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CAIRO, Jan.; 15—(JP)
Dagher, chief ok the
of the Arab L^gue,
conference todly the
recommendec} liat
occupy all Palestine
armiO.^ when British
NOW ITS AIR WAR
IN JERUSALEM
JERUSALEM Jail,
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A plane Wh
ficials sai|d thej
hich .iRritist
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MEXICO CITY
Immediate contraction
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ish-pilote<l fireiH on
onnaissanjce cr|tt eodpy f ver Kt ir
Etzion in the nioimtain a -t a south
of Jerusalem, wiere Jewi. inti
abs had been lockedl in a blopf y
2i'-hour battle.: | V
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jress sectin
tolc 1 a netys
lengue Wis
drafc natiope
wit), regular
troclps lea^4
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AF
beliefed ivasiJdfrf
jn RAF rebi
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authorizejd for 4 five-strand bSrbfd
wire fence; 55pmiles in length,
prevent northward s^Aad of
foot an dmoutlj disedse iu Mexido.
The fence is]ihe first fection bf
a fence that evpituall^ will streti'h
from Tamiahud, Verarru? state, jlo
the Pacific Coatet at fuer o Vallatr-
ta. Northern Jalisco sti te. The
first section Will bei frOrp Tamibi- ,
hua, on the Pam American liig^i>
way between Laredo, TVpca.s, pud
Mexico City, i
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TCIT CELEBRAtF
DIAMOND JllRlIPE
FORT WpPjI|H, Tex., {lan. tfii (-
'/PI Prr-sidentiMi Ej Sadi ;r opened
Texas CthristiaW-TJniversity.’s dia
mond Juibilee telebijation here Hj-
day witb a pltjdjge that fie schcojl
>vas “ful|y conjtTnittfd to I he maiii-
tenance, the epfichment find jt if
exj^msion of tjie A meric; n Deijnrii-
cratic wfiy of ilijfe,’ 7 ! (
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JAR, BREAK ^ESELTS
IN SHAKEUF*
ANGT.ETOJ, iTElX.,. Jrfn. 15 U
(/Pi—A Miakefpl iri , ma lagement
persormeil of tHeiDai'ringtm Prisuii
Farm, sbcne ffj the bsca ie of II
convicts who o|\'orp(jwered a guanlj,
was ordorcd yepteplay-! »y, Q.. Bj.
, Ellis, wf o only twoj week: ago. lj|e-
came general manager of the Teix,-
ns prise a system, '• g . jijj i.
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Senator? yesterday emph; sized Aci-
mands that tlbe
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LAST YEAR’S WINNERS
Jack Crook and ilran Miller
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Tickets Now On Ssile
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Hi; nations to tfe--
thci Mat?;Aall Plan
gold a id
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to Eiwor..
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pledge their Hoards of.
dollars” ahvo:|d j arjd their inyfitr
ments in this foijinti-y to-Help eoMef \
costs of the ,80b,000,0
5 neaii recoveryi p rograni.
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PETRILLO .VCOl'hTEni ON |i
LEA ACT CHfAUGE . ||jj i
CmCACO, ia 1.15 -^tTi—JfmU
C. Hetrillo yc^t-rdky , 'wa:; acimRi
ted'on ;v chifig 3 'K biol; ting the
Lea Act .Kvhicft ((origress ]>ass^ft[tdj•
curb his broad: i)ni|in powers. j j|
Fede ral Judjfcel Walter . . Lahuv;
in hie writtant I opinion- of fight
pages, said “there is ho evideiip}]
whatever in' tfie]reVord to to fh^w
that the defendanti had k lowledbe
of or was inffiriped of th • lack pi
need of additional jeniployees pj'ijof
to the trial ot t^is case.”
The goverr|mnnt allege 1 in,
criitiiimlr cask that Petri lo, 'he
of the ' AFL Anieiiican F 'deratiiii
of- Musicians^ Jhari violate;! thy 1; w
by culling a 4stdike to eogrch sqa'lj
tioil WAAF. f
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Prairie View Collegians To
Play For Architects’ Ball
By n. L. BiillNCSLEY
The Architectunil Society’s Annual Beaux Arts Ball
is scheduled February 7. in; Sbisa Hall with the Prairie
View Collegians furnishing the'music from V until
midnight.
The customkfy ASABA'B general masquerade motif
will control the!quest on :ol; dress, although it Would be
difficult to brand it ns formal or informal. Last year’s
ball produced sonjie gems! in the! field icf outlandish cos
tumes including a beribboned, electrically lighted, chic
ken-footed general and a| frustrated superman to name
- but two. As the ajrchitectk and tjhelr friends are already
working on their jcostumeis, this lear’s affair promises to
be an equal in cornpelling|COstun|eM
Tickets areinowlonj ijale and may be procured from
jack Croojk of the ArcHi|t|cture Department located on
the top flojor of tjhe Academic Building. Prices are scaled
at $1.20 for members and $3.Gf) fpr non-membejfs.
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To Honor FootbaU, Cross Conn
Lettermen, Winne
Trophies Will Be
Lutheran Meet
Scheduled Here
is \fee
:k-End
Speech 45 Seconds Long Stresses
Kiwanis Installation of Loveless
Freshmen at Annex
^ Registering! Now j .
. For Next Semester
hiengo, to hire ext^ji A| , anrtt . k J U( | ents •„ K0W \
¥ By VICK UNULEY
Milking an inaugural address
only, lofteconds long, Sid Loveless
was installed last night; as 1918
president I of the College Station
Kiwanis Club. The installation of
new (iffieeiTs for the local'chapter
was conducted at the third annual
hnnqubt in Sbisa Hall. Dr. Ernest
j Wrigtit of Houston, lieutenant gov-
ajlenwirlif Kiwanis District Three,
-eatherwood Elected President
•f Senate to Succeed Bruce
N. R. Leathenvoad was'elected president of the Student
Senate Wednesday night. He will replace A. D. Bruce, Jr.
who is graduating at mid-term. \
Marvin Kuers was elected secretary td replace Leather-
Wood, and Charlie Kirkham was elected senate parliamen-
\ f Uriah, a newly created post. '
Five men t were appointed by
Leatherwood to .stajiy the possi
bility of changing the school term
to avoid having the Christmas holi
days fall just before the last letter
'quiz and the final exants.
The committee, consisting of
chairman Jim O’Connell, \J. H.
Richardson,, Robert F. Fly, John
T. Poole ,and Norwood Talbert, will
discuss the problem with H. \L.
Heaton, registrar, anti Dean P. C.
Bolton.
The committee will consider the’
establishment of a thrtie or four
semester system, shorter Christ
mas holidays with unused holiday
time used later in the spring, and
school beginning earlier in the fall
'in order to finish the fall semester
before Christniias.
\ NBA Shelved
The, names of the six candidates
selected by the Election Committee
as possible delegates to the Na
tional Student Association were
shelved until, a poll can be taken
on the campus* to see if A&M will
or will not join the NBA. The dead
line for taking the poll has been
set for February “8.
A proposal was sahf to the Stu-
;dent Council to check the possi
bility of establishing a Central of
fice for the S t u d e n'-f Sen
ate. A room in tne Union Building
will be provided for the use of the
Senate, •recording to present phttis.
Kirkham, uiaking a report for
the hospital committee, said that
the ambulant*# has been in service
for a month but has not, as yet,
made an emergency call. In com
menting on a recent emergency
operation. 1 at the hospital, he em
phasized that if Aggies became ill,
they should'report to the hospital
at once for an examination.
Six Phones Promised
The local office of the South
western States Telephone Company
has promised a special committee
of the Senate that six additional
pay telephones will be installed as
soon as equipment can be secured.
The college will be responsible
as | for locating each telephone in the
i most advantageous positions. There
By C. C. TRAIL
The annual banquet honoring the A. & M.
football and cross-country teams given each
year by the Brazos County A. & M. Club and
the A. & M. Athletic Council will be held at
7 p. m., Friday in Sbisa Hall. ■
The Annual Regional Luth
eran Students Conference is
to be held at A. & M. Satur
day and Sunday. Reverend, A.
F. Droegemueller, Aggie stu
dent pastor, has announced.'
Missouri Synod Lutheran stu
dents and pastors from col
leges all over the state will be
in attendance.
A senii-fofmai banquet will be
held in Sbisa Hall Saturday night
at 7:30 p. m. E. A. Kramer,; secre
tary of the Church extensipn'hoard,
San Antonio; will speak p>i the
topic “The Good Lutheran Laymen
in his Relation . to the Pastor.”
Students from A. & M. knd other
colleges will also present discus
sion topics.
Tlie Sunday morning program
will be held at Bethel Lutheran
Church in Bryan. Tho Rijyercnd Ar
O. Rast, associate field secretary
of the Texas District, Austin, will
speak to the Bible Class, and the
Reverend A. F. Jesse, coordinator
of student work tn the Texas Dis
trict, also from Austin, will speak
at divine worship.
The Sunday afternoon program
will be held in the YMCA Chapel.
Speakers are the ‘mweremi H.
Placemeier, stewardship secretary
of the Texas District, Houston, and
the Reverend Max Stiultmanj, mem
ber of the district hoard of educa
tion, Giddings. .. j •
The last Annual Lutheran Stu
dents Conference was held at Hous-
: ton with Rice ami the University
j of Houston students acting
| hosts.
Registration will he at tbe YM
! CA Chapel Saturday from jl to 7
p. m.
Equivalent of 22 Counties Los
By Erosion, Agriculturist Say
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By E. iJ. PICKENS ,j|
“Eleven million acres olf soil have,been lost in Texas du|t
to erosion j” Dooley Dawson, vice-president and agrtcultura
manager of the Second National Bank of Houston, told rnep 1
bers of the Range and Forestry Club and AgronomyiiSociet, 1
last Right in a joint meeting.
“This would represent a loss of land equal, to 22 diver age
1 ' T ^sized fexas counties”,; Daw^o i
said.
Ho pointed out that Texas wa
a leading state in the ni|fnbe> (
bushels of wheat produced, but i
the number of bushels .produce I
per acre' Texas ranks fo(iyeight
“Many pther agriculture ftonimo'
itios of A’hich Texas is a large pfij
duccr wihon considering jtho to(4
state production^ are saqjly belijr
Frank
Norvejk Wijc
will bk princlpt
Dlkimfl gene till
mitteej Caralhj
oiitsUnding hurfioriftt,
director
Advanced Contract
Offered Military
Seience Students ........... . ,,
Luciajn Mjorgan, asss.ant iflt-
■octidr of! tbe Plhccmenjt Office;
branches of the Army and the Air It he otheir states'in the pjl'Oductip J ^ad MopOs. publicity director of
” ; — " ’ per acid”, Dawson suid.'j In tbr 'HejiAgmiultural Experiment'SlU\-
productijm of cotton per acre Te: j ion; P. L. Downs, Jr., s'eretary
as ranks sixteenth; in sprglupii i >f rhe Athletic Council; E E.
Hard-
(joripanft Beaumont); n di-
;r Port City State Bank, j
^tjstora; and vice-pn-sident of .the
vjr Oaks Country Club, Houston.
Mu stir of ceremonies for the
efling) wjill by Herschcl Burgees,
cat' real estatk 1 man. Burgess, all-
<fP inelnde fullback for the Aggies
927|-2^ hnis prepared a short
miu jenieftainij'ig program
jig! h<>: Aggie 'jRambeps.
Al; thi.s jimd lettermen from the
falli and jcross-countr ,* teamR
ill he annmins’ed. The Bert Pfnff
ilophy for tlije best bloc ter j and
e ^Lipscomb innd Colson Jojmies
(r ithe. most Valuable plu yer and
'iiptnins for jthe t’eams [will be
twairded. i
As special guests of tjhe hosts
d’il by approximately oju hund-
outstandihg high .schi ol ath
lletiis and coaches from all over
the stately ■
Op hatld to greet the gju^stS Will
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Force are now being offered |nop-
erly qualified veterans and second
semester corps sophomores, Col.
G. S. Meloy, commandant and PM
S&T, announced today.
Those branches of the Artpy for
which qpotas exist include the In
fantry, Artillery, Cavalry, Dorps
o£ Engineers, Signal Corps, Trans
portation Corps, Army Security
Agency, Chemical Coiqis, C rdnance,
and Quartermaster Coi’ps
Contracts will be signed 1 for four
semesters, Col. Meloy stated. Five
hours pf wO. k are required of each
advanced military science student.
Three hours of this time will be
theory while the remaining two
hours will be devoted to practical
applications of wd5'k taken in theo
ry classes. The latter hours will be
scheduled from 3 to 5 Tuesday and
Thursday afternoon.
At present subsistence is paid
contract students at the fate of
79 cents a day. However, a -bill
production per acre, fortW-foui til
in oat production, fortyspeond
Jjuillten. bead of the Development
corn foilty-third. and in ; the pifd
duction of piilk per c<j|w Texj;
ranks fpi'ty-sixth. ]!/
Consiiiering the V.S. as! a whol
Dawson jdeclared that at 'jthe prgi
ent standard'of living, I two an
one-half acres are reqdit'ed pi
person to produce foody sheltc
and clol|hing. With ou| !prcsdi|i
land suitable for agiiculjtural u(
this , leaves one-half acr| surph
which wi* can use for fiuihvr pej,
lation increases. The neejd to cp
serve tbils soil and reclaim oth
areas frbm erosion is of growiiJjij|
concern t® the business ni|in ! as H
been sbofvn by recent devetopmenf
More and more businessl men
attending soil conservatiipn mec
ings ami spending money tp ov<|'
come thjs problem of so| erosiipijij
Dawson ;si)id.
It waf brought out t iat stafit
•’uml; Diqk Uervey and .IV
f the Former Students
ipni;: BrpWnrijrg Dewey,
Mith j Oou|tcr i Hoppess in
o Not cm
Associa-
lacvjter
Bryjin;
uXisident of BrybP
Rank; V,. R. Side,
TRUMAN WARNS OF
SEV ERE 1)FJ*RESSH)N
; WASHiNG.rohl,' Jan. 1$
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rjresident Triiman yesterday ijjef
newed his demand for aiti-infma-
tiou controls,] asserting -tl
ing\ prides may ead to a
liusilies'! <tepiie,ssiot).
n
Thp chief iexpctitiy:
plea in his |eec mjl anmu 1 icoti
ilbipi
uiic report siihirjilied to
lican-eotitioHifd (toihgres!’
thus ha^i bteiji hostii
fta-ulby pr.ii
•'•(itnori
request fob
and rationing’ an
nority.
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(t onic standing who |arc now <jn-|j coiiducted the ceremony,
r-dled will begin registering tor i n place [of long speeches,, the
the spring semester today, aecpid- Kiwanian* and their wives heard
ing to Mrs. L. G. Ratte, in charge fi,ur ntuajiital groups who had been | A
of. the Annex Registrir’ft Officj. j applauded .at previous meetings; ‘A VCIaffCS UVCI
Tubercular Survey
FRENCH Ripi)8j DEMAND
VICE-I’R ESIpE|X’('Y
PARIS, Jas. 1 ji Comm*
tsts resumed [a Intjter fight yes A
Students onj probation will pot. The Aggie^Nizors Barber Shop
register before Monday afternoOilj Quartet; Buddy BbH baritone;
February 2. Between H a. m. jind James Zqntner. accordionist; and
12 nooi.*, February 2,; bach >tudent i he'Aggie Ramblers.
Pro f‘tf° n f p’lX^.qu St 1 Buddy Boyd not only sang his
t. i J DcaU: .1. P. AhMott \w h !Aft ; own plogram, but iilso substituted
eoines o( a statement! showing Hs i((o ,; „ , niml)(1 , of thl . Barhershop
.semester griides. Blinks, may (lu , - 0 ^ vrs ^ n Tonimv
ft o',taincvl in advance jjit Dean ^1'- ! Gould. Rob Stinson and Helmut
'hvilrtt )l>tt S 0 ” ltC ' , ' . [I : i 1 Quirdm. Leonard Perkins was at
■ L A student desirii'iK to registjdr the piano.
|'| should report to thii^ Registrants ^leiiihiu's of jthe Ramblers are
'day for
Fjrtjnch
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Office in the Annex' Atlmini^tiatibn Chpl .Chambers! Jim Maloney! Tex
Building in hils free time. “Regis- Fields, Buddy Luce, Roland John-
tration is being stai teil darly Ji|o -,,d arijcl Rex Glimp.
enable the student to register wi|lh-| fn addition to Loveless, the offi-
500 X-Rays Daily
By LOUIS MORGAPj
An average oi moiv than five
hundred persons were X-rayed each
day the Tuberculosis Surviiy Unit
operated in the YMCA. A total of
•1.612 persons received Xtrafys. the
largest number reporting January
7 when 1.0-lll X-rays were. made.
First pefson to receive t^ie rays i
dispensed by th(“ State Health De- !
partment was E. B. Cline of Hons- j
is before Congress'which wilb^au-
afe twenty-two telephones about thorizc the government, to pay ad- appropriations in agi icijlture
the campus serving the needs of | vanced ROTC students an addition- search only amounted to $1.25 i^r
Aggies. , | al $1 a day, thus raising the month- , farm. - The state allow.- t|ree ec
The possibility of providing a ly allowance to about $54. No ac-
central trophy case for the'school’s tion has been taken on the latter
trophies was tabled for - future proposal as yet.
study. Union Building plans call 1 Medical- teams will he at the
for a central trophy ease. j college hospital during examina-
“We realize that things have tion week to give physical examina-
been difficult at first, but the Sen- tions to appieants for advanced coll
ate is well established and recog- tracts. To avoid a last-minute rush about $}5.
per capita for the FoVcs t ServijM
eXpcimitqres. These; figures arc.
very loft in comparison with t|e'
returns ;from these inVestmeni?;
For example, Dawson saifl tfiat tjie;
Forest jService appropi iatftin f
three cents per capita
nized as the student governing j f|or application blanks, Col. Meloy
body at A&M,”‘ said Bruct*, retir- ; has requested that all prospective
ing president. “Theije is better students' contact the branch in
sailing ahead fo.r the Student Sen- j structors in Rows Hall within the
ate.’' 1 next few Jays.. i
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Infallible Tick-Tok Analysist
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consider] <i
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.. r j | out having to ifush ariHund in a rrjjad ! co^s till led last dignt Were Joe I ton, and number 4,642 was Norman
the;ficeWresiclPndy of t)ui pcramble fof afer,taih class,” Mfs j Mptheral and Ralph Steen, vice- L. Petty of Bryan.
National 1 Assembl :. Chafg! ’Ratte said. Sludentsi; are warnuMt ; presidents; W. X. (Flop) Colson,, _. .. . . I .ft ,
ing th; t. uttfmjfts to depnye the ; to cut claiss to register ps he|-eirelai v and W S Manning Those X-rayed the firft .day of
largest single party in th? jjss^D ; has until'Junuary 22j to complete treasurer’ Directors Who took of- "duration should begin receiving
lily of that post 1 Would l|> onctyij | his registration. [ , j fide were Carl Birdwell. Dan Davis,! reports by the first of next week,
Reporting in his free time to R.fH'. Hughes, Marty Karow, G. E.
j the registrar, the stijjdcnt will re- : Madeley. R. \V. Pinkerthn, R. E.
ceive a copy of the; schedule of Stfuggs, and A. M. Whittis.
Wrist Watch Lie Detector
Is Jeweler’s Latest Gadget
By LOUIS MORGAN
-kitptional.
NEW TYPE: SYNTHETIC
MADE AT IIORGER
WASHIN(*TON, Jan. l!i
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aan. i» 'T'"! , rf
A hew type bf nihber is aboutj tit
get into prodlictibfi jit Bqr ter, Jpxji
as. \ . • > l 'i 1
The produejt is known as] “GR-f' ’ |,
which stands]for “ dovernriienjt Rllilft
her—SiyrenejTy v." It is prpdu|iA'd
at low, temjleia i res rather t|iii]|
the gejierally used high lempth
tuiies. i i j
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YOUNG RQ0SEV ELT GITJTNlt!
“MORE DEIWOCRATS”
LOS ANGELRS), Jan. U
“I’m doing kll I| can to prodjui-e
more Democrats declared JathcV
Roosevjelt, (’Alifoiinia Di mberh
Committee ichairman. c irnesf
pleading fori partk support.
It drew a! big laugh . 'rftn* |t
audience. i j ! T k
Roosevelt’s fifth child--a dailgh
ter named Ann i Eleanor for! if
mrithen—was bo -n last S iturdft
classes and (lirections -for complete-
ing the registration (irocess.
New students will Register Feh-
i uary 2 in the annex igymtiftsiunjij.
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J. C. PENNEY COW
’NEW CHAMIMON
.iNE-W YORK [Jan. 1ft
. Foremost Rbyal’s Rose, a .tlftji
year-old guernsey itfilk cc w o 1
by chain store president J. R.
ney,_is the hew vrorld’s , hnn
in her class! f 0lV hutterfat Pr
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> tion.
The Ameticai fruernady
Club said the. do’c had ppodi
the equivaleht (f ‘1,242 non '
. ■V'T
Russian t<> Be i ;
Offered Here
Next Semester H
Two eftijses in j Beginning'
Conversational Rushan will: be
offered by the Mpdern Lan
guage department! duying thiii
spring iemester iftcording tp*
J. J. Woolkat, department head.
Dr. .Josef StadelnUm will in
struct the si-hout courses whioh
are scheduled for 8 a.m. anid
2 p.m. on Monday, (Wednesday,
and Friday.
The army conversational me
thod will be' employed, and stu
dents will have aciidss to phoij-
Ograph records for (practice ih
speaking.
According to Dr. Stadelman,
Russian is one of tfte few lart-!
guages which has adbpted phoi|-|
etic spelling, a substantial akl
in pronunciation. 1 ^
Students who an* interestejd
in taking Russian j should re
port to the Modefif Language
office, Room 119, j Academic,
building.
Fins were presented to the re
tiring officers. Joy Sorrels, 1947,
|president,, was master of ceremon
ies for the installation, and Gene
Brock acted'as emcee for the en
tertainment program. Pins rjpre-
sehtibg perfect attendance records
j fof a' yer.i- or more were presented
tb!20 College Station Kiwanians by
Art (’holey of Hoiistbn, who has
not missed a .Kiwanis meeting in 29
years. 1 .. ,|
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Pe|ibcrthy Selects
Concessions Croup
Is your watch developing a psy
chosis? Does it stop, run fast then
members of the Survey Unit said, j rlow, only to turn in a flawless
Films were sent to Austin daily, | performance w.hen taken to the
and the usual length of time re- jewelers? If so, maybe it is in
quired for checking is ten days to | need of the services of a watch
two weeks. If no signs of tuber- j rate recorder, psychiatrist of the
oulbsis are apparent, the , person j watch world.
still. McCarty said by way pf
idental information.
;IA five-man committee consisting
of three students was appointed
yesteiday by Dean, of Men W. L.
Penberthy to serve as a Conces
sions Committee.
The group, headed by Joe Fagan,
manager of Student Cbncessions,
\Uilr act as ,an advisory committee
fb consider student requests for
dbrmjtory sales. It will be their
jdb to approve or disapprove all
sgch requests which Would not fall
under the headings on the already
approved list.
Beside^ Fagan, Student Activi-
tfcs Director C. G. White, Cadet
Cjolonel of the Corps Bill Brown,
and Battalion Editors Jimmie Nel
son and Charlie Murray compose
the committee,
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will he notified. In cases! where
tuberculosis is found,-,the physician
named on the card will be notified,
Despite numerous learnings, sev
eral person? who appeared after 4
p. m. were turned away without
being X-rayed. Members of the
unit had to load the< equipment and
take it to Little Aaggielund to be
set up in Building 258 Wednesday
night. j •
Operations- at the Annex will
continue through Saturday noon.
After leaving the c allege the Sur
vey Unit will go to Huntsville |to
X-ray prison officii Is and inma
of the Texas Prison System.
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. Graduating Seniors
Pick Up Announcements
Graduating seniors may pick
up their announcements at the
Student Activities Office, ac
cording to Grady j Elms, assist
ant director of Student Activi
ties.
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The office is open Monday
through Friday frbm 8 a. m. to
5 p. m. and Saturday's from 8
a. m. to 12 noon. ;
R. L. McCarty, North Gate
watch repairman, has since last
November owned such a machine
which, by amplifying and analyz
ing the ticks, determines the psy
chological and physiological needs
of a watch. The rate of ticking for
r. twgnty-four hour period can he
determined in thirty seconds by
this ingenious machine.
In 2V6 minutes the watch can
he gi\en a complete battery of
tests including I. Q., personality,
and mechanical efficiency or de
ficiency as the case may be. The
results are recorded on a graph in
a code coherent only to the opera
tors of the machine.
Ads for the machine show a wild
assortment of dote on a graph
which mean, “My hair spring needs
adjusting badly," and I have a
headache, while a regular wavy
line is translated into, “Feeling
fine and running right on the dot."
About thirty-five pounds in
weight, the machine looks some
thing like a radio receiver and
works on an electronic principle.
McCarty’s Western Electric Unit
can be used to check watches in
five different positions of up, side
ways, down and swinging to and
fro. A watch runs 20 to 60 seconds
slower when being worn than when
Histoiiy has shown th it ap
sojl of iai nation has b; come
pleted tlie nation has fallen,
is readijy brought out
situatioil of China is
China, once a leading world po\| ei)
now rartks as a secom -rate [a-j
tion. Germany at the bcg,i|nni i;!|i
of World War II had only I aj
per capita. This helped!
Germany to her knee;
could not feed the natio
conquered hut required]
quered to help feed her.
The problem of soil cu
rests sqjuurely upon the
1 of the c|tzens of this na 1
! son declared. Both farmers
j urban pi-ople are vitally concel ij
; The need for food is
rcturiijM
<thh: Lawrence
pity National;
ijaBijger of tfie Bryan Uica-Ojlu
Jjottljing Company]: Dave Bruch,
q-eijnHenti of the Student Semitb;
Jill] Brown, fadot colonel; F.lmo
• Jvlngstph. Senior] (’hiss n
Hindi Veil I Leaders Asa II
Xitjch Hhrtman, and Octl
«m:j
Tickeis. on sale now
may be purchased at
I'hartnacy. Lipscomb’s |*l
Aggieland Inin, Casey’s.
esident;
Hnrrl-
for !^2.-
Black’s
rmacty,
forge’s
lljtheiMadeley Rharnuiiy.
h|kins requests the cooperatjidn
if the student body in attendiing.
N'dt: sine; 1939 1 has the
lodl’| effectively turned oul
I i('i’ii.‘jion j to honor jthe
.: eaU” j
, ,7., (r
Elkins s|iid. ! “1
tliat the students will )v\lnor
student
bn this
football
ftncerely
iservatni
shoulq]
ion. Dai
jeing
A native of Oklahoma. McCarty i throughput the world as) never jj
learned his jewelers' jra<le at Brad- | fore and it is our-prime object)
ley University in Peoria, Illinois, j t° • seo [hat our soils aife kept s ;
He came to College Station to open ] their peak of pfoductiofi. To ' •
his shop eight months ago, and his
wife assists him in the operation
of his bysinetfe. A veteran of more
than three years in the armed
torees, McCarty is now one of ap
proximately 2,000 members of the
Hoiological Institute of America,
a watchmakers’ organization.
If your watch isislightly neurotic
or jilst plain crazy, McCarty in
vites you to bring it to his shop
for a free checkup by the recorder
which functions as a lie-detector as
well as a psychiatrist. It just can’t
be fooled,
Talbert Elected
Senator of Dorm 1
Norwood K. Talbert, chemical,
engineering junior from Port Ar
thur, has been elected Student Sen
ator from Dormitory 1, assistant
director of Student Activities
Grady Elms announced today.
Talbert won by a clear majority
as a write-in candidate. '
A 1946 nominee from Texas for
the Rhodes Scholarship, Talbert
is a veteran of three years service
in Europe with the Signal Corps.
Before the war he" was employed
by th Texas Company in/Port Ar-
thurt ' 'h|. ; 1 •
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tain oui* world leadership soil
Servation is vitally jimporti
Dawson concluded.
ARKANSAS TRAIN CRASH
LITTLE ROCK. Jan.] 15^1?
Two persons were killed and/,
least eight others .injured tost
when tjvo Rock Island |trains s (
lided headon at the w«i|
• skirts pf Little Rock: (
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Name the Confection^riefj
Join
J
in the “nR^ie-thej|(:<jt5ifectioneries” Icontest bv s^nd-
ihg yoi^r entry (bejow) tp
Campjifl,” ■ ' Hi !
Drop your su
the “Student MemoriaT Center,
ill i f' f h • : ■ ‘'
L r ge8tion .into t|ie Faculty Exchan^ ro
tunda of the Academic Buiildir g, before 5 p.m- Friday.
pries.
he renamed
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Ttnr
Signature:
Address: .
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heft tesiiu ini defeat as i’r’Jiil in
defry.”: * ! .
Payment of Sp ing
Semester Fees To
Begin January 19
fttjidehts presdnUy enrolled may
bej|ji[i payment iof fyes (jor lt|ie
spi|ag Semester Monday, LJunuul'y
19,:uWwding! to. an. anilmmeemenl
I'ettHveftfron] the Fiscal Office 1 tio-
da#.|
Y'lterian students must
tee? exemption slips hefo
mema ft'ill by accepted. SI
pick pp'
p«|y- i I
pis may l
19 from
be bicked up after January
tho r Veterans’ Advisor, Roim lt)L
Goodwill Hall
Fees for merqbers of th? Corps
wrao! art* paying board will total
$2.11.55 ijf6>- the entire .semester.
Thj suit) nlay ht paid in full o) - in
foiir insiallmbnts, the first •instull-
niftil being $71.7:0.
y<[ter$hs may also .pay fees in
foftri installments, ^he first pay-
niftnt oj| $7.50 covers room jent;
anjl laujfidry through Febnary 19.
Tlije total Semester fees is $44.96
fot Veterans noi paying lx aid.
All payments! should he made at
the Fiscal Clffice in thd Admipis-
trittJpn Building. Checks should be
to the Fiscal De
stem midjey,piayable
:! paltmertt.
ITrtlipt: lilt: xjlMllt/dMiMlg I • • • /
T ' " . Ji ■; I ril.■ 1
Last Chanfcmfo Win
ners in both groups will reusive certificates entitling them to
$10 worth of merchandise at either bf the two cotaft ictibn-
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I suggest that Geoi^r’s or Casey'is (scratch oi e)
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Win-