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Number 14: Volume 52
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PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1951
Published by The Students
Of Texas A&M
For 73 Years
Price Five Cents
Board to Hold
First Meeting
To Let Bids
The board of directors of
the A&M College System will
hold its first meeting of the
new school term on the A&M
campus Saturday Oct. 6 at 9
a. m. in the board of directors
meeting room.
A report by President E. B.
Evans of Prairie View A&M on its
75th year will be heard and action
will be taken on bids for seven
buildings at A&M.
Bids to be acted on include those
for an engineering building, the
Texas Engineering Library, agro
nomy field laboratory, horticulture,
hut house and three quonset build
ings for the poultry husbandry and
range and forestry departmens.
Action also is to be taken on,
contract bids for a shop building
at Tarleton State College, Stephen-
ville.
The board will consider appro
priations for the paving now going
on under the football stadium.
Chancellor Gibb Gilchrist will
present the annual report on the
accomplishments of the A&M Col
lege System for the year 1950-51.
Iran’s Premier
Weeps; British
Dispute Unfair
Tehran, Iran, Oct. 4—(A*)
Premier Mohammed Mossa
degh wept today as he told
the Majlis (Lower House of
Parliament) that the British
Government had no right to bring
the Iranian oil dispute up before
the U.N. Security Council.
Asserting that the oil nationali
zation problem was an internal dis
pute with the Anglo-Iranian Oil
Company, Mossadegh told the dep
uties he will leave Sunday to argue
Iran’s case in the U.N.
Mossadegh wiped away tears as
he said “I am sure that on this
trip I will enjoy the prayers and
support of the Iranian people, and
I am sure that Almighty God will
help me and the nation.”
Premier Heads Delegation
The premier will head the dele
gation which includes four mem
bers of the parliamentary oil board
—the deputies Allahyar Saleh and
Ali Shayegan, and the senators
Ahmed Matin Dafteri, and Morteza
Bayatt.
Mossadegh turned down a sug
gestion by a deputy that the Maj
lis adopt a special resolution giv
ing him full authority before the
security council. He said a vote
was unnecessary since he would be
counseled by the four oil board
members.
Council Meets
The security council met in New
York last Monday at the urging of
Britain. Over Russian and Yugo
slav objection, it voted to consider
Britain’s complaint that Iran’s ex
pulsion of British technicians after
ihe nationalization threatened world
peace.
But the Iranian delegate obtain
ed a postponement until Oct. 11 to
allow the premier to reach New
York to argue the case.
A government spokesman said
Mossadegh planned to spend most
of his time in a hospital, under the
care of his physician-son, Dr. Gho-
lem Hossein Mossadegh, when not
attending security council sessions.
Huff and Puff
OU Seating A rrangement
This will be the seating arrangement for the O.U. Game. The Student Senate will revise it as required
Wanda Harris Chosen
A&M’s Sweetheart
By JOEL AUSTIN
Battalion Managing Editor
Wanda Harris, pretty blue-eyed
TSCW sophomore, was named Ag
gie Sweetheart for 1951-52 last
night by a 17 man selection com
mittee.
It was her second time to be
the number one choice of an Aggie
selection group. As a freshman
last spring, Miss Harris was chosen
to reign as Queen over the An
nual Cotton Pageant and Ball.
The aubum-haired lass, who
calls San Antonio home, topped a
list of 12 nominees—four each from
the Sophomore, Junior, and Senior
classes.
Climaxing an afternoon and
evening of entertainment on the
TSCW campus, the Aggies named
their choice in the wee, early
hours of the morning'after a run
off vote was necessary to deter
mine the final winner.
Corps Marches Into
Game Saturday
The A&M Cadet Corps will make
its first public appearance Sat
urday night prior to the A&M-
OU football game, Lt. Col. M. P.
Bowden, assistant commandant,
said Wednesday.
At approximately 6:45 p. m.,
the first cadet organization will
march on to the Kyle Field track.
The entire pass-by review should
be completed by about 7:20 p. m.
in time for both teams to practice
before game time.
After marching on to the track,
the corps will march down the
west sidelines, make a left turn
near the south goal, and march
across the field. Near the south
east corner, the outfits will bd dis
missed by their commanding offi
cers and students will proceed be
hind the stadium to the Aggie sec
tion.
Arriving on the TSCW campus
at 5 p.m. yesterday, the Aggies
were welcomed at a “Howdy” din
ner in Hubbard Dining Hall. Fol
lowing supper, the group attended
a concert by Sidney Foster, bril
liant young pianist, who played on
the TSCW Concert and Drama
Series.
After the program, nominees
and members of the selection com
mittee were honored at a reception
in Virginia-Car roll Lodge. After
the reception, both groups went to
Stoddard Hall Dormitory for danc
ing and selecting of the winner.
The committee finished its final
tabulations at 2 a.m. this morning.
Miss Harris is a speech correc
tion major and a freshman dormi
tory counselor in Capps Hall.
The committee was composed of
J. W. “Doggy” Dalston, president
of the Senior Class; Bobby Dunn,
vice-president of the Senior Class;
C. L. Ray Senior Class social secre
tary, and Lew Jobe, head yell lead
er.
Other members in the group
were Eric Carlson, corps command
er; Regimental Commanders Jim
AftdeTson, Roy Striekert, Howard
Kruse, Harold Chandler, John
Wright, Lynn Stuart, and Grady
Smallwood; Senior Battalion repre-
^en,tative Jim Dobbins, Consolidat
ed Band Commander Buddy Burch,
Battalion Managing Editor Joel
Austin; and Pete Hardesty, busi
ness manager for Student Activ
ities. Quinton Johnson, Ralph
Rowe, non-military representatives.
Candidates Presented
Senior nominees were Jane Tat
um, Charlotte Williams, Johnnie
Lois Neal, and Mary Jane Mon-
crief.
Juniors were Betty Ann Timmer
man, Jean Putnam, Paula Mueller,
and Laura Schwartz.
Sophomores were Wanda Har
ris, Jane McBriety, Patricia Hep-
install and Joan Jopling.
Personality, ability of fluenl
Pipe Smoking Contest Has
Many Different Sections
By FRANK SCOTT
Battalion Staff Writer
to
test will be to keep the weed lit standing pipe collections,
as long as possible. Two section will be open
Women are allowed to enter the “roll-your-own” fans. In the pro-
Dig out your briars, stokers and contest in all branches and for you fessional division, the participants
corncobs and get those lungs in fcnrale snuff dippers, special con- will be required to roll their own
good condition. Soon you addicts sideration is being given to setting from a rougher cut tobacco than
those in the amateur division,;
conversation, graciousness, sincer
ity and attractiveness were the
points which the committee con
sidered in making its decision.
In her official capacity as
sweetheart, Miss Harris, will be
presented at halftime a^t the annual
A&M-TSCW Corps TVip in Fort
Worth Oct. 20 when the Aggies
play TCU.
She will also officially represent
A&M at the Cotton Bowl football
game in Dallas Jan. 1, at the Mili
tary Mall here next spring, at the
TSCW Redbud Festival at Denton
in March, at the TU Round-Up in
April and also at the Cotton Ball
and Pageant here in April.
Unofficial Tabulations
Have 16 in Run-Offs
Approximately 3,000 students, one of the
largest groups voting in the history of a col
lege election at A&M, cast ballots Wednes
day night for student dormitory represen
tatives to the Senate, senators at large, and
non - corps representatives on the Student
Life Committee.
Interest in the first election of the school
year was increased by vigorous room to room
campaigning on the part of most candidates.
Aggie Rodeo Opens
Friday At Arena
of the weed will have a chance to
win prizes on your puffing ability.
On Nov. 5, The Battalion will
hold its fifth Annual Pipe Smok
ing Contest. On that date you will
find billowing clouds of smoke
rolling from the Ballroom of the
MSG as contestants puff for prizA
es.
Phases of the contest will be
similar to those of last year and
will include large bowl, medium
bowl, small bowl, miniature bowl,
and metal bowl competition. There
will be a section of the contest
for calabash and churchwarden
type pipes also.
Object of the pipe smoking con-
up a section for you. * those in
, those in this section may use easy
Special Section for E acuity to . ro ll tobaccos.
There will be a special section If enough -interest in indicat-
set aside for faculty and staff ed, there may be a section open
only. Cigar smoking as well as tobacco spitting. Prizes would
pipe smoking will be included in he awarded on accuracy and dis-
the profs’ section. tance.
. . . , . , . Anyone connected with the col-
A section in the cigar smoking i ege may enter the contest. An
division will be open to all con- entry blank will soon appear in
testants other than faculty and The Battalion. Prizes last
staff. The one who smokes his totaled $278.00.
cigar the longest will win this div- All of the'colleges in the South-
lslon - west Conference have been invited
Included in the general contest to send their champion puffers to
will be smoke idng blowing. Prizes Aggieland to vie with the winners
will also be given to corn cob of our contest,
smokers and exhibitors of out- By the way, got a match, bud?
year
Fierce Fights
Seen As UN
Army Advances
U.S. 8th Army Headquar
ters, Korea, Oct. 4 — E/P) —
Troops from nine United Na
tions today crunched forward
along a 40 mile front in West
ern Korea.
Everywhere, they met fierce Chi
nese resistance.
In bitter hand-to-hand fighting
infantrymen of five divisions gain
ed up to two miles Wednesday.
A series of Chinese counterat
tacks slowed the advance. Censor
ship delayed details and reports of
progress.
The offensive smashed to within
earshot of Kaesong, site of dis
rupted truce negotiations which the
Reds Thursday refused to reopen
anywhere else.
A roaring artillery barrage Wed
nesday opened the attack — the
largest launched on the Korean
■front in three months.
The Allies—British, Canadian,
Australian, New Zealand, Ameri
can, Greek, Turkish, Filipino and
Korean troops—fought shoulder to
shoulder.
Tanks Roll Forward
Fifty-seven ton British Centur
ion tanks rolled forward with them
as the foot soldiers seared Chinese
out of the hills with flame throw
ers.
Front line dispatches reported
the Reds were well entrenched in
bunkers lining strategic hill
masses.
One dispatch said resistance west
of Chorwon suddenly evaporated
in the night on the northern end of
a ridge line. The Communists gave
up their positions under cover of
darkness and let the Allies take
over without firing a shot. The
Reds previously had blocked every
attempt to take the ridges. *
“Elsewhere,” the dispatch said,
“U.N. troops continued to run into
the same heavy Communist ie-
sistance that had stalled all. allied
attacks for the past three days.
“An estimated two Red com
panies surged from their ridge
positions late last night in a count
erattack against nearby U.N. units.
The enemy fought vainly for two
and a half hours before being
forced to withdraw to their posi
tions.”
Major Concerns
Schedule Job
Interview Here
Representatives of seven ^
major companies will be on 1
the campus between Oct. 91
and Oct. 18 to interview stu
dents graduating at mid-term,
Bill Hensel of the placement of
fice, said Wednesday.
Humble Oil and Refining will
hold a general meeting in the
YMCA Chapel at 9 a. m, Oct. 11.
Engineering majors, chemists, phy
sicists, and geologists who will re
ceive their degree in January may
make appointments for interviews
at the meeting, Hensel commented.
Phillips Petroleum Company will
conduct interviews for mid term
graduates in chemical, electrical,
mechanical, petroleum, and civil
engineering Oct. 10.
Interviews with mechanical and
electrical engineers and physicists
will be held by the International
Business Machines Corporation on
Oct. 16.
The Shell Chemical Corporation
scheduled interviews for Oct. 16.
These representatives will talk to
chemical and mechanical engineers
and chemists.
Petroleum, electrical, mechanical,
civil, and chemical engineers; geol
ogists, math and physics majors
will be interviewed by the Atlantic
Refining Company Oct. 17.
The Standard Oil Company of
California will talk to mechanical,
civil, chemical, and electrical engin
eers; chemists, physicists, and geol
ogists. They will hold their inter
view Oct. 18.
Oct. 9 is the date set for the
Cessna Aircraft Company to inter
view mid term graduates in aero
nautical, mechanical, and industrial
engineering.
MSC Opens Ticket
Sale for Dance
The first MSC sponsored dance
of the year will be held after the
A&M-OU football game Saturday
night. Aggies, their dates, and OU
visitors will dance in the MSC
Ballroom and on the terrace from
10 until midnight.
Tickets will be on sale begin
ning Thursday afternoon in the
Post Office area and Directorate
offices of the MSC.
Miss Betty Bolander, MSC assist
ant social director, announced that
cokes would be sold throughout
the evening and music will be
furnished by the MSC jukebox.
By RAYMOND YORK
Battalion Staff Writer
That team of wild horses talked
about so much in that old saying
“one used to drag people away
from something” will be on the
Campus Friday when the Saddle
and Sirloin Club presents their an
nual Aggie Rodeo.
This is the second year the all
student rodeo has been held in the
new Rodeo Arena. This year, the
two day show will start at 8 p.
m. Friday.
One of the stars of the show
will be Jack Long of San Antonio.
Long was the rodeo star that ori
ginated the one-hand stand roping
trick.
Bo Damuth, senior AH major
from Magnolia, has signed up to
be the clown for the show. He will
appear with his mule “Simon” and
pet skunk “Stinky.”
Saddle and Sivloiners working
on the rodeo say the wild horse
race this year will be one of the
best ever held. In this race there
are three men in the arena 1 with
one horse. The men rope the
horse, put on a riding rig, sad
dle, and ride the bronc to the
opposite side of the arena. After
getting to the end of the arena,
the wild horse is unsaddled and
the participants lug the saddle
back to the center of the ring.
Work on the wild horses is done
as a team, with the group complet
ing the job in the shortest amount
of time winning.
All the faculty of the animal
husbandry department will take
part in the Professor’s Bloomer
Race. This will be in addition to
the usual calf-roping, bare-back
bronc hiding, bull dogging, wild
bull riding, and a long distance
horse race.
Contestants entered in the rod
eo are all students and a final
listing of all men entering the com
petition will be released this week,
Warren Pierce, publicity chairman,
announced.
Contestants placing first in the
events will be awarded prizes.
While a full list of the prizes is
not available, Pierce said, the
winner of the wild horse event
will receive a trophy belt buckle.
Time for the Saturday show has
been set for 2 p. m.
Tickets are available from all
AH majors and tickets will also
be available at the gate after the
show starts.
A dance will also be held after
the rodeo Friday night at the Shilo
Hall.
Unusual however, was the fact most candi
dates for Student Senate positions had def-»
inite plans in mind which they intended to
present to the senators, if elected.
Most candidates seemed to rely on their v
own personal contacts with other students.
The Battalion offered to print any campaign
statements, 50 words or less in length, but
only a few of the 111 students running for
offices to advantage of the offer.
When the election committee,
headed by Don Young, member of
last year’s Senate, finally finished
counting all ballots 28 of the col
lege dormitories had chosen an
equal number of senators. Also, 11
places on the Senate were filled
by newly elected senators-at-large.
These members of the student gov
erning body were chosen by vote of
the entire student body.
Five students filed for three,
positions as non-corps representa-^
tives on the Student Life Com
mittee.
Play ers Rehearse
Command Decision
“Command Decision,” the Ag
gie Players’ current production, is
going into its second week of re
hearsals under Director C. K. Es-
ten of the English Department.
The play, which starred Holly
wood’s Paul Kelly in the role, of
Brig. Gen. K. C. Dennis on Broad
way, will be presented at 8:15 p.
m. 12 and 13.
Gen. Dennis will be played by
Harry Gooding in the Aggieland
version. The rest of the cast in
cludes Dick Black as Sgt. Evans,
Dennis’ aide, Chuck Neighbors as
Col. Caley, Dennis’ executive offi
cer, Roger Coslett as Brockhurst,
la, magazine correspondent, and
John Samuels as Brig. Gen. Gar
nett.
Bill Witty portrays Col. Mar
tin, a group commander and old
friend of Dennis’, Jerry MacFar-
land as Maj. Gen. Kane; Carl
Stephens as Maj. Prescott; John
Caple as Capt. Jenks; Carroll
Phillips and Don Lance are cast
as Senators Malcolm and Stone re
spectively, and John King plays Lt.
Goldberg.
Weather officer Maj. Davis will
be played by Howard Allison. Rog
er Melton will play Maj. Lansing;
Williard Jenkins will play Maj.
Dayhuff; Capt. Lee will be por
trayed by Doyle Smith; and Don
Dempke will be a guard.
Jack of All Trades
Title Goes to B&CU
By ALLEN PENGELLY
Battalion Staff Writer
“If anything on this campus
needs to be done and mo one else
will do it, the chances are ten to
one that we will end up with the
job,” said J. K. Walker, superin
tendent of the College B&CU de
partment.
“Our department either operates
or is responsible for all college
carpentry, painting, plumbing, elec
trical work, laundry, sewage and
drainage, heating, a volunteer fire
department, and janitorial service,”
Walker continued.
Walker said his department’s
Allied, Red
Peace Talks
To Start Again
Tokyo, Oct. 4—In an abrupt
exchange today, Red and Al
lied commanders each pro
posed that Korean truce talks
be resumed immediately—but
disagreed on a site.
Gen. Ridgway injected a new
note by telling the Reds to pick a
hew site—as long as it was in no-
man’s-land. If it looks OK to
him, he said, armistice negotia
tions could resume at once.
Communist coirtmanders had pro
posed immediate reopening of talks
at the original site, Red-controlled
Kaesong.
The talks were broken off a-
bruptly by the Communists Aug.
23.
The Reds started today’s rapid
exchange by suddenly breaking a
weak-long silence. As a new allied
offensive roared within earshot of
Kaesong, they answered a mess
age Ridgway sent them last Thurs
day.
The Reds rejected Ridgway’s
suggestion that talks start anew
near Songhyon, a no-man’s land
village six miles southeast of Kae
song. They said the suggestion was
“devoid of reason.”
The Communists said it would
provide no new assurance that
neutrality agreements would be
observed. Instead they suggested:
“Both sides immediately resume
the conference at Kaesong. At the
first meetaing all appropriate ma
chinery should be established to
stipulate 'a strict agreement con
cerning the neutralization of Kae
song.”
Two hours after announcing the
text of the Communist communica
tion, Ridgway replied. He told
North Korean Premier Kim 11 Sung
and Chinese Gen. Peng Teh-Huai:
“1 have already made clear to
you my views regarding the un-
suitabulity of Kaesong as a con
ference sit. . . satisfactory condi
tions for the resumption of the
armistice talks can only be in
sured by moving the conference
site to an area where it is not un
der the exclusive control of other
side.
Complete tabulations on the stu
dent at large vote are tentative and
a run-off election will probably be
called for. However from last
night’s voting it is possible to tab-
the top 16 in the voting for Sen
ators at Large.
Grady Smallwood, commander of
the eighth regiment, was high man
on the balloting. He received 1,470
votes, with the biggest concentra
tion of the votes coming from the
basic division.
Others in the top 16, of which
11 will be chosen, are
Monty Montgomery-with 1,407
Marshall Crouch with 1,281
Baxter Honeycutt with 1,281
Warren Pierce with 1, 133
Ted Uptmore, 1,105
George Germond, 985
Harold Chandler, 982
Frank Morris, 968
Ken Wiggins, 893
Jack (Spiid) Mergle, 855
Putter Jarvis, 802
Lyles, 71,9
Bob Chapman, 684
Bob Chapman, 666
Duane Vandenberg, 641
The election committee was not
available for a story this morning.
An announcement of the plans for
the run-off elections in the dorm
senators and senators at large will
be announced in tomorrow’s Batta
lion.
biggest task is that of mainten
ance. Whenever a power line
breaks, the steam pressure fails, a Massachusetts can be seen as the
Navy Exhibit On
Display in Bryan
A huge model of the battleship
Non-Students
Tickets on Sale
For Town Hall
Non-student reserved seat
tickets for the 1951-52 Town
Hall series went on sale at
7 a. m. in Guion Hall.
By 10 a. m. the ticket sales
men were forced to return to the
Student Activities office to handle
the volumn of people wishing to
purchase tickets.
The only people eligible to pur
chase these tickets were faculty
members and non-students, Stu
dent Activities was forced to limit
the purchaser to four tickets so
that they could be more evenly dis
tributed.
Featured this year at Town Hall
will be “Tex” Beneke and his or
chestra, scheduled to perform this
Monday night. On Oct. 16, Rise
Stevens, star of the Metropolitan
Opera and movies, will give a con
cert for Town Hallers.
The Houston Symphony Orches
tra, under the direction of Efrem
Kurtz, conductor, will come to
A&M on Dec. 11 to offer special
arrangements of some of the more
popular classics.
Beginning the new year, the Rev
elers, famous male quartet, will
make their appearance on the
Town Hall series. It is unknown
at this time what type of program
this group will offer.
The last program of the 1951-
52 series will be Morley & Ger
hart, duo-pianists with the Fred
Waring Orchestra. They will ap
pear in Guion Hall on Feb. 12.
water main bursts, a man from the
B&CU must work at the job until
the service is restored.
“This summer I recall,” said
Walker, “at least 15 water mains
burst at the joints because of ex
pansion of the lines caused by
the drought.”
Another job which is delegated
to the B&CU is the maintenance
and repair of the dormitories. The
largest type repair job in the dorms
is the replacing of kicked-down
doors, broken windows, and push-
(See B&CU, Page 2)
main exhibit of a navy mobile
exhibit on display today in Bryan
at 25th Street between Bryan
and Main announced Chief Torpe
doman J. H. Howard, navy recruit
er for the area.
The official navy sedan and
trailer are also carrying complete
16mm motion picture equipment
and film. These show various phas
es of navy life and outstanding
navy accomplishments.
Howard said the exhibits were
sent from the main district recruit
ing office in Houston.
Dr. Traxler Speaks
At JC Conference
“Establishing a Functioning
Guidance Program in the Junior
College,” is the topic which Dr.
Arthur E. Traxler will speak at
the MSC, Oct. 8. His talks in con
junction with the program for the
8th has written several books on
vocational guidance and has been
working with the Education Record
Bureau 15 years.
He spent three months in Ger
many helping the German educa
tors prepare tests for their youth.
Several of the tests he has writ
ten have been translated into
German and Japanese.