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[ Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent Of Local Residents The Battalion PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Published By A&M Students For 74 Years Number 183: Volume 52 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1952 Price 5 Cents /Firemen Hold Annual Session Almost a thousand persons from all parts' of the United States and at least two foreign countries are expected to attend the 23rd Annual Firemen’s Training School to be held at A&M during the last week in, August. Industrial and military special- x ists from New York and Califor- ^ nia, in addition to several other t states between, have already filed <4 reservations. During the week-long school, se- | lected firemen from Texas and out- I of-state cities are given intensive Ti practice and instruction in fighting » almost every known type of fire. Special equipment available to , every city and town is used in fighting fires of the type for which it was designed and every fireman learns about that equipment by using it. This year about $30,000 worth of combustible materials will be Aggie-ex Named New Director S. Auston Kerley, class of ”39, was recently assigned as associate director of guidance .and assistant professor of ed ucation in the basic division. Kerley received his bachelor’s degree in arts and economics at A.&M, and has an MS degree in guidance from North Texas State Teacher’s College. He was director of guidance at Sherman public schools for three years, and director of guidance at Denton public schools for two years. He was assistant PMS&T at the following colleges: New Mexico A&M from 1943 to 1944, Arlington State College from 1944 to 1945, and Ouachita College in Arkansas from 1946 to 1946. Kerley is now a counselor at the Junction Adjunct, and will, re turn to A&M September 1 for his new assignment. used so that techniques for fight ing such fires may be shown. Sev eral commercial fuel and equip ment companies will furnish the bulk of such materials along with specialized equipment for differ ent types of fire-fighting. Co-sponsor by the Texas Engi neering Extension Service and the State Firemens and Fire Marshals Association of Texas, the. annual school is highly regarded by pro fessional fire-fighters. Cooperation in holding the school is given by the Trade and Industrial Education division of the Texas Education Agency, the State Fire Insurance Department at Aus tin and the Fire Prevention and Engineering Bureau at Dallas. No estimate of the property and lives saved by firemen who were taught the best fire-fighting meth ods by the school is available. How ever, money savings alone through reduced fire premiums to partici pating cities has already amounted to more than $1,800,000, according to H. R. Brayton, director of the school. A three per cent credit on the key rate for fire insurance to cities which participate in the school is allowed by the State Fire Insurance Department at Austin. Instructors for the courses in the school are hand-picked men with extensive experience in fighting special types of fires, but jthey spend very little time lecturing. Most of the teaching is done right in the field while the fire men students handle the equipment and fight the fire. This year most of the bigger blazes to be staged will be held in a 26-acre plot just north of the main campus. Brayton said that a new water line, complete with seven fire plugs, has been laid to the area, in preparation. Registration for the school will be held Sunday, August 24, with firemen selecting one of four ma jor courses of training. Regis trants will be quartered in dor mitories on the campus and fed in the college mess-halls. New Business Profs m mm Jjf§» ^ ^ X Theodore R. Yantis Lawrence W. Sherman, Jr. Ag Experiment Station Receives Grants, Gifts Three grants, two loans and a gift, have been made recently to the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Dr. R. D. Lewis, director, has announced. The grants 1 are from the Pacific Coast Borax Co., Los Angeles, $500 for cotton defoliation studies in Texas. This grant will be allo cated the testing centers at Tem ple, Lubbock, Weslaco and College Station. . , ...... The Niagara Chemical Division, Jacksonville, Fla., has made avail able $1500 to be used for the sup port of studies on the use of de- Telephone Service Gets Improvements Telephone service between Bi'y- an and College Station will soon be improved by a new and en larged underground truck cable ac cording to G. M. Brennan, district manager of the Southwestern States Telephone Co. This line which will increase the phone service between Bryan and College Station, will replace the present overhead cable. The over head cables will be used to supply additional telephone service in their present locations, said Brennan. foliants and drying chemicals in pre-harvest treatment of rice, ses ame and castor beans during the season of 1952. A supplementary grant-in-aid of $1500 will be used by the depart ment of entomology in evaluating systematic insecticides for the con trol of insects attacking cotton. It is from Robert J. Geary of Blue Point, N.Y. The loans include a registered Angora male goat from John P. Classen of San Antonio. The goat will be placed at Substation 23, Bluebonnet Farm. The Burrows Equipment Co. of Evanston, 111., has loaned the station a Model H. Universal Moisture Tester, to be used by the department of agri cultural engineering. Gift of a hay rake to be used at the Main Station Farm was made by S. J. Perry, vice president and sales manager, West Coast Sales and Service Co., Tulare, Cal ifornia. ID Cards Ready For Distribution Identification cards for the sec ond summer term are ready for distribution by the registrar’s of- fice» Dies Tuesday lisSS m ill |f:: 111 H „ !• • ii*B :x- : : Mason L. Cushion was one of/the most widely known YMCA men in the college field. His special field was social and spiritual welfare of the students. He also played a prominent part in the cultural and civic advancement of his community. Metzger Gun Room Now Open In MSC By G. R. Battalion MARSHALL Staff Writer Featuring the famous Metzger gun collection, th% Metzger Gun Room on the third floor of the MSC was permanently opened Monday. Complete evolution of the United States Marshall’s sidearms, and the Colt’s pistols are shown sep arately, and include the first weap on manufactured to the modem automatic. Some of these weapons, are rare collectors items and pos sess an interesting historjcal background, said Col. Cecil M. MacGregor, chairman of the Metz ger gun committee. . The first U. S. Marshall’s weap on was manufactured at Harper’s Ferry Arsenal in 1806. It is -known as the Harper’s Ferry Model 1806, and has become a rare collectors item because of a raid on the ar senal in 1859, by a rabid abolition ist, John Brown, who with a party of renegades tried to seize arms for the arming and revolt of Negro slaves. Weapons' Destroyed Virginia’s secession was respon sible for the destruction of Harp er’s Ferry in 1861. The arsenal was burned before the Virginia Militia could capture it, and some of these weapons were evidently destroyed. The U. S. Marshall’s were con sidered the best armed men ih the world, and these early weapons added prestige, and were a symbol of law and order! The Walker Colt is one of the rax-est weapons in the Colt collec tion and possesses an interesting historical background. Samuel H. Walker is responsible for the “Walker Colt,” or the “First Dx*a- gooiT.” He migrated to Texas in 1842, and joined Captain Billing sley’s 'company of Texas Rangers, Boatner Promoted To Major General Haydort L*. (Bull) Boatner, who tamed rebellious Communist war prisoners and brought peace to fiery Koje’ Island, Monday was promoted to major general. Gen. Mark Clark, Far East su preme commander, hailed Boat- nei’’s perfonnance in restoring or der on Koje, the rocky island off South Korea where Red captives staged bloody riots and kidnapped one Koje commander. Clax*k also said Boatner’s “com bat record as assistant division commander of the Second Division during some of the hardest fight ing in Korea was superior.” Boatner now is in charge of all prisoner camps in Korea, and later received a captains com mission in the United States Mounted Rifles, under the com mand of General Zachary Taylox*. Captain Walker was dissatis fied with the Paterson Colt, com monly known in those days as the “Texas” model, which was a 34 caliber, five-shot, with a concealed trigger guard. He conferred with Colt and pointed out defects in the Texas model and suggested im provements. The result was a 44 caliber six-shooter provided with an attached lever for ramming the bullets into the chamber^ of the cylinders, and a fixed > trigger' guard. ; ? The original Walker is the sub ject of mox-e disputes among ad vanced Colt collectors than any other gun in the history of the hobby. Some authorities believe that none were made for com mercially and others -claim that about 300 were made. A few spec imens are in existence, but their authenticity remains to be proved. Colonel MacGregor said there will be a meeting of the Texas Gun Collectors Association at the MSC August 11, and the meeting will be centered around the Metz ger gun collection. Mason Cashion Funeral Today Two Physics Profs Believe ‘Saucers’ Are Army Aircraft Are flying saucers real ? Two physics px-ofessors, Dr. James G. Potter and Dr. Edward E. Vezey, don’t think so. “The people who have reported seeing saucers undoubtedly saw something, but I can’t believe they saw anything but a meteor or a high-flying aircraft”, said Potter. Sevei’al Bryan - College Station residents have repox-ted seeing fly ing saucers over the past few years. Both Potter and Vezey agi’eed with the statement made by Ein stein who said he doubted very much that there are flying saucers and cares less. Thei-e is a possibility, said Pot ter, that the objects seen are ex perimental missiles of the armed forces. “If I live to see space travel, I will consider myself to have lived to a ripe old age”, said Vezey, who is an amateur astronomer as well as a physicist. W Bureau Is Claimed Agriculture’s Voice “Who shall speak for the farm ers?” asked R. G. Arnold, director of the southexm farm bureau i’e- gion, at the fourth annual meeting of the state farm bureau fedei’a- tion Monday. Arnold, speaking before approx imately 300 fai’m bureau members, answered his question by saying that the bureau served as the voice for agriculture. Leaders should act as “Moses and the prophets,” guiding pi-os- pective members into the brueau, Arnold said. The strength of the organization which is dependent on the strength of the members was one of the main points stressed by Arnold. Veterans Receive Increased Checks Veterans, drawing disability com- pensation, were sui-pi-ised to find an inci’ease in their compensation checks this month. The increase was due to a law passed by Congx-ess earlier this year allowing an additional 15 per cent to veterans having 50 per cent or moi'e disability and 5 per cent to those having less than 50 per cent disability. The new law became effective July 1, Bennie A. Zinn, veterans advisoi’, announced. Lucile Cummings Sings October 21 For its second program of the poming season, Town Hall will px*e- sent Lucile Cummings who has been named by music critics as “the foremost contralto in Ameri ca.” October 21 is the scheduled date for the concei’t. Miss Cummings has been guest star on NBC’s Telephone Hour seven times within x*ecent months. This season marked her New Yqi'k Opera debut in the leading role of Amneris in the New York City Center Opera Company’s produc tion of “Aida.” On the stage for three consecu tive seasons totaling 67 weeks. Miss Cummings was the featured soloist at the world fanious Radio City Music Hall in the productions “United Nations,” Christmas “Na tivity” and the “Glory of Eastei\” For these perfonnances it has been estimated she appeared be- ■fox-e an audience of over 5,000,000 for each season. Miss Cummings began her study of music at the age of six, through a cori'espondence course at twen ty-five cents a lesson. Once when she and her brothers were quar antined with small-pox, she learn ed the entire scores of the “Mika do” and “Pinafore.” All through school she sang and played mainly for fun, and evex-y week she would compose and im- px-ovise a prelude and offei*tory for Sunday School. She began to take a serious interest in music when she won first vocal honors in a • state j wide high school contest. She entered the University of Ore gon on a music scholarship, and put hex-self through school by play ing accompaniments for her mu sic teachex-s. Upon, leaving school she began to sing professionally and not too long afterwax-ds appeax-ed as guest soloist with the Pox-tland Sym phony Ox-chestra. Opportunities began to come fi-om the West Coast with radio offers in both San Francisco and Los Angeles on CBS and NBC net works, and concert appearances with the Oakland and Modesto Symphonies and the San Francisco Opex-a of the Air. Success’ door opened all the way for Miss Cummings when she was chosen one of the two finalists on the “Metropolitan Auditions of the Air” broadcast from New York. Since then she has been guest soloist on all the major networks. Tiff* ipnw By STAN REED ^ Battalion Staff Writer m-4 Funeral services will be held today at 5 p.m. in the First Presbyterian Church of College Station for Mason L. Cashion, 65, general secretary of the YMCA, who died in a Houston hospital Tuesday night. Interment will be held in the College Station cemetery following the funeral services. Cashion, who had been ill for several months before his death, was a native of Hunterville, N.C. He came to A&M in ♦•1926 and has been with the college ever since. One of the most widely known YMCA men in the college field, his special field was social and spir itual welfare of the students. Px-ior to overseas duty in World War I, Cashion x-eceived degx-ees from Erskine College of Due West, S.C. and Austin at Shei’man. I A Civic Leader He was an outstanding man in his field. A civic and church lead er, he played a prominent part in the cultux-al and civic advancement of his community. Known to thous ands of former students and stu dents now in A&M he was always their friend, and they never failed to seek his advice—and he never failed them. On February 14, of this year, Cashion was one of six members of the college staff to x-eceive the 1952 Battalion Achievement Award. Presented at the annxxal Student Publications Prof-Student Banquet, the citation on the award read: “. . . . to Mx\ Mason Lee Cash ion, secretary of the YMCA, for being a second father to thousands of Aggies during his 25 year ten- ux-e at A&M.” He is survived by his wife, two sons, Lt. James T. Cashion sta tioned in Germany and Mason Lee Cashion, Jx\, who will be a senior at A&M this fall; three brothers, J. R. Cashion of Statesville, North Cax-olina; R. E. Cashion of Huntef- ville, Noi'th Cax-olina and W. N. Cashion of Jacksonville, Florida and two sisters, Mrs. J. B. Hood of Laurenburg, N. C. and Mx-s. John Caldwell of Charlotte, North Carolina. New Firetrucks Arrive for Use In Fire School Two new fix-e trucks, designed especially for instruction by the A&M Fix-e School staff, were brolght out of storage Txiesday in preparation for the annual Fire School to be held on the campus August 24-29. Built last year by the Simms Fire Equipment Company of San Antonio, the tx-ucks have been used in one previous short course. The trucks are equipped with 500 gallon per minxxte sex-ies-parallel centrifugal pumps; one being a triple cobination pumpex-, and the other a combination booster pump er. The series-parallel pumps, are so called in that when operated in a series, a miximum of water px-es- sure is created thx-ough one outlet. When a greater volume of water is desired, rather than increased pres- sux-e, the pumps are operated in parallel position with two outlets. Pressux-e gauges on each indi vidual outlet allows the regulation of pressure on each line. Both trucks are regulation stock bodies mounted on F-7 Ford chas sis. They have underbody lights which light up the around the fire hydants, and are both equipped with signal devices which enable fix-emen on the back to contact the dx-iver. CE Department Offers New Course In Design Headed by Px-ofessor Spencer J. Buchanan, a special course in de sign of forward airfields is being given by the civil engineering de partment at A&M. The first course of its kind ever given, the special course has been designed to acquaint engineer of- ficex-s concerned, with investigation, planning, design and construction of fox-wax-d air fields in theaters of operation. A group of 26 officers from var ious pax-ts of the nation have been selected by the Air Fox-ce to at tend the course. Most of the of ficers are quartered in Walton Hall and will reside on the campus throughout the coux-se which be gan Monday, and will end August 29. The U. S. Air Force negotiated a contract with A&M for the course to be taught because the college laboratories make it an ideal place for the instruction. Town Hall Artist :t 5£l Vi . Lucile Cummings