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Number 166: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1951
Price Five Cents
New Freshmen Hear Activity
Program Outlined at Meeting
By JOEL AUSTIN
Battalion Editor
“Academic achievement is what
you came here for. How well you
do will depend greatly on how
I well you get along with people be
cause if you get along with people
ti in college work you can be as-
■ sured of gaining greater academic
achievement.”
Those were the words of ad-
i| vice spoken to Basic Division fresh
men last night by Dr. C. Clement
French, dean of the college, at an
!§, orientation meeting in the MSC.
“Your employer will expect
many things of you when you come
■t out of college. What you do in
rl the next four years will have a
direct bearing on whether or not
■i: you fulfill his expectations,” Dr.
^f'rench said.
Factual Knowledge
The dean cited the importance
| of factual knowledge and intellect
Apifo the major characteristics looked
B^^r in the prospective employee.
“The basic reason you came here
was to leam something. Don’t
learn something in the exclusion
of all other things, but by all
means get a well rounded educa
tion,” he said.
Presiding at the meeting of ap
proximately 230 freshmen military
students, Dr. John Bertrand, dean
of the Basic Division, next intro
duced W. L. Penberthy, dean of
men.
Dean Penberthy stressed the im
portance of extra-curricula activi
ties in the college program.
“Your spai’e time can curse you
or bless you according to the way
you spend it—it’s up to you,” he
said.
Function of Office
The dean also explained the func
tions of the Dean of Men’s office
and what services are made avail
able to students from it.
Dean Penberthy introduced Bar
ney Welch director of Intramurals
at A&M. Welch told the freshmen
about the vast intramural pre-
All Happy Now
Divorce Receives
‘Poetic Justice 9
Tyler, June 6—t®—Tyler di-
: vorce lawyer F. G. Swanson filed
a petition in verse.
Graven Beard, attorney for the
defense, replied in kind.
Then today, Judge Otis T. Duna-
■t gan followed suit in ruling on the
■ case.
The result including a happy end-
B ing, was poetic.
Motion to dismiss in the case of
^ Nell Hayes vs Robert D. Hayes:
The parties to this cause can
now relate
Surprisingly again, they’ve
cleared the slate.
However rough the pleadings
herein filed,
They now admit again, they’re
reconciled.
Alone, the roughness fades;
’twas worse than tough.
So, once again, they’ll try to
Police Officer
Tells Galveston
To Clean House
Galveston, June 6—(AP) —
0 The state’s top police officer
warned Galveston today to
“clean house” or he would
send in the Texas Rangers to
do the job.
Director of Public Safety Homer
Garrison Jr. arrived with State
Rep. Fred Meridith of Terrell for
the Texas Police Association Con
vention. Meridith is chairman of
the House Crime Investigation
Committee which recently held a
lengthy closed session on the opera
tions of the Maceo interests in
Galveston.
“Galveston has been a thorn in
my side” but “new information”
uncovered by the crime probe would
enable his state police force to en
force state laws here.
“Either Galveston itself will
clean house or the rangers will
come in and do it,” he said.
“Galveston is trying to live in
/tn world of its own,” Meridith said.
1 volt is trying to segrate itself
^from the balance of the state. The
gambling situation is not Galves-
’ton’s problem. It is the state’s
problem.”
Meridith said that illegitimate
businesses in Texas last year took
in nearly $4,000,000. He named
gamblers, i-acketeers and hoodlums
as operators of the illegitimate en
terprises.
He cited results of his commit
tee’s investigation in Galveston,
“which it has been vividly shown
that a small handful of men have
banded themselves together in pro
moting the violations of our state
laws.”
He named these violations as
sale of liquor by the drink, operat
ing of gambling houses with open
dice and roulette tables, public
operation of lotteries, such as tip
books on a “large scale operation,
display of slot machines, transmis
sion and broadcast of horseracing
information, open and admitted
bookmaking and gambling.”
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live together,
Each hoping, praying for less
stormy weather.
With plans completed for a
chance of scene, they hope to
live quite happy and serene.
Wherefore, with all above al
leged, confessed,
Proceeding here, we move they
be dismissed.
—F. G. Swanson, attorney for
plaintiff.
Defendant’s reply:
“ . . . attorneys for defendant
are glad Swanson saw his
blunder;
“What God hath joined togeth
er let no man put asunder.”
—Craven Beard, attorney for de
fendant.
Court’s Ruling:
“In the above case, lawyers
Swanson and Beard admit
A boner they pulled when they
encouraged a fit.
Between plaintiff and defendant
to gain an end
That happens too often because
of the trend.
Domestic relations are talked in
this our today
Away from the principles and
precepts of yesterday;
So it is ordered, adjudged and
decreed,
That the Swanson-Beard prac
tice be adopted in deed;
And this cause in all things dis
missed
So the parties may continue in
wedded bliss.
—Otis T. Dunagan, 7th District
court.
Plant Breeders
Meeting Here
Plant breeders from 13 south
ern states, Puerto Rico and the U.
S. Department of Agriculture yes
terday opened a two-day discus
sion here of world plants.
The breeders wanted to know
the plants’ possible adaptation to
growing conditions in the south
ern states.
gram carried on at A&M, and he
encouraged their participation in
the numerous sports scheduled for
the summer.
The intramural director asked
the boys to “get to know each
other” and be better equipped to
play as a team in the sports sche
duled.
Pete Hardesty of the Student
Activities Office was next on the
program after an introduction from
Dean Penberthy.
The Student Activities business
manager explained the functions of
that office and of his duties as
sponsor of the college clubs sys
tem.
Hardesty explained the various
programs sponsored by Student Ac
tivities. He urged interested stu
dents to join the Singing Cadets,
The Aggieland Oi’chestra, and oth
er campus groups.
Next on the schedule was a
short “sermon” from Roland Bing,
manager of Student Publications.
Bing told the boys, as a word of
advice, “Be your own self at your
very best all the time and you will
achieve success in any endeavor.”
Publications Program
Bing outlined the student pub
lications program to the new stu
dents and urged them to become
a member of one of the publica
tion staffs. He asked for students
interested in working on the only
active Summer publication, The
Battalion, to meet him after the
meeting.
M. E. Thomas of the Memorial
Student Center staff explained the
functions of that building and told
the freshmen of the many activi
ties available to them there during
leisure time.
Dr. Bertrand adjourned the meet
ing to The Grove where a free
movie was shown.
School Laundry
Lists Schedule
For Summer
The laundry schedule for
all summer school students
has been released by Bennie
A. Zinn, assistant dean of
men.
Dormitory students whose last
names begin with the letter A
through L will turn in laundry be
fore 9 a. m. on Mondays. Those
students with last names begin
ning with the letters M through
Z will turn in laundiy before 9
a, m. on Tuesdays.
All students living in dormitor
ies 14, 15, 16, 17, and Walton will
turn in laundry at the West end
of P. G. Hall, while students living
in Milner and Bizzell turn in
laundry at the Hart Hal station.
All day students, including those
living in College Apartments, will
turn in laundry at the main office
on Mondays before 9 a. m. College
employees will turn in laundry at
the same time and place as day
students.
Each student is allowed 23 pieces
per bundle each week and all extra
pieces will be charged accordingly.
Students who send more than one
bundle a week will be charged 75
cents for each extra bundle.
All dormitory stations will be
closed from 1 p. m. to 2 p. m.
daily, and closed all day Saturday,
according to Zinn.
Greets New Prexy
:
Bolton to Attend
Florida Assembly
Dr. F. C. Bolton, President
Emeritus of the College, and the
Rev. A. T. Dyal, pastor of the
First Presbytertan Church of Bry
an, will represent Brazos Presby
tery as commissioners at the Gen
eral Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church, U. S.
If The meeting will be held in Or
lando, Fla., June 7-12. I
Executive Committee
George B. Morgan ’18
A. E. Caraway ’34, retiring president of the Former Students As
sociation, greets newly elected prexy George B. Morgan ’18, who
took over the reins of that organization recently. Morgan
is president of the Beaumont Natural Gas Company in Beaumont.
Posing for a picture between sessions of a recent
conference here are members of the A&M For
mer Students Association Executive Committee.
They are (left to right, front row) Bob Sherman
’24, Waco; Oscar Hotchkiss ’24, Port Arthur;
Jiggs Freeman ’22, Shreveport; Dutch Sebesta
’32, Marlin; Dick Hervey, ’42, Executive Secre
tary, College Station. Standing on the back row
are Ed Caraway ’34, retiring president, Dallas;
A. F. Mitchell ’09, new vice-president, Corsi
cana; George Morgan ’18, new president, Beau
mont; Louis Bloodworth ’32, AVichita Falls; and
N. E. Buescher ’22, McAllen.
OPS Schedules ‘Home Folks’
Meeting in Bryan June 12
Scheduling price stabalization
meetings on the “home folks” level,
the Houston District Office of Price
Stabilization is sending representa
tives to Bryan Tuesday, June 12 to
conduct a prices clinic and help
merchants and businessmen comply
With government regulations.
The price clinic will be held in
the Bryan City Library from 9
a. m. until 12 noon, sponsored by
the Bryan Chamber of Commerce.
OPS Representative
Four OPS representatives will
conduct the clinic and counsel with
businessmen. They are W. B. Foulis
of the consumer goods branch,
Joseph J. Gatti of the food branch,
A. G. Bader of the fuel and chemi
cals branch and E. N. Riechardt
of the industrial materials and
manufactured products branch.
Retailers, wholesalers, restau
rant operators and slaughterers of
Brazos County and vicinity are
urged to attend the clinic and
bring their problems on price regu
lations, Charles H. Winerich, Jr.,
director of the Houston OPS, said.
Explaining that he has elaborat
ed on the price clinic program so
that merchants may have the ser
vices of OPS representative in their
home communities, Winerich said
that the OPS was cooperating in
every way to make it easier and
quicker for retailers and whole
salers to comply with government
regulation and record-keeping re-
Wildlife Group
Leaves on Field
Trip to Mexico
Nineteen members of the
Wildlife Management Depart
ment left the campus Tuesday
for Victoria, Mexico, for field
studies in botony and wildlife
techniques.
The group, accompanied by Dr.
Leonard Wing, wildlife manage
ment professor and Chester M.
Rowell, biology instmetor, will
work in coordination with the Tex
as Game, Fish and Oyster Commis
sion and the United States De
partment of Interior, Fish and
Wildlife Service, on the project
concerning the AVhite Wing Dove.
It is believed that doves from that
area of Mexico might possibly help
to populate some sections of Tex
as.
In addition, the group will make
a botonnical study of a section
of Mexico, near Victoria, ranging
from the lowlands to the foothills
of the mountains in that area. A
study of the desert area near Vic
toria will also be made.
Results of such studies in the
past have been the discovering of
unknown species. That is what
this years group is expecting to ac
complish, according to Dr. Wing.
While on the field trip, the
group will camp out, living in tents
and studying by gasoline lanterns,
for the six weeks of their studies.
quirements. He said that it was es
sential for merchants to retain
their records at their places of bus
iness in order to comply.
Meat retailers in the 39 South
east Texas counties comprising the
Houston District have until June
18 to post official OPS retail
beef ceiling price lists, Winerich
announced.
Because of delays in printing the
official lists, the OPS extended the
posting requirement for two weeks
from June 4. Retail ceiling prices
above which retailers can not
charge for beef went into effect
May 14 and posting of the offi
cial ceilings had been scheduled to
begin within 20 days.
Kosher Beef
The extension does not apply to
the ceiling price list for kosher beef
sold at retail. The kosher lists will
be available in ample quantity by
June 11, the date for their posting.
Although the retail beef posting
time is being extended until June
18, retailers have been required
since May 14 to display the individ
ual prices for cuts of beef by
grades. These prices must not be
more than the ceiling price. When
the official lists are available,
housewives will have a readily
available check that these prices
are not in excess of official OPS
ceilings.
The 8 by 17-inch posters in black
ink on white paper are now being
prepared by the government print
ing office.
Display Lists
Retailers may display the price
lists as soon as they get copies
from the district office. They may
use either the official list which
will be furnished free of one that
is an exact copy of the official
OPS list if the planting is legible
and at least as large.
The price list must be placed at
or near where the meat is sold and
where customers can readily see
and read it. At least one list must
be. posted for each 20 feet of meat
counter space.
Schoolboy Apologizes For
‘Borrowing’ Steam Engine
London, June 6—DP)—A shiny, black railroad engine
gleamed in the sunshine on a track in the yards today. Steam
hissed into the air to show it was ready for work.
Suddenly there was a grinding noise, the brake lever
went up and the engine began to move. Smoke belched from
its stack as it lumbered about 30 yards down the track.
Then it stopped, churned backward and came to a halt
on almost exactly the same spot from which it started.
A small, sooty schoolboy peered from the engineer’s cab,
slid to the ground and slapped the dirt from his hands.
“Sorry mister,” he said to the red-faced station foreman
who came running up, “I always wanted to do it. But I put
it back, didn’t I?”
Camera Club Schedules
Discussions in MSC
The MSC Camera Club gets its
Summer program underway tomor
row night with the first of a ser
ies of “print discussions.” An open
invitation has been extended by
the president of the club to “anyone
interested in improving the quality
of their pictures.”
Scheduled for 7:30 tomorrow
evening in the MSC, the print dis
cussions will be presented in terms
understandable to the layman, ac
cording to club officers.
“Because he uses a box camera
or Brownie is no reason why a per
son should not be just as interested
Alexander Will Go
To SBSUC Meeting
David K. Alexander, director of
the Baptist Student Union at A&M,
left Sunday for Ridgecrest, N. C.
to attend the Southwide Baptist
Student Union Conference meeting
the 6th through 14th. Alexander
will participate on the Southwide
program at various times through
out the session.
in improving his pictures as the
person who uses an expensive cam
era,” Henry Cole, club president
said.
The Camera Club’s purpose is to
help everyone get better pictures
and more enjoyment from their
picture taking. And our series of
print discussions are being present
ed in line with this purpose, Cole
said.
Developing and printing, a sec
ond feature of the club’s Summer
program, will be taught to those
interested. Persons wishing to re
ceive this instruction will have ac
cess to the MSC darkroom facil
ities and a regular meeting sche
dule will be arranged, Cole said.
“The darkroom is completely
equipped for the processing of
roll film and cut film up to four
or five inches Cole explained.
Assisting Cole in the Camera
Club program this Summer are
Alvin Aaronson, vice-president;
and J. R. Alderice, treasurer.
Refreshments will be served at
tomorrow night’s meeting.
Mud, Commies
Hold Allies To
Two Mile Gain
Tokyo, June 6—6*?)— United Na
tions troops smashed forward a
mile or two today through Korean
mud and Red defenses.
Tight censorship blacked out
just what happened. Or how close
Allies pressed to the vital Red
Chorwon-Kumhwa-Pyonggang tri
angle facing the central front.
Close censorship often screens
important battlefront actions.
Eighth Army troops gained one
to nearly two miles around Yon-
chon on the Western approaches to
Chorwon.
A tank patrol, stabbing out to
ward Chorwon, probed 2V> miles
in front of Allied lines. It ran a
gantlet of heavy fire from Com
munists dug in along ridges on
both sides of the road.
Reds Pull Back
On the Eastern approaches to
the troop and supply triangle, Reds
pulled back as much as three miles
between Hwachon and Kumhwa.
They withdrew to stronger defen
ses under cover of night, protected
by small rear guard forces.
U. N. troops followed cautiously.
They combed the wooded hills as
they moved up taking no chances
of walking into a Red trap.
The Eighth army gave this pic-
ture of the front Wednesday:
• WEST: Only patrol action on
the dragging left flank South of
the 38th Parallel. Gains of up to
two miles near Yonchon, six miles
North of the border.
• CENTER: U. N. forces gained
a little more than a half mile in
the Yongpyong area; one to two
miles to the East and Northeast.
Limited gains were made in the
Hwachon area.
• EAST: Reds put up heavy re
sistance North and Northeast of
Yanggu at the Eastern end of
Hwachon reservoir. This was the
communique’s only reference to
heavy resistance.
AP Correspondent George A.
McArthur said fierce fighting
flared all along the Eastern sector
from Yanggu to Inje.
Slight Gains
North Koreans, fighting stub
bornly from their dugouts in the
hills, held attacking allies to slight
gains above Yanggu.
U. N. infantrymen attacked
through a mortar barrage North
and Northeast of Inje. They hack
ed out small gains.
“Despite mounting Red resist
ance,” McArthur reported, “There
were no indications that the Com
munists were fighting anything but
a defensive action.”
He said no Chinese were en
countered in the area, only North
The Fifth Air Force reported
that with a letup in the rains it
mounted 456 air strikes during the
day. Pilots complained a low haze
hampered their effectiveness.
Ground Fighting—Light
The Eighth Army described vir
tually all ground fighting as light
to moderate. But the headquar-
ers’ view of what constitutes light
or heavy fighting doesn’t neces
sarily agree with the viewpoint of
the doughboy actually in the fight.
Field reports said Allies were
less than ten miles from Chorwon,
western gateway to the.wide and'
long Pyonggang Valley. The flat
lands, beyond the rugged ridges
over which the infantrymen are
fighting, is ideal tank country.
Students Can
Still Take
Draft Tests
Students who were sche
duled to take the Selective
Service college qualification
test on May 26 and did not
due to circumstances beyond
their control may get a chance at i
a later test.
Brigadier General Paul L. Wake- I
field, state Selective Service di- j
rector, was advised to this effect |
today in a telegram from Major j
General Lewis B. Hcrshey, national |
director of Selective Service.
Previously, test rules made it!
impossible for any student to take
the test if he missed it for any
reason.
Text of the official telegram re
ceived is as follows:
“Students who were issued tick
ets for the May 26th test and were
precluded from taking test by cir
cumstance beyond their control
should immediately write to the
Selective Service Examining Sec
tion, Educational Testing Service,
P. O. Box 586, Princeton, N. J.,
explaining the circumstances and
returning their ticket of admission,
if available.
“New tickets will be issued for
later test in deserving cases.”
MSC Library
Receives Books
f rom Perry
George Sessions Perry, Tex
as author, autographed eight
of his past works for the A&M
student body in the MSC
Browsing Library Monday.
The novelist inscribed, “Present
ed to the Memorial Student Ceutef
Browsing Library with the best
wishes of George Sessions Perry,”
in the eight books which weru
presented to the library a few'
moments earlier by the Associa
tion of Former Students.
At the present time, Perry is
writing a historical resume of A&M
in novel form for the Association
as a 1951 Development Fund pro
ject.
The autographed books, which
are available for student use, are
Hold Autumn in Your Hand, Hack-
berry Cavalier, Texas-A World in
Itself, Where Away, My Granfty
Van Families of America, Walls
Rise Up,' and Tale of a Foolish
Farmer, his latest novel.
Architects Seek
Permit to Organize
Texas landscape architects have
voted to petition the board of
trustees of the American Society
of Landscape Architects for per
mission to create a Southwest
Chapter of the society, Wallace M.
Ruff, of the Department of Flor
iculture and Landscape Architec
ture, said today.
At a meeting here Friday a
committee was named to present
the group’s intention to Bradford
Williams, corresponding secretary
of the society, Boston. A prelim
inary constitution and by-laws will
be prepared, Ruff says.
The committee is composed of
Robert F. White, College Station;
Homer L. Fry, Austin; Donald D.
Obert Fort Worth; Herbert L.
Skogland and Ralph S. Ellifrit,
Houston, members of the ASLA.
Dr. D. A. Price
Conference Speaker
Veterinary
Conference
Slated Here
The men whose job it is to keep
Texas livestock healthy will gath
er at A&M College Thursday and
Friday for the fourth annual Texas
Conference for Veterinarians.
Leading authorities in many
phases of veterinary science from
several other states, as ’well as
faculty members of the A&M Col
lege School of Veterinary Medicine,
Will appear on the program.
Included are Dr. G. T. Easley,
veterinarian of the Turner Ranch,
Sulphur, Okla.; Dr. G. R. Moore,
professor of veterinary surgery
and medicine, Michigan State Col
lege, and W. M. Coffee, general
practioner of La Center Ky., and
president of the American Veter
inary Medical Association.
Dr. R. D. Turk, head of the
A&M Veterinary Parasitology De
partment, is chairman of the com
mittee responsible for arranging
the annual conference.
He has been assisted by Drs. W.
W. Armistead, H. A. Smith, Leon
C. Gibbs and F. P. Jaggi, Jr., all
of A&M.