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Official Paper
Of Texas A&M College
And College Station
The Battalion
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Number 27: Volume 52
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1951
Published by The Students
Of Texas A&M
For 73 Years
Price Five Cents
'Saw Varsity’s Horns Off
Military Department Issues
‘Saber Call’ to Aggie-Exs
The Military Department this week issued a call to all
students or former students who have sabers to loan or
| donate them for use by the A&M cadet corps.
Fifteen unit commanders are without sabers at the pre-
; sent time, the department reported, and manufacturers have j
j curtailed production to the extent that none are available
from that source.
They called on the Former Student Association to dig
I out their old sabers and send them in to the Association
office or Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant.
The Military Department said if the sabers needed re
conditioning, that work would be done by the college and
the sabers would be returned when school is over in the
spring, if the owner so desires.
Senate Solves
Seating Issue
For Home Tilts
By ALLEN K. PENGELLY
Battai.ion Staff Writer
Positive action was taken last
night by the Student Senate to al-
liviate the seating arrangement
problem which occurred at the last
“ . . . Saw Varsity’s horns off, saw Varsity’s horns off ...”
These Aggies and their dates “sawed” back and forth in the
usual manner as the band played the “Aggie War Hymn” during
the A&M-TCU game in Fort Worth Saturday. The Aggie student
section filled almost one-fourth of the 34,000 capacity stadium
along with dates and friends of students.
Meyer Admits
Illegal Kick
TCU’s coach L. R. “Dutch” Mey
er admitted the in-bounds kick-off
executed by his team in the fourth
quarter Saturday against A&M
was illegal.
Sportswriter George Kellam of
the Fort Worth Star Telegram,
who interviewed the TCU mentor,
said the coaches had observed game
films and admitted the illegal for
mation.
Aggie coach Ray George said he
would register no protest.
“TCU Won Fair and Square”
Also commenting on the illegal
formation used by TCU, Lorin Mc
Mullen of the Star-Telegram said
in a column this morning, “Aggie
Coach Ray George said that the
TCU game was over and done,
that TCU won fair and square and
that the mistake of placing the
ball five yards outside the inbounds
marker (53 feet and four inches
from the sideline) was an honest
one.”
George was in conference this
morning and could not be disturb-
Ed when a Battalion reporter call
ed at press time.
McMullen quoted George as say
ing, “That didn’t beat us, after
viewing the pictures today we’re
more inclined to blame missed
tackles.” >
United Nations
Group to Meet
The United Nations Club will
meet Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. in
the YMCA for organizational pur
poses, announced Charles Beagle,
last year’s secretary.
Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant,
will be guest speaker at the meet
ing. Col Davis will speak on the
general organization of the Uni
ted Nations and will use project
ed slides and films to aid his
discussion.
Beagle extended an invitation to
all students, both American and
foreign, to join the club. He also
said local citizens are welcome to
become members.
Kellam said Howard Grubbs,
executive secretary of the South
west Conference, reported at Dal
las, “I have had no complaint from
Texas A&M and I know of no prec
edence for such a protest.”
Explaining the strategy he used,
Meyer told Kellam, “We planned
before the game to kick off in that
manner every time in order to keep
the ball away from that Glenn
Lippman. We played it 12 yards in
from the sideline and always on
the opposite side of the field from
Lippman.
“Abe (Abe Martin, assistant
coach at TCU) and I were thrown
off the track by (Art. 2, Section 2)
the NCAA rules. It describes the
area enclosed by the sidelines and
end lines as ‘inbounds.’ Then Ar
ticle 3 of Section 1 concerning kicks
(“A free kick must be made from
some point on or behind the kick
ing team’s restraining line and be
tween the inbound lines.”) led us to
believe we could kick anywhere be
tween the sidelines.
Diagram Was Proof
“Had we looked at the diagram
which accompanies the rules we
would, Of course, have known bet
ter for it clearly identifies what
we call ‘hashmarks’ as ‘inbound
lines’ 17 yards in from the side
line as the outside limits of the
free kick.
“It wouldn’t have made any dif-
ference to us so far as the onside
kick was concerned. We were pri
marily interested in keeping that
ball away from Lippman,” Meyer
concluded.
In his column McMullen quoted
George as saying, “The play could
have been worked just as well from
the inbounds marker or from the
middle of the field, but regardless
of the kicking point, it still is ex
tremely difficult to execute.
“TCU could have practiced the
play for a solid month and not done
it any better. The ball skidded
just right, bounced just right and
the end appeared in the proper
spot just right. Our lads were
alerted for the play, too, but there
wasn’t anything they could do.”
A&M Mothers Consider
Blood Bank for Area
The first meeting of the Brazos
County A&M Mothers’ Club will
be held at 3 p. m. Thursday in the
YMCA Building. The club’s tra
dition of giving the first annual
meeting in honor of mothers of
Freshmen will be carried out.
Dean of Men W. L. Penberthy,
chairman of the local chapter of
the Red Cross, will outline condi
tions and requirements to be con
sidered for establishing a blood
bank here. At present, the closest
bank for plasma is Beaumont.
The establishment of the local
blood bank is the club project for
the year. Penberthy will explain
the methods employed by the Red
Cross to allocate blood for use
both in national defense and with
local requirements.
Tea will be served following the
meeting. Refreshment chairman,
Mrs. M. L. Cashion, will be assisted
in hostess duties by the other club
officers. ^
Officers for 1951-52 are Mrs.
E. L. Williams, president; Mrs.
O. A. Ashworth, vice president;
Mrs. L. E. Ellwood, secretary; Mrs.
Carl Birdwell, treasurer; Mrs. L.
L. Stuart, parliamentarian; and
Mrs. R. D. Lewis, reporter.
Committee chairmen are Mrs.
D. W. Williams, finance; Mrs. Ide
P. Trotter, hospital; Mrs. M. L.
Cashion, hostess; Mrs. W. Leland,
student Activity; and Mrs. G. E.
Madeley, extension committee.
Thursday’s meeting will be the
first of three regular club sessions
to be held this school year.
\ols First; Aggies
16th In AP Poll
New York, Oct. 23—<A>>_ Ten
nessee, the pre-season favorite, re
gained the top spot today among
the nation’s college football teams
and the fourth weekly Associated
Press poll.
Unbeaten Baylor climbed to sev
enth; Texas, victim of Arkansas,
slipped from fourth to tenth; the
Texas Aggies, plumeted to six
teenth; and Arkansas gained a
nineteenth round.
Sportswriters gave S M U 12
points, Rice 10, and TCU 4.
•California last week’s top team,
dropped to number nine.
The Tennessee Volunteers, who
routed Alabama 27-13 Saturday,
received a warming total of 70
first place votes, put of 161 cast
by the nations' sportswriters and
Spoftscasters to take over the num
ber one rating.
This gave Tennessee 1,354 points
a comfortable margin over Michi
gan State, the number two team,
with 1,202 points. Michigan State,
a 32-21 winner over Penn State,
had 28 first place votes and moved
up from a third place ranking a
week ago.
The rough weekend for several
top-ranking teams caused some
juggling of the standings among
the top ten, but only Texas A&M
dropped out of the select group.
The Aggies skidded from number
six last week to number sixteen
this week after being upset by
TCU 20-14.
Another team moving up is Bay
lor, now number seven, after a
number ten ranking last week. The
Bears stomped Texas Tech 40-20
Saturday.
All of the top ten teams, except
Southern California, California, and
Texas are undefeated and untied.
First Ten
1.—Tennessee (70)
1,354
2.—Michigan State (28)....
1,204
3.—Georgia Tech (16)
1,022
4.—Illinois (12)
878
5.—Maryland (13)
841
6.—Southern Cal. (13)
711
7.—Baylor (2)
621
8.—Princeton (2)
528
9.—California (1)
435
10.—Texas
182
Second Ten
11.—Stanford (1)
164
12.—Cornell (1)
131
13.—Northwestern .
122
14.—Wisconsin
98
15.—Notre Dame
97
16.—Texas A&M (1)
91
17.—Kenttucky (1)
47
18.—Washington State
38
19.—Arkansas
26
Feds Reshuffle Delegation;
No 'Go-Ahead’ Signal Yet
Munsan, Korea, Oct. 28 — (A 3 )
Communists reshuffled their Ko
rean truce delegation today but
still had not given a go ahead sig
nal for renewing armistice talks.
Red China’s Peiping radio re
ported two generals of the five-
man Communist delegation have
been replaced. A United Nations
spokesman said the changes may
indicate the Reds plan to place
greater emphasis on military con
siderations and less on political
phases of an armistice.
Reorganization of the Commun
ist delegation was announced as
the Reds ignored a U.N. challenge
to ratify quickly new truce talk
rules. That was the only thing
still needed to reopen negotiations
to end the fighting in Korea. The
Red delay ruled out the possibility
of a meeting before Wednesday.
Joy Signs Rules
Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, top
Allied negotiator, signed the new
ground rules Monday a few hours
after liaison officers approved
them. He asked North Korean Lt.
Gen. Nam II, head of the Red
truce team, to act quickly so ne-
gotiations could be resumed
promptly after a two-month inter
ruption.
While Nam II was silent the
Peiping radio announced changes
in the Red delegation, paralleling
replacement last week of two mem
bers ' of the U.N. truce team.
Tfie broadcast said Chinese Gen.
Fieri Chiang - Wu would replace-
Chinese Gen. Tung Hwa, and North;
Korean Gen. Cheng Du Kon would 7
succeed' North Korean Gen. Chang
Pyqng San.
(A Hong Kong dispatch identi-'
fied .Pien as a former military at
tache to'Red China’s embassy in
Moscow. , The dispatch said the 46-
year-bld general was in Moscow-
this Fall:)
“More Military Type”
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckolsj
official ..spokesman of the U.N.
command, said it was possible Pien;
was “a more military type” than
Tung who was regarded by the
U.N. delegation as a political ad-
Nuckols said Chang never gave
any indication of taking an active
part in negotiations.
The cljfe.nge, Nuckols said, might
indicate the Communists will show
greater interest in the military
aspects of an armistice. The U.N.
command has emphasized military
considerations throughout negotia
tions and has accused the Reds of
being primarily interested in polit
ical angles.
This was particularly true of the
location of a buffer zone for the
Too Few Homes
With Boxes For
Mail Delivery
Twenty-six per cent of the
houses in College Station
have mail boxes, a survey
conducted by the Kiwanis
Club, showed.
This is not a large enough num
ber for house-to-house mail de
livery to start, according to Dr.
T. O. Walton, College Station post
master.
Two federal requirements must
be met for the service to begin,
house numbers and mail boxes.
Over 80 per cent of the houses in
the city have numbers, the survey
showed.
Residents were urged by Joe
Sorrels, president of the Chamber
of Commerce, to erect mail boxes.
The requirements have not chang
ed, Sorrels emphasized.
The boxes may be placed on the
front of houses or on fences in
all areas except the wooded area
of College Hills. In this area, mail
boxes must be erected adjacent to
the street on which the house is
located.
Another survey will be conduct
ed, Sorrels said. Earl Cunningham
is in charge of the committee which
conducted the recent survey.
armistice—the only point discussed
so far. That’s the question nego
tiators will take up when they meet
again.
Reds Insisted on Zone
The Reds have insisted such a
zone be centered on the 38th par
allel, old political boundary be
tween North and South Korea.
Thf? Allies have been equally in
sistent that the buffer zone be
determined purely on military con
siderations. They want it based
on defensible positions approxi
mately on the current battle line.
Most of the battle line is north
of the parallel. U.N. troops have
been shoving it steadily north
since the Reds broke off truce tlks
Aug. 23. The Allied command said
its demands will move north with
the front.
Tuesday U.N. infantrymen began
enveloping Kumsong, former Red
stronghold 30 miles north of Hie
parallel on the Central Front.
The center is the only current
active ground sector. The air war
blazed up again Tuesday in a clash
of more than 100 jets. The U.N.
said two Red jets were shot down
and several damaged.
The Allies, getting ready for re
newed truce talks, are shipping big
balloons from Japan to Korea to
protect the Panmunjom site from
air attack.
home football game.
A committee, under the direction
of the Senior Class mapped out
a plan whereby it will be virtually
impossible for any student to sit
in the wrong section, but still al
low a maximum number to sit clos
er to the 40-yard line. All seniors,
both corps and non-corps will have
reserved seats up to the 50-yard
line.
This new system makes use of
the “ramping” technique to provide
suitable seats for a minimum num
ber of people. Each class will have
a special ramp through which only
members of that class will be per
mitted to enter the stadium. Em
ploying this system the Senate
hopes for an even flow of students
into the stands and insures the stu
dent of finding his date or guest in
the proper section.
Here is how the new seating ar
rangement operates: Each student
will be issued a colored card that
is perforated—one half to be kept
by the student and the other to
be issued to a guest. This card
will admit the bearer to a designa
ted section of the stadium.
Harold Chandler, chairman of
the committee, is making arrange
ments to have prined color-coded
cards to be issued to all students
in time for the A&M-Baylor foot
ball game.
Use of Color Cards
The color-code is as follows: a
red card will admit any senior in
to a section which extends from
the goal line to the 50-yard line;
a green card will admit any junior
into a section which extends fi’om
the end-zone to the 40-yard line;
and a yellow card will admit any
freshman or sophomore into a sec
tion which extends from the mid
dle of the end-zone to the 40-yard
line.
Non-corps seniors will enter Kyle
Field through ram Q and sit in a
section 10 rows from the top.
Corps seniors will be admitted
(See SENATE, Page 4)
Pets On Parade
At CHS Tonight
Pets of all kinds, from alley Selected by a judging committee
cats to registered pups, will com
pete tonight in A&M Consolidated
High School Stadium for ribbons
and prizes. The event is the an
nual Pet Show, sponsored by the
Mother’s and Dad’s Club at A&M
Consolidated.
A grand parade is scheduled to
begin at 7 p. m. The best perform
er or best decorated entry will be
Sascha Brastoff Here Thursday
Noted Artist Plans Visit to A&M
Sascha Brasthoff, nationally
known artist, sculptor, and cera
mist, is going to break away for
a few hours Thursday afternoon
from a week-long personal appear
ance exhibition of his work in
Houston to visit A&M.
He will be the guest of the MSC
Art Gallery Committee at a spec
ial informal coffee Thursday after
noon at 2:30 in the MSC second
floor Serpentine Lounge, Charles
Stiefel, committee chairman, said
this morning.
“We want to extend a cordial
invitation to the students, fac
ulty and general public to be
with us and meet Sascha Blas
toff,” Stiefel said.
Sascha, as he prefers to be
called, has been in Houston since
Saturday making a personal ap
pearance at a special exhibition
of his work by Sakowitz Bros, de
partment store. His work will be
shown at only one other store in
the nation, Marshall Field’s of
Chicago.
7,000 Summer
Visitors Listed
More than 7,000 persons visited
the A&M campus during June,
July, and August, according to fig
ures compiled by the MSC and col
lege officials.
The visitors attended short cour
ses, conferences, and other pro
grams. The largest single group
to visit the campus was the Texas
Home Demonstration Association,
with 1,800 in attendance.
Approximately 3,000 more peo
ple officially visited the campus
during the past summer than were
recorded as visitors a year ago.
An ex-GI, the young artist has I awards and is distinguished for
risen to national prominence in its extraordinary color and rhyth-
the few years since World War j mic composition.
II, and his work has won numerous ' For the past few years Sascha
Sascha Brastoff
has been specializing in the field
of decorative-utility art pottery
and recent national magazine
articles explain that his name is
fast becoming the by-word
among art pottery buyers.
Ceramic Industry magazine says
that Sascha “has taken truly fine
art and translated it through the
medium of art pottei’y in such a
way as to make each piece an in
dividual collector’s item having
high utility as well as decorative
value.” \
Sascha himself says, “ My goal
was to bring collector’s items in art
pottery within the reach of the
average retail consumer, and I be
lieve we are now doing that.”
And Sascha does this through
a system of rigid artist control
in which he produces the ori-
Senior Class Meets
In MSC Thursday
A Senior Class meeting has
been called for Thursday night
after yell practice, according to
J. W. “Doggy” Dalston, class pres
ident.
Slated for the Ballroom of the
MSC, the class will hear reports
from all committees. The groups
and their chairmen are as fol
lows: traditions, Bob Langford;
calendar sales, Van Vandenburg;
Social C. L. Ray; gift, Ted Steph
ens, campus beautification, Harold
Hughes; class history, A. C. Burk-
halter.
Dalston said the class will also
decide what to do about speaking
on the campus during the week
prior to each football game.
ginal form and design of a piece
and then after careful selection
of colors sends his creation
through a battery of personally
supervised artists.
Each of these assistants is al
lowed to express freely his own
artistic feeling within the limits
of the basic design.
The results is that no two pieces
from Sascha’s production line ever
are exactly alike, but are, in es
sence, each an individual creation
bearing his signature.
Headquarters of the Sascha
Brastoff organization are locat
ed in Hollywood, Calif, where he
operates a production plane and
separate studio where he pro
duces original designs and test
pieces.
The young artist agreed to ap
pear at A&M after an exchange of
correspondence with J. Wayne
Stark, MSC director, who heard
that Sascha was to appear in Hous
ton and thought he might like to
visit A&M.
Though he expressed pleasure at
being invited to A&M, Sascha is
on a tight schedule in Houston
and must return there immediate
ly after his appearance here,
Chairman Stiefel explained.
headed by Dr. W. W. Armstead. A
prize will be awarded the winner
by R. B. Hickerson, ring master.
All entries will be registered by
5:45 p. m., and the show will be
gin at 6 p. m. Two rings will be
set up on the field, one for pure
bred dogs and one for common var
ieties.
Tables will be set up between
the rings for pets such as cats,
rabbits, birds, fish, turtles, and
other small pets which may be en
tered. Special provision is being
made for pets weighing over 100
pounds, and trick pets.
Ribbon awards will be handled
by B. C. Moore. Other committee
chairmen for the show are G. W.
Litton, business manager; J. F.
Fowler, concessions; Carl Landis,
enteitainment; J. K. Riggs, equip
ment; Walter Manning, organiza
tions; John Denison, programs;
and G. C. “Spike” White, publicity.
Tickets for the show are being
sold by grade school children, ac
cording to V. W. Schember, ticket
chairman. Tickets will be sold at
the gate, he indicated.
Senior Rings Arrive;
Oct. 31 Last Order Date
Senior rings which were to be
ready by Oct. 1 are now in the
registrar’s office said Mrs. Dell
Bauer.
“They may be picked up only in
the morning,” asserted Mrs. Bauer,
but warned “Oct. 31 is the last
day in which orders for the rings
may be taken to insure delivery
before Christmas.”
Music Program
Heard by Lions
The College Station Lion’s
Club was entertained with a
musical program Tuesday at
their weekly noon luncheon
in the MSC.
Mrs. Harry Shannon and Robert
Boone gave two vocal selections
each, Mrs. Shannon, wife of a stu
dent, starred here in the summer
operetta “H. M. S. Pinafore”.
Boone, who is music instructor at
A&M Consolidated High School,
sang Summer before- last with
the Houston Lyric Theater which
produced many of the outstanding
light operas.
Mrs. Shannon sang “One Kiss”
and “My Hero.”
Boones renditions were “Shad-
drack..” and “The Flea.”
Both singers were accompanied
at the piano by Miss Betty Bo-
lander.
President A1 Price announced
that a ladies night program will
be held in place of the regular
meeting next Monday. R. P. Wood
of the Business Administration
Department is in charge of ar
rangements.