^ 3, Circulated to
More than 90% Of
College Station’s Residents
Number 12: Volume 51
The Battalion
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION ^Nggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1950
Nation’s Top
Safety Section
Lumberman’s 1949 Contest
Price Five Cents
Animal Center
ASCE Members Dine
Formal dedication of the new
I Animal Husbandry Center will
I start tomorrow and end ^Saturday,
I according to J. C. Miller, head of
| the Animal Husbandry Depart-
1 ment.
Dedication will begin at 1:30
I p. rn. at the Beef Cattle Center,
I and will fee followed by a tour of
* the campus and a barbecue supper
I in the ever ing.
Another tour pf the campus and
| research areas will be held the
S following day beginning at 9 a. m.
Helping dedicate the new Center
I will be livestock interests of Tex-
I as. Heading the list of stockmen
I expected to be present will be the
* officers, directors, and members
I of the Texas and Southwestern
i Cattle Raisers Association.
1 . The dedication program includes
| a banquet tonight in Sbisa Hall
| for officers and directors of the
Association. Following the banquet,
•- individual committees will hold
f their business meetings.
A business session of the Asso-
1 ciation will be held from 9, to 12
I a. m. tomorrow in the conference
1 room of the Memorial Student
1 Center. At noon, association mem-
| bers will be guests of the corps at
| a luncheon in Duncan Hall.
Consolidation
The new center grew out of the
consolidation and relocation of the
j and and its livestock barns and
other buildings, west of the rail-
_ road tracks and just off the cam-
| pus.
Approximately half of the 1,200
acres assigned the department are
improved. All these facilities will
> be. used in research, teaching and
\ txtension work involving beef
! lattle, sheep, swine and horses.
^ The Beef Cattle Center is the
’'first to be completed. It is said to
[ be one of the most modern live-
I stock housing projects in the U.
- S. This center consists of an all-
: steel cement block structure with
30 stalls, a small judging area,
two student rooms, an office and
a laboratory.
Adjacent to it is a quonset feed
barn 40 by 120 feet. Oil field pipe
and sucker rods were used for
stall partitions, and for fencing-
adjacent lots.
Dairy I’eeding Barn
k The present dairy feeding barn
is on land that will be turned over
to the A H Department and con
verted into an experimental feeding-
unit. Other dairy barns in good re-
"pair will also be converted in to ex
perimental units. Some of the old
er buildings will be salvaged.
The Horse Center, formerly on
the campus, will be located near
"'the present steer feeding pens,
south of the Beef Cattle Center. It
will consist of a steel and tile
•barn, with an adjoining feed barn,
Cattle Raisers
Hold Quarterly
Meeting Here
The board of directors of
the Texas and Southwestern
Cattle Raisers Association be-
✓ gan its quarterly meeting to
day in the Memorial Student
Center. The conference will end
Saturday.
> A banquet for officers and di
rectors of the association is sche
duled tonight, with the A&M Sys
tem as host. Committees of the
organization will hold business
meetings following the banquet.
- A business session of the asso-
cation is set for 9 a. m. Friday,
in the conference room of the new
'Memorial Student Center. Asso
ciation officers and directors will
be luncheon guests of A&M stu
dents.
Directors of the Cattle Raisers
Association, joined by other cat
tlemen of the state, will join . in
dedication of the new A&M Beef
Cattle Center at 1:30 p. m. Friday.
A tour of the campus and facil
ities of the Agricultural Experi-
•ment Statiion will follow the dedi
cation, and a barbecue supper is
planned ^.hat evening at the beef
cattle center.
Another tour of the campus and
’outlying research areas is sche
duled for 9 a. m. Saturday.
and a four stall stallion barn with
individual two acre paddocks for
each stallion.
The new Swine Center will be
located near the site of the pre
sent teaching swine unit, which is
directly west of the Beef Cattle
Center. It will be of tile and steel
construction, and will consist of a
central unit containing fee’d stor
age, classroom, student quarters
and laboratory.
Two wings will project from the
central unit to form a “U”. One
wing will be a farrowing barn, the
other an experimental unit. Ad
ditional colony houses and test
plots will complete the units.
The Sheep Center will remain at
its present location. Facilities will
be imuroved as needed.
Roads, Fences, Shelters
Adequate hard surface roads and
new fences will connect the four
centers, which when finished will
present an attractive appearance
and be easily accessible to visitors.
On display at the Beef Cattle
Center tomorrow and Saturday will
be exhibits of the departments of
Animal Husbandry, Agronomy,
Range and Forestry, Entomology
and Veterinary Science.
Balt Quarterback Club
Begins Season Tonight
By ROGER COSLETT
Football, the arm chair variety,
will get underway in earnest to
night as Abb Cmtis, assistant to
the secretary of Southwest Con
ference. and Aggie grid mentor
Harry Stiteler, speak in the As
sembly Hall to open the first 1950
session of The Battalion Quarter
back Club. The meeting will be
gin immediately after yell prac
tice.
Tonight’s session will mark the
club’s third big year on the cam
pus, and as in previous years it
will strive to arouse the interest
and support of students, faculty
and residents of College Station,
Bryan, and if possible all Texas
for the Aggie Football team.
Advertisers from Bryan and Col
lege Station, whose desire to see
Maroon and White gridsters re
ceive due recognition and credit
make it possible for the Battalion
to sponsor the club.
Former SWC Official
Guest speaker Abb Curtis was
formerly a renowned Southwest
Conference football and basketball
official and later director of offi
cials for the Pacific Coast Confer-
Honorary national and state officers, the Brazos
County branch and A&M’s student chapter of the
American Society of Civil Engineers sponsored a
banquet Tuesday night in the Memorial Student
Center assesmbly room. Ernest E. Howard, na
tion ASCE president, was main speaker at the
dinner, which commemorated the 25th anniver
sary of the student chapter.
North Koreans Written Off
As Effective Combat Force
By DON SMITH
Tokyo, Sept. 28—(A 3 )—The Red
Korean army was written off of
ficially by the Allied command to
day as an organized fighting force.
But it still carried wallops that
may be used in pocket combat be
fore the Communists are wiped out
in South Korea or their remnants
can escape over Parallel 38.
Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker, com
mander of the U. S. Eighth Army
in Korea made the appraisal as the
Allied armored fist tightened on
Seoul’s remaining few Red defend
ers and resistance mainly evap
orated in' South Korea.
Complete Rout
“The North Korean army is in
complete rout and no longer exists
as an organized force,” Walker told
war correspondents at a news con
ference at his Korean headquarters.
Brewers Give
Million Beers
To US Forces
Washington, Sept. 27—(A*)—The
-Army today accepted 1,200,000
cans of beer from brewers as a
gift to fighting men in Korea.
The Army said the offer of free
beer was made some time ago
after there had been some com
plaints from servicemen that a
ration of one can a day to front
line troops had been cut off.
Some people in this country ob
jected against any issue of beer
to the fighting men, but the Army
said it had received no formal
complaints from organizations.
Offers to give 600,000 cans of
beer each were made by the Joseph
Schlitz Brewing Co., Wilwaukee,
Wis., Lewis S. Roskestiel, chair
man of Schenley Industries, Inc.,
New York. Archibald S. Alex
ander, Undersecretary of the Army,
telegraphed each today:
“Your offer to give approxi
mately 600,000 cans of beer to the
forces in Korea is accepted pro
vided it is of the type furnished to
the Army and Air Force through
the exchange service.
“In behalf of servicemen in Ko
rea I sincerely thank you for your
thoughtfulness and generosity.”
But he cautioned that hard local
fights may lie ahead.
The general said United Nations
forces now are engaged in wiping
out Reds before they can reach the
38th Parallel, the dividing line be
tween the Soviet-sponsored north
and the republic in the south.
Walker added that he expected
instructions soon on whether his
United Nations troops may cross
the boundary on a military pre
lude to political unity for Korea
under U. N. auspices.
The U. N. sponsored creation of
the republic but was kept out of
the Red north.
Authority Granted
U. N. observers in New York
expressed belief that General Mac-
Arthur, commander of the United
Nations’ first armed peace-enforce
ment action in the Korean fighting,
already has authority to chase the
Reds across the 38th Parallel. A
British plan for Korea’s political
future is being prepared for pres
entation to the U. N. General As
sembly Friday.
Raked by Allied fighter bomb
ers, Red columns fled from Seoul
toward the 38th Parallel, 35 miles
north of the South Korean capital.
B29s were bombing the escape
route ahead of the Reds.
A spokesman at MacArthur’s
headquarters reported 1,7000 Reds
Engineer Officers
To Receive Cords
Officers of B Engineers, last
year’s winner of the Gen. George
F. Moore trophy, will be present
ed white citation cords at the eve
ning meal formation, it was an
nounced this morning.
The presentation of the citations
will take place near Duncan Hall.
W. L. Penberthy, dean of men, will
present the cords, which are re
placing the old “CM” patch. B
Engineer officers will receive the
awards in behalf of the entire com
pany.
were killed, 750 captured and 11
tanks hit between Seoul and Uij-
ongbu to the north.
Inside the fire-blackened capital,
U. S. marines and elements of the
U. S. Seventh Division flushed out
die-hard Reds from building to
building. Most of the rearguard
Reds appeared resigned to die
fighting.
U. S. Flags Wave
More than two-thirds of the city
was in Allied hands. American
flags; fluttered from newly-won
government buildings.
General Walker told correspon
dents' that if the offensive continues
as planned, more than three-fourths
of the Red army wil have been
wiped out. The Communist force
that invaded the fledgling republic
June 25 was estimated at some
150,000 men.
The general said all Red forces
south of the Pusan-Taejon-Seoul
highway, winding diagonally from
southeast Korea to the northwest,
will be annihilated. Any possibili
ty of organized Red retreat from
the south was doomed Tuesday by
the link-up of armored columns
from the Inchon and Pusan beach
heads.
That line now is “secure,” Walk
er said.
Possible Danger
General MacArthur’s spokesman
said a Communist buildup was ob
served around Suwon, in the north
ern corner of the huge Allied trap.
He added that it had “potentiali
ties of being dangerous,” but add
ed:
“It is difficult to say at this
time whether the enemy in this
buildup is prepared to fight or
whether they are just trying to
get out.”
That area is about 20 miles south
of Seoul. Seventy miles farther
south, at Taejon, another Red con
centration was under attack by U.
S. Fifth air force fighter-bombers
and forward elements of the U. S.
124th Division.
Bulletin
U. S. 8th Army Headquarters,
Korea, Sept. 28—(A*)—The vet
eran U. S. 24th Division recap
tured Taejon today two months
and seven days after outnum
bered Americans were forced to
retreat from there in July.
An 8th Army spokesman said
the rejuvenated 24th Division
secured Taejon at 5:30 p.m.
(4:30 a.m. CST) today.
After a bitter battle east of
the city, the Americans rolled
into Taejon with little or no re
sistance.
Recapture of the rail and
highway junction completed the
24th Division’s round trip down
and back up “Heartbreak High
way.”
American forces under Maj.
Gen. William F. Dean began to
evacuate Taejon July 20 in
bloody rear-guard fighting.
General Dean was reported
missing after the battle in the
Elections Advanced
To Monday Night
Texas Writers
Will Be Greeted
By Chancellor
Gibb Gilchrist, chancellor
of the A&M System, will wel
come the newspapermen to
the Texas Writers’ Con
ference to be held on the
campus October 13 and 14. More
than 100 are expected to attend.
“Our sessions will be held in the
new Memorial Student Center,”
David Read, Silsbee publisher and
president of the conference, said to
day. Registration will get under
way at 9 a. m., October 13.
Dr. Dan Russell, professor of
agricultural economics and socio
logy, will deliver the principal ad
dress at the banquet at 7 p. m. on
October 13. Arthur Lcfevre Jr.,
of Houston, will be toastmaster.
Saturday’s speakers include Mrs.
Eloise T. Johnson, Dr. J. R. John
son, Dr. John McNeely, Dr. R. C.
Potts. The speakers are all A&M
faculty members.
Elections for the Student Sen
ate and Student Life Committee
will be held Monday night, in
stead of Tuesday night as pre
viously announced, according to
Bill Moss, co-chairman of the Sen
ate election committee.
“We have advanced the election
since the regular Tuesday night
yell practice would delay the vot
ing,” Moss said.
The deadline for filing for Sen
ate and Life Committee positions
fell yesterday at 5 p. m. when the
Student Activities office closed its
doors. Candidates at that time num
bered 97. Senate aspirants have
jumped to 86, with 36 seats open,
while 11 students have filed for
Student Life Committee jobs.
Three civilian vacancies exist on
the Committee.
Qualifications for these elec
tive positions are a 1.0 grade point
ratio and sophomore classification.
All candidates will be checked for
qualifications before election time
Monday night, Moss said, and any
students failing to meet require
ments will be disqualified.
Distribution Plans
Ballots will be distributed in
three campus areas, with off-cam-
pus students using a ballot to be
printed in The Battalion Friday
and Monday. Upperclassman corps
dormitories, including Hart Hall;
the civilian dorm area, and the
freshman area will receive ballots
from appointed distributors.
Company commanders have been
requested by the election committee
to send a representative to ob-
San Antonio Game
Yell Practice Set
Yell Practice will be held at 5
p. m. in front of the San Antonio
Municipal Auditorium Saturday,
head yell leader Don Joseph, has
announced.
Arrangements for the college ap
proved yell practice were made by
C. C. Krueger, member of the
Board of Directors and the San
Antonio Chamber of Commerce.
Time was set by the senior class
in a meeting held Monday night.
The band will not be able to play
for the practice, Richard L. Good
win, commander of the consolidated
band announced.
The Yell Practice will start
promptly at 5 p. m. and be over by
5:30 p. m., Joseph Said.
Classes Cancelled
Anniversary Day
Classes will be dismissed from
9:40 a. m. to 1 p. m. Wednesday,
Oct. 4, according to Dr. C. C.
French, dean of the college.
“No classes will be held dur
ing these hours in order to per
mit participation of all students
in the program commemorating
the 75th Anniversary of the
opening of the college,” Dr.
French said.
Tanamachi to Head
Agronomy Society
Walt Tanamachi, senior agron
omy major from San Benito, was
elected president of the Agronomy
Society at the meeting held in the
Memorial Student Center Tuesday
night.
Other officers elected were: Ray
mond Kunze, vice-president, La
Grange; Tommy Duffie, secretary,
Vernon; Berwin J. Terrell, trea
surer, Plainview; George McBee,
reporter, Eastland; Keith Har
groves parliamentarian, Ft. Worth;
Wilbur Von Heeder, council repre
sentative Houston; and Dr. Watson
of the Agronomy Department, ad
visor.
The society appointed a com
mittee for the Diamond Jubilee
Steering Committee, to make plans
for the Agronomy Display.
A sub-committee was named to
conduct campus tours for high
school students on the day of the
jubilee.
Class of ’84 Member, 73 Years Old,
Responsible for Location of College
A&M might today be located in
Austin had it not been for the
work of one man. This man
brought 210 legislators and 16
page boys from Austin by train
to the College to convince 'and
show them that Brazos County was
the best place for the College.
That was Walter Wipprecht,
’84, who for the past fifty years
has owned a cotton plantation in
the Brazos bottoms.
Besides his official connections
with the College and his enviable
record of A&M firsts, he was the
third president of the Association
of Former Students in 1890 and
1891. _
Wipprecht was a freshman on
the campus of A&M in the fall of
1881. When he first came here
he was quartered in an old
wooden barrack “that must have
had a million bedbugs in it.”
After several weeks in the bar
racks he was moved to the
fourth floor of Old Main.
He recalls that one day as he
was looking out of the window of
his room in the general direction of
what is now College View, he saw
five deer, a buck, two does, and
two fawns. He said they were graz
ing across the campus and over the
railroad track and out of sight.
Wipprecht added that no one was
particularly excited about deer
wandering across the campus in
those days.
In the days when Wipprecht was
a student the laundry was done by
a Negro woman who lived along
side the railroad tracks that run
along side the campus. She had a
contract with the College to do
the College laundry.
Once a week she came by Old
Main and the students would
throw their laundry out of the
windows to her. She would take
the laundry and do it for them
and then return it to them later
in the week.
Each student was responsible for
the correctness of the laundry list
that he placed in his laundry and
if the list was incorrect, the cadet
was given demerits.
To go to classes, the cadets met
formation and marched to all their
respective meetings. Drums were
used to signal classes.
When the students wanted to go
off the express limits of the cam
pus they had to get a permit
whether they were going to be
gone over night or not.
While Wipprecht was a stu
dent here he was one of the of
ficers of the Caliiopean Literary
Society. The Caliiopean Society
and the Austin Society jointly
published the Collegian which
was the forerunner of the pre
sent day Battalion.
“The Caliiopean Society was not
as popular as the Austin Society,”
Wipprecht said “because they had
a big nicely furnished room that
was located between the towers
of Old Main and the Calliopeans
had to meet anywhere that hap
pened to be available.”
Wipprecht graduated in 1884
and then returned in 1885 to re
ceive a B. S. A. degree. He was
the first man in A&M College his
tory to receive a B. S. A.
After he received his B.S.A.
be became an instructor in phy
sics and chemistry here at the
College from 1885 to 1886.
Wipprecht then went to Euprope
and did some more work in chemis
try.
After his return from Europe he
went to work for the Agricultural
Experiment Station. He was the
first chemist ever to be employed
by them.
He spent two years with the
Experiment Station and then left
to become tax collector for Brazos
County.
From 1914 to 1937 he was
business manager of the Col
lege. He became business man
ager the same day that Dr. W.
B. Bizzell became president of
the College.
Wipprecht was retired from ac
tive duty with the College a’t the
age of 73 which is three years
over the compulsory retirement
age. After he was retired he was in
charge of the armory for seven
more years.
tain ballots. In Dorm 1 through
12, and In Hart Hall, unit com
manders will receive their bal
lots from the lounge of Dorm 10,
Moss said. He asked that they be
picked up immediately after the
evening meal, and be returned to
the guardroom in Dorm 12 by 11:15
p. m.
Representatives from the fresh
man units will obtain ballots in
fhe lounge of Walton Hall at the
same time. They will also be re
turned there, Moss said.
Vote 7 to 10 p.m.
Ballots will be given to each
member of the company by 7 p. m.
and will be picked up by 10 p.m.,
according to Moss. When the votes
have been gathered, they will be
turned over to the highest-rank
ing cadet officer in the dormitory.
The senior officer will count
ballots for the election of his
dormitory senator only, and will
not tabulate votes for any other
positions. Votes will be counted
in the presence of all candidates
from that dorm, Moss said. The
ranking cadet will see thjjt all bal
lots, complete with a tabulation,
are turned in to the designated
dormitories.
For civilian dormitories, house
masters have been issued instruc
tions for distributing ballots, the
co-chairman said.
Senator-at-large positions re
ceived the largest last-minute rush
of candidates as 11 students applied
yesterday. Filing were Floyd E.
Kernes, Eric W. Carlson, Forrest
L. Estep Jr., Dean Reed, Ferris
R. Brown, R. S. Matthews, W. H.
Oliver, A1 Rollins, E. B. McAllister,
Ken Wiggins, Earl Sherman, and
Dale. E. Walston. The group en
larged the field to 20 men, running
for seven positions.
For the three civilian jobs on
Student Life, four mbre men filed
yesterday. They were Curtis D.
Edwards, Ted L. Mullinix, Milton
L. Barnwell, and James B. Ethe
ridge. Eleven students are now
seeking the three vacancies, limit
ed to civilian students.
Final Candidates
Late dormitory filings were, for
Law Hall, M. C. “Pete” Carson Jr.,
William H. Julian Jr., and Jimmy
Onstott; Mitchell Hall, Bill R. Ells
worth; and Bizzell, G. L. Arteconax.
In the corps dorms, last-day ap
plicants were as follows: Dorm 1,
Billy J. Brabhom; Dorm 7, James
H. Rucks and Thomas E. Flukinger;
Dorm 8, E. W. “Bill” Boddeker,
Donald L. Rogers, Adolph S. Sche-
chter, Jim Kadel, and Charles Mc
Neil; and Dorm 9, A. W. “Fred”
(See ELECTION, Page 6) tin, Dallas, and Fort Worth
ence. His present position, as as
sistant to the secretary of the
Southwest Conference, creates a
great demand for him as a public
speaker.
Stiteler, head coach for the
Aggie gridsters, will share spot
light honors with Curtis as he
recaps the Cadet’s 48-18 route of
Nevada last Saturday night in
Sacremento, Calif. He may also
give the fans a preview of the
coming clash with Texas Tech this
Saturday night in San Antonio.
Following the speaking both men
will try to answer questions from
the audience in regard to the Ag
gies and SWC football. After the
question period a movie of the
A&M-Nevada clash will be shown.
Curtis, Stiteler and 35 other se
lected guests, including college of
ficials and Quarterback Club ad
vertisers, will dine with the Cadet
gridders at an informal dinner at
the training table in Sbisa Hall
preceding the program in the As
sembly Hall.
Pigskin Prognostications
The Battalion will again sponsor
its weekly score guessing contest
with prizes to be awarded the win
ners. A contest entry blank ap
pears in today’s Battalion. The
blank must be filled out and re
turned to the Battalion before
Friday noon. All teams from the
Southwest Conference that play
games that weekend must appear
on the entry blank. These teams
are listed on the sports page. Th«
winners will be announced on either
Monday or Tuesday in the Battalion,
but they must be present at' the
next Quarterback Club meeting in
order to receive their prizes.
The number of prizes to be
awarded wil! be announced. The
contest, like the club itself, is
open to all. There is no entrance
or admission charge to either the
contest or the Quarterback Club
programs/
Season Schedule
Program schedule for the rest
of the season is:
October 6—Aggie mentor who
scouts University of Oklahoma the
previous weekend.
October 12—Virginia Military
Institute scout.
October 17—Open
October 26—Baylor scout.
November 2—H. C. “Bully” Gil-
strap of the University of Texas
coaching staff.
November 9—SMU scout.
November 16—Felix McKnight,
an Aggie-ex and former sports
writer who now is Managing Edi
tor of the Dallas Morning News,
has been contacted but has not yet
accepted.
November 23—University of
Texas scout.
December 5—Final meeting and
Coach Stiteler will be back to
round up the 1950 SWC football
season.
The movie of the Aggies’ game
the previous weekend will be shown
at each meeting in addition to the
above speakers.
Teague in Houston
At Vet Issue Meet
Washington, Sept. 28—DP)—Rep.
Teague, left last night by plane for
a series of conferences in Texas.
Teague, chairman of a special
House committee looking into the
G.I. education program, will go
first to Houston to discuss veter
ans training with officials there.
Before returning here next week,
he plans to meet with vocational
rehabilitation authorities in Aus-
Called to Duty
Lt. Sid L. Wise
Capt. H. R. Williams
Among the large group of A&M reserve officers being called to
active duty are Lt. Wise, former assistant manager of Student
Publications, and Captain Williams, military counselor. Lt. Wise
is now assigned to Camp Chafee, Ark.’ where he reported last week.
Captain Williams, who for two years was tactical officer for fresh
man Squadron 3, has not received final orders.