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Number 82: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1951
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U. N. Expected To Point Out
China As Korea Aggressor
Lake Success, Jan. 30—•tf’i—The
United Nations is expected to name
Communist China as an aggressor
in Korea today, 12 weeks after
Ceii. MacArthur first reported Chi
nese Red forces had entered the
fight.
Russia and Poland served notice
they would speak, in the 00-nation
political committee against such
cilidemnation, and India warned
that passage of the U. S. resolution
would end all hope of a peaceful
settlement in the Far East.
The protracted debate, which
roused American emotions to the
boiling point, brought about a
great see-saw of opinion but end
ed Monday with 43 countries, in
cluding Britain, lined up behind
the United States. This is many
ore than needed for passage of
(he resolution.
The United States put all the
pressure at its command, including
a statement by President Truman
and resolutions by the House and
Senate, into the drive to label the
Communist Peiping regime an ag
gressor.
ijf Chief opposition came from the
Soviet bloc, which maintains that
the U. S. is the aggressor against
Korea and China, and from India,
which fears a sharp word to the
Chinese Reds may sef off World
War III.
India sparked a drive to push
through a resolution calling for an
other peace appeal to Peiping. The
Chinese Communists have already
rejected three previous such offers.
Sir Benegal N. Uau, chief In
dian delegate, said Monday re
fusal to pass his resolution, co
sponsored by 11 Arab-Asian na
tions, would close the door to a
peaceful solution.
Other diplomats asked how it
was possible to close a door on
someone who never had admitted
it was open.
The Arab-Asian resolution, on
which a vote also was scheduled,
would set up a seven-power con
ference to solve Far Eastern prob
lems. Members would be the Unit
ed States, Russia, Communist Chi
na, Britain, France, India and
Egypt.
At Canada’s suggestion it was
modified to provide that the
group should arrange a cease
fire in Korea before proceeding
to any other business-
Following submission of this
Allies Approaching
Reds’ Main Force
Tokyo, Jan. 30 — UP) — Allied
\ troops, maneuvering against the
rattle of automatic weapons and
U small arms fire, edged closer to
the main Communist force in West
ern Korea today.
K The deep-throated roar of artil
lery and naval guns added to the
battle bedlam and the pall of smoke
from villages fired by napalm (jel
lied gasoline) bombs and the raking
,i fire of heavy U. N. air attacks.
The nearest approach to Chi
nese Red and North Korean Com
munist strength was in the sec-
tion northwest from Ichon, Kum-
• yangjang and Su\yon, all in Al
lied hands.
J Red resistance stiffened on the
main road northward out of Suwon
Tuesday. By late afternoon U. S.
and Puerto Rican troops advancing
northeast of Suwon had made gains
of from one to one and a half
miles, against moderate but in-
ifr- creasing opposition.
The Battleship Missouri and a
heavy naval attack force teamed
with carrier-based planes to plas
ter the Korean east coast town of
"Kansong, 25 miles north of Par-
jllel 38.
Seed Breeders
Set Convention
To Open Friday
The annual convention of the
Texas Certified Seed Breeders As
sociation will open here Friday for
a two day meeting. Headquarters
’ for the association will be the
Memorial Student Center.
John White, Commissioner of
Agriculture, will be a guest of the
association during the meeting.
Registration will begin at 9 a.
tn. Friday. At 10 o’clock an inspec-
’ion tour of the research plant-
oreeding projects of the Experi
ment Station will take place. This
tour will last two hours. Dr. T. R.
Richmond and other members of
the staff will be in charge.
At 1:30 p. m. President John D.
Rogers will call the meeting to or
der. Dean of Agriculture C. N.
Shepardson will deliver the wel
coming address.
Among the speakers will be R.
V. Miller, L. F. Curl, USDA, San
Antonio; Dr. H. G. Johnson, Head,
Entomology department, and Fred
Elliott, cotton work specialist with
the Agronomy department.
On Friday evening the annual
banquet will be held in the MSC.
President John D. Rogers will be
toastmaster. A program of music
will follow. Cesar Hohn will speak
on ‘‘Water Conservation,” and M.
, D, Moore of Fort Worth will speak
on “Seed Treatment.” A film will
he shown in connection with the
speech.
Members will meet at 7:30 a. m.
Saturday for a group breakfast. R.
D. Lewis, director of the Agricul
tural Experiment Station, will pre
side over the morning session.
Other morning speakers will be L.
C. Coffey, R. E. Karper, R. C.
Potts, and E. S. McFadden of the
Agronomy department.
Following the morning session,
a business meeting will lx? held.
Dancing Instruction
Classes Resume Tonight
Dancing instruction classes will
resume tonight at 7 o’clock in the
MSC, Betty Bolandor, assistant
MSC social director, announced
this morning.
The Navy’s east coast bom
bardment was called the heaviest
of recent months. A spokesman
said rail ai^d highway bridges
were the principal targets.
A naval release late Tuesday said
the Battleship Missouri alone pour
ed more than 1,000 rounds of 16-
inch and five-inch ammunition into
the Kansong area in the first hour
of the neutralization bombardment.
The light cruiser Manchester and
nine destroyers, firing over the
masts of minesweepers dealing the
area, added to the tremendous vol
ume of naval gunfire.
Task Force 77 carrier-based
planes hit previously assigned
targets in the same area. The
coastal town behind the Chinese
lines took a terrific beating.
A Navy dispatch said the task
force approached Kansong under
cover of darkness. Opened up with
its big guns at 7 a.m. (5 p.m, EST
Monday.)
By sunup, 16 minutes later, all
naval batteries were firing and at
7:45 a.m. the first strike of Navy
skyraiders streaked overhead on
the way to their targets.
Smoke rose from the Sea of Ja
pan port city as the big shells tore
into the town.
Due north of Suwon, the Chi
nese were making increasing use
of artillery. Twenty-five rounds
were hurled against Puerto Rican
troops fighting for a slushy hill
about four and one-half miles
northeast of Suwon. Frontline
officers said the shells probably
were fired from 75-m.m. pack
guns.
Delayed reports said a Negro in
fantry platoon killed an estimated
50 Reds in a bitter local fight for
a hill position Monday.
Greek, U. S., Puerto Rican, Turk
ish, British and South Korean
doughboys dug the Communists out
of their foxholes with rifles, bay
onets and gun butts.
amendment, Poland announced it
had to speak again in the debate.
The U. S. declared a cease-fire
was a military matter and not one
to be threshed out at an interna
tional conference.
American delegates also declared
that the U. N.-recognized Republic
of Korea should be present at any
conference at which Korea was dis
cussed and that Nationalist China
should sit in at any huddle on For
mosa.
Britain, evidently anticipating
passage of the American resolu
tion, asked Monday for a meet
ing of the security council be
tween acceptance of the U. S.
proposal by the political commit
tee and adoption by a plenary
session of the general assembly.
British delegate Sir Gladwyn
Jebb said the reason was to prevent
any future cries of “illegal resolu
tion” since the U. N. charter may
be interpreted to mean that the
assembly can not take any action
on a problem before the security
council. The council, although it
has not met since November, still
has the Korean war on its agenda.
Jebb said the meeting would be
to take Korea off the security
council agenda—a procedural mat
ter not subject to the Russian veto.
He told reporters the council action
shouldn’t take more than ten min
utes.
Britain’s procedural aid was es
pecially appreciated by the United
States. It was only Monday that
the foreign office decided to sup
port the American resolution.
The shift in London’s attitude
came about because of a speech
Saturday by U. S. Delegate Warren
R. Austin. Non-Communist dele
gates unanimously called it ‘great.’
It was formalized as an amendment
to the U. S. resolution by Lebanon.
Badges of Merit
Robert McClure, Jr., 23, of Texarkana, holds all 111 merit badges
possible in Boy Scout work. He won the awards in ten years
and eight months. McClure was cadet corps commander at Texas
A&M in 1948 and 1949, and a World War II infantryman. He now
is director of the Boys Club in Texarkana. McClure is believed
to be the first scout in the United States to earn all the awards.
Raymond Cobb, 25, of West Palm Beach, Florida, also holds all 111
awards.
More Sleet,
Weather in
Freezing
Store For
College Station Area
Freezing rain and sleet with
temperatures in the low twenties
and below marked the coldest,
weather recorded in College Station
in two years.
Little relief from the cold mass
which gripped the entire state with
below freezing temperatures was
forecast here this morning. Resi
dents of College Station skidded
along on a thin coat of sleet and
ice that has been frozen on the
ground since 8:30 a.m. Monday.
The sleet began to fall at about
8 a.m. yesterday and came down
intermittently during the day,
freezing temperatures kept it
packed on the ground.
The cold weather is the worst
this area has seen since January,
1949 as temperatures dropped to
a low of 17 above last night. High
est temperature recorded in the
College Station area yesterday was
33 degrees with .17 inches preci
pitation on record early this morn
ing.
More Ice, Sleet
The CAA weather station at
Bryan Field forecast more freezing
rain, sleet, or snow this afternoon,
tonight, and early tomorrow, with
little change in temperature antic
ipated.
Automobiles in the city were
forced to travel at a snail’s pace
over the icy streets. City officials
reported no major accidents during
the cold weather spell, although
several cases of bumped fenders
Leave Your Light On For
Mothers March On Polio Wednesday
Pleven Briefs
Truman on East
Washington, Jan. 30—UP)—Presi
dent Truman was told by French
Prime Minister Pleven Monday that
the fight to keep Indo-China out
of communist hands has taken a
decided turn for the better.
The visiting French leader was
reported to have given an encour
aging summary of the military
picture in Indo-China during his
first meeting with President Tru
man at the White House.
Pleven emphasized, however,
that the long-range outlook in In
do-China depends on the extent to
which Communist China intervenes
in support of the communist-led
rebels.
The President and Pleven were
reported to have agreed to a re
view of the current American mili
tary aid program to the 150,000
French troops and loyal native for
ces in Indo-China.
American and French military
experts were told to examine pre
sent shipment schedules to deter
mine whether new priorities should
be assigned to speed deliveries of
some urgently needed arms and
equipment. f
The initial meeting was limited
to. a discussion of Korean and In
do-China probleiris.
The White House said in a for* *
mal announcement after-ward:
“This review revealed a funda
mental identity of policy between
the government of France and the
United States.”
By JOEL AUSTIN
Battalion City Editor
Seven until 8 p. m. is the time,
and your home is the place for the
big “Mother’s March on Polio”
scheduled for Brazos County to
morrow evening - .
March of Dimes officials have
completed plans for a county-wide
canvass of every home during that
hour for contribution to the lag
ging 1951 dimes drive. Hundreds
of workers have volunteered to
Degrees Given
College Station,
Bryan Students
Twelve advanced degrees were
conferred by A&M on students of
the College Station and Bryan *- ?a
on January 26. Twenty-three n. n
from the College Station-Bryan
area received their baccalaureate
degrees.
The master of science degrees
were awarded to James W. Potts,
rural sociology; John Patton Bak
er, animal husbandry; William
Hairy Culver, horticulture; John
Edwin Endrizzi, genetics; Robert
R. Rhodes, range and forestry;
Thomas M. Stubblefield, agricul
tural economics.
Master of education degrees were
awarded to Robert Lee Hunt and
Robert Oscar Murray Jr. Lawrence
Edward Stark received a master of
education degree in industrial edu
cation.
Bryanites Edward Layne Rabb
and James Cammack Wilhoit both
received their master of science
degrees. Rabb’s degree was for bi
ology and Wilhoit’s was for me
chanical degree for graduate work
in agricultural education.
Baccalaureate degrees were con
ferred upon Howard J. Chapman
and Woodrow W. Gilpin, agricul
tural administration; Elmer W.
Smith, agricultural engineering;
Janies K. Walker Jr., entomology;
Roy G. Wetzel, liberal arts; Don
ald H. Hooten and Bennie A. Zinn
Jr., business; Wilber D. Kutach,
education; James G. Lancaster, ar-
chitectural construction and
Joseph W. Mogford, industrial ed
ucation. All named above are resi
dents of College Station.
The following, all of Bryan, re
ceived their baccalaureate degrees.
Ken T. Wood, agricultural educa
tion; Richard C. Qualtrough, egri-
cultural engineering; Donald F.
Carroll, agronomy; J. J Kurtin,
animal, science; Willis B. Hicks,
wildlife management; George R.
Stuart, physical education; James
F. Slowley, chemistry; Emmett
Trant Jr., archiitecture; Frederick
C. Hall, and John H. Ludwig, aero
engineering; Harold D. Butler, ar
chitectural construction; Joe H.
McFarland, civil engineering; Wil
liam D. Davis, management engin
eering.
help in the hour-long campaign
whidh will get underway in Biyan
with a blast from the fire whistle
and a reminder from police car
sirens in College Station.
Between the hours of 7 and 8
p. m. tomorrow night the volun
teers will cover pre-assigned areas
within the two cities as well as
adjoining- rural roads and commun
ities, stopping only at homes which
have an outside light on, be it a
porch light, flashlight, or candle.
Final Effort
The house-to-house canvass will
be conducted as one of several final
TURN OjN
. .
YOUR
PORCH LIGHT
FIGHT
POLIO
Napier Named
Air Camp Chief
Colonel Ezekiel W. Napier,
PAS&T, has been appointed camp
commander for Air Force ROTC
summer camp.
All Air Force students scheduled
for summer camp from A&M will
attend camp at Kelly Air Foi-ce
base. This is a change from pre
vious summer camp schedules, as
Air Force maintenance, installation
and administration students will all
go to the same summer camp.
The camp will begin June 25 and
will last six weeks. Air Force stu
dents who complete their academic
and ROTC course prior to the end
of academic year 1951 and 1952
will attend this camp.
The course to be taught will be a
general course emphasizing wing
base type of organization and plan
ning.
Ag Station Receives
Experiment Money
An additional contribution of
$1,000 has been received by the
Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station, for the purpose of mak
ing “An Organizational and Econo
mic Analysis of Agricultural Mar
keting Cooperatives of Texas.”
The contribution is from Texas
Federation of Cooperatives of Dal
las.
efforts to meet the $5,000 'goal for
money to fight polio, publicity
chairman Bob Cain advised.
Cain pointed out that only those
houses with a light on will be con
tacted for donations. He urged
everyone in Brazos County to re
member the hour and have their
light on when the workers arrive.
People living- in College View
have been asked by college author
ities to not place any kind of light
on their home due to the fire haz-
zard, but workers in that area
will be on the lookout for old
shoes, ties, or other symbols placed
on the doors.
A special radio program over
Bryan station KORA at 6:15 to-
Dean Trotter
Speaker At
Lion’s Club
“How Does America Do
It?” was the subject of a talk son
made yesterday to the College
Station Lion’s Club by Dr.
Ide P. Trotter, dean of the
graduate school.
Speaking on education and the
various methods of educational im
provements, Dr. Trotter pointed to
the Morril Act of 1862 as the turn
ing point in establishing modern
educational facilities in the United
States.
“We should be interested in pro
moting appreciation of land grant
schools,” Dean Trotter said, “for
they were designed to teach people
the things they need to know in
every day life and also the infor
mation to support those facts.
“This act, which was the basis
of the establishment of Texas
A&M, marked an education turn
ing- point still not culminated,” he
said.
Bob Cain, publicity chairman for
the Brazos County March of Dimes
drive which the Lion’s organiza
tion is sponsoring, reported on
plans for the “Mother’s March on
Polio” to be held Wednesday night.
Seven volunteers were enlisted
to help contact residents of various
rural areas within Brazos county
during the county-wide campaign.
Weick Renamed To
NCAA Sub-Post
Professor Fred E. Weick, direct
or of personal aircraft research,
has been renamed a member, of the
subcommittee on stability and con
trol, a technical subcommittee of
the National Advisory Committee
for Aeronautics.
Members of the NACA’s commit
tees and subcommittees are select
ed because of their technical abil
ity, experience, and recognized
leadership in their field. They serve
without compensation.
morrow night will advertise the
“maf-ch” which is scheduled to be
gin 45 minutes later. John Sperry,
Vemon Callaway, and Mrs. C. F.
Rainwater, all parents of children
who have had polio, are to be in
charge of the program.
Rural Area Volunteers
Seven members of the College
Station Lions Club, sponsorers of
the 1951 campaign, have volunteer
ed to contact all residents along
various rural routes leading from
College Statiion and Bryan.
Scrolls for identification pur
poses were issued to the workers
yesterday and will be shown for the
asking to any willing donor who
doubts a worker’s authority, the
chairman said. Names of donors
and their donations will be entered
on the sci-olls.
Mothers in charge of the various
College Station areas are as fol
lows: Mrs. Lee Thompson, Wood
land Acres; Mrs. John Quisenberry,
College Hills (north of Francis
Street); Mrs. Lester O’Bannon,
College Hills (south of Francis
Street); Mrs. Sid Loveless, South
Oakwood; and Mrs. Frank Ander-
College Park.
Other area chairmen aiding* in
the “Mother’s March on Polio”
are Mrs. Ray Oden, West Park;
Mrs. Wm. Breazeale, college cam
pus; Mrs. W. D. Fitch, North Cate;
Mrs. Louise Lyon, College View,
and Mrs. Jack Kent, Beverly Es
tates.
due to skidding- on the ice have oc
curred.
• Dean of Men W. L. Penberthy
said this morning that apparently
all students had made it back to
school safely. No accidents have
been reported to his office.
Other places in the state felt the
sharp sting of Jack Frost. The
Associated Press reported Dalhart
as the coldest spot in Texas with
four above zero. Amarillo was
next with five above.
Fruit Trees in Danger
The Rio Grande Valley’s fruit
trees appeared to be in danger as
the freezing weather spread to the
southern extremes of the state.
Fruit growers were not so wor
ried about losing- their present crop
as they were the freezing- of the
trees which would hinder produc
tion for some years to come.
Accidents on the ice covered
highways of the state were report
ed to be at a minimum by state
highway officials, although several
minor incidents have been recorded
since late Sunday when the cold
mass moved into Texas,
Garrison Warns Drivers
Col. Homer Garrison Jr., director
of the Texas Department of Public
Safety warned all motorists to use
second gear for starting, stopping
Bryan Field
Reactivated
For Jet Base
Bryan Air Force Base,
leased for four years by
A&M, will be reactivated by
the Air Force for use as an
advanced single engine jet
training- school with some
$6,242,000 allocated by congress to
meet costs of getting the field back
into operation.
Used by the college to house
freshmen students, the Annex, as it
was commonly known, has not been
used for Air Force training pur
poses since 1945 when leased by
A&M to meet overcrowded condi
tions on the campus.
The Bryan base was one of sev
eral Texas bases included in the
$337,000,000 to be spent by the
Air Force in expanding its train
ing centers throughout the United
States.
Approximately 3,000 personnel
will be stationed at the base which
is scheduled to have improvements
made to barracks, utilities, and
training buildings.
The funds for reactivating Bryan
Air Force Base will come from ap
propriations made last December
for projects not as essential as this
operation. Money to be spent on
the base will be made up in another
military deficiency appropriations
bill now being prepared by the de
fense department.
Announcement has not yet been
made as to when work will begin
on the reactivation program, nor
exactly when Air Force personnel
expect to again occupy the base.
Redistricting Delayed
For E-Texans’ Views
Austin, Jan. 30—(A 5 )—The House
Committee on redistricting decided
Monday that abolishing East Texas
voting districts is too hot for out
siders to handle.
The committee will let lawmak
ers from the pine tree country
fight it out at a subcommittee
meeting next Monday.
The section will lose seats in the
legislature. Losers in Monday’s
debate may not have a district to
call their own when redistricting is
complete.
Two, three, and sometimes four
East Texas counties would have to
be thrown together to contain a
“fair share” of the voters. With
big-city counties excluded, a “fair
share” is about 47,500 people per
representative, under Rep. Harley
Sadler’s bill which the committee
worked on Monday.
Rep. Paul S. Wilson’s predica
ment is typical. He represents San
Augustine and Sabine counties
with a combined population of
17,000. He’d like to have a new
district built around his two coun
ties instead of having them split
and tacked onto some other dis
trict.
Wilson sounded the warning/that
prompted Chairman Bill Fly to ar-
range for East Texas problems to
be settled by East Texans.
“East Texas is going to have to
lose,” Wilson began, “but we think
we should have a right to say
what’s best for East Texas when it
happens.”
Fifty-two counties will be af
fected; At corners of the area are
Bowie, Grayson, Milam and New
ton counties.
Crafts Shop Open
For $1 Per Term
For only a buck a semester, Ag
gies may join the Crafts Commit-_
tee and enjoy the facilities of the
crafts shop in the MSC. Instructors
will be furnished, with individual
instruction as students desire. Tools
will be supplied for working in
leather, ceramics, plastics, metal or
wood.
Students may sign up for the
Crafts Committee in the front of
fice of the MSC any time after
Wednesday. Non-students may pay
a fee of $2 per six weeks and be
entitled to use of all crafts shop
facilities.
Schedule of the shop will be
made after the Crafts Committee
has made its recommendations. The
shop is open temporarily from 7
until 10 o’clock in the evenings.
and going down hills in icy weath
er.
“Smooth, deliberate manipulation
of the steering wheel, the accelera
tor, the clutch pedal and the brake
pedal is the best safeguard against
losing control,” Col. Garrison em
phasized.
“Abrupt use of any one of these
controls will start a skid.”
The Safety director stressed the
danger of quick stops on icy
streets. A car traveling 20 miles
per hour on packed snow requires
69 feet to stop. On glare ice, its
1.69 feet. Under normal conditions
the car would take only 21 feet of
stopping space.
“Use brakes only to ease the
vehicle to a spot stop,” Col. Gar
rison said.
Draft Rules
Concern Status
Of College Men
New regulations concerning the
status of students under the pro
visions of the Selective Service Act
have been announced by the Direc
tor of Selective Service.
Quoted is a joint release of the
Department of Defense and the
Director of Selective Service. “The
Department of Defense and the
Selective Service System, took two
actions today to make effective the
new basic policy for voluntary en
listment in the Armed Forces by
college students.
“The Secretary of Defense, Gen
eral Marshall, issued orders of
ficially rescinding, in the case of
college students, an agreement, un
der which no armed service would
accept a voluntary enlistment af
ter a man had received notice to
report for his pre-induction physi
cal examination.
Last Month
“Simultaneously, the Director of
Selective Service, Major General
Lewis B. Hershey, announced that
he would reopen, in the last month
of the college year, the classifica
tion of all students who were or
dered to report for induction dur
ing the year, but whose induction
was postponed, and who desire to
volunteer by enlistment in a serv
ice of their choice. General Her
shey stated that the act of reopen
ing these classifications would re
quire the cancellation of any order
to report for induction which might
have been issued and therefore
automatically renew the right of
these students to enlist in the serv
ice of their choice.”
“This implementation of the ba
sic policy announced January 19th
will make it possible for those al
ready ordered for induction, as well
as those who may be ordered dur
ing the balance of the college year,
to select their service at the time
their classifications are reopened in
the final month of the academic
year, provided the service is able
to take them.”
“General Hershey, in announcing
his intention to reopen such cases
and thus reinstate the right to
enlist at that time, emphasized
that no change in the obligation of
students to serve was contempla
ted. Procedures for accomplishing
reopening of classifications would
be announced latei\
“Students will not have to select
their service in the two months im
mediately preceding the final
month of the academic year, as
previously announced.”
/s/ PAUL L. WAKEFIELD
Brig. Gen., ACC, TNG
State Director
General Marshall said the new
rules would prove of benefit to the
students, the colleges and the de
fense effort. He emphasized the
importance of maintaining a vig
orous educational system and elim
inating the unsettled conditions
that have developed on many cam
puses as a result of large-scale en
listments by men who evanted to
enlist before they received their
Selective Service calls. General
Marshall urged college students
enrolled in the Officers’ Training
Corps to make every effoi't to
complete their courses.
ROTC is a fundamental element
in all Department of Defense plan
ning for expansion and mainten
ance of the armed forces, General
Marshall declared. For this rea
son, he said, the Selective Service
Act defers from induction during
all their college yeai'S ROTC stu
dents who sign agreements to ac
cept commissions and to serve a
minimum of two years on active
duty in the military service. GeP-
eral Marshall stressed that all
ROTC students who successfully
fulfill the training and physical
requirements are assured of com
missions.
/s/ EARL MeGRATH,
U. S. Commissioner
of Education