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Number 203: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1951
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A ir-Sea Supremacy
Of Allied Forces
Questionedin Talks
Munsan, Korea, Aug - . 14—WP>—
Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy sought
to drive home to Communist truce
negotiators today the full value of
United Nations air and naval su
premacy in Korea.
A U.N. spokesman said this was
in answer to an hour and 13-min
ute oration with which the Red
spokesman, North Korean Lt. Gen.
Nam II, opened today’s truce talks
at Kaesong.
Discredit Effectiveness
The spokesman described Nam’s
speech as an attempt to “discredit
the independent effectiveness of
air and naval power which the U.N.
command would relinquish in an
armistice.”
Nam 11 said his speech was a
“detailed analysis.” Nuckols said
it was mostly an emotional at
tack.
The spokesman, Brig. Gen. Wil
liam P. Nuckols, who attended the
session, said Nam’s speech was
sprinkled with such words as “ir
responsible,” “belligerent,” “abus
ive,” and “intolerable.”
Nuckols said Joy, in a one hour
and six-minute reply, emphasized
air and naval power in an effort
to convince the Reds of the reason
ableness of the U.N. proposals for
a demilitarized zone along approx
imately the present battle lines.
Relinquish Air-Sea Supremacy
Joy, head of the U.N. delegation,
pointed out that the U.N. would
have to relinquish its air and sea
supremacy in the event of an arm
istice. Therefore, he said, U. N.
ground forces \would have to be
left in positions that fould be de
fended.
A U.N. communique said this
“logical military reasoning” was
“without tangible results.”
Research Specialist
Studies Turkey Market
George J. Mountney, marketing
research syecialist for the Poultry
Husbandry Department at A&M,
jeft College Station last week for
ft tour of the eastern turkey mar
kets.
While on the tour he will confer
with turkey processors and buyers
in St. Louis, Chicago, Philadelphia,
and New York City.
Negotiators ended a two - hour
and 40-minute session in the swel
tering heat of Kaesong still dead
locked on where to create a de
militarized zone.
The one tangible accomplishment
was an agreement to meet again
Wednesday at 11 a.m. (8 p.m.
Tuesday EST).
Reflecting the day’s lack of pro
gress,- the U.N. communique was
the shortest since ttlks began July
10. It ran only 69 words.
Nuckols said Nam again insisted
the Red demand for a buffer zone
along the 38th parallel was “just
and reasonable.” Nam repeatedly
called the U.N. position “absurd”
and “arrogant.”
Shrode Takes
Costa Rica
Assignment
Dr. Robert R. Shrode, professor
in the Genetics Department at
A&M, has accepted a six months
assignment as acting head of the
Animal Industry Division of the
Inter-American Institute of Agn-
eutural Sciences in Turrialba,
Costa Rica.
While in Costa Rica, Dr. Shrode
plans to study the design and oper
ation of one of the latest heat
chambers that has been developed
to study the heat tolerance of ani
mals.
Upon his return to A&M in Feb-
ruary, Dr. Shrode plans to resign
and build a similar heat chamber
in which he will study the heat tol
erance of a new Brahman-Jei'sey
cross.
Dr. Shrode was appointed by the,
American Dairy Industry to work
in cooperation with the Texas
Experiment Station in an effort to
develop a better adapted strain of
dairy cattle for the Gulf Coast.
This experiment began in 1949 and
will not be completed until 1984.
Last spring Dr. Shrode was the
winner of the Oustanding Profes
sor awar-d given by the students of
the School of Agriculture.
Eighteenth Day
City’s 105
Tops State
Heat List
Thermometers i n College
Station and Bryan jumped to
105 yesterday to register the
hottest reading in the state—
and this area’s eighteenth
consecutive day of 100 degree-plus
weather.
At one time during the afternoon
yesterday the clouds rumbled with
indications of rain as only a few
drops fell and the dry earth still
had no sky-sent moisture.
The Associated Press reported
that practically the whole state
baked again under a blistering sun
from the Panhandle to the Gulf.
Temperatures shot past 100 ov
er much of the state. No rain fell,
the weather bureau reported, and
you can expect more of the same
today.
College Station and Fort Worth
were the hottest with 105. Dallas
and Waco were next with 104.
Marfa was coolest with 87.
An Associated Press survey
showed 25 deaths attributed to the
heat thus far. They are Souston
10, Dallas 6, Fort Worth 5 and
San Antonio, Witchita Falls, Or
ange and Austin one each.
At Dallas 1,500 Bell Telephone
Company operators and plant
workers walked off their jobs de
manding air conditioning.
The Dallas city council will con
sider an ordinance providing fines
of up to $200 for householders who
violate an alternate-day lawn
sprinkling regulation.
Other highs: Mineral Wells and
Presidio 103; Wichita Falls, Luf
kin and Junction 102; Austin,
Beaumont, Del Rio, Tyler, Victor
ia and Palestine 101; San Antonio
and Houston 100; Childress and
Palacios 99; San Angelo, where
good rains fell Sunday, 97; El Paso
90 and Amarillo 95.
Dr. Miller to Assume
Vet School Duties
Dr. Victor A. Miller, D.V.M.
from Kansas State College, will
enter his duties as instructor m the
Department of Veterinary Bac
teriology and Hygiene in the School
of Veterinary Medicine on Sept. 1,
according to Dr. I. B. Boughton,
dean.
Industrial Art Program Entry
Chris H. Groneman (right), head of industrial
education at A&M, examines national finals en
try in Ford Motor Company’s 1951 Industrial
Arts Awards program at Chicago Museum of
Science and Industry, Chicago, 111. Mr. Groneman
is one of 27 industrial arts experts who judged
the nationwide competition for high school stu
dents. Rating plastics division projects with him
are Charles M. Rice of Bellingham, Wash., and
Raymond Cherry of Lockport, 111.
Film Circulating Library
Started by Former Students
Homecoming Celebration
Home Demonstration Group
To Meet Here Aug. 29-31
The Texas Home Demonstration
Association will celebrate its 25th
anniversary on the A&M campus,
Aug. 29, 30 and 31.
Between 2,000 and 3,000 club
members are expected to attend
the three-day annual convention,
Recording to Maurine Hearn, State
Home Demonstration leader.
First A&M Convention
Being the first annual conven
tion to be held on the A&M cam
pus since 1940, Miss Hearn said,
“The members are pleased to re
turn to the place where they or
ganized 25 years ago.”
The Association was formed in
1926 when the club women were at
tending a farmers shox-t course at
A&M with their husbands. Rising
in membership through the yeai’s,
the Association now boasts a mem-
bership of 42,000 women.
Mrs. F. H. Marks of Jacksboro
Maj. Anderson
Speaks to Lions
Maj. John Anderson, oper
ations officer for Bryan Air
Force Base, spoke to the Col
lege Station Lions Club yes
terday about the Air Force
training program, at their noon
meeting in the MSC.
Maj. Andei - son explained where
Bryan AFB fits-into the training
program and i’eviewed the process
through which a new Air Foi'ce
cadet must pass to become a pilot.
The operations officer said the
first class at Bryan AFB was ex
pected in September, with grad
uation date set for March.
He told the group that comple
ment of some 200 planes would be
maintained at the local base. Maj.
Anderson said a peak load of 400
advanced jet trainees could be
handled at one time.
The total pei*sonnel for the base,
he said, when opei - ations reach full
sti’ength, will be appi’oximately
2,500 enlisted men, offieexs, and
cadets.
Capt. J. W. Smith, public infor
mation officer at the base, intro
duced the major.
was the first pi’esident of the or- show in pageant form the 25 years’
ganization. Mi's. R. M. Almani'ode
of Munday, who attended the first
meeting in 1926, is now the organ
ization’s president.
“United We Stand”
“United We Stand” will be the
theme of the 1951 convention, the
three-day program will consist of
committee workshops on legisla
tion, recreation, education, mar
keting and 4-H, and special woidc-
shops on county THDA organiza
tions and “The Messenger,” the
organization’s official publication.
Mrs. R. J. Turrentine of Denton,
and Di\ T. O. Walton, former px-es-
ident of A&M, will be the featured
speakers for the general sessions.
“The Wheel of Progress” will
growth of the Texas Home Demon-
sti'ation Association. Mrs. G. W.
Ferguson of Bell County, editor of
“The Messenger,” has wiutten the
pageant for the 374 women pai'ti-
cipants.
Editing History
Mrs. Zach Noiixm, Smith Coun
ty, and Mi's. Fred Hopkins, Den
ton County, are px-esently editing
the histoxy of the organization,
which will be presented during the
convention.
Numerous agricultural leaders
have credited the woi’k of the as
sociation with doing much to ap
prove the agricultural conditions of
Texas through the practical educa
tion oif the housewife.
Films of Aggie football games
will be made available to Fox-mer
Student Association Clubs a short
time after the games are played
this year through the new Football
Film Cii'culating Libi'ary sponsor
ed by the A&M Athletic Depart
ment.
The Athletic Department plans
to film all but the Trinity engage
ment in San Antonio and will of
fer the pictui'e to clubs on a fee
basis accoxding to a pre-ari'anged
schedule.
Officers Initialed Plan
The Former Student’s Associa
tion Club Officers Conference was
the initial planning group for the
FFCL and the matter was further
discussed at the May meeting of
the Association Council.
On that date Former Student
Association president Geoi'ge Moi'-
gan appointed a committee of four
with Tom A. Murrah of San An
tonio, as chairman to study the
proposed libi’ary and work out de
tails for operatiion.
Other membei’s appointed to that
committee wei’e Enxest H. Bruss of
Dallas, C. R. Coneway of Houston,
and Bai'low Irvin, A&M Athletic
Director.
The committee met on the cam
pus last week and worked out final
details for the libi’ary. Although
the library is a project of the Ath
letic Council, the Association of
Former Students was asked to as
sist in the actual operation of
the program.
Two Films Printed
Two films of each game in black
and white will be printed immed
iately after each game with a
lineup of numbers and names of
player along with a brief narrative
of the game.
As the new building to house college administra
tive offices rises in the background, old Foster
Hall is gradually becoming leveled as workman
complete destruction of the second floor of the
former three-story structure. Built in 1899, the
building had been used for storage purposes for
many years after being vacated as a dormitory
many years ago.
The committee established a fee
system to cover initial costs of
the film. The fees charged to
clubs will also be used for main
tenance and continuation of the li
brary.
For clubs meeting weekly, a
seasonal fee of $125 for films of all
games except the Trinity Univer
sity tilt will be charged. Weekly
clubs desiring only individual
game pictures may obtain them by
paying a fee of $15 per game film.
A fee of $75 will be charged
non-weekly clubs desiring the sea
son’s films, or a charge of $10
each for these clubs which desire
only individual films. Advance, fee
payment will be necessary from
clubs desiring films under this
plan.
Flat Fee Offered
The above charges will be in ef
fect from Sept. 15, 1951 until
Feb. 1, 1952, at which time a flat
fee of $5 will be charged all clubs
for each film desired, regardless of
frequency of club meetings or size
of club.
The Athletic Department has
agreed to underwrite during the
first year the expenses involved in
initiating the Football Film Cir
culating Library. The fee plan as
developed above is expected to
finance the full cost of operating
the library during its first year.
In arriving at these charges, the
committee stated that during the
first year the library would oper
ate on an experimental basis and
at the close of the first year, based
on the experience gained, the fees
‘Shipwreck ’
Dance Slated
For Grove
You say you were taking a show-
ew when the ship went down ? How
embarassing! Oh well, just wrap
up in the shower curtain and join
the beachcombers, pirates, and
mermaids who’ll all be at the Grove
Friday night fom 8 until 11.
You’ll swing and sway to the
music of the “Cutthroat Comobo,”
you’ll get your “grog” at the con
cessions stand, but the entertain
ment will be furnished by you—
faculty, students, and all the em
ployees of the school who want to
“dress up” in the nearest mainsail
or empty barrel, and stomp a neat
sailor’s hornpipe.
Frank Manitzas, Master of Cere
monies, will keep a weather eye on
the ’ costume judging, when Presi
dent “Crossbones” Harrington,
Dean “Ferocious” French, Mes-
dames Donald Burchard and Ann
Hilliard, and gallant student, Tom
Rountree, will decide the winning
couple, best-dressed boy, and girl.
Audience applause probably will
not influence the judges. No
bribery of the judges will be tol
erated, “Spike” White, Head of
Student Activities, has emphati
cally annonunced.
At the Grove
Tuesday, Aug. 14 — Movie,
“Shakedown” with Howard Duff—
8 p. m.
might be revised. The film library
is expected to be a self-sustaining
and non-profit making activity.
A Football Film Circulating Li
brary fund will be set up in the
office of the Association, and all
fees for films will be; sent there.
Athletic Director Irvin emphasiz
ed that these films may be shown
only to former student groups dur
ing the 1951 season and under no
circumstances are they to be shown
to other organizations or individ
uals.
The Football Film Circulating
Library will be housed, maintained
and handled by the College Photo
graphic and Visual Aids Labora
tory at the request of the Athletic
Department.
Street Repair
Work Plan Set
By City Council
A new city ordinance, a work-plan for streets, a petition
from a group of commercial utility consumers in the city
highlighted the monthly meeting of the College Station coun
cil at the City Hall last nigjht.
City Ordinance number 164, authorized levying taxes for
the use and support of the municipal government of College
Station and provided for interest and a sinking fund for 1951-
52. ■ * #
Seven items were included in a work-plan for city streets
submitted to the council by City Engineer Fred Benson. The
itms were as follows:
Holick Drive, 950 feet of hot-top with city paying one-
+half of construction and county
paving other half plus gravel.
KKs Chase
Sunday Fire
Back Home
Bricklayers
Back to Work
The 17 county protest
strike staged by the Interna
tional Masons and Bricklayers
Union, Houston area against
the Wage Stabilization
Board’s delay in acting on their
April 1 request for a 15 cent an
hour pay increase, officially ended
yesterday. The bricklayers left
their jobs July 23.
Although the bricklayers em
ployed by Fisher Construction
Company of Houston returned to
work on the new r Administration
Building, they were in doubt as to
what the terms of their new con
tract were. When the strike was
only two days old, the union upped
its wage demands to 25 cents per
hour.
The strike set the Snead Con
struction Company of Austin, con
tractors for the new addition to
the Physics Building, back about
three weeks, according to Allen
de Steiguer, superintendent.
The bricklayers are expected to
complete their job in the Admin
istration Building in about two
weeks.
A small fire originating in the
basement of Goodwin Hall, sent
firemen scurrying to the building
Sunday, as they promptly extin
guished the blaze which did ap
proximately $50 damage.
Campus Security patrolmen hur
ried out of their office in Goodwin
at the sound of the fire whistle
at 2 p. m. and “burned rubber”
as they rounded a corner toward
the fire department.
Bystanders claimed there were
a few red-faced policemen that
stepped out of their car after they
followed the trucks back to Good
win.
The fire w T as caused from an.
overheated flue which leads
through the ceiling of a one-story
addition to the building which en-
compases a portion of the A&M
Press.
A lead melting pot was going
at the time and heat carried off
from the fire in the- pot caused a
section of the roof to reach its
kindling point, and it burst into
flames.
Health Unit
Suffers As
Meeting Fails
The Brazos County Health
Unit suffered a relapse yes
terday when Dr. George E.
Cox, state health officer sent
the local delegation home from
Austin with instructions to re
study and rework the unit’s bud
get.
No action was taken on Dr. H.
W. Barlow’s suggestion that the
state match funds which the col
lege spends for mosquito and fly
control toward support of the coun
ty health unit. Dr. Barlow is head
of the engineering school at A&M
and an ex officio member of the
governing body for the health unit.
The special committee appoint
ed by Dr. A. G. McGill, chairman
of the governing board for the
health unit to study methods of
prorating the unit’s expenses more
equitably among contributors was
stalemated.
Plans are now set to reshape the
budget so the state may match on
a 40-60 percentage basis all possib
le items which the health unit is
charged. The state reviews items
which supporters contribute and
passes on those considered match-
able.
The health unit’s fight for sur
vival began a week ago when the
city of Bryan slashed appropria
tions to $10,000 for the unit.
Army Medics to Move Dehm
To Brooke General Hospital
Sam E. Dehm, A&M Waco senior who was striken with
polio before leaving ROTC Summer camp at Ft. Sill, Okla.
July 27, was reported to be in a somewhat better condition
at the Waco Crippled Children’s Hospital today.
Paralyzed from the neck down for over a week, Dehm
has been in an iron lung continuously. During the last few
days doctors have been able to remove him from the iron
lung for as much as 10 minutes an hour, and they are stead
ily increasing that length of time as Dehm’s breathing im
proves.
Reports from friends indicate that army officials have
been visiting the A&M personnel administration major and
have offered to fly him to Brooke General Hospital at Fort
Sam Houston in San Antonio as soon as his condition is sat
isfactory for moving.
The army plans to give Dehm further treatment at the
hugh army medical center.
Doctors will not say whether or not the 21-year-old stu
dent will be permanently paralyzed in any portion of his
body, although they are skeptical about admitting his chan
ces for total recovery.
Jackson Street, 2900 feet of sec
ond hot-top coat.
Ashburn Street, 1250 feet with
the city furnishing additional grav
el and property owners paying for
the hot-top.
Pershing Drive, 600 feet of re-
hot-top.
Suffolk Drive, 600 feet of re-
hot-top.
Repair the four foot shoulders
and hot-top Fairview from Kerry
to Park Place.
Rehot-top 450 feet on Bert
Street.
In a petition presented by Earl
Cunningham, 1022 East Puryear,
a group of commercial utility con-
suers requested the reduction of
utility rates comparable to those
charged by Bryan.
Monthly Saving
Mayor Ernest Langford pointed
out there had been a 13 percent
monthly saving by domestic con
sumers since College Station took
over operation of the REA lines
approximately six months ago.
This amounts to something like
$7,000 a year saving to domestic
consumers, he said.
According to a committee re
port, the city would lose $6,000 a
vear if rates to commercial estab
lishments were cut in proportion
to that charged domestic consum
ers. Presently the cost for deliv
ering electricity, excluding main
tenance, is 1.33 cents per kilowatt-
hour.
The council recommended the
utility committee composed of Dr.
F. C. Bolton, M. S. Hughes, and
N. R. Rode study the commercial
rates being charged after the
month of August.
A special council meeting was
called for Aug. 18 at 11 a.m. at
City Hall to pass the necessary
ordinance authorizing the issuance
of $30,000 of Water Works Sewer
System Revenue Bonds, and the
sale of $10,000 of these bonds to
Rovler, Winston and Company.
Paid Dr. Clark
A motion was passed that Dr,
F. B. Clark be paid 25 cents pel
connection for operation and main
tenance of sewer beds on his prop
erty.
Other business taken up by the
council included the refusal of a
request by the Flamingo Lounge
to erect a directional marker on
Highway 6, and a brief discussion
concerning the drafting of the new
city Charter which will be ready
for public presentation around Oc
tober.
Flying Farmers
To Visit A&M
The National Flying Farmers
will visit A&M Aug. 28. All plans
have been completed for including
A&M in the annual tour of the
Flying Farmers, according to Ben
Cook assist dean of agriculture.
The group of Flying Farmers
plans to leave Ft. Worth at 8 a.m.
Aug. 28 and fly to Easterwood Air-
poit, arriving there about 10 a.m.‘
Buses will pick up the fliers at the
airport and take them on a special
tour of the college.
Plans for the tour include a dem
onstration of dusting and spraying
equipment at the Brazos River
Farm Laboratory, a visit to the
Main Station research farm, the
college plantation, and the new
livestock centers now under con
struction.
Standard Oil Gives
PE Scholarships
Two senior students in petroleum
engineering at A&M will receive
$500 scholarships next year from
the Standard Oil Company of Tex
as, according to Harold Vance,
head of the college’s Department
of Petroleum Engineering.
The scholarships will be a re
ward for high achievement, Vance
says, and are designed to encour
age and recognize students who
have combined high scholarship
with sound citizenship and extra-
curricular activites.
Recipients will be chosen at the
close of the fall term of school.