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4 ■ { o. i^f|V eT * e top^ l^cn,at, ‘ ,, to 5 s. ^ More Than 90% of m * >fV HGollcge Station’s Residents Number 120: Volume 51 The Battalion PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1951 See City Eleetion Discussion On Page Two Price Five Cents Only Four Years H. O. Kelly . . . Presents pictures to College Nationally Famous Too Old to Punch, Decides to Paint When he got too old to punch cattle any longer H. 0. Kelly de cided he would try his hand at painting what he had seen during his life. This was only four years ago— now Kelly is considered one of the west outstanding contemporary , artists. Four of his canvasses will be .presented to A&M this after noon at 6 by the Ford Motor Company. The presentation will * take place in the MSC. In behalf of Ford Motor Com- Methodists Plan Opening New Sanctuary Bishop A. Frank Smith will be principal speaker at t h e cornerstone laying of the A&M Methodist Church, Thursday, at 11 a.m. || The sanctuary, nearing comple tion, is the second unit to be fin ished in a three unit physical plant planned for the College Station Methodists. Methodist people of the Gulf Coast area are being invited by the local church officials to at tend the cornerstone laying cere monies. Several fornier Methodist students are expected to return to the campus for the occasion. §| At noon, immediately following the talk by Bishop Smith, a dinner •will be served to all those attending the ceremonies. jsi The first unit to be completed was the Educational Building at a .cost of $150,000. The sanctuary, now nearing completion, will cost about $200,000. Thet bird unit is to be a student center and tower to cost approximately $150,000. | The Rev. James F. Jackson is pastor of the A&M Methodist Church. He and Dr. Glenn Flinn, ^secretary of the Methbdist Student Movement, have been largely re sponsible for the building of the new sanctuary. IS Reserve Officers Recalled to Duty Three local Reserve officers, ■ First Lieutenant Clyde C. Frank- rflin and Second Lts. Don M. Webb and Mahern D. Humphrey, Jr., have received orders recalling them to active military service, Captain •M. B. Findlay, ORC instructor, announced today. Lieutenant Humphrey reported to Fort Riley, Kansas on March 18. On April 16, Lt. Franklin, Civil Engineering instructor here, will report for duty at Silver Springs, Maryland. Lt. Webb will report the fame day to Fort Devens, Mass. pany, W. D. Wood, Houston dis trict sales manager for Lincoln-* Mercury division, will present the pictures to M. T. Harrington, presi dent. The paintings, to be hung in the MSC, appeared in the November- December edition of Lincoln-Mei'- cury Times, illustrating an article by J. Frank Dobie. A fifth painting in the group has been entered in the Art Director’s Competition in New York, R. Hen derson Shuffler, director of infor mation and publications, said. Kelly arrived for the presenta tion this morning and will remain for several days, Shuffler said. To the amazement of art cri tics, Kelly says he has never had a single art lesson. He paints mostly detailed ranch and farm scenes on small canvasses. The painter came to Texas 52 years ago from Pennsylvania. He rents a small house about a quar ter mile from Blanket. Other guest include Mr. and Mrs. Carl Sewell, Dallas; Mr. and Mrs. George Sessions Perry, Rockdale; and Mrs.'Elizabeth Ann McMurray, Dallas. Cl Insurance Docketed For Early Payment Payments of the second dividends from National Ser vice Life Insurance should reach policy holders very soon the Veterans Office has an nounced. New dividends will be smaller than the first paid last year total ing $2,800,000,000 because the first dividend covered an eight year per iod. The new dividend will cover the years 1948-50. The VA said dividends for pol icies with January and February anniversary dates will be mailed to policy holders some time late this month. • Policy holders with March anni versaries will get their dividends in early April. Thereafter, policy holders will receive their dividends about ten days after policy anni versary dates. The amount of money to be dis tributed to 8,200,000 policy holders and the rate of payments has not been announced. There will be no application re quired for the second dividend. In any case where there may be a question as to the address of record, a special two-part return card will be mailed for verifica tion of the proper address before a check is sent. Maybe The Corporal Should Learn About Military Brass Orlando AFB, Fla.—The long line of officers filed past the desk of Classification Cpl. G. L. Davis, while he checked off each man in the Air Force’s annual head count. The Air Force was taking its census at Orlando and every military body had to be counted. “Thomas, Charles,” the next man spoke up. “What rank,” asked the Corporal, never looking up. . . . “Major General,” was the reply. The Corporal looked up sheepishly and counted Major General Charles Thomas, Commanding General of the 14th Air Force. The General was on an informal inspection when the head count was ordered. Sayt Army Navy Journal s ROTC Grads Will Be Called The Army plans to call 10,000 college ROTC graduates to active duty this summer, according to a March issue of the Army-Navy-Air Force Journal. The college officers will be commissioned upon gradua tion and ordered to army schools for a 90 day instruction period as soon as they enter service. ROTC graduates in February are now being ordered to active duty, the service magazine said. The new call will include members of the Organized Re serve Corps commissioned from the ROTC who were deferred from the draft under a deferment agreement. Those who did not sign a deferment agreement, veterans, rtand have less than two years active service in the armed forces will also be summoned to active army duty, the Journal reported. Veterans who have completed the advance ROTC course in college and are completing an education will not be called until they finish school or withdraw, the Army said. Priority Two The cadets are listed under pri ority two of the recall, while 12,650 company grade officers of the ORC and the National Guard will be ordered to duty under pri ority one. Approximately 3,444 captains and 9,206 lieutenants excluding the ROTC graduates will be summoned to the service. Quotas for the fourth Army Ar ea are 289 captains, 1,044 lieuten ants and 11 WAC captains or lieu tenants. Bright Side On the brighter side of the pic ture, chances for promotion after recall, for officers in the ORC, will be greater than in the past. A new system of promotion to temporary ranks is in the making and should the new idea become a reality, men who have been in rank longest, whether permanent or temnorary, would be given great consideration for promotion. In the past, it has been the pol icy to promote the man only after all those in permanent rank above him have been screened on a “ful ly qualified” basis. This “best qualified” system that the army is contemplating will re sult in a much more rapid advance ment for the junior grade officers. It must be emphasized, however, that final decisions on this matter, although expected shortly, have not yet been made the magazine re iterated. Meeting Called To Plan For New Calendar All departments, organiza tions, clubs and other groups who plan to have some stu dent function during the 1951- 1952 school year are urged by C. G. “Spike” White, dean of men for activities to begin discussion of desirable dates for their function. A special meeting of the Stu dent Life Committee has been authorized for April 9 at 5 p. m. in room 301 Goodwin Hall to set the exact dates. “This is being done,” White said “to enable the college to print the; All-College Social and Activities Calendar for next year.” White added he would be glad to discuss Student Life Committee policies concerning this All-College Calendar with anyone who is con cerned. Local Reservists Set Training Date Three local Reserve artillery units will conduct weekend train ing in the College Station area Sat urday and Sunday, Captain M. B. Findlay, ORC instructor, an nounced today. Headquarters, Service, and C Battery of the 352nd Armored Field Artillery Battalion will con duct the training, which will be supervised by Majoi’S O. D. Butler and R. N. Craig. Members of C Battery of Cald well will join the two Bryan units at the ORC Armory here. Six re servists from A and B Batteries of Huntsville will join in specialists training here. This weekend training is part of the stepped-up reserve training program which will end in the 15 day summer camps held for these units in August, Captain Findlay said. There are ten vacancies for en listed reservists in the Bryan units, he added. Nature Boy Study Club Names Cotton Duchess Miss Liz Miller, senior at Con solidated High School, was named Tuesday as duchess to represent the Campus Study Club at the May 4 Cotton Ball. Alternate will be Miss Nancy Blank. Club members also voted in a business session, to hold meetings on the first and third Tuesdays of each month, instead of on alter nate Tuesdays, from October to May. George R. Porcher . . . “Butch” was only one of many who got wet from the 1.48 inches of “California Sunshine” that fell over the College Station area during yesterday’s downpour. He tried to be smarter than some of the “ducks” and pulled his shoes off to get that feeling of spring in his system. Six Candidates Vie For MSC Positions Six contenders for two jobs face a student-body election tomorrow night in the run-off for Memorial Student Center Council member ship. Vieing for the “general classi fication” vacancy will be Robert Buddy Shaeffer, Tom A. Munner- lyn and Ted M. Stephens. Candidates for the “freshman and sophomore classification” va cancy are John Crawford Akard, Thomas H. Parish and J. S. “John ny” Brown. Candidates for this job must not have, attended college for more than four semesters at time of election. The six remaining office-seekers topped all other opponents in the election conducted Tuesday, March 20. The run-off balloting will be conducted as was the original elec tion. Ballots Distributed Ballots will be distributed in the dorms tomorrow night. Day students and College Housing Area residents will vote with the bal lot to be run in tomorrow’s Bat talion. The preferential ballot is being used in the election. With this ballot, the voter marks candidates Senate Schedules Charter Proposals The Executive Committee of the Student Senate will meet in the Senate Chamber of the MSC at 5 p. m. today, Bill Parse, senate pres ident announced this morning. The meeting will be for the pur pose of discussing proposed amend ments to the constitution. The most important one to be discussed, Parse said, is the proposal that the president of the Student Sen ate be elected in the Spring as president of the student body. All interested persons are in vited to attend and present their views on the amendments, Parse added. number one, two, three, etc., ac cording to choice. In the counting procedure bal lots are placed in stacks according to first choice markings for each candidates. Ballots of candidates receiving the least number of votes are redistributed among the other- candidates according to the second choice. The process is repeated until one candidate receives a ma jority. First Time This marks the first use of this type of ballot in a campus elec tion. If it is successful the meth od may be adopted for all future elections. Winners of tomorrow night’s run-off will be the first popularly elected members of the MSC Coun cil, joint faculty-student-former student governing body of the Center. South Koreans March Beyond 38th Barrier Tokyo, March 28—(2P)—American artillery today poured heavy fire into massed Communist units on the rain-swept Central Korean front. Their aim appeared to be two-fold: To clear the way for advancing Allied infantrymen near the Red Korean border, and to stall any Red attempt at a counteroffensive. On the East Coast, South Korean troops advanced be hind a rolling barrage of naval gunfire to a point six miles north of Parallel 38. They occupied Yangyang, first sizable coast town north of the border. Republic of Korea (ROK) forces have occupied one bor der village and four North Korean towns since their drive ~ ♦‘began Sunday. April Showers? 1.48 Inches End Drouth, More Ahead Drouth-breaking rains soaked the College Station-Bryan area for a total of 1.48 inches during the 24-hour period ending at midnight last night according to the local weather bureau. For a while yesterday morning it appeared the fog that veiled the area would lift or be burned away as is the usual procedure for this area but the moisture-laden clouds opened to drench the water-hungry earth under a deluge which caught most persons during the noon rush. The high temperature for the day was a mild 68 while the mini mum for the period was a chilling, damp 56. Elsewhere in the state, according to the Associated Press, the pic ture was much the same—fog, drizzle, hail and thunderstorms. As thunderclouds rolled west of Waco, a two-minute hailstorm hit Goldthwaite. A light thundershow er hit at Texarkana. Showers fell at Beaumont, Tyler, Longview and Dalhart. Yesterday’s temperatures were comfortable. Maximum readings ranged from 85 at Laredo down to 60 at El Paso. A half dozen or more sections hstd rainfall during the 24-hour period totaling an inch or more. These included Austin, Houston, Beaumont, Palestine, Lufkin, Port Arthur, and Alice. Weather forecasters predicted more of the same before things started clearing this morning. By contrast, a cold, snap is in the offing for residents of the Great Plains states. That’s Me For This Weekend Jones Bridge Lass Chosen Queen of Regimental Ball After an all night caucus Miss Ambrozia Herkmier of Jones Bridge, now a sixth year PE ma jor at TU, was selected to reign as Queen of the Band-Composite Regiment Ball. Miss Herkimier, chosen by repre sentatives of the two groups, won out over contestants from South Zulch, Nickle Box, Znook, Paducah, and other well known Texas local ities. Mortimer Q. Tumbleweek of B ASA will escort the Jones Bridge beauty to the ball this Saturday night. This is not the first time beauty honors have been heaped upon Miss Herkimier. In 1948 she was named Miss Potato Bug Killer Manufacturer. She is also active in the Daugh ters of the Mexican War, The TU branch of the True Texans, and a staunch supporters of the League of Women Non Voters. After Tumbleweek submitted the picture of Miss Herkimier the judges of the Band and Composite Regiments refused to even consid er anyone else for the position. When phoned in Austin telling her of the honor all she would say was a refined “Du.” In the way of extra-curricular activities at the University she is also one of the public speak ing team, the Weight Lifting Team and the Needlecraft Club. “Shecks,” she said after regain ing some of her feminine compos er, “Ma hole family is alays winnin’ either beauty contest or hog callen contest.” The more she talked over the telephone by Bryan Zimmerman, chairman of the general arrange ments committee, the more con vinced he became that she was truly the ideal choice of queen of the regiment. Competing with Miss Herkimier’s radiant beauty will be the 20 piece Sam Houston State College “Houstonians.” They will start playing for the weekend Caperin Cadets at 9 p. m. The ball itself will be held in the MSC Ball Room with the ter race being used if the weather pei‘- mits, Zimmerman says. Tickets are now being sold by first sergeants in the composite regiment and the band. Miss Ambrozia Herkimier . . , sweetheart of the regiment On the western front, allied forces north of Seoul pushed with in seven miles of 38. They had full control of the road leading northwest from allied-held Uijong- bu to Munsan. Spring rains hampered the allied air attack and in places bogged down their mechanized ground forces. Troop Massing The center of Communist troop massing activity was the central front, north of Chunchon. AP correspondent William C. Barnard said 10,000 Reds were strung along the bolder and held a thin slice of land to the south. Another 80,000 were backed up as far as the big Communist sup ply base at Kumhwa, 20 miles in side Red Korea. Front line observers watched for any sign of a Red push down the center of the peninsula. If the Communists counterattack they may choose this rainy season as jump-ing-off time. Their lightly- weighted forces would have some advantage over the more heavily burdened United Nations troops. Five Armies Elements of five regrouping Chinese armies and one North Ko rean army face the allies in this central sector. It was the forward wall of this force that was hit by American guns. The artillery, hub deep in sticky mud, opened up after probing U.N. patrols drew heavy fire. The thundering barrage cut up one Red front line division Tues day night. Surviving Communists withdrew rather than take further punishment. Fighter-bombers of three nations swept out of the rain to add their bombs, rockets and machine gun fire to the blazing attack. Ameri can, Australian and South Afiican pilots joined in pounding the Com munist positions. Puerto Rican Troops On the western front, tough Puerto Rican troops smashed a Red ammunition dump northeast of Uijongbu. Americans north of Uijongbu Tuesday night beat off a minor attack. The South Korean drive across 38 apparently was more important politically than militai'ily. In Washington, Secretary of Defense George Marshall said General Mac- Arthur had been instructed to cross when necessary to protect his forces. The South Koreans may have acted on their own. initiative. School Board Election Slated For April 7 A School Trustee election for the A&M Consolidated In dependent School District has been set for Saturday, April 7, in the Music Room of the Consolidated High School, announc ed L. S. Richardson, superintendent of the A&M Consolidated Schools. The superintendent said two trustees will be elected at the April 7 meeting to fill the terms expiring for Ross Bond and Ewing E. Brown. Law requires that these men be replaced or re-elected eve ry three years. Petitions to place the names of Ewing Brown and Henry Allen on the April ballot have been receiv ed by Richardson. Bond announced Tie would not seek re-election to his post which will be vacated at the end of this month. Richardson pointed out that if Brown is re-elected and Allen is elected to the other vacancy, four of the seven school board mem bers will be graduates of A&M Consolidated High School. Ernest Redman and Mit Williams, both former students of the local high school, were elected last year’. Oth er members of the Board are C. B. Godbey, C. A. Bonnen, and Dr. Charles LaMotte. Another ballot box will be pro vided to elect a trustee-at-large for the County School Board, Rich- ai'dson said. George Wilcox, the incumbent, is again a candidate for this office.