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4 New Traffic System Proposed; Okayed By Board At its meeting last weekend, the Board of Directors of the A&M System authorized Dr. David H. Morgan, president of A&M College, to levy a fee for regaining' college driving per mits taken from, violators of college traffic laws. The maximum fee author ized would be $1 for parking- violations, $2 for moving car violations, and $5 for viola tion of driving car on the cam- pus^ after the college permit has been withdrawn. The per mit will be automatically with drawn when a car is tagged for a violation. Although the details are not yet settled, the general ideas of the proposed new traffic system are as follows: During the first week of the semester, courtesy tickets will be given instead of the tickets which would carry an auto matic suspension of the driv ing permit. These courtesy slips are to serve as warnings that the driver of the car has violated some college rule. After that week, a parked car which is in violation of a college traffic regulation would be tagg'ed with regular tickets by Campus Security officers. The owner of the car would have 48 hours to ap peal his case to an appeal au thority who is to be Allan M. Madeley, assistant housing chief. This appeal court is to be open from 4 to 6 p.m., Mon days through Fridays. Made- ley’s decisions on appeal cases will be based on the circum stances under which violations occurred. Should a student lose his ap peal or' if he does not appeal, he must pay the $1 fee if he wishes to have his driving per mit restored. If he wins his appeal, the ticket will be torn up. The proposal sets a $2 fee for violations in a moving car. The same appeal is available to the involved parties. “This fee is not a fine,” Dr. Morgan said. “A student does not have to pay it, unless he wants to get his permit back.” A $5 fee will be assessed if a student drives his car on the campus without having first gotten his permit back, either by paying the $1 or $2, or by winning his appeal to the traf fic officer. He could get his permit restored by paying the $5 fee, plus the $1 or $2 that was charged to him at the time his permit was taken away. The traffic fees will be paid to the Fiscal Office. If either a “parking” or a “moving” violation becomes a disciplinary matter, said Dr. Morg-an, the case will be re ferred to the appropriate of fice—either the Commandant or the head of the Department of Student Affairs. 77ie Battalion Number 4: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1955 Price Five Cents A&M Budget $15,174,319 Fall Military Day Will Be Nov. 5 Athletic Council Gets $511,491 The Board of Directors of the A&M System, meeting here last weekend, approved a $15,174,319.17 budget for A&M College for the 1955-56 fiscal year, beginning Sept. 1. Approved separately was a budget for the A&M Athletic Council of $511,491.73. The A&M budget included $2,125,128 for teaching sal aries for 1955-56—the Legislature approved an appropria tion of $1,877,866 for this period. The difference has to be made up out of other funds, said Dr. David H. Morgan, A&M president. j The Legislature’s appropriation was an increase this year, as for 1954-55 the appropriation was $1,800,337 for teaching salaries. The budget for this period was $2,089,- 256. Buying of equipment for all departments had to be cut 20 per cent, Dr. Morgan said, plus using all of the reserve funds. The total budget for the entire system approved by the Board was £35,826,401.01. The budgets in clude funds for all dormitory, mess ixall and other subsidiary opera tions of the system’s four colleges as well as work of the five sys tem agencies. Other Budgets Besides A&M, the other budgets approved were $1,476,874 for the system general offices and serv ices; $1,558,698.50 for Arlington State College; $1,186,714.38 for Tarleton State College; $5,024,549.- 39 for Prairie View A&M; $4,785,- JH9.99 for the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station; $4,344,325.71 for the Agricultural Extension Service; $352,534 for Rodent and Predatory Animal Control Service; $400,799 for the Engineering Ex periment Station; $296,700 for the Engineering Extension Service; $51,320 for Firemen’s Training School; $1,052,943 for Texas For est Service; and $120,703.87 for Texas Transportation Institute. The Board also approved the bud get for the Texas Petroleum Re search Committee work at A&M in the amount of $50,000. The budgets approved for the Athletic Councils of the System's four colleges are, besides A&M, Arlington, $16,870; Tarleton, $16,- 150; and Prairie View, $46,481.25. (See A&M BOARD, Page 3) City Budget Approved The College Station City Coun cil Monday night approved a bud get for 1955-56, with total expendi tures expected as $274,204.10, and total revenues, $281,356.60. The difference between revenue and expenditure will be used as reserve for general maintenance, said Mayor Ernest Langford. The budget the city is now operating under for 1954-55 was $254,279.80 for estimated revenues and $234,- 191.78 for expenses. A&M President David H. Mor gan has announced that the second annual Fall Military Day will be Nov. 5, the day of the A&M-South- ern Methodist University football game here. The first Fall Military Day was held last Nov. 13, when the Aggies tangled with Rice Institute at Kyle Field. The football game wasn’t successful, but an impressive host of generals and other distinguish ed personnel were hosts of the col lege. On the morning of Nov. 5, the Council of Military Colltge Presi dents will also gather at A&M. The schools invited, and their pres idents are, besides A&M and Dr. Morgan, New Mexico Military In stitute, Col. Charles F. Ward, sup erintendent; North Georgia Col lege, Merritt E. Hoag, president; Pennsylvania Military College, E. E. MacMorland, president; The Citadel, Gen. Mark W. Clark; Norwich University, Maj. Gen. E. N. Harmon, president; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, W. S. New man, president; Virginia Military Institute, W. H. Milton Jr., pres ident; and Clemson Agricultural College, R. F. Poole, president. For the Military Day activities, nine generals have been invited so far, plus an admiral, three col onels, and a State Representative. The Honorable Carter Burgess, as sistant Secretary of Defense and head of all ROTC units, has al ready accepted an invitation to be at A&M, Dr. Morgan said. A complete list of guests and I property. For the maintenance and plans for the various activities for | support of the general govem- A breakdown for the new bud get shows the general fund totals as $61,004.00 for revenues and $102,000.34 for expenditures. In the electric fund, revenues are es timated as $131,300.00 and expendi tures as $92,593.33. The water and sewer fund has for revenues $88,000.00 and for expenses $78,- 557.83. The cemetery fund shows a $1,056.60 revenue total and the same for the expenditure total. Ad ding revenues and subtracting the total expenditures gives a reserve of $7,152.50. In other action the council de cided to look further into the re quest of the Midwest Video Asso ciation for a permit to operate a community antenna system. An Appropriation Ordinance was adopted. This ordinance provides that a tax shall be levied and col lected from residents of the city for $1 on each $100 evaluation of the occasion will be announced la ter. 0. M. Holt’s Son Home After Fall Thomas Holt, 11-year-old son of Dr. and Mrs. O. M. Holt of College Station, is recovering at home from the results of a fall in White Coliseum Tuesday morning. Young Holt, whose father is with the A&M Department of Ag ricultural Education, was taken to Houston for treatment, being- ordered there by doctors at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bryan. He was given emergency treatment at the Bryan hospital, and then sent to Houston for surgery. It was at first feared that the boy might have had a spinal or neck injury from the fall. He had apparently tripped and fallen from the balcony of the coliseum, land ing on his face on the gym floor ment, the tax rate is 78 cents on $100. For the interest and sinking fund, the rate is 22 cents on $100. Ordinance No. 211 which had set June 20 as the date for a pub lic hearing on rezoning was drop ped, and a new ordinance, 215, changing the date of the hearing to July 18 was adopted. Preliminary plans for the new city sewage system were presented to the council by a representative of Homer Hunter and Associates, Dallas, Consulting Engineers. A committee was set up to look over the plans, so that the final version could be ready by the next regular council meeting, July 18. The coun cil hopes to advertise for bids soon after that date. [ mKM J Dr. John C. Calhoun Jr. New Dean of Engineering at A&M /. C. Calhoun Engineering Dean Named Weather Today Today will be warm, with clear to partly cloudy skies. Yesterday’s Two teeth were knocked out and I high temperature was 94 degrees; his jaw broken, but no spinal or low this morning, 74 degrees. At neck injury is apparent, doctors 10 this morning the* thermometer said. I registered 85. One of the nation’s top petrol eum and natural gas engineers. Dr. John C. Calhoun Jr., has been named Dean of Engineering for the A&M System. He will come to Texas from his present position as professor and head of the de partment of petroleum and natural gas engineering at the Pennsyl vania State University, September 1. Dr. Calhoun will head the en gineering teaching, research and extension work of a major part of the System, directing the School of Engineering at A&M College and the work of the statewide En gineering Experiment Station and Engineering Experiment Station and Engineering Extension Service. Nationally recognized as a pro fessional consultant, particularly in the field of secondary recovery. Dr. Calhoun is the Pennsylvania member of the Interstate Oil Com pact Commission and a member of the Engineering committee for the commission. He is also a mem ber of the Penn Grade Oil Asso ciation’s technical advisory com mittee, chairman of the Mineral Engineering Division of the Amer ican Society of Engineei'ing Edu cation and has served as an inde pendent consultant to many nation al oil producing and exploration companies. From 1947 to 1951, Dr. Calhoun wrote the regular weekly feature, Board Confirms Several Leaves Confirmation of leaves without pay have been approved by the Board of Directors of the A&M College System, meetig here June 25, to the following: Texas A&M College, School of Arts and Sciences, Howard B. Cur tis, assistant professor of math ematics, extension of leave for the purpose of graduate study at Rice Institute, Sept. 1, 1955 to May 31, 1956, inclusive. Texas Engineering Experiment Station, Donald M. Vestal Jr., re search engineer, to study for the Ph.D. degree at Stanford Univer sity, September 1, 1955 through August 31, 1956. Holiday Monday All offices of the college will be closed Monday, July 4, in observance of Independence Day, according to the office of the Dean of the College. Classes will resume Tuesday morning. “Engineering Fundamentals”, for the Oil and Gas Journal. Later these columns were revised and published in book form under the title, “Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering”. In addition to be ing a regular contributor to lead ing oil and gas publications, Dr. Calhound is part owner and con sulting editor of the Petroleum- Natural Gas Digest. A 1937 graduate of Pennsylvania State University, where he also took his M.S. degree in petroleum and natural gas engineering in 1941 and his Ph. D. in the same field in 1946, Dr. Calhoun served as research worker and teacher at his alma mater from 1937 to 1946. From 1946 to 1950 he was at the University of Oklahoma, where he became chairman of the School of Petroleum Engineering, before re turning to Penn State in 1950 to assume his present post. A native of McKean County, Pennsylvania, Dr. Calhoun is 38 years of age, married, and the father of four children. He is a member of the University Baptist Church of State College, Pennsyl vania, where he regularly teaches a Sunday school class. He has been active in civic affairs as well as in professional societies in en gineering and education. 'Hit the Deck Musical Comedy Here Soon X w X. : X M&Lm ■ SOLDIER OF THE MONTH—Pvt. George H. Nickle jr., son of Mrs. Vena K. Nickle of College Station, is shown receiving the “Soldier of the Month” trophy from Col. R. O. Waller, assistant commandant of the Southeastern Signal School at Camp Gordon, Ga. Nickle, a student in radio-teletype operation, received the award on the basis of his mil itary appearance and knowledge, e is a former student at A&M. By KERSTIN EKFELT Battalion Woman’s Editor The cast of “Hit the Deck,” the musical comedy which will be pre sented by the Student Activities Department, are working hard to get ready for the big opening July 12. The show will be staged at the Grove Tuesday and Wednesday, July 12 and 13, and will begin at 8 p.m. Admission is 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children. Season tickets or student activi ties fee slips are also good for the performance. The story might be called “the tale of the Smiths,” for the plot deals with the attempts of the her oine to chase down all of the Smiths in the United States Navy in order to find the one she loves. Taking the lead part of Looloo, attractive owner of a coffee house, is Miss Coralyn Thurman of Bry an. Miss Thurman is a graduate of Stephen F. Austin High School in Bryan, where she was a member of the A Capella Choir and sang in numerous musical programs. Don Smith, pre-vet student from Princeton, N.J., will play Looloo’s Miss Coralyn Thurman ‘Hit the Deck’ Star heartthrob, Bilge Smith, a sailor who takes love lightly. Smith was a member of the Princeton High School A Capella Choir. He played the lead in “The Desert Song” when it was produced by a group in Princeton. Others who will handle import ant parts are Miss Camille Ken nedy, Mrs. Shirley Smith, Charley Jenkins, Mrs. Tom Ryan, and Carl Coppack. Bill Turner and Mrs. Joe Barron are directing the production. Members of the chorus are Chris Pavelka, Gene Logan, Marguerite Logan, Clare Rogers, Marie Elliot, Martha Montgomery, Rita Stite- ler, Carolyn Vance, Janet Folweil- er. Eve Porter, Dale McCullough, Bob Yeager, Jerry Leighton, Lane Lynch, Dick Fischer, Howard Har well, and Gary December. In the orchestra are Sarah Watts, Wayne Dunlap, Gary De cember, Richard Moore, Mrs. Alice Vetter, Mrs. George Barton Adams, Mrs. W. F. Crawford, J. S. Jerni- gan, Robert Alexander, Betsy Bur- chard, Crawford Smith, George Reynolds, Tom Parish and Linda Potts. - mm Don Smith Cast as ‘Bilge Smith’