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Number 38: Volume 50
COLLEGE STATION (AggielandL TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1950
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Complete Curricula
For Oceanography
Department Slated
By FRANK DAVIS
The Oceanography Department,
authorized in January 1949 by the
Board of Directors ^ of the A&M
System, will offer a* complete cur
ricula for the. first time in Sept
ember, according to Dr. Dale F.
Leipper, head of the Oceanography
Department.
At present only graduate stu
dents in the physical sciences, bio
logy, and engineering are qual
ified to receive a degree in ocean
ography or to use oceanography
as a minor for a master’s degree in
their field. Undergraduates with
junior or senior classification, how
ever, are allowed to enroll in
Introduction to Oceanography 401,
designed to aid students in decid
ing if they want to take further
work in oceanography. This course
can be used as an elective in the
student’s curriculum.
Although the first degree in
oceanography is not expected to be
given until January 1951, a wild
life management graduate who had
taken the introductory course in
oceanography last spring has re
ceived a job with the United States
Navy Hydrographic Office as an
Oceanographer, Dr. Leipper said.
Nine Students Expected
Nine students are expected to
major in oceanography in Septem
ber, and 15-20 students will begin
work toward a minor.
The undelayed establishment of
the Oceanography Department at
A&M was aided by the efforts of
the Research Foundation and Dr.
A. A. Jakkula, head of the foun
dation. The establishment of the
department was authorized only
two weeks after the recommenda
tion was made.
In a letter to Chancellor Gibb
Gilchrist on January 3, 1949, Dr.
Jakkula pointed out the growing-
need for such a department at
A&M. Oceanography today is im
portant to the Navy, the oil indus
try, and fisheries. With the aca
demic connection, A&M is able to
offer graduate work to research
Btudents, and to help fill the need
for oceanography men in the Navy,
United States Engineers Corps,
Beach Erosion Board, and oil com
panies, he said.
Five Research Projects
An important aspect of the
Oceanography Department is the
five research projects which are
supervised by the staff. These
projects offer half-time employ
ment to students. The projects
range from the maintenance and
operation of the Marine Labora
tory at Grand Isle, La. to a con
tract with the Office of Naval Re
search for the systematic survey
of the oceanogi-aphy and meteor
ology of the Gulf of Mexico.
Dr. Liao Receives Visa
For Return to China
Dr. Shubert C. Liao, a student
from China, has received a visa
that the English Government in
HongKong will recognize and he
soon will be on his way home.
Dr. Liao had been issued a visa
by the Chinese Nationalist Gov
ernment, which at present, the
English Government will not recog
nize, he explained. He now has
the issue cleared up and can pro
ceed home.
That the department is receiv- ^
ing recognition is apparent from
the backing it is getting from the
Navy. Only last week the U. S.
Hydrographic Office sent to A&M
a copy of a large set of Atlases
of sediments at the bottom of the
seas. This is a German publica
tion.
Also, in the August edition of
Transactions American Geophysical
Union published by the National
Research Council of the National
Academy of Sciences, Washington,
D. C. there appears an article en
titled “Establishment of Ocean
ography at A&M”. This article tells
of the authorization of the depart
ment, establishment of curricula,
and of the complete curricula of
fered next fall.
New Courses Added
According to Dr. Leipper, sev
eral new courses will be added in
September. They are Biological
Oceanography 421, Geological
Oceanography 431, Chemical
Oceanography 441, and Research
Methods and Problems 601 which
is the first of its kind in the col
lege. The 601 course aids students
in the selection of a thesis prob
lem.
The entire curricula in Septem
ber will include physical ocean
ography, chemical oceanography,
meteorological oceanography, geo
logical oceanography, and biologi
cal oceanography, Dr. Leipper said.
The staff of the department is
composed of Dr. W. Armstrong-
Fierce, professor of geological
oceanography; Dr. J. G. Mackin,
professor of biological ocean
ography; Dr. Donald W. Hood, as
sistant professor of chemical
oceanography; and Dr. Leipper,
professor of physical and meteor
ological oceanography and head of
the department.
The Dairy Husbandry Department now has under
construction a modern milking unit as the first
installment on their present expansion program
allotment. This unit will consist of a six-stall
milking parlor and an adjoining feed barn. Total
cost of both units will be approximately $105,000.
With this modern equipment, designed for effi
cient operation and research work rather than
for a commercial dairy set-up, it is expected that
a cow can be milked every minute.
Town Hall Performer
Performers Success Story
Included Nursery Rhymes
By LOUISE JONES
Recipe of success for Jean Dick
enson, young coloratura soprano
who appears on the Town Hall
Series Nov. 8, included learning-
nursery rhymes in Hindustani.
Miss Dickenson was born in
Montreal, Canada when the team-
perature was 40 degrees below
zero; next thing she knew, she
was living in India where the
Air Force Men Inspect
Bryan Air Field Base
A team of Air Force officers and
civilian engineers inspected the
Bryan Air Field Base and the Col
lege Station - Bryan community
Monday and yesterday.
Purpose of the inspection was to
gather data on the condition of
the Bryan base, its adaptability to
either basic or advanced training,
and the facilities which the com
munity has to offer the Base per
sonnel in case of reactivation, ac
cording to Capt. M. P. Thompson,
public relations officer from Head-
quraters ATRC Scott Air Force
Base, near Belleville, Ill.
Consideration was given the
housing situation, church, school
and recreational facilities, and of
primary importance, the attitude
of the people of the community on
the matter of reactivation.
Reason for Inspection
The data is being gathered and
compiled now so that if there is
a demand for expansion of air
training facilities, those who must
make the decision as to what bases
will be reactivated will have all in
formation on hand. This will make
possible the selection of bases best
adapted for use with the least de
lay in time and the least outlay in
repair.
Jean Dickenson
Miss Dickenson, the “Nightingale of the Airways”, has been the
featured singer on the Sunday night “American Album of Familiar
Music” program for seven years. On the concert stage she has
sung with symphony orchestras throughout the Eastern United
States and Canada. She will appear on the Town Hall Series here
November 8.
Bases at Sweetwater, Abilene,
Terrell, Uvalde, San Marcos, Vic
toria, Hondo and Mission have been
inspected by the team.
As inspections are made the da
ta gathered is compiled and will be
turned over to Maj. Gen. R. W.
Harper, commanding General of
the Air Training Command.
Capt. Thompson said he had no
information on what type of train
ing might be installed here if the
Base were reactivated.
The team inspectors flew in
Monday afternoon from San Mar
cos after inspecting the installa
tion there, and left yesterday af
ternoon to continue their tour of
inspection of Air Force Bases in
the Southwest.
Headed by Major
The team is headed by Major J.
A. Irwin, from headquarters, AT
RC, Scott Base; Major M. L. Smith,
flying training specialist from Con-
nally Base, Waco; Capt. Thomp
son; S. E. Bears and N. S. Meyer,
civilian engineer technicians em
ployed by Training Command
Headquarters at Scott Base.
The inspection party explained
that the present Air Force flight
training program utilizes ten Air
Force Bases throughout the south
western part of the United States.
Six of these are in Texas.
Basic pilot training is conduc
ted at Randolph near San Antonio,
Connally at Waco, Perrin at Sher
man, and Goodfellow at San Ange
lo.
Flight Engineers
Wanted by Airline
The Texas Employment Commis
sion has an order for 100 Flight
Engineers for a Commercial air
line, according to Bennie A. Zinn,
assistant dean of men. Anyone in
terested should contact Zinn at his
office, Room 102 Goodwin Hall
immediately.
Men with the following qualifi
cations are wanted: 21 to 30 years
old, 5’ 7” to 6’ 2” tall, weighing
140 to 200 pounds, and 20/20 vi
sion.
Applicants must possess CAA
commercial pilot license with in
strument rating second class. If
the instrument rating card has
lapsed, the applicant must present
evidence that he previously held
this rating. A CAA physical cer
tificate is desirable; however, ap
plicants will be required to pass a
company physical.
He should have 1,000 hours log
ged as pilot, heavy aircraft. Hours
logged in cub and other single en
gine civilian type planes are not
acceptable. Fighter pilot time is
acceptable.
According to the Commission,
applicants will be sent to a six-
week training course in New York
City. Transportation to and from
New York will be furnished by the
employer.
temperature was 120 degrees in
the shade. There, in the village
of Gouramahisam, her nurse
taught her Hindu equivalents of
Mother Goose.
The daughter of an American
mining engineer and an American
short-story writer, the singer spent
her life traveling between Europe,
South Africa and the United States
until she was 14. When her parents
settled in Denver she entered music
school there, and was soon offered
her first chance for a radio career.
Coast-to-Coast
(Though she refused the offer,
the young woman was offered a
c|ast-to-coas,t hook-up from Denver
several months later on a program
called “Golden Melodies”. It was
n’t a top-notch program but Miss
Dickenson refers to it today as a
“grand break.”
Miss Dickenson’s career seemed
assured after that for she was
Officers Report
For Duty With
Military School
Two army officers, Major
Stanhope S. King, of New Or
leans, and Major Robert W.
Carpenter, of Farmersville,
have reported for duty in the
School of Military Science, Col.
H. L. Boatner, PMS&T, announced
yesterday.
Major King, who will serve as
assistant instructor in the Quar
termaster Corps, has returned from
a three year tour of duty in Ger
many. He served with the 691 QM
Battalion in France, Germany, and
on Okinawa during the war.
Major Carpenter, who graduated
from West Point in 1942, was a
student at A&M from 1934 until
1937 when he left to accept an
appointment to the Army Military
Academy.
According to Col. Boatner, Major
Carpenter will probably be as
signed to the Freshman Instruc
tion Team. The ex-student served
overseas from September 1944 un
til October of 1947 with the 112th
Regimental Combat Team, the
Eleventh Corps, and the Eighth
Army Headquarters, and partici
pated in the New Guinea, Southern
Philippines, Luzon and Leyte cam
paigns.
Major King, his wife, and daugh
ter Joan Carroll live at 1800 Echols
Street in Bryan, while Major and
Mrs. Carpenter and daguhter Kath
erine reside at 512 Brooks Avenue,
College Station.
Leighton to Speak
At Borden Meeting
R. E. Leighton, assistant pro
fessor in the Dairy Husbandry
Department, will address the an
nual meeting of the field repre
sentatives of the Borden Company’s
Southern Division at Amarillo on
August 23.
“Providing Ample Hay and
Silage for the Dairy Herd” will be
discussed by Leighton. About 45
men are expected to attend the
convention and will represent Tex
as, Oklahoma, Louisiana, N. Mex
ico, Arkansas and possibly several
other states.
Professor Leighton will be on
vacation in Oklahoma at this time
but will fly to Amarillo to make
the address.
signed as a featured singer on the
Sunday night “American Album
of Familiar Music” program. To
day, more than seven years later,
she still sings on that program and
has become known as “The Night
ingale of the Airways”.
Concert and Operatic Fields
But, more than that, she has
also proved her worth in the con
cert and operatic fields, making
her debut with the Metropolitan
Opera Company in January 1940,
singing Philine in “Mignon” and
touring the country in concert each
year.
On the concert stage, Miss Dick
enson has sung with syniphony
orchestras throughout the Eastern
United States and Canada.
She has been called, “a singer
in a thousand”, her runs, trills, and
roulades acclaimed as “flawless
in quality and marked by marve
lous ease.”
Sang For Armed Forces
She has sung for all branches
of the Armed Forces, which in
cludes practically every military
hospital in America and Canada.
Miss Dickenson has made more ap
pearances in Canadian institutions
than any other artist from the
States. She is the proud possessor
of a trunkful of decorations and
has autographed so many plaster
casts that she has lost count of
them.
Among Miss Dickenson’s em
barrassing moments, she remem
bers that a conductor at one of her
broadcasts got so excited that he
waved his baton wildly and hit her
over the head. Although she was
almost koncked out, the incident
happened during a few measures
of vocal respite and she recovered
sufficiently before her next cue.
Another time she spent the
night in an extremely small town.
Later she was informed that the
town boasted no hotel, “so all
transients were given the spare
room at the Old People’s Home*
DH Staff Adds
Two New Men
Two new staff members
will be employed in the Dairy
Husbandry Department at
A&M in September, accord-
in to Dr. I. W. Rupel, head of
the department.
Frank E. Potter, who has served
as a technologist in dairy manu
factures with the Bureau of Dairy
Industry in Washington since 1948,
will become an instructor.
Potter received a bachelor’s de
gree from the University of Maine
in 1942 and a master’s degree from
the University of Maryland in
1948. He is married and has one
child.
James S. Huff, who recently re
ceived his master’s degree from
North Carolina State College, will
replace W. B. Anthony in the Dairy
Husbandry Department. Anthony
has been given leave of absence
for the next year to work on a
doctor’s degree at Cornell Uni
versity.
Huff received his bachelor’s de
gree at the University of West
Virginia. He served as a research
assistant in dairy husbandry at
North Carolina State College while
studying nutritional problems with
dairy calves.
The time of both Potter and Huff
will be divided equally between in
struction and research.
Strong Force Crosses
River, Threaten Taegu
Tokyo, Aug. 9—fA 1 )—Red Kore
an river-crossing troops fought
doggedly with some tank support
today to keep the South Korean
emergency capital of Taegu under
threat of capture.
U. S. First Cavalry Division
troopers with infantrymen of the
24th Division and newly arrived
Second Division elements from
Fort Lewis, Wash., teamed up in
a supreme Allied effort to wipe out
the invaders.
Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker, U.S.
8th Army commander in Korea,
told the First Cavalary Division
the wipeout must be done by Wed
nesday nightfall.
A similar general-rank order
Tuesday could not be carried out.
(Ed. note—Following are ex
cerpts from a letter written by
Jarvis E. Miller to M. L. Cashi-
ion and Gordon Gay, secretary
and assistant secretary, respect
ively, of the YMCA. Miller, a
June graduate, was preparing
to leave England when he wrote
the letter August 3. He was pres
ident of the YMCA Cabinet last
year.)
“We have certainly had a fine
trip thus far, and I hate to leave
old England. Six weeks ago we left
New York, and tomorrow we leave
for three weeks in France, Switzer
land, and the low countries.
“The flight over was fine ex
cept for the fact that, after 19
hours, one gets a bit tired of sit
ting. We spent three days in Bel
gium before coming to England.
“After a week in London, we
went to Oxford, then to Stratford,
and across to Cambridge. We re
turned to London for a day, then
went to York, where my great
grandfather came from. Then we
went to Edinburg, up through the
highlands of Scotland, and back
to Glasgow.
“From Glasgow, we went to
Northern Ireland, Dublin, crossed
to Wales, and came back to London.
Instead more Reds crossed the
Naktong River with some armor
Tuesday night.
The foremost Red threat reach
ed to a dozen miles from Taegu,
main supply terminal on the road-
rail corridor leading northwest out
of Pusan port, the big U.S. base.
In the extreme South, where the
first U.S. offensive effort bogged
down two days ago, tank-led Mar
ines and doughboys got to rolling
again — but laboriously. They
drove past North Korean dead for
gains measured in yards, pushing
toward burned-out Chinju, a dozen
miles ahead.
On the Central front outside
Taegu, two American units at
tacked the' Reds at their river
“We’ve been agreeably surprised
by two things in particular—the
weather and the food. Both have
been much better than expected.
The people have been very nice
to us. Things are reasonably priced
here, and we are quite happy about
our costs thus far.
“We got to go to the General
Methodist Conference the other
day. We saw the president installed
and ‘Methodism’s Crown Jewel—
John Wesley’s Bible.’
“Have you heard of this so-called
‘Peace’ campaign to ban the atom
ic bomb? I had a little run-in with
a team at Oxford Sunday, who
were trying to get people to sign
their petition.
“That is certainly a sinister
movement. They say that they are
not for either side, that they just
want peace. It’s not hard to see
how they slant their arguments,
though.
“The Korea business looks ser
ious, doesn’t it? I’m just wonder
ing if I won’t have a little notice
when I get home.
“I’ve been accepted at Purdue
for graduate study next fall, and
they have given me a quarter-time
assistantship. I am quite thrilled
about it all, but there is one hitch
—I have to be there Sept. 1, which
will mean that I will have very
little time at home.”
bridgeheads.
The American 24th Division, re
inforced by fresh elements of the
Second Division, stalled before
Communist troops holding high
points six miles southwest of
Changnyong. The town is 23
miles southwest of Taegu.
Twenty miles northward a First
Cavalry battalion drove against
another Red Force that crossed the
Naktong near Kaepon.
Allied South Korean forces re
ported Wednesday night they had
just about cleaned out a Red Ko
rean bridgehead across the Nak
tong five miles north of Waegwan,
15. miles from Taegu.
The report was received by
American officials of the Korean
military advisory group in Korea.
The South Koreans said they
drove the Communists back across
the river in a counter-attack. A-
bout 100 North Koreans were
strafed while scrambling for the
Naktong’s west bank.
Tanks Knocked Out
American warplanes and artil
lery knocked out all tanks which
the Communists had put across the
river, the report said.
An American pilot said he saw
five Communist tanks Wednesday
morning on the East bank.
In the far North of the Allied
defense box the Communists made
fresh gains with sharpened thrusts
against South Korean forces.
A tank-led attack drove the
Sixth South Korean Division back
several miles at a point west of
Uisong and southeast of Ham-
chang, 45 miles northeast of Tae
gu.
A briefing officer at General
MacArthur’s headquarters said
other Red assaults without armor
made lesser gains through the
South Korean Eighth and capitol
divisions of the defense line east
ward.
Still North of Uisong
The spokesman said the defend
ers were still North of Uisong, a
town the North Korean Radio has
claimed captured by the Reds. The
battle in this area was consider
ably south of the Naktong’s shal
low upper reaches, which the South
Koreans gave up last week.
^ To the West the first South
Korean Division was still fighting
to hold positions near the river.
One unit met a Red attack five
miles north of Waegwan, which is
15 miles northwest of Taegu. The
battleground changed hands twice
in two days.
Fourteen miles to the north of
this battle, the South Korean First
Division thrust two miles into Red
territory in a counter-attack Tues
day at Sinchon, about 13 miles
southeast of Sangju.
Communist Plans Wrecked
Briefing officers at MacArthur’s
headquarters said the American
ground offensive in the South had
wrecked Communist plans to start
a widespread climatic offensive
of their own.
The Reds’ elite divisions had
been poised to strike simultaneous
ly at Taegu on the Central front
and at Pusan across the South
coast in an effort to drive the
Americans off the Korean penin
sula.
Instead, one of these—the North
Korean Sixth—is meeting the
American thrust head-on. The
Sixth is backed by the First Divis
ion, which led the drive southward
from Seoul six weeks ago. There
were indications the Red Third
Division was being pulled out of
its supporting positions behind the
Naktong thrusts to meet the
American offensive in the South.
Golf Course
To Perform
Dual Service
The new A&M golf course will
serve a dual purpose according to
Dr. J. R. Watson Jr., turf re
search specialist in the Agronomy
Department.
Besides pleasure, the golf course
will be an experimental laboratory.
Some research problems to be
tackled are the proper height to
cut turf when used for different
purposes, aeration tests, fertilizer
tests and the best turf to use under
various conditions, said Dr. Watson.
Already there are 80 strains of
common bermuda and 12 introduc
tory strains of bermuda grass be
ing tested under experimental con
ditions at the forage nursery.
If any of these selections prove
successful, they will be transferred
to the practice putting greens for
actual tests under playing condi
tions, said Dr. Watson.
At the Grove
Tonight
Juke box dancing and roller
skating at 8 p. m. Skates can be
rented at the Grove.
- Late Wire Briefs -
Tokyo, Wednesday, Aug. 9—OP)—A spokesman at General Mac
Arthur’s headquarters reported today that the American drive on the
Chinju front in South Korea is “achieving its objectives.”
He said the U. S. Forces are inflicting heavy losses on the enemy
as well as hammering out ground gains.
★ * *
Washington, Aug. 9——Secretary of the Treasury Snyder
said yesterday there will be “a type of tax to prevent undue war
profits” in the general tax revisions which President Truman will
propose later
But action on those proposals is not scheduled by the leader
ship until probably January.
★ * *
Washington, Aug. 9—CP)—A long barreled anti-tank rifle believed
to have killed the crews of a number of American tanks in Korea has
been identified by the U.S. Army as a Russian-made 1941 model.
The Army has had a sample of this gun since World War II. It
contends the rifle is outmoded and the U.S. is producing no similar
weapon for American infantrymen.
★ * *
Washington, Aug. 9—d*)—Chairman Wayne Coy of the Feder
al Communications Commission said yesterday he foresees no need
for curtailment of radio and television broadcasting in a military
emergency.
Should the need arise, Coy asserted his belief that nothing be
yond self-imposed controls of World War II would be required.
He said he had no plans for recommending anything more stringent
than those.
★ * *
Washington, Aug. 9—(A*)—President Truman has asked Congress
to pass four laws aimed at Communists: Make it easier for the gov
ernment to punish spies, keep a check on them, prevent sabotage, and
Watch aliens who should be deported.
★ * *
Washington, Aug. 9—CP)—The Navy now has authority to
build this country’s first atomic-powered submarine.
Also, Rep. Robeson (D-Va) told a reporter that work will be
resumed soon on the 65,000-ton supercarrier United States.
★ * *
London, Aug. 9—(A 5 )—Scotland Yard was reported searching today
for a suitcase of atomic secrets lost by an American scientist on a train
bound for the North of England.
The Laborite Daily Herald, which published the report, said the
suitcase containing secret papers on atomic research was owned by an
American scientist, F. W. Greentrees, and was lost yesterday.
★ * *
New York, Aug. 9—CP)—Henry Wallace resigned from the
Progressive Party last night because it condemns the American
stand in Korea.
The action completed a split that began three weeks ago be
tween Wallace and the party that organized to run him for Presi
dent in 1948.
★ * *
Hamburg, Germany, Aug. 9—(A 1 )—The 8,250-ton freighter Amer
ican Planter struck a mine in the North Sea today, German shipping
authorities said, and is being towed to Bremerhaven.
There were no reports of any casualties.
★ * *
Washington, Aug. 9—CP)—Senator Taft (R-Ohio) proposed
today a $13,000,000,000 to $14,000,000,000 a year increase in taxes,
to put the Korean War and America’s rearmament program on a
pay-as-you-go basis.
★ -K -K
Washington, Aug. 9—(A 5 )—The Navy announced today that the
submarine rescue ship Bluebird will be turned over to the Turkish
government August 15 at the New London, Conn., Naval Base.
Two submarines now being refitted by the Navy also are expected
to go to Turkey soon under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program.
Miller in England,
To Tour Europe
By JARVIS MILLER
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