Circulated Daily
To 90 Per Cent
Of Local Readers
The Battalion
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Published By
A&M Students
For 75 Years
Number 241: Volume 52
Red Cross Sets
5 200 Pint Quota
In Blood Drive
The Southeast Texas blood-
mobile unit will make its first
visit to the campus Dec. 17,
at which time the Red Cross
expects to collect 200 pints of
• blood, said Lee Phillips blood don
or drive chairman.
Donors must be between the
apes of 21 and fd). Those between
18 and 21 will be accepted with a
written consent from their par
ents or guardians.
One question many students in
the 18 to 21 age group have asked,
is whether they would have to get
permission to give blood each time
the unit comes to A&M.
Phillips said that previous per
mission will be valid for the rest
of the year.
This means if a prospective don
or is not scheduled this time, he
will not have to receive parental
permission to give blood in the
<7 future. The unit’s next visit will
be in February.
The bloodmobile unit v i s i t e d
A&M three times last year and
each time had more prospective
donors than it could handle. It
will be here four times this year
and it is up to the students to see
that the quota is over-subscribed
again this year, Phillips said.
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1952
Price Five Cents
Wagner Plays
Jewish Music
Here Wed.
Cantor George Wagner of Tem
ple Peth Yeshurun, Houston, will
be guest artist at a program of
Jewish liturgical music Wednes-
v day at 7:80 p. m. in the YMCA As-
| sombly Room.
The program, sponsored by the
B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation,
^ will commemorate Hanukah, the
Jewish Feast of Lights.
Canton Wagner was voted the
best operatic soldier singer in the
Southwest Pacific during World
War IT. He has an MA in music
from Columbia University.
He has sung with the Light
Opera Guild in New York City,
and many of his original composi
tions have been recorded by com
mercial firms.
The program will consist of
Jewish sacred songs and Israeli
lolk songs.
“The Hillel Foundation extends
n warm welcome to music lovers
f ' nf College Station and Bryan to
lake advantage of hearing fine
Jewish music sung by a fine art
ist,” said Mrs. Esther Taubenhaus,
sponsor of the A&M Hillel Foun-
ration.
Meet Nights Set
By Exec Committee
The following schedule for stu
dent organization meetings was
recommended by the Student Life
Committee and approved by the
Executive Committee:
Monday— Honorary Societies,
School Councils and Home Town
Clubs.
Tuesday—Technical and Depart
mental Clubs and Societies.
Wednesday— Religious Activ
ities. *
Thursday—All other clubs and
T societies.
Friday—Called Meetings.
This schedule was published on
the All-College Calendar for the
> purpose of minimizing conflicts
in meetings of academic, religious,
technical, social, and recreational
student organizations.
Saturday Closing Time
Advanced by Postoffice
College Station Post Offices will
remain open until 5 p. m. the two
Saturdays preceding Christmas,
instead of closing at noon to
handle the usual Christmas rush.
SHOPPING
DAYS LEFT
BUY CHRISTMAS $EAL$
CLEAR and COLD
WEATHER TODAY: Clear and
cold. The low expected tonight
is between 35 and 40 degrees. The
low this morning was 45 4
v A AvLAiviT'* AfAv A '■ ■
■7' ■
w - A- v;-
■ A;Aa
Ike Ready To Discuss
Korea with Mac Arthur
Route to Hawaii— ( 2P)—President- . dent-elect and members of his pro
elect Dwight Eisenhower is willing
to hear any plan his old command
er, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, may
have for ending the Korean War.
An exchange of messages, an
nounced yesterday aboard this
heavy cruiser carrying the Presi-
jected administration back to the
U. S., cleared the way for a meet
ing between Eisenhower and Mac
Arthur.
It also appeared to dissipate
whatever coolness had developed
between the two former chiefs of
WE’RE BUILDING—A&M’s Physical Education Building continues to grow on sche
dule with one side of the permanent seat structure nearing completion. The building
will be completed during 1953. (Staff photo by Manitzas.)
Local Artists
I •aintings
m
Show
MSC
Paintings by the Art Gallery
Committee now on display in the
MSC are superior to those of other
colleges in the Southwest Confer
ence, said Ramon Froman, promi
nent Dallas painter.
Froman, who is now drawing
charcoal portraits in the MSC,
judged the work of the MSC Art
Gallery Committee yesterday. This
exhibit contains the best works of
the art committee to date, he said.
Froman complimented Mrs. Ralph
Terry, advisor and instructor to
the Art Gallery Committee, for the
outstanding work she has done
With local amateur artists.
The exhibit is divided into nine
specified categories. Two selec
tions that wouldn’t fit into the
principal categories were judged
separately. They were “Cow
Skull,” a charcoal by Capt. Tracey
Worley and “Oil Mill,” a pastel,
by Mrs. Ruth Mogford.
Landscape Division
Winners in the landscape divi
sion include Mrs. Ann Hilliard who
won first prize for “Lone Ti'ee.”
Second prize was awarded to Louis
Hampton for “After the Flood.”
Bill Johnson won first prize in
the still life category for “The
Strike.” Frances Schmidt won
second prize for “Autumn Rich
ness.” In the drawing section,
Don O’Neal won first prize for
“Cow Skull.”
Winners in the floral still life
category include Billy Lanham who
won first prize for “Mums.” Mae
Goodlett won second prize for
“Zinnias.” Plonorable mentions
were received by C. B. Campbell
for “Castor Beans,” and J. B. Mc
Kinley for “Mums.”
In the vegetation division, Grace
Morman won first prize for “Pine
Needles,” and Nettie McGehee won
second prize for “Summer Souve
nir.” Honorable mention was won
by Elsie Fudge for “Pine Cones.”
Mrs. Verna Motheral won first
prize in the second still life divi
sion for “Jugs and Leaves.” Elsie
Fudge won second prize for
“Orange Jug.” Honorable men
tions were won by Mrs. Ruth Mog
ford for “Bunkhouse” and Louis
Mourns for “Blackface.”
In the landscape section, Mrs.
V. L. Dobson won first place for
“Corn Shucks.” Bessie Womble
won second prize for “Concho Riv
er.” Honorable mentions were
won by Helen Grumbles for “Still
Water,” Dannie Green for “Corn
Against the Sky,” and Col. Lewis
Oden for “Juniper Tree.”
C. B. Campbell won first prize
in the autumn landscape category
for “In Hensel Park” and Sally
Smith won second prize for her
version of “In Hensel Park.” Hon
orable mentions wei’e won by Mrs.
Ruth Mogford for “Artists at
Work,” and Sally Smith for “Au
tumn Yellows.”
Mrs. Verna Motheral won first
place in the architectural land
scape division for “Caldwell Oil
Mill.” Bessie Womble won second
prize for her version of “Caldwell
Oil Mill.” Honorable mentions
were received by Mary Dauchy for
“English Lane,” and Verna Moth
eral for “Behind Kyle Field.”
MascotFiamily
Grows As Rev
Has 10 Pups
Reveille II has accomplish
ed something which her pre
decessor was unable to do.
She is the mother of five male
and five female pups, born
Dec. 5 in the small animal
clinic of the Veterinary Med
icine Hospital.
The 10 offsprings from
A&M mascot are all ‘.‘doing
well,” said Dr. Charles W.
Zahn of the clinic.
“All the dogs are mongrel,”
he added. Although the ma
jority are black and white,
others have more colors, he
added.
Reveille and her flock will
return home later this week
to the band dormitory, Dr.
Zahn said. “The band paid for
the cost of medicine and other
expenses, so I guess the pups
belong to it,” the doctor said.
Friend Handles
MSC Radio Show
Don. Friend, Browhwood sopho-
rpore Is now handling the MSC
radio show, Tuesdays and Thurs
days from 5 to 5:30 p. m., on
WTAW, according to Ray Daven
port, assistant to the MSC direct
or.
Plans are undeiway for a news
cast, educational show, and a
classical music show. Efforts are
being made to secure time to pre
sent Handel’s “Messiah” before
Christmas vacation, Davenport
said.
Friend will have a box in the
MSC Directorate Office, and any
announcements concerning club or
other activities, should be in his
box by noon on broadcast days.
Bur rill Talks
To Students
Tonight at 7
The Rt. Rev. Gerald F. Burrill,
Suffragan Bishop of Dallas, will
speak to the Episcopal students
of A&M and the members of St.
Thomas Chapel tonight at 7:30
p. m.
Refreshments will be served be
fore the talk, from 7 p. m, to
7:30 p. m.
Rev. Burrill is in charge of
missions and aided parishes for
the Dallas dioscse. He was conse
crated as a bishop Sept. 29, 1950.
A natiye of Maine and a grad
uate of the General Theological
Seminary, ho has been pastor of
churches in New York and Penn
sylvania.
"'He was-also president of the
board of religious education in
New York and v president of
Churchman’s Clericus.
He is married and has two chil
dren.
YMCA Offers Free
Gift Wrap Service
The “Y” is offering a free gift
wrapping service for the benefit
of all Aggies who have gifts to
be wrapped for Christmas.
“Anyone with gifts to be wrap
ped should bring them to the of
fice in the lobby of the YMCA,”
said Charles Beagle, YMCA Coun
cil president',
LINNARTZ OUTSTAND
ING — Norwin Linnartz
was named outstanding
range management student
in Texas by the Range Man
agement Society of America
here this week.
Symphonetle Plays
For Town Hall
Mishel Piastro led his 31-piece, ana Story,” and “Toccata” by
‘God of the Atom’
Shown in YMCA
“God of the Atom,” a Moody
Institute of Science color film, will
be shown at 7:15 p.m. in the ^ ^
YMCA Chapel by the Aggie Chris- 1 JL 1*3111 1 O or etlier
0 &
Longines Symphonette through
the third Town Hall performance
of the year with an appreciative
audience calling their return three
times.
Conducting the small symphony
on the too large Guion Hall stage
before 1,200 persons, Piastro
brought together melodies played
many times by the group on their
weekly Sunday afternoon radio
programs.
After the concert, he retreated
rapildy backstage to light his cig-
arillo which he held deftly in its
holder. Puffing, he remarked
amazedly: “Why do these guys
wear those boots? Do you have
a polo team here?”
Other members of the group
which will play tomorrow in
Crockett and return home to New
York by next Tuesday also were
stirred by the seniors apparel. One
commented how “out-of-taste the
white shirt and black bow tie was
with the boots.”
The Guion Hall piano received
the pianist’s appraisal: “It was
tuned but much too low.”
The pianist, Sidney Stafford,
played the “First Movement of
Greig’s Piano Concerto.” He play
ed the only solo and was well re
ceived.
Maestro Piastro, with four oth
er violinists produced the “Finale,
from Violin Concerto” by Mendel
sohn. After the program, Piastro
autographed pictures and pro
grams using a rubber stamp sur
prising many regular Town Hall
followers.
The symphonette, winners of the
Musical America’s annual poll in
1950, played the musical score
from the motion picture “-Louisi-
Aggie Pilots May
tian Fellowship.
Technicolor movies of the Bi
kini and Nagasaki A Bomb explo
sions are featured in the film,
which is narmated by a physicist
who was an eye-witness to both
blasts.
Demonstration of the energy
within every particle of matter
man has learned to release are
portrayed in the film.
, The discovery of atomic energy
is described by the movie and the
film emphasizes the need for hu
man spiritual rebirth.
“God of the Atom,” is being
shown on the campus by the Ag
gie Christian Fellowship, an in
terdenominational organiz a tio n
open to all students and faculty
members.
The fellowship meets every
Wednesday night at 7:15 in the
YMCA.
Advanced Air ROTC students
planning to enter Air Force flight
training may form a group of no
more than 15 to go through the
program together, according to in
formation released by the PAS&T
yesterday.
Senior Air Force students in
the class of ’53 may apply for
flight training 270 days before
they are commissioned.
Assignments to training class
es are made when completed ap
plication forms ai*e received by
the Flying Training Air Force,
administrators of Air Force flight
training.
Students interested in group
flight training or other phases
of the program are asked to con
sult M/Sgt. Harvey O. Jones in
Room 25, Ross Hall for further
information.
Frescobaldi, “Symphony in D, Im
perial” by Haydn and “Andogia
for Strings” by Samuel Barber.
Other selections included “Suite
for Ambei'” by Nicholas Flag-
ello, Ravel’s “Pavane Pour Une
Infante Dufunte,” “Jamaica Rum
ba” by Arthur Benjamin, “The
Porgy and Bess Suite” by Gersh
win and “Intermezzo” from “Jew
els of the Madonna” by Wolf-Fer-
rari.
Burchard Is
1953 District
Scout Head
Officers of the Brazos District
Committee of the Boy Scouts will
meet Friday afternoon in the
Journalism Building, said D. D.
Burchard, newly elected chairman
of the committee.
The officers will meet with Dis
trict Field Executive Jack Linn to
make plans for the district meet
ing to be held Jan. 3 in Sbisa Hall.
At this meeting the newly elected
district officers will be installed
for 1953.
Those elected were Burchard; C.
N. Heilcher, vice chairman; and
E. R. Bryant, commissioner.
Heilcher was chairman this
year, and Bryant will be return
ing as commissioner.
The district committee is in
charge of all cub and explorer
scouting in this area.
staff during the presidential cam
paign, when MacArthur supported
Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio for
the GOP nomination.
“I am looking forward to in
formal meetings in which my as
sociates and I may obtain the full
benefit - of your thinking and ex
perience” on Korea and the Far
East, Eisenhower radioed MacAr
thur Sunday.
MacArthur replied on Monday:
“I am grateful for your interest
in my views.
“A successful solution might well
become the key to peace in the
world.”
The exchange followed MacAr-
thur’s speech Friday, when he told
the National Association of Man-
ufacturers in New York that “there
is a clear and definite solution to
the Korean conflict” without un
duly increasing casualties or fur
thering the idsk of world war.
Exchange of Messages
MacArthur implied then a will
ingness to present his views to
Eisenhower.
Eisenhower quickly sent a radio
gram to MacAilhur saying he and
his advisers were in the process
of “outlining a future progiam”
aimed at ultimate peace in Korea.
He said he wanted MacArthur’s
views.
This exchange of messages ap
peared to be more than the Pres
ident-elect asking for MacArthur’s
Korean peace plan. It seemed
this ship that it was a diplomatic
move by Eisenhower to heal the
breach and give his administration
the benefit of MacArthur’s long
experience in dealing with Far
East matters.
MacArthur said:
“This is the first time that the
slightest official interest in my
counsel has been evidenced since
my return.”
Slap Directed
This appeared to be a rap by
the five-star general at President
Truman, who fired him on April
10, 1951, as Allied commander in
the Far East because he was un
able to give his wholehearted sup-
port” to U. S. and U. N. policies.
The slap apparently was directed
also at those in Truman’s admin
istration who have dealt with Far
East policy.
ps*
■■i > ;
A&M WELL-REPRESENTED—Three former Aggies now
in the Marine Corps pause in Korea to talk over old times
at Aggieland. They are (1. to r.) Paul Mohle, Ted Arnst,
and Leon McClellan. Sgt. McClellan was a member of The
Battalion staff before joining 1 the Marines in 1951.
Lungs, Smoke, Tobacco
Pipes Blaze in MSC Thursday
By BOB HENDRY
Battalion News Editor
A&M buildings, text books, or
professors may not be substituted
for tobacco in the fifth annual pipe
smoking contest, said Ray Daven
port, assistant to the director of
the MSC.
Entry blanks for the contest,
which is to be held tomorrow, may
be obtained at the main desk of
the MSC until 7:30 p.m. Thurs
day, Davenport said. The affair
is co-sponsored by The Battalion
and the MSC.
Looking through the charred
annals of past pipe smoking con
tests, one can see rising from
the ashes of fame, J, D. Hinton,
large bowl pipe record holder; M.
C. Jaccard, medium bowl pipe
champion; G. C. Sawtell, king of
the small bowl pipe smokers.
G. Kendrick, metal bowl pipe
record holder; Glenn Cummings,
calabash pipe winner; Frank Sim-
men, churchwarden pipe champion;
B. E. Hagee, marathon of the corn
cob pipe; F. W. Powell, champion
of the professors; P. T. Cardelhac,
king of the cigar smokers; M. G.
Schuchart, miniature bowl pipe
record holder; and J. F. Gibson,
famous for his 73 consecutive
smoke rings.
This year’s contest is truly
A&M’s gift to the nicotine fiend as
representatives from practically
every “fire weed” company in the
US will be on hand passing out
free samples.
Anyone entering the cigar smok
ing section of the contest are
guaranteed two things, said Da
venport—free stogies and tooth
picks. The winner, as in the pipe
smoking section, will be the one
who keeps the cigar, not the tooth
pick, burning the longest with one
light.
The smoke ring section Of the
contest is divided into two sec
tions, largest ring and successive
rings. Anyone who can accom
plish either of these feats will be
declared winner, and a separate
prize will be awarded to each.
Approximately $225 worth of
prizes have been donated to the
contest by pipe and tobacco com
panies. These include four hand-
carved pipes, four cans Of Bond
Street and Revelation, three 16-oz.
tins of Edgeworth tobacco, three
IG-oz. cans of Mixture 79.
Two dozen Heine’s Blend To
bacco packages, one Kaywoodie
pipe, one box of Roi-Tan cigars,
three pipe smoker’s kits, two De-
matt Aristocrat pipes, two Dr.
Grabow pipes, and many others.
A display of pipes will be pre
sented for the occasion .by John
E. Flood, supplier of the official
pipe tobacco, “Demi-Tasse,” and
T. F. Fedrick of the Sir Walter
Raleigh Tobacco Co.
Judging the campus smoke
stacks’ nearest competitors will be
William Dayton, athletic depart
ment; Mrs. John Arhopulos,
Twelfth Man Inn; Don Vestal, en
gineering experiment station;
Jones Ramsey, college information
office; and Don Hayes, student
judge.
Last year’s contestants, who
were identified by their song “San
ta, Bring Me a Brand New Set
of Lungs for Christmas,” are re
turning in practically full strength,
said Davenport. The MSC is
again decked out in its Christmas
suit, and everyone is urged to drop
by the Assembly Room in the MSG
and see the fun, Davenport said.
/'.