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The Battalion
Number 11: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1955
Price Five Cents
Sbisa Acquires
New Look
For Autumn
Major repairs to Sbisa Hall
are nearing completion and
the building will be ready for
student use by the fall term
in September, W. H. Badgett,
manager of physical plants, has an
nounced.
Principal changes include in
stallation of a new, lower acoustical
ceiling with recessed lights; alum
inum doors; entirely new ventila
tion system which produces a com
plete change of air in the main
dining room every two minutes;
and a new multiple speaker public
address system with microphone
connections spaced around the hall
for use of banquet speakers and
dance bands.
Returning students also will use
new eight-chair tables with coral
red formica tops and non-tilting
laminated natural wood chairs. The
window archwork has been rebuilt
and the window length fiber drap
ing added. Oak plywood wainscot
ing applied with an electronic wood-
welder has been installed and new
men’s and women’s lounges have
been built.
Additional equipment includes a
new dishwashing machine.
Similar repairs are planned for
Duncan Hall, Badgett said.
Four from College
Now at Meetings
Four scientists from A&M are
attending agronomy and soil meet
ings at the University of Cali
fornia. The meetings began Mon
day and will end tomorrow.
The A&M men are Dr. J. E.
A-dams, dean of the School of Agri-
tulture; Dr. J. B. Page, head of
the Agronomy Department; Dr. R.
C. Potts of the Agronomy Depart
ment; and Dr. M. H. Ferguson of
the U. S. Golf Greens Association,
attached to the Agronotny Depart
ment.
The conference is a joint meet
ing of the annual gatherings of the
American Society of Agronomy and
the Soil Scientists’ Society of
America. Dr. Adams will discuss
turf work with fertilizers conducted
at A&M.
He also is chairman of the
Necrology and Nominating Com
mittee and a member of the
Fertilizer Committee of the ASA.
Dr. Page is a member of the Com
mittee for Physical Analyses,
SSSA.
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TO HOLD AGGIES IN—Alurninum doors are just a part of the face-lifting- that Sbisa
Hall is now undergoing. In addition the building is getting a new, low ceiling, a new
ventilation system, and a multiple speaker public address system. Work will be completed
by the beginning of the fall term.
Needs Money
CHS Faces Problem
Weather Today
Forecast for today: mostly
tloudy, with slight possibility of
more rain. Yesterday’s high tem-
petarture was 97, low this morning
E6. Official rainfall report at
11:30 a.m. was .08 inch.
By BILL FULLERTON
Battalion Editor
(Ed. Note — This news story is
going to be a little different from
the normal in that it will have com
ments and explanations added by
the writer as well as the facts of
the meeting. All comments,. edi
torial and explanatory, will be in
bold face, and are not an attempt
to slant the story. They are used
to try to give background informa
tion and provide the setting under
which the situation at A&M Con
solidated arose.)
The public hearing Monday night
on next year’s budget for the A&M
Consolidated School System
brought out the fact that like its
big (but non-related) brother, A&M
College, the Consolidated system
also has its money troubles. .
“The school is not in a position
to meet its next year’s needs,” Dr.
L. S. Richardson, superintendent,
said.
The school lacks about $35,000
of having enough money to meet
its obligations.
Dr. Richardson listed expendi
tures as $44,881.28, with an in
come of $8,907 plus whatever can
be collected of some $12,000 owed
in delinquent taxes. These taxes
are mainly over the past few years,
he said, but some go back as far as
1939. (Main reason for the de
linquency is increased assessments
on real property, not collections
which are more than 95 per cent.)
“Some money will probably come
in from this $12,000 owed. Dr. Rich
ardson said, “but how muck we
don’t know.”
“The deficit was created mainly
in 1954-55,” he said, adding that
the school “now has $600 on hand
and needs $40,200 by Sept. 1.”
(25,200 in salaries and a $15,000
note at College Station bank.)
The $8,907 is assured income, Dr.
Richardson said. The difference be
tween what the school owes and
what it has as income will Liave
to be worked out by the board.
(Although no action has been tak
en as a group by the board, a spe
cial called meeting has been set to
night at which a plan is to be pre
sented to resolve the system’s fi
nancial dilemma. Exactly what the
plan was has not been revealed,
although it apparently concerns an
agreement with the bank. Tonight’s
Batt Readers
Due to Get
All the Story
Readers of The Battalion
can look foi*ward to a com
plete and personal account of
the A&M-UCLA football game
Sept. 18, since Ronnie Great-
house, next year’s Battalion
sports editor, will be going to
California.
Greathouse was invited by
Paul W. Bryant, athletic di
rector of A&M, to accompany
the team as the guest of the
Athletic Department.
The invitation was passed
along to Greathouse and, al
though he has not had time to
respond, it is believed that
he will accept Coach Bryant’s
invitation.
meeting is not to adopt a budget,
for the head of the board, John
Rogers, is out of town. A budget
meeting is expected to be set some
time next week.)
The reason for the deficit is an
overspending of budget funds, Dr.
Richardson said. The big matters
causing it wei’e a change in the
type of chairs put in the new audi
torium (the chairs ended up cost
ing $10 more apiece, but the move
was felt justified for reasons of
acoustics and comfort); improve
ments in the planning of the new
Lincoln school gymnasium (once
more justifiable); and a $5,000 loss
in federal aid (unavoidable).
(Background — When the board
first tried to get a bond issue sev
eral years ago, it was beat down
by residents in a sharply contest
ed and bitter fight. When the bond
issue was passed enabling the sys
tem to go ahead and build the new
high school buildings and make
other improvements, the money al
lotted was not adequate. The
board went ahead anyway, trying
to provide the school with the
equipment necessary to give the
community the kind of school it de
serves. The school tax has been
kept low, apparently to keep from
antagonizing anyone anymore than
possible.)
The school tax rate for College
Station is $1.05 per $100 of assess
ment. This rate was set at a meet
ing in March at the request of the
city. Since the city handles the as
sessment of property and collec
tion of school taxes, it wanted a
rate set so that it could be includ
ed on the forms to be printed.
(See CONSOLIDATED, Page 2)
City Awards Contracts
For Sewage System
Housing Office
Announces
Dorm Set-Up
The Housing Office has
announced dormitory area as
signments for the fall semes
ter.
Civilian students will live in
Milner, Leggett, Mitchell, Law,
Puryear, ramps F. G. H and I of
Walton and ramps A, B, C, D and
E of Hart. The Cadet Corps Ayill
occupy ramps J and K of Walton
and dormitories 1 through 12 and
14 through 17.
Football and basketball players
will live in ramps A through E of
Walton, and other athletes will live
in ramps F through J of Hart.
Graduate students will live in Biz-
zell.
Students now in summer school
who expect to live with the Corps
should report to the Office for in
structions on room reservations.
The following schedule for pay
ing fees and reserving rooms will
prevail for civilian students:
• Students who wish to reserve
the room they now occupy must do
so between 8 a. m. Monday, Aug.
22, and 5 p. m. Tuesday, Aug. 23.
• Students who wish to reserve
a room other than the one they now
occupy in Law, Puryear, Leggett
or Bizzell may do so between the
same hours by presenting written
permission from the housemaster
concerned.
• Beginning at 8 a. m. Wednes
day, Aug. 24, rooms in the above
four dorms will be available on a
first-come, first-served basis.
• Students who wish to reserve
rooms in a civilian dorm which is
now closed may do so on a first-
come, first-served basis beginning
at 8 a. m. Monday, Aug. 22.
(See HOUSING, Page 4)
Col. Dittman Joins
Air Science Dept.
Col. Henry Dittman has as
sumed his duties as professor
of air science at A&M. He
replaced Col. John A. Way,
who left to attend the Indus
trial College of Armed Forces
in Washington.
Formerly chief of staff head
quarters Air Force ROTC, Air
University at Montgomery,
Ala., Colonel Dittman is a
1939 graduate of A&M. While
in school he was a member of
the football team.
$193,741 for Mains;
$160,980 for Plant
Contracts for the construction of College Station’s new
sewage system and sewage treating plant were awarded
Monday night at the regular meeting of the City Council.
The Texala Construction Co. of Houston was awarded
the contract for the sanitary sewer mains and laterals, with
a bid price of $193,741.25 and a construction time of 200 days.
The second low bid was by the Steed Construction Co. at a cost
difference of only $25 and a construction time of 255 days.
For the sewage treating plant E. E. Farrow Co. of Dallas
submitted the low bid of $160,980. They qualified their bid,
saying that they would not accept the contract unless awarded
also the contract for the sewer laterals and mains—unless it
*was mutually agreed other-
Season Tickets
Go on Sale
At Hiffh School
Season tickets for all ath
letic events at A&M Consoli
dated High School are on sale
now, according to J. J. Skri-
vanek Jr., high school princi
pal.
The tickets, which are good for
admission to all district football,
basketball and baseball games, are
$5 for adults and $2 for public
school students. In addition, “foot
ball only” tickets for adults may
be obtained for $3. These are good
for the five district home games.
Anyone wishing to buy tickets
may get them by placing his order
with Skrivanek at 4-1131 or with
any of the following students:
James Couch, Dan Davis, John
Harrington, Mary Beth Hagler,
Ann Hite, Bill Hite, Bobbie Huff,
Larry Leighton, Dali McCannon,
Margaret Manthei, Betty Mead,
Maurice Olian, Nell Ross, Billy
Taylor, David Webb and Patsy
Williams.
Ann Hite and Mary Beth Hagler
are co-chairmen of the ticket sales
drive. They may be contacted for
additional tickets. The checking in
of money is to be at the high school
each Thursday afternoon.
The sales drive ends at 8 p. m.
Sept. 9 when the Consolidated
Tigers play the Hempstead club
here at College Station.
Health Report
College Station had 11 cases of
strept thi’oat during the week end
ing Aug. 13, according to the
County Health Unit. Five cases of
diarrhea, three of influenza, and
one of gonorzhea also were report
ed.
4,000 Young Lutherans To Invade Campus
Preparations are speedily being
completed now for the ari’ival of
more than 4,000 persons at A&M
for the 12th International Luther
League Convention, to be held next
week, Aug. 23 through 28.
A cadi'e of personnel has been
on the campus for several weeks
now, planning and putting into mo
tion all of the many pre-convention
jobs necessary to make successful
such a progi’am. The Rev. Wilson
V. Hill of Robstown is convention
manager. “God’s Love — My Life”
is the convention theme.
There az-e 3,975 Leaguers regis-
tei’ed for the entire week, and
about 500 more are expected to
come in from neighboring towns.
The girls are staying in the south
area dormitories (by Duncan Hall)
and the boys, in the North Gate
area dormitories.
The convention will assume a
definite Texas slant, with all prep-
azations being directed along this
line. A Western town is being
constructed across the street from
the west side of the Memorial Stu
dent Center. The city will have six
buildings, including A&M’s fir-st
saloon, fiz-st jailhouse and first
courthouse.
Meals for the conventioners will
be served in Duncan Mess Hall.
Also available for the dispensing
of refreshments will be the “Chuck
Wagon,” a large refreshment
stand, and “Watez’holes,” smaller
z’efreshment stands, all located in
the Western City. If any of the
persons hez*e for the convention
like to swim, they will take their
pleasure in the “Dipping Vat,”
familiarly known as the A&M
swimming pool.
A convention daily paper will be
published — to be known as “The
Lasso.” Also, “The Round-Up,”
the convention souvenir book will
be available to all the Leaguez’s af
ter the convention ends. The pub
lishing house for these publications
will be The Wartbuz-g Press (this
is not a convention term for the
A&M Press), located in White
Coliseum.
Placement Office
Has Applicants
The Placement Office has an
nounced that it has a large number
of applicants for stenographic and
clerical jobs. Of these, many are
hez'e now, and over 150 girls will
be available in September.
Depaz-tment heads who have
openings either pez-manent or
temporary for stenographers,
clerks or secretaries are asked to
contact the Placement Office soon,
so that the office can get in touch
with qualified applicants.
Two exhibits will be on display
in the Student Center during the
convention. Ozze will depict the
work and mission of the American
Lutheran Church, and the other,
the Luther League program.
The progz"am foz- the convention
will include Bible studies, business
sessions, League District meetings,
Choz’al Union rehearsals, Sings-
pirations, sunrise Matins, vespers
and special pz*ograms.
A special 25th Anniversary
Pageant will be pz-esented Tuesday
night, produced and directed by
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the Rev. Roald Braulicy of Taylor,
Tex. “Operation Witness,” the
program for Thursday night, has
been written and produced by the
Rev. Ewald Bash of Cleveland,
Ohio. The Rev. John Meyre of San
Antonio will direct this program.
Speaker for the sunrise services
and matins will be the Rev. Gor
don Huffman of Butler, Pa. The
Rev. William L. Nies of Detroit,
Mich., will be the speaker at ves
per sez-vices. Serving as the Lituz*-
gist for matin and sunrise services
will be the Rev. Arthur Holm of
New Braunfels, Tex.
The Rev. A. G. Schardt of Cedar
Falls, Iowa, is convention song
leader, and Mr. Kenneth Jew T ell of
Detroit, Mich., will direct the
Youth Choir fz-om Mt. Zion Luth
eran Church in Detroit.
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A&M’S FIRST COURTHOUSE—By now its appearance will have been altered, but this is
how the Judge Roy Bean Courthouse in the Western City looked a couple of days aeo
The city is being built as a part of the program of the 12th International Luther League
Convention which opens at A&M Tuesday. More than 4,000 Leaguers are expected for the
sessions, which will end the following Sunday.
Potts to Conduct
Pasture Course
Dr. R. C. Potts of the Agronomy
Department will conduct a pasture
short couree at Nacogdoches
September 5-9.
O. B. Clifton, Nacogdoches
county agent, is in charge of ar
rangements there. Classes will be
held in the Stephen F. Austin
Theatre in Nacogdoches daily from
9 a. m. to 3 p. m.
wise. Farrow’s bid on both
jobs was higher than the low
est bid on the mains and lat
erals and the second lowest on
the plant.
The contract was awarded to
Farrow on an agreement with the
city that the woi’k would be sub
contracted at the bid price of
$160,980 to R. B. Butler, Inc., of
Bryan.
Repz’esentatives of Texala re
ported that they would go to wozk
as soon as the pipe for the lines
arrives. The Bzyan company indi
cated that their job would begin as
soon as they get z’einforcing steel,
and have shop drawings drawn up
and approved.
Both companies expect to begin
work soon.
Other Actions
In other action the council un
animously voted not to rezone lots
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, block 9, West Pai’k
Addition. A request had been made
that this az-ea, a residential zone,
be changed to a business zone. The
city Zoning Commission had made
the recommendation for this
change. The Zoning Oz-dinance says
that if 20 per cent of the ownez-s
affected protested it would take
four votes of the council to pass
rezoning. Two out of nine owners
protested, and iu the voting the
council preserved its record of
never having overridden the pz’o-
tests of bonaijide residents of the
city in a matter of rezoning.
The original request for rezon
ing had come from a resident of
Houston.
The council approved zoning as
a fiz-st class residential area Tz-act
7 and paz-t of Tract 8, Woodland
Estates. These areas had been in-
cozporated earlier but not zoned.
Alz-eady some houses are there and
others az-e being built.
The council approved the third
reading and final passage of
oz-dinance 216, granting a fzanchise
to the Midwest Video Association
for a booster television aerial for
the city. The fiz-st and second read
ings were made at the June 27 and
July 18 meetings respectively.
School Taxes
A resolution was passed at the
meeting that the council advise the
board of trustees of the A&M Con
solidated School System that the
city will quit assessing and col
lecting taxes for them, effective
June 31, 1956.
(See SEWAGE, Page 3)
Pan-A ms Entertain
Latin Americans
The Pan-American Round Table
of College Station and Bryan en
tertained sevezal Latin Amezican
students at A&M with an informal
summer paz-ty at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Gould Thursday,
Aug. 11.
About 50 boys from Latin Amer
ican countries, 24 of whom are
freshman students, and several lo
cal giz-ls were guests of the mem
bers of the Round Table.
Miss Sadie Hatfield, vice direc
tor of the club, greeted the guests,
and J. J. Woolket introduced the
program for the evening, which
included instrumental numbers,
singing, dancing and reading of
poetry* by the students.
Housing Needed
All persons who have furnished
or unfurnished apartments, rooms
or houses for rent are asked to
contact the Housing Office of the
college at 4-5014.