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m m I The Battalion Number 98: Volume 54 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1955 Price Five Cents i||« i m. mi A&M Muster Is Tomorrow mm Wi Immmm > -. . m r lW m; <:—I I 'S^fei Wm WMj w Cummings will give the invo cation after the A&M band has played “The Star Spang led Banner.” Colonel of the Corps Frank Ford will speak, and the Singing Cadets will sing “The Twelfth Man.” Gen. O. P. Weyland Muster Speaker LAST DETAILS—Members of the Muster committee gather around Chairman Charlie Seely, sitting, to work out the last details of the annual ceremony. Standing, left to right, are Bob Alcock, Tony Specia, John Benefield, Gus Mijalis and Glenn Stubble field. Civilians W eekend Draft Activities Except for minor details, the fi nal program for the Civilian Stu dent weekend May 13 and 14 was drawn up yesterday by the plan ning committee. The only details to he woi’ked out are the prices of the supper Friday night, May 13, and some of the judges for the contests. Other activities planned for May 13 are a tug-of-war between dormi tories starting at 5:30 p.m. on the field next to the Grove. Prizes will be awarded to the winners. Barbecue Set After the tug-of-war, a baihecue will begin at the Grove and will be 6:30 and 7:30. The menu will be barbecued baby beef, potato chips, beans, bread, onions, pickles and iced tea. Cold drinks will be available at a concession stand. Price for the meal will be about 60 6r 70 cents, and will he set by the committee today. All tickets will be sold in advance, and will be available from dormitory rep resentatives and at the office of student activities. During the meal entertainment will be furnished by the Aggie Ramblers and the African Combo. Contest Judging The beard-growing contest will also be judged at this time, and prizes will be awarded to first and second place winners in two classes —fanciest and scroungiest. Judges will be the Aggie Sweetheart, two girl cheerleaders from Rice, and a gilt cheerleader from Lamar Tech. Saturday, May 14, is the date for the Civilian Student dance. Ad mission will be $1.50, stag or couple. During the intermission of the dance there will be a floor show, and winner of the ugly man contest will be chosen from five finalists. Rules for this contest were changed by the committee, and they decided to have each entrant submit a picture by May 9. Pic tures may be turned in to civilian councilmen or at the office of stu dent activities. Five finalists will be chosen from the pictures, and these will compete at the dance. Judges of the finalists will be a member of the staff of the Daily Texan, University of Texas news paper; Bill Lawrence, constable of Snook; and one other judge to be picked soon. The next meeting of the plan ning committee will he Tuesday in the assembly of the YMCA. Who Believes In Signs Anyway The population of Bryan varies with the road on which one enters town. The sign near the circle at College Station lists the popu lation as 18,072. All other city limit signs read 23,883. According to the Bryan Chamber* of Commerce, the 18,072 figure is for the 1950 census. A new sign will be erected as soon at the High way Department gets around to it. MSC Plans Directorate Project Pool The Memorial Student Center di rectorate is planning a slight change in its organization that will give it a pool of manpower for special projects. The directorate, the activity group of the center, is composed of all the hobby and activity com mittees. But every once in a while a spe cial project comes along, and there is no way to get it done without overloading one of the committees. This pool of manpower, as yet Town Hall Names Shows On Next Year’s Schedule without an official name, would consist of five, to 10 selected stu dents, probably freshmen and sophomores, who would be avail able to do the work of a special project. The special project would be headed by a regular directorate chairman, but the other workers would come from this pool. Members for the pool would be selected by directorate members. Basis of selection will be leader ship potential and evidence of abil ity to assume responsibility, said Bud Whitney, next year’s MSC president. The Town Hall selection commit tee has named seven shows—at a total cost of $17,600 — for next year’s Town Hall series. The committee also set up a re served seat plan for White coli seum, where the shows will be held. Shows named and the dates were Fiesta Mexicana, Oct. 10 or 11; Robert Shaw Chorale, Oct. 19; pop ular attraction, November or De cember; “Tonight — Lincoln vs. Douglas,” November or December; Philharmonic Piano Quartet, Dec. 6; Air Force Band and Singing Sergeants, March 22; a Texas sym phony orchestra, February. All of these attractions and the dates are tentative, said C. G. (Spike) White, director of recrea tion , and entertainment. Booking agents must be contacted on most of them, he said. If the door sales are good next Staff Members Attend Meeting Three staff members will appear on the 39th annual program of the Texas Folklore society at the Uni versity of Texas Friday and Sat urday. They ai'e Dr. John Q. Anderson of the English department; Miss Sadie Hatfield, homestead improve ment specialist with the agi’icul- tural extension service, and Sid Cox of the English department. Highlight of the meeting will be a dinner Saturday night honoring J. Frank Dobie, Texas author. Weather Today The weather outlook for today is cloudy with scattered thunder showers throughout the day. Yesterday’s high was 84, low 66. The temperature at 10:45 this morning was 78. year, White said, another attrac tion may be booked as a bonus. The reserved seat plan for all Town Hall performances sets aside the first 10 rows of the folding chairs on the floor and the first 12 rows of five sections on the press box side of the coliseum. • At Extra Cost Reserved seats will be available to both students and non-students at $2 more per season ticket than the regular pi'ice. The regular student season ticket, included in the activity fee, will be either $2 or $2.60. Non student season ticket will be $6. For student wives and students not paying the activity fee, the regular season ticket will cost $4. White said an effort would be made to sell season tickets to as many people as possible in sur rounding towns. The seating capa- MSS-2 Scheduled For May Release The 1955 edition of MSS-2 is ready to begin printing and it will probably be published about the middle of May, said Bill Willis, edi tor of the manuscripts. MSS-2 is composed of unpub lished works representive of the writing done by A&M students. The book is published by the Eng lish club and is in its second year of publication. This year’s publication will have five or six short stories, some poems, an article about a fifth- year architecture project, and other articles. Winners of this years prizes are Raymond R. Stevens, short stories; C. M. Farmer, best poem; and P. 1 M. Tebrill, cover design. city of the coliseum has made this possible he said. Non-student tickets will probably not be on sale until next fall, he said, but anyone who wishes more information can send their name and address to the student activi ties office here to be put on the mailing list. Members of the selection com mittee are Conrad Cummings, Wal lace Eversberg, Bill Johnson, Hol man King, Joe Sorrels, Carl Tish- ler, Bill Turner, Pat Wheat, and White. Starts at 4 P. M. In Front of MSC One of A&M’s most hallowed traditions, the annual Mus ter ceremony, will be enacted again tomorrow at 4 p.m. in front of the Memorial Student Center. Gen. O. P. Weyland, class of ’23 and commander of the tactical air force, will give the principal address at the cere mony, which will honor Aggies who have died since the last Muster. About 7,000 persons are expected to attend the 40-min ute ceremony. Classes will be dismissed at 4 p.m. tomorrow to allow all students to participate. O. T. Hotchkiss of Port Arthur, class of ’24 and presi dent of the Former Students association, will also make a ♦ talk at the ceremony. i ri Corps Chaplain Conrad Exchange More ens New Rook Shop A&M students can now buy their books like their mothers buy groceries. The Exchange store has op ened a self-service, supermar ket-type book store, the first in Texas and one of 150 in the coun try, said Carl Birdwell, store man ager. The new book store, which joins the old store, features shelves of books arranged by school, then by course in alphabetical order. Birdwell said the new arrange ment would be most useful during the first-of-the-semester rush, when all the students are buying books for new courses. “All they have to do is come in the store, walk past the book they want, pick it up, and take it to the cashier,” he said. Cy Jackson is manager of. the book department, and will have two full-time cashiers to help him. More cashiers will be hired during the rush times, Birdwell said. The Exchange store will also ask the A&M System board of di rectors for permission to use $65, 000 of the store’s funds to renov ate and refixture the main store, which will complete the two-year face-lifting job on the store. The request will be made at the board’s meeting Saturday. MSC Group Radio Hobby Aids Defense Program History Told 1 Student Senate President Jerry Ramsey will tell the history of the Muster tradition and President Da vid H. Morgan will introduce Wey land. After the audience joins the band in “The Spirit of Aggieland,” Head Yell Leader Howard Childers will give the “roll call for the absent.” ‘Here’ An Aggie buddy will answer “here” as the name is called of each student who died. The roll call will be followed with a rifle salute by the Ross Volunteers and the singing of ‘Auld Lang Syne” by the Singing Cadets. Silver Taps will close the ceremony. The Muster ceremony, held on the anniversary of the Battle of San Jacinto, also honors the Texans who won their independence there in 1836. More Than 400 It is also the gathering time for A&M students all over the world, with more than 400 Muster sched uled this year, including ceremo nies in Lima, Peru; and Nepal. Perhaps the most famous Muster was the one held on Corregidor a few hours before it fell to the Jap anese in the first days of World War II. The parent Muster here tomor row will be broadcast over the Tex as State Network. In case of bad weather, the cere mony will be held in the White coliseum. By JON KTNSLOW Battalion Managing Editor tor the name, city, and phone num her of the person he wants to call The operator then contacts a “ham’ With the . emphasis ^ being put in the city> tells him what numb er he wants, and the “ham” calls the Police Still Seeking Narcotics Thieves Police Tuesday were still seeking the thief or thieves who took $75 worth of narcotics from Madeley pharmacy Friday night. Lee Norwood, College Station police chief, said yesterday he had no further information on the burglary. The front door of the building was forced, and $5 in the cash register was overlooked. Any theft involving nai'cotics must be reported to the U. S. Nar cotics bureau, but Norwood said no government man had actively entered the case. Election Filings Close at 5 Today Filings for general election positions close at 5 p.m. to day. Positions open are Stu dent Senate, Student Publica tions board, Civilian Student Life committee members, civ ilian 5*ell leader. The electiort is scheduled for April 27 in the Memorial Stu dent Center post office area. more and more on civil defense, a group of A&M students are doing their part by using their hobby— radio. The Memorial Student Center Radio group is part of this area’s Mutual Aid Network of the civil defense program. Their job is to get aid and emergency equipment to the scene of a disaster, includ ing nuclear attacks on major Texas cities. The group was formerly headed by Wayne Leverkuhn, who is also a radio operator for the main con trol center of the Houston civil de fense setup. Leverkuhn is not only active in civil defense, but he spends some of his time trying to interest others in it also. He is a qualified civil defense instructor. . Aids Waco Disaster The only disaster in which the MSC group has aided was the Waco tornado in 1953. The radio group stayed on the air for 32 consecu tive hours taking messages. “Our main duty was getting Bry an air force base to fly up emer gency generators,” Leverkuhn said. “We also got some student volun teers to aid in the rescue work at Waco.” Civil defense is only one of the radio group’s projects. The most familiar job to many of the stu dents is the “emergency phone home” service. The service works something like this: A student tells the radio opera- (See RADIO GROUP on Page 5) Movie Set Friday “Thirteen Rue Madeline”, an American movie starring James Cagney and Richard Conte, is sche duled by the MSC Film society I Friday at 7:30 p.m. lltffe IT’S LIKE THIS—Wayne Leverkuhn, past president of the Memorial Student Center Radio group, shows some of the finer points of transmitter operation to Tom Speed, sopho more from Springtown. Leverkuhn combines his radio hobby with civil defense work both here and in Houston, his hometown.