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Number 64: Volume 54
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1955
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News
of the
W oriel
By Th<* Associated Press
WASHINGIXIN— Supporters of
President Eisenhower’s foreign
trade program won a second-round
victory yesterday in the House
Rules Committee. The committee
voted 8-3 to send the controversial
program to the House floor Thurs-
d?ty and Friday under procedure
strictly limiting amendments.
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* BERN—A band of anti-Com-
munist Romanians boldly seized
the Red Romanian legation at
gun point here yesterday and
dragged traditionally neutral
Switzerland into the middle of
a cold war incident. The lega
tion chauffeur was wounded fa
tally in the attack.
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LAS VEGAS — The start of the
1955 atomic test series, already
delayed a day by high winds, re
mained doubtful yesterday. Test
chiefs scheduled a weather con
ference last night to determine
whether conditions would permit
firing of a tower shot today.
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WASHINGTON—Secretary of
Defense Charles E. Wilson said
yesterday he still thinks “we
are out ahead of the Russians”
in atomic weapons, and the
Russians know the
♦States is leading.
United
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GETTING READY—Rev runs and barks while the Fish drill team practices for the
shows they will put on after all home reviews this spring - . Bob Shearer, a Dallas journal
ism major, is commander of the 39-man team. All present and past members of the
Fish drill team are now authorized to wear a maroon and white diagonally striped rib
bon.
Corps Records Loss
Civilian Enrollment Rises
Singing Cadets
Start Thursday
On Tour North
The Singing Cadets will
leave at noon Thursday on a
tour that will carry them to
Dallas, Sherman and Abilene.
Fifty members are scheduled
to make the tour by chartered bus.
All three concerts are being
sponsored by the A&M Mothers
club in each of the cities. Hous
ing for the cadets is being fur
nished in each of the overnight
stops by the A&M Exes club and
the Mothers club.
The first concert will be in tbe
North Dallas high school auditor-
5um at 8 p.m. Thursday.
Friday the gi-oup will go to
Sherman for a concert in the city
auditorium that night. Saturday
morning the glee club will leave
for Abilene where they will present
the last concert of the tour in the
high school auditorium at 8 p.m.
* Sunday night the cadets are
scheduled to return to the campus.
Soloists to be featured on the
series of concerts include Martin
Burkhead, baritone; James Bond,
tenor; Edward Burkhead, tenor;
and Richard Platt, pianist.
Civilian student enrollment has
increased five per cent since the
start of school in September, ac
cording to enrollment figures re
leased yestei-day by the registrars
office.
As of Monday, the total enroll
ment of the college was 5,863, said
H. L. Heaton, registrar.’ Accoixl-
ing to tabulations completed yes
terday by the militai’y department,
there are 3,337 students in the
corps of cadets. This leaves 2,526
civilian students, or 43.08 per cent
of the total enrollment.
At the beginning of the school
year, the total enrollment was
6,252. This was broken down into
3,875 corps students and 2,377 civil
ian students. Percentagewise, this
is 38.01 per cent civilian students.
This gives the civilian students
a gain of 5.07 per cent of the total
em’ollment.
The total enrollment this semes
ter dropped 389, but this is nor
mal for the spring semester, Hea
ton said. He explained that this
was caused by several factors, in
cluding lai'ger number of midterm
graduates than incoming students.
“All colleges expei'ience . the
same thing,” said Heaton.
This time last year, there were
5,514 students' eni’olled here, rep
resenting a gain this year of 349.
Heaton said he did not know if
this was above or below the gains
by other schools.
AF Recruiters
To Re Here Soon
An air force recruiting team
from Houston’s Ellington air force
base will be here Thursday to try
to fill 55 vacancies in that city’s
8706th pilot training wing, a re
serve unit.
The unit meets one weekend a
month and a student does not have
to be a Houston resident to sign
up, although the unit prefers per
sons who Uve within 100 miles of
Houston.
The team will stay here through
Saturday.
IXo Wonder
Things Were
So Quiet
The original chimes of Ag-
gieland—the laundry whistle—
will once more be heard over
the campus.
It seems that officials want
ed to see if anyone would miss
it if not blown.
“We i*eceived quite a few
complaints about not hearing
it,” said J. K. Walker, super
intendent of building and col
lege utilities department. He
said the whistle was supposed
to be returned to use yester
day.
Rumor has it that it was
professors who called in be
cause students were not wak
ing up in time to make their
classes.
Bill T o Increase T uition
T oSeePossib I e Revision
“I have heard that some of the
schools had an inci’ease, but I have
not made a survey of them,” he
said.
Besides the increase in the num
ber of civilian students, there was
also a drop in the number of stu
dents in the corps of cadets. Dur
ing the first semester, 133 students
dropped out of the corps, and
another 314 were lost at midterm.
This, also, was caused by many
things, the military department
said. Among the causes were the
107 cadets that were commissioned
at midterm.
The complete figures show that
the civilian students have gained
149 since September, and the corps
lost 447.
Heaton said another tabulation
on the enrollment would probably
be ready sometime within a week,
but he indicated the figures were
not expected to change too much.
Honor Code
For AH Schools
Being Prepared
The Intercouncil committee
voted yesterday to form an
honor code for the entire
school.
A committee, composed of
a member from each school coun
cil, is now working on the code,
which may be presented at the
next meeting in March.
The Intercouncil committee is
made up of members from each
of the four schools of the college,
chosen by the various school coun
cils.
Any honor code chosen must be
appi’oved by the committee, and
then taken to the student councils
of the schools of the college for
approval.
According to Bill Coppage, com
mittee president, the honor code
will have a council to judge the
merits of each case brought before
it. The code is not to intei*fere
with the duties of any professor.
They will still be responsible for
the conduct of their classes, he
said.
The new code will be uniform for
the entire school. Coppage had ex
plained eai'lier that most of the
student councils were seeking an
honor' code, but that they were all
different.
At the present time the School
of Veterinary Medicine has a code
in operation, the School of Agri
culture has a code partially in op
eration, and the School of Engi
neering has proposed a code. The
School of Arts and Sciences has
no code proposed or in operation.
Thumbnail Sketches--2
RE Week Leaders
(Editor’s note: This is the
second of a series of thumbnail
sketches on leaders who will hold
group discussions in dormitories
.assigned to them during Relig
ious Emphasis Week Feb. 20-25
following the evening meal.)
Rev. Charles W. Williams, pas
tor* of Trinity Methodist church
in Beaumont, will live in Leggett
hall and will lead the forums and
discussion groups for Leggett and
Milner hall in the Leggett lounge.
He will be available for conferences
during tbe week.
* Williams is a graduate of Ste
phen F. Austin State college and
Perkins School
of Theology at
Southern Meth
odist university
and was licen
sed to preach
in the Metho
dist church in
1946. He has
Williams been pastor of
churches in Chireno, Joaquin, Chan
dler, Canton and associate pastor
in Tyler.
He served 31 months during
World War II and was discharged
in 1946. He has been pastor of the
Trinity Methodist church since it
was completed about a year ago
and now has a congregation of
more than 500 members.
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Col. James C. Bean, chaplain of
the Fourth Army at Fort Sam
Houston, will live in dormitory 5
and will lead the forums and dis
cussion groups for dormitories 5
and 7 in the dormitory 5 lounge.
He will be a-
vailable for
conferences.
Bean at
tended North
western univer
sity where he
received his B
A degree, then
attended the
Garrett Biblical Institute Graduate
School of Theology at Northwest
ern, the Chaplain School at Har
vard university, the Command and
General Staff school at Fort Lea
venworth, the Arctic Indoctrina
tion school at Big Delta, Alaska
and received his DD degree from
DePauw university.
He has been Fourth Army Chap
lain since July 1953.
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Bean
Abilene, will live in dormitory 2
and will lead the forums and dis
cussion groups for dormitories 2
and 4 in the dormitory 2 lounge.
He will be available for confer
ences during the w’eek.
Price attended Enid Business
college, Oklahoma Baptist univer
sity, Chicago Conservatory of Mu
sic and the Southw’estem Baptist /
Theological seminary. In 1954
Howard Payne college of Brown-
wood conferred
on him the hon
orary degree of
Doctor of Di- I
vinity.
He is a mem
ber of the Abi
lene Chamber
o f Commerce
Price an( j serves on j
the advisory board of the Taylor!
County Chapter of the American
Red cross. He is 1954 chairman
of the Abilene Community chest
and last year w'as chairman of the
county cancer crusade.
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Rev. Albert J. Ettling, pastor of
the St. George’s Episcopal church
in Texas City, will live in dormi-
Elections Fill
Senate Vacancies
Three vacancies in the Student
Senate were filled by elections held
yesterday. The results are as fol
lows :
Mitchell hall, D. C. Boehnke won
with 23 votes; T. T. Elrod, 20;
and A. J. Goldstein, 13.
Law' hall, G. D. Grossholz won
having 41 votes. Five students
received w'rite-in votes. L. A. De-
Haes, nine votes; S. F. McQuhae,
four; A. E. Gamer, Jerry Ford
and M. D. McWilliams, one.
The winner for class of ’56 sena
tor was C. E. Stinnett jr. with 28
votes. The other candidates w’ere
F. E. Patterson, 15; Richard Tach-
ibana, 10; W. E. Shackelford and
R. M. Boone, nine; W. T. Ingram,
six; R. C. Yates, four; W. K. Kuy-
kenrall and R. E. Good, two, C.
D. Stringer, one, and I. J. Klien-
man.
Quintet Will Play
For Recital Series
The Memorial Student Center
Recital series will present the
Houston Music Guild quintet to
night, playing the music of Bee
thoven, Honegger, and Schumann.
The program, a regular feature
of the Recital series, will be in
the MSC ballroom at 8 p.m. Ad
mission will be by either Great
Issues-Recital series season tickets
or single 75-cent tickets bought
at the door.
The Houston Music Guild quin
tet, w’ell-knowm for its regular se
ries in Houston and guest appeai'-
ances in that area, has played to
gether for six years.
Some of the members are Andor
Toth, violin, assistant conductor of
the Houston Symphony; Raphael
Fliegel, violin, concertmaster of
the Houston Symphony; and Mar
ion Davies Bottler, cello, principal
celloist of the Houston Symphony.
House Panel Sends
Draft to Sub-Group
Based on AP Reports
The Education committee of the Texas House of Rep
resentatives yesterday sent the bill that would double tuition
to state-supported schools to a sub-committee for possible re
visions, after a stormy public hearing.
The committee decided to allow a three-man sub-com
mittee to study possible revisions in the bill, which now pro
vides for raising tuition from $25 a semester to $50 a semes
ter. The bill also provides for increases in out-of-state tu
ition, medical and dental school tuition, and art, music and
drama tuition.
Six University of Texas students appeared at the hear
ing to speak against the bill, which was proposed by Repre-
♦sentative J. O. Gillham of
Brownfield.
About 50 other University
students crowded into the
hearing room.
Representative Jerry Sadler of
Percilla, a member of the Educa
tion committee, led strong opposi
tion to the bill. Sadler’s motion to
kill the proposal failed by one vote.
“A constitutional amendment
created state schools so the poor
children could go to school,” Sad
ler said. “We should be px*oud that
higher education in Texas costs
less than in any other state.”
Gillham, author of the bill, said
“We all recognize the need for
more funds, and I feel the student
himself should bear more of the
cost of the increased expenses.”
‘Closing The Gap*
Gillham said at a committee
hearing on the bill last w r eek that
his proposal would go a long way
towai’d closing the gap between
the higher education schools bud
get x’equests and the Legislative
Budget boax-d’s recommendation.
The college x*equests totaled $54
million, and the Budget boaixl rec
ommended $29 million.
Before the committee hearing
yestexday, Sadler told State Sena
tor Brownrigg Dew r ey that the bill
wmuld either “be killed in commit
tee or killed on the house floor.”
Dew T ey told The Battalion Mon
day that thei'e was as yet not
much discussion of the bill among
the legislatox-s, because it was still
in the committee.
“But I expect there will be a lot
of discussion on it when it reaches
the floor of the house,” he said.
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When asked about the bill, M.
T. Hai-rington, chancellor of the
A&M System, said “I don’t want
to comment on it.”
He said he would prefer to wait
until the Legislature had acted to
comment on the proposal.
Melody Maids
Will Open
Talent Show
Thirty-seven singing girls
from Beaumont, the Melody
Maids, have been picked as
the first act for the Inter
collegiate Talent show here
Max*ch 18.
The girls will present the open
ing and closing xxumbers of the
show', and are the only act defi
nitely selected so far.
Students from the Memorial Stu
dent Center Talent Show commit
tee have been making audition
trips to 14 schools this month to
pick other acts for the show.
Still undecided is master of cei'e-
monies fox* the show. The com
mittee w r ants to get a big-name
pex-former, and has been allotted
up to $2,000 to hire one.
The show will be in White Coli
seum, and expected ticket sale is
5,000. seats.
Beaumont’s Melody Maids, a non-
pi’ofit teen-age gilds organization,
has traveled all over the world,
singing for seiwice men and civic
gi'oups. It was first ox-ganized in
1941.
The gh-ls are selected primaidly
for their poise, conduct, and good
gx-ooming, without too much sti'ess
put on singing ability. They de
sign their own costumes and scen
ery, and ari’ange most of their
numbers.
Schools from which acts will
come include Southern. Methodist
university, the Univei-sity of Tex
as, Baylox*, Texas Chidstian uni-
versity, Texas State College for
Women, Oklahoma university, Ok
lahoma A&M, the University of
Ax-kansas, Sam Houston State
Teachexs college, the University of
Houston, Louisiana State univer
sity, Southwestern Louisiana insti
tute, and North Texas State col
lege.
A&M will be i*epi*esented by the
winner of the Aggie Talent show.
Weather Today
The weather forecast for today
is little change in temperature and
clear skies late this afternoon.
Yesterday’s high w r as 74, low' 59.
The temperature at 10 this moim-
ing was 64.
Dr. Sterling L. Price, pastor of tory 15 and lead the forums and
the University Baptist church at | (See RE WEEK on Page 2)
SOUTHERN BELLES—Like a scene from “befo* de VVah,”
the Melody Maids of Beaumont line up in crinoline and
hoop skirts before an old Southern mansion in Beaumont.
The girls will be the opening and closing act of the Inter
collegiate Talent show here March 18.