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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1948)
r-" • i K.x ••• / f W. ' —- PMiiilPPH Flag FootbaU Champs A the Annex are, pictured above. , Members of the Company 2 team top row, in the usual j>rdef, Charles Lampkiti, Ref West^(captaln), _ Buddy Corbett, Boone Go' >• tup ruw, in uiu u^uui uiuci, u»i In the lower row tire Greg Dickinson, J. Arm and Danny Waddle.! * ’ . ^ i i 1 Sports at little gi j a Company 2 old Damon, Henderson Murray, Albert Lee ■rain? ■ Aggieland Wins F Championship »re, wer. Gruhlkey, I ■ — t r Annex Christmas Party Scheduled In Student Center By ALFRED THORPE The annual Annex Christmas jI i Party will be held December 14, Company 2 defeated Flight 9.by a 12-7 score to win the at 7:30 p.m. in the student Center, — * n Annex intramural lootbaii championship, it was company 2, who with Reg best’s passing to Greg^lickinson and Dan ny Waddle, that surged out in front ear y in the game, Henderson Murray, hustling Company 2 cienter, caught a pass from West for th<| firsts T. D. Waddle’s extra point kick was blocked by Flight 9, Company 2's lead was short' lived for the kick-off by Waddle was taken by Flight 9’s Monahan flash, Melville Uechi, who caught the ball on his own 15-yard lino and; rtin It back all the way for a t<uchdo\yn for Flight 9. i in ; T This run by Ucrhl wss arcom- pllshed by the' magnificent team work and blocking iof Flight r 9 and the running; ability of yechi. The conversion kick by Qjulncy Bedsole was good, and the air men led Company 2 the rest of the first hal£\ Heads up football! was the type being played by Hordce Atpipp of Flight 9 when ne mad<? a sejerning- ly impossible interception of! a pass thrown by Reg West and to! Company In ; ii* ball down yard line. 1 An incompleted pa 9l ran oub th«< play# in the first half. The second haft started with Company 2 staging a comeback M$th a long, pass frirni West to Boone Gower, who cajught the ball at the same time a* a Flight 9 player on the 10-yard iinei Lewis Jobe, head intramural of ficial of the game* quoted a rule that stated the Company £ keeps the ball and went ;on with the n the ’s one game. Dickinson was [hit by a pass touch down of the day forj Deucje Com pany. Waddle’s extra, point kick was low and wide. Uechi kept the backfield of Company 2 on the run with quick short passes all over the field Inally brought Flight to Deuce Company’s that finall; down 1» 9 by Flight yard line. Another: run by t ! 9 now set the ball on the League A champions’ four-yard line. Passes were now tmeker than a swarm'of freshmen ] runrang for mess as Uechi 'iried desperately to score with an air attack. The ball went, over to Company 2, Who ran out the remaining four plays to become the 11948 champions of in tramural football ;at the Annex. This champ onship game between two gret teajms ended the intramu ral football at Little Aggieland for the year. STATISTICS Company 2 Flight 9 Score .....................^...12 'Pashes 1.41 , 8 Passes comjleted L. 6 8 Passes Intel copied!;.. 0 ^ Finit downs jj... G 6-0* and 6-1. Intramural basketball began at Little Aggiftand lust week with six games hieing played in League A and League B. In’League: A, Flight 11 downed Company 6, 24- 17; Company 4 defeated Company 6 by a scori! of 32-18; Company 8 ran through Company 4, 30-4. In League B, Company 7 d«* feated Company 3, 35-15; Calm-, party 7 ronrped over Company, 5, 30-15; Company 5 defeated Com pany 3, 21- !0 in the closest game played at he Annex this year. In the firqt match on intramural tennis played in the doubles tpur-i ney, Quincj-Bedsole and Charles Beasley def< ated Eric Holland and Janjies Farrell in two straight sets,; said Mrs. Ann Hilliard, hostess 'jft the Annex. Featuring the entertainment for Ithe program will be the! “Singing Cadets,” who will come out from the campus for the occasion. Sev- -eral student numbers will be; held also. Everyone will be given copies Iof the Christmas carols: and will join the Cadets in singing them. the faculty, staff, and students of the Annex. The Student Center will be gayly decorated, showing the Christmas spirit. Mrs. Hilliard said “We’re going to try to make the Student Center look like a big Christmas tree!” Refreshments will be served at the affair. All Aninex Clubs Must ; Fsfjrj ■ ' V- f Register Luke Hairison, dean of men, at the Annex, has announced thajtjall: Annex elubn should be registered in his offiq} as soon as possible. At present, Harrison says, there are only three or.four clubs offi cially regis;ered, but there are many more known to be active at the Annex. The clubs are also urged to con tact H. M. Corl, club editor of the Freshman Batt for announcements and news ojf their respective club meetings tot be published, ] « i si j I ^ f Every dlay is Christinas when you treat the! Family to j eUb Krernn Delicious ice cr^, each meal a holidt " - J 1 , '• | LillyIc, — ■ V-.i . the perfect toijch that makes For tops ill ice cream, its m : ' | : ];— . 1^*4 "j Ik ‘ . •I- ] ikki any f — “IT (• THURSDAY, Vlj ' n — ■n 9,1948 ■l.- ■ PageS Editorials MHHB a given a rating of 90% of the State Health De- * But undoubtedly the nd not the quality of the bod, for if It was, it is ; Wv; r i | |] : .. '/i ■' / ;• : Zapata Named Coin - r « L Annex Fres M Christinas Spirit Noted in Annex Church Activities By DAVID RipE * I • I j-- ' Church activities have taken on a Christmas' atmosphere lately at the Annex, as .most churches and religious groups are sponsoring seasonal parties. The A&M Methodist Church and Wesley Foundation held a “Dr. L K.” program, in the chapel Wednes day. It was a quiz program Which gave all the boya. present a chance to show their knowledge of the Bible. The Freshman Baptist Student Union is sponsoring a game party in the gymnasium at 7 p.m. Satur day.. Everyone is invited. Cars will meet at the chapel at 6:30 December 15 to carry stu dents to the A&M Methodist Church for the Christmas program there. Box Rent May Be Paid This Week Post office box rent dues for the Annex station may be paid begin ning at th4 end of this week, T. O. Walton, postmaster at the Annex, has announced. Many of the freshmen only paid $1.00 when they received their boxes, but it was only part pay ment, he said. The box rent will be 75<‘ for the jbonths of Janu ary, February, and March, or you may pay for the remaind«r of the tern). The rent on the boxes must be paid by January 1, therefore Walton advises students to pay be fore the holidays, since they will not return to scnool until Janu ary 3, '• / .• ] • Mcholars believe that the gypsy tribes which have been wwiuMnir across Europe since the UHli cen tury are remnants of an ancient tribe from India, The I Argent . • . ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE STORE In Bryan- Come In and Me us for large or small appliances: Radios .. electric irons STUDENT LAMPS FLOOR LAMPS PRESTO COOKERS COFFEE MAKERS KELVIN ATOR . . HOT POINT —and many other usefuls— UNITED I' APPLIANCES FARM ft HOME STORE ft AGGIE RADIO Phone 2-1496 Ud Meab,1V& ] I j .. I., J ;. V f I. m The Annex mesft-hull has perfection by u Survey Commit psnmeiii. Thftfc is well and place was graded on itn sanitation food noit thbifiroparation of the doubtful that the establishment could have passed. Meals at the Annex mess-hall! have been the recipients of the, usual aniny gripe, but early this week the meals hit a new low, if possible. For instance, on the breakfast tray one received Monday morning, there was the following: 2 hard-boiled eggs (they were supposedly boiled, but many claim differently), 2 pieces of the usual cement toast, no meat of any type or description (not unusual at the Annex mess-hall), ah in finitely small amount of jelly, the regular square of butter. These were accompanied by a one-half pint bottle of milk, which was supposedly to be used on the Kellogg’s variety of cereals at your disposal. This is a long way from the ideal breakfast and still quite a distance from a not-so-hot breakfast. 1 The latest meal situation is not just a series of gripes, but it Is accompanied by actions. Not to be reprimanded for an “air-raid” or the like, many freshmen just politely turned their trays of this so-called food over on the table, and walked on. In another instance, a note was found from an agitated fish telling the people responsible to eat the stuff (?) themselves, for he had rather starve first. Of course, upon occasions of visitation by prominent college officials, such as Colonel H. L. Boatner, the com mandant, or by the Melody Maids of Beaumont, the food im proves almost to the point of non-cognizance. Then, too, next Tuesday the Christmas meal will be served and will undoubtedly be, like the Thanksgiving meal, quite edible. But can even the lowly freshman survive on two good meals a year? We cannot berate only the breakfast, though. The oth er two meals have certainly done their share towards in creasing the anjtagonization ;towards the mess-hall. At the noon meal, the amount increases over brakfast as it should, but many times the quality /remains the same. A lunch at the Annex will have some sort of meat, usually low-grade, on4 or two vegetables—one of which is always mashed; botatoes with stale gravy—and the usual dessert. One point in defense of the mess-hall has been discovered. It serves good dessert. The most common of the many complaints has reached the campus. It is rumored there that the freshmen at the Annex uo not get seconds on the bullneck—meat to the inno cents. It is no rumor, but the truth. Meat at the second helping stand is no more common than snow in the tropics. Standing second on the list is the lack of milk. Freshmen are still growing boys, and should be given more than just two one-half pints of milk each day, half the prescribed amount. The Freshman Battalion has made its own non-Gallup survey and has come up with the following results. Th< survey was to have decided whether the Annex fish liked the food and service at the campus better than here. Let it now be known that not one man volunteered information that he chose the latter. The opinion poll fell flat. General opinion seems to say that it is not so much the food itself, but it is the preparation that invokes so many uncomplimentary remarks. i 1 | . i {Company 1 Is First in Annex j [i i j . . ' \ ■' • ,< Competition By JOHN TAPLEY Company 1 is at present the outstanding company in the freshman regiment. This an*? nouncement came from Ser geants J. J. Hammond,, and J. C. Thomas, Tuesday after noon, December 7. The sec ond place company is Com pany 2, while Flight 11 placed third. Col. R. L. Melcher, commandant of the Annex, announced the/win ners of the Austin , corps trip Pa rade Tuesday afternoon. They ate Company 8, first place; Company 2, second, and Company 3, third. At the regimental review held Monday afternoon, December 6, Col. H. L. Boatner, commandant of the tollef*,/ spoke to the freshman regiment. Col. Boatner thanked the outgoing freshman ofifeers for a good job and their cooperation m forming the fifth regiment. Dr. J. B. Abbott, Dean of the College Annex, also spoke. Dr. Ab bott congratulated the outgoing officers and welcomed the ntw freshman officers, in behalf of the faculty at the Anhex. No grading wa s done on the re view; however, Col. Melcher stated that all companies looked good. The Company „ Annex Freshmen will Hatnrday afternoon, f 11. Earl Rose. Lon/ editor, has announced, 2 All members ofTthe Freeh* map Companies should remain at the Annex that wrfk<eml and have their uniforms pressed in time for tk# nictnrii $o be made, Rose added. Fourth Fiscal Payment Now Due The fourth fiscal payment will be due at the Annex Fiscal Office by Wednesday, December 15, B. F. Troalek, Annex manager, has an nounced. This payment,. for the usual room rent, board, and laun dry, will be $49, Late payments will be fined ac cording to the General Bulletin is*- sued by the college, Trealek con cluded. I 1 Boland Zapata, Antonio, has the frefhman sleased by the Of * RpilHH ‘electrical appointed accoi Indent, released oy tne uince oi‘ the Comr Zapata will hold the rank of free — • '"4 ItM m l)rill Team New Name, New Constituti \ By JOHN TAPI ‘The Freshman Volunteers’ tie tlfo will g?|| a leal ■ ’id bo as. freftfimun J officer J. w. Nswly talioh erwoto* from manding Uati Mr: officer, Theroei ron, the their iri M.i, *ive bffi/ 8to a nt e lieu: Wi.Ri intal it period ssrvii uni firm nuil In W. Cool 'ring silud the Flint Inhett ifm Is a ;>tv«vir' Iwill ■ idet the |pft., *»i ppoii |ms V! IT' ’ • r negring Texan. New band, Gbi of Dgllw G. D, Kri pany 2 Chambers for Goinw from Dal!; is now the official title of the ^ Annex exhibition drill iteam. The name 1 was decided Upon at a meeting of the team Fri day afternoon, December 3. A constitution for tH*‘ group, drawn up by the officers, wis presented to the members and accepted.- 1 J . • J The team has been drilling every afternoon, but rifles Were first used in a twO-hour^aU/pday after noon drill. Drill Dirpctor Richard Ingles introduced VweWl nfew drills to the members,. w ho have; been cut down to about $t) men. Rifles were secured fopthe team by Lt. Col. R. L. Melcher. cqmman- drint .at the Annex. The. team has also been recognized aa. hn extra curricular activity, which Will per- n)it it to travel to different ciHei for exhibitions. Uniforms ha been planned and vofod on, by they nave not as vet been pre sented to Col. Melcher for apr proval. ■•]:' 1 ■ The team held its ficst exhibi tion at the regimental review, Moni day, November 21. . | i ■ J mm dent from ng officer •ral order . this week, nt colon/‘I. bard Ingles,! ij cotnmamUr the year, |1 March 21, xecutiva of- Igo. ft chem- ( of Dallas, itUllon will Iraun, Tex- rlnury stu- ’ rank of Executlvo Battalion ia thejrl Dallas man. Bat- L. Leath- ticulttare i Purme major' jumonlti. Farmer com- ffire? of Oompasy 5, II hoM the Vank I.<K kridge from ill be the sec- executive Battalion, ‘the third Squad- ir GOrps, Will have for nding officer, Herbert | of Fi rt Wbrth. Execil- for the |squadron is an aeronautical engi- fudent friojn Amarillo, tpany commander of the kny;;, is Kj. M. (^>qper, ;Sec4i d in | command is ledy if Htiuston. Com- lommqndei^ is Earl L. Pask Executive is Ddnny Waddle v 1 j impany 3 how has F. W. Snydec. Jf - of Browawood, Tex- aK g. KjSchneder is executive officer. The.:list Of the First Battalion] ropiinandiiig officers licOHija, company com pany 4. Nicosia try student from •I ;V Editor L Managing Editor: . Feature Editor Sports Editor i..U News Editor Reporters. Columnists,. j... ■ Chief Photographer...'..; Military Editor Club Editor J.... FRESHMAN STAFF j — ...Dean Reed L. O. Tiedt ....j... —t G. F. “Fy’. Newton J.. - Frank N. Manitxaa ....i... ►.... — A. C. Margoitta Bill Thompson, Zane Martin, Weldon Aldridge, David Rice, Alfred Thorpe. E. W. Neuvar, Fred Stanley, Jack Skilps, Lynn Houser, Joe Creighton, R. A. Moreland, David DarteT, Jerry Houser ..J.] 1 - .Rank Cpl« l } .........John Tapler r . ; H. M. Cor! Ji U Ii , .. J i i The Freshman Page, newspaper »f the Texas A. It M. Annex freshmen, is publishel each Thursday as an inside Jiage of the BATTALION, and is sponsored by Stq Southwell, News Student Cdn faculty advisor. contributions may be made at the Freshman BATTALION office in tiu itek. at ‘ ' the Annex. Journalism Club Meets Wednesday The Journalism Club of the An- nex will meet Wednesday night, December 15, in the Freshman Batt office in the Student Center, ac cording to G. P| “Fig" Newton, president) of the klub. •; At thei meeting, which will fol low the regular Freshman Butt staff meeting, a constitution drawn up by Newton and E, W, Neuvar will be presented (for approval, Al- so, an official name will be select- wMiH’ the club, The group wan: organised sev- eral weeks ago ami lllans to lie. eome quite active after the first of I he year, v , Ollier of fleers in the rlub are A, (!, Margoitta*; viiie.presidenti ami Weliltin Alilridge, secretary- treasure?, | >||]i AIR BRARUII 18 i DlMCONTINUROi HOUBtrON, Taxi, the, 9 <*u. yes- tnm a missing in The Air:Force resrue ftervlce ed aeai jpersom their private plan# since terday abandoned search fi Allentown, Pa., ber 18. ovem- • R1 RDS School Tv / 't' I' TiJ' New Officers Meet With Captain Wood I The newly-appointed Second Bat talion freshman officers and non commissioned officers met with Captain W. B. Wood, tactical of ficer for this battalion, Monday night at 7 in Barracks T-186. This was the first meeting of the new officers and non-coms, and was called by Gapt. Wood to acquaint the men with their re sponsibilities as freshman officers. Throughout the brief meeting, Capt. Wood stressed leadership ana the qmttitles of • good leader, “A leader cannot expect his men hinff xm ‘ to do anything that he does not do, so set a good exatnple for the men In your command/’ he said, MAKHIIAL1, “EXCELLENT" AFTER OPERATION WAHHINtlTON, Dee. 9 <*»- Men clary of (Hate Marshall under* went a Kidney oMratluu Tuesday at the Army’s Walter Rsed Hos pital. Ha Is reported "doing excel. Ha is reported "doing excel either the State Department hospital authoritise would de- the nature of the surgery, nor lently," Nelth nor 1 tail the nature its seriousness. SAVE ON YOUR INSURANCE NEEDS Call today about our...' 20% RATE REDUCTION Billie Mitchell,’42 STATE FARM INSURANCE COMPANIES Phone 4-7269 Above Aggieland Pharmacy AUTO — LIFE — FIRE V! ]■ hi *99 „ mender MP Gonpar is a ; nre-iwterinlary HouiitonJ ]Exec itive officer for Company ;4 ia I. Rj Vandiver. In Company 6, P. |Q. Eckles lias followed Lcatheiwootl as comman- 1 der.. Eckikli i» a business major from Hobbtop. E. W. Helms is executive i officer for I Company 5. S Q. M* Fox U the new Icpmpany com- maniier fir C<u ipariy 7, with II. M. NewXtfom exOcUtlye officer. For t'oinptmy 8 R. R. Streiekci't is the coramgndpr, while Kenneth Wlggln* ‘ In the of San the. executive. r <)or »m, I. H. Blacknlor , tortio is Flight Ws new {icomihundef* wit 1 * J- A- Beyer new ’lexeeuttveilfflKu- Archie Htalllngs, Jr., anf mitlca I engineering student fMm loustoii is now flight commahdfcf ojf Giglis 10. Execu tive bfflceir for 1 his flight is W. B. Kennard. flight ll’ji! commanding officer * is 'A. 'C Burjchulter. Eric Carlson, ap efor omit student from Elgin, Texas/ is the rlew executive officer of jiFligh: 11. In Flight 12, W. R» Wainack s the commanding; officer and K'. ^...Sexiton is execu tive offlcef ; All ceaipany and flight com- manderN ] huv« the rating of freshman c*del captains, while the> com pan y ixeci live officers are ranked as freshman cadet firnt. lieutenant i. This lafost promo'ion list signi fies a tU Tiovor of officers and coiHhiijHi 0,1|i d officers. There are approximate y 279' of these men in the frashmau reirjmeht at the Annex, f j ■ J Several members of the Annex Tumbling Team are si hown-abo with their sponsor, N. A. Pohthieux. On top of the bar are Harold E. Cottle, Lowell A. Holmes, and Richard D. Westcott. /Under the bar ia Charles L. Geraghty. Catholic Chapel i Planned for A&M By A. C. MAROOITTA Plan* for the erection of n new chapel for Homan Catholic Aggie* at AftM were announced to the Newman Club by Pne*lile«H 0. P, Walker at the la*t riuh meeting, The student * did not have a' place to meet olher than class* rooms, so the Knights of Colum> bus built the present chapel In 1981. The chapel Is now Inadequate to meet the needs. Funds will be obtained for the construction through eolicltation 0< donations. For each one-dollar donation*] there is a possibility of winning $5,000 or $1*000 in United States War Bonds, Walker said, This measure to raise the nicest nary $100,000 comes* iU) a c about Jan. 31 r 1949. The projet »pon»orrd by the Galveston, ae Aggie Chapel Building mittee. ex* i 5 '* i OFFICERS''^*' I NOI NO IlNlSsiM'tMOtieipf ayftLyj.igtgD nr* eiu* K lBh w .fi.7ajk ?ih'si..^( loo \| Enjoy EnsliHh? llgJ ] See Spilth well All •freihihan EnHiah students , who’huriMpbstid an! "A" or “B” in their Kjnglisl Coidsc are urged - ’ to attend ja hie< ting in the Fresh man Batt; offici t, Thursday night, December .9. The melting has !)een called by ’ Sam , Southwell, a i number of the English dlpsim lent at the Annejx and fepoiisor pf 1 ;He Freshman Batt artd peon’. Rued freshman editpr. U-pnounji'enjen ^s ojf the meeting have.alftuibeen made through each teacher int the Lngli|ih department. \ ChMMO A:ETj!!.,.>:L < V 11 / ■.Kr A X; \: iX. , ) ,-Vf /, b‘b j'\ v ; 1 f Ii*' * . i • •xl Hi r ! !' ' •Uii ->