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Number 40: Volume 50
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland)* TEXAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1950, 1950
Price: Five Cents
College Library Undertakes
New Reorganization Program
By BERT HARDAWAY
, , Cushing Memorial Library is
[' beginning a reorganization pro-
i gram to be carried out according
to recommendations of a survey
made in the Spring of 1949, ac
cording to Robert A. Houze, acting
librarian.
One of the more important re
commendations made was that the
library build up its reference
material in technical fields that
may be used for graduate study.
Both technical books and period
icals written in English and for
eign languages will be added to
the library’s collections for use by
graduate students and other in-
. terested persons.
Concentrated efforts will be
made to build up reference ma
terial on agriculture and science.
It is hoped that there will soon be
a breakdown of reference service
into specific phases of agriculture,
science, and humanites.
Increased Appropriations
Increased appropriations have
been alloted for the purchase of
books and periodicals. The survey
recommended that the library
4 spend at least $100,000 for such
purchases.
Additions to the library staff
were also recommended. Creation
of new positions will be carried
out as soon as possible, accord
ing to Houze, but this phase of
the improvements presents many
new problems yet to be worked out.
There will be additional services
for the freshmen, which means
that everyone must cooperate if
Petition Asking
Fire Protection
Sent to Council
A petition requesting “bet-
“ ter fire protection” was sub
mitted early this afternoon' to
Raymond Rogers, city man-
ager of College Station.
Bearing approximately 100 sig
natures, the petition was submit
ted by L. S. Dillon of 216 Harring
ton. He requested that the peti
tion be presented before the City
Council in its regular session Mon
day night.
Dillon, a member of the Biology
Department staff at the college,
has been circulating the petition
since shortly after the home of
John Bogard was destroyed by fire
the night of July 27. Bogard’s
home was at 218 Harrington, in
the College Hills residential sec
tion. Dillon lives next door.
“It (the petition) is a very gen
eral statement asking for better
fire protection and an improved
alarm system,” Dillon said this
morning.
When asked by a Battalion re
porter if the petition made any
definite suggestions for “better
fire protection,” Dillon replied that
it did not. He said the petitioners
wei'e asking only that “something
Jbe done,” and that the actual man-
, agement “be left to the City Coun-
' fil, whose job it is.”
Most of the signatures on the
petition are those of College Hills
residents, he said, although sever-
'* al citizens from the College Park
and Woodland Acres sections have
>.lso signed.
“I would like to urge everyone
tvho has signed the petition and
All other interested citizens to at
tend the meeting Monday night,”
Dillon said.
Reported for Duty
Second Lieutenant James A.
McCulley, a 1949 graduate of A&M,
has reported for duty with the 56th
Fighter-Interceptor Wing -at Self
ridge Air Force in Michigan.
McCulley 'went on active duty
with the Air Force after gradua
tion and was sent to Williams Air
Force Base, Arizona where he won
his wings.
the library is to run smoothly.
There may be , some physical
changes in the plant this fall mak
ing it possible to render better
service to the students and faculty.
Within the next few years, Houze
predicts that all the recommenda
tions, including an extensive re
modeling and building program,
will have been put into effect.
Annex Library Moved
Some 2,000 volumes formerly at
the Annex Library have been
moved back to the main College
Library on the campus and are be
ing absorbed into the required
reading room in the main library.
In order to make room for the ad
ditional books, the capacity of the
reading room will have to be
doubled. Old shelves will be torn
out and replaced by new ones.
The library now has approx
imately 200,000 volumes, sub
scribes to approximately 2,500
current periodicals, and receives
45 newspapers. It is a depository
library for U. S. Government docu
ments, on a selective basis.
Reference Material
Other reference materials in the
library are complete selections of
soil survey maps issued by the
Department of Agriculture, U. S.
Geological survey and state geolo
gical maps, and a micro-film read
er. Efforts are being made to se
cure more information on micro
film and to use it to a greater ex
tent.
The Music Room is being moved
to the Memorial Student Center.
The new music room contains in
dividual soundproof booths with a
record player in each. These new
booths will allow undisturbed lis
tening of any record selected by
the student.
A&M Trophy Case
A&M's trophy case, now in the
lobby of the Academic Building,
will be moved to the lobby of the
library this fall, making room for
the replica of the Liberty Bell
which will be placed in the Aca
demic Building.
Schedule for this fall will be:
weekdays, 8 a. m. to 10 p. m.; Sat
urday, 8 a. m. to 12 noon; and Sun
days 2 p. m. to 10 p. m. Between
semesters, closing time for week
days will be 5 p. m. It will not be
open Sundays.
Saturday Night
Grove Dance Set
Another weekly Grove dance
will be held Saturday night with
no particular theme or costume
requirement, according to C. G.
“Spike” White, director of stu
dent activities.
The Aggieland Combo will
again provide music for the
dance.
Largest crowd to attend any
Saturday dance this summer was
on hand last weekend, White
said. “Again this week, we are
asking folks to come dressed
for comfort and for dancing”,
he concluded.
Work continues at full speed on the new addition to Francis Hall.
When completed, the new wing will house seven classrooms and
twelve offices of the Business and Accounting Department. The
main departmental office and the classes concerning business
machine operation will be the first to move into the new addition.
Completion of construction work is slated for Dec. 15.
Inn Named As New
Division Quarters
Landmark of the A&M campus,
the Aggieland Inn, is to be con
verted into the Headquarters for
the new Basic Division this fall.
Reconversion is to begin after
this weekend as the dining room
closes Sunday. Plans are made for
a partition which will cut off the
lobby at a line parallel to the
stairs. The remainder of the space
will be made into the Dean’s Office
and a room for work space and
files.
Oceanography Expert
Laundry Wrapping Leads
Leipper To Present Field
By BILL MEBANE
Proving that small incidents
sometimes lead tp big ^results. Dale
F. Leipper, Head or tlie Ocean
ography Department at A&M, be
came interested in his field through
an article in a newspaper in which
his laundry was wrapped.
He received the paper when he
was in the Signal Corps stationed
on the West Coast in 1941. Al
though it contained no world-shak
ing news there was a story about
applications to meteorological ca
det school at the Scripps Insti
tution of Oceanography a UCLA
in La Jolla, Cal.
Leipper had graduated from
Wittenberg College in Ohio and
had received his Masters degree
from Ohio State University. But
further education was interrupted
when he was drafted just before
Pearl Harbor. From the news
paper article he learned that he
could go on with his education.
Waits Six Weeks
After Leipper waited six weeks
for school to start, his year was
spent studying the weather and
learning how to forecast height
of waves for landing purposes.
The next year he lived on Adak
in the Alutian Islands forecasting
weather for the airlines and the
navy. After being transferred to
Anchorage, Alaska, Leipper was
put in charge of an oceanography
research unit at the Air Force
Paine Touring Texas
For Cooperative Data
L. S. Paine, associate professor
in the Department of Agricultural
Economics and Sociology, is pre
sently touring South, Central and
East Texas doing research work on
cooperatives.
Paine is obtaining information
from the cooperatives to use at the
College. He is collecting his infor
mation by personally interviewing
the cooperative officials.
weather station.
From Anchorage he returned to
Scripps Institution where he work
ed on hia Ph. D. in oceanography.
In his study of physical ocean
ography, he participated in many
projects, one of which was an at
tempt to bring sardine^ back to
the California coast.
Police Check
On Tool Theft
Local police were reported
yesterday to be investigating
the $130 tool theft which oc-
cured last Saturday noon at
the Anthony Garage in t h e
North Gate business area.
Police said the owners, who were
at lunch at the time the tools were
taken, did not report the crime un
til yesterday because they thought
someone else had borrowed them.
The alleged borrower was con
tacted yesterday and said he had
not taken the tools as the owners,
Will Zimmerman and W. E. An
thony had thought.
Two suspects have already been
rounded up according to city pa
trolman Curtis E. Bullock.
Three rachets, two sets of
wrench sockets of various sizes,
one flax handle, eight box-end
wrenches of various sizes, four
open-end wrenches and one electric
drill.
Also missing was one set of high
speed drill bits varying in size
from one-eighth to one-half
inch.
Leipper could be called a pioneer
of oceanography at A&M. Idea
for his department began when
swarms of oysters- on the Texas
coast were dying several years
ago. The A&M Research Founda
tion discovered that sea wind and
currents affected the life of oys
ters.
Since oceanography is a study
of everything under, over, in, or
around the ocean, it became only
logical that a department be formed
to study these things.
Leipper, who received his Ph. D.
from UCLA in 1949 was brought
here to put the Department of
Oceanography on its feet.
His title as department head be
comes effective on Sept. 7. A full-
scale program with three instruct
ors will begin then for the 50 stu
dents who are expected to register
for the courses.
Ocean Laboratory
A&M’s oceanography students
have 700,000 square miles of ocean
bed as a laboratory. Not only must
they know oceanography, they
must have an interest and know
ledge in almost everything else
because it all ties up with ocean
ography.
The course is built on a grad
uate program. An undergraduate
majoring in physical science, bio
logical science, or engineering may
take an introductory oceanography
course as part of his electives. He
can complete his graduate work in
from 12 to 18 months.
Part of the fun, Leipper said,
is that all oceanography students
here can go to sea on a 112 foot
an' converted tuna craft docked at
Galveston.
Also on the agenda is the con
verting of the dining room into a
Group Therapy and Study Habits
Clinic and a general secretarial
office and waiting room. The
clinic will be used in connection
with remedial study for small
groups which will be supervised
by the Basic Division.
Redesigned Terrace
The terrace is to be designed
with an office at one end for the
Director of Counseling and the
other end will be converted into
an office for the Assistant to the
Dean according to tentative plans.
The assistant is to act in the
capacity of coordinator of group
guidance for the Basic Division.
In the center of the terrace will
be located a reception room. Doors
connecting the Dean’s office and
the Counseling Director’s office to
the reception room will be built.
A corridor to connect the back
offices with the front space will be
built along the south side of what
is now the kitchen. A new entrance
is also to be built on the soutlj side
of the building which will open
into what is now the terrace:
Back Room Remodeling
Four back rooms will also be
remodeled. In one of the rooms will
be located the Director of Remedial
Reading. The Dormitory Counsel
or’s office will also be at the back
of the building. Five dormitory
counselors for the freshman will
work on a rotary basis to enable
one to be on duty at the office con
tinually.
The other two back rooms are
to be remedial reading clinics. An
other remedial room will be con
structed from a portion of remain
ing kitchen space.
Left intact will be a section of
the kitchen, the rooms on the sec
ond and third floors (to be used as
reserve rooms for Student Mem
orial), the coffee shop, and the
revamped lobby. Up to this time
the Aggieland Inn has operated
under the auspices of the dining
hall. The remainder of it will now
be managed by the Student Union.
Milk Distributors
OK’d in CS, Bryan
Five milk distributors in Bryan
and College Station have received
a permit to sell milk and milk pro
ducts from the Brazos county
health unit.
Companies authorized were A&M
Creamery, Big Hill Dairy, Borden
Company, Carnation Company and
Sanitary Farm Dairies.
Commies Take Pohang
In Bitter Night Fighting
Tokyo, Aug. 11—UP)—Red invaders drove deep into
Pohang port Friday and began a night battle for the import
ant nearby airfield on the Korean East Coast.
Rocket-firing U.S. Mustang planes joined Allied ground
forces in close-quarter defense fighting in daylight and then
left the airfield for safety elsewhere through the night.
The planes planned to rejoin the fight and use the field
six miles southeast of Pohang if it is still in American hands
by Saturday dawn.
Allied help was on the way to Pohang and the airfields.
A reinforcing column of U. S.-t-
tanks apd South Korean troops was
reported nearing the field and
Cook Named
Assistant To
Ag School Dean
Ben D. Cook, county agri
cultural agent at Sherman
has been appointed assistant
to the dean of agriculture and
assistant professor of agri
cultural education at A&M. He
succeeds Dr. John Bertrand who
has been named dean of the Basic
Division.
Cook is an A&M graduate, re
ceiving his BA in agricultural edu
cation in 1934 and his Master of
Education degree in 1950. Prior to
entering A&M Cook attended Tarle-
ton State College in 1927-28 and
was principal of an elementary
school in Dublin from 1928 to
1930.
After graduation from A&M, he
taught vocational agriculture at
Tolar and Cleburne until 1941 when
he was appointed county agent
fo Navarro County.
He was in the air force from
March 1943 to May 1946 when he
was discharged with the rank of
captain. He has been county agent
of Grayson County since March
1947.
In addition to his duties as as
sistant to the dean of agriculture,
Cook will teach the courses in
agricultural extension methods and
some work in agricultural educa
tion.
“ Cook has an outstanding rec
ord as a county agent and voca
tional agriculture teacher,” C. N.
Shepardson, dean of the school
of agriculture, says. “He has
shown marked ability in working
with boys. We feel fortunate in
securing him to carry on the work
which Dean Bertrand has been
doing in this office,” Shepardson
says:
ready to join the defense.
The Reds held a ridge only 3%
miles from the runway when the
Mustangs had to give up the battle
because of darkness. The planes
went to other airfields in Korea
for the night.
Noncombatants Dig In
As darkness set in, two Ameri
can colonels with cooks, clerks and
other normally noncombatant Air
Force ground personnel dug in for
night battle on the field.
AP Correspondent Hal Boyle at
the airfield reported there was no
way of knowing how long the bat
tle might continue.
Earlier Friday afternoon Boyle
had reported Lt. Gen. Walton H.
Walker, U. S. 8th Army comman
der, and Maj. Gen. Earle Partridge,
Fifth Air Force commander, visit
ed the Pohang field and flew over
the battles in a light observation
plane.
Inside the flaming port a bloody
street battle raged. A tough
mountain-climbing North Korean
force struck Pohang after scaling
the lofty peaks to the west of the
town.
Before Friday dusk American
planes flew off the field on 10-
minute sorties to make rocket and
machine-gun attacks on the Reds.
Communist guerrillas were close
enough to fire on the field with
small arms.
Reds Abandoning Chinjo
At the other extreme of the Al
lied battleline ,the Eighth Army
reported North Korean troops were
abandoning their Chinju base near
the South Coast before the Allied
Congress To Consider
Universal Training Bill
Washington, Aug. 11—CP)—Con
gress soon will consider a step
this country never has taken be
fore: military training for every
young man.
Rear Adm. H. A. Houser, a
spokesman for the defense de
partment, told the Senate Armed
Services Committee today that
a bill for universal military train
ing is being drafted and should
reach congress soon.
No details were given. But pre
sumably the bill would be so draft
ed that, if it were passed, it would
not take effect until after the Ko
rean war.
The defense department has es
timated that about 200,000 mili
tary men would be needed to train
the 900,000 youths who would come
into the training program each
year.
To put such a large number of
men on a training program now,
a defense department spokesman
pointed out, would be disastrous
when every available man is need
ed in the war effort.
Take A Years Time
Even in times of peace, it was
estimated that it would take a
year to get a universal military
program working. Its cost was es
timated at $600,000,000 for the
; We Wept When We Left’
Among Last Group To Leave Seoul
Part of the newly constructed $100,000 Beef Cattle Center is the
feeding shed with 31 dirt-floored stalls. Each stall contains an
individual metal feeding box. A concrete water trough is con
structed under every other dividing fence between the stalls, half
of the trough extending into each adjoining stall.
By BETTY ANN POTTER
“We wept when we left ... we
hope to return to Seoul,” Miss
Beatrice Holt, librarian for the
State Department in Korea, wrote
her cousin, Dr. Walter A. Varvel
of the Psychology and Education
Department at A&M.
As librarian, Miss Holt traveled
by jeep to many Korean outposts
to inspect library centers. The
invasion by North Korean com
munists caught her near the 38th
parallel on an inspection trip.
“We knew they were coming
over, but they had been knowing
it all the time, so we thought
nothing of it,” she wrote Dr. Var
vel. “Something went wrong with
our intelligence, or else Americans
are all very gullible.”
Was Near Parallel
On Thursday and Friday before
the North Korean invasion on
Sunday, Miss Holt, a lieutenant
and a captain were en route
through muddy trenches to the
farthest outpost in that part of
her territory near the dividing
parallel.
She was almost exactly on the
parallel with the officers when the
invasion began. There she saw a
Korean who had been killed by
communists the night before when
trying to escape deeper into South
Korea.
Late Friday night before the
Red offensive began, Miss Holt
“had a hunch” she had better re
turn to Seoul. She did.
Ordered to Evacuate
She arrived in the capital just
in time to start packing, since
everyone had been ordered to eva
cuate within an hour.
Miss Holt and a companion were
taken to the port, where they
boarded a Norwegian freighter.
The vessel had been unloading
EGA supplies, but it never finished
the job.
“There were normally accomo
dations for 12 people on the boat,
but 756 came over in the rain
and wei-e on the boat for two days
and nights,” Miss Holt wrote.
“Three hundred were child) cm;
45 were babies and wives of the
American mission, State Depart
ment, and Army personnel.
Landing in Kukuoka, Japan, Miss
Holt went on to Tokyo.
“We want to return to Seoul,
but we may never get to,” she
wrote.
Assigned to Hongkong
Miss Holt and her companion
have recently been assigned to fly
to Hongkong for temporary duty
there until they receive further
notice. A State Department wire
from Secretary Acheson arrived
July 20, with orders to report to
Hongkong. The department is es
tablishing a library in the British-
possessed city. Miss Holt will work
there until a replacement is as
signed.
Russian-made, Korean-operated
tanks were only 17 miles from
Seoul when Miss Holt was evacuat
ed from the city. During her hel
ter-skelter freighter trip to Japan,
she spent one night on the “bot
tle brigade,” washing and steriliz
ing bottles for the 45 infants
aboard ship.
Radios are garbled so badly that
people in the war area do not know
the real situation, she wrote.
Met John Foster Dulles
Just before leaving Seoul, she
said she met John Foster Dulles,
undersecretary of the state for
Far Eastern Affairs at that time.
Dulles, who gave her two copies
of his latest book, held his / press
conference in her library offices.
He promised “not to let Korea
down.”
Prior to her assignment with
the State Department, Miss Holt
was associate professor in the
University of Denver library
school, a position which she held
for 14 years.
She attended a two-month
orientation course in Washington,
D. C. and in New York City in
preparation for her duties in Ko
rea.
first year, rising to a possible
$2,000,000,000 a year later.
The disclosure that such a pro
gram is being considered came in
answer to a question by Chairman
Tydings (D-Md).
Tydings said he understood that
a training program, probably ap
plying to all youths 18 and 19
years of age, was under study.
Is that true? Tydings asked.
Houser said yes, it is true.
Differs From Draft
Universal military training dif
fers from the draft in this way:
The draft is used normally only
when this nation is in a pinch. It
then calls up men for the armed
services, trains them and equips
them for war.
Universal military training would
precede the draft. All young men
would be trained, and would form
a “citizens” reserve. Then, in time
of emergencies, they could be tap
ped for active service.
A compulsory training program
long has been urged, but congress
always has shied away from it.
Three years ago a special com
mittee of civilians made a long
study of the problem, and said
such a program should be adopted.
President Truman agreed, passed
the suggestion on to Congress, but
nothing happened.
Undoubtedly the sentiment in
congress has changed since. Not
until the bill actually is presented
will there be much of a chance to
size up how great that change has
been.
Instructor Added
To AH Department
Two new instructors will be
added to the staff of the Animal
Husbandry Department In Sept
ember, according to Dr. Jack C.
Miller, head of the Animal Hus
bandry Department.
They are James Maurice Shelton
and Thomas C. Cartright. Both
have taken graduate work at A&M.
Cartright received his master’s
degree in genetics and animal hus
bandry from A&M in 1949.
Shelton, who received his B. S.
in agriculture from the University
of Tennessee, has been teaching
at Martin Junior College, Martin,
Tenn. for the past two years.
Cartwright was graduated from
Clemson Agricultural and Mechan
ical College, S. C., with a B. S.
in genetics and animal husbandry
in 1948.
offensive that began Sunday.
Reports of the Reds’ Chinju pull
back came as the U. S. 35th Regi
mental Combat Team occupied high
ground immediately east of the
city Friday afternoon.
The 8th Army communique re
leased in mid-evening Friday said
this “successfully completed” the
35th’s “phase of the first major
U. N. counter-offensive in the Ko
rean war.”
LATE BULLETINS
Tokyo, Friday, Aug. 11—CP)—
Red troops today seized the im
portant port of Pohang on the
East Coast and fought virtually
to the edge of the U.S. airbase
to the southeast.
The Eighth Army, announcing
the fall of Pohang, said the city
was in flames as Americans
withdrew after a savage night
battle. Pohang is 65 air miles
north of the main U.S. supply
port of Pusan.
Small U.S. forces battled in
the early morning darkness to
save the air field, which is on
a spit about six miles southeast
of Pohang.
It. S. tanks and more infantry
were rushing up to the rescue
of the air field.
★ -K -K
Tokyo, Friday, Aug. 11—CP>—
General MacArthur’s headquar
ters said today all Communist
bridgeheads across the Naktong
River, except in the Changnyong,
had been erased by American
units.
On the extreme southern flank
of the offensive, the 5th Marine
Regiment occupied the town of
Kosong “against sti’ong enemy re
sistance.” Marine patrols had
moved into the town Thursday.
Troops Cross River
But inland on the Central front,
the Communists put thousands of
troops over the Naktong River.
They were reported building up
four or five divisions—perhaps
40,000 men—for a new blow aimed
at Taegu if they can keep cross
ing the river in strength.
Most of the crossings have been
by night.
Point-blank fighting seethed in
the extreme South between Amer
ican forces and North Koreans they
trapped in the slowed-down Allied
offensive on Chinju.
An American general staff offi
cer called the Reds’ Naktong Riv
er buildup the greatest massed con
centration per mile on the whole
140-mile battle perimeter.
A tough Red spearhead won its
way into Pohang after a daylong
battle.
But at nightfall Friday Allied
forces clung onto their half of the
port. It is the No. 2 United Na
tions supply funnel on the East
Coast and is 55 miles north of
Pusan, the No. 1 base.
The threatened airfield is six
miles southeast of Pohang on a
coastal spur that sticks out into
the Sea of Japan.
A&M Men Leave
For Abilene Meet
Dr. Jack C. Miller, head of the
Animal Huspandry Department,
and J. K. Riggs, in charge of beef
cattle at A&M, will leave this af
ternoon for Abilene.
They will attend the annual
Hereford Judging and Educational
Conference sponsored by the Texas
Breeders Association.
Dr. Miller is co-chairman of the
one day program, Aug. 12, con
sisting of a morning and after
noon session. He will have charge
of the morning session. Dr. W. L.
Stangel, head of the Animal Hus
bandry Department at Texas Tech
nological College, will be in charge
of the afternoon meeting.
The morning session will be
given over to discussions of bull,
female, and steer classes, Dr. Mil
ler said.
At the Grove
Tonight
Square dancing preceeded by a
half-hour of instruction at 8 p.
m.
SATURDAY NIGHT — Weekly
Grove dance featuring music by
the Aggieland Combo from 8 un
til 11 p. m.