The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, December 21, 1950, Image 1
5. *• ^ . c 3 t>T^ es ^irctllated to More than 90% Of College Station’s Residents Number 67: Volume 51 Battalion PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1950 Nation’s Top Safety Section Lumberman’s 1949 Contest Price Five Cents Elms Resigns From Student Activities, Takes Capital job Grady Elms, Assistant Manager of Student Activities, has resigned his position to accept federal em ployment. Elms resignation is effective im mediately and he will move his family to Washington, D. C. in the near future. Elms came to the Student Activ ities Office in September of 1941 and left for the Armed Forces in July of 1942. During World War II he was as signed to the 103rd Infantry Divi sion and was with that unit during the entire Vosges Mountains cam paign. He was with the 103rd dur ing the Rhineland and Central Ger many campaigns also. During his army days he rose from the rank of private to captain. He returned to Student Astiv- ities in May of 194(5 as Assistant Manager, a position that he has held to the present time. Elms has been in charge of the club program for the student body and he has also been in charge of arrangements for dances and other social events on the campus. The club program has been instrument al in bringing prospective stu dents to visit the A&M campus. Although Elms has been asso ciated A&M since 1941, he and Mrs. GRADY ELMS Elms have lived in College Sta tion since 1938. Elms came to A&M Consolidated High School in that year and served as coach of all high school athletics. In 1939, he was named Principal of A&M Con solidated, a post that he held un til May 1941 when he was named Superintendent of that high school. He left A&M Consolidated in Aug ust of that same year to accept college employment. Elms did this undergraduate work at Baylor University with a double major in Education and History. He received his Master of Education Degree from A&M in 1941. “I deeply regret leaving the College and the community, Elms said, but I feel that the new post is too attractive to turn down.” C. G. “Spike” White, Manager of Student Activities said, “Elms was active both in College and in com munity affairs. The College and the community will both suffer a loss in his leaving. We wish him every success in his new position.” Mi’, and Mrs. Elms have one son, Tony 6, who will accompany them to Washington. Xmas Could Mean Happiness For Certain Local Family By VIVIAN CASTLEBERRY Christmas means many things to many people. Across the land next Monday morning children will awaken with little appetite for breakfast as they remember last night Mommy said: “Santa will have been here when you wake up tomorrow.” The stockings by the chimney or on the bedposts will get a minute going-over before oatmeal gains any attention at all. The big tree will be, in a matter of moments, reduced again to its ornaments as the littlest one helps pop distrib ute the presents. Christmas next Monday morn ing, for all our gripes and our fears and our anxieties, will be a day to forget the cares of the world and to concentrate on love and devotion and happiness. Christmas is a time to forget our »wn selfishness. Christmas means many things )o many people. Empty Stockings But to a few people next Mon day morning—people right here in our own community, Christmas will be just another day. There will be no stockings on the bedposts, no tree with glitter or with presents. No oatmeal. For not all the population is as fortunate as some of us—even with our high taxes, large grocery bills and expensive clothes. Recently the local teachers help ed a Sunday School class to find children who would not have pres ents this Christmas unless some one outside the family donated gifts. The teachers came up with 52 names. Many of the children were fro m families really d estitute. Some of them went to school dur ing the recent very cold weather without shoes. Others hadn’t sweaters or coats. Some of them claimed they forgot their lunches. Others did not bother with pre tense. They just said there was no food in the house to eat. The Sunday School class that asked for these names have seen to it that there will be at least one present for the children on Christmas morning. But there are other things needed to make a mer ry Christmas: warm clothing would help. Food would be a wonderful contribution. A tiny trinket or toy would add to the general joys of Christmas-time. Among the families found want ing by the teachers and the class is one Bryan Latin-American fami ly. Mrs. Brandon K. Vickers, a student wife who lives at 7-A Vet erans Village, took the names of two children in the family for Christmas presents. She went to see the mother to find out what would be most appreciated. Need Many Items “I found,” she said, “that one Christmas present would not be gin to fill the needs of that family. They need so many things—so very many things.” Mrs. Vickers found the family living in a three-room house—all ten of them. “The house was clean,” she said, “but so-so little and so sparsely furnished. There was only one tiny stove to heat the place. The din ing table was tiny—I don’t see how they managed to sit down to the table together, but then I suppose they didn’t need to sit down to gether, for I gathered there wasn’t much food to sit down to eat.” The oldest child in the family is a 15-year-old boy. The youngest is a month-old girl. Between the 2 are a two-year-old boy, a 4- year-old girl, a 7-year-old boy, a 9-year-old boy, and 11-year-old boy, and a 12-year-old girl. The Aggie Receives Medal Lt. Don C. Upshaw, ’41, receives the Air Medal and Oak Leaf Cluster in lieu of a second Air Medal award for combat action in Korea from an unidentified commanding general at a recent review at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines. At the same time of the presentation, the San Antonioan had completed 37 combat mis sions on the Korean war front. USAF Photo. father works as a laborer’, but he cannot make enough money to keep the family in any better circum stances. “I saw no toys at all in that house. The baby did not have a crib or a basket of any kind, but slept on the big bed. It was wrap ped in a piece of an old blanket— clean, but threadbare. There was very little other bedding—just a cot or two. The mother especially requested covers—that was the on ly thing she could think of that she needed!” Mrs. Vickers is collecting cloth ing for this family, and gifts and toys and food. What she gets that this family cannot use, she will distribute to others. She will be available to collect apy donations and will come by any College Sta tion or Bryan home to pick them up. Her box number is 5641, Col lege Station. Christmas means many things to many people. What it means next Monday morning to one Latin family of ten in our community depends en tirely upon the good hearts of those of us to whom Christmas will be a joyful one because we take our food, our clothing, our nice homes and our friends for granted. Open House Is Slated Friday, Decorations Up College Station city officials were busy today putting up last- minute decorations in preparation for the open house they will hold tomorrow for all citizens and friends of College Station. The open house, an annual af fair, will be held Friday from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. City officials and their wives will act as hosts. Fruit cake, coffee and tea and soft drinks will be served to all guests. Mrs. Ernest Langford will dec orate the serving table. Christmas decorations will be featured in ta ble, window and counter decora tions. Those in the house party will in clude Mayor and Mrs. Ernest Lang ford, City Manager and Mrs. Ray mond Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Halpin, Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Dula ney, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Badgett and Mr. and Mrs. Ran Boswell. Others will be Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Fitch, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Ames, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Benson, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Barger, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Orr, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Black, Mrs. R. G. Neely Ji\, Mrs. Robbie Cram, Mrs. Beverly Low ery and N. M. McGinnis. Christmas from Charles Dickens—A Christmas Carol I have always thought of Christmas time when it has come round—as a good time; a kind, forgiv ing, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of in the long calendar of the year when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow travellers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. Vets Should Check On Status Of Benefits, Advisor Warns Groneman Invited To Arts Committee Dr. Chris H. Groneman, head of the Industrial Education Depart ment, has been invited by the Ford Motor Company of Dearborn, Michigan, to serve a new three year term on their National In dustrial Arts Award Advisory Committee. This program, sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, attracted over 2,500 artistic projects to the recent national contest at the Chi cago Museum of Science and In dustry. Dr. Groneman has served on this committee since its inception and acted as a judge in the past con est for the Plastics Division. Veterans, eligible for educational benefits under the GI Bill of Rights, stand a good chance of los ing those benefits, Taylor Wilkins, veterans advisor, warned today. “Your attention is called to the fact,” Wilkins pointed out, “that veterans who have not taken ad vantage of the educational bene fits of the GI Bill of Rights (or who have interrupted their train ing) must be in training’ on July 25, 1951, or forfeit further rights,” Wilkins said. “This means that they must either be in college in the spring semester or quarter (summer va cations are not counted as an in terruption of training) or enroll and attend classes in a summer ses sion starting before July 25, 1951. “A student,” Wilkins says, “who is in college at the time he is called up for service as a member of the reserves, or otherwise called into military service, is not consid ered as having lost his rights to further educational benefits under the GI Bill provided he returns to training within a reasonable time after I’elease from the armed serv ice. However, a boy not in college Boy Scout Dinner Set for January Five hundred or more Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, adult leaders and parents and friends of Scout ing are expected to attend the an nual Brazos District Boy Scout dinner in Sbisa Hall Tuesday, Jan. 2. Dr. C. C. French, dean of the College, will be the principal speaker. Eagle Scouts will be in charge of the program, which will include representation from each phase of Boy Scout work. The entire program, following the dinner at 6:30, will take not more than 45 minutes, according to Chairman Guy Deaton. Tickets, at 75 cents each, are now on sale through scouts, troop committeemen, scoutmasters, or from Thomas Lee at the College Statiion State Bank, or Linton Jones, First National Bank, Bryan. A&M Trio Goes To Reginal PISI Meet James R. Grubbs, W. J. Moore, and H. D. Thuem will attend the Regional Conference of the Poultry Improvement Supervisors and In spectors of the Southern States at Jackson, Mississippi. Held from Dec. 16 to 21 the con ference makes plans to keep the standards of poultry as high as possible. at the time he is called does, under present laws and regulations, for feit his World War II educational benefits. “Consequently, it is suggested that all veterans desiring to utilize their GI educational benefits be ad vised that they must enroll in the spring semester or quarter (or summer session starting before- July 25.) Veterans expecting’ to be called into the military service as reservists, or desiring to volun teer, should not withdraw from college between terms, unless ac tually reporting for duty in that period. They should keep a clear record of having been enrolled in education or training at the time they were called'for service,” he said. Delegates Chosen For National Meet The Agricultural Honor Society will send two delegates to the Na tional Alpha Zeta meeting in Kan sas City, Missouri, the 27th and 28th of December. John Oglesby, a senior Agricul tural Education major from Gold- thwaite, and Marvin Twenfafel, a senior Agricultural Economic ma jor, will represent the Texas A&M Agricultural Honor Society which has applied for membership in the national wide Alpha Zeta Frater nity. The acceptance or the rejection of the Texas A&M Honor Society in the Alpha Zeta Fraternity will be decided on at this meeting. Baptist Men Hold Oyster Supper Eighty-two men gathered at The First Baptist Church, College Sta tion, Friday night for an oyster supper and program under the di rection of the local Baptist Broth erhood. R.-'C. Potts, President of the Brotherhood, and L. E. Stark, mas ter of ceremony for the night, got the program underway at six-thir ty, with the oyster supper being the first thing on the agenda. The main speaker, of the pro gram, was Jesse Bolin, a Christian layman from Dallas. Another highlight of the pro gram was a trumpet solo, present ed by Emil Andrea. Radio Station WTAW will carry a play by play account of the foot ball game Saturday between Aus tin and Baytown high schools. The bi’oadcast will begin at 1:45 p.m. The game will be played in Rice stadium at Houston. Hungnam Beachhead Is Quiet After Allied Air-Sea Barrage By GLEN CLEMENTS Tokyo, Dec. 21—UP)—The Hung nam beachhead lay quiet today aft er allied land-sea-air barrages mowed down and rolled back the Reds’ most menacing attack on the perimeter. Frozen bodies of Chinese and white-robed Korean Reds littered the snow-crusted east flank of the United Nations defense ring where the attack was made. Communist survivors apparently were numbed to a standstill by the Citizens Told Of Plans to Use Bond Money On January 8 College Station residents will decide whether, or not, to vote $200,000 in bonds to improve their city. Tuesday night college officials told a group of 54 citizens how the money would be raised, spent and paid back. City Manager Ray mond Rogers presided over the meeting in the Science Hall, Tex as A&M College. Expanded Electrical Service If the bond issue passes, officials will immediately begin plans to ex pand and extend electrical service. About $70,000 of the total amount to be raised will be spent toward this purpose, Rogers said. Bryan, which owns electric lines, poles and transformers in College Station, through its officials last week placed a tentative value of $35,845.42 on electric facilities. It would not agree to sell any power lines outside its city limits. Lines to be purchased with the proposed $70,000 are owned jointly by Bryan and REA. Official sanc tion of the deal from REA offices in Washington is expected. Rogers said that only $60,000 of the bonds are scheduled to be sold immediately after the elec tion. This money is all expected to be spent for electricity. To Care for Expansion The remaining $140,000 of the proposed bond issue will be collect ed and spent according to future decisions of the Council. Growth and needs of the city and new addi tions which will require expansion of utilities will determine when and how most of the money will be spent, Rogers said. Present plans call for sewerage expansions and a sewage disposal plant and repairs and additions to present water facilities. Some $40,000 is still available from a previous bond issue which is to be applied to the disposal plant fund. Estimated cost of such a unit is estimated at $150,000. All bonds voted on January 8 will be paid off with revenue from city water and sewer systems, accord ing to the plan outlined at Tues day’s meeting. fury of ’round-the-clock bombard ment Wednesday by allied war ships, planes and land artillery. Field dispatches reported the shattered survivors were thrown back from the point of gravest peril to the allied forces holding their last sliver of northeast Korea around Hungnam on the Sea of Japan shore. Quiet also was reported on the westexm Korean front. General MacArthur’s headquar ters reported the Chinese had suf fered heavy losses—at a ratio of 10 to 1—during the darkest days of the allied retreat from most of North Korea, Nov. 27 to Dec. 12. The United Nations commander reported U. N. casualties in the Nov. 27-Dec. 12 period at 12,975, not including those suffered by Republic of Korea (ROK) forces. All of the allied killed, wounded and missing during the two-week period were American except 1,011 from other U. N. forces. The Chinese have been around the Hungnam beachhead in great force for days, but it was appar ent that the battling retreat of U. S. marines and 10th Corps doughboys farther north had badly crippled an estimated 10 Red divi sions. Red efforts to reorganize their forces were progressing slowly— too slowly to hamper the planned withdrawal of American forces on the Hungnam beach. U. S. losses there are reported extremely small considering the action involved. AP correspondents Tom Lambert and Stan Swinton, in the beach- Rec Council Slates Party A Christmas program of songs and music will be presented Sun day at 7 p. m. at the 20th annual Christmas party of the College Sta tiion Recreation Council. The fes tivities will be held at the A&M Consolidated High School gymnas ium. All children attending will re ceive a sack of candy from Santa Claus. Co-chairmen of arrangements for the party are C. G. (Spike) White and Les Richardson. Richardson is also in charge of the program. Three parts are planned for the program. Johnny Martinez, will do the Mexican hat dance. Frances Nemec and her guitar will be a second feature. A quintet composed of Wanda Goodwin, Louise Street, Sarah Puddy, Glenda Brown, and Dorothy Spriggs will sing. A fourth probable feature will be the girls choir conducted by Caroline Mitchell. All children of College Station as well as those attending A&M Consolidated are invited to attend the party, White stated. Candy for the party will be put in sacks at a gathering being held for the purpose this week. Lou Bur gess and Red Cashion are handling this phase of the arrangements. head, reported enemy inactivity on the Hungnam perimeter had field commanders worried, although they said they were certain that steady pounding by warplanes, field ar tillery and big naval guns had hurt the Reds badly. Warships continued to hammer Communist troops concentrations north of the beachhead. Correspondent Lambert reported the Communists had replied only with mortar attacks on the east flank. Swinton reported the air and artillery attacks fired five small villages. The Communists had been using the villages for assem bly areas. The Far East air forces reported continuing attacks on Communist forces throughout the U. S. Eighth Army area in the northwest. A top officer at General MacAi’- thur’s headquarters in Tokyo vig orously denied reports that Com munists had used gas grenades against the Hungnam troops. The report, lie said, was wholly uncon firmed and doubted at headquar ters because the Chinese Commu nists had had no training in gas warfare and did not have gas masks. British fliers from the carrier Theseus operating off the west coast reported a scarcity of tar gets along the main road and rail system connecting the North Ko rean capital of Pyongyang, Sari- won and Kumchon. They said there was an indication of night traffic along the snow-covered roads but no traffic was observed during the day. The British rocketed nine bridges, they damaged three, in cluding one of two pontoon bridges at Hanpo. Successful attacks also were made on two locomotives north of Hwangju. Ex-Aggies Enter Medical School Twenty pre-medical and pre dental students from A&M were accepted in freshman classes of professional schools for the fall semester. Leonard Dupuy of Bryan went to the University of Texas Dental School and William N. Hillery of Flatonia went to Baylor University Dental School. To the University of Texas Med ical School went Kenneth P. Adams of Tulia, Frank G. Anderson, Jr., of College Station, A. A. Bishop of Paint Rock, Nicholas C. Hott of Fort Worth, A. A. Leder of Houston, Joseph Massa of Galves ton, William B. Roman of Bryan and James Rosborough of Bryan. George H. Wahle of Fort Worth was accepted by Southwestern Medical School. Accepted by Baylor Medical School were Herbert W. Beutel of Dallas, David G. Bowers of Abilene, Byron Dooley of Port Arthur, Kenneth C. Landruf, Wil liam L. Lee of Weatherford, Char les L. Novosad, Jr., of Bryan and J. A. Williamson of San Antonio. Students, City Residents Plan Xmas Visits With Families Home for Christmas will be a reality to many College Station residents and students this year. Young couples will visit parents and friends, and grandparents and friends will, quite often, visit chil dren and grandchildren. Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Cain and daughters, Sue and Ann, plan to visit with their mother and grand mother, Mrs. W. G. Snelson in Ysleta. Mr. and Mrs. George Crook, he studying for his Ph.D. in Chemistry and Oceanography, will go to Mul len where they will visit with her grandmother, Mrs. Margaret Le- Rose Toliver, and with her great grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Davis. Later they will drive to Martindale to see his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hardy Crook and his brother, John Herbert. Grandchildren D a v e y an d Sandy Erwin of Port Arthur have a merry Christmas in store with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. Locke, who will visit with them and their par ents, Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Erwin. Pat and Bill Sterling leave today for Beaumont where they will see Chtristmas dawn in the homes of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Tucker and Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Sterling. Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Burton and Nita Burton will have their parents and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Waggoner from Taylor and Mrs. Burton’s sister and broth er-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Taylor as holiday guests. Waymond Nutt will vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Nutt at Bertram where he plans to study and sleep late—and go on a fox hunt. . . . Jim Tom House will go to Goldthwaite where he will visit with Mr. and Mrs. T. H. House, his parents, and to Co manche to see his fiance, Miss Sue McEntire. Luetta and Wally Schmidt have driven to Denver, Colorado, where Wally will be job-hunting. Jeanne and Charles McCullough will visit in Lake Worth and Fort Worth with his mother, Mrs. C. T. McCullough and with their friend, Miss Eileen Finn of Dublin, Ire land. . . . Charlene and Robert Muckleroy will visit in Dallas, Cle burne and Denison with parents, friends and grandparents. A pre-Christmas guest in the home of Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Hunt was Mrs. Hunt’s great-niece, little Judy Lunsford of Mt. Pleasant. Judy has now returned to her home to wait for Santa Claus. ‘ Dr. and Mrs. E. S. McFadden are in San Antonio where they will visit with their daughter, Mrs. W. H. Haverman and their grandchil dren, Dustine, Dick and Dee. Later during the holidays Dr. and Mrs. McFadden will have their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Gar land Huey, for a visit with them here. Polly and George Councill will entertain their parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Jones of Jacksonville and Mr. and Mrs. George Councill of Lufkin for the Yuletide. . . . Charles Crosby is spending Christ mas in El Paso with his folks, Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Crosby. Jack Barnett is in Dallas with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Barnett. He says he will probably spend a great deal of his time with his girl friend, Miss Bette Jones. . . . Doris and Bob Grassland are in Mineral Wells visiting Doris’ mother.. . . Eose Marie and Jerry Zuber, who will graduate in Jan uary, will spend Christmas in Bell- ville with their folks, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Brosig and Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Palmer. They will utilize all their spare time in furnishing their new home in Bellville. Santa will leave a diamond on the third finger, left hand of Miss Patsy Garrett in Hamilton when Glenn D. McAnally gets home for Christmas. He will also visit his folks, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. McAnally. . . . Judy and Jerry Jones are in San Antonio with his folks and hers. Ann and Robert Schleider, Jan uary graduates to whom Santa has already left a job right here in Bryan, will go home to Madison- ville and Huntsville to tell their families the good news. . . . Lillie Mae and Calvin Janak are going to Granger to visit with Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Kovar and Mr. and Mrs, Frank Janak, their parents. . . . Calvin Beckman is in Fredericks burg visiting his folks, Mr. and Mrs. Willie Beckmann. Calvin plans to get in a lot of deer hunt ing over the holidays. President and Mrs. M. T. Har rington and John will have as holi day guests her mother, Mrs. Wes ley Norris of Dallas and his broth er, sister-in-law and children, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Harrington and Jack and Jill of Plano. Mr. and Mrs. Marion Pugh and son, Condy, will entertain Mrs. Pugh’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Braselton. Santa will come to see Ragna Shuffler at Olney where she will be visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Cherry Roach along with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Henderson Shuffler and her brother, Ralph.