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Circulated to More Than 90% of College Station’s Residents The Battalion PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE College Station and Vicinity: Cold Tonight, Clear, No Precipitation Number 93: Volume 51 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1951 Price Five Cents Sweetheart Nominees Pat Holcombe . . . lovely young lass from Odessa, is Jon Parkey’s choice for Sophomore Class Sweet- heart. Miss Holcombe is one of four finalists to be presented at the Sophomore Ball Saturday night in the MSC. 1‘arkey is a sophomore from 15 Infantry. Miss Barbara Ann Barnes ... is a Houston candidate for Sophomore Class Sweetheart. Selected to be one of four final ists, Miss Barnes will be escorted to the Ball by Warner (Tinky) Dunn, a sophomore from E In fantry. Miss Barnes attends Stephen F. Austin High School. Leading Art Work MSC Art Group Sponsors Exhibit By BOB SELLECK The Gallery Committee, an art group sponsored by the Memorial Student Center, is sponsoring an exhibition of paintings in the prom enade cases in the Memorial Stu dent Center, Mrs. Paul Terry, art director of the Center said yester day. The exhibit is the Circuit VI of the Texas Fine Arts Association and will be on display from Mon day through Friday week. T h o public is invited to visit this dis play, Mrs. Terry stated. The show will include thirteen oils by such prominent Texas art ists as Ramon Froman, Dallas, Bertha Cone, Houston, Josephine Cramer, Dallas, Eugene Thurston, -j El Paso, Maurine Stewart, Brown- wood, Clarice Holloway, Port Ar- James O’Brien To Speak Here Monday Night James C. O’Brien, Associate Director, Office of Manpower, National Resources Board, ivill speak on “America’s Plans for Mobilization of Manpower” to the Great Issues ilass at 8 p. m., Monday, February 1.9, in the Assembly Room of the Memorial Student Center. The Great Issues class was created by the history department in 1948 and modeled from a sim ilar course at Dartmouth College. The purpose of the course is to familiarize students with interna- * tional problems and the position of the United States in the ideologi- : cal conflict. The manpower head spoke to the class in Great Issues two years r ago and proved to be one of the most popular visitors who has ad dressed the class. He is the first person to speak to the class twice. “O’Brien knows as much of the - over-all plans as to who will be drafted into the nation’s armed forces, and when, as any man in Washington and his speech should ij^be of a great interest to all Ag gies,” Dr. S. R. Gammon, Head of the history department, said. The addresses by visiting speak ers to the Great Issues class are open to the public with no admis sion charge. Dr. Lausen to Falk At Geology Meet \ A discussion of “Gem Stones” by Dr. Carl Lausen of the Geology Department, will highlight a meet ing of the Geology Club, Tuesday, February 20th, at 7:30 p. m. in the Petroleum Lecture Room. Dr. Lausen’s own collection of gems, both cut and uncut, will be ^exhibited. His talk will concern the natural environment in which the various gems are found, and other interesting facts concerning each type of rare stone. The public is invited to attend, and club members are asked to be present. A special meeting of Geology 4 Seniors after the program will dis cuss the senior field trip to be held in March. thur, Mary Sloan, Corpus Christi, and others. The fourteen water color paint ings include works of Coreen Mary Spellman, Denton, Juanita Tittle, Abilene, Marguerite Bing ham, Alice, Chloe Baker, Corpus Christi, and others. Blanch McVeigh, Fort Worth, has a print called “Angels G'ot Two Wings.” She is one of Texas’ leading artists. Two other prints were also entered by Merrit Mau- zey, Dallas, and Bess Hubbard, Lubbock, Mrs. Terry continued. “The Cotton Picker” by Ramon Froman is one of the outstanding pictures in the show. It portrays the weariness and defeat of life in every line the artist used. Another portrait, “Jack,” a col ored man, painted by Josephine Cramer of Dallas is well executed. Three prize winners included in this circuit include: Maurine Ste wart’s “Fruit of the 1 Earth,” Dor othy Vasburg’s “An Austin Shack,” and Juanita Tittle’s “The Palace.” There are thirty pictures in the show and some represent abstrac tions and color design while others are more of the conservative style. Altogether the exhibit is a fine show and is expected to be well received in this area, the MSC art director concluded. Senior Favors Set For Direct Sales No individual orders for Sen ior Favors will be taken this year, C. G. “Spike” White, assistant dean of men for activities said this morning. The government has placed a freeze on many metals such as copper, and brass and it becomes effective on April 1. Since the orders for the favors have not all been received, it has been decided by the Students Ac tivities Office that the favors should be ordered now in order to assure their delivery. Orders for previous years, up to and including favors for the class of ’49, will be taken, but none of these will be taken after Feb. 15. Red Drive Broken By Allied Big Guns In Central Korea Tokyo, Feb. 15—UP)—Allied big guns today broke the back of the massive Red manpower drive that was aimed to crack the Central Korea front. The U. S. Eight Army said 10,593 casualties were in flicted on the Communists Wednesday in all Korea. This raised to nearly 100,000 the Reds’ losses in killed, wounded and captured since Jan. 25. Frontline United Nations officers, claiming victory “at the moment,” said four Red divisions were wiped out or shattered in the four-day Communist effort to drive down Central Korea’s rocky spine between Wonju and Chipyong. French, Dutch, South Korean and American forces checked the Red drive along a 20-mile front of ridges and a wide valley between those two towns. A field dispatch described the scene as “death valley.” Hundreds more Chinese and North Korean Reds met a violent end in today’s fighting - on the cen tral front. The breakdown on Red casualties on that front alone Wed nesday was 3,075 killed, 2,305 wounded by ground action alone. Planes Take Off Allied warplanes took an un counted toll in supporting ground units rolling- with the Red punch. While the fighting continued on the central and western fronts at reduced tempo, South Korean ma rines secured two small islands commanding Wonsan harbor far up on the sea of Japan coast. The east coast landings were made Wednesday on Cho and Rei islands some 90 air miles north of Parallel 39 and about 130 miles north of the main battleline. It had been reported at first that the South Koreans landed on the mainland, but U. S. naval offi cials said Thursday the operation was confined to the two islands. The navy said the landings were of secondary importance. But seizure of the islands, both close inshore, gives the allies con trol of Wonsan’s harbor. Red sup plies and reinforcements funnel through the coastal city to the cen tral front from staging areas in the northeast Korea. It was from Hungnam, 50 air miles north of Wonsan, that, some 100,000 allied troops evacuated their northeast Korea beachhead in December after a bitter retreat from Changjin reservoir and other northern points. Clearing skies Thursday gave far east air force bombers and fighters a better shot at Red troops and supply lines on the battlefront and northward. 1,152 Killed On the western front, AP corres pondent Stan Swinton reported 1,152 Reds were killed in an abor tive attempt Wednesday to gain a foothold on the south side of the Han River near Red-held Seoul. The crossing near the ruins of the former South Korean capital was tried by the North Korean Eighth Division. But the biggest blow to the Reds was dealt on the central front. The snow-covered hills and the valley around and between Chipyong - and Wonju were littered with dead Communists. No Movie Stars Says Military Ball Head Jack Frost Back For 2nd Round, Defrost Seen Dark homes, skidding cars, and the crash of ice laden tree limbs reminded College Stationites that Jack Frost was still around. In the second big freeze of the year hundreds of trees snapped under the weight of ice collected after a day long drizzle and freeze. Electric power lines from Bryan collapsed under the weight of the ice. In College Station electric service was | out in College Hills and College Park. Service in the Memorial Student Center was not stopped because of the lack of electricity. | noo Winner and Date Maureen O’Hara, John Ford, and John Payne will not attend the Military Ball because of service and contract commitments, W. D. “Pusher” Barnes, chairman of the invitation committee reported yes- terday. Movie Director John Ford, is at present on active duty with the Navy. He is a Captain in Korea. John Wayne is currently in Mex ico on location for a forthcoming movie. March 1 he will go to Ire land for more shooting. Maureen O’Hara is in Australia making- a picture “down-under.” Committee chairmen of the var ious committees for the ball were also released yesterday by Way- mond Nutt and Frank Sheffield, heads of all the Military Ball committees. The announced committees and Reid Will Address Architect Society Philosophy of School Planning is the topic to be discussed at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday in the Biological Sciences Lecture Room by John Lyon Reid, San Francisco archi tect, Jack Stansbury, president of the society said this morning. Reid has designed several schools on the West Coast. The designer moved there ten years ago after serving as a pro fessor of architecture at the Mass achusetts Institute of Technology for several years. Collectors of Women Out, Pipe Addicts Stand To Win By ROGER COSLETT Men collect things such as stamps, pin up pictures and worn out dollar bills. Women on the other hand collect engagement rings and men. But, be as it may, the person with the best pipe collection—man or woman—entered in The Battal ion Pipe Smoking Contest; Feb. The pipe collection contest is but one phase of the overall contest which will include cigar smoking, cigarette rolling, smoke ring blow ing and corn cob smoking. Pipe smoking will be broken down into large, medium, small, minature and metal bowl classes. There will also be a calabash and churchwarden section. Co-sponsored by the Memorial 28, will leave the MSC Assembly Student Center, the contest is em- room that Wednesday evening with barking in its fourth appearance on an arm full of prizes. Collections will be judged on number of pipes, variety, oddity and manner of display. Duplicate and special prizes may be award ed if the judges feel they are warranted. the campus. Last year, more than $150 in pipes, tobacco, cigarettes, pipe • and cigarette lighters were given away as prizes. Prizes for this year’s contest are arriving every, day. A complete listing of them will appear in this paper at Only one rule governs the con- a later date test, and that is the contestants So whether you have a collection must have their collections in the of pipes or only one—the MSC has MSC Assembly worn by 4 p. m. of a complete new stock of pipes and the afternoon of Feb. 28. Tins rule tobacco supplies in—get ft out and is imposed so as to give contest warn it up. Watch this paper for officials enough time to assist in an entry blank, fill it out and re arranging the collection displays, turn it to the contest manager. Staff Member Approached By Subversives An organization branded by the House Un-American Activities Committee as sub versive has made approaches toward one Of the members of the staff, President M. T. Har rington, said this morning. “About two years ago,” The fac ulty members reported, “T h e Southern Conference Educational Fund sent out questionnaires on graduate studies for negroes . . . and my answers to the question naire must have met the organiza tion’s fancy. “Since that time, I have been receiving their publication, ‘The Southern Patriot.” After receiving a number of copies of the paper I got a request to send a telegram to the Governor of Mississippi to pardon a sentenced Negro to death. When this request came in the faculty member wrote the FBI and asked for information on the organ ization. The federal agency for warded the question to the Un- American Activities Committee. They in turn identified the chief officers of the organization and the editor of the publication as sub versive. This organization, among others is under surveillance by the con gressional committee, and the Jus tice Department. President Harrington suggested all members of the staff take ad vantage of the information and make a careful check of the public records before becoming involved in any organization. their heads are Invitation, Barnes; Decorations, Jack Stansbury; Por- gram, Kenneth Schaake; Guests, Roy Reed; Refrtshments, Ralph Zerwekh; Orchestra, Nutt; and publicity, J. H. Hinton. Several guests have accepted their invitations to the occasion de finitely, Barnes announced. The acceptees are Maj. Gen. Al bert S. Johnson, Commanding Gen eral 49th Armored Division of the Texas National Guard; Maj. Gen. H. Miller Ainsworth, Commanding General of the 36th Division of the Texas National Guard; and' Maj. Gen. Hugh Hoffman, Chief of Staff of the Fourth Army. Maj. Gen. Charles E. Thomas Jr., Commanding General of the 14th Air Force; Maj. Gen. K. L. Berry, Adj. Gen. of the State of Texas; and Col. Jerry Lee, Commanding- Officer of Ellington Air Force Base have also accepted. Invitations have been extended to cadet colonels of the ROTC units in Texas high schools, and junior colleges and other outstand ing personages, Barnes concluded. Burchard Elected Journalism Officer D. D. Burchard, head of the Journalism Department, was re cently re-elected secretary-treas urer of the Texas Gulf Coast Chap ter, Sigma Delta Chi. The SDX is a national professional journalism fraternity. Another member of the depart ment, Otis Miller, was named to the three-man program committee for the organization. New chapter president is John H. Manthey, Jr., publisher of the Cleveland Advocate. Albert Smith of the Shell Pipeline Company was elected vice-president at the re cent meeting in Houston. Club Rosters Due Deadline for turning in rosters for the Aggieland ’51 is Feb. 17. All clubs that have not turned in these rosters should do so im mediately, Roy Nance, editor, said this morning. All rosters should be typed if possible with a list of the officers included and turned in to Student Activities Office, 201 G'oodwin Hall. Prexy to Get First Album At Premiere President Harrington will be presented the first A&M Record Album at the pre miere-concert in Guion Hall, Friday the Student Activities Office announced. The premier-concert will begin a campaign to sell the record al bums containing “The War Hymn,” “The 12th Man,” and “The Spirit of Aggieland.” The composers of the songs, Mrs. Ford “Lil” Munnerlyn, Col. R. J. Dunn, J. V. “Pinkie” Wilson, will tell how they came to write the songs and will autograph the albums after the show. Selections including the record ed album numbers will be given by the Aggieland Band, directed by Col. E. V. Adams, ’29, the Sing ing Cadets and the Aggieland Or chestra, directed by W. M. “Bill” Turner. After the program the albums may be bought from student sales men at four sales tables in the lobby of Guion. For a week follow ing the premiere, students may purchase the albums from their in dividual dorm salesmen. Posters will be placed in each dorm to ad vise dorm students who their al bum salesman is. First Joint AIChE Meet Held at A&M The first joint meeting of the student chapters of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers from Rice, TU, and A&M was held Friday in the Memorial Student Center. More than 100 students attended the meeting, which was the first joint meeting of students of AICh.E in the southwest. Following a luncheon address by Dr. M. T. Harrington, president of the college, a seines of six pap ers were given by students from the three schools. A first prize of $15 was given to H. W. Martin of Rice for his paper, “Hydrogen from Hydro carbons and Steam.” Second prize went to G. H, Shoptau df the University of Texas for his pap er, “Polyform and Gas Reversion Processes.” The South Texas Section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers donated the prizes. The Fountain Room took on the air of the Main Dining Room with candles on the tables. State Slick On the state-wide side of the weather news the vicious ice, snow and sleet storm numbed activity, broke communication wires, and made streets and roads nearly im passable over more than half of the state. It gave many schools an unsched uled holiday; took at least three lives on icy highways and sent a chilled breath that added to the plight of the thousands thrown out of work by an earlier big- freeze in the lower Rio Grande Val ley. Far South Freezing rain fell as far soutl as Corpus Christi and-San Anto nio. The blow was heavy in North Texas, but light along a strip from Texarkana southward on the ex treme eastern part of the state. Nationally the weather map was a hodge-podge of contrasts. A band of snow, sleet, and rain stretched 1,200 miles from Texas Northeast into New England, the Associated Press reported. It helped break a drought in the mid-continent winter wheat belt; but paralyzed much road travel in Oklahoma and Texas. At the same time people in Washington D. Ci were going around in shirt sleeves. Cuss—Praise Farmers all over the state were alternately cussing and praising the weather. In eastern portions of the state, where the freeze did not strike with such intensity, farmers wel comed the rain. In other parts where vegetables were just com ing up the freeze ruined them. The weatherman at Bryan Field said early this morning a break is seen in the weather. Graduation Invitations Graduation announcement orders are now being taken in the Stu dent Activities office, second floor, Goodwin Hall. Deadline for order ing announcements will be March 13. Mimeograph sheets containing all specifications for placing orders are available in the Student Ac tivities office. Senior Favors will also be avail able for “over-the-counter” sale beginning March 1. Lonnie Garrard John Tapley Lemtie and John take it easy during one of the breaks at the Junior Prom held Saturday night in the MSCi She was later named Jun ior Class Sweetheart. At present she is a student at the Univer sity of Houston. This is the second time this year she won a beauty contest at A&M, she was the 75th Anniversary Queen. It Still Takes Hours To Get A Senior Ring So you’ve finally gotten the date, April 5, is Feb. 28. hours and grade points to order that long awaited senior ring. The procedure for ordering has been set forth by Mrs. Dell Bauer, ring clerk in the Registrar’s Of fice. Prior to ordering, name and course should be turned in to Mrs. Bauer to see if hour and gradepoint requirements are met. Then the applicant should wait at least one day and then go to window five where the Ring Clerk will take the order. The ring window is open from 8 a. m. until 12 noon on Mondays through Saturdays. The deadline for ordering rings for delivery on the next delivery Christian Business Full-Time Job—Elliott By CURTIS EDWARDS In spite of adverse weather con ditions, a near capacity crowd fill ed Guion Hall this morning to hear Dr. William M. Elliott deliver his fourth sgrmon, “This Business of Being a Christian.” King Egger, YMCA president presided over the service which was begun with singing lead by the Rev. Larry Eisenberg, visiting lead er from Nashville, Tenn. Special music by Tom Savage of the Sing ing Cadbts, assisted by organist Jimmy Rollins was preceded by a prayer led by Louis Caplan, Hillel Foundation president. Taking his sermon thoughts from the text: “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up. his cross, and follow me,” Matthew 16:24, Dr. Elliott em phasized the fact that being a Christian is not any “safe, senti mental, or insipid affair.” Jesus 'never toned things down for the sake of winning followers, he explained. In fact, he continued, there were times when he seemed to go out of his way to draw in the more repelling aspects of discipline. However, Dr. Elliott pointed that when Jesus said, “Let him deny himself,” he was not referring to occasional self denials. “Occasional self-denial is un doubtedly a good thing Dr. El liott continued “but I am sure that Jesus was concerned with some thing deeper down—the subordina tion of self-will.” “Let Man deny himself,” Dr. El liott said. “Let him put God first and himself second. Let him set God at the center of his life, and push himself out onto the circum ference.” In explaining the words, “And take up his cross,” Dr. Elliott , em phasized the fact that Jesus said “take up” and not “give up.” “There is nothing negative about this business of being a Christian,” Dr. Elliott continued. Some people, he said, believe that being a Christ ian is not to do certain things. A Christian, he said, gives : up “only that which harms and cheap ens his personality; only that which blurs the face of God, and breaks one’s fellowship with Christ.” A Christian, he continued, is one who “takes up’.’ his cross; one who goes “above and beyond the call of duty;” one who has a vicarious conscience—who is willing to be and, do more than society demands of him. “Being- a- Christian is not just being harmless.” ' The “and follow me” part of the above text means, Dr. Elliott said, that there are some places he will not visit, some parties he will not attend, some things he will not do, some roads he will not travel. But, he continued, on the posi tive side there are some things he will do: he will get alone with God; he will attend public wor ship; and he will live a life of prac tical service. “All these Jesus did, and one who follows him, will walk in these paths,” Dr. Elliott concluded. Aggie miniature rings must be ordered under the same regulations as regular class rings. All majors in the School of Ag riculture with the exception >o! three require 99 hours as the min imum for ordering the ring. The three exceptions are Ag Engineering, which requires 102 hours, Dairy Management calls for 100 hours, Landscape Art which requires 100 hours. The School of Veterinary Medi cine requires 102 hours for the or der. Requirements for students in the School of Arts and Science's are as follows: Business Administration and Ac counting, 100 hours; Economics, 95; Education, 94; English, 93; History, 93; Journalism, 97; Math ematics, 96; Language, 94; Pre- Law, 94; and Physical Education, 93. .. . : Biology and Entomology, 98; Chemistry, Pre-Medical, and Pre- Dental, 100; and Physics, 99. Minimum hour requirements in the Behool of Engineering are: Architecture, 93; Aeronautical, 103; Chemical, 105; Civil, 109 Electrical, 108; Management, 106; Mechanical, 107; Petroleum, 111; Petroleum-Geological, 107, and Pet roleum-Mechanical, 104. Men who will become eligible to order rings for next year on the basis of mid-semester grade re ports will be able to place their orders after May 1 for delivery, on Aug. 1. Extension Service ConduetingSchools Supervisor trainers for the En gineering Extension Service have scheduled February training class es for employees of a refinery, railroad, parking system, hotel as sociation, chemical and lumber com pany, and rural electric coopera tives. E. L. Williams, vice director and E. L. Baab, chief of supervisor training, have begun an extensive training program for the super visors of the Magnolia Refinery at Beaumont. Field instructors L. Kirkman Jonas, D. L. Belcher, A. L. Kramer, and E. B. Hoyler are also holding training classes, and conferences. Williams and Baab will conduct another session for Dallas rail road employees later this month,