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> Published Y Studfdents Of TexaA^feM For 73 Years The Battalion PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Oldest Continuously Published College Newspaper In Texas Number 210: Volume 51 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1951 Price Five Cents A&M May Be Due for Large Class of Fish Applications Show 500 More Than Mere Last Year A much larger freshman class may be in store for A&M this September, because of A&M’s status under the new universal training and selective service act. According to President M. T. Harrington, applications processed by the registrar already indicate a September enrollment of at least 500 more than last year. A&M is one of nine schools in the nation holding a military col lege rating for reserve officer training. It is the only such rat ing in Texas. Harrington said that the act provides that students enrolled in the officer procurement programs of the military colleges will have the same status in regard to Se lective Service and Universal Mil itary Training as West Point cadets or Midshipmen at Annapo lis. Freshmen must wait until Sept ember to enroll, but registration of old students was held Satur day in Sbisa Hall, with a packed house being the main feature of the activity. From 8 a. m. Satur day until 5 p. m., the place of registration was busy with the crowd being registered, and the hum of voices filled the hall with a subdued roar. Figures on the number who en rolled, or any breakdown on the enrollment, will have to await fin al release by the registrar, but unofficial observers estimated 1500 persons were processed Sat urday. Next registration will be on September 14, when new students Will register. On September 15, aid returning students will regis ter. Classes begin on September 17; September 22 is the last day for making changes in registra tion. Last day for enrolling in the college for the fall semester is September 29; mid-semester grade reports, November 12; Thanksgiv ing recess, November 29-Decem- ber 2; beginning of Christmas re cess, December 19; end of Christ mas recess, January 3; semester examinations, January 21-26, in clusive. Registration Scene STATI m If you didn’t know where you were at registra tion Saturday, you went to Station X to get straightened out. Although figures have not yet been released, a large number of students regis tered Saturday. The scene above, taken inside Sbisa hall, shows a part of the crowd. More were outside waiting in line when this picture was taken. Pioneer Airlines Starts New A.M. Flight To Houston Eaidy moraing or late afternoon, i of the School of Engineering; S. you can now get a Pioneer Air- }'J. Patranella, transportation man lines flight out from College Sta tion to Dallas and to Houston. This is now possible through a new morning flight to Houston. That was the gist of the new schedule presented Monday to Chancellor Gibb Gilchrist of the Texas A&M College System and to President Tom Harrington of Texas A&M College. Jack Kemp of Dallas, public relations officer for Pioneer, presented the new schedule to Gilchrist and Harring ton 'in a brief ceremony held in Gilchrist’s office. Present for the ceremony be sides those already named were Mayor Ernest Langford; City Man ager Raymond Rogers; Joe Sor- I’els of the Chemical Engineering Department; Dean H. W. Barlow Delegates To THDA Meet Begin Arriving Two thousand members of the Texas Home Demonstration Asso ciation will begin arriving today for the THDA meeting beginning ing Farmers Visit Campus About 50 Flying Farmers swooped down on Easterwood Air port this morning. They will come from the National Flying Farmer Convention in Fort Worth to make a tour of A&M College. College buses met the group at the airport to provide transpor tation for the tour. The School of Agriculture had a man on each bus to answer questions and point out things of interest to the visitors. The tentative schedule of the tour called for visits to the college plantation, the Experiment Station research farm, and the Brazos River farm laboratory. The group then visited the poultry, horti culture, entomology, and various livestock centers in the area lying just west of the campus. After a tour of the campus, the group had lunch in the MSC and then returned to the airport. They were to leave Easterwood Airport at 2 p.m. to return to Fort Worth. The tour of A&M is one of three tours which are arranged for that day. Only a portion of those at tending the convention in Fort Worth made the A&M tour. R. L. Felder of Chapel Hill, Tex as made arrangements for the A&M tour. In charge of arrangements for the local tour is Ben D. Cook, as sistant to Dean C. N. Shepardson of the School of Agriculture. Jimmy Jackson Still Improving Little Jimmy Jackson, five-year -old gunshot victim, is much im proved and is doing “a whole lot better,” St. Joseph’s hospital at tendants said today. Jimmy, son of the Rev. and Mrs. James F. Jackson of College Station, was wounded a week ago Sunday by a .22 rifle. His condi tion was very serious at first. tomorrow at 8 a.m. The meeting is co-sponsored by the THDA and the Agricultural Extension Service. Registration booths will be set up in the lobby of the MSC and in the lobby of Guion hall. General meetings will be held in Guion hall. Work shops may be held in the Agriculture Engineering lec ture room, Civil Engineering lec ture room, Petroleum Engineering- lecture room, new Biological Sci ence lecture room, Physics lecture room, YMCA chapel, YMCA As sembly room, Guion hall, Francis hall, Assembly hall, Textile build ing and the following rooms in the MSC: assembly room, 2C and 2D, 3B and 3C, and 3D. A get-acquainted tea is slated for all delegates at 8 p.m. Wednes day in the ball room of the MSC. Theme of the three-day 1951 con vention is “United We Stand”. Speakers for the general sessions will be Mrs. R. J. Turrentine of Denton and Dr. T. O. Walton, for mer president of A&M. Work shops are slated on legis lation, recreation, education, mar keting, and 4-H. Special work shops on county THDA organiza tions and on “The Messenger’, of ficial publication of the group, are also on schedule. President of the Association is Mrs. R. M. Almanrode of Munday, Texas. Various departments of the college are co-operating to arrange housing, meeting places, 1 o u d- speakers and other necessities for the meeting. ager for Pioneer; Guy Smith, man ager of Eastemood Airport; and three Pioneer hostesses, Miss Beth Brogdon of Dallas, Miss Ann Wylie of Beaumont and Miss Au drey Flanagan of Houston. The new schedule becomes ef- Gilchrist was also presented with a humorous “Certificate of Excellence as Field Director of Public Relations without Reim bursement for Unusual Service, Extreme Effort and Favorable Results.” A&M Delegates At Youth Meet Kenneth Wiggins, San Aug ustine; Don R. (Bubba) Heath, Van Horn; Jody Dam ron, Dallas; and the Rev. Robert C. Sneed, director of student i-eligious activities of the A&M Wesley Foundation, are among the 5,000 delegates attend ing the fifth quadrennial National Convocation of Methodist Youth now in progress at Purdue Uni versity, LaFayette, Indiana. The convocation will end on August 31. The group left Saturday for In diana. High school and college students are coming from 48 states, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Cuba, representing their local church youth fellowships or state and re gional chapters of the Methodist Student Movement. The convocation theme, “Christ ian Living in Our Time,” will be carried out through morning plat form talks plus 24 afternoon work shops on church fellowship, Christ ian vocations, youth problems, soc ial action, national and world af fairs. Jameson Jones, 22-year-old president of Methodist youth, is director of the convocation. fective August 31. Formerly, there was no morning flight to Houston. With the new flight, you can have more time to transact your business there and get back in one day. The flight leaves Easterwood airport at 9:28 a.m. and arrives in Houston 42 minutes later. The morning flight to Dallas leaves at 7:03 and arrives there an hour and 36 minutes later. Afternoon service will be based on flights ar riving from Houston at Easterwood at 4:01 p. m. and from Dallas at 8:39 p. m. The 4:01 p. m. flight leaves Easterwood at 4:04 for Dal las and the 8:39 p. m. flight leaves at 8:41 for Houston. Through cooperation with other airlines, Pioneer’s flights to Hous ton and Dallas make connections to all the nation’s major cities. Pioneer has been serving this area since February 19, 1947. The company has a total of 22 cities in Texas and New Mexico. The original operations of Pioneer were launched August 1, 1945, making it the oldest of the na tion’s 18 local service airlines. Copper Workers’ Strike Hits Defense Drive at Weak Point Truman, Federal Officials Ask End To Walkout; Union Reply Awaited Paulson to Present Report at AIEMeet Dr. W. E. Paulson, professor in the Agricultural Economics and Sociology Department, is partici pating in the three day annual conference of the American Insti tute of Cooperation in Logan, Utah. The conference ends tomor- Denver, Aug. 28—UP)—A nation wide strike of copper workers con tinued today while President Tru man and federal officials awaited union replies to their appeal for an end to the walkout. Defense officials said the strike was hitting the mobilization drive at its weakest point since copper is the scarcest of the major metals. The strike also affects zinc, lead and silver production. . The leader of 58,009 strinking International Mine, Mill and Smel ter Workers (Ind.) told newsmen in Denver Monday night that the strike, which began Monday, would not be called off “unless and un til” the government presses indus try to accept a federal proposal for ending the wage dispute. Higher Wages Asked The U.S. conciliation service has proposed that the companies raise wages 16 cents an hour and in crease pension benefits an addi tion four and one-half cents to set tle the strike. The IUMMSW said that is acceptable to the union. Present pay ranges from $1.31 for service laborers to $1.62 for min ers. The IUMMSW was expelled from the CIO on charges its lead ers followed the Communist line. In addition to the 58,000 IUMMSW workers, there are 3,400 members of the AFL metal trades union in Utah who poined in the walkout. The IUMMSW headquarters said members of the railroad brother hoods were respecting their picket lines. Maintenance workers at the 50 strikebound plants in 15 states re mained on duty in preparation for a quick reopening of operations when the strike ends. Less than 10 hours after the strike started, President Truman sent the dispute to the wage sta- Moving Tree? Only‘Red’woc With Task Force 77 in Ko rean Waters, Tuesday, Aug. 28—OP)—There was something peculiar about the tree— darned peculiar. It moved. So, Lt. Dick Wenzel, Navy carrier pilot from Coronado, Calif., radioed his wingman, Ens. Don McNaught of Holy oke, Mass.: “Don’t look now, but where the highway runs past the trees there’s a tree running past the highway.” Not only that, anti-aircraft fire spewed at them from the tree. McNaught made a pass at it, and then radioed to Wenzel: “Destroyed — one Commie truck and one tree with Red leanings.” bilization board. Mr. Truman said the strike has “an immediate and very serious impact on the defense program.” The President added that “it is my earnest hope that the men in volved” will “return to work while the matter is before the board.” President John Clark of the IU- MMSW said the telegraphed re turn-to-work request from the WSB had not been received Mon day night. He said “we want to cooperate with government agen cies involved in every way that is consistent with the interests of our membership and of the general welfare.” Assurance Asked Clark added: “We cannot, of course, agree to call off our strike unless and- until we receive assur ances from the government that it will press for acceptance by the companies of its own proposal for settlement of the dispute.” Clark said his union would send representatives to Washington for a hearing scheduled by the WSB at 1 p.m. (EST) Wednesday. US |» •r-% William It. Schrank, commander of the special battalion, receives a citation from President M. T. Harrington at the Fish Final Re view, held Friday. Darkness had settled over hte proceedings by the time Schrank and the other cadet officers and NCOs had re ceived citations, and five outstanding freshmen had received iden tification bracelets in recognition of their standing. Five Men Honored Final Review for the Summer freshmen ended at dusk Friday, with the units passing by the re viewing stand in quickly-gathering gloom. But before night fell, an out standing cadet from each organi zation had been recognized for his excellent work in academics, h i s military proficiency and his lead ership. Standing arrow-straight, the five men accepted an identifi cation bracelet and a hand-shake from President M. T. Harrington. PAS&T Col. E. W Napier, PMS- On Town Hall Col. Napier Due At PAS&T Confab Col. Ezekiel W. Napier will be among 42 professors of air science and tactics from Southern colleges and universities who will attend a three-day conference at Robins Air Force Base, Macon, Ga., August 29- 31, Fomfeenth Air Force Head- quarters announced today. As Professor of Air Science and Tactics at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College, Colonel Napier will meet with representatives of Fourteenth Air Force and Contin ental Air Command to discuss var ious phases of Air Force ROTC activities. Temple Reservoir Dangerously Low Temple, Tex., Aug. 28—(A 5 )— City officials estimated Monday that Temple’s city water supply may not last more than another 10 days. Two water wells are being rush ed to completion in an effort to supplement the fast dwindling sup- pi v in the Leon River reservoir. Temple residents were told Mon day to disconnect all water hoses from all home evaporative coolers. City Manager W. E. Routh said he would ask the city commission today to offer a reward for anyone turning in a water waster. It already is against a city or dinance for any water to be used from outside hydrants. Punish ment ranges from a $50 to $200 fine and possible termination of citv water service. Routh said Monday that too many people were getting around the ordinance. The water level in the Leon Riv- ei reservoir dropped Monday to 81R- inches below the top of the | dam. That was 22% inches lower than in 1948 — the worst drouth year ever recorded in Temple. All water holes in the bed of the river are being drained by chan nels scraped out with bull dozers. * '4 Newest Note On Truce Talks Under Study Tokyo, Aug. 28—(AP)—Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway today stud ied a Communist note that may shatter hopes of a truce in Ko rea and renew full war. There was no indication when the United Nations commander would reply. The new Red note offered to resume talks if Aidgway would admit a U. N. plane bombed Kae song, site of armistice negotia tions, Aug. 22. The U. N. com mander already has said the Com munist story of the bombing was a fake, and that no allied plane was near the town at that time. There was no hint Ridgway would retreat. He has taken a con sistently firm stand with the Reds since cease-fire talks start ed July 10. A headquarters spokesman said an answer ca nbe expected, but “what the answer will be I do not know.” Ridgway previously said it was up to the Reds to say when the talks would be resumed. “The Communists can either continue or break off the talks,” a spokesman at his headquarters said today. “We are ready for anything they choose to do.” The official transcript of the latest communication from the North Korean premier, Kim II Sung, and Chinese Gen. Peng Teh- Huai was delivered curtly to a U. N. liaison officer Tuesday at a Red outpost South of Kaesong. There were three copies of the note—In English, Chinese and Ko rean. They were delivered prompt ly to Ridgway in Tokyo. The Communist commanders re- j e c t e d as “entirely unsatisfac tory” Ridgway’s denial that an allied plane was responsible for the asserted bombing of Kaesong last Wednesday. It contained a conditional offer to resume armistice talks which the Reds broke off Thursday while a subcommittee was trying to reach agreement on a demilitar ized zone across Korea. A high ranking officer at Gen ii eral Headquarters commented: | “If General Ridgway accedes to ofl of TOO the enemy demand to investigate A ICIHLILII dl xl/v j the bombing incident, he will have ; to eat his own words, for he has | already declared the whole affair | absolutely false. Final Review Ends At Dusk Japan Pact May Be OKed in ’52 Washington, Aug. 28—UP)—Al though the United States is press ing for speedy signature of a peace treaty with Japan, there were strong signs today that this coun try will not ratify the pact until next year. Senator McFarland of Arizona, the Democratic leader in the sen ate, told a reporter his majority party forces have no plan now to bring the proposed treaty up for ratification before Congress ad journs, perhaps in October. Meanwhile, some State Depart ment officials were reported puz zled by the early arrival of Rus sia’s delegation to the treaty sign ing conference. A 32-member group of Soviet diplomats, led by Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, reached New York Monday aboard the Queen Elizabeth—eight days be fore the opening conference ses sion in San Francisco Sept. 4. With wary eye out for possible delaying tactics by the Russian delegation, the U.S. is pushing for signature of the treaty draft by some 40 to 45 nations by Sept. 9. &T Col. Shelley P. Meyers, and Dean of the College C. C. French. The five outstanding cadets wera Charles E. Baker of Baytown, spe cial battalion; Donald L. Barton, Texarkana, Squadron A; Gerald L, Eastham, Beaumont, Squadron B; James W. Aid, Seagoville, Com pany C, and Val H. Canon Jr., Taylor, Company D. Each cadet officer and NCO re ceived a citation for his work this Summer. The Review marked the end of the first Summer since the war in which Military Science and Tac tics courses have been offered at A&M. The decision to offer the courses was a direct result of the Korean war. Approximately _ 225 freshmen enrolled for the course, with 185 carrying it to completion through both Summer semesters. Labor Day Deaths III: i . mk Efrem Kurtz (above) will conduct the Houston Symphony in a program of fine music when the orchestra comes to A&M Tuesday, December 11. Kurtz, musical director as well as conductor, is well-known in this region among music-minded people. County to Set Own Defense Bond Goal The “largest possible” total of sales will be the goal of the De fense Bond Drive to be held Sept. 3 through Oct. 27, Nathan Adams of Dallas, state Defense Bond chairman, said today. There will be no dollar quotas, Adams said in a letter to Judge A. S. Ware, Defense Bond chair man for Brazos County. “Instead, Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder has asked us to sell as many Defense Bonds as possible, to back up our armed forces and to help resist the pres sure of inflation,” Adams said. He urged the local chairman, however, to set for the county a goal “high enough to be a challenge to you and your committee.” Detroit, Aug. 28—UP)—Over the coming Labor Day weekend some 400 persons will die in traffic ac cidents. They don’t have to die that way but they will—for a variety of reasons. Some will die because of care lessness; some in an effort to trav el too many miles irt too few hours, resulting in fatigue. Some will die because of a disinclination to yield the right of way to the oth er driver. Mostly they will die because mil lions of motorists underestimate the responsibility of piloting a couple of tons of fast moving met al over heavily congested high ways. It has been said that the auto mobile is one of the greatest boons of the modern era. It is also one of the greatest man-killers of all time. The 400 marked to die on the nation’s highways during the coming holiday weekend will join a tragic host, numbering nearly 1.000,000 (M), who have died in motoring mishaps during the last 50 years. Youngest Wife Is ‘Graduated’ Jewell Malechek, who is perhaps the youngest student wife at A&M, was “graduated” Friday. Her hus band, Dale, received his degree in animal husbandry Aug. 24. This tall, slim brunette came to Aggieland when she was a bride of 16. She was graduated from Eola High School at the age of 15, after taking first place honors modeling in the Homemaking Club, and showing prize Hereford icat tle. Brown-eyed and beautiful. Jewell looks far more like a model than a rodeo enthusiast, yet the thought of a rodeo makes her eyes sparkle. She is not just a specta tor, either. Last spring, this viva cious student wife won first prize in the barrel racing contest at the Aggie Rodeo! Jewell shares an avid interest with Dale in the art of showing prize cattle. Two framed pictures of fine Hereford stock in the Male chek living room, 702 Fairview Avenue, attest this hobby shared by a six-foot-two Aggie and his seventeen-year-old wife. Dale is now considering a job he has been offered, which would take him to North Dakota to work on a Hereford ranch. At A&M he has been a member of the Saddle & Sirloin Club, and the San An gelo Club. Commie Buildup Cause of Bombing Washington, Aug. 28 — UP) — A record Communist effort to rush arms and men to the Korean front prompted the U.S. decision to re verse its earlier policy and bomb Rashin. the rail center near Rus sian Siberia. The Communist have been mov ing men and equipment into the war zone continuously since the start of the armistice talks at Kaesong. But in the past week or so this movement has been speeded up, taking on what some military of ficials here regard as thp sem blance of an effort to meet a dead line.