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Co SOT * .a - o*»» r . . a sW de# „ cop^ ?. «• . Who’s Who at Texas A&M 1). I,. “Dave” Cosiest D. D. “Douj;” Ileame Don R. Joseph Dare K. Keelan A. D. Martin, Jr. Ray Kiinze M. W. “Bill” Parse Walter H. Tanamaehi Circulated to More Than 90% of College Station’s Residents Number 100: Volume 51 The Battalion PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1951 White House for Sale; Piece by Piece, That Is See Story, Page 2 Price Five Cents Cadets Clinch First Title Share in 28 Years Prizes Worth $250 Await Pipe-Smoking Contestants I!y ROGER COSLETT ■ Things will get off to a flaming start at 7 p.m. Wednesday, in the MSG Assembly room, as smokers strike the matches that will touch off competition for almost $250 worth of prizes in the Annual Bat talion Pipe Smoking Contest. ■ Entry deadline has been extend ed until contest time Wednesday. Every person who enters is bound to leave the smoking fray with something. I Judging the competition will be C. G. “Spike” White, director of student activities; John Cummings, terror of the Chemistry Depart ment, D. E. “Buck” Newsom, in structor in the Journalism Depart ment; A. D. Martin, cadet corps tpmmander and “Nita” of Nita’s News Stand. I Dr. J. P. Abbott, dean of Arts and Sciences, is being considered as chairman of the judges. All were chosen for what special skill they could add to the con test. Chem prof Cummings will be on hand to make certain no dangerous concoctions are dispersed in the air by the smoke that is expected. It is believed he will conceal a de vice in his mustache for the detec tion of chemicals that slow down the burning of tobacco. He says all who invoke his wrath will be disqualified. Accord ing to some men who have sat through his classes and had Cum- ming’s screaming banshees des cend upon them, disqualification is kind. Referee White, with dark glasses and seeing eye dog, will be present to maintain the rules of the game. Corps Commander Martin will assure that things are run in a military manner. He promises to use brawn rather than brain to accomplish this. Nita will add the woman’s touch to the contest by being chief to- Gilchrist To Study System ‘Overlaps’ fl Chancellor G'ibb Gilchrist re ceived permission from the A&M System Board of Directors Satur day to closely study the schools of the system, determining wheth er or not they have veered from original mandates and aims set forth by the state. H Explaining the movement undei'- way in the Legislature to “bring about a clear definition of func tions of the various state schools, having in mind to avoid wasteful duplication and too much repeti tion, especially in those fields of study which are most expensive,” the chancellor personally request ed the board's approval, v; . He said he would work closely with officials of other schools and with the Legislative Council’s com mittee which is studying these problems of higher education. Uncoordinated System A sprawling, uncoordinated sys tem of public higher education exists in Texas, the research staff has told the Legislative Cuncil. The council, meeting in the Mem orial Student Center Dec. 14, rec ommended a Board of Regents to oversee all state-supported col leges. % The board would be composed of nine members, with staggered six-year terms, appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Senate. Shivers Opposes ’ |. Although Gov. Allan Shivers has said he is opposed to such a board, a bill to create the group of re gents will possibly be placed be fore the Legislature this spring. The recommendation made in the meeting on the A&M campus was a tentative one. It was made by the council, then submitted for consideration of an advisory com mittee composed of outstanding educators, business and profes sional men of the state. John New ton, former vice-president of the A&M System Board of Directors, is a member of the committee. No Statewide Plan Before adopting the recommend ation, the Council heard its com mittee report “ . . . there emerges a picture of an expanding higher education without thq benefit of a statewide plan. “Each institution, seeking to ex pand its program and course offer ings in order to be more useful, must often duplicate expensive and highly technical work offered else where.” There are 53 institutions of pub lic higher education in Texas, con- trolled by 40 different boards. The proposal of one supervisory (board was made after a five-month study by the research staff of the Legis lative Council. bacco whiffer. They say women are enchanted by the aroma of pipe tobacco and Nita has sniffed her share as thousands of Aggies have crowded into her small news stand to browse her “educational” liter ature or exchange a few words with her over a coke. D. E. “One-Column” Newsom, Oklahoma’s gift to journalism, will represent the famed “fourth estate” at the fag fiesta. He will enforce the rules of the contest by gently tapping offenders on their heads with his pica pole. Di\ Abbott is being called upon to act as Chairman of the judges because of the fine experience he (See PIPE-SMOKING, Page 4) Board Re-Elects White; Bell Is Vice-President By DEAN REED Election of officers, the letting of contracts totaling $640,192.61 for construction, and a report from E. E. McQuillen, director of the A&M Development Fund, topped the A&M System Board of Direc tors’ agenda in its meeting here Saturday. George R. White, ranchman and banker from Brady, was re-elected president of the board. Tyree L. Bell, Dallas engineer, was chosen vice-president, succeeding John W. Newton, whose term on the board has expired. E. L. Angell, assistant to the chancellor, was re-elected secretary of the board. White is now in his twenty-fifth year as a board member, beginning his first term in 1926. He has serv- Black, Adams File For Council Ballot By JOEL AUSTIN Two new names were added to the list of men seeking positions on the College Station City Coun cil this weekend as the list of candidates grew to six with more expected by city officials before the March 3 deadline. Homer Adams was the third candidate to file for the Ward I post while G. W. Black, incum bent councilman from Ward II, announced his intention to run for re-election. Adding his name to the list of candidates from the South side ward, Adams will be listed on the ballot with J. W. O’Brien, running for his first municipal elective of fice, and Howard W. Badgett, Ward I councilman running for re-election. Black Opposes Boyer In the College Hills section of town, Harry Boyer of the college Housing Office and Black, owner of Black’s Pharmacy at the East G’ate, are listed on the records at the City Hall as sole opponents thus far. Incumbent W. D. Fitch, is the only candidate from the Ward III area composed of the North Gate and areas North of the campus. With Saturday the last day for candidates to file for the April 3 election, council aspirants will have 30 days in which to campaign. As set by State regulations, the polls will open at 8 a. m. and close at 6 p. m. on the day of the election. Although balloting places have not been announced, the City Council appointed L. E. Boze, prin cipal of A&M Consolidated High School, election judge for the elec tion. Requirements For Office 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, but need not be a property owner. It is the duty of the councilmen to establish the policy of the three wards and to promote the general welfare of the City of College Statiion. The Ward I area includes Oak- wood addition, College Park, and West Park additions. Ward II is comprised of the College Hills sec tion east of Highway 6 and south of farm road 60. The rest of the city, including the campus, is in Ward III. ed as president since 1944 and has been re-elected each two years since. Only one standing committee will be used by the board this term. It will be the executive committee, composed of Bell, chairman; Rufus Peeples, C. C. Krueger, and A. E. Cudlipp. Other committees will be named and formulated as the need occurs. These groups will then be dismiss ed when their work is completed. The only special committee now op erating is the building committee. La Motte to Speak On Sportswriting Clyde La Motte, former sports editor of the Houston Post and cur rent Houston Press staff writer, will speak on sports and sports writing tomorrow night at 7 in Rooms 2A and 2B of the MSC. His talk will be sponsored by the Journalism Club. The Houston journalist will also speak on other phases of newspa per writing* including work that found him covering such major sto ries as the Texas City Disaster. College Sells ‘Sir Doug’ A&M recently sold a registered Holstein-Friesian bull, “A g t e x Ormsby Canary Sir Doug,” to Carl Edmonds or Mt. Enterprise, Texas. The sale was announed by the Hol stein - Friesian Association o f America, Brattleboro, Vt. March 3 Deadline To File on Ballot March 3 has been set as the last day for candidates to file for positions on the ballot for city councilmen in the April 3 municipal election, Assistant City Secretary Ran Boswell an nounced this morning. Previously announced as March 5, Boswell said an error has been made in setting the deadline which is required to come 30 days before the elec tion. Krueger is chairman, with Peeples and Bell as committeemen. Construction contracts for $640,- 192.61 were approved by the board during its meeting. This amount covers buildings for the entire sys tem, with appropriations of $841,- 875 for the construction program. Major building . decisions for A&M will include an addition to the Physics Building, repairs to steam tunnels, waterproofing and re-setting stone on the Petroleum Engineering Building, and sewer pressure lines at the A&M Ad junct, summer pre-college camp at Junction. The Physics Building addition was let to E. B. Snead of Austin, subject to receipt of a statement confirming his financial status from a Certified Public Account ant. The board appropriated $227,- 678 from proceeds of permanent university fund bonds for the ad dition. Needs Room “Right now much of our physics activities are in Pfeuffer Hall,” T. R. Spence, director of physical plants for the A&M System, told board members. “The need for the Physics Building addition is ur gent.” Upon request of Dr. M. T. Har rington, A&M president, the Man agement Engineering Department was changed by the board to the Industrial Engineering Depart ment. (See DEPARTMENT, Page 4) Ag Cagers ‘Freeze ’ Rice, 45-42; Meet Texas Tuesday UN Routs Reds As Infantrymen Slog Forward Toyko, Feb. 26—(TP)—Uni ted Nations infantrymen slog ged forward up to three miles today over the muddy moun tains of the central Korean front against spotty resistance. The Reds were withdrawing to escape an allied trap. It was “a virtual rout” in the words of Lt. Gen. Edward M. Almond, Tenth Corps commander. But in the mountains ahead the Reds were dug in strongly. They reinforced their defenses also on the Far Western front around bat tered Seoul where two U. N. pa trols were beaten back ,by heavy fire. From the north, the heaviest traffic in weeks was spqtted roll ing southward under cover of dark ness, bringing new reinforcements and supplies. One segment of the creeping ad vance by the 100,000-man allied force on the 60-mile central front was stopped dold by two counter attacking Chinese battalions. The Chinese put up the fight, to keep U.N. forces from straddling a lat eral road west of Honegsong. Hoengsong, 50 miles east of Seoul, is the mid-section on the mired central front. The slowdown in the allied ad vance came as General Almond announced his Tenth Corps had de stroyed the immediate effectiveness of two North Korean corps that drove on Chechon last week. “We believe the Fifth Corps is out of food and ammunition,” Al mond said, “and that the shiny new Third Corps—the hell pounded out of them—doesn’t have many soldiers left.” A &M-TUTickets $1; Must Buy In Austin Tickets for the TU-A&M bas ketball game will sell for $1 each. There, is a possibility of a sellout and Aggies are urged to get to Austin early for a good seat. The Fish game starts at 6 p.m. with varsity tip-off time set at 8 p.m. By FRED WALKER Batt Associate Sports Editor The Aggies wrote a new page of history in the annals of Texas A&M and the Southwest Conference Saturday night. By defeating Rice 45-42, they brought, for the first time in 28 years, at least a tie for the SWC basketball crown home to College Station. John Floyd’s No. 1 national defensive leaders will at tempt to write the final paragraph in their historical chap ter when they meet the potent Longhorns in Austin tomorrow night. A victory over the Steers would end the conference struggle and send the Aggies into the NCAA playoffs with the Pacific Coast Conference champs at Kansas City. It was a rough-and-tumble contest all the way with Rice using some shrewd tactics to send the Aggies from the floor with five fouls. The Owls sent in two men who had played very little this season, in an attempt to get A&M to foul. It proved to be a shrewd move for Buddy Davis, John DeWitt and Marvin Martin each committed five per sonals. Except for one free throw, that was the last point the Owls made for five minutes. During that per iod Aggie ace center Walt Davis scored four field goals, flashy lit tle Raymond Walker looped an other and the unsurpassable Jewell McDowell added three points. Rice Couldn’t Score With less than six minutes gohe in the game, the Aggies were lead ing the Owls by 10 points, 13-3. For the next nine minutes Rice made up jts mind to get back in the game. McDermott and Mc Dowell traded field goals, and af ter Jim Gerhardt connected with a liberty, forward Charles Tighe added three to the Owl’s column. McDermott got two More, and with the clock reading 8:34, Rice trailed only five points, 10-15. That Rice margin was their clos est in the first period. After Mai*- tin and Gerhardt each made char ities, Davis poured through a field goal and McDowell dropped in a free throw. Teamplay stood out first as the A&M quint worked like a ma chine. No man, with the possible exception of Jewell McDowell loomed higher than the next. 5,000 Fill Stands Nearly 5,000 fans, the largest contingent to witness a Rice con test this season, flowed into the great Rice Field House to see an upset-happy Owl quintet try to slap the loop-leading Ags from their perch. What followed was hardly expected. The Maroon and White on slaught in the first half was terri- (See OWLS CLOSE, Page 4) ED Competition For Freshmen Slated April 28 All students registered in freshman drawing courses are eligible for prizes offer ed in the annual engineering drawing contest to be held April 28, B. A. Hardaway, instruct or of Engineering Drawing, said yesterday. “Our purpose in announcing the contest so far in advance” Harda way said, “is to stimulate interest and effectiveness of work among all students in the department rather than merely a select few.” Contestants may compete in any one of four types of drawing: an instrumental working or shop drawing, free hand lettering, a freehand pictorial drawing, or the solution of a descriptive geometry problem. Prizes for first, second, and third place winners will be pro vided and awarded publicly. ' The contest has been held for many years and usually the win ning drawings are exhibited as a feature of All-College Day Engin eering Drawing exhibit. Plans for the contest are in charge of the committee from the ED department compased of S. E. Staik, chairman, S. M. Cleland, B. C. Doggctt, and B. A. Hardaway. Fish Finally Dance; Beauties Abound By GEORGE CHARLTON The Class of ’54 got its long- awaited chance to gallivant around the campus this weekend, the oc casion being the annual Fish Ball and the two days off-duty includ ing an All-College Dance in the MSC Friday night. It was one of the few times dur ing the year when the “bars had been lowered,” and also one of the few times when freshmen could sport the traditional “beautiful first classmen’s date” in front of envious upperclassmen. Friday night at 9, strains of dan- ceable music provided by the Ag gieland Combo announ«ed the be ginning of an All-College Dance in the MSC Ball Room, honoring freshmen, their dates, and campus married couples. After 12 p. m. when the dance ended, members of the MSC Dance and Publicity Com mittees which were co-sponsoring it, could easily say that the dance had been one of the most success ful of that type this year. Also honored at the affair were students from other colleges who had been attending the Student Union Conference on the campus for the last few days. The next night at 8:30, members of the Freshman Class and their dates who entered the doorway of Sbisa were presented souvenir pro grams containing everything from a list of class officers to a place for the class sweetheart to give her autograph. Again Bill Turner and his Aggie land musicians, this time the entire band, were on hand to furnish rhumbas, fox-trots, sambas, and even mambo-jambOs. The latter re ceived little or no dancing response, except for an energetic couple out in tbe middle, who were probably doing the samba. And then the sweetheart finalists were presented—Shirley Ann Pil- green, Monadeen Peek, Ann Ash croft, Gail Grissom, Jean Roberts, and Pat Pennington. The judges— Pete Hardesty, Lt. Col. Robert Mel- cher, and Dean of Men W. L. Pen- berthy—then gave them the optical once-over, followed by much dis cussion and debate. Later at an other intermission, the freshman sweetheart, lovely brunette Ann Ashcroft, was presented a gift from the Class of ’54 and a kiss from Class President Thomas Cle mens. Escorted by Joe Williamson, for tunate freshman with an eye for beauty, Ann hails from Sulphur Springs, Texas. A spur-of-the- moment wildcat was artfully de livered by Clements upon the com pletion of his official duty.