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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 14, 1948)
W: > 1! ,:1 IT | j.i^ : ' ' fj - • 'I' : < THURSDAY, 1 The most (•H; ! Luther A. Harri 5' ||( A&M since the j um { jjecreational projrra; !. Harrison* w ao 1 ! Tcotas. Hin hobby is g pars. The constant Jem as an athletic offi:iolj i for him the good hu h name “Blind Tom.' \ De graduated lire 1940. In April; li 42. the Army. After ? dJi was head banketbi ill e(i i coach, and Mud itar roach In Ilellvllle, Te 14,1948 him jemed nick : M ' ' Page 3 T\ Has Experienced sy Career at A&M achelor on the Annex* Campus is of men, who has been working for i] of 1940 whenihe was director of the ' the campus.] ' \ I'l ' A;'. 1 , b be sailed “IjiUke”, hails from Cisco, $ ci-*-’ * — • 1 - 1 'l * 1 [ ■ — uyy ii n _ . i-tv •* jz2e\. '■ v ’Ijs Thrn in 1040 h<- cl A&M to nerve as \ phyalral «h1u- cntional Instructor jilt HUit* Atinexi fh 1047 ho took tholbofdtran now! holda ah Dean of Iflenfii lip An nex, Ilia rculiUH of ihdudo Ntmlent net vltlnf, ho^inir. atudont labor, loam, fuMP. iiml lu-j (ramural athledCM, f n The Intmmuml j thPt|M wjll In compomHl of flag h>ol|ulj, Iwidtct hall, opom oountry, volWl>nll ( i soft- ball, a trackmtml, a b<teti|touH namrnt, a wroHtll igi.MUrnltvtm-nti mid open tounmrno tta'jlfli golf, U>n-I rile, jwmI homoahor i. Allp Wtlyltlwj except the open t<juilfn [iK'titN will be compound of lomwirtyMiamai flfirrlHon hope* to Ifinvcl ijll etahlentrt participating ip ' sorin lithlotW event. \ iy ; 1 4Ve! mex ii!' 11 Fohn Geiger waft cliecjtod as *the Aijmex Veteran3 , repr^spntotlve to the .student Senate hijt. vreck ip 'the last of the Anfiox ; Schate eleci- .Hons7i- ■ - | ■ 1 5|. i Geiger defeated jyetWan Mihn ,t. Peeler jjn the closefet 4f ’the : AnneK eleetiotis, twentyfriino 1; votes to twenty-four. The paiovity pf the non-corps menibeife aid.] n<|ti vote. There are'nearly tine, hundred en rolled in the f&srana^ Clas^. The successful c in^qdteiis from Houston, Texas, iind| iis niaijorinp . Gei jer, it. navy vet- East Texas Paper Names Bolton As Manjof-the-Month P. | C.f Bolton has been named /Mnn-of-lhe-Month J by the “Kast Texas," jofficlal publication of the Kant 'jvjt/iH ChamlHir of Commerce, in its Crtobor Ihsuo. Tim ipagaidno tr«ce» President nolton's! academic career from hla heglnnlijut position uh an lnstrt|(( , - tor In tlfn electrical engineering d«'- partmetW of MliodiMlppi Slate Col lege In jUHJtl to hlM luvxcnt station uh pre*!flout of A A. M. Ho iHji redlted With having help ed to liuild thin college iVom a school v Ith a finmlty iff 4f> ami a •tudrnt body mintbering (JbD Into an itiMt tution which has an on* ndlmenl well oyer H.OOI). Pit'slt ent lloitorf nerved an clvnlr- rmm of the engineering section of tho Association °f lamd Grant (’01- legoH mil Univcrsitiea from 1030 to UKl?. llj> also acted ns vice-presi dent of] both the American Insti tute of. Klectrieal Engineers and tho American Society of Engineer ing Edilcatont. j ■ k Rogers, Williamson Wil| Attend Meet R. il Rogers, economist ith the U. jS. Department qf Agr-i(]ul- so- AGGIES ^ wL.m^ iv! m 1 p? r P ft 1 -:- Ml im Jfc: •}/ .-x. '4 i* 7f].v ' ''i-' i n ■ Wf W: , i PHYSICAL TRAINING getH underway at the Annex. Hhown chinning ubov# ir*t Uft, Joe Me- Fnrlaml of MndlaonvUje, and. right, H, C. Tyler. Standing. l«»ft to right arc: Edward LnmpMn of Wei- ' mar; Oalg McGarrah of Houston, and C. L. Lett her wood of Beaumont. THH ■; • I! ' '! Remedied Guion To Be One Of Southwest’s Best Theaters u. 'pi Vent Se hih> v' y- f\ ‘ ' ! vf (1/ • !i:i :/ f . ’' V J • fc; ; • : T4;ls ; m "7—7 f.* r r- Y l ■ EMIL H. BUNJIS, JR. jj [ ^ vsii&ii&zjb old animal husbandry major /T had hi, heart on a trip to Europe, and just that time he read of the Eur trips being sponsored by the umbia University World S Tour. His family was in favor his taking the European'trip Tour offered, so Jarvis journe to New York and there o sa: ; joined 17 jtber college Irtudents. The group sailed In June on a special studer ftef landini , Die group across what .Miller decl "most beautiful oountrys had ever seen. "Everythin; After landing in Plymouth land, the group traveled to Londc ing was clean and the fields were pattei ed by neat hedgerows.” student group visited the Hodse of Commons and West* minister Abbey while in London. 1 •, V ‘•wo . < ‘ « ship sponsored by 'the U States government. . [h the famous cathedral By the way, :h, r. • * • * ^ st*r Abbey an old th >U war hiA eX * about was l "No pf- to recon- The store are bare because most goods are exported.” leaving England ” Miller “wVctosmS the Channel law, France and traveled to Rheims, where we visited we dlso looked in on a large cham paigne celler of a wine maker.’’ The group traveled overnight from Rheims to Basel, Switzerland. Here. Miller continued, “we found the first white broad and yellow K«r“ fn " inc ‘ u " j - firtt.’SUsJ- & — i,ih ,, Jl By DAVE C08LETT in't he too surprised if you seji .nn announcement of a three 'ring circus coming to Guipn Hall inQJie near futuri*. , This of course is a slight eXng- .'gerntion, but the possibility of such an attraction is being hoight- ienjed by the construction work now inlprogress there. Doubtless, many persons remem ber the confusion caused last year when the Aggie Band gave its an nual Concert. Lack of space forced a few of the sections of the band •to sit back in the stage wings, com pletely out of the audience’s view. „The front vow of musicians spent the whole performance trying to dressed in costume. ') ter In the Southwest. Ito even goo* This year performers will find further than that by ktatihg thrtt Thirty-Five From A&M System To Be On Duty at State Fair ! tuire, aid M. N. Williamson, as Mate pnofessofiof agricultural cc nomicsj will attend the second *l . , , ,, , aual Cotton Mechanization Con- keep from being pushed off the in agriculture eran, is married, ind joined by his wif<. oft He is .a member; of it t\ig football team, )a Baracks T-353. ; | / us to be t-pber 1G. veterans’ ■m COR I ill teirencej October 14, 15, and IGj at '.ubboei. Convention hosts will b|i! the \&M Fjxperiment Station and Ex tension ^Service, and the Plains Gin- ier’s Association; . L. Rogefs and Williamson are col- ilborat^ig on an economic study if mechanical .cotton harvesting. Mechanization of steps in cot ton production and harvesting will be discussed and demonstrated. • Representatives of the large im- Memejiu companies, U. S. Depart ment qf AgviciJlture, land grant when the new Guloii Hinge Is fim Ished, there may bn bigjfel , l l>ut none will be mortl up-to-date nor more fully equippi Organizations Will Set Lounge Hours I Policy regarding the opening and | closing of lounges being construC- ! ted in corps dorms will be the ite- ] sponsibility of the second-in-con)- mand of the outfit using the lounge j a committee consisting of repre sentatives from corps; dorms an- j nounced today. i The Committee also decided that ! damages in any dormitory should | be replaced out of a general fund | contributed to by all dorms hay- Easicir handling of back-drop 1 ing or using lounges. Spike \Vhite, scenery! will be brought about by Director of Student. Activities, as- foojb'extension on both sides will .take care of this. front of the stage. Stage space, however, will be at a premium no longer , iu Guion. A four foot addition at the front of the stage will iqcrea^e the stage depth to 35 feet. No performers ’should l>e hidden from view in riupite nflenuate drousing (rooms made easily odcesiiblo by the in stallation of a new bnokslage stair way. The Aggie Players or any other group that plans on using the stage for dramatic purposes will greatly benefit from other improvements beipg brought about in the “little theater at the end of the walk,” The elimination of the west wing dressing rooms, will supply ample room for the storage of scenery, props, and stage equip ment. And, dramatists should no longer be faced with the problem of getting a 20x30 stage prop through an 8x4 door. A large door through which scenery and props may be easily moved has been installed at the tear of Guionil ' ! \ \ - support to the stage roof, will pro-1 weeks. , vide a means of swinging scenery ] Records for the phonograph, and -t .u, n n«nni«<nfe °f the motion picture screen into! other furnishings desired but not One of the common com Uunts a loft abovo the stage. ; included in the college furnished aboi^, last year s Gmon Hall pie-, Ai >uu ti Dm only thing thstt hasn’t' lounges, may be purchased with sentatlons was madeouate light-1 . ?-.u - mon ey deposited in the outfit and dormitory “coke’’ accounts held in - gireased or improved at ollegesi ginners, farm organ.zaV ! Guion is the seatinK capacity, ions, Jnd cotton breeders will be S ' According to Arch C. Baker, 1 resent! at the convention. Nortlf Sat! Tailor tea SUITS SHIRTS • /f SLACKS TOP p( We Tailo jl ■ ; J ; iii ’{eserve Officers To See New Film The first October meeting of the 7lUlp (fompoHite Group, Orknnli- d IteHeKe, will lie held Thursday ight. Ilfeatuml at'lho meeting .vlll lie tlo-mlnute film on Ger- niiny ii«d a talk by Clmrli'H Kirk- mm mil the * tat if of postwar Ger- shind forth in their real brilliance due to the new tri-color stage Col] ^' A .V ch t ^ > ii<rhiimr A ImttiM'v nf red taents will enable-, Guion Hull to Avhite. ani bluo Ught! will bathe compare favorably with nny.then- Lhe Enlarged stage in any required amount of light regulated by a dimmer bank buck stage. New footlights are also being installed. Even |he dressing rooms are be- ]ing improved in this renovation, Tile tjillon Hall dressing rooms have long boon notoriously insuf-i fioierjt. The lower floor (Iressing (ropma have been In need of repair and the upper fldjor dressing rooms McClure Elected HJSK President Student Activities Office, White said. . i h. Ashcraft Heads San Marcos Club nany, L Gothes (Tun I 1 OAOTS EH (’apt. | Albert W. Stoekell, In- truetoii said that all reserve of- leers mjiiy attend, and visitors will i,e wwlciino to the meeting, which vill he |eld In the I’etrbleum-Geol* gy LeAure Room at 7:30. The racoting will be held joint- y vyith’ithfc Brazos County Chap* or of the Reserve Officer’s Asso- jatlon dnd with the local Air (Com posite G|-oup. Allan Ashcraft was elected pres ident of the first A&M San Mar cos Club at a meoting held last I Thursday night, Floyds Honk, ro- Jamon G. McClure, n senior aero 1 porter for the organization an- stUjdent from Rule, Texas, has been i nounced. el (feted president of tho H.J.S.K.! Elected to other pusjtionH weif haVei Men of practically no uhc'-!^^ I 41 I ll *iJ due to their Innccriwlbilfty. in, r . Other officers eleote.l were Al ence Sehlather, Hecn-tary-troasuiv former desiring to use these lat- GnTtwrtoht pf Monday, vam-presl- er, \N. II. Bauerschlag an. G. B. Icr moms have had to iro to and ‘k"'t; Wullaec (ox of Haskell, HeC- Klntt, social chairman, and Hoyd fbj « thU Al •««„«; J..hn 1 Tbylor ll,„k. from the hack stage door to the “< Rot«m. rojmrter: and Herb ar- Plans were cliscuHSed to nequnlnt noiiitot-inm ter of Stamford, social secretary. Hun Marcos High Hehptd student* Club meetings will he held on the with A&M, Honk snl4. lie alsb 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month hi Room 320 of tiio Aca demic BiiildSng. All men frdm Has kell, .bines, Stonewall, and Knox counties are eligible to join. I to their specialties, i days at tho fair are do- ipcdflr agricultural crops, i&M spedallsts have boon to h(i present on those Oh a few occasions last year female performers coming from otlter schools were required eith er to dress in buses or make the !, entire trip to College Station Thlrty-flva toUntista ami tench-^ era fixnn tho A&M System wliLtto on duty al tho A&M oxliihit at the State Fair of Texas during tha next three weeks. They will an swer question* from fair visitors in regard to their specialties. Certain days; ut the fair are de voted to spej and the A&* assigned days. For instance, on Cotton Day, Wednesday, October 13, there were two cotton specialist* on duty. They arc D. T. Killough, Experi ment Station agronomist, and J. S. Mogford, professor of agronomy at A&M. Also present that day were O. E. Sperry of the range and forestry department and V. A. Groulach of the plant physiology and pathology department. On Texas A&M Day, Sunday, October 17, three A&M depart ment heajls Will be on duty: V. A. Young, range and forestry; J. E. Adams, agronomy; and H. G. Johnson, entomology. On Roses Day, October TO, P. R. Johnson, superintendent of the Ty ler experiment substation, were among those available. On Sweet Potato Day, October 11, Ralph Michael, in charge of the sweet potato laboratory at Gilmer, were present to answer questions. j|j On Flax Day, October 14, farm ers may ask for information from E. S. McFadden, U. S, Department of Agriculture agronomist at A&M. Present on wheat day will be I. ML Atkins, superintendent of the substation at Denton and in charge of state-wide research on small grain. On Peanut Day. October 21, vis itors will have a chance to question B. C. Langley, superintendent o r the Steubenville substation, who l" noted for research- on peanuts. Al so present will bo A. A. Dunlap head of the plant physiology an'’ pathology department. On Rico Day, October 21, questions maj[ b asked of R. H. Wyche, formeti’ superintendent of the rice subSte tion at Beaumont, now agronomic specializing In fertillxation prob lem* of rice. Present ort Com Day, Octol*’ 23, will be Jj S. Rogers of th* agronomy department, in chanr* of com Investigations, and (). B Ooidbey; head of the gencUcHj de partment at A&M. ■ i'n -*■ •j k Fords, rka. Ol American mb 'Y reading t Kandersl nspoi e the ned !' '1 £ nute we walked n to see an in the ra. untouched w- President Bolton To Be Inaugurated Here November 18 Dr, Frank C. Bolton, dean of the college last year, will bo Innugura ted ax A&M’s flftoonfh president hero November 18, Gibb Gilchrist, chancellor of A&M System announ ced Wedhetelay,'. k -v Three other collcgeH In the A&M System will Inaugurate their first presidents during this semester. On October 27, John Tarleton Agricultural College will Inaugur ate E. J. Howell as, Its first presi dent. E. H. Hereford will become the first president’of NTAC on October 18, and Prairie View will install Dh E. B. Evans ns its first president at ceremonies late in November. || | | j ! j I t| •- Cass County Club To Be Pi^anized All Cass County studenLs are in vited to meet in Rbotiji 126. Aca demic Bldg., Wednesday at 7:30 p, lh., for the purpose x>{ organiz ing a Cass County Club, W. A. Barber, journalism Jupior from Linden, announced today. Students from surrounding coun ties who do not belong to a Club are also Invited to attend, Barber said. ■ i - ' ; ‘ | /[ : American touj was gr.iciot ‘ yodeling an' “After c through a milea in a lated Villi tain*. It dvilitatl rS.- vided evi food, do An inte of- artny . tain*, Mill no stand military t comes 18, training duri year after ~ take* t summer. TfleiH equlpmen end of o»' dudinK German] (h tM ik« of learned. Iiotesye,!,! —, currency uw 'nefcicsa are printed in French, Halls i and German/* "We 1.4 HwH^dand by way of t 1 ?!: building*." tem was the typo 'tierland main- tinted. "It haa wtr-ro: s six weeks army : ■( !V i summer. Every,. ( , til he ia 40, ho ,, 1 \\ training each ee take* all hi* him at tho training, in- M ». wo \ Thei tralm "JEn Blljfd’m and guns.” i ■ “ prlhdual langu- Mlllehainfi Geneva artd wenB tp Paris, 1 oontinuod.; M{ j i; it h.JpL trT* way of " Milter 1 l a nice hotel at (Ion waa for . ii . We amted ? In th* memli wouldn't cauae 7:S0 a. m. u i p i ■ ^ “White wo were In Paris, ww attended : & j ballot at the opora. viewed the famous follies, and 4 ate at the. fldetplk cafea." r Milter mm*n»l)rml that the bu«- ‘ ramor rejwntDfrtHi umv i-n? pim* sen of Paris stop running at 9 p. m. and the subways stop at 1:80 a. m. “We really hud to hustte” “We really had to in Paris, - custotns - officials on strike, wide open black market*, and "terribld inflation.” / . He noted the complete destruc tion of LeHavre; t “We can't do too much for ^ Europeans," Milter declared. “1’hey are woridhg hard and do ing wonders. Wje shouldn’t quib ble About sending money and aid to, them/', j j I] ■■•'!, Milter cjtid qne incident that happened on thd way back to: the United States. Four German stu-‘ dents, three boys and a girl, were aboard the ship] to come to the United StaWs to) study democracy. One of thep ;- a.man of about 24, insisted that '“the salvation of the worlji will pom* only wbep the j ll 1 ; ; ; "'I j r group is trying to further relations With; the A&M added that tho n's with th Association of San Ex-students Marcos. Congress authorized the St'CM- tary of tho Treasury to mint three* cent pieces during tho war, but none Wore minted. FT Ti 'W WATCH CAN CIVE MANYTlHli YEARS OF GOOD SERVICE IF IT IS fROPERLY REPAHtEDf-SO, BRING IJ •WHERE EXPERT WORKMAWSHIP COMBI (Ei WITH»» ELECTRONIC TESTINli jASSHRES SATISFACTION i 1 !W.h ‘j. J 1 f , I. F < tests our work ; electronically ; giving a printed kroof ol accuracy. DEMAND ATCHMASTER-TESTED REPAIR WORK :. 1! nisi! I " m i >■ i t-i LET OS ftST YOUR WATCH Ilf 30 SB ||0 CHARSE OR 0BU®AT10N I 30 SECONDS m jeweler;; j ;; Norfli Gate 1 Ik, I k' I ; i!' • T.- f I ’S };! H.. ! . ALTERATIONS INSIGNIA TAILORED UNIFORMS! Summer Serge. Pink Elastlques . J; Green Elastiques... Boot Pants ... Khakis SMITH’S North Gate Phone: 4-444* . ;! — Starting Lighting Ignition Specialized Service on .L ; STARTERS — GENERATORS — MAGNETOS ; BATTERIES i- CARBURETORS — TUWE-UP [: TJ: • ?\ 1 i ■ |. 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