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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.