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Number 61: Volume 52
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1951
Published By
Students of Texas A&M
For 74 Years
Price Five Cents
Bryan-College
Residents To
Give Blood
Residents of College Station
and Bryan will be able to give
a different type of Christmas
present this year. The Red
Cross mobile blood unit will
i Ik; in this area Dec. 13 and 14.
1 Citizens oi' the two cities have
' been asked by the chapter chair- j jL
man, Walter L. Penberthy, to sign :
a registration card signifying they
will donate a pint of blood.
Reservations for a time may be
,f ’Dde by calling Mrs. Ima Hardin
H. 1 / 2. r )7b4 or the Red Cross at
2-88(59.
Earlier in the year the unit vis
ited the campus and received about
170 pints of blood from members
of the cadet corps. The unit will
be on the campus again in several
months.
The unit will be at the Bryan
Air Force Base Dec. 13 to collect
blood from airmen stationed at the
,ase.
Age limits for the donors is be
tween 21 and 59 years of age, how
ever with parents consent, donors
between the ages of 18 and 21 may
give blood.
In order to meet the physical re
quirements for the donation, the
'donor must weigh at least 110
“ pounds. Extremely obese persons
I may be accepted if they have the
' approval of the attending physic-
^ian.
In general, if the prospective
donor is in good physical condition
he will be able to donate blood,
Penberthy said.
At the collecting center the per
sons giving blood will be examined
and passed on by an attending
physician or nurse. They will give
their blood in a screened off por
tion of the church.
Dormitory Decorations
British Consul-General
To Discuss Empire
Stand on Egypt Tonight
Slide Rule Winners
Hear Harrington
Units on the campus have started to get ready for the Christmas
season by trying to decorate up the long dark halls in the dormi
tories. The cadets use the full line o fdecorations in beautifying
the living quarters. Like in this Hall way, which was. fixed up
with' crepe paper and tin foil. Many of the units go all of the
way towards Christmas, by putting up the traditional tree.
jet Fighters
Sweep Korea,
Look for MIGs
Hospital Group
Inspects Unit
Methods to better acquaint
the student body with the pol-
Dcies of. the college hospital
were discussed last night by
members of the Hospital Com-
onittee of the Student Senate and
Dr. J. E. Marsh, head of the col
lege hospital.
The committee, according to Jim
Wood, secretary, agreed to investi
gate possibilities of publishing ar
ticles in The Battalion showing
students what their money is being
used for in regard to medical fa
cilities, Wood said. Also, these ar
ticles would explain what services
the college hospital offers students
and how the policies of the hospi
tal are formulated.
Advisors who will work with the
committee are Bennie Zinn, assist
ant to the dean of men; and Col.
Joe Davis, commandant. Carroll
tones is student chairman of the
committee.
Female Flutist Steals Act
During Town Hall Concert
By ROBERT EUNSON
Seoul, Korea, Dec. 12—UP)
U. S. Sabre jet fighters today
swept over northwest Korea
but sighted none of the Com
munists MIG-15 jets that al
most daily flock out of Manchuria.
A U. S. Fifth Air Force sum
mary said a U. S. F-80 shooting
star jet crashed and burned in Red
territory with “no chance of pilot,
survival.” It gave no details.
Doughboys in mist-draped hills
across the front held their fire
as the twilight war continued.
A half dozen patrols poked out
across the hill country west of
Yonchon, holding up and calling
for artillery support at the first
sign of Reds.
West of the punchbowl, on the
eastern front, one Red probing
force of about two platoons was
hurled back after a brief skirmish.
Elsewhere there was little to re
port except brief patrol contacts
in no-man’s-land.
Temperatures ranged from a
'bone chilling 5 degrees above zero
in the East to 40 above in the
West.
^Annual Texas Turf
Meeting Opens Today 8150h ' iz(is DonalV(l
By JERRY BENNETT
Battalion Staff Writer
A flute soloist, little known to
A&M audiences, will not soon be
forgotten in Aggieland after her
performance in Town Hall last
night.
Miss Elaine Shaffer, accompan
ied by the 85 piece Houston Sym
phony, received a warm ovation
from the near capacity crowd for
her talented rendition of “Suite for
Flute and Strings”, by Tollman.
The concert consisted of the en
tire presentation of Tchaikowsky’s
“Fifth Symphony,” followed by the
playing of the “Suite for Flute and
Strings” and “Suite from Die
Fledermaus” by Johann Strauss.
“Rarely Gets Nervous”
Dressed in a low cut blue eve
ning dress, the beautiful and tal
ented Miss Shaffer said she rarely
gets nervous when giving a con
cert.
She was graduated from Curtis
Institute in Philadelphia in 1947
and started to work for the Hous
ton Symphony in 1948. This is her
fourth season with the orchestra.
-Efrem Kurtz, conductor and direc
tor,of the Houston Symphony, said
she is one of the leading flute
players in the nation.
Kurtz was called back after the
program to conduct the orchestra
in four encores. They were Pro-
kofieff’s “March” from the opera
“Three Oranges,” “Spieleri” by
Stix and “Perpetual Motion’ by
Johann Strauss.
A rendition of “Sousa’s March”
closed the program.
Kujrtz said the concert was re
When asked what his plans are
for the future,, Kurtz replied he
will conduct, several concerts in the
United States and abroad.
The conductor was favorably im
pressed with A&M. He said it was
something all the United States
“We can not he satisfied with
just average performance,” Pres
ident of the College M. T. Harring
ton pointed out to freshmen Me
chanical Engineering students at
the presentation of awards for the
23rd Annual Slide Rule Contest
yesterday.
Dr. Harrington expressed the
hope that the contest would prove
an incentive to greater effort for
all who took part in it. “Just get
ting by is not in the spirit of
American tradition,” he empha
sized.
The Slide Rule Contest had its
origin in 1938 according to C. W.
Crawford, Head of the Mechani-.
cal Engineering Department. He
credited C. W. Fleming with re
vitalizing the contest in 1940 with
his suggestion that plaques be
presented to the winners in each
department of the School of En
gineering.
The winner of the first award
this year is Robert E. Zumwalt,
Chemical Engineering major from
Halietsville. Dr. rank C. Bolton,
president emeritus, presented him
with a Dietzgen slide rule and Dr.
Harrington presented him with the
first place plaque.
Edwin Bennett, Daniel P. Wheat,
Raymond C. Arhelger, Travis G.
Wunderlich, and Arthur F. Bar-
First and second place awards
were made in each department.
They were as follows: Aeronauti
cal Engineering, Robert Ruiz and
Richard F. Weick; Agricultural
Engineering, Ira Hugh Harrington
and John P. Dewald; Architecture,
Raymond C. Arhelger and John
James Jones; Chemical Engineer
ing, Robert E. Zumwalt and Jack
E. Spell; Civil Engineering, Dan
iel P. Wheat and Ernest M. Stone,
Electrical Engineering, Kenneth
Leroy Scott and Lawrence G.
Francis; Geological Engineering,
James H. Diggs and Jerry Ramsey;
Industrial Engineering, Travis, G.
Wunderlich and Homer C. Homey-
er; Mechanical Engineering, Ed
win Bennett ahd Robert G. Tatum;
Petroleum Engineering, Walter L.
Crandall and Morgan Shipman.
In a special group for competi-
tors having had prior college slide
rule work Arthur F. Barborak was
first, Donald Ray Dies, second
and Wilson D. Watson, Jr., third.
“This is a great day for the
engineer,” Dr. Boten announced to
the freshmen. But he pointed out
that just as a good football team
always comes out on top over a
mediocre one so it is with engineers
or anyone else in this competitive
world.
4 , British Consul-General James T.
Henderson will speak tonight at 7.
o’clock in the MSC Assembly
Room. He will discuss the Anglo-
Egyptian crisis from the British
view point.
A question and answer period
will follow Henderson’s speech.
During this period, he will attempt
to answer some of the charges
which Col. Abdel Ghaleb, Egyptian
military attache made in his speech
here Friday night.
The British consul-general was-’
invited to the campus by the MSC
directorate, the history department,
The Battalion, and the A&M Uni
ted Nations club.
and the United Nations should
velveci by a “wonderful audience”. | know about," He especially Mked j borak finished in the top six in
They responded tremendously, he the MSC. that order and were awarded slide
added. I (See SYMPHONY, Page (5) | rules.
Tan Beta Pi Ceremony Friday
Initiates 25 New Members
Tau Betta Pi, national honorary
engineering fraternity, will initiate
25 undergraduate and six alumni
members Friday. The ceremony
will be held at 5:30 p. m. in the
Chemistry Lecture Room and will
be followed by a banquet that night
in the MSC Assembly Room.
Approximately 100 guests are
expected to attend the banquet, ac
cording to Teddy Hirsch, president
of the organization. Featured
speaker on the program will be Dr.
T. F. Mayo, head of the English
department, who will speak on
“Great Books.”
In order to be eligible for mem
bership in Tau Beta Pi, a student
must be at least a classified junior
with a grade point ratio of 2.75.
A senior, to be eligible for mem
bership, must rank in the upper
ten per cent of his class and have
a grade point ratio of not less than
2.25.
Alumni members of the associa
tion are chosen from those grad
uates who would have been eligible
for membership in the honorary
association if Tau Beta Pi had been
in existence on the A&M campus
at the time they were students,
Hirsch said.
These men are recommended for
The sixth annual Texas Turf
| Conference will be held here, to
day, Thursday and Friday, an-
1 nounced Dr. J. R. Walton, Jr.,
agronomist in charge of the re
search and instruction.
Dr. Watson expects an attend
ance of 100 to 125 persons. Every
one interested in turf is invited,
he said.
The program will include talks
on football field turf, cemetery
turf, park turf and turf for golf
courses. Speakers scheduled include
personnel of the A&M System and
other persons in the state who are
connected with turf work.
Two of the principal speakers
are O. J. Noer agronomist with
the Milwaukee Sewage Commis
sion, one of the outstanding turf
men of the nation, and Tom Mas-
caro of the West Point Lawn Pro
ducts Company of Penncylvania.
“Mr. Mascaro and his brother
invented the turf aerifier, which
Draft Exams Set
For Tomorrow
Selective service examinations
for approximately 50 students will
be held tomorrow in the MSC Ball
room, W. A. Varvel of the educa
tion and psychology department,
said. The tests will begin at 8:30
tomorrow morning and last until
12:30.
is the most forward step made, in
recent years in turf cultivation
equipment,” Dr. Watson said. “The
aerifier allows cultivation of turf
without disturbing the sod.”
A tour of the experimental turf
plots at College Station, the foot
ball turf at Kyle ,Field and the
A&M Golf Course will be includ
ed on the program, Dr. Watson
said.
This conference is sponsored
jointly by Texas A&M College and
the Texas Turf Association.
Battalion Christmas Decoration
Contest Builds Interest in CS
Christmas Dinner
Tickets Go on Sale
Pre-sale of tickets for the an
nual Christmas dinner to be serv
ed Tuesday night in Sbisa and Dun
can Mess Halls will begin today
at noon, Don Carroll said last
night.
Tickets are priced at 59 cents
each and will remain on sale until
Friday at nooil, Carroll said.
Students who plan to have guests
for the Christmas dinner are asked
to buy their tickets in advances,
Carroll explained. This is due to
the large crowd which is expect
ed to eat in the two college dining
halls Tuesday night.
Tickets may be secured from
Carroll, Dorm 8-403; Bob Fagley,
A-l Walton Hall; and O. C. Jar
vis. Dorm 12-124.
With judging only a week away,
The Battalion 1951 Christmas Dec
oration Contest has received even
more support from the City of Col
lege Station than sponsors had an
ticipated.
The mounting enthusiasm to
make the community beautifully
decorated for the holiday season
is attributed partly to a reawaken
ing of the old-fashioned spirit of
Christmas and hope for a world of
peace, and also to prizes of local
businessmen who are supporting
the contest 100 per cent.
$150 In Prizes
At press time today, prizes to
taling nearly $150 had been receiv
ed by The Battalion for winning
displays. More are expected.
In order to make the competition
fair to all and provide efficient
judging, the city-wide contest is
divided into three divisions.
Division I, for all residents of
College Station other than stu
dents, has four sections.
A first prize will be given the
winner of each of these sections:
1. the most beautiful doorway; 2.
the most attractive window; 3. the
best decorated outside tree; and 4.
a miscellaneous classification for, Battalion entry blank, or entered
the best display not included in one | on the list in The Battalion Office,
second floor, Goodwin Hall.
All entries must be made by 6
of the other three sections.
Non-Dormitory Students
Division II, for students not liv
ing in dormitories, is composed of
two sections, 1. the most beautiful
window, and 2. a miscellaneous dec
oration.
First, second, and third prizes
will be awarded for the three most
beautiful window decorations; and
one first prize will be given for the
best display other than a window
decoration.
Division III, for dormitory stu
dents, will be judged by companies,
or dormitory floors. As in each
of the other two contest divisions,
this division will include four pi’i-
zes. First and second prizes will be
given in two sections, 1. the best
company sign, and 2. the best dec
orated floor.
Judged From Inside
The latter section is the only
one which will be judged froth in
side the building. All other deco
rations must be visible from the
street. The contest will be judged
Dec. 18, and must be entered on a
p. m. Tuesday, Dec. 17, and resi
dents entering more than one sec
tion must so specify on their entry
blanks.
First In City
Believing this to he the first
city-wide decorations contest in the
history of College Station, The
Battalion contacted pioneers to
substantiate the theory.
Mrs. P. L. Downs, who has lived
here for eleven years, said to her
knowledge this is the first contest
of this kind to be held locally.
Then, a real old-timer was lo
cated. Mrs. R. P. Marsteller, who
has lived on the A&M campus since
she was a child, said, “I can’t
vouch that there has never been
a Christmas decorations contest in
College Station, but I can assure
you that there has not been one
in this century!”
In view of the festive spirit and
enthusiasm which has greeted this
civic rivalry, The Battalion is hap
py to sponsor this long-overdue
holiday activity.
(See CONTEST, Page 6)
alumni membership by the head of
the department in which they did
their major studies while attending
college.
Junior Initiates
Junior students who will be in
itiated into Tau Beta Pi at the
ceremony Friday are:
John C. Burke, Jimmy Earl Cur
tis, Richard F. Dolan, Donald B.
Hale, James J. Jordan, Weldon D.
Kruger, James B. Kyser, Joe B.
Mattel, John L. Parky and Richard
M. Zeek.
Seniors who will be taken into
the association are:
Glen Andre Breaux, Robert J.
Brown, Daniel D. Clinton, David
J. Engel, James L. Frenley, Rich
ard Alan Green, Dick M. Jenni-
son, Robert B. Killan, Thomas K.
Perkins, Jim Bradford Russell III,
Amos J. Shiver, Harold J. Spring-
field, Huel Clive Tucker, James P.
Van Way, and C. L. Humphreys.
Six Graduate Memberships
The six graduates who will be
given alumni memberships include
John James Maurer, a chemical en
gineering graduate in the Class of
1939. He is now working for the
Taylor Refining company of Cor
pus Christi as general plant en
gineer.
William Henry Oswalt, present
city manager of Midland, will also
receive alumni membership. He was
a civil engineering graduate in the
Class of 1940.
Gets Initiated
Another former student who will
receive membership in Tau Beta Pi
is H. Lee Miller of Houston. Mil
ler was an electrical engineering
graduate and a member of the
Class of 1927. He is a past chair
man of the Houston section of
the ALEE.
J. E. Warren, a 1923 graduate
of the University of Washington
with a degree in geology will also
be awarded alumni membership in
the A&M Chapter of Tau Beta Pi.
He is president of the Carl B.
King Drilling Co. of Midland.
A graduate in the 1900 class at
Royal University in Ireland, Robert
James Cumins will also be initiat
ed into the local organization. He
is a consulting engineer in Hous
ton.
Hometown Club
Xmas Party List
J
Various hometown clubs and
other campus groups are planning
parties over the Christmas holi
days. The Battalion is printing a
list of these activities for the bene
fit of the members of these groups.
Today’s is the first in the series
which will appear daily.
Guadalupe-Comal County Club-
Banquet, Thursday, Dec. 27; 7:30
p. m., American Legion Home,
Seguin. Admission, $1 per plate.
Gonzales County Club—Dance,
Friday, Dec. 21, Hillcrest Supper
Club, Gonzales; Aggieland Orches
tra will play, Admission, $3.(50.
San Antonio Club — Dance,
Thursday, Dec. 27, Shadowland.
Mack'Rogers Band will play. Ad
mission, $3.75,
Fort Worth Club—Dance, Fri
day, Dec. 28, Venetian Room,
Blackstone Hotel. Kenneth Vaugh
an Orchestra. Tickets $2.50 if
bought in advance and $3 at door.
Groom Club — Dance, Friday,
Dec. 28, Groom American Legion
Hall. No charge.
Weatherford Club — Informal
dance, Wednesday, Dec. 2(5, VFW
Hall, Weatherford. Dance begins
at 8 p. m.
Houston County Club—Dance
Friday, Dec. 28, 8 p. m. Crockett
Country Club. Admission $2.
Flax County Club—Dance, Thurs
day, Dec. 27, 9 p. m. VFW Home
in Kenedy. Music by Burg Morisse.
Admission, $1.50.
Laredo Club—Dance, Sunday,
Dec. 23, 9 p. m. Martin High School
Gym. Ralph Galvan Orchestra. Ad
mission, $5.
Oxford Graduate
After he was graduated from
Oxford University in England,
Henderson joined the British for
eign service in 1925 and served
with the legation in Teheran, Per
sia, Athens, Greece, and Helsinki,
Finland.
Henderson was made a first sec
retary in the Far Eastern Depart
ment in 1935 and later attached to
the Finland legation in May, 1937.
In Japan and Chile
Henderson worked in Tokyo, Ja
pan, in 1938 and in Chile in 1941
where he worked until 1944. He
then was recalled by the foreign
office an dassigned to duty in the
Near Eastern Department.
He was named the consul-general
for the states of Texas and New
Mexico after' serving as consular
at Stockholm, Sweden from 1946
until 1949.
The men responsible for 1 arrange
ments during. the consul-general's
visit to the campus are Dr. S. R.
Gammon, head of the ristory de
partment; Dan Davis, MSC Coun
cil; President Charles Beagle of
the United Nation club, and John
Whitmore, editor of The Battalion.
Tom Rountree, MSC House Com
mittee chairman is co-ordinator for
the four organizations.
Reds Make
New Truce
Dance Scheduled
After Cotton Bowl
The Cotton Bowl Athletic Asso
ciation will sponsor a New Year’s
Eve dance for students of the
Southwest Conference schools and
the University of Kentucky in the
Student Union Building on the
campus of Southern Methodist Uni
versity from 9:00 p. m. until 1:00
a. m., announced by Leonard Green,
Cotton Bowl president.
There will be no admission
charge for the dance and students
will be admitted upon presentation
of student activity or identification
cards.
The Cotton Bowl Queen and all
of the princesses, including Miss
Wanda Harris of TSCW, repre
senting A&M, will be presented
during the dance.
By ROBERT B. TUCKMAN
Munsan, Korea, Dec. 12—•
UP)—A new Red plan for ex
changing prisoners of war and
an Allied compromise for su
pervising a Korean truce with
neutral observers fell on cold shoul
ders today.
The United Nations command ex
pressed fears publicly for the first
time that the Communists might
not give up all the prisoners they
hold.
Bad Faith
The fear was expressed in turn
ing down a five-point prisoner ex
change plan advanced today by
Communist negotiators at Panmun-
jom. The Red proposal still called
for release of all prisoners. The
U.N. insists on a man-for-man
exchange.
The U. N. command is concern
ed,” an official communique said,
“that premature agreement on bulk
exchange of prisoners before ade
quate data is available could re
sult in sizable numbers not being
recovered.”
Allied negotiators, the commu
nique added, “excoriated the Com
munists” for not letting the Red
Cross see how prisoners are being
treated and for refusing to say
how many prisoners they hold and
where.
The Reds have said they would
supply the information only after
the Allies agree on a blanket ex
change. They kept this stand in
their five-point plan.
The number of Allied troops in
Red hands has been estimated at
from 98,000 to 139,000. The U.N.
says it holds between 120,000 and
135,000 Chinese and North Korean
Reds.
The only new factors introduced
: in the Red plan would be to ex
change prisoners in groups at Fan-
munjom, the sick and wounded
first, under joint Allied-Red super
vision.