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In 4hc last
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Executive Comi
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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-
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PVBLKHEI) IN THE l/VTEREST OF 4 GREATER A & M COLLEGE
I ' i ^ 1 COLLEGE /STATION (Aggielandl, TEXAS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1948 ^ '
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OF 4 GREATER A & M COLLEGE
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COLLEGE/STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1948
MARSHALL
D SITUATION,
T0N, St|pt. 14
an f^reviewed
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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-
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Post Graduate
Course by Mail
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'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.
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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.
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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.
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six months.
Pia|rr conducted range manage-
fnent research 10 years for the U.
S. Bureau of Animal Industry in
BIG-FOUR |vvov<? MEET !
again at the,Kremlin
MOSCOW,! Sept: 14 T UP)J—
The
are beginning with .tfeb new semes
ter.
In the School of Arts and Scien-|
ces the 7 new associate and assist-
P ins, M. G. Taylor, and C. <J. Milite' ^in in the American Exoedition
are beginning with,the new semes- ary Eorcea in Worid War L He
resigned in 1929 to become man
ager for 10 years of the huge
t v ( , Pitchfork Ranch near Spur.
three Weskeritenvoys went tpithe ant professors are John Merkle. W. Returning to governmental ser-
Kremlin today for a n eetine jsdth Howard^ T. D. Letbetter, John vice in 1939, Parr^ headed research
nT\ V ' Melvin Eisner. ' . . ! ,/ 'tj Services with headquarters at the
~ Instructors assuming theii* new 'Ti
duties are L. S. Dillon, R. B. Ryp-
Texas and other Western States j Edna Landrum, _Music and Art;
following his discharge as a cap-
S6viet*foreiL
A lotov.i; jj ' ■ 1
^ This was the first j four-power'
J
wSn n i ni sTriss4or A will°r HomerAdams. R. A But-’
B-dell Smith jj; French Ambassador l^^J.Chilceat, W. C. Davis,
Yv<»s Chfltaiigneau : .and srpilcial -L F- Holt, L. R. Murph, Robert L.
British envoir Frank Roberts saw WiHiams J J Bryan, Donald P.
Molotov and|':his dtepiaty, A|dret'i Hanks, Decker White, J. A; Kirk-
Vishinsky, oh the Berfin question. £a trick . Bruce B. Mason, •Carl G.
The three Wcsternjera'met among ThompBon, Sidney Cox ' M O.
themselvpj jist befpre they Vent E. Wretlmd, W. F.
to the Ktemfin. The Sewi meeting , Entr e ki n- f W. C. Hall. J. A. Tins-
foltoweii gel return -W Frajcois e y. W-'W. Gandy, Grover J. Doug
Seydoux, Frfnch; poliliicaf ad§iser / ! T U8 ’ Wllton , G * w,9e ' and H - E -
in Gcitnany, with reports onXhe ^ ea p-
talks held itt Berlin by the four The School of Engineering has
liiilitifry govfernoi-s.! > | 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.
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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,
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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*
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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
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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.
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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
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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<jt clothes cleaned.
Supposje, just suppose, the big
game thgt ydu want to see is in
Dallas. Hirst,| you must buy a tic
ket. Minimum cost $1. You now
have $2.$3 and a ticket clutched
in your grimy hand. „
Next, transportation. Natural
ly you must, hitch-hike. Nothing
wrong With Hhat, even the flush
boys with the $13.33 monthly ,
budget are doing that. You >
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
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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.
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‘'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»oe<jti|i rntdijcal
colleges whether they!
pected to take the te^t
on whith date; < '
The MOAT consists p:
of general scholastic
two achievement tes
cal Science and Und
- .... - .Modern Society. A«
hange in your pocket-the result ets. ,,0 special pro
of a well planned budget for week- than a review of pi
ends.
That, is how you must plan your
weekends if you are to live by the
Fiscal: Office’s “estimate o# ex
penses;" H you feel neglected you
have every right to be, for you
are the forgotten man. In these
days of higher prices, higher wages
and higher rents, your “miscel
laneous” expenses are the only
ones which have not yet gone up.
The Fiscal Office is holding line
in the price war. The only trouble,
is that you and your budget are
dangling on the end of it
jects is necessary, id
are^of the objective tflfA
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Application forms kr
tin of Information, wl ! c
tails of registration it [
tration, as welt as sampfe
are available from piei
visers or direct from
tionaj Testing Servhe.
ijripceton, N. J. Conn
rations must reach h *
fice by October Iff and Ja
rcsoectively, for the
and February! 7 adminiistha
V;h
’ ' ' ili
eikered, for accommodations. For
tl'O (iays wo swam and walked
d (vn to thj pavilion aC the
b ada wherje'| : we watched natiiv
d viera risk
1**
lexit-rt. stands beside
>y a bounding truck
I ■'\h '
ts Hazards
isiPisk Almost
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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
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car.) I didn’t believe my eyes,
ijut 11, throw my arm over my ^ ^
eyte and ducked just in case) that
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Thure wds a,canyon on one side
us ami Ithie truck on the. other.
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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<i out the
«nvj a9 > 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;
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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*<il Hs he: id. | never saw a guv so
gla^i to. bp a mere five feet eight
A-.Hqiit 2:Jfl we rattled into Mexico
nste; We stonned in front of the
VMf)A and threw our oavs out of
»he tori of the car, und plodded Up.
the stjaim toi our rooms. 1 took «
shower to Wash the glass and trash ’
out of my hair and flopped'Into :
ted. We had a long trip [and it
felt teivpW .good to be back in
Mox ico
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Agencies wishing to reqi
Y for the Community (Jni
ii ask m1 to send representatives
a meiting of the College Sta-
Communitv Chest committee
the YMCA, 7 Tues/lsy evening,
tembur 28, Taylor Wilkins, riew-
clecti id secretary-treasurer of
committee announced todaj
After jstotiing to requests
the various organizations, the c
mitoe V ill decide on the budget
for the coming fiscal yeaZUand
•tait their drive as soon as pos-
s. W ilkitts said.
>e Sorrels is serving as dialr*
of tha committee. . •,.* J.
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