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A) • e > A A^- e Circulated to V e €VV J More Than 90% of • " ~- •• - — ■ - t#i College Station’s Residents rjrjw jr% jLi f # Ihe Battalion PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Number 126: Volume 51 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1951 Local Wives Deplore Meat Tax; See Column, Page Four Price Five Cents Modern Choir Will Present Program Here The 45-voice Modern Choir from TSCW will present a program of modern music to suit every taste April 14 at 7:30 p. m. in Guion Hall. Variety is the keynote of the program and everything from classics and modern music, arrange ments from musical comedies and light operas, vocal and instrumental solos, trios and duets will be on the program. In fully bringing out the talent and [ personality of the individual, the TSCW choir has eliminated stiffness and formality and usually performs without a director, pre senting the continuity popularized by radio. Technical features of the movies, radio and speech aids have also, been introduced and combined with the music. The choir is composed of girls from all over Texas and many are out of staters. Chosen for individual talent and love of music, these girls represent the finest talent from the school. The members sing for the enjoyment of singing rather than being subordinated into a group. In keeping with their modern ► trend, the girls have discarded tra ditional choir robes in favor of evening gowns in order to present an atmosphere of personal freedom on the part of each singer. For many years the choir has been in demand by organizations in leading cities of the Southwest during its annual spring concert tour. It has appeared at conven tions, veteran’s hospitals, joint ses sions of the Texas Legislature, high schools throughout the state, and «m numerous radio concerts. The choir is directed by Dr. Wil liam E. Jones, professor of music, at TSCW. * Oil Recovery Conference Set For April 19-20 Problems of secondary oil recovery will be discussed by leading geologists and petrol- sum engineers at the second Oil Recovery Conference here April 19 and 20. General chairman of the confer- mce is Paul D. Torrey, consult ing petroleum engineer of Houston. A conference feature will be a ' symposium on carbonate reservoirs. f At the opening session, following a welcome by Chancellor Gibb Gil christ of the College System, W. J. •.Murray, Jr., of the Texas Railroad Commission will discuss the “Sig nificance of Maximum Oil Recovery to Texas.” George H. Fancher of the Texas Petroleum Research Committee, Austin, will give the committee's progress report, and Torrey will talk on “New Techniques of Sec ondary Recovery.” At the first afternoon session, discussions of different phases of work done in research of carbonate reservoirs will be given by well- known men in the petroleum and geology fields. At a banquet session that even ing, Paul Weaver, Gulf Oil Cm-p., Houston, will speak on “Carbon ate Rocks.” On April 20, the sessions will deal with limestone reservoirs, progress in oil development in Scurry County, West Pampa re presenting project and performance characteristics of the Slaughter Field reservoir. The afternoon session will fea ture well acidization and “Water Flooding in the South Ward Field.” Harvey T. Kennedy of the Pet. E. Department will speak on “Gas- Oil Equilibria in Petroleum Reser voirs,” and Robert L. Whiting and .E. T. Guerrero, also of the A&M department will discuss “The Cap illary Pressure Properties of Some Limestone Cores.” Cotton Pageant Models Finer points of the Cotton Ball and Pageant are explained to two of the Queen Candidates, who will act as models during the Pageant, by the Pageant, director and faculty advisor. Left to right they are Miss Paula Muller, Mrs. Bill Tur ner, Miss Julianne Brownlow, and Eli Whitely. Senators Facing Rough Agenda In Tonights Meeting First Rodeo Program Begins at 8 Tonight Rodeo fans will get an oppor tunity to see some first rate bronc riding, steer wrestling and other top-flight events at the Second Annual Intercollegiate National Rodeo which gets underway at 8 tonight in the new Aggie Rodeo Arena. 16 Colleges Represented Sixteen colleges from all parts of the country are sending teams of six men to participate in the contest, Dr. R. R. Shrode, sponsor of the Rodeo Club said this morn ing. Prizes for winners are enough to make any contestant want to win. For best all-around cowboy, a quarter horse will be the prize. Other prizes include boots, belts and silver buckles. A featuio of the three-day-long rodeo will be a matched roping contest betwoen Fred Dalby and Sammy Baug-h of TCU and Wash ington Redskin football fame. They will rope for a $1,000 prize. A&M Well Represented A&M will be well represented with Maxie Overstreet, a consistent winner in most any rodeo, Mackey Trickey, Bill Lockridge and Don Tabb in the riding events. Bunky Selman and either Jack Willing ham or Roy Pate will represent the school in, the roping events. The Aggie team showed its strength by taking third place in the Southwest Texas Teachers Col lege Intercollegiate Rodeo in San Marcos. Performances will be tonight, to morrow and Saturday at 8 and a 2 p. m. matinee Saturday. Insurance Organization Explained at Banquet W. C. McCord Business Society Speaker By WILLIAM DICKENS Battalion Staff Writer A “You must have youth in an or ganization and no organization of fers a greater opportunity for a young business administration stu dent than the insurance institu tion,” said W. C. McCord, presi dent of the Southland Insurance Company. McCord was the guest speaker for the Business Society’s annual banquet which was held Wednes day night in the Ballroom of the MSC. A graduate of the University of Michigan with degrees in actuary science and Bachelor of Arts, Mc- cord has been associated with the insurance business since 1923. Southland Organization Discussing the organization of the Southland Insurance Company, he pointed out the necessity of ju nior officers and having understud ies for the senior departments. “The various divisions of an in surance company offer a great ca reer for young people,” he said, “and young people are needed in the sales and internal fields of insurance.” Influenced to make insurance his career by an insurance man while he was in high school, McCord pointed out that he is in the in surance business because he be lieves it sells the most wonderful product on earth. Businesses’ Assets He discussed the magnatude of the insurance business and listed the figures of assets of insurance companies which totaled $59,539,- 000,000 in 1949. “Life insurance plays a major part in helping Uncle Sam pay his debts,” he said. He predicted that the insurance in the United States is greater than all the other countries com bined, although the people in this country are greatly underinsured. He advised that persons should start accumulating life insurance estate as soon as they are able to do so. Successful Company For an insurance company to e successful, he pointed out that a steady increase of insurance ac counts is just as important as the companys earning money. Giving credit to the life insur ance companies in Texas, he said they have done, a great job, but the public as a/ whole is still un derinsured. Providing after dinner enter tainment for the group, Claude Avera, senior physics major, dis played magician tricks. Profs Article Published In Business Magazine E. R. Bulow, assistant profes sor of Business Administration, has written two articles appearing in sales publications. The magazines are collections of the best in written and spoken sales advice. 4 Journalists Attend Meeting At Oklahoma U Four members of the Jour nalism Department left this morning for Norman, Okla. where they will attend the an nual Southwestern Journal ism Congress tomorrow and Sat urday. Men making the trip are Bill Streich, junior from Houston; Frank Davis, junior from Bryan; Andy Anderson, junior from Talco; and Sid Abernathy, senior from Rusk. Principal speaker for the Con gress will be Hal Boyle. Boyle is a columnist for the Associated Press who has distinguished him self by his reporting of the Korean war and previously, by his report ing of the action of World War II. Other speakers for the Congress will be Mary Hornaday, assigned to the New York bureau'of the Christ ian Science Monitor; Frank L. Den nis, assistant managing editor of the Washington Post; and, George Bechtel, editor of Publisher’s Aux iliary. A banquet in Oklahoma City to- morrow night will feature a talk by Dennis on the Washington scene from the inside. Duchess Photos Will Be Published Photographs of campus or ganization Duchesses for the Cotton Pageant and Ball, May 4 may be turned in for publi cation in the Battalion at the desk in Student Activities. Deadline for turning in the pictures, which should be at least 3x5 glossy prints, is April 21. By DAVE COSLETT Battalion Co-Editor The Student Senate faces a bristling agenda in its regular monthly meeting tonight. Paramount issues include a pro posed creation of the post of Stu dent Body President elected y the student body, a proposal to make members of the Athletic Council permanent members of the Senate, consideration of a mascot and discussion of the Campus Chest for this year. Meeting at 5 p. m. in the MSC, the group will vote on three sug gested amendments to their consti tution. The first of these would provide for semi-monthly meetings of the Senate which now meets only monthly. The second proposed amendment would make student members of the Athletic Council permanent members of the Student Senate. Student members to that council are elected each year in the Spring elections. Student Body President The creation of the job of Stu dent Body President would come with the acceptance - of a third proposed amendment. The amend ment would also provide for gen eral election of this person, should one be authorized. The office would become synon- omous with that of the present Student Senate President who is elected by the Senate. The pro posed job is existent now at sev eral colleges and universities throughout the country. Another resolution being offered tonight would direct committee chairman of the Senate to submit written reports for their comrriit- tee files. Such files are now being set up. Mascot Election Mascot Committee Chairman Monty Montgomery will report to the senators on a forthcoming stu dent body election to determine general opinion conceming acquis ition of a new mascot for A&M. This election would ask students if they wanted a mascot, if they thought such a mascot (if wanted) should be a dog and if a German Shepherd would be suitable should a dog be chosen. The ballot would also solicit ideas on mascot selec tion. Doyle Griffin will report on find- Town Hallers Pick ’51-’52 Program Selection of next year’s Town Hall program will probably be tentatively made today. The Town Hall Selection Com mittee will meet this afternoon at 3 in the office of C. G. “Spike” White, assistant dean of men for activities. • At the last meeting the group decided to continue the present plan for Town Hall entertainment—one which usually presents one male singer, one female vocalist, a pian ist, a symphony orchestx-a, and a chorus of singers. The committee also decided to try to obtain one program of a “light” nature, pro bably a popular orchestra. Members of the committee are Bill Turner, chairman; White, Joe Sorrels, S. A. Lynch, Mrs. Helen Anderson, W. D. “Pusher” Bames, Harold Chandler, Doug Heame, Harold Hughes, Dean Reed, and Jim Martin. ings in a committee investigation on La Salle Hotel policies on stu dent cancellations of date reserva tions. The investigation was oc casioned by complaints entered by freshmen foi'ced to make cancella tions when this year’s Fish Ball was postponed. The Campus Chest Committee, headed by Allan Eubank, will re port on plans for this year’s Cam pus Chest Drive. This year’s funds from the drive will be used for the Twelfth Man Scholarship, a foreign student scholarship and other purposes. Plans for coming campus elec tions and other committee reports will round out tonight’s meeting. Perky Robin Pecks Persistently Lancaster, Ohio—(A 1 )—A robin is robbin’ the Milford Browns of their peace of mind. It began 1 24 hours ago when the robin declared a one-bird war against himself. He began dashing himself against a win dow at the Biown home. He persisted, even though the Browns chased him away repeat edly. After a good night’s snooze in a nearby tree, the rabid robin resumed his vendetta with the window today. Insurance Plan To Be Outlined At Mass Meet Comptroller W. H. Holzman, of the A&M System, this morning called a mass meeting of all sys tem employees interested in the new system-wide hospital and sur gery insurance plan recently auth orized by the Board of Directors. The meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Chemistry Lec ture room. Representatives of the Pan American Life Insurance Company of New Orleans, La., will be on hand to explain provisions of the plan and to answer questions of those attending. Low Bid Company The New Orleans company was chosen after a study recommended by the Board of Directors to de termine the best source of the new insurance. A committee represen ting all parts of the College sys tem accepted the Pan American plan as representing the lowest of many competitive bids submitted by major standard companies. Employees will have three plans to select from with allowances for hospital rooms from $5 to $10 per day and other benefits in accord with the plans. Employees will be allowed to include themselves, spouses and dependent children ov er 10 days of age and under 19 years. The Pan American representa tives will be J. B. Donnally and Desk-Jockeys Dance Airmen to Name First Sweetheart By HERMAN GOLLOB One of the highlights of the in augural Air Force Ball to be held in the Grove Saturday night will be the selection and presentation of the Air Force Sweetheart.; She will be presented at one of the intermissions with the other finalists, and will receive the tra ditional “sweetheart kiss’ and a gift from the A&M Air Force units. As yet, judges for the contest hare not been selected. In the past, Air Force units have combined with other reginrents to present the ABC Ball. But the huge size of the Air Force units this year made it advisable for the “flyboys” to “solo” on this occasion. Bill Turner and his Aggieland Orchestra will start tossing sharps and flats at dancing couples as the clock strikes 9, on a bandstand decorated with a huge United States flag backdrop and flags of the various Air Force squadrons. The top of the bandstand will be bedecked with a huge gold, red, and blue Air Force patch insignia. Volleyball nets will be moved in to enclose the dance area, and blue and gold streams of crepe paper will be intenvoven in the nets. Tables and chairs will be available for short-winded terpsich- oreans. Dick Tumlinson is ramrod- ing decorations for the affair. Refreshments are tentative— tame beverages and mass-pro- ducti pastries. Admission for this saturnalia will be $2 (or three B-29 fuse lages) free or shackled. Honor guests will be Colonel James K. Johnson, Colonel John Reynolds, Colonel William L. Lee, Lt. Colonel Joseph S. Peck, and Major Gene Tarbutton, from El lington AFB; Lt. Colonel Falco, commanding officer of Bryan AFB. The orchestra will stop playing at 12. Rabid hoofers may linger on till the sun comes up. E. G. Brennan. Mike Brown, lo cal representative of the company, will also be on hand to discuss cov erage, plans and eligibilty. Gilchrist Outlines Coverage In a recent letter to all faculty and staff members, Chancellor Gibb Gilchrist outlined coverage of the plan. His letter read: “All regular full-time salaried employees (either nine months or 12 months basis) of the following groups, actively on the pay roll of the A&M System, are eligible, in cluding employees on modified service: • “Administrative Staff, includ ing officers of administration and other members of staff, (including supervisory employees). f “Teaching Staff. • “Research and Extension Staffs. • “Clerical and Stenographic Staff.” Participation Voluntary Participation in the plan will be voluntary. The new plan will provide lower insurance rates to college employ ees because of its group aspects. The insurance plan under which employees were formerly covered expired April 1. Tomorrow night’s meeting will be brief, Holzman said. Singing Militarymen Present Sunday Concert By KEN WIG GENS Aggieland’s Siriging Cadets, Tex as’ most colorful men’s singing group, will be presented in con cert in the Ballroom of the MSC at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 8. The Singing Cadets will be under the direction of Bill Turner. The con- Home Rule Government Considered Committee Discusses Charter By JOEL AUSTIN Battalion City Editor than 5,000 population must abide. The 1950 unofficial census fig ures show College Station has ex- Should College Station adopt its ceeded the 5,000 population mini own home rule charter? mum and at its own option may That was the question 19 civic adopt a home rule charter when leaders of College Station unani- the official census is released, mously approved last night at the City Attorney Barger explain- first meeting of a chaider commit- ed the charter which College Sta- tee appointed by the local city council. The only definite action taken by the group was to appoint a sub committee of three members to in vestigate the finer points of getting tion is now governed by and then pointed out to the group legal technicalities and differences in the general law charter and home rule charter. The attorney also informed com- Placing the matter before the group, Langford said, “The ques tion I pass on to you, is it ne cessary and worth the effort to draw up a home rule charter and submit it to the people of Col lege Station for their approval?” The committee unanimously ap proved the plan for drawing up a new charter. For the advantages of a home rule charter, the committee dis cussed the following: • The city can change and re- general law charter which the com mittee discussed was the strict lim itations to annexing powers. A general law city must receive a pe tition from property owners in an area requesting admission to the city limits. City Manager Raymond Rog ers pointed out that of the 147 Texas cities with a population greater than 5,000, 112 had adopted a home rule charter. One committeeman explained, “Under the home rale charter we vise any particular part of the would have a government with a new charter; it was the first step mitteemen of the procedure neces- charter at its own option—provided greater flexibility in managing the toward re-organization of the local sary for adopting a home rule the changes would not be over-ruled needs of the city. city govemment under a charter of its own. The sub-committee will consist of J. A. Orr as chairman, with Howard Badgett and S. R. Wright as members. City Attor ney J. Wheeler Barger was ap pointed to serve as ex-officio member to advise the group on legal matters. Operating under the general law statutes, as passed down from the state legislature, the city has— since its organization—been gov erned by the terms of a general than by rulings from the state leg- law charter which cities of less islature.” charter. by legislative jurisdictions. In asking for the committee’s • Under home rule, the city feeling toward adopting the new could take property into its limits charter, Mayor Ernest Langford with or without the consent of the said. “In my years on the city owners if the city deemed the ae- council, I have found the general tion to be advantageous to the ma- Law charter has permitted us to do jority of parties concemed. This just about anything we have want- measure, however, would have to be ed. The question is, do we want written into the charter, to write a charter of our own. • The city’s power of taxation the meeting which was preceded “Personally, I favor the home would be greatly increased. Under by a dinner, in a MSC meeting rule government,” Langford said, a general law charter th? maximum room. He said as soon as the sub- “because it would permit us to taxation is $1.50 per $100 valua- committee has some proposals or operate on our own laws rather tion (city taxes are now $1 per questions to place before the com- $100.) mittee, they will be recalled to The greatest disadvantage to a consider action on the measures. “If something in one charter proves to be unworkable, the city is not bound by statutes set by the legislature to stick by the rule causing this trouble; a new charter can be drawn up to meet the needs of the city.” Mayor Langford expressed his thanks to the group for attending cert is sponsored by the Arts and Science Council as a part of the 75th Anniversary Celebration, and is open to the public. The Singing Cadets have made many concert tours in the past few years. They have appeared in most of the major cities of the state, with return appearances re peatedly for many of them. The program to be presented is designed to provide an hour and a half of music and song which will appeal to any audience. It is de signed to bring the audience a cross-section of choral literature. To be included on the program will be: Bach’s “Now Let Every Tongue Adore Thee,” “Gloria in Excelsis” from Mozart’s “Twelfth Mass,” “Adoramus Te Christe” by Palestrina, and Rochmaninoff’s “To Thee O Lord, Do I Lift Up My Soul.” Other numbers to be included will be Robert Shaw’s arrangement of the spiritual “Sit Down Ser vant,” the ever popular “Dry Bones,” the Irish folk song “The Foggy Dew,” and the patriotic number “Where In the World But in America” by Fred Waring. Chosen from our popular com posers, the Cadets will sing: Rod gers and Hammerstein’s beautiful “You’ll Never Walk Alone” and the unusual “There’s Nothing Like a Dame” from the musical play “South Pacific.” They will also sing Goetschius’s “I Dream of You,” and “I Only Have Eyes for You” by Warren. The traditional songs from Ag gieland, arranged by Ken Darby, will be included as well as Ring- wald’s stirring setting of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Featured soloists with the Sing ing Cadets are: Harold Hughes, tenor; Don Fomey, baritone; A. J. Haddock, baritone; Tommy Savage, bass; and Bill Lawshae, tenor. Allies Thrust Ahead Against Stubborn Reds Tokyo, April 5—%—Pow erful Allied forces thrust deeper into Red Korea today along a 40-mile stretch of the Western and Central fronts. Their commander, Lt. Gen. Mat thew B. Ridgway, went along with a live grenade dangling from his familiar, paratroop harness. Allied artillery blazed a path for the United Nations forces, driving toward the biggest Com munist troop mass of the w a r. Warplanes rocketed and firebomb- ed the fiercely resisting Reds. The Communists fought back with mortars, artillery and small arms. On the Western front they were defending a densely fortified area. A divisional staff officer com mented : “The enemy changed his tactics today. Instead of rolling with our punch as in the last few days, he was determined to stay in his pos itions.” AP Correspondent John Ran dolph reported the Red positions were “laced by trench lines on ev ery hill and anchored in long- planned and well-built dugouts. Spine of these dugouts have con crete walls nearly two feet thick.” Steep hills barred the path for the advancing Allies both on the Western and Central fronts. Doughboys had to drive the Reds off almost every peak. In two days of gruelling attack that carried four miles, the main body of the Allied army drove two and one-half miles inside the Red Northland. Texas’Rayburn Tells Senators Matters Grave Washington, April 5 — UP) Speaker Sam Rayburn’s warning of the “terrible dan ger” of another world war echoed in today’s House de bate on the draft-universal military training bill. A contradictory statement by another Texan, Senator Tom Con- nally, added to the puzzlement of House members. Rayburn broke into the House debate yesterday to declare: “It is my firm belief that we are in greater danger of an ex panding war today than we have been at any time since the close of World War in 1945.” White House Briefing The speaker had just come from a White House briefing on Korea. He told of a massing of troops in Manchuria “and not all of them Chinese Communist.” He did not elaborate on that. And he de clined to say whether he was talk ing about Russians. In Tokyo, informed quarters at General MacArthur’s headquarters said Russia’s Far Eastern army has shown no tendency to build up its forces within Manchuria. How ever, the Russians are believed to maintain some garrisons in Chinese territory. Two Mongol cavalry divisions have been identified in Korea.