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The BattalionPUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGECOLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1953
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f^ed Anti-Communist Prisoners Freeddu like
•oking t,
ur Cleatid Army Troopsi mf*xish Berlin BiotsE AN;
^.IN— (j?5) —The Russians and open tiarcks carried steel-entire armored division
-st Beilin Wednesday night —i a German workers’ rebel-
------------1 general strike.>ITF}t mai'tial law was backed ' * * ^Ih the largest reinforce-
)f tanks, artillery and in- ever used to subdue a
Kemint 1 city short of war. es fresh armored division
the eastern city limits mal bases after
iUjyr fighting by 50,000 un dli.'i Germans with a Soviet
Dial!1.mst ponce.
aand 10,000 Five anti-
nists were killed and at SO wounded.
“New Soviet force— ap- _itely 10,000 troops with ivy tanks—was rushed up
anti - Communist strike ed East Berlin.■ted East German govern- >f Wh-ime Minister Otto )hl appeared helpless in tinuing crisis.general strike spread to Soviet Zone cities. State
workers walked out in ial pfotecv-iyl jjiyith East Berliners and
helmeted infantry.The East German government
radio announced shortly before midnight that the first mass arrests of “provocateurs” had been made. The broadcast said they were seized from among the 3,00 men employed at the 'nationalized Bergmann-Borsig heavy machinery factory in the Soviet Sector.
The exact number arrested was day of j not disclosed. All the plant em
ployees had taken part in the general strike.
The march of Soviet forces into Berlin continued for seven hours. In the darkness, West Berliners
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zonal communications, te Ithe Soviet martial lawissued Wednesday, violent
occurred Wednesday in |ler Platz, Potsdamer Platz din Allee, Russian troops Immunist police fired re- . at demonstrators.
Sp1 Communists raided an old :Et c<!SiiSt store on Potsdamer
id set it a blaze. They also ommunist restaurant in theATI0N •' to the torch.Soviet armoured division
MH jclose by the West Berlin $11111 1 district of Lichtenrade.
[•v than three hours, before HflraF ^l>"’ ’t could be seen rol- ^^Hiig a zonal highway to the |||ll|lpart of the city. m HU T-43 tanks, larger in size
~power than the famous T- There wej-e batteries of
tillery and anti-tank guns, y trucks.■eds of armored carriers
Deans Leave lorida Meet
P. Abbott, Dean of Arts mces, and Dr. Howard W. Dean of Engineering, left orning for Gainesville, to attend the 61st annual of the American Society
;ineering Education which held at the University of June 22nd through 26th. Abbott will present a paper
“Modern Engineering an in(kfrom Viewpoint of an
—-trator” to the Physics sec- die meeting.
_ 3 conclusion of the meet- OW nictin Abbott and Dean Bar
planning to visit the laboratories at the Uni-
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quality :>f Miami and other places eturning to College Sta-
fects |rtiollal Grads5 fron)Lini mer Classes
, .onal Agricultural Teach- attempting to improve
cialist Aching ablities by attend- imer school classes, and
ig a gfive graduate students of . al Agriculture have en-
smOKt. first term of summer .Recording to Dr. Abrams, e r of Agricultural Edu-
,vell ovimen are taking gi-aduate n Agricultural Education,
With Husbandry, Agricultural j, ps, and other technical
1 DOtn Agriculture and are work- g Sizeheir -^Lister of Education
th any--------- -——od taberg Is Better
pock’ Short Illnessij jj'ndition of F. T. Dahlberg,
■ of Animal Husbandry, is ette bU=> said Dr. Miller, Head
. H. Department, ji'g was taken to St. Jo-
Hjlll pspital in Bryan on June i|||| las treated for a liver and 1|||| Ider infection which later Eitl I into yellow jaundice.
fe taken to his home on Dahlberg is improving
^glllljRy and may be able to as- duties approximitely on
>£ this month, Miller said.
450 New Books Received By A&M Library
The Cushing Memorial Library on the Campus of A and M has received approximately 450 volumes of new books which will be available to the students soon, according to Michael V. Krenitsky, Assistant Librarian.
These books were selected to meet the requirements of the people of this area and consist of some of the latest articles published for recreational reading, study and research work, Krenitsky said.
One of the books received by the library for research wo?k is “Russia and Her Colonies” by Walter Koharz, a distinguished writer and broadcaster on international af- fah-s. This book of information is the most comprehensive study of Russia and its people ever to be published in the English language, he added.
“The Berlin Story” by Curt Riess is an interesting biography of the old and new city showing the contrasts rim The lives of the people living in' the Soviet and American Sectors.
For recreational reading, two good examples are; “Yankee Ships” by Reese Wolfe, which is an informal history of the American Merchant Marine, and Alice Marriott’s “Hell on Horses and Women”. Marriott’s book is a story of the western development in which the author shows why the cattle country is a wonderful place for mules and men but “Hell on Horses and Women”.
STILL CLEANING UP—Babe (Didrikson) Zaharias smiles as she washes the hood of the Zaharias’ new Cadillac during- a visit to the R. O. Bowen home in Fort Worth. Once the world’s greatest woman athlete, Mrs. Zaharias is now recovering from a cancer operation.
School Conference To Bring Over 500
More than 500 schoolmen and school women from all over the state will meet at A&M June 22- 24. It will mark the 28th annual conference of the Texas Association of County Superintendents, the 17th annual Texas School Administration Conference and the 3rd annual Conference of the Texas Association for Instructional Supervisors.
Dr. L. G.' Derthick, superintendent of the Chattanooga public schools and president of the American Association of School Administrators, will deliver an address at the general assembly on the morning of June 22. Dr. M. T. Harrington, president of A& M, will give the address of welcome and John O. Rodgers, superintendent of the Williamson coun-, ty schools, will preside. The Rev. A. T. Dyal of the First Presbyterian church of Bryan, will give the devotional.
More than 500 will attend the sessions which will be held in the Memorial Student Center.
At the general assembly meeting Tuesday, June 23, Dr. Kate Wofford, head of the Elementary sity of Florida, will talk on “Leadership is a Human Problem.” R. E. Slayton, superintendent, Longview schools, will preside.
Dr. David H. Morgan, dean of A&M college, will deliver the address at the general assembly on Wednesday, June 24. Miss Beryl Walker, president, Texas Association for Instructional Supervisors, will preside.
George B. Wilcox, head of the Department of Education and Psychology, A&M., is secretary of the conference.
R. E. Slayton, superintendent of the Longview public schools is president of the Texas School Administration Conference, John O. Rodgers, Georgetown, is president of the Texas Association of County Superintendents and Miss Beryl Walker, supervisor, Hale county school, is president of the Texas Association for Instructional Supervisors.
20,000 Freed By Rhee; Four Camps Involved
Profs to Attend Dairy Meeting In Wisconsin
Dr. I. W. Rupel, Dr. I. I. Peters and R. E. Leighton, members of the Dairy Husbandry Repartment, will attend the 48th annual meeting of the American Dairy Science Association to -be held at the University of Wisconsin June 22nd through 24th.
This meeting will provide an opportunity for those attending to discuss the many problems confronting the dairy industry, share with each other the latest scientific information, and formulate plans for advancement of the industry.
Dr. Rupel is chairman of the Resolutions Committee and of the sub-committee on graduate curricula. He is also a member of the curricula committee and of the cattle type committee. Dr. Peters is a member of the student affiliate committee and of the standard plate court committee. A paper entitled “Relation of Breed and Free Gossypol Levels to Cottonseed Meal Toxicity in Dairy Calves” is to be presented by Leighton.
+ MUNSAN, Thursday, June 18—(ZP)—About 20,000 anti- Communist prisoners of war stormed out of four UN prison compounds today on orders of defiant South Korean President Syngman Rhee—orders that could wreck a Korean armistice just as it seemed only hours away.
The U. S. prisoner command ordered several infantry units—presumably American—into a search for the liberated anti-Communist prisoners of war.
Radio Seoul said at noon today that South Korean Lt. Gen. Won Yong Duk announced completion of the release of anti-Communist Korean prisoners of war and said anyone trying to arrest them—“regardless of nationality”—would be dealt with severely.
UN Command officers here had no comment. Their grave faces reflected the seriousness of the South Korean
*act.Allied truce delegates to the
NEW DIRECTOR — Dr. J. M.Bethea (above) has arrived in Austin to assume his duties as executive director of the Texas State Board for Hospitals and Special Schools.
Scouts Open Camp Arrowmoon For Annual Camping Period
By MIKE SLIMAN
Camp Arrowmoon, district camp for Boy Scouts of Brazos and Robertson Counties, is the scene of much excitement and activity this week now that the 19th annual camping period is underway.
This annual affair opened on Sunday and will continue until 2 p.m. Sunday, June 21. Closing ceremonies will consist of a Court of Honor at which time the candidates for advancement and merit badges will receive their awards.
Arrowmoon, located in the sand hills of Robertson County between Hearne and Bryan, was especially built to serve the needs of the scouts of Brazos and Robertson Counties. It contains approximately 85 acres on which has been built a mess hall, a kitchen with modern facilities, a 45 by 90 foot swimming hole and a few things which nature has added to provide a realistic outdoor setting to the camp. The swimming hole, although having concrete on three sides, is actually a dammed-up creek.
At the present encampment are approximately 100 boys representing nine scout units or explorer posts. This camping period will give these scouts a program of training in scout skills, allow advancement in rank, achievement in merit badge work, and permit those
who want to the opportunity for swimming, hiking, archery, riflery, handicraft and other forms of entertainment.
To earn a merit badge or to advance in rank, a scout must meet the requirements as prescribed in the Boy Scout handbook. Then he goes before a Board of Review which has the privilege of ascertaining from the boy exactly what he knows and has done about the merit badge or advanced rank work. If the boy satisfies the Board of Review he receives the award at a later time from the Court of Honor.
For these lads at Ai’rowmoon, the Board of Review will be held Friday at 2 p.m. and the Court of Honor Sunday at 2 p.m. L. S. Paine, District Advancement Chairman, is in charge of these two groups*
Last year at this encampment, 244 merit badges and advancement awards were awarded to the scouts. Figures are not yet available as to how many will be awarded at this year’s outing.
The camp is made available to these scouts during the one week each year for the nominal fee of $12. Every year before the scouts enter the area, it is sprayed by airplane with DDT tr> kill flies, mosquitoes, ticks and other insects. Other sprays are then used in or
der to kill such undesirable plants as poison ivy, bull nettle, and other such plants.
One of the unique features of this camp is that it has its own communication center. Mike Luther, Troop 102, College Station, is a ham radio operator and has his own receiver and transmitter with him in those sand hills. Before going to camp, Luther made arrangements with another “ham,” David Kiker of Bryan, to be listening for him.
Don Burchard, District Chairman for the Brazos District Boy Scout Committee, says that he does not recall any major accident or injury occurring during the past five years that he has been connected with this camping program.
B. C. Jones, Jr. is the camp director and has as his assistant, Jack Linn, who is the regular scout field executive.
The swimming department is under the supervision of Phillip Buchanan and his assistants are William Hotard and Henry Thomason. Jack Spell is in charge of Riflery and is assisted by Jim Nolan. The Basic Division is headed by Jack Linn with Tom Blake, Rusty Adams and John Griffin as assistants.
The Handicraft division is under the supervision of William Kuhnle and the Archery department under
Jerry Jackson. Dr. E. P. Humbert is the operator of the camp store and sees fco it that there are soft drinks, candy, T-shirts, etc. for the campers.
The boys bring their own tents and each patrol camps as a unit. These boys police the area and make it as neat as possible. They usually choose to run up their flag or snell out their patrol with stones on the ground. These boys want no one to be uninformed as to which camp-sight belongs to who. The boys with the neatest and cleanest area each day are rewarded by being permitted to go to chow first that day.
Monday and Tuesday of next week will find the Cub Scouts of this district enjoying their annual cub overnight outing at Camp Arrowmoon. This overnight is similar to the scouts camping except that the cubs are required to have either their father or some other adult male with them.
Later in July, Camp Arrowmoon is the scene of the annual district swimming meet which is under the direction of Professor Albert B. Stevens of the Petroleum Engineering Department. The winner of this meet will represent this district in the Council swimming meet which is held at Camp Strake. Exact dates of these meets are no4 yet available.
District Scout Committee To Invite Others
Plans for making Camp Arrowmoon available to Boy Scout troops other than those in Robertson and Brazos Counties were discussed at the regular meeting Tuesday night of the Brazos District Scout Committee.
Although church groups, Cub Scouts and other worthy and needful organizations use Camp Arrowmoon at various times during the year, most of the year the area is idle. It is though that by allowing scout ti-oops from other districts to use the camping area and facilities, many more people will benefit from its existence at practically no extra cost. In order to use Camp Arrowmoon now, all that is necessary is the permission of the District Scout Committee and payment for use of electricity and gas.
The meeting also included plans for the formation of a five-man executive committee. The chairman, vice-chairman, and district commissioner of the Brazos District Boy Scout Committee automatically will become members of this new executive committee and the two other positions will be filled from the 65-man district committee.
The main purpose of this executive committee is to streamline the work and duties of the district committee into a more efficient working unit, according to Professor Don Burchard, Chairman of the District Committee.
Recreation Picnic Date Set For July
College Station residents are asked to mark the date, July 2, on their calenders. That is the night chosen by the College Station Recreation Council for it first community picnic of the current year, announced R.L. Skrabanek, chairman of the Picnic Committee.
Following the pattern set last year, families are asked to bring their own picnic suppers. Refreshments of different types may be purchased at the picnic.
Among other forms of entertainment, a free gala fireworks display is being planned. Exact time of of the different events will be announced later.
Managers Of Little League In Parley
The Little League managers met at Roy Oden’s Southside Grocery Store at 8 o’clock Wednesday night to discuss league affairs.
Equalization of the league rosters will be made after Thursdays games which will end the first half of league play.
The game between the Pirates and the Cubs which ended in a tie Tuesday afternoon will be played off Monday afternoon.
Cards were passed out to the managers to be distributed to the new players. These cards request the consent of the parents. Each parent has to give his consent before the boys are allowed to play in the league.
Panmunjom armistice talks face a hard job in explaining- Rhee’s action to Red negotiators in the conference hut when they meet again. The delegates are in. recess now, subject to the call of either side.
The general reaction among observers in Munsan was: “Whathappens now?”
Before Rhee announced formally in Seoul that he ordered the release of the POWs “on my own responsibility”, a UN Command spokesmann in Tokyo said, “This is definitely a breakout and not a release of the prisoners.”
If it had been a breakout on the part of the prisoners themselves, the effect on the Korean truce talks would not have been as serious as it now appears.
“I have ordered on my own responsibility the release of the anti-Communist1 Korean prisoners on this day, June 18, 1953,” Rhee said, in a statement.
“The reason why I did this without full consultation with the United Nations Command and other authorities concerned is too obvious to explain.”
Reports spread that a cease-fire line for a trace had been agreed upon and that interpreters were giving an armistice text a final going over before the signing, possibly within a week.
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Film Society Ducats Are Still Available
Season tickets may still be purchased for the A&M film society’s summer showings, said Bob Boriskie, society president. The tickets are $1.00 each and are ti'ansferable.
No admissions will be sold for individual pictures.
Four movies have been shown this summer and have been well received.
“I believe every student and faculity member should take advantage of the chance to see these classics,” Boriskie said.
Remaining films on the schedule are: Christina, June 18; Captain Kidd, June 25; Prisoner of Shark Island, June 29; Les Miserables, July 6; Rains Came, July 13; Razor’s Edge, July 16; Grand Illusion, July 27; Beikley Square, August 17; Arsenic and Old Lace, August 20; and Julios Caesar, August 27.
Tickets may be bought at the office of student activities or at the desk of the MSC, Boriskie said.
Agronomy Students Study Soil Types
Under the direction of J. F. Mills, Instructor of Agronomy, the members of the Agi’onomy 418 class are taught to judge soil profiles.
In trying to find the different types of soil, the students are given twelve samples which consist of anything from excellent to a poor type of soil. To judge the soil, the class must grade each sample on depth, color, texture, consistency, and determine if it was a calcareous or non-calcareous type of soil. A chemical test is also made on each sample to show if the soil is acid or base.
This knowledge is all very important, according to Mills, because it will determine the fertility of the soil and enable the farmer to know the proper measures to be taken to improve his soil properly.