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5tu d0^ a CO^ . 3. Circulated to Than 90% of College Station’s Residents Battalion The Battalion’s Public School Week Special Edition PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Number 105: Volume 51 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1951 Price Five Cents Draft Dodger See Today’s Editorial Page Ags, Frogs Vie In SWC Playoff By RALPH GORMAN Battalion Sports Editor I Coach John Floyd’s Aggies and i Coach Buster Brannon’s Horned Frogs will lay it on the line tomor row night in Baylor’s Rena Marrs Gymnasium at Waco and it will be a fight to the finish to decide who will tussle with the Longhorns for the chance to carry the respective colors on to the NCAA tournament in Kansas City. A&M Athletic Director Barlow ! “Bones” Irvin announced today ; that GOO tickets to the A&M-TCU I basketball game went on sale this morning at 8. The “quick death” cage battle will begin at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday and A&M students going to the game must buy tickets here, Irvin said. Irvin said 350 reserve seat tick- >ts are on sale at $1.80 each and ',’50 general admission ducats are being sold at $1.20 each. Students may buy either reserve or general admission. Ball Control vs Offense Partisans in Waco tomorrow night will find then ation’s fore most exponent of ball control pitted against the Southwest Conference’s hottest offensive team. The Ca dets have allowed 1083 points in 24 games—an average of 45.1 tal lies per tilt; while the Christians have poured 1356 points through ‘ the nest in an equal number of games for an average of 56.6 points. So it will be the fire-wagon tac- • tics versus slow, methodical ball control and it should be a game that all will remember. These two teams first met this year on the Aggies’ home court where the host team was victorious 39-36. TCU Won Last But the story had a ring with a different resonance on it when Cowtown’s Will Rogers Coliseum was the scene of the next meeting. On this occasion the Frogs sur- prised the basketball world and the visitors when they proceeded to stall or display their own ball con trol for the last seven minutes to emerge the victor by the same Plans Made For ,FFA’s Festivities A barbecue or banquet will be held in April by the A&M Collegi- nte Chapter of Future Farmers of America, that F. F. A. Collegi ate Chapter decided recently at the ,,regular bi-monthly meeting of the group. The affair will serve a dual , purpose—to furnish entertainment for the F. F. A. members and sup ply training of a social nature for the future Vocational Agriculture Teachers of Texas. The exact date in April will be decided at the next regular meet- jag. three point margin that the Ag gies had won by previously—30-27. Leading off for the Christians will be George McLeod, who will pit his 6’ 6” frame against the 6’ 8” body of Buddy Davis. Mc Leod has cut the cord for 322 points in season play to rank sec ond, while All-SWC center Davis is credited with 304. In conference play, though, Davis leads the Frog center with 150 to 146. From me—259 Points Next on the TCU roster in po tentialities is Harvey Fromme, a 6’ 3” forward, who has copped 259 points in season play to rank last among the top ten SWC scorers and shows 137 points to his credit in 12 conference tilts. Probable Aggie defender to han dle Fromme should be 6’ 5” John DeWitt, who has turned in many creditable performances in the de fensive department w'hile rolling* up 82 points in conference games. Brannon should call on Ted Rey nolds, 6’ 1” forward to share duties (See CADETS DOWN, Page 3) Bowden Tells High Schoolers To Take ROTC Lt. Col. M. P. Bowden, as sistant commandant, advised high school seniors Saturday to attend college and enroll in ; an ROTC program if they want to get a college education ; without interruption by the draft, I under the present law. He pointed out, however, that j this does not mean colleges with ROTC programs are “havens for! draft dodgers.” The deferments 1 granted to ROTC students are un der supervision of Department of Defense and have its sanction. Colonel Bowden spoke to some 350 seniors of Texas high schools at A&M’s first annual “High School Day.” The students were guests of A&M students from their home towns. “As an ROTC student,” Colonel Bowden pointed out, “your defer ment wdll be good under the pre sent draft laws as long as you are making satisfactory progress, until you drop out of school ox- graduate with a commission. “The government and Depart ment of Defense,” Colonel Bowden said, “want to keep as many stu dents in ROTC as possible.” He added that military authorities ad vice graduating high school stu dents who want to go to college to do so and enroll in ROTC. Following the orientation meet ing, at which Colonel Bowden spoke, high school students wex-e taken on group tours of the col lege’s educational facilities. They attended activities of Sports Day in the afternoon. 3 Aggies to Take West Point Exams Three Aggies will appear before the West Point Examining Board this week at Ft. Sam Houston, Lt. Col. Paul M. Clark, president of the 13 officer examining board an nounced yestex-day. The three Aggies taking the en trance examination for the United States Militax-y Academy are Fran cis M. Rozelle, Charles D. Swinson, and Norman Blahuta. Blahuta is a freshman liberal arts major in Co. 11 from Gaines ville. Swinson is a sophomore math ematics ixiajor from Bowie in H Sqd. The third man, Fozelle, is a junior petroleum geology major from Boerne in B Engineers. They will undergo mental and physical examinations to determine their qualifications for admission to West Point with the class sche duled in July 1951. Examinations are being conducted on a nation wide basis March 5-9. Colonel Clark stated that per mission to take the examinations is limited to duly appointed can didates who have been nominated from one of the sources provided, by law and to whom letters of appointment have been issued by the department of the Army. Burchard to Address SA Mothers’ Club Donald D. Burchard, head of the Journalism Department, will be guest speaker at the March meet ing of the Sah Antonio A&M Mothers Club. The meeting will be held in the San Antonio Municipal Auditorium Tuesday at 2:30 p. m. Cotton Contest Scheduled For March, April Cotton Contest examina tions will begin March 6 in room 209 of the Ag Experi ment Station, Eli Whitely, in structor in the Agronomy De partment said today. The first test will be on Cotton Px-oduction on March 6, followed by the Cotton Machinery Harvest ing and Ginning exam on Mai’ch 12. The applicants will be quizzed on Cotton Insects March 20 and on Cotton Diseases on April 3. The General Corps quiz will be held on April 9 and the General Soils test will be held on April 17. All contestants must register with Whitely in x-oom 309 of the Ag- Experiment Station by noon of March 6 to be eligible for the competition. Any student who is a member of the Agronomy Society or who helped put on the Cotton Pageant and Ball is eligible .to enter the cohtest. Winners of the contest in the past have received expense-paid trips to parts of England and Eu rope, Japan and Manchuko, Egypt, Peru, Canada, and Mexico. New Attack Is Started Against Dug-In Reds Tokyo, March 5—(A 3 )—U. S. and French troops launched a new attack today on bitterly resisting Reds in a mountain ; stronghold in east-central Korea. American Marines continued their drive among precip- : itous peaks toward Hongchon, a key road town believed to , be Communist central front headquarters. Chinese and North Korean Reds fought stubbornly to ; stem the grinding Allied drive while they built up on the : central and western fronts for a possible 300,000-man coun terassault on the Allies. On the eastern flank, the U. S. Seventh Division and I the U. S. Second Division and its French elements hurled three spearheads against an esti- Not all of the beauty of the Kilgore Rangerettes is on the drill field. This comely portion of the East Texas junior college’s drill team show that they can even improve on the beauty of the Memorial Student Center. The two girls on the extreme left are the officers of the team, Miss Judy Basden, captain, and Miss June Billue, Lieu tenant. ‘Spirit Here Is Great’ Beaumont Seniors Acclaim OHS Week-End Festivities Panhandle Aggies Guests at TSCW Appx-oximately 35 members of the A&M Panhandle Club attended a dance given by the TSCW Pan handle Club in Denton Saturday night. The party started at 6:30 in Hubbard Hall on the Tessie cam pus. Preceding the dance, a dinner was given for the visitors. By BILL STREICH “The spix-it hex-e at A&M is gx-eat,” and “this school just can’t be beat,” were some of the im pressions voiced by five seniors from Beaumont high school, who visited the campus this weekend during High School Day. The seniors, all athletes, agreed A&M was the best all around school in the southwest. Roy Hinckel, Jr., Richax-d Vick, Sammy Netterville, Sammy Jones, and Ed Field said they definitely were going to attend A&M, following their graduation from high school. “The spix-it of brothei-hood” said Hinckel, “is one of the most favor able impx-essions I have noticed.” Mom-Dads Club Pledg es Aid To Library Fred R. Brison, president of the Mothers and Dads Club, has pledged the support of that organization to the libra ry benefit project which the Campus Study Club will sponsor the evening of March 10 at A&M Consolidated School. All receipts from the project, which will include a square dance, book review and cai-d party, will be given to Consolidated and Lin coln schools to be used for the purchase of new books for their libraries. “It is a genuine pleasure to give your project the endorsement of the Mothers and Dads club,” Bri son said, “and I hope you will call upon membex-s of the club for any help we may be able to give. We appreciate this oppoi’tunity to in clude this additional activity as a paxt of Public School week.” Tickets for all events will be available at the open house which the Mothers and Dads Club has scheduled for Tuesday evening, March 6, at the school. Home Mail Delivery Pending PO Go-Ahead Residential mail delivery in Col lege Station is pending action by the U. S. Postal Department, said T. O. Walton, postmaster for the College Station area, thismorning. “At the requests of the Cham ber of Commex-ce and of the local postal authorities, a Federal Post Office inspector has completed a week-long survey of the mail condi tions of College Station and I feel confident that the action taken by the Postal Department will be fav- ox-able,” said Walton. “However it will be two to three months befox-e my office will be notified as to the results of the survey,” he added. House to House Should the Postal Depai-tment decide to establish house-to-house mail delivex-y, hex-e would be the re sults. There would be one pick-up and delivery service per day, in all sections of the city and most of the additions with irxailmen carrying oh their usual services such as sell ing postage stamps. To have x-esidential delivex-y, the Postal Department requires that the city comply with certain stand ards set forth by the Department. These standards include paved or hard surfaced streets, streets adequately named and properly numbered, and streets sufficiently lighted. There xxxust also be houses on at least two-thirds of the blocks. Lights Waived The regulation concerning street lighting might be waived, said Walton, however the fewer regixla- tions which the city has to ask to be altered, the better chance the city has of getting i*esidential mail. College Station residents are now receiving their mail at the main station in the North Gate, at the south station in the MSC, or at the Faculty exchange station in the academic building. There will be one disadvantage of the proposed deliveries and that is there will be only one daily de livery whereas now mail is dis tributed to the pi*oper box as soon os it is delivei'ed to the sta tion. “We all got the impression we were really welcome here at A&M,” Jones added. The boys ariwed early Satui’day morning, and were taken to the MSC, wlxere all students here for the weekend registei'ed at 9 a. m. Following the registration, an orientation meeting was held in the Ball Room of the Student Cen ter. Speaking at this meet, Bill Parse, pi’esident of the Student Senate, discussed various phases of stu dent life. Lt. Col. M. P. Bowden, assistant commandant explained the military policy at A&M to the visitox-s. All the students ate their noon and evening meals in Sbisa Hall and were surprised at the names for food used by the Aggies. They all believed the fifty cents charged for the meals was reason able. Satui’day afteiTioon, all the vis iting students were gixests of the Athletic Department at the annual Sports Day activities. Commenting on the football game Saturday night, Hinckel said he believed the Aggies will have one of the better teams in the Southwest Conference this sea son. “The only thing that disappoint ed me,” Netterville added, “was I didn’t get to see Bob Smith play. However Augie and Charlie, (Ang ie and Charley Saxe) were as good as ever.” Sleeping accomodations for the visitors wex*e arranged by the var ious home town clubs on the cam pus. There was no charge to the boys for any of the week end ac tivities, except the meals. The boys, who were taken on a tour of the campus, said the Basic Division, was, from their viewpoint, conducive to good school work. “It seems to me,” Jones, who is a football and baseball player, said “that a fellow can get more study ing done over there, than, if he were living somewhei’e else.” High School Day, which is to be an annual affair, impressed the guests as being an excellent op portunity to increase the anroll- ment of the college. “There are more boys in Beau mont planning to attend A&M since the program was announced, than there were before,” Netter ville comxxxented. “It seems like half of Beaumont is coming up here now,” Field add ed. The impressions of Aggie life, the campus and the new student center were the big factors in making the weekend, from the visi tor’s point of view, a success. Seven CS Men File Intentions For City Post Seven College Station men have filed their intentions to run for City Councilman on the April 3 ballot. The line-up shows that thi'ee men will run as I'epresenta- tives from-Ward I, three will vie for Ward II positions, and Ward III will continue to have the same councilman as no one besides pre sent Councilman W r . D. Fitch filed the necessary application. In the race for Wai’d I will be H. W. Badgett, present councilman who is running for re-election; James W. O’Brien, owner of the O’Brien Construction Company; Homer B. Adams, owner of the Adams Realty Company. Last candidate to file for of fice was Lloyd G. Berryman, of the A&M Mechanical Engineering Department. Bai'ryman is running for the councilman position from Wax'd II as 'is G. W. Black, pre sent councilman and Hai’ry Boyer,, of the College Housing Office. It is the duty of the city council to establish the City’s policy on civic and social issues and to pro mote the general welfare of the city. L. E. Boze, principal of the A&M Consolidated High School, has been appointed election judge by the city council. It is the duty of the judge to take charge of the vote counting and to deliver the votes to the Brazos County Seat, Bryan. To aid Boze in his duties, a com mittee will be selected by Boze, or if he so desires the city council will appoint a committee. ‘Klepto’Holmes Named A&M Fish Coach James G. “Klepto” Holmes, athletic director and head coach at Arlington State Col lege since 1935, has been named freshman football and baseball coach at Texas A&M, Bax 1 - low “Bones” Irvin, A&M athletic director, announced Monday. Holmes fills the position vaca ted by Perron Shoemaker who re turned to the Southeastern Con ference last month as end coach for the University of Georgia. The new coach played guai'd for the Texas Aggies in 1926 and 1927, gaining all SWC recognition his last year. He coached football at La Feiia high school one year and then returned to Aggieland as line coach under then head coach Matty Bell. After coaching in 1933 at Cuero High School and in 1934 at Alamo Heights, San Antonio, Holmes moved to Arlington. He is expec ted to start work here immediately with the varsity football team, currently in its third week of spring training. Holmes had championship teams at Arlington in 1935, 1936, 1938 and 1943. His teams were second in the old Texas Junior College Confex-ence in 1940 and 1941. His Navy team of 1943 defeated SMU and Texas Tech before bow ing to Texas A&M and Randolph Fifld. Vestal Appointed TEES Assistant Donald M. Vestal Jr., ’50 has been named administrative assist ant to the Texas Engineering Ex periment Station. The appointment, announced by H. W. Barlow, dean of the School of Engineering, is effective March 1 and will be on a part-time basis. Vestal will continue to serve as supervisor of the buried-coil heat pump reseai'ch being conducted by the station for the A&M Research Foundation. The administrative assistant holds a BS degree in mechanical and electidcal engineering and a Master of Science degree in Me chanical Engineering from A&M. Talent Sought By Lions Club For Minstrel The Bryan Lion’s Club is sponsoring a “Talent Night” tonight in the St. Joseph’s School gym. The purpose is to gather talent for the an nual Lions Minstrel Show sche duled for March 29-30, at 8 p. m. in the Stephen F. Austin High School auditorium. “Auditions are open to anyone in terested in being in the show,” said M. E. Adams, general chalx*- man for aiTangements. “You don’t have to be a member of the Lions Club to take part,” Adams sti’ess- ed in urging a large ton-out for the tryouts. Tickets for the two-hour min- strel with 49 blackfaced Lions and special acts are on sale now and may be purchased from any member of the Bryan Lions Club. W. M. Sparks of the Aggieland Pharmacy will have tickets in College Station. Prices are $1.00 for adults and 50c for children. Minstrel Committeemen ax-e Mc Neil Drumwright and Raymond Deqrsam, co-chaii*men of arrange ments; Talent and steering, Jim my Ray, chairman; C. N. Hielscher, Harold Drefus, R. W. Butler, Marshall Bullock, Maudelle Gx*ey; ticket sales, J. E. Majors, chairman, Walter Holmes, co-chairman; door committee, W. M. Sparks, chair man, Carl M. Lyman and E. J. Blazek; stage properties and deco llations, Louis J. Belmanski chair man, Kenneth S. Hallaran, Joe Bar ron Lee Denley, John Stiles, O. D. Dabbs, J. B. Streetman, Floyd McDonald; program advertising, Dr. John E. Boyce chairman, Jim my Ray, Dr. Carlton R. Lee, N. Leslie Kelley; publicity, John Cof fin chairman, E. R. Bryan, and Bob Crow. Young Testifies At Denver Meet Dr. Vernon A. Young, head of the Range and Foi'esty Department, has returned from the meetings of the National Forestry Board of Appeals where he gave testi mony regarding standai’ds of the U. S. Forest Service. mated 6,000 Reds on a mountain- ringed plateau. The Reds were in a bowl-shaped redoubt five miles north of the east-west road bet weed Pan'gnim afxd Hoengsong. . Associated Press correspondent Toni Stone reported that the stronghold was “bristling with ene my troops, gun emplacements, tun nels, log bunkers and freshly dug trenches.” Smash at Redbout The smash at the Red redoubt was launched after allied troops beat off localized Red attacks at both ends of the central front. In the middle sector, the U. S. Fii-st Mai'ine division pressed northwai’d through a narrow moun tain canyon north of Saemal, vital road junction five miles north of shattered Hoengsong. The Marine advance was slow and bitter among steep-sided peaks' where Red riflemen and mortars linked behind craggy defenses. It was aimed at the important road hub of Hongchon, nine miles north of Saemal, believed to be the main build-up point of Red troops on the central front. Frozen Bodies Frozen allied bodies littered the area. They were the victims of a Chinese trap in February. An esti mated 2,000 or more Americans were killed. On the Marines right, South Ko rean Third Division elements met determined resistance from well- entrenched Communists six miles east of Hoengsong. They failed in a 10-hour battle Sunday to dis lodge the -Reds from cleverly con cealed positions. One of these was Hill 689, named for its height in meters, nine miles southeast of Hoengsong. The Communists hurled a series of small scale counterattacks Sun day night southeast of Hoengsong in an effort to check the United Nations advance. All were thrown back. Tank Supported On the west end of the central front, U. S. tanks supported hard* ened Greek mountain fighters in their push on Yongdu, vital road junction town controlling the last Red East-West supply route south of the 38th Parallel. Yongdu is 15 miles northwest of Hoengsong. The Greeks entered the town Sunday but withdrew under intense fire. U. S. First Cavalry Division ar tillery rolled up in support of the Greeks. The American guns pour ed a heavy barrage on Red posi tions before the town. Singing Stars r’hoto by Batta ion Chief Photographer Sam ufolinary The TSCW Singing Stars swing out with a light opera number during their Friday evening performance in Guion Hall. Left to right, front row, they are Virginia Wilson, Evalyn Hill, Mary Loyce Hood, Dorothy Heaton, and Betty Ann Nieto. Second row: Gail O’Brien, Louise Clegg, Bettigene Slover, Ethel Coffee, Jerry Horning. Back row: Jean Davis, Thelma Pierce, Vivian Dunlop, Edna Austin, and Jane Long.