Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1955)
) Number 57: Volume 54 AGGIE BOXERS—Twelve members of the A&M boxing team pause for a minute before taking off for the Waco Reginoal Golden Gloves tournament w r hich begins today. They are, left to right, front row, F. L. Dischler, Bill Goode, Don Willis, Don Garner, Connie Eckard, Ken Duncan. Back row, Jim Earle, Frank Roberts, Don Burton, Tony Campos, Phil Weinert, Jim Van Dermeer. For CHS Students Walk Construction Starts Construction of a sidewalk par alleling- Jersey street from A&M Consolidated schools to highway 6 started Tuesday with the leveling off of dirt work. The walk is on the south side of the street and will extawid from the highway to the old bridge, which is now used as a foot brodge. The building of this walk, a long- discussed project, was brought about through the combined efforts of the College Station Kiwanis club and the city council. The walk will keep children going to and return ing from school from having to walk in the street. Proceeds from Tournament The Kiwanis club took the pro ceeds from the higii school basket ball tournament held at Consolidat- Kl gymnasium Jan. 7-8 for the project. The tournament netted $294.55, and the city council con tributed $200, said Norman Ander son, head of the committee for the basketball tournament. Church of Christ To Present Choir The A&M Church of Christ will present Feb. 6 the nationally fa mous Bel Canto chorus of Boles Orphan home of Quinlan. The young-people’s chorus is directed by Paul Robert Oler, a 17-year-old student at the school. A. Hugh Grahm is music director, and Tex Williams is manager of the chorus and director of the cur rent state-wide tour-. The program will include hymns and spirituals by the chorus, and selections from a boys’ chorus, a girls’ sextet, and a male quartet, all composed of students from the main chorus. The program wijl be free and everyone is invited, said Bob Davidson, assistant minister of the A&M Church of Christ. Aggieland Names Two Deadlines The deadline for Vanity Fair is March 1, and deadline for senior favorites is March 15, according to Harry Tilley, co-editor of The Aggieland. The Vanity Fair pictures should be five by seven or eight by ten inch glossy prints, either full length or head and shoulders. The senior favorites should be three by five or five by seven inch glossy prints of head and should ers, he said. Applications for Vanity Fair and senior favorites should be picked up in the office of student publications in Goodwin hall, be fore students go home for between semester holidays, said Tilley. Senior military pictures will be taken at the beginning of the sec ond semester, and sophomoi'e pic tures following the seniors, he said. Somerville high school won the tournament, beating Tomball 69- 47 in the finals. Eight teams were entered in the tournament, They were, besides Somerville and Tom ball, A&M Consolidated, Navasota, Sealy, Hempstead, Fairfield and Allen Academy. City workers are doing the work, said Ran Boswell, city manager. After the leveling of the dirt is completed, a gravel base will be put on the walk. When the gravel has settled, rock asphalt will be laid down for the final surface. “When the walk will be finished will depend upon the weather,” said Boswell. The asphalt -will not stay unless it is put down under good weather conditions. Rain and cold make it hard to adhere to its gravel base. Walk Is 2,437 Feet The walk is approximately 2,473 feet long, and will cost about $650 said Anderson. The plans are for the walk to be five-feet wide at the narrowest, and six-feet wide is their goal, he said. “On behalf of the Kiwanis club, I would. like to express our thanks to -the cbmintmity which took such an interest in the basketball tour nament, and thus made the con struction of the walk possible, said Anderson. News of the World By The ASSOCIATED PRESS Senate Committee Okays Formosa Defense Plan WASHINGTON — President Ei senhower’s fight-if-we-must de fense plan for Formosa drew a heavy vote of endorsement yester day from two key Senate commit tees—and hot criticism that it sig nals “preventive war.” In the first rumblings of a mo mentous Senate debate, Eisenhower supporters jumped up to declare the only purpose of the policy is peace, through a show of strength to discourage Red Chinese aggres sion. By a 27-2 vote, the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees approved and “related positions and territo ries” out of Communist hands. But in committee and on the Sen ate floor, a small but hard-hitting band of senators began a fight. They centered their fire on the “related positions” phrase and its implied authority to attack Red invasion forces on the Chinese mainland and to defend small is lands strung along the Chinese coast. “Put in plain English,” said Sen. Flandei’S (R-Vt), “this is preven tive war.” He told the*Senate he would vote against the resolution—the show- resolution down may not oome before the end of the week or later—although he voted in committee to send it to the to empower the President to use American men and weapons to keep Formosa, the Pescadores islands floor. i ★ ★ ★ TOKYO—The U.S. 18th Fighter-Bomber Wing, fly ing F86 Sabrejets, is moving from Okinawa and The Phil ippines to temporary duty on Formosa, the Far East Air Force announced yesterday. Gen. Earle E. Patridge said the first Sabrejets landed on Formosa yesterday “and . the remainder will be in place shortly.” ★ ★ ★ ROME—Italy will ask the United States soon for an in crease of modern armament to place this country on fighting footing with the other nations of the West’s European de fense line, a highly placed government source said. ★ ★ ★ FT. SILL, Okla.—A key prosecution witness at the general court-martial of Maj. Ambrose H. Nugent yes terday accused the artilleryman of upsetting escape plans of three enlisted men soon after their capture by the Communists in the Korean War. The testimony came from Sgt. Marvin Talbert, a 35-year old combat in fantryman from Albemarle,, N. C., and now stationed at Ft. Bragg, N. C. ★ ★ ★ AUSTIN—The highway department yesterday approved long-range plans for construction of 16 miles of four-lane' highway from Killeen to Belton. Action came after a public Hearing in which State Engineer D. C. Greer said that a four- lane divided highway is a must in order to reduce the pres ent high accident rate. ★ ★ ★ AUSTIN—A House appropriations subcommittee yesterday heard protests from junior college presidents and business managers over anticipated reductions in state per capita aid for junior college students. Education Group Will Wait To Propose Recommendation Budget Set Military Colleges Will Be Included The ROTC colleges of the nation still don’t know what provisions for college ROTC will be in any military manpower bill passed by Congress this session, but the military colleges, like A&M, have been assured that their needs will be consid ered. The American Council on Education, which met last week in Washington to consider forming a recommenda tion to Congress for including ROTC in any manpower bill, decided not to make the recommendation at this time, since they did not know exactly what Congress is considering. The Council of Military College Presidents, however, did make a recommendation to the ACE that military col leges be given definite status* in the plan. A&M President David H. Morgan, chairman of the Council of Military College Presidents, said that he had re ceived verbal assurance that their recommendation would be included in any recommendation from the ACE. “We’re more hopeful than we’ve ever been,” Morgan said. “We feel that the people who make the policy are considering the prob lems of military colleges.” A military college is one in which the ROTC students live un der military discipline and wear uniform all the time, like A&M, as differed from a civilian ROTC col lege, where students wear uniform only to drill and military class. Neither type of school was men tioned in Secretary of Defense Chaides Wilson’s proposed Nation al Reserve Plan. There is anoth er manpower bill scheduled to come up before Congress, but the contents of this'bill have' not been announced. The recommendation of the Council of Military College Pres idents, which was adopted by the ACE, read in part “that the Amer ican Council on Education strong ly recommends to the Department of Defense that military colleges be given definite status in the RO TC plan with full 1'ecognition for their intensive military indoctinn- ation and training program.” American Legion To Meet Tonight The A&M College post of the American Legion, Post 541, will meet tonight at 8 p.m. in the biol ogical sciences lecture room. Maj. H. O. Johnson of the air science department will speak on “The Air Force Concept of Lead ership as Taught to Senior ROTC Students.” Russell Injured In Foreign Work Dr. Dan Russell, who is on leave of absence from the rural sociology department to serve with the Foreign Operations admi nistration in Haiti, is now recover ing from the chest injury he re- cieved in December. Russell has left the U.S. Naval hospital at Bethesda, Md., and is now back in Haiti to recover from the injury. Russell slipped and fell on an iron brace on a transport ship while he was supervising the un loading of hurricane relief supplies from the United States. According to a recent letter to the agricultural economics and ru ral sociology department from him and Mrs. Russell, he is “recovering wonderfully,” and hopes to be back at his work with the FOA soon. Lutherans Install Church Officers Our Saviour’s Lutheran church installed newly elected councilmen, officers of the council, and officers of auxiliaries last Sunday. Councilmen are A. L. Giesen- schlag, Charles Haas, and L. E. Heamed. Officers of the council are Jesse Heine, chairman; E. J. Fuchs, vice-chairman; G. E. Jaehne, secretary; and Charles Haas, fi nancial secretary. Brotherhood officer’s are Otto Richter, president; Henry Adams, rice-president; R. E. Miller, sec retary; and Henry Englebrecht, treasurer. Women’s Missionary society offi cers are Mrs. E. J. Fuchs, presi dent; Mrs. L. E. Heame, vice-presi dent; Mrs. H. B. Sorensen, secre tary; and Mrs. Alvin Thieleman, treasurer. , Shepperd Set As Speaker For Banquet Texas Attorney General John Ben Shepperd will be the principal speaker at the initia tion banquet of Sigma Delta Chi, national professional journalistic fraternity, here Feb. 3 8. Twenty A&M students will be initiated into the organization at a banquet and ceremony in the Me morial Student Center that night. Master of ceremonies for the banquet will be Gen. Ike Ashburn, editor of Texas Parade magazine and former A&M commandant. Walter Humphries, editor of the Fort Worth Press and past nation al president of SDX, will be the initiating officer. He will be assisted by Arthur Laro, managing editor of the Houston Post; James Bryop, news director of WBAP and WBAP-TV; John Murphy, executive secretary of the Texas Daily Newspaper as sociation; and W. R. Beaumier, president of the Texas Pi'ess as sociation. For Talent Show The Memorial Student Center council approved Monday a budget for the largest Intercollegiate Tal ent show in A&M’s history. The council approved a $2,516.57 budget for the 14-school show, and authorized an additional $2,200 for the talent show committee to use to tiy to get a “big-name” master of ceremonies for the show. The $2,200 for the master of ceremonies will not be used unless necessary, and the council reserved the right to pass on the name of the person hired before final con tracts are signed. The talent show will be in the White coliseum this yeax*, with an estimated ticket sale of 5,000 seats. The talent show committee is counting on the master of cei’e- monies to draw a larger crowd than in the past. Last yeai’’s talent show operated on a budget of about $1,300, and di’ew a crowd of about 1,500 pex*- sons. This year’s show will be Fi-iday night, March 18. Auditions for the Small Blaze Damages Project House A fii'e about 12:15 p.m. yes terday caused slight damag-e to the bathroom of C-4 Project House. According to campus secur ity officers, the fire stai’ted around a built-in heater and did some damage to the wall. The apartment is occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Edwin P. Lloyd. Three College Station Fire department trucks answered the call. Police School Set Jan. 31 to Feb. 25 The tenth annual Texas Munici pal Police school will be held by the Texas engineering extension service Jan. 31 to Feb. 25. The school is designed to teach local law enforcement officers from throughout Texas how to deal with the public, said Wallace D. Beasley, cooridnator of the school. News Briefs JOE BELL, agricultural econom ics major from Celina, has been elected president of the Collin County Hometown club. Other of ficers are George Stevens, vice- president; and J. M. Wilson, sec retary-treasurer and reporter. S. A. LYNCH, head of the geol ogy department, has returned from a week in Guatemala, where he was the guest of the Secretary of Congress and a coffee plantation owner. Lynch was in Guatemala representing a group of Dallas businessmen interested in develop ing mineral resources. TWENTY-THREE members of the Building Products and Market ing club will make a field trip to the Southern Yellow Pine company at Diabol Feb. 14 and 15 to study the lumber industry. INFLUENZA was the leading disease in College Station last week, with 18 cases. There were 24 cases in Bryan, for a county total of 42. Other leading College Station diseases were chickenpox, nine cases, and diarrhea, seven. TODAY is the last day to join the army to be eligible for GI bill benefits. All men who enlist after today will not be allowed to receive benefit* from the bill. DR. W. A. PRICE, staff mem ber of the A&M Research founda tion, is one of 35 editors of a new international scientific journal, Quarternaria. The journal is pub lished in Rome and is devoted to the natural and cultural history of the Ice Age. THE BROWSING LIBRARY of the Memorial Student Center is making plans for leading authors to review their books here, said Paul Mason, chairman of the Browsing Library committee. The reviews will start next semester. College Receives Note of Thanks The college has received the following note from the family of James Glen Montgomery, A&M junior who died after a heart attack in class here Jan. 15: “The family of James Glenn Montgomery wishes to thank the College, the Faculty, and all the wonderful boys for the flowers, cards, letters, and other expressions of sym pathy at the loss of our loved one. You will always be re membered.” > The card is signed “Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Montgomery and Jack.” acts from other schools will start Feb. 1. Trips will be made to Southern Methodist university, the Universi ty of Texas, Baylor, Texas Chris tian university, Texas State Col lege for Women, Oklahoma univer sity, Oklahoma A&M, the Univer sity of Arkansas, Sam Houston State Teachers college, the Univer sity of Houston, Louisiana State university, Southwestern Louisiana institute, and North Texas State college. A&M will be represented by the winner of the Aggie Talent show. Mothers March Starts At Seven Monday Night With the sounding of cam pus sirens, the Mothers March on Polio will start Monday at 7. The drive, which will go on until 8, is the largest sin gle operation conducted during the March of Dimes. The Mothers March each year contributes about 26 per cent of the total proceeds collected for the drive, according to Mrs. Walter M. Heritage, chairman of the College Station Mothers March. “Each year the response for workers and for funds has been most gratifying in College Sta tion,” she said. “When a person gives his dimes and dollars, he is personally fighting this dread dis ease.” / More than 500 A&M Consolidat ed students -were given shots of gamma globulin as a preventative measure during last fall’s threat of a polio epidemic, she said. “To continue research, to provide the necessary care of stricken pa tients and to produce all of the serum needed this year,” she said, “we must not leave a dime or a dollar unturned until we drive out this killer once and for all.” “Leaving your porch light on is the signal for the mothers to col lect your donation,” said Mrs. Heri tage. “If no one has picked up your contribution by 8:30, you may call 6-2311 and your donation will be picked up by the National Guard.” The area captains for the city are Mrs. J. B. Baty, Mrs. S. E. Davidson, Mrs. J. D. Lindsey, Mrs. R. H. Shuffler, Mrs. W. S. Ed monds, Mrs. J. M. Blain and Mrs. W. A. Tarrow. Boy Scout troop 450, led by T/Sgt. T. M. Buford, will assist the mothers. Dairy Judgers To Enter Show A four-man junior dairy judging team will represent A&M at the Southwestern Livestock Exposition and Fat Stock show Jan. 31. The team is composed of Tommy Vought, Caroll Cooper, Charlie Briggs, and Sam Harris. A. L. Darnell of the dairy husbandry de partment is coach of the team. The team will judge at least eight classes of cattle at the Fort Worth show, Darnell said. A&M Will Host Astronomy Meet A&M will be host this weekend to a neighborhood meeting of the American Astronomical society for the Southwestern states. This is the first time such a meeting has been held here, accord ing to J. T. Kent of the mathema tics department, and representa tives from Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Louisiana will par ticipate. A&M men on the program in clude J. B. Coon, R. R. Shrode, Rob ert L. Smith, Dr. Peter Dehlinger, and Kent.