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Ine Hattahon
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1953
Published By
A&M Students
For 75 Years
Price Five Cents
Timunists Fly
in -Je t Phi n es
Worth Korea
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VI VILLAGE, (Tues-
he Communists now fly
pt fig-hter-bombers in
;a’s ifjskies where they
appear with a war on,
L-isoners said Monday.
[American repatriates
^seeing overhead a new
thter i smaller than the
ainstay of the Red An
il took such a fearful
n United States Sabres
war.
f one twin-jet fighter-
Ivl spotted on an air base
irth Korean capital of
only two days ago. No
> safe at any base in
a during the war.
ly this is the Russian
flies close to the speed
5
, Bortz
Saturday;
ces Today
•ah Bortz, mother of
• Welty died at 10:30
orning after a long ill-
ibz had many friends at
t 4 'ing lived on the campus
:5. She made her home
1 and Mis. M. D. Welty.
slty Jwas Commandant
7 ilreensburg, Pennsylva-
ber 21, 1866, Mrs. Bortz
ome there until coming
station in 1940.
ing on the campus, Mrs.
ys had time to make
• “isitsito all her neigh-
the Welty residence,
ervices were held Tues-
ig, 10 o’clock, at the
e Hillier Funeral Home.
• 'man Anderson, pastor
esbyterian Church offi-
erment was in the Col-
i city cemetery.
rs were Col. Joe E.
• lard C. Welty, grandson,
Oklahoma; Dr. Hubert
olonel O. C. McIntyre;
s, and Rip Erskine, all
• • include one daughter,
Welty; one sister, Mrs.
tts, Greensbprg, Penn-
brother, James Rob-
ja, Florida; two grand-
pTOUjrs. C. E. N. Howard of
Vi vg i n i :i ' aric * Richard
Hi' Muskogee, Oklahoma;
0meat grandchildren.
ittle Course
nderway
of the short course in
production to be held
jg. 18-20, will be held
norial Student Center
ef cattle center. One
l twenty-five are expec-
d.
of sound and can carry the atom
bomb. It was sighted in Korea
before.
It is known the Communists flew
swarms of planes into North Koi-ea
the night the armistice became ef
fective. Some flew in after the
armistice deadline. If they remain
ed based in the north this was
a violation of a truce ban against
military reinforcements.
Cpl. Frank Borelli of San Fran
cisco, Calif., Cpl. Charles W. Jewell
of Wilmington, Del., and Cpl. Mi
chael A. Giannini of Huntington
Station, N. Y., told of seeing a
twin-jet based at Pyongyang and
of others aloft.
Cpl. Richard L. Delaney of Nece-
dah, Wis., one of three other pris
oners who said they saw fifteen
jets in North Korean skies, gave
a little more detail. He said the
new jet’s wings were “slightly
swept back and the tail was dif
ferent from the MIG fighter.”
The twin-jet undoubtedly is the
Russian IL-28, which a high source
told Associated Press Correspon
dent William C. Barnard last Jan
uary could fly up to 650 miles an
hour. It carries four cannon.
The Far East Air Forces sighted
the IL-28 several times in North
Korea, but it stayed away from air
combat and never was used as a
bomber. Russia is believed to have
hundreds of them in the Far East.
The new type fighter was more
of a mystery. Sabre pilots encoun
tered a new MIG-type fighter over
Korea early in 1952, but it was
somewhat larger and slower than
the MIG.
However, Jane’s “All the Woidd’s
Aircraft” reported last December
that the Russians had come out
with a new jet fighter slightly
faster than the MIG.
280 Students Get
Baylor Degrees
WACO, Texas, Spl — Degrees
will be awarded to 280 students in
summer commencement exercises
at Baylor University Thursday,
August 20, President W. R. White
announced. „
For the first commencement in
Baylor history, the number of
graduate- degrees almost equals
the baccalaureate diplomas, the
registrar’s list of candidates Re
vealed. Graduate degrees total
135, and bachelor’s degrees 145.
Dr. A. J. Holt, Waco pastor,
will make the commencement ad
dress in Baylor Stadium at 7:30
p.m. Thursday, August 26. He
and Mrs. H. E. Butt, Corpus Christ!
woman civic leader, will receive
honorary degrees.
Candidates from this area for
degrees are;
Degree of Bachelor of Arts;
Gloria Ann Childs, Bryan; and
Ethel Mae Kennerly, College Sta
tion.
RESIGNS FROM TEXAS PMA COMMITTEE—These men
are three of the four members of the Texas Production and
Marketing Administration Committee who announced their
resignation in Dallas. They were appointed by a Democrat
ic administration. They charged that their new chairman,
Claude K. McCan of Victoria, an appointee of Secretary of
Agriculture Ezra T. Benson, had failed to call a regular
monthly meeting in July and that decisions on state agri
culture policies were made “without consulation of the
other legally appointed members.” Left to right as they
checked their telegram of resignation to Benson are Victor
L. Cade, Lubbock; Howard T. Kingsbery, Santa Anna; and
J. R. Adams, La Feria. The fourth committee member was
Gary B. Sanford, Timpson, who was f not present for this
picture.
Col. 1 lemon Named
Military Dist. Chief
AUSTIN, Texas—(Spl)—Colonel
Karl E. Henion, an Infantry offi
cer of long service in the regular
Army, has been assigned as Chief
of the Texas Military District, it
was announced at district head
quarters here.
Colonel Plenion has just returned
from duty with the United States
Army in Europe where he served
as Chief of the Civil Affairs Di
vision of that headquarters in Hei
delberg, Germany.
A native of Ohio, Col. Henion is
an alumnus of Case Institute of
Technology, Cleveland, Ohio; the
Army Infantry School at Fort
Benning,' Georgia and the Com
mand and General Staff College,
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
During World War II he served
as Deputy Chief of Staff and Chief
of Staff of V Corps, participating
in the landing in France on Omaha
Beach, D Day, 6 June 1944. After
the Battle of the Bulge, in Jan
uary, 1945, he became Deputy
Chief of Staff, Fifteenth Army.
On his return to the United State''
Colonel Henion was Professor of
Military Science and Tacucs ac tee
University of Michigan, Ann Ar
bor, Michigan.
His awards include the Silver
Star, Legion of Merit with Oak
Leaf Cluster, Bronze Star, Arrow
head with five Battle Stars, French
Croix de Guerre with Palm and
the French Legion of Honor.
As Chief of the Texas Military
District, Colonel Henion will direct
the training and administration of
more than 40,000 Army reservists
in Texas and will exercise general
supervision of the 59 ROTC units
in high schools and -colleges^
throughout the State. v
Mrs. Henion .is the former Elsie
Schmitt of San Antonion and is
the' sister of Mrs. H. A. Phillips
and Mrs. H v J. Gaffey, residents of
Austin. Colonel and Mrs. Henion
will make their home in Austin on
Star Route A, Fredericksburg,
Road.
Odom Gets Degree
FORT COLLINS—(Spl.)—Rich
ard Edward Odom of College Sta
tion, Texas received a Master of
Science degree in Horticulture at
Colorado A&M’s forty-first annual
Summer Session commencement
ceremonies Aug. 14.
Russians Want India
Sitting in Conference
Captain Byrd
Assigned To
Fort Monroe
Capt. Charles L. Byrd of Col
lege Station, has reported for tem
porary duty at Fort Monroe, Lt.
Gen. John E. Dahlquist, acting
Chief of Army Field Forces, has
announced.
Capt. Byrd has been assigned to
the G-3 (Training) Section of the
Office, Chief of Army Field For
ces, where he will work on Army
Training Programs for the Active
Army and Reserves Components.
OCAFF is the organization re
sponsible for the state of training
and combat readiness of individ
uals and units of the Army.
Captain Byrd’s permanent as
signment is as assistant intelli
gence officer for the 49th Armored
Division of the Texas National
Guard at Dallas. He is a veteran
of four and one-half years active
duty, including four during World
War II.
His wife, Mrs. Mildred Byrd, re
sides at their home, 1303 Foster
Street, College Station. The cap
tain is a 1937 graduate of A&M,
and in civilian life serves as a dor
mitory counselor at the college.
Captain Byrd’s military service
has included 12 months in the
European theater with the 666th
Field Artillery Battalion during
World War II. For his service dur
ing that war, he was awarded the
Bronze Star Medal.
He has attended the Artillery
School, Fort Sill, Okla., and the
Armored Officer Advanced Course
at The Armored School, Fort Knox,
Ky.
He is a member of the First Bap
tist Church of College Station and
is Scoutmaster of Cub Scout Pack
102. Capt. and Mrs. Byrd have two
children, Patricia, 12, and Charles,
Jr., 9.
Motor Pool
Dissolved
September 1
College Motor Pool is to be; dis
solved Sept. 1. Sale of the Motor
Pool cars has already begun and
will be completed by that date.
The state legislature passed a
bill stating that the only agencies
authorized to operate state-owned
passenger vehicles are the Texas
Highway Dept., Texas Forest Serv
ice, and the Dept, of Public Safe
ty.
Other state agencies are required
to sell the state-owned passenger
cars they now possess, and revert
to private means of transportation.
Persons using their private cars in
an official capacity will be reim
bursed by the State at the rate of
7^ per mile.
Rhee Won't Go
If India Attends
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., Aug. 17—(^)—The Soviet
bloc favors a Korean peace conference which would include
some countries that did not take part in the Korean conflict, a
Red bloc diplomat said Monday. This would include India and
the Soviet Union.
This also could include some Moscow satelites. It would
broaden the scope of the conference far wider than the United
States has envisioned it. The United States feels Russians
may sit in the conference if Red China and North Korea want
them, but it is opposed to giving a seat to India or any other
country which did not take part in the war.
President Syngman Rhee, meanwhile, was reported to
have made it known that his South Korean government would
not attend a conference in which India is included.
There was no confirmation, but Rhee’s foreign minister,
♦Y. T. Pyun, said it is not se
cret that his government does
Scout Tankmen
Cop First Place
A team of Boy Scout and Ex
plorer Scout swimmers represent
ing the Brazos Area, traveled to
Houston on Saturday and won
highest overall honors in the Sam
Houston Area Council Scout Swim
ming meet held in the beautiful
new Prudential Life Insurance pool.
Around 200 swimmers competed
in both Scout and Explorer divi
sions in this first annual Invita
tional swimming meet. Local
Scouts won first and Explorers
took second in team points in their
respective divisions.
Albert Stevens in the Explorer
Division and John Harrington in
the Scout division were the only
triple winners of the meet. Stev
ens won first place in the 150 yd
individual medley, first place in the
100 yd backstroke, and swam on
the winning 200 yd. freestyle relay
team.
Harrington in the Scout division
won first in the 75 yd individual
medley, first in the 50 yd back-
stroke and swam on the winning
medley relay team.
Individual winners were:
Explorer Division: Diving, 3rd
place, Johnny Lyon; Medley Relay,
3rd place, Tom Barlow, Joe Steen,
and Don Draper; 100 yd Breast
stroke, 3rd place, Lyon; 100 yd
Freestyle, 3rd place, Draper; 100
yd Backstroke, 1st place, Stevens;
50 yd freestyle, 2nd place, Barlow;
150 yd Individual Medley, 1st place,
Stevens; 200 yd Freestyle Relay,
1st place, Stevens, Steen, Draper,
and Barlow.
Scout Division: Diving, 6th
place, Dickie Hickerson; 75 yd
Medley Relay, 1st place, Badgett,
Richard Miller, and Harrington;
50 yd Breaststroke, 1st place,
Badgett; 50 yd Backstroke, 1st
place, Harington; 75 yd Individual
Medley, 1st place, Harrington; 100
yd Freestyle Relay, 3rd place, Bill
Jones, Miller, Hickerson, and Rich
ard Badgett.
. >p Since
Goddess of Liberty f Loses
ome of Her Mystery
AC ROY RASOR
hT 1 )-—Texas’ “lady
lost
of
her
leems to know whence
'r how, though she rose
;st pinnacle in the state
and has firmly held it
“Goddess of Liberty”
atop the state capitol
nsheathed sword point-
itl' in her right hand
b star of Texas raised
left.
•nerations have seen her
ifar. Then an old por-
to the state library
• ire was made just be-
ddess was lifted to her
i. She stood ceremo-
a tiny plank platform
have been a crate end.
ound her in the south-
Is of the then-unfinish-
, itol were several score
men. Some were dress-
jst fashions of the win-
.7-88. Some were ob-
rkmen playing hookey
jobs.
ly the lady had just
iembled. Biographical
and historical notes in the state
archives and the picture itself
show the statue was made in sec
tions and had to be put together
before it was placed in position.
T5 : ck hair wreathed by an olive
bi’anch hangs low upon her fore
head while a platted strand circles
her neck and drops around her
left shoulder. Stem eyes peer
from under heavy brows. The jaw
sets firmly with a square chin,
drawing determined wrinkles be
tween her cheeks and prominent
nose.
Quipped assistant documents li
brarian Mrs. Elizabeth Boden-
stein:
“Perhaps it is well that she rose
to the heights she did.”
Now you can tell better what
she looks like—she’s no lady fair.
But other details of the lady
still remain a mystery.
Raising Accounts Vague
Newspaper accounts of the stat
ue at the time of its raising were
vague and incomplete. They car
ried three versions of her height,
12, 14 and 19 feet. The picture
indicates 12 or 14 is the goddess’
likely height and 19 the overall
height to the tip of the star.
An edition of the Austin Daily
Statesman of Feb. 26, 1888, told
that the goddess “has been raised”
to her position on the dome, but.
exact date of the lift and other
details wei’e omitted. An archive
letter says A1 Friedley and Her
man Vosshart were “responsible.”
From Belgium, Maybe?
Another archive document hints
she may have come from Belgium
but there’s nothing to say conslu-
sively.
The picture came to the library
by chance.
Austin bai-ber Tom Hood’s son-
in-law, Lt. Col. William C. Lind-
ley, was stationed with the ROTC
in Montgomery, Ala. It seems the
Colonel had a friend interested in
antiques who one day showed him
the picture he had picked up for
a song in Montgomery. The pur
chase had been made mainly for
the antique frame.
The Colonel talked his non-Tex
an friend out of the picture and
brought it back to Austin. Hood
and Lindley arranged with Sen.
Dorsey B. Hardeman, San Angelo,
to have the picture suitably framed
and placed on loa'n in the capitol.
State librarian Thomas J. Gib
son says it will soon be hung on
disnlay in the library.
RARE PICTURE OF STATUE ATOP CAPITOL DOME—This rare picture, which came
to the Texas Library in Austin by chance this year, will soon be displayed in the state
capitol. It gives a seldom seen closeup look at the statue of the “Goddess of Liberty”
which graces the dome of the state capitol. Apparently it was made just before the statue
was raised to its lofty perch in the winter of 188. The picture belongs to Lt. Col. William
C. Lindley, son-in-law of Tom Hood, an Austin barber. Col. Lindley obtained the picture
from a friend in Montgomery, Ala., who had purchased the picture for its antique frame.
not want India to take part in
the conference. He declined
to answer when asked if Rhee
had issued such a condition.
The seventh General Assembly
reconvened for a seven-minute ses
sion at which its president, Lester
B. Pearson, Canadian foreign sec
retary, called for a maximum of
harmony and good will in working
on arrangements for the Korean
political conference provided in the
armistice.
The Iron Curtain diplomat, who
would not be identified, said Mos
cow feels the conference should
be ‘roundtable’ i-ather than another
Panmunjom.” He was referring to
the system at Panmunjom in which
U. N. Command representatives
sat across the table from Commun
ist representatives.
Soviet Delegate Andrei Y. Vi-
shinsky was affable but mum as
usual as he entered the assembly
hall. He was busy writing a state
ment as Pearson spoke, but Pear
son adjourned the session before
Vishinsky or any other delegate
made an attempt to get the floor.
Asked if he would have a reso
lution, Vishinsky told a reporter,
“What do you think?” He later
said “Da,” which is Russian for
“yes.” It was expected the reso
lution would embody some of the
elements mentioned by the Iron.
Curtain diplomat, who talked with
a newspaperman after Vishinsky
huddled with Communist bloc del
egates in the assembly lounge.
Lodge to Lead Off
Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge
Jr., chief U. S. delegate, will lead
off the formal debate in the polit
ical committee Tuesday with a
short statement on four resolutions
whipped up is long conferences last
week. The assembly instructed the
political committee to work on the
problem, and the chairman, Joao
Carlos Muniz of Brazil, expects
some lengthy and often heated de
bate in the next few days.
Lodge said he had nothing to
say Monday, but he was known to
maintain the U. S. stand that Rus
sia may be invited to the peace con
ference if the “other side (the
North Koreans and Red China)”
want them to sit on their side.
Lodge also is known to maintain
his view that India should not take
part in. the conference since India
(See CONFERENCE, Page 4)
Portrait Artist
Ramon Froman
Back at MSC
Ramon Froman, portrait .artist,
began Monday to paint portraits
at the MSC for A&M and College
Station patrons.
Froman has lived in Dallas for
nine years, but received most of
his art training at Chicago. He
has taught art throughout the
United States for several years.
His sponsor, the MSC Art Gal
lery has sponsored several pre
vious visits to the MSC. His cus
tomers seem pleased with his w'ork
and his personality which enter
tains his customers during the one
hour sittings. The secret to his
success as a portrait painter is his
personality which enables him to
bring the real life expressions of
the sitter out in the portrait.
He can be seen doing his famous
charcoal portraits near the foun
tain room of the MSC through
Wednesday. Froman said that he
admired the interest the art stu
dents had, and hoped his work
would inspire them in some way, J