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r-rrw m « # ^ 31 # 7/zc Hattahon Number 88: Volume 54 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1955 Price Five Cents Parents Day Plans Completed for May By Intercouncil The Intoreouncil committee yes terday completed planning' ar rangements for the annual Parents ilay weekend. May 7 and 8. '« Committees have been named for all phases of the weekend, and >vill begin work soon. The Aggie Follies committee, headed by Charles (Chuck) New man, is already holding try-outs for the all-Aggie show, to be giv en both nights. The last try-out session will be held tonight at 7:30 in the Music hall. 5 Kiwanis Club Has Top Guests At Luncheon The College Station and Bryan KivVanis clubs held a joint luncheon yesterday in the Memorial Student Center, with special guests James N. Walker, governor of the Kiwanis Texas-Oklahoma distinct, and the lieutenant governor of division 9, Petty,, and their wives, i^a’ J° e Mogford introduced guests ~+jrom Palestine, Navasota and Aus tin Kiwanis clubs. New members H. D. Beardon, vice-director of the Texas Engineering service, and C. A. Moore of the agricultural eco nomics and sociology department were welcomed into the club by R. G. Cherry, club president. Andy Anderson, a charter member of the club, returned to active membership after having left because of his work with the Texas Park service. Doug Conley, Bryan president, introduced Petty, who in turn introduced Walker. The district governor spoke on the accomplish ments of the Kiwanis clubs since their beginning in 1915 in Detroit, Mich. The organization now has almost 4,000 clubs in 30 districts, he said. Among last year’s accomplish ments of the various clubs Walker talked about were the helping of underprivileged children, activities for youth and the building of youth centers, sponsoring of 4,200 FFA and FHA units, and 10,000 “Go to Church” campaigns. /f The petition for the local Cii’cle iv club, which held its organiza tional meeting last week, was pre sented to Walker at the luncheon'. M. M. Deans was elected tempo rary chairman for the Circle K committee, wdiich will meet at 5 p.m. tomorrow in the MSC. “We want this to be an all-Ag gie show — no faculty,” Newman said. “Any student or student wife is welcome to try out.” Seniwil Perl will be in charge of arranging space for the depart mental exhibits put up each year. The council will also sponsor three information booths, one at the East Gate, one , at the West Gate, and one in the Memorial Stu dent Center. Tickets to the Follies will be $1 each night. The profits from the show will be divided up among the four school councils, in proportion to their enrollment. The committee’s proposed school wide honor code is still out to the school councils for- approval, with only the agriculture council ap proving it. The Agriculture council approv ed the proposed code with only a few minor modifications. The Engineering council will act on it sometime this week, and the Arts and Sciences council will dis cuss it Monday. If these three councils, plus the Veterinary council, approve the plan, it will go into effect here next year. The plan calls for a student hon or council to judg-e cases of cheat ing by students. ABOUT 200 FILE FOR ELECTIONS UNDER THE WIRE—Sophomore Charles Schweizer, Lar ry T. Cahill, and James C. Leissner file for class of ’57 of fices in the student activities office. Taking- their Applica tions is Mrs. Doris Bahlmann. Yesterday was the last day for filing for the April 5 class elections. Aggie, Two Youths Held for Burglary An A&M student and two other i hon said they had been drinking Bryan youths have been charged in a Bryan beer parlor and had Two Elections Set Early In April Two A&M Consolidated school board members whose terms are expiring will run unopposed for re- election April 2. They are J. S. Rog'ers and J. R. Jackson. The election will be held in the old music room at Consoli dated school. J. J. Sperry is elec tion judge. Voters also will decide on a county school board member-at- large. Candidates for this position are D. D. Burchard and G. W. Wil- x. City election will be held April in the council room of the city hall from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Quali fied voters who live in College Sta tion are eligible to vote for candi dates for the three council posi tions for which terms are ending. The present three councilmen have filed for candidacy, and no one is running against them. The three are J. A. Orr from ward 1, G. W. Black from ward 2, and Ern est Seeg'ar from ward 3. Election judge is Mrs. W. B. Cle ments; Mrs. C. B. Godbey and Mrs. Ernest Langford are clerks. with burglary after they attempted to break into a liquor' stoi*e on highway 21 early Saturday just "v\^st of the Brazos county line, According to Skelly Strong, chief deputy of Burleson county. The student, Charles McMahon, 23, from Decatur, Ill., was shot with a shotgun as the trio attempt ed to flee from the store, Strong said. The other two being held are McMahon’s brother, Pat, 22, and Robert Anthony, 26. According to the Houston Post, Charles McMa- Five Professors To Attend Meet Five members of the department of agricultui'al economics and so ciology will participate in the an nual meeting of the Southwestern Social Science association in Dallas, April 8-9. J. H. (Dixie) Southern is chair man of the land economics section. A. C. Magee will discuss “The Unit Approach to Farm and Home Planning.” R. L. Skrabanek will discuss “Agricultural Mechanization and Farm Population Trends in the Southwest.” H. J. Hildreth will discuss “The Use of Budget Analysis in Farm Management Research.” M. S. Brooks is moderator of a panel on evaluation of theories of the causation of crime. Time Magazine Survey Job Openings Look Good The year 1955 looks like a good one for men who will be graduating in May or June—business wants all the college graduates it can get, and is willing to pay for them. According to a survey conducted by Time magazine in February, both the demand and pay scale for college graduates are on the i crease for 1955. Weather Today PARTLY CLOUDY The we-ather outlook for today is clear to partly cloudy and slight ly warmer. Yesterday’s high was 66, low 37. The temperature at 10 this morning was 60. Last year, only 67 to 89 per cent of the businesses hired all the col lege graduates they wanted to. There weren’t enough graduates to go around to all the others, and the demand is expected to increase nine per cent this year. “The demand for college gradu ates has exceeded the supply,” the National Industrial Conference board said. The biggest competitor for the college-trained man is the armed services. The Time report esimat- ed that 76 per cent of this year’s graduates would have to fulfill a military obligation. Starting salaries for graduates are up about two per cent this year. The average starting salary per month is engineering, $361; sales, $336; accounting, $332; gen- Nortli Texas Exes To Meet Thursday The North Texas State college ex-students will meet Thursday at 6:15 p.m. in the assembly room of the Memorial Student Center. A dinner will be held immediate ly folio-wing the meeting. Tickets mrrst be picked up before 6 p.m. today, according to Mrs. J. E. Roberts, chairman. They are on sale at the main desk of the MSC. All wives and husbands are invited. eral business, $327; other fields, $347. The report also had some things to say about undergraduates, which it calls “the fastest growing mar ket of best customers for industrial and consumer goods.” Taken from a survey of 11,000 students in 55 colleges and univer sities, the report found that the college student is a big spender. For instance, here’s the total number of campus possessions: 2,349,000 radios, 1,161,000 record players, 1,539 cameras, 729,000 cars, 1,647,000 typewriters, and 7,776,000 pieces of luggage. And although it doesn’t pertain too much to a school with a large part of the student body in uni form, the Time report also found that the average male college stu dent has three suits, three sports jackets and seven miscellaneous jackets, two overcoats and top coats, one raincoat, 14 shirts, four pairs of shoes, and one hat. gone across the county line after another bottle after the Bryan es tablishment closed. Here is the story, according to Strong: The youths went to the liquor store about 1:30 a.m. Saturday. In trying to get into the store, they went into the bedroom of the woman who owns the store, and fell “right next to her bed.” A friend of the woman’s and his wife were asleep in the house. When the noise awakened the man, he grabbed a shotgun. McMahon was shot as the youths were running for their car, but they escaped and took McMahon to a Bryan hospital, where 40 shot gun pellets were removed from his body. The youths wore arrested at the hospital and taken to jail in Cameron. Strong said last night that they were being held at the jail in lieu of $5,000 bond each. He said they had waived an examining trial and their case w r ould probably come before the grand jury in May. Caine Mutiny Will Be Here Plus Lombardo The “Caine Mutiny Cour Martial” will appear at A&M with the original cast “ex cept the leads,” Bill Johnson student entertainment manag er, announced yesterday. In addition to the Broadway play, however, Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians have also been booked, he said. The play will be April 13 and Lombardo will be here April 18. Both presentations are sponsored by Town Hall, and Lombardo is “an added attraction due to the expressed response to Town Hall this year,” Johnson said. Playing the leads in the Broad way show will be William Bendix and Robert Lowery. The Lombardo production will also feature an all- star review, according to Johnson The Caine Mutiny was originally scheduled for March 24, but the engagement was canceled when the road show company cut short their tour. Town Hall tickets will be good for both presentations and indi vidual tickets will be on sale ii student activities office and at the door, Johnson said. Individual tickets are $2 for adults and $1 for.children. Both shows will begin at 8 p.m. in the White coliseum. Timm Appointed To Farm Group Tyrus R. Timm, head of the de partment of agricultural econom ics and sociology, has been ap pointed to the Agricultural com mission for the American Bankers association for 1955 by its presi dent, Homer J. Livingston of Chi cago. The commission meets twice a year to report results of its stud ies of important trends, problems and opportunities in the field of farm credit. Stark Appointed To Committee Job J. Wayne Stark, director of the Memorial Student Center has been appointed as a member of the Pro fessional Relations committee of the Association of College Unions. The committee is a standing committee of the Association which will meet for their thirty-second annual conference April 3-6 in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. Batt To Publish Twice Next Week Since the Easter vacation starts next Wednesday, The Battalion will be published only twice, Tuesday and Thurs day, according to Ross Strader, manager of student publica tions. Following the vacation period, the paper will resume regular schedule starting Tues day, April 12. Voting Will Be April 5 By Post Office in MSC About 200 candidates have filed for the April 5 class elections, with the senior class positions for next year having the most candidates. “As far as I can tell,” said W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, bus iness manager of student activities, “every position in every class has been filed for.” Grade point ratios of the candidates are being checked now. The Battalion will print a full list of the candidates as soon as the check is complete. Absentee balloting for the election starts tomorrow. Students who will be out-of-town April 5, Tuesday, for a field trip or any other valid reason can vote in the student activ- *4ties office. ^ Balloting Tuesday will be Characters A “scouting trip” for a pos sible spot for an outfit party turned into an arctic expedi tion for two students Sunday. Larry Washburn, junior from Houston, and John L. Klauss, freshman from San Antonio, went sailing on Lake Houston to find a place where their outfit, squadron 21, could hold an outdoor party. They were reported missing about 10 p.m. that night, and were not found until 7 a.m. Monday, having drifted dur ing the night in near freezing weather. Both returned for classes yesterday, neither having suf- fered from exposure despite the weather. Washburn explained their motor quit about dusk Sunday due to the choke being open and the gas pouring out, add ing, “We’re just now warming up; it got pretty cold out there.” by the post office in the Me morial Student Center from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The run-off will be April 13, at the same time and place. Positions to be filled are as fol lows: Class of ’55: a class agent for the Former Students association. Class of ’56: class officers, a student entertainment manager, one representative to the MSC council, and two yell leaders (the person receiving the most votes for yell leader will be head yell lead er; the other will be senior yell leader). Class of ’57: class officers, two yell leaders, and one representa tive to the MSC council. Class of ’58: cla&s officers. Class officers for all classes in clude president, vice-president, sec retary, social secretary, treasurer, and parliamentarian. The senior class of next year will also elect a historian. March 22 and Filings began closed yesterday. News of the World By The ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON—Maintenance engineers and electricians on Britain’s largest newspapers have threatened to strike today if wage increase demands are not met. A walkout would shut down 10 newspapers that circulate all over the British Isles and the three London evening papers. it * BONN, GERMANY—Two Australian brothers who broke into East Germany to see what it was like, were freed yesterday after five weeks in Rus sian captivity. The men said, “It’s been nothing but interrogation, interrogation and more interroga tion.” ★ ★ ★ JAPAN—A Japanese fisherman, one of the 23 crew members of a fishing boat which was dusted with radioactive fallout last March, has died of natural causes. * * * WASHINGTON — The state department has criticized the Russians for releasing proposals they have made to the five-power disarmament confer ence in London. Qualifying Tests The army ROTC qualifying test will be given to all army sopho mores and other students who will be eligible for a contract next fall during drill period Thursday. No preparation is necessary for the test. HULLABALOO CANEK CANEK—Student wives and Ag gies got into the act at the try-outs for Aggie Follies parts Monday night. From left to right are: Mrs. Barbara John son; Bill (Nat) Campbell, set director; Mrs. Chris Vavelka; Kenneth George; Charles (Chuck) Newman, head of the Follies committee; and Don Powell, writer of the show. Casting will continue tonight at 7:30 in the Music hall.