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Number 18: Volume 51
The Battalion
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1950
Nation’s Top
Safety Section
Lumberman’s 1949 Contest
Price Five Cents
Queen Candidate United NdtionS
To OK Crossing
38th Parallel
Betty Ann Potter
01 Army will never believe this’ but the smilinf' lovely above is
from the well known city of College Station, and what’s more,
she—when not attending TU—lives with her parents, three blocks
from the campus. Miss Potter, who was runner-up in the local
talent and beauty contest of this area for the Miss Texas contest,
is David Duncan’s entry in The Commentators 75th Anniversary
Queen contest. Deadline for entries is October 15th.
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Reds Scrape-Up
Puny Defense Lines
Tokyo, Oct. 6 — (A 3 ) — The Red
Korean army—staggered by great
losses—scraped up its remnants
today on desperation defense lines
against powerful blows being cock
ed by United Nations forces.
General MacArthur’s headquar
ters officially estimated Red army
casualties at nearly 200,000 since
the Communists began their inva
sion of South Korea June 25.
The overall figure admittedly
contained some duplications. That
means a man might be wounded,
removed and returned to battle,
woundedlagain, and counted as two
or moresingle casualties.
But among the estimated casual
ties were more than 40,000 roughly
counted prisoners taken by the
Allies.
These included 14,028 captured
or surrendered in three days this
week.
Bolster Fortifications
The Reds rushed to bolster for
tifications north of parallel 38, still
ignoring MacArthur’s repeated sur-
Jender demands and apparently
indifferent to the rising toll of men
i.nd equipment.
U.S. Fifth Air Force planes spot
ted two convoys speeding toward
the Reds’ imperiled defense points
Thursday night. Flares lighted
the hilly countryside in sharp re
lief. Pilots reported 84 vehicles
and 101 boxcars destroyed or dapi-
aged.
The Red defense line stretched
from Haeju, on the west coast, to
Hwachon on the Pukhan River in
the mountainous easter interior.
This was within the short-range
bomb-line being kept explosively
alive by Allied fighters and bomb
ers.
The line already has been pierc
ed and flanked on the east coast
by South Korean forces but the
footsore Republican troops were
encountering their first dogged re
Other elements of the Capital
Division occupied the town of
Inje, eight miles southeast of
Yachon, 25 miles east and south of
the Red defense outpost of Hwa
chon.
A third Republican spearhead^-
the Sixth Division—already has
captured Chunchon, 15 miles south
of Hwachon.
MacArthur’s spokesman said
those were the South Korean posi
tions up until 6 a.m. (4 p.m., EST,
Thursday).
To the west of the South Korean
advances, non-Korean troops—the
bulk of United Nations forces es
timated at 175,000—were regroup
ing below the boundary.
British and Australians, airlift
ed to the area from mopping-up
jobs in South Korea, were deploy
ed north of Seoul, liberated Korean
capital. Ranged alongside these
forces were U. S. marines, and in
fantrymen.
New York, Oct. 6—(/P)—The full United Nations Assem
bly meets today to give thunderous approval to an American-
backed resolution containing clear but implied permission
for Gen. MacArthur to cross the 38th parallel.
The resolution, which passed the all-important political
committee Wednesday, 47-5, also contains a blueprint for
Korea’s future as a ward of the United Nations. Wednes
day’s vote assured a triumph for the West today.
Only the 5-nation Soviet bloc opposed the plan in com
mittee. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky is ex-
— ♦ pected to rise today to continue the
fight against the resolution, which
is formally sponsored by' Britain
and seven other countries.
Any Vishinsky tirade is expected
to increase the fervor with which
the nations who have backed U.N.
action against aggression in Ko
rea will support the eight-power
proposal as the logical consequence
of that action.
The eight powers officially spon
soring the resolution are Britain,
Australia, Cuba, Brazil, the Phil
ippines, the Netherlands, Norway
and Pakistan.
The Soviet Union introduced a
rival plan in committee, but it was
overwhelmingly defeated by the
majority of countries.
Vishinsky is expected to argue
today in favor of his own plan,
but there is no reason to believe
that it will meet with any more
favor.
Queen Candidate \ CaiietS PoSSCSS
Strength, Spirit
To Defeat OU
Dog Catcher’
Lewis Warns
State Dept.
Washington, Oct. 6—UP)—
If he were the Nation’s No. 1
Dog Catcher, John L. Lewis
said yesterday, the first thing
he’d do would be to impound
“the sad dogs . . . which now
infest our, State Department.’’
President Truman had been quot
ed Wednesday as saying “I would
not appoint John L. Lewis dog-
catcher.”
He couldn’t afford to, the mine
workers’ chieftain retorted yester
day, or he “would have more brains
in the dog department than in the
Department of State.”
Lewis said in a letter to Colorado
State Senator Neal Bishop:
“Naturally, the first duty of the
bureau of the dog, if staffed by
the undersigned, would be to collect
and impound the sad dogs, the in
tellectual poodle dogs and the pu
sillanimous pups which now infest
our State Department.”
(The dictionary says pusillani
mous means: “Destitute of manly
strength and firmness of mind; of
weak or mean .spirit; cowardly.”)
Bishop had started the whole
thing a couple of years ago by
suggesting jokingly to Mr. Truman,
an old friend, that he appoint Lewis
ambassador to Moscow because he
offers “a more formidable appear
ance than Stalin, roars ‘no’ louder
than Gromyko, hurls more choice
invectives . . . than Vishinsky.”
It was in Mr. Truman’s prompt
reply, made public by Bishop only
this week, that the President said
he wouldn’t name Lewis dog catch
er.
Since the President wouldn’t
want more brains in the dog de
partment than in the State Depart
ment, Lewis said in his letter to
Bishop made public here, “his re
marks to you are eminently justi
fied.”
Lewis also said the President’s
appointment of a dog catcher would
entail “creation of a new federal
bureau with its accompanying per
sonnel of thousands of employes
and, in consequence, an increase in
the tax burden.”
There was no indication whether
Mr. Truman, now cruising in Ches
apeake Bay, had heard about Lewis’
retort.
Hup, Two, Three
Fish ’53 Drill Unit
Revised By Sophs
By ALLEN PENGELLY
A precision drill unit, composed
entirely of sophomores- is being
formed this year for the purpose
of advertising A&M to high school
students planning to enter college
next year.
Because of its great advertising
value, and because of numerous
letters and inquiries concerning last
year’s Fish drill team, the Execu-
. , , . . five committee, at its June meeting
M ™ C o o! n fl. pUshing aCr0SS pai "| asked Col. H L. Boatner, PMS&T
and commandant, if it would be
allel 38 Sunday.
Spearheads of the South Korean
Third Division captured Changjon,
about 60 miles north of 38. Reds
in battalion strength fought sharp
ly but in vain at Changjon. The
South Koreans then moved on to
ward Wonsan, industrial city 50
miles farther north.
ROK Spearhead
Another Republican spearhead,
possible to organize a similar unit
to participate in the various Fall
activities.
“It would be impossible to organ
ize a freshman drill unit for the
first semester because of the time
required to elect directors, plan
drills, and practice these drills to
give a creditable performance,”
Col. Boatner said.
the Capital Division, wheeled in-' Ifc is also impossible to use the
i„vm 10 'Ross Volunteers because new jun-
land 12 miles and overcame brief,
bitter Red resistance at Yongdae,
about 14 miles north of the Red
border.
MacArthur’s Friday summary
said they continued another 15
miles on to the vicinity of Yachon,
some 30 miles inland and on the
twisting dirt road were seven miles
north of the boundary at that
point.
ior members will not be elected
until November.”
The question arose “Why not re
organize last year’s freshmen into
a sophomore drill unit?” The drills
of last year would still be com
paratively fresh in their minds and
with minor changes, the team could
be ready for exhibition within a
few short weeks. The 36 man team
will use the same uniforms as last
year—green serge with white hel
mets, white webbing belts with
large brass buckles, white gloves,
and white leggings. Members will
be equipped with chrome plated
rifles and white slings.
Warrant Officer J. C. Thomas,
last year’s Military Department
sponsor, will act as coordinator
between the Sophomore Drill Team,
the Fish Drill Team, and the Mil
itary Department.
A Fish drill unit will be organ
ized but will only practice the
drills this fall semester. At the
beginning of the spring semester,
the sophomore team will disband
and the freshman team will begin
its activities. The same cycle will
be repeated next year.
Assisting Thomas with the two
teams will be Sgt. William Davis
of the U. S. Army and Sgt. Tho
mas Black of the U. S. Air Force.
These two men will aid the teams
in achieving precision and snap in
the drills.
All freshmen who are interested
in the formation of a Fish drill
team will meet to discuss details
concerning the team, Monday eve
ning, at 6:50 p. .m in the Assembly
Hall. Thomas’ office is in Room
111 of the Basic Division Building,
formerly the Aggieland Inn, and he
wishes to talk to anyone interested
in the team.
Two Peace Plans
The two Korean peace proposals
are superficially alike, but dele
gates have pointed out that the
resemblance is only in language
and not in purpose.
The eight-power proposal calls
for:
1. Establishment of a unified,
independent and democratic Ko
rea.
2. U. N. forces to take all ap
propriate steps to insure condi
tions of stability through Korea
but should not remain longer than
to achieve united government. This
was taken to mean that those
forces could pursue North Korean
aggressors anywhere in the coun
try, north or south of the 38th
parallel.
3. Economic rehabilitation of
Korea. Supporting delegations
hope Korea will be a “pilot project”
to show what the U.N. can do in
this line.
4. A new U.N. commission of
seven members to see that the
plan’s provisions are carried out.
Members Named
Six members—Australia, Chile,
the Netherlands, Pakistan, the Phil
ippines and Turkey—are named in
the resolution. The seventh place
was left open for India, but there
was strong doubt today that this
most influential of Asiatic coun-
trieswould accept appointment.
India proposed a compromise of
the Soviet and Western Korean
plans. It was decisively defeated
as trying to combine the practical
and impractical.
The Soviet plan had envisaged a
cease fire and the immediate with
drawal of foreign troops. Western
delegates pointed out that this
would restore the Korean status
prevailing before the invasion of
last June 25. France’s Jean Chau-
vel charged that it was the very
absence of foreign troops which
encouraged the North Koreans to
begin their aggression.
Soviet Proposal
The Soviet proposal also includ
ed plans for elections and rehabili
tation, but only after fulfillment
of the sections of the plan which
would have restored domination of
the peninsula to the north.
The U.N.’s powerful 14-nations
steering committee agreed yester
day to have the world organization
take over the problem of Formosa.
Roy Nance
Nance, Joe Fuller and Jim
Miller were elected as represen
tatives to the Student Life Com
mittee. He is editor of the Ag
gieland ’51 and is a senior Pet.
Eng. major from Navasota.
Engineer Week
Set, Planning
Selected
Cherilyn Smith
The lucky guy is Bill Haley. He entered Miss Smith in The Com
mentator’s 75th Anniversary Queen contest and the former Cotton
Ball Duchess from Wichita Falls is regarded as one of the top
beauties at Midwestern University.
Engineering week has been
established and the School of
Engineering Committee for
celebration of the 75th Anni
versary has been named.
March 12-17, 1951 has been set
as Engineering Week. It will be
signalized by a number of techni
cal and educational conferences and
will be highlighted by addresses
from distinguished educators and
engineers.
Members of the committee in
clude Ernest Langford, head of the
Department of Architecture; Arch
E. Burgess, head of the Depart
ment of Management Engineering;
and W. E. Street, head of the De
partment of Engineering Drawing.
Largest Yet . . .
A&M System On
At State Fair Of Texas
By B. F. ROLAND
Works of all parts of the A&M
System will be on display at the
1950 State Fair of Texas in Dallas.
The exhibits will be shown in the
Agricultural Building and will oc
cupy a floor space of 56 x 60 feet,
which is the largest ever presented
by A&M.
One of the most eye-catching
exhibits will be an animated dis
play representing the engineering
works of the system. A topogra-
Angus Ward
Named Consul
To SE Africa
Washington, Oct. 6—UP)—
Angus Ward, the career dip
lomat who was held in Man
churia for about a year by
Chinese Communists, has
been assigned to southeast Africa.
State Department officials said
yesterday Ward has been made
consul general at Nairobi, Kenya,
a British colony.
Since the Reds released him and
his staff from Mukden, Manchu
ria, last December, Ward has been
on duty at the State Department
here. He was promoted last
spring from class two to class
one in the foreign service. Class
one carries a base pay of $12,000
a yea) - .
Ward has served in the past in
Finland, Russia and the Far East,
but never before in Africa. There
was some evidence he was not hap
py about the new assignment.
Department officials had no di
rect comment, but they said the
Nairobi post was the only position
now open for a diplomat of Ward’s
rank where it was felt he could
perform useful service.
phic layout with a model train
winding its way between oil fields,
highway construction, airports,
public utilities, and all types of
engineering and construction will
be shown.
This show will be complete with
sound and smoke adding to the
realism.
A historical exhibit depicting the
75-year development of the col
lege will be shown. Full sized man
nequins will be dressed in the uni
forms of the corps dating from
1876 to 1950.
The uniform exhibit was pre
viously scheduled to be shown
Wednesday, but due to a delay
in receiving some of the equip
ment it could not be shown here.
Visitors will be given a chance
to test their knowledge of Texas
trees in the Forest Service exhi
bit. An electrical question device
has been built where correct ans
wers will have the effect of a
State Fair Honors
4-H Group Today
Twenty-seven Texas 4-H club
members will be honored by the
State Fair of Texas Oct. 6-7, ac
cording to Floyd Lynch, state 4-H
club leader of A&M.
One boy and one girl from each
of the 14 Extension Service dis
tricts of Texas, will receive the
coveted State Fair Honor Award
medallion and will participate in
the activities planned by Fair-
officials for Rural Youth Day
on Oct. 7.
7th Regiment Sets
Initial MSC Ball
The 7th Regimental Dance will
be held Oct. 20, at 8:30 p. m. in
the Memorial Student Center Ball
Room, according to Don Shef
field, Regiment Commander.
This is the first student organ
ization dance to be held in the
MSC since its opening.
During the evening, a regimental
sweetheart will be chosen from the
girls on the dance floor.
Music will be furnished by the
Aggieland Orchestra.
The 7th Regiment is composed of
A. C. and D veterans; A and B
Composite, and A and B Athletic.
Sheffield said that all former mem
bers, as well as all present mem
bers of the regiment are eligible
to attend.
Symposium Slated
For October 11-13
The fifth symposium on “Instru
mentation for the Process Indus
tries,” will be held at A&M Oct.
11-13. The course will be conducted
as a seminar with lectures and
discussions on automatic control.
Industrial concerns manufactur
ing oil, gas and chemical pro
ducts as well as manufacturers of
instruments and automatic controls
will cooperate by showing exhibits
and providing lecturers for many
of the sessions.
The lectures will cover the sub
jects of measurement and control
of temperature, pressure and
liquid level, time control and other
allied subjects.
By Ralph Gorman
Now in higher spirits than ever before, Coach Harry
Stiteler’s Texas Aggies will pose a serious challenge to Coach
Bud Wilkinson’s Oklahoma Sooner 22 game winning streak.
The Cadets go to Owen Field at Norman, Oklahoma
fresh from slashing triumphs over both Nevada and Texas
Tech. Kickoff time is 2 p. m. Saturday, and it will mark the
first time since Stiteler became coach at Aggieland that his
Farmers will hold an advantage of experienced manpower
over the Sooners.
Today at 2 p. m. the Aggie football squad left Easter-
4-wood Airport in their regular tra
veling plane with 39 players
aboard. Coach Harry Stiteler ex
pects the team to be in good shape
when they reach Norman, since the
team favors air travel.
Sugar Bowl champions the past
two years, the- Sooners will have
the home field edge, but there
will be more than just Sooner par
tisans on hand to give both teams
the moral support needed. Over
1,100 tickets have been sent to
College Station and only a few
remain.
According to Harold Keith, Ok
lahoma Sports Publicity Director,
the gloomy Wilkinson has publicly
predicted that Texas A&M will
sever the 22 game Sooner victory
cord that began early in 1948 after
Oklahoma last a season opener
17-20 to Santa Clara.
Wilkinson’s Predictions
Wilkinson’s prediction goes hand
in hand with the thoughts and pre
dictions of the thousands of Ag
gie supporters around the confer
ence.
The Cadets have returned nine
first-teamers to Oklahoma’s one,
nine second-teamers to Oklahoma’s
eight, and 29 letterman to Okla
homa’s 18 from rival squads of the
1949 campaign.
Bud’s new team is built almost
entirely from sophomores and last
year’s reserves, and promises to
fight furiously trying to repud
iate the forecast of their coach
and protect the hallowed run of
consecutive triumphs through one
more week.
Aggie supporters will be seated
in a block on the east side of the
stands along with the famous Ag
gie band, some 178 strong, that
will make the trip to Norman.
The Sooners graduated their en
tire 1949 forward wall intact and
the tilt Saturday will sorely test
Oklahoma’s rebuilt line and re
serves.
Hooper vs. Weatherall
Extra point kicking will be en
trusted to two gigantic players.
Oklahoma’s 220 pound Jim Weath
erall booted all four he tried last
week against Boston College,
while A&M’s 215 pound Darrow
Hooper hit 10 for 12 against Nev
ada and Tech. Buck McPhail,
Sooner sophomore fullback, will
try to match Hooper’s lofted, ro
bust kickoffs.
A titantic battle of fullbaQcs
looms for Saturday afternoon.
Leon Heath, Oklahoma’s “Mule
Train,” displayed a wide range
of fullbacking talents in the Bos
ton College game.
He line-backed savagely, getting
the first two tackles of the game.
With steam-x’oller blocking, he led
Buddy Jones to a 23 yard run that
set up the first Okie touchdown.
Heath took the legs out from under
a Boston College linebacker af
fording Halfback Billy Vessels
plenty of time to spot Frankie An
derson in the end zone with a pay
dirt toss. Although he carried the
ball only four times, his faking
helped the Sooner running game.
A&M’s 192 pound Braisin’ Bob
Smith scored three touchdowns in
each of the first two games, ram
ming and bulling his way all over
the field with 44 carries for a total
of 221 yards. Smith plays only
on offense, but carries or fakes
on virtually every down. George
Lynn, Oklahoma scout admits,
“He’s terrific.”
In 10 previous meetings dating
back to 1903, the Sooners hold a
6-4 edge. Oklahoma has won the
last four games. Texas A&M’s
teams of 1907, 1909 and 1912,
coached by the late Charley Moran
who later tutored Centre’s “Pray-
(See OU GAME, Page 6)
pin-ball machine light up.
Soil test will be made by scien
tists of the college in the soils
laboratory exhibit. Demonstrators
will test soil samples and explain
the process to the visitors.
Pictures depicting work done
by the system and life at the
colleges of the system will be
hung around the walls. In front
of the main entrance to the
A&M section will be a display of
growing legumes best adapted to
soil building.
Attendants will be in the build
ing at all times to show visitors
around. An information booth has
been set up.
Sunday has been officially de
signated A&M day at the Fair and
the special train to Norman, Okla.
will have an eight hour lay-over
to enable students riding it a
chance to go to the Fair.
A program under the direction of
R. L. Slaughter, head of the
speech department, of Arlington
State College, will be given in
front of the Hall of State at 2
p. m.
The Aggie Band and Singing
Cadets will take part in the
program along with the band and
Wainwright Rifles from Arlington
State College, the band and Sam
Houston Rifles from Tarleton State
College and the Prairie View Choir.
Green’s Condition
Still Unchanged
Glenn Green, sophomore electri
cal engineering major from Abi
lene, who was injured in an auto
mobile accident near Bryan Wed
nesday, is still in critical condi
tion according to a report received
from the Bryan Hospital today.
Jack Harper, sophomore account
ing major from Waco, also injured
in the accident, is reported to be
doing well and will probably be
released from the hospital today.
Green suffered a severe head in
jury, while Harper received only
bruises and abrasions.
Caudill to Address
Architects Wives
W. W. Caudill, System research
architect, will speak Wednesday at
the Architectural Wives Society |
meeting at 7:30 p. m. in room 2-C
of the Memorial Student Center.
Caudill is a member of the firm
of Caudill, Rowlett and Scott, arch
itects.
The meetiing is open to all wives
of architectural students and in
structors are invited.
OU Student Union
Invites Aggies
All students planning to attend
the Oklahoma University game
have been extended an invitation to
use the facilities of the Oklahoma
Union Building in Norman, Okla
homa.
W. H. Freeland, manager of the
Memorial Union Building, called
J. Wayne Stark today to extend
the invitation.
He also told Stark there would be
special tours of the OU campus.
Memorial Union telephone service
will also be available for the Ag
gies.