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Number 108: Volume 53
The Battalion
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (A^gieland), Texas, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1953
Published By
A&M Students
For 75 Years
Price Five Cents
News of the World
US Told to Quit UN
If China Admitted
TAIPEH, Formosa—Sen. William F. Knowland, U. S. senate ma
jority leader from California, said today it would be a betrayal of
Korean casualties “to welcome the murderer Red China” into the
United Nations. Knowland, on a fact-find tour of the Far East, told
a news conference he would press for the United States to quit the U.N.
if Red China is admitted.
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HOLLYWOOD—Crooner Dick Haymes’ estranged wife
says he’ll be a bigamist if he goes ahead with reported plans
to get a quick Nevada divorce and mary actress Rita Hay
worth this month.
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MUNCAN—The Communists today accused the Allies of faking
a list of missing U. N. soldiers, mistreating war prisoners and kidnaping
a Pole who fled a truce supervisory team into American sanctuary.
The Reds unloaded, this barrage as the Korean armistice moved rapidly
into a new phase—the disposal of Red and Allied prisoners who 1'efuse
to return to their homelands.
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CAMP GIFU, Japan—Cpl. T. C. Kimler and Pvt. S. E.
Upton of the 9th Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, were injured
by bullets fired by Japanese policemen wearing civilian clothes
in nearby Naka-Jo last night, a Marine spokesman said today.
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NELSON, B.C.—Seventy-one women and 77 men in the Doukhobor
tent village of Polatka were arrested last night for parading in the
nude in protest to orders that their children attend public schools.
if if if
WALLA WALLA, Wash.—Eight hundred state peniten
tiary inmates followed a half million dollar prison fire last
night with call-wrecking disorders that were quelled only after
guards sprayed their quarters with tear gas three times.
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NEW DELHI—A petite French dressmaker and a Swiss missionary
turned inountain climber have conquered 23,410-foot Nun Kun peak
in Kashmir, according to reports reaching here today. Mrs. Claude
Kogan, 34, of Nice, France, and 27-year-old Pierre Viddoz reached the
nimmit Aug. 28, the report said.
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PUSAN, Korea—The United Nations Prisoner Command
reported today five anti-Communist North Korean prisoners
were beaten, one fatally, in a “nonpolitical” feud among 77
internees en route to the demilitarized zone.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—A federal grand jui'y has indicted seven
white farmers on charges of holding Negroes in slavery and beating
them. One Negro man who tried to run away allegedly died as the
result of a whipping.
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CAIRO, Egypt—Former Queen Narriman has filed suit
for divorce and asked $14,350 a month alimony from exiled ex-
King Farouk, 33.
'At 'At Ac
TOKYO—Maj. David F. MacGhee of Tampa, Fla., said today he
heard while in Communist captivity that the Reds plan to intern 22
American fliers in Manchuria “until the United States recognizes
Red China.”
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MIAMI, Fla—A tropical hurricane with winds up to 100
miles per hour boiled up in the Atlantic today, posing a threat
to the Bahamas islands and the Florida coast. The new-born
hurricane, fourth of the season, was churning toward the
northwest or north-northwest at about six miles per hour.
★ ★ ★
NICOSIA, Cyprus—An earthquake rocked the Paphos district of
this British island off the southern coast of Turkey tbSay. Polibb said
about 30 persons were killed and 100 injured in various villages'.
★ ★ ★
OSLO, Norway—The newspaper Aftenposten reported
today that a 19-year-old Norweigian girl gave birth to quad
ruplets last weekend and that two of the babies—Siamese
twins—died shortly after birth.
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TRIN, Italy—Lex (Tarzan) Barker and his newest mate, Lana
Turner, set off for a secret honeymoon spot today—reportedly the
Isle of Capri. Before departing they sent her daughter and his two
sons, all three by previous marriages, to visit friends in Paris.
4 Some
Always Believe
In Use Of Board’—Morgan
BANG!—Miss Paula Lane, of
Cleburne, will represent the Lone
Star state as Miss Texas in the
national Miss America contest
at Atlantic City this week end.
Thompson, Hudson
Win High Honors
Don D. Thompson, Temple, and
Andrew C. Hudson, Alpine, sen
iors in agricultural economics,
won high honors at national stu
dent section meeting of the Amer
ican Farm Economics association
held in Corvallis, Oregon.
Thompson was elected national
vice-president and Hudson editor
of the organization national pub
lication.
Thompson and Hudson won third
place as a debate team, discussing
farm policy.
The two men represented the
Agricultural Economics club of the
agricultural economics and sociol
ogy departments. Thompson will
be president and Hudson secretary-
treasurer of the club this year.
Old Man Mose says:
“IT’S TERRIFIC
and IT'S HEADIN'
YOUR WAY!”
WHAT IS?
Why, Al Capp's hilarious,
cyclonic comic,
LI'L ABNER!
STARTS TUESDAY
IN
THE BATTALION
Li’l Abner Returns
To Battalion Tuesday
By BOB HENDRY
Battalion Feature Editor
Li’l Abner was 19 years old
when he was bom 19 years ago
and he has stayed the same ever
since.
And still at 19, Li’l Abner re
turns to The Battalion Tuesday.
Created in 1934 by cartoonist Al
Capp, Li’l Abner is probably the
most famous hillbilly in all Amer
ica. Since all of Capp’s cartoon
characters aie created in some
one’s likeness, it is not surprising
Abner is Capp himself.
Gets Idea
Capp claims he got the idea of
his comic strip while listening to a
radio blaring from a courtyard in
New York City’s Greenwich Vil
lage.
“I love mountain music, good old
mountain music, played by a real
hillbilly band,” rasped the radio,
and Li’l Abner was born.
Keeping Li’l Abner an idiot for
his 19 years of life, Capp had to
give the lad something, so he gave
him a wife, Daisy Mae. Daisy
was inspii-ed by movie actress Ve
ronica Lake who was at the peak
of her career at that time.
And, as might be expected, it
wasn’t too many panels later until
the couple became the parents of
a bouncing baby who bounced down
the kitchen drain.
Battalion readers will join the
Yokum family somewhere around
this point.
Draws Features
Capp got his background for
Li’l Abner while wandering
through the hill country of Geor
gia, Kentucky and Tennessee. But
the features of Li’l Abner himself
can be attributed to Kentucky.
While traveling in that state,
Capp decided to draw a portrait
for one of the mountaineers. He
caricatured his own head and the
hillbilly’s body. The mountaineer
refused to accept it.
Capp then traveled to New York
where he became a cartoonist for
the Associated Press. While there,
he drew a comic strip and became
the youngest nationally syndicat
ed cartoonist in the country.
Worst in Country
This strip, however, gained the
reputation of being the worst in
the country and it was soon discon
tinued.
Soon afterwards, Capp became
assistant to Chester Gould, creator
of Dick Tracy. Gould and Capp
had such violent disagreements
that Capp quit and, later, stai’ted
his satire on Tracy, Fearless Fos-
dick, which is combined in his Li’l
Abner strip.
Then came Greenwich and suc-
Jerry Bennett Resigns
Corps Staff Position
Cadet Lt. Col. Jerry Bennett,
Fort Worth, has resigned from the
corps staff.
He would have been corps pub
lic information officer and G-2.
Bennett, who is co-editor of The
Battalion, said he didn’t feel ca
pable of holding both jobs at one
time.
Nine Airmen
Await Rescue
After Crash
LUKE AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz.
OP)—Nine airmen, a blistering day
and a chilly night on the desert
behind them, awaited rescue today,
nearly 20 hours after bailing from
their damaged plane.
They fell into desert terrain so
rugged that two ground rescue
convoys were forced to turn back.
The Air Force now plans to use
a helicopter to pick them up.
Apparently none was injured
after their four-engine K-C97 col
lided with a B-47 while refueling in
flight.
The ships limped back safely,
the Stratojet to Davis-Monthan
Air Force base, Tucson, with its
crew aboard and unhurt.
The flying tanker’s pilot, Capt.
F. F. Jenkinson, brought his plane
down here. Its home base is
Smoky Hill Air Force base, Sa-
lina, Kan.
The search for the ’chutists was
taken up by 35 planes before a
jet pilot sighted them “alive and
appearing unhurt” near the remote
southwestern Arizona town of Sun-
dad.
Their fires directed planes which
dropped supplies during the night.
Class Schedules
Now Available
Class schedule books are
available in the regisfVar’s of
fice.
These books contain a list of
the time when classes will be
offered in courses for both the
fall and spring semesters.
They also list the final exam
schedules for both semesters
and contain a skeleton outline
A of freshman courses which are
required in the various schools.
Directions for registration
are listed in the front of the
book.
Hiccups Cause Man
To Seek Treatment
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 10—hi
jack O’Leary, who has hiccuped at
least once a second, night and day,
for more than five years, is going
to the Portland, Ore. Clinic late
this month for treatment.
His mother, Mrs. Margaret
O’Leary, has said that Jack, 27,
has not been feeling well the past
month and has complained of feel
ing “smothered.”
Jack, who weighed 135 pounds
before his appendix ruptured June
13, 1948, is down to 77 pounds.
He is unable to retain food longer
than an hour and cannot sleep
longer than an hour at a time.
Family Affair Ends
With Two In Jail
BALTIMORE, Sept. 10 — (A 5 ) —
Until police arrived, the fight be
tween Donald Nash, 24, and his
cousin, Louis Jackson, 16, was
strictly a family affair.
Louis was on the ground when
the cops showed up but got up to
help when Donald waded into the
officers, proclaiming, “I’m a para-
ti'ooper and I can lick anybody.”
Both wound up in police court
charged with assaulting the police
men.
Executive Board
Of Mothers Club
To Meet Saturday
The executive board of the fed
eration of A&M Mother’s clubs
will meet at 11 a.m. Saturday in
the social room of the Memorial
Student Center.
Mrs. Gus Becker, Mirando City,
is federation president. The meet
ing will deal with plans for the
coming year.
Presidents of local mother’s clubs
will be present.
President Outlines
Leaders’ Qualities
“We have a few students and some former students who
will continue to believe that the board and other forms of
hazing are necessary to produce ‘a good Aggie’.’’
Dr. David H. Morgan, president of the college, made this
statement during his speech on leadership before a group of
cadet officers during yesterday’s 9 a.m. orientation session
in the ballroom of the Memorial Student Center.
Even though this belief is contrary, Dr. Morgan said, to
the state law, the regulations of the college, the teachings of
psychiatry and psychology, the principles of our democracy,
*the beliefs of our religion,
certain individuals continue to
Reserved Seats
For Town Hall
Not Available
No reserved seat tickets will be
available when Town Hall concert
series tickets go on sale Sept. 11.
The selection committee for the
series has announced that since
concei-ts will be held in the new
physical education building, no re
served seats will be sold.
Non-students and students will
use general admission tickets and
seating at concerts will be on a
first-corn e-first-served basis.
“We have observed this system
of seating at other universities
with a large auditorium and every
one seems to get about the seat
they want,” C. G. (Spike) White,
assistant dean of men for student
activities, said.
All tickets will go on sale Sept.
11 at registration and then will be
on sale at the office of student ac
tivities after Sept. 14. Non-stu
dent season tickets will cost $6.50.
Individual performance tickets will
be $2.00.
Tomorrow Is
Last Chance
For Tickets
The last chance to buy tick
ets for the A&M-Kentucky
football game will be tomor
row.
Tickets for the game, to be
held at Lexington, Ky., Sept.
19, will go off sale here at 5
p.m. Friday.
They are on sale at the ath
letic office, at $3.80 each.
Two hundred tickets have
been sold so far.
think that the board is neces
sary to produce a good Aggie.
He said there are certain
fundamental differences between
democratic and autocratic leader
ship which he would like to bring
out. Leadership in America is
based on persuasion rather than on
force, which, unfoitunately, is used
in other countries, he said.
Based On Education
“Leadership in our country is
based on education rather than on
propaganda. We can maintain our
position in the world only through
our superiority in education since
we do not have superiority in
numbers.”
Dr. Morgan outlined 10 points
of leadership which he considered
most important:
1. Physical and nervous energy
must be possessed by the leader.
He must be ever on the alert not
to permit his feelings at the mo
ment to influence the decision that
he must make.
2. The leader must possess a sense
of purpose and direction. His ob
jectives must be desired 7iot only by
himself but by those to whom he is
responsible.
3. Enthusiasm. He must be
“sold” on the activity under way if
it is to be meaningful and if he is
to benefit from it.
4. He must be friendly . . . in
terested in the men under him. He
should be on the alert to recognize
outstanding performance of an in
dividual.
Cites Story
Dr. Morgan cited a story which a
former student told him to illus
trate his fourth point.
The former student arrived on
the campus some years back. He
had not eaten on the train and was
hungry and tired. An upperclass
man recognized the newcomer’s
plight, and took him to the mess
hall.
After the boy had eaten, the up
perclassman took the new student
around and introduced him to some
of his friends.
Dr. Morgan pointed out that the
(See LEADER, Page 6)
More Freed
Prisoners
Return Home ‘
SAN FRANCISCO—(A*)—Anoth
er 422 American repatriates re
turned home yesterday from long
imprisonments in Communist pris
on stockades in Korea.
Several hundred relatives and
friends cheered their arrival on the
navy transport Gen. John Pope—-
fifth repatriation ship to dock at
Ft. Mason in the past two weeks.
The Marine Phoenix, carrying
374 more ex-prisoners, is sfcited to
dock Sunday, the Military Sea
Transport service said.
Yestei day’s returnees said at
least two so-called “progressives”
—Americans whom fellow prison
ers said cooperated with the Com
munists in prison camp — were
beaten aboard the Pope.
Cpl. Harold W. Beerbower of
Saegerstown, Pa., said about 10
“pros” wei’e aboard the Pope and
they were segregated after the
beatings, which occurred the first
day out of Inchon, Korea.
His account was supported by
Pfc. Thomas M. Caroland Jr. of
Cedar Hill, Tenn.
Caroland said one of the beaten
men was “just a jerk who was
afraid,” but he called the other
“a real rat who spied for the Reds
and got several Americans tor
tured.”
Poage Says PMA :
Forsakes Farmers
TEMPLE, Sept. 10_(^>)—Repre
sentative W. R. Poage, Waco, cen
sured the Production and Market
ing Agency today over acreage
allotments, claiming the agency
was not fighting the farmer’s
battle.
In a meeting attended by West
Texas cotton and wheat farmers,
Poage said that one million acres
normally planted to cotton were
lost during the drought in 1952
and ’53.
If the PMA, in setting up allot
ments for next year, only takes
into consideration actual crop acre
age planted this year every county
in the state will lose its pro rate
share of acreage, he said.
Poage stressed that the PMA
must take the farmers’ figure on
acreage prepared for planting.
“You are the most direct repre
sentative the farmers have,” he
told H. H. Marshall, representing
the PMA at the meeting, “and the
PMA has a duty to the farmers
of Texas and the nation. It is
your obligation to fight the farm
er’s battle,” said Poage.
News Briefs
George Speaks in Houston
COACH RAY GEORGE and the
football staff will speak to the
Houston A&M club Saturday on
A&M football prospects for the
coming year. He will speak at a
dinner in the Orchid Room of the
Alabama Catering Co. at 8 p.m.
* * *
KUNNENKERI John Koratha,
graduate student from Travancore
state, India, has accepted a teach
ing fellowship in zoology at the
University of California at Los
Angeles. Koratha completed two
years of work to receive his mas
ter’s degree here while on an in
ternational scholarship offered by
the Nansen fund of Houston.
* * *
ROY' CLOUD of Kerns, agricul-
tural extension specialist, has ar
rived in Pakistan to join the tech
nical cooperation mission of the
Foreign Operations Administra
tion. Cloud, who holds a BS de
gree from A&M, has been voca
tional agriculture teacher at Roan
oke and Kerns independent school
districts.
* * *
PROF. J. K. RIGGS of the ani
mal husbandry department will
judge beef cattle at the Central
East Texas fair at Marshall, Sept.
8-9. Riggs is in charge of beef
cattle at the college.
* * *
THE TURKEY short course,
Sept. 7-11, got under way here
Monday morning. Thirty are ex
pected to attend the course, ses
sions of which are being held at
the Reid laboratory at the poultry
farm. It is sponsored by the
poultry husbandry department.
* * *
MILTON RISINGER, Reliance,
an A&M veterinary medicine stu
dent, recently won a $300 scholar
ship by placing first in sheep
judging at the national judging
contest in Chicago. Louis P. Am-
sler, assistant Brazos county agent,
presented the scholarship.
* * *
THE HOUSTON AGGIE Ding
bat, publication of the Houston
A&M club, is back in business
again. The publication was sus
pended because of lack of funds.
Former students in Houston donat
ed money to keep the newsletter
going. It is circulated to more
than 3,000 students and former
students.
EXPECTED YIELD for cotton
in the Brazos bottom this year is
three-quarters of a bale to an
acre, which is considered a good
overall average. Pest problems
have been lighter this year than
in the past. The bollworm has
been giving farmers a little
trouble, but the boll weevil has
been light.
* * *
COLLEGE STATION will be
represented today, Wednesday and
Thursday along with 17 other Tex
as cities at a three-day emergency
mass feeding course at Fort Hood.
The course is sponsored by the
Federal Defense administration
and is designed to teach mass feed
ing methods in time of disaster.
Purification, waste disposal, sani
tation, food serving and decontam
ination methods will be taught.
* * *
THE B’NOI B’RITH Hi lie!
Building organization was incor
porated here Monday by Billy B.
Goldberg and Herbert Levy with
the approval of Howard Carney,
Texas secretary of state. The con-
cern was incorporated for 50 yearli
for religious purposes. .