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College Station’s Residents
Number 124: Volume 51
Battalion
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1951
University Officials
Fail to Fire Dr. Ayres
See Column, Editorial Page
Price Five Cents
Korea Is Only
Police Measure
Says Chevalier
Hy BEE LANDRUM
Battalion Staff Writer
“The United States is entering -
into an ‘arsenal economy,’ which
will last for a long time.’’
Col. Willard Chevalier, executive
vice president of McGraw-Hill
Publishing Company, made this
statement Monday evening in a
talk before the. Student Engineers
Council.
Colonel* Chevalier defined this
arsenal economy as an economy of
a normal nation at peace with a
large segment of its production set
up for national defense.
He said it is expected that 10
percent of the national production
will be all that is necessaiy for
sustaining this defense program,
^but perhaps as much as 20 per cent
*wiH bo required for the next few
years in getting prepared.
Deplores ‘Emergency Idea’
. The. speaker deplored the “emer
gency idea” commonly expressed.
Hcbelieves we are in a transition
period.
“We are not at war,” he de
clared. “We are at peace, we are
exciting a police action in Korea—
an effort intended to prevent our
being at war.”
* Colonel Chevalier said, “We are
perhaps the only nation in history
that has ever come to the position
of a world leader without an ar
senal. We are going to have to arm
ourselves to retain this position.”
“These are one mans opinions—
one man’s judgment—of some
thing's we know little about,” the
speaker emphasized.
Production Plans
He outlined production plans for
the next five years, which include
producing armament for three and
one-half million American soldiers,
producing armament for our al
lies, stockpiling critical material
for five years of all-out war, and
building a productive plant capable
of expanding rapidly and produc
ing armament for a 11 to 13 million
man army.
A chart of the nation’s economy
for the next five years, presented
by Colonel Chevalier, showed there
would be a reduction in the civilian
“economy only in 1952 and by 1955
- it would be well above the standard
of 1950.
’ He explained that control and
allocation of materials are neces-
• spy because greater production
* does not apply to all of the econ
omy.
v Steel for civilian use will be at a
lower level than the rest of the
economy. A much greater propor
tion of copper than steel is re
quired for war production, and
there will be no great increase in
copper production. Steel making
will be limited by the lack of cop
per.
A great proportion of aluminum
also will be used in war production,
but the supply will be increased
rapidly and no scarcity will re
sult.
Colonel Chevalier declared that
there is no reason for panic about
our ability to maintain an arsenal
economy. He cited France, Ger
many, England and Czechoslovakia
as nations that have successfully
maintained such economies in the
past.
Col. Willard Chevalier
Charter Group
Sets Meeting
Wednesday
The newly appointed Col
lege Station charter commit
tee will meet Wednesday at
6:30 p.m. in room 2-D of the
MSC.
The meeting agenda will prob
ably be restricted to discussion of
problems involved in obtaining a
new home rule charter, said Mayor
Ernest Langford, chairman of the
committee.
“The only deifnite action that
fill be taken, so far as I know now,
will be to appoint three or four
men to dig into the situation and
detemine just what steps will be
necessary in obtaining the new
charter,” Mayor Langford said.
The committee. was..appojjated at
the March 12 meeting of the local
city council.
College Station now has a gen
eral law charter but qualifies for
the home rule type government un
der the unofficial 1950 census fig
ures which place this city well
above the 5,000 minimum popula
tion requirement.
Lang-ord said the adoption of a
new charter would take from six
months to a year because of the
many legal technicalities involved
in the matter.
1951 Cotton Royalty
Draft Deferment Tests
Set For A&M Students
Texas A&M was listed among the 1000
testing centers in the United States where
draft deferment tests will be given to stu
dents who would like to finish college before
entering the armed service.
In an Associated Press report last night,
67 places for administering the tests were
listed along with the dates the exams are to
be given: May 26, June 16 and June 30.
There was no announcement of the “pass
ing” grades required or the scholastic stand
ing needed.
A draft spokesman said these will be an-
Unification Effort
Successful - - Larkin
The royal duchess and gentlemen of the Seven
teenth Cotton Pageant and Ball Court—less the
King and Queen are shown in Virginia Carroll
Lodge on the TSCW campus just after the girls
were selected Sunday morning. Front row, left
to right, Billy Gunter with Ina Hubbard, Tom
mie Duffie who will escort Beverly Bezoni; Char
lotte Williams with her escort George McBee;
Paula Muller and Bob Hill. Back row, Tony
Bockholt with Joan Joplin; Dale Fischgrade and
Patricia Hepinatall; Dotty George who will be
with Don Hegi; and Marilyn Fawcett whose es
cort will be Bill Lewis.
Antigone
Greek Tragedy Tests A bility
Of Players—Results OK
By JOHN WHITMORE
Battalion Managing Editor
The Greeks came to A&M and
left a very favorable taste in the
mouths of those who saw the Ag
gie Player’s adaptation of “Antig
one” last nierht.
But leave it up to the Greeks to
get something different for the
local Thespians. By all recent stan
dards “Antigone,” a modem adap
tation of the Greek play, started
out just exactly opposite from what
most of the audience expected—
they were told exactly what was
going to happen right at the first.
The chorus, done by Harry
Gooding, told the story of two
sons and two daughters of the
dead King of Thebes, Oedipus,
and his brother in law, Creon.
Four Performances Planned
For Weekend College Rodeo
Collegiate cowhands from 16
schools will rope and ride Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday in four
performances of the college’s sec
ond annual intercollegiate rodeo.
Performances are scheduled at 8
p. m. each of the three days and
at 2 p. m. on Saturday.
Some 111 students will compete
in the show at the new rodeo arena,
built by members of the Rodeo and
Saddle and Sirloin clubs.
Besides the usual events, the
rodeo will feature a calf roping
match between Sammy Baugh, for
mer Texas Christian football great,
and Fred Dalby, both of Stone
wall County; a sheep dog exhibi
tion by J. F. Duke of Ingram, a
barrel race and goat tying contests
for the cowgirls, and an open cut
ting horse contest.
Among the contestants will be
Harley May, Sul Ross State Col
lege’s ace won ‘best all-around
honors at the National Intercol
legiate Rodeo Association’s finals
in the Cow Palace at San Fran
cisco last year.
Other “big names” of college
rodeo circles on the roster will
be Maxie Overstreet of A&M, Hook
Chisum of Arlington State College
and Roy Lilly of Colorado A&M.
Other schools to participate are
South Texas Junior College, Rang
er Junior College, Oklahoma A&M,
Texas A&I, New Mexico A&M,
West Texas State, Southwest Texas
State, Baylor, University of Texas,
Texas Tech and Texas Christian..
Members of the A&M team be
sides Overstreet are Macky Trickey
of Abilene, Don Tabb of Albany,
Clyde Martin of Port Arthur, Max
Word of Ozona and Jack Willing
ham of Hamlin. Bo Damuth of
Magnolia will fill the role of
rodeo clown.
Stock for the show will be fur
nished by Tommy Steiner and Wild
Bill Elliott of Austin.
Texas Cattlemen Tour Grasslands
Williams Back From Visit
To Australia, New Zealand
Creon, as Ihe play starts is the
new King of Thebes.
In giving the pre-play summary,
Gooding told how the two brothers
had a civil war and had killed
each other and Creon, full of right
eousness and edicts, has ordained
that one of the brothers be left
unbmied—food for the dogs and
vultures and the other given a
military funeral.
From this point the action
starts and takes a plunge for some
sharp dialogue and, by mode r n
standards, odd action. Antigone, a
sister, defies the edict of non
burial, and starts heaping dirt on
the decaying corpse.
This action, while it puts out the
King, is appreciated by the castle
guard who say the body is be
ginning to stink. However the
new, and “duty struck King,”
portrayed by Bill Guthrie, can’t
take it—he demands the body of
one of the warring brothers be
left out for dog food.
This tiff between Antigone and
the King provides the media for
some sharp exchange of dialogue—
and often humorous cracks.
But when Antigone refuses to
let her brother stay out and be
come dogfood, it makes Creon mad.
So mad, he orders Antigone to be
buried alive.
This action, if nothing else clears
the stage of characters, and sets
off a series of chain suicides that
rocks Old Creon on his heels.
If ever Aggie Players should
like to pass out an “Oscar” for
acting ability, Bill Guthrie should
be the unanimous choice. The
senior English major put feeling
into his lines which is seldom
found on the first night presenta
tion of the Aggie Players.
The rest of the cast, while new to
the stage, did a good job of acting - .
Their movements were convincing
and free flowing. However this can
not be said about their speaking
parts.
The reviewer felt that all of
them knew their parts—down to
the last period and comma. But
all of them sounded like they were
reading.
Mary Vaden, who played Anti
gone, did a good job of handling
a rather difficult part. She, most
of the time, seemed to forget she
was on stage and gave her lines
in a near conversational tone.
Also worthy of mention, all of
the characters could be heard on
the back row of the Assembly
Hall, which was a pleasant sur
prise to most of the Aggie Play
er followers who are used to
straining their ears to catch all
of the verbal tidbits.
Especial praise should go to
MisS Alice Burke the director of
the play.
One of the comments, heard
while leaving the Hall pretty well
summed up the action—“Bill Guth
rie alone was worth coming to see.”
By CLAYTON SELPH
Battalion Co-Editor
The armed forces unification pro
gram under the Department of De
fense is succeeding much better
than newspaper reports have led
people to believe, the Great Issues
audience was told by Felix E. Lar
kin last night.
Larkin, who is general legal
counsel for the Department of De
fense, spoke in the MSC Ballroom
last night as a part of the Great
Issues program and as a feature
of “Arts and Sciences Week.”
In an effort to clarify the various
reports of “wrangling” among the
services since the unification pro
gram began, Larkin said, “Each of
the services (excluding the Air
Force) has existed separately for
over 150 years and it is natural
that there would be friction.”
Unification Big Process
The unification program, the
government lawyer said, has been
like trying to unify several large
corporations and a couple of labor
unions. The Defense Department
must perform all the functions of
these large units and is larger fi
nancially than all of them together.
Unification is only “a means to
an end.” Its only purpose is to
strengthen our defense mechanism
by pooling resources and activities
of the services to make a stronger
team, the greying speaker told his
audience.
“But today’s mobilization pro
gram differs materially from the
one of 1941,” Larkin asserted.
He pointed out that today’s mo
bilization is “being superimposed
on an economy now operatihg al
most at capacity.” The same was
not true in 1941, Larkin said.
More Selective
“Our mobilization today is also
more selective,” the lawyer said.
Today, we already have a great deal
of the equipment and arms that
MSC Group Meets
Akard, Shaeffer
Top Council Vote
John Crawford Akard and Rob
ert “Buddy” Shaeffer topped the
ballots in the recent campus-wide
election to move into the first two
elective vacancies on the Memor
ial Student Center Council.
The two men and John. Samuels,
recently appointed by the Council
for next year, were guests of that
group in a regular meeting last
night.
Freshman and Junior
Danforth Awards Open
By BRYAN SPENCER
Battalion Staff Writer
D. W. Williams, vice-chancellor
for agriculture, recently returned
' from a SO day tour which included
a visit to New Zealand, Australia,
and a stop-over at the Hawaiian
Islands.
Williams was with a group of
, Texas cattlemen which left Feb.
25 on a good will trip to the two
British dominions for observation
of methods of cattle production
♦there as compared with those used
in the United States.
“One of the things of most
interest to me” said Williams,
“was the enthusiasm people of
New Zealand showed toward the
agricultural airplane we have
developed here at A&M. The first
.person I spoke to after I got off
the plane in New Zealand asked
me about it.
, Members of the New Zealand
Aerial Work Operators Association
is following the development of the
plane very closely, they reported.
Of great interest to the group
was the grasslands in hilly areas
which were able to graze much
more stock than comparable areas
here in Texas.
“This is not a harmful condi
tion,” said Williams, “but one
developed by Grasslands Experi
ment Station in New Zealand which
has developed several grass
strains.”
One might first think that beef
ranks first in income for those
countries, the vice chancellor said,
but it ranks second, with sheep
For instance, he explained, in the
back country there are government
owned trails where cattle are driv
en to the rail heads as was done
here in early Texas. Contrary to
custom here, it is common to keep
steei-s, or bullocks as they are call
ed there, until they are 5 or 6
years old, Williams said.
From what se saw at the Royal
Agricultural Society Show - , Wil
liams reports that their cattle
compare favorably with ours,
but only their top stuff would
stand up against competition
with cattle in the II. S.
Completely opposite of this, how-
raising and dairying in first place. eV er, the agricultural exhibits sur
In Australia, the group found pass anything displayed in Amer-
range conditions like those in the
U. S. “There is a lot of modern
livestock methods and equipment
in use in these countries, but
again, we found methods compar
able to those found here in Texas
in the nineties.” says Williams.
ice, he said
This was Williams second trip to
Australia and New Zealand. He
went with another group last year.
The traveler's went in no official
capacity and paid their own way
on the trip, he added.
Two 1951 Summer Study Fellow
ships for outstanding agricultural
students have been made available
by the Danforth Foundation, Char
les N. Shepardson, Dean, School of
Agriculture has announced.
One of these fellowships will
be awarded to an outstanding jun
ior and the other to an outstand
ing freshman Shepardson said.
Cost Conference
Set for Shamrock
Glen McCarthy’s Shamrock Hotel
in Houston will be host for the re
gional meeting of the Cost Con
ference April 6 and 7.
The meeting, according to T. W.
Leland, head of the Business Ad
ministration department, is to
“tailor cost procedures to fit indus
try’s needs.” A yearly affair, held
last year in New Orleans, the meet
ing will be attended by some of
the top men in cost-accounting de
partments of national firms.
Leland, a member of the pro
gram committee for the conference,
as well as several other members
of the department plan to attend.
Basis of the award will be scholar
ship, leadership, activities and gen
eral culture he added.
Selection for the two men will
be made on April 12 by a faculty
committee. The board will be chair
ed by J. Wheeler Barger, professor
of agricultural economics. Other
members of the board include Pro
fessors O. D. Butler, R. L. Patrick,
H. E. Hampton, W. W. McElroy, O.
E. Sperry and D. F. Martin.
The junior winner will join a
group of representatives of other
land-grant colleges at St. Louis
on July 29 as guest of the Ralston
Purina Mills. They will study
problems of manufacturing, com
mercial research, distribution, ad
vertising and personnel. They will
then attend a two week’s Leader
ship Training Camp on Lake Mich
igan.
The freshman will be a member
of a group of 42 representatives of
other colleges in attending a Lead
ership Training Conferenc» at Shel
by, Michigan on August 13.
Students who wish to be con
sidered for the awards should call
at Professor Barger’s office, Room
46l, Ag Building for further infor
mation.
Akard is a freshman agriculture
major from Dallas and Shaeffer is
a junior pre-dental major from El
Paso. The two men officially as
sume their posts at the annual
meeting of the MSC Council set for
April 18.
In last night’s session, this year’s
Council, meeting for the last time,
approved a completed set of by
laws for the Center. The passage
of the by-laws completes the initial
governmental organization of the
Center and the Council.
In other business for the night,
the group empowered a nomination
committee to make final selection
of committee and club chairman for
the various activities within the
MSC.
Applicants and nominees for
these positions will meet this com
mittee next week and will be se
lected in time to step into their
jobs at the annual meeting which
brings the Council and the MSC
Directorate together. The Director
ate is composed of the chairmen
of these clubs and committees.
The Council also added to the
Center and the Directorate last
night by accepting a Table Tennis
Committee. This new member of
the Center was authorized an;
initial annual budget of $25.
The Camera Club, one ,of the
older activities of the Center drew
Council approval on a re-allocation
of a formerly approved budget.
The shifted funds will be used in
the purchase of darkroom equip
ment.
Upon the recommendation of J.
Wayne Stark, MSC Director, the
Council authorized an annual pre
sentation of a pocket watch to the
retiring student president of the
MSC.
The group also approved Stark’s
plan for purchase of a commemo
rate plaque to honor annually the
the president and vice president of
the Center.
had to be built outright at the be
ginning of the last war, he explain
ed.
“Our budget would be infinitely
higher if we had to do that same
building again.”
The problem today is to discour
age completely the aim of any po
tential aggressor to attack this
country and begin WW III, the au
dience was told.
To do this, Larkin explained, pro
duction lines must be set up not to
produce a great deal now, but ca
pable of a large output on short
notice when needed.
Manpower Problem
Turning to the manpower prob
lem and UMT, Larkin said the De
partment of Defense feels that
“Through it we can start once and
for all an enduring manpower pro
gram.”
Larkin lauded the ROTC pro
gram as one regarded very favor
ably in the present mobilization
program and said that his depart
ment intended to do all within its
power to see that the program re
mained intact.
nounced later.
The tests will be given to draft regis
trants who have begun, and plan to continue,
their studies, graduate or under-graduate.
High school graduates and others who
are candidates for admission to their first
year of college will not be eligible to take
the test until they have entered colleges.
The announcement said:
“The test presupposes no schooling be
yond the ordinary high school preparation
for college.
“Scores on the test will not themselves
— ♦-determine eligibility for defer
ments.
“Scores on the test, together
with evidence of scholastic per
formance in college, will be used
by the local selective service boards
in considering the eligibility of reg
istrants for occupational deferment
as students.
All eligible registrants who wish
to take the test should apply at
once. They must get a postcard
application from any local draft
board, fill it out and mail it in.
Application Samples
Levant Show
Rescheduled
For April 13
Oscar Levant, star of concerts,
motion pictures, and radio, will
break a life time superstition when
he appears in Guion Hall, Friday,
April 13. Poor health forced Le
vant to cancel his engagement sche
duled for Feb. 5.
Thirteen is Levant’s most feared
hex, according to Maurice Zolotow
in an article entitled “Lucky Os
car, Sour Genius of the Keyboard”
which appeared in the Oct. 21 edi
tion of the Saturday Evening Post.
“He will have nothing to do with
13 in any way, shape, or foim. He
doesn’t even speak the dangerous
word. It’s always ‘that number’.”
Levant cried, “That number;
That terrible number! You’ve spoil
ed my day . . . ruined my concert;
I’ll never be able to come to Buf
falo again!” when a hotel manager
in Buffalo said that his suite con
sisted of rooms 1301, 1302, and
1303, Zolotow said.
Levant allegedly “strode out of
the hotel and spent the rest of his
time in Buffalo in the concert hall,
where he slept on a cot in his
dressing room.”
Author Zolotow says the “pianist,
actor and wit, has become rich and
famous by defying all the time-
tested rales for getting ahead in
life.”
Samples of the application have
been mailed to colleges throughout
the country but may not be used Tn
applying. Usable forms can be had
only from draft boards.
Each registrant must designate
an examination center and its num
ber, chosen from the list announced
today.
The educational testing service
at Princeton, N.J. which is admin
istering the test, will assign each
man to the center requested or to
the closest possible alternative cen
ter, and give him a date for his
test.
A Local Draft Board representa
tive said this morning no applica
tions or information concerning the
tests has been received here.
He told a Battalion reporter that
the applications for the testing
program will be available at the
local board office in the Varisco
Building in Biyan when sent to
them by selective service officials
in Austin.
Director Receives Bulletin
Brigadier General PaulL. Wake
field, state director df^Smective
Service, received a bulletin yester
day from national headquarters di
rector Lewis B. Hershey. The na
tional director said new regulations
governing the classification of col
lege and university students are
under consideration for early ap
proval.
Hershey told the state director
that copies of the new regulations
will be furnished to State Direc
tors of Selective Service and local
boards as soon as possible. Under
the proposed regulations, he exr
plained, college and university stu
dents may qualify for consideration
for occupational deferment either
on the basis of a prescribed schol
astic standing or on the basis of
a prescribed score on the college
qualification tests.
Boatner Says No Change
Col. Hayden L. Boatner, PMS&T
and Commandant of A&M, said as
far as he knows, this new action
to defer mentally qualified college
students will have no bearing on
the present status of ROTC stu
dents.
Announcement has been made
from Col. Boatner’s office that stu
dents enrolled in ROTC will be de
ferred through the summer rather
than until school is out in, June,
which is the present status for non
military students.
The centers for the examinations
were chosen on the basis of popu
lation, college and school location,
and proximity to other centers.
(See TESTING CENTERS, Pg. 4)
Fred Walker Appointed
Battalion Sports Editor
Fred Walker has been named B. Walker, Sr. His father is on
sports’editor of The Battalion, the the staff of the Engineering Ex-
co-editors announced this morning, periment Station.
Formerly associate sports editor,
Walker was promoted to sports edi
tor replacing Ralph Gorman, who
was forced to resign his Battalion
duties temporarily to tend to press
ing scholastic matters.
The new sports department head
will be remembered by many sports
readers for his columns early last
Fall covering the world series base
ball playoffs.
A junior journalism major, Walk
er came to the Battalion last sum
mer after transferring to A&M
from the University of Missouri.
He served as amusements editor
during the 1950 Summer term and
moved to the sports staff at the
start of school this year.
During the Fall semester,
Walker served as sports news edi
tor and sports columnist. He was
named associate sports editor last
February and served in that capa
city until his promotion to sports
editor yesterday.
The new sports chief is a veteran
student, having served in the Navy
before entering the University of
Missouri.
Walker lives in College Station
with his parents Mr. & Mrs. Fred
Fred Walker
Battalion Sports Editor