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Circulated to More than 90% Of College Station’s Residents The Battalion PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Nation’s Top Safety Section Lumberman’s 1949 Contest Number 21: Volume 51 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1950 Price Five Cents 40,000 Additional Draftees Called, NG Policy Talked Conference Speakers David Read Read, president of the Texas writers’ Conference from Siisbee, will preside over the sessions scheduled to be held Friday and Saturday in the Memorial Stu dent Center. Top Scientists Will Address Writers’ Meet Top scientists of A&M will deliver talks at the Texas Writers’ Conference to be held here October 13-14. Ses sions will be held in the Memorial Student Center. Chancellor Gibb Gilchrist will welcome the group. Dr. Dan Rus sell of the Agricultural Economic and Sociology Department, will de liver the principal address at the banquet Friday night. Arthur Le- Fevre of Houston, will preside. David Read of Siisbee is presi dent of the conference. The speakers include Dr. J. R. Couch, Poultry Department; Louis Franke, Extension editor; Dr. R. A. Darrow, Range and Forestry Department; Dr. H. G. Johnston, Entomology Department; John S. Rogers, Agronomy Department; Pete Montfort, Agricultural En gineering Department; Dr. Jack Miller, Animal Husbandry Depart ment; Dr. Russell; Dr. John Mc- Neely, Agricultural Economics and Sociology Department; Dr. J. R. Johnson, superintendent, Temple station; Dr. T. R. Richmond, Ag ronomy Department; Dr. R. C. Potts, Agronomy Department; D. A. Anderson, Texas Forest Service. Faculty Orchestra Reorganisation Set The faculty orchestra, known as “Bud Barlow and His Boys,” is preparing to organize for the com ing school year, according to How ard W. Barlow, leader of the ag gregation. Members from previous years will be used as a nucleus, Barlow said, but alto, tenor, and baritone sax players, preferably with their own instruments, are wanted. Also a bass viol player, vocalist and a ronductor are in demand. Staff members, graduate assist ants, and graduate students, who are interested, are requested to rail the Dean of Engineer’s office at 4-5744 and give information ;m the instrument they play and whether or not they have their own instrument. Also, a schedule of afternoon classes is requested. Red China Papers Urge Entry in War Hong Kong, Oct. 11—OP)—Two pro-Communist Chinese newspap ers published identical dispatches quoting a spokesman for Red China’s foreign ministry as say ing the Chinese people ‘‘can not ignore” crossing the 38th paral lel in Korea by U. S. troops. The dispatches quoted the spokesman, who was not named, as saying the United States had threatened Chinese security since the beginning of the Korean War. The spokesman added although the Chinese people love peace “to protect peace is not to be afraid of war of resistance against ag gression.” Club Formation Set By Odessa Aggies There will be an organizational meeting for an Odessa-Midland hometown club tonight in room 3-C of the Memorial Student Cen ter, according to L. W. Henshaw, Odessa junior, organizational chair- man. Students from Odessa, Midland, Stanton, Monahan, Andrews, or any place in Ector or Midland counties are urged to attend, Henshaw said. Freshmen from these areas are in vited also, he added. By ELTON C. FAY AP Military Affairs Reporter Washington, Oct. 11—'A*)—The military gave its army expansion program another boost today with a new call for 40,000 more draftees, while at the same time it tried to decide what should be future policy about using National Guard divis ions. The new draft call, issued last night, is for 40,000 inductees dur ing December. It raises the total of calls since the defense program started to 210,000. Added to men already in the army or brought in under federal ization of National Guard units and call up of Reservists, this indicates the army has or will have within a few months more than 970,000 men. That does not include an un specified but presumably substan tial number of men in reserve units brought into active duty during the last three months. Objective The army’s reported objective, under the 3,000,000-man armed force proposed by President Tru man, is between 1,300,000 and 1,500,000 men. Thus it seems probable the ob jective can be reached perhaps by next spring—if training facilities and other physical limitations on the speed of expansion permit. Military officials have emphasized that these are important factors in deciding how fast expansion should proceed. In manpower quantity, the army probably already is close to doub le the size it was when the Korean war started. It had about 591,000 men last June 25. But a large ‘No-Surrender’ Fighting Heavy At Pyongyang Tokyo, Oct. 11—(#)—Red Koreans fought bitter no-sur render actions today against three Allied forces striking to ward the Communist capital, Pyongyang. The highest ranking American on the fighting front, Maj. Gen. Hobart R. Gay of the First Cav alry Division, said the Red forces were doomed and the taking of Pyongyang was only a matter of time. “These cookies are beaten,” Gay told war correspondents at cavalry headquarters. The Allied forward groups com promising four South Korean div isions (ROK) and most of the First Cavalry were inside Red Ko rea less than 100 miles from Py ongyang. They were driving on the capital from the south, south east and east. No Surrender Red Premier Kim II Sung told the 10,000,000 people of North Korea in a broadcast message they could not surrender. “Our motherland is now face to face with a grave crisis,” Kim said. He ordered his shattered troops to “fight until the final day of victory . . . overcoming all diffi culties.” Kim’s message was obviously an answer to General MacArthur’s second and “last time” surrender ultimatum of last Sunday, but the Red premier did not mention it. On the winning Allied side, Pres ident Truman was scheduled to leave Washington late Wednesday for a weekend conference with MacArthur in the Pacific some where west of Hawaii—on an is land or a warship. The place was not specified. part of the added manpower needs training and organizing into effec tive units. Here is what has happened: Four NG Divisions Four National Guard divisions have been federalized. Although understrength, their combined manpower probably amounted to about 32,000. Two regimental combat teams from the National Guard were brought in — about 10,000 more men. Called to duty were 109,000 individual reservists, then 17,427 reserve male captains and lieutenants. In addition, 1,644 women officers and enlisted per sonnel were summoned to active duty. Other calls brought in 240 aviation officers of company grade and 205 chaplains. Draft calls, in cluding yesterday’s, added 210,000 more. The number of men in re serve units brought to active duty has not been announced. All these figures put together present an impressive statistical picture. But there remains the fact that the army has only ten regular combat divisions, with an other just being organized. Months will be required to convert part of the new manpower into combat units, ready for fighting wherever they are needed. Moreover, the Pentagon at the moment isn’t sure how long it can or wants to keep in federal service the National Guard units it now has or may call up later. Senate Elects Officers, Talks Seating Tonite Speakers for the Texas Writers’ Conference line up after discussing the two clay meeting which will be held in the Memorial Student Center Fri day and Saturday. Left to right on the back row, the speakers are Dr. R. C. Potts, agronomy de partment; D. A. Anderson, forestry department; Louis Franke, editor, extension service; P. L. Downs, secretary of the conference. On the bot tom row in the usual order they are Dr. Dan Russell, economics and sociology department; Dr. R. A. Darrow, range and forestry department; Gibb Gilchrist, chancellor, who will deliver the welcoming address; Dr. J. R. Couch, poultry hus bandry department; Pete Montfort, agriculture engineering department. By DEAN REED Members of A&M’s new Student Senate are in for a long and vastly I important meeting tonight at 7 in Room 2-A of the Memorial Stu dent Center, if last night’s assem bly was any criterion. Officers for the year will be elected—president, vice-president, secretary, a n d parliamentarian. Key committee selections will be made by the members—to Student Life, welcoming, executive, social, election committees and others. Again the question of a student seating arrangement at Kyle Field has arisen. The Senate is expected to make arrangements for the seat ing tonight, in order to take ef fect by Saturday night’s VMI game. Several other important matters are also on the agenda, according to Lloyd Manjeot, temporary chair man of the Senate. Manjeot, last year’s Senate secretary is one of two returning officers. Joe Ful ler, parliamentarian for the gov erning body last year, is also in the Senate again. Committee Investigates Three men—I. E. “Monty” Mont gomery, Curtis Edwards and Joe Johnson—were named by Manjeot to conduct an initial investigation Fifth Annual Symposium Begins At MSC Today The Fifth Annual Symposium on Instrumentation for the Process Industries began this morning and will continue through Friday, ac cording to Dr. J. D. Lindsay of the Chemical Engineering Department. Registration was held in the Memorial Student Center yester day afternoon and night. Twining Named AF Man Under Washington, Oct. 11 — (AP)— President Truman yesterday named a veteran strategic air commander to the number two job in the Air Force and sent one of the service’s most noted young men to command the U. S Air Forces in Europe. Lt. General Nathan F. Twining, whose 15th Air Force made long- range attacks on German targets from Italy during World War II, was appointed vice chief of staff of the Air Force. This gives him four-star rank. Since the war, Twining has com manded all U. S. military forces in Alaska. Lt. General Lauris Norstad, who has been acting vice chief of staff of the Air Force, was appointed commander-in-chief of the U. S. Air Forces in Europe. Norstad was director of operations of the Med iterranean Allied Air Forces and chief of staff of the 20th Air Force during the last war. In recent years he teamed with Admiral Forest P. Sherman, now chief of naval operations, to devel op a plan for unification of the armed services. Norstad’s new appointment was widely interpreted as an indication that the U. S. Air Forces in Eu rope are to be increased in size and importance. At present they include only two fighter groups of 75 planes each and one troop-carrier group of 36 planes. Ellington Cadets Guest Of Corps Over Weekend A&M’s Corps of Cadets will, football team in action will prob- have approximately 150 Student Navigators from Ellington Air Force Base as their guests for the first home football game with VMI next Saturday, according to Col. E. W. Napier, PAS&T. The Air Force students are ex pected to arrive by plane some time Saturday afternoon. They will see the game from a block of seats reserved for them on the west side of the stadium and then “move in” with the Corps to sample the rigors of cadet life here on the campus. Sleeping quarters in the “bar racks” will be assigned the navi gators-to-be and they will have “chow” with their hosts Satur day night and Sunday morning. They will also attend the after game dance with the corps. A chance to be guests of the Cadet Corps and watch the A&M ably be a welcome break in the grinding routine of the everyday life of the Student Navigator. Navigator training curriculum is similar to that for pilot training. It includes 184 hours of flying class room instruction in the Douglas C-47 and the Vultee Con- vair T-29, and approximately 1,116 hours of other instruction. The T-29 will accomodate 14 stu dents with individual station fac ilities for using the Loran scope, radio compass, drift meter, alti meter, airspeed indicator and other navigational aids. Additional academic and military training phases of a Cadet Navi gator covers such subjects as dead reckoning navigation, theory of radar operation, map reading, grid and global navigation, meteor ology, leadership, parades, inspec tions, and athletics. Conducted by the School of En gineering through the Department of Chemical Engineering, the sym posium was first inaugurated in 1946. John Lynch of Corpus Christi delivered the first address at 10 a. m. this morning and was follow ed by Dr. W. B. Thomas of Bay- town. There will be equipment exhibits of an educational nature in the MSC. In order not to interfere with lectures, the exhibits will be closed while regular sessions are in prog ress. The display of exhibits opened at 11:30 a. m. and will remain open until 3 p. m. today. R. J. S. Pigott will deliver an address at 3 p. m. and A1 Novak of Orange will talk at 4:15. A banquet will be held at 8 p. m. tonight in the MSC with an esti mated attendance of 200. B. F. Heye of Corpus Christi will open the Thursday program with an address at 9:50 a. .m. and at 10 a. m. R. E. Clarridge of Rochester, N. Y., will speak. From 11:30 until 3 p. ni. the display of exhibits will again be open. W. T. Marchment of London, England, will deliver an address at 3 p. m. and Porter Hart and R. C. King, of Freeport are also scheduled for talks. An address of Homer C. Givens of Falfurrias at 8:30 a. m. will open the program Friday. He will be followed at 10 a. m. by R. A. Rockwell of Boston. The Exhibits will again be visit ed at 11:20 a. m. to 2:30 p. m. At 2:30 p. m. there will be a ques tions and answer session. Adjournment is scheduled for .5 p. m. Friday. The Chemical Engineering De partment is sponsoring the short course with Dr. Lindsey and G. L. Farrar in charge. Ag Extension Men Plan Chicago Trip The Texas Agricultural Exten sion Service will be represented at the 38th National Safety Con gress and Exposition which meets in Chicago on October 17 and 18. E. C. Martin, state program leader and chairman of the State Farm Safety Committee in Texas, and W. L. Ulich, extension agri cultural engineer are both sche duled to appear on the program. Gibson director of the Exten sion Service says Martin will dis cuss before the Farm Safety Ses sion the work being done by the Texas Extension Service for fur thering farm safety in the state. Ulich will participate in the ses sions dealing with farm safety as it relates to modern farm machin ery usage. The Lost Weekend Jaska Tells Kiwanis Club Of War Outbreak in Korea By JOEL AUSTIN City Editor “Near Miss in the Far, East” was the subject of a talk made at the noon-day meeting of the Ki wanis Club yesterday by Robert C. Jaska, Agricultural Engineering instructor, as he told of his brief, but exciting experiences in the Korean city of Seoul during the outbreak of war there this sum mer. As a member of a group of U. S. agriculture mep who had gone to the far eastern country for a year’s study of agricultural con ditions in that sector. Jaska was Changes in Aggieland Photo Schedule Made Several changes have been made in picture schedules concerning non-military students for the Ag gieland ’51, Roy Nance, editor of the Aggieland ’51 announced today. The new schedule is published on page 4 of today’s Battalion. Class ’52 Sets junior Prom February 10 February 10 was confirmed as the date for the Junior Prom last night at the Class of ’52 meeting. The music angle was also settled with the Aggieland Orchestra named to play for the annual dance. At the present time plans were set by Class President Harold Chandler to hold the ball in the Memorial Student Center. Defin ite arrangements will be made clear at future meetings, Chandler explained. Among the important issues brought before the meeting was the method of selection or elec tion of junior representatives to the Student Senate. These repre sentatives will be only “sitters” with no form of vote. It was finally decided after much debate and motioning that class members, interested in be ing one of the representatives to the Senate, should notify President Chandler to that effect and they would be placed on the ballot. Thursday noon was set as the deadline for placing applications with Chandler. The class also decided on the method of vote. If less than ten names were submitted, no run-off would be held with the three per sons gaining the greatest number of votes winning. In case more than ten students submitted names for the posts, a committee of three, appointed by the president, would decide the run off procedure. Argentinian Donations Buenos Aires—(A 3 )—All workers in Argentina must donate two days pay each year to the Eva Peron Foundation, a welfare organiza tion directed by the president’s wife. The labor ministry today in structed employers to deduct pay for May 1 and Oct. 12 from the workers envelopes and deposit it within 48 hours in the national bank. in Seoul, what was to be the sec tor of his work in Korea, for only two or three days. Arrived June 24 The group, which was composed of instructors and research men, arrived in the South Korean capi tal at 2 p. m. June 24 after a 42 hour plane trip that took them up through Anchorage, Alaska and on to Korea. The first word Jaska and his friends received about the Korean war was on the afternoon follow ing their arrival (Sunday June 25). They were told that an up rising was taking place along the 38th parallel, but members of the southern army had the situation well in hand. Jaska said he got up the next morning and found that most of the women in the city had been evacuated at about 2 a. m. Monday and out in the streets of Seoul, peo ple were cheering the gallant sold iers who were leaving the capital city to fight along the border. Saw River Bombed That same night, the instructor explained, he and his friends climb- Boatner Talks To Scholastic Representatives Corps scholastic officers and unit commanders of Basic Division outfits met with Col. H. L. Boatner, commandant, and deans and representatives of the the various divisions of the college yesterday afternoon at 5 p. m. Purpose of the meeting was to explain the jobs of the scholastic officers and impress upon them the added importance of their jobs this year. Commenting on the present international situation, Boatner re minded the cadets present that draft boards were sorely in need of men who failed to make the academic grade in college. Defining the cadet scholastic of ficer as the person in each unit responsible for recording the aca demic standing of the men within that unit, Boatner reminded those present that counciling and advis ing was the job of the various deans rather than of the student officers. Dean of the College C. C. French, addressing the group, termed the student who failed in college as an economic waste to society. Basic Division unit commanders were directed to appoint acting scholastic officers within each unit. These officers will be responsible for seeing that scholastically de ficient students are brought to the attention of Basic Division Military Councilers who in turn will direct the students to their deans for scholastic aid. ed to the top of the hotel in which they were staying and;saw planes bombing a bridge on the Han River eight miles away. After the bombing incident some of the planes came over the city for a strafing run. Notified that he must stand guard at a certain spot in the city at 4 a. m. the next day, Jaska said he went to bed at 9 p. m. Monday in order to be ready for the early morning job. At 10 that night he was awak ened by local authorities who in sisted that he come down and help them burn letters and papers which would be of value to the advancing North Koreans. Communications Cut Jaska was then notified that his group was to move out of the Korean capital early the next morn ing, but plans were stopped short when communications with Kimpo Air Field, some twelve miles from Seoul, were cut off. An American Marine handed one of the agriculturists a carbine and together they went out to the air field to see if it was still in South Korean hands. They had no trouble getting out to the airport and reported back that the planes would be ready to ■leave at 6 a. m. At 4 a. m. the group left for Kimpo and promptly at 6, six C-54’s flew in and eva cuated the group of men and women which had traveled to the air port by trucks. Jaska commended the Air Force for the fine job they did in moving the people out exactly according to schedule. After about six weeks in Japan, the agricultural men were flown back to the United States by the Army. The agriculture instructor told of several experiences while in Seoul when he and his friends saw the North Koreans come within a few yards of their hotel while strafing the South Korean capitol. Bart Phipps Joins Extension Service D. Bart Phipps has been em ployed by the Engineering Exten sion Service as an apprentice spec ialist for the plumbing and pipe fitting industry. He was selected upon the recom mendation of this industry’s com mittee for Apprentice Training and through the cooperation of the State Board for Vocational Educa tion. His five year plumber and steam fitter apprenticeship was served with the B&CU Department of the College. He holds a journeyman plumbers’ license. He graduated from A&M Con solidated High School and A&M College, majoring in Industrial Education. The Phipps have a three-year-old son, Jimmy. They live at 301 Jack- son Street in College Hills. of the Kyle Field seating prob lem. The committee will make, its report tonight. Last night’s meeting was held primarily to orient new Senate members concerning duties, activi ties, and aims of the Senate, ac cording to Manjeot. “One of the main purposes was to allow all our members to get acquainted with the others, in or der that we can select the best men tonight,” Bill Moss, day stu dent senator, said. Manjeot, as the ranking return ing officer, presided over last night’s meeting. To carry out the orientation plans, each returning member of last year’s Senate told the group of the activities of a committee on which he served. Joe Fuller spoke to the Senate on the purposes of the executive committee of the Senate, which is sort of a doormat to the group. Probably the most important func tion, Fuller said, is to plan an agenda for each meeting. “One of the main jobs of the social committee,” said Allan Eu bank, “is to select representatives from A&M and TSCW to attend social affairs at various other schools over the state.” Eubank said the committee, com posed of five members, “will be a lot of work but is still enjoyable.” Welcoming Commit lee Three main functions were out lined by Bill Parse, telling of the welcoming committee’s importance. They were as follow: • To visit other schools in an of ficial capacity before a game there. • To establish campus information booths. • To plan the annual Aggie Mus ter. Probably most important of the three duties is the last, Parse said. It will be an especially “big oc casion” this year, he added, for the MSC will be dedicated on that day. W. D. “Pusher” Barnes, repre sentative of the Junior Class on last year’s Student Life Commit tee, told the Senate of the activities of that committee. “I think I can truly say that the Student Life Committee is tire most important group in which students are represented on our campus,” Barnes said. Student Life is a committee of the Academic Council, and respon sible to that body, Barnes explain ed. It is a liaison between the fac ulty, the Student Senate, and the student body, he said. “Elder Statesmen” Dan Davis, vice-president of the Texas Jnterscholastic Students As sociation during 1948-49 and now “elder statesman” of the Senate, gave the senators an idea of the TISA, its purposes, methods of operations, and potentialities. “The TISA helps give each school a broader outlook on stu dent government,” said Davis, who is returning for his third succes sive term in the Senate. He was elected a freshman senator, theii vice-president of his sophomore class (with an automatic Senate seat), and is now representing Dorm 6. He still has another year. “Whoever gets the election com mittee will have to work — let’s have no doubts about that,” warned Bill Moss, last year’s co-chairman of the committee. Election Commission Moss advocated serious consid eration on an election commission for the entire student body and suggested that several juniors be placed on the Senate group. Ju niors will be able to conduct fall elections next year, he explained. Reports were given on several other minor committees, including mess ,hospital, and publicity. Mont gomery told of the newly-formed Campus Chest committee, which last year collected enough money to initially finance a Twelfth Man Scholarship, given by the student body to a deserving high school graduate. New copies of the recently- amended constitution for the Sen ate were distributed to each of the senators by Bennie Zinn, assistant dean of men. C. G. “Spike” White, director of student activities, told the Senate of the availability of certain stu dent activity funds for the body’s operation, and promised complete support for this year’s Senate from that department. Coffee and cake were served at the meeting’s conclusion. Fuller poured. C of C Directors To Meet Thursday J The board of directors of the College Station Development As sociation and Chamber of Com merce will hold their monthly meeting in the council room of the College Station State Bank at 2 p. m. Thursday.