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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.)
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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.
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