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Number 81: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Ag-gieland), TEXAS TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1953
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Jj)l FOR ALL—The Grove opens tomorrow at 8 p.m.
-f•'»r “Play Night,” a weekly event provided by the Stu-
mt Activities Office. Skating, badminton, dancing,
orseshoes, volleyball and ping pong are all offered at the
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Grove on this entertainment evening each week. This
feature is only one of the many entertainment facilities
offered to students during their summer school on the
campus.
Jummer Activities
wegin Wednesday
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A&M’s extensive summer entertainment program for the
dents gets underway tomorrow night at 8 p.m. in the
Each
Wednesday night the Grove opens for skating,
cing, badminton, volleyball, ping pong and horseshoes.
This “Play Night” is only a small part of the program
ch the Office of Student Activities conducts every sum-
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Movies on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday nights are
ther part of the student’s entertainment. Thirteen movies
be shown through the first six weeks of the summer.
Another feature of the program will be softball games
| week night except Friday » ————
ts on the lighted softball dia-
i. These games will be intra-
d tilts and there will be no
ssion charge.
le college golf course also will
pen during the day throughout
summer. A free instructional
; is offered on Monday and
nesday evenings at 5 p.m. by
Manager of the course Joe
iring the past the movies at
9^(5rove have been free, but this
there will be an admission
?e, said C. G. (Spike) White,
tant dean of men.
'iite said this
OQ-iUe said this program
*J/lys financed by the required
mt activity fee, but the law
Tailing tee expired last No-
33(-Students who paid their stu-
§ Activity fee will not be re-
5e<> ACTIVITIES, Page 4)
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Goodloe
Rests Well
After Attack
W. L. Goodloe, of the Cam
pus Security Office, suffered a
a heart attack at 0:00 p.m.
Sunday while on duty at Good
win Hall.
He is now in Bryan Hospi
tal, and according to hospital
authorities he is resting easily.
Although his condition was
apparently serious when he
was admitted Sunday night, he
has since shown considerable
improvement, the hospital re
ported.
THE GROVE SCHEDULE
1953 Summer Session — First Six Weeks
""sday, June 11—“THE SUNDOWNERS” Technicolor
• Super Western with John Barrymore, Jr., and Chill Wills
day, June 15—“MAN FROM PLANET X” Science-fic
tion
;day, June 16—“MRS. MIKE” Outdoor Drama with Dick
Powell and Evelyn Keyes
\sday, June 18—“HE WALKED BY NIGHT” Drama
with Richard Basehart
Jay, June 22—“SO YOUNG SO BAD” Drama with Paul
Plenreid and Anne Francis
day, June 23—“AIR CADET” Action film with Steve
McNally and Gail Russell
•sday, June 25—“THE BIG CAT” Outdoor Action
lay, June 29—“WHEN I GROW UP” Drama with
Bobby Driscoll and Buelah Bondi
day, June 30—“THE LADY FROM TEXAS” Techni-
l5(polor Western Comedy with Howard Duff and Mona
Freeman
sday, July 2—“MY OUTLAW BROTHER” Western
1 r,Drama with Mickey Rooney and Robert Preston
l^lay, July 6—“CHAMPAGNE FOR CAESAR’
Comedy
vith Ronald Coleman and Celeste Holm
, lay, July 7—“BONZO GOES TO COLLEGE” Comedy
Idfvith Maureen O’Sullivan and Edmund Gwen
sday, July 9—“D.O.A.” Melodrama—Cops and Robbers
Vith Edmund O’Brien
JjJcay, July 13—No Movie—Dress Rehearsal for Musical
Comedy, “Pirates of Penzance”
lay, July 14—No Movie—Musical Comedy, “Pirates
-ir -f Penzance”
-l^esday, July 15—No Movie—Musical Comedy, “Pirates
f Penzance”
i —admission by yellow fee receipt for students who pay
]|St Activity Fee. _
Credit Associations
Will Meet at A&M
A statewide meeting of the Pro
duction Credit Associations of Tex
as will be held at A&M August 9
to 12, according to an announce
ment by Charles N. Shepardson,
dean of agriculture.
The meeting will be sponsored
jointly by the School of Agricul
ture of A&M, the 36 Production
Credit Associations of the state,
and the Houston Production Credit
Corporation. About 275 persons
are expected, consisting principally
of farmers and ranchmen who are
serving as the officers and direc
tors of the Associations.
Members of the college staff will
present economic information re
lating to agricultural finance and
discuss sound farm and ranch man
agement practices as the basis for
successful production loans. Rep
resentatives of the associations
will devote some time to a discus
sion of their own practices and
problems.
College Policy
“It is the policy of the college
to provide all interested groups of
farmers and ranchmen of the state
with information on economic as
well as production matters,” said
Dean Shepardson. “This confer
ence is being jointly sponsored by
the School of Agriculture in ac
cordance with that policy.
“Production costs in agriculture
have increased greatly since the
war. Short term debts are now
more than 250 percent higher than
they were seven years ago. These
borrowings are used mainly to buy
machinery, livestock, fertilizer,
feed and other production goods.
With prices of agricultural com
modities declining much more rap
idly than production costs, it is in
creasingly important that all farm
ers examine their credit and man
agement practices,” concluded
Dean Shepardson.
ID Cards Needed
By Check Cashers
Check cashing in the MSG
for the summer will require
registration slips instead of
identification cards, said
Charlie Haas, assistant direc
tor of the Center and business
manager.
Not everyone will have their
identification cards with them
this summer, he said, so the
registration slips will be used
instead.
Communist Airlift
Gets In vestiga tion
Washington, June 9 — (A 5 ) — A
Communist airlift allegedly smug
gling guns from Texas into Pana
ma to supply weapons for planned
revolutions in Latin America, is
under secret investigation by con
gressional sleuths, it was learned-
Sunday.
A well-placed source who declin
ed to be named said Senator Mc
Carthy of Wisconsin has turned up
evidence that the conspirators have
their sights set on overthrow of
the governments of Bolivia, Ecua
dor, Venezuela and Colombia, and
possibly some Central American
governments. Another informant
said Cuba also is among the na
tions at which the Communists are
aiming.
McCarthy himself refused to dis
cuss the story or to say whether
the inquiry had anything to do with
his recent visit to Texas and Mexi
co, which he described as a com
bined investigative and pleasure
trip.
He said only that “I can tell
you practically nothing about my
trip. I did check on a number of
leads.”
However, McCarthy was report
ed to have informed the U. S.
government agents of what he has
learned. McCarthy was said to be
thinking seriously of asking his
Senate investigations subcommittee
to launch a full-scale investigation
of some aspects of the alleged con
spiracy, and that meanwhile staff
members are quietly assembling
evidence.
An informant source said there
is evidence that some U. S. Com
munists are involved and they evi
dently have access to a multi-mil
lion dollar fund to finance their
operations.
Through a clandestine airlift, the
source said, the group is smuggl
ing guns and ammunition from
Texas and other coastal states to
a secret base in Panama.
From there, he said, the mu
nitions are dispersed to strategi
cally located caches in many areas.
He said it is apparent that the
group plans a series of coups hop
ing to install Communist govern
ments in nations where the United
(See GUN RUNNING, Page 3)
Tri-Pak Inc. Loans
Research Machinery
The Tri-Pak Machinery Service
Inc., of Harlingen through J. R.
Frizgerald, president, has loaned
equipment to the Texas Agricul
tural Experiment Station to be
used at Weslaco, Substation No.
15, for sizing of experimental to
matoes.
Armistice Near;
ROK Protests
Koreans Vow
To Figh t O n
PANMUNJOM—UP)—Allied and Red truce negotiators,
on the threshold of an armistice, met briefly Tuesday in the
faded conference hut where they have wrangled for 23
months and then adjourned until Wednesday.
An armistice could be signed this week.
With all policy issues including the voluntary repatria
tion of prisoners settled, the only remaining points to be
cleared up were minor technical matters. The brevity of
Tuesday’s session, 12 minutes, hinted that the delegates may
have turned over these matters to lower level staff officers.
Staff officers met immediately after the plenary ses
sion adjourned.
The delegates cnnvpnA n- +
convene a-
gain at 11 a.m. Wednesday (8
p.m., CST, Tuesday).
But whether their 23-
months labor would finally
end three years of warfare on
this blood-soaked peninsula was
clouded by the vows of South Ko
rean leaders to ignore the armis
tice and fight on.
The angry South Koreans rejec
ted the prisoner exchange agree
ment signed Monday as “failure of
the United Nations to live up to
their fundamental principle of hu
man freedom.”
Under the agreement the bulk of
121,680 Red prisoners and 12,000
Allied prisonei's would be exchang
ed within 60 days; the rest will be
released by December.
After an emergency Cabinet
meeting, Home Minister Chin Hun
Shik declared the decision was
made for South Korea to continue
fighting in spite of any armistice.
“It is an established principal,”
he said, “that we should drive to
the north.”
President Syngman Rhee, his
mansion shaken by a Communist
air bombing attack during the
night, was even more adamant that
no truce was acceptable that did
not provide for removal of the 1
million-man Chinese Communist
army, and unification of all Korea.
Rhee declared that “the Korean
people will pay no attention” t6 the
armistice.
Then Rhee went back to his pres
idential mansion where he began
drafting a reply to President Eisen
hower’s letter of Sunday in which
Mr. Eisenhower urged him to go
along with the armistice proposals.
Mr. Eisenhower promised a post
armistice mutual secm'ity pact
with South Korea.
Just what would happen if the
South Koi’ean Army, manning two-
thirds of the 155-mile long battle-
front, refused to lay down arms
after an armistice no one could
say for sure. Allied military lead
ers felt the South Korean Army
(See FIGHTING, Page 4)
Miss Lynde
Arrives For
Ag Conference
Mi’S. Lydia Lynde, Extension
Specialist in parent and family life
education, Washington, D.C. aniv-
ed at College Station recently for
conferences with the Texas Agri
cultural Extension Seiwice.
According to Mrs. Eloise John
son, family life education special
ist, Mrs. Lynde will confer with
administration and specialist staff
and assist with plans for the Texas
4-H Roundup to be held at A&M
College, June 10-11.
Since an important part of. the
annual program concei'ns youth and
its problems, Mrs. Lynde will plan
with the 4-H leaders and others
concerned with the discussion
groups.
The 4-H club members will talk
about “From Here-—Where ? What
About the Future for Youth.”
“It is our responsibility to coun
sel and work with 4-H club mem
bers and other youths,” Mrs. Lynde
says.
“The young folks are going to
grow even if they are drafted,”
she added. “We can help them
to realize it isn’t just a matter of
Rough luck,’ but will be a part of
their growing process and will pre
sent opportunities.”
Mrs. Lynde uses a formula in
conferences and discussion groups.
She calls the formula “E plus R
equals H.” “Experience plus re
search equals how to do,” she ex
plains. “When youth can talk
about their experience and learn
of the possibilities they have, they
can find a way to solve their own
problems,” Mrs. Lynde concludes.
The specialist will counsel with
the State 4-H Council when it
meets June 5-9, preliminary to the
Roundup.
Summer Series
Of Film Society
Opens With Hit
The A&M Film Society showed
its first movie of the year “For
eign Correspondent” last night at
7:00 p.m. in the Ballroom of the
MSC.
The next show, “Suez,” will be
Thursday, June 11 in the MSC.
Season tickets to the society mav
be obtained at the main desk of
the MSC or at the Student Activi
ties office, said Ed Holder, presi
dent of the society. Season tickets
cost $1 each. Individual tickets
will not be sold.
Fourteen movies are shown for
this price, said Holder. All of
them will be in the Ballroom of the
Center.
Holder said final bookings have
been made for the I'emainder of the
summer. The schedule is as fol
lows:
June 15—“Hangover Square”
June 16—“Blockade”
June 18—“Christina”
June 25—“Captain Kidd”
June 29—“Prisoner of Shark
Island”
July 6—“Les Miserables”
July 13—“Rains Came”
July 16—“Razor’s Edge”
July 27—“Grand Illusion”
August 17—“Berkley Square”
August 20—“Arsenic and Old
Lace”
August 27—“Julius Caesar”
Officers Search
River for Body
Officers Monday were searching
for the body of Macario Benavides,
13, one of four boys drowned near
the Texas A&M College farm while
on an outing on the Brazos River.
The bodies of Anastasio Bena
vides, 9; Hernando Sanchez, 9,
and Casanado Benavides, 10, were
recovered Sunday, a few hours aft
er the drowning.
Theodore Benavides and hi 3
brother, Casanado, took the boys
on the outing Sunday moniing. He
said he had crossedl the river to
set a trotline, when the Sanchez
boy sank into deep water while
wading with the Casando boy.
The other two boys drowned
while attempting to wade the river
to help their father, Casanado, who
had gone to the rescue of Hernando
but had got in trouble himself.
Theodore managed to save his
brother but none of the children.
Bodies of the three boys were
found within 60 feet of the spot
where they were last Seen.
TOP CADETS—The three top cadets in the 1953 graduating class at the U. S. Military
Academy look at a diploma after one of them received it in graduation ceremonies at
West Point, N. Y., June 2. Left to right: Ed E. Davis, No. 1 student, from San An
tonio, Tex.; Henry A. Flertzheim, No. 2 student, from Milwaukee, Wis., and Raymond J.
Eineigl, No. 3 student, from Taylor, Tex. ______