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COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1953
Published By
A&M Students
For 75 Years
Price Five Cents
Rebuffs Ike
Global Monies
own the ec®
we spent
uvigation aid
n the CoastG,
till ion dollats
lids and aiin
ipent 150,.®;
unit Marines;
spent 1.1 b;
and power:
dollars on 'GTON, July 22-(^>)-
, e an( j Ulli ican - controlled House
tion prograr ent Eisenhower a stiff
M . ( j ( | [ ^ ght as it voted to slash
hat these p )0 off the President’s
while and F am for mllltai 'y and
al interest O'
apparent tli; ber passed the aid bill
ams directly to the Senate where
cely few p cuts may be restored,
service rea til vote on final House
)ks as if Cos 288-115.
on rate inci an 11th hour plea by
the Postal bnt, Ithe House over-
istitute polii beat down Democrat
affect our oves to give Eisenhow-
id rural delint he had requested as
.—nininnim.”
Guinea e approved a total of
GVELAND, ’0 in new funds. In ad-
leople and! ithorized the adminis-
part of thepend 81,758,010,179 car
go last men: without commitment
of the nati ppropriations.
or a study caamler ordered the ad-
to turn back $414,800,-
over funds to the U.S.
lent had asked $5,188,-
new funds to bolster-
lies and to help some
''-*'ied countries with eco-
(AES
had said earlier in
his news conference,
rosed House cuts were
nd Iwere harmful to
urity.
.ouse, with Republicans
■ol, strongly supported
ations committee i n
its of 700 million dol-
funds and more than
i carryover money,
reduction of $1,100,-
split between 800 mil-
ry aid and 300 million
isssitance — including
1 holdover funds.
A majority of Democrats present
in the half-empty chamber sup
ported a handful of Republicans in
their effort to restore some of the
cuts, but an almost solid GOP ma
jority defeated them.
Republican and Democratic sup
porters of more money argued that
Eisenhower should be given strong
er House support and said the
military cut would “jeopardize”
the European defense program.
Tyler UDC
Give Flag
To State
TYLER—(A 1 )—Tyler members of
the United Daughters of the Con
federacy have given the state a
battle-tattered flag carried by Tex
as Guards in the Civil War.
The flag was made in Tyler in
1858 by Mrs. George Bates, Mrs.
John C. Robertson and Mrs. George
W. Chilton and given to the guards
by the women of Tyler.
The flag was brought home from
the war by Maj. George W. Chil
ton, who was the father of Mrs.
L. A. Henry f a member of Mollie
Moore Davis Chapter, UDC, in Ty
ler.
Mrs. Henry, now dead, presented
the flag to the local UDC chapter
in a ceremony on May 26, 1921.
The chapter decided recently to
place the historic flag in the Con
federate Museum in Austin.
The flag has ten str-ipes. The
field is divided into sections —
one with words “Tyler Guards” and
the other with the words “Texas
Forever” surrounding a star.
igressmen Get
vious for Home
!l
EX EASLEY
Washington Service
|i, July -—UP)— Texas
I'are getting itchy feet
home, the heat and
uthstanding.
leaders are plugging
11 adjournment, 5 5 but
(members feel it will
middle of August.
wait for the end
business before lett-
lilies go home—since
to be back here for
if school in the fall,
|ers|took their wives
to Texas and then
here to tend their
Jem, Reps. Wingate
m Dowdy, are batch-
the Lucas home in
ji-lington, Va. Mrs.
5ir five children are
lestead in Grapevine,
wdy and children are
Stays With Son
unployed, (Tiger) Teague is
You build'Vith one of his sons,
mar countn' got a summer at
our count/] esg firm> and Mrs _
Ronds. ier, Mis. J. O. Dun-
s getting over an
^endectomy that came
or his anxious moth-
k. She is down in
, ie two other Teague
■ you!
3, 30, the youngest
y an even bette® Texas congression-
-ind new mow is anxious to get
ary. mont and get some
,s home cooking. The
yarning mteresU wo Marine combat
l semiannual!;. was in the fig . hting
l, Okinawa and oth-
go on earnin; single. He argues
s the original :fast hot cakes beat
•° local restaurant.
nk Wilson and' Mrs.
interest at tli(j as pi an SO me trout
semiannually). Montana mountain
Series E Bondi — " “
u work or t -gailizillg
ew Softball
wishes to play soft-
■e View should eon-
n apartment C-13-B,
gs Boot
in charge of the
is semester.
irs to Boo
Ion B. Potter, 28,
nee a jury when he
liked into a jewelry
mask and drawn
frighten the pro-
^yas convicted of rob-
H A a 15-year sentence.
lake, driving out to that region
first before heading down home.
They won’t leave here until after
the Aug. 15 marriage of their
daughter, Marian Sue, to Robert
Lyle, who FTa§ -JffSV finish'ed law
school an(} plans-to beifin practice
here.
Supreme Court Justice Tom
Clark and Mrs. Clark, incidentally,
have just announced that tKeir
daughter, Mildred, will be married
Aug. 7 here to Navy Ensign Thom
as Richard Gronlund at the Shrine
of the Most Blessed Sacrament
Church.
Elsewhere about town, among
Texans, former Senator Tom Con-
nally is keeping busy writing a
biography. He and Mrs. Connally
plan to go down to Texas later in
the year to visit their children and
grandchildren. They are talking
about taking a vacation trip to
Spain and other Mediterranean
countries first.
U. S. Tax Court Judge Luther
Johnson, who served in Congress
from the Corsicana-Bryan district
from 1923 to 1946, and Mrs. John
son intend to go to Texas late in
August for the marriage of their
granddaughter, Natalie McGee of
Houston. Her parents are Mr. and
Mrs. J. M. McGee of Fort Worth.
$11,800 Grants
Made Available
To Ag Station
Grants-in-aid and a grant, total
ing $11,800, have been made avail
able to the Texas Agricultural Ex
periment Station, Dr. R. D. Lewis
of the Station, has announced.
The grant of $6,000 is from the
Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Company of
Des Moines, Iowa qnd will be used
in support of investigations on the
relationship of metabolic patterns,
in poultry to production and per
formance. The work will be con
ducted under the supervision of
Dr. H. O. Kunkel of the depart
ment of biochemistry and nutri
tion.
The grants-in-aid are from The
Southwestern Sugar and Molasses
Co., New York. It is a renewal of
$3,000 in support of studies on
the effects of molasses and other
ingredients of varying qualities on
heating and spoilage in mixed
feeds. The work is being conduc
ted under the leadership of Dr.
L. R. Richardson of the depart
ment of biochemistry and nutri
tion.
A $300 grant-in-aid is from the
American Cyanamid Co. of New
York to be used for research on
turf at College Station. The re
search is conducted by the de
partment of agronomy.
The Hercules Powder Co. of Wil
mington, Del., has renewed their
grant-in-aid of $2,500 for the per
iod of June 1, 1953 through May
1, 1954, in support of research on
the effects of organic insecticides
on beneficial insects. The reseai’ch
is being conducted under the di
rection of Dr. J. C. Gaines, head
of the department of entomology.
College Band
Featured On
New Record
Hollywood—-(Sp.)—A compai*a-
tive rarity—-a Commercial record
by an undergraduate college dance
band—went on sale late this sum
mer in campus record stores in all
parts of the country.
The record, “Cream Puff” and
“September In The Rain,” was
made for Capitol by the Los Ange
les City College “Collegians,” win
ners of a contest sponsored by
Metronome Magazine to find “the
best college dance band in the
land.”
Making a popular record under
a m;yt>r. label, which will bring the
band to the attention of the “big
time” in short order, was a prize
in the contest, in w;hich runners-
up included Fred Dale’s Band (In
diana University), Charlie Scott’s
Band (University of Richmond),
and Ed Garlach’s Band (Univer
sity of Houston).
Fronted and mentored by Bob
MacDonald of the LACC music
faculty, the “Collegians” are a
seventeen-piece swing group which
features original, modern arrange
ments. MacDonald, a veteran dance
musician, has been arranger for
Red Norvo, Benny Goodman, and
Bunny Berigan.
The winners were selected on
the basis of private recordings sub
mitted to the judges: Bandleaders
Stan Kenton, Ray Anthony and
Billy May; Alan W. Livingston,
Vice-President of Capitol Records;
George Simon and Barry Ulanov,
editors of Metronome Magazine.
Brush and Grass Fires
Are Familiar to Firemen
The h&ngry, crackling roar of
brush fires and the racing speed
of grass-fires are becoming famil
iar to firemen at A&M this week.
All firemen taking the basic
course of the 24th annual Fire
men’s Training School, sponsored
by the Texas Engineering Exten
sion Service, receive a half-day’s
instruction in brush and grass fire
fighting.
Texas’ recent dry weather has
made fire departments every-
where more conscious of the need
for instruction in methods of fire
fighting where water is scarce and
the fire area is lax-ge.
Cooperation between the Texas
Forest Service and TEES led to
the development of the new study,
where firemen learn the use of
the forest-fire fighter’s tools and
methods.
Heavy equipment used in fight
ing the fast-spreading fires which
usually occur away from cities and
towns is demonstrated and fire
men are taught ways of using it
in conjunction with the lighter
hand-tools which also are essen
tial.
They learn the best methods for
setting back-fires and the most
effective ways to use them.
Emphasis in fighting brush and
grass-fires is kept on tools which
are readily available, either
through purchase at low cost or
through making them of materials
available to any fire department.
Members of the basic course are
broken down into groups of 50 for
the half-day’s instruction. These
5$-men squads are further divided
into 10-men units, giving more
personalized and individual atten
tion to each.
Large Enrollment
Total em*ollment of the 24th an
nual school as of the second morn
ing was 1,028 including firemen,
fh'e marshalls, instructors and
visitors.
Representatives were present
from 440 cities and towns in at
least 11 states and two foreign
countries, Panama Canal Zone and
Nepal.
Col. H. R. Brayton of TEES is
director of the Firemen’s Training
School.
Drouth Aid Is Promised
Without Pledge Signing
Requests May Be Handled
Through Local Committees
AUSTIN—UP)—Drouth-hurt Texas farmers and ranch
ers were promised Wednesday they would g-et all the help they
need without too much red tape.
President Eisenhower, Gov. Allan Shivers and Secretary
of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson answered a deluge of beefs
that federal regulations would in effect require those getting
help to swear they are paupers. The officials said no such
statements are necessary.
Gov. Shivers emphasized that drouth aid will be handed
out on a local basis by county committees who know the needs
of applicants. He was assured by the President and Benson
that these local committees have plenty of latitude in admin
istering the cut-rate feedstufs and financial help the federal
government is offering, and no paupers’ oaths or financial
reports are called for.
MISS LAKE WHITNEY—Rep
resenting Lake Whitney Associa
tion in the Miss Texas pageant
at Galveston July 24-26 will be
an 18 year old brunette from
Cleburne, Paula Lane. In com
petition with other beauties from
Bosque, Hill and Johnson Coun
ty, Miss Lane won the Miss Lake
Whitney title recently.
Burchard to Write
Articles for NNW
Prof. Donald D. Burchard, head
of the journalism department, is
one of 40 persons invited to write
article pertaining to America’s
newspapers for publication during
National Newspaper Week October
1 to * 8.
The material will appear in a
clip sheet which the NNW commit
tee will distribute to 10,000 daily
and weekly newspapers for use
during the week.
Theme for National Newspaper
Week this year is “Freedom of In
formation.” The slogan is “An In
formed Press Means an Informed
People.” During National News
paper Week editors will stress the
fact that a free and uncensored
press belongs to the people them
selves, not to the newspapers, and
.that a free and uncensored press;.
is of vital importance to all of our
freedoms.
The Christian Rux - al Overseas
Program in Texas has received
pledges for 42 of the 65 head of
pure-bred dairy cattle which will
be part of the cargo for the CROP
Emergency Relief Ship of Texas
to Germany sailing from Houston
sometime during the week of Aug
ust 7th.
The 42 head of cattle were con
tributed to CROP at a meeting
held at A&M in connection with
the Rural Pastor’s Conference re
cently held here. CIO labor or
ganizations in Texas pledged 20
head of cattle through Mr. D.
Roy Harrington, secretary for the
Texas State Industrial Union Coun
cil.
Outstanding Pledges
AF of L labor organization in
Texas pledged 15 head of cattle
through Mr. Paul Sparks, Execu
tive Secretary State Fed of labor.
Five head of cattle were donated
by Mr. Dooley Dawson, agricul
ture director for the Second Na
tional Bank of Houston.
Among individual contributors
was E. B. Germany, Dallas and
East Texas industrialist.
Plans for aid the advisability of
the relief ship for Germany were
discussed in detail at the State-
wide CROP meeting which Dr.
Daniel Russell, State CROP chair
man and professor of Rural Sociol
ogy at A&M presided.-
Mercy Cargo
The Emergency Relief Ship from
Texas will carry one car of sugar,
one car of lard, two cars of wheat,
one car of cocoa, two cars of rice,
one car of milo, clothing and the
65 head of dairy cattle.
Dedication ceremonies will be
held in Houston August 7th. Dr.
Daniel Russell, State CROP Chair
man; Mr. Bassett Orr, represent
ing the Texas Feed Manufacturers
Drought Effect
Measured On
State Health
Austin, July 23—A farm-to-farm
ranch-to-ranch survey of Texas
water resources is now underway
in an effort to guage drought ef
fect on public health.
The State Department of Health
conducted a similar survey earlier
this year on incorporated cities
and towns, but it failed to show
the status of privately owned wat
er sources, such as farm and ranch
tanks and private wells.
Information is being sought by
questionaires sent from the State
Health Department to all county
judges. When complete, Dr. Geo.
W. Cox, state health chief, says a
compilation sheet will be made
showing:
Water Problems
Towns with ample water sup
plies; towns with impending short
ages; number of wells and tanks
and the amount of water available
from them; how much water is be
ing hauled and from where; steps
rural organizations are taking to
relieve their shortages; to what
extent is land being irrigated; and
what outside help is necessary to
relieve shortages in individual com
munities.
National attention has been di
rected to Texas in view of the
drought-caused plight of West Tex
as cattlemen, but “there’s more to
this thing than just cattle,” Dr.
Cox said.
“When a drought becomes as
widespread and as prolonged as
this one, il^ affects every factor of
state operation, including the pub
lic’s health.”
He said sanitation is the most
serious threat posed by drought
conditions.
“There’s some typhoid in Texas
now,” he indicated. “Did contami
nated water cause it? We’re in
the process of finding out.”
He said the bulk of the ques
tionaires are due in “soon,” and
that a copy of the compiled data
would be turned over to the State
Office of Defense ahd Disaster re
lief.
Association; and Mr. Glenn Fuller,
president of the Harris County
Junior Dairy Cattle Club will ac
company this shipment to Ger
many. They will spend six weeks
in that country making a survey
and supervising distribution of the
livestock.
Support Appreciated
Mr. Walter Parr, CROP region
al director for Texas, reported at
the meeting on pi’ogress made in
the program this year. He said
that he was gratified at the co^
operative support being given
CROP by farmers, union labor or
ganizations, churches, businessmen
and civic clubs throughout the
State. Mr. Parr related the story
of “Operation Pig-lift” a project
in which organized labor groups
in Fort Worth raised funds to
send 200 pure-bred pigs to Hon
duras for a breed improvement
program. The pigs were flown to
Honduras and given to 4-C farm
club boys early in June this year.
All Organizations Welcome
Mr. Parr stated that any church,
farm group, civic club or individ
ual could join in this Christian re
lief program of helping suffering
humanity by contacting the CROP
Regional Office, P. O. Box 8007,
Fort Worth, or by contacting any
of the following: Dr. Daniel Rus
sell, College Station; Mr. Bassett
Orr, Bryan; Mr. Dan Clinton,
Harris County Agriculture Agent,
Houston; or Mr. Dooley Dawson,
Second National Bank, Houston.
Also, the county agent in your
county will be glad to handle con
tributions, Mr. Parr said.
The CROP Regional Director
stated that $125.00 will pay for a
dairy cow to be delivered to a
German refugee family, hospital,
or mission^
Fifty Aggies
Finish Camp
At Nellis
Fifty seniors from A&M Rave
just completed a four-week en
campment at the Air Force Offi
cers Training Corps at Nellis Air
Force Base, Nevada. The camp
ended July 18.
The schedule at the camp in
cluded physical examination, range
firing of the .30 calibre carbine
and .45 a utomatic, a flight in a
T-33 jet trainer and tours of all
the sections that make up the air
force base.
Cadets attending the camp were
James D. Altus, Harlingen; Norris
L. Beard, Pasadena; Hollie L. Bris
coe, Jr., Bay City; William R.
Curry, Sweeney; Edwin H. Ellison,
Longview; Jerry F. Fontaine, Cen
ter; Michael M. Katz, Laredo;
Elmer E. Kilgore, Luling; Robert
B. Landrum, Taylor; Jerome L.
Ledwig, Groom; George D. Martin,
Athens.
Thomas J. McCullum Jr., Whee-
lock; James R. Mecklin, Marfa;
Stephen J. Novasad, Bernard;
Franklin J. Page, Tivoli; Glenn R.
Parma, Schulenburg; Donald R.
Reaves, Big Spring; Billy K. Rec
tor, Uvalde; James H. Rogers,
Texarkana.
Christophen C. Smith Jr., Grape-
land; John A. Steen, El Paso; Otis
W. Templer Jr., Crystal City; Billy
J. Wallace, Eola; Max W. White,
Selman City.
Marcus R. Williams, Dallas;
Robert D. Williford, Denison;
William C. Bolmanski and Henry
C. Josey, Bryan; Dale B, DeRouen
and Elmer S. Flowers, Port Arthur.
William F. Haney Jr., Fred C.
Kirkham and Gerald W.' Marshall,
Victoria; Coy W. Farrar Jr., Aus
tin; James E. Bauman and Leon
ard B. Davis, Orange; Robert P.
Vernon and Edwin L. Arnold,
Overton; John D. Centilli and Dan
iel A. Pedrotti, Del Rio.
Robert Braslau, Robert J. Creel,
and Joseph W. Hintz, Galveston.
Charles W. Boyd, Bennie L.
Heathman, and George F. Luquette
Houston.
Daniel O. Atkinson, David H.
Cline, Fort Worth.
Robert N. Johnson, and George
E. Waples, San Antonio.
Fuller Completes
Training Tour
SAN ANTONIO, July 22.—1st
Lt. Gerald R. Fuller, veterinary
student at A&M, will complete two
weeks of active duty training here
at Fort Sam Houston on July 26.
Lt. Fuller is attached to the
493rd Quartermaster Depot, a Dal
las army reserve unit, as incoming
property officer. While training
with this unit at the San Antonio
General Depot, Lt. Fuller has been
receiving practical on-the-job ex
perience.
The 493rd Quartermaster Depot
is one of many organizations of
citizen-soldiers which stand ready
to bulwark the nation’s fighting
strength in event of emergency. It
contains both veterans like Lt.
Fuller and newcomers to military
life who are equipping themselves
for responsible roles when called
for their period of obligated mili
tary service.
Benson told Shivers by tele
phone Wednesday that the ag
riculture Department had nev
er contemplated requiring
poupers’ oaths or finincial
statements from farmers and
ranchei’s asking for help.
Members of local county com
mittees, as well as a state com
mittee, had interpreted a USDA
directive as requiring such state
ments. Benson told Shivers such
interpretations were incorrect.
Shivers said that the local com
mittees, made up of farmers
ranchers, bankers and farm ex
perts, would be in a position to
evaluate each application on t h e
basis of need without red tape.
To determine eligibility, com
mittees were instructed to use
these guides:
Two Requirements
1) That a farmer or rancher
have less than a 30-day supply
of feed to supplement roughage
to maintain his foundation herd.
2) That a farmer or rancher be
without financial ability to remain
in business and satisfactorily main
tain his herd unless he can pur
chase feed at prices substantially
below the prevailing market prices.
The governor kept at work on
his state-wide program, which also
emphasizes drouth help on a local
level.
Members of the attorney gener
al’s staff and A&M officials con
ferred on methods under wRich the
college could help in setting up a
revolving fund to furnish hay (in
addition to concentrated feeds al
ready planned to the federal gov
ernment) to drouth areas.
An early meeting of the A&M
Board is expected.
The directors of the Texas Mo
tor Transportation Association will
meet here July 24 to see what truck
lines can do about cutting rates
on feed-stuffs and livestock.
The State Health Department be
gan tabulating results of its state
wide survey of water supplies and
related health problems.
It found some privately-drilled
wells were being tied into home
water systems. Water pressures
are so low in some areas that a
health hazard exists because of
possible back siphonage into the
water pipes from plumbing fix
tures.
TCU Ticket Sales
Close August 1
The annual sale of season tickets
to TCU’s home football games will
close on Aug. 1, Ticket Manager
Bruce Craig said today.
“Again we want to urge all
fans who want season tickets to
get their orders in by the dead
line,” he pointed out. “After Aug.
1, we will begin filling orders for
individual game tickets. Of course
fans will be able to buy tickets to
all games after the deadline but
they will have to take them where
we are selling at the time the
order is received.”
Craig said that indications now
are that the sale of season tickets
will be about the same as in 1952.
Early orders indicated a $5000 in
crease in sales the first week but
since that time the demand has
leveled off about even with that
of last year.
TCU officials had predicted a
drop in sales because of drought
conditions and shorter money. They
do report a somewhat lighter de
mand for individual game tickets
so far.
Near-capacity crowds are anti
cipated for the Texas A&M
game here on Oct. 17 and for
SMU on Nov. 28. Other games
are with Kansas on the night of
Sept. 19 and with Rice on Nov. 21.
Purebred Cattle
Pledged for Relief