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The Battalion Number 89: Volume 54 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS. THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1955 Price Five Cents Great Issues Smith Will Speuk On Asian Policy Robert A. Smith, one of the na tion’s foremost foreign policy ex perts, will speak here Sunday as a part of the Great Issues lecture series. Smith, who is a political scien- tiM, lecturer, educator, will speak at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Memorial Student Center ballroom. His topic ■will be “A New Policy for Asia.” Great Issues seines tickets will be good for admission, and $1 tick ets can be purchased at the door. Smith has a distinguished list of accomplishments. He is now the New York Times’ foreign policy editorial writer, and is also a pro fessor at Drake University and Bernard college. He has written articles for the Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, X-Ray Unit Gives 14,625 Free Checkups In nine days at Bryan and six at the Memorial Student Center, 14,625 free x-rays were given, according to Joe l4'. Sorrels, president of the I?<fazos County Tuberculosis asso ciation. Bryan had 8,774 and College Sta tion had 5,851 persons getting the free x-rays given by the Texas De partment of Health. Although the x-ray unit had to close during the noon hour at the MSC because only one technician was available, the number x-rayed was only 48 below fast spring’s total. The total last year was 14,935 lor the whole county. Following the pattern of the results of the past five years, the great majority of persons will re ceive a cai'd saying their x-ray film was .satisfactory. Only about 10 to 15 per cent will receive the let ter advk.ng them to visit their physician. Any abnormality ob served in reading the films at the health department in Austin will be reported to +he local doctors, whether it indicates a suspicion of tuberculosis or some other trouble like tumors or heart disorders. Sorrels and J. M. Lawrence III, general chairman for the survey •jvpressed their thanks to all who iLntributed to the success of the survey. World News By ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Eisenhower yesterday indicated his displeasure over Adm. Carney’s prediction of war with Red China by April 15, saying that too much speculation about war does not serve the cause of world peace. * * * VIET NAM •— In Indochina, non-communist South Viet Nam was quiet yesterday af ter clashes between govern ment forces and a private army. The outbreak left 26 dead and 112 wounded. ■ * * * AL^STIN—District Attorney Les Proctor yesterday filed four char ges of felony theft against resign ed land commissioner Bascom Giles and two other men, B. R. Sheffield a^d L. V. Ruffin. They are charg ed with illegally taking $688,344 in four veterans land ti-ansactions l^st year. ♦ * * WASHINGTON — A bill postponing a cut in corpor ation and excise taxes for one more j ear was signed by Pres ident Eisenhower last night The rates put into effect dur ing the Korean war were to drop at midnight tonight. * * * LONDON—Britain established a | new defense linkup with Turkey j and Iraq yesterday, to extend the j defensive area of the North At lantic pact to the Indian ocean in j the middle East. Iraq is the first Arab state to line up with the West against communism. and the American Mercury, and has appeared on the American Town Meeting of the Air. He is a writ er and broadcaster for the Colum bia Broadcasting system. Tentative plans for Sunday also include a dinner and a reception for Smith after his talk. Herman Hassell is chairman of the Great Issues committee, which is sponsored by the Memorial Stu dent Center. About two more Great Issues talks are planned for the rest of the year. Local Girls Included In Duchesses Seventeen duchesses have been selected from the College Station - Bryan area for the 24th annual Cotton Pageant and Style show in the White coliseum April 29. The duchesses, and their escorts, and arganizations they represent are as folows: Miss Caroline Rayburn, J.ohn C. Standard, American Institute of Industrial Engineers; Miss Fannie Lou Mainer, Pat Wheat, senior class of Stephen F. Austin high school; Miss Sarita Colson, Gary Bourgeois, Bryan Reading club; Miss Diane Harris, David Wycoft, College Station A&M Mothers club. Mrs. Fred Ablon, Fred Ablon, the B’nai B’rith Hillel foundation of College Station; Miss Nancy Hale, Jim Harrison, Enginering so ciety of A&M; Miss Carol McCul lough, John Hardy, Brazos County A&M club; Miss Anne Price, Ran dolph Kanz, ASC auxilliary of Bry an; Miss Florene Huff, James E. Sadler, A&M Consolidated high school. Mrs. George Risien, George Ris- ien, Geology Wives club; Mrs. Ar thur Crixwell, Arthur Crixwell, Mechanical Engineering Wives club; Mrs. Fred Olps, Fred Olps, Associated General Contractors; Miss Madelyn Gaines, Bill White, Extension club; Miss Eugenia Rush, John F. Hickman, Campus Study club. Mrs. J. T. Reyman, J. T. Rey man, Amarillo A&M Mothers club; Mrs. Aly Rasheen, Aly Rasheen, United Nations club; Mrs. Hardy Purvis, Hardy Purvis, Industrial Education club. Wide D evelopment In Highways Cited Highway department engineers furnish information on their work now under w r ay and what is being planned and how and the teachers in turn funnel this information i*to the classrooms. DEBATE PRACTICE—Members of the A&M debate teams practice for the meet this weekend. They are, from left to right, Bill Heard and Ray Finch, the negative team; Lee J. Martin of the English department, sponsor; and John Wilson and David Bowers, the affirmative team. Debate Meet To Be Held Here April 2 The Southwest Conference debate tourney will be held April 2 in the Memorial Stu dent Center, announced Lee J. Martin, of the English depart ment. Each school will enter one affir mative and one negative team, ex plained Martin. David A. Bowers, business major from Alice, and John C. Wilson, economics major from Dallas, will make up the af firmative team for A&M. The neg ative team will consist of Ray N. Finch and Bill Heard. The affirmative team placed third in the University of Texas tournament at Austin last week. Both teams were rated excellent at their last debate at East Cen tral college in Ada, Okla. The negative team was judged among the top four teams at the Louisiana speech tournament last weekend. A national topic is debated each year. This years’ topic is “Re solved that the United States should extend diplomatic recogni tion to the Communist government of China.” “This is the first year that all schools have been represented since the tourney was reorganized in 1950,” said Martin. The champions will receive an engraved trophy. The tournament is sponsored by the A&M discussion and debate club, under the direction of the English department. The Texas Highway department has been challenged to meet “the greatest development of highways in the history of our country,” Der witt C. Greer, state highway engi neer, said here this week. “We are now moving into an era in the development of high ways that will provide the great est challenge to highway engineers in the history of our country,” Greer said. He spoke at the 29th annual short course in highway engineering being held at the col lege. Greer said within the next 10 years Texas will have at least 10 million people and five millior mo tor vehicles. “The continued expansion of the use of motor vehicles in Texas must be anticipated,” he said, “and it will be the responsibility of the highway engineers of our state to plan, design and build, looking ahead at least to 1975.” Controlled access to express highways, whereby entrance is made at designated points of safety is under study. Where enough right-of-way is obtained this en trance would be made from paved outer highways adjacent to the ex pressway, he said. At the meeting, which ends today, attended by 40 engineers, teachers, students and others, the Monday Last Day To Get Invitations Deadline for ordering graduation invitations is 5 p.m. Monday, ac cording to Pete Hardesty, student activities business manager. Three different types of invita tions are available, and any num ber of any or all three types may be ordered on a cash basis, payable when order is made. Payment con be made by check. The French fold invitation is priced at two for 25 cents. The cardboard bound invitation, which contains the invitation and a ros ter of all graduating students, is 45 cents, and the all-leather bound invitation with the roster and invi tation is 95 cents. Engraved personal cards are $2.95 per hundred and may be or dered in lots of 100 only. Printed personal cards are $1.25 per hun dred and also must be ordered in lots of 100. Orders may be placed this week from 8 a.m. to 12 noon and from 1 to 5 p.m., Hardesty said. Stu dents are urged to order before the deadline date to avoid possible mis takes in placing the order. 53 Juniors Named As Distinguished Military Students Army ROTC Gives Tentative Appointment Fifty-three junior army ROTC students have been ten tatively named distinguished military students, according to Col. Henry L. Phillips, acting PMS&T. The cadets were chosen on a basis of overall grades and military grades, plus leadership and character requirements. To be a distinguished military student, a cadet must be "’in the upper half of his aca demic class and the upper 10 A&M Freshman Suspended For Theft Kenneth Ray Thomas, freshman from Weatherford, has been indefinitely suspend ed after appearing before a military panel yesterday for the theft of a $75 wrist watch. The watch was taken from a hook in the shower of dormitory 14, where it was left by its owner, Robert L. Jennings, freshman from Sherman. Jennings had left the w r atch there while taking a shower and forgot it when he went back to his room. He noticed the watch was missing and returned to the show er to find it had been stolen. A shakedown of the dormitory produced the watch, which was hid den in a dresser drawer. Eight seniors conducted the search. According to the company com mander, it was the first time Thomas had shown signs of being untrustworthy. Thomas said he had an impulse to return the watch after being asked if he had seen it, but “ft was so easy to keep.” “To anyone reading this,” Thom as said, “and you have been mixed up in something like this or are faced with it, think twice before doing it.” Appreciation Show Nets About $2,000 The variety show, “In the Pink,” held March 24 in the White coli seum netted approximately $2,000, J. E. (Jocke) Roberts, ticket sales chairman, said yesterday. Gross income from ticket sales was'*about $2,400, and only a few tickets haven’t been checked in yet, he said. The show was given in apprecia tion of P. L. (Pinky) Downs jr., A&M’s official greeter, who is at home recovering from a long ill ness in a Galveston hospital. per cent of his class in mili tary science. If the juniors are still qual ified for the designation next year, they will be named permanently as distinguished military students. They are as follows: Infantry: Roy Bertrand, Cecil Crawford, Robert Good, Larry Ken nedy, John Lorms, and Michael Mooney. Armor: Lloyd Billingsley, Mead Bramlett, Don Burton, Ed Fries, Ray Latham, and Stuart Watson. Engineers: Steve Bryant, Rich ard Guthrie, Curtis Lancaster, Wil liam Ledbetter, Walter Parsons, George Pitri, and Phillip Weinert. Field artillery: Jack Edwards, Sam Laden, Homer Martin, Bill Ruez, John Sheffield, Ed Stinnett, and Frank Westmoreland. Anti-aircraft artillery: Howard Mounce, Wesley Shackelford, Jer ry Sides, David Slemmons, L e n Steakly, and Don Williams. Signal corps: John Harris, Jpe Tucker, Frank Vaden, and Leland White. Transportation corps: Ed Biehf, David Bowers, Leo Namkin, and James Stansel. Ordnance: Joseph Broosche, Paul Hanison, Weldon Morris, and Rex Laveral. Quartermaster corps: R o b g r t Fuller, Norman Jacobson, B. A. (Scotty) Parham, and George Thomas. Chemical corps: Robert Good man, James Kocian, Avery McKin ney, Marvin Noble. Tw t o senior army ROTC students, Philip McNemer and James Mof- fitt, were named as permanent dis tinguished military students. In Caine Mutiny Bendix To Play Queeg Big man William Bendix will play the center-of-the-stage role of Capt. Queeg of the U.S.S. Caine when Town Hall presents the Caine Mutiny Court Martial here April 13. Bendix, known for his rough movie characterizations, will play the part of the deposed skipper of the minesweeper Queeg, on trial for his sanity. This tour is Bendix’s first ap pearance with the legitimate the ater since 1941, when he appeared on Broadway in Saroyan’s “The Time of Your Life.” Since that time he has been in Hollywood, and has appeared in more than 20 movies. Throughout his youth Bendix had only one ambition — to become a professional baseball player. He William The Caine’s Bendix Capt. Queeg Weather Today The weather outlook for today is cloudy with fresh southerly winds throughout the day. There is a cold front moving in from west Texas that will hit College Station at approrimately 7 to night. thought this dream might come true when he got his first job, as a bat boy with the New York Giants. However, his career was squelched w r hen his parents would not let him go with the team to spring training camp. After his schooling, Bendix join ed a wholesale grocery firm, and w r as soon made manager of a branch store in Orange, N.J. The grocery career collapsed in 1936 Cox Wins Award For Scholarship Fred B. Cox, junior electrical engineering major from Temple, has been named the winner of a $500 General Electric engineer ing scholarship. He was selected as the outstand ing student in electrical, mechan ical, chemical, aeronautical and industrial engineering He competed with students from A&M, Oklahoma A&M, Oklahoma university, SMU, Rice institute. University of Texas, University of New Mexico, Texas Tech, New Mexico A&M, and was named one of the winners of the five awards. and he went to work as a singing waiter. This job had the short life of one performance. He moved on to the New Jersey Federal The atre project and remained there for three years. Louis Simon, w r ho wms the head of that project, introduced him to Cheryl Crawford, a Broadw*ay producer, for whom Bendix did six plays. In between, Bendix did summer stock in Ivorytowm, Conn.; Newport, R.L; Maplewrood, NJ. and Bucks County, Pa. He married his childhood sweet heart, Therese Stefanotty. They have two daughters, Lorraine, born November 17, 1929 and Stephanie, bom December 17, 1944. Student Senators To Attend Meeting Ten student senators will go to San Antonio’s Trinity university this weekend for the annual Texas Intercollegiate Students associa tion convention. Delegates will be Senate Presi dent Jerry Ramsey, Paul Holliday, Bill Utsman, Glenn Buell, Tony Specia, Bob Alcock, Gus Mijalis, Bob Putman and John Benefield, with Bill Bass as chairman of the A&M delegation. The TISA has representatives from about 35 Texas colleges. The planning session for this meeting was held here last month. There will be no Student Senate meeting Thursday, as scheduled, because of the absence of these 10 delegates. Egypt Program A talk and showing of color slides on Egypt, will be given at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the assembly room of the YMCA. Dr. Ali Las- heen of Egypt, graduate of A&M, will be the speaker and show the color slides at the meeting of the United Nations dub. Seniors Barbecue Planned for May 3 The second annual barbecue for the senior class will be May 3 this year. The barbecue, sponsored by the Former Students association, is de signed to help the graduating sen iors get acquainted with the work of the association, said J. B. (Dick) Hervey, former students executive secretary. Plans for the barbecue are in complete, but Hervey says he is going to try to make it more of a “spectacle” this year. He wants to try to have an open air barbecue, instead of having the dining halls do the cooking, as was done last year. “I already have one steer,” he said, “but I need tfro or three more.” Working with Hervey on the plans for the barbecue is the class of ’55 committee, composed of one representative from each dormi tory.