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The Battalion
Monday Afternoon, February 4, 1946
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THE McLARTY CASE
The action of the Supreme Court of Texas in refusing
to hear the petition for mandamus of Eugene McLarty fol
lows well established law that an original mandamus action
will not lie against a purely administrative branch or depart
ment of the government.
McLarty’s pending suit in the district court of Travis
County will not be subject to this objection and it can be ex
pected the issues probably will be joined on the merits of
the former University of Texas student's request that he be
admitted to Texas A. & M. despite the ruling of the local
executive committee against him on the grounds of an in
sufficient scholastic average.
The procedure followed by the college executive com
mittee in the McLarty case is no different than that followed
in all similar cases; he was tested and found lacking. It is
to be hoped that all courts through which the issue may be
dragged will respect this long established and essential right
of an institution to protect its standards by the establish
ment and enforcement of rules of admission. In a real sense
the issue is more fundamental than just McLarty versus
Texas A. & M. Every educational institution in the state has
vital concern in the outcome.
A Job Well Done
In a day of shortages in materials, equipment and man
power, the newly built Sbisa cafeteria is a masterpiece of
ingenious thinking and planning on the part of Jay Penis-
ton and his Subsistence Department staff.
All of the spic and span assembly-line feeding equip
ment, including railings, serving compartments, hot and
cold containers, the whole job in fact, was designed and
built by Peniston's organization. Utilizing old equipment the
department has converted it to a modern, up-to-date cafe
teria feeding twenty persons per minute.
The cafeteria is operated on a pay as you select basis
and is open from seven until nine for breakfast, eleven un
til one for dinner and five until seven for supper.
The important purposes to be served by this timely
action are to alleviate and improve the feeding of the hun
dreds of servicemen not living in military organizations and
to furnish a convenient and inexpensive place to eat for
wives of ex-servicemen students.
Had the college been compelled to await delivery of this
type of kitchen and cafeteria equipment, months of delay
would have resulted during which time the hundreds of ex-
servicemen and their wives would have been put to consider
able inconvenience.
For a job well done, good work, Mr. Peniston.
Msas
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BRYAN, TEXAS
Announcing Purchase of the
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by
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Machine Permanent Shampoos and Sets
Machineless Permanents Facials
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108 E. 26th Street Bryan
Phone 2-6195 for Appointment
Chandler Is New
Sergeant Major
Sergeant Major Joe Pansze of the
military department has been tran
sferred to the 8th Service Com
mand ORC at Dallas after three
years of service with the college.
Sergeant Pans2e has been re
placed by Staff Sergeant R. J.
Chandler. Sergeant Chandler has
just returned from overseas with
the 103rd Infantry Division. He
is a veteran of the Rhineland and
Central Europe campaign, has a
total of eleven years of service,
having served eight years with the
Second Infantry Division.
Veterans’ Wives
Invite Newcomers
To Book Review
An invitation to newcomer vet
erans’ wives to attend a book re
view at the YMCA was extended
by Wilma Parker, president of the
organization. The meeting will take
place at 7:30 p. m. on Tuesday,
February 5.
“We are especially eager to
have as many of the newcomers as
possible at this first meeting of the
new semester,” Mrs. Parker stated.
She emphasized that husbands
would also be welcome at the affair.
Officers and committee members
of the Club met last Thursday and
decided to maintain a table during
registration at the College to aid
veterans and attempt to make con
tact with those wives who are new
on the A. & M. campus.
Ever try looking for people’s
good points instead of their weak
nesses?
CAMPUS
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Alice FAYE
Dana ANDREWS
Linda DARNELL
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Lois Bannerman and Gordon Strings
Start New Semester at Town Hall
Lovely Lois Bannerman, mis
tress of the harp, will appear in
joint concert with the Gordon
String Quartet on Wednesday
evening in Guion Hall in the first
Town Hall program of the semes
ter. Season tickets for the re
mainder of the Town Hall season
will be on sale at the box office
for $1.25 for students or wives of
students.
Miss Bannerman, in her early
twenties, has thrilled audiences
throughout the nation with her
extraordinary technique on a dif
ficult yet hautingly beautiful in
strument. It will be her first ap-
College Specialists
Are Assisting In
Fat Stock Show
Four staff members of the Tex
as Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion are assisting in the Houston
Fat Stock Show which opened
February 1 and continues through
February 10.
J. M. Jones, chief of the Divi
sion of Animal Range Husbandry,
is judging all sheep classes, while
John H. Jones, animal husbandman,
is superintendent of the poultry
show. Fred Hale, chief of the Divi
sion of Swine Husbandry, is super
intendent of the swine show, and
O. C. Copeland, chief of the Divi
sion of Dairy Husbandry, is assist
ing with the dairy show.
pearance before a Town Hall aud
ience.
Smarting time of the performance
will be delayed some to avoid con
flict with the basketball game
scheduled for that evening, it was
stated.
Jones Resigns as
Business Manager
Of Athletics
Resignation of A. E. “Pete”
Jones as business manager of ath
letics at Texas A. & M. was an
nounced here Saturday.
Jones will return to his alma
mater, Baylor University, as head
baseball coach and assistant foot
ball coach on February 15. He was
captain of both the baseball and
football teams at Baylor in 1938.
He has been at Texas A. & M.
since 1943, and coached at Bryan
High School before coming to the
Aggie campus.
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