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Number 119 : Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), Texas, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1953
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NEWS FLASHES
Bums, Yanks
Start Series
^ Today in NY
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK—Casey Sten
gel’s proud New York Yank
ees and Charlie Dressen’s
powerful Brooklyn Dodgers
sought to reach previously un
sealed heights today as t h e
two championship clubs open
ed the 50th World Series be
fore some 70,000 spectators at
Yankee Stadium.
•
FAIRMONT, W. Ya. — Two
West Virginia University stu
dents from Morgantown, W.
Va., were charged with armed
robbery yesterday in the hold
up of a Fairmont hotel own
er.
•
WASHINGTON—The Uni
ted States is nearly ready to
sign a new agreement with
France pledging 385 million
dollars in added American
military contributions to help
crush Communist threat in
Indochina.
•
NEW YORK—The Baltimore
Orioles today set up in busi
ness as a major league club
for the first time in 50 years.
In 62 swift minutes last eve
ning a syndicate of wealthy
Baltimore industrialists head
ed by Clarence W. Miles
bought control of the impover
ished St. Louis Browns for
$2,475,000, agreed to pay out
standing debts of about $600,-
000 and announced they would
spend “all the money we can”
to transform the seventh-place
team into a winner.
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TOKYO — A young North
Korean pilot who flew a Rus
sian-built MIG-15 to South
Korea Sept. 21 is in Okinawa
helping American fliers test
the jet fighter, an authorita
tive source said today. Where
abouts of both the MIG and
its pilot had been secret.
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AND PICTURES, TOO—Doug Krueger, A&M junior, reads
the latest letter from one of his new fans. He has received
more than 200 letters from girls in Germany since school
opened.
News Briefs
Morgan Back From
Highway Engineers
Meet;
Confer
PRESIDENT DAVID H. Morgan
and Dr. Dale F. Leipper re
turned last night by airplane from
a meeting in New Orleans with
the committee on marine sciences
of the Southern Regional Educa
tional board.
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MORE THAN 400 people attend
ed the opening meeting of the 27th
annual highway engineering short
course in the Memorial Student
Center today. Chancellor M. T.
Harrington welcomed the group to
the campus. The short course is
sponsored by the civil engineering
department, in cooperation with
the state highway department.
* * *
DIARRHEA still leads,the week
ly disease report for Brazos coun
ty. Twenty nine cases were re
ported, 12 in College Station and
17 in Bryan. Strep throat is next,
with 11 cases here and 10 in Bry
an. There are 14 cases of influenza
in the county, seven each in Col
lege Station and Bryan.
* * *
NOW A STUDENT in the air
Weather Today
NO WEATHER
Clear today. No winds, no rain,
no clouds, no weather. High yes
terday, 97. Low this morning, 62.
High today, 97. Expected low to
night, 63.
force basic pilot school at Reese
air force base is 2nd Lt. William
E. Campbell ’52. He is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. William G. Camp
bell, McAllen.
* * *
THE ECONOMICS department
will show two films Monday, Oct.
5, at 7:30 p. m. in the lecture room
of the Biological Sciences building.
The film titles are “Round Trip,
USA” and “Working Together”.
* * *
POLICEMEN here for the Texas
Municipal Police Training school
recently completed a tour of the
state prison at Huntsville. The men
were given a complete tour of the
prison, including a meal in the
prisoners dining room. Student
policemen were given an examina
tion on the trip when they re
turned.
* * *
A LETTER addressed to “East
ern Texas Ranger, Texas, U. S. A.”
wound up in agriculture extension
service mail Tuesday. It was mail
ed from Curacao, Netherlands West
Indies.
MORE THAN 200 student FFA
members heard Col. Joe E. Davis
speak on leadership last night. The
meeting was held in the MSC. This
year A&M has opened its chapter
to freshmen and sophomores.
* * *
THE PAN AMERICAN Club re
cently elected its officers for the
year. They are Rafel Nunez, pres
ident; Anselmo Cabello, vice presi
dent; Jorge Ducos, secretary; and
Information Center
Opens Here Oct. 23
Guests from all over Texas will
visit the formal opening of the
new Agriculture Information cen
ter here, Oct. 23, according to Tad
Moses, director.
Located south of the System Ad
ministration building, the building
has been renovated at a cost of
$64,000.
Offices of the. agriculture ex
periment station publication staff
and agriculture extension editorial
department will be housed in the
building.
Hugh Langtree, treasurer. The
next meeting will be held Oct. 8.
* * *
JAMES SEARS, son of W. E.
Sears, Henderson, is now assigned
to the U. S. navy auxiliary air sta
tion at Whiting Field, Milton, Fla.,
ass a naval air cadet. He entered
the navy last May after attending
A&M"
* * *
TWO FORMER STUDENTS
have recently been graduated from
the navy’s pre-flight training
school. They are Douglas E.
Sowell, Ireland, and Richard C.
Osburn, Abilene. Both are now as
signed to Whiting Field Fla., for
primary flight training.
* * *
COL. BILLY J. ADAMS ’41, re
cently received his promotion to
lieutenant colonel at ceremonies in
Korea. He is assistant operations
chief of IX corps artillery.
Two Chemical Corps Officers
Reduced In Rank To Private
Senators
To Discuss
Sea tingAga in
The Student Senate will cen
ter its discussion tomorrow
night on committee seniority
within the senate, and the Kyle
field seating arrangement.
For new business, the group
will discuss the fund for
Reveille, the question of non
military students eating in
Duncan Mess Hall and a pay
phone for each dorm.
Many Come by Air Mail
Reduction Is Effective
I mmediately. Says Myers
Cadet Company Commander C. H. Sepulveda and his
executive officer, Ben F. Fort of A Chemical Corps, have
been reduced to the rank of private, effective immediately,
said Col. Shelly P. Myers, PMS&T.
The action was taken when an investigation showed that
Fort lied to an Army officer Thursday when asked why he
was not at drill. Fort also gave the officer a fictitious name.
Sepulveda was reduced for turning in a false report show
ing that Fort had been at drill when he actually was absent.
The following material is quoted from the military de
partment’s investigation:
Fort was driving his car down military Walk Thursday
^afternoon while freshmen
from the composite regiment
200 Girts Write
To A&M Student
By JERRY BENNETT
Battalion Co-Editor
Doug Krueger, junior from New
Braunfels, can’t complain about
never getting mail from a girl.
He has received more than 200
letters in feminine handwriting
since the beginning of school.
And each letter has been from a
different girl.
Krueger doesn’t claim to be a
“ladies man.” He attributes his
sudden popularity to a short article
which appeared late this summer in
a German newspaper.
Complained to Friend
Just before school started,
Krueger was complaining to a
friend that he was having trouble
getting a date in New Braunfels.
His friend had just returned from
Germany.
He told Krueger that nobody in
Germany had trouble getting a
date. The friend wrote to a Ger
man newspaper asking it to print
that Krueger would like to corres
pond with some girls.
“And the letters are still coming
in,” Grueger said. Many have
Eighteen Enrolled
In Police School
Eighteen city policemen from all
parts of the state are enrolled in
the second 1953 session of the Tex
as Municipal Police Training school
now meeting here.
These men meet class five days
a week, six and a half hours a day.
The school will run through Oct. 2.
These attending the school are
V. M. Alegria, Kingsville; Glen H.
Blythe, Irving; Burl H. Boyd,
Garland; Lavern M. Davis; Wichita
Falls; C. G. Escobedo, Harlingen;
H. F. Freeman Jr., Baytown; Roy
J. Jones, San Angelo; Walter F.
Lampmann, Seguin; D. W. Leonai-d,
Corpus Christi; Grady McMahan,
Garland; and Harrell C. Mathis,
San Angelo.
Other students of the school are
R. H. Moeck, Harlingen; F. M.
Pendergrass, Kingsville; Or in
Rogers, Gainsville; Robert E.
Rohde, Hearne; J. H. Street, Cle
burne; J. N. White, Palacios; and
Louie Wootton, Kerrville.
photographs enclosed. Most o f
them are sent by airmail.
Krueger said he hasn’t had time
to read all his mail. “I have enough
trouble trying to look at most of
the pictures,” he said.
The New Braunfels cadet doesn’t
have to worry about people read
ing his new girl friend’s letters.
Most of them are written in Ger
man. Krueger knows enough of
the language to understand the
letters.
But he’s not the jealous type
anyway. He has given away many
of the letters to his friends here.
And he has some more for anyone
who would like them.
Expected Few Answers
When the request was sent to
the German newspaper, Krueger
and his friend expected only a few
answers.
“We didn’t know what we were
getting into,” Krueger said.
Wonder If
They Enjoyed
The Game?
The man walked into the
grandstand at last Saturday’s
game with a freezer box under
his arm.
He sat down, put the box be
tween his legs, and began to
pass out paper cups to his
friends around him.
Then he reached into the
box, and poured set-ups for
everyone.
He reached in his coat
pocket and pulled out a bottle
of whiskey.
As he lifted the bottle to
pour, an arm came over his
shoulder and took the bottle
from him. He turned around to
speak to the smiling man who
held his bottle.
The man, still smiling, held
out his idenification.
He was H. W. (Rip) Collins,
the Bryan chief of police, who
had just been waiting to make
sure the man had whiskey on
state property.
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READY, AIM—Freshmen cadets swarm over the 105 mm. howitzer recently placed in
the quadrangle of Law and Puryear halls. Also included in the array of artillery are the
two 57 mm. anti-tank guns which were in front of Ross hall last year.
were marching to drill. The
officer who turned in the re
port stopped Fort and asked
him why he was not at drill.
“I have a military,” Fort said.
The officer then asked him to pro
duce the medical excuse legally ex
cusing cadets from drill. Fort
looked through his pockets and
then told the officer he must have
left the military in his room.
When the officer asked Fort
what his name was, Fort gave him
a fictitious name. The officer then
asked him to report the next morn
ing with the military.
After Fort and the officer had
separated, Fort went to the hospi
tal and tried to get a military to
cover the drill period.
He arrived at the hospital after
the period had ended and the nurse
on duty told him he would have to
see the college doctor the next day
in order to have the request ap
proved.
Friday morning, Fort went to
the hospital, obtained a military
from the college doctor and had it
made out to the fictitious name he
had given the Army officer.
(See REDUCTION, Page 4)
Non-Regs to Eat
In Duncan Hall;
Start Monday
The east wing of Duncan
dining hall will be opened
Monday morning, for family-
style feeding of non-military
students living in dormitories
2, 4 and 5.
Purpose of the action, said J. G.
Peniston, chief of college subsis
tence, is for the convenience of
non-military students living in the
upperclassmen corps area.
Non-military students living in
the three numbered dormitories
who have paid subsistence fees,
may use their meal tickets for eat
ing in Duncan, Peniston said.
For non-military students who
haven’t paid for meal tickets, and
desire to begin eating in Duncan,
the subsistence department is sell
ing tickets good for the remainder
of the fee period ending Oct. 16.
Non-military students may buy
meal tickets for $1.23 a day good
through Oct. 16. The tickets must
be purchased from the subsistence
office in Sbisa hall.
Meal tickets will be issued after
Oct. 16 from the Fiscal office for
an entire fee period only. The sub
sistence fee for the period begin
ning Oct. 16 and ending Nov. 1$
is $40.60 and may be paid from
Oct. 1—16 at the fiscal office.
A memorandum concerning time
schedules and method of operation,
for the new dining hall will be
given to all non-military students
living in the corps area within the
next two days, Peniston said.
An unknown number of non-mili
tary student waiters will be needed
to serve students in the new dining
hall.
Kidnappers Hold Fate
Of Millionaire’s Son
KANSAS CITY— OP) —Cold
blooded kidnapers, apparently
adopting delaying tactics, today
kept the fate of 6-year-old Bobby
Greenlease from his anguished par
ents.
The child, son of a millionaire
automobile dealer, was abducted
two days ago while attending
classes at the French Institute of
Notre Dame De Sion, a private
school.
A spokesman for the family said
no contact with the person or per
sons holding the boy had been
made. The father, Robert C. Green-
AF Seniors
Assignments
Ready Soon
Every air science IV cadet
eligible for rank will have a de
finite assignment soon.
Maj. H. O. Johnson of the air
science department is making a
study of outfit rosters and com
paring them with lists of seniors.
Recommendations will be sub
mitted to the commandant. Air
science officials hope to have the
new assignments published before
tomorrow’s drill period.
Approximately 49 seniors.still do
not have rank, Of this group, 22
are day students and others are
from the replacement pools which
were set up at the first of the year.
Most of the members of the re
placement units already have been
assigned duties.
Registration Closes
For Dance Classes
Registration for Memorial Stu
dent Center dance classes closes at
5 p.m. today, said Oscar Garcia,
chairman of the MSC Dance com
mittee.
Students who want to register
for the classes may do so today
only at the cashier’s window in
the MSC’s west wing.
Instruction in ballroom, Latin
American, square and exhibition
dancing is available to students
who desire it. The fee for at least
ten lessons and two dances is $3.50
for one semester.
lease, has said he believes profes
sional criminals are involved, mak
ing it more likely Bobby will be
released unharmed.
Police repoi-ted they had ob
tained no new information that
would lead them to believe they
are on the right trail.
Greenlease, through a banker
friend, made arrangements to ob
tain cash at any time of the day or
night should the need arise.
Robert Ledterman, a business as
sociate and spokesman for the fam
ily, said the whereabouts of the
child is a mystery.
“We have received about eight
telephone calls during the day fi’om
cranks who say they have the
child,” Ledterman said yesterday.
“I talk to the persons making the
calls and ask them questions about
the appearance of the boy or what
he was wearing.
Don’t Know Answers
“That ends the conversations be
cause they don’t know the answers.
On several occasions the telephone
rang and there would be nobody
’at the other end when we an
swered.”
Ledterman and Greenlease, say
ing it appeared the kidnapers were
trying to make contact, left the
Greenlease home in suburban Mis
sion Hills, Kan., for a brief period
yesterday. When they returned,
however, they said no contact had
been made.
Greenlease told a reporter:
“About all we can do is sweat,
wring our hands and hope.”
Former Aggie Dies
In Airplane Crash
Wharton Moller ’42, was killed
Monday when the plane he was
piloting crashed at Louisville, Ky.
At least 21 other men were killed
and 20 wounded in the crash.
Moller, who worked for Resort
Airlines, Inc., was flying army
trainees on a charter basis.
■ Moller is survived by his wife,
Doris, and his daughter Cherie, 6.
He was 34. His home was Lbs
Fresnos, where his parents are now
living.
He flew P-40’s in World War II
in Burma, and received three dist
inguished flying crosses and other
decorations.