! ■ \ w r • . / ! f / / * i/ii y k? PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER ARM COLLEGE umm’ iL i ) i A ]/ ; /A y 4 / / ‘ ^ m Volume 47 COLLK(.K STATION (AffrieUmj), TEXAS, TUESDAY, AUGUST IS, 1S47 1 i; Cadet Officers And Non-Coms Report Early Cedtt officers and non-com- missioned officers recently ap pointed by the Military Depart ment will be required to report to school on Thursday, Septem ber 11, Colonel G. 8. Meloy, Com mandant and PMS4T, announ ced Friday. During Thursday and Friday cadets will receive instructions in leadership, supply problems, and duties of commissioned and non-commissioneii officers. The college will furnish neces sary rations and quarters for these cadets during the orienta tion period Lounges Under Construction In Dormitories 9 & 10 ounges to \ " commodate students’ visitors start- * ed Wednesday moraine in dot itories 9 and 10. According to T. R. Spence, manafer of the e straction program, the Board of • Director* has directed that plans and estimates be prepared for stu dent lounges in all dormitories and v has empowered the Building Com mittee of the Board to order con ■traction to proceed after estimates and plans are submitted. The construction of the tn Dorms 9 and 10 will furnish the - t>««it for plans and estimates for the other lounges, Kach lounge will he made from all dormitory rooms and the hall way hoi ween them. There will he fartlittes for reading and writing M well as vomfuruble seats and table* for games, One of the rooms Will be made into s ladies root roam, while poralMB will ho ra* moved from the ethers te pro vide o«m large raam These Imiag ee will he rempleted by the mid dle of tteptemhir, Spence said. ■Mi- CORKY AND dothtera at North Gate. Bryan School May Lose Affiliation / Corky & Hurd, New Men’s Store, Will Open Today Corky and Hurd, College Station's newest men’a store, will hold its formal opening today at 311 North Main Street It will remain open until t:S0 tonight in order that all persons in this vicinity may hove an opportunity to get acquainted with the management and the ■tore’s stock Specialising in tailor-made cloth ing, the store will feature such diverse materials a s gabardine, sharkskin, and dear-cut worsted for fall wear. Men’s furnishings and ready-to-wear are carried in addition to the tailoring service. Corky Jackson, Aggie-ex, is store manager. VfW Chief and Tech Exes Fight Building Amendment HHB| Jester, Shivers, and Daniel Will Speak for $60 Million Program AVC Backs Passage of College Building Amendment Aug. 23 The College Station Chapter of the A me risen Veterans Committee will solidly support the proposed College Budding Amendment to he tmtetf Upon August UK by the peo ple *f tomo, H. B, Igfardi, Jr, «BlPMBS|aM|M mot week In • letter te The Sottellon odliot Sohfdi. jmgskMg ■ whaif of the toes I AVC chapter, stated i : "For many years now (hi* state Has lagged behind much of (he rest of the nation la the field of educa tion. Ihu amendment is Iona overdue The people-of Teles must realise that students In state sup pqrted colleges cannot receive ade quate educe! tone unless these schools can offer adequate facili ties In the form of building* end equipment. “The people of this nation hove seen fit to spend billions of dol- taro in educational benefit# for veterans of World War 11. How ever, much of this money will be wasted if veteran and eon-veteran students of this state must attend badly overcrowded classes in poor- \y equipped fa hero at V A M. Twenty Tens srhoql districts, including Bryan, a total enroll ment of 1MJNM students, mat Wx>»e their accredited standings unless they revibe their teacher ■alary schedules to comply with the new minimum wage law. Most of the fffbp ore attempting to pay Negro teachers lees than whites, according to State Super intendent L. A. Woods. Attorney General Price Daniel ruled that the salary basis pro vided under the new legislature applies to all instructors regard less of race. The law sets a min imum of $2,000 annually for teach ers holding a bachelor degree. The twenty distriete, which in clude one-tenth of the students in the state, are Amarillo, Big Spring, Bryan, Eagle Pass, Ely- sian Fields, Gainsvillc, Goose Creek, Jacksonvdle. Lufkin. Mar shall. McKinney, Mexia. Midland. Mt. Pleasant, Orertoti.Palestiv. Pa nape, Taft, and Waskom. Affil iation was alio withheld from r^t^^n^JSK Dr. H E. .Q^^or of wages, it was announced XlKLa; dJ^T M. **hke in Graduate, of unaccredited high dtergT^ rSitritkmLl tevStigi 5 schools must take entrance examin-1 t , on . nbin Agricultural FvtJri •lions before goia, to college. Un- g^Uon W Ha^rt jeeradited •choob wiU draw the director «rf^teWoiml raJra^h S 9? * Ut * ^ partment of the Archer-Daniels- wiU not receive one-ninth of their k.dland Company. Mhmeopolis, lualisation (reral^ld f u n d b. Minnesota; and Dr. T. H. Jukes. ... * ckoo t * P‘ ,d fr >n> ^ of the department of nutrition fun ii i r, onl5r w e ‘f ht mo r th *'T h , il * ond physiology, Ledsriy Labora- accradited schools receive aid for tort,,, p„ r , RiYer Mew York, nine months each year. building*. '’Everyone must realise that the future of this Mate will de- peiwt on whether or not today'* •indent* besom* the intelligent, well iitfoimed ntiien* of tomor’ ftw, The Col leg* Building Amend* men! will help te *ee thot they ^ There wlN bo loo pelUn (Moeee in College Hi*1 too i FTOMtet I ftt tho A* # M« CWtetlBoted Hskoal figlMtoa. *«d Prcvlnet 11 •( Shiloh Moll. Ctmpus residents ond oil Col lege Station residing west of High way 6 wilt vote at (’on solids ted School. All others, Including moot of the resident* of Collage Hills ond those living east of Highway A, will vote ot Shiloh Hall H. E. Burgess will be presiding judge of election Ot Percinct a, ond V. J. Boriskie will be in charge of the Shileh Hall poll. This will be the first time thot ■ box has been placed ot Shiloh Hall. Texas Ag Writers Conference to Be Held Here Sept 2 The twenty-second Texas Agricultural Writers Confer ence will be held at A. A M. September 2-S, according to an announcement by Tad Moses, chairman of the arrangements com mittee. The meeting will be hold In conjunction with the Extension Service and Agricultural Expert ment Station staffs annual meet ing. Those attending the two-day moating will visit Urn A. k M <'tilings Hresoe Elver plantation to eae domenetratlons of latest f*rm equipment, Including flame eulti vatar, mechanical sotlaw mechanical cam harvcctcr, Hccme plow, one-man hay dryer, and Itveeteeh Honduran Makes Insect, Livestock Study on Campus Pomptlio Ortega, director gen eral of agriculture of Honduras, visited recently on the AAM Col lege campus. Ho is studying now developments in research and oth er activities concerning insects and diaeaaaa affecting livestock, other phases of insect control, and cot ton production. While In Texas he wlH also visit the citrus re search center of the College at Weslaco Ortega arrived on the campus at Wednesday. H i s schedule calls for conferences with officials of the 17. 8. Department of Agri culture and visits to educational center* and agricultural tnotltu- Uons throughout the country. For a number of yesua Ortega owned and directed a email agri cultural school for boys, the Eocu ela Agricola da Coyocutena, La Ubertad. Oomayagua. Ho is the author of several books and pam phi eta on agricultural topics and Honduran folklore This is Ms first visit to the U. 8 since he studied at Notre Dame some 23 yean ago. Two opponent* of the ment have struck at Dudley & University of Tex** in * pamphlet entitled i dryer, end lives toe* fog m kw. Tie meeting wilt snohto eg ■issssla as seas I MtaiAMM* 4*0 msM* fiRflA rwmnufm wriwm *■*» i ifpi vHinn •pylteatbm si new ogrteullMral d* velnp moots mooting *iid slootiori I ness mo* mu for tfa ft «t • lu the noil year nrhoofl in he MMmiIUE ■ A btsl nt nffirom mke plofe ... rT#pi*ninRr N, m nniPR AgrirtiHural writer* plMindig U attend the confer*nee ere request ad te son tact Tad Mosao, Agricul tural Experiment Station, College Station for reserve Ions. Student Ordained Baptist Minister Newton V. Cole, senior student from t'OCMf Ohrioti, was ordained into the MInleti y last Wednesday night pt the first Baptist Churen of ( allege htelien by Reverend R I. ttrewn, ehairmen of the ordain IM MOM, T’olc'ii father, Reverend M. L Cole, preached the nrdlnatinn cere mony, After receiving hla RJ, In A|- rlcntture in Weplember, Cole MAM te enter the Southwestern Bap tist Theetegieal Seminary at Fori was o Major In tile cadet corpo, president of the Y.M.C.A ( ob- Inet, and President of the Baptist Student Union Council. Disabled Veterans To Receive Higher Subsistance Pay Automatic increases will be paid effective Sept. 1 in the minimus) allowances received by the morv seriously dissbU-d v. t. rsns enrolli-d in educational and training cour ■cs under Government sponsorship. Veterans Administration announced today. The increased jirptea, which will be reflected in September chocks received on or after Oct. 1, were voted by the last session of Con frees and signed into law by the President VA said the law requires no ac tion by disabled trainees entitled to the higher rates because of the automatic nature of the increase*. The new law provides that a vet eran enrolled in a course under the Vocational Rehabilitation jhat (Public Law 1A), whose disability Is rated at SO percent or hfajilff, will raeaivs till a month If he has no dependents, and |1U If he has one dependent. The old law allowed 91M and lllfe for the same two rategari**, but, while these rote# *re super seded by the new schedule, for Itu more seriously dtegkled, they trill continue te apply to veterans with dfambilitte* iated at lels than No PfNMH, The new law elan laises jtRe meonu authUtra fur amMkntal ndents «f veterans wHh ills tie* nf M percent or mere additional gtyewance far chairman of the Woodward, writing Beat School* For the Bwt State*’, urged adoption of thr umen.ltn.-nt Roger Q. Evans of Daulson. state romman.ier of the Veterans of Foreign Warm, declared that Wood wand had not «g|ia|MB^i^ jfp der the amendment, the Ualverstty of Texas and A. 4 M. Colive* wiU get their money now, white the other 14 school« will not gvt theirs for SO years." In Comparing funds to be allocs ted NTSC and A. k/ML.WfSgm pointed out that Woodward baa not shown in his pamphlet that, a! though NTSC wiMrocotve over MOO thousand more than A. A M-, North Texas will have Ha funds spread out over V yanimVRMp A. A M. wiU get its 96 millioa now. In Dallas Woodward r- pl.ed that “I am not interested In rarsteiM nny cammumcation from a man who is trying M hard te deprive thouaaaAi of Texas veterans of the immediate eduentionaj benefits to be derived from the adoption of the college building constitutions! amendment.” Evans’ statements have been criticised by other member* of the VFW, who as a whole appear te be in faoag/iof the ■msndmsnt. In fort Worth, the executive committee of the Texas Tech Ex- Students Association of that city adopted a restitution opposing the amendment The basis far the na tion was that the proposed mess urn would not provide nquitabi) ///•l [ ora would not provide equitably or MB' . W. A Bratton, vtea president nf tbt 1^ wrtrkRpRMBIMk/ile "l*'*d heturday that "pmgannnls M nf ui bercent Of Mklitlonal gllnwancc I k incranaad from 91 »i L and the Previaos all , I* month for each ad child la ralaad te 111. Nf I Is made in the $14 monthly ance for a dependent parent. get August 15 Memorable Day For Four Aggies .,. Nutrition Parley Slated Oct 23-24 ; i The Tessa Nutrition Conference will hold its third meeting at A. A M. October 23-24, according to an announcement by the nutrition conference committee. Some of the outstanding men in the nutrition field will speak dur ing the meeting. They are: Dr. C. F. Huffman, research professor of dairying, Michigan State College; equalii These Poultry man to Co To Clemson Meet F. Z. Beanbloesom, extension poultry marketing specialist, will attend the annual meeting of the Poultry Science Association at Clemson Collect, Otemson, South Carolina, August 23-31. At this meeting he will present a paper on South and Southwest marketing problems and marketing trends in poultry and poultry pro ducts. In addition to that, Bean- blossom will present an article on the marketing of turkeys through the making of turkey boneless ■teaks, a project which originated in Texas with this specialist as one of its leaders. Members of the Poultry Science Association will mket to shady information material from ment Stations and field tudiee. Indians Celebrate Independence By Louis Morgan Four Indian students oa the A. A M. Campus celebs ted the inde pendence of their nation from | upon his return home. Great Britain on August 16. Three are attending on government schol arships granted for outstanding service*. AU four are studying American agricultural .nethods, | some of which they hope to apply | to their own country when they return tp.lqdltL K. L Gurnani of Sukkur, Sind. Pakistan is majoring in agronomy and making a special study of the extension service. Formerly em ployed by the Sind agricultural de partment. he is married and has !’our children. Gurnani received a degree in agriculture from Bom bay University and did further work at the Indian Agricultural ] State, is majoring in agronomy and Research Institution of New Delhi, making a special study of toil Con- He expects to work in agricultural nervation. He acquired a B. Sc research, rice crops in particular, | degree In agriculture from Lyall Campus Wimmin Say They're Agfa It . . / GI Wives Blast Longer Skirts By Vleh Lfthlley Wives of QI student* at A.AM. this week attacked recent fashion •dicta which call for aklrta aa low aa 10 Inches from the ground. In pmtort the enmpue wives founded a "Utile Below the Kaeee" club, ~ fledging themselves te lower their ■Ms no mars than Just below flBfjBHt, - .j . The movement swept over the earnpqe Monday after several of the wives heard sl-mit such a club being farmed la Dallas. . “Women whose husbands are in •< bool under the GI bill can’t af- iaal to throw away their ward robes at the whim of ao-callod fs-hton-dictators,” said Mrs. Jack Tippit. temporal* president of the . A. A M. LBK club. “We want our BruaMi to be comfortable, practi- 11 cal, and cuod-tooklng, none of which ran 4WR*» - - “ Furthermore, these * ora are defiaitely not good for a tell girl," concluded Mrs. Tippit, who » six-foot-on*. Mr*. Vick UaAey, temporary lad: "lUa an good-looking, i bo claimed by the hese long not good led Mrs. 1 aaeratary stated outrage to fore* such unbecoming dresses on American women. I for *n* do not Intend to wear the extremely long style.’’ Petite Mrs. W. N. KNm*. said. "Long dresses are terribly unbe- coming, especially te a short per son Use myself. I certainly wont wear that awful length now being proposed " Blonde Mrs. CaH Barn- art reported: "t dent intend to wear my skirts lower than a little hawur .UM kaae. .« . I’m definitely agalnct long skirts." ' Mrs. C. E. Ow*n staked; "If some designer would send every Amer Iran woman a new wardroio, fret, containing the longer skirt*, wr would be glad te wear team up our ctethra and i war-stricken arras. The ■klrt la of no advantage te average A meric*, working wo- tnan. It’s Just a money pro tion for the designers." Mrs. D. B. Fincher also bU clothes designers: "I am deflt not for longer skirts bsrau think they arc Just far the design v benefits. It Is not helping the working people, to gat S wanirob.- with longer skirt*. It means cash ing the bonds that many people are trying to rave. AU through history it has been considered sin ful for poop)* te throw away good useful garmente.” Mrs. BMr mgtlhco* reported Ilk* mine Just a tittle beiew knee" Mrs. WttMam B. Lewi* challenged i "They con have what cy style they want In Paris or Doltast I won’t wear i that Married once protecting on ■ Speaking far girts of leg*." Miss “I wog*| were not the only I sn the campus girts of the office forma, petite Mtaa Phyllis Sch warts uaMt "Lang skirts make ua like we’re all dress andBj mast Is Hall stated any si those 10 inch from the floor tklnga," and bride to-b* Mias Bath IfeCallaugh an neonrad. "B won’t wear them be cause I haven’t money enough pay for a whol«- now wardrobe." Mias Mary Leiaud. summer < ed. said. "Let’s bold the length little below the knee. 1 think dresses ware * little to short lag the war, bat the new style makes them too long." plant physiology fn cultural College of Sucha Singh, who is privileged | to carry a sword during his stay i at A. and M., is from the Lahore District of India. He obtained an M. S. degre in agriculture and from the Agri- 1 Lyallpur and worked with cotton for twelve years before coming to the U. S. Singh is working for a doctor’s de gree in plant physiology, empha sising cotton. He will spend two year* in America before rtuming to his wife and two children in India. T. C. Kala, formerly Deputy Di rector of Agriculture for Jaipur havtne tTSlTi —MS——SEMWEMM ww* JR EEW IIMMmHt 7 Bratton further rialmcd that Wttlihl the nest Ml years, If the aMaudsMUt l« paumM, the Univer- sity of Texqc and A. A M. win ra- cvlv* approximately ftt iMHlaa. while the iqwlwlut 14 ctelf col* \kkm wW raalise only Mfi millioii The hitter Statement did art mention the fncti Mlik only the nnL veraHy and A. A M. have access to the income from the university permanent fund, tkqa iifliHii* Ik* $15 million to kc given to thost- two schools under the pmpo*.-d amendment. Although Texas Tech ex-student* attacked the program, officials of that school have previously urged adoption of the measuM. Attormy General Price Daniel aad State Senator Keith Kelly agricul pur. Kala will study in the States for two years before rejoining his wife and four children in Jaipup. P. T. Bsu is a private student from Calcutta. Bengal, who tiiae _ to A. A M. last January. A gvn spoke last night avar a state net etics major, he is interested in ani mal improvement, particularly in cattle. He did postgraduate work af the . been hi dairy husbandry and traveled by both House aad Senate work in behalf of the amendment. Kelly was co-author of the ure which has already through out India before coming to the United State*. Indian cattk are bred for milk production and draft purposes rather than for braf. Basu stated. Basu, who is unmarried, will return to ladia upon completion of his training at A A M JaWoary. Acting Governor Allan Shivers will speak Ntsmm^f l sight for the building program, while Gover nor Beauford Jefter, who la va cationing in GuaUlkflk, provided • transcript speed) te be used for broadcast in the event that he was not home by Fricfcy night. AisCE Barbecue Will Be Friday The American Society of Civ il Engineers will hold a barbe cue Friday night. August 22. bo- ginning at • o clock, at the Bry an City Park. The charge will be $.75 per person, but all chikl- i accompanying their parents will be admitted fr«>«- Dr f. It Wright, aaeratary of the ABCE. urguf ill persona planning to attend the barbe cue to make reservations earlv, at nr* Thursday noon la the dead line Dallas Firm Gets 1 ’48 Engraving Bid The engraving eon tract for gra- The engraving contract for gra- nation invltetlona. dane# programs. Slid «i mt Mm hi M*y of thi. year.