presented by Brig. Gen. William
M. Breckenridge, deputy comman
der of the fourth army.
The cadets who are to receive
commissions will be present and
seated by 6:45 tonight. The uni
form for the ceremony will be
either the cadet uniform — green
blouse and pink trousers—or the
Thief Gets Clothes
From Clothesline
Campus security officers ai'e
looking for a person or persons
who Wednesday night took some
clothing from a clothesline behind
apartment A-9-A in College View.
The clothing belonged to Frank
M. Roach, a veterinary medicine
student from Louisiana, who lives
in the apartment. Taken were
three western style shirts, three
levi trousers, six pairs of socks,
one plaid shirt and two checked
shirts.
Roach reported that the clothes
were there at 6 p.m. Wednesday,
but were gone at 7 a.m. yesterday.
He said that some women’s gai--
ments wei'e also hanging on the
line, but were not taken.
Fred Hickman, campus security
chief, said that he had no further
information about who had taken
the clothes.
Students To Work
At Houston Show
Five poultry husbandry students
will work at the Houston Fat
Stock Show this year, according to
E. D. Parnell of the poultry hus
bandry department.
John Williams, Jack Couch,
Dane Kimmell, Monroe Fuchs and
Carl Hill will be assistant super-
viaors of the market poultry show.
The students will leave for
Houston Jan. 29, and will return
Feb. 7.
Parnell will also make the trip,
and will act as capon judge.
Killion Elected
Ken Killon was elected president
of the Saddle and Sirloin club at
a meeting held Tuesday night in
the Animal Industries building.
Other officers elected for the sec
ond school semester were Leroy
Williams, vice-president; Glenn
Wistrand, secretary; Ken Lewis
treasurer and Frank Waddell, re
porter.
uniform of the service in which
he is being commissioned. Blouses
will be worn with both uniforms.
Distinguished guests will enter
the stage about 7 p.m. and the au
dience will be. called to’' attentionT
After the invocation and the sing
ing of the “Spirit of Aggieland,”
Dean will present his speech.
The oath of office will be ad
ministered by Maj. H. O. Johnson
of the air science department, and
then the commissions will be pre
sented to the cadets.
The following is a list of the
graduates who are to receive de
grees:
Master of Architecture: Gale
K. Vetter.
Master of Business Administra
tion: Charles Bedford Ponder.
Master of Engineering: Joseph
Avant.
Master of Science
James Edward Anderson, Asok
K and K Klub
To Enter Show
The A&M* Kream and Kow Klub
will have an entry in the Austin
Stock show this year, announced
Pete Rathbone, president of the
club.
The entry will be a 14-month
old jersey heifer, donated to the
club by Evans Reese, owner of the
Reese Jersey farms, Waco.
A committee from the club is
now working with the heifer in
pi-eparation for the Feb. 28 show.
L. M. Braziell is chairman of the
committee with Roland Reese and
Walter Myer as his assistants.
This is the first project of this
type the club has sponsored, said
Dr. W. C. Vander Zant, club spon
sor.
Citizens Can Pay
Poll Tax In MSC
Citizens of Brazos county must
pay their poll tax this month if
they intend to vote in city or bond
elections this year.
The tax is $1.75, and in this
area may be paid in the social
room of the Memorial Student
Center between 8:30 a.m. and 4
p.m. The poll tax also may be paid
at the College Station bank during
hours.
Weather Today
CLEAR
The outlook for today is clear
and warmer.
Yesterday’s high was 52, low 46.
The temperature at 11 this morn
ing was 50.
Bandyopadhyay, James Donald
Barnard, John Marshall Corgan jr.,
Wid Philips Crawford, Warren
Nathaniel Dannenburg, Alvin Nick
Deck, Bhupendra P. Doctor, Jose
Du 1 a - Navarriete, Thomas Knox
Eaman, John Madison Firebaugh,
John Warren Gossett, Robert B.
Halpin, Billie Gene Hightower,
William Low Hoffman, James Ed
gar Howard, Jack Morton Inglis.
Thomas Eugene Kelly jr.. Tom
my Lee Nixon, Frank Wooten
Moon jr., Joe Earl Murphey, R. S.
Musa, Harold Glenn Place, Floyd
William Pond, Thomas Louis Rapp,
Raymond Harold Roberts, Edmund
Nelson Roots jr., Frank Berry
Strottd, Mohamed AH Zeitoun,
Jack J. Zwahlen.
Baccalaureate Degrees
Bachelor of Science, Agricultur
al Administration: Harry Green-
baum, Robert Bellamy Walsh, Gil-
bei’t Wendell Wood.
Agricultural Education: Melvin
Mai’cus Bentley, Worth Martin
Blake, Norman Ray Craig, Luther
G. Crum jr., Clinton Robert Cur
rie, John Albert Davis, Bobby Go
ble, Odis Byron Loosier, Walter
Larry Lumpkin, Wayland F o y
Moore, Leonel Saenz, Dan Timmer-
mann jr., Herbert Weldon Warren
jr-
(See GRADUATION, Page 2)
Parking
Is Harder
Than Ever
Aggies and other people are
threatened with a $25 fine for
using three parking places on
A&M’s crowded campus.
A recent federal law pro
hibits unauthorized parking
on post office and other fed
eral property, and sets the
$25 fine.
Here, this rule would cover
the parking lots by the Noi-th
Gate and Memorial Student
Center post offices, and the lot
behind the PMA building at
the North Gate.
Student Senate Votes To Move
Bonfire Site From Drill Field
Hospital, Exemptions
Referred to Committees
The Student Senate last night voted to change the site
of the bonfire when work begins on landscaping the main
drill field, and referred to committees the hot agenda items
of the hospital’s service and the return of course exemptions.
The senate acted on moving the bonfire site at the re
quest of Howard Badgett, manager of the college physical
plant and chairman of the campus beautification committee.
Badgett had told the senate by letter that if the students
would agree to moving the site of the annual Thanksgiving
football game bonfire from the main drill field to someplace
else, his office would try to landscape the field and install
an underground sprinkler system.
The landscaping would also^
eliminate parking on the field
for football games, Badgett
said in his letter.
The senate did not recom
mend a new site for the bonfire, al
though sites discussed at the pre
vious meeting were behind dormi
tory 12, at the East Gate, and
across from the veterinary hospi
tal.
The senators started on a dis
cussion of the hospital and the
emergency and regular service it
provides, but decided to refer the
matter to the senate’s hospital
committee for further action.
The general tone of the short
discussion on the hospital was ex
pressed by Senator W. R. (Dusty)
Cannon: “There must be some
thing' wrong there; the students
don’t trust the hospital.”
The senate - also referred to a
special committee the question ai
returning the exemption system
for final examinations. Discus
sion before the vote was brief and
both favored and disapproved of
exemptions.
Another special committee was
established to look into the pos
sibility of establishing more col
lege apai’tments for married stu
dents.
A proposed amendment that
would have given the Project
House area a representative to
the Senate and added one repre
sentative from the College View
area was tabled because the re-,
quired number of members to vote
on an amendment was not present.
The mess hall committee re
ported that J. G. Peniston, direc
tor of subsistance, had agreed to
try for 30 days the Senate’s sug
gestion of serving two bottles of
milk instead of one at the evening
meal in the mess halls.
Fund Increase Bill
Now in Legislature
World
News
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica —Costa
Rica and Nicaragua agreed yester
day on a plan to bottle up hostili
ties in Costa Rica with a neutral
buffer zone astride their common
border northwest of the present
battle area.
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WASHINGTON —The Treas
ury’s year-end statement, issued
yesterday, showed that the gov
ernment closed its books Dec. 31
some $9,294,000,000 in the red.
That was for the first half of
fiscal year 1955 only—from July
through December, 1954.
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GUATEMALA—Anti-Communist
President- Cai’los Castillo Annas
announced last night the defeat
of a rebel force that attempted to
seize Aurora air force base out
side the capital and declared a state
of siege throughout the counti'y.
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LONDON—Britain, the United
States and New Zealand consult
ed yesterday on a possible ap
peal for United Nations inter
vention to stop fighting around
the Tachen Islands between Na
tionalist and Red China.
Florists To Meet
More than 150 are expected to
attend the Florists conference to
be held Jan. 22-24 in the Memor
ial Student Centei*. A. F. DeWerth,
head of the department of flori
culture and landscape architecture,
is the conference chairman.
The Legislature has received a
bill that would give A&M’s build
ing fund more money by broaden
ing the investment field for the
permanent fund.
The bill, which is a proposed
constitutional amendment, would
allow part of the permanent fund
to be invested in corporate stocks
and bonds, instead of only govern-
ment stocks and bonds as is done
now.
The present investment method
draws about 2.5 per cent interest,
and the proposed widening would
enable the fund to draw about 3.5
per cent interest, according to M.
T. Harrington, A&M system chan
cellor.
The interest from the investment
of the permanent fund goes to the
A&M and University of Texas sys
tems for buildings, building equip
ment, and other permanent con
struction. A&M gets one-third of
it and the University gets two-
thirds.
The proposed amendment also
calls for including two colleges,
Lamar College of Technology and
Texas Southern university, in the
benefits from the five cent ad va
lorem tax, and removing four col
leges, Texas Western, Tarleton,
Uniform May Be
Turned In Now
Cadets who will not be taking
ROTC during the spring semester
may begin turning. in their uni
forms to the Military Property
wai’ehouse immediately, announced
Col. Taylor Wilkins, assistant com
mandant. •
Uniforms must be turned in be
fore Jan. 29. All cadets must re
main in uniform until then, except
graduating seniors who must stay
in uniform until Jan. 1, said Wil
kins.
Cadets not returning for the
spring semester must complete
resignations forms. Cadets not
registering for ROTC next semes
ter must secure room clearance
forms from their tactical officer,
said Wilkins.
Library Announces
Holiday Schedule
The between semester schedule
for the library, announced by Rob
ert A. Houze, librarian, will be:
Sunday, Jan. 80—Closed.
Monday-Friday, Jan. 31-Feb. 4
—Open 8 a-m. - 5 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 5—Open 8 a.m.-
12 noon.
Sunday, Feb. 6—Closed.
Monday, Feb. 7—Regular sched
ule.
MSC To Serve
Late Hour Coffee
The Memorial Student Center
will have a special schedule for
studing late during final examina
tion week. The fountain room
will be open until 12 midnight, to-
moraow through Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, it will be
open until 11 p.m.
During the week, Jan. 23-28, cof
fee will be for sale in the game
room on a help - yourself honor
basis after the fountain room
closes at night.
The MSC will follow its regular
schedule during the week between
semesters with the following ex
ceptions.
The coffee shop will be closed
Saturday, Jan. 29 through Tues
day, Feb. 1, and the Bi*owsing li-
bi’ary will be closed Sunday, Jan.
30 through Tuesday, Feb. 1.
Only One Paper
Next Week
The Battalion staff has to
study, too, so there will be only
one issue of The Battalion next
week. It will be an eight-page
paper, published on Thursday.
There will be only one Battal-
lion during the mid-term holi
days, also published on Thurs
day. When school starts again.
The Battalion will resume daily
publication.
‘Seranade in Blue ?
Set for Town Hall
The air force’s Singing Ser
geants will present a show here
next semester as an added at
traction of the Town Hall series.
The two-hour show will be Feb.
8 at 8 p.m. in Guion hall. Town
Hall ticket holders will be admit
ted free, according to C. G. (Spike)
White, director of recreation and
entertainment, although the show
is not a regularly scheduled Town
Hall performance.
The 23-man Singing Sergeants
group is well-known for its “Sere
nade in Blue” radio program, and
for its tours through the country.
The organization is a part of
the United States Air Force band,
which recently won international
fame on a tour of European coun
tries.
The band will not appear on the
program here, White said. First
Lt. Robert L. Landers is director
of the group, and M/Sgt. William
Jones and S/Sgt. William DuPree
are soloists.
Their program will include solo
and choir numbers, a violin solo,
and a comedy piano act.
Included in the music will be
“Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,” “The
Second Word” from The Seven
Last Words of Christ, “Fire
Fire My Heart,” and “Volga Boat
Song,” and an American medly.
Two days after this show, Feb.
10, Town Hall will present Fred
Waring and his Pennsylvanians in
the White coliseum.
Prairie View A&M and Arlington,
from these benefits.
The University of Texas and
A&M would then take the respon
sibility for financing the building
pi-ograms at these four colleges,
using the increased funds from the
new investment plan.
A&M and Texas would remain
responsible for the other parts of
their systems, such as the exten
sion services and medical schools.
If the proposal, which was pre
sented by Representative Max C.
Smith of San Marcos, is approved
by the Legislature, it will be put
before the voters as a constitutional
amendment in the 1956 general
election, to go into effect in 1957.
Polio Benefit
Square Dance
To Be Held
The annual Square Dance
Jamboree, sponsored by the
Promenaders club of Bryan,
will be held tomorrow night
in DeWare fieldhouse as a
benefit for the March of Dimes.
No admission will be charged
but all who come, either to dance
or to watch, will be expected to
contribute to the polio campaign.
Refreshments will be available
throughout the evening and will be
sold on a “polio donation” basis.
Manning Smith will be master
of ceremonies, and more than a
dozen Central Texas callers are
expected for the dance. Smith,
his wife Nita and their two child
ren, Dee and Sherry, will do a
specialty number, the "Beautiful
Ohio” waltz.
Another feature of the evening
will be several sets of teen-agers
from the Waco State Children’s
home who will give an exhibition
of precision dancing. They were
a featured attraction at the Gov
ernor’s inaugural square dance ball
in Austin Monday.
At a similar affair held last
year in Sbisa hall, the club made
$326.22 for the March of Dimes.
Every cent collected from this
year’s dance will go to the drive,
said Mrs. lola Thompson, general
chairman for the jamboree. Use
of the field house has been donated
by the college, callers and exhibi
tion dancers are giving their time,
club members and local establish
ments are contributing refresh
ments and club volunteers will
handle cleanup chores.
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SINGING SERGEANTS—This is half of the air force’s
Singing Sergeant’s, who will be here Feb. 8 as an added
attraction for Town Hall. On the far left is First Lt.
Robert L. Landers, director of the group.