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ilM-HHulf Wa |P i i/Vv Jq Te Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent f Local Residents Battalion Published By A&M Students For 75 Years PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE 3er 90: Volume 53 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1953 Price Five Cents tton Quo ta Starts uth- West Fight ost pines" i'ith early capitol lit constructs s and lumfc from Bastf: en F. A us 1 Bastrop in ; y TEX EASLEY homes of cial Washington Service oni “lost" INGTON, July —(A>) — caught in the big middle _?outh versus West fight Sns rent ii ton acreage quotas for estion is whether acreage / | fills shall be based on plant- \ r C /l 1947 through 1952, ex- 1949, a period that in- SveryFlome years when quotas force, or on the planting appy Mn 1952 and 1953, when no 1 || nwere imposed. ^Cll lirexap finds itself aligned old South, where cotton O a staple crop for a cen- tOCVu whore there has been xnge in acreage devoted ■op |n recent years. The JIakide Valley and some West unties, on the other hand, 1* Rpspn l sharp increases in the NOP ye jars. igress takes no further 1..11 EApe quotas will be based on topi 952 period, 1948 ex- Under that plan the old T FI A have to take only a F C A rut. The West would ie bulk of the reduction "I'M.- : *"ii 1 counties in the western < --iilral I j Jinlg or no cotton pi’O- aefore 1950. VS for rA 0 Grande Valley, for in- urned to cotton in 1951 the freeze of the winter id killed off a large num- citrus groves. It takes ears to get trees back, so H* naturally turned to a ^mey crop that could be :twlen the rows of newly groves. cotton prices soaring at reak of the Korean war Auction quotas removed be- 1 a sudden demand for cot- s, sparsely settled areas Pho. were planted to cotton on ' ale. JV. JR; (Bob) Poage of ids himself in the middle . 3Ue > for his central Texas ; ®Hias : sonie old cotton pro- fflgHjounlies and some which fjfflManded production since the of the Korean fighting. Jg||||il)ens that Poage is a high Ij^^^lnember of the House Ag- P Committee and will have to do with the reaching usion as any other one VC an lflt>f congress. ;ver we do,” he says with I’ll catch some criticism.” low * S a ^^GcUlt prob lem and one that won’t be quickly settled. There’s a good chance that Congress will adjourn for the summer without any legislation on the subject being passed, he feels. Rep. Lloyd ,Bentsen of McAllen is lined up with the western states’ cotton congressmen. Referring to the bill this group is pushing for the 1951-53 base period, he says: “It will have tough sledding be cause it’s strongly opposed by congi’essmen from the southeast who outnumber the Western rep resentation from the cotton areas on the House Agriculture Commit tee.” Cotton is his district’s biggest agricultural cash crop and repre sents 39 per cent of Texas’ entire cash farm income of over 2 billion dollars, he said. Rep. John Dowdy of Athens is on the other side of the fence. He says that most all East Texas counties will do better if the old South congressmen win out. culture Office kI ciua ar Completion lorioulture Department’s s and office building is Bicompletion, according to Hie, assistant professor of H.’ultm'e Department. Bilding will house a pot- ||jn, refrigeration facilities H storage bins for use in *-n laboratories. Three of- fp A. F. DeWerth, head of rtment, secretaries and are also included. A student laboratory and will be available. Funds • the Student Floral Con- is .made this library one ost complete in the na- said. it to the building will be aenhouses of the most psign. Automatic humid- Itemperature control and |ind and raised V bottom reffeatures found in each •ie, paid Tolle. fcact construction costs lavailable but the project d through a $120,000 ap- n. Farm Safety To Start On 18th; Veep To Speak CHICAGO, July 9—Vice-Presi dent Richard M. Nixon, J. Earl Coke, assistant secretary of agri culture, and Ned H. Dearbon, pres ident of the National Safety Coun cil, will be the principal speakers at a luncheon which will launch the 10th observance of National Farm Safety Week on July 18. The luncheon will be held in the Chinese room of the Mayflower hotel in Washington, D. C. The program for the luncheon will be broadcast on “The American Farm er” program over the American Broadcasting Co. network from 12:30 to 1:00 p.m. EDT. More than 100 distinguished farm and safety leaders are expected to attend. National Farm Safety Week has been proclaimed by the president of the United States each year since the first observance in 1944. Vice-President Nixon is expected to re-emphasize the purpose of National Farm Safety Week by stressing the" hufrrStt'itseriaq^nature of the wqr on-,accidents tp people who fariQ to live. Me will dedi cate his remarks to the relatives of the 14,000 farm residents killed in accidents m.^1952. Mr. Coke alfid Mr. Dearborn will join in asking all farm bnd safety leaders to take an active part in the 10th observance of the week, and Mr. Dearborn is expected to make a special appeal to minis ters to discus^ the commandment, “Thou Shalt Not Kill,” as the hu manitarian theme of the first day of National Farm Safety Week. The theme of the week, ^.aken from the presidential proclamation, XT'—™ To Live—So Live INSPECTS DROUGHT LAND—Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson, at Lubbock, to address the American Cotton Congress, made a personal tour of part of the drought area examining the farm and pasture land. Benson gets the feel of the dry soil as he inspected Some land between the towns of Tahoka and Brownfield. is “You Farm To Farm. Insurance Rates Help Next Firemens School Increased credit on the key fire insurance rate is expected to bring more trainees to the 24th annual Firemen’s Training School at A&M July 1924, Col. H. R. Brayton, dir ector of the school, said recently. Brayton represents the Texas Engineering Extension Service which sponsors the school. More than 900 firemen from 23 states and 58 military bases attended the school last year, he said. Under a new ruling by the State Fire Insui’ance Department, cities which send at least three men to the school can qualify for a five per cent credit on the key insurance rate where the maximum in ipast years was three per cent. Several new features being'of fered, ip. the school this year also should make the program more at- ti-aetive, Brayton said. These in clude an Industrial Fire Protection course for representatives of in dustries; A ‘Brush and Grass Fires’ sec tion in the general basic course, of fered in cooperation with the Texas Forest Service, in which emphasis will be placed on controlling such fires 1 with a minimum of water; A complete service station in stallation for simulating fires of that nature; six small oilfield stor age tanks for demonstrating dif ferent methods of fighting such fires; An Air Force team which will demonstrate rescue and fire-fight ing techniques used in air crashes —-this work will be carried out us ing an actual aircraft fuselage from Bergstrom Air Force Base. A four-room house for demon stration of house-fire control meth ods; different types of refinery fire problems, and a simulated break in a cross-country gas main. Top-ranking instructors and spe cialists in different types of fire fighting—85 of them—will conduct classes in the various phases of the school. Courses being offered include" the general basic course, given fire men attending the school for the first time; an advanced course for those who;have attended before; a fire marshall’s" course; a fire in structors’ course; a pump mainten ance course, and the new industrial fire protection course. More than 21,000 gallons of liq uid fuels and a large quantity of solid fuels will be consumed dur ing the sixday school. Registration will begin at noon Sunday, July 19 and will extend through the night until 8:15 a.m. Monday, July 20, when the first— (See INSURANCE, Page 2) Ike Readies New Truce i Reply For Korean Reds Second Term Fees Schedule Is Announced Room reservations and payment of fees for the second term of the summer session is scheduled be tween 8:00 a.m., Tuesday, July 14, and 5 p.m. Wednesday, July 15, announced Harry L. Boyer, Chief of Housing. According to Boyer, students who wish to move to different rooms in the dorm they now occupy may al so reserve rooms at this time by presenting a room change slip to the Housing Office, signed by the housemaster of the dormitory con cerned. All other students may register for rooms on a first-come-first- served basis from 8 a.m. Thursday, July 1G until noon Saturday, July 18, Boyer said. Ail fees are to be paid at the Fiscal Office in the Administration Building and room reservations are to be made at the Housing Office in Goodwin Hall. World War II veterans (not Korean) are reminded to secure fee waiver slips' from the Veter ans Adviser’s Office, Room 102, Goodwin Hall. Korean veterans who have not signed enrollment papers for the second six weeks are asked to report to the Veterans Ad viser’s Office and sign same, Boy er added. ♦ WASHINGTON — (H 5 ) — President Eisenhower and his top diplomatic and military advisers were reported Wednes day night to have prepared instructions for Gen. Mark Clark on a new message to the Communists’ Korean command con cerning negotiations for ap armistice in Korea. The President met at the White 'House in late afternoon with Secretary of State Dulles and Undersecretary Walter Be dell Smith, Defense Secretary Wilson, Gen. J. Lawton Collins, Army chief of staff, and Sen. William F. Knowland, R-Calif., the acting Senate floor leader. The meeting was called to consider the reply which the Communist command made to Gen. Clark, UN Korean com- ander. The Reds said they are ready to negotiate final details of a Korean armistice and called on the UN command among other things to take effective steps to assure South Korea’s "♦"compliance with armistice terms. It was reported that Mr. Eisenhower and his top advis ers prepared a reply which would go forward to Clark for his next letter to the Reds. A Aggie-Ex Dies In Far East Plane Crash First Lt. Robert Leach Pierson was killed in an aircraft accident while participating in Korean war operations, his parents were ad vised Tuesday. He was a naviga tor. Lieutenant Pierson, a former Ag gie student, was 22. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin G. Pierson of Marlin. Pierson was a graduate of Mar lin High School. He volunteered for the Air Force in January, 1951, received his commission at Elling ton Air Force Base, Houston, in September, 1952. He went over seas last March. Survivors include his parents, a brother, Edwin Pierson Jr., and a sistei’, Lynn Pierson, all of Mar lin. California Campers Report . . . Hot Pilot Checks Out Cadets As Fly hoys * Put On Show By BOB HENDRY Battalion Camp Correspondent NORTON AFB, San Bernardino, Calif., (Special) July 2—Norton’s 277 cadets watched Tuesday as Maj. Chuck Yagger, the first man Cafe Rue Pinalle Is Staged Tonight The Cafe Rue Pinalle will be staged from 8:30 till 12:00 tonight in the ping-pong area of the MSC, according to Oscar Garcia, chair man of the MSC Dance Committee. Everyone is invited to come and dance to the lilting music of the “Shieks” and stay for the floor show beginning at 10:15. The floor show will be given only once. The Cafe Rue Pinalle is a fx-e- quent event during the long term but is held only once during the shoi’t summer session. New Lease On Life Experiments With Bermuda Onions May Reduce Spoilage, Add Profits ; '/$? Ives Report ilifornia Meet E. Ivy, of the U.S. De- of Agidculture, Bureau of jy and Quarantine, re- xrned from a trip to Lake lif. presented a paper to the anch of the Entomology America entitled “Chem- ictei'istics of Phosphorus Is to kill Aphids and Spi- by Systemic Action.” past two or three yeai's | ers of the West Coast } i raising cotton for the ‘ Their knowledge and |>n about cotton pests and l-x’ol is not sufficient for rji l^t °f cotton raised, ac- jl Dr. Ivy. H rating was held June’23- jfjj Mm: 400 entomologists and Hniiies attended the meet- DALLAS — <SP) — Texas’ sweet Bermuda onion may assume a new significance in the state’s economy if a sei'ies of expei’iments being conducted in Dallas prove success ful. Center of the pi'oject is an ef- foxT to reduce spoilage in storage thx-ough conti'olled temperatux-e and humidity. Rot losses in the past have been so heavy as to make long-term stoi’age imprac tical. Texas’ onion cx'op is the most widely distributed in the state and it usually is one of the first three in volume of market movement. Principal px-oducing points are in the lower Rio Grande Valley, Win ter Garden, Lax-edo and Eagle Pass areas, coastal bend and the Collin- Dallas-Ellis county ax-ea. Fx-ed F. Alford, president of Al- foi’d Refrigerated Warehouses, Inc., believes he has solved the problems of temperature and hu midity in onion storage. Alfox-d’s expex-iment on onion storage began last year when he contacted the Refxdgeration Re- seax'ch Foundation and asked it to look into the pi'oblems of onion stox-age. The foundation asked the horticultux'e staff of A&M to conduct the research. A graduate student of A&M, Bob Wilson, is conducting this ex periment. A small-scale experiment last year proved that onions can be stored up to five months with tem perature at 35 degrees in a rela tive humidity of 50 per cent with out heavy spoilage. This year Alford has put 44 cai'loads (21,881 50-pound bags) in storage. If those keep as well as those did last year, Alford will begin storing the onions on a com- mex*cial basis in 1954. Alfox'd said his company has al ready invested around $10,000 in the experiments, “and if our the ories prove-out we’re ready to sink $50,000 in equipment next year to stoi'e onion commercially.” Texas onion gx*owers have al ways taken a beating on their crops because, being unable to store the eye-watexdng vegetable, they have to dump their whole haxwest on the xharket at a time when prices ai'e low. With cuxu'ent places x’anging ax*ound 80 cents per 50-pound sack, some farmers ai'e finding it cheap er to plow their crops under than to try to xnarket them. Last win-' ter, cheaper gx'ade onions, many of them imported fx’om Mexico, were selling for around $5.50 per sack. Should the expei’iments prove successful, the farmer will be able to store pax't of his crop for sev eral months. Alford also is conducting an ex periment on the use of a new- type “box pallet” in the long-tei-m pi’eservation of the sweet Bennu- das. This pallet is about three feet squax-e and has sideboards that permit multiple stacking and a fi’ee flow of air ax-ound each sack. By using these pallets, Alfoi’d can neax-ly triple his capacity to store onions, because the strong pallets permit him to stack high er. Because the sweet Bermudas ax-e so fi-agile, it has been neces- sax-y to spx-ead them out rather than stack them up. Last year, for instance, Alfoi’d’s expex’imental room could hold only 15 carloads of onions. This year, by using the new pallets, the x’oom’s capacity has been nearly tripled. Alford said he won’t be able to offer his facilities to onion fai'mers during 1953, “but we can’t go into this thing commercially until we are dead sui’e our methods woi’k.” Texas onion growers are expect ing a bumper cx’op this year, too. The Production and Mai’keting Ad ministration estimates a crop of 5,592,000 50-pound sacks in South Texas alone this year, compared to 3,880,000 in 1952. North Texas production also is expected to in crease this yeai\ In 1950, onion growei’s in the state eaxmed $5,027,000 from a harvest of 4,483,000 bags. Subsequent expei’iments proved conclusively that onions x’emain in excellent condition over a long period of time under 35-degree temperature and in a relative hu midity of 50 per cent. Tests made on onions under these conditions showed loss by rotting to be only 3.65 per cent. Weight loss was only 9 per cent of the oi’iginal weight. Onions stox-ed in the same tem- pex-ature, but in a relative humid ity of 75 per cent, showed a i’ot loss of 8 per cent. The less-advanced phase of the experiment involves a pi’oeess de signed to prevent sprouting after the onions have been removed from storage. ever to break the sound barrier, flash by in an F-86 at 675 knots per hour, 500 feet above the ground at March AFB, Riverside, Calif. The group, along with AFROTC summer camp students from Long Beach and Mai'di, were watching a specially prepared air show which lasted from 8 a.m. to noon that day. Norton cadets were herded onto Air Force buses and cattle tx*ucks with built-in wood seats early Tuesday morning, and di'iven to March AFB. Upon arrival, the cadets were greeted by March’s commanding officer. The maneuverability of the B.47, and F-86 was stressed at the show, as over five of them landed, took- off and performed acrobatics. Flight demonstrations also were given of the B-36, C-97, B-50, B-29, F-84 and many others. Yagger ai’i’ived over the field at appi'oximately 11 a.m., flying low above the crowd at “Mach 9” speed. After landing, he gave a short talk about the capabilities of the F-86 and old X-l, the plane he was fly ing when he broke the sound bar- riei\ He predicted in his speech that the XF-100, now being tested at Edwards AFB at Mui’oc, Calif., will make the F-86 obsolete. An air rescue demonstration was performed for the cadets by the Naval Air Rescue Service stationed at March. Men and supplies were di’opped by parachutes, and a jet assisted take-off was demonsti’ated by one of its planes. Dui’ing the show, a pretty, red- haired starlet from Paramount Stixdios ax-rived, and cadets posed with her for pictures. Art Gallery Group Exhibits Pictures Paintings by associate members of the MSC Ai’t Gallei’y Commit tee are now on exhibit in the Me morial Student Center display ca ses. On display are 12 paintings by Mrs. John R. Naylor and four by Mrs. Vii'ginia Dobson. These ai’e the first of a series of paintings to be displayed by the associated members. Included are faculty personnel, their wives and other lo cal people. The paintings’ now on display will remain up for about a week at which time they will be replaced by paintings of other associate members, said Mi’s. Emalita Ter ry, Art Gallery Committee advisor and instructor. Paintings are sponsored by the MSC Art Gallery Committee. chief purpose presumably will be to set a date in the immediate future for a resumption of full truce dele gation meetings. It was reported that Mr. Eisen hower and his top advisers pi’e- pared a x’eply which would go forwax’d to Claxk for his next letter to the Reds. A chief pui'pose pre sumably will be to set a date in the immediate future for a xe- sumption of full truce delegation meetings. Top officials of the administi-a- tion were represented, meanwhile, as being neither pessimistic or op timistic about the critical question of whether South Korea’s Pi’egi- dent Syngman Rhee will in some manner go along with or actively oppose the establishment of a txuce. Eaxlier, Mi*. Eisenhower told his news confei’ence that the United States is pushing ahead step by step to win a truce in Korea but no man can foi’etell now exactly how the negotiations will come out. . The. President’s cautious com ment was in line with what oth er officials were saying more fully in private—that although the Communists have agreed to re sume talks looking toward an ai’- mistice, Rhee’s fiery opposition still presents an unabated thi’eat to peace. On Capitol Hill, meanwhile, some senatoi’s expressed appre hension—not over Rhee’s possible course—but at the way tx’uce ne gotiations ai’e shaping up. Knowland told the Senate that “gi’ave consequences” may develop fi*om a truce in which the Chinese Communist regime makes no guax-antees in x-espect to the ax’mi- (See EISENHOWER, Page 2) Cover Painting To Be Exhibited Here Those who remember and enjoy ed the Saturday Evening Post Ex hibit which was displayed in Ihe MSC a few months ago will have an opportunity in the near future to see another similar display of paixijsings, said Mrs. Emalita Terry of the MSC Art Gallery Commit tee. On or about August 1, some of the Curtis Publishing Company’s original paintings from which cov ers and illustrations for Ladies Home Journal wei’e made will be displayed in the MSC ait cases, said Mrs. Terry. Aggie-Ex Receives Bronze Star Medal WITH 45TH INFANTRY DIV., KOREA—Army Fix-st Lieutenant John E. Jennings, Class of ’51, x'e- cently received the Bi’onze Star Medal in Korea before rotating to the U.S. He was cited for mei’itorioUS achievement as a battery officer in the 45th Infanti’y Division. Jen nings entered the Ax*my in Novem ber 1951 and arrived in Korea last July. A 1951 graduate of A&M, he is a member of Tau Beta Phi frater nity. In civilian life he was an en gineer for the Phijlips Petroleum Company in Smackovex*, Ai’k. Sore Throats Top County Ailments The Bryan-Brazos County Health Unit morbidity report for the week ending July 4 showed strept throat leading with 20 cases. Dysentry was second with 5 cases while measles was close be hind with 4. There were also 3 pneumonia, 2 chickenpox, and 1 mumps cases reported.