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yV-'^ a o 0oP ieS Circulated fo More than 90% Of College Station’s Itesiifents Number 30: Volume 51 Battalion Nation’s Top Safety Section Lumberman’s 1949 Contest PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE "COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1950 Price Five Cents UN Troops Near Manchurian Border, Resistance Light Seoul, Korea, Oct. 24—(1?)—United Nations troops ap proached the volatile Manchurian border today, the fifth an-1 niversary of the founding of the U.N. They were reported about 30 to 35 miles from Red Man churia. A new U.N. warplgne bomb line was drawn in an arcs 12 miles south of the Chinese Red-guarded border. The Allied bomb line is usually 20 miles ahead of forward foot soldiers, in this case, South Koreans. Tokyo intelligence officers said only about 25,000 Red Korean troops remained north of parallel 38. They said from a military standpoint all organized resistance had ceased. But briefing officers at General MacArthur’s headquar ters said remnants of 16 Red Korean divisions still had divis ional headquarters in Korea and were considered organized ; —: — f units. State Garden Club Construction Started On New Ad Bunding Veteran Singer AI Jolson Dies Last Night San Francisco, Oct. 24—(/P) —A1 Jolson, the veteran jazz singer who was the first U. S. star to entertain troops over seas in both the Second World ami Korean Wars, died unexpect edly last nif>'ht with a quip on his lips: “Hell, Truman had only one hour with MacArthur. I had two!” ' Then . . . “I’m going', boys,” the famous mammy singer told two longtime friends with whom he was playing gin rummy in the St. Francis Ho tel. He died quietly, quickly, of a coronary occulsion . . . and without pain, said the house physician. Jolson, 64, had returned only two weeks ago from Korea, where he sang to Allied troops. He had a two-hour luncheon chat with General MacArthur in Tokyo en- route. President Truman and MacAr thur talked privately just an hour on Wake Island a week ago Sun- ' day in their historic get-acquainted meeting. With Jolson were two old friends, song writer Harry Akst and Martin Fried, Al’s accompanist and ar ranger. They had come with him from Southern California for a scheduled guest star spot on a Bing Crosby radio show, to have been recorded here tonight. Akst telephoned Jolson’s fourth wife, Erie Galbraith, whom he mar ried in 1945. She was at Encino, Calif. She was reported to have collapsed with grief. Jolson was riding the crest of a popularity wave for the second time in an entertainment career that began in 1899. His popularity with the troops was unsurpassed. In World War II, he traveled to Europe, Africa, India and the Pa cific, entertaining GIs for the USQ. Export Cars Permitted For Use by Borderites Laredo, Tex., Oct. 24—I#)—-The Importation of American automo- inles into Mexico for use of border residents will be permitted within a few days, Jesus Vidales Marro- quin, collector of customs in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico,. said today. Wholesale lots of North Korean soldiers continued to surrender. An estimated 32.3,000 had laid down their arms or become war casualties. More were coming in from the hills to surrender. Premier Kim II Sung, the Ko rean Communist leader, had fled. American warplanes dropped leaf lets declaring the man who posed as Kim was an imposter named Kim Sung Chu who was sent to Korea in 1945. The leaflets said the real Kim II Sung, a Korean hero, died 15 years ago in Manchuria. Three North Koreans who lived under, the Red regime for five years said the Kim II Sung they knew in the Red capital was a “robot” leader who answered to Ho Kai Li, a Russian citizen of Korean extraction. But the real boss of North Ko rea they said, was Russian Col. Gen. Terentyi Shtikov was the Sov iet representative on the joint U.S.- U.S.S.R. commission to unify Ko rea. Both Kim II Sung and Shtikov presumably in Manchuria or Siber ia, the trio said. The Moscow radio broadcast a North Korean war communique saying the Reds were fighting on but admitted withdrawals north of Pyongyang, untd last week the Red capital of North Korea. Sporadic fighting continued in scattered areas. At Iri on the northeast Korean coast, Red soldiers swept into the town after South Korean units had gone through. Reports said they killed a large number of civilians who had assisted the South Kore ans. South Korean units later return ed to Iri and drove the Reds out. South of the 38th parallel, by passed Red troops raided towns. Fighting broke out when United Nations patrols foubd enemy groups at Mungyong, Kumchon, Kochang, Hampyang, Yongwong and Chunan. A Red unit contacted at Yongwong still was using one artillery piece, four mortars and two anti-tank guns. But the main North Korean force was reported pulling back near the Manchurian border into the Kang- gye pocket, a triangular area southeast of the Yalu River fron tier. The South Korean Sixth Divis ion was driving in that direction. The division Monday was reported officially to be two miles north of Huichon, a road center 90 miles north of Pyongyang. Elements of the ROK Sixth and First Divisions captured Yongbyon, 54 miles north of Pyongyang. This is one of the ancient walled cities into which the Reds were reported fleeing. By DALE WALSTON Campus construction reached a fast pace today when work began on the foundation of the new Ad ministration Building, adding that project to a number of others on the campus under construction or nearing completion. Drilling of the footings for the new Administration building is ex pected to get underway today with the arrival of heavy drilling equip ment from Houston, according to Oscar E. Telg, construction super visor for the Fisher Company con tractors. As soon as the footings have been poured, excavation of the basement of the $452,433 building will begin. Sewer connections from the center of the drill field to the side of Goodwin Hall are being completed through a tunnel drilled under Houston Street. The new Campus Cleaners Build ing is now complete except for the installation of essential electrical Seated at the speakers (able for the formal ban quet given by the Texas Garden Clubs, Inc. last night, are Mrs. O. K. Smith, president of the College Station Garden Club; Mrs. Steve Barrett; Mrs. Roy Smith; Mrs. C. B. Campbell; C. G. Milne, at uy uaitditon vjniet rnoiograpiiei &<im of the A&M Floriculture Department, Mrs. W. C. Windsor, Texas Garden Club president; Mrs. Bos well Porler, president of the Bryan Garden Club; .Mrs. Gross R. Scruggs; Mrs. G. T. Buchanan; Mrs. Robert Ash; and Mrs. D. H. Buchanan. State Garden Club Executives End Convention Here Today By TOM ROUNTREE The Executive Board of the Tex as Garden Clubs, Inc., held their formal dinner last night in the Assembly Room of the Memorial Student Center. The dinner was held in honor of Mrs. W. C. Windsor, president of the Texas State Garden Club. Prin cipal speaker was C. G. Milne of the A&M Floriculture and Land scape Architecture Department. . Milne spoke on “Floriculture Facts and Fancies.” Milne point ed out ill his speech that for years home flower gardening has been hindered by ancient laws or say ings that are founded mostly upon superstition and have little or no scientific background. Information Not Accessible ‘ Another point that was brought but in Milne’s speech was that much of the information that would be of use to the home gardener is not readily accessible to them and there is a great need for the translation of some of this scientific literature into language that an amateur can understand and make this in formation more readily available to them. As a part of his speech, Milne asked the audience twenty flori- cultural facts and fancies and had Community Picnic 4t 6 p.m. Tonight The College Station Com munity Picnic gets underway at 6 p.m. tonight on Patranella Slab at Consolidated High School. Serving time for the af fair was erroneously stated as being 7:30 p.m. in yesterday’s paper. Tickets will be on sale for those people who were not con tacted during early sales. Ad ults will be assessed 85 cents, while all children through the fifth grade will be charged 65 cents, said F. R. Brisco, president of the Mother and Dad’s Club which is sponsoring the supper. them indicate what the. statement was by a show of hands. One of the highlights of the ban quet was a performance by the Singing Cadets. The songsters gave four selections which includ ed “This Is My Father’s World,” “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God,” “Nothing Like a Dame,” “Wan derin’ ,” and “The Spirit of Aggie land.” After the banquet, the meeting Ag Delegation Visits Dallas, Plan Corps Trip A five-man A&M delega tion is in Dallas today making plans for the Armistice Day Corps Trip to that city. The group, consisting of Assistant Commandant M. P. Bow den, Colonel of the Corps A. D. Martin, Corps Information Officer Ferris Brown, Public Information Officer Dave Coslett, and Student Senate President Bill Parse, left the campus at 7 a. m. At 11 this morning the delegation was scheduled to meet at the Dal las City Hall with the mayor, the chief of police, a dean from SMU and the SMU student body presi dent. The meeting was set to make plans for the corps parade and other activities incident to the bi annual mass trip to Dallas. Such plans will be announced upon the committees return tonight. SMU will be host the Nov. 11-12 weekend to the Aggies for the con ference grid game between the two schools. That Saturday is the first official holiday listed on the college calendar. This will be the annual corps- trip with TSCW students joining the Aggies in the week-end ac tivities. adjourned to the Ball Room of the MSC to hear a lecture by Mrs. Robert Ash of Washington, D.C. Mrs. Ash demonstrated how to arrange a centerpiece of roses for a dining table. A “rule of thumb” that a person can use for anything except a formal dinner as to the height of the centerpiece is that it should be no higher than the “distance from the tip of the el bow to the tip of the fingers.” This is so the people seated across from each other are not obscured from one another. This rule is not applicable at a formal dinner because the persons that one converses with are those seated on your right or left arid therefore it is alright to have a high centerpiece. “Watch Balance of Arrangement” One of the things to watch, Mrs. Ash said, is the balance of your arrangement. Mrs. Ash remarked she asked one woman what she did about balance and the woman replied she never worried about it. If when she finished the ar rangement and the flowers toppl ed over, she knew the arrange ment was out of balance. Frame work for the arrange ment was put in last because when roses are used for the arrangement the thorns make it difficult to put in framework first Mrs. Ash said. She used a three point needle holder to hold her floral arrange ment of Tyler roses. (See MRS. ASH, Page 4) No Justice Left in This Life Now Even Gals Want a.GPR Bad news, lads. There’s no man shortage yet. Or so it would seem from the letter received in The Battalion office yesterday. The short note sets us to wondering, in fact, what all we dean’s team members have left in life. We can’t file for an office, we can’t cut classes at will, we can’t qualify for DMS or DS—and now this. The letter reads: Dear Aggies, We request the following type of boy for a mutual correspondent. 1. Between 5’ 7” and 6’ (we are short) 2. Blond, Brunette or Black Curly hair. 3. Good looking. 4. Preferably upperclassmen. 5. Nice personality. 6. Must have “C” average. 7. Acceptable morals. Reply with your qualifications to Box 5973, N. T. Station, Denton. Texas. * Friendly Gals There it is lads. Go to it—if you’re qualified. Soph Filing Opens, Election Slated Oct. 21 equipment which is expected to ar rive within a month. The move from the present quar ters above the Exchange Store to the new building is not expected to take place until the Christmas holidays, however. The move of the Business Ad ministration department is . also scheduled for the Christmas hoir- days, although the addition to Francis Hall which will house the department is to be completed around Thanksgiving. Water Supply Water supply pipelines have been completed from the college wells with the exception of blow-off and air relief valves, which should be installed within thirty days. Work will start this week on reservoirs and pumping plants for the water system. One reservoir and plant will be located at the wells, while a second reservoir and plant will be located near the Feeding and Breeding Station. /Construction across the railroad tracks on several agriculture build ings is well under way. The two horse barns are expected to be fin ished by Christmas. Several more months work remain to be done the Swine Center, the Dairy and the Poultry and Laboratory on Feeding Barns, Center Office Building. By JOEL AUSTIN The long delayed election date of Sophomore Class officers was set yesterday and applications for fil ing for the ten sophomore offices are now available in the Student Activities Office in Goodwin Hall, according to Grady Elms, assist ant director of Student Activities. Deadline for filing was set at 12 noon, Tuesday, Oct. 31 by Elms. The election will be held in a class meeting scheduled to be held in the Assembly Hall Wednesday night Nov. 1 at 7 p. m. Assembly Hall Vote The election will be by secret ballot, although class members will vote in a body rather than in the dormitories. Votes can be picked up and counted much easier and more New Civic Club State Secretary Here For Lion’s Club Organization Promotion List Announced Additional appointments and pro motions of cadet officers and non commissioned officers announce^ yesterday in a general order, pub lished by order of Gol. II. L. Boat- ner, commandant and PMS&T, with the approval of the president of the college and the dean of men. Consolidated Band Hq. '*/ Victor B. Russek, sergeant ^ L jor; Lowell A. Holmes, supply sJt- geant. ’ Infantry Regiment Hq. Don V. Stigali appointed adju tant. Albert J. Dennis^tssigned as operations officer. yiwis E. Jobe assigned suppjf .ergeant. Melvin D. Riff assig;^ th( -olor ser geant. Don G. Lee, i' 0i] Ayence of ficer; Thomas L. J <H1, color sergeant. jU Infantry Reg^e pt, First Battalic&rtlq. Alvin N. Deck, assigned adju tant. A Infantry Joseph A. Perry promoted to Sec- ond-in-Command. Lester K Ban- field, platoon leader; Dick M. Jen- nison, first sergeant. C Infantry Jim B. Steen named company commander. James R. Grave?, platoon leader. Second Battalion Hq. Francis R. Wilhite appointed sup ply officer. John R. Gottlob, ser geant major. D Infantry Francis A. Lindner, first ser geant. E Infantry Wcrry L. King assigned comman- (fer. - . First Air Force Wing Hq. Stanley G. Southworth named executive officer; Jerry W. Grader appointed operations officer. First Group, First Wing Hq. Robert P. Souther named ser geant major. Oliver B. Taylor as signed supply sergeant. B Squadron James R. Haralson, athletic of ficer. C Squadron Stephen G. Dardaganian appoint ed second-in-command. First Wing, Second Group Hq. Richard R. Tumlinson assigned commander; Gordon C. Edgar nam ed executive officer; Carter G. Tay lor appointed operations officer; HaydOn E. Hatcher, supply ser geant; Allan E. Aaronson, supply officer; Luis F. Dominguez, ser geant major. D Squadron Don F. Kendall, second-in-com mand. E Squadron Donald H. Nowlin, commander; | John M. Holm, platoon leader; Gus | E. Clemons, Jr., first sergeant. F Squadron William S. Nichoson, first ser- j geant. Second Air Force Wing Hq. Ray W. Long asigned as execu tive officer. Second Wing, Third Group Hq. Leroy D. Lockhart, adjutant; John D. Mayfield, supply officer; Simon S. White, operations officer. G Squadron David Robertson* second-in-com mand; Robert K. J. Cockrum, Jen nings D. Young, platoon leaders. H Squadron Herman C. Gollob, scholastic of ficer; Allen N. Weaver, platoon sergeant; Henry D. Neal, first ser geant. Second Wing, Fourth Group Hq. Malcolm J. Stokes, supply offi cer; Edgar D. Miller, sergeant ma jor; Jerre R. Gauntt, executive of ficer. K Squadron Louis E. Englebrecht, second-in- command; Olin E. Brashear, Jr., eomander; John A. Holland, platoon leader; Billy T. Rand, first ser geant. L Squadron Frank A. Ragusa, platoon lead er. .Artillery Regiment, Second Battalion Hq. Loyd R. Wright, supply officer. A Field Artillery Gillam P. Reddell, athletic offi cer; Jack C. Milligan, first ser geant. B Field Artillery Jack B. Alexander, second-in- command; James W. Little, first sergeant. C Field Artillery Eugene H. Fatheree, first ser geant! Armor Engineer Regiment A Armor Robert C. Williams, platoon lead er. A Engineers Louis O. McFeron, troop infor mation officer. B Engineers James B. Newton, athletic offi- (See NEW PROMOTIONS Page 2) Marlow Fisher, state secretary of the Lion’s Club, was guest speak er at an organizational meeting of a College Station Lion’s group in the Memorial Student Center last night. Fisher, whose home is in Austin, spoke to a group of some twenty- five College Station men who will become charter members of the organization which will hold its first official meeting next Mon day noon at the MSC. Bob Halpin, agriculture experi ment specialist and, local city coun cilman, presided with Fisher at the organizational meeting which last ed from 7:30 until 9 p.m. last night. The state secretary explained the history of the Lion’s organization, pointing out the fact that some 8300 clubs numbering 420,000 mem bers are now active in twenty-nine nations. “Service, yet fun at meetings is what we strive for,” was Fisher’s sumation of Lion activities. He said all the clubs, including Texas’ 620 Lion organizations, are non sectarian and non-partisan. Plans were discussed for electing officers of the newly formed club at the meeting Monday. Leaders to be named are president, first, I second, and third vice-president, secretary-treasurer, lion tamer, tail twister, and four directors. Halpin said the group would meet each Monday at 12 noon for lunch in the Memorial Student Cen ter. Meeting room for next week’s gathering is yet to be announced, he said. Among the men present at the organizational meeting were Cor- key Jackson, Dr. A. A. Price, Dr. L. C. Grumbles, Harley Behout, Maj. A. B. Currie, Rev. Lawrence Brown, Rev. O. G. Helvey, Dr. W. E. Paulson, and Raymond Reiser. Others who are to be included in the chartering group are How ard Berry, Christ Gent, Robert Cain, A. H. Krezdorn, H. T. Black- hurst, C. N. Hielscher, and Halpin. Harold Dreyfus, president of the Bryan Lion’s Club, was also on hand for the meeting. effectively if the balloting is done quickly and the tabulations begun at an early hour, the Student Activ ities representative said. Purvis, retiring vice-president of the class said a president, vice- president, secretary, treasurer, par liamentarian, sergeant -at-arms, social secretary, and three non-vot ing representatives to the Student Senate will be elected. A run-off election of the three top candidates for each post will be held the Monday following the primary election Wednesday. The run-off will be conducted in a sim ilar manner at the primary ballot ing. Non-Voting Senators Along with the usual list of class officers, the sophomores will also elect three non-voting members to the Student Senate. These class representatives to the senate will be' allowed to sit in on all meetings and take part in discussions and arguments al though they will be denied voting privileges. The vice-president of the class automatically becomes a member of the senate with all voting privi leges according to the Student Sen ate by-laws. An election committee had not been appointed yesterday although a group of sophomores will be named to handle the vote counting and ballot making. Farm Roads Five miles of farm roads under construction on the college farms are expected to be finished within two months. The street paving in the area of the Memorial Student Center will be finished within four more weeks. Also to be finished within four weeks is the reworking of the street lying north of Sbisa Hall, between Sbisa and thp Board of Director’s House. Thd street will be of concrete con struction with curbs . and gutters and will be widened to provide additional parking space. Contract work on the Biological Sciences building will end this week. The building has been in use since the beginning of school ■while the-contractor was installing cabinets and finishing the interior. A contract has just been let for the material for a new Horticulture green house, to be built for equip ment for the building. Construction will begin when the material is delivered. New contracts to be awarded in clude eight new buildings at the Poultry Center. Bids for the build-; ings, to be of concrete block con-' struction with concrete floors, will be taken November 22. Corps Senior Pics Slated for Annual Picture schedule for the Aggie land ’51 for unit commanders and military seniors is as follows: Company, Battalion, and Regi mental Commanders. A-Z Oct. 23, 24, 25, and 26. Military Seniors Oct. 27-28 A-C 30-31 D-F Nov. 1-2, G-K 3-4 L-N 6-7 O-R 8-9 S-V 10-13 V-Z Uniform for seniors will be num ber one with green ties. Unit commanders should carry saber and garrison caps. Members of staffs should carry garrison caps also. Lions Organize Attending the organizational meeting of the Col lege Station Lion’s Club last night in the Memor ial Student Center were, standing from left to right, Robert Cain, Chris Gent, C. N. Hielsher, Howard Berry, Marlow Fisher (State Lion’s Club Secretary), Bob Halpin, A. L. Behaut, L. C. Grumbles, Dr. A. A. Price, and Dr. \V. E. Paul son. Sitting are Corkey Jackson, the Rev. Law rence Brown, Maj. A. B. Currie, the Rev. O. G. Helvey, A. H. Krezdorn, and H. T. Blackhurst. On the floor is Harold Dreyfus, president of the Bryan Lion’s Club.