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Number 54: Volume 51
The Battalion
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1950
Nation’s Top
Safety Section
Lumberman’s 1949 Contest
Price Five Cent*
Multi-Million Dollar
Leaves Destruction,
Nov. 27—W—Life for most of
the Eastern Seaboard’s millions
was getting: back to normal today,
48 hours after the great Appala
chian storm spread death and de
struction from South Carolina to
Maine.
The death list in the Coastal
states and New England stood at
70, threatened to grow as delayed
report* came in from isolated are
as!.
Some, estimates put property
loss at .$100,000,000 in the north
east alone.
Most power, traffic and tele
phone service- torn up by the storm
was restored yesterday, but many
areas still were cut off—mostly
suffering from power failure.
No
Light
Meat,
Thousands still shivered from
lack of heat and met the darkness
with candles—if they were lucky
enough to have thorn.
The storm itself moved away
from the coastal region Saturday
night, leaving behind a cold wave
that hovered just under freezing.
Contrary to all normal weather
movements in the Northern Hem
isphere, the storm’s center turned
northwest instead of continuing
northeast. It left New York only
to swung over Lake Erie, then down
on Northern Ohio, and then north
west again over Lake Huron, where
the weather bureau said it was
blowing itself out today.
This was the storm center only.
Around it on all sides raging snow-
laden winds whirling out nearly
1100 miles in every direction and
hitting from Maine to the Missis
sippi River at their widest span.
On the storm’s earlier northeast
passage, the shore areas were rip
ped by winds with gusts up to 108
miles- per hour, and drenched with
ruin.
The deluge in the New York City
watershed area alone was enough
to pour 25-billion gallons into the
city’s reservoirs—a 25-day supply
of water that was one of the
storm's few bright spots.
Dam Breaks
The heavy runoff, however, was
tod much for the dam that bucked
up a hotel’s private lake at Pine
llill, 35 miles north of New York
City.
It tore out last night, sweeping
away eight highway bridges, flood
ing an ami 25 miles square, and
isolating Pine Hill and' affecting
Phoenicia, Shandake, Mt Tremper
and Fleisehmann.
Upstate New York, the rain
turned to snow and perilled at least
HW) hunters in the Lake Placid-
Haranac Lake region.
Faculty Member’s
Article Published
Welcome E. Wright, assistant
professor in the Industrial Educa
tion Department is the author of
a magazine article in the December
issue of Industrial Arts and Voca
tional Education.
'The story “Application of Cop
per Foil to Furniture” discusses
invitulizing and enriching the sur
faces of projects made of wood
through the use of tooled copper
foil.
Wright illustrated the subject
with working drawing's and photo
graphs to show how wall decora
tions, lamps, and chests of drawers
may be improved through this
fnedium.
The article is supplemented with
lietailed instructions for an ama
teur, student, or teacher.
Storm deaths came from many
causes. Many were electrocutions
from fallen power lines. One man
was killed by a falling cornice in
New York City. Others drowned,
died under falling trees, from ex
posure, in storm-caused traffic ac
cidents, or from heart attacks
brought on by exhaustion and'
strain.
Pennsylvania, hit hardest by the
storm’s western onslaught, had its
own death toll to add to those in
Ohio and Indiana.
The Weather Burea said the
storm was nearly a .“land hurri
cane” and rated it the worst ever
Storm
76 Dead
recorded in the Northeastern Uni
ted States.
All along the coast today were
the signs of its passage—smashed
beach houses, flooded flatlands,
washed-out bridges, broken trees,
windows and a perfect harvest of
television aerials. Bdatowners took
extra heavy losses—greatest since
the 1938 hurricane.
E v e n Manhattan’s stone and
steel yielded to the winds. Some
whole blocks were still roped off
where cornices and parts of build
ing roofs and windows had ripped
away or seemed about to give.
Bonfire 'Ilaichetman
Security Measures
A rmy Restrictions
Plague Reporters
On the Chongchon River Line,
Korea, Nov. 27—UP'—Indirect cen
sorship lias settled like a fog over
this heretofore freely reported
war.
It.is hard to say who ordered it,
but any public information officer
—the. connecting link between, the
free press and the Army—will
shrug and explain that the gen
erals want tighter security.
The Army insists there is no
censorship. There isn’t so far
as editing dispatches are con
cerned. The Army can and ap
parently is accomplishing the
same result by withholding in
formation at the operational
command level.
The beat was greatest about two
days ago. At one corps headquar
ters correspondents reported that
for one day the press telephone
was disconnected and then for a
short time their calls were moni
tored.
One 1TO who asked that his
name be withheld said:
“You can expect to find it that
way all along the line from regi
mental commander on up the line
to corps, They have been told to
screen the news.”
Corps commanders still are
willing to talk to newsmen and
will assure them there is no
censorship but that they want
withheld only matters involv
ing security.
But under the new and unan
nounced setup tactical news is not
always complete.
As an example, briefing officers
reported one advance up to a town
Friday night. Actually, troops bad
advanced through the town and
moved several miles north of it.
Until now the biggest headache
for correspondents has been com
munications. It was simple to get
a story, but to get it out of Korea
while it was still fresh news was
a problem.
As the Army says, there is no
direct censorship, but indirect cen
sorship is here at the moment. It is
accomplishing the same end—with
holding part of the news until the
Army wants it released.
Red Strength Stops
War-Ending Offensive
Photo by Battalion Chief Photographer Sam Molinary
More than a few axes swung like this one over the weekend to pro
vide enough wood to put this year’s bonfire in competition with
those of the past two years. Scheduled to ho lighted Tuesday night,
the 1950 bonfire will get its finishing touches this afternoon and
tomorrow.
TrafficDeath Total
Hits Holiday Low
Nine Texans died in traffic ac-1 however, before this years total is
cidents over the first of two con- computed.
secutive holiday periods. The The nation at large owed its
nation placed its Thanksgiving | light traffic toll both to the .double
traffic death toll at 195.
The Texas figure was extremely
low as compared with 41 traffic
deaths over the four-day Thanks
giving holiday period last year.
The coming week-end remains,
Demo Excess Profits Rift
Seen in Lame-Duck Session
By J A( V K BELL
Washington, Nov. 27—UP)— A
rift over proposed excess profits
taxes split Democratic ranks to
day as lawmakers streamed in
for the opening of the ‘Tame duck”
Congress session tomorrow.
With President Trtmian 'urging
quick action on an excess profits
levy, Senator Edwin ,C. Johnson
(D-Colo) told a reporter he will
work, instead, for an increase in
the present corporation taxes to
prpvfde the $46,000,000,000 in new.
revenue the President wants.
Business generally has urged an
increase in present rates be sub
stituted for the excess profits pro
posal now before the House Ways
and Means Committee.
Johnson, who holds a key—and
sometimes; deriding—vote on the
Senate finance committee, said he
thinks all of 'the excess profits
levies thus far. offered are “ex
tremely inequitable” and are like
ly. to promote, instead of retard,
inflation.
The tax question vvas on top of
the agenda as President Truman
called democratic- congressional
leaders to a Monday White House
conference. *
The leaders expected to learn
also just how much additional mon
ey the President thinks is needed
to finance the fighting in Korea
and . btffcld up military forces at
home and abroad.
Estimates on this amount run
around $10,000,000,000, including
a sizeable chunk for atomic energy
developments. The President also
has indicated he will ask for about
$85,000,000 for economic aid to
drouth-stricken Yugoslavia.
The Yugoslavian request may
well become a vehicle' for expres
sion of new Republican demands
for a “re-examination” of admin
istration foreign policies, an issue
certain to play an important part
in debates in the final session of
this 81st Congress.
As the President already has
outlined his program, the lame
Higgins
Science
to Head
Group
J. E. Higgins, senior wildlife I
major from Hereford, was elect-1
ed president of the A&M Chapter
of the Texas Collegiate Academy I
of .Science at its last meeting. |
Other officers, elected were Tony |
Margoitta, junior business major
from Reagan, secretary-treasurer; i
W. B. Kucera, wildlife major from :
Ennis, vice-president; Carl Steph- :
ens, junior biology major from De- i
vine, and Marvin Atkins, junior.
physics major from Bryan, report- 1
ers; and Freddie Nye, senior wild- .
life major from Brownsville, par- i
liamentarian.
$ k>00 Grant Made
Experiment Station
A $4,600 check has been received
by the Texas Agricultural Experi
ment Station from J. W. Barker,
president, Research Foundation,
Williams-Waterman Fund of New !
York.
Professors J. R. Couch and L. !
L. Gee will use the money for re
search in connection with “The i
Effect of Feeding Antibiotics on
the Growth, Reproduction and In-!
testiual Microflora of the Domes-}
tic Fowl,” R. D. Lewis, director of'
the TABS, said today, I
duck sessions also will be asked to
extend the expiring rent control
law for 90 days, to revise the
McCarran anti-subversives act, and
to push to final Senate passage
House-approved bills granting
statehood to Hawaii and Alaska.
But with 10 lame duck senators
and 64 House members in the
ranks of the 81st Congress which
expires on Jan. 3—they are mem
bers who were defeated or didn’t
run again—the inclination of Re
publicans will be to delay action
on many issues until the new Con
gress convenes in January. That
new Congress will have increased
Republican strength in both
Houses.
No Chance
Partly because of this and part
ly because of Southern Democrat
ic opposition, the statehood bills
are given almost no chance of pas
sage.
Senator Taft (R-Ohio) said Re
publican leaders will go over the
prospective program at a party
policy meeting either later in the
day Monday or on Tuesday.
With the House Ways and Means
Committee continuing to hear ex
perts behind closed doors, the tax
issue remained up in the air. Ad-
ministrattion leaders said they had
the strength to get House approval
of a “moderate” excess profits bill.
But Senate action remained doubt
ful.
Senator Johnson said he is du
bious about getting any bill
through before an expected pre-
Christmas adjournment.
Important Matter
“This is too important a matter
to act hastily on it,” he Said. “If
we can’t get a bill passed in this
session, however, T think we could
act in January. When wo do, any
new taxes we impose ought to be
made retroactive from last July
1.”
Chairman George (D-Ga) has
not officially called the Senate Fin
ance Committee together to con
sider the tax proposal. However,
Senator Millikin iR-Colo), the
group’s top Republican, said he
will make a “good faith” effort to
get an excess profits levy put on
the books.
Thanksgiving and to the record-
breaking storm that made travel
virtually impossible over a large
area. Tragically enough, the freak
blizzard made up the deficit with a
205-person death toll of its town.
Two Pedestrians
Of the nine Texans, two were
pedestrians. One of these met
death because of a fist fight.
Harry F, Arthur, 43, fell or was
; knocked into the path of a car
during a corner fist fight at Or
ange Saturday. The car ran over
and killed him. It didn’t stop.
The death was Orange’s first traf
fic fatality in two years.
Clifford B. Allison, 44, of Dallas,
was killed Friday night to become
the ninetieth traffic victim in Dal
las County for the year. He step
ped into the path of an oncoming
car on South Industrial.
Two men, trapped in their over
turned automobile, burned to death
ner Bowie Sunday. A third man,
Laurence Coker, 33, of Altus, Okla.,
was pulled from the wreckage ser
iously injured and identified the
dead as William Nowell, 29, of
Mangum, Okla., and Arthur Thom
as Lindsay, 35, of Altus, Okla.
J. W. Kaufman, 32, and Mrs.
James Van Hollaman, 24, both of
Taylor, were killed Sunday when
the car in which they were riding
overturned five miles east of Round
Rock.
Ronnie Carl Hodge, 9, died at
Koi'mit Sunday of injuries suffer
ed in a head-on automobile collis
ion Saturday. His mother, Mrs.
Carl Hodge of Tatum, N.M., and
Joe Bill Sample, 22, were killed in
the wreck.
Based on AP Reports
Holiday Spirit Plus
Tokyo, Nov. 27 — •A’l — Bugle-
blaring Chinese Red attacks today
threatened complete collapse of the
big United Nations end-the-war of
fensive.
Elements of two Chinese Com
munist armies—more than 100,000
men -rolled back the Allies’ entire
northwest Korean front. The char
acteristic bugle calls of the Chi
nese Reus pierced the frozen night
air as enemy troops swarmed to
the attack.
AP correspondent Don White
head, with the U. S. 25th Division,
Artillery Camp
Named After
General Moore
The Yokohama, Japan site
of the 40th Anti Aircraft Ar
tillery Brigade has been nam-
! ed Camp Moore in honor of
the late Major General George
: F. Moore for 10 years of service
in the U. S. Army and for his
heroic defense of Corregidor.
General Moore, ’08, was com
mandant here from 1938 to 1940.
Newly designated by a General
Order from General Headquarters,
FEC, the camp was formerly oc
cupied by the Eighth Army signal
school, but now is comprised main
ly of the Antiaircraft Training
Center.
The Tokyo-Yokohama edition of
the Pacific Stars and Stripes re
ported that General Moore’s name
was selected from a group of ar
tillery officers because of his out
standing service during more than
two decades of active duty.
As commander of harbor defen
ses on Manila and Subic Bays
with headquarters on Corregidor,
General Moore was forced to sur
render May 6, 1942. After the
five months of bitter fighting, the
former commandant spent more
than three years as a Japanese
prisoner before being released.
For his extraordinary 1 heroism at
Corregidor he received the Dis
tinguished Sendee Cross.
Prior to his retirement, he
served as deputy commanding gen
eral of the armed forces headquar
ters for unification of facilities
and services.
sized up the situation this way: j visions bore the brunt of the at-
“The big United Nations often- [ tacks, which continued with in-
sive to bring an early end to the | creasing fury Sunday night.
Korean war was threatened with
{ complete collapse today. This was
the stark reality of the situation
after 18 hours of savage fighting.!
“Chinese and North Korean Red
troops have dealt a stunning- blow
to United Nations forces. The of
fensive that rolled forward for two
days has been stopped cold. U. N.
troops are on the defensive after
giving up most of their gains.”
Reserves See Action
Correspondent L e i f Erickson
said the American divisions stop
ped the second night attacks in
the center of the line after earlier
withdrawals of several miles.
The situation on the eastern
flank, manned by the ROK Sev
enth, Eighth and Sixth Divisions,
i was not clear. Fighting with
drawals of four to 11 miles in the
ROK sector were reported Sunday.
Heavy Casualties
Kesmve units ot Americans, j pj t qq dispatches indicated heavy
Bninh and iu.v» vveie lushed UP | Allied casualties. An indirect cen
to bolster a sagging ,» .-mile east- . SOi . g j l j 1 , settled over operations as
ern section of tno winding 80-mile ■ security inoasure .
front stretching inland from the t
Yellow Sea. The front runs from i rt’Lyo, General MacArthiu s
40 to 60 miles south of the Man- ! spokesman said the Chinese coun-
i i„ i terblows were expected. He assert-
cinuian ooiuci. ed that the U. N. offensive, which
An estimated 1m0,L . 0 Reds "U Mae Arthur hoped would end the
most ot them Chinese in quilted war by Christmas, was halted
“temporarily” but “is continuing.”
winter uniforms—began the coun
ter-assault late Saturday night.
Republic of Korea (ROK) troops
and the U. S. Second and 25th I)i-
Tanamaclii Is First
In Judging Contest
Walter Tanamaclii, senior agro
nomy major from San Benito, Sat
urday placed first in commercial
judging at the annual crop judging
contest at the International Live
stock Exposition in Chicago.
The Oklahoma A&M team won
the contest by scoring a total
of 5,218 points to defeat Texas
Tech who scored 5,161. The Uni
versity of Nebraska was third with
5,123.
Kenneth W. Fitzgerald of Okla
homa was the individual high scor
er in all classes with 1,768 points.
Second high individual scored was
Victor Herring of Texas Tech
with 1,742.
Oceanography
Gets Offices
In Science Hall
More space to carry out
the research program is the
greatest benefit of the Ocean
ography Department’s new
home in the second floor of
the old Science Hall, Dale F.
Leipper, head of department, said
last week.
Formerly located at 214 Hous
ton, Street, the department now
centers around room 26 in the
Science Hall.
Laboratory space is now avail
able to chemical and biological
oceanography and to the Naval
Research Project. The latter is
a $25,000 project sponsored by the
Office of Naval Research.
Begun last summer, the projects
objectives are an oceanographic
and meteorological study of the
Gulf of Mexico.
In, addition to Leipper’s office
in room 26, the offices of Donald
IV. Hood, professor of chemical
oceanography, W. A. Price, pro
fessor of geological oceanography,
ami J. G. Mackin, professor of
biological oceanography, are also
in the building.
Plans have been made to fur
nish a study room in the building
for graduate students.
“The Department’s telephone
number is', still 6-1001, and all
persons interested in oceanography
are invited to inspect the new of
fices,” Leipper said.
Propaganda Birds
Berlin—UP)—“Little Peace Dove
Fly Over the Roof,” is the latest
Communist song for kindergar
ten children in Soviet-occupied
Eastern Germany.
At a recent student festival at
Magdeburg, the children sang the
new tune while 30 live doves were
turned loose. “They flew eastward,”
reported the Communist newspaper
“Volksstimme,” “to where the
bulwark of peace, the great and
mighty Soviet Union, lies.”
Aew Features Introduced
In November Agriculturist
The spokesman described Sun
day’s withdrawals as limited and
added that, in any general advance,
the foremost spearheads can be ex
pected to be pushed back. That’s
what is happening now, he said.
But, he declined to elaborate on
what was meant by limited with
drawals.
Correspondent Whitehead said
the “reversal in battle fortunes
came with startling suddenness
and the Eight Army is battling* to
hold the southward surge of Red
troops.”
“There is no chance of offensive
action on this front until the Red
attack has been halted and a firm
new line established^’ he added. ,
Only in the northeast were Al
lied advances reported. But Red
resistance in some sectors there
vvas stiffening
-i -
Budget Bureau
Plans Security
Statistics Ban
Washington, Nov. 27—
(AP)— The budget bureau
yesterday took preliminary
steps toward restricting re
lease of governmental statis
tical information where it “might
endanger the national security.’”:
Director Frederick J. Lawtoii,
under directions from President
Truman, asked all federal agencies
to submit for budget-bureau ap
proval “any proposals for the pub
lication” Of statistics: “which may
involve questions of national se
curity.”
Aides said the bureau is as much
interested in seeing that age neb's
do not withhold data unnecessarily
as in seeing that they do not re
lease matter which might “endan
ger national security.’
All agencies alrtkdy are re
quired to clear statistical forms
and questionnaires with the bureau
so as to keep the and ex
pense of them at a minnltum. <
The budget director observbd
that “statistical series published
by different agencies, each of
which might be harrfiless in itself,
might be combined ^ produce in-
formatiion harmful to national se
curity.”
During World War II, a pres
idential order stopped release of
data on production schedules and
progress reports on aircraft and
part, ordnance, shipbuilding, and
supplies of critical materials,
among other things.
Budget bureau officials said to
sweeping restriction of statistics
is contemplated mow:, and. that the
bureau is chiefly interested in get
ting up a “preparedness’ plan for
restriction if and when necessary.
With costumes by Lapp, Louise Street and Fred Anderson, A&M
Consolidated High School students, gm their interpretations of the
latest fashion styles in Dogpatch, USA. They were judged winners
in the annual Sadie Hawkins Day dance held at Consolidated.
Meat Plant Class
Takes Field Trip
Locker plants in a number of
East Texas cities were visited
recently by members of the meat
plant operation class, 431.
The class visited in Franklin,
Buffalo, Palestine, Crockett, Hunts
ville, and Conroe.
Special attention was given to
killing floors, locker box rooms,
smoke houses, curing rooms, and | recognition as an outstanding lead
cutting rooms. 1 er in this field.
By SID ABERNATHY
From the catacombs of student
publications - dominated second
floor of Goodwin Hall comes the
awaited November Issue of the
Agriculturist.
Hitting the stands at a time
which closely coincides with the
approaching holidays, the maga
zine’s placid maroon cover aptly
portrays the symbolic Thanksgiv
ing turkey.
New Features
A new feature was begun in this
issue of the bi-monthly publica
tion. Short Rows, a column of
short articles dealing with hap
penings in the School of Agricul
ture, was introduced by the edi
tors in an endeavor to cover those
items which ordinarily would not
be published.
Another new-feature introduced
in this issue of the magazine, and
one which the editor says will be
included regularly hereafter, is a
biographical sketch of a faculty
member in the School of Agricul
ture who has gained state - wide
Dr. Dan R. Russell, head of the
Rural Sociology Department, was
selected for the first sketch.
Agricultural Facts and Fore
casts in this issue gives the cur
rent trends in the marketing field
and prognostications as to how
commodities will fare in the fu
ture.
Following the previously men
tioned Short Rows comes a fea
ture on Dual Purpose Cattle for
East Texas, a story telling how
East Texas Farmers can profitably
use dual-purpose bovines for beef
and milk in their diversified farm
ing program.
Destroying the long standing but
ill-founded belief that all hawks
and owls are harmful, the article,
Hawks and Owls Work For the
Farmer, gives facts and figures
to back up the contention that
most hawks and owls actually are |
beneficial to the fanner.
The advantages and restiictions
to be considered in the feeding of
urea to cattle are discussed in
the article, Feeding Cattle Urea.
It explains how urea today meets
the requirements as one of the best
protein supplements in feeding
beef cattle.
A success article,* Future Leader
in Texas Agriculture, is the story
of a lad who :did not appear dif
ferent from several hundred
other boys who entered A&M this
Fall. “But a look into his past
reveals that he was quite a wheel
in Texas 4-H work before com
ing to A&M to assume the role of
‘Fish’ Landers for a year,” the
author writes.
Barlow to Head
Land Grant Counci
Dean H. W. Barlow of the School
of Engineering has been elected
to the Senate of the Association of
Land Grant Colleges and Univer
sities to represent the Council of
Instruction of the ALGCU.
He has also been elected secre
tary of the Resident Instruction
Section of the Engineering Divi
sion of the ALGCU for the ensu
ing year.
The annual meeting of the As
sociation was held last week in
Washington, D. C. The 1951 meet-
Alpha Zeta History
The history of Alpha Zeta, na
tional honorary fraternity for ag
ricultural students, and how it
came to A&M is told in the article,
Alpha Zeta Comes to A&M.
Who’s Master . , . Man or In
sect? is the story ot a small j j n g will be hold in Houston.
group of men at Kerrville who are : \
waging a very successful campaign
against insects affecting livestock.
The new 7 Aggie Rodeo Arena
gets another plug in this issue
of the Agriculturist.
Appropriately labeled Borrowed
Bull, the last page of this issue
contains the prize humor lifted
from other magazines throughout
the country.
‘Elephant Walk'
Scheduled Tomorrow
The annual “Elephant Walk”
will begin at 11:55 tomorrow at
the flagpole in front of the Aca
demic Building, Don Joseph, head
yell leader, announced this morn
ing.