Published by Students
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Number 196: Volume 51
The Battalion
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, . WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1951
Oldest Continuously Published
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In Texas
Price Five Cents
Truman to Ask Congress
For Controls Replacement
Joy Blasts Red Demands For
Korean Buffer Zone Position
Civilian educators visiting the Fort Hood ROTC
Summer Camp recently were guests of Maj. Gen.
Bruce C. Clarke, who is shown addressing the
]8,000 troops of his First Armored Division. On
the reviewing stand with Gen. Clarke are, left
to right, Dr. E. B. Evans, president of Prairie
View A&M; Dr. C. C. French, dean of the college,
A&M. Standing behind Gen. Clarke is Col. Hay-
don L. Boatner, deputy ROTC camp commander.
To the right of the general are Dr. Oliver S.
Willham, acting president of Oklahoma A&M;
Col. 0. O. Wilson, PMS&T, New Mexico Military
Institute; and Dean A. L. Slonaker, dean of men,
University of Arizona.
‘Measuring Nation’s Strength’
Is Topic of Kiwanis Speaker
U.N. Advance Headquarters, Ko
rea, Aug. 1 —CP)—United Nations
and Communist truce teams again
today refused to budge from their
opposing stands on where to es
tablish a buffer zone across Korea.
Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, chief
U.N. delegate, talked for an hour
and 13 minutes telling the Reds
what was wrong with their de
mand. It was the longest speech
that has been made in the 16 Kae
song cease-fire talks.
What Buffer Zone
The Communists want a buffer
zone back along the 38th Parallel,
the old political boundary line be
tween North and South Korea.
That is inferior terrain for mili
tary defenses.
“Since this is a military armis
tice,” Joy told the five Red gen-
erals, “we are interested only in
military realities.”
The U.N. insists that the cease
fire zone be established along the
present battle lines, where both
armies would be in good defensive
positions.
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols,
“War is an equation between men
and material” said Col. Merton P.
Brooks, commanding officer of the
Fort Sam Houston Reception Cen-
ler. Col. Brooks spoke to the Col
lege Station Kiwanis Club yester-
iay on “How to Measure a Na
tion’s Strength.”
He used as a yardstick, seven
points in a geopolitical theory of
power concentration.
Location Given Emphasis
Location was a point to which
Adolf Hitler gave a great deal of
emphasis, according to Col. Brooks.
The dictator visualized Germany as
the heartland of the world island
of Europe and Asia. “He who rules
the heartland rules the island, and
Farm Bureau
Meeting Now
In Progress
Some 200 leaders of the
Texas Farm Bureau, repre-
genting 110 counties, are at
tending a four-day Texas
Farm Bureau Institute at
A&M this week.
According to J. Walter Ham
mond, president of the Texas Farm
Bureau Federation, the leadership
school is designed to “provide the
i^est information for the county
readership to guide the continued
growth and progress of the organ
ization.” The institute is an an
nual affair.
Six subjects are taught at the
school, including philosophy and
policies of the farm bureau, mem
bership aquisition and maintenance,
public speaking, county and com
munity organizations, techniques
for officers, publicity and public
relations, recreational activities
and farm bureau service program.
Classes, which began Monday,
will continue through Thursday.
A banquet Thursday night will
conclude the institute. Allan B.
Kline, president of the American
Farm Bureau Federation, will
speak at the banquet. Hammond
will be master of ceremonies.
Jap Oceanographer
Plans A&M Visit
Dr. Koji Hidaka, physical ocean
ographer of the Geophysical In
stitute, Tokyo University, Tokyo,
Japan, will visit the A&M Depart
ment of Oceanography Thursday
and Friday.
Dr. Hidaka is world renowned
for his theoretical work on the
nature of ocean currents. He is
stopping at College Station on his
way to take part in the Ninth
General Assembly of the Interna
tional Union of Geodesy and Geo
physics in Brussels, Belgium, Aug.
21 to Sept. 1.
Japanese deep sea reversing
thermometers used by the Ocean
ography Department in its research
work in the Gulf of Mexico wei'e
obtained with the help of Dr.
Hidaka.
the ruler of the world island xmles
the world,” Hitler reasoned.
Col. Brooks employed such de
vises as charts, props, and slides
to illustrate his topic.
The size and shape of a country
are important in evaluating the
military might of a nation. To’ il
lustrate this point, Col. Brooks
called attention to Chile. A long,
narrow country, Chile would have
a difficult time defending her
coastline, or withdrawing within
her boundaries to reorganize her
factors.
History has shown that power
nations have been centered in a
climate that is neither too hot
nor too cold, Col. Brooks said in
stressing his third point.
Col. Morton P. Brooks
Speaks at Kiwanis Club
Equipment
Here For
‘Skate Nite’
Summer skating on Wednesday
and Sunday nights at The Grove
which was so popular during the
first term that additional skates
were ordered, has shown a notable
decline in attendance during the
past weeks, according to C. G.
“Spike” White,, assistant dean of
men for activities.
A part of the summer recreation
program offered by the Office of
Student Activities for students and
college employees, skate night lasts
from 7:30 p. m. until 10 p. m.
Forty pairs of skates are now
available for a rental fee of 25
cents for the evening. The ring is
open free of charge to persons
bringing their own skates.
Records are played in the juke
box during the evening, and the
concessions stand is open for the
purchase of soft drinks.
Fifteen new replacement straps
have arrived along with 20 new
pair of skates. Skate sizes are
available all the way from two to
10. Toe straps are also furnished
when requested, White said.
A tip to the male population—
there are usually a good number
of single girls present during the
evening, he added.
It is in natural resources and
industry that the human element
enters the war equation, accord
ing to the colonel. A nation may
have an abundance of natural re
sources, but lack the technical
know-how to transform that po
tential into military strength.
Population Skill
Again in the factor of population,
attention was called to the aver
age skill of the people comprising
that country—the human element.
Much emphasis was placed on
social and political organizations
by the speaker. He explained that
ideologies are developed by a min
ority group which eventually gains
control of the majority. In com
paring the military might of the
United States with that of Russia,
Col. Brooks called attention to the
fanatical ideology of the people of
Russia which might possibly offset
their inferiority to the United
States in industrial capacity.
Although the speaker was not
able to give figures on armaments
on hand because they are classi
fied material in the United States
and nothing accurate is available
on Russia, he stressed that the
quantity of armaments was not to
be confused with the quality.
The speaker was introduced by
J. Wayne Stark, director of the
MSC.
CS People
‘Pitch In ’
For Clean-Up
Reports indicate that College
Station residents have pitched into
the annual community-wide clean
up campaign with enthusiasm.
Ran Boswell, assistant city sec-
retary, said the garbage crews had
a full day Tuesday. He said they
were attempting to pick up as much
trash as possible on their regular
runs to avoid a sudden rush tomor
row when the special truck detail
is scheduled.
All garbage cans on the campus
were picked up yesterday by the
Building and Maintenance Depart
ment to be thoroughly scrubbed.
The Sanitary Laboratory under the
direction of L. E. Winder, sanitary
inspector will complete the opera
tion by spraying the cans with a
chemical solution.
The clean-up campaign originat
ed three years ago and has become
an annual affair here.
The City of College Station and
the Chamber of Commerce and De
velopment Association sponsor the
drive, designated to make College
Station the cleanest and most sani
tary city in Texas.
deputy U.N. public information of
ficer, told a news conference:
“Lieut. Gen. Nam II, chief Red
delegate, seemed to understand the
United Nations position but could
n’t appreciate the logic that we
used to arrive at that position.”
Nuckols said the U.N. delegates
were patient.
Joy Gave Analysis
He reported Joy gave a “pa-
explained how the Communists
would benefit from the Allied plan
of creating a buffer zone along
present lines.
The battlefront now extends a-
cross Korea from a point in the
West just South of the 38th Paral
lel, northeasterly along the Imjin
River between Kaesong and this
U.N. advance camp into North Ko
rea and thence Eastward across
mountain ridges to the East coast
tient, logical, detailed analysis and | about 25 miles North of the 38th.
refutation” of the Red position. ~
Joy quoted a definition from the . '' ^ ^ Ml
Hague Convention to emphasize
the logic of the U. N. position.
The Hague agreement says:
“A military armistice is a sus
pension of military operation by
mutual agreement between the be-
ligerent parties.”
Nuckols noted that Gen. Nam’s
statements frequently contained
quasi-political overtones instead of I
being confined strictly to military
questions.
An official communique said del
egates “failed to make progress
toward an agreement” in their
two-hour and 25-minute session
Wednesday. Nuckols said he would
n’t call the talks stalemated.
To Meet Thursday
Negotiators agreed to meet a-
gain Thursday. That will be their
17th session and the seventh at
which creation of a buffer zone
was the paramount issue. The
meeting was set to start at 11
a.m. (8 p.m. Wednesday E.S.T.).
A possibility the Red negotiators
might then propose a recess of sev
eral days was suggested by Coitn
munist propagandists outside the
meeting hall. Such recesses have
broken two previous deadlocks.
U.N. spokesmen say that the old
political boundary between North
and South Korea is militarily in
defensible. The allies want, in roe
words of Wednesday’s U.N. com
munique, “a realistic demilitarized
zone, equitable to both belliger
ents.”
At Tuesday’s session, Joy had
ID Cards Ready
For Distribution
Identification cards which were
made at registration for the sec
ond Summer term are now avail
able for distribution in t}ie Regis-
trar’s Office, announced H. L.
Heaton, registrar.
He urged all students, except
those registering late, to pick up
the cards immediately. They must
be claimed in person, he added.
Col. Joe E. Davis
Officially reporting for duly today, Col. Davis will assume the
position of Commandant and Coordinator of (he School of Military
Science and Tactics at A&M. Col. Davis replaces Col. H. L. Boat
ner who has recently received orders to report to Japan with a
promotion to Brigadier General. Col. Davis was formerly assistant
commandant here before leaving last September to take command
of the 4020 Infantry Training Regiment at Camp Chaffee, Ark.
He has also served as head of the ROTC section of the Texas Mili
tary District during his absence from A&M.
Sbisa, Duncan Eaters Get Temper Soother As They Eat
Music Always Featured on Menus At Mess Hall
By B. F. ROLAND
Battalion News Staff
Roast beef is a byline at Sbisa
Dining Hall, and likewise the
music you hear while dulling your
best barlow on the sometimes not before meals,
so tender morsels of “Mr. Bull” Before the MSC was opened,
has come to be a standard. Sbisa was the scene of many dances
It isn’t always true that your and of course the public address
temper is soothed by the strains system played a major role in
of light fantasy issuing from the these activities. The system is still
loud speakers, but somehow one used considerably for banquets and
manages to get “Mr. Bull’ (the
roast beef) into a digestible form.
Now if you ask Ray Rushing
why so much roast beef is served
at Sbisa, he probably couldn’t
tell you, but say something about
the music there and hei will talk
business with you.
You see, Rushing is in charge
of the public address systems in
both Sbisa and Duncan Halls, and
music is his byword. A junior elec
trical engineering major from Liv
ingston, and a veteran of the Navy
World War II, he has been asso
ciated with the public address sys
tems in the dining halls almost two
years. He is also a sports staff
writer for the Battalion.
Charles Wilson, veteran senior
electrical engineering major who
hails from Edinburg, is Rushing’s
assistant. Besides spinning plat
ters at Sbisa, Wilson works part
time in the Dean of Men’s office.
Whether it’s Beethoven or Ed
dy Arnold you like, you can hear
it in Sbisa. Rushing says that
judging from past complaints
the majority of students would
rather have popular and semi-
classical music for their dining
hours, but an effort is made to
satisfy everyone’s musical taste, some dances that are too big to be
Providing music is the primary held in the MSC.
purpose of the public address sys- Shaffer’s Book Store located at
tem in Sbisa and Duncan, but they the North Gate, furnishes records
also serve as a medium for impor- for Sbisa, while Haswell’s in
tant announcements and prayers Bryan supply the platters for
Duncan. Advertisements
are ex
changed for the music.
Sbisa sound equipment has re
produced the voices and music
of many celebrities including
Sammy Kaye, Frankie Carle,
Vaughn Monroe, Tommy Dorsey,
Ray Rushing, left, adjusts the controls of the public address
system in Sbisa Hall while his assistant, Charles Wilson, places a
record on the turntable which will send music out into the various
sections of the mess hall.
and Xavier Cugat. Sammy Kay
once made an attempt to record
a radio program via the Sbisa
sound booth and a direct line to
the studios of WTAW.
The sound booths in both Dun
can and Sbisa are built similar to
radio broadcasting booths. Each
booth has twin 78-33 rpm turntab
les that allow the operator to pro
duce uninterrupted music. Most of
the music in Sbisa comes from 45
rpm recordings, but Duncan has
facilities for only 78-33 rpm rec
ords.
During the regular semesters,
three operators and a foreman are
employed to spin platters in both
Sbisa and Duncan at chow time.
Two operators are used in Sbisa
and one in Duncan. The function
of the foreman is to serve as a
coordinator, perform repairs and
maintenance of the equipment as
well as to keep a fresh supply of
records on hand for both mess
halls.
Since Duncan is closed in the
Summer, only a foreman and one
operator are employed in Sbisa.
Wilson, ex-tenor saxophone play
er in a dance band, says he en
joys playing music, but getting
up at 5:30 in the morning gets
his “horizontal engineering” pro
gram off schedule.
Although information concern
ing the exact year the first sound
system was installed in Sbisa Hall
is not available, the time was some
where in the vicinity of 1929-30.
Before then, announcements were
made to the corps by the Corps
Adjutant, who, by standing on a
chair at the main staff table, call-
Reluctantly Gives OK
To New Controls Bill
Washington, Aug. 1 —(JP)—President Truman prepared
today to hammer again on Congress' door for a “good, strong
price control law” to replace what he called the “deficient”
act he signed last night.
Mr. Truman emphasized that he accepted the new, one-
year defense production act—“the worst I ever had to sign”
—only because he could not risk the lapse of it’s rent ceiling
and strong priority control clauses.
But the bitterly disputed law was on the books, and its
Republican and Democratic backers defended it against the
angry White House blasts. Their views were summed up by
the veteran GOP leader, Rep. Halleck (Ind.), who said :
“It’s a bill which, properly ap
plied and administered, will effect
control despite Mr. Truman’s state
ments.”
At the center of the storm, Mich
ael V. Disalle’s Office of Price
Stabilization (OPS) hastily explor
ed techniques for lifting price ceil
ings to the levels now required.
Disalle ordered thousands of
price roll-backs — and a goodly
number of roll-forwards—into ef
fect last night in the final hours
before Mr. Truman signed the
new measure.
Ceilings Held Back
New ceilings, held back for a
month during the congressional de
bate, were applied to consumer
items like radios, television sets,
refrigerator and other home ap
pliances, shoes, apparel, cotton
textiles, wool yarns and fabrics,
machinery, chemicals and many
building materials.
By rushing the orders out last
night, OPS avoided the immediate
necessity of rewriting the ceilings
to conform to the new act, which
entitles each manufacturer to pass
on to buyers his full business cost
increases up to July 26.
Individual price adjustments
must now be made. A month ago
' OPS said the order would bring
consumers more rollbacks than in
creases. Today it said the impact
on family budgets is “uncertain.”
Yesterday brought five other
major developments in the con
trols field:
The wage stabilization board ex
tended indefinitely its allowance
of cost-of-living wage increases
which are tied to the government’s
price index.
Bigger Prices
President Truman, predicting
the new law will mean bigger
prices for manufacturers, whole
salers and retailers, said it will
be necessary also to “allow rea
sonable adjustments in wages.”
“We cannot ask the working
people of this country to reduce
their standards of living just to
pay for the higher prices this act
provides for business,” he said.
OPS formally abolished its
slaughtering quotas, intended to
prevent a flow of meat into black
markets, in conformity with j^ie
new law.
It also cancelled two scheduled
4% per cent rollbacks on live
cattle prices—which it has said
would have cut nine or ten cents
a pound from butcher-shop beef
prices. Cattle prices have been rbll-
ed back as far as the new law al
lows for farm products.
OPS clamped ceilings on prices
of goods exported from the U.S.,
to conserve home supplies and help
the nation’s allies combat infla
tion. Exporters may not add more
than the pre-Korea percentage
mark-up to current domestic prices.
The Office of Housing Experiter
(OHE), now armed with stronger
rent control powers, disappeared as
such. Mr. Truman ordered its main
portions transferred to Eric John
ston’s Economic Stabilization
Agency.
Rent Controls
Reborn as the “office of rent sta
bilization,” OHE will function un
der ESA as an office parallel to
OPS and the wage board. There
was no sign Mr. Truman would
displace its head, Tighe Woods.
OPS poured out a dozen addi
tional price orders, many contain
ing rollbacks but having small im
pact on living costs. They affected
such materials as rubber products,
reclaimed rubber, brass and cop
per scrap, lubricating oils and
greases.
ed the cadets to attention in a loud
voice.
After reading his announcements
in the main mess hall, he would go
into the annex and repeat the pro
cedure. Now it’s a matter of flip
ping a switch to the room where
an announcement is desired to be
made, turn on the microphone and
proceed with telling the latest poop.
The first Sbisa sound system
was built, installed, and operated
by Tom Hiner class of ’28, who
later became chief engineer at
KPRC and KTRH in Houston.
Following Hiner as early opera
tors were H. M. Long, J. W.
Runyon, N. H. Rudasill, and C.
J. Wimer. Wimer is now owner
of the Wimer Engineering Co.
in Dallas.
Names of all the former PA op
erators in Sbisa are not available,
but some of the recent ones in
clude James Rushing, class of ’50
who is Ray’s older brother and is
now a junior engineer associated
with (General Electric, William
Monger, Bill Hites, Milton Barn
well, and R. G. Hollowed.
The value of the sound equip
ment in both Sbisa and Duncan
is estimated to be approximately
$6,000. This includes three RCA
velocity ribbon type microphones
and two sets of portable sound sys
tems, in addition to the stationary
equipment.
Rushing expressed his belief
that the majority of Sbisa cafe
teria patrons do not know where
the music originates that goes
free with their meals. The Sbisa
sound booth is located on the
first floor in the annex room,
(See MUSICIANS, Page 4)
At the Grove
This Week
Wednesday, Aug. 1—Skating and
juke-box dancing—8 p.m.
Thursday, Aug. 2—Movie, “Three
Little Words” with Red Skelton
and Fred Astaire—8 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 3—Dancing, music
by Aggieland Combo—8 p.m.