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r v\ B* , , Circulated to ^' More Than 90% of College Station’s Residents The Battalion PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE What About MSC ‘Education?’ See Column, Page Two Number 95: Volume 51 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1951 Price Five Cents Aggie Album Premiere Set For Guion Tonight Songs of A&M Anothor world premiere will unfold tonight in Guion Hall. Al though its not another “We’ve Never Been Licked,” it is the public unveiling of the Aggie rec ord album, The Songs of Texas A&M. The authors of the school songs, the Singing Cadets, the Aggie Band and the Aggieland Orches tra will be on hand as the public first hears the new recordings. Songs of Texas A&M is a pre sentation of four Aggie songs, Two Candidates File Intentions For City Office , Two residents of College Station have submitted their intentions to run for the posi tion of City Councilman in the , coming municipal election. The two men, both in the race to represent the citizens of Ward One, are W. H. Badgett, and J. W. O’Brien. Badgeet, 44, a resident of Col lege Station for 22 years, is now in his second term as City Council- * man is running for re-election. O’Brien has been a resident of College Station since Sept. 1947 and is the owner of the O’Brien . Construction Co. He is 33 years of age. Both candidates served in the armed forces during World War II—Badgett was with the Army while O’Brien served with the Air Force. Mayor Ernest Langford issued the notice that the deadline for filing application for office is March fifth as 5 p. m. “All aplrli- iations must be submitted to the City Manager prior to 5 p. m. in , order for the name to be entered on the ballpt,” said Langford. To file for office, one must be a resident of the Ward for whose council post he wishes to run, must be of legal age, may be of either sex, and does not have to be a property owner. The Ward one area includes f Oak Wood addition, College Park, and West Park addition. Ward ' two includes the College Hills sec tion east of Highway six and f south of farm i-oad 60. The rest of the City, including the campus, * is in Ward three. Students to Attend Citizenship Meet Four A&M students have been chosen to attend a Christian Citi zenship Seminar to be held in Washington, D. C. and Lake Suc cess, N. Y. the week of Feb. 26 to March 1. Chosen to represent the college are Dale Walston, Nat Kenny, J. Hugh Winn, and Kenneth Baker. With the students will be the Rev. and Mrs. Robert C. Sneed. Only fifty delegates from the entire nation will attend the conference. Cooperating in their sponsorship of the seminar are the Departments of Student Work of the Board of Missions and of the Board of Ed ucation of the Methodist Church. Activities of the seminar will in clude group and personal inter views with senators and congress men, visits to foreign embassies, a review of social legislation and civ il rights and liberties, and an op portunity to meet the State De partment. The delegates will also attend U. N. sessions, a conference with representatives of UNESCO, meet ings with representatives from UN delegations, and have other oppor tunities to observe the processes of world and national government. Employee’s Dinner Set for Feb. 23 The February meeting of the Employees Dinner Club, which will commemorate George Washington’s Birthday, will be held Friday Feb. 23 at 7:30 p. m. in the Memorial Student Center. Dancing will follow the dinner. Although the monthly dinner is customarily held on the third Thursday, it has been shifted to the fourth Friday so that em ployees could have an opportunity to participate in Religious Empha sis Week activities, Bennie Zinn, chairman of the dinner said this morning. Tickets for the d i n n e r are available at the main desk of the MSC and must be purchased be fore noon Thursday Feb. 22 to as sure reservation, Zinn continued. “The Aggie War Hymn,” “Twelfth Man,” “The Spirit of Aggieland,” and “Silver Taps,” on records, done by Recorded Publications Company of New Jersey. Students and staff members will hear these presentations for the first time before they are released for distribution. Student Produced Alan Waldie and David Haines are student co-producers of the show. The records were recorded by The Singing Cadets and the Ag gieland Orchestra under the direc tion of Bill Turner, and by the Aggieland Band under the direc tion of Lt. Col. E. V. Adams. The cover for the album, showing the academic building and the A&M seal in white on a maroon background, was done by Bob Cul len of the A&M Press. In addition to the first hearing of the records, the three recording musical groups will present a con ceit. Writers Present On stage for the occasion will be the writers of three of the songs, Pinky Wilson who wrote, “Aggie War Hymn,” Mrs. Ford (Lil) Munnerlyn who penned “The Twelfth Man,” and Col. R. J. Dunn, USA Ret., who composed the music and first released the song, “The Spirit of Aggieland.” Each of the writers will tell the story behind the writing of their song. “The entire program will last about an hour and a half,” Waldie said. “No admission will be charged.” Col. Dunn, who now makes his home in College Station and keeps up his music interests by directing the Consolidated High School band, told the story of “The Spirit of Aggieland.” “The words,” Col. Dunn said, “were first written by Marvin H. Mims, in the summer of 1925.” Mims, the story goes, was at Four Volunteers Accepted by Army Four local volunteer-reservists were accepted for active duty, in the Army, announced Capt. M. B. Finlay, ORC Unit Instructor, Thursday. The men, all members of the Reserve 325 Armored Field Artil lery Battalion, are 1st • Lt. Billy R. Wright and M/Sgt. Richard H. Magers of College Station, and Capt. Marion T. Steenson and SFC Dallas R. Andrews are of Bryan. Lt. Wright received orders to report to Ft. Sill, Okla. and Capt. Steenson to Camp Chaffee, Ark. in March. M/Sgt. Magers and SFC Andrews reported to Ft. Bliss and Fort Sill respectively. Other local men, who have also volunteered for the current mobil- ibation have not received their ac ceptance notices, Capt. Finlay said. home on vacation in Marlin just previous to entering his senior year at A&M. He had been thinking a lot about his last year here, and one day he sat down and wrote the original words to “The Spirit of Aggieland.” The song started out: “Some may boast of white and gold of a school they love so well..” When he had finished with the words, he sent them to Col. Dunn, then director of the Aggie band. Col. Dunn took the words, changed them in a few places, and set them to music in 6-8 time. It took him four days to write the music. Tempo Changed Three weeks later the song was introduced by the Aggie band for the first time on College Night. It was an immediate hit. A short time later Col. Dunn changed the music to four-four time, its present tempo. Mrs. Munnerlyn, Col. Dunn, Col. Adams, Turner and Wilson will be on stage after the show tonight to autograph albums for first-night purchasers. During the show Mrs. Munner lyn, many years of Bryan and now of Houston, will play another song written by Col. Dunn, but never released. Its title is “There Shall Be No Regrets.” The record collection and album are illustrated with scenes taken on the campus and smaller pictures of the Aggie Band, Aggieland Orchestra, and the Singing Cadets. Reid Fills New Job For Oceanography Robert 0. Reid has joined the staff of the Department of Ocean ography as an assistant professor of Physical and Meterological Oceanography, Dr. Dale F. Leip- per, head of the department an nounced today. In addition to teaching courses in Theory of Ocean Waves and Theo retical Physical Oceanography, Reeid is assisting in research work, Dr. Leipper continued. The research in which Reid is engaged is being conducted by the A&M Research Foundation for the United Gas Pipe Line Co. and the U. S. Navy Hydrographic Office and the Office of Naval Research. L o vinggood Na med Soph Sweetheart Mrs. Ford Munnerlyn, author of “The Twelfth Man,” will play her arrangement of the school song. Former PMS&T Raised to General Guy S. Meloy, Jr., former A&M commandant and PMS&T from 1945 to 1948 has been promoted from colonel to brigadier general. General Meloy has just arrived in Washington from Korea where he was wounded in July, 1950. John J. Binns, who served at A&M as captain, 1932-36, was at the same time promoted to brig adier general, comptroller depart ment of the Army for Germany. Another officer who served at A&M is Guy H. Goddard, who was promoted to full colonel. Pinky Wilson “War Hymn” Negotiations Opened Again For Korean Peace with Reds United Nations, N. Y., Feb. 19— (A 3 )—New efforts to negotiate a Korean peace with Communist Chi na get under way at the United Nations today. Assembly President Nasrollah Last Friday, however, one sec tion of Prime Minister Stalin’s Foreign Policy statement gave the committee a new, but highly quali fied, hope. This was the so-called “big if” Entezam of Iran has summoned the where he indicated the Communist so-called good-offices committee to world did not believe the West had meet in his skyscraper office at finally rejected Peiping’s terms, headquarters here to make a start Stalin said: on the task. “If Britain and the United States The group—whose other mem- reject finally the proposal made bers are Sven Grafstrom of Swe- by the people’s government of Chi- den and Luis Padilla Nervo of na, the war can only end in defeat Mexico—was set up by the Ameri- of the interventionists.” can resolution branding Red China Although the U. N. majority is an aggressor in Korea. deetrmined to negotiate only on an Russian spokesmen said then honorable, no-appeasement basis, that the committee’s task was the committee will scrutinize the hopeless since the labelling of Pei- Stalin statement closely to see if ping as an aggressor had slammed it indicates that Peiping may be the door on peace tries. willing to talk at all. Aggie Players Set Tryouts for Play Tryouts for the forthcoming Ag gie Player’s production on April 2-3, “Antigone” will be held to night and Wednesday night in the Music Hall, C. K. Esten, director of the group said this morning. The centuries old “Antigone” will be presented in modern dia logue and dress, with a simple and classic setting. Casting will be held for the parts of four women and eight men, Esten stated. Geologists Re-set Dr. Lousen’s Talk A talk on “Gem Stones,” pre viously slated with the Geology Club for Tuesday, has been re scheduled for Thursday, at 7:30 p. m. in the Petroleum Lecture Room. This change in date was neces- sai’y to prevent conflict of the meeting with the SMU basketball game. Miss Lynne Lovinggood, senior at Highland Park High School, was crowned Sweetheart of the Sophomore Class Saturday night at the annual Sophomore Ball held in the MSC. Miss Lovinggood, escorted by Bill Scott of E Field Artillery, won out in the final competition from Misses Barbara Ann Barnet, Jane Holcombe, and Bonnie Jean Towler. The winner received an engraved sterling silver bracelet and the three finalists each received a compact. The National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis will receive a check for $54.10 from the Class of 1953 as a result of the money contributed at the dance. It was voted previously that corsages would be forsaken for the crippled children’s benefit. The Thing Vieing for popularity at the Ball were the Aggie Ramblers—com posed of Roddy Peebles, Jimmy El ler, and Albert Cusick—and a mys terious black box entitled “The Thing.” The Ramblers pleased the audi ence with their music and “The Thing” scared the dancers by un- expectingly exhibiting their re flections. Several of the dancers even became indignant when they saw themselves in the mirror. Decorations Decoration highlight of the dance were the two solid ice heart Dorm 8 Senator Will Be Elected Student Senate Elections will be held for Student Senator for Dorm 8 Thursday, John Stuntz, election committee chairman announced to day. Filing will begin today and last until Tuesday at 5 p. m. Applica tions will be turned in to Student Activity Offices, second floor of Goodwin Hall. Only men in Dorm 8 are eligible to enter, Stuntz added. shoped punch bowls. Hand carved by class parliamentarian James Upmore, the two 250 lbs. blocks of ice were scooped out and filled with punch. Inserted in the punch were several cakes of dry ice which caused the liquid to bubble and smoke violently. \Gene Earl Steed,, chairman of the decorations committee, direct ed the installation of the unusual decorations. Because the theme for the Ball was music,- each window was adorned with a song title, cut from carboard and sprinkled with mica. Flanking the titles were mus ical instruments and notes, con structed of the same as the title. Over the orchestra hung a seven foot sign, “Let Me Call You Sweet heart,” flanked with instruments and notes. In the doorway stood a seven foot silhouette of a sopho more and his date dancing. Tractor Class Held For 4-H Leaders A Tractor Maintenance School for 4-H leaders was held on the campus recently under the direc tion of S. L. Neal, district exten sion agent. Forty people from 15 counties, including county agents, 4-H club leaders, farm machinery represen tatives, and extension specialists, registered Wednesday morning for the two and one-half day course. Registration followed a banquet given Tuesday evening in the Mem orial Student Center. The purpose of the school was to train 4-H leaders to carry out the 4-H tractor maintenance pro gram in their respective counties. C. N. Hinkle, agricultural engin eer for Standard Oil, Chicago, and Ed Wickhorst, special representa tive for Stanolind Oil and Gas Com pany, Tulsa, Oklahoma, sponsor of the tractor maintenance program in the Southwest, assisted in con ducting the school. Allied Troops Start Hunting Shattered Reds U. S. Eighth Army Headquarters, Korea, Feb. 19—UP)— The Chinese Communist central front offensive was so badly shattered at Chipyong Thursday that Allied patrols have had “to reach out aggressively” to make contact for the past 36 hours, the U. S. Eighth Army commander said today. Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway told a news conference the stand of American and French troops at Chipyong was a “magnificent performance” that broke the back of the Chinese assault. He added: “Since then there has been a definite effort on the part of the Chinese to disengage. “For the last 36 hours we have had to reach out ag gressively to get into contact with him (the enemy).” The enemy, severly mauled in a five-day effort to smash — ^through Allied lines, has pulled Tfc •! "I r ' , 0- 1 ’ n il e aref i between Possible boost In Enrollment Seen by Prexy The college faces the possi bility of a sharp enrollment increase, said President M. T. Harrington in a statement made this weekend. President Harrington bases this on past experience and the fact that there has been no sharp de cline in enrollment during the cur rent school year. Registration for the Spring se mester of this year, totalled 5,916. On the last day of the previous semester there were 6,271 em-olled. Of this number 418 graduated, leaving 5,853 eligible for return. Some of these did not return, but new registrations at the beginning of this semester brought the total to 63 more than this potential. Mid-year graduations last year totalled 619 while total enrollment dropped 684 between the two se mesters, the drop exceeding the total graduated by 65 as compared with a gain of 63 this year. “At this time it is impossible to determine accurately whether to expect a decline or increase in our enrollment in September,” Harring ton said. In the school year immediately following Pearl Harbor we exper ienced an increase of approximate ly 22 percent. The same factors which caused this increase could easily bring about a similar sit uation next year. “The fact that A&M is equipped and staffed to give military train ing of the highest type and that practically all of the ground for ces, as well as the air force, are represented in our ROTC organiza tion,” Harrington explained. “Some of the proposals for drafting 18-year-olds would make allowances for the military col leges, of which A&M is one of the eight in the nation, which would greatly enhance this attraction. On the other hand, it is conceivable that an act could be passed which would remove these differences en tirely. “For the present, we can only consider all possibilities and make every effort to meet whatever sit uation arises,” he comcluded. Staff Men Named Officers of TTA Two A&M faculty members were named officers of the Texas Turf Association at the closing session of the conference held Wednesday. Dr. R. C. Potts, associate profes sor of Agronomy, was elected to the executive committee. J. R. Wat son of the Agronomy department was named secretary-treasurer. Off 94 Hours Pity the Poor Working Wife When Electricity Goes Off By VIVIAN CASTLEBERRY Battalion Women’s Editor was no major housecleaning, be cause the vacuums were electric- powered, too. At ten minutes of 5 p. m. Sat- Students studied by candlelight, urday, the lights went on again in or by kerosene lamp, if they were College View. They had been out fortunate enough to obtain these. ing in her living room and to her deep freeze when asked how the power shortage had affected them the worst: “Luckily,” she said, “we didn’t have much in our freezer, for for 94 hours, since Wednesday at Their wives were late to work everything we had in ther spoiled.” 7 p. m. and they were late to classes be- With the lights had gone the cause clocks were electric-powered electricity that powered many of and for three mornings did not the chores of the mechanized age. ring. For most of the 466 families liv- No refrigeration _ Worst Gripe mg in College View there was no ironing, no refrigeration, no sew- Mrs. Bud (Jeannette) Sweney glanced at her eleven-foot refrig erator. “It was full,” she said, “and everything went out in the garbage pail.” “Have you ever,” Mrs. Sweney Everybody was concerned over wanted to know, “tried to bathe mg and only hand-washing and the lack of refrigeration. Near- and dress three children, get them simple cooking. ly all the families lost food. fed and the dishes done, after they Electric grills, waffle irons and Mrs. Charles (Jean) Lienweber get home from school in the even- 1 food mixers refused to work. There pointed to a string of diapers hang- (See NO, Page 2) the west coast and Wonju in the rugged central sector. Ridgway said a magnificent stand by American and French forces at Chipyong Thursday broke the back of the Red drive. The Chinese were hit so hard, he add ed, that his patrols have been un able to make contact for 36 hours. Sign of Fight Only in the area north of Che chen, 20 miles southeast of Wonju, was there any sign of a fight. An estimated 3,000 Korean Reds made light attacks along a 10-mile front but these were repulsed. Ridgway, commander of the Eighth Army ,told a news con ference that although the Chinese have been beaten south of Parallel 38 they have enough massed man power to prevent an allied crossing of the old north-south boundary. “I have not given the 38th Par allel a thought,” said Ridgway. “As far as I am concerned it has na significance.-” Parallel 38 was designated as a temporary dividing line for occu pation purposes after World War II. A United Nations’ commission on Korea was refused permission by the Russians to enter Soviet puppet North Korea to conduct elections for establishing a unified republic. Hold Elections The commission held elections in the south and left vacant assembly seats for North Korean represen tatives. But the Russians’ puppet regime in Yyongyang claimed ju risdiction over all Korea. The 38th Parallel recently be came a touchy political question. Prime Minister Clement Attlee of Great Britain said the United Nations should reconsider the ques tion before allied forces cross the boundary. President Truman said General MacArthur still had authority to send U. N. troops across 38 if it was militarily advisable. Lynne Lovinggood . . . of the Sophomore Class of 1953 is Miss Lynne Lovinggood, a Highland Park High School Senior. Escorted by Bill Scott of E Field Artillery, Miss Lov inggood was named Horn four finalists previously selected. (Photo by Malinary)