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Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1953
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npr furtlsjerman Red Government an
other caf,(t Wednesday night an end
: \vs as K) bitter fight on the German
ommunist tanti Church and the Com-
could st£ :s also eased Kremlin pres-
eva ‘- in the Soviet zones of Ger-
er Nguyv and Austria,
said a holic officials in Germany
“catastiv hey,[ too, were affected by
serious declared softer policy of the
i prevent fficials toward the Protes-
ng milita The! Catholics said they hop-
•d Vietn: receive a similar promise of
i forces itfrom Communist persecution,
i Singap.se were the main develop-
I’ough Soi of the day:
mmunists nine-point agreement cover-
freed host of the open conflicts be-
i and p. the Protestants and the East
ailandawn Reds was announced joint
er the jt-mmunist Premier Otto Grote-
arrnisticeaudlBishop Otto G. Dibelius,
A F«>f the Protestant Church for
iid inqui rmany.
> detenu he Politburo of the East Ger-
al dang Communist Paidy issued a
d ignore of sweeping decrees designed
-fire, he the Soviet occupation zone
—r moi’e attractive for pur-
of German unification. West-
i felt sure this marked a new
in 'policy conveyed to the
lerman Reds by Vladimir S.
mov. New Russian Supreme
issar- for East Germany.
'he announcement in Vienna
iussia had decided to appoint
nbassador to Austria and re-
d proteii * 3 ^ Tull diplomatic relations
ily Plane bat occupied country, a step
dayindbi some- time ago by the West-
v. Call iditowers. Russian action follow-
a few days Soviet relaxation
litary and economic controls
ained in Austria since the end
|rid War II.
Politburo • declaration said
res would ,^6 undertaken to
ate traffic! between East and
i Swu"Twi Germany Alt did not explain
. might begone.
HOW # GPllcfwup mo' o by the Russians
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)uts To Begin
itingAtCamp
ege Station and Bryan Boy
will start their annual weeks
at Camp Arrowmoon Sun-
/ith activities getting under
dth the evening meal.
xarations for camp have been
way for the past three weeks,
ing to D. C. Jones, Jr., camp
>r. The area, in Robertson
■ between Bryan and Hearne,
sen sprayed from the air to
ate mosquitoes and ticks,
rea near the mass hall and
louse has also been treated
sects, and the camp water
i approved by health author-
ull roster of boys from the
ommunities is expected for
eek of camping. Adult in-
>rs in swimming, water front
riflery, handicraft and na-
udy will be on hand to guide
-iys in advancement skills,
said.
pers, armed with medical ex
ion certificates and replete
jar, will begin arriving Sun-
prning and will check into
niit camps before the 6
supper hour. At 8 o’clock
st campfire of the session
duled. C. G. “Spike” White
a.d group singing and the
tional hour.
•©flow Named To
earcli Group
’ H. W. Barlow has been re-
of part of his duties as
the School of Engineering,
of the texas engineering
lent station and director of
xas engineering extension
until September 1 in order
le him to serve during the
njee months as executive
of the Texas A&M Re-
Pbundation, also it was an-
here today by Pres. M. T.
ton.
tv was elected to the Re-
^oundation post to fill the
y created by the recent
f Dr. A. A. Jakkula at a
of the Foundation’s exe-
•ommittee. The committee
■ Raleigh Hortenstine of
Foundation president, and
Chance of Bryan, W. B.
of Dallas, Dr. F. C. Bolton
ge Station and Chancellor
Behrist of the Texas A.
^^^^jpollege System. -
for a four-power meeting on Ger
many was viewed as a possibility
by Western officials.
One veteran authority said it was
clear the Communists were setting
up the props for some more im
portant action to be divulged.
The announcement of the easing
of church-state tensions was made
after Bishop Dibelius and Grote-
wohl had conferred for three hours
in East Berlin.
German Catholics, welcoming the
Protestant-Govern ment Agreement,
noted that five Catholic clergymen
had been imprisoned for alleged
state activities in East Germany
and that some chui’ch property had
been confiscated. The Catholic of
ficials said the church would not
ask for a general discussion of the
situation, leaving the initiative to
the Soviet zone government.
The program announced bv the
East German Communist Politburo
appeai’ed to have wiped out a pre
viously announced aim of Commu-
nizing the area between the Elbe
and Oder Rivers. These decrees
pi'ovided for freezing the collec
tive farm system in East Germany,
making state bank credits available
to private businessmen, inducing
refugees to the West to return and
receive back their confiscated prop
erty, granting a general amnesty
for prisonei-s serving one to three
years on charges of damaging the
state-owned economy, and issuing
ration cai’ds to all persons, without
favor.
Grotewohl, head of the Politburo,
said that body “in its decisions is
aiming at the re-establishment of
the unity of Germany which re
quires from both sides concrete
measures to bring this about.”
The announcement in Vienna of
the changed Soviet policy toward
Austria disclosed that Ivan I. Ilyi
chev, named new Soviet high com
missioner to Austria only three
days ago, also will be new Russian
ambassador to Vienna.
Informed quarters in Berlin
hinted that the East German Gov-
Semyenov to change its attitude
toward the church. The Protes
tants are the most powerful single
church group in East Germany,
with Bishop Dibelius speaking for
sixteen million of the zone’s eigh
teen million churchgoers in addi
tion to speaking for another
twentyfive million in the West.
Eisenhower Tells Nations
xmm
To Stand Together or Fall
Film Society
Changes Time
For Movies
The A&M Film Society has
changed the show time for
their movies from 7 to 7:30
p. m. said Ed Holder, president
of the society.
“Suez” will be shown at the
new time tonig-ht in the Ball
room of the MSG, he said.
Tickets for the Film Society
are on sale in the Student Ac
tivities Office, or at the main
desk of the MSG, said Holder.
Only one film has been
shown so far, he said, and
there are 13 movies remaining
on the program. The tickets
sell for $1.00 and are good for
the rest of the summer.
A&M Sends
Thirty Cadets
To QM Camp
A 126-man delegation from six
Texas schools of higher learning
will spark the Fourth Army areas
representation at the annual
Quartermaster Reserve Officers
Training Corps summer camp,
which will be held at Fort Lee, Va.,
this year from June 22 through
July 30, headquarters of the
Quai-termaster Training Command
at Fort Lee announced recently.
The largest group of Texas
cadets will come from the Univer
sity of Texas in Austin with 58
men scheduled to attend. This dele
gation is followed closely by A&M
with 33 cadets and the University
of Houston with 30 cadets. Others
are St. Mary’s University, San
Antonio, two cadets; Rice Institute,
Houston, one cadet; and Texas
Technological College, Lubbock,
three cadets.
Other Fourth Army schools who
will be represented include Ark
ansas Polytechnic College, Russell
ville, Ark.; Arkansas State Col
lege, New Mexico A&M, State
College, N. M.; New Mexico Mili
tary Institute, Roswell, N. M.;
Oklahoma A&M, Stillwater, Okla.;
and the University of Oklahoma,
Norman, Okla.;
Lieutenant Colonel Walter F.
Diesam, a Regular Army instructor
at the University of Texas, will
accompany the 58 students from
his school and serve in a staff posi
tion at the summer camp.
The over-all figures on the sum
mer camp attendence indicate that
nearly 1,700 cadets, representing
61 colleges and universities in the
United States, will participate in
the six-week training exercises.
During their six weeks the cadets
will receive instructions in such
subjects as mine warfare, chemical,
biological and radiological war
fare, aerial supply, and organiza
tion and operation of a Quarter
master laundry, classification of
clothing and equippage, and sal
vage operational procedurer.
They will also participate in
functional tours of the Quarter
master Board, which is the chief
field testing agency of the Quarter
master General, the Quartermaster
School, Graves Registration units,
and the Richmond Quartermaster
Depot.
Doesn’t Hit
South Korea
MINNEAPOLIS —UP)— President Eisenhower declared
Wednesday—as South Koreans continued to oppose the im
pending armistice—that “all free nations must stand to
gether or they shall fall separately.”
Again rejecting “go-it-alone” philosophy, the President
said free world unity against Communist aggression “means
compromise—always within a clearly defined, clearly under
stood framework of principle.”
He did not refer specifically to South Korean opposition
to the proposed Korean War truce, or to President Syngman
Rhee’s demands for political union of North and South Korea
and for evacuation of the North by the Chinese Communists.
But Mr. Eisenhower, addressing ♦
Poultry Course
Set for June 15
A poultry short course will be
held at A&M June 15-19. Meet
ings will be held in the Reid labora
tory.
The course is sponsored by the
Poultry Husbandry Department
with an attendance of 18 expected.
the convention of the National Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce, seemed
to be directing his remarks—in
part, at least—to the South Ko
reans.
Mr - . Eisenhower flew here from
Washington Wednesday on the
first leg of a five-day trip which
will take him also into North Da
kota, South Dakota, New Hamp
shire and New York for a series
of speeches before returning to the
White House Sunday night.
In his address Wednesday at
Minneapolis Auditorium the Presi
dent also:
1) Stoutly defended the admin
istration’s program for cutting mil
itary spending. Concentrating on
the proposed Air Force cutback of
about $5 Billion, the President said
the plan means “fewer planes in
theory, more planes in fact—more
swiftly and less expensively.”
Without citing by name of the
critics of the plan—such as Gen.
Hoyt S. Vandenberg, retiring Air
Force chief of staff, Mr. Eisenhow
er declared in an obvious reference
to atomic weapons:
“We are living in a time of revo
lution in military science. Today
25 aircraft equipped with modern
weapons can—in a single attack—
visit upon an enemy as much ex
plosive violence as was hurled at
Germany by our entire air effort
throuehout four years of World
War II.”
2) Snoke out again against
critics of the United Nations—like
Republican Sen. Robert A. Taft—
who have contended the UN is in
effective as a world peace instru
ment.
The Ohio senator recently said
this country might as well forget
the United Nations so far as the
Korean War is concerned. In a
later, clarifying statement, Taft
said he had not proposed that the
United States “go it alone.” He
called for a Pacific alliance similar
to the European Defense Organi
zation.
Mr. Eisenhower, who rejected
any thought of going it alone after
Taft first spoke out, said Wednes
day:
“We all hear a good deal of un
happy murmuring about the United
Nations. It is easy to understand
the dismay of many. None of us
is above irritation and frustration
over the seemingly vain and tedi
ous processes of political discourse
in times of great crisis.
“But none of us can rightly for
get that neither the world—nor the
United Nations—is or can be made
in a single image of one nation’s
will or idea. The fact is that from
its foundation the United Nations
has seemed to be two distinct
things to the two worlds divided by
the Iron Curtain.
“To the Communist world it has
seemed a convenient sounding
board for their propaganda, a
weapon to be exploded in spreading
disunity and confusion.
“To the free world it has seemed
that it should be a constructive
forum for free discussion of the
world’s problems, an effective
agency for helping to solve those
problems peacefully.
“The truth is that even if the
United Nations were to conform
to the concept held by the free
nations, it would still be bound to
show infinite variety of opinion,
sharp clashes of debate, slow move
ment to decision.”
At the start of his speech the
President announced as his
theme, “The constant, controlling
consideration in our national life
—our nation’s security.”
He said U. S. security calls for
a constant struggle on military,
economic, political, scientific, intel
lectual and spiritual fronts.
Then he developed his views on
military and economic strength,
which he said are “truly one—and
neither can be purchased at the
price of destroying the other”—
and on the idea of collective securi
ty. On that point, Mr. Eisenhower
said:
“This nation and all nations de
fending freedom, everywhere in the
world, are one in their common
need and their common cause—and
none can sanely seek security
alone.”
As for those who ask, “What
does the United Nations matter?”
Mr. Eisenhower gave an answer
that possibly applied as well to
South Korean opposition to the
impending truce. He said:
(See Eisenhower Page 4)
Former S indent
Leads Searching
An Army Lieutenant, who ser
ved in the Navy during the war
and grew up on the flat plains of
East Texas, made international
news last week when he led a
search party down the precipitous
face of Kleine Breitstein, a moun
tain 15 miles south of Salzburg,
Germany.
First Lieutenant Sidney Cook,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney H.
Cook, 203 Riggs Circle, Marshall,
was the officer in charge of bring
ing the body of famed British pi-
From Horses to Atoms
Baker Speaks to 4-H Roundup
The annual Texas 4-H Club
Roundup got underway yesterday
morning with 510 registered dele
gates from all sections of the state.
Included are 142 girls, 139 boys,
108 women adult leaders, 44 men
leaders, and 77 county agricultural
agents.
The Texas 4-H Council, compos
ed of 29 outstanding 4-H members
who represent each of the 12 Ex
tension Service districts, were in
charge of the opening meeting.
A group of 10 junior leaders in
recreation conducted the song ser
vices and Dorothy Foltyn of Lamb
County, co-chairman of the coun
cil, presented Toby Thomas of No
lan County who served as narra
tor in presenting the theme, “From
Here . . . Where” of the Roundup.
President M. T. Harrington, Di
rector G. G. Gibson of the Texas
Extension Service, and Dr. George
C. Baker, chdplain of Southern
Methodist University and the
morning’s featured speaker, were
presented by Thomasi
Dr. Baker told the group that
new measurements were needed
now to go along with the new
world in which we are living.
“Throw away your little meas
ures,” he said. “Just fifty years
ago horse power, the kind which
came packaged in a horse’s hide,
was a chief measure of power. To
day, that measure wil hardly suf
fice for measuring the speed with
which we move and the energy
which has been developed by our
leaders,” he said.
“Each of you have a responsi
bility in shaping the future and in
building the kind of world in which
you’d like to live. You must con
cern yourselves with the problems
not only of your home, community,
state and nation but also with those
of the world.
Don’t Get Lost
“Let’s not get lost in the wilder
ness,” he added, “and let’s speak
with faith for we are not afraid
and above all don’t go to sleep on
the job. The world needs doers.
“You must concern yourself, to
name a few, with the problems of
health, security, crime, family life
and peace. You can make no great
er contribution to the welfare of
the world than to be an example
for all people.
“The Christian ideals ust pre
vail if there is to be lasting peace
and the world needs the leadership
which America, especially her
youth, can give in the years that
lie ahead.”
“Yes,” he said, “the world which
you will help develop and which
50 years from now will be just as
different as were the horse power
days of 50 years ago, will be just
as peaceful, prosperous and secure
as you and other youth of the world
today make it.
“You are here and where you
go depends upon you and the de
veloping situations over the world
and how you and others handle
them. The 44-H training which
you are receiving now will be a
big aid in the future but it isn’t
enough.
“You will need above all the
guiding hand of God in building
the kind of world we all have vis
ions of.”
Became Basis
The many points Dr. Baker listed
became the basis for groups dis
cussions among the 44-H members
and their leaders. Tomorrow af
ternoon a ^>anel will present the
ideas of the boys and girls and the
leaders on these points.
Last night the chuck wagon feed
and the presentation of the Fan
dangle Sampler at Kyle Field was
the featured entertainment. Local
residents were extended a snecial
invitation to attend the Fandanele
Sampler show which began at 8:15
p. m.
The 4-H members attended a
party Tuesday night at the Grove
and the leaders and others atten
ded a lawn party at the home of
Chancellor and Mrs. Gibb Gilchrist.
Life Insurance
Men Meet Here
For Conference
A two-week school for life in
surance men is now being con
ducted at A&M, through June 19
by the Life Insurance Agency Man
agement Association of Hartford,
Conn.
Of the 48 men enrolled for the
course, 33 are from Texas. More
than 25 companies located in all
sections of the United States will
be represented in the class for life
insurance agency managers.
Regular classes are held every
weekday with lectures given by As
sociation staff members. The
LIAMA staff for the school this
year include Brice F. McEuen, Di
rector of Schools; Frederick M.
Peirce, Associate Director of Coim
pany Relations; and Dr. S. Rains
Wallace, Director of Research.
Business manager of an agency,
recruiting, selection and training of
agents, and sales leadership are
some of the subject covered in the
course. The managers also re
ceived pointers on various facts
of their jobs from the latest re
search findings of the association.
The organization conducts year-
round surveys of life insurance
sales, throughout Canada and the
United States and of the trends in
recruiting, training and other
fields.
Veterinarians
Hear Van Roekel
Dr. W. C. Banks, veterinarv
bactei’iology and hygiene, A&M,
was chairman of the onening ses
sion Friday morning of the Texas
Conference for Veterinarians, be
ing held at A&M.
A football film was shown at 8
a. m. and at 9 a. m. a discussion
on “Dairv Cattle Problems” was
led by Dr. R. Leland West of
Wesaca, Minn. “Surgery of the
Eye” was ■ discussed by Dr. J. E.
Greene of the Alabama Poly
technic Institute. Di\ J. R. Max-
field Jr., of Dallas, discussed
“Radioactive Isotopes in Medicine”
in the closing morning session.
Dr. R. R. Bell, veterinary parasi
tology, A&M, chaired the after
noon session, with a film, “Infec
tions Atrophic Rhinitis” being
shown at 1:30 p. m.
Dr. Henry Van Roekel of the
University of Minnesota, spoke on
“Avian Respiratory Infections”.
Dr. Wayne Kirkham, veterinarv
medicine and surgery, A&M,
was to be moderator of a panel, in
cluding all guest speakers, at the
closing session.
The ladies of the conference had
luncheon at The Oaks in Bryan at
noon. Mrs. L. C. Grumbles was
chairman of the committee on local
arrfingements for the ladies pro
gram.
Murphy and Patton
Leave for Camp
Jimmy Murphy and Donald Pat
ton of College Station will leave
Sunday for the Salvation Army
camp near Irving, where they will
spend a week. They were selected
from among students at A&M Con
solidated school by a Recreation
Council committee under President
Ralph Rogers.
lot, Tom Hayhow, down from the
5000 foot level where his plane
crashed on April 10th.
The wrecked aircraft, which dis
appeared on a flight from Munich,
Germany to Belgrade, Jugoslavia,
was discovered by an Air Force
plane on May 244th. Lt. Cook,
Training - Officer at the Mountain
Training Center, operated by US
FA’s Tactical Command at Saal-
felden, Austria, was one oL a party
of seven skilled Army climbers who
set out on the 25th to attempt an
ascent to the scene of the accident.
The group spent the night about
a mile below the wreck, and arriv
ed there on the morning of the
26th, after being directed to the
spot by an aircraft hovering over
head. Without a “guide” ship, the
search party could easily have by
passed the wrecked plane due to the
ruggedness of the terrain.
Upon reaching the scene, it was
found the body was not in the
plane. A search of the area lo
cated Hayhow about 125 yards
away, where the idiot, in attempt
ing to get down the mountain alone,
had fallen into a deep crevasse in
the snow.
The search party divided, • with
one group the heavy climbing
equipment down the mountain over
one route, and Lt. Cook guiding
the party carrying the body to the
valley floor.
Lt. Cook, a graduate of Texas
A&M, class of 1949, has been sta
tioned with USFA since August
1950. His wife, Joan, daughter of
Mr. F. L. Moore, 618 Canal St.,
New Smyrna Beach, Florida, and
daughter, Cindy Ann, are with
him in Austria.
Former Aggie
Goes to Holland
For Study
A former A&M student, Richard
E. Odom, will go with his wife ard
small daughter to Holland to study
as the recipient of a United States
Educational Exchange award made
possible by the FulbnVht Act.
They will leave New York
August 20 by steamer, and Odom
will begin research in floriculture
marketing at Wageninen Agricul
tural University about September
1, 1953.
Mr. Odom is particularly antici
pating the world-famous Dutch
flower markets where, huge tran
sactions are “carried on with the
push of a button.”
According to Odom, the Ameri
can consumption of flowers per
capita is small compared to that
of most European countries.
He says, “I am definitely in
terested in promoting the Europe
an philosophy of everyday use of
flowers in America.”
Through study in Holland, a
world famous flower marketing
center, he hopes to import some
of the Dutch ideas in floral use
and distribution to the United
States.
“Ed” Odom grew up in the
nursery business in Jasper, Texas,
where his father had a pecan nur
sery and orchard. He then attend
ed A&M and was graduated with a
degree in petroleum engineering
in 1941.
F.R. Jones Presides
Over Ag Engineers
F. R. Jones, head of the agri
cultural engineering department,
will preside at the general pro
gram of the college division at
the 46th annual meeting of the
American Society of Agricultural
Engineers to be held at Pittsburg,
Pa., June 14-17.
He is chairman of the College
Division of the ASAE and the
program will be held at 2 p. m.
June 17 in the ballroom of Hotel
William Penn.