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Number 107: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1951
Price Five Cents
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But One Among
College Dailies
Chicago, March 7—(Special)—“The Battalion,” Texas
A&M student publication, took second place today in the
third annual national college newspaper contest in which pa
pers campaigned for safer driving.
A prize of $250 will be given The Battalion, which com
peted in the contest’s daily paper classification, for all-around
editorial excellence in its safety campaign. It won first place
in the nation last year.
;; Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Company, contest spon
sor, annually awards $2,000 to the college papers which do
the best editorial jobs of promoting
Ags Thrash Frogs 50-44;
Meet TU in Playoff Friday
Maj. Gen. W. B. Palmer
safe driving by students during the
Christmas holidays.
Chairman James S. Kemper, who
announced the winners here, prais
ed The Battalion for its active edi-
. torial aid in impressing the haz
ards of holiday traffic on young
drivel’s. “The accident rate of
college-age drivers is especially
high during the Christmas vaca
tion period,” he said.
Judges Named
t Contest judges were Mayor Mar
tin H. Kennelly of Chicago; Ned
11. Dearborn, president of the Na
tional Safety Council; Ralph Budd,
chairman of the Chicago Transit
• Authority; Franklin Kreml, direc
tor of the Northwestern University
Traffic Institute; Wesley I. Nunn,
director of advertising for Stan
dard Oil of Indiana, and Carl Kes-
ler, chairman of the executive com
mittee of Sigma Delta Chi, profes
sional journalism fraternity.
First prizes went to “The Daily
Trojan,” University of Southern
California (daily) and “The Az
tec,” San Diego State College (non
daily). Second prize for non-dai-
(See AWARD, Page 4)
Maj, Gen, Palmer
To Review Corps
Major General Williston B. Pal
mer, commanding general of the
2nd Armored Division and Fort
Hood, will be one of the dignitaries
visiting the campus for the Mili
tary Day review Saturday after
noon.
General Palmer has 83 years of
active service behind him, including
the Normandy invasion, the St.
Lo breakthrough, the Battle of the
Bulge and many other’s. During
World War II General Palmer was
Artillery Officer of the 1st Army
Group and later for the Army
Forces in the ETO. Since that time
he has commanded many Artillery
schools and units including the VII
Corps Artilley and the Famous
82nd Air-borne Division.
The general was born at Fort
CS Nurses Offer
Red Cross Course
Six College Station ladies have
signed up as accredited teachers
for the Red Cross Home Nursing
course. They are Mrs. T. R. Spence,
Mrs. G. W. Litton, Mrs. W. H.
Ritchey, Mrs. Louis J. Horn, Mrs.
J. P. ' CoVan and Mrs. John D.
Wheat. All of the teachers are reg
istered nurses.
|| Classes are being held at 152
Jones Street. Mrs. Wheat teaches
a class from 2 to 4 p. m. on Tues
days and Thursdays. Mrs. CoVan
is teacher for a class from 9 to 11
a. m. on Monday and Wednesdays
and Mrs. Horn has a class sche
duled from 7 to 9 p. m. on Tues
days and Thursdays.
’ Mrs. Spence is chairman for the
Jroup.
Negro classes in home nursing
ji>e scheduled to begin in about
a week when plans are completed.
Corps Collections
Eric Carlson, newly named ser
geant-major of the Cadet Corps,
is student chairman for collections
on the campus under W. L. Pen-
berthy, dean of men who is in
charge of all Red Cross donations
on the campus.
Students may contribute to the
Red Cross through their first ser
geants. Those contributing a dol
lar will be given a membership
card. Other contributors may re-
Brown Elected
Engineer Head
Robert F. Brown, of Dallas,
was elected editor of The En
gineer by the Engineering
Council last night.
Brown, a member of B-En-
gineers, is a junior CEj major ac
tive in ASCE, SAME, and Phi Eta
Sigma.
A member of the fish drill team
his freshman year, rated best
drilled sophomore last year and
taking part in many extra-curri-
'cular activities this year, he has
maintained a grade point ratio of
2.53. . ,
He said for the remainder of
the year he would organize the
staff for next year. He will also
be working on editorial layouts un
til the end of May.
Brown will succeed Robert W.
McDaniel, from Bellaire, present
editor of The Engineer.
Other candidates in the election
were David D. Leahy, of Austin,
and Fred L. Stroebel, of Cisco.
ceive the Red Cross pin. These
voluntary contributions will be ac
cepted through Thursday, at which
time the first sergeants will check
in all the money. On Friday the
contributions will be turned in to
the Military Department, Carlson
said.
$2,600 Goal
Goal for College Station this
year is $2,600. Those in charge of
collecting this money are Mrs.
Fred E. Smith, chairman of the
business district. Mrs. Spencer J.
Buchanan, in charge of the resi
dential district, and Dean Pen-
berthy in charge of campus col
lections.
The total goal for Brazos Coun
ty this year is $12,631. This money
must be raised by March 31.
Sheridan, Ill. on Nov. 11, 1899 and.
began his military career in 1919
upon graduation from West Point
as a second lieutenant in the Field
Artillery.
Toured Europe
He toured European battlefields
in 1919 and ‘returned to the states
for further artillery training. In
1920 as a first lieutenant, he did
a tour in the Panama Canal Zone
with the 4th Artillery, apd later
in the Hawaiian Islands as aide-
de-camp to Major General A. J.
Bowley.
In August 1936, General Palmer
entered the Command and General
school at Fort Leavenworth, Kan
sas, and later the Army War Col
lege in Washington. His next as
signment was with the War De
partment General Staff, Personnel
Division.
General Palmer assumed his first
major command in February 1942
with the rank of colonel, command
ing the 6th Armored Division. In
August of that year he was pro
moted to Brigadier General and
Artillery officer of the Armored
forces.
Returned to US
Returning to the United States
after World War II, Gen. Palmer
commanded the field artillery
school at Fort Sill, Oklahoma until
January 1946. His next command
was the Army Information School,
Carlisle Barracks, Penn.
In 1947, he was assigned as De
puty Director and later director
of Logistics, Headquarters, Euro
pean Commaryi and in July 1949
was appointed Vice Chief of Staff,
Headquarters European Command.
On Nov. 1, 1950 General Palmer
was assigned as commanding gen
eral of the 2nd Armored Division
and Fort Hood, Texas. He attained
his present rank of Major General
in February, 1950.
Press, Military Dances
On Weekend Schedule
The duo concert and dance en
gagement of Denny Backner, “The
Madcap Merrymaker,” and his or
chestra and the Press Club Ball
will help round out this weekend’s
activities.
Billed as the finest entertainment
band to come up over the horizon
since Kay Kyser, Beckner and his
organization will give a concert in
Guion Hall at 7:15 Saturday night.
Following the concert, the ag
gregation will furnish music for
the Military Ball scheduled for 9
p. m. to 12 midnight in Sbisa Hall.
Tickets for the concert and ball
are on sale in the Office of Stu
dent Activities, Goodwin Hall. All
seats for the concert are priced at
50 cents. Tickets for the Military
Ball are $2.50.
The Press Club Ball will be held
Friday at 8:30 p. m. in the Assem
bly Room of the MSC. Music will be
furnished by the Freshman Orches
tra, and special entertainment is
planned for intermissions, accord
ing to Roland Bing, director of
student publications.
Staff Members Invited
All staff members of Student
Publications and the guests are in
vited to attend the ball the director
said.
Beckner’s Orchestra has had
holdover engagements at the Roose
velt Hotel in Washington, D. C. and
the Hotel Park Central in New
York. Their appearance at Aggie
land is through arrangements made
with the Music Corporation of
America.
Before taking up the baton,
Beckner was a vaudeville comedy
dancer. The tall, slim, Texan does
not play his instrument, the bass,
but devotes himself to singing,
clowning, dancing and otherwise
attempting to keep the patrons in
good spirits.
Girl soloist and dancer for Beck
ner arid his Happytimers is Betsy
Ross. She does combination tap
and ballet numbers by herself and
with Beckner.
A patented metronome, which
provides a definite dance beat de
signed to satisfy all types of danc
ers, is used by the orchestra.
Great Issues
to Hear
Russian Woman
Russian born Mrs. Vera M.
Dean, director of the Re
search Department of the
Foreign Policy Association,
will speak to the Great Is
sues class on “The Next Phase
in U. S. Foreign Policy.” The dis
cussion will be held at 8 p. m. to
night in the Assembly Room of the
Memorial Student Center.
Mrs. Dean came to the United
States from Russia in 1919 and
became a U. S. citizen in 1928. She
has a B. A. and Ph. D degree from
Radcliffe and later earned her
M. A. international law at Yale.
Wide travel and study have pro
vided Mrs. Dean the opportunity
to analyze situations and policy
trends personally. She spent the
late winter and spring of 1949
in Europe, where she gave a ser
ies of 15 lectures in French on
“American Foreign Policy”, at the
University of Paris.
In 1928 she joined the research
staff of the Foreign Policy Asso
ciation and ten years later was
appointed director. In addition to
directing the general research pro
gram, Mrs. Dean is the editor of
the publications. She is the author
of several Foreign Policy Reports.
Attendance and participation in
meetings of international organ
izations such as UNRRA and the
UN organization conference at San
Francisco have expanded Mrs.
Dean’s personal acquaintance with
officials and private individuals
both here and abroad and added to
her vast knowledge of the machin
ery of our foreign relations.
According to Dr. S. R. Gammon,
Great Issues committee chairman,
Mrs. Dean is one of the foremost
authorities on the foreign policy
of this country. She is the first
woman to speak to the Great Is
sues class.
Bettie Joy Bledsoe
. . . joins the ranks of this year’s
Vanity Fair under the auspices
of Frank Thurmond who will
squire the 5’ 2”, eyes of blue,
blonde to the week-end presenta
tion. The 19-year-old secretary
from Austin was a finalist for
Sophomore Sweetheart in 1949.
Autori Leads SA Symphony
In Town Hall Performance
Outfit Snapshots
Needed by Annual
Outfit snapshots are now be
ing accepted at the Aggieland ’51
office, Frank Thomas, military edi
tor of the annual said this morning.
Pictures should be standard and
of a uniforrri size, the annual edi
tor said.
MSC Council Meets
This Afternoon
A date for electing two “at-
large” members for next year’s
Memorial Student Center Council
will be discussed when that group
meets in a special session this af
ternoon at 5 in the MSC.
By FRANK DAVIS
Batt Staff Writer
The 76-piece San Antonio Sym
phony Orchestra under the direc
tion of guest conductor Franco
Autori was called on for three
encores last night by an estimated
crowd of 1,000 at the third Town
Hall performance of the year.
An Irish tune, “Danny Boy,”
from “Country Derby” by Percy
Grainger; “Spierlerei” by Carl
Stix; and Prelude to “Carman” by
Bizet were the encores selected by
Autori.
Prelude to Act Three of “Lohern-
grin” by Richard Wagner, Sym
phony in D Minor by Ceasar
Franck, “Don Juan” by Richard
Strauss, and “Fapriccio Espag-
nole” by Nicholas Rimsky-Korsa-
kov were played on the regular
program.
Wagner’s introduction to the
third act of “Lohengrin” depicted
the festivities surrounding the
wedding of Elsa and the strong
and powerful knight, Lohengrin.
Exuberant Theme
The orchestra plunged immedi
ately into an exuberant theme of
vigorous celebrations, moved short
ly into a quieter phrase, and then
rose to a climax.
The first performance of the D
minor Symphony was given FeK
17, 1889, by the Paris Conserva
tory Orchestra. Franck was 67
years old at the time.
Handballers Meet
Students interested in joining
the Handball team will report
to the Physical Education office
tomorrow afternoon at 5 p.m.
If bad weather prevents stu
dents from attending they
should get in touch with Her
man Segrest as soon as possible.
One of the distinctive hallmarks
of the symphony, the English horn,
occurred in the second movement,
allegretta. The first and third
movements were in allegro non
troppo.
Strauss’ tone poem was inspired
by Lenau’s “Don Juan,” and not
one of the innumerable other ver
sions of the Spanish legend.
Strauss, who died in 1949, depicted
the libertine as the intellectual,
the idealist, and the dreamer.
The tone poem opened with a
passage that depicted the knight
aflame with the lusts of life. Fol
lowing were two love themes, and
then the music changed its course.
The Don is the romatic. But the
mood passed and the Don’s second
theme, one of the most noble
Strauss conceived, was played by
horns in unison.
The conclusion was tight-lip
ped. There was no wild complaint,
only abandonment of life.
The Capriccio was in five move
ments, which were played with one
pause. The movements were vivo
e strepitoso followed by andante
con moto, vivo e strepitoso, alle
gretto, and fandango asturiano.
Rimsky-Korsakov was born in
1844 and died in St. Petersburg,
Russia, in 1908. A movie entitled
“Scheherezade,” was made of his
life.
Attend Methodist Conference
Seminar Students Return
Four A&M students returned
early this week from an 18-state
trip to Washington, D. C. and
New York City.
Ken Baker, Nat Kinney, Hugh
Winn and Dale Walston attended
a Methodist-sponsored Christian
Government Seminar in the East
ern cities. The A&M delegation
was accompanied by The Rev. and
Mrs. Robert Sneed.
Senators, representatives, and
members of various executive de
partments spoke before the semin
ar in Washington. During the first
session of the conference, Senator
Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota
pointed out the slim chances for
the passage of “needed social leg
islation.”
Senator Speaks
“Since we are now going all
out for military preparedness, I
doubt if affirmative action will be
taken on bills for social legisla
tion,” the senator said.
people, however, and we need
health and educational legislation
to keep our available manpower at
a peak.”
At the next session, the‘ques
tion of “wheat for India” was
discussed. Necessity for backing
up any wheat delivered with health
improvements, education, and the
development of natural resources
in India was emphasized.
Members of the State Depart
ment explained formulation of for
eign policy to the conference, dis
cussing the Far East situation, and
Japan and Korea in particular.
Interviews with congressmen
By RALPH GORMAN
Battalion Sports Editor
Coach John Floyd’s pace setting Aggie cagers staged
a spine-tingling second half scoring spree last night in Waco
as they stunned TCU, 50-44 and forged their way into a
three game playoff with the University of Texas to decide
who will represent District 6 in the National Collegiate Ath
letic Association’s basketball tournament at Kansas City
March 21.
The first game is slated for Friday night on the Cadet
home court with the second and third games to be played
in Texas’ Gregory Gym Monday and Tuesday nights.
There was no doubt in the minds of the near capacity
crowd that swarmed into Baylor’s Rena Maars Gymnasium
last night that the men from College Station put on their
best show of the 1951 cage campaign, as they outshot, out-
dribbled and just flat outplayed a Frog five that walked
•onto the court a three point fa
vorite.
And there were times during the
all-important “quick death” play
off game that Buster Brannon’s
Christians stretched that three
points to a wide seven. But the
margin was shortlived, as the elas
tic broke and the Aggies went
hurtling ahead, at the same time
employing a defense that allowed
but five field goals in the final
period to a team that had gar
nered 13 in the first half.
Ags Shoot 43%
Truly it was a great night for
the Cadets, as they poured ll field
goals through the nets in the open
ing period and an additional 12 in
the second half to show a total of
23 out of 54 attempts and a 42.7
in the success percentage column.
On the other side of the fence it
was different, as the Horned Frogs
had a much smaller percentage of
completion on their field goal at
tempts—18 out of 56 for 32 per
cent.
TCU’s George McLeod was Ag
gies’ big threat as he used his
potent hook shot to good advan
tage in amassing a 16-point total
for game scoring honors.
Davis, McDowell Pace Ags
All-Southwest Conference cagers
Jewell McDowell and Buddy Davis
handled the Cadet scoring capably,
as each netted 15 points for the
evening. In McDowell, the fans
witnessed real showmanship in his
ball-handling and dribbling exhib
itions, as well as the thrills in see
ing this two-time All-SWC choice
mesh the nets some five times
from deep in the court. McDowell
made good on seven of 17 field
goal attempts.
Once again the rangy 6’ 8” Da
vis found himself embarrased and
slightly pressed, as he was brand
ed three times in the first half on
personal fouls and rang up his
fourth one in the first minutes of
the final period. But these fouls
did little to slow down Davis, as
he regained his breath and com
posure masterfully to count on
shots that were seemingly impos
sible. On the pivot post, the Ag
gie center was credited with six
out of ten from the field.
Davis Retaliates
As the game opened the Frogs
got the tip off and went for over
a minute of battling before ' Mc
Leod could find the basket. The
Aggies’ Davis quickly retaliated
to even it up and then hustle back
up the court to add another from
the field and a point in the charitj*
column to enjoy an early 5-2 lead.
The Christians were playing
catchup now and Ted Reynolds,
who played a brilliant game for the
Cowtowners, counted three times
from the field and was assisted
once by McLeod, as the Frogs
went ahead 9-7. McDowell let
little water run under him as he
and Leroy Miksch counted their
first tallies just 15 seconds later
(See AG TORNADO, Page 3)
Senior Favors
Arrive; Sales
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The 1950-51 Senior Favors
have arrived, and will go on
sale Monday at 8 a. m., an
nounced Spike White, assist
ant dean of men for student
activities.
Sale will be limited to one pin
to a customer, on a first come
first served basis, he pointed out.
“Because of War Production
Board curtailments in the use of
base metals in jewelry manufac
ture, the L. G. Balfour Company of
Massachusetts, with whom we have
a contract, has been able to sup
ply only five hundred ’51 and one
hundred ’50 favors,” White said.
Of the ’51 favors, 300 have at
tached guards. Prices for favors
are $2.50 without guard, and $3.75
with guard. These prices include
a 20 percent Federal Tax.
White added that the Balfour
Company is preparing a bid on
favors made of sterling silver with
gold plating.
“Since there has been no govern
ment freeze on sterling and gold,
orders will be taken for favors
for all classes through 1951, after
the present supply of favors is ex
hausted.
“I sympathize with seniors who
have to make a choice of deciding
between giving a favor to their
sweetheart or mother. But,” he as
serted, “the Balfour Company is
doing the best it can, in view of
wartime curtailments.”
Letters received by White from
the Balfour Company will be shown
to those who might like to know
more about the situation, he added.
Walton Will House
Weekend Visitors
Students having guests for the
Military Ball Saturday night may
now get room assignments in room
100 Goodwin Hall.
Ramp A of Walton Hall will be
open Saturday to provide rooms
for the visiting girls, according’
to Bennie A. Zinn, assistant dean of
men.
A charge of $1.25 to cover costs
of matrons and other incidental
expenses is being assessed.
tually against such “charity” in
general.
Senator Johnson managed to see
the Texans for a few minutes,
breaking away from meetings on
the UMT bill.
Answering questions on college
ROTC, Johnson said he expected
the group to be expanded from the
present 600,000 students to 900,000
in the near future.
On Feb. 28, seasions of the sem
inar began in New York City,
where the delegates studied work
ings of the United Nations.
UN Session
The A&M students observed ses-
were given to the students during s j ons 0 f the Security and Trustee
their visit.
Meet Texas Senators
Both Texas senators—Tom Con-
nally and Lyndon Johnson—met
with the A&M students in Wash
ington. Senator Connally left a
committee meeting to talk to the
group. He said he had voted to
“Our real strength is in our send wheat to India, but was ac-
ship Councils at Lake Success dur
ing their, study of the UN. Pre
ceding the sessions, representatives
of the UN Secretariat briefed the
group on trusteeship, technical as
sistance and aid for Korea.
The Seminar closed Thursday
night, after which the students
drove back to College Station.
Insurance Firm
Cites Local Man
John B. Longley of College Sta
tion has completed three years of
service with the American General
Life Insurance Company in the
Central Texas Agency, said Sid
Loveless, manager of the local
branch of the firm.
During that time he has sold
almost'a million, dollar’s worth of
life insurance to citizens of Bi’azos
County, Loveless said.
Longley has completed a course
in Life Insurance Marketing at
SMU and recently has begun
teaching two courses in insurance
at A&M.
A graduate of A&M in the class
of ’43, Longley is married and has
one child.