The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, January 04, 1952, Image 1
ASS'N fomuotents 4 copies f ,e. College Station’s Official Newspaper; Circulated Daily To 90% of Local Residents Number 70: Volume 52 ’ Battalion PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggielancb, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1952 Published By Students of Texas A&M For 74 Years Price Five Cents Vishinsky Says USBackedPlan Is Step To War Scout Chairman By STANLEY JOHNSON Paris, Jan. 4——Soviet For eign Minister Andrei Vishinsky de clared today the American-spon sored plan to build United Nations "'wgional forces against aggression .. 'kid only lead to war. Vishinsky told the 60-nation TJ. N. political committee in a 37- page speech that the “program boils down to sanctions—in other words, war.” Scare Small Powers In an apparent attempt to scare off any small power support for the new collective measures pro posals, Vishinsky warned that “the morning after the night before is going to be a painful one” for' those nations taking part in the plan. He praised the Swedish dele gate, Allan Vought, for the lat ter’s speech yesterday in which Vought expressed fear a U.N. col lective security program might call on the small nations to agree in advance to take part in a \Var between the great powers. “That is the correct inference,” Vishinsky declared. The security plan, introduced by 11 nations, would call on regional groups such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to send their forces to any part of (he globe where aggression threat ens. Vishinsky said U.N. collective measures were possible under the charter, but only with the agree ment of all the great powers. The new program was drawn up as a result of the lesson learned in Korea and is intended to give the U.N. Assembly power to act against aggression whenever the security council is prevented from acting by the veto. The program has been violently opposed by Russia since it was originally introduced last year. Vishinsky today repeated the old Russian charge that the Korean war is not an example of U.N. collective action, but simply ag gression against the Korean people by the United States and “its vas sals.” Dr. Eaton to Study Of Asian Irrigation Dr. Frank M. Eaton, USD A prin cipal plant physiologist headquar tering at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, again has been borrowed by the United Na tions for foreign soil and water resources studies. Dr. and Mrs. Eaton are enroute to Pakistan where he will make a study of the causes of land deter ioration along the Indus River. This is the site of one of the lar gest irrigation developments in Ihe world. They expect to be gone tbout three months. Stops will be made enroute in Washington and New York. An other stop will be made in Rome, Italy, world headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. In addition to several soil and water resources studies made in the United States, Dr. Eaton has been on four foreign missions for the United Nations. Three were to TIaiti and one was to the Near rtf last. J. P. Hamblen (right), member of the Class of ‘27 and president of the Sami Houston Area Council, Boy Scouts of America, con gratulates C. N. “Newt” Hielscher, Class of ’33, who has been named the new chairman of the Brazos District scout committee. At left is M. C. Hughes, head of the EE department and a vet eran of 30 years in scouting. Daniel Russell, professor of sociology, is in the center. Russell is chairman of the local district scout leader training committee. Soph Move to Fish Area Brings Differing Opinions By IDE TROTTER Battalion Staff Writer Corps sophomores look with mix ed emotions on the forthcoming placement of second year men in the freshman military organiza tions. Opinion seems to be about equally divided as to whether or not sophomores desire to live in the freshman area. Sometime early in the second semester sophomores will move in to the same military outfits with freshmen for the first time since 1947. This is the first major change in the policy of the Basic Division since it went into operation in the fall of 1950. Selection of the sophomores to fill the positions there will be on the same basis as the selection of any cadet officer for promotion ac cording to Col. Joe E, Davis, com mandant of the college. Colonel Davis emphasized that no student will be forced to move to the freshman area if he does not wish to do so. Soph Opinion Important Since the opinion of the sopho mores involved will play such a large part in the selections, a random group of sophomores was selected and asked to answer three questions. Each man was asked whether or not he wmuld like to live in the fish area and why. He was also asked if he thought this would satisfy all needs for the orientation of freshmen, and if not, what would offer a complete solution. “No, I don’t think I would like to go,” was the reply of Kenneth G. Hall, range and forestry major from Groom, “But I would con sider it if I thought I could help make better Aggies out of those fish.” Hall felt he would have very little time to study and no leisure time of his own because the jun iors wmuld pass their duties down to the sophomores. “This would ultimately lead to less distinction between the fresh men and sophomores,” Hall said. Roy Sullivan, Pampa major, ans wered, “No, I wouldn’t want to go. Fish companies are too large and four sophomores wouldn’t help much. They (freshmen) do not have, much respect for us but I guess w'e didn’t have much re spect for sophomores last year either.” The opening of the Fish area to all upperclassmen would be the so lution to the problem, Sullivan be lieves. “Yes;” answered Phil Jacobs, “I think the upperclassmen over there need some help in cracking the whip and it wmuld be different from the day to day living in the corps,” the insurance major from Galveston continued. Jacobs would like to have fish moved into the upperclass outfits. “I wouldn’t like to leave the out fit I’m in now,” Bob Butter ans- wmred. He did think it was a good idea to have four second year men in each fish outfit but he felt that the area should be opened to all students at the same time in order to keep from segregating them from their friends. “The fish year should be the hard one at A&&M and not both of the first two years. I think the fish should be moved back in the upperclass outfits,” opinioned Mor ton Krumholtz, pre-dental student from Tyler. Although in favor of the move Krumholtz felt it wmuld not leave time to do class work and said he wmuld not go. “If the juniors and seniors u'ho are over there now can’t control the fish under them I don’t see how sophomores can,” said Bob Tur- cotte, Kingsville journalism major. “I wmuld not go because there wmuld not be as much prestige to go w r ith rank as there is in the corp area,” he answmred. Turcotte emphasized his belief that to be an officer over under classmen, a man should have had all his college education at A&M (See SOPHS, Page 2) Holiday T rafficT akes Lives of Two Students Texas highway accidents took the lives of two A&M stu- pronounced dead upon arrival at Medical Arts Hospital in dents during the Christmas holidays. Brownwood. Jackie Dean Bonner, a 19 year old freshman and James Brownwood Deputy Sheriff Joe Townsend said Wells Terry Wells, 23 year old junior, were the fatally injured stu- passed a truck and apparently lost control of his car after dents. Benner was from Pampa while Wells lived in Colo- straightening out. The car swerved into a bar ditch on the rado City. left side of the road, traveled 150 yards along a fence and The car in which Bonner was riding overturned on High- overturned, the deputy reported, way 60, four miles west of White Deer about 3 a. m. Dec. Sam Jeffers Barnhart, who rode with Wells to Brown- 22. He was found approximately 20 feet from the car on a wood, said the critically injured student was to have been frozen lake around which the road turns. Benner lived until married Jan. 27. 2:30 p. m. that day. Two other occupants of the car in which Bonner was rid- Wells’ car overturned near Brownwood Dec. 18. He was ing were also injured. Miss Zula Margaret Brown, 17, receiv- —-fed a fractured skull and Miss Mary __ _ _ Helen Nichols, 16, received a bro- INorthwest 1 exansLook For Relief from Cold By The Associated Press A severe ice and snow storm that harrassed the northwest third of Texas for 48 hours began to melt away today. Dazzling sunlight turned ice in to crop saving water in West Texas and the South Plains. The freez ing rain and drizzle was said to be a life-saver for grain crops in the Abilene area. But sub-freezing temperatures stubbornly hung on in the Pan handle and hardened the crust of ice and snow. A patchwork quilt of snow covevred the Panhandle with four inches reported on the ground early today at Amarillo. The mercury registered 13 de grees at Dalhart at 2 a.m. It was 17 at Amarillo. Elsewhere in the state, rain, drizzle and fog plagued airports and highways. Light precipita tion fell early today over almost Class of 1955 Elects Karl Mielke President Karl A. Mielke, business admin istration student from El Paso, was elected president of the Fresh man Class in the election held Dec. 17, Pete Hardesty, business mana ger for Student Activities, an nounced yesterday afternoon. The' official tabulation was completed yesterday. Elected to the vice-president’s post by the Class of 1955 was Charlie W. Seely, a physical edu cation major from Rockwall. Second in line for the president’s office was Daniel Wheat, while Wiley C. Gilmore was runner up for Freshman vice-president. Edgar C. Watkins was declared Fleshman Class social secretary. Watkins was the only student fil ing for the post. Taking over the duties of sec retary will be Charles Newman. Newman is a pre-law major from Amarillo. Second in the 'secretary contest was H. Wallace Eversberg. Only two candidates filed over F. C. Trim. The new treasurer is an engineering student from Mc Kinney. Assuming the post of Freshman Class reporter will be T. H. Baker, journalism student from Memphis, Tenn. Ben Black placed second in the voting for this position. • No definite date has been set for a meeting of the freshmen, Hardesty said, a class meeting will probably be called before the Fish Ball, scheduled for March 1. the entire area east and south of a line between Junction, Mineral Wells and Wichita Falls. Skies were clear in West Texas. Six Deaths Caused In two days, the storm resulted in six deaths, disrupted hundreds of long distance telephone circuits and almost isolated whole commu nities. Floydada, northeast of Lubbock, was reported completely isolated for several hours. Fog and drizzle closed many airports early today. Brownsville International Airport was closed yesterday and conditions had not improved today. All scheduled flights to Browns ville yesterday were cancelled, but some non-scheduled planes landed on instruments. Extremely haz ardous ice was reported on run ways at the Amarillo' airport early today and some ice was reported at the Lubbock field, although it was usable. Temperatures in the Panhandle were expected to rise Saturday high enough'for the ice and snow to become sloshy. Rain Over Entire State Light rain fell in Texas. yester day over almost the entire state with Texarkana reporting the heaviest—almost an inch—in the 24-hour period ending at midnight. Wichita Falls measured .69 of an inch; Dallas .54; Abilene .46; Waco .31; Fort Worth .48; Mineral Wells .28; Childress .21; Amarillo .21; Palestine .38; Houston .14; Lub bock .32, and Corpus Christi .10. Schools closed down yesterday at Plainview, Pampa and Big Spring. Texas Tech at Lubbock excused students who had to travel ice-coated roads to get to classes. Accidents in the iced area yester day became numerous. Several buses were involved in mishaps. A northbound Texas, New Mexi co and Oklahoma bus carrying 34 persons spun on icy pavement and overturned near Seminole. Mrs. Minnie Mae Stewart, 53, Paducah, suffered a broken pelvis. A Greyhound bus carrying 27 passengers almost capsized on Highway 80 near Sweetwater. The heavy vehicle skidded and hit a parked car—but no one was in jured. A truck carrying 32 Negroes turned over three miles west of Roscoe, injuring three slightly. ken leg. Three others in the car escaped serious injury. They were Frank Bonner, Jr., driver of the auto mobile, his wife, Johnnie, and Don ald Scott. Silver Taps Tonight Silver Taps will be held at 10:30 tonight in honor of the dead stu dents. The service will be held in front of the Academic Building. Before the ceremony begins an honor guard of Ross Volunteers will fire an 18 gun salute. The vol ley will be followed by the play ing of Silver Taps. Wells was a member of A Vets while Bonner was in Company 6 Infantry. All students are asked to remain in their places until the units of which these* men were members have marched from the ceremony, Eric Carlson, cadet col onel of the corps, said. Seniors Will Discuss Change of City Name Pending the approval of the sen ior class, officers of that group •will present to, the city council of College Station the proposal that the name of the city be changed to Aggieland. This announcement was made by J. W. “Doggie” Dalston, president after a meeting with the officers of the class. “It is our opinion that the name College Station, is not a suitable name for the home of A&M. Ag gieland would be a more expres sive and correct name. The name College Station is not distinctive, but the Aggieland would brand the place as being the home of A&M.” The idea first came up this year when a former student living in Florida wrote The Battalion, sug gesting the name of the city be changed. “We know we are late in making this request since the city is going to vote on the proposed home rule charter,” Dalston remarked, “but if at all possible we would like for them to look over the possibil ities. The men I have talked to feel it would be a wonderful change.” Some of the possible stumbling blocks which have beep pointed out by city government officials are: trouble getting the approval of the US Postoffice; changing the charter; and getting the establish ed residents to want a change. The change of name proposal will be brought up at the next meeting of the Senior Class, which will be held Thursday night in the MSC Ballroom. The class can only suggest that it endorse the idea but cannot make any definite change. Dalston said if the Senior class decides to back the proposal, a group representing the class will meet with the city council and present it. He said in preliminary talks with several of the city lead ers they were “pretty interested in the idea.” “If any of the student body, or staff have any ideas on the sub ject, I would appreciate it if they would contact me,” Dalston said. Top Stories Selected by Battalion Staff Breaking of Eleven Year ‘Tradition’ Represents Top ’51 Story By THE BATTALION STAFF When the time comes for another history of A&M to be written 1951 will be a year written in red. From Jan. 1, 1951 to Jan. 1, 1952 some of the things thought to be bed-rock foundations of the school’s traditions became quicksand and became just a historical note. Take for instance the top story of the year, as selected by The Battalion Staff. A&M broke a tradition which had been perpetuated for 11 years. We Beat TU. It was in light of such stories as this, that the staff tried to sift over the pages of the papers and decided just what were the top ten stories of the year. The staff started out with 52 stories which it felt were outstanding and would have to be considered the stories of the year. But by a precedent set several years ago, the staff had to cut this list down to ten stories and attempt to rank.them in the order of their impor tance. ‘ " • While this list has some glarijig omissions, we will admit, we feel that when you-remember back over the year you will agree with us that the stories were important. 1. A&M beats TU. The boys on the forty acres went back to Austin trying to remember just where in their practicing they forgot to practice field goals, As the capacity crowd watching the Turkey Day game will remember the score ended with A&M on thu big end of a 22-21 score. The winning factor of the game was when June Davis of the Orange and White failed to make a field goal in the closing seconds of the game. After it was all over there was not the expected uproar from the * cadets. Most of them just could not believe the jinx was broken. It was not until they were back home, did they realize they had seen the thing they had heard old timers talk about—TU was no longer the in- 9 vincible. From that time on the losing ball season was forgotten. Morris Frank quipped about this in a talk at the Cotton Bowl—“The Houston Exes called Coach George and just said ‘Unpack.’ ” coach. It all started a few weeks before the coach resigned—he was in Houston to make a talk at the Shamrock Hotel ... an unidentified man attacked him . . . Harry said he did not know who it was. . . A news paper said they knew who it was. . . Harry said they did not. . . The final result was Harry threw in the towel. The Battalion canned the story under a headline saying “Stiteler Resigns; No Successor Until Athletic Council Can Meet.” After his resignation there was speculation coming from all sec tions of the campus. All of the coaching greats were said to be “the one.” The Battalion even started guessing who would be the one. For several days it printed substantial rumors and blasted the Athletic Council for being so secretive. Finally the oil was spread on the turbulant seas and Coach Ray George was named to the top slot. 3. Sophomores to live in Freshman units. This story, which broke Dec. 14, was felt to be important to the student life because it repre sented the first time in five years that entering freshmen were in the same units with sophomores. The new change, which will go into effect during the second semester, allows four sophomores to live in each company in the basic division. 4. Four Aggies Jailed in Arkansas was the headline of the story selected to the number four position. This story appeared in the Nov. 7 issue. The students were jailed on what they felt to be “trumped-up” charges. They were kept overnight and forced to appear in court to answer the charges of resisting arrest, cursing an officer, obstructing justice and such things. The funny part about the story was that during the court procedings the charges were changed several times and it was a sort of spin the bottle arrangement on who was charged with what. This story got top billing in several of the other state papers. 5. Corps Discipline Changes. For the first time in many years the officers of the corps were put in a position to take care of the dis cipline of their own corps members. This represented a change of phil osophy in the college; they were giving the men the benefit of a doubt and treating them like adults. This story came out Sept. 25 and was announced by Colonel of the Corps Carlson. At the same time a group of cadet officers w r ere permitted to sit on cases involving the disciplining of cadets. 6. College Station out-grabs Bryan. This story had a little more behind it than met the eye of the casual reader. The two cities were engaged in a dog eat dog battle for land surrounding their boundaries. Bryan held a few quick meetings and tried to annex land which Col lege Station was in the process of snapping up. College Station residents took sides like fans wmtching a football game and the outcome was the plan to start getting a home rule charter. 7. Ags to Basketball NCAA. For the first time in 28 years the Aggies had a chance to be the top dog in basketball. The season ended in a three way tie between A&M, Texas, and TCU. To decide who would play in the NCAA tourney the teams played round-robin ses sions with the Aggies taking the top honors. This story ran March 14. 8. Draft Deferments for A&M Cadets. The National Selective Service announced cadets in ROTC would be given deferments from the draft until the cadet completed his required academic work and re ceived his commission—that is if he received an advanced contract. It was this allowance by the draft boards which is attributed by some as the direct cause of the increased enrolfcient this past fall ses sion. When this was done, it put the cadets in the same position as West Pointers. 9. Summer Corps for Freshmen. For the first time since the War (World II) the corps was in operation the year-round. This story was incidentally a tie for the ninth and tenth story of the year. The summer corps was operated like the Eighth Regiment is op erated during the regular session. The main difference was the offi cers were not taking military science during the summer. Only fresh man level MS was offered to the students. Most of the regular session activities were open to the summer Cadets such as reviews, dances and a “final” review at the end of the summer. 10. A&M Wins Baseball Crown and into NCAA playoffs. For the first time in a good many years A&M had a full time baseball coach and the results were noted the first year. This made the second conference title the Ags collected. As a good luck shot so as to not miss some of the other big stories of this year, the staff went on to select the honorable mention stories. Number one on the list was when three A&M student senators, who were on the campus during the summer session voted to pay TU geology students for damages incurred during an “Aggie Float Out.” This amounted to a couple of hundred dollars paid out to help make up for the losses of the TU students. But this gesture was also the most controversial of the summer. The payment was made out of the coke funds and many of the students did not feel as if this was the proper fund for the TU students to he paid out of. Nevertheless, it did create a lot of good will for the Aggies and received a lot of favorable comment from papers all over the state. Number two on the honorable mention list was the breaking of another precedent. An Air Force man was named corps commander. This man was Eric Carlson, a veteran student from Elgin. Prior to his being named Corps Commander on Aug. 22, he was sgt. major of the corps. Ags Win Track Championship. This meant the third conference championship in the hands of the cadets. In the SWC Conference Track Meet, held here, the Ags showed the form which was becoming a habit .... they won the meet and the crown. College Station has 23 consecutive days of 100 degree heat This put College Station on the list as being one of the hottest places in the state for almost a month. The big heat wave, which ended Aug. 21, was broken when the “big Cool” came and the College Community sim mered down to a pleasant 98 degree temperature. The final big story was printed Dec. 18 when the number of men on probation was announced. Over 1,800 men appeared on the list which was dominated by men in the Basic Division. The number was 1,001. In percentage figures it was 43 per cent of the men in the Basic Div ision on probation or 32 per cent of the entire student body. But it all wasn’t bad news during the year. The top brite of the year was when Pinky Downs challenged Col. Andy Anderson to a (See TOP STORIES, Page 4) 2. Coach Harry Stiteler resigns. This story, printed March 20, was the end of a newspaper attack on the personal life of the former