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Circulated to More than 90% Of College Station’s Residents Numberl9: Volume 51 The Battalion PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE ~ COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1950 Nation’s Top Safety Section Lumberman’s 1949 Contest Price Five Cents Tish McCarley Little Tish McCarley’s throaty interpretations of “My Man” and “Whoopee” at A&M’s “Birthday Party” Wednesday evening rated her as “front page,” but engraving troubles kept her out of Thurs day’s Batt, Our troubles overcome, we decided “Tish was just too nice a dish” to leave off page one, so here she is. Winner of the “Miss Houston-TV” contest, she is presently entered in the “Miss America-TV” contest to be held in Chicago. Tessie Social Season Opens With Dancing By B. F. ROLAND The Tessies launched on a Fall social schedule Saturday night with an All-College Dance that thor oughly packed the high-cellinged ball-room in the upper reaches of the TSCW Union Building. Aggies, many of them fresh from the Oklahoma game, started things off with their usually large attendance. Well-cropped fish and booted seniors bumped shoulders regularly throughout the three- hour affair. Music was by the TSCW Sere- naders, an all-girl student group, that did rather well with the va riety of tempos. Aggies taking part in the first yearly migration of major impor tance to the hilly campus, found a few changes in the surroundings. Hubbard Hall, the Tessie din- Marsteller Retires After 45 Years Dr. R. P. Marsteller, dean emer itus of the School of Veterinary Medicine went into full retirement recently afte.r 45 years with the college. Dr. Marsteller came here in 1905, soon after receiving his doc tor of veterinary medicine degree from Ohio State University, join ing the staff of the Veterinary Science Department, the forerun ner of the Vetei’inary Medicine. After the establishment of the School of Veterinary Medicine in 1916, he became a professor in the Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Department, later becoming head of the department. Following the death in 1936 of Dr. Mark Francis, the first dean of the School of Veterinary Medi cine, Dr. Marsteller became acting dean. He became dean Sept. 1, 1937, and served in that capacity until he became dean emeritus and professor of veterinary medi cine and surgery on modified ser vice in 1946. ing hall which was opened dur ing the latter part of the last school year, was in full operation. The visitors found rations in the modern structure considerably more adequate as to quantity than has previously been the case in those parts. And, along with the new dining hall, came the- extension of “Dor mitory Row” into large, U-shaped one-way drive around the hall. One- in-the-moming-date-deadline traf fic conditions have been consider ably alleviated. Further innovations provided be tween dances diversion for the “first-nighters.” The recreation room of the UB now boasts a large screen television set. The hills are still there. Notables from both campuses tossed howdies back and forth across the dance floor. Along beauty lines, celebrities present included Docia Schultz, last year’s Cotton Queen, Jeannine Holland, last year’s Aggie Sweet heart, and Wanda Jean Kerche- val, nominee last year for Junior Class Sweetheart. Local faces included Artillery Commander David Haines, Corps Adjutant Frank Sheffield, Com posite Battalion Commander Bill Moss, Ross Volunteer Commander C. C. “Tallest Man on the Corps Staff” Taylor, Senior Yell Leader Jimmy Pianta, Infantry Command er Wilman “Pusher” Barnes, David Leavitt, Roland Gauntt, Johnny Ireland, Dick Graves, Dave Rob ertson and Bill Holland. Many Tessies are expected to return the favor next weekend when the local social calendar gets underway with the Seventh Regi mental Ball and the first All-Col lege Dance of the year. ID Cards Ready College identification cards may be picked up in the Housing Of fice, 100 Goodwin Hall, Tuesday and Wednesday, October 10 and 11. Assistant Dean of Men Bennie A. Zinn has announced that ID cards will be required by College agencies after 5 p. m., Oct. 11. State Fair Honors Aggies and Tessies By DAVE COSLETT Battalion Special Correspondent Dallas, Oct. 8—The 1950 State Fair of Texao swung into its secoml record-smashing day on this very sunny afternoon with a salute to the Aggies an the Tessies. Officially designated as A&M- TSCW Day, Sunday found a plen tiful representation from both schools adding to the crowd of Future Farmers, adventuresome motorcyclists, visitors from throughout the state, and Dallas citizenry that rapidly reached gi gantic proportions. The Aggie Band and the Sing ing Cadets got the afternoon off to a musical start with a brief program on the Fair Grounds. The Tarleton Band and Drill Team also put in an appearance. The extravaganza left little de sired in the way of variety. One booted AH major pointed out some of the state’s choicest Black Angus bulls, Poland Chine swine, and Ramboullet sheep, in the stock ex hibits. Another serge-bedecked junior, meanwhile, tried vainly to explain to an admiring freshman Tessie the basic fundamentals of ‘War Is Not Inevitable’Says Dean Acheson New York, Oct. 9—0*?)— War is not inevitable, and no American should say it is, Secretary of State Dean Ach eson declared last night. “If we keep always before us that our purpose in building mili tary power is to enable us to set tle our differences by peaceful means, then we shall avoid the terrible error of talking and act ing as though the end of our ef fort is war,” he said. Acheson spoke at Freedom House where he received the organiza tion’s award as “a valiant and con structive voice, leading the demo cratic nations against tyranny.” In accepting the award, Acheson made an indirect reference tip the many critics who have" attacked his—and the State Department’s— policies: “Public life in America is a rough school. It is no place for any one who is thin-skinned, or who can work only in an atmos phere of approbation. “Indeed, such is our public life that abuse is not hard to bear, but understanding and support is some thing of an unnerving experience.” On his main theme, Acheson said a basis for compromise with the Communist leaders is now lacking, but that the Soviets may modify their “determination to achieve world dominion” if they learn the west is strong and durable. He said the Democracies are now going through a period of great peril, but that the alternative to re armament would not be merely greater danger, but “certain dis aster.” He also said that to win against totalitarianism by peaceful means, Democracy must be translated “in to loaves of bread as well as the Bill of Rights.” The award itself was presented by Warren Austin, chief American delegate to the United Nations. “No one has realized more clear ly than the man we honor, the dangers that the United States faces from the rampant imperial ism of the Soviet Union,” Austin said. A telegram from President Tru man also was read, saying Acheson “richly deserves the honor.” “Through every vicissitude he has stood four-square as the cham pion of the freedom of all peoples,” the President said. Freedom House was organized in 1941 by a number of sponsors, in cluding the late Wendell Willkie, and was dedicated to the cause of world peaie. After Willkie’s death in 1944, the actual building was erected as a memorial in his honor. New Scholarships Established Here Two scholarships of $250 each, available to outstanding agricul ture students, have been estab lished at. A&M by the James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation of Cleveland. The scholarships are in honor of Texas agricultm-al leaders who won in competition sponsored by the Lincoln Foundation. So honored were W. T. Gunter, Jr., of Palicios and Willie L. Ulich, extension agricultural engin eer, who were awarded fourth place for their descriptions of how arc welding is used to improve farming methods. They received cash awards of similar amounts, and the scholar ships at A&M will be named for them. nuclear fission with the help of the atomic energy display in the Sci ence Building. Midway Popular Others, less academically mind ed, made a bee-line for the Mid way where they were bombarded unmercifully with the hawking of leather-lunged barkers. Meeting place for the students and alumni of the brother-sister schools was the A&M System exhi bit located centrally in the Agri cultural Building. Here all former students and females were quickly adorned with maroon and white rib bons clearly proclaiming them Tex as Aggies or supporters thereof. Among those eyeing the exhibits from the various parts of the Sys tem were Rufus Peeples, ’28, a member of the Board of Directors from Tehuancana, and son Rufus, Jr., ’53, a member of the White Band. A&M Exhibit Several oJ:her Aggies and Aggie- exes pointed themselves out to his wife or girl-friend on one of the photos of A&M that traced the his tory of the college from its earliest days. Probably the reddest-faced Aggie of the afternoon was Corps Chap lain Curtis Edwards. Approaching the telephone display in the Gen eral Exhibits Building, he found himself suddenly engaged in long distance conversation with a sugar voiced female in Miami, Fla. After discussing football and the relative merits of the Peninsula and Lone Star states for some three min utes, it suddenly dawned on Ed wards that several dozen persons, including his date, were enjoying the conversation. His face made some of the more colorful displays look drab. In Transit Many of the Aggie visitors were in transit from Norman, Oklahoma where they had watched Harry Stiteler’s crew drop a close one to Heath and Co. On the teaming Midway shekels and shoe-leather dwindled fast as visitors plodded from side shows to rides to “games of chance.” The well-horsed Merry-G-Round was drawing as large a crowd as Sally Rand, displaying her wares at a dollar per invite at the far end of the Midway. Most popular spot on the Mid way? That’s easy. It was a little stand where many a leather-clad pair of legs jiggled in crazy tempo with the nylon clar pair beside them. “Dr. Pyle’s Foot Oscillators” were lending new life to a bevy of weary limbs. Cadets Prepare for VMI Tilt After Hitter Loss to Sooners By Dean Reed After giving one of the nation’s major teams its worst scare in years, A&M’s fightin’ footballers begin practice to day for Saturday night’s tilt with VMI. Aggie supporters are looking forward to a complete rout against the Virginians, but Kyle Field sources insist the game will be rough—like all of them. Those same backers received disappointment Saturday when Oklahoma University scored twice in the last three and one-half minutes to edge the underdog Aggies, 34-28. Boomer Sooner FBI Asks Legal Go-Ahead For Wiretapping Washington, Oct. 9—LT*)— The Department of Justice is sounding out Congress on a proposal to legalize tapping of telephone lines in federal crime detection. The measure would create some loopholes in existing bans against U. S. court use of evidence obtain ed by wiretapping, now forbidden even in spy trials. While existing law prohibits wiretapping, it provides punish ment for the offense only if the wiretapper tells other persons what he has overheard. Attorney General McGrath has said the Federal Bureau of Investi gation (FBI) engages in wiretap ping in a “limited number” of cases and that it obtains his ex press approval in each individual case. Any information it picks up that way, of course, is only a basis for further detection work since it cannot be used as evidence. The Justice Department propos als face a doubtful reception from a Senate subcommittee investigat ing wire tapping in Washington. Subcommittee staff members ac knowledged the proposals have been handed to them informally by the department, but declines to dis cuss details. The subcommittee has taken volumes of testimony concerning police wiretapping in the Capital. It includes statements that some of it was related to political in trigues in which even the telephone lines of U. S. Senators were tapped. Beekeepers Elect Jackson President F. E. Jackson of -Cameron was elected president of the Texas Beekeepers Association at the or- ganizatiorr’s annutd meeting held here this week. He succeeds Nel son N. Ross of Corsicana. Other officers named were G. O. Stroope of Waxahachie, vice presi dent; L. A. M. Barnette of Bell- aire, secretary-treasurer, and C. C. Hansen of Donna, representa tive to the American Beekeepers Federation. Big Leon Heath, Oklahoma’s mighty fullback, meets with stiff opposition from a strong Aggie line in Saturday’s Norman, Okla. game. Heath, the mainstay of thsi year’s Sooner aggregation and only returning starter from last year’s Sugar Mack Backed By UN Gives Last Surrender Ultimatum A&M held a 28-21 lead as the fourth quarter began. OU’s Sooners soon whittled the margin to one point—28-27, and then scored with only 37 seconds remaining on the clock. Winning the toss, the Cadets’ Darrow Hooper kicked off, with Buddy Jones of the Red and White returning to the 24. Carl Molberg hustled downfield to stop Jones. Jones carried twice for seven and 25 yards before A&M’s Bob Bates hit Gene Vessels, jarred the ball from his arms and recovered the fumble for an A&M first down. Lippman gained a yard on the first Aggie offensive .fpluy, followed by a sparkling run by Billy Tidwell for 15 yards. With the ball on Oklahoma’s o\\’n 38, Lippman scooted around right end for pay dirt—he thought. But officials called back the play and penalized A&M five yards for being offsides. Bruisin’ Bob Smith took a hand- off from starting quarterback Del- mar Sikes, but soon found himself surrounded by red-jerseyed players and three yards short of scrim mage. Punt Falls Short Two passes by Sikes failed to find their mark, and Yale Lary was forced to punt. The kick went out of bounds on the OU 22, net ting 24 yards. Jim Flowers, Mickey Spencer and a 15-yard clipping penalty kept the Sooners holed up for two downs, with a quick kick to Gary Anderson making it A&M’s ball, first and ten, on the Oklahoma 45. Tidwell, Smith, and Sikes failed to advance the ball in three tides. Lary’s punt fell shot and OU took over on their own 32. The see-saw battle was still in effect, and OU couldn’t operate against a strong Aggie line. The Oklahomans punted and the ball died on A&M’s 35. Penalty Hurts Smith smashed through for five yards on the first play, after which Sikes missed Charlie Hodge with a short pass. A 15-yard holding penalty, then a nine-yard loss by Sikes tossed the Cadets back to their own 16, and Lary again punted. This time his kick lived up to ex pectations, soaring 59 yards and into OU territory. Jones returned to the Oklahoma 43 and the Soon ers took over. After another unsuccessful quar tet of downs, OU’s top. punter, Dick Heatly, found himself rushed ter- riffically by Dorbandt Barton and netted only 11 yards on the critical boot. Bowl champs, is hit by an unidentified Cadet line man, while Jim Flowers (50); Alvin Langford (74); and Clinton Gwin close in for the kill. OU scored with only 37 seconds remaining in the game to fake the Aggies, 34-28. Tokyo, Oct. 9.—(A 5 )—General MacArthur told Red Korea to give up or else today in a “last time” surrender ultimatum loaded with the weight of a dozen United Na tions fighting divisions. American forces already were battling beyond parallel 38 and South Korean allies were 90 air miles deep in Red territory when he made his second surrender de mand in eight days. Like the first demand on Sun day, Oct. 1, it went unheeded by the Red high command. The South Koreans, who jumped into the Redlands 15 minutes be fore MacArthur first demanded a Communist surrender on Oct. 1, were reported entering Wosan, in dustrial center on the Sea of Ja pan coast. Wonsan is straight across the waist of the peninsula from Pyondyang, the almost silent Com munist capital. A regiment of the U. S. First Cavalry Division was the first Al lied U. N. forces to ented Red Ko rea. Full Power Its kickoff across the artificial Red stripe followed U. N. action in New York Saturday giving Mac Arthur full powers to unify Ko rea however he can. MacArthur warned this time that he will back his surrender demand with force. The bulk of five Allied divisions —50,000 troops—was driving north into Red Korea against shattered Communist resistance while the ultimatum was being broadcast re peatedly in Korean from Tokyo and Seoul. Behind this force, seven more Allied divisions were poised along the border in position to strike in to the heart of the Soviet satellite territory. The powerful U. N. ground force of up to 175,000 men representing 53 nations was backed by strong and still building air and naval forces. Already these have made shattering air and sea blows at Rod Korea. MacArthur’s ultimatum address ed to the Red Korean premier (Kim II Sung), said: “In order that the decisions of the United Nations may be cai” ried out with a minimum further loss of life and destruction of pro perty I, as the United Nations commander-in-chief, for the last time call upon you and the forces Save 5,965,325 Steps a Year Torn Down Stands Make Batt Staff Morale High When the green monsters (the wooden stands) formerly flanking the steps of Goodwyn Hall were recently torn down, not many per sons realized the beneficience of the move. But now it can be told. For several decades now, the Batt staffer with copy in hand, has dragged his lithe little frame down to the basement print shop to feed his stories into the lino type machines. Each day, he has made this special pilgrimage—al ways the same way—out of the office, out into the hall past the Coke machine, down the stairs, down the concrete steps outside, and around the green stands down another flight of steps to the shop. The stands had been condemned, but the journalist risked even this to reach the basement. After his ritual in the print shop of presenting his latest assign ment or brainstorm to the linotype man, he would have to rush back up around the stands, up the con- 1 crete steps, up the stairs, around the hall by the Coke machine, and into the office to ground out an other story. When it is completed, the vicious circle begins again. Now the hazard of the stands is gone. Battalion morale is higher than ever before. There ai’e no more qualms among the ranks about “making the trip to the print shop.” Also, the distance is short er. We measured it the other day. From the office to the print shop is approximately 90 steps, depend ing on the size of your feet. For merly, it was 105 steps. This means an increase of 15 steps on way, or 30 steps round trip, in the working efficiency of the Batt staffer. Now in the offices of The Bat talion, we hear the managing edi tor announce in mild tones, “who will take the copy to the print shop.” A chorus of voices answers “I will!” Uh-huh. under your command, in whatever part of Korea situated, forthwith to lay down your arms and cease hostilities.” It invited North Koreans to co operate in setting up an indepen dent and unified government of Korea. It promised that they would be treated justly. It pledged U. N. action to re habilitate all Korea. But MacArthur’s final para graph warned: “Unless immediate response is made by you in the name of the North Korean government I shall at once proceed to take such mili tary action as mav be nevessary.” No Answer The North Korean premier, com mander-in-chief of Red armies, has not answered. But a North Korean army communique last week after the first demand said: “The fighting spirit of the Ko rean people cannot be broken.” The Reds now are beginning to put up sizeable resistance for the first time since South Korean forces smashed north of the border eight days ago. MacArthur’s headquarters said the Reds appear to have reassem bled a division along the western half of the border area between Hwachon and Kaesong. A spokesman identified it as the North Korean 18th Division. He said it either withdrew virtually intact from the Seoul battle or has been reinforced. Belcher Conducts Extension Course D. L. Belcher recently conducted a course for 75 employees of the Plaza Hotel in San Antonio. This course was offered by the Engin eering Extension Service in coop eration with the State Board for Vocational Education. The group was divided into three classes. Each class met for two hours each day, Monday through Friday, except for certain desig nate! days when individual train ing was given. The conference method is used by Belcher in conducting these classes which include a discussion of the responsibilities of a super visor, a study of his responsibility for job training and practice in job instruction. At the conclusion of the 20-hour course, certificates are awarded to those meeting the requirements. Gridiron Sketch Texas Aggies Okla. U. 14 First Downs 18 271 .. .Rushing Yardage Nek... 205 11 ... Passing Yardage Net... 169 12 Passes Attempted 20 2 Passes Completed 11 0 Passes Intercepted By 1 12 Punts : j 10 38.3 Punting Average 35.8 0 Fumbles Lost 3 93 Yards Penalized 40 2 for 22 Punt Runbacks. .. 5 for 71 6 for 127 Kickoff Runbacks 5 for 83 0 Punts Blocked By 0 0 . ..Yardage, Passes Intercpt’d. .. 5 9 Number of Penalties 4 Intereference was ruled on a pass from Sikes to king-sized end Andy Hillhouse, followed by Billy Tid well’s dive for a firt down. Lary lost six yards on the next play, with an A&M pass landing in the arms of OU’s Jones. Jones fumbled, however, and Hillhouse recovered. Smith gained four, Lippman six to chalk up another A&M first down. Tidwell took a handoff to gain five yards, followed by Lipp- man’s donation of eight. The ball had advanced to the OU 27. Aggies Advance Tidwell was thrown for a one- yard loss on the succeeding play, and failed to gain on the second down. Sikes missed Hillhouse just across the goal line, but unneces- sary roughness was ruled against the Sooners, giving A&M a first down on the OU 13 yard line. Yale Lary took the ball over right tackle all the way to touch down-land, scoring his first TD in a college game. It also marked the first time Oklahoma had been behind since their game last year with Texas. Hooper converted to make the scoreboard read “A&M 7, OU 0.” The kick-off went 40 yards from Hooper’s toe, with Oklahoma re turning to their own 29. Big Leon Heath, the Sooners’ bone-crushing fullback, smashed over right tackle for seven yards, while his teammate Vessels carried for a first. Heatly gained two yards, stopped by Bob Bates. Two more downs didn’t help the OU situation and the Big Red punted to the A&M 14. Smith smashed through the right side of the OU line for nine yards, and Tidwell couldn’t gain on the second. Smith took over again and cinched the first down with a yard to spare. A&M had the ball on its own 25, but couldn’t advance. Lary punt ed against the wind for 33 yards, as the Sooners took over on the A&M 43. Vessels and Heath sparked the next drive for a first, followed by quarterback Claude (See SOONERS, Page 2)