/ Official Paper Of Texas A&M College And College Station HTlf TT> jIJL f • The Battalion PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Published by The Students Of Texas A&M For 73 Years Number 32: Volume 51 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1951 Price Five Cents Problems Voiced At Junior Officer Meeting in MSC By JOEL AUSTIN Battalion Managing Editor I “Now that the board is gone, what do we use?” That was the question many first sergeants were .asking- last night in a firey meet ing- held in the MSC Ballroom. | Col. Joe Davis, commandant, : tried to answer that question and many more in the first meeting of regimental sergeant-majors, first ■sergeants, and corps staff juniors which was held for the pm-pose of i airing complaints and problems of unit leaders. With colonel of the corps Eric Aggie Debaters Compete at UH Tournament The A&M Debate team will leave Thursday uight for Houston where they will par- participate in the University of Houston National Debate Tournament. : Members of the team are Dan Davis, James Parmer, Joe Riddle, and Bert Weller. The meet is of the extemporane- * ous type in that competing teams SMreceive their subjects only one hour before debating them. A list of subjects is chosen by vote of the competing teams at the beginning * of the tournament. An Aggie team composed of Farmer and Paul Jones took first place in this meet last year. Riddle of the Aggies will also enter the impromptu speaking por tion of the meet. Riddle took sec ond in this event at the TU Round up Meet last year. The special events are scheduled for Friday morning with the first round of debates beginning on that afternoon. Saturday morning and afternoon will be devoted to de bates. Winners will be announced that evening. A banquet is planned for all competing teams on Friday night. Carlson presiding, the juniors got the meeting in a frenzy hurridly by asking for some definite pun ishment which can be used quickly and effectively for subordinates. The juniors claimed the “bull ring” is now being used for men who have committed small punish able offenses, although the time for bull ring punishment some times comes weeks after the of fense has been committed. After three hours, however, no solution to the problems could be offered by Col. Davis or by the juniors. They agreed something- tangible must be substituted for the board, which has been ruled out of military units on the A&M campus. Col. Davis explained that any thing as far-x-eaching as a solu tion to their problems could not be decided overnight. For that rea son a group of seniors have been appointed to study this siuation and devise suitable punishment for offenders, he said. First Meeting The meeting was the first of several regular sessions scheduled for the group this year. Unit commanders and regimental com manders held a similar meeting- last week, and Nov. 11 a represen tative group of sophomores will meet with Col. Davis and Lt. Col. M. P. Bowden, assistant command ant who also attended last night’s session. “This meeting will afford us a good opportunity to get acquainted with problems we all know,” Col. Davis said. “There is no comman der who doesn’t have a superior, and we must all abide by the direc tives passed on to us,” the com mandant added. “Need Lasting Leadership” “What we are really after is not a means of punishment, but an answer to a means for lasting lead ership; leadership that will not fal ter in trying moments,” Col. Davis commented. “There is but one Corps of Ca dets at A&M and we must act so that we may bring credit to that corps. No votes are cast in a mil itary organization; it’s the com mander’s responsibility to act in the right manner so that the best results can be brought about,” he added. Smith Goes Down That’s all she wrote for Aggie fullback Bob Smith (36) as Baylor’s 0. C. Brocato (54) pulls him down during the game on Kyle Field Sat urday. And just to erase any doubt, Gale Gallo way (50) and Kenneth Casner (79) were right behind to give Brocato a hand. Infantrymen Beat Off Red Drive; Move Ahead U. S. 8th Army Headquarters, Korea, Oct. 30—hT?—Allied infan trymen in Eastern Korea beat back an attack near Heartbreak Ridge by 1,000 Chinese in predawn dark ness today, then drove ahead 1,000 yards in daylight. On the Western front United Na tions forces gained more than half a mile northwest of Yonchon with little trouble. Reinforced Chinese who had hurled day-long attacks at the Al lies southeast of Kumsong in the center of the line Monday made only two small probing attacks Tuesday. Both were turned back. Sharp Mountain Fighting Sharpest fighting Tuesday was in the mountains between Kum song and Heartbreak Ridge. A battalion of screaming Chinese stormed against Allied infantry men in the early morning black ness. U. N. troops, dug in on a ridge Ags 18th, Baylor 8th, Texas 12th Yols Again Lead Football Poll New York, Oct. 30—(Ah—Ten nessee and Michigan State clung to the No. 1 and No. 2 positions in the Associated Press football poll today but the rest of the top ten underwent* a minor shakeup. Wisconsin, which spoiled North western’s perfect season 41-0, showed the greatest gain, leaping from the 14th notch to No. 10. The Badgers replaced Texas, which tumbled to 12th despite a 14-6 vic tory over Rice. Illinois, Maryland, and Princeton moved up on the strength of im pressive triumphs last Saturday. Georgia Tech, Southern California and Baylor lost a little ground but stayed in the top rankings. Califor nia held firm to the No. 9 spot. Illini Makes Third The Illini, whipped up with Rose Bowl fever, moved into third after humbling Indiana, 21-0, and sent unbeaten Georgia Tech, 8-7 victor Reds Offering No Reasonable Solution, Say Negotiators Munsan, Korea, Oct. 30—(A 1 )—A United Nations truce negotiator said today “we’re busting our guts trying to get this war settled” but the Reds are making “my attempt to get a reasonable solution.” The statement came from Maj. Gen. Henry I. Hodes, chairman, of the U.N. truce subcommittee, dur ing a recess in the sixth joint sub committee session at Panmunjom. The negotiators met three hours but failed to make headway toward creating a Korean cease-fire line. Another meeting is scheduled for 11 a.m. Wednesday (9 p.m. Tues day EST). No Progress Made Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols, U.N. spokesman, said: “The Communists continued to press for their proposal which would trade indefensible territory in west Korea in the Ongjin area for important military positions along the battlefront. No prog ress toward a solution was made.” At Panmunjom, within sight of bursting Allied shells, Hodes said the Communists “have made no trade, no offer, no attempt to get a reasonable solution. “They say they will withdraw from the Ongjin and Yonan penin sulas. This is absolutely mean ingless. It makes no difference to us and it makes no difference to them. There isn’t any argument for it.” The two peninsulas are west of the battleline. They protrude be low the 38th Parallel, old political boundary line between North and South Korea. Ongjin is cut off by water from the rest of South Ko rea. Reds Have Counterproposal The Allies want U.N. troops left in a defensible position along what ever cease-fire line is created for the armistice. Their latest pro posal is for a 2 1 /2-mile wide buffer zone along present battle lines. Under the Reds’ counterproposal U.N. troops would have to retreat five to 15 miles southward from their present ridges. A newsman commented to Hodes that the Red plan would mean Al lied withdrawal from newly won Heartbreak Ridge on the Eastern front. The general Chief of Staff of the U.S. 8th Army replied: “There are a hell of a lot of heartbreak ridges as far as I’m concerned—a couple of hundred of them.” Hodes said the Communist nego tiators objected to giving up Kae song, former site of truce confer ences, as asked in the U.N. pro posal. Lions Entertain Ladies WithMSC Dinner-Dance “Zany” was the word for the College Station Lions Club Ladies’ Night program Monday night, ac- ording to Dr. A1 Price, president. The quarterly affair, a dinner- dance with entertainment, was held in the Assembly Room of the MSC, starting at 6:30. About 50 mem bers and wives were present. Festivities were started by a community sing-song led by Tom Stephens. Invocation was given by A. B. Medlin, then guests settled down to a turkey dinner. Eating was interrupted when the lights went out and a scream echo ed through the room, introducing a skit about the pitfalls of married life featuring W. H. LeRoy and Dr. John H. Milliff. Roddy Peeples played several accordion selections. Next was a barber shop quarter composed of Homer Blackhurst, Dr. W. A. Bon- ey, Lucian Morgan and Herb Thompson. Mrs. A. B. Medlin ac companied them on the piano. The club’s official tail-twisters, Bob Cain and Lt. Col. Alex Currie, re-fought the War between the states to end the program. After the entertainment, mem bers and their wives danced to music by the MSC juke box. Bridge and canasta games were available for those who did not care to dance. “They said that we (Allied troops) are not anywhere near the area,” Hodes commented. “That is true today. Prior to the nego tiations last July, our people were in as much control of the area as the enemy.” He said the Reds got Kaesong “by default.” Rear Adm. Arleigh Burke, the other U. N. subcommitteeman, commented: “They didnt lose very many men taking Kaesong.” Hodes said he and Burke spent “a great deal of time” trying to show how unacceptable the Red proposal “is to us.” The Com munists replied their own plan was fair but the U. N. idea was “un fair, unreasonable and unjust.” over Vanberbilt, skidding to fifth. Maryland also moved up a single rung to the No. 4 on the strength of its 27-0 rout of LSU. The pride of Eastern football, Princeton, climbed from eighth to sixth after its 53-15 shellacking of Cornell. Southern California, which had a tight squeeze to get past Texas Christian 28-26 fell from sixth to seventh while Baylor, tied 21-21 by Texas A&M, dropped from seventh to eighth. ,. Tennessee, holding the top, lost some favor despite its 68-0 rout of Tennessee Tech. Their point total was 1,213, only a slight margin over Michigan State, which accumulated 1,131 points and 25 first place votes. Michigan State again had to come from behind last Saturday to whip Pittsburgh, 53-26. Notre Dame, Kentucky and Ok lahoma made the biggest gains outside the top ten. Tennessee has one of its tough est games next Saturday against North Carolina while Michigan It’s a BIGGER Red Feather This Year! State is idle. Illinois plays Michi gan, Maryland meets Missouri, Georgia Tech faces Duke, Prince ton meets Brown, Southern Cal opposes Army in New York, Bay lor faces TCU, California engages UCLA and Wisconsin takes on In diana. The first ten, with team records and first place votes in parenthe sis: Team Points 1. Tennessee (5-0) (59) 1213 2. Michigan S. (610) (25) -..1131 3. Illinois (6-0) (15) 1022 4. Maryland (5-0) (22) 905 5. Georgia Tech (6-0) (9).... 904 6. Princeton (5-0) (14 891 7. S. California (6-1) (7) .... 664 8. Baylor (4-0-1) 345 9. California (5-1) 319 10. Wisconsin (3-1-1) (2) 287 The Second Ten 11. Stanford (6-0) (2) 208 12. Texas (5-1) 205 (See POLL, Page 4) recently won from the Communists west of Heartbreak, stuck to their foxholes and trenches and cut down the shouting Reds. With daylight, other U.N. infan trymen in the same area jumped off in an attack. By noon they had pushed forward 1,000 yards against light opposition. The Reds mounted only four oth er “light probing attacks” along the entire front, the Eighth Army reported. Two were by platoon sized forces near Kumsong, where the Chinese recently shoved in a fresh division to curb U. N. ad vances. One small attack was knocked down north of Yanggu, not far from Heartbreak Ridge. The fourth was northwest of Kansong on the East coast. Monday 110 fighter-bombers, most of them operating over the Eastern ridges, bomber, burned and strafed the Reds in frontline ac tion. Altogether the Fifth Air Force mounted 916 sorties by Korea-bas ed planes. This is only the second time that moret han 900 sorties have been flown from Korea. More than 100 other flights were made by planes from Japan and Oki nawa, including B-29 strikes through heavy flak at newly built airfields in northwest Korea. Red antiaircraft batteries shot down three Allied fighters — a Shooting Star Jet, an F-51 Mus tang and a marine F-4U. Fighter pilots reported they inflicted 320 casualties Monday. Casualties Tallied The Eighth Army said ground forces inflicted 11,075 casualties on the Reds last week. These in cluded 7,000 Reds killed, 3,500 wounded and 575 captured. The U. S. Cruiser Toledo and Destroyer MacKenzie supplied sea borne artillery in support of South Koreans along the East coast. They hit Red entrenchments and ammu nition dumps with 580 pounds from their eight and five-inch guns Mon day. At the opposite end of the line Red frontline positions were shell ed by the Canadian Destroyer Ca yuga and the British Frigate Ame thyst. The Amethyst is operating from the Han River, south of Panmun jom where Allied truec negotiators said the Reds were making “no attempt to get a reasonable solu tion” for a cease-fire line in Ko rea. The statement came from Maj. Gen. Henry I. Hodes, chair man of the U. N. truec subcom mittee during Tuesday’s sessions to break the long armistice deadlock. Johnson Backs UMT Plans In Cong ress Washington, Oct. 30—(if*) Senator Lyndon Johnson (D- Tex) said today he would urge that universal military train ing legislation be given top priority when Congress returns next year. The new National Security Training Commission urged Sun day that UMT be started as soon as possible. The commission was established by Congress when it passed, at the session just ended, legislation approving the general idea of UMT. The commission was se up to plan UMT. Under the law, the Senate and House Armed Services committees must go right to work on the com mission’s UMT plan after the new session begins. UMT cannot go into effect until Congress approves a detailed plan. Several lawmak ers have predicted a hot fight over the enabling legislation. Yesterday, members of the train ing commission said at a news con ference that Congress could be ready to take in the first 18-year- old trainees by June or July. Johnson, chairman of the Mili tary Preparedness subcommittee and an assistant Democratic lead er, said in a statement from his office that “a victory is now in sight in the struggle for a realis tic military manpower policy for the United States.” “In these troubled times,” he said, “I believe that legislation to establish a permanent military manpower policy should have the very highest priority. Prize Stockpile Growing For Batt Pipe Smoking Contest A stockpile of prizes is accum ulating daily for The Battalion- MSC sponsored Pipe Smoking Con test which occurs Nov. 5 in the Ballroom of the MSC. Latest addi tion to the prizes, which will be awarded to the winners in the con test, are from the Phillip Morris Company. Included in the Philip Morris gifts are 12 pocket-size cans each of Bond Street, Revelation, and Country Doctor pipe tobaccos. Also donated were three one-pound cans of each of the above tobaccos and three half-pound cans. Mrs. Arhopulos to Judge Mrs. John Arhopulos, better known to Aggies as “Aunt Katy”, was added to the judging staff to day. “Aunt Katy” is the proprietor of the 12th Man Inn. Other judges Community Chest Drive Gets Started In College Station With $10,000 Goal By BRYAN SPENCER Battalion Staff Writer Stop a minute, look around you; this is a nice community, a good place to live and have your child ren grow up. The College Station Community Chest is one of the organizations that make this pos sible. The Community Chest Drive for 1951 got underway yesterday and will continue through Nov. 10. Only organizations that contri bute to the well being and happi ness of the community were ap proved for participation in the 1951 Community Chest. Twelve Groups Get Funds Twelve such organizations will be appropriated funds under this year’s Community Chest, which will be seeking a combined goal of $10,000. “The cooperation and support of everyone in the community is needed to assure the success of this single united fund-raising pro gram to meet the $10,00 budget,” said Bennie A. Zinn, chest publicity director. At a public budget hearing held Oct. 9, the chest committee receiv ed requests totaling $12,300. Ad justments to the requests of var ious organizations were made by the committee to bring the 1951- 52 budget within reach of the an ticipated income, Zinn reported. Monies from the 1951 campaign will be distributed accordingly: Brazos County TB Association $1,000 College Station YMCA 400 Boy Scouts of America 2,250 Girl Scouts of America 2,000 Salvation Army 500 Brazos Crippled Children’s Association 250 Brazos County Hospital ization Fund 400 Bryan YMCA 500 Needy Children’s Fund (Sponsored by CS Mother’s an Dad’s Club 400 American Cancer Society 300 CS Recreational Council 900 CS Chest Charity Fund 1,000 Postal, Supplies, Clerical 100 Total $10,000 The above budget is based on the current gross monthly .payroll of College Station. If everyone in the city gives one day’s pay, the quota can easily be met, Zinn informed. The American Red Cross, Na tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, and United Services Or ganizations were invited to parti cipate in the Community Chest, but did not submit requests, so were therefore not included in the budget Zinn said. 41 Percent for Charity Forty-one percent of the $10,000 budget is for charitable organiza tions. These organizations help feed and clothe needy school chil dren, allow for funds when disas ter strikes, and provides help when accidents occur. If a family is unable to meet hospital bills, a program has been worked out whereby the doctor will donate his services freely and the hospital will minimize its bill. Needy cases are never turned away because funds are lacking by the individual. Members of the local chest com mittee are as follow's: J. G. Mc Guire, chairman; J. B. Longley, secretary-treasurer; V. E. Schem- ber; Dr. H. E. Hampton; Dr. P. W. Burns; L. J. Horn; E. E. Vezey; G. W. Black; Don Young; R. E. Callender; B. A. Zinn; Lt. Col. M. P. Bowden; Lloyd Smith; and Tom Taylor. Contacted at Businesses This year’s campaign will not be a door-to-door drive, but the above men will contact the com munity through their business es tablishments or the places where they are employed. Ten of the above named men, who are employed by the college, have the campus divided into sec tions with each member respon sible for the people in his section. Bennie Zinn, for example, is re sponsible for the MSC and Good win Hall. Zinn will contact the heads of departments in the MSC and Goodwin Hall and they in turn explain in turn to their de partment members. The other committee members will contact business establish ments in the College Station area. on the staff are C. G. “Spike” White; Major C. L. Thomas, air science instructor; Barney Welch, Director of Intramural Athletics; W. H. Rothrock, modern languages professor; and C. K. Esten, Eng lish department professor. Rules for the contest are few and simple. It is open to all, with a special division for professors and instructors only. Entry blanks will soon appear in The Battalion and in the lobby of the MSC. Object of the pipe and cigar con tests will be. to keep the tobacco burning for a longer period of time than the opponents. Prizes will be exhibited in the MSC prior to the contest. Pipe Collections Monday Those entering pipe collections in the contest must have them in the MSC Ballroom by four p. m. Monday. This is to allow time in which to arrange the displays so it will not interfere with the oper ation of the contest and will af ford the judge ample time to exam ine the collections. You may enter as many divisions as you wish. Pipe-smoking will in clude large, medium, small, minia ture, and metal bowl competition with special sections set for Cala bash Corn-Cob and Churclnvardeu puffers. A special staff of moderators has been named for the contest, to keep a steady flow of tobacco on the firing line and to distribute samples of tobacco to the specta tors. Chairman of the staff is Allen K. Pengelly. Assisting Pen- gelly wdll be Christy Orth, Truett Fields, and Bob Jones. Roll-Your-Own Contest Two divisions will be open to “roll-your-own” addicts. One diy- ivision will be for the “profession als,” those who use the rough cuts of tobacco, and the other will be “amateur division”, which will fea ture a smoother cut tobacco. Smoke ring blowers will have a chance to demonstrate their skill. Prizes will be awarded for the largest smoke rings and for the most consecutive rings from one puff. F. W. Powell, instructor in the English Department, is the record holder in the prof’s division of the contest. Two years ago he kept his briar going for two hours without missing a puff, and when last seen was still puffing away. Old Attendance Mark Broken at Food Meet A record number of delegates attended the annual Texaas Nutri tion conference held Friday and Saturday in the MSC. “Attendance at the first session exceeded 200,” said Dr. J. R. Couch, professor of the Poultry Husband ry department. “This is the larg est group ever to attend the con ference.” Dr. C. M. Lyman, head of Bio chemistry and Nutrition depart ment, presided over the first ses sion. President M. T. Harrington welcomed the group to the campus and also briefly told the group how A&M came to be one of the na tion’s land grant colleges. Floyd Deacon, president Texas Feed Manufacturers association, told the group that research was responsible for the great progress that has been made in the feed industry during recent years and urged that the fine cooperation be tween the industry and the A&M System not only be continued but even improved. Jack Dean, executive vice-pres ident of Mid-West Feed Manufac turers Association, Kansas City, Mo., discussed the value of team work in getting the job done. Oth er speakers included Tom Brine- gar, director of research, Feed Age Magazine; Dr. I. W. Rupel, Head of Dairy Husbandry department; R. E. Leighton, Dairy Husbandry department; O. Burr Ross, man ager and research director for Gooch Feed Mills, Salina, Kan., and J. K. Riggs, Animal Husbandry department.