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Number 185: Volume 51
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COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1951
Price Five Cents
Stars’ Are Numerous
11. M. S. Pinafore’Is Hit
With Large Grove Crowd
By CLAYTON SELPH
Gilbert and Sullivan’s “H.M.S.
Pinafore” sailed into the Grove
last night manned by an able
crew.
f From Sue (Mrs. Harry) Shan
non’s delightful interpretation of
the captain’s daughter to the very
last of Sir Joseph’s cousins, the
Cast provided their audience with
an enjoyable evening of Summer
^entertainment.
; Y As pleasing to look at as she is i
•to listen to, Mrs. Shannon was the
star of the show and won her aud
ience with the first notes she sang. |
And while she was not sing
ing this charming lady kept her
audience laughing as she deliv
ered choice asides with enthusi-
Ugastic innocence.
!:. In the male lead, Tommy But- j
nior as Ralph Rackstraw turned in
done by these people, other note
worthy performances were turned
in by Glenda Brown as Cousin He
be, John Hildebrand as the boat
swain’s mate and Ben Blanken
ship as the carpenter’s mate.
Members of the chorus are
Barbara Miller, Martha Miller,
Ellen Scott, Karen Lewis, Doris
Maxwell, Sylvia Rankin, Barbara
Van Tassel, Janice Hildebrand,
Judy Oden, Betsy Burchard, Al
ice Moore, Nancy Stevens, Bill
Young, Ken Van Tassel, Robert
Ashley, Dick Van Tyne, Jerry
Armstrong, Ed Leeman, John
King, Ruben Cook, and Jerry
Jeansomme.
“Pinafore” is an impudent and
indiscreet satire on the British
Navy and the politics and caste
system which surround and influ
ence it.
Sir Joseph, who has risen to
the kind of enjoyable performance head of th ' £ ritish N ‘ from a
that he is remembered for in the • ,
“Chocolate Soldier,” presented here ^ of ff the sati’rkal whack! at
■ two years ago.
i Acting and singing with confi
dence, Butler handled song after
song with an ease appreciated by
the audience.
g Nor was it Mrs. Shannon who in
stigated all the laughs. Well cast
as Sir Joseph, Don Forney pro
vided the pomp and bearing be
fitting a master of . the “British
Naivy.” Strutting on stage, he
'won his audience before he spoke
a word.
Sir Joseph’s haughty lines and
I songs are packed with substance
to rib his listeners and Don made
the most of them.
And though Harry Gooding as
laptain Corcoran is foil for many
of Sir Joseph’s better lines, he is
the English system when he comes
aboard Captain Corcoran’s ship to
woo Josephine.
Along with Sir Joseph come “his
sisters and his cousins and his
aunts.”
Wishing to remain in favor with
his superior, the Captain is an
xious that his daughter and Sir
Joseph get along well together.
But daughter Josephine re
veals in short order that she is
in love with one of the sailors on
her father’s ship and is bored
by Sir Joseph.
Meanwhile, the sailor, Ralph
Rackstraw, also reveals that he is
in love with Josephine and discus
ses with his “mess mates” wheth
er he should tell her of his love.
Ralph is encouraged by Sir
Joseph’s eloquent discussion of the
high quality of British seamen.
And with the well-wishes of all
the crew except Dick Deadeye, he
sets out to tell Josephine of his
(See “PINAFORE”, Page 2)
Episcopal Churches To Call
Cease-Fire Special Services
Local Episcopal Churches will call a special service of
prayer and thanksgiving if a cease-fire order comes in Korea.
St. Thomas Episcopal Church in College and St. Andrews
Episcopal Church in Bryan, a part of the 100 churches in the
Texas Episcopal Diocese, will hold meetings as soon as the
members can assemble—if such an order comes.
Purpose of the services is to “thank God the killing has
stopped,” according to Bishop Clinton'S. Quin, Bishop of the
Texas Diocese.
“Every minute of every day since that- time, somebody
in a church of the diocese has been praying that the killing-
stop in Korea,” the Bishop said.
The minute a cease fire order comes in Korea, if it should
come, Bishop Quin will give the signal for beginning of the
thanksgiving in his diocese and the bells of the churches
will call the faithful to prayers of thanksgiving.
UN Delegates Refuse
To Discuss Withdrawal
Munsan, Korea, July 11—GP)—
United Nations delegates made it
clear today they won’t even talk
about withdrawal of Allied troops
from Korea, demanded by Reds as
part Of a cease-fire agreement.
That assertion came from Rear
Admiral Arleigh A. Burke as he
returned this afternoon with four
other U.N. negotiators from the
second day of armistice discussions
at Kaesong.
They meet again Thursday for
the third round of armistice ses
sions with five Red generals.
Ridin’ In Style
-
British May Change
Oil Dispute Policy
$
Tonight’s ‘Pinafore’ audience
can expect to have an unsched
uled break in the performance
when they hear the Houston
bound freight train coming.
Rather than compete with the
train, lights will be doused until
the freight is on its way.
I not without plenty of laugh pro
vokers of his-own. Like his daugh
ter Josephine, the Captain must,
from time to time, inform the aud
ience of his feelings by means of
an old fashioned aside.
Many will remember Gooding
for his excellent performance as
Burleigh Sullivan in the Aggie
Players’ production of “T h e
“Milky Way” last Spring. It
was this same fine acting abili
ty and a pleasing voice that
made Captain Corcoran an aud
ience favorite last night.
But it was a petite lass from
Texas University who turned in
the evening’s most polished perfor
mance. With a refreshing vocal
delivery and a lively stage man
ner, Jean Marie Edge interpreted
her role as Buttercup with finesse
and charm. She gave body ex
pression to her singing and lent
depth and individuality to her role.
With a keenly developed limp
and a consistenly credible tone
of bitterness in his delivery,
Bob Langford produced a Dick
Deadeye who was ever bit the
cold realist he was supposed to
be.
While his romantic minded ship
mates encourage Ralph’s atten-
| li ^-s to the Captain’s daughter, it
Tuick Deadeye who continually
Tehran, Iran, July 11—CP)—A
sharp shift in British policy, from
tough talk of withdrawing and let
ting the Iranians stew in their
own oil to the line of “stick it out”
as long as possible, became appar
ent here yesterday.
But Premier Mohammed Mossa
degh’s government was making it
tougher every day for the British
to hang on to their billion dollar
oil concession.
Took Over Company
The Iranian Oil Commission took
over all Anglo-Iranian Oil Com
pany communications facilities at
Abadan. AIOC’s telephone and
radio facilities are the only means
it has of coordinating operations
between the big refinery and the
various producing fields.
The direct telephone line from
Abadan to Basra and Baghdad in
Iraq, whence AIOC general mana
ger Eric Drake is trying to direct
operations, was cut. The daily
AIOC plane flight to Basra also
was stopped.
For undisclosed reasons the mili
tary governor at Abadan declared
a midnight to 4 a. m. curfew start
ing tomorrow, and ordered all river
traffic stopped in the Shatt El
Arab flowing past the oil port.
The change in British tactics
did not appear to be connected with
the disclosure by a government
spokesman that Mossadegh is giv
ing “careful consideration” to
President Truman’s offer to send
his personal foreign affairs adviser,
Averell Harriman, to Tehran to
talk over the oil situation.
Not Yielding
Official circles said Mossadegh
was not giving the slightest sign
of yielding to compromise pres
sures, though he might accept the
Truman offer to avoid giving
Americans offense.
Only Friday British managers
were saying that withdrawal would
be “inevitable” in a week or two.
in their own oil.
But today British spokesmen
were saying the operations “may
run on longer.” AIOC managers
are carefully slowing down opera
tions to delay the day when all
storage tanks are filled and to
keep the refinery ticking as long
as possible.
Boles Song Group
Entertains Rotary
A group of senior students from
the Boles Orphan Home, Quniland,
a song concert before the Bryan-
College Station Rotary Club at
12:30 p. m. today.
The meeting was in the Maggie
Parker Dining Hall.
The 35 youngsters from the or
phan home, which is operated by
the Church of Clmist, arrived at
College Station Wednesday morn
ing.
They were taken on a tour of
the campus by P. L. Downs, Jr.,
official greeter for the college, be
fore the meeting.
College cadets are learning the proper method of
tank operation under battlefield conditions at the
Fort Hood ROTC Summer Camp. This lank,
under command of James D. Gray, A&M student
from Houston, is just returning from a firing
problem. Acting a member of the tank crew is
Edward A. Millican, of Dallas, top right, from
Oklahoma Military Academy. The men stationed
at the base of the tank turret are non-commis
sioned officer instructors.
700 Expected
Firemen’s Course
Opens Monday
blinds them of their social pos- j They predicted that the Iranians
ftion as common sailors. would be unable to keep operations
In addition to the good work going and would be left to stew
TC Cadets Spend Seven
Days on Rugged Bivouac
By DON HEGI
TC Camp Correspondent
Ft. Eustis, Va., July 7—Delayed)
—The Aggies in summer camp, at
Ft. Eustis, Va. are glad to see the
halfway mark roll around.
After seven days on a bivouac
sleeping in tents and getting rained
on every night, the men are won
dering whether they are in the TC’s
or Infantry. Walt Eldred, Bert El-
Dr. Isaac Peters
Speaks to Kiwanis
The Russian people were describ
ed as nonaggressive and religious
by Dr. Isaac Peters, assistant pro
fessor in the Dairy Husbandry
Department.
Speaking at the monthly Kiwanis
Club Luncheon, Dr. Peters, who
lived in the Southern Ukraine dur
ing his childhood, told how the
Greek Orthodox Church was out
lawed in Russia for nine years,
1917 until 1936.
“The Russian government is in
different toward the church today;
however, the Communist Paity con
tinues to pei-secute church mem
bers,” he said. Dr. Peters termed
the Russian people nonaggressive
in comparison with the Germans.
Leaving Russia in 1925, the
speaker spent the next 17 years in
Canada. He was introduced by
Ralph Rogers.
wood, Paul Law, and Vic Hillman
have about decided that TC stands
for Ticks and Chiggers, because,
there were plenty of them in the
bivouhc area.
The last week has consisted
mainly of firing carbines and
M-l’s, and making beach land
ings from LCM’s. If you don’t
think it is possible to get sea
sick sailing around in a small
LCM for about two hours, just
ask Jimmy Rollins and Lewis
Bruecher about it. Their green
color indicates it.
One day was devoted to a mock
battle in which resistance was met
from an “enemy” using blank am
munition. We are happy to report
that our side won the battle.
Norfleet, Bone, Charles
Schwartz, Rex Milhollon, Bill
Meachum, Jerry Saunders, Leo
Ernestes, Jim Barry, Ken Baker,
Hugh Winn, and John Woodhull,
are about to recover from the
last day of bivouac. E Company
had a nice 20 mile march Tues
day, July 2. The Aggies were
the only platoon of E Company
that did not have some one to
fall out.
The second battalion, of which
A&M cadets are a part, will go to
Ft. Story by FS vessel July 9 and
return July 16. That week should
be the most profitable and enjoy
able of the whole camp. The high
The twenty-second annual Fire
men’s Training School will be held
here under the auspices of The
State Firemen’s and Fire Marshal’s
Associatiion of Texas July 15-20.
The Engineering Extension Ser
vice will conduct the school in
cooperation with the Texas Educa
tion Agency Trade and Industrial
Education.
Some 700 trainees are expected
to register for the school next Sun
day in the MSC Ballroom, accord
ing to F. W. Hensel, of the place
ment office.
Additional Pumpers
In order to put over a success
ful training program, the Fourth
Army and the city of Galveston
are supplying pumpers for the
school. Several cities are furnish
ing additional hose.
Major industries are making
available oil and gasoline and
liquified petroleum for fires, as
well as vainous types of extinguish
ers, recharges, nozzles, foam, dry
powders, paints, wetting agents,
salvage covers, springlers, and
safety equipment for class parti
cipation.
All of these supplies and equip
ment are valued in the thousands
of dollars.
School Starts Monday
The school will get underway
Monday at 8:15 a. m. with the
opening session being held in the
Assembly Hall. Immediately after
the assembly period, scheduled
classes wall begin.
A Fire Marshal’s Course will
also be conducted in connection
with this year’s school. Marshal
W. L. Heaton of Austin will act
as general chairman of this course
which will meet in the Physics
Phipps Appointed To
State Plumbing Board
D. Bart Phipps, plumbing ap
prentice specialist for the Texas
Engineering Extension Service, has
been appointed to a committee that
evaluates the examination given by
light of the week will be a Bat- the State Board of Plumbing Ex-
talion dance Friday, July 13. aminers for a state license.
Paraguay Minister
Visiting on Campus
Dr. Angel Florentin Pena, Para
guay minister of agriculture and
livestock, arrived here Saturday
for a four-day stop on his tour
of United States agriculture. Dr.
Pena arrived in this country June
8 and will probably leave August
24. He came to College Station
from Crowley, La., where he ob
served rice production methods.
Yesterday and today, the Para
guay minister conferred with D.
W. Williams, vice chancellor for
agriculture of the A&M System.
He will also inspect the A&M
System, observing teaching, re
search and extension—with partic
ular emphasis on extension. As
time permits, he will visit rural
areas in the vicinty.
Dr. Pena will leave College Sta-
Approximately 80 instructors \tion Tuesday and go to Kingsville,
where he will contact County
Agent Kenneth E. Jackson and ob
serve cotton and livestock produc
tion in that area.
Lecture Room.
Meals will be served the trainees
in Sbisa Hall during regular meal
hours. Talks related to fire pre
vention will be given at each
luncheon hour. A banquet in Sbisa
will highlight Tuesday’s activities.
Slogans Designed
For each three hour drill ses
sion, a slogan designed to beat
the “Fire Demon” has been pre
pared. Attendance prizes will be
given members of the groups if
they can give the slogan for the
designated period when called on.
will furnish leadership in the var
ious training groups to be scattered
over several square miles around
the campus area.
First Initiation Held
The College Station DeMolay
Chapter, instituted last February
by the Councellors and Scribes
Association of the Houston area, is
making plans for chapter robes.
Although the color scheme and pat
tern have not been definitely de
cided upon, local mothers will have
the job of making the robes.
The Chapter held their first in
itiation May 22, at which time one
candidate for admission was taken
into the Order.
DeMolay, while a secret order,
bars no one from membership be
cause of race, color, or creed.
The only requirement is the ac
ceptance of the basic DeMolay
ideas which allude to the vir
tues of clean, upright living, re
spect for Motherhood and sister
hood, and loyalty to the teach-
So far, Burke said, progress has
been “fair—fair, but you never can
tell about these things.”
Demands Told
Communist radios in Pyongyang
and Peiping said North Korean
and Communist negotiators have
laid down a three-point demand for
a cease-fire agreement:
• Eestablish a 12% mile buffer
zone at the 38th parallel.
• Re-establish the status quo as
of June 25, 1950, when the Korean
war started, with the 38th par
allel dividing North and South Ko
rea.
• Withdraw all “foreign troops”
from Korea and start talks imme
diately for exchange of prisoners.
When Burke alighted from h i s
helicopter at this “peace camp” he
was asked if he had any comment
on Moscow radio reports that the
U.N. delegation refused to discuss
withdrawal of troops from Korea
on the grounds it was a political
problem. The U.N. delegation an
nounced at the outset it would not
discuss political or economic ques
tions.
“The withdrawal of troops prob
ably would be political,” Burke
said.
Then he smiled wryly and ad
ded, “I talk too damn much.”
r Sessions Shorter
Burke said Wednesday’s sessions
were shorter than the 4% hours
spent in talk opening day.
“We stayed too damn long yes
terday, anyway,” the admiral said.
He explained the U.N. delegation
was up half of Tuesday night writ
ing reports.
The meetings so far have been
reserved, Burke said. Progress ap
peared to be fair, he added.
Asked how he felt after two days
of meetings, Burke said:
“I can tell you better after six
months.”
Questions Avoided
When Maj. Gen. H. I. Hodes,
HI I another U.N. delegate, was asked
HI j how things were going, his only
comment was:
“The weather was better today
gjl than yesterday.”
|||| J Information was scarce as to
1111 just what is happening in the
jHjjj Communist-guarded private home
Ml in Kaesong where the meetings are
■ I held.
Allied correspondents have been
barred from the ancient Korean
capital at the insistence of Com
munist negotiators.
But the North Korean Pyong
yang radio and the Chinese Peip- ^ , , , , , <. j
ing radio broadcast a detailed re- school should pay fees and
T reserve rooms beginning to
day, announced Bennie A.
Zinn, assistant dean of men.
Procedure for reserving rooms
and pay fees is as follows:
Secure fee waiver slips from
Veteran's advisor, room 104 Good
win Hall, if a, veteran. If not, pay
fees at the Fiscal Office. Fiscal
Office representatives will be ii?
Goodwin Hall until 4:30 p. m. to<
day. After today fees must he paid
at the Administration Building.
Register for rooms at the Hous
ing Office, Room 100 Goodwin Hall.
Students who wish to reserve
any particular room, including the
one they now occupy, should sign
for these rooms prior to 5 p. m.
Friday, July 13, in order that the
Housing Office may make reserva
tions on new students prior to
registration day.
Students who wish to change
rooms for the second term may
sign up for a new room by present
ing a room change slip signed by
the housemaster of the dormitory
to which they intend to move.
Day Students, including those
living in College Operated Apart
ments, are reminded that they also
may save considerable time in the
registration procedure by paying
fees early, Zinn said.
port on what they said was the
basic Red demand for armistice
terms.
The broadcasts started shortly
before U.N. delegates left at 9:30
a.m. (6:30 p.m. Tuesday EST) for
Kaesong. They returned to Mun
san at 4:30 p.m. (1:40 a.m. EST.)
Terms Listed
The broadcast said the terms
were laid down by North Korean
Gen. Nam II and endorsed by the
chief Chinese delegate, Gen. Tung
Hua.
The radios said Red delegates
proposed:
“1—On the basis of mutual
agreement, both parties simultan
eously order the cessation of hos
tile military actions of each and
every sort; the army of each par
ty to stop its bombardment, block
ade and reconnaissance against the
other party; the navy of each par
ty stop its bombardment, blockade
and reconnaissance; and the air
force of each party stop its bomb
ing and reconnaissance against the
other party. . . .
Rarallel Fixed
“2—The 38th parallel should be
fixed as the military demarcation
line from which the armies of
both parties should simultaneously
be withdrawn 10 kilometers (6.21
miles). This should be done within
a certain limit of time. The areas
evacuated by both parties will be
a non-military zone in which neith
er of the parties should station
their troops or engage in any mili
tary action. The civil administra
tion of those areas should be re
stored to the status quo ante June
25, 1950. At the same time, talks
should be conducted immediately
on the exchange of prisoners of
war. . . .
“3—All foreign troops should be
withdrawn in the shortest possible
time. With the withdrawal of for
eign troops the ending of the Ko
rean war and the peaceful settle
ment of the Korean question will
be basically assured.”
Fee Payments
For Next Term
Begin Today
Students who expect to at
tend the second Summer term
Local DeMolays
To Get New Robes
State Forest Near Kirbyville
Named After Former Director
E. O. Siecke, of College Station,
who served as head of the Texas
Forest Service for 25 of its 36
years, wall be honored on July 18,
when a. state forest near Kirby-
ville is dedicated in his name. Ded
ication ceremonies will be held at
the state forest, about five miles
southeast of Kirbyville in Newton
County, according to an announce
ment by L. L. Bishop, Lufkin, exe
cutive secretary of the Texas For
estry Association.
Shivers To Speak
Governor Allan Shivers, a na
tive of the pineywoods region, will
speak at the dedication ceremonies.
Paul F. Hursey, Jasper, president
of the Texas Forestry Association,
will preside. The Rev. J. T. Moore,
pastor of the First Methodist
Church at Jasper, will give the in
vocation opening the dedication
ceremonies at 10:30 a. m.
Former presidents of the Texas
Forestry Association will be intro
duced by President Hursey. The
bronze plaque presented to the
Texas Forest Service by the Texas
Forestry Association in honor of
Siecke will be unveiled by Mrs.
Siecke.
Other talks will be given by H.
H. Seaman, Houston, vice-president
and general manager of the Kirby
Lumber Corporation, A. E. Cudlipp,
Lufkin, a member of the Board of
Directors of the A&M System, and
A. D. Folweiler, director of the
Texas Forest Service, a part of the
A&M System.
Forester For 25 Years
Siecke served as state forester
from 1917 to 1942. Prior to 1917
he was deputy state forester of
Oregon-and served on the faculties
of the Oregon Agricultural College
and the State College of Washing
ton. He was also employed by the
U. S. Forest Service for four years.
Siecke retired in 1942.
The forest dedication has been
scheduled to coincide with the an-
4-H Club boys, sponsored jointly
by the Texas Forest Service and
the Texas Forest Association, held
in the E. O. Siecke State Forest.
This year 75 boys, county agents,
and vocational agriculture teachers
are expected to attend the Kirby
ville forestry camp, receiving prac
tical forestry instruction.
One Of Five Forests
The E. O. Siecke State Forest is
one of five operated by the Texas
Forest Service. All five state for
ests are used for experimental and
demonstration purposes.
All members of the Texas For
estry Association and the public
have been invited to attend the
dedication ceremonies to be held
in a pine plantation established
in 1926 under the direction of
Siecke on the 1722-aci-e state for
est.
Directional signs will mark the
route from Kirbyville south on U.
S. Highway No. 96 to the entrance
nual forestry camp for FFA and to the E. O. Siecke State Forest.
ings and practices of the Order.
No DeMolay is allowed to dis
cuss publicly business brought up
at the meetings nor to discuss with
those outside its ranks the secrets
of the order.
The Order of DeMolay was
founded by Frank S. Land in Kan
sas City, Mo. Realizing a basic
need among young people for moral
guidance, Land established De
Molay on the principles exemplified
by Jaques DeMolay, the last grand
master of the Knights Templors.
The DeMolay’s reverence for
Motherhood is witnessed during the
flower ceremony, which takes place
during the initiation of a new mem
ber and is open to the public. Dur
ing the service, the new member
is reminded of his obligation to his
Mother who cared for him during
early childhood, of her undying
love for him, and of the debt to
his Mother which he can never re
pay..
College Station’s chapter has
28 members at present. Billy Bob
Hale is Master Councellor. While
the Order of DeMolay is not a
Masonic organization, the Masons
have supported the order since
its beginning.
Although the chapter is self-
governing along the lines outlined
in its charter, it receives assistance
from the Chapter Dad and the Ad
visory Council.
W. E. Wright is Chapter .Dad.
Members of the Advisory Council
are Ray Oden, J. J. Woolket, chair
man, S. R. Wright, G. E. Madeley,
Ran Boswell, Harry Boyer, and
Joe Sorrels.
Cotton Congress
Slated July 26-28
The twelfth annual Cotton Re
search Congress will be held at
A&M July 26, 27, and 28.
Morning sessions will be held in
the MSC. Afternoons will be de
voted to ^ tours around the college.
Modern equipment for cotton
production will be displayed on
the main drill field by manufactur-
Vets May Apply
For Added Degree
Veteran students who will have
fulfilled the requirements for a
degree at the end of the first
Summer semester and who desire
another degree under the GI Bill
at any future date must make ap
plication for additional training
immediately, said Taylor Wilkins,
veterans advisor.
Application blanks for the addi
tional training are now available
in the Veterans Advisors Office,
Room 104 of Goodwin Hall.
Those veterans who do not make
this application prior to comple
tion of this degree will automati
cally forfeit the remainder of
their educational benefits derived
from the GI Bill, Wilkins warned.
At The Grove
Tonight
Wed., July 11,
M. S. Pinafore.”
p. m.
Operetta—“H.
Local Cgst—8