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i 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 202: Volume 51 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1951 Price Five Cents Kaesong Talks Resumed;Little Progress Noted U.N. Advance Headquarters, Ko- ■ rea, Aug. 10—O'?)—Truce delegates I resumed negotiations today but ■ failed to make any progress on I where to establish a dividing line ■ between opposing forces in Korea. The meeting in Kaesong was the first in six days and the longest F! uninterrupted session since talks B began a month ago. Four Hour Talk M They talked across the green- »=t 0 PP e( l conference table for four lours and 12 minutes, without a 1 break. Despite the length of the ses- ■ sion, a U.N. spokesman said they ■ “still made no progress.” They meet again tomorrow at 1 11 a.m. (8 p.m. EST, Friday). The ten envoys—five Communist B generals and five high ranking I United Nations officers—appeared I almost jovial when they entered ■ the conference room for the first I time since last Saturday. Negotiators resumed right I where they left off when the U.N. B command canceled meetings in pro- B test against a Red violation of the B Kaesong neutrality zone. The Communists apparently were adamant in their insistence for a buffer zone created along the 38th parallel, old political boundary line between North and South Korea. The U.N. command says it wants the zone based on present battle lines. The front lies mostly north of the parallel, extending 35 miles north on the East Coast. The Allied delegation held a hushed 15-minute discussion in the U.N. tent before Friday’s session began. Delegates marched out smiling and laughing. They entered the conference room a few seconds before North Korean Gen. Nam II led in the Communist negotiators. The pok er-faced Nam seemed almost hap py before the meeting. The delegation entered, as usual, through separate doors. The U.N. party flying to the 20th session in helicopters Fri day saw no sign of armed Red troops. Their presence last Sat urday caused the longest break in discussions since the meetings started. Rode In Jeeps The U.N. party rode to the U.N. staff house in Kaesong in Com munist Jeeps — four are Russian type and one captured American model. Lacking their own trans portation, newsmen were unable to visit the spot three-quarters of a mile from the conference build ing where Chinese troops had a tent area last Sautrday. From a helicopter they spotted two unarmed guards in the area, one dozing in his undershirt. No remains of the camp were visible. Only the usual unarmed “recep tion personnel” were seen around the confernece building itself. Friday’s long session was the tenth devoted to the question of where to end the shooting in Ko rea and create a buffer zone be tween opposing armies. I Motheral 1 Aids Land Tenure Plan Joe R. Motheral of the Agricul tural Economics and Rural Socio logy Department, A&M, was one nf seven visiting experts who helped the University of Wisconsin plan the World Conference on Land Tenure Problems. The conference will be held in Madison Oct. 7-Nov. 10. Its pur pose is to encourage improvement in land tenure systems throughout the world by giving technicians and professional leaders from 50 nations a chance to meet and ex change ideas. Journalism Head To Attend Meet Donald D. Burchard, head of the Journalism Department at A&M, will attend the annual joint convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and the American Society of Journalism of School Administrators at the Uni versity of Illinois Aug. 27, 28, and 29. Burchard is vice-president of the Association for education in Journ alism. He will also represent A&M, which is a member of the American Society of Journalism of School Administrators. During the three day convention Bux’chard will be in charge of the Administrator’s program on Mon day afternoon, Aug. 27. Two hundred men are expected to attend the convention’s program which will be conducted by out standing journalists of the United States. Burchard will also attend the executive committee meeting on Aug. 26 before the convention gets underway the following day. Top FFA Member issSSsaiSK Garland L. Carroll of Cleburne received a special $250 award from Jesse Jones in Houston after Carroll was named Lone Star Farmer at the state convention of the Future Farmers of America. The 17-year-old Carroll was selected as top man among the 33,000 FFA members in Texas. Group Seeks Method To Keep Health Unit Herdsmen’s Course Begins on Campus With 128A t tending By ALLEN PENGELLY Battalion News Staff Final attendance records for the 1951 Texas Herdsman’s shoit course showed that 128 cattlemen registered for the three day con ference which began here yester day morning at the Beef Cattle Center. The opening day ceremonies be- g a n with a welcome by Dr. Charles N. Shepardson, dean of the School of Agriculture. Following Dean Shepardson was Freshman Week Activities Get Underway September 7 By C. T. HUDSON, JR. Battalion News Staff Approximately 1500 Freshmen are expected to enter A&M Fresh man Week, according to Dr. John R. Bertrand, dean of the Basic Division. The new students will begin their stay here Friday, Sept. 7 at 8 a. m. by obtaining room assignments at the housing desk in Sbisa Hall Annex and Drawing their un forms at the clothing warehouse. Refreshments Served Refreshments, sponsored by the YMCA, will be served in Sbisa at 10 a. m. Saturday, Sept. 8, for the new r students, their parents and friends and members of the facul ty. All meals will be served in Sbisa for students and parents. A general assembly will be held at the Grove at 7 p. m. for the new freshmen with C. H. Ransdell, as sistant dean of the Basic Division, presiding. A program of introduct ory speeches, introductions, an nouncements, and Aggie Songs will be featured. A series of tests will be held in Duncan Hall beginning at 7:30 a. nr. and 1:15 p. m. respectively, on the second day of Freshman Week, Saturday, with any off time being devoted to the drawing of uni forms at the clothing warehouse. Cashion to Preside M. L. Cashion, general secretary of the YMCA will preside over the General Assembly at the Grove at 7 p. m. at which time in introduc tion of local ministers will be made. All students will be urged to at tend the church of his choice Sun day. A directory of local churches will be posted on the bulletin board in each dormitory. Sunday after noon at 3 p. m. the MSC will hold open house wdth refreshments in the Ballroom, sponsored by the House Committee of the MSC for new students. Col. J. E. Davis, Commandant, wall deliver a speech on “The A&M Cadet” from 8>a. m. to 9:50 a. m. at the general assembly in Guion Hall on Monday, Sept. 10. The remainder of the day, until 5:30 p. m. will be spent at' unit meetings presided over by counsel ors and company commanders. In these meetings the new students wall be told of Aggie traditions, cadet counselor relationship, ’ col lege regulations, and conduct off the campus. Welcome Address A welcoming address will be giv en by Dr. M. T. Harrington, pres ident of the college, and an intro duction of the executive committee wall be made at The Grove gen eral assembly at 7 p. m. Music and other entertainment will also be presented by Walter Jenkins, choir- director at the First Methodist Church of Houston. General assembly will be held in Guion Hall from 8 to 10 a. m. Tuesday, Sept. 11, wdth an address on “Opportunities in Agriculture” given by C. N. Shepardson, dean of Agriculture, and “Opportunities in Veterinary Medicine,” given by Dr. I. B. Boughton, dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine. Individual conferences will be Heat Breaks 100 Fourteenth Consecutive Day in CS Area College Station had its four teenth consecutive day of 100-plus temperatures as the CAA weather station recorded a high of 102 for Thursday. Minimum recorded about daylight yesterday w r as 76. Winds that sprang up late Tuesday, but abated somewhat last night were averaging about 12-15 miles per hour wdth gusts up to 22 mph, the station reported. The outlook for the next few days is the same—continued hot with little change in temperatures although the forecaster said it was likely the extended heat w^ave would begin breaking over the weekend. A cool front that is affecting Northern Texas wdll not be felt here the forecaster said, because of the strong winds from the South and Southeast. By Associated Press A wind, sand, and rainstorm struck Midland in West Texas about 5:20 p. m. Thursday. There was damage to trees and sigrrs, and some damage to property. The rain, and cooling tempera tures continued at Midland into the night. Clouds, a cool breeze, sand and a few 7 drops of rain struck Electra (near Wichita Falls) about the same time, bringing relief from pine days of blazing heat. Wichita Falls -also felt a cool north wind. Welcome word came from the U. S. Weather Bureau: relief from 100-breaking tempera tures is in sight for most of North Texas. Cool Front The cause: a w 7 eak, diffused cool front moving in from the North. In North Texas week-end tempera tures were expected to be in the low 7 and middle nineties. But a warning: at best, the re lief will be temporary. There’ll be plenty more hot days before the summer is over, said a weather bureau forecaster. He said the slow-moving cool front should consolidate in the Pan- handle-Wichita Falls area Thurs day night and move to the Dallas- For-t Worth area Friday night and Saturday. Midland Storm The storm at Midland started with sand blowing in from the Northwest. It cut visibility to 200 feet. For about an hour a wind estimated at above gale strength littered streets and the courthouse lawn with tree limbs; tore at signs; blew down scaffolding at some buildings under construction. A hole was knocked in a building roof. In a short time Midland had .12 inches of rain, with the fall continuing as the storm moved South, Southeast. Rain fell at Wichita Falls and a late temperature reading there was 75 degrees. Some break in the heat wave had come. But Texas had plenty of high temper-atures Thursday—more heat of the sort which has caused at least 17 deaths over the state. In four other deaths heat w 7 as listed as a contributing cause. Dallas had its tenth straight day of 100 or better temperatures— one day short of a record of 11 days set in 1925. The Dallas max imum Thursday was 102. The high est in its run was 107 Aug. 7. Rain at Childress Rain fell Thursday too at Chil dress, in the Panhandle, bringing temperatures down to an afternoon reading of 78. Showers cooled Wichita Falls dow 7 n fast to a 75 after a high of 102 degrees but rose again to hit 81 by 8:30 p. m. There were show-ers at Big Spring, and north of Abilene, too. The forecast called for continued high temperatures, except: scat tered showers and not so warm in the extreme North part of East Texas, and in the South Plains. Scattered thundershowers were (See THUNDERSHOWERS, pg. 4) Chicago Firm Aids Experiment Work A check for $2,500 has been Re ceived by the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station from the Cal cium Carbonate Company of Chi cago. The money will be used in evaluat ing special electro calcium carbon ate as a diluent for insecticides. “These investigations are to be conducted under the direction of C. F. Rainwater during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1951,” Dr. R. D. Lewis, director of the TAES, says. held with dormitory counselors un til noon. Uniforms will also be is sued at this time. A. E. Denton, ad visor of the appraisal service, will preside over a general assembly in Guion Hall at 1:15. Addresses will be given by Dr. H. W. Barlow, dean of the school of engineering and Dr. J. P Abbott, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, and opportunities in their respective schools. ID Photographing At 5 p. m., identification photo graphing will be held in Walton Hall Lounge. A moving picture, and Bob Clark the magician will provide entertainment at the Grove general assembly at 7 that evening. Addresses will also be given by Dr. C. C. French, dean of the col lege, and W. L. Penberthy, dean of the college. General assembly will be held Wednesday for students whose surnames begin with A through L at Guion Hall and students whose surnames begin with M through Z at the assembly hall. The assembly will last until 9:30. Individual con ferences with the academic advis ors as announced and issueing of uniforms will last until 5 p. m. that day. Service and entertain ment at the local churches will be held at 7 p. m. Meet Student Leaders The new students will meet stu dent leaders in the general assem bly in Guion Hall from 8 to 9:30 a. m. Group conferences with the Basic Division staff and the issu ing of the uniforms will be held until noon. H. L. Heaton, registrar will deliver an address on “The Registrar’s Service and You” and will also give instructions for registering. Pre-registration conferences in the basic division offices will be gin at 2 p. m. and last until 5 p. m. At 5 p. m. identification photographing in Walton Hall lounge and the issuing of uniforms to those who still do not have uni forms will be held until 5:30. A col lege reception will be held in the ballroom of the MSC at 7 p. m. Registration begins Friday, Sept. 14. Dr. J. C. Miller, head of the Ani mal Husbandry Department, who lectured on “The Responsibilities of Purebred Breeders.” W. D. Roberts, manager of Flat Top Franch, Walnut Springs, led a discussion on “The Selection of Cattle for- Breeding Pur-poses.” “Rules and Regulations for Regis- tration and Transfer of Cattle” was the topic of Harry Gayden, exe cutive secretary of the American Brahman Breeders Association. Comments on Gayden’s speech were voiced by Milton Miller, southwestern representative of the American Aberdeen-Angus Asso ciation, and W. J. Largent, a Here ford cattleman from Merkle. After the noon-day break, John K. Riggs associate professor- in the Animal Husbandry Depart ment, lecturer to the students on the value and procedure of keeping herd recor-ds. Breeding Problems A discussion concerning the “Breeding Problems and Difficul ties” was conducted by R. O. Berry, a professor in the Animal Husban dry Department. Another discus sion, “Management of a Breeding Herd” was led by W. B. Roberts. Yesterday’s activities were com pleted when J. H. Jones, professor in the Animal Husbandry Depart ment, gave » talk on “The Feeding of Young Breeding Cattle for Proper Development.” School began this morning with a lecture by Edgar A. Hudgins, a Brahman cattleman from Hung- eerford, whose topic was, “Feeding Breed Cattle for Show and Sale.” Milton Miller followed Hudgins’ lecture with a discussion on “The Selection of Show Prospects.” This afternoon, Miller and Tony Steward, secretary of the Texas Angus Association described the proper methods of clipping cattle for show purposes. Hoof Trimming Along that same topic, Albert Blankenship, college herdsman, and Arthur L. Gee, former college herdsman, demonstrated the proper- methods of hoof trimming for show purposes. Tonight, beginning at 8 p. m., a movie illustrating the raising and breeding of Brahman cattle in Bra zil will be shown at Guion Hall. The public is invited to attend this free movie. The film is shown through the cooperation of the Animal Hus bandry Department and the A&M Latin American Society. By FRANK DAYIS Battalion City Editor Reservists Finish First Half of Camp Camp Polk, La., Aug 10— (Spl)—Men of the Headquar ters of 352nd Armored Artil lery Battalion from College Station neared the end of the first half of Summer training here Thursday, in 100-degree-plus heat that steamed through west central Louisiana. Under the command of Major Ogbourne D. Butler, the 352nd Ar tillery was concentrating heavily on weapons training and physical conditioning as part of the 22nd Armored Division, Reserve. With men of the 352nd Artillery were reser-vists from every part of Texas and some cities in Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, training as an entire division. Approximate ly 1100 men of the 22nd Armored will be here at the headquarters of the XV Corps through Aug. 18th. Aggie Debate Club Sets Tournament Plans The Aggie Discussion and De bate Club directors would like to contact any student interested in debating—particularly the incom ing freshmen. The current debate organization was formed in 1946 under the sponsorship of the A&M Depart ment of English, and was direct ed by Karl Elmquist. Current di rectors are associate professors Harrison Hierth and Lee Martin. Defeated West Point Aggie debaters have defeated West Point teams three years, in 1948, ’49, ’50. Veteran debaters who will return this year are Dan Davis of Lubbock and James Farm er- of College Station. These two students are seniors with four years debating experience. Last year the 1950 team won the University of Houston Debate Tournament. Farmer and Davis were judged superior debaters at the Southern Speech Conference Debate Tournament at Gainesville, Florida, in April of last year. This was a distinction which no other team received in the tourna ment. Expanded Program The program has been consider ably expanded for the coming year, according to debate coach Lee Mar tin. In addition to the usual trips to Southwest Conference Schools, the Aggie Debate Team will at tend the Southern Speech Confer ence at Memphis, Tenn., the debate tournament to be held at Hender son State College in Arkansas, and the Texas A&I College Tour nament at Kingsville, during the Fall semester. Students who are interested in participating in the activities of the Aggie Discussion and Debate Club may obtain information at the English Department in the Academic Building. Women Schedule Convention Here Students of A&M will experience an unfamiliar sight when the Texas Home Demonstrators Asso ciation meets on the campus the last week in August. Three thousand women will be on the campus to celebrate the Association’s 25th anniversary. The Association was formed in 1926 wheir the club women were attending a farmers short course at A&M with their husbands. Mrs. F. H. Marks of Jacksboro was the first president of the or ganization. Mrs. R. M. Almanrode of Munday is now the organiza tion’s president, and was also one of the women at the first meeting on the campus in 1926. Through the practical education of the housewife, the Association has done much to improve the agricultural conditions of Texas. At the Grove This Weekend Fri., August 10—Dance, Music by Aggieland Combo—8 p.m. Sat., Aug. 11—Square Dancing —8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 12 — Skating — 8 p.m. Mon., Aug. 13—Movie, “Three Guys Named Mike,” with Van Johnson.—8 p.m. The Brazos County Health Unit, which has been in a pre carious position since last Friday, received a much needed shot-in-the-arm yesterday at a special committee meeting’ held at Bryan City Hall. Dr. H. W. Barlow, dean of the School of Engineering and an ex officio member of the governing body for the health unit, said there was a better than even chance that the state will match on a 40-60 percentage basis, funds used by the college mosquito and fly control. “The money which the college spends on such projects is as eligible to be matched as the money which the city spends on similar projects,” Barlow asserted. At the present time, -fthe college spends $14,270 a year for mosquito and fly control. If the state will match this, the health unit will receive almost $10,000 additional money. Appointed Wednesday The committee was appointed Wednesday by Dr. A. G. McGill, chairman of the governing body for the health unit to meet with representatives from College Sta tion, Bryan, A&M, and Brazos County to devise a “more equita ble” prorating of funds for the unit. After a stalemate, however, the group decided to explore the suggestion made by Dean Barlow. Accordingly a second committee composed of Barlow, George E. Adams, Bryan mayor; H. A. T#ma- son, Bryan city manager; and Dr. David E. Brown was appointed to fully examine the possibilities of the state matching state funds. The group will journey to Austin Monday to meet with George E. Cox, state health officer. Another boost which the health unit received was the unexpected support which the organization re ceived from local doctors. Wed nesday a formal protest, signed by 13 doctors was issued against the City of Bryan’s slash in operating funds for the unit. < Doctors Protest In a letter to Mayor Adams, the doctors said: “We, the following physicians of Brazos county, wish to inform you that we feel that cutting the health department funds was unwise and to the det riment of public welfare. We i’ec- ommend to you that the funds for this unit be restored.” The letter was signed by the following doctors: Joseph W. Gep- pert, R. Henry Harrison, C. M. Cole, R. H. Benbow, Nena A. Har. ris, R. B. Grant, Jr., Joseph M. Cox, L. D. Stuart, S. C. Richard* son, T. T. Walton, Warl H. Kirk, T. O. Walton, Jr., and J. W. Marsh, Jr. At the committee meeting yes» terday, Mayor Adams made a sug gestion that the city might in crease meat inspection fees; thus increasing the amount of money which the state could match. Pres ently the inspection fee is 50 cents per head. “If the meat inspection fee were increased to 75 cents per head, approximately $1,000 would be ad ded to the city budget, 40 percent of which could be matched by the state for the health unit,” Adams said. County Judge A. S. Ware said that $5,630 was the limit that the county could contribute to the health unit. He pointed out that the money had to come from the (See HEALTH UNIT, Page 4) Brazil Movie To Feature Plantation A movie picturing a Brazilian cattle, cotton, and coffee planation will be shown tonight at 8 p.m. in the Guion Hall. The film, sponsored by the Ani mal Husbandry Department and the A&M Latin American Society, will be used in connection with the three-day Texas Herdsman’s short course. The ranch and plantation called Paradise, located at Bauru, Sao Paulo, Brazil, is owned by Olavo Ferraz. His ranch is the object of visiting American cattleman be cause of his prize-winning herd of Nellore cattle, a particular breed of Brahman livestock. It was at Paradise that Vice- Chancellor for Agriculture D. W. Williams conducted a tour in September, 1949. The film is narrated in Portu gese, however Dr. J. C. Miller, head of the Animal Husbandry Dept., and a member of the Latin American society will translate the more important passages. Williams Leaves to Assist Bureau of Mines Program E. L. Williams, vice director of al program. He will be in Wash- the Engineering Extension Service ington during August, of the A&M System, has been He will conduct and supervise given a leave to assist the Bureau training programs for the Bureau’s of Mines, Washington, D. in instructors in the eight regional the reorganization of its education- fields throughout the year, follow ing approval of the program as worked out in Washington. He will also give the Bureau’s coal mine inspectors instructions on how to present their safety recommenda tions to their operators. Williams, a nationally known authority on vocational industrial education, presented methods and a program of teaching safety edu cation at a meeting at the Bureau’s Region meet held in Dallas Aug. 1-4. At that time the Bureau gave a review of the various courses for the mining industry. He was asked to come to Washington to assist in the reorganization pro gram. The Texas Engineering Exten sion Service conducted the first training conference for the south west region of the Bureau of Mines in 1945. Conference were held in 1946 and in 1949. J. J. Forbes, chief of the Health and Safety Division, has asked that this training program be of- f r fered to all eight regions. Thomas ti. Li. \\ imams ]yjiii er } s adminstrative director To Assist Mines Bureau of the Bureau of Mines.