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PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Number 111: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1951
Price Five Cents
Bryan-College
Councils to Set
ContractTerms
By JOEL AUSTIN
Plans for purchasing College Hills electric facilities from
the REA and the City of Bryan were forwarded last night in
a short, orderly meeting of the College Station City Council.
The council set a tentative date of March 23 or 24 for a
meeting with the Bryan City Commission to decide on final
contract terms for the power lines purchase. The meeting
was called to ratify or to enter into a new contract agree
ment with the City of Bryan for buying electric facilities in
College Station now owned by the Bryan and the REA.
The local group elected R. B. Halpin as acting mayor
pro-tem at the meeting to serve in the place of Mayor Ernest
Langford and Mayor pro-tem J. A. Orr who will be out of
town at the time of the meeting.
Mayor Langford told the council that an estimate will be
completed by Friday or Saturday on the power line to be built
by College Station to replace REA.
facilities in College Hills. The line
is to be built, he said, in order
that failure of power in the Col
lege Hills lines or the REA lines
at any time will not affect the ser
vice of the other.
Councilman Orr moved that an
18 man list of College Station
citizens be appointed as a charter
commission and “be authorized to
prepare a preliminary draft for a
city charter for the City of Col
lege Station.”
Named to that committee were
the following men: Ernest Lang
ford, chairman, J. H. Sorrels, H. E.
Burgess, S. A. Lipscomb, Ray
Oden, J. C. Culpepper, Truman H.
Jones, L. S. Richardson, W. D.
Fitch,| and A. P. Boyett.
Others appointed were J. W. Bar
ger, D. B. Gofer, S. R. Wright,
(1. W. Black, J. A. Orr., R. B.
Halpin, and Charles LaMotte.
Winter Again!
Mercury
Drops With
tt fur/-* jr
Icy Winds
College Station weather took a
decisive turn early this week as
theimometer readings dropped with
incoming! gusts of north winds. At
8 a.m. today the lowest reading
for the past 24 hours was 30 de
grees recorded at the Main Station
Farm.
Although the sun shown bright
ly throughout the morning, the
brisk winds kept the themometer
in the low forties.
Weather officials at Bryan Field
said the skies will be clear, but
the icy winds will continue to blow
today and probably all day tomor
row.
The cold weather prevailed
thorughout most of the state to-
*’ay following the norther which
swept across the state Sunday.
In many places the cold front
brought rain and other precipita
tion to areas which have been suf
fering from drought.
Rainfall in College Station Sun
day night was .51 inches.
: v; Houses Re-Numbered
The council approved an ordi
nance; to change the names of hous
es and streets according to a mas
ter map laid ou t for an effective
and efficient system of numbering
houses in the city. •
The ordinance read as follows:
“A map labeled “official map,
City of Callege Station, revised
March, 1951,” is hereby incorporat
ed by reference to be a part of
this;’-ordinance and said map is
hereby adopted as the official
may of the city.
“All numbers of residences and
names of streets which have here
tofore been referred to by other
designations are hereby changed 1
so as herein after to be numbered
or named as shown on the said
map.”
Deletes Word
Another ordinance was adopted
by the council to delete the word
“electric” from ordinance No. 152
so there can be no doubt that the
bonds voted 'n the recent utility
bond election will be retired from
income of water and sewage reven
ues.
R. H. Baker of Rowies, Winston,
and Company of Houston, pur
chasers of the $200,000 utility
bonds voted in February, was at
the meeting to discuss the bond
sale with the council.
Sudden Red Flight
Puzzles UN Force
TOKYO, March 13—(A 1 )—Allied
troops chased mysteriously re
treating Communist forces toward
the old parallel 38 border separat
ing South and North Korea.
Vanguards of three United Na
tions columns, driving on the Red
massing center of Hongchon in
Central Korea, were within 25
miles of the old boundary.
There was no ready explanation
for the sudden Communist with
drawal from the mountain redoubts
where they had fought bitterly for
every yard of ground. Some front
line officers said possibly they
were pulling back to make a new
stand in prepared defense in the
ridges North of Hongchon.
A Big Change
“It was such tough going yes
terday and so easy today,” a ser
geant said.
All along the 70-mile front the
Reds were putting up only a show
of rear-guard resistance.
But Allied Commanders were
wary. They did not label the Red
withdrawal a rout.
“We’ve got the enemy reeling
back but he still isn’t knocked out,”
said Maj. Gen. Claude B. Feren-
baugh, commanding the battle-
tried U. S. Seventh Division.
“The outlook is optimistic, but
we’re keeping our guard up.”
Even as the Reds drew back
from their front line positions
their reinforcements were coming
up from the rear.
Enemy Trucks Move
More than 1,500 enemy trucks
were spotted Monday night moving
southward from North Korean
bases. That was the largest num
ber seen in two and one-half
months.
Air observers also reported heavy
Red vehicular traffic moving -
North from Seoul. Some sources
suggested this indicated the Reds
were pulling out of that rubbled
South Korean Capital.
In the Central Sector, British and
Robbie Watson
. . . daily charms the business
world as a receptionist in Dallas.
Dudley Hughes is the lucky lad
doing the week-end honors for
(his Vanity Fair Beauty w'ho is a
Tessie grad of last year. The
eyes are hazel, the hair blonde.
Age 20, she is 5’ 6” and a former
Tessie Beauty.
F
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Canadian troops pushed to within
four miles of Hongchon.
The U. S. First Cavalry Divis
ion, on the British left flank, were
reported only four and one-half
miles from Hongchon. It was driv
ing along the road that leads
northeast from Yongdu.
Marines Advance
North of Hoengsong, on the
British right flank, the U. S. First
Marine division seized the last
ridge line before Hongchon. It
sits within five air miles of Hong
chon.
A. P. correspondent Leif Erick
son reported from U. S. Eighth
Anny headquarters that the ex
pected Red defense of Hongchon
had failed to materialize.
Erickson said it appeared the
Reds might make a stand North of
the city along the Hongchon river.
He reported some evidence the
Chinese were preparing defenses
between Hongchon and the Pukhan
river, 19 miles to the west.
New Defense Line
That would give the Reds a new
defense line some 12 miles from
Chuchon, the Chinese central head
quarters and supply base south of
38. Chunchon is six miles south
of the border.
From west to east, these were
the other major developments along
the Korean front:
Fifteen miles east of Seoul the
U. S. 25th wivision consolidated
its bridgehead across the Han riv
er. The bridgehead was nearly 11
miles deep and eight miles wide.
A 1‘egimental commander of the
25th told A. P. corespondent Jim
Becker:
“Reds . . . are Hurting”
“They (the Reds) take their
wounded with them, and as many
of their dead as they can carry so
we cannot get an accurate account
of the damage we have done to
them, but we know they are hurt
ing.”
Tessies Select
CGA Officers,
Editors for ’52
Officers of TSCW’s College
Government Association, and
the editors of the Daily Lass-
O and Daedalian Annual were
named in elections held late
last week.
Mary Beard, a junior home eco
nomics major from Augusta, Ga.
who is now serving as treasurer of
the College Government Associa
tion was elected president for 1951-
52.
Other newly elected officers ape
Ina Hubbard, art major from Tex
arkana vice-president; Rose Marie
Leissner education major from New
Braunfels, treasurer; and Patricia
Hart, present sophomore class
president was elected secretary.
Heading the Student Finance
Council will be Carolyn Wyatt, who
hails from Marshall, Texas. Other
new members of the executive
board are Mary Loomis, first vice-
president; Barbara Burns, second
vice-president; Jean Moore, cor
responding secretary; Joan Hunter,
recording secretary, and Jo Ann
Amacker, treasurer.
Milfred Budd, junior journalism
major, will be editor-in-chief of the
Daily Lass-0 for 1961-52. Thelma
Balcar, also a journalism major,
will serve as 1951-52 Daedalian An
nual editor.
The newly elected officials will
begin their apprenticeships later
this semester to ready themselves
for office next year.
TU Battle in NCAA
Classic Tonight
’Horns Even Series
In35-34AgNipping
Smooth, But Also Ran
AlI-SWC Guard Jewell McDowell scoots down
the court and out of the eager hands of Texas’
George Cobb in last night’s Gregory Gym melee
that found the Cadets on the low end of a 35-34
score in another play-off thriller. A&M meets
Texas again tonight in the final game of the
best-of-three series.
USA Sessions
Slated at MSC
March 16 17
The third annual conven
tion of the Texas Inter-Col
legiate Student Association
will be held in the Memorial
Student Center Friday and
Saturday.
Panel discussion topics will in
clude Betterment of Student-Fac
ulty Relations, Faculty Evaluation
by Students, Sportsmanship and
Intercollegiate Relations, Student
Government Finance, Promotion of
School Spirit, Stimulation of In
terest in Government and Elections,
and the possibility of establishing
a Texas Entertainment Circuit.
One of the most impoi*tant and
most controversial issues facing
TISA will be debated at the con
vention—whether or not to allow
Negro schools to join the asso
ciation, on an equal basis with
other schools.
Friday night a banquet and semi-
formal dance will be held for the
TISA visitors. Election of officers
will highlight Saturday’s general
convention meeting.
Purdue President to Speak
Engineers Week
Begins Wednesday
Engineering Observance Week,
part of the 75th Anniversary Year
activities, will get under way Wed
nesday. Principle speaker will be
Dr. F. C. Hockema, vice-president
and executive dean of Purdue Uni
versity.
Dr. Hockema will speak on “A
Graduate Program for Tomorrow’s
World” at a graduate school lec
ture to be ' held in the Biological
Science Building at 8 p. m. Wednes
day.
“Educating Engineers for To
morrow’s World” will be his topic
at a student-faculty convocation
to be held Thursday at 11 a. m.
in Guion. Hall.
Engineering classes scheduled
for this time will be dismissed
to allow students and instructors to
attend this service, H. W. Barlow,
dean of engineering, announced.
An alumni-faculty luncheon will
be held at 12:15 p. m. Thursday
in the MSC Ballroom. W. W. Lynch,
president and general manager of
Smith, Barton, Keelan, Edwards
Students to Test
Magician’s Power
Bob Smith, all-American full
back; Curtis Edwards, corps chap
lain; Dorbandt Barton, football let-
terman; Dare Keelan, Senior Class
president and Dick Gardemal, Ag
gie quarterback, will test the skills
of Gwynne, “Master of Magic”
on Guion Hall stage Wednesday
night at 7:30. These five students
all volunteered to be hypnotised
by the magician.
Gwynne will arrive Wednesday
afternoon and will tour the cam
pus blindfolded in a new convertible
car accompanied by his two beau
tiful female assistants, according
to Doug Hearne, Guion Hall enter
tainment director.
To prove his magic powers,
Gwynne has mailed a triple-seal
ed envelope to C. G. “Spike”
White, assistant dean of men for
Student Activities, with the head
lines he predicts to appear in
Wednesday’s edition of The Bat
talion.
Hearne has promised a well
rounded evening of entertainflient
from beginning to end. The magic
show will last for IV2 hours and
includes an act which features a
girl who floats in mid-air on a
board. Gwynne removes the board
and supports her from the floor
with four daggers. To prove this
feat he passes a hoop around her to
emphasize his hypnotic powers.
Gwynn and his company are
a headline attarction to the cam
pus; his many mysterious acts
will bewilder you., and leave you
no time to figure the last trick
before another has you snarled.
Following the magic show, a de
bate between the A&M team and
debaters from West Point who are
now touring the nation will be held
on stage. The West Pointers will
take the affirmative side of the
question in discussing the intema-
tional situation.
Tickets for the show will cost
50 cents and' are now on sale at
the Student Activities Office in
Goodwin Hall. There will be no
extra charge for the debate.
Texas Power and Light Company,
will be the speaker.
New developments in the chem
ical engineering field will be dis
cussed by visiting alumni during
the open house, accox - ding to, Dr.
J. D- Lindsey, head of the;Chemi
cal Engineering Department. A
general invitation was extended to
all former students, he said.-
The Mechanical Engineering De
partment plaps to show visitors
the revised ME Shops during the
open house, M. E. Crawfoi - d, head
of the department said yesterday.
Approximately 150 invitations were
sent to former students, Crawford
said.
Registered Architects
All registered architects in Texas
who were graduated from A&M
have been invited to attend En
gineering Observance Week, ac-
cording to Ernest Langford, head
of the Architecture Department.
The Architecture Department is
planning displays for these men
and the public, Jack Stansbuxy,
president of the Architecture Soc
iety, said.
A depai'tmental symposium will
be held from 9 to 11 a. m. Thurs
day, Dean Barlow said. A incep
tion in the MSC Assembly Room
from 4 to 6 p.m. will conclude the
activities.
The stay-or-play payoff will come tonight in Austin
when A&M and Texas tipoff at 8 p.m. in Gregory Gym. The
question of who shall represent NCAA District Number 6
at Kansas City on the 21st will be answered when the Long
horns and the Aggies meet for their third game tonight. In
the two-out-of-three playoff, each team has won a game.
When substitute Longhorn guard Leon Black calmly
sank a free throw with but seven seconds left in the game
last night, the Steers once again walked off the court with
a Gregory Gym upset.
This time the score was 35-34, one point enough to force
the Aggies to wait overnight in Austin for another chance
to wipe away 17 years of basketball misery.
As a great Texas majority of the 7500 fans lashed out
against the A&M ball-controlling in the game’s waning min-
futes, a Texas speedster, guard Jim-
~ ^ # my Viramontes, intei’cepted an Ag
College Station
Eating Places
Rated High
The Texas State Health
Department released yester
day the official health rating
for College Station eating es
tablishments. The survey,
taken in October, showed a figui'e
of 96.17 out of a possible 100
points.
Local and state health officials
believed this mark to be one of
the highest on record in the state.
Ordered by the College- Station
City Council in an effort to see
how conditions of cleanliness were
in eating establishments of this
city, C. J. McBride and R. F. Hol-
bert of the food and dimg inspec
tion service of the state health
agency reported their finding to
the Texas State Department of
Health in Austin.
“They were so amazed by the
high rating, they purposely hesi
tated in answering our request for
the outcoine of the inspection fox-
fear a mistake in calculations was
made in the suiwey,” said Mayor
Ex-nest Langford.
After inqumes from Brazos
County Health Unit director Dr.
D. E. Brown, the results wex-e re
leased to the local officials.
Receiving the lowest rating
(80%) of the local eating places
was the food department of the
MSC. City officials said this fig
ure was probably due to the open
ing of that department only a few
days before the survey was made.
Grades were given as follows:
Wilson’s Cafeteria, 88%; Aggie-
land Inn, 92%; Student Center
Fountain, 92%; Student Center
Food Depax-tment, 80%; Duncan
Hall 100%; Sbisa Hall, 100%; Lips
comb Phannacy, 98%; Campus
Confectionary, 89%; B&B Grill,
95%; and Nita’s News Stand,
100%.
Others were Smitty’s Grill, 98%;
Creamland, 93%; Aggieland Phar
macy, 95%; A&M Grill, 91%;
Whiteway Cafe, 87%; Black’s
Pharmacy, 96%; and Madeley’s
Pharmacy, 95%.
gie pass.
The 5’ 7” transfer guard flashed
down the court, and passed in to
George Scaling. That was the
game—two points for Texas as the
scox-e and the clock read 34-34 and
1:20 respectively.
Turned Away
Hundxeds of fans had been turn
ed away from the gate by seven
thirty, but the 7500 already present
were raucously jeering at each oth
er across the court. By eight, the
stage was set.
The tipoff went to the Longhorns
but it was only after sevex-al at
tempts by each club that Joe Ed
Falk, the 6’ 5!i>” fox-ward who as
sured a Texas victory the last time
in Austin, cleax-ed the hoop for the
initial field goal.
Buddy Davis tied it up with a
floor shot, but a field goal by
Falk and another by Don Klein sent
the Orange and White ahead by
four points.
Two free thx-ows by George Scal
ing kept the four-point Steer lead
in tact, but in another minute they
had boosted the four to seven.
After Scaling missed a liberty,
Frank Womack quickly took the
rebound and converted it into two
points. He then added a free throw
and with less than, eight minutes
elapsed in the ganxe, Texas went
ahead by seven points, 11-4.
Walker Scores
Little Woody Walker then push
ed the four to six, and another field
goal, this time by Davis, brought
the Cadets within three points of
their arch-rivals.
A minute and a half later A&M
trailed by only one after Leroy
Miksch and Jewell McDowell found
the i-jiuge with jump shots.
Klein was awarded two foul shots
—which he promptly made and
Texas again lead by three.
A charity by Davis then totaled
(See CHANCES EVEN, Page 3)
Sewerage Courses
Begin in MSC
The thirty-third Texas Water
and Sewerage Wox-ks Association’s
Short School is being held in the
Memorial Student Center.
The School is held in cooperation
with the State Depax-tment of
Health, the South West Section of
the American Water Works Asso
ciation, the State Board for Vo
cational Education, and Texas
A&M College.
“The object of the annual short
school is to assist water and sew
age plant opex-ators to prepare
themselves so they can render bet
ter service in protecting the health
and welfai'e of the public” said
Uel Stephens, president, TWSWA.
To date about five hundred per
sons from over the state have xeg-
istered for courses.
Dr. F. C. Hockema
Ripley Collection
Will Be Exhibited
A pox-tion of the collection ef
the late Robert L. Ripley, of “Be
lieve It or Not,” fame, will be on
exhibit Thursday and Friday at
North Gate.
It is being shown under the aus
pices of the Disabled American
Veterans, Brazos County Chapter
62.
Aggie Debators
Go to Finals
In NSLC Meet
Two Aggie debate teams
scored victories in the 16th
Annual Invitational Debate
Tournament held at North
western Louisiana State Col
lege in Natchitoches, Friday and
Saturday.
One team, consisting of Dan
Davis and James Farmer, advanced
to the quarter-finals by winning
four of five contests.
After defeating the same Bay
lor team that beat them last Wed
nesday night, Davis and Fanner
bowed in the finals to the Uni-
vex-sity of Houston team, who ulti
mately won the meet.
John Samuels and Robert Huff
man, who composed the other team,
won two out of four debates in
which they participated.
Teams from 40 colleges from
New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas,
Louisiana, Arkansas, and Missouri
competed in the. senior division of
the meet. The A&M teams were
accompanied by Lee J. Maxtin, in
structor in the English Depart
ment.
Davis and Farmer will meet a
team from West Point Wednesday
night' at 9 p. m. in Guion Hall.
The Aggie debaters will be host
to the Southwest Conference In
vitational Debate Tournament to
be held on the campus Saturday.
Teams from SMU, TCU, and Bay
lor will be here for the sessions.
The Cadets defeated teams fx-om
Centenary, Tulane, and Baylor in
the Louisiana meet.