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Number 205: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1951
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Negotiators Create
Committee to Settle
Buffer Zone Dispute
First Pioneer Flight Herd
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Munsan, Korea, Aug. 16—t/P)—
Armistice negotiators diverted
truce talks into a new phase today
in an effort to break their three-
I week-old controversy.
They created a subcommittee to
try informally to solve the prob
lem of where to create a line of
demarcation between opposing
armies in Korea.
Committee Meets Tomorrow
The subcommittee — two repre
sentatives from each side — will
hold its first meeting at 11 a.m.
tomorrow (8 p.m. Thursday EST).
It will meet in the Kaesong con
ference hall where all truce talks
have been held.
Daily sessions of the full, five-
man delegations will be suspended
while the smaller group works.
The subcommittee idea was ad
vanced Wednesday by Vice Adm.
C. Turner Joy, chief U.N. delegate.
He suggested a small group meet
ing informally might solve the
question which has stymied con
ferences of the full delegations for
16 consecutive meetings.
The Communists accepted in a
56 minute session Thursday—the
shortest meeting since talks start
ed July 10.
Wants Two Delegates
North Korean Lt. Gen. Nam II,
chief Communist negotiator, pro
posed two delegates from each side
instead of one as Joy had sugges
ted.
The U.N. accepted.
The change permitted Nam 11 to
name both a Red Korean and a
Chinese general to the subcommit
tee. He appointed North Korean
Maj. Gen. Lee Song Cho and Chi
nese Maj. Gen. Hsiem Fang.
Joy named only one of his dele
gates immediately—Maj. Gen. Wil
liam I. Hodes, deputy chief o
staff of the U.S. 8th Army.
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols,'
U.N. spokesman, said the other
will be named Friday.
Set Buffer Zone
The subcommittee’s job will be
k) recommend location of a mili
tary demarcation line and a buffer
lone separating opposing armies
for the duration of the armistice.
In formal sessions neither side !
moved from its original position,
although Joy said the U.N. would
consider modifications in the line
it recommended.
The U.N. proposal calls for a
buffer zone along present battle
lines. The Communists have in
sisted on making the 38th parallel
the demarcation line. Most of the
battle front now runs north of
this old political boundary.
Street Light
Erected At
North Gate
The intersection of Sulphur
Springs Road and College Main
at North Gate spoils a new street
light with a photo-electric cell
which turns the light on when
darkness arrives and off when
dawn approaches. The light was
erected yesterday at the corner of
the bus stop across from the Post
Office.
This light formerly stood in
front of the College Station Bank,
but was removed about a year ago,
according to Raymond Rogers,
city manager.
Registration Schedule,
Regulations Released
Advanced registration for the I Students registering for less
Fall semester of 1951 will be con- than 12 credit hours will report to
ducted in Sbisa Hall Saturday, the Registrar’s desk in Sbisa for
Aug. 25 starting at 8 a. m., H. L. a statement of expenses before be-
Heaton, registrar, announced to- ginning registration. In case of
Pioneer Airlines landed at the college-owned East-
erpood Field yesterday at 7:01 for the first of
four regular flights from here. Several officials
of the college were on hand to greet the initial
opening of the service. Left to right, T. R.
Spence, manager of Physical Plants; Joe Sorrels,
College Station Chamber of Commerce President;
Dr. Howard W. Barlow, dean of the School of
Engineering; Howard Badgett, College Station
City Councilman; Dr. M. T. Harrington, president
of A&M; R. N. Schafranka, pilot; Miss Jean
Hart, hostess; Gibb Gilchrist, chancellor of the
A&M System; R. F. Cobb, co-pilot; and A. G.
Magee, president of the College Station Kiwanis
Club.
Sun Beauts Down With 106 Reading Again
City Sees 20th Day of 100-Plus Heat
College Station posted another temperatures in the eighties in the Dallas, Tyler and College Sta- ciable amount of rain has falle
College Station posted
day of 106 degree temperatures
yesterday, the twentieth consecu
tive day in which the thermometer
climbed over the 100-degree mark.
\ A minimum of 75 degrees was
reported by the CAA weather sta-
ti<m at Easterwood Field witfi a
wind:, from the South-Southeast
blowing at 13 miles per hour.
A we&k cool front which held
Summer Art irroup
Schedules Exhibit
Approximately 65 paintings and
drawings will be exhibited in the
promenade cases in the MSC be
ginning tomorrow. This display
will be the first Summer Art Ex
hibit undertaken by the MSC Art
Gallery Committee which was cre
ated two years ago.
The pictures wall be judged by
Ernest Langford, head of the
Architecture Department and two
other members of the department,
and winners declared.
L. L. Burleson is chairman of
the Art Gallery Committee for
the Summer. Secretary for the
organization is Charlesta Brown.
Mrs. Ralph Terry is instructor
for the group and in charge of
exhibits.
For judging purposes the pic
hires will be broken down into
jlhi*ee divisions—student and facul-
„ ty staff members, adult associate
members, and 14 year old age
group and under group.
The work includes still life and
landscape, oils, pencil sketches,
water colors, and pen and ink.
About 32 pictures will be entered
In the contest by the student and
faculty staff members. Persons en
tering work in this division in
clude Burleson, P. J. Gazder, Miss
Brown, Martha Jane Konecny, F.
J. Hetlinger, Dorothy Spriggs,
Douglas Houston, R. C. Bruchart,
and Sadie Hatfield.
Ten adult associate members
have entered pictures. They are
Mrs. Joe Mogford, Miss Nina
Henry, Mrs. Chris Groneman,
Dr. C. B. Campbell, Mrs. R. W.
Callender, Mrs. Joe Motherall,
Mrs. Fred Jenson, Mrs. Hubert
Womble, Mrs. Justin McBride,
and Mrs. E. R. Alexander.
Ann Schlesselman, Ann Fleming,
Joanne Walkei-, and Linda Hilbun
At the Grove
This Week
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
p. m.
Saturday, Aug. 18 — Square
Dancing with Music by the Aggie
land Combo—8 p. m.
Sunday, Aug. 19—Skating—8 p.
m- - _
temperatures in the eighties in the
Texas Panhandle Wednesday pro
bably won’t affect the local area
at all, weatherman Vernon W.
Turner reported. If it does, it will
probably be at least two days
reaching the College. Station area,
he said.
By Associated Press
There was hope tbe front Would
make things not quite so hot
across the extreme northern' part
-of the state.
Early Wednesday morning the
front came through Dalhart in the
upper Panhandle, leaving it with
the state’s coolest maximum, an
83.
But a big section of Texas—es-
ciqlly ,the.Noi'th Central part—
in weather well above 100
degreeUxUnt Worth had the high
est, 107. ik^was 106 at Dallas,
where a new ordinance limiting use
of wkter for sprinkling lawns took
effect, and 34 wadmg pools in city
parks were closed. ■ y
The cool front found liard going
against the state’s heht wave.
“It’ll cut the heat somfe, but it
will still leave it well up\in the
nineties, and in more southern
the“ public, Mrs. -Terry I parts in the hundreds,” said a
weather bureau spokesman.
comprise the 14 age arid under
group entering the contest.
The Ait Gallery Committee’s
program for 1951-52 includes tra--
yelirig exhibits, exchange exhib
its with Southwest Conference
Schools, artists who will lecture
and meet with the committee, and
various films according to Mrs.
Terry.
The judging and exhibits wjll be
open to
said.
. '‘'Tiqciqlly
burned i
er degreed
Tyler and College
tion had 106 degrees Wednesday;
Waco, Lufkin and Cotulla 105;
Laredo, Wichita Falls and Junction
104; Austin, Del Rio, Palestine,
Texarkana, and Alice 103; Abilene,
San Aritonio, Victoria, Childress,
Shit Fiat, Wiink, 102; San Angelo
and Beaumorit 100; El Paso 99.
Fish Die In Bryan
The continued heat and drouth
killed some fish in Bryan Country
Club make. R. E. Callender, Texas
A&M College wildlife expert, said
that because thei’e was no breeze
and there was continued heat, oxy
gen was being exhausted. There
was a plan to kick the water up
with outboard motors to get oxy
gen in it.
At Waco Wednesday night, spec
ial prayers for rain were sche
duled by the First Baptist Church.
Dr. Forrest C. Feezor, pastor,
said everyone was invited, not
just members of the congregation.
“The Bible records answers to
prayer for rain, as well as every
other type of blessing,” said Dr.
Feezor.
Cotton Gets Beating
Just a couple of beachcombers . . . that’s Dean and Mrsw How
ard W. Barlow. They’re getting ready for the big “Shipwreck”
Dance slated for The Grove Friday night. The dance will feature
music by the Aggieland Combo, and it will be the last of the reg
ular Friday night dances for the Summer.
Central Texas cotton was taking
a severe beating. At Corsicana,
Navarro County Agent Harold
Franke said near-record low yields
i, per acre are expected. He added,
..“we can’t see much of a profit
tor the cotton farmer in this coun-
yA.t Palestine, where no appre-
IT
Stash Cares,
Worry; Make
"Wreck Dance
Exams lurk just around the cor
ner, but tomorrow night is the
night for everyone in Aggieland to
put away care and worries, and
join the fun at the “Shipwreck
Dance.” From the start (8) to
finish (11) this zany affair will
feature the music of the “Cut-
ttn-oat Combo” on a stage decora
ted by “Peg Leg” Pete Carson.
The last “round” dance of the
Summer, the “Shipwreck Dance”
pill be the highlight of the season,
with Aggie “stags,” students with
their dates, or with their wives,
faculty members and staff mem
bers all dressed as they were
“when the ship went down.”
Arrangements for the dance
have been made by a committee
composed of Sue and Harry Shan
non, Jewell Hodge, Ruby Nell
Seale and Dick Van Tyne. Pat
Morley is the dance committee
chairman with Frank Manitzas act
ing as MC. This dance, like all
Summer Grove entertainments, is
under the auspices of the Office
of Student Activities Department.
Unique and bizarre costumes
will be judged by a team composed
of Mrs. Donald Burchard, Mrs.
Ann Hilliard, Tom Rountree, Pres
ident ‘Crossbones” Harrington, and
Dean “Ferocious” French. A prize
will be awarded to the best-dressed
couple, and to the boy and girl
wearing the most original “crea
tions.”
fallen
in two months, some farmers said
crops are so near maturity now
that rain would damage them more
than it would help. Frank Lacey
of the Palestine Creamery said
milk production in the county has
fallen 20 per cent in the last fHi, r
weeks because of dry pastures. 1 ::'
Latest Heat Death Count '
The latest heat death count
went like this: Houston 6, Dallas
6, Fort Worth 5, Orange 2, Mis-'
sion 2, Sherman, Austin, Wichita
Falls, Vernon, and San Antonio,
one each.
The U. S. Department of Agri-:
culture’s Texas crop and weather,
bulletin for the week ended Aug.
13 said cotton, peanuts, feed crops-
and pastures deteriorated farther
as the serious drouth continued.
It said general rains were need-,
ed in all areas to check further,
crop losses. Picking and snapping
of prematurely open cotton extend
ed northward to the Red River and
Westward to the low rollings,
plains. In the lower Rio Grande
Valley most gins were operating
on a 24-hour basis.
All returning students who are in
good standing and all graduate
students may secure assignment
cards at the east entrance to Sbisa
Hall in accordance with the follow
ing schedule:
8 a. m. to 9 a. m.—All whose
surnames begin with C, D, E, F.
9 a. m. to 10 a. m.—All whose
surnames begin with G, H, I, J, K.
10 a. m. to 11 a. m.—All whose
surnames begin with A, B.
1 p. m. to 2 p. m.—All whose
surnames begin with T, U, V, W, X,
Y, Z.
2 p. m. to 3 p. m.—All whose
surnames begin with L, M, N, O.
3 p. m. to 4 p. m.—All whose sur
names begin with P, Q, R, S.
New Basic Division students who
have done no college work will
register in Sbisa Hall on Septem
ber 14, according to the same sche
dule.
- Saturday, Sept. 15, registration
will be conducted in Sbisa Hall
for all new college transfer stu
dents and for those former stu
dents and graduates who did not
register in August. Registration
cards will be issued to the new
college transfers beginning at 8
a. m.
Cards for former students and
graduates will be issued according
to the schedule printed above.
Registration Instruction
There are seven directions which
must be followed to register prop
erly and quickly, the registrar said.
They are as follops:
• Secure assignment cards at
Sbisa Hall at your given hour.
Follow directions on back of the
card.
• Pay all fees at the cashiers’
desk (Sbisa Hall).
• Report to the heads of re
spective departments or their rep
resentatives for approval of cour
ses; to be taken. They will be sit
uated on the main floor of Sbisa.
• Report to your dean for ap-
k. provaj of schedule (Sbisa Hall).
h * • Report to the chief of housing
Sbisa Hall).
Veterans secure approval of
bdlpk requisitions (Sbisa Hall).
Turn in assignment card at
the\Registrar’s desk (Sbisa).
JuViors and seniors in the School
of Ants and Sciences, Agriculture,
and Fmgineering must have their
assignfient cards initialed by the
heads |)f their major departments
before |the cards are presented to
the dean for approval.
Degree Plans Necessary
All Students in Schools of the
Agriculture and Engineering who
have attained junior status or
above jnust have their approved
degree plans when presenting their
assignr lent cards to their deans
for ap] roval.
overcharge or undercharge, proper
adjustment will be made after
registration.
Non-resident students register
ing for 12 credit hours or more
will pay a matriculation fee of $150
dollars each semester Those regis
tering for less than 12 credit
hours pay a fee of $12.50 per cre
dit hour.
Any old student who has not
completed his registration and re
turned his assignment card to the
Registrar’s office (Sbisa) by 5 p.
m. of registration day may be re
quired to pay an additional matri
culation fee of $2 for late regis
tration.
Registration is not completed un
til the student has returned his
assignment card, properly ap
proved, to the Registrar and his
receipt has been stamped “Regis
tered in Registrar’s Office.”
Saturday, Sept. 22, is the last
day for making changes in regis
tration for the Fall semester. For
the Spring semester, Friday Feb.
9, is the last day for making
changes in registration.
Any course may be withdrawal
from the session offerings in case
the number of registrations is too
small to justify the offering of the
course.
New Final Exam System
A new system of final exams
will be innaugurated at the close
of the Fall semester. In the past,
all students, taking the same
course would take a final exam in
that course at one time—together.
Under the new system, finals
will be given according to class
schedule hours. For example, a
student taking History 306 on
Monday, Wednesdays, and Fridays
at 8 a. m. will take his exam on
Jan. 21, 8-11 a. m. Another student
taking English 210 at the same
hour and also on the same days
will also take his exam 8-11. a. m.
on Jan. 21.
This new final exam arrange
ment will eliminate the necessity
of having conflict exams.
Final exams for the Fall semes
ter will begin at 8 a. m. on Mon
day Jan. 21, and extend until Fri
day, Jan. 25, jpt 4 p. m. The fol
lowing schedule will apply for the
Fall semester final exams:
Jan. 21, Monday—8-11 a. m.—•
classes meeting MWF 8
Jan. 21, Monday—1-4 p. m.—
classes meeting TThS 8
Jan. 22, Tuesday—8-11 a. m.—•
classes meeting MWF 9
Jan. 22, Tuesday—1-4 p. m.—
classes meeting TThS 9
Jan. 23, Wednesday—8-11 a. m.
I classes, meeting MWF 10
Jan. 23, Wednesday 1-4 p. m.—
classes meeting TThS 10
Jan. 24, Thursday 8-11 a. m.—•
classes meeting MWF 11
Jan. 24, Thursday 1-4 p. m.—•
classes meeting T ThS 11
Jan. 25, Friday 8-11 a. m.—
classes meeting MWF 1
Jan. 25, Friday—1-4 p. m.—
classes meeting MWF 2
T. R. Spence, manager of Phys
ical Plants for the A&M System,
boards the first Pioneer Air
lines flight to land at the col
lege’s Easterwood Field Tues
day morning for Temple. Spence
was the first ticket-purchaser
at the local station. He said
he plans to turn the ducat over
to the college archives to com
memorate the occasion.
Senate Committee Holds Fate
Of Housing Payment Program
Washington, Aug. 16—(TP)—The
fate of a House-voted plan to rgri
lax down payment and pay-riff
terms on low and medium priced
housing rested today with a Sen
ate-House conference committee.
The committee will adjust dif
ferences ipi .two versions of the ad-
mipj^tra lion’s $1,700,000,000 de-
fense housing bill, sharply
amended in the House before voice
passage last night.
Rallied Forces
Approval came after administra
tion forces rallied and reversed
tentative okay of two Republican
sponsored amendments involving
key sections of the bill.
It is designed to produce houses
and apartments in critical defense
areas, phere populations have shot
up because of the preparedness
program.
Private enterprise is given the
first chance to do the job. The
government’s mortgage insuring
authority is increased $1,500,000
(B) in both the House and Senate
bills. The President could relax
regulation “x” credit restrictions
on housing in the critical areas to
the extent he deemed necessary.
The government would have limit
ed authority to build the needed
housing itself, but could not do
so without giving private builders
90 days notice of the type and
quantity of dwellings needed, and
announcing the availability of
mortgage insurance.
Key Amendments
Two key Republican amendments
which were tentatively adopted by
standing votes were rejected on
formal roll calls where members
are recorded by name.
One of these, sponsored by Rep.
Wolcott (R-Mich.), top Republican
rin the banking committee which
handled the bill, would have cut
off the program next June 30 in
stead of June 30, 1953 as the ad
ministration w i s h e d. Wolcott’s
move lost by a vote of 188 to 184.
The other overturn was on an
amendment by Rep. Cole (R-Kas)
which would have deleted a section
of the bill providing a $10,000,000
revolving fund for acquiring hous-
in gsites around defense and mili
tary installations in isolated areas.
Roll Call
Cole amendment was thrown out
on a rollcall, 199 to 175.
Wolcott succeeded in knocking
$65,000,000 off the total in the bill
as approved by the banking com
mittee. Amendments by him held
down the fund for housing to be
built by the government to $50,-
000,000 instead of $75,000,000, and
for the construction and operation
of community facilities and serv
ices (such as waterworks a n d
sewage systems) to $60,000,000
rather than $100,000,000.
The Senate had approved the
Once tentatively adopted, t h e I smaller figures.
PMA Chairman Suggests
Farmers Put Crops in Loan
Dulles Predicts
Russians Can’t
Wreck Treaty
Washington, Aug. 16—UP)
—Ambassador John Foster
Dulles last night flatly pre
dicted failure for any Russian
effort to wreck the Japanese
peace treaty conference at San
Francisco next month.
He spoke out just after the Uni*
ted States and Britain had made
public a “final” draft of t h ft
treaty which they expect a large
majority of the Pacific belliger-
ants of World War II to sign.
Dulles said he hopes the Soviet
delegation to San Francisco will
not be a “wrecking crew” but ad
ded that if they take that course
“we are confident that they would
fail.”
Dulles, President Truman’s spe
cial representative in negotiating
the Japanese pact, reported for the
first time officially that Soviet
Communists have been conducting
a war-of-nerves against the treaty
and “even suggesting that it may
be countered by their violence.”
We did not expand on this point.
But he declared in a radio speech
(CBS) that so many World War
II allies will sign the treaty at San
Francisco “that there will be no
doubt in any quarter as to either
the fact of peace or as to the terms
of peace.”
The report came on top of an
announcement f r o m Communist
China that it will refuse to recog
nize the San Francisco conference
—to which it was not invited.
The Texas State PMA chairman
joined yesterday in suggestions
that cotton farmers put part of
their crop under government loan,
to bolster the sagging market.
“Texas cotton farmers can do a
lot to insure orderly marketing
of this year’s big crop, and to
protect their cotton income, by
using the CCC (Commodity Credit
Corporation) price-support loan
program,” said B. F. Vance.
Vance, chairman of the Texas
State committee for the production,
marketing administration, added:
No Justification
“While the crop is big, it is all
needed, and there is nothing in
the situation which should justify
low cotton prices over the market
ing season.
“Heavy marketings at haiwest
time naturally tend to pull prices
down,” said Vance. “Here’s where
the loan program comes in. If most
farmers will put even part of their
crop under the loan, holding it
off the market for a while, they
can help stabilize the market.
Make Own Decision
“Each farmer will have to make
his own decision on wheher to
sell now or to use the loan, in the
light of his local conditions, but
he should consider the advantages
of the loan carefully.
The loan gives him cash now, and
he will be in position to take ad
vantage of any improvement in the
market later in the year. He is as
sured the loan value in any case.
“More important, from the point
of view of the whole crop, use of
the loan by enough farmers will
prevent market gluts and make it
possible to ‘feed’ cotton onto the
market as it is needed.”
VA Sets New Plan
To Change Courses
The Veterans Administration an
nounced a new ruling concerning
changing courses for veteran stu
dents.
The announcement said:
“Any veteran who has made ap
plication for a change of course
and who remains in training in
his elected coux-se duxlng the ad
ministrative or adjudicatory delays
on the part of the Vetex*ans Admin
istration in connection with pro
cessing his claim for such change
of course, will be pennitted to
continue or immediately resume
the elected course if his x-equest
for a change of coux-se is finally
denied by the Veterans Adminis
tration.”