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THE BATTALION
Tuesday, December IB, 1951
(jeneral’s Wife
Happy to Hear
Dean Still Alive
By The Associated Press
Red-haired Maj. Gen. Wil
liam F. Dean has been report
ed wounded, dead or captured
so many times in the past 17
months his wife and mother
today found reports that he was in
the hands of Communists “almost
too good to be true.”
Word that the Reds list him |
among their prisoners is the most
definite statement on what hap
pened to him since he led a small
party of his 24th Division out of
flaming Taejon in the early months
of the Korean war and then went
to hunt for more American strag
glers.
“I’m afraid to let myself get
too elated,” his wife, Mildred Dean,
said in Berkeley, Calif., today when
informed by the Associated Press
of his reported POW status.
“It’s wonderful. It’s almost too
good to be true.
“But those peace talks have been
going so poorly, you can’t tell
what will happen. We still have
to keep our fingers crossed and
keep hoping.”
Dean’s mother, 71-year-old Mrs.
Charles Watts Dean, said:
“I’ve been praying for his safety
these many months.
“I’m very, very happy.
“At times I heard rumors that
raised my hopes then there would
be silence. Then despair because
there was nothing to substantiate
the rumors.
“It was discouraging when his
helmet liner was found” with two
bullet holes.
The general’s son, William F.
Dean, Jr., is at West Point.
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at all times, displayed sportsman
ship in all their games and con
ducted themselves in a manner to
make us all proud.
“There has been considerable
criticism directed at intercollegiate
athletics but in my opinion the
good far exceeds the bad.
“You will find the average schol
astic grades of this football squad
iibove the average of the entire
student body.
“I don’t think it is fair to con-
f.emn a group for mistakes. There
fore we shouldn’t condemn inter
collegiate athletics because of the
mistakes of a few.”
Four Wins Over Texas
Barlow (Bones) Irvin, the Ag
gie athletic director, pointed up
the fact that Aggies had beaten
Texas in all four major sports in
1951.
After Mrs. Ray George, wife of
the Aggie coach, had been called
on first and expressed the appre
ciation of the wives and dates,
Coach George introduced the play
ers and the coaches of the team.
Commies Release Prisoner
List To U. N. Truce Team
Maj. George A. Davis Jr., of Lubbock, who is (he leading United
States jet lighter ace in Korea with 12 victories, uses two scale
models to show how he did it. He holds a scale model of an F-86
Sabre jet in his right hand and puts it on the tail of a model of a
Russian-made TU-2 bomber during a news conference in Tokyo.
Davis got three bombers of this type and one MIG jet fighter in
one day on Nov. 30. (AP Photo)
West Disarmament Plan
Rapped As ‘Wishy-Washy
Paris, Dec. 18—'A 3 )—Soviet For
eign Minister Andrei Yishinsky
turned down today a revised West
ern disarmament proposal. He
called it “wishy-washy’ and mean
ingless.
Breaking a week-long silence,
Yishinsky told the U.N. General
Assembly’s 60-nation political com
mittee that Britain, France and the
United States had tried to per
suade the world they had submit
ted a truly revised plan but
“searching scrutiny fails to bring
out any serious changes.’
The Western big three followed
up the deadlock in ten days of se
cret big four disarmament talks
with revisions they thought would
meet some Russian objections.
None of the concessions concem-
ed major issues and the West stuck
to its demand for creation of a
tamper-proof system of inspection
and control before agreeing to ban
the atom bomb.,
Russia has consistently demand-
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ed an immediate ban on atomic
weapons. In secret sessions the
four powers had agreed to recom
mend setting up of a 12-nation dis
armament commission—the 11 Se
curity Council members and Cana
da—to renew talks on ending the
world aims race.
That plan would have combined
the present U.N. commissions on
atomic arms and conventional
weapons.
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What’s Cooking
ABILENE CLUB: Tuesday, 7:30
p. m., Room 3-C MSC. Plans for
Christmas to be discussed.
AGGIE CHRISTIAN FELLOW
SHIP: Tuesday, 7:30 p. m., YMCA
Cabinet Room. MR Arthur Smith
will present the birth of the Lord
Jesus Christ in this special Christ
mas program; hot chocolate and
doughnuts will be served.
BRUSH COUNTRY CLUB:
Tuesday, 7:30 p. m., Room 2-A
MSC. Important meeting about the
Christmas party.
BRYAN - COLLEGE STATION
CLUB: Friday, 7:30 p. m., Brazos
County A&M Club House. Christ
mas dance, $1.00 stag or drag.
EAST TEXAS CLUB: Tuesday,
7:15 p. m., Room 307 Goodwin.
HOUSTON CLUB: Tuesday, 7:00
p. m., Room 301 Goodwin. An
nouncement of Christmas dance
plans.
MARSHALL CLUB: Friday,
6:30 p. m., Lions Park Community
House. Friday, Dec. 28 the Mar
shall A&M Club will have Hank
Folberg and this years picture
show of the Texas-A&M game,
at the annual Christmas party.
PERMIAN BASIN CLUB: Tues
day, 7:30 p. m., YMCA Lounge.
Discuss Christmas party.
KONCHO HEAVY DUTY LUB
RICANTS—7:45 p.m. Student Sen
ate Chamber, MSC. All men in
terested in earning money over
Christmas holidays attend.
Munsan Korea, Dec. 18—
(RP)—The Communists turned
over to the United Nations
today a list of 11,559 prison
ers, including 3,198 Ameri
cans.
They said the list includes all
prisoners of the Korean war in
their hands. The U.N. gave the
Reds a list of 132,474 Chinese and
North Korean prisoners.
Gen. Dean
General Matthew B. Ridgway’s
headquarters in Tokyo said it un
derstood the Communist list in
cludes Maj. Gen. William F. Dean,
lost commander of the U.S. 24th
Division. Dean has been missing
since the fall of Taejon in July
1950.
Communist newsmen at Panmun-
jom said Associated Press Photo
grapher Frank Noel was also Us
ed.
Exchange
Lists were exchanged Tuesday
with Communist truce negotiators
suddenly capitulated to U.N. de
mands. The prisoner subcommittee
recessed until Thursday. Rear Adm.
R. E. Libby, U.N. member of the
committee, said the purpose was to
study the lists.
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols,
U.N. spokesman, elaborated:
“The Communist lists have not
yet been verified. They probably
include errors, omissions and pos
sibly fictitious additions.
“Every effort humanly possible
will be made immediately by the
U.N. command to check the list.
The respective arms of services in
the United States will notify the
next of kin immediately on verifi
cation.
“I cannot emphasize too strongly
that this is a Communist list.
Questionable
“Any infonnation on prisoners
received from the Communist is
questionable due to their continued
refusal to allow international com
mittees of the Red Cross to inspect
their prisoner of war facilities and
operations.”
Of the 11,559 names on the Com
munist lists, a U.N. command com
munique reported: 7,142 are South
Korean, 3,198 American, 919 Brit
ish, 234 Turkish, 40 Fillipino, ten
French, six Australian, four South
African, three Japanese, and one
each from Canada, Greece and the
Netherlands.
Far Short
The Communist lists fell far
short of previous public Allied es
timates of perhaps 100,000 or more.
The 3-198 Americans listed as
prisoners compare with approxi
mately 12,000 Americans officially
listed as missing in action.
But a reliable source in Tokyo
said there probably was “no great
disparity” between the official U.S.
Army estimate of the number of
prisoners the Reds hold and the
number announced by the Reds. He
said that probably many of those
listed as missing actually died in
battle.
Col. James M. Hanley of the U.S.
Eighth Army recently reported
that 5,500 Americans were slaugh
tered by the Reds after being tak
en prisoner.
First Information
The lists supplied by Red truce
negotiators Tuesday was the first
official information from the Reds
since July and August, 1950, when
the Reds gave the International
Red Cross the names of 110 pris
oners.
Coincidentally with the sudden
change in Red attitude, General
Ridgway flew to Munsan from his
Tokyo headquarters.
Ridgway
He immediately went into a top
strategy conference with his armi-
stive negotiators and military com
manders.
Ridgway was quoted as saying
the “military and truce delega
tions are in complete accord” on
future steps in Korea.
The conference was attended by
Gen. James V. Van Fleet, U,N.
ground commander in Korea, and
Vice Arm. C. Turner Joy, head of
the U.N. armistice team.
No progress was reported by a
second truce subcommittee arguing
at Panmunjom over how to enforce
an armistice. It adjourned until
11 a.m. Wednesday (9 p.m. Tues
day EST).
Sudden Communist capitulation
in turning over the names of pris
oners they hold is the most hope
ful break in talks since a provi
sional cease-fire line was created
last month. The buffer line will
become effective if other truce
terms are agreed to by Dec. 27.
Othenvise it will be changed to
confoim to changes in the battle
line.
Xmas Trees
Fire Hazard
Simmons Says
Christmas tree safety precau
tions were offered by C. W. Sim
mons, extension farm forrester of
the A&M System, who said, “The
tree are a fire hazard in the home
and every effort should be made
to eliminate the possibility of a
fire starting from the trees.”
Simmons advised to buy a tree
with fresh leaves or needles and
place it aside for a few days before
decorating. Before mounting the
tree, Simmons said to make a new
cut and put the tree in a contain
er of water which will keep the
tree fresh. This will also prevent
leaf shedding, he said.
Second Contract for Nuclear Aircraft
Engine Let; Pratt-Whitney Recipient
Washington, Dec. 18—'A 1 )—The
air force, pushing for early devel
opment on an atomic-powered air
plane, has awarded a. new contract
for work on a nuclear engine to
Pratt and Whitney Aircraft at
East Hartford, Conn.
In effect, the air force appeared
to be putting some of its eggs into
a second basket.
Last March 23, the Atomic Ener
gy Commission (AEC) announced
it was negotiating a 'contract with
a General Electric Company divi
sion “for further development of
a nuclear reactor for aircraft.”
Last night the air force said it had
given Pratt and Whitney “a con
tract to work on the development
of an atomic aircraft engine.”
An air force spokesman said let
ting of the contract to Pratt and
Whitney was not to be taken as
an indication that the General Elec
tric Company is not making prog
ress. Rather, he said, a search is
being made for more than one. way
to develop the engine.
The air force and the AEC,
working with industry on the proj
ect, have been close-mouthed about
details. But scientists have predict
ed unofficially that an atomic-
powered plane might have a range
limited only by human endurance
and speeds that can only be guess
ed at.
Last Sept. 5, the air force an
nounced it had contracted with
Consolidated Vultee Corporation
for construction of what engineers
call an airframe—the shell of a
plane without engines or instru-
ents—for’ a nuclear powered plane,
ments — for a nuclear powered
plane. This was regarded as an
indication of reasonable confidence
such a plane can be produced.
Yesterday’s announcement gave
few new details. The air force
recalled in a statement that Pratt
and Whitney’s parent, the United
Aircraft Corporation, “was one of*
a £roup of firms that participated
in the postwar studies of nuclear
energy for propulsion of aircraft.”;
Survey
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The surwey revealed that 32 per
cent of these 91 boys do not drink
at all. Twenty per cent of the non
drinkers said that they were nor
mally against drinking, and 80
per cent said they did not like
the taste and saw no reason for
drinking.
This survey was taken from an
equal number of freshmen, sopho
mores, juniors, and seniors on the
campus.
Freshmen were the least in num
ber to drink, sophomores next, and
juniors next. Seniors were found
to drink more than any class, ac
cording to the report.
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Official Notice
Fourth installment, payable Dec. 1 -18,
to Fiscal Office.
Board to Jan. 26 (Christmas
recess excluded) ..$33.00
Room rent to Jan. 26 13.00
Laundry to Jan. 26 (Christmas
excluded) 2.65
Total payable to Fiscal Department $48.65
The Fiscal Office will begin taking fees
for the Second Semester immediately after
the Christmas Holidays, beginning Janu
ary 4.
In order to hold the rooms they now
occupy, for the second semester, students
must pay fees and reserve rooms at the
Housing Office in Goodwin Hall before
January 22.
First installment fees for military stu
dents for the second semester are $75.20
and for non-military students are $48.80.
Fees for the entire semester for military
students are $244,80; for non-military,
$92.85.
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