Official Paper
Of Texas A&M College
And College Station
Number 33: Volume 52
The Battalion
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1951
Published by The Students
Of Texas A&M
For 73 Years
Price Five Cents
College Investment
Change Proposed,
Voting Set Nov. 1
Straight Poop
By ALLEN K. PENGELLY
Battalion City Editor
A state election will be held on
Nov. 13 to vote upon five proposed
amendments to the Texas Consti
tution. Voters will be required to
vote either yes or no for the
amendments.
The ammendments on the ballot
will he arranged as follows:
Proposition one—a system of re
tirement for county appointed of
ficials and employees.
Proposition two—the allowing of
state school bonds to be invested
in other types of stocks and bonds
besides municipal, state, and fed
eral securities.
Proposition three —* t h e estab
lishment of rural fire protection.
Proposition four — An increase
in veteran land bonds.
Proposition five—An increase in
pensions for old age, blind, and
other state citizens receiving com
pensation from the state.
The passage of the second
amendment would mean more
money could be placed at the dis
posal of the state supported col
leges and universities. At present,
approximately two percent is paid
on the constitution specified types
of bonds whereas, with the passage
of the ammendment, the perman
ent University Fund could earn as
high as five or six percent inter
est on its capital.
Two Polls
There will be two polls set up
in the College Station area; one
Marital Course
Discussed By
MSC Council
Introduction of a marriage
relations course into MSC ac
tivities was discussed Monday
night at the meeting of the
MSC Council.
The meeting was held in the
Senate Chamber of the MSC.
“A need for such a course was
realized last year,” Dan Davis,
president of the council, said, “but
it has taken until this year to
develop the foundation for teach
ing it.”
Technical students especially
asked that a course dealing with
marital relations be started, Davis
explained. These students do not
have time to take courses in the
subject and still meet all require
ments for their other studies.
Another of the projects which
the MSC plans this year is a prac
tice dinner at which students who
are ill at ease at social functions
may learn to overcome this diffi
culty.
An authority on etiquette will
conduct this practice dinner. Point
ers will be given to aid the person
who is not sure of himself.
A Baldwin Grand piano was ac
cepted by the council on behalf of
the MSC. This action was taken
at the suggestion of the council’s
gift committee.
A mobile church organ, which
was donated to the MSC, wall be
delivered in about one month, J.
Wayne Stark, MSC director an
nounced.
A plan to secure cadet activity
points for students participating
in MSC activities was announced
by the awards committee of the
council.
No signs of an advestising na
ture will be allow'ed on the MSC
grounds in the future, the council
decided. If such signs are demon
strated, they must first be ap
proved by the house committee of
the Council.
will be at A&M Consolidated High
School and the other will be in the
Culpepper building in College Hills.
The polls will open at 8 a. m. and
will not close until 7 p. m.
County Judge A. S. Ware has
appointed Hershel Burgess, P. L.
“Pinky” Downs, and George Wil
cox as election judges. Their duties
include the registering of the vot
ers, tabulating the votes, and turn
ing in their reports to the County
Judge’s office.
“The election judges would ap
preciate everyone voting as early
in the day as possible. This will
cut down on the congestion occur-
ing when workers come to vote and
will also facilitate our getting in
the necessary tabulations and re
ports to the County Clerk’s office
early,” said Burgess.
7000 Out Of 10,000
“There are approximately 10,000
potential voters in Brazos County
at this time,” said Judge Ware,
“however there are only around
7,000 of this potential qualified
to vote in this election.
Voting qualifications for Texas
are that the voter must be 21
years or older, have a certified
poll tax, and be a resident of the
area where the ballot is cast.
The County Tax Collector’s of
fice says that although the pur
chase of a 1950 poll tax, necessary
for this election, is impossible, the
1951 poll tax may be purchased
anytime until the office doses on
Jan. 31, 1952.
“I’ve spoken to various social
and civic clubs about the impor
tance of going to the polls elec
tion day,” said Judge Ware, “how
ever, most of the people indicated
the reason they didn’t vote in
some elections was because they
weren’t informed of the issues on
the ballot.
“Apathy is our greatest enemy.
I urge the citizens of Brazos
County to learn all they can about
the issues to appear on the Novem
ber ballot and go to the polls to
cast their opinion.”
Meter man Short
Course Here Nov. 5
Electrical metermen will hold a
Public Utility Short Course on the
campus Nov. 5. The course is spon
sored by the electrical engineering
department.
Registration will be held in the
main office of Bolton Hall from
8 until 10 a. m. Nov. 5. A regis
tration fee of $6.00 per person
will be charged.
Meetings will be held in Rooms
104 and 301 of Bolton Hall and
Room 3B of the MSC.
A banquet is scheduled for Nov.
7 in the MSC at 7 p. m. Tickets
may be secured at the registration
desk for $2.50.
Red Truce Delegation
Makes Peace Proposal
Munsan, Korea, Oct. 31—(A 3 )—i best proposal.”
Red truce negotiators offered to- ! The surprise Red offer approach-
day to create a buffer zone along
their version of the present battle
line in Korea.
They called it their “last and
Col. Joe Davis, Commandant, conducts an open
forum with the top ranking non-commissioned
members of the corps. During the meeting the
question of discipline was talked over by the men.
Vet Med Meet
| Attended By
2 A&M Profs
$10,000 Goal Set for Local
Community Chest Campaign
By IDE TROTTER
Battalion Staff Writer
Approximately $10,000 is ex
pected to be solicited during the
current fund raising campaign of
the College Station Community
Chest, Bennie A. Zinn, publicity
director for the drive, said Tues
day. The campaign ends Nov. 10.
“This is really a Community
Chest and since the A&M faculty
and employees comprise such a
large part of the community, col
lege officials take an active part
in the campaign,” Zinn said.
Forty-one percent of this year’s
$10,000 budget is for charitable
organizations, he explained.
The Brazos County TB Associa
tion will get $1,000 from the new
budget. In the last three years
the TB Association has provided
facilities for taking over 5,000
chest X-Rays. It has also handled
the transportation of destitute pa
tients to state supported hospitals.
Needy Aided
Each year many cases involving
needy families or individuals are
handled by the local Salvation
Army. The Needy Children’s Fund
which is sponsored by the College
Station Mother’s and Dad’s Club
provides lunches and clothing for
children of families which can
not properly care for them. The
chest will provide $900 for these
two organizations in the coming
year, the publicity director said.
An additional $1,000 is set aside
Bait Staff Meeting
Tonight at 7:15
All members of the Battalion
staff are asked to be present
for a staff meeting tonight in
the Battalion office at 7:15.
Refreshments will be served.
in the Charity Fund. This is al
most a contingency fund and is
used to meet all emergencies
which may arise. In the past' it
has been used to supply funds to
destitute people until state agen
cies can take over, and as a loan
fund.
“It is always available to those
in need,” Zinn said.
The Brazos County Crippled
Children’s Association will get $250
this year. This group provides
for aid to crippled children in the
county, and each year sponsors a
local crippled children’s clinic at
the A&M hospital for several days.
Free hospitalization is provided
by the Brazos County Hospitaliza
tion Fund for those who need and
can not afford it. By obtaining re
duced rates, where possible, the
fund is spread to cover more cases,
Zinn explained. The College Sta
tion Community Chest has allocat
ed $400 to the hospitalization fund
this year.
The local Community Chest was
originated in 1932 as an aid to the
needy.
Members of this year’s chest
committee are Zinn, J. G. McGuire,
chairman; J. B. Longley, secre
tary-treasurer; V. E. Schember,
Dr. H. E. Hampton, Dr. P. W.
Burns, L. J. Horn E. E. Veezy, G.
W. Black, Don Young, R. E. Cal
lender, Lt. Col. M. P. Bowden,
Lloyd Smith, and Tom Taylor.
Two department heads of
the School of Veterinary Med
icine took part in the first
Pan American Conference on
Veterinary Medicine in Lima,
Peru, Oct. 20-26.
Dr. John Delaplane, head of
the veterinary bacteriology and
hygiene department and nationally
recognized authority on poultry
diseases, took part in a discussion
on this subject.
Dr. R. D. Turk, head of the vet
erinary parasitology department,
participated in a round table dis
cussion on animal parasitism.
The conference was held in con
nection with the 400th anniversary
observance of the National Univer
sity of San Marcos, the oldest
university in the western hem
isphere, where one of the world’s
newest veterinary schools is locat
ed.
Dr. Turk, Dr. Delaplane and
other leading veterinary author
ities of the United States were
guests of the Peruvian govern
ment, which made the necessary
arrangements for them to attend.
(See VETS, Page 6)
Best Color
Guard Gets
Recognition
An annual award for the most
outstanding color team of the
Corps of Cadets has been estab
lished,, Lt. Col. M. P. Bowden, as
sistant commandant, announced
Tuesday.
The award will be known as the
Beyer-Hinton Award in honor of
Robert D. Hinton, ’52 and John A.
Beyers, ’52, who conceived the idea
and established a fund to provide
for it.
The award will consist of a gold
key for each color bearer and a
silver key for each color guard of
the team.
Col. Bowden said the team will
be selected by the military science
department on the basis of a spec
ial competition.
The Beyer-Hinton Award will
be presented at the Mother’s Day
Ceremonies each year.
Production
Aggression
Will Halt
W iison
Quebec, Oct. 31—<A>>—U. S. De
fense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson
said tonight the United States
is now set for the mass produc
tion of weapons calculated to
“throw fear into the hearts of any
wouldbe aggressor.”
Declaring that within two years
the allied arsenal will be “sky
scraper high,” Wilson said in a
speech prepared for the Canadian
Chamber of Commerce:
“You are about to see produc
tion really pouring out.
“We have already reached the
point where the strength we have
acquired should cause the men in
The Twelfth Man holds a short yell practice Monday night at Kyle
Field following the tie game between the Aggies and Baylor Sat
urday afternoon.
the Kremlin to pause long and to
think hard before they attack
us or our partnei’S in the free
world.”
Wilson said the United States,
embarked on a three-year $150-
billion defense program, will reach
“peak strength” in 1953, and if
necessary can keep up the pace in
definitely “and absorb the strain
of it in our stride.”
Doubts if Soviets Can
But he said he doubts if the
Soviets can do the same.
As a result, Wilson declared,
Russia must soon choose between
living in peace with the free world
or living in an island of austerity
under the threat of eventual re
volt by her satellies.
The mobilization chief said he
hopes it will be possible to reach
a lasting settlement with the Sov
iets, and he continued:
“If such a settlement is reached,
all mankind could breathe more
freely. Our armaments program
could then be reviewed. If it re
quired continuance at the present
rate to reach a position of relative
equation with the Soviets, it would
have to go on. Otherwise, it might
be cut down.
“All I personally would insist
upon is that we never find our
selves again in the position of pow
er inferiority which from 1946 on
has tempted Communist leaders in
to one act of aggression after an
other.”
Earlier in the day, Wilson help
ed dedicate a huge new steel works
at Pittsburgh, Pa., and announced
that the United States now pro
duces as much steel in 13 weeks
as Russia does in an entire year.
“Uncle Joe Stalin and his fel
low occupants of the Kremlin
may not be impressed by moral
arguments, but they do read pro
duction figures,” Wilson said.
Industrial Support Important
“They are fully aware that in
modern warfare the decisive factor
lies in industrial support of armies,
navies and air fleets.
“So the greatest hope of avoid
ing a third world war is in main
taining our industrial superiority
over that of the Soviet empire.”
Expressing doubt that Russia
can match the Allied military
build-up, Wilson said tonight that
if Russia fails to agree to pro
visions for lasting peace, the free
world could keep strong and still
enjoy growing prosperity.
That prosperity, he indicated,
won’t be shared by Russia if it
persists in remaining an armed
camp behind an iron curtain.
Moreover, Wilson said he doubt
ed that the Soviets could hold
their seized empire together, even
behind an iron curtain, if it fails
to provide prosperity.
“I do not see peoples such as the
Czechs and Poles docilely bowing
to Soviet rule—Soviet slavery is
a better term—for 10 years, for
20 years, for a century,” Wilson
said.
“Without for a moment minimiz
ing the difficulties, I feel that the
time will come when those peoples,
with a higher tradition of freedom
and living than the Soviets permit
their own and their captive peo
ples, will throw off the yoke, and
the Soviets wall once more stay be
hind their own borders.”
British Cabinet Gets
Cut in Size and Pay
London, Oct. 31 — <A?) — Prime
Minister Churchill cut both the size
and the pay of Britain’s new cab
inet last night.
He promised that more economy
in government will come, including
“large reductions in the use of
ministerial motor cars.”
The biggest pay slash was taken
by Churchill himself.
After the first meeting of his
Conservative cabinet, the 76-year-
old Prime Minister announced he
Fighting Light
While Awaiting
Korean Truce
U. S. 8th Army Headquar- as a shrewd 0 P eni,, s move for
ters, Korea, Oct. 31—(iP)
Maruding patrols took over
the quiet, rain-swept Korean
battle fronts today.
Fighting almost vanished as
hopes for an end to the shooting
were lifted by a new Communist
truce zone proposal. The Reds
called it their “last and best pro
posal” for a cease-fire buffer zone.
The largest fight reported by the
U. S. Eighth Army in a communi
que involved only a company of
Chinese. The Reds attacked at 4
a.m. southeast of Kumsong in the
center of the front behind a heavy
mortar barrage.
They forced Allied outposts to
retreat to their main lines, but the
Reds in turn were beaten back in
an hour-long fight.
Otherwise, the Eighth Army
said, there was “no significant ac
tion.”
Rains almost washed out the air
war. The Fifth Air Force report
ed only 318 sorties up to night
fall. Seventy-nine were in sup
port of ground troops.
During the night B-29 Super
forts blasted Red bunkers with
500-pound fragmentation bombs.
The superforts his Communist po
sitions at 20 points, aiming their
bombs by radar.
More than 100 light bombers
hunted down Red trucks by the
glow of flares during the night
in the Allies’ round-the-clock at
tack on Red efforts to supply their
front lines. They spotted more
than 2,000 trucks; reported 260 de
stroyed.
In daylight, marine fighters
ducking through low clouds re
ported they inflicted large damage
to supply centers. Shooting Star
Jets blew up a big fuel dump north
of Kumsong. Other Shooting Star
attacks blasted and burned 25
buildings, including a barracks
near the Red capital, Pyongyang,
will draw only 7,000 pounds ($19,-
600) a year instead of the 10,000
pounds ($28,000) given him by
law.
Other ministers, entitled to
5,000 pounds ($14,000). a year, will
get 4,000 pounds ($11,200).
The pay reduction is for “the
period of rearmament or for th ree
years, whichever ends first,”
Churchill said.
Britain is committed to spend
$1,316,000,000 over a three-year
period for rearmament in West
ern defense.
16-Man Government
Churchill’s government will func
tion with 16 members, the last
picked tonight, against a total of
17 in the Laborite cabinet of Cle
ment Attlee which it succeeds as a
result of last Thursday’s election.
The cut in ministerial salaries,
taken up at a meeting of the cab
inet, was viewed by observers here
ed demands of the United Nations
command. It brought the two
sides closer together than they
ever had been on the question.
Hopes soared in this truce camp.
But a U.N. command spokesman
said there were two important dif
ferences between the new Red of
fer and the Allied proposal:
1. The Reds want to keep Kae
song, former truce talks site. The
Allies want to take it over.
2. The Communist version of the
battle line is two or three miles
south of where the Allies place it.
These differences were pointed
out by Col. Andrew J. Kinney,
chief U.N. liaison officer.
Kinney said there were certain
other things the U.N. negotiators
could not accept immediately.
But, he added, the Communist
offer brought the buffer zone ques
tion nearer to a solution than at
any time since truce talks first
started July 10.
concerted drive to bring down over
all administrative costs.
Conservatives have harped that
the Labor bureaucracy was waste
ful.
Using the pay axe at the top
also will put Churchill’s govern
ment in a strong position, observ
ers feel, to deal with labor union
demands for higher wages and’bus-
iness demands for higher dividends
and prices.
Churchill completed his cabinet
with two sets of appointments. He
named four cabinet ministers and
two junior ministers. Tonight he
appointed three more cabinet min
isters.
King George Approves
Ailing King George VI went
through the unusual procedure of
holding two privy council meet
ings to approve Churchill’s choices
as they were submitted. The king
received the new ministers at
Buckingham Palace.
Lord Cherwell, 65, philosopher
and phvsicist, paymaster general.
(See CABINET, Page 6)
Randell Wins State
Architecture Prize
George G. Randell, Jr., of Hous
ton, a fifth-year architecture stu
dent, has won the state award in
the Texas Society of Architects
student competition.
The award of $200 was for his
design of a small hotel in a con
test of five schools, including the
University of Texas, Rice Institute,
Texas Technological College and
the University of Houston.
Randell previously had won $180
when his small hotel design was
judged the best in the A&M fifth
year architecture class. The con
test was sponsored by the Feather-
Twenty F-84 Thunderjets clash- j l*te Corporation of Dallas,
ed briefly with about 55 Russian- Three entries from each school
type MIG-15s just before dusk | were judged at San Antonio by a
Tuesday. One Thunderjet and one jury of architects representing the
MIG were damaged. * Texas Society of Architects.
Federal Labor
Officials See
Longshoremen
New York, Oct. 31 — CT*)
Federal labor officials are in
vestigating the vast New
York port strike to see wheth
er rebel AFL longshoremen
have violated the Taft-Hartley act.
The National Labor Relations
Board launched the probe late yes
terday after receiving a complaint
from the New York Shipping As
sociation, an employers’ group.
In the meantime the wildcat
walkout entered its 17th day to
day with the insurgent stevedores
still in virtual control of the
world’s largest harbor. Their
strike a,Iso has hit other East coast
ports.
Several cracks appeared in the
strike front yesterday. However,
roving pickets apparently plugged
all the gaps by nightfall, leaving
only military docks working nor
mally.
The employers’ group charged in
the NLRB complaint that the strik
ers were guilty of breach of con
tract. The charge was filed
against five New York Locals of
the AFL International Longshore
men’s Association (ILA).
Some 20,000 striking stevedores
in these locals are demanding
changes in a new contract nego-,
tiated between shipping and steve
doring firms and the ILA just be
fore the walkout started.
ILA President Joseph P. Ryan
has sided with the employers in
saying the contract was duly rati
fied and cannot be reopened.
The new pact, covering 65,000
longshoremen between Maine and
Virginia, granted a 10-cent-an-hour
wage boost. The strikers want 25
cents and other changes. Pre-con
tract pay was $2.00 an hour.
Red negotiators submitted their
plan unexpectedly near the close
‘of Wednesday’s meeting of truce
subcommittees in a rain-soaked
tent at Panmunjom. The plan was
outlined on a map.
Three times, Kinney said, the
Red delegates said this was “their
last and best proposal.”
“This makes us very suspicious,”
Kinney said.
Nevertheless, Kinney said, the
new proposal “is the biggest step
I’ve seen” for solving the buffer
zone question.
The Communist proposal was
based on their version of the cur
rent battle line. Negotiators call
it “the line of contact.” The buf
fer zone would be 2% miles wide.
The U.N. command has insisted
all along that the cease-fire line
be based on the battle front. The
current Allied proposal is for a
buffer zone 214 miles wide. '
Originally, the Reds demanded a
buffer zone on the 38th parallel.
That is the old political boundary
between North and South Korea.
Most of the battle line is north of
that. Last week the Reds modified
their plan to a demarcation line
running five to 15 miles south of
the battle line.
Fighting almost vanished from
the ground front Wednesday. Only
action reported in the U.S. 8th
Army’s afternoon communique was
a one-hour fight between a com
pany of attacking Chinese and
U.N. troops southeast of Kumsong
on the Central front. The Reds
were oeaten back.
There was no prior hint of Com
munist capitulation on location of
the. buffer zone.
Wednesday morning, as rain
trickled through holes in the con
ference tent, subcommittee nego
tiators argued over what should bo
done about Kaesong.
Communist newsmen outside the
tent said there would be no agree
ment if the Allies insisted on tak
ing over Kaesong. In their origi
nal demands, as publicly announced
neither side showed an interest in
holding this ancient Korean capi
tal .
Penny Postal
Cards Out;
Rates Upped
Washington, Oct. 31—(A 5 )—A bill
to abolish the penny post card and
to raise postal rates $117,000,000
a year was signed today by Presi
dent Truman.
Beginning Jan. 1 post cards will
cost two cents.
The new law does not change the
three-cent rate for ordinary first
class letters or affect exicting air
mail rates. It authorizes these in
creases, however:
• A 10 per cent boost in second
class mailing charges for news-
papers and magazines, effective
April 1. The rate will jump an
other 10 per cent April 1, 1953,
and 10 per cent April 1, 1954, for
a total increase of 30 per cent.
• An increase from one cent
apiece to one and one half cents
for bulk mailing of third class
mail, largely circulars and adver
tising, after June 30. The i n -
creases in second and third class
mail will not apply to non-profit
religious, educational, scientific,
philanthropic, agricultural, labor
veterans organizations.
• A rise in the cost of special
delivery stamps from 15 cents to
20 cents beginning Jan. 1. Char
ges for most post office special
services, such as insured and reg
istered mail and COD deliveries,
will also be increased then to bring
in an estimated $26,000,000 a year
in extra revenue.
The bill contains a rider estab
lishing a new system of graduated
leave for 2,200,000 federal employ
ees, including 500,000 postal work
ers.
Plans for Blood
Bank Operation
Told by ‘Penny’
Plans for the blood bank
project for this year was dis
cussed by W. L. Penberthy,
dean of men, at a meeting of
the Brazos County A&M
Mothers Club Oct. 25. Approxi
mately 40 members attended.
Penberthy, chairman of the local
chapter of the Red Cross, explain
ed methods now employed to .al
locate blood for use both in de
fense and in local areas.
After the lecture, a question
and answer period was held.
The Club then pledged coopera
tion with the mobile blood bank
unit from Beaumont when it visits
the campus, and at times when
special clerical assistance is need
ed in connection with work for
the blood bank.
Mrs. Ide P. Trotter, chairman of
the club Hospital Committee, made
a special plea for pocket book edi
tions, especially mystery books, to
be sent to the campus hospital.
After the business meeting re
freshments of cookies and sand
wiches were served from a table
arranged by Mrs. Trotter. A bowl
of yellow zinnias decorated the
table.
Mrs. Gibb Gilchrist presided at
the silver service.
Mrs. M. L. Cushion, head hostess
for the club, was assisted in serv
ing by Mesdames T. W. Leland, L.
L. Stuart, G. E. Madeley, and R.
D. Lewis.
The next of the three scheduled
meetings of the club this year‘is
planned for January, 1952.
Got the House
Need the Dog
Like a good parent the Aggies
are getting ready to make a home
for their new German Sheppard
mascot. Lumber is being secured
and labor is being donated to build
a house. Now only one thing re
mains.
The Student Senate needs a dog.
In making plans for getting the
dog, the Senate ran out of funds
for buying it. So they are sending
out a statewide appeal for a dog.
According to Jack “Spud” Mere-
gle, senator and chairman of the
mascot committee, the school is
looking for a pure blooded German
Shepherd dog. He added it must be
a male.