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.