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The Battalion
Number 20: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1955
Price Five Cents
Union Fee Vole Starts Tomorrow
I5T6 Class Votes
To Endorse Fee
For Student Union
The Senior Class, in its first
meeting of the year last night,
voted to endorse the Memorial Stu
dent Center compulsary union fee
in the coming election Wednesday
and Thursday.
Bill Willis, chairman of the
Junto Committee, presented the
more than 120 seniors present with
short talk and discussion period
on the union fee.
Tommy Short, head drum major,
asked the class to stop throwing
“Aggie confetti” at mid-night yell
practices. He said the toilet tissue
was like “hail” last year.
“We have 250 men in the band
and about $250,000 worth of in
struments, plus dates,” he said,
“And we can’t watch for the fly
ing rolls of tissue heading our way
and still concentrate on playing
our horn.”
Gus Mijalis, senior yell leader,
made the motion that the “Aggie
confetti” be dope away with at
yell practices, but the motion was
not seconded and died without a
vote.
Paul Holladay, head yell leader,
told the group that yell practice
was too noisy and more coopera
tion was needed from seniors to
make things run smoother.
Sam Netterville, one of the sen-
irs who wants to keep Reveille
brought up the question of who
was going to keep the Aggie mas
cot.
“I’ve worked with that dog ever
since I’ve been in school,” Netter
ville said, “I’m a lover of dogs—
Rev wilt come through if you give
her half a chance.”
Netterville said when people
think of A&M, they think of Rev
eille first. He said sports writers
were always around him after foot
ball games looking for information
about the dog and that she was a
11,000 Foot Line
Laid for CS Sewer
Eleven thousand feet of pipe
have been laid on the new sewer
system for College Station, accord
ing to Ran Boswell, city manager.
The complete system will include
80,000 feet of pipe ranging in size
from six to fifteen inches. The
Texala Construction Co. of Hous
ton has contractd to lay the pipe
in 200 calender days from Septem
ber 5.
The R. B. Butler Conlstruction
Co. of Bryan has began receiving
shipments of steel for the disposal
and processing plant which they
have contracted to build. They
have 200 days in which to finish
also.
main feature in the Corps trips last
year.
“Let’s treat her right,” he said,
“If I’m going to have her, I’ve got
great plans for her. I wish The
Battalion would give us support on
having a nice mascot.”
Netterville said he had seen one
student kick the dog “clear across
the drill field” and that was why
she was so unfriendly towards
some of the A&M student body.
“Since living with an outfit, A
Quartermaster Corps, she has be
come quite friendly and has lost
most of her one-man dog traits,”
he said.
The class decided the matter
should be left to the Student Sen
ate to work out at their next meet
ing. Byron (Scotty) Parham, Sen
ate president, said the matter
would be discussed at the next
meeting.
The senior class has $625 in the
bank to start off the year, accord
ing to Allen Greer, class president.
Class pennants will be sold for a
money raising project this year.
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System Board
To Canvass Vote
Tomorrow and Friday are the big - days as far as those
directly connected with and those concerned with the Me
morial Student Center, the “Living Room of the A&M Cam
pus.”
On these two days an election will be held to decide if
the union fee, authorized by the State Legislature in its last
session, would be made compulsory for all A&M students.
The booth for the election will be by the Post Office from
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Center. The Election Commission is
handling the voting, and the results will be canvassed and
reported by the A&M System Board of Directors, meeting
here this weekend.
* The fee, for the purpose of
Meets Today
New Unit Organized
Approximately 60 civilian stu
dents interested in wearing the un
iform and taking part in Corps
activities met with Corps officers
yesterday to discuss and organize
a new military unit for civilian
students.
Everyone interested in getting in
the organization should meet on
the drill field today at 4 p.m.
“Interest seems to be high in
most of the civilians attending the
meeting,” said Larry Kennedy,
Corps commander. “I think the
unit will be a credit to the corps,
and will help civilian-corps rela
tions,” he said. “But every student
getting in the organization will
have to give his full cooperation.”
Each student will have to supply
his own uniform, said President
David H. Morgan.
“The college has no money allo
cated for that purpose, and it can’t
be taken from college funds,” he
said. “However, some former stu
dents and friends of the college
have indicated that they would sup
ply some items of unifoi’ms for
students who were unable to af
ford them, and an interested stu
dent wouldn’t be turned down for
lack of finances.”
J. E. Loupot, of Loupot’s Trad
ing Post, said that he would handle
uniforms on a rental basis.
“I can rent students big items,
such as blouses, short coats and
raincoats,” he said. “Most of them
have their own pinks and greens,
and I’ll furnish the rest of the uni-
Rooms For Dates
Listed By Housing
It’s almost as hard to find a
place for your girl to stay at A&M
for one of our crowded football or
social weekends as it is to find a
parking place on those days. But
the housing office can solve the
first problem. They have a list of
pidvate homes which will rent
rooms on weekends.
form at a nominal fee. Blouses
and short coats would be $6.95 each
per year.”
Qualifications for joining the or
ganization are two previous semes
ters of military science, willingness
to abide by the Articles of the Ca
det Corps, and appi*oval from the
commanding officer. Corps privil
eges will be taken according to
academic classification.
Stewart Coffman will be com
manding officer, and Bob Bacher
executive officer.
“Organization should be com
pleted this week,” Kennedy said.
“And we’ll try to have the new
outfit ready to march in at the
University of Houston game Sat
urday.”
Home Game
Date Tickets
May Run Short
Only 2,000 date tickets will
be available for each home
g-ame, according - to the Ath
letic Office.
There is, however, no limit
on the number of date tickets to
out-of-town games, except only
one can be sold for each student
activity card.
The schedule for buying tickets
is as follows:
Home games—Date tickets will
go on sale Monday through Friday,
8 a.m. to 5 p.m., the week of the
game. One exception is the Uni
versity of Texas game. Date tick
ets will go on sale Monday morn
ing, Nov. 14, and remain on sale
until sold out.
Out-of-town games—Tickets go
on sale Thursday, the week before,
and remain on sale until Wednes
day afternoon of the week of the
game.
Price for date tickets for home
games is $2.00; for out-of-town
games, $3.25. Students must pre
sent their ID and their student ac
tivities cards to buy tickets.
Town Hall Staff
To Hold Steak Fry
The annual fall Town Hall steak
fry will be held tonight at 7:3o
p.m. Scene for the feast will be
in the home of C. G. (Spike) White.
Special steaks weighing one
pound each will be served complete
with all the trimmings to all Town
Hall staff members.
Gay Weekend
Rue Pinalle Begins
The Student Center will be the
scene of merry-making and gaiety
this weekend.
Rue Pinalle begins its series on
Friday night in the recreation room
of the Center with the Capers
Combo providing the music.
Along with the Capers group
will be Sylvia Wililams as vocalist
plus a floor show which hasn’t been
fully decided upon as yet. Rue
Pinale will start at 8:30 p.m. and
last until 12 p.m. Admission is
75 cents per person.
Featuring three bands, the dance
Saturday night will occupy the en
tire second floor of the Center.
Theme for the night will be “Mid
night in New Orleans.” Decora
tions for the theme will be carried
out throughout the second floor.
Weather Today
CONTENTED—The Browsing Library of the Center has all types of books and period
icals for student use. The library is open to all students, and is a place for quiet and
S 0 ™, , stu< *y hours. There are 45,000 magazine users, 40,000 newspaper users and
5,000 book users.
PARTLY CLOUDY
Temperature at 11 a.m. was 85
degrees with a forecast of partly
cloudy with scattered rain showers
late this afternoon. Yesterdays
high was 95 degrees and low was
68 degrees.
With each of the three bands of
fering a different style of music,
a variety of entertainment will be
available.
The old favorite Dixieland Jazz
will be provided by the Prairie
View Collegians, and the Capers
Combo will give the latin rhythm
for the evening. For those who like
the straight fox trot step, the Ag-
gieland combo will furnish conven
tional popular music. Sylvia Wil
liams will serve as vocalist for the
dance.
No definite time has been set f°r
the closing of the dance Saturday
night but starting time is immed
iately after the game. Admission
is $1.25, couple or single.
The dances are sponsored by the
MSC dance group with Ed Saad as
chariman of the group. Dave
Brothers is in charge of the Satur
day night dance and Kit Kittrell is
chairman of Rue Pinalle.
Ten dances are planned for the
Rue Pinalle series w r ith four spe-
cail dances scattered during the
school year.
Directors To Meet
Results of Wednesday’s and
Thursday’s union fee election
will be declared by the Board
of Directors of the A&M Col
lege System, meeting here this
Saturday.
Also to be presented to the
Board are plans and part of
the funds for the A&M Chapel.
operating, maintaining and
improving the MSC, was col
lected from each student when
he paid his fees. The maxi
mum authorized by the Legislature
is $2 per student for each regular
semester and $1 for each summer
semester.
If a majority of the students vot
ing are against the fee, the $2
collected at the start of the fall
semester will be returned by the
Fiscal Office. If passed, the fee
will be compulsory for all students
starting from this semester.
Approval of the fee will enable
the Center to continue its services
unimpaired, said J. Wayne Stark,
director. The MSC at this time
does not have enough money, lack
ing about $45,000, to meet its ex
penditures. The Union Fee will
make up about $29,000, and the
rest can be gotten from reserve
funds for depreciation the Center
was able to save last year. The
alternative. Stark said, would be a
cutting of some of the services now
rendered by the Student Center.
About $25,000 that the Center
had previously obtained frofti Ex
change Store profits has now been
cut off due to the expansion and
remodeling of the college store.
This amount, which had been used
for student programs, and an in
crease in cost of facilities by
$20,000 are the reasons for the
shortage of funds which the Cen
ter faces in its budget for 1955-56.
Some students misunderstand the
purpose of the MSC, Stark said.
Those who criticize the holding of
short courses and conferences at
the Center are not aware that this
was one of the original puiposes
of the building, he explained. With
out that purpose, the facilities
available to present-day students
could never have been created.
Of the two-million dollars needed
to build the MSC, the Former Stu
dents Association contributed about
$200,000 and the State Legislature
appropriated $1,750,000. The Leg
islature approved this money with
the purpose, in keeping with provi
sions of the Moi'ill Act of 1865
which set up land-grant colleges,
of providing facilities for meet
ings, short courses and conferences
for citizens of the state.
The short courses held at the
Center are a part of the adult edu
cation program which A&M, as a
land-grant college, is obliged to
carry out.
Band Seniors
Hospitalized
By Auto Crash
Two Band seniors remained
in Hearne General Hospital
today as a result of their car
crashing into a tree early Sun
day morning.
Coming back from the A&M-
LSU game, John Kincaid was driv
ing the 1951 Pontiac belonging to
Pete McMains when the accident
took place.
Kincaid apparently lost control
of the car which swerved off the
highway and crashed against a
tree. The wreck occurred one mile
north of Hearne at 5:30 a.m. Sun
day.
With possible cracked ribs,
sprained wrist and a severe bruise
on the right side of his head, Kin
caid appeared to be hurt worse
than McMains.
Doctors were unable to deter
mine fully the extent of his injuries
late Sunday because they hadn’t
been able to complete x-rays.
McMains was suffering from
loss of blood from severe cuts
about the face. He is expected to
be released in a few days. Kincaid
is expected to remain in the hos
pital longer.
Doctors have asked that students
wait until after Wednesday before
visiting the students.
Transfers,
Fish Boost
Enrollment
A&M’s enrollment for the
fall semester, as of yesterday,
was 6,803. For the same per
iod in 1954 the enrollment was
6,217, according to H. L. Hea
ton, registrar.
Included in the total regis
tration are 1,928 freshmen and
331 transfer students from
senior and junior colleges. This
includes 122 from senior col
leges and 209 from junior col
leges.
For the same period in 1954
there were 1,671 freshmen en
rolled and 77 transfers from
senior colleges and 143 trans
fers Horn junior colleges.
City Cracks Down
On Traffic Violater
The City of College Station has
begun cracking down on parking
violations at the North Gate, said
City Manager Ran Boswell.
City policemen have issued over
85 tickets since school started. The
main violation has been over park
ing in the six-hour and one-hour
zones. Other offenses include no
operator’s license, speeding and
reckless driving.
STRIKE—One of the Memorial Student Center’s main at
tractions for students is the eight-lane bowling alley loca
ted in the southeast wing of the building. The Bowling
Committee, led by A1 McClellan promotes bowling tourna
ments between A&M students and other colleges.