The Battalion
Number 118: Volume 54
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1955
Price Five Cents
About 850 Students To Get Degrees
At Commencement Exercises Friday
Services Will Be
BACCALAUREATE SPEAKER—Dr. Robert F. Jones,
pastor of Fort Worth’s First Presbyterian Church, will de
liver the baccalaureate sermon at Friday’s graduation cer
emonies. He will speak at 10 a. m. in White coliseum.
News of the World
By The ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Surgeon Gen. Leonard Scheele an
nounced last night that the government has confirmed the
safety of all Salk polio vaccine produced by drug companies
except possibly two lots made by Cutter laboratories, Berke
ley, Calif. There was no immediate indication, however, of
when the stalled immunization program would be resumed.
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LONDON—Prime Minister Eden, dapper as ever
and beaming more than usual, issued his own forecast
yesterday of victory for his conservatives in Thursday’s
general election. “I think we shall win,” he told news
men in Birmingham, “but I don’t know by how many.”
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PARIS—Nationalist terrorist shootings, bombings and
arson spread through French Morocco the last 24 hours,
leaving 6 persons dead and 16 wounded.
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AUSTIN—Two thousand Texas men will undergo
physical-mental Selective Service examinations in July,
state headquarters said yesterday. It was the first call
for examination of draft registrants issupd in six
months.
.At Kiwanis Club
Mayor Says City
Is in ‘Good Hands’
College Station Mayor Ernest
Langford listed some of the city’s
“problems” yesterday to the Ki
wanis club, but he said none of
them are insurmountable, and “the
City of College Station is in good
hands — we have the finest city
council in the state of Texas.”
Here are the city’s problems, as
the mayor sees them:
• Number one, without qualifi
cation, he said, is the extension
and completion of the sewer sys
tem. A $275,000 bond issue to pay
for this has been voted, and about
15 miles of pipe has been ordered.
Langford said the engineer’s
plans will be ready June 15, and
the pipe will be delivered Aug. 15.
• Next problem listed was the
cemetery, which Langford said
probably would not be self-sus
taining “in our lifetimes”. The
city now owns 36 acres for the
cemetery, and has a permanent en
dowment plan for each lot sold.
• “What are we going to do with
highway 6” was the next problem.
Langford said that the city was
already in agreement to widen
highway 6 within the city limits,
if the City of Bryan and the state
Highway department agreed to go
ahead with the project.
He said the widening would cost
$30,000, and that he personally
would rather spend the money on
improvements for city streets. He
said he didn’t know where the
$30,000 would come from anyway.
• Next on the mayor’s list was
improving the electricity seiwices.
“You people may not realize it,”
he said, “but those half and three-
quarter-ton air conditioning units
you put in your windows have
thrown our lines out of balance.”
The whole system needs to be
done over, he said, and it probably
can be paid for out of utility earn
ings.
• The last of the city’s prob
lems, according to the mayor, is
the water distribution system.
This is not an immediate problem,
he said, but it will come up when
the new sewer system is in opera
tion.
To start his talk, Langford said
that 16 years ago, when the city
was incorporated, it was broke.
“Now we have $878,212 in assets,”
he said, with a bonded indebtedness
of $505,000.
The bonded indebtedness will be
paid off “with no one ever know
ing the difference,” he said.
Langford said the city’s budget
for the current fiscal year, ending
June 30, was estimated at $253,150
income and $233,700 expenditures.
At the end of Langford’s talk,
Kiwanis President Bob Cherry
read a pledge in which the mem
bers of the Kiwanis club dedicated
themselves to “a renewed interest
in the purposes, principles, and
program of Kiwanis” and to an
“accelerated program of commun
ity service.” A copy of the pledge
was given to Langford and the
city council.
Mrs. Frazier
CHS Teacher
Something Special
Going quietly but efficiently
about her teaching at A&M Con
solidated these days is an attrac
tive brown-haired young woman—
Mrs. Shirley Frazier. And now
school is a joy to those who before
knew much discouragement, for
Mrs. Frazier is a special teacher—
a speech therapist.
Mrs. Frazier came to Consolida
ted at mid-term after receiving a
degree in education and speech
from Southwest Texas State
Teachers college. Mrs. Frazier’s
enthusiasm for speech therapy was
aroused and encouraged by Dr.
Empress Zedder, head of speech
therapy at Southwest Texas State.
Approximately 55 students at
Consolidated are being taught by
Mrs. Frazier. Among them are
Seniors Can Get
Refunds Today
Graduating seniors can get
refunds on fees starting at 1
p.m. today at the fiscal office
in the College Administration
building.
Refunds on room, board and
laundry are due because sen
iors paid fees through next
week.
Civilian students must pre-
sient a meal coupon book to
get their board refund.
students who stutter, those with a
cleft palate and or a cleft lip, hard
of hearing and any others, who
for some reason have such poor ar
ticulation that it embarrasses them.
With students who are hard of
hearing and whose condition may
grow worse, Mrs. Frazier uses
speech conversation. This empha
sizes consonant sounds, the first
ones lost as the hearing grows
worse. Lip reading also is encour
aged.
Laughingly saying she hoped
other teachers would not blame her
for it, Mrs. Frazier admitted that
some of her younger students
sometimes skip a regular class and
come to a speech therapy class
which they are not even scheduled
to be in. The other teachers do
not mind and Consolidated par
ents and students are glad that
she is here.
In White Coliseum
Approximately 850 students will be graduated Friday,
with commencement ceremonies to be held in the White col
iseum.
The Baccalaureate service will be held that morning in
the coliseum, starting at 10 a.m. Included in this service
♦will be the presentation of the
Development Fund gift to A&
M by O. T. Hotchkiss, past
president of the Former Stu
dents association, of Port Ar
thur.
The baccalaureate sermon, “On
Learning to Choose Your Causes
Well,” will be delivered by Dr.
Robert F. Jones, minister of the
First Presbyterian church, Fort
Worth.
The commencement ceremonies
will begin at 7 p.m. Dr. Willis M.
Tate, president of Southern Meth
odist university, will deliver the
commencement address. Dr. David
H. Morgan, president of A&M, will
confer the degrees to the grad
uates.
Robert Thomas Miller of Bishop
is valedictorian for the class.
New Rifle Club
Helps Promote
Firearms Care
Directories
Still On Sale
A limited number of this
year’s Student Directories are
on sale at the main desk in
the Memorial Student Center
or at the Student Publications
office, second floor of Goodwin
hall.
Copies are 50 cents each.
College Station and Bryan
have come up with an organ
ization to rid firearms of the
name “hazardous weapons”.
The new organization, call
ed the Twin City Junior Rifle club,
has been formed by Sidney L.
Loveless, College Station insurance
man, with the aid of Sgt. Sam O.
Lucky.
The club is limited to boys and
girls from 9-12 years of age and
now has a membership of more
than 30 youngsters. Not only
youngsters were interested, but
also parents, who now feel their
children are receiving the right
training in handling a rifle.
Officers of the club are Jim
Fowler, president; Charles Dela-
plane, vice-president; Lynn R. La-
Motte, secretary; and Jerome Zu-
bik, treasurer.
Fowler, with the help of the oth
er officers, promotes marksman
ship, safety, clean competition and
training principles among mem
bers.
Loveless teaches an 18-hour
course that meets three hours each
week, the next course starting
July 20.
Clears Why for ’55-56
Weather Today
MSC Council Approves
Budgets for Programs
The weather for today will be
partly cloudy with the possibility
of light thunderstorms and rain
showers late today. The high
temperature yesterday was 83 and
the low last night was 64. Tem
perature at 11 a.m. was 74.
The 1955-56 Memorial Student
Center council, at its first meeting
Monday night, cleared the way for
next year’s program by approving
budgets for the various activities
of the group.
The following amounts were ap
proved for council funds:
MSC Directorate, $1,000; MSC
council, $765; Public Relations
group, $210; House group, $535,
with the stipulation that monthly
reports be submitted by the chair
man on the attendance, actual and
possible, of students and faculty
members at departmental coffees;
Art Gallery group, $805;
Bowling committee, $428; Radio
committee, $50; Audio committee,
$17.50; Craft committee, $210;
Camera committee, $280; Forum
committee, $0.00; Junto commit
tee, $36; Great Issues committee,
$15; Browsing Library committee,
$385; Music group, $665; Dance
group, $15; Bridge committee, $56;
Film Society committee, $5; and
Recital Series, $5.
The council also approved these
budgets for revolving funds. These
go to the groups which have an
income; the money budgeted re
volves back into the fund.
The Film society was budgeted
$732; Rue Pinalle, $1,100; Dance
classes, $2,625; Special Dances
committee, $600; Parliamentary
Procedure committee, $153.75.
The Intercollegiate Talent show
was budgeted $300 for the fall
Fletcher To Lead
Prof. R. H. Fletcher of the me
chanical engineering department
will lead a panel discussion at the
national meeting of the American
Society for Engineering Education.
The meeting is scheduled for
June 20-24 at Penn State.
First presented at A&M by de
partment staff members, the topic,
“How to Recognize and Enhance
Student Maturity,” was recom
mended for the national meeting
by Secretary B.F.K. Mullins.
Other members of the original
panel with Fletcher were Dr. Lee
J. Thompson, Prof. L. S. O’Bannon,
Prof. N. Abramson.
House Okeys
Bill Doubling
Tuition
AUSTIN — OR) — Final ap
proval of the bill doubling
tuition in state schools was
given yesterday by the state
House, after Rep. James A.
Truman attacked it as one
which was unfair and not in
keeping with the principles of
education set up in the state
Constitution.
Truman offered amendments
which would allow students to
attend college on credit 'set
up in 5-year promissory notes,
and which would have made
the tuition raise only 20 per
cent per year. Both amend
ments were tabled.
Honorary Degrees
Two A&M former students will
receive honorary degrees. They
are Leonard Hobbs, class of ’16
and one of the nation’s most dis
tinguished aviation engineers, and
John H. McLeod, ’08, a leader
in agricultural extension work.
At 1:30 p.m. Friday, 226 army
ROTC students and air force ROTC
students will receive commissions.
Brig. Gen. Henry R. Spicer, in
spector general of the air training
command, will deliver the address
at the commissioning exercises in
the coliseum.
Names on Page 3
A complete list of students who
will receive degrees is starting in
The Battalion today. Part of the
names are on page 3; the rest will
appear in tomorrow’s paper. A
schedule of events for the grad
uation services also will be in to
morrow’s Battalion.
Praise Given
To Civilians
For Activities
Keys were awarded yester
day to 18 ramp, floor and row
representatives at a meeting
of civilian students. Dr. Da
vid H. Morgan, A&M presi
dent, presented the keys, follow
ing a short address to the students.
Names of key winners were in
Tuesday’s Battalion.
Morgan praised the civilian stu
dents for “taking over the job”
and doing it. He pointed out that
although the first civilian week
end was held only this year, the
civilian students have been around
A&M for a long time.
In discussing the ratio between
corps and civilian students since
1935, Morgan showed where dif
ferent factors have influenced this
ratio in different years.
In 1935 the ratio was approxi
mately five to one, with 2,835 corps
student to 568 civilian student.
During these years of peace, the
ration declined until in 1940 it was
less than three to one.
In 1941, with World War II on
the threshold, the corps increased
to almost four times as many stu
dents, having 5,178 to 1,388, and
increased even more in 1942. With
the return of the veterans in 1946,
the civilian students outnumbered
the corps students 6,056 to 2,284.
But in 1949, the corps forged
ahead in numbers once more, as
many of the veterans were grad
uated. Since that time, the corps
has stayed ahead in numbers, al
though the civilian population of
A&M has been increasing since
1953.
In closing, Morgan praised the
civilians, the Civilian council, and
Robert O. Murray, the civilian ad
visor, for their accomplishments
during this first year of organiza
tion.
Annual Boot Dance
Set For Saturday
The class of ’56 will be honored
Saturday night with the second
annual boot "dance from 9-12 in
the Grove.
The dance, which will be for all
students turning senior, was start
ed last year. Faculty and wives
are also invited.
Tickets will be sold through unit
first sergeants and the price is $1
per couple, except faculty who will
be admitted free, according to Bill
Nourie, chairman of the ticket
sales.
Aggieland Editors
Selected for ’56
Kurt Nauck, editor of the Aggie-
land ’56, has announced section edi
tors for next year’s yearbook.
James Cook will be associate edi
tor. Section editors will be Don
Burt, class; Bill Meals, activities;
Mark Lawley, military; and Rod
Pittman, clubs.
Still to be named are editors for
the civilian and sports sections,
and the business manager.
The Aggieland staff will have an
organizational meeting at 5 p.m.
Wednesday in the Aggieland of
fice, and anybody interested in
working for the yearbook is invit
ed to attend, Nauck said.
semester. More will be available
for the spring talent show, after
money budgeted to other programs
has been returned to the revolving
fund.
Great Issues was allotted $4,080
and the Recital Series, $1,560.
These two programs do not get
their funds from the revolving
fund, but from $1 out of every
student activity card sold. Great
Issues gets 70 per cent of this $1,
and the Recital Series gets 30 per
cent.
The council also approved an
$11,610 budget for the Student
Council on National Affairs pro
gram, which is planned for next
year. It was stipulated that no
money was to be spent until the
entire amount, to be financed by
an endowment fund, is in. The
council also budgeted a pre-endow
ment fund, of $200 for expenses
expected in setting up SCONA.
The summer program was bud-
geed $135 of council funds, and
$1,564 from the revolving fund.
The summer program will include
films, dances and other programs.
‘THIS IS A MAP’—Capt. Peters, Bryan air force base operations officer, shows a group
of A&M student wives what an air force course map looks like. The girls, all wives
of air ROTC graduating seniors, toured the base recently as guests of the air force.