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Lt. Col. Shelly P. Myers
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Col. E. W. Napier
W. H. Rothrock
Harry L. Kidd
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PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Number 85: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1951
Price Five Cents
Railroad Men
Stay ‘Sick’; 50
Lines Still Out
Some cracks have appeared in the strike of about 12,000
railroad switchmen but a general back-to-work movement
still was not in sight today.
Nearly all the approximately 50 lines affected by the
“sick” call walkout had little or no relief from the virtual
tie-up of important terminal operations in about 100 of the
nation’s major cities.
More embargoes on shipments were imposed or ex
tended, more industries were feeling the pinch of vanishing
supplies of raw goods for processing while finished products
piled up on their shipping docks; and more men were being,
laid off. The government embargo on most mail continued.
Bertrand, Myers, Angell, Napier,
Rothrock, Kidd Get Bait Awards
One of the first breaks in the walkout which began six
flays ago came yesterday in the strategic rail center of At
lanta. The return to work there of about 1,500 switchmen
was sufficient to restore normal
operations in three railroad yards
and to lift embargoes by all but
one line.
But while the resumption of
work in Atlanta and several other
points was watched for signs of a
Mothers March
Re - Scheduled
For Tuesday
The Mothers March on
Polio, originally set for last
Wednesday, will be held Tues
day evening after postpone
ment due to bad weather con
ditions, announced R. F. Cain,
March of Dimes Director.
The “march” is scheduled to
last from 7 p. m. to 8 p. m. to
morrow. Workers from, each block
in the cities of College Station
and Bryan will solicit houses in
their block, stopping for donations
only at these homes with porch
lights on.
College apartment residents have
been requested to hang a shoe on
the outside door-knob of their
apartments if they wish to con-
tribute to the drive. This method
will be used because a lighted can
dle would create a fire hazard,
Cain said.
Cain urged residents of the two
towns to remember the time and
make plans to be home between
the hours of 7 and 8 p. m. A. blast
from the* fire whistle in Bryan
and the police car sirens in Col
lege Station will mark, the begin
ning of the one hour period and
serve as a reminder to people of
both towns to turn on their lights.
Brazos County’s March of Dimes
drive, sponsored by the local Lion’s
Club, has been extended indefinite
ly due to the loss of worker’s time
during the recent cold spell, chair
man H. T. Blackhurst said.
The goal of $9,500 still seems to
be a long way off, Blackhurst
said.
He also pointed out that cam
paign officials are depending on
the outcome of the Mother’s
March on Polio to raise the total
donations for polio.
Young Attends Meeting
Dr. Vernon A. Young, head of
the Range & Forestry Dept., pre
sented an invitational paper, en
titled, “Teaching Range Facts—
The Role of the Schools” at the
annual meeting of the American
Society of Range Management held
at Billings, Montana recently. He
also took part in committee ac
tivities and interviewed prospec
tive" graduate students wishing to
attend A&M next fall,
Texas Railroads
A mail embargo slapped on
bulky mail addressed to Texas
points at Dallas last Thursday
has been lifted on a day-to-day
basis.
Postmaster J. Howard Payne
yesterday lifted the embargo—
even though. 300 Dallas railroad 1
switchmen who say they’re sick
stayed off the job.
Payne yesterday said he had
checked with postmasters at key
distribution points of Fort
Worth, San Antonio, Houston
and Texarkana. He said he
found that those cities, like Dal
las, have been able to keep mail
moving inside the state despite
the nationwide sickness strike
of railroad switchmen.
Mail headed outside the state
is still embargoed.
Most switchmen went back to
work Saturday in Fort Worth
and Houston. But yards at El
Paso and Dallas remain tied up.
possible end of the strike, it broke
out in some new spots. The New
York, New Haven and Hartford,
a vital link between New York and
New England was forced to cancel
all its service. With all rail op
eration serving New York virtually
paralyzed, the city faced a possible
shortage of fuel and such foods as
fresh fruits and vegetables.
Future Aggies
Win Scramble;
Scholarships
Two South Texas youths,
Edsel Renken of Robstown,
and Doug Symmank of Gid-
dings, were officially wel
comed to A&M during rodeo
ceremonies at the Houston Fat
Stock Show and Livestock Exposi
tion Saturday night.
The two boys are winners' of the
annual beef and dairy scramble
scholarship awards of $2,000 and
$2,500 given each year by Hous
ton businessmen to see the winners
through four year of college at
A&M.
Members of the committee from
A&M who welcomed the two win
ners to this school during the rodeo
ceremonies were C. N. Shepardson,
dean of the School of Agriculture,
Dean of Men W. L. Penberthy, L.
O. Tiedt, and Charles Keilers.
Tiedt, a junior agriculture jour
nalism major, is winner of a pre
vious scholarship given in 1948.
Keilers, a freshman agriculture
major, received a similar scholar
ship in 1950.
Donors for this year’s scholar
ship awards are P. P. Butler, pres
ident of the First National Bank
of Houston, and L. E. Cowling,
president of Southern States Life
Insurance Company of Houston.
Renken and Symmank will enter
A&M this Fall.
Extension Service
Employs Trainer
Edwin F. Jacobs has been em
ployed by the Texas Engineering
Extension Service as a supervisor
trainer, specializing in accident
prevention.
His first assignment will be giv
ing a 20-hour unit on accident pre
vention for 500 employees of the
Texas and Pacific Railroad from
El Paso to New Orleans, La.
Tessies Name ‘Tessandra’
Official School Mascot
Mary had a little lamb, now, Tes-
sie has one too.
“Tessandra,” a white lamb, will
reign as TSCW’s mascot.
Tessandi’a was chosen from five
finalists. The others were a swan,
a peacock, a calf and a canary but
Tessandra won by a large majority.
The winning pet was suggested
by Mary Lamb, a senior home eco
nomics education major from Tex
arkana. She was very surprised
when told that her selection ha<\
won.
Miss Lamb, a cute brunette, sug
gested Tessandra because she
wanted “something with Tess in
it.” She said it was the first time
she had ever won anything.
By winning the contest, Miss
Lamb won not only the honor of
having her selection named but
prizes offered by most of the bus-
prizes along the “Drag,” the
TSCW business district.
The contest began Dec. 4, spon
sored by The Daily Lass-0 and the
Student Council of TSCW, when a
stationery salesman asked if
TSCW had a mascot to go on the
stationery and he was told no.
Hundreds of mascot suggestions
were turned over to the Student
Council from which the five final
ists were finally weeded out. Some
of the many entries included deer,
ducks, geese, turtles and penguins
and quite logically “The Thing.”
Most all the entries for the “crit
ter” had Tess or Tessie attached to
it in some form.
Even some Aggies were men
tioned.
Truman Asks Congress For
Pocketbook Hitting Taxes
Washington, Feb. 5—UP)—The Truman administration
asked Congress today to add four per cent to Federal Income
Tax rates, double the tax on gasoline and sharply boost lev
ies on cigarettes, automobiles, appliances and other items.
> The program, which would hit the pocketbooks of mil
lions of taxpayers, would nearly triple the excise tax on
automobiles and more than double the tax on television and
radio sets, refrigerators and other appliances.
Three cents a pack would be added to the excise tax on
cigarettes, making the total 10 cents a pack. The excise
whisky would go up about 60 cents a fifth and the tax on an
ordinary bottle of beer would be raised 1.3 cents.
Linegar RE Week
Speaker Feb. 12-16
By CURTIS EDWARDS
Ned Linegar, regional YMCA
secretary for Arkansas, Oklahoma
and Texas, will conduct forums and
discussion groups in the Legett
Hall lounge during Religious Em
phasis Week, Feb. 12-16. He will be
available to the students living in
Legett, Milner and Mitchell Halls.
In addition, to his activities with
YMCA Forum
Will Discuss
Foreign Landis
Seven officers of the Mili
tary Department will discuss
conditions of governments,
the political thinking, the
trends of foreign policy, and
the customs, habits, problems and
philosophy of residents of the
South Pacific, Australia and the
Far East at a meeting of the
YMCA Tuesday at 7:15 p. m.
Headed by Col. H. L. Boatner,
Commandant and PMS&T who has
spent ten years in the Far East
and is intimately acquainted with
conditions and problems there, the
forum will be on hand to discuss,
examine and answer all problems
directed to it. There will be no
formal talks and Col. Boatner’s
opening remarks will be designed
more toward creating a background
for subsequent discussions upon
topics presented from the floor
than toward being of a lecture na
ture.
Seiwing on the forum will be Lt.
Col. Chester C. Schaefer, Artillery,
New Guinea; Lt. Col. Shelly P.
Myers, Artillery, Philippine Is
lands; Lt. Col. Jordan J. Wilder-
man, Artillery, Japan; Major Hen
ry B. Greer, Infantry, Southwest
Pacific; Maj. William A. Burruss,
CE. Guam; CWO George W. Lynch,
Jr., Korea; and, CW Robert B.
Mills, Australia.
Invitation is extended by the
YMCA to everyone interested.
the A&M YMCA, this is the sec
ond A&M R. E. Week in which
Linegar has participated.
Some of Linegar’s special
fields in which he has done work
are Recreational and Religion,
Personality Growth and Develop
ment, Christianity and Commun
ism, The Campus Community,
Education Is Not Enough,
Brotherhood—a Matter of Heart
and Mind, and Moral Leadership.
Linegar is one of thirteen lead
ers who will be on the campus dur
ing R. E. Week to conduct forums
from 4 to 5:30 p. m. and discus
sion groups at 9 each night in the
dorms which have lounges.
The discussions will be operated
on a come and go basis thereby
letting the students without much
time come and leave as they
wish. Subjects discussed will be
at the discretion of the groups and
will be held before any size group.
The men will live in the dorms and
will be available at all times to
the students.
Linegar received his A. B. De
gree in 1936, from Miami Univer
sity, then entered the University
of Cincinnati to work on his M.
A. in the field of Sociology. He
has also studied at George Wil
liams and the Chicago Univer
sity’s Divinity School.
After graduation, he joined the
staff of the Pennsylvania State
College Association, where he
served until he accepted the exe
cutive secretaryship of the asso
ciation of Kansas University in
1946. From this job he accepted
his present position.
While at Pennsylvania State Col
lege, Linegar was secretary of the
ministerial alliance, preaching of
ten in local Lutheran and Presby
terian churches.
Science Meet Tonight
Plans for the April regional
meet of Texas Academy of Science
to be held on the A&M campus
will be discussed at the local
chapter meeting in the new science
building lecture room at 7:30 to
night,
Allied Tanks
Crush Toward
Seoul Again
Tokyo, Feb. 5—CP)—The greatest
force' of Allied tanks yet mounted
in the Korean war smashed today
within five air miles of Seoul. It
mauled Chinese Red forces all
along the route and then withdrew
to the south.
The column was one of three
tank-infantry task forces which
slugged northward toward the
burned-out former South Korean
capital.
Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway,
Eighth Army commander, watched
the main assault within a few hun
dred yards of the front.
The big punch fell on Chinese
Reds dug in on the hills around
Anyang, nine air miles south of
Seoul. Rolling behind a terrific
aerial and military blasting, the
task force took Anyang’s smoking
ruins almost unopposed and slashed
on northward.
But the four miles beyond An
yang were bitterly contested. One
staff officer told A.P. correspon
dent Jim Becker the column got
into “a hell of a battle,” and add
ed:
“We killed a hell of a lot of
them.”
The main Allied spearhead, and
another six miles to the west, were
executing what frontline officers
called “ a double envelopment with
in a double envelopment.”
Becker reported the spearhead
to the west met even more fierce
resistance. It managed to make
“only a slightly smaller total yard
age.”
This column “smashed into heavy
enemy pressure and stalled about
five miles west of Anyang,” Beck
er added.
An Eighth Army spokesman said
the three-pronged thrust “may be
described as the greatest exploita
tion of armor during the Korean
war.”
He added, however, “the ap
proach of our tank columns toward
Seoul should be regarded as of no
particular significance at this
time.”
Presentation Made
At Prof Banquet
Six members of A&M’s professorial and staff ranks re
ceived this year’s Battalion achievement awards at the first
annual Student-Prof Relations banquet, held in the Memor
ial Student Center ballroom Friday night.
Presented with the awards were Dr. John R. Bertrand,
dean of the Dasic Division; Lt. Col. Shelly P. Myers of the
Military Department, E. L. Angell of the chancellor’s office;
W. H. Rothrock of the Modern Languages Department; Col
E. W. Napier, PAS&.T; and Harry L. Kidd of the English
Department.
The six were chosen by a selection board composed of
Battalion staff members. Their identity was kept “top sec
ret” until the presentation was announced at the banquet.
Battalion awards are made annually to members of the
college staff and faculty who have contributed signally to
A&M’s welfare and that of its students. Friday night’s cere-
money marked the fifth consecutive year the awards were
given.
Each of the winners was presented an 8x10 certificate,
headed by The Battalion’s masthead and inscribed with a
citation to each recipient. They were presented and signed
by Battalion Co-editors Clayton Selph and Dave Coslett.
Following are the inscriptions, in part, from each of the
six awards:
Dr. John R. Bertrand
“ ... to Dr. John R. Bertrand, dean of the Basic Division, for
his work in the initial founding and direction of the Basic Division.”
Lt. Col. Shelly P. Myers
“ ... to Lt. Col Shelly P. Meyers, Jr., associate professor in the
School of Military Science, for his far-sighted interest in both the
future military and civilian life of the students in his classes.”
E. L. Angell
“ . . . to E. L. Angell, assistant to the chancellor, for the efficient
administration of his present job and for his past work in helping to
found and guide the development of A&M’s far-reaching Student Ac
tivities and Student Publications program.”
W. H. Rothrock
“ . . . to W. H. Rothrock, assistant professor in the Modern
Languages Department, for his conscientious interest in students and
for his high level of classroom instruction.”
Col. E. W. Napier
“ ... to Col. E. W. Napier, professor of Air Science and Tactics,
for having, in his short time here, so completely won the respect and
confidence of the cadets under his supervision and all others with
whom he has come in contact and for having raised the level' of Air
Force ROTC at A&M.”
Extension Granted
For Tax Payment
Because of the recent bad
weather, an extension of time to
pay both the College Station city
taxes and the A&M Independent
School District taxes has been giv
en to the local citizens says Ran
Boswell, assistant city secretary.
Failure to pay taxes by the dead
line will result in the assessment
of a 1.5 per cent increase in amount
as a penalty. This penalty will be
increased by the same amount
every month the taxpayer fails to
pay his taxes.
“This office feels the weather
prevented many people from pay
ing their taxes because they were
unable to drive their cars to the
city hall. It was this opinion that
caused the officials to grant an
extension of time.”
Harry L. Kidd
“ ... to Harry L. Kidd, assistant professor in the English Depart
ment, for his guidance and inspiration of creative writing at A&M
both in and out of the classroom.”
' The banquet, to be made an an
nual affair, is sponsored by the
Press Club, composed of all mem
bers of Student Publications staffs.
With a humorous theme general
ly prevailing, the dinner had “pop”
quizzes for the profs, music by
Uncle Ed Harrington’s orchestra,
songs from an Arts and Sciences
Sextet and an Engineer quartet,
with the faculty supplying music
and song.
Dr. J. P. Abbott, dean of Arts
and Sciences, burlesqued the other
schools with his talk, “Why Arts
and Sciences Students Should Take
Technical Subjects.”
On the more serious side came
an address from Dr. M. T. Har
rington, president of the college.
Dr. Harrington told of the many
ways in which students could be
come better acquainted with the
faculty.
Levant Concert
Postponed
Oscar Levant, world famous
pianist scheduled to appear in
Guion Hall tonight, will not play
as originally scheduled, C. G.
“Spike” White, assistant dean of
men in charge of student activi
ties, reminded Town Hall ticket
holders this morning.
Levant’s tour in the South
west was cancelled because of
illness. He will appear on Town
Hall later in the year.