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.