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Number 46: Volume 50
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1950
Price: Five Cents
J. Wayne Stark, director of the Memorial Student Center, exam
ines a recent shipment of lamps to be installed in the MSC. Fur
nishings of all kinds have been arriving daily for the past few
weeks and everything is expected to be in readiness for the infor
mal opening, Sept. 21-23. The building is being furnished and
equipped under the direction of Robert D. Harrell, interior dec
orator.
Complete Plans For
Freshman Week Set
An informal reception for new
students their parents and friends j
and college faculty members will
be held under YMCA sponsorship
the opening day of Freshman
Week, Friday, Sept. 8.
The reception, in Sbisa Hall
Lounge, will be from 3 to 5 p. m.,
according to announcements from
the Basic Division, in which all
freshmen and other new students
who are unqualified to enter one
of the degree-granting schools
will enroll.
On the first day of Freshman
Week, Sept. 8-15, all entering stu
dents will obtain room assignment
in Sbisa Hall banquet room and
uniforms will be drawn at the
clothing warehouse. At 7 p. m. Dr.
John R. Bertrand, dean of the
Basic Division, will preside at a
general assembly. The Basic Divi-
Hours for Moving
Into Dorms Set
Dormitories that have been
closed for the summer will be open
Friday Aug. 25 and Saturday Aug.
26 so students can move into
them for the fall semester.
Friday the dormitories will be
open from 1-5 p. m. and Saturday
from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m.
Dormitories included in this
group are all new area dorms for
Corps students and Mitchell, Biz-
zell, Law, Puryear, and Legget
for non-military students.
All dormitories except Bizzell
will be locked at 5 p. m. Saturday.
Students wishing to remain on
the campus between terms may
register for Bizzell for this per
iod by paying room rent of $6.65.
Registration must be completed by
6 p. m. Saturday Aug. 26.
Those students who will not
Jive in Bizzell this fall but wish
to remain there between semesters
vhould move the bulk of their be
longings into their regular room
and take only wha will be required
for a few weeks.
sion staff and local ministers will
be introduced to the new students.
Saturday, Sept. 9, will be given
over to testing, and an all-church
religious assembly will be held Sun
day from 2 to 3 p. m. in Guion
Hall. Testing will be resumed on
Monday, with another evening
general assembly at the Grove.
Members of the Executive Com
mittee of the College will be in
troduced, and Rufus R. Peeples, a
member of the A&M Board of Di
rectors, will speak.
Boatner to Preside
Col. H. L. Boatner, commandant,
will preside at a general assembly
Tuesday at 8 a., m. Unit meetings
will follow. Individual conferences
with freshman week advisors and
group conferences with the Basic
Division staff are scheduled Wed
nesday.
The president’s reception is plan
ned for 7 p. m. Thursday in the
new Memorial Student Center, fol
lowing another day of individual
and group conferences.
Formal registration for all new
students will be held Friday, and
the staff of the Basic Division will
be available for individual con
ferences as desired by students
from 8 a. m. till noon Saturday.
Classes begin Monday, Sept. 18.
The regular registration date for
old returning students is Saturday,
Sept. 16, although registration may
be done in advance on Saturday,
Aug. 26.
R. E. Courses
Scheduled for
Baptist Center
Five courses in Religious
Education will be taught at
the Baptist Student Center
during the fall semester, Rev.
Arthur Smith said yesterday.
The courses to be taught are:
R. E. 312, “The Gospel of John”,
one hour credit, meeting Thurs
day at 8 a. m.; R. E. 313, Survey
of the New Testament, two hours
credit, meets Tuesday and Thurs
day at 11 a. m.; R. E. 314, Survey
of the Old Testament, three hours
dredit, meets Monday, Wednes
day, and Friday at 10 a. m.; R.
E. 320, The Book of Revalations,
one hour credit, meets a 8 a. m. on
Tuesday; and R. E. 323, The Life
of Jesus, three hours credit, meets
at 11 a. m. on Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday.
All courses in the Baptist Stu
dent Center will be taught by Rev
erend Smith.
Other courses in Religious Edu
cation may be found in the sche
dule of classes.
Instructors from other churches
offering courses are: Rev. Norman
Anderson, of the A&M Presby
terian Church, Mr. James Fowler,
of the Church of Christ, Rev. Rob
ert Sneed of the A&M Methodist
Church and Rev. Lawrence Brown
of St. Thomas Episcopal Church.
Students desiring to take cour
ses in religious education may sign
up for them at Religious Educa
tion desk in Sbisa Hall on regis
tration days.
A&M allows six hours credit in
religious courses toward a degree.
Reds Handed Beatings
Along Central Fronts
Col. E. W. Napier
Col. Napier has been assigned to replace Col. J. H. Kelley as as
sociate professor of Air Science and Tactics. Col. Kelley will
leave soon for Saudi Arabia on another assignment. Before
coming to A&M Col. Napier was Vice Commander of the Twelfth
Air Force at Brooks Field, San Antonio. He graduated from West
Point in 1929 and entered the Air Force in 1933. Col. Napier com
manded a B-24 bomber base in England during the war. He resides
now with his family at 300 Hereford Street in College Station.
Dr. Monlux Joins
Veterinary Staff
Dr. William S. Monlux, has
been added to the staff of the
Veterinary Pathology Department,
according to Dr. Hilton A. Smith,
head of the department.
Monlux will replace Dr. Virgil
Robinson of the department who
is studying at Vanderbilt.
After receiving his degree in
veterinary medicine from Iowa
State University in 1937, Dr. Mon
lux was an instructor in pathology
at Cornell until he went into the
Army in 1941.
Emerging from the Army in
1945 after attaining the rank of
Lt. Col. in the Veterinary Corps,
he completed work at Cornell for
his PhD in pathology in 1947.
A year at Kungliga Veterinary
School in Stockholm, Sweden and
a year at the University at Pre
toria, South Africa, found Dr. Mon
lux seiwing as a pathologist for
the U. S. Bureau of Animal Indus
tries, Washington, D. C.
Expected to arrive in College
Station around Aug. 18, Dr. Mon
lux will assist with autopsies and
teach courses in pathology at A&M,
Dr. Smith said.
Grass Fire Halted
At Disposal Plant
College Station firemen fought
a large grass fire at the College’s
Sewage Disposal Plant for over an
i hour yesterday afternoon before
bringing it under control.
Several acres of sun-parched
grass were ablaze south of the
plant, near Easterwood Field, when
the firemen reached the area at ap-
proximatley 4:03 p.m.
P. J. A. Zeller, operator of the
plant stopped the buming grass
about 20 feet short of the Sanitary
Laboratory, which contained sever
al thousand dollars worth of equip
ment and machinery. Zeller used
a garden hose to spray water onto
surrounding grass and bushes pre
venting the fire from reaching the
building.
The fire was reported to the Col
lege Fire Department by Walter
A Peterson negro employee of the
Swine Husbandry Division. He
said the fire apparently started
from nearby burning trash.
Ag Experimentists
To Meet in October
The annual conference of the
Agricultural Experiment Station
will be held on the campus Oct.
18-21, according to Dr. J. C.
Gaines, chairman of the program
committee.
Attending the conference will be
the entire personnel of the sub
stations, together with three or
four hundred prominent farmers
and ranchers from the state.
“All speakers have not been con
tacted at this time,” Dr. Gaines
said, “but some important men
from Washington will address the
conference.”
Library Schedule
The A&M Library asks that
summer school students return
all books charged from the li
brary before leaving the cam
pus.
The schedule for between se
mesters will be as follows:
August 25, 1950, 8 a.m. to
5 p.m.
August 26, 1950, 8 a.m. to
12 noon.
August 27, 1950, CLOSED.
August 28 — September 18,
Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. to
5 p.m.
Saturdays 8 a.m. to 12 noon
Sundays—Closed
Regular schedule will be re
sumed with the beginning of
classes Sept. 18, 1950.
Trotters Leave for
Extended Vacation
Dean and Mrs. Ide P. Trotter,
and sons Ide Jr. and Benny left
Friday morning, August 18, for
an extended vacation.
They plan to go first to, Carth
age, Missouri, to visit Mrs. Trot
ter’s family. Then will spend a
week in a good fishing location.
The Trotters will then drive to
Elkton, Kentucky to spend some
time in the home of Dr. Trotter’s
mother. They plan to travel back
to College Station by the southern
coastal route through Mississippi
and Louisiana, and will be home
the last of September.
Tanks Like Tenpins
For ‘Fox ’ Company
By TOM LAMBERT
With the U. S. 27th Infantry
Regiment in Korea, Aug, 24—(JP)—
It was all quiet yesterday along
F (Fox) Company’s “bowling al
ley”—and Fox Company was de
lighted.
The “Bowling Alley” is a long,
straight stretch of road running
north into Red territory on which
the Communists recently set up 11
tanks. Fox Company’s supporting
tanks and artillery knocked the
Red tanks over like tenpins.
The North Koreans, in what regi
mental commander John “Mike”
Michaelis of Lancaster, Pa., calls
“stupid” moves, bowled tanks and
self-propelled guns down the
“bowling alley” three times.
The first tme Fox Company
knocked off three. The next time
three more and the third time,
five.
Courtesy Fox Company
On one of the burned-out tanks
some proud member of Fox Com
pany had painted in huge white
letters: “27th Infantry, Courtesy
of Fox Company.:”
Fox Company was nonchalant
about the tanks today, but there
wasn’t much nonchalance the night
they came clattering down the
“bowling alley”.
Machine gunner Cpl. Prentiss
Thrower of Bennetsville, S. C.,
after thumbing a few rounds from
his 30-calibre at an estimated one
dozen Reds prowling a distant
hillside, declared “Boy, was I
scared” when the Red tanks rolled
in.
“I was about to shake myself out
of that hole,” in which his feet
were dangling at the moment.
His buddies nodded. “One guy
raised up and hollered “Frp gonna
shoot” and I hollered “I don’t care
what the hell you do.”
Recounted another GI
“Just then our tanks hit one
of them and the bazooka guys got
another. You see that self-propelled
gun ? Look at that gun. Zeroed
right on us. See that hole right
there?—pointing to gouge in the
rocky soil about six feet away—
he threw one right here before
they got him.’
Father up the “bowling alley,”
out in no man’s land on that tree-
lined road, two more burned out
tanks were visible. The others,
the GI’s said were still farther
north.
Parnells Return From
Trip in Rocky Mt. Park
Professor and Mrs. E. D. Par
nell and family have returned
from vacationing in the Rocky
Mountain National Park. Other
points of interest visited by the
Parnell’s on their trip were Salt
Lake City, Taos, and Palo Verde
Canyon.
Candidates Battle It Out . . .
Brooks Says State Money
Supports Opponent Ramsey
Austin —(A*)— Pierce Bi’ooks’
charge that state money was be
ing spent by legislators supporting
his opponent, Ben Ramsey, in the
lieutenant governor’s race brought
firm denials Wednesday from four
senators.
Both Ramsey and Brooks went
on the air in appeals to the elec
torate just two days before the
run-off primary. Ramsey an
nounced it would be his only radio
speech because of “limited cam
paign funds.” Brooks plans radio
speeches Thursday and Friday
nights.
Another Development
Another development was an
nouncement by the Secretary of
State in Austin that some candi
dates are lagging in turning in
primary campaign expense ac
counts. Five reports are due as of
this week, Secretary of State John
Ben Shepperd said. In the lieuten-
! ant governor’s race, Ramsey has
j made five reports showing expend-
, itures of $2,160.07; Brooks three
I reports $1,600 Shepperd said.
State senator Ottis Lock of Luf-
| kin and Jimmy Phillips of Angleton
issued statements in Austin deny
ing Brooks’ charge that letters
written by a group of senators
“are on state stationary, with the
state seal on the letterhead, and
paid for with state funds.” Both
said they were glad to have written
the letters which they said they
personally paid for.
“Personal Expense”
State Senator Crawford Martin
at Hillsboro said letters he mailed
urging Ramsey’s candidacy “were
prepared for mailing at my ex
pense; letterheads were printed at
my expense, and postage paid by
me.”
Brooks repeated the charge that
state money was spent on the let
ters. In a speech prepared for
broadcast over the Texas State
Network (broadcast time 8 p. m.)
the candidate called it “just an
other example of waste and extra-
vagence that the people will rise
up and smash this coming Satur
day.”
Phillips said he could “think
of no greater public service I can
render my friends than to recom
mend Ben Ramsey.” Lock said a
senator can not render maximum
service “unless the senate has a
qualified presiding officer” and
that Ramsey “is the only candidate
for lieutenapt governor who is
qualified by experience.”
Senator Rog'ers Kelley of Edin
burg joined in denying Brooks’
charge, saying it was “utterly ri
diculous and typical of Brooks’
tactics.”
Political Chicanery
Brooks also said that the “in
sidious forces” supporting Ramsey
are “resorting to the lowest and
Local Former
Students Set
‘Ladies Night’
The ladies will hold the
spotlight at the Brazos Coun
ty A&M Club on August 29,
when the former students of
the college hold their “Ladies
Night” barbecue party, accord
ing to W. N. “Flop” Colson, pres
ident.
The informal affair, scheduled
for 7:15 p. m. at the new club
house on West Munnerlyn Drive
in Bryan, marks the first non
stag gathering of the club mem
bers at the modernistic meeting
place.
Club members and friends will
entertain the ladies and other
guests in the friendly atmosphere
of the local ex-student organiza
tion, and extensive plans have
been made in preparation for the
event.
George Long is chairman of the
house committee of decorations
and arrangements. He is being as
sisted by W. W. Meinke and A. C.
Wamble.
Notices of the meeting have been
mailed to all members, Colson said,
and all members and friends of the
organization are urged to join the
Tuesday evening festivities.
Tickets will be on sale at the
club house Tuesday evening at
$1.50 per person. Colson urges all
bachelor members and friends of
the club to bring dates.
Tokyo, Aug. 24—UP)—The 50,000-man Red force north
of Taegu hunted today for a softer spot after their probers
took four beatings from Allied defenders in the heart of the
Korean central warfront.
AP Correspondent Tom Lambert reported units of the
main North Korean force drifted eastward along the Amer
ican-South Korean frontline defense positions 12 miles north
of Taegu.
General MacArthur’s late Thursday war summary told
of “decreasing enemy pressure” on this mountain battlefront
where the Communists have mass--f
ed their greatest weight of arms
for a climatic drive on the fortress
railhead city.
State Dairymen
To Confer Here
In September
The Artificial Breeding and
Dairy Herd Improvement As
sociations will hold its third
annual conference in the
Memorial Student Center on
Sept. 4 and 5, according to R. E.
Burleson of the Extension Dairy
Department.
A. C. Baltzer, head of the breed
ing program at Michigan State
Agriculture College, East Lansing,
Michigan will deliver the main ad
dress. Developments in artificial
breeding and dairy herd improve
ment in the United States will be
covered by the dairyman.
Dr. D. G. Smokier, veterinarian,
manager, and part owner of the
North Texas Artificial Breeding
Farm at Dallas' will discuss devel
opments and problems in the
North Texas Artificial Breeding
Farm Study.
The program will be in the
hands of Dr. I. W. Rupel, head of
the Dairy Husbandry Department,
R. E. Leighton assistant professor
in the Dairy Husbandry Depart
ment, R. E. Burleson, A. M. Meek-
ma and Sam E. von Rosenberg of
the Extension Dairy Department.
The U. S. Army Chief of Staff,
Gen. J. Lawton Collins, visited the
Korean warfront Thursday. He
returned to Tokyo optimistic after
a close shave with Red roadblock
fire that he learned about after
ward.
He said ‘•things are coming
along very well over there” and
that he was well pleased with the
morale of American and South
Korean forces.
Slip Through Battle Zone
General Collins and Adm. For
rest P. Sherman, U. S. Navy Chief
of Operations, slipped through the
battlezone without injury.
The firing broke out just after
Collins was at a forward position
of the 27th Infantry “Wolfhound”
regiment north of Taegu.
Col. John (Mike) Michaelis, reg
imental commander said:
“They never will believe it but
15 minutes after the General left
the forward command post all hell
broke loose.”
The heavy firing killed four
American officers and wounded
several.
U. S. and South Korean troops
beat off localized enemy infiltra
ting attacks on their flanks and
continued their frontal thrust
Thursday in the face of reduced
Red artillery and mortar fire. This
was the fifth day of continuous
battle for the bloody “bowling al
ley” corridor of the mountain pas
ses.
An American attack Wednesday
drove Communist infiltrators into
tixe hills east of the main Kumhwa-
Taegu road. The U. S. troops
opened the highway after snipers
Schedule for
Preregistration
Preregistration for the Fall
semester will be held from 8
a. m. until 4 p. m. Saturday
August 26.
Registration cards will be is
sued at the east entrance to
Sbisa Hall in accordance with
the following schedule:
8- 9 a. m.—All whose sur
names begin with L, M, N, O.
9- 10 a. m.—All whose sur
names begin with P, Q, R, S
10-11 a. m.—All whose sur
names begin with C, D, E, F.
1- 2 p. m.—All whose sur
names begin with G, H, I, J, K.
2- 3 p. m.—All whose sur
names begin with A, B.
3- 4 p. m.—All whose sur
names begin with T, U, Y, AY,
X, Y, Z.
Registration for new students
on September 15 and registra
tion for returning students on
September 16 will be held in ac
cordance with the same sche
dule.
had interrupted supply traffic for
two days.
Reds Pulling Back
The Reds also appeared to be
pulling back from the Waegwan
area 12 miles northwest of Taegu.
They were quiet at a bridgehead
across the Naktong River near
Hyonpung 14 miles southwest of
the rail hub.
The American First Cavalry div
ision facing the Waegwan area
sent patrols across the river Thurs
day without meeting any opposi
tion. The U. S. 24th Infantry
division guards the Naktong front
southwest of Taegu.
U. S. 25th Infantry division
troops renewed an attack Thurs
day to win positions in the domin
ating Sobuk Ridge on the north
western front at the outer ap
proaches to Pusan main U. S. har
bor on the southeastern coast.
The 25th Infantry were held up
by heavy mortar and small arms
fire from deeply entrenched Reds,
who were the advance units of two
Communist divisions believed pre
paring a fresh assault in the deep
south toward Pusan.
Meet Stiff Resistance
South Korean troops, moving
northward from the Pohang-Kigye
area o nthe East coast, ran into
stiff but localized Red resistance.
The South Korean capitol divis
ion captured commanding heights
in the lofty mountains near Odok,
about eight miles north of Kigye.
The South Korean Third divis
ion continued to advance north of
Hunghae on the East coast.
In general, Thursday was a day
of testing and searching for in
formation by American patrols
thrust ahead of their lines.
Correspondent Wounded
A patrol probing across the
Naktong ran into a mortar attack
and two war correspondents were
wounded, neither seriously. They
are Randolph Churchill, son of
Britain’s war time prime minister
Winston Churchill, and Frank Em
ery of International Service, an
American.
A mortar fragment tore a half-
dollar-size hole in Churchill’s leg
and Emery was hit in three places.
A U. S. soldier of the patrol was
wounded so badly he had to be left
on the Communist west bank of the
river and efforts to rescue him
were beaten off.
Churchill worked four hours on
his story for a London newspaper
and then was flown to Japan.
Korean Marines Attack
South Korean Marines ,a tough,
rag-tag outfit equipped with U.S.,
Japanese and South Korean cast
off arms, landed on the illand of
Uido, off the extreme southwest
tip of the Korean peninsula.
Admiral Sherman said on his
return from Korea that more Mar
ine riflemen and Marine air units
would come along in a steady, bal
anced buildup of American Naval
forces. He said these forces now
in the Korea area total 150 ships
of all types and 90,000 men.
basest forms of political chicanery.
They have published and sent
through the mails a scandal sheet;
they have started vicious whisper
ing campaigns; they have even
resurrected a three-times defeat
candidate and put him on the radio i
to smear Pierce Brooks.”
Ramsey’s speech prepared for
radio delivery (broadcast time 7
p. m.) emphasized his legislative
and governmental experience and
said that Brooks has “not told the
people of one single qualification
that makes him a suitable candi
date for lieutenant governor.”
Ramsey noted that 90 per cent of
Texas’ tax money goes for roads,
schools and pensions and other
welfare programs.
Essentials of Government
“My opponent has criticized the
expenditure of money for these es
sentials of government,” Ramsey
said. “He has threatened to cut
the expenditure of money for roads,
schools and pensions. We have been
too long in the building of our
road system for some inexperienced
person to cut off maintenance of j i
the roads. And our school system
should not be set back because my
opponent is threatening to cut
down expenditures for our essen
tial governmental needs.”
Brooks said his plan was to
solve the state’s financial problems
by “application of business princi
ples to our government.”
Mr. and Mrs. Felts of Houston examine some of
the material from which they will make the
drapes for the Memorial Student Center with the
exception of those in the Guest Rooms. Clifford
Barth, with clip board, an architect from the
A&M System Architect Office is checking sched
ules for drapes and cornices. One of the cornices
is being installed by workmen from the B. & C. U.
department.