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r-w~ii/ irj| Ji f # The Battalion Number 66: Volume 64 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1955 Price Five Cents Morgan Reception For RE Leaders Scheduled Sunday Religious Emphasis week begins Sunday when President and Mrs. David H. Morgan entertain the visiting leaders at their home, and continues through all the next weiik with a main talk each morn ing and dormitory discussion groups each night. i he Rt. Rev. John E. Hines, Episcopal bishop coadjutor of Tex as, will give the main talk each morning in Guion Hall. Monday’s talk will be at 11, Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s at 10, and Thursday’s and Friday’s at 9. Classes, will be dismissed for the talks, and professors have been asked not to give major quizzes during the week. Fourteen dormitory leaders will hold discussion groups in the dor mitories after the evening meal, with leaders also provided for mar ried students and faculty. These men will also be available foi counseling. Breakfast for the RE leaders will be each morning at 7:30 in the Memorial Student Center dining room and the noon meal will be in Sbisa dining hall. Local ministers, interfaith coun cil members, and student leaders have been invited to these meals The Interfaith council, composed of student repiesentatives from all denominations, sponsors RE week. Many of the leaders will deliv er Sunday sei'mons at local churches. In addition to thumbnail sketches appearing earlier m the week on RE leaders who will hold group iscUsisons, these leaders complete the group: Hines received his BA from the University of the South in Se- wanee and his BD from the Vir ginian Theological seminary in Alexandria. He has served as as sistant of Church of St. Michael and St. George in St. Louis; r< tor of Trinity church in Hannibal, Miss., St. Paul’s church in Au gusta and Christ church in Hous ton. He was consecrated bishop coadjuter of the Diocese of Texas in 1945. He is a member of the Univei'- sity of the South board of I’egents; chairman of the Episcopal Then logical Seminary of the Southwest board of trustees; chairman of St. Stephen’s Episcopal school board of trustees and president of the seventy province of the Episcopal church in the United States. STUDENT SENATE ASKS EXEMPTIONS A SPOT!—Ross Volunteers Frank Westmoreland, left, and Burton Young, right, check over their RV uniforms before leaving for New Orleans and the Mardi Gras parades. The RV’s will be honor guard for King Rex next week. Spring Season Social Events Planned Here Rt. Rev. John E. Hines Convocation Speaker By ROGER E. CO AD Battalion Staff Writer The Aggies will be mighty busy partying this spring semester, with the many activities that have been planned to offer a vainety of en tertainment. Rue Pinalle will start the social ball rolling March 4, and the next night Bill Turner’s Aggieland oi 1 - chestra will play for the Fresh man ball. Cattlemen’s ball, pi'esented by Saddle and Sirloin club, is sche duled for March 12; the Aggie Players will give performances of “Life with Father” on March 14 16. _ The Memorial Student Center sponsoring the employees dinner ★ ★ ★ Rev. Robert Breihan, associate director of the Wesley Bible Chair and Foundation at the University of Texas, will live in Walton hall and will lead the forums and dis- russion groups in the lounge. He will be available for conferences during the week. Breihan received his BS degree |M| from the Uni versity of Texas and his BD de gree from the Southern Meth- | odist University Perkins School of Theology. I For one year he Breihan acte das asso ciate director of Wesley Bible Chair and - Foundation at East Tex as State College before assuming his present position. * * * S. Leonard Doerpinghaus, pro fessor of biology at Texas Luth eran college, will live in dormitory 14 and will lead the forum and dis cussion groups for dormitory 14 and Company D of dormitory 17 in dormitory 14 lounge. He will be available for conferences. Doerpinghaus attended Smith college in Northhampton, Mass., I where he received his MA degree and has worked on his doctorate at Ohio State, Michigan State and - the University of Texas. A pic- (See RE WEEK, Page 2) * Nai'al Command Offers Training Engineering, physics, chemistry, geology, biology, and meteorology students can combine on-the-job training at $208 to $365 a month SDX Fraternity Has Initiation, Dinner Tonight Twenty-one junior and sen ior students will be initiated into Sigma Delta Chi, the na tional professional journalism fraternity, at the A&M chap ter’s installment at 6:30 tonight in the Memorial Student Center. Students to be initiated are Kar ri Baker, Robert Boriskie, Ralph Cole, James Collins, Edward Fries, Bill Fullerton, Ronald Greathouse, William Holloway, Jon Kinslovv, Alfred McAfee, Dolph Moten, Phil ip McNemer, John Nelms, Allen Pengelly, Calvin Pigg, Paul Sav age, Don Shepard, Ray Smith, James Tyree, Bill Thomas and Jerry Wizig. About four or five professional members also will be initiated. After the initiation, an installa tion banquet will be held at 7:30 at the MSC. Walter Humphrey, | editor of the Fort Worth Press, will be master of ceremonies and John Ben Shepperd, attorney gen eral of Texas, will be main speak er. Other speakers scheduled include President David H. Morgan; Ross Strader, head of student publica tions; A. Pat Daniels of the SDX association; Gene Robins, Gulf Coast Professional chapter of SDX; Donald D. Burchard, head of the A&M journalism depart- j ment; DeWitt Reddick of the Uni versity of Texas; Ralph Cole, stu dent president of the new chap- dance and the Intei*collegiate Tal ent show March 17 and 18, respec tively. After the talent show the second Rue Pinalle will be held. March 19 is the date set for Jun ior prom and banquet. The Combat ball and Rue Pin alle, March 25, Military ball the next day and Singing Cadets con cert on March 27 will end the month’s social activities. The date for the “Caine Mutiny Court Martial,” originally sched uled for March 24, is not certain because of their change in pei’son- nel. Aggie Muster will be April 21, followed by the Cotton ball Apial 29, and the Hilliel club dance the following night. May 6 will be the first presenta tion of the annual Aggie Follies and day after will be open house, all college dance, and the last showing of the Follies. The' parents will be at Aggie land on their special day, Sunday May 8. Civilians should have a gay time at their ball May 14, preceding the Senior Ring dance May 21. May 27 will be an important day in the lives of many Aggies. Things planned for that day include com mencement, baccalaureate, com missioning, and Final ball. To end the season’s official so cial fling, on May 28 the Ag’s will end the year with the Final Review. Big Business Short Course Ends Sautrday The third annual Executive Development course, consider ed the most successful ever held, ends Saturday morning in the Memorial Student Cen ter. During the three week course twenty nine selected representa tives of southwestern industnes listened to national authorities dis cuss the current economic and in dustrial situation as a background for intensive study of specific in dustrial problems of the southwest. Selected by their organizations, the registrants have heard out standing speakei's which included Ralph Delahaye Paine ji\, publish er of Fortune magazine and vice- president of Time Inc.; Larry L. Ellis, partner in Booz, Allen and Hamilton of Chicago; Thomas H. MacDonald, co-chairman of the Highway Research Center located on the campus and former chief of the U. S. Bureau of Public roads; Watrous H. Irons, pi’esident of the Federal Reserve bank of Dallas and J. B. Thomas, president of the Texas Electric Seiwice com pany of Fort Worth. F. C. Bolton, president-emeritus of A&M, has served as director of the coui'se and T. W. Leland, head of the business administration de partment, has been coordinator for | the class sessions. Enlists Aid Of Student Councils The Student Senate last night decided to continue to “fight” for the return of exemptions, and enlisted the ai& of representatives from all the student school councils to help reinstate the system of exempting the upper fourth of each class from final exams. The senate rejected a report from its exemption com mittee, in which the committee recommended that no further effort be made to reinstate exemptions. The committee’s recommendation was based on an inter view with Dean of the College J. P. Abbott. Abbott, accord ing to committee chairman Glenn Buell, said there was “vir tually no hope” of returning the exemption system, and listed ♦the Academic council’s rea sons for doing away with the International Cooperation Helps A&M Research Worker Some People Should Stay In Bed . . . Students who live in dormi tories that have night latches on the doors know how it feels to lock yourself out of the room. Generally it requires a trip to the housemaster’s I’oom to get a pass key. However, one morning this week a student in Pui’year hall locked himself out of his room, and he was hurrying around trying to get a pass key so he could get into his room and go to his 8 a.m. class. “Go see the housemaster,” one student said, in an attempt to give help to the stricken student. “I am the housemaster,” the student replied. He was Tom Ross, veterinary medicine ma jor from Beaumont. International coopei-ation has en abled an A&M researcher to com plete two years’ work in only a little more than a season. Marc G. Davenport of the agri cultural engineering department has been working on an experi mental crushing machine to be used in the fight against the pink bollworm in cotton. He used the machine during the Texas cotton harvest. However, by the end of the season one major change was needed, and under nor mal conditions, Davenport would have had to wait until next season to test it in use. Through cooperation with Mexi co he was able to move it to Valles, on the Pan-American high way in the state of San Luis Po- tose, Mexico. The city is in the tropical zone where two crops are grown per year. At Valles he tested the machine again, and now will have until the Texas cotton harvest to make fur ther changes and modifications— placing him a year ahead of where he would have been without Mexi co’s cooperation. News of the World with their academic studies under | ter; J. B. Hervey, Former Students association; and Victor Bluedom, executive director of SDX. a program offered by the Potomac River Naval command. The plan, called the Student Aid Trainee program, offers jobs dur ing either the regular academic year or the summer to students who qualify by taking civil service examinations in their fields. Additional information can be obtained from the oceanography department. Weather Today The weather outlook for today is a continued low overcast with little change in temperature. Vesterday’s high was 75, low 50. The temperature at 11:15 this | morning was 66. By The ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON—Britain announced yesterday she has solved the secret of the hydrogen bomb and is proceeding imme diately to become the third nation producing H-bombs. Prime Minister Churchill’s government disclosed Britain has the H-bomb know-how along with the United States and pre sumably Russia. The disclosure came in an almost casual reference buried in a white paper on defense. ★ ★ ★ AUSTIN—The state’s general revenue fund went into the red yesterday, but Treasurer Jesse James said there won’t be any “hot” pay checks. Arrangements have been worked out with banks to honor state salary and other warrants at face value. ★ ★ ★ NEW YORK—Navy Secretary Charles E. Thomas ex pressed belief yesterday the Communists are avoiding war in the Formosa strait because they can not cope with American seapower. “For the first time in this cold war siege, they came face to face wdth the harsh realities of seapower at^the coastline of the Formosa Strait’s 100 miles of open sea, he said in a prepared address. ★ ★ ★ PARIS—Christian Pineau finished preliminary work yesterday on his effort to end France’s 18-day Cabinet crisis. He faces his final test today—approval by the National Assembly. ★ ★ ★ LONDON—Secretary of State Dulles’ foreign policy speech was viewed critically in Britain yesterday—as a spark endangering the Formosan powder keg. Britons were dis mayed at Dulles’ hint the Americans might decide to defend Quemoy and Matsu Islands to shield Formosa. Officials left no doubt they would continue to insist that the Nationalist Chinese turn over the offshore Chinese islands, within easy striking distance from the mainland, to the Chinese Commun ists. if if 'k AUSTIN—Texas, claimed by the Daughters of the American Revolution to be the only state without a statue of George Washington, joins the other states Sunday. The DAR will dedicate a George Washington statue on the University of Texas campus. Newspaper Clinic Will Begin Today Association Names Esten Secretary C. K. Esten of the English de partment, director of the Aggie Players, has been named secretary of the Texas Educational Theater association. The association, which is affili ated with the Texas Education as sociation, is composed of the di rectors of dramatic departments in Texas colleges. Esten was elected at a meeting held here last weekend, at which the group’s 20 members pai'ticipat- ed in round table discussions on setting up basic requirements for public school stages. A session on press photography this afternoon will mai'k the be ginning of the sixth annual News paper Clinic and Mechanical con ference, jointly sponsored by the Texas Press association and the journalism department. This ses sion included photographing, pro cessing and reproducing newspa per photographs. Tuesday Deadline On Fiscal Fees Tuesday is the last day to pay second installment fees to the fis cal office. The total due is $46.80, which is bi’oken into $34.45 for board, $9.35 for room rent and $3 for laundry. The payment covers the period from Feb. 22 to March 22. A $1 fine is assessed for each day the payment is late. system. The student Engineering and Agriculture councils have already passed resolutions request ing reinstatement of the system. The senate voted to ask represen tatives from these two councils and the Ai’ts and Sciences and Veterinary councils, to join them in asking exemptions. The senate also referred to this committee a motion that the ex amination period be lengthened to two weeks, and asked the commit tee to consider some plan of re scheduling examination periods. In other action, the senate de cided to try to work out a plan of professor course evaluation, work ing with the college’s committee on teacher evaluation. The senate’s professor - course evaluation committee has met with the college’s committee. Gene Stub blefield, chairman of the senate committee, reported that the col lege’s committee was planning to poll faculty members on what type of evaluation they would like. The college committee said that they would like to have a system that involved the i-eports not being seen by the administration, and re ports being signed by the students. The student senate voted to have the reports signed, and made avail able to the deans of the schools involved, and not the heads of de partments. Weyland Named The senate welcoming commit tee, which is now functioning as the Aggie Muster committee, an nounced that Gen. O. P. Weyland, class of ’23 and commander of the tactical air force, has been selec ted as Muster speaker. Charles Seely is chairman of this commit tee. A proposal from the represen tation committee to increase the representation in the senate from the College View and Project House areas was voted down. The proposal would have added one senator-at-large to be elected from the two areas, and kept the present one senator from College View. The proposal also included a rec- j ommendation to further increase i the representation from these ar- ' eas “if enough interest was shown.” (See STUDENT SENATE, p. 3) SPRING FEVER—Sunshine and spring weather at Aggieland means just laying around for the Aggies. Joe Tillery, left, petroleum and mechanical engineering student trom Fort Worth, and Jim Groves, civil engineering student from Dallas, take advantage oi the first spring weather.