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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 18, 1948)
'■V:l control. $LAME Git FOR M YS ; SALONIKA (|p)—.Twentr.ai were reporned yesterday apoujt - GcforRo pol vcja<?tintf for jOB|S|. Polk's truss in the head, 1 w, Battalion PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST Oh A GREATER 4&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1948 ! i' !. r-, ; . ■ . -r : . _i I . ’ . ■ . V " I- ! .< WL ^ KK !RK|I)S DEATH Irpeci*, May more Communists icle:' questijmink fe ‘ trance, jleidh Amfrit-an lilroiul' ijp llody, a builcjt found floating ih te bay off j Salonika Sunday.! OVERNMEN TEXAS cr HOUSTO The United ti'rdny blart LAIMS 1 ^ -fiuy jo i—n'I! 1 ) £ofemtne7it yesjf crirnw Eight Veterans Seek Positions For I ' . 1 ■ * * * ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ; ' ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ + | ★ ★ Five Nominated For Senior C/as panics, Ion; fshorefneti unions! Ani stevedoring fifnisi ami the ciky!,o Texas City for the claimed Kjetice out o:' which a ipse the 000,000 in dijuniajge suits ir Texas City disaster. * Monster c r 4RRiEK ' PLANNED BY NAMY WASHINGTON, May 18 House Armjedj Services subcomt- littee appiovedj unammouslyi jjes- tifnlay a bi L'clearin^ the waiy ifoi: " (15,' ^ • Officers Will Be Elected Thursday T '! ( Tf ■ I •T H.’ 7 I Number 176 K / H L ■ .Til- the Navy to gdt tijn giant r irclva 1 \T<ix»tr o Edwards, Kasper, Rochelle, Sprawls, Schwarz Are junior Class Nominees Five candidates for next year’s Senior Class president INavy authoirit r s iy the duflerM ^^ elec ^ d ^ feeling of the Junior Class last night in arrier, cap ibh> t f cijuising iifi Ar-phe Assembly Hall, j i ;i silip T)f l am• t& tl ^r t ’builtt^ t ^ 1 Nominated for this position were GEORGE ED- The carjierl 4m |be abo^t 10, WARDS, DON KASPER, J. B. ROCHELLE, HERB SCHWARZ, and AUBREY SPRAWLS. Lartid on a 05,00(1) ft carrier. | I i any typi e canier] vfill |be aboift 10 j fijet longer thiin J\va>d the Norjmhn- j J h luxury jini) Edwards is a il9-year-cld pre-law major from Dallas. , Kasper, a 19-year-od agricu tural economics major, is from tap camer leitlrt i"o{ 90ci, 5*#4 Sh / ner ' ‘tocjielle is a 19-year-old .pre-med major irom Tex overall lemith lirt-lud mr t!he knfer-'i arkana. Schwarz, j)l business major, is 19 years old and is #nj|wa«-l die, the for netf In re ns h luxury er, Admira L.. E. |)enfield said. Itis wuterlire Iphfth Swill fejet,. compt rcif ht.ng«0(f tie flight leek, 1 m fret j ai|t( J ' . <l f ' at» WE. [West Tej as; ernoon, toni lijy. Not much re, East Texas: afternoon, Lonijgjit %'i(ll : be from Ft. Worth. S if ir athiIr partljy cloddy •"r dniyu Not truch i|h at ires. Mo< eratej; mohly Southeast winds op*<• )ast ciwjpyj |and Wejdi|es- ante in] tcrtiper- iUi- iT ■ bprt a Wavy Officem %i)l Discuss Plan ampds| o i ‘ May, dentil rf,u ) int'oriif team visit the to [give : s on [the Nayy’s 01]!fi stuflents oBtair4u .siohs.-, j j j tlndjfer a plan De'aaxtawcwi a i-olliege grailuatlt>s kvll. be eo . sioi ‘ ' ' old agricultural en Six men were nominated for !■'. \ the position of senior :lass viee- tjhiis | president. Included were JACKIE t hud : We dues-1 HEDGE DON JARVIS, A. K. ante irMemper- j J ACOBSON, H 0 M R OS- J IS, j , BORNE, <1. .D. PmtKK, and Ifp^tlfc’ el(fg(dy this HIRAM SMITH. Hedge is 19 years old and is a civil engineering major from Dal las. Jarvis is a 19-yeai-old archi- j lecture major from Fort VVprth i Jacobson, a 19-year-old agricul- l tural major, -is from Doble. Os- J bornd is 19 years did and is from “i Houma, Louisiana.; He I is major- i ing in petroleum-mechanical engi- ; rteerihg Pitcock .is a. 19-year-old civil engineer from Houston. Smith ;is 19 years old arid is; from De- Ijeon, lie is] majoriilg in iecononiics. Nomiruited for ^ecretaiy-treas urer were JOHNNY DIEB, BUR TON FRENCH, RRK H GOTT» LIEB. LAWRENCE SEXTON and GERALD STEWART, Dieb is from Fort Worth and is . i a ; 19-year-old business major. : or , I F ren vh is from Beaumpnt, He] is aval codupi!?- hi. years old and is a civil engi- '' 1 i neering strident. Gottlieb is an 18- rawls is from Farwell and is a 19-year- eer., k; % w , % ■$&*> ■ 4# f m : 1 ,:i. d ; : r ' FLOYD II. BLACKBURN Banta Award Winner JAMES L. LIVERMAN Krueger Ayrard Winner '■'i/ A A& TOMMY P. HICKS Jones Award Winner Z 1 officers! >’(11 — -22 '■■t: and P ‘q are be havi sat is facto i ly 4^1 aL,„„ ,p L, Blackburn, Liverman, Hicks I ; ’ I f bj i ■ . ' ; Named 48-49 Award Winners | Three Athletic] Eight vetcrans Thursday's eleciionij horn editors. Aihlef yell leader for the Three men ea< and Athletic Coiinci! leader and Longjho WILLIAM C. the only candidate A&jVl in the summe engineering. He is aj A&M Clubs. Unopposed in 'V ^ s| «and Rose din Race ittaliofr Editor, Representative l I i ■ ivd qt a let ir Cfoai ici 18-pid §ar jj MKS itiiijnaj r ’ t* II i u r v eti n r ■ Floyd II. Blackburn, Jamft L. | Liverman, and Tommy R. Hicks' hpve been named recipients of' three scholarship awards for the j 1948-49 school year, E. E. Mc- Quillen, director of the Develop-! ment Fund, announced yesterday, j LIVERMAN, an Air Corps vet eran who served in the Pacific Thyater of Operation^ : for two years, fe winner of;the Krueger [jflhWfltlld ' ' J / t f ] | . Established by 0. C. pTolly’’ His first odd jobs at A&M consisted of yard work,, carpen tering, and painting. Since that time Liverman has served as a student instructor in the biology department. A veterinary medicine student, ho started A&M in the fall of 1945. Blackburn, who has Worked his way through A&M during the past three years, has waited tables in the mess hall, cut grass, and sold * Ho is president of the A&M Bi- cold drinks at homo football games, dogy Club ami vice-president-of, ..j realIy hit the jack m m the Texas College Academy , of i t ke w heat fields last summer,” hcifence, organization of science | he recJl ii Hi -and saved a l m0 st fjtuclents in Texas colleges iW»d | 1(500 from my tractor and com-' f Htiie oj»enitIng'jobK. M i Liverman ' ‘ 1 /. won first place among'! Krueger and Walter H. Krueger of forty papers presented at the Aca- San Antonio, the award goes each : demy’s annual meeting last De year to a student who has acljieved j ceinber in Austin. He has been in- an outstanding record for three vited to speak before the national years despite the necessity of earn- j meeting of the American Society ing all or part of his college ex-j for the Advancement of Science at First sergeant of Battery A, Artillery, Blackburn will attend a six week summer training camp! at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. V'3 |p: 1 p"' " ■.j '• v .i fi, i ups! y ars old and is from Melvin, He i is an agricultural education ma jor. BATTALION EDITOR—Run ning alone for corps editor of the 1948-49 Battalion is TOM CARTER of Beaumont. ml as eisigilii; ip iaVal avifetlon. i ^ < ‘ xlon ! s years bid, from lor men who; qua ify, accorijing Houston, and is majoring m chem- ; to jNavy ! peci pci tings, a flight ,c al engineering. Stewgrt (s 19 trafning: pngratn has been sit at Fensaco a, Biorid i„ the “Anjr.a- ttf thi? A r.’l ' ’his willf tike : . I frorti 18 to 24 noijtj s after which. Nominated for the position, off the officer pilots vyi 1 Uoin repijlar social secretary were RO naval aviation units, shorcpajsgd j TON. WALLACE COX. ' on carriers] >lfn mum stirtjirig PIETSCH. and M. G. STAFFORD. isv$2!K a ijiontl .• \ Blanton is a business major ’ lalifica .ionsi act up by the nhvy j from Gainsville. Cox is from Has- j as folic ws: ihe ( pplieant must ’ kelD He is 19 years old ami fe citizen oMhe United States,’ business major. Pietsch is ii 19- ,, w bu Between the ugtis of 19 aiul 25 year-old business ma | or froni Dal- Mar r is l - pioic^oi ol on July of the, cdhndar yepr in las. Stafford is from Eigle -Pass.! ^ncukura 1 engineering w.l! speak whiqh ne isjcom^iw^i jned nnuimuBt [ He is 19 years old ami isj majcjria^ scompleteti at in agricultural economic Economics Club ^ To Hear Talk penses. The $500 award enables the win ner to have more timd his senior year for studies and extracurricu lar activities. ILiverman graduated from Junc tion High School in 1989 and enter ed .the Air Corps in 1942, Three | years later he was discharged as a master sergeant and entered A&M in the spring of 1940. : HICKS is winner of the Jesse Washington, D. C, in September. |H. Jones Award for Achievement, i Majoring in biology, Liverman ! a $800 gift to a student who has j expects to graduate in June, 19-19.j! worked his way through college ★ :j ! for the past three years. BLACKBURN, who hails from! An electrical engineering junior; Springtown, Parker County, Texas, I from Velasco, he is a sergeant in j is recipient of the W. H. Biuita! Company A. Composite. lie will! award, which is presented annual- j attend summer camp at Fort Mon-1 ly to ii senior who has worked his! mouth, New Jersey this summer. [ way through college for throe pro- Hicks is president of the Bra- vious years. jj zoria County A&M Club. LONGHORN EjDITj); opposed in the race editor of the 19*8-4 Is KARL G. ROSIE < Saddle-Sirjoi) Meets Thiirs* f it 1 i;d for places on tht* ballot in it* thp Battalion and Lonp- rep recent alive, jind veteran obi yettir. ' j. j T inp for the Battalion editor iMid the men running for yell unoppised, Jr., junior from Dallas, in j’ell leader. Lonquint entered in majorinp in maiiapement i both the Dallas and Paleatine • veteran Lojiphorn Editor is [URL "O- ROSE of Abilene. The year old jujnlor is president ;of Abilene Al&M Club, Secretary )jf the YM(!A Council, and mission irectoh of the Baptist Student nion. j • ; . I , Rose: seivoil in ttje infantry for year; and a; jialf and was dis- larged as a platooh sergeant. He majoring in! archjtecturo. -t i* twn n i npletiKl _ at ; accriiditcd . least four years ip Ian college or ( nivqi sitii . I 11 j Applicants shill |n col lege, j\'ho ma}- reasi nabjy expect to |neet j the educational 'gequiremients m within 80 day4 may also apply, i Those interesiejd ^rnust take! the | Aviation ( lassil icajtjcrt Test.l Me chanical Cornprf hdnsion 'feSt;, and Flight Apt itude Rating; and mnii niaUq af leant a C ip all , lestjs. ) < lx jwill htj ncenssiiry for. n|cn jtb , make defjiiite ippointmentsf iapd BOB BLAKENEY wajs eldcted unanimously as class hijSto-i; He is a 19-year-old meehanica en gineer from Oklahoma City, Officers for the class will be elected Thursday night}. These elections will be held in [conjunc tion with the electioij [of the Longhorn editor, Town Hall Manager} senior yell jeaders, * the On Cotton Fkker First Management Engineering Conference Begins Tomorr Thje Saddle and $ i irhf Harris P. Smith, professor of to the Economics Club tonight on the mechanical cotton picker, J. T. Miller, president of the club, an nounced today. The meeting will be held in Room 805, Academic Building, at ! 7:15. Smith, who is in charge of agri cultural engineering research, is The first annual Management Engineering Conference will offi cially begin Wednesday morning at 10 when President Gibb Gil christ delivers the welcoming ad- Hie author of “Farm Machinery ( l r P; ss i 11 jhe YMCA Chapel. and the representative Athletic Council.. ir TOM CARTER was the s.chjobwirid olltjgC. Also bring proof of olltgd. A bijor nf ita;y *ei rice,, Ihrde let ters ]>f rec >mme ida ion flon rep utable per ions ivho have I npWn ypU for a perkd if 5-years; lor. more and : re net employers, rpla- tives-, or buiiineks associates. Finther nfo cnatim may |ei $e- eurj^d at th| plitcemeijt office tvHrii'e ap'plidation| mpy be secured| Awar Architect The Ap chitects act the; Artjhib nual bhnqi|et ton Hall. Presenta|ioi u’ilV ict ira kvill be made |y Pr sslceht Gib| Gil christ ito t le puts tainting gridpat- L ing sttjden se ected of thi« at ihiledure Selectibh s b» 5 i on standitg aid personal cha PrlnCipa s^ea ' fL " tL Ca Jethn an hitfect, r 1 will be sysitem the merits! tioh in in the bro; -oei uue i ipomimenis ja m son to f;iA f or r 0 rn« Fditor of the mgf I itorm itio i b.k 24^4 pho-; uRV in far f Beauhio, t. A tographs ■ fill fate an<M pro- m< ; mber of , c - Fli ht Air ^ orc lildg birthlerbf cam or PMosbu ; c u . r js also H membt , r tic xx py or evi fence of mUmjabza- Ross Volunteers, turn, pduca tior al tr inscript, high, Fili for the dal W ill Be r Institute Annual anqjict ibe p retain ted Societyls an- at 7 infSbisa f .t it awar by the faculty ’ department, i bn scholastic cber. cerifpr the fevent W.t Adams,| A&M “oi will present tural fduca- ctual practice LraiaTmft ted Filing for the position; o editor of the Longhorn were BARKER CHAPMAN, TRUMAN MARTIN and PHIL SHEETS. Chapman, first sergeant of B Co. Infantry, is 19 yean} jold. He is from Hewitt, Texas and is a member of the Waco-McCIenjnan County Club, a member of the Marketing and Finance Club, and •a Distinguished student. Chapman is .majoring in agricultural admin- isbration. , ; , . ■ It , Martin is a 19-yeai'-olrij agricul tural education major fifonr Sils- bee. He was awarded the IDanforth Fellowship, and was winnjer of the Transportation , Corps ; Junior Award. In addition he is A member of the Rpss Volunteers, tale Beau mont Club, and the Colleg ate FFA Chapter. ‘ \! Sheets is an agricultural eco nomics major from Wichita Falls. He is 19 years old and a member of “C”. Co. Infantry. Besides be ing a member of; the'Sweetwater Club he is also a meniV 1 ' the San Angelo Club, and the; Market ing and Finance Club. \ GUY DANIELS and fllEpRGE EDWARD8 were the onlyjtwo men ito file for the position of Town Hall Manager. ■ ]i \ Daniels is a 2i0-year-old mem ber of the Corps Staff. His horn* is in Abilene and he is majoring in accounting. He is secretary Of Club and is program the YMCA Cabinet. and Equipment,” published by Mc- CJraw-Hill Booh Company. In addition, fye has written bul letins for the Agricultural Experi- 1 ment Station on subjects ranging 's. - from jeep use on the farm to eom- only her- billing of grain. He is also the. author of 14 articles on the me chanical harvesting of cotton. As'this is the last meeting of the Economics Club for this term, of the j an interim president w ill be ap- | pointed to serve as chairman of of corps j next fall’s initial meeting, Miller stated. All students interested in the subject of discussion are invited to attend the meeting, he added. in aiiouuiiug the Abilene ( chairman of Yt * 1 Battalion Wants Correspondents From ROTC Camps The Battalion needs a corres pondent for each of the ROTC summer camp^, Co-Editor Jimmy Nelson announced’ today. Nelson said that plans called for at least one representative at each of the particular camps. Jimmy O’Connell has been named to han dle publicity for The Battalion at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, he said. Nelson emphasized that no spe cial training to qualify as corres pondent would be necessary. “We want a man who can put the facts on paper. Wo will turn this infor mation over to our re-write man who will then write the news or feature story}” Nelson said. Copies of The Battalion will be sent to each of the summer camps attended by A&M stu dents. Volunteer correspondents are asked to come by Room 201, Good win Hall foil additional informa- Featuiring labbr and manage ment officials from all over the nation, tju* conference ’is designed to bring to student management engineers an opportunity to gain first hand information concerning management problems in industry. Presiding at the initial meet ing will be Dean of Engineering Howard IV. Barlow. The confer ence will hear Fred Smith, di rector of employee relations of the General Shoe Corporation, Nashville, Tennessee, on “Secur ing Employee Cooperation in In dustrial Management.” Following Smith, H a r r.y T. Schwan, manager of the Midwes tern Division, Methods Engineer ing Council, Kansas City, Missouri, will speak on “Wage Incentive In stallation and Operation.” Hall H. Lpgan, chairman of the State Board of Control, Austin, will preside over the afternoon session held at 1:30 in the YMCA Chapel. The first speaker for this session will be William Gomberg, director of Management Engineer ing, Intgreationjal Ladies’ Garment W’orkers’ Union, New York. He will address the group on “Union Interest in Management Engineer ing." i ■ j; j Following Gomberg, R. T. Wal ton, industrial engineer with Oli ver Iron . & Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh, will sneak! on “Union Participation ip Time Study.” The last speaker for the after noon session will be Walter Tor- gersen, associate professor in the management engineering depart ment. He will speak on “The Col leges’ Place in Management Engi neering.” ; A banquet} will be held in Sbisa Hall fojr the group Wed nesday evening at 6. Andrew W. DeShong, director of Industrial Services in the Republic Nation al Bank of Dallas will serve as toastmaster. R. R. Zimmerman, vice-president of Trundle Engineering Company, MANAGEMENT SPEAKER —One of the principal speakers at the First Annual Management Engineering Conference to lie held here May 19-20 is WILL IAM GOMBERG. director of the Management Engineering De partment of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. Washington, D. C., will be the principal speaker, and will talk on “A Design For Maximum Produc tion,” j | ! • s Thursday morning and afternoon there will be similar sessions in the YMCA Chapel. Robert Trundle vice-president of Trundle Engi neering Company of Cleveland, will preside over the monring session. C. H. Elliott, assistant to the president of Reed Roller Bit Com pany of Houston, will speak on “The Need for Management Engi neering;” C. S. Carney, manage ment engineer from Stevenson, Jordan & Harrison, Inc. of Chica go, on "Profit Planning and Cost Control;” and Sidney W. Russell, Job analyst with the Atlantic Re fining Company of Dallas; on “Job Evaluation Benefits in the Petroleum Refining Industry.” Gt N. Houston, director of I «i ; Personnel and I\abor Relations of Southern Acid. & Sulfur Com pany in Houston} will preside over the afternoon session. This group will hear E. Hanson, I supervisor of the Management En-; gineering Section, E. I. DuPont de i Nemours & Co. of Wilmington, | Delav.are, on “DuPont’s Manage-! ment Engineering Program;” Dick ; Price, president of Dick Price Mo- [ tor Company-of Dallas on “Profit} Sharing in a Small Business;” and! J. Preston Field, general foreman } of foundry at the Williamson Hea-1 ter Company of Cincinnati, on “The j Foreman’s Part in Cost Control.” | The Conference will be termina ted Thursday at 4 p. m. by infor mal discussions on Wage Incen tives, Job Evaluation, and Time Study, to be held in the YMCA! Chapel, Assembly, and Cabinet! Room, respectively. Rooms for men will be provi ded for the nights of Tuesday and Wednesday in Walton and PG Halls for a charge of $1. Requests for reservations for ladies or couplgs must lie made at the Aggieland Inn or one of the Bryan hotels. Registration vHll lie in the YM CA lobby from 4 until 8 Tuesday afternoon and fhom 8 to 12 Wed nesday morning} The fee is $5 per person, and $1 for students. Conference Director D. K. An drews, suggested that campus per sonnel interested in the meeting should drop by the Management Engineering office and sign up now in order to expedite registra tion. hold its regular meetii ! at 7:30 p. m. in Ithe I Room. i 4 I This meeting has h«i| j to Thursday evening |} number of the club mpj take pail in the Bi Tuesday and Wcdnesdaj Final plans will be rj annual barbecue ind will be-named for nel activities; All club busij past year will bp discussed. , Kline to Address ASME Tonight E. I. Kline of the Lufkin Foun dries will address the American Society of Mechanical Engineers tonight at 7:30 in the Mechanical Engineering Lecture Room. Oaffee-and doughnuts will be served after the meeting. The three mien running for Rut- Jion editor, R. L. BILLINGSLEY ENNKTH HON j). and Alt’! OWJVKI), are all members of th< j resent Batt sjtaff. il) . Bililhigslpyj, ft 22-year-old junior (from Waxahacbie, sprved with the! Third Fleet in both the Atlantic" i nil Pacific.. Majoring in electrical t nginpcrmg, Billingsley currently vrites both feature articles grid, editorials for the Battalion., He has been with the Battalion sjince September and is managing litor of the Wednesday paper, ird is a 24-year+old veteran Pampas Majoring in English, ond is a member of the English\ l|lub and the Student Senate. He s srved in the army for 37 months " a ; a staff sergeant and as a second 1 mtenant instructing in gunnery. ’ Borjd has been with the Batita- lipn Mince last September and at present serves on the editorial s jaff and as nunagiiig editor. Howard is a junior from San Alntobio majoring in architecture, I He is a member of the Architec- nil Society and is now serving ports editor of the Battalion. '•V the air force for 39 wtifl a navigation i»- ■rving in ii pmihs, he sifuctor. fnj addition to his work us sports litor! he also serves as one of the uttjaiion’s Managing editors. TV ' I!★ Three met. C. R. HOLBROOK, NDY MAjTULA, and ODELL flTAUTZEN BERG F.R, are com pet* (See VETERANS, Page 4) /’i Non-T)o4iij«i General fclei (Scratch Ml if«S Ihlert; \ rljllii it I !i [ i jWelffcn BALLOT Students Only May 20, 1940 I 'Mr j ’ exqept your choice). . ■ j ] j i I' - f ! f. ' i ; i|c|ulist, Jr. ; j f . • r epreaentative lolbrook’j L I j • j •/ liJVia ula Saiitzenhergie| .if (Only noii-d erans at the Annu mav gend the OFFICE without in the Faculty) Erfcian Editor ose Signature of Voter (Jampufi Address Sps Academic Buildipg.) m.' r : ■ :'}! r •y vet- ident i I ■mkmi wmmmmmmm*