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Number 202: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1951
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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.