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Number 109: Volume 52 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1952
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Blood Drive Goal
Set Over 300 Pints
Petroleum Scholarship Winners
Over 300 pints of blood from
^ students and residents of College
| Station and vicinity is the goal of
Vthe two day blood drive opening
at A&M Tuesday. The campaign
for blood donations will last
through Wednesday.
Tuesday’s visit to the campus
will be the third of the school year
for the Red Cross Bloodmobile
from Beaumont. In the two pre
vious trips here, 173 persons do
nated blood for soldiers fight in
Korea.
x-The Bloodmobile, which comes
S ! the Southeast Texas Defense
)d Center, will be set up at
the YMCA Tuesday and Wednes
day from 12 noon until C p. m.
each day.
“This is an opportunity for in
dividuals 18 years or older to
♦Tiake a real contribution to their
country,” W. L. Penberthy, dean
of men, said yesterday “Blood is
a constant and vital need of our
men on the battle fields.”
Students Urged to Give
Penberthy urged all students
over 18, staff members of the col
lege, and residents of College Sta
tion and vicinity to help in meeting
the quota of 196 donors per day.
Students between the ages of 18
and 21 must secure the permission
of their parent or guardian before
donating blood. Forms for this
purpose may be secured from the
first sergeant of each unit of the
cadet corps or from house masters
in the no-military dormitories.
Members of the college staff and
residents of the community may be
placed on the donor list by calling
at the office of the dean of men
on the first floor of Goodwin Hall.
Residents will be assigned the hour
when their donations may be given
vt this time, Penberthy said.
Requirements
* Requirements for blood dona
tions are:
All ages between 21 and 59.
Those under 21 may donate by se
curing written permission of par
ent or guardian.
Donors must weigh at least 110
pounds. Extremely obese persons
may be accepted if they have per
mission of physician. Temperature,
pulse, blood pressure and hemo
globin must be approximately nor
mal. -
Prospective donors will • be re
jected if they have received a blood
transfusion within the last six
months or .if they have donated
blood within the past eight weeks.
With certain exceptions, as de
termined by the attending physi
cian, donors will be rejected if they
have had h major surgical opera
tion or a tooth extj'action within
the last six months. •
Pregnant women, those who have
been in childbirth within one year,
and nursing mothers will be re
jected as donors.
Reasons For Rejection
The following conditions are also
causes for rejection: Malaria with
in two years, tuberculosis, diabetis,
undulant fever or prolonged fever,
rheumatic fever, eczma, acute der
matitis, poison ivy, acute acne,
boils or any other prominent skin
disease, any form of heart trouble,
kidney disease, chronic pulmonary
disease, jaundice or jaundice within
six months, allergy, hives, asthma,
(See BLOOD, Page 4)
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nores
Three senior petroleum scholarship awards were
presented to A&M students' for their outstanding
scholarship, leadership, character and good citi
zenship. The awards were presented by the Stan
dard Oil Company of Texas and the Magnolia
Petroleum Company. Left to right, W. M. Sar
gent of Fort Worth; John Domercq Jr., vice-
president. Standard Oil Company of Texas; Jul
ian C. Herring of Abilene; Baxter 1). Honeycutt
of Pick; a and I). V. Carter, chief petroleum en
gineer, Msguolla Petroleum Company. Sargent,
Honeycutt and Herring, winners, are senior pet
roleum engineering students.
President’s Speech
On Cutting Budget
Washington, March 7 — •■d? 1 —
President Truman’s one-two “Sun
day punch” for his $7,900,000,000
(B) foreign aid program left Con
gress members still talking about
scaling it down today, almost as, if
nothing had happened.
Even administration supporters
conceded they were in for a rough
time.
The President led off with a
7,500 word special message to Con
gress yesterday noon declaring ev
ery single dollar of the amount he
asked for was needed to meet the
threat of Russian Communism.
Then he went on a far-ranging
network of radio and television last
night to carry his plea direct to
the American people.
Senators Claim ‘Politics’
Although the President said
“we’d be better off to win the fight
against Communism than to win
any particular election,” some sen-
Red Negotiators Hope
To 4 Stretch Armistice’
Red Trial Goes
Into 20th Day
Los Angeles, March 7—UP)
The federal conspiracy trial of
* California’s 15 top Commun
ists goes into its 20th day to
day and court observers are
r.till waiting for fireworks.
* Legal legerdemain and verbal
gymnastics have stretched the case
considerably, but thus far all at
torneys have displayed model de
portment.
This is in contrast to the 1948
York trial of the party’s 11
nT v enal leaders. That wound up
witit five defense attorneys* and
Eugene Dennis, who defended him
self, drawing 30 days to six months
in jail for contempt of court.
The five defense lawyers and
William Schneiderman, the Cali
fornia counterpart of Dennis, have
been stubborn, but polite. And
U. S. Judge William C. Mathes has
responded in kind—polite, but stub
born.
With only the fourth of (lie gov
ernment’s more than 40 witnesses
coming up, the trial may last long-
tfer than the original estimate of
three or four months—and tem
pers may yet become frayed. The
trial began Feb. 1.
Munsan, Korea, March 7—<JP)—
Communist truce negotiators to
day sought to forestall a possible
Naval blockade of the Red China
coast or an invasion of the main
land..
The Reds proposed writing a ban
into a Korean armistice.
“It seems that what they are
trying to do is to stretch the ar
mistice agreement to any place in
the world where forces in Korea
have any territory under their
control,” said Col. Don O. Darrow.
He said the Reds held that “any
military action would be prohib
ited, not only in Korea, but in any
other place.”
During Withdrawing Discussions
The Communist maneuver came
during a discussion of withdrawing
Naval forces from Korean waters
during a truce.
Harvard-educated Col. Pu Shan
proposed deleting specific refer
ence to Korea.
Darrow said the proposal ap
parently was designed primarily to
prevent an Allied blockade of the
Chinese mainland or an Allied-sup-
ported invasion by Chiang Kai-
Shek’s Nationalist forces from For
mosa.
There has been unofficial talk
that the U.N. command might at
tempt to enforce a Korean truce
by threatening to blockade the Chi
na coast and bomb Chinese indus
trial centers if the Reds violate
the armistice.
‘Exploring Idea’
Darrow intimated the Commun
ist move could have far reaching
effects on the truce negotiations.
But he emphasized the Reds migjht
be “just exploring the idea.”
“Tomorrow they may have a dif
ferent view,” Darrow said.
The U.N. staff officer told the
Communists they apparently were
“not aware of the nature of the
conflict in Korea.”
Should Specify
He said both sides “are fighting
only in Korea” and to avoid pos
sible misinterpretation an armis
tice agreement should “clearly
specify these limitations.”
Darrow said Red negotiators
“had practically no arguments to
come back to that.”
Another truce group negotiating
'prisoner exchange met for almost
an hour. It made no headway to
ward ending the stalemate over
voluntary repatriation.
Communist negotiators did ac
cept a revised version for exchang
ing interned foreign nationals.
Lead as Top Outfit
A AAA, which has been the top
outfit in competitive drill since the
first gi’aded review of the school
year, still holds the number one
spot.
The top five outfits and their
company commanders are are fol
lows: A AAA commanded by Er
nie Moglia; White Band command
ed by Grover C. Ellisor; B Infan
try commanded by Richard F.
Semlinger; Maroon Band com
manded by Lowell A. Holmes; and
B AAA commanded by John Clif
ford.
ASABAB
‘MADNESS’
TOMORROW
A refreshment bar placed inside
the mouth of a 12 foot high paper
mache monster’s head is one of the
many unusual decorations to be
used at the Architecture Society’s
Annual Beau Arts Ball Saturday
at 8 p. m. in Sbisa Jack Brandt,
senior architecture major and
chairman of decorations said to
day.
ASABAB, the abbreviated name
of the ball, has as its theme this
year “Madness”. In carrying out
the theme, each class is designing
decorations for a particular part
of the banquet room. .
All architecture students, fac
ulty members and their guests are
invited, explained Brandt. Admit
tance for members of the Archi
tecture Society is $1.50, guest tick
ets costing $3, he added.
At 12 o’clock all members and
their guests will be honored with
a midnight snack given by the
architect’s wives at the Brazos-
A&M Club House in Bryan.
Party crashers would not be
welcomed, Brandt added.
R. A. “Rip” Yeager, entertain
ment committee chairman, said a
combo from the Aggieland Orches
tra will provide music and a spec
ial group has been set up to “ac
tivate” the less lively participants.
MSC Talent Show
Begins Tonight at 8
Thirteen separate acts will high
light the first annual MSC Inter
collegiate Talent Show on the
stage of the Ballroom tonight at 8.
Performers for the show, which
is sponsored by the MSC Music
Committee, will include male and
female vocalists, individual and
duo pianists, a modern jazz dancer,
Spanish dancer, a hillbilly vocalist,
classical and semi-classical vocal
ists, and a presentation of an ori
ginal monologue.
Jerry Schnepp of Houston, will
act as master of ceremonies for
the talent show with a cast of
fourteen students from SMU,
TSCW, the University of Houston,
NTSC, and the University of Tex
as.
Under the direction of Miss Bet
ty Bolander, MSC program consul
tant, the plans for the talent show
began last November. With a
group from the music committee,
Miss Bolander visited Texas col
leges last month where each of
the schools provided a series of
acts from which tonight’s show
was selected.
Tickets On Sale
As a non-profit affair, admission
funds will be used to cover the
cost of food, lodging, and travel
expenses for the student perform
ers. Tickets of 50 cents per per
son for the show are limited to
the 500-seat capacity of the MSC
Ballroom.
Tickets may be obtained at the
ticket booth in the MSC, the Di
rectorate Offices, or from any
member of the Music Committee,
according to Jimmy Rollins music
committee chairman. They will also
be sold at the door tonight.
Larry Hardewicke, senior BA
major, and Reese Gallimore, senior
history major, are in charge of the
arrangements for the buffet sup
per following the show and a
breakfast the following morning,
which are being given for the per
formers by the members of the
music committee.
Dance After Show
A dance will be held immediate
ly following the show so that A&M
students may have an opportunity
to meet the performers, according
to the publicity committee. Mem
bers of the committee are George
Berner, Frank Vinz, and Joe Slack,
all junior engineering majors.
Performers from SMU will in
clude three girls. Billie Biggs of
Fort Worth will do a modern jazz
dance act, Lou Ann Massengale
(See TALENT, Page 4)
ators and representatives said
privately today that he appeared to
be injecting politics into the mat
ter after asking them to avoid do
ing so.
Alluding to Congressional threats
to slash foreign ai d by billions,
Truman told his radio-TV audi
ence :
“Now I know this is a very pop
ular point of view, especially in an
election year—just as popular as
a campaign pledge to reduce tax
es.”
‘National Security Requires’
But he said the $7,900,000,000 re
quest was not “a single dollar more
than our national security re
quires.”
Sen. Hickenlooper (R-Ia) told
this reporter what the President
“really means is they won’t spend
a dollar more than the Democratic
administration requires to stay in
power.”
Twa Democrats on the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, Mc
Mahon of Connecticut and Green
of Rhode Island, applauded the
Truman appeals but, in separate
interviews, agreed they face a stiff
fight this year.
‘For Our Security’
“We may spend the money in
foreign lands but we’re spending it
for our own security,” McMahon
said. “It’s politically unpopular to
claim oterwise and, this being an
election year, we’ll have to fight it
out with the full vigor that a great
cause demands.”
“I think it’s a very well thought-
out program,” Green said. “I may
question some details but I agree
with most of the principles.“
Green said some of his Demo
cratic colleagues are “anti-Truman
and anti-spend but I don’t see how
we can win the cold war on that
platform.”
In 6 Grass Roots' Poll
Truman, Ike Hold Leads
Weather Today
(Editor's Note—Last week a
survey of political sentiment in
New Hampshire, showed editors
thought the Eisenhower - Taft
race would be close withe Eisen
hower having and edge. Today,
with the primary only four days
off, another survey is reported.)
Concord, N.H., March 7—(TP)—
The second and final newspaper
editor’s survey of “grass roots”
sentiment in the New Hampshire
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Groupfor High School Day
The Beaumont A&M Club is i The visitors will be taken on
sending the largest number of high j conducted tours of the buildings
and facilities of the campus. Dif
ferent tours will be offered, ac
cording to the field of study the
student is interested.
Dinner will be in either Duncan
or Sbisa Mess Halls. After the
? MILD-CLOUDY
WEATHER TODAY: Partly
cloudy with no rain. The high
yesterday was 69 degrees and the
low was 46 degrees.
school students here for High
School Day, Saturday, March 15,
with 43 people expected.
Pasadena is sending 41, Fort
Worth 35, and Houston 21. All
A&M Clubs have not sent in their
list of students yet. About 800
are expected, from Texas and
Louisiana high schools.
Last year, two-thirds of the high
school students who attended High
School Day returned to A&M the
following year as students.
The High School Day program
begins Saturday morning with
registration in Guion Hall. At an
orientation meeting after the reg
istration, leaders of the student
body will speak to the group, ex
plaining to them all aspects of
life at A&M.
E. E. McQuillen will ^ t a 1 k
on the Opportunity Award Schol
arships and Col. Shelly P. Meyers
will discuss the A&M student’s
military status.
primary election campaign again
indicates Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower has a slight lead over Sen.
Robert A. Taft today—but by a
smaller margin than a week ago.
Editors of eight Associated
Press member newspapers provid
ed the appraisals after taking
soundings of sentiment in their
counties.
At the same time, a majority
estimated that President Truman
would defeat Sen. Estes Kefauver,
of Tennessee, by possibly tree-to-
one.
New Hampshire voters go to the
polls next Tuesday.
Taft, Eisenhower, Harold Stas-
sen and William R. Schneider, St.
Louis attorney, are running in the
Republican race. And a slate of
delegates favorable to Gen. Doug
las MacArthur has been entered.
On the Democratic side, Truman
and Kefauver are pitted against
each other.
meal the high school students will
be free to visit with home town
friends.
Sporting Events
At 2:39, the “T” Association is
sponsoring a sports day. A base
ball game, a track meeet, a swim
ming meet, a tennis match and a
golf match are on the program. An
intra-squad football game will be
that night on Kyle Field.
Housing and transportation for
the high school seniors will be ar
ranged by the A&M club in their
home town. Each boy whose name
was turned in to Student Activities
has been sent a letter explaining
High School Day and a copy of
the day’s program.
X-Ray Unit Plans
Visit to Campus
A tuberculosis X-ray machine
will be on the campus from March
21-29 in the YMCA lobby to X-ray
College Station residents. X-rays
will be made from 9 a. m. until
5:30 p. m.
All students, employees and resi
dents of College Station over 15
years of age are urged to take the
X-ray, said Dean W. L. Penberthy,
dean of men. There will be no
charge, he added.
Persons who have been X-rayed
before should have a recheck for
they may have come in contact
with TB in the past year, Penber
thy urged.
Apart from the slates of dele
gates, the voters may mark their
ballots in a preferential section of
the ballot, known as the “popular
ity contest.”
Some newspapers conducted their
own polls and came out with the
following percentages:
Claremont Eagle — Eisenhower
by 55-45. Last week, “an edge
to Eisenhower” without any per
centage estimate.
Concord Monitor — Eisenhower
50, Taft, 45, MacArthur and Stas-
sen combined, 5. Last week, Eis
enhower by 52-48.
Dover Democrat — Eisenhower
55; Taft 40; MacArthur and Stas-
sen combined, 5. Same as last
week.
Keene Sentinel—Eisenhower by
52-48. Last week, 50-50.
Laconia Citizen 50-50. Last
week, “inconclusive findings.”
Manchester Union-Leader —• SO
SO. Same as last week.—
Nashua Telegraph—50-50. Tast
week, Eisenhower by 55-45.
Portsmouth Herald —■ Eisenhow
er by 52-48. Last week, Eisen
hower by 55-45.
The Portsmouth Herald and Con-
(See IKE-TAFT, Page 2)
A&M Debate
Team Enters
SWC Meet
Four A&M students forming two
teams will participate tomorrow in
the Southwest Conference Debate
meet being held at Baylor.
Dan Davis and James Farmer
will appear as the affirmative team
with Joe Riddle and Berthold Wel
ler taking the negative side for
A&M.
With the exception of Rice In
stitute, all of the conference
schools have entries. Each school
is also entering two teams.
The winner of the meet will be
decided on the basis of both team’s
results in the five rounds of de
bate.
Subject for all collegiate debate
meets this year is “Resolved: That
the Federal Government Adopt a
Permanent Program of Wage and
Price Controls.”
’52 Queen
Selected
Saturday
A&M’s 1952 Cotton Queen
for the Agronomy Society
sponsored Cotton Pageant
and Ball will be chosen this
weekend from TSCW nomi
nees at Denton.
Cotton King Bill Lewis and his
Cotton Court leave tomorrow for
TSCW as plans get underway for
18th Annual Cotton Pageant and
Ball.
Planned for April 25, the Cotton
style show sponsored in the past
by Sanger of Dallas will this year
have Beverly Brayley’s of Bryan
as its sponsor. Nominees for queen
who are not on the court will model
for the show.
The style show is scheduled to
be held in DcWare Field House us
ing the latest cotton fashions in
women’s clothes.
A comparatively new store in
Bryan, Beverly Braleys will fea
ture the Queen with a fashionable
dress direct from New York. The
versatile ownei - s of the shop, Bob
and Beverly Braley, were featured
in an article in Mademoiselle mag
azine in 1948.
A graduate of Stephens College,
Mrs. Braley has studied fashion
and design at Chicago Art Insti
tute, while her husband has acted
as former manager of a fur de
partment in a New York store.
Luther Cobh Hurt
In Auto Accident
Luther Cobb, Rt. 3, Bryan, was
injured in an automobile accident
yesterday at 5:32 p.m. The acci
dent occured at the intersection of
Highway 6 and Lawrence in Bry
an.
Cobb was taken to Bryan Hos
pital.
The injured man is the husband
of Mrs. Lucille Cobb, employee of
the A&&M Press.
A SC Prof Plans Defense
Before Board of Directors
Arlington, Tex., March 7—(TP)—Kenneth Rockwell said
yesterday he would defend himself before the A&M Board of
Directors April 26 on charges of telling dirty stories in Ar
lington State College classrooms.
Rockwell, member of the English faculty 13 years, re
signed last Thursday at the request of Dr. E. H. Hereford,
president of the college.
He said he resigned, thought better of it, then demanded
a hearing.
Rockwell reviews books for the Daily Times Herald to
augment his salary of $377.77 a month from the college.
He said Dr. Hereford told him he received a letter from
a parent of a student in the English department, complain
ing of rough language used in classroom discussions.
“Frankly, I can’t imagine what they’re talking about,”
he said.
The place for the board meeting has not been decided.