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Number 204: Volume 51 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1951
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The Morning After.
Pioneer Begins Operations
From Easterwood Airport
Newspaper Magnate Hearst
Dies at Beverly Hills Home
Beverly Hills, Calif., Aug. 15—
t/P)—William Randolph Hearst, 88-
year-old Patriarch of publishing,
died yesterday in his Beverly Hills
Mansion after a series of strokes.
The controversial “chief” of the
vast newspaper and magazine em
pire had been a working newspap
erman almost to the very last.
He thus was able to realize a wish
he expressed a score of years ago
to die a newspaperman.
Directed Editorial Policy
Although reduced to near-inval
idism in recent years, he still ac
tively directed the editorial policy
of the Hearst newspapers until he
sank into a coma, yesterday.
At the bedside when the end
came were the five Hearst sons,
William Randolph, Jr., George,
John, David and Randolph. Also
Nineteenth Day
A g
am
It was the morning after the night before at The
Grove and the lonely janitor found a mass of up
turned and out-of-place benches and a dirty con
crete slab. This is a common scene at The Grove
in the mornings. Less than a week of Sum
mer activities remain for students to take
advantage of before the semester is over. A
“Shipwreck” Dance will climax the regular
Friday night dance schedule, with the Aggie
land Combo furnishing the music. Free movies
for students and staff members are scheduled
for Thursday, Monday and Tuesday, with skating
on' Wednesday and Sunday, and Square Dancing
Saturday night.
A&M Consolidated Schedules
Fall School Term Opening
The regular Fall semester of
the A&M Consolidated Indepen
dent School District will begin
September 4 at 8:25 a. m. said
Les Richardson, superintendent of
schools, yesterday.
Enrollment is expected to reach
an all time high mark but should
not exceed by far the 1950 total
of 704 white student and 326
colored students.
Students who have moved into
the school district during the
Hummer months are requested to
pre-register with the school secre-
iary anytime from today until the
beginning of school. The secre
tary’s office is located in the high
tichool building.
The new classrooms and cafe
teria will not be ready for occu
pancy until the mid-term. This
means that the old kitchen in the
gymnasium will be used the first
several months.
Alterations have been made in
Changi
Ag Curriculum
r es Noted
By Shepardson
Changes in the agricultur
al education curriculum have
been made in accordance with
Dean of Agriculture C. N.
Shepardson’s recommendation
for changing the teaching plans
in the School of Agriculture.
Changes occuring in the required
curriculum are as follows:
Course No. 301 and 302 are
combined into one three-hour
course No. 301.
Course No. 429 has been *made
into two two-hour courses 431 and
432.
Animal Husbandry 416 has been
changed from a four-hour to a
three-hour course.
Agronomy 308, formerly listed as
an elective is now in the required
curriculum.
Psychology 301 is an additional
required course.
This new curriculum allows only
18 elective hours whereas there
were formerly 24 hours of elec
tives allowed.
Students planning to take agri
culture courses in the Fall should
check the course name and number
before signing up for the course,
Dr. Shepardson advised.
the gymnasium in an effort to
make meetings and programs more
audible. Several classrooms have
already been re-painted inside and
out and an extensive maintenance
program will be carried on so that
all rooms will be decorated by next
summer.
Recess for the Thanksgiving hol
idays will begin on Nov. 29 and
end Dec. 2. A two-week holiday will
begin on Dec. 20 when school is
adjourned for Christmas. School
begins on Jan. 2 of the new year.
Seven new teachers have been
added to the faculty of A&M Con
solidated Schools. They are as fol
lows: Mrs..Lucille Letbetter, Mrs.
Jonas Conducts
Supervisor Class
L. K. Jonas, field instructor
for the Engineering Extension
Service, is conducting two super
visor training classes for 16 em
ployees of the McMurrey Refin
ing Company in Tyler.
The classes which began Aug. 6
and will continue through Aug. 17
are studying Unit 1 of the Ser
vice’s supervisor training course.
Employees meeting the minimum
requirements of the twenty-hour
course will be awarded certifi
cates by the Service.
John Kincannon, Mrs. Nolan Wil
liamson, Mrs. William Byrd, Wal
lace Hoggart, Horace Schaffer, and
Thomas Ryan.
Returning Staff
Returning teachers include Mrs.
Lewis Knowles and Mrs. Fred
Sloop, first grade; Mrs. L. P. Du
laney and Mrs. John Buchanan,
second grade; Mrs. C. K. Leighton
and Mrs. Dorothy Criswell, third
grade; Mrs. Rowena Creswell and
Mrs. C. B. Holzmann, fourth grade;
Mrs. Pearl Tanzer and Mis. G. P.
Parker, fifth grade.
In the junior high school, the re
turning teachers are Mrs. Eu
gene Rush, Maurice Gremillion,
Jim Bevins and Taylor Reidel. The
old high school faculty includes
Mrs. J. T. Duncan, Mrs. S. S.
Sorensen, Mrs. Muriel Orr, L. E.
Boze, and O. V. Chafin. Mrs. Owen
Lee will be the school librarian
while Jack Chaney will be in
charge of the industrial arts pro
gram. Col. R. J. Dunn will be spon
sor of the school band and orches
tra.
At Lincoln School Julia Camp
bell, Florence Hall, James Hawkins,
Mrs. M. E. Howard and Argie
Rayford will teach the elementary
school while Mrs. C. R. Moley,
W. A. Tarrow, Thay Owens, L. E.
King, E. E. Escoe, J. R. Delley Jr.
and Pearl Carter will comprise the
high school faculty.
CS
Tops State
With 106
College Station again jump
ed into the state spotlight
yesterday as “ole sol” blared
down on the city to send tem
peratures up to 106—highest
in the state for Tuesday.
It was the nineteenth day of
100 degree-plus weather and
weather bureau officials at Easter
wood Field say there is no indica
tion of a let-up from this heat
spell which has dried up practically
everything in this area—except at
places across the river.
The Associated Press reported
a few rain clouds, which had
brought some relief in scattered
areas of the state, disappeared
yesterday.
A count of the state’s heat death
toll since July 1 rose to 30.
The day’s lowest maximum tem
perature reported to the U. S.
Weather Bureau was 90 at Marfa.
The highest was 106 at College
Station. Fort Worth had 105; Ty
ler, Presidio, and Dallas 104; Junc
tion, Waco, and Austin 103; Vic
toria, San Antonio, and Cotulla
102; Abilene, Del Rio, Palestine,
Laredo, Texarkana, Salt Flat and
Wink, 101; .Dalhart, Alice, and
Beaumont 100; El Paso 99, Corpus
Christi 96, and Brownsville 94.
Cattle and calves flooded the
San Antonio Livestock market in
record numbers. Many were being
taken from dry ranges and being
sold for shipment to green pas
tures in other states, or for fat
tening in the mid-west.
A ginner at Five Points, Ellis
County, had ginned only one bale
of cotton out of 12 to 15 bales
handled.
The same condition prevailed
over several Texas counties, includ
ing Dallas, Ellis, Kaufman, Navar
ro, Johnson, Hill, Falls, Brazos,
Henderson, McLennan, and Grimes.
there were Martin V. Huberth,
chairman of the board of the
Hearst Corporation, and Richard
E. Berlin, president of the Hearst
Corporation.
Hearst, armed with his father’s
$25,000,000 fortune, entered the
newspaper business when he was
23. He soon became—and stayed—
the most spectacular publisher of
the modera era in journalism.
Dictated MacArthur Editorial
When President Truman fired
General Douglas MacArthur, a
great Hearst favorite, this Spring,
the lead editorial denouncing the
act was dictated personally by
Hearst.
Intensely interested in politics,
Hearst served two terms in Con
gress from New York and once
aspired for the presidency.
He has been praised as one of
the great American patriots and
condemned by others as a “yellow
journalist.”
Hearst’s body, accompanied by
his five sons, was flown, to San
Francisco late today.
It was taken to a San Francis
co mortuary (N. Gray & Co.)
where funeral arrangements await
ed the expected arrival of Mrs.
Hearst from New York late to
night or early tomorrow.
Subcommittee
Asked To Settle
Buffer Zone
William Randolph Hearst
Crafts Committee
Will Show Movie
An unusual film will be shown
in the Assembly Room of the MSC
tonight at 7:30. Carl Moeller, ad
visor for the Crafts Committee of
the MSC, urges everyone who is
interested in crafts, or any type
of handicraft, to attend the movie.
The film will feature an English
silversmith actually hammering
and shaping a silver bowl. The
movie has been filmed in color,
and with sound, to be more infor
mative and interesting. “The ABC
of Pottery,” and a feature about
the making of fine china will also
be shown this evening.
Senior Announcements
Available in Goodwin
Summer school graduation an
nouncements have arrived and are
now in the Student Activities of
fice, second floor Goodwin Hall.
They may be picked up at Mrs.
Patranella’s desk anytime between
8 a. m. and 5 p. m. daily. The of
fice closes at 12 p. m. on Satur
days.
‘Ninety or 500—They Should Be Dismissed’
West Point Man Supports Honor Code
By WILLIAM DICKENS
Battalion Feature Editor
to the honor of the Corps of
Cadets at West Point.”
Honor cases are tried by an
“If 90 or 500 cadets were found Honor Committee, chosen by the
guilty of cribbing for exams at cadets themselves, and action on
West Point, they should be dismiss- the cases is taken by the Super-
ed as individual cadets have been intendent of West Point on the
in the past,” said A. B. Turner, recommendations from the com-
a lieutenant colonel in the Officers mittee, according to Turner.
Reserve Corps and a graduate stu- “The 90 cadets, who were found
dent in physical oceanography at cruiltv bv their
A&M this Summer. 8 - *
A graduate of West Point in
1936, Turner explained that a
cadet is on his honor not tb dis
close the contents of an examina-
a BS degree in civil and mili
tary engineering, and was ap
pointed a second lieutenant in
the cavalry of the regular army.
After serving three years as
Troop officer in the 7th U. S. Cav
alry at Fort Bliss, Tex., Turner
attended the regular officer’s
course at The Signal School at
tion, nor to gain previous know-
quently and the offenders im
mediately dismissed from the
Academy,” Turner said. “There
can be no compromise in regard
At the Grove
This Week
Wednesday, Aug. 15—Skating
and Juke-box Dancing—8 p. m.
Thursday, Aug. 16—Movie,
“Royal Wedding” with Fred As
taire and Jane Powell—8 p. m.
Friday, Aug. 17—Dancing with
Music by the Aggieland Combo—8
States J MilVtarv Arademv from "the which was a part of General Pat- ies toward a PhD degree at A&M. P- m -
New York National Guard by the t 0 ?’ 8 3rd Army in the offensive Mrs. Turner is also attending
Medaille de la Reconaissance.
When the war was over, he re
mained in Germany with the
Army of Occupation until 1948
as Signal Officer for the 2nd
Constabulary Brigade. LTpon his
return to thb United States, he
served as Battalion Commander
of the 87th Heavy Tank Battal
ion of the 3rd Armored Division,
Fort Knox, Ky.
Leaving the regular army in
1950, he was appointed Lt. Col,
Fort Mammouth, N. J. Continu-
^ e H 0W ' s l3 den *' s ’ ing his military schooling, he was
should suffer their punishment, graduated with the rank of major
and any investigation by congress- from t he Command and General ... „ ....
would be a travesty of jus- staff School at Fort Leavenworth, of Armor of the Officers Reserve
tice, Turner said. Kan., in 1941. Corps, the rank he now holds
A graduate of Erasmus Hall ^ , , , „ , -.niip attpruJino- A&M
High School in Brooklyn, N. Y., Promoted to the rank of Lt. while attending A&M.
ledge of an examination at any an ci Stanton Preparatory Aca- colonel in 1942, he served during Alter receiving a MS degree in
time. demy in Cornwall, N. Y., Turner World War II as Signal Officer physical oceanography next June,
“Individual cases of honor was appointed to the United 94th Infantry Division, Turner plans _to_ continue his stu-
violation in this regard have
occurred at West Point infre-
Munsan, Korea, Aug. 15—OP)—
United Nations delegates sugges
ted today that a subcommittee be
sent up to break through the for
mality of Korean truce negotia
tions and attempt to settle the buf
fer zone deadlock.
Red delegates showed interest,
a U.N. spokesman said.
Simultaneously, U.N. command
headquarters in Tokyo announced
that the Allies, if necessary, will
continue “destroying or driving out
of Korea” the Red Chinese and Ko
rean armies.
At Kaesong the chief U.N del
egate, Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy,
proposed a two man committee—
one from each side—seek an end
to the deadlock in an air of infor
mality .
Proposed Subcommittee
He proposed the subcommittee
“meet around rather than across
the table.” They would thus es
cape “the formality of utterances”
which he said contributed to the
three-week-old dispute over where
to place a military dividing line
across Korea that would separate
opposing armies during an armis
tice.
Joy asked the Communists to
reply Thursday. The negotiators
meet next at 1 p.m. (10 p.m. Wed
nesday EST).
The five Red generals “showed
more visible interest in Admiral
Joy’s proposal than they have
shown in any other statement,”
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols re
ported. “It was sufficiently dif
ferent to call for their undivided
attention,” Nuckols commented.
Truck Jumps Curb,
Smashes Into Store
Shaffer’s Book Store is supposed
to be closed until Aug. 21, but it is
now open—not for business, but
open because a truck plowed into
the front of it at 8:50 a.m. today.
A fully loaded dump-truck own
ed by A. A. Hodges, Dallas, was
being driven west on Sulphur
Springs Road when the driver R. C.
Upchurch, Smithville, lost control
of the vehicle. He reported a U-
bolt on his right front spring
sheared off, causing it to swerve
to the right, jump the curb and
crash into the front of the build
ing.
Damages to the store front were
a broken plate glass window, a
smashed screen door and the right
side of the lower wall crushed in.
The truck’s right front fender was
smashed and badly damaged.
By JOEL AUSTIN
Battalion Editor
A&M College and the City of College Station officially
welcomed Pioneer Airlines to this city today as the first
flight landed at Easterwood Field at 7:01 this morning from
Houston.
On hand to greet crew members of the plane were Chan
cellor Gibb Gilchrist and President M. T. Harrington of A&M.
The Pioneer plane landed at Easterwood for the first
time this morning since operations and equipment of the local
Airlines station were moved from Bryan Air Force Base, six
miles west of Bryan.
The last plane to land at Bryan Field took off at 7 p.m.
last night and telegraph and office equipment were moved
to the newly constructed Pioneer Airlines Building at Easter
wood Field, which is owned and operated by A&M College.
The arrival from Houston of the twin-engine DC-3
*“David Crocket” Airliner marked
the first of four scheduled flights
daily, two from the south and two
from the north.
The short, informal greeting,
lasted but a few minutes as pic
tures were made and passeh^Ors
boarded the plane which took off
on its north-bound flight. W. R.
Morrison, local station manager for
Pioneer Airlines had requested
that the city and college postpone
a formal welcoming exercise until
after school begins in September.
Others Greet Plane
Also on hand to greet the first
plane at Easterwood Field this
morning were the following: A. C.
Magee, president of the College
Station Kiwanis Club; Joe Sorrels,
president of the College Station
Chamber of Commerce. Dr. H. W.
Barlow, dean of the School of En
gineering; Howard Badgett, Col
lege Station city councilman.
Raymond Rogers, city manager;
Harry Boyer, city councilman;
T. R. Spence, manager of Physical
Plants for the A&M System; and
Guy Smith, manager of Easter
wood Field.
Spence purchased the first ticket
from the Easterwood office. He
boarded the plane for Temple.
Spence said the ticket will go to
the college archives to commemor
ate the occasion.
Passengers
Also traveling on the first flight
from College Station to Temple
were Chancellor Gilchrist, Badgett
and his son Richard. Mr. and Mrs.
E. J. Reed of Los Angeles, Calif,
also boarded the plane here for
Dallas, the first hop of their trip
home. They had been visiting Mr.
and Mrs. W. T. Dillard of Hearne.
Ci’ew members greeted by the
delegation were R. N. Schafranka
and R. F. Cobb, pilot and co-pilot
respectively, and Jean Hart, hos
tess.
The plane took off after the
short ceremony for Dallas.
Pioneer Air Lines will designate
the stop here as “A&M College”
and will identify Easterwood Field
as being on the A&M College cam
pus at College Station.
Both delegations appeared more
cheerful than usual when they
left the meeting place, a pool dis
patch from Kaesong said. And
Communist newsmen on the scene
hinted the Reds might be willing
to discuss a demarcation line based
on the present battle front, as the
Allies demand.
Delegations have been stymied
since July 27 over the location of
the demarcation line. North Ko
rean Lt. Gen. Nam II, heading the
Red negotiators, Wednesday reiter
ated the Red demand it be along
the 38th parallel. This is gener
ally south of the battle line.
Joy made his subcommittee pro
posal near the close of the 25th
Kaesong session. It was the 15th
in which the negotiators had ar
gued over the buffer zone.
Idea Advances
He advanced the idea, the offi
cial U.N. communique said, after
both sides “expressed their respec
tive but divergent views on the ef
fectiveness of naval and air oper
ations on the present overall mili
tary situation.”
Nam 11 conceded that U.N. air
and naval bombardments had a
“definite amount of effect” on Red
troop movements.
Joy’s proposal called for a joint
committee of one delegate from
each side aided by not more than
two staff assistants each, includ
ing interpreters. He said he was
willing to name his men imme
diately, if Nam accepted the idea.
Field Named A fter
Jesse Easterwood
Wm | Mn
late Franklin D. Roosevelt, who drive to the Rhine River. A&M during the Summer semester,
was then Governor of New York. In recognition for his military The Turners are the parents of
Turner was graduated from service, Turner holds five cam- two sons and live on the Old Col-
the Academy in June, 1936, with paign medals and the French lege Road north of the campus.
Saturday, Aug. 18 — Square
Dancing with Music by the Aggie
land Combo—8 p. m.
Sunday, Aug. 19—Skating—8 p.
m.
“Easterwood Field bears a
name symbolic of thousands of
young men who have gone and
are still going from A&M to the
wars our country has been com
pelled to fight in order to main
our freedom,” Chancellor Gibb Gil
christ of the A&M System said
today, as the Pioneer Airlines be
gan operations from the college
airport.
The college’s airport was named
in honor and memory of Jesse
Lawrence Easterwood, a name hon
ored and revered throughout the
state. He had an outstanding com
bat record in World War I. While
in school he was a member of
Company B and a member of the
class of 1909.
Jesse Lawrence Easterwood,
son of the late Captain and Mrs.
Alexander Heads
Education Group
E. R. Alexander, head of the
Agricultural Education Depart
ment, served as chairman of the
General Assembly for one session
of the Teacher Standard Certifica
tion Conference held at SMU July
23 through 28.
Alexander and E. V. Walton
were delegates to the conference
which was attended by some 200
teachers,
Walton served on the adult edu
cation committee at the conference.
Alexander served as chairman of
one committee, and was a member
of other committees. The plan for
certifying teachers was revised at
the conference.
W. E. Easterwood, pioneer citi
zens of Wills Point, was com
missioned a lieutenant in the
naval air service in 1917 after
completing a course at the Mass
achusetts Institute of Technol
ogy in. 1917.
He was second American to qual
ify as a naval aviation pilot and
went to England in 1918 where he
served with the Royal Flying
Corps. He piloted one of the first
10 Handley-Page bombing planes
and made 16 successful raids be
hind the German lines.
Easterwood became a respect
ed foe to the enemy and a hero
to his countrymen. He brought
the first Caproni bombing plane
from Italy to France and served
with the British, Italian, French
and American air forces. He was
awarded the navy cross and giv
en medals for service in three
foreign countries.
The American and Allied hero,
who was called “Red” by his bud
dies and friends, even while at
A&M, was killed in an airplane
accident while on duty in the Canal
Zone in 1919.
The college established Easter
wood Airport in 1940 and today
Chancellor Gilchrist again paid
high tribute to the man for
whom the field was named.
“Red Easterwood and I were
boys together at Wills Point,”
the chancellor said. “We were very
close friends and about the same
age. Our college airport could not
be named for one more deserving
of the honor.
It is gratifying to know that
Red’s name is being perpetuated
here at A&M which he honored
by his distinguished service.”