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The Campus Chat
NORTH TEXAS STATE COLLEGE, DENTON, TEXAS FRIDAY, SEPT. 25. 1953
Football Fans to View
Revised Platoon Plan
—Sports Page
Rally to Set Eagles, Devils Will Clash Saturday
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Grid Stage
, A student parade, stage Hhow, and pep rally today will
launch pre-game football spirit before the Eagle-Tempe game
here Saturday night.
The parade, scheduled for 5 p.m., will form on the south
ide of the Quadrangle and move east around the campus.
Cheerleaders, sponsors of the parade and rally, have
■ jred students to decorate their cars with green and whit* paper and
uin the festivities.
If enough cars and students participate. the parade will continue
to the city square, cheerleaders said.
I he pep rally will be held at tonight's stage show. The program,
(•ginning at 8 p.m. in the main auditorium, will feature a variety show,
e rally, and a film.
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A 30-piece pit orchestra will
lay selections from "Oklahoma,"
id Jean Rapp of Mineola wilJ
ng If I Love You. On stage, the
£• member Aces of Collegeland
<wing hand, directed by 'Feasor
Floyd Graham, will play a medley
>f Southwest conference pep songs
plus two Kagle songs that have
been recorded by the group.
Solo numbers will be given by
Jerry Hannigan on the vibraharp;
Helen Marshall, AmariUo, will
tting No Other Love, and Sandra
Stark will play Dixxy Fingers on
the accordion.
Kagle yell leaders will give a
pecial dunce, followed by a rally.
The program will close with a
ilm, "The Glory Brigade," star-
ing Victor Mature. Admission for
ie stage show will be HO cents.
At the football game Saturday
ight, a special section for card
unts will be marked off in the
.ist stands of the stadium.
The section, 28 rows, will be
|H>n to all students who would
ike to participate in the stunt*,
on Faught of Denton, president
f the rally committee, aaid.
A post-game dame will lie held
on the union building slab from
1:30 to 12:30 p.m.
LOOKING AHEAD to a bat
He-filled Saturday night, two
cheerleaders — Ann Callahan
and Marion Massey—stop for
a moment before Eagle stadium
where North Texas meets Tern-
pe in an intersection#! game at
8 p.m. Saturday night, however,
there won't be time for a lull.
- Cfcst I'hiitn by DINK
Coaches Expect Tempe Will Be
One of Season's Hardest Tilts
by BILL MOYERS
North Texas kicks the lid off it 1963 football season .Saturday night in Eagle
stadium.
The unt ried Eagles collide with talent-packed Arizona State of Tempe in an inter-
sectional tilt matching the champions of two conferences — the Eagles from the Gulf
Coast circuit and the Sun Devils from the Border league.
Game time ia 8 p.m.
The Tempe battle opens perhaps the toughest schedule in North Texas gridiron history. Between
Saturday and Nov. 28 the Kagles will clash with seven teams ranked as "major" clubM by the National
Collegiate Athletic association.
Those seven include Tempe, Mississippi State, Texas Western college, San Jose State, Univer-
- alty of Mississippi, West Texas
New Cheerleader Named
Adrelyn (Babe) Westbrook,
Blooming Grove, Wednesday was
named cheerleader by IJSNT Pres-
ident II. G. Wells.
She replaces May I>ell Moellen-
berndt, who didn't return to school.
Although third in line for the post
in last year's elections, Miss West-
brook was named to the post when
Betty Farmer, second in line, also
failed to return to school.
The elections lutard approved
the appointment.
New Staff Members Meet ClasseslYucc?
After Board Approves 23 Additions
Twenty-three new staff members
prepared to meet their second day
of classes today.
All were approved by the Board
of Regents in two summer meet-
ings, according to President J. C.
Matthews.
Mischa Miller has I teen named
resident pianist in the School of
Music to replace Dr. Silvio Sclonti,
recently retired. Howard Dill is al-
so a new School of Music staff
member.
Appointments in the School of
Business Administration include
Dr. Vernon Y. j'ayne, John Scho-
ber, Glenn I.. Taylor, Dr. Ruth I.
Anderson, and Haggard Shepard.
New English department staff
members are Miss Billie Ruth Lov-
Cadet Deferments to Continue
Regardless of Flight Clearance
Contract Air Force ROTC ca-
dets will continue to i e deferred
from the draft until completion
of their work, an AFROTC spokes-
man announced this week.
"This is regardless of whether
or not u cadet applies for a flight
or non-flying commission," the
spokesman said.
However, some graduating ca-
dets will lie forced to serve two
years in either the Air Force or
he Army as enlisted men.
A defense department order is-
sued this summer indicated that
all non-flying seniors would lose
reserve deferments unless they ap-
plied for flight commissions.
According to Lt. Col. W. W.
Wagner, professor of air science
and tactics, about sixty seniors
would have been affected by this
order.
Wagner said the percentage of
seniors who have applied for flight
training is double that of last year
and pegged the increase on sum-
mer orders.
Through Thursday 86 seniors
and 136 juniors had enrolled for
advanced ROTC courses. Seventy-
Prof Receives
Foreign Job
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Dr. Howard C. Key, associate
professor of English for the past
five years, left last week for Tur-
key where he will be a visiting pro-
fessor of American literature at
the University of Istanbul.
The nine-month appointment was
given D& Key under the Interna-
tional Educational Exchange pro-
gram of the State department. The
Board of Regents granted him a
leave of absence.
After receiving bachelor's and
master's degrees from the Univer-
sity of Texas in 192* and I93R,
Dr. Key was awarded the Ph.D.
derree from Stanford university In
He joined the North Texan fac-
ulty in 1947. Before that he taught
in high schools at Frankston, Mr-
Allen, and San Antonio and was an
instructor at Stephen F. Austin
State college. UT, and University
of Houston.
five of the seniors anil about 126
of the juniors have been cleared
for flight work.
The new orders point out, how-
ever, that the reduced 120-wing
Air Force cannot accept every
graduate as a commissioned of-
ficer. Certificates of completion
will be issued to men who fail to
meet competitive standards.
These men will be expected to
serve in the armed forces as en-
listed men, but may apply for a
commission in the reserve after
two years of service, the order in-
dicated.
Ing, Dr. Sam Henderson, Dr. T. C.
Crenshaw, and Dr. Logan Pratt.
James L. Rogers is director of
the News Service and a member
of the journalism department fac-
ulty. Dr. Leonard G. Benson will
teach sociology.
The speech and drama depart-
ment has added Miss Lear Ash-
more and Dr. Edward Hansen;
William Coble and Paul Kearns,
Bible; Dr. Bruce Foster, physics;
Antonio Garcia, government; Dell
C. Kjer, School of Education, and
Mrs. Ophelia Sammons, home eco-
nomics in the Laboratory school.
Lt. Col. Williford Wagner is new
commander of the Air Force ROTC
and David A. Webb is director of
libraries and the library service de-
partment.
The Board of Regenta also
granted leaves of absence to C. C.
Williams of the School of Educa-
tion and Dr. Howard C. Key of the
Knglish department.
Yearbook Sales Soar;
Associates Appointed
Production plans for the 1064
Yucca are well under way with
all art work completed, some of
the campus pictures taken, and
photographs for the student class
October Sale Planned
For Student Directories
Student directories will Ik- placed
on sale in about a month, J. D.
Hall, director of the College Press,
announced this week.
The directories, which will in-
clude the names, phone numbers,
addresses, classifications, and home
towns of all students and faculty
members, will be sold in the Howdy
room of the union building. Price
of the directories will be 35 cents,
Hall said.
Until the directories are printed,
phone numbers and addresses of
students may be obtained from el-
ther the dean of women's or the
dean of men's offices.
Even More Expected . . .
Registration Hits 4188
Registration figures spiraled to
4188 an increase of 186 ever the
same time Inst year -after only
two days of enrollment. President
J. C. Matthews reported Thursday.
The increase in registration fig-
ures for the fall term, however, Is
expected to go even higher before
full-load enrollment ends Oct. 7.
Although the registrar's office
was still swamped with work
Thursday and hadn't been able to
determine the enrollment among
classes, Dr. Matthew* said early
Early Box Rental Advised
For Prompt Mail Delivery
Students and faculty members
who have not yet made arrange-
ments for a post office box are
advised to do so as soon ss pos-
sible, J. T. Bayless, superintend-
ent of the NT station, said this
week.
Bayless said that mail which is
improperly addressed to a box
number will be delayed In delivery.
He added that magailnes and news-
papers not addressed to a box will
be returned to the publishers.
Post office windows will be open
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m, Monday
through Frfday, and will close at
ndon on Saturday. The office will
be closed on Sunday, but mail will
be placed in the boxes.
No deliveries will be made to
the dormitories other than pack-
ages and letters marked special
delivery, Bayless said.
Box rent, will be 76 cents each
six weeks. Two people will be as-
sighed to each box.
figures point to at least a 21 per
cent increase in freshmen students
over this time last year.
Transfer students also accounted
for a big jump in early figurea,
the president said. The percentage
increase was determined by the
number of required tests admin-
istered to freshmen by the English
department.
Biggest drop among classifica-
tions seems to be in the Graduate
School. However, a drop was ex-
pected because of the serious touch-
er shortage in Texas, the presi-
dent said.
Many coilogians expected to en-
roll in the Graduate School will
be Saturday students. They have
not yet registered.
A minor decrease in senior class
enrollment is also expected, Dr.
Matthews said. "Many of our sen-
iors have been hired by schools all
over Texas in an attempt to aid
the serious shortage of teachers,
but many of those will also en-
roll for Saturday classes," the
president explained.
At this same time last year,
4002 collegians had passed through
registration lines.
The enrollment Increase was al-
moat within the letter of a pre-
dicted registration figure j§RV|*
mated by Dr. Matthew* last week.
section now being processed.
Over two thousand North Tex-
ans purchased yearbooks in the
registration line, Mary Alice Mll-
ner, editor, said Thursday. They
may still lie bought in the College
Press office for $4.
Jean Bauman, graduate art ed-
itor, completed the division pages
during the summer, while Scott
Dine, photographer, waa busy tak-
ing pictures of campus views and
possible feature pictures.
Staff appointments are now com*
plete except for a sports assistant.
Miss Milner said.
Sue Cearley will how charge of
the features section with June Rey-
nolds as assistant. In the position
of organizations editor la Edwina
Dees. Don Faught will be assistant.
Classes editor wilt be Wanda
Simmons. She will be assisted by
Nellie Osborne. Pat Riley la sports
editor.
Assistant photographer la John
Ingram.
Students who did not make ar-
rangementa for their class pictures
in registration should do so imme-
diately, Miss Milner said. Appoint-
ments can be made at Cunningham
studios and must be arranged be-
fore November, she said. Fee for
the daas picture la $1.
Two filing clerk positions are still
open on the staff. Any coed In-
terested in a job later in the year
should contact Miss Milner.
The Yucca staff is now making
arrangementa for group pictures
of organisations.
Students who did not pick up
their 1968 Yuccas or wish to pur-
chase one may do so in the Col-
lege Press, Miss Milner added.
State, and Hardin-Simmons uni
veraity.
Along the way they will also
encounter two Gulf Coast confer-
ence teams — Trinity university
and Midwestern university—and
San Diego Naval Training center,
the top team In the service bracket
last season.
The Eagles Saturday find their
backs against the wall for two
reasons:
1. Coach Odus Mitchell still Isn't
sure that the Eagles will respond
favorably to the ubolltion of the
two-platoon system. He just hasn't
had the chance to see them operate
under fire a chance that will only
come Saturday night.
2. Tempe already has a game
out of the way. Coach Clyde Smith
has had the opportunity this week
to correct what went wrong when
the Sun Devils stumbled in the
path of San Diego Navy, I I III,
last Saturday.
Still, Coaches Mitchell and De
Walker aren't too pessimistic over
the Eagles' chances in their open-
ing gome. "Illl be a toss-up, as
far as I'm concerned," the Eagle
mentor declared.
Coach Walker has called the
Tempe team "the best ball club
that has ever appeared agninst the
(continued on sports page)
Annual Adoption
Scheduled Tuesday
For Frosh Women
Freshmen women will be for-
mally adopted by North Texas
upperclasswomen at the annual
Big-Little Sister adoption Tuesday
at 7:30 p.m. in the main audito-
rium.
A get-acquainted ceremony, the
affair offers new coeda an oppor-
tunity to enlist the aid of their
upperclasswomen.'
Marilyn Whiteside of Kingsville
and Mary Alice Milner of Mar-
shall will speak at the candlelight
ceremony. Mary Fiances Jalufka
of Kobstown will sing.
Freshmen residence cards have
been distributed to up|>erclasswo-
men in the dormitories. Each
freshmen girl should then be con-
tacted by her big sister, accord-
to Jackie Porter Willis, president
of the sponsoring organisation,
Women's Forum.
According to tradition, big sis-
ters take their little sisters to the
adoption ceremony and out for
a Coke.
Battle of Budget Renewed;
Collegians Face Price Hikes
by JERRY NORMAN
Campaign promises to the con-
trary, living costs for North Tex|
ana will be as much this year as
last, and in some cases even more
Nationally advertised brands of
Pledges Are Least
To State the Most
Senator Joe McCarthy's In-
vestigations subcommittee may
find It neceaaary to rome to Den-
ton.
Wednesday afternoon a senior
—tired of aigning eight aworn
atatementa in his college career
that he ian't a Communist---
turned the tables on a union
building notary public.
Instead of his own name, he
signed that of Lavrenty Heria,
deposed Russian poller boas.
It was notarised without ques-
tion.
The collegian said the pledxe
would go in his scrapbook.
Campus Work Crews Near Completion
Of Summer-Long Construction Jobs
DR. HOWARD C. KEY
... off to Turkey
Campus construction crews this
week began winding up a summer-
long job that included everything
from widening a street to tearing
down a building.
■ Probably the three biggest joba
were the widening of Chestnut
street in front of the union build-
ing, demolishing the 39-year-old
men's gym, and building a 92-car
parking lot adjacent to Brace and
Masters halls
in addition, crews landscaped
grounds and installed aluminum
awnings at the education building
and co-operated in erecting mer-
cury-vapor street lamps around
the main campus at a coat to the
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college of 12700, according to Pres-
ident J. C. Matthews.
Until the new parking lot la
completed, gates to the old foot-
ball field will be opened during
the day to allow parking In that
area, Dr. Matthews said.
Around the education building,
crews have completed laying a
concrete driveway, sidewalks, and
a rock terrace. A new drainage
jjPMtt Jptand the two-year-old
building is expected to be com-
pleted by the laat of this week.
Demolition of the old gym is In
line with the college's paltry of
tearing down unused frame build-
ings on the campus.
Denton Dusts Off Welcome Mat
To Greet New Swarm of Enrollees
Sunday morning a dead quiet
was suddenly hroken by the Inva-
sion of a good-sised army -an
army of collegians.
The whole campus was swamped
with people. Men students over,
flowed the Quadrangle into I .eg-
gett hall—a barracks-type dorm
unused for several years. In fact,
66 eda are living in the Avenue E
dorm and eating in the Quad cafe-
teria.
But men weren't the only ones
with whom the administration waa
concerned. The college received
more applioations for room* hi the
women's dorms than It had space,
but cancellations and shifting have
evened up the situation. All five
women's dormitories are full, Pres-
ident J. C. Matthews said Thurs-
day. ' ' i!'
However, collegians quickly set-
tled down and prepared to brave
long registration lines that began
forming eatrly Tuesday and didn't
end until late Wednesday. late-
comers can still r agister until CM
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The long registration lines
a petted an end to a full program
of orientation and social activities
for both freshmen and transfer
Freshmen spent Monday morn-
ing in conferencea with major ad-
viaera, and the afternoon taking
psychology testa. Tranafer atu-
dents mat in the afternoon and
then—with other upperclassmen
r<'fiferri d with advisers.
Mon wijr night freshmen flocked
to the ." .in auditorium for the
tradition*.; theatre party as guests
of President and Mrs. Matthews
while transfer'students attended a
get acquainted seaslon at the club-
houce.
When classes began Thursday,
some collegians found It necessary
to change schedules again A new
staM law requiring at least 12 in
each class went Into effect. How.
ever, Dr. Matthews said the situa-
tion was cauaing little trouble.
toothpaste will cost eds and coeds
a little more this year. One mer-
chant blames the rate hike on tele-
vision advertising, but no one
*«*ms to know exactly why it costs
more to have a clean mouth.
Other drugstore Items, such as
stationary, sundries, snd cigar-
ettes, have held their own.
Cleaning prices have remained
stable with clean suits going at
96 cents, slacks at 50 cents,
dresses 75 cents, and pressing
while you wait—for a quarter.
Probably the worst blow to male
students is the increased price of
getting the manly locks ihorn.
Denton barbershops have levied an
additional 16 centa on the price of
haircuts, raising the coat to one
precious dollar.
Shaves, shampoos, and other
tonsorial services remain at the
old prices, and you can still get
a shine for 20 centa.
Articles handled by the local
flve-and-dime emporiums still
stand at last year's prices, variety
Store f.wnern report. These include
notebooks, pencils, and other school
supplies.
nothing store owners report
that the prices of moat items are
shout the same as last year. One
local store said clothing prices
have been raised only eight per
cent above the pre-Korca level.
Book prices have increased in
some instanctrs; the increase is
blamed on upped cost of book-
binding.
Bus prices are still 10 cents,
but gasoline prices are about one
cent higher than last year.
Everything considered, college
students are in for another year
of corner-cutting in order to make
ends meet.
Meets Tuesday . . .
Senate to Tackle Many Problems
Student senators will convene
Tuesday night for their first fall
meeting with a boat of problems,
policies, and proposals facing
tt.em.
The legislators will meet in the
senate assembly room on the sec-
ond floor of the union building at
6:30 p.m. Christy McKensle of
Lancaster, vice-president of
United Students of North Texas
and chairman of the senate, will
preside.
Other USNT officers to be pres-
ent Include H. O. Wells of Tulla,
president; Bill Pinaon of Lancas-
ter, secretary; and Mike Mu-phy
of McKinney, treasurer.
The senate will be compoaed of but senators deliberated and then
atudenta elected last fall. They will
serve until the fall elections slated
for the middle of October, at which
time newly elected and re-elected
aolons will take over the legislative
reins of the student body.
At least five proposals from last
year have been held over for de-
bate and possible decision this
fan. Chief among uw issues is
the one concerning proposed mem-
bership In the National Students
aaaoclation.
Leonard (Squeeky) WeekK, then
preaident of USNT. proposed laat
spring that NT become a membor
of the association at a cost of |100,
delayed the final question until
this term.
Also facing the senators is the
proposed road trip for a football
game, possibly the Hardln-Sim-
mona contest in Abilene Nov. 21.
Then there's the plan to reacti-
vate the Flock Here committe,
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downtown restaurants, advising
students which of these firms were
the cleanest and most suitable for
meals.
The senate will also study a pro-
posal to advertiae college life
at NT to high school students.
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