College Station’s Official Newspaper; Circulated Daily To 90% of Local Residents Battalion WEEKEND WEATHER Partly Cloudy, Scattered Thundershowers PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE 1 Number 162: Volume 51 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1951 Price Five Cents Miss Dorothy Bates Named To Top Honor at CHS Miss Dorothy Bates, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Bates, 1010 Milner East, has been named val edictorian of A&M Consolidated High School. Miss Liz Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Mil ler of 402 North Avenue, is saluta- torian. " Announcement of top honor graduates came this morning from Principal L. E. Boze. Another Loan to India For Foodstuffs Voted by House Washington, May 25—CP)—The House voted Thursday to lend famine-stricken India $190,000,000 to buy American grain and other foodstuffs. It refused to require the Indian government to repay the loan in strategic war materials, but di rected the Economic Cooperation Administration, which would nego tiate terms, to try to get some scarce materials as part of the deal. A companion bill was passed by the Senate last week. The Legisla ture now goes to a Senate-House conference committee to have the differences ironed out. The roll call voted in the House was 293 to 94. The House measure requires the food be purchased in the United States. The EGA would have a free hand in arranging credit terms. ''Administration leaders managed to defeat by a standing vote of 135 to 103 an amendment by Rep. Cox (D-Ga) to write into the bill a requirement that India agree to i^pay the loan with substantial quantities of conazite sands, man ganese, beryl, cyanitehand jute pro ducts, all scarce in the United States and useful in the defense program. Cox also wanted the loan repaid in six years. President Truman has asked Congress to make India gift of the grain, about 2,000,000 tons, as a humanitarian gesture. The gift Viea ran into immediate opposi tion—a great deal of which was traced to India’s refusal to join other members of the United Na tions in branding Red China an aggressor. , honor winner is Miss Helene Boat- ner, daughter of Col. and Mrs. H. L. Boatner, 406 Throckmorton, who won the Bausch and Lomb Science award. Miss Boatner and Jack Burchard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Burchard, 315 Fidelity South, tied for the D.A.R. award offered by the La Villita chapter. Honor graduates are Dorothy Bates, Helene Boatner, Marie Cobb, Jack Burchard, Codie Wells and Liz Miller. Other graduating sen iors are Barbara Belcher, Mary Frances Bond, Richard C. French, Gerald Frenzel, Eddie Ray Guthrie, Roland Jones, Arlene Kietzman, Reba McDermott, Royce Rodgers, Ann Southern, Dorothy Spriggs, Elrose Stahl, Richard Weick and Bobby Williams. Commencement exercises will be held tonight at 8 o’clock in Guion Hall. Commencement address will be delivered by Col. H. L. Boatner, PMS&T at A&M. Principal L. E. Boze will award the scholarships. Mrs. L. S. Paine will present the D. A. R. award. Graduates will be presented by Superintendent L. S. Richardson. Diplomas will be given to the graduates by Dr. Charles La Mottee, president of school board. Invocation wil be said by the Rev. James F. Jackson. Benediction will be asked by the Rev. Thomas A. Swygert. Organ music will be by Frank C. Coulter. The A&M Consolidated Orchestra will play "Queen of Autumn” overture and a selected number. Classes of ’06, ’ll ' Slate Meeting Here May 26-27 Coming together for the first time since 1941, the Classes of ’06 and ’ll will meet on the campus May 26 and 27. The Sul Ross Classes, (’19-20) composed of men who were stu dents at A&M during the presi dency of Lawrence Sullivan Ross, will hold their annual commence- Inent-time class reunion June 1 and l. The Class of ’06 will have a dis- russion of the class’s participation in the 1951 Development Fund, se lection of a class agent, an election ef class officers, and a readipg of the names of deceased Class mem bers. A reunion banquet will be held with each class member present giving a brief report on personal ^experiences since entering A&M in 1902. After a class breakfast Sun day morning, the class picture will The Class of ’ll will follow a ’similar schedule with registration on May 26. During the class dinner, the class will honor those mem bers of the college staff who taught here in 1911 and still reside in the immediate vicinity. The Sul Ross classes are cele brating their Golden Anniversary this year and have 24 living mem bers. Lady Visitors To Stay in PG, Walton Halls Ramp A of Walton Hall and Post Graduate Hall will be used to provide accommodations for visit ing ladies attending the Final Ball and Commencement activities June 1 and 2. Students having guests staying in Walton Hall will be assessed a charge of $1.25 per night per guest to cover cost of matrons and other incidental axpuansfis. Those having guests staying in Post Graduate Hall will be assessed a charge of $1 per night. Guests will be admitted to their rooms at 4 p. m. May 31, and rooms must be vacated by 1 p. m. June 2. Luggage will be removed from the rooms and the dormitor ies will be locked promptly at that time. In compliance with college regu lations, guests staying in the dorms must be in not later than 1 a. m. Friday and 2 a. m. Saturday. Guests must check in with the matron upon their return from the dance. Room assignments may be made by graduating seniors in Room 100, Goodwin Hall beginning at 9 a. m. May 23. Beginning at 8 a. m. May 28, room assignments may be made by all other students. Following presentation of diplo mas the seniors and the audience will sing the song “CHS.” Baccalaureate sermon was held last Sunday in the First Baptist Church. The sermon was delivered by the Rev. Norman Anderson, pastor of A&M Presbyterian church. Reception Honors Geology Students Seniors and graduate students and their wives of the Geology Department were honored at a reception by Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Lynch at their home in North Oak- wood Tuesday. Mr. Lynch is head of the Geology Department. Approximately 75 guests called between the hours of 7:30 and 10 p. m. The refreshment table featured ornate Chinese figurines and greenery as the central decoration. Miss Pat Lynch and Miss Carole Lynch presided at the table during the calling hours. Mac Warned To Join Forces, Says Bradley Washington, May 25—UP)—Gen. Omar N. Bpadley said Thursday and Defense Department twice warned Gen. McArthur last Fall to close the wide gap separating his forces in North Korea. It was through this gap between the Eighth Army on the West and the 10th Corps in the northeast comer that many of the Chinese Communists surged in their great winter offensive, inflicting the heaviest American casualties of the war. Bradley, ending his testimony in the Senate investigation of Mac- Arthur’s dismissal, declined to es timate how many Americans were lost by the Far Eastern comand- er’s disposition of his troops. To Senator Fulbright (D-Ark), who suggested that MacArthur’s “misjudgment” brought about “our heaviest casualties,” the chairman of the Joint Chiefs said: “It is hard to sit back here and say how many of those lost were due to the fact that the right flank was exposed or how many of them were due to the fact that the Chin ese hit him harder than he expect ed.” Senate investigators voted down after heated debate a move by Senator Hickenlooper (R-Iowa) to call Secretary of State Acheson as the next witness. The Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees arranged to hear Gen. J. Lawton Collins, Amy Chief of Staff today. Bradley warned that the U. S. and its North Atlantic Treaty al lies could not stop a Russian ag gression at this time “It may be” he said, “that right at this moment we do have more diplomatic commitments than we can carry out militarily.” He added quickly that this is not reason to back away from the western defense alliance. Inter-Church Picnic Held In an attempt to foster better understanding between members of the various denominations of Col lege Station Churches, the Inter- Church Council entertained with a weiner roast in Hensel Park. Members of Protestant Churches and Jewish Churches participated in the social event. This was the last event planned by the Inter-Church group for the year. About 100 guests were pre sent and the program was given by members of the various church es represented. Extra Graduation Invitations Ready Extra graduation announcements of all types are available now at the Office of Student Activities, according to Mrs. Thellis Rush, of fice receptionist. “Anyone wishing additional an nouncements should pick them up soon as the number is limited,” Mrs. Rush said. Dr. Gould’s Grass Article Published I Dr. Frank Gould, Curator of the Tracy Herbarium and Museum, recently has had his latest publi cation “Grasses of Southwestern United States” released by the * University of Arizona. Dr. Gould, who came to A&M last year, is one of the leading tax onomists in the United States. Batt Publishes Twice Next Week A paper will be published on both Tuesday and Thursday of next week. Regular Summer publication of four times weekly will begin June 5. Battalion Sponsoring MSC Showing of Top News Pics Current visitors in the Memorial Student Center are getting a chance to view some of the top news photographs of the past year. The pictures, selections from the Eighth An nual White House News Photographers News Photo Exhibit, are being shown in the MSC by The Battalion. The Battalion recently had the collection of 388 photos shipped here from Washington. Covering every subject, the pictures were chosen by WHNP members as their finest photos of the year. One of the shots, entitled “Koreans Flee Communist Hordes,” was recently awarded a Pulitzer Prize. Max Desfor of the Associated Press took the picture of Pyongyang refu gees crawling over girders to flee across the Taedong River. The WHNP is an association of still, newsreel and tele vision cameramen who pictorially cover all news of a nation-; al interest originating in Washington. Their assignments! as in the case of the Korean War, carry them all over the globe. The pictures are located in display cases on either side of the MSC Promenade and have attracted large crowds in the few days they have been shown. Get Players A wards Alice Burke (left) and Mary Eleanor Vaden were among the members of the Aggie Players who were awarded service keys for work dur- nig the past year.. These awards were presented at the first annual awards banquet held Wednesday at the MSC. At Awards Banquet Players Honored For Year’s Work C. G. “Spike” White, head of Student Activities, pledged the con tinued support of his office to the Aggie Players when that organiza tion held its first annual awards banquet Wednesday evening at the Memorial Student Center with forty members and guests in at tendance. White, his assistant, Pete Hard esty, and Dr. T. F. Mayo, head of the English department were Measles Leads Morbidity List Figures released by the Brazos County Health Unit show measles with 46 cases to be the leading disease in the Bryan-College Sta tion area at the present time. In the week ending May 19, 30 cases of measles were-reported in Bryan with 16 cases in College Station. Nine cases of mumps were reported in Bryan and 3 cases in Colege Station. According to the report, Bryan has the majority of illnesses re ported in this area, although all cases are small in number. Other diseases reported are chickenpox, septic sore throat, in fluenza, and diarrhea. Two cases of tuberculosis were reported in the area. guests of honor at the banquet at which M. C. “Pete” Carson, pr-esi- dent of the Aggie Players, presid ed. Following brief talks by White and Mayo, who accorded the Play ers the whole hearted endorsement of the English department, recog nition was given C. K. Esten, fac ulty advisor, for his contributions to the success of the past season. Although the Players will not meet formally again until next September, some of the members plan to assist with the production of “H. M. S. Pinafore,” the operetta scheduled for presentation in July as a highlight of the summer rec reation program. After the presentation of awards by Dr. Mayo, the program conclud ed with a pantomine skit enacted by Sarah Puddy and Jack Cockrun. Service keys for work during the past year were received by Esten, Carson, Alice Burke, Mary Eleanor Vaden, Dr. Donald Demke, Florence Farr, Christine Opersteny, Harry Gooding, Bill Guthrie, Jack Cock- run, Bob Travis, John Caple Mary Carpenter, Wanda Rohr, Barbara Hodges, Darwin Hodges, Carl Ste phens and Alta Walker. Certificates of merit were pre sented to David Haines, Donald Burchard, Adele Gooding, Herman Gollob, Sarah Puddy, Tom Parish, Jerry Asaro, Teresa Renghofer, Elizabeth Cooper, Erma Waldon, Mildred Phillips, Pat Morley, Doyle Smith, Jean Robbins and Eleanor Burchard. Showers Cover the State In Center, South and West By The Associated Press Good rains fell in South Texas Thursday from the Victoria area west to Del Rio. Light but general showers fell in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. A line of thunderstorms played in West Texas. The Weather Bureau expected thundershowers to move into Central Texas during the night. A day-long rain fell at Houston. Thundershowers skipped in other sections of the state. Winds of 40 miles an hour blew sand at El Paso, reducing visibility to a quar ter mile. A drouth-breaking rain of 4.73 inches hit Crystal City in the Win ter Garden section. The heavy rains and high winds put some 300 telephone lines out of order. Zavalla County hadn’t had a good rain since last September, and it was welcomed for cotton, ran ges, spinach and carrots. Del Rio, on the border, had 2.81 inches. In the mountain section Tax Valuation To Stay Same Overall property valuations in College Station are not expected to increase when the tax rolls go to the equalization board sometime in June, Ran Boswell, tax assessor and collector, has announced. Boswell said that if the value of a piece of property has increased by improvements made since the last tax roll, the valuation will be raised. “But,” he added, “there are no blanket raises being con sidered. Completion of the new tax rolls have been delayed because of the large amount of new building in the city and the extension of the city limits, according to Boswell. The equalization board will study valuations set in the rolls and pre pare any recommendations for changes. It will notify property owners when public hearings will be held. westward Marfa had .70. The severe thunderstorm in the Del Rio area was accompanied by 57 mile wind guests. Heavy rains, amounting to as much as 3% inch es at Dilley, were reported in Frio County. Another rain was needed in a week or ten days for pastures. A downpour Thursday struck Gonzales, east of San Antonio. The rain broke that town’s longest drouth period in 25 years. Farm ers welcomed it. Recent gully washers in the same section had missed Gonzales. Rains ranging from a half inch at Victoria to 514 inches at Tilden, on the Frio River watershed, fell across South Texas. In this rain area were McMullen, Kenedy, Karnes City, Three Rivers, Oak ville, Runge, Cuero, Lapryor, aCr- rizo Springs, Pearsall, Sabinal, Tu- leta, Bracketville, and Devine. ASLA Members Convene Sunday Members and junior associates of the American Society of Land scape Architects will meet in Room 2A, MSC, May 27 at 2 p. m. “The purpose of the meeting,” says Wallace M. Ruff of the De partment of Floriculture and Land scape Architecture, “is to discuss the possibility of initiating a south west chapter of the society.” A&M Slaughtered 21-4 By Arizona To Even Series At One Apiece Ags Allow 15 Walks, Commit Seven Errors FSA Council Sets Planning Meet Saturday The Former Students Associa tion’s 1951 program, future policies and management plans will be de termined at a meeting of the FSA Council Saturday and Sunday in the MSC. The Council will also hear reports from standing com mittees arid special nominating committees and elect officers. Plans for A&M’s circulating foot ball film library will be discussed. On Saturday, the meeting will get underway with registration beginning at 1 p. m. At 4 p. m., tours through the MSC will be made by the councilmen. The Coun cil’s main business session will be held at 8 p. m. Following a group breakfast for the councilmen Sunday morn ing, a meeting will be held at 9:30 to' discuss items not completed during the Saturday session. Before the election of officers, a report of the Student Loan Fund Trustees will be made by Chair man A. F. Mitchell, ’12. The func tions of the Association’s club program and class program com mittees will be discussed in reports by Committee Chairmen C. G. Al bert, ’29, and Lambert Ballard, ’22. Nominating procedure for council- men will be discussed by J. A. Scofield, ’13. A report by A. E. Caraway, re tiring president, will be followed by a report on the operation of the Association’s offices by Executive Secretary J. B. Hervey, ’42. George B. Morgan, ’18, who auto matically becomes president for the coming year after presently holding the vice president position,' Avill also make a report to the Council. Athletic Director Barlow D. “Bones” Irvin, Football Coach Ray George, and Basketball Coach John Floyd, will be guests of the Coun cil at the Sunday breakfast. Also present will be Track Frank An derson and Baseball Coach R. C. “Beau” Bell. Nominating Committee Chair man R. Dick Winters, ’16, will pre sent nominee recommendations for the Association’s new officers and other vacancies on the boards and committees. Vacancies will be filled for the new officers, three Executive Board members, nine district vice- presidents for Texas, two out-of- state vice-presidents three loan fund trustees, a representative to the athletic council, and two repre sentatives to the executive board. Today Last Day To File Application In Deferment Test Tonight at midnight is the last date granted for students to file applications who wish to take the Selective Service college qualifica tion tests which may exempt them fro mcall to military service. The tests are open to all stu dents who do not have ROTC or other deferments. Blanks for filing these applica tions may be picked up in the of fices of the Basic Division. First tests at A&M will be con ducted Saturday morning in the Chemistry lecture room. Further tests will be given on June 16 and June 30. The student classification plan provides that local boards may consider college and university stu dent deferments on the basis of capacity to learn as demonstrated by the test score, or upon scholas tic performance as evidenced by class standing. Truck Load of Elephants Wakes Up Sleepy Trooper Butler, Pa.—(AP)—“I just saw an elephant alongside the road.” This remark shocked a sleepy trooper at the state police barracks here into wakefulness. “It is pink?” the cautious trooper asked. “I didn’t stop to look,” the phone caller answered. The trooper was very skeptical, but decided to investi gate. He did—and found an elephant. In fact, he found several elephants. A circus truck had broken down and the cargo of ele phants unloaded while the truck was repaired. By FRED WALKER Battalion Sports Editor With the aid of wild Aggie pitching and miscues afield, the University of Arizona Wildcats unmercifully clawed a faltering A&M baseball team 21-to-4 to even the District 6 (NCAA) playoffs at 1-1 and send the series into its third and final game today in Tucson. Scoring in every inning but the eighth, the Arizona host nine tallied at will and pushed run after run across the avenging home plate. The Wildcats sought vengeance with a will for its “hand out” first game taken by the Aggies, as they found Cadet starter Bob Tankersley throwing far from the plate and slashed the big righthander for seven runs in the first frame on a combination of two hits, seven♦“ walks, two errors, two stolen bases and one passed ball. Only thirteen hits were collected by Arizona, a comparatively low number for 21 runs, but the total addition of 15 bases on balls, sev en errors and a hit batsman here or there by the Aggies, sent the Tucsonites off to a flying start which they repeatedly built up. A&M found Wildcat pitcher “Lefty” Dick Corrigan a tough puzzle and the Southwest Confer ence invaders could not solve him for but eight hits and four runs. The Aggies picked up their first tally in the top of the second as they trailed 7-to-0. After third baseman Henry Candelari flied out to right field, Catcher Al Ogle- tree’s single over second started a short-lived rally. Today’s baseball game between the Aggies and the University of Arizona will begin at 4 p.m. (Central Standard Time) and will be broadcast by the half in nings over Station WTAW. This is the final game of (he three game series and it will de cide the winner of NCAA Dis trict 6 and the representative to the national playoffs in Omaha, Nebraska. Blanton Taylor or possibly Rat Hubert will start for the Aggies. The Arizona starter is unknown. ★ Corrigan then walked first base- man Bill Munnerlyn and Candelari advanced to second. After relief pithcer Sid Goodloe fanned, captain Guy Wallace drew life at first on Wildcat Ron Nicely’s error. With the bases loaded, Corrigan walked shortstop Joe Ecrette to force home Ogletree from third. Yale Lary then flied out to center fielder Rog er Johnson and the inning was ov er. Arizona pushed across two more runs in their half of the second on two hits, one error and a walk. Bill “Shug” McPherson was safe on first to lead off the third inning for the Aggies, as once again Nice ly hobbled one at shortstop. Cen- terfielder John DeWitt was walked by Corrigan, and with men on first and second, Candelari singled Mc Pherson home with a liner to left Ogletree then singled through the hole between short and second to advance DeWitt and Candelari to thii-d and second respectively. Only One With the bases FOA (Full of Aggies) and none out, Munnerlyn hit into a double-play, short-to-sec- ond-to-first to make it two away and two runs in as DeWitt scored from third. Corrigan then struck out Goodloe to end the inning. In their half of the third, the Wildcats collected the same num ber of hits, walks and Aggie bob bles as in the preceeding frame, to add three more tallies and go ahead 12-to-3. A& M scored once in the fourth on Don Quigley’s error, Ecrette’s single and McPherson’s one base blow. Arizona’s answering attack was a two-run jump on no hits, one error and three walks, and at the end of four complete innings, the score stood Texas A&M 4 and the Arizona Wildcats 14. 3 Up, 3 Down The Aggies were three up and three down in the top of the fifth, and in the bottom of the frame, Arizona picked up another tally on two hits, two walks and one error to send them ahead 15-to-4. Wallace led off the sixth by beating out an infield hit, but the Aggie shortstop was forced at sec ond by McPherson two outs later to end the inning. The Wildcats continued on their scoring spree by picking up one run on one hit, one walk and one error. At the end of the six complete innings, the score was 16-to-4, Arizona. Except for Candelari’s base on balls, the seventh inning was rou- (Continued on Page 3) Entertainment Planned For Summer Term The complete program for the Summer Entertainment Series to be held at the Grove during the summer semesters has been an nounced by C. G. White, assistant dean of men for activities. The program, financed from stu dent activity fees, is designed pri marily for students and college employees. Because of competition with local free enterprise, the gen eral public is not invited to the movies shown at the Grove. Dur ing the movie nights it will be necessary for college employees and their families to present some form of identification at the gate. Golden Gate Quartet The Golden Gate Ensemble, a colored quartet, will present a concert on June 14. On June 26, Ray Mayer and “his nimble fin gers” will present magic in a dif ferent light. “H. M. S. Pinafore,” Gilbert and Sullivan’s musical comedy, will be presented by Bill Turner with a community cast and orchestra on July 10 and 11. At the present time, there are vacancies in the operetta cast and in the orchestra, according to White. Interested per sons are requested to contact Tur ner as soon as possible, The Royal Scots, singing quin tet, who’s .selections include classics popular ballads, and selections from musical comedies, will present a concert on July 18. Movies, Skating, Dancing On Monday, Tuesday, and Thurs day of each week, movies will be shown. Skating and juke box danc ing will be the program for Wed nesday and Sunday nights. Skates will be available for rent at the concession booth. The Aggieland Combo under the direction of Bill Turner will play for the dances each Friday night except July 13. For the Friday night dances, the formation of par ties of students and employees is suggested by White. Square Dancing Each Saturday night except July 14 has been designed for square dancing. The square dancing and instruction will be the charge of Mr. and Mrs. Erskine Hightower. The A&M softball team will play out-of-town teams on the lighted softball diamond next to the Grove. The softball schedule is not yet completed but an intramural game will be played on the diamond every night except Friday. The college golf course will be open during the daylight hours all Summer. The Faculty and Staff Free Instructional Clinic offered by Joe Fagan, pro-manager of the course, will continue on every Mon day and Wednesday at 5 p. m. Awards Won By Aggies in Contest J. M. Schroeder of 410 East 5th St., Dallas, a senior landscape major, won a Blue Seal award in a judgment of the Inter-Collegiate Class A, No. 3a Landscape Ex change Problem, “A Motor Inn.” Two other A&M men, Willis Hartman of Spring Grove, Pa., and R. L. Sturdivant of 3706 Miles, Dallas, won recognition' for their work. The judgment was held at the Department of Landscape Archi tecture, University of Massachu setts, today said Wallace M. Ruff of the Department of Floriculture and Landscape Architecture.