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Circulated to College Station’s Residents Number 10: Volume 51 The Battalion PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1950 Nation’s Top Safety Section Lumberman’s 1949 Contest Price Five Cents New Constitution Gets MSC Council Seal of Approval Queen Candidate The Memorial Student Center Council last night put what it hopes to be its final stamp of approval on the proposed constitution for the Center. The document now goes to the Memorial Student Cen ter Board and President M. T. Har rington for re-approval. A constitution submitted by the student, faculty and staff and for mer student Council last spring to the Board and the president was revised and returned to the Coun cil this fall for approval. At the meeting last night the Council amended this revised form in two instances for resubmission to the higher body. Should the president and the board accept these changes the constitution will be put into effect. Revisions Voted The latest revisions, voted i^pon last night, are aimed mainly at clarification in wording. Both are concerned with that section of the constitution defining the duties and organization of the Memorial Stu dent Center Council. The form returned to the Council stipulates that it be “charged with the organization and operation of the activities and events within the Center” under rules established by U. S. Marines Knock Out 11 Russian Tanks Seoul, Sept. 26—(£>)—U.S. Marines broke up a Red Ko rean attack in the streets of Seoul today and knocked out 11 Russian-made tanks. A Marine divisional intelligence officer said “we hope we broke the back of the enemy’s resistance when we knocked hell out of that attack.” The North 'Korean counter blow tan into the first Marine regiment about 500 yards southwest of the Governor’s Palace before dawn Tuesday. Lt. Col. Raymond Murray of San Diego said 3.5-inch bazookas kayoed the 11 tanks. The North Korean attack was called by combat officers the last major glow the enemy could throw inside the old capital. 2,000 Troops Flee Front intelligence officers and air observers reported 2,000 North Korean troops fled from the city to the northeast last night in about 100 vehicles. But high ranking Marine officers said about 5,000 enemy troops still were in the city. The Communists had suffered heavy losses in Seoul for two days. One Marine battalion reported killing 1,800 Reds in 36 hours on the northwest outskirts. It also reported the capture of many more Communists. Another Leatherneck company in a half-hour yesterday killed 50 North Koreans and captured 125. High echelon American officers estimated about a third of Seoul today is in United Nations hands. (This dispatch was timed at Seoul at 9:30 a.m., Tuesday, 7:30 p.m., Monday, EST). “We may be able to take just about all of the city today,” a Marine genei’al said, “if the Reds shot their main bolt last night.” Easier Day “We expect to have it a little easier today,” he added. Through yestei’day and last night the -Reds fought stubbornly. But the Amer icans pushed ahead, slowly but surely. South Korean Marines came after the Leathernecks and cleaned up snipers and small pock ets of Reds. American intelligence officers, reported the Reds were trying hard to reinforce the Seoul defenders with troops pulled up from the southern beachhead. They said Red troops and equipment were trickling into the capital but in undetermined numbers. Paced by tanks, the U.S. Mar ines began a new assault at dawn today. It started in the face of persistent artillery, mortar and small arms fire. The objectives were the Governor-General’s Build ing and other key points. Attention Freshmen Freshmen who signed for work on The Battalion were asked by the co-editors this morning to stop by the Batt of fice at their first free afternoon. Other freshmen interested in working on The Battalion in any capacity may obtain information in The Battalion offices any af ternoon between 1 p. m. and 6 p. m., the co-editors said. the Board. For clarification pur poses, the Council proposed chang ing the word “rules” to “authori ty.” The second change by the Coun cil is proposed in the membership clause. The constitution as sent back down by the higher body des ignates “One editor of the Battal ion” as a member of the Council. At the request of the co-editors the group amended that phrase to read “One editor or the co-editors of The Battalion exercising a single vote between them.” A similar ar rangement exists in the instance of Battalion representation on the Student Life Committee. If these latest revisions are ac ceptable to the Board and the Pres ident, the constitution will go into effect immediately. Briefly, here is what it will pro vide. The purpose of the Memorial Student Center will be to • “provide a social educational program” for students and staff members; • to foster “social, cultural and spiritual phases of student life; • to facilitate better social and personal contacts among and be tween students, former students, faculty and friends of the college; • and “to provide facilities for meetings, short courses and con ferences of citizens of the State...” Membership Membership in the Center will include students and non-students with types, privileges and qualifi cations of membership to be de fined in the By-Laws (the next undertaking of the Board). A Memorial Student Center Board consisting of five members, four appointed from the college staff by the president for four years overlapping terms with the addition of the Dean of Men as ex- officio member and chairman, will be responsible to the president for general policies, organization of the Center within college regulations, budget and personnel recommenda tions and the appointment of a di rector for the Center. A Memorial Student Center Council, working under policies es tablished by the Board “shall be charged with the organization and operation of the activities and events within the Center.” Council Selection This Council will be composed of six student representatives, one member of the Student Senate to be elected by the Senate, one editor or co-editors of The Battalion ex ercising one vote between them, five members of the faculty, two former students, and the director of the Center serving as secretary- treasurer without vote. Two of the student vacancies would be filled by representatives elected at large in a spring elec tion. Student members will have a one-year term of office. Former student vacancies would be filled by representatives chosen by the governing board of the Former Student Association and faculty members would be appoint ed by the president. Both of these latter groups would serve two-year terms. Committees Working under the Council will be various committees and special interest clubs, the chairmen of which would form the Memorial Student Center Directorate. Certain parts of the Constitution are in effect pending its final ap proval. Also approved at last night’s meeting of the Council were a few social and educational budget items submitted by Center Director J. Wayne Stark and an (See MSC, Page 4) U. N. Forces Liberate Seoul; Street Fighting Continues Tokyo, Sept. 26—UP)—General MacArthur announced today the United Nations forces have liberated Seoul from North Koreans who held the capital in Red bondage al most three months. This was the big initial victory for the 53 non-commun ist nations behind the first armed peace-enforcement mea sure undertaken by the U.N. But mopping up of an estimated 5,000 die-hard Red de fenders in Seoul remained to be done by Allied forces fight ing house by house and street by street. Joyce Sadler Truly a cheer leader is Miss Sadler, who held the position at San Jacinto High in Houston and at Southwestern University where she was also a Zeta Tau Alpha. This lovely candidate for the 75th Anniversary Queen contest sponsored by The Commentator, was entered by Jack Wood, a senior, also from Houston. Seniors Discuss MSC, Yell Practice at Meet Yell Practice, Senior Ring Dance, class and Memorial Student Cen ter privileges, and campus beauti fication were discussed last night at a senior class meeting held in the Assembly Hall. Walking on the newly planted grass in front of the MSC was brought up before the class and a resolution was proposed, to dis courage the practice. This resolu tion was later amplified to include walking on grass in 1 the Academic Building area. The problem of walking on the grass was brought up by Dare Keelan class president, as a means of working with the college land scape department. Grass. Question W. D. “Pusher” Barnes, Infan try Regiment commander, made a motion that walking on the grass be made a demerit offense and added that any defacing of the MSC should become a senior court offense. A motion from the floor was made to make walking on the grass a senior privilege with the stipulation seniors resolve not to exercise their perogative. No action will be taken until further consideration is given the problem, Keelan said. Bryan Zimmerman, A Chem Corps, was made chairman of the campus beautification committee. He announced any senior who de sired to join his committee con tact him in his room, Dorm 8-427. A motion was made to set aside certain portions of the MSC for seniors only, but the motion was Civilian Seniors Meet Civilian members of the Sen ior Class will meet tonight at 7:15 p.m. in the Assembly Hall, Bob Allen, senior class civilian vice-president, has announced. shelved until a committee headed by Barnes could investigate the possibility of setting up class priv ileges in the Center. Yell Practice Don Joseph, head yell leader, tol,d the class it was possible to hold a yell practice in San An tonio Saturday before dark and suggested one be held in front of the Municipal Auditorium in that city at 5 p. m. if city officials ap proved. This proposal passed with com- paritively little argument by the estimated 200 seniors at the meet ing. Next resolution made by Joseph was that the class accept the use of a public address system at yell practices. It was finally agreed upon to allow guest speakers to use the PA system and also recom mended yell practices be kept quieter. Don Joseph added the comment after the committees were ap pointed that the MSC was built for the students and the seniors should not attempt to restrict the use of the center to any class. Ring Dance Committees were appointed to investigate dance orchestras for the senior Ring Dance. Dave Britt, A seniors, was appointed chair man of the committee. Other com mittee members are Dave Robert son, G Squadron, Russell Hagens, C Armor, and Jerry Williams, B Engineers. Keelan brought up a complaint by several former students con cerning reference to ex-students as Ex-Aggies. Keelan said a Beau mont former student offered to finance a contest to be run in the Battalion. Tentatively the contest would have students submit letters to the Batt telling why there is no such thing as an ex-Aggie. The Battalion co-editors have indicated that they will look into the possi bilities of a contest. Moon’s Eclipse Observed By Battalion Lunar Expert By JOHN WHITMORE Battalion Moon Eclipse Editor According to the Associated Press there was an eclipse of the Moon which was the last that could be seen from College until Jan. 29, 1953—in time for grad uation. In order to inform the readers of the Battalion I was named the official Battalion Moon Eclipse Editor and observed the lunar spectacle from atop Austin Hall. Preparation for the scientific observation started early in 1949 when the last eclipse was last seen. The only other time it had received official notice was in the pages of the A&M Collegian in 1879. Equipment for the observatory consisted of a cot and a pair of 3.4568 power field glasses, one match, two cigars, a current copy of “Your Horoscope,” and other scientific instruments. History will remember what I saw. At 7:20 p. m. the moon started inching under the Earth’s outer- shadow, at least that is what the AP says. When the first darkening of the moon started someone assisting the observer suggested coffee, this was ignored by the scieptist pouring over the combination Eclipse - Gravenomiter - Spec troscope - titrator- -wind - tunnel. By 7:32 p. m. the moon had eclipsed to .03879 per cent. Consulting the Associated Press at this time we discovered that in Canada the moon had eclipsed to .03882 per cent. This was due to the realtive humidity in the air. At last, at 9:54 p. m. the moon had reached its complete eclipse. Accurate measurements could not be caluclated because of darkness, the match was lost. In the darkness one of the sage observers remarked, “I wonder ’if the juniors have an eclipse too?” He was a member of H Incompe- tants. As usual the moon retained a copper-colored glow which has been recorded for prosperity on black and white film. Forty-six minutes later the moon began emerging from behind the clouds. This is not the official time because of the descrepancy in watches. One junior had 45.58 min utes and a senior had 46.01 min utes. Arbitration was not over at press time. Finally it was overcome, went and gone and the report submitted in triplicate to the college, the Smithsonian Institute, Pulitzer Foundation, the senior privilege committee. Researchers were put up for corporal stripes for the work, Filing Ends Tomorrow at 5 For Senate, Life Committee Filing for Student Senate Life Committee positions ends Wednes day afternoon at 5, according to Bill Moss, co-chairman of the Senate election committee. Only requirement is a 1.0 grade point ratio, or better, Moss said. “We would like to break the record for the number of candi dates this year,” Moss said. An un official record was set last year when 116 filed in general fall Red China to Attempt Move For UN Vote Communist China has launch ed another move to get her representatives before the United Nations to press char ges that U.S. planes have bombed Chinese territory. This time her goal is the general assembly. The official Soviet news agency Tass reported last night that the Peiping regime has sent a new note to IJ.N. officials demanding a new bombing complaint he put op the general assembly agenda. The note demanded also that Peiping spokesman participate, in the as sembly discussion of the carge. Red China’s Foreign Minister Chou En-Lai warned in the note that should the assembly majority “still submit to the manipulations of the United States” and remain “deaf and dumb to this criminal aggression by the United States, they cannot avoid their share of responsibility for kindling the flames of war in the East.” The note charged that a U. S. B-29 had dropped 12 bombs on An- tung in Manchuria near the Ko rean border, last Friday night, in juring two persons and causing property damage. Chou had previously complained to the Security Council that Amer ican planes had bombed Antung and two other Manchurian towns near the oKrean border on Aug. 27. The Council rejected that com plaint after Russia had vetoed a U.S. proposal for an on-the-spot investigation by a U.N. commission of the alleged bombing. An earlier Russian attempt to get Chinese Communist represen tatives invited before the council for the debate also failed to secure Council approval. Meloy Awarded DSC for Heroism Colonel Guy S. Meloy, former Commandant of the College, who was wounded fighting in Korea, has been awarded the Distinguish ed Service Cross for extraordinary heroism in combat, according to orders from Headquarters Eighth Army in Korea. Colonel Meloy, then commanding the 19th Infantry Regiment, per sonally led a counterattack with two lightly armored vehicles through heavy machine gun and sniper fire after learning a large enemy force had penetrated the units position and was menacing the 1st battalion command post, the citation read. He personally took charge of a machinegun position to aid the counterattack and continued to lead and inspire his men until loss of blood from a wound forced his evacuation. A letter was received from Col. Meloy this week by Colonel H. L. Boatner, commandant. He is in a Tokyo hospital where he has under gone six operations for wounds on his leg. Man E Wives Club Meets Thursday in ‘Y’ The Management Engineering .Wives’ Club will have an open hou^e at the South Solarium, YMCA at 8 p. m., Thursday. Wives of Management Engin eering majors are invited to at tend and bring their husbands. Management Engineering faculty members and wives are also in vited. elections. Three positions are open on the Student Life Committee for civil ian students. All other student positions on the Committee are filled by appointment, by virtue of office, and by members selected from the Student Senate. The Senate's constitution limits the governing body to 43 members of this number, four will be class vice-presidents and. three will be filled by A&M’s trio of officers in the Texas Intercollegiate Stu dents Association. Voting Friday night, the stu dent body gave its approval to amendment to the Senate constitu tion permitting TISA officers to hold positions. The amendment must be approved by the Academic Council to become effective. The Council meets tonight and is ex pected to pass the constitutional change. Thirty-six Senate seats will be filled in the general election Oct. 3. Each dormitory will elect a representative, as will day students and housing areas. Day students will choose two senators, while College View, Vets Village, and the Trailer Village-Project House area will each elect one. In addi tion,. seven senators at large will be elected. Candidates who had filed for the Student Senate by 5 p. m. Monday were as follow: Robert L. Sturdi vant, Dorm 2; William R. Cornish, Kenneth Grant, and Don Napp, Dorm 3; Douglass D. Hearne, Dorm 4; Charles R. Ruble and R. M. Vanity Fair Pictures Now Being Accepted • Pictures for the Vanity Fair section of the Aggieland ’51 are now being accepted in the Office of Student Activities, according to Roy Nance, editor of the Ag gieland ’51. Deadline for entrance of pic tures has been set for 12 p. m. Saturday, December 2. There will be six girls selected for the section this year. The six winners will be selected by some well known celebrity yet to be named, and will be presented to the student body at some large spring social event. Any girl that wins will be re quired to attend the spring pre sentation. If she is unable to at tend and alternate will be selected to replace her. Men submitting the winning en tries will be notified at least two weeks before the presentation so that they may make arrangements The Allied forces hoped to complete the clean-up task with a minimum of destruction to the city. Four big blazes were burning as the ravages of battle. The Allied force credited with liberation of the 500-year- old capital of 1,000,000 normal population is American and South Korean. Three Months It was officially in control just three months and a day after the Korean Reds—Communist trained and Russian armed—invaded the U.N.-sponsored Republic across parallel •38 June 25. MacArthur signed and issued a special communique at 2:10 p.m. Tuesday (12:10 a.m., EST) to an nounce the end of effective Red resistance in Seoul. It said: “Seoul, capital of the Republic of Korea, is again in friendly hands. United Nations forces, in cluding the 17th Regiment of the Rok (Republic of Korea) army and elements of the U. S- 7th (Army) and First Marine Division, have completed the envelopment and seizure of the city. “The liberation of the city was conducted in such a manner as to cause the least possible damage to civil installations.” MacArthur Gambles MacArthur’s big gamble to break the back of Red Korean resistance and end the war of liberation soon was paying off with surprising speed. That calculated risk involved a hazardous landing far behind ene my lines at Inchon and a quick drive for Seoul. Eleven days elaps ed between the Inchon beachhead landings and MacArthur’s an nouncement of Seoul’s liberation. The capital not only was a sym bolic prize but the hub of virtually all road and rail lines into south east Korea where more than 100,000 Reds Were floundering away from the old Allied defense box. Allied troops started pouring ashore at Inchon, 22 miles west of Seoul, Sept. 15, to change the whole complexion of the Korean war. The 10th. Corps directing the Seoul fight said Seoul’s military defenses actually were broken by 2 p.m. Monday*—just 10 days after the Inchon landings. Disorderly Retreat MacArthur said Seoul’s Red gar rison was fleeing northward in dis order. .<,The Reds appeared to be shat tered everywhere as a unified fighting force. Allied forces hammered out sharp new gains throughout the whole battle zone—in what may be the war’s conclusive offensive — against resistance ranging from bitter to feeble. South Koreans thrust 35 miles out of the old beachhead all along the northern wall. Infantry American and British infantry men gained nearly that same dis tance along the western perimeter. And a powerful armored task force raced 70 miles out of the northwest corner in four days, striking within 40 miles of a link up with the second front Seoul- Inchon beachhead. The link-up, expected hourly, may seal scores of thousands of Red Korean troops in the south. They will have the task of es caping piecemeal to the north over secondary roads and rugged hills. “Dick” Elliott, Dorm 5. Dan Davis, Dorm 6; Jes D. Melver, Dorm 7; Jack A Tanner and Ralph E. Gorman, Dorm 9; Raymond Kunze, and Hans R. Killingstad, Dorm 10; Richard L. Goodwin, and Fobert W. Jack, Dorm 11; George F. Germond, Dorm 14. C. L. Ray, Dorm 15; John Tom Poynor, Dorm 16; Lloyd H. Man- jeot, Dorm 17: Ralph Ellis, and R. E. Sandlin Jr. Hart Hall E. R. Bernard, Karl F. Meyers, and Joe R. Alexander, Walton; I. E. “Mon ty” Montgomery, Milner; C. W. Thomas, and Nolan H. Brunson, Leggett; J. R. Allen, and J. Fred Hambright, Mitchell; Wallace G. Garrison, Jerry Fineg, and Bill Davis. Puryear; and Alfred R. Gib son, Bizzell. Those filing for Student Life Committee were: Sid Abernathy, Roy Nance, Ray Williams, Earl Tweed, and Jim Martin. Only one candidate filed for the student senate from College View, L. B. Weddell and no candidates have filed for student senator from Trailer Village and the Project Houses. Day students filing for student senate are: Hayden Jenkins, How ell Johnson, Bill Moss, John Webb, and George Young. For senator at large; William Adkin, Jackson Ra ley, John McFall, Joe Johnson, W. D. Barnes, and Tommy Martinez. Thomas Jewell Jr. and W. A. Sky-Eagle Jr. have filed for the student senate from Vet Village. to bring the girls to A&M. All girls not selected for the Vanity Fair section will be placed in the Senior Favorites section of the Aggieland. . Entries for Senior Favorites may be of wives, mothers, girl friends, children. These will not be placed in the Vanity Fair com petition if the Senior so desires. More than one picture may be en tered as a favorite. Entrance fees will be $1.50 per picture. Pictures for the Vanity Fair nomination are to be one full- length photograph in formal at tire, and one bust picture in for mal attire, and one bust picture in formal attire, and a full-length photograph in sports attire. All pictures must be 5x7 glossy prints. The sports attire photographs may be either vertical or horizontal. Entries can be made only by Seniors. First Time in Batt History Husband- WifeNa m edEd i ton Battalion editors have announced lots of staff appointments in the paper’s 73-year history, but today marks the first time a husband and wife have been named editors. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Zuber today ed Batt staffer, but his wife, Rose officially became campus news edi- Marie, began her Battalion jour- tor and society editor of The Bat- nalistic career just this week. talion, respectively. Jerry, a sen ior journalism major, is a season- Jerry Zuber Rose Marie Zuber “Taking over this job,” one that has always been shunned by male staffers, “is very interest ing and educational,” Rose Marie said. The Batt expects her ap pointment to be welcome news to College Station women, who will now receive more complete cov erage of their various organiza tion activities. A voice and music major in col lege, Rose Marie attended Sam Houston State College, specializing in piano. She and Jerry were married in December of last year at Bellville, where they both attended high school. Jerry expects to return to his home town as a staff member of The Bellville Times after grad uation in January. A veteran, Jerry was a copy edi tor and news editor of last year’s Battalion. During the summer, he “interned” in the Beaumont Enter prise advertising department. Alternating with Zuber on the campus news desk will be Sid Aber nathy, senior journalism major from Rusk, who was named to the job last week.