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Number 16: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggielaud), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1950
Price Five Cents
Off-Campus Area
To Decide Election
With only three off-campus are to be filled. The ten top candi-
housing areas remaining to be tab-j dates at 1 a.m. this morning are
Lila ted, new totals have been re-i listed above.)
ceived for the Student Senate-Stu- j
dent Life Committee elections from
co-chairmen Bill Moss and Roy
Nance.
Leading for senator-at-large in
this morning’s final tabulation is
W. D. “Pusher” Barnes with 1995
votes. Barnes has maintained a
steady lead throughout the count
ing. Dean Reed is now in second
place, polling 1664 votes.
Third and fourth in the 21-man
at-large field are Joe Johnson,
1556, and Curtis Edwards, 1487.
Following in order are Ferris
Brown, 1278; Ken Wiggins, 1271;
Brad McAllister, 1269; Eric Carl
son, 1267; E. M. Roberts, 1252;
and John McFall, 1221.
(Seven senator-at-large positions
Plant Genetics
Authority Sets
Lectures Here
Ake Gustafsson of Sweden,
internationally recogn i z e d
authority in plant genetics,
has been named a disting
uished professor to the De
partment of Agronomy and Gen
etics. He will give 30 lectures be
ginning next week.
Professor Gustafsson is head of
the genetics department, forest re
search institute, Stockholm and
head of the mutation laboratory,
Swedish plant breeding institute
of Syalof, Sweden. He is the third
scientist to come to A&M under a
grant of the General Education
Board of New York.
He will lecture on “New Lines of
Plant Breeding in Sweden,” “Mu
tations in Agricultural Plants,”
“Some Aspects of Plant Evolu
tion, Species Formation, polyploidy,
Mutations,” and, “Problems of
Competition, Viability and Hetero
sis.”'
“We are happy to have Profes
sor Gustafsson with us,” Dr. T. R.
Richmond of the Department of
Agronomy and chairman of the
General Education Board Visiting
Professor Committee, said.
Professor Gustafsson has his
doctor of philosophy, is a graduate
of Lund University in Stockholm
and specialized in the fields of bo
tany, genetics, chemistry and evo
lution as a graduate student.
The internationally known auth
ority in plant genetics is a mem
ber of the major scientific societies
of the world. He will lecture at
1 A&M until December 31.
Housing Areas “Out”
All totals received from the elec
tion committee this morning were
Campus voting. Two housing areas
-Vet Village and the Trailer-Proj
ect House area—remain to be to
taled. College View will hold a
special election tonight.
In the 10-man race for three
civilian Student Life Committee po
sitions, “Big Jim” Martin leads the
pack with 542 ballots marked for
him. Following neck-and-neck are
Joe Fuller and Roy Nance, with
347 and 346 votes respectively.
Completing the top five are Ray
Williams, 277, and Sid Abernathy,
182.
Student Life candidates must
also await the housing area votes,
where over 600 ai-e eligible to cast
their ballots. Final election tabu
lations should be made tonight,
chairmen Moss and Nance said.
Special Election
The election committee will dis
tribute ballots door-to-door tonight
in College View at 7, and will col
lect them by 8:30. All CV votes
cast Monday night were thrown
out of the election by the com
mittee after a formal protest was
filed charging “illegal election pro
cedure.”
Inevstigating the charge thor
oughly, the committee decided a
new election was necessary to in
sure accurate and fair voting.
Day student senators for the
coming year will be Moss and G. D.
Young. Two positions were open
as representatives of this group.
75th Anniversary
Draws Estimated 14,000 Crowd
Governor Speaks
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Queen Candidate
Amelia Anderson
“Texas fight, Texas fight” . . . and so the story goes. Well,
anyway TU can claim they’ve got something when Miss Anderson
says that she is a sophomore from Forty Acres. She is one of the
latest entries in the 75th Anniversary Queen contest and is a
Kappa Alpha Theta. Entered by Charlie Fuller, who says, “brun
ette, brown eyes- exceptionally good looking,” and we add “wow!”
Deadline for entries to the contest is October 15th.
By Studying Models
Band Prepares For OU Tilt
With ‘Spell-It-Out 9 , Tactics
Memorial Plaque
Erected at Spur
Erection of a plaque at the Spur
Substation and the establishment
of a loan fund in memory of Ray
E. Dickson, former superintendent
>f the Spur Agricultural Experi-
Ment Substation, was authorized
;>y the Board of Directors at their
San Antonio meeting last Saturday.
Tentative suggested wording for
Hie plaque is: “In memory of Ray
Esther Dickson, 1889-1950, for 36
,’ears superintendent of the Texas
Agricultural Experiment Substa-
!ion at Spur, the man who taught
water to talk; “the personification
of agricultural research to farmers
and stockmen of the Texas Roll
ing Plains.”
The director of the A&M Devel
opment Fund and the director of
the Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion were directed to take the in
itiative in establishing a Ray E.
Dickson Memorial Fund that can
be used as a loan or direct aid
fund for worthy boys who seek to
prepare themselves for careers in
agriculture.
By GEORGE CHARLTON
The fightin’ Texas Aggie band
en masse is studying models these
days. Not live ones, unfortunately.
This kind of model is made of
cardboard and is scaled down to
size to represent a football field.
Metal “bandsmen” are also scale
size and are placed on the replica
gridiron in the positions needed
to spell out half time initials rang
ing from “TAMC” to “OKLA
HOMA.”
This is part of the “spell it out”
training band members are re
ceiving. The model is placed on a
table, is located on the drill field.
Future formations can be explain
ed graphically.
Perhaps one of the hardest of
these half time formations will be
the one used next weekend in Nor
man. Between halves, the band
will march onto the field and spell
out “OKLAHOMA.” The complete
formation will stretch from one
10 yard line to the other. Also, the
traditional “Block T” will be util
ized as well as the same entrance
as that of the Texas Tech game
last week.
The 178 band members, 170 of
which always march, will leave
Friday night at 8 p. m. on the
special train for the Sooner-A&M
fray. Returning from Norman at
1 a. m. Sunday after the game and
dance, bandsmen will travel to
Dallas where they will take part
In A&M System Day at the State
Fair of Texas. Their program will
begin at 2 p. m. and will take place
FFA Visitors
in front of the Hall of State.
The Singing Cadets will also be
on hand. Representatives from all
branches of the System will be in
cluded in the affair.
This year’s band, headed by band
commander Dick Goodwyn, marches
in a regular formation of 10 files
and 17 ranks. The band is the
largest it has ever been except in
the fall of ’46 when its ranks
boasted 224 musicians. There is
also a freshman band made up of
88 members.
Concerning the presence of the
Aggie Band at Norman next week
end Walker K. Williamson, presi
dent of the Oklahoma City Texas
A&M Club, wrote The Battalion
editors:
“The most exciting thing to hap
pen at the September 30th game at
Norman between Oklahoma and
Boston College was the announce
ment over the public address sys
tem that the Texas Aggies would
bring with them their famous band
for next Saturday’s game.
“Hope this was no mistake, for
the Oklahoma City-Texas A&M
Club has expressed its deep de
sire the last couple of years that
the band come up to the games
with the two-time Sugar Bowl
champions.
“The Club has felt that the pre
sence of the band would enhance
the chances of the Aggies, through
the additional lift it would give
the team. Also, it would show the
55,000 Oklahomans that attend the
game that others schoolsi besides
their own have a large splendid
band.
“it will be the first time the
hand has attended this game to
our knowledge, and the people up
here will be impressed by the
Aggie songs and the fine marching
of the band . . .
“The Oklahoma University Band
has long been called ‘The Pride
of Oklahoma.’ At last the people
of this state will get to see “The
Pride of Texas.”
Other trips to be made by the
Band this year will be to Waco,
Dallas, and Austin.
Governor Shivers Talk
High Ugh Is A ctivities
Approximately 14,000 people gathered at Kyle Field
this morning to help celebrate A&M’s 75th Anniversary.
In honor of this birthday, classes were dismissed and
most college offices were closed this morning at 9:40 a. m.
so everyone could hear an address by Governor Allan Shivers,
watch a parade by the Cadet Corps, see an Air Force demon
stration flight, and enjoy a picnic style lunch at noon.
A 10:30 a. m. The Cadet Corps marched into Kyle Field
and circled the cinder track before taking their places in the
upper east stands.
After playing of the National
Anthem by the Aggie Band, C. W.
Crawford, T9 gave the invocation.
A. E. Caraway of Dallas, presi
dent of the Former Students Asso
ciation, gave greetings from the
former students; A. D. Martin, Jr.
from the student body, and Ernest
Langford, head of the Architect
Department, from the faculty.
Shivers Address
Governor Shivers then gave the
main address, highlighting the day
long celebration.
Governor Shivers first compli
mented the Cadet Corps on its
constant preparation for duty in
times of peace and war.
He then complimented theefforts
of the early founders of A&M
and praised them highly for their
foresight in planning of tne
school. “We can est appreciate
A&M as it is today in the light
of its humble beginning on Oct. 4,
1876,” he said.
He pointed out the services ren
dered by the College and praised
the accomplishments of the school
and its graduates throughout the
years.
In response to Governor Shiv
ers speech, John W. Newton, vice
president of the board of directors,
said, “We are honored, Governor
Shivers, by your coming here to
launch the College formally on its
75th year. You have been most gen
erous in your appraisal of the ac-
coihplishmentS in our first 74
years.”
“We are grateful for the pre
sence of many members of the Leg
islature and other state and na
tional officials,” Newton added.
Major undertakings were also
pointed out and in reference to the
school as a whole Newton said,
“We have here an organization
which we believe is second to none
in the United States—as an organ
ization dedicated to the needs of
the State of Texas should be.”
Benediction was given by King
Egger, ’50 and the crowd left the
stands to enjoy a picnic style lunch.
Serving lines were set up on the
north side of Kyle Field.
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New Russian
lets Operating
Near Shanghai
Hong Kong, Oct. 4—(AP)
—A confidential but reliable
report from Shanghai said
fast, new Russian-made jet
fighter planes are operating
from Hungjao Field thh’d Shanghai
airport to be reactivated by the
Chinese Communists.
Hungjao was the home base of
Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault’s
Chinese Air Transport (CAT) Com
mand before the Communists seiz
ed Shanghai.
The report identified the Rus
sian planes as improved Yak
single-seat fighters. Earlier infor
mation had termed them Yak-21s.
These Yakjets, flying daily over
Shanghai were described as “con
siderably faster than the 400-mile-
per-hour Soviet-built LA-9 fighter
also used in Shanghai.”
Other Soviet-built aircraft, ap
parently operating from Hungjao,
also have been seen over the city.
These include TU-2 bombers and
LA-7 fighter-trainers.
The Shanghai reports did not
say whether the aircraft are flown
by Russians or Chinese. Russian
pilots previously have been re
ported in Shanghai.
The Chinese Reds also are op
erating from Kiangwan and Tazang
fields between Shanghai and the
Yangtze River.
The Shanghai report of accele
rated air activity parallels Peiping
announcements that the Chinese
Reds are stepping up all air, Navy
and Army defenses.
Appearance of the Air Force in
Shanghai early this year was
coupled with capture of the old
Chinese Nationalist air bases on
the Chushan Islands. Communist
occupation of these bases off the
Yangtze mouth loosened the Mar
ine blockade which the National
ists established around Shanghai
after the Reds captured that city
in May, 1949.
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5452,000 Structure . . .
Admin istra tion
Construction to
By RAY WILLIAMS
m - tpl % j
Governor Allan Shivers
North Pene tra tion
Now 60 Miles Deep
Tokyo, Oct. 4—UP)—South Ko
rean troops prowled deeper into
North Korea today on spearhead
missions feeling for the Red army
that has all but vanished and gone
silent before them in ominously
empty country.
They got as far as 60 miles be
yond parallel 38 as the American
command announced the arrival in
the Fart East of a new reinforcing
division—the U. S. Third Infantry
—to join the Korean fighting if
necessary.
But still the penetration force
north of 38 was composed solely
of fighting Korean Nationals with
about 60 American army men along
as advisors.
UN Troops Mop-Up
The United Nations allies were
held back in mqp'-up and reserve
positions in liberated Sou^h Korea.
The latest Red mystery column
that streamed down from the Man
churia border of Red China into
North Korea was discounted by an
air force spokesman as a regular
highway supply train and not a for
eign convoy.
The North Koreans are equipped
with Russian heavy fighting mate
rial and much of it may have come
from Soviet-dominated Manchuria
along the highway over the Yalu
River frontier.
Geenral MacArthur’s headquar
ters announced the Third Division
had arrived in the Far East com
mand from the American west
coast. A spokesman would not say
where or when.
Had Orders
But it obviously had movement
orders before the war took a deci
sive turn in mid-September with
the Allied beachhead landings at
Inchon.
Official sources declined again
to say whether Americans and oth
er United Nations liberation forces
would join the South Koreans
above 38.
American strength in the war
theater now is six divisions plus
a regimental combat team.
British, Australian and Philip
pines ground forces also are in
South Korea. Thailand and French
units have been assigned to the op
eration.
South Koreans captured Kosong,
50 airline miles north of the border
along the east coast. Patrols stab
bed still farther north in a drive
which South Koreans say will go
all the way to the Manchuria bor
der.
Building
Start Soon
Three members of the Richland
Springs FFA Chapter are on the
campus practicing poultry judging
with the A&M collegiate poultry j ln ^-.
judging team.
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yell practices have been held in and all stair wells will be glazed
. p.. ... , . , . . past years. The building will tile, finished in matching colors.
A&M will have a new Admims- f ace Houston Street, with en- Window sash, which there is an
V i r 10n B ul * c hng, -ims news wa s trance on both Houston and Mili- abundance of will be of the double-
defimtely announced this weekend tary Walk. hung aluminum type,
when tne Board of Directors voted
to let the contract for the build- Fisher Constructiion Co. of The upper floors will be air con-
Houston was successful for the ditioned. The lower floor will be
The new building will be located i°b> w 'th a low bid of $452,433.00. equipped with large exhaust fans.
4just north of Goodwin Hall, where ‘The contract will be signed in Q n the first floor will be filing
about a week and construction will offices for the Registrar and the
begin within fifteen days, ac- Fiscal Office, along with the IBM
cording to wells of the Physical machines used in their accounting.
Plants Department. According to Also on this floor will be located
the specifications, the job is to be a machine room, housing the air
finished m 300 working days. conditioning equipment boilers and
The building will be ■ of the other things that will be necessary
Monumental type . with a total in the buildings mechanical opera-
floor area of 23,400 square feet. tion.
There will be a total of three floors Q n (.] le main floor, which will be
with the first floor being of the on ^ street level, will be the |
sub-basement type, rhe first floor 0 ffj ces that will be of need to the
will also have an area way around most students. Here will be the
three sides. Registrar’s and Fiscal Office.
Herbert Voelcker & Associates, the upper floor will be the
the architect, has specified a pink Presidents Office. Dean of the Col
roman brick for the structure. This
lege’s office, a large Faculty as-
;iat
CA.3
Proposed Administration Building
brick will be trimmed around the S emb!y room, and offices for other
windows and at three different ele- ass i st ants to the President.
vations with white Indiana lime- r™ • , n i i ^
, n This building will also be set
s c ‘ . apart from others by two massive
The structure itself, will be of f] u ted stone columns that will be
the reinforced concrete and panels. ] oca t e d at the main entrance on
Floors m the foyer in the first Houston Street. Connecting all
floor and in the loby of the second fi oors w jH be an elevator, faced by
floor will be rubber tile. In the ornamental aluminum doors on
foyer will be a huge inlayed Aggie eac h floor.
insignia in the floor. Barring exceptionally bad weath-
Walls will be plaster in all ex- er during the coming months, the
cept the Presidents and Deans of- building should be finished shortly
fice, where it will be walnut panel- after the start of school in Sept,
ing. The stairs are to be of marble ember ’51.
Air Power Demonstration
A flight of 60 F-84 jet planes
from Bergstrom Air Force Base
and 24 T-6 planes from Connally
Air Force Base made a pass over
the field and went through a few
practice maneuvers. The demon
stration was part of their regular
flight training.
Dignitaries.
Dignitaries here for the celebra
tion included Garland Smith, Gov
ernor Shivers secretary and a
member of the governor’s staff;
Congressmen Olin Teague ’32, Lind-
ley Beckworth, George Moffett, T6
William T. Moore, ’40, and Searcy
Bracewell, ’38; Fred Wemple,
chairman Texas Highway Commis
sion; Bascom Giles, Commissioner
General Land Grant Office of Tex
as, and J. Ei McDonald, Commis
sioner of Agriculture.
Also present were the Board of
Directors, Judge John W. Goodwin
and Louis A. Cerf, both class of
’76; and Mrs. J. T. Hamvay, first
baby girl born on the A&M campus.
Displays
The Military Department had a 1
display of several Army weapons 1
and vehicles on the drill field in
front of MSC.
A historical exhibit depicting 75
years of progress at A&M was on
display in rooms 2A, 2B, 2C, and
2D of the MSC. Hal Moseley of the
Architecture Department was in
charge of the exhibit.
On display were pictures of the
Corps at drill and in parade, of the
faculty, and student life. The dis
play is broken down into five his
torical divisions, 1873, 1900, 1920,
1940, 1950.
A president’s reception will be
held in the MSC at 4 p. m. ending
the daytime activities.
An Anniversary Jamboree Birth
day Party will be presented in
Guion Hall tonight at 7:30 under
the direction of Bill Turner.
Bob and Coleen, a team of acro
batic dancers; Jo Ann Currens and
her renditions of hillbilly and blues
numbers; Mary Jo Thomas and j
Gene Pflug, vocalist and dancer j
respectively, will all be included in
the show.
The Singing Cadets will join the
Aggieland Orchestra to present
their arrangement of “The Spirit
of Aggieland.”' No admission will
be charged for the show.
Taps
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rn^io oj uei.uiuon umei Ciiolograjiner sain iVionnary
Seeing the Flag flying at half-mast causes most Aggies on the
campus to steer off their course and check when “Silver Taps”
are scheduled. Last night Silver Taps were held for Bobby N.
McLarty, senior civilian student, who died Monday. Silver Taps is
the time the Aggie takes time out from his studies and pays silent
homage to his school brother, while the bugles play taps softly
three times.