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Number 11: Volume 51
The Battalion
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland)* TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1950
Nation’s Top
Safety Section
Lumberman’s 1949 Contest
Price Five Cents
Filing Closes Today at 5 p.m.
For Senate-Life Committee
Filing for the Student Senate and went to class vice-presidents and fi; Jes D. Mclver, Robert E. “Bob”
MSC Council
Student Life Committee ends this
afternoon at 5 p.m. Sixty candi
dates had filed by 8 a.m. this morn
ing, Bill Moss,' co-chairman of the
senate election committee, an
nounced. 1
Three of the 3G positions to be
filled in the election will go to the
Student Life Committee. Accord
ing to the student senate constitu
tion 43 members are authorized in
all, but seven of the ofices are fill
ed by virtue of office.
TISA Members
Four of the seven ex-officio seats
(!iviiian Seniors
Hold Meeting
Non-corps seniors discuss
ed the same topics in a meet
ing at the Assembly Hall last
night that were discussed by
corps seniors the night before.
Senior class president, Dare Kee-
lan, assured the 65 non-corps sen
iors present that the senior cadets
were eager to have non-corps sen
iors take part in all senior class
activity this year.
“There is an opening on every
major committee for a non-corps
man if he is interested,” Keelan
said.
Establishment of a non-corps
division of the senior court to
handle the same type violations by
non-corps students as the present
senior court handles in the corps
was suggested by non-corps vice-
president Bob Allen.
No definite committee appoint
ments were made pending the next
senior class meeting.
In answer to complaints by those
attending last night’s meeting that
they knew rtothing of Monday’s
meeting, Keelan said that future
meeting will be more widely pub
licized.
‘AM Story’ Gift
From Exes Group
Fifty thousand dollars to cover
cost of writing, publication and
distribution of “The A&M Story”
was named as the principal objec
tive of the 1951 program of the
Association of Former Students.
The sum was named as a birth
day gift to the college at the an
nual fall meeting of the Associa
tion Council Sept. 15-16 in the
Memorial Student Center.
Contributors to the 1951 fund
will receive a personalized copy of
“The A&M Story” which will be
on sale to former students and the
general public. Announcement of
publishers and author is pending
while the committee works out de
tails.
Gun cases to house the Metzger
Gun collection now owned by the
mllege, and operation of the cam
pus offices of the Association,
were allotted another $6,000 which
will be a secondary objective of
the program for 1951.
Professor D. B. Gofer, college
irchivist, displayed several sam
ples of the Archive Department
?.nd showed large photographs of
early campus scenes as evidence of
the department’s progress.
DJI Judging Team
Attends Iowa Meet
A&M’s Senior Dairy Judging
Team left Sunday, Sept. 24 for
Waterloo, Iowa where the National
Dairy Congress will be held Oct.
2.
Judging teams from the entire
nation will compete in the judging
contest for national honors.
Members of the team making the
trip are C. B. Smith, Jack Berk-
ner, Dick Allen, and Calvin Rinn.
They are coached by A. L. Darnell,
professor in the Dairy Husbandry
Department.
The team will stop at Oklahoma
A&M, Manhattan, Kansas, and
Iowa State College on the way to
Waterloo.
They will return October 8.
three to A&M’s delegates to the
Texas Intercollegiate Student As
sociation.
Members of the T'ISA were
awarded seats in a constitutional
amendment voted on by the student
body Friday, however the amend
ment must be approved by the
Academic Council before it becomes
effective.
Requirements for both governing
bodies is a 1.0 grade point ratio,
Moss said. Each dormitory will
elect a representative as will day
students and housing areas. Day
students will choose two senators,
while College View, Vets Village-
Project House area will elect one
each. In addition, seven senators
will be elected at large.
Candidates
Candidates who had filed for the
Student Senate by 8 a.m. were as
follows: Robert L. Sturdivant,
Dorm 2; William R. Cornish, Ken
neth Grant, and Don Napp, Dorm
3; Douglas Hearnft, Dorm 4;
Charles R. Ruble and R. M. “Dick”
Elliott, Dorm 5; Dan Davis, Dorm
Loving Care
Fails to Save
Box-Car Cur
Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 27—(A 5 )—
Hobo’s friends can stop sending
him money and food. He is dead.
Conductor J. V. Hobbs and his
Louisville & Nashville railroad
crew found the little crippled dog’s
body yesterday when they made
their daily stop to give him food
and water. They buried him to
day.
The railroaders adopted Hobo
when they found him in a box car
more than a year ago, his back in
jured and all four legs broken.
They fixed a den for him beneath
an overhanging rock on the L. & N.
Spur line and made a daily ritual
of the stop to care for him.
A story about them and the little
mongrel was widely published.
People from many states began to
send contributions.
Membership Large
In Economy Group
The Texas Commission, in its
birthday clothes, is growing. Mem
bership in the organization is ex
ceeding expectations, at this time,
at least. Hundreds of persons in
this section of the state have join
ed, Davis Grant, Brazos County
chairman, said this morning.
The commission is set up to pro
mote and promulgate that legisla
tion most needed and most desired,
that will eliminate duplications in
administration and operatons in the
state government which, in the
last analysis, will mean more eco
nomical expenditure of the tax dol
lar, Grant pointed out.
Membership is open to every citi
zen of Texas. The state has been
divided into senatorial districts, 31
in all, with a chairman in each
district and a county chairman.
The commission plans to take the
needs of the citizens to the legisla
ture and otherwise offer aid in
making more efficient the differ
ent phases of the state government,
Grant said.
Membership is $1 per person.
Quotas in Washington County, with
L. Hausman, as chairman, $250;
Brazos, Davis Grant chairman, $400
and Burleson County, D. L. Al
ford, chairman, $150, have been
met, E. L. Angell, senatorial dis-
trice chairman, announced today.
Martin, Dorm 7.
Jack A. Tanner and Ralph E. [
Gorman, Dorm 9; Raymond Kunze
and Hans R. Killingstad, Dorm 10; I
Richard L. Goodwin and Robert W.
Jack, Dorm 11; George F. Ger-
mond, Dorm 14. C. L, Ray, Dorm
15; John Tom Poynor, Dorm 16;
Lloyd H. Manjeot, Dorm 17; Ralph
Ellis, and R. E. Sandlin Jr., Hart
Hall; E. R. Bernard, Karl F. Mey-1
ers, and Joe R. Alexander, Walton !
Hall; I. E. “Monty” Montgomery, 1
Milner Hall; C. W. Thomas and |
Nolan H. Brunson, Leggett Hall.
J. R. Allen and J. Fred Ham- !
bright, Mitchell Hall; Wallace G.
Garrison, Jerry Fineg, and Bill Da-'
vis, Puryear Hall; L. J. “Jim” On-
stott, Law Hall; and Alfred R. j
Bigson, Bizzell.
Day Students
Day students filing for student
senate positions are Hayden Jen
kins, Howell Johnson, Bill Moss,
John Webb, and George Young.
Running for Senator at Large
are William Arkins, Jackson Ra
ley, John McFall, Joe Johnson, W.
D. Barnes and Tommy Martinez.
Edward E. Roberts, Earl D. Sher
man, Herbert G. Mills, Thomas
Jewell Jr. and W. A. Sky-Eagle
have filed for senate seats from
Vet Village.
Student Life
Seven men running for the three
openings on the Student Life Com
mittee are Sid Abernathy, Roy
Nance, Joe Fuller, Ray Williams,
Earl Tweed, Jim Martin, and E. T.
Ted Pitzer.
Ballots will be distributed Oct. 3.
Time between Sept. 27 and election
time will be spent in checking qual
ifications and campaigning, Roy
Nance, co-chairman of the election
committee, said.
Tech ■ Ag Ducats
On Sale in MSC
Student tickets for the A&M-
Texas Tech football game are
now being sold in the Memorial
Student Center, Ticket Sales
Manager Howard Nelson an
nounced today.
A booth has been set up at the
building entrance from the South
Station post office, and all du
cats will sell for $1.20, Nelson
concluded.
Members of the Memorial Student Center Coun
cil stopped work on passage of their new consti
tution long enough Monday evening to have their
picture snapped by Battalion Chief Photographer
Sam Molinary. Seated left to right are Dick
Hervey, Dave Coslett, Fred Smith, Dan Davis,
luiugraptiei.'
J. T. McNew, Jr., and John Rowlett. Standing
left to right are Wayne Stark, Clayton Selph,
Sid Loveless, Dr. W. H. Delaplane, Joe Fuller,
Dick Ingels, Joe Wallace and LeVon Massen gale.
Absent because of illness was Dr. John Quisen-
berry, chairman of the group.
First American Prisoners
Tell of RecTs Mistreatment
With the U. S. 24th Division, Ko
rea, Sept. 27—VP)—Three wounded
GI prisoners, first to be freed in
Korea, gave their American libera
tors an account of mistreatment
by Red police and learned for the
first time that U. N. forces are
winning the war.
They are SFC Frank Freede, of
Monett, Mo., and Long Beach,
Calif.; SFC Blaine E. Mackrall, of
Colome, S. D., and Tacoma, Wash.,
anil Pfc. James E. Martin, San
Andreas, Calif.
Held captive for 25 days, they
had heard nothing of the Seoul and
Pusan perimeter victories.
“We thought the gooks had
taken Taegu and gone through,”
said Freede.
The trio was rescued from a jail
near Yongdong by the U. S. 24th
Division.
Each of the three said Red sol-
Famous Artist Sets
Second MSC Talk
By GEORGE CHARLTON others. He was acclaimed a prodi-
c , gy. His first painting work was
Seymour Stone, one of the out- not on a portrait; it was on the
standing portrait painters in Amer
ica addressed members of the Me
morial Student Center Gallery
Committee at a meeting of that
group Monday night.
The Houston artist has promised
a return speech in the MSC studio
some time next week. This pro
posed talk will be open to all per
sons interested in attending ac
cording to Mrs. Ralph Terry, di
rector of the Gallery Committee.
Among some of the famous
personages sitting for Stone’s
portrait work have been the
Pope, cardinals, members of Eu
ropean royalty, Truman, Nimitz,
Eisenhower, Jesse Jones, and
Glenn McCarthy. His offices are
in Houston.
Of Polish birth, Stone clime to
America as a small boy. At the
age of six, he made his first draw
ing. It was of a vase. His teacher
marveled at the lines of the sketch,
its symmetry, and passed it on to
Queen Candidate
V'
Architects Wives
Plan Social Events
Officers of Architectural Wives
Society held an Executive Commit
tee meeting on Wednesday night,
to formulate plans for social events
and programs for the semester.
First meeting is to be held Wed- i
nesday night, at 7:30 in the Cab
inet Room of the YMCA.
Artillery Party Planned
Artillery company commanders,
juniors and the artillerv section
of the Military Department will be
guests of the 352 Armored Field
Artillery Battalion at a picnic at
the Brazos County A&M Clubhouse,
Wednesday at 6 p. m.
Helen Woodard
My, oh my, where do all these beautiful women come from? Gad,
Dallas, it’s Houston again. Miss Woodard- who was a duchess in
the Cotton Pageant last year, is plenty OK. You might ask Rus
sell Hagens, who entered her in the 75th Anniversary Queen con
test sponsored by The Commentator.
the side of a truck, for which he
ceived 50 cents as compensation.
When he was still in his teens, a
patron of the arts became interest
ed in his work and sent him to art
school in Europe. While over
there, Stone was shocked to find
his benefactor had died. He had
to find immediate work to even
tually pay his passage back.
His first important commission
came from the president of Sears
& Roebuck. The big business man
made the offer to Stone to paint
the portrait of one member of his
family; if he liked it, Stone could
paint the whole family. The com
pany head liked the picture and
paid $5,000 per portrait for each
succeeding picture of the members
of his family.
He said in his speech Monday
night that now he’s feeling too
old and that time is short. He
has a great desire, he said, to
tell people it isn’t he who paints*
but that something stronger than
himself guides the brush.
Many fine examples of art in
cluding water colors and portraits
are presently on display in the
Center. These pictures and many
more this year were and will be
secured for the Center by Mrs.
Terry known professionally for her
own art work as Mrs. Emalita
Newton Terry.
This director of the MSC Gal
lery Committee, has been on the
job for two years. Purpose of
the committee, she explains is
“to bring art to the average per
son in every walk of life. Art
has existed too long on a pedes
tal.”
Plans for the year include three
hours of instruction periods per
week in the third floor, well-equip
ped studio. Here, persons may try
their tutored or untutored hands,
as the case may be, at sketching,
wash drawing, painting, water col
oring, and working with pastels.
No copy work will be done; all will
be creative. Models will sometimes
be used. At other times, classes
will be held outdoors for scenery
pictures.
During the year, the committee
will sponsor special series of pic
tures from museums in large Texas
cities. Also, student work will be
exhibited.
diers treated them all right after
they were captured, but that Com
munist police made them sit in one
position for 16 hours a day—from
the time they arose until they went
to sleep.
The police fed them a handful
of barley three times a day, they
said.
Mackrall said 15 men surrounded
with him were machinegunned to
death. The Reds also wounded him
but he played dead until one of the
Comunists threw a rock at him and
discovered he was still alive.
Doctors who treated them, the
three said, were well educated
US to Support
UN Occupation
Of North Korea
Washington, Sept. 27 —
(AP)—The United States is
telling friendly nations they
will have to carry the main
burden of occupying North
Korea under the United Nations
flag, if U. N. forces push north
of the 38th parallel.
Under the policy, the main body
of United States forces would stop
at the 38th parallel in cleaning up
enemy remnants. Restoring peace
and order northward toward the
borders of Russia and Communist
China would be left to other hands.
Secretary of State Acheson is
said to feel this is the best course.
The chief reason is that an Ameri
can disavowal of any territorial or
permanent military interest in Ko
rea should reassure Russia an se
curity grounds.
The big Soviet port of Vladi-
vostak and strategic Manchurian
industrial and rail lines lie beyond
the northern border of the Korea.
If the Reds thought American
troops were going to settle down
as a peace force in Korea, they
might conclude that the United
States intended to establish bases
there. Officials are anxious to re
assure all comers that they have
no such intentions.
Two questions require ui'gent de
cisions at the U. N.:
Whether U. N. forces should
cross the 38th parallel boundary
into North Korea; and what steps
should be taken toward achieving
ultimate peace and unity in the
peninsula.
Peace Prospects.
American experts say if there
is to be any prospect of a peaceful
and unified Korea, the northern
half of the country cannot be left
with a defeated, discredited and in
ternationally condemned regime.
That means that as the Korean
Red armies are crumpled in the
South and revert to some extent to
fleeing armed mobs, measures must
be taken to bring them under con
trol in northern Korea.
One possibility always open is
that the Russians or Chinese Reds
may occupy the north. In that case
the United Nations forces, not
wishing to let the war spread,
would undoubtedly stop short
rather than undertake any thrust
over the line in the face of such
powerful Communist opposition.
The feeling of Washington offi
cials is that peace and order could
as readily be restored by British,
Indian and other forces as by
Americans.
and spoke English. One doctor
told them:
“We don’t hate you. We hate
your government.”
They said the doctor claimed the
North Koreans had “a secret weap
on” above the 38th Parallel.
Mackrall once was in a group of
67 prisoners but he escaped and
was retaken when he crawled into
a truck with a North Korean.
Freede was the sole survivor of
eight men machinegunned in a
ditch by the North Koreans. He
said he crawled away from the
shooting scene at night and lay for
nine days until North Korean med
ics found him.
In their jail cell near Yong
dong the prisoners knew that
rescue was at hand when they
heard a soldier tell a North Ko
rean. “We are taking this joint
over.”
“When he said that, I knew he
was a GI,” Martin related, adding:
“When those GIs walked into
that jail I cried.”
Queen Contest
Deadline Set
For October 18
Contest for the Diamond
Anniversary Queen, sponsor
ed by the Commentator mag
azine, is now well under way,
George Charlton and Herman
Gollob, co-editors announced.
Deadline for submitting pictures
for the contest is Oct. 15. En
trants for the contest should sub
mit head and full length pictures
to the Commentator. Four final
ist will be chosen and announced
Oct. 18.
A special afternoon Dance hon
oring the four finalist will be held
in the Memorial Student Center be
fore the A&M-Arkansas game that
night on Kyle Field. During the
intermission at the dance the final
ist will be presented and judges
will make their selection of the
Diamond Anniversary Queen.
During the half time of the
game t he winner will be presented
as queen and given a bouquet of
roses by a special guest, yet to be
announced.
The winner will also be cover
girl for the January Commentator.
Pictures of the three runner-ups
will be included in “Pretty Peo
ple’s” page of the magazine.
Noose Tightens
Around Reds In
South, Seoul
Allied liberation forces,
mainly American, held about
one-third of Seoul this morn
ing.
Hard fighting still 1 a y
ahead before they can take
the heart of the capital where
Red die-hards have thrown up
strong defense works.
(This dispatch was sent
from Seoul at 12:30 p.m., Wednes
day—10:30 p.m., Tuesday, EST).
General MacArthur in Tokyo an
nounced at 2:10 p.m., Tuesday —
12:10 a.m., EST, that Seoul had
been.liberated).
The final result is as inevitable
as the day that follows the night—
all of Seoul will be freed of the
Reds—but much fighting remains
to be done by the U.S. Marines and
Seventh Division Infantry in the
city.
This morning the Americans held
the Southwestern and Southern
sections.
Rear Guard Battle
It'looks like the Red defense of
Seoul is a stubborn rear-guard bat
tle to delay the American advance
in the North—to give the Red for
ces time to escape from the Allied
drive launched in the South.
The puzzle of the war is the re
treat of Red divisions from the
Southern front. They seem to
have evaporated — dissolved into
thin air.
Twelve days ago the Reds in the
South were battering Allied lines
along a front of 125 miles. Then
the Marines landed at Inchon and
drove toward Seoul to cut off the
Red supply lines.
Almost overnight the Red forces
in the South began disappearing.
American air reconnaissance has
n’t spotted any movement of large
enemy forces on the roads. There
has been no sign that the enemy
has been sending columns north in
great force. And yet the divisions
are gone—except for rearguard
elements. It is as though an army
had walked into oblivion.
Equipment Gone
The big question is what have
they done with their equipment,
their guns, their supply dumps,
their vehicles, the mass of gear
and trappings that every arm must
have in the field.
When an American army moves,
it is a ponderous, road-clogging
movement of guns, trucks, tanks,
jeeps and planes. But the North
Korean army has pulled back from
the South in cleverly hidden moves.
When Rommel retreated across
1,500 miles of western desert in
North Africa, the Allied forces al
ways knew where he was and his
columns were under constant at
tack.
But the Reds have bene able to
pull back under cover of darkness
and camouflage without disclos
ing any large scale movements.
Junior College Men
Plan Meeting Here
The Seventh Annual Conference
of Junior College Executives will
be held here from 9 a. m. October
9, to 4 p. m., October 10 in the
Memorial Student Center.
The executives will study prob
lems common to junior and senior
colleges in meeting needs of lower
division technological students who
expect to complete degree courses.
Registration will be held in the
Serpentine Lounge, October 9, from
8:30 a. m. until 12 noon. There will
be a registration fee of $1.25 per
person.
Meetings will be held in the As
sembly Room, Room A, and Room
C with an estimated attendance
of 90. Programs have been planned
for the meetings to formulate both
business and entertainment.
A dinner will be held in the
MSC Ball Room at 7 p. m., October
9. Tickets will be $2 per per
son and may be secured at the
time of registration.
By Associated Press
Allied forces closed their
noose today around many
thousands of Reds now trap
ped and thinned by casualties
and desertions in Southeast
Korea.
The Allied line runs unbrok
en for 215 miles diagonally
across the peninsula from ex
treme southeastern Pusan on
the Sea of Japan, through the
flaming mop-up battles of Seoul,
to the Inchon second front beach
head on the Yellow Sea.
The Reds once got within 30-odd
miles of Pusan.
The Allied line was spliced to
gether at Changji, 25 miles south
of Seoul.
An armored First Cavalry task
force from the south sped 106
miles through Red territory to
close the gap between the two
fronts.
United Nations forces, spread
ing out on both sides of this line,
liberated great areas of the U.N.
sponsored Republic from the North
Korean Communist grip.
Reds Fleeing
Red Kirean troops were fleeing
in disorder—in a route at some
places—all along the battlefront.
But suicide rear-guard units, rang
ing in size from a few troops to
thousands, fought bitter delaying
actions.
The fighting remained hottest in
Seoul, now a city of rubbled, burn
ed and blackened buildings. Red
holdouts, fighting over a maze of
alleys, ridges and buildings, held
off the final liberation of the cap
ital which General MacArthur an
nounced Tuesday was back in
friendly hands and liberated.
At the linkup AP Correspondent
Bill Ross said First Cavalry tanks
rammed through a last-ditch Red
attack to join Seventh Infantry
Division units from Inchon-Seoul
in the walled town of Changji,
about 25 miles south of Seoul.
One Day Race
The task force raced the last 55
miles through Red territory in one
day.
A tank commanded by Lt. Rob
ert Baker of Spokane, Wash., lead
ing the First Cavalry column 1
blasted through Red fh’e at 10:25
p.m. Tuesday (8:25 a.m., EST).
Lt. Frederick Procissi of Detroit,
with the Seventh Division’s 31st
regiment, investigated. He recog
nized the American tank silhou
ette.
“What the hell are you doing
out here?” Procissi barked. “Dam
mit, you’re not supposed to be
here. You’re supposed to be back
at the (Suwon) airstrip.”
Baker’s voice cut through the
rattle of Red Korean fire.
“I’m from the First Cavalry.”
Then he leaped from the tank
turret and pumped Procissi’s hand.
“I never was so glad to see any
one in all my days,” Procissi said.
“But you don’t know how close you
came to catching everything we
had. We thought you were Red
tanks moving around.
The linkup was made close to the
place where the first American
soldier was killed in the Korean
war. That was July 5.
Top Football Sign of Week
To be Pictured in Battalion
The Battalion “Football Sign of the Week Contest” re
sumes this week with the first list of winners to be an
nounced Friday.
The contest, designed to afford wider recognition to
well-made football signs, was originated by the co-editors
of last year’s Battalion. A photo of the winner of each
competition will be published each week in this paper.
The signs are being judged by a three-man committee
composed of the corps commander, the corps chaplain and
one of the co-editors. The winner is chosen on the basis of
neatness, originality of both pictorial and wording ideas,
and artistic presentation, all factors being considered equally.
All football signs appearing in any area of the campus
are automatic entries in the competition.
Cattle Raisers Set
Banquet in MSC
A&M, through Chancellor Gibb
Gilchrist, will be host to. the offi
cers and directors of the Texas
and Southwestern Cattle Raisers
Association at a banquet in the As
sembly Room of the Memorial Stu
dent Center at 6:30 p. m. Thurs
day, Sept. 28.
The Association officials will be
here for the dedication of the new
Beef Cattle Center September 29-
30.
Committes of the Association
will hold business meetings after
the banquet.
A business session of the As
sociation will be held from 9-12 a.
m., Sept. 29 in the Conference
Room of the MSC and at noon the
Association officers and directors
will be luncheon guests of A&M
students in Duncan Hall.
Vet Advisors Here
Thursday for Talks
Dr. William M. Dickens, chief
outpatient surgeon, and Jim F.
Flowers, Jr., chief prosthetic and
orthopetics specialist of the Vet
erans administration at Waco, will
be in the Veterans Service Office
on the first floor of the county
court house in Bryan Thursday aft
ernoon, Sept. 28.
These two men will be available
to any veteran who has questions
pertaining to outpatient treatment
or appliances.