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PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST Oh A GREATER A &M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 0,1948
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Parking lot areas for _
school students were assigns
day by Prod Hickman, <'
campus Hocurity, ; ^
1 Studeuts wlio hare jii
rived oir<tho cantpui are
to register their veh des
as possible with the feecurity £jf-
tiee. Room 108, Gcpdwin Hull.
This registration will be valid 1 »r
ail the time that a fjtmlenti. Is p.t
Hickman said,
The identification ilate fUrn sh
ed by th.e( Security Of ice shouli be
attached to the front of the far,
preferably on the license J
Students living in flART
during the summer
their vehicles in thb lot behind
that dorm.
BlZ2tELL students jire requested
to' use .the parking c rea so
the malri drill field.
Reside*ta of PUR TCAR, LAW,
IJEGGEXfT,and mIiTCHEIL
the piarHing
of Lati
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|j2.' MILDER students
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east of 1 £ blsa Hall.
■.j- Students staying ,n WAIA
TlAUL sitould use the lot nort
that don iltory.’ .1 « :
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park (n the Jot; east of the PffA
Building, using-the c ist Ians;only
, Studcnjtq in rtOKMiS 14 ml ill
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to their co rbet pnik3njg
dCmbt as
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GAINESVHXE CIRCUS PERFORMERS, pictured above, wtU be on Kyle Field Friday night
Jit 8. The troupe consists of 135 non-professional performers who have jierformed 285 times before j
more than a half million peijple throughout the Southwest.
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GainsvillejiCircus Comes
To Town Friday Evenin
Three Classes
Of Aggie Exes
Hold Reunions
The class of ’08, the Class of
’38, and the Sul Ross Class, which
consists of men who attended A&M
during the years 1891-1902, held
reunions on the campus through
commencement week-end.
The Sul Ross reunion began with
a dinner at the Aggieland Inn
Thursday night, included campus
visits, a luncheon Friday noon and
a clasf barbecue Friday evening,
and ended with breakfast Satur
day morning.
Travis L. Smith Jr„ ’98, of Hous
ton, chairman o f the reunion,
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By D. M. LINDSAY j
The Gainesville Community
; cus comes to -Kyle Fiejd at 8
day night. The doors" open jit 7
one hour .before the main dhow
j starts. •
Now in its 19 th season j the
Gainesville Community Circus had
its beginning as an extra acj; vity
of a Little Theatre Group in j49|30,
a *s\7 «4mv ui rue v"■ a'
that, in addition to tl
invitation to the pujbi
Area Kept Olffice, Hqwell E|uildj
Area Rent DireeUr GorJlon| li
! Bemungfield ttklay a iked interfsl
♦d persanis or organiz itions |o
rntt. to him names of su0gei®.i
t 'lininees to fill vacAeies on |the
i luft-al Rcalt Advisory Joard for
o’^ryhn Diefen^e Rcntu) Area,
j. The Bryan Board iioes nojt niw
itn full memb‘i^hip,i iaek-j
onf tenant representative
L: and twnj public, inter ‘si reptes.<to-u
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i Functions, pf the l>oard incH
. submitting fecommer elation* f(l-
.change in tlie genera tent Leviwlji
,J the . areai.,y removing rent COhfr
from an are.a,| and coqperatiiig •Ait]
the Arecj .Office in handlin '- ii|d|
'■yidual aUjustment caies."
I Under tiie Rent Coitrol .Act,
hoard must consist o 1 at lec st |i\j
; Members wlio repres< nt tiie afftc
t ti interests'of the area. Genefajl-
ly, a boa rd of five si all -cor sis« of
'• one tenant repress ntativu,
landlord ;jrepresentati/e, and ti|r<
p iu b ii c| i j interest . r« presenl ati;
With thiisame rat o for la
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Titerofjore, pirectoif Eenningfi
iSOid, those submitting . flame?
hoh of Jproposed bcird nuin
' sijiouid- bear, in 4mind the t
groups b* represented on
, board and suggest persons
vdciuld qualify fbr. th( m.
The area direct' ir exp Lai
this g me
>Uo to inaik|
mnnkiutions, he has cun tartH
ihMresiiliMl organliationw aid ;
i cjueHtiuI) them to Hiihmit lun
of pros|>eetive mom nees f >r I
• board, j, .j-n
|Benrtlrairfieil(l said 1 e will sent
the bousjihg Expedite • in W ash
ton the Hnames of hree or I
ca(ndtdat|ois ifor eacl position
thie boartl to be fillec. From tl
names the Housing jxpediler’
- select this persons lie feels will
' represonjf the affect d interest
the area; as teqtiired by the Hi
jng and Rent Act’of 1948. (:
Individuals or org£ nizatiens
mitting Kfemes shook; send the
the - Office of Housljug' Expedl
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but the show proved so popuii r to by many as one of the most color-
perfoi-mors and spectators alike, ful shows on tiie road oday.
tjmt it was repeated in 1931, and opening pageant, ", Jpangleland
majile its first out-of-town appear- Fantasy," employs the entire por-
amje in Denton.
Slme its beginning, the 135
members of the circus have |mt
on their show 235 times before
more than a half million people
throughout the Southwest
The circus has been described
Aggies Outnumber All Others
At Kelly Field Summer Camp
KELLY AIR. FORCE BASE,4- :
Towne^out'“The I.AUch Ohmmandant'., w*«n.t ma-
of Texas” and “Arkansas Tr< vel- J r>r > Kemut Schlameus, supply,
er" when Air ROTC cadets from Raleigh E. Sherman, tactical; and
T Sgt. Warren'TJ. Williams, in
formation and publications clerk.
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Libraries List
New Schedules
The summer hours now in ef
fect for the Cushing Memorial
Library are: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday through Friday, and 8
a.m. to 12 noon on Saturday.
For the Texas Engineer’s fl/i-
brafy the summer hours are:
8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday
through Friday, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
on Saturday, and 6 p.m. to 10
p.m. on 'Sunday.,
sR°Statue, Friday afternoon.
Tiie Class of ’08 held its anni
versary reunion on the campus
Friday and Saturday. Nestor Mc
Ginnis of College Station was
chairman of the local arrange
ments committee. i
< Eighty-five members of the.
Class of were here Friday and
Saturday for the tenth anniversary^
I of their class. Social activities
j included an informal party Friday
| afternoon, a dinner and a dance
! Saturday- evening, and breakfast
Tiie Sunday morning.
The Class of ’38 voted to have
a plaque listing its 24 members
forming personnel; the afiimaf ac- who died in World War II placed
toys; red, white, blue, gold, ajjid sil- on the 1938 Fountain in the tri-y
ver tableau wagons; a^d costumes angle at Sbisa Hail,
representing an investment of John Bone , of Houston was re-
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PRESIDENT GIBB GILCHRIST presents honorary
degree to E. W/BOEHNE, *26 at commencement exercise*.j
Three Short Courses Offered
For High School Ag Teach rs
many thousands of dollars.
Twenty-six displays are oh the
circus program, ('losing feature
is the Flying Marvels, death-de
fying aerial artists, wju> perform
on the flying trapeze.
Amusements and thrills iijielude
tirty dogs that climb adder* and
diVe info nets, high wpre wajlking,
acrobat.t, etawns, and 4 variety of
other artists.
There are educated horses and
Shetland ponh*s. Onh Shel
Peru no, was for two years the
mascot at SMU.
elected as class president.
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nine southwestern colleges march
ed from bus, car, plane and tfain
Saturday and Sunclay to Kelly Air
Force Base to begin the six-w qks
suhuner.eamp which is tb-serjv^as
a model for the entire Air Forcd.
Some 188 Aggies, nearly ha f of
them specializing in aircraft m-
gineering, are at Kelly,. as <jc in-
pared to 7.p administration i£ nd
communications cadets from ; ).he
runnemp University of Tejcas
ROTC unit. Oklahoma University
is third with 65.
Other southwestern schools in-
thc Tenth Air Force’s five-state
area and the number of hfidets
from each hre Arkansas, 61; LjS.U,’
60; Texas Tech, 60; Oklahomi A.
&f M„ 47; Tulane, 36; and 'New’,
Mexico A. & M„ .30. j . j' f
Although tne camp’s comlpah-
dor,'Lt. Col. David W. W’allai pj is j -
from New Mexico A. & M., offi* j,
cers from Texas A.&M A? .predpfpi-
nate on the staff of instikicton} for
the month-and-a-half cainp. Lt.
Col. Dexter W. Hodge lias been
Commandant of Cadets, with two
other Texas A.&M. Air ROTC of-'
ficers, Maj. Clifford A1 Willey and Dp. a. L. Schippcr, who has
1st Lt. Walter F. Cain a* his as- taught Premedical Zoology for the --i
sistants. 1 . „ | i : | biolqjgy department for the last
Physical training for |the I Air 10 years, fesigned June 1 to accept |
ROTC camp will be directed by a position at Notre Dame Univer-
two ex-Aggic USAF reservej of- sity,'accoriling to C. C. Doak, head
fleers who have been called to ac-, of tiie biology jdepartment.
Knt d Z '' Dr. Schippcr came to A&M ddr-
ArWmn? ^8 the 1936-37 school year. He/
civilfan f Hte Se athletic instmcitors Was 0,1 leave with the Air Corps .
at Ss A ors j as aviation physiologist for one
Enlisted men from the a]&M. year duri | lg war ’ - . /
ROTC unit who have received' im- j Dr. Sc Kipper will have opportun-
portant assignments at the sum-j ity to do research work at Notre
m,cr camp are Kf /Sgts. Truman Dame, Dr. Doak said.
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For Notre Dame
Though none of thej Gainesville
Circus performers are profession
als, some have been wi ii thej show
10 to 15 years. The prettiest girls
Gainesville has to offel participate
in a number of aeria . aercjbatie,
and equestrienne mudbers.
A
is under the auspice* ,o: the Brazos
County A&M Club and the Mptiiers
mid Dads Club of Coll :ge Station.
Adult general admisf ion is !§1.20t
children under 12, 60:; amj stu-
j dents Jackets, 90c dur ng the ad
vance sale only. F»:e srvedj.Seats
for adults are §1.70; lor chjidren,
; $1.10; and for students, $1.40 dur
ing the advance sale (inly/
Students who buy tkkejs at j Ttf.--* IJ„11
the ticket window «iH pay the ! *11810 tlclll *Tj)011
regular admission pri e.
Tickets are on s
Pharmacy, Louis ,
The Campus Corner, The Cavie, Ag- 8 a.nn until 5 p.m. Monday through
' T.insrinmh's FrlHav ona until nrurn SntnrHnvil ^Perry.
The agricultural education department ii8 of fori
short courses this Hummer, each of B weekn dura
the benefit of high school vocational agricultural
The courses will he largely of the workshop
will count on a Master of Education degree. They
signed to offer solutions to various* -
problems that the agriculture
teachers have encountered while
tenchiiie- in high schools. Individ
uals will bo assigned into groups
and will be under the supervision
of assigned instructors.
During the first 3 week period
Animal Husbandry 436 and a
eoiirse in agricultural education |
will be offered. The two courses
began yesterday and will continue
through June* 28.
Also beginning yesterday, Was
a farm j forestry course, it. F.
410, will! be offered at KirbVville
for county agents and vocational
agricultujre teachers. This course
threw 1
cthe
ers of veteran! schools. , r
it has not been ejeaved t n[
fieial channels,
Zinn Announ
Laundry Sehe
For Summer N
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presji
igh
will count as credit for a Masters
degree. The purpose of the course
EARLE SPICER, pictured a-
bove> will appear at THE
GROVE, .June 16. Spicer, a bar
itone, 18 the first entertainer of
the summer sessions.
Mfeijftt Mkd.iey From 8 Until 5
( Mrtis Gijocery, The Music Hall will open from
is to show the teacher's and county
agents the basic principles of for
estry so that they mav pass them
on to the small land owners of
the timber region.
Part of the course will be de
voted to range management in
the timber country. The teaching
staff will be R. R. Rhodes and C.
W. Simmons supervised by Dr. V.,
A. Young. j_.
Beginning on June 24 a short
course for county agents will be
held at Sonora. It will be devoted
to the discussions and applica
tions of grazing theories, identifi
cation of range plants, proper util
ization of range vegetation, and.
other factors involved in pasture
management. Dr. A. M. Vernon
will be in charge of the course and
he will be assisted by Dr. 0. E.
Dormitory students ijbjdse pa;
name begins with A thjwtig
should turn in laundry
a.m. Monday, and stuqe
lust j names beginning
through Z should turn
before 9 a.m. Tuesday,
to ah announcement by Bciiiniit .1
Zinn, assistant dean of '
Students living in Bi2r
Puryear, Mitchell,' Lege
and Hart Halls should
tickets and turn in 14
Foster Hall on MiliUif
(Station 3),
Students living in Wfl
and ^Dormitory 14 shoul Ij 4.*e jytjl.
low tickets and turn in ! al l wiry ul ;i
Gracju
g i e 1 a n d Pharpacy.i Lipscomb’s Friday and until noon Saturday,j
Leonard Perkins, a
tor, has announced.
Pharmacy, Black’s pharmacy, and Leonard Perkins, assistant direct!
|he ftSputhside Food Jtt
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From June 28 to .July 1C, Agri
cultural Engineering 440s, Dairy
HusbnndiT 423s and a Agricul
tural Education course will be of
fered. The first Hwo are workshop
courses. FromTluly 19 to August
6, a course in agricultural educa
tion and a course in agricultural
economics will he offered.
A 2 week short course, begin
ning the last week in July, has
been planned by the agricultural
education department for teach-
west end of Post
(Station 4).
Day students should
tickets and turn in laum 1|
south end of Post Graqd
(Station 6)' before 9
day, ,
Students living in Co lj!jgc|
apartments should use 1
ets printed in bl*ck and
laundry at the Quonset fjh
Quo
day
tioft 7) on Monda;
1 tbj 5.
Students living jin Pro,
and Vet Village areas
white tickets printed
turn in laundry ht launtpijy
back of Project Hous*
Monday before (j a.m.
debts should pick up
Fosiler Hall.
College employee^ slibiu
in laundry Monday ait thj>' L
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The fifth National Airpoiil;
agomen. Conference was op
hove.-yesterday moning by H.'j
Barjow, fleajn of engineering,
Airpoft managers, flying serv
ice opejritofs, city 1 -officii Is, Ina
veprcsenifatlves of t id Civ 1 'A|iro-
' nautics jL^^ihistrat 6n are in|et-
ing to flUjcujss probl mis of airilort
• *'E/ e! Brijah, heati of tiie airo-
nauticail 1 engincerin f depurtm int,
,- said thhc mjjeting was a vyorli ing
confereatice juid uot a show. I lir-
poses of the f9nfe1en.ee, he s ud,
aye to discuss', airport nan^ge-
ment I roblems, to: hear ^info
tive taljcs by expert 1, and to
pare motes in coisultatoa
• ' Yestejrday’s sp alters
George Burgess, de] uty, C
mlnistrator, Washirgton;
president of
Pat| Moore,
irport Manage
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Haven, director, Crash Injury!Re
search, National Research Coun
cil, Washington; and'William G.
Fuller, chjef of airport manage
ment division, CAA, Washingtbn.
E. E. Brush; H. C, Thorgrinjrsen
of Sweetwater; Carf LieiiescH of
Seattle, Washington; and William
G. Fuller of Washington D.t \C.
were discussion leaders yesteitday.
A barbecue and helicopter spiay-
,ing exhibition were held last night.
Today’s Speakers y F
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executive
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homa; A. M. Carrow, Houstjon; A1
ford Hudgin, Tucson, Arizona: tmd
Hart Bowman, Dallas-Irving Fl;
Service.
Speakers for this aftenv
elude Dick Martin, Oklahoma
Fred Smith, El Paso; R.
ir New York;. Don Self.
William E. Blain, New
G. Kidwell, Los Angeles;
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Haddaway, Editor of Southern
Flight Magazine; and Alford Wil
liams,'Pittsburgh. \
j Tomorrow ’s Speakers
Speakers for tomorrow, last day
of the conference, are W. T. Brown,
Fort Wortil; Robert Pool, Wash
ington D. C.; W. G. Gabehart,
Memphis, Tennessee; Douglas” 0.
Langstaff, New Orleans; Allen H.
Barr, Los Angeles; and C. H. Hop-
fri Colorado Springs.
Three concurrent meetings in
clude consultation sessions on
maintenance and operations, ac
counting,! and merehundising; an
operators meeting led bir A. W.
^Meadows, Director of Texas Avia
tion Commission; and the Ameri
can Association of Airport Exec
utives Meeting.
The Airport Management Con-
j Io p sTfS‘'W
in cooperation with the Civil
Aeronautics Ad;
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146 cadets who had completed ROTC
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Forestry Association Head
S. L. “Jack” Frost has resigned tnastcr’s degree in forestry fi
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S. L. “Jack” Frost has resigned
as acting director of the Texas
[Forest Service, effective June 30,
to accept the position of executive
director of the American Forestry
Association.
Frost will make his new head
quarters in Washington, D. C. He
will succeed Ovid Butler who re
tired May 30.
At 39, Frost will become the
youngest executive officer in the
American Forestry Association’s
73-year history when he takes
office in July.
A leader in forestry education
in the south for the past 13 years,
Frost, prior to his appointment as
acting director of the Texas For
est Service April ( I, headed that
organization’s educational work.-
At the same time he served as sec
retary of the Texas Forestry As
sociation and helped organize the
Southern States Forestry Educa
tional Directors Association. He
served as chairman of the latter
group in 1946 and 1947. :
Recently decorated by General
Carl Spaatz for organization of the
wartime Civil Air Patrol of Texas
forests, Frost wa* honored this
spring by the Battalion for his ac
complishments in the field of public
CanBeDropp
Students registered for the
fibt, hummer semester, mim
four 3102 according to latfesi
fi jnres compiled in the offic
tl|iQ Registrar.
Among those registei
wj>re 5jJ co-eds, most of them v
veterans now attending- A&
majority of the ladies enro 1;
libehU arts courses but at lensi
orje, \frs. Frances Dushek, sig h
up feir two courses in mechanic;
firtcirlng. - j
Stillc] ents returning or remai
A&M to do graduate work ni
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According to Tayjbr Wi
ivtjternns advisor,\ 2649 veto
jhivo, enrolled under tho G.I.
Rights. •
y, .Tune it, to the toat day
‘htw may add or drop a
without (he grade of “F”,
ing to Regtotrnr II. L.
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y‘ students desiring to ntUl
jjri mtist present a writtci
Rtjala|ticnit from the \departm«ii'
0 nc«rjned that there to a pllact! li
ti 0 c|ij sis foi 4 him, Heaton miid. 1
statrii ent must be presented to
dcapj 4f the school concerned, UK
irxmj approval of tho dean, th<
ngigtriir will make the change),
^ infers fnrni one Mo tion to
another in the sanrei Kubject Will
Im miade by the deportment luiad
cone* nun), Heaton said. |
Rqgwtiration for this year is
abouit 300 below last year’s all
ti ntej fiigh summer' school enroll!*
ent of 3696, Most of the ptu-
■nts pow enrolled, registenxl e trly ,
iti Mjajy, but niore than 400 jregls
0 wi Monday, last day of registra
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o Ten the first meeting f 01 ' the Sum
mer semester at the new Lutheran
ejentef tonight at 7:80. ]
TIiH opening program at the fftu-
dhnt ri^nter, located at th<f corner
o’ M4in and Cross streets two
blocljd north of the North Gate,
Will Ke a “Hymnspiration Sorial”
vh'tht Refreshments!
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Lutheran students at '■
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past it
4&m.
Rov. Mgebroff said that cycry
liutlcran student is invitcijl to at
tmd this social meeting at the
Injew Lutheran Student (pentet. J
During this semester meeUnglS
Will be held at the Lutheran Blu
nt Center every Sunday, Wed-
ipltiy. Friday and Stoturdlay ^ve-
ig at 7:30. The Lutheran. Bible
asif Sunday School and lJuthj>ran
Worshin services will be held every
• Sunday morning at 9:3.0 and 10:45.
|iiji the YMCA Chanel until <om-
ih of the ehspol at the LUth-
Btudent Center in obo(it t iree
Mgbroff stateV.that) visitors
always find* friendly weldomo
the Lutheran Studcnt CcnWr.
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relations and nnblii
one of nine AJtM
membora to receive
•“Kir* for
degree in forestry fri
ticut University in 1
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Vale in ,1933..
As .executive director o
merican Forestry Assojcil
rest will be responsible fo|
iijervising a national prog;
Ofestry based oh the asaocl
Ct-finding survey of the) wpiSn-
y’s forest resources. This sutjvey;
>mpleted in 19415, revcaled*.to
50ple of the n&jion the eff
f war upon this j’aluable res
1 paved.the way for p
mring for its managemr
“ lost was born in West
ticut, in 1909. Fo
formal education, he ent
work in that state,
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insferring to Colorado and
ith tho US Forest Servin
he joined the staff of the
ais Forest Service as assistant
iter and was named chief of,
tion and education ih 1940.
his duties was editing the
Forest News magazine un-
was named acting director
of, X E,
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nt Gibb GilchriSt said:
has been a valued
of the staff of the
, system, and we regret his
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