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No. 59 Volume 52
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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.