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Number 168: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1951
Price Five Cents
Ticket Applications
For 1951 Football
Games Available
Ticket applications for 1951
football games, will be placed in
the mail by June 20, C. D. Own-
by, business manager for A&M,
announced this morning.
Applications and accompanying
checks must be back in the A&M
Athletic Department office by July
21 in order for the applications
to receive priority for tickets.
A&M has one of its best home
game schedules in history with
Jhe University of Oklahoma play
ing on Kyle Field for the first
time in recent years. Other home
games are with Baylor, Southera
Methodist and the University of
Rexas, all Southwest Conference
opponents.
Expects Sellouts
Vwnby expects sellouts on all
o' ja^games except possibly the one
V m Baylor. This game could be
a sell-out in view of the 27-20
licking given the Aggies last year
by the Bruins in a hard-fought
game in Waco.
■ Four priority groups have been
set up for distribution of tickets.
The first group includes all em
ployees of the college, who have
priority second only to members
of the Student Body, team, Aggie
dub “T” card holders, State Leg-
Collegi
[ejre Hills
Electric Lines
Read for Use
<5 College Hills residents liv
ing in the Eisenhower, Putz
itnd Kelly additions may now
make the change from the
Bryan REA service to the
College Station service, City Man
ager Raymond Rogers said today.
In the Eisenhower, Putz and
Kelly sections of the city 79 resi
dents were not included in the
original purchase of Bryan REA
lines last May.
“Persons living in the area can
now change over from Bryan to
College Station lines and take ad
vantage of slightly cheaper rates,”
Rogers said.
| Walter J. Coney, new city elec
trician, is in charge of making
the changes and may be contact-
Ad through the City Hall.
| Coney is a former resident of
Gainesville and is the first city
electrician of College Station. Be
fore Coney took the responsibility,
vthe city had made arrangements
with residential electricians and
used seiwices of the A&&M College
electrician, after hours.
When 448 additional REA ser
vices were purchased from Bryan,
the services of an experienced,
trained electrician became a ne
cessity, Rogers said.
City Tax Payments
Payable by June 30
The last half of the split-pay
ments of City and A&M Indepen
dent School District taxes are pay-
i;able between now and the end of
the rponth with out penalty or
interest, Assistant City Secretary
Ran Boswell said today.
After June 30, a charge will be
made at the rate of one and one-
half percent per month, which in
cludes a penalty computed at
ff.ght per year and the interest
l|Jil overdue payments computed at
six percent per year.
I
V
islature and Athletic Department.
Sales are made to these people
on the basis of campus season
tickets, but they will receive prior
ity, by making application, for
out-of-town games. Price of a
season ticket is $14.40 for all ath
letic events held on the campus by
the A&M Athletic Department.
This year for the first, a block
of 400 of the 1,500 seats on the
north side of DeWare Field House
is being set aside as reserve seats
during the 1951-52 basketball sea
son. Season ticket holders will be
admitted only to the remaining
1,100 general admission seats.
General Public
The second pnority group ap
plies to the general public, and the
same prices on tickets prevail for
this group. The next best seats will
be made available.
Group III applies to all former
students, faculty and employees of
the college who do not desire sea
son tickets but wish to purchase
single game tickets. Applications
for tickets in this group will be
filled from the best available seats
after the other priaqrity groups
have been issued.
Group IV includes the general
public demand for single game
tickets.
Applications will be audited as
received, classified, and placed in
numbered folders, each folder con
taining 50 applicants.
On July 30 at 2 p. m., all appli
cations received or postmarked July
21 will be eligible to participate in
a drawing for seat location.
The drawing will be held in the
following manner:
• Each folder number will be
placed in a capsule and dropped
into a container for each priority
group. A committee composed of
disinterested parties will supervise
the drawing of these capsules.
• Each number as it is drawn
will be registered according to the
sequence in which it is drawn until
all capsules are withdrawn.
• The folder bearing the first
number drawn will be given prior
ity in each group as to the loca
tion of tickets, and so on down
until the tickets for any particular
game have been exhausted.
limiting Titckets
The Athletic Department is
limiting the number of tickets to
be purchased for the University
of Texas game. If the demand
for any other game becomes too
great, the department may limit
block purchases for this tilt also.
Application blanks and further
information may be secured by
writing the Athletic Department.
Prof Publishes
Wildlife Book
Seeing the need for a general
text on the extensive field of wild
life conservation and management,
Dr. Leonard W. Wing, wildlife
management professor, has writ
ten a book entitled, “Practice of
Wildlife Conservation.”
Understanding the essential
needs of the student in preparation
for future work, Dr. Wing presents
the information in a balanced form
so that both theoretical and scien
tific information are blended with
the actual field practice used in
conservation development today.
Dr. Wing stresses clear, sim
plified wording and expressions
throughout the book so that stu
dents may understand the involved
phases of technical terminology
more clearly.
New Education Building
Amid the vast construction program underway
in College Station is this new educational build
ing at the A&M Presbyterian Church at the North
Gate. The building, which will house Sunday
School classes and other group gatherings, is be
ing built at a cost of approximately $150,000.
Ernest Langford is the local architectural con
sultant on the project which is expected to be
completed by the end of January.
(Photo by J. R Alderdice)
Don Aggie Uniforms
Freshmen Corps Will Get
Military Touch Monday
By DAVE COSLETT
Battalion Staff Writer
Cadet Lt. Col. Milburn R.
Schrank’s 234 charges, comprising
the Special Battalion of Freshman
Cadets, moved toward the close of
their first week at A&M rapidly
becoming aware of the peril in the
life of an Aggie “fish.”
The group, first Freshman Sum
mer Cadet Corps in the history of
A&M, should feel the final touch
of Military life next week when
they don their uniforms.
Starting college life at a rapid
clip last Sunday, the lads are
just about to get settled down
to routine—a routine that seems
a little rugged where compared
to the carefree life of summer
civilian students.
Under the command of an es
pecially chosen staff of juniors
and senior cadet non-coms and of
ficers, the fish have already found
that 5:55 a. m. invariable brings
first call ringing through the
dorms. By 6:10 they are tackling
breakfast in Sbisa Hall.
Classes, of course, begin at 7.
The average freshman class sche
dule, even in the notorious B&A
courses, calls for comparison to a
heavily burdened engineering up
per-classmen. That particular cur
riculum finds the boys taking four
subjects that pretty well fill their
five and a half day week.
Basic 101 and military studies
supplement to normal load of all
the curriculum. The Basic course
still sometimes called by an old
title of Freshman Orientation,
is a non-credit hour course that
gives each student three hours of
special counciling per week.
The military courses, either Air
Force or Army take up another
five hours—two in class and three
at drill. Add to these an afternoon
lab or two and you come up with
a rather full schedule.
All articles of the Summer Corps
parallel those of its regular sem
ester counterpart. Cadets answer
to a full set of calls, march to
every meal, eat family-style, stand
Officers Named
For Fish Corps
Officers appointed to the Sum
mer freshman cadet corps were
listed this week in a special order
issued by Lt. Col. M. P. Bowden,
commandant of cadets.
Commanding the summer corps
is Lt. Col. Wilburn R. Schrank.
Other battalion staff officers are
as follows:
Major Robert L. Hinckley, ex
ecutive officer; Capt. R. I. Lay,
UN Guns Threaten Kumhwa
As Reds Open Flood Gates
Tokyo, June 8—OP)—Allied guns
thundered down on Chorwon today
and threatened Kumhwa from the
brink of central Korea’s Pyonggang
Valley.
Chinese Communists opened
' flood gates and employed a power
ful new type anti-tank gun in ef-
5; forts to halt the relentless ap
proach of United Nations ground
forces.
Chorwon and Kumhwa are en
tries to the Reds’ buildup and sup
ply area, and center of a vital road
network.
The area, known as the “Iron
Triangle,” was blanketed with
fragmentation bombs last night by
23 U.N. bombers. They used radar
technique. Far East air forces said
9,000,000 bomb fragments splat-
tered over the triangle in “one of
the heaviest operations of its kind.”
Reds Shifting Weight
There were signs the Reds were
shifting their weight eastward
Iftfrom the triangle. U.N. officers
' said the shift indicated the Reds
( were moving toward Wonsan, east
; oast port at the head of Pyong-
i.e-ang Valley. Wonsan has been
for nearly four months. It is about
85 air miles north of the 38th
parallel.
Fiercest fighting was east of
the triangle in the Yanggu-Inje
area. Allied infantrymen clawed up
ridges. With grenades and bayonets
they dug North Koreans out of
fortified dugouts and deep fox
holes where they have withstood
artillery and bombing for days.
All along the front Reds are
digging new hiding places from
air attack. They are drafting civil
ians to speed the job of going
underground, said Maj. Gen. Frank
F. Everest, commander of the 5th
Air Force.
New Tunnels Dug
New tunnels are dug wherever
there are no available railroad
tunnels, mines or caves in which
they can hide from fire and frag
mentation bombs.
There was no cover for Chinese
still in Chorwon. U.N. artillery
was looking down their throats
from a 2,700 foot high mountain
(Kodae). The town itself was al
ready flattened.
Long Toms and thundering How
itzers centered on the roadway to
Kumhwa, and on Chinese in hills
before Chorwon.
A driving rainstorm Friday
slowed the Allied ground advance.
Reds Try
The Reds tried to stem the at
tack Thursday by opening one of
the 14 gates in Choiwon dam. A
two foot wall of water swept down
the Hantan River but failed to
knock out any allied bridges.
The flood subsided quickly and
the River waters were back to nor
mal Friday.
A U.N. briefing officer called
the flood attempt “a good sign.
“It showed how desperately they
want to hold Chorwon and the
important lateral road it com
mands,” he explained.
If the Reds withdraw^ officers
said they would be capable of
fighting a month-long withdrawal
as they pull back to a new line,
probably anchored on Wonsan.
Red trucks still streamed south
with more supplies. And the Chin
ese still have much heavy equip
ment in the
Pyonggang Triangle.
adjutant; Capt. Walter E. Midgley,
supply officer; T/Sgt. Leo A. Ka-
hanek, sgt. major; and T/Sgt. J.
A. Tanner supply sgt.
Company officers include the
following:
A Squadron
Capt. Percy J. Hendee, comman
der; 1st. Lt. R. C. Tate, executive
officer; 1st. Sgt. Alfred R. Pearcy,
1st. Sgt; S/Sgt. Vic H. Bird, sup
ply sgt.
B Squadron
Capt. Cread L. Ray, commander;
1st Lt. James Cruz, executive of
ficer; 1st Sgt. D. W. Marshall, 1st
Sgt; T/Sgt. Rogerio I. Rabago,
fit. sgt.; and S/Sgt. Don H. John
son, supply sgt.
C Company
Capt. Karl F. Meyers, command
er; 1st. Lt. James R. Stevenson,
executive officer; 1st. Sgt. T. K.
Burk, 1st. Sgt.; S/Sgt. E. W.
LeFevre, supply sgt.
D Company
Capt. Autrey W. Frederick, com
mander; 1st. Sgt. William R. Fag-
ley, 1st. sgt.; S/Sgt. Robert S.
Tevis, pit. sgt.; Grady D. Satter-
white, S/Sgt.
Waco Boys Club
Will Tour A&M
Fifty teen-tge boys from the
Waco Boys club will tour the
A&M campus July 12. The boys
will be on the last lap of a tour
of colleges and historic sites in
Texas.
The boys will range in age from
12 to 16 and one of the things they
are looking forward to, according
to Frank Burkhalter, who will be
Chorwon-Kumhwa^ in charge of the party, is a swim
in the P. L. Downs Jr., natatorium.
a daily Retreat formation at 5:20
and get to their rooms by 7:30 for
study. Taps sound at the usual
hour of 10:30.
Wednesday nights offer a stay
of Call to Quarters until 8:30
and a late taps of 11 p. m. Cadets
have Saturday afternoons and
nights to themselves — until
12:30.
Many of the first year boys are
already glib at speaking the new
language of the A&M Cadet Corps.
Others are struggling hard to catch
on to the intermixture of military
parlance and strictly local termin
ology that covers everthing from
food to articles of uniform.
The battalion-sized corps is di
vided into four units—two Army
and two Air Force. The outfits
occupy about a floor and a half
apiece in Dorm 14 and 15. They
march at a strength of approxi
mately 60 men per unit.
From the academic viewpoint,
they are under the close super
vision of A&M’s Basic Division,
begun last Fall. The modern
guidance program, first of its
kind in the South, keeps careful
check of student progress in
classroom work.
By means of lectures, the stu
dents are acquainted with the
various major course offerings
available to them. Failure to main
tain adequate progress in their
chosen field usually results in a
personal counseling session. The
students are thus guided into cour
ses of study for which they are
most suited.
Vocational
Teachers Hold
Meetings Here
Some 65 vocational indus
trial teachers from the state’s
public schools and junior col
leges are enrolled at A&M for
special teacher training cour
ses.
This special summer school is
concurrent with the first six weeks
of the regular A&M summer school.
The school is operated jointly by
Texas University and , the Texas
Engineering Extension Service, a
part of the A&M System. On al
ternate summers the school is
held on the University campus.
The instructors for the summer
school are H. D. Bearden, M. D.
Darrow, Paul A. Van Tassel,
teacher trainers for the Service;
Joe L. Reed, Charles Cyras, and
Earl Bowler of the University, and
C. M. Allen of the State Educa
tion Agency.
Courses to be offered are Ana
lysis and Course Making, Methods
of Teaching Vocational Course,
Organization and Use Of Instruc
tional Material, Visual Aids, Re
lated Subjects in the Part-Time
Coperative Program. Shop and
Classroom Organizaton and Man
agement, and Selectiion, Placement,
and Follow-up in Vocational Ed
ucation.
Adjunct Classes Begin
With 53 Students Listed
Classes officially began yesterday at the
A&M Adjunct in Junction with 53 high school
graduates reporting for the first class ses
sion at 7:30 a.m.
The program got underway for the first
year’s operations in the newly constructed
Camp in West Texas’ Kimble County.
“The boys are well satisfied and happy
with the Adjunct, and I think that we will
accomplish what we started out to do,” As-
College Wells Finished
Water System
Now Operating
By BILL A A BERG
Battalion City Editor
The new A&M College water
system went into operation for the
first time yesterday. Water was
pumped through the college mains
by the new facilities during the
day between 8 a. m. and 5 p. m.
Yesterday’s operation was the
first in a series of test runs which
will continue daily for about a
week.
In testing ^he new system, which
has wells northwest of Bryan
Field, adjustments are being made
on pumps, automatic pump con
trols, automatic pressure recorders,
and the automatic chlorination sys
tem.
System on Schedule
With tests complete, the system
will go on a 24-hour schedule.
Water will be furnished by the
new system to the College and to
all of College Station south of
Jersey Street.
Life Insurance
Managers Meet
Here Monday
Approximately 70 manag
ers of life insurance agencies
will attend a training course
for two weeks with classes
beginning Monday in the
MSC.
The classes in agency manage
ment, conducted by the Life In
surance Agency Management As
sociation of Hartford, Conn., will
be attended by 22 life insurance
companies. Most of the men regis
tered are from Texas and H. E.
Conner of Bryan, manager for
Texas Pradential Insurance Com
pany in Hartford, will be among
the group.
Faculty members, who will con
duct the classes are Burk Huey,
Tom Irvine, Fred Pierce, Myron
Bean, and Brice McEwen, all in
surance management authorities.
The session beginning next week
will be the 104th school to be held
by the association since 1929.
More than 5000 managers and
home office executives have been
graduated during that period, and
many are now leading company
presidents and field managers.
In setting up the College Sta
tion school, the association staff
was assisted by Sidney L. Loveless,
manager of the Central Texas
Agency of the American General
Life Insurance Company in Col
lege Station; Ford Munnerlyn, vice
president and Agency director of
that company at its home office
in Houston; and several other
prominent insurance executives in
Texas.
An eight mile-long
inches in diameter, brings water
from the four wells near Bryan
Field to the 2,000,000 gallon reser
voir located on the hill near the
Ag Feeding and Breeding Station.
Bryan has eight wells which
have been in use for a number of
years and cannot work in as large
a capacity as a new well. The four
new wells will increase the total
water available for the two cities
by 60 percent while only increasing
the number of wells by 50 percent.
Capacity 2,500,000 Gallons
The new system will have a
capacity of 2,500,000 gallons daily
with pumps handling the water
from both the well end and the
College Station end of the eight
mile line.
A&M College will use only
1.000. 000 gallons daily from the
2.000. 000 gallon reservoir.
During the summer last year
the water reserve became danger
ously low. The citizens of College
Station and Bryan were called
upon to conserve water by water
ing their lawns only between cer
tain hours. The freshly planted
A&M golf course suffered for
water.
In complying with conservation
requests, the residents of College
Station and Bryan greatly allevi
ated an unavoidable situation.
T. R. Spence, manager of the
A&M College physical plant, said
the increase in water available and
in use in the College Station-Bryan
area would relieve the Bryan water
works of the A&M and south Col
lege Station responsibility. The
new water system should end the
series of summer water shortages
that have occurred in years past.
sistant Director to the Adjunct C. H. Rans-
dell told a Battalion reporter by telephone
yesterday.
“Everything is going as well as expected,
and we are further along with the program
than we thought we would be at this time,”
Ransdell said.
The assistant director reported that the
boys have been swimming, canoeing, and af
ter having taken their tests and registering
♦•are getting ready to get down and
work.
The students have been at the
Adjunct, which is located on the
South Llano river near Junction,
since Sunday.
Monday they took their entrance
examinations. All day Tuesday and
Wednesday moraing the students
were in counciling, and Wednes
day afternoon the group registeded
for classes. The same day, all
students and faculty members were
guests of the Junction churches
which held open house.
Civil Engineering, Geologists
Along with the new student
group, there are also 24 civil en
gineering and 61 geology students
attending their respective summer
camps now located at the Ad
junct.
Dr. John R. Bertrand, dean of
the Basic Division, is director of
the Summer adjunct. Dr-. Ber
trand is in College Station at the.
present time, but will join Rans«
dell soon, his office reported to*
day.
The Adjunct was formed to help
the student “know himself bet
ter,” and that way be able more in-
tellegiently to decide upon hia
course of study in college.
Courses being offered for col*
lege credit include first year math*
ematics, 101 and 102; freshman
English, 103; physical education
101, and basic 101, remedial read
ing.
Courses Offered
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Financial Proof
Required For
Auto Accidents
Austin, June 8 — UP) — A
bill forcing owners and driv
ers of cars to provide financial
responsibility for accidents in
Texas was sent to the Govern
or yesterday.
The measure would require
proof of ability to pay up to
$15,000 for personal and property
damage resulting from an automo
bile accident.
If the Governor approves, the
bill will mean most Texas car own
ers will have to buy more insur
ance unless they have the cash to
protect themselves against damage
claims. Such insurance would cost
about $30 per year.
House approval of Senate
amendments represented final leg
islative action which moved the
bill to Gov Shivers. Similar bills
had failed of passage in several
sessions.
Fourth Annual Yet Med
Conference Ends Today
The fourth annual Texas Con
ference for Veterinarians conclud
ed a two-day program in the MSC
today as visiting lecturers held
a panel discussion on previous lec
tures during the meeting. Dr. H.
E. Redmond, veterinary medicine
and surgery department, acted as
moderator.
Beginning the final day’s activ
ities, Dr. W. S. Monlux, a confer
ence chairman, opened the session
with a film of the 1950 A&M-SMU
football game. Following the film,
Dr. G. R. Moore, professor of
veterinary surgery, gave a discus
sion on “Bovine Surgery.”
Dr. Blakely Speaks
Dr. C. L. Blakely, director of
surgery, Angell Memorial Animal
Hospital, Boston, Mass, spoke on
“Useful Surgical Procedures.” Col.
W. O. Kester, United States Air
Force, discussed “U. S. Air Force.”
Concluding the morning ses
sion, Dr. J. P. Delaplane, head of
the veterinary bacteriology and
hygiene department, spoke on
“Respiratory Diseases of Poultry.”
Dr. P. H. Vardiman, Texas Ag
ricultural Experiment Station,
Marfa, and a conference chairman,
opened the final and afternoon ses
sion by showing a film entitled
“Turkey Diseases.”
“Make Room For Sheep”
“Make Room for Sheep in Your
Practice” was the topic discussed
by Dr. D. A. Price, Ranch Experi
ment Station, Sonora. Dr. G. K.
Davis, animal nutritionist, Univer
sity of Florida College of Agricul
ture, gave the final speech for
the conference on “Trace Elements
in Cattle Nutrition.”
Veterinary authorities from all
over the United States attended
the two-day program of lectures.
Courses being offered which do
not give college credit are pre
paratory courses in English, math
ematics and solid geometry.
Various forms of recreation are
being made available for the stu
dents at the Adjunct, which has
many permanent buildings as well
as temporary quarters. A formu-
lized recreation program includes
canoeing, softball, swimming, bad
minton, volleyball and horseshoes
Other forms of entertainment in
clude a full length movie each
week.
Among the permanent buildings
is a cafeteria which is capable of
feeding 500 persons. Another per
manent building houses classrooms,
the library, the medical clinic, and
offices.
Housed in Tents
The students are housed in
tents with concrete floors, and
asbestos walls. The room equipment
includes beds, steel chests and
study tables like the ones used in
the dorms on the College Station
campus.
Among the instructors at the
Adjunct are Dr. S. S. Kyle, head
of freshman English; R. R. Lyle
and H. B. Curtis, mathematics;
Herman Segrist, physical educa-
tipn; Luke Harrison, organized
recreation; and D. H. Nelson, coun
selor.
Heading the mess hall is Willie,
Yeager, who during the regular
school year managed the opera
tion of Duncan Hall. E. D. Tar-
rott is in charge of the utilities
which works off an REA unit from
Junction.
Joe Orr, civil engineering depart
ment, is in charge of the summer
course in surveying, and S. A.
Lynch, of the geology department,
is directing the geologists.
Toyko GIs
Form ‘Local’
Hit Parade
Tokyo, Thursday!, June 8—(A 5 )
Punsters among American ser
vicemen are having a field day
working up a “Tokyo hit parade”
by using place names from Ko
rea and Japan.
A few samples:
There’s a Sonjjin My Heart:
Senshu Went Away; Boddy and
Seoul; Wagewan Wheels Hon
shu Sorry I made You Cry and
O, How I Mizu Tonight.
And they talk about a Jap
anese hit show: “Annie Geisha
Gun.”
At the Grove
This Weekend
Friday— Dancing, Aggieland
Combo—8 p. m.
Saturday—Square dancing—8 p.
m.
Monday—Movies, “Desert Hawk”
with Yvonne DeCarlo—8 p. m.