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PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Published by The Students
Of Texas A&M
For 73 Years
Number 24: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1951
Price Five Cents
New Building
Construction
Starts Soon
Date Ducats Gone
Hy ALLEN PENGELLY
Battalion News Writer
Bids have been let and construc
tion should begin the latter part
of this month for five new college
buildings, said W. D. Locke, chief
clerk of the Physical Plant depart
ment.
Largest of the proposed build
ings will be the Engineering Build
ing, to be located adjacent to Fran
cis Hall.
This structure, three floors high
and costing approximately $432,-
000, will house most of the Engin
eering Schools offices. Within the
building will be ten classrooms, ten
laboratories, 25 separate offices,
five shops and two darkrooms.
Shructure Lengthened
Designed by Adams and Adams,
Dallas architects, and to be built
by the Fisher Construction Com
pany of Houston, the building will
be 285 feet long. When the original
bid was let, the structure was to
have been 213 feet in length but
the addition of six more units ac
counted for the increased size.
A new Texas Engineer’s Li
brary building will be located di
rectly behind and across the street
from the Cushing Memorial Li
brary. Herbert Voeekler, Houston
architect who designed the new
Administration Building, is archi
tect and the Fisher Construction
Company will build the structure.
They expect to have it completed
within 300 working days from the
time construction begins.
At a cost of $178,000, the two
story plus a basement building
will house all volumes of the li-
brarv now located in the Mechani
cal Engineering Shops.
The Architecture will be similar
the new Administration Build
ing. It will be 90 feet long, fifty-
one feet wide, and contain 14,000
fquare feet of usable floor space.
It will be built of masonry tile
and veneered with face brick and
stone.
Agronomy Laboratory
The R. B. Butler, Construction
Company of Bryan will build a
$140,000 laboratory for the Depart
ment of Agronomy. It was estimat
ed that it will take approximately
150 working days to complete. Col
lege Architect Arch C. Baker has
no information concerning the
building at this time.
The Physical Plant department
also announced that a classroom
and greenhouse will be built for
the Horticulture department. The
$47,000 structure will take 100
working days to complete. It also
was designed by Baker and will be
built by Butler Construction Com
pany.
“The new Administration Build
ing should be ready for occupancy
by the end of this year,” said
Locks concerning the opening of
(See CONSTRUCTION, Page 3
1,000 TCU
Tickets Left
Approximately 1,000 student
tickets for the A&M-TCU football
game Saturday afternoon in Fort
Worth will be on sale today until
they, are gone, Howard Nelson,
ticket sales manager, said late
Wednesday afternoon.
All student guest tickets for
the game are sold, Nelson said,
and there is no possibility of re
ceiving any more from Fort Worth.
Advanced ticket sales for A&M’s
first Southwest Conference foot
ball game of the year indicate a
sell out crowd of approximately
34,OOP will be on hand for the tilt.
A&MCadetCorpsEmbarks
On Fort Worth Trip Friday
Red Chinese Drop
Series of Key Hills
U. S. 8th Army Headquarters,
Korea, Oct. 18—'fPl—Chinese sud
denly abandoned a series of key
hills in Western Korea to attack
ing Americans today. But they
stiffened against allies crunching
forward toward their Kumsong
stronghold in the center.
Troops of the U. S. First Cavalry
Division overran four hills north
west of Yonchon almost unopposed.
The Americans had been fighting
for the ridge line for two weeks
in one of the bloodiest small ac
tions of the entire United Nations
autumn offensive. Chinese desert
ed the Western hills during the
night after beating off a series of
flame-throwing attacks Wednes
day.
In the center of the Korean front
allied troops ran into stiff fight
ing before capturing two key hills
south and southwest of Kumsong.
American and South Korean
troops advancing along a 22 mile
front toward Kumsong were within
three miles of the town.
In rugged mountains to the east
allied infantrymen attacked a tow
ering, craggy peak. Their morn
ing assault was unsuccessful.
South Korean troops on the East
coast beat off two brief Red coun
terattacks south of Kosong with
the help of the U. S. Destroyer
Waller.
A&S Council
Sets Meeting
Monday Night
Three talks arranged by the ad
visory committee of the School of
Arts and Sciences will be heard
at the regular fall meeting of the
school’s faculty Tuesday night at
7:30. The meeting will be held in
the Biological Sciences Lecture
Room.
In addition to the talks, new fac
ulty and a subcommittee of the ad
visory committee will make a re
port.
The 10 minute talks will be giv
en by Howard Berry, F. W. Hensel,
and Bishop Clements.
Berry will speak on the Photo
graphic and Visual Aids Labora
tory. Hensel will discuss the Place
ment Office, and the College Infor
mation Office will be discussed by
Clements.
RV Seniors
Must Submit
Names Friday
Ross Volunteer seniors who
wish to remain active in the
Company this year must turn
their names in to RV Com
mander Dick Ingels by Fri
day noon to be considered for non
commissioned officer rank, Ingels
said this morning.
“Non-commissioned officers will
be selected within the next few
days,” Ingels said, “and all seniors
who were RV’s last year must get
their names in to me if they wish
to remain active and be considered
for promotion.”
The drill unit’s leader said ap
plications for juniors who wish to
join the RVs are now being consid
ered and a competitive drill will
be announced next week for those
whose grades and 201 files meet
the requirements for membership
in the Ross Volunteers.
An Initiation Banquet for new
members will be held in the MSC j
shortly after new members are ac-!
cepted, Ingels added.
The Navy reported the Battle
ship New Jersey, flagship of the
Seventh Fleet, killed more than
500 Reds Wednesday while sup
porting allied troops. The battle
ship sent 150 tons of high explo
sives hurtling from its big guns
against Red concentrations 18
miles inland.
Red Guns Silenced | |
A belated naval report told of a
brief battle Tuesday between Red
shore guns- at the East coast port
of Wonsan and besieging warships.
Before the Red artillery was si
lenced, six large caliber salvoes
straddled the U. S. Destroyer
Stormes. The navy made no men
tion of damage to the destroyer.
Twenty-two B-2 9 superforts
rained their big bomb loads on
three Red air fields and two other
North Korean targets Thursday.
The air force said Red jets made
no attempt to challenge them.
Wounded Transported
A big C-124 Globemaster carried
1G5 wounded men of eight nation- j
alities from Japan to Korea today.
It was the largest number of!
wounded ever carried on a single
flight. W'ith the 35 crew members,
nurses, and medical technician's the
plane had a total of 200 aboard,
another record for Korea,-Japan
flights.
The wounded were American,
French, Belgian, Turkish, Cana
dian, British, Greek, Colombian and
Puerto Rican.
The air forces reported 1,040
sorties were flown Wednesday,
“with fight-bombers continuing a
relentless campaign against main
Red supply routes in northern Ko
rea.”
The Fifth Air Force sent Mus
tangs and marine corsairs on 110
flights in support of front line
troops. They rocketed, fire-bomb
ed and strafed the Reds.
No Lights In
Bizzell Hall
The Bizzell Hall regiment
couldn’t believe it. The world
stopped for them—and at the
same time passed them by. It
seems that the electricity went
off in the dormitory for one hour
and a half.
One foreign student got up at
“7 a.m.” to go to his “8 a.m.”
class. From the Dormitory he
went to the MSC for coffee—
all of the clocks there said it
was 9:30 a.m.
All of the men who “cut” their
8 and 9 a.m. classes were gath
ering in the halls saying “Wha
hoppin.”
Wanda Harris
Eric Carlson
Russ Morgan Show Featured
After Baylor Game Oct. 27
By WILLIAM DICKENS
Battalion Feature Editor
Russ Morgan and his “Music in
the Morgan Manner” will highlight
the weekend activities of the Bay-
lor-A&M game, when the nation
ally-known orchestra leader will
give a concert in Guion Hall and
play for a dance in Sbisa on Oct.
27.
Following the Saturday after
noon game, the Russ Morgan Or
chestra will then move to Sbisa
Hall to play for an all-college
dance from 9 to 12.
Tickets to the two events,
which are now on sale in the Of
fice of Student Activities, are
70 cents for all seats to the con
cert and $2.50, stag or drag,
for the dance.
Included in the “Music in the
Morgan Manner” theme, the even
ing concert will feature individual
performers, such as “Manon,” “The
Morganaires,” A1 Jennings, Eduar
do Aguilar, a Spanish cancionero;
the “Satin -String Sextette”, and
the Pete Fylling, known as the
“Puppet Trumpeteer.”
Born in the coal fields of Penn
Newspaper Clinic
Set for Feb, 23
The third annual Texas News
paper Clinic will be held at A&M
on Feb. 23, according to Prof.
Donald D. Burchard, head of the
Journalism Department.
“The meeting was moved to late
winter to fit in more conveniently
with business obligations of the
weekly and small daily publishers,”
Burchard said. “Tentative plans
call for a program similar to other
years, with emphasis on practical
help, including a mechanical con
ference.”
Discussion topics and personnel
of panel groups are being worked
out through the Clinic advisory
committee, set up this year. Rep
resentative publishers from the
various sections of the state serve
on this committee to help make it
as valuable as possible to the news
paper men of Texas.
sylvania, Morgan’s rise to stardom
first took shape when he saved
enough money to buy a trombone
when he was 12 years old. As a side
line to being a coal miner, he began
playing the piano in a movie house
when he was 14.
For four years ne studied musi
cal instruments as much as he
could, and when he had mastered
the piano, trombone, vibraphone,
celeste, marimba, and organ, he
left the coal mines to arrange
music for John Sousa and Victor
Herbert in Philadelphia.
Desiring to play the trombone,
Morgan went abroad on a suc
cessful musical tour. Upon his re
turn to the states, he arranged
and directed the Goldkette Swing
Band, which consisted of such
well-known stars as Tommy and
Jimmy Dorsey, Joe Venuti, and
Fuzzy Fairer.
While directing and arranging
the swing band, he was also ar
ranging the music for the Deti’oit
Symphony Orchestra of 102 pieces.
Continuing his musical career,
Morgan began to feature his own
songs when arranging music and
playing for the George White Scan
dals, the Cotton Club, Biltmore
Hotel Phillip Morris programs, and
the Capitol Theater.
His talent as a composer has
been shown in some of the na
tion’s hit tunes, such as “So Tired,”
“Sombody Else Is Taking My
Place,” “So Long,” and “You’re
Nobody Till Somebody Loves You.”
As a recording artist, Morgan’s
songs sold over 10 million rec
ords from 1949 to 1950. Such
songs as “Forever and Ever,”
“Bye Bye Blackbird,” and “So
Tired” sold over a million records
last year.
Marines Have
Openings For
More Officers
The Marine Corps recently
announced immediate open
ings for 1,000 college grad
uates in its greatly expanded
officer training program.
College graduates 20 to 27 years
of age are sought to meet the in
creased requirements for junior
officers caused by expansion of the
Marine Corps, together with the
release of Reservists to civilian
life.
Selected applicants will receive
10 weeks of intensive training as
officer candidates at Quantico, Va.
Those successfully completing the
course will be commissioned sec
ond lieutenants and will then re
ceive an additional five months of
specialized military schooling.
In Houston the Marine Corps
office is located at 316, Federal
Office Building, Franklin and Fan
nin Streets.
Texas Engineers
Meet Here Today
By JOEL AUSTIN
Battalion Managing 1-ditor
Corps trip number one for the 1951 football season is on
! tap for this weekend, and 4,600 members of the A&M cadet
corps will embark for Fort Worth Friday for the bi-annual
parade and grid contest with TCU.
It will be the big weekend for A&M’s “sister school”
TSCW also, as the Tessies get a holiday Saturday to join
the Aggies in Fort Worth for the parade, football game, and
other corps trip activities.
The cadet corps will parade down the streets of Fort
Worth Saturday morning at 10 a. m. In its second public
appearance of the year, and the first outside of College Sta
tion, the units will be reviewed' and graded at a special re
viewing stand set up in front of the Texas Hotel on Main
Street.
Members of the Corps will meet to form the parade at
+9 a. m. at the Texas and Pacific
Railroad Reservation on Main
Street which is adjacent to the
Pittsburg Glass Company build
ing.
Guidon bearers, color bearers,
and color guards have been di
rected to meet at 8:30 a. m. to
check out equipment and get in
place so members of the various
unith will know where to fall in,
said Billy Turner, Corps operations
officer.
Parade Commences At 10
The parade will commence and
move down Main Street promptly
at 10 a, m.
Passing the Texas Hotel onj
Main, the line of march will turn
west on block north of the review
ing stand and then turn back
again north on Houston Street to
the Court House where it will turn
east and advance to the dismissal
area at Grove Street.
Color bearers and members of
the Maroon and White and Fresh*
man bands will fall out beside the
court house where vans will be
waiting for them to load their in
struments! and equipment.
On the entertainment side, in
addition to the football game Sat
urday afternoon at 2 p. m. in
Amon Carter Stadium, two sets
of activities will be provided. Prob
ably receiving the largest atten
dance of A&M students will be the
program planned on the TSCW
campus. An all-college dance in
the Union Building from 9-12 p.
m. will be held there Friday night.
Informal Dance at TCU
At TCU Friday, a small, infor
mal dance will be held on their
campus for Aggies as well as TCU
students. Saturday night Russ Mor
gan and his orchestra will play
for a dance at Lake Worth Casino.
A&M students were cordially in
vited to attend both events by
Dick Ramsey, president qf tjie
TCU Student Association.
Halftime activities at the foot
ball game will feature a salute to
TCU and TSCW, and the presenta
tion of Aggie Sweetheart Wanda
Harris by Cadet Colonel of the
Corps Eric Carlson. Carlson will
present Miss Harris with a bouquet
of flowers and the traditional kiss
from the corps commander.
Housing facilities for A&M stu
dents staying on the TSCW cam
pus Friday night are capable of
taking care of the anticipated num
ber of students from here who wish
to stay there. A rough count in
the corps area last night indicated
375 Aggies wanted rooms in the
special dormitories opened for
guests. These facilities can house
400 visitors.
Special Buses
One hundred seventy-five Ag
gies also indicated they wished to
ride in special buses from Denton
to Fort Worth Saturday morning.
In the reviewing stand Satur
day morning in front of the Texas
Leland Returns From
Atlantic City Meet
Dr. T. W. Leland, head of the
business administration depart
ment, has returned from a meeting
of the American Institute of Ac
countants which he attended in At
lantic City, N. J.
This afternoon mechanical en
gineers from all over the state
will meet on the campus when the
South Texas Section of the Ameri
can Society of Mechanical Engi
neers hold their monthly meeting.
Scheduled to start at 4:30 p.m.
the engineers will register and then
student members of the association
will take them on a tour of the
engineering facilities of the cam
pus.
The meat of the meeting will be
in technical session to be held after
the banquet in the Assembly Hall.
Members will meet in small groups
and hold an informal forum, led
by an outstanding engineer in var
ious phases of mechanical engineer-
ing.
Prof. H. G. Kylander of the Uni
versity of Texas will lead a dis
cussion on the effects of solid
inclusions in the oil supply to
sleeve bearings. In the same meet
ing, R. C. Brooks, of Cameron
AF Rifle Team Receives
Medals for National Meet
Col. E. W. Napier, left, PAS&T, pins medals on
members of the Air Force rifle team. Team
members placed sixth in the National ROTC
Intercollegiate Rifle Match. Team members are,
left to right, Colonel Napier, James Blackaller,
Russel G. Durrill, Bob N. Dobbins, Guy Shown,
L. O. Hill, D. W. Benson. Earl Bryant and John
G. Rowe are not pictured.
Members of the Air Force rifle
team were presented medals Tues
day by Col. E. W. Napier, PAS&T,
for placing sixth in the National
ROTC Intercollegiate Rifle Match
last March.
James A. Blackaller, Douglas W.
Benson, Earl W. Bryant, Russel
G. Durrill, Bob N. Dobbins, Lester
Owen Hill, John G. Rowe, and
Guy W. Shown ace members of
the team.
Medals were awarded to mem
bers of the ten highest scoring
teams in the match, which includ
ed all eligible teams from ROTC
units of the Army, Navy, Marine
Corps, and Air Force, a total of
36 entries.
A&M’s squad was eligible to
compete because of winning first
place in the 14 Air Force match,
held here last year.
All but three members of last
year’s Air Force team are back
this term.
The Army ROTC team won the
Fourth Army match, but was un
able to compete in the national
competition because of a lack of
personnel at the time.
The varsity team, composed of
both Army and Air Force cadets,
will fire their first match of the
year here against Baylor the morn
ing of the Baylor-A&M game Oct.
27.
Iron Works in Houston will talk j Hotel will be officials from A&M,
on the Mechanical development of ' TSCW, and TCU, as well as city
the “Cameron Lift-Plug Valve.”
Members of the ASME who are
interested in the process industries
will hear Bert N. Haas, assistant
engineering manager of the Texas
Division of D'ow Chemical Co. talk
on “A View of Process Industries
Problems.”
Charles F. Lewis, metallurgical
engineer of Cook Heat Treating
Company of Houston will talk on
“Hardenability, a Basic Tool.”
Formal discussion will be conduct
ed by Lloyd G. Berryman, A&M’s
ME department.
The meeting is open to the pub
lic, Charles E. Jones, professor
Mechanical Engineering Depart
ment, announced. Ten students
from Rice, Texas University and
A&M has been invited. The stu-
At the banquet to be held at 7
p.m., Dr. M. T. Harrington, presi
dent of the college. Dr. Howard H.
Barlow, dean of the school of en
gineering, Dr. A. VV. Melloh, vice
director of the Texas Engineering
Experiment Station and Dr. A. A.
Jakkula, director of the A&M Re
search Foundation will be honored
guests.
leaders of Fort Worth. Military
personnel from A&M and the
Fourth Army headquarters have
also indicated they will be present
for the review.
Sweetheart Wanda Harris will
(See CORPS, Page 3)
A&S Committee
Advisors Meet
• Election of officers and con
sideration of possible projects
will highlight the year’s first
meeting of the Arts and Sci
ences Council Monday night
at 7:30. The meeting will be held
in the Senate Chamber of the MSC.
Officers to be elected are pres
ident, vice president, and secretary-
treasurer.
Departmental clubs within the
School of Arts and Sciences will
elect junior representatives to the
council, Dr. J. P. Abbott, dean of
the school, said.