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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1949)
*■*' ~wnsr> Sports at Little Aggieland . Prelims in Annex Shuttle McArthur Low Complete: By F. N. MANITZAS The preliminaries of the Intramural shuttle run at Little Aggieland were completed last Sunday afternoon. Six fresh men were chosen to participate in the finals, with the highest qualifying time being 46.9 seconds and the best time, 45.2. The six men to reach the finals, which will be held as soon as weather permits were R.+ W. Anderson of Co. 2, time 46.9; J- T. Harris of the Veterans, also with 4(5.9; Reg West of Company 2, a big surprise in the 300-yard event with 46.6; Robert C. McAr thur of Co. 3, with the best time of 45.2; James A. Terry of Com pany 4, who last week won the cross-country, ran the shuttle in 46.8; and John H. Christner of Co. 5, also 46.9. Forty-five freshmen entered this intramural event, which was featured by many surprises and disappointments. E. B. Shaw fail ed to run the shuttle in the 45 seconds in which he had twice performed in the P.E. classes. Shaw disappointed his followers by his slow finish, after a too fast start. McArthur came through as expected, having an average of 47.0 seconds in his P.E. class runs. Intramural Basketball Progresses In Intramural basketball, Com pany 2 and Flight 9 may meet to decide the championship of Little Aggieland, just as they did in the flag football finals. Scores in the basketball games played last week are as follows: In League “A,” Company 8 de feated Flight 11, 23-16; Company 6 overran Company 1 by a lop-sid- tyl score of 39-10; Flight 11 down ed Company 1, 32-12; Flight 9 edg ed out Company 8, 35-25. In League “B” Flight 12 raced through the Veterans, 4'2-15; "Company 3 downed the Veter ans, 31-26 in a close one; Com pany 5 lost a hard one to Flight 12, 11-26; Company 5, in one of the biggest surprises of the week, defeated Company 2 by a 24-23 score. This loss by Company 2 was partly blamed on the absence of Danny Waddle, in bed with the flu. Company 7 defeated the winless Vets, 40-22. Baptist Pastors Slate Bryan Meet Evangelism will be the emphasis ivhen the Creath-Brazos Baptist Association meets for its confer- -gnce at the First Baptist Church in Bryan Monday. Reverend A. W. Todd of Madi- sonville will give a report of the State Evangelistic Conference held in Fort Worth. Rev. H. A. Lee of Dacus will speak on the “Sunday School and Evangelism,” while Earl Rose, editor of the Longhorn will tell of what Aggie students are doing for rural churches in the association. Jimmy Ray of Bryan will lead the song service. Rev. J. M. Johns of Wellborn will read the scrip ture, and Mrs. R. W. Butler of J3ryan will sing a solo. St. Thomas’ Will Choose New Vestrymen Vestrymen for the coming year will be chosen at the an nual parish meeting of St. Thomas’ Episcopal Chapel of Houston along with delegates and alternates to the centenial observance and council of the Diocese of Texas in Houston this month. The meeting will be held at 6:30 p. m., Wednesday. A pageant is slated to be stag ed by the Drama Department of the University of Houston which will present a history of the church in Texas since its founding by a “foreign missionary,” Rev. Caleb Ives, a century ago. Depicted will be scores of color ful characters of frontier days such as hunters, cowboys in buck skin, slaves, sunbonneted women, and soldiers of the war between the states. A covered dish supper will be served to approximately 150 of ficers and members at the parish meeting, principal annual busi ness session of the church. During the three days of the Centenial Council, an historic ex hibit in Christ Church, Houston, will show old documents, letters and other mementos so valuable that a detective guard will be maintained. BANDLEADER—Vaughn Monroe, popular singing orchestra leader. He studied voice in preparation for the concert stage before forming his band. Vaughn Monroe and his Or chestra have been scheduled to appear in College Station for the Military Ball February 12. Market Survey Of Annex Students Now Underway The Bryan Field Annex is being surveyed this week by interviewers for the Student Publications Col lege Market Survey. Ten percent of the Annex students will be in terviewed by the group. 121 students will be contacted— 111 cadets and 10 married veter- The survey for the Annex is be ing made by members of the Freshman Batt. Anyone interested in aiding the project is urged to contact Dean Reed in the Student Center Battalion office. These survey forms will aid the Battalion in putting their adver tising on a scientific basis, Roland Bing, director of Student Publica tions, said. Names of persons interviewed will not be asked, since the suh- vey is a general one and not per sonal. 1949 U.S. Budget: Who ’ll Pay For It? By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (A*)— Low and middle salary groups ap peared likely today to escape any general income tax boosts this year in spite of a record $41,858,- 000,000 peacetime budget. But there was fairly general agreement in both Democratic and Republican ranks that if President Truman’s spending program for the fiscal year starting July 1 is to be followed, someone is going to have to ante up more money. Also, if his social welfare pro posals are enacted millions of workers and their employers will have larger payroll taxes. Republicans shouted for econo my. They pointed to the spectre of How to Stop The Grime Wave Not by concealing dirt—but by driving it out! We expertly, thoroughly clean every garment, put new life into it. Preserve your clothes—send them to us. CAMPUS CLEANERS "Over The Exchange Store" IMMIE’S SPECIAL! Pram Suits for Boys and Girls ... Sizes 0 & 1 Were $9.95 & $12.95 Now $6.95 & $7.95 Snow Suits for Boys and Girls... 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Eberharter (D-Pa), coming up with a tax plan, said he believes increases should be aimed at cor porations and persons whose in comes are $16,000 a year or more. Some Democrats contended that in view of the president’s and their own campaign utterances, they could not logically support tax in creases on lower income groups. They hammered hard during the 1948 electioneering at the Republi can-passed tax bill of 1948 which they claimed gave the most relief to the most wealthy. Some Republicans joined with Democrats in approving the presi dent’s request to expand social se curity insurance by hiking from one to one and one-half per cent next July 1 the old age insurance payroll tax on workers and adding 20,000,000 people to the 30,000,000 now covered. There was less sup port for his proposed health in surance program—to be financed the first year by a payroll tax of one-fourth of one per cent on em ployes and the same amount on employers. (The health tax would rise steeply after the first year). The two plans together would raise payroll taxes about $2,000,- 000,000 the first year. SOUTH BEND, Ind. — (A>) Quarterback Frank Tripucka com pleted his four years of football at Notre Dame with a pass com pletion percentage of .567. The slender New Jersey boy hit on 80 of his 141 passes for 1,122 yards and 15 touchdowns. Tripucka’s .567 completion average tops Johnny Lujack’s .514 for three seasons and Angelo Bertelli’s .622 for three years. Tons of low grade diamonds and diamond dust are used by industry for abrasives. • RECORDS • RADIOS School & Office Supplies ALL YOUR NEEDS HASWELL’S Freshman Ball Scheduled For March 4 Ingles Shifts Drill Team To 12-Man Squads The Freshman Exhibition Drill team has begun drilling again after a two week recess for the Christmas holidays. Richard Ingles, drill commander, has shifted the team into three squads of twelve men each, in stead of the former four squads with nine men each. The commander of last year’s Annex drill team spoke to the members last week and introduced several new drills. He gave ideas on personal inspections, drilling, and discipline for the members to think about. At present the drill team is training for an exhibition for General K. L. Berry of the Fourth Army on January 20. Gen. Berry is chief of the Texas Military District. The team now has its own rifles to drill with each afternoon.‘The rifles are cleaned and kept in good order by the members. A committee is working out the details for the official uniform to be worn by the team in their ex hibition drills for the remainder of the year. FRESHMEN THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1949 Page 3 AIR-MINDED MUSICIANS—Bandleader Vaughn Monroe and Tony Lane trade sharps and flats for nuts and bolts as they work on the engine of Vaughn's pldhe. A licensed pilot, Vaughn does most of his flying during one-nighter tours. Student Registration Will Begin at Annex January 31 All new Annex students will reg ister Monday, January 31, Dr. J. P. Abbott, dean of the college at the Annex, has announced. All stu dents who attended during the fall semester, will register Tuesday, February 1. Old students who are on proba tion at the end of the semester will meet with their advisors Mon day, January 31, at 8 a.m. in the chapel. Both old and new students will register at the gymnasium on their respective days. They will register alphabetically. Schedule for this registration will be posted in all barracks prior to the date listed for reg istering. Concerning those freshman who wish to change their schools (from Arts and Sciences to School of En gineering, for example), Dr. Ab bott said, “The change may be made by filing a change of curric ulum card in the office of the Dean of the College.” Several new courses will be added to the curricula during the spring semester. Extra courses in agricultural eco nomics, education, psychology, English, geography, and rural sociology will be offered. These courses will be open to stu dents who have the sufficient num ber of grade points required to take the additional courses. Members of the Class of ’52 may be justly proud of their small schol astic deficiency list, Dr. Abbott said. With 279 men on the list, this is only 21.5% of the number of enrolled students. At the same time last year, the Class of ’51 had less men, 241, but a higher percentage, 23.4%. The total num ber of students lost by the fresh man class this year is 5.7% thus far, while last year’s loss was 7.5%. With the exception of shifting some of the faculty members in the various schools, no major changes are expected in the An nex faculty. More information of the sched ule and method of registration, data on fees for the spring semes ter, and elective courses will be released in next Thursday’s issue of the Freshman Batt. In a message to the freshman class, Dr. Abbott said “Do not let down. These last two weeks can mean the difference between pass ing or failing or between a C or a B grade. They can assure a stu dent of being ready for the final examination, which counts as one- third of the semester grade.” Photos Scheduled for Fourth, Fifth, and Ninth Companies Pictures for the freshman section of the 1949 annual are being taken daily at the Annex Student Center between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., but progress has been slow, the Annex photographer has announced. The Veterans and Company 2 were scheduled to be photographed individually last> week, while Company 1 was to be taken last Friday and Monday. The Third Company appeared Tuesday and Wednesday. The following schedule is an nounced for next week: January 13-14, Fourth Company January 17-18, Ninth Flight January 19-20, Fifth Company No pictures will be taken on Saturdays at the Annex. On January 15, Companies 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 will have their company pictures made in front of the Administration Building on the campus, weather permit ting. Busses will load at 12:30 p.m. with the first two compa nies, the second two companies at 1:45 p.m., and the last two at 3 p.m. Men desiring to return to the Annex may board busses FRESHMAN STAFF Editor Managing Editor Feature Editor Sports Editor News Editor Reporters, Columnists.. Chief Photographer- Military Editor Club Editor. — Dean Reed L. O. Tiedt - G. F. “Fig” Newton Frank N. Manitzas - A. C. Margoitta ..Bill Thompson, Zane Martin, Weldon Aldridge, David Rice, Alfred Thorpe, E. W. Neuvar, Fred Stanley, Jack Skiles, Lynn Houser, Joe Creighton, R. A. Moreland, David Darter, Jerry Houser Hank Cole — John Tapley H. M. Corl The Freshman Page, newspaper of the Texas A. & M. Annex freshmen, is published each Thursday as an inside page of the BATTALION, and is sponsored by SaU Southwell, faculty advisor. News contributions ma: may be made at the Freshman BATTALION office in Student Center at the Annex. CONGRATULATIONS The United Appliances, Inc. on Their new College Station Store, The Aggie Radio & Appliance Shop from Sterling Radio Products Company Distributors HOUSTON, TEXAS as soon as pictures are finished and busses return, according to the announcement made last week by Truman Martin, co-edi tor of the annual. Companies 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 were taken to the campus last Saturday to be photographed for their company pictures. Cadets should wear the number one uniform with ties and blouses for both the individual pictures and the company pictures, Martin said. NSLI Beneficiary Changes Should Be Made Now; Varnell Veterans who wish to change the beneficiary of their National Ser vice Life Insurance policies should do as soon as possible, J. R. Var nell contact representative for the Veterans Administration, said yes terday. have married since leaving the army have failed to change the beneficiary of their NSLI policies. He pointed out that the person in sured is the only one who can change beneficiaries. Veterans de siring to change should fill out specified forms and indicate the manner in which they want bene ficiaries to receive payments, Var nell said. Necessary forms for changing may be obtained from Varnell in Room 260 Bizzell Hall on Tuesdays and Thursdays, or in Room 305, Varisco Building, Bryan, on Mon day, Wednesday and Friday. Veterans holding National Ser vice Life Insurance may take one of four different options for pay ment of insurance to beneficiaries. Class Officers Will Select Orchestra and Time for Dance The annual Freshman Ball will be held Friday night, March 4, Luke Harrison, dean of men at the Annex, an nounced early this week. This announcement was made to correct the date printed last week in the Spring Social Calendar by the Battalion, + which listed the event as February 11, the night before the Military Ball. Boatner, Melcher Speak to Freshmen Colonel H. L. Boatner, comman dant of the college, spoke, along with Assistant Commandant Lt. Col. Robert L. Melcher, and the Annex tactical officers at a Mon day night meeting of all freshman officers and barracks CQ’s. The meeting was called to im press upon the freshman officers the importance of adhering to the military regulations set forth by the college. Cadet’s 201 file re ports were passed out to the bar racks charge of quarters at the meeting, to be endorsed, studied, and returned to the military de partment in the near future, Col. Melcher said. The new date seems to be ideal, Harrison said, because the Sports Day program will be held the fol lowing day, March 5, making it very convenient for the girls here for the ball to be present for Sports Day also. The change was made neces sary to give the various commit tees who will be in charge of arrangements more time to plan the event. Place, time, and orchestra for the ball have not been announced, but these will be determined as soon as the Freshman Class offi cers are elected and committees are appointed. Rooms will be avail able at the Annex for guests, Har rison added. Cadet Leadership, Character Forms Distributed at Annex Cadet’s Leadership, Character,-f and Personality Report forms were passed out to each Annex fresh man early this week, Lt. Col. Rob ert L. Melcher, commandant for the Annex, announced today. These forms will be filled twice each year by the Annex officers and will be entered into the cadet’s permanent 201 file, Melcher said. The blanks were distributed to the Annex cadets so that they might see on what points they would be graded by their officers. This distribution coincided with the issuance of Special Order No. 23 by the commandant’s office, concerning the importance of the cadet’s 201 file. “The 201 file for each cadet in cludes not only his disciplinary record, but also his number of unexcused class and military ab sences, his honors awarded, his military appointments, promo- Members of Batt Staff Visit Annex The Freshman Batt staff was visited by Tom Carter, co-editor of the Battalion, Roland Bing, di rector of Student Publications, and several members of the Batt staff at their regular meeting last night in the Student Center Batt office. Advantages of writing for the Batt during the freshman year and prospects for the future years were discussed along with a gen eral discussion of the newspaper work. Refreshments were served aft erwards. Next meeting of the staff will be held on Tuesday, January 18, with members of the college’s De partment of Journalism having been invited to attend. tions and demotions (for cause), class offices held, good and bad comments from instructors re garding his appearance and atti tude in class, a record of his physical examination, and an evaluation each semester by Army Officers of the cadet’s leadership ability, personality and character,” the report stat ed. “The 201 file accompanies the cadet through his entire college career at Texas A&M; it contin uously is being added to and sup plemented by information received from a variety of sources,” Melcher said. Each cadet will be allowed to in spect his file the last week ol school. (Editor’s Note: In next Thurs day’s edition of the Freshman Batt^ a feature story on the authentici ty and the remarkable complete< ness o fthe cadet’s 201 file will be printed.) Movie Schedule Given for Rivoli Tom Puddy, theater director for the college, has announced movies to be shown at the Rivoli, Annex theater, the next week. Saturday, January 15—“Bury Me Dead.” Sunday, January 16—Double fea ture, “So Well Remembered,” with Martha Scott and John Mills. Wednesday, January 19—“It’s a Joke, Son.” Box office hours are listed at the theater, Puddy said. RADIATOR TROUBLE ? ? ? Efficient One Day Service f? iTrarit Dishman Pontiac Co. 100 N. Parker Bryan Phone 2-1685 MID-WINTER CLEARANCE SALE Prices Reduced 25% to 75% Sport Shirts Sweaters Skiing Jackets Wool & Flannel Bath Robes Smoking Jackets The Exchange Store “Serving Texas Aggies”