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PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Number 45: Volume 52
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1951
Published by The Students
Of Texas A&M
For 73 Years
Price Five Cents
A fter First Conference Victory
Aggies Meet Rice In
Six Year Jinx Game
HomeRu le Election
Set in CS Jan. 8
The Aggie football team will be seeking its first victory in
Southwest Conference play this season when it invades Houston’s
Kice Stadium tomorrow afternoon for a contest with the Rice
Owls, one of the surprise elevens of the current campaign. Front
row: Charley Hodge, end; Jack Little, tackle; W. T. Rush, guard;
Co-Captain Hugh Meyer, center;
Moses, tackle; and Harrow Hooper
right half; Co-Captain Hob Smith,
terback; and Glenn Lippman, left
Elo Nohavitza, guard; Sam
, end. Hack Row: Billy Tidwell,
fullback; Dick Gardenia!, quar-
halfback.
Administration Policy Attacked
Over 6 Divisions In
Europe Possible-Taft
Washington, Nov. 15—t# 5 )—Sen
ator Taft (R-Ohio) foresees a
likelihood that the United States
may be asked to commit “far more
than six divisions” to the defense
of Western Europe.
The Ohio Senator said in a new
book, “A Foreign Policy for Am
ericans” that the past history of
the Truman administration’s hand
ling of foreign policies makes it
likely that “in another year we
will be asked for more divisions”
to supplement the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization ((NATO) for
forces headed by Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower.
As a candidate for the 1952
Republican presidential nomina
tion, Taft wrote down a barrage
of criticism against President Tru
man, Secretary of State Acheson,
Gen. George C. Marshall and oth
er administration figures.
Taft said most presidents “have
been imbued with a real determin
ation to keep the country at peace.”
Hut he went on in a direct attack
>n Mr. Truman and President
Franklin D. Roosevelt: ,
“I feel that the last two presi
dents have put all kinds of politi
cal and policy considerations ahead
;>f their interest in liberty and
peace.”
Senator McMahon (D-Conn), a
supporter of the administration’s
foreign policy, promptly described
Taft’s book as “amazing for its
blindness to the nature of the prob
lems we face today.” A member
of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, McMahon declared the
Taft views reflected “total ignor
ance of a sound foreign policy for
the United States.”
McMahon Replies
Perhaps in reply to Taft's crit
icism of Mr. Truman and the late
President Roosevelt McMahon
said:
“Sentence after sentence (of the
book) contains a quotation out of
context or a, distorted statement,
all woven together to support a
politically expedient but factually
incorrect conclusion.”
Praising administration policy,
McMahon said it “stopped Soviet
expansion in every area of the
world which Russia did not oc
cupy with its own troops during
the war.”
Taft wrote that he doesn’t go
along with those who think this
country can withdraw to its own
shores. He said he believes the
threat of Russian aggression is
“so serious today that in defense
of the liberty and peace of the
people of the United States I think
we are justified in extending eco
nomy aid and military aid to many
countries.”
Praises Eisenhower
But he said he is not for any
permanent program calling for “a
global plan for general free as
sistance to all mankind on an or
ganized scale as part of our for
eign policy.”
Taft, who opposed the North At
lantic treaty and agreed with re
luctance to the contribution of six
American divisions to the North
Atlantic Treaty forces, said it
was “encouraging” that Eisenhow
er “by the force of his personality
made so much headway in persuad
ing the European nations of the
Pioneer
Slates SWC
Game Flights
With all seven Southwest Con
ference football teams playing on
the Pioneer Air Lines system this
Saturday, the company has install
ed a special football reservation
section.
In addition to arranging for res
ervations on the company’s sche
duled flights, the special section
will plan additional flights to pro
vide service to the four tilts, ac
cording to Harding L. Lawrence,
vice-president of traffic and sales.
The four games will be: Southern
Methodist University and Arkansas
in Dallas; Baylor and Wake For
est in Waco: Texas Christian Uni
versity and the University of Texas
in Austin; and Rice and Texas
A&M in Houston.
Pioneer has 18 scheduled flights
in and out of Dallas daily; four
to and from Waco; eight to and
from Austin; and 12 arrivals and
departures in Ilouston, Lawrence
said.
Work on New
Engineering
Building Starts
A large mound of dirt east
of Francis Hall is the first
sign of preparation for a new
engineering building for
A&M. The building will be
erected by Fisher Construction
Company of Houston.
Contract for the building which
will house the department of aero
nautical engineering was let for
.$432,000 by the A&M System
Board of Directors at their fall
meeting.
■ A shortage of steel has delayed
construction on the building ivhich
is scheduled to be completed by
Sept. 1, 1952, according to Howard
Badgett, manager of physical
plans.
The new structure will be a fire
proof, three story, concrete and
masonry building with a floor
space of 38,500 square feet. Three
additional bays have added to the
original contract signed by Fish
er, according to Badgett.
Adams and Adams Architects
of Dallas designed the building.
It will resemble Francis Hall with
a few modern touches, Badgett
said.
The new Aeronautical Engineer
ing Building is part of an exten
sive building program being car
ried oh. Work has begun on a new
Texas Engineers Library Building
located east of the Cushing Libra
ry.
tremendous importance of arming
themselves in a joint defense.’
Eisenhower is being boomed by
some Republicans as a possible
candidate against Taft for the 1952
Republican presidential nomination.
Taft sqid the United States has
no choice mow but to “complete as
rapidly as possible the arming of
Western Europe if it desires to
be armed.”
Charging that the Truman ad
ministration’s “lack of policy”
brought on the Korean War, Taft
said the same basic policies should
be applied to Asia as to Europe—
“To check Communism at every
possible point where it is within
our capacity to do so.”
He said the administration had
not hesitated in Europe to risk
world war but refused to fight
the Korean war with all the means
at its command—a view taken by
Gen. Douglas McArthur.
Better to Have Uneasy Peace
Taft said it would be better to
“maintain an uneasy peace” on the
38th parallel in Korea “than a pol
icy of perpetual war on the 38th
parallel.”
In a foreword Taft said he had
published his book “to emphasize
the fact that the freedom of the
people of the United States is in
serious danger from the foreign
policy of the present administra
tion.”
Contending that the executive
departments were claiming more
and more power, he declared:
“If the present trend continues
it seems obvious that the President
will become a complete dictator in
the entire field of foreign policy
and thereby acquire power to force
upon Congress all kinds of domes
tic policies which must necessarily
follow.”
In his statement analyzing Taft’s
book, McMahon called it “essential
ly negative and defeatist” and said
Taft’s “basic difficulty is that he
is still an isolationist.”
Atomic Blast Waits
Weather Approval
Las Vegas, Nev., Nov. 16—DP*—
Atomic Energy Commission offi
cials today awaited the weather
man’s go-ahead for another series
of nuclear experiments on the Ne
vada desert.
The forthcoming tests are not
expected to be as spectacular as
the group of five atomic blasts set
off between Oct. 22 and Nov. 5.
Lt. Gen. Joseph M. Swing, com
mander of the Sixth Army, made a
quick inspection tour of Camp
Desert Rock yesterday, then an
nounced that he does not plan to
remain here for the fireworks.
Two congressmen will sit in on
the show, however. They are Sen.
Flanders (R-Vt.) and Rep. Rivers
(D-S.C.), members of the Armed
Services committees.
The second series of experiments
was set for yesterday morning, but
high winds and storm conditions
near the Yucca Flat test site
forced postponement of the first
blast.
Reynolds Wins
H. F. Heep Award
Kenneth Reynolds of Pittsburgh,
has been named winner of the Her
man F. Heap Award for 4-H or
FFA boys of the state. The award
is a $200 scholarship for a, boy
during his freshman year at A&M,
and it stipulates that the winner
take a course in dairy husbandry.
Reynolds, a freshman at A&M,
was adjudged as having the most
outstanding dairy project during
his four years in high school. He
started out in his sophomore year
with one heifer and at the end of
his senior year had 14 Jersey
cows. He plans to finish his edu
cation in dairy husbandry and es
tablish a breeding farm.
College Station’s first home rule
charter election will be held Jan.
8, the city council voted unanimous
ly Tuesday night. The action was
taken following an announcement
by Mayor Ernest Langford that
the proposed charter was ready
for submission.
Copies of the proposed charter
will be mailed to, all qualified vot
ers in the city by Dec. 1, Raymond
Rogers, city manager, said follow
ing the meeting.
Voting Poll
A voting poll will be set up from
8 a. m. until 6 p. m. at the city
hall. Dr. L. G. Jones will act as
election judge and wil be assisted
by Mrs. C. E. Gotbey and Mrs.
H. E. Burgess.
If the proposed charter is ap
proved by the voters, it will give
the city government more powers,
especially in law enforcement, Rog
ers said.
Also, the council approved a traf
fic ordinance, confirming to the
Texas uniform traffic code. This
G. E. Wright Attending
School in Angleton
Welcome E. Wright, assistant
professor of Industrial Education,
is participating in a general school
evaluation program at Angleton.
Wright was invited to participate
due to his previous experience in
interest in the evaluation will per
tain to the practical arts and voca
tional industrial education.
Government Hit On
Red Atrocity Charge
Washington, Nov. 1G—•A 3 )—Sen
ator Young (R-ND) said today the
way reports of atrocities against
U. S. soldiers in Korea were made
public raises the question whether
the administration is “trying to
minimize the tragedies of the Ko
rean war.”
“These atrocities are terrible and
I would think anything as impor
tant as that would find our top
levels officially informed,” Young
told a reporter.
Young and two Democratic sen
ators, Edwin C. Johnson of Colo
rado and Olin D. Johnston of South
Carolina, expressed puzzlement in
separate interviews at the surprise
voiced by top military and govern
ment officials over the report.
At Supreme Allied Headquarters
in Tokyo, where some sources had
expressed skepticism over the re
port that 5,500 U. S. prisoners had
been killed by the Reds, Gen. Mat
thew B. Ridgway ordered a full in
vestigation.
Ridgway, the supreme command
er, directed his press information
officer, Col. Patrick Welch, to go
to Pusan, Korea, to interview the
officer who made the report, Col.
James M. Hanley.
Hanley, chief of the judge advo
cate’s section of the Eighth Army,
had said he understood he had of
ficial clearance to give out the re
port. He said his aim was to cau
tion United Nations troops in Ko
rea what they are up against.
Ridgway’s headquarters declined
comment until the inquiry is com
pleted.
Truman Shocked
President Truman told his news
conference at Key West, Fla., yes
terday that the reported atrocities
are a horrible thing. If true, he
added, it is the most uncivilized
thing that has happened in the
last century.
The reports touched off new de
mands from members of Congress
and elsewhere for use of atomic
weapons against the Communists
in Korea, but all information avail
able here indicated the govern
ment is standing firm against that
alternative.
Indications in official quarters
were that there might be a change
in the policy, or certainly a re
study of the problem, if current
truce talks end in failure. Mr.
Truman declined comment on that
point.
One factor which was used as
an argument by those advocating
atomic warfare was the reported
recent proving of smaller A-bombs
suitable for use against troop con
centrations.
Senator Young said the report
of Red atrocities should lead to
“an ultimatum from the highest
level warning all Communists that
if these continue we will use re
taliatory measures,” possibly in
cluding atomic weapons. “The
Communists are certainly inviting
that,” he added.
He reiterated his contention that
the Korean war could have been
avoided.
Advocates A-Bomb
Senator Johnston (SC) said he
long has advocated use of the “A-
bomb, H-bomb or any other kind
of a bomb” against Communist
concentrations in Korea.
"We should hit them in Korea,
in Manchuria or in China,” he add
ed. “There is no sense in trying
to fight a war by dilly-dallying.
If we drop an atomic bomb we
will get an unconditional surrender
there and at the same time prevent
Communist attacks elsewhere.”
“This Communist war could go
on 100 years unless we show we
mean business.”
Senator Johnson (Colo), express
ing surprise that Mr. Truman and
the Pentagon had no official re
ports, declared:
“If true, they are the most shock
ing thing in our history, even
more shocking than Pearl Harbor.
Some time back I suggested we
should use our best weapons in
Korea. Some persons were shock
ed at that. In view of these re
ported atrocities, I wonder if they
are still shocked.”
Politics Leaving
Argentina - Peron
Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov.
16—CP)—President Juan D. Peron
says politics is on the way out in
Argentina—that the country is on
the road to becoming a labor union
state.
Returning to his office after a
two-week leave of absence in which
he successfully campaigned for re-
election to the presidency for an
other six years, Peron yesterday
told a group of visiting Latin
American labor leaders:
“We are headed for a labor union
state, long a dream of the human
community.
“I am still maintaining the po
litical form (of government) be
cause we now are in the process
of evolution; but the day will soon
arrive when everything will be done
by the unions. Then politics will
disappear from the Argentine
scene.”
new act, which will reduce speed
limits around Consolidated School,
takes the place of a four year old
traffic ordinance which has proved
inadequate under current condi
tions.
Parking Zones
Parking zones around the North
Gate area will be more strictly en
forced and three and six hour park
ing limits will be established in
specific places, Rogers said. En
forcement will begin as soon as
signs have been set up.
Davis Studies
Mexican Game
Preserves
Dr. W. B. Davis, head of
the wildlife management de
partment, has just completed
a report on the game reserves
of the Mexican state of Mo
relos, made in cooperation with
Mexico’s department of forestry
and game.
Dr. Davis, in his report, said
that although six species of doves
and pigeons, three species of quail,
three species of rabbit, two spec
ies of squirrel and white tail deer
were found in the state, population
of all the species was low.
He blamed the low game popu-
latiop on four conditions. Serious
overgrazing of range lands by
domestic livestock, has resulted
in a lack of suitable cover for
game: Farming areas are intensely
cultivated, Dr. Davis noted.
He added the generally low
standard of living of the rural
people forced them to rely on game
animals for food. He also noted
a general disregard for game laws
and year-around hunting, espec
ially on the part of the rural
people.
Until these four factors are cor
rected, he advised the department
of forestry and game, there will
be no improvement in game re
serves, and further deterioriation
may be expected.
The survey of Morelos game re
serves was made on a, series of
field trips by wildlife management
classes from A&M, on both grad
uate and undergraduate levels. Dr.
Davis made a preliminary survey
in 1948..
day.
As campaign coordinator and ad
visor for the National Founda
tion for Infantile Paralysis County
Chapters, Badgett will assist cam-
By BOB SELLECK
Battalion Sports News Editor
A&M will be out to break a six-year-old “jinx” when
they tangle with the Rice Owls in Houston Saturday after
noon.
The unlucky streak goes all the way back to 1945 when
the Rice lads turned back the Cadets 6-0.
Rice added misery to the Aggie troubles last year by
upsetting the favored Cadets, 21-13, on Kyle Field.
The football classic in Houston will feature the Aggies,
pre-season favorites for the SWC title, tangling with the
Owls, doomed for the cellar by early season predictors.
Now things are changed around with A&M fighting to
stay out of the cellar and Owls holding firm in second place.
The crippled Cadet defense will run smack into the
fiery passing duo of sophomore Dan Drake to Bill Howton.
Howton has caught 5 touchdown passes and is a top candi-
♦’date for all-SWC and perhaps All-
American honors.
Howton, one of the Owls tri
captains, is the leading pass re
ceiver in the conference. He has
snagged 18 passes for 482 yards
and an average gain per pass of
26.7 yards.
Drake has done a creditable job
as the man-under in his first reg
ular varsity year. He has thrown
6 touchdown passes and racked up
a total of 494 yards for an average
of 20.6 yards per game for the
best average in the SWC.
The smallest man on the team
is Horton Nesrsta, a sophomore
weighing 149 pounds who is right
behind Yale Lary in punt return
ing.
Nesrsta has returned opponents
kicks 267 yards on 17 carries for
an average of 16.2 per carry.
Best Back Burkhalter
Billy Burkhalter, who scored in
the final two minutes to beat the
Razorbacks is one of the team tri-
captains and a four two-year let-
terman.
He is one of the best running
backs in the conference. Also,
Burkhalter had a field day against
the Cadets last year carrying the
ball 19 times for 110 yards and
one score.
Coach Ray George is still stand
ing face to face with the problem
of “lack of depth”, especially with
defensive backs and linebackers.
The only possible replacements
for injured men are sophomores,
who, in most cases, haven’t had
the opportunity to show their stuff
under game conditions.
The only experienced linebacker
is Jim Fowler, a two-year letter-
man senior, and he will be limited
to part-time defense duty because
of an injury in the Arkansas game.
Stop ’em Shaeffer
Robert Shaeffer turned in an
outstanding game against SMU
and may be counted on to partially
solve the man power shortage. A
senior, halfback turned end, Shaef
fer has lettered two years.
A new -find in the Mustang bat
tle was sophomore Johnny Salyer,
a short 167 pound youngster who
saw 20 minutes of action against
the Ponies and proved capable.
Lack of experience is the only set
back.
Another possibility is Pete May-
eaux, sophomore being considered
to stabilize the defense. A speedy
lad, he may alternate with Bob
Smith at the defensive right half
back opening.
Howard Zuck, who has put in
time at all positions on the team,
and currently plays end may find
himself with a full time job on de
fense Saturday.
(See JINX, Page 4)
CS Bryan Home
Owners Might
Escape Control
Rent control in Bryan and
College Station may not be
placed on homeowners of the
two cities, in spite of a tele
gram message from Washing
ton Wednesday to U. S. Rep. Olin
Teague’s office. College Station
as well as Bryan, the wire said,
is included in the critical defense
A spokesman from Congressman
Teague’s College Station office
said that although rent control
and designation as a critical de
fense aarea usually go “hand-in-
hand,” the two measures are cov
ered by separate public laws.
The spokesman said critical de
fense designation has both desir
able and undesirable aspects.
TravTirt B; Bryan, local banker
who has been working for months
to have Bryan declared a critical
defense area, said “Our local peo
ple can proceed immediately with
the construction of the needed
1,000 homes to take care of the
personnel at Bryan Air Force
Base.”
The designation provides the re
laxation of all credit controls for
construction of housing for incom
ing personnel of Bryan Air Force
Base. The purchase of a home un
der four per cent VA and 4 and
a half per cent FHA mortgages
with no down payment and 20 to
25 years to pay is provided, along
with the ability to obtain needed
materials, according to Bryan.
In the request to Washington
asking for the city of Bryan to be
declared a critical defense area,
rent control was not suggested.
Badgett Named Advisor
For March of Dimes Drive
W. Howard Badgett of College formerly an instructor here.
Station has been named district »A veteran of World War II,
campaign advisor for ten South- Badgett was on active military
east Texas counties surrounding duty from October 1940 to Feb-
College Station in the 1952 March ruary, 1946 and now holds a com-
of Dimes, Lloyd Gregory of Hous- mission at lieutenant colonel in
ton, Texas state chairman for the the Adjutant Generals Corps of the
March of Dimes announced Thurs- Organized Reserve 'Corps.
Badgett is a member of the Col
lege Station City Council and is
active in many civic and profes
sional groups, including the Re
serve Officers Association, Ameri-
paign directors in Madison, Walker, can Society of Heating and Ventil-
Grimes, Polk, San Jacinto, Hous
ton, Leon, Trinity, Freestone and
Brazos counties in their month
long polio fund-raising appeals
next Janury.
Badgett pointed out that the
combination of record-breaking
polio incidence in recerit years and
the high costs of treating patients
has already exhausted funds rais
ed in the 1951 March of Dimes.
As a result, he estimated, some
$5,000,000 raised in the 1952 ap
peal must be allocated to patient
care bills incurred by National
Foundation Chapters in
November and December
year.
ating Engineers, College Station
Kiwapis Club, and Sul Ross Lodge
No. 1300, A. F. & A. M.
Pronounced Dead,
W oman Li vesIDays
Seattle, Nov. 16—04?)—A change
in a vital statistics file revealed
late yesterday that a Seattle wom
an lived four days after she was
October, pronounced dead and taken to a
of this funeral home Monday,
The spark of life in the body of
The objective of the nation-wide Mrs. Ida Schmidt, 60-year-old wid-
March of Dimes, which is the Na- ow, was noted by an attendant at
tional Foundation’s sole fund-rais- the Greenlake Funeral Home four
ing activity, is to raise sufficient hours after a physician had pro
funds to insure the polio organiza- nounced her dead and her body
tion’s pledge that no patient need had been taken to the mortuary,
go without medical care because of A faint movement of the jaw
lack of funds, and to continue the tipped the attendant to the worn-
national epidemic aid, professional an’s condition and she was removed
education and research programs, to a hospital. She was kept alive
Born in Denison, Badgett attend- until yesterday afternoon when
ed Austin College and graduated hospital attendants said she suc-
from A&M with a degree in arch- cumbed to the cerebral hemorrhage
itecture. He is now manager of which plunged her into a coma
physical plants at A&M and was early Monday.
Judgers Compete In
Chicago Exposition
The Senior livestock (Judging
Team will leave Sunday for Chica
go, where they will compete in the
International Livestock Exposi
tion’s Collegiate Judging Contest.
Team members are Tom Harris,
Louis Amsler, Harold Bragg, Kel
ley B. Anderson, John Fuller, and
Morse Nanny. Coach of the team
is Dale L. Handlin of the Animal
Husbandry faculty.
The judging contest will be held
Nov. 24. There will be three class
es of swine, three classes of sheep,
two classes of draft horses, and
four classes of cattle.
Team members will drive up in
cars and will make stops at Okla
homa A&M College at Stillwater,
Okla.: the University of Missouri
at Columbia, Mo.; and the Univer
sity of Illinois at Urbana, Ill. They
will practice ak these stops, and
will have an opportunity to see how
these schools carry on their agri-
culture work.
The team competed in the Amer
ican Royal Cattle Show at Kansas
City earlier this year and won
first place in swine judging and
ninth in the meet.