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Number 190: Volume 52
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1952
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Boatner Headed for Texas;
Gets High Fourth Army Post
Based on Associated Press
Maj. Gen. Ha.ydon L. Boatner,
former commander of United
Nations prison camps in the Far
t East Theater, is on his way back
to Texas. He will be Deputy Com
mander of the Fourth Army at its
headquarters in San Antonio.
Sporting his second general’s
star which was recently awarded
to him after he put down Com
munist violence in the Koje Is
land prison camp, Gen. Boatner
will also be wealing three new
medals when he comes home.
Oak Leaf Cluster
Gen. Mark Clax-k, commander of
UN forces in the Far East, awaxd-
ed Gen. Boatner an oak leaf clus
ter to his Distinguished Sex-vice
r Medal for taming the captured Red
prisonex-s.
Other new medals include two
French decorations, the Cx-oix de
Guerro and Legion of Honor, for
prior service as deputy commander
of the Second US Infantx-y Divi
sion dui*ing the furious battles for
Bloody Ridge and Heartbreak
Ridge.
Before taking over his position
with the Second Infantx-y eaxly last
Septembex*, Gen. Boatner sei-ved
three years as PMS&T and Com
mandant of Cadets at A&M. He
left College Station last August
for the Korean assignment.
The genex-al is on his way to the
United States in a military trans-
pox-t plane, bound for San Francis
co via Honolulu.
“They call me the ‘Bull’ and all
that, but I’m just an ordinax-y pro
fessional soldier-,” he said.
“POWs Under Control”
Boatner assex-ted that Allied
POW camps are under excellent
control but occasional minor flax-e-
ups should be expected. “When
you have 150,000 people in cages,”
he said, “some are going to want
to get out every day.”
The colorful general said he was
glad to be x-etux-ning where he serv
ed at one time as pex-sonnel officer
of the Fourth Army.
The general’s wife lives on Abis-
co Street in Alamo Heights. A
daughter, Helene, is a student at
Texas Univex-sity.
Maj. Gen. H. L. Boatner
Leaves POW Camps Commaxxd
Tom Connally
Gets Ovation
At Bern Parley
Bern, Switzerland, Sept. 2
UP)—Texas’ retiring senior U.
S. Senator, Tom Connally, was
given an ovation yesterday as
r he took over honorary chair
manship of the conference on the
inter-pai-liamentary union.
The 75-year-old Texan was in-
troduced by a fellow' Democrat
1 from the Lone Star State, Rep. W.
R. Poage.
Poage said Connally had left
“an indelible imprint on the his
tory of our times” during his 44
Jears as an elected public sex-vant.
Connally, who is retiring from
©ffice Jan. 1, has attended most
of the conference’s sessions: He
told the pax-liamentarians, gath
ered from 33 nations, that he did
not believe in wox-ld govex-nment:
“Each individual national pax*-
liament is a laboratory to promote
self-government and freedom. If
there had been one wox-ld govern
ment, the Continental Congress,
the French Revolution and the La
tin American republics would not
have been possible.”
Fish Due Friday
Term Begins
September 15
Classes will begin Sept. 15 for
the fall semester at A&M. Sep
tember 20 is the last day for
enx-olling in the college for the
fall semester or adding new
coux-ses.
Appx-oximately G,000 students
are expected to enroll at A&M
vthis fall.
Friday, Sept. 5, is opening day
for new student week and Sept.
12 is the day for x-egistration of
new basic division students who
have had no college woxk. On
Sept. 13 all other-, students will
registex-.
College Hospital
Seeks Technician
The college hospital will have a
new" technician this fall to replace
Mrs. Margax-et Medberry who will
move to Tacoma, Wash.
It is not known who will replace
t-Mi’s. Medberry, reported 1 Mrs.
Irene Claghorn, assistant superin
tendent of the hospital.
■Study Airfields
Engineer Officers
Attend AF Course
An unusual coux-se of instruction instx-uction in use and design of
Js being conducted at A&M this asphalt pavements, - and Assistant
Twenty-six officex-s of the Cox-ps
of Engineer's, assigned to the U.S.
Air Fox-ce, ax-e taking special woxk
in airfield planning, design and
constx-uction.
Under the contract with the Air
Fox-ce, the college is px-oviding a
special four-week course embxac-
ing the review of methods of in
vestigation, planning, engineering
design and control of constx-uction
of aii-fields in theater's of opera-
' tion.
Selected Officers
The 26 officers wex-e selected
from Aviation Exxgineer Uxxits op
erating under the direction of the
Aviation Engineer Force, with
headquax-ters at Woltex-s Air Force
Base near Mineral Wells, which di
rects the world-wide operations of
these units.
An important pax-t of the course
is a review of soil and asphalt en
gineering and their various as
pects as they apply to the develop
ment of fox-wax-d airfields, which
are the most difficult of any type
to develop.
Difficult Type
This type is the most difficult
because they must be developed in
a vex-y shox-t time, using native
materials, and usually under ad
verse conditions in any pax-t of the
world. And they must sex-ve the
new type of modern-service aix--
j® planes.
Professor Spencer J. Buchanan,
civil engineering department, plan
ned and directs the course. Pro-
* fessor Fred J* Benson provides
Professor- Robex-t Schiller assists
both Benson and Buchanan in the
coux-se work and labox-atory in
struction.
500 Lose Lives
Violently In
Long Weekend
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
More than 500 persons lost
their lives in accidents over
the Labor Day holiday but
the toll was far below the rec
ord of 658 violent deaths a year
ago.
The death toll for the holiday, the
last long week end of the summer-
season, was 524.
Accidents on the highways, as
usual, took the heaviest toll, with
403 killed in tx-affic mishaps. Fif
ty-two persons dx-owned and 69
others lost their lives in miscella
neous accidents.
The traffic total compared to
last year’s x-ecord 461 deaths. It
was below the 480 deaths estima
ted for the three-day holiday by
the National Safety Council.
However, Council President Ned
H. Deax-born said it was “a shock
ing thing, to think that the traffic
figure could x-ise to over 400 on a
day dedicated to rest and relaxa
tion. . . . The people of America
should wake up to this inexcusable
slaughter.”
Rainy weather over wide areas
ofi the East and Midwest was con
sidered a possible factor in cutting
down the traffic toll, keeping many
pex-sons at home. However, the wet
highways made driving conditions
mox-e hazardous for the millions
who made trips.
The accident toll covered the
period fx-om 6 p.m. Fx-iday to mid
night Monday local time. The
safety council repox-ted that thus
far in 1952 there have been 94
traffic deaths evex-y 24 hours. This
includes deaths occui’ring fx-om in
juries days, weeks or months after
the accidents.
Aggie Gridsters Begin Season
With 68 Reporting for Practice
Windstorm Lashes
At Carswell AFB
Ft. Wox-th, Tex,—(A 5 )—Cai’swell
Air Force Base was a shambles
today after a windstorm last night
took a multimillion-dollar swipe at
America’s long-range aerial strik
ing power.
One three - million - dollar B-36
bomber was destroyed, six others
received major damage and sev
eral othex-s were damaged to an
undetermined extent. Two airmen
were slightly injured.
Civiliaix Killed
A civilian, Mx-s. W. C. Connor,
44, was killed when her automobile
was stx-uck by a sign board blown
down by the storm. Ten other
civilians in the vicinity wei'e re
ported hurt.
Capt. Bux-ton Wilder, base public
information officer, said several
buildings suffex*ed “sevei*e dam
age” when the winds struck short
ly befox-e dax-k.
25 Per Cent Damage
Maj. Gen. Samuel E. Anderson,
commanding general of the Eighth
Air Force, estimated damage to
planes at the base at 25 per cent.
The B-36, which has been called
America’s “atom bomb carx-ier,”
is the Air Fox-ce’s lax-gest, longest-
ranging bomber- in sex-vice and was
designed to cax-ry 10,000 pounds of
bombs on a 10,000-mile mission.
Also damaged as the 90-mile-
pei’-hour winds struck the vicinity
was the plant of Consolidated Vul-
tee Aix-cx-aft Corp., which manufac
tures the huge six-engined inter-
continexxtal B-3Gs.
Firemen Finish
Schooling Here
More than 900 firemen and
fire marshals from 22 states
and at least two foreign coun
tries Friday completed the
23rd annual Firemen’s Train
ing-School at A&M.
Dux-ing the week various sec
tions of the group received in
struction in every phase of fire
fighting, from inspection methods
through best methods and equip
ment for fighting every known
type of blaze, to how to prepare
a legal bx-ief in arson cases.
Representatives attended the
school* from states as far away as
Calif ox-nia and New Yox-k, and
from Santiago, Chile and New
Delhi, India.
More than 100 instructors and
administrators, especially skilled
in some phase of fire-fighting, kept
the school moving xapidly on
schedules sometimes stretching to
14 houx-s per day.
A 26-man team of Aviation Engineer Unit offi
cers, shown above, is taking a special course of
study in airfield planning, design and construc
tion at A&M. Prof. Spencer J. Buchanaxx, Civil
Engineering Department, in civilian clothes at
left, planned and is directing the coux-se. Prof.
Fred J. Benson, at right, is providing special in-
structioxx in use and design of asphalt pavements.
The officers were selected from Aviation Engineer
Units operating under direction of the Aviation
Engineer Force, with headquarters at Wolters
Air Force Base near Mineral Wells.
•Aircraft plant officials said pow
er was disrupted and extensive
damage done to service docks at
which the big planes ax-e serviced.
Wind blew the tail from one of
the giant bombers and left it shat
tered in a ditch. Others wex-e
stx-ewn about the ramps and taxi-
ways of the base.
Workman Will Lead
Presbyterian Aggies
Full scale football drills started at,A&M yesterday with
a 68-man squad reporting for the twice daily workouts.
Head coach Ray George put the Aggie hopefuls through
a rugged practice Monday morning, with the athletes donning
full uniforms for the first workout.
The tentative training schedule includes a 9 to 11 a.m.
session with heavy equipment, and a workout from 4 to 6
p.m. daily. Athletic trunks will be the uniform for the af
ternoon practice.
The maroon and white team worked extra hard today as
Coach George and his staff prepared the squad for one of the
roughest grid schedules in the nation. In addition to South
west Conference games, the Aggies play University of Hous
ton, Oklahoma A&M, Kentucky, and Michigan State.
At 1 p.m. today the squad began taking physical check
-ups at the College Hospital.
Geox-ge said the players all look-
The Rev. Charles Workman is
the new director of student work
at the A&M Px-esbyterian Church.
Rev. Wox-kman arrived in College
Station yestex-day with his wife
and thx-ee childx-en.
He will be in charge of the
Presbytex-ian Student Center and
will assist the Rev. Nox-man An-
dersoxx, pastor of the A&M Px-es-
bytex-ian Church.
Pastor at Mesquite
Rev. Wox-kman comes to Col
lege Station from Mesquite whex*e
he was pastor of the Fix-st Px-es-
byterian Church for four years.
He will direct al of his woxk at
teh local church to students of
A&M College.
The new student director was
gx-aduated from Texas University
in 1936 and finished his theologi
cal training at Union Theological
SeminaiV in New Yox-k City in
1942.
He also taught social studies in
junior high grades at Autsin and
in the Rio Gi'ande Valley.
Open House Saturday
The first function to be held in
the Presbyterian Student Center
will be an open house for fresh
men Saturday evening. The new
students will all meet first in The
Grove and then go to the church
of their choice for open house.
A meeting of all x-etUx-ning stu
dents has been scheduled for Wed
nesday, Sept. 17, at 7:30 p.m.
The program for students will
include a Bible class on Sunday
morning px-ior to the regular Sun
day mox-ning sex-vices.
The Px-esbytex-ian Student
League will meet Sunday after
noon at 6:30 p.m. A special px-each-
ing sex-vice primarily for students
will follow with Rev. Workman
in the pulpit.
Old Students Meet Wednesday
Students of the Px-esbyterian
Church will also meet on Wednes
day nights weekly at 7:30.
The new youth director has sei-v-
ed ten years in the ministx-y. Be
fore his four yeax-s at Mesquite, he
was dix-ector of the Austin Largex-
Parish which included five rux-al
churches. '
Rev. Wox-kman and his family
will live at 200 S. Montclair where
they will establish a Presby House
which will be open to students.
CHS Yearbook
Party Set Sept. 3
The A&M Consolidated High
School Yearbooks for 1951-52 have
come in and will be distributed at
a paxty Wednesday night, Sept. 3
at 7 p.m., announced Les Richard
son, school supex-intendent.
The affair, which is the annual
“signing party,” will be held at the
Luke Patranella Memorial Slab at
Consolidated School. Refreshments
will be served.
Steel Strike Slows
Progress of Clinic
The new veterinax-y medicine
surgical clinic being built west of
the railroad tracks has been de
layed because of the steel strike,
said Dx\ F. P. Jagee of the veteri
nary medicine depax-tment.
The new clinic will be one of the
best equipped surgical clinics in
the south, and despite delays, the
department plans to be using the
building next year. Dr. Jagee said.
Rev. Charles Workman
Px-esbyterian Student Director
Old Jones Bridge
Will Be Replaced
The Texas State Highway Com
mission has passed an older di
recting the replacement of the old
Jones bxidge on Farm Highway 60.
The estimated cost of the bridge
is $300,000, and will be built about
3000 yax-ds down stx-eam fx-om the
old bridge, said DeWitt C. Greex*,
State Highway Engineer and grad
uate of A&M in 1923.
ed like they were in good shape,
with only a few men on the “flab
by” side at the first practice.
Seventeen Lettermen
Seventeen lettermen fill the list
of 68 players who ax-e reporting
for the 1952 season. Eleven of
these lettermen are linemen, while
the x-emaining six fill backfield pos
itions.
There are two newcomers on the
Aggie coaching staff. Bill Dun
can, who played end on the famous
national champion Aggie team of
1939, will be end coach. He is al
so slated to handle a share of the
scouting chores.
Cooper Robbins, Sr., Who was
head coach at Bx-eckenridge High
School, will coach the freshmen.
Robbins x-eplaces James “Klepto”
Holmes, who died last spring, while
Duncan takes over Hank Foldberg’s
position.
Other coaches are Gil Steinke,
offensive backfield; Dalton Fair-
cloth, defensive backfield; Paul
McMurtry, line; and Bill Dayton,
trainer.
Squad List
The following are players who
reported Monday for the pre-sea
son wox-kouts:
Ends — Charles Saxe, senior,
Beaumont; Darrow Hooper, senior,
Fox-t Worth; Paul Kennon, sop’ho-
more, Shreveport; Henx-y Clark,
sophomore, Mesquite; Ex-ic Miller,
junior, Bartlett; Jerry Cx-ossman,
seniox-, Houston; Bennie Sinclair,
sophomore, Mineola; Nox-bert Oh-
lendox-f, sophomox-e, Lockhart; Wal
ter Hill, senior Ballinger; Billy
McGowan, sophomore, Silsbeee,
Rollie Rubsamen, sophomore, San
Antonio and Don Moore, senior.
Junction.
Tackles—Jack Frey, junior, Hous
ton ; Alvin Langford, senior, Fort
Worth; Dux-wood Scott, junior,
Munday; Coleman Hensley, sopho-
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George Predicts Ags
To Finish Poor 3rd
Aggie football coach Ray George
px-edicted yestexday the max-oon
and white squad would finish in
thix-d place after *the Southwest
Confex-ence closes its ’52 season.
Geoxge’s prediction was in direct
contx-ast with the last place spot
picked for A&M by most spox-ts
writers in the natioxx.
Speaking to the College Station
Lions Clxxb at their weekly meet
ing in the MSC, the mentor ex
plained his px-ediction to the group
which was rather sux-prised at his
px-ediction.
“I pxedict TCU, Texas, Ax-kan-
sas, Rice, and SMU to all tie for
fix-st place; Baylor will be second;
axxd the Aggies will get the thix-d
place slot,” Geoi*ge said.
Outlined Prospects
In the same humorous way,
coach George went on to outline
the football team’s px-ospects for
the coming year. He said A&M
was “lucky” to play such teams
as Michigan State, Kentucky, and
University of Houston. He pointed
out that each team would be tops,
especially Michigan State which is
dubbed number one in the nation
now. He also mentioned TCU’s
“hax-d” opponent fx-om San Anto
nio—Trinity.
George announced the A&M-Mi-
chigan State game will be tele
vised as the TV netwox-k game of
the day. Stations in principal Tex
as cities have already announced
they would carry that game as a
“live” bx-oadcast.
“We plan to take the teams one
at a time this year,” the coach
pointed out. “We aren’t going to
think about TCU or Texas, or
anyone else until the time comes
to play them.”
Worried About U of H
“Right now we ax-e pretty wor
ried about Houston,” the Aggie
head coach said. “They are going
to be plenty rough and everyone
expects us to beat them, just be
cause A&M belongs to the South
west Conference. The fans would
expect A&M to win even if they
had ten old ladies out thex-e in a
unifox-m,” he joked.
George sounded off with a bit
of optimism, however-, when he
said, ‘We are going into every
game to win, and don’t think those
boys aren’t capable of winning any
or all of them. I don’t expect us
to come out on top every time, but
regax-dless of our losses of experi
enced playex-s, we will be able to
play anyone a good ball game, he
said.
New CHS Pupils 1
Register Sept. 3
High school students who will
attend A&M Consolidated High
School were asked today by prin
cipal J. J. Skx-ivanek to register
in his office Wednesday, Sept. 3.
Registration hours will be from
9 to 12 a.m. and from 1 to 4 p.m.
A&M Consolidated schools will
begin their 1952-53 school year on
Sept. 8, announced L. S. Richard
son, superintendent of schools.