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Published By
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For 74 Years
Number 183: Volume 52
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1952
Price 5 Cents
/Firemen Hold
Annual Session
Almost a thousand persons from
all parts' of the United States and
at least two foreign countries are
expected to attend the 23rd Annual
Firemen’s Training School to be
held at A&M during the last week
in, August.
Industrial and military special-
x ists from New York and Califor-
^ nia, in addition to several other
t states between, have already filed
<4 reservations.
During the week-long school, se-
| lected firemen from Texas and out-
I of-state cities are given intensive
Ti practice and instruction in fighting
» almost every known type of fire.
Special equipment available to
, every city and town is used in
fighting fires of the type for which
it was designed and every fireman
learns about that equipment by
using it.
This year about $30,000 worth
of combustible materials will be
Aggie-ex Named
New Director
S. Auston Kerley, class of
”39, was recently assigned as
associate director of guidance
.and assistant professor of ed
ucation in the basic division.
Kerley received his bachelor’s
degree in arts and economics at
A.&M, and has an MS degree in
guidance from North Texas State
Teacher’s College.
He was director of guidance at
Sherman public schools for three
years, and director of guidance at
Denton public schools for two
years.
He was assistant PMS&T at the
following colleges: New Mexico
A&M from 1943 to 1944, Arlington
State College from 1944 to 1945,
and Ouachita College in Arkansas
from 1946 to 1946.
Kerley is now a counselor at
the Junction Adjunct, and will, re
turn to A&M September 1 for his
new assignment.
used so that techniques for fight
ing such fires may be shown. Sev
eral commercial fuel and equip
ment companies will furnish the
bulk of such materials along with
specialized equipment for differ
ent types of fire-fighting.
Co-sponsor by the Texas Engi
neering Extension Service and the
State Firemens and Fire Marshals
Association of Texas, the. annual
school is highly regarded by pro
fessional fire-fighters.
Cooperation in holding the
school is given by the Trade and
Industrial Education division of the
Texas Education Agency, the State
Fire Insurance Department at Aus
tin and the Fire Prevention and
Engineering Bureau at Dallas.
No estimate of the property and
lives saved by firemen who were
taught the best fire-fighting meth
ods by the school is available. How
ever, money savings alone through
reduced fire premiums to partici
pating cities has already amounted
to more than $1,800,000, according
to H. R. Brayton, director of the
school.
A three per cent credit on the
key rate for fire insurance to cities
which participate in the school is
allowed by the State Fire Insurance
Department at Austin.
Instructors for the courses in the
school are hand-picked men with
extensive experience in fighting
special types of fires, but jthey
spend very little time lecturing.
Most of the teaching is done
right in the field while the fire
men students handle the equipment
and fight the fire.
This year most of the bigger
blazes to be staged will be held in
a 26-acre plot just north of the
main campus. Brayton said that
a new water line, complete with
seven fire plugs, has been laid to
the area, in preparation.
Registration for the school will
be held Sunday, August 24, with
firemen selecting one of four ma
jor courses of training. Regis
trants will be quartered in dor
mitories on the campus and fed in
the college mess-halls.
New Business Profs
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Theodore R. Yantis
Lawrence W. Sherman, Jr.
Ag Experiment Station
Receives Grants, Gifts
Three grants, two loans and a
gift, have been made recently to
the Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station, Dr. R. D. Lewis, director,
has announced.
The grants 1 are from the Pacific
Coast Borax Co., Los Angeles, $500
for cotton defoliation studies in
Texas. This grant will be allo
cated the testing centers at Tem
ple, Lubbock, Weslaco and College
Station. . , ......
The Niagara Chemical Division,
Jacksonville, Fla., has made avail
able $1500 to be used for the sup
port of studies on the use of de-
Telephone Service
Gets Improvements
Telephone service between Bi'y-
an and College Station will soon
be improved by a new and en
larged underground truck cable ac
cording to G. M. Brennan, district
manager of the Southwestern
States Telephone Co.
This line which will increase the
phone service between Bryan and
College Station, will replace the
present overhead cable. The over
head cables will be used to supply
additional telephone service in their
present locations, said Brennan.
foliants and drying chemicals in
pre-harvest treatment of rice, ses
ame and castor beans during the
season of 1952.
A supplementary grant-in-aid of
$1500 will be used by the depart
ment of entomology in evaluating
systematic insecticides for the con
trol of insects attacking cotton.
It is from Robert J. Geary of Blue
Point, N.Y.
The loans include a registered
Angora male goat from John P.
Classen of San Antonio. The goat
will be placed at Substation 23,
Bluebonnet Farm. The Burrows
Equipment Co. of Evanston, 111.,
has loaned the station a Model H.
Universal Moisture Tester, to be
used by the department of agri
cultural engineering.
Gift of a hay rake to be used
at the Main Station Farm was
made by S. J. Perry, vice president
and sales manager, West Coast
Sales and Service Co., Tulare, Cal
ifornia.
ID Cards Ready
For Distribution
Identification cards for the sec
ond summer term are ready for
distribution by the registrar’s of-
fice»
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Mason L. Cushion was one of/the most widely known YMCA men in
the college field. His special field was social and spiritual welfare
of the students. He also played a prominent part in the cultural
and civic advancement of his community.
Metzger Gun Room
Now Open In MSC
By G. R.
Battalion
MARSHALL
Staff Writer
Featuring the famous Metzger
gun collection, th% Metzger Gun
Room on the third floor of the
MSC was permanently opened
Monday.
Complete evolution of the United
States Marshall’s sidearms, and
the Colt’s pistols are shown sep
arately, and include the first weap
on manufactured to the modem
automatic. Some of these weapons,
are rare collectors items and pos
sess an interesting historjcal
background, said Col. Cecil M.
MacGregor, chairman of the Metz
ger gun committee. .
The first U. S. Marshall’s weap
on was manufactured at Harper’s
Ferry Arsenal in 1806. It is -known
as the Harper’s Ferry Model 1806,
and has become a rare collectors
item because of a raid on the ar
senal in 1859, by a rabid abolition
ist, John Brown, who with a party
of renegades tried to seize arms
for the arming and revolt of Negro
slaves.
Weapons' Destroyed
Virginia’s secession was respon
sible for the destruction of Harp
er’s Ferry in 1861. The arsenal
was burned before the Virginia
Militia could capture it, and some
of these weapons were evidently
destroyed.
The U. S. Marshall’s were con
sidered the best armed men ih the
world, and these early weapons
added prestige, and were a symbol
of law and order!
The Walker Colt is one of the
rax-est weapons in the Colt collec
tion and possesses an interesting
historical background. Samuel H.
Walker is responsible for the
“Walker Colt,” or the “First Dx*a-
gooiT.” He migrated to Texas in
1842, and joined Captain Billing
sley’s 'company of Texas Rangers,
Boatner Promoted
To Major General
Haydort L*. (Bull) Boatner, who
tamed rebellious Communist war
prisoners and brought peace to
fiery Koje’ Island, Monday was
promoted to major general.
Gen. Mark Clark, Far East su
preme commander, hailed Boat-
nei’’s perfonnance in restoring or
der on Koje, the rocky island off
South Korea where Red captives
staged bloody riots and kidnapped
one Koje commander.
Clax*k also said Boatner’s “com
bat record as assistant division
commander of the Second Division
during some of the hardest fight
ing in Korea was superior.”
Boatner now is in charge of all
prisoner camps in Korea,
and later received a captains com
mission in the United States
Mounted Rifles, under the com
mand of General Zachary Taylox*.
Captain Walker was dissatis
fied with the Paterson Colt, com
monly known in those days as the
“Texas” model, which was a 34
caliber, five-shot, with a concealed
trigger guard. He conferred with
Colt and pointed out defects in the
Texas model and suggested im
provements. The result was a 44
caliber six-shooter provided with
an attached lever for ramming the
bullets into the chamber^ of the
cylinders, and a fixed > trigger'
guard. ; ?
The original Walker is the sub
ject of mox-e disputes among ad
vanced Colt collectors than any
other gun in the history of the
hobby. Some authorities believe
that none were made for com
mercially and others -claim that
about 300 were made. A few spec
imens are in existence, but their
authenticity remains to be proved.
Colonel MacGregor said there
will be a meeting of the Texas
Gun Collectors Association at the
MSC August 11, and the meeting
will be centered around the Metz
ger gun collection.
Mason Cashion
Funeral Today
Two Physics Profs
Believe ‘Saucers’
Are Army Aircraft
Are flying saucers real ? Two
physics px-ofessors, Dr. James G.
Potter and Dr. Edward E. Vezey,
don’t think so.
“The people who have reported
seeing saucers undoubtedly saw
something, but I can’t believe they
saw anything but a meteor or a
high-flying aircraft”, said Potter.
Sevei’al Bryan - College Station
residents have repox-ted seeing fly
ing saucers over the past few years.
Both Potter and Vezey agi’eed
with the statement made by Ein
stein who said he doubted very
much that there are flying saucers
and cares less.
Thei-e is a possibility, said Pot
ter, that the objects seen are ex
perimental missiles of the armed
forces.
“If I live to see space travel, I
will consider myself to have lived
to a ripe old age”, said Vezey, who
is an amateur astronomer as well
as a physicist.
W
Bureau Is Claimed
Agriculture’s Voice
“Who shall speak for the farm
ers?” asked R. G. Arnold, director
of the southexm farm bureau i’e-
gion, at the fourth annual meeting
of the state farm bureau fedei’a-
tion Monday.
Arnold, speaking before approx
imately 300 fai’m bureau members,
answered his question by saying
that the bureau served as the voice
for agriculture.
Leaders should act as “Moses
and the prophets,” guiding pi-os-
pective members into the brueau,
Arnold said.
The strength of the organization
which is dependent on the strength
of the members was one of the
main points stressed by Arnold.
Veterans Receive
Increased Checks
Veterans, drawing disability com-
pensation, were sui-pi-ised to find
an inci’ease in their compensation
checks this month.
The increase was due to a law
passed by Congx-ess earlier this
year allowing an additional 15 per
cent to veterans having 50 per
cent or moi'e disability and 5 per
cent to those having less than 50
per cent disability.
The new law became effective
July 1, Bennie A. Zinn, veterans
advisoi’, announced.
Lucile Cummings
Sings October 21
For its second program of the
poming season, Town Hall will px*e-
sent Lucile Cummings who has
been named by music critics as
“the foremost contralto in Ameri
ca.”
October 21 is the scheduled date
for the concei’t.
Miss Cummings has been guest
star on NBC’s Telephone Hour
seven times within x*ecent months.
This season marked her New Yqi'k
Opera debut in the leading role of
Amneris in the New York City
Center Opera Company’s produc
tion of “Aida.”
On the stage for three consecu
tive seasons totaling 67 weeks.
Miss Cummings was the featured
soloist at the world fanious Radio
City Music Hall in the productions
“United Nations,” Christmas “Na
tivity” and the “Glory of Eastei\”
For these perfonnances it has
been estimated she appeared be-
■fox-e an audience of over 5,000,000
for each season.
Miss Cummings began her study
of music at the age of six, through
a cori'espondence course at twen
ty-five cents a lesson. Once when
she and her brothers were quar
antined with small-pox, she learn
ed the entire scores of the “Mika
do” and “Pinafore.”
All through school she sang and
played mainly for fun, and evex-y
week she would compose and im-
px-ovise a prelude and offei*tory
for Sunday School. She began to
take a serious interest in music
when she won first vocal honors in
a • state j wide high school contest.
She entered the University of Ore
gon on a music scholarship, and
put hex-self through school by play
ing accompaniments for her mu
sic teachex-s.
Upon, leaving school she began
to sing professionally and not too
long afterwax-ds appeax-ed as guest
soloist with the Pox-tland Sym
phony Ox-chestra.
Opportunities began to come
fi-om the West Coast with radio
offers in both San Francisco and
Los Angeles on CBS and NBC net
works, and concert appearances
with the Oakland and Modesto
Symphonies and the San Francisco
Opex-a of the Air.
Success’ door opened all the way
for Miss Cummings when she was
chosen one of the two finalists on
the “Metropolitan Auditions of the
Air” broadcast from New York.
Since then she has been guest
soloist on all the major networks.
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By STAN REED ^
Battalion Staff Writer
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Funeral services will be held today at 5 p.m. in the First
Presbyterian Church of College Station for Mason L. Cashion,
65, general secretary of the YMCA, who died in a Houston
hospital Tuesday night.
Interment will be held in the College Station cemetery
following the funeral services.
Cashion, who had been ill for several months before his
death, was a native of Hunterville, N.C. He came to A&M in
♦•1926 and has been with the college
ever since.
One of the most widely known
YMCA men in the college field, his
special field was social and spir
itual welfare of the students.
Px-ior to overseas duty in World
War I, Cashion x-eceived degx-ees
from Erskine College of Due West,
S.C. and Austin at Shei’man.
I A Civic Leader
He was an outstanding man in
his field. A civic and church lead
er, he played a prominent part in
the cultux-al and civic advancement
of his community. Known to thous
ands of former students and stu
dents now in A&M he was always
their friend, and they never failed
to seek his advice—and he never
failed them.
On February 14, of this year,
Cashion was one of six members
of the college staff to x-eceive the
1952 Battalion Achievement Award.
Presented at the annxxal Student
Publications Prof-Student Banquet,
the citation on the award read:
“. . . . to Mx\ Mason Lee Cash
ion, secretary of the YMCA, for
being a second father to thousands
of Aggies during his 25 year ten-
ux-e at A&M.”
He is survived by his wife, two
sons, Lt. James T. Cashion sta
tioned in Germany and Mason Lee
Cashion, Jx\, who will be a senior
at A&M this fall; three brothers,
J. R. Cashion of Statesville, North
Cax-olina; R. E. Cashion of Huntef-
ville, Noi'th Cax-olina and W. N.
Cashion of Jacksonville, Florida
and two sisters, Mrs. J. B. Hood
of Laurenburg, N. C. and Mx-s.
John Caldwell of Charlotte, North
Carolina.
New Firetrucks
Arrive for Use
In Fire School
Two new fix-e trucks, designed
especially for instruction by the
A&M Fix-e School staff, were
brolght out of storage Txiesday in
preparation for the annual Fire
School to be held on the campus
August 24-29.
Built last year by the Simms
Fire Equipment Company of San
Antonio, the tx-ucks have been used
in one previous short course.
The trucks are equipped with 500
gallon per minxxte sex-ies-parallel
centrifugal pumps; one being a
triple cobination pumpex-, and the
other a combination booster pump
er. The series-parallel pumps, are
so called in that when operated in
a series, a miximum of water px-es-
sure is created thx-ough one outlet.
When a greater volume of water is
desired, rather than increased pres-
sux-e, the pumps are operated in
parallel position with two outlets.
Pressux-e gauges on each indi
vidual outlet allows the regulation
of pressure on each line.
Both trucks are regulation stock
bodies mounted on F-7 Ford chas
sis. They have underbody lights
which light up the around the fire
hydants, and are both equipped
with signal devices which enable
fix-emen on the back to contact the
dx-iver.
CE Department Offers
New Course In Design
Headed by Px-ofessor Spencer J.
Buchanan, a special course in de
sign of forward airfields is being
given by the civil engineering de
partment at A&M.
The first course of its kind ever
given, the special course has been
designed to acquaint engineer of-
ficex-s concerned, with investigation,
planning, design and construction
of fox-wax-d air fields in theaters of
operation.
A group of 26 officers from var
ious pax-ts of the nation have been
selected by the Air Fox-ce to at
tend the course. Most of the of
ficers are quartered in Walton
Hall and will reside on the campus
throughout the coux-se which be
gan Monday, and will end August
29.
The U. S. Air Force negotiated
a contract with A&M for the course
to be taught because the college
laboratories make it an ideal place
for the instruction.
Town Hall Artist
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Lucile Cummings