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Number 9: Volume 51
The Battalion
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1950
Nation’s Top
Safety Section
Lumberman’s 1949 Contest
Price Five Cents
Student Senate Constitution
Amendment Passes by 874
Conquering Heros
By DEAN REED
Results of a special election Fri
day night gave approval to a Stu
dent Senate constitutional amend
ment under which all A&M officers
of the Texas Intercollegiate Stu
dents Association automatically be
come members of the Senate.
Voting for the amendment were
1552 students, with 678 casting bal
lots against it.
A&M now has three officers in
the TISA. They are Joe Fuller,
parliamentarian; Allan Eubank,
executive vice-president; and
Charlie Royalty, executive secre
tary.
Truman Signs
Multi-Billion
War Tax Bill
Washington, Sept. 25—
(AP) — The $4,700,000,000
war tax bill, adding new and
heavy obligations to individ
uals and corporations, became
law this weekend with President
Truman's signature.
The measure cleared congress
and Mr. Truman lost no time ap
proving it. The administration
wants new billions promptly to
help pay the cost of the Korean
fighting and the general rearm
ament program, and to combat in
flation.
A week from now on Oct. 1, the
government will begin taking one-
fifth more taxes out of all salaries
‘and wages. New withholding tables
and instruction were mailed to em
ployers tonight.
Corporation normal rate are
boosted from a top of 38 percent
to 45 percent, retroactive to July
1. More millions will be gathered
by loophole plugging.
This bill is only the first step.
Just before the President signed
the measure, a time table was
drawn up at the capitol for a
“second installment” tax boost
aimed principally at taking the pro
fits 'put of war.
Thi? tax-frpming House Ways
and Means Committee ordered pub
lic hearings beginning November
15 on a multi-billion dollar cor
poration excess profits tax bill,
with the idea of having it peady
for speedy action when Congress
reconvenes.
The two bills may raise taxes by
nbout $12,000,000,000 a year. The
total tax load in 1951 may reach
nearly $50,000,000,000 for a new
record—higher' by far than any col
lections during World War II.
The bill signed by the Pr-esident
grants tax exemptions for GPs
fighting in Korea, and tax reduc
tions for their officers, It provides
tax incentives for industry to re
tool for the production of materials
needed by the fighting men.
Subject to approval of the Aca
demic Council, the amendment
makes these three students the
first members of the 1950-51 Stu
dent Senate, with the exception of
class vice-presidents.
Election results, along with the
original proposed amendment, have
been sent to the Academic Council,
which will meet Tuesday night.
Tabulating ballots after the vot
ing was the Student Senate’s elec
tion committee. Co-chairmen of
the committee are Roy Nance and
Bill Moss. Voting was broken
down into three major groups—
corps upperclassman area, corps
freshman area, and civilian dorm
area.
In the civilian area, the vote was
22 for the amendment, 137 against.
Cprps upperclassmen, including
Hart Hall, voted for the measure,
Rodeo Club to Hold
Initial Meet Monday
Rodeo C’ub will hold its elec
tion of spring semester officers
Monday night at 8 p. m. in the
A&I Building Library, Tommy
Shelton, secretary-treasurer of the
club, said today.
There are no academic qualifi
cations regulating admittance to
the club.
YMCA Cabinet
Reorganization
Set Tonight
Open Letter to the Student
Body:
The first meeting of the
Y.M.C.A. will be held tonight
at 7:15 in the Cabinet Room
of the Y.M.C.A. Did you no
tice, no mention was made of
the Y.M.C.A. Cabinet? That’s
because the meeting is to be a
beneral Association meeting.
A new organizational set-up
provides that the officers and
committee chairman shall form
the “Y” cabinet, and the mem
bership will make up the as
sociation.
In the past the “Y” cabinet
has brought to many minds the
vague idea of a group which
met for some reason or anoth
er, had some kind of program
and was a rather exclusive
group who didn’t invite out
siders. Nothing could be fur
ther from the truth. The “Y”
is a service organization which
invites into its membership
anyone who is interested in its
program and who is willing to
incorporate' in his living the
ideals that the YMCA stands
for.
There are niany things that
a YMCA can do if its members
are active.. Though little at
tention has been given to the
fields of Community service,
much can he done in this area
by our association. And with
the man foreign students on
opr campus thepe should be a
program for helping them be
come a part of our student life.
And how about being a part of
a fellowship .that has a place
for students and at the same
time affords him the opportun
ity to broaden his cultural out
look;? And in these troubled
times one of our big jobs in
the “Y” should be informing
the students of world problems
and international affairs
through speakers, movies and
forums.
Are you interested ? If so,
come on over tonight at 7:15.
Our advisors, Mason L. Cash-
ion and Gordon Gay, and all
the rest of our group will be
glad to welcome you and try
to make you feel at home.
Sincerely,
King Egger
President YMCA
595 to 427.
Highest percentage of affirma
tive votes was gained in the corps
freshman area, where 733 students
approved the amendment with only
114 voting negatively. Only two
off-campus voters used the ballot
printed in The Battalion. Both ap
proved the Senate’s change.
Student participation in the vote
hit the usual A&M standards, with
only about one-third the eligible
voters taking part.
The TISA, whose A&M officers
were the basis for the amendment,
is a statewide organization of col
leges and universities now enter
ing its third year as an active as
sociation.
TISA Aims
Primary motives of the group
are to better relations between
member schools, aid in promoting
student government and student
leadership, and to exchange ideas
of various phases of student life
at its annual meetings.
Delegates to last year’s conven
tion, held at Baylor University in
Waco, voted to hold the 1951 meet
ing at A&M. Eubank and Roy
alty were elected executive officers
by the Student Senate to make ar
rangements for the convention.
Sessions of the meeting are ten
tatively scheduled for the Memo
rial Student Center.
Big Russ Hudeck (polka dotted shirt) was among
the 37 football players carried on the shoulders of
the 3,000 plus who were on hand to greet the re
turning Aggies. Also being carried behind Hu-
deck is Darrow Hooper, who successfully booted
six of seven PAT and directed the Cadets seventh
touchdown.
A&M Line Play
Sparks 48-18
Win Over NU
By FRANK N. MANITZAS
Battalion Sports Editor
“It was the line that did it,” said Head Football Coach
Harry Stiteler when he and the A&M football team were
greeted by more than 3,000 fans at Easterwood Airport last
night.
The Aggie eleven had returned from Sacremento, Calif,
where they had completely dominted the game with the
Nevada Wolfpack, defeating same 48-18.
Coach Stiteler has definite proof for his statement,
concerning the ability of the Cadet line. The Aggie forward
wall held the Wolfpacks rushing game to net gain of 21
yards.
Not only did the Aggie line stop Nevada’s ground game,
but it also opened the necessary^
Clinton Gwin and Fullback Bruis
in’ Bob Smith, both of whom are
injured, should be ready by Sat
urday.
Dorbandt Barton was the stand
out on defense for the Cadets, but
Gwin, Carl Molberg, Jimmy Flow
ers, Mickey Spencer, Max Greiner,
and all of the A&M line, were the
out and out stars.
the
429
necessary
Cadet quartet
yards on the
holes to allow
to travel for
ground.
Only three Farmers were hurt in
the weekend game, and one may
not be able to play in the Texas
Tech game this coming Saturday.
Stiteler said that Center Bob
Bates’ return to the team during
the week is questionable, but End
i Mummy, We Have No Boys'
Did any of you ever think there were not enough little girls in
your fifth grade classes? Well, according to Mrs. Rowena Creswell,
Consolidated Grade-school Principal, a fifth-grade girl went home and
said, “Mummy, all of the girls in my class are being moved out; I am
almost alone in a class full of boys.”
Mother then called the school to investigate these happenings, only
to be the cause of survey which revealed there are twice as many boys
as girls in her young daughter’s class.
The other grades also seemed to possess more boys than girls, al
though the higher grades were more uneven than the first and second.
What’s this Consolidated School coming to? You’d think they
would import some girls to make up for the low ratio already present
on the A&M campus.
Doughboys Attack
Seoul Four Ways
By LEIF ERICKSON
Tokyo, Sept. 25 — <#) — Marin'es
and doughboys bit deep into Seoul
today from four directions. Tenth
Corps ’ oficers . held hopes the Ko
rean ' capital would fall to Allied
forces within hours.
But there were few signs that
the stubborn Red Korean defense
was, cracking up before them yet.
An American flag flew from a
hut on the highest point in Seoul’s
Tongmaksang district. A company
of marine Col. Lewis (Chesty) Pul-
ler ? s fifth regiment planted it there
Sunday night.
Marines from this position could
pour mortar fire into Seoul’s army
barracks and other Red strong-
points.
Prison Searched
Leathernecks in the Tongmak
sang area searched one of Seoul’s
several prisons looking for Ameri
can prisoners; South Korean under
ground agents said the Americans
had been moved out of the city
several days ago.
Doughboys of the Seventh Divi
sion — an American-South Korean
outfit—were thrown into the cli
mactic struggle for the city Mon
A&.M’s replica of the
position in the honor
Liberty Bell
place of the
takes its
Academic
Building. In the upper right side, President
T. W. Harrington looks on.
day.
The division’s 32nd Regiment
swept across the Seoul-Suwon
highway and crossed the Han River
southeast of the city under cover
of dawn mists.
This lightning thrust apparently
caught the Communists by sur
prise. It was the second Han cross
ing in two days and the third since
last midweek.
First Regiment leathernecks
stormed across the river Sunday
near Yongdungpo, southwest sub
urb of Seoul.
They linked up solidly in the west
section of the city with Fifth Regi
ment marines who had crossed the
Han Wednesday northwest of Seoul.
Marine Units
Both regiments are units of the
marine. First Division that was
battle-hardened in southeast Ko
rea.
Another column of the Fifth Reg
iment was driving into Seoul from
the north where Red opposition was
stiff est.
Reinforcements swelled the mass
of Allied troops in the Korean sec
ond front beachhead.
Twenty-four hundred airborne
troops—sped from the United
States to Japan by ship—have been
landed at Kimpo field northwest of
Seoul. Their time of arrival was
not announced but within a few
hours they had been sent into ac
tion.
A fresh South Korean division
was landed at the beachhead port
Inchon and moved up to fight.
As the war entered its fourth
month, events rolled swiftly for
the Allied offensive that kicked off
Sept. 15 on the old and new fronts.
New Gains
Allied forces struck mightily out
of the old southeast beachhead for
big new gains.
The First Cavalry foot soldiers
rolled 55 miles in three days—
from Tabu to Poun, 18 miles north
east of Taejon.
American or South Korean forces
fought into Ghinju, Hyopchon,
Kumchon, Hamchang, Uisong, An-
dong, Yongdok. These gains vir
tually restored the battleline that
existed one month after the war-
broke out with Red invasion across
parallel 38 on June 25.
High School Elects
New Yell Leader
Mary Frances Bond was elected
yell leader by the students of A&M
Consolidated in a special election,
Wednesday, September 20, an
nounced Principal L. E. Boze.
She will replace Dorothy Spriggs
who will be unable to serve be
cause of a knee injury. Although
she can no longer be active as
yell leader,, Dorothy will retain
her post of head yell leader.
The election was sponsored by
the Student Council.
Local Churches Schedule
‘Church Emphasis Week’
By CURTIS EDWARDS
Churches of the College Station
Community will observe Church
Emphasis Week beginning today
with special services being held at
various times during each day.
The second week of the semes
ter has, as in the past, been set
aside by each of the churches for
concentration on religious activ
ities especially for new and old
A&M students.
All students are urged to attend
the church of their choice as each
program has been arranged,, for
their benefit. The time and na
ture of each service may be found
in the following paragraphs.
A&M Christian Church
The A&M Christian Church will
begin its emphasis week tonight
with a religious film to be shown
at the church at 6:45.
Wednesday at 6 p. m., an all
church supper will be held for
members of the church and inter
ested students. Another religious
film will be shown Friday night at
6:45.
St. Thomas Episcopal Church week at 7:30. Lehmberg’s theme
will be “Religion In Life.”
An all-church banquet will
Holly Communion will be ob
served on Tuesday, Wednesday,
and Friday mornings of this week
at 6:30 a. m. at the St. Thomas
Episcopal Chapel. Breakfast will
follow the services at which time
the Reverend Lawrence Brown, di
rector of the Canterbury Bible
Chair, will deliver addresses on
the “Meaning of the Sacriment.”
All students will be allowed to
miss meal formations for this and
any other services that occur at
meal time.
Presbyterian Church
The Reverend H. B. Streater,
pastor of the Marlin Presbyterian
Church, will have charge of the
worship services to be held Monday
and Tuesday nights at 7:30.
On Wednesday night at 7:30, the
Reverend Norman Anderson, pas
tor of the A&M Church, will con
duct the services.
A&M Methodist Church
The A&M Methodist Church will
have the Reverend Ben Lehmberg,
pastor of the Riverside Memorial
Church of Houston, each night this
New Town Hall Tickets
Go On Sale in Dorms
Tickets for the 1950-51 Town
Hall series will go on sale in
dormitories Monday night, Doug
Hearne, student entertainment
manager said.
The 14 members of the Town
Hall staff will meet at 7:30 a. m.
Monday in the MSC, after which
the staff members will sell tickets
in the dormitories.
There are only 400 general ad
mission tickets left for sale, and
no reserved seat tickets, Hearne
reported.
The first attraction for the 1950-
51 season will be baritone Leonard
Warren, who will sing in G'uion
Hall on Oct. 19.
Warren is a baritone with the
Metropalitan Opera Company. Be
tween operatic appearances he
makes an annual concert tour of the
United States and Canada. Warren
has been guest artist on the Voice
of Firestone and RCA-Victor radio
programs. He is highly rated as a
recording artist of operatic se
lections, Hearne said.
Jean Dickenson
Jean Dickensen, “Nightingale of
the Airwaves,” will be the second
feature of the fall Town Hall bill.
Miss Dickensen will appear in
Guion Hall on the night of Nov.
8.
The “Nightingale” is the sopra
no star of radio’s “American Album
of Familiar Music” presented each
Sunday evening.
Miss Dickensen is as equally at
home on the concert stage and in
the operatic house as on the air.
She has sung for all branches of
service, which includes practically
every military hospital in the Uni
ted States.
(See TOWN HALL, Page 2)
be
held Wednesday night at 6:30 to
which all Methodist Aggies are in
vited.
The choir for each night’s ser-
(See CHURCHES, Page 4)
Newspaper Men
Finish Clinic
Here Saturday
The Second Annual Texas
Newspaper Clinic ended Sat
urday at 5:30 with a panel,
“Plan for EXTRA Advertis
ing Business,” conducted by
Brad Smith, of the Weslaco News.
The clinic, sponsored annually
by the Journalism Department
to give small town newspaper pub
lishers an opportunity to discuss
practices and problems, began at
9 a. m. Friday, with registration
in the Memorial Student Center.
“Welcome” was given by Presi
dent M. T. Harrington in the As
sembly Room of the MSC, follow
ing a panel at 10:30 a. m. “Prop
er Job Pricing.”
Another panel “Pictures for
Profits” and a Mechanical Con
ference were held in the afternoon.
Dinner was in the assembly
room of the MSC with George
Carmack, president of the Texas
Gulf Coast Press Association, pre
siding. Walter Humphrey, editor
of the Fort Worth Press, spoke
on “Why Agriculture is a Touch
stone for Newspapers.”
Saturday morning was devoted to
observation of mechanical opera
tions at the A&M College Press
in Goodwin Hall. At a luncheon in
the Assembly room of the MSC,
Dean J. P. Abbott, Dean of the
School of Arts and Sciences, spoke
on “Why We Educate for Journal
ism.”
Two panels, “Serve Your Farm
Friends” and “Plan for EXTRA
Advertising Business” rounded out
the Clinic for 1950.
Team Worked Together
Jimmy Flowers summed it up
when he said, “In all the years
that I’ve played for A&M, this
team worked harder together and
played heads up ball throughout
the sixty minutes.”
Statistics
Nevada A&M
14 First Downs 19
21 Net Yards Rushing 429
274 Net Yards Passing 83
20 of 39 Completed Passes 5 of 11
2 Had Intercepted 0
5 for 38.5 Punts & Avg. 3 for 32.5
5 for 50 Penalties 4 for 55
3-0 Fumb & No. Recov.
2-1
In the backfield, Glenn Lipp-
man’s 80 yard run for a TD, and
Billy Tidwell’s 69 yard touchdown
run sparked the Aggies ground at
tack. Smith carried the ball the
most and scored three of the Ag
gies touchdowns to become the
leading scorer in the conference.
Delmar Sikes came into his own
Saturday and engineered the Ag
gies to six of their counters while
Darrow Hooper, who leads the
SWC in, PATs, having gained six
in seven attempts, directed the
Cadets final score.
Barton Tops
Barton’s top defensive play led
to two pass interceptions whieb
in turn led to touchdowns. Spen
cer and Greiner intercepted the
Wolfpacks’ passes.
It was the Cadets second vic
tory since ’47 when the Aggies
last defeated Baylor 24-0, and it
was also the first opening game
that A&M had won since ’47,
when they stomped Southwestern,
48-0.
An overated Nevada team which
included such overrated material
as Lawrence “Punjab” Hairston,
276 pounder, had the Aggies keyed
up for the game.
Had it not been for the accuracy
of Pat Brady’s passing, Nevada
would not have had too much of
a team, but the Cadet eleven
praised the passing arm of Brady
which many called one of the best.
First Quarter Scoreless
Both teams finished the first
quarter scoreless, but in the sec
ond period, the Aggies scored three
touchdowns to two for Nevada. At
the end of the first quarter, the
Cadet forward wall with Molberg,
Bates, Barton, and Spencer play
ing heads up ball, kept the Wolf-
pack from scoring in six plays
while on the Aggies 15.
At the start of the second quar
ter, an Aggie fumble was recov
ered by Nevada on the A&M 25.
(See AGGIES, Page 4)
New City Officers .
Running City No Snap
Say Young Councilmen
i
Students from A&M Consolidated . The next activity on schedule for
! High School who were elected to I meeting.
j run the city for a day last week the afternoon—why a ride in the
j found that after two or three hours police car, of course. City Patrol-
1 around the council table they were ! man Curtis Bullock was busy for
Brad Smith center, of the Weslaco News, displays a sample of
“extra advertising” promotion from the Gilmer Mirror at the
Texas Newspaper Clinic held in the Memorial Student Center
Friday and Saturday. Looking on is Bill Berger, left business man
ager of the Hondo Anvil-Herald and Mrs. Russ Laschinger, right,
advertising manager of the Gilmer Mirror.
ready to leave the job to men who
are experienced at those jobs.
Promptly at 1 p.m. Mayor Royce
Rodgers called his council and de
partment chiefs together for the
afternoon business meeting. Ernest
Langford, regular mayor of College
Station, stood at the head of the
council table to answer any ques
tions the group might ask.
And from every end of the table
came one question after another
from students eager to learn about
how their city was operated. After
all the officers agreed they had
sufficient notes from the questions,
Mayor Rodgers adjourned the
quite sometime thereafter showing
the kids around town in the police
car.
The group of young officers will
be guests of the Kiwanis Club to
morrow at their noon meeting, and
they will be called updf! to make
talks concerning what they have
learned while in their office.
Serving in the various positions
were Royce Rodgers, major; Elea
nor Price, Jimmy Bond, Ward I
councilmen; Tom Barlow, Donald
Burchard, Ward II councilmen; and
Louise Street and Kayle Klipple,
Ward III councilmen.
(See CITY, Page 4)