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Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent Of Local Residents Battalion Published By A&M Students For 70 Years PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Number 6: Volume 53 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1953 Price Five Cents Ki l ng 7 ” G i m T “ lk Jarniary ROTC Graduates $nursday in (jriiion ** ' J To Ciet Cal I Within 60 Days The only Associated Press news man on the spot when the Korean war began, O. H. P. King, will speak Thursday at 7:30 p. m. in Guion Hall. Joining the Associated Press as a full-time staff member in ]04. r ), King spent two months in Seoul in 1949 and returned for a five- months assignment in April, 1950 » s>- (). H. P. King He spent several days at the Koje prison camp, covered the truce talks at Panmunjonm, and interviewed numerous refugees af ter they had fled before the re turning Rods. He was one of the three American newsmen in Seoul when the Communists launched their invasion of South Korea. King has been with the GPs under fire, made numerous flights in army liaison and observation planes over enemy territory, went along on air force and marine air 1 combat air strikes just below the Yalu River, made combat flights from U. S. carriers, and covered the naval operations off the east coast of Korea. At one time or another he in terviewed personally or through news conference practically every distinguished person to visit Ko rea or Japan. After graduating from the Uni versity of Southern California, King worked for various newspap er's on the West Coast. He worked for the Associated Press many years as a “stringer” before be coming a full-time staff member. He then held varied assignments in AP’s San. Francisco and Seattle bureaus before entering for-eign service. King, with his wife, circled the globe on leaving Japan last spr ing. They are the parents of two sons, Lt. J.G. O. K. King, USN; and Robin King, an ex-GI. Beasley To Head New Police School A&M’s Texas Police Training School will go into operation Feb. „ 2, with Wallace D. Beasley, of the Texas Engineering Extension Ser vice chief instructor. The first school has been filled for some time and the second school, beginning Mar. 30, is more than one-third full at this time. Each school will operate for a term of four weeks, six and a half hour's each day, five days per week. It will include 120 hours of actual class instruction. City Managers Meet The Texas City Managers Asso ciation met in Beaumont last April, and passed a resolution re- ^ questing the A&M College System to establish a Texas Municipal Police Training School. Several chiefs of municipal police depart- ; ments requested that the Texas Engineering Extension Service take the initiative in starting such a program. In October’, 1952, a group of men met her’e and formed an advisory committee for the school. They represented the several associa tions and agencies directly inter ested in police tr-aining. Better Officers • The purpose they established for 1 operating the school was for a training pr-ogram to be taught by qualified instructors for Texas municipal police officers, providing practical instruction dealing with Texas laws, practices and pi’oce- dures relating to the profession of polide work in this state. It is also to train Texas police offi cers iii the basic fundamentals of the police profession and give , the public a police officer who knows his duties and responsibil ities. Beasley, the director and chief instructor, has been employed by the Texas Engineering Extension Service since 1943. Prior to this he was with the Texas Highway Patrol for five years.- He has near ly 17 yeai's of actual teaching ex perience in addition to police work to qualify him for the job. Applications in Advance Advance arrangements must be made to enroll in the school. Ap plications will be processed on a first come, first served basis. The course is open to officer’s employed in municipal police de partments, and there are no en trance examinations or other spec ial entrance requirements. Major subjects include in the course are responsibilities ' a n d duties of a pol'fceman, ‘ authority of patrol officers, public relations, patrol methods and procedures, police tactics, laws of evidence, case preparation, and criminal law. Others are criminal investiga tion, care and preservation of evi dence, traffic control, traffic law enforcement, accident investiga tion, state traffic laws, city traf fic ordinances, motor vehicle oper ation, reports and records, obser vation, juvenile control, and phy sical education. Flu Visitor Goes Once Too Often James H. Ashford had friends in the hospital with flu. He ran in and out of the hospital last Friday getting magazines and books for them. Saturday morning James was back at the hospital. He didn’t have any books or magazines. He had a case of flu. Complaints On Hospital To Be Aired A system for students to bring complaints concerning the hospital to the attentiion of college auth orities was adopted Friday at the first meeting of the Student Hos pital Committee. The system provides for the stu dent to bring his complaint to his commanding officer who passes the complaint on to a student sen ator. The senator notifies the hos pital committee chairman, F. R. Brison, and the committee then investigates the complaint. The group also asked that Ben nie Zinn and Prince Vickers in vestigate the progress being made concerning the ambulance situa tion. Other members of the committee are J. W. Rupel, C. E. Fisher, Col. Joe. E. Davis, Ray Rushing Jerry Ramsey, and Arvis Noak. WORM) RECOGNITION—Dr. Fred W. Jensen, head of the chemistry department, gained world recognition as a result of his developing the “Suzie Q,” a high-frenqency os cillation circuit which permits better .aad faster analysis of chemical solutions than any other known. In the picture Dr. Jensen is analyzing a solution in one type of “Suzie Q.” Head of Chemistry Department Jensen Gets World Acclaim For Invention of * Suzie Q. 9 More than a thousand requests for pictures of a certain young “Suzie Q.” here on the campus, along with detailed accounts of her innards and functions, have been received by her creator since her debut seven years ago. “Suzie ” is the nickname of a high-frequency analysis system used in determining the chemical make-up of solutions. Developed in 1945-4G by Dr. Fred W. Jensen, head of the Chemistry Department, and Dr. A. L. Parrack, at A&M the instru ment was recently called, “The greatest single development in chemistry in the past decade,” by Phillip Elving of Penn State Col lege. Development of the instrument, which uses oscillations of an elec trical current in the ultra-high- frequency field, permits rapid and accurate analysis of materials which formerly could not be diag nosed at all by electrical means and some which simply could not be analyzed. Dv. Jensen first conceived of such a device for use in the titra tion technique in 1941, but did not develop the idea further until late in 1945. In 1946 a technical Mrs. C. C. Doak Woman of the Year Sid Loveless Man of the Year publication carried an article on the method, along with drawings of the equipment used. Two days after Dr. Jensen re ceived his copy of the magazine he received his first request for a reprint. Requests are still coming in. Hundreds of different applica tions have already been found for the system and new ones are dis covered daily. One such very prac tical use was described recently by an official of a company which makes ammonium nitrate — the stuff which caused the disasti’ous Texas City blast a few years ago. Moisture content of this mater ial must be maintained at a very critical level. If it becomes too dry or too wet it becomes highly dangerous. , Formerly Took 12 Hours Formerly, analysis of the mois ture content required about 12 hours, by ordinary methods. As the official put it, “in 12 hours we already knew whether it was too dry or too wet.” Using the “Suzie Q”, proper an- ysis can be made in about five minutes. At the other end of the scale of uses, Dr. Jensen said the de vice could be adjusted to sort good fruit from that which has suffer ed frost damage. He is a member of the American Chemical Society Sigma Xi, Alpha Chi Sigma, Phi Lambda Upsilon, Phi Kappa Phi and is past presi dent of the Bryan Rotary Club. Weather Today SPRING AGAIN WEATHER TODAY: Partly cloudy with a maximum tempei’a- ture around 72 degrees. The low this morning was 50 and the high, yesterday was 70. For Contributions to City CS Picks Man-Woman of Year Sid Loveless and Mrs. C. C. Doak have been selected as Col lege Station’s man and woman of the year for 1952 by the Civic Development Association and Chamber of Commerce. The annual award is made on a basis of the individual’s contribu tion to the city. A secret commit tee chosen by the association made the selection, after carefully weighing several candidates. Loveless’ work with the Kiwan- is Club was cited by committee members as one of the reasons for Jiis selection. He was candidate for lieutenant governor of Kiwanis district nine last fall. A committee member said, “In his campaign for the position, he created a lot of good will for the city by visiting in this area.” He is also active on the.-joint committee of the College Station- Bryan Chambers of Commerce and in Cub Scout work. “He has taken the lead in the Army Graduates To Meet In MSG All Army ROTC graduates who are to be commissioned on Jan. 23 will meet Thursday at 4:10 p. m. in the Assembly Room of the MSC. This meeting has been call ed to discuss new information concerning calls to active duty, procedures for execution of oaths of office, and com missioning exercises. “It is important that all students concerned be present at this meeting,” said Col. Myers, PMS&T, campaign to have a side walk put on Jersey Street in front of the school,” said a committee member. A lieutenant colonel in the U. S. Army Reserve Corps, Loveless is chairman of the Bi’azos County Army Advisory Committee. He belongs to the A&M Metho dist church, and was chairman of a recent fund raising drive in the church. District Manager Loveless is district manager of the American General Life Insur ance Company for Central Texas district. He has been in the insur ance business in College Station off and on since his graduation from A&M in 1938. He has four children, three boys and one girl. “Mrs. Doak helps with every thing that comes up in the com munity” was the way one of the committee members summed up her qualifications. She is president of the Campus Social Club and active on com mittees for the Blood Bank and the March of Dimes. Mrs. Doak, who was recently elected to the Development Asso ciation board of directors, was elected secretary of the associa tion yesterday. A past president of the Garden Club, she is still active in the Garden Club’s work. She and her husband, who is head of the biology department, have lived in College Station about 25 years. Winners of the award were an nounced at the Chamber of Com merce meeting yesterday after noon. By JOEL AUSTIN Battalion Co-Editor January Army ROTC graduates will probably get active duty within 60 days after graduation, the Department of Army announced yesterday. They indicated sufficient funds have been found to finance the service. The announcement rescended a previous order from the Army which advised candidates for commission in Jan uary, excepting Corps of Engineers graduates, that active duty would no be ordered before July 1. The prospective Corps of Engineers officers had been promised active duty within 60 days. : The original announcement was made when the Army thought ap- piopriations would be insufficient to take care of the additional jun ior officers until after the next government year begins July 1. Local Army officials knew only of the previous order being .re scended. They were advised that additional information would fol low soon concerning the call to duty of winter graduates. Army officials notified Col. Shelly P. Myers, PMS&T, the fol- Undergraduate Meteorology Offered in Fall A complete undergraduate program of courses in meteor- ojogy will be offered by the department of oceanography beginning in the fall of 1953, said Dr. D. F. Leipper, head of the oceanography department. Students completing the pre scribed program will be awarded a BS degree. Meteorology courses will be taken only in the junior and senior years after completion of a freshman and sophomore pre paratory science curriculum which includes general physics and math ematics through falculus, Dr. Leip per said. Courses to be given by the de partment of oceanography cover all the basic aspects of meteor ology, ranging from observation to the basic principles of weather forecasting, he said. Students interested in the train ing and careers in meteorology should contact either Dr. Leipper, or W. J. Saucier, assistant profes sor of meteorology, at the Old Science Hall for additional infor mation. Advice can be given on prerequisite courses that may be taken in the coming spring semes ter, Dr. Leipper said. Good jobs opportunities in this growing field are being offered to students with the training and intei’est, he said. In both civil and military enterprises a shortage of professionally trained career me teorologists exists. During World War I appi’oxi- mately 400 Army meteorologists were trained on this campus in the first large - scale meteorology training program in the country. Last year 10 Aggies were awarded commissions in the Air Force to attend one-year px’ograms of in tensive training in meteoi’ology at government expense. Upon com pletion of the course they were qualified as Weather Officers. January graduates receiving reserve commissions who wish to waive the 30-day waiting period for call to active duty should report to the commis sioning section in Ross Hall by 10 a.m. Wednesday, Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, assistant com mandant, announced this morn ing. ★ lowing in a telegram Monday: “All mid-term ROTC graduates eligible for immediate call to active duty. Previous instructions regarding delay active duty until July ’53 rescended. Letter follows.” Col. Myers said the only infor mation he has received concern ing the matter was the telegram. “I am calling a meeting Thurs day afternoon of Army candi dates for commission this semes ter. I intend to give them all the information I have received con cerning their call to active duty at that time,” said Col. Myers. Air Force students receiving commissions this month have al ready received orders to take phy sical examinations, according to local Air Force officials. They also have been advised that active duty will come for them between Mai’. 10 and 12. Several rumors had circulated about the campus concerning the possibility of Army graduates not going on duty until July if their orders had already been processed. The PMS&T said he had heard nothing of this and reminded that new orders can always be publish ed. In the past newly commissioned ROTC graduates have been called within approximately 60 days. Rotary Conference Sees 406 Attending A breakfast for Rotary Anns and Rotarians in the Ball Room of the MSC this morning wound up a three day program of the 190th Rotary District Conference with 406 members in attendance. Registration for the affair start ed at 1 p.m. Sunday in the second floor lounge of the MSC, and the members took tours of the campus and other points of interest till 4 p.m. An informal reception followed in the Ball Room from 4 to 5:30, and the evening program began at 7:30 with entertainment in the Ball Room by the Singing Cadets, di rected by W. M. Turner. A Candlelight Concert was next on the agenda with the group from North Texas State College direc- Film Club to Show The Lady Vanishes “The Lady Vanishes”, one of Al fred Hitchcock’s early suspense thrillers will be shown by the A&M Film Society at 7:30 tonight in the MSC Ballroom. The movie stars Michael Red grave and Valerie Hobson. ted by Dean Walter H. Hogdson. The Rotarians then had refresh ments in the Assembly Room. Registration continued again at 8 a.m. Monday morning in the sec ond floor lounge, and was followed by coffee at the home of Rotary Ann M. T. (Ruth) Harrington. At 12 noon the group paid a visit to the Basic Division of the Corps of Cadets, and viewed the noon meal formation. At 12:30 the Rotary Anns had lunch in the As sembly Room, and the guest speak er was Mrs. Walter H. Delaplane, reading from Emily Dickinson and Her Poems. Games and Trips Games for the Rotary Anns and trips to points of interest was next on the program at 2 p.m., and at 5:30 the Freshman Drill Team per formed in front of the MSC. The group then reviewed the meal formation and Retreat at Sbisa, where the Basic Division Cadets passed in review for them. The Conference Dinner at Sbisa was next at 7:15, and at 9:30 p.m. in the Ball Room of the MSC the group held their Governor’s Ball. The breakfast at 8 a.m. this morning for the Rotary Anns and the Rotarians finished up the three- day conference.