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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
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(). 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.