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p.^ Circulated to More Than 90% of College Station’s Residents Number 113: Volume 51 The Battalion PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY’ MARCH 15, 1951 For New House And Street Numbers See List, Page 3 Price Five Cents A&M to be Host for Third Annual TISA Convention Ily FRANK DAVIS Approximately 250 students, re presenting 32 Texas colleu'es, will assemble at A&M this afternoon and tomorrow for the Third An nual Texas Inter-Collegiate Stu dent Association convention. Problems of student government, student rights, and voicing student opinions will be emphasized during the convention, according to Joe Fuller, parliamentarian for TISA. Delegates to the convention from A&M include Bill Parse, president of the Student Senate and leader of the delegation; Bob Sturdivant, Dean Reed, Autrey Frederick, Bill Cornish, Bill Braham, Duane Van- denberg, and Don Young. All members of the Student Senate and Ctudent Life Committe, officers of campus organizations, and interested students are to at tend the convention meetings, Ful ler said. There will be special sec tions for visitors, he added. General Assembly A general assembly Friday morning in the Ball Room of the MSC will start the convention’s ac- • tivities. The delegates will be wel comed by Tom Eubank, Rice, pres ident of the TISA. Announcements Aspirants File For Editor Ot Agriculturist Candidates for the editor ship of The Agriculturist may file for the position immedi ately, Marvin Twenhafel, Ag ricultural Council president, announced today. Filings will be accepted in the Student Activities office, 209 Goodwin, through noon March 31. Qualifications for the editorship are are as follow: • The candidates must be a classified junior. • The candidate must possess a grade-point ratio of at least 1.25. • The candidate must have been u member of the magazine’s staff for at least one year. • He must agree to hold office for the entire year for which he is elected. Election of the editor will be held by the Council on April 11. The election, usually held in May, was moved up one month in order to give the editor-elect more time to learn his duties, Twenhafel said. The Agriculturist is a bi-monthly magazine published by students of the School of Agriculture. Present editor is Jim Tom House. The annual meeting of the State Family Life Conference will be held on the A&M campus Sunday and Monday, according to Dr. Dan Russell, president of the Texas Council on Family Relations. Leading speaker on the program is Dr. Reuben Hill, professor in family life, University of North Carolina. Dr. Hill has written sev- * era! books and scientific publica tions on family life education, and he is associate editor of the Family Life magazine. . A lecture by Dr. Hill at 7 p. tn. Sunday, will be followed by a panel of A&M and TSCW students, pi,'sided over by Dr. Mattie Lloyd WWten of TSCW. A&M students on the panel will include William G. Adkins, David Haines, Joe Johnson and Ken Kuni- hiro. Betty Teel, Marilyn Bodden, Marianne Senders and Wanda . Wooldridge are the TSCW students scheduled for the panel. After the registration from 9 to 9:30 Monday morning, Sam Davis, chief probation officer, Dallas Ju venile Court, will preside over a symposium on “Current Family Life in Texas.” h Persons participating in the sym posium will include Rabbi Wcssel, Tyler; Miss Grace Buzzell, of the Planned Parenthood Asociation, Dallas; Dr. Reuben Hill; Mrs. Tho- . mas E. Pierce, district supervisor, Homemaking. Education Service, Denton. Walter Whitson, director, , Family Service Bureau, Houston; and Miss Reba Bucklew, assistant professor of sociology, TSCW, will also take part. * From 10:50 to 12 noon, a panel on “Community Projects on Mar- | riage and Family Living” will be j . held in the MSC Ballroom, with F. E McGahan, superintendent, Cun ningham Independent School Dis trict, Cunningham, Texas, presid ing. Mrs. Ruth Fred, executive secre tary, Jewish Family Service Soc iety, Houston; Rev. Harvey Scott, .Texarkana; Dr. Carsen McGuire, professor of educational psychol ogy, University of Texas will par ticipate in the panel. will be made, and business dis cussed. Four discussion panels will be given following the assembly. “Student-Faculty relations, their betterment*” will be the title of a panel given by Austin College, Sherman. Other panels in this series are “Promotion of School Spirit Through all Student Activites” by Southern Methodist University, Dallas; “Student Government Fi nance,” Texas Technological Col lege, Lubbock; and “Cultural En tertainment for TISA Member Schools,” Baylor University, Waco. Student. Control Friday afternoon, panels on the extent of student control over stu dent activities and administrative, procedures, sportsmanship and in ter-collegiate relations, stimulation Student Senate President Bill Parse today asked A&M stu dents to aid the Senate in its welcome to TISA delegates here for the convention Friday and Saturday. “By showing our visitors the usual courtesies extended by our students, we believe the stu dent body will be of great aid to the Senate,” Parse said. He invited all interested stu dents to attend the general meeting of the Texas Intercol legiate Students Association in the MSC. Meeting rooms will appear on the bulletin board in the MSC main lounge Last night’s Senate meeting- failed to draw a quorum due to numerous conflicting activities over the campus. A short orien tation meeting was held among the senators present, discussing plans for the convention. of interest in student government and student elections, and faculty evaluation by students will be giv en. A banquet and dance will be held for the delegates Friday night. The Aggieland Combo will furnish music for the semi-formal affair. A general session, Saturday mofning, will hear reports of com mittees on such subjects as cre dentials, auditing, entertainment, who’s who in Texas colleges and universities, constitution, and re solutions. The convention will adjourn after a site for next year’s convention has been selected, and officers have been elected. This year’s officers are Tom Eu bank, president, Rice Institute, Bill Farrell, vice-president, Austin College; Dick Schmidt, treasurer, Austin College; Joe Fuller, parlia mentarian, A&M. Allan Eubank, A&M, is executive vice-president, and Charlie Royal ty, A&M, is executive secretary. Lt. T. Johnson, of the Rehabili tation Department, Texas Educa tional Agency; Mrs. Maud Keeling, Hogg Foundation Consultant; and Mrs. Eloise T. Johnson, family life specialist, A&M Extension Service, will also talk in the panel discus sion. Luncheon in the MSC Assembly Room will be followed by speeches by Dr. Hill and Mrs. Elwood Street, traveling lecturer for the Hogg Foundation in Austin. Mrs. Street will also lecture to students of the local high schools during the con ference. A business meeting- in the MSC Ballroom at 2:30 Monday afternoon will conclude the conference. Committee chairmen for the TISA convention are Bill Cornish, registration; Autrey Frederick, housing; Duane Vandenberg, pub licity; Bill Braham, banquet; Bob Sturdivant, dance; and Joe Fuller, program. Delegates Housed Delegates will be housed in the MSC, Aggieland Inn, and the dorms, according* to Fuller. The first and founding- conven tion of the TISA was held April 23, 1949 in the North Texas State Union Building. The TISA was formed for the purpose of discuss ing and exchanging ideas about solutions to student government problems. Delegates from 23 colleges at tended the initial meeting-, and problems $uch as election proce dures, student government finance, the honor system, and union build ing support were discussed. The second annual convention was held in the Student Union Building of Baylor University on April 21, 1950. Delegates heard eight panel discussions on differ ent phases of student government. Aggie Debaters Win Again Over West Pointers The Aggies nosed out the West Pointers in the debate last night in Guion Hall by a 2 to 1 count. Debating on the subject, “Should the Non-Communist Na tions Form a New International Organization,” the Aggies had the negative and the visitors the af firmative. Members of the West Point team were Dave Rogers of Longview, Texas, and Towne Dowler of Ath ens, Ohio. The Aggie team mem bers were Dan Davis, Lubbock, and James Farmer, College Station. The West Point Cadets, who were given a tour of the campus this morning by Dan Davis, who acted as their host for the morning, de clared they had never met so many people and such friendly people in all their lives. The Memorial Student Center in terested them very much as they have nothing comparable to it at the Point they said. They have one building for dances, another for sodas and the like, and their dates must stay in still another building. Though A&M is not as strictly military as West Point, they said they felt more at home here than at other colleges because of the uniforms and the military air of the college. Our academic procedure differs from theirs in that all students at West Point take basically the same curriculum with very little chance for electives. This is because the Point is not at all specialized, but offers a background for all mili tary branches. The Cadets have fiinshed six out of the eight debates on the tour. The remaining two are Baylor and SMU. They will debate at Baylor at 8 p.m. tonight. Several Dancing Classes Still Open In the dancing classes, sponsored by the MSC, there are still a few places open for any student who would like to attend. Openings are in the couples be ginners class at 7:30 p. m. Friday, in the advanced classes at 8:45 on Wednesday and Thursday nights, and in the beginners class which meets on Tuesday at 8:45 p. m. Lamar McNew Dan Davis . . . The newly elected heads of the Memorial Student Genter Council. Davis was elected to head the organization and McNew was named vice-president for the coming year. They will take office next month when the present council retires at the An nual Meeting. Both men have been members of this yar’s coun cil. Davjs is a junior Business major from Lubbock, McNew is a civil engineering student from Bryan. Family Life Group Plans Sociology Talk ® A .Battles R ay Ruiize Named King Cotton PaccKL PonL J o For Cotton Ball and Pageant Possible Panic On Germ War Washington, March 15 — L 2 ?)—The Civil Defense Ad ministration wants to head off public panic over fear of germ warfare attack, real or rumored. It started circulating today a pamphlet on. “What You Should Know About Geological Warfare.” The booklet is a companion piece to the previously published official published official pamphlet “Survi- j val Under Atomic Attack.” Like the A-bomb guide, it is in tended to bring the weapon into proper focus, to show it is not a universal killer although, like the atomic bomb, intended for mass de struction. The biological warfare booklet says: “Start a rumor and you may start a panic. A panic may cost your own life. So disregard wild talk about biological warfare and don’t pass it on to your friends.... Don’t listen to propaganda or scaretalk about how germs can wipe out a city.” (Military strategists long have recognized the value of creating confusion or exploiting it into panic to reduce the war effort of an op posing nation. Psychological war fare experts recognize that this can be done even without actually using a weapon, by merely plant ing the rumor that a secret weapon has or will be used). The CDA urges the public to ■ “kill the myths,” asserting that: “Germ warfare, or biological warfare, as it is correctly called, is a special weapon for use against special targets. No kind of biolog ical warfare could kill or sicken every person in a large area or city. “Talk of one ounce (of toxic ma terial) killing millions of people is silly. You might as well talk of dividing one aspirin tablet evenly among the 11,000,000 people in the greater New York area.’* The civil defense pamphlet said there is little to fear from the danger of some new kind of germ being used, that the danger is in neVv methods for spreading old diseases. Arts-Science Make Plans For Anniversary Observance Arts and Sciences Week will be observed March 30-April 8, as the School of Arts and Sciences’ con tribution to.the observance of the 75th anniversary year of the col lege. The arts and sciences school will open the week of March 30 by pre senting Prof. T. V. Smith of Syra cuse University, philosopher, for mer congressman and noted radio commentator, in a discussion of “The Real Issue with Russia.” Concurrent meetings of the Tex as Conference of College Teachers of English and the Joint Committee on Integration of English Teach ing in High School and College will be held March 30 and 31, and Professor Smith will speak to the groups at a luncheon March on “Philosophy, Politics and Poetry.” The Religious Education De-» partment will present Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld of New York on Sun day, April 1. The national director of B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation Rabbi Lelyveld will speak on “The Place of Religion in Civilized Society.” “Our Current Defense Problem” will be discussed April 2 at 8 p. m. by Felix E. Larkin, General Coun sel of the Department of Defense. Larkin will be presented by the Great Issues Course for the Eco nomics, Geography and History de partments. Joint Program The Education and Psychology and Physical Education depart ments will present a point program at 7:30 p. m., April 3. With the collaboration of the Architecture Department, the school plant will be discussed. At 7:30 p, m. April 4, the Busi ness Administration Department will give a dinner for its faculty and students. W. C. McCord, presi dent of Southland Life Insurance Company, Dallas, will speak. Journalism Confab The Church News Conference will be held April 5 under spon sorship of the Journalism Depart ment. The Texas Academy of Science will hold a regional meeting April 6 and 7 in the new science build ing. Dr. W. Armstrong Price, pro fessor of oceanography, is chair man of the committee on arrange ments. At 2:30 p. m., Sunday, April 8, the School of Arts and Sciences will present the Singing Cadets under direction of Bill Turner in a con cert especially arranged for the student body and the people of Bryan and College Station. The Modern Languages Depart ment is planning a motion picture illustrating life and art of Latin America. Definite arrangements ai’e incomnlete. The various events, except for the Academy of Science meeting,' will be in the Memorial Student Center. On display in the center during the week will be an exhibit, ar ranged by Frank Pierce of the English Department, of old and rare books and pamphlets illustrat ing* the literary activity of Texas and the Southwest. Events of Arts and Sciences Week will be open to the people of College Station and Bryan and the A&M student body and faculty. By BILL A A BERG King* Cotton for this year will be Raymond Kunze, agronomy major from Giddings. He was selected at a meeting of the Agronomy Society Tuesday night. At the same time Kunze was se lected King* of the Cotton Ball and Pageant his court was named. It includes Billy Gunter, Tommy Duffie, Robert Hill, George McBee, Don Hegi, Alton Bockholt, Bill Lewis, and Dale Tischrable. King* Cotton and his court will go to TSCW March 31 to select the Queen of Cotton. The Queen will be selected out of a group of nine Tessies, the remaining* eight will he duchesses. In the meantime filing* has open ed for club Duchess entries. The deadline has been set at April 15. The ball this year will be held in The Grove. In years past the Ball has been held in Sbisa Hall. How ever, the pessimistic committee is reserving* space in the mess hall in the event of rain. As in the past several years Sanger Brothers of Dallas will sponsor the Pageant to be held in Kyle Field preceding* the Ball. Representatives from the Dallas store will be on the campus March Johnson Sees Anti-Inflation Drive Distress Washington, March 15 — (iP)Eric Johnson has told gov ernment leaders that the anti inflation program is in dis tress and could flounder un less they give it stronger support. Well-placed officials reported to day the economic stabilizer pointed his finger at one cabinet officer after another in a top-level meet ing yesterday, and accused each in turn of giving less than all-out backing to the stabilization pro gram. Johnston was quoted as saying* that unless there is stiffened sup port from the White House and the cabinet, in Congress and in the mobilization command, the govern ment might as well abandon its ef fort to stabilize prices and wages. The ESA chief made his im promptu appeal at a meeting* of the defense mobilization board. It is headed by Charles E. Wilson, mo bilization director, and is made up of six cabinet officers and the heads of five important agencies. Deploring what he called unwil lingness of any big segment of the economy—farmers, labor, or indus try—to acept the sacrifices which the defense program demands, Johnston listed some specific prob lems besetting ESA. Among* other things, he report edly mentioned the declared oppo- siton of cotton-state senators to the new price ceiling on raw cot ton. He mentioned also the sign ing by unions and employers of wage contracts which exceed the pay ceiling, with the implied or spoken threat of strike if the wage boost is not approved by the gov ernment. Gwynne and Troupe Please Guion Hall Magic Seekers Judgers Win Sixth In Oklahoma Meet The Junior Livestock Judging* Team placed sixth in the National Livestock Judging* Contest in Oklahoma City Monday. The contest, in which 15 teams, participated, was won by Okla homa A&M. The Aggie team placed second in Quarterhorses judging, fifth in cat tle, and seventh in sheep and hogs. John Fuller was second high in dividual on quarterhorses and Louis Amsler and J. K. Miller placed fifth and seventh in the same division. Other members of the team were Thomas M. Nanny and Harold Bragg. Lee Ro£ Leschper was al ternate. The team is coachad by W. W. Albert. By GEORGE CHARLTON The house lights dimmed, the Guion Hall maroon curtains divid ed, and from it stepped forth a sight that caused some to gasp, some to laugh, and most to ap plaud. It was the master vaudevillian Jack Gwynne decked out in span gles, satin blue and white oriental robes, and an elongated headdress that could have been worn by some Tibetan religious man. A goatee and a moustache provided the finishing* touches to a picture of what Merlin must have looked like to King Arthur’s court. But the spell was brought to an abrupt ending when Gwynne began his magician’s patter in an off-handish tongue-in-cheek manner. “Magic from China” fol lowed. The occasion was the well-at tended Guion Hall program last night of Jack Gwynne, “the master of magic,” and company. His hour and a half long show featui’ed a mysticism that seldom approached the obnoxious and was only occa sionally an insult to adult mem bers of the audience. Good entertainment was aided by a consistent g^od sense of hu mor and ’riming as provided by Gwynne. His less important acts fe#hu*ed the standard magician’s prepe^ a chicken, a few pigeons, iumer- ous colored scarves, oriental-look ing folding* boxes, gold-fish bowls, and huge silver rings. Occasion ally, even the traditional magic wand was utilized. But the larger sequences, on which more showtime was spent, were by far the most impressive. As a finale, Gwynne suspended an attractive Egyptian-clad young* la dy in mid air. This was done by first placing* the girl on a board, removing the board and placing her on the points of three spears. Gwynne then removed the spears and the girl appeared as if lying on a sofa, but in mid air. To prove that this was the case, he passed two large rings around her prostrate sleeping body. During another part of the pro gram, Gwynne called up to the stage, supposedly for hypnotizing, the following* — Curtis Edwards, Dorbandt Barton, Dick Gardemal, Bob Smith, and Dare Keelan. Aft er a little hokus-pokus, he asked Keelan to close his eyes, made a few motions with his hands, and snapped his fingers — whereupon Keelan did a trance-like back dive op the floor. He was caught by Gwynne’s assistant. Still, this was a little startling*. Next Gwynne made a few mo tions at Edwards, told him to 'clasp th» justing edge of the stage, and askfcti' Gardemal to try to lift Ed ward's am. It cduldn’t be done. 26 to make arrangements pertain ing to the program, the theme of the pageant and stage settings. This year will mark the seven teenth annual Cotton Ball and pag eant. The idea was started in 1932 by Cotton Joe Mogford and three students. Originally the idea was to help raise money to send some students abroad to study ag ricultural methods in foreign coun tries. But from the start the Ball and Pageant was a success and through out the years from six to eight men have toured Europe, Asia, South America, and the United States'. Their trip, for the most part, has been financed bv the Ball. In the beginning* the Ball and Pageant was held in Sbisa Hall An nex, but that soon was not big- enough to hold the royal dance, so it was moved to QeWare Field House. Again growing pains hit and it was moved to the main wing* of Sbisa Hall. Held In Grove Last year it was held for the first time outside—in the grove. Even the selection of_beauties has changed from the start in 1932. Originally the girls were picked from the College-Bryan area, but when the Ball got too big this area could not furnish enough pulchri tude. This year’s King of Cotton is the commander of the Composite Regi ment. Kunze has been a Distin guished Student for the past seven semesters and has been active in extra-curricular activities. At the first of the Fall semester he was elected treasurer of the Agricultural Honor Society. He is a staff writer for The Agricultur ist. Also tentatively scheduled to be on hand for the big* event will be the Maid of Cotton Jeannine Hol land. Miss Holland was the.Aggie Sweetheart in 1949. She was also in Vanity Fair in the Aggieland ’50. ' ’ At the Agronomy Society meet ing when Kunze was named King* of Cotton -Other men were named to head committees. Kunze was named Chairman of the publicity committee; Tommie. Duffie, social secretary; Walter Tanamachi, business manager; Ed Daniels, decorations committee; William Watson, advertising; Bill Gunter, social committee; and Quinton Johnson, head usher. Other members of the commit tees will be named later, Leo Mi- keska, club president, says. Allied Return To Seoul Rates Grand Ovation . Tokyo, March 15 — UP) — Seoul’s remnant population of old folks and children roared an ovation today to United Nations troops searching its torn remains for Communists. Reoccupation by the allies Thurs day marked the fourth time the Re publican capital has changed hands since the war began June 25. The main Communist garrison quit the flanked city in the general Red retreat all across Korea. But Korean civilians said the bomb- blasted, fire-blackened and booby- trapped city still held a few Com munist troops disguised in civilian clothing. Of the normal 1,509,000 popu lation, only about 200,000 remained to greet the returning South Ko rean and American troops. East of Seoul, tank-led allied columns ground slowly and steadi ly toward strategic Chunchon, the Reds’ last chance for a foothold in South Korea. At points along* the advancing allied line, U. N. units were less than 18 miles from Parallel 38, once the dividing* line between Meanwhile, even the audience was getting confused. Dave Coslett was then called up to the stage to inspect the opening of a parcel sent several days ago by Gwynne to The Battalion office. It had not been opened, and sup posedly it contained the headline of yesterday’s lead story. It did. Another shock experienced mo- mentarilv by the audience took ~ • .xt ^ j n i,- place when a lovely blond mem- Communist North and Republican her of the company sealed her- ^muh Korea self in a small replica of an ori- . Recapture of the old Korean cap ental temple followed bv Gwynne ltal 5 ,f Seoul was bloodless. Lie- shoving* shining, swords into the ™ ents of ^ J 0U T ? f 1 .'^ structure Division and the U. S. Third Divi- , , . sion speared into the city Wednes Gwynne has made extensive trips day night The South Korean to the Orient and other parts of t r00 p s p U i] e d out at darkness hut the bar East. His costumes and Americans stayed on backdrops, lovely hand embroider- Then the ( ii visions sent in raen ed material which took 12 women in length Thursday, and three years’ to finish was all At first all wag quiet . Then the purchased m China. And the cos- timid, frightened people came out tumes were aplenty. 0: f their wrecked houses by ones, It seemed everytime one of by twos, by groups. Gwynne’s three female assistants ' Word spread quickly that the appeared in front of the footlights, United Nations soldiers were back she was dressed in a different out- AP correspondent Jim Becker, fit. - who went into the city Wednesday There were tricks galore, “men-, night and again Thursday, repOrt- tal telepathy,” and even a mock|ed: “spirit seance.” Altogether, one | “The women threw themselves and a half hours had been a full | ^t our feet and sobbed hysterically. and enjoyable evening. Nb one who saw the show really cared what Was “real.” Most of them realized, sobper of* l^ter, the value <vf gbbd showmanship — Gwynrte & Company. tears coursed down the cheeks of bearded old men. Children battled for the right to grab our hands and touch us.” The city, Bfccker wrote, was a sorry sight.