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PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Nation’s Top
Safety Section
Lumberman’s 1949 Contest
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Number 21: Volume 50
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1950
Price: Five Ceuta
Firemen’s Training
School in 21st Meet
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The Twenty-first annual Pire-
merr's Training School, conducted
at A&M by the Industrial Exten
sion Service, got underway Monday,
with 620 firemen and instructors
on hand for the five-day course. 1
Most of those present are at
tending for the first time and are
enrolled in the general basic
course. However, an advanced
course for firemen who had at
tended the school before and a
course for fire marshals also are
offered.
“Do I>y Doing”
After a short assembly session
which began at 8:15 a. m., the
firemen went out into the field to
learn to do by doing. Less than
an hour each day is being devoted
to indoors programs.
^ Laboratory for the Firemen’s
Training School is an open field
adjacent to College View housing
area north of the campus. It is
equipped with oil pits, butane gas
tanks, hay stacks, railroad ties,
piles of rubber and small buildings,
all of which will go up in smoke.
A new “fire retardant” paint is
being tested by the firefighters,
who set fire to structures coated
Over 70 Attend
First Clinic For
•ortswriters
Texas A&M’s first annual
college sports publicity clinic
began Monday at 8 a.m. in the
football lecture room on Kyle
Field.
Over 70 Texas sportswriters,
sports announcers, and college pub
licity men attended the two-day
meeting, which is under the spon-
ship of Dub King, sports publicity
director at A&M.
Learned authorities in the var
ious phases of sports publicity con
veyed their ideas for the benefit
of those gathered.
“The meeting also furnished an
ideal opportunity for writers, an
nouncers, an(| publicity men to ex
change information about the col
leges represented,” King said.
From 9:30 to 10 a. m. George
Fall, editor of the Caldwell News,
told the group what the editor of
a weekly newspaper wants from
college publicity men.
Beginning at 10:30, King gave a
45-minute address on “Sports Pub
licity Pictures.”
Bill Sansing, representative of
Wilkinson, Schwiwetz, and Tips
Advertising Agency of Houston,
concluded Monday morning’s ac
tivity, discussing “Operation in the
press Box.”
Bill Rives, sports editor of the
Dallas Morning News, told the
group “What the Sports Editor of
a Metropolitain Daily Expects from
the College Publicist.”
At 2:15 yesterday afternoon,
Jack Proctor, editor of the Cle
burne Times Review, discussed,
“What the Editor of an Average
Size Daily Wants from the Col
lege Publicist.”
Evans ended yesterday’s pro
gram with “Developing the Fea
ture Story.”
The successful meeting ended to
day at noon after addresses were
made this morning by Houston
Press Sports Editor Clark Nealon,
Sports Announcer Tommy O’Brien,
Holmes, and King.
with the new type paint and the
conventional type, compare the two
fires and methods of putting them
out.
Burn Oil, Gas
Thousands of gallons of oil and
gasoline will be burned during the
school, as the firemen study meth
ods of bringing oil and gasoline
fires under control with a dry
powder, plain water and “wet
water”—water containing a deter
gent.
Methods of controlling butane
fires, rubber fires and others also
are being studied.
In conducting the Firemen’s
Training School, the instructors
and firemen are seeking to pre
serve a 20-year perfect record,
with no injuries to students or in
structors.
The school is held under aus
pices of the State Firemen’s and
Fire Marshals’ Association. H. R.
Brayton of the Industrial Ex
tension Service is director of the
school.
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“Put on an old pair of shoes, and we’ll go bowling
down the alley . . .” But there won’t be any old
shoes at the new Memorial Student Center lanes,
scheduled to open in September. Air-conditioned
and with eight alleys, the bowling center is await
ing only the arrival of boxes of shoes. An elec
tric-eye foul line will keep your score down, but
other over-all modern conveniences will make
bowling a real pleasure.
City Council Annexes
South Side Property
By JOEL AUSTIN
The College Station City Coun
cil, meeting in regular sessiion last
night at the City Hall, adapted or
dinances 147, and 148 which pro
vided for annexation of the south
east College Park area and a strip
of land embodied along the south
ern extremities of College Station.
The vote was unanimously ap
proved by the four councilmen pre
sent at the meeting. In admitting
the adjacent property to the city,
the council promised no immediate
sewer and water improvements un
til the later part of the year, or
such time as these improvements
could be made. However, police pro
tection and other city services will
be made available to the residents
of the new area immediately, the
council promised.
New Water Schedule
The council also instructed the
City Manager to prepare and pre-
Korea at a Glance |
By Associated Press
Tokyo, July 11—UP)—Jet fighters, streaking in with
rockets and machineguns, today seared Communist North
Korean supply lines feeding the blazing 45-mile wide front
south of Seoul.
The biggest air armada since World War II—Almost 300
warplanes—-left roads, bridges and railroads strewn with
crippled and knocked out equipment.
General MacArthur in his communique said 65 tanks and
218 other Red vehicles were destroyed or damaged by the
fighters and bombers.
The Far East Air Forces, in a later communique, cut
the figure to 39 tanks, apparently finding duplicate reports
on some sorties.
Korean Tanks Hit Unit
With American forces in Korea, July 11—UP)—Tank led
North Korean infantrymen charged out of an early morning
fog today and drove at lea,st one American unit out of its
entrenched positions.
The Red thrust followed an earlier American assault
which had recovered some ground and positions lost pre
viously to the Communists.
Up to 11 tanks paced the Red attack, some driving into
positions behind U.S. riflemen who first met the Commun
ist lunge.
u Hope and Pray”—Rickenbacker
“We are sitting on a keg of
All we can do is hope and
Los Angeles, July 11—UP)-
powder. Anything can happen,
pray.”
That’s Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker’s view of the Korean
war. While he told a Town Hall audience here yesterday that
he didn’t think it likely that Russia would start World War
III at this time, Rickenbacker added:
“If we should force Communism north of the 38th par
allel in Korea, Russia might have to save face and risk a gen
eral war.”
Rickenbacker was in Russia and had many contacts
with Russian officials during World War II.
Egypt Supports U.N.—With Words
Cairo, Egypt, July 11—UP)—Egypt today announced her
open support of the West in the world struggle against Com
munism. She called North Korea’s attack on South Korea an
act of aggression and said she approved the United Nations
decision denouncing it.
But a carefully-worded statement by Foreign Minister
Mohamed Salah Eddin Bey maintained the Nile kingdom’s re
fusal to support the U.N. Security Council’s decision to use
action instead of words in Korea.
‘Economy’ Set
As Platform For
Shivers’ Race
Mission, Tex., July 11—
(AP)—“Economy” will be
Gov. Allan Shivers’ campaign
platform.
It will include economies of
four major items: money, soil, wat
er and human resources.
“That platform covers a lot of
ground, and I believe in it,” the
governor said last night in a
speech prepared for statewide radio
delivery on the last day of his
first year in the governor’s of
fice.
“It was on July 11, 1949, that
the shocking news came of Beau-
ford Jester’s untimely death. Since
that time I have done my best to
conduct the affairs of the gov-
enfor’s office as I thought the peo
ple of Texas wanted them conduct
ed,” he said, adding:
* “I entered upon these duties in
a spirit of humility and with a
deep sense of obligation to the
State of Texas. I asked for the
guidance of God and the help of
the people in meeting the respon
sibilities of this office.
“Tonight, a year later, I feel the
same way about it.”
The governor said the year had
brought him “some difficult as
signments and some troublesome
decisions.”
He Aaid he considered the in
auguration of “a decent state hos
pital program” as the most signi
ficant step of the past 12 months.
“We have not solved the state
hospital problem for good and all.
It will be with us always. But we
have made a good start, and I am
proud of the fact that their start
was made during my first year in
the governor’s office,” he said.
Ag Engineering
Class to Tour
Roy C. Garret, agricultural en
gineering professor, will take an
agricultural engineering 602 class
to Reisel on Thursday. The seven
graduate students in the class will
be gone for two days.
A&M Cadet Slain;
Youth Confesses
San Antonio, July 11—(Special)
—The slayer of Jack Solether, sen
ior A&M student who was attend
ing Air Force RQTC camp at Kelly
Air Force Base, gave an oral con
fession to Sheriff Owen Kilday
here Monday.
Solether, a 23-year-old veteran
student from Weslaco, was dead
upon arrival at
the Baptist Me
morial hospital
here early Mon
day. He had
been stabbed
seven times in
a fight at the
V.O. Club at
Von Ormy, near
San Antonio.
Six hours af
ter the dead
cadet was
brought itjto the
emergen-
Solether C y room at the
hospital, deputies arrested Arvin
Popham, 18, at a room at the
YMCA.
Sheriff Kilday questioned Pop-
ham for nearly two hours and then
announced the youth had made an
oral confession to him. Deputy
Tony Morin filed a charge of mur
der with malice before Justice of
the Peace M. D. Jones.
Private William Chase of San
Antonio, on leave from Keesler Air
Force Base in Mississippi, told the
story of the altercation to the sher
iff.
Chase, who had known Popham
for two' years, said he and Pop
ham arrived at club in Von Ormy
about 10 Sunday night.
At the club, Chase met Solether,
At the Grove
Tonight
8 p.m.—Deep River Jubilee Quar
tet, special attractions—outstand
ing negro male singing organiza
tion, “master of southern har
mony.” Students, faculty and
staff, and college employees will be
admitted. Students must present
student activity fee slip.
whom he had known during the
war. The pair walked outside to
talk. Chase said he went outside
with Solether, and Popham follow
ed them later, starting to “butt in”
on the conversation.
“Jack told him to quit butting in
and then Popham cursed Jack,”
Chase said. “Then Jack cursed
Popham. At this time, Popham
threw a beer battle on the ground
and started swinging at Jack.”
Falls to Ground
“I tried to separate them but I
couldn’t. All of a sudden 1 saw
Jack fall to the ground. Then Pop
ham struck Jack again while he
was on the ground. Jack didn’t
move anymore,” Chase said.
Chase told officers of Popham’s
coming to him, carrying a hunting
knifci in his right hand. The knife
Was bloody, Chase said.
Popham told Chase “Let’s get
going.” “I knew he meant busi
ness,” Chase said, “so we got in
my car and headed for San An
tonio.”
Solether would have been a sen
ior student at A&M this fall. He
was recently named wing adjutant
at the Air Force ROTC summer
camp at Kelly Air Force Base.
New Vet Med Prof
Joins Department
Dr. Henry J. Ruebke began his
duties as assistant professor of the
Bacteriology and Hygiene Depart
ment in the School of Veterinary
Medicine last week.
A native of Ada, Minn., Dr.
Ruebke attended North Dakota
College in 1939-40. After being
graduated from Iowa State Col
lege with the degree of D. V. M.
in 1943, Dr. Ruebke practiced vet
erinary medicine in Ada until 1947.
During 1947-50, Dr. Ruebke
taught veterinary anatomy, bac
teriology, and hygiene at Iowa
State College until he obtained
his M. S. degree in Bacteriology
there in June, 1950.
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Pat Newton of the First State Bank & Trust Company presents
to Gayle Klipple of College Station the winner’s trophy of the 220
intedmediate freestyle event. Looking on are second and third
place winners, David McComb and David Foard, both of Golfcrest.
All of the ’trophies used in the meet were donated by College
Station and Bryan merchants. Klipple also won the 100 freestyle
setting a new record of 59.0.
I Think I Feel a Draft
Defense Department to Draft 20,000
Washington, July 11—(JP)— A
call for 20,000 Army draftees “at
the. earliest possible date” went out
from the Defense Department yes
terday.
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, di
rector of Selective Service, told
newsmen that 25-year-olds will be
called first.
Hershey said it will take about
60 days to start delivering men
under the draft. He said his
College students eligible for
the draft will be deferred until
the end of the academic year,
according to Congressman Olin
E. Teague, representative for the
Sixth Congressional District( in
cluding Brazos County.)
Teague wired The Battalion
yesterday in reply to questions
concerning the draft status of
A&M students. Veterans with
more than 90 days service are not
subject to the present act,
Teague said.
agency could—if necessary—fur
nish up to 300,000 men within 90
days.
On Capitol Hill, lawmakers gen
erally said they were not sur
prised at the Army’s speedy use
of the draft despite an apparently
brighter trend in the battle of
Red-invaded South Korea.
“Now that we are in this thing,
we have to have the men to make
the operation successful,” com
mented Senator Taft (R-Ohio).
“I had hoped they could be ob
tained on a volunteer basis, but if
they can’t the draft will have to
be used.”
The Defense Department said in
a statement that the draft call—
the first since January 1949—was
required to meet the manpower
ceiling approved by President Tru
man last week. The exact figures
of the total increase have been
kept secret. Military officials are
relying heavily on volunteers to
reach its goal.
The military high command also
announced that Gen. Lawton J.
Collins, Army Chief of Staff, and
Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Air
Chief of Staff, would leave tonight
for Tokyo to confer with General
Douglas MacArthur on the Ko
rean war situation.
300,000 Above 22
Draft Chief Hershey told a news
conference shortly before the De
fense Department’s announcement
was issued that if the draft call
goes as high as 300,000 men, he
believes they can be found without
dipping into the pool of men under
age 22.
Only men aged 19 to 25 inclu
sive may be drafted under the
present Selective Service Act, as
authorized by Congress. The law
says every American male must
register on his 18th birthday, al
though he cannot be drafted until
he becomes 19.
At the time of the news confer
ence, Hershey said he had no in
dication when, if, or how big the
draft calls would some.
He said that in the event of a
large-scale call such as 300,000
men, the bulk of the drafters
would probably come from the 23
and 22-year-old age groups.
He explained that not many
men can be drawn from the 25 to
24 age brackets, because many of
them are exempted veterans of
World War II.
Class 1-A First
Hershey said there are 1,466,-
629 in class 1-A—those who have
not been deferred for any reason—
but he said:
“I have no illusions. I served as
director of this (draft) outfit dur
ing the last, war, and I found we
always had to have six or eight
people in 1-A to deliver one man.”
He said many of those in 1-A
would have to be reclassified be
cause some may have wives and
children by now and will be en
titled to appeal for deferment.
Hershey also told reporters there
are now 3,600 local draft boards,
compared with 6,443 in World War
II, and said the system’s 36,000
unpaid employees should be doubled
or perhaps tripled.
The Selective Service director
predicted that any calls would be
small at first. He noted that the
armed forces now have 1,458,400
men and cannot go above 2,005,882
without the consent of Congress.
President Truman has authority
to call up reserves and National
Guardsmen to fill out the total,
if needed. He has made no move to
do so.
AF Yolunteers
Meanwhile, the Air Force said
that in seeking to fill its needs
with volunteers from Reserves and
former Air Force men, it will fol
low this procedure:
1. Officers who possess critical
military occupational specialities
may request recall into active ser
vice for one year, taking the rank
they held before they left the
service.
2. Qualified enlisted men in the
active reserves may also request
recall for a year. They will take
the grade they now hold in the
reserve.
Even before the draft call went
out, President Truman summoned
eight Republican and Democratic
senators to a White House con
ference tomorrow morning.
sent to a special meeting of the
council to be held not later than
July 20 an effective and efficient
schedule of rates in accordance
with those recently established by
the city of Bryan.
The proposal, which was present
ed by Councilman Robert Hal-
prin, would make the water rates
much lower during the summer and
warm fall months when excessive
water consumption is demanded for
grass and shrubs in the residential
areas.
Sam Nevelow of the Twin-Meter
Company and Paul Jones of the
Duncan Meter Company were al
lowed a few minutes to discuss
their parking meters with the
council members. No action was
taken on the parking meter situa
tion.
Telephone Rates Established
Several miscellaneous matters
were attended to at the meeting.
An ordinance was passed estab
lishing the new increased telephone
rates which will become effective
D. B. Gofer
Cofer, professor of the English
Department, has been named of
ficial archivist for the college.
Post Office In
M S C to Hold
3,200 Boxes
Near 3,200 boxes will be in
stalled in the new Memorial
Student Center post office, T.
O. Walton, postmaster of Col
lege Station, said this morn
ing.
With the opening of the MSC
this fall, the post office at the
Campus Corner will be closed,
Walton said. Prices will be the
same at the new post office. They
are $1 for small boxes, $1.50 for
medium boxes, and $2 for large
boxes.
Prices are for a quarter of the
year—three months—rather than
for one month, Walton said. Many
students have erroneously thought
the price was for only one month,
he added.
Company mail service, as con
ducted in the past, will be discon
tinued, according to assistant Dean
of Students Bennie Zinn. Unless
a shortage of boxes develops, the
company mail will not be allowed.
“The Postal Department declares
that it will discontinue directory
service,” Walton said. “Students
are requested, as soon as possible,
to get their correct mailing ad
dress and send it to their corres
pondents. This will save much time
for the department and will en
able them to give much better
service.”
today.
A report was made on the agree
ment with the Bryan-College Sta
tion Traction Company. Mayor Er
nest Langford said the bus com
pany is now operating a shuttle
bus four times a day in. the south
area of College Hills. The company
had originally asked to discontinue
service in that part of town.
Raymond Rogers, city manager,
reported that several new sewer
lines will be held in the wooded
area of College Hills as soon as the
pipe is. available.
A bid of $25 for a city lot was
rejected by the council.
The areas included in the an
nexation ordinances were as fol
lows: ,
1 Ordinance 147
Beginning at the most northerly
corner of Southeast College Park
Addition to the City of College
Station, Texas recorded in Vol. 119,
page 563 of the Brazos County
Deed Records. Thence south 45
degrees east along the northeast
line of said additioin a distance of
approximately 1,438 feet to the
south side of the county road.
Thence south 45 degrees west
along the south side of the county
road a distance of 1,421 feet.
Thence north 45 degrees west and
along the front line of lots 13, 14,
15 and 16, Block 4, Breezy Heights
Addition a distance of approx
imately 339 feet to the most west
erly corner of lot 13, Block 4,
Breezy Heights Addition, recorded
Vol. 125, Page 433, Brazos Coun
ty Deed Records.
Thence north 45 degrees east a
distance of 881.5 feet to the most
northerly corner of Lot 13, Block
6, Southeast College Park Addition.
Thence in a north westerly di
rection along the southwest side of
South Dexter Drive a distance of
approximately 1,198 feet to the
most northerly corner of Lot 8,
Block 1, Southeast College Park
Addition. Thence north 45 degrees
east a distance of 164.3 feet to
the point of beginning.
Ordinance 14'8
Beginning at the most southerly
corner of the original City limits
of the City of College Station,
Texas. This corner also being the
most westerly corner of the Ed
Hrdlicka homestead.
Thence north 45 degrees east
along the original city limits of
the City of College Station, Texas
a distance of approximately 1,700
feet to the intersection of the
southeast side of Luther Street
with the northwest side of Fair-
view Avenue.
Thence south 45 degrees east
along the southwest side of Fair-
view Avenue a distance of approx
imately 850 feet to the point of
intersection of the southwest side
of Fairview Avenue with the
Southwest side of Thompson Street.
Thence north 45 degrees east a
distance of 50 feet to the most
westerly corner of Lot 9 Block 4,
Breezy Heights Addition to the
City of College Station, Texas.
Thence south 45 degrees east
along the southeast side of Fair-
view Avenue a distance of 640
feet to a point near the southeast
side of the county road. Thence
south 45 degrees west along a
line parallel to the said county road
a distance of approximately 2,160
feet to a point in the west side of
old Highway No. 6.
Thence in a northwesterly di
rection along the weest side of old
Highway No. 6 a distance of ap
proximately 3,760 feet to an inter
section with the original city lim
its of the City of College Station,
Texas. Thence north 45 degrees
east a distance of approximately 50
feet to the east side of old High
way No. 6.
Thence in a southeasterly direc
tion along the east side of old
Highway No. 6 a distance of ap
proximately 2,200 feet to the point
of beginning.
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“Masters of Southern Harmony”—or so advance releases tell of
the Deep River Jubilee Quartet, scheduled for The Grove tonight
at 8 p.m. Presenting sketches of plantation life, songs of the
deep south and old-time favorites, the quartet is the third special
presentation of The Grove this summer.