w ' ^ Sr If 1 •Vi: r Ic it i |:j ! K. JTT :i ■!'■ !.fr ip I ■\i V -\3 III GENERAL tAL 1)EVERS LAUD TEXAS NATIONAL GUARI 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 if •i .4 v t i f V ff r H l 'P' ! 1 i PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A K LU Everyorie s« I officers newest all priv: ihjf wj |at«. n ■ satisfied fror way down RAF PILOT ABOUT RUS luebecK op»—An ra] week id thej idin was wi“" The Russia implains |AN FOOD lefmanjy, Aug. ‘pilot Who spen.,: iviet Zone after a forced jlandinjfrf repor^d itoday ejll trejatfd by the IRussii Only thmg he didn’t like x n-style qooking.; It disagr with him. THei invak n Peter J to his jbase heS AUTHbRI RUSSIA tSHl V . t* t like was king.! It disagreed Hei|menu included Vl?d- ka for breakfast, he said 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. •' • IB -I | jil 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 ' 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 eonj- ,rth ion I Today’ Final ' [ ' The. Ba is th* fini 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, I The fi jished S«. cluded.^v r 1 ■ ion ssue ipr tne summer, , co-Witor, has an Volume 48 5 ! — COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, & M COLLEGl M ... m m i r M-4M T i, it Dizzell Offices Bizzell Hall will be fall, T. R, Spence, Diredto H fice a tio: V T\ il! ► • i 1 ‘i tit Number 3l '• Will House Fall ounced yesterdi y. ivirted • cf the( There 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 •; V ~ r ’ s= JL. ' 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 ■ i ! ■ ■ -".fV'.' • ' I ii'- -P •• 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 •j ■k ipjtemberf 11. - all issue will be pub- fiber 18, Morgan con- :i.- Fischtr -¥■ m! i 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 tian Company ed thTa q •> ! - Ip ot lent Oentfr. rroneowsly sta tlat the Cond f Austin had I 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- jPMni. I ' | , j 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 l / r • 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. ★' I 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. ••• ★; 4 ■ ■ 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. JK T~ Wm Appear on November 11 sLhritd for September 3-4 • ‘t • • •.,) * fi* 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 1 ,1 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. (nee. I Irtjwrc 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 . *4." ; - ■ “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:yf 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 V. I 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.” 1 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: • • *{>* V • • » d Ii • : J •ikK 'J .S . I 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 V / '/-.V . -T*' 5 -/L 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 yi rd- rjroi uc- 1, 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