NEWS
In Brief
FEDERAL HOUSING OFFICIALS
MOVE TO BACK EVICTION
DALLAS, Feb. 4 —(#)— Feder
al Housing officials here have mov
ed to block eviction of two Dallas
tenants under a justice court or
der. The Federal Government
claims the eviction order consti
tutes an effort to evade rent regu
lations.
Acting on petitions by the office
of housing expediter Federal Judge
William H. Atwell cited Herman
Voss, landlord, and Roby Love,
Dallas constable, to appear at 10
a. m. Friday to show why they
should not be enjoined from carry
ing out an eviction order issued
Jan. 29. The order was issued by
Justice John E. Baldwin against
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Edward Slough
tenants in the east side apartment.
The OHE petition recited Voss
was required to refund $72 in rent
al overcharges to Mr. and Mrs.
Slough. Three days later, the OHE
alleges, Voss sent the couple notice
to vacate.
OHE alleged Voss sent a notice
to vacate for “non payment of
rent.”
OHE claims Slough tendered $7
a week rental, the maximum under
the rent ceiling, and that Voss re-
fised to accept it.
PALESTINE MEDIATOR ASKS
FOR ARAB REPRESENTATIVES
RHODES, Feb. 4 —<A>)— With
Israeli-Egyptian talks still snag
ged over the boundary question, a
United Nations spokesman indicat
ed yesterday the Palestine media
tor hopes to have all of Israel’s
enemy Arab states represented at
the Rhodes Armistice talks within
a week.
Thus far only Trans - Jordan
has accepted the invitation. King
Abdullah has hailed it as a step
toward ending the Palestine war.
In Damascus, a Syrian foreign of
fice spokesman said his government
has been in touch with the other
Arab states, seeking coordinated
action on the invitation, but he
said Syria has not replied one way
or the other.
The invitation was issued by Dr.
Ralph Bunche, the mediator, on
Jan. 30, and asked the Arab states
to be represented at Rhodes with
in 10 days. Other Arab states who
received the bid were Saudi Arabia
Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen. The Is
raeli talks with the Egyptians have
been going on for 22 days.
The chief snag in the discussions
continues to be a dividing line in
the Negev Desert area in Southern
Palestine.
SENATE COMMITTEE
SCHEDULES BILL HEARINGS
AUSTIN, Feb. 4 —UP)— The
Senate Finance Committee has set
public hearings on bills as follows:
Feb. 7 To appropriate $4,196,075
for rehabilitation and $539,398 for
emergency expenses of the Texas
prison system and to abolish an
obsolete prison fund.
Feb. 9 to appropriate $1,000,000
to establish a University of Texas
Medical School at San Antonio.
Feb. 14 To appropriate $3,600-
000 to create a Southwestern Medi
cal College of the University of
Texas at Dallas.
Feb. 16 To appropriate $300,000
to improve Palo Duro State Park.
Feb. 21 To appropriate $1,000,-
000 to create Lamar State College
of Technology at Beaumont.
Feb. 23 To appropriate $50,000,-
000 of the State’s surplus to es
tablish a state development and
reserve fund.
BILLS TO CURB LYNCHING
AND COMMUNISM PREPARED
AUSTIN, Feb.-4 —OP)— Bills
designed to curb Communism and
lynching were ready Thursday for
introduction in the House of Rep
resentatives.
Rep. Marshall O. Bell of San
Antonio will offer a bill creating
the Texas State Loyalty Board to
prepare a list of “Communistic or
subversive” organizations. It would
require all officials and employes
to take an oath that they are not
and have never been members of
the Communist Party or other
associations listed.
A lynching resulting in death,
under terms of the Isaacks bill,
would be punishable by imprison
ment ranging from five years to
life, or by death in the electric
chair.
Club Lists Needed
By Aggieland 1949
Complete club membership lists
are needed by the Aggieland 1949,
Stanley Rogers, club section editor
announced yesterday.
This information is necessary if
the club picture is to appear in
the annual, Rogers said.
He reminded club officers that
in order to have their individual
pictures with the club picture, they
should have one made at the Ag
gieland Studio by Thursday.
Clubs should complete their pay
ments for club pictures with the
Student Activities Office by Feb
ruary 15, he said.
W E A
T H E R
East Texas —
Partly cloudy this
afte r n o o n, to
night and Satur
day. Not much
change in temper
atures. Gentle to
moderate variable
winds on coast.
West Texas —
Partly cloudy this
afte r n o o n, to
night and Satur
day. Not much
change in temper
atures*
The Battalion
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Volume 48
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1949
Number 117
A rare sight in South Texas—three Aggies and an unidentified snow beast.
Plans Nearing Completion
For $500,000 Science Hall
Plans for a new Science Building
which will cost approximately
$500,000 are now nearing comple
tion, according to T. R. Spence,
manager of the Physical Plants Of
fice.
The building, which will ulti
mately take the form of a U, will
be located in the block to the east
o fthe present Science Building,
and will be constructed to have its
fronting on Nagle Street.
Entomology and Biology Depart
ments will be housed in the new
building. It will be a three-story
structure, 233 feet long, and
111 feet deep. There will be
51,000 feet of floor area which
will be occupied by 52 offices, 3
class rooms, 24 laboratories, and
a 200-seat lecture room.
Spence stated that bids will pro
bably be accepted within 90 days.
According to present plans, the
building will be ready for occupa
tion by September 1950.
Bids have already been received
for the construction of a band
stand, but the lowest bids exceed
ed available funds by not less than
$4,000. Plans are now being re
vised to design a stand that will
bring the cost within the available
funds, Spence said.
Court Upholds Program
Plans are materializing on the
Water and Sewage
Course Scheduled
The Thirty-first annual Texas
Water and Sewage Works Associa
tion Short Course will be held here
Sunday through Thursday, George
W. Cox, state health officer, an
nounced yesterday.
Registration will begin at 3 p.
m. Sunday and section chairmen
will meet at 7:30 Sunday night,
Cox said. The general session will
begin Monday at 10:30 a.'m. N. E.
Trostle, president of the Texas
Water and Sewage Association,
will preside.
The Federal Water Pollution
Control Act will come under dis
cussion by Carl E. Schwob, chief
of the Water Pollution Control Di
vision of the United States Public
Health Service, during the morn
ing general session.
Scheduled for the evening ses
sion is an .address by Linn H. Ens-
low, president of the American
Water Works Association.
County’s Qualified
Voters Total 5,155
Qualified voters in Brazos Coun
ty this year will total 6,155, ac
cording to final figures released
Wednesday by County Tax Col
lector-Assessor Mit Weedon.
This figure includes 4,469 paid
poll taxes and 686 exemptions re
newals but does not include re
newal certificates that were not
brought up to date this year.
This is slightly more than half
of the record tax roll of last year
when 9,378 citizens secured the
right to cast a ballot during the
vital presidential election year.
CHINESE HEAD Li’s
PLIGHT GROWS WORSE
NANKING, Feb. 4 —UP)— The
chances of Acting President Li
Tsung-Jen’s ghost government for
national peace and continued A-
merican economic air were none
too bright yesterday*
building program after the ruling
of the State Supreme Court Wed
nesday upholding the validity of
the 1947 election adopting the col
lege-building financing constitu
tional amendment. The high court
over ruled motions for rehearing
of its recent action in refusing to
accept an appeal from the decision
of the Third Court of Civil Appeals.
Sixteen state-supported higher
institutions' of learning ' can now
go ahead with building plans.
Since no federal question is in
volved there can be no appeal to
the United States Supreme Court.
Gross $2,500,000
Ballard Clark, statistician to the
State Comptroller, said Wednesday
that the five cent state advalorem
tax would gross about $2,500,000
on this year’s taxable valuations.
After deductions for assessing and
collecting and delinquencies the net
will be $2,250,000 to the fourteen
participating schools.
i The University of Texas and A
&M base their financing under the
amendment on the university’s per
manent fund. The five cent proper
ty tax assessment is left to the
other fourteen state colleges.
Seniors Decide Corsages Will
Not Be Worn At Military Ball
Money For Flowers Will Be
Alloted To March Of Dimes
7,123 Enroll
For Semester;
More Expected
Official enrollment figures
for the 1949 spring semester
totaled 7,123, according to R.
G. Perryman, assistant regis
trar.
Although registration is still go
ing on for those who were de
layed by weather conditions and
for new and transfer students,
Perryman said that indications
point to a decrease in enrollment
figures over the 1948 fall semester
which was 8,312.
The 7,123 enrollment for this
spring is comparable to the spring
semesters of 1948 and 1947, which
were 7,419 and 7,703 respectively.
Perryman said that because of
the recent bad weather conditions
over the state, registration has
been very slow. Therefore, the reg
ular time for registration was ex
tended to Wednesday noon. A
steady stream of students have
been registering Thursday, and the
final enrollment figure will not be
known until next week, Perryman
said.
Of the 7,123 students who have
enrolled this semester, 6,055 are
living on the campus, and 1,118
are being housed at the Annex.
Good Fact & Fiction Now On
Sale in January Agriculturist
H. C. MICHALAK
The checkerboard cover of January’s Agriculturist
opens on a variety of articles ranging in subject matter from
watermelons to hog cholera.
The January issue contains the best effort of The Agri
culturist staff this year. Careful selection of subject matter,
“ ~ ♦'and well planned articles, and judi-
' cious editing have paid off in inter
est and readability.
“Green Gold,” the lead article,
recounts the development of a wa
termelon crop on otherwise near
worthless land. T. G. Rockett fur
nishes the details of the “green
gold” discovery in Burleson Coun
ty’s sandy soil.
Gerald York, editor of The Ag
riculturist, writes a dispassionate
discussion of the price level of
farm products in “Who’s to
Blame?” Aware that many non-
agricultui’al people blame the high
price of food on the farmer, York
discusses commodity prices from
the farmer’s point of view.
“Fists and Flannels,” the Jan
uary fiction offering, is a con
ventional story of the hardships
of a sheriff with the sons of an
influential constituent.
Since everyone is interested in
beef steak, Tex Fields gives the
word on how steak bearing animals
—steers—are affected by grubs
and other external parasites.
Bob Weynand contrasts the
Texan’s traditional boastfulness
with a searching look at Texas’
seamier sides in “Can Texas
Brag?” in one of the issue’s bet
ter articles.
The even dozen well-selected
stories and features in January’s
The Agriculturist seem to indicate
that A&M’s magazines are reach
ing higher standards and will be
more widely read in the future.
Hillel Club to Hear
Guthman Feb. 9th
The Hillel Foundation will hear
Rabbi S. Guthman of Congrega
tion Agudas Achim of San An
tonio as guest speaker next Wed
nesday at 7:15 p. m. in the “Y”
Cabinet Room, according to Russ
Lown, student president.
Rabbi Guthman, who recently
assumed the spiritual leadership of
the San Antonio Jewish Congrega
tion, is a graduate of the Jewish
Theological Seminary. Before com
ing to Texas, Rabbi Guthman was
for six years Rabbi of Temple E-
manu El of Chelsea, Massachusetts.
During World War II he served
as chaplain in the Navy.
Rabbi Guthman will be accom
panied to the campus by Cantor
Barkin of the same congregation,
who will illustrate the Rabbi’s talk
on Jewish music by vocal and piano
numbers.
The meeting is open to the pub
lic, Lown said.
A?-" WJR";' 3
BILLIE JEAN HOLICK,
new vocalist for the Aggieland
Orchestra.
Burchard to Give
‘Editor Speaks’
On WTAW Today
D. D. Burchard, head of the
Journalism Department, will pre
sent “The Editor Speaks” at 4:45
this afternoon as part of the regu
lar “College Speaks” series.
The schedule for the rest of the
month is as follows:
Feb. 7 National Service Life In
surance by Sid Loveless.
Feb. 8 Electroplating by Royce
LeRoy.
Feb. 9 Ice Ages Which Slew
Dragons and Made Man by Jack
Kent.
Feb. 10 Interpretation of Finan
cial Statements by W. S. Manning.
Feb. 11 The Editor Speaks by
The Engineer magazine.
Feb. 14 Researches With Pro
ducts of Chimese by W. M. Potts.
Feb. 15 Early Studies in Rocket
Propulsion by Howard Leap.
Feb. 16 Oersted’s Discovery and
it’s Repercussion by R. K. Russel.
Feb. 17 The Editor Speaks by
The Commentator magazine.
Feb. 21 The Work of Clark Max
well by R. D. Rivers.
Feb. 22 The Compton Effect by
D F "Wcokss#
Feb. 23 Your 1948 Income Tax
Return by T. W. Leland.
Feb. 24 The Dark Companion of
Sirios by Melvin Eisner.
Feb. 25 The Editor Speaks by
the Southwestern Veterinarian
magazine.
Staff Needed
For Commentator
Want to try your hand at
college humor?
The Commentator, will have
a reorganization meeting Mon
day night and all interested
students wishing to work on
the magazine are invited.
In making the call for new
staff members, Larry Goodwyn
editor, announced that a new
policy featuring more distinct
ly “college humor” would be
attempted this spring. Both
writers and cartoonists are
needed, Goodwyn said.
The meeting will be held in
the Commentator office, second
floor Goodwin Hall at 7:30 p. m.
Orchestra To Give
Free Guion Show
The Aggieland Orchestra, complete with their new suits,
will present a free program at 7:30 Saturday night on the
stage of Guion Hall, according to Bill Turner, director of the
organization. Preceeding the program Leonard Perkins will
give a fifteen-minute organ prelude on the Wurlitzer, start-
——— +ing at 7:15.
To open the show, the organiza-
By TOM CARTER
The March of Dimes Campaign received a substantial shot in the arm last night as
members of the Senior Class tabooed corsages for the Military Ball, voting instead to have
each cadet attending the dance contribute two dollars to this fund rather than spend this
money on flowers for their dates.
This plan was presented to the class by George Edwards and it was decided that the
Military Ball Committee would de
cide how the money was to be col
lected. One idea presented was to
have each person place the money
in a box as he enters the door.
Projected plans for the Senior
Ring Dance were given by Roy
Blanton, socal secretary. He stat
ed that each committee would have
co-chainnen, one Corps man and
one non-Corps man. He asked the
class to be thinking about the
dance and be ready to give sug
gestion at a later meeting.
The class also voted to recom
mend that commencement exercis
es be held on Friday morning and
that the Final Review be held in
the afternoon as the last function
of graduating activities.
The group heard a report from
the Aggie Social Customs and
Courtesies committee given by J.
Fred Davis, chairman. He said
that the first series of lectures to
be given to the seniors would start
Monday night followed by another
talk Wednesday night.
No lectures are scheduled for
Religious Emphasis Week but they
will be resumed the following Mon
day. A total of six talks are plan
ned for the initial phase.
Erich Gottlieb, secretary-treas
urer of the class, reported that
$712.21 was now in the treasury.
This sum does not include the
money from the sale of Aggie
Calendars, which is expected to be
around $500.
Don Kaspar, president of thgr
class, read a letter from the Agro
nomy Society asking the class to
select a duchess for the Cotton
Ball. A motion by Charles Glass
was passed to permit Kaspar to
appoint a committee to obtain a
method of selecting the duchess.
Members chosen for this com
mittee were Dick Joseph, chairman
Adolph Thomae, Bill Bowen, and
Bill Gersch.
A letter from J. Wayne Stark,
director of the Student Memorial
Center, was read to the class mem
bers asking them to donate their
class gift to the Center. John Orr
then motioned that Kaspar appoirit
a committee to make recommenda
tions to the class as to the type
of gift it should give. The motion
passed unanimously.
Minor uniform regulations were
discussed and it was decided that
such regulations would be left to
the discretion of the unit com
manders.
Horsley Named
President Of}/',
Southern ASCP
W. R. Horsley, director of
the Placement Office, has
been elected president of the
Southern Section of the As
sociation of School and Col
lege Placement. The associa
tion is composed of industrial
and college personnel.
_ The association meets several
times yearly to discuss the busi
ness of placing college graduates.
There is a northeastern section
and a Rocky Mountain group of the
association. Recent meeting was
held at Atlanta. The meeting dis
cussed industry, college and stu
dent.
Earl Davis, dean of Centre
College, was elected vice presi
dent and Fred Ajax of Georgia
Tech was named secretary of
the association.
Attending from Texas were
Glenn Byers, administrative as
sistant, regional administi’ative de
partment, Shell Oil Co., Inc., Hous
ton; Leo M. Donohue, director of
placement, _ St. Mary’s University,
San Antonio; R. N. Dyer, person
nel supervisor, Humble Oil and Re
fining Co., Houston; D. Z. Robb,
director of employment and place
ment, Southern Methodist Univer
sity, Dallas; L. Russell, placement
director, University of Houston,
and Horsley.
Five Team Photos
Scheduled Monday
Five team pictures for the Ag
gieland 1949 will be taken Monday,
according to Stanley Rogers, club
section editor of the yearbook.
The schedule is as follows: Live
stock Judging Team, Ag Building,
5:15 p. m.; Dairy Judging Team,
Ag Building, 5:30 p. m.; Crops
Judging Team, Ag Building, 5:45
p. m.; Meats Judging Team, A&I
Building, 6 p. m.; and the Dairy
Products Judging Team, Creamery
6:15 p. m.
It is imperative that these groups
be on hand at the time scheduled
in order that their picture may be
in the Aggieland 1949, Rogers
said.
NO MORE VAUGHN
MONROE TICKETS
All tickets to the Vaughn Mon
roe Concert in Guion Hall have
been sold, according to Grady Elms
assistant director of Student Ac
tivities.
All 567 reserve seat and 1,160
general admission tickets were sold
by yesterday afternoon, he said.
Teen-Age Romance Depicted
By HENRY LACOUR
Clare Tree Major, director of
the National Classic Theatre of
New York, is noted for the sim
plicity and clarity of her Shake
spearean productions and brings
poignancy rarely achieved on the
stage to “Romeo and Juliet.” Her
troupe will appear here Monday
night in this great tradgedy.
In achieving this effect, much
credit is due Mrs. Major’s beliefs
that a portrayal of tender teen
age romance by middle-aged actors
and actresses destroys the credul
ity of such a play. Winton Sedg
wick and Patricia Larson, as Ro
meo and Juliet, make the love story
what it should be.
Mrs. Major has said, “There is
magic in Shakespeare. In present
ing “Romeo and Juliet,” my ob
ject has been to show the young
people of the play as concerned
with the same thoughts, feelings,
and problems that face their fel
lows today. Once the fact that
there is no great difference in peo
ple whether of 1645 or today is
recognized and Shakespeare’s act
ing shorn of strutting and bellow
ing, the true greatness of this play
may be observed and enjoyed.”
This production is being pre
sented under the auspices of the
Student Activities Office for
those students who may believe
that Shakespeare is something
that belongs on the bookshelf
only, C. G. White said.
Many students have never seen
a play or motion picture of any
of Shakespeare’s works, and this
play is being offered in the hope
that such students will take the
opportunity to see this great play
performed, he added.
Curtain time for the play is 8
p. m. Tickets may be purchased at
the Student Activities Office now.
The prices are 50 cents for students
and 70 cents for others. Busses
will run from the Annex for fresh
men who wish to attend, White
said.
tion will present a special arrange
ment of “How High The Moon,”
with Glenn Torrence featured on
the trumpet and Brax Doak on the
tenor sax.
A quartet of Bryan High School
boys will then be featured in a
specialty number. After them, Bob
Zentner, of C Troop Cavalry will
be featured in a selection on his
accordian.
Tommy Butler, sophomore from
Waco in his first season with the
outfit, will then sing “I’m in the
Mood For Love” and “Buttons and
Bows.” Butler is an able singer,
having done much singing around
Waco.
Following the singing, the band
will begin a novelty act called
“Beat the Band.” In this act, mem
bers of the audience will try to
identify selections played by the
band.
Miss Billie June Halleck will
then be featured in “A Little Bird
Told Me” and “Maybe You’ll Be
There.” Miss Halleck is a Bryan
girl, and this is her first appear
ance on the Guion stage.
Concluding the show the whole
orchestra will play a special ar
rangement of “Gypsy Mood.”
This program is offered as an
added attraction to the regular
Guion Feature, “Winter Meeting”
at no advance in prices, said Tur
ner.
New Radio Station
To Start Operation
At Bryan in March
A new radio station, KBRZ, will
begin operations in Brazos County
between March 15 and April 1, Joe
A. Marino, who will manage the
station announced Thursday.
The Brazos Broadcasting Com
pany, an unincorporated association
with Marino as president, has pur
chased a transmitter site north of
Bryan.
Construction of the station an
tenna will start as soon as weather
conditions permit, according to Ma
rino, who came to Bryan from Dal
las last week.
The new station’s call letters
have been changed by the Federal
Communications Commission from
“KBBC,” as previously announced,
to KBRZ. Studio quarters in the
Varisco Building will be completed
this week, and considerable studio
equipment is on hand, Marino said.
TOMMY BUTLER, who hails
from Waco, will provide the mas
culine vocals for the Aggieland
Orchestra Friday night in Guion
Hall.
Hodge Assigned To
Post at Mitchell
Field, New York
Lt. Col. Dexter L. Hodge, of
the Military Department left Jan
uary 25 for Mitchell Field, Long
Island, New York, for assignment
to Headquarters, Continental Air
Command.
Enroute to New York Colonel
Hodge was scheduled to stop in
Washington, D. C. to consult with
the chief of the Air ROTC on
problems of the Air ROTC pro
gram.
A graduate of A&M, Colonel
Hodge was assigned to duty with
the Air ROTC unit here upon re
turn from overseas. For the past
five months he has been acting
professor of military science and
tactics for air. He has been with
the A&M Military Department for
the past two and one half years.
During World War II he served
with the Eighth Air Force in Eng
land and in the Middle East, and
was awarded several decorations
including a presidential citation.
Lt. Col. John H. Kelly, who has
been attending the Air Command
and Staff School at Maxwell Field,
Alabama, has returned to A&M to
resume his duties as PMS&T for
Air.
Rodeo Club To Be
Formed Monday
Students interested in forming
an active rodeo club on the campus
will meet in the Animal Industries
Building Monday night, according
to Charlie Rankin.
All students, regardless of the
course they are taking, may be
come members of the club.
The constitution of the National
Intercollegiate Rodeo Association
will be read to the group, Rankin
said.