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er 91: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1953
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OWER MEETS WITH GOVERNORS—President
'er and administration officials meet with six
ernors in Amarillo, to discuss the current drought
Eeated, left to right: Gov. Allan Shivers of
resident Eisenhower; Secretary of Agriculture
Ezra Benson, and Federal Civil Defense Administrator Val
Peterson. Standing, left to right Govs. oJhnston Murray
of Oklahoma; Edwin L. Mechen of New Mexico, Dan Thorn
ton of Colorado, Edward F. Arn of Kansas and Francis
Cherry of Arkansas.
cas Beef Price Drop Causes Lower
U Of Living For Ag Corps Of Cadets
( of living- for students
going down.
1 of directors recently
r er the cost of food by
■er day per student, in
suggestion by John G.
' listen, supervisor of
at the college.
iition
ffexico
rns Home
ife Expedition to Mex-
Tuesday, July 8.
graduate students, two-
udents from the Uni-
2xas and one graduate
.went on the; ExiJedi-
•ith Dixon of the Wild-
ment department and
Rowall of the Biology
were accompanied by
•avis, head of the de-
' wildlife management,
mtinuing research of
;he. Mexican State of
. mps in the state of
re Inear the towns of
and Colothipa. There
camps near Colotlipa
i. The expedition col-
' ials, reptiles and am
is, and plants. At the
mp they saw ferns
20 feet tall and large
, vs. The average rain-
mii is over 100 inches
This reduction affects all stu
dents who wish to pay their board
bill in advance, although figures
quoted here deal only with the
Corps of Cadets, since mess infor
mation is available from that
source.
Before the reduction the board
bill for students was $1.32 per day.
The new rate of $1.23 will mean a
saving of slightly more than $20
per student during the academic
year.
“Considering only the 4,000 stu
dents in the Corps of Cadets, that
means a reduction of $360 per
day,” Peniston said. “This is pos
sible largely because of the recent
drop in the cost of beef,” he added.
“Students at A&M eat a lot of
beef,” Peniston said.
“Last year, for example, of G82,-
402 pounds of meat bought, 58 per
cent—or 395,793 pounds—was beef.
That equals the total amount of
meat available from almost 800
steers weighing 1,000 pounds each.
Actually, it would take many more
steers to supply us because only the
best cuts aie used; and all meat
-hoaght must bear a federal inspec
tion stamp.”
There isn’t much of the better
cuts available from any one beef.
A meal of veal cutlets, for example,
will take the veal chops from ap
proximately 100 head of 450-pound
calves.
W illiams
Hope for
By ROBERT LEE WOODY
The mid-way point has been
reached and the cadets are now
marking the calendar more vig
orously than ever before.
The thing that most cadets at
Williams AFB are looking forward
to now is the ride in the jet train
er, T-33, used at this base. They
are only orientation flights of
about 30 or 40 minutes, but the few
that have already flown came back
full of excitement and wild stories.
Another flight for everyone has
been in the T-28 trainer. Though
much slower and less exciting than
the jet, it has caused some of the
stronger to lose their appetites.
-^iy Prizes A iva it
fcs Wool 9 Winner
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ELO — Coronations
ore than ever in 1953,
ning of this year’s
is no exception.
Texas girl this Sep
tet the coveted title
t-izes that go with it,
! spectacular $5,000
:-obe, a set of matched
1 an all-expense paid
pQ(‘i fashion centers of
C/a ed at $5,000.
adline for entiles set
candidates for the
ing their applications
Wool” contest head-
by the Texas Sheep
Enfllsets Association, the
the “Maid of Cot
on each year in Mem-
li)» winner, pretty Uni-
:as coed Janet Lee, is
J ne model at one of
leading department
^ ? lays she owes it all
Wool” title,
the greatest thing
BBbned to me,” she
Lee will crown this
een during the Wool
e and Fiesta here i
%, and 5. J
)U.
To enter, any single miss be
tween 18 and 25 need only write for
an application form to the “Miss
Wool” contest headquarters, Box
712, San Angelo.
After filling out the form and
sending her picture to the contest
headquarters by August 1st, she
awaits the choice of the finalists
for “Miss Wool”, which is made by
New York’s John Robert Powers
who chooses the famed “Powets”
models.
All finalists will enjoy an ex
pense-paid three days in San An
gelo at the Wool Fiesta where
“Miss Wool” will be crowned. The
finalists will have to pay only their
transportation to and from San
Angelo.
Among the manufacturers and
designers who have already said
they would contribute garments to
the 33-piece, $5,000 wardrobe for
“Miss Wool” are Ben Reig, Paul
Parnes, Fred Block, Addie Masters,
Pattlla, Herbert Sondehim, Anna
Miller, Adelle Simpson, Ted Stein,
Eisenberg, David Crystal, Ellis, In
ternational, Ann Fogarty, Wragge,
De De Johnson and Davidow.
A dream of a wardrobe for a
dream of a girl—“Miss Wool” for
1953.
Cadets
Jet Ride
Everyone is being treated to a
trip to Marana arid Davis-Mon-
than air bases. They both lie out
side of Tucson to the north and
south.
At Marana, a civilian operated
base for flying cadets, an inspec
tion tour and short hops- in their
training planes was the order of
the day.
The Davis-Monthan base, which
is part of the strategic air com
mand, had on display a number of
planes. The more spectacular of
the group was the all jet bomber
B-47 and the C-97, a huge tanker
and cargo plane.
Back on the base everyone is
taking a turn to try their skill with
a carbine on the firing range. With
a required score of only 129 out of
a possible 200, everyone is doing
quite well. The top score so far
has been 187 posted by ex-Aggie
Earl Bell, ’53.
The final results of the physical
given everyone last week were re
leased. The casualty list of three
included two Aggies. They were
Ted Nark and Tommy Young ’54
both of which had their contracts
broken because of poor eyesight.
The two have already left for
home.
The third week of camp brought
about another change of cadet of
ficers. The corp adjutant is Bill
Klaerner, ’54, and squadron com
mander Don Greene, ’54. Aggie
flight commanders are James Holt,
’54, and Blake Lovelace ’54.
Over the fourth of July holidays
many of the Aggies went as far
as the Grand Canyon and as Tar
south as the Mexican border look
ing for scenery and good times.
All indications are that they found
it too!
A meal of beef roast—a fairly
common cut—would use the bone
less beef chuck from about 25 head :
of 850-pound steers, and a meal of
veal T-Bone steaks would require
about 154 head of 450-pound calves.
Peniston’s department does not
buy the whole beef carcass because
that would require use of too many
poor cuts, he says.
Meals at A&M are served family
style in two mess halls capable of
seating 8,000 persons comfortably.
Food is served hot, and the cadets
take an average of 20 minutes to
the meal. Freshmen are the heart
iest eaters, averaging about 20 per
cent more food per man.
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Chinese Hurl 70,000
Into 18 Mile Front;
One ROK Division
Forced To Retreat
Prowler Killed
When Caught
By Resident
Pete Tonerio was shot and killed
late Saturday night at 409 Tauber
Street when he was caught prowl
ing around the house of H. I. Hart,
married A&M student.
Hart’s 12-year-old daughter saw
Tonerio looking in a window of
their house into a bedroom rented
by two girls.
She screamed and her father ran
to the window where he saw Ton
erio running. Ife yelled twice for
the man to stop, but the prowler
kept running.
Hart fired two shots through the
screen at the man with a .32 caliber
pistol, and Tonerio stopped and
staggered to the middle of the
street where he fell. He died be
fore the ambulance arrived.
Tonerio was between the ages of
20 and 25, officials said, and was
of Mexican descent. He was shot
once thi’ough the body. Tonerio
worked in the mess hall at A&M.
Justice of the Peace H. L.
(Shug) Graham, Sheriff J. W.
Hamilton and deputies Hanover
and Magee arrived at the scene
shortly after to investigate. Lee
Norwood was the investigating of
ficer for College Station.
No charges have been filed
against Hart.
Funeral arrangements for Ton
erio are pending the arrival of his
parents from Mexico.
Another prowler was reported
on 1st ■ St. in College Station at
about midnight Sunday.
This second prowler was seen
looking in a window, and one of the
residents fired two shots at him.
The prowler apparently was not
hit, reported the College Station
police department.
Mayo Will Tour
Three Nations
F. Mayo plans to tour
Fi’ance, and Italy this
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SEOUL, July 14 (Tuesday)—(TP).—The Chinese Com
munists in their greatest offensive in two years hurled pos
sibly 70,000 troops against eighteen miles of the east-central
Korean front Tuesday and forced at least one South Korean
division to retreat.
The size and violence of the Red onslaught—a throwback
to the old war of movement halted by two years of truce talks
—threatened to breach a major gap in the Allied battle line.
Censorship prohibited disclosure of the extent of the Red
gain. •
“There were simply too many of them for us to stop,” a
United States adviser with the stricken South Korean division
said. “They overran some of our people and some of them
got behind us.”
Three other South Korean divisions were fighting for
t their lives across a mountain
ous sector from Kumwha east
to the Pukham River.
No American divisions were
under attack. Front-line of
ficers reported the situation was
serious.
At one point the Communists
managed to shove infiltrators into
a rear area but there was no indi
cation how deep the break had
been.
“We have some enemy — not
many—in our rear,” one United
States officer reported. He was an
advisor to South Korean troops.
Northeast of Sniper Ridge, on
the central front where the main
Red blows were falling in an un
ceasing attack, some Allied pos
itions were reported lost.
Counterattacking South Koreans
managed to regain some of the lost
ground.
“Along the fighting front itself
the situation is very confused at
this time,” another United States
officer said.
The Reds apparently were trying
to wipe out an Allied bulge in Red
lines near Kumsong.
Every Allied division in that sec
tor reported heavy action by mass
es of Chinese troops advancing be
hind “extraordinary” artillery bar
rages.
One United States adviser to a
South Korean division west of the
Pukhan reported the loss of a ma
jor Allied hill position just north
west of Lookout Mountain. That
height was lost ten days ago in
the final phase of a fierce Red
drive that began in mid-June.
“There is hand-to-hand fighting
all along our front,” reported an-
(See 70,00 CHINESE, Page 4)
Dr. T.
England,
summer.
Dr. Mayo will fly from New
York to London July 21. On his
return flight will fly from Paris to
New York September 10 and be
back in time to teach.
While abroad, Dr. Mayo, pro
fessor of English, plans to study
preparatory to writing a book on
the history of culture. He will con
fer with several English and
French scholars with whom he has
already corresponded regarding his
book. He will also examine many
buildings, paintings, and statues
which he plans to use as illustra
tions in the book. The book will
be entitled “The Great Pendulum.”
Firemen’s School
Set for July 19-24
The firemen’s Training School
to be held at A&M July 19-24, will
probably be the most elaborate
ever held. The training school is
the world’s largest of its kind.
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The American Oil Chemists So
ciety will hold a short course in
cooperation with the Chemical En
gineering Department of A&M at
the College July 27-31. Sessions
will be held in the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
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MEET MABEL—Lenora Silbey, who plays the part of Mabel in the “Pirates of Pen
zance,” which starts a two-day run tonight at 8 in The Grove, is a graduate of Julliard
School of Music. She has had extensive experience in the field of musicals, including a
part in “Showboat” during a tour of Canada and a three-month contract on BBC with a
concert series representative at the National Symposium of Music, and a $1500 scholar
ship with the Metropolitan Opera School.
Operetta
Opens Tonight
At § in Grove
It’s Gilbert & Sullivan tonight
and tomorrow evening in The Grove
at 8 p.m., according to Bill Turner,
director.
The operettq, “Pirates of Pen
zance,” under the direction of Tur
ner and Billie Jean Barron, will be
presented with a star-studded cast
in fuli costume, backed by an orig
inal set, and accompanied by an
orchestra.
Directors: Bill Turner, Billie
Jean Barron
Set: Wandabelle Wise, George
Cusick
Publicity: Iris Bullard
Accompanists: Pat Dillon, Fan
nie Lou Mainer
Cast: Lenore Silby, Mabel; La
mar McNew, Frederick; Bill Guth
rie, Major-General; Iris Bullard,
Ruth; Billy Philp, Pirate King;
Helen Crook, Edith; Shirley Smith,
Kate; Buddy Vance, Sergeant of
Police; Roland Bahlmann, Samuel;
Coralyn Thurman, Isabel.
Chorus: Martha Miller, Liz
Miller, Diane Harris, Margie Ball,
Janet Folweiler, Nancy Stevens,
Carol Oliver, Jean Smith, Jeanette
Hollenbaugh, Sharon Pope, Earl-
ene Carleton, Patricia McLeod, Car
olyn Vance, Barbara Miller, Claire
Rogers, Libby Coon, Dale Whit
more. Horace Smith, John Bran-
nen, Bill Williams, J. L. Blair,
George Cusick, Harry Gooding,
Charles Mitchell, Henry Steele,
Jerry Leighton, Carroll Brunson,
John Scrog-gin, Bill Turner, Brad
Godfrey.
Orchestra: Violins: Mrs. G. K.
Vetter, Melvin leaner, Mrs. Robert
Henks, J. F. Lanzilotti, Mrs. C. H.
Groneman; Flute: Marilyn Diek-
ert; Bob Alexander, Jerry Cox,
Mrs. William Howe; Horns:
Charles Johnson, Herb Bilhartz;
Bassoon: William Howe, Sandra
Couch; Pertussion: Robert Henke;
Piano: Pat Dillon. ..