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0 G e-0- A ° eT s JLde^ 3 Cop^ Moro Than 90% of Circulated to College Station’s Residents Number 128: Volume 51 Battalion PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1951 Spies Put Red A-Bomb Work Ahead See Story, Editorial Page Price Five Cents I Said Whoa “Holder’ Newt, that calf is really trying to get out from under you.” This cow seems intent on getting rid of the cowboy on his back during the second annual Intercollegiate Rodeo. Harly May, Sul Ross Take, Top Honors in Annual Rodeo By JOE PRICE Battalion Staff Writer A Saturday afternoon double- header rodeo was unfolded before the local and out-of-town enthusi astic traildusters in the Second An nual Inter-collegiate Rodeo at the A&M Rodeo Arena. The crowd saw Harley May, Sul Ross’s pride, walk away with the All-Around Cowboy trophy and with it a registered Quarter Horse Colt donated by J. Vernon Brown of Bremond. " \ The championship team was the Sul Ross team, headed by Harley May. They were followed by the 4 Colorado A&M team and the Ag gie delegation. ( In the wild and wooly bull rid ing contest, James Dyer of Sul ftoss came in first, winning a Trophy Buckle donated by the A&M Grill. Second place and one pair of boots donated by the Texas Ag gie Ro<Jeo Association was won by Harley May. Johnny Ackel of.Sul I£oss won a hat donated by the American Hat Company for placing third and Ross May of Sul Ross won fourth and a Western Shixt from the Dix on Boot Company. Barebacks The bareback xiding contest found Rod Frary of Colorado A&M winning first prize of a trophy buckle and Sonny Coe of Baylor taking second with it’s prize of a pair of boots donated by the L. White Boot and Saddle Shop of Foxt Worth. Bob Wallover of Colorado A&M took third and Max- ie Overstreet of A-&M fourth. The Ribbon imping was won by Singing Cadets ’ Program Ends Arts-Sciences Week I Climaxing the activities of the Arts and Sciences Week, the Sing- fling Cadets presented their annual ■Spring conceit to a capacity crowd iin the Ballroom of the MSC Sunday afternoon. Several novelty numbei’S sui’- pi'ised and delighted the audience. A series of singing commercials ^ ranging from “Old P.A.” to “Ajax,” I as well as hillbilly take-offs on “I Only Have Eyes For You” and “Mona Lisa” were particularly en joyable. Starting the program in a serious vein, Bill Turner, direc tor of the glee club, led the 55 voice group through an hour and a half of choral music. From litergical music the song sters presented such selections as: “Adoramus Te, Christe” by Pales trina, “Gloria In Excelsis” by Mo zart, and “Now Let Every Tongue Adore Thee” by Bach. Especially enjoyed was Rachmaninoff’s “To Thee 0 Lord” featuring Harold Hughes, tenor. The cadets sang “This Is My Father’s Wox-ld,” “Onward Chx-is- tian Soldiers” and the stirring “Battle Hymn of the Republic” from, the field of religious music. Audience and singei’s alike en- Pre-Law Society To Hear Speakers The Pre-Law Society and the Brazos County Bar Association will hear two speakers from the SMU School of Law, tonight, announced John J. Templin of the Business Administration Depai’tment. Talbot Rain will speak at 6 p. m. in the Maggie Parker Dining Room in Bi’yan on the px-oposed “New Corporation Code” for Texas. Rain holds undergraduate degrees from the University of Texas. John W. Reihm Jr., will speak at 8 p. m. in the MSC on "A Legal Education Today.” Riehm is a gi’ad- uate of Bradley Univedsity. joyed such spirituals and folk songs as “The Foggy Dew,” “Set Down Servant,” “Dry Bones,” and the ever popular “Joshua Fit de Battle.” A quartet from the organiza tion, composed of Harold Hughes, Ken Wiggins, Dale Walston, and Tom Savage, presented a new song, “The Halls of Ivy,” and a spiritual, “De Gospel Train.” Popular numbei’S on the pro gram were “I Dream of You,” “I Only Have Eyes for You,” and “Thei’e Is Nothing Like a Dame” from the musical “South Pacific.” Bill Turner featured the follow ing soloists: Tom Savage, Don Forney, Bill Lawshae, A. J. Had dock, Harold Hughes, and David Haines. Accompanist for the group was Mi’s. Tommy Thomas. Hubei't Savage whose pxfze was a trophy buckle donated by the Cen- tral Texas A&M Club. D. D. Fal- tin of Texas A&I won second prize of a pair of boots, and Clay Cade of Sul Ross won third prize of a pen and pencil set with Darrel Hargrove of SWTJC winning fourth prize of a rope donated by the Reisinger Saddle Shop. Sul Ross Sweeps Clean Sul Ross made a clean sweep of the girl’s goat tying contest. Jo Gregory won first prize of a Quax-- ter Hoi’se Colt donated by J. Ver non Brown of Bremond. Tony Parker and Mai'y Green won sec ond and third. Harley May won the saddle bronc eevnt’s first prize trophy buckle from the Waco county A&M club. Roy Lilley of Colorado A&M won. second, Ross May of Sul Ross third and Clyde May of Sul Ross fouxth. Wins Boots Lilley won a pair of boots do nated by the Border Boot Com pany; Ross May won a pair of spurs from the Reisinger Saddle Shop; and Clyde May won will re ceive $10 in mei’chandise from the Tex Tan in Yoakum. Hailey May won himself another trophy buckle by placing first in the Bull Dogging contest. Johnny Ackel of Sul Ross won second prize of a pair of boots and Ross May won third prize of an RCA Radio. Foutx-h prize was won by A&M’s Maxie Overstreet who won a west- eim shirt. Calf Roping In the Calf Roping event the first go round was won by Bill Teague of Odessa Jr. College with Buidey Fellows of San Marcos sec ond and Clay Cade third and Jack Resch of Southwest Texas Jr. Col lege fourth. In the second go round Roy Reynolds of West Tex as State won fix-st, D. D. Faltin won second, Clayd Cade thii’d, and Jack Resch fourth. DuPont Worker Slates Lecture Here Tuesday By WILLIAM DICKENS The operations of ■ the largest chemical coi'poi'ation, E. I. du Pont de Nemoui's and Company, will be desciibed to students and faculty members Tuesday. Dr. D. D. Lee, .manager of the technical division of the du Pont Sabine River Works at Orange, will arrive Tuesday to visit the campus, become moi’e acquainted with the members of the engineer ing and chemistiy departments and to x’enew acquaintances with var ious faculty members. Speaks Tuesday Evening Dr. Lee will speak to the Stu dent Chapter of the Ameidcan In stitute of Chemical Engineers on the subject, “A Young Technical Man in a Lai’ge Chemical Plant,” in the Assembly Room of the MSC at 7:15 p. m. Tuesday. “All other students and faculty members on the campus are invited and urged to attend,” said Dr. J. D. Lindsay, head of the chemical engineeiing department. Dr. Lee received his B. S. degi’ee in 1935 and Ph. D degree in 1938, both in chemistiy, from the Univer sity of California. In 1938, he was employed by the du Pont Com pany, first wox-king at the Ex perimental Station in Wilmington, Del. He later was promoted to tech nical supei’intendent of the nylon group in the technical section of the Belle Works near Chax-leston, West Va. He has been technical manager of the technical division of the Sabine River Works since July, 1950. Di\ Lee plans to visit the chem- istiy and all engineering depart ments dui’ing his visit, for the purpose of pi’oviding infoimation that students and faculty members may desire, regaining the activ ities and interests of the Sabine River Works, according to Dr. Lindsay. AnnualFederal Inspec tion Gets Started Today The military activities of A&M over the past year will get the once over by a 12 man inspecting team from all over the country. Annually the Departments of Army and Air Force send an inspecting team down to the A&M to determine the offi cial rating of the college for the coming year. The excellence determines the reputation of the College, Col. H. L. Boatner, commandant and PMS&T, said. This annual check-up, the colonel continued, gives the Defense Department a chance to see just how much good the 4-ROTC program does. The results New Officer Promotions Announced A new list of corps officer promotions was released from the military department re cently. Included in the list are as follows: White Band: Doyle W. Thomas, 1st Lt. A Field Artillery: Floyd M. Johnston, staff sgt. B Air Force: John L. Funk, staff sgt. A Engineers: Charles D. Swin- son, staff sgt.; John Melvin Tuck er, staff sgt; Bryan W. Grosjean, cpl.; John W. Jacobson, cpl.; Dar rell R. Roberts, cpl; Clarence E. Beavers, cpl. B Engineers: Robert B. Conn, 1st Lt.; Robert F. Brown, staff sgt.; Louis Belinsky, staff sgt.; Charles A. Wacker, staff sgt.; Francis F. Spreen staff sgt.; James E. Richardson, cpl.; Robert R. Hub- bell, cpl.; John L. Park, cpl.; Gene W. Parks, cpl.; John R. Birdwell, cpl. A Quartermaster: William D. Smith, 1st Lt. A Chemical: Leon C. Brown, staff sgt.; Marcus L. Keene, staff sgt.; Perry A. Beaty, cpl.; Olan W. Boyd, cpl.; Thomas C. Mondshine, cpl.; Andrew M. Rogers, cpl.; Joe A. Riddle, cpl.; Berthold L. Wel ler, cpl.; William H. England, cpl.; Lee Roy Radford, cpl. Headquarters Athletic Battalion: David T. Duncan, capt.; James F. McCarty, major-. B Composite: Chester R. But ler, 1st Lt.; Donald F. Cummings, tech, sgt.; Robert B. Gower, staff sgt.; William R. Stalter, staff sgt.; John C. Petteway, staff sgt.; Leon M. Trenckman, staff sgt.; Thomas B. Collins, cpl.; Charles E. Casper, cpl.; Orlando Recio, cpl.; Harold C. McCray, cpl.; Frank G. Nedblek, cpl. A Seniors: Bob D. Amason, 1st Lt.; Robert R. Engleson, 1st Lt.; Louis B. Cordes, 1st Lt.; and Philo H. DuVal, 1st Lt. Jr Poultry Judgers Win Fourth at Meet The junior Poulty Judging Team of A&M won fourth place at the annual Southern Collegiate Poul try Judging Contest last week. The team also won second place in market quality; Shelby New man was third high point individ ual in that division. In team competition, the Univer sity of Arkansas placed first with the Oklahoma A&M group second; University of Florida team was third, and A&M was fourth. Other teams entering the con test were Louisiana State Univer sity, University of Tennessee, Uni versity of Kentucky, and North Carolina State. The teams were taken on a tour of Memphis, which was sponsored by the feed manufacturers of Memphis, and also were honored at a banquet Tuesday night. Members of coach Cecil Ryan’s team were, Harlan Vaught, Shel by Newman, Charlie Mailhos, and Bill Boardman. Golf Course Thief Nets $350 Haul An estimated $350 worth of golf equipment was stolen from the A&M Golf Clubhouse early Satur day morning. The thieves, who entered by breaking in through the door, stole three sets of Irons, three sets of Woods, and three bags. Golf Course Manager, Joe Fagan, said it appeared that the burglars entered by throwing a rock through the front door. The rock also broke the glass showcase. The theft was discovered by O. V. Gage, assistant green keeper. Damage done to glasswork was estimated at $50. The clubs stolen were two sets of Golf Craft Irons, one set of Hagan Irons, two sets of Golf Craft Woods, and one set of Power Built woods. Martin Kadets Looked Over help to determine the number of contracts available and number of deferments offered. Inspectors Arrive Inspectors started coming to the campus Sunday, but the official inspection will not start until this afternoon when they look over the Ross Hall records. Instruction files, examinations, and quiz records will be available for the inspecting team. Actual inspecting of the cadets will not begin until 8:30 a.m. to morrow when the team looks over the dormitories. The highest ranking cadet offi cer in the dormitory will accompany the officers on the inspection. They will also be accompanied by the unit commander and first sergeant. Attend Classes Military Science classes will be held after the dormitory inspec tion, starting at 10 a.m. All other classes will be dismissed. At 1 p.m. the Freshman Drill Team will give an hour long exhi bition. At the end of the exhibition the inspecting team will return to the classes to observe instruction. Tuesday’s official programs will end at retreat when the visiting officers watch the March-in to Dun can and Sbisa Halls. More Classes They will return to the class rooms Wednesday and remain there until 3:50. The corps will hold a review for the visitors at 4:30 p.m. After the review the formal in spection is over. The inspecting team is expected to leave Wednes day night, Lt. Col. M. P. Bowden, assistant commandant, said. The visiting Army officers will be guest of the Military Depart ment for a dinner at Maggie Park er’s Oaks Tuesday. The Air Force officers will be guest for- dinner Tuesday at the home of Major B. P. Browder. By JOHN WHITMORE Battalion Lunar Expert This cleaning up for Federal In spection isn’t really hard in com parison with that of the Kadet found on the Planet Mars. I observed this the other night while looking at the planet from my observatory atop Walton Hall. The Kadets (it has been scienti fically proven the cadet of Mars is called a Kadet) take a different attitude than that of the Aggie cadet. For instance, by lunar observa tions it is found they will stop at nothing to get their rooms cleaned up. As a matter of fact I spent the greater portion of Saturday night observing them at work. One kadet was seen ta take all of his furniture out of his room and scrub the floor with a tooth brush. He followed this with a soap and water scrub down—and a rinse of chlorine water. Another was seen to take buckets of paint and slosh it on the walls of his room. All of them seemed to be trying to out guess the inspec tors about where the dirt was. They would go to great lengths to get all of the dirt out of the cracks in the radiators, and back shelves of their closets. But this was really not the most interesting method used to clean up the rooms. One cadet I watched sealed his door and window and let the water run over in his sink. After the room was filled to the ceiling he open ed the door and let the water run out. This, he seemed to think, gave the ultimate in clean rooms. • All he did after doing this was spend the greater portion of the evening getting the residual water out of his room. Another Kadet was seen to take all of his worldly belongings out of his room and, place it in a car outside his dormitory. This left a room that was bare of all furniture, which seemed to agree with the Kadets idea of what a clean room was. All I observed on the Planet Mars was brought about by the excellence of Time Reception on Saturday Night. This was aug mented with a 100.9384758 pow er telescope. Utilizing this help I got to watch the actual inspection by the offi cer's. In Joe’s room, (after spending the greater- portion of the evening watching I got to know the men rather well) the inspector- just 'walked in and said “Mghrm” and left. When I left my Walton Hall ob servatory to write up these notes for The Battalion and the Monthly Scientific Observer and Nature Lover Joe Kadet was seen labor iously bringing back into his room his much loved dirt. Mind Reader Misses Show, Gets Lawsuit The well known memory expert, Dr. Franz Polgar who appeared in the Bryan-College Statiion area last Winter, must have for-gotten something. Associated Press reports listed the man, who many local people will remember as performing- feats of memory and mind reading, involved in a lawsuit in Hollywood, Fla. Two Broward County organiza tions charged in a lawsuit they lost a lot of money when Dr. Polgar failed to show up for lec tures there and in Pompano Beach. A $3,100 lapse of memory, they called it. Dr-. Polgar-, a Hungarian-born hypnotist who performs feats of memory, was served with papers at his Miami Beach home. He was given until April to re call why he did not fulfull the al leged speaking contracts. Atomic Energy Talk Slated Here Tuesday Dr. C. L. Comar, laboratory di rector and research coordinator for the agricultural research program of the Atomic Energy Commission and the University of Tennessee, will give a graduate lecture at A&M April 10. He will speak at 8 p. m. in the lecture room of the Biological Sci ences Building on “Biological and Agricultural Applications of Atom ic Energy.” Hooper, Davis Lead Relays By RAY HALBROOK Battalion Sports Staff Led by record-breaking Walt Da vis and Darrow Hooper, the unde feated Aggie tracksters added the unofficial Texas Relays crown to their string of four victories in Austin Friday and Saturday. They edged the University of Oklahoma in the first nation-wide relay carnival which featured the mark-smashing high jump of Da vis and shot heave of Hooper - . These two outstanding perfor-m- ers stole the show in the hot, dusty Power System Heads Agenda Of City Council The control of the College Hills power lines will be dis cussed tonight at the meeting of the City Council at 7:30 p. m. in City Hall, said Mayor Ernest Langford yesterday. Plans for new lines and neces sary equipment will be discussed in detail. On April 15, the city will take over the electrical power utility. All work of re-building the pow er system will be done by a con tracting firm from Hebrne, Mayor Langford added. The three new ward councilmen will be sworn in at the meeting. They are H. W. Badgett, Ward I; Harry Bover, Ward II; and W. D. Fitch, Ward III. These men will begin serving two yeaV terms as council-members. Ward I is the South section of College Station, including College Park, Oakwood, and West Park. Ward II is the College Hills and Woodland Estates addition in the East section of the city. Ward III includes all citizens living in and around the North Gate area, in cluding the campus. The Sweetheart takes time out to float over the floor with her date. Docia Schultz, former Aggie Sweetheart and Cotton Queen, is escorted by Stan Southworth, senior from Dallas. Belcher Will Speak To Hotel Group D. L. Belcher, field instructor for the Texas Engineering Exten sion Service, has been invited to participate on the convention pro- gram of the Texas Hotel Associa tion, meeting in Galveston, April 8-10. Belcher will discuss at a panel meeting, “Planned Employee Im provement.” The other members of the panel will be hotel execu tives from Ne\v and Texas. Belcher’s speech will be publish ed in the Southern Hotel Journal. "Best Dance Yet’ Was Comment Docia Schultz Presented Queen of Air Force Ball By DICK KELLY “Best dance this year. Best ever!” That’s what they were all say ing Saturday night after the an nual Air Force Ball in the Mem orial Student Center. Airmen “took off” at 9 p. m. for three hours of terpsichorean enjoyment provided by Bill Tur ner’s Aggieland Orchestra and “landed” promptly at 12. The Ag gieland musicians seemed better than ever and gave spinted rendi tions of everything from low down jazz to high flown romantic bal lads. Highlight of the evening was the presentation of lovely, brun ette Docia Schutz as Air Force Sweetheart. She was presented a gift from the two Air Force Wings as well as the traditional kiss for military branch sweet hearts by Jack Raley. She was escorted by Stan Southworth, senior from Dallas. Miss Schultz is a girl who has many times before graced the cam pus with her reserved beauty and charm. Last year, she reigned as Queen for the annual Cotton Ball and Pageant here. She is a senior from TSCW. Other finalists were Evelyn Le vine, escorted by Louis Caplan; Ann Donaghue with Joe Abell; Bet- tie Bledsoe with Frank Thurmond; Donna Westmoreland with Tommy Butley. Final judges were Colonel E. W. Napier, Captain B. L. Hoyl, and Pete Hardesty. The MSC Ballroom looked typi cally Air Force with in blue and gold with a huge winged emblem hung over the bandstand, which (See BEST, Page 4) Memorial Stadium where the Ag gies have tasted so many bitter defeats in the past. Hooper pushed the shot 53’1” in Friday’s prelims to better the 12- year-old record of 52’ %” held by Elmer Hackney of Kansas State. He came back Saturday to win the discus with a 148’ 9%” throw to be the only double winner of the day. For his outstanding efforts, Hooper was awarded the trophy as the Relays outstanding performer. Davis leaped 6’9” in the high jump to thrill the 8000 fans and wipe out the (>’ 814” record set last year by Virgil Severns of Kansas State and Jack Raggeto of San Diego State. Severns was second this year. All Alone Davis and Severns were jumping by themselves as everyone else went out after (i’fi”. Davis was unbeatable as he propelled his (i’8” lanky frame over the bar in an unorthodox straight-forward form, clearing each height comfortably. Davis was recently voted as una nimous All-Conference center in basketball and has been in only one meet previous to the Relays. A&M’s point total of 32 16/21 barely edged the powert'ul Sooners* who finished second with 32%. Texas fiinshed third with only Hi points. The Aggies’ fourth Relays title came in the mile relay where the Cadet team of Benue Place, Bob Mays, Fusion McCarty and Don Mitchell whipped off a 3:17 mile to edge the Oklahoma aggregation. The Maroon and White led aftep the first lap but OU edged into the lead at the end of the third. Mitchell took the lead on the first curve but had to fight off a deter mined stretch drive by Oklahoma’s anchor man who fell short by a scant foot. Simpson Ties Ag Captain Jack Simpson tied for first in the pole vault, going 13’9”. Lemon of OU and Faulkner of Abilene Christian tied with Simpson. Cadet pole vaulters Don Graves, Malcolm Marks and Glen Spradlin tied for fourth with four other vaulters for the 3/7 point margin by which the Aggies beat Okla homa in the meet. Oklahoma dominated the Univer sity division relays with four med ley titles. Those were the 440 re lay, 880 relay and sprint medley relay. (See AGGIES, Page 3) Humble Awards Given to Ag Grads The prized Humble Oil and Re fining Company Graduate Fellow ships in mechanical and civil en gineering, have been awarded to two A&M graduates. Charles Pinto Howard, now doing graduate work at A&M, and Curtis H. Harlin, of the engineering de partment of the City of Abilene, are the recipients. Each fellowship carries a stipend of $1,250 and each recipient is al lowed an additional $300 for tui tion, equipment and supplies. The theses and research projects of the holders will be decided in con ferences, with the recipients, heads of the departments represented and officials of the Humble Oil and Refining company. AF Receives Plane For Bombing Training The Air Force accepted delivery of a modified four engine medium bomber to be used to train students in navigation and visual and radar bombing, according to the Depart ment of the Army. The plans, called the “Flying Schoolroom,” was produced by the Boeing Air-plane Company, produc ers of the B-50 Superfortress.