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Number 52: Volume 51
The Battalion
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1950
Nation’s Top
Safety Section
Lumberman’s 1949 Contest
Price Five Cents
A&M Co-eds Possibility
In Education Reforms
Winning Team
liy DAVE COS LETT
Ag’gie co-eds loom as a definite
future possibility according to a
report in yesterday’s Dallas Morn
ing News. The story, written by
I’ichard M. Morehead of the Aus
tin. Bureau of The News, concerned
the study of the system of higher
education in Texas now being con
ducted by the Texas Legislative
Council.
But you needn’t get out your
anti-female posters yet. The possi
bility is only one of several be
ing looked at by the council in an
attempt to solve problems existent
in Texas higher education.
A 17-member group created in
1941), the Legislative Council is
strictly a recommending body to
tin* State Legislature. It does re
search work in governmental prob
lems assigned it by the lawmak
ers. This year it’s tackling taxa
tion and higher education.
Council Make-Up
The ’five senators and ten repre-
simtatives who, with the speaker
of the House and the president of
the Senate, comprise the council
gave their first consideration to
the latter subject last Thursday
when their research staff present
ed a 173-page, detailed description
of how things stood in that depart
ment right now.
That description, according to
Associated Press correspondent Bo
Byers, labeled the system of high
er education as sprawling and un
coordinated. A five-month study of
a set-up boasting 53 institutions of
public higher education controlled
by 40 different boards drew this
conclusion from the research staff:
“ . . . there emerges a picture
of an expanding higher education
B-36 Crashes
Near Ft. Worth,
Two Men Dead
Fort Worth, Nov. 23—
(AP)—A crippled B-36 bomb-
er fighting its way homeward
on three engines crashed in
a field 25 miles south of here
yesterday. Two of the 1 (5-man crew
were killed parachuting from the
plane, the world’s largest land-
based bomber.
Most of the 14 other men were
injured but none critically. The
most serious injury was a broken
leg. The parachuting airmen were
scattered over a four-mile area and
were not rounded up until hours
after the crash.
Carswell Air Force Base here,
home of the long-ranging B-36
bombers and the Eighth Air Force,
identified the dead as Capt. Horace
C. Stewart, 33, Philadelphia, Miss.,
the navigator, and Capt. James H.
Yeingst, 30, Holly Springs, Pa.,
radar operator.
The Air Force said the big plane
left at 5:05 a. m. today to make
practice gunnery runs over Mata
gorda Island off the Texas coast.
Enroute south two of its six en
gines failed. On the homeward
leg another engine went out. Heavy
fog prevented any landing on
coastal fields.
At 9:55 a. m. the plane thunder
ed over the head of W. O. Doggett,
who farms three miles south of the
crash. “I saw objects falling from
the plane.” He said. “I thought they
were practice bombs until I learned
later they were parachuting crew
members.”
The wreckage burst into flames.
Firemen warned spectators back
from the isolated field as ammun-
it on the plane detonated.
without the benefit of a statewide
plan. Each institution, seeking to
expand its program and course of
ferings in order to be more use
ful, must often duplicate expen
sive and highly technical work of
fered elsewhere.”
The part of the report concern
ing A&M from a eo-educational
stand points out that enrollment
here and at TSCW (where co-edu
cation is also being considered by
the committee) has not increased
at a rate comparable to that at
other colleges in general.
A&M has shown a 30 per cent
student body growth in the last
ten years as compared to total Tex
as college enrollment gains of 94
Green Dragon
Narcotic Head
Killed by Bomb
Fort Worth, Nov. 23—
(AP)—An exploded bomb
killed a convicted member of
the Green Dragon narcotic
ring yesterday. The same
bomb fatally injured his wife and
their unborn child.
Nelson Harris, 41, was almost de
capitated as nitroglycerine planted
in has car detonated. His 25-year-
old wife was perforated by flying
metal. Both she and the unborn
baby, whose birth was expected in
about a week, died, shortly after
ward.
Harris was one of 21 persons
convicted here in 1940 as mem
bers of the Green Dragon narcotic
smuggling and peddling ring, oper
ating from New York, Chicago and
Southwest headquarters. The ring
got its name from a green dragon
stamped on top of small boxes, re
sembling match boxes, in which
narcotics were delivered.
Almost exactly a year ago—on
Nov. 29, 1949—a similar car bomb
exploded in Dallas, killing the
pretty wife of Dallas gambler Her
bert Noble. Police said that bomb
was intended for Noble, a courtly,
white-haired man who has sur
vived several attempts on his life.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram
quoted local gamblers as saying
the two bombings were indirectly
connected—that Harris had been
using Noble’s money to buck float
ing crap games here. One gambler
said “somebody got tired of it.”
The Harrises had stepped into
their 1950 car to go to a grocery
when the explosives—probably
wired to the starter—demolished
the car, shattered windows in near
by apartments, and spewed battery
acid through the wrenehed-off
front door into the Harris apart
ment.
Harris’ body was smashed back
into the twisted interior of the
wreckage. His wife, face blackened,
was found lying on the ground by
the car.
She died 40 minutes later in a
hospital.
per cent. TSCW enrollment has de
clined nearly 29 per cent in the
same length of time.
Away From Noncoeducation
Legislative Council Director John
D. Moseley points out that current
ly, “The trend is definitely away ,
from noncoeducational institu
tions.” Only fourteen states now
operate a college for women only.
All-male colleges are predominant
inaiiuy in the East.
According to . yesterday’s Dallas
News story, Moseley admits that
many students and parents still
prefer the all-girl or all-male col
lege, but adds that the preference
for co-education is gaining.
Recent indications are that the
A&M Board of Directors does not
favor co-education, at least in the
immediate future. And Moseley is
quoted in the Dallas News story
as warning that any such change
at A&M might make it another
college of “university type.” com
peting with courses already offer
ed elsewhere.
One threat
In its 75-year history, A&M has
only had one major threat of go
ing co-educational. The Nov. 9 An
niversary Issue of The Battalion
cited this instance which occurred
in 1932.
Twelve Bryan and two Hearne
(See CO-EDS, Page 6)
Aggies to Meet
Georgia Dec. 9
In Prexy’s Cup
The Aggie crops judging team placed third in the
International Crops Contest at Kansas City. Left
to right team members are William E. Watson,
alternate member; Walter Tanamachi, winner of
a perfect score; Ray Kunze, placed first in com
mercial grading; Keith L. Hargrove; and Coach
Marvin L. Wilson.
Paste Pancakes-Divorce OK
Los Angeles, Nov. 22—(A 1 )—Sam Savitz was awarded a divorce
decree from Esther Savitz today on the grounds she put paperhanger’s
paste in his potato pancakes.
“And when I discovered it and showed her the sack, plainly
marked, in the kitchen cupboard, she swore at me and disappeared
for three days,” Savitz told the judge.
A&M Crops Judgers
Win Third Place at KC
Walter Tanamachi placed first
with a perfect score in one divi
sion and Raymond Kunze placed
first in another, in the Internation
al Crop Judging Contest to pace
Texas A&M to a third place win
in the nation. The contest was held
Tuesday in Kansas City.
First place was won by Okla
homa A&M and second place was
taken by Texas Tech. Oklahoma
A&M is holding first place for the
second consecutive year.
Team members participated in
three phases of crop judging. These
three were commercial grading of
grain, hay and cotton according
to Federal standards; identifica
tion of major crops and varieties in
AH Major Wins Cash
In Swift Essay Contest
Yernon F. Martin, senior animal
husbandry major from Sweetwater,
was a winner of a $100 prize in the
Annual Swift College essay con
test.
Martin will use the priz.e money
to finance a trip to Chicago to at
tend a market study course to be
held there December 3 to 6.
thg United States and judging of
ci'Dp seeds for: planting purposes..
The team ranked first in com
mercial grading and second in
identification in the nation. Tana
machi was , first in identification
wth a perfect score of 300. Kunze
was first in commercial grading.
As individuals, Tanamachi rank
ed sixth in the nation; Kunze was
seventh, and Keith L. Hargrove
was eleventh. William E. Watson
was the fourth member of the A&M
team.
Tanamachi is from San Benito,
Hargrove hails from Ft. Worth,
Watson’s hometown is Luling, and
Kunze is from Giddings. All four
days are senior agronomy majors.
Marvin L. Wilson, who accom
panied the team to Kansas City,
is a graduate of Oklahoma A&M
and was high point man in the
nation representing that college in
the ,1947 crop judging contest. Wil
son trained the team.
The team will be in Chicago to
day through Monday participating
in further crop judging. The Chi
cago contest is held in connection
with the International Hay, Grain
and Livestock Show.
Edwards Inter-Faith
Prexy; Chapel Studied
Beautification Program Gets
Pres. Harrington’s Support
State Department
Clean-Up Asked
Washington, Nov. 23—UP)—Sen
ator Hickenlooper yesterday de
manded a “thorough and extensive
housecleaning in the State Depart
ment,” including the dismissal of
Secretary Acheson and all his pol- j
iey-making subordinates.
The Iowa Republican, with a'|
fresh six-year hold on his senate :
shat and a place on the Foreign
Relations Committee, talked with |
newspapermen a few hours after I
Acheson had told a news confer
ence that his recent criticism of
“re-examinists” had been widely
misinterpreted.
Hickenlooper said he doesn’t
think he misunderstands what Ach
eson meant by the five-syllable
word.
He said it could be taken only
as “a bitter recrimination against
Senator Taft” (R-Ohio) or any oth
er senator “who would dare look
into the foreign policy of this
country, past, present and future.”
President M. T. Harrington in a
statement to The Battalion this
morning lent his support to the
campus beautification program,
which got underway officially
Tuesday.
His statement reads:
I want to congratulate the
Senior Class on their interest in
improving the appearance of the
campus and commend the com
mittee on campus beautification
for their constructive work and
efforts in encouraging use of the
sidewalks and other plans for
making our campus more attrac
tive.
I urge that all faculty and
staff members and college em
ployees cooperate with the stu
dents in observing the signs to
use sidewalks instead of walking
on areas designated for the
growing of grass.
H. T. Harrington
More signs were posted yester
day afternoon near present paths in
the areas designated on the cam
pus maps appearing in The Battal
ion Tuesday, yesterday and today.
Indications are that the commit
tee’s requests are being carried
out by walkers on the campus.
Only a few students could be seen
Areas in black are those designated by the campus beautification
committee as “re-seeding projects.” Students have been asked not
to walk in these areal
cutting across restricted areas yes
terday. Most of there were in areas
where signs had not been posted.^
Bob Sturdivant, beautification
committee chairman, said this
morning that he thought students
would begin taking heed of the
campaign as soon as all signs
were posted.
A series of announcements |or
the dining balls calling attention
to the campaign have been ar
ranged, Sturdivant said. With the
addition of the president’s request
to college staff members, we should
have almost everyone concerned in
formed through one means or an
other, he said.
Area Near Bizzell
Sturdivant asked that the area
South of Bizzell Hail be pointed
out as a grass re-seeding area,
since it was mistakenly left off the
map appearing in Tuesday’s Bat
talion.
All areas designated on the maps
and by signs on the campus will be
re-seeded later in the year if the
campaign to keep walkers off
them is successful.
The re-seeding work will be done
by the College Grounds Mainten
ance Department when proper
weather conditions are prevalent.
In the meantime, the Department
has begun plowing areas designat
ed for re-seeding. The lawn next
to Guion Hall and the strip South
of Bizzell already have been plow
ed.
Curtis Edwards, senior range
management major and corps
chaplain, from Houston, was elect
ed president of the Inter-Faith
Council at the weekly meeting of
the Council, Tuesday night.
Other officers elected were Nor
man Braslau, senior physics major
from Galveston and recipient of
this year’s Cohen Fellowship
Award, vice-president; and James
Lehmann, junior dairy husbandry
major from Brenham, secretary.
The Inter-faith Council is made
up of two student representatives
of each religious denomination of
the College Station community ap
pointed by the respective minister,
two representatives of the YMCA,
and the corps chaplain.
Projects and functions of the
council include the planning and
presentation of the annual Reli
gious Emphasis Week in Feb
ruary which is done with the help
of the secretaries of the YMCA. J.
Gordon Gay and M. L. Cashion.
Aside from this main project the
council has undertaken to contin
ue the promotion of an inter-de
nominational chapel on the A&M
campus. A report is being drawn up
on the possibility of an Aggie
chapel and the council hopes to
present this report for approval of
the administration, faculty and
Date Tickets Go
Today for TU
Over 1,400 date tickets for
the A&M-TU game went on
sale today, Howard Nelson,
ticket manager, announced
this morning.
Single non-military students may
buy their 24 per cent of the tick
ets at the ticket booth in the
Memorial Student Center. Mem
bers of the corps will buy their
tickets through their first ser
geants.
Corpsmen will pay their first
sergeants for the tickets and he
will buy them for his entire unit
by 5 p. m. today. Tickets left over,
after students have bought their
tickets will go on sale to the gen
eral public.
General admission tickets will go
on sale to the public at 9 a. m.
| tomorrow.
These tickets will permit anyone
to enter the Memorial Stadium
Nov. 30, but will require them to
sit in the Aggie section, Nelson
said.
Barlow Wins Land
Grant Body Posts
H. W. Barlow, Dean of the En
gineering School, was elected to
two posts at a recent meeting of
the Association of Land Grant Col
leges and Universities.
Barlow was elected to the sen
ate of the ALGCU to represent the
Council of Instruction of the
ALGCU. He was also elected sec
retary of the Resident Instruction
section of the engineering division
of the Association for the present
year.
The next meeting of the ALGCU,
held this year in Washingon, D. C.,
will be in Houston in November,
1951.
students, soon.
A chapel service to be held in
the YMCA Chapel is also being
planned. This service will be along
inter-denominational lines and will
be held at a time on each Sunday
morning so as not to interfere with
any of the services of the local
churches. The purposes of these
services will be to promote better
understanding between and know
ledge of the different religions, in,
addition to being an inspirational,
student conducted service.
An all Aggie choir will also be
formed for the services if interest
warrants it. Any student inter
ested in participating in any part
of the service is invited to contact
any one of the council members.
Other inter-denominational pro
grams are also sponsored and pre
sented throughout the year by this
council which is made up of the
following students:
Episcopal, Philo H. Du Val Jr.,
Charles R. Gallimore.
Baptist, Archie James, Floyd
Griffin.
Catholic, John Golla, Emil Rich-
ers.
Church of Christ, L. Douglas
Wythe, Seneca Cowan.
Jewish, Norman Braslau, Mel
vin J. Kanter.
Methodist, John Olson, Jack Hea-
cock.
Presbyterian, Norman J. Bent,
Don Hinton.
Lutheran, Ken Bernhardt, James
Lehmann.
Y.M.C.A., Frank P. Sherrill, I. C.
Trauth.
Corps Chaplain, Curtis Edwards.
President Y.M.C.A. Cabinet, King
Egger.
French to Attend
College Meeting
C. Clement French, dean of the
college, will attend the meeting
of the Southern Association of Col
leges and Secondary Schools begin
ning Sunday, Dec. 3, in Richmond
Va.
He is a member of the Commis
sion of Institutions of Higher Edu
cation and in particular of the
Committee on Standards and Re
ports of the Commission.
Dean French is also on the pro
gram of the 19th annual conference
of Academic Deans of the Southern
States, which will be held Monday,
December 4. The general topic of
the afternoon session is “Academic
Standards in Higher Education.”
He is a member of a panel from
the Committee on Standards of
which President Painter of the
University of Texas is chairman.
The panel will take up “The Role
of Our Accrediting Association.”
Guadalupe River
Fish Survey Set
A complete survey of the spec
ies of fish present in the Guad
alupe River System will be under
taken by the Wildlife Management
311 Class beginning Friday.
Habitats, ecological conditions,
field identification of species, and
surveying methods will also be
studied during the five day trip.
Beginning at the mouth of the
Guadalupe River near Tivoli, the
survey will end near Kerrville. It
will be the first complete survey
of this stream.
By RALPH E. GORMAN, JR.
Battalion Sports News Editor
“We’re glad the Presidential Cup
game is up, but we’re not looking
forward to it until after the
Thanksgiving day game is over.”
Aggie Head Coach Harry Stiteler
told this to the Battalion Sports
Staff last night when queried about
the contract signed by Georgia and
A&M officials yesterday afternoon.
The signing of the contract put
the finishing touches on rumors and
heresay that had covered the cam
pus since Monday afternoon con
cerning A&M’s participation in the
Presidential Cup game on Dec. 9.
“...Still Got a Game to Win...”
A&M’s grey haired mentor went
on lo say, “Naturally, we’re happy
to have an opportunity to play and
extend the season a little, but we’ve
still got a game to win next week
that is much more important to us
now.”
Representing A&M was Barlow
“Bones” Irvin, Athletic Director,
who reported Wednesday afternoon
that he had met with University
of Georgia officials and arrange-
Tipsy Troubador . . .
Tub Tenant’s
Tenor Tones
Unapplauded
Elizabeth, N. J., Nov. 23—UP)—
The frantic voice of a woman came
in over the police telephone
“There’s a strange man in my bath
tub.”
Two radio patrolmen hurried
yesterday to the house and found
Walter Sweeney singing happily
in the bathtub.
Sweeney, 44, and homeless, said
he had no idea how he got there.
He was jailed overnight on a'dis
orderly conduct charge and re
leased this morning.
“I must have been drinking,” he
told police.
Jaska Addresses
Ag Honor Society
R. C. Jaska’s talk on his ex
periences in Korea and Japan last
June highlighted a meeting of the
Agricultural Honor Society Tues
day night. Slides of some of the
first action in Korea were shown.
Dean Shepardson gave an ini
tiation talk to the prospective new
members of the society at the
meeting, held in the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
ments for the post-season Dec. . 9
game had been completed.
Legionnaires Sponsor
Sponsored by the American Le
gion, the Presidential Cup tilt is to
be an annual classic beginning this
year. The interseclional “bowl"
contest will be played in Byrd Sta
dium at the University of Maryland
in Suburban College Park, Md.
Byrd Stadium has a permanent
seating capacity of 34,000.
New Year’s Day, 1944 was the
last occasion that the Cadets had
to participate in a post-season
game, that one being the Orange
Bowl, in which A&M bowed to
LSU, 14-9 after defeating them
earlier in the season 28-13.
Bulldogs Play Two More
Nosed out of their Cotton Bowl
chances last week-end with a 13-21
loss to Rice, the Aggie have one
game left—the annual Turkey (lay
classic with Texas Nov. 30. Geor
gia is scheduled to play Furman
Nov. 25 and then meets Georgia
Tech in another of those traditional
dog-eat-dog affairs on Dec. 2.
The Cadets have won six games,
while losing three—all by close
margins. Oklahoma’s Sooners scor
ed a last minute triumph 34-28,
Baylor was victorious by seven
points, 27-20, and Rice.
Georgia’s Bulldogs have emerg
ed in the win column five times
this season, and have lost one,
while three have ended in dead
locks. ,
Better Than Records
Both teams are better than one
might guess from a quick look at
the records.
Only twice this year has any
team scored two touchdowns
against the steady Georgia defense.
Alabama did it in winning by 14-7
and LSU accomplished the “feat”
in gaining a 13-13 tie.
The Bulldogs have wins over
Maryland, 27-7; Mississippi State,
27-0; Boston College, 19-7; Florida,
6-0; and Auburn, 12-10. St. Mary’s
of California, North Carolina Uni
versity, and LSU have scored the
deadlocks.
A&M’s only non-conference loss
to Oklahoma in a last minute surge
looks rather well when brought to
mind that the Sooners are rated the
No. 1 team in the Associated Press
poll.
More impressive is 3441 yards
the Cadets have amassed on total
offense for a ranking of fifteenth
among the nation’s top teams, not
to mention the 2567 yards gained
on the ground for ninth place
among the top rushing elevens.
Those present at the contract
signing ceremonies other than the
officials of thfe two schools were
Representatives Teague (D-Tex)
and Camp (D-Ga) as well as Le
gion officials.
Teague is an A&M alumnus,
while Camp was graduated from
Georgia.
Art Speaker
John G. Browning, artist from Brownwood, explained some of his
art techniques at a meeting of the Gallery Committee in the
Memorial Student Center Monday. He also gave tips in working
with ceramics.