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Number 27: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1950
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' 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.