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The Battalion Number 42: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1955 Price Five Cents Freshman Dies At A&M Pool; Architect Dies Of Gu o Wou nd COFFEE, PLEASE—Enjoying the facilities of the Fountain Room of the Memorial Stu dent Center are a part of the more than 700 conferees here for the annual Extension Serv ice Conference now going on at the Center. The Conference ends Friday. Air Force Ball Friday Night To Have Fireworks Show A gigantic fireworks show, to ..be presented in conjunction with the Air Force Ball, will highlight Friday night activities on the A&M campus. The spectacular $G00 display has been purchased from Alpha Enter prises, Inc., of Houston. It is to be divided into two shows, one at the Air Force Ball and the other after midnight yell practice. The ball, a costume affair with an “Air Force Base in Morocco” theme, will begin at 8:30 p.m. in Sbisa Hall and will featui’e the music of Bill Turner’s Aggieland Orchestra. An Air Force Ball Queen will be chosen from a group of ten fi nalists at 10 p.m, and will be pre- “sented by Col. Henry Dittman, pro fessor of air science and tactics. After her coronation the queen Cafe Rue Pinalle To Feature SMU Talent from SMU will provide the entertainment in the floor show at Rue Pinalle Friday night in the Recreation Room of the MSC. * Featured on the show will be Mary Lou Ramsey, singer; Roy ' Bokey and Martiele May, dance team; Tom Fisher and Mary Mar- *tha Gibson, novelty singers; and a sister team, Philia and Merille- Smith, fire baton twirlers. The Student Union Board at SMU is sending the students and the Capers Combo will provide music for the dance. Pictures of couples will be made for the first time in Rue Pinalle at the dance Friday night. Tickets are on sale in the Bowl ing Alley for 75 cents each. will be taken for a brief “flight” in a 2/3 scale F-84 jet which is be ing brought from Lowry Air Force Base, Colo., by the Air Science De partment. Candidates for Queen and their escorts ai’e Doris Brockman of Beaumont, nominated by Pete Grif fin; Dottie Alsup, Shreveport, La., James L. Hudson; Carol Co?:ar, Dallas, Vic Lucas; Sandy Price, Dallas, Allen Greer; Lila Morris, Katy, Dwan Cozort; Patsy Stan ley, Houston; Gregory Fourting; Linda Gibon, Seegoville, Jack Yell Leader Pleas For Needed Trucks Paul Holladay, head yell leader - , has made a plea for trucks to help with the hauling of logs for the bonfire. Holladay doesn’t know exactly where the logs will be cut as yet but would like for anyone wanting to donate the forest to contact him. He has had one offer, but the trucks would have to go through Bryan. The bonfire is scheduled to burn Nov. 23, the night before the A&M- TU football game. Work will be gin in about ten days. Radio Club Class The A&M Radio Club is now holding code classes on Monday and Friday nights at 7, in the room above the Memorial Student Center bowling alley area. Any one interested in learning code or becoming a ham operator is in vited to attend the classes. The club also meets on the second and fourth Monday of each month at 7:30 p.m. in room 2B of the Cen ter. Thropp; Suzie Goff, Dallas, Billy Bedford; Elsie Love, Hammond, La., Fred Urp; and Mary Jane Nedbalek, Bryan, Weldon Stewart. A faculty committee, headed by W. D. (Pete) Hai’desty, will pick the Queen from among the 10 can didates. While the queen enjoys her mock flight through the sonic barrier the first of the two fireworks dis plays will begin. The ball will end promptly at 11:30 p.m. at which time Aggies and their guests will march to the Grove for a pre-SMU game mid night yell practice. The second fireworks display Avill begin immediately after yell practice on the main drill field in front of the Memorial Student Cen ter. The general public is invited to both displays. Senate Meeting Tonight In MSC The Student Senate will meet in the Senate Chamber of the MSC tonight at 7:30. A report will be heard from the Mess Committee on the laundry- ing of waiters jackets. New business will include the sandblasting of “Sully” and the discussion of what to do with the Traffic ticket fund. CS Boy Scouts Supply Activity For 250 Youths (Ed. note: This is the sixth in a series of articles on the ag encies which will benefit from your contribution to the A&M- Co liege Station Community Chest-Red Cross Drive.) Arrowmoon District of the Boy Scouts of America pro vides scouting programs for over 250 boys in College Sta tion. There are two Cub Scout packs and another being formed for the colored youth, six Boy Scout troops, and an Explorer Post in the city. ,$2,000 of the Community Chest’s $12,100 goal will go to the Boy Scouts to help provide professional leadership, supplies, records, awards and other material neces sary to the Scouting program. Funds will also assist in the maintenance of Camp Arrowmoon near Hearne, and the three camps of the Sam Houston Area Council; Camp Strake, Camp Hudson and El Rancho Cima. (This series will continue to- morow with an article on the ac tivities of the Girl Scouts.) Petroleum Student Wins Scholar skip Charles Bremer Jr., senior pe troleum engineering major from Palestine, was awarded the Socony Mobil Oil Company Scholarship Award in Petroleum Engineering for the 1955-5G school year. Bremer has maintained an over all grade point ratio of 2.7 while at A&M and has earned more than 50 per cent of his expenses while in college. He is a member of Phi Eta Sigma and the Tau Beta Pi honorary societies and has been a distinguished student every se mester since enrolling in A&M. He is an active member of the Ander son County A&M club and the Ross Volunteers. In his junior year Bremer re ceived the George P. Mitchell award which is presented to out standing petroleum engineering students. SPUR THOSE MUSTANGS—It’s almost time for the -A&M-SMU football clash, and A&M freshmen in the Corps will probably be glad to take off the bottle-cap spurs i they’ve been wearing all week. Strappin’ their spurs on are Leonard Dorney from Mexico City and Bobby Langford from Port Arthur, both of Squadron 3. News of the World By The ASSOCIATED PRESS TAIPEI, Formosa—An air-sea battle and artillery duels roared along the offshore island front yesterday in a sudden flareup of China’s dormant vest pocket war. The Nationalists claimed their Thunderjets sank nine Red gunboats and other craft despite a storm of antiaircraft fire from the ships and Red guns on the mainland. 'At ^ RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil—Juan D. Peron broke off his exile in Paraguay yesterday and flew to Brazil. His ultimate destination was announced as Nicaragua, but speculation arose that the deposed President of Ar gentina might be heading for Europe. ★ ★ ★ JERUSALEM, Israel Sector—Israel’s Premier offered yesterday to talk peace with the Arab nations. In his first speech since returning to the premiership after two years’ retirement, David Ben-Gurion told Parliament there is “no real reason for an Israel-Egyptian conflict, but on the con trary there is a fruitful basis for cooperation between the two peoples.” ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON—Sen. McCarthy, (R-Wis) said yes terday he has “succeeded in uncovering facts, which, if true establish the existence of a currently functioning Communist cell” in the National Labor Relations Board. ★ ★ ★ ASUNCION, Paraguay—Anibal Arguello, part-time cor respondent in Asuncion for the Associated Press and Time magazine, has been under arrest since Friday for interview ing former President Juan D. Peron of Argentina. Arguello is a Paraguayan. The interview may have been a factor in Peron’s decision to leave Paraguay. The government stated Arguello was arrested after officials got word he was about “to transmit sensational news.” The government acted in fulfillment “of the right of asylum and to safeguard the principles on which international understanding and friend ship are founded,” the statement said. ★ ★ ★ DENVER—Secretary of Labor Mitchell said yes terday he has abandoned any hope that the next congres sional session will approve administration proposals to change the Taft-Hartley labor law. But he said Presi dent Eisenhower again will recommend changes to the legislators. James It. Koym Apparent Victim Of Heart Attack James Burnis Koym, fresh man geology major from Pas adena, died at the swimming pool yesterday. He was a member of Squadron 7. At the time of his death, he was in a 31 a.m. swimming class. His classmates saw him floundering in the shallow end of the pool and pulled him out unconscious about 11:30. Art Adamson, swimming instructor, gave the 19-year-old student artificial respiration. When police and firemen arrived, they used artificial respiration and oxygen continuously for almost two hours, but could not revive him. Apparent cause of death was due to a heart attack. Koym had been subject to blackouts all his life, ac cording to fidends. The College Hospital would not release any in formation as to whether he had any previous hospital record while at A&M. Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Julius B. Koym, and a sister, Vivian 14, all of Pasadena. Funeral arrangements are being handled by the Colonial Funeral Home of Pasadena. Calloway- Jones Funeral Home in Bryan made preliminary arrangements before the Pasadena funeral home receiv ed the body. Silver Taps will be held to night at 10:30. James Burnis Koym A. Raker Shot ^ In Home While Cleaning Gnn Arch C. Baker, 55, system architect for the A&M Col lege System, died early yes terday afternoon of an acci dental gun shot wound in his home at 104 Pershing St. in Col lege Station. The architect Was attempting to pick up a telephone when the 20- guage automatic shotgun he had been cleaning apparently dropped to the floor and accidentally went off. The charge went into his right side and he died on the way to the hospital. Precint 7 Justice of the Peace John S. Royder gave a verdict of accidental death by gun shot wound. Baker was found wounded in his home by his wife, who hnd been out in the yard when the accident occurred about 2 p.m. The System architect was a na tive of Crockett, where he was born Feb. 1, 1900. He had been System architect since Sept. 1, 1953, hav ing joined the System in 1944. He attended A&M College in 1916-18, 1919-20, majoring in architecture. Prior to coming to A&M he had worked as an architect in Dallas from 1929 to 1939 and at Texar kana and Beaumont from 1939 to 1944. Baker, who is survived by his wife, and a son. Arch Baker Jr. of Dallas, was a Mason, member of Sul Ross Lodge 1300, and a mem ber of the First Presbyterian Church in Bryan. He served in the navy during World War I. Services will be held tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. at the First Presby terian church in Bryan. Burial wil be in College Station City Cem etery. Funeral arrangements are' in charge of the Calloway-Jones Fu neral Home in Biyan. Weather Today CLEAR The cold front that moved in last night dropped the temperature from 89 degrees high to 41 degrees. Forecast is clear and windy until around 5 p.m. The reading at 10:30 a.m. was 52 degrees. Lt. Gen. Collier To Be Visitor Here Saturday Lt. Gen. John H. Collier, commanding general of the Fourth Army, will be one of the several military dignatar- ies to visit the campus this weekend for the observance of Fall Military Day. Gen. Collier, a former enlisted man who won his appointment to West Point, was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Cavalry in 1918. He was promoted to a lieutenant colonel in 1941 and was made a major general 27 months later, during World War II. Before receiving command of the Fourth Army, Gen. Collier served as * commander of Fort Knox, Ky. He is known affection ately as “PeeWee” Collier to his men. Pie has been awarded the Dis tinguished Service Medal, the Sil ver Star with two Oak Leaf Clus ters, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster and various other decorations de noting his achievements. Two other army generals, Maj. Gen. Mai - k McClure and Brig. Gen. Robert M. Ives, will also be pres ent for the activities scheduled here Saturday. LT. GEN. J. H. COLLIER 1,914 Visit A&M A total of 1,914 visitors were on the campus in October, P. L. Downs Jr., official greeter for the college said. The visitors were here for short courses and conferences. Fall Military Day Teague Will Visit Campus Olin E. Teague, ’32, will attend the Military Day activities here Saturday, along with numerous other army, air force and congress men from all over the United States. Teague, Democrat from College Station, was born in Woodward, Okla., in 1919. His father was a native Texan, hailing from Lam pasas. He was employed in the College Station Post Office from the time he entered college in 1928 until he volunteered for military service in 1940. He was commissioned a sec ond lieutenant upon graduation from A&M. Teague was elected to the 79th Congress in 1946, to fill the unex pired term of Judge Luther A. Johnson, resigned. He has been Six From A&M Visit Houston Club Five A&M students and Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, assistant com mandant, were entertained at the weekly luncheon of the Houston A&M Club Monday. The students, Larry Kennedy, Buddy Biehunko, Victor Moseley, Harold Sellers and Ralph Cole, also met with Houston officials to work out plans for the second Corps Trip parade this year, Nov. 12. The Houston City Council as yet has not approved the Aggie parade but is expected to do so within the next week. Movies of the A&M-Baylor game were shown at the luncheon. elected for five successive terms. During his stay in the army, he commanded the first battalion 340th Infantry of the 79th Divis ion. He was in combat six months and was wounded many times, be ing discharged as a colonel at Walter Reed General Plospital in 1946 to take a seat in Congress. Decorations include the Silver Star with two clusters. Bronze Star with- two clusters, Purple Heart with two clusters, Combat Infantryman’s Badge, Army Com mendation Ribbon and the French Croix de Guerre with Palm. Olin E. Teague To Be Here For Fall Military Day