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.