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Number 215: Volume 51
The Battalion
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COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1951
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Former Students
Meetings
Weekend
Fish Daze
Seventy-three members of the
Former Students Association Ex
ecutive Committee have indicated
they will be on the campus for the
Association’s annual Fall meeting
Saturday and Sunday.
The Executive Board of the Com
mittee will convene for a prelim-
nary session Friday night in the
MSC to make recommendations for
the agenda of the Committee.
Actual sessions of the full com
mittee will begin Saturday evening
in the MSC Ballroom. The group’s
second and final meeting will be
a breakfast Sunday morning.
Development Fund Objectives
Objectives of the Former Stu
dent’s Association Development
Fnud will get the discussion spot
light at the meeting of the organi
zation’s policy-makers. The group
has in the past concerned itself
mainly with such things as con
structing the MSC, having, a book
written and published about A&M,
and many other projects which
have been finished or near comple
tion now.
At a June meeting at Caplen, the
Board considered the following ob
jectives for recommendation to the
Council—a student chapel for inter
denominational seiwices, completion
of the 1950 Opportunity Award
Scholarship program, and a col
lege president’s fund. The three
objectives will be among the ma
jor items to be discussed when the
general committee meets Saturday.
At the June meeting, the Board
authorized Association President
George Morgan to investigate and
make a cost estimate on a student
chapel in the YMCA building. Re-
Deferments
To Continue
For Students
Washington, Sept. 13—GP)
— The Defense Department
said yesterday it will continue
deferring the draft of college
students during the coming
academic year but added that the
program may have to be “tight
ened up” when military manpower
nears the bottom of the barrel in
the following year.
The department’s manpower
ihief, Assistant Secretary Anna
Rosenberg, issued a formal press
ftatement yesterday apparently re
lated to testimony she gave a
Senate Military Appropriations
Subcommittee last June and which
was made public recently.
In her testimony then she said
the bottom of the military man
power pool would be reached in
1953 and added “we have to ask
Gen. Hershey (director of selective
service) to set aside the student de
ferment next year, because we will
not have enough men.”
Her press statement yesterday
said:
“Under present manpower re
quirements and in accordance with
presently authorized strengths of
the armed forces, it will not be
neecssary to cease the granting of
college student deferments. The
defense department has not rec
ommended that college student de
ferments be abolished nor does it
plan to do so unless there is a
substantial change in the size of
the armed forces. There is no
change in plans for the coming aca
demic year.
“However, as General Hershey
and I have pointed out several
times, in the year ahead we will
begin to approach the bottom of
the manpower barrel. At that time
it may be necessary to tighten up
on college student deferments in
order to meet the manpower re
quirements of the armed forces.
“This would mean that fewer
students would be permitted to de
fer their military service until aft
er the completion of their higher
education but it would not mean,
by any means, that no students
would be deferred for that pur
pose.”
ers Plan
Fall Presentation
Everyone who is interested in
taking part in the play “Command
Decision” is invited to attend the
first fall meeting of the Aggie
Players, today said C. K. Esten,
sponsor of the club. The meeting
will be held Wednesday at 7:30 p.
m. in the Assembly Hall.
“Don’t let lack of experience
hinder you; sometimes it is a help,”
Esten said in urging everyone to
come to the meeting.
There are 18 male parts in the
play, and Esten needs someone for
each part, since no one has yet
been cast in the play. “Command
Decision” will be presented on No
vember 12 and 13.
ports of the committee are forth
coming at the Board’s Friday meet
ing.
Members of the Board and early
arrivals to the general committee
meeting will be allowed free time
to witness an intra-squad football
scrimmage Saturday afternoon on
Kyle Field.
The scrimmage, scheduled to be
gin at 2:30 p.m., will be held under
regular game conditions.
During the course of its meet
ings, the Council will hear reports
by the Association officers, and
take action on recommendations
for 1952 Development Fund objec
tives made by the Executive
Board.
Marshall Quits
Defense Dept.;
Lovett Gets job
Washington, Sept. 13—(A 5 )
—President Truman boosted
Robert A. Lovett into the job
of Defense Secretary yester
day after George C. Marshall
resigned to seek once more a quiet
retirement at his Leesburg, Va.,
home.
In Congress, there was imme
diate praise of Lovett’s appoint
ment with some Republican sena
tors saying they were happy to
see a civilian returned to the top
control of the huge military estab
lishment.
The Senate is expected to give
quick approval to Lovett’s nomi
nation.
Marshall said he resigned for
“very personal reasons” and after
an understanding with Mr. Tru
man that his services at the Pen
tagon were to be only temporary.
He was appointed secretary exact
ly one year ago.
President Truman accepted the
resignation “with great reluc
tance” and told the 70-year-old five
star general in a letter “no man
has given “his country more dis
tinguished and patriotic service
than have you . . . You have
earned your retirement many fold
and I wish you many good years
at Leesburg.”
Both Republicans and Democrats
in Congress appeared happy over
the Lovett appointment. He is a
56-year-old former New York in
vestment banker who first came
into the government in 1940 at
President Roosevelt’s request as
Assistant Secretary of War.
He had the job of boosting
bomber production from three or
four a month up to 1,000 a month.
It anpeared an impossible task—
but he did it.
New and returning students mount the steps to registration
ED Department
Adds New Course
The Engineering Drawing De
partment will offer a course in
Lay-Off and Mold Drafting during
the Fall semester. The course, ED
207, has a three-hour lab a week
and carries a one-hour credit.
Prerequisite for the course is
ED 124. The second part of the
course, ED 208, will be offered
during the Spring Semester, Prof.
L. E. Stark, has announced.
Lay-Off and Mold Loft Drafting
is offered primarily to familiarize
the student with ship nomenclature
and to introduce some of the prac
tical applications of descriptive
geometry involved in mold loft lay
out, said Stark.
In the past an inspection trip
was arranged to a ship yard to
gain first hand information on
newer techniques of ship construc
tion and repair.
Learning Ability Upped
Remedial Reading Successful
By FRANK DAVIS
Battalion City Editor
A big handicap facing many col
lege students is their inability to
read rapidly and with understand
ing. To correct this failing, the
Basic Division began an experi
ment last year in remedial reading.
The results of the experiment were
encouraging.
Approximately 180 students en
rolled last Spring in Basic Course
102 under Dr. Albert J. Kingston,
director of remedial reading in the
Basic Division. The average rate
at which the students read at the
beginning of the course was 215
words per minute, with a compre
hension level of 52 percent.
The students were given in
struction and exercises designed
to teach them to read by phrases
instead of words, widening their
span of recognition, and to break
their habit of vocalization, or
moving their lips. The instruc
tor attempted to enlarge their
vocabulary, and to teach them
to read for a special purpose and
rythm.
The result was an average gain
in words per minute of 54 percent,
with a 15 percent increase in com
prehension.
This year four sections in reme
dial reading will be offered to
upper classmen. Six sections will
be limited to the incoming fresh
men whose tests show they need
such instruction.
Two former dormitory counselors
for the School of Military Science
will aid Dr. Kingston in remedial
reading this year. They are Wil
liam B. Wood and Frank E. Mc
Farland.
The aim of the Basic Division
in a few words is to help the
student find himself near the
start of his college experience.
To achieve this aim, the Basic
Division is concerned with two
phases — group and individual
guidance.
As a group, the students are
‘Fish ’ Views First Days
With Bewilderment, Dismay
(Editor’s note: Freshman
Howard Hough, a new student on
The Battalion staff, had this
word of advice to offer fellow
classmates (’55) concerning the
first week as an Aggie “Fish.”)
Upper Classmen don’t bite.
Although they seem to after a
few brief encounters with the al
mighty ones, not a one actually
took a bite. In fact the freshmen
soon found out that all the formali
ty was just tradition every Aggie
since 1876 has gone through.
Lines soon became an unhappy
sight for the new students be
cause so much time was killed
that way. Registration, post of
fice box, uniforms — everything
was in a general confusion. If
there was a way there was a line.
Everyone started learning the
first day what an Aggie was and
what was expected of one. There’s
your way and there’s an Aggieland
way and during Freshmen Week
the freshmen learned how to be a
good Aggie.
“Howdy” took the place of “Hi-
ya” and “Hello” and “Yes Sir”
and “No Sir” replaced “Yea” and
“No.” Then came marching and
meeting upperclassmen which gave
everybody a fit at first. To fall
out at a certain time, and to make
formation the right way was just
another good Aggies duty.
Some fellas got homesick the
first day and just about every
body was homesick by the third
day. That’s why most “Fish”
would dash to the post office the
first chance they got. By the
word chance, that is, everyone
complained often and loud about
not having any free time and
never getting enough sleep.
But dastung to the post office
wasn’t enough. Most of the fellows
found the combination locks on the
boxes didn’t jibe with the number
the Post Office issued.
It was during one of these fights
with that unyielding door that up
per classmen have a heart or a
reasonable portion thereof. One
of them actually gave several of
the newcomers a little help.
It seems as if the doors resent
a freshman being so brash as to
expect mail.
Despite the fact of the resent
ing mail boxes, not enough sleep,
homesickness, and to many wait
ing lines, the class of ’55 is off
to a big start.
Journalism Clinic Planned
For Future Newspapermen
The Texas Scholastic Press Clin
ic, presented by the Department of
Journalism at A&M, will be held
at the MSC Sept. 22. The Clinic
is held for high school students
Officials Urge People
To Get House Numbers
In order to start house-to-house
mail delivery, which residents of
College Station expressed their de
sire to have in a recent survey, a
greater effort must be • made to
erect house numbers and mail
boxes, according to the city coun
cil.
A letter was received at the last
city council meeting from Dr. T. O.
Walton, College Station, postmas
ter, informing the group that au
thorization to employ mail carriers
and begin the service had been re
ceived.
Raymond Rogers, city manager,
stated at the same meeting the
city had completed the job of erect
ing street markers at all intersec
tions within the city limits.
Although on many streets in the
city house numbers have been put
up in accordance with the council’s
request, many portions of College
Station still lack suitable mark
ings, he said.
The councilmen pointed out that
a larger number of houses must
be marked in order for mail de
livery to start. Once under way,
persons whose houses are not
marked properly face the possi
bility of not receiving their mail,
one councilman said.
House-to-house mail delivery is
a sendee provided by the federal
government to all cities whose pop
ulation is 5,000 or more, and who
desire it.
According to a Battalion survey
conducted recently, a large percent
age of the population was in favor
of the service because they found
it inconvenient to pick up mail at
the post office. In questionnaires
sent out to all utility subscribers
in the city asking for approval or
disapproval of the service, the ma
jority mailed in, checked in favor
of it.
in the state interested in journal
ism.
Andy Anderson, columnist and
special writer for the Houston
Press, will be the featured speaker
at a luncheon held in the Assem
bly Room of the MSC. The best
story printed in a school paper cov
ering this talk and submitted to
the TSPC will be reproduced and
distributed to schools attending the
Clinic.
Following the welcome address
by Dr. C. C. Clement French, dean
of the college, the delegates will
hear the first of six scheduled
talks by members of the Journal
ism Department and journalism
students.
“What Journalism Can Do for
You” is the title of the first ad
dress to be delivered by David
Coslett, former Battalion co-editor,
Dallas A&M Club
To Hold Reception
The Dallas A&M Club is holding
an open house Friday night, Sept.
28, preceding the Texas Tech the
following day.
The open house will be held in
the Engineer’s Club over Vicks’
Restaurant, located on Commerce
Street in Dallas. All former stu
dents and students are invited to
attend this gathering.
and L. O. Tiedt, editor of The Tex
as Aggie. W. H. Dickens will be
the chairman of the meeting.
After a short break, the respon
sibility of the school paper staff
will be discussed by John Whit
more, editor of the Battalion. “Cov
ering the Beat” will be the title of
a talk given by William Streich,
internee with the Temple Daily
Telegram during the Summer.
Donald D. Burchard, head of the
Department of Journalism, will
speak to the group on writing the
news story. “Newspaper Design
and Page Makeup” will be the title
of an address by D. E. Newsom
of the Department of Journalism,
following the luncheon.
Editorial, Feature Writing
Otis Miller of the Department of
Journalism will speak on editorial
and feature writing after the ad
dress by Newsom. Howard Berry,
director of the Photographic and
Visual Aids Laboratory, will be the
last speaker. His talk is entitled
“What Makes a Good Photograph.”
Another highlight of the day’s
program will be a tour of the
A&M Press and Student Publica
tions in Goodwin Hall. The Bat
talion staff will be hosts to the
group.
Besides Dickens, other chairmen
of meetings held during the day
are Christy Orth, Bob Venable, and
Frank Davis.
given vocational orientation to ac
quaint them with the opportunities
and requirements in different jobs.
Talks are scheduled by the heads
of the different departments in
the four schools at A&M.
Working with the students as in
dividuals, counselors talk with
them about personal assets suiting
them for particular job skills. The
tests—aptitude and interest—which
the student took during the new
student program are utilized, as
well as the student’s high school
record.
F o r additional information
about the student, the appraisal
service, formerly Veteran’s Ap
praisal Service, under the direc
tion of A. E. “Buddy” Denton,
Jr. gives special tests to discover
new strong and weak points.
Under the program of individual
counseling, the improvement of
study habits, and the working out
of personal problems are attempted
to aid the student in adjusting him
self to college life.
Play Production
Offered This Fall
A course in play production,
English 381, will be offered this
fall for three hours credit, accord
ing to C. K. Esten, assistant pro
fessor in the English department.
Class will meet Monday and Wed
nesday at 1 p. m., with time for a
lab not yet set.
A lecture and demonstration
course, English 381 will be pre
sented primarily from the direct
or’s point of view. Included in the
course will be instruction on how
to choose a play, how to interpret
it, and how to cast it. How to de
sign and light a set will be taken
up, and there will be some train
ing in makeup, some training in
acting, and a short survey of the
history of the theater beginning
with the Greeks.
A companion course, much more
technical than Eng. 381, will be of
fered next spring, Esten said. It
will be English 382, stage craft.
Cadet Officers
On Campus For
Orientation
A two clay orientation course for cadet officers and non
commissioned officers began this morning with welcoming
addresses by President M. T. Harrington, C. C. French, dean
of the college; and W. L. Penberthy, dean of men.
The purpose of the school is to indoctrinate the coming
year’s cadet military leaders with information concerning
leadership, health facilities, proper exercise of voice of com
mand, property responsibility, the policies and methods used
by the Commandant, and to familiarize the men with the Ar
ticles of the Cadet Corps.
f A lecture and discussion of lead
ership responsibility was conducted
Wet Cold Front
Moves in Over
Most of Texas
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
A cold front pushed a line
of thundershowers slowly
southward across Texas Wed
nesday night.
Heavy rains fell in parts of
north Texas.
Temperatures dropped from 15
to 20 degrees along the front, the
weather bureau reported.
The front is due to affect all of
the state except the lower valley
and southeastern coast by Thurs
day morning, the bureau said.
Early in the evening (8:30 p.m.)
the front extended along a line
running roughly from east of
Sherman to south of Dallas, Fort
Worth, Abilene and Big Spring to
north of El Paso.
A1 Stine, Associated Press rep
resentative, reported driving
through torrential rains from Ard
more, Okla. to Dallas.
The weather man explained that
Stine was driving right along side
the cold front.
Dallas got more than 2 inches
of rain and Fort Worth .55 inches
as the black clouds moved over
the area.
Other rainfall, not connected
with the cold front, during the
last 24 hours included: Houston
.43 inches, Waco .15, Beaumont
1.40, Galveston 1.59, Laredo .37,
Texarkana .25 and Mineral Wells
.14.
The temperatures dipped to the
70’s in the Panhandle. Amarillo
had a high of 71, Lubbock 75 and
Childress 78.
Victory Party
To Celebrate
UCLA Game
A Victory Party will be given in
the Biltmore Bowl of the Biltmore
Hotel following the A&M-UCLA
football game Friday night.
Sponsored by the Southern Cali
fornia A&M Club, the party, along
with other planned activities, is
open to all Aggies who attend the
game.
Registration desks will be set up
in the lobby of the Biltmore both
Thursday and Friday for all who
attend the game and the desks will
serve as a base of operations for
all scheduled activities. Aggies de
siring assistance or information
should call Dr.*R. A. Stocking, the
club president, at OL-3309.
Secretary William F. Gibson, ’43,
said that housing facilities will be
set-up for those students and exes
desiring such accommodations.
Pinky- Col. Andy Swim Meet
Said to Have Pool Title Bet
The tension and interest in the coming swimming match
between P. L. “Pinky” Downs, Jr. and Col. Frank Anderson
is mounting as the dip time of 5:30 p.m. of Friday draws
nearer and nearer.
Already rumors have been going around as to the odds
on outcome of the swim across the P. L. Downs Natatorium.
The match was drawn up when Downs’ prowess as a
swimmer was questioned. He challenged anyone around 65
years of age to a match, and Colonel Andy, track coach, has
tily accepted.
Rumors floating around the MSC said that Colonel Andy
asked “Pinky” that if he (Col. Andy) won, the A&M pool
would be renamed “The Frank G. Anderson Natatorium”,
removing the present title.
Downs was said to have agreed provided that if he won,
Anderson would resign his job as track coach giving the
same position to him. No one knows as to the outcome of
this affair.
Buster Halsell and Marshall Bullock of Bryan will of
ficiate at the meet with swimming coach Art Adamson in
charge of the match will be the “swimming of the length of
the pool.” No admission will be charged.
by Col. Shelly P. Myers, PMS&T,
and Col. E. W. Napier, PAS&T.
This lecture encompassed the du
ties of the various officers and
non-coms and included suggestions
for the successful execution of such
duties.
Athletic Program Cited
The coming year’s athletic pro
gram was explained by Head Foot
ball Coach Ray George and Barlow
“Bones” Irvin, athletic director.
The exercise of the command
voice was demonstrated by both
Colonel Myers and Colonel Napier.
On the main drill field the instruc
tions were put to practical use by
the cadets.
Student activities, its program,
function, and impotence were de
fined and explained by C. G.
“Spike” White, assistant to the
dean of men for activities. White
told of the value of such planned
activities and how each cadet could
benefit by the program.
Commandant’s Policies
Tomorrow morning a lecture and
discussion of the policies and meth
ods of executing such policies used
by the Commandant opened the
day’s activities. Conducted by Col.
Joe Davis, Commandant, the talk
centered around the aims of the
military department for the com
ing year and also the ways in
which the military department
plans to carry out the policies.
The principal Articles of the Ca
det Corp will be enumerated and
outlined by Lt. Col. Marino Bow
den, assistant to the commandant*
who will place special emphasis on,
the Articles concerning serious of*
fenses and punishments.
Property Responsibilty
Government, dormitory, and mess
hall property responsibility will ba
discussed in a lecture presented by
Captain Perry. This conference
will be aimed at listing responsi
bility, care, and maintenance of
such property issued the cadet
corp.
A meeting with the 'dormitory
counselors, an open forum, and the
assignment of cadet rooms will
complete the two day school.
Daniel Accuses
Top Officials
On Tidelands
Austin, Sept. 13—(^--Fed
eral officials—not state offi
cials — are responsible for
blocking development of Tide-
lands oil and gas deposits,
Attorney General Price Daniel said
yesterday.
His statement followed a letter
from solicitor general Phillip B.
Perlman to Senator Joseph C.
O’Mahoney, chairman of the Sen
ate Interior Committee, in which
Perlman accused state officials of
Texas, California and Louisiana
with blocking Tideland’s develop
ments.
Daniel’s comment was sent to
O’Mahoney by telegram.
“Texas, California and Louisiana
were in the midst of a development
program which would have assured
continuous production of oil and
gas fro mthese lands when we.were
stopped by federal suits,” Daniel
said.
“These suits were deliberately
filed in the face of opposition by a
majority of the members of Con
gress. Congress refused to au
thorize the filing of the suits and
later voted to leave the states
with the lands they had claimed in
good faith for the last 100 years.”
“These same federal officials
have been employing dilatory tac
tics to keep state ownership legis
lation and a state interim control
bill from being reported by your
committee,” Daniel told O’Maho
ney.
“If immediate development is
needed for national defense, it can
be obtained with greater speed
through continuation of established
state operations than through an
already overburdened federal bu
reau, which has no experience in
this particular type of develop
ment,” he added.