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Number 197: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1951
Price Five Cents
Farm Bureau Meet
Closes Here Today
Today will draw to a close the
final session of the third annual
Texas Farm Bureau Institute
which has been in progress for
four days on the campus.
Approximately 200 leaders of
the Texas Farm Bureau, represent
ing 110 counties, have been at
tending the four day classes of the
leadership school.
With all classes held in the meet
ing rooms of the MSC, the leader
ship school was designed to pro
vide the best information for the
county leadership to guide the con
tinued growth and progress of the
institution.
Eight Subjects Taught
Eight subjects have been taught
at the school during its four day
session. The subjects include farm
bureau philosophy, farm bureau
membership program, public rela
tions, recreational activities, and
farm bureau service program.
EngineerGroup
Will Sponsor
Essay Contest
A dinner and business
meeting was held by the Bra
zos Chapter of the Texas
Society of Professional En
gineers Monday night in the
MSC.
The group voted to again spon
sor an essay contest among senior
engineering students at A&M. Last
school year a total of $50 was
awarded by the Brazos Chapter to
winners of the contest. The essay
title last year was “The Civic Re
sponsibilities of the Young Engi
neer.”
Another item discussed was the
■annual essay contest among high
school students conducted by the
Texas Society of Professional En
gineers on a state-wide basis.
Three local students won awards
in this contest last year.
Oscar Grain is Chairman of the
High School Contest Committee
for the Brazos Chapter. He and
other members of his committee
will contact high schools in the
nine counties included in the Bra
zos Chapter area, according to J.
G. McGuire, chan*' 0 *’ nresident.
The Chapter discussed the pos
sibility of sponsoring an Engi
neer’s Club to meet weekly for
luncheon and fellowship. Should it
be formed, it will be open to all
engineers in this area, McGuire
said.
The next meeting will be held in
the MSC, Aug. 20, at 7 p.m.
At the Grove
Tonight
Thursday, Aug. 2—Movie, “Three
Little Words” with Red Skelton
jnd Fred Astaire—8 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 3—Dancing, music
by Aggieland Combo—8 p.m.
This year’s courses wei’e made
possible through solicited sugges
tions and advice from Texas Farm
Bureau leaders who attended the
1950 Institute.
The program for the Institute
consisted of two general assembly
sessions each day. A general as
sembly was held each morning and
the last period each afternoon.
A&M officials and outstanding per
sons engaged in Farm Bureau work
addressed the general assembly
sessions, where an opportunity was
given for questions and discussions
by the students.
Classes Arranged
The eight classes were arranged
where each student could take four
of the eight subjects offered. Each
subject was taught to three classes
by each instructor, making it pos
sible for two class periods to be
held each moming and two each
afternoon.
The faculty for this year’s ses
sion was composed of persons who
have mqde an outstanding success
in pai’ticular lines of Farm Bureau
work and persons whose training
and experience in certain woi-k
qualified them to make a definite
contribution to the Institute.
Entertainment for the Institute
students during the week has been
a recreational party on the roof
patio of the MSC on Monday, a
tour of the campus and Experi
ment Station on Tuesday, and a
square dance on the roof patio of
the MSC yesterday.
Certificate Presentation
This afternoon the proceedings
of the institute will be assembled
by the students and the banquet
and certificate presentation will
be held tonight at 7:30 in the MSC
Ballroom.
Allan B. Kline, president of the
American Farm Bureau Federa
tion will be the principle speaker
at the banquet. He will also award
the certificates to the students.
Still 100 Degrees
Austin Firm Gets
Consolidated Bid
Three firms were awarded "con
tracts Monday by the A&M Con
solidated school board for work on
new facilities for the school system.
The board accepted the low bid
of $77,464 submitted on the gen
eral contracting by B. L. McGee of
Austin. Haveron Plumbing Com
pany of Bryan won the plumbing
contract with a low bid of $8,099.99.
The electrical contract went to the
Bryan Electrical Service Company
which submitted the low bid of
$8,058.80.
Andrews-Parker of Bryan was
the second low bidder at $83,000
for general contracting. The high
est general contracting bid submit
ted was for $122,000.
Work on the new facilities, which
include five classrooms and a cafe
teria for the elementary school
on the main campus and an indus
trial arts shop at Lincoln High
School, will begin soon, according
to L. S. Richardson, school super
intendent.
Clouds Open
For Small
Rain Here
It rained in College Station yes
terday!
The dark, threatening clouds that
have formed over the city almost,ii
daily for the past week finally Hi
opened up for a few minutes yes
terday afternoon to partly quelch
the growing thrist for rain that
has accumulated over this area
in past months.
But the short .44 inch downpour
was not widespread enough to
reach all corners of the city. A
baseball game in College Hills
was continued after a brief inter-
ruption from the precipitation.
As usual, College Station had
its share of the hot weather, regis
tering 100 degrees at the Easter-
wood Airport CAA station.
Elsewhere in Texas, the Asso
ciated Press reported a hard
shower hit cotton fields in the
Harlingen area.
There were scattered rains in a
number of other sections, including
Big Spring, Wink, Midland, Min
eral Wells, Brownsville, Beaumont,
Galveston, Victoria, and Junction.
Also receiving hundred-degree
temperature were Austin, Dallas,
San Antonio, Waco, Alice, and Cor
sicana. At Fort Worth, Mineral
Wells, and Cotulla, it was 101.
Corsicana had found readings 100
or higher for 27 days in July.
Brownsville’s 86 degrees was the
coolest maximum reported to the
U. S. Weather Bureau yesterday.
Hup, Two, Three, Four
Squadron A freshmen march into the West en
trance of Sbisa Hall for lunch following the
noon formation. These cadets are the first Sum
mer military students A&M has had since a war
time speed-up program several years ago.
Joy Tells Reds
UN Will Leave
Men in Korea
U. N. Advance Headquarters, Ko- tion in the event of an armistice
rea, Aug. 2—(A 5 )—United Nations
negotiators told the Reds today
that a truce in Korea must leave
allied troops in positions they can
defend “in the event of an armi
stice violation by the other side.”
Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy made
that unequivocal statement in
again rejecting the Communist de
mand that a cease-fire buffer zone
be created along the 38th Parallel.
Seventh Session
It was the seventh successive
session in which negotiators re
mained deadlocked on where tq
draw the armistice line.
They will try again tomorrow
despite unswerving positions ex
pressed in Washington and Pyong
yang, the North Korean capital.
The next meeting is scheduled for
11 a.m. Friday (8 p.m. Thursday,
EST.)
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols,
U. N. spokesman, quoted Admiral
Joy as telling Red negotiators at
Kaesong:
“The United Nations command
has no intention of violating the
military armistice agreed upon, but
neither will the U. N. command
place itself in an indefensible posi-
Students Polled on Opinion of Summer Military Plan
Majority of Freshmen Favor Summer Program
By ALLEN PENGELLY
Battalion News Staff
Military training for fi-eshmen,
plus the long, hot hours in class
is quite a problem for many of
A&M’s Summer cadets. But several
of them had some comments that
would easily form a representative
opinion of the group now living
in dorm 14 and 17.
Not since the World War II era
of the tri-semester program have
Camera Club Slates
Lufkin Field Trip
Members of the MSC Camera
Club will board a chartered bus
Saturday at 6 a. m. at the back en
trance to the MSC for their first
field trip this Summer, according
to Henry Cole, Club president.
The trip will include a tour of
the Davey Crockett National Park
between Crockett and Lufkin. The
group will return to A&M Satur
day night.
The Camera Club meets in the
MSC every Monday night from
7:30 until 9. All members and
prospective members are urged to
attend these meetings, Cole said.
Former A&M Commandant and PMS&T
Brig. Gen. Boatner Leaves
For Far East Job Aug. 12
By WILLIAM DICKENS
Battalion Feature Editor
Brig. Gen. Haydon L. Boatner,
former A&M Commandant and
PMS&T, will embark for his over
seas assignment to the Far East
Command August 12.
Gen. Boatner, who has been at
A&M since July 14, 1948, spent
two and a half years in the Ad
ministrative Section of the Fourth
Army Headquarters at Fort Sam
Houstin, where he reported from
Gen. Joseph Stillwell’s command
in the China-India Theater.
His assignment at Fort Sam
Houston was his second tour of
duty in San Antonio, having
been assistant in the plans and
training section of the Third
Army from December, 1941 un
til February, 1942. Leaving Fort
Sam Houston in 1942, he went
overseas to Burma with the Still
well group.
After the fall of Burma, he was
made acting chief of staff of the
China-Burma-India Theater, and
later assistant chief of staff for
intelligence.
In the monsoon season of 1942,
he was in northern Assam and in
charge of the American group that
arranged for the air drop supply
ana other arrangements connected
with the rescue of two Chinese
divisions stranded in Northern Bur
ma.
In October, 1942, he was ap
pointed chief of staff of the Chin
ese Army in India. He was pro
moted to brigadier general on
November 1, 1942, and in April,
1943, he returned to the North
Burma sector. Concurrent with
his duties as chief of staff of the
Chinese Army in India, he was
appointed commanding general of
combat troops in the Northern
Burma section, which was later
designated the Northern Com
bat Area Command.
Brig. Gen. H. L. Boatner
Gets Far Eastern Assignment
After acting temporarily as com
manding general of the Mythkyina
Task Force in 1944, he was relieved
of his duties in the Burma-India
Theater in 1945 and went to the
China Theater as chief of staff of
the Chinese Combat Command. In
September, 1945 he became deputy
commander of the Chinese Com
bat Command and returned to the
United States for reassignment in
October, 1945.
Reverted to the grade of colonel
in January, 1946, he reported to
the Fourth Army Headquarters at
San Antonio, where he remained
before coming to A&M in 1948.
As a language student in Pe
king, China, from September,
1930 until July, 1933, Gen.
Boatner became the city’s lang
uage officer. In July, 1934, he
became assistant to the Military
Attache at Peking and it was
that year he was awarded the
Master of Arts degree from the
California College in China.
Gen. Boatner is considered an
authority on Oriental thinking and
customs and he speaks the Chinese
language fluently.
Born in New Orleans, La. on
October 5, 1900, General Boatner
served in World War I as a pi‘i-
vate in the Marine Corps. He en
tered the United States Military
Academy July 1, 1920 and was ap
pointed a second lieutenant of in
fantry when he was graduated from
the Academy on June 12, 1924.
beginning freshman Summer stu
dents had the opportunity to take
basic military science along with
their regular academic courses.
Chance For Early Contract
It was the idea of the Military
Science Department to offer the
basic ROTC curricula during the
Summer in order to give the new
students a chance to qualify for
Army and Air Force contracts
sooner, and thus enable them to
enroll in advanced ROTC work be
fore being drafted.
At the beginning of Summer
school, 234 new college students
registered to take this accelerated
program. Under the same program
of the Basic Division which was
initiated last Fall, the students
Carry an average course load of 16
hours for the three month period.
The first query was, “Do you like
A&M as well as you thought you
would when you first registered?”
Next question asked was “Do you
like the idea of beginning your
college career in the Summer, or
would you rather have waited un
til September to start?” And last,
“Are you in favor of the Basic
Division program or would you
rather have simply begun your col
lege work taking the prescribed
courses for your curricula.?”
The first student questioned was
Max Scott, chemical engineering
major from Sweetwater. Said Max,
“College life at A&M is rougher
than I had expected, but I’m glad
I came here. I think the Summer
program might scare some students
away because of the hurried cur
riculum, however, it will give us a
decided jump on September stu
dents toward getting Army con
tracts.”
Doesn’t Like Late Hours
James Southern, a Homer, La.
geology student, had this to say
about the Summer program. “I
like going to A&M during the Sum
mer except that I sometimes stay
up late studying and reveille
sounds at 5:30 a. m. By going
this Summer, I’m just that much
ahead of the regular Fall semes
ter students.” In regard to the re
quired freshman orientation course,
James said, “It helps a little, but
Museum Gets
War Relics
A Japanese two handed sabi-e
and scabbard, a Japanese 31 cal
ibre rifle, and a Russian carbine
with a bayonet have been present
ed to the College Museum, accord
ing to Dr. W. F. Gould, director of
the College Museum.
The three piece collection was
given to the museum by Capt. M.
R. Thompson, ’43 of Dallas, who re
cently returned from active service
in Korea.
The Japanese sabre, which is
made of fine steel with a handle
trimmed in silver, and the Japan
ese rifle are World War II relics
which were captured in the Phil
ippine Islands.
Captured in the Hwachon Dam
irea in Korea, the Russian carbine
is the type of gun now being used
by North Korean and Chinese
troops in the Korean war.
I’d just as soon have that extra
hour for study for I think I’d do
much better.”
Houston architecture student
Clifford Chatham said “I like it
much better than I thought I would.
I almost enrolled at the University
of Houston this Summer but I
changed rny mind after learning
of the program offered here. I’m
not sorry either. I’m taking the
remedial reading course now and I
find that I’ve already increased my
reading and comprehension speed
by approximately 120 words. I
think that one factor will aid me
throughout the rest of my college
Student, Professor,
Employee Hop Set
Students, instructors, and College
employees will have a “dance under
the stars” at the Grove tomorrow
night from 8 till 11. Music will be
furnished by the Aggieland Combo.
“Come stag, or drag a hag” is
the theme for this informal af
fair. Students will be hosts to
the Employees Dinner Club. Ben
nie A. Zinn, chairman of the Club,
announced that this is an added at
traction to the regular summer
schedule for the group.
“I didn’t know too much about
A&M before I came down here,
but I really like it now,” said Jer
ry Sonnier, electrical engineering
student from Port Arthur. “I did
n’t have a summer job so I decided
to come here and begin college this
Summer. I’m not too much in favor
of the Basic Division, however, I
still don’t know too much about it.
So far, they have taught me how to
study better.”
Charles White, a Dallas basic en
gineering student, is pleased with
A&M. “It’s rougher than I thought
it would be but I’m glad I came.
Most of us freshmen don’t have too
good an idea about the college’s
curricula, so I’m glad they offer us
such a course to acquaint us with
the various curricula. As for be
ginning college in the Summer, I
think it is a lot easier.”
Glad He Stayed
Said James W. Miller, mechanical
engineering major from New Lon
don, “I didn’t exactly know what
to think about A&M when I first
began, but now I’m glad I stayed
instead of quitting. Coming here
during the Summer, it sort of puts
you off balance, that is, puts you
between two classes, but it does
give you a better chance toward
getting a contract. Like Chatham,
I’m taking the remedial reading
course and I’ve found out it helps
a lot.”
A Preparatory Veterinary Medi
cine student from Nacogdoches,
Kent Walker came to A&M on the
advice of a friend. Said Walker, “I
wasn’t too amazed when I came
here because my friend told me so
much about A&M. I find its really
too hot to study during the day and
then since the courses are so
rushed, I don’t think I’m learning
as much now as if I’d waited until
September to begin. I’m not in
favor of the Basic Division pro
gram as it now stands.”
violation by the other side.”
Nuckols said Joy read this pre-
pared statement in response to “a
final question” by North Korean
Lt. Gen. Nam II, head of the Red
delegation.
Nuckols did not disclose the na
ture of this final question. But
it was presumed here that the
North Korean had asked something
like the following question:
If you sincerely desire peace, and
intend to observe the armistice,
why are you talking about defen
sible positions?
Nuckols said the question had
been anticipated, and the answer
prepared in advance.
After making his statement Joy
asked:
“Do you or do you not agree
that the security of his forces is
a responsibility of each commander
during a military armistice?”
Evaded Direct Answer
Naw II evaded a direct answer.
Joy repeated his question a second
and then a third time. Each time
General Nam avoided a direct an
swer.
When Joy put the question for
the third time, Nuckols said, it
caused a flurry on the Communist
side. The two Chinese in the five-
man Red delegation conferred with
each other, apparently attempting
to. find an answer for Nam.
“The question was becoming
something of a dilemma to him,”
Nuckols said.
For his part, Nam asked Joy
five times during the day whether
he had anything further to say.
The first time he asked it some
what hopefully, Nuckols said. Each
time the Admiral said no.
All evidence indicated that Nam’s
mission at the moment is to keep
the conference going while he a-
waits instructions from higher au
thorities.
It was believed here that the
Russian-trained 38-year-old Korean
has received no instructions to
change his demand for a buffer
(See JOY, Page 4)
Congressmen Ask
Salary Increases
Washington, Aug. 2 —(A*)—
There’s a new move afoot to raise
the salaries of congressmen since
one of them quit this week in order
to make some money for his wife
and kids.
Don’t look for much to come of
it though. Members of Congress
would like more take-home pay—
as who wouldn’t ? But they’re
mighty cagey about voting them
selves an increase. For one thing,
the voters might not like it. And
there’s an election next year.
Every now and then a congress-
Artillery Aggies Paid First,
Head Home From Fort Sill
By FRANK MANITAS
Artillery Camp Correspondent
Ft. Sill, Okla., July 27—(Delay
ed)—The Texas Aggies were the
first to get paid today and the first
to leave this huge military reser
vation as the summer ROTC camp
closed shop for the Summer.
For the Maroon and White ca
dets, it had been quite a six weeks,
mixed with hurricanes, demonstra
tions, firing, and heat exhaustion.
But one thing that the Aggies will
always remember is the party
thrown for them by the Ft. Sill-
Lawton A&M Club.
These former students, under
the direction of their President
Lee Woods and Capt. Thomas
Wesson of Fort Sill, gave a pic
nic for the 109 Aggies who
consumed 20 cases of pop and
35 pounds of hot dogs.
Among other events which will
be well remembered by the Cadets
were the four demonstrations put
on by the Artillery School.
One demonstration, the final one,
combined the talents of both the
Air Force and the Field Artillery
as each showed what it can do to
an enemy. The total cost of this
demonstration was estimated at
well over the $100,000 mark.
“Time-on-Target,” (TOT) use
of “jelly” bombs, strafing, and oth
er types of observed fire kept the
900 ROTC students on their toes
during the last demonstration. The
TOT demonstration made use of
60 artillery pieces, with power
ranging from the 105 howitzer to
the 8” gun. All the fire was con
centrated on a specific point with
the shells reaching same at an ex
act time.
The other three demonstra
tions which had displayed artil
lery fire conducted by observed,
radar and unobserved fire, cost
an approximate $225,000.
Firing the 4.5” guns, the Cadets
expended over 8000 rounds of am
munition which originally cost the
government over $560,000. And in
the six weeks of training the Army
gave out $200,000 cash to the
trainees.
Not counting the amount
spent for the housing and board
ing of the college students, John
Q. Public can rest well assured
that the expenditures ran slight
ly over one-and-a-half million.
But as in other camps all over
the nation, the money was spent
toward increasing the strength of
the United States Armed Forces.
Rotarians Hear Col. Roddy
Talk on Greek Civil War
The Bryan Rotary Club
Wednesday noon at the Parker
Dining Room. Guest speaker was
Lt. Col. John B. Roddy, of the
A&M Military Department.
Roddy was an advisor to. the
Greek Nationals in their civil war,
and is the former liasion officer
on Greek affairs in Washington,
D. C.
Col. Roddy told Rotarians that
the significance of the Greek civil
war was and is the first open stand
made by a democracy against Com
munism. While the situation in
Greece is quiet and well in hand
at this time, Col. Roddy predicted
another outbreak of violence there
if Europe becomes involved in
open warfare.
In regard to the conditions of
met the two armies involved in the
Greek civil war, the Nationalists
and the Communists, Col. Roddy
informed Rotary Club membei's
that although the Nationalists out
numbered Communists 4 to 1, lead
ership was poor and the army inef
ficient., The Communist army, on
the other hand, was well-supplied
and equipped, and had co-ordinated
leadership. He attributed their ef
ficiency to the ruthless discipline
which is rigidly enforced.
In addition to members of the
Bryan Rotary Club, five visitors
attended the meeting. Visiting Ro
tarians were Paley Reed, Hearne;
Dan Arnold, Oklahoma City; and
Burnett Roberts, Levelland. Non-
Rotarian guests were E. G. Brown,
New York City and Dr. Robert
Benbow, of Bryan.
man gives up his job to make mort
money in private industry. But fetf
have been as frank about theit
reasons as Texas’ Ed Gossett, who
stood before the House Tuesday
and announced:
“It has become absolutely impos
sible for a man to do his full duty
as a congressman and to do his
full duty to his family, especially
if he has five small children. It
is for the Gossett family, and not
for myself, that we return to Tex
as.”
Then after six terms and a
part of a seventh, off Gossett went
to a $25,000-a-year job as general
counsel for a utility company.
Some of his neighbors in the
plain - spoken Texas delegation
thought Gossett had a point there.
“It is a sad commentary on pub
lic service that officials like Ed
Gossett must be lost to the people
because the salary which is offered
for this position is inadequate for
the raising of a family,” declared
Rep. Lucas (D-Tex).
Others Consider Quitting
And Rep. Thompson (D-Tex)
said he knew of other congress
men who were thinking of follow
ing Gossett’s example.
“Let us hope,” Thompson told
the House, “that those of us who
remain behind him in the Congress
may have the courage to take the
obvious course to eliminate the fi
nancial aspects of the problem.”
That’s congressional English for:
“Let’s vote ourselves a raise.”
Congressmen already make con
siderably more money than most
people. Their salary is $12,500 a
year. Then there’s a tax-free ex
pense allowance of $2,500. Plus a
20-cents-a-mile travel allowance
(once each way per session) to
get them from home to Washing
ton and back.
In addition to stationery, tele
phone and similar allowances,
there’s around $20,000 a year for
office help—and some members de
vote part of this to a wife-secre
tary.
Another Story
But there’s another side of the
story :
With few exceptions, your con
gressman has to maintain two
homes—one in his district, the oth
er in or around Washington. Elec
tions -being the uncertain things
they are, he hesitates to buy a
home in Washington, so he winds
up renting a place for $150 to $250
a month.