The Battalion
Number 55: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1955
Price 5 Cents
S - D Proclamation
WHEREAS, The President’s Committee for Traffic Safe
ty is sponsoring Safe Driving Day December 1, challenging
every community to fulfill the following: Not a single traffic
accident during the 24-hour period—in daylight or darkness;
and )
WHEREAS, The purpose of S-D Day is to show that
motorists and pedestrians can reduce traffic accidents by
their own actions; and
WHEREAS, S-D Day in 1954 demonstrated that the
place to attack the traffic safety problem is in the commun
ity, and that the responsibility rests upon each individual;
and
WHEREAS, This awakened responsibility of each indi
vidual can contribute materially to increasing highway safety
during the Christmas vacation period and to reducing the
hazards of driving on bur crowded city streets; now, there
fore, is issued the following
PROCLAMATION: As Mayor of the City of College
Station, I hereby designate Thursday, December 1, as Safe
Driving Day in College Station, and I urge each member o'f
the community, and each student of Texas A. & M. College,
and each member of the faculty and staff of the College to
participate fully in this campaign to make all drivers safety
conscious.
ERNEST LANGFORD
Mayor of the City of College Station
Twelfth Man Bowl
Tickets Go On Sale
Tickets for the 12th Man Bowl
football game Dec. 15 will be is
sued tomorrow, according to Glenn
Buell, chairman of the 12th Man
Bowl Committee. All tickets and
money must be turned in by Dec.
9.
Hugh Lanktree and Don Groves
will be in charge of civilian ticket
sales and Cyrus T. Johnston will
head ticket sales for the Corps.
Tickets will be handled by each
athletic officer in cadet units, ath
letic representatives in each civil
ian dormitory and by athletic rep
resentatives in the College View
area.
Shoes Issued
Players were issued shoes yes
terday and will receive their com
plete uniforms on Dec. 12. Coaches
of the two teams are Lawrence
RV Initiation Set;
Gen. Ives To Speak
The Ross Volunteer Company
will hold its initiation banquet at
7 p.m. Dec. 8 in the ballroom of
the Memorial Student Center.
- Eighty-three new members will
be initiated into the company at
that time.
Brig. Gen. Robert M. Ives, as
sistant commander of the 36th Di
vision, will be guest speaker for
the occasion. Gen. Ives is a well-
known figure at A&M, having been
here on many occasions, and has
shown a definite interest in the mil
itary aspects of the college. He
now resides in Houston, where he
devotes his civilian life to business
activities.
Winkler, for the Maroon Team,
and Ronald Robbins for the White
Team. Assisting Winkler will be
Eugene Stallings, Don Watson,
Loyd Hale and Gene Henderson.
For Robbins will be Donald Rob
bins, Joe Schero, Herb Wolf and
Henry Clark.
The Maroon Team consists of
four players each from Bizzell,
Hart, Leggett, Milner and Mitchell
Halls; and 28 players, or one per
cadet unit, from the Fh-st and Sec
ond Regiments. The White team
consists of four players each fi*om
Law, Puryear and Walton Halls
and dormitory 16; eight from Col
lege View; four from project
houses and day students; and 25,
one from each cadet unit, from the
First and Second Wings.
Debate Brings Change
In previous years, the game was
between the Army and Air Force
but after much debate over a civil
ian vs. Corps game, the 12th Man
Bowls Committee was deadlocked
and this comprimise worked out.
The game, which starts at 3 p.m.
on Kyle Field, will last for 32 min
utes of actual playing time, or
eight minute quarters.
Fifty-four girls, making up the
Wharton Junior College girl’s drill
team, will participate in half-time
activities with the WJC Band. The
band is composed of 25 girls and
13 boys. They will be guests of the
Corps review scheduled for 1:30
p.m. the day of the game.
The Committee has unanimously
agreed, upon approval by the Stu
dent Life Committee, to pay the
medical and dental expenses for
treatment of any new injuries suf
fered during practice of the game
itself.
'■ A t‘ - q*
UP IT GOES—A&M’s sixth flag - pole, this one in the Corps
area by North Gate, went up yesterday, climaxing efforts
by students and military officers to get the pole. The pole
was raised and straightened by guy wires until the cement
base could be poured. A complete report on how the pole
was obtained will be in tomorrow’s Battalion.
A PROCLAMATION—Ernest Langford, Mayor of College
Station, affixes his signature to a proclamation designa
ting tomorrow as Safe Driving Day in the city. S-D Day
is being observed throughout the nation in an attempt to
focus the attention of each individual upon his personal
responsibility in maintaining safety in traffic.
Tuberculosis Drive
Begins on Campus
The 1955 Christmas Seal sale
began for A&M students this week,
as company commanders and civil
ian house masters received letters
containing seals for all students on
the campus.
Sponsored by the Brazos County
Tuberculosis Association, the drive
got off to a fine start in the county
last week when $1,028.80 was col
lected from the fh-st mailing of
seals to Brazos County residents.
“The Sale opened officially in
Brazos County and the rest of the
nation on Nov. 16,” said Mrs. A. V.
Job Calls
The following Job Interviews
will be held at the Placement Of
fice this week:
Thursday
THE WESTERN COMPANY—
will interview majors in chemistry,
petroleum, chemical, mechanical,
electrical and geological engineer
ing and geology.
MAGNOLIA PETROLEUM CO.
will interview majors in chemistry,
physics, geology, geological, chem
ical, petroleum, civil, mechanical,
electrical and architectural engi
neering for openings in their Field
Research Laboratories, Civil En
gineering department. Geophysical
department, Marketing division and
Pipe Line department.
TEMCO AIRCRAFT CORP. will
interview majors in electrical, me
chanical, aeronautical, civil, chem
ical engineering, mathematics and
physics.
GULF STATES UTILITIES
COMPANY will interview electri
cal and mechanical engineering
majors for positions in Power Pro
duction, Tx-ansmission and Distri
bution Planning, Design and Op-
ex-ations, Industrial Power and
Lighting Sales; locations are in
Beaumont, Poi-t Ai-thur, Navasota
and in Baton Rouge and Lake
Chax-les, La.
THE CONTINENTAL SUPPLY
COMPANY will interview business
administration, finance, marketing,
economics, mechanical and petrol
eum engineering majors. The bus
iness administi'ation gx-aduates will
be trained in company products ad
ministrative procedui-es entailed in
operating a company stox-e. The
engineers will train in sales trai
nee programs.
ARTHUR YOUNG & COM
PANY will interview accounting-
majors for public accounting- em
ployment.
AMERICAN OIL PIPE LINE
will intex-view electrical, mechan
ical, civil and petroleum engineer
ing majors for openings in Texas
in design and construction of pipe
lines and communications.
LION OIL COMPANY will in-
tex-view mechanical engineers for
their manufacturing depax-tment;
chemists and chemical engineers
for their x-esearch depax-tment;
geology and petroleum engineering
majors for their petroleum engi-
neex-ing section.
Moore, chairman of Chi-istmas
Seal sales in the county, “but it
was deemed wise to began the dox--
mitory sales after Thanksgiving
holidays.”
Students in all of the dormito
ries will receive one sheet of seals
costing $1. The seals may be payed
for or x-etunied.
“We believe that each student
will be able to help fight Tubei'cu-
losis,” said Mx-s. Moore.
The TB Association is not a
member of the Bx-yan United Fund
and the College Station Community
Chest this year, as it has been in
the past. As a result, it must
depend entix-ely on funds collected
through the sale of Christmas
Seals to carry on its woi-k for the
coming year.
Eighty-two per cent of the funds
will remain in Bx-azos County fox-
local use, 12 per cent will be used
by the state association, while six
pel* cent will go to the National
Tubex-culosis Association. '
S-D
Tomorrow
Proclaimed
False Report
Ends Semester
For Freshman
An A&M freshman has been
suspended for the remainder
of the semester for an “act
unbecoming - to a cadet and
gentleman, bringing discredit
to himself, his uniform, his organi
zation and to his school, and for
making a false x-eport and misx-ep-
resenting the facts.”
The student had reported he was
shaven and painted by University
of Texas students following the
Fish-Shorthox-n game in Austin
Nov. 19. He said he was attacked
by UT students who tox-e his shirt,
shaved his body below the waist,
scratched his face and hit him on
the back with a belt.
Militax-y authox-ities x-epox-ted yes-
terday, that the student had x-e-
turned his date to the UT campus
too late to sign in at midnight hex-e
on the campus.
“To clear himself of being late,
he asked his friends at UT to shave
his stomach, scratch his face with
a needle and hit him on the back
with a belt so he would have some
excuse for not signing in,” said
Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant.
The student had told militax-y
authox-ities here his friends put
medicine on his back and he then
hitched a x-ide back to A&M with
some seniox-s.
y mayor
College Station Joins
Nation in Observance
Tomorrow will be observed as Safe Driving Day in cities
and communities throughout the nation. In keeping with
the spirit of this national campaign College Station’s Mayor
Ernest Langford has issued a proclamation declaring Thurs
day, Dec. 1, as S-D Day in College Station.
The idea behind this special day for traffic safety, which
is sponsored by the President’s Committee for Traffic Safety
in cooperation with prominent national organizations, is to
demonstrate that traffic accidents can be greatly reduced
when motorists and pedestrians fulfill their individual re
sponsibility for safety.
Those endorsing this program, and this includes Presi-
+dent Eisenhower, all 48 gov
ernors of the states, and may-
Russian Color Film
Slated For Guion
Called the “City of Mix-acles, a
colored film of the huge agricul-
txxx-al exposition in Moscow will be
shown in Guion Hall Fx-iday at 4.
Congx-essman Olin Teague of
Bryan brought the film with him
fx-om his x-ecent tour of Europe
and Moscow. It is narrated in
English. Admission is free to all
and the public is invited.
Vice Chancellor D. W. Williams,
who also recently toux-ed Europe,
and Teague will be available after
the film to answer questions.
News of the World
By The ASSOCIATED PRESS
FAIRBANKS, Alaska—An Air Force jet fighter plane
which couldn’t gain altitude on a takeoff crashed through a
row of houses yesterday, killing the pilot and an estimated
10 to 13 other persons, mostly civilians. The plane from
Eielson Air Force Base, roaring along at close to 150 miles
an hour a few feet off the ground, plowed into a group of
six buildings, exploding as it hit. The dead were believed
to include a number of school children, home at the time for
lunch.
★ ★ ★
PARIS, Wednesday—Premier Edgar Faure lost a
confidence vote in the National Assembly last night. But
instead of resigning, as is customary, his Cabinet is con
sidering dissolving the Assembly. This would make new
elections necessary.
★
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.—Despite an appeal from
President Eisenhower, Nationalist China went ahead last
night with plans to veto Red Outer Mongolia’s bid for U.N.
membership. The Mongolian bid had been the last point of
difference between East and West on admission of 18 appli
cations. The United States had yielded finally on it in a
package deal with the Soviet Union.
★ ★ ★
ROCKWALL, Tex.—A Continental Trailways Bus
and an automobile collided near here last night, killing
the automobile driver and injuring an estimated 24 of
the 28 persons on the bus.
★ ★ ★
DAMASCUS, Syria—Jamal Farra, 40, is this Arab na
tion’s first ambassador to Soviet Russia. The government
announced Monday the appointment of Farra, who has been
Syrian minister to Spain.
★ ★ ★
LA PAZ, Bolivia—The government has authorized
the Bolivian Central Bank to float a loan of one million
pecas $530,000 to raise pay in the Ministry of Public
works, retroactive to last March. The decree was issued
Monday night to settle a budding strike of the ministry’s
workers.
Telephone Co.
Asks For 50%
Rate Increase
The Southwestern States
Telephone Company has asked
for a 50.1 per cent increase in
telephone rates for the Bryan-
Cpllege Station area to meet
“inci-eased costs” in xxiatei-ial,
eqxiipment, upkeep, and labor.
At a joint meeting of the College
Station and Bryan City Councils
Monday night, G. M. Bx-ennan, di
vision manager of the company,
asked the councils for a total in-
cx-ease of $162,342.60 in chax-ges.
The Coxxncils voted to recess and
discxxss the proposed incx-ease at
their next regular meetings.
“The public is invited to the city
council meeting Dec. 19, when the
change will be discussed,” said
City Manager Ran Boswell.
Biggest increase ixx rates would
be on x-esidential one-party phones.
Rate for a handset is now $4.00 per
month; the px-oposed change would
put the charge at $6.25 for an in
crease of 56.3 per cent.
The only sex-vice not affected by
the incx-ease would be the pi-ice of
a x-esidential extension. Charge for
this would x-emain at $1.00 per
month.
AVMA Supper
Set For Saturday
The Junior Chapter of the Amer
ican Veterinary Medicine Associa
tion and the Women’s Auxiliax-y
ax*e sponsoring a smox-gasboxd Sat
urday at the A&M Consolidated
High School cafeteria, 6-9 p.m.
Profits from the function will be
used to entertain representatives
from other schools at the National
AVMA convention in San Antonio.
Tickets cost $1.50 for adults, in
cluding students, and 50 cents for
childx-en. They may be obtained
fx-om repx-esentatives of each class
in the Veterinary School.
Weather Today
RAIN
Occasional light rain, continued
cloudy and gradually warming is
the forecast for College Station
ax-ea. Yesterday’s high was 50 de-
gx-ees, low, 35 degx-ees. Tempex-a-
ture at 10:30 a.m. was 40 degrees.
Veterans To Sign
All Korean Vetex-ans are remind
ed that Dec. 7 is the last day to
sign up for this months pay cer
tifications, according to Bennie A.
Zinn, veterans advisor. The of
fice is on the first floor, x-oonx 102,
of Goodwin Hall.
ora of cities throughout the
nation, realize that one day
cannot solve the traffic prob
lem. But enforcement authox-ities
and safety ox-ganizations have stat
ed that S-D Day in 1954 did help
them to win public support for
yeax’-around, proven px-ograms that
can solve the problexn if everyone
gets behind them.
Last year, thex-e wex-e nearly
10,000,000 tx-affic accidents in the
nation; 36,000 people were killed—
one eveiy 15 nxinutes. Another
million persons wex*e injured—
one every 25 seconds' and the cost
in medical bills, px-opex-ty loss and
other expense^ including loss in
earnings, was 4.4 billion dollars.
IT IS HOPED that the expected
i-eduction i n traffic accidents
throughout the nation tomorrow
will implant in the minds of all
motox-ists and pedestrians the x-eal-
izatioxx that, if they can gx-eatly
x-educe accidents on one day, they
can do so every day of the year-.
In this way it will call attention to
the importance of yeax--i-ound sup-
pox-t by evex-y individual for exist
ing safety program of proven
worth.
There ax-e now about 60 million
motor vehicles on our stx-eets and
highways, and estimates for about
80 million by 1965. With our pop
ulation estimated to incx-ease to 190
million during the same pex-iod, the
accident potential incx-eases tx-e-
mendously. In 1954, the tx-affic
death rate was 6.4 for every 100
million miles of vehicle ti*avel. If.
the same rate was to continue, the
death toll in 1965, with the number
of vehicles expected then, would be
about 48,000.
IT IS WITH these facts in mind
that the S-D Day px-ogram was
started last year in order to focus
attention upon the tx-affic problem.
r
And it is with these facts in mind
that Mayor Langford has appeealed
to citizens of our community to ob
serve the pux-pose of S-D Day to-
moi-x-ow and evex-y day.
CAMPUS POLITICIANS—Filings for freshmen offices
have opened in the Student Activities Office, and four Fish
from Squadron 13 have thrown their hats into the ring.
Shown with Doris Bahlmann, cashier-bookkeeper for the
office, are, left to right, Robert B. Helfrich, George J. Stan-
sell, Mike Brawner and Robert B. Moon. Filings will close
at 5 p.m. Dec. 7, and the election will be held Dec. 14.