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PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Number 5: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1950
Price Five Cents
Waegwan Captured, Reds
Strengthen Seoul Defense
All College Night
Filing for Senate?
Committee
ins Tomorrow
Life
Beg\
Fall politics on the campus gets
underway tomorrow as filing be
gins for three non-military seats
on.the Student Life Committee and
39 elected positions in the Student
Senate, Grady Elms, organizations
advisor, said this morning.
Filing period for the offices be
gins at 8 a.m. Wednesday and con
tinues through 5 p.m., Sept. 27.
Application forms may be ob
tained in the Student Activities
Office on second floor of Goodwin
Hall, and should be returned to
that office.
Student Life Committee
The Student Life Committee is
the “upper house” of A&M’s stu
dent government and is composed
of eleven students and nine faculty
and staff members. Under its con
stitution granted by the president
of the college, the committee acts
on all matters pertaining to stu
dent life. It also serves as a liai-
Student Award
Available By
Fulbright Act
Approximately 300 Ful
bright Awards are available
to U. S. students, for univer
sity lecturing and advanced
research abroad this year, De
partment of State has announced.
Awards provide stipends in cur
rency of the participating coun
tries. Due to a number of factors,
the stipends in dollar equivalents
vary from country to country.
Supplementary cost-of-living al
lowances for accompanying depen
dents and limited amounts for
the project may be added upon re
books and equipment necessary to
quest. The awards are usually
granted for an academic year, re
quire attachment to a foreign in
stitution, and are for use only in
one country.
Awards are made under the
Fulbright Act which authorizes
the Department of State to use
certain foreign currencies and cre
dits acquired through the sale of
surplus property abroad for pro
grams of educational exchange with
other nations.
Visiting lectures applicants must
have had teaching experience in an
institution of higher learning; ad
vanced research applicants, must
have a doctoral degree or equiv
alent recognized standing in a pro
fession.
All students interested in Grad
uate Study under the Fulbright
Program should contact Dr. Ralph
Steen, room 201 Academic Build
ing.
Students must have a knowledge
of the language of the country he
studies in.
Veterans may take advantage of
this program under the GI bill, but
in such cases the awards granted
will not be as much, Dr. Steen said.
Veterans may cancel their GI bill
while training under this program,
and resume their training under the
GI bill after returning to the Uni
ted States, he added.
Awards under the Fulbright Pro
gram are being offered in Belgium
or Luxembourg, Burma, France,
Greece, Italy, The Netherlands,
New Zealand, Norway, The Phil
ippines, United Kingdom & Col
onies, Australia, Egypt, India, Iran,
and Turkey. The number of awards
vary with each country and may
be secured from Dr. Steen.
son between all organizations and
the college and acts on and for
wards all matters needing the ap
proval of higher authorities.
Student Senate
Highest all-student governing
body is the Student Senate which
corresponds to the “lower house”
in A&M’s student government or
ganization.
One representation is selected
from each dormitory, one each from
Vet Village, College View, and the
Project Houses, and two from day
students. The remainder are elect
ed at-large.
Qualifications for student sena
tor are residence at A&M two reg
ular semesters, a grade point ratio
of 1.00 or better, and good stand
ing with the college.
Qualifications
Student Life Committeemen must
have a grade point ratio of 1.00 or
better, must have attended A&M
at least two regular semesters,
must be a classified sophomore and
have at least two semesters remain
ing before graduation.
Election for the several positions
will be held in the dormitories on
October 3.
Newspaper Clinic
Plans Completed
Preparations for the Second An
nual Texas Newspaper Clinic have
been Completed according to Otis
Miller, professor in the Journalism
Department.
This clinic is designed to cover
all phases of the newspaper busi
ness. Outstanding speakers from
newspapers throughout the state
will be present Miller said.
Included among the speakers will
be Walter Humphrey editor of
The Fort Worth Press, Fred Mas-
sengill Jr., president of the Texas
Press Association, arid George Gar-
mack, president of The Texas Gulf
Coast Press Association.
These speakers, along with many
others will cover the problems of
newspaper publishing with empha
sis on the mechanics of newspaper
work.
the clinic will be held in the
MSC Friday and Saturday with
120 persons expected to attend.
♦ Tokyo, Sept. 19—UP)—American forces today captured
Waegwan, Red Korean strongpoint in Southeast Korea on
the main road leading back to Seoul. The Reds appeared to be
withdrawing all along the perimeter of the old Allied beach
head defense box.
Red columns pulling out of the long-besieged Taegu-
Waegwan district may be racing northward to defend Seoul.
U. S. Marines were battering there at the gates of the
500-year-old Korean capital on the Allied second front 140
miles north of Waegwan.
U. S. Marines leading a 40,000-man Allied liberation
force from Inchon port still had to cross the half-mile-wide
Han River to enter Seoul.
They were in Seoul’s southwest suburb, Yongdungpo,
with engineers moving up river-crossing equipment to the
Han.
A spokesman said U. S, First* *—
Cavalry foot troopers rolled
through the highway town of
Waegwan without opposition and
moved one and one-half miles far
ther on the road to Kumchon, 18
miles northwest.
He said the Korean Reds were
fleeing toward Kumchon.
Strong Point
Waegwan, 14 air miles northwest
of Taegu, had been the strongest
point of Red resistance as Allied
forces fought to crack out of the
old South Korean beachhead in the
center of the perimeter.
Two other Red Korean divisions
were reported retreating from the
Masan front far to the south. U.S.
25th Division troops drove ahead
there as much as four miles.
On the Naktong River front be
tween Masan and Waegwan, the
U.S. Second and 24th Divisions
punched four battalions—4,000 men
—across thq stream.
Bridge Built
Engineers threw up a bridge ov
er the Naktong behind which Al
lied forces had retired Aug. 4 for
their final defense.
A massive breakthrough all
along the old front appeared to he
in progress.,
On the Inchon-Seoul second
front, 22 armed transport planes
City Councilmen
To Meet Tonight
College Station City councilmen
will meet in the council room of
the City Hall tonight at 7:30 in
what is expected to be a short,
routine meeting.
Speculation has been made by
several councilmen that discus
sion of new reduced electric rates
will take place at the meeting. J.
A. Orr, one of the six councilmen,
said yesterday he expected the new
rates to go into effect at the
meeting.
Other items on the agenda and
subjects for discussion other than
the electricity rates were not avail
able from the City Hall late yes
terday.
at Kimpo Airfield, 12 miles north
west of Seoul.
The landings were made in the
first hour of a continuing airlift
to reinforce the liberation assault
on Seoul.
Russian Clash Seen
Qver Jap T rea ty
With President Truman’s go-
ahead signal for a Japanese Peace
treaty raised the certain prospect
of a clash with Russia about who
would draft it, the Associated
Press reported.
The President recently auth
orized the State Department to
discuss preliminary steps with 12
other World War Pacific allies,
including Soviet Russia.
In his formal statement of the
U. S. Decision, he ignored a de
mand Moscow has been making for
the last three years that the treaty
be drafted by the Big Four Pacific
Powers alone—the U. S., Britain,
Russia and Communist China. The
President implied that if Russia re
fuses to go along with the U. S.,
a separate peace will be made
by the non-communistic nations
without the Soviets.
AH Center
Dedication to
Be Sept. 29
A&M’s new animal hus
bandry center will be dedicat
ed at 1:30 p. m., Sept. 29. Ac
cording to Dr. J. C. Miller,
head of the Animal Husban
dry Department.
Several hundred Texas livestock
men are expected to attend the ded
ication ceremonies and the other
activities planned for September
29 and 30, Dr. Miller said. This
dedication is a part of A&M’s sev
enty-fifth anniversary celebration.
Livestock men attending will in
clude the officers and members of
the board of directors of the Texas
and Southwestern Cattle Raisers
Association, who will hold their
regular quarterly meeting on the
landed 2T5 tons of cargo and troops ca ^P Uh '
Officers, directors and members
of the various breed associations,
officials of Texas livestock shows
and individual stockmen and other
people connected with the livestock
industry of the state are also ex
pected.
After the dedication ceremonies
on the afternoon of Sept. 29, the
visitors will be taken on a tour of
the campus and the facilities of
the Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion. A bai’becue supper at the beef
cattle center will highlight the
evening activities.
On the following morning, an
other tour will be conducted of
campus and outlying A&M System
research areas.
The departments of Animal Hus
bandry, Agronomy, Range and
Forestry, Entomology, and Vete
rinary Science will display exhibits
at the beef cattle center Sept. 29
and 30.
Women’s Social Club
To Hold Tea Friday
The A&M Women’s Social Club
will meet Friday at 3 p. m. in the
Ball Room of the Memorial Stu
dent Center, Mrs. Howard Barlow,
president of the club announced.
All women whose husbands are
employees of the college are asked
to attend the meeting which will
be a tea honoring new members.
Engineer Society
Selects Horsley
W. R. Horsley, director, Place
ment Office has been named to
the Manpower Committee of the
American Society for Engineer
ing Education. This committee will
study the supply and demand for
engineering manpower.
Horsley has 'just returned from
Detroit, where he attended a joint
meeting of the Committee on Re
lations with the industry of the
ASEE. The College Placement
Officers Assn, also met with the
ASEE.
A long-time fixture in the Academic Building, the trophy case is
now being disassembled and moved to the iobby of the Library.
Replacing the trophy case will be the Liberty Bell replica given
to the college by Governor Allan Shivers in ceremonic^ during the
summer.
Counsellors
To Distribute
Traffic Rules
A new book of campus
traffic rules has been written
and will be issued to the stu
dents by the Military Coun
sellors and housemasters,
Bennie J. Zinn, assistant dean of
students announced today. Hence
forth, the traffic rules will be
omitted from the bluebook of cam
pus regulations.
The new rules, written by a com
mittee composed of Dean Pen-
berthy, President Harrington, and
Dean French, entail no major
changes from those in force dur
ing. the preceding year, Zinn said.
However, he particularly noted the
fact that under the new rules all
violations will be handled by the
counsellor of the students rather
than by F. M. Hickman, Chief of
the Campus Security. The rules
as now written have been.changed
in terminology with a view toward
clarification of their meaning.
Hickman, referring to the ex
treme congestion now current on
the campus, expressed a belief
that traffic conditions would be
come more stable and clarified
during the next weekend when he
expects many of the cars to be
taken home.
The traffic imles have been made
to maintain safety on the campus.
They are designed to attempt to
keep the student operated cars in
the parking lots during school
hours and leave the campus streets
open for business and visiting ve
hicles.
Johnson Moves
Out of Defense
Office Today
Washington, Sept. 19—UP)
—Secretary of Defense Louis
Johnson drops the nation’s
military management reins
today in obedience to Presi
dent Truman’s desire to replace
him with Gen. George C. Marshal).
If Johnson wishes are honored,
he will leave the Pentagon without
fanfare or publicity, in quiet con
trast to the Navy-Air Force storm
which he survived and the presi
dential blow last week which ended
his 18 months as civilian boss of
the Armed Services.
Johnson’s departure was pre
ceded by that of one of his friends.
The President last night abruptly
dropped Munitions Board Chair
man Hubert E. Howard.
Howard, who was brought into
government work by Johnson, had
asked to resign by the end of the
month, but the President handed
him his hat with only a few hours
notice.
In a letter dated Sept. 13, and
made public yesterday by the
White House said he regretted
that the President had accepted
the resignation of Johnson, whom
he called “one of the great admin
istrators of the country.”
The President replied that be
cause of Howard’s “desire for ex
peditious action” he was accepting
the resignation effective at the
close of business yesterday.
Howard’s aides got their first
news of the President’s decision
from newspapermen. As recently
as Saturday high Munitions /Board
officials were saying that Howard
would not leave his job short of
ad order from the President.
Howard, an independently weal
thy businessman, took the muni
tions job at Johnson’s urging. He
originally agreed to serve one year.
The anniversary of that year came
and went Sept. 1 without any move
on either Howard’s or Johnson’s
part to end the appointment.
Gals and Grub
Promises Used
Anchorage, Alaska —(A 5 )—The
wily “enemy” dropped its best
psychological lure today to defend
ing soldiers without a nibble. Gals
and grub in sunny California were
promised.
Leaflets showered on, Elmendorf
Air Force Base by aggressor planes
as part of the Alaskan war games
said:
“You will starve or freeze or be
killed . . . why die 3,000 miles from
home? Come to our lines. Surren
der! Shoot your officers. We will
place you in detention camps in
southern California with girls and
rations. As soon as we occupy the
base, planes will leave for southern
California. Surrender and help us
rule the world!”
There were no takers.
“Pinky” Downs helped kick off ‘A&M College
Night’ in the Grove Monday, with a short talk.
“The Essence of Aggie Spirit,” as Yell Leader
Jim Pianta described him. moved the microphone
off the stage while he talked.
All College Night in Grove
Starts No Regrets ? Year
By HAROLD GANN
Four prominent Aggie graduates
kicked off A&M’s 75th Anniversary
Year during All-College Night at
the Grove last evening.
President M. T. Harrington, head
football coach Harry Stiteler, ath
letic director Bones Irwin, and P. L.
“Pinky” Downs combined speeches
to give students a preview on
what to expect from the football
team and from this year.
Irwin successfully summed up
the forecast with, “There’ll be no
Room Problems
To Be Adjusted
During Week
Housing congestion in dor
mitory areas will ease this
week, according to Harry
Boyer, chief of housing.
While registration has not
exceeded earlier estimates, room
reservation conflicts (one student
being registered for two rooms)
have made conditions seem more
crowded than they actually are.
There are actually less than 300
rooms on the campus with three
students to the room but on paper
there are many more than that.
Also there are many more rooms
having three beds than will be
necessary. Surplus beds will be re
moved as soon as possible, Boyer
said.
Rooms having three students
have been divided as equally as
possible between the three main
groups of students, the Basic Div
ision, Cadet Corps and non-corps
students.
All veteran apartments will be
fully occupied by Oct. 1 Boyer add
ed. There are approximately 125
students on the waiting list for
veteran apartments.
regrets.”
President Harrington, the first
speaker, took the stand for his first
time last night at an All-College
ceremony. “I know this is going
to be a fine year in the history of
A&M College,” he stressed.
“For the first time since ’46 we
have got all our student body on
one campus. We’ve got a new
Memorial Student Center we’ve
been looking forward to for a long
time.”
Liberally punctuated by happy
ovations, Harrington highlighted
his speech with the following:
“You’ve heard 1950 referred to as
the turn of the century. But, for
ns, it’s going to be a turn in our
football fortunes.”
Then a small, 41-yefar-old man
strode to the microphone. The
little man’s eyes were cast down
upon the group, but he was look
ing into the future when he said:
“There’s been a saying for quite
some time: Collectively, any group
can be just as strong as it wants
to be, but if you take a bunch of
individualists, they’re going to fall.
“That’s exactly the way it is
with us. If all of us here at A&M
College — the administration, you
students, and our football team—
stick together, we will have a fine
season.”
Those are the words of Stiteler,
who survived two lean years as
head man to field a strong confer
ence contender in 1950.
“There is no group of boys who
have been here in quite some time,
who have worked as hard as these
boys have in preparing for their
first game with Nevada,” he con
cluded.
“Pinky” Downs, whom Senior
Yell Leader Jim Pianta described
as “the Essence of Aggie Spirit,”
was the final speaker. He predict*
ed that the Aggies would win four,
possibly five games this year.
Going through their first mo
tions this semester as yell leaders
were Don Joseph and Pianta, sen
iors, juniors John Tapley and
Lewis Jobe, and veteran Ed Ful
bright.
Street Is Drawing
Meet Chairman
W. E. Street, head of the Engin
eering - Drawing Department, will
be program chairman for the Mid
winter meeting of the Drawing
Division of the American Society
of Engineering Education to be
held here Jan. 18, 19, and 20.
Club Meeting Night’s
Schedule Set for Year
A schedule of meeting nights falls. Rooms in the Memorial Stu-
for campus organizations was an
nounced today by Grady Elms, as
sistant director of student activ
ities.
A letter setting forth this sche
dule is being mailed to all organi
zations immediately.
The schedule will be the same
as last year with very few changes
in procedure. Clubs desiring to re
serve rooms in the Academic Build
ing should contact the department
under whose jurisdiction the room
Prexies, Puns and Pulchritude
Latest Commentator Issue
Features ‘Jubilee’ Theme
By WAYNE DAVIS
Composed under the masterful
hands of Editors Herman Gollob
and George Charlton, the Commen
tator, A&M’s answer to Time, Life,
and Readers’ Digest, has just re
appeared on local newsstands to
begin its fourth year of publica
tion.
Dedicated to the College’s 75th
anniversary, the September Com
mentator keynotes the progress of
three-quarters of a century since
the founding of A&M in 1876. To
this end, the lead article, “The
Twelfth Man,” presents a photo
graph and brief biography of the
eleven former presidents of the
school along with that of Dr. M. T.
Harrington, who has just assumed
his duties as the twelfth man to
hold the office.
Aside from the inspiring lead ar
ticle, though, Aggies will recognize
their old friend the Commentator
brought up to date with the best
in campus wit, humor, and pinup
photography. The first Fall issue
offers no less than six short sto
ries, a one-act play fit to turn
Kaufman and Hart green with en
vy, and a journalistic free-for-all
on the delightful subject of blondes'
vs. brunettes.
Moreover, there are page after
page of poetry, hoary jokes, car
toons, a dandy two-page center
spread by Emmett Trant, and three
luscious pin-up sweethearts por
traying what is, respectively,
sweet, saucy, and sultry in fetch
ing young womankind.
While the theme of this issue, of
course, is “75 Years of Progress,”
it should not be assumed that the
75 years concerned is all in the
past. On the contrary, not only
does one article deal with A&M
75 years hence, but two full pages
are devoted to Bert Avera’s futur
istic cartoons of the first A&M
Physics class expedition to the
Moon, the illustrations being full
of enough Clunks, Bams, Pows,
Clangs, and Crashes to satisfy all
but the most trigger-happy science-
fiction fan.
For the lover of the cinema there
is offered a review of three of the
latest movies. Since it is doubtful
that any of these productions will
appear in Guion for several years,
all Aggies desirous of keeping up
with the times will find it a “must”
to read these scintillating reviews,
as it is doubtful whether anything
like them will ever appear again.
Nor is the patron of the stage
neglected. Here, for the first time,
is presented in full the script of
one of the most' compelling dramas
of our day, “The Dorm Master,”
by the renowned playwright Her
bert Globe. One reading of this
thrilling drama alone will be well
worth the price of The Commen
tator.
Since the magazine is edited,
written, and published for a mili
tary college, it might be assumed
that it is designed for men only.
This is not the case. Editors Gol
lob and Charlton have anticipated
many feminine readers, and, great
humanitarians that they are, have
provided a MALE pinup—the one
and only Tumlinson boy—to capti
vate the fancy of the fair sex.
In short, never in the history of
A&M has so fine, so diversified,
so enjoyable an issue of The Com
mentator been published. It be
hooves every red-blooded Aggie to
borrow his roommate’s at once.
dent Center may be reserved
through Miss Ann Hilliard.
Banking and other services for
clubs will continue through Stu
dent Activities. The club aid pro
gram will again be in operation
this year with the deadline for ap
plications for grants being October
25. Grants may be used to secure
speakers and send delegates to
recognized conventions but not for
social activities.
Elms, also asks that organiza
tions turn in a list of their officers
to the Student Activities office as
soon as possible. All contacts with
organizations will be made through
these officers.
Organizations desirous of hold
ing social events must submit the
proper form for approval at least
five days in advance. Organizations
planning a dance should have a re
presentative present on the third
floor of Goodwin Hall this Thurs
day, Sept. 21, at 5 p. m. when the
Social Calendar will be scheduled.
Club intramurals will continue
as they did last year. Organiza
tions should elect an athletic of
ficer and have him see Barney
Welch in the Intramural Office at
the main Gym between 8 a. m. and
5 p. m. any weekday. Equipment
will be issued at the gym.
In order that the various clubs
will secure adequate publicity Stu
dent Activities will try to get a
club news editor for the Battalion.
In the meantime each club should
appoint its own reporter and handle
its own publicity.
More specific details may be se
cured through an organizational
news letter being released through
the Student Activities Office.
Following is the schedule for
meetings:
Monday—Conflict meeting night.
Tuesday—Engineering, agricul
ture, arts and science and vet
erinary departmental.
Wednesday—Class metings, re
ligious organizations and ser
vices.
Thursday—Hometown clubs and
quarterback club.
Friday—Open.