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Number 192: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1951
Price Five Cents
Commie Proposal
Causes UN Group
To Call Recess
Cotton Congress Display
U.N. Advance Headquarters, Ko
rea, July 25——Communist dele
gates advanced an interesting new
proposal on withdrawal of foreign
troops from Korea at today’s cease
fire talks, the U.N. command an
nounced.
“The new proposal made by the
Communist delegation,” an official
communique said, “was sufficient
ly interesting to cause the United
Nations command delegation . . .
to suggest an overnight recess in
order to examine the matter in
detail.”
“Considerable progress” was
made during the day’s sessions, the
U.N. said.
Nature Not Disclosed
The announcement did not dis
close the precise nature of the
Reds’ new suggestion.
Up to today’s mmeeting, Com
munist negotiators had insisted on
listing withdrawal of foreign troops
from Korea among subjects to be
considered during armistice talks.
U.N. delegates had been equally
insistent that this was a political
question to be considered at high
er levels after a truce is actually
accomplished.
Delegates met for nearly two
hours in their ninth day at the
cease-fire city of Kaesong, then
scheduled another meeting for
Thursday afternoon.
The U.N. announcement said:
“The ninth meeting of the Uni
ted Nations Command-Communist
Armistice Negotiations today made
considerable progress toward the
formulation of an agenda.”
First Progress Report
It was the first time a com
munique had reported “consider
able progress.”
Sessions were devoted entirely
to the troop withdrawal question
which had threatened to cause a
breakdown in negotiations.
The new angle to the question was
introduced by North Korean Gen
eral Nam II, head of the Commun
ist delegation.
His suggestion was explored
and amplified in discussions with
Vice-Adm. C. Turner Joy, Chief of
the U. N. delegation.
After this exploration the Allied
team proposed the continuation un
til Thursday.
The full 53 minute morning ses
sion Wednesday, the U. N. announ
ced, was devoted to satisfying
Nam’s interest troop withdrawal.
The Communist delegation was
furnished “an extract in English
of the statement in question,” the
announcement said. It did not say
what the statement was.
Architecture
Department
Adds New Profs
The appointment of three
new instructors to the Arch
itecture Department, A&M,
was announced today by Ern
est Langford, head of the De
partment.
They are James H. Lemmon Jr.,
BA, A&M, 1951. Lemmon won the
Davidson Fellowship, 1951. He is
from Houston, but now lives at
Bryan. He is married,
Willard Strode, BA, A&M, 1951.
He is a registered structural engi
neer, State of Texas; was with
the Standard Oil Co., Engineering
Division, Aruba, N. W. I.; a Tau
Beta Pi. He is from McKinney,
now lives at Bryan, married and
has three children.
Gale K. Vetter, BA, University
of Oregon, 1949; BS, 1948, He
taught one year at Texas Tech, a
year at North Dakota State Col
lege. He is from Miles, Michigan.
Now lives at Bryan and is mar
ried.
Displays for the Twelfth Annual Cotton Con
gress will be set up in four MSC meeting rooms
this week. H. F. Miller (left), assistant pro
fessor in the Agricultural Engineering Depart
ment and Charlie Cosper, MSC student employee,
attach a bulletin to a back board of the Ag Engi
neering display. (Photo by Staff Photographer
Ira Vail).
Cotton Congress Opens Thursday
City Clean-Up Drive
Scheduled July 30
A community-wide clean-up
campaign has been scheduled for
College Station July 30.
The city of College Station and
the College Station Development
Association and Chamber of Com
merce are jointly sponsoring the
drive to stamp out unsanitary con
ditions and dirty spots within the
city.
No house-to-house inspection is
planned for the drive, but, accord
ing to J. B. Baty, chairman of the
Chamber of Commerce’s Public
Health Committee, an effort will
be made to reach each citizen of
College Station to call upon him
to voluntarily aid the drive.
Trucks Available
Trucks will be available for
carrying off trash and debris from
the residential areas and plans
have been made to operate control
\ueasures for mosquitoes and other
germ-carrying pests.
“The good health record 'of this
community is fortunate,” says
Baty, “for there has not been a
single case of polio in College Sta
tion this Summer as compared to
several listed here last year at
“Both the City of College Sta
tion and A&M College have year-
round disease prevention programs
which in most cases are responsi
ble for the good showing College
Station has made by having few
communicable diseases.
Should Reach Every Home
“This clean-up drive will be an
effort to reach into every home
so that residents may rid their
premises of conditions that may be
conducive to breeding germs or
germ-carrying insects,” the Health
Committee chairman said.
All summer the city has kept its
mowing machines busy cutting-
grass and weeds on vacant private
lots as well as on city property in
an effort to keep clean, neat city
streets.
Baty stressed the fact that no
inspection will be made of indivi
dual premises during the cam
paign. “People will not be bother
ed with having a neighbor or any
one else call and hand them a list
of things they should do to im
prove their property.
“We believe that in a commun
ity of this type every person has
enough pride that he wants to pro
tect his own family and his neigh
bors by taking care of his own
back yard.”
Cotton Exhibit Readied
For Meeting in MSC
The program for the Twelfth
Annual Cotton Research Congress
will be divided into two parts when
the three-day meeting begins on
the campus tomorrow.
The first part of the program is
in the form of an exhibit of usual
items-made from cotton and cotton
seed pi’oducts. This exhibit is divid
ed into three categories, food, feed
and fiber.
“Live” Exhibits
The second section of the pro
gram is classed as “live” exhibits
where the actual work performed
in cotton production will be shown
to the delegates in a series of tours
of the research fields and labora
tories.
Under the direction of D. T.
Killough, chairman of the exhibit
committee and a member of the
Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station, the exhibits will be located
in Rooms 2B, 2C, 2D and the As-
MSC Shows Filins
In Fountain Room
Each day at the noon lunch hour
and again in the evening at sup
per, the MSC is showing short
movies and cartoons to the patrons
of the Fountain Room.
The film subjects vary from Ag
gie football games to manufactur
ing and industrial public relations
films. Travelougues and cartoons
are also included on the daily pro
grams.
These films are free and are pro
vided for entertainment of the
patrons by the MSC.
They grow ’em big in Texas, as a worried supply sergeant dis
covers at Signal Corps ROTC Summer camp at Fort Monmouth,
N. J. Wondering whether pants are ten sizes too small or only
eight is six-foot-six Cadet Gary S. Neipast of Sweetwater, an
A&M student. Pondering whether he’ll have to slice up a tent in
order to fit him is Sgt. Clarence D. Russell of Columbus, Ohio.
Thirteen hundred undergraduates from 73 colleges are attending
the Summer session at Fort Monmouth.
sembly Room of the MSC during
the three-day meeting of the Con
gress.
An exhibit entitled “Cotton In
sects” shows insects as a major
threat to economical cotton pro
duction. Various types of cotton
insects and methods of insect con
trol are shown in the display.
Bollworm Control
The Texas Department of Agri
culture has numerous exhibits on
display for the delegates. One is
an exhibit on “Pink Bollworm Con
trol” which shows charts before
and after insect control.
Exhibits on economics of me
chanization of cotton production
have been put on display by the
department of Agricultural Eco
nomics and Sociology.
An enlarged picture showing
how phosphated Hubam Clover
doubled the cotton yield in Texas
has been put on display for the
delegates. The picture is of a field
of cotton which shows cotton fol
lowing phosphated Hubam Clover
and a section of cotton following
cotton.
Mesquite Control Display
“Mesquite Control in the Texas
Cotton Area” has been put on dis
play by the Range and Forestry
Department. The display in pic
tures shows the mechanical and
chemical control of mesquite.
Showing cotton yarn, chemically
modified by direct etherification so
as to be soluble in water or alka
line solutions, an exhibit entitled
“Water Soluble Cotton Yarn” has
been presented by the Southern
Kiwanis Club
Hears District
I Officer Speak
11 “True security cannot be
found in paternal dependence
upon someone else to provide
for the future,” said Edward
Schreiber, Lt. Governor of
Division Three, Texas-Oklahoma
District of Kiwanis International
at the weekly College Station Ki
wanis luncheon in the MSC yester
day.
The speaker urged participation
in government at all levels by Ki
wanis members to achieve those
aims the group as a “realistic or
ganization of businessmen” believes
to be in harmony with American
tradition.
“Accept jury duties, discourage
socialization, and advocate the re
moval of Communists from impor
tant positions in the United
States,” the speaker said.
Joe Motherall, past president of
the Kiwanis Club, was presented a
scroll from the national Kiwanis in
recognition of his outstanding lead
ership during the past year.
Schreiber made the presentation.
Regional Research Laboratory of
New Orleans, La.
Other exhibits by the New Or
leans laboratory are “Better Cot
ton Fabrics—New Loom Devices”
and “Insect Proofing Cotton Bags.”
Other Exhibits
Aside from the exhibits of us
ual items made from cotton and
cottonseed products, the delegates
will observe the ’’live” exhibits on
tours conducted by Dr. R. D. Lewis,
director of the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station.
Boyett Gets Council
Post; Budget Approved
By FRANK DAVIS
Battalion City Editor
Tours will be made of the Beas- meeting.
A. P. Boyett was sworn into office as
councilman for Ward III by Mayor Ernest
Langford last night at the City Hall after
being declared winner in a special election
also held yesterday.
The College Station council met in called
session to canvass the election returns, and
announced the official results as 16 votes
for Boyett and 12 write-in votes for W. H.
Freiberger, who had not filed for the post.
Boyett arrived at City Hall at 8 p. m. and
was asked by the mayor to repeat the oath
of office.
In substance the oath enjoined the new
councilman to faithfully execute his duties
to the best of his ability, and to
serve and protect the constitution
and laws of his state and nation.
Boyett was also asked to swear
that he had 7iot contributed in any
way to withhold votes in the elec
tion.
Residing at 315 North Boyett,
the new councilman is the owner
of the Campus Theater. He has
three children, George Boyett, 16,
who is a junior at Stephen F. Aus
tin High School in Bryan; Alton
Boyett Jr., 24; and William Charles
Boyett, 28.
Boyett Street in the North Gate
area was named after the council
man’s father, W. C. Boyett, who
was formerly U. S. Postmaster- 1 in
College Station and a member of
the A&M Board of Directors.
Neighbors Insisted
Boyett’s neighbors insisted that
he file for the Ward III position.
He said he planned to work to
ward a “bigger and better city.”
The other councilman for Ward
III is W. D. Fitch, 329 First Street.
Ward III includes all the North
Gate area plus residents of Col
lege Station living on the A&M
campus.
Boyett will serve the remainder
of the term of E. E. Ames, who
automatically vacated his position
when he moved to Woodland Es
tates. The term expires in April
of 1952.
Council members present at the
special session were R. B. “Bob”
Halpin, councilman for Ward II;
Harry Boyer, Ward II; Fitch, and
Howard Badgett, Councilman for
Ward I. Joe Orr, councilman for
Ward I and J. W. Barger, city
attorney, were absent.
Raymond Rogers, city manager;
Nester McGinnis, city secretary;
and Ran Boswell, assistant city
secretary were also presept at the
I;
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A. P. Boyett
Ward III Councilman
ley Laboratory, the Cotton Genetics
Field Laboratory, the Cottonseed
By-Products Research Laboratory,
the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture’s Cotton Fiber and Spinning
Laboratory, the Brazos River Val
ley Laboratory, and several com
mercial agencies in Bryan.
Four persons were present when
Boyett took the oath of office who
had come for the public hearing
of the city budget for 1951-52.
They were F. L. Thomas, 663 Wal
ton Drive; F. B. Clark, 209 East
Dexter; D. B. Gofer, 110 Pershing;
and C. R. Rainwater, 304 Highland.
Bricklayers
Out On Strike
Eight bricklayers employed
by the Fisher Construction
Company of Houston, con
tractors for the new College
Administration Building, fail
ed to report for work Monday.
The walkout was a part of a 17
county wage protest strike Caused
in a delay by the Wage Stabiliza
tion Board in acting on the AFL
Bricklayers and Masons Interna
tional Union’s April 2 request for
a 15 cent an hour increase.
Oscar E. Telg, construction en
gineer for the Administration
Building said he expected the men
to return to work within 2 weeks.
The workmen still have stairway
and basement work to do.
The Last Last Word
Pal Morlev Takes Over
Women’s Editor Duties
By VIVIAN CASTLEBERRY
Battalion Women’s Editor
Today another byline appears on
“The Last Word,” a column ori
ginated for women in the College
Station area.
That byline reads “Pat Morley”
and beginning today it will head
many of the women’s columns for
The Battalion. It will replace en
tirely the byline you see at the top
of this column.
In a way, this will be the hard
est “30” we’ve ever written to
a piece of copy for it will mark
the close of our association with
a group of the finest people we
have come to know in the brief
span of our “journalism career.”
Each day at our “Women’s Edi
tor” desk has been a new challenge
and a new responsibility. In a way
this job has been our baby. We did
not originate it and we were not
the first women’s editor, but we
were the first full-time woman
employee on The Battalion.
As such we have tried to serve
as a link of information from the
reading public to the Battalion
staff. We have tried to fulfill our
fob as writer and editor for wo
men. At the same time we have
tried to be a friend of the wonder
ful guys with whom it has been
our pleasure to associate.
It’s been a whale of a job,
but for every ounce of energy
expended there has been a double
portion of rewards. It has been
a good year.
But our primary pur-pose in this
last column is not to dwell at
length over the joys and sorrows
of editorship. It is instead, to in
troduce whatever readership it has
been our good fortune to acquire
to the energetic blue-eyed brown-
ette who will “carry the torch.”
Pat Morley has been writing
ever since she could hold a pen
cil. Through high school at Lub
bock she usually topped her
class on her English themes. Her
first interests in journalism were
spent on the Lubbock High
School newspaper and annual.
Immediately after graduation
Patricia Naylor enrolled in TSCW
where she was a journalism major.
She was a member of the staff of
the Daily Lass-0 and a member
of English fraternity Sigma Tau
Delta.
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Pat Morley
New Women’s Editor
Between the years Pat left
TSCW, at the close of her soph
omore work and the time she and
her husband entered A&M in
the summer of 1950, the new
women’s editor of The Battalion
was a busy girl.
Pat and Bill Morley met when
they were sixth graders in Quanah
school. They went together in
crowds even before their first date
at the age of 15. But'they did not
grow up as sweethearts.
Pat went to college. After a few
months at NTAC, Bill joined the
Navy. Their romance began
through a mistake made by Pat’s
aunt.
She wrote to her niece that
Bill Morley had been sent over
seas, and the little Tessie coed
sat down with the letter and sob
bed. “There was no doubt in my
mind after that,” she says, “I
sat right down and wrote Bill a
love letter!”
Bill, who still was in the states
stationed at New London, Conn,
got the letter only hours before his
actual sailing. He proposed to his
future wife over long distance.
On Christmas Day, 1946, in the
home of the cupid-playing aunt in
Quanah Pat and Bill exchanged
their wedding vows.
Pat spent the next two years be
ing a typical service wife. She
followed her husband to Key West,
came home while he went overseas,
met him in New Hampshire, vaca
tioned with him in Massachusetts
and Maine, then went back to Flor
ida, and while her husband made
a trip to England on what then
was the longest-submerged sub
marine, Pat gave birth to their
first son, David William.
(See MORLEYS Page 4)
The College Station budget for 1951-52,
after a public hearing last night, was passed
without changes at a special meeting of the
city council.
Mayor Ernest Langford summed up ac
complishments of the city during the fiscal
year which ended June 30, and briefly read
through the budget summary for the coming
year. The mayor was open to questions from
citizens attending the meeting at all times
during the proceedings.
“The best money the city has spent dur
ing its 10 years of existence was the pur
chase of the REA lines six months ago,”
Langford said.
' In the electric fund, one of the
three principal city funds, an in
crease of $25,175 is expected in
comparison with an increase in ex
penses of $9,636.33.
The total purchase cost for the
REA lines was estimated at $33,-
000; however, auxiliary lines to be
built in several areas will bring
the entire cost for city ownership
of electric lines to around $50,000.
College Station will finance the
measure by the sale of part of the
$200,000 bonds authorized by citi
zens in a recent election.
Electricity Rates
Electric rates paid by the city
at the present time are one cent
per kilowatt hour for Bryan power
which is used in College Hills and
the North Gate area. The college
supplies the city electricity to Oak-
wood, Knoll, and College Park sec
tions at the rate of 1.1 cents per
kilowatt hour.
Total expenditures for the com
ing year are expected to be $167,-
146 as against $176,249 in rev
enues.
The city has three main funds—
the general fund, electric fund, and
water and sewer fund. In addi-
tioir to this there is a cemetery
fund which is separated from the
other funds for bookkeeping pur
poses. Revenues and expenditures
for the general fund and water and
sewer fund fail to cancel out, and
consequently the electric fund must
make up the deficit.
Total Revenues
Total revenues for the general
fund are expected to reach $44!-
785; the expenditures, however, are
approximated at $66,289.34. The
mayor was asked to explain the
items collectively totaling $3,309
listed under miscellaneous.
The items include $400 to city
library, $550 to cover expenses of
the charter commission which is
engaged in preparing a charter to
make College Station a Home Rule
municipality, $300 for travel by
city officials to municipal meet
ings, $1,059 for insurance and
bonds, and $600 to parks and play
grounds.
The biggest single item in the
general fund is $13,300 expected
to be spent by the Street Depart
ment. Eleven thousand, one hun
dred and thirteen dollar's will go
to the Health Department. Admin
istrative cost are anticipated to
reach $8,823.34.
Electric Fund Expenses
Expenditures for the electric
fund are set at $49,121.34 against
$80,263 in revenues. Last year
revenues for the electric func
reached $55,088 as compared witt
$39,485.01 in expenditures.
The water and sewer fund wil
go slightly in the red with $49,90C
expected revenues against $50,68^
in expenditures. Last year the func
spent $45,266.23 and took in $47,-
029.24.
The cemetery fund is expectec
to spend $1,051 and collect $1,301
This is a decrease from last year:
amounts totaling $1,658.23, ex
penditures and $1,826.72, revenues
For a comparative picture Col
lege Station will spend $19,899.31
more than last year and will col
lect $19,930.07 over last year’s re
Consolidated Lists
Transfer Students
Approximately 50 pupils hav
transferred to the A&M Consol
idated Independent School Dis
trict from other districts, accord
ing to School Superintendent L. J
Richardson.
The deadline for transferrin
students from other school districl
is July 31, said the superintenden
There is no tuition for those wli
transfer before the legal deadlir
Tuesday, Richardson said. He urge
all parents who intend to tram
fer children to the A&M Consol
dated District to do so before th(
time.
At the Grove
Tonight
Wednesday, July 25 — Skatii
and juke-box dancing—8 p.ml