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The Battalion Number 73: Volume 54 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1955 Price Five Cents High School Day to Feature Sports Events, Sightseeing A GOOD TIME WAS HAD—The West dormitory area had its annual spring water fight Tuesday night, with almost everybody taking part. Here several unidentified participants are questioned by the cadet officers of the guard. The dry fellow on + he far right is Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant. Davis said no disciplinary action would be taken in the matter, since no college property was damaged. Davis praised the cadet officers, who, he said, “did their duty well in trying to stop the boys.” The officers, incidentally, got very wet in the process. Public School Week Schools Set Observation By BILL FULLERTON . Battalion City Editor Public School week will be ob served next week at the A&M Con- 'solidated schools with the following program planned: • Monday, at 7 p.m. in the school cafeteria, orientation meet ings with the teachers and the par ents of first, second and third grade pupils. • Tuesday, 7 p.m. in the cafe teria, orientation meetings with the teachers and the parents of fourth grade pupils. • Friday, 6 p.m.; Mothers and Dads club community supper will be held in the school gymnasium. Every one is invited. The menu will include fried chicken, and price for tickets will be announced later. Fi-om 7:30 to 8:30 p.m., ten minute , patrons and parents throughout Civilian Council Asks Correction The Civilian Student Council has asked The Battalion to print the following correction of the . report of their Tuesday night meeting. In recommending that college regulations include a ruling pro hibiting the wearing of letter jackets from other schools on the A&M campus, the recommenda tion provided that a letter jacket could be worn if the letter were removed, making it like any oth er jacket. “It’s not our place to tell the civilian students what clothes to wear,” council members said. “We just don’t think wearing the letters from other schools is in keeping with A&M traditions.” A similar recommendation has already been passed by the sen ior class, the Student Senate, and the ‘T’ association. It will be referred to President David H. Morgan. Weather Today classes will be held for the sixth through twelfth grades. Parents are urged to attend the classes with their children. • Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; the Band Booster’s club will present a spring fashion show in the auditorium. Everyone is invited. • Sunday, 3:30 p.m.; the new high school buildings will be dedi cated. The main speaker will be Di\ Pearl Wanamaker, Washington State superintendent of schools. Week’s Theme The slogan for this year’s Public Schools week is “Texas Public Schools — Democracy in Action.” The objective is to acquaint the public with programs and accom plishments of the educational sys tem. The Texas constitution states it is the duty of the Legislature of the state to “establish and make suit able provision for the support and maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools.” The 1854 school law provided for the first public school system in Texas. As the years passed, the laws were strengthened to make sure all chil dren of school age shared in the opportunity for public education. This special week for the public schools began in March, 1951, and since has become an outstanding annual event with ever-increasing interest and participation of school Morg Play Russ wiii mi AtAlilitary Ball “Music in the Morgan Man ner” will highlight the Mili tary ball in Sbisa hall March 26. Russ Morgan and his or chestra will play for the dance, which will end the Military day ac tivities. The dance will begin at 8 and end at.midnight, with all the Mil itary day guests, including Gen. Nathan F. Twining, air force chief of staff, invited. Morgan, who was once a Penn- sylvanian coal miner, plays six musical instruments: piano, trom bone, vibraphone, celeste, marimba, and organ. He is also the band’s arranger, master of ceremonies, and one of the vocalists. There are other musicians with the band—fie does n’t do everything. Texas. Large Attendance According to J. W. Edgar, com missioner of education, 1,325,000 persons visited Texas public schools during the 1954 Public Schools week. “Reports on the outstanding suc cess of this statewide visitation program indicate parents are tak ing a great deal of interest in their schools,” he said. “Texas schools will be good schools just so long as Texas people keep themselves informed about their school, striv ing constantly for their improve ment. Working togethei', we can succeed in our efforts to establish for all Texas children an educa tional opportunity that will be sec ond to none.” G. E. Thompson, president of the Texas State Teachei’s association, said, “Public education has made an invaluable contidbution to our state and nation. We are eager for our citizens to visit us; to evaluate the work being done; and to join with the teachers of their children in providing the best pi-ogram of pub lic school education in the United States.” Public schools week affords an opportunity for the people to know their schools better, to gain a bet ter appreciation of the work ac complished, and for each citizen to recognize his own particular and pei-sonal responsibility for the progress to come. Tuition Raise Approved By Committee Based on AP Reports The hotly-contested bill to double state college tuition fees has been approved by the Education committee of t h e Texas house of representa tives. The committee approved the bill by a 9 to 8 vote. Representattive J. O. Gillham of Brownfield spon sored the bill, which would raise the tuition at A&M and other state colleges from $25 a semester to $50 a semester. The bill would bring in four mil lion dollars each year in additional revenue. The bill will now go to house floor for consideration. The Asso ciated Press did not know when house debate on the bill was sche duled. Gillham said earlier that the bill would “go a long way toward closing the gap” between the school’s budget requests and the Legislative Budget board’s recom mendations. The colleges of the state request a total of $54 million and the Bud get Boai’d recommended $29 mil lion. Opposition to the bill, which was led by Representative Jei’ry Sadler of Percilla, included may Univer sity of Texas students. About 1,000 Expected For Saturday Program By JIM BOWER Battalion Staff Writer Tennis and golf matches, a swimming meet and an intra squad football game highlight the program for A&M’s annual High School Sport day, Saturday. About 1,000 students from all over Texas and neighboring states are expected to attend. The morning program, beginning with registration at 8 a.m. in Ghion hall includes talks by President David H. Morgan and Taylor Wilkins, assistant commandant. The movie, “We Are the Aggies,” also will be shown. Group tours for the students, according to the course of study they plan to follow, will begin at 10 a.m. Members of the Student Inter-Council committee will guide the students to the buildings pertaining to their pro- ♦posed major. From here, fac ulty members will show the students through the build ings. Those who have not yet de cided on a major course of study may remain in Guion hall where A. E. Denton of the Basic Division will speak on the Junction summer school program available to stu dents prior to their entrance to A&M. Tours for all students in terested in agriculture will be made in busses so the students may see each of the widely scattered agri culture centers. All tours start in front of Guion Hall. At noon, the visitors will be giv en a break from the day’s activities and lunch will be served in Duncan and Sbisa dining halls. Tickets for the lunch are 50$ each. Some Win, Some Lose, Some Pay All coats missing in the Me morial Student Center are not taken, accidentally or other wise, but may be in the lost and found at the main desk. The coat racks at the MSC are cleared nightly, and stu dents leaving articles of cloth ing or books may claim them by properly identifying them. An auction is held before the Texas game each year to get rid of the articles that have been in the lost and found six months or more. The auction is sponsored by the MSC House group and profits go to its fund. Players To Give Show March 14-16 The Aggie Players will present Eugene O’Neill’s “Ah Wilderness” March 14-16 in the Memorial Stu dent Center ballroom. Directed by Vic Weining of the English department, it is a gentle four-act comedy set in the North east about 1906. The play features the crisis of a boy and how he and his family overcome it through pa tience, common sense, and under- standnig Leading the cast are John Kes- singer as Nat Miller; Ted Castle as Richard Miller; Anna Haswell as Essie Miller; Anne Haslam as News of the World By The ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW—Father Georges Bissonnette, the only for eign priest in Russia, has been ordered out. He was called in by Soviet police and told to leave the country by Satur day. Father Bissonnette has been in Moscow since January, 1953. No reason was given for the action. ★ ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON—Former McCarthy Subcommittee Counsel Roy Cohn has denied he ever suggested to Har vey Matusow that he made false statements at the trial of 13 convicted Communist leaders. Cohn’s denial was made in Federal court in New York. ★ ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON—President Eisenhow’er has signed the bill giving members of Congress a 50 per cent pay increase, which will push salaries up to $22,500. He also noted the Government would get back half of the pay increase in in come taxes. ★ ★ ★ ★ MOSCOW—The Moscow radio has announced the second Soviet government shakeup in two days. Two Ministers have been fired and a third demoted. The move is said to reflect internal domestic problems— since all were connected with either agriculture or coal. ★ ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON—William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Banking committee, has warned against hasty con clusions in the Senate investigations of the stock market. jThe inquiry, which starts today, will be the first Congress- Belle; Sara Pate as Lily Miller. Others in the cast and their parts are Suzanne Mass, Mildred; Fay Neale, Muriel McComber; Rob in James, Norah; Ty Hungerford, Arthur Miller; Tom Collins, Tom my Miller; Bill Huettel, David Mc Comber; James Leissner, Whit Sel by; Charles Wade, bartender; Dave Denny, salesman. C. K. Esten of the English de partment will produce the play. Virginia Wattinger is in charge of props and Nadine Carter will su pervise the costumes. The play, the Aggie Players’ third production this year, will have an impressionistic setting. Sports in Afternoon Tennis matches and golf matches begin the afteroon program at 1. At 2 p.m., there will be a swim ming meet in P. L. Downs jr. Na- tatorium and a baseball game be tween A&M and the Univei-sity of Houston on Kyle field. Sporting events will close with an intra-squad football game. The game will end spring training prac tice. The T association is sponsor ing all the sporting events. Tickets to all of the sports events will be sold for $1 each. Pete Hardesty, student activities business manager and High School sports day program director, urged the student body “to show our visitors a good time and make them welcome on our campus and make them feel that we are inter ested in having them as future Aggies.” Invited to Ball All visitors still on the campus Sautrday night after the football game are invited to attend the Fish Ball in Sbisa dining hall at 9 p.m., (See HIGH SCHOOL, Page 2) Acts Picked For Center’s Talent Show With auditioning completed, 16 acts have been chosen for the Intercollegiate Talent show here March 18. A&M and thirteen other colleges will be represented, and the Melody Maids girls chorus from Beaumont will open and close the show, for a total cast of about 95. Ted Stecki, winner of the Aggie Talent show last fall, will repre sent A&M. Other schools are Tex as university, Baylor, Southern Methodist university, Texas Christ ian university, Rice institute, the University of Houston, North Tex as State college, Sam Houston State college, Louisiana State uni versity, Oklahoma university, Ok lahoma A&M, and the University of Arkansas. Each school will have one act in the show, except Texas and Okla homa, which will have two each. The acts wei*e chosen by an audi tioning committee that went to each school. (See Picture on Page 2) “All the schools were really in terested and the competition was quite strong,” said Frank daggers, chairman of the Memorial Student Center Music committee, sponsors of the show. He said the acts were chosen “not only by how good they were, but also by how well they repi’e- sented the schools.” A master of ceremonies for the show wil be named sometime this week, according to Margaret Long, MSC program consultant. Plans are to have a “big-name” master of ceremonies, she said. Tickets for the show will be on sale Monday at the MSC main desk. They will be $1 for general admission and $1.50 for reserved seats. The show will be in the G. Rollie White coliseum. Military Names Inspection Dates A&M’s annual federal in spection for both army and air force ROTC units will be April 27 and 28. A dress review of the corps of cadets will be held the after noon of the 28th, a Thursday, and the room inspection will probably be that morning. The inspecting officers will visit military science class rooms and the military build ing records both days. The weather outlook for today is continued cloudy with no rain expected and little change in tem perature. Yesterday’s high was 81, low 63. The temperature at 10:45 this morning was 75. As an example of Morgan’s , ional investigation into the market in more than two de- versitility, he was once doing ar- j cades. ★ ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON — President Eisenhower has said the United States is not going to be a party to aggres sive war. He said that the best answer he could make to the question whether we’ve given the Chinese Nation alists any reason to expect American support for an in vasion of Red China. rangements for both the Goldket- tle Swing Band and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Other activities of the Military day weekend wil be the Combat ball the 25th, and the Military day review the morning of the 26th. TEXAS COWBOYS—Sure, it’s an elephant, and at A&M too. “Big Babe,” eight feet, four inches tall and approximately 9,000 pounds, visited the campus yesterday to promote the Crippled Children’s Benefit ball. The dance, which will be held March 17 at Maggie Parker’s dining hall in Bryan, is sponsored by the Brazos Valley Shrine club. Tickets are $1, and all profits are for treatment of crippled children at the Red Year Crippled Children’s clinic in Houston. Big Babe, who is owned by C. A. Vernon, made a one day stay, with a free ride given with each purchase of a ticket to the dance. Shown above are Dale Alan Davenport, three-year old son of M. G. Davenport of the agricultural en gineering research department, and E. L. Hansen, A&M student, on the elephant. The handler is George Boone.