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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 2, 1948)
I« . .. .. ,p. - •Mv -• Page 4 -■ ■ ■ —* •M 1948 ' !. . 1 ; Th* Veteran RAM. te •r« followed Veteran It* t ^TbMheti (• ve tw I f(L rumipner the revlevii comhanieM Washington UsW Defends‘talor WAKIIINtiTON, Dro. a|- ' A Wuehlnirton Area ChjBV er yeaterday defended L_ polky of fawrlj,* buyeiKjOli. old 'cars to trade In-ton iw» Lawrence Kenyon, vicc-j "" end treasurer Of Kenyon*, v •.::i "IN «1 i:: i(W% -il' Mi Pi • i i HELMUT s Aeatin. ' If : Southwestew Livestock Show ■lei Dec. 2, i8 “S.T’ (JP) ,000 Xw Si"- Tl»» Car Dealer A*)— Itleal* firm's have ones, dident . inc. of Arlington, Va., ftild aii'house sub-committeo investigating trade practices: : y '' : jiil “I think it is important;for us to try to oven up our business with good, profitable de^ls on trade-ins.” ' ; ™ John T. M. Reddan, committee counsel, said Kenyon*Peck ifecords show that 70 percent Of th# firm’s new .car sales the first r sev£n month of this year involved trad#*ins. Reddan asked Kenyon -whether there is any significance |h such proportions. ; M I think SO,” Kenyon replied. “We are always on the joek-out jfor profitably deals.” i.yf! ‘ Rep. Macy (R-N.Vj) tit# sub committee chairman,yhas .iwiid his group decided to inquire : into op erations of Washington Area car dealers j as representative |bf the entire country^ f 1 As the hearing began, Macy said in a statement that the committee started investigations plveral months ago in response toig public , demand for action frpm Congress on trade practices in rail fields. IS |i {'{- IN FILMS BID FOR PRINCESS STOCKHOLM— plffe-year- old Princess Christitia may soon become the heroine of a fuii y-tale. The princess, who fe tlMdaugh- t#r of Sweden’s widowedyjjrincess Hibylla and Prince Gosta^; Adolf, killed in a plane accident liUt year, hfcs been considcre<l for thpyjead in a> motion picture for ;VenSjt Film- i i.'.i . . ■ ■■■ *■ j ■ '-r— . ■ 1 list hi* office I* of letter* daily country, and « story ejjims to be the same everywhere—11 pi to Salesmen, low values on tra<|c-|ns.” ‘ His honSe I ubcommittee on auto sales heard \ svfdencfe two weeks ago that salehniien fpr two Wash* ington new Oar'dealers took .tips of $400 ahd *$500 regularly from their customers. Yesterday, it took a look at thej tyade-4n policies of one of the nat ioa’s largest Chevro let dealers. ’ Benjamin 0u;risman. president of Ourisman Chevrolet Inc., and the Mandeli Chevrolet Co^ told the committ ee'fris firms follow waiting lists far as is hu manly possihle.! , 'rHe.said they do not require t iat prospective buy ers have usdd cars to trade pn. Two" cominitltee investigators tiestijfied ilatei t^iat the record of June sales by the two firms show ed that buye rs • without traderins had waited #n \ average of 14 months for n:w5 car*, while those with trade-insj had waited an aver age of 50 to 04 j days. One witness sjiid he was allowed $0 for a 1930 gtfdebaker which the company reso d |for $200. Another said he was jillpwed $1,352 for a 1947| Chevrolet which the company lateit resold fir t$2,l00. industry, the Swedish artist Emar Neriinan said. Sp fan, Princess Si bylla has not{ decided whether to accept the of ‘eij, he added. Nermahj sailed fop the United States aboard t|e Swedish Ameri can liner ‘.fStockpolrnii” He is-going to New York tk» work as a car toonist. f 1 I CO\CRATULATIONS deadline tries, King, _ dent, is Dec. , , exhibitors have until J( miutns will be offered exhibitors. In line with the trend of major shows, open class fat will be judged by age rather weight •»! . J° r , stuons mstory, oranman catue :r i 1 i •1 1 /l T ” n7| ll K-' ;! y: y Wl .»V.'. W •; l' ' Mm Wt 7 riment t r / , ition Hopes fo I for 4-H After a li tiPPILi exhibited. About 92,500 in premi ums VH1 be offered. General Manager Edgar Deen said more than 176,000 bas been spent paving walks, roads and parking areas and putting covers on the carlot stock shads. Thu ie W By BILL ’‘A greater Texas through enai- eering and industrial research” notes present activities of the Engineering Experiment u , as windbreaks;, essential oil i weeds; home insulation by anseed by-products; household inter heating from the ground; more reasonable shipping of ss produce to Eastern markets but a few of the experimental dies, in progress by A&M engi- ering researcher?; Major probleaia Submitted by ’tEiiL'iViS 1 .J e :: i^ls ara aet Jp a. Mperi- ’ • infer- m ti M':- stri of lesser scope. Immediate administrator of the station is Dr. A. W. Melloh, vice director, who coordinates the ret search program^ Dean H. W. Bar- low of the School of Engineering serves as director. Main .facilities of the Station are chemurgic, struc tural engineering, freight rates studies and fan testing laborator ies. The Cottonseed Products Re search Laboratory, which is oper ated jointly by the Cotton Re search committee of Texas and the Texas Engineering Experiment Station, is internationally known. Under the direction of A. Cecil Wamble, manager, the research program is conducted to utilize to the utmost cottonseed as a by product. Present eod vai seed ‘vqiMigB, traction ment for hulls as an show plant at the morial Coliseum grounds now rep resents an 93,000,000. ill Rogers Mo unds non investment of over Monger Hotel In San Antonio To Be Modernized SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Dec. 2— (A*) — San - Antonio’s historic old Menger Hotel, built before the Civil War, will be enlarged and modernized. The picturesque structure across the street from the Alamo; will have a four-story addition of 126 rooms. _ It was in the Monger’s old-fash ioned bar that Teddy Roosevelt recruited Texans to join the Rough Riders. The bar will be dismantled and incorporated into the modern ad dition. Notables who have signed the Menger register include Gen. U. S. Grant, Benjamin Harrisop, Phillip H.. Sheridan, “Buffalo Bill” Cody and Jphn J. Pershing. • Architects for the improve ments make it plain that none of the charm and dignity of the old building will be lost. The new addition will be built on th# site of - a parking lot and the old Albert Frederick Building which will be wrecked. A glass partition will separate the new lobby and the patio be hind the hotel. Irf w : . : ■; i. i SAM T. BOSWELL cashes in on Theater. He received pass through section. >ass to the Campus lion classified ad \ ! V Texas Congressmen Slated For Important Committee Positions ch covers cotton- studies. oil ex- w I Sf A propeller fan testing labora tory was started in the Engineer ing Experiment Station ili 1937 as a service to the many small fan manufacturers in Texas and other pails of the United States with an over-all objective of bringing in tegrity to the entire fan industry through proper standardization of testing facilities and procedures. Cooperating with the laboratory is the Propeller Fan Manufactur ers Association, Detroit, Michigan, nation-wide organization of axial fkin manufacturers, which has named the Texas Engineering Ex periment Station facility its sole testing laboratory. The associa tion encourages its members to do their testing through the labora tory in order that afl ratings plight be based on standard procedures. ■ The chemurgic laboratory un* der Dr. B. R. Holland, conducts chemical re*#arch. It* studies st present concern developing pro* | duct* from both uncultivated and cultivated planta and trees of Texas for commercial produc tion. The Chinese Tallow Nut true, which was Introduced in Texas several year* ago by the Forest Servicf for its utility us a wind break as well as for its soil im proving qualities, is under ex perimentation by the laboratory.- Suitable uses for its fruit are be ing determined in ord/sr that its propagation will be Economically feasible in rural ureas . About 50,000 of the Chinese Tallow Nut trees hjuve been plan ted in the Houston area for landscape ornamentation. Chemurgic researchers are also developing essential oils from un cultivated plants found growing throughout the state. Agronomy Society Elects Kelling Vice-President ‘ ■pfj j The [stability of built highway bridges tions of progress in vehicle traffic is a under study for the Administration in t: engineering research Thejse studies, j Prof. H. K. Ste L «r of the laboratory. pa U . ^ e i *;,. I ion for of the Under 1, Jr., on Deration Founda- u available of Sta- O; Tr f: 7 : •!v'' m -4i 'll i fcfH •ti' xi i IP The \ Hart to Manage New Radio Store Charles Hart, class of ’43, will manage the Aggie Radio and Ap pliance Company, soon to open at the North Gate. Thej appliance concern, a branch of the United Appliance Company in Bryan, has been in business at East Gate for several years. The Aggie Radio and Appliance Company will stock the latest in Westingbouse Appliances, as well as other leading brands of electri cal equipment. The store will also feature an ultra-modern record bar with sound proof record booths, Hart said. By TEX BASLEY AP Special Washington Service WASHINGTON,! Dec. 2 'A*) — Texas is about to pet a place ojnee more on the powerful House Rules, Cmwaiitaa, •. ; \ i Rep. John E. Lyle, Jr., of Cor pus Christi, is the man. If he makes the grade,; he will be the first Texan ; to serve on the cpm- mittee 1 singe Martin Dies of Orange, who lost a reelection-con test four years ago. Although]the Rules Committee has little glamor ifor the man ; of the street, it is; exceedingly im portant. It acts as' a sort of traffic cop for all legislation reported out of other committees and headed apparently will be theM choice succeed the late Rep. Milton West c< ? f<j>r the House Floor. If it chooses it can bottle up a measure indefi- njtely. A few members: of this commit tee in the past i have used this procedure to block Administration mils ; carrying the approval of committees which had studied tlpem thoroughly. Lyle has acquired a reputation, for his independqnce on roll call votes, but his friends say he would favoi* sending a bill to the Hous# Floor for settlement by a majori ty vote even though he personally rpight oppose it. j Rep. J. M. Combs of Beaumont Means' Committee. All tax, social security and tar iff measures in the House are re ferred to that group. It serves al so as the committee ort committees for the Majority Party, making the assignment for all other leg islative committees. Considered the most important of all house committees, its own members are elected by party cau cuses at the beginning of each congress. ' j | j- / Rep. Clark Fisher of San An gelo has been in line to succeed West , as Texas’ sole member of Ways and Means, having seniori ty oyer Combs. Combs, however, has the support of House Demo cratic leaders generally and he is expected to get the nod for the job. ^ Notwithstanding the fact that Fisher had been pledged to the backing of many of his Texas col- Willie A,. Kelling was elected vice-president of the Student Sec tion of the American Society of Agronomy at the annual conven tion held in Chicago, Illinois, No-^ vember 27. 7 i I ■! '. Kelling is a junior agronomy major from Chapel Hill, Texas. He of Brownsville on the Ways and\ W as tjje A&M alternate on the 11148 Crops Judging Team and is vice-president of the Lutheran Student Association. Twenty-two student agronomy societies from Various parts of the country \\yere represented at the Chicago convention. ‘ The Texas A &M Agrpnbmy Society, consisting of 119 members, was the second largest group represented, topped only by Oklahoma A&M College with 125 members, Kelling said. Delegates to the yonverttion front A&M were' Kelling, and Virgil Caraway, president (yf the local Agronomy Society. \ 1 — \ ■/ AIEE to Hear Engineers Tonight George N. Pingree, General' . .Electric engineer in Dallas, will' leagues, he is expected to yield j gp^k on lighting at a meeting of Decorator’s Shop ; ti- >lii ■] :.i. Fl'.-r t ^ I Lt and avoid whalt otherwise might be an unpleasant situation. It has been this ability of Tex ans in Congress to settle their differences in Ithe family, rather than airing them in public, that has contributed to their reputation and influence as a solid-front dele gation. the AIEE-IRB tonight, Norman IF. Rode, electrical engineering staff member and chapter sponsor, s^id yesterday. / The chapter will meet in tjhe Electrical Engineering Building Lecture Room, at 7:30 p.m., Rode added. Th# meeting is open to the public. The bonhre assembled crowd versiiy. -r tell the Fexas Un —*■ H: ! / choose the do Is that the j team of - t m ^airibs, i ,7 j[ gifts i the sleds . i . J i*. »hlk to illl win Ie girls . i "[ ll S. . thrill littlcj boy that will • '*• • r 'i i ' Use Our Lyy Away f ltin”. SpIJii Itnmie's Toy'jt U I *> ! i r ; - ; ■ ; ‘ j Congratulations: East Gaie — College Station ■ m ill ... 1 . s ! 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