The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, August 01, 1949, Image 1
■y61ume49 ^ - - \j r ' ' 1 1 r4 ■ |M ■‘'i ’ r rr^ • - ! H • Dotson i Outstan PUBLISHED m THE INTEREST OF A' GREATER ARM COl ' COLLBKSE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, MONDAY, AUGUST 1,19p Named Most Ft. Sill f I 1 :! ,T' By BILt RjOSE JL- J 7' For. the third st^ai^ht year, an Aggie’has been narhed as the outstanding cpdet at the Field Artillery summer camp, Fort SOI, Oklahonja. The honor went to J. T. Dotson ~=who was presented »an award to that effect by Preston J. Moore, department commander of the American Legion of Oklahoma, at final exercises Thursday July 28. Bobby Sykes was the outstand ing cadet of his batiery and Hu bert BeUtel, Jr., and; Floyd Henk . were the outstanding cadets of their '' At the same cerenjony, recently graduated A&M students Charles Maisel, James Kirkland, and John Flanagan weife commissioned 1 sec ond lieutenants in the Officers’ Re- .irr serve Corps. r * ti. I Honors to jij&M i i ■ Th# boys, from A&M ran away ' ' ‘ With most of! the other rhonors of camp Awhile they were at it. Per- / __ haps the most satisfying was the ' * \ attention paid the yfoung Aggies I by the local' belles of Lawton and Oklahoma College - for Yfomen at •1 '■'n i. ’11 k : - V' y. J Jr . ■ ’ 1 Chickasaw, d: The girls believed ft the end of j. the camp that A&M (was the only school represented at Fort Sill. Actually,, there were (seven schools there including Oklahjoma, Arizona State, Colorado A&M and others. One of the big features of 'the social season was tfe inevitable 1 ’ Aggie j)arty. This or e took place in the sleepy little rfountain vill age of Medicine Park. The town’s usual serenity got ^uite a jolt wh,en the Ajizes hit t in force. v i Highlight Of the affair was a "yell practice led by ex-Aggie R J. Standiey. The usujtf “joke” was furnished this time by -f Major, Charles Ostner of thi; A&M Mili- • / 'i iary Department. * j Three Dances There were three dances heldi on the post for the cadets^with girls furnished by the city of Lawton. The most memorable jwas the last which was field at ihe Officers’ Club. ~ ' | a U » 1 The program included.. Aggie Buddy Boyd singing several songs and a novelty number by the “Wichita Mountain Boys” (jailed the “Fort Sijl Blues!” -This, last group was made ;up |of Earl Ed wards, Dave Sanflersi and Chuck Maisel, all of A&M.d The cadets at; Fort jSill claim', to have shot upjmore| of Uncle’s money than ‘any iother camp thi^ summer. In the 240 hpurs of prac tical field artillery training, oVer 8000 rounds of 105 fnm.f and 45 mm. ammunition haft been fired and observed by the Students TT -r- ConsoMafed Will Have Neil Teachers A&M Consolidated: elementary feevan i ind high school will begin the fall Virginia jjin the fall school L. S. superintendent said and high term with and eight Richardson,! Friday. | ; v .n|| " \ : > j College Station schools hai*e been allotted 11 teachers, three of; whom are Negro, and a 35 per cent in crease in state funds under the Gilmer-, Aiken foundation fund. This is an increase of eight white, and three Negro teachers, over la^tijyear, Richardson said, The new junior high school will occupy thb building which formerly housed the high school, according to Richardson. W. T. Riedel will be; the principal. Riedel has been teaching science at Consolidate*! for two years. : Full Time Librarian J - Students Com|mand the students have occu* ■b AH of the studentii pied positions of comjiiand. Under the system of rotatiion of com mand the cadets have jed their out fits from battalion to squad. A favorite expression hds been “Bat talion Commander today, Private tomorrow.” The big rivals amonjg the schools have been, the Aggies and the boys from Okie U. “Beat! OU” should have special meaning’to the artil- ^ lery students this Fall. - The A&M men had at least one moment Of. supreme [ triumph in the course of the canip. After the i —— boys from north of the Red River had listened for six; weeks to the «« wtavcft* r. £ j p.i ^ J • t r I - . ’ —not unusual boastingj of the Ag- _ gies, Post Commander Major Ge% •r---- eral Joseph Swing mgde a speech in Vrhich he said tbat-ROTC stu- . .’(See Ft. SILL, jPage 4) J M , Among the hew teachers will be Ccmsolidajted’s "first full-time lib rarian, a high school principal, junior and senior high coaches, and a high school history and Spanish teacher.: I Miss Geraldine Bender from Tex arkana, a 1949 TSCW graduate will b(e t^ first full-time librarian. However,' before school starts she will marty an Aggie. | :• ■ Jim Bevan, A&M physical edu cation student, who will graduate next; month will be the junior high school coach next year, Richardson said: From Columbus, Tennessee, attended Vanderbilt and irginia University while a Navy :rainee. Senior High School The senior high school coach will be O. V. Chafin, a 1947 grad- jate of Southwestern University »t Georgetown. He has been as sistant coach at Hearne and at Georgetown. In addition to being coach, he will teach physics and chemistry. L. E. Boze of Carey will take the jlace of Richardson as the new ligh school principal. Richardson las been named superintendent. Boze graduated from East Texas State Teachers College Commerce, a,nd has had nine years teaching experience. He taught at Nevada and Carey, where he was principal, then superintendent. Richardson said that Boze . may teach public speaking. v > V \ History and Spanish Teacher History and Spanish teacher at msolidated High School will be VIrs. j Sidney Sorensen, who has ieen teaching at Edinburg. She was graduated from West Chester State Teachers College in Pennsyl vania, and received her master’s degree in Spanish from the Uni versity of Texas. Mrs. Sorensen is also ai free ance writer. Many of hfer articles have appeared in Sunday magazine sections of Texas papers. ! Recent rains have slowed work very little on the Memorial Student Center. Roofwork on the pew bowling alley is nearing completion. If the present rate of progress is continued the Center should be ready for use in the latter part of next year. tchison New rticulturist hn E. Hutchison ’36, be- his duties as associate ex ion horticulturist at A&M, Hiitchison is a native ojf Itasca, graduated from Itasca High J in 1931 and received a BS e from A&M in 1936. r the past year, he has been doinjg graduate work under a Sears-Roebuck Fellowship and will receive his MS degree from A&M at the end of the second, j term of summer school. The MS degree will be* in horticulture. From 1936-39, he taught voca tional agriculture at Missouri City and 1 from 1939-45 he held the same position in the Bay City High School. He was appointed County agricultural agent in Matagorda ^county in August, 1945 and served til he was gf-anted leave of ab- to do graduate work. summer camp. Thfe title of outstanding cadet in ekich company wasiihaj s—if l r r ~ h-fbighest award made :o any of tk4 835 collcite students attending im afj 1!I49 summer rami). ‘i ’ 1 7 ; ' | i-,; ] Gondoliers Strike Too LUlilll until sehcie Water Streets atlWeniee John Hiitchlsoa began his dutirti as associate extension horticul turist here today. Something New to Aggi V Camp Lee Cadets Return After ‘Roughing It’ in Bivouac Area By BEE LANDRUM Camp Lee Batt Correspondent Friday, July 22, at 16; a. m. the Cadets of the GM ROTC Summer Camp loaded on trucks and moved out bf the bivouac area of the A. jP. Hill Military Reservation. Abd, they gladly left. They were leaving those mosquitos, ticks, and chiggers behind. No longer would they-have to eat out of mess kits. Tonight, they could take a shower and sleep in ! a nice, hard army bunk instead of on the ground iq A pup tent. ; T • As the, truck convoy moved; through the main gate at Camp: jLeej one Aggie cadet remarked, “This is one time that I am glad to get back to this place.” Experience Gained Taking everything into consid-’ eration, the week at "the Hill” Was nqt bad after all. Almost perfect weather prevailed during the whole time. The problems worked on there were much less boring than the lectures which are the GROVE SCHEDULE usual routine at Camp LeeT The cadets gained valuable experience in setting up and operatiPX QM- equipment such as bakeries and l&unqriesj.: / . 'V Athletic Activity The athletic program continued to ..function as at Camp; Lee.; The Aggije volleyball team to°k a serieS\ of t^vo from Illinois to win the Company D championship. Both were very good games, the Aggies winning the first 16 to 14 and the second 15 to 5. The fighting Illinois ran up a' pcore of 9 runs before the fighting Texas Aggies scratched In' the first j ganae. In the second game, the Aggies who had j the ees 10-0, Monday,; July 25, ggies will play either Indiana or Okla. A&M in the semi-finals. The only softball game of in- teresjt to the Aggies last! week was a 11-5 defeat of Michigan by Ill inois which eliminated the Aggies from) the competition, Illinois tak ing the company title. iirsi; gi it was Yankee! the Agf Monday, August 1—Bingo. Tuesday, August 2—Free movie, liter “Les i Miserables,” with ..Charles Laughton. j . j Wednesday, August 3—Juke Box Dance. Thursday, August 4—Free movie, “Deep Waters,” with Dana An drews. Friday; August 5—Square Danc- .injd' r li ‘ 1 Z.,t~ \\ L Saturday, August 6—Ddnce with; Aggie Combo. " , ji Thursday, July 20, the Aggies took! on Texas in a practice volley ball ; series ; and smothered the “teaSips” m three straight games. Therefore, the athletic competition re Aggies at Camp Lee has been a perfect success regardless of which universities win the camp chan|pionships. Aggie company officers for fh® weeft of July 18 were Thomas Muldowney, executive officer, and Hal Storey and Tom \ Brundett, platoon sergeants. For the week of July 11, Bill Mahaley Was execu tive officer, and Hugh Adams was olatoon leader. \ \ By DON JARVIS | i Battalion European Correspondent Venice, July 27-vJVe had been on the road—same companions, same driver, same bus, same bum py seats—for nine days when we left Rome. Our brief stay in I^y’s capital had been pleasant enough, except possibly for the side walk vendors who stop you every ten steps and the hotel’s rnixup in returning oup laundry to the yrong But the trip north through the mountains was long and tiring. Everyone was snapping at each other’s throats by thfe end of the day, and our overnight stops in i^ore i Siena and. Florence did little than postpone the arguments! till the next day. ,.j T jN Yesterday, however, we came to the most pleasant city yet—that mecca- of all resort town!*, Venice. As we came to the city limits, much ill*® the approaches to Gal veston, we had to. park our bus in a large garage and take: a “taxi”—a motor boat—to our hotel. We’d heard of Venice’s water-streets all our lives, and that didn’t seem too strange. But when we saw that signal light at a canal crossing and a traffic cop at the. corner, we began to think we were in dream land. But it’s real enough and has its many drawbacks. Last week, for instance, the gon doliers went on strike against the motorboat drivers, complaining tl the motorboats were ruining th trade—they charged less, got th< faster, and made waves, frights ing the passengers. I don’t know if their Strike was successiful, but I’ll side with the gondoliers. It’s j a pleasure just to watch their skill at handling those boats with one oar on one side. Venice’s ideal climate and pic turesque beauty attracts man; tourists.. Americans are here b; the thousands, and prices an very high. We are all glad tha| our hotel bill includes meals s that our expenses are cbt to minimum. But' when we do buy something we learn the European way of sell ing. An article has a price teig on it simply for a “come-on.” Th® salesman usually doesn’t expect to get that much for it, and many jtimes, especially when buying from peddlers, we’ve been able to buy an article at one-third the price orig inally asked. Wouldn’t they MSC Not Delay* Because of Rain Work on the Memorial Studenit Center has not been delayed by the recent rains, K. R. Simmons, coi struction superintendent, said day. ' ’•;j All work has been going a cording to schedule and the dead line of November, I960, will, be met, Simmons added. At the present tiirte, the laying of brick and Austin stone comprise the major part of the work being done, Simmons said. The most progress, however, has been made on the bowling alley and pool hall where steel decking has been laid and the roof completed, Noi important units are expected to be finished by September as the bulk of the wogk scheduled consists of wiring, plumbing and brick lay- to*. (Editor’s Note: Art Howard and Don Jarvis, European cor respondents ter the Battalion have both Written their impres sions of Venice. Rather than leave one out, we have included them both under a single head line. * d By ART HOWARD ittalion European Correspond Venice, July 27—The streets, not the!; canals, are the amazing part id cit;y. Filthy surprised at our silly American ways! They are surprised at one thing we do. Breakfasts here consist of one menu—some small hard golf- ball-like rolls and cqffee or choco! late. The noom meal is the main meal of the day, and after stuffing it down everyone takes his after noon snooze. Probably 95 percent of the shops in Rome were closed between 1:30 and 4. They just couldn’t under stand our willingness to go any where or do anything except sleep during those hours! Our French bus driver espec ially has become irked with us. and many times when we’ve in sisted that he drive on after lunch, continuing his speedy pace of 35 m.p.h., he has seen some shady spot on the roadside, stopped, and announced the bus was too hot, we would stop there for an hour. \ \ 1 Of course we had been siesta-ing all along in good old history class room style. The bus is surely hard to get comfortable in, though. Tomorrow we leave Venice to head for Switzerland. But there are still many towns left where the people will look up in surprise: first at 'the “American Express” sign on our bus, then at the Texas Aggie sticker on the window, and then at the strange sounds of "hulla balloo caneck caneck.” Owen Reassigned; Replaced by Lewis of tjhis multiple islanjd! , and;odorous canals, pluf wave-prt* during motorboats, make| gondola ridihg much less exciting and ro mantic than the travelogue movies indicate. But the main area of Venice needed no wide streets for carte or wagons when the city! was Jaid out, 1 so most of them are just Wide enough for two people to pass. And they never go in a straight line ter ever 100 yards. A group of us students were within two blocks of ! a famous staircase and we had to hunt over an hour before we found it. After retracing our steps for the fifth time a native guided us down a narrow walk to a dead end. And tHeite it was. There are many dead ends on •these streets. Some of them hang :1>ver the canals, and others butt jup against stone walls. i There are three main means il of transportation in Venice. First : are the gondolas, then speed-boat S water-taxis, and finally there are ! the large ferry-busses. The last is the cheapest and the quickest. j| jj •! * ! | 1 » : Clur first experience with the water-taxis was on the way from (thel parking pavillion to our hotel. : We rounded a comer and there Was a traffic light over an inter- keeijidn of canals. Then our taxi bounded its horn as it came close. ; Another good laugh game when We ! passed the local fire depart- |nejit—four boats with pumps. One thing they don’t have to vforry about is a shortage of water or a iff. NegM Claim Choice of Tom ark is Insult ^ ! •^replug. As ®x peel fu) piece of architecture here is eted, the most beauti- Lt Col Ulehn B Owen senior 1 * f[y®G’. beautiful and modenr- foriti; prvTP -sJfl loojking structure. Corbusier, the infantry instructor, ROTC, since September 1946, has been assign ed to the Student Detachment Com mand and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Colonel Owen saw service over seas from April 1944 to April 1946, in the Pacific Theater. He will leave for his new post August 20. Lt. Col. William F. Lewis, in fantry, a 1940 West Point gradu ate, will succeed Colonel Owen. He is with the Air Command and Staff School, Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Ala bama, V Colonel Lewis spent 43 months overseas in the Asiatic, Pacific and Iceland theaters. ^ the Cathedral of St. Marks. A close second is the Doge’s Palace « Very " bous Frenc nch ai iteV building. architect, is said to‘have gotten his style from a enice had a gvea contract With Asia jrituries and by! Sara- 4- Book Gyp Artists In College Area An attempt to sell reference books at exhorbitant prices in CoNfcge Station area has been called to the attention of The Battalion. Reports said that door-to-door making calls were prices for reference books that were way above normal. People in doubt about the prices of books can get infor mation from the College library. salesmen charging deal of trade linbr during the 12th and 13th ter was greatly influenced cenic architecture! As most of the buildings more Saracenic than ! For once we have aj class/ hotel. Situated op the\ L or sea-side island, ii commands excellent view of the main islai pf Venice. We can tell it is a class hotel because it has hot wa^ in : the afternoon. \ We came to Venice from Floi npe, which is a very inice plac*. ts\ leather is supposed to be th est in the world, although ink It is cheap and shoddy. [orticulture Class its Jacksonville He fruit production class arid orchard management class; of . Horticulture, Department visit- five peach orchards neat Jack- “le Thursday^ ' and Pro- panied n the trip. tion cover ob- YORK. Aug. 1-UP). The ciiril rights congress Sat urday termed the nomination of \Attorney General Tom C. Clark as an associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court "a gratuitous insult thrown into the faces o people. 0 the negro ■ 's i Clark’^ elevation to thq(court would constitute a “major Nra/eat to the future pf American )C(0n- stitutiondl Liberty,” tnfe-/GoTTgm* declared in a telegram sehtejoin ly to vice-president Alben Barkley" and Sen.iMcCartan (D-Nev.). It urgAd Barkley and McCarrah to do “everything in your poWer*’ to persudde the Senate na{: to con firm Clark’s appointment.' Clark lias cited the organization as subversive, i - Text of the telegram ’was ro- leased hire, 1 1 K •H; fj / The telegram: accused the At torney -general i of conducting a “witch hunt” in His anti-Communipt campaign. It also charged, among other things, that he had refused to use the power of his department to “prosecute the plan of any other group wtljiich conspires to lynch or to otherwise discriminate” against negro citizens, i “Instead of furthering these democratic policies by appointing Tom Clark,” the Congress said, “Presideait Truman can advabce American Democracy by appoint ing any one of scores of qualified negro jurists to the office former ly held by Justice Murphy,who was an j ardent champion of the liberties and the constitution Mr. Clark seeks to destroy.” \ i f jl i i y| Parsons Ordered!. 1949 summer cbmp- \ i,r. Duke, together with outstanding cadets frlm the six other ROTC esl was presented to tils |er camp assembly at krtment The|nter. ■ A&M ther A&M men wers ] outstanding cadets in ■|J They were Chester hamedfjs their pis M. Bell, jy., 3rd plato pahy A, infantry; Jbe E. Mi ■ r 3rd platoon of Cqm-1 mm ' - i la toon ofj Company B, ne|l, 3rd hy;1V i, .platooi of Company F, cavalry^ ('unroll F, CpSalL To Leavenworth C were George Harris, James “Red” Duke, Stanley [Beck, Bucko Wyler, , 1.1 Major N. Wj. Parsons, senior Cavalry Instructor at A&M for the last threb years; has been ordered to Command and General Stuff School hi Fort Leavenworth, Kan sas. . •! Major Parsonp will probably be ordered overseas upon cpmpletio of a 10-month course at the school He and his wife and four child ren, will leave here August 20|f will report to Fort Leaven wo ' respective' orchards in producing El Ricking methods, fertilizers, were the major TEXAS —Partly (Moudy fioon, (tonight and ^ ered mostly diy- time thunder showers tibia |r the upper coajst; not mu d h change In; tem perature; ! ifl erate .1 vajrfe winds on t coast. HU WEST AS -TPari!! cloudy [ thtsfi In, temperature: Fivei Get ComrjiisRioha Commisflions as second lieuten ants ip thif Officers Reserve Corps were presi nted to fjve A&M ca dets at tne final exercises. Major General Albert Q.-Smith, commanding general jif the Second Armored/Hivision, handed the cer tificates 7 oil commissipn to Aggi®* Chester Mi Bell, Jit, Leonard O. Col man and Bill C. Nichols of th# inflantry. S /,: '’yiT | Two cavalry cadets also tecehred commission^ from General Smith. They were Albert J. Busch, Jr. and Paul B: Wdlls. In additi in to the outstanding cadet pwan s and the commission- (teg ceremt riles, recognition giyen those | cadets who had winners in inter-camp spoi events during the past six SporJ^ Medals Given The Aggies who were given med als were Wehdy Elliott of Company F for winning thq ROTC ca^np diving championship and Gene Hol lar of Company G for being a! mem ber of the vanning 100 yard relay team* l. . , Bill Billingsley of Company was also given a medal an a mem ' p 200 yard ay team. | polonel, E| H. Keltner, ROTC camp executive officer, made the awards. V^&M raiklrBeb. Speer of Com- pany- Br'mfi ntry, wm a member of the Amp softball championship team and ale > received a medal. Pres denta Attend Present at the final exercises in ditjon to th s ROTC regiment and , rs of he Camp Hood and RDTG camp : faffs were the presi-* dents of thre) ot the schools with cadets \tt® n itig summer camp, Thosfe schools represented by their presidents Xvfere Allen Military Academy, New Mexico Military in stitute and Oklahoma A&M, ! \ At the conclusion of the exor cises the entile ROTC regiment participated ip a final review Tin the camp paifade-grour>d. ^ Arnst Makes Expert V ^ James E. ImstliA&M cavalry cadet attending ROTC summer camp at Camn Hood, was awarded an experts nnklal for the Ml rifl® at ceremonies jiheld during the final days of the sifmmer training. ,j Arnst scor _ possible 210 tb tie for second place jin the cavali place went to Oklahoma Mi (tary Academy w^o scored 192 p tots. Arnst tied vith James E. Gra- alman also of O.M.A. ntad ent J 187 points out 6f 4, ( tie for second place i y companies. /First 1 John F. Hamilton of to all cadets w 'Sharps! The rifle m4dals were ptesent t io qualified at rece range firing 11 Camp Hood, outers Medals 7 Sharpshooters medals were ‘ A&M cadets. They /vyn Glenn Ramey, Duane Strother, Bohr by Lowe, and (Louie Lawson. Joice Cox, tommy Cooper, Del- mar Libby, EM Lueckemeyer r Telrry Anderson, don Kinnisbn, Bill Pumphrey, am) Johnny Gimarc. Raymond" 4 oong, • John Zerr, Holt Magee, James $eed> George Reed, Carroll Cdgan, Bill King, Jack Irish, Bert Reyes, and John Taylor. The rifle me dale were presented by the cbmpan; j commanders of the two cavalry co apatites. Major Ma rio F. Zecca cf the University, of Arizona made„ he presentation foe j Company F, aid M a i° r Heniy B. Greer of A&M awarded the Com* pany G medal ,\\ . [ . Major Greei was one of two A&M-officers Who assisted in the operation of th s 1949 cavalry sum mer camp. Cap ain David J. Moran of A&M was th e 1st platoon leader of Company F Mothers’ Diorm at TSCW Denton, Texi-tA’i—Texaa State College fer Wo mr plans to make it easy for mot ter to be a student. Beginning with the fall session pening Sept. 9, the college wHT set aside one <f the smaller dor mitories lor movers with children.