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COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1950
Price Five Cents
City Officials
owden Succeeds 4 CoI. Joe’
As Assistant Commandant
Officials of College Station for a day are left
to right on toj) row: Eleanor Price, Ward I,
Councilman; Donald Burchard, W ; ard II, Jimmy
Bond, ward I. Second row: Louise Street, ward
III, Gayle Klipple, ward III, Royce Rodgers, ma
yor, and Tom Barlow, Ward III.
Consolidated Politicians
To Govern College Station
By TOM ROUNTREE
In a hotly contested election
yesterday .morning at A&M Con
solidated, students who are to take
over the various city staff offices
Friday in the Kiwanis sponsored
Kid’s Day were elected.
Politicians for a day who were
elected are Royce Rodgers, mayor;
councilmen from ward one a r e
Eleanor Price and Jimmy Bond,
freshmen; from ward two Don Bur
chard and Tom Barloy, sopho
mores; and from ward three Louise
Street and Gayle Klipple, juniors.
After the elections results came
in, newly elected city officials met
and selected other officials. The
budding Roosevelts chosen were
lack Burchard as city manager:
Dick French was named city at
torney; Reba McDermott, assist
ant city secretary; George John
ston, utilities superintendent; Jer
ry Leighton, city engineer; Byron
Andrews, chief of police; Martha
Ergle, patrolman; and Ann Wil
liams, city secretary.
Installation Today
Installation of new officials took
place in the City Hall today at
noon and they will hold office
until 5 p. m.
Mayor Rodgers could not be
contacted yesterday as he was
still in class, so it is not known
whether or not he is contemplating
any new and sweeping reforms in
the city administration.
Criminals will have to take a
holiday this afternoon as Chief
A ndrews well known nemesis
of the “sweater borrowers who do
not return them,” Patrolwoman
Martha Ergle, take over.
College Station’s own Mary
Chase, Snooper Martha, has
sworn to apprehend all the Con
solidated Romeos who show up
with a brand of lipstick on their
collars that is different from the
brand their current steadies are
wearine 1 .
Chief ditch-digger George John
ston, utility superintendent, is ex
pected to speed up the work on the
new water lines even if he has to
take shovel in hand himself.
French Never Lost A Case
Daniel Webster of Consolidated,
City Attorney Dmk French, was
heard to declare that with him in
ih ' saddle, people who aspired to
making a little ice cream money
by suing the city on trumped
grounds were in for a nasty sur
prise. “I’ve never lost a case yet,”
French said.
City Manager Jack Burchard
was heard to bemoan the fact
that he couldn’t let City Secretary
Ann Williams and Assistant City
Secretary Reba McDermott both
sit on his lap at the same time and
it would not be in keeping with
the dignity of his office to show
favoritism so he could not see a
ready solution to his problem and
consequently was ready to accept
almost any suggestion.
Jerry Leighton, city engineer,
who likes to be called the “Tran
sit Kid” for short said that with
him on the job that there prob
ably wasn’t a single engineering
problem that would be able to
plague the city for long.
Street Naming Debatable
Whether the council will settle
the question of whether to change
the name of Kyle Street to Jer
sey Street or to change Jersey to
Kyle is still open to debate.-
At 5 p. m. when the coach be
comes a pumpkin and the footmen
become mice the “ex-council men
and officials” will retire to the
battle of the gridiron to take
place between Consolidated and
Navasota. There is some doubt
whether or not the retiring heroes
will be admitted free.
Activities of today were ^.spon
sored by the Kiwanis Interna
tional and the same thing is hap
pening in 1,450 towns and cities
throughout the United States and
Canada as part of the National
Kid’s Day which is being observed
to help the kids of the United
States and Canada become better
acquainted with the government
of their city.
Close Battle Rages
For Korean Capital
Delegation
Five representatives of A&M at
tended the All-College Night pro
gram at TSCW in Denton Wednes
day. W. L. Penberthy, dean of
students; A. D. Martin, Colonel
of the Corps; Dare Keelan, sen
ior class president; Bob Allen,
civilian vice-president; Ken
Schaake, senior class social secre
tary; and Jim Pianta, senior yell
leader were representatives.
Tessie All-College Night Pro
gram consist of introducing stu
dents to the student activities pro
gram, socities, clubs, musical or
ganizations, choral groups, and
the various festivals.
Tokyo, Sept. 22—CP>—The Al
lied 10th Corps and Red defenders
battled bitterly for Seoul at close
quarters today on both sides of
the Han River. Some of the fight
ing was at bayonet range.
To stand off reinforcements for
the Red-held capital, the Allies
put forces across rail lines and
highways north and south of the
city.
U. S. Seventh Infantry Division
forces drove into Suwon, 20 miles
south of Seoul, from the 10th
Corps’ Inchon-Seoul beachhead.
Suwon is a vital communications
hub astride the major battle route
of Communists withdrawing from
the United Nations’ expanding Pu
san in the far southeast.
U. S. Marines used bayonets and
flame throwers to make a mile
wide swath through SeoqDs indus
trial western suburb of Yongdung-
po, on the south west side of the
Han. Other Marines cut the rail
and highway lines into the capital
from the northwest.
These were the toughening
phases of the amphibious assault
aimed at seizing Seoul, the bottle
neck distribution center for Com
munists faltering and fleeing in
the south. Barring effective rein-
forcements from the north, it also
puts the Reds in the tightening
jaw of a giant vise.
Mystery Tanks
A tank-led Red mystery column,
reported yesterday by 10th Corps
intelligence to be moving south
ward from Red China’s Manchu
rian border, remained a mystery.
Washington army spokesman said
they had heard nothing of such
reinforcements and nothing more
was reported by the 10th Corps
Friday.
A spokesman at General Mac-
Arthur’s headquarters said Sev
enth Infantry Division doughboys
entered Suwon without opposition.
In addition to blocking Red rein
forcements for Seoul from the
south, Suwon provides an airfield
that can handle good-size planes.
The field had been used by U.S.
air transports evacuating civilians
before the Reds entered Suwon
July 1—one week after invading
South Korea.
Suwon is 120 air miles north
west of Waegwan, where the U. S.
24th Division advanced two miles
to expand the northernmost
bridgehead across the Naktong
River. This was on the highway
to Kumchon, Taejon, Suwon and
Seoul. Elsewhere on the Pusan
perimeter, Allied forces punched
out gains up to six miles Friday
morning.
The fighting in Seoul’s Yong-
dungpo suburb was hand-to-hand,
in closely-jammed and shell shat
tered factory building's.
Lt. Col. M. P. Bowden has assumed the duties of assist
ant commandant at A&M, according to an announcement re-
1 leased this morning by Col. H. L. Boatner. Bowden replaced
Lt. Col. Joe Davis, assistant commandant here since 1946,
who has been recalled to active duty with the Army.
The new assistant commandant has been serving in his
new job since the first of the week.
Col. Davis will report to Camp Chafee, Ark., between
Oct. 13 and 23 as commanding officer of the 4020 Infantry
Training Regiment.
Davis’ successor has been serv-4-
ing in the capacity of tactical of
ficer here since November of 1948.
A ’38 graduate of Texas Univer
sity, Bowden taught school in Pal-
acious, for two years before going
into the Army in November, ’40.
During the war, Bowden served
with the 36th Division in Africa,
Italy, and France. He fought
through the campaigns of Salerno,
St. Pierto, Anzio, and the invasion
of Southern France.
R turning from overseas in ’45,
he 'became an instructor at the
Command and General Staff School
at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. From
there he was ordered to the G-3
; section of the Army Field Forces,
Ft. Monroe, Va.
He came to A&M following his
release from active duty in No
vember ’48.
Bowden holds a B.S. degree from
Texas and received a masters de
gree in education from A&M this
past summer.
Last spring, Bowden received one
of six annual Battalion Awards
for outstanding achievement at
A&M. The award cited him for
“his outstanding work as dormitory
tactical officer, in which he has
proved that discipline can be tem
pered with understanding.”
Davis, an A&M graduate, of the
Class of ’29, has served almost con
tinuously with the college since
1930. At that time, “Col. Joe,” as
he is more familiarly known, join
ed the M.S. department as a tacti
cal officer.
During the war, he was an in
structor at A&M for a while, then
attended the l Command and Gen
eral) Staff School at Ft. Leaven
worth. From there he was order
ed |.o Ft. Hood as a battalion Com
mander. His next assignment was
back at A&M as both adjutant and
executive officer.
Davis became assistant comman
dant on Dec. 16, ’46.
A native of Foreman, Ark., Da
vis has lived in College Station
since he began school here in 1925.
He holds a B.A. degree in Educa
tion and has done graduate work
in sociology at A&M.
Being recalled to active duty
with Col. Davis are three members
of the Military Department and
four college staff members.
Military personnel returning to
active duty are Maj. E. P. Ozment,
Capt. W. A. Hill and Capt. H. R.
Williams.
Staff members leaving are Dr.
Paul J. Woods of the History De
partment, Capt. Dave Wilson of
the Range and Forestry Depart
ment, Capt. Bruno Schroeder of
the Department of Business Ad
ministration, and Capt. W. A. Al
len of the Agricultural Engineer
ing Department.
Old
MSC Phone Change
Telephone numbers of the MSC
has been changed to 4-5123 for
all departments, J. Wayne Stark,
director has announced. At pre
sent there will be six circuits
going into the center through a
central switch board.
ILS. Cavalry
Roll 2(1 Miles
In New Drive
With U. S. First Cavalry,
Korea, Sept. 22—(JP)—A U.S.
First Cavalry task force with
tanks and motorized equip
ment advanced 20 miles today
in a breakthrough drive to trap
fleeing Reds in the old southeast
Korean beachhead.
The column at nightfall was
some seven miles southeast of
Sangju, a key rail and highway
junction leading to Seoul, 100 air
miles northwest.
The purpose of the drive was to
capture Sangju, 43 air miles
northwest of Taegu, and cut the
Kumchon-Hamshang road. Kum
chon is 20 miles south of Sangju
and Hamchang is 10 miles north.
The Kumchon-Hamchang high
way is the best highway escape
route for the Reds fleeing before
the Allied offensive.
“She’s a rout now,” said Maj.
Gen. Hobart R. Gray, commanding
the First Cavalry, who rode along
with the column. “We’ve had a
great day,” he said.
The troopers jumped off at
dawn from a village captured yes
terday northwest of Taegu.
The First Cavalry had been
stalled in this sector since an Al
lied drive opened Saturday. •
At one point in today’s drive,
the task force gained six miles in
six hours.
The force moved for stretches
unopposed, then encountered re
sistance. Every time an enemy
pocket was cleared out the tanks
rolled on with infantry troopers
following.
“You can see them going up in
to the hills by the hundreds,” said
General Gay. The Reds were
scrambling into ridges on both
sides of the road to get away
from the task force.
A division spokesman said 200
Red prisoners were taken south
west of Tabu.
Experiment Group
Receives $2,000 Aid
A grant-in-aid check for $2,000
has been received by the Texas
Agricultural Experiment Station.
The money is from Dr. David D.
Long, chief, feed and plant food
research, International Minerals
and Chemical Corp., Chicago.
Grant-in-aid was initiated in
1947 by Dr. Long, “under which
our department of agronomy was
able to extend their investigations
in soil fertility,” Dr. R. D. Lewis,
station director, says.
“The grant was made particu
larly for the purpose of determin
ing if magnesium or potash or
both might promote the intake of
phosphorous or otherwise benefit
the value of pasture grasses in
animal nutrition,” Dr. Lewis said.
“At Dr. Long’s suggestion some of
the funds have also been used to
investigate occurrences of amino
acids in the proteins of grasses,”
l ewis points out.
TISA Men Find Out Tonight
If They Hold Senate Seats
By DEAN REED
Ballots will be distributed to all
students living on the campus to
night at 7 p. m. for a special
referendum on a Student Senate
constitutional amendment.
If'a majority of the student body
favors the amendment, A&M offi
cers of the Texas Intercollegiate
Student Association will become
members of the Senate.
The TISA, whose membership
is composed of most of the major
colleges in Texas and many of the
smaller ones, is entering its third
year as an association whose pri
mary aim is active relationship
among the various Texas col
leges.
Convention Here
Delegates to last year’s conven
tion voted to hold the 1951 meet
ing on the A&M campus, to help
in celebrating the college’s 75th
Anniversary.
With the convention scheduled
here, twe executive officers from
A&M were elected by last year’s
Student Senate to organize and
arrange for the meeting. They are
MSC Display Shows
Top Photographic Art
By AVAYNE DAVIS
Now on exhibition in the first
floor gallery and in Meeting Room
2A of the Memorial Student Cen
ter is a collection of photographic
studies by John Steele and Paul
Linwood Gittings, reputedly great
est living American photographers.
Presented under the auspices of
the A&M Camera Club, the col
lection will be exhibited through
next Saturday, September 30.
Steele, brilliant young Canadian
photographer, is just becoming
recognized in this country as a
master of photography. The name
of Gittings, however, is no strang
er to Texans; long known as the
southwest’s foremost photographer
of beautiful women, Gittings’ Dal
las and Houston studios have
made his work as familiar in the
society pages of American news
papers as it is ip solons through
out the world.
The Gittings collection is a
group of his studies requested by
the Professional Photographers’
Association of America as a per
manent loan exhibit for display
at art museums, universities, and
salons.
While the exhibition consists
mainly of portraits by Steele and
Ex-Batt Staffer Chosen
College Station Beauty
College Station, one of the will be part of the Parade of
Betty Potter
many cities to be represented at
the State Fair at Dallas Fair
Grounds on October 17, 18 and 19,
will have Miss Betty Ann Potter,
I daughter of Dr. and Mrs. James
j G. Potter of College Station as
<>| its representative.
; 1 According to H. E. Burgess,
president of the Chamber of Com
merce, Miss Potter was appointed
queen by them at an earlier meet
ing. He added queens from various
other East Texas cities would par
ticipate in the colorful Parade of
Decades to take place on October
17—“East Texas Day.”
Miss Potter and the other queens
will be honored at several social
functions during the day, after
which she and the other queens
from East Texas cities will take
their places on floats. The floats
Decades, Burgess continued, which
will tour the Fair Grounds at
7:30 p. m.
Miss Annabelle Perry, the
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. James
S. Perry of 501 Brookshire Drive,
Bryan, is to be the Bryan queen,
Burgess added.
Miss Potter is a junior at the
University of Texas, majoring in
radio broadcasting. She is a mem
ber of the Delta Delta Delta Sor
ority, the Women’s Debating Club,
the Campus League of Women
Voters, and was Battalion Society
Editor this summer.
Miss Perry, currently in her
senior year at Stephen F. Austin
High School in Bryan, is a mem
ber of the A’Cappela Choir and is
also Business Manager of the
Bryan Bronco.
Gittings, there are nevertheless
several remarkable landscapes and
architecture studies exhibited, par
ticularly by^ Gittings. Aggies inter
ested in photography will have an
excellent opportunity to compare
the harsh, realistic photography
of Steele with Gittings’ softer,
stylized portraits.
In addition to his portraits, the
Texan has provided several stud
ies in polarization and reticulation
to interest advanced students of
photography.
The collection now on exhibit is
the first in a series of exhibitions
to be presented by the Camera
Club, Tom Harding, club presi
dent, said today. “These exhibi
tions,” Harding said, “represent
the opening of a drive to interest
students in photography. With the
many new darkroom facilities now
available in the Student Center,
we want to get as many Aggies
started in the hobby as we can.”
From October 1 through Novem
ber 30, Harding announced, there
will be a selection of 15 new Ko
dak exhibition prints displayed in
the Student Center each week.
In addition to these, there will
be an exhibition of salon prints
by Maurice Tabard beginning
about October 1. Tabard, Harper’s
Bazaar staff Paris photographer,
is a leading exponent of “Dynamic
Symmetry.”
Harding also announced that
plans are now being made for a
salorj of Aggie photographers’
work in the near future.
Writers Meeting
Program Complete
One of the finest programs ever
held for the Texas Writers Con
ference has been outlined for the
upcoming conference to be held
October 13-14.
One of the highlights of the
two-day session will be a report
by Louis Franke of the Extesion
Service, of his two-months stay
in Germany. Franke will talk on
German agriculture.
David Read of Silsbee, presi
dent of the conference, says that
interest is mounting all over the
state and that a large attendance
is expected.
Allan Eubank, executive vice-pres
ident, and Charlie Royalty, execu
tive secretary.
Joe Fuller, parliamentarian of
the Senate last year, was elected
to that office in the TISA in last
spring’s meeting at Baylor.
Thus, if tonight’s balloting fav
ors the amendment, this trio of
officers will be the first to become
Senators under the amendment.
Little Argument
Passed at the last meeting of
the Senate in the spring, the
amendment stipulated the student
body must vote for the change be
fore it can become effective. Lit-
the argument was voiced against
the amendment at the meeting.
Advocates of the constitutional
change said they favored it since
“it would give the Student Senate
a much closer connection with the
TISA.” “It would look bad to have
TISA officers who were not mem
bers of our own governing body,”
and that “such an amendment
would aid in forming a TISA Com
mittee of the Senate to arrange
for the convention here in 1951.”
Should the change be approved,
it would be inserted into the
“membership” section of the Sen
ate’s constitution.
Conducting the special elec
tion is last year’s Senate election
committee, with Roy Nance and
Bill Moss serving as co-chairmen.
Ballots will be picked up at 10
p. m.
Students living off the campus
must, in order to vote, use theh
ballot printed yesterday and to
day in The Battalion. Election
results will be carried in The
Battalion Monday.
Congress Hustles
Anti-Red Bill Thru
Washington, Sept. 22—UP>—Ea
ger to hurry home, Congress
hustled its tough anti-Communist
bill to President Truman’s desk
yesterday.
Many lawmakers expected him
to veto it, but Congress appeared
to have enough votes to write it
into law anyway. Both Houses
gave top-heavy approval to the
measure.
Mr. Truman said he will make
known his views quickly. Some
officials expect him to act tomor
row. A high source on Capitol
Hill said “I understand the Presi
dent is going to veto it.”
Deadline Set on MSC
Student Club Rooms
Applications for student organ
izations and club conference rooms
may be submitted to the Memor
ial Student Center social office
starting at 8 a.m. Monday, Miss
Ann Hilliard, announced today.
Due to limited facilities, it will
be impossible to grant permis
sion to all those requesting rooms,
but the social office will fulfill
as many requests as possible Miss
Hilliard said. Reservations will be
bade on a first come first served
basis.