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Number 209: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1951
Price Five the
Board Refuses
Plea to Lighten
G-A Financing
Three Valley Counties
Threaten Suit Over
Share of Burden
Austin, Aug. 23—h 7 ?)—The State
Board of Education rejected the
Rio Grande Valley’s plea for a
lighter' school financing burden
Wednesday. A court suit was
threatened immediately.
By 10-to-5 vote, the board re
fused the request of Cameron,
Hidalgo and Willacy' counties that
the- state-wide economic index be
n reconsidered, in part or in whole.
L
Orville Cox, McAllen attorney
for the Valley school districts,
said an appeal would be filed in
a Travis County district court.
The index is supposed to de
termine each of the 254 coun
ties’ fair share of the $45,000,-
000 (M) in local school funds to
be raised each year.
Board Member Emerson Stone
of Jacksonville made the motion
not to re-open the index adopted in
March for the four-year school
period .beginning Sept. 1.
Valley spokesmen, based their
plea on the economic disaster pre
cipitated by a severe freeze this
past Winter. They said the freeze
wiped out citrus orchards worth
$200,040,000 (M) and shut down
$30,000,000 worth of industries
which rely on the citrus crop for
their existence.
W. W. Ballard, Harlingen in
dependent school district busi
ness manager, said it would take
four or five years to restore
the orchards and 10 to 15 years
to reach the production level on
which the Valley’s economic in
dex was based in March.
He said the Valley would not
have protested if the economic loss
had been only a temporary matter
such as the loss of a single year’s
crop.
Greenwood predicted collapse of
the Gilmer-Aiken school program
if the board refused to review the
index.
The attorney general twice has
ruled the board could reconsider
the index if it believed its March
action to be premature. However,
he said any recomputation would
have to be on a statewide basis
and could not be limited to one or
a few counties.
Several board members observed
that many counties already have
set their tax rates for the coming-
school year on the basis of the ec
onomic index determined in March.
Fall Term Registration
Due Saturday in Sbisa
Registration for the Fall term gets under way Saturday. The
complete procedure will be handled in Sbisa hall, beginning at 8 a.m.
and ending at 5 p.m.
Signs will aid students in finding the departments they seek.
Some departments will probably have smaller signs denoting the place
to register for a given course.
All steps in the procedure for registration (listed below) may be
taken in Sbisa Hall. Procedure is as follows:
1. Get assignment card.
2. Pay fees at cashier’s desk.
3. Report to heads of departments for approval of courses.
4. Report to your oean for approval of schedule.
5. Report to chief of housing.
6. Veterans get approval of book requisitions.
7. Turn in assignment cards to Registrar’s desk.
By Security Group
Light Promised
On Currie Story
Washington, Aug. 23-^(A > )—The
Senate Internal Security Subcom
mittee promised to strip away to
day the mystery it has made of an
episode involving Lauchlin Cur
rie, a top White House advisor dur
ing World War II.
At the same time, Gen. Charles
A. Willoughby said he would give
the House un-American Activities
Committee evidence that Soviet
spying and subversion in the Far
East before the war was a dress
rehearsal for Communist plotting
that continues in the United States.
Willoughby, for 10 years Gen.
Douglas MacArthur’s intelligence
chief, told a reporter in advance
of today’s session (9:30 a.in„
EST) he would show that the
activities of U. S. and foreign
Communists in Shanghai amount
ed to a “dry run” of the Red-
front tactics later employed in
this country.
“The committees,” he said “were
Annual THDA
Range Students
Due to Travel
Meeting Slated
For Wednesday
The first annual convention of
The Texas Home Demonstration
Association to be held on the A&M
campus since 1940 will start Aug.
29 with between 2,000 and 3,000
expected to attend. It will end
Aug. 31.
> The Association was formed in
1926 when the club women were
attending a farmer’s short course
at A&M with their husbands. Ris
ing in membership through the
years, the Association now boasts a
membership of 42,000 women, ac
cording to Maurine Hearn, State
fcHome Demonstration leader.
V “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 work
shops on county THDA organiza
tions and “The Messenger,” the
organization’s official publication.
Mi-s. R. J. Turrentine of Denton,
and Dr. T. O. Walton, former
president of A&M, will be the fea
tured speakers for the general
sessions.
“The Wheel of Progress,” writ
ten by Mrs. G. W. Ferguson of
Bell County, editor of The Messen
ger,” will show in pageant form
the 25 years’ growth of the or
ganization. Mrs. R. M. Almanrode
of Munday, who attended the first
meeting in 1926, is now the organ
ization’s president.
Room Occupation
Deadline Saturday
All students must be moved into
their newly assigned rooms by 5
p. m. Saturday, according to Ben
nie Zinn, assistant dean of men.
Those students moving to a dor-
mitory now closed are included,
Zinn said.
Dorms now closed will be un
locked during the following hours,
for the convenience of those stu
dents who must move: 1 p. m. to 5
p. m. today, 1 p. m. to 5 p. m. Fri
day, and 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. Satur
day.
Nineteen students are register
ed for the Range and Forestry
Depai'tment’s Summer travel
course, which will get underway
here Monday.
Omer E. Sperry and Robert R.
Rhodes, instructors in the depart
ment, will conduct the course this
year.
The group will travel some 3000
miles, by bus, through South and
West Texas to study and obsei-ve
livestock, range conditions, and
ranching practices. Visits will be
made to experiment statiions, pri
vate ranches, and public parks.
The study of vegetatiion will be
the chief concern during the three
weeks trip.
The current drouth will enable
the class to see some of West
Texas’ biggest problems at their
worst.
Principal stops on the pro
posed route of travel are Victor
ia, Beeville, Carrizo Springs, So
nora, Marfa, Big Bend National
Park, Big Springs, Lubbock, Spur,
and Mineral Wells.
The group will camp at night.
They plan to do most of their own
cooking. Each man will take his
own gear.
They will return to College Sta
tion September 15. A written re
port will be submitted within two
weeks for credit in the course.
in a position to go to their Rus
sian masters and say, ‘look how
successful this has been in China.
Now we are ready to try it in the
United States’.”
The Senate subcommittee an
nounced Wednesday it would ex
plore “the complicated episode” in
volving Currie in questioning Louis
Budenz, self-styled former Com
munist leader (9 a.m., EST), but
withheld further information.
Elizabeth Bentley, a confessed
former member of a Communist
spy ring, testified before the group
last week that her spy ring learned
from Currie that the U. S. was
about to solve the secret of Rus
sia’s code for transmitting official
messages.
She testified the spy ring also
got from Currie other valued
information concerning White
House policy.
Currie has denied her story. He
now is an advisor to the Colombian
government.
The subcommittee’s investigating
the Institute of Pacific Relations
(IPR). Senator McCarran (D-
Nev), the chairman, has chax-ged
IPR was used by Communists to
influence U. S. foreign policy. The
IPR, a privately financed organi
zation, contends it never swerved
from objective research into Far
Eastern problems.
Budenz said Wednesday IPR was
known in the party at “a captive”
organization, taking orders from
Communists who, he said, dubbed
IPR “the little Red school house.”
Budenz named/ a list of persons
he said were Communists with ties
to the IPR, among them:
Owen Lattimore, sometime con
sultant to the State Department;
Benjamin H. Kizer, whom Bu
denz described as a Spokane,
Wash., lawyer and writer; Max
well S. Stewart, whom he term
ed an editor of the magazine The
Nation and of IPR pamphlets;
the late Gen. Evans F. Carlson
of the marine corps; and Israel
Epstein.
Through his local attorneys, Lat
timore issued a statement saying
Budenz had “told one new lie” to
the effect that “he heard my name
mentioned in 1937 as a member of
a Communist cell.”
“The fantastic nature of this lie
is underscor-ed by the fact that I
was not even in the United States
in 1937, except between Christmas
and New Year’s,” Lattimore said.
“I have already testified under oath
that I am not and never have been
a Communist, and I am prepared
to do so again.”
Truce Area ‘Bombed’, Sa
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Reds; Peace Talks Halted
Fish Sweethearts
It isn’t all “Hop To!” and “hup, two, three ...”
for the fish, as you can see from these pictures.
The lady on your left is Miss Freddie Woody,
whose escort to the Fish Battalion Ball will be
Jeff J. Horn, CE from Palestine. In the center
is Miss Peggy Lynn Wilson, who will be escorted
by Don Barton, aero engineering student from
Texarkana. The third sweetheart candidate is
Miss Melody Starks. She will be escorted by BA
major Earroll M. Forrester of Amarillo. The
dance begins at 8:30 p.m. Friday in the MSC
ballroom.
Fish Ba llFriday WillBeFinal
Event of Summer Session
Final event for the summer
freshmen will take place Friday
night at 8:30 in the MSC ballroom.
It will be their Battalion Ball.
A combo from the Aggieland Or
chestra will furnish music for the
occasion.
A freshman sweetheart will be
announced at the second intermis
sion. At the first intermission the
five finalists for the title will be
introduced. All finalists will re
ceive a corsage, but the sweet
heart will get an extra special
gift, the nature of which has not
been announced.
Miss Joyce Little, 19, of Dallas;
Miss Julia Jones, 16, of Gatesville,
Jimmy Jackson
Much Improved
Much improvement has been not
ed in the condition of five-year-old
Jimmy Jackson of College Sta
tion, said St. Joseph’s hospital at
tendants today.
Jimmy, son of the Rev. and Mrs.
James F. Jackson, was wounded
Sunday afternoon by discharge of
a .22 rifle in the hands of a neigh
bor boy. Jimmy’s condition has
been serious since the accident.
Offers of blood for transfusions
have been made by Aggies.
Miss.; Miss Freddie Woody, 18, of
Palestine; Miss Melody. Starks, .18,
of Amarillo; and Miss Peggy Wil
son, 17, of Texarkana; are the five
finalists. Miss Little will be es
corted by Roland Jones, ag engi
neering student from Dallas. Miss
Jones will be escorted by Clay
Roming, engineer of Childress.
(For escorts of others, see accom
panying pictui-es.)
Sept. 17 First
Day For Fall
Term Classes
Classes for the fir!
mester of the regular slssion,
1951-52, will begin Septem
ber 17. September
opening of the new
week, and in orientatio
for freshman.
Registration for ne
dents will be held Sept
14; registration for ol
turning students will be
ember 15. The last da
making changes in registration
is September 22 and Sep||m-
ber 29 is the last day foxfien-
rolling for the Fall semes
Ronald Laughter, social secre
tary,. Is ip charge of,the dance.
Advisors are James Stevenson,
Karl Myers, and C. L. Ray.
Program and ticket sales are
under John B. Darcy and his com
mittee. Decorations are the re
sponsibility of Donald Royce. John
Armintor heads the reception com
mittee.
Invitations sell for $2.50, and
may be obtained from representa
tives in/each outfit.
Judges for the sweetheart con
test are the battalion commander,
and company and squadron com
manders.
Allies Think Stall
To Be Temporary
Munsan, Korea, Aug. 23—(A?)—■
The Reds broke off Korean armi
stice talks today. They blamed a
“bombing” incident in Kaesong.
The Allies called it a frajneup.
Communists said truce negotia
tions are “off from now on.
But high ranking officers at
United Nations command head-
quarters in Tokyo said' the break-
clown was considered temporary.
If the Red action foreshadowed
resumption of full warfare, U. N.
commanders have said they are
ready. Allied troops are in the
best positions they-’ve ever held in
Korea.
The newest snag in attempts to
end the shooting resulted from
what the Reds said was a U. N.
Tokyo, Aug. 23 — iT) — Red
China’s Peiping radio tonight
reported Korean war truce talks
“for August 23 have been called
off.” It made no mention of a
permanent breakdown of t h e
armistice conference.
air attack on Kaesong, site of
cease-fire talks. They charged
a plane Wednesday night bombed,
fire-bombed and strafed the area
near sleeping quarters of the Com
munist delegation.
Two U. N. liaison officers im
mediately investigated. Their
findings, Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy
reported, suggest:
“The whole incident is a frame-
staged from first to last.”
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway’s head
quarters in Tokyo called it “an
ill-produced and amateurishly-
staged presentation.”
The statement said the incident
was planned in advance as an ex
cuse for breaking off truce talks
because “the Communists were los
ing out on their demands, and
were losing face in Asia.”
The same view is shared by
American officials in Washington,
dispatches indicated. While there
was no immediate official com
ment from top administration
sources, the Washington view was
that the Red action was deliber
ate, presumably dictated from Mos-
An information bulletin from jected them all.
The talks, arranged by the high
est military commanders on each
side, were called off by a Chinese
colonel whose first name was not
even Mown by the U. N. command.
Admiral Joy, head of the U. N.
truce delegation, and his staff re
mained at their tent camp in Mun
san. They kept a telephone line
open to the Communists in Kae
song for any further message from
the Reds.
Rain dripped from the tents of
their advance camp.
It was the sort of weather the
Reds have favored for their of
fensives.
The so-called bombing incident
was the latest of a series of
charges by the Reds that the al
lies violated the Kaesong neutrali
ty agreement. Admiral Joy re-
Truman ‘Gagged’ U. Sc
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Handbooks
Scheduled For
Mailing Today
Washington, Aug. 23—UP)—Sen
ator McCarthy (R-Wis) accused
President Truman Wednesday
night of issuing a gag order mak
ing it an offense for any federal
employe to “give Congress the
truth about Communists who are in
our government.”
McCarthy also charged thyt the
•esident’s ambassador - at - iarge,
llip C. Jessup, was formerly edi-
tosal director of a Communist-
froiLt publication which he said re-
ceiw|d “thousands of dollars of
Communist money.”
Panels Vote Foreign Aid Cu
Washington, Aug. 23—(A*)—Two
Senate committees which have
agreed to go along with a billion-
dollar cut in foreign aid funds vot
ed by the House tackle today the
problem of who would handle the
spending.
In paring back President Tru
man’s $8,500,000,000 request, the
House last week voted to put for
eign aid spending under a new
high-level agency responsible only
to the President and Congress.
The two Senate committees—
Foreign Relations and Armed
Services—working jointly on a
Senate bill voted Wednesday to
follow the House lead in slash
ing the program by $1,000,000,-
000.
Senator Lodge (R-Mass) said
today the group also agreed ten
tatively to place foreign military
spending in the hands of the de
fense department.
However, Chairman Connally
(D-Tex) insisted there was nothing
definite on this point. He said
committee staff men were to draft
such a proposal for a possible de
cision today.
The joint committee resumed
voting behind closed doors at 9
a.m. (EST). Connally told re
porters be hopes “we can get
through with this bill during the
day.”
A Senate decision to follow the
House lead in putting foreign
military and economic aid under
the proposed new mutual securi
ty administration would take
much of the influence and control
of foreign spending away from
Secretary of State Acheson.
Such a move was criticized
sharply Wednesday night by Sec-
retary of Commerce Sawyer. He
called on Congress to give the
State Department authority to dis
tribute all foreign aid.
To cast any other government
agency in this “Santa Claus role”
would make it “extremely diffi
cult” for the State Department to
conduct negotiations with other
powers,” Sawyer said in a letter
to Senator Connally.
The Commerce secretary de
scribed the House plan as “un
sound.” In the long run, he
said, it “will produce an unbear
able drain upon the taxpayers.”
And he added:
“I see no benefit from deciding
that EGA (The Economic Coopera
tion Administration) shall die
promptly but from its ashes shall
arise a new EGA . . . with more
permanent status, greater pres
tige, higher salary ranges, and
Library, MSC Curtail
Activities Between Terms
The between-terms period finds closed August 26-27, and will have
the library and the MSC curtailing
their activities in some measure.
a varying schedule from then on,
as follows: open from 3 to 6 p. m.
Library hours between semesters w.Ux m'
will be as follows: Beginning Fri
day, open 8 a. m. to 5 p m. week- from x m
noon Saturdavs. ... T . •,> ,
days, 8 a. m. to 12 noon Saturdays,
ust 29, from 8-10 a. m. August 30,
and from 10 a. m. to 12 noon and
to 3 p. m. on August
31. It will be closed entirely from
September 1-5, but wil,
resume
In the MSC, the bowling alleys
and the fountain room will be
closed from Friday until Septem-
its regular schedule on September
6.
Other activities of the MSC will
continue without interruption dur-
ber 7. The browsing room will be ing the between-terms period.
more authority to speed money i|jhd
produce conflicts of foreign poli®.”
Actually the controlling poweijn
foreign aid recently has been fhe
International Security Affairs
Committee (ISAC), headed |&y
Thomas Cabot, aide to SecretMy
Acheson.
Lodge said the Senate prop|t-
sal would junk ISAC, let EC*
operate until next June 30 anjl
then expire, and allow the Stat«
Department to continue operarj
tion of the “point four” progranl
for aiding undeveloped areas of
the world.
The joint Senate committee a||
ready has accepted a proposal b^
Senators Fulbright (D-Ark) anl
McMahon (D-Conn) to continub
“point four” under the State De«
partment.
Less than $120,000,000 of the
big foreign aid bill was asked for
“point four” in the budget re
quests.
During Wednesday’s voting, the
senators tentatively approved sev
eral different sets of figures be
fore finally coming up with the
same $1,001,000,000 reduction voted
by the House.
Connally said the agreement with
the House on the overall total may
end there because the Senate bill
probably would make different
sizer cuts from those the House
made in the various individual mili
tary and economic items.
The 1951-52 YMCA Freshman
Handbooks are ready for mailing.
According to J. Gordon Gay, asso
ciate secretary of the local organi
zation, copies of the handbook are
being sent to 1.725 men who have
made application for enrollment
in A&M for the fall semester.
Copies are going to future Aggies
in most of the 48 states, Holland,
and several Central and South
American countries.
The Freshman Handbook is pub
lished by the YMCA to serve as a
guide for freshmen who come to
A&M. The YMCA has attempted to
include all information that will be
helpful to the freshman from the
time he first enrolls until he has
become acquainted with, and ad
justed to, the customs and tradi
tions of the college. Contents
range from the college calendar to
advice and information about cus
toms, events, and the Cadet Corps.
The book is mailed only to future
students who will be coming to
the campus as first-year freshmen.
Mailing day is today.
Old, returning and transfer stu
dents may pick up a copy from the
desk in the lobby of the YMCA
building.
BrSadcasting over the ABC
netwafk, the Wisconsin senator
said «ie “incredibly fantastic
order”marring federal employes
from tistifying on loyalty mat
ters tolCongress went into ef
fect onlAugust 21, 1948—“Just
after the Hiss case
17 day?
broke.” 1
“Can ai
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jy of you think of one
God’s green earth why
in had issued this or
is not this order an
that they know about
and are tiding to protect the Com
munists in government? Other
wise, wh®forbid the 2,000,000 gov
ernment ffiinployes to tell what they
know aboit Communists?”
McCarthy said he brought up the
matter o*the order to show “why
it is so difficult to produce evi-
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Turleys Scheduled
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Texas
producers from all over
dence against Communists and feh
low travelers.”
Before going on the air, Mc
Carthy told newsmen his 15-min
ute talk would be in reply to
President Truman’s speech of
Aug. 14, in which he said Mr.
Truman attacked him for his
fight against Communists in
government.
McCarthy had asked the major
radio networks for time to reply.
In his Aug. 14 speech, Mr. Tru
man had sharply criticized “slander
mongers” and “character assas
sins” without mentioning names.
McCarthy told his radio audience
that Mr. Truman had joined in
“the smokescreen of smear which
is the Communist method of dis
crediting these of us who are
gaging in the difficult and unpleaS
ant task of digging out the dan
gerous undercover Communist
agents in government.”
The senator said the 15 minutes
he had on the air would not allow
him to submit “even a fraction of
the proof we have begged the State
Department and Mr. Truman to
take.” He said he will continue in
another broadcast Friday night.
But he said he would “give you
the evidence” on a typical case,
as he put it, and went on to
name Ambassador Jessup.
Among other things, McCarthy
said he held in his hand a photo
graph of a document “showingthat
Mr. Jessup had editorial control of
the official publication of an or
ganization named as a front for
and doing the work of the Com
munist party.”
McCarthy said Jessup was chair
man of the Pacific Council of the
Institute of Pacific Relations, now
nen
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Internal Security Subcommittee
and that among 23 persons on Jes
sup’s staff, 10 have been “named
under oath as Communists,” three
as “espionage agents” and three as
'•probable Communists.”
A. Young, head
DepartmffilMaf^aflgg^a|jd ..jEoriwtf-
ry, has recently returneoTroio con
ducting a field management course
for 24 Texas county agricultural
agents and vocational agriculture
teachers. This is the fifth year
the course has been conducted.
Young was assisted by A. H.
Walker, extension range specialist
at A&M.
The group studied forage and
range conditions throughout West
Texas.. Particular attentiion was
paid to the effect different class
es of livestock have on the range.
Course#" September 10-14. This
short ffl|urse is sponsored by the
PoultrgiHusbandry Department.
Advapce registration is not nec-
essaryjjfbut is desirable. Registra
tion fee is $5.00. Late registra
tion Jwill take place in room 301
Agriculture Building from 8 a.m.
to t0' a.m. Monday, September 10.
Cldpses will start at 10 a.m. that
sdme day.
riPThe course is for training flock
of thjjFSelection a n d blood collecting
agents for the National Turkey Im-1 George Haddaway, editor of
provement work in Texas. All j Flight magazine, will speak Tues-
phases of turkey production will be | day at an informal meeting of
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covered. Those attending this short' the Brazos Aviation Association
course are expected to bring their j The session will be held at 7'30
work clothes along. Each morning | * 1 « - c
will be devoted to selecting and
breeding turkeys. Classes will be
held in the afternoon. Final ex
aminations will be given to those
who wish to qualify to do official
work under the National Turkey
Improvement Plan in Texas. Study
material will be given those at
tending this course.
p. m. on the lawn of The OnkV
200 South Congress Ave., Bryan!
A. C. Allen, president of' the
association, has invited the nnhlie
to hear Haddaway speak.
The magazine editor at present
is on assignment in Washington
concerning the part civil aviation
will play in the mobilization pro
gram.