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Number 70: Volume 52
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COLLEGE STATION (Aggielancb, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1952
Published By
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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