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ASS’N FORMER^STUDENTS 4 copies Published by Students Of Texas A&M For 73 Years f .e. The Battalion Oldest Continuously Published College Newspaper In Texas PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Number 189: Volume 51 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1951 Price Five Cents College Station Tax Rates Unchanged; Bryan Raise Slated Firemen on the Job By FRANK DAVIS Battalion City Editor Tax rates will remain the same P in College Station although a 29 I cent overall increase is called for ■ in Bryan’s proposed 1951-1952 city ' 1 budget. Mayor Ernest Langford said the p local budget for the next fiscal H year is expected to be based on , giLthe same tax schedules as have dhbeen charged in the past and no bCiWi'ease can be expected by resi- ,{de lents of College Station. Hottest Day Mercury Hits 104 You’re right, it was hot yester day. The CAA Weather Bureau at Bryan Field registered 104 de grees at 4 p.m. yesterday, but it cooled only to 101.3 at 6:30 p.m. A shower of .22 inches shortly after dark dropped the tempera ture down to a pleasant (after the 104) 85—at Bryan Field. But College Station remained hot and dry. The weatherman looks for more of the same for today, based on early morning temperatures of this morning and yesterday. The low yesterday was 76 and the low this morning at 6:30 was 78. The 104 degree temperature was the hottest July 18 since 1944 when the mercury climbed to 105, the Weather Bureau reported. Present tax evaluations in Col lege Station are set at $1 per $100 property valuation for city taxes and $1.50 per $100 for school taxes. College Station* Bud get College Station’s budget for the coming year will be submitted to public hearing next Tuesday at 7:30 p. m. at City Hall. The City of Bryan’s proposal would jump the combined city and school tax rate from $2.65 to $2.94 on the 100 property valuation. It would up the city tax from $1,295 to $1,465 and the school tax from $1,355 to $1,475. The new tax rate would remain six cents below the maximum legal limit of $3. One dollar of the Bryan inde pendent school tax rate is fixed by the state legislature. The remain ing $475 would be used to meet the bond intei*est and sinking fund ob ligations. Tax Money Use Ninety cents of the city tax rate would be set aside for general fund obligations. The remaining $.465 would be used for interest and sinking fund requirements. The 90 cents for maintenance is an in crease of 10 cents over last year’s maintenance rate in Bryan. It is nine and a half cents less than that for 1949-50. The increase is designed to pro vide additional money for meeting indebtedness. Under Bryan’s budget for last year, $22,000 worth of city obliga tions were refunded or extended to a later date. This year’s budget calls for no refunding. The Bryan budget will be submit ted Friday at a public hearing to start at 7:30 p. m. at City Hall. Rotarians Here Report On Boy’s State Meeting Two College Station boys told of Iheir experiences at Boy’s State held in Austin in June at the Weekly meeting of the Bryan and College Station Rotary Clubs yes- i terday at Maggie Parker’s dining ■ hall. Bob Barlow, son of Dean and | Mrs. Howard Barlow, traced the history of Boy’s State and told ;■ how boys were selected to attend. He pointed out that Boy’s State | was designed to get boys more in terested in their government, and to better understand and learn | more of it by actually taking part i in it. Walter Parsons, son of Col. and Mrs. W. H. Parsons, told how two parties, the Longhoms and Pion- i eers, were created at the meeting. The members elected officers and carried on business in the state capitol. He also related the ad dresses of Governor Allan Shivers, Secretary of State John Ben Shep pard, and Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court J. E. Hick- Inan. Sponsored by the American Le- jion to give high school boys a better understanding of govern- .Aent, expenses for the two boys paid bv the Brvan and Col- f lege Rotary Clubs. Dr. G. W. Schlesselman, head of the Geography Department, pre sided at the meeting. The invoca tion was delivei’ed by Martin Hughes, head of the Electrical En gineering Department. Fred Weick introduced the guests at the lunch- Word War Caused Fear in India New Delhi, India, July 19—hP)— The current war of words be tween India, and Pakistan has) aroused fears of real war among many Indians. But responsible ex perts today discounted the uproar. Neither neighbor is in a position to sustain ,a shooting war on a modern scale for more than two weeks or so. The dispute intensified Sunday when Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan of Pakistan charged nine- tenths of India’s army is concen trated on the borders of Pakistan in a threat of peace. He said armored formations have been moved within striking distance of West Pakistan. Student firemen practice extinguishing a gaso line spill fire in the open field north of the College View Apartments. This demonstration is a part of the twenty-second annual Firemen’s Training School now in progress on the campus. Student, firemen from Maine to Puerto Rico are attending the week-long short course. Not Even KP ASA Cadets Compare Camps-- Or ‘Life Can Be Beautiful’ By DEAN REED ASA Camp Correspondent • Fort Devens, Mass., July 15 (De layed)—With word slowly trickling into this New England outpost of the trials and tribulations of other camps, A&M’s ASA cadets now look upon Dear Old Devens as a Utopia of Army posts. The reasons are many. No KP is drawn by the cadets. We don’t arise, usually, until 6:15. (Other camps seem to be getting up in the middle of the night.) Each man has a Class-A pass which allows him to come and go as he pleases during off-duty hours 1 —after 5 p. m. on week days and noon on Saturday. No bedchecks, either. But still we gripe. If the old Army maxim of the “gripingest outfit is the best one” still holds true, the campers here must be top-notch militarists. Only two more weeks remain on the summer camp program. Al though most of the fortnight is, as usual, allocated to ASA studies and practical work, the period is spiced' With several interesting breaks. A dance is being arranged in Boston Commons, courtesy of the honorable Beantown mayor. Following the foot-festival will be an all-day tour of this famed historical city, plus a glimpse at the neighboring mun icipalities of Concord and Lex ington, sites of the initial battles of the American Revolution. Right now most of the cadets are nursing blistered feet and sore backs, results of hiking and, biv- Seventh Session Produces ‘No Progress’ at Kaesong Munsan, Korea, July 19—WP>— An official communique said to night “no progress” was made at the seventh session of Korean war cease-fire talks in Kaesong today. The statement indicated United Nations and Communist delegations were still deadlocked, presumably over the question of withdrawal of foreign troops from Korea. Delegations Hold Views It said both the United Nations and Communist delegations held to their original views “on the ques tion under debate.” The question was not identified, but was presumed to be the Red insistence on including withdrawal of foreign troops on the armistice agenda. The announcement said Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, head of the U. N. delegation, “reiterated the United Nations stand that only matters of a military nature would be discussed.” Allied spokesmen have labelled the question of troop withdrawal as political. Joy’s statement Thursday was given in answer to a request from North Korean Gen. Nam II, head of the Red delegation, for the U. N. opinion on the agenda proposed by the Communists. After healing Joy, the Commu nique said, Nam “replied with a statement obviously prepared in anticipation of the United Nations reply.” Nam talked 18 minutes “and made it clear that their position was unchanged on the question un- o4- der debate.’ Recess Proposed Joy proposed a 30-minute re cess. The allied delegation hur ried outside to its own conference tent and for 20 minutes typewriters were busy while they got off a dis patch. The Communist delegation spent the time enjoying refreshments. Negotiators then went back into session and remained in conference through the noon hour, normally devoted to recess. Joy was smiling when the dele gates adjourned for the day, in contrast with his brusque attitude at the end of Wednesday’s meet ings. Another session —the eighth — was scheduled for 10 a.m. Friday (7 p.m. EST Thursday.) Back to Korea Less than two hours after the U. N. delegation had returned to its peace camp, Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, U. N. commander-, was back in Korea. There was no announcement whether his return from Tokyo headquarters was connected with the . message dispatched by dele gates or with the continuing dead lock in negotiations. The U. N. communique—the first to report “no progress”—was in contrast with a feeling of accom plishment sensed by correspondents at Kaesong. Both U. N. and Communist news men agreed that the problem hold ing up the agenda was the Red de mand for withdrawal of foreign troops from Korea. United Nations delegates have indicated they consider this a po litical question which they are not empowered to discuss. It must be taken up at a higher level after a cease-fire has actually been ac complished. Shares View Moscow radio shared the same view as to what was holding up agreement, Moscow said North Korean Gen. Nam II, head of the Red negotia tors, told U. N. delegates he would “insist on the 38th Parallel as the demarcation line and on the with drawal of foreign troops from Ko rea as a gaurantee against the re sumption of hostilities.” Washington reports indicated ne gotiators already have agreed to an agenda item on a truce buffer zone without mentioning the 38th Parallel. This would not prevent Commu nists from insisting during actual armistice talks that the demarca tion line be drawn at 38. The allies want the truce line drawn ap proximately along the present quiet battle line which runs in places 20 to 30 miles north of the parallel. ouacing the latter part of the week. Dale E. Waltson, next year’s co editor of The Commentator, was chosen this week to edit the camp yearbook, due for publication late this summer. A&M men have been more than j holding-theii -own in other brack ets, too. A cadet-of-the-week has been chosen throughout the camp, and for three successive weeks the Texans scored. Bert Gorrod, Harold Gant, and Bob Statler gained the honors in that order, and A&M seemed to have a half-nelson on the distinction. But this week the Fightin’ lllini of Illinois came through with a first-place winner. Probable rea son: no A&M man held the rotating company C. O. job during the week. Although payday is still around Dixiecrat-GOP Parley Battled By Legislators New York, July 19—(AP) —Two Republican congress men battled in print yester day over whether the GOP should join with Southern Democrats in the hope of winning next year’s election. Rep. Clifford P. Case of New Jersey said the results of such a party merger would be “disastrous” for both the nation and his party. Sen. Karl E. Mundt of South Dakota, principal exponent of the idea, said it is the only way the Republicans can hope to win the presidency in 1952. Both men aired their views in Colliers magazine. Case said the Republicans would do better to form an alliance with “progressive forces” in the South. For every southern electoral vote picked up by a merger with the southern Democrats, he said, the GOP would lose two north of the Mason and Dixon line. “The worst political disaster that could happen to us would be a sharply defined division of our parties along economic and class lines,” Case said. “Such a division would solve no problems. It would bring us in sight of the day when the losers in an election would be gin throwing up barricades in the streets.” Mundt said: “If the Republican party’s four square stand is to be effective, we Republicans must win the presi dency once in a while, along with congressional majorities. How can we do this so long as we remain a sectional party, excluded for practical electoral purposes, from 11 southern states.” At the Grove Tonight the corner, weekend traveling still holds the entertainment spotlight. And the New England area is a goldmine for the tourist, regardless his desires. F’rinstance. This weekend you can find cadets in New York, tak ing in all the metropolis has to offer; in Boston, where baseball is one of the big drawing cards, or where the Suffolk Downs horses tantalize your pocketbook. Then the many smaller areas— parts of Vermont, New Hamp shire, and Maine, all within easy driving distance, with their beaches, lakes, beautiful scenery, and quite a few other appealing items. Summer stock theater is also on the boom currently. Quite a few notable stars of the stage and screen take to the woods for their summer money-making, and us ually provide worthwhile enter tainment for anyone so minded. Looking at the camp in an over all view, we’ll match it against any other for a memorable sum- Col. Joe Davis Named Commandant of A&M By JOEL AUSTIN Battalion Editor Col. Joe E. Davis, assistant commandant of A&M for many years has been named Commandant of Cadets and Coordinator of the School of Military Science and Tactics. His appointment to this position was announced yester day by President M. T. Harrington. Col. Davis will take over the job August 1. Col. Davis succeeds Col. H. L. Boatner who, after serving as Commandant and PMS&T for three years, is returning to active duty with a promotion nomination to Brig. General. In taking the office of commandant, Col. Davis will be the first to assume the title of Coordinator of Military Sci ence and Tactics. Formerly the commandant was also PMS&T, who now has been placed on an equal level as the Professor of Air Science and Tactics. Col. Davis left A&M late last September with a promo tion to ful colonel and the job of commanding officer of the 4020 Infantry Training Regiment at Camp Chaffee, Ark. Since December, however, he has been in Austin as head of the ROTC section of the Texas Military District. Leaving A&M as a student in August 1930, “Col. Joe”, as he is commonly known by A&M4 * — students, received a Batchelor’s Col. Joe E. Davis New Commandant Degree in Education. He served as assistant command ant at the college from 1930 to 1940, when he was called into ac tive service as a reserve officer with the rank of first lieutenant. In 1944 he attended the Com mand and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, being reassign ed from there to Camp Hood. At the close of the war he returned to the position of assistant command ant, with the rank of Lt. Colonel. A native of Foreman, Ark., Da vis had, until last September, lived in College Station since he began school here in 1925. Lt. Col. M. P. Bowden assumed the duties of assistant commandant when Col. Davis left last Fall. Before taking over the training regiment in the fifth Armored Div ision at Camp Chaffee, Col. Da vis was presented his new “eagles” in a short ceremony held in Duncan Mess Hall before members of the corps. 90,000 Korea Vets Get Rotation Bid Washington, July 19—(A*)—Nine ty thousand veterans of Korea will come marching home in the next 90 days under the Army’s stepped up “first-in first out” ro tation plan. Recruits from the U. S. will take their places. The Army announcement today said the rotation rate should reach 30,000 this month and be kept at that level through the next three months. It will mark a big increase in the rate of homeward bound ser vicemen. Only 32,000 men have been returned to the U. S. from Korea thi*ough July 10. Deadline Saturday For Grid Ducats Aggie football fans have until Saturday to submit applications for football tickets if they wish to be included in the priority draw ing. Applications submitted after Ju ly 21 will be filed on a first-come, first-served bisis, provided tickets are available, C. D. Ownby, ath letic business manager, announced today. The priority drawing will be held in the athletic office July 30 at 2:30 p.m. Applications Classified Nnder a policy established sev eral years ago, applications are classified into four priority groups. Those people in priority Group I will be in line for the best tickets available and so on through Group IV. Aggie home games this Fall will be with the University of Okla homa, Baylor, Southern Metho dist and Texas University. Appli cations .may be submitted for eith er season tickets or tickets to in dividual games. Because of an un usually large demand for tickets to the A&M-Texas game, hte ath letic office is restricting ticket sales to two for each purchaser to this game. For the first time, a block of 400 of the 1,500 seats in DeWare Field House is being set aside as reserved seats during the 1951-52 basketball season. Season ticket holders will be admitted only to Rise Stevens Metropolitan Starlet Leads Off Town Hall Series the remaining 1,100 general admis sion seats. Group one includes all employees who have priority second only to members of the student body, team, Aggie Club “T” card holders, State Legislature and Athletic Depart ment. The second priority group ap plies to the general public and the same prices on tickets prevail for this group. The next best seats will be made available for them. Group III applies to all for mer students, faculty and em ployees of the college who do not desire season tickets but wish to purchase single game tickets. Ap plications for tickets in this group will be filled from the best avail able seats after the other priority groups have been issued. Group IV includes the general public demand for single game tickets. A season ticket, which sells for $14.40, permits the holder to wit ness any athletic event held on the campus by the Athletic Depart ment. Acheson Gives Reassurance To France, GB By WILLIAM DICKENS Battalion Feature Editor Guion Hall on October 16. Miss Stevens, born in New York, N. Y., began her singing career at Rise Stevens, star of Metropoli- the early age of ten. Mme. Schoen- tan Opera, screen and radio, will Rene, distinguished vocal teacher be the featured artist of the first of the Julliard School of Music, Town Hall series performance at was so impressed with the young Thurs., July 19, Movie, “Spy Hunt” with Howard Duff and Marta Toren—8 p. m. Rise Stevens First Town Hall Performer girl that she obtained for her a scholarship at the famous school. Eager to acquire further train ing, she traveled to Europe where she was coached by Mme. Gut- theil-Schoder. During her early career, she was also coached by Richard Strauss for a short while. Believing that a career has to be achieved step by step, Miss Stevens refused her first Metropolitan Opera contract to gain operatic experience in Europe. After making her debut in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in “Mig- non,” she returned to America to make her debut with the Metro politan Opera in the same opera. Since her debut, she has ap peared with most of the world’s leading opera companies, such as The Paris Grand Opera, The Vienna State Opera, the opera companies of Zurich, Cairo, and many others. Turning to the motion film in dustry, Miss Stevens has starred in such pictures as “The Chocolate Soldier,” the Academy Award winning, “Going My Way,” and “Carnegie Hall.” Starring on radio, she is regular ly heard on leading national “hook ups” such as “The Voice of Fire stone,” “The Railroad Hour,” “The Carnegie Hall Program,” and has had several of her own programs, including “The Prudential Family Hour.” In the recording industry, Miss Stevens is accredited with being the highest selling recording ar tist in the classical field. Recently named one of the country’s outstanding career-wo men and mothers of America, she holds the honor of having sung the greatest number of starring roles, 35 appearances, at the Met ropolitan Opei'a in one season in the Met’s entire history. Washington, July 19— (AP)— Secretary of State Acheson offered Britain and France reassurance yesterday that they will lose neithef arms aid nor their standing as areas to be defended if this coun try makes a military arrangement with Spain. The Secretary stated the Ameri can position at a news conference shortly before dispatches from Spain reported that an agreement in principle had been reached on United States use of Spanish air and naval bases. Acheson did not indicate the dealings had gone so far. He acknowledged negotiations have been going on in the face of objections from the two big Eu ropean partners in the west’s de fense, and held out to them this ° J promise: “It has been and is our firm intention to see to it that if western Europe is attacked it will be defended—and not liberated.” Cloudy Water OK Says Lab Report Although the water in certain areas of College Station has been cloudy during the past several days, the weekly routine analysis Tuesday by the Municipal and Sanitary Engineering Laboratory revealed that the quality of the water has not changed. Contrary to some belief that the water is harder, the analysis also revealed that the soap consump tion has remained the same. The only notable change in the con tent of the water, the lab report revealed is a few organic substan ces which cause a scum to form on top of the water but which are not harmful. The cause of the cloudiness ob served in the water at Goodwin Hall and in College View is at tributed to air in the water, accord ing to T. R. Spence, manager of physical plants. He said that a break in the pipe line such as that which occurred last week on the Southwest comer of the block on which Goodwin and Bizzell Halls are located would cause such a characteristic.