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Corps Housing
Schedule Made
Assignments of corps units to
their respective dormitories have
been made for the coming Fall
semester, according to Col. Hayden
L. Boatner, commandant.
Assignments are Dorm 1: first
floor, B Infantry; second floor, D
Infantry; third floor, C Infantry;
and fourth floor, A Infantry.
Dorm 2: first floor, M Air Force;
second floor, K Air Force; third
floor, I Air Force; fourth floor, L
Air Force.
Dorm 3: first floqr, C Artillery;
second floor, A Coast Artillery;
third floor, E Infantry; fourth
floor, B Coast Artillery.
Dorm 4: first floor, F Air Force;
second floor, E Air Force; third
floor, H Air Force; fourth floor, G
Air Force.
State Continues
Battle to Retain
Submerged Oil
Washington, Aug. 15 —
(AP)—Stiff opposition broke
out yesterday to legislation
intended to prevent interrup
tion in off-shore oil opera
tions pending final settlement of
ownership of the sn'merged lands.
Texas Attorne’'"'* General Price
Daniel led the obj prs as Chair
man O’Mahoney (b-Wyo) of the
senate interior committee opened a
committee meeting to study a reso
lution for temporary operation of
the so-called tidelands by the in
terior department.
Testifying after solicitor Martin
G. White of the interior department
had endorsed the pending measure,
introduced by O’Mahoney, Daniel
said:
“It is my opinion that the mea
sure as now written, would set a
new policy of federal control of
the tidelands rather than to pre
serve the status quo.
“The public interest and the
national defense will be aided
rather than retarded by allowing
the states to'continue their opera
tions pending a permanent and
final decision on the ownership and
management question by the con
gress of the United States.”
Senators Long (D-La) and Dow
ney (D-Calif) critizing the fede
ral control features of the resolu
tion, asked White what position
the interior department would take
if the measure were amended to
give the states authority to make
leases and otherwise take charge
of offshore oil lands until the
controversy is finally settled.
The witness replied that the de
partment considered the supreme
court, in its ruling in the Califor
nia, Texas and Louisiana cases,
to have found the disputed lands to
be property of the federal govern
ment.
Dorm 5: first floor, B Field Ar
tillery; second floor, E Field Ar
tillery; third floor, D Field Ar
tillery; fourth floor, A Field Ar
tillery.
Dorm 6: first floor, C Air Force;
second floor, A Air Force; third
floor, B Air Force; fourth floor,
D Air Force.
Dorm 7: first and third floors, B
Engineers; first and second floors,
A Engineers; fourth floor, B Sen
iors.
Dorm 8: first floor, A Ordnance,
second floor, A Ai’my Security
Agency; third floor, A Signal
Corps; fourth floor, A Chemical
Corps.
Dorm 9: first floor, C Seniors;
sepond floor, A Cavalry; third
floor, C Cavalry; fourth floor,
B Cavalry.
Dorm 10: first floor, B Trans
portation Corps; second floor, A
Quartermaster; third floor, A
Transportation Corps; fourth floor,
B Quartermaster.
Dorm 11: first and second floors,
Maroon Band; third and fourth
floors, White Band.
Dorm 12: first floor, Corps Staff;
second floor, D Veterans; third
floor, A veterans; fourth floor, A
Seniors.
Plans are to house the Basic
Division in Dorms 14, 15, 16, 17
and Walton Hall.
Non-Corps students will occupy
Law, Puryear, Leggett, Bizzell and
Mitchell Halls, according to Harry
L. Boyer, chief of housing.
Graduate and foreign students
will occupy Bizzell Hall, he said,
and A and B Athletics will con
tinue to be housed in Hart Hall.
Daughter Born to Princess
Elizabeth; Both Doing Well
London, Aug. 15—(iP)—Princess Elizabeth, next in line
to the British throne, gave birth today to a daughter. The
baby is her second child. It becomes third in line to the
throne.
The child was born at 11:50 a.m. (4:45 CST). An of
ficial announcement was issued one hour and four minutes
later.
The royal birth provides a sister playmate for 21-month-
old Prince Charles, next in line to his mother in succession
to the throne.
A bulletin issued by the royal physicians said: “Her
Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth, duchess of Edinburgh,
was safely delivered of a princess at 11:50 p.m.’’
“Her Royal Highness and her daughter are both doing
well.”
Mayor to Appoint Committee
To Investigate Fire Protection
Contact Ross Hall
If You’re Notified
Any student currently enroll
ed who receives orders to re
port for induction into the armed
forces has been requested to
contact the Military Science De
partment in Ross Hall.
If a student is called while he
is still enrolled, it is possible
that he may be deferred until he
completes the semester, military
officials said yesterday.
“It is only a matter of know
ing the procedure; we would
like for all students to contact
us when they are notified to
report so that they may be able
to complete the semester and
not lose credit for study,” the
officials said.
Odd-Looking Jar Used
To Keep Down Bugs
By MARTHA FERGUSON
A half gallon jar, a couple of
hundred feet of half inch pipe, and
American ingenuity combined may
not give a variety of products,
but if you own a large cafeteria,
it may play an important part in
solving sanitation problems.
At least the three were com
bined and put to use in taking care
of the insect pests which have
been known to inhabit the college’s
dining halls.
“Christmas, a year ago, we fin-
Watering Hours
To Be Continued
Hours for watering yards and
shrubs will continue to be from
6 until 10 p.m. tonight and to
morrow night, a city official an
nounced this morning.
Although the reservoirs were
full Sunday night and early
Monday morning, the limita
tions are still being imposed in
order to assure an abundance of
water until it rains, the official
said.
Residents are asked to use
water on yards and shrubs only
at the time designated, he said.
ally solved the problem of roaches,
ants and flies in both of the mess
halls,” J. G'. Penniston commented.
Penniston, supervisor of sub
sistence, was talking about the
system of disinfectant the col
lege has adopted. The aparatus is
simply constructed. One half inch
pipes are fitted into screw tops
which cover half gallon jars held
in place by a spring. Filled with 1 fog.”
insecticide and operated by com
pressed air the Sbisa Hall “Dif
fusers” work with 100 per cent
moraility for insects.
“It takes about fifteen minutes
for the disinfectant to work,” Pen
niston continued. “We do' the
spraying at night. Then the night
watchman comes by about 3 a. m,
and airs out the buildings.”
According to Penniston, the
“Diffusers” operated by compress
ed air are better. Those used in
Duncan Hall are run with steam.
There are four in each of the
dining halls.
All Food Covered
Special care is taken to cover
all of the food before the spraying
begins.. Although the insecticide
is not harmful to human beings,
it does have a slight odor.
“One of my men came to me with
a plan to hook up some hand dis
infectant sprayers we had. The
same day maintenance started work
on this a salesman came by selling
just the thing we were trying to
make I naturally know they
had been put in production.”
Efficient Operation
The type of disinfectant used is
not of primary importance. “I
think it’s the method we use to
spray,” Penniston said. “It gets
into the crannies and cracks that
ordinary spraying won’t reach.”
A simple explanatiion of the
working principle, according to
Penniston, is like that used in an
atomizer. There are 36 of these
disinfectants on the campus. They
are located in the kitchens, store
rooms, dining halls and annex of
Sbisa and Duncan Hall.
“High ceilings in Sbisa make it
very nice,” Penniston concluded.
“All of the individual sprayers
have four nozzles. These nozzles
come on at once and fill the room
from ceiling to floor with a thick
One of Nation’s Best
Bill Backers
Beat Brows,
Walsh Wantect
Washington, Aug. 15—GP)—A
lone House member last night
held the immediate fate of a con-
troversal bill to restore twice-a-day
home mail delivery—and he was
half way across the country.
If the congressman, Rep. Walsh
(D-Ind), isn’t here today, the bill
will be tossed aside; perhaps to
die.
A colleague said that a three-
state police alarm had been sound
ed for Walsh, who was reported in
his car on the way to Green Bay,
Wis., for a speech tonight. Backers
of the bill were anxious to know
if he can hustle back in time.
The measure would restore the
broad postal service cuts of last
spring.
Yesterday’s SNAFU developed
this way:
Walsh and others recently got
up a petition to force the bill to
the House floor. It was then in
a rules committee pigeon-hole.
When a majority signed the pe
tition, this required the House to
act on a resolution allowing the
bill to be considered. Members
adopted it yesterday.
The catch was this: the resolu
tion specified that Walsh shall be
recognized to call up the bill — to
day.
If he isn’t here, House experts
said, the whole cumbersome proce
dure would have to be repeated,
unless the rules committee relented.
This would mean considerable de
lay at best.
Yesterday House advocates of
the measure to cancel out Post
master General Donaldson’s eco
nomy order were in full control.
CatholicChurch
To Add
ma
Max Reiter
Reiter, the San Antonio Symphony’s top-notch director, will be one
of the highlights of the coming Town Hall season. He will lead
the symphony in Concert on Guion Hall’s stage March 5. Under
Reiter’s guidance, the San Antonio Symphony has become a smooth
ly-functioning organization, operating under a $300,000 budget and
presenting more than 60 musical events a year.
Senate Passes Bill,
Aids Meat Packers
Battalion Staff Sets
Meeting Tonight
The summer staff of The Bat
talion will meet tonight in the Bat
talion office, co-editors Sid Aber
nathy and Dean Reed said this
morning.
Publication schedules for the re
maining part of the term, special
editions scheduled for the fall, and
other business will be discussed.
Dr. C. C. French, who recently
assumed duties as the new dean of
the college, will be a guest at the
meeting, the co-editors said. Re
freshments will be served at the
meeting.
Washington, Aug. 15—GP)—The
Senate yesterday approved a pro
posal to guarantee a “reasonable
margin of profit” to the meat-pack
ing industry under any wage-price-
ration control powers exercised by
! Presiment Truman.
The action came by voice vote,
over-riding Republican protects
that the meat industry was‘being
singled out for special favoritism
if controls come. A supporter of
the proposal said later it was
aimed at preventing meat black
marketing.
Also by voice vote, the Senate
batted down a demand by GOP
leaders that a “reasonable profit”
plan be extended across the board
to cover all industries.
Both actions came late in the
day as the Senate quickened de
bate on a 1950 home front mobil
ization act which would give Mr.
Truman authority to control pri
ces and wages and impose ration
ing when he deemed it necessary,
along with credit and production
controls.
Chairman Maybank (D-SC) of
the Senate Banking Committee
At the Grove
Tonight
8 p.m.—“Parole Inc.” — Eagle-
Lion film, plus Ted Fio Rito short
subject. Students will be admit
ted upon presentation of Student
Activity fee slips, faculty and staff
employees and their families upon
identification.
Wednesday night — Juke box
dancing and roller skating. Skates
for rent.
sponsored the amendment assuring
the meat industry and unspecified
“reasonable” profit at the packer-
wholesaler level.
The amendment revives a section
of the old OPA law and makes
certain that it covers meat whole
salers. Under the old law, there
was: some confusion as to the
wholesalers.
Maybank did not explain to the
Senate why he picked out the meat
industry, but it was reported that
he had been asked to revive the
old OPA section in the new con
trol bill and had agreed to do so.
Maybank later told a reporter
the old OPA section covering meat
prices did not go into effect until
1945—about a year before OPA
meat price restriction went out
in the fall of 1946—and was “not
given a fair test,”
“If it had been given a chance,
it would have prevented black
marketing in meat,” Maybank said.
The Senate also adopted by voice
vote amendments requiring the
President, if he invoked price con
trol, to:
Fire Petition Receives Prompt
Action at City Council Meeting
By JOEL AUSTIN
Appointment of a citizens’ committee to study city fire
protection was authorized by the College Station City Coun
cil at its regular meeting last night. Mayor Ernest Lang
ford said members of the committee will be named within
the next few days.
Action on the committee came after a petition bearing
101 names of a representative group of College Station res
idents was read before the Council.
The committee will study existing conditions of fire
protection and make any suggestions which they believe
t-would better these conditions to the
Council.
Several signers of the petition
were present • at the meeting to
voice their opinions concerning fire
protection they are receiving. In
almost every case, references were
made to the recent fire which
caused a complete loss of the J. H.
Bogard home at 218 Harrington
Avenue.
L. S. Dillon, instructro in the Bi
ology Department, commented on
the present fire alarm system. Dil
lon, who lives next door to the
home destroyed on the night of
July 27, said “Phones are the most
unreliable of all of our utilities in
the city.”
Although alarm boxes were men
tioned, the idea was dismissed by
the Council because the size of the
city does not warrant installation
of the boxes.
Too Long, Claims Citizen
Further comment was made by
Dillon concerning the amount of
time it took the local fire-fighters
to reach the Bogard home. “Is’nt
eleven minutes a long time to take
a fire department to reach a fire?”
he asked. “Most volunteer de
partments pride themselves with
two or three minute service,” he
said.
Several possibilities were sug
gested by the petitioners, the may
or and other councilmen, but it
was decided by the Council that a
committee would be the best and
most efficient way of solving the
problem.
Dog
After Century
Vatican City, Aug. 15—
(AP)—Pope Pius has called
a secret consistory to make
belief in the bodily assump
tion of the Virgin Mary into
heaven a dogma of the Catholic
Church, it was announced yester
day.
The dogma will be the first
added to the doctrine of the church
in nearly 100 years. The last was
that of the immaculate conception
proclaimed on Dec. 8, 1854.
L’Osservatore Romano, Vatican
City newspaper, made the an
nouncement on the eve of the feast
of the assumption—August 15—
which has been observed by Cath
olics for centuries.
L’Osservatore Romano said the
secret consistory of Cardinals has
been called for Oct. 30, and that
Pope Pius will proclaim the dogma
on Nov. 1 on the closing day of an
international Marian congress in
Rome.
Thousands devoted especially to
the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus,
then will be assembled from all
parts of the world for one of the
most important events of the 1950
holy year. The delegates are bring
ing thousands of statues of the
virgin, some of them from the
world’s most noted shrines.
Catholic belief in the bodily as
sumption is based on the state
ment of Saint John of Damascus,
born about 676, that her tomb,
when opened upon the request of
Saint Thomas, was found empty
and the apostles therefore con
cluded that the body was taken up
to heaven.
India Delegate Leads Group
• • •
Six United Nations Members
Ask To Draft Peace Plans
Lake Success, Aug. 15—(A 5 )—
India suggested yesterday that to-
d ay the United Nations Se
curity Council entrust to its six
small-nation members the task of
drafting a Korean peace plan.
India’s chief delegate, Bengal N.
Rau, told the council frankly that
the plan was designed mainly to
end the procedural stalemate which
has increased rather than reduced
“tension between the two great
powers.”
The proposed committee would
include representatives of India,
Yugoslavia, Cuba, Egypt, Nor
way and Ecuador and would act
as a sort of “little security coun
cil” with powers to make recom
mendations to the full council.
Advantageous Operation
The main advantages, Rau said,
would be that the committee could
meet in private or in public, could
hear any person it pleased, and
none of the members could be
suspected of any expansionist am
bitions.
Rau was one of four speakers
who continued the non-communist
San Antonio Symphony and
Max Reiter On Town Hall
By LOUISE JONES
Taking over the Town Hall stage
on March 5 of next year will be the
San Antonio Symphony and its
renowned mentor, Max Reiter. In
ten years that the Symphony has
existed, it has skyrocketed in its
success and accomplishments.
This coming season the San An
tonio Symphony is slated for 15
subscription concerts in its home
town, each of which will attract
an audience averaging some 5,500
Southwiest music-lovars. Besides
that a score of Youth “Pop” con
certs, special concerts, and pro
grams for the air bases near San
Antonio have been scheduled. As
in past seasons, the orchestra will
also play concerts in a dozen other
Texas cities.
As the base of the Symphony’s
booming success is Max Reiter, its
Italian-born conductor who started
his organization in 1939 with a
makeshift, semi-professional orch
estra.
Reiter was born in Trieste and
gained an enviable European repu
tation before he was forced to flee
countries rapidly coming under the
shadow of the swastika.
He became assistant conductor
at the Berlin Opera House when he
was 20. Later, he toured as guest
conductor both for symphonic and
operatic performances in Germany,
France, Russia, Poland, and Yugo
slavia. He was permanent conduct
or of the orchestras in Trieste and
Milan, in 1932 taking over the di
rection of the celebrated symphony
concerts at the Royal Conservatory
in Milan.
After leaving Europe in 1938,
Reiter took advice of friends in the
United States and came to Texas
where he formed the San Antonio
Symphony.
The conductor’s success has been
chronicled through the columns of
Time, Newsweek, and Readex^’s Di
gest magazines. Well it might, for
the orchestra has earned coveted
remarks from famous conductors.
In 1946 Arturo Toscannini said
of a program, “ a fine performance,
which is a thing that does not hap
pen very often even with famous
orchestras and widely publicized
conductors.” Sir Thomas Beecham,
after making a guest appearance
declared an opinion that the Sym
phony was “among the few leading
organizations of this country.”
Again next February, the Sym
phony Society will produce its
celebrated Grand Opera Festival,
an event commended by the New
York Times as “a Southwest In
stitution.” In 1950 leading stars
of the Metropolitan Opera will
sing “Carmen”, “La Traviata,”
and several other operas.
The San Antonio Symphony
assault on the way Russia’s Jakob
A. Malik has discharged his func
tions as council president since he
ended his Boycott Aug. 1.
France’s Jean Chauvel charged
Malik is aiding Communist North
Korea by prolonging the procedur
al stalemate for propaganda pur
poses.
“To paralyze the council which
has taken the responsibility for
engaging the United Nations in the
defense of the Republic of Korea,”
Chauvel said, “is to aid the North
Koreans, the attackers of the re
public.”
As for Malik’s efforts to prove
the United States the aggressor in
Korea, Chauvel said, it is just an
other case of “pointing to a chair
and calling it a table.”
Malik Chided
Chauvel chided Malik for playing
a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde per
formance by speaking as represen
tative of the Soviet Union and
then, as council president, agreeing
with his own statements.
Antonio Quevedo of Ecuador ac
cused Malik of violating council
rules repeatedly and ignoring the
will of the majority.
Norway’s Arne Sunde said he
would not try to compete with
Malik in his selected field of pro-
pagana.
“If this were an exercise in pro-
p a g a n d a, the president would
graduate with high marks,” Sunde
said. “But this is not an arena for
propaganda, Mr. President, but the
security council which must repre
sent the interests of all 59 mem
bers for peace.”
Rau, in submitting his sugges
tion, told Malik he had hoped with
Malik’s return to the council that
some settlement might be in sight,
but that his hopes had receded
somewhat now.
The present water condition was
reviewed by the Council last night.
One city official reported that res
ervoirs in Bryan were filled to ca
pacity Sunday night and watering
systems were turned on at the new
A&M golf course in order to keep
from having to turn off pumps
temporarily.
Although the water storage
tanks were running over at 7 a.m.
yesterday morning, the official
said, the present plan for watering
on Monday, Tuesday and Wednes
day nights between the hours of
6 and 10 p.m. is still being asked
by water authorities in order to
insure a good supply of water un
til it rains.
Police Petition Dismissed
Another petition, requesting the
addition of one more policeman to
the present staff of two, was dis
missed by the council. The ques
tion had previously come before
the group at the budget hearing
when it was decided not to employ
an additional patrolman.
Coulter Hoppess and Erwin
Smith, representing the Bryan,
College Station Traction Company,
appeared before the Council with
a request for increased fares on
busse operating in College Station.
No formal request was made at the
time, and the men were asked to
make the written statement before
any action could be taken.
A joint meeting with the Bryan
City Commission was suggested by
Council members in order to speed
up action on the matter.
Holds Ordinance Action
An ordinance which would estab
lish new house numbers for vir
tually every home in College Sta
tion was held up until the next
meeting of the Council so people
may have an opportunity to inves
tigate the new system.
The city "manager was author
ized to place several maps in prom
inent loactions throughout the
city so residents may have an op
portunity to see changes to be
made
Mayor Langford reported that
an inspection had been made by
several officials, who found that
the proposed new water rates
would benefit approximately eight
persons in the city if adopted. The
idea was discarded since sufficient
benefit could not be realized from
the change.
A letter from the district census
director was reported by Mayor
Langford. The census director as
sured the mayor that all records
submitted by local census author
ities would be thoroughly checked
and any discrepancies would be re
ported to the Council.
Alexander to Speak
Dr. E. R. Alexander, head of the
Agricultural Education Depart
ment, will be principal speaker at
the Calvert Chamber of Commerce
and Aginculture’s annual barbecue
Thursday night.