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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1948)
: o : i ! MWi ■ ; t-4 11 ■! f ■>- .1 i I: Page 2 7^- n . - ,4 ■ImiiminM ' ■ : . ■ ,’ r : . ■if- i \ >■ t I . » . Lawreiice Help W 'til ante Since the class o /efetf into the open tarms plovers, now is a goofl tiraf! to take a look into the future and |pecu portunities for those of. ill 1941 atttijl to n i ■ >i r' 1 *7! ORIALS -V ,■ 1 ' i ■' WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1948 Sq/fier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman!’ of Aggie Traditions 1 ■ * ivan Ross, Founder V SIDEWALK iiii*t'^Vii 'jy 7 jl has been de- of waiting era- ite on job op- who are still , h . k . , w 3t: strolling along the educati onal; path with our noses in the air feniffh g for the odor of imprinted sheepsk n. A recent article i 1 the IJ ( ; S. News & World Report gives nome figures on em ployment prospects that cast a dark shad ow over present staid 2nts, lojies for pick ing up that $100-a-W( ek jo). 1 - According to th|e figures, there is go ing to be a surplus of cplle ;e graduates in the near future. Tie cla|s pf 1948 is a !V" jutnu ahead of the drowd jevih though it maylfill up In the future, numoend some 200)000. Next year, as Ttimlng to the brighter side of tho • ■ ‘|f Ijlomaa,; over w - ' stage td receive ift ^ •* the real flood* Of ^tjaduatjee mounts ithe will be leaving thqlF]rea|Htctive^ alnj tors, lh 1950 no grads tjvili be looking for]jo With the; swarm] of : 940 graduates flootllng the employment market, there will be only two of t iree fiel<|l H 8t lh 8 hort of men-^schoolteuc ling, kmkilcine, and specialized science^. Briefly, here is t le pidtur|. J Average pay for the student just out of Engineers—Prospects; air but Will get college runs around $240 a month now, worse as 110,000 gracfi iat|jhg stu’dent but with the influx of thousands of new engineers descend 01 the| market within men and Women, the salary rate will prob- the next three years * • U «d)ly be pushed down. Architects—Jobs still fairly plentiful, That about covers the picture for fu t ahd m Texas, .ture job opportunities. Confirming re- owever, 10.000 students i resitudying this ports that have been circijilating among t subject aAd there a^e but 14,000 licensed the classes due to graduate within the oeil.' nex m tihah Cor velopments in all fields the prospects in this field are fairly good. J Lawyers—Even now graduating law yers are having a difficult time getting positions and there are 50,000 more on the way. Journalism—We hate to admit it but prospjects are worse here than in any other major field; , [ •; Business-Administration—Still a good demand for these majors, but the future will depend on the trend of business in general. Incidentally, this field has more train! 311,C is than any other, no less than veterans atpne. armacy—Prospects good but/field Tn \ Out the Vi if . er Atomic Linked With U By CHUCK MA1SEL The vintage is gjoing to have a lot of new tramplers in the Oak Ridge Tennessee. The young pers arrive there |ai national average, rate may be due to bure infantrymen, prepahng a repor lific pappas are rad: next generatio i from stom- a rate 34 times the The abnormal birth- the certainty I of the Oak Ridgers that their sons won’t! be fu- Emstein is rumored lenying that the pro- 0 active. ★ Speaking of radio-activit hops take heed! New York pai a post office disaster wherein a hair dye fell from a shelf brea ahd a bottle of bleaching compoun his heUil hover, for the the low Ouch! ,1 car- report ttle of itself The Social Activities Break Gimp (mats -ithe pictiirt, the need for doctors, nurses, den- 1 k . . :£T ; at Kelly Field Base ^ ” av for ding ud ates thal thatWay for quite u while. winding uu the job forecast, the ar ticle states that employers are becoming mote and mote selective! i men! pep cent of 1 and mote selective in hiring now [ some companies considering only the ir 10 tq 30 per cent of a graduating architectsj now in thb bus / Chemistry—Ayai able up^rapidjjv but vaegneiei those tal years at . ' * • ^ king special ^ : least. Also, r h The Allowing ei literi;il, the first ledition of — • - - * ‘ - L *- Battalion’s New Year’s worth publishing again. li ^ ★ w .1 ■ •) ,fJ M Thermometen T jells the Stor 1948 Last year there fwas teucli talk about air-conditioning two of the most used buildings |on the campus r Guion Hall and Cushing Memorial Ljtbrar /. Nothing hap pened, except that ejeryo le [agreed it. was a good ic|ea. In this cool January wfeatjljcr, it is easy to forget what A&M is like from May until October. Ev^nJ place gets hot, but it, ■ two structures. Cushing LibraiW is a but the reading tec ms dot [ lalmbst unin habitable in late way until fall. Oi h increased de- job few years. 'It also serves to empha- that the better work done now, the r chance you will have to make the graae when the time} comes to look for that published in a^ one of The Resolutions, is •I . * :• fords little relief during the warm months. Let’; put our engineering science to work in. these two buildings, ★ ★ ★ « une and thahot weather are here so we mow hojv hot those two buildings ac tual y are. 1 .1 <1 Guion Hall Js being remodeled tit the pref the lly J. T. MII.I.KK KELLY K1KLI), Juna tR-Morn dfty markt'd tho ului of tho flivt wook of tho Air Korco Rummer camp boiii|{ held hero at Kelly Air Force Bum*. To rmmt of us it has Rtecmed only n year. To the 200 Toxhh AiltM eadoU undergoing a Hix-wecka courao in either adminiatrathm or malnteh* ante engineering, little new in the way of formations, calls, drill and the like was forthcoming- However, tho remaining 450 ca dets from various co-ed schools in the southwest found their lives changed considerably. Up at 6. Kush like mad to make rervedle formation at (5:30. Then mess, barrack clean-up, and school formation Hjt 7:45. Administration students attend classes in service records, typing, personnel man agement, dnd related subjects. Maintenance engineering students go over to the hangar area to! work around aircraft. Other unitsj such ?as .statistical control, armdment, and communications, work with their respective departments. At noon ali classroom activities cease for a momentous 45-minute period—we eat. Following that, the afternoon is spent in drill, physi cal education (under Captain Her man Sourest and Lt. Cliff Acker- 1 man, both of Texas A&M), rifle marksmanship, guard duty, (Hid other fonUiros tt« yet nndlxehwod. Ali ft bid a i<mg, di awn-out ire- trottl) fdi'ltiHtion is held, thus offi cially ending the worl Ing dgy for all cudetM. At that t me we are free to leave the hus( to Imsk in the grgndeur of flan | Antonio--or Itettor still, t(» drift to the Khlistud Men's club for u bott e of hops. To break tho monotony of camp life certain social activities have been scheduled. For example, last Friday night a dance was held in the KM Club. This Friday the young 1 ladies of Fort $am Houston have invited cadets to a dance to be held in the Officer’s Club at that base. Saturday a beer bust is to be given here on the base. Cadets i are organised much as they arc* at A&M. The (550 college students Comprise one wing, brok en down! into two groups, eight squadrons and 24 flights. Each flight contains approximately 25 I men. Although the units are for ' the most .part mixed, Squadron 11, i at present commanded by Tom ! Cartcjr, of Beaumont, is the only | all-Aggie unit of (jhiit size in the I camp, j ' I Well,. So much foij generalities. | During the next few weeks notes J on events of interestj to A&M stu- ; dents will be submitted to.the Batt j for perusal by the R400 students grinding out grade points on the resulting explosion seriously mjurfed five post office employees and caused n bomb scare that created ^ near-panic. F Jack Tarver rejiiortH, in the Atlanta Constitution, a case of one Atlanta citi zen recently shot another in u disjmte at a golf course. Sormi people take ths gumu too seriously. Tarver comments tt at he's heard of golfers shooting birdies a id eag les, but never before a bird of a fjeathor. it wouldn't have bfen considered fso un ethical If tho guy hiui yelled "FOifE”. Lyndon Johnson Is going to b| doing Dei three for,$60 the other wrong, that site nasty sale, w the prjc over b g ii AP» all conju Sears, hnd tb; theme, of you "Ti Th i Th Th wtjihi Imsde ■ ! 1 «S oil tlos jach. day. t vajs woklid|n suujff alec he . kr| m v if j- . Senate from a le is going to in East Texas to convince^ aveiiv ■ ■ 'Tt rom heave me nouse oi common But fet get the old gir |r a benefit. Commenting give ‘^tuppence” for the *f, she prefaced temperance. Fi igs must have gom 4v utN of d; hr teftho i tl ful ■' Prisoners of War Will Ua In Houston Saturday Toxans who were prisoners-of- war during World War II will hold their third annual meeting Saturday and Sunday at the Rice Hotel in Houston. General Jonathan jVainwright,’ honorary life president of the or ganization, and Governor Beauford Jester will speak. i Registration will bp Saturday morning at 0:30 on the mezzanine of the Rice Hotel. A memorial ser vice will be Held at the same p ace at 10:30 Sunday morning. John T. Jones, Jr., kssistan; to the president of The Chronicle, and Albert Cecil, Rice Hotel employee and University of Houston student , arc handling arrangements for the meeting. iNiMHLiaa w JfJMKT. III. - i/H - Thr blow out the tail light on his if mol lie. Allen R. Thkyer told n whan he was arresfeji for opejifU- ing a vehicle withouj a tail Thiiyer explained he j was Ut ir i campus;. PALACE ■ l*H o N t 7 - Am ent time;. T. R. Spence, manager of onsti-uctipn Program, told us recent ly 4jhat air circulators wou.ld.be installed dur ng the summer. n view of thq Student Memorial Build- ing! coming along and the large expense is no morq-evidenf a|ywh|rei than in these: that would be involved in air-conditioning J Guijon, he said mat circulators would be qiipe f<j>r study, the [best that can be provided. ’ , i\Ve do not plan to epostulate further on the need for air-conditioning the Li brary. Maceo's Million Dollar Sand Trap ... wed. '■v>. © 4Q >ring y lil cpn tell how hot it g2ts bi dej in the stacks [—blit froim the con litior bf the reading room, we can suspei t. Guion Hall is a {lace wh^re Aggies go folr relief (when they get si studying jin their “Woles. WIJI Thurs. - Fri. - Sat. COLOR gv i RE ■Wl'aRf- MGMs T£CHr;/COLOR\ AA^SicalL 1vi ahd stay that rary employees wy Tl BOWLING GRIfKN, amateur Ufttronome^ wh( ten comeln and two nreme court judge degrees during Boi i© case of Norjmun Thomas, who has itari will ty’s commencement, (Ohio) Star. egrees during Boy 'ling [Green universj —'—"— fc, f3un i 11 — Mario)} O.l — An Ohio hjis discovered and a fllato su- cialifitii for .i..* ecqtvo honorary that any American mother may hope to GREY eombinatjion In Isinglass Road, Hw from good condition $50 Nichols. 4- Adv. in the gram. L . M The Academia Hill That A federal World G<f Be Established tonoito at the‘College. The pub —Buffalo A classic of thj clas: but it appeared aga n lately weekly: sonable. !v ‘Wanted- The Battalf _ i<WI, City of College Btatiorj, Texks. Friday aftieraoon, except du:in, talion is published . 'On request! News contiibutioju Goodwin Hall. , Classified aq|_n Office,, Roohi pOi), Got dwin The Ass&iated Pr ‘ss is credited to it or not other cd bereju. . Rights df i|epu 4 "Ttr 4 be - ^hape but we never luspected m 3&i&g,fflka.S | f f r»S>o” far gone. i melon,: cases of beer, and enough i Wwi.but joull have to sign u other gear to sirik a cargo ship, may ightlyjrmd from ’ But Gii ion af- 'he temperature of the first floor of (Ed.tors Note: One o oar foreign corresponflents. lexingh the! Librarp was taken periodically yea- 18 0,fot *».*«*> H. •« terday and the reaulta are publiahed on the front pa^O of (today’s Batt. Tho facts will bear their own testi- mo ly ] I : Iti nier sessions as a deckhand on a Hoiston tugboat, His column is so fresh from Galveston Island that it ift still permeated with sun-tan oil and salt water.) I; I have just returned from |that mecca of all heat afflicted HoufttonianH, Galveeton Island.: According to Webster an | island is a body pf U»nd cn- r surrounded k«; nd ti|i , f 0 " h i w ico id ht. bo a J)|(i li peiuU on youth. o milmi tho Mtatomont rv*lr; “Ah, youthi wlvftt ir g ta waate on youth. 1 ’ I ' ■ iw ih> tail ilfht. I’olica Mittriii- ThqmjaH K. Hpnunm fined $(i.:!5 anti told him to niodrfn- nr'aj lighting or he might »Um1 aga n—if the wind hi I '! |. McLeraore believea that i t laddressea are gold by Ward, J. C. Penny, ey all have the same [ e ia the iiupdrtanco ' 1 idw on youth, onj youth. Vj il Y- WAT Sliced i- waj Halfwuy tirely surrounded by water, Rut Mr. Macao’s million dollar sand trap varies that, definition a bit. cans and suntun oil bottlea and vainl fast oil stove, tirigton, 1 mile Stephen Zencik; ftriigeport Tele- cjleb|(,tc Resolved: verjivment Should f |t 7:30 p. cm invited. m. sec her son grow' up to be a candidate for president on u ticket that has no chance of winning. ' i "* _ ^ j i He said he had met the girl, who serv ed n the Russian army after her release froin a Nar.i prison camp, in February 1946, at a UNRRA depot. They came te in October, 1Q46, Curtin said.— (Chicago Tribune.) THIS eyebrow-raiser is from the Lost an4 Found department of the New York Tiifet: “Beige gabardine dress left In cab >iL ompty bm bottled und inly Hourching for the water. Guiveatoh giuneii its early fume as u stronghold and headquarters of tho pirate Joan Lafltto. Wo fed secure in shying that Jean would hardly recognize the old home stead now. [ I Schooners still cross the bur j there, to be sure, .but tho helms- | men are members of Bartender’s I Local 823 and the prices are scaled | to make even old Jean look like j a bashful buccaneer. u power «n the island that most natives combine his name with the llttla town of Iilckinion that Him between Houston and Galvos- ton near the county boumiry and sneak bf “everything south of the Mace.o-IDIckinson line.” Thora arc other lines too. In fact this Weekend bn the beach front thp crowd locked like the, fourth army (in bathing suits, of course) peeling off ih a column of files. Feeling hungry, I went in search of a hot dog. “Is this the line to get frankfurters” I [inquired of a browbeaten young man tailending a long string of people that wound Will QUEEN Thurn. — Fri.>— Sal. “MARKED WOMAN” —with— HUMPHREY BOGART & BETTE DAVIH As one badly shorn tourist from far inland put it, “They’ve got a ! over the hill. ... r - - ... i »£ m no j. BUre jf t ettC j, e!j m but this is the Tua8li,iy in front l ” f - Seventh Avc - f sea wall around this durned island I . l n ® not , 8Urc , . that’s]fifteen feet highland it’s |( j.^ParUuent^ bu! fled Seetioris; in a Missouri 1 A foreign affairs analyst said politics America indicates the state of .world in bad still the lowest thing I’ve seen j since I got here.” But even witli the fangs of ih- j flation bared in their faces, Gal- j veston’s week-enders have a won- j derful time. Armed with swim- replied. “Teaches?, 102?” I ejaculated. “Yes, this is the late registra tion lime for summer school. Wo should get up to Sblsa in no time. If FrafpifiJ ’ LAST DAY —Features Begin— 1:20 - 3:10 - 4:55 - 6:10 - 8:3|0 10:15 official tjjMsbkpe&i of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and [ jsiBublished live times a week and circulated every Monday thro- ,g holidays and examination periods. During the summer The ] Entered <u bcumd-tlus.. matter li^PM OltiCfl , at College SJUtiou..) t&Ms jim ter lie Act of Cougresa of March 1, 1670. I i KENNEfH BOND, LOUIS ’77*~ ■ ••4-. ...» -2uJ ■ ■i — Subscription rate $4.30f per school year. Advertising rates be fe e Battalion ' M .L j l l . i of the Agricultural and Mechanical Colle? circulated evt they assault the beach in pursuit I of pleasure. Monday morning they’re back in i the office comple( made by telephone (4ii-5444). or at the editorial office, Room 201, ay. be placed by telephone (4-5324) or at the Student Activities ipublicat for republicatiou of all news dispatches edvexclusively to „ , . _ , ‘Ted in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin of all other matter herein are alse reserved. k? ^ - - 4 | j ^ Member i Tb* Associa boaT- EupMiicnkd twUorully by Na . Strvtai In ? .. «t Vfm Press I Chltem. Anwhi.. Rad 8»a 1— • ••••••••• • i Whe ■: ; r Ad- rk aiy. f Editors im 'mmmm completely j exhausted, with sand in their hair and with a lobster-hued skin that glows ’hi the dark and. causes them to fhy away from old friends for fear pf a slap- on the'back. If they woke up feeling that way in the middle of the weak, they’d phone the office screaming “I’m sick” and trundle themselves off to the infirmary. But now they proclaim tb one and all, “Just got back from a wonderful weekend in Galveston. Boy, was it iever restful Just cheek this suntan— ouch, not so hard!” Entrepreneur of a major part of Galveston s noisy night life is Mr. Samuel Maceo, whom “ papers describe as a lar sportsman.” No one demes that is a spprt i 11 ? * AdverUkiu* >UBaa«r Also Curry ... c. e«Wy. m that i ally settles :offe bistros usually settles but into the Maceo coffers. Mr. M. is such - ’ r il I Urters are jin the ME de- “y get up tor 102 belore you can ask for him," the confused one continued. I went back to the water to soak my head. I wasn’t (that desperate for a frankfurter. ' ■ ■ 11 ■ 1 r ■ ■ ^ Campus Corner Will Remain Open The Campus Comer, will remain open during the summer from 7:30 a. m. until 5 p. ni. Monday through Friday and until 1 p. m. Saturday, Wayne Stark, director of the Stu dent Memorial Ceciter, has an nounced. bJSii&ea it Th* UaV.«ru|tU 3 p. Even! though uoj students arc « EriCrS# rr . 7 tu gat away fijam the crowd. ) Corner will bej dosed all day IT S A RIOT of FUNI Sum «v —Plus— Bugs Bunny Cartoon — Nows NEW^ > Stoffelk PRINTi Blues, { THE Across from. -r—h. — THURS. — FBI. — SAT. —Featiu-es Begin— 1:30 - 3:15 - 4:55 - 6:40 - 8:20 10:00 TARZ&N at HIS B I * lightjqndies are now Corner from Tom A Jerry Cirtccn Short Si News | Post C -►W I »— — en ie;e J—i * w J-*’ A ■ WAFF. .* I, limt, f ace • —— C O R ■ i . i ■r.i.. ~ larden Iryan — tl (1 ■ VALS Fal I f nc8 PIQUE red, gpeen Shirting i| drcMHea vie l|iortji|l|ia cope ,c , SHOP ; -L- sryan L 1 mmm Y ’ S t i i- .: ACKS . r \ ! \' - •i 'll’' : i - l ■■ •! ;■ » I 1