NEWS
In Brief
REDS CLOSE IN ON
PEIPING FOR KILL
SHANGHAI, Jan. 19.—<£>)—The
Communisits brought up troops and
artillery from captured Tientsin
for an all-out assault on Peiping
Tuesday and appeared to have
opened their long-expected drive
on Hankow.
Nanking, seat of the Nationalist
government, was plunged into
gloom when it became known that
Russia had joined the United
States, Britain and France in re
fusing China’s request for media
tion of the civil war.
The Cabinet was reported to fa
vor opening peace talks with the
Communists despite hakshness of
the Communist terms.
A truckload of Peiping civic
leaders, brandishing a white flaf,
drove out of the city’s west gate
Tuesday to meet Communist Gen.
Yeh Chien-ying in hopes of ob
taining a truec. Neutral quarters
expected Yeh to demand the sur
render of the defending Nationalist
armies.
Similar truce efforts in Tient
sin were followed by a blitzrieg
assault that took the city after a
furious artillery barrage.
ACHESON CONFIRMED
BY SENATE VOTE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—<A>)—
Dean Acheson Tuesday was con
firmed by the Senate as secretary
of state to succeed Gen. George
C. Marshall.
The roll call vote was 83 to 6.
The 55-year-old lawyer-diplomat
won confirmation despite scattered
republican opposition. He is to
take office Thursday.
Chariman Tom Connaly of the
Senate foreign relations commit
tee called for “overwhelming” ap
proval of President Truman’s first
1949 cabinet appointment.
The Texas Democrat said Ache
son will “firmly and consistently
assert and support the foreign
policy of the United States in the
preservation of its rights and the
rights of its citizens and in its
determination to secure world
peace and freedom from aggres
sion.”
STATES TOP YOUNG
MEN ANNOUNCED
HOUSTON, Texas, Jan. 19.—
—Texas’ five outstanding young
men of 1948 were announced Tues
day night by Melvin B. Evans,
jpresident of the Texas Junior
Chamber of Commerce.
They are Arvle Elliott of 'Vic
toria, John Ben Shepperd of Glade-
water, Charles M. Prothro of Wich
ita Falls, Willar Grotty of Dallas,
and Arthur Temple, Jr. of Lufkin.
Governor Beauford H. Jester
will present them the gold key
distinguished service award at a
banquet Saturday night in Vic
toria where they will be the guests
of the Victoria Junior Chamber of
Commerce.
President Evans said the five
were chosen because of their out
standing contributions to their
communities, state, and nation.
He said the award is made strict
ly on the basis of service, leader
ship, and character, and member
ship in the junior chamber of com
merce is not a requisite.
150 TEXANS IN
CAPITAL TODAY
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—(A 5 )—
A trainload of more than 150 Tex
ans arrived Tuesday to participate
in President Truman’s inaugura
tion.
Heading the group were Dem
ocratic National Committeeman
Wright Morrow of Houston, Mrs.
H. H. Weinert of Seguin, Demo
cratic national committewoman,
and Mayor John C. Calhoun of
Corsicana, chairman of the Texas
inaugural committee.
Welcoming them were a group
of Texans in Washington, among
them Attorney General Tom Clark,
Senators Tom Connally and Lyndon
B. Johnson, most of the Texas
House members, and Federal Jud
ges Marvin Jones and Luther A.
Johnson.
The visitors piled into special
buses that took them to hotels for
a brief stop before they started a
round of pre-inaugural functions.
Senator Johnson invited them
to his office at 2 p.m. for coffee
and doughnuts. The Attorney Gen
eral and Mrs. Clark invited them
to a reception from 4 to 6 in Wash
ington’s noted “Anderson House”
on Massachusetts avenue.
BEVIN ASKS FOR
PALESTINE DELAY
LONDON, Jan. 19.—(A>)—For
eign Secretary Bevin headed off
a house of commons showdown de
bate Tuesday on his Palestine pol
icies with an assurance Britain
plans no “aggressive action” to
support her Arab allies.
He won from angry parliamen
tary critics a reluctant agreement
to defer a full dress debate on the
Middle East problem until next
week. Then he wil face challen
gers of every political hue, includ
ing a large bloc in his own labor
party, who seem determined to un
seat him.
A public discussion of the issue
now, Bevin contended, might im
peril Egyptian-Jewish armistice
talks under way at Rhodes.
Israel announced she would per
mit a United Nations convoy to
deliver food, tobacco and medical
supplies to 3000 Egyptian troops
trapped at Faluia by encircling
Israeli forces.
The government of Israel ex-
presed regret over the shooting
down of five British planes near
the Palestine border Jan. 7, but
still insisted it was Britain’s fault.
Battalion
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Volume 48
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19,1949
Number 112
TURNING ON THE HEAT and keeping it on at A&M is big business involving boilers with a
capacity of 100,000 pounds, and generators producing 14 million kilowatt hours of electricity a year.
M. L. Taylor, A&M Power Plant employee lurking among the pipes, is checking readings on a
750,Tdlowatt turbogenerator. This is one of three steam-powered generators which furnish campus
electric power.
24 Hours A Day
Power Plant Operates Full
Time to Supply College Need
By DAVE COSLETT
Ever stop to think of all the
money and machinery it takes to
keep that radiator in your room
hissing?
Well, just for the records, it
takes a powerful lot of both and
plenty of work (24 hours a day,
that is) on the part of the crew in
the college power plant to boot.
Steam heat, of course, isn’t the
only product of this home of the
kilowatt and water vapor, for the
plant also furnishes the college
with electricity, water, compressed
air, power, and ice. The equipment
used in producing these commod
ities and services is valued at over
$1,500,000.
The interior of the plant offers
a severe contrast to the average
person’s idea of what any self-
respecting power house should
look like. In place of the antici
pated grime-smeared floor and
sweat stained workmen, visitors
find an expanse of spotless ma
chinery and floor space and a
crew of hardworking but. clean
employees.
Cleanliness, not the average
condition in such establishments,
is one ironclad rule set down by
Guy M. Heinz, the College’s chief
Retirement Points
Can Be Earned By
Reserve Members
Ways in which Army reserve
component members can earn point
credits toward retirement have
been announced by Colonel Oscar
B. Abbott, executive officer for
the Texas Military District.
Not more than 360 points may
be credited to an individual in any
one year, while credit for inactive
duty is limited to 60 points a yeah,
he said.
Points may be accumulated for
each authorized drill attended for
at least two hours, for campus in
struction of ROTC units, for duty
performed for the Office of Se
lective Service, and for the per
formance of various other duties
for the military department.
Only persons that are members
of an active reserve component are
qualified to earn credit points, Ab
bott added. Those who wish further
information should contact their
local Organized Reserve Corps in
structor’s office.
Military Pictures
Due February 15
All individual junior and senior
students who have not had their
military section pictures made must
have them made by February 15
if they are to be in the Longhorn,
according to Earl Rose, co-editor.
Those who should have their pic
tures made are all staff members,
company commanders, executive
officers, and first sergeants.
The pictures, which are to be
made at the Aggieland Studio, are
to be made with number one uni
form and garrison caps, Rose said.
engineer since 1927. Heinz, who is
also in charge of the Prairie View
power plant, states that he can
see no reason why the plant should
n’t be just as clean as the average
welltended home.
A few figures might serve to
show the tremendous amount of
power products that the plant puts
out for college consumption. In the
year 1948, it generated almost
fourteen million kilowatt hours of
electricity, pumped 267 million
gallons of water and produced 277
million pounds of steam. The eco
nomy measures of the plant are
best illustrated by the cost of
steam, 22 cents a pound under nor
mal operation conditions. That
(they tell me) is mighty cheap.
In addition to the above men
tioned services, the plant pro
duced four and a half million
pounds of ice. Incidentally, ice is
a much demanded product around
the campus even on the coldest
days.
The machinery used in the man
ufacture of these things is natural
ly large and costly. One of the
boilers has a capacity of 100,000
pounds. Somewhat of a record was
established with this boiler when it
was operated continuously for a
year without ever having the fire
cut off.
And, speaking of records, the
plant also has a generating unit
which was operated for a year
without stopping. The plant itself
has had no emergency shut-down
due to internal defects in twelve
years.
Here’s one for the interesting
facts department. One of the
generator unit condensors con
tain pipe, that if laid in a
straight line, would stretch the
approximate distance between
here and Bryan. All this pipe is
housed in a cylinder fifteen feet
long and eight feet in diameter.
During the period of the year
when steam heat is required, the
Dr. Lumb Joins
Veterinary Staff
Dr. William V. Lumb has joined
the staff of the Veterinary Medi
cine and Surgery Department as an
assistant professor.
Dr. Lumb, a native of Iowa,
graduated from Manhattan high
school in Manhattan, Kansas, in
1939 and was graduated from Kan
sas State College with a DVM in
1943. He is a member of the
American Veterinary Medical As
sociation and the Massachusetts
Veterinary Medical Association.
Previous experience includes in
ternship, Angell Memorial Animal
Hospital, Boston and resident staff.
He was a member of the veteri
nary corps, U. S. Army 1943-46.
MAGAZINE SUBSCRIBERS
LEAVE NAME AT GOODWIN
All graduating seniors who have
subscribed to The Agriculturist are
requested to leave their names and
addresses at the Agriculturist Of
fice in Goodwin Hall, Gerald York,
editor, announced today.
plant furnishes this much-welcom
ed commodity in accordance with
a time-tested schedule. At an out
door temperature of 32 degrees,
for instance, the heating system
sends the water out at a temper
ature of 196 degrees. By the time
this water has reached the build
ings, the temperature has dropped
to 166 degrees. Pound on the radia
tor though you may, that’s all the
heat you’ll get at a temperature of
freezing. Past records, however,
show that 166 degrees is a suffi
cient amount to heat a building
under those conditions.
The current inflation has driven
the cost of operation in the plant
to a high point much as it has done
to other industries; yet, the power
plant operates at a comparatively
economical level. Such costs last
year amounted to slightly over
$150,000. In 1947, however, the
cost per pound of steam and kilo
watt hour of electricity was even
less than in 1927.
Regardless of high costs, the
power plant will continue to serve
A&M 24 hours a day, 365 days a
year. Heat or cold, water or air—
just try the power plant. If the
boys there don’t have it, they’ll
make it.
Aggieland 1949 Wins Election
To Become A&M Annual Title
Romeo, Juliet Takes Early Lead in Runoff Voting;
Longhorn Gets Write-In Votes From All Areas
Will be Staged
In Guion Hall
“Romeo and Juliet/’ one of
Shakespeare’s prize works,
will be staged in Guion Hall
at 8 p. m., February 7.
Admission price to the play is
50<j for students and $1 to others,
C. G. White, director of Student
Activities, has announced.
The play is directed by Clare
Tree Major of the New York Clas
sic Theatre.
Miss Olga Balish will be featur
ed in the role of Juliet. Olaga has
been featured before in the role
of Portia when the “Merchant of
Venice” was presented in New
York.
Miss Balish is a graduate of
the National Academy of Dra
matic Art, which is conducted by
Clara Tree Major, founder of
the Classic Theatre.
Clare Tree Major, director thinks
that the success of Shakespeare’s
plays is due to truthfulness of his
characters and the craftsmanship
with which he presents them.
t/
Wright Defines
City Planning At
Kiwanis Luncheon
City planning was defined as
“anticipation of the future needs
of a city so that the development
of its physical makeup will pro
ceed in an orderly manner to pro
vide a healthful, convenient, com
fortable and attractive environ
ment for living, working and tran
saction of business,” at the College
Station Kiwanis club noon lunch
eon meeting Tuesday.
The speaker, S. E. Wright, head
of the Civil Engineering Depart
ment, outlined the master city plan
and how it works.
“A master plan,” Wright said,
“seeks the prevention of costly
mistakes, such as streets too nar
row, lack of parks and playgrounds,
poor school location, too much or
too little business ai’eas, danger
ous grade crossings, poor location
of public buildings.”
The elements of city planning,
the speaker said, consists of a
street system, transportation, lo
cation of public buildings, parks
and recreation, control over pri
vate property and long term finan
cial plan.
The speaker added that “it is
not the cost of the plan (master)
but the cost of not having one that
is prohibitive.”
He was introduced by Otis Mil
ler, new program chairman. Dr.
Ralph Steen, president, presided
at the luncheon.
Aggieland 1949 and Final Review fought it out right down to the wire as Aggieland
took the blue ribbon last night in the second run-off to determine the name of the A&M
yearbook. Pulling away to a quick lead on early returns, Aggieland 1949 withstood a late
spurt by supporters of Final Review to accumulate 2392 votes and win the election.
By 9 a.m., Wednesday almost complete returns showed Aggieland with 1874 votes out
‘■f’of a total of 3190 which had been
A&M Contract
Let to Houston
Star Engravers
The Star Engraving Com
pany of Houston was awarded
the contract to supply neces
sary keys and medals for the
college by a sub-committee of
the Student Life Committee,
Tuesday.
The committee, composed of
Grady Elms, C. G. White, Ken
neth Bond, and Bob McClure, open
ed the bids from the Southwestern
Balfour Company, Caldwell Jewel
ers, Schmidt Engraving Company
of Waco, and Star Engraving Com
pany. George W. Litton of the
Fiscal Office represented the col
lege.
According to Grady Elms, chair
man of the committee, the bids
was awarded on the basis of the
lowest over-all bid submitted.
Specifically mentioned in the
bids were the Who’s Who Keys,
Student Senate Keys, Press Club
Keys, Singing Cadet Keys, Aggie
land Orchestra Keys, Company
Commander Keys, George Moore
Medals, Best Drilled Sophomore
Medajs, Rpss Volunteers Medals,
Aggie Players Keys, Stock Judg
ing Team Medals and Intramural
Medals.
The contract was awarded for
a period of three one year peri
ods with a provision that either
the company or the committee
having the authority to reject
the contract at the end of each
year provided sufficient notice
is given.
Elms said that other organiza
tions, though not included on the
list, may secure keys from this
company at a saving.
College Employees
Dinner Scheduled
The first post-holiday meeting of
the College Employees Dinner club
will beheld in Sbisa Hall at 6:45
p. m. January 20.
Tickets will be available at the
Aggieland Inn for $1.25 each until
noon Wednesday.
And the Wind Blew
Late Entries Hasten to Beat
Ending of Tall Tales Contest
The deadline rapidly approaches
as belated tales drift in to the
Tall Tales contest. Tonight at 6
p. m. the competition will be closed
to further entries; there upon the
judges will begin the laborious
task of reading and re-reading the
various epics and attempting to
select those most deserving of pri
zes.
Monday, their decision will be
announced. Sifting the field to pick
the best will not be easy. As ex
pected, Aggies rose magnificently
to the challenge and eloquently
lied their respective and collective
heads off.
The originality inherent in
many of the tales was laudable.
One would have to look far to
find taller tall tales than those
submitted to this contest.
Again we are limited from print
ing all the stories which we would
like to. However, here are a few
that are in there fighting for the
prize.
Roy Lilley Jr., got so wound up
on the proposition of worms that
he could barely stop. Evidently
there’s an abundance of the little
creatures in Lilley’s part of the
country.
Lilley starts “My story deals
with the size and uses of the
fishing worms up in Titus Coun
ty, in Northeast Texas. These
worms are of great value. For
example when a tornado destroy
ed everything in its path in Ant
lers, Oklahoma a while back, we
wound up twenty miles of worms
on cable spools and sent them to
Antlers to be used for telephone
lines.
“Then during the war when oil
pipes were hard to get,” he con
tinues, “Humble Oil Company cut
some of the smaller ones into
thirty feet length, threaded both
ends, and replaced a 6 inch pipe
line with them.”
Ole Blue must be a popular name
for a dog. Blish Breland named
his cunning canine that and wrote
in all about him. Blish maintains
|hat all he has to do is get down
jiis gun and, with no further com
mand, the dog is off to the woods
hot on the trail of a coon.
“One Day,” Breland says, “I
figured I’d find out just how
smart the hound was. Instead of
fetching my gun, I got my fishing
pole down. Ole Blue look bewilder
ed for a minute but then dashed
out of the house like he knew what
he was doing.
“I waited for quite a spell for
the yelp that meant he had a
coon spotted. There wasn’t a
sound. With my fishing pole in
hand I started to find the dog.
I found Ole Blue at-the corner of
the barn, digging worms.”
Another entry to the contest,
Billy R. Mayse, relates a story
that goes this way. “Two old cattle
men were telling about the worst
stampede they’d ever seen. One of
them said ‘One night it was dark
as pitch and me and another cow
boy were riding in the lead of this
herd a running like lightning.
“Just then his horse hit a fence
and threw him right off straddle
of the fence. He slid down the
fence for about a quarter of a
mile breaking off posts and stays
and rolling up wire.
“The other one asked, ‘Did it
kill him?’ The first old cattle
man said, ‘No, never hurt him
much—split him up to his hat
brim but he rose and let his
stirrups out, got on his horse
and went right on after his
cattle.”
A fish that was a fish is the
hero of Ray Clark Jr.’s narrative.
“In the Calcasieu River in Louis
iana there used to be one whale of
a catfish. He was a tackle-busting
fool from the word go.
Since catfish steaks brought a
good price, everyone was trying
to land this particular fish. They
used the heaviest tackle made, but
the result was always the same—
torn up equipment, but no fish—
That is, all except my uncle.
He reasoned that it would take
some very heavy material to
finish off that fish, so he im
provised some. He took an 80
pound, well-sharpened anchor, a
length of anchor chain and hook
ed it up to a D-8 bulldozer. For
bait he got two hogs and baited
each flute with one.
The fish fell for it and uncle
threw the bulldozer into gear and
pulled the victim out of the stream.
However, he didn’t make a fortune
off of his catch. That fish was so
full of metal from the hooks, lead
ers, and wire lines that you could
n’t cut a single steak off without
using a hacksaw. As a matter of
fact that fish was so full of metal
that my uncle had to sell it to the
DR. FRED E. BARBOUR, pas
tor of the Second Presbyterian
Church of Knoxville, Tennessee,
has been named chief speaker for
Religious Emphasis Week.
He will deliver five sermons
in Guion Hall during the week of
February 14-18.
Save the Walk;
Register Today
At Goodwin
Preliminary registrat i o n
for the spring semester is in
its second day in Room 100,
Goodwin Hall.
Representatives from the Fiscal
Office are in Goodwin Hall to ac
cept the payments of fees and re
serve rooms.
Students who do not pay fees
during this time may pay them
later in the Fiscal Office, Admin
istration Building, before regis
tration.
Veteran students should secure
a fee exemption slip from the Vet
eran’s Advisers Office before pay
ing their fees. Fees for veterans
amount to $55.50, and if paid by
installments, the first installment
is $9.70.
Corps members -frill pay $240.90.
First installment, $75.10, can be
paid at the time of registration.
Registration for rooms will
continue through Saturday for
men who desire to reserve the
rooms they now occupy, announ
ced Harry Boyer, chief of the
Housing Office.
Students who wish to reserve a
room other than the one they now
occupy may do so on January 24
through January 26. However, a
written permission from the stu
dent’s housemaster or organiza
tion commander must be presented
with the request to change rooms.,
Beginning Thursday, January 27
all remaining rooms will be avail
able on a first come first served
basis, Boyer said.
Students who have paid their
fees, will be able to get their ath
letic coupon books in Room 100,
Goodwin, from January 18 through
26.
reported, Final Review trailed with
1105 supporters while The Long
horn drew 207 “protest” votes
from the total cast. Three other
write-in names received 4 more
votes.
When returns from the Annex,
Dorm 9, and Dorm 12 came in to
complete the picture, Aggieland
1949 had received 2392 votes, 792
more than Final Review with 1600
and more than the required ma
jority of the votes cast.
So Aggieland 1949 is the new
name of the Aggie annual—after
three elections and a 7 day period
during which the yearbook had no
official title.
Besides the 233 votes for The
Longhorn, such attractive titles as
Bryan Field Almanac, Draft Bate
(not our spelling) 1949, and Share
cropper received the votes of Ag
gie electors.
The total number of votes cast
in this second run-off was 4229 as
compared with 4132 ballots in the
first run-off last week. Keith Al-
sup, chairman of the Student Sen
ate Election Committee, said that
the general interest shown in such
a lengthy election was very grati
fying to his group and was proof
of student interest in college af-
Ag Students Must
Have Degree Plan
All agriculture students who
have completed 64 hours or more
of work at the beginning of the
current semester must have his
degree plans completed before reg
istration, Charles N. Shepardson,
dean of the School of Agriculture,
has announced.
Assignment cards will not be ap
proved unless accompanied by the
student’s copy of his degree plans,
he said. Students who have not
completed these plans should con
tact the head of his major de
partment immediately, he added.
Yets With Trouble
See Taylor Wilkins
Veterans who are having trouble
with subsistence checks are asked
by Taylor Wilkins, veterans advis
er, to visit his office in Room 104,
Goodwin Hall, before the semester
ends to straighten out records.
Also veteran students transfer
ring from other schools at the be
ginning of this semester who have
not received notice of authoriza
tion of training are also asked to
scrap-iron dealer to get rid of it. visit the office.
fairs.
Aggieland
Final
Dorm
1949
Review
Walton*
131
39
17
154
43
10
65
46
Law
121
42
Puryear
113
41
Milner
78
29
3
96
30
15**
122
42
8
62
121
14
119
49
11
63
57
1
110
34
2
65
83
Leggett***
29
18
16
86
30
5
94
50
Mitchell
73
23
7
86
100
Hart
Non-Dorm
37
38
Students
8
3
6
102
47
4
60
140
12
67
12
9
67
25
Annex
384
409
*Bryan Field Almanac—1 vote.
**Sharecropper—1 vote.
***Draft Bate—1949—2 votes.
Civil Service Jobs
Available Now In
Washington, D.C.
Examinations have been announ
ced by the US Civil Service Com
mission for Centi’al Office Super
visor (Insurance), Geologist, and
Medical X-Ray Technician (Photo-
flourgraphy).
The jobs to be filled from the
examination for Central Office
Supervisor (Insurance), paying
$4,479 to $6,235 a year, are in the
central officeof the Veterans Ad
ministration in Washington, D. C.
The Geologist jobs are located
in Washington, D. C., and pay $2,-
974 and $3,727 a year.
Positions to be filled from the
Medical X-Ray Technician exami
nation pay $2,284 and $2,727 a
year, and are located in the U. S.
Public Health Service in Washing
ton, D. C.
Further information and appli
cation forms may be obtained from
the Civil Service Commission’s Lo
cal Secretary, Roger W. Jackson,
at the College Station Post Office,
6 Students Will
Practice Judging
In Fort Worth
Six A&M students are going to
Ft. Worth to practice meat judg
ing in Swift & Co. coolers Thurs
day and Friday, according to O. D.
Butler, coach.
A&M will compete against Okla
homa, Texas Tech, Nebraska, and
Wisconsin in the Junior Meat
Judging contest on Feb. 1, Butler
said. A. S. Agnor, B. J. Bland, B.
C. Brooks, W. G. Dunkum, H. E.
Riley, and H. L. Holder will make
the trip, Butler said.
Butler stated these students are
candidates for next year’s Senior
Meat Judging team. Roy Snyder,
professor in the Animal Husban
dry Department, is in charge of
the Junior Meat Judging contest.