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Number 3: Volume 52 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1951 Price Five Cents
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The Battalion
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Staff Editors
Campus Pali tiring AXM Gridsters
To Begin Monday
Newly appointed Managing Editor Joel Austin and News Editor
Bill Streick glance over Editor John Whitmore’s shoulder, who is
preparing a list of assignments to be covered by The Battalion.
Assistant News Editor Allen Pengelley takes a moment from talk
ing with William Dickens, feature editor, to check over copy hand
ed in by Frank Davis, city editor. All three men have just been
appointed to their respective positions on The Battalion staff.
By BILL STREICH
Battalion News Editor
Campus politics will once again
be in the spotlight next week as
filing for positions on the Student
Senate and Student Life Commit
tee begins. Monday, at 8 a. m., fil
ing will open for these offices.
Twenty-eight positions on the
Student Senate will be contested by
candidates from each of the col
lege dormitories, Vet Village, Col
lege View and the day students
portion of the student body. Eleven
representatives will be chosen as
senators at large.
The other four places on the
Senate are filled by the vice-presi
dents of the four classes.
There are three other posts
which will be filled after the first
election of the school year. Three
non-corps representatives to the
Student Life Committee will be
UN Plans Meeting
With Korean Reds
Here Gus
Tokyo, Sept. 19—CP>—The Com
munists tonight asked for a meet
ing with United Nations liaison of
ficers tomorrow and the U. N.
command agreed.
A release from the U. N. com
mand information office gave no
indication of the subjett of the
meeting.
The release said the request was
received from the Reds at 7 p.m.
(5 a.m. EST). It asked that Unit
ed Nations liaison officers meet
with them at 6 a.m. Thursday (4
p.m. EST Wednesday),at Panmun
jom, Red checkpoint southeast of
Kaesong, site of the suspended Ko
rean armistice talks.
Brig. Gen. Frank A. Allen, chief
of information, general headquar
ters, said U. N. liaison officers, ac
companied by three allied corres
pondents, would meet with the
Reds at the time specified.
Allied Soldiers in Neutral Zone
The Communists charged Tues
day night in a radiophone message
to the advance camp that four al
lied soldiers Tuesday afternoon en
tered the neutral zone and also
Panmunjom, Communist outpost
southeast of Kaesong.
They asked the allies to investi
gate on Wednesday' morning.
A U. N. command liaison team
from the Munsan camp conferred
with North Korean and Chinese
officers in Kaesong nearly two
hours.
The 10-man allied liaison team,
including interpreters, met the
Communist representatives at Pan
munjom promptly at 9 a.m. (7 p.m.
EST Tuesday) as the Reds had
requested. The two groups went
into Kaesong. The allies left Kae
song at about 10:55 a.m. and jeeped
23 miles back to Munsan.
Correspondents were not permit
ted to accompany the liaison team.
Usually they go along on such in-
festigation trips. •
The fact they were barred by or
ders of Ridgway’s Tokyo headquar
ters led to speculation that the
Reds also might have wanted to
talk about resuming the trace
talks.
The Reds broke off the talks
Aug. 23, charging that the allies
had tried to “murder” the Red trace
delegation the night before by
bombing and strafing the area.
UN Denies
The U. N. eomamnd denied this.
In fact, the command has denied
10 of 11 Red charges made before
the one filed Tuesday. The allies
admitted only one—that a U. N.
plane strafed Kaesong by accident
before dawn Sept. 10.
On the next day Ridgway’s head
quarters issued a release emphasiz
ing that the Reds had called off
the talks and that it was up to
them to say if and when they
would be resumed.
The allied commander had pro
posed that the talks be resumed
in some incident-proof place other
than Kaesong, but the Reds turned
this down.
Play Course Still
Has Class Openings
English 381, new play production
course, is still open to interested
students, C. K. Esten, English pro
fessor, said Tuesday afternoon.
The three hour course, which
meets on Monday and Wednesday
at 1 p. m., is a general survey of
the history of the theater and is
devoted to interpretation of play
scripts by the students.
Interpreteation of the play’s
script, Esten explained, will be
done by deriving the theme of the
play, designing a set to bring out
the mood of the theme, set up the
lighting plan, ‘ and costume the
play.
When these points have been ac
complished, the students will cast
the play and put it in rehearsal,
Esten said.
Primarily designed to teach the
student how to direct a play, the
course offers quite a bit of action
to develop acting technique, he
commented.
Balt Staffers
To Meet Tonight
A Battalion Staff meeting
will be held tonight at 7:15 in
The Battalion offices on the
second floor of Goodwin Hall.
All old staff members and men
interested in joining the staff
are asked to attend, John Whit
more, editor, announced.
Refreshments will be served.
Additional plans for the com
ing year will be discussed, he
added.
Correspondent
Decorated For
Saving Injured
U. S. Eighth Army Head
quarters, Korea, Sept. 19 —
(IP)—The field commander of
United Nations forces in Ko
rea today pinned the Silver
Star on AP war correspondent
John Randolph for heroic action.
Randolph carried wounded to safe
ty April 23 during a wild, four-
hour battle.
Gen. James A. Van Fleet be
stowed the award on the 33-year-
old newsman in front of 100 corres
pondents. He told them:
“The press is part of the United
Nations army in Korea. We are
honored at having you as members
of this command. I know that this
gallant incident was one of many
in which correspondents have dis
tinguished themselves. The list
is very long.”
Randolph’s action, in disregard
of his own safety while with a
cut-off American battalion, was
first brought to public attention
by the battalion commander. Ran
dolph had passed over it lightly in
his dispatch.
Today he was given, along with
the medal, a citation autographed
by President Truman concluding:
Courageous Aggressive Action
“The courageous and aggressive
action taken by Mr. Randolph re
flects great credit upon himself
and the United States army.”
“This is a very great honor,”
Randolph told Van Fleet.
“It is altogether too much for
anything I did. It was a real
privilege to be with the infantry
in that action—the greatest privi
lege in my life.”
Randolph, whose stories about
Grady—the cow that fell into a
Yukon, Okla., silo—drew attention
throughout the United States in
1949, became a war correspondent
last December.
The Silver Star, the third high
est award given by the army for
gallantry, cited Randolph for help
ing carry wounded infantrymen to
safety in the battle of the Imjin.
Randolph and Barnard Ullmann,
of Agency France Presse, joined
the First Battalion, Seventh Infan
try Regiment on the second night
of a heavy Chinese Red offensive
on the Westera front.
The battalion commander, Lt.
Col. Fred C. Weyand, Healdsburg,
Calif., tried in vain to talk Ran
dolph out of going with the bat
talion on an attack aimed at taking
pressure off a trapped Belgian bat
talion.
Tiger Seen,
Great Dane
Lost-Found
San Antonio, Sept. 19—(H 3 )
—The phantom panther in
San Antonio turned out to be
Gus, the friendly Great Dane.
For more than a week folks
had been calling in about seeing
a big black cat. Officers even
found paw prints as big as a man’s
hand.
But the big black phantom that
put goose bumps on Comanche
Park caretaker W. J. Ferguson
last night turned out to be a Great
Dane dog, name of Gus.
Officers figured here was their
phantom panther.
Gus, sleek and black and seven
feet long was loose for 24 hours,
his owner, George Husos said to
day.
One look at Gus will convince
you that—if you were expecting to
see a panther, Gus would look like
a panther.
Deputy Sheriff Tony Wiatt,
who’s been in the thisk of things
since the panther reports started
coming in, saw Gus last night and
swore he was a panther . . . until
he shook hands with him.
Before Gus showed up today,
just about every footloose fellow
in the county had called the sher
iff’s office when a report got out
that a panther hunting posse was
forming. “Do we need a gun per
mit?” they asked Sheriff Dis
patcher S. Earl Matheny.
. . Stay at Home
“Why don’t you stay at home?”
he replied.
Nope, by cracky, if there was
any panther shooting to be done,
these volunteers wanted to get in
their shots.
RV Officers Discuss
Organizational Policies
Chief Deputy Sheriff George
Huntress ruled the chase was off.
“Probably save a lot of people
from getting shot, too,” he said.
County Commissioner A. J.
Ploch, was going on the chase and
had planned to fly to Cotulla for
a pair of cat hounds. But, he too,
was disappointed and called off the
hop.
Organizational policies for the
Ross Volunteers were discussed by
the newly appointed officers at
their first meeting recently.
Present for the meeting were
Commanding Officer Dick Ingles,
Executive Officer Lynn Stewart,
First Sergeant J. C. Fletcher, Sec-
reteary Jimmy Anderson, Platoon
Leaders Voris Burch, Roy Striek-
ert, and Jimmy Rogers.
As a result of the officers’ de
cision, Ingles has announced appli
cations for membership in the Ross
Volunteers will be passed out for
all juniors through their military
science classes the first of next
week.
All applications will be thor
oughly checked, Ingles said, and
a competitive drill for all the ap
proved applicants will be held to
further determine their qualifica
tions for membership for the or
ganization.
To be eligible for membership,
a student must have junior class
ification with a B average in all
military science courses and a ld>
overall academic averages. Final
approval of the applications is
made by the piesent members of
the organization.
Trips to be made by the organi
zation and the exhibition to be
performed on Mothers Day in 1952
were also discussed by the offi
cers. Tentative plans are now being
made for the RV’s to make trips
to San Antonio, Dallas and Hous
ton.
A meeting of all past members
of the Ross Volunteers, who are
now seniors and interested in re
maining in the organization, will
be held Thursday, September 27,
Ingles said.
“We are also planning quite a
few social functions for the com
ing year,” Ingles said.
Increase Seen
In Mail Rates
MeetingRoom
Interest High
As Clubs File
Interest in student club meet
ings is at a new all-time peak,
Mrs. Ann Hilliard, social director
of the MSG reported Tuesday.
“We will not be able to fill all
applications, but every attempt
will be made to place the larger,
more important groups first,” Mrs.
Hilliard reported.
Applicants for meeting rooms in
the MSG are cautioned not to over
estimate their attendance, thus tak
ing space from others who cannot
be booked.
Six organizations have already
set meetings in the MSG. They are
the Student Senate Oct. 4; the Arts
& Sciences Council Sept. 24; the
MSG Council Oct. 8; the Student
Life Council Oct. 15; the Engin
eering Council Nov. 5; and the Ag
ricultural Council Oct. 10. All meet
ings will commence at 7:15 p. m.
Lost Articles Found
Earl J. Ehler, who picked up sev
eral Aggies in Hillsboro last week,
reported several of their belong
ings had been left in his car.
Among these is a sweater and a
pair of glasses. These articles may
be claimed by identifying them at
the Former Students’ office in the
MSC.
Washington, Sept. 10—(FP)
-Administration leaders were
dubious today of their ability
to halt a House drive to light
en proposed increases in mail
ing rates for newspapers.
With the House scheduled to
vote by the end of the day on a
bill to increase postal rates gen
erally, a stiff fight was brewing
over charges for second-class mail.
And, there was House sentiment
against raising, as the Senate has
done, the cost of an ordinary let
ter to four cents. But no voice
was heard in defense of the penny
post card. It appeared doomed to
become the two-penny card.
Second-class mail consists main
ly of newspapers and magazines.
The postal increase bill sent to the
house by its postoffice committee
proposes that second-class rates be
boosted 60 percent—20 percent an
nually for each of the next three
years. But an amendment before
the House would cut the suggested
hike, for newspapers, to 30 percent
oyer three years. Newspapers
mailed in their own counties would
continue to pay no post.
Bill to Boost Rates
A bill passed by the Senate
would boost postal rates for news
papers 30 percent and for maga
zines 60 percent.
The post office department asked
Congress to inci’ease the rates for
both newspapers and magazines
100 percent over three years.
Any more than a 30 percent in
crease, Rep. Withrow (R-Wisc.)
told the House, might put many
smaller newspapers out of busi
ness.
Rep. Rees (R-Kas.), senior GOP
member of the postoffice commit
tee said spokesmen for the papers
themselves had told the committee
an increase would not harm them.
Chairman Murray (D-Tenn) said
the rate increase would have little
effect on small publications and
would fall mainly on large papers
and magazines that are “more
prosperous than ever before” be
cause of increased advertising.
Murray told newsmen he would
resist a farm group proposal to
exempt farm publications from in
creases.
Murray also urged the House not
to follow the lead of the Senate,
which voted to make four cents
the cost of mailing a first-class
letter.
Remodeling Of
Aggieland Inn
Is Completed
Carpenters and painters have
just completed remodeling and re
pairing the Aggieland Inn and the
offices.of the Basic Division.
In the Division section of the
Inn, a remedial r-eading clinic is
nearly completed and will soon
be in operation for students re
gistering for the course. A class
room has been built in the room
which formerly housed the coffee
shop and grill and is being used
now by remedial students.
The offices and classrooms have
been redecorated, using a light
brown colored rubber tile on the
floors and a pastel green paint for
the walls.
On the hotel side of the four
story building, the entrance and
lobby have been repainted also. To
replace the grill, a sundry counter
has been installed. This counter,
operated by the Aggieland Inn,
sells cigarettes, pipe tobacco, cig
ars, shoe polish, shine cloths, col
lar stays, post cards, stamps, razor
blades, and aspirins.
Ice cream can also be bought,
and soon a complete line of all
popular magazines will be on sale.
A coffee-vending service will be
installed to compensate for the old
coffee shop.
“Although we offer lots of things
for sale, our biggest seller is the
penny matches which strike any
where,” Mrs. Marilyn Gower, man
ager of the Aggieland Inn, said.
chosen the same time as the sena
tors.
Other positions on the Student
Life Committee, besides those to be
decided in the election, are filled by
nine faculty representatives ap
pointed by the president, the Col
onel of the Corps, president of the
Senior and Junior classes, the edi
tor of The Battalion, and four del
egates from the Student .Senate,
elected by the senators themselves.
Filings Will End Friday
Filing for all positions will end
at 5 p; m. Friday, Sept. 28. No
more applications will be allowed
after that date. All filing will be
done in the Student Activities of
fice in Goodwin Hall.
In order to be eligible for elec
tion to the Student Senate, a stu
dent must be a classified sopho
more with a grade point ratio of
at least 1.00. He must have at
tended A&M for the last two se
mesters prior to his election and
must live in the particular hous
ing area which he is elected to
represent.
If a student is elected to the
Senate from one housing area and
then moves from that area during
the time he still holds office, he
will be required to resign his pos
ition and a special election will be
held to determine his successor.
Senate Rules Same For SLC
For election as non-corps repre
sentatives to the Student Life Com
mittee, the same rulings which
govern election to the Student Sen
ate apply, except that a student
does not have to live hr any spec
ific housing area. Howeved, he
must state intention to attend col
lege the following semester before
he is eligible for election.
In other words, a student who
plans to graduate in January
would not be eligible to run for
non-corps representative on the
committee.
Elections for these offices will
be held following supper Oct. 3.
Cadet first sergeants will pick up
and distribute ballots in their re
spective military unit. In non-corps
area, house masters will make
these arrangements.
In areas such as Vet Village and
College View, a special represen
tative will be designated to pick up,
distribute and collect ballots.
After voting is completed, the
ballots should be taken to the Stu
dent Activities Office on the sec
ond floor of Goodwin Hall where
the election committee will count
and certify the ballots.
Present members on this commit
tee are Don Young and George
Germond.
Aggie Players Hold
First Meet Tonight
The Aggie Players will hold
their organizational meeting at
7:30 tonight in the Assembly Hall,
C. K. Esten, faculty advisor for
the group, said Tuesday.
Included in tonight’s business is
the election of officers and a dis
cussion of plans for the coming
year.
“Command Decision,” the first
production, will be presented No
vember 12 and 13 and will require
a cast of eighteen men, more than
belong to the club at present. Al
though there are no feminine parts
in the first play, there will be
openings in future presentation for
girls in the group.
Reasons Given
For Changes In
PW Periods
Reasons for change in mili
tary and air science practical
work periods from the sche
dule followed last year were
explained yesterday by the
two departments.
These changes were authorized
by the Executive Committee in or
der that military and air force
branches at the College would have
a schedule permitting sufficient
unbroken classes for field problems
requiring several hours.
Theory hours have been changed
in order to coordinate with the
program and are now scheduled to
meet three times a week instead
of two, as last year.
PW. hours are now slated for
Thursday from 1 to 4 p. m. in
stead of the usual Tuesday or
Thursday, 3 to 5 p. m.
Also, by scheduling this period
for the same afternoon as the drill
period it was believed laboratory
periods for other academic courses
would be easier to schedule.
Despite these switches, the num
ber of hours required each week
will not exceed the usual five
hours. This includes the one hour
weekly drill period.
For example, if a field problem
is scheduled on a Thursday aftei--
noon, two of these three hours
will be slated in lieu of morning
classes.
Football Coach Speaks
UCLA Bound
Tomorrow At 8
By BOB SELLECK
Battalion Sports News Editor
The 1951 edition of the Aggie football team will pack
their duds and board a Pan-American Flyer for “sunny”
California tomorrow morning at 8.
Destination is Los Angeles where the Aggies will tangle
with the UCLA Bruins Friday night in the season opener for
both clubs. * m
Bruisin’ Bob Smith, All-American fullback, missed yes
terday’s workout because of a bad chest cold, but will be in
shape for the Uclans, Head Trainer Bill Dayton reported.
Only a light drill was conducted yesterday, and about
the same is scheduled for today.
The Aggies will workout Thursday night upon arrival in
Pasadena where they will stay at the Huntington Hotel.
Playing their last game of 1950 against Georgia in
Washington, D.C., the Cadets will now tussel on the opposite
side of the United States in the Los Angeles Coliseum.
As in the Presidential Cup game against Wally Butt’s
Georgia Bulldogs, it will be Smith leading the Cadets for
their 8:30 p.m. (9:30 CST) game against the Bruins, led by
linebacker Donn Moomaw.
j(., g no (. pkgiy Smith, who
rambled for 306 yard§ against
G'eorgia last December, will ac
count for that much yardage
against the much stouter Uclan
line, but all indications point to
Smith, Smith, Smith for the most
part.
More Than Running
Although great things are ex
pected of the “Masked Marvel,”
A&M will not limit itself to just
a running game. They have been
stressing passing attack for the
past two weeks in two-a-day work
outs on Kyle Field. And the Ag
gies can be expected to go into the
air next Friday whenever neces
sary.
It looks like it will be Dick Gard-
emal as the number one quarter
back with Ray Graves backing him
up. Behind these two lads will be
Delmer Sikes, and Rby Dollar, a
transfer who might be the top lad
for the Aggies in the latter stages
of the season.
At the halfback posts, a two
some which accounted for more
than 1,000 yards last year—Billy
Tidwell and Glenn Lippman—will
be the starters with Smith at the
fullback hole.
Starting Lineup
Head Coach Ray George hasn’t
fully decided who will be the start
ing linesmen but look for some
thing like this: Darrow Hooper
and Charles Hodge at the terminal
posts; Sam Moses and Jack Little
at the tackle slots; Elo Nohavitza,
and W. T. Rush as starting guards
and co-captain Hugh Meyer cen
ter.
The defensive lineup looks the
same as last year’s in the backfield
with Yale Lary in the safety role,
Charles McDonald and Augie Saxe
at defensive halfback positions and
Meyer and James Fowler backing
up the line.
Coach George may use four tack
les in the defensive line with Lit
tle, Dick Frey, Moses and Bobby
Dixon carrying the brunt of the
load. The two ends will be chosen
from Walter Hill, Bert Koegl,
Charlie Saxe, Clinton Gwin and
Hodge.
George’s Debut
This will be the debut of Coach
George as a head coach in the
Southwest Conference, and it quite
appropriate that he should start
the season in his old stomping
grounds, California.
The invaders from A&M will
start this year’s season without 10
lettermen from the 1950 team, and
every one of these players lettered
as linemen. Their loss leaves the
Aggies thin in reserve strength at
guard and linebacker.
Aggie Headquarters
Headquarters for Aggies in Los
Angeles for the UCLA game will
b at the Biltmore hotel. The Los
Angeles A&M Club is maintaining
a suite of rooms in the Biltmore
and for all Aggies and former stu
dents to register there.
Those going to California in
clude: backs, Roy Dollar, William
Ballard, Richard Gardemal, Ray
Graves, Yale Lary, Bernard Lem
ons, Glenn Lippman, Haden May-
eaux, Charlie McDonald, Connie
(See AGGIES, Page 4)
What’s Cooking
ABILENE CLUB MEETING:
Thursday, 7:30 p. m. room 3-D
MSC. Officers will be elected.
AGGIE PLAYERS: Wednesday,
7:30 p. m., Assembly Halls Cast
ing will begin immediately.
NEWMAN CLUB: Wednesday,
:00 p. m., YMCA Chapel. Im
portant meeting.
. . We’re not going out to play UCLA for the
fun of it, and we intend to win the game,” Coach
Ray George told the Aggies at All-College night.
He hastily added, “But it might not be a bad idea
for everyone to give a little prayer when the time
comes for the game.” Standing behind Coach
George are some members of the football team
who were introduced.
Dairy Judges Plan
Trip to Iowa
The A&M Dairy Cattle Judging
Team leaves Sunday for Waterloo,
Iowa to participate in the National
Collegiate Dairy Judging Cattle
Congress.
Stops will be made at the Okla
homa State Fair at Oklahoma City
and various points in Iowa. Team
members Billy Trimmer, John
Christner, Jim Lehmann, and Louis
Solomon along with their coach, A.
L. Darnell expect to return Octob
er 6.