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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.