The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 25, 1951, Image 1
D. B. COFFER COLLEGE ARCHIViST STUDENT MEMORIAL CENTER F. E. 3 COPIES Official Paper Of Texas A&M College And College Station Battalion PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Number 29: Volume 52 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1951 Published by The Students Of Texas A&M For 73 Years Price Five Cents Cards Will Admit Students to Game; Corps to Parade Colored cards will be issued to all member.< of the cadet corps this week in order to assure ade quate seating space in the var ious sections reserved last Mon day night by the Student Senate. The cards will be perforated, al lowing students to detach a por tion of the card for dates to get in before the corps marches into Kyle Field. List Asked Harold Chandler, chairman of the colored card committee, asked first sergeants to turn in an ac curate list of members of each class in their units so exactly the right number cards can, be issued. Seniors will be given red cards; juniors, blue cards; and sopho mores and freshmen, buff cards. Non-corps members will be ad mitted to their sections according to classification which will be shown as they present ID cards for admission to the stadium. Non corps seniors will be admitted to their section by showing their ring. Corps to March The Corps of Cadets will assem ble on the main drill field to march into the A&M-Baylor game Saturday at 12:30, announced Billy Turner, corps operations officer. The pass-by type review will be graded from the assembly point UN Proposes Give-and-Take Compromise Munsan, Korea, Oct. 25 — UP)—The United Nations to day proposed a give-and-take compromise to set up a buffer zone across the wartorn Ko rean peninsula. The U. N. proposal called for the Allies to yield about 200 square miles of North Korea in the East, jmd for the Reds to give up a similar area in the West. The buffer zone would be about 2% miles wide and follow gener ally present battle lines. The proposal was introduced in a subcommittee meeting in Pan- munjom shortly after cease-fire negotiations were resumed by the main Red and Allied teams, ending a 64-day breakdown in the parleys. There was no immediate indi cation of Communist reaction. The Reds previously demanded a buf fer zone along Parallel 38, old po litical boundary between North and South Korea. Maj. Gen. Henry I. Hodes, sub committeeman who presented the Allied proposal, cautioned the Reds to accept it,, or face a less favor able offer later. He pointed out that while talks were in recess, the Allies had advanced their line many miles northward. After the proposal, accompanied by detailed maps, was made to the Communists, the subcommittee ad journed until 11 a.m. Friday. until the march is completed Tur ner said. Colors and guidons will be carried, uniforms will be num ber one khaki with khaki ties, belts, and overseas caps. Turner also announced that seniors will wear boots, although sabers will not be carried. Units will assemble on the drill field at 12:30. The first unit will move out at 12:40. The corps will march into the bowl entrance of Kyle Field at 12:45. Companies will form in three columns parallel to the MSC. In the first column will be Corps Staff Band, Senior Battalion, Ar mor-Engineer Regiment, Seventh Regiment, and Infantry Regiment. The First Air Force Wing, Sec ond Air Force Wing, Artillery Regiment, and Composite Regi ment will be in the second column. The Freshman Band and the Fresh man Regiment will make up the last column. Line of March The line of march will move down the east side of Clark Street, which runs in front of the MSC, across Lubbock Street into gate number two. The corps will then proceed around the west track, across the south end of the field, and to the rear of the stadium. “Commanders will be respon sible for assuring that units are dispersed quickly in order to pre vent a “jam-up’ of the remaining marching troops,” Turner said. Before the game first sergeants and sergeant majors will collect student tickets. Tickets will be placed in an envelope bearing the name of the organization and the number of tickets. Each envelope must contain a certificate signed by the unit com mander certifying that there is a ticket for each individual entering with that unit. Envelopes will be turned in to the sergeant major of the corps at gate two, the operations officer added. 'Story of A&M' “The Story of Texas A&M” major project for 1951 of the Association of Former Students De velopment Fund, will hold its premier Nov. 28, the day before the traditional Thanksgiving game. Written by George Sessions Perry, the book reports the story of A&M since it was es tablished in 1876. Perry’s Book on A&M Goes On Sale Here November 28 The long awaited ‘Story of Tex as A&M” by George Sessions Per ry will go on sale on the campus Nov. 28. The book, which is 309 pages long, is published by Mc Graw-Hill and will sell for $4. Perry is a resident of Rockdale and is a nationally known author of some note. He is the writer of many Cities of America series *26, ’41 Reunions Get Spotlight This Weekend Returning members of the Class of ’41 and ’26 and their guests will jam the housing facilities of the MSC, Aggieland Inn, and sur rounding College Station and Bry an hotels and tourists courts to the limit this weekend as the two groups celebrated their tenth and twenty-fifth anniversaries. Approximately 310 Aggies-exes and their guests will begin ar riving here tomorrow for a week end of renewed friendshipships and memories highlighted by the A&M- Baylor football game Saturday af ternoon, where they will be recog nized at halftime. Center of the activities will be the beautiful MSC, which many of the Exes will be seeing for the first time. Registration for early arrivals will be in the main lounge of the MSC Friday from 1 p. m.-9 p. m. Festiv ities will begin at 7 p. m. when the Class of ’26 holds a supper party at the Girl Scout House. The Class of ’41 will hold a Dutch Treat Party at 8 p. m. at Frank lin’s. Class of ’26 Exes will register in the Social Room of the MSC Saturday from 8 a. m. to 1 p. m. ’41 Exes will register at the sec ond floor lounge at the same time. Both classes will hold luncheons at the MSC at noon, after which they will go to the football game. Following the game will be relaxa tion, visiting and refreshments in the Social Room. A class dinner will be held in the MSC Ballroom that night by the Class of ’41 at p. m., while the Class of ’26 will hold their dinner in the Assembly Room at 7:30. Following the dinner, the Class of ’41 will hold an informal dance at the Bryan Country Club at 10 p. m. to which the ’26 Exes are invited. Begins Like This . . . stories in the Saturday Evening Post and the article about A&M appearing in that magazine last year. His books include the wide ly acclaimed Hold Autumn In Your Hand and Texas, A World in It self. The A&3I book is not an at tempt at a history of the school. It is a description of the college as it is seen through the eyes of a Texan who has no other connection with the school ex cept his interest as a taxpayer. The author says the story is an answer to the questions asked by a Rockdale boy thinking about coming to A&M. In answering these questions, Perry describes student life and the campus itself. “The Story of Texas A&M” be gins with a description of the in auguration of President M. T. Harrington last year. Perry then discusses some of the former stu dents of A&M that he has known. Differences in student life at A&M from that at other schools form the third chapter of the book. Student life and many of the traditions of the school are described. The military comes in for its share along with student publications, the band and the Singing Cadets. Each of the schools of the col lege is described in a separate chapter. Each school is treated in the humerous style for which George Sessions Perry is famous. Special attention is paid to the many boys who work their way through A&M each year. The book closes as it began with a description of the innaugural ceremony, with a chapter entitled “A New Era Begins.” In this chapter Perry takes a look at the future of A&M. The far-reaching plans of the college are discussed in detail. The book, which contains 32 pages of illustrations, will be sold by the Exchange Store and the MSC Gift Shop beginning Nov. 28. Plans call for Perry and his wife to be on the campus for an autograph signing p*ty on the day in which the book is released. The author will stay in the MSC and attend the TU football game the next day. Publication of “The Story of Texas A&M” is a project of the 1951 Development Fund of the For mer Students Association. Contri butors to the fund will receive a free copy of the book mailed di rectly from New York. The Mc Graw-Hill Company will begin mailing these copies on Nov. 12. Each copy will be personalized with a book plate printed with the owners name. Britons at Polls Today; Churchill Gets Last Bid London, Oct. 25 — UP) — Millions of Britons voted today in a critical general election as W i n s t o n Churchill tried again to unseat Clement Attlee’s Socialist govern ment. It was, perhaps, the aging Churchill’s last bid for the pre miership he lost in 1945. The polls opened at 7 a.m. (2 a.m. EST) and people were wait ing even at that hour. Workmen stopped on their way to factories to drop the first bal lots, mingling with others coming home from all night shifts. Both Conservatives and Socialists sent fleets of automobiles through streets still gray and foggy to carry people who were pressed for time. Open Until 9 p.m. The polls remain open until 9 p.m. (4 p.m. EST). The weather—usually considered a key factor in British elections— was foggy and cold over most of England and Wales. Rain clouds were reported over Scotland and Northern Ireland. Clearing weath er was forecast for most of the country later today, however. Election experts of both parties said the total vote might exceed even the record set last year when 28,769,477 (85 per cent) of the nearly 35,000,000 registered voters cast ballots. They based this forecast on the fact that both parties have con ducted intensive drives to get out the vote and on the belief that the fundamental issues of the elec tion have become so fiercely con troversial that few ballots would go unused today. Even after the polls opened, teams from both parties continued to go from house to house, asking people if they had voted and of fering transportation to the polls. King to Hear Results From Buckingham Palace came word that King George VI, still recuperating from a major lung operation, will remain awake until midnight tonight to get election results. His doctors have sanc tioned the late hour for this occa sion. Election-recording boards were get up in Picadilly Circus and in Dillard Speaks Tonight At Quarterback Meeting Jack Dillard, secretary of the Baylor Ex-Students Association, will address the Quarterback Club tonight. Dillard, a congenial and humorous speaker, will tell the quarterbacks some interesting facts and anecdotes concerning the Baylor players and coaches. Films of the Texas A&M-TCU upset will be viewed at the meet. Ray Graves, quarterback of the Aggie squad, who made a great hit with second guessers at the last meeting, will be present to comment on the films as they are unreeled. A second feature, last year’s A&M-SMU battle, will be shown following the TCU game films. A football official will be pre sent to explain the controversial “on-sides” kick-off of the Frogs after their initial touchdown. Ac tually the “on-sides” kick was a free kick that the Christians used. J. T. Stringer, winner of last week’s QB contest, will be present ed two tickets to the Baylor-A&M game at the meeting, which gets underway at 7:45 p. m. in the As sembly Hall. Rosie Wood, second place winner, will be presented two cartons of cigarettes, presented by the campus Chesterfield repre sentative. IUs Quite A Job Planning Formations for Aggie Band Purpose of the Battalion QB Club is to develop support and interest in the Aggie football team and coaches. Each week an outstand ing and prominent speaker is in vited to address the club. In addi tion to this, the Club sponsors a weekly contest of picking.the win ners of football games, and awards the winner two tickets to the com ing A&M game. Sponsors of the QB Clubs in clude the following merchants in Bryan and College Station: Tom McCall’s Phillips’ 66 Service Sta tion; Sanitary Farm Dairies; Am erican Laundry-Dry Cleaners; Cen tral Texas Hardware Co.; J. C. Penny Co.; A&M Grill; Parker- Astin Hardware Co.; Cade Motor Co.; Lack’s Associate Store; and Kelley’s Coffee Shop. other gathering points by London newspapers. As the polls opened, both major parties issued confident statements predicting victory. Public opinion surveys ended with the Conserva- twes still on top in graphs and charts—but with the lead over La bor greatly narrowed in the final hours. Both parties were contending hotly for the Liberal vote. The Liberals—Britain’s third force— number 2,000,000 voters, but have put up candidates in only a few districts. Final messages from both Churchill and Prime Minister Att lee tersely rephrased the central issues. These were: • Whether to continue the vast Socialist experiment in state con trol over business and industry or whether to restore the Conserva- to a system devoted to private en terprise. ® Whether to bring back Churchill, on whom the Socialists have attempted to pin the label “warmonger” and who, they warn, would pursue a line of policy that easily could lead to war. Inherent in the first are the pressing questions of prices, wages, housing, subsidies, and taxes. Foreign Policy Disagreements In the area of foreign policy, fo cal points of disagreement are re lations with the United States, methods of conduct in the cold war with Russia and the struggles in Iran and Egypt. Even in the final hours the So cialists pounded the theme that Churchill, at the head of the gov ernment, would endanger peace. He has called this charge a “cruel and tives and return as far as possible 1 ungrateful accusation.” New Ag Magazine Mailed Out Today By CARL POSEY Battalion Staff Writer The first edition of The Texas A&M Agriculturist is in the mail today and contrary to general be lief, it not only contains plenty of good reading material for agricul ture majors, but also for the gen eral reading public. Editor Jim Lehmann, Associate Editor Warren Pierce, Assistant Editor Don Hegi, and their staff have produced the initial issue of the student publication for mem bers of the Agriculture School. Probably one of the best articles in the magazine, as far as, general reading appeal is concerned, is “ROTC at Texas A&M.” In this story author Gene. Steed discusses the advantages of being in an ROTC unit and the even bigger ad- cvantages of being in the Texas A&M ROTC. Many parents and friends lab or under many apprehensions concerning military life at A&M, Steed explains. His article helps clear up some of these vague notions that exist off our cam pus and serves to enlighten those folks back home. An article on welding by Jack Vincent is the first to catch the readers eye. This story goes not only into a few of the fundamental processes of welding, but also the advantages and disadvantages of having such a mechanical helper on the farm. To demonstrate the Agricultur ist’s affinity for variety, there is a story on wiggle worms. The ar ticle tells about a man at Lpling who started raising wiggle worms and found it lucrative, so he went into the mass production of wiggle worms. At the present he is doing a big business, the story explains. The magazine goes on to ex plode falacies concerning worms and snakes. One of the best fea tures in the magazine, this arti cle is very informing to the lay man farmer. Antibotics and their potential ities in livestock feeding are dis cussed at length. Defoliation, a process by which a cotton plant can be devealed chemically, is also handled thoroughly. Perhaps the reader may have wondered about whom someone he sees everyday. Some elderly lady or man—someone that has a fam iliar face, but an unfamiliar name and background. The Agricultur ist takes care of that in the regUr lar monthly feature, “Familiar Faces” another of the many gen eral interest stories. “Spokes of the Wheel” is an other regular feature in the new Agriculturist. Something of a local who’s-who, it shows some of the better men in their senior year in the field of agriculture, and why they ai'e there. U. N. Group Organizes On UN Birthday A graduate student from Paraguey was elected presi dent of the recently reorgan ized United Nation’s club last night. This was the first meeting of the year for the cosmo politan club and was held on the sixth birthday of the UN. The President, G. L, Artecona, after the election gave a resume of the activities of the United Nations during the past six years. Com mandant Col. Joe Davis gave a talk on the origin and history of the UN and answered questions for the members of the club. Following Artecona's talk, he read a letter from the club ad dressed to Mason L. Cashion, sec retary of the YMCA. thanking Cashion for work done in further ing the club. Ends Like This Using a miniature gridiron and metal figurines of Aggie bandsmen, Band Director Col. E. V. Adams, ’29, explains the formation the band will use as a salute to A&M during football game halftime activities. All maneuvers to be carried out by the famous 170 piece marching band are worked out with the miniature bandsmen before the band tries them out on the practice field. Receiving instruction on the standard T-A-M-C salute are Drum Major Jimmy Rogers and Consolidated Band Commander Voris Burch. It’s quite a job moving 170 men around a football field just in the right place, just at the right time. But it is old stuff to Col. E. V. Adams and his Texas Aggies band as they go from week to week learning new formations and nev er failing to amaze spectators during football game halftime per formances. The week’s work starts out on a board which is marked off like a miniature football field. Col. Adams has little men to move around on the board and with much planning—plus his “know-how” gathered through years of experience, plots out the band’s formation. Head drum major Jimmy Rogers and Con solidated Band Commander Voris Burch also add their touch to the colonel’s plans each week. For the Baylor halftime perfor mance, the cadet band will enter the field in a large rectangle. From that formation they will go into a gigantic “T” which will include 180 men (ten more than used previously). Marching up the field while playing the “Aggie War Hymn” the cadets will do a to-the-rear movement and then countermarch, still in the “T” and still playing. Then into regular marching for mation they’ll go and next the famed marching contingent will execute the difficult “lost indian countermarch.” It will be their first time to do that movement this year. After countermarching the band will form the letters B-E-A-R-S facing one side of the stadium, and then completely reverse the symbols to face the other side. Music to the tune of “Golden Bears” will be played while in that formation. Finally, the band will form the letters T-W-E-L-F-T-H M-A-N facing the Aggie section as they play the song they are naming, “The Twelfth Man.” The group will then march off the field into the sidelines. After hours of practice and meticulous care in working out details of the T-A-M-C formation, the Aggie band takes to the full size gridiron to actually demonstrate the T-A-M-C formation which originated on the band director’s minia ture football field. On the average, it takes the Aggie band a minimum of five hours practice to work out formatioons that the thousands of football fans see during a usual 10 minutes half time performance.