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w. B I ■ . r A IN WHri Bi AN NBC RO If, T I - /FOR AU Tex« S' 1 , i exits mtfs prpviifiiiig Beparate Echools for White ui'i Negro stu- S . 7:7 • -f- •] h ; . .;••• k TL : 7.:- ■ U APRIL BS UNI7ERS1 ex., Jol i dents' face a t4st frojm a nejiv angle. J;V| A WhiU man, Jalclc Cofjfraan of j/■! JU Houston, ms applied for entrance into The Texas Uiiverfiity for Negroes i t Housto^i, according to information received by Attorney Generaf 1 ’rictib Dan ie yesterday. Officialii of the- negjTo university have askijd the atitoniey ; general for a lega opinion of the question. Coffman, according; to informa-, tion funii! bed; the ajttpmey general demands pntnmce 'into the negro university whichl fa£ esiablished by jjhe 5|>th legislature. Coffman V 28 1 — •r ... l ■'ri? ■ ■ •< ' <•' Vj; vr] S’ Volume 48 iv •. * . r 'I: says lege te of Penn Col- o^ai' and! is fully qualified for jcoursi ■s applied for. GOP LEADERS SpEQI TW)-WEEK Vi ASHINGTON, Idly 28 —<A>)_ House Republicans pijedictjed after -a neetihg of their pplicy commit tee Tuesoay that the! present ses sion of Cingress will end in about two, weeks. While speaker Mirpin (R-Mass.) . cha rman of the. ce hel< cofn nent until i later meet ing with Senate leaders!, House policy !gro. ‘fin, geneiial; agreenjient” that Con gress cat go honje jperhiaps late next wee: or the -reek after. [.hatl would leajvej little time’, cojnc eded, for action on Presi- ^ denjt Thu nan’s an! i-^nflation pro- J y h j SION / 7' r 121 ■ ! j / • ) ! n!||i: ' l ' i ' • : t ■ •h' j: 7T i lr. •i; ft PUBLISHED 1JV THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A & M COLLEGE ta/io COLLEGE STATION ( il TEX-SIJN CITRUfe CO. TO SEND JfICE TO EUROPE DALLAS, July !!8 —<A1)^-Texas grapefruit juice Wili be'sent to Europe’s hungry cMdrejij in ever- increasin; r amouTrti i i|n the future, Drj E. 'li Roy Da kip, representa tive of CARE, Rel ef Agqncy, said Wednesdi ,yi - ' <! . I .Shipmdnt of thii ,uice! will re ceive an mpetus frori th4 offer of a commercial valle jr < anner to pro vide one free iS-otwice can for each three purchased, he said. Labels‘ from thrae can^ of Tex- Sun juicle, sent lo the Tex-Sun Cithis Ejcchange Weslaco, Tex., or turned over to t tie Dalljas CARE booth, will result! in a free can being sept to Eurppp’s orphans. r'i ivps UP A ILATION P ] ^ -V ■4V i I Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28,1948 ''til , ""l Number 19 Army, Air, Navy ROTClxempi irv._ _ A,. _ a A t ¥k h i Quotas Announced b n t ■ .. WINNERS of the "prep* to right kneeling they are Md 1 irijn ton g for travel” contest afc Fort Sill line up for the camera. From left Keyi, OU; John Luther, A&M;JPern E. La Roche, A&M; Ralph Jones, St. Mary’s; and Thomas Keeling, Arkansas. Standing from left to right are Leonard Kotzur, St. Mary’s; Ed Limes, Colorado; William Leske, St. Mary’s; Leiland Jett, A&M; and peter Kleck, St. Mary’s. The group’s time for preparing to march \yaa 8 minutes and 55- secoodji, j -I ) 7 • - '.7 , j ’ A&M Graduates Monopolize Ag r i ( © Field, Cotton Tourist Decides :Ms POSAL LAKE SUCCESfe, Julj^ 28 —<A>I Th^ Un ted Natphs Commission on conventional arinamenis virtual ly gave up Wednesday all efforts to regulhte arms cntil peace made. ‘ | The^ciymmissiorrfs wording com mittee a jproved 9 2 a British- Atifericaii resolutiiih Naypi^ peaefe must be made with j Gerifnany and Japan before jarms'can be effec- tivjelyj Cc ntrolled. | Russia and thje , Soviet! I krubie vltad (against thje majority Ifl : The| c immittoe decided to mept again Monday to write its report tb th,p Security Ojuhcil. Delegates said, hovever, t mf th<| commiii- sioti’s wjirk is virtually ended Urn- til tha hjternation il ipictijre chan^- “A&M graduates have a mono- ply on agriculture, ot- so it seems(’ says Dr. Luther H.j Jones, Agro nomy Department, in a review of the annual Cotton .' Study Tour from which he has recently teturri- ed. 7 ! X j [ I “Regardless of where wq. werv, there were former A&M men suc cessfully engaged in agriculture, business, and even politics.” “Some of 1 the men that we met and flrho extended the old Aggie brand of courtesy were Percy Lee ,Bell, ’43, manager of the largest cotton plantation visited by the group; Frandis Leo Gerdes, ’28, chief cotton technologist for the Delta Branch Extension Service in Stonewood, Miss.; Dr. M. B. Stur gis, ’25, head of Agronomy at Louisiana State University and Percy Redfearn, ’38, member of the! New Orleans Cotton Exchange. “In Washington, D. C., we were *ft by Representative Olin », r ! ; '4 landlle Resigns jecomji Dean At Western Reserve i, r Dr. C W. Randl<J, head of the Ecpnomics Depar mfcnt, [will leaive July 31 for Cleve and, Ohio to as sume hi i new positi)n aS Dean of the! Self! ol of Bus inoss i^. Western Reserve Universi ;y„ he said this afternoon. {4 . . L Randlt has beeb with the A&M teaching .staff sii ce.July ’47. Be fore thi > time h< seiwed as vice- chairmap on thri National Wage Stabilization Boaijd ih Kansas City, Missouri, Rhapsody In Blue To Be Ilealrd On Svnmhonv (lour New Associate At Methodist Church Trained Football Team A. BY W. H. BE^ ; t j . j ' ' Rev. Ferris Baker, -new associate pastor of the A&M Methodist Church, was the ttainer of the SMU football team for two years. ■ M : • . Baker, a slim, brown haiired^an, says that he has a new outlook from that he had on his previous visits here. He says the people are some of the most Ji ter vdin will be phony on Wax” fiisic in a li heard o nthe “Sl hour tonorrow deeding !at six. Twio compositions' by George Gershwjn, Rhapsody In; Blue and An American ~ duled t( be play Jhje ! lhapsody i began as a piur- Jgzz, (the critics Inj I ayejd. Paris, are sehe- 1 pose, nit a plan said, : hi d to be had fto cling Gershw n resolvej r-i y s|trict time and dance rhythms. t( kill that mis- concept on with .tone stqrdy blow. It w|ts during] a trarin ride to Bostpn, with iti steely rhythms rat ;les, thit Gershwin sudden ly hgarp—and eyen say on paper ruction of the Rhapsody as a sott of musical z* kaleidoscope of AH rica - Durirg a trip to Eupope in the spring of 1928, Gijrshjwin began compos ng An A mei ienn In Paris. the ide l in hjs mind to his world b«jforq he even landed an the C< ntihent, and once he arrived in,tile grerch capital, and vi: ited its cafes, went to its unis, sjwitjts diagy historic t nd rode dpwn its boulevairds loisy taxicabs, his musiori ideas tiok definite form. One i an easily visualise a slight ly homesick Anjeruan wandering! about he stree s cf Paris when i apositdon jjs Heard, record irogranr tudent by the can be heArd )f ‘ ^ °n sembly hospitable he has fever met. ' Haying the fortune, or misfor tune, ‘to work his was through college, Baker was manager of the basketball team and director of housing for the athletic dormitory. His interest in sports dates, badk to a letter in track from Central College in Fayette, Missouri, Whei[e he gradufeed with an A.B. degree in 1943. 1 ! Seemingly non-compatible with* his sports interests are his abil, ity to play a violin and to sing in choral groups and the men’: chabel quartet at JSMU. Baker hails from the corn-h: country of the Missouri , hillfe around Cainsville, where he sajj^s his main interests were “cravjr- dadin’, swimming, and; fishing[” Giving up these activities, he ai tended high school! in Blythedalle, Missouri, before going to Central College, svhere he preached pa^t time in tjfre DeWitt circuit. * Graduating from Central in 1943, -he entered SMU Where Ike sang in the glee club, worked |n the chapel and itlfe theological committees, played basketball and football, and acted las librarian fbr the circulating library. , He graduated from SMU with a B.D. degree in 1944 and began working on j his master’s while teaching Old and New Testai- ment literature and histdry. Baker met his wife, the former Marian Jane Laird, in the deanj’s office at SMU where she was [a secretary. Mrs. Baker graduated frormSMU in sociology in 1944 aijid was a resident of Dallas. is spon- Activities the lawn Hall eiach amd 13u: : ...day mm ^ m Student Photo Editor Needed A photographic editor for' Student Publications is needed, Roland Bing, manager of Stu dent Publications, announced to- «i»y. v : 1 1 It will be decessary for the photographer to have his pho tographic equipment and havje access to a dark room for de velopment of picture^ Bing era- hasized. The student would ave to be available during regular hours of the day. Students interested may tact Bing in Room 209, win Hall anytime and 5 p.m. . r hi ■ • j .1 (. NJ Rev. Ferris Baker, new asso ciate pastor of the A&M Meth odist Church will assume h^s duties here in September. Ex-Student Opens Insurance Office • ’ * . Bill Mitchell, a graduate of the elites of ’42, has returned to A&M to [occupy an office in the Casey- Sptarks Building above the Aggie- land Pharmacy. hfonday morning at 8 he will begin as an agent for The State Fferm Life Insurance Co. As their agent, he will sell fire, life, and automobile policies. Mitchell lettered in track while at; A&M, his specialty being hurd les. After he received his degree in Rural Sociology in ’42, he accept ed! his commission and went on ac tive duty with the army. He served with the 88th Infan try Division as a Field Artillery ofli'cer, receiving the Bronze Star and the Air Medal with six clust tea's. After the war, he went with hija division to Korea to serve ',in the Army of Occupation. He was Assistant Director of Information and Education, with the rank of first lieutenant .Mitchell will be at his office daily from eight to five, and he in- vijbes all Aggies to bring their in surance proble ince problems to him. '[ il “Tiger” Teague, ’32, who per sonally conducted us on a tour of the Capitol. At Ames, Iowa, we encountered three former Ag- gies—^Frank Bortle, ’31; “Red” Thompson, ’35; and Dr. Charles E. Frilley, ’19, now president of Iowa State College.” “Dr. Friley, while a Student at A&M in '17 and ’18, became the first registrar. Later he was ap pointed the first Dean of Arts and Sciences, and initiated the. grade point system." ! j On the itenurary for the Cotton Study ; Tour were visits; to state colleges, experiment stations, cot ton exchanges, and mills as well as side trips to points df interest such Us Niagara Falls, the Naval Academy at Annapolis, tbe Bowery in Ney York, and others. “One of the high-points of the trip,” continues Dr. Jones, "was the honor paid uir by the porters and elevator girts of the Jung Hotel in New Orleans when they turned out in special formation to welcome us. They iwere re paid in the A&M mainner for this honor.” Virgil Caraway, L. [E. Crane, Wallace Hackler, and Arnold Now- otny accompanied Dr. Jones on the tour which is sponsored by the Agronomy Society and paid for by the proceeds from the annual Cot ton Pageant. , A j Dean to Represent A-M At Camp Hood j • Dean W. L. Penberthy will at tend the final review at Camp Hood Saturday, v Representing A&M College in the absence of President Gilchrist, Dean Pertberthy will be: the guest of the commanding officer at Camp Hood Thursday. Officer’s mess will be served at| 12:30 and from there the reviewing party will go to the field to see the re view at 2 p. m. ^ i ^ This event closes six weeks training at Camp Hood for the Aggie? who are receiving their summer camp there. ter lexas School System ays Educator “Failure of states to pro vide adequate educational fa cilities will be an open invita tion for the federal govern ment to come in and take over education,’* State Sena tor James Taylor of Kerens, chairman of the Gilmer-Ai- kih committee, told the 12th Annual Texas School Admin istrators conference which ppened here Monday. 1 Purpose of the Gilmer-Aikin committee is to desigh patterns for the improvement of education in Texas. In its broadest scope it is composed of senators, represen tatives, school administrators, (teaches and laymen who study the present educational setup and receive recommendations for its improvement. Senator Taylor stressed that his Iplmmittee will ask for radical jenahges from the present educa tional system. “We believe,” he said, “that we must act and act now. This is the third commilitee that has been appointed in Texas in recent years ito study public education. Unless Ithe Gilmer-Aikin committee is successful, we may not have the chance for a long time to make iniuch-needed changes in our edu- [cation setup.” § ] 1 | H. A. Moore, executive ylce- chairman of the committee, pointed out that minimum edu cational requirements must be reached before the state can hope to start out on an ade quate program. [ i The sessions, which last through Wednesday, were opened by Ter rell Ogg of Freeport, president of the conference. The guests were Welcomed by President Gilchrist, and a short talk was given by M. IT. Harrington, dean of Arts and Sciences. J The sessions are being held in the YMCA. George Wilcox, secre tary of the conference, reported that eighty registered Monday. Lt Thomas Fowler Reburied Tuesday In Wichita Falls Second Lieutenant Thomas W. Fowler, ’43 graduate of A&M and one of the first Texans to receive the Congressional Medal of Hon or, was reburied at Wichita Falls Tuesday in ceremonies honoring him as a symbol of Texas soldier- hood. ’ The 22-year-old former student was the first Armored Force Of ficer to receive the nation’s high est honor for gallantry in battle. He earned it for his intrepid lead ership of a platoon of tanks when the Allies broke out from the An- zio Beachhead. With his hands he dug up Ger man anti-personnel mines at Ca- rano, Italy in May, 1944. Then, on foot, he led his tank column safe ly through the mine-field. With all the other officers Of his out fit dead, he rallied infantrymen to his command and captured a squad of Germans. On the day before Rome fell, ten days after his heroic exploit, a sniper’s bullet killed the hero who had spurned an offer to re turn to a rest camp. Allocations to Be Determ Depts^ Deferred Studen Quotas of Army, Air Force, and Naval ROTC it draft have been announced by Secretary of Defense These students will be selected by each service der the Selective Service Act of 1948. Allocations within these quotas to the individi al college |i will!! be made by the military Draft Calls First for Men 25-Year Bracket, Hershey WASHINGTON, July 28 —UP)— Selective St rector Lewis B. Hershey announced yesterday thal old men will be drafted first. Other age groups will in order of their registration, he said. Hershey made the announcement after an Hoilr con ference with members of the Sen- 4, ate and House Armed Services Committees. Later he told newsmen that ap proximately 5,000 men will be pro cessed in the first six months of the program, beginning with the 25-year-olds and working down through those in the 22-year-age brackets. . Out of the 5,000,000 men to be processed in age groups 22-25 in clusive, Hershey estimated that only about 70,000 would be actual ly subject to peacetime service of 21 months. He called attention to the fact that deferments for var ious reasons would cut down the number of men available. The draft director said he has not yet received word from the Army as to when or how many men they will require. He told a news conference last week that the first call probably will not be issued before October 1. Yesterday Hershey said .that if the Army should ask for 30,000 men on the first call, selective ser vice probably would have to dip down into 23-year-olds to get that many] He said he doubts that more than 8,000 26-year-olda are available for service. . Registration of the 25-year-olds starts August 30. Succeeding age groups will register in September ending with the 18-year-oJds on September 18. . Hershey stressed that all men in the 18-25 age brackets' must register, unless they are on ac tive duty in the armed services. Veterans and members of the National Guard and other re serve units are required to regis ter, he said. He added that se lective service has not yet writ ten regulations to govern de ferments. “But we are reasonably firm now on how we will proceed with selection,” he said. rrestal l'-.' enta raes aibd wi ho will be exempted from the, rrestal. deferred from induction un- ’ depaiftm location! ice li- 2j^year- b s Aiak< n Veterans To Reins j NSL Insur e net; Approximately $2j5£|,000 jol National Service L ance has been rehuti ted veterans since July 1(1, J. Varnell, Veterans Adminis tration representatjivf, ! a n nounced yesterday. Varnell assisted vetdrahs jin instating $100,000 of tie sum terday afternoon. All veterans who wish to rein: state their insurance spot ild do s< immediately, Varnell varied. A|ft er July 31, veterans w shlng! reinstate their | insurance Will subject to ;the expense of a phjfsi cal examination. Before the deadline, th s insure may reinstate by c< m ileting simple application fon i < ertify that his health is as gi oc as wlie the policy lapsed and papmlent o] premiums for two month i. The two! months renitthnee c )v ers the^GOiday grace perbd allc ed at (he time the pill y lap ie and the first month aljter rci statement, which is a [paiyment i advance Varnell will be in ill 6 7A| ofljici on the Cajmp'us on Tlui idtty im will be in his office ill day Sst: urduy, July 31 in Br/afi for htt purpose of reinstatingt Isipsed polf icies. Varnell’? office is ir ti e Ho\^e Building, which is lo ’at ed abfev the Stacey Furniture (o. in (Brypr Farm Safety Week Procl To Curb Accidental Inj President Truman and Governor Jester have: ed the week beginning July 25 as National and T; Safety Week in order to lessen the large number of disabljb accidents occuring on American, farms. | The immediate goal of National Farm Safetfy (Week to eliminate 30 million hazards* which exist on the farms through out the United States. Farmers droclai xks'FaMi can make their ! farms much safer by accepting personal responsibi lity for the elimination of one farm hazard per farm resident during this week. The long range purpose of Na tional Farm Safety Week is to make every American farm and every American farm resident i safe as possible, to cut the annul toll of needless deaths and injurii to an irreducible minimum, and to make farm life a safer, happier Who Likes Westerns? t Historical Movies Preferred By Students, Survey Reveals By C. J. WOODWARD The same things that keep Fords Chevrolets, and Plymouths on the road keep pools full and the yacts afloat in Holl; private swimming thi ywood. ,V Interviews with students on the campus reveal historical movies leading the field at A AM, follow ed by films of a biographical na ture. Straight musicals! ran poor, and no one was loyal to the lusty western. B. J. Langford, petroleum engi neering student from Nacona, Tex as, likes The Best Years of Our Lives. “This portrayal of three veterans returning to civilian life is typical of the problems faced by veterans everywhere,” Langford said. “The story, good cast, and k ifc’firftTn'i-Tiin i.i: 4 i ] i I high humor combined to make it my favorite movie.” In the opinion of Ray E. DHt- mar, senior electrical engineer ing major from New Braunfels, GONE WITH THE WIND is the best movie of all time. “I am in terested in American history/’ says Dittmar, “and this epic de picting the changes in the sooth- era way of life wrought by the Civil War is s moving story. The transition from book to picture is good.” An agricultural education major from Sealey, Texas, Joe E. Burtt- schell, favore The Joison Story. ’This show is a good life story of my favorite singer. I like Jolson’s voice. I saw the show four times.” Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is the most enjoyable show Leroy Werchan has seen. Werchan, an Agronomy student from Taylor ‘says, “Most movies today try to tell a story, but usually fail to do so. Snow White is strictly enter tainment.” ‘The movie I enjoyed Moat?” HENRY V, says Ivan NeviU of Houston, an M. E. major, ^mia* toricsl pictures are bast Laur ence Olivier’s acting is superior, sad unlike most American films there is nothing superficial in this movie. It is good history and good entertainment” J. E. Vaughn, an M. E. senior from El Paso, likes Love Letters “Its strong emotional quility tp- me,” said Vaughn. _'Tt pealed to me,” said Vaughn. “I is very well cast with Joseph Cot ton and Jennifer Jones.” and more prosperous vay of li: i Past records show tl at unlpi extra precautions an takpn, out of every four If rn * will | the scene of a disablin ? i fijdry farm resident in. th i, next months. They also shi w that a: dents, on the average, v ill farm residents every dpy these extra precautioi s Except in rare cas >s, ty measures , the ! artneri asked to take are n< t postly. fact, many times it h is be more costly not t< h i To advise the farnien type precautions can ibe the following ten safet; ente, Notices of these al- ns and instructions for se lection will be sent to i«e institu tions ■ concerned when they have ' been ; determined, which prpbably will be the latter part of August. Students deferred in officer 4 training course? are not exempt from: registration .under the Se lective Service Act. However, each will sign ar agreement to accept a commission if tendered at the completion termlination of .his course, thereafter to serve not less two years on active duty. Thi: signed agreement will autbortei deferment so long as he conjtinuef satisfactory participation in hi* training course, The overall quotas for each ser- l vice will be apportioned as fol lows |: ;V Army—Freshmen, 38,500; Sopln' omores, 23.900; Juniots, 15.400.- Totail, 77.800. Air—Freshmen. 24,000; Sopho- * mores, 9,800; Juniors, 7,000. Total . 40.800. Navy—(including Marine Corps) Freshmen. 7,000; Sophomores, 500; Juniors, 300. Total. 7,800. The Selective Service Act re quires the Secretary of Defense to prescribe the number of perspnei, each! of the Armed Forces may se lect for enrollment or continuahce in certain officer training lyo- graths. including the Senior.Divi sion ROTC and midshipmen in the U.Js. Naval Reserve. This deferment provision of the Act applies, during the current yeait, to RQTC students who weft freshmen or sophomores when it became effective and to all incom ing freshmen. R0TC students who were jun iors when the Act became effective and jcontlnue thair courses as sen iors : this, year are deferred under 4 , othfei’ provisioiis of the AcL * Secretary Forrestal, in pres cribing the ROTC quotas for the current fiscal year, approved re- conunenrlations of his Advisory Coniimittee on Selective Servioe, composed of representatives of the three military departments .with John Noblo, Jr., of his legal;staff, as diairman. While the ROTC quotas pres cribed for this flues! year-,are the maximum numbers which can be selected by each service for de ferment in that status. It does not limilt the number of college and university students who can parti- cipalte in ROTC training. F|deral law makes such train ing mandatory for all freshman ami! sophomore students in land grant colleges, but only these RO TC i students in these and] other/ colleges who are,, selected and mg' agreement? to accept commissior canjbe deferred from induction. Last year’s Army ROTC enroll ment included 5,082 seniors, 7,41' juniors, 19,668 sophomores, and 40,' 781j freshmen. The Air 4 Force ROl TC,1 last year, included 2,173 sen iorsj; 3,996 juniors; 4,810 sophi mores; and 10,962 freshmen. bjavy officer training enrollmen last): year, included 3,897 “regular’ NROTC students (U. S. Naval Re serve Midshipmen), selected by competition and pledged to service after graduation, and 1,887 Naval Reserve Midshiptneb in the Mer chant Marine program, who afe exempt from draft under the Se lective Service Act. I .!!• prov ivel on taken for fi tfps lety. 1. Never grease, oil, adjust a machine thst js 2. Keep i tools in a. sa. 3. Don’t wear flo ip; that can batch in ma :n 4. Keep ladders andf *t|ai good repair. 5. Apply first aid pfroifiptly, to minor injuries. ... 6. Don’t smoke aroim 7. Keep all safet r place. 'tl 8. Be careful not t) ftafetle-f: mals., 0. Use la staff whjen bull 10. Teach others sajfe prgeti A survey made fdr the me te Fan at unclog mm e-pi lothlifg ne ayi f the b|: levices leidir Texas number of people workers killed each dent Of course it is true th|it dustry has to rank and third in the nujnbhr dents, but if the raeiptyra industry continue to place the total numbc|r will ra; ‘ ■ • ■ r ; ’ i . ' c Student Senators Give Poll Results Tonight In YMCA 'li The use of identification card for A&M students J will be discuss ed !by th? Student Senate at ' tonight in the Assembly Room o. the YMCA. All members of the Senate 'wen asked by N. R. Leatherwood, pres- during the last meeting te rview at least 10 students,and their opinions on the propos. ed mpve. Each senator will make a report tonight. Plans for the reorganisation of - the Studeht Senate in October will be discuased, Leatherwood said. Time and methods of conducting the Senate election in the (all an also on the agenda. ; for ist qccidgi Its U U lumoresque Show At Grove “Humoresque” Garfield and J will be shown at nr. made starring John Joan Crawford, be shown at the Grove to- charge will be show. ■