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D« ' e, * Ce^ ide^ 3 Co? ii eS 5^° ?. ' i ‘* pj0?^ Circulated to More than 90% Of College Station’s Residents -— Number 47: Volume 51 The Battalion PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1950 Nation’s Top Safety Section Lumberman’s 1949 Contest Price Five Cents Scholarship Winners K. C. Giesecke W. L. Uiich * Lowell A. Holms iiesecke-Holmes Win . Ag Engineering Awards Two Agricultural Engineering 1 majors were presented scholarships . amounting to $500 at a meeting of the American Society of Agricul tural Engineers by the Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation. I .'can 0. N. Shepardson, of the School of Agriculture, presented flat Eradication Followup Class Set for Friday A follow-up instruction period will be held in Col. H. L. Boatner’s office in Ross Hall Friday morning at 8 a. m. in connection with the A&M Sanitary Board’s rat eradi cation campaign. The meeting will be held for the benefit of the departments who did not send representatives to the in structional meeting held Wednes day morning. All the College de partments except six were repre sented at the Wednesday meeting Col. Boatner said. Letters have been sent to the departments who were not repre- l.ented at the meeting informing them of the Friday meeting Col. Boatner saiid. > Approximately 90'/r of the poi- /on that was delivered to the City tlall has been distributed to Col lege Station residents according to Raymond Rodgers, College Sta-. tion city manager. Eighty sacks of the poison weighing a half to three quarters of a pound have been picked up by *32 College Station residents. If the poison supply is complete ly depleted and there are still peo- ple who want the poison, then the * supply will be replenished Rodgers said. Korea Delegate To Protest Red Chinese Help Chang Expected to Back General MaeArthur’s Charges New York, Nov. 16—(AP)—While UN troops advanced along a cold and stormy 30 mile battle line in Korea a ROK spokesman is expected to back up General MaeArthur’s cnarges of Chinese Communist intervention when the UN Security Council meets this afternoon in New York. John M. Chang, permanent Korean representative here, is scheduled to back a resolution ordering Chinese Commun ist withdrawal and assuring the Peiping government that U.N. troops will respect her Korean frontier. Other spon sors are Britain, France, Norway, Ecuador and Cuba. Master Letter On the eve of the Council’s meeting, Russia’s Jacob A. Malik circulated a letter from the Chinese Reds charging that American aggression is responsible for the war and de- feding the right of Chinese “volunteers” to go to the aid of the North Koreans. Sweetheart Nominees the awards to R. C. Giesecke, sen ior from Matador, and Lowell A. Holmes, junior from Donna. The scholarships were awarded by the Lincoln Arc Welding Foun dation on the basis of their 1950 Arc Welding Contest. The contest was divided into two main divisions, one for agricultural producers, which includes farmers, and ranches. The second division is for men engaged in Educational Work. Choose School The winners in each division ’ received a cash award and were | given the privilege to designate a ! scholarship to an agricultural en-■ gineering student. W. T. Gunter, from Palacios, | won the fourth prize in division > one and elected to give the schol- | arship to a student at A&M. His i award went to Lowell A. Holms. | W. L. Ulich, extension agricul- , tural engineer at A & M and for mer student, won the fourth prize in the educational division and elected to have the scholarship given to A&M. R. C. Giesecke was the winner of this scholarship. Scholarship Winners The scholarship winners were se lected from students majoring in [ agricultural engineering, upon the ' basis of scholarship and general all i round character and ability. F. R. Jones, head of the agri cultural engineering department, gave a short address to the society on the history of the society and its growth. Howard H. Barlow, dean of the School of Engineering, gave' a short address on the relationship of the School of Engineering to agri cultural engineering at A&M. It is expected that Malik will read the letter into the council records and then demand that pro ceedings halt until a delegation from Peiping is present. Word was received from Prague yesterday that a nine-man Chinese Red group has booked air passage for Nov. 23 and will arrive in New York the next morning. Wait Till Monday Since this is a Friday it is doubt ful if they can take part in council deliberations until the following Monday—the 27th. This is two months since the original invitation was extended for them to come here to take part in discussions of the Formosa problem and 19 days from the time they were asked to come to explain their actions in Korea. The U. S. has insisted that the council proceed without waiting for the Chinese who, in any case, have served notice that they will discuss only their own charges of Ameri can aggression—not MaeArthur’s report that they themselves are fighting in Korea. Take Time Since it is now apparent that the Peiping delegation is taking its own sweet time about arriving here, the U. S. is expected to press this view even more strongly. Other Western diplomats, who have held back in order to make every effort not to offend Peiping, are reported to feel that the slow journey from Peiping to New York is a deliberate affront to the U. N. and puts a different face on the rhatter. Tsiang Takes Over Some delegations speculated that their arrival is timed to have them in New York Dec. 1 when Nation alist China’s Dr. T. F. Tsiang takes over the presidency of the council. Since both Moscow and Peiping insist that Tsiang has no legal standing and. represents only a small clique, they may use this co incidence of timing to force a show down on the issue of seating the Reds in the U. N. in place of the Nationalists. Tsiang is scheduled to speak at today’s meeting and may give some indication of what attitude he will take toward recognizing the rights of the Peiping delegates to speak during his presidency. Baptist Student Slate Journey To BSU Meet Members of the A&M Bap tist Student Union will leave Friday to attend the annual convention of the Texas BSU to be held at the First Bap tist Church in Houston, according to Ralph Shanahan, magazine re presentative for the BSU Council at A&M. Sunday morning 25 Aggies will usher for church services as their part of the activities. Over 3,000 are expected to attend the conven tion with about 40 of these coming fropi A&M. Shanahan said. Prominent Baptist speakers from all over Texas will be heard at the three day meeting, he continued. Among them are, Howard Butt Jr. from San Antonio; Boyd Hunt, pas tor of the First Baptist Church in Austin; and Dick Baker, music director for the convention, from Baylor University. A&M’s BSU was represented at the convention last year in Dallas, Shanahan added. Registration for the convention is 1 p. m. Friday afternoon. Most of the group in tends to return Saturday for the Rice game, Shanahan finished, and will return to Houston Saturday in order to make the Sunday morn ing services. Sue Moore Miss Moore is no newcomer to A&M as a beauty. She was Cotton Ball Duchess in 1948-’49—is the Homecoming Queen of Par is Junior College this year. L. W. Boothe of B Coast is the lad escorting the lass to the Infantry-Artillery Ball. Vital statis tics? Weight—108, height—5’ 5”, hair and eyes—brown, age 18. Laverne Howard Miss Howard hails from San Antonio and will be escorted by Dick Semilinger to the Infantry Artillery Ball Friday Night in the MSC. In addition to being very attractive, Dick says, she is 17 years old, 5’ 5” tall and tips the scales at an attractive 113 pounds. Cherry Blair Oh these Panhandle gals. Miss Blair hails from the Panhandle city of Amarillo. She is a sophomore at TU and will be es corted by Bill McSpadden of 1) FA. In addition to being in Vanity Fair in Aggie- land ’50 and TU’s Aqua Queen. Vital sta tistics are hair of brown, eyes—hazel, height 5’ 5”. Barnes, Haines in the Clutches Regimental CO’s Retain Kissing Rights By L. (). T1EDT After three years of planning dances and then standing on the sidelines while others kissed the sweetheart, W. D. “Pusher” Barnes will finally get to perform the hon ors. As commander of the Infantry Regiment, Barnes automatically gets the privilege of planting the traditional buss on to the regimen tal sweetheart at the Infantry-Ar tillery Regimental Ball Friday Morgner and Waller Delegates to Meeting Two members of the Economics Department attended the annual sessions of the Southern Economic Association in New Orleans Nov. 10-11, according to departmental head Dr. Walter H. Delaplane. Aurelius Morgner, associate pro fessor, and James M. Waller, as sistant professor were the dele gates, Dr. Delaplane said. The main topic for discussion at the meeting was the past economic growth of the South and its pros pects. Blakelock Killed in Action During Fighting In Korea Metermen to Hold Banquet Tonight A banquet for the electrical met- ermon attending the public utility short course being held on the cam pus this week will be held tonight at 7:30 in Sbisa Hall, M. C. Hughes, head of the EE Depart ment, said today. Approximately 170 men are attending the course, Hughes added. L. E. Cook, vice president of the Texas Power and Light Company, will be the principal speaker, pre senting, “A Quarter Century Sur vey of the Electric Utilities.” W. H. Farrington, president of the Metermen’s Association of Texas, will preside. Three concurrent courses are being held under the sponsorship of the Electrical Engineering Depart ment and the Public Utilities Com pany of Texas. Two of the courses , are being held in Bolton Hall, the third at the MSC. Courses are administered by Norman Rode and Farrington. By DON D1D1EK The Military department has re ceived word that 1st. Lt. David R. Blakelock, class of ’50, was killed in action in Korea, Oct. 19, while serving with the 8th Combat En gineers Battalion, 1st Cavalry Div ision. Lt. Blakelock was the younger son of Brig. Gen. David H. Blake lock, USA-Retired, and Mrs. Blake lock. He was born at Ft. Sheridan, Ill., on May 17, 1924 and entered A&M in June, 1942. In April of 1943 he enlisted in the Army and served with the 66th Division in Europe during World War II. He received the Bronze Star for gallantry in action and was discharged from the Army as a sergeant in 1946. He re-entered A&M the same year and was graduated in January, 1950, with a degree in Civil Engineering. While on the campus Blakelock took part in many activities. At various times he was Cadet Cap tain of the Battalion staff of. B Engineers, a member of the ASCE, a member of the Inter-church coun cil, vice president of the Newman Club, and a member of the Knights of Columbus. The El Paso veteran was com missioned in the regular Army as a second lieutenant in the Engin- 1st. Lieut. David R. Blakelock ers March of 1950. He was assign ed to the 1st Cavalry Division in Japan in May and sailed with that division to Korea shortly after the outbreak of the Korean War. He was promoted to first lieu tenant on Sept. 27 as a result of outstanding service during com bat against the North Koreans. In a letter of Aug. 14, to Lt. Col. Walter H. Parsons, Jr., a member of the military staff here on the campus, Blakelock said, “The En gineers have been worked over time here but we have always done our job and done it well. We have been on the go day and night and 1 have done my best to keep the Aggie reputation up to what it has al ways been. “I have been in several tight spots up on the front line, but so far have been able to get out without any trouble or damage.” Lt. Blakelock was unmarried. He is survived by his parents, who re side at San Clements, Calif.; a sis ter, Mrs. Jean Kegan of Owings Mills, Md. and a brother, 1st Lt. John H. Blakelock, USAFR, who is currently a student at the USAFIT, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio. Aggie Cowboys Win Fifth Place At Kingsville Six member’s of the Texas Aggie Rodeo Team have re turned from a National In tercollegiate Rodeo held at Kingsville, November 9, 10, and 11. The team placed fifth in the contest, running a dose place with the fourth team, Texas A&I. New Mexico A&M won the rodeo by a comfortable margin, while Sul Ross, Colorado A&M, Texas A&I and Texas A&M followed in close order. Clyde Martin, Texas A&M, was runner-up for all around cowboy, lacking only four points needed to win the $2,000 Quarter Horse don ated by the King Ranch for the top cowboy of the rodeo. He won the first go-around in saddle-bronc riding, on a horse called Stinking Bear. This parti cular horse bucked as high as any horse in the rodeo circuit and Mar tin could place first only with such an animal, witnesses said. He also split first money in the bare-back bronc riding. Other Aggies who placed in the rodeo were Jack Willingham and Jackie Longbotham, who split money in second place in the rib bon-roping, Bill Lockridge, who split fifth and sixth in the bull- riding Gilbert Gerstenberg, who qualified in the bull riding, and Tom Harrison who was entered in bare-back riding. Martin Manuel and Jimmie Chandler also accompanied the team on the trip. Four System Men Attend Dallas Meet Four men from the A&M College System were guest speakers at the Southern Veterinary Medical Convention recently held at the Baker Hotel in Dallas. They were: Dr. I. B. Boughton, Dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine, Dr. R. D. Turk of the Department of Veterinary Parasit ology, Dr. W. W. Armistead of the Department of Veterinary Medi cine and Surgery, and Dr. L. C. Grumbles, Poultry Pathologist of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. Purpose of this convention was to bring together authorities in the different fields of Veterinary medicine to speak to fellow mem bers on the advances and progress made in their respective fields during the past year, Night in the Memorial Student Center. Despite his position as regi mental commander, Pusher says, some of the “Kiss-happy” mem bers of the dance committee are trying to “relieve him of his Rightful duty.” Performing similar honors for the Artillery Regiment, will be David Haines, regimental comman der. Of the ten sweetheart nominees —five from each of the two regi ments—two will be selected to the top Sweetheart position. Representing members of the In fantry regiment are Misses Mari lyn Reeder, black haired, brown- SMU - Ag Movies Set for QB Club Movies of the thrilling SMU- A&M game will be shown at tonight’s meeting of the Quar terback Club. Gilbert Steinke, assistant coach for A&M, will speak. The meeting will begin at 7:30 in the Assembly Hall. Steinke plans to discuss A&M’s chances against Rice, and to give the troops the low- down on the Rice team. Commies Invading Says Burma Paper Rangoon, Burma, Nov. 16—*?P)— The newspaper Rangoon Daily de clared today Chinese Communist detachments, apparently hunting a short cut into Southeastern Tibet, have invaded the north tip of Bur ma. Official confirmation was lack ing. The newspaper said the Chinese have penetrated 50 miles into Bur ma’s territory to the Kachin vil lage of Laukhaung and are ap proaching the city of Putao, a gate way to high mountain passes into Tibet. (This dispatch did not go into detail about the size and makeup of the reported detachments). Putao lies 720 miles north of Rangoon, Burma’s capital; 420 miles southeast of Lhasa, the Tib etan capita] already menaced by Chinese. drives from the east and north; and 320 miles south of Chambo, a captive Tibetan city the Chinese have converted into a stag ing area for the Tibetan invasion they call a “liberation.” Lutheran Students Elect New Officers Quinton A. Johnson, junior ag ronomy major from Hutto, was chosen vice-president of the Luth eran Student Association at t h e Fall Conference held in Seguin Nov. 10-12. Leon Tolle, fifth year floricul ture major from San Antonio, was elected Study and Witness Secre tary. Other A&M delegates to the convention were Werner Lindig of Hye, Ken Bernhardt of Port Ar thur, and Ed Pauls of Graham. The Convention Sermon of Sun day morning was preached by Rev. Fred Mgebroff, Student Pastor, Texas A&M. The conference was held on the campus of the Texas Lutheran College. eyed Fort Worth lass; Sally Vaughn, a Baylorite from Bay City; and Juanita Casey, a blue eyed miss from Velasco. Also submitted for contest hon- ors by the infantrymen are Mar lene Brieden and Laverne Howard, both residents of San Antonio. The five girls are being escorted by Bob Collier, Don Stigall, John Craig Jr., William Groff, and Rich- ard Semlinger. Vicing for sweetheart honors in the Artillery Regiment are Billie Eason, Nan Hassler, Cher ry Blair, Betty Jo Boswell, ami Sue Moore. Miss Eason, a junior at Abilene High School will- be escorted by Harold Hughes. Tennesseean Nan Hassler, a Cotton Ball Duchess last year and Aggie Sweetheart nominee this year, will have Joe Johnson Jr. as her escort. Miss Blair, sophomore at the University of Texas and winner of Vanity Fair and TU Aqua Queen honors, was submitted for the sweetheaftship by Bill McSpadden. Beautification Campaign Will Begin Tuesday Signs for designating “off limits” areas are being built by the Building and College Utilities Department in read iness for a full-scale “let the grass grow” campaign which will be launched by the Senior Class Tuesday morning. Tuesday afternoon, The Battalion will publish the first of a series of campus sectional maps designat ing areas which have been set aside for re-seeding and beautifi cation, Bob Sturdivant, chairman of the Senior Class beautification committee, said. The campaign is being carried out in an effort to cooperate with the College Ground Department, which has offered to re-seed “worn out” areas if the Senior Class is successful in its effort to keep peo ple from walking on the grass. Signs being built will label areas intended for re-seeding. The com mittee feels that the “point of con tact” appeal for cooperation coupl ed with other publicity on the cam paign, will give faster, more thor ough results, Sturdivant said. Re-seeding of the areas will be carried out when weather condi tions make the project possible, Sturdivant said. He pointed out, however, that the entire re-seeding program depended upon the success of the beautifica tion campaign. Another out-of-stater from Mem phis, Tenn., Betty Jo Boswell’s pic ture was entered by Carl Schlinke. She is a freshman at TSCW. Cot ton Ball duchess for the past two years and Homecoming Queen at Paris Junior College this year, Sue Moore will be escorted by L. W. Boothe. The ten girls Will be presented during the first intermission at the Ball which begins at 8:30 with music by Aggieland Orches tra. At that time, a six man selection committee will view the candidates and choose Sweethearts for each of the regiments. Committee mem bers are Regimental Commanders David Haines and “Pusher” Barnes, and Company Commanders Ken Shaake, Roger Corbett, Jack Saun ders, and Bill Cornish. The final decisions of the se lection committee will be an nounced and sweethearts; pre sented by Commanders Haines and Barnes during the second in termission. The Ball is scheduled to end at 11:30 p.m. in time for midnight yell practice. Gallery Committee Slate Noted Artist John G. Browning, Brownwood artist, will address the Gallery Committee in the Art Room of tha Memorial Student Center at 7:30 p. m. Nov. 20, Mrs. Ralph Terry, Gallery Committee advisor said, to day. He will speak on art technique and give a demonstration in cer amics. Anyone interested in art or ceramics is welcome to the meet ing, Mrs. Terry said. A question and answer session is planned. Samples of Browning’s work are now on display in the show case of the MSC. He is known for his work with the Navajo In dians and among Pacific Islanders. Dr. Coffee Speaks To Vet Med Group Dr. W. M. Coffee, president of the National American Veterinary Medical Association, spoke to the A&M Junior Chapter of the AVMA, in the veterinary hospital last Thursday night. Dr. Coffee talked to the chapter on routine veterinary practice. The national leader, who is from La Center, Kentucky, showed a motion picture of his home facil ities and surgical techniques em ployed in his practice. He was graduated from Indiana Veterinary College in 1918. journalism Club Hears Tad Moses “There is a dire need for men who are able to write for publica tions and bulletins,” Tad Moses, Experiment Station, editor told members and guests of the A&M Journalism club Tuesday night. ; r When departments and organiza tions need some writing done, too often they pick the person with the most time, and not the best writer, he added. Most of the experts in the field are unable to put over their ideas on paper in layman’s language. As early as 1943, Moses was working towards establishment of a journalism department at A&M. Reservists Hear Atom Defense Talk James L. Hicks, ’51 has repPrl- ed to Ellington Air Force Base for a one year course of training to become navigator-officer in the Air Force. The one year course will con sist of phases of aerial navigation, using the latest electronic devices along with celestial and dead-reck oning navigation methods, and mil itary tactics and procedures. Hicks is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James L. Hicks who reside at 7004 Banyan St., Houston, Texas.