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LffloCSf^iTated to 90% Of £. ^College Station’s Residents Battalion Nation’s Top Safety Section Lumberman’s 1949 Contest PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Number 51: Volume 51 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1950 Price Five Cents Bonfire’s Centerpole Erection Set Thursday The annual Thanksgiving Bon fire will begin to take shape after the Fish-Shorthorn game Thursday when the centerpole is erected, Lewis Jobe, junior yell leader says. The big blaze will be lit Tuesday evening. The contracting firm working on the New Administration Building has already dug the hole for the hO-foot centerpole. Erection of the supporting pole is being held up by the freshman game. The main drill field, site of the conflagra tion, will be used for parking Thursday and a parade today. Work Started Woodcutting has started and as the pole goes up the job of hauling the logs, boards and other inflam- ables into the campus will begin. Trucks of the Landscape Art de partment will be available for bon fire; use after Friday, however any students who own trucks are asked to use them to augment the avail able college trucks. Wood this year will come from land owned by C. I. Miller. He provided a great deal of the tim- ber used in last year’s 50-foot tall bonfire. Transportation has been arrang- Navy Rocket Reaches New Height, Speed Washington, Nov. 22— (AP)—A Navy viking rocket soared to a height of 107 miles over New Mexico yes terday, setting a new record for an American-made single stage missile. The new mark fell only slightly short of the record set by a Ger man V-2, fired at White Sands, N. Mex., which beached an altitude of 114 miles. An American “WAG Corporal” rocket which took off from a V-2 at the top of its flight has been officially recorded as attaining a height of more than 250 miles. The defense department said to day’s test beat the previous record for an American single stage rock ed by one mile. At one point, the rocket was “clocked” as traveling faster than one mile per second or 3,600 M. P. H. It was the fifth of 10 viking rockets built to explore the upper atmosphere. The previous record was held by No. 4, which rose 106 miles from the deck of the re search ship Norton Sound in .the mid-Pacific last May 11. The viking is 50 feet long and weighs about 5!4 tons. The rocket fired today carried some 700 pounds of instruments to gather data on the density and nature of the ionosphere, far above the stratosphere, and radio it back to earth. ed to take men to the woods to began wood cutting. Don Joseph, senior yell leader, asked at last night’s yell practice, all available cars be used to transport men to the cutting area. Freshmen, wanting to work on the wood cutting details, will meet on the drill field after their last class in the afternoons and will be taken to the area. Upperclassmen will meet in the “New Area” for transportation to the Miller farm. Outfits were asked last night by Joseph to buy axes and saws be cause of the extreme shortage of equipment on hand. Guard details will be organized either Friday or Saturday, depend ing on the progress of the bonfire, Joseph said. Men scouting for wood were ask ed by Joseph to refrain fi-om taking outbuildings from surrounding farms. “It is a band privilege to get the one that goes on top of the pole. Any others will have to be returned and will result in a loss of time and trucks hauling them back and forth.” Head Yell Leader Don Joseph and Senior Yell Leader James Pianta will work under ,Col. Hay den L. Boatner and Lt. Col. M. T. Bowden in making arrangements for work on the traditional Thanksgiving bonfire. Committee Members Members of the Wood Cutting Detail Committee are C. C. Taylor, Jack Riley, Bo Hoskins, Jack Tan ner, Bill Knoll, and Bob Ruble. Members of the committee to put up the center pole will be Bill Cor nish, J. A. Warmkerr, F. “Chico” Mason, and Dick Ingles. The con struction of the bonfire will be un der the direction of John Tapley, Lewis Jobe and Ed Fulbright. John Oglesby and J. C. Fletcher wall be in charge of the equipment used in the bonfire. Details for communication will be arranged by W. E. Ball and Bert Chapman. I’rank Sheffield will make the guard duty assignments and Bob Allen will head the transportation committee. Oil for the Bonfire will be ob tained by John McFall and refresh ments for the guards will be ar ranged by R. L. Giles. Guard fire material will be set aside by Noble Clark and John Storrie. David Haines and Ferris Brown will be in charge of recon naissance. Teams Enroute TU Corps Trip Arrangements lo Chicago 11 ° Livestock Show The A&M Livestock Judg ing and Meats Judging teams are in Chicago this week to compete in the Intercollegi ate division of the Interna tional Livestock Show, an AH De partment spokesman said today. The Livestock Judging tea m, which won second place at the American Royal Intercollegiate Livestock Judging Meet, in Kan sas City, in mid-October, left by car Sunday for Chicago. The Meats Judging Team will leave later in the week. The Livestock team will stop Nov. 22 in Palestine, Illinois, at the Rathje Percheon Farm, to practice judge draft horses. Team members are; Doug White, from Granbury; John Rhemann, of Brookshire; Maxie Overstreet, from Haslett; Bert Gibbs, of Jus tin; Glen Dunkle, from Graham; Werner Lindig, from Hye; and Waco W. Albert, team coach. The Meats Judging team is com posed of Dunkle, Joe Bonnot, sen ior from Lolita; John Sugarek, senior from Skidmore; and 0. D. Butler, of the AH Department, team coach. The teams will be in Chicago from Nov. 25 until Dec. 3, attend ing the show, the spokesman added. Infantrymen Probe Fronts; Enemy Forces Reorganizing Invitation Sales Begin Graduation announcements are now on sale in the Student Activ ities Office in Goodwin Hall for January graduates. Announcements ihould be purchased before the deadline on Dec. 9. By The Associated Press Seoul, Nov. 22—(-<T)—B-29 bomb ers blasted Communist staging bases in northeast Korea today as infantry patrols probed along the entire front to find where the Reds plan to make a stand. Waves of superforts rained 140,000 pounds of high explosives on the Musan border area while! other B-29s struck the port of Chongjin, 45 miles to the south- east. It was the second strike in a week at Musan. North Koreans are reported re organizing and Chinece Reds con centrating at Musan to block the United Nations march toward the Soviet Siberian border. Hunting Fight Musan is 80 miles northeast of Hyesanjin, where U. S. Seventh Division troops raised, the Ij. N. blue and white flag Tuesday on the Yalu River opposite Red Man churia. Other Seventh Division infantrymen went hunting • for a fight with two Comunist battal ions reported to be holed up 10 miles southewest of Hyesanjin. General MacArthur’s war sum mary in Tokyo reported: “United Nations forces contin ued to advance generally along the entiie Korean battle front yester day (Tuesday).” Here’s the way the front looked from east to west: East coast—Eight inch guns of the U. S. cruiser St. Paul paved the way for the Republic of Korea (ROK) Capital Division pursuing “a retreating disorganized enemy” toward Siberia. South Koreans were eight miles south of Chongjin, port city 55 miles from the Soviet border where the Reds apparently were prepar ing to make a stand. B-29s botnb- ed Chongjin after marine airmen ran into heavy antiaircraft fire there. Manchurian border—The Seventh Division’s 17th Regimental combat team dug in around Hyesanjin. It reported no sign of enemy activity on either side of the 100-yard wide Yalu River which divides Korea from Red China’s Manchuria. Other Seventh Division elements, 15 miles to the south, struggled with faulty maps and bad roads in an effort to find and wipe out two Communist battalions. The Reds were in Samsu, 10 miles southwest of Hyesanjin. One road that maps said went to Samsu ended abruptly seven miles up in the mountains from Kyohang. The Americans tried another. This was blocked by a burning bridge and a landslide. “We will keep pushing until we have the area cleaned out,” a head quarters spokesman said. Concentrations Reported Central mountains—First Divi- sion marines, seeking to envelop Ghangjin reservoir, ran into heavy small arms fire near Sinhung, sev en miles up the east side of the reservoir. Red concentiations were reported nearby. Northwest front — The ROK Eighth Division occupied Yongwon, and with other divisions of the ROK Second Corps established a line running five to six miles north of Tokchon. Chinese Communists were building a series of strong defenses six to eleven miles north, just as they were on the rest of the northwest front manned by the U. S. First Corps. First Corps patrols probed in spots as far as six miles without encountering the Chinese. But at either end they ran into trouble. U. S. First Cavalry patrols on the right found Reds dug in on high ground five miles north of Yongbyon. MSC Plans Organization of New Talent Bureau Tonight On the west coast ROK First Di vision patrols clashed with Red patrols foraging for food behind the U. N. line. This was south and southwest of Pakchon. Chinese were building a moun tain defense line to the north, and pock-marking highways with tank traps and road blocks. The flat lands along the coast leading to the border city of Sinuiju were dotted with roadblocks. Guerrilla “front” — Tough and bitter fighting was reported in bypassed areas of western Korean Wednesday. Two ROK Second Di vision regiments attacked Chun- chon in full force, trying to drive Reds out of the town 40 miles northeast of Seoul, the ROK capi tal. Artillery supported elements of the U. S. 187th Airborne Regiment which attacked 700 guerrillas at Singye, 55 miles southeast of Py ongyang, former Red capital. Civ ilians reported 1,500 Reds raiding- villages 30 miles northeast of Py ongyang. ROK Eighth Division elements were heavily engaged 15 miles from Taejon in southern Korea. Puerto Rico’s 65th Regimental Combat Team v r as under attack 35 miles west of Hamhung on the east coast. Air front—U. S. F-80 jets tried to get into a fight -with 10 Russian made MIG-15 jets over Sinuiju. But the Red jets fled across the border to safety in Manchuria. Four other enemy jets were sighted later over the city. Near Completion; Parade Set Plans for the bi-yearly Turkey Day Corps Parade through Austin were hastened toward completion yesterday at a meeting_ in Austin of representatives from A&M and from various civic, official and alumni groups of that city. The Aggie delegation was the guest of the Austin Chamber of Commerce at a luncheon in the Stephen F. Austin Hotel. Provisions for the parade, ac commodations in the city and a dance were studied by the group. The parade, as in previous years, will form at 2nd Street and Con gress at 9:30 p. m. Units will as semble on 2nd Street to either side of Congress. March Down Congress Starting time will be 10 a. m. The Corps will proceed up Congress to the dismissal area within the Capital grounds. The reviewing party will be stationed on the Con gress Street balcony of the Steph en F. Austin Hotel. Another party, this one concern ed with judging units in the parade, will be observing the parade from a platform in front of the hotel. Each unit will be graded compet itively. The outfit receiving the highest grade will be. declared winner of a new award being innovated this year by the Austin Junior Cham ber of Commerce. The award, a five-foot long streamer appropri ately lettered in maroon and white, will be affixed to the guidon of the winning unit. Officers Get Keys Each cadet officer within that unit will also receive a circular key chain ornament appropriately inscribed. The outfit winning the distinctive streamer will be entit led to hold it during the two-year Forfeit Gives Rifle Team Win From NMMI The A&M Fifle Team open ed its 1950-51 season by win ning a rifle match with New Mexico Military Institute who forfeited the contest. Coached by M/Sgt. William R. Reese, the team fired a score of 1,893 points out of a possible 2,000 points. High scorer for the squad was Russel G. Durrill, junior pre-law from El Paso, who fired 380 points out of a possible 400. John G. Rowe, junior mechanical engineering student from Dallas was second with 379 points. Other- members of the squad were Duane C. Unrue, Carl Unrue, Carl Sch- linke, and Roland T. Zapata. Firing for the William Randolph Hearst Trophy will begin Dec. 1, Reese said. This trophy was won by the A&M team last year. Beautification Map By GEORGE CHARLTON Major Bowes has done it. So have several other radio and television entertainers. Now the MSC, following in their footsteps, is setting up a talent bureau, which by the time it’s in full operation, should be providing- all mediums of entertainment from magicians to emcees for organiza tional events around College Sta tion and for that matter the whole-f- state. Just like any talent organiza tion, there will be auditions. Times for these are Wednesday’s from 5 to 6 p. m. and Friday’s from 7 to 8 p. m. in the Social Room of the MSC. Persons interested in audition ing should contact Miss Betty Bo- lander, assistant social director, first to make special arrangements. Potential entertainers should bring an accompanist at audition time, if possible; if not, plans should again be made with Miss Bolander. A member of the Dance Com mittee, Publicity Committee, and Music Committee will be present at each audition. After a brief ex hibition of the entertainer’s po tentials, a special card will be. filled out on him and kept in MSC social office files. The card includes the entertain er’s name, his address on the cam pus, his hometown, his course of study, and the grader’s evaluation of his abilities. “Calls come in at any time for entertainment,” Miss Bolander says. “And we need entertainers for a special Variety Show this spring and for midnight fountain room shows after dances and Sat urday night functions.” There will also be chances for remuneration to members of the bureau in certain cases, Miss Bo lander says. “The bureau will not just be ac cessible to the residents around this part of the country, but for that matter, the whole state. In many ways, the service will act like a job bureau,” she says. Aggie-Tessie Fish, Juniors Plan Better Relations Dance Tessie juniors and freshmen will play host to the classes of ’52 and ’54 at a dance in Tessieland on Dec. 9. This is the beginning of a pro gram, originated by the Tessies, to better relations between the two schools. Corps juniors who are interest ed in making the trip should go by Dwayne Vandenberg’s, Harold Chandler’s, or J. W. “Doggie” Dal- ston’s rooms and leave their names. Information about whether or not the individual can furnish trans portation, how many they could take, and when they are leaving is also desired, Chandler, the junior class president, said. Freshmen should check with T. H. Clemens in room 129 of Dorm 17 and furnish him with the same information, Chandler said. Non-corps juniors and fresh men should check with Tom Roun tree in room 62 of Mitchell Hall if they intend to make the trip. Further information will be given on the dance via dormitory bulletin boards or in a class meet ing, Chandler said. intervening periods between Aus tin Corps Trip Parades. The parade will be one of the high-lights of pre-game activities which actually begin with the burn ing of the traditional bon-fire here Tuesday, Nov. 28. Classes will be officially dismissed Wednesday at 5 p. m., but a recision of the usual 4 p. m. drill period will allow military students to leave at least an hour earlier. Private Rooms Available Beginning Wednesday at noon the Austin Chamber of Commerce offices, located at 807 Congress Street, will make rooms in pri vate homes available to students. The available rooms will be listed on- cards retained in the Chamber of Commerce offices. A completed listing of commercial accomoda tions available in hotels, rooming bouses and tourist courts will also be on hand in these offices. After the Chamber of Commerce closes at, 9 Wednesday night, re maining cards listing the accomo dations in private homes will be turned over to desk clerks in the various Austin hotels. A special checking service for students, maintained in previous years, will not be set up this year. Poor utilization of this service in recent years caused members of the planning group to deem it unne cessary this year. A&M Dance Wednesday Wednesday night, the Austin A&M Club will sponsor a dance at the Coliseum located near the ball park on Austin’s near south side. The Aggieland Orchestra will play for the dance which is being pre sented through the co-operation of the Austin A&M Mother’s Club and the Capital City A&M Club. Tick ets will be $1 per couple and the dance will last from 9 p. m. to 1 a. m. Chamber of Commerce officials have advised students to eat im mediately following the Thursday parade in order to avoid the anti cipated pre-game crowds in Aus tin eating establishments. A listing of city buses to Mem orial Stadium will be found on the parade orders scheduled for publi cation tomorrow. This list will also appear in The Battalion as soon Georgia Possibility For Prexy Cup Till The University of Georgia enter ed the race for a berth as one of the two teams to play in the First Presidential Cup football game at College Park, Md., Dec. 9th, the Atlanta Constitution said late last night. A&M is being considered as the possible opponent to the Georgians, although Maryland has not said definitely, yes or no. In Athens, Georgia Coach Wal lace Butts said, “We have talked with some of the people in author ity but we haven’t anything to say as yet,” A1J indications seem to point to Georgia’s acceptance. Georgia has won five, tied three and lost only to Alabama this year. The big problem at hand seems to be who will oppose the Bull dogs. Council Can’t Decide The University of Maryland Ath letic Council couldn’t decide Tues day whether its football team should play in the Presidential Cup game Dec. 9. The council debated for three and a half hours, and then broke up without setting a time for an other meeting. That left the picture looking like this: A&M—still interested. Barlow Irvin, A&M athletic director, spent the day in Washington, but he gave out no statements on his decision. Maryland — a doubtful starter. True, Maryland didn’t say yes and it didn’t say no. But no answer at all—at this late date—obviously shows that at best the Maryland ers are unenthusiastic. Legion Sponsor These two teams had been con sidered the leading prospects for the game, to be played in Mary land’s home stadium in nearby College Park, Md. The American Legion is sponsoring the game to raise money for its rehabilitation program. Dave Herman, the game’s man aging director, told a reporter eight or ten teams still are under consideration. He said it wouldn’t be fair to list these teams, but that they include a strong south ern team and another strong team from the southwestern area. “ . . . Things Hot ...” “Things are hot,” Herman said. “We’re liable to have an announce ment at any time. Herman said the committee has been “embarrassed” by an an nouncement made by the Univer sity of Wyoming Monday that it would not play here. “It left the impression among some of the larger schools that we had offered Wyoming a for mal invitation,” he said. “What we had done was to ask Wyoming", along with many others, if they would be interested in a bid in case we decided to offer them one. Never at any time did we offer them a formal invitation.” “How We Got Into This” Maryland’s athletic council broke up with this comment from a spokesman: “I don’t know how we got into this anyway. We haven't made any overtures to the sponsors of the game. We haven’t received an invitation. “The idea that we were in it seems to have come from Texas. “Of course, the game is going to be in our stadium so I guess it was only natural that we should be considered.” Maryland’s Byrd Stadium was completed this year. Its biggest crowd was for the Navy game when 34,000 showed up. By using temporary bleachers, the seating capacity can be pushed up to 50,000.—Based on AP Reports. as it is confirmed. During yesterday’s Austin lunch eon, representatives heard both W. L. Penberthy, A&M dean of men, and Arno Nemotny, Texas Univer sity dean of students life, urge that the traditional A&M-TU rival ry be confined to the football field where it belonged. Alumni Offer Co-operation John A. McCurdy, executive sec retary of the Ex-Students Associa tion of Texas University, offered the assistance and co-operation of the TU Alumni group to all Aggies in Austin for the Corps Trip. Austin representatives at the meeting were George Saunders, chairman of the parade committee of the Capital City A&M Club; H. C. Bell, Jr., president of the Capi tal City A&M Club; Nemotny; W. L. Thompson, president of the Aus tin Chamber of Commerce; William O. Harwell of the Austin Chamber of Commerce; W. W. Blackman, Austin Police Department captain; Bruce Biggerstaff, Austin Police Department sergeant; McCurdy; and Jim N. Boswell, assistant man ager of the Austin Chamber of Commerce. In the A&M group were Dean Penberthy; Col. H. L. Boatner com mandant and PMS&T; Lt. Col. M. P. Bowden, assistant commandant; A. D. Martin, colonel of the corps; Frank Sheffield, corps adjutant; and Dave Coslett, public infor mation officer. Korean Police Warned Not To Harm Captives Seoul, Nov. 22 —(AP) — Home Minister Chough Pyung Ok warned his 50,000 Ko rean national police yester day that they must not use brutality or torture in handling Red captives. Severe punishment was threat ened against any police found guil ty of violating five-point instruc tions based on “well established principles of a democratic police system.’ Chough’s warning follows. 1. No brutality or torture in handling Communist captives or suspected Communist collaborators shall be tolerated. 2. Investigation should be made promptly before suspects are turn ed over to the prosecution office or military authorities and women and children should be investigated without arrest. 3. Thorough examination and analysis of information or com plaints should be made before ar rests of suspects. 4. No retaliatory action on the part of police is allowed against Communist brutality. 5. Any policeman who violates these rules will be quickly and im partially investigated and any per son found to be guilty will be strictly punished. Day Begins — At 5 p. m. J 1 Telephone Calls, Telegrams Plague ‘Lifeline' Workers firii—i butU EP S T R- 1= T E=s] : T Q Students and college staffers have been asked by the campus beautification committee to steer clear of the areas in black. If the campaign to keep walkers off the grass is successful, the areas will be re-seeded later in the year by the College Grounds Department, By SID ABERNATHY At 5 p. m. each afternoon the business offices of the college close their doors. The last labs are over. The school settles down for its daily rest. But while the remainder of the school sleeps, the nerve center still functions—the Housing Office is still open. This office on the first floor of Goodwin Hall -changes names as it changes shifts. From 8 a. m. until 5 p. m. it is known as the Housing Office, but at night it drops its former identity and becomes the Dean of Men’s Office. Long distance telephone calls are channeled through the office, telegrams flow through i t s Western Union wires, KK’s are dispatched by the night housing office chief, and the various other school activities not spec- i f i c a 11 y designated function through the office. After 5 p. m., 4-5014 becomes the most frequently called telephone number on the campus. For long distance calls the man on duty takes down the name of the party being called and the operator leaves her number. T’he night man whirls the person nel selector, locates the name and jots down the room number. A yel low slip is filled out with the full information and a messenger, in a matter of minutes, has this slip either in the hands of the student being called or behind his door card. The number of telephone calls per night ranges from 10 up to 60 or more \Vith an average of ap proximately 25 per night. Some strange calls enter into the nights work, sometimes caus ing confusion but more often giv ing the employees a good laugh. There was the call from Chicago by two men who had a bet as to the name of the college, and the operator in California who said she couldn’t hold the line open long enough for the party’s name to be checked (which would have taken less than a minute). Late date seekers find the West ern Union service especially con venient. Here they can send tele grams toward all points of the compass. As one student said, “its like leaves tossed about by autumn winds, one is bound to come down where it will be seen and appre ciated.” However, students are not al ways on the sending end. Many telegrams are received in the office and delivered to students throughout the night. As a rule, they are not delivered off the campus except in emergencies. Friendly, slow talking, Ted Cathey is in charge of the night shift, and has been for the past four years. Working with him are seven stu dents who are seldom found in the office—they are usually out on the campus delivering telegrams or phone call notices. At 12 midnight Ted goes home and the doors of tfie office are closed. The office, however, has not ceased to function. Someone is still in the office to take calls. If a message has to be delivered, the night man buzzes his partner in Bizzell Hall. The message is delivered as soon as the man can get his clothes on. The seven men alternate, each spending one night per week in the office.