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PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE j ^
Volume 49
A&MJournaljsts
To Attend Dallas
Newsmen’s Meet
The Journalism Department and
The Battalian anil both be repre
sented at a 4-day convention of
Sigma Delta Chi, professional jour
nalism fraternity, which meets this
week ; in Dallas. (
D. D. Burchard, head of depart-'
ment, and E. A. Newsome will rep
resent the Journalism Department.
The Battalion representatives in
clude co-editors Bill Billingsley
and C. C. Munroe, Dave Coslett,
feature editor, Clayton Selph, man
aging editor, and George Charlton,
member of the editorial board.
Vic Lindley of the Bryan News
will also attend.
Theme of the thirtieth annua}
gathering of the fraternity will be
"Appraisal of Free and Respon
sible Press." The meeting will bej
held in the Baker Hotel.
Discussions Scheduled
Three panel discussions‘and more
than a dozen talks by leaders in
the profession on ethics, fights, and
duties of journalism are scheduled.
Wednesday, the members will
regisier, and will tour The Dallaa
ning News, the Daily Times
Herald, Radio Station WFAA and
Television Station KBTV.
Texas Attorney General Price
Daniel will welcome the group at
its first business session at 9 a. m.
Thursday. Ted Barrett of- The
News, president of the Dallas chap
ter 6f the fraternity, will introduce
the national president. [tNeal Von
Sooy, California editor and pub*
lisher. Yj'.,- | I
The president of The News, E,
M. (Ted) Dealey, will speak at a
Thursday luncheon, which will be
followed by a forum on press
ethics. Taking part in this discus
sion will be Bernard J. Kilgore of
the Wall Street Journal; Mason
Rossiter Smith of the Gouverneur,
N. Y., Tribune; and Professor*
Floyd Arpan of Norwestern Uni
versity.
R. L. Norton, president of the
Mercantile Bank in Dallas, will
speak at a luncheon Friday.
Editors to Talk
Other speakers that day will in
clude Oscar Stauffer, editor of
Topeka, Kan., Journal; Joe T. Cook
of the Mission, Texas, Times; A.
Gayle Waldrop, director of the Col
lege of Journalism University of
.Colorado; Merrill Mueller, manager
of the London office of the Nation
al Broadcasting Company; Charles
Campbell, director of the British
Information Service in the United
States; Miguel Lanr Duret, pub
lisher of El Universal of Mexico
City; and Frank Bartholomew of
the United Press in San Francis
co.
Grove Patterson, editor iri chief
of the Toledo, Ohio, Blade, will
speak at the closing session Satur*
day. Presentation of honor awards
will be made at that time.
mT.T.F.GE STATION (Aggidand), TEXAS TUESDAy, NOVEMBER 15, 1949
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Editor Speaks i
To journalists
Robert W. Akers, editor of
the Beaumont Journal, will
speak on “Responsible News
paper Leadership” at a jour
nalism assembly at 7:30 p. m.
Tuesday in the YMCA Assembly
Room, according to Donald D. Bur
chard, - Journalism Department
head.
Akers is a prominent figure in
East Texas journalism. Recognized
as a crusading editor and one of
the best thinkers in this part of
the country, he also is known as
aiY excellent speaker, Burchard
said, i' ,
This assembly is part of the
Journalism Department program of
bringing important figures in the
dommunications business to the
campus. The meeting will be open
to anyone interested, and all stu
dents taking journalism are ex
pected to attend, said Burchard.
Powers Speaks
Tonight at 8
Dr. LeRoy Powers will
speak on “Some Contributions
of Applied Genetics to Crop
Improvements” in the Physics
lecture room, at 8 p. in. to
night. The lecture is sponsored by
Sigma Xi and is open to the pub
lic.
Dr. Powers is presently a dis-,
tinguished professor in genetics.
He will give a series of lectures
listed as a new course, Genetics
613. He is also consulting with
staff members and graduate stu
dents on basic research problems
in cotton and on new improved
techniques and is a member of Sig
ma Xi.
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The speaker received his B. S.
degree from Montana State Col
lege, his' M. S. from Washington
State College and his Ph. D. from
ith^' University of; Minnesota. He
has been associate professor of
plant genetics at the University of
Minnesota; senior geneticist of the
USDA , horticultural field Station
at Cheyenne, Wyoming; principal
geneticist, head of plant breeding
division of the USDA guayule re
search project,. Salinas, Califor
nia and plant breeder for Soreckels
Sugar Company, Soreckels, Cali
fornia. •
In 1946, he became senior gene
ticist and principal geneticist at
the USDA Horticultural field sta
tion at Cheyenne from which posi
tion he is oh leave.
Dr. Sylvia Cover is secretary-
treasurer of Sigma Xi Club.
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"That’s my husband" were the happy words of Mrs. Hugh M.
Wallace Thursday night when Hugh Wallace was announced as
one of the winners of a $300 Borden Company scholarships. Mrs.
Wallace knew that Hugh had won the grant, but, until his name
was called out In the Chemistry Lecture Room, Hugh did not.
Missing from the picture is Julie Jeanette, young daughter of the
Wallace’s but she Is reported just as pleased as her mother ap
pears to be. • i
Nation’s Engineering Schools
Can Provide Atom Scientists
Number 43
Russia Planning War By 1
Nyaradi Tells Guion Audienc
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Dog and Pet Show ®
Tonight in Pavilion
The A&M Consolidated School’s
tenth annual Dog and Pet Show
will be held tonight in the Animal
Husbandry Pavilion.
In conjunction with the pet show,
a community supper will be held
for adults and children. Prepara
tions for the affair have been
made for a crowd of one thousand.
The pet show is sponsored an
nually by the Mothers and Dads
Club of A&M Consolidated. Pro
ceeds derived from tickets and
food sales will be used for the
benefit of the school.
Admission to the show has been
set as 25 cents for adults and 10
cents for children. Tickets will go
on sale at 6 p. m.
All pets belonging to children
between the first and eighth grades
are eligible to be entered in the
show. Deadline for entering pets
was 6:30 p. m. yesterday. No ele
phants have .been entered; calves
constitute the largest entry.
The show will get underway with
a parade of entries at 7 p. m.
and the child showing the best de
corated animal will be awarded a
prize.
Second event on the program will
be the judging of pets. Ribbons will
be awarded 1 for four places in each
class of pita. Grooming and hand
ling are the bases upon which all
The nation’s engineering schools
will probably be able to meet all
the demands likely to be made on
them with the development of the
atomic power industry, Dr. Ken
neth H. Kingdon, assistant direc
tor of-the General Electric Re
search Laboratory, declared re
cently at a meeting of the Engin
eering College Administrative
Council of the American Society for
Engineering Education. . |
Dr. Kingdon, who heads the
Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory
operated by the G-E Research
Laboratory for the Atomic Energy
Commission, said that the great
majority of the technical people
needed in the atomic power field
in the future will require the same
sort of training now being given
in chemistry, physics, engineering
and metallurgy. Perhaps, he added,
not more than 10 per cent will .re
quire more specialized knowledge
of nuclear physics.
Most of this will have to be ob
tained on the job, rather than in
the universities, he said, because
security and expense considera
tions will prevent colleges from in
stalling- the experimental atomic
reactors or ’’furnaces” and other
equipment and materials needed
for such training.
Even a larger group than the
10 per cent with specialized know
ledge In nuclear physics, Dr. King
don said, will need practical know
ledge on the handling of radioac
tive materials in bulk. This group
will consist of chemists, chemical
engineers and health physicists,
and their knowledge, too, will
probably have to be obtained in the
job. i •
The G-E scientist stated that se
curity regulations, concerning ac
cess to the laboratory and the
safe-guarding of confidential ma
terials and decuments, have been
less troublesome than originally
anticipated.
Dr. Kingdon wnnred the educa
tors that' the men required for
atomic energy development will be
concerned with radically new deve
lopments, and there will none of
the type of engineering which con
sists largely of looking up known
information in the standard hand
books.
‘‘Many of the men should be
young," he declared, “with the
fresh viewpoint enthusiasm char
acteristic of youth. These should be
leavened with a sprinkling of more
experienced people to supply a
background of mature engineering
judgement. With a competent staff
of this sort, and with the sub
stantial financial backing which
the government is giving to this
enterprise, satisfactory progress
should be made during the next few
years."
Team Hustled All the Way
Seniors Last Corps Trip Best Yet>
Battalion Moll on Weekend Proves
BY C. C. MUNROE
; Did you catch up on your sleep
/on the corps trip? One man did, be
lieve it or not.
Did you think the Aggies were
well, received in Houston? The
majority of students questioned in
a Battalion poll yesterday thought
they were. >
What about the ball game the
Aggies played ? Every one of the
more than 100 men questioned on
the poll thought the team turned
in one of its best performance^ of
the year. .
But the team performance wap
the only subject concerning the
corps trip on which there was com
plete agreement
The shindig at the Shamrock,
which was the private baby of
the campus Houston A&M Club
under president Gerald Monks,
must have been one of the biggest
successes of the weekend accord
ing to comments given yesterda]
Typical was Herb Frede'i
mark “The party at the Shar
was one of the best parties i I’ve
been on since I came to A&M."
Frede is a senior business Jnajor
in D Flight
Commenting on football, Frede
said the team played a “damn good
game". On the corps trip itself,
“It was my last one, but it wgs
[the. best"
r “Doggy” McClure of A Infi
try was another who
the Houston corps trip
finest he’d ever been on. Aa
for the game, “It was the beat
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thought
was the
the team has played this year."
“Doggy" is a senior business
major from Corpus Christi. ii
An A Vet senior, Dick Wall,
commented, “Rice has lots of pow
er. Those boys Watson and Wil
liams are all they’re cracked up to
be, too.’ r
On the Aggie performance, which
Wall said was good, he singled out
Max Greiner as ‘‘really putting on
a good performance, as usual.”
‘‘We should have had yell prac
tice," was the comment of A. P.
Trevino, senior dairy husbandry
major in C Troop. Trevino wak
found in his room playing a guitar
while several of the C Troop meii
stood around singing.
“Bucko” Wyler one of the loud
est if not the best singer of the
group in Trevino’s room said,
“It was a terrific game, Liipp-
man’s guide kick was'a real sur
prise, the plays all clicked too.”
“The party at the Shamrock was
also good.” W;
mander of the outfit, and is al bus-
fyler said. He is com-
iness major from El Paso.
Over in the cadet reception cen
ter (guard room to the uninitiated)
the corporals of the guard both
had comments on the game.
R. F. Price, a pre-law major
from D Field, said, “We had noth
ing to be ashamed of. We made
a few mistakes at the wrong time,
but showed a lot of improvement
dyer the first of the season.”
’' The' other corporal of the guard,
Frank Manitsas who covered the
game for The Battalion, said, “
was well pleased with the team."
Regarding Houston, Manitzas
said he thought the city showed the
Aggies a good time.
The tactical officer for yesterday,
Captain Lester Stiles, pointed out
that the team “was really hustling.”
All in all,, he said is was a fine
weekend with a good ball game.
Ed Haines, senior business ma
jor in B Vet, said he thought the
Houston reception wasn't as
“respectful" as it should have
been. One exception he pointed
out was the Empire Room at the
Rice Hotel.
"They really treated us fine
there, and they didn’t up the price
like a lot of other places did,”
Haines said.
He also commented that even
without midnight yell practice the
weekend turned mut fine.
“Skip” Lewie, a senior civil en
gineering major in C Flight, said
he was proud of Houston and proud
of the corps. “It was a tribute
to the school that we showed up so
well/ 1
Talking of the ball game, Lewie
added, “The boys fought hard and
that’s all that counts. They put
out all they had." [ '
Another C. Flight cadet, Captain
Lamar Walker, said he thought
that the corps “impressed Houston
with the parade. It was a mighty
good game, tod.” he commented.
Doyle Avant, cadet colonel of
the corps, was stopped on his way
to Dormitory 12. “I got more
sleep this put weekend than
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be judged. Each child is
enter his own pet
anksgiving turkey Will
be given avtay at 8 p. m.
Animals have been divided in
the following classifications:
Dogs—
1. Large, long-haired pure bred
dogs (over 20 Um.)
2. Large, short-haired,^ pure
bred dogs (under 20 lbs.)
3. Small, (long-haired), pure
bred dogs (under 20 lbs.)
4. Small, short-haired, pure
bred dogs (under 20 1m.) , [,
5. Large, long-haired, Heinz
variety dogs (over 20 lb&)
7. Small, long-haired, Heinz-
variety dogs (under 2(T lbs.)
8. Small, short-haired^ Heinz
variety dogs (under 20 lbs.)
9. Special-dog tricks demon
strated (dogs entered in classed
1-8 may also be entered .In this
class.)
10. Cats; 11 Rabbits;. 12 Other
pets (birds, fish, turtles, etc.; 13.
Pets weighing over 200 pounds
(Horses, ponies, calves, ele
phants, etc.) ’ ii
Mrs. Eugene Rush, president of
the Mothers and Dads Club, and
R. G. Perryman, general chairman
of the dog and pet show, appointed
the following members to their
respective duties: Fred Brison, bus
iness manager; Mrs. Virgil Ber
nard, concessions; Dr. William D.
Lumb, judge; Mrs. J. R. Couch,
ticket sales; Gordon Gay, regi^-
tration of pets; Col. Joe Davis and
Sgt Alton French, public address
syatam.
Sam Cleveland, signs; “Nicky”
Ponthieux, entertainment; “Ike”
Dahlberg, pavilion and equipment;
Margaret Rogers, ribbons; Mrs.
A. L^Parrack, poster construction}
—
onald Burchard, publicity.
anytime this year. The rest and
relaxation was really fine."
Avant had just come from a
talk with the captain of an Aggie
team which had beat Texas Uni
versity twice in the same year, L.
W. Hamilton, ’10.
“Mr Hamilton was in the same
dorm with General George F.
Moore when he was a student here,”
Avant said. “They were good
friend’s.”
When Hamilton was captain of
the Aggie team they whipped
Texas 13 to 0 at the beginning of
the year and 5 to 0 later the same
season.
“The men on that team will be
on the campus for the TU game
next week,” Avant said. Those that
can make it will be here for the
bonfire, too, he added.
Charlie Modisett, commander
of Company A, ABA, said he
missed not having yell practice.
“Otherwise, It was » damn good
weekend and a fine ball game."
Bob Cox was officer of the
day when the poll was taken was
in the reception room. He said,
“I thought the whole weekend was
one of the best I have ever spent.
It looks as if the team has ‘ar
rived’. The dance at the Shamrock
couldn’t have been better. The only
thing we needed was more room.”
Cox is a senior accounting maj
or in Battery A, CAC. i „
George Harris, a senior business
major in A Troop, said, “That
Shamrock party was fine.” Com
menting on the team, he said, “The
(See CORPS TRIP, Page 4)
Ivan B. Nevill
B&A Students
To Hear Nevill
Ivan B. Nevill, purchasing
agent for the Cameron Iron
Works of Houston, will spfe&k
to classes in Salesmanship
and Sales Management Wed
nesday and Thursday, according
to Professor Ernest R, Bulow of
the Business and Accounting De
partment.
Nevill wiH speak to each sec
tion of Salesmanship and Sale*
Management, Bulow stated, and
his subject will be “From The Cus
tomer's Viewpoint."
A past president of the Houston
Association of Purchasing Agents,
Nevill Is now serving as u mem
ber of the Local Education Com
mittee of. that group and haa
served one year aa chairman of
the program committee. He was
formerly purchasing agent and as
sistant secretary for the Oil Center
Tool Company of Houston.
In 1943, Nevill was elected na
tional director of the Purchasing
Agents Association and this spring
was appointed chairman of the
education committee for District
No. 2 of the National Association
of Purchasing Agents for a three-
year term.
Bulow concluded by stating that
all students interested in hearing
Nevill talk were welcomed to at
tend any of the Sales or Sales
Management classes.
Dinner Club Meets
In Sbisa Tursday
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The Employees Dinner Club will
hold its first dinner of the season
at 6:46 p. in. Thursday in Sbisa
gait
The club, which has been in exis
tence for a number of years and
meeting regularly since 1946, func
tions to give system employees a
chance to become better acquainted.
It maintains no formal membership
roster and assesses no dues.
Tickets for the dinner Thursday
are available at the Aggieland Inn,
and must be purchased by noon,
Wednesday.
Corps Review S
Set Tomorrow f
The only full corps review of;
the semester will be held We<£
ne^day afternoon on the j Main
Drill Field, Herman Dietrich,
corps operations officer, said
today. , ] : ' | I Tfi
Both the Maroon and the
White bands will participate.
Adjutant’s call is scheduled at
4:35 p. m.
This will be the only corps
review for the semester, Diet-
erich said, because of the full
schedule of weekend activities
and the extended Thanksgiving
and Christmas holidays.
Colonel H. L.'Boatner, PMS-
&T, and officials from Fourth
Army headquarters will review
the corps.
e former Fi-
ia plans for
and preparedness bases for bis conclusion
nance Minister of Hungary jauggested t
war by the endof 1951.
The basic theory of Marxism! as int^rp]
down by Lenin says that war is inevitable. I
she must lead the world revolution against
non-communist imperialism,” Nyaradi saiil.
Russian preparedness for;a future;war hap been delayed,
v Y 2 ].—-V-f——*but hot: destroyed by American
;ted and laid
ua feels that
ipitalism and
School Board
Will Discuss .1
Text Dispute |
Austin, Tex. Nov. 15, (/P)
—The State Board of Educa
tion meets today and may
delve into Houston’s dispute
over a civics textbook, j. --a;
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The Houston school board on Oct.
.25 voted tojmn the civics textbook
"American Government" because
Jt found a paragraph in the 1947
edition objectionable.!
Board Member Ewing Werlinh
said he feared, the paragraph
might cause high school youngsters
“to think socialism iand commun
ism gcrad.”
The textbook was written by Dr.
Frank Magruder, retired Oregon 1
State history professor.
The paragraph came from the
.1947 revision of the book. Tlje
paragraph is Ynot included in the
1945 version, also ih use iin high
school here. Bik aimiliar material
is included in a tpotnote.
There was only one negative vote
against banning the book. At the
time Werlein said the\entire matter
probably would be sailed at the
Nov. 14 meeting of the^tate Text
book Committee.
Since the question cai
new State Board; of E
ha* been elected. It-haa-
taken office, and whether thlf qld
board will leave the problem' ;of
what textbooks will or will not fye
used to it is not known. jV
The paragraph which offended
the Houston School Board says:
“The United States is called
a capitalistic country, but it does
not have pure capitalism. It has
capitalism subject to increasing
governmental control as ogr man
ner of living becomes more com
plex. The country is capitalistic
with strong socialistic and even
communistic trends. The postal sys
tem, power projects, and progres
sive taxes are bits of socialism; ajid
public free education and old age
assistance are examples of com
munism ... to each according to
his need."
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Magruder said the paragraph was
intended “merely a« a philosophic
definition of cqmmqnism ttnd soc
ialism."
The 1949 edition Of the book does
not contain the paragraph:
counter smasiires in Europe during
the past; year. The Truman doc-
kring^HurMarshgll Plan, the Ber
lin air lift—these have given help j
and encouragement to .millions of M
Europeans, but the Russia;* plan
for world domination has not been ; U
seriously upXet, Nyaradi told the j;
audiOnce; "I'M I'i'li
By thp end! of; 1951 Russia plans I tT.
to have'completed her (1) building
up of satallite jinnies, (2) stock
piling of raw materials to be used
in the pext war], (3) coordination
of the : industr|al economic five
yea.r plans of hejr own and Her sat
ellite natioiis, Nyaradi asserted.
This time-table: was set without
any plans Of outside assistance.
American cancellation of the send- ;
ing of; strategic raw materials, j. J
machine topis,; and machines to > |
Russia was anticipated, he Claimed. ‘ j
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Nyaradi }old! the group of the •
USSR’k war potential -“Russia now ;
has an armif ojf 5,000,000. She can i
raise a combat! army of 14,000,000. j
She can, in the event of war place j
10fc of her population under arms." -
But manpdweif alone is not the :
story jof Russia’s strength. “Her'
industry, and Hhe industry she has:
gained from sjatallite nations, can:
equip that army. Not with fine sup-;
plies like tjhe Americijn army has,;
but With weapons tlmt gre crude!
but work yery .effectively.”
Russian naval preparedness re-:
lies solely, on: modern submarines!
patterned after German World!
War II models. In fact, he said:
German engilneers and scientist*!
are *yorkifig with the Russians irt jj
the develppmjent of all types of
for balanced and responsible
r the proMhttday
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The rwpikt was unanimously rtfk-
prdydll Iby th« chapter after dill,
cuipilun add amendnkhts • were
made, Brooks said. It wds prepared
W. A. Wentworth, director of Public Relatione, and aec- fc feWtSte cimmitt™ «
rden Foundation, apoke In Qulon Hall Thufe- i i m „ Tw||
«n by I’r
it Hurtle
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wpr
r Thf Russ
doesj not
elerni a«d equlpmeiu. ,,
dart air force, he believe*!f
possess a long range 1 /
bomber other than models copied
from wartime American B-29V '
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New Curricula K
Endorsed-Here
A formal report recorpj-
mending ^ broader curricula I i ;
at A&M was approved Thurp- j
day by the local chapter of
the American Association of
yniversity Professors.
The report will 1
Prasident Frank C.
S. Brooks, chapter
aaijl todiy. | - •
The primary objective of tl e
recommendations contained in |bu
report, Rrobks said, is “to^broadiju
the curricula at this Institution n
order W» better prepare
submitted to
olton, Melvin
ice-president,
Agriculture School Students
Hear Wentworth on Controls
W. A; Wentworth, director of Public Relttionn, u><
reUry of the Borden Foundation, epoke In Guion
i*y morning on aoll oonaemtion and government control lot .ivS
aplcultural producte, before the etudenta of the School 'of Brl Jn .fth
a °»He. of .rich addre^, ^
agriculture to be held throughout JjV’
the year.
Wentworth said that today’s
graduates of agricultural colleges,
such aa A&M, will be the leaders
in the field of agriculture in years
to come. When he was attending
Iowa State College, neither he nor
the other member^ ofj his class
could visualize the change and ad
vancement that was to come about
in agriculture.
» He said that there would be as
great a change if not greater, in
the next forty years as there has
been in the past forty.;
Soil Conservation
“One of the most important
things that agriculture, or the na
tion, is confronted by, is the prob
lem of soli conservation,” stated
Wentworth. ; '
In Texas there is much room for
the dairy industry
atantially, and in
this state, the demand for milk
and milk products has exceeded the
supply by a wide margin. One
third of the milk consumed In Tex
as is brought in from northern
states, said Wentworth.
Last Year’s production
Last year, In the United States
there was produced 115 billion
pounds of milk, 36 billion pounds
of live animals for pork and beef
consumption, and 12 billion pounds
of poultry and eggs.
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halftime
this year for
Band in the Land" pulls onto the Rice
afternoon to give football fans
Stadium gridiron ^
an unmatt-hahle
formation was introduced
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