Official Paper
Of Texas A&M College
And College Station
D. B. COFFIN
COLLEGE ARCHIViST
STUDENT
F. E.
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Number 39: Volume 52
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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.