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Meeting of MacArthur
And Truman, Page 2
Number 146: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1951
Price Five Cents
Gen. MacArthur Meets
Congressional Hearing
Washington, May 3—(A 5 )—A rag
ing battle over public hearings and
secret documents preceded Gen.
Douglas MacArthur’s first across-
the-table discussion with lawmak
ers today of his ouster by Presi
dent Truman.
The five-star Genei'al of the ar-
i^ies, arriving from New York by
plane, sat down (9 a.m., EST) to
outline briefly his Asiatic views
and answer questions of 25 sena
tors ranged at tables around him.
Advisers forecast a firm stand
by the General on his contention
that the vital fight against Com
munism lies in Asia and that it
ought to be accelerated by a block
ade of China, air operations over
Manchuria and use of Chinese Na
tionalist troops.
Expansion Might Be War
President Truman has said any
expansion of this kind in the fight
ing in Korea might lead to World
War III.
The 25 members of the Armed
Services and Foreign Relations
Committees were what some Re
publicans called the “chosen few”
privileged to hear the fired Pacific
commander.
Unless there were last minute
changes, the public and other mem
bers of Congress would have to de
pend for information largely on
copies of testimony to be passed to
newsmen after it has been combed
of matters touching on national se
curity.
However, Senator Russell (D-
Ga) said he might call the com
bined committees together a few
minutes before MacArthur’s sched
uled appearance to discuss letting
other senators sit in.
“Peanut Move”
Senator Wherry of Nebraska, the
GOP floor leader, called that move
“peanuts” and said Republicans
will continue to press for his mo
tion to throw the hearings open
to the public.
With a four and a half hour fili
buster against the Wherry propo
sal, topped with a 42 to 40 vote to
recess the Senate, Senate Demo
crats staved off the move for the
public hearings—at least until 11
a.m., (EST), two hours after the
scheduled beginning of MacAr
thur’s testimony.
Of the public hearing move, Rus
sell commented:
“General MacArthur himself has
a pretty good sense of security.
Schools to Vote On
$150,000Bondlssue
People of the A&M Consolidated
School District go to the polls Sat
urday to ballot on a $150,()()() school
bond issue which would provide for
such improvements as a cafeteria,
classrooms, and girls’ dressing
rooms for A&M Consolidated Ele
mentary School and a science room
and shop for Lincoln High School.
Polls will open at 8 a.m. Satur
day in the Music Room of A&M
Consolidated High School. J. E.
Mosley will be in charge of the
voting.
Increased Enrollment
Increased enrollment anticipated
during the next five years caused
Board of Trustees members to pro-
«pose the bond issue.
A public meeting was held Mon
day night in order to familiarize
local people of school board plans
to use the $150,000 if the bond
vote is successful.
Richardson said that if passed,
the bonds will be financed on the
nresent tax schedule.
“New buildings in the school dis
trict have increased in valuation
since 1948,” he said, “and suffi
cient tax funds will be available
next year and thereafter to pay
off the proposed bond issue.”
Building Can Start June 1
Construction can begin around
June 1, Richardson pointed out,
giving ample time to have the
cafeteria and some classrooms
ready for use in September.
Paul A. Silver and Company of
San Antonio are the architects re
tained for the proposed work. The
new construction is slated to be
made of masonry.
Listed on Saturday’s ballot are
three questions. The first asks
“yes” or “no” to the issuance of
the $150,000 in bonds.
Next is the query,. ‘Should the
district assume all bonds which
have previously been issued.” The
final question concerns the revot
ing of the present $1.50 per $1,000
value of property taxable for the
schools.
He didn’t ask for open hearings.”
Russell has contended such hear
ings might lay open vital military
secrets.
Even with the closed sessions,
some Republican senators charged
the committees have been denied a
look at highly important secret doc
uments. These were said to in
clude the minutes of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff meetings and Asia
tic war plans prepared before the
Communist aggression in Korea
last June.
Russell, presiding over the com
bined committees, conceded to re
porters that not all of the docu
ments asked by the committee had
been made available by the De
fense Department.
Having Electricity Trouble?
Just Switching to New Lines
If you’re a resident of College Hills and have been un-
’ fortunate enough to be without power for the last day or
two, don’t think it is an example of the regular College Sta
tion’ electric service. . , , ,
* Workmen have been busy since early Wednesday mora
ine switching onto a new line built from Cooner Street to
Kyle Avenue to transport REA electricity to consumers be-
vond College Station.
The new line parallels former facilities used by the REA
» which had several outlets in College Hills addition of College
iy Only one tap will be made on the new line, where power
will pass from the City of Bryan-REA lines to local con-
• sumers via the city meters. A meter will be placed at this
outlet to be located near the Bravenec Service Station on
Lincoln Avenue.
City Manager Raymond Rogers said the transfer should
be completed in two or three days, depending on weather con
ditions, and the College Hills facilities in the hands of Col
lege Station officials by next week.
1 e a
Bob
Curtis Wilson
won last nights civilian yell
ders election by defeating
Harris 449 to 53.
A&M’s Guest,
Bear Cub
Dies in Waco
A&M’s guest during the football
season, Bailey, one of Baylor’s
two bear cubs, is dead.
The cub was found sick in his
den Saturday by Keeper Bill Ogg
who removed him. He died shortly
afterwards. Speculators say the
bear was injured while scuffling
with his twin brother, Barney.
“They were always fighting,”
Ogg says, “but they never hurt
each other before. It was always in
fun, you could tell that.”
Other amateur Sherlock Holmes
think the bear cub might have fall
en from a tree overhanging the
bear pit or might have been knock
ed into the deep moat surrounding
the pit.
The two cubs, w’hose mother is
Josephine, were born Jan. 17, 1950.
They were named a year ago after
a campus wide contest.
In the bear family, only Mama
Josephine seemed to care about
the cub’s death. She paced around
in the pit and looked in all of the
corners seeming to be looking for
Bailey, the Baylor Lariat, reported.
The cub will be buried some
where in the country without cere
mony, Baylor College officials an
nounced.
MSC Committee
To Award Prizes
Easy money is available to win
ners of the MSC Craft Committee
contest, Mother’s Day.
Jerry Staffel, chairman of the
committee has announced that stu
dents and other members of the
committee who are interested in
crafts are eligible for prizes.
The contest will be divided into
sections for novice in leathercraft,
ceramics and work other than
leathercraft, and a class for leath-
erwork on the professional level.
Prizes up to $6 can be won, with
an additional prize of $5 for the
best piece of work done by any
type.
Entries must be in by May 10.
Jarvis Named
Mother of Year
Selected Top Mom
For Parent's Day
Mrs. W. E. Jarvis
Irons Out the Wrinkles
Cotton Pageant Director
Brings Versatility to Job
By VIVIAN CASTLEBERRY
Battalion Women’s Editor
When the beauty and pageantry
of the 17th annual Cotton Pageant
& Ball begins to unreel on Kyle
Field tomorrow night, a lovely lady
in the wings will have her finger
on the pulse of every moment.
She is Frances Gossett Tur
ner, director of the Pageant,
whose duties, aside from plan
ning the actual program, have
included every movement of the
duchesses and their dukes, right
down to the final bow and curtsy.
Mrs. Turner, wife of A&M’s di
rector of music, Bill Turner, and
mother of 10-year-old Johnny, a
Consolidated fifth grader, is di-
decting the Cotton Pageant for the
second year. She has been Mrs.
Turner for 15 years and an Aggie-
lander for seven, and lives at Col
lege Station, 207 Milner in College
Hills.
Mrs. Turner has worked hand-
in-harid with Eli Whiteley, faculty
sponsor of the Pageant and with
all the boys and gills who will be
in the show'. She also has planned
with Sanger Bros, the gowns that
will be worn. She was along w’hen
the Aggie delegation chose Queen
Wanda Harris to reign over the
Ball.
She has been the final word on
how the courts will march, where
each duchess and her date will
stand, on the most minute detail
of the program. She has bought
gifts and made hotel reserva
tions, answered questions by long
distance telephone, chosen colors
and ordered flowers, picked the
children who will be in the Pag
eant. She has briefed each of the
escorts once on the exact role ex
pected of him in the show.
Just before the Pageant goes
Frances Gossett Turner
before the audience tomorrow
night, Mrs. Turner will be putting
the Cotton Ball duchesses and their
escorts through every motion ex
pected of them in the big show.
The director of the giant show
must not only have a way of deal
ing with people and a command of
theatrics. She must also have an
eye for style.
This Mrs. Turner does.
The duchesses will wear white
eyelet redingoats over pink satin
slips. They will carry white sat;
in baskets with pink and white
roses and carnations. The queen
will be in all-white.
The five-foot four inch blue-eyed
director is every inch a queen her
self. She began her training for
the important role she assumes in
the Cotton Pageant in McKinney
High School where she once was
chosen queen. She has done some
modeling and at North Texas State
College, of which she is a graduate,
she continued her interest in model
ing and dramatics.
When she is not directing a
Cotton Pageant and Ball or keep
ing the home fires burning for
her music-minded husband and
son, Frances Turner may be
working at any one of a number
of outside activities.
She is a member of the local
Garden Club and a member of
Chapter BG of PEG. For the past
two years she has been chairman
of the Methodist Church Circle.
U. S. Demands
Embargo Rule
United Nations, N.Y., May
3—(/P)—U n i t e d States de
mands for a world-wide em
bargo against Red China on
all strategic war materials,
including supplies for making
atomic bombs, come up today in
a U. N. committee on punishments
for Peiping.
Britain and France are reported
holding back fyom such a course
at present.
Ernest A. Gross, deputy U. S.
delegate to the United Nations, is
ready to present the American po
sition to the members of the 12-
nation committee. It was said au
thoritatively that he would argue
that:
1. The United Nations must
take action, as strong as possible,
to halt the shipment of everything
to Red China that can be used in
making war materials and in car
rying on Red China’s aggression
in Korea.
2. The United Nations General
Assembly should call on every
member, even including the Soviet
Union, to clamp this embargo on
all materials—a long list—of a
strategic nature.
3. Red China cannot make
atomic bombs but the Soviet Union,
which the U. S. said had a hand
in promoting the Communist ag
gression in North Korea, has had
an atomic explosion. The embargo
should cover materials used in pro
ducing atomic energy so the So
viet Union cannot obtain help
along that line.
Vet School’s
Essay Contest
Winners Out
By DAVE COSLETT
Battalion Co-Editor
Mrs. W. E. Jarvis of 901 Oakland Blvd., Ft. Worth, has
increased her family quite substantially in one day. From
three boys to almost 6,000 to be exact.
The addition, of course, is adopted—adopted, that is,
via the naming today of Mrs. Jarvis as Aggie Mother of the
Year for 1951. Nominated by the Ft. Worth A&M Mother’s
Club, Mrs. Jarvis lists numerous qualifications for the job.
Her son Duane is currently a sophomore at Aggieland.
Another son, Donald, is well remembered around here as val
edictorian of last year’s graduating class. An outstanding
cadet, Don majored in architecture and listed among many
other accomplishments his selection in 1946 as winner of
the European Fellowship Tour.
Mrs. Jarvis is currently third vice-president and mem
bership and yearbook chairman for the Ft. Worth Mother’s
"Club. She was president of that
group last year.
A delegate to the Senate Feder
ation of A&M College Mothers’
Clubs for the last two years, she
this year assisted in the typing of
copy for the State Yearbook.
Community Worker
In her community, this year’s
top Mom is active in PTA work,
has served as Room Mother, cur
rently bakes a cake a week for
veterans of World War II in the
U.S. Hospital in Ft. Worth, and
also finds time to teach a Sunday
School class in the primary de
partment of her church.
Other activities find Mrs. Jarvis
as an active member of Polytechnic
Woman’s Club, a closed member
ship for literary and civic better
ment.
Her Red. Cross work has also
been outstanding, accoi’ding to re
ports concerning the volume of her
output in that work. In a recent
project of making service kits for
the Red Cross, she produced 14 as
compared to an average of two or
three from other contributors.
Praise From Club
The Ft. Worth Mother’s Club
praises her in these words: “In
addition to the offices and commit
tees listed on her record, Mrs. Jar
vis has given unstintingly of her
time and energy helping on all ex
tra appointed committees for the
betterment of the Ft. Worth A&M
Mother’s Club.
“Through Mrs. Jarvis’ untiring
and unceasing efforts, as Presi
dent in 1949-50,” the report con
tinues, “the custom of giving a
$200 scholarship award (yearly)
to a needy and worthy Tarrant
County A&M student was origina
ted.
“Mrs. Jarvis worked actively
earning the money for this award
by selling Christmas cards, sta
tionery, and flowers. She also
served on the Scholarship Com
mittee, giving generously of her
time and the use of her car.”
Honored on Parent’s Day
The Ft. Worth Aggie mother
will be honored during the Parent’s
Day activities here Sunday, May
13, when Cadet Colonel A. D. Mar
tin presents her to the audience
at the special Guion Hall program
honoring mother's. She will then
receive a bouquet on behalf of Ag
gie mothers everywhere.
The winners of the Moss Essay
Contest were annouPced Tuesday
night by Dr. I. B. Boughton, dean
of the School of Veterinary Medi
cine, Texas A&M College.
The contest is sponsored by the
American Hospital Association.
The local winners may submit their
papers for the national competi
tion.
First prize, $15, went to Robert
T. Terrell of Denton, a junior in
the School of Veterinary Medicine.
Second prize went to Wade M.
Smith of College Station, a grad
uating senior. He will receive $10
and third prize $5 went to Edgar
D. McMurray, College Station, a
graduating senior in the School of
Veterinary Medicine.
Crate to Address
BA Sales Classes
Herbert L. Crate, manager of
sales for Hodell and Co. Real Es
tate Counselors of Houston, will
address Business Administration
sales and sales management class
es'May 9 in the YMCA Chapel.
Crate, who is a member of the
Houston Sales Executives Club,
will speak on “Can I Sell”, E. R.
Bulow, assistant professor of Bus
iness Administration said today.
The Houston realtor is an in
tense student of modern selling
methods and a strong believer in
the professional status of real es
tate councelorship, Bulow contin
ued.
Spring Outing Set
By Fish-Game Club
The Fish and Game Club will
hold its annual Spring outing in
Hensel Park, May 18, John Harris,
president of the club announced
this morning.
All members are invited to at
tend, Harris said, and may bring
their wives, children, or other
guests.