Battalion
Number 94: Volume 54
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1955
Price Five Cents
Ten ta live Approva l
Given by Senate
To Activity Fees
AUSTIN, —WP>—The Texas sen
ate gave tentative approval yes
terday to Sen. Ottis Lock’s bill al
lowing colleges to levy compulsory
student activities fees, but revis
ed to give the measure final pass
age.
Sen. Jimmy Phillips attacked the
proposal as “an encroachment on
free education” and “callous dis
regard for the working students
of the state.”
He spoke for more than one and
a half hours.
Phillips moved to make such
Ivy
Colleg<
To Head
;e Station
Recreation
Dr. E. E. Ivy has been elec
ted president of the College
Station recreation council for
the coming year.
Other officers, elected at a
meeting yesterday, are John Hill,
vice-president; Mrs. W. W. Armi-
stead, secretary; and K. A. (Kub-
tfy) Manning, treasurer.
New members of the group, and
the organizations they represent,
♦re Dr. Luther Jones, member-at-
iarge; Charles Haas, Lions club;
Mrs. E. C. Klipple, Girl Scouts; and
Mrs. Raymond Rogers, Council of
Church Women.
At the meeting the group made
assignments for its summer com
mittees, which will include all
forms of recreation for both young
people and adults.
The council also discussed its
summer budget.
fees either optional with the in
dividual student or subject to a
vote of the student body as a
whole, but both proposals were
tabled.
Phillips called the bill, which
would allow so-called “blanket
taxes” of up to $15 per semester,
one which might well increase each
student’s expense $110 per year,
when combined with a pending
bill to raise tuition in state schools
from $25 to $50 per semester.
Also defeated were proposals of
Sen. Crawford Mai’tin to exempt
the University of Texas from the
fees and by Sen. Frank Owen III
of El Paso to exempt part-time
students.
The activity fee bill, if passed,
would allow colleges to charge
compulsory activity fees covering
such activities as are now cover
ed by A&M’s optional student ac
tivity fee.
A&M’s fee includes Town Hall,
Great Issues, Recital series. Bat
talion subscriptions, Aggieland
subscriptions, one student maga
zine subscription, and intercollegi
ate athletic contests sponsored by
the college.
Civilians To Study
Chaplain Position
A committee was appointed last
iiight by the Civilian Student Coun-
fil to study the possibilities of
having a civilian chaplain.
John Henderson, who brought
the matter before the council, was
appointed chairman of the com
mittee. Other members working
with Henderson are Earl Hanson
and Joe West.
* Henderson explained that the
post would not be created in corn-
functions for the civilian students
but it would perform the same
^petition wdth the corps chaplain,
that the corps chaplain does for
the corps.
In other action, the council de
feated a motion asking that in the
future only council members be
awarded keys.
Reports from committees were
heard on the Civilian weekend,
mess hall, banquet, stationery, and
book room.
MSC Will Install
Radio Equipment
The Electronics committee of the
Memorial Student Center will in
stall new equipment in the MSC’s
two record playing rooms.
Included in the equipment are
two General Electric tone arms
and three diamond point needles,
all of very high quality, said
Wayne Stark, MSC director.
More than 1,800 records are
available for student use in the
MSC. There are 1,773 standard
size, 83 of the 33 and one-third
size and 69 of the 45 size records.
Stark said the two record play
ing rooms have been used for a
total of 4,500 hours of listening
since September.
Non-Farm Work
Rises In April
Non-farm employment in the
College Station-Bryan area edged
upward during March, with an
April 1 estimation of 12,425 per
sons employed here—an increase
of 75 over last month.
There are 113 fewer jobseekers
than the number registered with
the Texas Employment commis
sion March 1. The number of men
and women seeking employment
through TEC facilities in Bryan
is 338.
More than 290 persons were plac
ed on new jobs by the Bryan of
fice during March.
Robert Lowery
Co-starred With William Bendix
‘Caine Mutiny’
Broadway
Started as
Show
Book
A Broadway play which started
as a part of a book will be present
ed tonight at 8 p.m. in the White
coliseum.
The play, “The Caine Mutiny
Court Martial,” is based on the
courtroom scene in Herman Wouk’s
best seller, “The Caine Mutiny.”
The idea to make the scene into
a play came to Paul Gregory while
he was reading the book. He per
suaded Wouk to rewrite it in play
Iowa Professor
Speaks Thursday
Dr. J. R. Kastelic of the animal
husbandry department at Iowa
State college will give a graduate
lecture on “Studies on Tenderness
in Meat” in the lecture room of
the Biological Sciences building
Thursday at 8 p.m.
The public is invited to hear the
talk which will stress research ef
forts to determine the chemical
and biochemical properties of con
nective tissues in meat.
Wilkins To Speak
Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, assist
ant commandant, will be the prin
cipal speaker at the Beaumont
A&M club Muster ceremony, April
21 in Beaumont.
form, with the cooperation of
Charles Laughton who was to act
as stage director.
Besides being a best seller and a
Broadway hit, the complete story
was also made into a motion pic
ture.
The stage performances have
drawn almost two million people in
more than 700 productions. These
have grossed about $3,150,000.
Starring in tonight’s production
is William Bendix, who will por
tray the paranoiac Capt. Queeg.
Robert Lowery, well-known west
ern movie actor, will play Lt.
Greenwald, the lawyer who defends
one of Queeg’s officers on trial
for mutiny.
In the play, Greenwald attempts
to prove Queeg suffers from para
noia, or delusions of persecution.
The officer on trial took over
Queeg’s ship, the Caine, when
Queeg had apparently lost control.
The A&M showing is a Town
Hall feature and season ticket hold
ers will be admitted free. Individ
ual tickets are $2 for adults and
$1 for children, and may be pur
chased at student activities office
or at the door.
First, Second Graders
To Gel Salk Shots Soon
Norther
Expected
To Return
Don’t put up your long
sleeve shirts and top coats yet
because there’s another norther
headed this way.
A cold front from the north
is expected to drop tempera
tures in the College Station-
Bryan area to a low of 40 de
grees by this afternoon. Tem
peratures are expected to stay
below 45 degrees all evening.
Winds are expected to shift
from the north by morning and
clear up the dust which has
pre vailed in this area since
yesterday. Skies are expected
to clear this afternoon and no
rain is forecast for the next
few days.
The tornado conditions which
plagued Texas yesterday, are
expected to move out of the
state today.
At Muster
Painting Will Be Unveiled
An oil painting of Gen. O. P.
„Weyland, A&M’s highest-ranking
"former student, will be unveiled
here April 21, when Weyland will
be on the campus as Muster speak
er.
President David H. Morgan will
accept the painting on behalf of the
college. It will be on display in
the Memorial Student Center that
day, then will be hung in the mili
tary science building.
Weyland, who is in the class of
’23, is commander of the tactical air
force.
The Muster ceremony, which is
scheduled to start at 4 p.m. April
21 on the MSC front lawn, will be
the parent Muster for hundreds of
smaller Musters all over the world.
Nepal Muster
The Muster tradition will extend
as far as the tiny country of Nepal,
where three Aggies will gather to
honor the Texans who won inde
pendence on that day at San Ja
cinto and to pay homage to Aggies
who have died since the last Mus
ter.
The roll call of the dead will be
called here too, with A&M students
answering for their friends who
have died.
The roll call here will be limited
Weather Today
CLEAR and COOL
The weather outlook for today is
clearing in the afternoon and
warmer.
Yesterday’s high was 78, low 61.
The temperature at 10:30 this
morning was 62.
to students who have died during
the year.
Besides the principal speaker,
Weyland, O. T. Hotchkiss, presi
dent of the Former Students asso
ciation, will greet the students on
behalf of the association.
Frank Ford, corps commander,
will also speak, and Conrad Cum
mings, corps chaplain, will give the
invocation. Charles Parker will be
master of ceremonies.
Howard Childers will call the
names in the roll call, and the Ross
Volunteers will salute the dead with
a rifle volley.
Band To Play
The A&M band will play the
“Star Spangled Banner” to open
the ceremony, and the Singing Ca
dets and audience will join the
band to sing the “Spirit of Aggie
land.”
The Singing Cadets will also sing
“Auld Lang Syne,” and Silver Taps
will close the ceremony.
The Muster will be carried by the
Texas Quality Network, and the
ceremony will be held in the White
coliseum in case of bad weather.
*
Vaccine Declared
90 Per Cent Effective
By JON KINSLOW
Battalion Managing Editor
The mass polio inoculation of first and second grade
school children here will get underway soon, according to
Mrs. John Perry, co-chairman of this year’s March of Dimes
drive.
Secretary of Welfare Oveta Culp Hobby yesterday form
ally licensed the Salk polio vaccine for general use. Her ac
tion came after a recommendation by Dr. William G. Work
man, chief of the Biologies Control Laboratory of the Na
tional Institute of Health.
At a meeting of some of the nation’s top scientists in Ann
Arbor, Mich., the Salk vaccine tests made last year were
reported to have been 90 per cent effective in preventing
•♦■cases of paralytic polio.
Mrs. Perry said the Brazos
County Health unit has “been
ready to go (with the tests)
for weeks’’ and they had only
been waiting word on the licensing
of the vaccine. The shots will
be handled in the same manner
here as they were last year, and
they will be free, she said.
Those who will receive the free
shots—the ones most susceptible to
the disease—will be first and sec
ond graders and pregnant mothers
of six weeks or more, Mrs. Perry
said. To take the shots, the chil
dren were to have statements sign
ed by their parents authorizing the
treatment.
The inoculations will also be
given to those children who re
ceived ‘dummy’ shots of plain wa
ter last year,” Mrs. Perry added.
Distribution Undecided
The method of distribution to the
general public has not been an
nounced, according to a local doc
tor. He said he felt the vaccine
would probably be available to any
body on a commercial basis, how
ever.
According to the Associated
Press, the state department of
health will distribute supplies of
the free vaccine alloted to Texas,
but detailed plans have not been
worked out.
In Daltons, a spokesman for the
Polio foundation said the vaccine
had not been shipped to Austin,
where it will be given to county
officials, because the foundation
had to wait until it was licensed.
He said it might be several days
before the Texas supply is receiv
ed.
A spokesman for Dr. Henry
Holle, state health officer, said it
has not yet been decided whether
to follow Salk’s recommendation
for two shots close together, fol-
(See POLIO, Page 2)
Cherry Attends
Bob Cherry, of the agricultural
economics and sociology depart
ment, left yesterday for Album,
Ala., to participate in a technical
committee meeting on a regional
poultry project. He will return
April 16.
MSC Reservations
Available May 1
Requests for 1955-56 school year
Memorial Student Center guest
room reservations from students
and former students for football
weekends and other major-event
weekends will be accepted May 1-
31, according to Mrs. Mozelle Hol
land, manager of MSC guest rooms.
The drawing to determine who
will receive accommodations will be
held after the May 31 deadline. Fol
lowing the drawing, confirmations
will be mailed to the individuals
whose names are drawn.
Only one room per family may
be reserved for each event. Since
reservations will not be transfer
able, students are urged to cancel
reservations which they do not
intend to use.
Electrical Meet
L. M. Haupt of the electrical en
gineering department will chair
the eighth annual conference for
protective relay engineers to be
held here April 25-27. Other A&M
members of the program planning
committee are R. D. Chenoweth,
J. S. Denison and W. T. Matzen.
News
of the
World
By the Associated Press
Two tornadoes struck Texas
Tuesday to climax a day and night
of severe winds, slashing rain,
hail, and dust.
Three persons were injured. Tex
ans could expect more bad weath
er Wednesday with a forcast of a
freeze in the northwest and a dis
tinct possibility of dust. Skies
were expected to be clear.
* * * *
WASHINGTON — President
Eisenhower asked Congress
yesterday for $69,230,000 to
speed up work on the Inter-
American Highway from Mex
ico to Panama.
* * * *
WASHINGTON — Secretary of
State Dulles swapped hot accusa
tions yesterday with Edward J.
Corsi, his one-time good friend
whom he fired as his immigration
expert. Dulles told a near-record
news conference Corsi was guilty
of reckless charges in denouncing
the department’s handling of a
program to admit refugees to the
United States. Corsi indignantly
fired back that Dulles lied when
he claimed Corsi's ouster Sunday
was in no way influenced by freq
uent attacks on him by Rep. Wal
ter (D-Pa.)
* * * *
NEW YORK—The New York
Daily News said last night
former President Harry S. Tru
man wants to run for vice-
president next year with Adlai
E. Stevenson as the Democra
tic presidential candidate.
Museum Director
To Give Seminar
Dr. Alden H. Miller, professor
of sociology and director of the
University of California’s Museum
of Vertebrate Zoology, will speak
here Thursday at the monthly
zoology seminar.
Miller will speak on “Ecological
Factors That Speed the Formation
of Races and Species.”
The seminar will be at 4 p.m.
in the biological sciences lecture
room.
Now Working
Graduate Praises
A&M Education
TOO MANY COOKS—Members of the College Station Ki-
wanis club practice their culinary talents for the club’s Pan
cake Fiesta, to be held from noon to 9 p.m. at the Bryan
country club April 16. Tickets are 50 cents a person and
profits go to the club’s charity work. Cooks are, from left
to right, L. S. Richardson, Bob Cherry, Gibb Gilchrist and
Isaac Peters.
By CHUCK NEIGHBORS
Editors Note: The author of
this story is a ’54 A&M grad
uate. He is now working as
an editor on a business mag
azine published by McGraw-
Hill in New York City.
After nearly a year as a practic
ing journalist, what do I think of
the education I received at Texas
A&M?
My estimation of the value of
the specialized education I receiv
ed from A&M, has increased a lot
since I was graduated last May.
At the time I received my de
gree, I wasn’t too sure that any
employer in the North would even
know where or what Texas A&M
was. Shortly after I began look
ing for a job in New York, I
found I had no cause to doubt the
value of my degree, even 1,700
miles from the campus.
Another thing I discovered was
that a truly liberal education is
all right, but if you’ve had spe
cialized training in college, it’s
easier to find a job.
One hears a great deal in aca
demic circles about the real and
intrinsic qualities of a liberal ed
ucation, but intrinsics don’t pay
the rent or food bills.
A liberal education in addition
to specialization is to be desired.
I think. But unfortunately, most
students have neither the time nor
the inclination to study in other
than their own special field.
A fair question to ask of an
A&M gi’aduate is “How does an
A&M man stack up in edmparison
with graduates of other schools
with more emphasis on academ
ics?”
From experience in my relative
ly narrow journalistic area and
from comparing notes with other
ex-Aggies, I don’t think an A&M
graduate needs to worry much
about competition from other col
leges, if he has applied himself in
his field.
That last phrase is the key to
what I’m trying to say; it means
applied not just in studies, but in
outside activities.
Without extra-curricular activ
ities, where he can put to work
what he learns in class, no about-
to-be college graduate can really
know what to expect when he
starts looking for a job.
Board Meeting Set
The A&M board of directors will
hold its next regular meeting Fri
day, April 22, in the Baker Hotel
at Mineral Wells. Members of the
board will visit Tarleton State col
lege April 23.