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Number 119: Volume 52
Battalion
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1952
Published By
A&M Students
For 74 Years
Price Five Cents
Jurgens to Play
At Military Ball
Members of the Cadet Corps and their dates will dance
to the music of Dick Jurgens and his orchestra Saturday
night at the annual Military Ball, the finale for Military Day
at A&M.
Distinguished government officials and military person
nel will be honored at the dance which will be one of the big
gest social functions of the school year.
The dance begins at 9 p. m. in Sbisa Hall. Decorations
for the Ball will include many of the same items used to
adorn the dance floor for the Combat Ball tonight.
Included in these decorations will be everything from
tanks to artillery pieces, to ^ight side arm weapons. Bryan
AFB will also have a special display set up showing a cut
away jet engine.
Tickets for the dance are on sale at $2.50 at the Office of
Student Activities, and are also be-"*
5ng sold by supply officers in var
ious units. Only a limited number
of the ducats have been allotted
each military unit.
Tickets for Concert
Tickets for the concert, which
will begin at 7:15 p. m., are 70
cents. The hour-andea-half con
cert will be over at 8:30 p. m. The
band will then move over to Sbisa
for the Military Ball.
The 16-piece Jurgens ensemble
features a smooth dance tempo,
full arrangements, precise playing,
and excellent vocals.
Master Sergeants of the corps
will greet distinguished guests at
the door and escort them to a
special lounge area to be provid
ed.
Refreshments committee for the
dance will provide soft drinks for
dancers at the Military Ball.
In the line of special entertain
ment, the Harmoniers, quartet
from the Singing Cadets, will sing
during an intermission at the
dance.
British Attache
Will Lecture
Here Saturday
Col. M. Gordon-Watson,
British military attache from
Washington, D. C., will start
Military Day activities at 10
a. m., tomorrow, with a lec
ture on “British As A Partner In
Arms.”
The talk will be given in the
MSC Ballroom. A movie, “Trooping
Of The Colours,” will follow.
Members of several military sci
ence and air science classes will be
dismissed to attend the lecture
and movie.
Colonel Gordon-Watson was a
member of the Irish Guards in
1935. Since then he has served in
Egypt, 1936-38; Palestine, 1938;
Norway, 1940; North Africa, 1943;
Italy (Anzio), 1944; France, Bel
gium, and Holland, 1944; Student
Staff College, 1945; Germany,
1945-47; commanded the First Bat
talion of Irish Guards in Palestine,
Tripoli, and London, 1947-49.
He was appointed British mili
tary attache to Washington, D. C.
in April of 1951.
Colonel Gordon-Watson is a
member of the Guards, the White’s,
and Army and Navy Washington.
He will arrive in College Station
this afternoon from New Orleans.
Cadets Sing
In MSC This
Sunday
The Singing Cadets will be
sponsored in their annual
spring concert by the MSC
Music Committee, Sunday at
2:30 p. m. in the MSC Ball
Room.
The sixty voice men’s chorus is
under the direction of Bill Tur
ner.
Feautre numbers on the program
will be “Gloria in Excelsis,” “This
Is My Father’s World,” “To Thee
O Lord,” and “Adormaus.”
Spirituals to be sung are “Sit
Down Servant,” “Joshua, Fit the
Battle of Jericho,” and “Dry
Bones.”
Among the numbers to be sung
along the popular line are Jerome
Kern’s “All the Things You Are,”
“The Big Movie Show in the Sky,”
from the stage show “Texas’ Lit
tle Darlin’,” and “Nothing Like a
Dame,” from “South Pacific.”
Soloists for the group are Har
old Hughes, Tommy Savage, Tom
my Butler, Martin Birkhead, and
Ben Blankenship.
The Singing Cadets have travel
ed on several singing tours this
year. A big trip before Christmas
took the group to Monterrey, Mex.,
where they sang for the Interna
tional Knife and Fork Club, and
the Institute de Colegio.
The Cadets are accompanied on
the piano by Miss Betty Bolander.
A&M Rodeo Team
In Huntsville Meet
The A&M Rodeo team will leave
Saturday for Huntsville to com
pete in an intercollegiate rodeo
sponsored by Sam Houston State
College. Teams from all over the
U. S. will try for money and pri
zes in all the rodeo events.
The Aggies, who placed ninth
in national competition last year,
will be trying for a chance to re
present A&M in the championship
rodeo to be held in Dallas in May.
The team will consist of Bobby
Rankin, Don Tabb, Jim Smith,
Lowie Rice, Jack Willingham, and
Charlie McDonald.
Corps Featured Saturday
n Military Day Activities
M11 i ta ry G u es ts
To Arrive Today
Brig. Gen. Gunnar Moller
Military Attaches, Sweden
Brig. Probhat C. Banerji
Military Attache, India
_V_ •
■Bill I
Col. A. L. van den Berge
Military Attache, Netherlands
Brig. Gen. Robert Copsey
Executive, ROTC Affairs
Brig. Gen. Hugh M. Milton
Executive for Army ROTC, Reserve
Brig. Gen. Harry Crutcher
US Air Force Retired
First Combat Ball Tonight
Sbisa Converted for Dance
By PHIL GOUGLER
Battalion Staff Writer
Fort Sbisa will roar with action
as chaos strikes military formal
ity in the form of the first an
nual Texas A&M Combat Ball.
Army dress regulations will be
swept aside when Armor, Engi
neer, Infantry, Anti-Aircraft, and
Field Artillery members appear in
the prescribed Uniform “X”. This
attire consists of fatigues, combat
boots, and helmet liners.
Brave Female Personnel
Female personnel, brave enough
to face the occasion, are required
to don peasant blouses and skirts.
It is rumored advisable for the
gals to wear steel-toed shoes top
ped with shin guards to ward off
their eager escort’s combat boots.
Those uncooperative individuals
appearing “non-reg” will not be
admitted.
The scene of the melee will be
set with typical battleground at
mosphere. Guarding the Fort Sbisa
entrance will be a hulking tank
flanked by dainty howitzers, and
backed up by two formidable bay
onet flourishing guards.
In keeping with prevailing spirit
of combat service branches, the
The A&M Singing Cadets will perform in the
MSC Ballroom Sunday at 2:30 p. m. in their an
nual spring concert. The MSC Committee will
sponsor the concert.
UH Acts to Add
Color to MSC
Cafe Rue Pinall
Talent imported from the
University of Houston will be
the highlight of tonight’s Cafe
Rue Pinalle in the MSC. Twen
ty one UH students will come
to A&M to publicize their “Fron
tier Fiesta.”
Two of the performers, Janet
Smith and Johnny Ragedale, were
in the MSC Talent Show of March
7. Miss Smith is a performer on
KPRC-TV in Houston.
Included on the program will be
a troupe of can-can dancers with a
combo accompaniment, and the
Chartreuse Tealeaves, a western
band. The entertainment will last
about 45 minutes according to Miss
Betty Bolander, program consul
tant for the MSC.
The regular Rue Pinalle will
close at 11:45 p. m., but for the
benefit of those who wish to at
tend after the Combat Arms Ball,
there will be a special run begin
ning at 12:15, with the floor show
starting at about 1 a. m.
Admission prices will be 60
cents, for the first show and 50
cents for the second. Reservations
may be made in the MSC Bowling
Alley at the desk.
All reservations must be picked
up by noon Friday or they will be
cancelled and resold, Miss Bolander
said.
dance floor will be authentically
strewn with machine guns, sand
bags, smoke generators, camou
flage nets, side arms, recoilless
rifles, mines, battlefield sounds,
and ... a stag line.
Special Program
A special program has been
printed under the title of “Stars
and Stripes.” It includes names
of displaced persons (honoi - ed
guests) and the big dealers of the
regiments (regimental staff mem
bers).
Characterized throughout the
program booklet will be Bill
Mauldin’s well known unshaven
Willie and Joe from the book, “Up
Front.”
Entertainment
The Singing Cadets and can-can
floozies will keep the battlefield
jumping during intermission.
Refreshments include a savory
“Lister Bag Punch (minus the
Halazone) developed by the Chem
ical Corps. All this and cookies,
too.
The Aggieland Orchestra, also
decked out in combat uniform, will
By JOEL AUSTIN
Battalion Associate Editor
Saturday is Military Day on the A&M campus, and the
Corps of Cadets will be in the limelight as it parades before
top military leaders of the US and five foreign countries.
The cadets will assemble on the main drill field at 1:10
and begin the review proceedings at 1:30.
Visiting dignitaries from Washington, D. C. are due in
College Station this afternoon in the former private C-54 of
President Roosevelt, “The Sacred Cow.”
Heading the list of visitors will be Congressman Olin
Teague, sixth district representative. Another member of
Congress, Mrs. Rena Beck Bosone of Utah, and her daughter,
a major in the WASP, will be in the party coming from
Washington.
The program will get underway
Saturday with a lecture in the
MSC at 10 a. m. by Col. M. Gordon
Watson, British military attache.
The guests will eat with the
Corps of Cadets in Duncan .Mess
Hall at 12 noon.
The parade will be held at: 1:30
p. m. followed by a short drill by
members of the Freshmau Drill
Team.
Between 3 and 4 p. m. President
M. T. Harrington will honor guests
at a reception in the Assembly
Room of the MSC. Also invited are
A&M military personnel, corps
staff members, regimental staff
members, and battalion and com
pany commanders.
Concert-Ball
* A concert by Dick Jurgens and
his orchestra at 7:15 p. m. in
Guion Hall will preceed the Mil
itary Ball in Sbisa Hall at 9.
A 20-minute color movie will be
made of the parade Saturday by
the A&M Photo and Visual Aids
Department.
Foreign military attaches here
for Military Day will be Brig. Gen.
Gunnar Moller, Sweden; Brig.
Probhat Chandra Banerji, India;
Col. M. Gordon-Watson, Great
Britain; Brig. Gen. Jacques de La
Boisse, France; and Col. A. L. van
den Berge, Netherlands.
The Honorable Elvis J. Stahr,
special assistant to the Secretary
of Army for Reserve Forces and
the Honorable F. L. McCoy, deputy
secretary for civilian components,
Air Force, will come in from
Washington for Militaiy Day.
Distinguished US military per
sonnel visiting the campus will be
(See VISITING, Page 4)
Maj. Gen. A. R. Bolling
Assist. Chief of Staff, G-2, D/A
Pace Visit Delayed,
Stuart To Be Aide
A visit to A&M by Secretary
of the Army Frank Pace, has
been postponed, PMS&T Col.
Shelly P. Myers announced this
morning.
Pace’s visit was to come after
he observed the Longhorn man-
uevers near Fort Hood early
next week.
Colonel Myers said that Sec
retary Pace will come to A&M
after his delayed visit to Oper
ation Longhorn, probably within
the next two weeks
Seventh regiment commander
Lynn Stuart was selected as one
of Secretary Pace’s aides while
at the Longhorn Manuevers. Ten
top ROTC schools in the Fourth
Army are sending a student to be
in his party.
do the musical honors from 9 a.
m. to’ 1 a. m.
Tickets are $1.50, stag or drag,
and can be bought from combat
arms members.
Admitted to the dance will be
members of the combat arms, sen
iors (outside of the combat units)
with dates. All fi'eshmen coming to
the dance will be required to have
dates, the dance committee said.
X-Ray Unit Starts
TB Survey Here
At 9 a. m. this morning, mem
bers of the cadet corps and resi
dents of College Station began
filing into the YMCA for their an
nual free chest X-Rays.
Last year’s survey recorded
11,579 X-Rays. Ninety-five of the
people who participated were de
clared possible carriers of the dis
ease, 81 of these are known to have
had further examination and 35
of these were diagnosed as tuber
culosis by local doctors.
Texas Ranks Tenth
Since Texas currently ranks
tenth highest in TB death rates
among the states and one out of
every 100 people screened in X-Ray
surveys shows signs of TB, every
one has been asked to take part in
this survey. The few minutes it
takes to make the X-Ray might
save many hours and days of lost
time later on.
For those who do not have any
means of transportation, call
2-8375 and a way will be provided.
Can Be Eliminated
Health authorities say that TB
can be eliminated from this coun
try if the following steps are tak
en: (1) find the people who have
TB. The X-Ray is the easiest, fast
est, and most convenient method of
accomplishing this; (2) isolate
them so that they will not infect
others; (3) cure the tuberculosis,
if possible, and return them to pro
ductiveness in society. Cured cases
of TB are not a danger to others.
The local survey will continue
through next week. Opening every
morning at 9 a. m., it will contin
ue through the noon hour until
5:30 p. m.
Weather Today
SCATTERED SHQWERS
WEATHER TODAY: Cloudy
and light rain showers. The max
imum expected today is 78 degrees.
It will be slightly colder tomorrow.