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Number 248: Volume 52
The Battalion
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1952
For 75 Years
Published By
A&M Students
Price Five Cents
I )ance Conference
Opens Tomorrow
The'third annual Square Dance Leaders’ Conference will
be held at the MSC tomorrow, Thursday, and Friday. Over
200 people are expected for the meeting, which will feature
classes and demonstrations of square dance calling and teach
ing.
The Golden Slippers Square Dance Club of College Sta
tion and Bryan will be the host for the group. Participating
in the events will be instructors and callers from every part
of Texas, as well as people from Alabama, Kansas, Oklahoma,
and Minnesota.
Manning Smith and his wife,.
Nita, who are nationally known
square dance callers, will instruct
the group in some of. the meet
ings. Smith calls for the local
club. He also conducts summer
courses in square dancing in Colo
rado and Wisconsin.
The first thing on the program
for the group is a New Year’s Eve
party Wednesday night. Thurs
day morning will be taken up with
instruction and discussion on all
phases of both squai’e and round
dancing.
After a smorgasbord lunch, the
group will have more discussion
periods Thursday afternoon. A
Kid Party, with all the dancers in
costume, is planned for that night.
After another instruction and
discussion period Friday moiming
the meeting will close.
Committees for the meeting
are Reese Spence, welcoming; B.
B. Trant, decorations; and Wallace
and Floyd Mathis, refreshments.
Mexnbers of the Steering Com-
niittee of the Golden Slippers
Squai’e Dance Club are A. B.
Cook, chairman; Rosemary Bur
roughs, secretary; .Trant, Jesse
Smith, and Wallace Mathis.
Acrobatic Gas Attendant
Still Manages To Laugh
DALLAS, Dec. 30—(iP)—A gas station attendant man
aged a chuckle today even though (1) a truck tire exploded
and blasted him six feet into the air, (2) knocked him semi
conscious and (3) dropped him back to earth in a handstand
that nearly broke both his wrists.
Paul McBtfy, 26, victim of the mishap, gave this clue to
his unexpected mirth:
“I was putting a new tube in a truck tire when a 16-year-
old kid watching me work broke into a smile,” he said. “He
said he sure would laugh if the tire exploded and he saw me
sailing up over the gas pumps.”
“That kid was one of the first ones to get to me—but he
was so surprised he couldn’t even laugh.”
Mrs. Gibb Gilchrist Wins! Educator Says
CS Decorations Contest Race Barriers
McCarthy Gets
Marine Medals
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29—CP)—
The Marine Corps today presented
six medals to Sen. McCarthy (R-
Wis) for gallant and meritorious
service as a Marine air combat
intelligence officer in the Pacific
in World War II.
McCarthy was given the Distin
guished Flying Cross, the Air
Medal and four stars in lieu of
additional air medals.
He told Lanigan that “I have
never received and never expect
to reecive anything I will value
more highly.”
Following traditional form, the
citation began, “The President of
the United States takes pleasure
in presenting the Air Medal,” etc.
They were signed for Pi’esident
Truman by Secretary of the Navy
pan A. Kimball.
Truman frequently has been
\harply at odds with McCarthy
over the Wisconsin senator’s
iharges of communism in govern
ment. He has called McCarthy a
“character assassin.”
Local Young People
Hold New Year Party
The young people of College
Station and Bryan will have a
New Year’s Eve party tomorrow
night at the Country Club.
Sponsored by the senior girls
of A&M Consolidated and Stephen
F. Austin high schools, the infor
mal dance will be from 8:30 to 1.
Mrs. Gibb Gilchrist on Throckmorton was announced
as winner in the College Station Christmas decorations con
test last week.
Second place went to Mrs. Marion Pugh, 307 Fidelity;
and Mrs. C. G. (Spike) White, 702 Thomas S, was third.
The contest was limited to decoratiqns that could be
seen from the street outside the house. Judging was done
by non-residents selected by Mrs. D. W. Williams, president
of the Garden Club.
Covering over a hundred homes, the judging took three
nights to complete. The Develop-^
ment Association and Chamber of
Commerce sponsored the contest.
The front door was the focal
point of Mrs. Gilchrist’s decora
tions. The three dormer windows
of her house were also decorated
with Christmas trees and a star.
Mrs. Pugh had the Three Wise
Men slanting diagonally across
her roof, traveling to a silhouette
of the “Little Town Of Bethle
hem.” Spotlights accented the
display and illuminated a sign
reading ‘Come Let Us Worship
Him.”
Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
and his pal Santa Claus were in
Mrs. White’s front yard. Rudolph,
a stuffed deer head, had a red
nose that lighted electrically, and
Santa had his bag of toys. Flood
lights and other decorations com
pleted the scene.
The winner received a prize of
$15. Second place won $10, and
third won $5.
Besides the three winners, sev
en honorable places were named.
They were Dr. D. W. Andres,
1201 Munson E; W. I. Chenault,
307 Francis E; W. C. Freeman Jr.,
507 Gilchrist E; Col. Dale Honey
cutt, 211 Pershing S; J. B. Long-
ley, 210 Grove S; Col. G. H. Math
ews, College Main; and Dr. Da
vid Morgan, Throckmorton.
Towns to Contest
SP Train Removal
Repi’esentatives from a group of
small Texas town served by the
Southern Pacific railroad between
Houston and Dallas will meet with
officials of the railroad in Hearne
Jan. 5 to contest the removal of
trains running between the two
cities.
The railroad says that it is los
ing money by running more trains
on the line than the traffic war
rants. The cities want the sched
ule to stay as it is, in order to
give better service to the resi
dents.
Mayor Ernest Langford and City
Manager Ran Boswell will repre
sent College Station at the meet
ing.
Buddy Davis Certain To Be
Busiest Athlete of Early ’S3
Walter (Buddy) Davis, the
former A&M star who won the
Olympic high jump last sum
mer and who now is playing
with the Ada Oilers basket
ball team, doubtless will be the
busiest athlete of the first few
months of 1953.
It has already started. Davis
leaped 6 feet 8 inches in the Sugar
Bowl meet last weekend.
During the eastern indoor track
season, Davis plans to compete in
the Philadelphia Enquirer meet,
the Washington News meet, the
Melrose AC meet in New York and
the national AAU indoor track and
field championships.
If it doesn’t conflict with the Na
tional AAU basketball tournament,
Davis will compete in the Chicago
Daily News meet in Chicago Sta
dium in March.
All these, mind you, in addition
to being a competitor on the Ada
quintet, which will play a full Na
tional industrial Basketball Leagve
schedule, besides the national AAU
tournament.
Even further, Buddy, the Neder
land boy who was a polio-myelitis
victim himself at an early age, is
the chairman of the sports com
mittee for the Harris County
March of Dimes, Jan. 2-31.
Davis’ aim is the 7-foot mark in
the high jump, but it isn’t fair to
expect outstanding jumps from him
until the outdoor season, which
very likely will be a busy one, too,
but without the basketball compe
tition. Buddy jumped 6 feet 8-
32/100 inches to set the Olympic
record, and his Southwest Confer
ence record is officially 6 feet 1014
inches.
Davis graduated from A&M last
year.
Influenza Leads
Health Report
Seventy-five cases of influenza
were reported in Brazos County
for the week ending Dec. 20. Col
lege Station had 28 cases and Bry
an had 47.
Septic sore throat was second
on the Bryan-Brazos County health
unit’s report with 32 cases, 6 in
College Station and 26 in Bryan.
Other totals for the county were
diarrhea, 30; chicken pox, 27; and
measles, 7,
Lancaster to Wed
Mary Whiteside
M?’. and Mrs. Talmage D. White-
side of Normangee announce the
engagement of their daughter,
Mary LaVerne, to William Brad
ford Lancaster, son of Mrs. Rob
ert Roy Lancaster of 303 Dexter.
The wedding will be in the First
Baptist Church of Normangee,
Jan. 24.
The bride-elect is employed as
executive director of the College
Station-Bryan Girl Scout Area
Council. She is a graduate of Bay
lor University.
Lancaster received a B. S. de
gree in business administration
at A&M in 1949 and now is work
ing on a degree in industrial tech
nology.
Will Crumble’
COLUMBIA, S.C., Dec. 30—
UP)—A Texas educator said
tonight the South’s barriers
of racial segregation will
“crumble much more rapidly”
when Southern youth is given the
chance to carry out its views.
In the keynote address before
a Southwide conference on “youth
and racial unity through educa
tional opportunity,” J. W. Mar
shall, pi’esident of Wayland Bap
tist College in Plainview, said most
Southern young people could be
“champions of democracy.”
Marshall told 100 white and
Negro delegates from 17 Southern
and bolder states that “prejudice”
and “hypocrisy” of many parents,
teachers and religious leaders in
the South is holding back its youth
from working toward racial unity.
This “dilemma,” he said, is
strengthened by “laws on segrega
tion, provincialism, traditions and
customs.”
The teacher said his own college,
Wayland, broke through these
“walls” by opening its doors to all
Jilin:
THE LIONS AND THEIR MATES—Members of the Col
lege Station Lions Club pose with their wives at the annual
Lions Ladies night. L. E. McCall is president of the club.
Holiday Weddings Held
Miss Sylvia Gilmore, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil L. Gilmore,
became the bride of Clyde Arm
strong, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B.
Armstrong, in the College Avenue
Baptist Church at 7 p.m., Dec. 18.
Dr. C. F. Pitts read the cere
mony. Mrs. Lloyd Owens sang
“Always” and “Because,” accom
panied by the organist, Mrs. C. E.
Gray, who also played traditional
wedding marches.
OPS to Accept
Price Increase
Applications
The office of Price Stabilization
will accept applications for ceiling
price adjustments from restaurant
operators whose food and labor
costs have risen since Feb. 9, ac
cording to an announcement from
the Houston office of the OPS.
Applications may be turned in at
the Houston office, 903 Milam
Building.
OPS will determine whether an
operator of an eating establish
ment is justified in raising prices,
officials said.
The applications must be made
before Feb. 14, 1953. Operators
entitled to new ceiling prices will
be permitted to use them 20 days
after mailing ■ their applications
and posting their new prices, un
less the applications are disapprov
ed.
The bride was attended by Miss
Wanda Smith, maid of honor; Miss
Johnnie Lou Zwiefel, Miss Magra-
dell Moore and Mrs. Edgar Lenz,
bridesmaids.
Curtis Webb attended as best
man and the three groomsmen
were Edgar Lenz, Forrest Gilmore
and Jack Gilmore. The ushers
were Dick Cobb and Bart Bradford.
The groom is a student at A&M.
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Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Morgan
Gibson, Jr. were united in marriage
in a candlelight ceremony in the
College Avenue Baptist Church in
Bryan at 7 p.m., Dec. 20.
The bride, formerly Miss Betty
Ann Powers, is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Lum Powers of Bry
an and the bridegroom is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Morgan
Gibson of Snyder.
A graduate of Stephen F. Aus
tin High School, the bride is em
ployed in the agricultural econom
ics and sociology department. The
bridegroom is a senior mechanical
engineering student.
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Miss Doris Lander and Jerry
Drake were manned at 8 p. m.
Dec. 19 in the College Avenue Bap
tist Church in Bryan by Dr. C. F.
Pitts.
The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. D. Lander of Calvert
and the bridegroom’s parents are
Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Drake of Port
Arthur.
The bride attended Baylor Uni
versity and McKenzie Baldwin Bus
iness College.
House Pushes Search
For Jury Interference
District Scouts
WASHINGTON—(TP)—A House committee today push
ed its search for government interference with a Red-hunting
grand jury in New York amid idications it might question
Secretary of State Acheson.
The secretary’s name figured yesterday as members of
the jury testified that efforts were made to block their rec
ommendation for a continuation of the hunt for Communists
on the United Nations Staff.
Rep. Keating (R-NY) told reporters Acheson may be
summoned tomorrow. The State Department has categor
ically denied attempting to interfere with the grand jury.
Officials Called
Meanwhile, four Justice Department officials — Roy
Cohn, Myles lane, Charles Murray and William Foley—were
~ "^called to give their version of the
Holiday Deaths
Total 740;
More Expected
Dec. 30—(TP)—The toll of
740 accident deaths during
the nation’s long Christmas
week end broke no records,
but it came very close.
The 1952 Christmas accident
death count was foi’ty-nine short
of 1951’s all-time high. The por
tion caused by traffic mishaps, 552,
was only three short of the 1936
highway death record.
Traffic safety experts said i’e-
action of the public to the high cost
in lives of this Christmas holiday
observance might result in a light
er casualty total during the New
Year holiday period.
Last week-end’s total included,
besides the 552 traffic deaths,
eighty-tow fire victims and 106
persons killed in all other types of
accidents.
These deaths occurred during the
102 hours between 6 p.m. Wednes
day and midnight Sunday (local
time).
Another 102-hour stretch of holi
day fun and festivity begins Wed
nesday night—New Year’s Eve.
Ned H. Dearborn, president of
the National Safety Council, ex
pressed the hope that the long
Christmas death list will inspire
caution during the New Year holi
day. He said:
“The New Year traffic toll can
be held to half of the Christmas
toll if each of us will drive as if
our life depended on it—and, be
lieve me, it does.”
The better showing last New
Year was credited by safety ex
perts to reaction to the frightful
Christmas casualty list.
Lt. Earl F. Pierson
Tree-Climbing ‘Dog’
Surprises Little Boy
PROCTOR, Mont.—(A 5 )—A “dog”
sitting high up in a tree didn’t
seem surprising to a little boy—
he hardly mentioned it to his fel
low second graders. But they
wanted to see the tree-climbing
dog. And so did the boys neighbor,
Mrs. Maude Adams.
She took one look at the “dog”
and then blasted the animal with
her rifle. A 200-pound bear
crashed down from the tree.
The committee, which has been
investigating the Justice Depart
ment for almost a year, yesterday
heai’d from five jurors: Joseph P.
Kelly, Joseph A. Cahil, Charles J.
Harsany, Corinne L. Geist and
Max M. Zimmerman.
They told about calling approxi
mately 100 U. S. citizens employed
by the U. N. and questioning them
about their loyalty or Communist
affiliations.
Half Refuse
About half of the witnesses re
fused to answer their questions,
the jurors reported, claiming the
guarantee of the Fifth Amendment
which says no one has to testify
against himself in a criminal case.
The jury failed to indict anyone,
the committee was told, but the
jurors became “indignant” and,
they testified, voted unanimously
to report the conditions they found
“so the U. S. public would be
startled out of its lethargy.”
Fight Over i
Public Schools
Sidestepped
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30—
(TP) — The American Histori
cal Association tonight side
stepped a shoddown fight on
the controversial question of
whether the nation’s public schools
have become “anti-intellectual and
anti-democratic.”
Instead, the association decided
a committee should study the ques
tion and report back next year.
The mild result was quite a con
trast to a buildup that had sug
gested scholastic fireworks.
A group of educators, headed by
Arthur E. Bestor Jr. of the Uni
versity of Illinois, had presented
a resolution covering four type
written pages, much of it single
spaced.
In it the teachers said they are
“alarmed ... at the growth of
anti-intellectualist conceptions of
education.” They said this pre
sents a “serious danger to Amer
ican intellectual life” and that
some of the current educational
philosophy is both “anti-intellec
tual and anti-democratic.”
Committees and Chairmen Named
For 1953 March of Dimes Drive
Chairmen and committees for
the 1953 March of Dimes drive
have been appointed by Jack Kent,
Brazos County overall chairman.
The March of Dimes appeal
opens Jan. 2 and will continue to
the end of the month.
The newly appointed committees
met today to coordinate their work.
Twenty-six cases of polio were
reported in Brazos County in 1952,
Kent said. Thirteen of these were
helped locally. Six cases from pre
vious years were aided in 1952.
“The committee members are al
ready at work,” Kent said, “but
we need more volunteei’S.”
Half of the funds raised stay in
the county and the other half is
sent to national headquarters for
research, professional education,
and epidemic aid. The local chap
ter can get assistance from the
national office if it is needed.
Brazos County has had to ask for
Hold Meeting
Here Saturday
The annual Brazos District Boy
Scouts’ meeting will be held Sat
urday night in Sbisa Hall. A ban
quet and program are planned.
Speaker for the night will be
Col. John A. Way, A&M PAS&T.
Also on the program are the in
stallation of the new district com
mittee by Minor Huffman, council
scout executive from Houston;
and recognition and appreciation
ceremonies for Eagle Scouts and
adult volunteer leaders, with Dan
Russell in charge.
An Indian Dance presented by
a group of local scouts will be the
concluding number.
Distinct officers to be installed
are Donald D. Burchard, chair
man; C. N. Hielscher, vice chair
man; E. R. Bryant, district com
missioner; and R. H. Fletcher, as
sistant commissioner. There is a
total of 64 men on the committee,
with sub-committee members still
to be appointed.
About 600 Boy Scouts, Cub
Scouts, Explorer Scouts, Scout of
ficials, and parents and friends
of scouting are expected. Tickets
have been on sale for the past
two weeks and may be obtained
before Thursday from any scout.
Hielscher will be master of cer
emonies. Burchard is general
chairman for the meeting. The
committees are as follows: pro
gram, L. S. Paine, chairman, D. C.
Jones, Fletcher; ticket sales and
distribution, Bryant, chairman;
food and arrangements, H. W.
Barlow, chairman, Dan Russell, L.
J. Bolmanski; greeters, Dr. E. B.
Humbert, chairman, M. C. Adams;
special guests, Jack Linn and
Hielscher.
Marine Ex’
Studies For
USMC Du ty
Marine 2nd. Lt. Earl F. Pierson
Jr. son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl F.
Pierson, Sanderson, Tex., is cur
rently attending a special course
at Quantico, Va.
The course is designed to ac
quaint him with the duties of a
platoon leader and a junior Marine
officer.
The special course trains newly-
commissioned officers in subjects
pertaining to the duties and re
sponsibilities of a Marine officer
ashore and afloat, and of an infan
try platoon commander.
Upon completion of the course,
he will be assigned to one of the
special Marine fields; artillery, in
fantry, tanks or communications
in a unit in the United States or
abroad.
A graduate of A&M, Lieutenant
Pierson was commissioned a sec
ond lieutenant in the Marines in
September, 1952.
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Justice: Constable
Gives Own Car Ticket
WINNIPEG, Canada— m —An
elderly police constable while on
his regular beat here gave his
own car a ticket. It had been
driven downtown and parked ille
gally by his own son.
Shepardson Appointed
Houston Bank Director
Charles N. Shepardson, dean of
agriculture, has been reappointed
for a three-year term as director
of the Houston branch of the Fed
eral Reserve Bank of Dallas.
His term begins Jan. 1, 1953,
assistance twice this year, because
of the great number of polio
cases.
The committees and their chair
men are: Card committee, Mrs.
Robert O. Reid; publicity directors,
Mike Mistovich and Paschal Price;
treasurer, Bennie A. Zinn; Schools
and Colleges, Robert A. Houze,
Mike Krenitsky and Leon Hayes;
Coin Collectors (large) E. B.
“Chic” Sale; Coin Collector (small)
Sankey Park; Special Events, Bill
Davis; Police Protection, Charles
D. Hart; Clubs, Mrs. T. W. Le-
land, Joe Vincent, and Spike
Wihte; Mothers March of Dimes,
College Station, Mrs. John J.
Sperry, and Bryan, Mrs. Lucille
Foster, (chairman), Mrs. J. M.
Daniel, Mrs. Fred Elliott and Mrs.
Otis Donaho, and County, Mrs. J.
O. Alexander, and Miss Emily Rit
ter; Speakers, John Lawrence III;
Display and Posters, Jack Linn;
co-chairman for Organization and
Public Information, Sid Loveless,
Stenographers, Mrs. J. N. Shep-
perd and Mrs. A. C. Baker, Ji-.;
Scrap Book, Louise Dishman; Pa
rades, Jack Miller; Photography,
Ron Logan; Ministerial coopera
tion, Rev. T. H. Swygert; theatre,
Wm. (Bill) B. Dozier and Jack
Restivo.