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Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent Of Local Readers on Tor it Years Published By A&M Students PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Number 1: Volume 53 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS THURSDAY, JANUARYY 1, 1953 Safety Council Predicts 38,000 Traffic Deaths CHICAGO—UP)— The Na tional Safety Council today predicted deaths in 1952 will total at least 38,000—one of the heaviest tolls in the na tion’s history. The council said 38,000 deaths would be the largest number since 1941 and one that had been ex ceeded in only, thi-ee other years. But, it added, an upsurge of deaths accompanying the good traveling weather in most of the U. S. in December could lift this year’s total to the third highest on record. The three worst years, in the number of lives lost in motor vehi cle accidents were 1941 with 39,969, 1987 with 39,643 and 1936 with 38,089. Ned H. Dearborn, council presi dent, said the grim figures car ried a warning to New Year’s cele- brators. He added: “This is the third consecutive year to bring an increase in traffic deaths. More cars and more travel are making streets and highways more dangerous. Only sober and cautious driving will ensure your safety.” The council reported fatalities in the first 11 months of this year added up to 34,500. The November toll of 3,670 was the greatest for any November since 1941 and was 5 per cent higher than in November, 1951. The council has estimated that 410 persons will lose their lives in traffic accidents during the four-day New Year holiday period itarting at 6 p.m. today and end- iig at midnight Sunday. Anderson Pleased With Navy Outlook CORPUS CHRISTI, Dec. 31— —Robert Anderson of Vernon, President-elect Eisenhower’s choice as secretary of the Navy, took a day-long look today at part of the naval establishment he will direct and said: “I am very much im pressed.” The secretary-designate, a mild- mannered man of 42, toured all of the Navy installations in the Cor pus Christ! area. A 15-minute exhibition was stag ed by the Blue Angels, the Navy’s flight exhibition team. Anderson said he is a “very serious student of the Navy.” Price Five Cents 2i*ee In Leaders’ Conference BODY REMOVED FROM SUICIDE PLANE—An ambulance crew digs in the wreckage of a private plane at Sweetwater, Texas, to release the crushed body of Ollie William Cox, 23, wealthy operator of the Double Heart cattle and sheep ranch, after Cox dived the Cessna 170 five-place plane into a gravel pit area. Cox ignored radio pleas of his friends who tried for three hours to convince him to land. At the right is Sheriff Cal Montgomery of Sweetwater, who watched the crash with other officers. The investiga tion was made shortly after the plane crashed. (AP Wirephoto). Starts Feb. 1 Junior Executives To Hold Training Course In MSC National authorities on Ameri can business and industry will head the faculty for a three-week in tensive training course for selected junior executives of Southwestern industry to be held here Feb. 1-20, inclusive, it was announced hei-e today. The course will be limited to 25 promising' junior executives of representative Southwestern in dustries, nominated by their com panies and selected on the basis of their industrial records by a col lege committee headed by Dr. F. C. Bolton, president emeritus of A&M College. “The course is designed,” Dr. Bolton explained, “to prepare the Heavy Rains Drench Central, East Texas By The Associated Press College Station area has had 3.28 inches rain in the last two days according to Easterwood Air port Weather Bureau today Heavy rains di’enched sections of Central and East Texas Tuesday as a Mexico-born weather front sprinted across the state into Lou isiana. Almost every section got some moisture as the front progi’essed from showers in the Big Bend County Monday afternoon to a 24- hour total of 3.02 inches at Pales tine in East Texas. Skies were clear west of Miner al Wells Tuesday night and light rain was reported only at Lufkin, College Station and Longview. Some of the heaviest rainfall was in the ranch country around Llano and Junction, and west to Austin. The highway Department re ported State Highway 29 east of Georgetown was closed because of high water on the San Gabriel River. Farm road 970 between Bowl Games to Be Broadcast Today Humble Oil & Refining Com pany will climax its season of football broadcasts with a play- by-play account of the New Year’s Day Cotton Bowl game ’when Tex as University, winner of the South west Conference, will be host to the University of Tennessee for the second time in thi-ee years. Popular announcer Ves Box will describe the action of the game direct from Dallas, and Alec Ches ser will be on hand to bring radio listeners the half-time activities and “color” of the game. The broadcast will begin at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, and will be heard on the following stations: KRGV, Weslaco; WFAA-WBAP-820, Dal- las-Fort Worth; WOAI, San Anto nio; KPRC, Houston; KGNC, Ama rillo; KCBD, Lubbock; KRIS, Corpus Christi; and KTBC, Austin, Florence and Andice also was close dat Bushy Creek. 'Both pro bably will be reopened Wednes day. Rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday included: Austin 1.80, Dallas .87, Houston 1.01, San Antonio 1.77, Waco 1.50, Beaumont 1.47, Corpus Christi .03, Del Rio .10, Fort Worth .99, Gal veston .76, Texarkana .62, Lufkin .55, Palacios .01, Mineral Wells .85 and Tyler 1.26. Vols Governor Has Eye On Alamo DALLAS, Dec. 31 —UP>—- Gov. Gordon Browning of Tennessee came to town to day with his eye on-Texas’ Alamo as a good bet on Thursday’s Cotton Bowl foot ball game between Texas and Tennessee. Browning “owns” Texas’ Brazos River — won it two years ago from Texas’ Gov. Shivers'when Tennessee beat Texas in the Cotton Bowl. Browning never did take up Shivers’ dare to “come and get” the Brazos. Now the Tennesseean fig ures he can put up his Braz os River against the Alamo —an old mission in San An tonio where one of the great battles of the Texas Revolu tion was fought in 1836. “But Shivers is acting stubboi'n,” Browning said. “He admits I own the Braz os. He says, though, he can not be putting up something as sacred as the Alamo in a bet, even though he says he’s sure Texas will win. He was sure in 1951, too. “And I told him that the Alamo is just as sacred to Tennessee. There were more Tennesseeans in the Alamo than Texans.” most promising junidr executives of the industries of our region for advancement, by giving them a clearer understanding for their in dustry as a whole' and of its posi tion in relation to the Southwestern and national industrial scene.” Students will be selected to give a broad representation of the lead ing southwestern industries and will be closely associated through out the three weeks' of training, living and attending classes in the college’s modern Memorial Stu dent Center. - Ellitt V. Bell, editor and pub lisher of Business Week maga zine, recognized as one of the top financial writers of the na tion, will head the list of distin guished faculty members covering the national business scene. He will discuss “Problems of President To Hold Reception Jan. 5 President Tom Harrington has announced the Annual New Years reception for the staff, faculty, college employees and system em ployees and friends of the college. The reception is to be held Sun day, Jan. 4, from 3 to 5 p.m. at the president’s home. American Industry” at the open ing session. Frank M. Porter, president of the American Petro leum Institute, will lead discus sions of “The Peti'oleum Industry and Its Effect on the Industrial Future of the Southwest.” G. L. MacGregor, president, Dallas Pow er and Light Company, will dis cuss “Contributions of Electric Utilities, Past Present and Fu ture, to the Industrial Growth of the Southwest.” Dr. C. A. Hoch- walt, vice president of Monsanto Chemical company, will speak on “The Future of the Chemical In dustry in the Southwest and Some of Its Problems.” F. E. Bates, senior executive assistant, Missouri Pacific Lines, will discuss “Transportation and the Railroads’ Contribution to the Industrial Future of the South west.” These general discussions, on Feb. 2nd and 3i’d, will be open, by invitation, to leaders of South western industries as well as to members of the training group. The remainder of the course will be devoted to more detailed exam ination of specific industrial prob lems of the region, dealing with administrative practices, costs and (See EXECUTIVE, Page 2) Trygve Lie Sets Up Disloyal Panel UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (H 5 ) — Informed sources said today U. N. Secretary General Trygve Lie shortly will set up a three-man panel to deal with American employees suspect ed of being disloyal and will de mand the State Department sup ply complete evidence of Avhy they should be fired. Lie, disturbed at congressional charges that he “shockingly” kept American subversives on his staff, was determined to seek a show down, these sources said. No Guilt The secretary general and other high U. N. offiicals insist they want no American on the staff guilty of disloyalty to his coun- try. They say they have done everything possible to weed them out when presented with concrete evidence by responsible U. S. gov- ernment agencies. So far U. N. officials have said that charges against “suspects” still employed by the U. N. are “flimsy.” These “suspects” were reliably said to number 14. Twen ty-nine Americans have already been let out, either by firing or termination of contract. Now Will Screen Last night’s Washington an nouncement that the FBI would henceforth screen American em ployees and future employees was looked on here as a possible solu tion to the problem. The FBI reports, evaluated by an American loyalty board, would be made available to Lie’s new panel and could serve as the “def inite evidence” which Lie has de manded. Officials close to Lie pointed out that mere suspicion of disloyalty concerning an American employee left them on shaky legal grounds. If the U. N. fires the suspected employee, who normally is under contract, the employee may appeal to the U. N. Administrative Trib unal and the burden of proof is left to the U. N. A&M Film Society Meets Jan. 6 i The A&M Film Society will hold the first meeting after the Christ mas holidays on Tuesday, Jan. 6 in the Ballroom of the Memorial Student Center. The film to be shown is “Rem brandt.” NEW YORK—(TP)—President-elect Eisenhower appear ed today to have satisfied Sen. Robert A. Taft and other Sen ate Republican leaders on two issues which threatened to cause the new administration trouble in Congress. The issues—1) Procedure for job appointments by Eis enhower and 2) farm policy—were threshed out at a 2\/-> hour conference the leaders had with the general yesterday. Taft told newsmen afterwards he was standing by his Dec. 2 statement that Eisenhower’s selection of Democrat Martin Durkin as “incredible.” But the Ohio lawmaker, slated to be Senate majority leader in the new Congress convening Saturday, said he felt a “general understanding” had been reached with Eisenhower ♦•on future appointments. The understanding, said Taft, calls for “adequate consultation” with senators in advance of ap pointments. The other issue which threatened to make trouble for Eisenhower cropped up just before yesterday’s conference started. Sen. Milton R. Young of North Dakota, secretary of the Senate GOP Policy Committee, told re porters he would oppose Senate confirmation of Ezra Taft Ben son—Eisenhower’s choice for sec- Committee Says Chinese Troops Should Be Used WASHINGTON (A 5 ) — Whenever Chinese Nationalist troops are deemed by U. S. military men to be ready for combat, a House armed services subcommittee said yesterday, they should be employed in the Korean War. The recommendation came from a subcommittee headed by Rep. Brooks D-La, whose members tour ed the Pacific area from Aug. 15 to Sept. 15. The group visited the Chiang Kai-shek Nationalist refuge on Formosa. An increased program for train ing and equipping South Korean troops was also urged. “The matter of using Oriental troops from all sources,” the group’s report to the House said, “should be re-examined and posi tive action taken toward this end. “A maximum fighting effort can be made through the use of Orient al troops, thereby diminishing the responsibilities of the United States and the United Nations with respect to the supplying of fighting men, the withdrawal of American tioops to be effected on ly as the military situation dictates its wisdom.” retary of agriculture—unless Ben son came out flatly for permanent government price support of basic farm commodities at a minimum of 90 per cent of parity. Parity Formula Parity is a formula designed to assure farmers a fair retum for their crops in line with the price of things they buy. After the meeting, Young said he had talked to Eisenhower about the matter—and to Benson by tel ephone—and that he had decided not to oppose confirmation. Young said both the general and Benson had assured him they are for price support at 90 per cent of parity through 1954, as provided under the present law. The senator said Eisenhower has “an open mind” as to how the matter should be handled after that, and that Benson had promis ed to study the problem. (See IKE - TAFT, Page 2) Foreign Specialists Inspect Machinery Fifteen agricultural specialists from Indonesia and five from Thailand are spending a month in Texas studying farm machinery problems, under auspices of the A&M System. Members of each country’s Min istry of Agriculture, the t w o groups are in this country for a six-month special short course through cooperation with the Mu tual Security Agency and the Point 4 program. Four of the six months were spent at California Polytechnic, studying fundamentals of far m 50 IMPORTANT DATES IN 1952 Jan. 7—Eisenhower declares he is Republican and available for Presidential nomination. Jan. 18—Truman and Churchill conclude economic talks in Wash ington. Jan. 23—Stevenson visits Tru man; speculation grows over Dem ocratic nomination. Eisenhower Jan. 25—Anglo-Egyptian dispute erupts in bloody rioting in Cairo. Feb. 1—Newbold Morris named to head Administration clean-up of corruption. Feb. 6—King George VI of Eng land dies, daughter becomes Queen Elizabeth II, Feb. 23 — NATO Council ap proves defense goals and West Ger man rearmament. March 6—Antoine Pinay named Premier of France in deadlock over finance. March 10 — Batista returns to power in Cuba in military coup. March 11—Eisenhower and Ke- fauver win New Hampshire pri mary, nation’s first. March 20—Wage Board offers plan for steel settlement, industry objects. March 29—Truman declares him self out of Democratic Presiden tial race. April 3—Attorney General Mc Grath fires Morris, Truman fires McGrath. April 8—Truman orders seizure of steel industry to prevent strike. April 11—Eisenhhower’s retire ment from SHAPE Command in June announced. April 16 — Stevenson says he “could not accept” Presidential nomination. April 25—Korea truce talks stall on issue of war prisoner repatria tion. April 28—Japan regains sover eignty as peace treaty takes effect. May 7—U. S. general seized for ransom in climax to violence in Koje P. W. camps. May 13 — India convenes fh’st parliament chosen by universal suffrage. May 26—Western Big Three and West Germany sign treaty for Bonn sovei’eignty. May 27—Six nations sign Euro pean Defense Community treaty in Paris. June 1—Eisenhower returns to U. S. to campaign for nomination. June 2 — Supreme Court rules steel seizure illegal; strike begins. July 11—Republican Convention in Chicago nominates Eisenhower for President. July 23—Gen. Mohammed Na guib seizes power in Egypt. July 24—Steel companies and union agree on contract, strike ends. July 26 — Democrats nominate Stevenson. King Farouk of Egypt forced to abdicate. July 30 — Churchill announces slowdown in British defense pro gram. Aug. 10—Schuman Plan for six- nation coal-steel community goes into operation. Elizabeth Dulles Aug. 30—Premier Mossadegh of Iran rejects Truman-Churchill of fer for oil settlement. Sept. 9—McCarthy sweeps Wis consin Senatorial primary. Sept. 12—Eisenhower and Taft make “truce” in Morning side Heights meeting. Sept. 16—Russia and Commun ist China end Moscow conference, announce agreement. Oct. 3—Kremlin demands recall of U. S. Ambassador George Ken- nan. Oct. 13—Russian Communist Congress completes reorganization of party. Oct. 24—Eisenhower promises to go to Korea if elected. Nov. 1—U. S. stages successful test of hydrogen bomb. Nov. 4—Eisenhower elected in record vote; G.O.P. wins bare ma jorities in Congress. Nov. 9—Chaim Weizmann, Pres ident of Israel, dies. Nov. 18—Eisenhower and Tru man confer at White House. Nov. 24—Alger Hiss denied par ole from Federal prison. Nov. 30—Elections in Saar re sult in endorsement of ties to France. Dec. 2—Eisenhower arrives in Korea in three-day visit. Dec. 3—Slansky, dementis, nine others hanged in Czech Communist purge. Dec. 16—Owen Lattimore indict ed for perjury in denying Com munist sympathies. Dec. 20—Eighty-six on Air Force Globemaster killed in worst crash in aviation history. Dec. 22—Premier Pinay resigns in French budget crisis. Dec. 24—Stalin says he views “favorably” idea of meeting with Eisenhower, machinery including function, op eration and maintenance. This month in Texas will be de voted to study of such machinery as used in conservation, reclamation and drainage, particularly as it applies to rice production. An ad ditional three-week study period in Florida will be devoted to reclam ation and drainage. Applications Emphasized Rice production applications are being emphasized in the Texas phase of the short course because rice is the main food—and is ex pected to become the main export crop of Indonesia and Thailand, ac cording to D. A. ‘Andy’ Adam, field specialist of the Texas Agricul tural Extension Service, who help ed plan the group’s Texas pro gram. Indonesia particularly is striv ing to mechanize its rice produc tion, Adam said. Although it is the main crop in that country, pro duction is limited to individual farms of two to three acres and is carried on entirely by hand. New Government That country’s new government —organized in 1947—is attempting to reclaim additional land to en large production areas enough so that machinery will be worthwhile, and import the machinery simul taneously. Technicians cannot be imported to handle the machinery, so the specialists were sent to the U. S. Upon their return its members plan to organize the farm ma chinery program in the various provinces and supervise expansion of land under cultivation. Eleven counties will be visited by the group during its Texas stay. They are Bexar, Frio, Atascosa, Live Oak, Bee, Goliad, Victoria, Calhoun, Harris, Wharton and Jef ferson. Wednesday, Dec. 31, the San An tonio Chamber of Commerce Agri culture Department will sponsor a tour of that city’s agricultural facilities and the group will see products of two machinery dis tributors there. W. L. Jones, di rector of the department, is in charge of that day’s program. Thursday and Friday, Jan. 22-23, the group will visit the Rice-Pas ture Experiment Station at Beau mont.