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I The Battalion Number 93: Volume 54 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1955 Price Five Cents No Date Set For Run-Offs Election Filings Open Until April 20 NEW EDITORS—These students will be editors of four of A&APs student publications for next year. They and their publication are Billy Fullerton, The Battalion (upper left), Kurt Nauck, the Aggieland (upper right), Frank Waddell, the Agriculturist (lower left), and Bryan Beard, co-editor of the Southwest Veterinarian (lower right). A picture was not available of Wallace Larson, who will be the other co-editor of the Southwest Veterinarian. They were named by the Student Publications board last week. Editors for the Commentator and the Engineer will be named at the —board’s next meeting. News Briefs DR. LEWIS E. DAVIS SR, of the business administration department will study this summer at the Provident Mutual Life Insurance company of Philadelphia, on a re cently-awarded fellowship from the American Association of Uni- rersity Teachers of Insurance. E. V. WALTON, head of the ag ricultural education department, headed a symposium on “helping high school farm boys grow into farming” recently at the Southern Regional Conference on Agricul tural Education in Memphis, Tenn. THE AGGIE FOLLIES cast and committee will have a meeting at 7:30 tonight in the Music hall. “This is a very important meeting and everyone should be there,” said Don Powell, student director of the all-Aggie show. —o— DUDLEY P. PENCK, of Mag nolia Petroleum company’s natural gas department in Dallas, will speak to the student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers here Wednesday. The meeting will be at 7:30 p.m. in room 104 of the Petroleum Engi neering building. —o— TWO PRESENTATIONS of the <$)era “Die Fledermaus” will be given here April 22 and 23 by the North Texas State College Work shop, under the sponsorship of the Bryan Rotary club. Twenty stu dent singers and a 30-piece orches tra will be in the show. Scott To Rep resent A&M at Radio Meet Kenneth L. Scott, senior elec trical engineering student from ^Dallas, will represent A&M at the Institute of Radio Engineers Sec tion meeting April 19 at Rice in stitute. Scott’s paper will deal with the production of an alternating cur rent in a crystal type diode carry ing direct current in a varying magnetic field. THE MSC COUNCIL and Direc torate will have a fish fry at 5:15 Thursday at Hensel Park. The fish were caught by students at the MiSC’s annual retreat program last September, and have been waitin gin a freezer for this fish fry. Filings for the general election April 27 will remain open until April 20. Positions to be elected include those not chosen in the class elec tions Tuesday. Positions in the general election and the qualifications for each are as follows: Student Senate — 15 from the class of ’56; 10 from the class of ’57; 6 from the class of ’58; one from each civilian dormitory; one from College View; 2 from the day students. Qualifications for senator are a 1.0 grade point ratio and attend ance at A&M for the two previous semesters. The senators, includ ing those from the civilian dormi- toires, may be either corps or civ ilian students. Student Publications board — one student from the class of ’56 from the corps, and one civilian student from the class of ’56. Qual ifications are a 1.5 grade point ra tio. Civilian Council Meets Tonight The Civilian Student Coun cil will meet tonight, with a report on the plans of Civilian Student weekend as the main order of business. Other agenda items are re ports from the mess hall, ban quet, stationery and book room committees. The meeting will be at 7:15 p.m. in room 2A of the Me morial Student Center. Civilian Student Life committee members — three civilian students who are at least sophomores and have attended A&M for the two previous semesters. They must have a 1.0 grade ratio. Civilian yell leader — any civ ilian student who is either a junior or senior at the time of election and who has a 1.25 grade ratio. Three Winners Picked Tuesday Last Tuesday’s class elections produced a class agent, two MSC council members, and a set of run-off candidates for the class of ’58 class officers, but no date has been set yet for the run-off election. The run-off will not be held April 13, as originally sched uled, said W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, business manager of stu dent activities. The date of the run-off will be announced after the Stu dent Senate decides what to do about the class of ’56 and ’57 elections. These two elections, scheduled to be held last Tuesday, were postponed by the Election commission because the army juniors in both classes had + held primaries to determine a Debate Team Wins A&M was judged the best af firmative debate team in the South west conference meet held here. Baylor university, arguing the neg ative side of the question, was awarded first place. 200 Expected For April 18 Conference President David H. Morgan, will welcome a group of more than 200 distinguished speak ers and attendants here April 18-19 for the eighth annual Accounting Conference. The speakers include James H. Pipkin, vice-president, The Texas Company, N. Y.; Robert F. Zech, Dallas and J. O. Johnson, Arthur Andersen & Co., Chicago; D. Gor ham Streater and C. W. Adams, Cities Service Refining Company, Lake Charles, La.; W. C. Keith and Donald P. Jones, Sun Oil Company, Dallas. J. D. Hubbard, public account ant, Houston; W. R. Drummond, vice-president, Western Union Tel egraph Company, New York; N. O. Couvillon, Esso Standard Oil Com pany, Baton Rouge, La.; Ben R. Collins, Longhorn Portland Cement Company, San Antonio; Roy E. Burke, Price Water & Co., Hous ton; Blair Smith, International Business Machine Corp., New York. Fladger F. Tannery, Arthur Young and Co., Dallas, will be the moderator of a panel on “Annual Closing and Examination of Ac counts.” Panel members will be Elliott W. Atkinson, Lion Oil Co., El Do rado, Ark.; Paul Garmany, Hughes Tool Co., Herbert P. Haschke, Straus-Frank Co., Oral L. Luper, Humble Oil and Refining Co., Houston; John P. Harbin, Halli burton Oil Well Cementing Com pany, Duncan, Okla.; Thomas N. Jenness Jr., McCammon, Moms, Pickens and Mayhew, Ft. Worth; A. G. Schlosstein Jr., Price Water- house and Co., Dallas; Henry J. Sebastian, certified public account ant, San Antonio. Robert Wood of the business ad ministration department is general chairman for the conference. “slate” of candidates. The Student Senate, which is scheduled to meet April 21, must decide when to have the elec tions and what to do about prima ries. There is nothing in the col lege regulations about primaries now. The class of ’58 run-off will pi-qb- ably be held when the elections for the other two classes are held. In Tuesday’s election, F. E. (Son ny) Tutt won as class agent for the class of ’55. Named MSC council members were Ernest Kennedy, in the more than four semesters division, and Don McGinty, in the less than four semesters division. There will have to be a run-off for all seven class of ’58 officers. Run-off candidates are as fol lows: President: Charles A. Sides, A. G. Newby, Jamey Saunders. Vice-president: J. W. Ellington, J. Paul Costa, L. G. Garrison. Recording secretary: Bob Suro- vik, Robert R. Wunderlich. Social secretary: William E. Mc Laughlin, Ray Bowen. Treasurer: Robert S. Martin, Jerry P. Bent, George M. Ragsdale. Parliamentarian: Donald B. Kir by, Joe A. Blieden. Sergeant-at-aims: Ben E. Dunn, David Graham. (For those who missed last Wed nesday’s paper because of the holi days, this issue of The Battalion contains on page 2 a complete list of the election results, with all candidates and the number of votes they received.) Investment Group Elects S. A. Lynch S. A. Lynch, consulting geologist and head of the geology depart ment here, has been elected vice- president of the American General Investment corporation. He will serve as vice-president in charge of the company’s explora tion pi'ogram in Central America. The company has recently be come active in Central America, with options on exploration rights to uranium, sulphur, oil, cinnabar, and other minerals in Guatemala and Honduras. Weather Today Possible thunder storm and tor nado activity this afternoon. Tem perature at noon today was 67 de grees. The rainfall between 6 a.m. and noon was three-fourths inches. DREDGE IN THE BAY—The A&M chapter of the Society of American Military Engineers held its March meeting on a hopper dredge in Galveston bay. Shown here in a group picture on the dredge (above) and inspecting the hopper (below), the students were the guests of Col. W. P. Mc- Crone, district engineer. They were given a tour of the Galveston port and the ship, which was working at the inner bar of the port. Accompaning the 57 students were Maj. Robert Willets and Maj. H. O. Johnson, both military instructors here. District Boy Scouts To Hold Cainporec The Ari'owmoon District Boy Scouts will hold a camporee April 15-16 in Hensel park, one-half mile north of the cix-cle in College Station. Troops will arrive after school April 15 in time to set up tents and prepare supper before the giant camp fire at 8:15 p. m. Water will be available but each unit should bring its own con tainers. Reserve Board Pick Timm As Director Tyrus R. Timm, head of the ag ricultural economics and sociology department, has been named to the board of directors of the Houston branch of the Federal Reserve sys tem. He will fill the unexpired portion of a three-year term ending Dec. 31, 1955. C. N. Shepardson, who was dean of agriculture here, recently vacat ed a post on the Houston board to take a post on the national Federal Reserve board. Allee Same: A rch itectu re. Biology A man who is at home with both biology and art will give two widely-varied talks here this week. The man is Dr. C. M. Pomer- at, a professor of cytology at the University of Texas medi cal branch in Galveston. He will give a graduate lec ture at 8 p.m. tonight in the Biological Sciences building on “Recent Advances in the Study of Living Cells.” Then at 11 a.m. tomorrow, he will talk on his hobby, art and architecture, in room 113 of the Biological Sciences building. This talk will be titled “History of the Renais sance.” Pomerat has traveled in Spain, Italy, and France mak ing paintings and photographs in connection with his hobby. Some of these are now on dis play in the architecture de partment library. Berry Awarded Purina Fellowship William T. Berry jr., graduate animal husbandry student, has been selected to receive one of 10 Ral ston Purina fellowships for grad uate study during the 1955-56 school year. The fellowship amounts t o $1,560, and is awarded on a basis of undergraduate records and stat ed objectives in agricultural re search. John D. Williams, senior poultry student, was chosen as one of seven alternates for the fellowships. Competition was open to agricul- tm-e students in colleges through out the United States and Canada, and this year’s field of applicants was the largest in the last five years of the program, the company said. News of the World By the Associated Press NEW YORK — Adlai Stevenson said in a radio speech last night that he has “grave misgivings” about risking a third world war in defense of Quemoy and Matsu, the Nationalist-held islands off the Red China coast. The Democratic party leader said most of the pub lic opinion in Asia would be against the U. S. in the event of outbreak of hostilities over the islands. * * * * WASHINGTON — Presi dent Eisenhower announced yesterday that he will submit to Congress next week a for eign aid program that would include economic aid to the free nations of south and east Asia. Indications are that the president will ask for a pro gram of about three-and-a- half billion dollars, with about two-thirds of it earmarked for Asia. * * * * AUSTIN—The Texas house went into its first night session last night over the big tax bill that would raise gasoline and cigarette taxes and increase beer and wine license fees. The bill failed. * * * * ROCKDALE — A 60-year- old man and a 7-year-old boy drowned yesterday in the rain- swollen Little river near Rock dale. The man, A. A. Haney, and the boy, Chester Klipper, were on a fishing expedition. * * * * WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Dulles last night said that world peace—under certain condi tions—could lead to a “degrada tion of the human race. He went on to say that Communism could easily conquer the world if pacif ism becomes a prevalent mood among free peoples, and warned against bargaining with Commun ism. * * * * AMARILLO — A new dust storm is rolling into West Texas, riding on a cold front that is expected to drop tem peratures in North Texas. South Texas had some tem peratures in the 90’s yester day, and other parts of the state had highs in the upper 70’s and 80’s. * * * * NEW YORK—Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc., and the American Broadcasting company yesterday announced plans for 39 hour-long television movies to be made in Hollywood. The weekly programs will start next September. SPRING FOR GOOD?—After a series of false alarms, Miss Toni Best of Snyder checks the tree blossoms to see if spring is really here to stay. And if another norther should come through suddenly and catch Toni in that costume, she’ll freeze to death before she can get inside.