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Number 14: Volume 53
The Battalion
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1953
Published By
A&M Students
For 76 Years
Price Five Cents
Record Num ber Oj
Scouts To Receive
High Ragle Award
The largest “flight” of Eagle
Scouts to receive the Boy Scouts
of America highest award in
Brazos county will be presented at
a special Eagle Court of Honor at
2:30 Sunday afternoon, Feb. 8, in
the Crockett school auditorium.
Beginning with a concert by the
515th Air Force band under War
rant Officer Joseph Fanzilotti to
the closing exercises led by R. H.
Fletcher, the Eagle program will
abound with ceremony.
Ten boys, from three troops in
the Bryan-College Station area,
will receive awards. Three others
will be presented with Eagle
Palms, emblematic of scouting
skills acquired after winning the
Eagle rank.
Eagle Winners
Scouts to receive the Eagle
award, and the coui’t member to
present their respective citations,
are: Hartley Duncan, Troop 81—
A. M. Waldrop; William Ross
Acres, Troop 81—D. C. Jones, Jr.;
Robert Dunn Cleland, Post 411—
M. C. Hughes; Jerry Newton Ko-
necny, Troop 81—j. E. Tatum;
Thomas Martin Barlow, Post 411 —
Arthur Adamson; Robert Coryell
Barlow, Post 411—George A.
iloth; Orin George Helvey, Jr.,
Post 411—Rex Kathcai;t; Henry
Albert Thomason, Troop 12—Ro
land Dansby; Donald Champlin
Burchard, Post 411—W. L. Pen-
berthy; Ronald Engle Martin,
Troop 81—Dr. S. J. Enloe.
Eagle Palm awards will be pre
Fi re Rages On
Largest Liner
SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., Jan 28
UP)—Fire raged for more than an
hour Wednesday night aboard the
world’s largest liner, the 83,673
ton Queen Elizabeth, before fire
men extinguished the blaze.
Fire brigade headquarters said
the blaze was confined to one
cabin on the main deck aboard
‘.he ship lying in drydock here
iov its annual overhaul.
Southampton police, alerted by
the total loss of the 20,325-ton
liner Empress of Canada in Livei 1 -
\»ool Harbor Sunday, swarmed
aboard while the fire raged out of
control to see whether there had
been sabotage.
sented by E. R. Bryant to Julian
Carsey, Troop 12; George Litton,
Troop 102; and George Boyett,
Post 411.
Band Concert
Following the band concert the
program will open with presenta
tion of the flag by Troop 81 and
the invocation by Oliver Jarvis,
A&M College Cadet Corps chap
lain. The Air Force band will
play for the singing of the na
tional anthem, after which F. L.
Paine, Brazos district advance
ment chairman, will recognize the
guests at the ceremony.
R. H. Fletcher, assistant district
commissioner, will explain the
Eagle rank. Members of the spe
cial Eagle court will give the
Eagle Scout citations, and present
the badges, followed by presenta
tion of the Eagle palm awards
Col. S. P. Myers, PMS&T at A&M
College, will give the “Eagle
Charge,” aftei’ which Mr. Fletcher,
assistant district commissioner,
will lead the singing of “God Bless
America” as the closing exercise.
The entire ceremony will be re
corded and broadcast over Station
KORA Sunday night. Service
troop for the occasion will be
Troop 409, Ralph McCormick,
scoutmaster.
Hearing Due
On Tideland
Senate interior committees prob
ably will start hearings within two
■weeks on tidelands legislation, Sen
Price Daniel of Texas said Wednes
day.
Daniel was assigned to the com
mittee’s public lands group, which
ordinarily would conduct tidelands
hearings.
Committee Chairman Hugh But
ler (Rep.) of Nebraska said the
full committee would handle hear
ings on tidela,nds at the start but
the public lands subcommittee
would take over later if necessary
Butler announced all witnesses
asking to be heard would be al
lowed to testify but he urged that
repetition be avoided of material
covered previously by cdngression
al committees.
UN Blames PW Rioting
On Soviet Army Officer
‘Shame on You ? Tickets
Given For Safety Day
WICHITA, Kan., Jan. 29—(^P)—JVIotorists and jaywalk
ers ran into a new response to their traffic offenses Wednes
day.
Police gave them special “shame on you” tickets—and
reported mixed reactions, most including surprise and a tinge
of chagrin.
The tickets—a one-day substitute for the normal traffic
court summonses that can lead to fines of $1 to $25—said
on the back:
“You have let your fellow citizens down by violating a
traffic ordinance. Crime is an intolerable burden. Your co
operation is needed to stop it.”
It was “Traffic Safety Day” in a week-long demonstra
tion for law observance—a preliminary to nation-wide Crime
Prevention Week observance Feb. 15-21.
Mutual Broadcasting System and 1,300 national Ex
change Clubs are co-sponsors of the anti-crime drive.
275 Register For
Instrument Course
More than 275 persons had reg
istered for the Eighth Annual
Symposium on Instrumentation for
the Process Industries before the
first session opened yesterday on
the A&M campus.
Total registration for the three-
day conference is expected to ex
ceed 300, according to P. G. Mur
doch, who is chairman of the sym
posium.
Murdoch is a member of the
chemical engineering department,
which is the sponsoring organiza
tion.
The conference is designed to
lead to an improved understanding
of the principles and practice of
instrumentation as applied to in
dustries which use continuous flow
of fluids. —
A&M Oceanography I )ept.
Rescues $15,000 Material
Most of $15,000 worth of re
search equipment used by the Tex
as A&M Oceanography Depart
ment has been removed from plat-,
forms where a gas well fii*e has
been raging in the Gulf of Mexico.
Robert Reid, who directs two of
three research projects conducted
from the platform for the depart
ment, said Tuesday that, “I don’t
believe there is any extensive dam
age to our equipment.”
Recorder Burned
At least one instrument, a wa
ter-level recorder, was right be
side the spot where the fire broke
out, and Reid said, “I’m sure it
has been baked to a crisp. There
may be some wiring damage to
other equipment which was re
moved by barge and will have to be
reinstalled.”
Reid flew over the burning well
and platforms Monday with Bill
Clayton, also of the department,
who is in charge of college equip
ment on the scene.
One piece of equipment, which
weighs several tons, could not be
removed. However, it is of metal
and should not be damaged unduly
by the fire. Reid said that if the
platform doesn’t burn out from
beneath it it will be recovered.
Most of the college equipment
was located on the farthest plat
form from the fire area, Reid said.
The work site is made up of four
platforms connected by metal cat-
walks.
Concerning use of a 75-mm re
coilless rifle to be used in blowing
away the well’s “Christmas tree”
for fire-fighting purposes, Reid
said no damage to college equip
ment should result. “They should
be able to control that sufficiently
to minimize damage,” he said.
Gun Necessary
Use of the gun is necessary be
cause the “Christmas tree’s” loca
tion causes the flames from the
well to shoot out about 50 feet
horizontally instead of vertically.
This prevents effective fire-fight
ing methods.
College equipment on the plat
forms is used in three reesarch
projects. Project 30 deals with
boundary-transfer processes, to de
termine degree of momentum, heat
and moisture transfer between sea
and air. Particular interest in this
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SILVER BEAVER HONORS—Ten Scouters in the Sam Houston Area Council received
the Silver Beaver Award, the highest Council award possible, at the annual meeting of
the Council last Friday evening in the Rice Hotel, Houston. The award is given an
nually for outstanding service to Scouting and youth over a period of years. In the
picture (left to right) : George M. Garrett, Galena Park; W. H. Clement, Jr., Palacios;
Bob L. Meisel, El Campo; Dr. Ray Black, Huntsville; Ben H. Allen, Houston; W. Emmett
Sampson of Houston who presented the awards; Dr. Daniel Russell, College Station;
Dr. J. A. Neely, Bellvile; John Dobmeyer, Jacinto City; Dr. Stuart Wallace, Houston;
and Jack Shepher, who received the award for his uncle, Robert A. Josey of Houston,
who could not be present because of illness.
Local Polio Mai oh Ground Hog Day Based On
S ;! r !'!.f! e ™.. T !' l l a Z Case of Mistaken Identity
will move out tonight to collect
donations for the March of Dimes
campaign in College Station, said
Mrs. J. J. Sperry, chairman.
t Mothers will canvass all areas
in College Station. The signals
showing that people have contrib
utions for the mothers are a light
ed front porch light or a shoe or
sock hung on the front door.
Groundhog Day, Feb. 2, is an
old American tradition, but it
seems possible that the whole idea
is based on a case of mistaken
identity. The groundhog is sup
posed to come out rtf his den on
that day and take a look around.
If he sees his shadow, he is sup
posed to hurry back to his den
and hold up for an extension of
winter for six weeks. If he does
not see any shadow, good weather | Pern
is supposed to be in prospect.
He sleeps so soundly that his
breathing can be detected only
with the most sensitive instru
ments. And he does not wake up
until about the middle of March.
The groundhog is also some
thing of a pest. In a season he
can eat his way through half a
ton of alfalfa. He can clean out
a small garden in a night.
Registration
Expects 700
Decrease
More than 5,500 students
are expected to enroll for the
Spring semester here tomor
row and Saturday, Registrar
H. L. Heaton said.
This represents less than
a two per cent drop from the
same period of 1952, he
pointed out.
Of those enrolling, approx
imately 200 will be new stu
dents from high schools,
transfers from other colleges
and graduate students. Oth
ers will be returning stu
dents.
A drop of about 700 stu
dents from last fall’s attend
ance of 6,277 must be ex
pected, Heaton said. This
drop, along with the number
of new students expected is
estimated from studies of
former years.
New students in the Basic
Division, who have done no
college work will register
Friday, Jan. 30. Others reg
ister Saturday.
E. D. Department
Sets Grad Courses
The Engineering Drawing De
partment is offering their grad
uate courses the spring semester
of 1953. These com*ses are E. D.
603, Advanced Machine Drawing;
E. D. 606, Stereographic and Cli-
nographic Projection; and E. D.
607, Descriptive Geometry for
Teachers.
Advanced machine drawing cov
ers such subjects as the history of
conventional practices and design
of fastenings. The second half of
the semester is devoted to a term
project consisting of graphical
analysis of a design of a com
plete problem including research,
working drawings, design draw
ings, manufacturing procedures
and specifications.
Stenographic projection is the
portrayal of depth in a two-di
mensional pictm*e by means of su-
perimposition of images while
clinographic is studied in its ap
plication to crystallography and
related fields.
Descriptive geometry compares
the three generally accepted meth
ods of solution of three dimen
sional problems and some of the
short-cuts invaluing combinations
of these methods.
Final Break In
Truce Talks
TOKYO, Jan. 29 (Thursday)— LT 5 )—The United Nations
command charg-ed Thursday that a “Soviet army officer” and
top Communist armistice negotiators “deliberately planned
and master-minded” Red prisoner-of-war riots in Allied camps
as part of a “second front” of the Korean War.
The charges, fully documented from captured papers and
prisoner admissions, pressaged the possible final breakdown
of the long recessed Korean truce talks, although no responsi
ble authority would comment. A startling 50-page intelli
gence report, accompanied by a five-page United Nations
command statement, traced a fantastic chain of command
from the Communist truce delegation to the prisoner mutinies
on Koje, Cheju and Pongam Islands last year in which more
than 200 prisoners were killed.
It specially named as responsible for “a new area of
total war” the following: —-—*
Gen. Nam II, former Soviet army
Physicist Says
Russia A Bomb
Problematical
I
BEAUMONT, Jan. 29—UP)
What about Russia and the
A-bomb? Does she have it?
A Nobel- prize winning
physicist who pioneered in
atomic reseaich said today Russia
has the scientific know-how to
make an atomic bomb.
But Dr. Arthur H. Compton de
scribed as “highly problematical”
whether that nation can “put a
workable A-bomb together.”
He told the Beaumont Journal
he wasn’t taking issue with for
mer President Truman’s statement
yesterday that Russia may not
have the A-bomb.
“Without a doubt Russia has all
the information needed to make
an atomic bomb,” Compton said.
“But whether she has the tech
nical knowledge and the industrial
technology to put a workable A-
bomb together is highly problem
atical.
“Mr. Truman has had access to
much more intelligence, reports
and information than I, and I am
not in a position to make conclu
sions as to what he does or does
not know about Russia and the
A-bomb. Remember he did not say
that Russia does not have a work
able atomic bomb. He merely
questioned whether Russia has
such a bomb.”
officer and USSR citizen of Ko
rean extraction, senior Red truce
negotiator at the stalemated talks.
Gen. Lee Sang Cho, Nam IPs
deputy at Panmunjom, chief of the
collection of military intelligence
section for the North Korean army.
Gen. Pae Choi, described as “a
Soviet army officer,” as chief of
the Korean Guerrilla Guidance Bu
reau, he was “responsible for in
filtration of agents into South Ko
rea and conti’ol of guerrilla opera
tions.”
Secret Police
Gen. Kim Pa, a former Soviet
MVD (secret police) agent who
holds a high position in the North
Korean political security depart
ment. The report said “he was re
ported on various occasions to be
present at the armistice negotia
tions disguised variously as a ser
geant or lieutenant.”
Jeon Moon II, or Pak Sang Hvon,
leader of the political committee
inside the UN prison compound at
Koje with the rank of private. He
was identified by prisoners as per
sonally ordering the capture of
Brig. Gen. Francis T. Dodd, the
Koje commandant held tempor
arily as prisoner last May.
Jeon was described by the re
port as one of the original thirty-
six Soviet Koreans brought into
North Korea by the Russians in
1945 to organize the North Korean
satellit state. Also among the
thirty-six were Nam II and Premier
Kim II Sung.
The report brought out that 12-
man teams equipped with portable
radios of Russian manufacture in
filtrated near the camps and main
tained communication between the
prisoners and North Korea.
The U. N. statement declared
that truce delegates, Nam II and
Le Sang Cho, “and their fanatical
followers have exploited a new
area of total war.”
“Their assignment as delegates
was only incidental to their con
tinued performance of their mili-
(See RUSSIA, Page 2)
High School Day Set
This Year for March
Actually, says the National Geo
graphic Society, this tradition was
first attached to the European
hedgehog, a porcupine. When the
idea was transferred to America
the weather chore was attached to
the groundhog which is a kind ot
marmot. , ,
The hedgehog seems to be a good
candidate for such honors. ne
sleeps only lightly through the
winter. On many days he can
seen wondering around out of his
den. The groundhog, on ^ "‘U
! hand, goes to. sleep an mad-nutunm,
But the groundhog has been the Qailldeil DiSCUSSCS
lt eb 2 weather prophet in the
Radiation Feb. 3
prophetic duties remain today what
they have been for a long time
1 nleasant fantasy.
U ff the sun shines Feb 2, men
women and children will nod to
each other in mock solemnity.
“The groundhog must have see
hiS Jn-I radiation
Kr.” ,n A gloomy Feb. 2 will bring structure
the opposite prediction. It
much fun that some “T™* _
societies dedicated to the observ
! ancs of the dajr»
is so
have
High School Day will again be
celebrated on the A&M campus
March 14. The annual event,
which serves to acquaint prospec
tive students with college life at
A&M, is cooperatively sponsored
by the student body, which issues
invitations, supplies lodgings, and
acts as hosts; the former students,
who provide transportation to the
event; and the College, which fur
nishes the day’s entertainment.
1,000 Expected
Approximately 1,000 high school
students from Texas and the bor
dering states are expected to at
tend the event-packed occasion.
Tentatively, the schedule for the
day-long meet will begin at 9
o’clock Saturday morning with
orientation in Guion Hall.
Tours will then be conducted
r the campus so that prospec-
students may familiarize
themselves with the various phases
Her talk is entitled, “Effects of j 0 f co ilege work and life.
‘ ’ — Athletic Events
The afternoon and evening will
be devoted to athletic events, which
11 include football, basketball,
baseball games, as well as
Dr. Mary Esther Gaulden, biol
ogist at the Oak Ridge National
Laboratories, Oak Ridge,
will present a talk in the Biological
Sciences building heb. 3, !9o3,
7:30 p.m
is entmeu, —
and chemicals on cell
and mitosis as observed
i 7 n living cells.” The lecture will
be sponfored by the Plant Sc re nee
Colloquium and Zoolog>
groups here on the campus.
ove
tive
wi
and
tennis, track, and swimming meets.
Students wishing to stay over
through Sunday are invited to at
tend the church of their choice.
During the two preceding years
the percentage of students attend
ing this meet and returning to
A&M the following semester as
freshman passed the 50 per cent
mark.
Last year former students took
credit for inviting over 25 per
cent of the visitors, while the
A&M home town clubs were re
sponsible for almost 50 per cent.
Provide Transportation
Former students are urged to
provide transportation for boys
desiring to visit the campus. Free
passes to sports events will be
furnished them for this service.
Students arriving on the cam
pus Friday evening, March 13 will
register in the housing office and
those arriving Saturday in the
lobby of Guion.
^ isiting students will incur ex-
j penses only for their meals, which
may be obtained for as little as
50 cents each in Sbisa Hall.
All interested boys are urged to
attend.
New Course For
College Faculty
A course in college teaching will
be offered for the first time this
semester. The course will be ti
tled Administration 601 and will
carry two hours credit.
The course will be directed by
Dr. T. D. Brooks, dean emeritus
of the schools of Arts and Sci
ences. He will be assisted by
other consultants on* the college
staff and faculty.
The course will deal with con
cepts of higher education tech
niques of classroom instruction and
other phases of higher education.
Meeting time will be Wednesday
from 3 to 5.
Weather Today
CLEA R
WEATHER TODAY: Clear
j with winds out of the south. The
| low this morning was 38 and the
l high yesterday was 65. „