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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.
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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.
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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.