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Number 9: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1953
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Korea Vital to US
Defense Says King
lly FRANK N. MANITZAS
Battalion Co-Editor
I
Losing Korea to the Communists
would give the Soviet Union a
stepping 'stone to the United
States, said 0. HyP. King, Asso
ciated Press \vnter, here last
night.
“If Korea falls,” King said, “jets
from Pusan can nulify United
States units in Japan and from
there the Communists could ad
vance to Alaska and through Can
ada to the U. S.”
King, who was the only AP
newsman “on the spot” at the out
break of the Korean War, spoke
before groups in both Guion Hall
and in the MSC Assembly Room.
Both talks were sponsored by the
Student Activities Office. He now
is with the AP Bureau in Dallas.
Emphasizing the importance of
Europe, King also said that the
“Communists started action first
in China and the United Nations
must keep a vigilance and never
* ending fight against the Commu
nist scourge to bring peace and
dignity to the world.
Understanding Needed
r “We must be world conscious.
Only through understanding other
nations and showing a willingness
to help them can the United States
keep Communism at low tide. To
lose Korea also would hurt the
U. ft.’ prestige. I’m thankful,”
said King, “that we have a military
man in the White House for the
coming years. Perhaps the new
President’s change in tactics will
niter the path of the Korean War.
“The U. N. should place the Ko-
Jean troops to defend their own
country, but continue to maintain
a fire station in the Far East so
that further uprisings can be met
with efficient force,” King declar
ed.
The world-traveled correspon-
* dent said he would have supported
Gen. MacArthur in the bombing
of Manchuria. “Although bomb-
iitg Manchuria would have helped
when MacArthur was in command,
at the present time, the United
Nations are not capable of enter-
Aggie Band, RVs
March in Inaugural
The Aggie Band will lead the
inaugural parade of the governor
»f Texas, Allan Shivers, Tuesday,
Jan. 20.
The entire band will make the
trip by bus, despite it being final
week. The Academic Council ex-
' cused these students from finals
the day for the event. Finals for
that day will have to be taken at
a different date, according to the
’•council.
The Ross Volunteers is the other
A&M organization making the
trip.
ing an all out war in the Far
East. Mac Arthur’s slogan in 19, r )0
about the soldiers being home by
Christmas hurt the U. N. troops
more than it helped them. This
action stirred the Communists
Which started the Chinese offen
sive.
Koreans Want Unification
“The unification of Korea, is the
goal of all the Koreans. Both the
North and South Koreans would
follow either the Communists or
the United Nations, whoever would
unite the country,” he said.
“The morale of the troops was
low at the start of the war but
improved as it progressed. As the
U.N. troops moved forward, the
morale steadily improved, but
when the stalemate and truce talks
began, the men again became sul
len. Now the majority of the men
wait out the days, for their rota
tion points, preparing for the day
when they can return home.”
King said that the enemy was
not mistreating the U.N. prisoners
of war but Was subjecting them to
Communist propaganda. He also
said that use of the atomic bomb
in Korea would be ineffective be
cause of the hilly terrain.
Just Sleep
Quizzes Finished;
Aggie Eyes Sack
Students can start catching up
on lost sleep next week.
After a deadweek filled with last
minute major (juizzes, term
themes, and frequent last ditch
stands in profs’ offices, many
Aggies welcome final week
as a time to become reacquainted
with the most neglected piece of
furniture in their rooms—the bed.
Since C.Q. and classes are abol
ished during this time, students
are not required to follow any
strict schedule. Many feel this
week offers more free time than
any other. When not trying to
condense a semester’s work on
three sheets of paper or willingly
imprisoning themselves between
two clean sheets, they are able to
do things which so far time has
not allowed.
Because of Finals
Beginning tomorrow, theater
owners will start popping extra
pop corn, bowling alleys will get
twice as many dents in their pan-
neled floors; Mickey Spilkme sales
will increase as tired students be
gin enjoying a short peidod of lib
erty from military and faculty in
spired routine. Although enjoyed
by more people than any other
time of the year, this type of re
laxation is usually in the minority.
Most Aggies will just sleep, and
sleep, and sleep.
With the exception of freshmen,
Avho will have caught on by next
semester, very few students will
do any studying.
Profs Watched
After a week of major quizzes
preceding finals, many feel they
have had a strong enough review.
Some believe final examinations
are the easiest quizzes of the year.
Others have been discouraged from
studying upon noticing the extra
large waste baskets some profs
keep in their offices during the se
mester’s last week.
Others feel it’s just too late.
Lights will burn in a few dormi
tory rooms but the number prob
ably will be small. After all, psy
chologists warn against studying
late for a final. Past semesters
have proved college students don’t
take modem psychology lightly.
Dr* R. E. Goodrich
Named RE Speaker
By IDE TROTTER
Battalion News Staff
Dr. Robert^ E. Goodrich, pastor
of the First Methodist Church in
Dallas, will be the principal speak
er for Religious Emphasis Week,
Feb. 15-20, J. Gordon Gay, YMCA
Secretary, announced today.
A broad background of exper
ience in many fields and prior
close work with college students
should enable him to bring an in
spiring week of services which will
be on. the students’ level, Gay
said.
Student Problems
Dr. Goodrich came in close con
tact with . college students and
their problems while serving in
the New Mexico Conference of
the Methodist Church. As a mem
ber of the Board of Education
there he directed the organization
of Methodist Student Work on ten
college and university campuses.
The son of a distinguished Meth
odist minister, Dr. Goodrich at
tended high school in Waco, and
Shreveport, La.
In Centenary College he was a
member of the football team
which made the “Centenary Gen
tlemen” famous throughout the
college sports world.
Dr. Goodrich entered the retail
Plans On Ambulance
Reported to Senate
A&M’s acute need for an am
bulance will be solved in the near
future Prince Vickers reported to
the student senate last night.
Speaking for the senate hospital
committee, Vickers said that bids
j have been taken for a Chevrolet
panel truck which is to be con
verted to an ambulance.
There need be no repetition of
•the incident this fall in which a
student who had been injured by
a fall into a steam tunnel was de-
Wealher Today
ICY-COLDER
WEATHER TODAY: Light sleet
and freezing rains with AVinds out
of the north-northwest at 22 - 25
miles per hour. The low this
morning was 28 and the minimum
tonight Avill be lower.
layed in getting to the hospital
because the old ambulance would
not start.
The ambulance which is to also
serve as a utility vehicle for the
hospital Avill be equipped Avith all
necessary emergency and first aid
equipment Vickers pointed out.
The Senate selected five dele
gates to represent A&M at the
Seventh Annual Texas Intercol
legiate Students Association Con
vention. Bob Travis, president,
Sam Harper, Haskel Simon, Monty
Montgomery, and Jerry Ramsey
were chosen to attend the com r en-
tion which will be held on the
Rice University campus March
• 19-22.
A&M Representatives
Gene Steed, Don Young, Frank
Ford, Roy Don Hickma^i, and
Dusty Cannon, members of the
student senate TISA committee
will also represent A&M at the
convention. Prince Vickers, Ide
Trotter, and Gene Kilgore were
chosen as alternate delegates.
Sam Harper reported for the
special traffic committee that new
parking areas have been approved
as recommended by the committee.
He pointed out that the committee
had not been able to obtain any
change in the present ti-affic tick
et system.
Plans for the Aggie muster
vtere turned over to the welcom
ing committee of the senate.
Haskell, Simon and Danney
Howell were appointed to im^esti-
gate facilities and funds for tak
ing care of ReA'eille, the college
mascot, during future holidays.
radio business after his junior
year in college. After two years
in business he became program di
rector and business manager of
radio station WTBS in Shreveport.
One year later he resigned to
enter Birmingham-Southern Uni
versity in Birmingham, Ala. and
prepare for the ministry.
After receiving his Bachelor of
Arts Degree in the summer of
1932, Dr. Goodrich entered the
theological school of Southern
Methodist University where he
continued his graduate work until
1935.
In 1933 he became director of
the famous SMU Mustang Band,
and further developed the tread
in popular music for college bands
which had been instituted by his
predecessor, V. Cyrus Barcus.
As director of the band, Dr.
Goodrich instituted the “Pigskin
Review,” an annual band show on
the campus, and led a thirteen
week summer tour of theaters in
the major cities of the East and
West, under the sponsorship of
the National Broadcasting Com
pany.
His early experience in the radio
field has served him well in the
ministry. In Houston he produced
the first professional Methodist
program, which was broadcast
over a Texas network for 39
years.
Entered TV Field
Dr. Goodrich entered the field
of television in Dallas in 1950 with
a weekly dramatic show, “The Pas
tors Calls,” on KRLD-TV. This Avas
soon recognized over the nation
as one of the first attempts to
use television in the presentation
of the gospel.
The Wesley Methodist Church
in Port Arthur Avas Dr. Goodrich’s
first appointment after he com
pleted his studies in 1935. From
there he went to Galena Park in
1937.
Dr. Goodrich organized the Riv
erside Memorial Methodist Church
in Houston in 1939 and was then
appointed to the Trinity Metho
dist Church in El Paso.
He was appointed to the First
Methodist Church in Dallas, of
which he is now pastor, in 1946.
In 1939 Dr. Goodrich married
Miss Thelma Quillian of Houston.
They have four children, daugh
ters Thelma Jean and Lucy and
sons Robert E. and Paul Quillian.
He received an honorary Doctor
of Divinity degree from Centenary
College in 1948.
Dr. Robert E. Goodrich
“Centenary Gentleman”
Board Pledges
Public Hearing
Alternate
Bond Issue
An alternate school bond issue
has been suggested by a group
of College Station citizens aaJio are
dissatisfied Avith the school board’s
$650,000 proposal.
Speaking for the group, Robert
L. Hunt, 300 Montclair, outlined a
$209,000 plan that he says would
take care of the school’s immedi
ate need.
The plan calls for the building
of a 10-room elementary school in
College Hills. He estimates the
cost of this at $120,000, leaving
$80,000 for land, equipment, and
repairs of the present school.
He believes that this plan would
take care of the immediate need
of the school Avithout causing a
serious increase in taxes.
Les Richardson, Consolidated
superintendent, has said that the
need for new facilities will be
acute within two years, Since it
would take approximately a year
to build an elementary school, and
two years to build a high school,
he says the building must start
immediately.
Hunt’s plan has no official
status. It has been suggested as
an alternate if the $650,000 bond
issue is not passed at the election
Tuesday.
Hunt and the people he repre
sents haA'e emphasized that they
are not against new and better
school facilities. They are ques
tioning the expense involved.
Beds Available
As Flu Decreases
One floor of adequate bedding
space is available in the College
Hospital to care for influenza
cases, said Mrs. Irene Claghorn,
supervisor of the hospital.
The number of influenza cases
is decreasing, she said. Fifteen
patients were released from the
hospital yesterday. Number of
persons still hospitalized at that
time totaled 77, she said.
College Station cases totaled
148 last Aveek, with the College
Hospital having 36. Bryan Hos
pital had 258 cases last week.
Opinions Offered
Voters
School
Question
Tax Issue
By JON KINSLOW
Battalion City Staff
“Our schools are inadequate,
and if Ave want the city to pro
gress, then it is necessary that
the proposed bond issue pass,”
said Mrs. Armstrong Price, 909
Park Place, in reference to the
coming $650,000 school bond elec
tion Tuesday.
D. B. Gofer, 110 Pershing, who
has had Uiree children go through
school in College Station, said he
felt that a better analysis should
be made of the needs of the school.
No Suggestions
When asked if he had any sug
gestions on how to iViake a better
analysis, Gofer said, “I d o n’t
know anything about how the
analysis is. made.”
In a meeting Wednesday he said
that by passing the bond issue
we would be discouraging people
from moving to College Station,
because of tax increases.
A resident with one child in
elementary school and one of pi’e-
school age, J. Wayne Stark, 313
Lee St., said he feels that the
school board has made an adequate
study and therefore the proposal
is a good one.
‘Adequate Schools’
“If we want a successful com
munity and one in which people
Avill want to live, our Schools must
be adequate,” Stark said. “Indica
tions for the future enrollment
show that the schools Avill not be
adequate.”
“I Avould like to see the school
expand, but I don’t know whether
or not we can afford it,” said
Mrs. A. D. Folweiler, 1028 Walton.
H. W. Barlow, 802 Hereford,
said he Avas in favor of the pro
posed bond issue.
“I have seen schools g-roAv Avith
out adequate surveys and plans,
and as a result we have had build
ings' that Avere not adequate Avhen
they AA-ere built,” he said.
A different plan, set forth by
Joe Orr, 400 W. Dexter, would
call for the building of a new ele
mentary school of at least 10
rooms in the College Hills area
and the expanding of the present
high school. He feels that this
plan could be done for less than
half of the proposed issue.
“Not less than 10 rooms would
be sufficient for the new elemen
tary school, but I don’t know the
needs of the high school. I think
the high school is ample for the
present and next year,” Orr said.
Sharing the opposite vieAV of
the proposed bond issue, D. D.
Burchard, 308 Fidelity, said it is
obvious that if we are going to
give the schools the facilities they
need, then it is necessary that the
issue pass.
Culpepper Favors Plan
J. C. Culpepper, head of the
Culpepper Realty Company, said
he was definitely in favor of the
proposed bond issue. Owner of
much College Station real estate,
Culpepper said he figiu’ed his tax
increases would be about 40 to 50
percent.
“The schools are overcrowded
and we are going to have to build
another school, to take care of the
children,” he said.
Tickets Available
For Melchior Show
Tickets for the Lauritz Mel
chior show in Guion Hall Sunday
are still available today at the
office of Student Activities in
Goodwin Hall, although only a
few two dollar and three dollar
reserved seats are left.
A limited number of general ad
mission tickets at one dollar each
are also aAmilable. After noon Sat
urday tickets will be sold at the
ticket office in Guion Hall, an
nounced C. G. “Spike’ White, di
rector of student activities.
Melchior, tenor of opera and
movie fame, Avill bi-ing his variety
shoAv which includes all types of
musical acts.
School Tax Raise
Father Explained
A&M Consolidated School board of trustees today pledg
ed to get the public’s opinion before any tax or evaluation
raise would be effected, in a release restating their $650,000
school bond proposal.
The statement was made “in the light of questions
raised by individuals and groups at community meetings.”
Their statement said: “The board has been assured
that in increasing evaluations by three times and halving the
tax rate, it is on safe financial ground so far as the bond
market is concerned and that such a plan would result in
to the local* taxpayers.4
savings
However, the board is agreed that
the wishes of the patrons should
govern the final action taken and
that the patrons should have some
method of expressing those wish
es.”
The board said that before any
taxes or evaluations Avere raised
they would hold a public hearing
and mail, a questionnaire to each
qualified voter in the school dis
trict
Not Effect Gilmer-Aiken
According to the board, the plan
of financing Avould not affect the
amount of money the school re
ceives under the Gilmer-Aiken law.
The amount of funds received are
based on the economic index which
is not affected by assessed evalu
ations within the school district.
Funds are distributed on the basis
of the county evaluations.
The election to authorize the sale
of the bonds will be from 8 a.m. to
7 p.m. next Tuesday in Consolida
ted’s music room. The school
board plans to use the funds to
build an elementary school in Col
lege Hills and a new high school.
Many questions have been raised
by citizens about the 50 per cent
increase in taxes that the school
board says will be necessary to pay
for the bond issue.
The school board also announced
that funds received from the bond
issue would not be left idle during
the planning and construction but
Avould be invested in short time
government securities.
Hearing Soon After Election
The board’s statement on taxes
Avas worded as follows:
“1) Soon after the election a
public hearing will be held at which
all interested citizens can express
their views and recommend to the
board a method of assessing and of
adjusting the tax rate to bring
about the required increase in rev
enue.
2) A questionnaire, centering on
this problem, will be mailed to each
qualified voter in the school dis
trict.
3) After summarizing the in
formation thus obtained the board
Avill take final action.”
(/rads Have
Opportunity In
AF Meterology
College graduates will have
an opportunity to specialize in
the field of meteorology as
Air Force ^commissioned offi
cers, said Capt. C. A. Felton
of Kelly Air Force Base, here to
day and tomorrow conducting in
terviews.
Capt. Felton, who is Avith the
AF air Aveather service, said he
will be in the Cabinet Room of the
YMCA throughout Saturday morn
ing to talk Avith interested stu
dents.
A 12-month course in meterology,
at UCLA, University of Chicago,
MIT, University of Florida, New
York University, and several oth
er institutions will begin in June
or September, Capt. Felton said.
“Successful applicants Avill be
commissioned as second lieutenants
in the Air Force Reserve and will
be placed on active duty before un
dertaking this training,” he said.
“Pay and allowances will amount
to $350 a month.”
After completion of the coure,
said Capt. Felton, graduates Avill
serve on active duty as weather
officers. The main requirements
are a college degree, under 27
years of age, mathematics know
ledge through calculus, one year of
college physics, an aA^erage grade
of C in mathematics and physics,
he added.
Army Graduates to Get
Oath of Office Jan. 23
Ground force graduates will
take the oath of office and re
ceive their appointments Jan. 23
at 9 a. m. in the YMCA lounge,
said Col. Shelly F. M e y e r s,
FMS&T.
FSA Agents, Officers
To Meet Here Saturday
Club officers and class agents of
the A&M Association of Former
Students will hold their seventh
annual meeting in the MSC Satur
day and Sunday. Approximately
150 Former Students are expected
to attend.
A general meeting is scheduled
at 2 p. m. Saturday and the group
Avill attend the annual Winter
Sports Banquet in Sbisa Hall that
night. A breakfast meeting is
scheduled for Sunday morning in
the MSC Assembly Room.
Student Speakers
Seven students will make brief
talks at the Saturday afternoon
session. Weldon Kruger, cadet col
onel of the corps, will discuss or
ganization and activities of the
cadet corps; O. C. (Putter) Jarvis,
corps chaplain, will speak on cam
pus religious activities; Lamar
McNe\A r , president of the MSC
Council and Directorate, will dis
cuss activities of the Memorial
Student Center.
Bob Ti’avis, president of the
Student Senate, will speak on that
organization; Tom Collins, head
yell leader, Avill talk on school
spirit and sportsmanship; Joe
Mattel, president of the senior
class, AA’ill discuss class ’53 activ
ities; and Joel Austin, co-editor of
The Battalion, will speak on the
student publications program.
The talks by students will be
followed by a discussion of club
matters, club acthdties and class
business.
J. B. (Dick) Hervey, executive
secretary of the association, said
a discussion will also be conducted
on plans for all A&M clubs to send
representatives to College Station
on or about March 30 to speak to
the student home town clubs.
Welcome by Harrington
Dr. M. T. Harrington, president
of the college, will make opening
remarks at the Sunday morning
meeting. Coaches of all sports at
A&M Avill be introduced, followed
by a discussion of the 1953 Oppor
tunity Award Scholarship Pro
gram by E. E. McQuillan.
C. G. Albert ’29, chairman of the
A&M Club Program Committee of
the Association, will preside at the
meeting.
FolloAving the bi’eakfast Avill be
a meeting of the Aggie Club, a
group which helps provide athletic
scholarships for A&M students.
Officers will be elected after a
brief business meeting. C. L. Bab-
bock ’20 of Beaumont is retiring
president. Homer Adams ’45 of
College Station is secretary.