Compare ’em
Watch for it!
Compare prices of other college cafeterias in this
area with those of A. & M. Soon to be released, the
results of the A. & M. American Veterans Committee’s
food price survey. In it will be included the latest
cafeteria prices of A. & M., TCU, SMU, Texas Uni
versity, and the Universities of Tulsa and Oklahoma,
and maybe Rice and Texas Tech.
True, unbiased, unpadded food price survey.
Judge for yourself. Coming March 15.
Texas A*M
Four Selections
On Ballet Theatre
Show Tomorrow
First Such Program on Campus;
Tickets on Sale for $2, $1.50
By David M. Seligman
Tomorrow evening at 8 o’clock is the only time to see
America’s first world-renowned ballet troupe perform on the
stage of Guion Hall. This performance of the Ballet Thea
tre is not a Town Hall attraction; the group is now on a
nation-wide tour. Town Hall tickets will not be honored
for the show.
Reputed to be the only Ameri--f-
can ballet artists of renown, the
opportunity to see a program of
this variety should prove interest
ing as well as entertaining. The
theatre will present several of
its stars and a full corps de ballet
for a supporting cast.
Tickets are on sale at Waldrop’s
and WSD in Bryan and at the Stu
dent Activities Office in College
Station. The reserved seats are
priced at $2, and general admis
sion is $1.50. Tickets will also be
on sale at the door tomorrow
evening.
In addition to the sixty dancers
of the troupe, a 20-piece sym
phony orchestra will provide back
ground music for the scheduled
four numbers to be performed.
These selections, from their reper
toire of some forty dance plays,
are “On Stage”, “Interplay”, “Pas
de Deux” (Black Swan), and “Tal
ly Ho”.
The stars from the cast of the
theatre which will appear tomor
row night are Nora Kaye and Igor
Yousekevitch in Black Swan; Me
lissa Hayden and John Kriza in
Interplay; Lucia Chase and Dim
itri Romanoff in Tally Ho, and
Alicia Alonsa and Michael Kidd in
On Stage.
Advance notices have pictured
the players as “good looking” and
the scenery of the productions as
excellent. Judging from these and
comments from satisfied customers
elsewhere in this country and Eur
ope, from which they just returned,
ballet enthusiasts who attend to
morrow’s performance are in for
some top notch entertainment.
Ballet Theatre is the first show
of this type to come to A. & M.; if
this performance is well received,
no doubt more can be brought to
the campus. The Ballet Theatre
admits that is not strictly ortho
dox in its presentations. In fact
they stress that the company com
bines some the the more modern
technique of the dance with the
old versions. All of their selec
tions for the program here, ex
cept “Pas de Deux”, are of the
modern approach to ballet expres
sion, and even the exception is
not a true one. The Black Swan
is an adaption of the original score
to a more contemporary trend.
28,548 Vets
Enter 3-State
VA Hospitals
A total of 28,548 war vet
erans were admitted to Vet
erans hospitals in Texas, Lou
isiana, and Mississippi dur
ing the year 1946, the Dallas
branch office reported last
week.
Although comparable statistics
for the preceding year are not
available for the Southwest, the
area’s increase in veteran hospital
ization probably parallels the na
tional figure of 61.3 per cent.
During the same period, beds
available for treatment of veterans
in veterans hospitals in the tri
state area increased 44 per cent to
7,745 beds at the end of 1946. Hos
pitals increased in number from
eight to eleven, or 38 per cent.
Dallas Branch Area hospitals are
located at Dallas, McKinney, Tem
ple, Amarillo, Legion, and Waco,
Texas; New Orleans and Alexan
dria, Louisiana; and Jackson, Gulf
port, and Biloxi, Mississippi.
The greatest number of veteran
patients—about 82 per cent—were
general medical and surgical cases.
Next in line were a neuropsychi
atric patients, totaling 12 per cent.
Tubercular patients comprised the
smallest group with only 6 per
cent of the total. At the end of
the year, 2,797 neuropsychiatric
cases in the eleven hospitals were
classified as psychotics. Another
411 were veterans with neuropsy
chiatric disorders other than psy
chosis, such as psychoneurotics,
character and behavior disorders,
and organic conditions of the ner
vous system.
The disparity between the com
paratively small number of neur
opsychiatric , patients admitted to
Veterans Administration hospitals
and the large number under treat
ment at the end of 1946 results
from the long periods these pa
tients must spend in hospitals un
der treatment.
Tough Struggle to Organize
Vet Med School Ended in T6
The B
College
alion
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A & M COLLEGE
VOLUME 46
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1947
Number 45
Houston Symphony Vocalist
MIRIAM FORMAN, young lyric singer and wife of former
Aggie, Jack Forman, will be guest soloist with Houston Symphony
Orchestra on Town Hall, April 2.
A Murder Has Been Arranged
Mrs. Arthur in ‘A Murder’
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by W. K. Colville +-
The School of Veterinary Medi
cine, a relatively new school of
A & M, dates back to 1916, when
Dr. Mark Francis, the veterinary
school’s first dean, was successful
in its organization.
Dr. Mark Francis, an Ohio State
graduate, deserves unqualified cre
dit for his work in establishing
the School of Veterinary Medicine
on the A & M campus. Coming to
the college in 1889, he immediately
took upon himself the task of de
termining the cause and prevention
of the diseases affecting our live
stock. With improvised quarters
and meager facilities, Dr. Francis
began an investigation of Texas
cattle fever. His investigations
proved fruitful, and he devised a
successful method of immunizing
cattle against Texas fever. Through
his efforts, the state has become
“Texas-fever-safe” for cattle.
Other investigations of diseases
were carried on by Dr. Francis,
until 1905 when Dr. R. P. Mar-
stellar, also a graduate of Ohio
State, was employed as his assist
ant. Courses in anatomy, physio
logy, and other veterinary sciences
were taught, but the success of
this preliminary training given
livestock men was not satisfactor
ily preventing or controlling dis
eases of livestock.
Dr. Francis recommended the es
tablishment of a School of Veter
inary Medicine to professionally
and technically train veterinarians.
Finally, in 1916, after much oppo
sition,^the school was set up with
Dr. Francis as dean.
Classes were held in the old
chemistry and veterinary science
building. The first building, one of
several making up the present sys
tem, is a three-story brick building
for offices, classrooms, and labor
atories named in his honor, “Mark
Francis Hall”. A modern hospital
with laboratories and clinic facili
ties for large and small animals
and poultry, a two story building
for anatomy, and two modem sta
bles for large animals were con
structed in 1933.
Progress was slow during the
first fifteen years of the veterin
ary school’s existence, and only
four men graduated in the first
class of 1920. A total of 52 re
ceived degrees within the next four
teen years, and since the beginning
of the school 31 years ago, a total
of 756 students have graduated as
veterinarians.
It is estimated that from 10,000
to 12,00<? animals are brought to
the clinic each year. This large
number enables the student to ac
tually see and study the various
diseases as te cause, symptoms,
diagnosis, and -surgical or medi
cinal treatment.
Dr. Francis served as dean of
the school from its early beginning
to his death in 1936, and Dr. Mar-
stellar became the second dean of
the school, retaining that position
until 1946.
Dr. R. C. Dunn is the present
acting dean of the School o* Vet
erinary Medicine.
Truth About Prices
March 15 the American Vet
erans Committee will release
the low-down on food prices at
college cafeterias in this area.
An impartial survey taken by
the college chapter will reveal
the latest figures which veter
ans are forced to pay in schools
of the southwest.
Don’t miss it!
Drama Tomorrow in Assembly
Hall for Three-Night Stand
By Ferd B. English
Beginning a three-night stand in the Assembly Hall
tomorrow evening at 8:15, the Aggie Players will present
“A Murder Has Been Arranged”, Iby Emlyn Williams.
Under the direction of George J. Dillavou of the Eng
lish department, “A Murder Has Been Arranged” takes
place at night in the empty St.'*'
James’ Theatre, London.
Bill Krause plays the lead as
Maurice Mullins. He was also the
leading actor in the previous play,
“The Male Animal”.
Miss Groze, better known as Bet
ty Smith, is a senior at Consolida
ted High School and has played
in other campus productions.
Frank A. Camp plays the part of
Cavendish.
Assistant radio editor of the
Extension Service, Miss Sybil
Claire Banister, will portray Mrs.
Ragg. Earlier roles have been a
Negro in “The Male Animal”, and
a Russian in “You Can’t Take It.
With You”, and now it’s a Cock
ney.
Robert Q. Blakeney of Oklaho
ma City is Jimmy North in “A
Murder Has Been Arranged”. In-
high school he participated in sev
eral dramatics presentations.
TSCW dramatics major Mary O.
Johnson will be seen as Lady Beat
rice Jasper. She lives in Bryan.
On the other hand Sir Charles
Jasper will be portrayed by Ar
thur L. Stauffer, a Houston junior.
Mrs. Arthur, or in real life Nan
cy Tucker, was a member of the
University of Texas’ Curtain Club.
Her home is Marshall, Texas.
Just A Woman is Patrica Kirk
patrick. She received her BA in
dramatics at the University of
Rochester and her MA at Columbia
University, where she was associa
ted with the Radio Workshop and
the Little Theatre Group.
Stage manager for “A Murder
Has Been Arranged” is J. Howard
Davis, in charge of the construc
tion committee. Rene W. Schroed-
er is chairman of the properties
committee; Mrs. Kirkpatrick is in
charge of costumes, which were
obtained from Van Horn and Sons,
Philadelphia. Chairman of the box
office and program committee is
Walter McMahan. Darwin Hod
ges is handling lighting and sound
effects, and Miss Banister is make
up director. All art work is being
done by Mrs. Hilda Stieg. The
Stagecraft class (English 382) de
signed and constructed the set
ting.
President of the Aggie Players
is Bill Krause; Roy L. Garner is
vice-persident; Nancy Tucker is
secretary; and Walter McMahan is
treasurer. Art Angrist and George
Dillavou, both of the English de
partment, are sponsors of the Thes
pians.
Tickets for “A Murder Has
Been Arranged” cost 75 cents
for reserved seats and 50 cents
for general admission.
The next dramatic production will
be Edward Chodorov’s “Kind
Lady”, to be directed and present
ed by Art Angrist, April 30 and
May 1-2
NANCY TUCKER, soon to be
seen in the campus-preduced ver
sion of the British play, “A Mur
der Has Been Arranged”. From
Marshall, Mrs. Tucker attended the
University of Texas as a music ma
jor. Her husband, Jack, is now
attending A. & M.
Land of Lakes Club to Meet
The Land of the Lakes Club will
meet in Room 324, Academic Build
ing Thursday evening at 7:30
o’clock, for the purpose of making
plans for a spring party.
Visual Aids Lab to Begin
Operations at A & M May 1
A photographic and visual aids labora
tory, with photographic, motion picture, and
chart equipment, will be established around
May 1, and will go into full-fledged opera
tion by September 1, according to E. L. An-
White, Kokernot, and Angell
Re-Elected Board Officials
G. R. White of Brady and H.A
L. Kokernot, Jr. of Beaumont were
re-elected president and vice-pres
ident of the A. & M. College Board
of Directors at the Friday meeting
of the Board. E. L. Angell, as
sistant to President Gibb Gilchrist,
was re-elected secretary of the
Board of Directors.
This was the first meeting of
the Board since appointments of
Tyree L. Bell of Dallas and C. C.
Krueger of San Antonio, by Gov
ernor Jester.
At the Friday meeting the board
authorized President Gilchrist to
sign a lease for the Grand Prairie
outlying field of the Naval Air
Station, to be used by North Texas
Agricultural College for class-
rooms and housing. This area
would provide housing for ^approx
imately 800 students.
Board Chairman G. R. White
was authorized to sign an agree-
Houston Symphony
Guest Soloist Is
Wife of Aggie Ex
By Charlie Murray
Miriam Forman, young lyric
singer and wife of former Aggie
Jack Forman, will be guest solo
ist with the Houston Symphony
Orchestra on Town Hall, April 2.
While she was studying at the
Jullian School of Music and Col
umbia University in New York
City under Bernard U. Taylor,
Mrs. Forman presented several
programs, for which she was com
mended by the dean and president
of schools for her unusual gift
ed voice, technique, and stage pres
ence.
Mrs. Forman has also sung
concerts throughout New York,
New Jersey, Connecticut, Mary
land, and Illinois.
While her husband Jack was at
tending A. & M. last summer, she
played the leading role as Jose
phine in the operetta, “HMS Pina
fore”. During her stay on the
campus, she also participated in
many other college programs.
She gave her first performance
with the Houston Symphony Or
chestra in August, 1945, just prior
completion of her schooling at
Juilliard. She was graduated from
San Jacinto High School, Hous
ton, where she was soloist in the
choir, and in 1942, Mrs. Forman
was featured soloist at the St.
Agnes Academy Recital.
Kent to Broadcast
Astronomy Talks
Jack T. Kent of the mathematics
department will give eight talks
on astronomy during “The Col
lege Speaks” programs over WT-
AW during the next three months.
The Kent broadcasts will be on
Wednesdays at *5:15.
The talks as scheduled are:
March 19, Astronomy, History and
Relation to other Sciences; March
26, the Earth; April 9, the Moon;
April 16, the Solar System; April
23, Mars; April 30, Other Plan
ets; May 7, Comets, Meteors and
Meteorites; May 14, the Galaxy.
Man on the Council...
<An Editorial)
Veterans now have the privilege of naming a represen
tative to the Athletic Council, and it is expected that the
VS A board of representatives will discuss the matter -to
morrow night. We hope that the representative will be
elected in a ballot submitted to all veterans, rather than being
named by association officials or the board of representa
tives.
The athletic representative need not be a T-man, or
even an athlete at all, though he should have some knowledge
of how intercollegiate sports operate. Best-fitted, perhaps,
would be a minor-sport letterman, not on a scholarship and
therefore able to act disinterestedly.
The Battalion has already expressed its opinion that we
must all get back behind Norton for the ’47 football season.
It is unfortunate that the Associated Press in its story of
last Friday’s board meeting said: “Norton woi\ his second
battle in 10 years with the alumni .... In a slap at an unde
termined number of ex-students seeking his removal . .. .”
etc. The decision last Friday involved no slap at the alumni,
no slap at Norton. The board faced facts, and acted accord
ingly, without any gratuitous “slaps.” We can’t afford to
remain, as we have been for months, a “house divided against
itself.”
ment with the Veterans Adminis
tration to set up a testing center
for veterans, which would enable
the college to evaluate aptitudes
and provide vocational counseling.
Prairie View FPHA
Prairie View Agricultural and
Mechanical College will get 50
family type trailers, under a con
tract which President Gilchrist was
authorized to sign with the Feder
al Project Housing Authority.
Department Changes
The Range Management and
Forestry divisions were ordered
united, and the combined depart
ment will be known as the Depart
ment of Range and Forestry. Un
der this set-up, courses which pre
viously have not been listed, will
be offered.
The Board of Directors also vot
ed to combine the departments of
Agricultural Economics and Rural
Sociology. To be known as the De
partment of Agricultural Econom
ics and Sociology, it will be under
the direction of L. P. Gabbard.
Committees Appointed
The following committee assign
ments were announced. The Ex-
cutive committee will be composed
of Tyree Bell, chairman; G. R.
White, H. L. Kokernot, and John
W. Newton.
The Legislative committee will
consist of D. W. Harrison, ^hair-
man, Rufus Peeples, and Krueger.
The Building committee will be
composed of Krueger, chairman,
Bell, and Peeples.
The Finance committee will
consist of: Newton, chairman; Pee
ples, and Harrison.
Prairie View A. & M. committee
will consist of Henry Reese III,
chairman; Roy C. Potts, and Har
rison.
Peeples, chairman; Harrison, and
Potts will constitute the Branch
College committee.
A combined committee of the
Experiment Station, Forestry Serv
ice, and Extension Service will be
composed of Kokernot, chairman;
Reese, and Harrison.
Potts, chairman; Reese, and Pee
ples will compose "the publication
relations committee.
gell, assistant to the president.
Sixteen thousand dollars has been se
cured for purchase of motion picture pro
jectors, film strips, slides, and other photo
graphic teaching aids. The laboratory will
■^operate under the business manag
er of the college. Governing pol
icies are to be set by a committee
representing the various college
divisions.
“This laboratory will result in
the saving of millions of dollars to
the people of Texas through the
speeded up learning process that
will accompany such a visual aids
program,” stated Angell. “Every
one who served in the army is fam
iliar with the outstanding use that
the army made of visual aids to
accelerate learning of difficult
technique by service personnel,”
he continued.
“This arrangement will give
A. & M. one of the finest visual
aids laboratories in the coun
try,” Angell said.
Services of the laboratory, which
will be open for the use of any of
the college departments, will be:
Coordination of all photo
graph activities of the college.
Preparation of posters, charts,
maps and graphs.
Repair and maintenance of the
motion picture projectors now in
Upkeep of a pool of projectors
which can be borrowed by de
partments to show training films.
Maintenance of a modern film
library.
Purchase of better instruction
al films.
Sophs Extend Date
For Duchess Entries
Deadline for submitting pictures
of candidates to represent the
Sophomore Class as duchess at
the Cotton Ball and Pageant has
been extended to Monday, March
17, George R. Edwards, class pres
ident, announced Monday.
All pictures should be turned in
to Room 408, Dormitory 11, before
that date.
Veterans, Get On
Batt Mailing List
Students now living in Vet
erans Village, Project Hous
es, Trailer Camps, or in the
College View Apartments
should contact the Battalion
office if they wish their names
placed on the Battalion mail
ing list. Please bring either
yellow slips showing payment
of Activities Fee or Batt Card.
’47 Longhorn to Be
Out Mid-Summer;
Near Pre-War Size
McDonnell Aerodynamicist
To Speak Friday Evening-
D. S. Lewis, chief aerodynamicist of the McDonnell
Aircraft Corporation, will speak in the Chemistry Lecture
Room, Friday evening - , March 14, at 7:30, announced Q. C.
Harvey, president of the student"* :
branch, Institute of Aeronautical
Sciences.
In the letter to the student
branch from McDonnell Aircraft
Corporation, it was stated that
“During the past few years the
approach to the design of high
speed aircraft has undergone rad
ical changes.” Such changes, it
was pointed out, have been brought
about primarily by the develop
ment of gas turbine engines, which
provide spectacularly high powers
at speeds and altitudes well be
yond those possible with recipro
cating engines driving propellers.
“The branch of engineering most
affected by these changes has
probably been aerodynamics, where
the need for higher and higher
speeds has resulted in a constant
search to find ways of increasing
the airplane’s ‘critical’ Mach num
ber, thus making it possible for
the airplane to efficiently use the
tremendous power available from
the jet engines”, the corporation’s
letter went on to say. “Having
found the solution which satisfies
the requirements of the moment,
methods of taking care of the re
sulting undesirable characteristics
must be developed in order that
the airplane might have satisfac
tory flying qualities at all speeds.”
In an effort to present an idea
of those current problems, the
McDonnell Aircraft Corporation
has prepared the program which
Lewis will present Friday even
ing He will use a color-sound
movie, “The Phantom”, which por
trays the development of the Mc
Donnell FD-1 airplane from the
early design stages, through the
wind tunnel and flight test periods,
and finally through its first car
rier operation trials made aboard
the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Since the McDonnell Aircraft
Corporation is interested in em
ploying qualified graduates in all
fields of engineering, Harvey ur
ges all engineering students to
attend.
In answer to numerous inquiries
as to the publication date of the
1947 LONGHORN, Harry Saun
ders, veteran editor, announced
Monday that the book will not be
ready for distribution until mid
summer. Foremost reason for this
delay is that in order to deliver by
the end of this semester, all pho
tographic material would have had
to be in the hands of the engraver
by February 1. This was impos
sible chiefly because of the bad
weather which hindered completion
of club and military organization
pictures.
In addition to this, it would have
necessitated omitting all pictures
of second semester activities—that
is, the spring social season, basket
ball, baseball, track,’ final review,
and many other events which
should appear in a book represent
ing the activities of this school
for a complete year. The 1947
LONGHORN will be the first book
in the history of the school to com
pletely cover the entire school year
and should be well worth waiting
for.
Production on the book has been
hindered by the same obstacles
which have been in the way of most
all post war activities of the coun
try—high prices, shortages of ma
terials, and shortage of labor,
Saunders said. After numerous
compromises "with all concerned
the ’47 book will approach the size
and quality of pre-war L O N G-
HORNS.
No announcement can be made
at the present time of the Vanity
Fair winners, which many have
been anxiously waiting for, but
this announcement will be made
in a future issue of the Batt.