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PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Number 7: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1950
Price Five Cents
Students
for Senate
Nine students had applied for
Student Senate positions at 5 p.m.
yesterday as the first day of filing
passed.
General elections for Senate
members and for the three civil
ian student positions on the Stu
dent Life Committee have been set
for Oct. 3 by the co-chairmen of
^ the Senate’s election committee,
Roy Nance and Bill Moss.
No one filed for the Student Life
positions yesterday. Students may
apply for candidacy for these and
for the Senate through 5 p.m.,
Wednesday, Sept. 27.
No Opponents
Each of the nine students filed
* from a separate dormitory or
housing area. I. E. “Monty” Mont
gomery Jr., fifth-year architec
tural construction student from
y Baytown, has become a candidate
for re-election from Milner Hall.
Filing for Bizzell Hall represen
tative was Alfred R. Gibson, sen
ior petroleum engineering student
from Mexia. College View’s only
announced candidate is L. B. Wed
dell, senior management engineer
ing major from Fort Worth.
Lloyd H. Manjeot, secretary of
last year’s Senate, is a candidate
> from Dorm 17. The senior busi
ness student from Hereford is
commander of Company 9 in the
Eighth Regiment.
Leggett’s only first-day appli
cant was Nolan H. Brunson, senior
business major from Hobbs, N.M.
Candidates File
' For City Office
At Consolidated
Only eleven candidates had
filed for the various offices
of the city staff at A&M Con-
solidated School yesterday as
Ihe 8:30 a.m. deadline today
neared. The election, held this
morning at 10, will decide what
students will take over the various
city offices Friday in the Kiwanis
Club sponsored Kid’s Day.
t The event, which is being ob
served throughout the U. S. and
Canada by Kiwanis International,
has received widespread publicity
for the help it gives in acquainting
„ children with the government of
their city.
Candidates who had filed by late
yesterday afternoon for the office
of mayor were Jerry Leighton,
Royce Rodgers, and Joe Motherall,
Jr. Members of the junior class
who filed for the Ward 3 coun
cil positions are Gayle Klipple,
• Billy Blakely, Wanda Goodwin,
Louise Street, and Janice Hilde
brand.
Sophomores filing for the Ward
2 council seats were as follows:
Don Burchard, Jerry Reedes, and
Tom Barlow. At the close of
school yesterday, no freshmen had
signed up to be on the council as
Ward 1 representatives.
The members of the council will
be installed in their new positions
at noon tomorrow in the City Hall.
The council will then gather
around the table to select other
city officials, such as city manag
er, city secretary, treasurer, fire
chief, police chief, etc., from their
< classmates.
Although their term of office
will last only until 5 p.m. tomor
row, the youths will actively take
part in the operations of the city
* for the afternoon. Present offic
ials, who the students will release
for the afternoon, will be on hand
to assist in any way possible as
the new oficials carry out the var
ious acts of administration.
Those students who are named
to the city offices will be guests of
- the Kiwanis Club at its regular
noon meeting Tuesday.
Filing for day student senator was
Hayden I. Jenkins, sophomore stu
dent in the School of Veterinary
Medicine. Jenkins is married and
is from Quanah.
Mitchell, Dorm 9
Ralph E. Gorman, senior archi
tecture student from Port Arthur,
has applied as a candidate from
Dorm 9. He is a member of C
Armor. J. Fred Hambright, sen
ior petroleum engineering major
from F'ort Worth, has filed for
senator from Mitchell.
R. M. “Dick” Elliott is a candi
date for the Senate from Dorm
5, where he is a member of E
E’ield Artillery. Elliott is a senior
petroleum and geological engineer
ing major from Amarillo.
Senate seats, held to 43 by the
governing body’s constitution, will
be filled by 24 dormitory repre
sentatives, one each from College
View, Vet Village, Trailer View-
Project House area; two day stu
dent senators — one from Bryan,
one from College Station; the four
class vice-presidents, and an un
decided number of senator-at-large
seats.
Referendum Vote
Should Friday night’s special
campus-wide election approve the
Senate’s constitutional amendment
on TISA officers, the number of
senators-at-large would be seven.
Only six senators-at-large were
chosen last year.
The special election will seek a
“yes-or-no” answer from each stu
dent on whether or not three A&M
students who are officers in the
Texas Intercollegiate Students As
sociation should be placed auto
matically in the Senate.
Results of the election will be
announced in The Battalion Mon
day.
Queen Candidate
i
Patsy Garrett
One of the beautiful entries for the 75th Anniversary Queen Con
test sponsored by The Commentator is Miss Garrett. The lucky
guy who entered the lovely lass in the contest is J. H. Scroggins,
Jr., and Miss Garrett’s address will not be disclosed, other than the
fact that she hails from Houston.
‘Senior Vs. Cold Steel’ . . .
Battle-Scarred Ex-Officer
Tells of Tussle with Saber
By C. C. MUNROE
The saber is a vicious device. In
the wrong hands it can create ha
voc and yet every embyro officer
needs must look forward, always
with misgivings, to the day when
the long blade is thrust into his
hand.
The statement has been made by
a very responsible person on the
campus that “I haven’t seen a
man trip on a saber in 30 years of
soldiering.”
He should have seen me Wednes
day night. A new experience would
have been in the offing.
But to go on with the saber.
Standard procedure demands a de
scription must preface further dis
cussion.
Essentially the saber is a knife.
The blade is of varying length,
usually long for short people and
short for long people. A plastic
grip with molded finger inden
tions is attached to the top of
the blade/ This grip was designed
for Migmy Joe Young and, be
cause of this, provides maximum
discomfort to the man trying to
hold the saber in a military man
ner. This is especially true since
a guard closely resembling the
thumb screws of olden tortures en
closes the grip.
A scabbard or holder is pro
vided with every saber. This,
too, is of ingenious design. To
the eye and even to the touch
it appears solid, but when hung
from a Sam Browne belt it
secretly bends in three places.
This makes it easy for the suck
er wearing the saber to wrap it
around his legs while on parade.
A chain—which costs prohibitive
ly—is used to attach the scabbard
to the belt. It will also keep the
scabbard standing up when the
cadet is falling down. This makes
the saber appear more intelligent
than its wearer.
Unfortunately this is sometimes
true.
Another little known fact about
this contraption it that it acts in
much the same manner as a com
pass needle. Regardless of the way
the cadet is facing, his saber
always faces north. The one ex
ception to this is when the cadet
is facing north. At that point the
saber forgets its natural inclina
tion and sets up a gyrating motion
with the cadet as the fulcrum for
gyrations.
The manual of the saber is also
interestiing. Fey people have sur
vived participation in it without
suffering bodily injury.
Theoretically the manual must
be practiced for hours before
any sort of proficiency can be
reached. This is misleading. Two
ten year men on the campus,
Agriculturalist Staff
To Meet Tonight
Staff writers and men interested
in writing for the Agriculturist
will meet in the Agriculturist of
fices Thursday after yell practice,
Jim Tom House, editor announced.
Staff positions are still open for
make-up men, feature writers and
typists.
men who have been handling
sabers for years, still cut them
selves about the ear when coming
to the position of “carry saber.”
Returning the saber to the scab
bard is a feat developed only af
ter years of training. Novices can
do the job up right once in every
48 times.
But the saber does have one
saving feature. You can use a
sharp one to open packages from
home. That is if you ever get
packages. They make good can
openers, too.
Camera Club Sets
Meeting Tonight
An informal meeting of the
A&M Camera Club will be held to
night at 7:30 in Room 3A of the
Memorial Student Center, Tom
Harding, club president, announced
today.
At the meeting, Harding said,
the club’s new photographic in
struction course will be outlined.
To be presented throughout the
semester at club meetings, the
course is designed to give the
amateur photographer a compre
hensive working knowledge of
everything from camera operation
to the enlarginb and developing of
the finished photograph.
Refreshments will be served in
the MSC coffee lounge after the
meeting.
Army Call Takes Publication Assistant
By THE BATTALION STAFF
It’s time for a word for the
Wise, if you’ll excuse the para
phrase. This Wise, you see, is
one Sidney L. who today leaves a
Goodwin Hall desk he has occupied
for the past two years.
Sid, as he is better known, de
parts the A&M campus today in
much the same quiet way he ar
rived not too long ago to assume
the position of assistant manager
of Student Publications.
But don’t let the lack of bally
hoo throw you. . This handsome
young South Carolinian just seetns
to prefer comparative silence. Per
haps that state comes more natur
ally to him due to his appropriate
surname.
At any rate Wise has manag
ed to accomplish several deeds
in his brief acquaintance with
A&M that were certainly de
serving of the fan-fares he al
ways avoided.
While here he has been handling
the advertising program for all
student publications in addition to
assisting in the overall direction
of the publications program. Un
der his direction his advertising
staffs have consistently set new
highs in advertising for student
publications.
That particular accomplishment
earns him much of the credit for
the larger Battalion being offered
readers this year.
And while doing that part of his
job, he managed to direct the re
search program which won The
Battalion first place in 1948-49 in
a national competition with other
collegiate papers.
Nor did he stop with that.
The following year (last year),
he assisted greatly in the prep
aration of The Battalion Christ
mas Safety Edition which was
also acclaimed the nation’s first.
In both of these instances The
Battalion and its staff members
received considerable praise and
publicity while Sid chose to remain
in the background letting others
have much of the credit due him.
His mild, retiring manner even
belies the service record that found
him, during the last war, rise from
the rank of private to that of sec
ond lieutenant in record time.
Serving in Europe mainly, he earn
ed himself at least two Purple
Elearts, a Silver Star and a Bronze
Star, among other citations. His
commission, incidentally, was given
him on the battlefield.
Wise’s services here were not
restricted to Student Publications.
He also taught Sunday School at
the College Station Baptist Church
and belonged to the Kiwanis Club
and the Gulf Coast Professional
Chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, a na
tional journalism fraternity.
Wise came here from radio
station KCRC in Enid, Oklahoma
where he was news director. He
had previously worked on the
Columbia Record, Columbia,
South Carolina, the State Asso
ciated Press Bureau in Columbia
and Institutions Magazine in
Chicago.
Reared in Columbia, Sid holds
an AB degree in Journalism from
the University of South Carolina
where, as a student he was asso
ciate editor of The Gamecock, stu
dent newspaper, and business man
ager of The Carolina Review, stu
dent literary magazine. He also
managed WUSC, campus radio
station.
More recently, he received his
MA degree in Journalism from the
Medill School o f Journalism,
Northwestern University.
Roland Bing, manager of stu
dent publications, has this to say
about Sid’s departure: “He made
an enormous contribution to the
development of Student Publica
tions during the two years he
was with us and we shall sorely
miss him.”
We staff members, who agree
one hundred percent with the
statement, will miss him for an
other reason. With Wise gone
from his desk in the corner of The
Battalion offices, there’ll remain
no place for our noise-weary re
porters and editors to seek that
brief solitude.
Besides, we’ll have to be con
tented in cheating each other with
our two-head-coin-flips for cokes.
40 Mystery Red Tanks Seen
Rolling Toward Besieged Seoul
Tokyo, Sept. 21—UP)—U.S. Marines smashed at the
heart of Seoul today but a new Red tank column was report
ed rolling down from soviet-dominated Manchuria to fight
for the Korean capital.
The nationality of the armored column of 40 tanks and
200 other vehicles from Red China’s Yalu River frontier in
Manchuria was not determined by 10th Corps Intelligence
officers who said it may be nearing Seoul.
Many Red Koreans who have fought in the South since
their June 25 invasion across parallel 38 were seasoned in
Communist China’s Manchurian armies. Their heavy equip
ment and planes are all of Russian manufacture.
The American Marines and their tanks entered Seoul
from the northwest at 6 p.m. Wednesday (4 a.m., EST),
AP Correspondent Russell Brines reported from the Inchon-
Seoul beachhead.
This was the strong force that crossed the Han River
in amphibious tractors at dawn Wednesday eight miles down
stream from Seoul.
Another Leatherneck column was moving in from the
west after seizing Seoul’s airfield across the Han River.
The U. S. 10th Corps reported the southward movement
Journalists Gather
For Annual Clinic
The Second Annual Texas News-1 ger for
paper Clinic sponsored by the A&M
Department of Journalism begins
tomorrow at 9 a. m. with regis
tration in the Memorial Student
Center, D. D. Burchard, head of
the Journalism Department
nounced today.
Endorsed by the Texas Gulf
Coast Association, the Clinic en
deavors to bring weekly and small
town daily newspapermen togeth
er for an exchange of ideas and
information.
A two-day program is planned
beginning with registration Friday
and ending with an informal din
ner at the Lakeview Club at 6:30
p. mi Saturday.
Program Speakers
Speakers highlighting the pro
gram will include Arthur Kowert
of The Fredericksburg Standard;
Addison Buckner, The San Marcos
Record; Melvin Chatham, head
machinist, The Houston Chronicle;
Charles Stappenbeck, Western
Newspaper Union; Walter Hum
phrey, editor, The Fort Worth
Press; Marshall Lynam, farm edi
tor, Tyler Morning Telegraph; and
Brad Smith, Weslaco News.
Dr. M. T. Harrington, President
of the College, will deliver the
welcome address at a luncheon in
the Assembly Room of the MSC.
Following the talk there will be a
“get acquainted” period.
Friday Afternoon
Friday afternoon will be de
voted to a panel on Pictures for
Profits at 1:30 p. m. in the MSC.
At 2:45 p. m. there will be a
Mechanical Conference with a dis
cussion of “Linecasting Machines,
Their Trials and Troubles”, by
Melvin Chatham and a discussion
of “Press Room Troubles—- Some
Whys and Wherefores,” by Char
les Stappenbeck.
President of the Texas Gulf
Coast Press Association, George
Carmack will preside at a dinner
in the Assembly Room of the MSC
Friday afternoon at 6 p. m. Wal
ter Humphrey, editor, The Fort
Worth Press, will give a talk on
“Why Agriculture Is a Touchstone
for Newspapers.”
A demonstartion of Fairchild en
graving will be given by George
Pollard of Dallas district mana-
Registration Ends
Sat.; 6538 Today
Registration in the college and
graduate school for the fall sem
ester reached a total of 6,538 at
5 p. m. Tuesday, according to R.
G. Perryman, assistant registrar.
Some students are still register
ing and more are expected to reg
ister before the deadline, Saturday,
September 23, Perryman added.
Saturday is also the deadline for
adding or dropping courses.
The number of students regis
tered for this semester falls con
siderably below the all time rec
ord of 8,651 set during the fall
semester of 1946. The large number
of returning veterans caused the
high record to be set at that
time, Perryman said.
Student Heads to Plan
Social Calendar Today
Class presidents and regimental
commanders will meet at 5 p. m.
today in room 306, Goodwin Hall
to plan the fall social calendar,
according to Grady Elms, assist
ant director of Student Activities.
All class presidents and regimen
tal commanders are urged to at
tend, Elms said.
Fairchild, at the Bryan
Daily News office, at 8 p. m.
Mechanical Operations
Saturday morning will be de
voted to Mechanical Operations
with a demonstration, question and
answer period. It will be held at
the A&M College Press in the base
ment of Goodwin Hall.
Fred Massengill, Jr., President
Texas Press Association, will pre
side at the Saturday luncheon and
Dr. J. P. Abbott, Dean of the
School of Arts and Sciences, will
present a talk on “Why We Edu
cate For Journalism.”
Panel Discussion
A panel discussion, “Serve Your
Farm Friends,” at 1:30 p. m. will
begin Saturday afternoon’s pro
gram. Panel chairman will be
Marshall Lynam.
Another painel, “Plan For Ex
tra Advertising Business,” will be
held at 3:15 p. m. with Brad Smith
as panel chairman.
Rounding out the two-day pro
gram will be an informal dinner at
the Lakeview Club Saturday af
ternoon at 6:30 p. m.
Moderators for the several pan
els will be Otis Miller and Earl
Newsom, both professors in the
Journalism Department.
Acheson Asks
UN to Chip in
Armed Forces
Lake Success, Sept. 21—
(AP)—Secretary of State
Acheson yesterday called on
members of the United Na
tions, Communist and non-
Communist alike, to chip in
armed forces for a United Nations
army to put down armed aggres
sion.
The American chief delegate also
proposed a roving peace patrol to
seek out international trouble
spots. He called on the U. N.
general assembly to clear its decks
for action against aggression, if
necessary, on 24 hours’ notice.
Acheson put Formosa before the
assembly as a matter of special
and urgent importance. He recom
mended the delegates seek a solu
tion and that everyone concerned
—presumably the Chinese Reds as
well as the Nationalists—refrain
from using force meanwhile.
Acheson spoke in general debate
which began in the assembly this
afternoon. Foreign Minister Andrei
Y. Vishinsky is slated to make the
Soviet Union’s response shortly.
In a general review of the
tense times, Acheson said there
is no longer any question whether
the U. N. will survive:
AirROTC Officials Ponder
Rights of Co-ed Applicant
St. Louis, Sept. 21—(AP)—A coed applied for admis
sion to the all-male Air Force R. O. T. C. unit at St. Louis
University.
She is Margery Lawton, an 18-year-old freshman.
“I’m just as capable and just as patriotic as any boy,”
she said. “I think we are in for total mobilization.”
She added that she had read up on Air Force regulations
that say “any student” is eligible.
Major Aubrey J. Bouch, professor of Air Science and
Tactics has asked the 10th Air Force Headquarters for
guidance on her application.
Said the major:
“We have just never had this problem before.”
of the large tank-led force from Manchuria had joined the
race for Seoul as a mystery reinforcement.
Korean Red troops were converging on Seoul from sev
eral directions—many of them from the old Allied Southeast
beachhead perimeter.
A big battle for Seoul seemed to be shaping up—a battle
of deep significance if the force from Manchuria should turn
out to be non-Korean in its manpower.
A spokesman said it may already have crossed the 38th
parallel, dividing North and South Korea and only 30 air
miles north of Seoul. It was reported to have started out
from the Manchurian border town of Antung on the Yalu
River.
Marines Push into Northwest Seoul
Correspondent Brines said elements of the First Mar
ine Division rumbled into Seoul’s northwest outskirts just
12 hours after ramming across the Han.
Brines reported the Leathernecks bore down on the city
from two sides. The second column swept in from the
southwestern suburb of Yongdungpo to the Seoul satellite
airfield and headed for three makeshift bridges spanning the
Han. The main Seoul airfield, Kimpo, was taken by Mar
ines Sunday 12 miles northwest of the capital on the far side
of the Han.
The second thrust inside the Seoul metropolitan area cut
the main highway leading South to Suwon.
Fighter planes covered both columns.
The Seoul-Suwon highway was the key Red supply ar
tery supporting Communists forces around the Allied pe' i w-
eter in the Southeast. It is also a route for Reds returning
from the South to defend Seoul.
U. S. Seventh Army Division troopers battled for the
last ridge line west of the highway, on the Marines’ right
flank 10 miles south of Seoul.
Front reports said the Marine tanks found the going on
narrow roads too slow and took to the railroad tracks to
enter Seoul from the northwest. In the built-up outskirts of
the capital, the Leatherneck spearhead was slowed for a
while by mortar fire.
But Marine artillery fire drove some 75 Reds from a
cave on heights north of the city. They came out waving a
white flag.
Veteran AP War Correspondent Reiman Morin reported
the drive on Seoul from the Northwest and South was a big
push “like the big ones near the end of the last war.”
Morin said Reds captured on the Han’s nortli bank had
been brought into battle from. North Korea only five days
previously—just after the United Nations started landing
a 40,000-man liberation force at Inchon, 22 miles west of
Seoul, last Friday.
The prisoners said they were ordered to hold the line at
all costs until reinforcements from the South could arrive.
Hiding Reds Offering Resistance
Small Red bands, hiding out in corn and rice fields,
still offered resistance west of the Han River, Morin report
ed, but these pockets were being cleaned out by South Korean
Marines.
To the southeast, around the old United Nations beach
head, the Reds were withdrawing in some sectors and put
ting up stiff resistance in others.
Elimination of the trapped division cleared the way for
an Allied advance up the Kumchon-Taejon rail and highway
corridor to Seoul—this is the shortest and best route north
ward to the capital.
On the right flank of the cavalry, the U. S. Second Div
ision drove ahead again at dawn, expanding their three
crossings of the winding Naktong River west and northwest
of Changyong.
The objective in that sector was Chogya, dominating
heights six miles west of the river.
In another sector of the Second Division push, the
Americans advanced nearly a mile against the Reds’ Hyong-
pung bridgehead, the only territory east of the Naktong still
held bv the Communists. This is about 14 miles Southwest
of Taegu.
On the U. S. 25th Division front, at, the extreme south
west of the arching beachhead perimeter, the Reds were
thrown back west of Kangju, seven miles northwest of
Haman. But the Red resistance had slowed the 25th Divis
ion’s advance all along the line.
Advances up to a mile and a half were made by the
South Korean Third Division which captured Pohang port
yesterday on the East coast.
First Cavalrymen Trap 5,000 Reds
With U. S. First Cavalry in Korea, Sept. 21—(/P)—Cav
alry troopers trapped about 5,000 Communist soldiers today
in a small pocket near Tabu, 13 miles north of Taegu. A
Red divisional chief of staff surrendered.
“We’ve got them now,” said Maj. Gen. Hobart R. Gay,
commanding officer of the First Cavalry. “We have troops
all around them.”
That left the trapped Reds two
choices. They can fight it out
against the Americans or they can
surrender.
Asked if he expected to go in
after the Communists General Gay
replied: “Maybe we won’t have to.
They’re pretty hungry.”
The surrendered chief of staff is
30-year-old Senior Col. Lee Hak
Ku of the 13th North Korean Div
ision. He told interrogators he be
lieved the Red cause was finished
and he believes in democracy now
after studying it out.
Remnants of both the North Ko
rean Third and 13th Divisions were
believed caught in the trap. Ele
ments of both divisions had ham
mered the American defenders of
Taegu.
One cavalry non-com said “now
we move.”