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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 11, 1948)
t s^f 1: 1 f8& .V Mmm | T0 H | >€ f »*, I if i# miAl Mk : fl tJkj.:: I IS'] ^ ^ki r -kt ■ . ft ? I >' , each Fort the lag dent vj every shoulc . V ■■■ ' i.. ,t '. ' X ' i ‘ ' ' ETS OF AGGIELAND make several tours of Texas cities red in concerts at Beaumont, Port Arthur, Corpus Christi, Antpuio, Huntsville* Baytown, and other Texas cities during pular men’s choral group is open to membership to any stu- horal singing. Tiny have made numerous recordings of the purposes and ha/e broadcast over Texas Quality Network, in the Music Hall (across from, South Station Post Office) hursday at 5 p. m. Students interested in becoming a member er, Director of Music Activities. , comi||g year include trips to San AntPHio, Austin, Beaumont and l X iguez, Head Waiter at Sbisa Hall, ’t Missed a Kyle Field Game in 20 Years . • If rj i 1 ■ \ ■ i. I/* ! \'-' It Quiram, President;jPete Jones, Vice-President; Jerry Byrd, Marta jcjr; BenilScholl, Reporter-Historian, and Bill Moss, Librarian, , •I • ' AL ESTATE /» /' if >S 1 )ME LOTS I; PROPERTY FARMLAND | —-See — v Jj r ’ {|| ^ Hbmor Adaiih ’45 ' !• H v- i f : \ Ui; ...u- ; U- 1 I 4-7269 Case jy-Sparks Bldg. North Gate Mexican College Adds Two Courses * A new curriculum in forestry and wildlife management has been established at the Agricultural College at Texcoeo, near Mexico City, according to Dr. W. B. Davis head of tHe Wildlife Department. S. P. Macias* 'game administra tor for the Department of Fores try and Game of the Mexican Fed eral Fish and Gtgnc Department, is in charge of the college program and is teaching the course in wild life management. , Twenty students have enrolled thus far. They will be trained for Federal service as game biologists and conservation officers, This is the first attempt tp in troduce a program of wildlife con- sepidion training/ in the schools of Mexico. 4— s. fr ■ ■ ,N 1 i! r v-- fill m l-; 1/ / AGGIELAND PHARMACY r NORTH GATE Weep to the EIGHT, at the NORTH GATE You can’t GO WRONG! ■;*, I [ t i 1 i. K- * By H. C. MICHALAK . Born in Bryan and a veteran of years service in Sbisa Hall, Pjaul Rodriguez has many pleasant emories of the Aggies of .old. “ en he first began work back in 1928, Paul recalls that the Cadets e the old type wrap leggins. Since then those leggins have been abandoned and the dress uniform undergone a complete change. ’J A. Duncan was the man lori om Paul initially began to work and he has s.nce worked under Ho- and now Pennis^on. ^ “Back in the told days,” says aul, ‘when Sgt, King was in barge of the Volunteer. icadet waiters I used to Marvel at the way the Cadets marched up to the messhall door, pulled otf their hats, yelled, and made a dash into the mess hall to get that cush.” There is still some semblence of that over' at Dun- Can Hall, but Paul says that it is not like the days of old. i i "V ' V ' Paul’s! first job was assistant to the linen room keeper and from that beginning he has risen to head wauer. his job how is to su pervise operations on the floor of the mess hall and banquets, or re ceptions. In fact whenever any- 'iing goes on in Sbisa he js usually hand. uring the war when there were ottly 39 men on the job he man aged to get all of the necessary work done to" feed the Cadets, Army, Navy, and Marine student complements, totaling about 4600 rqen, their three daily family style ideals. IK ', , , , Alter the war- when veterans came to the campus, however, the iqajority of the new students were fed up with family style meals of the sort dished up in Army mess halls, so a change t® the cafeteria system was inaugurated to give them more chance for food choice. Before Fauf felecame a straw .vKnojss in 1933, one of his job** was to fire the battery of grid- diCK used to cook the hundreds Of hotcakes needed for a break fast. He used apple boxes to kindle the wood tires. Later elec tric stoves ware installed, hut After a time the kitchen equip ment again changed. Natural gas is now used, fr -Tl ■ ' • . When D, X/ Bible was still nt A AM, Paul used to go down to the fluid to watch the team in practice and well remembers the TUrkev Day git mu when thu Ag gies tiownixl TU 28 to 0. On that big day some of thu players wore Puny Wilson and his brother, Sikes Borryi, and . Joel Hunt. In all of h|s yeans here Paul has never uiiseeu seeing a game played on MqaM ' CAFETERIA Page Added For duate Work For Food of International FAME o 311 N. Main Bryan • FOR THOSE WHO 4 DEMAND THE BEST . . College Shoe Repair North Gate WELCOME AGGIES v |*,l .A. . *. u 4 -ivt 1 p HAVE THAT PORTRAIT MADE EARLY A&M PHOTO SHOP ■ , - . i , : V/ . \ » College Station THE LARGEST ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE STORE IN BRYAN— Come in and see us for large or small appliances: RADIOS, ELECTRIC IRONS STUDENT LAMPS, FLOOR LAMPS, PRESTO COOKERS COFFEE MAKERS KELVIN ATOR . , . . . . HOTPOIN1 and many other usefuls I | | ' ' r I’- UNITED APPUANCES FARM & HOME STORE & AGGIE RADIO Phone 2-1496 .——— 1 :n. .... 1 - -1 : LET Aggie Student •! jji • . • SERVICE YOUR CAR J BRYAN STUDIO Vf > ‘| COMPLETE UNE OF a - h /•I v-.ft iBAPHIC SI .1 • ... ' •. -• " ■ 1 1 mnm < nnmw m* ;• a.’ IT GREASING /ASHING ^ WAXING & POLISHING N STOP AT THE , 1 GULF STATION ' ■ 1 block north Bronco Isn on Houston Hwy. O^ed & Operated by ■ , J.'W. Schmidt A.&M Stu. Vat - 1 -1 ;■ I : 4j ; Class ’60 *f ; ra-T • Bj 1 . ll " ’ - y PAUL RODRIGUEZ, head waiter at Sbisa Mess Hall, has not missed a football game on Kyle Field in 20 years. —r* u —-—•*-:— :— Animal Science, ded to the agricult post-gradua has anrtou \ No m stated, but new curricula thorough foi mat! and ture and. t dents. ! ; Junior and senior |itid4nta take advanced Science cotrsps as well as advanced cou-s:* in departments.-Under thillnlat dents will not science courses aftei laofnp their undergraduate w >rk der to do graduate woik. The new curricula W H a Bachelor of Science degree agriculture science, Dean ardson said. "The greatest shortage culture is professional! ally trained i ardson said. ‘Tor thils Schqol of Agricultur > i watch for and Select n ei i the ability and interest trained agricultural scientists,f lein pe isojn in ei J ' ' ; w HBHBBBBlvrKi Kyle Field. Paul likes music and he has seen and; heard marly big name bands such as Jim Lunsford, Phil Harris, Duke. Fllington, Shep Fields, Russ Moi^an, Glen Gray and his Casa Llmfe Boys and Carmen Cavellero. T|jc filming j of '"We’ve Never Beed Licked” ip 1942 is an event whidh clearly stands out in Paul’s memory. While ithe troupe was out on location in , the river bottom, they would take food to them and sot bp a field kitchen. The stars, Noah Bocry Jr„ Martha: Driscoll, Ann Gyhne and Richard Quinn, succbudml in capturing fho spirit ggiulund and ita traditions raoly. , Tough slruk has been fed to the Aggies op occasions In the »ucc»e< of Ag ndnura •n't past,” Rodriguez said, “but when ever that happened, the boys sure didn’t lose any time letting us know about it by banging on the tables and yelling.” Reveille, that famous school mas cot, used j to come to Sbisa Hall for food ahd water and Paul would always feed her. Paul started to work here with the idea[; of working ,hi> way through school, but aidikness pre vented his realizing this Ambition; however, he has five boys at least one of whom ho hopes to sue through college. But what Paul really looks forward to is seeing a return to the old A&M with all students in thu corps because ho ii)(es to Watch review* and the men golnk Into |ho mess hall. « *1 Welcome Aggielitnd Flower Shop ... at your service, just leave your laundry with this young lady and be on your merry way. She will put it into one of our Bendix automatic washers—have it ready for you, hospital clean, when you return, i. • 25c FOR EACH WASHER USED r A maximum of 9 lbs. per washer LAUNDERETTE ■ :j , V’ Y :% TWO LOCATIONS Sj v ^ ■ T ■ L * * * i y I- • I i-l. South Side — College Station 108 N. Washington -r Bryan BUY IVi 1NSU '^BiUe STATE FiLljthj ' Phone 4-72619 Soil Science will be ad- prepape studentt ] for Dean of Agriculture, 'tij/ p *' ' ij up, Dean Shepardson • ' ■ 1 ■.—--1 .« semester as freshmen.” ly men of outstanding abil- selected aince the will be rugged.” Shepardson emphasized thej iced for such a program by stat- ng that for the past year there irvi i been. JI) to 20 openings for agricultural scientists in the A&M system to attack such problems as the ievelopment of a suitably breed ittle for the Gulf Coast Prai- c, controlling mastitis among liry cattle, and overcoming dis- es of citrus fruit now prevalent Rio Grande Valley: K „ icultural science offers aa >ig a challlenge to the imagination »f tie mild of young men today aa mypiing in the world,” Dean ShepJ m caricluded. . j esti nates aens of feck WBiD] !tl\ SjV\fE 2 —h-rj*- on yfe 1 ' 1^*® Xis iramfe h Soil Conservation Service that only 62 million be land hew in crops are completely safe from erosion. i yL ' * I’i Aggies * fi. M * I ! . f I , YOUR ORE WI TH [IA)nc]!: dollars “ ■) chell SliRANCE [COMPANIES 1 ■i'V. AbcDro Jiggioland P] ■■' OUR EVERY NEED Here’s Lo i •* ‘ H lf 1 . !; • ■!i- •if or A molro immaculate, pplfearance thib fall . . >. i#, s Hied- ties, suite, to » fresh-as-uew cleaning ,, •. h I'i l' 1 *' H& CARRY K CASI Guaranteed CO— ; . ■ . Y l ' s' CLEANERS : ' . 1 , . 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