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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1946)
Page 2 The Battalion Friday Afternoon, May 10, 1946 Pistol Packin’ Tessies . . . The “pistol-packin' mamas" of Denton are really rub bing it in. After beating us in the rifle-shooting tournament, resumed this year after a war-lapse, the Tessies went home and cackled. And the Lass-0 printed a dirge for Texas Aggies, written by Mrs. John W. Shull, a Tessie ex. Said she, in part: “Down along the Texas Brazos Dwelt the warriors, mighty Aggies, Honored for their martial prowess, Honored for their mighty athletes, Dwelt in all their shining glory Aggie-wathas, giant he-men. But how the mighty shrink in stature! O, Aggie-wathas, pride of Tejas! Hark, there's Denton Amazonia Won o'er all the Aggie-wathas! Now maroon and white is lowered, Let us hoist new Aggie pennants, Palest pink, with baby ribbons! Heap big he-men, fighting Aggies, Humbled by the Denton lassies! Gals, if we weren't so fond of you, and if you didn't have such a reputation for being quick on the trigger— but why argue? Texas women always have been dead shots, and as for us men, we saved our best shooting for the Nips and the Jerries! What, No More Feuds?... Campus Movie Will Exhibit Tessies in All Their Glory It’s spring up here in Denton now, and Tessie thoughts are turn ing to the pool which opened re cently, and of course, the summer vacation. It seems almost impos sible that only about five more weeks are left in school, and that most of these have to be spent in winding up term themes, read ing books, and studying for finals —dreaded thought. Activities here at Tessieland have been buzzing. The past week end was filled with the senior prom and the presentation of the four class beauties which you Ag gies selected last fall. Know you have already heard the winners, but anyway, they were: senior, Jeannette Hudson; junior, Gloria Hale; sophomore, Gloria Jackson; and freshman, Margie Ann Lee. Their identity was kept secret un til the dance Saturday night. This seems to have been senior week up here for last Thursday celebrated Senior Day with the traditional picnic, assembly, and free movie. The assembly present ed the class will, prophecy, his tory, and poem. dent council, plus presidents of each of the clubs. The movie will tour various campus buildings presenting each student at her campus “hangout”, to to speak. The movie will be shown as a feature of Newcomer Week held the first week of the fall term. Billie Walker and Ma- hala Menefee will assist Albert Ford, who will do the filming. Guess you wondered what hap pened to this column the past few weeks, well, this correspondent has been hybernating. It's getting time fore “30” so by for now. Sue Jones TSCW Correspondent. AGGIELANDERS TO PLAY IN AUSTIN The Aggielanders will fur nish the beat for Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity dance in Aus tin Saturday night to be held at the Austin Country Club. All seventeen of the Aggieland aggregation will leave by bus at 1 o’clock for Austin Satur day. Players Now Ready For “Junior Miss” The second major production of the Aggie Players, “Junior Miss”, is to be presented May 14 and 15 in the Assembly Hall. The technical staff includes For rest Hood, director; Walter Nor ris, asst, director; John Helm, stage manager; Mermod Jaccard, Stan ley Keese, and Roy Gam.er, stage crew; Nancy Tucker, Ruth Dan iels, Hazel McClendon, Tacy Wit- tenbach, properties; Ruth Daniels, costumes; Carl Stevens, make-up director; Gregory Salinas, business manager; and Nancy Tucker, prompter. Gregory Salinas and Ruth Daniels are in charge of publicity. The Aggie Players hold club meetings every two weeks featur ing one-act plays and lectures on various phases of the theater. Ac tivities of the club will be contin ued during the summer, but no major production will be given un til the fall term. Next year’s tentative schedule of plays to be given by the Ag gie Players includes “The Tavern”, “My Sister Eileen”, “Double Door”, and “The Man Who Came to Dinner”. This must be that “era of good feeling" we see re ferred to in history books. Tomorrow afternoon the T. u. band will parade on Kyle Field, for the benefit of specta tors at the Southwest Conference track meet. (Our own Ag gie band being engaged in helping New Braunfels cele brate its 100th anniversary.) And tomorrow evening the Aggieland Orchestra will play for the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity dance in Austin! On top of all this, it is announced that Dallas and Fort Worth have buried the hatchet and set up a joint commit tee for canalizing the Trinity River. What is Texas coming to, with its chief feuders trying to kiss and make up? LETTERS TO THE EDITOR CONTACT-LENS WEARER SAYS THEY ARE GOOD Editors, the Batt: I am writing this letter to com ment on the article in Monday’s Batt by W. P. Riley concerning Contact Lenses. I have been wearing contact lenses myself since September, 1945. It is not only minor abnor malities of vision that can be cor rected but practically any type of iefect that is correctable with spectacles and also some that are not. Contact Lenses are a great deal larger than the colored part of the eye. They cover most of the exposed part of the eye ball, being visible only at the corners of the eye. A wearing time of 48 hours can not be attained in six to eight months. About six or eight hours is average for this period. There is no reason to believe that the price of contact lenses will ever ben much lower than around $100 or that they will entirely replace spectacles. The cost is high be- SKILLED VALVE REGRINDING . . . THE ECONOMICAL WAY Don’t think you must throw away those burned up valves . . . let our skilled mechanics see them! Perhaps a regrind ing job is what you need . . . to save gas for yourself. Aggieland Service Station and Garage East Gate cause they must be moulded sep arately to fit every person’s eye— they are as individual as a finger print. Many people have asked me what I think of contact lenses. I am very pleased with mine. There is absolutely no pain involved in their use in spite of how painful it may seem. They require lots of Next fall will feature a movie of campus leaders instead of the all-college night stunt, which is the yearly presentation of these stu dents. All-college night is a stunt which features the Women’s Recreation Association president, class officers, and members of stu- attention and patience to be able to enjoy them, but I really think they are worth it. WILL BRING IRISH BRIDE BACK TO A. & M. COLLEGE Editors of the Batt: On the 11th of April, Cecily Hoey and I were married in Lon don. Her home is in Dulbin, Ire land. Later this summer we ex pect to return to the States and I hope to reenter A. & M. (if I get there in time and can get around the housing obstacle.) For the present we expect to live in Mar seilles. Lt. R. Nelson Martin, '44 Marseilles, France (Seems that our housing situa tion is known even in Marseilles, France.—Ed.) SHOES and BOOTS Last Longer With Factory Method Repairs Our experienced repairman make possible our GUARANTEED SERVICE COLLEGE STATION SHOE REPAIR North Gate Luke Court, Mgr. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH R. L. BROWN, Pastor College Station, Texas HONOR MOTHER SUNDAY 9:45 Sunday School 10:45 Rev. J. W. Overall, speaker. Solo — Mrs. Jack Hubbard 6:15 Training Union 7:15 Young Peoples Program Tom Martin, Baylor, speaker A CORDIAL WELCOME TO ALL ... by wire and radio! Maybe you’ve thought of the Bell Telephone System as using only wires. It uses and pioneers in radio too. Radio waves are used to carry your voice across the seas to tele phones in other lands . . . across water barriers here at home... to vessels plying inland waters and to ships out at sea. And before too long, radio links will provide tele phone service for cars and trucks. Radio relay systems that will carry long distance messages from city to city are now in the advanced experimental stage. In every case the Bell System uses the kind of transmission, wire or radio, that provides the best service for the most people. BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM (Cjj&