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Official Paper Of Texas A&M College And College Station Number 46: Volume 52 nPI JT) JLJL f • The Battalion PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1951 Published by The Students Of Texas A&M For 73 Years Price Five Cents General Visits Fiscal Office Sets Rice Owls Stomp Aggies 28-13 StudentCheckDate ln Corps Trip , g Ma j or Upset Student Labor Checks will be ready for distribution on | or before the 15th of each month, the Fiscal Office announced this morning. The checks will all be ready for the students by this time or if possible a few days earlier, Charles Roeber, head of the college Fiscal Office, told The Battalion. Until this date was set by the Fiscal Office, student labor checks did not come out on a set schedule. Establishing a definite date came about after the Fiscal 1 Office received complaints from the working students and The Battalion. Complaints about the handling of the student labor checks were based on the fact that the checks did not come out on a set date. By not having a set day to receive the checks, the stu dents complained, a monthly budget could not be worked out. Socialism Topic At College Town Hall First Bonfire Sign Major Gen. Hush Milton, head of the reserve corps and KOTO training program, is greeted as he steps off his plane by Col. Shelly P. Myers, PMS&T of the college. General Milton was on an inspection trip of 13 colleges and schools in the nation. He stopped over Friday to inspect the facilities at A&M and Allen Academy. Also in the party meeting the general, was Col. James C. McGehee, commanding officer of BAFB. Approximately 300 A&M under graduates will attend a “College Town Hall” in the lecture room, Biological Sciences building, to quiz four Texas businessmen on socialism and free enterprise Wed nesday evening. Sponsored by the Texas Man ufacturers Association, the “town hall” is one of a series being held on campuses to provide an inter change of views between students and businessmen on current pol itico-economic trends in the United States, T. W. Leland, head of the department of business adminis tration, said. The TMA this year has held pro grams at the University of Hous ton, Baylor University, the Uni versity of Texas, and the Texas College of Arts and Industries in Kingsville. Additional programs sponsored by the association are ROTC Head Lauds A&M Program After Inspection After inspecting facilities and training at A&M the head of the ROTC training program said •‘A&M has one of the finest units in the countiy. The man who said this was Maj or Gen. Hugh Milton, head of the Highway Stripe Paint Tests Are Made Here Experiments to develop a compound for striping pave ments which would produce stripes with longer service life than those now in use are Being conducted by the Engineer ing Experiment Station. Numerous materials are being put to test by C. J. Keese re search assistant, on this phase of street and highway maintenance. The use of crushed stone held on the pavement surface by an as phalt binder was considered. How ever, attempts to dye it'yellow by chemical means were not success ful. Pigmented plastic resin, applied as water dispersions of pigment and resin, dried rapidly to form tough films but failed to pene trate the pavement pores and thus had poor adhesion. Attempts to produce two-course stripes with resin and asphalt binder coats covered with paint surface coats produced no useful results. The resin and paint react ed with each other causing soft ness, and the asphalt binder bled through the paint surface course. Modifications of a striping com pound developed by the British Road Research Laboratory con sisting of wood resin, sand, pig ments and fillers show promising results. The material has excell ent adhesion to bituminous pave ment but does not adhere as well to concrete surfaces. Stripes which bore traffic for one year indicate good durability. Discoloration is a problem with this stripe, and the study is being continued to try to find answers to the problems of discoloration and poor adhesion to concrete. Progress to date on the project will be told in a fourth-coming pub lication. Hopkins Returns Dr. S. H. Hopkins, a professof- of zoology at A&M, returned from Chicago, Ill. this week. He attended the annual meeting of the American Society of Par asitologists held Nov. 14-17. reserve corps and ROTC training program. The general was here Friday on a nationwide inspection trip of the ROTC Units in the country. General Milton arrived Friday at Bryan Air Force Base. He was met by Col. Shelly P. Myers, PMS&T and Col. James C. McGe hee, commanding officer of BAFB. With the general on the inspec tion trip was Col. C. M. CuJp, head of the ROTC in Texas and Lt. Col. Gustav M. Bacharaeh, chief of the ROTC division. Enjoys Hospitality While in the College Station- Bryan vicinity he visited A&M and Allen Academy. On visiting the two schools he said it was an “ac ceptance of an invitation to enjoy the hospitality of the two schools and to see for myself the work be^ ing carried on by them.” General Milton’s present tour includes visits to 13 schools and colleges with ROTC programs. When asked whether or not the reserve officer produced by the ROTC program was worth the in vestment by the government, the, general said the supply of second lieutenants was a tangible reward of the ROTC efforts, but that an other major purpose of the training is to make all students enrolled in such schools better citizens as well as good soldiers. Builds Character About the general’s statement, Colonel Culp said the basic mili tary training received was char acter building as well as a method j Commerce. moved to Houston where they yere part of the group reviewing the coips parade. After the game they were guests of the college for the football game. The Friday inspection was in formal and the general said was to just see what was going on in the schools. Other member’s of the inspecting team, the military department an nounced Thursday, were Dr. Elvis Stahr and Dr. John R. Richards, special assistants to the Secretary of Army; Col. A. C. Wilder, Fourth Army Headquarters, and Col. C. L. Hilton Jr., of the Texas Military District. General Milton and his party are traveling by C-47 transport plane. They did not announce where their next stop would be. OPS Clinic Slated In Bryan Tuesday The Houston District Office of Price Stabilization will conduct price clinics Tuesday and Wednes day for businessmen of four com munities in the Bryan area. The OPS representatives will discuss current price regulations, answering questions of business men about the regulations, and will assist the merchants in their ef forts to comply with the price rules. Bryan area price clinics schedul ed include: Tuesday: Madisonville, 2 p. m. until 5 p. m. at the Chamber of Commerce; and Brenham, 9 a. m. until 5 p. m. at the Chamber of of developing leadership. Saturday the inspecting party Judging Team Competes In Meats Show The Livestock and Meats Judg ing Teams left for Chicago Sun day, to compete in the Internation al Livestock Exposition Show. Members of the Livestock Team are, Harold Bragg, Kelly Anderson, Tom Harris, Louis Amsler, John ny Fuller, and Morris Nanny. Mem bers of the Meats team are, Tom Harris, James Teutsch, Morris Nanny, and Max Word. D. L. Handlin, coach of the livestock team, and J. G. Moffitt, coach of the meats teaan, will accompany the teams to Chicago. On the way to Chicago, the teams will make stops at Oklahoma A&M, The University of Missouri, and The University of Illinois. The teams plan to return to A&M Nov. 30. Wednesday: Centerville, 9 a. m. until noon at the Leon County Courthouse; and Heame, 2 p. m. until 5 p. m. at the Chamber of Commerce. scheduled for Texas Western Col lego in El Paso, Nov. 28; Texas j § State College for Women in Den ton, Dec. 4; and again at Texas A&l on Dec. fi. Others will be held next year. The panels are selected from businessmen from all sections of the state, according to Ed C. Bur ris, TMA’s executive vice presi dent. He said that the panels afe composed of firm believers in free enterprise. “Free enterprise has a stoiy to tell, and it certainly behooves those who have profited under it to try to tell that story,” Burris said. “We hear repeated state ments that individual enterprise can no longer meet the needs of the United States. The four busi nessmen who will appear at A&M believe otherwise and they wel come the opportunity to discuss this issue with the students,” Bur ris said. The Rice Owls came to life in the last half of Saturday afternoon’s game against the Aggies scoring 21 points to overcome a 7-7 halftime tie and win their conference game 28 to 13. A near capacity crowd braved the 44 degree weather which was made to seem colder by a 22 mile an hour wind, to watch the Owls celebrate their first homecoming in the “House Jess Neely Built”, by displaying a well-balanced of fense. Dead-eye Dan Drake, the sparkling quarterback of the Neely offense, was the sophomore who directed the winners to their victory. Sophomores have been the Aggie weakness in most of the conference games played so far. Drake can be added to •the list, which includes Ray McKown, TCU, Lamar MeHan, “ ♦■Arkansas, and Jerry Norton -of ' SMU. Drake had a great day as he completed 9 out of 13 passes for 94 yards. The A&M offense sputtered and failed after taking an early lead, ■jn» t • |rj ! and never could get up steam in Erection Race ^ Mf - Rice Takes Lead Band Leads Bonfire Sign Panel Members Members of the A&M panel are E. F. Graham, vice president of the Southwestern Gas and Elec tric. Co., of Marshall, C. E. Lyon, general manager; of the Diamond Alkali Co., Houston; K. R. Dailey, assistant manager of the employee relations department of the Humble Oil and Refining Co., Houston; William W. Boddie, TMA’s di rector of public relations, Houston, who will serve as moderator of the program. The audience will be built around the student Business and Aemount- ing Societies. The A&M program will operate along the lines of the traditional New England town hall meeting. The entire program will be de voted to answering the questions which the students ask, Leland, em phasized. 1 There will be no speech es. Here’s to the Teasips, Ye Old Orange and White, Ye Think Ye’re Such Hot Rocks, By Day and by Night, Ye See This Fire Burning, So Red Hot An’ Brite, Ye’ll See it Come Thursday, When the Ag- giesYe Fite.” This inscription appears on the first bonfire sign erected by the Consolidated Bands in the southeast corner of the main drill field. Richard Clark, Richard Porter, Tommy Steel, Thomas Prague, Melton Holubec. and Baker Brogdon, band mem bers, pause in the usual order behind the new sign. —f Fort Worth Stock Show Opens Youth Division Members of the 4-H Club and Future Farmers in Texas will have the opportunity to win honors and cash at the .Southwestern Exposi tion and Fat Stock Show to be held in Fort Worth Jan. 25 through Feb. 3. Frequently during the history of the Fort Worth show' the grand champion steer of the entire ex position has been shown by a boy. This makes the boys’ grand champ ion steer in the boy’s show of the exposition and stock show the. most widely coveted award. The Steer then has an opportun ity to become the grand champion steer of the exposition in competi tion with the breed winners in the open steer show. ‘False Alarm’ On Breaking Riggs Attends Into MSC Cattle Sale J. K. Riggs, beef cattle spec ialist for the Animal Husbandry department, has recently returned from the Essar Ranch where he attended the Aberdeen-Angus sale that w r as held at the ranch. Riggs reported some outstand ing blood lines of Aberdeen-Angus cattle were displayed at the sale. Three of these lines that returned the highest prices were: Sun beam Barbarosa, Blackcap Bessie, and Georgina. One unbred Sun beam Barbarosa female sold for thirteen thousand one-hundred dol lars, which is a very good price for an unbred female. The average price paid for fifty animals, forey-one females and nine bulls, was $3,054. This high figure would have been lowered had not some thirteen high-grade animals been offered at the sale. Tom Slick, the owner of the ranch and Slick Airways Inc., said that he w'as not expecting the receipts to be as large as they were. Campus security officers received a false alarm Satur day to investigate what ap peared to be an attempt to break into the MSC Bowling Alley. Saturday morning Mrs. Elaine I,ester, manager of the bow’ling alley, discovered strange marks on one door leading into the alley. She reported her findings to J. Wayne Stark, director of the MSC, w'ho in turn notified the security officers. After a thorough investigation by Officer R. P. Batten, Dean Bow ers, a student employee at the bowling alley, pointed out the marks might have been caused by the doors rubbing together. This possibility w ? as confirmed when a test was made showing that one of the upper locks w'hen half closed would luake deep marks in the opposite door. This was the first reported in stance of an attempt to break into any part of the MSC. Top Chest Contributors Naturalized Citizens Aggieland Studios and Zubik College Station photo studios since Bryan before coming to College Tailors, with a $128 total, lead Col- 1912, considers the Chest a vital Station in 1929. lege Station merchants in the cur- civic function and says, “I think Aggieland Studio employees w'ho rent Community Chest drive, J. the Community Chest is a very donated were Dan Dandurant, Bry- G. McGuire, organization chair- good thing, and the money they an Studio; Helen Martin, George man, announced yesterday. solicit goes to many needy places. Lanicek, Mrs. Frank Hubacek, Mrs. . a*,,.- It should be the duty of everyone M. V. Estill, and Jack Green. Sntuv oni *78 to help others.” A goal of $10,000 by Dec. 1 is ’ 7 ... t ,;i, ?. mntiiVmV i Zubik has been a consistent con- the aim of the Community Chest, wh.le Zubik Tailors contributed tributor to the Chest earh yeai . Up to now , collections amount to and he fully appreciates its ac- $7,500, according to J. B. Longley, Sosolik and Zubik, both natural- tivities. “We have an agency here Chest secretary-treasurer, ized citizens, immigrated from that builds character, and this is The plan is for employees to Czechoslovakia in 1911 and 1901 the ye'ar we ought to unite. I feel give one day’s pay. Installment respectively. Their donations re- it is the yearly duty of College donations of post-dated checks are present appreciation of advantages Station merchants to give,” he readily accepted. Employees are in this countiy, they said. emphasized. requested to make their donations Sosolik, owner-operator of his Zubik operated his tailor shop in where they work, Longley said. Premiums in the boys’ steer show amount to $3,187. Of this amount, $620 is offered by the American Hereford Association; $141 by the American Shorthorn Breeders’ As sociation and $250 by the Ameri can Aberdeen-Angus Breeders’ As sociation, with. the. Stock Show matching these amounts, W. A. (Bill) King, Assistant Manager of the exposition and livestock super intendent, pointed out. Requirements In order to compete in the boy's show, the boy must be a, member of a 4-H Club or the Future Farmers in Texas. Boys of other states are eligible to compete' in the open show, which—as the name implies—is “open to the world.” A boy must have owned the steer prior to Sept. 1, 1951, and must have taken care of the steer frofn Sept. 1 to opening day of the Stflck Show. To be eligible, a hoy must be 10 and under 21, prior to Dec. 31. The feeding of the animal and keep ing of records of this must be done under the supervision of a. county agent (or staff member of Exten sion Sendee) or vocational agri culture teacher, and to qualify for showing a steer, the boy must get certification from one of these of ficials. An entry must be shown by the boy (except when he has more | than one entry in one class or can | not be present). The parents are ; not allowed to assist the boy in the show ring nor can the county agent or vocational agriculture teacher, though these officials are permitted to assist the boys in getting the steers lined up but must then leave the ring. Three Classes Steers must ha.ve been born be tween Sept. 1, 1950 and Sept. 1, 1951. They are divided in three classes based on; weight; over 925 pounds; 825 to 925 pounds; and under 825 pounds. The animals can be purebred, grade or cross bred. In each breed the winners of the three weight groups com pete for the championship and re serve championship. Then the winners of Herefords, Shorthorns and Angus will be matched and the winner is the boys’ grand champion steer. The next step is to place the boys’ Hereford champion beside the open show Hereford champion to select the best steer of this breed; similarly with the Shorthorns and Angus. Thus, three steers emerge as the best in their respective (See STOCK SHOW, Page 4) That the A&M Cadet Corps still has the “spirit” was con firmed early Sunday afternoon when the Consolidated Bands hastened to erect the first sign in the Thanksgiving bonfire area. Approximately 10 members of the Maroon and White Bands were observed digging a deep hole at the southeast corner of the main drill field about 2:30 p. m. Sunday. Shortly afterwards a wooden sign was anchored in the hole dug. One workman related that the sign wan constructed before the Houston coi-ps trip, and a group returned from Houston early to insure that their sign was the first to be erected. After completing the job of setting the marker, the men re turned to the new area to raise their canvas sign on a dormitory, Thurmond Wins QB Contest, 76 in Finals Frank Thurmond, fifth year architecture student from Austin, won last week’s Quarterback contest by pick ing the scores. Of the record 2,038 entries, there were 76 con testants who picked all four win ners. Thurmond edged his nearest competitor, Bobby Fletcher, by one point. Other contestants in their or der of finish were: James H. Upt- more James Barnard, Roger Cos- lett, Ralph Rowe, Charley Lake, Theodore R. Pfrimmer, E. E. Adams, K. McConnell, and Bob Downing. Bascom Giles, Texas Land Com missioner, will address the Nov. 22 meeting of the armchair quar terbacks. Films of the A&M-Rice game will be viewed at the meet. Thurmond will be awarded two tickets to the A&M-Texas U. game at the Thursday session which gets underway at 7:45 in the As sembly Hall. Rice tooW a 14 to 7 lead in the third quarter on a pass from Drake to Bill Howton from the A&M 12. The Cadets scored after 36 seconds of the last quarter had gone by, but failed to match the Owls score when Harrow Hooper missed his fourth try for point of the season, On the first play from scrim mage after the kickoff, speedy Ted dy Riggs broke through the center and through the secondary, for eighty yards to put the Owls out in front 20 to 13. Howton Intercepts Capitalizing on a pass intercep tion by Howton on the Aggie 19, with five minutes left to play in the game, the Owls sent Riggs through right tackle from the sev en to cinch the game 28 to 13. A&M won the toss and elected to have the wind at their backs and Rice decided to receive. A defen sive battle was then waged as neither team could move. As the first quarter was waning the Ca< dets took the ball on their own 29 and started to roll. Smith Leads Way With Ramblin’ Robert Smith and Billy Tidwell leading the way the Aggies were on the Rice 22 yard line when the gun sounded the end of the first period. From here Tidwell and Glenn Lippman made an Aggie first on thq Owl 12. Dick Gardemal threw a pass to Charley Hodge in the. end zone to bring the fanners out in front 6 to 0 with the try for point still to come. Rice was off sides on the first try and on the second try Hooper split the up rights and the Aggies led 7-0 with 11:53 minutes left to play in the first half. The Blue and Grey,squad failed to roll as did the Aggies, so Yale Larv, the A&M punting specialist, (See OWLS, Page 4) Wright Takes Part In School Program Welcome E. Wright, assistant professor of industrial education, is participating in a general school evaluation program at Ang- leton. Wright was invited to partici pate due to his previous experience in assisting on similar programs during the past several years. His special interest in the evaluation will pertain to the practical arts and vocational industrial education. U. S. Has Good Oil Supply Dallas, Nov. 19—UP)—The men who find oil met here to day with this challenge facing them: There’s enough oil in the United States to last 100 years— if they can find it. The estimate came frome Dr. Sigmund Hammer, head of the group—The Society of Exploration Geophysicists. The meeting is a regional one. Yesterday, Dr. Hammer said in an interview: “As a matter of fact, our known reserves are the greatest in history. Last year, while the nation was using 2 bil lion barrels of oil, scientists and wildcatters found 3 billion.’ The w'orld supply, he added, is 600 billion barrels. So far, only 100 billion barrels have been dis covered and only 60 billion pro duced. On the other hand, there is only a 14-year supply of known reserves and oil explorers will have to find a lot more. The petroleum industry, he de clared, will have to “w'ork like the devil to keep up with a national demand skyrocketing at the rate of 10 per cent a year.” More people than ever are hunt ing oil, Dr. Hammer said. He esti mated there are 600 teams of geo- physicsts at work, a 25 per cent increase since Korea. Middle East Moslem Bloc Talks Slated Tehran, Iran, Nov. 19—<2P)—Po litical and press circles hinted to day that Premier Mohammed Mos sadegh is going to Egypt to discuss formation of a vast Middle East Moslem bloc, independent of both the West and Russia. Officials in touch with the Mos sadegh party, which left Washing ton last night after a month of talks with U. S. officials on the Anglo-Iranian. oil dispute, declined to comment on the reports. En route home, Mossadegh will make a four-day official visit in Cairo. He is expected to meet with King Farouk. The usually well informed news paper Tolou said government sources believe Mossadegh’s visit to Egypt will “pave the way for j formation of a union of Moslem j countries against foreign coloni- I zation.” Tolou said these sources believe Ayatullah Kashani, one of Iran’s highest religious leaders, may be one of the main figures behind the. move. “The aim of the Moslem coun tries would be the creation of a bloc independent of both the West and Russia,” Tolou added. Kashani refused to comment on the report. But he has openly urged full Iranian support for Egypt in her current campaign against the British. Hussein Maki, oil nationalization boss and Mossadegh’s right hand man, told reporters, “according to political plans the destines of Iran and Egypt are linked. Victory of the Iranian nation signified vic tory for Egypt. At the same time, Egypt’s fight against colonialism is certain to produce repercussions within other Moslem countries.”