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Published by Students Of Texas A&M For 73 Years The Battalion PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Oldest Continuously Published College Newspaper In Texas Number 194: Volume 51 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1951 Price Five Cents Negotiators Begin First Agenda Talks Machines for Cotton Picking U. N. Advance Headquarters, Korea, Friday, July 27 — (A*) — Cease-fire negotiators got down to brass tacks today, discussing a de militarized zone for an armistice in Korea. United Nations delegates- an nounced that Vice Admiral C. Turn er Joy presented the allied view at Kaesong on where the cease-fire line should be drawn. He backed up his view with mili tary maps, which were turned over to the Communist delegation. Proposed Buffer Zone ' Presumably he proposed a buf- ™ ,er zone running along the present —attle lines, which generally cut Yv'cross Red Korea north of the * 1 '.$th Parallel. The five Red generals expressed no opinion after the chief U. N. delegate had outlined allied views. Instead, they asked for a recess until tomorrow. Most of the hour and 15 minute session was devoted to arranging procedural matters for debating armistice terms. “Agreement was reached in prin ciple” on these matters “designed to expedite final achievement of a military armistice and cease-fii’e,” the U.N. announcement said. The allied statement was issued after delegates returned to this peace camp. As they left the Kaesong confer ence hall, Joy said merely: “That’s all for today.” Col. Brooks To Speak At Kiwanis “How to Measure a Nation’s Strength” will be the topic of an address delivered by Col. Morton P. Brooks, commanding officer, Fort Sam Houston Reception Cen ter, to the College Station Kiwan is Club at their noonday luncheon in the MSC Tuesday. The 42-year-old officer, native $f Mt. Vernon, graduated from A&M in 1932 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical En gineering. He received his Master’s Degree at Texas Christian Univer sity in 1938. Col. Brook’s accomplishments during his Army tenure include graduations from the Army’s Bak er and Cooks School in 1935, Com mand and General Staff College in 1943, Information and Education School in Paris, France, 1945, and the Armed Forces Industrial Col lege in 1949. As a student in, A&M, Col. Brooks was a member of the Aggie Band and belonged to “C” Company Infantry. Brazos A&M Club Plans Scholarship The Brazos County A&M Club launched a campaign at its Sum mer stag barbecue recently to raise funds for a scholarship for a stu dent to attend A&M. Fred Wolters was elected secre tary to fill the uneXpired term of John Stiles who was called into military service. Wolters- was also made chairman of a committee to .andle arrangements for the Ladies Night barbecue, August 28, at the Club House in the Munnerlyn Vil lage Area. In addition to Wolters, club pres ident Wallace Kimbrough appoint ed Roland Dansby and W. W. Scott to the committee. The next—and twelfth session— was set for 10 a.m. tomorrow (6 p.m., CST, Friday). Today’s meeting began promptly at 10 a.m. The first point on the agenda—“adoption of an agenda” —had been adopted Thursday im mediately after agreement to dis cuss a five-section program. Cre ation of a buffer zone across the 135-mile wide peninsula was the second point—the one probably dis cussed today. Radio Confirmation The Peiping radio, confirming the agenda, said it was agreed that a “higher level” meeting with in “a certain time” would discuss withdrawing foreign troops “by stages” from Korea. Red demands for immediate withdrawal of foreign forces had been the stumbling-block to earlier agreement on an agenda. A sharp warning against over optimism for an early end of the 13-month-old war was issued by Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway’s United Nations advance headquarters. “It is much too early to pre dict either the succes or the rate of progress to be obtained,” said a communique. There is a wide divergence of views, it stated. It said there were “numerous basic points” on which agreement must be found before hostilities can end. Furthermore, the communique warned: “It must be fully realized that mutual acceptance of the agenda is merely the initial step toward the final goal of a military armi stice and resultant cease-fire, which must be achieved under conditions giving every reasonable assurance aaginst the resumption of hostili ties.” , The United Nations command ap parently wanted to make sure that the Reds would not use an armi stice and cease-fire to mask anoth er effort to drive the allies into the sea. ilfli *ili! • SsIX- "t 'si' ~ § - y ' :11 Mechanical cotton pickers get the “wants-over” by these spectators who view the display set up on the drill field for the benefit of approximately 100 delegates to the Twelfth Annual Cotton Con gress now in session here. The delegates to the meetings come from 11 states and three foreign countries. Sessions of the Con gress are devoted to research developments in the cotton industry. Second Semester Attendance Drops Heaton Expects 6,121 Fall Students By ALLEN PENGELLY Battalion News Staff Second semester Summer enroll ment tapered off from that of the first session by approximately 650 students. The Housing Office official rec ords show that 1,973 students are currently enrolled in school as com pared to the 2,524 students enrolled in the first semester. Of the total number, 838 are living in Walton Hall, Dorm 14, Dorm 15, Dorm 16, Dorm 17, Biz- zell Hall, and Milner Hall. There City Clean-Up Drive Will Begin Monday By FRANK DAVIS Battalion City Editor College Station residents were urged to begin picking up all trash and debris from around their pre mises yesterday by J. B. Baty, chairman of the Chamber of Com merce Public Health Committee, in preparation for the community- wide clean-up campaign to be launched Monday. , Three city trucks will be avail able Thursday to collect the refuse. City Manager Raymond Ro' re quested that citizens pile t gar bage at places the tracks can reach. Truck Schedule Set Schedule for picking up the gar bage was also given by Rogers. From 8 a. m. Thursday until 12 noon the tracks wall make rounds in College Hills. During the after noon, the tracks will move through the College Park and North Gate areas. The clean-up drive, to be sponsor ed jointly by the City of College Station and the College Station Development Association and Chamber of Commerce, will be con ducted on a voluntary basis, Baty said. There will be no inspection made of individual premises during the campaign; nor will people be both ered with having a neighbor or anyone else call and hand them a list of things they should do to their premises. In an effort to stamp out unsani tary conditions and dirty spots within the city, Baty has suggest ed that residents and business peo ple pay particular attention to such items as weeds and high grass around the premises, dirty garbage cans, and outside receptacles which may contain water. Pests, Fire Hazards Baty explained that high grass and weeds are frequently the har boring places for rats and mosqui toes and also present a fire haz ard. Garbage cans and the areas where the cans are kept are es pecially important, not only be cause frequently they are unsight ly, but also are breeding places for flies and mosquitoes. “Spray around doors, windows or other places where insects may enter the building,” Baty suggest ed. He recommended that garbage cans be scrubbed and disinfected. Clean surroundings are not only important from a health stand point; neat and attractive premises reflect pride in one’s family and neighborhood, Baty said. Looking over election returns for the special election held Tuesday to elect a new councilman for Ward III are Nestor McGinnis, city secretary; Howard Badgett, Harry Boyer, and R. B. Halpin, councilmen; and Ernest Langford, mayor. Sit ting at the desk in the background is Ran Bos well, assistant city secretary. Also in the back ground are three citizens present for the hearing on the city budget scheduled for the same night. They are Clyde Rainwater, D. B. Cofer, and F. B. Clark. are 175 corps freshmen enrolled this semester plus 180 students at tending the Summer Adjunct ot Junction. Veteran Housing The veterans apartments, com posed of College View, Project Housing units, and Vet Village, have a total of 369 tenants. College View has 311 people, the Project Houses have 40, and Vet Village has 45 families. So far, there have been only nine resignations submitted during the second session. The expected enrollment for the Fall semester will total 6,121 said H. L. Heaton, college registrar, yesterday. The figure was based on probable returning students, new students beginning college this summer, freshmen attending the Summer Adjunct at Junction, and entrance applications already submitted to his office. The School of Engineering is ex pected to have the largest enroll ment with 2,471 students. Of this number, 362 will be in the Me chanical Engineering Departments Architecture is next with 339 pro bable enrollees and Petroleum En gineering is third with 338., 1,754 Agriculturists Dr. Chas. N. Shepardson, dean of the School of Agriculture estimated that 1,754 agricultural majors will enroll this Fall. The Agriculture' Department is expected to be the largest with 995 students while the next largest department will be the Agricultural Education Depart ment with 231. The School of Arts and Sciences plans an enrollment of 1,552 with the largest department, the Busi ness Administration Department, expecting 852 students. Expected enrollment in the School of Veterinary Medicine is approximately 344. That school is expecting 120 pre-veterinary stu dents and 224 veterinary medicine students. Expected total enrollment for the 1951 Fall semester, broken down by grade, is 466 graduate students, 57 five year men, 1,216 seniors, I, 353 juniors, 1,408, sophomores, and 1,641 freshmen. Quicker Registration Procedure Heaton said further that his office is working on the improve ment of current registration proce- dures. “The present method is too slow for both the students and the administrators. “One method of speeding up the registration procedure will be to have the students come by this office to pick up the large orange signature cards along with their schedule booklets,” he continued. “By getting these signature cards in advance of registration, the stu dent will be able to save time when registering at Sbisa Hall.” This year the Registrar’s office has printed both the Fall and Spring semester schedules in the same booklet. It is hoped that by this method the student will be able to save the time of going to the Administration Building to. se cure another booklet for the sec ond semester. “One word of caution,” Heaton added “The booklets will be dis tributed at the beginning of the Fall semester. There is a good chance that there will be few left by the Spring semester, so it is my advice to hang on to the book let that is issued this September.” Cotton Meeting Opens with 400 Delegates Here Four hundred delegates from 11 states and three foreign countries arrived on the campus yesterday as the Twelfth Annual Cotton Re search Congress got underway here. During the opening sessions, an encouraging news note was given for farmers. Researchers said they think they have found many new uses for the lint and seed and have found ways to make the widely varying staple more acceptable to Eastern processors. Dr. Dysart E. Holcomb, dean of the School of Engineering at Texas Tech sounded the news note. Extensive Research Program He said an extensive research program is now being conducted to rid eastern mills of a “fear of Texas cotton.” Holcomb said differences in en vironment and method of growing to be found in Texas caused such a variance in milling methods as to lead to drastic alterations in the cotton’s spinning and fabriction qualities. This, he said, make mills uneasy about taking all of the available Texas cotton on the mar ket. The research at Texas Tech brings samples from all localities in Texas for testing of fibre and spinning quality. Somtimes this process involves wearing a piece of cloth from the yarn. . “As the work progresses,” Hol comb said, “sufficient data will be available on all Texas growths to summarize in bulletin form for mills the manufacturing properties of each individual type, which will Standards at Corsicana State Orphans Home Found Lagging Austin, July 27—(A*)—Standards at the state orphans home are “far short” of what they ought to be, the Board for Hospitals and spec ial schools found yesterday. It ordered an immediate person nel shakeup and changes in the in stitution’s policy to place greater emphasis on education of orphans at the Corsicana home. The board decided there have not been enough policy changes in the past 25 years to keep up with changing times. Superintendent M. E. Dumas, storm center of a controversy in which former teachers and em ployes at the home charged he had not cooperated and had been un duly harsh in discipline, was re lieved of his job effective Sept. 1. Noted Dumas 111 The board noted that Dumas had been ill, said this was a factor in relieving him, and praised him for making improvements in the physical plant of the home. Educa tional, religious and recreational facilities were singled out as “far short” of what they should be. The board accepted the resigna tion of business manager A. W. Laird, who also had been criticized by the group of former workers at the home. It named O. R. Scott acting head of the home. He had recently been named educational director, and will handle both jobs. Management of the home has not been active enough in trying to make the children a part of the community where they live, the board found. It suggested an im mediate study of a plan to send older students to high school in Corsicana. Ingels, Stuart Top Ft. Hood ROTC Cadets Cadet Richard A Ingels, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Ingels, 1114 Cascade, Dallas, Texas, has been selected as the outstanding cadet of the Fort Hood Reserve Officfers Training Corps summer camp. Cadet Louis L. Stuart, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Stuart, Sr., 2000 S. College Road, Bryan, Texas, was named the outstanding Armor cadet of his company at the Fort Hood camp. A student from A&M, Ingels was also named the outstanding cadet of Armor. He was accorded the honor as the outstanding cadet of the camp after six weeks of com petition with nearly a thousand college students fx - om 20 different institutions in 10 southwestern states. Ingels was selected as the top man of the camp on the basis of participation in camp activities, disciplinary record, competitive The board also suggested that the Ex-Students Association of the home-—which recently endorsed the administration—work closely with the institution in such matters as entertainment of former students who return there for visits. The board banned further state spend ing for ex-student barbecues on homecoming day. Methods of discipline students— by what he called “almost any body”—were criticized by Chair man Claud Gilmer of the board. He was also chairman of a special committee that made recommenda tions to the board after several days of investigation of unrest at. the institution. Gilmer said severe discipline should be handed out only by reg ularly-appointed authorities. The chairman said it was “un fortunate” that some people at the home felt the students would not be favorably received in the com munity. He said he felt the children would be if the problem were worked at properly. Rules Defined Rules and regulations definitely establishing a work and school program should be worked out, the committee urged. One com plaint voiced by the former teach ers was that the administration had interfered with the education al program. The committee’s report was adopted unanimously by the board. The board also named Gilmer chairman for another one-year term, and elected Dr. Walter C. Goddard of Austin vice-chairman. drill, personal interview and marks manship. He is president of the A&M Sen- A distinguished Military Stu dent from A&M, Stuart was ac corded honor on the basis of his participation in camp activities, disciplinary record, competitive drill, personal interview, and I marksmanship. Stuart and Ingels just completed six weeks of intensive field train ing here and will return this Fall to A&M for completion of academic | work required to qualify them for a commission as Second Lts. in the United States Army. The ROTC camp here completed its training program today under the direction of Col. H. L. Boatner, and Lt. Col. William F. Lewis, Pro fessor of Military Science and Tac tics and Senior Infantry Instructor respectively at A&M. assist in removing the fears . . . sometimes prevalent in eastern mills.” He mentioned, too, a device known as the “tricot knitter.” This machine is now in use on an ex perimental basis at Texas Tech. Holcomb said, “It’s ready to go, and we have high hopes on the basis of inquiries that a tricot plant may be started in Texas.” Most “research in action” speech es and reports struck a common note of optimism over cotton’s fu ture. New uses and new manufacturing methods and techniques, experts re ported, are creating new demands and producers. An instance reported was cotton made wrinkle-resistant which, “en ables it to compete in markets for a million additional bales annually,” said Burris C. Jackson of Hills boro. Jackson, chairman of the state wide cotton committee of Texas, said, “our competitors, through re search and promotion, have so strengthened themselves that they are threatening to take from us an income which we once felt was secure. “Cotton Research Is Answer” “Cotton research is the answer, and our future depends on it.” ' Other developments in the fight to improve cotton’s situation in world markets were mentioned by Jackson. Cotton can be made re sistant to heat for such uses as ironing board covers, if it is par tially acetylated. It can be dyed with wool dyes, “making it possible to achieve a brilliance in fabric which once was not thought possi ble,” Jackson reported. Edible commodities are being de». veloped from cotton seed. Fibre* are being toughened and strength ened, through research in growing and processing. Grants Given To Agriculture By Swift & Co. Three research grants for scientific study in agriculture have been received by the Texas Agricultural Experi ment Station and the A&M Research Foundation from Swift & Company. The grants represent a part of Swift & Company’s $140,000 pro gram for 1951-52 of supporting long and short term studies in ag riculture and human nutrition, in volving 22 universities, colleges and other research institutions in the United States and two in Can ada. The Agricultural Experiment Station received grants for two projects, which are “Methods of Supplying Phosphorus to Cattle” and “Studies Relating to Legume Adaptation and Production and Consumption of Grasses in the King Ranch Area.” The one grant to the A&M Re search Foundation was to aid a study of agricultural aviation as related to brush control. All three are classed as long- range projects, lasting from one to five years. The research grants by Swift & Company were announced by Dr. Roy C. Newton, vice president in charge of research. Graham Appointed BAFB Comptroller Mrtj. Ellsworth W. Graham, Jonesboro, Ark., reported to Bryan Air Force Base yesterday and has been named Base Comptroller, ac cording to Col. James C. McGehee, BAFB commanding officer. Maj. Graham came to Bryan from Vance Air Force Base, Enid, Okla., where he has been stationed for the past three years. He served as purchasing and contracting of- i ficer and later as base comptroller | at Enid. ! At the Grove This Weekend Col. Walter H. Parsons, Jr. Former assistant professor of Military Science and Tactics and head of the Engineers Branch here, Col. Parsons left College Station early this week for Eucom, Germany where he has been reassigned as Staff Engineer. A leader in the community as well as in the Military Department, Col. Parsons has been here since 1947. Friday, July 27—Dancing, music by Aggieland Combo—8 p.m. Saturday, July 28—Square Danc ing—8 p.m. Sunday, July 29 — Skating —8 p.m. Monday, July 30—Movie, “Watch the Birdie” with Red Skelton—8 p.m.