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R * COFFER ^Hege ARCHIVIST SC, FE CJPIES culated Daily » 90 Per Cent iocal Residents 99: Volume 51 "TUgy TZa-f+al 1 XlG J3clTT€jillOTl PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1953 Published By A&M Students For 75 Years Price Five Cents dies Plan { Kition j Renege !olo.-—*^P)—President d Secretary of State Dulles Monday dis- 3r American retalia- inst the Communists ey refuse to release ;es prisoners of war. i news conference at i vacation headquar- the United Stiites /^ould adopt recipro- if the Reds withhold • oners in violation of erms. ter “reciprocal meas- hat Communist pris- )e withheld in turn rcumstances, Dulles seem to be a normal ed Here early Mon- after an overnight from Honolulu on South Korea where and initialed a mu- pact with President *. of South Korea. officer was accom- jassador Henry Cab- chief of the United i to |the United Na- assistant secretaries ;er S. Robertson and Lodge and Rob- with Dulles at Mon- ce with Eisenhower. '0-minute session in ummor White House Lowry Aiv, Force ration building, Dul- hat lie had received nqualified and cate- e” that South Korea ,e armistice. With Yoshida ry also said he had mese Prime Minis- Tokyo that the Uni- >s Japan must assume ponsibility” for de- ome lislands. ;xpect Japan to as- rilities for areas oth- 1 Dulles said. “But doing all we could vn security.” ry said in reply to at he had discussed 'er the possibility of ;ps against the Chi- ists land North Ko- withhold American , /ar. d that it would not ;e for him to say ihower agreed with 5 feasibility of such 2 Clark, supreme com- nited Nations forces Cast estimated at a lews conference last ; the Reds hold from more American pris- le figure 3,313 they 3 return. B nation Dept, las Exhibit griculture Education nesented an educa te 100 agriculture le field at the Adol- Dallas, August 5-7. ■on and Henry Ross ibit. Robert N. Craig mltural Engineering ectured and demon- n Electricity Safety „ . .WJalton, head of the let with the teachers , ireas and discussed [0 ■ program of A&M. He service and assist- Iqv'vice training of vo- k ' ulture teachers. nee was preceded by - ■ l? meeting in which Ed. Department pre- nted a bulletin en- ide for Long Time Which was adopt- be uniform for all sachers in Texas. |:o one of the teach- t ^ ie meetin 8'> “the MKroartment really ]iut |PPy;iiap with 1000 teach- llb.f" akes Over t College ( ok, assistant to the . iculture, will be in |(tour of college facili- itatewide meeting of T _Jltredit Associations • lie held at A&M Aug. ill get under way at n the ilSC. TEXAS COWGIRL—The smallest hand on the K-Bar ranch west of Paris (Texas) is this 8-year-old, Ruth Ann Crump, daughter of foreman Shorty Crump. She has been riding regularly since she was 4. Thanks to Michael Neal United States Is Now Nation Of 160,000,000 Tax Payers WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (AP) —The United States became a na tion of 160,000,000 people Mon day. According to the Census Bu reau’s nose-counting machine in the lobby of the Commerce De partment, the figure was reached at 7 seconds after 9:02 a. m. Fort Worth time. Twelve seconds later the figure became 160,000,001. As Tuesday begins, it will be 160,004,200 plus. Red, green, blue and white lights flashed on a big map of Dr. Abrams Meets With Ag Delegates Dr. M. N. Abrams of the Agri cultural Education Department met with agriculture representatives from 14 'Southern States at Aub urn, Alabama, August 0-8. Dr. Abrams was selected as the Texas representative to the Con ference whicht discussed the gener al problem, “What Constitutes an Effective Program of Vocational Agriculture ?” the United States as the machine clicked past 10 o’clock. TV and newsreel cameras, re porters, government officials and passersby eyed the recording de vice as it registered 159,999,999. Then a lone white light came on. The register let its last six nines slide down to be replaced with zeros. But at this point th,e mechani cal monster needed a helping hand. A man went around behind, climbed a ladder to the top of the population recorder, and changed the 59 to 60. Even as its pi'esent clip of 2,700,000 a year, the population increases 10,000,090 only once each four years, so changes by 10.000. 000 on the population clock are not automatic. The rise in population to 160,- 000,000 was an increase of 8,868,- 000 since the April 1950 census. The Census Bureau said the in crease pointed to a population of 175.000. 000 by 1960. With 160,000,000 over his head, Census Bureau Director Robert Burgess stepped before the popu lation clock for a newsreel and TV interview. A professional statistician, Bur gess refused to be pushed very far from his figures. Asked for the significance of the nation’s fast growing population figures, he said it had not yet been worked out, but it looed like big families had come to stay awhile. Looking back over the popula tion growth of 23,261,999 in the last 10 years, Burgess said all previous estimates had been up set. Marriage and* birth rates held up at high levels longer after the war than had been expected, he said, and families are bigger than predicted a few years back. The Census Burean said the na tional population increase, which includes armed forces overseas, has equaled in the last 40 months the total population of the state of Illinois in 1950. The increase of. 8.868.000 since April 1950 is only 500.000 under the total population of the six New England;states. Since April 1, 1950, the Census Bureau estimated there have been 12.800.000 births, about 5,000,000 deaths, and immigration has ex ceeded emigration by 1,100,000. 100 American POWs To Re Released Today Phone Company Employees Get Wage Increase Brownwood —(Spl.)—An annual wage increase amounting to $185,- 000.00 was granted to employees represented by the Communication Workers of America, C. I. O. for the coming year by the South western States Telephone Com pany, D. T. Strickland, vice-presi dent and general manager, an nounced at the signing of the an nual contract in Brownwood, Texas. The employees were represented by R. W. Staley, of Dallas, region al representative of the C. W. A.; Jack Long, exchange repairman, of Grand Saline, Texas; Travis God frey, general office, Brownwood; Joe Blalock, Purcell Oklahoma, and Genevieve Lynch, telephone opera tor, Brownwood. Strickland stated that he was most pleased with the cooperative attitude of the employees and no issues were involved except the wage increases which was justified by cost-of-living rises. Strickland further commented: “Because of the high standards of professional skills which are now vital for the operation of telephone systems, the Southwestern States Telephone Company recognizes the progess of its employees.” He also expressed praise for the officials of the communities served by the company in adjusting rates to meet the increased costs of operations. Cal lender Leaves For 4-H Camp Mr. R. E. Callender, specialist in wildlife conservation, Agricultux-al Extension Service, left Monday to attend the State 4-H Club Con servation Camp at Tyler, Texas. He will serve as instructor and counselor in wildlife conservation and management dicing the four- day camp. Mr. Callender will lead discus sions of g:ame management, fur bearing animals, poisonous snakes, animal traps and wildlife conserv ation; He will also accompany the campers on a tour of the nearby State Fish Hatchery. Production Credit Association lh\ Tyrus R. Timm Sees Prosperity. Progress In Store For -Agriculture “We have never been able to figure out a way to keep agricul ture prosperous for long, outside of war,” Dr. Tyrus R. Timm, head of the Department of Agricultural Ec onomics and Sociology, said today in an address at the statewide meeting of the Production Credit Associations of Texas, being held at A&M, August 10-12. “War is the most powerful factor in the level of farm profits. We see new farm practices adopted in wartime quickly,” the Texas A&M College economist declared. Mili tary preparedness on a huge scale is likely to continue for several years ,he said. Dr. Timm said that one time re cently 38 out of every 100 bales of cotton shipped abroad went to “our former enemy countries, Germany, Japan and Italy.” The speaker urged a clearer un derstanding and better appreciation of the nature of the political sys tem in “our democracy and the in ter-relationship of this system to American agriculture.” Turning to the outlook in agri culture in the next two or three years, Timm told the more than 250 attending the meeting from over the state that “technical ag riculture and technical home eco nomics will continue as the great est single force in building your program within your own fences.” He said that due to mechanization farmers probably will become in creasingly interested in manage ment factors which cut across sin gle enterprise — that production and quality standards now used ac tually may be less significant. He declared that federal pro grams will be in the picture — “help farmers receive the greatest value for them. There is no pan acea either for farm markets or farm profits likely ahead.” The A&M economist told the PGA members that “we must learn more and get other folks to learn more about the fundamental pro cesses of our democracy — many foreign visitors will have to be weaved into our program.” Deploring war in all its phases, Dr. Timm said that farm prices al ways drop after a wax*—xnaybe not immediately but soon thei'eaftex 1 . Dr. Virgil P. Lee, president of the Houston Px-odxxction Cx-edit Coi'poratien, said that “Texas is not in as bad shape due to the drouth” as some people think. The people went into this drouth situ ation better prepared than they were in the early thirties. “We have had sevex-al years of relative prosperity and a lot more people have their land paid out. Draw a line from Corpus Christi to Childi’ess and then due east, you Agriculture Dean Welcomes PCA Meeting To Campus “We are delighted that the Pro duction Cx’edit Associations of Tex as have decided to hold their an nual meeting at A&M,” Dean C. N. Shepardson of the School of Ag- idculture, said Fxnday. “We also appreciate the opportunity to have a part in the program. We trust that this interchange of ideas will be mutually profitable.” The meeting opened Sunday and continues through Wednesday. Dean Shepax-dson said that mem bers of the PCA will have an op portunity to better acquaint them selves with the work of the sev- eral agricultural depai’tments and to inspect the facilities. J. S. Farmer of Junction chair man of the district committee of the Production Credit Association directors, said that “the production credit directors, seex'etary-treasur- ers axxd field representatives are delighted to have this opportunity of meeting at College Station. We have some 1 knowledge of the won derful woifc the College has done an is doing for Texas agriculture. We feel sux’e such meetings as this will increase our knowledge and our appreciotion of this work. It is our hope that this meeting will in tuxm help to familiarize the col lege people with production credit associations and what they are do ing for Texas fax-mers and ranch- ex’s.” The meeting will be conducted jointly by the 36 Production Cre dit Associations of Texas, the Pro duction Cx’edit Corporation of Houston, and the A&M School of Agriculture. will find that most of the countx'y is in pretty good shape for pro duction and good cattle prospects. Most of the people outside of Texas think we ax’e in a terrible shape. Thei’e’s lots of good cotton in the Plains country of Texas and ir’id- gatioxx is playing its pai't.” D. W. Williams, vice chancellor for agriculture, A&M System, who introduced the college men, said that “it is hax-d to point out one single thing that is the biggest problem in agriculture. We need to pay more attention to the eco nomic side of our agriculture for one thing.” Dean C. N. Shepai'dson of the School of Agriculture, said that “we are trying to lay a foundation to make it possible for them to solve their own px’oblems. We are attempting to train bx’ains—devel op analytical skill and train our students to be capable and to act in new situations as they develop.” The Texas Agricultural Experi ment Station is the public agricul tural research agency for the State of Texas, Dd. R. D. Lewis, station dii'ector, told the PCA. Reseax-ch of the past has made possible the advance in agriculture, he said. J. D. Px'ewitt, vice dii’ector of the Texas Agi-icultural Extension Service, described the workings of the statewide organization, which handles the county agents and home demonstration agents, called upon the PCA membership to call upon the agents for their sexwices. “We are going ahead and meeting new problems,” he said. J. Wheeler Barger, professor of (See AGRICULTURAL, Page 4) Early Groups Seem Healthy As Seventh Swap Begins PANMUNJOM—(^T*)—Americans freed from long months and years of Communist captivity were homeward bound Tuesday while the traffic down Freedom Road moved again in the seventh day of prisoner exchange. One hundred Americans and 300 other Allied prisoners were in Tuesday's liberation quota. The exchange began promptly at 9 a.m. (6 p.m., CST, Monday). The first Amer ican arrivals appeared healthy. The Communists had said there would be no sick and wounded prisoners in Tuesday’s group. There were no am bulances in the first contingent passing through Panmun- jom. The Americans jumped from the high tailgates of the Russian-built trucks and responded to roll call alertly; “Yes sir.” But some were choked with emotion as they reached ■♦■Freedom. Cpl. Lahman L. Bower of Berkley, Mich, was the first American returned Tuesday. He was with the U. S. Second ond Division when he was captui’ed. Bower was held in a Red Camp at Pyoktong. A number of Communist Red Cross workers observed Tuesday’s exchange. With them were Red Cross x-epresentatives from Allied nations. Streaming north through Pari- munjom were North Korean Com munist prisonex’s. Although they did not appear to be sick or wound ed, they were transported in closed ambulances, appai’ently to prevent incidents. Korean civilians threw stones at Communist px’isonei’s going north in open tx-ucks Monday. Seventeen disabled but happy freed Americans left Tokyo by plane Monday night. Another 328 boarded the U. S. Military Trans port Gen. Nelson M. Walker, sched uled to leave Inchon harbor at 4:25 p.m. (1:45 a.m. Tuesday, CST) on the two-week trip to San Francisco. (See AMERICAN POWs, Page 2) Calendar For ’S3 Fall Term Classes will begin Monday, Sept. 14, at A&M for the 1953- 54 school yeai\ New student week commences Friday, Sept. 4. The calendar for the first se mester, which ends January 18- 23, with examinations is as fol lows: Sept. 4, opening day of new student week; Sept. 11, 8 a. m. to 5 p. m., x-egistration of new Basic Division students who have had no college work; Sept. 12, 8 a. m. to 5 p. m., registration of all other students. September 14, 8 a. m., begin ning of classes; Sept. 19, last day for enrolling in the college for the fall semester or for add ing new courses; Sept. 26, last day for dropping courses with no grade; Oct. 17, Satui’day, a holi day; Nov. 9, Monday, piid-semes- ter grade reports; Nov. 14 Sat urday, a holiday,; Nov. 26-29, inclusive. Thanksgiving holidays: Dec. 9, Saturday, 12 noon, begin ning of Chi’istmas recess; Jan uary 4, 1954, Monday, 8 a. m. end of Christmas recess; Jan uary 18-23, inclusive, semester examinations. The second semestex- begins January 27, opening’ date of new student week. Semester ex aminations for the semester will be held May 24-29. Aggie-Ex Gets Oak Leaf Cluster Ax’my Maj. Gerald M. Cravens, son of Mi', and Mrs. E. Cravens, 247 North dr., San Antonio, was recently awarded the first Oak Leaf Cluster to his Bronze Star Medal for mex’itorious service in Korea while serving at Far East Army Headquarters in Yokohama, Japan. Major Craven whose wife, Peggy and son, Gerry, live at 2117 Or ange st., Beaumont, was signal op- ei'ations officer for the IX Cox'ps on the peninsula for 10 months. He rotated to Japan in June and is now a staff officer in the head- quai’ters’ Signal Section. Commissioned upon graduating from A&M in 1941, Ci’avens re ceived his master of science degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1948. Save Cellar For A-Bomb Attack, Pop! SAN ANGELO—(2P)—Don’t tear the ol’ stoi’m cellar down, grandpa—it’s an A-bomb shel ter now. The Fedei’al Civil Defense Association says that old storm cellar out in the gai’den is one of the safest types of atomic bombing shelters. It’s away from falling debris and flying glass and usually is protected fx’om atomic x’adia- tion by three feet of earth. West Texas has plenty of storm cellars. Back in the old days the settlers coming to a land plagued by violent wind storms dug their underground shelter and called <it a “fraid hole.” Abilene has started an in ventory of the stoi’m cellars in town—just in case. Ag Experiment Grants in Aid Total $7,850.24 A gift, two grants-in-aid and a loan, totaling $7,850.24 have been received by the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Dr .R. D. Lewis, Station dii’ector, announces. They include a gift of 1,974 Bi'oad Breasted Bxonze tui’key poults from Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Janes of Janes Bax-Nothing Ranch near Austin, for use in the de partment of poultry husbandry where studies of unidentified growth factors will be conducted; A gx-ant-in-aid of $3,000 from the Pacific Molasses Company through James M. Ferguson, presi dent, for use in research on the value of molasses in feeds for chickens and turkeys and of the relationship of this product to other nutx’ielnts and factors ip poultry feeds. Dr. J. R. Couch will conduct the project through the departments of biochemistry and nutx-ition and poultry husbandry; A gi’ant-in-aid of $3,250 from the Publicker Industries Inc. of Philadelphia, Pr., through Birort Bass, for research on the value of di’ied molasses solubles with dis tillers, dried grain solubles and other soui’ces of the whey or fer mentation factors. Dr. Couch also will direct this project. The loan of a registered Angora male goat valued at $100 from John P. Classon of San Antonio for use in the Angora Goat Breeding Pro ject at McGregor Substation No. 23. Scout Committee To Hold Meeting The monthly meeting of the Bxazos Boy Scout District Com mittee will be held August 11 at 7:30 p. m. at the Troop 81 scout house in Sue Hoswell Park in Bryan. Local boy scouts who attended the National Jamboi’ee in Califor nia will report to the committee in their experiences. A final re port on the Camp Ax’rowmoon dis trict camp which was held last month will also be given at the meeting.