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t). C 3 OO?’- 83 ?• *•_ CirculateJ to More Than 90% of College Station’s Residents The Battalion PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Nation's Top Safety Section Lumberman’s 1949 Contest Number 68: Volume 51 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1950 Price Five Cents Atmar, Cooper New Additions To MSC Operating Staff A. C. Atmar has been named Purchasing; Ag'ent, and A. C. Coo per has been added to the Account ing' Department oi‘ the Memorial Student Center staff, J. Wayne Stark, director, said this week. Atmar replaces M. E. Thomas who has been relieved of his duties as acting Purchasing Agent and promoted to the position of Assist ant to Director Stark. Over-All Supervisor In his new post, Thomas will act as one of the over-all supervisors in both the Business, and Social and Eductipnal Departments of the MSC, Stark said. The new assistant has been with the MSC for the past two years. The new purchasing agent has Essay Brings Junior Award Twymann G. Williams’ es say on “Sausage” placed third in the national Saddle and Sirloin Club Medal Essay Contest and he was present ed a bronze medal at ceremonies in Chicago. Williams is a junior, majoring in animal husbandry. He is a graduate of the Sherman high school. His parents live on Route 8, Dallas. The contest is sponsored by the Saddle and Sirloin Club of the Union Stockyards of Chicago. The Saddle and Sirloin Club assigns an essay subject each year. This year the subject of sausage was assigned. Any student in any agri cultural school in the United States is eligible. The essay will be published in a pamphlet along with those of the first and second place winners and distributed to colleges throughout the nation. The judges for the contest in cluded outstanding journalists and top men in the meat industry. Commissions In Regulars Offered 4 Four distinguished military stu dents have been offered commis sions as second lieutenants in the regular army. The appointments are effective January 1, 1951. Students offered commissions are Henry E. Brown, Overton; Norman H. Riddle, DeKalb; Hor ace M. Sanders Jr., San Antonio and Doyle R. Avant of Laredo. Final approval of the appoint ments is contingent upon each can didate passing a physical exami nation and certain physical re quirements. Each individual also has the option of declining to ac cept the commission. Students tendered appointments Will be permitted to accept the commissions and will be granted leave without pay to complete their education for a higher degree, pro vided the course will not require more than two years, is of value to the army and is approved by the army. Position Analyst Exams Announced The U. S. Civil Service Commis sion has announced an Occupation- •al Analyst examination for filling positions in the Department of De fense, the Department of Labor, and other Federal agencies in Washington, D. C., and vicinity. Salaries for these positions range from $3825 to $6,400 a year. To qualify n the examination, applicants must have had respon sible experience or experience and education in one or more fields of personnel administration. In addi tion, they must have had experi ence in making analyses of jobs and job families and in formulat ing job specifications. Appropriate college education may be substi tuted for all or part of the expe rience, depending on the grade of the position. Applicants may also be required to take a written test. Detailed information about the examination and application forms may be obtained from most first- and second-class post offices, from Civil Service regional offices, or from the U. S. Civil Service Com mission, Washington 25, D. C. Ap plications should be sent to the Commission’s Washington office and must be received not later than January 9, 1951. Ipoh, Malaya—(d?) — Kindness doesn’t always pay. A 43-year-old woman, Tan Say Mooi, was fined $20 for trespassing into the police compound. She was arrested while trying to hand a packet of roast pork to a prisoner. been employed by local firms for the past 10 years, eight of which were spent with as buyer and sales manager for the Lawrence Whole sale Grocery in Bryan. He has also worked with the Parker-Astin Hardware Company. Atmar’s offices will be in the lower level offices with other MSC staff members. Phone calls will be channeled through the regular switchboard, the director said. Sons Are Students Atmar’s two sons are presently enrolled here. Jerry is a senior wildlife management major. Dick is a sophomore student majoring in architecture. Atmar himself is a graduate of Crockett High School, and later attended Southwest Tex as State Teachers College in San Marcos, and the University of Tex as. Cooper Newest Accountant Cooper, newest addition to the MSC’s Accounting Department, is a former employee of the Charlie Cade Jr. Company, automobile dealers in Bryan where he served as office manager and accountant. He also served as Collector of In ternal Revenue in Dallas for three years before accepting local em ployment. Cooper and his family reside in Bryan. His daughter, Elizabeth, is employed as secretary in the Man agement-Engineering- Department. His only son, David, attends Bryan high school. Local Scouts Plan Banquet The annual Brazos district Boy Scout dinner scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 2, will be held in Duncan Hall instead of Sbisa Hall as previously announced, by W. L. Penberthy, banquet arrange- 24 Division Force Expected By July 1 Washington, Dec. 28—(A 5 )—The army expects to have a combat force equivalent to 24 divisions w-hen it reaches its current expan sion goal next July 1. Although the figure used by the defense department involves only 18 divisions, an army official told a reporter today that the fighting force will be augmented by the so- called regimental combat teams to equal the strength of 24 full divi sions. A. C. Atmar Atmar has been named to the post of Purchasing Agent for all MSC supplies. He takes ov er the position vacated by M. E. Thomas who was recently pro moted to assistant to the direc tor. Ag Swine Center Opens in Spring The Swine Division of the Ani mal Husbandry Department plans to be in the new- Swine Center by next Spring, Fred Hale, director- said today. Main attraction of the new cen ter is a modern $130,000 laboratory and swine barn, especially built and equipped for teaching and demonstration purposes. The Center has 80 feeding pens, and 40 farrowing pens along with the necessary lots and equipment for the program,s he added Research done on the feeding of cotton seed meal to swine has been more valuable alone than the original cost of the program, Hale claims. Engineer Council Sets Spring Dance An informal dance for members, both student and faculty, of the School of Engineering and their guests will be held March 9 in the MSC Ball Room, according to Jes Mclver, president of the En gineer Council. When the Korean war started, the army had 10 divisions, with none of them at full war strength except for a division in Germany. There were about three divisions in the United States. Only one of these, the 82nd Airborne, had any thing approaching effective strength and that was only 60 or 70 per cent of full strength. At the present time, the army has 11 regular divisions, plus four National Guard divisions and two Guard regimental combat teams which have been brought into fede ral service. Two more guard divi sions will be federalized next month. All guard units must be trained and brought up to full strength after being inducted into the federal army. Another regular army division will be formed in late spring or early next summer. This, it was learned, will be an armored outfit. Currently the army has only one armored division, the 2nd which has been based at Camp Hood, Texas. An 18,000-man infantry division is a self-contained fighting unit, with supporting weapons, including tanks and artillery. A regimental team is a small-sized infantry di vision, usually consisting of about 5,000 men. Depending on the mis sion assigned to it, it may include elements of infantry, artillery and armor, in varying proportions. Local Polio Victim Dies; Services Held Funeral services were held Mon day afternoon for Mrs. Margaret Sauer wdio passed aw-ay last Fri day afternoon in a Waco hospital. Stricken with polio three weeks ago, Mrs. Sauer is the wife of C. A. Sauer, an instructor in the En glish Department here. Rev. C. F. Pitts, pastor of the College Avenue Baptist church, was assisted by Rev. A. T. Day, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, in conducting the last rites. Interment was in the College Station city cemetery. Beside her husband, and daugh ter, Mary Ruth, Mrs. Sauer is sur vived by her parents. Rev. and Mrs. W. J. Mitchell of Winnepeg, Canada. V. M. Faires Named To Engineer Group V. M. Faires, professor of mechan ical engineering, and head of Post Graduation Studies at A&M, has been named to the committee on im provement of engineering teach ing of the American Society for Engineering Education. His appointment makes A&M one of the two southern engineeiing schools represented on the commit tee, which is composed of engin eering faculty members of such schools as Cornell University, Car negie Tech, Ohio State, Massachu- sets Institute of Technology, Uni versity of Illinois, California Tech and Purdue. ments chairman, said. Early reports indicate that tick et sales are going well, and that the crowd will exceed last years record of 540, said Linton Jones, district chairman in charge of tick et sales. Tickets may be purchased, from him or from Thomas Lee at the College Station State Bank. Troop committeemen and Scout masters also have tickets available. Scouts in Charge Eagle Scouts from Bryan and College Station will have complete charge of the program for the an nual dinner meeting. Master of ceremonies will be Eagle Scout Julian Carsey, of Troop 12, and Spencer Buchanan of Troop 411 will direct the open ing ceremony. Jack Burchard of Troop 102 will give the invocation, after which Jack Spell' of Troop 12 will introduce special guests. More than 500 Scouts, Cubs, par ents and friends of Scouting are expected to be present for the din ner to see and hear the program ar ranged by Guy Deaton. High lights of the scouting program dur ing the past year will be presented. Program Participants William C. Bolmanski, of Troop Games Featured At Baptist Youth Fete Sixty-five young people gathered at the Baptist Student Center Sat urday night at seven thirty for the annual Baptist Student Union Christmas party. Jerry Burks was master of cere monies and led the group through almost two hours of many old and new games. After the game session everyone was served cookies and cold drinks. The serving of refreshments brought to an end the party, how ever many remained to join in with the singing of Christmas songs. 81, will be in charge of the Cub bing program presentation, while Philip Buchanan, of Troop 411 will be in charge of the Explorer unit part of the program. Dr. C. C. French is the only speaker scheduled. He will be in troduced by Albin Zak of Troop 81. Installation of the district commit tee, volunteer adult leaders who will be in charge of Mike Barron of Troop 81. Jake Hamlen, repre senting the Sam Houston Area Council, will be the installing of ficer. Walter Parsons of Troop 102 will direct the closing ceremony. An added feature is a movie tak en at the recent Boy Scout Jam boree at Valley Forge, Pa. La mar Carroll, of Troop 81, will MC this feature. War Front Action Lags; Evacuation Data Given Tokyo, Dec. 28—UP)—Hitherto unpub lished details of sea evacuation of the 105,- 000-man U.S. 10th Corps from Hungnam were disclosed today. Correspondents who covered the evacua tion were forbidden to give tactical particu lars of the beachhead battle. Jit would tip off the enemy on how the army might fight in any similar future situation, said public information officers who doubled as censors. Apparently security considerations have been erased by the inter-service scramble for credit for the Hungnam evacuation, howev er. Maj. Gen. Edward M. Almond’s head quarters rushed out a special release today to tell the world yesterday’s se crets. Among other things, he said the enemy knew the when and where of the evacuation. “In this operation, we did not have the surprise element of an amphibious landing,” Almond was quoted by a PIO. The enemy who had us greatly outnumbered could easily figure out which way we would go and about when we would go. There was only one way to go —out through the port of Hung nam.” Reporting Forbidden Until Sunday afternoon, Corres pondents on the beachhead had been forbidden to write either about the evacuation or Hungnam port activities. The ban held af ter the story was published in de tail from Tokyo. Bulletins that the final withdrawal had taken place Saturday still were being held Sunday when the Pentagon broke the news in Washington. That the enemy knew about it all the time—came as no surprise to correspondents. But the complete turnabout in the Army’s official position caused raised eyebrows. “Given the opportunity,” Gener al Almond said, “the enemy could have pushed in with the 11 Chi nese divisions we had been fighting since late ovember and three more orth Korean divisions. The Chi nese divisions had been badly mauled and the North Korean units were at reduced strength but they coul$ have given us a lot of troub le.” A&M Student Back Home From Greece An A&M student, Edward H. Hill, has been honored with a “Wel come Home Breakfast” on the Starlight Roof, Waldorf Astoria hotel, New York, on his return to this country from Greece. Hill and 41 other American farm youth left the United States from Washington, D. C. early last June for a trip to Europe under the In ternational Farm Youth Exchange Project, J. W. Potts, assistant ex tension editor at A&M, pointed out. The purpose of the exchange is to build up a better relation and un derstanding between the European countries and the United States, he said. Hill, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hill of Garland, will return to A&M next semester, Potts explain ed. He was elected program chair man in the Collegiate 4-H Club at Texas A&M Coliege and was one of the four Texas delegates to the national 4-H Club Camp, Washing ton, D. C. in 1948, Potts stated. i Tokyo, Dec. 28—UP) — United Nation’s forces manning the 150-mile defense line across Korea’s midsection braced today against the expected flood of massed Red manpower. But there was little action. General MacArthur predicted that more than 19 Red divisions—up to 190,000 men— would rush against his tightened new lines in the next two weeks. The U.N. commander said Communist China has mobilized its “war effort on a na tional scale.” In his war summary, MacArthur said the last known location of the 19 divisions, which compose the Chinese Communists Fourth Field Army, placed them in a pos ition to hit the Eighth Army some time between Jan. 1 and 10, He said there were six Chinese corps in the area and that limited at tacks in lesser strength of one or more armies (corps) could be launched at any time, but a coor dinated attack could be expected by the 10th of next month. “The character of a major mil itary effort by the Chinese Com munist government, though init ially masked under the treacher ous ruse of a “volunteer partici pation”, is only too apparnet in the deployment of all elements of the Third and Fourth Field Ar mies, which represent two out of the five field armies constituting the entire military structure of China, “the communique said. McFadden’s Work Praised In Agricultural Magazine Dr. Edgar S. McFadden, agrono mist at the Agricultural Experi ment Station, was honored in the January issue of The Progressive Farmer as “Man of the Year in Service to Southern Agriculture”. Every year since 1936 the maga zine has recognized some man of outstanding distinction. “This year we recognize Edgar S. McFadden of Texas A&M College, the South’s world-famous plant breeder”, was the editor’s note. The article praises McFadden for his work in transferring the rust resistant qualities of feed wheat to the bread wheats which resulted in a new wheat called Hope. “$400 million is a conservative figure for savings during the war years because of this great discov ery. For all the millions of dollars he has put in the pockets of far mers, McFadden has profited not a penny. He gave his discoveries to farmers and humanity,” the article said. Recent contributions of McFad den to agriculture include the in troduction of a new variety of flax that promises to extend the Texas winter flax belt another 100 miles nodth; a new varitey of bailey that is resistant to the four most de structive barley diseases in the Gulf Coast area; and a new variety of wheat to meet the specials needs Southern Texas has to offer. In concluding, the article said, “McFadden’s example should fire many a disadvantaged farm boy with new ambition and aspiration. His work should give many a farm er and farmer’s wife a new appre ciation of the patient toils and struggles of American farm scien tists who work not for their own gain, but for the welfare of man kind.” A. C. Cooper Newest addition to the MSC’s Accounting Department, Cooper is a former office manager and accountant, and has served as an Internal Revenue Collector in Dallas. Freshmen Set Ball; Orchestra Named The Aggieland Orchestra will furnish music for the Freshman Ball at 8:30 p. m. in Sbisa Hall Feb. 3, Thomas Clemens, fresh man class president, said yester day afternoon. Admission charges for the dance will be announced later, Clemens added. Freshmen desiring to place an entry for Freshman Class Sweet heart are asked to turn in a 5x7 photograph to one of the fol lowing men: Charles Andres in Walton Hall, room G-12, William Rowland in Dorm 14-410, Robert Ball in Dorm 15-206, George Cook in Dorm 16-113, or Joseph Rey nolds in Dorm 17-131. Pictures should be turned in as soon as possible so the sweet heart selection may be made be fore the ball, the fish president concluded. International Farm Youth Exchange delegates were feted at a recent “Welcome Home Break fast” by the Grocery Manufacturers of America in a New York hotel. IFYE delegates from the United States toured foreign countries while for eign delegates observed Farm operations in the U.S. Standing in the usual order are Abrinar Scheele of Province of Zealand, Netherlands; Burton B. Strong, a Vermonter who visited the United Kingdom, Elaine Serfass of Penn, who visited Germany; and Patrick Gibbs of Arkansas who visited Ulster. Seated in the same order are Hortense Burton, a Wyoming resident who visited Finland, Edward H. Hill, a junior ag. ed. major from Garland who visited Greece; Host and president of GMA Paul S. Willis, and IFYE .Coordinator Warren Schmidt of the Ex tension Service. Dairymen Save By Use of Machinery Texas dairy farmers saved $10,700,000 in labor costs last year by using electric milking machines, according to P. T. Montford, pro fessor in the Agricultural Engin eering Department. Montford estimated that 7,200 farmers used the machines. The electricity alone would cost $155,- 000, he declared. W’ar Budget Said “This war effort on a national scale is recognizable in their mili tary budget. According to reliable sources, the Chinese Reds in Peip ing have approved the spending of eight blilion dollars for war pur poses in 1951. This is probably the biggest military budget in Chi nese history. It is estimated that it is three times greater than the Chinese Communist military bud get for 1950, and eight times more than the Chinese Nationalist gov ernment has ever spent in one year.” (Chinese Nationalists in Taipei said Monday the Communists’ war budget was 8,000,000,000 Chinese silver dollars. On the pre-world war II exchange basis, that would be approximately $4 billion U.S. Chinese currency is virtually worthless, about 4,000 to $1 when there was an official exchange rate months ago.) The vanguard of a 1,350,000 Communist force, mostly Chinese, was only 35 miles north of Seoul Thursday night. Professor Back From Washington Professor Daniel Russell has just arrived from Washington, D. C. where he attended the fifth annual White House Conference. The purpose of this confei'ence was to present the problem of the ural youths of America and what we can do to help them. Rep resentatives of 43 foreign nations, delegates of the United States and its territories and possessions also attended the conference. President Truman presented to the delegates of the conference his views on the issues which were brought forth. At present Russell is giving a series of lectures on the subject of the conference. Those persons interested on the subject should contact Russell. Short Course Set For January 22-23 The first annual Livestock and Grading Short Course at A&M will be held January 22-23. Events will be run off at the new beef cattle center. “The purpose of the short course,” Fred Hale, of the Animal Husbandry Department, and gen eral chairman of the course says, “is to coordinate thinking with ref erence to the type and grade of cattle and hogs associated with ef ficient production.” Chairman Hale, widely known throughout the United States as an authority of swine, says “only cattle and hogs will be considered in this first short course since there seems to be more different views concerning the type that one should strive to produce in these two species of livestock.” Former Student Inducted in Army Dan E. Jenson, a June 1950 civil engineering graduate of A&M and a recent arrival at Camp Cooke, was taking basic training this week with the 40th Infantry Division, former Southern California Na tional Guard unit. Jenson has been assigned to the 140th Heavy Tank Battalion, in the operations section. His pre vious military experience includes two years in the ROTC unit at A&M.