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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.
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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.
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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
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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.