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T
UTLINBB MEN
1st register
Aug. 9, (A 1 ).—Texans
v...„^r 26i who regisftered und^r the
1940 draft! law mus-t, register again
under the: 1948 act^'State Selective
Service Director Gen. K.'L Berry
Saturday. . ; ; t - t
tie explained that'the new law
required all males 18 thromrh 25
to sign up unless they are specifi*
cally exe|npt b^ law. i r ,
he only groups exempt from
are:
ircjes on
including members of
the Coast [Guard apd Geodetic Sur-
, . vey and :tpe public health service;
cadets of the U. S. Military Aca-
dartiy anil; Coast Guard Academy;
midshipman of the U. S. Naval
/ Academy; 1 foreign ^diplomatic and
consular representatives and mem
bers-oftheir families.
registration,. Gen. perry said,
--"members of the armed forcje
. Tact|ve diitjy, including membei
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The college and university division
of the National States' Rights
Democratije Campaign Committee
will 1 be hpaded byi Ken De? hotel,
president iqf the Louisiana State
Univetsiti student^ body.
.is appointment was ainnjjuhced
Sunday in a stateinenf from the
national headquarters here qf the
States’' Rights Derjiocrats.
COMMUNIST PARTY TO
PROGRESSIVES
SUPPO
NEW
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434 Student
For Degrees at En
89 Applications Made for
5 Foreign Countries, 22
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DENTS CHEAT? Is it the fault|of the student, the
\j>egln in The Battalion soon.
his notes while the instructor has his back turned. WHY DO STU-
iiistructor, or both? A series on cheating will
There’ll be no Communist candi
date for
Ihstedd
will suppdr'
didate of.
his, Progri
the 1 new
^resident! this fall.!
Hie ‘ ConpiMunist P;
the. third party
ing any
arty
can-
enry A. W a l^ c | an( l
rt of
.11 be
(sive Party. Suppi
mlitical ;group w
given without the Oommunist seek-
leader$/-»&iid
'snecial interests”
in it,
>-s
These plans were
m
disdoesd at
ubist Party’s final ses-
,14th annual convention.
. yimunists re-elected Wil-:
Jjajn Z. Foster, as inationial (flair-
lan.
the! Com
sion of its
The!Co
This
bring
the
icDONAtD SEES MEAT
PRICE DROP SOON
AUSTIN. Aug. i —UPi—
year’s big' feed crops should
a ^top^-uii-meat -pniees dnrrnir
next few! months, state iaericul-
ture commissioner 3. E. McDonald
tieHev«|). J • •] 'if
Re made this prediction
U, S. Department / of Agric
experts wk-e saying they explected
an increase during the next few
months., {"
McDobaJd sajd he thought the
nation hai “geiierailly reached the
peak in commodity prices and
wages, and from now on the trend
will be .ddwnward.’’
jwhile
\uukiii in inr nniiuuuii »uun. . »
Boycott Must Be National;
In Scope, Professor Says
“Consumer resistance suth as the recent boycotting of meat will not succeed unless
the movement is assumed onja national basis,” Dr. T. R. Hamilton, professor in the
Business and Accounting Depaitahent, said Saturday.- \\
“If people in one locale try to iboycott a store which is selling certain items, the item
„.i.. i - 1 --—^ place and sold there at the prevailing price,” Dr. Ham-
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PLEADS FOR PEACE ,
LAKE SUCCESS, Aug, R MS*>-
Trygve Ljie appealed to t thq big
powers Saturday to- end thieir quar
rel over German^ ;|
The United Nations Jecritary
general also called for urgent ac
tion to sti[p what he callqd a race
among th«j great powers to de/elop
and stockpile lethal boctetiolqgical
and chemical weaptons.
i In his third annual repqrt.tto the
general apsembly, Lie placed the
German Rrqblqiji ajt the top |of a
list of isHiiC'S standing ini the! way
of world pdace.
’ “Nothing would Contribute
Jto the effbetiveneaf of thp
Nations,” 'he said, (‘(than
ment of this problem.”
CITRUS FRUIT RATES
LOWERED BY RAlLROAD$
WESLACO,: TexI, Aug. 9
Reduction ;qf ; freigpt rates op or
ange shipments hat been proipised
Rio Grande Valley jgrowers. ,
C, L. Butler, traffic manager of
jthe Missouri-Pacific Railroad yes
terday said transportation lines,
have withdrawn:-their objections.to
lowering jorange rates tp ntiatch
those for grapefruit.
J. S. Massey, traffic managler of i
Citrus Excha:
reduction will mean
more
United
a s ;ttle-
the Texsii
this reduc
one to 28 rents per ;hunii
’’ ' eight cost for
states which
•le standard”
on rail
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MILLIONS AUTHI
ARMY CON;
..t
ASHINGTON, 1A
gave
Saturday itor ,s
The army
525,100 ~
If
HON
its engine
for spec!
ion
center
tion s
>ge, said
drbp of
1 p«unds
on nges
ivt> so-'
»riifs.
b
, It also allot
bolster tHe na
VAliika. ? T-
Funds for,the Ns
Alaska projects wfere a:
Items in a |612,70$,000
program, announ
°f Jhe Aniny Ro;
The major ;,itel« in thp
Sands allatraenf is a dust-proolf as
sembly plant for guided thisa les.
Most of the conjstructidn
are earmarked for housing,
$3,432,672 allotment for
Hood, Texas, topping .theHist
family housing allotmen:
9,920
Paso,
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as made for Fort Bliss,
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Vfhite
will merely be shipped to a
flton said.- He is teaching business
cycles and 'business ' statistics at
A&M.
siderable length of time. “The dif
ficulty is that people can’t give up
the consumption of meats- Tor
long.” . . J
Dr. Hamilton recommended
that the consumers use goods
which pre less expensive and
more plentiful. “People should
use less and less installment
buying, especially in the case of
luxuries: If it becomes necessary
to invest, careful consideration,
should be given to payments and
interest.j
“Eat more of the cheaper goods”
Dr .Hamilton emphasized. “Avoid
those high priced goods even if it
means missing a nice steak.”
The Veterans Wives Club will
discuss the price of meat at their
Thursday meeting, Mrs. Hannah
Raval said Saturday.
“Though our club is primarily a
social institution, I will bring up
the subject at this meeting. I
would like to find .out what, if
anything, the girls would do about
the meat price situation,” Mrs.
Raval ..said. | | -j.
Mrs. Raval suggested that
substitutions may be made in the
menus for. the expensive cuts of
meats. fSuch as cheese, chicken,
fish, and vegetables. “Of course,
consumers can always buy liver,
hamburger meat, and wieners,”
Mrs. Raval pointed out.
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By the end of the, past week,;
women in 16 Texas towns had join-!
ed in the meat boycott. Telephones
rings, Tex-
age 4)' i
were ringing in Big Spr
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Hopper Will Leave A&M to Take
Post as NTAC Associate Dean
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J. S. Hopper, assistant to the dean of engineering, has
been nam
College at,
ber 1, Dl»^. mrffqrd „ v
Dean Hereford'wilt become president of NTAC Sept. 1
under the new setup of the A&M College system.
Hopper has been with A&M since 1933. He received his BS in
mechanical engineering from Texas Tech in 1933 and his MS in mechan
ical engineering from A&M in 1936. For the past 10 years he has been
| <an active consultant in the field of air con
ditioning and refrigeration.
A member of the American Society for
Engineering Education, American Society
Heating and Ventilating Engineers, an hon
orary member of Tau Beta Pi, national
honorary fraternity, engineering, he has
held posts with the Hughes Tool Co., York
Ice Machinery Corporation in Houston and
the Viking Air Conditioning of Dallas.
“The addition of Hopper to our staff
is an important step toward the realization
of our aims- to serve the education and in
dustrial needs of the Dallas-Fort Worth
area in particular and the entire State of
Texas,’’ Dean Hereford said.
“Hopper is a recognized engineer and
highly regarded in his field. He has also
had considerable industrial • experience
which will be utilized in expanding our in
dustrial engineering program,” Hereford
pointed out
as a consul tint to engineer firms. We are
delighted to have him and predict for hikn a long and successful career
at NTAC,” Hereford concluded, /it. - i t
Hopper with his wife and two daughters, Sue, 8 and Judy 4,
will move to Arlington September 1. They will live in i home provided
by the college for the associate de«n,' / I j. 1 t
First Meeting
Held by Rent
Control Board
The first scheduled meeting
of the Bryan Rent Advisory
Board, as provided by the
Housing and Rent Act of
1948, was held Wednesday in
the Howell Building, accord
ing to George E. Adams,
chairman.
Two new members, Harry Boyer
and B. F. Swindler, received their
certificates of appointment and
the oaths of office were adminis
tered by the twt director.; The
membership is now complete and
is representative of the affected
interests in the community as pro
vided by the law.
The membership includes Mr.
Adams, who is chairman and ser
ves as the landlord representa
tive; Swindler, tenant represen
tative; Theodore Boriskie, co-
chairman, Harmon McWilliams^
and Boyer, who are public inter
est representatives, /•
Adams explained the functions of
the board are to make recommen-
datiodns 4o the housing expediter
oni (1) The removal of any or
all maximum refnts in the area
when the demand for rental hous
ing accommodations has been rea
sonably met (2) Adjustments,
other than individual adjustments,
in maximum rents on any or all
classes of housing accommoda
tions. (3) Operations generally qf
the local rent .oiffice with parti
cular reference to hardship cases.
The board is also empowered to
mfeke recommendations to the rent
director of the area concerning in
dividual adjustment cases.
[Any landlord or tenant who
fpris his particular rent jtfqfair
niay request a review by the
board or appear for a hearing,
i Adams asks the public to con
tinue contacts with the rent office
on routine problems and adpust-
meint cases. “The rent program is
stitl administered through the Rent
Office,” Adams said, however, the
board will review any individual
case or complaint upon request.
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pplication
fl Session
Approximately 434 students
close of the summer session, H/L. Heaton, regi
This total comprises students from f}ve forei;
the District of Columbia. Candidates % degree t
towns in Xexas as their hcimes.
candii
Eighty-nine are candidates for
;es:
tions for
master’s
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Mother-in-law Trouble Solved *
New Service Greatest Aid
Man Since Discovery of F
By PHJL KOONCE |
Does your mother-in-liiw still remind you of
day you overlooked ? Is that look of accusation sfi 1
wife’s eyes because you missed your first wedding
sary by one week, three days, two nours^ and thir
iites? Then fear no more,
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Given Transfer
To Washington
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Major James A. Watson, former
chief of' the automotive branch of
the Ordnance Section at 15th Air
Force headquarters, Colorado
Springs; has been transferred to
headquarters, US Air Forces in
Washington.
Major Watson, Class of ’36 at
A&M,v gnlisted at Kelly. Field in
June 1941 and was stationed at
March Field, California, until 1942.
Commissioned at Aberdeen, Mary
land, in 1 December 1942, he speat
30 months in the European The&«-
r vnth the 9th Service Command
my friend!
To prevenit such wofldfsliaking
I catastrophes from recU
curring is tte purpose
tion. He returned to the states in
;eadquarters in the Ordnance Sec
He n
1945.
He wdars the Bronze Star Medal,
the Air Medal with two oak leaf
clusters, the Purple Heart Medal,
The American Defense Medal, the
Americain Theater .Medal, .the
Europeaii Theater Meklal with five
campaign stars and the World
War II Victory Medal;
Son of Mrs. Katherine Holton,
Pueblo, Colorado, Major Watson
worked |as a civil engineer with
the US Engineering Department
from 1986 to 1940. He is married
to the former Dorothy E. Short of
Flagler,! Colorado.
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J. S. Hopper
‘He will be available
Making Twenty-fifth Annual Hike
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Gatesville Scouts Make Tour of A&M Campus
In Annual Hike to Get Knowledge of Texas
BY PHIL KOONCE
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“We’ve beehito a lot of places
on this hike,, but at . none qf them
were the people more congenial or
more cooperative than here at
A&M”, said J. M. Witcher, Scout
master of TrOop 2, Gatesville; Ter-
is, as he and the^.trpop prepared
tio leave the Campus Friday after
noon. / { \ v i
Witcher, who organized the
troop in 1916, is conducting the
group on its Twenty-fifth 'Anpual
Hike. This year’s - ■ ■
give the boys a mo:
knowledge of Texas, „
Austin with a visit to the Capitol
and the University.
Before its arrival at A&M, thi
roup had visited Austin, San
ntonio, the San Jacinto Battle
field, Galveston, Houston, and
Huntsville. At each of these places
they inspected educational insti
tutions, historical buildings, and
other places of general interest.
Upon arrival at A&M, the
Scouts were met by Harry
ng if-
-jflee* w.
Boyer, chief of the
she aided them in arrsng-
oy
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ing for a tour of the Campus
and the college farms.
The college tour began with a
visit to the Poultry Firm where
H. L. German, poultry ijmtritionist
of the Experiment Station, gave
a short talk on poultry iand show
ed the Sqouts the farm. The Scouts
were then taken to the swine
pens where Fred Hale of the Ex
periment Station spoke to them
for a jew minutes about swine.
New Department
Seeks Fan Loans
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Professor 'D. R. Burchard,
head of the newly created
Journalism Departm e n t, is
sweltering in toe upper con
fines of Gocidwin Hall.
• No fans, i ,
Loan of same would I be grate
fully accepted by professor
Burchard, third floor,
Haill.
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Next stop on the College tour
wUs the Horticulture Farm. Fred
Brison of the Horticulture De
partment topk charge of the boys
and explained the farm’s function
to them.
Back on the campus, the
Scouts visited the horse barns,
the dairy barns, and the Cream
ery. At each of these places
they were met by a college
employee who explained the
work of his department.
Late Friday afternoon, the
Scouts left for Gatesville by way
of Marlin where some of them
were to to^e tests for advance
ment in rank.
These yearly hikes are paid for
by the city of Gatesville; the
school furnishes the bus and the
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GEORGE R. EDWARDS was
named one of ten honor grad
uates at the Transportation
Corps ROTC summer camp at
Fort Eustis, Virginia. Edwards
was a member of the Maroon
'Bind last fall.
Qi R. Edwards Is
Honor Graduate
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George R. Edwards, -member of
the Maroon Band last fall, has
been chosen as one of the honor
graduates of the Transportation
Corps Reserve Officers Training
Corps summer camp at Fort Eus-
tisjVirginia.
“The fact that you have been
chosen an honor graduate should
be a source of especial satisfaction
to you,” Maj. General Frand Heile-
man said, in making the presenta
tion.
“One of the outstanding lessons
we learned from the experiences
of World War II was a heightened
appreciation of the need for prov
ing our young men with knowledge,
equipment, and physical stamina to
participate actively in the defense
of our country."
The award was made on toe
basis of over-all superior attain
ment from the standpoint of-at
tention to duty, leadership, partici
pation in camp activities, academic
standing, and acceptance of respon
sibility. . ,
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Arch CojsKrey, Bill Bradley, W. A.
Holt, Kenneth Beverly, Robert
Meeks, Fisher Brown, Kent Biffle,
and C. L. Snyder, who drover the
bus, ' •
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ANN HARBOR, Mich., Aug. 9
—(A*)—A new type of “Iron Lung”
that fits like a fishbowl over a
polio victim’s chest and allows him
unprecedented freedom of imove-
ment was introduced here Friday.
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Speaks Tomorrow
Mrs. feloise T. Johnson, exjon-
sion faipily life education special
ist of A&M has been invited by
the Louisiana Extension Service,
Baton Rouge, to appear on the
program of their State Farm and
Home Week, August 10-12,
Mrs. Johnson, who is widely
known ijor her work on family re
lations, will discuss the Texas
family life educatiqn program with
the Louisiana county agricultural
and home demonstration agents.
She will return! to Texas Aug
ust 13.
has
count if I
:greea
! birth
n your
ajtmiver-
et n min
■[fif
or oc-
Phe Re
minder Service (“We JVIakjj It Our
Business to See That Y< u Donl’t
Forget”), a newly inauiierlited ser
vice now aviilablv to tile* public, ‘
This unique activity is the re
sult of u conversation lietween
Mr. and Mijs, Bruce F azuer and
Mr. and Mn. William Tise about
the absentslindedness of people.
Subscriber i to ttye ; r ew service
need no lonirer worry abiut fob-
getting birthdays, ' an m erSarie|s
and appointments becqu le iapprox|i
mately three days befb ’e the datfl
of any of these events the serviqq
will send a reminder. abjUt it.
Activities if The Reniriiler Se^
vice are not limited to r| mindirj
people about dates. Al o featum
are personalized grlee in g cards
gift btiyjng, and a gift j ajccouii;
service wheieby remln lei! servic;
can be boucht as q fii|t r '"‘ “
friend.
Another feature of
is that business estab|ishn||ents eaji
use it as ar advertisirg mediutr
When a reminder for a, gift-d4
serving occas ion suclf
a birth
a car
it store sj
nerdee will
is now
eterans
artist
irljuke the
el rds, in
day is sent to a custjorhet
suggesting g fts availqbie
that subscribe to thq
also be eiyrlosed.
Frazier, class of ! ’• 5, served
with the Army Air Firties dur
ing World War H a id
an instructor with the \
Administration. He is a: i
and (cartoonist and wR
personalized greeting eirds,
addition to representjn ic jibe ser
vice as advertising it an iger in
Bryan, Houston, and.o he - cities.
Tise, a freshman agriculture
student who served wi h ;the Ma
rines, is in charge of hej general
functioning of the orgm izitipn. He
will also handle all adv|br|iHihg on
the campus.
, Mrs. Tise< an ex-Wi veil ijs the
bookkeeper and gift buy-ef fpr the
service.
texas national dyj
MAY RECEIVE P-80 |
DALLAS, Aug. 9 4 J
sibility of obtaining “u
P-80 Jet Fighters” for
Air National Guard an
ly good,” Brig. Gen. Hu tj Catch
er, commander of the
said here Friday.
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servi
and
to receive
gfree», 31 are
s Degrees;
presented
egwees to be conferred at the
nounced, X .
i, ‘ twenty-two states;
1 of 182 different cities and
j ' ' • 'j . , .j . rii’i-’Ki*
fifty-eifrht are
Master of Science 1
to receive Master df Education de
grees, and orte is »! nhdifinte fox
Muster'of Engineerim:. r
Of ;those applying :‘or (bachelor
decreies from the Ikhool Of Agrb
culture, 13 are for agricultural ad-
mi crlsd ration, 36 for agricultural
education, 14 for agricultural engL
neering, 45 for agriculture, 5 foi
liar dscape art, and 4 for wildlife
malnagoment. ■ /I
From the School of Arts oni
Sciences 18 are candidates foj
Bachelor of Arts degrees in Lii
lx Tail Arts, For Bachelor ‘.o
S dchce degrees thqrc y pre 1
ci.ndidates in Accounting; 34 jn
Business, qne in Economics, one
ir Education, 4 in Physical Edu
cation. and 13 In Science,
I n the School V of i Fngineerlng
th» re aro !> candidates-’for Baqhhlor
of Architecture. For Bachcl<nvof
Sc ence, 11 ure\for! Aeronauticnl
Engineering;! oneNeach fot Archi-
tettural Construction and Archi-
teiturul Engiineerlng^l for Chem
ical Engineering; 35 itaXivil En
gineering; 24 for Electrical Engi
neering; 3 each for (ieoRigy and
Geological Erigineotin^; 'J.Yor.ln-
dpitrial Educaiiqfij-^' for Man-
ag -ment Engineering; .Sfft fofr Mo- i
chnniiul Engineering, and 8 fo/. |
Petroleum Engineering. /. J
There are 2 candidates ’ for
Doctor »f Veterinary Medicine \
di grees. - . |
Two caind dates for master’ll tie
groesi are fiom China. Li Chenjol
Wusih, Chiha, is to receive )ils
muster’s tn Aglicultural Ehgifiocr-
inj-, and Piip-Tung lluang, from
Shinghai, i i to'receive a masti r’s
deirree in .Chemistry, i _l, - \ ,
ijuchu Si,ngh qnd Tara Chi nd -I
Ka|la, frdmj India, expect# to (re
ceive their rnaste •'* in Plant P iy*
siology and! Agrouomy, respedt'i re-
ly. ' j I
. ose M. Alvitrut o, from Caracan,
Vpiezuela, is a candidate for a
master’s in Mun eipal and Snni-
taiy Engmcpring. Jack Royce
Woolf, fronji Trinidad, is a candi
dal e for a' master in Mecjiwivtcul
Engineering.
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Jiidge 4-H Dresses
Mr-'- Grape M. Mm (in, Exteh-
iff
air wing,
Pos
mber of
e Texas
xtremc-
i^ited hy they Hew MeKil
jii Service to' judge itheh
sioh district agent for Distrii
ha.< been in 1 ”
cy Extennio:
4-U Club $tate Dresk Revue, t.
be held at State (.ollege, Nov
Mexico, August 13-14, V
Mrs. Martin Will leave Tvira
August 12 ami return August 1‘
Ini making the anhbunceuien
Maurine Hejarn, extension vi<' d
rector for women and state hod
denohstration agent of A&M wn
thnt the trip will give Mri, Mar((r
dl -
an opportunity to
gnut
new ideas oh 4-H
for tho Big Be
sta tell which hi
in common wi
Me mu.
iaeuss 4-H prig
development and to'.gui
club girls’ wori
section bf th
problem
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MEMBERS OF THE GATESVILLE Boy Scoots and
from left, paused In a tour of toe Oarapos, BILL POTO|,
them here. . .j
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»r of the troop, left, met
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