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Number 13: Volume 51
The Battalion
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland)* TEXAS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1951
Nation’s Top
Safety Section
Lumberman’s 1949 Contest
Price Five Cents
Troops Expect To Reach
38th Parallel Border Today
Chosen Best Sign
By DON HUTH
Tokyo, Sept. 29—UP)—Allied for
ces neared the parallel 38 border
of Communist North Korea today
in pursuit of broken and disorder
ed Red invader army remnants
fleeing from Seoul.
A South Korean general officer-
said advance units might reach the
line late Friday or early Saturday
some 30 miles north of Seoul.
South Korean forces were in
the vanguard of the northward
push from the capital city.
Seoul was handed back ceremon
iously during the day by General
MacArthur to President Syngman
Rhee in a solemn victory celebra
tion among shattered ruins in the
capital.
Stop at 38th?
Would the South Korean forces
stop at 38 or drive ahead and try
to seize the Reds’ capital, Pyong
yang, 70 miles farther north?
MacArthur conferred in Seoul
with President Rhee and his own
Allied top commanders on that
point and others.
Then the United Nations com
mander flew back to his head
quarters in Tokyo without an
nouncing any decision on what his
forces might do at the borderline.
In non - Communist diplomatic
capitals elsewhere ,and United Na
tions circles particularly, it w a s
generally agreed that MacArthur
has broad powers under U.N. edicts
to pacify Korea and the surround
ing area in any way he deems best.
That means crossing 38 is with
in his discretion on a plane of mil
itary necessity.
The aim of non - Communist
countries in the United Nations is
to unify the Soviet-indoctrinated
North and the U.N.-sponsored Re
public to the south and clinch the
union in general elections under
U.N. supervision.
Victory Parade
MacArthur’s cavalcade of staff
cars, flown from Tokyo and filled
with brass and braid at Seoul’s
Kimpo airfield, served as the vic
tory parade in the Korean capital.
It drove over rubbled streets
Russians Try
To Salvage
Korean Losses
Washington, Sept. 29 —
(AP)—State Department of
ficials regard Russia’s latest
peace drive as a determined
effort by Moscow to salvage
something out of Communist dis
aster in Korea.
The reverses suffered by the
Reds as a result of their Korean
adventure go far beyond the im
mediate military situation and in
volve the powerful reaction of the
non-Communist world to the chal
lenge posed by the Red assault last
June.
As a result of that attack, the
United States, the countries of
Western Europe and many far
eastern and middle eastern na
tions tightened their unity to a
degree never before reached. In
the north Atlantic area particularly
the reaction to the Korean strug
gle has been agreement to create
an unprecedented international
army to defend western Europe.
The current aim of the Russians
is regarded by officials here as
not primarily to bring peace to
Korea but rather to (1) slow down
the western rearmament effort and
(2) divide the non-Communist
countries whose unity is essential
to a successful stand against Sov
iet expansion.
The belief here is that the Rus
sians had already made up their
minds about the way things were
going in Korea and came to the
United Nations meeting in New
York with their strategy well laid
out.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Vishinsky’s initial speech was less
violent than Russian outbursts on
similar occasions in the past. Jakob
Malik, Russia’s regular delegate
to the U. N., followed up with a
series of questions and answers
Monday which inked in Moscow’s
strategy a little more clearly. He
said that Russia favored peace dis
cussions with the United States.
Tied into this have been rumors
of so-called peace offers by the
Korean Communists on terms
which in Washington’s opinion
might have been valid before the
Communist collapse started but
which now offer nothing to the
winning: United Nations coalition.
flanked by the blackened ruins to
the capitol building' which also
wore scars of the seven-day siege
battle for the city.
Hundreds of civilians lined the
streets. Few applauded. They
seemed too stunned to realize the
United Nations’ first armed peace-
enforcement campaign had liber
ated their city.
In the capitol building, shatter- i i
od glass tinkled down on the high :
Allied officials from tne blasted ;
dome during the 35-minute noon , i
ceremony in the assembly room.
Earlier in the day security officers t
found a cluster of dynamite sticks
with a wire attached in the cap
itol. The crude bomb was re
moved before MacArthur arrived.
Ross Hall Lawn Receives
Grass, Guns, And Bombs ,
By WAYNE DAVIS
Ross Hall, long the grim and
awe-inspiring headquarters of the
Military Department, is now a cre
dit to the art of landscaping.
Decorating the former auster-
ely-plain lawn are two three-inch
field guns, two anti-tank guns, and
260 practice bombs around the
walks.
First to appear on the lawn
in front of Ross Hall were the
two three-inch guns, vintage
1903. Originally stationed at
Fort Crockett in Galveston, they
were brought to A&M at the
express request of Col. H. L.
Boatner> commandant, when Fort
Crockett closed.
Newest arrivals were two 57mm
anti-tank guns. Made in 1942, this
type of piece saw service in North
Africa shortly after the invasion.
300,000 Slated
For Draft Call
Washington, Sept. 29 —
(AP)—The Army yesterday
announced plans to draft
300,000 summoned in Septem
ber which was the first month
of the draft program touched off
by the Korean outbreak and the
vast defense undertaking.
Previously, the Army had called
on Selective Service to supply
120,000 men in October and Novem
ber.
Thus the 300,000 to be inducted
in the next six months represents
an increase of 180,000 over the
pending draft calls already an
nounced.
It raises the Army’s total draft
program to 350,000.
On Capitol Hill, Chairman Vin
son (D-Ga) of the House Armed
Services Committee reported that
the Army in the next six months
will draft 1,400 dentists and 2,500
doctors, and call up 700 doctors
in the reserve.
As heavier German armor ap
peared, the standard 57mm gun was
replaced by the heavier and more
penetrating 76mm type and, later,
by the revolutionary Bazooka.
Now obsolete as a battle wea
pon, A&M’s 57nim guns will pro
bably be limited to defensive
action against low-flying Texas
University aircraft attempting
destruction of Aggie bonfires be
fore A&M-TU football games.
Of greatest joy to overworked
Corps members, though, will be
the appearance of the odd-looking
smoky blue objects now lining the
Ross Hall lawn. The things are
100-pound practice bombs, and
there are 260 of them planted
there.
The Powers in Ross Hall decided
that no one but a Master Ser
geant or Sergeant First Class pos
sessed enough intelligence, strength
or initiative to properly dig a
ditch and life 260-100,-pound bombs
into it.
Ever watch a bunch of top ser
geants throwing 100-pound bombs
around on a hot Texas afternoon?
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D Field Artillery copped first place in this year’s initial
“Battalion Football Sign of the Week Contest’’ with their
representation of a hard-bitten Aggie Cowhand riding a
well-saddled Red Raider.
The quality of the art work gave the pea-shooters a
slight edge over H Air Force, with a novel silver-on-black,
all-written sign and A Engineers with a well-drawn and novel,
four-panel picture.
Signs in the “new-new area” were also in the com
petition. Chosen as the stand-out sign there was Squadron
12’s representation of the familiar unshaven Aggie Sarge.
Signs from the freshman area are eligible for the top-spot
in the weekly contest.
An outstanding sign will be chosen each week.
$16,000Fixture Shipment
Received At Student Center
By FRANK DAVIS
Furnishings for the Memorial
Student Center valued at $16,000
arrived this week from companies
throughout ■ the United States, ac
cording to W. H. Badgett, assist
ant manager of physical plants.
A complete shipment of chairs
and tables for the dining room and
coffee shop was received from the
American Chair Company in She-
bogan, Wis. This shipment, valued
at about $8,000, included tables
for the fountain room and chairs
for the game room, guest rooms,
and meeting rooms, Badgett said.
Aluminum chairs and wooden
booths for the fountain room are
not expected until next month.
The gift room received counters
and show cases from the Houston
Showcase Co. which has also been
contracted to build a birch “con
trol, area” to be located in the
main lounge and used for an in
formation desk and for guest room
registrations and reservations.
This firm will supply the con
trol area, also of birch, for the
cashier between the coffee shop
and dining room, and for the sales
and council areas for the fountain
room and games department.
The games department will in
clude bowling, table tennis, and
shuffle board.
A movable ticket sales area
which may be used by student clubs
and organizations for selling tick
ets, Stark said, is also being con
structed by the Houston Showcase
‘‘Turncoat’ Mustang
Joins Publications Staff
By JERRY ZUBER
Some might think it is a long
way from editorship of the SMU
Campus to becoming assistant man
ager of Student Publications at
A&M College, and they are right.
But to Joe Arnett, former editor
of the Mustang publication and
more recently managing editor of
the Lufkin Daily News, it is stark
reality. (He probably thought it
was a stark madhouse when he
looked in Monday, his first day,
but he stuck it out for a week,
so that makes him “one of the
boys.”
Like many, many other 25-year-
old men, Arnett has done his three
years in the service. He was dis
charged from the ground forces
of the Air Force as a corporal
after 1654 months in the South
Pacific and 10 months at the Uni-
Air Cadets Eligible
For Flight Training
Air Force ROTC Students who
will be graduated in January and
are interested in applying for fly
ing training in the grade of Second
Lieutenant may get full particul
ars at Room 21, Ross Hall.
Applications must be submitted
at least 90 days prior to graduation.
versity of Oregon studying meteor
ology under the Air Forces training
program.
As a matter of proof that his
job is a busy one, he was forced to
stop several times while relating
his life history, giving aid and
comfort to the small army of daily
callers at his desk:
Arnett enrolled in Southern
Methodist University as a fresh
man after his discharge from the
service. He switched from engin
eering to journalism in 1947 and,
in 1948, was elected associate edi
tor of The Campus, becoming edi
tor when the old editor resigned.
After graduation from SMU, he
returned to Lufkin and took over
as managing editor of the News,
where he remained until he accept
ed his present position at A&M.
Arnett, who is single, likes Col
lege Station except in one respect.
He admits that he had long heard
of the shortage of female critters
around here but didn’t realize that
it was ali that bad.
He came up with a very worth
while recommendation when he
said, “What they need to do around
here is reverse the ratio between
males and females.”
In the hobby line, Joe likes
hunting and fishing. He also plays
“a little golf”. The hunting and
fishing part should be natural for
a man raised in the East Texas
‘ hill country.”
Co.
The counter top for the coffee
shop Avas received this week from
the Ralph J. Mulhouser €o. of
Houston, contracted to supply
kitchen fountain, and coffee shop
equipment costing $40,000.
Both coffee shop and dining
room are scheduled to open either
this week-end or next week, ac
cording to Badgett.
Photography equipment which
arrived this week will make pos
sible the opening of the photo
graphy lab sometime next week,
Badgett said. Stainless steel sinks
from the Berke Company of New
York and other equipment such as
enlargers, lens, and developing
trays from the Peerless Camera
Co. of Chicago was received.
In the next couple of weeks, the
MSC will begin offering a sign
service for student clubs and other
departments in the center, Stark
said. This service will be made pos
sible by an embossograph machine,
costing about $1,000, which ar
rived from Chicago.
The telephone center will be in
operation in a few weeks. The
telephone booths and the switch
board have arrived.
Other items which arrived dur
ing the week are ping pong tables
from Lowe and Campbell Sporting
Goods Co. of Dallas; blown glass
for glass curtains from Moss Rose
Manufacturing Co. of Philadelphia;
and sofa chairs for the lounges
from Brown Saltman, Southgate,
Cal.
Cigarette tables for the record
room and main lounge, sofas and
chairs for the assembly room, birch
room, serpentfhe lounge, and main
lounge, from Swanson Peterson,
Pasadena, Cal. arrived also.
The partial shipment of counters
and gift cases received for the
gift shop will be completed the
first part of Oct., Stark said. The
cases received are of modern de
sign, lighted with slanting faces.
The counters have blue tops which
blend with the walls.
Tables to be used in the dining
room and coffee shop are set on
metal pedestals and surfaced with
a fire proof material called formica,
according to Stark.
The material, formica, is also
used for surfacing to the tables
for the fountain room.
Additional shipments during the
remainder of this month are ex
pected to complete the lounge fur
nishings, Badgett said.
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Joe Arnett
Assistant Manager of Student Publications
Geology Club Picks
Officers for Year
Herbert “Sk : p” Mills Avas elected
president of the geology club in an
election held recently.
Other officers were Dan Hughes,
vice president, Dud Hughes, pro
gram chairman, and Willie Parker,
secretary-treasurer.
C. L. Seward of the Geology
Dept, was chosen club sponsor.
Plans were also made for a wel
coming barbecue to be held in the
Bryan City Park, October 12.
Chibs Alloted
Sp
ace in
Clubs which made application
for meeting rooms in the Me
morial Student Center were ask
ed this morning to check with
Miss Betty BoAvlander, assistant
social and educational director,
for information concerning their
application.
A complete schedule of all
clubs alloted meeting space will
be released Monday morning,
Miss Bowlander said.
lech May Re Turning
Point In Cadet Footbal I
Season, Stiteier Claims
By FRANK N. MANITZAS
Forty-five A&M footballers leave tomor
row for San Antonio and what may be the
turning point in the Cadets football season.
Turning point is what Head Coach Harry
Stiteier calls it. His reason is that although
the Nevada Wolfpack possessed a great pass
er in quarterback Pat Brady, the Nevadians
were not up to par with the local teams.
If the team goes against Texas Tech to
on our way towards a better season.
“The big things that the team proved
in the Nevada game were that we can come
from behind to win and that we now possess
the most aggressive line that A&M has had
in a long time.”
“Delmer Sikes will be the starting quar
terback against the Raiders,” Stiteier con
cluded.
Sikes was the star man-under for the
Cadets against Nevada, directing
six of the Aggies seven touch
downs, two being performed in two
plays. The first came when he
handed off to scatback Glenn
Lippman, Avho went 80 yards for
the counter, and the second was a
12-yard touchdown pass to End
Charley Hodge.
Together with Darrow Hooper,
who piloted the Farmers final
touchdown, Dick Gardemal, veter
an T slot specialist from last year,
and soph Ray Graves, it seems as
if A&M’s big question as to wheth
er or not they possess a quarter
back has been answered.
Along with Sikes, the starting
backfield will include Lippman, Bil
ly Tidwell and Bruisin’ Bob Smith.
This quartet was the main scoring
machine in the past game with
Smith coming out on top with three
of the TDs to lead the Southwest
Conference in scoring.
A&M Linemen
On the line for the Cadets will
be stalwarts Jimmy Flowers, Dor*
bandt Barton, Clinton Gwin, Andy
Hillhouse, Max Greiner, S a m
Moses, and Charley Hodge. All
of the 37 players who flew last
week to Sacramento played.
Among the sophomores who show*
ed up best Saturday were Alvin
Langford and Jack Little.
The weakest point which the lo
cal eleven seemed to have last
week was that of a pass defense
which might have looked even
worse had hot the line rushed the
passers as much as they did. Stress
ed considerably during the week
by the coaches, the pass defense
in practice looked greatly improv
ed over that of last Aveek, and it
should be more than adequate
against Texas Tech in Alamo Sta
dium.
Pass Defenders
Buddy Shaeffer, TidAvell, and
Safety Gary Anderson seem to be
the personnel on whom Stiteier will
call upon for pass defense against
the Raiders. Lippman may also
play in the defensive backfield, and
the defense should be better with
the return of Linebacker Walter
Hill, whose 220 pounds and speed
will help considerably.
Stiteier seemed to sum up the
pass defense problem when he said
that he was glad Tech wasn’t a
passing team.
By departments, the Aggies hold
a big edge in the backfield with
a more experienced crew, and on
the line, again A&M seems to be
better.
Tech’s line, although it contains
but two returning lettermen won’t
be bad by any means, after it
opened up the Longhorns line with
the ease which it demonstrated last
week, allowing its runners to rolL
up 275 yards against the Orange
and White forward Avail.
After the Texas-Texas Tech
game, Stiteier rated the Raiders’
line as No. 1 in the nation, al
though TU is supposed to have
the best in the nation. It it will
be a battle of lines, A&M should
come out on top, being four deep
at every position.
Russians Question Texan
In North Korean Prison
New York, Sept. 29—(TP)— A
Texan from a North Korean pri
son camp was quoted today in the
New York Times as saying he had
been questioned by Russian offi
cers in North Korean uniforms.
Lt. Billy McG'arver, Abilene, who
Avith Sgt. Ollie Chapman, Lawton,
Okla., rejoined his unit yesterday,
said all the Russians’ questions
were political according to the
dispatch from Korea.
McGarver related that the North
Korean soldiers treated Chapman
and him “wonderfully” at the front,
but mistreated them during a 200-
mile exhibition tour the Reds
staged to prove North Korea was
winning the war.
The prisoners were told by their
captors that they would be treated
properly under the Geneva Con
vention, but would be executed for
“any impropriety or impoliteness.”
McGarver said the uncertainty
about what constituted impropriety
or impoliteness was “awful.”
The Texan said they were asked
routine questions to which the
Reds already had answers.
“(Then they’d try you out with
questions on the wrong side of the
trafek,” McGarver said.
Aggie Players
Elect Officers
C. G. Milne of the Horti
culture Department, was
elected president of the Aggie
Players at their first meeting
of the 1950-51 school year,
Wednesday night.
Pete Carson of Fort Worth was
picked as vice-president and Sarah
Puddy of College Station was elect
ed secretary-treasurer.
Plans were tentatively made to
produce Jerome Chodorov’s three-
act “Kind Lady” about November
18. In early spring the group will
offer “Green Grow the Lilacs,”
by Harold Riggs. Sir James Bar
rie’s “What Every Woman Knows”
will round-out the Player's season
in April or early May.
C. K. Esten of the English De
partment, recently-appointed club
sponsor, announced tryouts for
“Kind Lady” will begin immed
iately. “By casting now and be
ginning rehearsals as once,” Es
ten said, “we will have almost
seven weeks before opening night.
This will give us ample time to
put together a polished and en
joyable production.”
Tryouts, Esten added, Avill be
held in Assembly Hall on Friday
from 2:00 until 5:00, and on Mon
day and Tuesday nights beginning
at 7:30.
McGarver said he swore his out
fit was smaller than it Avas. They
told the North Koreans their com
pany had been shot to pieces and
had almost no survivors.
“Guards wanted to shoot us so
they could take to the hills and tell
the officer they had lost us,” he
said. “While they were discussing
it and prodding us with rifles there
was a nearby-hit. We hit the ditch
in a cornfield.
“The guards kept running. We
crawled up a ridge and saw trucks
on the road. We had no idea we
were so near U. S. lines.
Basic Division
Cadet Officer
Additions Made
New cadet officers have
been named for positions in
the Eighth Regiment (Basic
Division), according‘to gene
ral orders received from the
Military Department.
George R. Stucker has been as
signed executive officer of the
regiment, relieving E. R. Bernard
Jr. Bernard has been named com
mander of the Third Battalion.
Stucker was formerly executive of
ficer of the Third Battalion. Both
now have the rank of lieutenant
colonel.
Other regimental staff officers
are Hal V. Haltom, operations of
ficer, major; and Oscar T. Hotch
kiss, supply officer, major.
Sergeant-major of the regiment
is Daniel C. Perkins Jr. Dean Reed
has been named public information
sergeant on the staff. Stanley W.
Thompson has been appointed exe
cutive officer of the Headquarters
Band, Eighth Regiment. Joseph C.
Virgilio Jr. is sergeant-major of
the First Battalion.
Other cadets named in the
Eighth Regiment include Ernest A.
Elmendorf, supply sergeant for
Company 4; Winton Bo. Adams,
supply officer for the Second
Group, captain; Vance B. Riley
Jr., supply sergeant, Second
Group; and Robert G. Fitts, execu
tive officer of Squadron 5.
Edward E. Roberts has been as
signed executive officer of the
Third Battalion, replacing Stuck
er. In Roberts’ former position is
Lawrence C. Dunlop.
Billy L. Ditto has been appointed
supply officer for the Third Bat
talion to replace Dunlop. Appointed
first sergeant of Company 8 is C.
L. Ray.
Meets Saturday Morning
Meeting for their annual pre-A&M - Tech session* Peebles, and A. E. Cudlip. Standing are Roy C.
the A&M Board of Directors will aft on contracts Potts, E. W. Harrison, Henry Reese III, C. C.
and other routine matters at their Saturday morn- Krueger, Gibb Gilchrist, A&M System Chancellor,
ing meeting in San Antonio. Seated left to right and Tyree Bell,
are John Newton, George R. White, Rufus R.