•a T'lfriniiiiir mimim •- ::r - ■ '..I ./ ’./• JOHNSON LEADING SI SON BY 16$ VDtfi 51A ' FORT WORT In 4hc last U. S. seimi by 162 votes, , Yesterday!’ Executive Comi ing its county tion of votes. I; Vi mmmm P| RJEF 5 YEN mj t in nson State 1 D^moctit ttee began *i“el« y county ta . v • ‘ 'X.' / * . : - •; ly certi: were tat 'rotic .Thomas •»: Votes ori^inr Harrison Count! the state jle committee afte county chairman .said h« had vestigated and found incorrect legations o^ ^Hlid in the vote ginally cbrt|fic$, ' I ' Abney 'askea |>thc camniittee fi permission tlo Jwlthdnaw n state mbnt filed witf it in ctonnectior with tho caw.-ai|wl to let the orifji- nal certificatibi| stand. fThis granted. v | | ] The statement concerned repo .that some peradtis withoiA poll ‘ exemptions h/oTvoted. j : || / - I-- Volume 48 ■ . ....... i . 4 . , r ^ !"••• • 1 •. ■ * 'if i. , The Battalion PVBLKHEI) IN THE l/VTEREST OF 4 GREATER A & M COLLEGE I ' i ^ 1 COLLEGE /STATION (Aggielandl, TEXAS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1948 ^ ' - ' v ■; . ^ : ; U- zm 7" zz OF 4 GREATER A & M COLLEGE T t, COLLEGE/STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1948 MARSHALL D SITUATION, T0N, St|pt. 14 an f^reviewed y j TRUMAN AN! DISCUSS AVO WABHING1 Presidenti fTOn Ji ..j« L tense intetmticpial situation Me day with Secretary of Skate Ms shalL White House officijals w< not discuss it Ifterwardd. The cabinet lOnchediat jthe Whi Houde. After |hat the Pi^sid'’ conferred wStHMarshjaH.! The thro usually meet every Monday Thursday and ire in contact telephone on oljher day?. VLSHINRKY TIES lirp FOUR POWE^t CONFEfeEN PARIS, Septi 14 —WP»- - Repo from the four ipower foieign ntin- ‘ isters council ;■ session >n Italiv’s prewar colonies fast' night said Russian .delegate had tiled up discuss|pn r by |i denying jit was a regular Council meeting.) The Soviot/ltielegate Is Deputy ' J ’ ,L r Andrei jVishinsg Foreign Miaii ■Couriers lea; room, atith. said Vishi^k; Hours -with foreign mi in session bee Schuman ister present. g the Jconferemce ench foreign office, bad takdn yo-f|ur guments ■ that the rs’ council was snot se .France’s Robert t only foreign njijin- jEaVING HYBER- I. AMERICANS DAD INVASION ARE WASHINGTON, Sept| 14 rhe-Stete Department rjjportedijto- i’ay that all Americans Who wi pdf to" leave. Hiyderabad |have . evacuated. f- j « ' f v . J - ~ Infomationii fromt^Oie American ‘lew Helpi, the de- Embassy at Nt™ »»•<>, me iiwe- -— :• y r - , partmeret said did not jrerort jthe dent.assistants are aiding the instruction 5 of classes and labs. rnmW ;who left the stqte invaded ‘ by. India, j ( - { : > j . j£ "i'duties as head of the department College Night Will B To Begin Season’s Y President Bolton, Carmichael, l, Stiteler, Captains Will Speak ' ' | s r ■ President F. C. Bolton will give the keynote address when C ollege Night begin^at 7:15 tonight north of Goodwin Hall, Jipi Stephens, head yell leaded announced today, - All;the coaches, W. R. Carmichael, P. L. Downs, Jr., HajfTy $titeler, and all the football players will be on hand 1 ^ ~ ■ 1 •' — ~ ■f#\i. am imtma/ittat iam .. ■}K : yS • .'ji i k i t I I 1 . •« ' if ‘ xjj’a Number 34 CHANCELLOR GIBB GILCHRIST signs the contract for the McKee Company to begin construction on the Memorial Student Center. Onlookers from left to right are T. R. SPENCE, E. E. McQUILLEN, C. W. ADAMS, and DICK ■-^Ervey. , y 1 ' ; . v Three New Department Heads, Three Professors Join Staff Three Professors, Six Associates Begin First Semester With College -.v 1 • \ W J Three new department heads, throe professors, six associate professors, 10 assistant professors, and 35 instruc tors begin their first full semester at A&M this fall. In addition to these appointments, 8p graduate and stu- A&M Consolidat Faculty Is Named For New Semester Ahnub 40j Ajh'’rir , »Ap lijv^d in derabad^ mostf of them R. R. BUrchard has assumed His^* Ttruc f-! V M. Parr, Ex Soil .ft,. iM-rmi t*TT t»v ■ lir .. . ..-..ri. . _I_Z _ # I Died Yesterday BERMUDA REIT BY j\ ^ science department with the ndw HIjHRICANBi VELOCITY WINDS semester'. MI AML 5 Fip., Sept. Il4 —t i A raging Atlantic hunjicane The newly appointed professors are Lynn L. Gee, Biology; R. M. ! ed] Bermuda ,vjjith. winds jpf between Stevenson, Business and Accourit- .123 and 140 imiles an. hour Moh- i n g; and Archie Rt Burgess, Man day center steept agement .Engineering, past the British Island.! | Associate and assistant pVofes- \ th. SSV'rlw Coit m 31 ' sors « the /School of Agriculture (■ parohna Co^st. beginning their first semester are: The ‘tormtwai-mg jserv.ee at Ja * k D _ ^ Mrs . Elora W . Da1e , Miami said tee Hurncdne s ceroter w w Brilis, and Dr. George’ A. was * very ebsc to ifermuda at p etrides . instructors J. W. Hawk- 11:30 a. m. (CST), audiwould pass to the West. j Virgil V. Pair, 58, veteran range fiind ijvestock authority and mem- 1914, died earh School work began in earnest at A&M Consolidated today, A. M. Whitis, superintendent, sjaid. Faculty members for the Ele mentary School include: Harry M. Bradley, Elementary Principal; First Grade: Mrs. E. Sloop and Mrs. Hazel Cavall; Sec ond Grade: Mrs. John Buchanan and Mrs. L. P. Dulaney; Third Grade: Mrs. Raymond Buchanan and Mrs. C. K. Leighton; Fourth riy Grade: Mrs. Mozell Streetman and home in Bryan af r Mrs. C. B. Holzmann; Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Grades: Mrs. Pearl Tanzer, Science and Health; Mrs. G. P. Parker, Language Arts; Miss Gloria Neeley, Arithmetic; Mrs. VA Authorizes |f. J Post Graduate Course by Mail _ I ... i, 'f- The , Veterans Administration has approved a contract with A&M covering jpopt graduation studies. This serifs of studies, which is de signed tq encourage liberal read ing by technical men, is offered to A&M graduates by correspondence. . Students completing the pre scribed course will be awarded the degree oi “bachelor of philosophy.” Subject matter to be offered in cludes cojursds in English, agricul tural economies, history, rural so ciology, ^geography, and physics. The studies afford an excellent op portunity for the technical worker to broaden his educational train ing. Costp of tuition and books for eligible veterans will be paid under the GI bill. 5 V. M. iFaires, head of the Man agement ^Department, is directing the posti graduation studies. : . i * *1 \ ‘ ' The bachelor of philosophy de gree wiU be granted only to grad uates of A&M, but the courses may be taken by anyone who shows evidence of sufficient prep aration, 5 Fairies says. • ii ' * r • •' if V *■ ’' By sending Jn one lesson a week, it is pos|ible tor a person to bom- rse in four Years’ "♦■for an introduction. The evening will begin with two' yells, Stephens said, and then Pres-, ident Bolton will address the body. 1 His talk will set off the first Yell practice of the 1948-49 school year. After Carmichael and Stiteler have addressed the assembly, the football players will be introduced. The three football captains will probably speak, Stephens said. College Night has been set for tonight so as not to conflict with Church Night oh Wednesday. The football players are scheduled to leave for Villanova early Tnursday morning. Carmichael and the two senior yell leaders, Stephens and Tom- , my Splitberger, plan to leave for Villanova Wednesday morning. W. L. Penberthy, dean of men, said that tentative 1 plans have been made to conduct College Night at the Annex on Wednesday night “Dub to the large number of Freshmen at the Annex, it is im possible to bring them in for the assembly on the Camfms tonight.” Dean Penberthy said that the coaches, football captains, yell leaders. President Bolton, anth the Band would be present for the Annex activities. The Senior Class president, Don Kasper, and the Colonel of the Corps, R. Marvin McClure, will probably make short speeches. ‘I L I / six months. Pia|rr conducted range manage- fnent research 10 years for the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry in BIG-FOUR |vvov | f. j named Charles D. Bolt assistant STEAM'ER A ME JN -TURBUI RW ( EPoteteiD , . r .. T :NT CL^IF STRfeAM ' Charles J. Keese has assumed NEW QRlFlANS,j$T f - ? 4 h hs duties as instructor of Civil The 7,000 ton steamer, Trinity Yic- Engineering and Clay L. Seward, toiy, was reported adrift in hieh Harold L. Hornbeak, William' P. seas in the i; Gulf of Mexico 110 Taylbr and A. T. Weydell are in 5jnile8 from New Orleans. th « departments of Geology, Man- ^ The Coast: Guard:'rtepbrted that agement .Engineering and Mecha- the ship broke We Item the tug | Eng peering. Eugene F. MoranfVheh was tak-1 The Military Science Depart* te a iesenie fleet ijyyleau- "tent has received four assistant and as' >cinte professors, who win start their first semester at A&M. They are John C. Adams, William Blake, William W. Nelly and Schmitz. V professor i/of Management I FT neering. Engi- ing it !to a pnerye rifet inrJPeau- mont, Tezas| 5 j ; ^ TRUMAN A^n JESTER TO VISIT; BONHAM jJ BONHAM^ Sept. 141—<&> Presi dent Truman will' visit Bonham Tuesday, Setjt. 28, while en route from Fort W»rth to O; tlahoma: City on his poSitl|al swing thraugh the west and mouthweisti Rep. Sam Ravbum sal# tod R t- Gov. Beauford Jester of 1 J-Gov. Roy Turner ofl \v Former Gov. Robe homa are al|o ' sl • ^cide with thf openij .FAnnW iGouity fail R John T, T exas* lahoma and err of Qkla- here boin- 1948 to be it wjiU of the ere, Press Club to See Technicolor Movie Tad Beta Pi Will Meet Tpus Ejreni All iquanffed- senidrs fojr{i Tau Beta pi^willimeet jat|7:16 tonight in thi 4-Be Dean Horn ed. .' 4' H ( “AH seniof eng whd their eterfblity Dean Barlow said* ,' 1 ■ A movie on Offset printing will be shown at meeting of the’ Press Club ijii 'the Y Chapel September 23 at 7 p.j m., according to Ken- ncte Bond, co-editor of the Batt. ' Tpe technicolor movie ii entitled “How to Make a Good Impression” and was prepared by the Harrls- Seybold Press Co. Bond pointed out that offset printing was a new development In the printing field. Offset is less exnensive and is gaining favor with printers daily. All persons interested in print ing are ‘invited to see the film, Bond said. (After the movie, officers for the yeay, will he elected, Bond said, i confirming, The Press Club is composed of uld attend,” j students who work on any of the student publications. | j leum 'Lecture Bloom, Barlhw 'has annjpunc- ents Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. When the Texas SCS re search headquarters were moved to Washington in 1947, Parr re signed to look after his growing stobk fanning interests in Gon- zalCs County. Parr was a graduate of Hills Business College in Waco. He attended Baylor University be fore jeoming to A&M4o major in animal husbandry. He held many school jionors here in the class of; 1914, being cadet colonel, val- edictorian, captain of the base ball team, a member of the Ross Volunteers and the Senior Rifle Club, and was on the staffs of the Longhorn and the Battalion. He is ■survived by his widow, the fq 'tner Miss Ida May Stuntz, and a urn, Robert V. Parr, senior pre- medical student at Southern Meth Mrs. Curtis L. Turner, Reading; H. M. Bradley, Social Studies. is poi plete thj spare tiljne w|thout difficulty, ac cording Ijto Faires. However, he says, it Is expected that some stu dents will rush'through the course in muchf faster time, while others may preifer to take longer. Chaplain Offered Cuero Pastorate 'e; \ School include: L. S. Richardson, Principal and Science; Mrs. Effie Lee Dun,can, . English; Mrs. Carl Landiss, Home Contacted by The ^Battalion. Rev. Economics; W. T: Riedle, Shop;. HilLsaid! that he had not decided Mrs. Muriel C. Orr, Mathematics; I to accept the Cuero offer. Elvis Simmons, Social Science and Hill has been chaplain at A&M Coach; Mrs. Myrl Gorey, Secre- since hia resignation from the pas tary and Commercial Work; Col. ; iterate oj the Victoria Presbyterian R. J. Dunn, Music. I Church. | j Florida Graduate Appointed Forest Research Official Ray E. Goddard, ’25, who receiv ed his M.S. degree in forestry from the University of Florida this sum mer, hap been appointed forest re search superintendent at the W. Goodrich Jones State Forest south of Conroe- in Montgomery county effective Sept. 1, according i to D. A. Anderson, acting director of the Texas Forest Service. r In Announcing the appointment, Anderson said that Goddard will have charge of carrying but an Rev* J;? am Hih, A&M Chaplain expanded research program on the since February, . 1948, has been 1,600-acre state,forest. Goddard served as an Instructor of dendrology while working on his master’s degree at the Univer sity of Florida. During free (sum mer periods he gained experience in white pine blister rust control and in fire control work in Idaho. A veteran of three’ years’ war service in the Army, Goddard is married and the father of two children. x± DAN JACKSON, car in Which he 1 watt rldip tire on a recent .trip to Acapulco Hijs;! i Faculty members for the High, 0 ff ere( | position as pastor of Corps Tripping for $6.66 Budget Bound Students Balk | At Puny Pin Money Estimate We finally made it 1o co, and the sight was make mis stop the car i acf just look. There were hotel i itei redt topped houses perched green mountain slopes bay was dotted with flgjhlktevboV and the reflection of ' hr ijun shining throueh the (n made everything, seem aWv lovely. We tore ; ourselves |4vj4y this sight and drove ot Ibwn Bjr DAN JACKS (Dan Jackson, a spi business maior from Co IdftefS tion ,is making a tour c ico, and sent the foliowlirfo to the Battalion, tellii g jo] trip to Acapulco. Jacks >tri wks accompanied on the t p >>( Owen Marsh, a Yale Erie isl m|a-j jor. and Jeff Groff-S Harvard Economics mujff:, of whom are living in t|< YMCA as Jackson , ih aty.) . The road to Acapulco is ejd as a; dog’s l}tad le^T, *e curves, we rros, cows, cart, ntend with .7 times onj the way wh< n only console myself 33 “Well, it will be just i s that cow as it wll be ofcr “The driver qf this crate too.” c< uld i ^ nff ’ li|ird on Entrance Exa Set for Oct By C. C. MUNROE Can you make a corps trip to Dallas for $12? If you can, and are content to live like a hermit odist University. Mrs. Parr is a for the rest of the mont h, don’t nutee for the Brazos County Health read this< But if you are the V^. Sl \t W " 8 “ nU T rse mth the j “spend-thrift” typo of student- AAjF m Morld War I. [that's one who likes a smoke of _ J , J !—ZT ' _ I his own now and then, who eats Mathews Promoted _j __ i ; . ■ _ i ring, then this news is for you. To Extension Post Tbe F "' i ' 10ffl “ is p,oui, " t Joe L. Matthews, formerly ex tension [assistant in agricultral planning, has been made adminis trative assistant, following a year’s study leave at the University of Chicago. “te assumed his new position Sept. 1, According to Dr. Ide P. litter, director of the Extension addition to special assign^ mehte from the director, Matthews will advise the Extension Service in developing a program Of training evaluation. R. Timm, who has been serv ing! as administrative assistant and extension [economist, will devote full time to econqmics work, Dr. Twitter said. against the “spend-thrift” type of student. How, you askf Did You ever read the little yellow “estimate of expenses” slip your parents received? It was hid den in the catalogue in the “Rules and Regulations” section so that you would never find it, but your pkrents would. That “estimate” tells your un suspecting parents that you can “get by” on from $60 to $120 a school year for what it terms drink, eat outside Duncap, buy stamps, Or g hitchike. Bum your cigarettes : from the boys in the car, ex plaining that you just forgot to bring yOurs. (The only time you can buy, any is at the end of the month When you use the surplus from this month’s budget for next mpnth'g smokings.) You arrive: in Big D. The Sal vation Army will give anybody a room for. 25 cents If they have it, so and v' •r 1 BRITISH -DRAFTEES TO BE RETAINED 3 MONTHS HAMBURG,; Germany, Sept 14 fiP*—The British announced today that conscripts in Britain’s armed forces.will be retained an extra ■■■ months. "T 4 y; ‘'miscellaneous” items. Figure it What shall ypu do till game time? out. Nine months to a school year, j Walk thf streets, and don’t above that gives you from $6.66 to $13.13 all, go into any restaurants to have per month to spend. This is to take coffee with the boys, care of weekends when you aren’t j You always get hungry. You at school and can’t ^at in Duncan ( have to pat. no question about that, where your meals are prepaid. This 1 so you must search high and low is your “pin” moneyzKnife money for an |in ex ,P en8 > Ve “joint”. Per- wopld be better, i Iright, so ydu have $6.66 to haps yoti can find one tucked un der the | viaduct. There dine on spend per month. (We’ll let the (black eyfd peas, bread, and water, capitalists with $13.33 alone gnd j and save money. > confine our study to the peans.) j Supnoia your dinner costs you How are you going to spend it? You want to go to two football games? That gives you $3.33 per game, provided you don’t smoke, 75r, thaf will leave you with $1,33 and you .still aren’t at the football game, but since game time won’t be far you must make plans : to get to the stadium. Don’t take the bus, don’t take a taxi; just walk. Save your money. As you approach the stadium it will be necessary to keep a wary eye out for ai$ of your “buddies.” According to long es tablished custom, any buddy is fair ground for borrowing money and the one thing you can’t do is lend money. Assume s look of dejection. Look hungry and may be they won’t bother you. Create ;the impression that you are try ing to borrow money and your, friends will steer clear. Don’t buy any programs, pea nuts or pennants. Sit apart from any crowd that might contain friends* who don’t have money. When,the game is over, make for the nearest exit and start hitch hiking back. If yqu have to eat on the way back, do so sparingly. If nothing goes wrong you should get back to College with some spgre ing dnd ad- PRINCETON, N. J., ___. 7 _. The Medical * College . i|di nil sj Test (formerly known |as t$e (Pro- ‘ ssiona) Aptitude Te of candidates by a numlbc i Af’te«| ing medical coNeges t mug bout the country, will be 'jiujen twice in the coming school yen, acionl ine to the Educatioi a fTestiih: Service, which prepai es ministers the test in obderk with the Association (f Ate’eri 1 Medical! Colleges. Candidates may take on Saturday, -October 3 on Monday February 7 administratiops to be Leh thhn 200 local tenters ii of the country. ./Since m cal colleges bejrin selei tjir freshnten classes in tu ceding their entrdneo, says that candidates for to next year’s classes ^ ri be advised to take' ,h test Students interest! d quire of their. pro»oey a bounding truck I ■'\h ' ts Hazards isiPisk Almost Mexican Tour i j i 'ts, -j-. /! death diving from high into the stormy waters pf the njarirow cbye. We tried to see a Ij th> seer ici beauty of this most erotic spot ip Mexico, then we arted home.. Jef Groff-Smith had chauffeur, ejji br.iss hats over mountain roads i Italy anil he djove most of the \ ay. [We fe t very secure, and took ijpi special notice of the big truck ^»me oward us about dusk. vM: as the truck passed us, t v h igje s jure tire fell off the chmad Up, hit the highway, lioui edd abnut twenty feet in the J sir and d‘ > kce n d e d toward our r I car.) I didn’t believe my eyes, ijut 11, throw my arm over my ^ ^ eyte and ducked just in case) that *•’8 a tine. 1 ) , Thure wds a,canyon on one side us ami Ithie truck on the. other. r MjCAT 94 8 for 94 ). at more HIM iciljad- idi) r J i' 1 - . toll: a lulrcjh as Jeff stepped on -tihe fas in a!-desperate attempt to orlgi! the tiro ’Then I heard the to irashJ arid canvas, wooden plin ert rind shatter-proof glass ■ ere all ojvor the ' place. The car kidded to ft stop and w* took a i uici( check- to see if anyone Was ujrt. No dpa [ was. ^ H Ths tiro had torn across the en- ire femrth oft the ton. The melal rhund thfj toar window was badly rpslied arid ; tbe rear window and' dndiW on one side wero shatter- idL The tiiick had kept going, and jte cecided not tp give chase. A crowd df the wiry little riien kho growj irqps on these unbe- ievably steep mountainsides gath- irNl aroubd, and four or five of hjesi! paiHianoe helped Jeff Groff- ‘ipit|h carry the truck snare from le nanyon to. our car. We debated he (her 6r !ni>t to tell the police, >ut finally (lecided to continue dn »ur [way. T \ :\ * 40 kiloipetors on j to and stopped for some* We also ripoe s 'rite. and chicltenwire that tel dnre beeh a car top, A feW nllei lfur herfou we began to re- rret this action. A. tourist*'«n»ide nriv state thftt it rains in Mexico between 3 p. tn. and 9 p. m.. but it; •: II Wb (drove 'nei navacia, nir to fat. was aftp ' -midnight and it was raining. We shiv**rod under a pon cho jail th|e wiy to Mexico City. Owen Marsh k p nt commenting on how cIorc-Iv that-tire had graz- f*e Sorrels is serving as dialr* of tha committee. . •,.* J. !■' ’ L .ii