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Number 243: Volume 52
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PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1952
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Pipe Puffers Get
Awards Tuesday
Before TV Cameras
Presentation Tuesday afternoon
of prizes for the annuat pipe smok
ing' contest will be televised, ac
cording’ to Ray Davenport, assist
ant to the MSG director.
The awarding will be televised
by Port Worth station WRAP-TV
at a mock version of the contest
originally held last night in the
MSG, he said.
All contestants will return Tues
day afternoon for the televising,
Davenport said. Types of prizes
will bo announced then.
Ridgway Wins First Prize
V. F. Ridgway, of the business
administration department, w o n
first prize in the professors divis
ion of the pipe smoking contest.
Ron Logan, of the college in
formation office won second place.
Ridgeway kept his pipe burning
4‘i minutes while Logan followed
with a close 39.
John Linton set a new record of
102 minutes in the large bowl div
ision. The old x’ecord is 91.5 min
utes. J. G. Davison placed second
’with 74% minutes. R. M. Nixon
placed third with 70 minutes, W.
A. Morley fourth with GO minutes,
and Roy Lilley fifth with 40% min
utes. "
Medium Bowl Contest
Vance Kelly won first prize in
vhe medium bowl division with a
scoi'e of G9 minutes. Leonard
Stoltz and John Ginn tied for sec
ond place with 35 minutes each. L.
(). Williamson placed third with
34 minutes and M. M. McCrary won
fourth with 31 minutes.
In the small bowl division R. S.
McClelland set a new record of
05.5 minutes. The old record is
48 minutes. Stoltz placed second
with 63.5 minutes and B. E. Hagee
.won third with 52 minutes.
Hagee Places First
Hagee also placed first in the
miniature division with a score of
"IS minutes. Lilley won second
prize with 9 minutes.
Morley won first place in the
corn cob division with 70 minutes.
Lilley and Hagee tied for second
place with 54 minutes.
J. W. Moody was the only con
testant in the churchwarden div
ision. D. B. Wheeler forfeited,
Moody’s time was 39 minutes.
McCrary won first prize in both
the successive and large smoke
ring contests. In the successive
ring division, he blew 80 smoke
rings. He blew a 14 in. smoke
ring in the large ring contest.
(See PIPE PUFFERS, Page 6)
SLC to Pick
Who "s Who
Who’s Who at A&M will be
selected Monday by the Stu
dent Life Committee. The
meeting will start at 4 p.m.
in the Senate Chamber of the
MSC.
A new method of picking
Who’s Who will be used this
year, said C. G. (Spike) White,
secretary of the committee.
In the past, meetings have
lasted until the early hours of
the morning but the group
plans to finish early this time,
White said.
Who’s Who is usually picked
during the spring semester,
but this year selections are
being made in December to
allow A&M to join the V/ho’s
Who in American Colleges and
Universities Association.
Korea Teaches U. S. Nothing
Ike liaised Moral e—Boatner
Bryan Rotary Club
Hosts For District
The Bryan Rotary Club will be
host to the annual meeting of the
190th Rotary District which will
be held in the MSC Jan. 11-13.
The 190th Rotary District is
composed of fifty-two clubs with
Houston, Beaumont, Galveston,
Palestine, and Lufkin being among
the larger clubs. The District is
thirty-two years old and this is
the first time that the Bryan Ro
tary Club has sponsored the meet
ing.
The Bryan Rotary Club, compos
ed of 120 members, will have
Bryan and College Station equally
represented. W. H. Ritchey of
Bryan is president of the local
club and W. E. Street of College
Station is conference chairman.
Registration for the conference
will begin at 1 p. m. Sunday, Jan.
11, 1953, on the second floor lobby
of the MSC. A registration fee of
$7.59 will be charged guests and
Rotarians.
Included in Sunday’s program is
a tour of the campus and other
points of interest followed by an
informal reception in the assem
bly room.
Employees’ Christmas
Dinner Set for Dec. 19
Tickets are now on sale at the
main desk of the MSC for the an
nual Christmas dinner honoring
employees who have served the
iA&M College System for 25 years.
The dinner—which is also the
December meeting of the College
Employees’ Dinner Club—will be
held at 7:15 p. m. Dec. 19 in Sbisa
"Hall. Tickets are $1.50 per person.
Student to Get
Aircraft Award
At AIEE Meet
W. A. Crabtree of Glade-
water, senior student in elec
trical engineering here will
receive the Douglas Aircraft
Company award when the
Houston Section of the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers
meet on the campus Dec. 18.
The $600 prize is awarded to
outstanding engineering students.
This is the first year it has been
' made available to A&M students.
The award will be made during
the joint meeting of the Houston
Section and the A&M student
branch of AIEE at 7:30 p. m. in
Bolton Hall.
This will be the third consecu
tive year the Houston Section of
AIEE has met with the student
branch. According to Norman F.
Rode, professor of electrical en
gineering here indications are that
the joint meeting will become a
yearly feature.
Willie East, Fort Worth senior
in electrical engineering and chair
man of the student branch, .will
preside at the meeting.
R. G. Rushing, EE senior from
Livingston, and S. O. Navarro, EE
graduate student from Cuba, will
present papers during the meet
ing. Rushing will talk on commun-
7 Rations, and Navarro will present
information on the Engineering
’ Experiment Station Electronic
Analog Computer. He also will
demonstrate the solution of dif
ferential equations on the com-
, puter for visiting electrical en
gineers.
Twenty-eight persons will be
honored during the dinner with a
program featuring John E. Hutch
ison of the horticulture depart
ment as master of ceremonies.
' Bill Turner, music conductor,
will lead group singing of Christ
mas songs, with Betty Bolander
as accompanist. Rev. Nolan Vance,
A&M Methodist Church, will give
the invocation.
During the dinner, Turner also
will direct the Singing Cadets,
and Chancellor Gibb Gilchrist will
give the Christmas message and
present honored guests, followed
by group singing of “Auld Lang
Syne.”
Those who attend are also in
vited to remain after the dinner
for a social meeting of the Din
ner Club. Tickets will go off sale
at noon, Dec. 16.
Evening entertainment will con
sist of a program by the Singing
Cadets under the direction of W.
M. Turner and a Candlelight Con
cert from North Texas State Col
lege under the direction of Walter
H. Hogson.
Monday will be a full day for
all pi-esent beginning with regis
tration at 8 a. m. Included in the
days activities will be an address
by Lamar Glidden, Rotary Inter
national representative; the re
port of District Governor, W. R.
Beaumier; nomination of District
Governor nominee; committee re
ports; a luncheon for Rotarians
with Cayce Moore, Hearne Rotar-
ian as guest speaker.
A separate luncheon for Rotar’y
Anns with Mrs. Walter H. Dela-
plane as guest speaker; an addi'ess
on Inernational Service by Past
Governor Benny H. Hughes; a
panel discussion by five foreign
students attending A&M; address
by Nathan H. Gist, New York Ro-
tarian.
Singing by the Houston Rotary
Singers directed by Knight Mac
Gregor; singing by the Bryan
High School A Capella Choir di
rected by Carl Best; and the Gov
ernor’s Ball with Bill Turner’s
“Aggieland” Orchestra furnishing
the music.
Tuesday will be anticlimatic be
ginning with a breakfast for Ro-
torians and Rotary Anns, and endu
ing with committee reports, elec
tion of a nominating committee
and invitations for the 1954 con
ference.
Sidelight entertainment will
consist of a basketball game be
tween Arkansas and A&M on Jan.
10, golf, table tennis, and bowling.
City Hall to Hold
Open House Dec. 17
Everyone in College Station is
invited to the city’s annual open
house at the City Hall Wednes
day from 2 p. m. to 5 p. m., said
Mayor Ernest Langford.
“It will be just a ‘come and go’
party”, Langford said. “People
are welcome to just droy in any
time.”
College Town Hall
Featured Tuesday
An interchange of viewpoints on
economics and policies between
A&M students and three Texas
businessmen will be. the feature
of a “College Town Hall” meet
ing Tuesday at 7:30 in the biologi
cal science lecture room.
T. W. Leland, head of the busi
ness administration department, is
cooperating with the Texas Manu
facturers’ Association in arrang
ing the program. The meeting,
Leland said, is open to the pub
lic.
Businessmen who will be on
hand for the meeting are C. E.
Lyon, plant manager, Diamond Oil
and Refining Company, Pasadena;
Ray Horton, manager, employe re
lations department, Humble Oil
and Refining Company and Joe
Parish, chief enginer, Dow Chemi
cal Company, Texas Division,
Freeport.
One of Series
Leonard Patillo, THA director
of public relations, will serve as
moderator.
Sponsored by the Texas Manu
facturers Association—a statewide
business organization with some
300 members, the “College Town
Hall” is one of a series being held
on Texas college campuses. The
purpose is to bring businessmen
and students together to learn
what each is thinking about poli
tico-economic trends in the United
States.
In similar programs during the
1951-52 school year, more than
8000 students and faculty mem
bers exchanged viewpoints with
businessmen serving on 13 panels.
Discussions come from “off the
floor” questions fired by students.
The programs are unrehearsed.
“Officials of A&M are to be
commended for inviting us to
Residents Invited
To Yule Caroling
Bryan-College Station residents
and students are urged to attend
a Christmas caroling Tuesday at
7:30 p. m. in the MSC, said Rod
ney Heath, chairman of the MSC
House Committee.
The purpose of the caroling is
to improve relations between Ag
gies and Bryan and College Sta
tion residents, and to join in the
Christmas spirit, Heath said.
Not only will everyone get bet
ter acquainted, Heath added, but
everyone should have lots of fun.
Song sheets have been printed
for the occasion by the YMCA.
Girls from College Station-and
Bryan will also be at the caroling,
Heath said.
The caroling will take place on
the front lawn of the MSC if the
weather permits, Heath said. If
the weather is bad, the site will be
changed to the back terrace.
visit with them on their campus,”
Ed C. Burris, TMA executive vice
president said. “The panel of Tex
as businessmen welcome this op
portunity to discuss with the stu
dents some of the basic issues con
fronting the people of the United
States.”
The program will be opened by
the moderator, who will briefly
define socialism, communism and
free enterprise, Leland says. Then
the moderator will ask the audi
ence to cut loose on the panels
with questions they have on their
minds.
Businessmen will reply with
facts and opinion.
There will be no speeches and
the program will be decidedly in
formal, Leland says.
Group to Pick
Best Home
Yule Display
The best outside Christmas dec
oration for a College Station house
will be chosen in a contest spon-
sored by the Civic Development
Committee.
Any type of decoration that can
be seen from outside of the house
is eligible for the contest, accord
ing to Marion Pugh, chairman of
the Develooment Committee.
First prize will be $15, second,
$10, and third, $5. Judging will
be done by the Garden Club. Mrs.
D. W. Williams, president will
select the judges.
R. F. White and J. B. Longley
are planning the contest.
Judging will be completed by
Dec. 23 and announced in The Bat
talion.
General Explains Korean
Situation to A&M Cadets
Maj. Gen. Haydon L. Boatner said yesterday that Pres
ident-elect Eisenhower raised the morale of the American
and other United Nations troops by inspecting the Korean
War.
Speaking before 1,000 students in Guion Hall, the deputy
commander of the Fourth Army, explained his feelings about
the Orient and the Army.
“Eisenhower said he was going to Korea, so he had to go.
But there’s no doubt that he did raise the morale of the
troops. There is nothing a man in battle likes more than
having older persons care and see what’s happening to them.
Ike also didn’t know anything about Korea. He needed to
make the trip,” the former A&M Commandant said.
He declared that Americans know very little about the
Orient. “History of China isn’t taught in public schools nor
in colleges. What do you knovv^ : —
about China?”
Answering a question as to what
he knew about Gen M a c A r-
thur’s Korean War plan, Boatner
said: “Not a damn thing.”
Nothing Learned
Recently returned from Korea
and Koje Island where he was
commander of the prisoner of war
camp, Boatner told the future
Army and Air Force officers that
Korea has taught the U. S. noth
ing new in tactics. “It is just
rougher and tougher. Korea has
no roads, no communications. We
have more aianor (tanks) in Korea
than we need. The terrain is too
hilly for tanks.”
Bloody ridge was the roughest,
toughest battle, the general said.
“There were 2,772 casualties and
we fired 451,000 rounds of artil
lery ammunition to capture the
ridge. We blasted the ridge xmtil
it lost about five feet of its ele
vation.”
Boatner compared the Chinese
weapons and methods of fighting
to those used by United Nations’
troops.
“We have a tremendous super
iority over the Chinese commun
ists. We have no shortage of wea
pons and our firepower is tremen
dous. Not having enough young
or old men who can work all these
weapons is a hinderance, how-
(See BOATNER, Page 6)
McClure Tops Slide
Rule Contest Entries
Robert M. McClure, freshman
electrical engineering major from
Alto, was awarded first place in
the slide rule contest at the
awards program yesterday.
All McClure had to say about
his winning the contest was, “I
thought I did pretty good, but I
never expected to get top place.”
As top award winner he re
ceived the top award plaque, first
place plaque for the electrical en
gineering section of the contest,
and a slide rule. The top six men
in the contest received slide rules
and all first and second place
winners in each section received
plaques.
‘FROM ME TO YOU’—Reveille II had quite a story to
tell recently when she brought five female and five male
puppies to A&M last week. All of the puppies are coming
along fine, but are still camera shy. Mother Reveille, how
ever, is taking the new additions with the “it was nothing
attitude.” The fate of the new Aggie “mascots” is unde
cided. (Staff photos by Cole)
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The 82 participants in the con
test were men in the top ten per
cent of their M. E. 101 classes.
J. H. Cabbess of the mechanical
engineering department was the
director of the contest.
The top award winners were Mc-
Clyre, first place; Fred B. Cox,
Jr., second place; Billy B. Berry-
hill, third place; Donald D. Swof-
ford, fourth place; John W. Lut-
teringer, Jr., fifth place; and Gus
Sam Mijalis, sixth place.
Section Winners
Section winners were aeronau
tical engineering, Robert C. Bar-
low and Donald P. Novak; agri
cultural engineering, Donald D.
Swofford and James A. Witcher;
architecture, Norman H. Jacobson
and Lloyd W. Jary, Jr.; chemical
engineering, Larry C. Watson and
David C. Parnell; civil engineer
ing, Gus Sam Mijales and John
E. Bryant; electrical engineering,
Robert M. McClure and Clay Mc
Farland; geology, Franklin D.
Westmorland; industrial engineer
ing, Bob Renouf and Gerald L.
Leighton; mechanical engineering,
Fied B. Cox and William R. Acres;
petroleum engineering, Billy B.
Berryhill and Joe B. Foster.
John W. Lutteringer, Jr., Joe
D. Hoffman, and Bobby R. Uzzell
were the winners in the special
group for those who had some pre
vious college experience.
Ash tray souvenirs were given
to everyone who participated in
the contest. The plaques and ash
trays awarded were designed and
made in the M. E: shops by D.
W. Fleming, E. D. Krantz, and S.
E. Brown, professors in the en
gineering department.
‘Catherine the Great’
Set for 7:30 Tuesday
“Catherine the Great” will be
shown by the A&M Film Society
at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the MSC
Ballroom, said Ed Holder, presi
dent. “This is the society’s last
movie until after the holidays,”
Holder said.
4 RV’s Elite
Of the Corps;
Says Napier
“You are the selected and
recognized leaders on the cam
pus. You are the elite of the
elite of the Corps.”
These were the words of
Col. E. W. Napier, deputy com
mander of AFROTC and former
PAS&T, as he delivered the prin
cipal address in the banquet-ini
tiation of the Ross Volunteei’s last
night in the MSC Ballroom.
Col. Napier, who graduated from
West Point in 1929, served as Pro
fessor of Air Science and Tactics
here until his departure in May,
1952.
The Ross Volunteers initiated 80
juniors in their top social func
tion for the fall semester. No new
seniors were accepted by the
group.
Membership is restricted to 125
cadets with a ratio of not less
than two juniors to one senior.
A member must maintain a 2.0
military science and 1.5 scholastic
grade point ratio.
Officers of the organization in
clude Cadet Col. Joe Wallace,
commander and Cadet Capt. Dan
ny Howell, executive officer.
Corps Yule Dinner
Slated Thursday
The annual Christmas dinner
will be served at Sbisa and Dun
can Halls on Thursday, Dec. 18th.
Among the good things to eat
will be roast turkey, combread
dressing, candid sweet potatoes,
cranberry sauce, green peas, sweet
pickles, Queen olives, stuffed
olives, celery hearts, rolls and
butter. For dessert there will be
pumpkin pie, coffee or milk, and
assorted fruits.
For non-corp students who do
not hold meal books, the price will
be $1.00.
Post Offices Set
Holiday Schedule
Beginning Dec. 15, the main
College Station Post Office and
South Station Office will be open
from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m., said T.
O. Walton, postmaster.
Both post offices will be open
from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. Saturday.
The two stations will be closed on
Sundays, he added.
Neither post office will remain
open Christmas Day, Walton said.
Normal schedules will be i’e-
sumed Dec. 24, said Walton.
SHOPPING
PAYS LEFT
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MY CHRISTMAS SEAL*
CLEAR
WEATHER TODAY: Clear. The
high yesterday was 58 and the low
this morning was 40.
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