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First Win More
Than A Game
HTHE Texas Aggies returned to Easterwood Airport and the
A&M campus yesterday with the first victory of their
1951 ten-game schedule. It was not just an ordinary win.
We had a new man directing the team’s fortunes at his
old home stadium in Los Angeles. He is the youngest of
seven coaches in the Southwest Conference. Many eyes of
the athletic world were on the shoulders of this man who
took over the assignment as head coach only last Spring
when Harry Stitler resigned.
We were glad to see the coaching staffs efforts had
not been in vain in preparing the team for an opponent’s
tight defense for our heralded ground game. An unheard-of
Cadet passing attack broke loose when the Uclans’ defensive
line proved too stout for the A&M backs. The effectiveness
of the passing by quarterbacks Ray Graves and Dick Garde-
nal was proven as the Aggie contingent scored three times
through the air.
We are sure Coach George was a happy man as he met
his former teammates and coaches on the West coast after
the game. He had won his first contest as a head coach and
started what most Aggies hope to be the first of many vic
tories for the 1951 season.
But as George warned long before the A&M-UCLA
clash, “Let’s don’t win them before they are played.”
"Texas Tech is next and then mighty Oklahoma invades
Aggieland. Let’s play the teams one at a time and make our
plans for the Cotton Bowl after we are sure the Aggies have
topped the conference.
Young Politicans To Face
Complexities of Governmen t
If it is the duty of politicians to support their constituents, the
new major and city council may find rough sledding today when they
take over the city offices.
Elected by their classmates, seven A&M Consolidated High School
students will occupy the top city positions from 1 p. m. until 5 p. m.
What’s the scoop? It’s part of the Kiwanis International’s Na
tional Kids Day program designed to teach youngsters something
about government.
There is an example of how mixed up things could become. Sup
pose the city marshall picks up the mayor’s father for speeding. Since
the marshall is responsible to the mayor and council who appointed
him, he releases the speeder, fearing the wrath of the ihayor.
The voters get wind of what has happened and scream, corrup
tion. So the mayor’s father is fined for speeding, and the fine, of
course, is taken out of the mayor’s allowance.
US Army Prepares
For Korea Winter
Transcontinental TV
For Freedom Crusade
New York, Sept. 24 — MP) — Red satellite countries in Eastern
Transcontinental television was Europe, and similar radio station
launched on a two-way basis yes- proposed to fight Communisii) in
terday with a marathon benefit Asia.
show for a radio system—that op- Viewers throughout the country
crated by the Crusade for Free- were asked to telephone, telegraph
or mail their pledges and contri
butions.
CurvesomeRhonda
Delights Audience
By FRANK DAVIS
Battalion Staff Writer
Although Hollywood is to be
congratulated on its trend toward
realism which has been noticed
in such movies as “Ace in the
Hole”, there still remains the movie
for intertainment only.
“On the Riviera” is perhaps the
best recent example of the latter.
“Little Egypt”, Universal Interna
tional’s production showing at the
Palace Theater is another movie
which falls into the same category.
A&M’s Booster
Governor Coke Started
Into State Politics Slowly
With a ridiculous plot, “Little
Egypt” combines the elements
of beauty, romance, and conflict
to make a movie the critic would
tear apart, but many movie goers
would acclaim.
Rhonda Fleming is the most lus
cious creature audiences have been
privileged to see since Hedy La
marr emerged from the Vienna
Forests.
The person who compares the
performance of Rhonda in “Little
Egypt” with Yyonne De Carlo in
an older movie entitled “Salome
Where She Danced” will conclude
that people are becoming more
broadminded.
The authentic movements of the
Egyptian dancing girl have been
described as a,n intricate display of
stomach, hip, and breast move
ments which made the old feel
young and the young feel mature.
However short Miss Fleming
falls from authenticity, the perfor
mance is nevertheless the greatest
yet seen on the American screen.
(Editor’s note: Last Winter, As
sociated Press Writer Don White-
head broke the story in Korea that
American fighting men were suf
fering in sub-zero weather because
of a breakdown in the distribution
of warm clothing. Here is a story
of what the Army is doing today
to prepare for another Winter
campaign—and to make certain
the troops are warmly clothed.)
Washington, Sept. 24—CP)—The
Army has begun moving almost
100,000 fresh combat troops into
Korea to make certain that battle-
men would be a breakdown in dis
tribution. This appears unlikely Washington,
at this point because of the Army’s
awareness of the problem.
Here is a list of the Winter
clothing which the Army says is
available for each combat man in
Korea
dom to broadcast behind the Iron
Curtain.
The program, running a total of
four-and-a-half hours regionally,
made video history with a number
of “firsts.”
It marked the initial "transcon
tinental transmissions in two direc- pledges from other parts of the
tions in the same day. However, country, including West Coast cit-
simultaneous transmission of two i es-
programs in opposite directions
must await the start of regular
commercial cross-country TV on
Friday.
Yesterday’s shoy also was the
opening east-to-west telecast, giv-
ing western viewers their first tertainers, actors and other dig-
“live” video look at New York and flkaries participated in the show.
Plea From Ike
Audience in East Pleas for contributions to the
For the TV audience in the East, fund came in a message from Gen.
Wire and Telephone
CBS said that $150,000 was
pledged in the New York area
alone. The network said it also
received wired and telephoned
Final totals, CBS said, would not
be available until mail pledges are
received and figures for other cit
ies ax-e tabulated.
A number of public officials en-
it provided the initial “live” Ewighh D. Eisenhower in Europe
glimpse of Hollywood. The pre- and in another message, read by
vious transcontinental telecasts of H ar °l d E. Etassen, from President
Wool trousei’s (2), flannel shirts the Japanese peace treaty confer- l rum an. Stassen, University of
(2), drawei's (3), undershirts (3), ence earlier this month had come Pennsylvania, president, is a cru-
wool ski socks (6 pairs), wool fi’om San Francisco. sade oU'C'ak
muffler, shoepacs, lined cap, lined c 0 ] um {)j a Broadcasting Sys- Vke President Alben W. Bark-
jacket, cotton trousei’s (2), sweat- p em h a ncU e <i the transmission on a ^y, former president Herbert
er, lined gloves, hooded packet and p 00 ] ec j ^ as j s over t jj e Aemrican Hoover, Attorney General J. How
to mane certain tnar oauie- ove /co a t, Parka, sleeping bag and Telephone and Telegraph Com- ard McGrath,, Secretary of Defense
, to mane cextam tnat oattie pad Arctic boots, face masks (2), Danv > s „ ew $40 000 000 microwave Robert A. Lovett and a number of
the bittei campaign last Winte w hite trousers. j on networks picked up portions of ln S th 6 program and made their
Second one^ 6 Ug " The white 8 ’ arments are to S ive sho ^ appeais for the crusade.
But for those who must stay, m / n be ^ er camouf] age protec- As in the previous east-to-west
the Army has stockpiled enough bl0n f rom the enemy while mov- conference telecast, there were gen-
’ 1 - ing against a background of snow. > ■ •• —” ■
Four-Hour Stint
Winter gear in Koi’ea to provide
every soldier and Marine with
warm clothing when Winter set
tles over that unhappy land|.
This time the Army doesn’t in
tend to be caught short on Winter
equipment as it has in past Winter
campaigns in North Africa, Italy,
Europe and Korea. And it is try
ing to give first consideration to
the wen who endured last Winter’s
campaign.
This means the last of the
old-timers in Korea are coming
home. They are the veterans of
the wintry battles along the
Chongchon River, the Yalu River,
Hungnan, and scores of name
less, snow-capped mountains in
the north.
King George
Reported OK
After Surgery
eral reports of excellent x’eception The program started with a four-
on both coasts. hour stint from New York and
The program was a nation-wide Washington to the West Coast,
appeal for the Crusade for Free- Then the transcontinental hookup
dom, a pi’ivate organization, which broke off to allow for local and
regional shows. Late in the eve
ning, Hollywood came on . wi|h a
30-minute Show for the East: t
\ ■ FviV.V IJ
When regularly-scheduled .com
mercial TV starts its cross-cbuKfcry
broadcasts Friday, channels will be
available in both directions. J
———’
seeks to raise $3,500,000 for its
anti-Communist activities.
Crusade for Freedom
Chief beneficiaries of the Cru
sade’s campaign will be its radio
Free Europe, which is beamed to
(This the third of a series of
the story of Governor Richard
Coke and telling how he influ
enced the founding of A&M Col
lege and a little more about his
life as a colorful governor in
Texas history. His life has been
compared with that of Lawrence
Sullivan Ross, founder of Aggie
Traditions. This story was writ
ten by R. Henderson Shuffler,
director of information for the
system—The Editor.)
When young Dick Coke rode into
Waco Village in the Spring of 1850
and unsacked his law books to be
gin his practice, he found that he
was the Villages’s second barris
ter. Already established in the
profession was N. W. Battle, an
other graduate of William and
in an all-out attempt to bi’eak up
the carpet-bagger rule which had
controlled Texas since the end of
the Civil War.
“Early in the Spi’ing of 1872,”
Clark wrote in his memoirs, “I
was boarding at the same house
with Judge Coke and his family.
Knowing him as I did and his
somewhat I’emai’kable capabilities,
I began to solicit him to stand the
ensuing year for Governor.”
Nomination Won
Coke was inexperienced political
ly and very slow 'to agree to mak
ing the race, but finally the clever
Clark sold him on the idea and
launched the campaign for his
Notes From
Grad School
The normal load of academic
twice. This simple, and possibly
valid, charge was blown up into
a full di’ess test case of the valid
ity of the entire election and man
euvered into the state’s Supreme
Court which, alas like some su
preme courts since, was packed.
The Supreme Court justices at this
time were appointive, and, being
human, probably were more than work in the programs of the var-
ordinaryily interested in whom the ious schools, including the Grad-
next Governor (appointer) might uate School, is set up as fpll time
be. work. When a student takes a com-
George Claik reports that, while plete normal load, he is expected
the case was being heard and be- to devote his entire time to the
fore a decision had been reached, pursuit of his academic work,
a prominent politician came to Where a graduate student is do-
Waco from Austin to make the in-
London, Sept. 24 — UP) — King
Geoi’ge VI was imported in good
spirits today and confident of re
covery from a major lung opei’a-
tion.
A Palace spokesman said Queen
,, „„ , , Elizabeth spent the morning with
More than 30,000 troops are be- her husban 5 but that no other
mg poured into Korea each month members of the Royal family have
as replacements fox- killed, wound- been pei . mitted to / ee Mm .
ed, missing—and the veterans who
went all the way through the Win
ter fighting. The Marines also are
bringing their vetei’ans back as
rapidly as possible.
This increase in replacements
does not mean everybody who
fought in a Winter battle will be
The spokesman was much more
cheery than an earlier medical
bulletin which merely reported that
the King’s condition was “as satis
factory as can be expected.”
He told a reporter:
“The King is in good spirits, as
First American Life Insurance Co.
in Texas - - - - At Houstort
Bryan-College Agency .
JOE DILLARD, Mgr.
REPRESENTATIVES
L. E. (Skeeter) Winder, ’50
C. R. (Dusty) Morrison, ’46 John T. Knight
Charles H. Sledge, ’50 A. H. “Heeter” Winder, ’52
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eligible to come home. One offi- I as as one can ho after an opei’a-
ing work as a graduate assistant
teresting suggestion to Richard he is required to correspondingly
nomination. The State Democratic Coke that, if he would promise re- induce his academic load,
convention in Austin in July of appointment of two supreme court Normally the gTadua t e assistant,
Mary, who had come to Waco earl- onstration^in protest against the wouM W^orthcornkg^lark sx^mp- teaching xvork 6 in°that capTdtv %
“XS, not being a 5 ""* * at a‘t itSl ^'S^e'^thirwinS^
young man who made acquaxntan- A call had been sent out to “all “with red ears.” bGurs T his is a liberal allowance
cos easily, but in time he impressed good men, regardless of their past Semi-Colon Dispute in view of approximately half-
the people of the community with political preferences,” to unite m . time employment on something
removing the radicals from power. ° 'i—™
his sober and studious attitude
cer explained it this way:
“We hope to bring back the
men who fought through the tn-
tire Winter in Korea. As much
as we would like to, we can’t
bring back some of the men who
were only in the latter stages
of the Winter fighting. They
will have to wait a little longer
ofr rotation.”
Neither will it mean that rear
area service troops—those behind
the fighting front—will be able to
gisn.
This year, the Eighth Army
placed its Winter clothing order
in May. The Pentagon says all
tion like this. He seems confident'
of his recovery. _
“The Queen has been with him
this morning.”
A morning medical bulletin said,
“The King has had a restful
night. His Majesty’s condition this
morning continues to be as satis
factory as can be expected.”
It came after a Buckingham Pal
ace source had reported that the
King “made it safely’ through the
first ci’ucial night after his opera
tion yesterday monxing.
Anxious Bi’itons, who had prayed
for the safety of their beloved
Monai’ch, got no indication of the
King’s exact condition in his battle
, , . . , ~ , o power. coon * uemsum was amiounceu. other than his gl . aduate program . W ^ j° K orea rn
and his serious attention to busx- The people of the State were thor- The election had been held for An a p parent Exception to the cLins S against the ^"effects of the
xxess He became known as a partic- oughly aroused The convention only one day, and m spite of the above s ^ tement W0 J d be that a cIothing fGr thenMarines, surgery .
ularly good man to clear up land was well attended, ably led and fact that an act of the Legislature student W0rk w on a research as _ ", °„°P S The :
titles, the most frequent and luc
rative form of law business in the
settlement.
District Judge
In 1865, Coke was appointed
District Judge under the prevision-
al government of Governor Hamil
ton. Two years later he was elect-
thoroughly determined. It nomin
ated Richard Coke for Governor
and chose for his x’unning-mate
the 413-pound orator, R. B. Hub
bard.
The campaign that followed was
one of the bitterest and most vio
lent ever waged in Texas. In the
election nearly 100,000 votes were
the year before had changed the student working on a research as- United Na ti 0 ns units. The only r The announcement was signed
duration of elections from four sistai l tsbip whose research work hitch in getting the clothing to the by five doctors who had spent the
c ° ° 0 wno fnllv nnnrrworl +r,v r-nmnloLp night at the King S bedside.
days to one, the coui’t held that the
failure to give due consideration
to a certain semi-colon in the ori
ginal law made the new law in
valid.
The people of Texas were in no
mood to be ti’ifled with, partieul-
was fully approved for complete
.use for his thesis or dissertation.
In that case he is not restricted to
12 hour’s of academic work.
Any type of employment out
side of a graduate assistantshp
should have the same relative effect
on the academic load. That is, any
NIGHT SCHOOL OPENS
Monday, October First
INTENSIVE training will be given in Gregg 1
simplified shorthand, typing, bookkeeping, and
college arithmetic. \
Registration accepted now. t
McKenzie-Baldwin Business College
702 South Washington Avenue
Bryan, Texas
Dial 3-6655
St Joseph
(Continued from Page 1)
operate St. Joseph Hospital. The
ed to the State Supreme Court, east and Richard Coke defeated the arly on the basis of a punctuation on the academic load. That is, any Sisters came to Bryan 17 years ago
only to be removed from office Republican Governor Davis by mark. The court was immediately graduate student who has to work and have operated on a non-profit
by General Sheridan as “an im- more than two to one. The party dubbed the “Semi-Colon Coui’t”, 'help ni am tain himself here in b asis.
pediment to Reconstruction.” 0 f the cai’petba,ggers ' and scala- and according to the historian school should discuss this fact and As a non-profit institution, St.
His summaxy dismissal by the wags (as Texans who joined the in- James T. DeShields, “nobody paid Hie amount of work he finds it Joseph is eligible for public funds
hated military x’epi’esentatives of truders for their own gain were the slightest x’espect to the decis- necessary to do with his major pro- se t aside to help build hospitals,
the federal government did much called) would not, howevei’, give up ion then, or ever afterwards.” lessor and the Graduate oitice and Application has been made to the
to increase Coke’s popularity with so easily the contx’ol of a State This was certainly true of Rich- arr J ve at y 16 am ° un j; a* Hxne he has gt a te Depaidment of Health which
the Democrats of Texas. He was which they had i-uled with an iron ax’d Coke. He hadn’t been too en- {9 devo ': e . graduate work so tnat administers the funds, for aid to
widely known as a scholarly man hand throughout Reconstruction. thusiastic about seeking the gov- 118 academic work can be adjusted tbe e ntend of one half the total
Double Vote ernorship, but he had run and had accordingly cost; or $400,000.
Double V ote been by & whopping major _ It is hoped that the student will The sisters of St. Francis have
The first Republican manevuer Ry. He had not the slightest in- realize that if he is heavily over- agreed to borrow $200,000 in addi-
was the filing of a suit in Houston, clination to allow the Supreme , oa . W1 , a combination of aca- tion to furnishing the land for the
charging a lone Mexican named Court or anyone else to count him dermc work aud employment of any bosp j ta i addition. To the commun-
Rodriguez with illegal voting on ou t 0 f the fight now. kind it wiH inevitably affect the ity hag gone the problem of rais _
behalf of the Democrats. In his xr craramed on b ; s hjg. b i ack 9 u , allt 7. of his w0 }. , ^his will not ing tbe ]ast $200,000 which could
Latin enthusiasm, Senor Rodri- b a ? e m-Surhis n he a vv Stick make the hospital a reality.
of unimpeachable integrity who
was absolutely feai’less in pursuing
whatever course he detex-mined to
be right.
George Clark, another Waco
lawyer, who was one of the most
adept politicial managei’s of the
tjme, saw in Richard Coke the ideal
candidate for the Democratic party gues was
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Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
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alleged’ to have voted ^f.^Z**™***
suit his friends on the next step :
to be taken. That was on January i rorr 9
10, 1874, and the constitutional UuirCll W 0111011 S
time for inauguration of the Gov
ernor was January 17th. Within a
few days after Coke left Waco
Geoi’ge Clak, still at home, receiv- w
ed a telegram from Hempstead: Mrs. Dallas Belcher, General
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TO AUSTIN. WILL BE AT Council of Church Women’s x’adio C0S H
CITY HOTEL. program, announced today that
RICHARD COKE” the program, usually heal’d at 9:45
Clark gi-abbed the next train for each Thursday monxing over
Austin, found Coke at the City W T A W will be pi’esented at
Hotel suiTounded by the most loyal 9:15 each Thui-sday morning. The
of his supporters, and in the next weekly message was initiated sev-
few days Hell was paid with a eral years ago by Mi’s. F. L. Tho-
vengeance. mas.
Governor Davis had foi’bidden The message is unusual in Texas,
the Legislature, predominantly and it compares favoi’ably with
Democi’atic, to meet, and had post- programs throughout the nation,
ed a heavily ai’med guai’d, mostly Each church of College Station is
Negroes, in the lower floor of the represented on the air, and a chair
man from each chui’ch is in chai’ge
of the programs for one month’s
running. Mrs. D. W. Williams, wife
of the Vice-Chancellor of A&M
system, will x-epreseixt the A&M
Pi’esbytei’ian Church'for the month
of September.
Mrs. Belcher will soon, resign her
at post of general chairma^i. Her suc
cessor has not yet been announced,
The new St. Joseph Hospital
would be for everyone in the com
munity, regai’dless of x’ace, creed,
color or ability to pay. Dui’ing the
17 years that The Sistei’s of St.
Francis have opei’ated St. Joseph
Hospital a yearly average of over
a thousand patient-days of care
have been given to those who could
pay nothing or. only a part of the
Aggies Attention!
LEON B. WEISS
BOYETT STREET
CUSTOM TAILORING DEPT.
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LEON B. WEISS
BOYETT STREET
LI’L ABNER
Letter Edged In Black
By A1 Capp
capitol, where his offices wei’e lo
cated to enforce the oi’der. Some
historians say that loopholes had
even been bored between the lower
floor and the uppei’ chambers in
which the Legislatux-e was to
meet, to facilitate fix-ing on any
who dared to gather there.
After repeated coxifei’ences
(See COKE, Page 4)
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