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0 ■•o' 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 27: Volume 51 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1950 Price Five Cents ' Queen Finalists oni Isy Committee j A special corrmittee to se lect Die Seventy-Fifth Anni versary Queen contest, spon sored by The Commentator, will meet tonight at 7:30 in tho 1 Student Activities Office in Ooodwin Hall to choose four final ists, according to editors Oeorge Charlton and Herman Gollob. Announcement and pictures of their selection will be announced Friday. Members of the committee are Dare Keelan, president of the Senior Class; A. D. Martin, cadet colonel of the corps; Harold Chand ler, president of the Junior Class; Cuy Shown, sophomore and Out standing Cadet of the Freshman Regiment last year; Ed Fulbright, veteran yell leader; Frank Manit- zas. contest chairman; Herman Gollob and George Charlton, edi tors of The Commentator. Non student members are Grady Elms, vice assistant dean of men for ac tivities; J. P. Abbott, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences; C. C. French, Dean of the College; and Colonel E. W. Napier, PAS&T. The four finalists will be pre sented at a special dance in their honor co-sponsored by the Memor ial Student Center Saturday after noon before the A&M - Arkansas game. The judges will again make a selection, this- time to choose the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Queen. That night, during halftime, she will be presented in a special cere mony on Kyle Field. She will be cover girl for the January magazine, also in which will be included pictures of the other three finalists. The four finalist will be an nounced in Friday’s Battalion. Queen Candidate | Si 11^0F '''W*! T 1*0' II Queen Candidate Opens Tonight inn On town Alice Irvine A freshman at North Texas, Miss Irvine is Don Joseph’s entry in the 7oth Anniversary Queen contest which came to a close this week. Miss Irvine is one of more than 30 candidates entered in the Queen contest which is sponsored by The Commentator. Seven Nation’s Diplomats Meet To Talk Russia Lake Success, Oct. 19.— UP)—Diplomats of seven na tions met behind locked doors today to discuss Russia’s de mand to serve on the peace patrols set up under the United Nations' new anti-agression pro- i.ram. They were summoned by Ameri- ?a’s John Foster Dulles, who guid- i'd the plan originally outlined by Secretary of State Dean Acheson to eventual victory. Gathered with Dulles in the room sealed off by blue - uniformed guards were representatives of Britain, Canada, France, Turkey, the Philippines and Uruguay. They were co-sponsors of the program. The plan, which puts them in U.N. efforts to maintain peace, was adopted overwhelmingly by the (iO-nation political committee in a paragraph by paragraph vote last night. Besides the peace patrols — to rove areas of tension and report possible threats to peace—it pro vides for emergency sessions of the veto-free general assembly on 24-hour notice whenever the Se curity Council is hamstrung by the Russian veto. It calls on member nations to earmark units of their armed forces for service when eith er' the Security Council or the Gen eral Assembly calls and asks a sur vey of what forces will be avail able. Delegates agree it is the most important step the U.N. has taken forward since that body was form ed i i 1945. Experiment Station Conference Begins Chancellor Gibb Gilchrist deliv ered the welcome address to the annual conference of the local and field staffs of the Texas Agricul tural Experiment Station today in the MSCj. Though there was no for mal program the conference offi cially started yesterday. Research workers of 16 subject matter departments, and three reg- ulartory services in the agricul tural set-up of the System located at A&M, and technical staffs of 22 substations and 10 field labora tories of the TAES are attending the conference. The conference will last through Saturday and will feature three major speakers. E. C. Elting, asso ciate chief of the Office of Experi ment Stations, USDA, will address the Thursday forenoon meeting. President M. T. Harrington will attempt to forecast the future of A&M College, and Rufus R. Peep les, member of the A&M System Board of Directors, will give his observations of the TAES substa tions and field laboratories. Presiding over the various ses sions will be Vice Chancellor, D. W. Williams, Dean C. N. Shepardson, and Extension Director, G. B. Gibson. The staffs will hear Wr. Robert A. Millikan, eminent physicist, discuss the “Supreme Element in Human Progress—Religion and Science,” in Goodwin Hall Friday evening. Panel discussions and group meetings will round out the con ference program. Five group ses sions will be held simultaneously Friday afternoon. Vice-Chancellor'and Mrs. I). W. Williams, Director and Mrs. R. D. Lewis, and vice-director and Mrs. R. E. Patterson, will be hosts at a reception to agricultural research workers from 7:30 until 9:30 Thurs day evening in the Ball Room of the MSC. Stripper Stripped Auto Burglars Get Scanty Loot Hollywood, Oct. 18—(TP)—Geor gia Lee a striptease specialist, hardly knew what to wear today. Somebody broke into her car, Miss Lee reported to police, and stripped her of all her working- equipment—including a G-string. Dinner Meeting Set By Student AIEE A combined meeting of the Houston Section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the A&M Student Branch of the AIEE will be held October 20, at 7 p. m., in the Memorial Student Center. The meeting will be a combined dinner and business meeting with Two Dances; Football To Highlight Weekend By WAYNE DAVIS With two dances and a football game scheduled for the coining weekend, social life around the A&M Campus promises to hit a new high m variety and general fun. Leading off the weekend fes tivities is the Seventh Regimental Ball on Friday night. In addition to being the first to begin activity this weekend, the Seventh Regi ment will be the first group to use the second-floor ballroom in the Memorial Student Center. Adding to the general jollity and merriment will be the ever-present •and always-welcome Bill Turner and the Aggieland Orchestra. The evening’s excitement begins at 8:30, and will continue straight through until 11:30 p. m. All Seniors are invited to the ball, and tickets may be bought from Don Sheffield, Regimental Commander, in Dorm 12 before Friday night, or from Seniors at the door'on the night of the dance. Saturday afternoon the campus will be invaded by all sorts of visitors from Fort Worth in gen eral and TCU in particular as the Aggies meet the Horned Frogs on Kyle Field at 2 p. m. After rhe game there will be an appropriate interval for wild cele bration and sorrow-drowning, as the case demands, and at 9 p. m. Bill Turner and the orchestra— resplendent in new suits and a library full of danceable tunes— will start the year’s first all-col lege dance in Sbisa Hall. To last until 12 midnight, the rat race will feature an arm-long list of dignitaries and honor guests, not to mention some hundreds of lovely importations from Dallas, Houston, Denton and other civil ized points, not to mention TCU mentors staying over as guests of the Cadet Corps. All things considered, it looks as though this will be a weekend long to be remembered at mon otonous, womanless A&M. Anybody know a blonde? Dr. Robt. Millikan Sets Guion Lecture “Supreme Elements in Human j Progress,” will be discussed by the dean of American physicists Dr. | 1 Robert A. Millikan at Guion Hall i j Friday at 8 p. m. The lecture, spon- j sored by the College, is open to | I the public. , Dr. Millikan, is a Nobel Prize winner in physics. He is the re- | tired administrative head of the j California Institute of Technology. In his autobiography Dr. Milli- 1 kan says that greater changes have occurred in the average man’s • fundamental beliefs and world out- I look during the last half century ithan in the previous four centuries, i This situation came about, he said, “because of science and its appli cation to human life, for these have bloomed in my time as no one ‘ in history had ever dreamed could be possible.” Dr. Millikan secs no conflict beiween science and religion. Dr. C. C. French, dean of A&M College, is in charge of arrange- . ments for the lecture. Sociology Teacher Has Article Printed j Dr. R. L. Skrabanek, Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology, is co-au!hor of an artie'e entitled “Social Life in a Czech-Ameri- can Rural Community,” which ap peared in the September issue of Rural Sociology, the quarterly pub lication of the American Rural So ciological Society. He wrote the article with Dr. Vernon J. Parenton, Professor of Sociology at Louisiana State Uni versity, who has been blind since 1943. The two authors were at one time associates on the L.S.U. faculty. The material for the story was gathered in Louisiana. By BOB KUGHSON The 1950-51 Town Hall Season will open tonight with the Bari tone- Leonard Warren, Metropolitan | Opera star, in Guion Hall at 7:30 p. m. The Metropolitan Opera star will include on his program tonight 17 selections- from such composers as Rossini, Gounod, Debussy, Brahms, Verdi, and Handel. Willard Sekt- erb, his accompanist, will furnish a piano background during the two- hour program. Warren can hardly be classed as one of the child prodigies who be gan playing and singing before audiences at the age of three, but he has come a long way since his first singing lesson at the age of 27. Fired for Singing As a matter of fact few people, before the Met baritone started lessons, commented on his voice in a favorable manner. Warren’s first employer fired him for sing ing at his work, as an accountant. After he was graduated from Columbia University, the present day opera star intended to pursue a business career, but after losing his first job for singing he decided to make his music pay instead of lose jobs for him. The baritone ap plied for a position in the glee club of Radio City Music Hall and was hired and held the position for three years. Glee Club At the same time he applied for the glee club job he began to take music lessons. After working with his music teacher Warren decided to try for the top of his profes sion—the Metropolitan Opera Company, and he was accepted and made his debut in 1939. 'To date the'Met star"hhs'staffed in some 22 operas with the famous opera company, and has also be come a member of the Chicago Opera Company, the San Fran cisco Opera Company and several other operatic organizations. Memory Feat Warren, who mastered seven op eratic roles in six months, has been a guest artist on the RCA-Victor Hour, Voice of Firestone, Carne gie Hall and is regularly heard on the weekly Saturday afternoon broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera House. Among his many activities the man with “the world’s finest dra matic baritone voice” records for RCA-Victor. Works he has record ed are selections of “Tales of Hoff man”, “Faust’’, the Toreador song from “Carmen”, arias from Rigo- letto”, and two Warren albums “Leonard Warren Sings Sea Chan ties” and “Romantic Scenes from Verdi Operas”. Concert Tour The A&M campus, Guion Hall, and Town Hall are part of War ren’s annual concert tour of the United States, which he makes be tween his scheduled operatic ap pearances. The Town Hall opener is also sought for appearances as guest soloist with this country’s and Canada’s leading symphony orches tras. He is frequently a guest with the New York Philharmonic-Sym phony Orchestra, the Cleveland Music Society, and the Concerts Symphoniques de Montreal. Outside of singing the ex-ac countant is interested in photog raphy, and enjoys photographing each city in which he sings. He photographs spots of interest, land scapes, and mountains. From business to Met star, via the music hall is not bad for a man who began a gi^at career at the age of 27. A few Town Hall tickets are still available, according to Spike White assistant to the Dean of Men,, in charge of Student Activi ties, while they last. They may be purchased at the Student Activi ties Office in Goodwin Hall. Betty Hens/ With sparkling blue eyes and black hair, Miss Hensz is one of top candidates in The Commentator’s 75th Anniversary Queen contest which ended this week. Four finalists will he chosen by a commit tee tonight Five More Booths . . . MSC Telephone Center Speeds Long Distance Calls By GEORGE SPELVIN A new solution for an old prob lem has been installed in the Mem orial Student Center, and is now in operation. A five-booth telephone center, with an attendant on duty during rush hours, is now located on the first floor of the MSC. It was in stalled last week, and final tests have been completed. Three attendants are assigned to duty in the center at the present time. They will work staggered hours, in order to be on hand when they are needed. Mrs. Jody Witter, Mrs. Ellen Harris and Mrs. Ruth Allison will be working in the center. The center will work much the same as did those in recep tion centers and overseas stag ing areas during the war. The attendants will take the number to be called. Then the caller will wait while she gets the call through. When the call is ready, Queen Candidate she Will channel it into one of the booths not in use at the moment, and assign the booth. That’s all there is to it. When the attendant is not on duty, the phones may be used just as you would in any other place. Local as well as long distance calls may be placed through the telephone center. The addition of the five phones in the MSC is expected to relieve the crush of traffic on busy Thurs day and Friday, as well as on normal days. The new center in creases to 13 the number of tele phones available to students for outside calls. Five of the other phones are in the YMCA, and three are in the Basic Division. “Necessity will dictate when the attendants will be on duty,” said E. H. Utzman, division man- Bobhies Blush . . . Surrounded Prey Intends to Stay London, Oct. 18—UP)—Police re ceived an alarm tonight that a i man was skulking on the roof of Westminster Abbey. They surrounded the Abbey. They pounced on their prey. It was the night watchman. ager of the Southwestern States Telephone Company. “They will be on hand when they are need ed.” “The idea in installing the tele phone room is to provide a practi cal means to give the students fast, efficient telephone service,” Utz man explained. “The student center was chosen for the location of the telephone room because the MSC will become the hub of student life.” If a student’s call is delayed, he may pass the time by engaging in an activity in some other part of the building. When his call is ready, the operator will, by using the house phone, notify him to come back to the telephone room. The furnishings of the room are, of course, in harmony with the decor of the whole MSC. The phone booths and the attend ant’s desk are finished in lined oak. Sofas and easy chairs are placed around the walls. Ash trays are conveniently placed. What Are US Formosa Aims Now Queried Washington, Oct. 19.—(TP) j —The report that President ! Truman and Gen. Douglas MacArthur have r e a c h e d agreement on the Formosa issue opened anew today the ques tion of what exactly are American aims for the future of that strate gic island. The hear of the question is: To what extent will the United States try to keep Formosa now held by the Chinese Nationalists, from fall ing into the hands of the Chinese Communists ? Up to the time of the Truman- MacArthur conference on Wake Is land last Sunday, there was con siderable evidence that the two men did not see eye to eye. MacArthur [ clearly favored a determined pol icy to keep Formosa permanently out of Communist control. Mr. Truman favored neutralizing the island during the Korean war and thereafter settling its status peace fully through the United Nations. The key to the reported agree ment may be this: Although he seeks peaceful solution in accord with other friendly nations, the President may have no intention of letting that solution take the form of handing Formosa over to the Chinese Reds. That is, the reported agreement may have taken the form of an assurance by Mr. Truman to Mac Arthur that his policies, develpo- ing within the U.N., are aimed at permanently neutralizing the is land. High Pontag'on officials who re ported anonymously yesterday that the two men had agreed on the Formosa issue did not say how or in what degree the differences as they formerly appeared on the re cord had been resolved. These officials stipulated that they not be named. This brought a prompt protest from Senator Knowland (R-Calif) about “second hand leaks.” In a statement dis tributed by the Republican Nation al Committee, Knowland said “these partial facts may or may not express accurately the under standing” about Formosa. He demanded that the full text of the anonymous news conference notes be cabled to MacArthur, pre sumably for checking against his understanding Knowland noted that the officials who gave out word of the reported Formosa agreement were not actually pres ent at the time, since they said Mr. Truman and the General discussed the issue when they were alone. In Tokyo, informed sources said MacArthur has not altered his views. They said Formosa was not involved in any policy discus sions at Wake. Senate to Meet The Student Senate will hold a special meeting tonight in the Social Room of the Memorial Student Center at 8 p.m. after the Senior Class Meeting, Bill Parse, president, has announced. Artillery-Infantry Will Have Beauties Two duchesses will lie presented | at the Artillery-Infantry Regimen- ; tal Ball which will be held the night of November 17 in the Mem- I orial Student Center, Roger Cor- I bett, chairman for Artillery candi date beauties announced today, i The Infantry regiment will also J present a beauty the same night and Kenneth Schaake is in charge | of the; infantry committee. Each of the queens will be chosen by the individual regiments and j anyone in any of the two regiments j can enter as many candidates and as many pictures of each candi date as ho wants, Corbett con- | eluded. Deadline for entering a candi date is November 7. The ball will be held the night preceeding the A&M-Rice football game. Welcoming Committee Make Weekend Plans l ’ i ney Woods Club Picks Clark Smith Ann Malcolm From the Hilltop of SMU comes one of the lovelies that last year represented the present senior class as its queen. Miss Malcolm is from Abilene, the same spot as J. D. Hinton, who entered her in the 75th Anniversary Queen contest. The A&M Welcoming Committee returned from Fort Worth last night and reported that the TCU j student body was pleased by plans made for their weekend here. The committee was gone Tuesday anil Wednesday. Committee members Doyle Giif- 1 fin, Bill Moss, Dan Davis, and Tom Jewell, were met at TCU by Bill j Ilooser, president of the TCU stu dent body, who escorted them to a luncheon, prepared for the visit- : ing Aggies. At the luncheon, they outlined j their weekend plans to the TCU ; students, Griffin said. Dan Davis 1 explained facilities available to { them at the Blemorial Student Cen- j ter, and Tom Jewell listed dining j facilities at A&M. The TCU student body will he j guests of A&M student body at the All College dance in Sbisa Sat urday night, Griffin mentioned. He appointed out that they also could be paid guests at the Seventh Regimental Ball to be held in the MSC Friday evening. The A&M Band will meet the special train when it arrives at College Station at 12:15 Saturday and escort them to Duncan hall where the visiting band will be guests for lunch. Likewise, the Yell Leaders will host the TCU Cheer Leaders to lunch at Duncan Hall. An information booth will be set up in the MSC and will be manned by the corps to provide the visitors with information concern ing the campus, location of dormi tories and buildings, and general information, he said. The Welcoming Committee went „o TCU in the interests of better ing sportsmanship relations among student bodies of Southwest Con ference Schools, Griffin pointed j out. It was the first trip of its j kind made from A&M this year. Clark Smith, senior dairy hus bandry major, was elected presi- ! dent at the organization meeting of the Piney Woods club by stu- ! dents from the Jasper area. John Hall, junior animal hus- i bandry major, was named vice- president and Charles Davenport, ! senior accounting major, was se- lected for secretary-treasurer. Other business included framing a constitution for the club. Regular meetings will he held every first and third Thursday of the month in room 207, Aca demic building. Wet Ground, Wind..No Tree Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 19—(/P)—An unidentified caller asked Meteorologist R. L. Anderson this afternoon how much more wind and rain could be expected. “There’s a big tree out in my yard swinging and swaying and the ground is getting soft,” explained the caller somewhat anxiously. Anderson began: “The wind and rain will continue and if the ground gets softer, why . . “Whup, Whup, there she goes now,” broke in the man. “Excuse me, please,” he said and quickly hung up.