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Number 88: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1951
Price Five Cents
On My Honor .
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Representatives from College Station Boy Scout
and Cub Scout troops give the scout and cub
signs they repeat the scout oath during a pro
gram given at the Tuesday meeting of the Col
lege Station Kiwanis Club. The program was in
observance of the forty-first anniversary of
scouting which is today. Standing, left to right,
are D. D. Burchard, scout leader and narrator
for the program, Billy Breazeale, David Mc-
Nealy, Jimmy Simpson, David Parsons, Byron
Andrews, Tom Barlow, and Dayton Moses.
Local Mayors Officially
Proclaim Boy Scout Week
Boy Scout week received official recognition from the
mayors of College Station and Bryan yesterday in a special
proclamation observing the forty-first scout anniversary.
The proclamation read as follows:
WHEREAS, February 8, 1951 is the 41st anniversary- of the
founding of the Boy Scouts of America, chartered by the Congress
of the United States, as a program for all boys of America, and
WHEREAS, the Boy Scout Program has affected the dives of
17,750,000 American boys and men since 1910, and now has an active
tnrollment of 2,750,000 and
WHEREAS, the Movement is engaged in a Crusade to “Strengthen
the Arm of Liberty” by giving more boys a richer experience and in
crease its usefulness to the nation and
WHEREAS, the Boy Scouts of America, a great foi’ce for training
youth in right character and good citizenship, marks its 41st anniver
sary by a nationwide clothing collection to meet emergency needs
abroad, inci’eased participation in Civil Defense and the promotion of
the conservation of the nation’s natural resources;
NOW THEREFORE, I, Ernest Langford, Mayor of the City of
College Station, and I, Roland Dansby, Mayor of the City of Bryan,
in the State of Texas, do hereby proclaim the week of February 6-12
as Boy Scout Week and urge our citizens to recognize the patriotic
volunteer service being rendered to our community by the .volunteer
Scout Leaders, and to help, in all possible ways, to further this whole
some youth program.
Signed:
ERNEST LANGFORD
Mayor, City of College Station
ROLAND DANSBY
Mayor, City of Bryan
US Demands
Russia Return
Borrowed Ships
Washington, Feb. 8—UP)—
The United States has formal
ly demanded that Russia im
mediately return 672 lend-
lease naval and merchant
ships loaned her during World War
II.
The State Department disclosed
that the demand was made in a
note handed yesterday to Soviet
Ariibassador Alexander S. Pan-
yushkin. Panyushkin is represent
ing his country in the latest of a
series of so-far fruitless lend-lease
talks.
The U. S. is asking Russia to
pay $800,000,000 in settlement of a
wartime account of $10,800,000.
Russia reportedly has made a “fi
nal offer” of $240 million.
Officials said Russian represen
tatives have refused to discuss re
turn of the ships, insisting their
government wants to buy the ves
sels. They include 87 merchant
ships.'
^Veterinarian’ Tops in Field
Practitioners in Majority
Among A&M Mag Readers
By BEE LANDRUM
One Student publication *at A&M
has a greater subscription list
of persons off the campus than
among the students.
It is the Southwestern- Veterin
arian, now in its third year of
publication, which served as a pro
fessional journal for both student
and practicing veterinarians, both
in Texas and in the surrounding
states.
It is circulated in 32 of the 48
states and in Brazil, Chilfe, Mex-
ica, Canada, Columbia, the Philip
pines, and Formosa.
In addition, copies of the mag
azine are exchanged with other
professional and student veterin
ary publications. Two copies are
lent to (he U. S. Department of
Agriculture at Washington, I).
€., for permanent record.
Harry Doran, Veterinarian edi
tor, says the abstract section is
probably the most widely read fea
ture of the magazine. This section
contains brief summaries of all
the main feature articles printed
in the three leading professional
veterinary journals.
Because of its wide popularity
among practicing veterinarians
only every other page is used for
printing the abstracts. Many sub
scribers clip these abstracts out
-of the magazine and paste them
on cards for entry in a card file.
Other material printed in the
Veterinarian includes original
articles, research reports, case
reports by students and practi
tioners in the field, and reprints
from professional veterinary
journals.
“At Random,” a column written
by the editor, carries short news
items about events, meetings, and
happenings of interest to student
and practicing veterinarians.
Another regular feature of the
magazine is a profile of some fac
ulty member or outstandiftg Vetfer-
irtarian in this area. The January
issue contains a personality sketch
of Dr. W. A. Boney, Jr., poultry
disease specialist with the School
Of Veterinary Medicine.
A few articles included in the
recent issue are “Pneumonyssus
Caninum, a Mite New to Texas,”
“'Hard Pad Disease,” “An Appli
ance for Metacarpal and Metatar
sal Surgery,” , and “The Use of
Thyroxine-like Products in Ani
mal Feeding.”
One of the case reports in the
issue reveals that a partially
paralyzed pig at the Veterinary
Hospital has learned to walk on
its front legs.
The magazine is featuring
A&M’s seventy-fifth anniversary
on the cover of the magazine. The
cover carries a large picture of
the caduceus, professional veterin
ary insignia, run in gold.
The seventy-fifth anniversary
emblem and the date are also
printed in gold, while the rest
of the cover is maroon and white.
This color Scheme is planned for
all issues this year, according to
Doran. An inserted picture of the
Memorial Student Center appears
on the January cover.
The Veterinarian is sponsored
by the Junior Chapter of the
American Veterinary Medicine
Association. Work on the maga
zine is completely voluntary. The
present staff numbers about 30.
Doran points out that some stu
dents do a great deal of work on
the magazine and receive very lit
tle recognition. This is particularly
true of those working on the ab
stract section.
Briefing the articles correctly
requires much time and effort and
the students are not even rewarded
with a byline.
Government Prepares
I
Partial Price Defrost
Washington, Feb. 8—UP)—The govern
ment is almost ready to unfreeze the retail
prices of men’s clothes, women’s clothes, cos
metics, furniture, rugs, lamps, pots and pans.
One immediate result will be lots of price
Preventive’ War
Necessary--Decker
rises.
In place of the present tight freeze on
those and similar items, the Office of Price
Stabilization (OPS) will restrict the percen
tage of “margin” between what the retailer
"pays and what he receives.
OPS officials said the new regu
lation will probably be issued late
this week or early next week. It
will be the first of a series of
“margin” type orders which were
promised when the temporary price
freeze of Jan. 25 was announced.
Here is why price rises are ex
pected: the new regulation will
By CLAYTON SELPH
“Japan is as necessary to the
security of the United States as
we are to the security of Japan.”
With those words, retired Ad
miral Benton W. Decker began an
hour long extemporaneous discus
sion before an MSC Assembly room
audience last night in which he:
• Said we must soon fight a
“preventive” war with Russia to
keep them from undermining us
from within.
• Claimed Acheson’s foreign pol
icy in the Far East is responsible
for the fighting in Korea today
and should be thrown out now.
• Said General MacArthur’s
“hands should be untied” in the
Korean war so that strategic bomb
ing of China can be carried out.
• Proposed a Japanese land
army that could be sent into Korea
to take the place of most American
troops there now.
• Advocated a forceful United
States policy in the U.N., but ex
pressed the opinion that the organ
ization would soon die because of
its “ineffectiveness.”
• Had praise only for both the
work of the American occupation
of Japan, and Gen. Mac Arthur as
the leader and prompter of the
American effort to re-educate the
New Directors
Confirmed By
State Senate
Appointments of three new
members of the A&M System
Board of Directors have been
confirmed by the state Sen
ate.
The legislative body approved
the naming of H. L. Winfield of
Fort Stockton Tuesday, and yester
day gave their consent to James W.
Witherspoon of Hereford and Bob
Allen of Raymondville.
Gov. Allan Shivers named the
three new members last week in
Austin. They replaced John New
ton of Beaumont, vice-president of
the board; Roy C. Potts of Bel
ton, and Henry R. Reese III of
Gonzales.
New members were named, Gov.
Shivers said, to provide better geo-
praphical representation on the
various state boards. He carried
out his plan not only on the A&M
System Board, but upon other
school governing bodies as well.
Senators confirmed yesterday ap
pointment of Texas Tech, the A&M
System, and Texas State Univer
sity for Negroes directors. Regents
for TSCW, for Texas State Teach 7
ers Colleges, and for the Univer
sity of Texas were also confirmed.
Other approvals by the Senate
included appointments for positions
on the Texas Prison Board and a
presiding judge for the Sixth Ad
ministrative Judicial District.
Senior Amputee Gets By
Despite Handicapped Legs
“But you can’t call me web
footed” is a favorite remark of
Thomas E. “Tommy” Noland, 23,
mechanical engineering student
from Lafayette, when he is kidded
about being from the swamps of
Louisiana.
Tommy has no feet—except for
a couple of wooden pairs. He had
his legs amputated mid-way be
tween the knees and ankles in
August, 1946, as a last and final
remedy for an extremely rare, and
thus far incurable, type of skin
growth on the bottoms of his feet.
Tommy has had “rough-going”
in the past, but he is now on the
home stretch and still maintaining
a high grade point ratio. He ex
pects to graduate in January, ’52.
Noland, son of Mrs. T. E. No
land of Lafayette, has been at
tending A&M off and on since
June, 1944. He has had to drop
out of school three different times,
one to get his legs amputated and
twice since because his stumps
failed to hold up properly under
the strain of walking to classes on
his artificial legs.
Although slowing him up some,
being handicapped has not affected
Tommy’s ambition to finish col
lege. He has had trouble with his
stumps the past semester and is
planning on possibly lining up some
of. his buddies to carry him to and
from class this semester to give his
stumps a rest. Without his arti
ficial legs, he weighs only 115
pounds — soaking wet.
Tommy, on his blue and now
rather battered motor-scooter, is
a familiar figure on the campus.
He is an ardent football fan, mak
ing all the home games and several
out-of-town ones last season. He
offers a buddy a ringside view in
exchange for pushing him up and
down the “track” in his wheel
chair.
In addition to football, Noland
likes softball, fishing, dove-hunt
ing, and swimming.
“I really like swimming,” says
Tommy, “but I have a hard time
keeping my stumps “up”.
He has written a retired engi
neer who has a hobby of helping
handicapped persons for informa
tion on a “custom-built” pair of
water fins to fit his stumps.
Noland, with his never-say-die
attitude and a little luck, will soon
be able to tell about going through
college on a motor-scooter.
Japanese people and rebuild their
country.
Decker based his opinions on his
experiences as a key figure in the
Japanese occupation since taking
command in 1946 of Japan’s larg
est naval base at Yokosuka. He
retired from Naval service last
June.
Explaining his opinion that the
United States should fight a pre
ventive war with Russia, Decker-
said that we would continue to have
trouble with Communism as long as
Dean Acheson advocates keeping
the Far East weak, and as long
as he and others think they can
do business with the Communists
and that the two can exist together.
Decker advocated building up our
military strength and then fight
ing a “bombing war” with Russia
that would cripple the Soviets and
give the non-communist peoples
within a chance to overthrow the
Stalin police state. His opinion is
that a large scale invasion would
be impractical and too costly in
American lives.
Let U. S. Bomb China
In a lively question and answer
session following his discussion he
praised the United Nations as a
“worthy move toward peace” but
said that he thought it would soon
die because of its ineffectiveness.
As for the U. S. attitude in the
U.N. he proposed a strong policy
demanding that MacArthur be al
lowed to bomb China and get the
fighting in Korea over with. “If
they won’t do it, then we should
take matters in our own hands.”
In his denunciation of the Ache-
son foreign policy, he said that
the secretary of state seemed only
to “alienate allies, oppose friends,
and appease enemies.” His appeas
ing policy toward Communism has
served to confuse the American
people, but to the Asiatics it is
clear evidence of weakness.”
“Acheson Should Resign”
Decker said Acheson had lost the
backing of the American people and
should either resign or change his
views.
Decker proposed the Japanese
land army as a solution to the
American lives now being lost in
the Korean fighting. He said that
former Jap soldiers should be used
as a nucleus for a strong army to
aid in the fighting.
“When we get the Japanese army
in Korea we can begin bringing our
own troops back home as instruc
tors for our new army that is pre-
paring for something much big
ger than Korea,” he explained.
He opposed allowing a buildup
of Japanese air and naval strength,
pointing out that the U. S. could
maintain control by commanding
the air and sea in the East.
As justification of the war in
Korea, Decker said that if we quit
fighting there then we would soon
be faced with a communist invasion
of Japan, and before long we would
be fighting them in California.
Braises MacArthur
In his praise for the American
occupation, Decker cited “MacAr
thur as the greatest living Ameri
can” for his work during and since >
World War II.
MacArthur and his occupation
policies have made friends of the
83 million Japanese people that
were once our enemies, Decker
said.
“All gangsterism has been clean
ed up in Japan, deaths from com
municable diseases have been cut
to one fifth the level existing under
Japanese control, he said, and Mac
Arthur has brought Christianity,
Democracy and honest government
to the Japanese.
Decker quoted the Japanese em
peror as saying that “the Japanese
wish to thank the American people
for what they have done for Japan
and for sending MacArthur to head
the occupation.”
Keeping the emperor, Decker
pointed out, was another MacAr
thur accomplishment that helped
keep the Japanese people intact
and easier to handle as a group.
“The Japanese people are as hap
py and prosperous today as some
European countries,” Decker said.
Subsidized Baby Sitters
Prague—W— Nurseries, which
will remain open for 24 hours, will
soon supplement the system of day
nurseries here. Prague’s city bud
get provides for the nurseries so
that working mothers can leave
their children there on a day
long basis.
enable retailers to pass on to their
customers many increases that
wholesalers had put into effect be
fore the Jan. 25 freeze date.
Government economists say a
certain amount of that must occur
to prevent an intolerable squeeze
on retailers whose costs have gone
up.
Stabilizer Johnston
They say this is one thing Eco
nomic Stabilizer Eric Johnston had
in mind yesterday when he pre
dicted that the cost df living will
continue to rise for a few more
months and then level off by mid
summer.
OPS officials also hope to lower
prices in some cases by rolling back
the size of margins to a selected
date. To illustrate, if a retailer’s
margin on a particular item was
40 per cent on the selected date,
and he has since raised it to 45 per
cent, he would have to cut it back
to 40.
OPS Director Michael V. DiSalle
said in a radio interview broadcast
last night that the OPS would
“somehow attempt” to fix margins
as they existed before the Korean
outbreak last June, and he thought
maybe there would be “astonish
ing” results in some industries.
But this didn’t amount to a defi
nite promise to roll back any mar
gins to pre-Korean levels, and the
question is still under debate.
Moreover DiSalle aparently was
talking about later orders—not the
one about to be issued on clothing
and house furnishings.
Meantime DiSalle and Johnston
had their staffs busy preparing re
ports on food prices for Defense
Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson.
Wilson asked for the reports
yesterday. He was described as
being “very concerned” over food
prices. He was also reported plan
ning to recommend some changes
in the defense production act to
permit tighter controls on food
prices.
Officials predict, too, that Presi
dent Truman may send a message
to Congress on the same subject
about Feb. 15.
Sweetheart
Nominee
Leimie Garrard
. . . will be entered in Saturday
night’s final competition for
Junior Sweetheart. Hailing from
Houston, she will be escorted to
the Class Prom and Banquet by
John Tapley. Lennie is a famil
iar sight to Aggielanders, hav
ing been chosen 75th Anniversary
Queen in . November.
Students Select
Foreign Nation
In Vote Tonight
Names of three European
countries will appear on a bal
lot which will be distributed
to all students of the college
tonight.
One nation will be selected by
vote of the student body. This, say
student Senate election committee
men, will be the country from
which a foreign student will be
brought to A&M on a student-fin
anced scholarship.
The foreign student study award
was originated in a recent Senate
meeting - . The idea gained favor
with the Senators and it was soon
embodied into a motion, after cor
respondence with other schools
which have had similar scholarships
and with agencies for obtaining
foreign students.
Germany, Austria, and Norway
will be listed on the ballot. One
blank space will be left for any
student who wishes to write in the
name of a country more preferable
to him.
Final Dimes Drive
Nears $2,500 Total
‘Tiger’ Tanks
Shell Ruins Of
Ravaged Seoul
Tokyo, Feb. 8—(TP)—Tiger
faced American tanks shelled
Seoul’s black skeleton today
and the entire allied line in
western Korea moved up an
other mile or more toward the for
mer South Korean capital.
The Chinese Reds had their quilt
ed backs to the iced-up Han River
by the fire-gutted city. A staff of
ficer said they may try to make
a stand but that it appeared likely
they would pull out to the north
bank.
Red resistance in the west was
crumbling. It was stiffer on the
central and east-central fronts but
there, too, the allied Chinese-kill
ing drive ground forward. War
ships and planes supported the ad
vance.
Tanks of task force Dolvin rum
bled over mined roads to within
four miles of Seoul and shelled the
city at noon Thursday. The fronts
of the tanks had been painted to
resemble fierce tigers to frighten
the superstitious Chinese Commu
nist peasant soldiers.
After pumping shells into Seoul,
task force Dolvin pulled back for
the night. The doughboys behind
them had moved up to within 5(4
miles of the dead city.
AP correspondent Jim Becker,
with the armored column, said Lt.
Col. Tom Dolvin of Columbus, Ga.,
stood on a summit during the
plunge northward, and observed:
“If it wasn’t so hazy you could
probably see Seoul today from
where we are standing.”
It was the nearest ground ap
proach to Seoul by the allies since
they abandoned the city Jan. 4.
Most of the capital’s 1,500,000 pop
ulation has fled. The city is re
garded as of no military signifi
cance now.
Task' force Dolvin was one of
three punching at Chinese south of
the Han. Also pressing hard on
the Reds were ground troops of the
U. S., Britain, Greece, Turkey,
France, Puerto Rico and South Ko
rea.
Approximately $2,500 was rais
ed in the belated Mothers March on
, Polio held Tuesday night, much
more than campaign officials had
anticipated.
The Brazos County March of
Dimes finished collections yester
day and late tabulations show the
funds now total near $5,000, Chair
man H. T. Blackhurst said this
morning.
Although the goal of $9,500 was
not reached, Blackhurst explained
the figure was determined on a
twenty-five cent per capita basis.
Coming at the first of the year
and especially after many other
all-out charity drives, the cam
paign for money to fight polio
Rev. Copeland
To Meet With
Dorms 2 and 4
The Rev. Joseph J. Cope
land, minister of the First
Presbyterian Church of Den
ton, will be one of thirteen
men brought to A&M by the
YMCA and the College to conduct
lectures, forums and discussions
during Religious Emphasis Week,
Feb. 12-16.
The Rev. Copeland will live in
dorm 2 and will be available to the
students of dorm 2 and 4. He will
conduct forums each afternoon
from 4 to 5:30 and discussion
groups each night at 9 p. m. in
the dorm 2 lounge.
An accomplished author, The
Rev. Copeland wrote “Codes of
Ethics” for his B. D. thesis in 1939,
and in 1949, he wrote for the Sum-
mer Conference Issue of Daily De
votional “Today.” His article, “So
cial Progress Magazine” on Christ
ianity and World Order was writ
ten in 1948.
He graduated from Mexia high
school and received his B. A. De
gree from Trinity University. In
1939, he received his B. D. Degree
from McCormick Theological Sem
inary in Chicago, Illinois, and in
1950, received his D. D. Degree
from Trinity.
His practical experience includes
a pastorate of the Archer Heights
Presbyterian Church in Chicago
till 1939, and then a pastorate of
the First Presbyterian Church in
Frederick, Okla. In 1942, The Rev.
Copeland accepted his present posi
tion as pastor of the First Pres
byterian Church, U.S.A. in Denton.
He has been Religious Emphasis
speaker or Baccalaureate speaker
for Texas Tech, Texas University,
Oklahoma A&M, A&M, Oklahoma
College for Women, and West
Texas State Teachers.
was not expected to meet the goal
handed down by the National Foun
dation for Infantile Paralysis the
chairman said.
Last year’s March of Dimes
brought in $4,700 in Brazos County,
which is very near the amount
donated in this drive.
Blackhurst asked that any resi
dent of the county who was missed
in the Mother’s March or who
would like to make further contri
butions to the fund, can do so by
sending their checks to the First
National Bank in Bryan or the
College Station State Bank in Col
lege Station.
“I would like to take this oppor
tunity to express my appreciation
to Mrs. E. R. Bryant and Rob
ert F. Cain who worked so hard to
see the March of Dimes drive
successful in this county,” Black
hurst said.
AIChE Chapters
Meet Tomorrow
Southwest student chapters of
the American Institute of Chemical
Engineers will hold their first an
nual meeting tomorrow.
Following registration in the
Memorial Student Center at 11
a. m., Pres. M. T. Harrington, will
speak at a luncheon.
A technical session and inspec
tion of the MSC and other college
facilities will fill the afternoon
program.
Dr. H. W. Barlow, dean of En
gineering, will welcome the stu
dent groups at a banquet at 7 p. m.,
and faculty representatives from
the University of Texas and Rice
Institute will speak briefly.
Main speaker for the evening
will be Mason Lockwood, consult
ing' engineer of Houston and for
mer president of the Texas State
Society for Professional Engineers.
Awards will be presented at the
banquet to students giving the
best papers at the afternoon tech
nical session.
Appli cations Taken
For AAAA Exams
Applications are now being ac
cepted from students in their last
year of college for the annual ad
vertising examinations given by
the American Association of Ad
vertising Agencies.
The examinations are designed to
attract high calibre young people
to advertising*, according to Tho
mas F. Conroy, chairman of the
Southwest Chapter, Central Coun
cil, AAAA.
Besides seiwing as an estimate of
his abilities, the test results may
be shown to employers as a con
crete indication of an individual’s
potentialities.
Anyone interested should con
tact Earl Newsom of the Journal
ism department for details.
Vanity Fair Pic
Deadline Nears
Saturday is the last day for sen
iors to enter favorites in Van
ity Fair or Senior Favorites.
The six winners, who will be
chosen by George Petty, well
known artist, will have a two page
spread each in the Aggieland ’51.
They will be presented to the stu
dent bddy at the Military Ball.
Three pictures are required-—^
5 by 7 glossy print in formal at
tire, full length, a semilforma] bust
shot and a sports attire, full length,