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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.