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SAN ANTONIO, Aiig/25
The entire Texhs National Gu
was praised and the ti6th: Caya
group singled! out for special
tion by Gen. Jacob L. Devers, cj
of the Army Field Fo:
Army Headqdaifters sa
day. ). ■ : ; .
The 56th Clayalry gyoup Is ci
posed of men: fjom the Rio Granjie
Valley, West Texas and 'Sari
tonio. | [.f
Following inspection of the
’ summer encajrh|)ment Isince Wc
War II at Oartp Hood, Saturc
Devers declhrei “I art well pie
ed. The trair|ihfe Ls laid out rij
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The
Russia
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lefmanjy, Aug.
‘pilot Who spen.,:
iviet Zone after a
forced jlandinjfrf repor^d itoday
ejll trejatfd by the IRussii
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king.! It disagreed
Hei|menu included Vl?d-
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Pilot Peteif ifordan Reported Wl
PREDICT
OUST TITO , „
WASHINGlpN, Aug. ,25 —tPi
Russia ■ and Her Balkan satelliites-
are stepping! their; campaign to
oust Marshal Tito air boss of Yugo
slavia, 1 diplomatic officials s«id
yesterday.* i f
These authorities point to in
creasingly vidjient denunciations; of
Tito from evealjy top cjotnmunist of
ficial in Easitljern Europe outside
Yugoslavia, i •
In additpti party leaders ij 5n
Italy pnd Flrajnce-alao. have lined
up beside Mobcow iit «Hidbmni|ng
Tito ps a u teaitor” to the Gqm-
munisltj causeM. j _{ * .'IN
Governments -officials familiar
with _ Basterni )Europe ; say the dis
agreement M|ween Tito and [ the
" Russian branjl of Qommtinism: is
now so fundqpiental it ; rules put
any possibility of compromise.
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32,000,000 EXPECTED 1 f .
ON FALL SCHOOL ROLLS i
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. ^1A>)
. School and cellege enrollment ;will
soar to a new.Yecord of neatly! 32,-
000,000 this fall, despite another
.. drop in the niimber of veterans on
~^ampus. ; ;1 jk!
The office of education, report
ing this Monday, said gramnliar
schools will Onroll i32,797,00pnktu-
sjchools 6,270,0001
dents, high schools 6,270,000 and
colleges 2,5<SQjiOOO.
All -of the! ilucre
760,000, will idfccui
and high schools.
Ex-Gl’s Wu) represented 53i per
cent'of the tilllege enrollment two
C - years ago iajljid 48 per cent last
. year-, are expected to account for
t> ' only 46 per (jjent thii year.
! Saunders Writes
‘Finis’ to
I
w kffit
1 Harry SkPh ders > l ’ ho ^ as ^hrk-
ed on studcitjt publications for the
past four (years is ^graduating at
the end pfl tlis' sentestet.
“I’m through -and Fm glad,”
Saunders^ eixuilaimed.
\ Saun^rsj, ph* architectural stu
dent from j jfbilene,; was ro-editor
of the Longjporn in 1946-47', He
was , aSsociia'tjp ^ditijp iri 19i43i, In
addition to; li yout’work on all the. jour fiction ^stories, three Of which
student magazines, Saunders was have foreign settings. The other
. nrtg
prooLreadeh
4 semester^
on the Battatypai for
IV J.JL li
will ptobablyf |1|| re
" ' ‘ | for
e
“Saundeiis
membered Ulgest l|y studenrtj fo
his effeminate performance in th
Follies,” Rpljnd Bing, m
student pujbilltation^ said eh)t(|usi-
astically. ! ! ' ■ • :T. j' .[11]
Student Senate,. Student Council,
and Archjtlcfetural j Society i-lhave
^ ^.claimed Saurtders. He was listed in
nvho’s Who: i t A&M in 1948-11)947.
He is ope of tha few student's
at A^M whip has passed thej pate
architectural exam while still an
V
undergradualle. jll III
“We’ll mip Harry,” Bing
eluded. “He was a superb f
in bridge.’]; ■, • I . f ,>TM
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Final
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Louis Moitg
rrouncedT ||
‘A- Frepnmin week issue wp be
distributed} al the Annex on; Sep
tember 5, iaid a Pre-Registration
Issue will; t|e distributed or) the
Campus,
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cluded.^v
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ion
ssue ipr tne summer,
, co-Witor, has an
Volume 48
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COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25,
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Remodeled Hall; Top-Notch Entertainers
First Town Hall Entertainers
Remodeled ^Town IJall will pre
sent some of the top-notch per
sonalities in the entertainment
field during the 1948-49 school
year. ‘ . V |
THE SAN ANTONIO SYM
PHONY ORCHESTRA* conduc
ted by Max Reiter, Will appear in
a concert January 10 on the
Town Hall program. It has gain
ed a reputation as “the prodigy”
among the major U. S. orches
tras for so many accomplish
ments in so short a span. I .;
Founded.' only eight years ago
bv Reiter, the San Antonio Sym-
flung National Broadcasting Com
pany, hup'it has attracted some of
America’s outstanding musical fig- 1
ures to hear the 78 piece organi
zation that sprang up and flour
ished on the tough mesquite plains
of ’^egcag^
The Texas-bred orchestra and its
Italian-born conductor have be
come familiar to US citizens dur
ing the past few seasoiis through
out the columns of Time, News
week, Readers Digest, and New
Yorker magazines. I •;
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GLADYS SWARTHOUT, lead
ing] mezzo-soprano of the Metro
politan, Chicago, and San Fran
cisco Operas, will appear on the
Town Hall program Tuesday,
March 22.
Voted the “best female classical
vOcalist oh the air” for five sue-
thor ;of a best selftng
Ho
Miss
SwartHout has one of the most
lustrous names in musical history.
ALEC TEMPLETON, who will
be heard here on Thursday, No-
Summer ‘Commentator’ Will Be
Distributed During Fish Week
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By LARRY GOODWYN ,
The " suhThner^*Ctn«mentator, the
first sumjner edition of a magazine
ever 5o be published eA A&M, will
be ready for distribution during
Freshman Week, Roland Bing, di
rector of Student Publications,
announced yesterday. ,
Published by an entirely new
staff headed by John Wells, the
summer Commentator is the first
issue of five issues of the maga
zine that will be published during
the coming school year.,The re
maining fall issues will he publish-*
ed under the direction of J. T. Mil
ler, senior from Dallas, ’who was
elected: editor last spring.
Wells who served, as editor-in-
chief for the summer issue, is a
senior in architecture, and is from
Edna, Tekas. , i
The 28 page magazine features
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ipjtemberf 11. -
all issue will be pub-
fiber 18, Morgan con-
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Apcepts
L. R*
of Dtroctow
urday awatded a (contract |
F. Fischfinr Son of San
tonio foh
inf, V*
:> gas fitt
morial $i
It waa
Monday s
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Company
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have foreign settings,
short story, entitled “Slightly Pix-
ielated" explains in all too accu
rate fashion, what becomes of a
shy, reticent business man when
besieged by a pint-sized “pixie"
with an affinity 1 for scotch and so
das. This tale of one Mr. Peebles,
written by Dwight Me Anally, wan
ders through the offices of the
Harrington Burial Vault and Trust
Company, thence to, a nearby bar
and restaurant, and finally comes
to a climax in the home of Pee
bles’ domineering wife.
The remaining short stories in
clude “Paris Message” by Al’
Peery, “Viva Libertad” by Harry
Gooding, and “No -Simpatico” by
John Wells. The magazine also
contains feature pages of pho
tography by Gene Du Bose, ab
stractions by R. E. Morse, car
toons .by Kenneth Marak, and
book reviews by Henry Tovar
and D. J, Wflls.
Another feature of the issue is
the cover' which is done in photo
distortion, presenting a warped
:
8k
face that looks like a refugee from
a circus fun house and compliijnent-
ed byj a Shakespearian quote.
The magazine is rounded out
with an . article by Wells entitled
“New Head Coach,” reviewing
the coaching history, past and
present of Harry Stiteler, A&M’s
new football coach for 1948.
The issue js fully illustrated by
Betty Puckett, Ray Morse, Gene
Du Bose, Frsjink Welch, Kenneth
Marak, and John Wells. Marak al
so designed the cover. ,
T Cabinet Plans
Meeting, Program
For September 10
A meeting of the YMCA Cabinet
members has been scheduled for
rjoon Friday, September 10, 1948,
at the YMCA, it was announced to
day by M. L. Cashion, secretary
of the YMCA.
The group plans to go out for
,a t retreat Friday afternoon to the
Navasota Dam and Lake, and will
return late Saturday afternoon.
Cashion, who will have been sec
retary of the YMCA for 22 years,
next Tuesday, listed the following
subjects as topics to be discussed
at the meeting and "subsequent re
treat: Student faculty relations;
Freshman urogram; Bible study;
Foreign students; Religious Em-
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Ward Appointed.
Engineering Aid
Professor R. Pi Ward of the
Electrical Engineering Department
has been 'appointed assistant to
Dean of Engineering H. W. Barlow
aijid will assume his new duties
September L
Ward is a graduate of, A&M,
Class of ’24, and received his Mas
ter’s Degree here in 1934. He will
continue to teach in the Electrical
Engineering Department on a part
time basis. r
The new assistant to the dean of
engineering "is one of the out
standing teachers in the school of
engineering and has had long ex
perience in student counseling and
assisting the dean of engineering”
DwtnJBarlow said.
vember 11, on the Town Hall
program, has spent most hf his
career in a checker-board - of
skipping between classical and
popular forms of music. He has
few hobbies that do not center
in music. u
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He listens to music, makes mu
sic, thinks hiusic, talks music, has
fun with music, every waking hour
of the day. Templeton plays mpsic
everyone can enjoy. Besides being
the world’s foremost improviser of
musical hilarities, his ‘serious
works have earned him high rank
among contemporary composers.
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The DON COSSACK CHORUS,
under the direction of diminuative
SERGE JAROFF, will appear on
Town Hall. This great organ of
human voices spellbinds audiences
wherever the Don Cossacks sing.
They have - been “tops” in their
field for 27 years, and critics have
continually praised the 32 giant
choristers and dancers.
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■ General admission > AieketR to
Town Hall for students wHl be
$3 for the entire Town Hall ae
ries. Reserve) seats for students
are priced ajt $5 for the series.
Non-student tickets are 05, gen
eral admission, and $7 for reserve
seats.
Tickets for students and their
wives Will be on sale-at registra
tion, dates August 28, and Septem
ber 10-11. Non r student reserve and
general admission tickets will go
on sale beginning September 20,
1948.
Plans are underway to bring the
ALL-GIRL ORCHESTRA under
the, direction of Phil Spitalny here
during the Town Hall season. En
tertaining under the name, “The
Hour of Charm,” the orchestra
contains 30 members. Evelyn and
Her Magic Violin and Joanne, fea
tured vocalist are p&rt of the spe
cial entertainers. > ^
THE SAN ANTONIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA is iiother
feature of the TOWN HALL program. Composed of <78 members, the
symphony is conducted by MAX REITER. Though a relatively new
organization, the Orchestra is listed among the major U. $. or
chestras. The orchestra is scheduled for January 10.
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A comprehensive picture of what A&M is doing in the
field of agriculture will be presented at the Agricultural
Writers’ Conference to be held here Sept. 3-4. More than 100
writers, representing every section of the state are expected
to attend.- t \
The program for the two-day meeting includes pjess con-
♦ferences for the writers by de
partment heads, field trips, inspec
tions of departments,, and addres
ses by nationally recognized au
thorities in the various fields of
agriculture.
Grazing lands, livestock, breed
ing investigations, plant and ani
mal insect problems, and many
other activities pertinent to agri
culture will be discussal in quef-
tiop and answer sessions [between
speakers and visiting writers.
The conference will get„V n der
way Friday, September 3,r frith a
meeting in Sbisa LoungG from 9
a. !m. to 11:30 a. m. At luncheon in
Sbisa Banquet' Room the group
[will hear Dean CL N.' Shepawlson,
School of Agriculture, speak on
“Opportunities in Agriculture.” At
6:30 p/m. the writers will return
to the Banquet Room for dinner
and will be addressed by Dr. O. C.
Stine, Assistant Chief, Prices and
Marketing Division* Bureau of Ag
riculture Economics, USDA. Dr.
Stine will speak on “The Agricul
tural Outlook.”
Saturday, September 4, the con
ference will again meet in Sbisa
Lounge. Featured speaker for this
session is Dr. Ide P. Trotter, di
rector of the Texas Extension Ser
vice, who has just recently return
ed from a tour of world cotton
centers. Dr. Trotter will present a
survey of world cotton. ij
D. A. Anderson; acting director,
Texas Forest Service, will discuss
the forestry situation in Texas
and will explain the Forest Ser
vice program for the state.
A business meeting will be con
ducted at luncheon. At 2:00 p. m.
the' group will leave for a field
trip under the direction of Experi
ment Station personnel.
Dorms Locked
Noon Saturday;
14 & 15 Open
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All dormitojries will be clos
ed and lojcked at 12 noon,
Saturday, 1 August 28, except
dormitories 14 and 15, to Ben
nie Zinn, assistant dean of
men announced today.
Students who are to live in dor
mitory 14 this fall and wish to re
main on the campus between the
terms may do so by paying $3.75
room rent at the Fiscal Office and
presenting their yellow fee slips
at j Room 100, Goodwin.
Others who wish to remain here
between terms will also pay room
rent; and present their slips at
Goodwin for assignment to Dor
mitory 15. This must be done be
fore noon Saturday, August 28.
Students must be moved to their
new rqoms before noon Saturday,
as students returning for the fall
semester will be arriving and mov
ing to their rooms on September
11, Zinn said.
Dormitories now closed will be
unlocked in accordance with the
following schedule:
1p. m. - 5 p. m. Thursday, Aug
ust j : ,
Up. m. - 5 p. m. Friday, Aug
ust 27,
8 a.:tn. - 12 noon Saturday, Aug
ust 28.
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ns Retui*
From Meetiu
Of Educator
Dr. TV D. Brooks ant Deal
M. T. Harrington ^tsifd^d
the “Second Confererc
Higher Education,” at
homa A&M last week.
The conference with C j»d|
Hill as chairman had as it i
tive, “Implementing a Proj n
General Education.” The c<
ence was attended by 55 i rt:
sciences deans from the m (I4ve4t
Deans from Texas, New Mlxiro,
Oklahoma, Louisiana, A kansi is
Missouri, Tennessee, N« briasl a
Illinois, Ohio, Minnesota, C ailcjrai o
and Kentucky attended the cqnffr
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“One unusual feature 1 rai tin
free services given at the cqnfnr
ence,” Dean Harrington s iid| “ al
expenses of the deans a'd th nr
wives were handled by the ho its ”
To make a more thoroug h nv is
tigation of the problem, t le mi rt
than 50 deans present weie livid
ed into groups which wou d utudjr
parts of the problem and th ;n mi k >
a report to the conferen ie asi u
whole. Dean Brooks se:y<d an
chairman of one *>f the j rofipj.
Dean Schiller Scroggs »f Oklaj-
homa A&M organized the cpnfjer-
space due to rapi 11 xpansi
tudents who live ii 11 toll hkve been notiffed they must
n office building this,
ruction Program Of-
is djiife need fpr this addi-
m ojf the college, he stated.
NM
moved by August 28. They are
ig given first choice in thp
ated As One of Best Instructors
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ayne LonkResigns A&M Job
To Accept Position at Texas V
ALEC TEMPLETON, T blind
concert pianist, WiB be on TOWN
HALL on November 11, Templc-
TEN PERCENT OF RUTH’S
ESTATE GOES TO ‘KIDS’ '
NEW YORlj, Aug. 26 -<*>_
Babe Ruth let! aaide part of his
estate to , be used for "the inter
ests of tho kids of America,” his 1
ill showed Monday.
The will provided for the home
n king’s widow and daughters
and left M percent of the remain
der for “the kids.”
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By C. J. WOODWARD
Twenty-two years at A&M as
student and professor will be end
ed for Wayne E. Long this sum
mer \yhen he goes to the Univer
sity of, Texas to become a pro
fessor in the mechanical engineer
ing department there.,
Lwng, whose work at A&M has
been in heat power, refrigeration,
and air conditioning, is widely
known in industrial circles for his
knowledge and technique in these
fields.
Born at Chisholm, Texas, , in 1904
Long attended high school at Ros-
coe, and at Sweetwater, Texas. He
graduated, B. S: in Mechanical en
gineering, from A&M in 1927, and
received his M. S. degree here in
1935.
He wag married during senior
week to the former Mias Edna
- Hopper, of College Station. They
have a son, Thomas Wayne, who
saw service in the Navy and haa
just completed his first year in
mechanical engineering at A&M
and a daughter, Shirley, who will
be a senior in high school this
full. ;
Upon graduation, Long went to
South Philadelphia with Waiting-
house on a College Students Train
ing Program. After nearly a year
he returned to Texas to work with
the Gulf State| ^Utllttiea, near
Beaumont during the summer of
1928. Tv X rX7‘ 4
Long went to Texas Tech the
following fall as an Instructor In
mechanical engineering and stay
ed there until the spring of 1930
when he came back to A&M as
assistant professor in the me
chanical engineering department
In addition to teaching and re
search, Dong has had summer em
ployment with the York Ice Ma
chinery Corporation, thej Gulf
States Utilities, and the Magnolia
Petroleum Company. He did sum
mer Woric in 1937 at Purdue Uni
versity under Professor W. T.
'Miller, a practical engineer and
teacher in the air conditioning
nepl ! | • sJ
Long entered military service
in April, 1942, as a first lieu
tenant in the Signal Corps. Af
ter 15 months at Camp Crowder,
Mo., and attendance at the Com
mand and General Staff School
at Ft. Leavenworth, he spent two
years overseas in the Southwest
Pacific:
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WAYNE E. LONG, profeaaor
at A&M for the paat 18 yeari,
hai accepted a teaching job it
the University of Texas. He
in the ME Department
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He was transferred to the Corps
of Engineers while in Australia
and saw service in New Guinea,
Biak, and Luzon. His last assign
ment while overseas was the re
building of Clark Field near Ma
nila. He returned to the States and
was separated from the service as
a major of Engineers in 1945. ;
; Since returning to A&M, Long
has taught air conditioning, re
frigeration, thermodynamics, and
power laboratory. He has also con
ducted' research on the thermal
characteristics of cotton seed hulls
Und the flow of heat from water
ih pipes to surrounding soil.
Long, who holds memberships
in the ASHVE, the ASEE, and
(the A A UP, haa brought prestige
to A&M with hia research and
organizational work. [
! He organized the Air Condition
ing Conference at A&M in 1989.
conferences were discontinued
his absence, and were re-
1947. The. last conference
was held here in April of this .gear,
t this conference men from in-
ustry presented new developments
nd latest methods In air oondi-
oning.
Long also organized the first
Student branch of the American
Society of Heating and Ventilating
Engineers at A&M in the fall of
1946. Christmas, 1947, three sen-
or members of the student brunch
sent to the annual meating in
ew York by the three chapters
the ASHVE of Texas, where
y received considerable rccogni-
Long leaves A&M in September
for hia new post ifi'AUatin. He will
be tho major professor in air con
ditioning and refrigeration there.
T
roved Grajzinjg
In Texas Blacli
Sought by Stutjl
Year-round grazing in t ie iTejcas
blaoklands may soon b> cbpej
reality, according to Di. |l.
Johnston, Superintendent df
Blackland Experiment Statipn
Temple. [
Saturday he showed a
Agriculture students the i irillti
gi'asing experiments and outlhed
tiie plans proposed for th! qomjipg
year.
A very promising yiarjro;
gracing program is aff trdle
Hubam cloVer, followed bra
tore 6f Hubam clover n<
Which is in turn followed »y SujJan
grass.-' j. ;[
Steers are used on th( gracing
plots because they are easy) to
handle and offer a convenin'
stick for measuring crop p
tion in pounds of gain per ^ni^nal
Dr. Johnston said. Steen
tore get nothing except sa;
water.
(ats
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rjroi uc-
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oli 8as-
and
VCTeyans Appraisal Service,
all ig with the College Chaplain,
>f!8
do; mitories that were closed this
supimer.
list of agetfCies ’that must ha$e
ce spice thil fall has been re
ceived ;hy Spence. As yet no deft-
ni<j* assignments have been*made,
bul those offices that are under
isideirafion for assignment in
zell art as follows;
runs Adminsitr.ation and
ej-a
du r
wi|l probably be housed in Bizzell.
Ti s vdll leave Hart Hall to be _
us d occhriively as a dormitory. ' ^
Some of" the labdratories of, the
Ei tomblogy Department ne'fcd
sp ice in' Bizzell. These labs • are •
no v housed, in one of the resi
de tees that is to moved.
)ffi<te space muW be found for
thp Di rector of .* the'^M^morial Cejb- '
Buildings. This jsgbncy noiy »jr
operates the Cave and Campus
C< rnejf and the supplies for the K
Cp ifectiojnaries are also housed in
; off the residences that is to be •
ved 1 i .
The offices of]the representative
of the college architects could con-
vdnienltly be located in Bizzell. so
to administer, the work on the
Memorial Center Bu ildi ng project,
S ence said. < ,*.
The newly created Department
pi Journalism needs space. It is
pi ssible that; this office could be
hi used there.
Also under consideration is space
f< r the offices of the Industrial,
E ctension Work. . ‘ *
The: Bridge Research Project has
t< be! /moved from Easterwood
K eld. Their move is made neces-
si ry because experiment with the V
v nd jtunnel is to begin thik fall.
Finally the general overflow
from jail departments, office space
f r n<£w instructors, apd some per-
s nnel from Foster Hall will prob-
a »ly be moved into Bizzell.
| Speinoe emphasized the fact that
a 1 assignments are still under con-
s deration and no final announce-
n ent :is; ready at this time. He ad-
d id that the plans for the use of
t ie building as an office building
e tend only for the next year. '
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fishing Posts
Holiday Hours
The Cushing Memorial LW
brttiy announces the following
change in schedule effective Fri
day, August 27th and continu-
ingjtlirough Sunday, September
Monday - Friday 8 «. m.-f
b it/ 1 . ; j.
Saturday 8 a. in.—12 noon.
Sjinday —: • Closed;
i The regular schedule will be
unrtd with the opening of school.
the 13th of September.
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