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Official Paper Of Texas A&M College And College Station D. B. COFFIN COLLEGE ARCHIViST STUDENT F. E. 3*COPIES MEM Number 39: Volume 52 > Battalion PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1951 Published by The Students Of Texas A&M For 73 Years Price Five Cents Cadet Officer’s Commissions Awarded in Onion Hall Friday 2000 Date Tickets Left; Local Sales Close Friday • Cadet officers’ commissions will: clusters, the Croix de Guerre, the be presented at the annual com-! British Distinguished Flying Cross missioning exercise on Friday at and the Belgian Fourragere. 7 .p. m. in Guion Hall. 1’rincipal speaker for the occas ion will be Brig. Gen. Gainer B. Jones of Houston, Air Force Com missions will be presented by Col. James C. McGehee, commandant of Bryan Air Force Base. Gen. Jones will present the Army com missions. A&M Graduate General Jones is chairman of the Military Affairs Committee of the Houston Chamber of Commerce and is vice-president of the Na tional Bank of Commerce. He at tended A&M in 1917-18 and is a gradudate of United States Mili tary Academy. While at A&M, General Jones was a member of C Infantry. During World War II, General Jones was a, General Staff Officer with the Eighth Corps, Third J Army, in Germany. He holds the French Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre with palm leaf cluster. Colonel McGehee attended How- ard College in Alabama and is a graduate of the University of Ala bama. He was appointed a flying cadet in 1984 and was commis sioned a second lieutenant in 1985. During World War II, Colonel McGehee commanded a fighter group in the E. T. 0. He flew 21 combat missions and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross with one cluster, Bronze Star with two Composite, 7th, Band Dance Set Friday in Sbisa Members of the Composite Regiment, the Seventh Regi ment and the Band will get together Friday night, after the commissioning ceremonies to hold their joint regimental ball. Scheduled to start at 9 p. m. in Sbisa Hall, the dance will be over at 1 a. m. Saturday morning, Don Young and Cick Russeck, soc ial committee chairman, announced. This is the first time in■ history of the regiments that they have gotten together and held a joint dance. It is being planned by the three unit commanders. Bill Turner and the Aggieland Orchestra will play for the mem bers of the regiments and their dates and wives. Unlike most of the regiments that worry about getting a sweet heart the combined ball regiments are trying something different. They will pick six candidates from the girls at the Ball. Picking the dance sweetheart will be left up to a committee of judges made up of college and mil itary officials. Members of the sweetheart se lection committee have not an- : ounced which of the three regi mental commanders will be given ’he honor of kissing the sweet- iieart. Don “Red” Young, said there vould be refreshments available at the dance. He also added sen iors and their dates are invited to the ball, which will follow the com missioning exercises. Tickets are on sale now and will be sold at the door for one dollar. The Commissioning Ceremony will open with the playing of thai , ,, r> w n/r i l Ti tV j Benediction by Kay General s March by the Drum and \ Bugle Corps. After the guests and! The Benediction will be pro- officials have been seated, Corps j nounced by Chaplain Ray followed Chaplain, Cadet Lt. Col. Cread' by the singing the Spirit of Ag L. Ray wil give the invocation. Cadet Maj. James H. Hughes will open the ceremony with the singing of the Star Spangled Ban ner. Following the singing of the national anthem, Master of Cere monies Colonel of the Corps Eric Carlson will intrbduce the speak ers. Speaking first will be Presi dent M. T. Harrington, followed by General Jones’ talk. Following the two addresses, Lt. Col. M. P. Bowden, assistant com- Ticket demand for the SMU-A&M game are lagging be hind sales for the previous games. Approximately 2000 stu- w ]! 1 a<1 mimster the Oath: c | en t g Ues f tickets are still available, according to Howard of Office. Commissions will then ’ bo presented by General Jones and A e ^ s011 ’ Lcket manage]. Colonel McGehee. I SMU has released 237 seats in section 134, 22 seats on the 10 yard line and a whole section of end zone seats, all on the east side of the field. Ten seats are available on the 10 yard line in the west side stands, Nelson said yesterday afternoon. Tickets are being sold from 8 a. m. until 5 p. m. daily. All tickets will go off sale at 5 p. m. on Friday, Nelson added. gieland led by Cadet Lt. Col. Dale Walston. The postlude will be play ed by Jimmy Rollins. Colonel Bowden warned that all Cadets to be commissioned should b in their assigned seats by 6:15 p. m. Uniform for the occasion will be No. 1 wool with boots optional. All newly commissioned officers and their dates are invited to attend the Band, Composite, and Seventh Regimental Ball at 9 p. m. in Sbisa Hall, he added. First Appeal Nets 200 Student Blood Donors By JOEL AUSTIN Battalion Managing Editor Nearly 200 students answered the first call for blood donors here yesterday, as A&M’s all-out cam paign got underway to send badly needed blood for transfusions to wounded fighting men overseas. Sponsored by the Corps of Ca dets and handled through their [ to handle the first 66 students supervision, the program is cx- i donating blood. It will be set up pected to include as many as half in the MSC. the students on the campus before it ends. A mobile unit from the Red Cross South East Texas Blood De fense Center in Beaumont will be on the campus Tuesday afternoon College Station Community Chest Strives to Meet $10,000 1951 Goal Borden Award Winner Bill Russell Ellsworth, of Dallas, right, receives the Borden Award and certificate given each year to the senior in veterinary medicine who has the highest academic record for his first three years in the A&M School of Veterinary Medicine. Newton Lamb, of Bor den’s Southern Division, Houston, presents the award. By BERT WELLER Battalion Staff Writer The College Station ity Chest Drive, scheduled to end Saturday, Nov. 10, is experiencing some difficulty in attaining its $10,000 goal. Most areas have shown a fine response but there are some areas which are not do ing their part, according to drive leaders. Bennie Zinn, a chest committee member, said today, “If the bud get is not met, agencies receiv ing funds will suffer and not be able to do their jobs as planned. If the campaign should prove un successful, the community might be burdened with solicitations by all the agencies concerned. The Chest Committee has made a study of all the needs and believes that all the money asked for is needed and will be well spent.” 100 Per Cent Participation The goal of the drive, according to Zinn, is 100 per cent participa tion by the people of College Sta tion. Many College offices have ‘Islam’ Discussion Tonight in Center 1 volunteered a day’s pay. Forty-one percent of the $10,000 ' budget is for charitable orgamza- Commun-1 tions within the community. In cluded in these local charities are the Needy Children’s Fund and the Brazos County Hospital Fund. The Brazos County TB Asso ciation, which each year provides X-rays for over 5,000 people in College Station alone, receives $1,000 in this year’s budget. This group also provided transportation for destitute persons stricken with the disease to state institutions. The local Boy and Girl Scout organizations will receive $4,250 of the proceeds of this years drive. These organizations, along with the College Station Recreational Fund Outnumbered Jets Shoot Down MIG Kruse, Ellsworth Get Borden Award Howard Kruse, senior Dairy Manufacturing major, was present ed the Borden Award for the Out standing Senior Student in Agri culture by Newton Lamb, Quality Director of the Southern Division of the Borden Company. Kruse received the $300 award at a meeting of the Kream and Kow Klub Tuesday at 7:30 p. m. in Room 2B of the MSC. Ellsworth Wins Bill Russell Ellsworth received the Borden Award and certificate given each year to the senior stu- Pioneer Sets Extra Flights For Weekend Due to the demand for special football flights over the week-end of Nov. 10, Pioneer Air Lines will again arrange for special planes to the SMU-A&M, Baylor-University of Texas and Rice-Arkansas games over the week-end of Nov. 10, Harding L. Lawrence, vice-presi dent of traffic and sales, has an nounced. One special flight will operate from Midland-Odessa and San An gelo to Austin and return for the Baylor University and University of Texas tilt while another will provide service from West Texas, Fort Worth and Dallas to College Station for the Southern Methodist University-Texas A&M College grid classic. Other service south from all points will be to Houston for view ers of the Rice-Arkansas game. These special flights will be in addition to the regular service pro vided by Pioneer. dent in veterinary medicine who has the highest academic record for his first three years in the A&M School of Veterinary Medi cine. He is the son of Albert T. Ells worth, Dallas accountant, and is a graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas. He re ceived a bachelor of science degree in animal husbandry from A&M in 1949. The presentation of the award was the highlight of the Kream and Kow meeting, at which Lamb avdvised Dairy Husbandry students to start with a company offering the best future, and not neces sarily the largest starting salary, following graduation. “Dairy Plants are looking for leaders of men, not followers,” declared Lamb. A&M Graduate Lamb, who graduated with a BS degree from A&M in 1931, is now regional director of the mammoth dairy products company presenting the cash award to the outstanding senior Agriculture student at A&M in 1951. “A college graduate should be able to get along with his fellow workers and not be afraid to ac- Lslanr, the religious philosophy taught by the prophet Mohammed, will be discussed in an informal panel tonight at 7:15 in the MSC I and eastern fronts were Assembly Room by three A&M ! back. U. S. 8th Army Headquarters, Korea, Nov. 8—<ZP)—American sa bre jets shot down one Red jet and damaged two today on the anni- versary of the first jet kill in the Korean war. The Red losses were reported by the Far East Air Forces (FEAF.) Outnumbered sabres clashed twice with MIG-15S over north-, west Korea exactly one year after the first MIG was destroyed in jet warfare. MIGs in force swept across the Yalu River from Manchuria as Red ground troops fought see-saw battles with United Nations infan trymen. On the Western front one hill changed hands for the seventh arid eighth times in two we’eks, with the Alies winding up on top. Sharp Red probes along the central pushed Moslem students. Aly Lasheen, graduate student from Cairo, Egypt; Mazen Abdel- Hadi, graduate student from Pales tine; and Abdullah Khan of Pakis tan will head the session. A ques tion and answer session will fol low the discussion by the three Moslems. This year’s A&M Moslem stu dents have donated copies of the Koran, the Moslem holy book, and three interpretive books on their religion to the MSC Browsing Li brary. Flights of 60 MIGs each fought with 17 sabre jets in the morning and 14 in the afternoon. No American losses were reported. The kill was reported in the aft ernoon battle by Maj. William Whi- sner of Shreveport, La., on his sec ond flight of the day. FEAF said that makes a total of 135 MIGs shot down in air com bat since Lt. Russell Brown of Pasadena, Calif., flying an F-80 Shooting Star, made the first kill a year ago. Allied pilots claim 49 others probably destroyed and 257 damaged. Experiment Group Holds Conference The annual conference of the local and field staffs of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station got underway here yesterday and will last until noon Saturday. Director of the conference is R. D. Lewis, director of the Agri cultural Experiment Service. Speakers Wednesday afternoon in cluded President M. T. Harrington, Chancellor Gibb Gilchrist, and M. J. Funchess, dean and director cept responsibility,” urged Lamb'| of Alabama Polytechnic The dairy plants are not pri marily concerned with the capa bilities of a college graduate as he graduates from college, but what he- will develop into in 10 or 15 years’ time, concluded Lamb. Krause is commander of Compos ite Regiment, president of the Kream and Kow Klub, president of the Student Agricultural Coun cil; and has a grade point ratio of 2.876 for his first 3 years. of the Interior. Dr. J. C. Mil ler will preside. Statistical problems will be dis cussed this afternoon by a panel consisting of C. B. Godbey, R. F. Patterson, F. L. Fisher, N. W. Kramer, and J. C. Smith. The pan el will be followed by a tour of the Poultry, Swine, Beef, and Dairy Cattle Centers and the En tomology Laboratory. Demonstra tion of the new agricultural air plane wil be held during this tour. Gabbard To Preside L. P. Gabbard will preside over the Friday forenoon session. Speakers include Sherman A. Johnson, assistant chief, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, USDA; E. G. Moore, coordinator of research publication, Agricultural Research Administration, USDA; and Di- US Department of Agriculture; | rector G. G. Gibson of the Texas Williams Speaks Wednesday night, Vice Chancel lor D. W. Williams gave his im pressions of the agriculture of New Zealand and Australia. Principal address Thursday fore noon was made by B. T. Semms, Chief, Bureau of Animal Industry, FEAF said MIGs have shot down 80 U. S. aircraft of all types. Thursday’s air battles were the first big jet clashes after three days of stormy weather. One MIG was damaged in each engagement. Enemy Tanks Communist tanks clanked into action again on the Western front under cover of a dense mist. Twice Wednesday night U. N. command armor moved out ahead of the battle line to engage Red tanks supporting Communist in fantry attacks in the sector west and north of Yonchon, 35 miles north of Seoul. At timhs Communist tanks or self-propelled guns were firing from within 1,000 yards of the Al lied battle line. But the armor- led res failed to gain a foot of ground, Eighth Army Headquar ters said. The Red infantrymen attacked after a heavy artillery and mortar barrage which included at least one ripple of rockets. Leave Hill But U. N. infantrymen gave up a hill northwest of Yonghon. with out a fight. They got off the bat tle-scarred peak shortly after mid night as a battalion of Reds, great ly outnumbering the Allied infan trymen, swept up the hill. When the Reds hit the top they were greeted by heavy concentration of fire from Allied big guns. U. N. infantrymen moved back up the slopes after daylight, re gaining the crest at 8:10 a.m. Thursday without incident. It was the eighth time the. hill changed hands recently. AP correspondent Milo Farneti reported that Communist forces of up to company strength jabbed Allied lines at several points south of Kumsong on the central front Wednesday night a,nd early Thurs day. “At one time in the early morn ing darkness,” Farneti said, “the Communists surrounded an Allied company southwest of Kumsong and cut off a reconnaissance com pany south of the city. Both Al lied units pulled back to the Al lied main line after more than two providde recreation and training for the youth of the community. Contact Donors at Job This year’s campaign has not been of the door to door type. Members of the Chest Committee have tried to contact all the citi zens of this area at their jobs. Those not contacted in this man ner are urged to give their don ations to any of the committee members. The principal of Lincoln School is taking contributions from the colored people of College Station who are not reached by solicitors at their jobs. “The cooperation and support of everyone in the community is need ed now if we are to be successful in this fund raising drive. In this single, united campaign we are seeking to raise the needed $10,- 000,” said Zinn. Senior Class Meeting Tonight The senior class will hold a short meeting Thursday after yell practice in the physics, lec ture room to decide whose flag will fly from the top of the bon fire. “There will be no discussion. The class will just -vote,- said | its way to Korea. J. W. “Doggy” Dalston, senior (See BLOOD, Page 2) First Call The initial call for donors was to all men 21 years of age or old er. Parent’s permission is neces sary for men 18-21 to give blood. D Veterans company had the largest number of men volunteer ing for the drive. Twenty-one stu dents from that company respond ed to the call. Although all units had not reported late last night, the Maroon Band and I) Seniors Company tied with the second highest number of volunteers, 13. Blood Drive Committee Chair man J. C. Fletcher said men who would be scheduled for the first visit here of the mobile unit will be notified by individual messages and through a schedule of time for donations to be published in The Battalion. Students between the ages of 18 and 21 will be given applica tion forms to send to parents so they can obtain parental consent to give their blood. “It’s our chance to give to a stockpile we may be drawing from in a few short months,” Fletcher said. “The blood we give today may save the life of a man who will fight by our side tomorrow,’’ he added. Explains Operation Explaining the operation of the mobile unit, Brazos County Red Cross Chairman W. L. Penberthy, also dean of men of the college, said several defense blood centers have been established over the United States. The area headquarters which College Station falls into is at ; Beaumont. The centers send out their units, ■which gather blood and then rush it back to headquarters—such as Beaumont. A chartered plane leaves Beaumont each night fox' the West Coast with donations of blood received that day. Upon ar- ' rival at the coast, the blood is re packed and immediately flown on Lewis, and W. O. Geoi’ge, Geolo gical Survevy, U. S. Department Waldrop Speaks To Business Society j Allister M. Waldrop of Bryan spoke on “The Problems of a 1 Felix McKnight to Speak At Quarterback Meeting Felix McKnight, managing editor of The Dallas News, will address The Battalion Quarterback Club tonight. Mc Knight was a member of the class of ’32 at A&M. He was a Battalion sportswriter and a member of A Troop Cavalry. Films of the A&M-Arkansas game will be viewed at the Dr. Black Lecture Scheduled Nov. 15 Dr. John D. Black; international authority in the field of agilcul- tural economies, will give, a grad uate lecture at A&M. Nov. 15 at 8 p. m. in the lecture room of the Biological Sciences Building. He is professor of economics at Harvard University and will come to A&M from Houston, where he will attend the Land Grant Col lege Association meeting. Public Invited Dr. Black will discuss “$2000 Disposable Average Income by 1975—It’s Our Job.” The public has been invited to attend the lec ture by Dr. Ide P. Trotter, dean of the Graduate School. He is now working with the President’s Materials Policy Com mission on a study of the agx'icul- tural production prospects of this country in the next 25 years. He has been on practically every im portant national committee having to do with the improvement of the agricultural economic system. The congress has consulted with Dr. Black on matters of agricul- hours of fighting in wet and freez- tural legislation, ing weather.” j The speaker is a native of Wis- New Troops An Allied briefing officer told Farneti thexe were indications the Chinese are shifting a fresh army corps to the Kumsong area to re place battered Red unite which have been fighting in that sector. The Eighth Army reported a series of nighttime Red probing attacks wexe halted in the Eastern mountains neai' the punchbowl. Warships of four nations pound ed Communist targets on both the Western and Eastern coasts of Ko rea Wednesday, Far East naval Agricultural Extension Service. With John W. Hill, A&M direct or of woikmen’s compensation in- surance, presiding, the Friday af ternoon session will be devoted to life and group insux-ance matters, retirement and provisians of the Texas Workman’s Compensation Act. In addition to Hill, J. B. Don- nally, Pan-American Life Insur ance Company, will be a featured speaker. Administrative Discussion Administrative matters will be j °f the college Saturday at the Hospital Patients To See SMU Game A gi-oup of war veterans who are patients at McCloskey General 1 “ 1S ™ Hospital, Temple, will be guests I after Roins to Hanard m 192 ' consin and holds an AB, AM and Ph. I). degree from the University of Wisconsin. He has been an in- .structor at Western Reserve and Michigan College of Mines, in structor of economics at Wisconsin and assistant professoi', associate professoi’, professor of agricultural economics and chief of the division at the University of Minnesota. Attended Harvard He went to Harvard in 1927 as an economics professor and chairman of the committee on re- seaxch in social science; a con sulting specialist, USDA, execu tive economict and was a chief economist of the Federal Fami Board and many other committees both as head and consultant in cluding the Royal Agricultural Academy of Sweden. Dr. Black is the author of sev eral books, and his first book plan, later incorporated in altered 1933. Th lecture, arranged by Dr. Trotter, is expected to attract one of the largest audiences in years. It is pointed out that “Di\ Black is a worldwide authority on the matter he will discuss and has a message that everyone should hear.” discussed Saturday morning in ,. , • , , , . n , — •.! * ii i the Station Conference Room bv Small Businessman” at a meeting I meeting, which gets underway at 7:45 p. m. in the Assembly R E p a tterson, J. R. Johnston of the Business Society last night Hall. Bobby Fletcher, winner Of last week’s QB contest, , and V. E. Schember with substa- football game between A&M and Southern Methodist University. was “Agricultural Reform in the U. S.” The book Included an out line of the “domestic allotment” in the MSC. V vill be awarded two tickets to the A&M-SMU football game. President Van Vandenberg ap- Among the sponsors of the QB Club are the following pointed an executive committee j merchants in Bryan and College Station: Parker-Astin Hard- whose function will be to secure ^ * e hi /-t -n r n r. „ ^ n i. i rn members and notify them of fu-iwaie Co., The A&M Gull, J. . Penny Co., Cential Texas tme meeting ndates. Committee- Hardware Co.; American Laundry Dry Cleaners: Sanitary men include Don Andrews, chair- Farm Dairies; Tom McCall’s Phillips’ 66 Service Station; man, Bob Blum, John Schmidt,!Kelley's Coffee Shop; Lack’s Associate Store; and Cade Mot- Lvnn Estep, Bill Holand and Davis n y Wolf. or Co - tion superintendents and field lab oratory heads. In addition to administrative staff, 16 subject-matter depaxt- ments and three sexvice groups headquartering at College Station, the Texas Agricultural Experi ment Station has 46 field unite ov er the State, one or more in each The 35 patients, nurses and staff form in the Farm Relief Act of members of the hospital also will ; A^miinmv Snpiptv be guests of the college at the | °r ltT ' Texas’ main agricultural regions, of the group. noon and evening meals in Duncan Hall. They will be provided with spec ial seats on the cinder tx - ack at the 50-yard line for the football game. P. L. Downs, Jr., official greeter for the college, will be in charge Initiates Members Fourteen new members were in itiated into the Agronomy Society at the regular meeting held in the Assembly room of the MSC Tues day, Nov. 6. Bibb Underwood presided. A pro gram was px - esented and refresh ments were sexvedd. Dept, of Army Inspectors To Visit College A group of inspectors from the Department of the Army, Washington, D. C., will visit the A&M Cadet Corps Nov. 16. This inspection is informal and will not invoilve any special fomiations for the Corps, said Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant. Making the trip will be Maj. Gen. Hugh Milton, executive for ROTO and ORC Affairs axxd Lt. Col. Gus tav M. Bacharach, chief of the ROTC Division. Gen, Milton and Col. Barharach will be accompanied to A&M by* Dr. Elvis Stahr and Dr. John R. Richards, special assistants to the Secretary of the Army. Col. A. S. Wilder, Fourth Army Headquar ters, and Col. C. L. Hilton, Jr., of the Texas Military District, will also take part in the inspection. The inspecting party will be pre sent in the reviewing stand for the parade of the Cadet Corps dur ing the Houston Corps Trip on Nov. 17. Senator Election Slated for PG Hall Applications for student senator from Post Graduate Hall will be accepted in the Student Activities election will be Monday, Nov. 19. election will be Mondday, Nov. 19. Non-corps students are now 1 liv ing in the old dormitory. Require ments for student senator are a grade-point ratio of 1.0, enrolled at A&M the previous two semes ters, and he must live in the dorm- itary represented during term of office. Bob Layton is temporary chair man of the election committee.