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Number 110: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1951
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Three Pronged
Spearhead Hits
JChinese Reds
■Tokyo, March 12—(H 5 )—Allied troops today hurled a
three-pronged spearhead at the heart of Chinese Red resis
tance in Korea.
»The center prong stabbed to within five miles of Hong-
chon, a huge Communist troop marshalling point and once
reported to be Chinese general headquarters.
KRed rear-guard fighting stiffened, hinting that the Com
munists would make a last-ditch stand before Hongchon, an
important highway town. Allied field officer^ expected a
counterattack from the Red staging area.
+ British, Canadian and Australian
^ 1 A l I troops advanced to within five
Second Annual
Sales Clinic
Opens Tuesday
The Second Annual Sales
Clinic will get underway to
morrow evening at 7:30 p. m.
in the MSC Ballroom with a
welcoming address by E. R.
Bulow. assistant professor in the
Department of Business Admin
istration.
“This clinic is part of a pro
gram to work closely with practi
cal business men and to supple
ment j class theory,” explained T.
W. I,eland, head of the Department
of Business Administration.
“Men high in the professional
selling field,” Bulow says, “will
participate in the clinic, which is
sponsored jointly by the Business
Society and salesmanship class.”
Horace E. Perry, president of
Mosher Steel Co. of Houston, and
president of the Houston Sales
Executives Club, will outline and
explain the purpose of the sales
vlinic.
“The Fine Art of Professional
Belling,” by Verne Lane, president
of Verne Lane Associates, will be
the first of five talks including
“Getting Ready to Sell,” by Char
les N. Royds, sales manager of
the National Cash Register Co.;
“Presenting the Proposition,” by
R. E. Scott, sales manager of
the Gold Seal Co.; “Overcoming
the Obstacles that Block Sales,”
by Herbert Elston of the Minneso
ta Mutual Life Insurance Co.
And “Closing and Clenching the
Sale,” by Herbert L. Crate, sales
manager of Hodell & Co.
These talks will be followed by
questions and discussion by a ten-
man panel board.
Prof Presents Paper
Rogers L. Barton, assistant pro
fessor in the Industrial Education
Department, presented a paper and
demonstratiion on “Visual Aids for
the Industrial Teacher” at the West
Texas district meeting of the
TSTA in Amarillo, on Friday.
miles of Hongchon from the south.
They were 22 miles south of the
38th Parallel. That is the north
ernmost advance of the current al
lied major offensive.
The U. S. First Cavalry and the
U. S. First Marine Divisions drove
on the Red supply center from the
southwest and southeast. The cau
tiously advancing Marines were
reported about six miles from
Hongchon. The Cavalrymen were
reported about seven miles south
west of the town.
Resistance Evaporated
On the right side of the 70-mile
United Nations front, Red resist
ance evaporated suddenly. Allied
troops quickly captured towering
Mount Taemi, a mile-high vantage
point. Not a shot was fired.
Seizure of the commanding peak
straightened out the east-central
front. It was dented five miles
last week by a ferocious Korean
Red counterattack.
Front line officers said there
was no danger of further buckling
of the line in that sector.
Let Air Out
Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway,
U. S. Eighth Army commander,
told war correspondents that U. N.
“forces have let a lot of air out
of the inflated balloon of the Chi
nese military establishments.”
In six days the grinding allied
offensive has killed or wounded
about 33,000 Communist troops.
Ridgway said the ratio of Com
munist casualties to U. N. losses
was “well over 60 to 1.”
The commander said “it would
be a tremendous victory for the
United Nations” if the Korean war
ended at the 38th Parallel. The
parallel was the pre-war dividing
line between Red North and Re
publican South Korea.
Not to End
But, Ridgway added, he knew of
no plan to end the fighting there.
“If Communist China failed to
drive us into the sea, that would
be a defeat for her of incalculable
importance,” Ridgway said.
The degree to which we
deflate her military reputation,”
he continued, influences the think
ing of millions and millions of peo
ple in Asia.
Eventually it must react on the
political action of their govern
ment. This would be of tremen
dous importance.”
Ags Beat TU,
-33;
Seek Finale In Austin
Cadets Stun Steers
With Ballhandling
Aggies Go Military
On Field and Floor
By CLAYTON SELPH
The weekend past was a whirl
wind of military and social activ
ities both on the drill field and
dance floor for several thousand
Aggie cadets and dates, this year’s
Vanity Fair winners, and college
and visiting dignitaries.
A&M’s annual all-out military
weekend really got underway Fri
day night when, after competing
for the first hour with a confer
ence championship playoff basket
ball game, the first annual Engin
eers’ Ball and Press Club Ball were
held in the MSC.
The early • starters of Friday
night and early guests arriving on
the campus took a breather Sat
urday morning before military
wheels swung into action with a
review of the Ross Volunteers on
the MSC front lawn.
A little later guests lined the
Three inept Longhrons gape in amazement as giant Aggie center
Buddy Davis turns his back to the camera and leaps high above
the defenders to score two of the ten points that he garnered
against TU Friday night when the Cadets massacred the visitors
45-33 to take a one game edge in the two-out-of-three game series.
The Farmers meet Texas tonight in Austin in the second game
with the NCAA trip in the balance.
Beckner Plays Concert
Then Runs Over for Ball
By GEORGE CHARLTON
Four groups of people on the
campus this weekend were probab
ly pretty well worn-out Sunday
morning—the Vanity Fair winners,
the members of Denny Beckner’s
band, the corps of cadets, and any-
day night’s activities.
Beckner’s part in the military
weekend began with a concert in
Guion Hall early Saturday evening.
Although drab in many respects,
the concert was brighteded by
the presence of the six Vanity Fair
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Filing for MSC
Council Posts
Begins Today
Students wishing to file
for next year’s at-large posts
on the MSC Council may do so
between now and 5 p.m. Fri
day, Joe Fuller, MSC Council
president, announced this niorning.
Students may file applications with
Miss Betty Bolander, MSC assis
tant social and educational direc
tor,in the MSC front office.
Students may file in either one
of two categories, according to
their academic standing, Fuller
said.
One category is for students who
are not now in later than their
fourth semester of college, he said.
The MSC Council constitution
states that one of the students
elected at-large must be a sopho
more or freshman, Fuller said.
Any student, regardless of clas
sification, except seniors gradu
ating in June or January, may file
in the second category, Fuller ex
plained.
Date of the student body wide
'election has been set for Tuesday,
March 20.
rim of the drill field West of Dun
can Hall for A&M’s annual Mili
tary Day review in which a Cadet
Corps over 4,000 strong paraded
for visiting brass.
Competing for honors with visit
ing brass hats over the weekend
were this year’s six Vanity Fair
beauties, who probably got more
wistful glances and the generals
got salutes. As guests of Aggie
land ’51, these half-dozen lovelies
began their weekend Friday even
ing at a “sneak preview” presenta
tion at the Press Club Ball.
“Vanity Fair” Luncheon
Saturday noon found the girls
and their dates at a luncheon spon
sored in their behalf, after which
they toured the campus for pictures
scheduled to go in this year’s Ag
gieland.
Moving over to the parade
ground the beauties watched the
Cadet Corps march by as offi
cial guests in the reviewing stand.
Later in the evening Aggieland
Editor Roy Nance introduced offi
cially his publication’s beauties at
the Denny Beckner concert as
sisted by the comedian-bandleader
who presented the girls with bou
quets of red roses.
The two most recent additions
to A&M’s “annual dances,” the En
gineers’ Ball and Press Club Ball,
both featured something new or
special for their guests. The En
gineers’ Ball is the first dance giv
en by a school of the college for
its students and professors.
Batt Awards Made
Three certificates of merit and
a check for $250 awarded by Lum
bermen’s Mutual Insurance Com
pany to the Battalion for its sec
ond place winning Safety Edition
last December competed with a
Student Publication’s Ugly Man
contest for intermission honors at
the Press Club affair. E. R. Hook,
Southwest representative for Lum
bermen’s, presented the awards to
the Battalion editors.
“Presenting Arms” under the
command of C. C. Taylor, the Ross
Volunteers company was inspected
Saturday afternoon by a "detaiil”
including five generals.
Later, the five generals and
other visiting officers observed a
colorful “officers center” and sa
luted to the National Anthem of
Norway, Italy and the United
States during highlights of the Mil
itary Day review.
By RALPH GORMAN
Battalion Sports Editor
One jinx broken, a precedent set, and the only remain
ing barrier to thwart the Farmers’ hopes of representing Dis
trict 6 in the NCAA tournament in Kansas City March 21 will
be the Gregory Gym jinx; meaning that the Aggies haven’t
won from the Texas clan in Austin since 1934—a period of
17 years that dates back to the days when current TU Cage
Coach Jack Gray was playing his junior year on the Texas
varsity.
A&M’s cage team established a precedent Friday night
when they smothered the Texas Longhorns 45 to 33, for
at no place on the record books does it show that one of
these two teams was triumphant over the other twice on the
♦ same court during one season.
On Last Jan. 31 this same Aggie
quintet halted a five year reign
of the cage game, when the Cadets
outlasted the Horns 32-29—a feat
that hadn’t been done since Feb.
6, 1946.
Tonight will possibly tell the
tale in deciding who will carry
their one-third share of the SWC
roundball triumvirate into the bat
tle with best teams throughout the
nation.
Host team Friday night, the Ag
gies will be the visiting five to
night in the shadow of the Tower
and will attempt to prove further
that Coach John Floyd’s ball
controlling tactics are certainly to
be reckoned with.
Ball Control Controversy
In the Orange and White camp,
ball control is a bitter subject to
Gray, for it was he who denounced
such deliberate methods earlier in,
the season and since has been
known to revert to the “sinful”
style.
During the most recent Aggie
slaughter of the once-favored
Longhorns, the TU mentor choked
audibly as the Cadets shoved their
No. 1 national defensive rating
down his esophagus.
The Longhorns will have their
hands full tonight as they try to
uncover their own basket and check
the Cadets onslaught. Austin hopes
will lean heavily on James Dowies,
a 6’ 3” forward who is capable of
dealing much misery in his hook
shots. Dowies netted eight points in
a scant four minutes when the
Longhorns worked desperately at
the game of catch-up in the open
ing moments of the final period
Friday.
Two more eight-point-getters
were TU’s George Scaling and Joe
Ed Falk. In a previous game Scal
ing teamed with Frank Womack to
(See STEERS HELPLESS, Pg. 3)
Wage Control
Groups Seeking
Peace Efforts
Washington, March 12 —
UP)—Labor and management
agreed on one thing concern
ing wage controls today. In
fluential men on both sides
told a reporter the peace-making
efforts of Economic Stabilizer Eric
Johnston are deadlocked—for the
time being at least.
At the same time, Price Director
Michael V. DiSalle- criticized labor
leaders for walking out of positions
in government mobilization agen
cies.
“You can’t have teamwork, if
half the team is outside the sta
dium,”,he said yesterday in a tele
vision debate with James B. Carey,
Secretary-Treasurer of the CIO.
Carey retorted there was no real
teamwork before the walkout eith
er. He said the walkout was “not
a strike against the government,”
but an action to call the public’s
attention to what he termed failure
to include representatives of work
ers, housewives, and farmers in
the mobilization program.
At DiSalle’s Office of Price Sta
bilization (OPS), officials began
putting the final touches oh thi'ee
big food orders which they expect
to issue this week.
America’s 500,000 retail grocery
stores and about 2,000 wholesalers
will go under a new system of
price controls. As a result, house
wives are expected to pay higher
prices on some items and lower
prices on others.
Highlights of the ‘Big’ Weekend
S TARTING off “The Weekend” with money in its pocket
was The Battalion, which was presented a check for $250
as the second place prize in the Lumberman’s Mutual In
surance Company’s annual Safety Contest. The Battalion
won first place in the contest last year and this with its
annual Christmas Safety Section. Not only money was
passed out at the presentation made at the Press Club Ball,
but also certificates of editorial excellence in features and
editorials. Left to right inspecting the certificates and check
are President M. T..Harrington, John Whitmore, managing
editor, Dave Coslett, co-editor, E. A. Hooks, district agency
manager for Lumberman’s, Clayton Selph, co-editor, and
Dean J. P. Abbott.
But money isn’t everything. There is also beauty as
represented by the six Vanity Fair winners of the Aggieland
’51. They were selected by George Petty, Esquire artist.
They were presented to the students of the Press Club Ball,
the Guion Hall Concert, and at the Military Ball. Left to
right the winners are: Helen Woodard, Robbie Watson,
Wanda Lou Sisk, Ann Malcolm, Mrs. Pat Hooten, Bettie
Bledsoe. And then you have the brass and foreign repre-
.'iioio by BatUi ion Chief Photographer Sam iColinary
sentatives. Flying cadets representing France, Norway and
Denmark were invited down from their Air Force Training
Bases to be present at the Ball. Left to right they are Air
Cadet Rolv Soppn, Norway; President Harrington, Col. H. L.
Boatner, PMS&T and commandant; Inge Moundol, Belgium,
and Jean Santpus, France.