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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
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a deficit formed by the budget the
president sent to congress yester
day.
The Democratic heads of the
Senate and House tax-writing com
mittees, Senator George of Geor
gia and Representative Doughton
of North Carolina, maintained a
cautious position. They said they
want to see how much money Con
gress votes to spend before con
sidering tax raises.
The President estimated the de
ficit for the year at $873,000,000
but he has proposed that it be
wiped out and some cash be pro
vided for national debt payment
by hiking tax rates.
In line with the president’s re
cent recommendation that most of
the requested $4,000,000,000 tax in
crease come from corporations and
perhaps from higher income groups
Rep. 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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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from
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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.
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