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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1955)
t COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1955 Price Five Cents Faculty Hears President Dulles Clarifies Formosa Defense STATE OF THE COLLEGE—President David H. Morgan makes a point in his “state of the college” talks to the gen eral faculty meeting yesterday.- NEW YORK—</P>—Secretary of State Dulles said last night the United States does not intend to defend the Chinese coastal islands “as such” but will watch for any Communist effort to use them as a springboard for an attack on Formosa. At the same time, Dulles appeal ed to the Peiping regime to re consider its tumdown of U. N. cease-fire talks. The critical issue is not the Reds’ desire for the Nationalist-held is lands, Dulles suggested, but the use of force to get them. “It is hardly to be expected that the Chinese Communists will re nounce their ambitions,” he said. “However, might they not renounce their efforts to realize their goal<p by force?” In a major address to 1,600 per- Thumbnail Sketches--3 RE Week Leaders (Editor’s note: This is the third of a series of thumbnail sketches on leaders who will hold group discussions Feb. 20- 25 in dormitories assigned to them during Religious Emphasis Week. The meetings will fol low the evening meal.) Rabbi Yonah H. Geller of t-he B’nai Israel synagogue in Corpus Christi will live in dormitory 9 and lead the forums and dis cussion groups for dormitory 9 during the week. He also will be avail able for confer ences. G^ler Geller comes from seven generations of rabbis and is one of the few native born Texans who has entered the rab binate. His grajidfather was the fimt rabbi in Galveston. He received his BA degree from Yeshiva university and was ordain- »d, from the Isaac Elchanan Theol- Junto Committee Open For Members The Memorial Student Center Junto committee has invited all students who would like to become members of the student-faculty discussion group to attend a meet ing at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the MSC senate chamber. At the group’s meetings, as ex plained by chairman Bill Willis, students and faculty members al ternate in presenting papers on vai-ied topics, sometimes contro versial. After the paper is read, the group discusses it. John Kirkpatrick, a junior his tory major, will present a paper on F. Scott Fitzgerald at the Fri day meeting. ogical seminary. In June 1954 he received his MA degree from Texas A&I college and was elected to membership in Phi Alpha Theta, a national honorary history frater nity. Geller is a member of the board of directors of the United Fund, the Corpus Christi Downtown Ki- wanis club and the Jewish Com munity council and is chaplain of the Corpus Christi Masonic lodge. ★ ★ ★ Rev. Ross C. Coggins, associate in the department of student work in Dallas, will live in dormitory 11 and lead the fonams and dis cussion groups in the band room of dormi tory 11. He will be available for conferences dur ing the- week. Coggins Coggins was graduated from Baylor university in 1948 with a BA degree and re ceived his BD degree at South western Baptist seminary in 1953. He also has completed residence work on his doctorate. Since graduation he has been pastor of the First Baptist church in Woodson, student secretary and Bible teacher at Texas State Col lege for Women and his present associateship position. ★ ★ ★ * Maj. Harry A. McKnight, chap lain in office of Chief of Air Force chaplains in Washington, will live in dormitory 6 and will lead the forums and discussion groups for dormitoi-ies 6 and 8 in the lounge of dormitory 6. He will be avail able for conferences during the week. McKnight was graduated from Wheaton c o l - lege in 1938 with a BA de gree and re ceived his ThM degi’ee from Central Baptist McKnight seminary in Kansas City in 1941. At present he is assigned to the office of Chief of Air Force chaplains. He was an Air Force chaplain from April 1942 to November 1945 with service in the southwest Pa cific which ended with his assign ment as Deputy Staff Chaplain, Far East Air forces. After his discharge he became pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist in Kansas City until he was recalled to active duty in 1950. ' He was general superintendent, (See RE WEEK on page 2) sons at a dinner of the foreign policy association, Dulles said the United States “will be alert to sub sequent Chinese Communist ac tions, rejecting for ourselves any initiative of warlike deeds.” In Washington, Chairman George (D-Ga) of the Senate Foreign Re lations committee praised Dalles’ presentation of policy. George said it made clear that United States forces “Will move in” if the defense of Quemoy and Matsu “is vital to the defense of Foi’- mosa and the Pescadores.” George said that if the United States said flatly they were to be surrendered, then the Chinese Reds would make no concessions toward a cease-fire or other peaceful set tlement. On the other hand, the senator said announcement of a policy of defending Quemoy and Matsu re gardless of their strategic value to the defense of Formosa would scare away some of America’s allies, possibly the British. However, Sen. Humphrey (D- Minn) said the United States ought to say in so many words whether it intends to defend Quemoy and Matsu. Sen. Morse (Ind-Ore) said he found “some doubletalk” in Dulles’ speech. Weather Today The weather outlook for today is partly cloudy and* a little cooler. Yesterday’s high was 72, low 51. The temperature at 10:16 this morning was 58. Library To Add Additional Seats New furniture that will be plac ed in the library after installation of air conditioning will .seat an additional 150 persons, according to R. A. Houze, librarian. New fluorescent lighting and moi-e book shelves also will be added by BC&U, he said. Plans include moving reserve books to the first floor. • Barring unforeseen circumstan ces, the air conditioning should be finished by March 1, Houze said. Rearrangement of the new furni ture in all the rooms should ac commodate additional readers, he added. Detroit Company Offers Scholarship The Square D company of De troit, Mich., will again offer a $500 scholarship to sophomore stu dents in four types of engineer ing, according to E. E. McQuillen, executive director of the develop ment fund. Students of electrical, mechani cal, industrial or general engineer ing will be eligible for the scholar ship. They will be selected on the basis of general activities and po tentialities. Application blanks may be se cured from the heads of depart ments or from R. G. Perryman, as sociate registrar and secretary of the faculty scholarships commit tee. Jerry D. Ramsey of Amarillo and Herbert (Bud) Whitney of Big Spring are the two previous winners . High School Day To Draw 1,000 Bizzell To Elect New Councilman A new civilian councilman for Bizzell will be elected about the first of next week, according to Bob Murray, ci vilian counselor. At this time two floor rep resentatives will be elected for College View, two for I.eg- gett, two for Bizzell and one for dormitory 17. About 1,000 high school students from Texas and neighboring states are expected here for A&M’s an nual High School and Sports day March 5. The program for the high school seniors will include talks by Pres ident David H. Morgan and Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant, a show ing of the “We Are The Aggies” film, and a tour of the college. The sports day activities will include baseball, swimming, tennis, golf, and an intrasquad football game. The morning program begins at 9 a.m. in Guion hall. After the | talks and the.film, the students will j jj be taken on tours of the campus J by representatives from the stu- j dent councils. This year for the first time, it is planned to have some faculty and staff members be in their of fices to explain their departments to the touring students, according to Pete Hardesty, business man ager of student activities and di rector of the High School day pio- gram. The baseball, swimming, tennis, and golf activities will be that j afternoon, with the football game | at night. The sports activities are sponsored by the T association. Hometown clubs are responsible The only cost to the high school student will be his noon meal, which will cost 50 cents if he eats in the dining hall. ‘‘State of the College/ Told by Morgan President David H. Morgan’s “state of the college” speech yesterday gave the college’s faculty a complete run down on Texas A&M present and future, including legisla tive proposals affecting the school, the status of military colleges, enrollment figures, and salary schedules. Morgan spoke for an hour to about GOO faculty members in Guion hall. The general faculty meetings are held near the first of every semester. Morgan first told the faculty members about the pro posals now in the state Legislature for establishing a per manent Texas Commission on Higher Education and for broadening the investment area of the permanent building fund. The TCHE would be a cen tral agency for all state-sup ported colleges, with a gov erning board over the present governing - boards. This bill also carries in it a recommendation for a new for mula method for financing higher education. The other bill would allow a wider range of investment for the permanent building fund, giving more interest. Speaking on the status of mili tary colleges, Morgan told the fac ulty about the efforts of the Coun cil of Military College Presidents to get governmental recognition of the military colleges. Decisive Year “This is the decisive year,” he said. “If no recognition is given to military colleges by the depart ment of defense, it will be ex tremely difficult to continue the organization of our colleges.” He said that so far there had been “no definite progress” on getting this recognition. In listing bow the other eight military schools were reacting to what he called “the military col lege pi’oblem,” he said three' had become coeducational, another was contemplating coeducation, one may be reduced to junior college status, one is contemplating open ing its doors to girls, one is con cerned over unfilled barracks, and one is satisfied that it can go on. Speaking on A&M, Morgan said “The army says A&M is a military school because we want to be, and I agree with that. Although I be lieve we should provide a well- rounded civilian student program, I believe the corps is the back bone of A&M.” Enrollment Figures Next Morgan explained enroll ment figures to the group, saying that “the people you have been hearing say ‘all the students are dropping ROTC’ just don’t know the figures.” He said that only a few students who would be qualified to be in the corps had not elected to join it. He also said an increased en rollment in the graduate school was increasing the total number of civilian students. Morgan said that civilian stu dents numbered 37 per cent of the (See MORGAN, page 2) Mr., Mrs. To Have Ball Saturday The Maroon and White Ball, Aggie married students dance, is to be in the ballroom of the Memorial Student Center Sat urday at 8:30 p.m. The dance will feature mu sic by the Capers Combo, a floor show with Master of Ceremonies Charlie Parker, re freshments and the announce ment of the winner of the Mrs. Texas A&M contest. Tickets for the dance are on sale at the main desk of the MSC for 50 cents per couple. The ticket money will be used to pay for the band and the dance decorations. The dance is to be semi-formal. The Bat talion and the MSC Dance group are jointly sponsoring the affaii*. RV’s To March At Mardi Gras Next Tuesday The Ross Volunteers will leave this weekend for the Mardi Gras where they will be the official honor escort in the parade for King Rex, king of the celebration, Joe Bob Walk er, RV commander, said yesterday. The Rex parade, which will be held Tuesday, is one of 10 similar events on the Mardi Gras program. It will be the main and final parade. The A&M New Orleans club will entertain the RV’s with a lunch eon Monday, and they will be guests at the King Rex ball Tues day night following the parade. Walker said. Ninety-two RV’s, accompanied by Maj. H. S. Thigpen of the mili tary science department and Maj. O. H. Franks of the air science department, will make the trip. The RV’s will march 83 blocks in the parade, Walker said. It will start about 9:30 a.m. and will last until mid-afternoon. Other required formations, Walk er said, will include breakfast at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday and Wednesday. They will leave by noon Wednes day. SLC Agenda W. L. Penberthy, secretary of the Student Life committee, has requested all members of the com mittee to submit items for the agenda of the next meeting by 5 p.m. Tuesday. The next meeting will be held Feb. 28 at 4:30 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center. Big Highway Planned For Study State The state of Texas will be used as a king-sized laboratory for a year-long study of one of the na tion’s most troublesome highway problems, according to M. T. Har rington, chancellor of the A&M system. The study of land values in re lation to modem highway construc tion, will be made by the system’s Texas Transportation institute, co- opei'ating with the Texas Highway department. A $20,000 grant-in- aid was recently given for the work by the Automotive Safety founda tion of Washington, D. C. The cost of land to construct freeways and by-passes to relieve congested traffic in cities is often very high, since much of this con- struction must be done on or near lands heavily developed for indus try or as residential sections, Har rington said. The cost of such land, its value before and after construction of improved highways, and the need for a standard finan cial policy on right-of-way pur chase make the Texas study of na tional importance, he added. Texas has 3,500,000 motor ve hicles, is fifth in passenger car registration and second in number of trucks, according to the 1954 report of the Automobile Manufac- turers association. The rapid ex pansion of Texas population and increasing numbers of motor ve hicles on its highways make the state an ideal laboratory for the proposed study. Increased Costs A generation ago right-of-way purchase was usually a minor item in highway construction costs. Now, in metropolitan areas, it often costs nearly as much to buy the road site as it does to build it. In a few instances it has cost as much, and more, than all other construction expenses, said Har rington. The land value of property lo cated along new highways has jumped considerably, and some au thorities have suggested a need for special assessments on such prop erties to help pay the cost of the highway construction that caused the increases. Thomas H. MacDonald, research engineer for the TTI, and for more than 30 years chief of the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads, said that j the study will attempt to determine what patterns for inci*eased land values exist as the result of high way construction. The study will also be concerned with the changes in use of lands near such highways. wmt - 4.i^_]i nlaver ox the xlarleir Reece (Goose) Tatum, fabulous clown-bask Kertnedy calls a foul or p-ives out with a pained expression as refei e Trotters filled White col- Globetrotter , gi Tatum’s fingers nearly span the ba J 1- ) , t t h e philadeplhia Sphas for inviting the students and form- him. ( Not ® j 1 ®. t time j n its history last f s H ^ h ,r* rcury s in the first game, er students wilt proride uwnspor-1 jseum downed th. Toledo Mercurya Wend land Elected Jimmy Wendland was elected spring semester president of the Agricultural Economics club at a meeting this week. Other officers elected were Thurman Johnson, vice-president; Tommy Holmig, secretary; Brad Crockett, treasur- | er; and Gil Weaver, reporter. The | next meeting will be March 8. tation, Hardesty said.