Battalion
Number 267: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1954
Price 5 Cents
Local Men Tour
State A&M Clubs
For the second straight year, of- first week, in addition to those
ficials of the Former Students As- mentioned above, were Pecos A&M
sociation and College made a whirl
wind visit with A&M Chibs in one
sweep. Though traveling by auto
mobile, the touring delegation met
with thirteen Clubs in two weeks
during August;
The unique feature about this
year’s official tour was the fact
that seven of the Clubs attended
are located outside of the state of
Texas, most of whom have never
had a College or Association offi
cial as honored guests.
Over 3,500 miles and six states
fere covered by the two teams
|hieh started the tour on August
[nd at a meeting with the West
[exas A&M Club in San Angelo
Ind ended the interesting trip at
Little Rock with the meeting of the
A&M Club of Arkansas, held at
the Sam Peck Hotel.
In the visiting delegation in its
first week, in addition to Mr. Oscar
T. Hotchkiss, jr., ’24, Port Arthur,
President of the Association and
J. B. (Dick) Hervey, ’42, Secretary,
who attended all the meetings, were
Dr. W. W. Armistead, ’38, Dean
of the School of Veterinary Medi
cine and Mr. E. E. McQuillen, ’20,
Director of the Texas A&M Devel
opment Fund. The visiting team
the second week included Mr. W.
Lambert Ballard, ’22, Dallas, Vice
Pi’esident of the Association, Mr.
John Floyd, basketball coach, and
te John Paul Abbott, Dean of the
Mege, who left a conference at
Oklahoma A&M College at Still-
rater in order to be present for
the meeting of the Kansas City
A&M Club on August 11th.
The Midland A&M Club and the
Permian Basin Club joined forces
for the joint meeting in Midland
August 7th. Also the Lubbock
and South Plains Club held a joint
family picnic at the McKinsey
State Park in Lubbock to greet
the visitors.
Meetings attended during the
Col. Horner Made
TMD Commander
Col. Albert A. Horner, infantry,
lias been named new Chief of the
Texas Military District.
He succeeds Col. Karl E. Hen-
ion, who retired from active mili
tary service Aug. 31.
Col. Horner, former chief of
staff of the V Corps in Germany,
served as Deputy Chief of TMD
from 1947 to 1950. The 52-year-
old veteran is a 1925 graduate of
je U.S. Military Academy.
Club, El Paso A&M Club, Albu
querque A&M Club and the Pan
handle A&M Club at Amarillo.
Meetings attended during the
second week were the Lawton-Fort
Sill Club, Oklahoma City, Tulsa,
Kansas City and St. Louis Clubs.
In reviewing the meetings, Presi
dent Hotchkiss stated, “I was over
whelmed by the keen interest shown
by our A&M men and their wives,
when they were present, at each
of the meetings. Especially appre
ciative were the A&M men outside
the state of Texas who heard for
the first time stories about the
program of the College and Asso
ciation.”
Oscar T. Hotchkiss
Fourteen CS Students
Graduate From A&M
Fourteen students from College
Station were graduated at the
summer graduation from Texas
A&M College:
School of Agriculture—Bachelor
of Science: agricultural administra
tion, Hughie Curtis Rundle; agron
omy, Karl Pfenninger.
School of. Arts and Sciences—
Bachelor of Business Administra
tion: accounting, Wade Lee Can
non and James Lowell Pickett.
Advanced Degrees—Master of
Education: education, James Thom
as Cashion, Floyd Paul Folsom,
Robert Andrew Knapp, and Keith
Trl Roper; industrial education,
Percy Martin Goff; agricultural
education, John Lanfair Shipley.
Master of Science: veterinary
pathology, Charles Hubert Bridges;
electrical engineering, Wilbur J.
Lindsay; civil engineering, Tillman
Arthur Riewe; chemistry, Dixon
Peacock Van Tuyl.
Also receiving degrees were the
following students from Bryan:
Fourth Course
Offered Here
In Supervision
L. K. Jonas, chief supervisor
training of the Texas Engineering
Extension service, today announced
the fourth 40-hour course in super
vision to be held at A&M Sept.
13-17.
The purpose of the course, says
^Imas, is to assist good supervisors
becoming better supervisors.
^Supervisors are management ad-
P^pnistrators at the most important
level in any organization,” Jonas
says.
The course is for supervisors,
superintendents, managers, fore
men, personnel men, gang pushers,
squad foremen, and their assist
ants.
Classes will meet for five days,
eight hours each day in the Memo
rial Student Center.
E. P. Creech Takes
2 Year Burma Tour
E. P. Creech, who received an
M.Ed. degree from A&M in agri
cultural education at the end of
summer school, is going to Burma
Sept. 8 with the Ford foundation
as an agricultural specialist.
Creech will be an agricultural
extension advisor, specializing in
agronomy and animal industries.
He plans to set up an agincultural
program similar to A&M’s Exten
sion Service. During his two year’s
stay in Burma, his headquarters
will be 225 miles north of Ran
goon at Pyinmana.
School of Arts and Sciences—
Bachelor of Business Administra
tion: marketing, William Sidney
Carr.
School of Engineering—Bachelor
of Science: electrical engineering,
Richard Eugene Smith; industrial
education, Frank MacRae Fuschak.
Advanced Degree — Master of
Education: agricultural education,
Elbert Paul Creech and education,
Roggr Earl Bond. Master of Sci
ence: electrical engineering, Wil
liam Floyd Adams; zoology, Car-
roll Christian Jones; physics,
George Richard Pruett.
All A&M Consolidated Grades
To Register Thursday Morning
Non-Farm Employment Up
In Bryan-College Station
Non-farm employment in Bryan-
College Station increased again
during August. The estimate now
is 12,075 non-farm workers here.
Some of the increase is seasonal
and probably of a temporary na
ture.
Contract construction led the way
in making job seekers during Au
gust. Retail establishments were
adding a few workers in anticipa
tion of more business due to the
opening of schools in Bryan and
nearby communities. Cotton har
vest in the area also brings more
business to the stores and more
workers are needed.
The number of unemployed job
seekers registered with the Bryan
office of the Texas Employment
Commission decreased during Au
gust. The 290 job seekers regis
tered with TEC Sept. 1 is quite
a decline from the 444 registered
with the Bryan office Aug. 1.
The Bryan office of TEC had
another good job placement month
in August, in fact one of the best
ever.
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2 New Profs Join
Ag-Eco. Dept.
Two new assistant professors
have joined the department of agri
cultural economics and sociology
at A&M.
Dr. John A. Kincannon of Col
lege Station transferred from the
mathematics department, where he
has taught for eight years. Bom
and reared in Brazos county, Kin-
cannon holds a BS degree in mar
keting and finance, an MS in math
ematics, and a PhD in agricultural
economics, all from A&M.
Clarence A. Moore came to A&M
from the University of Chicago.
He was born at Loraine in Mitchell
county. He holds a BS degree
from West Texas State at Canyon
and an MS from the University of
Illinois at Ui’bana, and he has com
pleted most of the work for his
PhD. from the University of Chi
cago.
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New Classroom Building
For A&M Consolidated High School
Business Administration Dept.
Gets Six New Staff Members
Six new staff members have
been named to the business ad
ministration department, T. W.
Leland, head of the department,
has announced.
Paulino A. Ballesteros, instruc
tor in marketing, received his BS
in business administration in 1949
from the University of California
and his MBA in 1950 from the
University of Kansas. He has
completed all requirements except
thesis for his PhD at the Univer
sity of Illinois. Ballesteros is
married and has one daughter.
Bill Bishop, instructor in ac
counting, received his' B.S. with
major in business administration
from North Texas State, Denton,
in 1948, and his NME from North
Texas State in August, 1954.
Algin G. King, assistant profes-
Fifteen Gun Salute
Gen. Bruce’s Retirement Ceremony
Seen By Several Hundred Viewers
Ira E. Scott Joins
Training Staff
Ira E. Scott of Lubbock has
joined the police training depart-
^nent of the Texas Engineering
Extension service. He will seiwe
as assistant to Wallace D. Beas
ley, the department’s coordinator.
He has been a police sergeant on
the Lubbock police force for the
past seven years and attended the
police training school conducted by
the TEES.
At an impressive review cere
mony attended by several hundred
military and civilian dignitaries,
Lt. Gen. Andrew D. Brace retired
from the Army at 4 p.m. last Wed
nesday after a distinguished ca
reer of 37 years in the service.
A 15-gun salute was fired as
General Bruce entered the review
ing stand, accompanied by Maj.
Gen. Hobart R. Gay, III Corps
commander, and visiting officers
from the air force, navy, marines,
and coast guard.
After messages from the other
armed services were presented,
General Bruce delivered a brief ad
dress.
More than 5,000 Fort Hood sol
diers passed in review to honor
General Bruce. They came from
the Fourth Armored Division, the
First Armored Division, the 35th
Engineer Gi'oup, and the 86th Ord
nance Battalion.
Also retiring from the Army in
the ceremony for General Bruce
were the following:
Colonel Alan L. Fulton, Maj.
John S. Hower, Maj. Wilbur J.-
Lynge, Capt. George H. Whitney,
1st Lt. Frederick N. Martin,
M/Sgt. Ozro K. Franklin, M/Sgt.
Robert Winfield, M/Sgt. Ervin C.
Wilder, SFC Harvey Jaudon, Sgt.
William J. Grant.
Following the review and par
ade a reception was held in honor
of General Brace at the officers’
mess.
On Wednesday he will fly to
Houston to take over his new pos
ition as president of the University
of Houston.
General Bruce was graduated
from A&M in 1916 and entered the
regular army as a second lieuten
ant in June, 1917, while serving
in the First Officers’ Training
Camp at Leon Springs, Tex. He
served there as an instructor for
a short time and then departed for
Europe with the 2nd (Indian Head)
Infantry Division.
During World War I he com
manded a company, a battalion,
and a regiment. Then 24 years
old, he was one of the youngest
lieutenant colonels in the infantry.
He fought in all actions of the
2nd Division at Verdun, Chateau
Thierry, Soissons, Nancy, San
Mihiel, Blanc Mont, and the Meuse-
Argonne in France. He was in
the Army of Occupation in Ger
many until August, 1919. It was
with the 2nd Division that he won
the second highest American medal
for heroism, the Distinguished
Service Cross.
In 1941 after looking over sev
eral possible sites, General Bruce,
who had been assigned to start the
Tank Destroyer Center, selected
the area now known as Fort Hood,
and saw it transformed from ranch
lands into the largest military
training area in the country. Hun
dreds of tank destroyer units—
which distinguished themselves on
battlefields—were trained under
his supervision. He was awarded
a Distinguished Service Medal for
“his service in planning, organiz
ing, establishing, and operating the
Tank Destroyer units whose tacti
cal mission was not previously
contemplated in the organization
of the Army.” In September,
1942, he was rpomoted to major
general .
In May, 1943, he assumed com
mand of the 77th Infantry Divis
ion, which fought in the Guam op
eration; made a famous end run
behind the enemy’s lines on Leyte;
captured the fortress of le Shima,
an operation beter known as the
place where Ernie Pyle was killed;
and participated in the bitter
fighting on Okinawa.
In October, 1947, he became dep
uty army commander of the
Fourth Army at Fort Sam Hous
ton, Tex., where he was primarily
engaged in the vast training activ
ities of five states in ROTC, Na
tional Guard, and Organized Re
serve Corps.
On July 6, 1951, he became com
mandant (president) of the Armed
Forces Staff College at Norfolk,
Va., and was promoted to the rank
of lieutenant general on July 30,
1951. This institution conducts
the joint education of selected sen
ior officers of the army, navy, air
force, and marine corps. General
Bruce completed his duty at this
college on June 30, 1954.
Other decorations received by
General Brace include the Navy
Distinguished Service Medal, an
Oak Leaf Cluster to the Army Dis
tinguished Service Medal, Bronze
Star, Air Medal, Commendation
Ribbon, Purple Heart, and numer
ous service or campaign ribbons.
In World War I he received the
Legion of Honor, three Croix de
Guerre, and the Individual Fourra-
gere from France. In World War
II he received the Philippine Le
gion of Honor, the Philippine Lib
eration Medal, and the Presiden
tial Unit Citation from the Phil
ippine government. However, for
every-day dress, General Brace
wears only four decorations; rib
bons for the Army Distinguished
Service Cross, the Army Distin
guished Service Medal, and the
Air Medal—in a single line, which
he calls his “unification bar.”
Registration at A&M Concolidated school will be at 8:30
a.m. Thursday, according to L. S. Richardson, superintendent.
High school students will register in the gymnasium; grades
five through eight, in the old high school; and grades one
through four, in the elementary school. Classes will begin
Friday morning at 8:30.
The opening of the fall semester has been delayed by the
reshuffling of all upper grades into different buildings. The
four high school classes will move into the new high school
building, which is rapidly nearing completion and is expected
to be ready for occupancy by registration day.
The seventh and eighth grades will move into the pres
ent high school building, and taking over the junior high
school building will be the fifth and sixth grades. Lower
grades will occupy all the elementary classrooms.
School will be in session until June 1, 1955. Holidays
will be Nov. 25 and 26, Dec. 20 through Jan. 2, and March
7 through 11.
Two new courses will be added to' the high school cur
riculum. One, vocational agriculture, will be taught by
Charles Byrd, whose wife has been on the staff for several
years as teacher of home economics.
.■f - Byrd comes to the high school
from A&M’s basic division where
he served as dorm counselor. He
graduated from A&M in 1937 and
has taught vocational agriculture
at Nacogdoches and Denton. The
state approval agency approved
Byrd’s credentials and salary at
the beginning of the summer vaca
tion.
Mrs. Marshall Frazier will be
speech therapist for the system.
She will not join the staff until
mid-semester, because she will be
in clinical practice in the South
west Texas State Teachers College
speech theapy unit at San Marcos
until that time.
In addition to these, six other
new teachers have been added to
the Consolidated faculty. There
will be two new teachers and one
temporary replacement for the
Negro school.
A. R. Orr joins his wife in teach
ing mathematics in the high
school; he will also teach physics.
He recently retired from A&M af
ter 11 years in the mechanical en
gineering department. Prior to
that he served as a high school
principal and school superinten
dent in several Oklahoma public
schools.
High school history and typing
will be taught by William R. Mil
ler, a June graduate of A&M,
where he majored in business and
accounting. He is a native of Cal
vert and served as a pilot in the
Pacific Theater of Oeprations dur
ing World War II.
The new English teacher for
the high school, Robert Knapp, is
a retired naval captain and grad
uate of the US Naval Academy at
Annapolis. He has had previous
teaching experience at the Naval
Academy, the University of Wis
consin, and the University of Tex
as. He was a student at A&M
prior to entering Annapolis during
World War I.
An alumnus of A&M Consolida
ted high school and 1946 graduate
of A&M,.Edsel Jones will return
to his almo mater to teach shop
in the junior high school. He re
cently returned from Korea, where
he served as a lieutenant in the
army.
The other two new faculty mem
ber are Mrs. Ray George, who has
substituted for the past several
years and who holds a degre from
the University of Southern Cali
fornia, and Mrs. J. T. Sloan, Uni
versity of Texas gi'aduate who
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sor in marketing and retailing,
honor graduate of the University
of South Carolina where he re
ceived his AB degree in retainling,
also received his MS degree in re
tailing from New York University.
He is former executive secretary
of Columbia Merchants associa
tion, South Carolina. He is mar
ried and has one child.
John D. Laflin, instructor in ac
counting, is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Oklahoma with MBA de
gree in accounting. He received
his LL.B degree from the Univer
sity of Oklahoma in June, 1954. He
has successfully passed the Okla
homa bar examination and is a
member of the Oklahoma bar.
Col. Henion
Retires After
37 Years Duty
Colonel Karl E. Henion, chief of
the Texas Military district and an
infantry officer of long standing
in the regular army, will retire
Aug. 31 after more than 37 years
of active military seiwice.
A native of Ohio, Colonel Henion
is an alumnus of Case Institute of
Technology in Cleveland, Ohio, and
Army Infantry school and Com
mand and General Staff college.
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, June 6, 1944. After
the Battle of the Bulge in 1945, he
became Deputy Chief of Staff, Fif
teenth Army. On his return to the
United States, Colonel Henion was
Professor of Military Science and
Tactics at the University of Michi
gan, following which he returned
to Europe and served as Chief of
the Civil Affairs Division, U. S.
Army, Europe. He has served as
Chief of the Texas Military Dis
trict since August 4, 1953.
Weather Today
POSSIBLE SHOWERS
Possible thunderstorms and
showers are forcast for this after
noon and tonight until about 9:30.
Continual partial cloudiness this
afternoon. Temperature: High to
day about 95, low last night 67.