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t The, Battalion Number 87: Volume 54 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1955 Price Five Cents MILITARY DAY GUESTS—Watching the corps of cadets go by at the review Sat urday are, from left to right, David H. Morgan, A&M president; Gen. Nathan F. Twining, air force chief of staff; and Rear Adm. John Will, director of personnel for the assistant secretary of defense for manpower and personnel. Twining and Will were honor guests for A&M’s annual Military day. ■••• ~ Air Force Photo Highly Impressed I & Twining Praises Cadets Gen. Nathan P. Twining, air force chief of staff and honor guest for Military day, was highly impressed by A&M’s corps of ca dets, as it paraded for him Satur day in near-freezing weather. Twining said he “had never seen finch a review.” He was particu larly impressed by the 240-piece bind, “the largest I’ve ever seen —its gorgeous.” At the time of the full dress re- RV Banquet, Dance Set For Saturday More than 200 Ross Volunteers and their dates are expected for the annual RV banquet and dance to be held April 2 in the Memorial Student Center ballroom, said Joe Bob Walker, RV commander. Four years of Mardi Gras pa rade films will be the highlight of the banquet, after which the co pies will dance to the music of tni Aggieland orchestra. Breaded veal cutlets will be featured at the banquet which will begin promptly at 6:30 p.m. The dance will begin at 9 p.m., according to Fred Rose and Jack Courtney, dance and ban quet cool dinators. The $9 dues paid by the RVs will cover the cost of the evening’s en tertainment. Cokes will be served &t the dance. view, the sudden norther had low ered the temperature here to 38 degrees. The wind was from the northwest at 16 miles an hour. In an interview after the re view, Twining said that the United States must keep its military for ces “just strong enough to keep anyone from jumping on us,” and that A&M’s corps had a part in this plan. • * “People, trained people,” he said, “are the important thing, not all this fancy technology.” “It is important that we keep a supply of trained men to fall back bn in case of an emergency, and that’s A&M’s job,” he said. The nation is “in good shape” militarily, he said, and is ahead of the Russians in technology and the ability to deliver nuclear weapons. Twining called this “the gap,” and said it must be maintained. Twining and his party left late Saturday afternoon, after the re view and the president’s reception. X-Rays End Today Today is the last day that free x-rays can be had in the Memo rial Student Center. Examinations will be given persons 15 years old or over between 8 a.m. and noon, and 1 and 5 p.m. The x-rays are provided by the State Department of Health. Kennedy Chosen For Top Post; Named Corps Sergeant Major Civilians, Ford Argue Poster Rule Other events on his schedule dur ing the weekend weye a breakfast given by the Bryan Chamber of Commerce, a luncheon with top- ranking cadet officers, and an in spection of cadet donnitory rooms. Other distinguished guests here for the Military weekend activities were Olin E. Teague of College Station, sixth district congress man Rear xA dm.-John Will, direc tor of personnel policy for the as sistant secretary of defense for manpower and personnel; Maj. Gen. M. K. Deichelman, comman der of air ROTC headquarters; Maj. Gen. Samuel T. Williams, dep uty commander of the fourth army; and Maj. Gen. K. L. Berry, Texas Adjutant General. The Civilian Student Council last night flared up in opposition to an opinion voiced by Corps Command er Frank Ford, who said he was definitely opposed to civilian stu dent campaigning for offices with in their dormitory areas. Ford, an ex-officio member of the council without vote, expressed his opinion during the council’s dis cussion of recent Student Life com mittee action. The committee, of which Ford is also a member, re ferred to a subcommittee at their last meeting a request that civilian students be allowed to campaign in their areas for cirilian offices. The request was from the Cirilian Stu dent Council. The discussion came after Ford said he was opposed to cirilian stu dents using posters, signs or cards. He felt the cirilian students should follow what he called the A&M tradition of campaigning by per sonal contacts. Councilman Hugh Lanktree told Ford, “We are in 1955 and not 1876,” saying the tradition had be come outdated because it is almost impossible to become acquainted with 6,000 students. Ford said, “I don’t think putting up posters is right. We are not junior high kids.” News Briefs DR. RALPH N. THAXLER, research supervisor for the Texas company. Port Neches, will discuss “History, Proper ties and Uses of Asphalt” at 8 tonight in the Biological Sci ence lecture room. The public is invited to attend this grad uate lecture. # # * THE GEOI^OGY and Petroleum clubs will hold a joint meeting at 7:30 to^ ; ' W. H. Spice, San A reports. The Geok 7:10 in the same roc in room 140 of the geology building. 7 geologist, will speak on evaluation h will hold a business meeting at _Jre the joint meeting. Business Etiquette Set For Wednesday The third program of the eti quette series, “Business Etiquette,” will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Wed nesday in the Memorial Student Center ballroom. Speaker for the occasion will be Charles Hardwick of the Owens Coming Fiberglass company, Tole do, Ohio. Wendell Horsley, direc tor of the placement office, is chairman for this meeting. The series is presented by the MSC “Mind Your Manners” Eti quette committee. This week’s program is to further students' knowledge of what is expected of them in the business world, and to acquaint them w r ith some of the practices followed in the business world, according to Dave Ashcroft, chairman of the committee. Space Ships Around A&M Have To Go The student affairs office is having trouble with infrac tions of w r hat is probably the most-quoted line in the college rule book — “Model airplanes wall be flown in designated areas only.” The area east of the Animal Industries building is the only “designated area” on the cam pus, but students and staff members have been flying their planes in other places. They have also been break ing the time violation—after 6 p.m. on weekdays and after noon on Saturdays are the only proper times. The policy wns set because the noise of the planes inter feres with class work, office wan-k, and conferences, said Bennie Zinn, head of the stu dent affairs department. Burl Purvis pointed out that a corps freshman is requii*ed to learn the names of all the men in his organization, but this is not so for the cirilian students. “If the corps has a majority, then let’s have that majority rep resented (in campus organizations), but let the minority have their representation. Don’t keep them pinned back,” he said. “A man shouldn’t be penalized because he is a cirilian student.” Ford then said that the cirilian students w T ere falling back on some thing “as artificial as a poster, which is just so much ink and paper.” ‘Not Accomplishing Anything’ “You are not accomplishing any thing by putting up posters,” Ford said. John Henderson, day student rep resentative to the council, said he had been elected to the council by three votes, but he was represent ing 950 students. “Our problem is presenting it (students running for offices) to the civilian students. We are not trying to compete with the corps,” he said. Ford modified his statements by saying he was not opposed to put ting up signs publicizing an elec tion, but he was against signs for particular candidates. Council President John Jones ended the discussion when one of the councilmen pointed out that Ford had said he “had not had time to study the problem thor oughly.” Other Action In other action, the council voted to award keys to ramp representa tives who had served for one semes ter and part of another. However, (See CIVILIANS, Page 2) Houston Junior Assumes New Duties Immediately Larry B. Kennedy, junior general business major from Houston, has been named corps sergeant major for this year. Kennedy, who is now corps athletic sergeant, will take over the top-ranking non-commissioned officer post imme diately, said Frank Ford, corps commander. Appointment as sergeant major means almost definite appointment as corps com mander the next year. “I’m very humbled bv the honor,” Kennedy said. “I'll try to do the best job possible for the corps.” “Kennedy has done a fine job this year,” Ford said, “and I know it will continue to be the same as he takes over the duties of co- 1 ordinating the efforts of the class i of ’56 toward a greater corps of cadets.” Kennedy is a member of the Me- ‘ morial Student Center Great Is sues committee, a repi-esentative to the Arts and Sciences council, fi nance chairman for the Student Conference on National Affairs and secretary-treasurer of the Pre- Law club. He is also a member of the Ross Volunteer honor company, a dis tinguished student, and a former student senator. He was out for track one year. The corps sergeant major is chosen by the commandant’s of fice, after recommendations from cadet officers and tactical officers. Larry B. Kennedy Corps Sergeant Major World News By The ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN — The Constitutional court of West Germany has agreed to hear a suit brought by Social ists which challenges the French- German agreement on the Saar. Socialists are trying to have the agreement declared unconstitution al. WASHINGTON — Civil de fense authorities announced yesterday there will be a sim ulated H-bomb attack on 50 continental U. S. cities June 15. Forty-three cities have been named: seven will be the object of a surprise attack. Early Morning Fire Hits Christian Church Fire yesterday morning caused an estimated $8-10,000 damage to the A&M Christian church, 306 old highway 6 south. The fire gutted the auditorium of the concrete block building and caused smoke and water damage to the adjoining kitchen and of fice. According to Rev. Clarence Ketch, pastor, the fire apparently TWO MEMBERS of the 9807th air reserve squadron, Joe Holmgreen and Dan C. Lowe, recently were promoted to < ''aptain. Holmgreen, who received his BS degree in civil engineering from A&M in 1948, is a tactical officer at the ] cjlege. Lowe is a former assistant commander of flight Alof the reserve squadron. * * * * LT. COL. MARVIN J. BIRDWELL, former commander of the 9807th air reserve squadron, is retiring from the air force. Birdwell was graduated from Allen Military academy in 1923. He entered active duty with the air force in 1942, and was discharged in 1946. He lives with his mother, Mrs. F. C. Birdwell, at 513 Wayside drive in Bryan. * * * MISS LUCILLE MOORE; recreation specialist for the agricultural extension service, will attend the meeting of the National Committee of 4-H Recreation and Rural Life to be held April 3-6 at the Conrad Hilton hotel in Chicago. This is the third year she has been asked to serve on this commit tee. • • • A PROTECTIVE RELAY ENGINEERS conference will be held April 25-28 in the Memorial Student Center, rooms 2A, 2B, 2C and the ballroom. A banquet will be held April 26 in the ballroom. Sponsor for the conference is the electrical engineering department, and L. M. Haupt of the department is chairman. Filing for Offices Closes at 5 Today Filing for class offices closes at 5 p.m. today in the student activi ties office. Positions to be filled include seven class officers and one Me morial Student Center councilman for class of ’58; seven class offi cers, one MSC councilman and two yell leaders for class of ’59, and seven class officers plus one his torian, one MSC councilman, and yell leaders and one entertainment manager for class of ’56. Students desiring to vote absen tee in the class elections may do so any time after 8 a.m. on March 31 in the student activities office after stating reason for being ab sent on election day, said Pete Hardesty, student activities bus iness manager. Weather Today The weather outlook for today is cloudy and warmer with moderate, southerly winds.’ Yesterday’s high was 57, low 30. The temperature at 11 this morn ing was 67. FIRE DAMAGE—The Rev. Clarence Ketch, pastor of the A&M Christian church, surveys damage done to the church building by the fire early Monday morning. Some of the damaged books in the book case may be saved. The trash on the chairs in the foreground fell from the roof. started from an automatic heater in the ceiling of the building. The alarm was turned in at 6:50 a.m. “The fire started in the roof and it was not electrical,” he said. The heater, controlled by a thei-mostat, w r as set to go on when the temper ature dropped below 38, he ex plained. Ketch said he was not sure of the damage, but the building was “a flat mess.” Heavy damage in the auditorium, which seats about 130 people, was done to an elec tronic organ, metal chairs, hym nals, windows and the ceiling. In surance totaling $16,000 was car ried on the building. The kitchen in the rear of the building suffered smoke and wa ter damage, but the fire was con tained in the sanctuary. Ketch’s office in the front of the church also was damaged considerably by smoke, water and heat. At a meeting last night, the church’s board of trustees decided to hold Sunday services in the arm ory, across old highway 6 from the church. Sunday school and the nursery will be held, in the usual place, but adult church school and the worship .service will be in the armory, Ketch said. The only weekend activity of the church, the Wednesday choir prac tice, will probably be held in one of the member’s homes, Ketch ad ded. The burned building was con- structed seven years ago, and the church has been considering a building program. At the board meeting, no defi nite decision was reached about possibly starting the building pro gram now, according to Ketch. “There did seem to be a unani mous feeling toward working for the building program instead of carrying out a repair job on the burned structure,” he said. Freshman, Soph Math Contest Prizes Listed The annual mathematics contest examinations for freshmen and sophomores are scheduled for April 26 from 7:30 to 9 :30 p.m. Prizes offered this year in the two contests are as follows: • First prize — a gold wrist watch • Second prize—$15.00 • Third prize—$10.00 All prizes in the freshmen con test and the second and third prizes in the sophomore contest are pro vided by the Robert F. Smith Me morial fund. The first prize for sophomores is given by the Halperin Award fund, established by the estate of the late professor H. Halperin. Winners in last year’s freshmen contest were Charles S. Skillman jr., first place; Charles L. Edwards, second place; and Hubert Mount, third place. In the sophomore con test, first prize went to Herman Keller; second prize to Robert E. Blewster jr.; and third prize to Clay McFarland. Freshmen now enrolled in math 104 and sophomores now taking math 210 are invited to participate in this year’s contests. The fresh men contest will be held in room 223 of the Academic building and the sophomore contest will be held in room 225. Frozen Posies Postpone Flower Show “Under The Big Top,” the flower show sponsored by the A&M Garden club, scheduled for tonight, has been postpon ed until further notice. Mrs. Carl Landiss, publicity co-chairman, announced that the Garden club members will be unable to put on the show since the recent freeze took heavy toll of the prospective flower entries. The Garden club will meet Friday, April Fool’s day, at 2:30 p.m., and discuss plans concerning the flower show, in the social room of the Memo rial Student Center. No foolin’, there’s going to be a meeting.