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Number 153: Volume 51
The Battalion
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, MONDAY, MAY 14, 1951
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Has Returned;
See Story, Page Two
Price Five Cents
Parents See Review As Records Fall As A&M Wins
Military Awards Given nr i 1i | aa .
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By JOHN WHITMORE
Battalion Managing Editor
, Recognition for a year’s work
| was officially given yesterday
i morning when the annual military
awards were presented to the
j .cadets.
In the final tabulations H Air
l Force came out winners of the
I coveted General George F. Moore
I trophy. This award, presented by
I Dean of Men W. L. Penberthy, is
I given to the outstanding company
I of the Cadet Corps. It is presented
I annually to the cadet organization
| having the highest overall general
I rating based on academic and mili-
I tary proficiency, intramural and
I extra-curricular activities.
H Air Force is commanded by
Douglas Hearne, history major
I from Blanco.
The Houston Chamber of Com-
1 merce Military Affairs Committee
[ Awards, a citation cord worn by
| all members of the winning unit,
» went to the Maroon Band. The
Maroon band is commanded by Joe
E. Rutherford.
Houston Awards
Awards from the Houston group
; went to Eric W. Carlson, corps
’ sergeant major; Ken. W. Wiggins,
'corps staff; Lewis E. Jobe, Infan
try Regiment; James G. Anderson,
Artillery Regiment; Charles F.
Parr, first Air Force Wing; I. C.
Trauth, second Air Force Wing;
Dick Ingels, Armor-Engineer Reg
iment; and Grady Smallwood,
eighth Regiment.
Outstanding cadet officer saber
went to A. D. Martin, colonel of
corps. This sabre is presented an
nually by the Texas Department
of the Reserve Officers Associa
tion. ■
Outstanding junior award, a
watch presented in honor of John
Seeley Caldwell, went to Eric W.
Carlson. It is presented annually
by Caldwell’s Jewelry Store in
Bryan.
Kenneth Wiggins, winner of a
Houston Chamber of Commerce
award, also took the Daughters of
the American Revolution award of
$200 in cash. It was px’esented by
Mrs. Henry C. Fulgham, state
registrar of the Texas society.
Chosen Outstanding
Mrs. Robert A. Newman, pres
ident of the Texas Chapter of
the United Daughters of the Con
federacy, presented a saber to
Herbert “Skip” Mills. He was chos
en the outstanding senior of the
year.
Winner of the outstanding soph-
a
A. D. Martin
Colonel of the Corps A. D. Martin accepts the Texas Department
Reserve Officers Association Saber from Lt. Commander Ray Ed-
son, president. Martin was named outstanding cadet officer in
the corps.
Eric W. Carlson
Chosen the most outstanding junior in 'the Cadet Corps Eric W.
Carlson receives the Caldwell Trophy, a watch, from Col. H. L.
Boatner, commandant and PMS&T. This award is presented an
nually by Caldwell’s Jewelry Store in Bryan.
more award was Lyle A. Wolfskill.
He was presented the Federated
A&M Mother’s Club of Texas
award of a bronze cup and key by
Mrs. Warren A. Gilbert, president.
Outstanding freshmen of the
eighth regiment were presented
their awards at the Flower Pin
ning ceremony at 8 a. m. They
are Robert Buckalew, outstanding
freshman of the regiment; M. L.
Krumholts, first battalion; J. W.
Allbritton, second group; and J. C.
Akard, third battalion.
A $200 cash scholarship was
presented to Walter G. Crane, who
was named the outstanding sopho
more in the School of Aits and
Sciences. This scholarship, the
Lulie Hughey Lane Scholarship,
is presented by annually by the
United States Daughters of 1812.
Branch Awards
Sons of the American Revolu
tion awards of a medal to the
outstanding senior in each branch
of the Army and each specializa
tion of the Air Force. Winners
were Douglas Hearne,. Air Force
Administration; Dare Keelan, Air
Force Installations, Herbert Davis,
Air Force Maintenance; Jack A.
Tanner, Armor; Mel Moncrief,
ASA; Robert S. Matthews, CWS.
Also James E. Ginnins, Coast
Artillery; Carroll C. Taylor, Corps
of Engineers; David Haines, Field
Artillery; Wilman D. “Pusher”
Barnes, Infantry; Homer Finch,
Ordnance; William R. Moss, Quar
termaster Corps; Edward R. Rob
erts, Signal Corps; and Ray Kunze,
Transportation Corps.
These medals were presented by
the Rev. Vern Swartsfager, repre
senting the president general of
the Texas Chapter of SAR.
First in Competition
A first place in rifle competition
brought the William Randolph
Hearst trophy to A&M. This award
carries with it a plaque and med
als for the team members. Bar-
low “Bones” Irvin, athletic di
rector, presented the awards to
Reuben D. Cook, Russell Durrill,
Cail Schlinke, Duane Unrue; and
Roland Zapata.
The A&M rifle team also took
first place in the Fourth Army In
tercollegiate and Interscholastic
rifle match. Award winners are
Schlinke, Durrill, B. H. Vanzura,
L. A. Wolfskill, Duane C. Unrue,
H. J. Mangum, Reuben Cook, Za
pata, W. R. Swan, and W. R.
Green.
Medals also went to team mem-
gram honoring mothers and dads.
(See CORPSMEN, Page 4)
New Record!
By RAY HOLBROOK
Battalion Sports Staff
The powerful Texas Aggies scored an as
tonishing 114‘/^ points Saturday afternoon
on Kyle Field to storm back into the South
west Conference track picture and bring the
1951 Track and Field Championship to Ag
gieland after a one-year “loan” to the 40-
Acres.
Two records were broken, the shot put
! and the 2-mile run, as Texas was second in
) the run-away melee with a badly trailing
| 60y> tallies and the strong contingent from
! Fayetteville, Arkansas finished third with
32. Rice was fourth with 28, and SMU scored
221/2 for the No. 5 slot. Baylor and TCU fin-
Darrow Hooper
. . . and his wife Jeannine had plenty to laugh about Friday and
Saturday when the big sophomore twice broke the SWC shot rec
ord of 50” 2 1 /”- Hooper’s “toss” Saturday was 54’ 7!4” and here
he shows his wife how it was done.
Adds New Officer
Sportsmanship Committee
Changes Voting on Trophy
A&M Insurance Plan
Offers Quick Payment
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Hospitalization claims under the The college plan offers better bene-
new group plan for the A&M Col- fits, according to Hill,
lege System will be promptly paid, About 58% of eligible employes
John Hill, director of workmen’s have applied for the insurance,
compensation insurance for the though 75% participation is re
quired by the contract approved
by the board of directors. If the
-A&M System, said today.
“The insurance carrier has al
ready paid one claim of $147, a
good indication that they will pay
•claims promptly,” Hill declared.
“The check was transmitted to the
member three days after the claim • • „
had been sent hv the fiscal office s 'S nin S U P under the P lan 8ho P* d
to the iLSnce carrier ” do 80 right awa y’ the illsuranc e
‘ director said. You can still sign up
A comparison of benefits under even though you have already
the college-sponsored plan and ben- signed a waiver, he noted. The
efits under your present hospital- deadline has been extended to May
ization insurance is urged by Hill. 21.
minimum number of eligible em
ployes fail to take part, a revision
in the rate may be necessary. Hill
said.
Everyone who is interested in
By CLAYTON SELPH
Battalion Co-Editor
Delegates to the Southwest Con
ference Sportsmanship Committee
left the A&M campus Friday after
noon feeling that significant prog
ress had been made toward im
proving the Committee and sports
manship in general.
In one of the busiest sessions of
its four-year history, the commit
tee established the office of execu
tive secretary, voted to rotate
chairmanship of the committee
among member schools, and passed
seven other major proposals.
Addition of the office of execu
tive secretary was made on a pro
posal by the A&M delegation.
The A&M group pointed out that
a central “nerve center” was need
ed for the committee to keep per
manent records, promote beneficial
publicity and take some of the
burden of correspondence off the
chairman. The new position re
places the previous office of (re
cording) secretary.
Arkansan is Chairman
Leon Brunk, student Association
president at Arkansas, was quickly
named 1951-52 chairman of the
Committee* after his school drew
first place under the new rotation
plan.
Holding the chairmanship the
next six years following Arkansas
will be TCU, Baylor, A&M, SMU,
Rice and Texas University. The
latter four schools have held the
chairmanship in that order since
establishment of the Committee in
1948.
Following a precedent that the
Fall meeting of the group was to
be held at the “chair” school, the
Committee voted to meet on the
Arkansas campus Monday, October
13, 1952.
Arkansas delegates Brunk and
Joe Dugan said they thought hav
ing the meeting at Arkansas would
help to bring their school closer
to the Sportsmanship Committee.
Because of the distance and the
fact that it is the only SWC school
not situated in Texas, Arkansas
has been rated relatively low in
sportsmanship each year.
Two votes a year will now be
taken instead of the previous one
to determine who shall be awarded
the trophy each year. On a motion
from Baylor Representative Brad
Corrigan, the Committee voted to
take a vote after the football sea
son and the basketball season each
year.
Beginning in 1952, the trophy
will be awarded on a calendar
year basis instead of by school
years.
The first vote will be taken after
the basketball season, then a sec
ond vote after the football season
the following Fall. The trophy
will then be presented to the win
ning school at the Cotton Bowl
game in Dallas.
A motion by Rice Delegate Billy
Burkhalter brought a positive vote
from the group to add an athlete
to the delegation from each school.
This raises representation from
each school to four. Already hold
ing a seat on the committee are
the student body president, head
(See SPORTSMANSHIP, Page 4)
Parents Weekend
Acclaimed Success
By GEORGE CHARLTON
A&M’s biggest show of any year
went into production a few months
ago and achieved satisfactory real
ity Saturday and Sunday on the
campus.
The performance was the
school’s annual Open House - Par
ent’s Day weekend. The cast in
cluded both students and faculty
Election
Run-Offs
Tonight
Freshmen and Juniors will
hold run-off elections tonight
to determine positions left un
settled after last week’s pri
maries.
Juniors will vote on next year’s
senior class president with R. A.
“Dick” Ingles, J. W. “Doggy”
Dalston and Bob Chapman on the
final ballot.
Hobie Fatheree, C. R. “Bob”
Dunn and Duane “Van” Vanden-
berg will fight it out for the
fourth-year post of vice-president.
Meeting in the run-off for class
secretary will be James E. “Tiger”
Matush, Robert N. Dobbins and
Bruce McDaniel.
The “purse-string holder” will
be determined when final tabula
tions are taken in the race be
tween Thurmond Munson, Ted M.
Stephens and Larry D. Dotson.
There will also be an election
to decide who will be next years
head yell leader—Lewis E. “Lew”
Jobe or John Tapley.
Harold Chandler, this year’s
junior class president said bal
lot’s would be distributed to non-
reg dorms and would be collect
ed by 10:30 tonight to speed-up
the determination of winners.
Sophomore posts will be deter
mined tonight in the secretary and
the treasurers posts.
Vieing for minute-keeper will be
Thomas Clemens and Ray Downey.
Congratulations and the flag signifying the win
ning of the General Moore trophy are presented
to H Squadron by Dean of Men W. L.JPenberthy
to Squadron Commander, Douglass Hearne, his
tory major from Blanco.
members and the audience was an
appreciative, responsive one 10
“play to”—made up of the folks
we love best, our parents.
Events got underway Saturday
morning when the thousands of
parents, guests, and friends of the
college began arriving on the
campus from all parts of the state
and elsewhere.
For their immediate surveyal
were numerous exhibits and
demonstrations including, in the
morning, a freshman and sopho
more judging contest in the Ag
gie Rodeo Arena, an annual
chick, poult, egg show and auc
tion, a lesson in metal spinning
and an oceanography lecture.
Among the afternoon’s things
to be seen were a physical educa
tion exhibition, a molten iron pour
ing demonstration and a lecture,
with slides, describing the Latin
American countries.
That night, Mom and Dad, along
with many other thousands, went
to Guion Hall to see the Aggie
Follies of 1951’s presentation of
“Seventy Five Years—So What!”
The show was mostly composed
of a series of variety acts tied
together rather loosely with a his
torical burlesque theme.
The house was jam-packed; hun
dreds had to be turned away. After
the show was over, most of the
thousands of parents, members of
the Follies cast and C. K. Esten,
director, were satisfied.
Meanwhile, musicians of Bill
Turner’s Aggieland Orchestra had
been tuning-up at the Grove and
at 9 p. m. had launched into an
informal dance, admission free, for
the numerous guests on the cam
pus. True to form their competent
renditions of popular ballads lured
many a student, girl friend, Moth
er and Dad into the pavement
dance floor.
Sunday morning, after break
fast in Duncan and Sbisa mess
halls, the cadet corps had the
traditional flower pinning cere
mony. Next, unit commanders re
ceived their outfit appreciation
awards.
The corps then marched off
from the dormitory area to a re
view on the Main Parade Ground,
which the faithful audience of the
same thousands of parents was
waiting. Military awards were
handed out and the regiments
passed in review.
After the parade, the crowd
did some more walking, this time,
to Guion Hall for a special pro-
(See DORMS, Page 4)
ished with 8i/> and 2 points respectively.
Devastating Darrow Hooper, the Ags’
soph weight king, set a new SWC record in
the shot by tossing the 16-pound ball 54’-
7V2”. Only the day before, Hooper had offi
cially broken the 50’ 2*4 mark of Aggie-ex
Boyce “Honk” Irwin with a chunk of 53’ 3Vo”
in the Friday preliminaries. Irwin’s record
had stood since 1934.
Hooper also won the discus with his best
twirl of the year, 162’ 8*4”, and kept intact
a perfect slate in both events through 10
meets.
Another Cadet sophomore, Bill Stalter,
was the meet’s top performer by
copping high poiftt honors with
1214 tallies.
Stalter won the 100 in 9.8 sec
onds, the 220 in 21.4 seconds, and
anchored the winning 440 relay
team to a 42.4-second win.
When Stalter flashed across the
finish line in the 220-yard sprint,
be became the first Aggie to win
both the 100 and 220 since the
early 1930’s.
The only other record of the
meet was set by James Brown of
Arkansas in the 2-mile. The little
Razorback set a terrific pace and
lapped at least two men as he
practically sprinted the eight laps
in 9:24.4 minutes to shatter the
9:30.7 set by Aggie J. D. Hampton
in 1949.
Brown led all the way and began
pulling away from teammate
James West on the second mile to
beat him by 100 yards.
“Only” 11 IVz Points
In scortng the grand total of
114% points, A&M broke the con
ference scoring record of 89 which
was set by the University of Tex
as in 1949. The Aggies took 10
firsts and scored at least one point
in every event.
Besides the four events won by
Hooper and Stalter, the Ags won
the 440, the low hurdles, the pole
vault, the high jump and both re
lays.
Jack Simpson, Cadet cinder cap
tain, won the pole vault at 13’
10%”.
Buddy Davis won the high jump
at 6’ 6” and left the rest of the
field at 6’ 1”, but like Simpson,
failed on three tries to set a new
record in his event. The old mark
is 6’ 87s”.
A trait of winning Aggie track
teams in the past 10 years, has
been to develop a crop of fine 440
men and this season was no ex
ception as the Maroon and White
quartermilers finished one, two,
three in the 440 and won the mile
relay.
Mitchell Undefeated
Don Mitchell remained undefeat
ed for the season in the 440 as ha
won the event with a blazing 48.1.
Bernie Place was second and Fus-
ton McCarty was third.
James Baker was the fourth man
on the winning mile quartet.
In one of the day’s best races,
Cadet Billy Bless beat SMU’r#'
great hurdler Val Joe Walker
over the last low hurdle and won
in 23.2. Walker earlier had run a
terrific 14.1 high hurdle race to
nip the defending champion Paul
Leming by one yard.
The 440 relay tumed out to be
the closest relay race of the day
as Stalter barely hit the tape be
fore the Longhorns’ anchor man
Carl Mayes, Baker, Bless, Bobby
(See POINT MARK, Page 2)
Opens Tonight
Milkman Becomes Fighter
In Players Newest Comedy
Out of a street fight involving a The cast for “The Milky Way”
milkman and the world’s middle- includes Herman Gollob, John
weight champion is born a comedy, Caple, Bill Guthrie, Harry Good-
“The Milky Way,” which the Ag- ing, Alice Burke, Mary Eleanor
gie Players will present at 8:15 Vaden, Carl Stephens, Jack Cock-
p. m. tonight and tomorrow in the run, Bob Travis and Rilaroc Mich-
Assembly Hall as their final pro- ael, a Labrador retriever,
duction of the season. Working on the stage crew for
It is quite by accident that the this production are M. C. Carson,
purveyor of milk, an inoffensive Dr. Donald Demke, Wanda Rohr,
individual who loves horses and and Elizabeth Cooper with Dar-
dogs, sends the champ out for the win Hodges as lighting technician,
count, but the newspapers give the Christine Opersteny is in charge
incident a big play. of make-up, assisted by Florence
The fighter’s manager, realiz- Farr and Mary Carpenter. Tom
Parrish is handling sound effects.
A special recording of the
championship fight complete
with sports announcers, gongs
and the roar of a Madison Square
Garden crowd will be heard by
the audience from a radio on the
stage. The record was made by
Parrish, David Haines and Jer
ry Asaro at WTAW.
From opening scene to final cur
tain “The Milky Way” is a battle
of wits versus wills with plenty of
ing how the publicity will dam
age the champ’s reputation, con
ceives the idea of making a
fighter out of the milkman.
Through a series of fixed fights
he builds him into a contender
for the title and a financial as
set.
The scheme prospers until the
milkman’s pretty sister becomes
engaged to the champion and re
fuses to let him meet her brother
in the ring. And there you have the
plot for “The Milky Way,” the robust action including four knock-
comedy that proved a hilarous outs. Prof C. K. Esten, faculty ad-
success on Broadway several sea- visor to the Aggie Players, has
sons back. directed the production.