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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 20, 1952)
Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent Of Local Residents The Battalion PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Published By A&M Students For 74 Years Number 118: Volume 52 COLLEGE STATION (Ag-gieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1952 Price Five Cents First Combat Ball Friday “Fatigues and peasant blouses” are the uniform orders of the day for the first Combat Ball ever presented at A&M with Sbisa Hall as the battlefield tomorrow night. Using decorations based on Bill Mauldin’s famous Army cartoons, the master planners of the “H” hour have desinged vivid sketches placed to quirk the imagination strategically throughout the battlefield in the dance program. Combat uniforms of fatigues, helmet liners and combat boots will be required of all attending corps personnel, while the females dress informally with peasant blouses and skirts. Drum and bugle music will be followed with re-bops from the Aggieland Orchestra which will play from 9 p. m. ’til 1 a. m. A combined floor show of the Singing Cadets and a “liberated Francsoi can-can line” will keep the dance alive at intermissions. A project of the Army’s com bat armed forces, the Combat Ball is being sponsored by the Armor- Engineer, Infantry, Anti-Aircraft and Field Artillery units. Corps personnel, however, have been warned by intelligence offi cers of the orienting regiments that outsiders are “personnae non gratis,” although it is doubtful that one could be spotted among the tanks, howitzers, sandbags, smoke generators, and other field equipment which will be spread across the Sbisa front. A souvenir program has also been originated for the dance. It consists of an adaptation of some body’s long forgotten secret, but still printable, and goes by the title of “Stars a,nd Stripes.” Tickets may be obtained the combat arms regiments, to the evening of the dance. from pi’ior A&M Archives Receive First Prexy’s Letters A number of letters written by Thomas Gathright, first president of A&M, were re cently added to the historic collection of the college. The letters were given to the college Archives by the granddaughter of Louis Mclnnis, a personal friend of Gathright. The letters were writ ten to Mclnnis. D. B. Cofer, college archivist, said the letters are priceless, since they date back to the early 1880’s and couldn’t be replaced. Louis Mclnnis was the fifth ad ministrator of the college and was one of the most well known and liked professors who ever taught at A&M. In addition to the letters, the second edition of The Battalion is also now in the Archives. On the front page of that issue is an arti cle written just after the death of President Gathright, and it shows the high regard the students held for him. “The collection of letters and documents is one of great interest, and anyone interested in the early history of A&M should read them,” said Cofer. U of H Talent Scheduled For Rue Pinalle Outside talent will be the main attraction at this week’s performance of Rue Pinalle, with 21 students from the University of Houston coming to A&M to publicize their “Fron tier Fiesta.” On the program Friday n i g - h t will be some of the Cougars who were in the MSC Talent Show on March 7. Two of these, Janet Smith and Johnny Ragsdale, were given a rousing reception by those attend ing the show. Miss Smith is a per former on KPRC-TV in Houston. Also on the program will be a western band, the Chartreuse Tealeaves, and can-can dancers with a combo accompaniment. The floor show will last about 45 min utes, according to Miss Betty Bo- lander, program consultant for the MSC. Entertainers will move to the Combat Ball immediately after the first performance at Pinalle and present a short program there. Rue Pinalle will featuxa two complete runs Friday night for benefit of those who wish to at tend after the Combat Arms Ball. First run will close at 11:45 p. m. The late run will begin at 12:15 a. m. Floor show for the late run will get underway about 1 a. m. Admission for the first show is 60 cents and tickets for the late show ai-e 50 cents. Reservations may be made at the desk in the MSC Bowling Alley. Reservations, or reserve tickets not picked up by noon Friday will be cancelled and resold, Miss Bo- lander said. Fees Must Be Paid by 5 Today to Avoid Penalty Third installment fees must be paid by 5 p. m. today to avoid a penalty of $1. This amount will be charged as penalty until five days have elapsed, the Fiscal Office said. Fees may be paid at the Fiscal office in the new Administration Building. If I Were Pilot . IlllWI \r \ M piirjr m ; •n IPIIL ■ i ■ Reds Agree On Entry Ports Munsan, Korea, March 20—UP)—Negotiators cleared away another roadblock to a Korean armistice today by agree ing on 10 ports of entry through which troops and supplies will be funneled during a truce. Three major issues remain to be settled: (1) Commun ist nomination of Soviet Russia to a neutral inspection com mission (2) Allied demand for a ban on military airfield con struction and (3) the U.N. request for voluntary repatriation of war prisoners. Staff officers wrangling over prisoner exchange made no apparent headway toward breaking the repatriation dead lock. The Communists answered seven questions asked by the U.N. command Monday. But Allied negotiators said the replies failed to show how the Reds’ latest exchange plan "t - could end the stalemate. Col. Andrew J. Kinney said it X-Ray Survey Starts At YMCA Friday . s S : - m Discussing what it would like to actually be an F-80 jet pilot are (left to right’ Aggies Harold Turner, Bob Langford, W. E. Montgomery, Bill Moore, and Eric Carlson. The senior Air Force students were given an idea of what the AF jet cadet goes through in his training at Bryan AFB. They were shown through the pressure chamber, orientation rooms, they watched the flight line operations, and were shown the link trainer. —(Air Force Photo). Attaches Head List Hundreds of Guests Due For Annual Military Day Hundreds of guests will be on the campus Friday and Saturday for the annual Military Day cele bration which officially gets under way Satui’day afternoon with a x-eview by the Cox-ps of Cadets. Heading the list of important personages who will be on hand for the gala occasion are six foi'eign militax-y attaches who will arrrive via the Pi’esidential C-54 “The Sacred Cow” Fiiday. They will be accompanied on the txip from Washington, D. C., by Olin Teague, congressman from this district. Following the Saturday after- xxoon review, guests will trek to Sbisa Hall for the Ball which is scheduled to get underway at 9 p. m. Music for the dance will be provided by Dick Jurgens and his orchestra. Tickets for the dance are priced at $2.50 and may be purchased from unit supply ser geants or at the Office of Student Activities. The Jui'gens aggregation will also play for a concert px'ior to the dance, in Guion Hall. Stai’ting time for the concei’t is 7:15 p. m. and admission will be 70 cents per pei’son. A lai’ge number of committees have been appointed to make ax*- x’angements for activities planned for Militax-y Day. Committees Chairmen and advisoi's for these committees are: Progi’am Committee, Capt. J. D. Muehleisen, advisor and J. W. Phil lips, chairman; Invitation Commit tee, Capt. Muehleisen, advisor and Bibb Underwood and Lew Jobe, co- chairmen; Guest Committee, Maj. C. P. Parxish, advisor and J. W. “Doggie” Dalston, and Jim Ander son, co-chairmen. Advisor for the Decorations Committee is Maj. J. C. Lowell. Student chaii’men ai’e Bob Kirk and Dave Carnahan. Capt. E. R. Bingham is advisor for the Publicity committee while co-chairmen are Joel Austin and Dale Walston. The Tx-anspox-tation Committee advisor is Lt. A. J. Armstrong. John Storrie and Ted Mohle are co-chairmen. Ticket Sales are being handled by Guy King and Robert Lang- ford, co-chairmen. Advisor for the committee is Lt. Armsti'ong. Pete Hardesty, business manager for Student Activities, is advisor for the Finance Committee. Ted Stephens is chaixman. Dave Wolfe and Mike Lindner are co-chairmen fox* the Refi’esh- ments Committee and Buddy Bui'ch and Vic Russek head the Orches tra Committee. Advising the Or chestra Committee is Capt. J. N. Hoffman. Supervising and aiding the var ious committees for Military Day are Col. E. W. Napier, PAS&T; Col. S. P. Myers, PMS&T; and Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant. The annual chest X-ray sur vey of Brazos County will be held in College Station begin ning tomorrow with facilities set up in the YMCA. Continuing through next week, the local health unit, sponsoring the x-ray survey, hopes that every one will take advantage of the oppoi’tunity for their yeax-ly check. X-rays will begin at 9 a. m. and continue through the noon hour until 5:30 p. m. Dean W. L. Penberthy is wox-k- ing with several others in making the necessary preparations for the survey. Among these are W. A. Tarrow, chairman for the colored school and community, and Mx-s. J. Q. Hayes, chairman for the tele phone committee. “Everyone should take advan tage of the free chest X-Rays,” said Dean Penberthy, “because even though a person had the X- Ray last yeax - , he may have caught and developed TB since then.” He emphasized that everyone 15 years old or over should get this X-Ray. To add to the convenience, the pi'ocess only takes a few min utes and there is no undressing. Free transportation will also be provided for those who have no way to attend, transportation can be secured by calling 2-8375, Dean Penbex-thy said. Experiment Station Receives$500 Grant The Texas Agricultural Experi ment Station has received $500 to be used in tthe department of agronomy to facilitate the study of pre-emergence control by chem icals of weeds and gi’ass in cot ton, A. D. Lewis, dii’ectoi - , an nounced recently. The Columbia-Southern Chem ical Corpoi'ation, through Dr. E. D. Witman of Pittsburgh, Pa., has made the gi’ant available. probably would take a day or two to iron out “mechanical details” on the ports of entry agreement. The biggest detail is fixing the exact area in which neutral inspec tion teams will operate. “We’ll try to clear that up to- mori'ow and I don’t think it will cause much difficulty,” Kinney said. Ten Designated Ports During an axanistice each side would send troops and supplies in to Korea through the 10 designa ted ports of entry-five on either side of the battle line. The Communist ports would be Sinuijxx and Manpojin on the Yalu River border with Manchuria, the east coast seaports of Chongjin and Hungnam, and Sinanju, about midway between the North Korean capital of Pyongyang and the Man churian boundary. In South Korea the ports of en try would be Pusan on the south east coast; Kangnung, an east coast seaport; Kunson and Inchon, the seaport for Seoul, on the west coast; and Taegu, an air base in Southeast Korea. The U.N. command gave up its demand that Pyongyang be desig nated a Communist port of entry and agreed to substitute Sinanju. The Reds agreed to let the Allies use Taegu rather than Suwon, the Communists’ original choice. (See UN DEMANDS, Page 2) AF Alters Entrance Qualifications The Air Fox^ce has recently al tered qualifications fox - pilot and I’adar observer ti'aining which leads to a commissioxx in the USAF, accoi’ding to the Bryan AFB recruiting office. If the applicant is single, 19- 26% yeax-s of age and has com pleted high school, he may enlist in the Air Force and immediately apply for air crew training. If the applicant has two or moi’e yeai's of college, he may ap ply for ti’aining and take the phy sical examination without enlist ing until he is definitely accepted for air crew training. For fux*ther details, the Bryan AFB Recx-uiting Office may be contacted. Looking at Cafe Rue Pinalle, A&M’s French Night Club ■ uv ( ' * ^4 ixl 1 HI u A Cafe Rue Pinalle, A&M’s answer to Paris night life, goes into its fifth performance tomorrow night, marking the half-way point in its presen tation this semester. Standing, on the right, Rue Pinalle Manager Boyce Holmes discusses busi ness with Lamar McNew, MSC Council and Di rectorate vice-president. Holmes serves also as mm I mit : m' til - ri I m mi Ullri 1 ' . ; ft 4 * ’ 4 .VclNF:'-/ w tHWBwi chairman of the MSC Dance Committee, which sponsors Cafe Rue Pinalle. In the light coat is Holmes’ chief aide in planning and administering Dance Committee activities. He is Allen Pen- gelly, assistant manager of Rue Pinalle. Helping to provide Paris atmosphere to Rue Pinalle are its waiters, who come attired in long sideburns and their individual versions of Paris dress. On 4* : £ . ' m EUB the left with the tray is Don Young, a senior who was recently elected parliamentarian of TISA at its annual convention in El Paso. In the center is Norman Norgull, senior from A Signal Corps. John Hass, in the light shirt, is a junior from B Armor. Special guests at last Friday night’s performance were President and Mrs. M. T. Harrington, who appear to be enjoying both the dancing and the photographer’s atten tion. Tomorrow night Rue Pinalle will feature a floor show by 20 students from the University of Houston’s “Frontier Fiesta.” Manager Holmes has also announced a late show beginning at 12:15 for those wishing to attend Rue Pinalle after the Combat Arms Ball.