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FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1951
The Last Word
Draftee Becomes a Soldier
Men Can’t Live on Air
Meeting the Girls
Is Aggie Problem
From Induction To Hrst
Job-Bound for Far East
HTHE. LATEST issue of Reclbook devotes
its editorial pages to the plight of men
under 26 who, says the magazine, “can’t live
on air.”
Discussing the fact that more and more
help-wanted signs specify draft exempt of
“men over 26,” the magazine asks why these
younger Americans should bear such a heavy
burden of the war.
The reason, of course, is that the healthy
youth of our nation are nothing but “draft
bait.” Those who would give them a job must
take the risk of losing their services by a
sudden call to service. Potential employers
don’t want to take that risk.
The inconvenience hits just as hard at
the male college graduate, unless he be a
veteran of the last war. These graduates,
unless they have picked up a reserve com
mission along with their degree, find them
selves top priority with local boards.
Those who have the reserve commissions
are not much better off. Since the last call
of the 1951 graduating classes, the services
have made no committments at to what later
graduates can expect. In view of the parti-
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Air Defenses
Found Inadequate
AN AIR defense network for the U. S.
•^and Canada has been tried and found
wanting. The trial came a week ago over
large sections of this country and its north
ern neighbor.
Air Defense Command officials, h o w -
ever, were happy with the fact that the
maneuvers had offered a chance to train and
test thousands of civilian volunteers in ob
servation posts and filter report centers.’
The air defense network is not intended
to halt every attacking aircraft before it
reaches its target. Its purpose is to minimize
such attacks as might come.
Most valuable lesson from the trial was
that more anti-aircraft guns were needed
for close-in defense at important centers.
The maneuver takes us back to the num
erous black-outs and practice air raids of
World War II days. Those never had a prac
tical work-out. Let’s hope the air defense net
work doesn’t either.
cularly apprehensive state of world affairs
right now, it’s doubtful that- even the higher
By VIVIAN CASTLEBERRY
Battalion Women’s Editor
The College had had numerous visitors this week. . . .
peisonnel will be needed in the neat-future. j n j eans anc [ i ouc i shirts, the tails waving, the boys have
Redbook sums it up very well with these been concerned chiefly with various judging contests and
words: with the girls. . . . The girls have been interested in at-
“This ‘limited emergency’ is everybody’s tending style shows, meetings and the boys Through
all this the Aggies have voiced one big complaint: Here’s
business, but has to often become ‘limited to
men under 26.’ The young men are being
asked to carry the heaviest burden of the
emergency; the least the rest of us can do
is stop penalizing them for doing it.
(Editor’s note: This is the
final article in the series of
stories by Reiman Morin, a
special correspondent of the As
sociated Press. It summarizes
the basic training given new
American soldiers.)
By RELMAN MORIN
AP Special Correspondent
f^ORT DIX, N. J., June 29—(A 3 )-—
For the tow-headed kid from
He discovered that he was in is enough equipment so that a
top physical condition. That hill trainee can operate the same wea-
was steep, but he had gone up the pons, new and old, that he may
slope, half running. he called upon to use in combat.
A slenddr lad, he had gained Remember the broomstick which
two pounds since his induction. It was used in 1941 ?
what we’ve been needing, a whole bunch of pretty girls, and New Hampshire, this was it—a
there’s not a way to meet them!
June graduation to a job in Korea.
was all muscle. (The overweight
man tends to lose.)
The kid from New Hampshire
is typical of some 35,000 Ameri
can soldiers who will finish
“basic” this month. By next
October, nearly 50,000 will be
completing the course every
month.
The officer posed a final ques
tion to the boy from New Hamp
shire. “If you have to go into
combat, do you feel confident
in your training.?”
The soldier looked at him with
unwavering blue eyes. “Yes, sir,”
he said. “I sure do.”
He has asked for duty in the Far
One Aggie commented that he found it extremely diffi- tr^trainln^lA'weksoTkimfng ( T J ese men ’ in the /° rd ® East £ ommand ’ That pi ' obably
^ i * ™ ™ -formnino v y 14 weeks oi learning of the camp commanders, are the means Korea.
cult to keep his mind on his books with so much feminine how to remove armed obstacles, ° ream of t p e crop, the best in all
pulchritude to divert his attention. Most of the boys would human or otherwise, and yet stay my experience.”
“There is no question that some jobs re- have been quite willing to move over their classrooms and alive. Now he was^going through a Comparative statistics show gen-
quire an older pefson, but if it is work for make room for such duties as Joan Herrin, Wanda Fain, ^?k befS^tTe^rip.^sras The JS^th^frerioul'amTavefage?.
a young man he should be given the job. -Bo^ie Bacon, Alberta Haitman, Mai ilyn Honea anc e a record of those 14 weeks was in a So do fjg Ure s on physical condi-
. . „, . , . . , Sue Arnold. Better still, they’d like to have foregone the file on the officer’s desk.
When and H he goes into uniform his morale s ^ ll( jj es entirely and sat around in the cool MSC with one (or is what it showed:
is going to be a lot better. He will know more; 0 f the pretties and a couple of cold drinks,
what he S lighting for a way Of Hie that wggk approached an end, the campus was very nearly at
gave him a chance when he needed it, and its normal population again. Similar to the Arabs of old, the 4-H’ers,
during the night, had folded their tents—or, at least, packed their
bags—and silently stolen away. Most of the Aggies were still won
dering how to go about meeting the pretty girls.
a job to return to.’
On Wednesday Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Williams, Jr.—Bud
and Skeeter—were packing, too. They had received orders
to report for duty with the Army. Bud received his degree
in industrial education in June. He and Marilyn made
their home in College View and she was employed by the
Architectural Department. They plan to check in to Fort
Sill, Oklahoma, this afternoon or evening.
He was nearly 20 years old.
He had had one year of high
school. His intelligence scores
were far above the figure the
Army Used to consider average.
He knew how to use—and had
actually fired—19 different wea
pons, including a rifle, carbine,
pistol, light and heavy machine-
guns, rocket-launchers, grenades
and mortars.
onet. It also embraced some judo
(Japanese-style wrestling) to- pro
tect himself, even though unarmed,
against a bayonet.
He had been “under fire” in an
operation that closely simulates
battle conditions. “Live artillery
and mortar shells crashed into the
A New Style
For Milady’s Bair
|3EMEMBER the days when females out- •
^ did themselves to see who could grow the THE BELLS ARE RINGING. . . . Wedding bells ^ ^ him M . lchine un
longest and most gorgeous tresses? They continue to peal their happy tidings as Aggies and Aggie- snarled'over'his header™
seem to have receded further into the dim exes P^y principal roles in ceremonies changing the names j n g bright gold streaks through
’ of their dream girls to their own. the green underbrush. On his
. flanks, he saw a tank and a flame-
No name changing took place in San Antonio Tuesday when Miss thrower crew supporting him. One
Scarborough was wed to Mr. Scarborough. The bride’s name is Elean- 0 f ^jg buddies, firing a bazooka,
or Margaret and her husband is Moliere, Jr., ’47, business. The couple k noc ked out an “enemy tank”
motored to New Orleans and then on to Miami where they will board w jth three direct hits,
a plane for Nassau. On their return trip they will visit in Savannah, He made some mistakes, main-
Ga., and Charleston, S.C. before going to Philadelphia to make their
home. . . . July 27 has been set as the wedding date of Miss Jane
Hairston and H. Doak Neal, ’52, landscape art. The wedding will be
held in Christ Episcopal Church, San Antonio.
tion. Vise versa, the numbers of
men going A. W. O. L. is below
average, probably indicating bet
ter morale.
The Army is getting good men.
In return, it is giving them a
type of training beyond anything
it has ever attempted. World
War II veterans never saw any
thing like it.
Today, there are thousands of
battle-trained instructors, teach
ing the men. Techniques of in-
His training included the bay- struc tion have improved. Facilities
if are bett e r . Most important, there
dark past than we might at first think.
The boyish bob is a piker compared to a
new style reported via the Associated Press
from Los Angeles. And, though we don’t
think the trend will be encouraged by Mad-
amoiselle, it arrested our attention.
One Josephine Amaya decided to emulate
a male fashion that hasn’t yet been accepted
by even the more reckless of that sex. She
now boasts a Mohican haircut.
It’s as bad as it sounds, too—a head
shaved bald with the exception of a 1 three-
inch wide strip of hair extending from fore
head to the back of the neck. Just to pre
serve the feminine touch, she has a pig-tail
extending below the shoulder line. And she
left enough to wear a ribbon.
Mary Beth Forstner and Cecil H. Stubblefield, ’49, Ag.
Eco., wer% wed in Hillsboro’s Methodist* Church recently.
Mrs. Stubblefield is a graduate of NTSC. ... A Fort
Worth ceremony last Friday night united Jeanneane Ann
Lewis and David H. Cline, ’51 English. A graduate of
Texas Technological College, the bride was married in
an ivory slipper satin gown. The couple will live in Fort
Worth.
ly from excitement. But he came
out of the operation, bursting
with a new-found confidence in
himself and his weapons. He was
a proud soldier, that day.
His instructors, both combat vet
erans, answered his questions,
pointed out his mistakes, praised
his good points. They told him,
from experience, “this, is the way
it feels and smells in combat.”
She doesn’t expect the other girls to try
Dr. and Mrs. Scott Haggard are living in Kansas City
following their marriage on June 17 in Houston. The bride
was Miss Virginia Wooldridge. She was graduated from
the style ‘•because they're afraid they could-
n’t go any place with their boy friends.” She V ersity College pf Medicine.
explains that she has no boy friends. Lona Mae Carter and Bobby Hettich, Aggie grad, were married nousioii, ouir
Nor, Miss Josephine, do we think you last Friday at the Pleasant Mound Methodist Church near Dallas. They Jesse H. Jones,
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Claims Profit
Made on Loans
Houston, June 29 — UP) —
former RFC,
need fear finding any.
President Hoping Russia’s
Peace Bid Will be Explored
WASHINGTON, June 29—Presi- fused with special interest amend- Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. and the
dent Truman said yesterday he ments that it would be worse than Iranian government will get to-
hopes the Russian proposal for a useless in the fight against infla- gether and make an equitable set-
will live in Dallas following a wedding trip. Mrs. Hettich is a graduate chairman, said Wednesday the
of NTSC. ... At home in Bryan following a wedding trip to South a g ency h as made a profit of
Texas are Peggy Jean and James W. McAdams. Peggy Jean is the .i coo non qqq from
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Two members of the class of ’51 have just repeated
their marriage vows. Lt. Gale N. Brundrett was married
in Woodsboro Saturday to Mary Ruth Boone. The bride
received her degree this year from TCU where she was
a member of Alpha Chi. Lt. Brundrett and his bride are
on a wedding trip that will end in Camp Lee, Virginia,
where he will be stationed with the Army.
cease-fire in Korea
plored further.
will be ex- tion.”
n,, “If either of these things hap-
I he I resident opened the news pens,” he said, “the consumers in
conference with two announce- this country will take a beating,
111 tt' , , , „ ' and our whole defense effort—our
He nominated secretary of the whole stake in the free world’s
Na\ y Francis I. Matthews, for- security—will be placed in serious
mer Omaha lawyer and a leading jeopardy.”
Catholic layman, as ambassador
to Ireland to succeed George A.
Garrett, who_ resigned as of May
tlement.
Making Settlement Efforts
Railroad.
The former federal loan admin
istrator and secretary of commerce
said this to the Senate Banking
Committee, which recently heard
critical testimony about the loan.
His statement was released here
today.
Jones said B&O’s present indebt
edness to the RFC is secured by
worth nearly three times the
marketable and other securities
amount of the loans.
He said Congress created the
RFC in 1932 largely to relp rail
roads and that the B&O was among
the first to apply for help.
The RFC’s handling of B&O
Alice Myrtle Krog is now Mrs. girls. Prizes will be awarded for
William Gary Cooper. She and the answer—in 500 words or less
Bill, Ch E., were wed in a candle- —to the question “Why I came to
He said this country has been light ceremony Friday in San An- Texas A&M College.”
making efforts to bring about a CW. Secretely, we think the guys are
settlement and will continue to do Following a wedding trip to wondering why on earth anybody
so. points of interest in South Texas, would choose A&M—even if they
The White House made public a Mr. and Mrs. Cooper are at home did do the same thing. In any , rritiYwpd in' a rennrt-
™ m , message from Prime Minister Mo- i n San Antonio where he is sta- event, we’d surely like to tell ’em. "ftT Sic bv tie committee in
Mr. Truman expressed thh hope hammed Mossadegh of Iran to Mr. tioned at Lackland Air Force Base. . , . And we are eagerly awaiting vVashimrton Tune 1—nearlv four
, - - a „ the Congress will either send him Truman saying Iran would make A recently announced wedding the next (we’ve had one) entry in A, •, submitted hv
31. Dan A. Kimball, Navy under- a (peh law” by Saturday, or ex- every effort to keep oil flowing i s that of Richard M. Vehon and the contest. Senator Tobev tR-NHl The re
secretary and a Californian, was tei ) d the present law until it can under nationalization. But Mossa- Jeanette Keithley which was sol- Wh • „i. orv7 It doesn’t nort was never adopted bv the
elevated to the secretatyship. Ret a good new law » shape. s*d that if British oil em- eranized in Mareh in Durant, Okla J^haTatS of truth in EalnTsuSnrlS^hich eon-
He issued a formal statement Asked if he thought the Senate f 1 A s - 1 f ne ^ en ,T ass< s 0 , r J oad " The bridegroom will' iecel ^ e his . t know. ducted the 1947 probe.
expressing great worry over the bill a good one, he replied no, ^ 0 ?, was de l a y ed > the re- degree in January. Mrs. Vehon is
possibility that Congress may not period. sponsibihty for grave consequen. expected to join her husband here LrL A BNER Look Who’s Here
pass any bill extending price and The President said the Iranian ce ® would rest on the British. i n September,
other controls by the Saturday situation is serious. But he added the president said he hopes for •
night deadline, or else that it will there is plenty of opportunity for eai /V settlement of the United M , Harris
settlvucn^that Z hop,/ the * ,S
Asked if he would make a tour is big enough for three—especially
of the south before the next Demo- when that third person is _ their
chatic National Convention, he re- daughter, Toni Mac. Toni joined
plied he is always open to an in- the Harris family last Friday. She
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professors are working on a cool
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JOEL AUSTIN Editor T he team will collect data that
Andy Anderson Associate Editor and Sports Editor
Vivian Castleberry Women’s Editor
William Dickens Feature Editor
Dave Coslett Editorial Assistant
James Fuller Church News Editor
J, R. Alderdice Staff Photographer
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ment Station. The first phase of the
Ray Rushing. Tom Rountree. Ray Holbrook .....Sports News Writers work Will be Completed m Septem-
Owen Lee, Calvin Janak Ovulation her, Smith said.
will enable engineers to design W3.T VctCTJUl
and predict the performance of a AssigllGd to A&M
given unit before an actual test is ®
made, Smith said. First Korean war veteran to be
Work of the project has been go- assigned to duty at A&M is Ser-
ing on since Feb. 1 1949 under the geant William R. E. L. Burgess.
Burgess, a wounded Korean vet
eran, is assisting Lt. Col. W. F.
Lewis in the Infantry. At the pre
sent time Burgess is at the Ft,
Hood Infantry Summer Camp.
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