The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, November 11, 1947, Image 1

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aarlaua for any aduaatlonal imtl-
Uitlon, aapactaily for Baylor ba-
rauaa of (ta “conapiruoua and in-
(luahtial poaition In lha adoration-
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8^1 U NOW FOURTH
NEW YORK, Noy. |1 (^i_Notra
Dama top* th* Amoobu^ Pra**
* football wrttcn -poll for tha third
■tarairht weak-; Michigan accond.
P*nn*yWmnia aeootad into third
placa, ahead of South#™ Matho-
dnA, by handing Virginia it* first
km*. Taxa* regained Borne of ita
p™-8MU luster by downing Bay^
lor, advancing to seventh.
| HUGHES TESTIFIES
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 i*h—
Howard Hughe* said yesterday ha.
never *aw publicity aian John W.
Meyer'* expanse accounts until a
Sonata committee began an in
quiry into the $40,000,000 in war
time plane contract* awarded
Hughe*.
Hughes also testified that Maj.
Q*n. Bennett E. Meyers tried to
borrow $200,000 from him during
the war when Meyers wa$ nego-
• tiating a multi-mlHion-dotfar plane
eontract with Hughes.
YMCA Cabinet
Holding Daily
Prayer Service
mi:
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HONOR WILI. CLAYTON
PHII ADELPHIA, Nov. II »*-
Farmer Undersecretary of State
William Clayton of Houston will
he given the afiHial award of the
Foreign Trader* Association nf
Philadelphia Tnuraday for "hi*
outstanding niptyihutlon* to -th*
raa*e of foreign trade,
Dally devotion* are being
held by the YMCA Cabinet
this week in Kieat Lounge,
according to M. L. Caahion,
iworrtary of the YMCA Thla
program ta a part of the annual
weeh of prayer that ta being ob
served by the students of the
YMCA and YWCA -- 1 throughout
this week
Thla observance was begun by
The World Student Chruttan Fed
eration. an organization founded
bv DT.-John B. Mott, who waa
chairman for thirty yean. Dur
ing that time. Dr Mbit circled the
world aome 48 time*, visiting col
leges and univentties on all five
continents and In Austmlis.
Aa a result of his leadership,
world conference* have been held
at four y#ar intervals for the last
25 yean, except during World War
II. Last summer, the conference
met In Palo. Norway, with repre
sentative* from more than 40 na
tions attending.
The Federation * purpose la to
r k for development of the high-
possible type of leadership In
of the 88 countries In which
YMCA has been established, and
to create a neighborly Interest In
their mutual welfare.
To supplement the current Week 1
of Prayer and World Fellowship,
tha YMCA has made available to
the studant body a pamphlet of
Inspiring ■
and meai
Real Manage
Built on Love
Says Starnes
Lynch Tickles’ Hot Only
His Audience But Himself
Bp JAMKft H. JONRM
Marriage is a divine initi
tution ordained by God, hap
py marriage is bunt upon TU Game Limited
love, and marriage is a life-
Dale Ticket* For ^oung Irish Tenor Mixes Formality
And Informality to Delight Audience
time contract until the death of
one entered Into th# contract,
stated Trine Starnes, speaking to
a group of aomo 80 young people
Single student* dealring date
tickets for the AAM-Texas game
must submit their names ta
their respective Student Senator
before 5 p. m. Tharaday, Novem
* By VICK IJNDLEY
Christopher Lynch leaned hia elbows upon the Guion
at'the' a AM Church of chriat i her ll. Limited to one per tingle- HaU piano, half turned his back to the audience, and hia
.Ik- J-,- (I.L.t. _111 W. ‘ I _
WILLIAM J. TERRELL. ’«*, und C. R. THOMAS, *4T. nil!
be honored at the annual meeting la Detroit of the Ameri
cas Institute of Chemical Engineers November It.
No Prouder Man on Nov. 11 . . .
student, the date tickets will be
of distinctive color and will ad
mit only a female guest.
Dr. Lindsay Witt See
Ex-Students Honored
Tonight in Detroit
Impreaned With Our Sports
Native of Punjab, India On
Campus to Study Agriculture
ghouldera shook with laughter. Hia rendition of "Sing
Song of Sixpence" had tickled not only the audience, not
_ - ♦ only the acoempanist, but even
I j Lynch himself.
• • • I A few seconds later, as a house
fun of Aggies sod faculty ap
plauded. Lynch started ovfcr again
and managed to finish the rollick
ing childhood ballad
Tlt'MAN
W/
By CHARLIE MURRAY
and devotional prayers' There will be no prouder man in Detroit on the evening
messags# by soms of the for*- 1 of November 11 than Dr. J. D. Lindaay, head of the chemical
mo *i. "'‘"‘Hi?* 'J * V* engineering department. On that date he will nee two of hia
--' Um.,w| furm , r ttud ,„ u , WIIUMI J Torr.ll <>l N.vmoU >nd C. R.
Thomas of Altu*, Oklahoma, hen-*
tirsd befor* the annual renvmtlon l
of the Amariean Institute of Them-
leal Engineer*
Terrell, whs graduated laat June
la *m played by the Outf (HI Com
imny at Fort Arthur Ms won flral 1
place th the 1IM7 national dealgn
inntsst for rollaa* atudent* apon
■orv.i iiy the AK'nK, while Thomas
rerelved hannmhle mention tqulva-
tent to fourth plae*
|a4h will be henm guests at the
Frank l„ SheffteW. a O^me AlUhK ronvention banquet, alnng
Creek freshman, ha* been alerted *** «h»rd-plae* win-
president «f the YMCA Cabinet at and will he preaented ceftlfi-
the annex according to (’mrdon prlaii M I fere*
Cay, asstslant .ecretary nf ibe! w*°2r The ajKond-olMt «umte*Unt
YMCA Gay li*t«i the ftthcr offl- ^ P. Nachell, nf the Unlycrslty
Columbia, and thM i»,
of Conner Union
Sunday night. Starnea spoke on
“Marriage and the Honte”.
Selfishness, lust of Gesh, and
Ignorance were given a* reasons
by Starnes for two out of every
five marriages ending in divorce.
Starnes stated that the nation's
divorce is gradually dissolving the
nation.
Speaking to both married and
unmarried students. Starnea told
how young people should conduct
themselvea during the courtship
period before marriage, To the
married students and their wives,
Starnes suggested many of tha
I uttl* thing* that husband# »nd p, g Sodhi from Punjab, India arrived here recently
SSTJS ."Upy I f"* CUlfonUo to study Tow. Agriculture. Sodhi plan, to
j Present at tha meeting were
i members of the A AM. Consoli
dated Home Ecoaomica Class.
workers Thaae parrtphV
obtained from Don Hanks, presi
dent of the Cabinet, a| tha YMCA
of flee
-WT4W fiM A, M —
Sheffield Named
To Head YMCA
Cahinet at Annex
By Eugene W .Trotter
be here two weeks, j
Sodhi landed in San Francisco in February of this year
. —— '♦and haa spent the past eight
Young peopl, from the Bryan
Church of Chriat and young people
from th* A.AM. Church aa well
aa many visitor*
-WTAW fiM A. »!.—
m*R* GRKW K
fAkHlNOTDN, N»y ll *
Fmaldsni Tniinan told UnMros*
today that "(Inmrc Is Mill fr**"
haaauas »*f Ataarican aid tall hn
fimnomir plight "ha* not Imslrally
imptovwl" ami ih* military lUriure
Is Worse.
cat* nirr f«rtunr
CAWEN. N, J.. Nov II
Rudglto five year nld Maltese tom
eat, and Fltty King, 18 year-oid
, tom of unknown I lor age, are thc
prihclpal bonafUlatle# of the 182.
tkK) retatoUft b|aarah Y. Furl-jr, aa. Vi'e^l‘miwicnt,"j^mJ' V. »toll
retired •J 0 |to|p3aisiMirant, Oklahoma; laa- ] ..
last year at tha age of 75. Rokrrt jK tth4 , w ,, Sand ktudento from practically all engl-,
S rings, Oklahoma; and Program "wing whool* in th* nation par-
airman. Albert W. Rollins, High ticipated in the contest, which was I
land Park, Dallas. - . bald last spring
Sheffield, lettered two years In Thomas, also a graduate of last
basket hall, baseball, as well aa be June and now doing graduate work
hg aenior yell leader at Robert E at A. A M will accompany Dr.
Lee... He served on the Student Lindsay and Professor F. F. Bis-
Coyndl for three years, and he hop, also of the chemical engineer-
also was president of both the Na- ing stiff here The two faculty
tional Honor Society, and Boost members will utilise attendance at
er Club As a senior he received the national convention to discuss
Napoleon and Reba Keep Busy
Cleaning Profs’ Rooms in T
SUGGEST LAFOLI.KTTE
fGTON.
WASHINGTON. Nov 11 UH-
The name of Robert M Lafnllette,
Jr, figured prominently in apec-
uiation today as the possible di- ^ „ nior yt „ , t Robert E , t a. A
S projected J t» nn fttudant l.indei
rector of this count
multi-billion dollar
gtafenmu ^ i »
Suropesn aid
RITA SHEDS ORSON
IX)8 ANGELtS, ^ ov - ^ the Echols Cup, being selected the 1 placement of graduates with ex-1
Beauteous Rita Hayworth ended mo ^ t representative student. ecutive* in the industry and to in- s
‘Welks *****’ another sports mind terview potential additions to the
today, obuining a divorce on toa-
e«l‘freshman, acording to Gay,! faculty,
went out fcor soft ball and track.
HEAR RATT ON AIR—
at Durant, Oklahoma. He was a
member of the Pro lection Club, 4 D_
I-atin Club, and the Hi-Y Club*. Ag^lC BrCflliN
Robert Mathews, graduated from 11 — /
Sand Spring* high school when- ®T1 Ill^llWSy
timony that the one-time "boy won
der* of stage, screen and radio
didn’t want to make a home for
’her! j
TA^B INMAN STATE . . u v .
vpw nrt HI Nov 11 (AA The be was a member of the H«-Y for i
Dominion of India announced to year*. He attended aeveral Frank Weeden, freshman in “B"
-r LTit 0 Urke a n n re tom^- ^ the YMCA student conferences. Battery Artillery, suffered a brok-
- rory administration of th^predom Rollins, a Highland Park base- •" yesterday afternoon when
insntly Hindu atate of Junagadh, ball and basketball lettorman, was themotorseootoron which he was — _ • .t»<ivinw ewrirultur* . n <i tK. »fri
previoualy linked to Pakistan by It* an honor student, a member of the 'olbded with an automobile, from the college *t the Wellborn ^ Jut
L . - Hj.Y, tn d a member of the atu- W'eeden, an industtnal educaUon settlement, has worked around the; >* majoring m homemaking. With
Four Games to Be
Aired Saturday
On Humble Mikes
A* sxeltomsnt mounts In tbs
rinsing wsoks of South west Can-
feronre oompotitioii, Interest in
Humbls (HI k Refining Company 1 *
football broad east* la due to tvarh
• now psak (hia wssk-snd
NumMs's broadeasl of Iks
Mir*'ARM gam* will to heard
al liN a. m. from Hie* Rtodlum
with Mil Mlshaala dsatrlMni
lh» Rams and Mil Nswklrk fill-
log In on the eoUr aaalgnmanl
Th* broadaijl wM to akad avar
liana KRLD, Dallas: KTRN.
TEA. Hat vni.mm
OIK HsrHavvn:
Ma FaHdt sad WTAW,
At t:M p. in., Humble's broad
east of the TCU-Texas gam* rose
on ths air from Memorial Stadium.
Stations carrying the game will be
KFJZ, Fort Worth; KRBC. Abi
lene; KBST, Big Spring; KGKL.
San Angelo; K C R 8. Midland;
KOSA, Odessa. KIUN. Pecos;
KROD, El Paso; KNOW, Austin;
KXYZ, Houston; K\H< . San An
tonio; KPAB, Laredo; KRIO, Mc
Allen; KFDM, Beaumont. KRRV,
Shaman; K G V L, Greenville;
KPLT, Paris; KCMC. Texarkana;
KFRO, Longview; KMHT, Mar-
i shall; KRBA. Lufkin; and KSST.
; Sulphur Springs.
em ruler.
Indian Prime Minister Jawahar-
1*1 Nehru, who mad* th* announce
ment, aaid his government had
acted at the request of Shah Na-
wax Bhutto, premier of the 4,100-
square mil* state, to save it "from
a complete administrative break
down."
FESTIVAL OF FAITH
DETROIT. Nov. II ^-Assert
ing that "froodom Is thraatened,"
Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of the
Meihodiat ebureh said that "Com
munism ta struck a harder blow
when w» abolish Jim Crow ear*
. thin when w* summon movi* ac
tof» ta tha kilo* Hghu of Wash-
nC' Now Yoifc rhurchman. sd
i .dpHUiing an audlm*# of 1.000 par
’tons attend in* a Frotoatoni "faa
tival * af rallh." added, "we at-
tack (Communlaml sueeoaafully
when w* pay our toaahgr* dawat
salaries rather than InauM'lMrl
loyalty with demands for leach
era' Bath*." V / J\ x
MkDAL TO DR. 1ARIN
NEW YORK. Nov. 11 ^-The
1M7 Ameriean Woman's Asaocia
lion Medal far Achievement bv a
woman was prooonted to Dr. Flar-
ence R. Sabin of Denver. 7ft-year-
old physician and scientist. .
“ABSURD" SAYS JUDGE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 Lffi-
, Justice Jackson slapped "an ab-
.( surdity" label yesterday on a rul
^ tog by flv# Supreme Court col
leagues that a fanner buying fed
eral crop insurance must keep In-
tad on government regulations
in tho “F'
. 2 . .1 The SMU-Arkansas game goes
By LOUIS MORGAN ) fashions, Reba says, "I've let down on the air at 1:60 p. m. from Own-
"The YMCA is a fine place to "Or hem. that will con* down.” by Stadium in Dalias. Carrying
work," say Napoleon Burrell and "Ought to have happened a long the broadcast will be stations
Reba Robinson whose job it is to time ago," chimed in Napoleon, a KPRC, Houston; WOAI, San An-
tidy up after the instructors liv- deacon in the Salem Baptist tonio; WFAA-WBAP (820), Dallas
ing there. They spend eight hours Church. Napoleon is also a Matter Fort Worth; IRIS, Corpus Christi;
a day at the task. Mason and has a son and daughter KVAL, Brownsville; sad KGNC,
Napoleon, who lives five miles, ■ttending Prairie View. TV boy U Amarillo.
studying agriculture, and the girl Skelly Stadium in Tula* will be
oring to homemaking. With the scene of the Bay lor-Tulsa U.
dent council. 'Gay~'dddar«d thit itud *" t fro |" Hov'Um, slleged that college for ststota yoara. Ho la I ^ fXCe P tlon on «
Rollins cam* from a long line of pother automobile forced h.. mo- msmed and has nine children P^Udelphu. all hi. ch.ldren hv*
torscooter into a ca rdriven by ! Reba, a member of th# Order of at " ‘‘H&orn.
Charles Brock, a student from the Eastern Star, has six children, Napoleon finished the ninth
Lockhart. all of whom live near AAM except grade at Wellborn and insists he
Brock carried Weeden from the | for one son in Oklahoma. Another | worked a time as a concrete finish- AAM. Through their efforts, the
months traveling throughout Cal
ifornia, Washington, and Ariaona
In his efforts to learn th* Indus-
trial and agricultural methods
r cticed In the United State* and
purchase new farm machinery
He haa centered hia attention up
on tha prominent school* of agri
culture and mochanw a.
In Punjab. India. Sodhi owns
10,150 acres of fertile farm land
that la suitable far Ih* growing
tha sama crop# grown In (ha
•nutham and western United
States
Although he la favnrahly up-
praaaed with mtr sport* and Ih*
enthuataam that th* people show
far thaw, he m nr* seed lever a
erttlrtam for American mnviea
•aying that the motion picture in-
■Miry of the United State# la
doomed for defeat if It doe* not
tottar tha quality af Ita movtaa.
The worka of British and Indian
•tudioa art those of art and real-
lorn Me own* a motion picture
studio, which he rents to an laiiaa
producer
He Is particularly impreaned
with the spirit and the friendliness
of the student# at A AM and with
the effort of th* faculty to help
him. He sqld that India haa be
gun a five year plan to educate
its entire population.
Laws similar to our own have
been enacted by the new Indian
government to assure the educa
tion of all Its children. The ele
mentary schools are insufficient
In ita number and the colleges are
small . There la a scarcity of
teachers
Upon leaving A AM Sodhi will
visit Louisiana, Mississippi. Flori
da. and th« other prominent agri
cultural states of the South He
will depart for England In Febru
ary. He haa traveled extensively
throughout Europe and Asia.
”^t waa like that all the time at
Quion Hall laat night, aft Lynch,
young Irish tenor and protege of
the late John McCormack, mixed
concert formality and Ihah in
formality to the delight of a Town
Hall aadlence
Lynch is a true -Irish tenor, ev
en when he sings arias from Ital
ian opera* In fact, after hearing
tha Lament of Federico, from
L'Arioslana, laat night, your re
viewer la convinced that all tenon
In Italian ought to be Irish .
In addition to one program
group of hi# native Irish folk
•ong*. (post of Lynch'e encoroa
were of that Myt*. Including Moth
er Macbro* and Toorralooeatoon.
• The Irish folk songs wore Green
Huabm. In the Darden Where the
PraUr* Grow. M) lagen Lave, A
RaArwure Ballad, and The Pala
tine** Daughter
Among the modern numbers M •
a llsh were Ah Mnoa af My De*
I, Miranda, All la aa April
jQiliar Mings are all althe, what
ever ih# language, aa l.vnch dam-
one! rated hy three selortlnne'. I Re
Rnglish Herman naltor's hang hy
Mavden Marochtafo by (he flatten
I, and th* Irish wmg, Bbm
■yah'
ugene Bneaart. who accnm-
pahted Lynch on the piano, elan
played thro* solo mmtWrat For-
petaai Motion by Weber, and a
hy Llaat -
not Ihr familiar Fourth, hM, a
Mmller and loaa-known work In
th* mme aottaro -and th* novel
ty Moatr Bax.
—WtAW Tit* A. It.-
long
AAM graduates running hack
the Class of 'V7.
to
brodacast, scheduled for 2:80 p.m.
formed on government n
federal register.
scene of the accident on the Bry- son it taking a mechanic's course
an-Collega road to the college ho* in Bryan.
pital where he was treated. Concerning the “new look" in
South African Planter Viait* A&M . . .
£ —HEAR RATT ON AIR-
Steen Addresses
Debating Club
Dr. Ralph Steen, profeaser of
history, spoka last night to pros-
poctiv* intramural debater* on th*
national debate question concern
ing the establishment of a federal
world govemmont.
Dr Steon pointed out that a fed- "You damn well know Brltiahers
•rat government would mean that are good people," say* Knlwrt (I.
nation* would have ta give up Garvin, who is visiting AAM from
some of their soverei^nte. He de- Mouth Africa. "You people talk
er, but Reba says he haa alwaya
worked for the college.
Napoloon and Reba recently
members of the Salem Bap: -t
Church end college workers raised
$26.66 for the old man’s car*.
! nr
Steaks Cost Two Bits in Southern Rhodesia
Students Taking
Extension Course
• ( t ' • J *
Meet Staff Agents
Students, who are taking Agri
cultural Education 440. an Exten
sion Service course, were introduc
ed to members of the Extension
Service Suff last Friday night in
the YMCA chapel. This was the
final conference of the .monthly
meeting of the staff.
The introduction rave the stu
dents an opportunity to get ac
quainted with the district exten
sion agents; most of the atudent*
expect to be employed in extension
work pt their end of their grad
uation.
Roy Snydor, meat specialist for
the Extension Service and teacher
of farm meats for the Animal Hus
bandry department, gave a report
on the reorganisation of the froz
en food lockers According to Sny.
Roy Snyder, eatonsion meat spe- fff frozenjood lockers of Tex-
cialist. recently returned from the “ " Ur ^
annual meeting of the Frozen Food P'* 1 '* * I T
Locker Plant Association held in' "ft "Tf & 00 pl *" U ‘ n . T **“
Kansas City. Mo He was in charge ^ th » “ tu P
of one of the eight clinics hold in co J n n * nm a •» ch
conjunction with the mooting. J «f ‘hr fourteen Exten.loa Service
The clinics wore hold as aids to
—HEAR RATT ON AIR—
Meat Specialist
Holds Clinic At
Kansas City Meet
By JAMES D. ALLEN
ftnod sovereignty as "• stoma I in
dopandoneo and Internal suprema
cy."
Although thal topic fa lo bo used
InterrdfaglBte debating, AAM
here Trzas hasn' 1
at It elthar."
Garvin, n thin hut active 77-
veer old Englishmen, fa in th*
Intramural teams will also discus* United States on an agricultural
* mission for the benefit of hi*
federal
ex
Aai
Intramural debaters
government. It fa
By KENNETH BOND | vania tnd entered the Fennaylvn-
nta Dental College. Upon receipt
of his degree In IM7, he returnod
to Kdlnburgh end look th* dentist's
esamlnetion which gnv* him a eer-
tlffaats to practle* dentfatry any
where.
After practicing for nine years
In North Ireland, he mod* * sight
seeing trip to South Africa. He mot
a friend in Southern Rhodesia who
took him on a trip through the
country. He selected
(wing
't dor
*o had
that moat of the varsity **"^* Though not participating unsettled
sms will ba aelected from governmental affaire at this 9,000 scree #i lano ano i
*1 debaters. Hme, hr is here to obtain some j for two shillings per acre
Mr. tn N.«. jwre-bred Brahman cattle and the He found at the end of a year
i „„ s B m -tedfav letest varieties of miln mala* and that hit profit was $7,000, so he re-
W* satWmm awsO Asa Wm Isa# otesalssaaAel AsssasaakjJ Am tasAlaeosed J IsIa
-■BAR RATT ON An
other sorghums to be introduced turned to Ireland and closed his
UNION OPENS COOl’
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 11 —
Local 610 of th* CIO United Elec
trical, Radio and Machine Work
era will open • co-operative, non
profit grocery business for its
membart this week — the eocond
large Pittsburgh district labor
union to take such a stop in an
effort to combat the high coat of
food. ,—- t*- r '
Walker Attending
Range Meetings
Alfred H. Walker, assistant
pasture specialist-range for the
Texas Extension Service, left to
day for field work in Bandera,
Kerr, Edwards and Real Counties
in Texas Extension District Elev
en.
On Thursday and Friday Walker
will attend the district meeting at
Uvalde, and oa Saturday a meet
ing at Crystal City.
Walker says there fa a large
amount of liveatock being sold now
due to the drought condition* and
the over-utilisation of tho ranges.
into Portugese East Africa
H laa’t necessary far Garvla
to wave a "Union Jack" to Idea-
Gfy him as aa Englfakmaa. Hi*
aaave manner, coarteafas, and i
manners af speech are a daad
give-away.
Though slightly deaf, he carries
on a very active conversation and
seems to be well informed on world
affaire.
He waa bom in North Ireland of
Irish fanner stock Since he waa
endowed with "itchy feet," he spent
only sixteen years in Ireland be
fore sailing for the United States.
After roaming about the United
States for some time, he went to
western Canada where he worked
on ship* plying between the coastal
towns.
t In 1894 ha returned to Pen nay I-
dentist office permanently. He got
86,000 acres of government land
and proceeded to place it under
partial cultivation. In 1919 he and
a partner bought 24,000 scree of
land in Portugese East Africa and
engaged in rsiabig cattle and
growing citrus fruits. Garvin serv
ad as a member of the Legislative
Council in Rhodesia from 1916 on
til 1922.
Because of exploitations by
certain land company, he went
“broke” in 1922 and lost hia entire
holdings in Rhodesia. He moved
permanently to Portugese East
Africa where he and hfa partner
raised bananas, citrus fruits, avo
cados, pineapples, and some com
had potatoes
la 1928, he dtoaohed the part
I aershlp. They flipped a cola sad
he laat; aa hia partner took th*
developed lead and he look Ih*
other half.
At present, he owns aji#o acre*
of land with 800 acres under Irri-
get ton, and about 1000 acre* which
can be Irrigated. Hfa ham* fa lo
cated about half a mil* from • 400
oot fall* of th* Chlmesl River In
Portugese East Africa. 4
Garvin declined to •stlniate hi*
present worth, because aa he ays,
After all, I am an handat tax
payer-" He admitted that he had
contributed generously to starting
hfa eon and daughter In fhrming.
According to Garvin, there are
many Brehman cattle In his noun
try but due to Inbreeding with
British North Devon cattle, the
present Brahman doss net have
th* typical hump and they are
more suacoptibie to disease. Garvin
plans to get five put.hml Brah
man bulls and fifteen heifer calvba
to bolster their bloodline in Africa.
After buying the cattle, he plans
to go to the Lubbock Experiment
Station to acquire the new
After a tour of the Rio
Valley to obaerve the
used in farming citrus fruits and
rtaolss
A demonstration on aluminum
the locker plant operator. Tltey in. 1 . .? "■
eluded killing and cutting W. ‘f Mn,
pork, and lamb, poultry proreaa ,ow * F^ ,nU P™*'
ing, curing meats
raising
-T
■fl
"I wiB retara ta Rb.d.eda sad
play galf with the Anted*
vians.” he aaid. The cam af Us
age aad his three fellow golf era
fa 8M year*.
Though some inflation haa
•truck his country, th* hast cut* of
steaks are still available at twoa-
ty-flv# cynta par meal. ,l You can
live in the beet hotel and he served
th* best of food for one pound per
day. 1 don't mean these American
blueplste speclsls, but th* best of
food served in courses as It should
ha." ‘
Rhodesia Is recalving some
American care from Canada. A
Chevrolet or Ford costs about
*110 which is not so much sbove
here. As for other conve
niences, they have almost all that
we enjoy except they are not so
modern
He hopes that by bringing s new
typo grain into his country ho will
stimulate the natives to rales it
instead of white corn which is their
sofa crop.
Due to a recent drought, there
fa a great need for more grains
and other foods for th* natives. He
was quick to say that hfa country
had not received Aaterican aid, and
aa far as he knows, had no plans
to sack it.
It there is on* thing that Garvin
appreciates, it fa a good brand at
Scotch. Though be fa having to got
by on Canadian brands at present,
ho thinks there fa no comparison
with the real highland item. “1
have cured more discos** better
aad easier than modern medicine
could ever hope to by asiag goad
Qewadesk n W* ‘
peek aging,
chandising, advertising, and plant
fr-
•onftt ruction
Snyder was In chart* of th*
hilling clinic which attracted more ..
people than all the othar clinic* I
|rerei|Hr vnun mm f fir mnter viinavui
combined hy actual count. He at-
*nt and frill soon hr usdd by all
plants, was also given by Snyder.
Later in the meeting • film
was jh«»n .on food conservation
and IK* ways the Extension Service
this great causa was di*.
tiihute* this lo the fact that they
were Inirodueing the new and
progressiva idea of skinning hogs
This plan was introduced prima
rily for locker alante in which (he
flow fa ton small ta nereesiUte In
stallation of a mechanical dehairer
and scalding ficilttte* This new
method may also be of value to th*
farmer who slaughters hfa own
meat.
It ellminataa the necessity for a
scolding vat scrapera. and other
equipment needed for slaughter
ing on the farm. Snyder stated
He says, "AD you need fa a sharp
knife.’’
Fifteen hundred locker plant
from all parts af the U
th* meeting.
—BRAR RATT ON AM—
Fee* Due Now
The third fawtallmeat
tote Hag 844.78 fa
Fiscal Office aad
by November 17.
Board ta Dec* a* her 18, txdad
mg tbs
amounts ta
$7.71; aad .
Far voters as the (bird install
meat asMaata la $11.11.
operators ft
S fttlencted
—WTAW fiM A.
Houstonians Plan
Mantation Dance
Post-game artivtlfa* in Hous
ton this week-end/fa III include a
party for all Aggisa at the Ftan-
tation on Satm&y from ItM to
l Bob Draco. secreUrfy-treasur
er of the Houston AAM Club,
announce^ yesterday.
Music will be furnished by
IN-sn Hudson and hfa orchestra. _
currently playing at tha Plan
tation.
Ticket* may be purchased
from all Houston students for
$1 JO per person, or $8.88 per
couple. Thfarprtee includba ad
mission, table reservation, ice,
and mixers. Drago concluded.
—RBAR SATT ON AM—
Stork VWte Aggie Couple
Captain and Mre- William H.
Drake announced the birth of a
son. William Eubnkk. Sunday at
tha St Joseph Hospital in Bryan.
The son weighed I pounds and 9