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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.
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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.
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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.