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COMMUNIST RADIO)
LONDON, Marc*
3pe divid(d on faknilii
iy in itg reatticn
rurjian’B preparedhe
i] Non-Communist Inei
ami officials wtio Wou
j ed it (feieraily u a
statement | in^ defehse
Communist; new^pape s
dip stations for thp moH p
Pi esid
p( ech.
; statement in^ aeie
| against Cpmmunis
j i )|Commuriist new
! j dip static
I the line.
ms
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iihSate,
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B*29 CRASH KILLS
10 OF CRfiW
•TAMPA, Fla., Marc!
Ton men were killed ai
Tdn men iwere killed ajid fo».
jjuted early today wl cn a Bf2»
m the iSpokanet, Wa h.J aiiHbas*?
crpshed ahd burned On
MaeDill Field herpj;
p o: thr i
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(ARRIS
FOR GOVERNOI
DALLAS, Marc}
Senator Fred (D
tjoday he will consider
a frroup of Abilene
make him their eindid
a tiding
ml
lai ris
1 et ira
forigfod-^
make him their cindich
ernor,
Harris said he woult like a
or two “to find dut wl er^ I f
but if they want! me, thtfy’v
me.” fl j j,
(Harni ' was (thairmar of|
joint stpte legisjaturg cpmniiit'
which investigated
. last year.)
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AUSTIN, March 18--U > >—
ing wentiinto its: third dsy yk t
d»Xion the dismissal ol Pirt Nech;
.es School Superihterde.it C 1
Yarbrough,, j i ^
Testimony that ran atp into) the
night brought out ft»r
time charges th
educational philpsophles was j
real capse of Yarbrcugh’s j’
> fired 'February !21 bjj ijhe
board. \
SWEATT LOSES AG
IN T. Ul SUIT I
AUSTIN, March If
third coprt of cijvil ap jerils .yei t
day ; overruled | Hen arj fMsjr
Sweaitt’st motion for a repiajri
in the Houston Negro s ittenptlto
gain admission ite th? Jnive|s|ty
of Texals Law School
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HOUSE GOP Si ASK
MARSHALL ACTION
WASHINGTON, Mur. 18-4-d
hfjf 1
tfhdk
s re
House Republican lea lei
yesterday their icall f< r lasshgfei of
a foreign aid hill by April 1 Btrt
left details of fhe rmasure tol ihc
foreign ;affairs committi e. i
OOAL fnHKEl HITS
OTHER INDUSTRIES
PITTSBURGH, Marc 18
The nation's spft co il pror ufc
virtually was snuffed ?u ; ye^te
by the United Mine V opkers
day old pension; walkc
Labor furloughs be faji to
to coal-dependbnt
coal-caiiryirvg wailroa
tices t^iat its ‘shops
SatUrddy. A steel coijp
one blrist furnpee aid
hearths; will bef'clpsep
coke ini a few days.
HOME RULE iRENT
BILL OPPOSED
WASHINGTON, Mai
The home rulje rent
read
nd|u8tr ej4 A
post 81
v oulc
ration iaid
fi,v ?
for ac
passed 1 by the ;Hou;M
into stiff Senate opp>sition yi
day, • - L
AUSTIN HAIL STO ^11
COSTS MILLION
AUSTIN, Tex., Maj
Hail diamage in Tubs lay’s
here is now estimate 1 hy insi mnee
men at more tian otie]milliop> dol
lars. ■
Clhiilns
for: hail
shattefed glasi battered paiiitjand
damagpd roofs conti nu e to s wfamp
agentsi The diimage \v' is oriti ipally
estimated at around i| 250,00 )|
to i
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KING AND QUEEN—WALLACE
JEAN LANGSTON are King and Queen
the annual Cotton Ball and Pageianti t6 % held here April 16.
ACS Hears New Technique
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Cotton. They will reign at |
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UMT - Draft Effect on A&M
Officials Are Waiting Prepara
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Directors Will Mee
Tomorrow, Saturda
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In Front of Ad Building on Agenda
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The spring meeting of the. College Board of Directors
will be held Friday and Saturday, March 19-20 in Beaumont,
E. L. Angell, secretary of the Boa&I, announced today.
The sessions will begin tomorrow morning in the Beau
mont Hotel. ^
On the agenda for consideration and possible .action is
the request of the college for au-+
thority to proceed with plans for
! f
One Year #f Service for
Would Be Required, lit!
I I J. j . I j il ‘ Mr ^ j I j * j|| ■' t
“Universal Training and a new selective servifct dra f
terially, but until a bill is drafted, it is impossible to jjiy
dent Gibb Gilchrist said yesterday.
jwiU) effect Texas A&M ma-
much or in what way,” Presi-
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Much speculation was roused on the campus afj*r P^slideiit: Truman’s speech to a
ersal Trajitiling and a revival of
^elective 3«rvice. Cadets and vet
erans alike a^ked, “How will this
aff<*ct ;me!?f But no answer was
jiosslbli! at the time.
joint session of Congress yesterday in which he kskedjfjor ui#
Congress Splits 0
Truman Draft PI
the recreational area in front and
south of the Administration Build
ing. According to Angell, this land
was designated as a recreational
area in 1941, but all plans were
shelved at the outbreak of war.
The College hopes for the eventual
construction of a golf; course in
this area, if the necessary funds
for its building can'be appropri
ated.
The Board will act on the joint
CAA and College program for
lighting and hanger-apron paving
of Eastenvood Airport. The CAA,
has already appropriated $20,000^-
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Radio Efficiency Increased
By New Analytical Methods
i which must be matched by the Col
lege before the construction can
get underway.
Other construction needs of the!
college are on the agenda, and will
be^acted upon during this meeting,
j Leading these is the program for
improving the facilities of “The
Cooler and more efficient! ‘
operation of radio and other
electronic equipment is aksur-
jed by a new chemical method
j of determining the purity of a
j vital metal alloy, Samuel E. Q.
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“security Loan
DRIVE PLANNED
r WASHINGTON, laf-. 18
The- government pi spued
. day tq launch!a nev t ttack
flatten with at natio nv ide
loan drive. 1
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NEW YORK, Majrck 18
President; c - "
f nited
aspiranl
The President! of th'
and -at presidential
jn New York today
Patrick’s day; with
children and igrahd
Ire)anjcL
President jTrUm; m
plane) from lYashir gb >n yeitfcrday
to join Com. Thotnhs E.
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afterrtoon
Dewey in wajtching
ftual St. Patirick’s
fifth avenue, i
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lajych II!
•opt
erious
w.1,.1 limited i objec ;iy ?s and
hot jnodify ‘ i, '~
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(meet
:o Icelebrbtie St.
thousapqs of
ihildren iotf old
arrival by
t le ’ city' 5 ah-
day paip( e on
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EUROPE C
, PARIS, Map-ch 18 -{-(JP)—Short
term aid fropt (ht United $tates
prevented serious (oljapse Inj Eur
ope representatives ofl the 16; Mar
shall Plan nations laii.yestietday.
The interim aid, th:y.SailJin an
official report, e ml led litficjken
countries to Pull t ir< ugh. The re
port added: “This 1 id was de|igned
ith limitedi
Ithe
whole.”
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Ashley of the General Klelc-
tric Company, Pittsfield, Mas
sachusetts, reported lakt night
at a meeting of the A&M sec
tion of the American Chemi
cal Society. ; *
Pointing out that an alloy of
iron and silicon, the principal ele
ment in sand, is used for the cores
of magnetic coils in electrpnic
equipment, Ashley said that traces
of carbon impurities in the metal
make the coils accumulate heat, re
suiting ip a loss of power.
To aesay minute amounts of car
bon in this alloy, chemists have de
vised an analytical method so sen
sitive: that as little as one part of
carbon in twenty-five thousand
parts ef metal can be measured
with an error of ,less than one per
cent, he declared.
A tiny sample of metal is ground
to a powder and heated in a sealed
glass container filled vvith pure
oxygen, he explained, and the car
bon is converted in this way to
carbon dioxide gas. The carhop di
oxide, however, jik mixed with oxy
gen and water vapor which must be
removed. . M ,.
Purification of- the carbon diox
ide is accomplished by passing the
gqs through a vessel surrounded
by dry iee, which freezes the water
vapor, and then through a second
vessel immersed in liquid air, which
freezes the carbon dioxide. -The
(See RADIO on Page 4)
re in Race
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or Senator Of
I4tjh District. i
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State Representative W. T.
‘IBill*’ Moore df Bryan yester
day announced his candidacy
for State Senator; from the 14
Senatorial District.
Moortj, a graduate of A&M in
llMO, completed two and one-
half yeijrs in the Law School at
tnfe University of Texas.
j iHe is| a veteran of World War
II, having served 42 months in the
A tiny, 20 months of which was ip
oyersea.4 service. Before entering
the Arn(y, he taught business lay/
and economics at A&M.!
I Moord is now Representative in
the Texis Legislature from Brazos
a£r(d Gribies Counties and is ask
ing a bromotjop t tp the ,.Senate
ffpm ! trie distinct Which ils com
posed of Bastrop, Brazos, Burle
son, Leje, Robertson, and Wash
ington Counties. | if . i* |
; Moore emphasized the njeed fbr
fiirm-tolmarket roads,: adequately
fidanceti old age assistance, in
creased {salaries for school teachers
and soil conservation as some Qf
the most important problems with
Which the next Senate will have to
deni.
j “Farpi-to-market roads should
become, realities instead of prom
[oore said. “We need more
Groneman to Talk
At Teachers Meet
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could
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opn
WEATHER
jEaai^Texa* -f Pattly cl
cloudy and. Warm t ils
and jtonight.: Frid* y parti;
to cloudy. Sicatter ?d sho
cooler in nofthwei t aorti
crate to fresh sou hefesterl]
on the coast.! [ j . i
■ West Texas—M< stly clohdjr with
Slightly warmer! vtea her
emoon. Mostly cl cue y a
r *ide)y scattered s lowers
temperatures tonij ht Fri
.ly cloudy, showed Pel
Pass
Chris H. Groneman, acting head
of the industrial education depart-1
'ment, is scheduled to address two
sections of the Texas State Teach
ers Association at their annual
meetings This week.
Friday he will speak in San An
tonio on “The Place of Industrial
Arts; in the Modern School pro
gram;” This address will be pre
sented before the combined groups
of industrial arts and vocational
industrial education teachers. 1
On Saturday he will address in
dustrial arts teachers at their sec
tional meeting of the Central Texas
Division of I the TSTA in Austin.
His topic will be “The Modern Con
cept of Industrial Arts Education.”
San Antonio Club
To Meet Tonight |
iW\
qf Them and need them now.
“Next to the home, th? school
influences the youth of today more
than anything else. School teach
ers should bq paid, on a basis com-
mensuhate with other professiops.
'The greatest natural resource
\ve; haye in Texas is our soil, apd
Il favor a strong, well-financed spil
conservation program.
| ‘:I aim asking for a promotion
because I believe I can better
serve tny district and state in the
Sepate- My record shows I rep
resent the masses and not the
dlassep." I > p '| I Ijj
! Moore is 30 years of age, has
been married eight years, and Ms
the fither of one son.
Grove”, the (outdoor dancing slab,
which has been recently approved
•by the Student Life Committee.
Also up for consideration are jobs
which include a new foof for the
Chemistry Building, roof repairs
for Anchor Hall, and construction
of a parking area near the military
warehouse. , ] ;! ! i .
Official acceptance i of several
scholarship funds will be clone by
the Board during this meeting*. This
includes acceptance of the Jesse H
Jones Scholarships honoring Gen
erals Dwight D. Eisenhower and
George S„ Patton, Jr.,; the Michael
T. Halbouty Scholarship in geology
and the Mary James Bums and
Waller T. pums, Jr. Fund.
Of interest to the Texas Agri
cultural Experiment Station will be
the Board’s action on the request
by the College for authority to
move the. Agricultural Research
Laboratory from San Antonio to
College Station. Also to be consid
ered will be permission for the
College to lease residences,; other
buildings, and land at the Blue
bonnet Farm near McGregor.
StudyCluTElects
New Officers In
Varied Program
New officers were elected for
the Campus Study Club at their
last meeting Tuesday afternoon in
the YMCA. In addittep to the elec
tion. a program of interesting high
lights qf Scotland and Ireland was
presented by members of the club.
Officers elected were Mrs. H. L.
Heaton, president; Mrs. P. W. Bar
ker, vice president; Mrs. J. D. Neal,
recording secretary; Mrs. A. W.
Melloh, corresponding secretary;
Mrs. J. E. Adams, treasurer; Mrs.
J. T. L. McNew, reportejf; Mrs.
Dora Barnes, auditor; Mrs; G. E.
Madeley, parliamentarian aijid Mrs.
F. B. Clark, historian.
Mrs. R. O. Berry introduced the
social program. Several musical
numbers were presented by Jason
Moore, A&M faculty member, and
Lamar McNew, student at Consoli
dated High School.
A review of Scottish and Irish
folklore was presented by Mrs. F.
B. Clark. She discussed many of
JUDGES CATTLE-DR. I. W.
RUPEL, above, head of the dairy
husbandry department, is judg
ing the dairy breeds at the Tulsa
Livestock Exposition which ends
today.
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'CST Desires
iong Requests
two lands.
Displays of Irish linen were pre
sented by Mrs. W. D. Harris and
a skit on Scotch-Irish humor was
given by Mrs. I. W. Rupel,
Hostesses for the meeting were
Mrs. W. D. Harris and Mrs. W. T.
Cooper.
il
area. Slightly i:ooi
The San Antonio A&M Club will
hold a meeting tonight in Room 205
loudy Academic Building at 7:15, it was
and announced today. ,
. Mod- The purpose qf thQ meeting will
be to select a duchess for the cot
ton ball ami pageant. Final plans
will also he mafle for the party that
is to be held during the Easter!
Holidays.
Anyk Aggie from San Antonio
who is Interested in attending the
party must be present at the meet-
I 1 ing.
winds
mild
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; The TSCW campus radio sta-
‘tiqb WCST wants Aggies to re
quest song dedications to certain
TeSsies over its all-request radio
show.
According ='tp Betty Durant,
program manager, ‘‘Several re-
qaests from, Aggieland for dedi-
tions to Tessies have come to
r campus station. We would
;e to be of greater help to Ag
es who want to say hello .to
essies. Wcj shall be glad to de-‘
our entire dedication and re
st broadcast to this purpose.”
/‘Just drop us a card with the
of the girl and the Title pf
selection
ited and we r
Is listening,”
Faculty Members
Will Hear Haskew
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the well known authors of tho'se s jve student and young people’s
program. They have worked long
and hard to raise the initial $25,000
and their efforts have at last paid
off with the granting of the addi
tional sum by the executive board.
“The pleasant surprise came
when T asked the Board for the
money, which I wasn’t so certain
would be forthcoming. But, without
a question or any instructions on
how to spend it, they quickly hand
ed it over,” Brown said.
This is the second $50,000
granted to College Station’s First
iBaptlAt Church. In 1941-42, they
jusunted that much of the cost
of constructing the present audi
torium.
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“We hope they still feel generous,
because our plans for young people
are not completed yet We still
have the idea very much in our
minds to build a Student Center on
the order of the center being con
structed at (Texas University. If
this goes through, it will be located
across the street from our church,”
Brown added.
The Executive Board has already
granted $100,000 to the University
ier a student center in Austin.
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L. D. Haskew, dean of the col
lege of Education at the Univer
sity of Texas, k will speak before
the regular spring; semester meet
ing of the faculty of A&M’s School
of Arts and Sciences here on April
6. '
Haskew, who served on the Pres
ident’s Commission on Higher Ed
ucation, will speak on a subject
related to the improvement of col
lege teaching and in-service train-
ing. ' ' ^ FI : ' -
“Dean Haskew is considered one
of the outstanding authorities on
in-service training and the improve-
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School of Arts and Sciences.
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Baptist Board
Grants Church
Building Aid
By CHUCK MAISEL
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The State Executive Board
of the Baptist Churph approv
ed an expenditure of $50,000
to assist the First Baptist
Church of College Station in
erecting a new educational
building, the Associate Press
reported today; The remain
ing $25,000 needed to start
construction has already been
raised by the local church.
The new structure is to be lo
cated adjacent to the First Baptist
Church oh the site of the old par
sonage. Reverend R. L. Brown an
nounced today. Although the date
qf the first ground breaking has
not been decided upon, preliminary
plans have already been drawn, he
added. As they now stand, the blue
prints call for a two-story brick
building in the same architectural
style as the present church.
A large and ornate lounge for
students, young people and their
guests is to be one of the main
features Of the interior. There will
also be a student recreation room,
a kitehen, and a dining room, Brown
pointed out.
The major part of the space
will be allotted to an auditorium
and some 14 classrooms for Sun
day School and Baptist Training
Union.
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Brown stated that the education
building has long been a dream of
the First Baptist Church memboys
who need it td further their exten-
WASHINGTON, March 18 <*>>—■
Congress split down the middle to
day on President Truman’s plans
for storing up the nation’s military
strength with universal training
and revival of the draft.
Party labels were lost in the
shuffle as leaders divided over the
two measures Mr. Truman said are
needed to flex the muscles)of a
country that has become "the prin
cipal protector of the free world"
against communism, ; , |
The upshot seemed tQ i be a tr(?nd
toward giving the President onp—
but not both — of the manpower
raising laws. Universal Military
Training looked like slightly the
better bet although the cards are
stacked against UMT in the House
right now.
As a third step to halt the agres-
sive march of “one nation”^—Rus
sia — Mr. Truman also called for
quick arid final approval of the
$5,300,000,000 Marshall Plan for
European recovery.
The Senate alre^ly has passed
its bill. And, within four houra of
the PreslderU’s SdRress to tW
gress, the House Foreign Affairs
Committee stamped its okay bn a
similar program.
The chief executive told a New
York St. Patrick’s Day banquet
audience last night that the big is
sue in the world now is “tyranny
versus freedom.”
“Our faith and our strength,” he
said, “must be made unmistakably
clear to the world.”
Bluntly. Mr. Truman accused
Russia of trying to sabotage the
peace and' of seeking to bring all
of Europe under Communist sway.
The still-free nations that; rbi
main, the President said, this
country must support with its; full
strength—“military, economic and
moral.”
And he said—as he had earlier in
the day to a joint session of Con
gress—that this nation must be
strong to keep the peace. He warn-?
ed against “the insidiops propa
ganda that peace can be obtained
solely by wanting peace.”
“We will have to take risks dur^
ing the coming year—risks perhaps
greater than any this country has
Mr. Truman used; different wo;
before Congress:; j
“We must be prepare I j to p|
the price of peace, pr assptfedly
shall pay the price of wi n”
In that address, the Pjresid
made only 'minor channel as
went along. j i a
But in talking to the Bt. Pil f
rick’s Day dinner tn Nev York 1
made a major text) depar ti re win
he lashed out by name at Hen
Wallace, the third'party! presidlf
tial candidate.
After asserting that ze mil
beware of those Who ar • devotlji
themselves to sowing tlj? seeds
disunity among our pe >| le,”
(See CONGRESS WlPige 4)
Chaipnte]
e, Hpaserl Armed Servi
itjtee! told 1 r
ton; that aj te
thaw to be w
(id Selective
in Andrews (1
i? Armed Servi
itteej told reporters far
at ai temporary draf
NY) ol
Com-
ashing-
“would
hat t would (jhU limit-
Service.” He|! explain
ed thisj meant calling up men 18 to
LT, “with; none to be cajlled who
1 ’ ” ’ ischool or gainfully
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ij ; iijc, ■^■ikiii; need only 300,000
■il"tol 400,0010 met),” Andrews said.
ij Andrew's said a draft would not
nerve as a substitute for Universal
(Military Training— "something in'
the hank for tjhe future.” ifs.
UMT PLAN
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ijre‘ ifi htyh
bmplojied.,”
I! M we might
100,0010 met!
N
itary Training, says that plans in
dude One year of service for young
jirwri between the ages of J8 and 21.
After six months of basic train-
Bell Telephoiij
Representati
To Address
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fclectH
Friday
lobm.
tr of
bne.cM
lent, ifi
i. He llSasi
for mire!
of whjcli
mne Ltb-i
a th|«]
it to pro-
Irvin Mattack, represei tativcj
the Bell Telephone Conij any,
speak before a meeting
American Institute of
Engineers at 7:30 p. m
the Chemistry Lecture fl
Matticki'is a mem
Southwestern Bell Tele]
puny Information Depar
headquarters in St. Loi
been with the fcompan;
than 20 years, about ha
he spent in the Bell Teh
oratories. H e uses abc
sand pounds of bbuipni. __
sent some .20 different'dpmon
tionS.
Equipment ranging
first model to tfle la
model willjl
demonstrations. The
crystals arje part of tbeji demons
r six mojiths of basic
tjie iraint'e may coihplete his
ivga)* iof 'service ip a specialized
mi neb of the armed forces, or he
may tiakq any one of six; different
alternatives, Swogcr said.
He may joiin the regular army
or a minimum period of 3 years.
He may become a member of
he Enlisted Reserve Corps fot
ve years during which tme hi
{would be required to attend per
bids of summer camp training.
7 He may apply, and )f accept
ed, attend a US Military, Naval,
t' l !
m
attend a US Military,
Coast Guard academy,
ile may join the Ni
folleg
in RO
National
f his.home;commun-
Hcrmg a 4 yetar course
ly ! attend a technical
ajnd pursue a/Course of
ram
mill
d ip t|( diffej
rties
lifil Ai
tioh. [ Mattick shows tha< 4’hen efi {St N;
tals are activated ‘ijiu chanim m
they creatje electrical |i ergy,! .ml
when electrical energjji ps app ii
to them they become | fiechap
agejnts. 1
Tickets for admissiin| are
and are available at trae Electr
Engineering Office or life m EE acfl
ulty members. Pers6ns|v ithout lies
kets will be admitted sifter all ’ rhb
have tickets have beifn seate<
-
been called upon to assume,”, hii*
declared grimly. “But they are no)
risks of our own making and we
cannot make the danger vanish by
pretending that it does not exist.
“Stradivarius Among Choruses
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Westminster Choi
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in ROT(
! He' m#y
school apd
Utudy as outlined by the War De
partment aad receive p techhi-
ciaps rating in the Reserve Corps
upon completion of the![course.
Or, he may attend a special
government subsidized /technical
school and take a selected teehni-'
cal course with government aid.
| Swogcr said the UMT nAogratn
iwoulid attempt to place trainees
m near Home as possible. Thq pf-
| jfect UMT will have on students at
A&M will depend entjircly upon
^he fording of the bill when passed
y'ikjongress, Swoger sajid.
tOA EXPECTS ACTljVE DUTY.
Ifi;ed J. Benson, president of tho
SBn.Jjos County Reserve Officers’
“ s^iociaition gnd a member of the
val Reserve, says pe expret*
tnettbeifs of the ROA tio be called
ajetive duity if UMT] ! is passed.
By TOM CARTER
The Westminster Choir, which
will appear on Town Hall March
22, is famed for its rich and ex
citing choral music.
Composed of forty voices, the
group’s repertoire includes spiri
tuals, Indian and American folk
songs, the masterpieces of Bach,
Beethoven and Brahms, the works
of contemporary composers, as well
ias the traditional beauty of church
music.
The choir was founded in 1926
by Dr. John Finley Williamson,
conductor of the group, and is
trained at the Westminister Choir
College in Princeton, New 4 Jersey.
Non-secterian, its students come
from all religions, every part of
the country and all walks of life.
Since its initial tour, the Choir
has toured throughout America,
Canada and Europe. The group has
made eighty-six orchestral appear
ances in six years with major sym
phony orchestras. A portion of the
music for Walt Disney’s “Fantasia”
and “Hymn of the Nations,” under
the direction of Toscanini, \
furnished by the Choir.
The Choir has been described by
Arthur Rodzinski, formerly con
ductor of the New York and Chi
cago Philharmonic Symphony Or
chestras, as “the Stradivarius
among choruses.”
A Spartan discipline rules the
members of the Choir, both at home
and on tour. Intensive physical
training is required, with diet, rest
and exercise important factors in
the regime. Strict adherence to
of the fear
is able* C
ul ^xpiects it to be on |i voluntary
BOARD FAVORED UMT
he Board of Directoirs of Texas
in October, 1944, went on
‘Coird ias favoring Universal Mili-
lyi Training with certain provis-
sj. Tin their statement at that
(See UMT, Page 4)
,
these regulations: is on
eons why! the choir ^
give 42 concerts in 4!
European countries wi
sickness.
Scorning the theoi
must be a numerical
tween voices wH)h mi
to counteract the heaM bass (forte.
Dr. Williamson says J ,j “the pate
voices are the foundat on of thin
structures. The soprajids fonte ttye
steeple. Their tone shijn ld be (lefir
but delicate, like the [fine 4 0l ' ie
spire of a Gothic) cathedral.’ 1 !
It
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ere
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usiic critics are lavish in their .
se. of the bass section of the
qir, comparing it to the famous
base of the Russian choirs.
♦The slipsihop methods, the lack
of discipline and musical taste cf
amateur choirs have long been a
IjtatKet for criticism by Dr^ William-
soni The effectiveness of nis train
ing; is proven by the fitet that every
graduate of the college has been
plated on his or her advantage. The
college offers to its students such
facilities as piano and organ stu-
and a rapidly growing library.
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