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Number 97: Volume 52
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1952
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Who’s Who at A&M
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UN Refuses To Accept
Russia as Neutral Peace
Supervisor in Korea
James Lehmann
Senior DH major from Brenham.
Lehmann is editor of The Agri
culturist, president of combined
academic councils.
Dan Davis
Senior business major from
Dallas. Davis is president of
MSC and Directorate, European
tour winner.
Bibb Underwood
Senior Ag Administration major
from Dallas. He is co-editor of
Aggieland ’52, CO first Infantry
battalion, Senior Court member.
Grady Smallwood
Senior AgEd major from Mill-
sap, Smallwood is president of
Student Senate, CO eighth regi
ment, and Alpha Zeta member.
Deadline Set
To Enter ‘Fish’
Sweethearts
Deadline for turning in pic
tures of candidates for Fresh
man Class sweetheart is Fri
day. Pictures are to be turned
in at the Student Activities
office, second floor of Goodwin
Hall.
The Fish Ball will be Saturday
night, March 1, from 8 to 12 in
Sbisa Hall. The Aggieland Orches
tra will play. Tickets will go on
sale next week in the dorms. They
are $2..00, stag or couple.
Six finalists for sweetheart will
fce picked from the pictures. Dur
ing the first intermission at the
dance, these finalists will be intro
duced, and a committee selected
from the honor guests present will
select the Freshman Sweetheart.
She will be announced during the
second intermission.
The Sweetheart Committee will
select the six finalists. Jerry
Ramsey is chairman of this com
mittee. No one who has turned in
a picture will be allowed to judge.
Summer Trip to Turkey
Explained by Steve Lilley
Steve Lilley, junior animal hus
bandry student from Nacogdoches,
gave an illustrated lecture of his
recent work in Turkey at the
regular meeting of the Texas Al
pha Chapter of Alpha Zeta in the
MSC Monday night.
Lilley, one of the two Texas 4-H
Club representatives selected to
participate in the 1951 Internation
al Farm Youth Exchange Project,
presented colored slides showing
the agricultural conditions exist
ing in Turkey as well as picture
descriptiions of the customs and
traditions still observed in that
country.
Explanations of each picture
gave the national agricultural hon
or society members a running per
spective of the conditions in Tur
key and what we, as a nation, are
doing to help their farm economy.
“Much aid has been received in
‘Players’ to Present
‘The Circle’ Monday
11 to Attend
Wildlife Meet
At Miami, Fla,
Representing A&M at the
North American Wildlife Con
ference will be 11 wildlife stu
dents and one assistant pro
fessor.
The conference, will be held
March 16-18 in Miami, Fla.
“A delegation has been sent to
< ’ e conference by A&M for the
1 yst four years. This has resulted
In jobs being secured and students
being placed in work all over the
United States,” said Jack Inglis,
assistant professor of wildlife
management.
Among those planning to attend
are Bobby Heath, Dick Bittner,
Don Shutt, Tom Green, Bob Down
ing, Carl Berglund, Dick Blume
and John Scroggins. Graduates
Paul W. Parmalee, John E. Wood,
and R. B. Davis along with Inglis
complete the list.
Each graduate student will give
a report at the conference. Parma
lee will report on “Parasites of
Bobwhites in the Post Oak Wood
lands of East Texas,” while Davis
will discuss “The Use of Rumen
Contents Data in a Study of Deer-
Cattle Competition and Animal
Equivalence.” Wood’s subject will
be “The effects of Agriculture on
the Habitat and Food Supply of
Furbearing Mammals of East Tex-
Curtain time is nearing and re
hearsals are coming to an end for
the Aggie Players currently work
ing on “The Circle,” their next
production.
Due for its Aggieland debut at
8 p. m. Monday night, “The Cir
cle” is a sophisticated comedy
by W. Somerset Maugham about
the trials of a stuffy English fur
niture collector and his wife.
The eternal triangle enters the
plot with the appearance of Teddy
Luton, a dashing young man-of-
the-world who captivates the fur
niture collector’s beautiful young
wife.
Further complicated by the sud
den return to England of the fur
niture collector’s estranged moth
er, the plot becomes a problem fit
for a marriage counselor.
New Star
Starring Marjorie Selleck in her
first appearance in the cast of an
Aggie Players production, “The
Circle” promises an interesting
evening for those attending the
two performances at the Assembly
Hall Monday and Wednesday
nights.
The triangle in the play, which
should really be called a pentagon,
consists of Alice Burke as Eliza
beth Champion-Cheney, the furni
ture collector’s wife; John Sam
uels as Arnold Champion-Cheney,
the furniture collector and a mem
ber of parliament; B. B. Smith as
Teddy Luton, the dashing, young
Casanova; Mrs. Selleck as Lady
Kitty Champion-Cheney, the way
ward mother of the fumiture col
lector; and Harry Gooding as Lord
Porteus, the person responsible for
the furniture collector’s mother be
ing wayward.
In supporting roles, Director C.
K. Esten has Bob Travis as a foot
man, Jerry McFarland as the fur
niture collector’s father, and Mrs.
D. D. Burchard as Anna Shenstone,
a friend of Elizabeth Champion-
Cheney.
Tickets for the performance may
be purchased at the door or from
members of the Aggie Players at
a price of 50 cents.
Turkey from the United States in
the form of farm machinery be
cause of the Marshall Plan,” he
explained.
In one of his pictures, a direct
contrast was noted in that the
newest of American-made tractors
were pulling the crudest Turkish
farm equipment, a wooden plank
with sharp rocks attached for the
purpose of threshing wheat.
Purpose of Exchange
The purpose of the exchange
transaction was for American farm
boys to gain a. better knowledge
of rural boys in foreign countries
and agricultural situations in those
countries.
This program is sponsored by
the extension service of the State
Department in conjunction with
similar agencies in various for
eign countries. All the students
who went abroad last summer on
this plan we to given a two-week
briefing period by the State De
partment early in June, Lilley said.
The greater part of their time
spent in Turkey was out in the
country helping the farmers with
American farm machinery and
other phases of modern agricul
ture as we know it here in this
country, he added.
Three Officials
File for Return
To City Posts
The mayor of College Sta
tion and two councilmen de
clared their intentions to file
for re-election last night at a
meeting of the city council.
Ernest Langford, mayor; Joe A.
Orr, councilman from Ward I, and
A. P. Boyett, councilman from
Ward III, said they would seek
re-election.
The announcements came after
the council passed a city ordinance
declaring an election April 1 for
the purpose of electing a new
mayor and three councilmen, one
from each ward.
A city ordinance setting the tax
rate for the calendar year of 1952
was passed at the meeting. The
rate was not changed, but remain
ed at $1 per $100 property valua
tion.
Three members were appointed
to the tax equalization board. They
were Carl Birdwell, W. I. Truett-
ner, and E. R. Alexander.
City Hall will be open from 8
a.m. until 7 p.m. April 1 for poll
ing. Election judges appointed
were F. B. Clark, Mrs. C. B. God-
bey, and Mrs. L. P. Gabbart.
Possum In Bugle
Stand Not Playing
A dead possum has an un
usual hapitat — the bugle
stand.
The possum can be seen on
the left hand side of the stand
if you are facing the MSC.
This animal was reported to
the B & C U department last
week. However it has not been
picked up yet.
Army Now Needs
Finance Officers
Army Commanders will consider
applications for direct appointment
as lieutenants, Finance Corps,
USAR and concurrent call to active
military service.
This opportunity will be afford
ed individuals who have attained
a masters degree from a recog
nized college or university in the
graduate fields of accounting, bus
iness administration, or economics,
said the military department.
Ag Ed Seniors
To Practice Teach
A group of senior agricultural
education majors will begin two
weeks practice teaching in Texas
high schools March 1.
Each student in the agricultural
education department is required
to teach for two weeks during each
semester of his senior year. The
classes will be in the vocational
agricultural departments of the
high schools.
Practice teachers choose the
schools in which they would like
to teach from a list approved by
the agricultural education depart
ment.
Instructor Injured
In Car Accident
An instructor of English
was critically injured last
night on Highway 21.
G. W. Little, it was reported
this morning, was injured in a
two-car wreck at 11:50 p.m.
last night.
The highway patrol investi
gated the accident.
Big Three Will
Include German
Army in NATO
Lisbon, Portugal, Feb. 20—
UP)—The Western allies open
a dispute-dogged Nort Atlan
tic Council meeting today (at
10 a.m. EST). It may achieve
historic progress.
Overshadowing the meeting was
the urgent conviction that the ses
sions must produce concrete pro
gress toward European defense.
Otherwise, the United States Con
gress may slash its multi-billion
dollar military aid bill, regarded as
essential to Allied rearmament
plans.
The Allied foreign, defense and
finance ministers and their brain
iest advisers will troop into the
gleaming white marble chamber of
the Portuguese National Assembly
for the public opening session.
Greece and Turkey are attend
ing for the first time as full mem
bers, swelling to 14 the nations
linked in the North Atlantic Treaty
organization. The other members
are the United States, Britain,
France, Portugal, Belgium, The
Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy,
Norway, Denmark, Canada and
Iceland.
In private conversations before
the meeting opened, senior Amer
ican delegates expressed conviction
Congress is in in a put-up-shut-up
mood.
Secretary of State Dean Ache-
son flew in last night with one
plum believed likely to sweeten
the Congressional mood — a big
three agreement with Germany’s
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer on
German affiliation with Western
defense through membership in the
six-nation European army.
Dallas Artist’s Paintings
On Display in MSC Cases
A collection of paintings by Ra- popular young Dallas policeman
mon Froman of Dallas are being
exhibited in the show cases near
the post office area at the MSC.
The paintings have been at the
Student Center since last Wednes
day, and will remain on display
until March 1. The estimated value
of the collection is $5,000. Prices
of individual pictures range from
$100 to $1,000.
Froman, a popular portarit
painter in the east, was born in
Louise, Texas. Soon after he was
born, his family moved to Illinois.
At the University of Illinois, he
majored in art and later studied
with Van Umbraugh. In the east
he has won many awards with his
portraits.
About six years ago he moved to
Dallas. There he teaches art and
does some portrait painting. He
will be back in this area in about
two weeks to do painting.
The portrait of Johnny Sides,
killed by gunmen, was painted at
the request of the Dallas chief
of police. Froman painted the pic
tures from photographs of the
policeman.
Unveiling of the portrait took
place at the office of the police
chief who appointed Froman an
honorary member of the Dallas
police force for his work.
+ Munsan, Korea, Feb. 20—CP)—
Communist insistence that Russia
be invited as a neutral nation to
help supervise a Korean truce
stalled armistice talks today.
The Allies offered “in the inter
est of progress” to pare their troop
rotation figure from 40,000 month
ly to 35,000. But the Reds would
not even talk about it.
No Progress
No specific progress was report
ed from another truce meeting on
prisoners of war. And no date
was set for a third committee of
staff officers to Work out techni
calities on the final truce clause—•
recommendations to governments.
Red negotiators were insistent
that the Soviet Union be the third
neutral nation nominated by the
Communists. The United Nations
command already has approved
Poland and Czechoslovakia.
U. N. negotiators refused to in
dulge in a debate on the neutrality
of Russia in the Korean conflict
despite repeated Red hints they
would like such an argument.
Not Acceptable
The Allies said simply that Rus
sia, as sponsor of Red Korea and
Communist China, was “not accept
able” as a neutral supervisor.
Second Session
Of Rue Pinalle
On Tap Friday
The second installment of
Cafe Rue Pinalle, the Aggie
version of a French night
club, will get under way Fri
day night at 8:30, Miss Betty
Bolander, MSC program consultant
said.
Featuring two big floor shows,
large murals of French night life,
a dancing area, and a photograph
er, the cafe is designed to provide
fun and frolic for all, she said.
Since the cafe is located in the
table tennis area of the bowling
alley, it can seat only a limited
number each Friday night. A large
number of reservations have been
made for the coming show, and
Miss Bolander recommended that
tickets 'be bought as soon as possi
ble. Tickets are on sale for 50
cents each in the bowling alley
of the MSC.
“Fun in the French Manner” will
be had when the first floor show
comes in the spotlight at 9:30 p.
m. A second floor show will be
presented for the night owls at 11
p. m. Both local and imported tal
ent is featured in these floor
shows, which will become a regular
attraction of the Cafe.
Col. Andrew Kinney said the Red
nomination of Russia was not “ac
ceptable to both sides” as called
for in previous agreements. He
said the Communist stand “is in
! direct violation of the agreement
reached between the delegates and
in violation of the instructions giv
en to the staff meetings.”
Communist staff officers insist
ed the nomination was “fully con
sistent with the agreed principles
of the nomination of neutral na
tions” and did not need Allied
approval.
The Reds said the proposed
draft for selecting neutrals did
not specifically mention that both
sides must approve. That agree
ment was oral.
The draft provides merely that
neutral nations must not have con
tributed combatant forces in the
Korean war.
No mention was made of the
fact that Red air forces in Korea
are supplied exclusively with Rus
sian-type antiaircraft guns, artil
lery, tanks and other equipment,
or that the North Korean ai’my
was Russian trained and advised.
Reason ?
North Korean Col. Chang Chun-
San insisted there was “no reason”
why the U.N. command should ob
ject to the Soviet Union.
A U. N. command communique
said the Reds were trying to get
the Allies to waive the previously
“agreed to principle that neutral
nations to be invited to serve on
the supervisory commission should
be acceptable to both sides.”
The Russian question assumed
the proportion of a third major
stumbling block toward final
agreement on an armistice. Ne
gotiators already ai 4 e stalemated
on (1) voluntary repatriation of
prisoners of war—the Reds insist
ed again Wednesday on forced re
patriation—and (2) whether Reds
shall be allowed to repair bomb-
pocked airfields during a truce.
March 1 Is
Deadline For
Degree Filing
March 1 is the deadline for filing
application for a degree to be
conferred at the end of the current
semester, H. L. Heaton, registrar
said. Applications filed after this
date will not be accepted and the
student cannot graduate, the regis
trar added.
Any student, either graduate or
undergraduate, who expects to
complete the requirements for a
degree by the end of the current
semester should come to the regi-
trar’s Office now and make a for
mal application for a degree.
Ag Places Second
At ASME Meet
A paper presented by Glenn
Rader placed second at an Ameri
can Society of Mechanical Engi
neers triangle meet in Houston last
Saturday. A&M, Rice, and Texas
entered the contest.
Ted Mullinix also represented
A&M.
Purpose of the meet was to pre
pare speakers for the regional
meet in Austin, Feb. 29 and March
1. Schools in this region are A&M,
Rice, Texas, Texas Tech, LSU,
Louisiana Tech, Tulane, and SMU
Radar’s paper was entitled
“Maximum Unit Extraction of
Water Vapor in Liquid Hydrocar
bons from Natural Gas.” Mullinix’s
title was “The Berryman Hot Blast
Cupola.”
Scholarship Winner
L. O. Tiedt, far left, congratulates Leonard Bor-
ger of Schulenberg on winning the $2,500 Houston
Fat Stock Show scholarship. Jim Taylor, right,
looks on waiting to hand Berger the award.