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M t ' Battalion Number 85: Volume 54 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1955 Price Five Cents ‘’Pinky’ Show Is Tonight Plans lor Weekend Near Completion Plans are almost complete for A&M’s annual Military day, when the corps of cadets shows off for militai’y and civilian guests, and also works in a full complement, membex* of a reserve unit or fox*- FOR PINKY—Miss Janette Hair of College Station, above, will have a part in the ‘In the Pink’ show, presented to night at 8 in the coliseum in appreciation of P. L. (Pinky) Downs jr. She was one of five girls in the United States selected as finalists for the Queen of the Rose Bowl, annual New Year’s day football game. New Charges Filed In Dog Killing Case Thx-ee charges have been filed by County Attorney J. M. BaiTon against W. F. Osborn, A&M sopho- moi'e who was accused of shoot ing a dog Sunday night in the 300 block of Fidelity stx-eet. Osborn was chai’ged Monday by Bie city of Colleg’e Station for dis- iharging firearms within the city /imits. Two of the charges filed by Bar ron were in the justice of the peace court. These charges were for firing a gun across a public stx’eet and for the “willful killing of a dog with the intent to injure the owner.’' The other charge, filed in the district court, was for the “will ful and malicious destruction” of another person’s property Bennie A. Zinn, head of the stu dent affairs department, had “no 'statement” yesterday as to wheth er or not the college had taken any gction against Osborn as a result if the shooting incident. Killed for ‘Molesting’ In a statement yesterday to The Battalion, Osborn said, “The dog was killed because he was molest ing my wife, my family and my dog.” Osboxm said the dog had been a nuisance since about June and had tipped over his garbage cans. He said he had never complained about the dog “because I could never get close to the dog to find out whose it was.” Mrs. Osboxm Supervision Course A 40-hour course in motor trans portation supervision began hei’e Monday. The course in under the supervision of L. K. Jonas of the Texas Engineering Extension sei’- vice, the sponsoring organization. Weather Today CLKXR and COOL The weather outlook for today Is clear with little change in tem perature. Yesterday’s high was 74, low 52. The temperature at 10:30 this morning was 69. said she “thoxight the dog was a cur.” ‘Tried to Run Off’ Mrs. Osborn said that sevei’al times before the dog “was on our pi’opei'ty and we tided to xmn him off.” In x’efei’erice to the incident Sun day, she said, “We tided to drive him off, but he wouldn’t drive this time.” The Osborns, who live at 708-A Montclair sti'eet, have two chil dren, one almost two and the othex- four months old. Trial Set Osborn’s trial on the city charge has been set for 1 p.m. Monday in the College Station Corporation Court in the city hall. The city charge carxdes a punishment, if convicted, of not less than $5 nor more than $50. Trials on the charges brought by the county attorney have not been set. of dances and dinners. About 10,000 spectators are ex pected for the corps review at 1:30 Saturday afternoon, which will honor the moi’e than 20 dis tinguished guests to be hei’e. ^Heading the guest list will be Congressman Olin E. Teague of College Station and Gen Nathan F. Twining, air force chief of staff. The lighter side of the weekend will be taken care of by the Mil itary ball Saturday night and the Combat ball Friday night. The Combat ball, which is limi ted to members of the combat RO TC arms and air foxce seniors, will be in Sbisa hall. All males must dress as combat soldiers for the dance, and all females must come Army Exams Will Be Held March 31 Army ROTC qualifying ex aminations will be held during the drill period Thursday, March 31, for all army ROTC students who will become eli gible for a contiuct next Septem ber. “No pi-eparution is necessary, aixd nothing need be bi'ought to the examination except a shai’p mind,” said Col. Heni’y Phillips, acting PMS&T. Tests will be given in the follow ing places: • Infantxy, sophomores, animal husbandry lectuxc room; armor and quartermastei*, sophomores, electri cal engineering lecture room; engi neer and transportation corps sophomoxcs, petiuleum engineering lectuxc room. Anti-aii’cx*aft artillei’y sopho- moi-es, civil engineering lecture room; signal and oi'dnance sopho- mores, Bagley hall; artillery and chemical sophomores, and all oth ers, physics lecture room. as French peasants. Guests are to come as displaced pei’sons. The Military ball, also in Sbisa, is open to all cadets, and to any mer member of the cadet corps. All persons attending must wear class A uniforms. Russ Morgan and his orchestra will play for the Military ball. Tickets ax - e on sale in the student activities office. Also on the schedule for the dis tinguished guests Saturday ai'e the president’s reception, the ca det commandei , ’s luncheon, and a breakfast sponsored by the Biyan Chamber of Commeiue. Show Will Offer Top Performers By BOB BORISKIE Battalion Co-Editor With music and fun, Aggies and girls, the jam-packed variety show “In the Pink” will open at 8 tonight in the White coliseum for two hours of entertainment. Several thousand persons are expected for the show, which is being sponsored by the Brazos county A&M club and the A&M student body in appreciation of P. L. (Pinky) Downs jr., long-time official greeter for the college. Included in the volunteer talent are the Choralettes, a 130 member all-girl chorus from Houston’s Lamar high school. Miss Wool of 1955; Cayce Moore, Hearne’s barber- philosopher, and the Bewley Mills Chuck Wagon gang. The program will start with a bang about 7:30, when the A&M band strikes up \ — the East area. The band will I i 14 fl lUrl Broke His Arm Joe’s Newsstand Was His Dream By JON KINSLOW Battalion Staff Writer • Within eight days after he got the chance he had wanted since he came to A&M, O. J. Delatte had to di-op out of school because of a broken arm. Delatte, who was nicknamed “Joe” by his friends here, had been trying to get a part-time job, and finally F. L. Smith, Houston Post distributor for this area, agreed to let him run the x'ack in fx-ont of the Aggieland Inn. Eight days later, March 9, Joe fell from his thxee-wheeled bicycle and suf fered a compound fracture of the elbow. Needed Special Treatment Doctoi*s here said the injury needed special treatment, so Joe left the next day for his home in Tuscaloosa, Ala. While here, Joe compiled a com mendable record, according to his dormitoiy counselox*, W. G. Brea- zeale. Joe’s handicap, as he described it was a “partial loss of muscular activity in the lower part of his body.” Breazeale is keeping Joe’s bicycle until he can return to school. "He’ll want to come back, too,” Breazeale said. But while he is gone, some of Joe’s Aggie fidends are taking care of his newstand. One stu dent takes care of it each week, and the money that is made is placed in a special account in the College Station State bank. Dur ing the eight days Joe opexated the stand, he made a profit of $5.16. Condition ‘Just Fine’ In a letter from Joe’s mother, his condition was described as “just fine.” He left A&M March 10, and was opexated upon the next day. Joe’s mother says that he wants to come back, mainly because A&M “was the only place Joe has been that he was happy.” Deadline Near For Filing For Offices About 50 students have filed for class elections since filing opened Tuesday in the student activities office. Tuesday at 5 p.m. is the last day filings will be open. Elec tion will be held Apx*il 5 in the Me morial Student Center by the post ofi fee entrance and the imnoff elec tion, if needed, will be held April 13 at the same place. Positions to be filled are as fol lows: • Class of ’58—Seven class offi- cex*s, and one MSC councilman may be elected. Qualifications for class officers are a 1.0 or better grade point x*atio, and the filing student must be academically classified for the class at the time of filing, and at the beginning of the year for the class to which he is to be elected. For the MSC council, the require ment is a 1.0 gi'ade x'atio. (One candidate will be elected from a group of students who have attended A&M less than four se mesters, and one from a group who have attended the college more than four semesters.) • Class of ’57—Seven class of- cers, and one MSC councilman will elected; and two yell leadei’s. Qual ifications for the class officei’s and the councilman are the same as above. For yell leader, the student must have a 1.25 grade x'atio, and be a classified sophomore at time of filing, and become a classified junior with his class. • Class of ’56—Eight class of ficei’s (regular ones, plus a his torian) ; one entertainment manag er; two yell leaders, and one MSC councilman may be elected. For class officers and councilman, qual ifications are the same as previous ly given. The yell leaders must have a 1.25 grade ratio and must be a classified junior at time of (See FILINGS, Page 6) move to the south end of Military walk and play while the crowd moves into the col iseum. The band, under the direction of Lt. Col. E. V. Adams, will then move into the auditorium and play a few moi’e numbers. After the band has softened up the audience, Bill Turner and his Aggieland oi’- chesti’a will play the overture. The Aggieland oi'chesti’a will also px*o- vide accompaniment for the acts. Hershel Burgess, president of the Bi’azos county A&M club, will wel come the audience, and then the audience in singing the Aggie War Hymn. Then starts the list of talent. This will include the Singing Ca dets; Caesar (Dutch) Holm, form er A&M yell leader, giving a skit on the eai’ly days of Pinky; Cayce Moore and his monologue; Alice Jean Butler, Bryan songsti'ess; the Bewley Mills gang and their hill billy music; Marshal Bullock and J. W. Hamilton, Biyan blackface team; Manning and Nita Smith, nationally famous folk dance team; and the Choralettes. Also making an appearance on the show will be Janette Hail’, one of the five finalists for the 1956 Rose Bowl Queen, and Miss Sarah Belcia of San Antonio, Miss Wool of 1955. Miss Belcia will be escoi’ted by Aggie sophomore David Rochelle, but he isn’t the only Aggie who will get in on the escoi’t deal. All 130 Choralettes will have supper tonight in Duncan mess hall, di vided evenly among the units, and students will escort them to the show. J. S. Mogford—“Cotton Joe” of the agronomy department—is pro ducer for the show, and Manning Smith is director. Tickets will be available at the door, $1 for adults and 50 cents for children and students. Certification Form All Korean vetei’ans will have to complete their monthly certifi cation before the Easter holidays, acording to vetei’ans advisor, Ben nie A. Zinn. Veterans can get the requii’ed form in room 102 of Goodwin hall. To Organize At 5 Today A Circle K club, sponsored by the College Station Kiwan- is club, will hold its organiza tional meeting at 5 p.m. today in the second floor lounge of the Memoi’ial Student Center. This club is not a junior Kiwanis club, accox-ding to Sidney L. Love less, chaiiman of the Circle K com mittee of the Kiwanis club. It is a campus service club, and will un- dei'take many worthwhile pi’ojects, he said. Any student interested in joining the club is invited to attend the meeting. The object of the new club is to promote good fellowship and high scholai’ship among students, to pro vide opportunities for leadership training in seiwice, and to give pi'imacy to the human and spiritual rather than to the material values of life. Proposed pi’ojects include spon soring a safety pi'ogi’am on the campus, to be run by the students for the students. Also, the club will sponsor a local Boy Scout troop so A&M students can con tinue their scouting. News Briefs POULTRY HUSBANDRY de partment’s study of chicken blood gi-oups will be aided by a $3,700 grant-in-aid fi’om the Pioneei' Hi- Bi’ed Com company of De Moines, Iowa. WILLIAM WRIGLY COMPANY of Chicago has given the Texas Agricultui'al Experiment station a $500 grant-in-aid for use in con ducting ecological studies on the candelilla plant. * * * A GRANT-IN-AID of $3,000 for furthei-ing studies on the carcass chai’actei’istics of Santa Gertrudis steers has been given to the ani mal husbandly depax-tment by the Santa Gei'tmdis Breedei's interna tional of Kingsville. Highway 6 To Be Widened To Four Lanes The widening of highway 6, which was approved Mon day night by the College Sta tion City Council, will provide a four-lane road from the in tersection of highway 21 in Biyan to the south city limits of College Station. Accoi’ding to City Manager Ran Boswell, the project, including the paving in the Biyan city limits, will cost about $800,000. However, only about $15,000 of this will be paid by College Station, he said. The property adjoining the road way in the city limits, except that owned by the state, will be assess ed at $2 a front foot, Boswell said. “The state will furnish both the x’ight of way and the paving,” he explained, “and Bryan and College Station will only have to pay for curbs, gutters and stoim sewers.” The property assessment will cover about half of the city’s cost, and the city will pay the x'est, Bos well said. This will mean the city probably will have to pay a maxi mum of $15,000, he said. Boswell* felt that the project would not be stax-ted for about a year, and that it will take about six months to complete. Marine Officer Will Visit Here Capt. Charles Fimian, Marine coxtxs procurement officer, will be here April 7 to discuss the oppor tunities for college men receiving a commission in the Marine corps reserve, and to enroll students in the corps’ officer programs. Applications are being accepted from qualified college freshmen, sophomores and juniors for the platoon leadex’s class. A limited number of applications are being accepted for the officer candidate course from qualified college sen iors and graduates. BROADCASTER — George W. Reynolds, climatology instructor in the oceanog raphy department, gives a 15-minute television show* on the weather at 10 p.m. Sunday nights over Hous ton’s KTRK. The show, “Man and the Weather,” is called a weather education show, and attempts to tell the audience what weather is and what makes it. Two Students Hurt In Accident Two A&M students are out of school now as a result of being injured in an automobile accident during the weekend. They ai’e Don Richards of Ban- quete and George Wilkinson of San Angelo, both senior x*ange and forestry majors. No details on the accident are known. Their mothers called the office of the dean of agriculture a report that both would not be able to return to school immediate ly, said Miss Lillian Ferguson, ag riculture office secretary. Miss Ferguson said that Wilkin son was at home and would prob ably be able to x*eturn next week. She said Richards was in the hos pital, and his parents did not know when he would be able to return. ALMOST READY—Nearing completion is is the new veterinary medicine classroom building, located on the east side of the veterinary hospital. The building is expected to be finished by September. Reserve Company Called ‘Excellent’ The headquarters and headquart ers company of the 358th infantry x-egiment, 90th division, army re- seiwes, was given a rating of “ex cellent” dui'ing the recent Inspec tor general inspection tour, ac cording to Capt. Charles A. Sch midt, S-l officer for the unit. The inspecting officer was from Fouidh Army headquarters. Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant, is com manding officer for the reserve company.