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Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1953
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N, Korea—UP)—Allied prisoners were assem
ble of the Bamboo Curtain Tuesday for the open-
"stj post-armistice exchange of prisoners of war
zing the imminence of the hour, an Allied Red
e brlke through the*
i foi the first free
of North Korea
began three years
team, including nine
s armed only with
ges |for the 12,7(>M
3 to be exchanged.
W Americans in this
JAmericans undoubt-
#changed Wednesday.
M turn over 400 dis-
;ans then.
oss team was head-
alu [River boundary
^^iuria and Noi’th Ko-
^^sonBcamps are now
J of their prisoners.
^Tittance only giudg-
stipulated that only
ilitary personnel be
listribute Red Cross
- ort packets.
sly Communist Red
3 were due to fly
see 74,000 Red Ko-
ese prisoners in Al-
00 Allied prisoners
out the day that
>rnity Tuesday—just
nd only a few miles
I'g radio heard in San
^ jd the first south
carrying prisoners
led truce base town
ionday night. It re-
oup included Ameri
nd other non-Korean
nded.)
command was mak-
I’ort Ito see that the
ange operation was
■t comfortable to the
2!
21
ng American prison-
iwiftly carried down
pipelines from neu-
jom Ito the port of
they will take ships
They will get their
,e of freedom at this
lage, near Munsan,
warehouse has been
processing center,
oners will go to near-
■itannica and South
go to “Liberty Vil-
ilors and marines at
^^^_orked until the 'last
ng out details. A
s rehearsal was stag-
nder the critical eyes
- .h Army commander,
D. Taylor.
TlTlr'd that the men in
■4 lid we r e given showers
i^^^usting by DDT. He
|^PPss should be reversed
could wash off the
1 cleaner.
W. Seymour, Bell,
jetor | in charge of the
■i l3X(age hospital, told the
ok about four hours
ng to be effective.
• • ns to be present at
age to greet the first
ista^y- ... t
so will get a greeting
ast commander, Gen.
. . • SONERS, Page 2)
2 It
ir Reserve
?ryan Base
the 9807th Volunteer
3 Training Squadron
ed on a tour of Bryan
lursday afternoon by
Hodson, public rela-
The tour is part of
r or ram for the local
dron.
pilar weekly training
Monday night, Capt.
scussed aircraft iden-
avis used a new view-
ned to the Reserve
project pictures of
d foreign aircraft on
;her visual aids equip-
o been assigned to the
[on Tor training pur-
McCarthy
Attends (lass
In Gemofogy
Robert L. McCarty, North Gate
jeweler, is currently attending a
laboratory practice class at the In
ternational Headquarters of the
Gemological Institute of America,
Los Angeles, as a part of his stud
ies in gemology (the science of
gemstones).
Anyone unfamiliar with methods
used in the scientific identification
of gemstones might think he had
wandered into a modern crime lab
oratory if he were to walk into
this classroom where men and
women from 10 states sit around
long tables covered with strange
looking instruments.
“You see,” McCarty explained,
“There is a lot more to recognizing
the true identity of a gemstone
than most people realize.”
There are many cases on rec
ord where a piece of jewelry turns
out to be something far less val
uable than the owner believed.
For instance, there is the case
of the lady who recently brought
a string of pearls to the Institute’s
New York laboratory only to learn
she owned a string of far less ex
pensive cultured pearls. “But I
saw the boys at Zamboanga take
some of them out of the oysters
mysdlf,” she lamented. “Several
jewelers told me they were good
. . . and I paid $25,000 for them!”
Today, there are many imita
tions and substitutes for the gen
uine precious gemstone. One
which has caused considerable
heartache and disappointment re
cently, particularly in the easterin
states, is called synthetic spinel
by the professionals. It is an at
tractive stone which can be made
red to resemble a ruby, or green
to look like an emerald.
It is when 4t'4s-.-sm-UreJ,y colorless
and properly cut, however, 1 - that
the real ^rouble;-oecugred. It
then resembles a real diamond so
closely that even the gem ’expert
has been fooled-if he doesn’t use
scientific mea^s«to examine it.
In the pas# year the G.I.A. lab
has identified' synthetic spinels
representing some $30,000 paid by
jewelers, pawnbrokers, and cus
tomers who thought they were
buying diamonds.
During thn resident laboratory
class McCarty has had the oppor
tunity to examine the Institute’s
fine collection of minerals and
gemstones — many of them rarely
seen in the average jewelry store
—and to compare them with the
numerous imitations and substi
tutes which are easily confused
with the genuine by the uninform
ed.
The Gemological Institute of
America has conducted a school
for jewelers, or gem hobbyists, in
the Wilshire district in Los An
geles for the past 22 years. It is
(See McCarthy, Page 2)
sir
,m H. Andrews, pastor
2 jpaptist Church in Bly-
in charge of the pro-
.e Squadron training
Monday night. Col.
11 discuss “orientation
CjiJers”. Col. J. B. Wil-
• ^ >tin, commanding offi-
.171st VART Group, is
9 Jpe pr esent.
Jeservist both airmen
are invited to attend
. i Squadron meeting at
[pponJby night in the old
GIFTS FOR GOVERNORS—Nan Longbottom (left) and
Pat Loerwald are shown preparing some of the one hun
dred 10-pound bags of onions and potatoes being sent to
state governors and other dignitaries as a publicity pro
ject of the Deaf Smith County Chamber of Commerce,
calling attention to produce grown in the irrigated section
of the county.
Red Guns I (old East
Germans From Food
BERLIN —CP'— Protest strikes
blazed up in East Germany’s larg
est industries Monday as 225,000
Communist German troops and po
lice held off the hungry nation at
gunpoint from free American food.
Enraged workers, beaten back
with clubs and rifle butts from
Berlin-bound trains Sunday, went
on sitdowns and slowdowns Mon
day in big plants producing gaso
line, rubber, steel and chemicals
for the Soviet war economy.
The Russian zone boiled with un
rest, apparently needing only a
spark to explode into another June
17th revolt.
The Soviet Army, 300,000 strong,
continued on a riot alert that had
never been relaxed even after mar
tial law was lifted July 11. Tank
forces were redisposed during the
week of July 12-18 so as to- ..be
ready to seize control of key Ger
man cities on a moment’s notice.
Ticket Draw
Set Thursday
Drawing for priority season
tickets to the Texas Aggie foot
ball games will be held Thurs
day, Aug. 6 at 2 p.m. in the ath
letic office according to Pat Dial,
business manager of athletics.
The pre-season sale of priori
ty tickets closed July 31. How
ever, season and single game
tickets may still be purchased on
a first-come, first-serve basis,
Dial said. .
A few options are still avail
able in the new addition to the
west stands. These options are
$50 each and entitle the pur
chaser to a 30-yard line seat or
better for the next 20 years.
John Paul Abbott Is Named
Dean Of A&M On Saturday
Dr. John Paul Abbott, member received his Doctor of Philosophy
8i«Pite' The tour is part of of the A&M faculty since 1926,
IJlJjprogram for the local Saturday was named to the col
i^Jndron. lege’s highest academic post, Dean
^ ^ular weekly training Gm College.
1 Monday night, Capt. He will take over his new duties
■I^^Bscussed aircraft iden- September 1, succeeding Dr. D. H.
^W^^avis used a new view- Morgan, who at that time steps
up to the presidency. Dr. Ab
bott’s appointment, recommended
by Dr. Morgan and President M.
T. Harrington, with approval of
Chancellor Gibb Gilchrist, was
made by the college board of di
rectors, in session here Saturday.
Dr. Abbott has served as Dean
of the School of Arts and Sciences
at A&M since 1949. He joined the
college staff as an instructor in
English in 1926 and remained a
member of the English faculty un
til 1947, when he was named an
assistant to the Dean of the Col
lege, in charge of the freshman
annex being operated at Bryan
Army Air Field. He returned to
the main campus in 1949 to assume
his present post.
A native of Nashville, Tenn.,
ive-In between Bryan I where he was born July 4, 1904,
Station. Points are ! Dr. Abbott took his bachelor and
ward retirement and | master degrees from Vanderbilt
University in 1925 and 1926. He
from the University of Iowa in
1939. Dr. Abbott is married, his
Avife being the former Virginia
Burns, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John C. Burns of Fort Worth.
John Paul Abbott
Dean of School
Congress Is Adjourned;
To Reconvene on Jan. 6
They continue to be based in these
same positions.
A confidential Allied summary
of Sunday’s widespread disturb
ances estimated 50,000 East Ger
mans demonstrated against the
Red blockade of American food
relief.
At least 600 arrests were made.
Many men and women were beaten
by police.
Food Distribution Continues
But in West Berlin, the vast
give-away of American food con
tinued Monday with 150,000 East
Berliners getting foot parcels. On
ly 5,000 Soviet Zone residents were
able to filter through the Commu
nist armed ring around the city.
In eight days, 1,350,000 parcels
have been distributed, furnished by
a $15 Million gift from the United
States.
Unless the Communist blockade
is dropped, however, the relief pro
gram may never reach millions of
the hungriest Germans in Soviet
Zone slums.
The Soviet news agency ADN
belatedly reported Monday night
that one of the largest hunger
riots flared Saturday evening in
Leipzig when hundreds of work
ers came back by train with food
from Beilin and fought against
police and party functionaries in
side the station.
Leipzig Strikes
Allied informants said Leipzig
was reported to be a slowdown
strike center along with the Halle
district, where the Leuna synthetic
gasoline refinery and Buna rubber
factory are located.
Se\ T eral Leuna workers slipped
into free West Berlin Monday and
confirmed the 23,000-man refinery
labor force is threatening to wajk
off the job entirely unless the food
blockade is abandoned.
One thousand Leuna and Buna
workers set out on a Berlin march
Sunday but troops and police vio
lently dispersed them at Bitterfeld
after they had gone only 20 miles
by road. Truckloads of marchers
were hauled off to jail.
Dr. Brown Will
Go to Italy For
Genetics Meet
Dr. Meta S. Brown, cotton cyto
geneticist for the Texas Agricul
tural Experiment Station, will be
the official representative of the
A&M College System at the 9th
International Congress of Genetics
to be held August 24-31 in Bellagio,
Italy.
She will discuss phases of her
Texas Station research in cotton
before the Bellagio meeting under
the title, “The Genetic Basis 'of
Chromosome Pairing in Gossy-
pium.”
This will be Dr. Brown’s second
participation in the world-wide
meeting of plant and animal gene
ticists, as she was a delegate to
the 8th Congress held in 1948 in
Stockholm, Sweden. Delegates
were present from 41 countries,
including about 100 Americans.
Travel plans call for Dr. Brown
to leave College Station Aug. 9
by air to New York and thence by
air to Amsterdam, Netherlands.
A week will be spent in German
cities having botanical institutions
and gardens, then two days in Ve
nice, Italy, before arirval at Bel
lagio. In Germany, she will be
joined by delegates to the Con
gress from other countries.
Following the Congi-ess, the del
egates will go on a ten-day tour
of educational institutions in Italy,
including some of the oldest uni
versities in the world.
The return trip will be by air
from Rome to College Station, via
New York, arriving here Septem
ber 17.
Dr. Brown was among 16 Ameri
can geneticists who each received
a travel grant of $300 from the
National Science Foundation,
Washington, D. C. for the Bellagio
meeting.
Jackson Is Advisor
Of Young Farmers
J. R. Jackson, assistant profes
sor of agricultural education, was
elected advisor of Yourig Farmers
of Texas at the organizational
meeting held at Fort Worth.
Jackson, who is advisor of the
FFA Collegiate Chapter at A&M,
A\ r ill serve as the first state ad
visor of these young farmers who
are all high school graduates of
vocational agriculture and former
Future Farmers.
The organization will be patter
ned after the state FFA Associa
tion, but will direct its work to
ward the solution of problems of
young farmei's who are getting
established in the farming busi
ness.
Plans are being completed for
the establishment of a local Young
Farmers chapter.
A tentative schedule has been
formulated for holding the second
annual Young Farmers of Texas
convention in San Antonio during
the Summer of 1954.
Students Come
Back to New,
Campus Paving
When students return to A&M
September 15 they will find a vast
expanse of new concrete paving—
24,000 square yards of it—installed
since the end of the Spring se
mester.
At a total cost, under contract
Avith a Dallas construction firm,
of $139,000, the paving project in
cludes:
Connection of North College
Road at the traffic circle north of
the campus to Bizzell Street by a
four-lane, divided highway;
Extension of Bizzell southward
to Jersey Lane in front of A&M
Consolidated High School and a
by-pass in front of the school
(this street is gravel-base and later
will be paved with asphalt);
Extension of Lamar Street east-
Avard one block to intercept the
Bizzell Street extension;
Replacement of asphalt with
paving on Spence Street from Ross
Street to Lamar;
Replacement of asphalt with
paving on Throckmorton from
Lubbock to a point past the new
dormitory area, and
Replacement of asphalt with
paving on Houston from Lubbock
one block southward.
The work is being, done by the
L. H. Lacy Company of Dallas, un
der supervision of T. R. Spence,
manager of physical plants for the
A&M College System.
Berry Is Authority
After Sport Story
Howard Berry says he can
now look into the faces of news
papermen with authority.
The head of the A&M Photo
graph and Visual Aids Labora-
toi-y boasts he wrote a sports
story the other day that stood
up—that is the first paragraph.
“I said the College Station
Legion team will play the St.
Thomas team of Houston.”
The rest of the story was
vague—but Berry, an indefati
gable worker for Legion junior
activities, says it was changed
up somewhat—and he liked it.
Young Woman
Works Nights
On Sprinklers
STANTON, Tex.—CP)—Mrs Yuell
Winslow, a pretty young woman,
gets up at midnight every night
and drives 28 miles to move a
sprinkler system.
It’s a system that makes three
inches of rain on 90 acres of pas-
tureland grass every 15 days.
And it makes the grass green
for the cattle Mrs. Winslow and
her husband own.
The sprinklers are on their ranch
14 miles out from town. They
have to be moA T ed every six hours
to keep up the irrigation schedule.
Henry Self, ranch forman, makes
three of the sprinkler moves every
24 hours, but the WinsloAvs take
the midnight trick.
The sprinkler pipe is 1,050 feet
long and mounted on Avheels.
Mrs. Winslow says the main
thing that worries her about this
midnight activity is the possibility
of running into a big rattlesnake
in the waist high grass.
Self, being a gallant gentleman
who hates to see a lady disappoint
ed, killed a big rattler and left it
where Mrs. Winslow Avould be sure
to find it one night—and she did.
But she doggedly kept Avorking.
SaA^s Franklin Reynolds of the
Big Springs Herald: “It would be
a fine thing for West Texas if we
had more women like Mrs. Wins
low—women who are Avilling to get
out at midnight if necessary to
grow grass for the cattle.”
House Sings Out Final
Minutes Of Session
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—(ZP)—The 83rd Congress com
pleted its first session and went home last night.
The House had quit at 10:07 p.m. EST. The Senate fol
lowed suit at 11:39 p.m. after a speech by Senator Morse
(Ind.-*Ore.) had threatened to prolong the proceedings.
The official windup time for the Senate was 11 p.m.,
EST, 12 mid-night daylight time.
The Senate actually quit at 12:39 a.m., daylight time,
but under the adjournment resolution could not run beyond
12 midnight daylight time.
The clerks, therefore, moved the clock hands back so
that they did not run past midnight.
The speech by Morse attacking Eisenhower administra
tion’s power policy delayed adjournment for more than an
hour after all legislative business had been transacted.
+ “i’ m only going to talk two
or three hours,” Morse said as
he stepped off the Senate
floor to pose at the request of
photographers.
Then he launched into a speech
entitled “Energy, Resources, Pro
gress and the Northwest.”
The House, which had been
standing by for Senate adjourn
ment, broke into song shortly af
ter 8 p.m.
Rep. Louis Rabaut, (D-Mich.)
started things off with his own im
provised version of “Would You
Like To Go Back to Your Home
Sweet Home?”
He got a rousing hand, Avhere-
upon he Avas joined at the micro
phone by Rep. Percy Priest, (D-
Tenn.) the House’s outstanding
tenor.
Priest and Rabaut started a
duet, and soon other members
joined them in an off-key rendi
tion of “Let Me Call You Sweet
heart.”
At 9:04 p.m- the House voted'
to recess, subject to immediate
recall by the chair. Adjournment
was voted an hour later.
One of the last-minute actions
of the Senate Avas to join with the
House in fixing Jan. 6, 1954, as
the meeting for the second ses
sion of the 83rd Congress. Presi
dent EisenhoAver’s signature is re
quired to make the date official.
President Thanks Group
The President sent his “warm
thanks and appreciation” to the
Senate Monday night for work
done in this session.
In a letter addressed to Vice
President Nixon, the President
said:
“For my part, I am truly grate
ful for the co-operatWe spirit you
have displayed toward the execu
tive branch during this session.”
The President said Congress has
faced “many grave problems in
both the domestic and foreign
fields and I believe its record will
be recognized as one that advances,
the nation substantially towarj
the goals sought by our people.”
A similar message was sent to
the House.
Morse holds the Senate talkathon
record with a speech of 22 hours
and 26 minutes.
In the final sweep, the Senate
completed action on a series of
“must” bills and sent them to the
White House for the President’s
signature. The list included:
1) Senate passage, by voice vote,
of a erimmed-down Aversion of the
administration’s global aid bill. Al
ready approved by the House, the
measure uoav goes to the White
House.
The bill provides $6.5 Billion for
military and economic aid to near
ly 60 friendly countries, including
$4,531,507,000 in new cash and
(See CONGRESS, Page 4)
Hanging Bird
Awes Public
Was it a victim of fright or
of hunger?
Students walking between the
Academic Building and Law Hall
have asked this question for
three weeks.
Entangled in the telephone
wires that connect the Academic
Building and Old Ross Hall
hangs a scissor-tail flycatcher.
Was it frightened at night into
pell-mell flight only to be snar
ed by the wires or was it im
prisoned as it hungrily speared
an insect on the wires ?
The question goes unanswered
as the luckless bird swings in
the AAdnd.
Ernest Roy Bulow Dies As
Result Of Auto Collision
Ernest Roy Bulow, 37, A&M
graduate student and teaching fel
low, died at 10 o’clock Sunday
morning from injuries received in
a head-on car-truck collision in
College Station shortly after mid
night Friday.
Funeral services were held at
4 o’clock Monday afternoon in the
chapel of Hillier’s Funeral home.
Bulow’s right chest Avas crush
ed in, damaging his heart and
lungs. His condition improved
during the day Saturday, but he
started failing Sunday morning.
BuIoav was the second person
to die as a result of the accident.
Killed instantly was a one-month
old baby, who was seated in the
lap of her mother, Mrs. H. L.
Davis of Houston. Mrs. Davis and
two other children were slightly
injured.
The accident occurred between
the Blue Top Courts and FM Road
60. Bulow’s car and a truck loaded
with household effects and ten
children collided head-on.
Bulow is survived by his Avife,
Dolores, College View apartments;
two children, Lynn and Barry; his
mother. Myrtle F. Bulow of San
Franciscb, California, and two sis
ters, also of California.
Bulow was a native of San Fran
cisco. He Avas a veteran of World
War II and had been at College
five years working on his PhD
in agriculture economics.
Funeral services were conducted
by Elder Boyd Page of the College
Station Church of the Latter Day
Saints. Interment will be in San
Francisco.