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Number 18: Volume 55 Price Five Cents The Battalion COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1955 W orld News By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FRANKFURT, Germany — T h e “come home” campaign by Soviet Russia and East European satel lites is disturbing refugees in the West. But Western experts say the number of exiles who have re turned is small. One American official estimates that not more than 150 exiles have redefected from West Germany, their major haven where they had been hoping for resettlement in the United States or elsewhere. British intel ligence says only a “trickle” have gone back. ★ ★ ★ DALLAS—An F86D Sabre Jet exploded in the air north of here yesterday but the pilot, Capt. Vern Davis, 34, parachuted safe ly. The burning wreckage of the Perrin Air Force Base craft fell in a sparsely wooded area in Denton County. Davis was taken to a Denton hospital for exami nation. ★ ★ ★ RALEIGH, N.C.—The devastat ing blow dealt North Carolina by Hurricane lone left damages that may reach 160 million dollars, the state Civil Defense Director, Gen. Edward F. Griffin, said yesterday. This would mean that lone, which slashed across the fertile eastern section of the state Monday, sur passed damages wreaked by Hur- ticane Hazel last October by more than 40 million dollars. ★ ★ ★ NEW Y O R K—Stewards at Belmont Park slapped a 10-day suspension on jockey Willie Shoemaker yesterday, and the nation’s No. 1 rider for the last two seasons will not be able to pilot the Maine Chance Farm’s Jet Action in Saturday’s $100,- 000-added Syson-by Stakes. ★ ★ ★ CORSICANA — Lon C. Ingram, former Texas A&M football star and resident state highway engi neer here, died yesterday of a gullet wound. Ingram was found in his home with a bullet wound in the head last Thursday. A pis tol lay beside him. TAKE A GOOD LOOK—You better take a good look, for around A&M you won’t see many parking lots unfilled. One wonders how the campus security officers can tell whether a car is parked in the right place. For instance, should a car with a Hart Hall lot decal be tagged if it is six blocks from its right parking lot and only five from an other? But you’ve got to park them somewhere. Memorial Student Center., II Fee Won’t Take Up Slack President Morgan Hosts Dinner Club The A&M Employees Dinner Club will be guests of President and Mrs. David H. Morgan this evening for the first social of the year. Dinner will be served at 7:30 p,m. in the Memorial Student Cen ter Ballroom followed by dancing to the music of Ernfie Martilleno and his Caper’s Combol Formal or informal dress may be worn. Ed. Note: This is the second in a series of articles on the Memorial Student Center aimed at enabling students to know their student union to help them decide on how to vote in the coming union fee election. Even if approved by students in the election next Thursday and Friday, the revenue from the $2 union fee will not take up the slack between expected income and expected expenses for the Me morial Student Center this year. Th^ estimates for the 1955-56 school year reveal a difference, on the debit side, of about $40,000, ac cording to figures compiled by the Center’s financial department. Fig uring an average of 6,500 students paying the $2 both semesters plus 1,500 paying $1 for two semesters a difference of $16,000 still exists. The lest of the money to operate on next year will have to come out of the reserve fund for deprecia tion which, for the first time, the Center was able to accumulate last year, said J. Wayne Stark, director. Let’s look at a simple breakdown of the Center’s financial situation. The areas covered include three general categories: business oper ations, facilities and student pro grams. The income from business opera tions is expected to be $740,000 this year, balanced on the expenses side of the ledger by an equal amount. So far, so good. Facilities is a smaller operation, especially on the income side— $90,000 coming in and $110,000 ex pected to go out. Of the $90,000 income, $45,000 is paid by the state for adult education programs, the short courses. This category leave® the Center $20,000 short. The third area is student pro grams, and this is one that brings in nothing and costs $25,000. Funds for this activities were formerly provided by Exchange Store prof its, but these funds are lost to the Center this year because of the cost of the expansion and modern ization of the college store this summer. • Adding up, the MSC faces a po tential debit of $45,000. As shown, before, the union fee will not make this amount up in its entirety, but will provide more than half. The business operations include all of the departments of the Cen ter that offer something to sell, rent, use, etc. These are such as guest rooms, bowling alley, food departments, and the like. The facilities are self-explana tory. Income from this category comes from profits from business services, carry-over from previous years and state funds for adult ed ucation programs. Of major interest to students are the student programs of the Center. These include the various committees and activities that stu dents can participate in at the MSC. Approval of the union fee will enable the Center to continue its services unimpaired, Stark said. The alternative presenting itself (See UNION FEE, Page 6) Three SWC Schools Admit Rule infraction Mock Disaster Demonstration Staged Tonight Following a make-believe tornado, evacuees from a nearby town will be brought to Rensel Park tonight to the evacuation center there for medical cai’e, shelter and food. Demonstrating every service of civil defense, the drama will high light the Civil Defense Conference being held at the Memorial Stu dent Center. Representatives from some 40 women’s organizations over the state registered for the conference Wednesday morning. The confer ence will end Friday. Sponsored by the State Women’s Civil Defense Advisory Council, the workshop is designed to give the 125 delegates ideas to intro duce in their groups at home as well as to pi'ovide the content for a new civil defense handbook. Topics being discussed in the workshops of the conference in clude health, welfare services, emergency mass care (including feeding, housing and clothing), school roles in civil defense, youth participation and information and communication work. During the session, exhibits, open to the public, are set up in the second floor lounge of the MSC which show different preparations and precautions that can be taken against disaster. These exhibits include the first place winner in the American Le gion. Fair. Estimated at a cost of six dollars, the display is a first aid kit with additional equipment in case of disaster or enemy at tack. (See CIVIL DEFENSE, Page 6) Southern California School Paper Cuts Shivers By RALPH COLE Battalion Managing Editor Texas Governor Allan Shivers has again been attacked by the University of Southern California school paper in an editorial titled “That Governor From Texas!” To re-hash the story, the admin istration of the University of Southern California had invited Shivers to speak at the 1955 grad uation exercises. The USC Stu dent Senate met the same evening the announcement was made and voted unanimously to pass a pro test resolution drawn up by the student body. The protest resolution stated: “The historic purpose of a com mencement is to inspire the grad uating seniors to recognize the importance of the ideals of -toler ance, integrity and intelligence. “Governor Shivers has consis tently demonstrated a lack of these ideals and it would be to the def inite detriment of the reputation and best interests of the Univer- TUMBLEDOWN SHACK—Shown in the picture above are the rear steps to “H” building in Splinter Village, where Infantry and Artillery classes are held. Students coming out the rear door don’t have to worry about tripping on steps, they just brace their feet and slide down the ramp. However, if someone happened not to slide just right, the overturned steps might not make for such a comfortable landing. Clubs May Apply For MSC Rooms Applications for meeting rooms of student organizations and clubs are now being taken in the Social and Educational Department of the Memorial Student Center. Beginning this morning at 8 o’clock, the applications will be taken until all of the rooms are filled. Applications will be accep ted primarily on a first come, first j serve basis. However, if a club or organiza tion used the MSC as a meeting place last year, there is not much chance they will be able to meet again this year. “We try to let as many clubs as possible have a chance to use the rooms and the only way we can do this is to alternate the organiza tions,” said Mrs. Ann Keel, Social Director of the Center. sity to have a person who has demonstrated such a lack of these ideals, particularly in the light of the fact that this is the Diamond Jubilee Year.” (SC 75 anniver sary). The Daily Trojan went on to say that all the more reason to leave Shivers out of the graduation cere monies was for his “infamous and widely publicized quote two years ago that ‘I am personally revolted by the idea of having white and nigger children in the same schools together’.” President Fagg, president of the University, said “we weren’t even considering his views on segrega tion—nothing amazed me more thant the student protest.” The Daily Trojan came back with “Well, nothing amazes us more than the administration’s amaze- than the student protest.” During all this bickering, Shivers had no comments except to say Weather Today that he still planned to attend the exercises and make the speech as invited. Dr. Fagg called the Student Sen ate into his private office and talk ed with them on the administra tion’s position in the matter. As soon as the good Doctor left the room, the Senate agaih voted una nimously to keep the student pro test. On the day Shivers was an nounced as speaker for tehe occa sion, the Daily Trojan went off publication for the summer. The paper says, “It is perfectly clear now that certain campus politicos used the Shivers affair to enhance their own careers rather than pri marily for the principles involved.” It seems that some biased students made some money off the Los An geles papers by selling them stories which weren’t necessarily true. To end the editorial, Paul Was- serman. Managing Editor says, “Shiver’s right to speak was not the point at issue. It was the fact that speaking at a commencement is an honor that should be be stowed only on those who deserve it. Shivers, by no stretch of the imagination, is so qualified!” SMU, Baylor, TU Recruit Athletes DALLAS, Sept. 21—L 7 ?)—Southern Methodist, the Uni versity of Texas and Baylor yesterday admitted what they said were minor, technical violations of the Southwest Con ference code on recruiting athletes. Rice denied any violations and Texas A&M, which re cently was penalized by the conference, said it wouldn’t be proper to comment now. These five schools were named in a story in the Dallas- News yesterday as scheduled to be called on the carpet for recruiting practices at a special meeting of the conference Sunday in Dallas. The story said that 12 cases were to be considered all ♦’together, and that “most” were minor and highly tech- iTlings Open For Civilians This Friday Filings for this year’s Civ ilian Student Council will op en at 8 a.m. Friday, remaining open until 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30. The election will be held Oct. 4. Students who want to file must have been a civilian student at least one semester, must have a 1.0 grade point ratio and must not be on scholastic or disciplinary pro bation. A representative is elec ted from each two ramps, from each floor of civilian dorms and from each College View row. The representative to the Civilian Council is then elected for each dormitory or row from the ramp, floor or row representatives and each respective student senator. Filing should be made with civ ilian house masters, the student manager in College View, or with the civilian advisors, W. G. Breaz- eale and Robert O. Murray. The civilian student senators will conduct the election. Ballots will be distributed in College View, according to John Jones, last year’s Council president. Dormi tory students can get their ballots from house masters or senators, he said. At present no decision has been made as to how day students will vote, Jones added. ’56 Aggielancl Staff To Meet A meeting of ’56 Aggieland staff will be held Monday night at 7:30 in room 201 of Goodwin Hall. This is an important meeting for staff members, and section editors as well as any student interested in working for the annual, said Edi tor Kurt Nauck. nical in nature. It said one case, however, involving a track star who enrolled at Texas was “more serious.” Howard Grubbs, executive sec retary of the conference, refused to comment on the reports. Ear lier, he had announced the meet ing would be for the purpose of discussing recruiting practices in general and to receive reports on inquiries into these practices by conference officials. Texas A&M is already under a two-year probation for violation of recruiting rules. J. Neils Thompson, Texas’ fac ulty representative to the confer ence, said Tuesday he felt Texas was involved in violations of the recruiting rules, “in a rather mi nor way, but nevertheless they were violations.” Texas Athletic Director Dana X. Bible said there was one instance where a Texas assistant football coach might have violated the rule, “if they want to be real techni cal.” Transportation Case He said the case involved the transportation of a prospective athlete from Bastrop to Austin in cidental to bringing the boy’s fath er to Austin to meet Head Football Coach Ed Price. Bible said it did not occur to the assistant coach that a rule was be ing violated when the boy came along with his father. Bible said he assumed the news story about a track star concerned Eddie Southern, much sought-after Dallas spi-inter. JL. “I do know the boy was sought after, and I do know they mkde a pretty thorough investigation of all those rumors, and to my knowledge it was all cleared,Bi ble said. “There wasn’t anything that took place that was irregular —if that’s the boy they’re talking about.” Southern Methodist Football Coach Woody Woodard said SMU had made a technical violation, but that he wasn’t aware it was one when it was made. Partly Cloudy Temperature of 84 degrees was recorded at 10:30 a.m. with a low early this morning of 78 degrees. Forecast for today remains the same, partly cloudy with widely scattered thundershowers. Yesterdays high was 90 degrees with a low last night of 73 degrees. Student Senate Meets Tonight Introduction of guests and the forming of committees will head the agenda of this years’ first Student Senate meeting. Meeting time is 7:30 tonite in the Senate Chamber of the Memor ial Student Center. A seating -plan for football games is now be ing worked out according to Byron (Scotty) Parham, Senate president. Last Day To Drop Saturday is the last day for ad ding courses or enrolling. Oct. 1 is the last day for dropping cour ses with no grade. SEPTEMBER SHOWER—Giving Sully his first bath of the new school year are freshmen from Squadron 13. The group also were first to water the statue down last year, and, according to reports, plan to make being first a tra dition.