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Volumt 48
C0LL80B STATION lAgfldtod), TEXAS. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21,1948
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Seniors Hear Address by St
Discuss‘War Hymn’ Change
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4SHVE Meets
Thursday Nile
In ME Building
FBI CHIEF n
IS IMPROVING
r, Hoovef
was reported 1 ! “slightly ! improved’
Monday. The , [FBI chief
ill with Vohchi#!
WASHINGTON, Sept)
he condition of J. Edg
as reported! “slightly J
JFfas been
pneumonia foj
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President F. C. Bolton shovels the first dirt on the site of
Memorial Student Center.
Ground-breaking ceremonifes were held Monday afternoon for
the three-story Center which will become the center of Activities
on the Campus,^,- j /
GREEK FREIG
■REPORTED AF
HALIFAX, ^t. 2ri-m Toff
• crewmen suffered burUfi. ■! Monday
in an explosion: aboan h 9 ree *
freighter twhich iicaught fire -after
grounding in the strait fef Belli -
- Isle .negr Newfoandlandfs northern
tip- I J, . j: ‘ . Jf
The $5-n\an cutew of th^ vessel
the 4.798-ton Orion, abandoned the
ship after messaging a(j TjiSO a:ni;
j that they were urgent y pin need
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ARMY JET BOMBER 1 j
s DESTROYED in crash
.'TULARE, Calif;, Sepi. 21
A four-|)et army iibotnbeif from Mul
f roc experimental! air ba§e explode
with terrific force tod^yj add eras!'
i ed intp faraland near Alpaugl
All aboard were!; believed i to havt
perished. 1. | ; t I
Army officials said )the plane. A new school bus has been put into operation to serve
, A B-45i normally carried a co»nbj 3tudents attending A&M Consolidated who, until this time,
• Two bodies X werie S have ^ een ineligible to rideother school buses, W. D. Bunt*
the wreckage which stiewn ing, Brazos County school sunerintendent, announced today,
over a four mile Square Mi. || : Students living within 2V-f miles of school will be ac-
Thfe plane compares ijl size with c^nmodated by the bus, but will-*—: — ;
the B-17, the Wartime . “Flying ^ charged a five-cent fare for delity Street; East on Park Place
Bus to Accommodate Children
Within 2 Miles From School
CUBAN AREA
LATHED AGAIN;
MIAMI, Sepi.!'21
cane iwjarnings f’ere .hijiis
Flcrida from Mfetni : :to
at 2 pJ m. Monitlay as
atorm [edged cl#se',,to
headed Tor the Jflofjda
' Emei-jgency hlrriCamf
Hurrii-jj
‘ e( * !P r ve t crowded more than ever because
taken jjmnfediiiteiy in thie
orida[ Keys afd gr«tef Mianfi
bpieaju
H7. ^ iese ^eligible students, there-
a ( tropica. f ore ^j s change has become neees-
CJba anu sa iy xh^ buses - coming in frbni
Levs. |. the putlying territory will not stop
!i eh 8Ui y^ j inside* the.2^ mile zone.
each ride. Operations were started street;
Monday morning, but ho fare will
be charged until Monday, Septem
ber 27, Bhnting stated.
This year we find our buses are
Hereford
According i to Bunting, the be- 1
ginning time! schedule and routing peated from 2:30 p.
tor the new bus will be as follows:! and again from 4 p.
Beginning/’at 8 a. m. at the East’ Bunting said
entrance 4q the College on High-
,j way 6; theftce North to Louis Mais
. ported.^ j Grocery Store; West by the College
the sterm yj t;w Area; West to the Old High-
f “ u 01 ?? wav Ey the Triple A Building;
the .
rjeach Cub§
^•inds
South to .Southside Grocery Store;
on Montclai
;.West on
Dexter^ North to Jersey .Street and
then to s<jhooU«rriving at 8:20 a.m.
Beginning at the school at
8:J15 a. m.. East to[jjyy'v. Street;
on Foster Street ro Francis
Street; East through the Wood
land ac r es back to Walftin Drive;
North Around-^Walton Drive to
Highwayn and on to school ar
riving af 8:40 a. m.
These sanie routes will be re
in. to 3:10 p.hn.
m. to 4 :30 p.m.
The American Society pf
Heating and Ventilation En
gineers will meet Thursday
night at 7:30 in the Mechanic
cal Engineering Lecture
Room, J. ,C. Blum, publipi
chairman, announced Mon
day.
The A.S.H.V.E. is a student En
gineering Society whiclj/fosters the
interest and education 7 of air con-
ditioinihg, students nnd also pre
sents a greater knowledge of the
advantages of/air conditioning to
the general pdhlic 1 .
Staron Ammons, president of the
student chapter, has requested that
all students who are interested in
air conditioning, heating, and ven
tilation should attend this meeting.
/All students who wish to file ap
plication for membership may ob
tain applications in the hall of the
Medical Engineering Building or
in the Mechanical Engineering Of
fice, Ammons said.
Tommy Burns, chairman of the
program committee, has announc
ed that a well balanced programs
has been planned and those stu
dents who wish to gain a better
knowledge of the latest develop
ments in the air conditioning field
will find it beneficial to attend.
Staron Ammons will make the
formal introduction df Professor
L. S. O’Bannon, the new adviser
of the society.
O’Bannon, formerly of the Uni-
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neetin.
By KENNETH BOND . Coach Harry gtitcler
Eight Seniors in the Corps were appointed by Don Kas- (game and discussed! mean .
per, Senior Class President, to work with the non-corps in ; football team to an ovt r fl^w
determining if the “Aggie War Hymn" should be modified j liberally sprinkled Wit,h
for the games not played against TU. _ 1 [time that non-corp$ seiiii
President Bolton Turns S
For Memorial Student Cen
O. J. WOODWARD, JR.
Construction of the new Memor
ial Student Center for Texas A&M
College, long a dream on paper,
became an actuality Monday when
College President F. C. Bolton tur
ned the first spade of earth at a
ground-breaking ceremony. .
The reviewing stand, located on
a plot just south of the Main Drill
Field where construction will start
was backed by bearers of the
American and organizational flags
and the Corps of Cadets was ar-
Four Students
Accepted For
Senate Ballot
' Four students have filed
their applications in the race
for Student Senate positions,
N. R. Leatherwood past sen
ate president announced to
day. ,
The applications were accepted
this morning in the Student Ac
tivities Office and they will con-
ranV<fd before the stand. The A&M Geography Department
band .took a position to
of the corps. In addition, a num
ber of the general public witnes
sed the ceremonies.
Cadet Colonel Bob McClure was
the master of ceremonies.
After, calling on the Reverend
Sam Hill to give the invocation,
McClure introduced George P.
Smith of Houston, president of
the Former Students Association.
Smith voiced the appreciation
Jf all former students of the fact
the building was officially begin
ning construction. He said “Re
sults were brought about by 30,-
000 Aggies and the members of
the school.”
W. J. Lawson, of Austin, presi
dent of the Former Students As
sociation in 1942-43. was next in
troduced as the father of the
building idea. He traced the his
tory of the plans for tlje Center.
The original conception, according
to Lawson, goes back to the time
when Tyree Bell headed the asso
ciation. At a meeting in Dallas
plans were made to begin raising
the money, and $51,000 was raised
during the first year.
G. W. Schlesselman, head of the
versity of Kentucky and the Uni- tinue to be accepted until Septem-
versity of Michigan and member of , ber 2^, Leatherwood added,
the Senior Society of ASHVE since i AH dormitories will elect one
1928, is the refrigeration and air! representative each on Monday,
conditioning instructor in the Me- September 27. Each of the college
chanical Engineering Department, “housing areas will elect a repre-
All students and visitors are sentative, and' two senators will
“welcome to attend, Ammons said.
Refreshments will be served.
Adjustments will bp made as
they gegm necessary: Only school
children will be eligible to ride
this bus, and a charge of 5<.‘ per
ride will be made beginning Mon
day, September 27. 1948, Bunting
concluded.
meanwfcil'* investigated
ed into the home of
foreman
Polio Expected to Reach High
Of 22,000 in U.S. This Year
The 1948 outbreak of Polio
now at
area, tile weathc
By late evening iin
had whipped intdj the!s<
of. Isle! of iPinits, fSo
Cuba, Bolen bbsdryatory
The observatory said
was advancing toward
and was expected to
today, jit estimated th^
110 miljes ten hot
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PETROLEUM STRIKE,
PRINCIPALS ARBITR
SAN! FRANCISCO, &>i?t-
1AJ)—Striking west coast ] CIO
workers and Standard; Qil Com
pany officials ajrp*' me^ ting today
to contjimle theif efforts Jto settlfe
the il7-faj|-oIg|A«ge dis )ute. Peace
officer^ in .Contra Co: tai Countjjp p ea k, and if it continues to spread as nearly all outbreaks
ftigated a,Shot fif have( ^ wi n end wi th about 22,000 victims.
If this number is reached, it will cost the U. S. between
$25,000,000 ands $35,000,000 for medical.care.
OrdiriqHf^Uhe pcakxfor infantile^ r ; ;
paralysis- comes in the last week
of August iand the first week in
September This year is following
the pattern of other yeata. despite
the fact 1 that the epidemic began
^ in Texas about two months earlier
and nMrU'than usu|d. v
uartiil I Normally after the August-
September peak there are as
should ^port to:the Veteran’s Adlh man'y. additional cases as there
- - “ -* l n J willfirfc wer e before. This year shows no
iqr miKiiji g . ?n ^ jugt . fy hope that , t w|I|
be different
Figures from the National Foun-
tioii fqr.Tnfantile Paralysis show
1^6 with 27,363 cases to be tjie
highest figure attained previous
a [shot fi
ajn joil plabt
Tj!
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Paftiall^PatiVet
Should See Wijkins
Veteijans who were' QiniDlled f<)k
the seciond sumimer terrn'
still in! sthool lireceivirig ^, _ . . ,
payment for Sepjtember isubsistanqie September peak there
should report to the Veteifan’s Adr
risor immediately, Tayloi
i «——-ned today.
si payment for
ollfja'
M|C
Veter
Thq college ! will agaih offer
extension courses forj fiill cre-
,4ft to wives ol veteraiji students
Dr. T. B, Mayo, head 1 of the
-Eiiglip.b Department,! has an-
nouncedJ ? j * L
//'All! those women intereste
are-asked to meet Drj r
Wednesday
Lounge of the
io«r. I
(ctieally gny cou
college catalc
ge catalogue ma;
at ai charge! of $5
credit point if as mi
etude it veteran wives
■** Mayo
se in the
bte taker
for eacl
as rngnj as 10
iipply
More ‘Longhorns’
Available! Today
p Another shipment of ’48 Long
horns wil larrive today, T. G. Mar
tin, co-editor, announced. \
Longhorns will be issued at
Goodwin Hall to all those who
have not yet received them, Martin
said. ; ! / . ‘ .
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REWARD OFFERED FOR
PEARLAND ARSONISTS
PEARLAND, tex., Sept. 21 —
A $1000 reward was-offered here
Monday for information leading
to the arrest of persons believed
to have caused a $200,000 fire here
Saturday to the Kliesing Motor
Company. } ,
The reward was offered by R. V.
Kliesing, who said he has asked
the state fire insurance commis
sion for an investigation.
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to this year. The total cases on
September 2 were 11,155. Multiply
that by two to get the normal pros
pect. . , j
The Foundation up to a week
ago had sent, as emergency funds,
$2,800,000 to hard-hit states and
communities. The [Foundation cal
culates that this emergency money
will reach $5,500,000 by the end of
the 1948 epidemic.
Emergency money froim the Na
tional Offic^ is what states and
communities f get after they have
exhausted that part of the “Dimes
Money” kept by the local chapters.
The largest * emergency contribu
tions have been made to three
states—California, Texas andNorth
Carolina—where this year’s epi
demic was worst. These states are
the only ones in which the number
of polio victims exceed 1,000. The
figures, of September 2, are Cali
fornia 1,877, [North Carolina 1,761
and'Texas 1,256.
Disease Control By
State Health Unit
Cited by Dr. Cox
The amount of communicable
diseases in a county can be les
sened considerably through the use
of full time local health units, ac
cording to a release by Dr. George
W. Cox, State Health Officer.
Using the common childhood dis
ease of whooping cough as a basis
of comparison, Cox surveyed 20
counties, 10 with the local health
units and 10 without them.
In the counties where there are
no health units the following rates
of incidence per 100,000 popula
tion apply: Gaines and Floyd,
above 1000; Hale, Dallam, Castro
and Cottle ftbove 300; Carson above
400; Baiiey and Hartley above 600;
and Lipscomb above 760 cases.
By way of contrast to these high
be elected from among the day
students.
Seven students will be elected at
large making a total of 43 senators
in the new body.
Applicants must be classified
sophomores and have attended A&
m for two previous semesters with
an overall grade point ratio of 1.
Candidates from any area are eli
gible to file for the seven posi
tions at large.
Three representatives from the
Freshman Class will be elected in
a meeting at the Annex on a later
date, so they need not file at this
time, Leatherwood concluded.
Deadline Set For
Dropping Courses
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The deddline for registration has
been set for September 27, H. L.
Heaton, registrar, has announced.
This is the last day that a stu
dent may register an this College
for the )fall semester.
Students desiring tio add or drop
_ _ , — , a course are urged to, make regis-
rates of incidence, Dr. Cox pointed Oration changes immediately, as
out that in a representative group any student dropping a course af-
of counties where full-time health j er September 27 will reecive a
units made use of the biologies of F
available from the State; Health *•
Department, the average rate of
nfadence was approximately 188
cases per 100,000 population.
“It is plain to be seep” Co^aaid,
“that the counties receiving the
benefit of a full-time health pro
tection, enjoy a much lower inci
dence of disease and the resulting
lessened danger of death.’’
Exhibit for State
Fair Produced By
Aggie Scientists
Fifty top scientists of A&M
have combined their talents to pro
duce an exhibit for the Texas State
Fair at Dallas, October 9-24. The
exhibit, the most comprehensive
display of agricultural research
ever put together in Texas, will be
one of the outstanding exhibits at
the Fair.
The general committee for the
fair is headed by chftiiWn D. T.
Killough of the Experiment Sta
tion. Other members are A. W.
Crain and Re C. Potts of the Agro
nomy Department; M. K. Thorn
ton, and Jack Sloan of the Exten
sion Service; Howard Berry, vis
ual aids; Hal Moseley, Architec
ture Department, who designed the
exhibit, and R. H. Shuffler, di
rector of information.
The fifty committeemen who
planned the displays op specific
research subjects were assigned by
subjects rather than by depart
ments. The committee on grain
sorghums, headed by T. E. Mc
Afee of the Agronomy Depart
ment, included R. E. Karner, agro
nomist of the Lubbock Experiment
Station; Fred Hale of thP Feeding
and Breeding tSation; J. W. Sor
enson, Agricultural . Engineering
Department: and L. S. Payne of
the Agricultural Economics and
Rural Sociology Department.
He pointed out the sigtj
pkovidihg a student
praised those responsil
J. Jimarc, representative <jf the
McKee Construction Company of
Dallas, and Frank Butcher r tp-
M. F. Fisher Softs,
i give
assurance of their j resip ?ct!ve
?d the A&MrYHlnnova
Twelfth Mnirifrnid the
ng c owd :of Seniors wmch was
■c&rp • miein,. This is the first
have atUnded a Senior Class
• M&itinglih force in some time. The
mo ting, was held iri the-Y chapel
last night. 1
R ipe Hall explained the results
of he committee from the Senior
Cta *\ which met with the Fresh-
meiJi oF ih° Annex. “They’re to
ted,, and they are ready for
tenet? Hall said, “I feel a
grohn of seniors should go out
wet dy to help the Freshmen.”
We took a good old fashioned
itrjr licking from yiHanova,”
ler explained. “There isn’t
resenting M. F. Fisher l:
San Antonio, Texas, jbotlh
assurance of their iresp
-companies that evejry 4ffj
,would be put forth to ccn<i
the finest buildings lostflle
record time. I /
President Boltop mat It* (the $on|-
cluding speech of the c(r< mf>nj|.
He expressed his belitf hit
beginning of the four da ;i< ns
the Memorial Student C :nt :r w|>uld
also begin the foundutkn
closer union of those cpr|ne|tejl
with A&M. /
President Bylton alsp eKijrcisejl
,his thanks to the eontractcrsjifor
their assurance that t ie b'iil|ing
work would be completed as sp[
ily as possible.
Immediately afterward
dent Bolton moved to the
selected for turning the
> spadeful! of earth. Marvip
representing 1 the student I
presented President Bolton with
the spade. , if
The first spade-ful) of ei ir h
placed in a dragline buc» : t which
transferred it to a dunip-tipcl,
the band played, the mdi|ne|e
cheered, and the work on tl e
morial Student Center frflicl
began.
AFA Members f i
Open t<r Students
Of ME Departi rei
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Lloyd G'. Berryman,.: as lodiat s
professor in the mechdni<8 eig -
neering department, has ar no iria-
ed that membership to a, i tu, ierit
branch of the American rojunflrty-
men Association is open
dents interested in foundry
The student branch, sn
by the Texas Chanter of t u
ciation, offers the following
tunities to its members:
1. Summer employment i
foundries. fV'T !.
2. Establishment of schdajrsl
3. Privilege of attending
and national meetings.
4. Subscription to montjhlly
lication of the American F
Magazine.
There will be a brief
Tuesday at five o’clock
303 of the M.E. Building
purpose of electing offi<}eii
applying for a charter.;
Dues for membership: in ^hcl as
sociation are $4 per yea 1 ,
which is returned to the
chapter to be spent as they
Berryman urges all
students to attend the
I meeting. ’ \ >
it.; un that.wad present who will
no! sayithat/our boys did not
out; ste, werie. not in condition
foi sucn^a, good, strong team
wi h so mady reserves.” j ■ J 1
“ ife ployed a [good game during
the first half, bpt after then, you
kne f,what happened.’.’ ,
“ am not belittling the Villa-
nom boys nor am I offering eJt-
cusli, tut I say those boys ate
goc !t Bltiteler continued. “They
sta ukl. their fall practice on Aug4 ;
ust 15; ja 1 full 1)5 days before our
boy nj began practice. They also had
thr e Bcrjimn/iages; \i’o had none. .
Pri r to dur game, they beat Col- 6 *
Urn iu 41-21; CbKlmbia then b<*ht
Hoi * Cross 'tins meek.” <
“in [intermlng, insight in 1
the f sdojutihg yms evidenced b;
Anliy’s (scouts nit the game. There^
wei J 11 scoute and four movio *
can eras: In action."
ilitejer pointed out/that tho
at itudeiof A&M students has
injprovHI considerably in the past
yiiairH. Ho mentioned the
ontiiiuing of painting the op
tion’^ campus and no longer
ling!while the other team was
as good examples of
i it irdstfld
l]ue idiijy
File for Student
Life Committee
Non military candidates for
the Student Life Committee
may file for. that office begin
ning today. Deadline for filing
*is 5 p.m. Friday. <*?
There art 3 vacancies on the
Student Life Committee which
must be filled by non military
students.
The election will be held Mon
day, September 27.
Street Is Author
Of Geometry Text
Technical Descriptive Geometry
by Professor W. E. Street, head of
the Engineering Drawing Depart
ment, has just been received from
D .Van Nostrand Co., the publish
ers.
Features of the book include a
new course outline; “the draftsman’s
method of problem solution; ^lus
trations and problems supplied by
industry; .special shadings and pic
tures; a new system of notation
and nomenclature;: illustration ex
planations broken up. into com
ponent parts to help analybe steps
involved; and industrial applica
tions of revolution including latest
design of checking clearances of
cutters for oil. field drilling bits.
It also discusses the three in
dustrial methods of laying out
lofting templates and patterns;
and the given views for intersect
ing surfaces to assist ’in visualiz
ing the problem.
Although published this month,
several colleges and universities
have already adopted the book.
GEORGE SMITH, president of Yke Former Student’s Association, speaks at the “tt uuhd
Breaking” ceremonies for the Memorial Student Center. / 1
From left to' right the other people on the reviewing stand are W. J. LAWSON, former
dent of the Former Students; DljL GEORGE SCHLESSELMAN,
Geovrsohy Deparimeit
GEORGE BUTCHER, representing the succesful bidders, and President F. C. BOLTON
spbrtfimansti
ow^Ver, I feel )we and you
improve. When we left far
novlu, the people who saw us
Were singing “Goodby o Texas
ersity.” When
wete siggidg ti
|el wje! must (play each game as
bmei.' The words to this song
Lnds one of too much of Texas
not enough/of tho team we
playing fleXt.”
Iter aj discussion about students
lidinig football games, Stlteler
he Would ppt a notice in The
lion; when [he wanted a pri* .
session. At those times, ho
people, students and others; ,
|to,-attend. ■] ,
ul Berry,' |E Fljght, m4de a f
n, Which was passed r tl)#tthti
bp I the dormitories, be
ji apd free [of vulgarity. The
>ry ejommandera will use their
iretibri on the signs, .it was de#
.Berry’s motion was received/
enttoisiasrto - , If j/'
|o ; Edwards made a motioi
lj*org|e
tho tYtanper kcc -that the Corps ai
notm-orps alternate tKirk. positions
the 50 yard line. Kasper an
ted ! three nien As free agents
ork bn the problem,
motioii was made by John Orr
a group of qualified men work
a non-corps group and form-
tudjents to decide whether tto
Sfy, the “Aggie War Hymn’:
not.j Tommy Bp
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Ul MUt.| v/lll I kI ji
SuJJihens] Ralp
ilittgerbcr, Jim
)aniels, Janie
fi:. |kex phaptoan, ahd Dick Wall were
^ a qonimittee
■■ ie*
lundj Walter Wehdtland,. Barf
Val! were
to work
,the | npn-eOrps men. ) ' Ifl
meetuig With the non-corps ,
ft has been tentatively set for
tirsdajy night.
home indiscriminate po* ,
jy twb ftebiors about]jam- I
V Student Senate in^the !■
nlcction, John Wallace rar
that such bickering
tw#th corps and non-corps was
jat a Senior Class Mee
|
IgO:
ace jat a Senior Class Meete f
fas applauded by u lain
• ’ '. • * • s j J
Aoy Blanton, E Flight, offered
suggestion that .the five, sen- .1
Cla4s: officers, Corps Comman-
Executive Officer, and
ental Commanders servo
ittee to jscldtft the Aggie; 1
»rt. He was bowled down j
brought to a
' '! • v - ' 1* !
ent Association
thei center chapel of tli
tallstioh ; of officers of
Lu lerini Student
be ield| it
loc t liutheran [ Church \at 7:1
W^pneijdby evening September,
?rod Mgebroff, pastor
anpounced that Lt
M student and .
he Gulf Region Lutl
Association of Ame
conduct thei program.
'fleers to be installed are Rich-
Wjofnet,' president; Willie A.
[vice-president; C. R. Lun-
and A. p. Dittmar,
bert Schero, treasur-