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173: Volume SI
The Battalion
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1951
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American Jet Pilots Engage
Reds for Third Straight Day
Tokyo, June 19—UP)—F o r the
third straight day American pilots
today beat Red airmen in a big
jet battle over northwestern Korea.
:1 ' U. S. sabre jets damaged four
Russian-type MIG-15’s Tuesday as
allied infantrymen knocked North
Koreans off key ridges on the east
ern battlefront. On the sea fronts
United Nations warships silenced
a challenge by accurate Communist
shore batteries.
| Twenty-seven sabre jets battled
30 Red jets Tuesday in the most
.evenly matched of the current air
lights. They ran their three-day
score to six Red jets shot down, 12
damaged.
4-H Contests
cheduled Here
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For June 26,27
Texas Four-H Club boys
and girls will participate in
16 judging and team demon
stration contests at A & M
Monday, June 25, in connec
tion with the State Four-H Round-
Up which is scheduled for June 2G
and 27.
I A. H. Karcher, Jr., assistant
state Four-H leader, estimates ap
proximately 000 boys and girls
.will compete in the contests. Two
teams from each of the 14 Texas
#.Extension Service districts are
eligible to compete in the pro
grams.
The program of the Four-H
' Round-Up will be highlighted by
* a speech by Mr. E. N. Holmgreen,
Chief of Food and Agriculture
fpF.xtensiion Service, Economic Ad-
■ministration, Washington, D. C.,
5|in Guion Hall at 8:15 a. m. on
June 26. Holmgreen’s topic will
.'■ ; 'be “Working Together For World
■Understanding.”
The Four-H teams, with their
local leaders, will arrive on the
•. campus Sunday, June 24. A reli-
gious program with Four-H mem
bers in charge is planned for Sun
day evening.
; This program called “Evensong”,
1;; is something of a vesper service.
,■ It will consist of a “Let’s Get Ac
quainted” session, and an addi'ess,
A “Is World Understanding Neces-
C: sary?” by Dr. Harry V. Rankin,
tC minister of the First Methodist
* Church, Bryan.
The battle spread over a wide
area around Sonchon, 35 miles
from the Manchurian border. It
was the deepest recent penetration
of Korea by Red jets in force.
The Fifth Air Force did not say,
as it usually does, that all sabre
jets returned safely from Tuesday’s
air battle.
Opened Artillery Barrage
North Koreans opened up with a
terrific artillery barrage in an ef
fort to halt allied infantrymen in
the East. But U. N. troops drove
ahead two miles in their deepest
penetration of that front this year
and straightened allied battle lines.
Breaking out in a smashing pinc
ers movement on an othenvise quiet
front they captured heights look
ing down on a punchbowl valley the
Reds have used as a supply and
assembly center.
The drive carried allies within
artillery range of a mountain area
alive with Red activity. A corps
spokesman said the Communists
may be building up there for a
new offensive.
Eighty miles to the northwest
Communist shore batteries fought
an hour and a half artillery duel
with besieging United Nations war
ships.
The shore-to-sea battle erupted
Tuesday afternoon at Wonsan, east
coast port besieged more than four
months. Accurate Red fire burst
close to U. N. warships and shrap
nel splattered on the decks.
Silenced Shore Batteries
Marine Corsair fighter planes
and naval gunfire silenced the
shore batteries.
“The Red guns scored many near
misses,” the Navy said, “but only
slight shrapnel punctures were in
flicted on U. N. ships.”
American planes swept freely
through a cloudless sky and ham
mered Reds across North Korea.
Four U. N. planes were’ shot down
Monday.
"U. N. patrols fanned out along
the front. They met little opposi
tion Monday except in the central
sector around Kumhwa, eastem an
chor of the iron triangle. Tank
traps and mine fields were their
greatest problem.
AP correspondent Nate Polo-
wetzky reported from U. S. Eighth
Army headquarters that lack of
any large scale action for a week
indicated the U. N. offensive has
ended, at least temporarily.
He said:
“Allied tactics now, apparently
based on the imminence of the
rainy season, are to send out pa-
A&M Men Attend
Methodist Meeting
Eight Aggies and their student
director, the Rev. Bob Sneed, were
among the 90 Methodist students
and adult counselors who attended
; the Regional Student Leadership
Training Conference at Camp Glen
Lake in Glen Rose June 2-9.
Ash Ashburn, Roland Bahlman,
Buck Hall, Bubba Heath, Brown
I Higginbotham, Norton McDuffie,
Bill Wiseman, and Don Young left
A&M after the final review Satur
day June 2 for the conference to
represent the A&M Wesley Foun
dation.
Twenty-six colleges in Texas,
Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas
were represented.
/ Emphasizing the theme, “The
Aristian Faith and the Meaning of
'Security,” the conference featured
platform lectures, workshops, fel
lowship groups, and panel discus
sions.
Dr. H. D. Bollinger, Nashville,
Tenn., served as educational di
rector, and the Rev. Cecil Mat
thews, Lubbock, Texas was dean
of the conference.
Platform speakers included Dr.
Bollinger; Dr. Samuel Stumpf,
Vanderbilt School of Religion; Dr.
Eddy Asirvatham, Boston Univer
sity; the Rev. Claude Singleton,
secretary of Methodist student mis
sions; said Glen Smiley, Los An
geles, Calif.
Workshops were conducted on
eight topics—adult counselors, re-
creation, program planning, pub
lic relations, worship, world Christ
ian community, social action, and
the ecumenical movement.
The Glen Lake conference is one
of six such conferences being spon
sored by the Methodist Chm-ch this
spring and summer in the United
States.
trols in search of the enemy and
to prepare for any attack mounted
by the Reds.”
Return of the full moon, favored
time for Chinese attacks, heighten
ed talk of a possible new Com
munist offensive.
Some behind - the - lines troop
movements were noted in the Far
West, northwest of Seoul. U. N.
war planes worked over 1,000 Reds
marching south.
Newest Red concentrations were
reported in the area northwest of
the punchbowl. Artillery and
planes hammered troop movements
in the area.
North Koreans fought bitterly
for ten days against the allied ad
vance. In the end they fired ar
tillery in spendthrift fashion rath
er than abandon it. Front line
dispatches called it “their heaviest
artillery of the war.”
Ridge Captured
Capture of the ridge above the
valley straightened the allied front
line into a nearly east-west line
for the first time since the offen
sive.
(Censorship prevents accurate
location of battle scenes. But maps
show such a valley, three miles
across and four miles long, 18 miles
north of the 38th Parallel. It is
18 miles southwest of Kansong,
east coast port held by South Ko
reans, and 40 miles east of Kum
hwa.)
There was no indication the
North Koreans plan to abandon the
punchbowl. The valley was lined
with mortar and artillei-y batteries.
And one self-propelled gun was
spotted.
U. N. forces were augmented by
the arrival in Japan of the largest
Canadian contingent since May.
Its size was a secret.
Lion’s to Install
Dr. A. A. Price
As President
Dr. A. A. Price of the Vet
erinary Anatomy Department
will be installed as president
of the College Station Lions
Club at the regular noon
luncheon meeting Monday.
Dr. Price will replace outgoing
president, R. B. Halpin.
Speaker at yesterday’s Lions
Club meeting in the MSC Ballroom
was Dr. Isaac Peters of the Dairy
Husbandry Department. Dr. Pet
ers spoke to the group on National
Dairy Products Month being ob
served during June.
He pointed out that milk is na
tures most nearly perfect product.
Annual farm income from dairy
products each year is $200,000,
with 60,000 farm units depending
on dairy products for a livlihood,
Dr. Peters said.
“Dairy products are not a rich
man’s food,” the speaker said,
“milk, cheese and other dairy pro
ducts should always be on every
one’s table.”
Dr. Peters also gave a brief out
line of the progress and new de
velopments in the field of dairy
husbandry.
Ag Experiment Station
Gets Research Contract
One of the 13 contracts for re
search in biology and medicine,
given by the Atomic Enei-gy Com
mission, has been awarded the
Poultry Husbandry Department of
the Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station.
The Atomic Energy Commission
has given a grant of $16,625 to the
Texas station for the first year’s
study on the effects of irradia
tion on reproduction of poultry.
Used in the study will be a deep
therapy unit (220 KV X-ray ma
chine) which transmits the desired
number of radiation units into the
All-College 6 Mixer’ Slated
For MSC Ballroom Thursday
Showing its social side for the
first time this summer, the MSC
will swing open the doors of its
spacious Ballroom for an All-Col
lege “Mixer” Thursday night. The
affair, being sponsored by the MSC
Social and Educational Department,
will run from 7:30 through 9 p. m.
Miss Betty Bolander, assistant
social director for the Center, says
At the Grove
1 Tonight
J Movie, “Saddle Tramp” with Joel
McCrae and Wanda Hendrix — 8
p.m.
that the Mixer is being staged to
afford every student on the cam
pus a chance to meet his fellow-stu
dents—and perhaps get a date in
the process.
The enticement of free refresh
ments will be supplemented with
the promise of prizes to lucky con
testants in at least one contest
planned for the night.
Especially urging single persons
to attend, Miss Bolander, has em
phasized that the success of the
Mixer will be dependent on the
prompt arrival of the guests. She
asks everyone to show up by 7:30
shaip.
Hosts and hostesses for the night
will include student members of
the MSC Directorate, part of the
governing system of the Center.
fowl, and a victoreen integron
dosimeter, which rtieasures the dos
age.
Work in “Padded Cell”
Work with this equipment will
be done in a “padded cejl,” insul
ated with lead panels to prevent
harmful effects from the radia
tion.
Results of the study probably
will be combined with those of
other experiments to determine
the effects irradiation, as from an
atomic attack, would have on the
reproductive capacity of the na
tion’s livestock, and the degree of
irradiation which may be harmful.
The work will be under direction
of Dr. John H. Quisenberry, head
of the Poultry Husbandry Depart
ment.
Chicks Irradiated
Ninety male chicks will be irra
diated durng the first of the pro
ject, with different dosages ap
plied at different ages. Each male
then will be mated to five females,
and an attempt will be made to
hatch five eggs from each of the
hens.
Thus the effects of, the irradia
tion on the fertility of the male
birds and the hatchability of the
eggs from hens with which they
are mated will be determined.
In addition to this phase of the
work, which is stipulated by the
Atomic Energy Commission, Dr.
W. E. Briles of the Poultry Hus
bandry Department will analyze the
effects on blood antigens and Leon
Atkinson will study the histologi
cal aspects, or the effects on cells
And glands.
Going Down
Pigeons and other creatures occupying old Foster building. Constructed in 1899, Foster was orig-
Hall were searching for a new home this week as inally used as a dormitory, and after age set in,
workmen began tearing down the 52-year-old was converted into storage space.
Oceanographer’s Research
Cruise Underway in Gulf
Good fishing is one of the inci
dental pleasures of scientific re
search in the Gulf of Mexico, ac
cording to three members of the
Department of Oceanography at
A&M.
These three, who took the first
part of the second of a series of
summer cruises, were Dr. Donald
Hood, assistant professor of Chem
ical Oceanography, Kenneth Drum
mond, chief seagoing technician
and Walter Lang, seagoing techni
cian.
MomandDads
Club Names
Working on a Navy project with
the A&M Research Foundation, the
trio left Galveston on the M/V
ALASKA, a 100-foot converted
tuna clipper, of the U. S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, for biological and
hydrographic observations at pre
viously chosen points in the Gulf
of Mexico.
The first half of the cruise, be
ginning June 4, charted a south
ward course along the coast of
Mexico and docked at Galveston.
Sailing again on June 18, the Alas
ka is now on her way to Puerto
Mexico and will return to Galveston
approximately June 29.
The first cruise outlined a tri
angle between Galveston, the Pe
ninsula of Yucatan and Key West,
Florida.
Dr. A. A. Jakkula, director of
the A&M Research Foundation,
said these cruises mark the begin
ning of the first detailed hydro-
graphic survey ever made of the
Gulf of Mexico.
U. S. Fish and Wildlife personnel
on this cruise are William Ander
son, chief of the Gulf Fishery In
vestigation, Albert W. Collier, Jr.,
biologist, assistant chief, and Ed
gar A. Arnold, fishery research
biologist.
The Mexican Department of Ma
rine Investigation is represented
by Alfonso Hatch Valle, and the
U. S. Marine Investigation in Mex
ico by Milton Lindner, chief.
The ALASKA carries a crew of
ten.
Mac’s Speeches
HintDIfference
With Truman
Dallas, June 19 — (A 5 ) — Gen.
Douglas MacArthur has left be
hind him in Texas the strong im
pression that he is embarked on a
campaign to unseat the Truman
administration.
The 71-year-old general’s Texas
speeches last week carried a hint
this may be the primary purpose
behind the nation-wide tour he is
reported to be planning.
MacArthur came to Texas to de
fend his proposal that the United
Nations forces carry the Korean
war against Red China—the basic
issue which brought his ouster
from President Truman.
Opened Administration Attack
But with this defense, he also
opened a bitter all-out attack on
Administration policies both at
home and abroad.
His Fort Worth speech on Sat
urday was a blistering attack on
the “drift toward socialism” and
the high cost of “bureauocracy”
which he said was making the peo
ple mere servants of the state.
And he added: “This leaves the
public safeguard in the direct
hands of the American people in
whom rests constitutionally the ul
timate power to rule.
“Time and the course of events
require that every citizen do his
full part in this essential under
taking.”
To many Texans, this appeared
to be a strong suggestion from the
general that the remedy for the
ills he described can be found at
the polls.
No Personal Ambitions
MacArthur has disclaimed any
personal political ambitions. He
has said he does not intend to seek
political office and his only poli
tics are “God save America.”
But his attacks on the Adminis
tration could have a political ef
fect in the months to come.
One editor remarked: “I don’t
think there’s much doubt the gen
eral is out to unhorse the Admin
istration—even if he isn’t going to
try to do it as a candidate him
self.”
Weather Yesterday
Partly cloudy and continued
warm. No precipitation recorded.
Other Texans have made simi
lar comments in their reactions to
the MacArthur visit. And there
are some—even among his admir
ers—who believe maybe the Gen
eral made a strategic error in
broadening his attack to include
the Adminiistration’s domestic pol
icies.
Stuck to Foreign Policies
Several prominent Texans have
said privately they think MacAr
thur should have left a stronger
impression behind him if he had
stuck to foreign policy.
But there are others who think
the general criticism of “appease
ment” in the Korean war and “mor
al weakness” in the nation’s lead
ership may be felt by the Truman
administration for months to come.
Prof to Discuss
Turf Problems
On Texas Tour
Dr. J. R. Watson Jr., as
sistant professor of agronomy
and secretary treasurer of the
Texas Turf Association, left
A&M Sunday on a tour to
consult and advise on problems
connected with special purpose
turfs, such as golf courses, ceme
teries, and park lawns.
The purpose of the tour, accord
ing to Dr. Watson, is to consult
with and help as many persons in
terested in turf problems, individ
ually, as possible and to meet with
and discuss mutual problems with
larger numbers at regional meet
ings of the Texas Turf Associa
tion.
Regions covered by tllfe tour will
be North, Central, South, and East
Texas.
Regional meetings of the Texas
Turf Association are tentatively
scheduled for Dallas on June 19th.,
Tyler on June 21, Houston on Juno
26, Corpus Christi on June 28, and
San Antonio on July 2.
Watson will return from the tour
on July 3.
New Officers
Plans will soon be under dis
cussion for the annual reception
to be held in early September in
honor of the A&M Consolidated
School faculty, according to Mrs.
W. W. Armistead, incoming Presi
dent of the Mothers and Dads Club.
Other recently elected officers
include Mrs. R. E. Leighton, first
vice-president for the Senior high
group; Mrs. N. B. F. McGuire,
second vice-president for the jun
ior high students, and Mrs. A. F.
Chalk, third vice-president for
Grade School.
Mrs. Kenneth Bailey is the
Club’s Recording Secretary and
Corresponding Secretary is Mrs.
Norman Anderson.
Jack Kent is treasurer.
Except for the September recep
tion, plans for next year’s activ
ities are tentative. The reception
is held annually to acquaint par
ents of the community and new
members of the faculty.
Specialists Speak
At Church Meeting
Included on yesterday’s agenda
of the sixth annual all-denomina
tional Rural Church Conference
were talks by Extension Service
Foods and • Nutrition Specialist
Louise Mason, and T. C. Richard
son of Farmer-Stockman magazine.
The conferees, will tour A&M
farms from 1:30 to 5:30 p. m. Guide
will bo J. E. Roberts, Superinten
dent of Main Station Farms.
Students taking courses i n
Oceanography, said Dr. Dale Leip-
per, head of the department, are
eligible to go on the scheduled
cruises. 'l]wo courses are to be of
fered durjpg the second semester
of summeit school.
Poultrymen’s
Short Course
Begins June 20
Several phases of problems
confronting breeders of chick
ens and turkeys will be dis
cussed at the annual poultry
breeders’Ischool at A&M June
20-22.
Highlighting the program will
be talks by two out-of-state poul-
trymen, O. E. Goff, head of the
Poultry Department of the Univer
sity of Tennessee, and J. S. Hig
gins, manager of Nichols Poultry
Farm, Kingston, N. H.
Goff will, discuss ways of selling
more poultry and problems of fer
tility and hatchability. Higgins
will talk on breeding for meat pro
duction and the relative merits of
pure breeds and crossbreeds.
T. A. Hdnsarling, executive sec
retary of the Texas Poultry Im
provement Association, Stephen-
ville, will speak to a joint session
of chicken and turkey breeders
on breeders’ responsibilities to the
poultry industry.
Campus Security Says
1200 Cars Registered
Twelve hundred automobiles are
now legally registered on the A&M
campus, according to Fred Hick
man, Chief of Campus Security.
Automobiles registered are own
ed by both day and dormitory stu
dents, as well as employees of the
college.
There are nearly as many cars
owned by day students on the cam
pus now as there are in the regular
session of school, with a few less
employee’s cars pi'esent, he said.
Ample parking space is avail
able at all times now in the park
ing lots of Dormitories 14, 15, 16,
17, and behind Walton Hall, for
those authorized to park there.
Congested areas seem to be
frequent in the vicinity of Goodwin
Hall and Bizzell Hall and also on
Military Drive. Reasons for this
congestion can be attributed in
part to persons parking autos there
who are not authorized to do so,
Hickman saiid.
Accordng to Hickman, students
constitute a small part of those
who park in unauthorized areas.
But most people who park in the
wrong places are on inspection
tours or visitors to the campus.
Visitors arriving during the
summer to participate in short
courses also constitute somewhat of
a parking problem, due to their
unfamiliarity of parking rules, he
added.
Handshaker to Ivy Waterer
Mrs. J. N. Shepperd Directs
Class Activities for FSA
“I’m listed as class secretary,
but if you can think of a better
name for someone whose duties
range from those of hand-shaker
to watering the ivy in our offices,
feel free to do so.”
Those are the words of Mrs. J.
N. Shepperd, class secretary of
the Association of Former Stu
dents, who has a speaking or writ
ing acquaintance with the 25,000
former students on the rolls of the
association.
Upon entering the swanky of
fices of the association in the
MSC, Mrs. Shepperd is the first
person to extend a visitor greet
ings. At a moment’s notice, she
can tell the name of any address
of any former student on the
active list.
“During the past year, we have
added 1,904 names to our active
rolls,” she said. “From May, 1950,
and May 26, 1951, a total of 505,-
992 mailing pieces were handled
by our staff and this does not in
clude hundreds of personal let
ters.”
Throughout the year, Mrs. Shep
perd plays a major part in making
preparations for each class reunion
to be held on the campus. Both
Dick Hervey, association executive
secretary, and Johnny Locke, as
sistant executive secretary of the
association, have given high praise
to her work in all of her duties.
The association, one of the
most active in the United States,
was first organized in 1888. It
was in 1925, however, that the
organization began working to
ward the big scale operations it
performs today.
Arriving on the campus in 1932,
Mrs. Shepperd has held secretarial
posts with several of the admin
istrative officials of the college.
For the past seven years she has
been with the Association of For
mer Students.
Aside from her duties at the of
fice, Mrs. Shepperd devotes much
of her private time to the care of
her two grandsons. They are the
pride and joy of the Shepperd
household, she said.
“You see, I want them to be
members of the Former Students
Association, but first they have
got to attend A&M,” she said.
“It doesn’t cost so much to go to
A&M, but I am starting their
education fund early.”
As each day passes, Mrs. Shep
perd adds a penny to her grand
sons’ education fund. A penny a
day will add up to a nice amount
when they are ready to enter A&M 6
she explained.
Mrs. Shepperd already has on?
son’s name listed on the associa*
tion’s roll. John Carr is a grad
uate of the class of ’46. A second
son, Sidj is a sophomore student
attending summer school.
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