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Number 28: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1950
Price Five Cents
Student Senate
Makes Seating
Arrangements
Queen Finalist
Dy DEAN REED
Definite steps were taken by the
Student Senate last night to alle
viate the seating situation in Kyle
Field’s student section.
• All corps seniors must present
ticket?—which will be issued to
them—to enter their section.
• All students will, before enter
ing a lamp, be prepared to show
their athletic coupons. This rpust
be done to prevent non-students
from taking valuable space in the
student section, the Senate decided.
• Only one guest will be allowed
each student. Slightly more than
10,000 seats are alloted A&M stu
dents and their guests by the Ath
letic Department. This makes it
necessary to limit the number of
guests, according to the Senate's
decisions.
“Fish” Seats
Should the freshmen in the corps
fail to fill their section to the mid
point of the end zone, seats in that
area will be made available to non
corps students and their wives who
wish to sit during the game. The
area will be opened to “sitters,”
however, only if there are extra
seats.
The Senate met in special session
last night to discuss the effective
ness of last week’s seating arrange
ment and to iron out problems
which have been foreseen for Sat
urday afternoon’s A&M-TCU tilt.
Corps and non-corps areas will
again be roped off Saturday, it
was announced at the meeting.
Tickets will be distributed
through the corps organizations to
seniors, enabling them to sit in the
roped-off “senior section.”
Must Have Tickets
Issued to the seniors will be old
tickets for last year’s “Duke El
lington” show,. Members of the
Executive Committee of the Sen
ate stressed “without ‘Duke El
lingtons,’ no entrance into the
corps senior section.”
Senior cadets, CD’s, OG’s, and
EDO’s will be on duty at entrances
into the senior section to check
tickets. Seniors will show their
tickets, but keep them for future
home games, the Senate decided.
“We are requesting all corps
seniors to help us keep this sec
tion reserved for them. It can
only be done with their help,” said
Bill Moss, Senate vice-president.
Assistance Asked
“If every corps senior will take
It upon himself as a personal re-
iponsibility to politely ask anyone
not authorized to sit in this senior
section to move, we believe the en-
Fountain Room To
Open After Dance
The Fountain Room of the MSC
will be open from 12 midnight un
til 1 a.m. Saturday night after
the All-College Dance following the
Aggie-TCU game.
Music will be furnished by Merle
Bauman at the piano.
All visiting students and guests
on the campus are invited.
tire seating arrangement will bene
fit greatly,” Moss said.
All freshmen have been asked
to enter the stands through Ramps
L, M, and N. This will aid in
cutting down congestion in other
ramps, according to Executive
Committee members.
A seven - man committee was
named to observe the seating sit
uation Saturday afternoon and
work out any problems the Senate
now faces to make the arrangement
more effective and more suitable.
Named to the committee were W.
A. Sky-Eagle, Nolan Brunson, Al
fred R. Gibson, Hans Kjllingstad,
Don Young, Tom Poynor, and Dave
Robertson.
Medallion Sales
M e d a 11 i o n S commemorating
A&M’s 75th Anniversary year will
be sold by Senate members soon,
it \vas decided at the meeting. The
Exchange Store has 1,700 medal
lions on hand, Parse said, and will
have 5,000 shortly.
“These are excellent souvenirs
of A&M’s 75th Anniversary,” Parse
explained. “They will be sold for
50c each, with half the money go
ing to the Senate.”
On a motion by Bill Boddeker,
the Senate voted to earmark the
profits from the medallion sales
for the Campus Chest. Last year,
half of the Campus Chest fund was
given to the Twelfth Man Scholar
ship fund, used to send a selected
student through school—-courtesy
of the student body.
SWC Opener, Dance
W eekeni I
Lennie Garrard
★
Pat Parker
Malcorn. Woodard,
Parker, Are Queen
A committee of twelve, repre
senting the faculty and student
body, chose the four finalists for
the 75th Anniversary Queen con
test which is reaching its latter
stages.
Lennie Garrard, Ann Malcolm,
Pat Parker, and Helen Woodard
were the top choices in the pick
ings.
Sponsored by The Commentator,
a student publication representing
the Arts and Sciences school, the
Queen contest received a great deal
of response from the students with
thirty candidates being entered.
George Charlton and Herman
Gollob, co-editors of The Commen
tator, said that the contest was
very successful and they want to
thank all that took part in it. They
also added that they were sorry
that all of the candidates’ pictures
were not run in The Battalion, but
because of late entries some were
not able to receive public recog
nition as was planned.
Special Dance Planned
The four finalists will be pre
sented at a special afternoon dance
in the Memorial Student Center,
Dr. Millikan, Nobel Winner
To Speak In Guion Tonight
By BERT HARDAWAY
Dr. Robert A. Millikan, winner
of the Nobel Prize in 1923, author
of the first American Physics
textbook, and isolator of the elec-
1 Iron, will speak to the student body
and faculty tonight on “Supreme
Elements In Human Progress” the
address will be in Guion Hall.
Dr. Millikan, 82 year old scien
tist, has won 20 honors including
the Hughes, Edison, and Faraday
Medals; Nobel Prize (1923); and
others representing nine govern
ments. He stopped counting his
Honorary Degrees when they pass
ed 25.
His career started when he began
teaching Physics, a subject which
he knew nothing about, during his
junior year at college. He had plan
ned to be a gym instructor, but be
came so absorbed in this new sub
ject that he determined to become
a physicist instead.
Farm Boy
Dr. Millikan’s parents preferred
life in small Illinois and Iowa
towns, so their son spent much
time working on farms. Dr. Milli
kan says that he milked more than
10,000 cows and curried more
than 20,000 horses between his
eight and eighteenth birthdays.
It has been said that the past
50 years of Millikan’s life tells
two stories: his own, and that of
American Science. The true sci
ence of Physics was born only in
the 24 months preceeding his
birth, with the discovery of the
X-ray and development of the
theory of electromagnetism.
Major Contributions
His best known contribution to
science are the isolation and mea
surement of the electron. The iso
lation of the atom made it possible
to count the number of molecules
in any given weight of any simple
substance with absolute accuracy.
Dr. Millikan also found the
source of cosmic rays and assigned
them their true importance.
Now serving as Vice Chairman
of the Board of Trustees of the
California Institute of Technology,
Dr. Millikan devotes much of his
time to showing that there is no
gap between science and religion.
His belief is that the world is
built bn two “spirits”: the spirit
of science (and knowledge), and
the spirit of religion. His life is an
avowal of his philosophy.
November 4th, the day of the
Arkansas-A&M game. At half
time, during the encounter between
the two Southwest Conference
schools, the Queen will be present
ed to the student body.
Besides statewide recognition
which is planned for the quartet
of beauties, the winner will adorn
the cover of the January issue of
The Commentator, and the other
entries will be shown on the in
side of the magazine.
Miss Malcolm, who last year was
the Class of ’51’s sweetheart, at
tends Southern Methodist and is
from Abilene. She was entered by
J. D. Hinton, also of Abilene and
a senior architect student.
Past Sweetheart
Aggie sweetheart of ’48-’49, Miss
Parker graduated last year from
TSCW and is now a 2nd lieutenant
on a dietic internship at Brooke
Army Hospital. Doyle Avant en
tered the past sweetheart in the
contest.
Duchess in the Cotton Pageant
last year Helen Woodard, of Hous
ton, will be the date of Russell
Hagens, Senior Architect student.
Garrard,
Finalists
She was also a contestant in the
Miss Zither contest in Houston last
year.
Lennie Garrard, of Houston, was
a beauty last year at the Univer
sity of Houston, and will be es
corted by John Tapley, junior yell
leader. She lives in Houston.
Committee Members
Members of the special commit
tee who made selections last night
were Dare Keelan, president of
the senior class; A. D. Martin,
colonel of the corps; Harold Chand
ler, president of the junior class;
Guy Shown, sophomore and out
standing cadet of the freshman
class last year; Ed Fulbright, vete
ran yell leader.
Frank Manitzas, contest chair
man, George Charlton and Herman
Gollob, Co-editors of The Com
mentator.
Non-student members were:
Grady Elms, vice assistant dean of
men for activities; J. P. Abbott,
Dean of the School of Arts and
Sciences; C. C. French, dean of the
college; and Col. E. W. Napier,
PAS&T.
Dr. Robert A. Millikan
Colonel Davis,
Other Officers
Called to Camp
Col. Joe Davis, former as
sistant commandant, left
Thursday for Camp Chafee,
Ark. to assume command of
the 4020 Infantry Training
Regiment, according to Lt. Col.
Marion P. Bowden who succeeded
Col. Davis as assistant command
ant.
Also leaving for Camp Chafee
are Capt. AV. A. Hill, Capt. H. R.
Williams, and Capt. Dave Wilson.
Col. Davis is a graduate of A&M,
class of ’29 and has served here
almost continuously since 1930.
During AVorld War II he served at
Fort Leavenworth and Fort Hood
for a time until he returned here
as adjutant and executive officer.
In December of 1946 Col. Davis
i was appointed assistant command-
| ant.
Capt. AVilliams came here in
1948 as a tactical officer at the
annex and was a military counsel
or until he left this year.
Capt. Hill came to A&M in 1949
and served as assistant to J.
Wayne Stark, director the MSC,
Lt. Col. Bowden continued.
Capt. Wilson came here in 1947
to join the Range and Forestry
Department from the Clearwater
Timber Protective Association of
Idaho. He was an assistant Fire
Warden in charge of grazing.
“Col. Joe” Davis has lived in
College Station since he started
school in 1925. He holds a B. A.
degree in Education and has done
graduate work in sociology.
Corps Not to March
For TCU Game
The Corps of Cadets will not
march in to the TCU game this
weekend, Col. H. L. Boatner,
commandant and PMS&T, has
announced.
The march-in was postponed
because of the Traffic conges
tion and the difficulty in tak
ing up tickets, he said.
Mailing Procedure Set
For Christmas Packages
Christmas packages for service
men now in Japan, Korea, and
other Pacific bases, must be mailed
by Nov. 1 to insure delivery on
time.
Packages for other troops out
side the continental United States
must be in the mail by Nov. 15.
Seniors Propose
Uniform Rules
Hats will not be worn inside the
Memorial Student Center by mem
bers of the Cadet Corps, the Senior
Class decided in a meeting yester
day.
Prpposed by Wilman "Pusher”
Barnes, the regulation was sug
gested as a means for honoring
Aggie war dead to whom the build
ing will be dedicated later this
year.
Uniform regulations discussed at
the session had been previously
outlined in a meeting of command
ing officers this week. Subject to
approval of the commandant, the
Senior Class proposed:
Proposed Regulations
For freshmen: regulation first
year basic uniform, brass to be
straight and not filed, cross stitch
ing on patches, no wide belt
buckles.
For sophomores: Nylon Khaki |
belts, garrison caps, either khaki j
or wool with stiffener; key chain
out of formation (for sophomores
in good standing as determined by
unit commander), wide belt buckles,
curved brass, no back straps on
garrison caps.
For juniors: Summer sei*ge
blouses, trousers and shirts; green
shirts with green trousers only,
white belts except with pink trous
ers, branch insignia on belt buckles,
cutout AMC garrison cap brass.
Senior Boots
For seniors: senior boots and
accessories to be worn on or off
campus only by students who have
attended A&M for at least three
semesters as a member of the Ca
det Corps, wool battle jackets for
social occasions, pink serge shirts.
A heated discussion produced a
majority vote favoring a proposal
that only senior cadets be allowed
to continue eating during announce
ments in the dining hall.
Traffic congestion at the Grove
on yell practice nights was dis
cussed and a proposal that seniors
only be allowed to go to yell prac
tice by automobile received a fa
vorable vote.
Warren’s Singing
Captivates Crowd
By Sid Abernathy
A regimental ball tonight followed by midnight yell prac-
^ tice, a football game Saturday afternoon with two bands
i performing between halves, and an All-College dance Sat-
1 urday night will offer a wide variety of entertainment for
: both students and visitors this weekend.
The Seventh Regimental Ball tonight in the Second-
1 Floor Ballroom of the Memorial Student Center will begin
the schedule of events.
Music for the ball, which begins at 8 p. m. and lasts
i until 11:30 p. m., will be furnished by Bill Turner and the
i Aggieland Orchestra.
All seniors are invited to attend the ball. Tickets can be
j purchased from Don Sheffield, Regimental Commander, in
1 Dorm 12 before the dance or from seniors at the door tonight.
The Aggie Band will meet a special train from Fort
Worth scheduled to arrive in Col-'f
lege Station at 12:15 p. m. and ,
escort the visitors to Duncan Hall.
The visiting band will be guests
at a luncheon in Duncan Hall, as
will be visiting cheer leaders.
A&M’s Welcoming Committee
made the arrangements this week
with the TCU student body for
their weekend here. Facilities avail
able at the MSC and dining facil
ities were explained by the (
mittee.
An information booth will be set
up in the MSC and will be manned
by the corps to provide visitors
with information about the cam
pus, location of dormitories and
buildings, and other general infor
mation.
Committee Members
Members of the committee mak
ing the trip were Doyle Griffin,
Bill Moss, Dan Davis, and Tom
Jewell. They were welcomed to
TCU by Bill Hooser, president of
the TCU student body, who played
host to the men at a special lunch
eon.
The committee made the trjp jp
the interest of better sportsman
ship relations among student bodies
of Southwest Conference Schools.
It was the first such trip of the
yedr for the Aggies.
Weekend Highlight
Highlighting this weekend will
be the clash between the football
teams of A&M and TCU on Kyle
Field Saturday at 2 p. m.
According to information re
ceived from the Military Depart
ment the Cadet Corps will not
parade before the game, but both
school bands will perform during
the half-time activities.
Entertainment will be provided
in the fountain room of the Mem
orial Student Center following the
football game.
All College Dance
Saturday night at 9 p. m. Bill
Turner and his Aggieland Orches
tra will invade Sbisa Hall to play
for the first All-College dance of
the season. Dressed in their new
suits and armed with a long list
of danceable tunes, the orchestra
will play until 12 midnight.
The TCU student body will be
guests of A&M’s student body at
the dance Saturday night. They can
also be paid guests at the Seventh
Regimental Ball tonight.
When Leonard Warren stepped
across the Guion Hall stage last
night, and began to sing “Old Man
River”, he was putting the wraps
on a sizzling opening night per
formance that gave the 1950-51
Town Hall a flying start.
From his first selection, “Aria
di Floridante” from “Floradante”
by Handel, to the last “O Thank
Me Not The Songs I Sing Thee,”
Warren captivated the audience
with a ringing baritone that made
it easy to understand why he is
resents
seating
govern-
UN to Decide
If Trygve Lie
Will Keep Job
Lake Success, Oct. 20—(AP)
—The United Nations Secur
ity Council meets today (2:30
p.m. EST) to try again to de
cide whether or not Trygve
Lie keeps his job as secretary gen
eral.
The outcome, key delegations
say, is a toss-up.
Russia is determined to throw
Lie out because he supported
whole-heartedly United Nations ac
tion to combat aggression in Ko
rea. Russia maintains that the
North Koreans were innocent vic
tims of American and South Ko
rean warmaking.
The Soviet Union is supported in
its campaign against Lie by Na
tionalist China—usually her bit
terest enemy in the U.N. Chiang
Kai-Shek’s representative
the fact that Lie favors
the Chinese Communist
ment in the U. N. . • , iril , t,. „ ,
singing Old Man River a literal
The United States strongly fa- “wildcat” arose, and Warren com-
vors another term for the formermented, “Getting in voice for the
Norwegian foreign minister. game?”
By Frank N. Manitzas
Tomorrow afternoon at 2 on Kyle Field, A&M’s first
successful football team in three years will be ready to spoil
Texas Christian’s perfect conference record and take the
SWC lead by winning the opener of the conference season
for A&M. TCU defeated Arkansas, 13-6, in their only league
tilt.
Saturday will also be the opening day for three other
conference teams. Texas University opens with Arkansas,
and both SMU and Rice open their conference schedule,
playing each other.
Head Football Coach Harry Stiteler calls Saturday, “the
day that we open season.” The main reason for his state
ment seems to be that this is the first time in three years
that the Aggie football team has entered a game as favorites.
The last time that A&M won a conference game was in
-fl947 when, with the aid of Stan
Holmigs’ terrific booting, the Ca
dets swamped Baylor, 24-0. Since
that time until now, the Aggies
have been underdogs in every con
ference tilt and in most of their
intersectional games.
Back field Stars Return
The return of Billy Tidwell and
Charley Royalty will bolster the
Maroon and White backfield, but
W. T. Rush and Max Greiner, both
starting guards, may not start, be
cause of injuries.
Del mer Sikes will start at his
regular quarterback position, and
the conference’s leading touchdown
passer will be trying to push his
total to six scoring passes to seven.
Although the Aggies are supposed
to have a weak passing offense,
they trail in second place behind
Southern Methodist in scoring pas
ses with eight.
But with all of the leaders that
the Aggies have in conference sta
tistical departments, they should be
able to score enough against the
Horned Frogs to win. Having al
ready scored 162 points—70 points
more than all of last season—A&M
leads the SWC in touchdowns,
DATs, and, of course, total points.
Smith Shows Way
In ground gaining, Bruisin’ Bob
Smith with his total of 447 yards
has shown the way, but has re
ceived considerable nupport from
his flankers, Billy Tidwell and
Glenn Lippman. Tidwell holds a
9.4 average with 264 yards to his
credit while Lippman has a 4.8
average with 279 yards by his
name.
All in all, it seems that tomor
row it will be the Aggies’ day.
On the forward wall, the Cadets
average 196 pounds offensively,
207 defensively, and are loaded to
the hilt with reserves.
Probable Starters
Starting on offense will probab
ly be Andy Hillhou.se and Charley
Hodge at the end spots, Hillhouse
weighing 230 pounds while Hodge
weighs but 187. At the tackle
posts may be Russell Hudeck, who
didn’t play last week against Vir
ginia Military, and Sam Moses,
who also sat out the VM1 game.
Playing offensive guard wall be
Carl Molberg and Jimmy Flowers
while Hugh Meyer will handle the
position over the ball.
Sikes will quarterback the team
with Lippman and Tidwell filling
up the halfback slots, and Smith
(See AGGIE, Page 6)
one of the greats of the Met.
Singing as though he enjoyed it
as much as the crowd at Guion en
joyed listening, he was visibly im
pressed at the tremendous ovation
given him as he returned for his
third encore. (He received four.)
“God bless you!” he said as he
began, the hit song of the night,
“Old Man River.” Other encores
wer« “Mother Hubbard”, and “A
Little Bit of Heaven.”
Top numbers from his program
were, Aria: Credo from “Othello,”
by Verdi; Aria: Avant de quitter
ces Lieux from “Faust” by Goun
od; and Aria: Largo at Factotum
from “Barber of Seville.” This last
number is perhaps better know as
“Figaro” and with it Warren thor
oughly delighted his audience.
The progi*am was divided into
foul’ parts with an intermission
and a piano group. Willard Sekt-
burg at the piano furnished two
numbers and an encore, in addition
to accompanying Warren.
There was a slight miscue for
the first intermission and to
smooth matters over, the baritone
inserted a number of his own
choosing, the Torreador Song from
“Carmen.” Needless to say, the
number was very well received.
The last part of the program
was composed of a group of four
American songs, “Everything That
I Can Spy” which was written for
and dedicated to Warren by two
American composers, Gene Bone
and Howard Fenton, was the first
of these.
“There is A Lady Sweet and
Kind,” by Norman Dello Joio, “An
Old Song Resung” by Charles T.
Griffes; and “Mister Jim,” by
Albert Hay Malotte rounded out
the program.
Rather than lessen, the applause
increased, each time Warren re
turned for an encore, until when
he returned to the stage after
All in Book
Military Correspondence
Exposed By Lunar Expert
By JOHN WHITMORE
Battalion Lunar Expert
While conducting a survey of
the Moon’s activity from atop Ross
Hall, I fell through the roof.
And by luck t fell in a little
room housing the secret and re
stricted directives of the Military
Department.
One little black book, embossed
in golf leaf “with do not open un
less a full colonel or higher” caught
my attention.
Hoping it was a book on moon
phases, I read it.
Now it can be told—it was the
US Army FM 23-34-56-68-FR
23Zi, or Glossary of Official Cor
respondence Expressions, Modi
fied for use of Air Force.
I jotted a few of the more com
mon terms for publication, feeling
it my duty to inform the public
and to win a Boy Scout Merit
Badge for fine writing.
They are as follows:
Concur Generally: Have not read
the document and don’t want to be
bound by anything I say.
In Conference: We don’t know
where he is.
Please expedite: For God’s sake,
try and find the papers.
Passed on to higher authority:
Pigeon-holed in a more sumptuous
office.
In abeyance: A state of grace
for a disgraceful state.
Appropriate Action: Do you
know what to do with it, we don’t.
Under consideration: Never heard
of it.
Under active consideration: We
will have a shot at finding it in our
files.
Base Regulations: A long confus
ing account of what you can and
can’t do which you won’t be able
to understand anyway.
Receiving careful consideration:
A period of inactivity covering a
time lag.
Have you any remarks?: Give
me some idea what it’s all about.
This matter is being reviewed:
We are completely ignorant on the
subject.
Transmitted to your Headquar
ters: You hold the bag awhile.
We’re tired of it.
Acknowledge Requested: Please
take a look and write another en
dorsement.
It is recommended: We don’t
think it will work but you stick
your neck out and try it anyway.
It is estimated: I guess, now
you guess.
Submitted to your headquarters
for compliance: Sure it’s silly but
you have to do it anyway.
For necessary action: We don’t
know what they want, so you do it.
Immediate Action: We have stall
ed it long enough, Now you do
something with it.
Returned without action: Try to
put the blame on us now.
Submitted for signature: I
dreamed it up, now you take the
rap for it.
Through Channels: If we send it
to enough places, someone will lose
it and we can forget about it al
together.
The remainder of the terms I
tore out of the book and put in my
pocket. After climbing out of the
little black hole I finished my As
tronomical studies and left.
Upon leaving the area my con
science started hurting me—so I
stuffed all my notes with the ex
ception of the few that are printed
here into the barrel of the 1917
cannon.