Official Paper
Of Texas A&M College
And College Station
Number 46: Volume 52
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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.
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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.”