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J. The Battalion Number 31: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1955 Price Five Cents YELL FRESHMEN—Pictured from left to right are Mary Beth Hagler, Ann Hite, Claire Rogers and Anne Fleming, Consolidated High School cheerleaders for this year. These four girls coordinate the efforts of students with that of the Consolidated football team. Blair C hosen Civilian Cliaplain; Ivaui in Discusses CSC Needs Haven’t Left Yet? Dance Corps Kicks Off Trip Fun By WELTON JONES Battalion City Editor If any students are still here to read this, here’s about what to ex pect for the year’s first Corps Trip to Fort Worth this weekend. Tonight out at our sister school, Texas State College for Women, the Tessies have a dance planned. It will be held in the Union Build ing from 8 p.m. until time for Poetry Day Exhibit Will Be On Display Displays observing Poetry Day includes publication of student tomorrow may be seen on the third floor of the Academic Building and in the Library. The state-wide sponsored by the for the Promotion observance is Texas Council >f Poetry. The special day is now observed throughout the nation, but Texas was the first state to observe the day. State Senate Resolution 260, officially designating Oct. 15 as Texas Poetry Day, states: “Poetry strengthens the sympathies, lifts the imagination, and fosters spir itual values and creative qutilities in mankind. . /’ . Poetic .activity at Texas . AAM” A&M Will Host Farmers Today % Texas A&M will play host to day to a group of farmers and agents from Bastrop, Caldwell and Travis counties, according to Ben £. Cook, assistant to the dean of agriculture. Cook will serve as leader during a tour to see subjects of interest to the visitors. These include: field crops, pastures, soil testing, insect control, beef cattle and swine the Upland Farms Section of the A&M Plantation. On the River Farms section, they will see cross bred beef cattle, irrigated cotton and various types of farm equip ment. News of the World poetry in the annual collection of student writing, MSS. 1, MSS. 2 and the forthcoming MSS. 3. Stu dent poets have been encouraged to submit poems for the publica tion, which will be edited this year by John O. Kirkpatrick, senior from San Antonio. The Commen tator magazine, publication of the School of Arts and Sciences under the student publications program, also publishes student poetry. Charles L. Hurley, instructor in the English Department, is a pub lishing poet and a member of the Texas Poetry Society. The’' Society is a ‘state-wld^^of-' ganization, incorporating in 1922 and having chapters in many towns and cities in the state. The group is directly responsible for Poetry day, and many prizes are offered each year for the best poems pub lished in the state. Martin Shockley, professor at North Texas State College, Denton, is president of the TPS, which has its headquarters in Dallas. Jet Bridge Club To Play Sunday The Bryan Jets Duplicate Bridge Club will meet at 7 p.m. Sunday in the Memorial Student Center. The club, originally started by the Air Force officers, was once private but is now open to the public. Master points will be awarded to the players. Refreshments will be served. Can ’’t Buy Beer at That Age, Either Storrs, Conn.—(A 1 )—There’s a new policy for men students at the University of Connecti cut—no cussin’. Gordon S. Reid, assistant di rector of student personnel in charge of men’s affairs, has announced that any student under 21 reported to the Of fice of Men’s Affairs for the use of profane or vulgar lang uage will be suspended. The announcement was made in the Connecticut Daily Cam pus, student paper. By The ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED NATIONS—The Soviet Union declared yes terday attempts by the United States to keep Communist Poland from winning a seat on the U. N. Security Council are damaging the spirit of Geneva and putting a stumbling block in the path of international cooperation. ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON—Russia is expected to move quickly in getting arms to Egypt, possibly at cut-rate prices, and thereby hastening Middle East tensions toward a crisis. An explosion of the Palestine truce into Arab-Israeli war was seen as a definite possibility whenever Red Czecho slovakia starts delivery on its cannon-for-cotton deal with Egypt. ★ ★ ★ PARIS—Premier Edgar Faure asked the French Na tional Assembly yesterday to give its approval to his plan for progressive improvement of the economic, social and po litical conditions for Algerian Moslems. He said it could restore order in the area and bind it more closely to France. * * * WASHINGTON—Democrats on a House investiga ting group demanded yesterday that the White House divulge details of several executive conferences on public power policy in Georgia, a lively political issue. Rep. Chudoff {D-Pa.) said the group he heads has evidence that the Interior Department “has made every attempt to evade” a Justice Department ruling. ★ ★ » ★ ST. LOUIS—The State of Missouri yesterday invoked the penalty section of its utility anti-strike law in a strike against a state-seized bus and streetcar company here. A civil suit to collect penalties from the AFL Operators Union which represented the striking employes, and officers of the union was filed in Circuit Court by State Atty. Gen. John M. Dalton and his assistants. midnight yell practiee on the TSCW campus. For those students in the Corps who survive the activities at TSGW tonight, a parade will be held in Fort Worth tomorrow morning, starting at 9 for the forming of units. They will move out at 10. Outfits will gather by the Pittsburg Glass Co., just south of the Texas and Pacific Railway terminal. Route of march will be up Main St. to Fifth, a left turn to Houston St., a right turn and then finally another right turn to Weatherford St., where units will be dismissed. The march will in clude about 24 blocks. Reviewing stand for this graded march will be located in front of the Texas Hotel. You’re on your own until game time, with the Aggies taking on the strong TCU Froggies at Amon Carter Stadium before a sell-out crowd of about 37,000. The game starts at 2 p.m., and TCU is at present a slight favorite. After the game—that’s strictly up to you, but college officials and cadet and civilian student leaders have expressed the hope that you will ti-y to help keep activities peaceful. Back in 1953, the last time the Aggies swept down on “Cowtown” for a Corps Trip, their conduct received praise from prom inent civic leaders. What they ac complished in 1953 can be repeated and even bettered if students will try. - Weather Today Clear Continued clear for this area, no immediate change in weather Temperature at 10:30 a.m. was 75 degrees. Yesterday’s high was 80 degrees with a low last night of 49 degrees. Drill Field Grass, Seating Taken Up Joseph L. Blair, veterinary medicine major from Boerne, was named Civilian Chaplain last night by the Civilian Stu dent Council. Blair replaces Stewart Coffman, who had been chosen for the position by last year’s Council. Coffman resigned to become commanding officer of the new civilian company, E Infantry. Blair was assistant chaplain until his new ap pointment. Before debate ensued on the various agenda items taken up by the CSC, Dr. Robert B. Kamm dean of student personnel services, spoke to the group, explaining a “few quick points” concerning his relationship with the civilian program as a ♦■part of his job with overall rwi A 1 student non-academic affairs. IN Si 1 o Award Science Study Scholarships The National Science Foun dation will award approxi mately 700 graduate and 80 post doctoral fellowships for scientific study during the 1956-57 academic year. Fellowships are awarded to citi zens of the U. S. strictly on the basis of ability. They are offered in mathematical, physical, medical, biological, engineering and other sciences including anthropology, psychology, geography and certain related fields. Graduate fellowships are avail able to those who are studying for either masters of doctoral degrees at the first year, • intermediate, or terminal year levels. College sen iors who expect to receive a bac calaureate degree during the 1955- 56 academic year are also eligible to apply. Awards for graduate Fellows are $1,400 for the first year, $1,600 for the intermediate year, and $1,800 for the terminal year. Tui tion, laboratory fees and limited travel allowances also will be pi’o- vided. Appications for graduate fellow ships must be received in the Fel lowship Office of the National Academy of Sciences—National Re search Council, 2101 Constitution Ave., N.W., Washington 25, D.C. Maroon and White CHS Tiger Band Goes Aggie When people hear of the maroon and white band, they naturally think of it as the famed Texas Aggie Band, under the direction of Col. E. V. Adams. But, thei’e is another maroon and white band in the College Station area. It is the A&M Consolidated Tiger band, under the direction of Robert L. Boone. The band totals 55 in number and has gained quite a bit of public interest at recent football games. The Tiger Band became a reality in 1949 when Col. Richard J. Dunn, then director of the Aggie Band, began working with school children and giving private lessons to many of them. Interested parents, through the Band Boosters Club and the Mothers and Dads Club, supported the band financially and in any other way they needed help. “Whatever we do, I want us to do it well,” Boone said, “Consist ently good performances, simple or otherwise, are more important than difficult extravaganzas.” Boone majored in voice at the University of Houston but says he feels a serious responsibility in di recting the band, even though his first love is for vocal music. Invitations for, the band to per form are so numerous that many cannot be accepted. This year, the band will march in the Houston Fat Stock Show parade and take part in the Conroe Band Festival. They will compete in the regional band contest at Texas City in March. Members of the Tiger Band practice twice a day. They meet from 11:15 to 12:10 and 3:45 to 5 p.m. daily on school days. After 4 END OF LINE—An unidentified Baylor freshman foot baller pulls down Fish quarterback and left halfback Lu ther Hall of Dallas. A&M’s Joe Pascuzzi, hard-running right halfback from Avella, Pa., bounces off the ground during the play in last night’s game which the Fish won 7 to 6. (For game story, see page 3.) Grants-In-Aid Given To Station , Five grants-in-aid and a gift of materials have been made to the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station for use in research work. The grants, as announced by R. D. Lewis, station director, were made by the Chemical Division of the Corn Products Refining Co. of Argo, Ill., $4,250; The Publicker Industries Inc, of Philadelphia, Penn., $3,250; The Silmo Chem ical Corp. of Vineland, New Jersey, $300; The Union Stockyards of San Antonio, $500 and The Hercules Powder Co. of Wilmington, Del., $750. Mrs. Terry Wins In SA Art Show A mixed media painting done by Mrs. Emalita Newton Terry won first prize and was chosen as the best painting of the show at the eleventh annual River Arts Show in San Antonio last weekend. Entitled “Ice Storm,” the mixed media painting was a mixture of casein, water color and black India ink. Some 300 paintings were competition in the Arneson The atre Competitive division of the show. The show is one of two such events held in the United States Mrs. Terry received the Coppini award for her painting, being judged as the best painting in the show. Mrs. Terry, advisor for the Stu dent Center Art Gallery group, was accompanied by four of her stu dents. Those going were Mrs. Dwight Clark, Mrs. John Naylor, Mis. Joe Mogford and Dr. C. B. i Campbell. football season, the band will hold its regular morning class as a unit and after school rehearsals will feature certain instruments. Members of the band canvassed the city last -Saturday to obtain listings for the band birthday cal endar, an annual fund raising proj ect. A Band Carnival will be held Oct. 29 at the school for an addi tional money raising project. “We are tremendously in terested in the Civilian Coun cil,” Dr. Kamm said. “Our interest is in all students, not just civilian or Coi’ps, and our interest is in the Council as it is a specific interest of the overall student pro gram. Come Of Age Dr. Kamm told the students that this year the Council has “come of age,” that it has the experience of last year to go by, and that it can avoid the rifts caused by “lit tle things” and can think in terms of “big things.” The Council is well established on the campus, he said, and the administration is solidly behind you and respects your rights in civilian student affairs. The Civilian Council must work with the Student Senate when af fairs taken up concern all students in the school, Dr. Kamm said. Another point brought out was that the Council needed to develop its own projects of “tremendous stature,” and whose names would be associated with the Civilian Council. “If the Council can get behind some project, such as SCO- NA (Student Council on National Affairs, or the Religious Emphasis series, this would really help to raise the Council’s prestige,” he feaid. The need of some traditions for new civilian students, ones that would give these students an im mediate sense of association with the college, was briefly touched on by Dr. Kamm, in bi’inging his talk to an end. A tradition that was taught to the students early in their college careers would give them a sense of “belonging,” he said. Seating Arrangement The seating arrangement for the civilian students in Kyle Field was discussed by the Council. Early discussion centered around com plaints, but hope was brought to the complaintants in the person of B. A. (Scotty) Parham, Student Senate president, who “sat in” on last night’s meeting. Parham ex plained that the Senate’s Seating Committee, headed by Gus Mijalis, had met earlier this week and worked out a plan which will be presented at the next Senate meet ing next Thursday. Under this new plan, (the desired effects of which were told, not the plan it- (See CIVILIANS, Page 2) HOWDY FOLKS—The Tiger Band, under the direction of R. L. Boone, has received much recognition during the current football season. The band, which has 55 members, has so many invitations to perform that some have to be turned away. Boone is located on the first row, far left..