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The BattalionPUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE

Volume 53 COLLEGE STATION (Ag-gieland), TEXAS TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1953

Published By A&M Students

For 75 Years ,

Price Five Cents

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;us : at 7:45 p,

ird Postpones tncil ApprovalM. T. Harrington re- ;urday to the A&MVectors that the item rval of faculty mem-

[O hhe Athletic• O I V/KAvjthdrawn and placed

meeting agenda.1 did not give any raa-

withdrawal of the he made for next

oard consented, ending approval were •thy, G. W. Schlessel- >arnell, H. C. Dilling-

Kryan bbott.Low Bid'let contracts for con­'s. H. R. Bergstrom of mitted the low bid and contract to build a

•reeding center at a DO.t of $54,225,150 was

__________ !. E. Far row Company, ilso low bidder, for-

College S'of a one and one-half waterline connecting

Bankfvater well at the col- dd.

C..1L Lacy Company, also Culltnis awaided a contract

C17 for str eet improve- s campus. This work

v*n| of surfacing several uldtln addition to rework-

>ady paved.NOpdiway research center

here on an allocation __________from the board. The

. For

Cenlrjppa Phi Sets Hardiion May 7

Phi will initiate 20 B°iers and 103 students

HARDWAt'H initiation banquet s MSC.

* CHINA'-d Taborsky, history I the University of rmer secretary to the Izechoslavakia, will be said H. K. Stevenson,

...... the local chaptor.•al Honor Society for

ryan Comnr11 branches of higher 1 initiate 16 from the ’iculture, 20 from arts

1^1 ref 48 frC)Tri Engineering, •l II ol Oli veterinary Medicine ate students.

appropriation will be made after preliminary plans and estimates are completed.

New ParkThe new park being constructed

west of the dormitories and be­tween Throckmorton and Coke Sts. was named Spence Park in honor of D. W. Spence, former dean of the School of Engineering and head the civial engineering department. His son, T. R. Spence, is manager of the A&M System physical plants.

Other items approved by the Board were:

Summer school budget for the college of $215,000 and for the Junction Adjunct of $47,534.66.

Appropriation of $4,000 to the fund of $10,121 which is used for maintainance in college - owned houses.

Increasing out-of-state travel expenses for the Texas Agricultur­al Extension Service from $10,000 to $15,000, using money already appropriated in the service’s bud­get.

Naming Board member A. E. Cudlipp of Lufkin as a counselor the the A&M Research Foundation, replacing former Board member C. C. Krueger of San Antonio.

Expired TermsReplacing expired terms of

former Board members to the De­velopment Fund Board by Chair­man C. R. White of Brady.

Increasing the student activity fee- of Tarleton State College by one dollar in the spring semester, making it a total of $23 for the year.

Request that Dr. F. C. Jackson be allowed to try and patent his development of the technical pro­cedure involved and production of the vaccine which will kill kerato­conjunctivitis (pink eye).

A total of $39,464.67 in gifts, grants-in-aid, scholarships, fellow­ships and awards received by A&M, the Texas Agricultuti-al Experi­ment Station and Prairie View A&M College.

The appropriation of $1,800 for the construction of a feed house, including plans for the poultry cen­ter and $2,300 for the purchase of new feed handling equipment for this building.

Board Selects Harrington As New System Chancellor

Gilchrist to Serve Until September

President M. T. Harrington was selected unanimously Fri­day by the A&M Board of Directors to succeed Gibb Gil­christ Sept. 1 as chancellor of the A&M System.Upon naming Harrington as Gilchrist's successor, the board

also unanimously requested that Chancellor Gilchrist stay with the organization upon his retirement from the chan­cellorship. He will be on modified service as provided by the rules and regulations of the System.

No successor to the presidency was named by the board at their meeting her Friday and Saturday.

Gilchrist, who under board rules was due to retire from the chancellorship upon reaching the age of 65 early this year, will continue to serve in this posi-^" tion until September by request of

M. T. HarringtonChancellor-Elect

Water Tower Top Shows Thick Paint

Ever wonder how many times the top of the water tower has been painted with outfit colors ?

According to Mac McCrary, Tyler, junior there have been between 50 and 100 coats of paint put on the ball top of the tower. While the tower was being repaired, McCrary cut a piece of the paint from the bail.

After measuring the thick­ness, he found the many coats of paint were almost one-half an inch thick.

The last color painted on the tower top was Air Force blue.

&Tr BRIEFS

the board.“I feel greatly honored in being

^.selected by the Board of Directors to be the next Chancellor of the Texas A&M College System, Hai’- rington said today. “It is an im­portant position with great respon­sibilities.

“Chancellor Gibb Gilchrist has been an outstanding administrator of the vast A&M System covering the entire state. He has provided the leadership responsible for es­tablishing the efficient operation of the System. I regret that he has reached that number of years in life, according to the rules of the System, that necessitates his going on modified service,” Har­rington added.

“The three years I have served as president of A&M College have meant more to me than I can ex­press in words because my love for this school goes very deep.

“In addition to being one of its graduates, I have been a member of the faculty and staff for 28 years. Now my interest and at­tention will be given equally to all the colleges, divisions and services

(See HARRINGTON, Page 4)

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r.all. Just routine busi- & LLL discussed, said Ran

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echnology at Beau-

OK, assistant to the ^riculture, has been

ctor for the fourth er training program tension workers,

m will be held June 1- View A&M.* * *

ER BEBERFALL oflanguages depart­

ed Monday from the F Kentucky’s Foreign nference. He present- a paper entitled “A

deyer-Lueoke’s Treat- ■ Partitive Indefinite in Italian”. Beberfall

vanish and German& Coif

mer school session are available in the Registrar’s office.

No Military Science courses are scheduled for the summer.

* * *FIFTEEN MEMBERS of A&M’s

BSU Council attended the annual spring planning conference at Latham Springs last weekend.

Those attending from A&M were Tom Dunagan, Ralph Shanahan, Harvey David Rice, Bill Akers and Cecil Alexander.

Dick Bumpass, Dewayne Peter­son, Charles Eubanks, Jim Trim­

ble, Fred Johns, Dick Stafford, Freddie Sassman, Paul Roper, Ide Trotter and Joe Hipp.

* * *E. V. WALTON, head of the

agricultural education department, and Dr. M. N. Abrams, associate professor in the department, left Friday to attend the 34th annual Southern Regional Conference at Asheville, N. C. Walton will serve on the conference’s long-time com­prehensive planning program com­mittee and Abrams on the research committee.

TelephoneCo. Wants Higher Local Rates

The Southwestern States Tele­phone Co. asked formally for an in crease in local telephone rates at a joint meeting of the Bryan and College Station city councils las Friday.

No action was taken on the ap­plication. The councils have to vote in favor of the increase before it can be made.

D. T. Strickland, vice-president and general manager of the com­pany, cited rates in other nearby towns, all of which are lower than College Station and Bryan.

Strickland also discussed the possibility of his company putting rural telephones in Brazos County. The increase in rates that has been applied for does not include the rural telephone proposal.

The Company’s franchise in the College Station-Bryan area ends this month. The councils will rneet jointly again to consider the in­crease in ten days or two weeks.

Cotton Ball Profits To Pay for Tours

Date Ticket Prices Reduced to $2.50'

Profits from the Cotton Pageant and Ball Friday night will pay for a three-week observation tour for agronomy majors Kert Goode, Tom Payne Leonard Thornton and Will Polzer.

These men will observe agri­culture in different parts of the United States. The winners of the trip will set the date and places for the trip later.

The Agronomy Society, sponsor of the Pageant and Ball, made the trip awards on a basis of club activities, leadership and a series of agronomy tests.

pjjgjjj j’A PI will elect of 5 p. m. Monday, May

HARDER Engineering Build-T? A Ottlf roorn> Johnny.T AulHqent. Following theTEEN-‘organization will meet

i Country Club for*said.

D SCIENCES Council es will be dropped if /o unexcused absences gs, beginning next

ncil decided last night, lect other representa- ce those dropped, the

Hv T n ;ded. The action was- ice Cream coiriniendati0n 0f £>r

dean of the School ofMELLO fences.

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“A Nutriti^S for tlie 19S3 sum-KING AND QUEEN—Harold Scaief and Jane McBrierty await the approach of the 227 duchesses just after being crowned King and Queen of Cotton.

About 2,000 people watched the annual Pageant. There were 1,500 people at the Ball, said W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, business manager Student Activities.

Duchesses ComplainA few of the 227 duchess at the

Cotton Pageant complained about having to wait in line to be pre­sented, said Clarence E. Watson of the agronomy department, spon­sor.

“But I heard more complaints from the people who had to sit and watch them,” Watson said.

The duchesses walked from a re- productiton of a Mississippi River steamboat at one end of DeWare field house to the Old South man­sion at the other end, where the Cotton King and Queen and their court sat.

Harold Scaief, senior agronomy major from San Benito, was King. His Queen was Jane McBrierty of Ennis, a junior at TSCW. The court was composed of representa­tives from TSCW.

During the pageant, Mrs. A. D. Mebane of Lockhart presented a silver set to the college in memory of her late husband, who originat­ed the breed of cotton named after him.

Mebane worked with the Agri­cultural Experiment Station here until his death in 1923.

Many EntertainersEntertainters at the Pageant

were Miss Sara Price, singer from North Texas State College; Miss Billie Biggs, dancer from SMU; Miss Carmen Hinds, singer from Fort Worth; Martin Birkhead, singer from A&M and Conrad Webb and Bud Matthews, tumblers from A&M.

J. J. Woolket, head of the modern languages department and Charlie Parker, disk jockey at WTAW, wei’e masters of ceremonies. Miss Frances (Tidge) Rattan was di- dector of the Pageant.

The Aggieland Orchestra play­ed for the Cotton Ball, held in Sbisa Hall after the Pageant.

By JOEL AUSTIN Battalion Co-Editor

Students will pay a reduced rate for football date tickets next year and faculty members will get top priority on Kyle Field seats.

These decisions were accepted with unanimous vote by the Ath­letic Council at its meeting Sat­urday.

Date tickets for the four Kyle Field games next year will be sold to A&M students at $2.50 in­stead of the $3.60 charged in years past.

Members of the regular teaching faculty will be placed in priority group I for ticket drawing instead of the much lower bracket they have been in during past years.

Both decisions were the result of repeated demands by student and faculty groups to get more reason­able ticket regulations from the Athletic Council.

No CoedsStudents had argued that having

no coeds caused them to pay full price for date tickets while male students at other colleges could take coeds from that college to a game for the student price of $1.20.

Although the council found it impossible to bring date tickets down to $1.20, the reduction of $1.10 from the former price should constitute a substantial saving for Aggies who buy date tickets, said W. L. Penberthy, chairman of the council.

In setting up the lower date ticket plan, the council made use of a conference regulation which says end zone seats may be sold for a minimum of $2.50 if a school so desires. Two thousand end zone tickets will be allotted for each home game at the $2.50 price for dates, said Barlow (Bones) Iiwin, athletic director.

In setting up • the. new ticket rate, the council found it neces­sary to define a date. Their defi­nition is as follows:

Kyle Field“A date is a female person pre­

sented -for admittance at a desig­nated gate to a regularly sched­uled football game at Kyle Field by a student of the A&M College of Texas; such student to be in possession of proper identification and student activity cards.”

Penberthy praised the work of council student members Darrow Hooper and Bill Bracks for laying the ground work and doing much investigation concerning the date tickets price reduction.

The plan was oi-iginally introduc­ed to the Athletic Council last fall by Battalion Co-Editor Frank N. Manitzas. At that time a sub­committee was appointed to study the matter. It was composed of A. C. Dillingham, faculty represen­tative; J. P. Abbott, faculty rep­resentative; Price Campbell, for­mer students’ representative; Bracks and Hooper.

Irvin said the reduction would cause the athletic department to ceive 46 cents less on each date ticket sold (after splitting profits with opposing schools). He said the department budget would not be hurt considerably.

Season TicketsFaculty members will be allowed

to purchase a maximum of two season tickets in the group I prior­ity bracket as a result of the council action.

People eligible to buy tickets in this group now include students, T-Card holders, The Aggie Club, team, legislature, and athletic de­partment. People securing tickets in this category must purchase season tickets to qualify for the priority, said Irvin.

The atheltic director asked fac­ulty members not to expect 50- yard line seats for every game. He said there are only 3,500 seats available to A&M fans between the 50-yard line and goal line.

“Under the new plan, however,” said Irvin, “faculty members will get much better seats than in years past.”

Air Force OK’s 8 Army Cadets For AF SwitchEight Army ROTC cadets

have been approved by the 4th Army and Air University and have successfully com­pleted flight physical ex­aminations for ti’ansfer to the AFROTC program, said Col. John A. Way, PAS&T.

Paul Shaffer, fifth year archi­tecture major, will go into the Air Force following graduation this May, as will Billy Gene Hill, E. D. Francis, Thomas L. Hurta and Leo Kahanek.

These men have been approved by both services and have signed Air Force contracts. In this same group, which had Army contracts broken in favor of the Air Force flight program, is Russell Scott, junior engineering major.

William O. Cawley, senior poul­try husbandry major and Robert K. Bell have been approved by the 4th Army but have not been com­pletely processed by the Air Force.

These men are about the last of the group which applied for trans­fer, said Way. The purpose of the swap, in addition to providing more pilots for the Air Force, was to stabilize the Air Force-Army ratio of 46V2 percent Air Force to 53 V2

percent Army.The ratio is slightly different for

each class at A&M. The 46per­cent—53% percent ratio is for entering freshmen.

Two Plays Start In CHS Gym , At Eight Tonite

A story on teen-age love and a hillbilly comedy will be presented at 8 p. m. tonight by the senior class of A&M Consolidated High School in the school gymnasium.

The play “Couldn’t I Kiss You Goodnight” attempts to solve the problems of a teenag'er’s love, said J. S. Forsyth, director.

It depicts two young people’s parents who are worrying over their children and the problems of dating.

Following this presentation will be “Feudin’ Mountain Boys”. This play is also about two young lovers, except the scene changes to the hillbilly mountains. In order to impress his sweetheart Effie Catsfelder, Freddie Frump manu­factures a feud. However, unfore­seen complications develop and a full-scale feud breaks out.

Included in the cast of “Couldn’t I Kiss You Goodnight” ai’e Joe Motheral, Shirley Moffett, Don Burchard, Martha Ergle and Pat Ross.

In the second play are Paul Harris, Margaret Ann Arnold, Ann Morgan, Homer Franks, Barbara Robertson, Barbara Greer, Noel Stanley and David Carroll.

Tickets are being sold by mem­bers of the senior class and Lips­comb’s Pharmacy. Prices are 35 cents for adults and 25 cents for children under 12.

String Quartet Concert Slated Tonight in MSC

The Music Guild String Quartet of The Houston Symphony presents at 8:15 tonight in the MSC Ball­room the third recital of this year’s College Concert Series.

There is no admission and stu­dents are especially welcome, said L. F. Hauer of the English depart­ment.