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Page 2 THE BATTALION Tuesday, July 28, 1953 The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions “Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechan ical College of Texas, is published by students four times a week, during the regular school year. During the summer terms, and examination and vacation periods, The Battalion is published twice a week. Days of publications are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year, and Tuesday and Thursday during examination and vacation periods and the summer terms. Subscription rates $6.00 per year or $.50 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas under the Act of Con gress of March 3, 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Advertising Services, Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Fran cisco. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republi cation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Bights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. News contributions may be made by telephone (4-5444 or 4-7604) or at the editorial office room, 202 Goodwin Hall. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (4-5324) or at the Student Activities Office, Room 209 Goodwin Hall. JERRY BENNETT, ED HOLDER. CO-EDITORS Bob Boriskie Managing Editor Louise Street Women’s News Editor Reds Return Prisoners (Continued from Page 1) the problem of a post armistice political conference for 30 days and if no solution is found, will be re classified as civilians and allowed to go to a neutral nation. Besides India, Switzerland, Swe den, Poland and Czechoslavakia also will serve on the commission. Representatives of those countries were heading for Panmunjom to take up their tasks. In Seoul Tuesday the third and final signing of the truce docu ment was to be unfolded, but not in any ceremony. Gen. Mark W. Clark, UN Far Eastern command er, planned to sign nine more cop ies of the bulky document at Eighth Army headquarters. After this, the copies signed by Clark and those signed by the Communist high command in North Korea again will be gathered and exchanged at Panmunjom, winding up the two-day long signing pro cedure. Pyongyang radio said North Ko- retn Premier Kim II Sung signed the armistice document at 10 p.m. Monday (8 p.m. Sunday, CST) in the North Korean capital. The document was brought to him by Gen. Nam II, senior Red trace del egate. High North Korean offi cials and military officers witnes sed Marshall Kim’s signature. To the soldiers in the foxholes and shelters along the quiet front, the armistice looked a lot like peace. But Clark warned his men to keep vigil. Two gr,eat armies still faced each other across a narrow strip of no mans land which had Within its borders such landmarks of savage warfare as Bunker Hill, Old Baldy, Kumhwa, Porkchop Ridge, T-Bone Hill, the Hook, and Heartbreak Ridge. The new demarcation line which Was secret until released by Clark’s headquarters after the truce show ed the Reds had won for keeps Cap itol Hill and Finger Ridge on the East-Central Front and Anchor Hill on the extreme Eastern Front. The demarcation line is anchor ed on the Imjim River just west if Munsan in the extreme west. It tuns north through Korangpo to a point five miles north of Chorwon, tuns due east to Heartbreak Ridge, then curves northeast to the coast •it a point about five miles south of Kosong. Kosong is 35 miles north of the 38th Parllel. The line of demarca tion showed the Reds had flatten ed out the Kumsong bulge in their last offensive a fortnight ago and had gained a net five miles along an 18-mile stretch of the East Cen tral Front. The Communists also hold a chunk of territory below the 38th Parallel in the west that reached within 25 miles of Seoul at its closest point. With the fighting stilled, the UN Command had ready and wait ing large signs to post along the demilitarized zone. In bold red lettering on a white background they proclaimed in English, Korean and Chinese: “De militarized zone. Southern limits. No admittance.” The truce was still shaky. Cautioning his troops, Clark said after the signing ceremony that “we must face the facts, the stern ideality, that this is not peace but a suspension of hostilities.” Clark declared bluntly the mil itary armistice “does not mean an immediate or even early withdraw al from Korea.” The Red high command in arm istice orders signed by Marshal Kim II Sung of North Korea and Gen. Peng Teh-huai for the Chinese Reds declared. “All comrades . . . must heighten their vigilance.” “Guard against any aggressive and disruptive actions from the other side,” Kim and Peng urged. However, the Reds were instruc ted to welcome, protect and assist the military armistice commission and its joint observer teams which will police the trace. The Communist truce delegation, following the signing, declared it had “successfully fulfilled” its task and the Peiping radio called the truce a “glorious victory.” South Korean President Synjg- raan Ehee, who has announced con ditional acceptance df the truce for a limited period, unexpectedly sent a representative to Munsan to wit ness the signing of the document by Clark. Major Gen. Choi Duk Shin, South Korean I’epresentative on the Allied Truce team who has boycotted sessions since May 25, explained to newsmen that he came “purely as an observer” on instruc tions from Rhee. Rhee has threatened to take in dependent action if a post armi stice political conference cannot unite Korea within 90 days of its meeting. The conference is due to convene within 90 days, or by Oct. 26. The Fifth Air Force stid U.S. Sabrejets destroyed 800 MIGs, probably destroyed 126, and dam aged 784 in the war. It reported 58 U. S. Sabres were lost in air combat but did not give the num ber damaged. Col. M. E. Jones Retires as Head Of Texas Dist. AUSTIN, TEXAS—The retire ment of Colonel M. E. Jones, Chief of the Texas Military District, on July 31 was announced in Depart ment of the Army orders this week. Col. Jones will be retired with physical disabilities after a color ful career of more than 35 years of active service in the Aimed For ces of the nation. This career be gan when he left the University of Virginia to enlist in the Army dur- ingj World War I. Shortly after en listing he was selected to attend of ficers training camp and received a commission as second lieutenant of cavalry and assigned to duty at Fort Myers, near Washington, D. G. Before the cavalrymen turned in their horses for tanks and ar mored vehicles, Col. Jones was rec ognized as an expert horseman and represented the Army in many na tional and international events. During World War II he com manded the 13th Armored Group in the Southwest Pacific theater and participated in the New Guinea campaign and the re-taking of the Philippine Islands. Prior to coming to the Texas assignment he served as chief of the Army section of the Joint U. S. Military Mission to the Philippine government. As chief of the Military District, Col. Jones has had the overall re sponsibility for the administi'ation and training of the thousands of Arhiy 1’eservists and coordinating the activities of the Reserve Offi cers Training Corps units in the 59 schools and colleges of Texas. Colonel and Mrs. Jones will make their future home in San Antonio. Streets Are Hosts For Arnold Party Honoree at a miscellaneous show er tonight will be Margaret Ann Arnold, bride-to-be of William James Weedon, Jr. The shower will be held in the W. E. Street home at 6:00 p.m Hostesses are Martha Ergle and Louise Street. High school friends from Bryan and College Station will be present. Guests will be served punch, con sisting of lemon juice, orange juice, and grape juice, along with individual cupcakes, sweet rolls, and mixed nuts. CHS School Year Schedule Is Given J. J. Skrivanek, principal of A&M Consolidated High School has announced the schedule for the 1953-54 school year. The schedcle is as follows: Sep tember 8, school begins; Thanks giving holidays, November 26 & 27; last day of School before Christ mas, Deceiv.b&'y IS; fifSt day of school afteT Christmas, January 4; April 16-19, Easter holidays. 3-D Movies May Mean Better Vision For All Countless people are expected to enjoy direct or indirect visual ben efits from watching three-dimen sional movies, according to the Bet ter Vision Institute. Viewing these pictures under proper conditions is generally good for eyesight. On the other hand, it often shows up unsuspected diseases and seeing troubles by bringing discomfort or by failing to produce three-dimen sional impressions. If you don’t enjoy 3-D movies, consult an eyesight specialist at once, the Institute advises. Per haps your depth perception is at fault, and this can usually be im proved by visual training. If disease is present, much trouble may be averted by finding out about it early, through the spec ialist’s examination. For 2*500 years or more, man has been trying to produce depth ef fects. Attempts have been made to use such cues as size changes with distance; light intensity and shad ows; aerial, detail, and linear types of perspective; color; and motion— all of which can be appreciated by only one eye. Steropsis has also been used, and this requires binoc ular vision, for each eye sees a slightly different image and the brain combines the two images into a three-dimensional picture. One type of 3-D movies uses this stereascopic principle, by photo graphing the same scene from two slightly different angles and pre senting one of the pictures to each of your eyes. With the help of pol arized glasses and good binocular vision, you are enable to see a single clear picture which appears to have depth and solidity. Movies such a Cinerama and Cinemascope, which are shown on giant curved screens, are based up on the fact that you normally sense yourself Jn the center of a large curved area, and are only vaguely aware of any border to your visual field. These pictures attempt to reproduce your natural feeling of “center.” Among the visual troubles which may cause discomfort in viewing stereoscopic films are: tendency for Stte eye to turn in or out, subnor mal sight in one, difference in size or shape of the images in the two eyes, difference of refraction in the two eyes, lack of teamwork in focusing and converging, and in ability to judge distance. Restriction or distortion of the visual field is a symptom of cer tain eye and bodily diseases. So inability to enjoy 3-D movies may be a serious danger signal. For example, it may mean cataracts, which need professional care; or glaucoma, which leads to blind ness if not controlled in the early stages; or a lesion, or tumor, in the central nervous system, which can be fatal. Of course any of these troubles will be detected in your routine annual eyesight examination — if you have one, says the Institute. But if it takes 3-D movies to get you to the vision specialist, then go ahead and have a good time— and thank them for waking you up to your visual needs! Ch token Pro bterns Of Growth Studied What is the unknown substance in liver which makes chicks grow faster? Is it a vitamin not yet identi fied ? If not, how does it work ? Is it similar to the unidentified fac tors in fish meal, whey and dis tillers’ waste products, which also promote growth ? These and other questions about unidentified growth factors fasci nate Bill Welch, a 23-year-old graduate student at A&M. Welch is a native of West and a graduate of Woodsboro high school near Corpus Christi. He studied phases of these same ques tions while earning his master of science degree in biochemistry from A&M in 1951, and will pursue them further while working on his Ph.D. degree during the coming year. His ability and scholarship are shown by his recently receiving one of seven Ralston-Purina Fel lowships given in the whole U. S. this year. The fellowship is not granted on a basis of the problem selected for research, but on the individual qualifications of the ap plicant. Since receiving the fellowship, Welch is free to choose any prob lem in the field of poultry nutri tion he wished to follow, and may go to any accredited institution in the country to find his research laboratory. He is the first Ralston-Purina Fellowship holder to study at A& M. However, A&M was already selected in his mind as the school he would attend when he received the bachelor of science degree in chemistry from Abilene Christian College in June of 1950. He knew that he would do his doctorate re search on biochemical aspects of 100 Expected For Oil Chemists Meet More than 100 persons are ex pected to attend the American Oil Chemists’ Society short course to be held at A&M July 27-31. It is sponsored by the Chemical Engi neering Department of the col lege, with J. D. Lindsay as chair man. Sessions will be held in the Me morial StudenC Center. The course has been planned at an egineering level.' Experts will give lectures on various phases of edible oil extraction and process ing. Dr. M. T. Harrington will give the welcome address at 8:30 a.m., July 27. poultry nutrition when he received his M. S. degree; and he found the unidentified factor problem fasci nating from the start. Typical of researchers, he won’t say what he expects to find, but will admit that it would be nice if he could discover a new vitamin. In technical language, Welch describes an unidentified growth factor as “something which pro motes growth above the obtained by a diet containing an adequate supply of essential nutrients—and which cannot be attributed to known vitamin content.” Since young chickens offer one of the most rapid growth rates, and can be duplicated in hundred- lots with almost any chosen die tary background, they will be one of the principal tools in his re search. Chicks also figure in an eco nomic interpretation of the re search he is doing, he says. “Say a broiler producer raises 40,000 birds per crop,” Welch says. “If we can discover a factor which will increase the bird’s weight- gaining ability by one per cent that will mean 1,200 additional pounds of chicken—quite a con- siderable amount.” Asked whether visions of fried chicken might not enter his thought occasionally during his research, Welch glanced at his coops con taining hundreds of fluffy little bodies, then looked away. “I don’t eat chicken,” he said. If you like fresh, neat looking clothes— Take Your Cleaning To . . . CAMPUS CLEANERS PioNeen AUSTIN PCA Members To Hold Confab Here in August A statewide meeting of the Pro duction Credit Associations of Tex as will be held at A&M August 9-12. The meeting will be spon sored jointly by the A&M school of agriculture, the 36 PCAs of the state and the Houston Credit Cor poration. More than 275 persons are ex pected, consisting principally of ranchmen and farmers who are serving as the officers and direc tors of the Associations. “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,” Dean C. N. Shepardson of the school of agriculture, said. “This confer ence is being jointly sponsored by the School of Agriculture in ac cordance with that policy.” Economic information relating to agricultural finances will be pre sented by college staff members and sound farm and ranch manage ment practices as the basis for successful production loans. Rep resentatives of the associations will devote some time to a discussion of their own practices and problems, Shepardson said. Public Safety Depart Wii Releases Accident Bo^ j The Texas Department of Pub lic Safety has released it’s annual Texas Motor Vehicle Traffic Acci dent Summary booklet along with a tabulation of the first six months experience for 1953. The booklet which makes an ex haustive treatment of Texas’ mo tor vehicle accident picture covers both 1951 and 1952 since none was issued last year. On the basis of the summary, which carries an introduction by N. K. Woerner, Chief of the Safe ty Department’s Statistical Divi- Beef Callle Bloat Study Award Made A check for $500 in support of the study of bloat in beef cattle, Has been received by the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Director R. D. Lewis has an nounced. The money is from the Dow Corning Corp., Midland, Mich. si on, the 7.0 dt; State last yeart ^ the history of ret* ^ j ords analysis. M* M “This study will be conducted cooperatively by J. K. Riggs of the animal husbandry department and R. D. Turk of veterinary parasitol ogy,” Lewis said. Homer Ganiso: the Texas Depa, H J R1 Safety, said tna: book will intnxi.bass fi: into the Englishg the h cide. 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