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T 'i . HTORM ||tS QRORGIA SAVANNAH, (fr. f Oct II (A?) A, vlcloui hurrtcftno irMlvMl tMfinf o> to M mllta an hour •IrMh tha Uaorvia ( oa.t today, bowline ovar traaa and amaihini window*, Thar* wart no rapor of aoMMltlao. SAY CLAYTON IM1GNED WASHINGTON, Oai II (AP)- Wllllam L. Clayton of Houiton, l'ndcraarrotary of 8tat* for aao- noaalt afthlra, waa raportad to bar* raalfiiad today, P, RAYBUIN POt YP L08 ANGELES, Oct 15 (API A DamocraUe alato of Harry 8. Truman for pmidont and K. t . 8am Rayburn of Toxaa for vie* E iaidont waa propoaod by former p. Robart Ramapack of Gaorfia, ■■^■■yiltoSant of tha Aaaoeiation of Battalion PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A AM COLLEGE Volume 47 OOLLBQI STATION (Afftoltad), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 15,1»47 Number 47 ■ m Laura Sessions Named TSCW Sweetheart Army Advisory Committee To Form in Bryan—Pibum now axacutivc vka Air Tran* port America PRAISES TU PACCLTY AUSTIN, Tex., Oct 15 (APl- Praaident T. 8. Painter yestarda] commended the Uni vanity of Tax aa faculty and Other member* of the ataff on “tha aplendid way" they met the demands of veteran* during the past year. • AFL GIVES PLATFORM SAN FRANCISCO, Oet 14 (AP) —la a sweeping and sharply word ed indictment of Soviet Foreign Policy, the American Federation of Labor yesterday endorsed the Manhall Plan for European re lief, demanded abolition of the United Nations veto, and called for government neeulative curbs in the grain marteta if voluntary co operation faila. f END EXPRESS STRIKK NEW YORK. Oet 11 -(API- Some 4.000 AFL toamatera return ed to their jobe yeetarday, ending a crippling ?j.jay ■trike agalnat ‘Citizens Interested in National Defense to Comprise County Group" By JOHN T. MILLER in A Civilian Army Advisory Committee will be eetaklished Bryan within a month, Brig. General E. W. Pibum, deputy commander of the Texas Military District, announced Tuesday. I’TwfkMitial and public-apirited dtiaen* who are interested in national defease” will compote the committee, Gen. Pibum stated. This include* city and county officials, member* of the Chamber of Com- ♦ meiee, civic clubs, veterans orga nisations, representatives from A" En« Seniors To Make Inspection Trip to pallas Forty-three seniors taking agricultural engineering at A. A M. will visit Dallas October 16-17 on their annual (All in spection trip, according to an an nouncement by Fred R. Jones, bead tha Railway Express agency which ‘ > had tiad up tha company's air and ^ *‘>1 »P* n<1 »h* firat rail ahipmanta throughout tha day at tha Stat* Fair impacting Metropolitan araa. the various Jsrm, machinery and araa. CHARGE FPHA FRAUD WASHINGTON. Oct 15 -(APg —Two Rapuhltean Senator* • tended yesterday that aaeoynta of the Federal Public Housing'A thority Indicate “fraud” and pan- •Ibly "dafalration" In the 1P45-4S oparations, but a former chief of the agency said there shortages or wag*. NBW INCRBAIBBtI BOSTON, Oct. l^(AP)-Sae. war* no "price increases have conalstant- ly moved ahead of wage Incrs and eailad for a 7!e hourly mini mum wag*. - MORAL: TAKE BATH DALLAS. Oct. 15 -(AP)- A Dallas woman, soaking a divorce, testified her husband just would n’t take a bath. Judge Jack Thorn ton wrote on his docket: "Divorce granted.” NIMITZ RETIRING DALLAS,-Oct 15 _<AP)-Ad-I mira) Cheater W. Nimits said 1 here yesterday he will retire as| Chief of Neva! Operations in mid- December (pnd had recommended a I nVT * farm equipment exhibits. These ex hibit* consist of tho latest typos of macMnea introduced by leading manufacturers of farm equipment. Other equipment and exhibits re lating to agrleeKwa and agrlcul torsi engineering will be inspected by the group I The second day will b« ipant In epacting the Podd Motor Company Intemationsl HarveeUr Company, and tha Steward Company, distri butor of Ford Motor Company farm aquipmant, all of Dallas. Tha aaarrh foundation at Southern Mathodiet University. Jones and Richard L Patrick, assistant profbaaor In the depart ment, will accompany the group on the tour. Air Reserve To Meet Thursday Air Reserve personnel will meet in the Petroleum Engineering Building Thursday night, 7:90. ASHVE fill Meet Thursday Night, Hear Houston Men the National Guard, Officers Re serve Corps, and the ROTC. Cler- will be asked to aid in the establishment of the committee. The move to create the commit tees arose in the office of Secre tary of War Robert P. Patterson. Army representatives all over the United States are arranging with local loaders the details of admin istration and functions of the com mittees. V As listed by Gen. Pibum, a Civi lian Army Advisory Committee will fulfill three functions: (1) To improve “cultural" re lations between all branches of the armed fortes and the commun ity. (S) To report to the commander of the Fourth Army cases in which certain military policies ere con trary to popular opinion. (!) The committee will dissemi nate factual information regarding military policies and project* and will assist the armed forces in furthering those policies. “National defense is a citlaen's responsibility—not merely that of tho armed fortes, the Secretary of National Defenso, and the Presi dent of the United State#." Gen. Pibum stated in a Kuttnlion ia- Chapter can Society of Heating and Ven tils ting Enicm<-*T* will hold its ond meeting of the year in Me chanical Engineering Lecture Room Thursday night at 7:10 p.m. Speakers from the United Gaa Corporation of Houston will be on hand to discuss the subject of gaa air conditioning and its promise to compete with the other more wide ly used types of cooling systems. The ARM chapter of the ASHVE waa fint organised in the fail of 19t< by Key W. Ryan and other mechanical engineering student*. In its one year of existence the ARM society is the only such stu dent chapter in the United Statee The ASHVE provides students in the field of air conditioning much needed link between class room work and theory. Daring the pe*t year the three senior chapters nave provided speakers for tha meetings, and this year the na tional aaaoeiation has promised nationally known spoakera. FFA to Sponsor Scholarships For High School Grads By BOY W. DUGGER A. k M. Collegiate Chapter of the Future Farmers of America will sponsor a $78. scholarship to A. A M. for a worthy and needy high school graduate. The graduate must have completed at least two years of vocational agriculture before he is elegible to enter A. R M. to major in agricultural education. Each of the ten areas of tho ■tate may submit one applicant, and the final choice will be made by a committee of the A R M Collegiate Chapter of the Future Farmers of America with tho as sistance of faculty advisors on the of outstanding leadership ability, scholarship achievement*, and evidence of agricultural initia tive. The winner will be awarded the scholarship at the next annual ■tate convention of the Future Fenner* of America next May. The local F. F. A. Chapter ex pects to finance this scholarship by the tale of candy and drinka at the annual convention of vocation al agriculture teachers which is held on the campus every summer Private contributions, some which have already been will also assist greatly ‘ uating this worthy pro Waxahachie Junior Will Be . . , .i 4 3 Presented at Half Saturday During the summer the place . . ment committee of the local chap- III 1 Cl L 1 ter furnishes employment to atu- flllOClC# ^OllOl8rS dent members. The policy of combining the atu- I\_._ 1\I__ dent chapter with kaal assocla* I/UC 110’ lions for frequent meetings will be continued this year. Air Force Need! Officers, Says 10th AF Colonel Applications For Due November 1 Secretarial Film mL'tw. on «.iw«rwrir«. i huainee* and profeeeional lead- IjOUPSO 1j\I( 7100(1 ' Novhjf an Mtinaao and pn era Monday n ight, was a visitor on the campus for several hours TueoRay His visit was merely a side trip this time, but later this year he expects to be present for an inspection of the Cadet Corps and installations on the campus. A veteran of two war*, Gen. Pi bum waa in both the Ninth sod the Tenth Armored Division* dur ing World War II. He holds the Silver Star, tho Bronze Star *ith Oak Laaf Cluster, the Legion of Merit with Cluster, and the Pur ple Heart with two Oak Leaf Clua- originally an- rhedule to four "There is a great shortage of properly trained officers in the Air Force at the pre sent time”, Col. Reuben Kyle, Tenth Air Force Operations Of ficer, declared Tuesday afternoon However, the Reserve Officer’s Training Corps ia expected to ft niah a large portion of the yaKMy increment of regular Air /Force officers, CoL Kyle Col. Kyle and party Arrived on the campus Tuesday morning for a few hours of ipipection of A. R M. Air Force Cddets and confer ence with Lt Col. Dexter L Hod^- PASRT at AT R M. He enumerated the various func tions of his office, including the supervision of all ROTC units in state area, those units of National Guard, tha Air Re- 1, aa well aa other civilian componanta such as the Civil Air Patrol, Air Scouts, and a *oon to be-formed Modal Club. In a short interview Col. Kyle disclosed the two ways by which an A. R M. Air Force cadet could obtain a regular Air Force com mission: by applying for «u«h a commission upon being chosen one of the Honor Graduates of the school, and going on through flight training; or tat serving a specified length of Unit in a competitive tour of duty tilth the Air rorree. He urged every Air Fore* cadet isider each plan, and to obtain on from U The courae of training filma being shown for stenographic and clerical employees of the college this week will be panded from the oi notinccd three-day scl days. R. Henderson Shuffler, di rector of Information and 1 publica tions. announced Tuesday. Additional films will be shown at 10:90 a.m. and 9:90 p.m. Thursday of this week. Showings will be repeated next successor President Truman both rated and non-rated, com missioned and non-commissioned, may attend. \ A new type unit, to be known aa a Composite Squadron, that has m authorised by Air Defense to cons morq information the Air Col. Kylo, who ie a Command Pilot, served with the FlftoOUlk Air Force daring World War II. He attended Georgia Toth before tntorihg the Air Foi roree. -CALLS MARSHALL "FARCT LAKE SUCCESS, Oct 15-(AP) —Russia yesterday called Secrv- tary of State Marshall', program Hradtataitom^ will be organised to overhaul United Nation, peace- Thursday night Squadron* at this type will enjoy equal rights and the Croix de Guerre, plus the Or der of the British Empire during the war. peace keeping mechinerv e "farce 1 ' and I declaring it would undermine the| U. N. by encouraging "warmon gore and war propagandists.' LETS GO FISHING AMARILLO, TKX„rOct. II - (AP)—Dr. B. B Hargis, biologist and Dean of Administration at North Texea Stole T*eche»» Cel lege, told a forum dtaeuasion at the convention of the Southwest Wat eiwerh* Association today be re commended unlimited fiahmi In southwestern reservoirs PLAN TMRRR PIPHUNIB HOUSTON, Oft II —CAP)—4 Plans for three major pipe Knee costing |450,DM,000 to transport South Texas natural gaa to Phil adelphia, New York City and Brooklyn are announced by Cleode Williams of Austin, President of the Trenaeontlnental Pipe IMH ^Caotpany. 1 L'. •. | DBPY HOUSTON BAH HOUSTON. Oct II -(AP) Some 96 representatives of Hou* ton's small grocery store and drive ia Stations have voted unanimous ty to nmain open on Sundaya in defianee of Police Chief B W. Payne'a order that a City ordi nance, originally adopted in 1955, bMOllng such operations will be enforced starting next Sunday. J PLAN BAKERY CUT WASHINGTON, Oet IK (AP)- . Chairman Charles Lock man of the Citizens Food Committee planned • to pUdfo Ike Nation’s Bakery In duntry yesterday to wheat aavings of 3 MMbOOO beshels a month for { hungry Europe privileges with TORE unite In svent provision is mode for inectiv* duty pey, it will bs nec essary (or one to be a member of some type squadron in order to qualify, The use of Bryan FWId for local reserve flying will also he discussed et the meeting. Record Shower For Grade School Kidt* To help the A. R M. Consolida ted Grad* School build e musical library, a phonograph record show er will be given by the Grade Mothers Thursday afternoon from 4 to 9 in the home of Mrs. R. G. Reeve*. _ _ pH! All m*mb*r* of Air R^rv. 1 Ur% Ib mdditk> " ^ ** Ajnerkan I week for'the benefit of those em- ."Mdecoratton*, Gen. P.bum received ployee. who ere unable to attend th* Trench Legion of Hortor and j this week, Shuffler stated. Two films will be shown at each ses sion with two sessions daily on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, at 10:90 a.m. and 9:90 p.m. The films shown include Short fete ia Typing, Telephone Cour tesy,, a aerie* of Dele Carnegie strip films, The Secretary's Day, and The Htenoxr»t)ber Takea Dic tation. While the showings are primari ly for employeoa, attendance Is not limitod to this group, Shuffler stated. The film* are shown in the j YMCA chapel. Aiplrtntk for Rhode* Scholarship! art reminded that their credentials most Foret office here on the campus tfc» secretary of th» about the programs. committee of ■election by IwvWIDW A* Prospective candidates should consult within the next few day* T. F. Mayo, Deportment of Eng lish, local representative of the Rhodes Trust. He will discuss with them mattora of eligibility and pro cedure. Forty-eight Rhode* Scholarships, tenable at the University of Ox ford, are to be offered in the Uni ted States this year. The appoint ments will be made for two years in the first instance, with a pos sible third year for those whoee record at Oxford and plan of study make such an award advisable. No restriction is placed upon a Rhodes scholar’s choice of studios. The basic value of a Rhodes ScholarthiD ia 400 pounds (91600) per year, W this sum is for the present supplemented by * special allowance of 100 pounds (9400) per year. Scholars are advised to augment the sum of the stipend by at least 50 pounds (1200) per year from their own resources. The committee of selection ia looking for excellent students who have shown that they are the tort of men who will profit moat—for themselvas and for society—b studying several years at Oxford It'" I AURA SESSIONS ] to* • flg /. K. B. NELSON Developer of Rust-Proof Wheat Gets Monument in South Dakota TEAGUl BACK IN ATHENS ATHENS. Oct 15 -<AP)-The American Embassy says that Reps. Olih E. Tbeguo (D-Tex.) and Don aid L Jackson (R-Cahf.), who were reported fired on yesterday by mortars near tha juncture tha Greek . Bulgarian • Yugoslav borders, are expected to here today. By LOUIS MORGAN No prophet Is without honor save in his own country " Be gem the old proverb, but It haa net been a* for Edgar 8 MeFadden, agron omist for the U. I. Deportment of, Agriculture with the Agricultural Experiment Station since 1999. Me- Fadden left CoIUk< Sunion Octo ber 19 for his birthplace, in Web ster, South Dakota, to attend the dedication of a monument which has bean erected in hie honor. Grateful farmers of Southeast south Dakota, in appiecwtion of I his brilliant work in developing ru*t proof varieties of wkeet, do- 1 their quarters and dollars for the granite atone memorial. I jfVople from miles around the little Dakota hamlet of 1,500 in habitants will be in town for the dedication ceremony on October II. The governor of the etate aa well as prominent grainmen of tho U. S.. Mexico, and Canada wiU •peak. - Bom during a Dakota blixsard in 1891, MeFadden m<m-4 to the Pe cos Country of Weet Texas in 1909. Following (he wheat harvest north each summer for three years he formulated the theory that mat from the south was ceasing de vastation of the northern wheat Working on this theory, McFad den aet about to develop a ruat- resistaat variety of wheat while In school at South Dakota State Collage. He crossed Yoroalav return mer, a fibrous variety of whaat resistant to rust, with Marquis or EDGAR 8. MeFADDEN bread wheat. Scientists of the day said such a cross would produce la- fertile seeds. (Something to de lh e difference in the number of chomoeomes). Luckily for the world, MeFadden did not know this et the time and he eromsd them anyway. Owe vigorous but not so beauti ful plant waa the result of hi* la bors, and this one plant produced about 100 fertile seed that gave rise to Hope Wheat, named in 1925. Descendant* from this one plant now cover an estimated 15 million acre* of farmland in the U. S and Canada. ' Receiving a B.H. degree in Agronomy from South Dakota Stole College in 1915, McFaddm married two months Inter and aoon afterward* went into the army. Re leased from service without combat experience, he was employed by the U. 8. Department of Agricul ture to work at the Experiment Statran in Highmore, South Da-, koto. The funds for this project P*rtmcnt of Agriculture, were cut off by Congress in 1920 d™ has “cyto-analysed” « and MeFadden went back to the farm. Despite hail, drought and rust, he continued his experimental work and was finally rewarded with success. In 1929 he was re employed by the USD A and came to the Experiment Station at ARM in 1995 MeFadden received the Reader'? Digest Distinguished Service Award of 12,500 in 1946 for “his exceptionally meritous fontnh ution to public welfare.” It has been estimated by W. W. Erickson. Aa World War II began, derive- Uvea of the Hop* grain were Just beginning to hit the market. Con cerning the importance of MrFed den’s work, J. D. Ratcliff, writing In the September 1949 Issue of the Farm Journal, aeya, he "has added hundreds of millions of dollars to our notional wealth and poMddy 25 million people who would other wise be deed or dying of starva tion are alive end eating.” Ia cooperation with Dr. E. R. Sean, actantist with the U. S. De IMM- .lysed" our mod em bread wheat and traced ita pedigree back to two wiki grasses of Southwestern Asia. This haa opened up a complete new field for research. Dakota farmer* In 1944 ulor. conservative estimate places the amoant of saooey MeFadden has saved for wheat fanners at 400 million dollars. But MeFadden h* P not profited e penny beoause wheat cannot he patented. Net hungry for giory, ho haa *hip|H-d sample* of grain to all parte of the world to speed up his breeding program Me Fadden’■ development of Aus tin wheat has mad* productive a million acres in Texas that could not be used for wheat earlier be- of rust A new variety of wheat he has recently mode known is called See Br«-eze. It ie expected that this variety wiU extend the wheat bait all the way to the Rio Grande and the Golf of Mexico. MeFadden lives at 900 Ayshire, Collage Park. He haa three daugh ters, two are married, and one sen. His friends know him as a publici ty-dodging and industrious little a cub- fellow who operates from byhole of aa office at tha Agricul tural Experiment Station. ' Whan notifiod of the monument being erected in his honor, McFad- den’s only comment waa, “Its not dead yet" What’s Cooking? AGGIE WIVES CIRCLE, 7:90 Monday, home of Mrs. J. M. Inglis. Lee and Jack tor Street, College Park. AMERICAN CHEMICAL SO CIETY (ARM section), 8 p.m., Thursday, Chemistry Lecture Room. Dr. W.NUbert Noyea Jr, national president of American Chemical Society, will speak. ASHVE (American Society Heating R Ventilating Engineers) Thursday Oct 18, 7:90. lecture room ME building. Represents Uvea from United Gaa Corp. will discuss gas air conditioning. COMMENTATOR STAFF MEETING, 4:90 p. m.. Wednesday, Room 208, Goodwin, t DISABLED AMERICAN VET ERAN8, 7:90 p. m., Thursday. Americai Legion Hall, Bryan. EL PASO CLUB, 7 p. m., Wed- nsaday, Room 924, Academic. ENGINEERS COUNCIL, 7:00 p. m., Monday, Petroleum Engineer Ing Library. HOUSTON CLUB "SMOKER", 7:90 p, m„ Thursday, YMCA. HEART OF THE IIILLR CLUB 7:10 p. m., Wednesday, Room 225, A oSaDUAT1 CLUB. 7i9Q n. mj Wednesday, Assembly ftoom, YMCA. GRADE SCHOOL MOTHEKK. ARM Consolidated Junior High H. h.M.i, 4 n p. m„ Thursday, Home of Mrs. R. G. Reeves. Phonograph record ihow. HEART OF TEXAS CLUB. 7:90 b m.,p. m., Thursday. Room 107, eehaaiqal Engineering Building. HOUSTON ARM CLUB, 7:80 p. m., Thursday, YMCA. . HEART OF TEXAS CLUB.1:90 P m.. Thursday. Lecture Room Of ME Shops. Movie and plana for Christmas dance in Brown wood LATIN AMERICAN CLUB. 7:10 p. m.. Civil Engineering Building. MOTHERS-DADS CLUB, ARM Consolidated, 8 p. m., Thursday, High School Gym. PORT ARTHUR CLUB. 7:11, Wedneeday, Room 108, Academic QUARTERBACK CLUB, 7:90 p.m., Thursday, Assembly Hall. ■ REPRESENTATIVES. Student life, 6:90 p. m., Wednesday, Grove TYLER CLUB, 7:»o p. Thursday, Room 104, Academic SWEETHEART CLUB (Nolan County), 7:90 p. m., Thurajay Room 228, Academic. VETERAN WIVES BRIDGE CLUB. 7:90 p. m.. Thursday. WICHITA FALLS ARM CLUB 7:30 p. m., Wedneeday, Room 209, Academic. Laura Seta Lons, beautiful T8CW junior, haa been eelect* | ed Aggie Sweetheart, according to an annuum rment by Senior Clan* Social Secretary N. K. (Jug) Leatherwood. Chonen by a committee of A. k M. senior* from TSC’Wp 12 gorgeous class nominees, Mieet 1 ■: — Stations la a radiant brunette,! very personal'll', and fully capable of charming the entire Aggie Stu- iIhIMj. . Cadet Colonel of the Corp* WU- lien L Brown will present Mis* Sessions to the student body dur ing between-half ceremonies of the Disabled American Vets to Organize ..JBBH , The state department of the Die. A. R M.-TCU football game, Sat- abled American Veterans, located ur rf.».h».r Mr .na lira l » ln W * c0 ’ wU1 hoW organisation- Sess.ons of WMahachiH^iura,* 1 Thuraday. October 16, irrmduated from Waxahachie High 7:90, in the Americas Legion Hall School, where she was High School in Bryan. Queen, and Stole President of the, To w eUribl€ for ^^raMp rauirt HomcvnAnn ox Toms* . _ At TSCW, where she is major. I in organ.aat.on a veteran must ing in Home Economics with a ho v « * n honorable discharge and minor in Chemiatre, ah* haa been have a aervice-connected disability treasurer of the rtashmpn Class, incurred in wartime. The aunlica- Cotton Ball Dutches a. Redbud .. n , Princees,'Sophomore Beauty noml- **7* ■ *••*■*• Ijp nee, president at Alpha Lambda mi-mber*. Delta (honorary underclassman fiatoraHx), score tary of Phi Ep- ■i|on Ojnicron (honorary home eco nomics fraternity), honor student, student assistant In the home eco nomics department, and vioa-preel- dent of the Chapam-I Social and Literary Club. During the summer of 1949-49, Laura represented TSCW and the Southwest In New York City at conference of the Junior Cl The Diaabled American Veteran* ie an organization bnted on service. | It ie on* of tha oldest veterans’ organisations in the United State*, being organised in the aarly twmv ties. It waa chartered by rnngrwae in 1998. Tho D.A.V. haa a n,.re- tentative on every eommiu<« of j veteran* 1 affair* that itawta in Washington, tor * trend of the New York Dreea , I'lrtltUta, i . f Obviously, the 11 senior judgea 1 couldn't have gene far wrung in! t hr i r * aetottlon, fttaoetheart nominee* were Smith, Patsy Wolfe, and Mary Jan* To- real Roberto Hemp top, Patty Dillman, and fljtaMMi MrGrew, Juniors; Teresa Hitler, Kltkryn Blankenship, Norma Wal ker. and Jean Van Arsdel, Seniors. Half-time ceremonies will in- u I, performances by the Aggie and Horned Frog Hands in addi tion to th# Sweetheart presenta tion ceremonies. According to CoL V. Adame, Band Director, the A. A M. Band will march on to the field, form a huge heart shaped formation pierced by the tradi- ttytol cupid'* arrow, and Tahn) I Let Me Call You Sweetheart.” while presentation ceremonies are beitiK conducted at tie base of the Pearson to Speak To Graduate Club Paul B. Pearson, dean of the graduate school, w\!l speak before the Graduate club Wedneeday night at 7:90 in the Assembly room of the YMCA 'Dean Pearson will answer sag questions pertaining to graduate WEATHERFORD CLUB. 7:90 students. Ok, Thursday, Room 909, Ara- Officer* for th* current semes ter wiU be elected. jra Co' TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION* Tubrrndotii: fb> earlier four thf sooner curt Medical science has now demonstrated that climate ia not impor tant in the cure ofHO-* berculoai*, as was for merly thought to be I, tree. Medical science SI has also determined 11 that the moot impor tant factor it finding the case in an early •tag*. The rarest way to do this is by an X- ray of th* chest