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COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1953
Published By
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!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.