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Who’s Who at Texas A&M
David G. Haines
Julian C. Herring
Pat Hubert
H. G. “Skip” Mills
Lloyd Manjeot
Carl Molberg
I. E. “Monty” Montgomery
W. R. “Bill” Moss
Circulated to
More Than 90% of
College Station’s Residents
The Battalion
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Twenty-Second Amendment
Added to Constitution
See Page 2
Number 101: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27,1951
Price Five Cents
■Military Ball Bids
Go On Sale; Guest
List Growing Daily
Tickets for the Military Ball went on sale at noon today
as orchestra negotiations for the March 10 affair still con
tinued. Tickets are now available from first sergeants in
each outfit for $2.50 per couple.
Tickets sales will be limited. That was the warning from
W. D. “Pusher” Barnes, ticket committee chairman, who
made the announcement this morning.
Ticket sales in the Freshman Regiment will be handled
by Bob Langford, first sergeant, Co. 11. The ducats will also
be available in the Student Activities, second floor, Goodwin
Hall.
Other plans for the week-end with the military accent
are also rounding quickly into.
shape. A rapidly growing guest list
isSalrcady studded with impressive
names.
| Big events for the Saturday af
fair less than two weeks away
will be the afternoon corps review
at :i;30 p. m. and the Military Ball
itself at 9 that night in. Sbisa Hall.
Military Attaches
■Adding the prestige of foreign
dignitaries to the events will be the
Danish and Swedish military at
taches from Washington, D. C. In
vitations have also been extended
to three other military or air at
taches.
■Leading the list of top-brass
fiiom our own military services are
Maj. G'en. K. L. Berry, Adjutant
General of Texas; Maj. Gen. Albert
S. Johnson, commander, 49th Ar
mored Division; Maj. Gen. H. Mil
ler Ainsworth, commander, 3Gth In
fantry Division; Maj. Gen. Willis-
ton B. Palmer, commander, 2nd
Armored Division; and Maj. Gen.
C. E. Thomas, Jr., commander, 14th
Air Force. Most of the guests will
be accompanied by their wives.
rS More names are being added to
the list as confirmations arrive,
i?* Included among special guests
for the week-end will be foreign
cadets training at Connally, Ran
dolph and Ellington Air Force
Bases. Some patients from McClos-
ky General Hospital in Temple have
also been invited.
Other Cadets
• ROTC cadets from Tarleton
State College and from Arlington
State College will also be here as
will Junior ROTC cadets from
high schools in the bigger schools
*»f the state.
Air cadets and ROTC cadets will
be housed in dormitories so that
they may become better acquainted
with A&M life during their stay.
J : Invitations have been sent to
Olin E. “Tiger” Teague, ’32, repre
sentative from this district, and
Capt. Audie Murphy, World War II
'hero, former movie star and pre
sently serving with the 36th Divi
sion.' They have yet no reply to
the invitations.
Attend Classes
On Saturday morning preceding
the review and the ball the visiting
"military attaches will be guests in
Modern Languages classes.
! Cadets have been requested to
make reservations early if they are
expecting to have a girl as a guest
'on the campus that week-end. P. G.
Hall and a portion of Walton Hall
will be open for female guests and
rooms will cost $1.25 per night.
U' Full details on all plans for the
week-end should be completed with
in the next few days.
*Who’s Who Selectees
Must Set Pic Date
Who’s Who selections are re
quested to contact Howard Berry
of the Photographic and Visual
Aids Laboratory in the Adminis-
tration Building this week and set
» a date on which pictures for the
Who’s Who section of the Aggie
land can be made.
250 to Be Here
For Operation
High School
Wichita Falls leads with
18 students scheduled to par
ticipate in the Operation High
School day to begin March
2, on the campus.
Houston is second with 17 stu
dents followed by Fort Worth and
Dallas in that order. This brings
the total number of high school
students expected to 250. About 100
additional students have expressed
the desire to come but have not
been able to make definite plans.
There are 27 home town clubs,
who were in charge of invitations,
participating in the affair, twenty
nine Former Students Organiza
tions will provide transportation
for the students.
High School Students will tra
vel from a far as Amarillo, and
New Orleans, to attend the special
High School Day activities.
Final plans for the High School
Day reception committees will be
made in a meeting to be held in
Room 301 Goodwin Hall Thursday
March 1. All home town club pres
idents are asked to attend this
meeting.
Highway Meetings
Planned for MSC
The Texas Highway District En
gineers Conference will be held on
the campus March 6, and the 25th
Annual Highway Engineering
Course will be held March 7-8, an
nounced F. W. Hensel, assistant
director of the Placement Office.
Sponsoring these courses are the
Civil Engineering Department and
the State Highway Department of
Texas.
Fuller Elected
Student Head
Of Union Group
Joe Fuller, president of the
Memorial Student Center
Council and Directorate, was
elected student head of two
regions of the Association of
College Unions at the week-end
meeting of Regions 13 and 14 on
the campus.
Sixty student and staff dele
gates attended the two-day conven
tion held Friday and Saturday.
Schools represented included the
University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma
A&M, Central University (Okla.),
LSU, University of Arkansas, Tex
as Tech, TU, ETSC, Sam Hous
ton State Teachers College, Uni
versity of Houston, SMU and Texas
Lutheran College.
Fuller, who was student chair
man of the convention, will be
charged with preparing a program
for next year’s convention and
with correlating group activities
between meetings. His successor as
President of the MSC will take
over this new job along with other
duties.
J. Wayne Stark, director of the
MSC, and Frank Malone, director
of the SMU Union, were staff di
rectors for the convention. The
men are advisors for their respec
tive districts which encompass a
five-state area including Mississ
ippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Okla
homa and Texas.
GFs Inch Slowly Ahead
On Windy Central Area
Miss Ann Ashcroft, escorted by Joe Williamson of the Freshman
Band was named Queen of the Freshman Class at the Ball Satur
day night in Sbisa Hall. She and her date hail from Sulphur
Springs where she is a Sophomore in the Sulphur Springs High
School. Her other attributes, besides being beautiful include, a
nice singing voice.
Pipe Smoking Contest
Nicotine Slaves Get Reward
At Batt Contest Tomorrow
By ROGER COS LETT
Entry deadline in the Annual
Battalion Pipe Smoking Contest,
which is to be held Wednesday at
7 p.m. in the MSC Assembly room,
has been extended to contest time.
A representative display of the
$250 worth of prizes going to the
winners of the various divisions of
the contest has been set up in the
lobby of the Memorial Student
Center.
Persons entering pipe collections
in the contest will be required to
have their collections in the As
sembly room by 4 p.m. Wednesday.
This is to give them time to ar
range their displays and not in
terfere with general preparations.
The MSC, co-sponsor of the con
test with The Battalion, is pro
viding corn cob pipes for contes
tants in the corn cob smoking sec
tion and cigarette rolling tobac-
Williams Leaves For Tour
Of ‘Down Under’ Facilities
D. W. Williams, vice chancellor they will make Sidney their head-
for Agriculture, left Sunday by quarters. From here they will take
Pan American Airlines in a party a 3,800 mile trip by air to interior
of 16 for Australia and New Zea- to visit the Brunette Downs Cattle
land where he will spend 30 days Ranch which is composed of 3,500,-
studying the Livestock Industry of 000 acres and has 60,000 breeding
these countries as compared to that cattle.
of our own country says Miss Mary From Sidney, they will fly to
Johnson, his secretary. New South Wales and visit Had-
.j., . . i, -rr- •. don Rig Sheep station, and then
After a stop over m the Hawaii- to gc0I f e to v £ it a rac ’ horse stud
an Islands, the party will proceed f , : t b f ttl th
to New Zealand where they will J. a ™ h ins P ect P 661 cattle on tne
spend a week. From Auckland, they p ,, „„„„„
will visit the Fletchers Model Stud the S A | rici S tura |
Society Show there.
The party will then go to Ham- On the return trip, they will
ilton to visit the Raukura Live- again stop off on the island of
stock Station and other ranches Hawaii and visit the Paber Ranch,
in the vicinity. Next stop will be second largest Hereford Ranch in
the Massey Agricultural College at the world.
Palmerston North. Williams will return on March
Going to Australia for 11 days 25.
co for the gents who will demon
strate their skill in the rolling
contest.
A tentative list of pidzes that
are to go to the winners of the
various divisions has been set
up. It may be changed by con
test officials if any new prizes
arrive or if conditions in the
contest warrant a change.
Free tobacco and cigarettes will
be distributed to kibitzers.
So far no women have entered
the contest although it is open to
anyone connected in any way with
the college.
Dr. I. B. Boughton, dean of the
School of Veterinary Medicine, has
been chosen as chairman of the
judges. Other judges include C. G.
“Spike” White, of Sthdent Activ
ities, John Cummings, chemistry
instructor, D. E. Newsom, jour
nalism instructor, “Nita” of Nita’s
News Stand fame and Corps Exec
utive Officer Waymond Nutt.
Contestants will be allowed to
enter as many divisions or sec
tions of a contest as he wishes
unless otherwise prohibited by a
rule of that contest.
The contests and a tentatively
list of prizes that will be offered
are as folows:
Division I—Pipe Collections
First prize—Seven matched Cer
tified Purex Pipes donated by The
L&H Stern Company; Second prize
—a set of matched Marxman pipes
in a leather case; Third Prize —
a hickory pipe, corn cob pipe and
one-half pound humidor of Briggs
tobacco.
Division II—Pipe Smoking
Large Bowl: First prize—a Cer
tified Purex “Giant” pipe, one
pound of Sugar Barrel tobacco and
one-half pound of Walnut tobac
co; Second prize—a Roger’s Air-
tite tobacco pouch, a hickory pipe
and one pound of Christian Peper
tobacco; Third prize—a John Mid
dleton Variety Kit and one-half
pound of Sugar Barrel tobacco.
Kaywoodie Calabash pipe donated
by The Ely Company of Dallas;
second prize — a Certified Purex
pipe, one pound of Sugar Barrel
and one-half pound of Walnut to
bacco; third prize—a Certified Pu
rex pipe; fourth prize—a John.Mid
dleton Variety Kit; fifth prize—a
corn cob pipe.
Small Bowl: first prize—a Stan
hope pipe; second prize—a corn
cob pipe, and one-half pound of
Briggs, a package of Even Money
and Christian Peper tobacco.
(See $250, Page 4)
Tokyo, Feb. 27—(#)—American
troops smashed five savage coun-
Irerattacks today on the windswept
central Korean warfront. The al
lied battleline moved ahead steadily
but cautiously.
The Red attacks were hurled
back by the U. S. Second Division
in pre-dawn darkness 15 miles
southeast of Hoengsong. The
fighting lasted more than three
hours. A howling wind added to
the din of battle.
Field dispatches reported it was
one of tlje sharpest actions in the
week-old renewal of the United
Nations drive to kill, maim or cap-
Aggie Players
Set ‘Antigone’
For April 2 - 3
The Aggie Players began
rehearsals Monday night in ? iani - The y ^ licte< \ tremendous
-- — - ° losses on the Chinese before board-
the Assembly Hall for “Anti
gone”, modern version of the
Greek tragedy by Sophocles,
according to C. K. Esten, director
of the Aggie Players.
_ Mary E. Vaden ; College Sta
tion, is cast as Antigone, a maiden
whose two brothers have killed
each other in a fued and now finds
herself at the mercy of the king,
Creon, played by Bill Guthrie.
Supporting roles include Hae-
mon, son of Creon, played by Jack
Cockrum; Ismene, Antigone’s sis
ter, played by Barbara Hodges;
Chorus, who acts as the narrator,
Harry Gooding; and the Nurse by
Florence Farr.
Alice Burk, who played the fem
inine lead in “Kind Lady” present
ed last fall, will direct “Antigone.”
The Aggie Players, sponsored
jointly by the English Department
and the Office of Student Activ
ities, will be aided in this produc-
tiion by the American Association
of University Women, who will
help with tickets sales and pub
licity, Esten said.
Tickets for “Antigone” will go
on sale in about two weeks for 50
cents. The play is scheduled for
April 2 and 3.
-New College Adjunct
To Open June Fourth
Preparations are nearing com- provide food for students and staff,
pletion for the opening next sum- A permanent building contain-
mer of the Adjunct at Junction, ing classrooms, library, medical
where counseling and guidance will clinic and .offices also is being
be offered to prepare students for readied at the adjunct,
entering the college as freshmen D r. John R. Bertrand, dean of
talL , ,. A&M’s Basic Division who will
With constructmn of buildings on direct the Junction Adjunct, ex-
he 411-acre site almost finished, pi a i ned that the first few days of
the board of directors of the A&M each term wi ii be devote d to test-
System awarded a contract for con- ing the students for aptitude, in
struction of a sewer pressure line terest and personality,
lor the adjunct on Feb. 24. r> j,
The contract went to C. L. An- Recreation facilities
drews of Bryan for $8,809
available to make the
will be
students’
The board also appropriated the ^ ay ^ adjunct more pleasant,
remaining $41,000 of the $200,000 ^ r ‘ R er D‘and pointed out. Ihey
reserved for permanent improve- y ia y e ^Sage in such pastimes as
ments. Bids have yet to be re- baseball, volley ball, badminton,
ceived on a sewer lift station, es- swimming, boating and fishing,
timated cost of which is about The adjunct is located on the banks
$13,000. “ Sm'Hi Llano River in the
The adjunct will be open for ^ ear ^ ^’'1 country,
two six-weeks terms, June 4-July Only boys who have been accept-
14 and July 16-Aug. 25. Living ed for enrollment at the college are
quarters sufficient to accomodate eligible for study at the adjunct.
240 students each term are being Total expenses, exclusive of
constructed, along with modern transportation, are estimated at
washroom facilities, a permanent $140 per student for the full six
Medium Bowl: first prize — a kitchen and cafeteria which will weeks.
ture Chinese and Korean Reds
south of Parallel 38.
The drive—spearheaded by the
U. S. First Marine Division— ap
parently has thwarted or delayed a
Chinese counter-offensive by four
to six armies.
A U. S. Army spokesman said
100,000 Chinese had been shifted
into defense positions. He added
that it would require several weeks
for the Reds to regroup for any
drive against the allies.
A.P. correspondent Nate Polo-
wetzky reported “all evidence along
the central front continued to point
to a planned withdrawal” behind
stubborn rearghard actions.
First Word of First Marines
The disclosure that / the First
Marine Division is pacirig the drive
in the mid-section of the central
front was the first report of the
hardened leathernecks in action
since December.
At that time the Marines wrote
another vivid chapter in the Corps’
history with a fighting withdrawal
from the Changjin Reservoir to
the northeast coast port of Hung-
ing ships of an allied evacuation
fleet.
There was no news about the
Marines after they landed in south
east Korba, but it was disclosed
they have been mopping up by
passed Reds since early in Jan
uary.
Singing Cadets
Give Concert
For Tyler Club
The Singing Cadets made
their first trip to this semes
ter last Friday to Tyler where
they sang in the Tyler Civic
Auditorium. Forty members
made the trip by bus.
The concert was sponsored by
the A&M Mother’s club of Tyler
and the cadets performed for an
audience of approximately 900 peo
ple.
After the concert the members of
the Singing Cadets attended a
dance which was a part of the en
tertainment provided by the Tyler
mothers.
For their program the Cadets
sang “Gloria in ISxcelsis” by Mo
zart; Bach’s “Now Let Every
Tongue Adore Thee;” “Adoramus
Te Christe” by Palesterina; and the
traditional hymn “This is my Fath
er’s World.”
In the second group were
“Where in the World But in Amer
ica” by Waring; “To Thee, O Lord,
Do I Lift Up My Soul” by Rach
maninoff; “Onward Christian Sold
iers” and the folk song “The Fog
gy Dew.”
The third group consisted of
“You’ll Never Walk Alone” by
Rogers- Hammerstein; “I only
Have Eyes For You” by Warren;
“I Dream of You” by Goetschius
and the Spiritual “Set Down Ser
vant.”
The fourth group included; “Jos
hua Fit the Battle of Jericho;”
“I’d Rather Be a Texas Aggie;”
“Wandering;” “There’s Nothing
Like a Dame;” “Twelfth Man,” the
Ringwald arrangement of “The
Battle Hymn of the Republic,” the
spiritual “Dry Bones’’ and “The
Spirit of Aggieland.”
Soloists were: Howard Hughes of
Abilene, Bill Lawshae of Houston,
A. J. Harrock of Waco, Don For
ney of San Antonio, Tommy Savage
of Port Arthur and David Haines
of College Station.
In Tuesday’s action, the leather
necks seized commanding hills
south and southeast of rubbled
Hoengsong. The town has become
a no-man’s land with Communists
dug in on hills to the north, on
the approaches to the Red strong-
point of Hongchon. Hongchon is
16 miles northwest of Hoengsong.
100-Mile Line
The Marines are one of seven
U. S. divisions in the allied line
stretching irregularly from the
Yellow Sea west coast to the east-
central front town of Pangnim, an
airline distance of 100 miles. Pang
nim is 40 air miles inland from
the east coast.
A.P. correspondent Leif Erick
son, at Eighth Army Headquarters,
said all seven American divisions
are being used on a single front
under a single field commander for
the first time in the Korean war.
On the east of the line are the
U.S. Seventh and Second Divisions.
The Seventh Division captured the
small village of Malta, three miles
west of Pangnim, while the Sec
ond was smashing the Red counter
thrusts on the left flank Tuesday.
Marines on Left Flank
The Marines are on the left flank
of the Second Division. West of
the Marines are the 24th Infantry
and First Cavalry, between Hoeng
song and Yangpong 27 miles east
of Seoul; and the 25th and Third
Infantry, in the western sector be
tween Seoul and Yangpyong.
Arrayed with these American
outfits are four Republic of Korea
(ROK) Divisons, and elements of
British, Canadians, Greeks, Turks,
Australians, French and Dutch.
The west-central and western
sectors were relatively quiet early
Tuesday.
Journalists to Hear
Houston Scribe
Clyde La Motte, former sports
editor of the Houston Post and
presently staff writer for the Hous
ton' Press, will discuss sports and
sports writing in a talk tonight at
7 in Room 2C of the MSC.
La Motte, appearing under the
sponsorship of the Journalism Club,
will also discuss other phases' of
writing and newspaper work.
The Houston Journalist has. had
experience in practically every
phase of newspaper writing. He has
been at one time or another a
police reporter, rewrite man, spec
ial assignment man, night city edi
tor, feature writer, and sports edi
tor.
La Motte became sports editor of
the Houston Post in 1949 and re
mained in that position until Jan
uary of this year. Since that time
he has been with the news depart
ment of the Houston Press.
Aside from sports, La Motte’s
biggest stories probably came from
covering the Texas City disaster
and a Gulf hurricane that ripped at
the heart of Houston.
Senate Executive
Group Meets at 5
The Student Senate Executive
Committee will meet this after
noon at 5 in the MSC front lob
by, Bill Moss^ vice-president,
said this morning.
He asked that Senators be
present who wish to place an
item on the agenda for the Sen
ate’s Thursday meeting.