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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1948)
i. !';vl ’••4- ,• ' .. V.' J ■ -4 V ’.t -i 5 1 i A 'a>5# a mili Under Mreserve .to an combat are being .afrnctors. In all anch phasiiad' stand-by bili gency only. ? .iv _ ,J I CANADIAN SC MAKE POLIO . ( . A- ,4--- m V -'4 h M y -V a Jk /v The Battalion I rf l! i», •ei J-r .>v> Volume 48 • *r« **va* ***' 1 1 ‘N '» ' ' PUBLISHED IN THE [NfEREST OF A GREATER A & M COUBGB , , , COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland)^ TEXAS. MONDAY. SEPTEMBB& 13, 1948 ■ Ul,® . a V ; TORONTO, Sept' li -ilAPU: new possible wny : of tracing - fantile pralysir vtrnal in the man body was opened |erf Friday. Two research : sclent stsj showed pictures of tiny dots t mt| may bje polio virus moving inside a nerve'. If these dots actually i re the virus the pictures are an in poijtant dithl-, f livery. ^ J J They might be a qew way leant how tknrirus gjets into body and how itimoves along ne: pathways to dp its da nafe. The photographs were (made Dr. E. DeRobertiis and Franci 0. Schmitt of the Mb Institute of T*^ 0 ! 0 ?. powerful electroin mien seppe. Th' weflre'showni to the ele :tron mic: scope society of Amer ca. >L i-- a i AUTO TlMElPfAYMElNT RULES CLARIFIED WASHINGTON, Sej t. |13 —^ These new fedfral raseii'e board vul<$ for fiuyfttsg autcmabiles or the 4nataIIment ; plau will! go into affect September 20: A! down payment df the cash price imust >e pre-1938 models}' used )'r models, pc other new ca: For 11938-48 , model ’ down, ipayniemt 'inust b 5 third the ieash price nr iil value. #e aftejr the ‘'‘average ret 1 r Jf the ; balanc .»•' C«L> >■ Ti h? Mr- v» erm Enrollment 8023 For Main Camp ;n lone-third ade oin ew 1949 irs the ither one me-third ic down months ess tbian 41,000.! 3il Value?’ is .dp- king (fficial pride e bjadi -rabid , „ th itsii announcement of thp" new jmstallfient r«gu|ations. m BATT REPORTER U4E5 PRESS CARD AT OLYMPICS <41 COLLEGE STATIOBf, ^ept. 18*- /daily neWspao . is a gaudy littje thinj: in maropn T;white. ! T x ; [ t: won't even : get thi holder into iletic events bn Kyis Field, A|jfe, M'b own football stadiim* But Bob “Sack” Spoede, 20, senior from Sam Antttniq, used it to!gqod advantage in London dur ing a recept European itour. He flashed the gabdy pocietjsize ci dt the World Jo‘ I 3-Day Leader School Here Approximately 175 new ca det officers and non-commis- aioned officers have just com pleted a three-day leadership school here on the campus, Lt. Col. Joe Davis, assistant com mandant, announced yester day. : . [ ~ At;this school the future cadet officers /were reminded of their dutieb and the things that were expected" of them during the com ing semesters.; In one of the primary talks giv en the students,, Colonel H. L. Boatyer, new commandant of the college, set forth his policies which he said would not deviate from those used by Colonel Meloy, form er commandant. * President F. C. Bolton, in his addfess welcomed the cadets and told; them that much responsibi lity; was being placed on their shoulders this year. He also said that some educators thought A &M) had outgrown the Cadet Corps but that he thought the Corps was a vital part of the school. Lieutenant Colonel Sam Hill, A &M Chaplain, told the future lead ers pf their spiritual and moral duties as cadet officers and non- coms^ t. V ' v*. 7 i won’t be completed for two months | due to the minute stage, a big- During the three-day course the Aggieland's own Metropolitan t the Guion Hall manager, . Tom time show business fly-loft has' students were conducted through Opera'House—that’s Guion Hall to p uddy, says that the silver screen been built. « , the College Hospital and its func- Mets Attend M b S f„ §§ Number oi Vet freshmen AGGIES OF ’52, the Freshmen at the Annex, wbrk against time in aptitude test given in Annex Gymnasium. Tests had to be passed before the Freshmen could register. Legit Productions Coining. ♦. ‘Gunyan’ Gets Face Lifted, But Show Will Still Go On By CHUCK MAISEL Aggieland’s own Metroi you—has had something hew ad ded to the tune of 35,000 well- spent dollars during the summer months. The entertainment center is undergoing a much needed face lifting. Although the beauty For years now, the college lawyers have been ready to han dle cases where young Aggie heads have been cracked by fall- begi treatment ^ cony railing. This danger has Olympi cs-t-ahd -gsjte attendant lookei, and smd “do-/ - >f~ Ahepd.r Mil T— ttFORCE SETS KTrOGRAPHIC R i \r NteW if JAYTON, Oi, te Air Force said Saturday it set an aerial photogrjiphiic rec by filming a gtrip oil the Unit)ed States Ttomc epast to edast in.; a single fliglL... . , . , Photographers of the aiir mater ial. command jot nearby, Wright Field, shot, 325 feet of film-3S)0' individual J !phqitograpiiSr-j- m the Sept. 1 flight from Sa :ta; Barbara, lif., to ^itchtell AicjFijrce Bade, i. NlY, l\) The air fdree photogiraphers flew the 2,700 miles' at 40,0 )0 feet, with a tn-mestrOgon K-17 cabiera In stallation’ t [firing ahprbximately! each 50 seconds. Suci 4 camejra, cojiaisting df three six-inch camer- aositioried so the} record tjiho frdmAhoijSzon to horizon, pic tures abouli 13jD squats miles with eaich photograph. , RS ‘SjU.HE’ EiiATOM SHC1 GT|pN, SesL spy investigators eelend tl at fan army expert oh iktomic en< rgt is “cier- tain” Russian! agents si ole sotme wartime atom bomb see'ets. 1 Furtherinom Rep^ ■* Va 1 (R-Ilh) said in a statement, hia high of fiter was so concerned lover “the intense activity of Russian espion- heir eifoi arc! sFTei ill-1 -J:: age agents in ctrate atomic that he perso activities to Roosevelt, puu Truman, f * Vail did pot said he had / at closed>4o< House Un-Ar IAS N CA WASHI . Texas i tachment i tcL corhple Cdinimt io; craft caj urday ^ . . I . ' , \/ A .'•/ Bolton Speaks To Annex Fish In First Meet ffe^You are joining a group illustrious in war and in peaQe, in engineering and in -lit agriculture/’ President F. C. oirfi 1 Bolton toldl 1,250 A&M fresh- men last Monday night. T/m’ The last hour of the course was 'spent in an open discussion in which student* cleared up ques tion* relating to their dutiei of th® coining semester. been removed with the installa- dent’Actiyities; ^ ; ticn of a new railing which .ac cording to Puddy, Aggie feet can never tear asunder. Ere the job is completed, a fire proofed front curtain and new grand drapes will be set up. A more modem public address ‘sys tem and, 1 a new Wurlitzer organ are ready for installation also. An intricate light control panel that would give Billy Rose a thrill has already been put in. Another safety feature is the fjre flue which keeps all blazes backstage. ' Besides the desired legitimate shows, Puddy says that students •-J' ■ J.''fore-the Nj 1 ^ 6f fnakin a - air reserve 1 , The grob: ■ eplisted mer operate each fr • . Gulf of M 1 timber •V. -* .* I T ’ jPresi i f Preeid Officer 1 tified under hearings} of I rican Acttvities. | | FU : M N, s )i [Ail first full-i one the NMvyfsaii ient, -thie Navy said, le experiment be- establis lesj-the policy off operation or n|val 13 -JJP> )e- rve group simulated Exercises at the Annex marked the formal opening' of A&M’s 1948-49 school year and the first official appearance of Bolton in his new role as president of A&M College. , ■ One thousand two hundred sev enty-one freshmen are nowjiving at the Annex, the largest"group ever to be housed there.- / Tyree Bell, Dallas,! member of the board Of directors, and a ’13 graduate, discussed A&M tradition with the freshmen. - “Even after spending a single night on the A&M Campus, you will always be an Aggie,” he said. He defined tradition as “prac tices with a worthwhile purpose that have persisted through use and acceptance," and said that genuine tradition can , be pointed to with pride and need no defense. As an example he cited honorable military service and comradeship and spirit of friendliness as the top AAM-tradition. ; ' > ~~ ' , U, ' 1 “You will hear many things called tradition which don’t mea sure Up,” Bell warned the fresh men. “Don’t be afraid to change them. The" senior class which graduated this spring was one of the greatest ever to leave this college, because'it met the great ■ challenge and was not afraid to make changes.” M. T; Harrington, dean of Arts and Sciences and acting deah. of the college, and an A&M freshman -30 years ago, reported that the first two classes at the Annex had been the “pace-makers” scholasti cally. Last year’s annex class had the smallest dftp rate of any class in history, Harrington will continue to offer the finest in movie entertainment. While the work' - is going on, the hall will be opened only at nights and Satur days and Sundays with show time 'inning at 6 p. ro. on the week- ■___ <[ The first change, that will be’ noticed by the observant return ing student is the removal of the old Corinthian columns which for merly stood on either side of the stage. The stage itself has been widened - from the oft complained about 21 feet to a spacious 38 feet. This puts it on par! with stages in most of the nation's lar ger theaters. Foreseeing the booking of many costume plays and musicals! which had/to be turned down in the past Leland Appointed To NACA Council For Second Term * * J | • | T. W.’; Leland, head of the De partment of Business and Account ing, has been named a Member of the .committee on research of the National Association of Cost Ac countants for a second term. The appointment was made by Clinton Bennett, NACA president, j / Dr.'Leland, president of the exec utive committee of the American Accounting Association, was the official introduction speaker at the annual meeting of the association in Memphis, Tenn., earlier this month. He also presided at the ban quet and business meeting. During: the previous year in which Lelknd served on the com mittee, three reports werej publish ed on the uses and application^of standard costs. In the current year the committee plans to conclude the series with a case study of an ac tual standard cost plan and to en gage in a study covering the va riation of costs with volume and uses of costs variation data. The committee has as its respon sibility research in the field of in dustrial accounting and the out lining of objectives, the selection. The Batt Sports Staff will of areas for study, the assignment ■ "be heavily stocked with writ- tions| and services to the students were- explained, The entertainment and recrea tion offered on the campus through ing plaster from the ancient bal- Student Activities was explained by G. G. White, director of Stu- oatner Receives Congratulations , From Mountbatten Lord Mountbatten of Burma, , | former viceroji of India and corn- may hold hope m their hearts for mander ; in-chief of the Southeast the eventual showing of first-run movies at Guion. He said that the distributors are impressed with the fact that Gun yan is the largest movie house between Houston and Dallas, but they can’t quiteTigure why a city of population 2|l00 would have a theatre with 2000 seating capacity. ‘EXPECT THE WORSE’ GENERALS WARN ARMY atural Cas Study s had ‘ J IS Award Established wi mr- ii Sat- The feat of fche Dal asjNayal Re serve Detach] fm “ T ‘ is “a smiSll-: type reftuireme it ining.!j; f 103 nd 56 Augurt leers, 180 ier plirtes to Sep-| CoUege Night i Will Be Tuesday x, College Night ‘ will be held Tuesday night at 7:15 in front of Goodwin HalL , President F. C. Belton, Ath letic Director W. R. Carml the coachii of the foot! troduced. ... Carmichael, ng staff and members itoall team will he in- of studies to the research staff, the development of conclusions bas ed on data supplied by the research staff. It also includes the review and revision of reports and find* ings, and the general supervision direction of work in this field. Establishment of a graduate fel lowship for study, and research in the field of natural gas transmis sion by the Tennessee Gas Trans mission Company of Houston has been announced by President F. C. Bolton and Harold Vance, head of the Department of Petroleum En gineering. t 4 Candidates for the fellowship may pe graduates of any ! accred ited college or university. Selec tion of the fellowship recipient will be made by Vance in consultation with officials of the Tennessee Gas Transmission Company. GRAFENWOEHR, Ger., Sept. 13 —(A?)— Two American generals told officers of the U. S. First Infantry Division Saturday to ex pect the worst if war breaks out in Europe, saying American sol diers hick the planes and guns that make up a real punch. The speakers were Maj. Gen; Frank W. Milburn, division com mander, and Brig. Gen. John Me- Kee, former commander of the 87th j and; China. Asia’ command during World War II, has sent congratulations to Col, Hkydon L. Boatner on his appoint ment as commandant of cadets at A&M. Lord Mountbatten and Col. Boat ner fought together in the second Burma campaign which brought to Mountbatten the latter part of his title; bestowed on him by the Jung of England. ; “I. congratulate you on your new appointment as commandant and professor of military science and tactics at Texas A&M College,” wrote Lord Mountbatten from Lon don. “Every other man I met in the American army seemed to come from Texas, so you certainly seem to have gone to the right place.” Col. Boatner accompanied Gen. Stilwell to Burma and served throughout the war in that country He became comman- ills t-i |§|g Some 8023 students had registered at A&M t)y to H. L. Heaton, registrar. About 150 more are pus and 12 at the Annex. i ' j This figure represents a drop of six students f ed on the initial registration days. Longhorn Editors Plan Ful: : Vy •1/1 * Pictorial Coverage of Year By PHIL KOONCE The Longhorn is the student’s Beat record of his by-gone years at A&M. Edited entirely by students, it presents a pictorial account of the school year and includes pic tures of students, athletic events, senior favorites, administrators of the college ,and campus activities. In continuous publication. since 1903, the Longhotti has pioneered in the field of showing a full year’s activities. Originally delivered in the spring, it is now distributed at the beginning of the’fall semester. The change in delivery date now makes it! possible to include sports activities that were necessarily ex cluded in the ones delivered in the spring. T .' The ’48 Longhorn's 560 pages make it the largest in the history of the school Its editors were Bobby Lee Williamson and Hen ry T. “Tommy” John. Delivery is expected early tHis month. Work on the ’49 Longhorn will begin soon. Editors will be Tru man Martin and Earl Rose. Others of the Longhorn staff have not been named, but it is expected that they will be in the near future. The Ageieland Studio will pho tograph all students for the coming year’s annual. A schedule for to is activity will be announced later. The ’49 yewrbook promises to be outstanding in that It will incor porate many new features, one of which will be a few four-color plates. Also to be included are in formal pictures taken at summer camps. Rose requests all those having such pictures and wanting them to be in the Longhorn to bring them ip as soon as possible. Staff members are needed to help get the ’49 Longhorn start ed. All who are interested should contact the Longhorn office on the second floor, Goodwin Hall. lumber I Annex t trday :■} last ; !ont to U is' ihov en ■ re Ut ration of cadet fresh- nijfn at the Annex increased to TRUMAN MARI Corps Longhorn Co- year when 8029 register- afternoon, according late on the cam ming a downward trend, mt drop in any one group by the enrollment of veU Tuntn. Only 87 veterans at;the Annex in coin to 178 last year and 799 in 1&65 drier « figure of 948 last. v bout 262$ summer school stu- injcluding old students and n atl letes weif register- ugust 211, ,1352 Annex fresh- istered September 10, and Jstered on the main cam- 4 ember 11. ... increase in enrollment thin ye r for non-veteran freshmen di re |t from high school upsets a tr nd that has been going on for th ! lasit few years. In 1940 this gr wp numbered 1773. By 1946 tho fi| ure had dropped to 1217 and by 1947 to 948. 3 - > ; ing back to past years; Is bui igh of 8632 student* reg< lands out with the all „ 'earl ROSE, ■ Longhorn Co-Editor Field, a de-activated air Infantry Division. 7^ dant at A&M Aug. 16. Housing facilities were provided^ at Curtia J base Aproximately 60 students at tended the camp during the two semesters. Professor S. A. Lynch, head of the geology deartment, planned the operations of both camps. As- T Big Battalion Sports Staff To Cover Fall Aggie Athletics ers this fall, and will be one of the largest in many years. In addition to several returning writers, two men were added this summer, and at least a pair of writers from the Little Batt at the Annex will join the main ad dition. | A total of 12 men will man the three typewriters in the sport* section. Art Howard is still en trenched as sports editor, and will have as hi* top assistant* Don Engelking and Larry Goodwyn. In ddition to the regular football news, the sport* staff will work on the morning radio program over WTAW and handle the weekly Quarterback Club. „ j A series of features on play ers and incidents of bygone days, of Aggie football is planned for the fall, as well as on present players and coaches. ENGELKING is one of the more experienced men on the staff, bav- ' :i v.-Ov ; • B , ing served as sports editor fori LARRY GOODWYN is starting the last t w o I his third year with the sports de- mmrM summers. Don | partment, is a track spe cialist, and will ^ cover the cross- .m ;■ v; ■/, country team in a&iition to his other duties. Engelk i n g was primarily r e s p o nSible for promot ing the seleC- . tion of a cam- ENGELKING p U8 . gt*r softball team this summer, and did a lot of work on the large pre-registration edition. He is a senior in the C. E. Department BOB “SACK” SPOEDE is a returning member of the sports staff. This summer he visited his family in Germany, and saw' part of the Olympics in England. Spoede will publish a series of articles on his experiences in both countries. His other duties will include reporting the fresh man grid team and helping to cover intramural athletics. W y v v 'v '-1 and is also assistant editor of • the Comment a t o f. An English ma jor, Goodwyn is V Junior Geology Majors S Nursing Field Trip Woun 7 O." . ;T . ■ j * ,,, Junior geology students, back from summer cnipj a a two weeks recuperation period are still nursing 4°^ bruises and barbed-wire^scratches. This summer course; required of all geology nujq, tween the junior and senior years, was held at Brad ft Lau; en id at A&M, while 1942 had ghest. pre-war total with cimately 7000. ie next year, 1943, the reg- figures totalled only 1800 it juniors and seniors* mkl lied to active duty. ; / ■hii year’sl figures, broken down *c! sols, will be released some October, Heaton has an- . m Named • V . ■ / . A ■ ■ • ■. -.<4* n . 1 | ' • rative o Bolton / Elkins assumed his idministrative as- C; Bolton, presi- tM, Monday. . I been associate pto- i in the Business and Ac- liig Department,) and will coii-7 to teach in that department hejad ■and sisting him were Dr. Carl professor of ipineralgy, wHo ed the first six weeks ct professor T. J. Parker, p< tjtolei geologist, who had chafgp second camp. - The purpose of thia cot to give students a chaiici into practical use the U it i had been reading about i i The majority opinion of t|i| was that they btraejl this six weeks than thje) any other course, Field work was carried 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. The iji which consisted of dra' and writing reports ,usdd from 7 to 12 p. m. H nf some nights several stui ied on until breakfaslj (tl morning. During the course j>f weeks camp two side _ taken. The first trip Ca one of the most students into North Tejja i 1 versatile men on Arbuckle Mountains the staff and is well known for his barbed type writer. Larry is an authority on al most every ma jor sport and GOODWYN » com- 4 plete file of sta tistics and players in his head. This fall he will prepare the se ries of historical articles for the sports page. , BILL THORNTON will be in charge of publicity for the intra- mural sports this fall. This & Thofriton’s third year on the in tramural staff, and he ia taking over the publicity job handled by Cliff Ackerman last year. Bill did a fine job reporting softball this ; (Continued on Page 4) d or, iil ft] \ While on this trip * 1 furnished two nights b leton Agricultural Colli North Texas Agricultui* The other night was spjeijr fur, Oklahoma. The second trip, tak^n end of the camp, wap to Bend of West Texas. 1 The time on this spent mainly around the Alpine. While here, .the were conducted throng i Donald Observatory v pressed some of them nter the geology^of the sn territory. 'sj Starangely enough,' their fill of chicken and french fried poty' was probably because was served at least fpup week. j'! in from six lehto Mjac- A Elkins fusor ' c#nti: C w watiaa m vuav' ucp«»a vuavaak \ m tiime. He toeeived his BA in 1983 and IBH1936 from A&M. He was aduate assistant in 1833 and did ,0. work at Columbia University )om 1936 to 1938. A vjejieran" of World War U, he is separated from the service as lieutenant colonel in 1945. He »S ohi the faculty of the collage, 1:935 until called into the * a reserve officer in April ltd w*s overseas 30 months land, Envland, Africa and ith tie First Armored Dl- . ■ ’ i! - I : • Y" ■■ Elkin* is married and has a Son a|ji(l t\, o daughters. . He (is a member of the Reserve (fflcelra’ At sociation, Sul Rbss 1 odge AFAiAM No. 1300, W. T. y ustin Chapter and Councjj, The I Inighlt* Templar, Southwest’Foot*, ball Officiars Association, Am4ri- can Management Association. Dal- 1 a Peraonndl Association and T«x^ — Association. ’> 1 L ; - is in the Academic ¥ v sion •! t I Pertsbnne "ffil offioi $bi!diing, o$ta <^ter 1 enn lined »ea ;+ F Si Appointed est Service Kirbyville K , » ore H. Silker, associate for- vicu|turist with the Tenn’es- Valley Authority at Norris ' iee for the past seven veara, e Texas Forest Service as hnician at Kirbyville on iSept 10, according to nderson, acting director, wilj devote a portion of in assisting 1 the Expert- with agricultural re 's which bear a re la- forestry, Anderson said, r received his bachelor of degree in forestry from te n 1940 and his master’s forest range manage- re ip 1941. associate forester with the Valley Authority for* tilona’division, Silker had Unit work in silvicultur- stigations dealing with Ten- Val ey problems in raforo- , timber atand improvement; g, n^w*lre*ipeyatlon, im- iRodies. 84 years old, married th* father of thro* silvical ro- > -A: j > [L . *'