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COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), Texas, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1953
Price Five Cents
Germans Grateful for Texan
Food Shipment to Refugees
By BOB HENDRY
Battalion Feature Editor
“Tsars came to the old woman’s
eyes when the interpreter told her
we had come with food from Amer
ica,” said Dan Russell, agricultural
economics and rural sociology de
partment .
The thin old lady was a German
refugee who had fled from com
munist rule in her native Czecho
slovakia. Russell had brought her
food from a shipment sent under
his supervision by Texans of every
race and religion.
Russell sailed Aug. 16 from
Houston with the provisions and 43
heifers which had been collected by
churches of all denominations.
Appreciate Help
“Many refugees would starve
without our help,” Russell said.
“They appreciate very much what
America is doing for them:”
“The heifers,” he explained”,
“were distributed to refugee farm
ers. After the' farmer has a small
herd, he is supposed to give some
of the offspring to another person
who is in the same shape he was.”
“The West Germans Could sup
port themselves if America would
let them trade,” Russell said, “but
they cannot take care of the ref
ugees, too.
Food to Refugees
“We are sending food to refu-
ugees and not to West Germans.
The Germans are not asking for
charity and would be insulted if
American sent food to them.”
Russell visited several European
lountries, and he believes Germany
js the most progressive of them
All. The most noticeable difference
is between France and Germany.
“German currency is strong,” he
said. “Buildings and roads are be
ing repaired, and the average work
er has plenty to eat. His family
is very strong, they have high mor
als, and the church is very power
ful.
“In France, the currency is so
weak that you nearly have to car
ry a pocket-full of 50,000 franc
bills to buy anything, The french
people have very low morals.”
Texas First
Texas is first in Germany —
Texas brand cigarettes, that is.
Using Texas as' a trademark, the
company sells the cigarettes six for
a quarter. Incidentally, ‘Texas’ in
German is pronounced the same as
In English.
“Many things are cheaper in
Germany, but some are higher,”
Russell said. “Coffee, for instance,
sells at five dollars a pound and 20
cents a cup. But that doesn’t hurt
the German much, because he does
not drink it.
“Germans drink beer instead. It
is like water at an American meal.”
Russell was accompanied on the
trip by W. Bassett Orr, of Bryan,
secretary of feed producers, and
Glenn Fuller, 4-H club member
from Houston.
News Flashes
Never Fa it Enrolls
Under Suspicion
NORMAN, Okla.—University of Oklahoma enrollment officials
suspected a prank when they found among the new freshmen one
named Never Fail. A check proved he was a real, live freshman.
Another showed he had never failed in high school.
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NEW YORK—Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis) is seek
ing aid from Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. in a move
to get the United Nations to oust an official who McCarthy
says has been aiding communism. McCarthy announced he
was taking the case up with Lodge, chief U. S. delegate to
the U. N.
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SAN FRANCISCO—Two young Danes, traveling around the world
on motorcycles, arrive here today aboard the SS President Cleveland.
Svend E. Pedersen, a 28-year-old mechanical engineer and Niels N.
Anderson, a 27-year-old clerk, started out from Copehhagen, May 27,
and have traveled through Germany, Austria, Yugoslavia, Greece,
Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and India.
At "A At
FARMER CITY, Ill.—An elderly widow willed $2,000 of
her $190,000 estate to her pet cat. The will of Mrs. Lena
Maulde Rankin, filed for probate in Dewitt County Court at
Clinton yesterday, stipulated that what’s left when the cat
dies goes equally to the American Cancer Society and the
Illinois Heart Association.
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WASHINGTON—Capital Airlines has asked the Civil Aeronautics
Board to step in and regulate serving of liquor on commercial airlines.
Capital had protested last July against the advertising and sale of
alcoholic beverages by Northwest Airlines. The CAB’s enforcement
bureau declined to take action. Capital asked the full board to
reconsider.
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DETROIT—Somewhere in Detroit today a muscular bur
glar is intent on becoming even stronger. Police are looking
for the burglar who broke into a city athletic equipment
storage building last night by ripping some siding off a wall.
From a wide variety of athletic gear only a weight lifter’s
bar bell and a dozen weight were reported missing.
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SAN FRANCISC ( 0—Four hundred twenty-eight more American
former prisoners of war in Korea arrive today 1 p.m. EST on the
Gen. William Black. The transport is bringing 351 soldiers, 56 airmen,
16 Marines and five Navy men—plus 1577 soldiers and 8 airmen home
on rotation.
Dorm Stamps
Help Pay
Son 's Tuition
A former student has placed
stamp machines in each dormi
tory to raise part of the
money for his son’s tuition.
Jack Williams ’26 of San
Marcos owns and operates the
machines. His son is now a
Freshman at A&M.
Williams runs the machines
on a commission basis and his
son maintains them.
The machines are not of
ficially connected with the
post office.
Some Senior Officers
May Be in Se parate Unit
Some seniors with cadet rank
may live together this year in a
separate organization unless posi
tions are found for them in regular
corps units.
Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant,
said every effoi’t is being made to
find positions with rank for senior
privates living on one floor of
dormitories 5 and 11.
Davis said all these seniors are
capable of holding rank.
This is the plan that Davis has
outlined for giving cadet rank to all
senior privates.
Some of these men will be as
signed to units that do not have
enough senior officers. Each unit
has a quota of 10 seniors. Some
units have not filled this quota.
When each unit has reached its
quota, more seniors may be added
on the company commander’s re
quest. These men will act as as-
Air Force Chops
From 27,000 to
Graduates
8,000 Men
Kyle Field
Committee
Seating
F ormed
Presiderit of the student senate
tde P. Trotter Jr. appointed last
night at a special session a com
mittee of four students to investi
gate and present a solution!to the
Kyle field seating plan for the 1953
football season.
The comxnittee, headed by Sena
tor Seymour J. Smith of Bizzell
hall representing all non-military
students, has representatives from
every class in the, corps but fresh
men.
V. M. ■ (Monty) Montgomery,
head yell leader, will represent the
eeniors on the committee; John
Benefield, a junior senator, repre
sents the corps juniors; and Don
Dixon a sophomore senator will
speak for corps sophomores.
Committee to Investigate Seating
The committee is charged with
the responsibility of investigating
registration and coming up with a
satisfactory seating plan.
“One problem the committee will
have this year,” said Trotter, “is
that of what to do with students
Weather Today
CLOUDY
Cloudy with no prospect of
change in next 24 hours. Low
this morning 67; high today 97;
low tonight 67.
who did not pay their activity
fees.”
Formation of the committee was
moved last spring at the final
meeting of the senate, but was
tabled until last night’s meeting.
Originally, the motion asked for
a committee composed of a corps
student from each class. However,
the freshman election has not yet
been held and the freshman vice
president will bg*the only class rep
resentative on the student senate.
The motion was amended last
night to hold the committee to the
three classes presently represent
ed on the senate.
An election for senators from
non-military dormitories, 2, 4 and
post graduate halls, will be held as
soon as the election committee can
call for filings for the office.
The senator from Leggett hall
will be Rodney Heath, who was
named Law Hall senator last
spring. Law was made a freshman
dormitory and Leggett was made
a civilian dormitory this year.
Heath lives in Leggett, so the
senate felt it would be a natural
switch to make.
Only Three Absences Allowed
Trotter warned the senators,
just to prior to adjournment, that
more than three absences from
regular meetings during the two
semesters of senate business, would
mean automatic dismissal from the
senate.
There were 11 absentees last
night. Most of them were ascribed
to a lack of adequate notice for the
meeting which was a special ses
sion.
Election Commission
Meets This Afternoon
A special meeting of the election
commissions has been called this
afternoon.
The meeting is scheduled at 5
p.m. in the Student Activities of
fice.
Purpose is to make plans for
electing senators from non-military
dorms 2 and 4,
Panel Studies
Civil Defense
Here in MSC
A panel of Texas women will dis
cuss their part in defense and dis
aster relief during a regional con
ference today and Thursday.
Mrs. 1 Grace Martin, assistant
district agent for the Texas Agri-
ctiltural Extension service, and
state coordinator of women’s activ
ities in civil defense, will be moder
ator.
Others on the panel are Mrs.
Van Hook Stubbs of Wortham,
president, Texas Federation of
Women’s clubs; Ruth Huey, Texas
Education agency, Austin; Mildred
Garrett, State Health department,
Austin; and Mattie Treadwell, Fed
eral Civil Defense administration,
Dallas.
How community leaders can han
dle disasters and emergency situ
ations will be the purpose of the
conference.
The panel, part of the two-day
conference program, will be at 4
p.m. at the MSC.
The 5 billion dollar cut in air
force funds has caused the AF-
ROTC to start chopping its num
ber of graduates from 27,700 to
8,000.
Air force spokesmen told The
Battalion that 11,000 air science
cadets will be graduated by June
1954. The air force will reduce this
number until it reaches 8,000.
The majority must be willing to
fly. A small percentage enrolled in
selected scientific or technical
fields will get commissions.
A&M freshmen have recently
completed flight training physicals.
Sixty-six percent passed the exam
inations, according to air force fig
ures. Air force officials here said
this was high percentage to pass
the physical.
Slim Chances
Freshmen who failed to pass the
tests were told chances of receiv
ing an air force contract were slim.
Forty-two have transferred to ar
my ROTC, an air force source said.
Juniors, who do not plan to fly,
have already been refused con
tracts. A small number enrolled in
engineering courses received con
tracts. The air force reserved one
contract for a student neither plan
ning to fly nor enrolled in a scien
tific or engineering course.
A&M’s army ROTC unit has ten
tatively accepted 25 former a i r
science students for advanced con
tracts.
Advanced Contracts
All seniors already holding ad
vanced contracts were allbwed to
keep them. But the air force has
told these students that unless they
fly or graduate in selected tech
nical courses they will not be com
missioned.
They will be eligible for the
draft. After two years active du
ty, they will receive a commission.
All veterans will receive commis
sions. All January cadet graduates
will receive commissions.
Last July, the air force unit here
received orders that all seniors not
intending to fly would lose their
contracts. The older stated that
1,000 engineering or science stu
dents throughout the nation could
keep their contracts. This figure
was in addition to those planning
to fly.
Students returning to school ear
ly, were told if they didn’t meet
these qualifications, their contracts
would be revoked.
Nothing Definite
Last week college and air force
souices told The Battalion that the
contract situation was continually
changing. Nothing was definite.
The college was not sure how to
register returning advanced air
force students.
Final orders concerning present
air force policy arrived here the
afternoon before registration.
Local BOW Lands
At San Brancisco
sistants to the other officers.
If some seniors still are not as
signed to regular units, they will
receive cadet rank and live to
gether in one organization. They
will be assigned to regular units
for drill periods.
Davis said it was not definite
that these remaining unassigned
seniors would form a separate
unit. That part of the plan is only
being considered.
Housing Office *
There are 94 senior privates liv
ing in dormitories 5 and 11, ac
cording to Housing office figures.
Dormitory 5 is housing 56 army
ROTC senior privates. There are
38 air force ROTC senior privates
living in dormitory 11.
All seniors this year must hold
rank to remain in the cadet corps.
Casting Begins
For Aggie Players
Casting will begin Monday at 8
p.m. in the Music hall for the Ag
gie Players’ first performance of
the year, “Mr. Roberts.”
C. K. Esten, director of the play
ers, will conduct casting Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday night at 8.
Esten said there will be one fe
male part in the show, and he urg
ed any girl who is interested in the
pai-t to be present Monday night.
This casting will be the first
called meeting of the year for the
players.
Esten also said anyone in Col
lege Station or Bryan who is intei*-
ested in a part in the play should
be at this first meeting.
“Mr. Roberts” will be given No
vember 9 and 10.
A College Station man who en
listed in the army when he was 13
years old will arrive in San Fran
cisco today after being held prison
er by the Communists since Nov
ember, 1950.
Sgt. Hubert H. Hawkins, 21,
falsified his enlistment paper's
when he was in the sixth grade at
Lincoln school. He is among 14
Texans landing today. He is the
son of Mrs. Elenora Washington,
Glenora addition.
A member of the 9th armored
calvary, Hawkins was leader, of his
group when captured.
“He seemed to want to join the
army, and I:even talked with him
about it,” said James Hawkins,
Hubert’s teacher and no relation.
System Officials
Discuss Problems
Key officials of the A&M Col
lege system met here Tuesday
morning to discuss organization
improvements, program planning
and reporting, and the employe
training program.
Attending the two-hour meeting
were Chancellor M. T. Harrington;
Asst. Chancellor E. L. Angell; Dr.
David H. Morgan, president A&M
college; Dr. E. H. Herefoi’d, Arl
ington State college president; E.
J. Howell, Tarleton State college
president; Dr. E. B. Evans, presi
dent of Prairie View A&M; G. G.
Gibson, director of agriculture ex
tension; Di\ R. E. Patterson, vice
director of agriculture experiment;
Dr. A. L. Folweiler, Texas Forest
Service director; Dr. H. W. Barlow,
director of engineering experiment
station and engineering extension
service; Vice Chancellor of Agri
culture D. W. Williams; T. R.
Spence, manager o f physical
plants; W. C. Freeman, comptrol
ler; and Henderson Shuffler, di
rector of information.
This was one of four meetings
the group has during the year to
discuss system problems.
have to much interest in school,
Hawkins said.
There are seven children in
Hawkins’ family. They are Richard
Student Affairs
Costs Center j
$20,000 Yearly
The Memorial Student Center*
spent $20,000 last year on student,
activity programs.
This was shown in a budget re
port last night at a meeting of the-
MSC directorate. Wayne Stark,
director of the Center presented-
the report.
Stark said business establish
ments in the Center have never lost
He was a fair student, but didn’t | moneys but during the past fiscal
year the entire MSC went in th8 ;
red $40,000.
This deficit is paid mostly from
Exchange store profits. Some is
met by money made in the busi
nesses of the Center.
The directorate, which include®-
the various committee members of
the MSC and advisors, listened. t» :
budget reports and financial reor
ganization of the Centei’, then dis
cussed holding “retreat” again next
year.
“Retreat” is a “get acquainted”
trip which the MSC directorate and;
council members made just before;
school started.
The trip was “such a success**
that the directorate plans to. hold;
it again next yeay.
Members of ' the two group®
which took the trip expressed at
last night’s meeting their apprecia
tion to the Texas Power and Light
corporation for the use of the com
pany’s camp at Trinidad.
Miss Margaret Long, new pro
gram consultant at the Center,
was introduced to the directorate.
Plans also were made last night
to handle 300 freshmen who hav®;
signed up for various committees,
in the Center this year.
An awards recognition system
was discussed, as well as a brief
run-down on all the major activi
ties in the MSC for the coming
school year.
Thursday night’s after yell prac
tice was set aside by the directorate
for meetings of the individual com;*
mittees.
Hubert H. Hawkins
Returned Prisoner
Washington, 31, Anchorage,
Alaska; L. C. Washington, 28,
Houston; Mrs. Eddie Lee Hebert,
26, LaPort; Guree Hawkins, 22,
with the infantry in Germany;
Goree Hawkins, 22, Anchorage,
Alaska; Hubert; Ruby Jewel
Hawkins, 18, College Station.
Mrs. Washington is employed at
the Agriculture building.
MARCHING TO AGGIELAND—These seven drum majorettes will lead the Texas City
high school band during halftime at the A&M-University of Houston football game here
Sept. 26. The Texas City band, called the Stingarees, will represent the University of
Houston. The A&M band also will perform during the halftime. The girls are, left to
right, Patsy Matthews, Bette McAninch, Doris Couch, Sue Wason, Nancy Freeman,
Denalda Hale and Sally Slaughter.
Five Staff Members
In ASEE Group
Five men will represent A&M
this year as divisional officers and
committee members of the Ameri
can Society for Engineering Edu
cation.
Howard W. Barlow, dean of
engineering, will be on the ASEE
society functions committee; Dean
of the College J. P. Abbott, execu
tive committee of the humanistic-
social division; Dr. J. G. Potter,
physics division; Robert L. Peuri-
foy, secretary of the civil engineer
ing division; and George H.
Thompson, public relations com
mittee.
The ASEE will hold its 62nd an
nual meeting June .14-18 at the
Univei’sity of Illinois, Urbana, Ill.
Corps Must Don
Uniform Thursday
The Corps of Cadets will go into
uniform beginning Thursday at
drill.
Ties will not be worn from
reveille to retreat, but they will be
worn after retreat, Saturday
afternoon, Sunday, at formal oc
casions, off the campus and when
specifically ordered.
Reorganization
Affects Three
Soviet Bureaus
MOSCOW, Wednesday,
Sept. 16—UP) — The reorgan
ization of Soviet government
structure pushed ahead to
day with announcement that
three ministries, abolished last
March in the reshuffle following
the death of Stalin, have been re
established.
They are those of highway trans
port, geology, and aviation produc
tion.
These changes bring to nine th®
government ministries affected by
reorganization during the past
three days.
Tuesday’s changes dealt with
foodstuffs, manufactured consumer
goods, domestic and foreign trade
and state farms.
The new ministries announced
today are the Ministry of Auto
Transport and Highways which
will be headed by Ivan Alexsevich
Dixhachev; Ministry of Geology
and Protection of Resources, to be
headed by Petr Yakovievich Antro
pov, and the Ministry of Aviatidn
Production, to be headed by Petff
Vasilevich Dementiev.