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The Battalion Number 90: Volume 54 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1955 Price Five Cents Check Planned on Filin SEVENTH HEAVEN—Once a year, around April Fool’s day, the freshmen get to turn the tables on the sophomores in the corps. Yesterday was the annual Fish day, and here freshmen Jimmy Purvis, left, and Edward Holben, right, inspect three sophomores. The sophomores are James Manely, Paul Duke, and Dick Moore. Fish day started at midnight Wednesday and lasted until 4 p.m. Thursday. Two Studenis G-ot Da nforth A. wa rds Two Danforth awards for A&M students have been announced by C. N. Shepardson, dean of agricul ture, after recommendation of the Danforth Award committee. Donald J. Dierschke, junior ani mal husbandry major from Row- ena, was selected to receive the X/?mforth Summer fellowship, which provides for a two-weeks study tour of the Ralston Purina ■w.ills and research farm at St. Louis, Mo., and two weeks at the American Youth Foundation sum mer camp at Shelby, Mich. Fifty of these fellowships are awarded to outstanding agricul tural juniors from the land-grant colleges of each of the states and one each from Alaska, Hawaii and Canada. Dierschke has a grade point ra tio of 3.0, and is a member of Phi Eta Sgma and Alpha Zeta fatern- ities. He won the Alpha Zeta award as outstanding freshman, was freshman class president, treasurer and president of the Col legiate 4-H club, and a member of the Ross Volunteers. Freshman Award The Dansforth Leadership Train ing scholarship for an agricultural freshman went to Jon Hagler of LaGrange. This awards covers tuition at the American Founda tion Leadership Training camp at Shelby, Mich. Hagler has a grade point ratio of 2.69, and is a mem- ... pier of the Phi Eta Sigma. He is president of the Freshman Colleg iate FFA chapter, vice-president ^ News of the W orld By the Associated Press WASHINGTON—State Depart ment officials said last night that the Western Allies 'will not be “blackmailed” into paying the Russian-imposed highway taxes on the road between West Germany and East Germany. The taxes are to go into effect today. * * * r CLEBURNE—Vicious winds described as twisters, coming with another cold front, dam aged buildings here and at Greenville. Following the winds is what weathermen call the “worst dust storm of the year.” The prediction for most of the state is clear and eool- GALVESTON — The Galveston county grand jury has returned in dictments against the office man- vager of the city water works de- | partment, G. C. Rickert, charging . him with misapplication of funds * totaling $834.63, of A&M Young Farmers club, as sistant editor and business ma ager of the Texas Young Farmer magazine, and winner of a Fort Worth Farm and Ranch club schol arship to A&M. Civilian Okayed More Sweethearts Three Weekend Dances Scheduled Publicity Approved ‘Primary’ May By SLC Group Have Set Slate $W Conference Debate Tourne Set In MSC An engraved trophy is awaiting the champions of the Southwest Conference debate tourney to be held tomorrow in the Memorial Student Cen ter in rooms 2A, 2B, 3B, 3C, 3D and the social room. All of the conference schools ex cept Ar-kansas have entered teams in the debate, the subject of which is “Resolved That the United States Should Extend Diplomatic Recognition to the Communist gov ernment of China.” Each school will enter one affirmative and one negative team. A&M’s affirmative team is composed of David A. Bow ers and John C. Wilson; the nega tive team consists of Ray N. Finch and Bill Heard. Debates will start at 9 a.m., 10:15 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. The championship round will start at 3:30 p.m. in room 3D. The public is invited to attend the tommey, said Sponsor Lee J. Martin of the English department. Each debate, excepting the cham pionship, has one judge, either Horn the college staff or a professional person from the area. The cham pionship debate will have three judges, O. A. Morgner, Mrs. John McNeely and C. E. Dillon, all of whom have been active in debate work. A luncheon will be held at 1 p.m in the main dining room for all contestants and coaches. A coaches will meet for a business session at 10:15 a.m. in the birch room. The tourney was last held at A&M in 1950, and is sponsored by the A&M discussion and debate club under the direction of the English department. Buddy Brock and his orchestra, the Aggieland orchestra, and the Cafe Rue Pinalle, complete with floor show, will furnish musical in- tertainment, and the sophomore sweetheart will be selected from the five finalists pictured on this page, to give A&M another big spring weekend. Brock will play for the Sopho more ball Saturday night from 8 to 12 in the Grove and the sweet heart will be named during the in termission. In case of bad weath er, the dance will be moved to Sbisa hall, Doug DeCluitt, sopho more class president, said. Donation Needed All sophomores who have failed to pay their $1 donation must do so at the office of student activi ties by noon Saturday in order to attend the dance, DeCluitt said. More than 300 Ross Volunteers and their dates are expected for the annual RV banquet and dance Saturday evening in the Memorial Student Center ballroom, Joe Bob Walker, RV commander, said The banquet will begin promptly at 6:30 and Mardi Gras films of the marching RV’s taken during the past four years' will be shown. The RV’s and their dates will begin dancing to the music of the Aggieland orchestra in the MSC ballroom at 9, Walker said. The dues pair earlier by the RV’s will cover the cost of the evening’s intertainment and soft drinks will be served at the dance. Beginning the weekend activities at 8:30 p.m. Friday is the Cafe Rue Pinalle in the games area of the MSC, offering A&M’s version of a French night club. Tickets are now on sale in the MSC games area, at 60 cents per person. The final Rue Pinalle presentation will be May 21, during the senior Ring dance. Kit Kittrell, freshman member of the dance group and sponsor of the shows, will be master of cere monies this week. Fred Rose and Jack Courtney are the RV dance and banquet co ordinators. Chairmen for the sophomore dance and their committee assign ments are Jack Steele and Carl Wagner, sweetheart; Glen Chand ler, ticket; Leon Curtis, program; L. E. Sheppard, guest; Jon Cobb and Bob Yeager, decorations; and Buck Williams, publicity. Co-Editor Resigns To Take New Job Bob Boriskie resigned today as co-editor of The Battalion to take a position in the Col lege Information office. Be ginning on a part time basis for the remainder of the school year, he will become editor of the A&M System News after June 1. Elected co-editor last year in a special election held after the Battalion staff had resign ed. in a protest move, Boriskie was re-elected for the current school year in a later elec tion. “I have enjoyed the three years I’ve spent on the Bat talion,” he said, “but this is a job opportunity I couldn’t afford to turn down.” Boriskie, a senior journal ism major fx-om Bryan, is mar ried and has three sons. Harri Baker, the other co editor, will take over as edi tor for the rest of the semes ter Times Writer Speaks Sunday At Great Issues Asian policy will come un der discussion Sunday when Robert A. Smith, New York Times’ foreign policy editorial writer and professor at Drake university and Bernai'd college, speaks as a part of the Great Issues lecture series. Smith, who has written magazine articles, appeared on the American Town Meeting of the Air, and writes and broadcasts for the Co lumbia Broadcasting system, will talk on “A New Policy for Asia” at the 2 p.m. lecture in the Memo rial Student Center ballroom. Great Issues series tickets will be good for admission, and others can buy tickets for $1 at the door The series is sponsor-ed by #ie MSC Great Issues committee, of which Herman Hassell is chairman. Tentative plans for Sunday also include a dinner and a reception for Smith after his talk. About two more Great Issues lectures are planned for the rest of the year. A special sub-committee of the Student Life committee voted unanimously last night to recommend that civilian students be al lowed to campaign for student elections next year. The five-man sub-committee will recom mend that civilian students be allowed to campaign only within their housing areas, and only for elections that are limited to civ ilian students. This recommendation means that no cam paign material could be used for an election in which civilian and corpsf students were competing for the same office, such as class elections, said Robert O. Mur ray, chairman of the sub-com mittee. Campaign material could be used for all-civilian elections, such as civilian senator and civilian yell leader. The sub-committee will recom mend that campaign material be limited to 8” by 11” posters in the civilian dormitories, 2” by 3” post ers on stakes in the college apart ment areas, cards and handbills. Campaign expenses for each can didate would not be allowed to ex ceed $15. If approved by the Student Life committee, these recommendations would go into effect next Septem ber. Some civilian senators and dormitory council members are elected in the fall, and the rules would apply to those elections. Members of the sub-committee were Murray, Frank Ford, Joe West, Charles Cocanougher. Wal lace Eversberg was also appointed, but had to leave on a field trip. Pat Wheat cepi'esented Eversberg. Lincoln Park Lighting Bids Have Been Let Dentist To Speak Dr. L. C. Bock, DDS, Bryan dent ist, will speak at a meeting of the Pre-Med, Pre-Dental society Tues day night at 7:30 in room 107 of the Biological Sciences building. He will speak on denistry as a profession. School Board Election Set Tomorrow College Station voters will elect a county school board member-at-large Saturday, with the balloting to be held in the old music room at Con solidated school from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Candidates for this election are D. D. Burchard and G. W. Wilcox. Voters also will get a chance to re-elect two Consolidated school board member’s, J. S. Rogers and J. R. Jackson, who are unopposed for re-election. The election will be held at the same place. J. J. Sperry is election judge. City election will be held Tuesday in the city hall coun cil room from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Three councilmen whose terms are expiring are running for re-election, and are unoppos ed. They are J. A. Orr, G. W. Black and Ernest Seegar. The student activities office began check today on filings for next year’s senior class officers, to determine if unfair methods have been used to prevent some students from filing for Tuesday’s class elections. W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, business manager of student activities, said last night that he would question army ROTC juniors who had filed for the class positions, to see if a “pri- mray” election was used to pick an army slate of candidates. If this was done Hardesty said, some oth er army juniors may have been kept from filing by in timidation. “Primary” - type elections are not specifically prohibited by the college regulations. Any election not conducted by the Elec tion commission, however, is ille gal. The filings for office show that only a few army juniors filed, against several air force seniors, indicating a possible “primary” ar- « my election. The break down is as follows: President: one army, four air force. Vice-president: one army, three air force. Recording secretary: one army, five air force, one civilian. Social secretary: two army, two air force.. Treasurer: two army, seven air force. Parliamentarian: one army, one air force. Historian: one army, four air force. Sergeant-at-arms: one army, two air force. Hardesty said he did not know of any legal action that could be tak en if there had been a “primary,” but if such a move had been taken and had kept other students from filing, some action might be taken. Dave Lane, chairman of the Election commission, said that he knew of nothing the commission could do if there had been a “pri mary”. Frank Ford, corps commander, and Larry Kennedy, corps sergeant major, both said they had heard that the army regiments were plan ning some attempt at preparing a slate of officers, but that they made efforts to prevent it. Several army juniors told The Battalion that the organization of junior class committees and junior ball planning committees had seem ed to favor the air force, causing discontentment among army jun iors. Bids for material for light ing the softball field at Lin coln school have been let, ac cording to Robert N. Cherry, chairman of the Youth Activ ities committee which is sponsor ing the lighting. Most of the electrical equipment will be purchased from Nelson Electric company of Dallas for $1,099.40, he said. The light poles will be bought from Navasota Creosoting company for about $316. The committee will get an electrical transformer from the City of Bryan for $235. Another $100 is available for miscellaneous expenses, said Cherry. Total cost for the propect is $1,- 751.25. Construction will be by the city some time after all ma terial is bought, said Ran Boswell, city manager. The Youth Activities committee operates under a trust agreement, and was established in 1949 to provide a means of financing phy sical facilities for youth activities. Funds are obtained from the local Community Chest. Membership of the committee is one representative from the Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, College Sta tion Kiwanis club, College Station Lions club, white public schools, Negro public schools. City of Col lege Station, College Station Rec reation council and the Community Chest. MSC Top Staff To Attend Meeting Three of the Memorial Student Center’s top administrators will attend the meeting of the national Association of College Unions this weekend in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. They are Wayne Stark, direc tor; Charles Haas, business man ager; and Margaret Long, pro gram consultant. At the meeting, Stark will re port on the progress of the Inter collegiate Bridge tournament, of which A&M is chairman. HERE ARE THE SOPH SWEETHEART FINALISTS Weather Today The weather outlook for today is windy and dusty with a slight warm-up today and tomorrow. Yesterday’s high was 79, low 53. The temperature at 10:30 this morning was 58. Experiment Station Announces Grants Research grants totaling $16,231 have been made to the Texas Agri cultural Experiment station in the past few days, according to R. D. Lewis, station director. The Campbell Soup company grant of $7,200 for employment of a technical assistant to work in the rice quality laboratory at the Beaumont station was the largest grant. Others include a renewal grant for $4,750 and a new grant for $2,081 from the American Cyana- mid company; a $1,500 grant from the Velsicol corporation and a $700 grant from the E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Inc. Peggy Martin Ronnie Martin, Sponsor Bettye Cammack James P. Hutchinson, Sponsor Barbara Blaize J. W. Moore, Sponsor Gowen Johnson Nelson Sprague, Sponsor Carolyn Brown Lisle Wayne, Sponsor ESA Presidents To Meet In April The past presidents of the For mer Students association will gath er April 24 to unofficially talk ov er problems of the association and the college. The meeting, an annual affair, will be held this year on the Bar- K ranch near Austin. The group has no official legislative position.