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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.