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I The Battalion Number 102: Volume 54 World News By The ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON—The United States opened the door wider yes terday for cease-fire talks with Red China—and backed away from its insistence that Chiang Kai- shek’s Nationalists must be pres ent at any meeting. Secretary of State Dulles took the position this country wants a cease-fire in the .Formosa area and doesn’t care by what mechanics it is attained. ★ ★ ★ - HOLLYWOOD — Susan Hay ward, one movie star who always seemed to have control of herself, attempted suicide yesterday and almost succeeded. A recent tiff with her ex-husband over the upbringing of their twin sons apparently had much to do with the red-haired actress’ despon dency. ★ ★ ★ AUSTIN—Both House and Sen ate approved similar proposals yes terday to double the size and change the administration of the scandal-shaken veterans land pro gram. A vote of 118-15 sent Rep. Buckshot Lane’s House version to the Senate. Sen. George Moffett’s proposition won 22-4 Senate en dorsement and was advanced to the House. ★ ★ ★ AUSTIN — The second ship- " ment of Salk polio vaccine may not arrive in time for the second round of the free innoculations * for school children, the state Health Department has informed Texas’ county health officials. The delay, if it does develop, will not seriously hamper I vaccination plans, said a spokesman. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1955 Price Five Cents 11 igifeg. . f!®: - , Academic Council Commends All Student Life Leaders Federal Inspection Starts Here Today Col. D. P. Anderson New PMS&T The cadet corps’ spring cleaning and military show starts today, with army and air force inspection teams on the campus for the an nual federal inspection. The inspecting teams, headed by Col. W. H. S. Wright for the army and Col H. E. Hurst for the air force, will spend today inspecting military science classes and the ad ministration and supply of the mil itary science detachments here. Thursday the cadets will have a stand-by room inspection from 8 to 10 a.m., and a review at 4 p.m. All classes will be dismissed from 8 to 10 a.m. because of the inspec tion. New Just PMS&T Takes Over; Back From Formosa Col. D. P. Anderson, a regular army officer who has just return ed from Formosa, has been named professor of military science and tactics here. Anderson, who took over yester day, replaces Col. Robert Offer as Social Security No. 2 SS Needs Enabling Vote, Action This is the second of a series of four articles explaining the plan to allow state employees to be eligible for Social Security insurance. The articles were pre pared by John Hill, A&M system director of workman’s compensa tion. Social Security coverage for pre viously excluded staff members of "public and state supported institu tions is not automatic. Coverage can come only as a re- -sult of a written agreement be tween the federal government and the State of Texas. The agree ment must be preceded by a refer endum on the question of whether positions covered by the existing retirement systems shall be includ ed in Social Security, and only persons in a retirement system are eligible to vote in a referendum. If a majority of the eligible staff members vote in favor of OASI coverage, and legislative action has been taken to enable participation and provide funds for matching em ployees’ contribution, the state may proceed with a federal-state agree- *ment. The state may determine the date upon which the employees’ Social .Security coverage will start at the time the federal and state agree ment is executed. A majority vote of eligible staff members is not an assurance that the legislature will take the nec essary action, but it will indicate to the legislature the wishes of the employees of the A&M System. A special provision of the 1954 amendment permits employees of one or more institutions of higher learning to be designated as a sep arate group. The following seven units have been set up within the * Texas A&M College System: (1) Agricultural and Mechani cal College of Texas (including ^ Texas A&M College System, Ad ministrative and General Offices Texas Engineering Experiment Station, Texas Engineering Exten sion Service and Firemen’s Train ing School) (2) Arlington State College (3) Tarleton State College (4) Prairie View A&M College (5) Texas Agricultural Experi ment Station (6) Texas Agricultural Exten sion Service (including the Rodent and Predatory Animal Control Service) (7) Texas Forest Service Employees of state colleges and universities who are covered under a voluntary agreement between the state and federal govemments will gain the same rights and benefits under the OASI program as cov ered employees in private indus tries. Their earnings, once their cover age has become effective, will count toward monthly payments for themselves and their families in their old age, and towai'd monthly payments for their family in case of the employee’s death. top man of A&M’s army ROTC training detachment. Offer left March 1 for a new assignment, and Col. Henry Phillips has been act ing PMS&T since then. Anderson, who has been with the army since 1941, has just re turned from two years on Formosa as a member of the U.S.’s Military Assistance Advisory group, which is responsible for furnishing equip ment and assisting in the training of the Nationalist Chinese army. Anderson said he couldn’t talk about his work there without per mission from higher authorities, but he said, “I thoroughly enjoyed my tour there; I like the Chinese.” Anderson said he was “very favorably impressed” by A&M, and added, “you know, in the army this is considered the best job you can get, as far as duty with civil ian components.” He said that he had once com manded an artillery battalion in which almost all the second lieu tenants were recent A&M grad uates, “They were good officers,” he said. “Parts of that battalion were sent to Korea soon after the fight ing broke out there, and I heard very good reports from them. Those boys saw some rough fight ing pretty early in their military career.” A 1928 graduate of Oklahoma university, Anderson has served with the 1st armor division, the 20th armor division, the 2nd armor division, the Alaskan army com mand, and the Fort Hood head quarters. An artillery officer, he has at tended the artillery school’s ad vanced officers courses, and has taught a combined arms tactics course. He is married and has a three- year-old son. The inspecting teams arrived here yesterday, and watched the corps’ graded maich-in meal for mation last night. They were guests at the homes of the mili tary officers here for supper last night. Today they were the guests of President David H. Morgan for lunch, and tonight they will be the guests of the officers of the de tachments here for a stag supper. Federal inspection is given each ROTC school once a year. For the past few years, each school has been rated “Satisfactory” or “un satisfactory,” said Col. Joe E. Da vis, commandant. He said the rat ing system may have been changed this year. “This is an evaluation of our unit,” he said. “If we have any deficiencies, they will be called to our attention.” The army inspecting team has just completed the federal inspec tion at Prairie View A&M college, and the air force team has just in spected Southern Methodist uni versity. Weather Today The weather outlook for today is partly cloudy with little change in temperature. Yesterday’s high was 89, low 59 The temperature this morning was 75. Phi Kappa Phi Plans Banquet Thursday Dr. Clanton W. Williams, na- I A. A. Price of the veterinary ana- tionally known historian and au- tomy department, secretary; and J. thor, will speak to members of Phi Q. Hays of the English department, Kappa Phi at their sixth annual journal-correspondent. Increase Shown In Book Losses The number of library books which were lost or missing during the last fiscal year is much greater than the number lost or missing during previous years, according to Robert A. Houze, librarian. During the last fiscal year, 376 library books were either lost and paid for by the students or were missing and unaccounted for in in ventory. This number exceeds the average during the last five years by 135 books. The highest pre vious number was in 1950-1951 when 275 books were lost or miss ing. These figures include all librar ies on the campus under the juris diction of the college librarian with the exception of the Texas Engi neer’s library. The main categories of missing books are fiction, biography, ap plied sciences, pure sciences, social sciences and reference, Houze said. This loss for 6,000 students is very low compared to the losses of other colleges, he said. This may be mainly due to the closed stock system employed here at A&M, Houze added. initiation banquet Thursday night in the Memorial Student Center, announced J. H. Quisenberry, presi dent of the local chapter. Williams, first academic vice- president of the University of Houston, will speak on “Long-Term Objectives of the Free World.” He has served as consultant to the United States Commission of Edu cation, and during the Korean “po lice action” became a staff officer of the Air university. He presently holds a Colonels’ commission in the Air Force Reserve. Aside from the installation of new members from the student body and faculty, 1955-56 officers for the local chapter will be in stalled. The new officers are as follows: W. E. Street, head of the engineering drawing department, president; Charles LaMotte of the biology department, vice-president; Phi Kappa Phi, aside from being a national honor society, is the only society at A&M that is open to any student of any department. The requirements are a 2.25 grade point ratio and good moral char acter. Seniors Invited To Barbecue Tuesday Night All graduating seniors are invited to a free barbecue at the Grove Tuesday, May 3, given by the Former Students association. A short program at 6:30 will start the evening off, with Gen. J. Earl Rudder, class of ’32, Texas land commissioner and one of World War IPs most decorated veterans, as honor guest. Also appearing on the program will be O. T. Hotchkiss of Port Arthur, class of ’24 and president of the FSA; and W. L. Ballard of Longview, class of ’22 and vice- president of the association. Beef for the barbecue was do nated by A. F. Mitchell of Corsi cana, class of ’09, and Rufus Pee ples of Tahuacana, class of ’28. The meal will start at 7, after the program. J. B. (Dick) Hervey, executive secretary for the FSA, said that all graduating seniors should noti fy their class representative on the ’55 class committee if they intend ed to go to the barbecue, so that the association could get a count. King Cotton To Reign Here Friday Night Cotton will reign over A&M Fri- from A&M clubs and other organi- Council Also Outlaws Primaries The Academic council yesterday gave a sweeping vote of confidence to everyone concerned with student life here, by passing resolutions commending the leaders of the student life organizations on their work this year. The council, which is composed of all the heads of the departments and is the governing body of the college, voted unanimously by secret ballot to commend those persons re sponsible for the operation of this year’s student life program, under the new articles of the cadet corps and the new civilian student organization. Letters of commendation will go to Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant, and his staff; Frank Ford, cadet colonel of the ♦corps, and his staff; Bennie A. Zinn, head of the student affairs department, and his staff; and John Jones, presi dent of the Civilian Student Council, and the members of that council. Besides generally commending these four student life heads, the council made specific endorsements in each field, as follows: In the resolution to the com mandant, the council endorsed the military college aspect within the school of military science as a part of the total operation of the col lege. In the resolution to Ford, the council commended the cadet offi cers’ leadership in developing a program under the new articles of the cadet corps, adopted this year. In the resolution to Zinn, the council commended the student af fairs department’s leadership in or ganizing their department, and gave its support to further develop ment of leadership and character training for the civilian students. In the resolution to Jones, the council commended the CSC for its leadership in developing civilian student life, not in competition with the cadet corps, but especially for civilian students. The Academic council also ap proved the Student Senate’s re quest that primaries be outlawed in student elections, by putting in the college regulations a prohibitive ruling. The ruling is as follows: “Any student election not authorized and sanctioned by the student Election commission is invalid and any stu dent involved in such election will be ineligible to become a candidate for any elected student office for the period of one school year.” The Sudent Senate made the recr ommendation after the class elec tions had to be postponed because of army juniors and sophomores holding primaries. The council also approved the Student Publication Board’s re quest to allow the Aggieland and The Battalion to have one editor each, instead of co-editors. C. C. Doak, head of the biology department, was appointed to one of the three faculty positions on the Development Fund board, for a three year term. Other faculty members of the board are W. W. Armistead and D. F. Leipper. Doak replaced C. W. Crawford. Mohair Lab Assigned College Station College Station was named as the new location for the wool and mohair laboratory of the Agricultural Experiment station by the A&M System board of directors at their meet ing Friday. The laboratory has been operat ing at the Bluebonnet Farm near McGregor since 1949. The reason given for the move is that the air force is reclaiming some experi ment land at McGregor, a former ordnance center. College Station was chosen as the best site for development of research, education and extension work on Texas wool and mohair to meet the future needs of these industries. Also, the training of undergraduate and graduate stu dents at A&M in this industry would be valuable. It is believed the greatest contri butions of the laboratory in the fu ture will be through research in developing new measuring tech niques, determining the specific uses and limitations of different grades of Texas wools and study ing the chemical and physical prop erties of wool and mohair. The availability of other techni cal laboratories whose facilities are needed in many of the research projects as well as of trained sci entists in many related fields were factors in the choice. MSC Gets Gifts From Mothers Three pieces of fireplace acces sories have been given to the Me morial Student Center, to use with the open fireplace in the main lounge. The Corpus Christi Mothers club donated a handmade metal wood- basket, designed to match the Center’s custom-built fire screen. A set of fireplace tools and a bean pot on a hanger for the in side of the fireplace have been bought with the combined gifts of the mothers clubs of Del Rio, Deep East Texas, Bell County, and San Antonio. George McCollough, ’38, of College Station, also donated to ward these two accessories. day night with the annual Cotton ball and pageant, sponsored by the Agronomy society. The annual affair, one of the highlights of the social calendar here, will begin with the pageant from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the White coliseum. During the pagent, the king and queen of cotton—TSCW Freshman Pat Callaway and A&M Senior Joe Bob Snodgrass—will be presented. Included in the program is a style show, directed by Beverly Braley of Bryan, and music by the Aggieland orchestra. Admission prices are $1.50 for reserved seats, $1 general admission and 50 cents for school children. The Aggieland orchestra will also play for the ball, to follow the pagent in the Grove. Tickets for the dance are $2, stag or couple. Miss Callaway was chosen last month by a delegation of Agrono my society members. She was picked from 29 candidates. The Cotton ball each year draws hundreds of guests to the campua, including duchesses elected both zations and schools throughout the state. Tickets for the affair may be purchased from members of the ticket committee—Jim Wakefield, Robert Butschek, Alan Taylor, Hol man Griffin—or from student ac tivities office, Goodwin hall. Escorts of duchesses to the Cot ton pageant are requested to be present for a dress rehearsal of the Grand March at 7:30 p.m. on April 28 in the coliseum, according to Jerry Ellis, social secretary. Bearden Chosen Contest Judge H. D. Bearden, vice-director of the engineering extension service, has been chosen chairman of three-man panel of judges for the Texas State Plumbing and Pipe fitting contest July 7 and 8, to be held at the Taylor Vocational school in Houston. Bearden also has been appointed to serve as a judge in the national contest, to be held at Purdue uni versity, La Fayette, Ind., August 18. rv'’’w* General Election Today In MSC The general election is being held today in the Memorial Stu dent Center until (5:15 p.m., with the ballot box near the post of fice entrance. Positions to be elected are Student Senate, Student Publi cations board. Civilian Student Life committee and civilian yell leader. | ’BEST IN HOUSTON’—Dean and Dan Pinkham, 14-year- old twins from Houston, will appear here Friday night as a part of the Cotton pageant. The boys were named the “best amateur talent in Houston” by the Horace Heidt talent show, and were offered a spot on his touring show.