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Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent Of Local Readers The Battalion PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE For 75 Years sjiiopms WW poqsiiqna Number 247: Volume 52 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1952 Price Five Centi Colorado Smashes Fired Aggies, 65-52 Colorado’s. Russel Rerucha drop ped in five field goals of five at tempted in the last half to lead Colorado A&M to a 65 to 52 win over the Aggies in DeWare Field House last night. After trailing 29-22 at halftime, the Colorado five ‘ caught fire in the third period to tie the game at 44-all. The Rams pulled away in the final period for their second straight triumph after three set- backs. Game At A&M a Glance FG FT PF TP Miksch, f .. 6 7 3 19 Binford, f . 1 0 2 2 Hardgrove, f .. .. 0 0 2 0 Martin, c . .. 1 0 1 2 Addison, c . 2 4 3 8 Moon, g . . 3 2 0 8 Pirtle, g . 5 1 4 11 Johnson, g .. 0 0 3 0 Heft, g .. 1 0 1 2 Williams, g .. 0 0 1 0 — — — — TOTALS . . 19 14 20 52 COLO. A&M FG FH PF TP Kinard, f . 4 2 4 10 Betz, g . 0 7 0 7 Sweitzer, f 1 1 2 3 Rerucha, g , .. 5 4 1 14 Sneath, c . 1 1 2 3 Pivic, g .. 1 1 1 3 Stuehm, c 6 2 3 14 Gregory, f 5 i 2 11 —— — — — TOTALS . , . 23 19 7 65 Score at half: Tex. A&M 32, Colo. A&M 29. Officials: Referee — Tom Hamil ton; umph’e—Bob Smith. Rerucha and Dennis Stuehm tied for Colorado’s high points with 14 each. Miksch Leads Scorers A&M’s LeRoy Miksch, topped all scorers for the night with 19. Rod ney Pirtle, Aggie guard'added 11 points. The big difference came in the second half when the tireless Col- oradians outscored the Aggies 36 to 32. Robert Betz put the game on ice for Colorado with two free throws in the final 30 seconds of the battle. Then they froze the ball until the clock ran out. Miksch’s 19 points brought his season total to 76 in four games. This gives him a game average of 19 points per game. The 6-5 Wackier senior sat out the North western State Louisiana game ,and while he watched, his team lost their only other game of the year. Leave for Dakas The Cadets leave Saturday to enter the pre-season, Christmas tournament in Dallas Dec. 26-30. The Aggies with a 3 win 2 loss record meet SMU at 7:30 p. m. Saturday. All games will be play ed in the automobile building on the state fair grounds. After the holiday meet the Ag gies open regular SWC play Jan. 6 in Waco against. Baylor. Chest !)rive To Stay Open Until January “We are still working and think that we shall get enough contribu tions by late January to make our goal of $11,019.00,” said Bennie Zinn, chairman of the Community Chest Drive, in a letter to Chan cellor Gibb Gilchrist and Mayor Ernest Langford. The drive closed officially Dec. 5, with $9,447.28 in contributions. “The business sections of Col lege Station contributed better than in the past”, Zinn said. “Spe cial committees worked in these districts and practically every bus iness contributed something.” Other committees contacted ev ery I’esident of the city who does not work for the college or a local firm. Employees of the college were canvassed through their de partments. “We have appealed to the deans at the college to make one more push,” Zinn said, “because we have fallen down irt some parts of the college.” NEW HOME—R. D. Lewis (left), director of the Agri cultural Experiment Station, shows the finer points of the experiment station’s new home to Chancellor Gibb Gilchrist at an open house held in the new quaHers Wednesday. CHS Approved For Veteran Training A&M Consolidated High Schoql and Lincoln High School for Ne groes have been approved by the Veterans Administration for train ing of Korean war veterans. These veterans who have not re ceived a high school diploma may obtain free tuition, textbooks, and supplies under Public Law 550 in order to complete their education, according to Les Richardson, su perintendent of A&M Consolidated schools. The approval of training under these provisions is an aid to local public schools, since no permanent school funds are received for stu dents over eighteen yers old, Rich ardson said. Wedding Date Set For Frances Viola Mr. and Mrs. Joe Viola of Bry an have announced the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Miss Frances Viola, and Joe D. Davis on Jan. 24 in St. An thony’s Catholic Church in Bryan. The bridegroom-to-be is a senior mechanical engineering student. Rec Council Plans Parly A Christmas party for all the people of College Station, com plete with Santa Claus, singing, and dancing, has been scheduled by the Recreation Council Christ mas Eve at 7 p.m. in Consolicfated High School’s cafeteria. Music will be furnished by a choir from the A&M Presbyterian Church. Also on the program are singing and dancing acts by local school children. Since the party is primarily for the children, Santa Claus will be on hand to distribute gifts to them. Temple Yets Get Fruit From Area More than 3,000 apples and or anges donated by Coliege Station residents, college employees, and students at A&M, Lincoln, and A&M Consolidated schools were given to 1,130 veterans at the Vet erans Administration hospital at Temple Friday. P. L. Downs Jr., official greeter of the college, conceived and or ganized the plan. Most of the vet erans were from Korea, Atrocity Investigation Expected By Congress ‘Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus 5> (Many, many years ago when the late Charles A. Dana was ed itor of the “New York Sun,” he received a letter one morning from a little girl named Virgin ia O. Hanlon, who wrote: “Dear Editor: I am eight years old. Some of my little friends say that there is no Santa Claus. Please tell me the truth. Is there a Santa Claus?” This letter written to one of America’s foremost journalists made a great impression on a great man and received an an swer that has been treasured, re read and remembered Christmas after Christmas, down through the years. Mr. Dana’s famous reply in the following editorial is presented once again.) ginias! There would be no child like faith, no poetry, no romance, to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would then be extinguished. “Not to believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch all the chim neys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus; but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Not ev erybody sees Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not; but that’s no proof that they “Virginia, your little friends are were • IK> t there. No one can con- wrong. They have been affected by ceive or imagine all the things the skepticism of a skeptical age. that are unseen or unseeable in They think that nothing can be W01 'ld. which is not comprehensible by their little minds. They do not be “You may tear apart a baby’s rattle and see what makes the lieve except they see. All minds, npise inside, but there is a veil Virginia, whether they be men’s covering the unseen world that not dr children’s, are little. In this the strongest man, not even the great univei'se of ours, man is a united strength of all the strong- mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, est men that ever lived, could tear compared with the boundless apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, worlds about him, as measured by love, romance, can push aside that the intelligence capable of grasp- curtain and view and picture the ing the whole truth and knowledge, supernal beauty and glory beyond. “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa It all real. Ah, Virginia, in all Claus. He exists as certainly as the world there is nothing else real love and generosity and devotion and abiding. exist, and you know that they “No Santa Claus? Thank God, abound and give to your life its he lives, and he lives forever! A highest beauty and joy. Alas, how thousand years from now, Virginia, dreary the world would be if there nay, tenthousand years from now, were no Santa Claus! It would be he will continue to make glad the as dreary as if there were no Vir- hearts of children.” A&M Athletes To Be Honored By Banquet A&M’s football and cross country teams will be honored at the annual Winter Sports banquet on the Aggie campus Jan. 17. The banquet is sponsored jointly by the Brazos County A&M club and the A&M Athletic Department. The affair will be held in Sbisa hall and will staid at 7 p.m. The banquet attracted 500 last year. Every member of the 1952 Aggie freshmen and varsity football and cross-country teams will be honor ed, according to K. A. Manning, general chairman of the Winter Sports banquet. All other sports will be honored at the spring sports barbecue. Manning said the committee is now working on the principle speakers and details will be an nounced in the near future. P. L. Downs, Jr., has been ap pointed chairman of the ticket committee. A list of the individ uals and firms both at College Sta tion and Bryan where the tickets may be purchased, will be given later. To enable more former students to attend the banquet, the annual club officers’ and class agents’ con ference has been set for January 17 and 18 on the campus by the A&M Club program committee of the Former Students Association. Another attraction for the cam pus visitors will be the Aggie-Tex- as basketball game in DeWare fieldhouse here, Jan. 16. + WASHINGTON, Dec. 23—UP)—Rep. Flood (D-Pa.) de clared today there was “no doubt whatsoever” that the in coming 83rd Congress will approve an investigation of al leged Communist atrocities in Korea. Flood, a member of a special House committee which has been investigating the Katyn Forest massacre of World War II, said a bill authorizing such an inquiry probably would be introduced immediately in the new Congress convening Jan. 3. Flood’s statement followed the final report of the Katyn committee, which found a “striking similarity” between the massacre of 15,000 polish officers early in World War II and reported Communist atrocities against U.N. troops in Korea. Flood called the mass murders in the Katyn Forest near —fSmolensk, Russia, some time after 1940 a “blueprint” for Communist plans to liquidate their enemies on a wholesale scale. Barlow Chosen Outstanding CHS Citizen Tom Barlow, son of Dean and Mrs. H. W. Barlow, was selected as outstanding citizen for last week at A&M Consolidated High School. He was a guest of the Bryan Ro- tarians at their luncheon last Wed nesday. The Rotary Club honors an outstanding CHS student each month. Three students are selected for this honor each month by the fac ulty. The student council choses one from these three. A 17-year-old senior, Barlow is president of the student council and a member of the Athletic Club. He was president of the junior class last year and has lettered in swimming for three years. No Longer Chairman Teague to Play Big Part Legislating for Ex-GPs By TEX EASLEY Special Washington Service WASHINGTON, Dec. 18—(A 5 )— Republican control of Congress af ter Jan. 3 will keep Rep. Olin Teague (D) of the College Station and Bryan district from becoming chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee. But he still is expected to take a leading role in matters affecting ex-GI’s. “We on the Democratic side of the committee will do all we can to see that fair and equitable leg islation is enacted,” he said in an interview. “Although we passed measures this past session extending World War Two veterans benefits to the Korean war G.I.s, we know there will still have to be some further changes made in the light of ex periences gained in the operation of the program.” Teague Drafted PL 550 Teague was chairman of a spe cial House committee which check ed into the abuses of the World War Two ex-G.I.s benefit laws. He was responsible for drafting of Public Law 550 of the 82nd Con gress, extending and modifying the older measures. “We have sent out inquiries to colleges and universities, builders and veterans themselves to get their views on how this new Ko rean veterans bill is working out,” he continued. “The results of that survey will determine what further changes are needed next year.” The Teague Committee had as its primary purpose the uncovering of facts which would lead to pas sage of legislation improving the veterans benefit program. Expose Graft, Corruption As a sort of by-product, Teague said the committee exposed graft and corruption which leu to probab ly more corut convictions and pris on sentences than have resulted from all other congressional inves tigations combined during the past year. He estimated that some 300 per sons have faced criminal charges based on data turned up by his committee working in cooperation with the Veterans Administration, the General Accounting Office and the Justice Department. “In addition,” he added, “money taken illegally from the govern ment in various kinds of rackets has been recovered in an amount far exceeding the cost of opera ting the committee.” Scope Is Vast The vast scope of the ex-G.T. benefit program, Teague said, should be kept in mind in consid ering the wrongdoings that arose in connection with its operation. He added that the cost of the “Ser vicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944” has been in excess of 15 billion dollars. In addition, the federal govern ment has insured loans under the program with an initial principal of more than 18 billion dollars, and has assumed the obligation to guar antee approximately 9% billion dollars in business and real estate loans made to veterans. Here are the highlights of some of the more outstanding cases of irregularities uncovered by the Teague Committee. Some Falsified Records Vocational schools in Philadelph ia offered training in meat cutting. The committee found these schools were falsifying attendance records, employes were accepting money to mark veterans present, and some of the veterans enrolled as students were getting subsistence pav al- thhoug iot atteniding the schools. A federal indictment has been re turned in the case which is still nending. Meanwhile, $75,000 has been recovered. A chain of trade schools oper ating in Tennessee were investi- p-nted, resulting in recovery of 8217,300 in payments. Trial of three owners of the schools has be"’ 1 set for February. The committee, in cooperation with the VA and FBI. investigated what Teague described as a con spiracy in Ban Diego, Calif., dom inating building activities. As a result of the inquiry, Teague said, 26 builders, bankers, real estate brokers, lawyers and VA emploves were indicted and are standing trial. 28 Employees Of A&M System Receive Awards Twenty-eight Texas A&M Sys tem employees were presented pins and awards for completing 25 years of service at the system’s annual Christmas party Friday night. More than one thousand people attended the party, which was also the December meeting of the Fac ulty Dinner Club. Chancellor Gibb Gilchrist gave the Christmas message’ and intro duced the honor guests. John Hutchison of the Agricultural Ex tension Service was master of cer emonies. Wendell Horsley, head of the Placement Office, was in charge of arrangements for the dinner and party. Entertainment was provided by the Singing Cadets, under the di rection of Bill Turner. Also on the program was group singing. Parts of the presentation cere monies were broadcast on WTAW Saturday morning. Mother of Aggie Killed in Accident A 42-year-old mother on the way to pick up her Aggie son was killed in an automobile collision Satur day. The car driven by Mrs. John Brannen of Huntsville collided with a car being driven by a Bryan AFB airman. Mrs. Bi’annen’s son, John C. Brannen, is a sophomore at A&M. The accident occured on High way 6, about four miles north of Navasota. Mrs. Brannen was the only pei'- son killed. Her husband was re leased to his home, and another couple in the car are in a Navaso ta hospital. The airman was not seriously hurt. Louise Jones Robert King Wed Dec. 20 Miss Louise Jones, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Luther Goodrich Jones, 900 Hereford South, and Lt. Robert Lynn King of Sherman, were married in the A&M Presby terian Church at 4:30 p.m. Satur day. The Rev. Norman Anderson, pas tor of the A&M Presbyterian Church, officiated. Mrs. Robei't R. Lancaster, organ ist, played traditional wedding- marches and accompanied Mrs. Frank C. Whitmore as she sang “Oh Perfect Love” preceding the ceremony. The bride’s attendant was Miss Sharon Cornelius of Fort Worth. Montgomery J. Lafrence of Sher man was the best man and ushers were Fred Anderson and William Lancaster. , Following the wedding a recep tion was held in the MSC. In the housearty were Miss Doris Good rich Jones, Miss Grace Goda, Mrs. Epugene A. Rush, Mrs. Fred Hale, Mi's. R. R. Lancaster, Mrs. Nor man Anderson, Mrs. J. Wheeler Eager, Misses Jean Adams, Ann Fleming, Claire Rogers and Euge nia Rush. The bride attended Texas State College for Women and was grad uated from the University of Mis souri with a degree in journalism. Prior to her marriage she was working with Kamin Advertising Agency in Houston. King received his degree from A&M in 1952. Committee Recommendation The House committee recom mended that the next Congress un dertake such an investigation, stat ing in its report: “Communist tactics being used in Korea are identical to those fol lowed at Katyn.” There was no indication, how ever, that the committee had evi dence of new or recent mistreat ment of U. N. troops or of inci dents not reported a year or more ago in the Korea conflict. The U. N. Command then put the number of atrocities in Korea at about 8,000. Russia Blamed The committee’s report, coming after more than a year’s insuiry into the Katyn Forest murders, laid the guilt on Soviet Russia and rec ommended that the USSR be ar raigned before the World Court by the U. N. General Assembly. It also asked the President to lay its findings before the U. N., and for the United States delega tion to seek establishment of a U. N. international commission to investigate “other mass murders and crimes against humanity.” The committee didn’t go into pro cedural details, and there appear ed to be no way in which the Katyn massacre could be brought before the World Court. Russia has nev er accepted the jurisdiction of the court in a case concerning her. Without such acceptance, she could not be brought in as a defendant. A. B. Stevens Appointed Pet E Head Professor A. B. Stevens has been appointed head of the petroleum engineering department, effective Feb. 1. He succeeds Harold Vance, who will head the oil and gas depart ment of the Second National Bank in Houston. “We are very fortunate in hav ing a man on our staff so eminent ly qualified to assume the duties as head of our petroleum engineer ing department”, said Dean of En gineering H. W. Barlow. “Mr. Stev ens’ previous education, his in dustrial contacts, and his knowl edge of the industry are exceeded by very few engineering educa tors.’ ’ Stevens holds a BS degree in petroleum engineering from the University of California and a MS fro mthe University of Southei'n California. He has been employed by the Gypsy Oil Company and the University of Southern California. In 1941 he entei'ed the army as a captain and was discharged in 1945 as a lieutenant colonel. He served as chief of the construction division of the Military Pipeline Service. He is now serving as consultant to the Corps of Engineers on spe cial pipeline projects. Mr. and Mrs. Stevens live at 1005 Puryear in College Station. They have a son, Albert, and a daughter, Nancy, who is a fresh man at the University of Texas. WEATHER TODAY: Clear with a few scattered clouds. The tem perature this morning was 41. Two County Roads To Be Improved The state highway department has authorized the improvement of two Brazos County roads. The roads will be given a two-lane sur face and designated Farm-to-Mar- ket roads. Improvement will be made on the following roads: From State Highway 21 from near the Navasota River northwest for 6.7 miles to Edge. From State Highway 21 at Kur- ten northwest for 5.6 miles to County Road.