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Number 6: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1950
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Exhibits, Special Invents
T o Highlight MSC Opening
MSC: An Anniversary Gift
By DAVE COSLETT and JOHN WHITMORE
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Marines Expecting
To Capture Seoul
Before Day’s End
■ Tokyo, Sept. 20 — (A 5 )—Marines
poured in by thousands with tanks
across the Han River under fire
today and struck within four miles
of Seoul on the heels of fleeing
v Red Koreans.
Powerful vanguards of the
40,000-man Allied liberation corps
* stabbed along the tidal flats and
rice paddies toward the heart of
the Korean capital.
„ They expected to take Seoul dur
ing the day.
Another Marine column was
massing on the southwest bank of
the Han only one mile from Seoul.
It was in the cross-river suburbs
of Yanghwa and Yongdungpo.
The Leathernecks swarmed
across , the water barrier eight
miles northwest of Seoul in am
phibious tractors at dawn after
being repulsed once in darkness.
« Gain Beachhead
They quickly hacked out a 400-
yard wide beachhead under a hail
of Red fnachinegun, small arms
fire and light artillery bursts.
" While Marines fanned out into
nearby, low-lying hills to knock
out Communist strongpoints, as
sault craft ferried heavy tanks in
to the bridgehead.
/l The tanks churned the tidal
Han’s mudflats and rumbled down
roads leading to Seoul.
* B-29s and fighter planes plas
tered communication lines within
a 150 mile radius of Seoul, seek
ing to isolate the city.
Its liberation after nearly three
months of Communist occupation
appeared at hand, possibly only a
matter of hours.
But the Reds apparently were
not going to yield the city without
a fight.
A dai’ing 14-man Allied scouting
party swam to the northeast bank
P.nd watched Communists pour
heavy machinegun, rifle and mor
tar fire into the first Marine am
phibious tractors trying to cross
in darkness.
Pic Schedule
* For Non-Corps
_ Students Set
A schedule of days for
* non-military pictures made
for the ’51 annual has been
announced by Roy Nance, edi
tor of the Aggieland.
All pictures will be taken at
the Aggieland Studio in College
Station between the hours of 8
a. m. and 5 p. m.
The schedule is as follows:
Non-Military Seniors
r Sept. 25-26 A-C
27-28 D-F
29-30 G'-I
Oct. 2-3 J-L
4-5 M-0
G-7 P-R
9-10 S-U
11-12 V-Z
Non-Military Juniors
Oct. 13-14 A-F
16-17 G-M
18-19 N-S
20-21 T-Z
Non-Military Sophomores
Oct. 23-24 A-H
’ 25-26 j I-P
27-28 Q-Z
Non-Military Freshmen
Oct. 30-31 A-H
Nov. 1-2 I-P
3-4 Q-Z
A charge of $2 will be made for
, each picture, Nance said.
Students must wear a dark tie
with a light shirt and medium coat
when having the pictures made so
that they will all be uniform Nance
\ concluded.
The amtracks turned back. Then
the Reds spotted the patrol and
fired on it. The patrol swam back
to the southwest bank in a hail
of bullets. Two scouts were wound
ed.
Artillery Support
Naval, air and artillery fire
ripped the Reds, and the Marines
tried again at daybreak.
Amtracks churned the waters
through heavy Red fire. They
ploughed up the northwest banks
and chugged across the rice pad
dies toward hills where the Reds
were entrenched.
AP Correspondent Bill Ross, a
second World War Marine combat
correspondent who crossed the Han
10 miles northwest of Seoul with
a Leatherneck force, said casual
ties were the heaviest since the
second tVont operation started Fri
day at Inchon beachhead.
On the Seoul side of the river
Marines attacked the Reds in four
strong hill positions just behind
the shore.
“When we get high ground north
of Seoul there won’t be anything
to it,” said Marine Col. Lewis
(Chesty) Puller. “He (the enemy)
can’t stand up against our air and
artillery.”
Within Four Miles
By noon one Marine force had
driven to within four miles of the
city.
“They might be in Seoul today
(Wednesday),” said Ensign Judah
Siegal of Philadelphia. Siegal, a
Navy combat radioman, was a vol
unteer member of the swimming
scout patrol that had crossed to
the 'northeast bank Tuesday night.
Leathernecks swarmed across
the river by the thousands. Be
hind them, clogging the roads from
Inchon, were columns of tanks, am
tracks and “ducks.”
Some tanks already were over
the river. Forward Marine ele
ments captured a hill only four
miles from Seoul.
Airmen said a “heavy traffic”
of Koreans was fleeing toward
Stoul ahead of the driving Leather
necks. The pilots said they were
“unable to spot any obvious
troops.”
The Reds shot down an Ameri
can plane southeast of Kaesong on
the 38th parallel. The plane was
in the air umbrella thrown over
a 150-mile radius to protect the
Seoul liberation drive.
The Allied drive on the second
front was matched on the old
southeast Korea perimeter.
At the Eastern end, South Ko
rean Third Division troops took
and secured Pohang port. A U.S.
Eighth Army spokesman said they
were mopping up scattered North
Korean remnants.
San Antonio
Aggies Plan
Tech Dance
The San Antonio A&M Club is
sponsoring an all-Aggie dance on
Sept. 30 after the A&M-Texas Tech
game in the “Alamo City.”
To be held at Seven Oaks, “lar
gest night club in the South,” the
after-game party will be for ex
clusive use of A&M students, ac
cording to John F. Ireland, club
president.
“The party has been arranged
for the benefit of all Aggies due
to crowded conditions and confus
ion in previous years,” Ireland
said.
An eight-piece orchestra and a
special floor show have been ob
tained for the dance, he said. Tick
ets are now being sold for $1 a
person. They may be obtained
from Ireland in 9-218, or from
John Schaefer, 10-225.
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Just a little more
than a year ago,
the Memorial Stu
dent Center was a
tangled mass of
brick, steel, a n d
headaches. But
now the structure
has taken shape,
opened for busi
ness, and seems
destined for a long
stay on the A & M
campus. Three
days of exhibits
and special attrac
tions have been
planned to c e 1 e-
brate its opening,
to end Saturday.
Liberally filled
with lounges, game
rooms, music and
reading rooms, the
Center has within
the past week at
tracted people
from over the Col
lege Station - Bry
an area.
Special Election Set Friday
To Place Three in Senate
By DEAN REED
A special campus-wide election
will be held Friday night to seek
student support of a Student Sen
ate constitutional amendment
passed by the Senate at its last
meeting in the spring, Roy Nance
and Bill Moss, co-chairmen of the
election committee, announced this
morning.
Should the amendment receive
a majority of affirmative votes,
three members of last year’s Sen
ate who were elected to offices
in the Texas Intercollegiate Stu
dents Association would automati
cally become members of this
year’s Senate.
Amendment Text
The text of the amendment reads
as follows: “Any Texas A&M Stu
dents who are officers of the TISA
will, by virtue of their office in
the TISA, become members of the
Student Senate.
“These members shall form the
nucleus of a standing committee of
the Student Senate which shall be
known as the TISA Committee.
This committee shall be composed
of five members which includes
all TISA officers, and the remain
ing members of this committee to
be selected by the Student Senate.”
Dorm masters will distribute and
collect ballots in non-military
dorms, and cadet commanders in
corps organizations will do the
same in their respective dormitor
ies, the election chairmen an
nounced.
Ballots will be tabulated and re
sults announced by the election
committee.
Students living off the campus
will use a special ballot to be
printed in The Battalion Thursday
and Friday. These ballots must be
turned in, the chairmen said, by
5 p. m. Friday at the Student Ac
tivities office, 209 Goodwin.
The amendment was one of three
passed by the Senate at its final
meeting and banquet May 16. A
stipulation was tacked on the
amendment to require student ap
proval of the bill before it could
take effect and the TISA officers
become Senate members.
After a constitutional amend
ment is passed by the Senate, it
must receive ratification by the
Student Life Committee and by the
Academic Council of the college.
Must Await Approval
Since the 1950-51 Student Life
Committee has not organized, the
three amendments must await the
committee’s approval. The special
election has been called, however,
to determine the number of sena
tor-at-large seats open in the ejec
tion of student senators on Oct. 3.
If the amendment receives stu
dent body support and passes
tthrough the required channels un
changed, the number of senator-at-
large seats will be seven. If not,
10 seats will be open.
Other amendments, on which the
student body is not required to
vote, are for a vice-president of
the Senate and for three associate
Distinguished Military
Student List Released
A total of 87 Army ROTC and
44 Air Force ROTC senior cadets
have been designated distinguished
military students by order of Col.
H. L. Boatner, PMS&T and com
mandant of the college.
Named were 11, Infantry; 8, Ar
mor; 21, Artillery; 14, Engineers;
5, Signal Corps; 6, Quartermaster;
4, Ordnance; 4, Chemical Corps;
4, Army Security Agency; and 10,
Transportation Corps.
Designated in the Infantry were
Wilman D. Barnes, Charles J. Bon
not, Alvin N. Deck, LeVon Mas-
sengale, G. W. Mayben, Joseph B.
Murphy, Robert B. Naler, Arthur
W. Noll, Joheph A. Perry, James
E. Pianta, and Donald V. Stigall.
Armor placed Dewey E Brown,
Noble N. Clark, Leslie R. Hagens,
Edward F. Heusinger, Graham H.
Howison, Daniel D. Lee, Herbert
G. Mills, and Jack A. Tanner.
Artillery Largest
The largest group came from the
Artillery. They were Morris W.
Davis, William J. Dunlap, Richard
M. Elliott, Erven E. Frierson, David
G. Haines, Clyde D. Henderson,
James E. Higgins, Joseph D. Hin
ton, Wallace Hooper, John E. Jen
nings, Joe L. Johnson, A. D.
Martin, Edward B. McAllister,
Thomas H. Royder, Charles R.
Ruble, Charles L. Saunders, Frank
L. Sheffield, Kenneth W. Smith,
Robert T. Terrell, James A. Warm-
ker, and E. L. Williams Jr.
Second largest group designated
came from the Corps of Engineers.
Included were Robert R. Barman,
James T. Brown, Ishmael G. Calla
way, Stanley W. Cogan, Robert E.
Dowden, Thomas E. Flukinger,
Marvin A. Matusek, Robert W. Mc
Daniel, Jes D. Mclver, Melvin W.
Parse, Jr. James W. Porter, Jr.
Reid H. Rogers, Albert W. Rol
lins, and Carroll C. Taylor.
The five men from the Signal
Corps were Robert W. Jack, Jack
W. Jones, Albert E. Nicholson Jr.,
Edward E. Roberts, and Donald
C. Thorn.
Quartermaster Has Six
Quartermaster Corps was repre
sented by six distinguished cadets.
They were Gale N. Brundrette,
Lloyd H. Manjeot, William R.
Moss, Carl T. Neal, John M. Ogles
by, and Daniel P. Pawlik.
Ordnance was represented by
Robert W. Anderson, Homer J.
Finch, James O. Kadel, and John
C. Standard.
Four men were designated as
distinguished military men from
the Chemical Corps. Included on
the list were Robert S. Matthews
Wade H. Oliver, Bill T. Thompson,
and Bryan E. Zimmerman.
Army Security Agency was re
presented by Billy O. Hoskins,
Andrew M. Moncrief, Joseph A.
Wilhelm, William M. Witty.
Then men were named from the
(See MILITARY, Page 4)
members from each of the three
lower classes.
The associate members would not
vote in Senate proceedings and
would not debate unless requested
to do so by a regular member of
the Senate.
Members of last year’s Senate
who will be effected by the outcome
of the Friday night vote are Joe
Fuller, parliamentarian of the
TISA; Allan Eubank, executive
vice- president; and Charlie Royal
ty, executive secretary.
‘Sausage’ Essay
Contest Ends
Here Sept. 25
The Saddle and Sirloin
Medal Essay Contest with
this years subject of “Sau
sage”, ends at 5 p. m. Mon
day, Sept. 25, according to O.
D. Butler, assistant professor of
Animal Husbandry.
Three Sheaffer’s lifetime pen and
pencil sets will be awarded local
winners by Sayers Farmer, class
of 1912, the donor, Sept. 29 in
connection with dedication of the
new Beef Cattle Center.
All eligible essays must be in
the hands of Butler by 5 p. m.
Monday, Sept. 25. Selection of the
three top essays will be made by
Andy Adam, extension radio edi
tor.
Worthy essays will be improved
by the departments of Journalism,
English, and Animal Husbandry,
and will be entered in the National
contest at the Saddle and Sirloin
Club of Chicago, by Nov. 5, But
ler >said.
The contest is open to all un
dergraduates of agricultural col
leges in the United States and
Canada. Length of the essay is to
be approximately 2,000 words.
A sterling silver cup is offered
by the club annually to the col
lege making highest rating among
the top 20 essays. Any college
winning this cup three times is
given permanent possession.
Awards are to be announced at
the annual dinner of The American
Society of Animal Production at
the Saddle and Sirloin Club.
Initial Meet Held
By MSC Council
Discussing its proposed consti
tution, the Memorial Student Cen
ter Council held its initial meeting
of the year last night in the Sen
ate Room of the building it will
govern.
Changes made in the original
proposed constitutioin were con
sidered by the Council and a sum
mer progress i-eport was given by
MSC Director Wayne Stark.
Acceptance or rejection of the
constitutiion will take place next
Monday evening when the group
meets for a formal vote.
A&M’s $2,000,000 Memorial Student Cen
ter holds its long-anticipated initial opening
tomorrow with a list of exhibits and activ
ities slated to last through a three-day per
iod ending Friday.
Not a ribbon-cutting affair, tomorrow’s
informal opening will serve more-or-less as
an introduction to the facilities and activities
to be offered by the Center. A formal dedi
cation will be held in conjunction with the
Extension of Utilities
Talked by Council
By JOEL AUSTIN
Water, sewer, and electricity ex
tensions were main topics of dis
cussion around the council table
last night as the College Station
City Council met in regular ses
sion in the City Hall.
An electrical examining boai
with city engineer Fred Benson as
chairman was appointed by Mayor
Ernest Langford. A. M. Gaddis
and Ray Massey, also appointed
electrical inspector, were the other
men named to the three-man
board.
The Council received and review
ed a proposal from the Gulf States
Utilities Company for power ser
vice in the city of College Station.
No action was taken on the pro
posal nor the ones submitted by the
Brazos River Transmission Electric
Cooperative, Inc., and the City of
Bryan.
Water Line Discussed
Plans for laying a six inch water
line in the College Hills Woodlawn
Estastes Addition. City Manager
Rogers reported that ditching for
the water line would cost $1,000
with a duplicate amount for fire
plugs and fittings. The entire job
was estimated to cost $8,500.
The Council authorized the may
or to borrow sufficient funds from
the College Station State Bank
to pay for the water line installa
tion.
The line will come as an answer
to the numerous requests from peo
ple in the Woodlawn Estates area
concerning poor water supply from
the small pipes serving the many
new houses around there.
The Gulf States Company of
fered a charge of $2 for the first
50 kilowatts, $1.50 for the next
150, and $1.25 for any amount over
that number in the initial rate.
The council agreed to hold up
any action on deciding which pro
posal would be accepted until cer
tain parties have been contacted..
Included in its actions on need
ed utility extensions, the group
authorized the mayor to let a con
tract for construction of a sewer
line. The line will run from Col
lege Hills wooded area through
the Dominic property to a creek
there.
The authorization included the
stipulation that work be done at
the same unit price in the present
contract the city holds with C. L.
Andrews.
The audit of the city’s financial
status was presented to the coun-
cilmen and it was noted that de
linquent taxes amounted to
$6,364.24. Of this total, $956.98 is
city taxes while the balance,
$5,407.26 is made up of school
taxes.
Delinquent Tax-Payers Noted
Members of the council agreed
to go ahead and publish the six
and one-half page typed list of
delinquent tar payers in local
newspapers. The decision was made
to give the people with unpaid
taxes a period of some thirty days
to pay them after the names are
published.
If the amounts are still unpaid,
a group of attorneys or collection
agency will be employed to collect
the rest of the unpaid fees.
It was reported' to the council
that arrangements had been work
ed out with the Bryan-College Sta
tion Traction Company to run a
special bus leaving the North Gate
at 7:30 a. m. for school children.
This us runs through the var
ious sections of the city and deliv
ers the children to the school, re
turning with two separate runs in
the afternoon.
Ordinance No. 149 which official
ly established the new rates being
charged by the Bryan-College Sta-
Uniforms to Be Issued
Daily From 8 Till 5
The armory will be open for
uniform issuance daily from 8 to
12 a. m. and from 1 to 5 p. m. un
til all students have received uni
forms, B. C. Hearne, military prop
erty custodian, announced today.
tion Traction Company was passed.
The ordinance, which was agreed
upon at a joint meeting of the
Bryan City Commission and the
College Station City Council Aug
ust had already been passed by
the Bryan group.
i New Rates Effective
The new rates which have gone
into effect are as follows: fifteen
cents for adults and eight cents
for children under twelve. School
children may ride for eight cents
to and from school regardless of
age.
In addition to the action taken
on the various utility expansions,
the governing body authorized the
purchase of $4,600 of copper wire
which will be used to make a com
plete loop around the campus. City
manager Rogers told the council
the money was on hand to buy
the twelve miles of wire weighing
approximately 14,000 pounds.
In closing, the men voted to
change the name of Jackson Street
to Park Place. They also decided
to leave the same names on Kyle
and Jersey Streets, rather than
change either one so that the
street may have the same name
after it crosses the highway.
Acceptance of the new city
house-numbering system was
made.
A&M Laundry
Announces New
Fall Schedule
Laundry service has begun
and students may begin turn
ing it in according to sche
dule, Bennie A. Zinn, assist
ant dean of Students, has an
nounced.
Dormitory students whose names
begin with A thru D turn in laun
dry Friday; E thru I on Monday;
J thru N on Tuesday; 0 thru S on
Wednesday; and T thru Z turn in
on Thursday.
Cadets in the new area will use
a blue ticket and turn in laundry
in Dorm 12 Laundry Office. Men
living in Hart, Law, Puryear,
Mitchell, Leggett, Milner, and Biz-
zell turn in laundry at substation
in Foster Hall. Laundry taken
to the Foster substation will be
counted on a yellow ticket.
Station four in PG Hall will be
used by the Basic Division and
will be designated by a gold color
laundry ticket.
Day students will also use the
north end of PG Hall, but will
bring laundry on a different sche
dule, Zinn said. Laundry will be
picked up on Friday for students
whose names begin with A thru L
and Friday for the remainder of
the alphebet Wednesday. They will
use a pink ticket.
Laundry from College View
Apartments will be picked up and
delivered to Station seven, the
quoinset hut according to the fol
lowing schedule: A thru L on Fri
day and M thru Z on Tuesday.
White tickets printed in black will
identify this area.
Married students living in the
Project House area and Veteran
Village whose names begin with
A thru L will turn in laundry Fri
day in the back of Project House
30. Ms thru Zs on Tuesday. Laun
dry will be picked-up from Dorm
12. This area will use white tick
ets printed in red.
Each students will be allowed a
23 piece bundle each week and may
include four shirts, two pants, two
polo shirts, coveralls, four sheets
and one bath mat. Excess of there
items will be charged.
In order to eliminate mis-placed
bundles it is necessary to use pro
per colored tickets as they indicate
the laundry stations. Charges will
also be made for issuing laundry
without ticket stubs, Zinn said.
Annual Muster ceremonies next spring.
Among the attractions planned for the
three-day period are a series of conducted
tours of the building, a photography exhibit
featuring the work of three outstanding
lensmen, an exhibit of art by Texas painters,
team and individual bowling exhibitions, and
bridge competition by four nationally known
players.
Also on the agenda will be several show-
-fings of films on football highlights
' of A&M National Champion ’39
team, and a possible performance
by the Aggieland Orchestra.
Friday will be designated “Hos
pitality Day,” and visitors will re
ceive free coffee. Local craft work
will also be shown throughout the
opening.
Conducted Tours
Five conducted tours of the
building will be held tomorrow at
1:30, 2:30, 3:30, 5, and 7 p.m.
The latter tour will be for the
convenience of early arrivals to the
Qdlege Employee’s Dance to be
.,®d in the Ball Room tomorrow
light.
Photographic Art
Included in the photography ex
hibitions will be work by Paul Lin-
wood Gittings, who has held the
only one man photographic exhibi
tion in New York’s Museum of Fine
Arts. Portions of his prize win
ning works will be shown in the
exhibition cases.
A collection of photographic art
by John Steele, Canadian artist,
and Maurice Tabard, Harper Ba
zaar photographer in Europe, will
also be shown.
The Gallery Committee of the
MSC has assembled one of the
most outstanding art collections to
have ever been shown in this area,
Sixteen oil paintings from Dallas
and 35 water colors from San An
tonio will be a portion of the show.
Bowling Champion
Joe Wilman, one of bowling’s
all time greats will display his ten
pin skill on the new bowling lanes.
He will roll three games at 2:30
p. m. Friday and then answer ques
tions on bowling. Starting again at
7:30 p. m. he will play six games
against the best talent,, Price
Smith, manager of the Bowling
Lanes, can muster from the stu
dents.
Findley Realty Company, Hous
ton bowling champions, will play
San Antonio Champions, the
Straus Frank Company, in an exhi
bition bowling tournament Satur
day.
Mrs. Grace Baskin, San Antonio
Ladies City bowling champion and
present Texas State Ladies all
events champion will be present to
play Miss Robbie Lyons, lady bowl
er from Houston.
At 7:30 p. m. Friday members
of the Texas Bridge Association
will play in an exhibition game
and tournament. After the games
they will answer questions on
Bridge.
Craft hobbiest of A&M will also
have a chance to present their
creative and artistic works. In
cluded in this show will be leather
work, ceramics, metal work, wood
work, plastics, and radio.
Conducted Tours
Friday tours will be at 1:30,
2:30, 3:30, and 5 p. m. Two Satur
day tours will be held at 1 and 2
p. m. respectively. Student mem
bers of the Memorial Student Cen
ter Council will conduct the tours
(See MSC, Page 4)
Manning Leaves to
Take SMU Course
Sidney L. Loveless, district man
ager, for the Central Texas Agency
of the American General Life In
surance Company, has announced
that K. A. Manning of College Sta
tion left for Dallas today to take
the SMU Life Insurance Marketing
Course. This is a one year course,
with two five weeks periods of in
struction in Dallas and the rest of
the time being spent in the field.
It is the Company practice of the
American General Life Insurance
Company to send only those Agents
who are well established and who
have completed the primary and
intermediate course of study for
a career of life underwriter.
K. A. Manning has done this by
making a good record for himself
during the sixteen months period
he has been with the Central Texas
Agency, Loveless said. He has com
pleted the Diamond Life Bulletin
Field Course for life insurance
agents and during his period of
time with the Company has in
force in excess of $400,000 of busi
ness. Manning is a graduate of
the A&M class of 1949. He and
Mrs. Manning make their borne in
College Station.