The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, November 01, 1955, Image 1
The Battalion Kumber 40: Volume 55 Muj. Gen. Matthew K. Deichelmann To Be Here Saturday Fall Military Day COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1955 Co mmunity Ch estDrive Opens; Goal $12,100 The A&M College-College Sta tion Community Chest-Red Cross Drive got underway today as con tribution forms were distributed to all departments of the College. The goal is $12,100. A representative in each depart ment will be responsible for col lecting the forms and returning them to the committee for his par ticular zone. The campus has been divided into seven zones, with a solicita tion committee for each. ' Other committees will be responsible for collection in business houses, A&M Consolidated Schools, Lincoln School and both white and colored residential areas. Door-to-door solicitors will visit houses in residential areas where the occupants have not been cov ered by one of the above categories. Bryan Air Force Base personnel will not be contacted, since they contribute to their own Base fund. The solicitation committee for the business houses include C. W. Price, Luther Jones, Edward Madeley, Leonard Mousner, John L. Bearrie, and R. A. Houze. Mrs. R. L. Elkins, Les Richardson, and Taylor Riedel make up the com- mitee for the A&M Consolidated Schools. W. S. Tarrow is respon sible for Lincoln School solicita tions. Mmes. W. M. Heritage, W. S. Edmonds, F. R. Brison, W. W. Arm- istead, A. Kahan, Bill Whittington, R. A. Gilchrist, W. B. Dozier, R. O. Ried, Gordon Gay, M„ V. Krenit- sky, George Mountney, Gerald Thomas, Dick Baldouf, K. Dixon, F. W. Hensel Jr., Truman Jones, Dan Scoates, Marion Pugh, C. Ketch, San Cleland, E. C. Klipple, Spike White, Fred Weich, Tray Wakefield, Ray Rogers, and Rob ert Andrews are members of ^he white residential soliciation com mittee. W. S. Tarrow and Eddie Chew comprise the Negro residen tial solicitation committee. In the College zones, C. A. Roe- ber and Charles Haas are in Zone I; Dick Hervey and Carl Landiss in Zone II, S. E. Brown and E. E. Ivy in Zone III, R. A. Houze and M. V. Krenitsky in Zone IV, Bob Reed, H. G. Thompson in Zone V, R. E. Patterson and J. W. Hill in Zone VI, and John H. Milliff and Carl Tishler in Zone VII. “Any club. College department, or other group desiring a speaker on this year’s Chest may get one by contacting our office,” said Rob- ert A. Houze, chairman of the drive. The Chest’s address in Box 1643, College Station, and the telephone is 4-5224. Mrs. J. W. Barger’s Consoli dated School art classes have been busy for the past week making pos ters for the drive. They will be distributed throughout the College and local business houses. Fall Military Day Price Five Cents Maj. Gen. Gabriel P. Dissoway To Be Here Saturday ACSS Staffer To Be Here FTAF Head To Be Here Maj. Gen. Matthew K. Deichel- mann, born in Binghamton, N. Y. in 1905, was graduated fi’om the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1927. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery. He took basic flying training for one year and then became a bat tery officer at Fort Monroe, Va. Later, he joined the 60th Coast Artillery in the Philippine Islands. Upon returning to the United States in 1932, an'd the completion of the battery officers course, he Was named commanding officer of the Forestry Camp and Civilian Conservation Corps company at Dyer, Tenn. Besides serving in the Philippines, Gen. Deichelmann has served in 1,200 Directories Sold So Far Approximately 1,200 student di rectories have been sold so far this t Year. The Office of Student Publica tions reported that there are no exact figures on how many direc tories have been sold due to the fact that there are various people who are selling them and no re port has been made. They may be purchased for 75 cents at the Pub lications Office in Goodwin Hall. the Panama Canal Zone, European Theater, and has had numerous operations throughout the United States. In August, 1941, Gen Deichel mann was transferred to the Carib bean Air Force where he was as sistant operations officer. In De cember of that year, he was made anti-aircraft officer and then ex ecutive officer of the 26 Fighter Command. Fish Drill Team Has 530 Try Out The largest group of freshmen to ever try out for the Fish Drill Team met yesterday at 5 p.m. on the drill field for preliminary elim inations. The group of 520 men were elim inated to 100 after they were judged for their general appear ance, posture, execution of com mands and general military bear ing. Next week, the ones who were chosen will drill with rifles and will be eliminated at that time to pick the final team. , The final team will -have 45 members. The main marching team will have 36 members while the others will be the commander) the guidon bearers and the alter nates. He returned to the US in Oc tober of ’42 to become head of the Anti-Aircraft and Airdrome De fense Section of the AAF School of Applied Tactics at Orlando, Flor ida. In February, 1945, Gen Deichel mann went to the European The ater of Operations to become op erations officer of the IX Air De fense Command. He was later ap pointed chief of staff of the IX Air Defense Command and the fol- lowmg year assumed command of that organization. In August, 1947, he was named deputy commandant of the Air Command and Staff School. His transfer to the air force came in September, 1947. Consolidated Has High Attendance Daily attendance for the first six weeks of the 1955-56 school year at A&M Consolidated was up 142 students over the average for the 1954-55 year in the white schools. Lincoln School had a drop of six students per day. The Elementary school’s daily attendance of 492.6 pupils repre sented 98.1 per cent of total ele mentary school enrollment. Jun ior high daily attendance was 400.1 or 98.05 per cent. The senior high school, which usually has the highest percentage of attendance, had a daily average of 217.46 or 96.97 per cent. Lincoln’s percent age was 96 per cent of an average enrollment of 322. College Station Clean-Up Drive Opens Today College Station’s fall clean up drive got underway this morning as city trucks trav eled the alleys of the residen tial areas south of the college. Residents were asked to check their houses, garages and yards for any trash that may have accumu lated. The program is being sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and Development Association in co-op eration with the city. A spring clean-up campaign is tentatively scheduled for May. Wednesday, city trucks will cov er the residential areas east of Highway 6 and North Gate resi dential section will be canvassed Thursday. “If necessary, crews will go out again Friday to pick-up anything left over,” said Ran Boswell, city manager. Boswell urges residents to place their trash near the street to make the pick-up easier. He said that the clean-up crews would take away all trash they could get on the ti-uck. The program was instituted by the Public Health Committee of the Chamber of Commerce with Walter Manning as chairman. The an nouncement was made that all pub lic hazai’ds repoi’ted to the city during the campaign will be inves tigated. Maj. Gen. Gabriel P. Dissosway, commander Flying Training Air Force, will be another top-flight dignitary to visit the campus this weekend. Gen. Dissosway was graduated from West Point and commission ed a second lieutenant in the Field Artillery in 1933. He entered the Air Force Flying schools in San Antonio in 1935 and was trans ferred to the air force. Since that time, he has held ma jor air training assignments. He was named to his FTAF post from a position as director of training in the office of the deputy chief Student Senate Voting Tomorrow The election to fill the vacancies in the Student Senate will be held tomorrow in the Memorial Stu dent Center. On the ballot for Senior Class senator are Robert C. Barlow, Rob ert A. Lee, E. Jennings Bunn, John D. Cunningham, Samuel Curtis, Dick Durbin, Roy (Connie) Eck- ard, David Fawcett, Avery McKin ney, William P. Nourie, and Char les D. Stringer. Running for Hart Hall senator are Joe W. Tindel, Wynne W. Snoots, Edward J. Psenick, Jerry T. Neighbors, and Richard T. Craw ford. Stanley H. Rosenthal is running for Bizzell Hall senator, and Ron ald C. Francis for Dorm 16. Civilian students will vote from 7 to 9 p.m. of staff for personnel at air force headquarters in Washington. As chief executive of the FTAF, Gen. Dissosway supervises the training of young pilots and aerial observers at 23 bases over the United States. Flying Training Air Force is one of the three components of Air Training Command which decen- ti’alized in mid 1951 to cope with Spare Bowling Tournament To Help Drive A spare tournament for the mutual benefit of the winners and the local Community Chest Drive will be held Nov. 5- 6 from 2 to 6 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center bowling alley. The tournament will be run in two divisions; the Men’s Division —regardless of average—and the Women’s Division — also open to any bowler. , The entry fee is $1.50 per per son, and is divided as follows: bowling expenses, 50 cents; prize fund, 50 cents; and Community Chest, 50 cents. Three cash prizes will be award ed in each division. First will be 50 per cent of the total prize fund; second, 30 per cent; third, 20 per cent. All ties will be pi'o-rated ac cordingly. As many entries as possible may be submitted at $1.50 per entry. Blanks must be filled out and re turned to the bowling alley main desk by 6 p.m. Nov. 5. Not more than one prize will be awarded to any one individual. Each bowler will roll one ball at each of 30 different spares, no splits. The spares in the order in which they will appear ai'e as follows: 5, 6-10, 1-2-4, 5-8,4, 3-6-10, 2-5, 3-5-6-S, 1-2-4-7, 10, 7, 6- 9, 1-3-6, 5-9, 6, 2-4-7, 3-5, 2-4-5-S, 1- 3-6-10, 2, 4-7, 3, 3-5-6, 1-3-9, 8, 2- 4-5, 2-8, 9, 1-2-8, and 3-9. Test Application Deadline Tonight Tonight is the last time that stu dents can apply for the Selective Service College Qualification Test to be given Nov. 17 at the Memor ial Student Center. Blanks can be picked up at the Housing Office in Goodwin Hall. They must be mail ed by midnight tonight. Any man is permitted to take the test once, including those cur rently enrolled in college, civilian or military. A grade of 70 or bet ter should qualify the examinee to apply through his local draft board for an academic deferment. The board still has final say, however. Additional information can be had from F. E. McFarland, Basic Division, Aggieland Inn Building, or Allan Madeley, Housing Office. the rapid expansion of the air force. Gen. Dissosway, while opera tions officer of the 312 Fighter Wing, was shot down over China. He bailed out and was missing in action for a month in enemy terri tory. Friendly Chinese and a makeshift air strip were his route of escape to friendly lines. He was later made commander of the 311 Fighter Group and then became air liaison officer for the third Amphibious Marine Coi’ps in Tiensin, China. Before the far east, Gen. Dis sosway served 18 months in the Panama Canal Zone as commander of a fighter group and later as deputy commander of the 26 Fight er Command. When he returned to the U. S. in 1946, he became assistant com mander of Barksdale air force base and then entered the Air War Col lege and was gi'aduated in 1948. Gen. Dissosway has been awai’d- ed the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star and the Air Medal. Foreign decorations include the Cloud and Banner and the Glorious Tripod of China, and the Military Medal and Older of the Southern Cross of Brazil. ‘Wrong Addresses’ No Longerllandled The Post Office no longer has a register. The Post Office has quit putting addresses on mail which arrives improperly addi-essed. Heretofore, a register had been maintained but this is no longer done. All mail sent to a student and addressed “A&M College” will either be picked up at the North Station General Delivery window, or sent to the Housing Office for correct address. The addresses will be placed on the envelopes in the Housing Office and the mail returned to the Post Office. This will result in considerable delay. If there is no mail address available, the mail will be held at the PO for 10 days and returned to the sender or placed in the dead letter files. To avoid delay or not getting mail, students should notify all writers of their correct mail ad dress. Faculty Meeting Dr. David H. Morgan, president of the College, has announced a general faculty meeting for 4:30 p.m. Nov. 22 in Guion Hall. Weather Today CLOUDY Mostly cloudy today with fresh Southerly winds. Temperature at 10:30 a.m. was 82 degrees. Last night’s low only dropped to 70 de grees after a high yesterday of 85 degrees. News of the World By The ASSOCIATED PRESS BEAUVALLON, France—Deposed Sultan Mohammed jBen Youssef, 41, returned to France from a two-year Mada- \g-ascar exile yesterday and entered political talks that could •return him to his turbulent Moroccan throne within three weeks. The French government view is now held to be that Moroccan opposition to the Sultan has ceased to exist. ★ ★ ★ LONDON—Princess Margaret told the world last night she has renounced her hope of marrying divorced Peter Townsend. She spoke like a girl with a broken heart who has put duty ahead of love. ★ ★ ★ * JERUSALEM—An Israeli military spokesman said yes terday Israeli forces repelled an Egyptian foray into Israeli o territory east of Gaza. It was the latest in a series of border “ violation charged that have raised fears of another Palestine war and sparked appeals for peace from the United Nations, ‘i Britain sent representations to Israel and Egypt yesterday „ adding its voice to the U. N. pleas. 'At ^ WASHINGTON—The Senate Antitrust and Monop oly subcommittee yesterday announced a full scale study of General Motors. This study of the world’s largest manufacturer will be a part of the subcommittee’s look at concentration in the automotive industry. ★ ★ ★ AUSTIN—Austin will suffer along with other Central Texas cities if the army cuts in half the number of regularly stationed troops at big Fort Hood, the Austin Chamber of Commerce said yesterday. President Jack C. Adams said such a move will primarily harm the city’s wholesale and milk and produce corncerns and will create definite drops in re- > tail sales. "A - "A - "A" ST. LOUIS—The Independent Petroleum Assn, of America was told yesterday by its leaders that the gov- * ernment, if sustained in its present course, will have the power to determine the price provisions and terms of all natural gas sales and contracts. TRICK OR TREAT?—Out for a Halloween treat are five of College Station’s younger set. In the usual order, from the skeleton to the “puddy kat,” are Dickey Hervey, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hervey; Sally Stark, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Wayne Stark; Judy Rogers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Rogers; Jean Ballinger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Ballinger; and Andy Watson, son of Lt. Col. and Mrs. G. H. Watson.