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c 1 nr # ion Number G8: Volume 54 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1955 Price Five Cents I fines Says Those Spiritually Guided Are Sons Of God DIRECTORS MEET THIS WEEKEND There is nothing- in the New Testament to sustain the common ly held belief that all men are sons of«God, Bishop John E. Hines this morning told the faculty and stu dent audience which again filled (ii«on haft. “Made in the image of God,” he said to the Religious Emphasis week gathering, “means that there is a natural universal and perman ent relationship of creaturely de pendence between man and his Maker. Only some men, namely those guided by the spirit of God, can rightly be called sons of God.” Hines said modem man has con stantly tried to evade the fact there is nothing in our birth, as such, that offei-s us any guaran tee of Heaven. “Actually,” he ad ded, “there is everything- in our birth which indicates that we shall end in Hell, since our heritage as natural man — is our bondage to sin and corruption which makes us prodigals and spiritual orphans rather than sons.” As RE week reaches the mid point, dormitory leaders repoi-t that attendance at the forums and groups has been very YMCA chapel Monday evening to hear the topic, “Two Shadows in the Sun: A Happy Marriage.” Porterfield passed out forms to the married couples which called for an analytical report on how the other marriage partner would ate the marriage by answering- selective questions. Last night a couple presented an impromptu skit in which the two hypothetically changed places for meeting at the end of the day’s work. The husband, playing the part of the wife, behaved as he be lieved the wife should behave when he returns home. The wife acted out how she felt the husband should behave after a day’s worle. M Dinner Offered A&M Agenda Includes Room Air Conditioning For Naming New Program Chicago’s Serenaders Male Quartet At Guion Hall Monday For Town Hall Serenaders Sing A ppointment Must Be Lost In Mails discussion good, J. Gordon Gay, YMCA gen eral secretary, said this morning. One leader actually complained evenings were too short. Gay said, and that students in his dormitory kept him busy discussing their problems until well after 1 a.m About 50 faculty and staff mem hers, wives and friends attended the Monday night discussion meet ing in the biological sciences lec ture room to hear Dr. Ellis Nelson talk on “Religious Beliefs:—Their Source and Function.” Dr. A. L. Poi-terfield, discussion leader for married students, had about 25 couples gathered in the No Summer School For ROTC Camper A postmaster has not yet been named for College Station and N. L. McCullough, acting postmaster, said he has no idea who the new man will be. McCullough took over the job last year when T. O. Wal ton retired. He said it was “rather un usual” for the office to go this long unfilled, but he did not know when a new postmaster would be appointed. President Eisenhower recently sent a list of new postmaster appoint ments to the Senate for con firmation, but College Station was not among them. The Serenaders male quartet of Chicago will be the next Town Hall attraction in Guion hall at 8 p.m. Monday, according to C. G. (Spike) White of the student activities de partment. The original pui-pose in foi-ming the quartet four years ago was to secure Chicago’s finest male voices, then blend them into the Midwest’s most glorious quartet. As a quartet they have appeared on the Harvest of Stars, Treasury of Music radio shows, on the NBC television show, “Garroway-At- Large,” the Norman Ross show and Hawkins Falls dramatic show. As soloists, they have appeared on practically every major network program which originates from Chicago, including Mutual’s Chi cago Theatre of the Air, Hymns of All Churches and Music from the Heart of America. Season passes are good for this performance or tickets may be ob tained from student activities of fice in Goodwin hall or at the door. Tickets are $2 for adults and $1 for students. Ag Aviation Course Features Plane Recital To Be Held Sunday In MSC Army ROTC students planning to attend summer camp this year will not be able to enroll for sum mer classes, according to Col. Rob ert D. Offer, professor of military science and tactics. Summer camp dates have been set for June 25 to Aug 6. These dates overlap both starting and closing dates of the summer school sessions. _ Deferments from camp can be obtained for cases of “extreme hardship” and in certain cases where academic study is necessary for cadets to keep up with regular fall semester requirements. Miss Margaret Elaine Berry, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. R. O. Berry, will be presented in an or gan recital by her teacher, Mrs. J. B. Baty, Sunday, at 4 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center ballroom. Miss Berry has been the organist for the First Baptist church and accompanist to the choral club of A&M Consolidated high school for the past thi-ee years. She has also played for banquets, style shows and Sunday afternoon programs in the MSC and at commissioning and commencement ceremonies for the college. More than 250 persons attended the three day Texas Agricultural Aviation conference and short course which ended yesterday. A feature of the course was the demonstration of a new experi mental agricultural airplane, the Ag-3, which is designed to carry a spray of dust load of about 800 pounds. It will do all agricultural work such as spraying, dusting and seeding, according to Fred Weick, director of the Personal Aircraft Research center. Weick supervised the design of the plane, and said that it will be much smaller and cheaper plane than those used before. Injured Freshmen Are Reeovering Two freshmen students, injured in an accident Saturday night, are reported in satisfactoiy condition at Bryan hospital. Billy Ray Horn, driver of the car, is resting after surgery. He suffered a compound fracture of the right thigh and facial cuts. Danforth Offers Two Scholarships Award Available For Library Work A $1,000 scholarship is available for graduate study in librarianship, the award to be used for work leading to a degree at an accredited library school. The money is award ed by the Scholarship and Student Loan Fund committee for the Spe cial Libraries association. Applicants must be college gr-ad- uates of high academic achieve ment who need financial assistance in obtaining the professional edu cation necessary for work in the special library field. Applications blanks and details of eligibility for this award may be obtained from the executive secretary, Special Libraries associ- atidh, 31 East Tenth St., New York, 3, N.Y. Applicants must be received by June, 1955, when the association has its annual conven tion in Detroit, Mich. A free chicken - in - the - rough dinner at the Memorial Student Center’s fountain room is awaiting the winner of the contest to name the new show that will be coming over WTAW every Wednesday from 5:30 to 6 p.m. Bill Davis and Dick Howard will moderate the first show. The Radio committe of the MSC’s Pub lie Relations group sponsors the show. Entries for the contest are to be put on post cards and sent to “Krazy Kontest” in care of the MSC, according to Murray Milner, head of the Public Relations group. As an added attraction two names will be drawn from a box in the MSC each week, and prizes will be given the winners if they can get to the fountain room and ident ify themselves before the program ends. Anyone can enter as many times as he wishes by putting his name in the box. Accordian and ukelele music probably will be featured in the talent part of the show although it has not been announced yet. The program is to last until the end of the semester. Items of A&M business to be discussed at the A&M system board of directors meeting this weekend are taking bids of new classroom chairs, air conditioning for classrooms, dining hall improvements and student fees for required phys ical education. This will be the first meeting of the new board, with three new members, and reorganization will be the first item of business, including the election of a president and a vice- president. Committee meetings will be Friday, and the regular ses sion will be Saturday. New members are Price Campbell of Abilene, H. B. (Pat) ♦Zachary of San Antonio, and H. L. (Howdy) Ridout of Dal- News Briefs DR. R. C. POTTS, of the agron omy department, will conduct a short course on pastures in Harris county March 10-11, 17-18 and 24. This off-campus short course is part of the adult education pro- giam of A&M, and is one of its functions as a land-grant college. las. * * * * INFLUENZA was the leading disease in the College Station-Bry- an area last week with 42 cases reported-. Strept throat was sec ond with 20 cases reported. * ❖ * ❖ Date Set To Order Announcements News of the World Graduating seniors can order graduation announcements March 7 through April 4 according to Doris Bahlmann, cashier and bookkeeper of student activities. These announcements will be ready May 4. They will be of thi’ee types: French fold—2 for 25c t . Cardboard with roster—45<J each. Leather bound—95(* each. Printed cards are $1.25 for each 100, and engraved cards ai*e $2.95 per 100. COL. H. R. BRAYTON, director of the firemen’s training division of the Texas engineering exten sion seiwice, is in Memphis, Tenn. this week for the National Fire Department Instructors conference. He made the keynote address at the opening assembly yesterday. * * * 4s DR. ROBERT S. AIRES, a chem ical consultant and president of a New York engineering firm, will deliver an address before the A&M section of the American Chemical Society at 8:15 tonight in the chemistry lecture room. He will discuss “Economics of the Chem ical Industries.” * * * * The Danforth Foundation has allotted two 1955 summer fellow ships for outstanding students in agriculture, according to C. N. Shepardson, dean of agriculture. One of these fellowships will be awarded to an outstanding junior and the other to an outstanding freshman. Selection will be based on scholarship, leadership, activi- Ray Hahn, the other occupant of ties and general culture. the car, received a dislocated hip and is expected to be confined to bed for at least two months. Weather Today A faculty Committee, composed of J. W. Barger, H. O. Kunel, R- E. Leighton, T. E. McAfee, J. R. Jacson, O. E. Sperry and V. A. Little will choose the winners March 16. MSS Two Contest Ends This Meek PARTLY CLOUDY The weather outlook for today is partly cloudy with a slight warm up in the afternoon. Yesterday’s high was 50, low 31. The temperature at 10 this morn ing waa 40. The MSS Two short story and poetry contest will end about the last of February, said R. W. Fera- gon, English instructor and advi sor of the magazine. One or more prizes will be given to the short story and poetry' win ners. Feragen stated that many entries have been received, but ! more entries are still wanted in ! both divisions. | The purpose of the contest 'is to | give students, who write serious | to make the trip, short stories and poetry’, a chance to have their writings published I said Feragen. ! The entries may be turned in to the English department or room 319, Academic building. By The ASSOCIATED PRESS FORMOSA—Chinese Nationalist pilots yesterday claim ed they sank six Communist vessels and damaged many oth ers in an attack against a flotilla of more than 200 junks and gunboats near threatened Nanchishan island. An invasion attempt by the Reds is expected at any time against the is land, which lies 140 miles northwest of Formosa. ★ ★ ★ LONDON—Russia prefaced today’s Red Army day celebrations with a claim yesterday by a Soviet Lt. Gen. Sergei Shatilov that Russia held superiority over the United States in both atomic and hydrogen weapons. ★ ★ ★ LONDON—The First Lord of the Admiralty told Par liament the hydi’ogen bomb has not reduced the need for navies, but is all the greater for those who live on islands dependent on sea-borne supplies. He announced that Brit ain will build a fleet of guided missle ships to keep up with the times. LAS VEGAS—What was called a “small” nuclear device was touched off yesterday in the Nevada desert. The explosion was strong enough to be felt in cities 135 miles away, and to be seen at a distance of 400 miles. The device is described as the possible step in the develop ment of an atomic missle warhead. ★ ★ ★ AUSTIN—Attorney General John Ben Shepperd is to meet today with the DeWitt county grand jury which is in-1 quiring into alleged irregularities in the state veterans land .program. The first indictments were returned Monday by a 1 ! Bexar countv grand jury at San Antonio. Shepperd said : there would be hundreds of other indictments in the investi- i gation of the 100 million dollar veterans land program. ★ ★ A - WASHINGTON—The Eisenhower administration has proposed that Congress set up a special commission on civil defense problems, which would, as outlined by Defense Mobilizer Arthur Fleming, plan the dispersal of potential atomic bomb targets. He said the commission idea represented top administrial opinion. ★ "A ★ WASHINGTON—Admitted false witness Harvey Matu- sow has testified that Senator McCarthy suggested he go to Montana and the state of Washington in he 1952 Senatorial election campaign and speak against the democratic candi dates. McCarthy denied to a reporter that he asked Matusow | Brock M ill Play For Sophomores The Buddy Brock Orchestra of Houston will play for the sopho more ball April 2 from 8 to 12. Betty Cole is the orchestra’s vo calist. Members of the orchestra have played with such men as Buddy Morrow and Jimmy Dor sey, Bob Crosby, Freddy Martin, and Henry King. MARCH 7 is the deadline for filing* applications for the selec tive service qualification test. Ap plication blanks are available i the housing office, Goodwin hall * * * * HARRI BAKER, Battalion co editor, has been chosen program chairman for the Px*ess club ban quet. The banquet is held annually and serves as a recognition ban quet for persons working on and with student publications. Bids will be taken on 1,368 tablet arm chairs for the Academic building classrooms and the lecture rooms in the Petroleum Engineering and Mechanical Engi neering buildings. Bids will also be taken on air conditioning two lecture rooms and continuing tl\e improvements in Sbisa dining hall. As a part of enlarging the powder plant, bids will be taken on a 7,500 kilov’att turbine generator, a con denser and a cooler tower. A student fee for use of the re quired physical education gymna sium, to be completed by next se mester, will be considered. This fee will include use of lock ers, clothing, and tow'els, plus laun dering. Routine business will include ap pointments, promotions, and leaves of absence and acceptance of gifts, grants and loan funds. The boaid will also name a board member to the Former Student as sociation development fund boaid, to replace Bob Allen, whose term expired this year. H. D. Beaidin, vice-director of the engineering extension sexwice, will give the board a report on the work of that system agency. One system agency reports at each meeting to keep the members in formed on all parts of the system. The board will also pass resolu tions honoring P. L. (Pinky) Downs jr., former board member whose birthday is Saturday, and G. Rollie White, former president of the board. The Saturday meeting will be the first board meeting in 29 years wdthout White as a membei\ White’s term expired this year. * * * * COLLEGE STATION has sold 224 dog tags in its dog licensing campaign, which started Feb. 1 Twenty-one dogs have been picked up by the city this year. STUDENT DIRECTORIES may now be purchased for 50 cents. Di rectories are on sale in the Memo rial Student Center, office of stu dent publications and the noilh gate post office. f k' m i “ -k KANSAS CITY—A federal court jury convicted the Kansas Citv Star yesterday on two counts of anti-trust law violation. The Star’s advertising director, Emil Sees, was convicted on one count of violating the anti trust laws. . _ COLD WEATHER VICTIM—This bundled-up calf was brought to the veterinary hos pital during the week almost frozen from the sudden cold weather. Although the call s temperature was too low to even measure, he was revived. Working on him are \e ei- student Julio Reyes, left, and A. B. Longmeyer, owner of the calf. mary