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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.