Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 10, 1951)
College Station’s Official Newspaper; Circulated Daily To 90% of Local Residents No. 59 Volume 52 Battalion PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1951 America Is Not Beyond Attach. Remember Pearl Harbor Price Five Cents Army’s Top Armor Authority Thermometers Drop to 28 ^ , . „ „ ^ ^ As Overdue Cold Front Hits To Speak at A&M Thursday Maj. Gen. Bruce C. Clarke, one eral Patton's Third Army in Eu- tinguished Service Cross-and Dis- of the world’s foremost author- rope as commander of an armored tinguished Service Medal, ities on Armor, will speak to Army combat command and late] 1 as com- ROTC students and members of manding general of the Fourth the Ross Volunteers here Thurs- Armored Division, day. In addition to making the princi pal address at the Ross Volunteer ^ as received 22 decorations Banquet Thursday evening, the £in ^ awards, among them the Dis- commander of the First Armored Twenty-two Decorations Division will conduct a conference on Armor for Amy seniors and juniors at 3 p. m. in Guion Hall. Several hundred Air Force ad vanced course cadets and Army sophomores will be included in the group to hear the general talk on “The Development, Organization, and Combat Employment of the American Armored Division.” Excused From Drill The Guion Hall conference will last two hours with a question per iod concluding the program. Stu dents in attendance will be ex cused from the regular Thursday drill period, said Col. Shelly P. Myers, PMS&T. General Clarke served as a pri vate in the Army in 1918 and in the New York National Guard in 1920. A West Point graduate of 1925, he was commissioned in the Engineers. During the World War II General Clarke served with Gen- Gen. Bruce Clarke Prior to World War II, Gen eral Clarke was connected with ROTC work at the University of Tennessee. After the war, he be came assistant commandant of the Armored School at Fort Knox, Ky. During this time General Clarke played a major role in crystaliz- ing American amored doctrine. Later, while on the Army Ground Forces staff, the general was lar gely responsible for formulating the organizational and equipment changes in the present Armored Division. More recently he com manded a major poriion of the United States Constabulary in Ger many. The General returned to Fort Hood this past spring to take command of the re-activated First Armored Division. Arrives At 11:30 General Clarke and his party will be met at Easterwood Field at 11:30 a. m. Thursday and will eat lunch with Colonel Mvers in the MSC. Lt. Charles R. Ruble, a member of the class of '51, will be in the General’s party. Ruble is now on duty with the First Armored Div ision. The weather took a decided change over the state this weekend as temperatures dipped slightly from the unusually warm highs registered for early December. College Station thermometers dropped to 28 last night and around the campus many students were wishing they had anti-freze for their cars. Highest temperature reading yesterday was 48. Overcas^ skies with occasional traces of rain was fore cast by the CAA Weather Station at Easterwood Field. The cold front is expected to disappear this afternoon or Tuesday morning. Elsewhere in Texas, snow was reported only as far south as Plainview, while Amarillo was the coldest spot in Texas last night with a chilling 17. Other temperatures registered over the state early last night were Houston, 47; Galveston, 50; Austin, 46; San An tonio, 47; Waco, 48; Dallas, 40; and Fort Worth, 39. Kid’s Show Scheduled President Flies Home; Will See Top Advisors Washington, Dec. 10—<A J )—Pres ident Truman flew back to the cap ital Sunday night, emphasizing that “no emergency’ is involved but that he was cutting short his vacation to see diplomatic and mili tary advisers and the attorney gen eral. His plane “Independence” landed at National Airport at 4:35 p.m. CST after a flight of a little under four hours from Key West, Fla. • Just before the takeoff from Boca Chica Airport at the Florida Shepardson Speaks at Dairy Short Course On Camp us Eighty-eight Texas Dairymen were on the campus last weekend for the annual Dairyman’s Short Course. This short course, sponsored by the A&M Dairy Husbandry Depart ment, was designed for dairymen and plant fieldmen who do not have time for more extensive train ing in that field. A. ( L. Darnell, professor of dairy husbandry and program chairman, presided during the opening ses sion. Dr. C. N. Shepardson, dean of the School of Agriculture, was the speaker at the initial meeting. Dr. ShepaVdson pointed out some if the major problems confront ing Texas Dairymen. He emphasized that dairying in ?re-Med, Dental Banquet Is Held The Pre-Medical Pre-Dental So ciety of A&M held its annual banquet Friday evening in the MSC. Dr. Hoff, the physiologist from Baylor University Medical College was principal speaker. The subject for his talk was “Physiology the Ages.” Attending the banquet also were student and faculty representatives of the three medical schools of Texas. These schools are Southwestern Medical School, Baylor University College of Medicine, and Texas Un iversity Medical Branch of Gal veston. Texas today is a specialized farm enterprize, which consists of fluid milk production. The butter out let is no longer available for sea sonal surpluses. “With the fluid milk market what it is, we are going to have to give more attention to high pro duction and less attention to high testing cows,” the dean said. “We must plan out breeding and feed ing to meet the market demand.” Basic Dairy Machinery Dr. Shepardson called the cow the basic piece of machinery in I the dairy business. He said, “We can never have the daily business | in Texs we should have as long as we are satisfied with cows that produce only 150 pounds of butter- fat per year.” “It is profitable to raise dairy- cow replacements which cost $300 to $500 each,” he said. “We have sold ourselves out of real dairy stock.” “The only way to get good dairy cows is to breed them,” the dean declared. “We need men breeding good dairy stock.” He pointed out that the milk bus iness is bused on a. roughage pro gram, emphasizing the need for 1 a carryover of roughage from year to year. Appetizing Appeal Dean Shepardson said food pro ducts are sold on their appetizing appeal. Therefore, milk must be of a quality and from a source that encourages milk consumption. Im-1 pressions are important, he said. The dean attributed the surplus milk problem to spring grass pro duction. He declared, “Surplus is good to cost you money. The sur plus problems must be solved on the farm—with a planned program of breeding for fall calving.” “Labor is the most critical prob lem in the dairy business today,” the speaker said. “We are coming to a 40-hour week in agriculture as well as in industry.” He said dairymen must give the utmost attention to labor saving devices. Houston Symphony Plays Guion Programs Tuesday The Houston Symphony orches- casion had won the respect and ad- tra will be the season’s third Town Hall attraction at Guion Hall Tues day evening. The Orchestra will play the regular program at 8 p. m. for Town Hall members and an afternoon matinee at 3 p. m. for school children. Afternoon Program Included on the afternoon pro gram will be such numbers as “The Overture of the Bartered Bride,” excerpts from the “Nut cracker Suite,” “Sleighride,” and “The King and I.” Tickets for the afternoon show will be on sale at the Guion Hall box office, announced C. G. “Spike” White, assistant dean of men for student activities. Led by Kurtz The orchestra will be under the leadership of Efrem Kurtz. Kurtz came to the Symphony from Kan sas City where he was conductor of the Kansas City Philharmonic orchestra. miration of the Houston musical public, from his dynamic leader ship and intelligent musical direc tion. The conductor was given a three year contract with the orchestra and at the same time saw it un dertake an expansion program with the goal of providing Houston with an orchestra which would compare favorably with the larger musical organizations of the cities in the North and East. The budget of the 1948-49 sea- Batt to Publish Xmas Party List A list of all Home Town Club Christmas Dances will be printed in The Battalion Thursday and Friday. Information such as when and where the dance is to be held and cost of tickets will be included. Club publicity managers are ask ed to get this information to The Kurtz had made two previous i Battalion office immediately if visits to Houston and on each oc-' they want their party included. son was enlarged and the orches tra was increased from 78 to 85 musicians. Also the concert sche dule was expanded to present more than twice the number of musical events of former seasons. The debut of the reorganized orchestra on Nov. 1, 1948, was an auspicious event. Kurtz, the new conductor, presented not only a “new” orchestra, but also the world premiere performance of a new work by the contemporary Ameri can composer, Aaron Copland. Attracted Press The performance attracted at tention in the national press, and critiques of the concerts quickly af firmed the fact that Houston now had one of the principal orchestras in the nation. In addition to regular subscrip tion concerts, the Houston Sym phony ’ annually presents student concerts, free ‘pop” programs, gives radio broadcasts, makes clas sical recordings and fulfill’s num erous out - of - town engagements such as the Town Hall concert Tuesday evening. city Mr. Truman added Atty, Gen. J. Howard McGrath and other Jus tice Department officials to the list of those he was coming to see. The original announcement of his change of plans, made without warning late Saturday, had men tioned only the Joint Chiefs of Staff and State Department offi cials. He will see them at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the White House. Mrs. Truman and daughter Mar garet weer on hand to meet the President as he arrived at the windswept airport. The President held onto his hat with his hgnd as he kissed his daughter and wife. 'fold Reporters In Key West Mr. Truman told reporters: “There is nothing wrong—don’t get it into your mind that the world is coming to an end.” He took pains to assure the country that his sudden decision to would have to go over that situa tion. And he added that was a reason why he considered having the Joint Chiefs of Staff flown down to Florida before he decided to fly back himself. But, he again emphasized that “there is no emergency.” The original announcement of Mr. Tinman’s return a week ahead of time, made late Saturday, only mentioned that he was coming back for a conference at the White House at 10:30 a.m. Monday with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and offi cials of the State Department. Irving Perimeter, assistant press secretary, refused to go even a word beyond the bare announce ment, a circumstance which set off speculation about some possible new crisis. Denied Crisis Washington officials, however, quickly denied there was any such , , , , crisis known to them, and suggest- cut short his stay in Key West was I„j .i • . : . i ed the mam subject for discussion was the Korean tnioo negotiations. Cmdr. Dimitroff Speaks to Reserves Members of the American and Egyptian Mili tary get together for a short meeting Friday. Left to right they are, Col. Joe E. Davis, Charles Beagle, Col. Abdel Ghaleb, Lamar McNew, Col, Shelly P. Myers and Col. E. W. Napier. Cmdr. George B. Dimitroff, of the Washington Office of Naval Research, will address the combin ed Army and Navy Reserve groups in the lecture room of the Biolo gical Science Building at 7:30 to night. Commander Dimitroff, an out standing authority and author on astronomy, telescopes, and acces sories, will lecture on “State of the Cosme.” At the end of his address, he will talk to the local Naval Unit on research activities. The public has been invited to be the guest of the combined Army and Navy Research Groups for Commander Dimitroff’s speech. Bulgarian-born, Dr. Dimitroff is with the Naval Researach Office at Washington. A US citizen for many years, he studied at Boston University and took his Master’s and Doctor’s degrees at Harvard. Observatory Superintendent In 1837 he was Superintendent of Harvard Observatory, where he helped build some of the largest Schmidt cameras, which have en abled scientists to discover new galaxies. During the war Dimitroff joined the Navy. His first post was with the Bureau of Ordnance, working on the protection of ships from magnetic mines. He was also on commissions to study atomic devel opments in Europe and to optical developments in Europe and Japan. He is still in the Naval Research Reserve. Christmas Holiday Dates Unchanged There has been no change in the Christmas recess dates as stated on the college calendar Dr. C. C. French, dean of the college, said today. Christmas recess will begin Wed nesday, Dec. 19, at 5 p. m. and classes will be resumed Thursday, Jan. 3. Students will not be excused from Wednesday afternoon classes as previously rumored, Dr. French said. A&M Debate Squad Captures Texas University Tourney Debate Teams from A&M won Texas University’s Eleventh An nual Southwest Invitational De bat Tournament on Friday and Saturday in Austin. An Aggie team composed of Joe Riddle and Berthoid Weller tied with Baylor for first place in the meet and received a gold trophy as their reward. Aggies James Farmer and Dan Davis won second place and an other team of A&M students, Wil lard Jenkins and Kenneth Scott, tied with a TU team for third place. Aggies Sweep Meet By taking all three places the Aggie speech-makers completely swept the meet in the greatest de bate victory an A&M squad has ever achieved. Three teams in the tournament, Baylor and Aggies Weller, Riddle, Davis, and Farmer, completed the five rounds of debate with unde feated records. Final decisions as to winners was made on individual speaker ratings. In the individual speaker portion of the meet a TU speaker and a Baylor tied for first. Farmer of A&M won second and Riddle and Weller tied for third for the Aggies. High School Institute The Tournament is held each year in conjunction with Texas University’s annual Debate Insti tute for high school debate teams. About 200 high school students from all over the state heard the Aggies in the course of the meet. Teams participating in the meet included groups from Southwest Texas Junior College, Howard- Payne College, TU, Baylor, and A&M. These five schools provid ed eight affirmative and eight neg ative teams. The college teams debated the high school debate question for this year. The question reads: Resolved that all American citizens should be subject to conscription for es sential services in time of war, First Meet The Austin meet was the first in which the A&M Debate Team has participated this year. Trips are being planned to include meets in Mississippi and Louisiana, as well as several tournaments throughout Texas. Several meets have been planned for the A&M campus which will bring teams from all over the state here to par ticipate. The Debate Team is sponsored by the Aggie Discussion and Debate Club. Harrison Hierth and Lee Martin of the English Depax-tment sponsor the club and sexwe as team coaches. not dictated by any crisis. , He. announced that “I’ve had a very pleasant month's vacation and I’m going to put in a week of hard work in Washington.” He mentioned that he has a con ference coming up during the week with “some other people who are coming back from Europe.” Pre sumably they would include Secre tary of State Acheson. He said Monday’s conference con cerned the “whole world situation.” “Of course that’s part of it,” he said of the Korean phase of the discussion, “but not particularly.” A reporter asked if there isn’t a whole series of problems relat ing to the Korean negotiations and involving a Dec. 27 deadline. If there is no settlement by then the cease-fire line agreement is void. Mr. Truman said that yes, he Korean Talks Enter Sixth Month Today Munsan, Korea, Dec. 10—W)— Korean truce, talks entered the sixth month today with Allied and Communist negotiators each await ing some move from the other side to break a deadlock over supervi sion of an armistice. Another subcommittee session started at Panmunjom at 11 a.m. Allied delegates demanded a showdown Sunday on immediate discussions for the exchange of .r prisoners. For the sixth straight day the Reds put them off. Red refusal to talk about prison ers caused the afternoon session at Panmunjom to adjourn 12 minutes after it convened. Afterwards, the official UN spokesman, Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols icily declared the Commu nists were “holding our captured men not only as prisoners but as hostages.” “We think it pretty obvious all they are doing is to use it as a bludgeon . . . they repeat that the reply will come in due time,” he added. The subcommittees of two dele gates from each side have wrangled over the supervision issue since Nov. 27. Each apparently has run out of things to say. Bankers Course Opens on Campus A Bankers short course opeqed Sunday evening in the Ballroom of the MSC according to Dr. C. N. Shepardson, dean of the School of Agriculture. Approximately 175 bankers from Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Arkansas registered for the coiu-se. “The purpose of this series of meetings,” said Dean Shepardson, “is to acquaint bankers with the capital and credit needs of the farmers, and the created need of credit to finance farm enterprises.” Among the speakers is Dooley Dawson, who with the assistance of eight other A&M former stu dents, will conduct two panel dis cussions. The President will meet with Sec retary of Defense Robert Lovett, Undersecretary of State Janies Webb, and the chiefs of the armed services. Just before his takeoff fronr Boca Chica Airport at 12:56 p.m. CST, Mr. Truman said, “it is nec essary” for him to hold one of his periodic conferences with the joint chiefs and it is “much easier” fox* him to return to the capital than to have the military leaders brought to Key West. AH Judgers Return From Chicago Meet The Department of Animal Hus bandry was represented at the In ternational Livestock Exposition in Chicago by two judging teams, tht? Livestock Judging team coached by Dale Hand!in, and the Meats Judg ing team coached by John G. Mof- fitt. The Livestock Judging Ham placed seventh in draft hordes, eighth in cattle and fifth in shhep. Members of the team are: Tom Harris, Louis Amsler, Jr., John Fuller, Kelly B. Anderson, Harold Bragg and Morris Nanny. Thirty- ■thxee other teams from schools over the United States and Can ada provided the competition. ■ The Meats team placed second in pork judging. Morris Nanny lied for high man in the pork judging contest; James TeutSeh tied for fourth in the pork judging. Tom Harris tied for fifth in judg ing lambs. Sixty-six studexxts from over the U. S. competed. Phi Eta Sigma Sets Initiation in MSC Phi Eta Sigma, national fi'esh- unable to attend the spring initia- man honor society, will admit 25 new xnembex-s tonight at its an nual fall initiation ceremony at 7:30 in the MSC, Assembly Room. The new members have met the requirements for membership with a grade point ratio of 2.5 or bet- tcr, and no grade below C. One hundred and ninety freshmen who made a 2.0 average or over at mid semester have been invited as pos sible members in the Spring. Nineteen students were invited to membership for last year’s spring term grades. Six were eli gible after the fall term, but wei'e A&M Prof Presents Paper At Science Academy Meet Pi - ofessor Frank Knapp, ichthy- Knapp is sponsor. ologist in the Wildlife Management Depai'tment, presented a paper be fore the Texas Academy of Sci ence in Austin Saturday on the fishes of the Guadalupe River. The paper is the first of a ser ies on fi-esh water fshes in Texas. Under Knapp’s.^dixection, surveys have been made of the fishes in the Red and Brazos rivers, and one is planned for the Pecos River. Papers wei’e presented by three students who are members of the A&M collegiate chapter of the Tex as Academy of Science, of which Richard. H. Bittner, senior wild life management student from Van Vleck, presented two papers, one on the food habits of the alligator gar and one on the toxicity of eggs of the alligator gar. Tom Dunagan,. junior student fxom Denver City, presented a paper on the use of field trips in teaching college courses. Bi'uce Hagee, senior wildlife stu dent from Fredericksburg, gave a paper on a possible solution to the white-tail deer problem on the Ed- wards Plateau. tion ceremony. After the initiation, the group will entertain 190 potential new members. A program has been planned to acquaint prospective in itiates with the Phi Eta Sigma, Dr. 1. P. Abbott, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, announced. He is sponsor of the group. Ide Trotter, president of the local Phi Eta Sigma Chapter, an nounced the following new mem- bers to be initiated: Stanley An- grist, James Aid, Charles Bakex', Jerrell Bennett, Colquitt Bramblett, James DeLce, James Dowell, Rich ard French, Perry Hector, Robert Holland, Herbert Lackshin, and Harvey Lewis. James Pinson, Richard Porter* James Seymour, Michael Slimen, Ray Ulrich, Cleve Williams, John Cameron, Joe Williams, Allen Cun ningham, Louis Little, William Rowland, Frank Way, and Royce Younger. Bryan-College Aggies Set Meeting to Organize A special organizational meet ing for the establishment of a Bxyan-College Station A&M Club has been called by Cajroll Jones, pre-Med senior from Bryan. All students from the Brazos County are are urged to attend this meeting which is to be held in the Assembly Hall at 5 p. m. Thursday, Dec. 13, said Jones.