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PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Should the U.S.
Step-up Mobilization
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Number 10G: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1951
Price Five Cents
Pat Hooten
... dovoles most of these charms
to a three-year-old son. The 21-
year-old housewife is a brunette
wi(h blue eyes. The 5’ 3” Dallas
native holds several past honors
Irom her high school days at
Sunset. Hubby Don Hooten had
no doubt she would be in Vanity
Fair.
GFs Creep Ahead
In Bitter Fighting
On Central Front
Tokyo, March 6—UP)—Parka-clad American Marines
attacking over new fallen snow drove slowly ahead today in
Central Korea. The Chinese Reds resisted bitterly.
The Leathernecks were pushing toward the key com
munications hub of Hongchon, 15 miles north of recaptured
Hoengsong. Some of the Marine elements were 11 miles
from Hongchon.
The Chinese Reds are believed to have concentrated their
largest frontline forces at Hongchon. General MacArthur
said another big Red force—the Chinese Third Field Army—
is moving toward the front from northeast Korea to support
the Communist Fourth Field Army.
MacArthur’s report was the first indication of a large
shift by the Third Field Army. He said it was comprised of
several army corps, possibly up to 90,000 men.
Despite losses of an estimated 22,250 troops since the
United Nations resumed its limit-
Debaters Schedule
Full Spring Season
g “That good ole Baylor line” of
iibe will run the guantlet of dis-
lussion and debate tomorrow' when
members of that college’s debate
teams meet like aggregations from
this school, first in a WTAW radio
program at 4 p. m. and later at
ii 7:30 evening forum in rooms
ilB and 3C of the MSC.
1 Robert Huffman and John Sam
uels will represent A&M in the 30-
minute discussion program. Ted
Mullinix will be program chair
man.
I In the evening debate, Dan Davis
and James Farmer will take the
negative side for A&M. The sub
ject is “Resolved that the non-com-
i munist nations should form a new
international organization.”
k This is the first of several such
activities planned for the organ-
ization this year. After taking-on
the Baylor teams Wednesday
\ night, members of the A&M De
bate Club will travel to Natchi
toches, Louisiana, to a meet at
• Northwest State College, where
most southwest schools will be re
! presented.
This is the first year the or
ganization has been extremely ac
i live,” says Jerry McFarlin, pub-
: Jicity man for the group. He points
to the fact that included in this
I Spring’s agenda are more than sev
en different events in which the
A&M Debate Club will participate.
These include a special debate
[ and discussion period with two
\ cadets from West Point on March
. Singing Cadets,
Tessie Chorus
Present Show
The TSCW College Chorus
and the Singing Cadets pre
sented their annual program
in the main auditorium on the
TSCW campus last Saturday.
The Cadets proved themselves ver
satile as from their repertoire came
songs from the classics, spirituals,
popular songs, folk songs, and the
traditional songs of A&M.
The TSCW College Chorus sang
“Clouds” by Charles, “Slumber”
by Rebikof, and “Ifca’s Castle” a
Czech folk song.
Aggies and Tessies joined voices
on "a Rogers and Hammerstein
number, “You’ll Never Walk
Alone.”
From the field of popular music
the Aggies sang “There’s Nothing
Like a Dame,” “I Only Have Eyes
For You,” and “I Dream of You.”
Folk songs and spirituals includ
ed “Dry Bones” and “Set Down,
Servant” arranged by Robert Shaw.
The Cadets, under the direction
of Bill Turner, featured as soloist
Harold Hughes, tenor from Abil
ene; Don Forney, baritone from
Victoria; Tommy Butler, tenor
from Waco; Lamar MeNew, bari
tone from College Station; Leslie
Polk, bass from Houston, and Tom
my Savage, bass from Port Arthur.
14. The two cadets, one of them
from Longview, will be including
A&M in a 11-day trip of western
schools.
And then on March 14, the local
debaters will be hosts to the South
west Conference Tournament on
the campus. April 2 through 5 in
cludes a trip to Gainesville, Florida
to attend the Southern Speech As
sociation Tournament.
On April 13 and 14, the group
will sponsor the 2nd Annual A&M
Invitational Debate Tournament on
the campus. All southwest colleges
and junior colleges will be invited
A week later, the group will travel
to Austin for the annual Texas
University Spring Tournament.
The Debate Club of A&M, ac
tive for about four years, has been
to West Point in two encounters
during the last few years. And
last year in Houston, members of
the teams won a special trophy at
debate meet.
President of the group this year
is James Farmer; Dan Davis is
vice president. About 15 regular
members attend the meetings held
on the second and fourth Wednes
day’s of each month. Persons in
terested in debate are invited to at
tend, McFarlin said.
He added that especially pre-law
majors, business majors, and stu
dents who plan jobs with many per
sonal contacts involved might be
interested in the organization’
program. “After all,” he says con
cerning the pre-law majors, “be
bating is merely an example of
presenting a case, like a lawyer
would do it.”
In addition to meeting twice a
month, members get together in
a special class Monday afternoons
at 3 p. m. where debates are sche
duled. Anyone interested may at
tend these classes in the Academic
Building, McFarlin says.
Sponsors of the organization this
year are Harry Hierth, K. E. Elm-
quist, R. Allen, and L. J. Martin.
ed offensive, Feb. 21 the Chinese
and North Koreans are believed to
number 300,000 below Parallel 38
in South Korea.
Lt. G'en. Matthew B. Ridgway,
commander of allied ground forces
in Korea, told a news conference
the Reds have plenty of men to
launch a big counter-offensive.
Attack Not Imminent
But he expressed belief such an
attack is not imminent. Ridgway
added that his forces “at the mo
ment” could stop a Red offensive.
The ex-paratrooper general spoke
confidently of his Eighth Army’s
capabilities and praised the sup
port he has received from General
MacArthur.
Ridgway went to Korea from
Washington to succeed Lt. Gen.
Walton H. Walker, who was killed
in a jeep accident north of Seoul
in December. Ridgway commanded
an airborne division in Europe in
World War II.
On the battlefront, a six-inch
snow fall slowed the determined
allied push Tuesday through the
craggy mountains and rice-paddied
valleys across the peninsula east
of Seoul.
350 Cadets Get
Corps Promotions
Town Hall Sets
SA Symphony
Tonight At 8
By BEE LANDRUM
With Franco Autori as guest conductor, the San Antonio
Symphony Orchestra appears on Town Hall tonight at 8 p.m.
in Guion Hall.
Concert master for the San Antonio Symphony is Julius
Hegyi, 26-year old violinist, who is now in his third season
as the “Number One” musician in this noted orchestra.
The San Antonio Symphony was founded in 1939 by the
late Max Reiter, who was its permanent musical director and
conductor until his death December 13, 1950.
Many celebrated musical personalities have appeared
with the San Antonio Symphony, and the orchestra has re
ceived much public praise.
After serving as guest conduc-
Take Hill 336
Units of the First Marine Divi
sion took Hill 336 three miles
northeast of Hoengsong Tuesday
after other elements punched to
points four miles north and north-
west of the rubbled town Monday.
The Reds pumped artillery, mor
tar and machinegun fire into the
leathernecks Monday but fell back.
Air spotters reported an estimated
three Chinese battalions directly
ahead of the Marines, from five to
six miles north and northwest of
Hoengsong.
Reds Fight From Bunkers
On the east-central front, Ko
rean Reds fought bitterly from log
bunker dugouts on rugged ridges
near Taemi, a mountain stronghold
from which they were routed Mon
day.
Taeoi is 10 miles northwest of
Pangnim, eastern road junction of
one of the main east-west highways
running to Hoensong and Seoul.
The Reds’ new positions were under
assault by the U. S. Second and
Seventh Divisions.
A combination American-French
ground, artillery and aerial assault
chased the Reds out of Taemi. But
air reconnaissance Tuesday showed
1,500 Reds were moving into the
area from the northeast to rein
force 3,000 to 5,000 North Koreans
already there.
A Seventh Division tank-infantry
patrol drove more than two miles
into Changpyong Monday in the
Taemi area, but withdrew slightly
south at dusk. Changpyong is road
junction 10 miles north of Pang
nim.
South Korean Seventh Division
units were driving Monday toward
Hajinbu, eight miles east of Chang
pyong.
Over 350 men received promo
tions, new appointments and trans
fers in the Corp of Cadets, the
commandant's office announced
this morning.
The new promotion list is an addi
tion to the General Order issued at
the beginning of the Fall semester.
Promotions listed were effective
March 5.
Due to lack of space only com
missioned officers, first sergeants
and those non-commissioned offi
cers appointed to various staffs
can be listed.
The appointees are listed below
according to units:
Corps Staff
M/Sgt. Don P. Hegi assigned
as Composite Regiment Liason.
Maroon Band
First Lieuts. William F. White,
platoon leader, Robert J. Blissard,
athletic officer, and Bertram E.
Beecraft, scholastic officer.
White Band
First Lieut. Marvin L. Levin
assigned platoon leader, T/Sgt.
George L. Harkrider, Drum and
Bugler commander.
Headquarters Infantry Regiment
T/Sgt. James W. Phillips ap
pointed communications sergeant,
and T/Sgt. Corrie W. Harris
named transportation Sergeant.
Headquarters First Infantry
Battalion
Lt. Col. Paul C. Coffin appoint
ed commander, Major Alvin N.
Deck assigned executive. Capt.
Frank E. Neill assigned adjutant,
Capt. Jack W. Birkner appointed
intelligence officer, Major LeVon
Massengale appointed Operations
Officer, and Capt. James R.
Graves named supply officer.
A Infantry
First Lieut. Grover C. Damuth
appointed athletic officer.
Headquarters Second Infantry
Battalion
Capt. Howard Karren named in
telligence officer.
E Infantry
First Lieut. Robert L. Middle-
ton assigned Platoon Leader.
Headquarters, Artillery Regiment
Major Edward B. McAllister as-
(See CORPS, Page 4)
tor, Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor
of the New York Philharmonic
Symphony, said, “The San Antonio
Symphony can compete with any
orchestra in this country and in
Europe.”
Virgil Thomson of the New York
Herald-Tribune wrote, “The San
Antonio Symphony has frequently
come to national notice through the
freshness and distinction of its
program policy.”
Many important works by both
American and European composers
have been introduced by the San
Antonio Symphony. Richard
Strauss’s “Last Songs” were per
formed for the first time in Amer
ican by the San Antonio orchestra
and Soprano Kirsten Flagstad on
November 25, 1950.
Napolitian Experience
Franco Autori, regular associate
conductor of the New York Phil
harmonic Symphony, gained his
first professional experience in lit
tle opera houses around Naples,
where he was born.
He came to the United States in
1928 and was engaged as assistant
conductor of the Pennsylvania
Grand Opera Company in Philadel
phia. In 1932 he came to Texas
and directed two summer sessions
of the Dallas Symphony.
Other companies with which Au
tori has been associated include the
Chicago Opera Company, the Fed
eral Music Project, and the Buffalo
Philharmonic. At the present time,
(See TOWN HALL, Page 4)
Foreign Military Attaches
Will Review Cadet Corps
Three foreign countries Nor- military attache, Norwegian Em- Lt. Col. Jens Holger Johansen,
way, Denmark, and Italy will be bassy, Lt. Col. Jens Holger Johan- who is an artillery officer, was
represented at the revue Saturday sen, acting military attache, Dan- born in 1909 in Copenhagen, Den-
afternoon and at the Military Ball ish Embassy, and Col. Umberto De mark, and commissioned a 2nd
Saturday night. Martino, military attache, Italian Lieutenant in 1929.
The men are Col. Sverre Refsum, Embassy. (See ATTACHES, Page 4)
Colonel Refsum, who is a field
artillery officer, was born in Far-
sund, Norway. He was promoted to
1st lieutenant in the Norwegian
Army in 1918. He received his pre
sent rank of Colonel January 1,
1946.
Military Career
In his military career Colonel
Refsum has served with the Army
General Staff, as Chief of Staff of
the General Inspector of the Field
Artillery, and as Chief of Staff
of the 2nd Division.
He served also as Executive
Regimental Commander of the 1st
Field Artillery Regiment from 1938
to 1940, and from 1946 until 1949,
when he was appointed Military
Attache to the United States and
Canada, Colonel Refsum served as
Regimental Commander of that
same regiment.
During 1943 Colonel Refsum
spent approximately a month each
with the U S Army in the 29th
Infantry Division and the British
T , T i Army in the 53rd Infantry Divi-
Lt. Col. Jens H. Johansen s i on> Col. Sverre Refsum
Wanda Lou Sisk
. . . comes from the U of H to
share Vanity Fair honors. The
20-year-old brownette with
brown eyes to match stands 5’
5Vi” and lists among previous
honors the titles “Miss Fashion
Plate of 1950” and U of H Home
coming Queen for 1948. Bill
Blackshear is the escort.
Slip-Stickers Plot
‘Different’ Dance
By GEORGE CHARLTON
Things will appear and then dis
appear, so to speak, when magi
cian Bill Singleton of Hart Hall
puts on his 30-minute hand-quicker-
than-the-eye show as intermission
entertainment at the School of En
gineering Ball Friday night in the
Memorial Student Center.
But this is not the only way in
which this first annual affair will
be different. There will be no
sweetheart selected. There will be
Aggies Escape
Serious Injury
In Car Wreck
Six A&M students escaped
injury when their 1948 Pon
tiac convertible overturned at
4 a. m. yesterday morning at
the traffic circle north of
Bryan.
The Aggies were returning from
Dallas where they had participated
in a basketball tournament which
they won. The trophy they carried
was demolished.
The car was estimated at 100
per cent damage but none of the
occupants were seriously hurt.
The students were B. A. Kal
mans, 20, junior architecture major
from Houston, G. L. Ray, 17, pre-
vet freshman from Dallas, H. V.
Lackshin, 16, freshman liberal arts
major from Houston.
A. D. Golman, 18, sophomore
business administration major from
Dallas, Jerry Fineg, 23, senior vet
medicine major from Phoenix,
Ariz., and S. J. Ablon, owner and
driver, 18, freshman English major
from Dallas.
An Editorial
Grass Will Grow, But Only With Your Help
IT’S GOING to take all of us—not just some of us—to put areas have been plowed for planting next to Bizzell Hall and will cost them a few more stens and a little shoe leather but
1 thl T s f deal °Y e r; . ...... . , f the center sections of the Cadet Corps dorm area. Grass they point out the worthwhileness of a beautiful drill field,
If we put it over, things are going to be looking a lot for every “bald” and pathworn section of the campus is not just this year, but later when many of us will return as
different around here by the middle of next month. planned for the future. exes to visit and show friends our campus
The Campus Beautification Committee can get areas But right now, because of the All-College Open House In other areas, the committee still needs the co-opera-
plowed, it can get new grass planted, it can get a College scheduled for Mother’s Day of each year, particular efforts fcion of a few students who have continued to walk across
Planning Board named—it can work every day the rest of are being made to get grass growing and the paths removed recently plowed areas Grass will be planted very soon in
the year. But it can’t accomplish a thing without your help, from areas already planted. the area next to Bizzell, and in the center section in the
To get the job done, every student must feel that, he Attention at present has been focused on the drill field Cadet Corps dorm area,
too, is a member of the committee. . where new grass is growing and signs have been placed. Help from every student is needed if these areas are to
For the most part, student co-operation has been praise- Several interested foreign students have even gone so far as be campus “beauty” spots instead of “sore” spots bv Moth
worthy. Several thousand students have shown an honest to set up a loud speaker system to ask students to stay off er’s Day and Open House
interest in “polishing up” the campus to give it a greener, the drill field. The Battalion is convinced that co-operation from every
more pleasing appearance. Only a few “pathmakers” remain, but they are numerous student can be obtained if each of them realize the value of
But a few, probably less than 300, are making worthless enough to keep a bare trail worn across the drill field. It is the beautification program,
the contributions of several thousand to these students that the beautification committee directs It is with this m mind that we appeal to you for help.
Beautification efforts through the persistent work of its request for help. Only with help from the civilian stu- Quoting our friend from Egypt, who daily asks students
the Campus Beautification Committee, have been surprising- dents in Law and Puryear Halls can the drill field grow green, not to walk on the drill field let’s make “stay off the grass”
ly successful. New grass has been planted on the main drill unscarred by paths across it middle. " an A&M tradition ’
field in front of the Ag Building and next to Guion Hall, and The committee realizes that help from these students It’ll make a better A&M.
no formal attire; and what’s mor%
there probably won’t be any cor
sages, because they’ve been outlaw
ed by dance planners.
There will be music, however,
and furnished in the inimitable
style of A&M’s answer to Andre
Kostelanitz, the Aggieland Orches
tra.
And that’s the way the dance
has been planned—so it won’t be
“like all the rest.”
Beginning at 9 p. m. in the
MSC Ball Room, the dance will
be strictly informal and will cost
$2 stag or drag. Refreshments
of punch and cookies will be
served during the evening and
will be available until the dance
ends at 12 p. m.
Sponsoring the affair this year
is the Engineering Council, com
posed of 32 representatives from
the various departments and soc
ieties included in the School of En
gineering.
All faculty members of that
special school as well as students
in that school are expected to at
tend. In fact, faculty members
have been extended a “special” in
vitation to buy tickets. Ducats may
be purchased in the offices of the
various departments of the engin
eering school.
Students and faculty members of
the School of Engineering may also
bring special guests if they so de
sire. But only students or faculty
members of that school may buy
tickets.
“For instance,” says Jes Mc-
Iver, president of the council,
“if an engineering student is
double dating with an Arts and
Sciences student, the engineer
will have to be the one to pur
chase the four tickets. But all
guests are welcome.”
Friday night’s affair supposedly
will be a “first.” Never before, ac
cording to Mclver, has a complete
school given a special dance for
its students and faculty members.
This might be a first also of steps
in the right direction, he pointed
out, toward “a better faculty-stu
dent relationship program.”
“And we would like to see other
councils join us in furthering bet
ter relationships of that type,” he
said.
Vice-president of the council is
Dick Tomlinson; treasurer, Jim
Kadel; secretary, Dave Carna
han. Members of the dance plan
ning committee are Albert Nich
olson, Tom Flukinger, Harold
Chandler, Ignacius Trauth, and
R. B. English.
The affair will be a chance for
all engineers to get away from
their drawing boards, slipsticks,
and formulas, and “just have a
good time with on emphasis on in
formality,” Mclver points out.
And then the next night, the
Military Ball . . .
Return of Vanity Fair
Pictures Announced
Pictures of the Vanity Fair en
tries with the exception of win
ners may be picked up at the Ag
gieland office, Goodwin Hall any
day from 1 p. m. to 5 p. m., Nance
announced this Morning.