NEWS
In Brief
NEGRO COED WILL
ATTEND OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 7 —Off)
The University of Oklahoma today
prepared to accept its first Negro
co-ed.
A state attorney general’s ruling
Friday night ordered the Univer
sity at Norman to admit Mrs. Op-
herita Eugenia Daniels, 35, to its
graduate school of social work.
The decision stems from a recent
Federal Court order that states
must open white colleges to Ne
groes if their courses are not avail
able in state schools for Negroes.
Mrs. Daniels will join G. W. Mc-
Laurin, 54, as one of the two Ne
gro students among 12,000 whites.
She will also be the first Negro
woman ever to attend a white col
lege in this state with official
sanction.
CAR PRICES SHOW
LEVELING TRENDS
DETROIT, Feb. 7 —<£>)— Car
prices could level off this year—if
the industry finds ways to cut pro
duction costs.
There may be no price cuts, but
there could be a halt to continuing
inci’eases.
Lower manufacturing costs are
not just a hope of the auto makers.
For many of them the lush period
followihg the war has gone. In
many instances they are going to
have to sell their product from
now on to persons unwilling—if not
unable—to pay current high prices.
That many prospective car buy
ers have been priced out of the
market us generally accepted in
trade sources. So an organized
search for lower production costs
is under way. It is evident at all
levels of the industry.
LIQUOR LOCKER PLAN
TO BE DECIDED SOON
DALLAS, Feb. 7 —t#)— The
question of whether Texas Liquor
laws apply to private clubs and
whether a “locker plan” for after
curfew drinking is legal may be
answered here Feb. 14 in a hear
ing on an injunction suit filed Fri
day.
The test case was filed in 116th
District Court by the state attor
ney general’s department.
Asst. Attys. Gen. William S.
Lott and Joe H. Reynolds filed an
injunction suit against Maurice
Lehman and Sidney Grossblatt, op
erators of the Suburban Club,
charging them with operating an
open saloon.
The suit charges that mixed
drinks were served to club mem
bers and guests after curfew hours.
The locker plan is one wherein
members of private clubs could
bqy their c-wn liquor, store it at
the club and' mix their own drinks.
FIRE DESTROYS HALF
OF MINDANAO CAPITAL
MANILA, Feb. 7 —(A>)_ A fire
of undetermined origin Saturday
was reported to have wiped out
half of Cotabato, provincial capital
on the Southwest Coast of Minda
nao Island.
The Philippine Red Cross report
ed about 10,000 people are home
less. (The city, capital of Cota
bato province, is inhabited mostly
by Moros. Its population has been
estimated at more than 25,000.)
The office of the provincial gov
ernor reported damage was esti
mated at 8,000,000 pesos ($4,000,-
000).
An Irish Catholic priest, identi
fied • as Father Thomas Conway,
was reported to have perished when
a monastery was engulfed by the
flames.
There were no other early re
ports of casualties elsewhere in the
city.
TENSION INCRESAES
IN BERLIN BLOCKADE
BERLIN, Feb. 7 —<A>)_ The
cold war reached a new point of
tension in Berlin over the weekend.
Soviet-licensed newspapers prin
ted implied warnings of retaliation
as the Anglo-American forces
tightened their counter-blockade of
the Russian sector of Berlin.
German workmen and police dug
ditches at strategic highway points
to help back up the allied ban on
motor freight traffic from Western
Europe into the Soviet Zone of
Germany. Rail freight had been
banned earlier.
About the only links now left
between Berlin and the west, ex
cept the allied airlift, are the com
munications cables.
GALVESTON PLANS
MARDI - GRAS
GALVESTON, Feb. 7 —(A>)—
More than 50 beautiful young wo
men from many nations and states
will lend an international flavor to
Texas’ own 1949 Mardi Gras Feb.
25 through March 1.
In addition to the numerous so
cial functions, the Mardi Gras will
include four ornate balls, the coro
nation committee revealed Satur
day.
WEATHER
East Texas —
Partly cloudy
north and mostly
cloudy south, oc
casional rain ex
treme south this
afternoon and to-
night and in
south portion
Tuesday; warmer
north and west
portions tonight.
Moderate to fresh
north and north
east winds on the
coast becoming east to southeast
Tuesday.
West Texas—Partly cloudy this
afternoon, tonight and Tuesday;
colder Panhandle and South Plains
Tuesday*
Battalion
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Volume 48
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COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1949
Number 118
Water, SewagcK
Short Course
In 31st Meet
The Texas Water and Sew
age Short School began its
thirty-first session here yes
terday with several national
ly known figures in munici
pal water and sanitary engi
neering scheduled to speak
before its closing Thursday.
Scheduled to speak at a dinner
meeting tonight are Linn H. Ens-
low, New York, president of the
American Water Works Associa
tion, and W. H. Wisely, Champaign
Illinois, executive secretary of the
National Federation of Sewage
Works Association.
The Federal Water Pollution
Control Act, which Congress pas
sed recently, will be discussed by
F. E. Martini, senior sanitary en
gineer, division of water pollution
control of the U. S. Department of
Public Health, Washington, D. C.
V. M. Ehlers, director, bureau
of sanitary engineering, Texas
state department of Health, and
national president of the Federa
tion of Sewage Works Associations
will lead discussion of the pollution
control act.
W. A. Hardenberg, New York,
editor, Public Works, will be chief
speaker at a banquet Wednesday
night, and N. E. Trostle, Temple,
president of the Texas Water and
Sewage Association, will preside.
Dr. George W. Cox, state health
officer, will present awards at the
banquet.
C. A. Sanders, W. A. Brandy and
W. A. Howe, instructors for the
Industrial Extension Service, will
serve as chairmen of various ses
sions of the short school.
_ Among those from College Sta
tion taking part in the discussions
are J. B. Baty, Dr. S. R. Wright,
and P. J. A. Zeller.
The school is sponsored jointly
by the State Board of Health, the
southwestern section of the Ameri
can Water Works Association, the
State Board for Vocational Educa
tion, and A&M’s Civil Engineering
Department.
Volunteer Unit
Formed to Train
Local Marines
A Volunteer Training Unit of
the Marine Corps Reserve is being
formed here, according to Lt. Char
les F. Levy of the 14th Infantry
Battalion, Houston, Texas.
Volunteer training units are au
thorized to provide means where
Marine Reservists who are unable
to become members of an organiz
ed reserve unit can meet together
for training and obtain official rec
ognition for their efforts, he said.
Members of this unit will be
eligible for a two-week summer
camp at Camp Pendleton, near Los
Angeles, and all transportation,
food, quarters, pay and recreation
will be furnished.
One of the objects of this pro
gram will be to enable reservists
to earn the necessary points for
retirement pay. All points earned
in this program will accumulate
toward a monthly pension to start
at the age of 60.
The Marine VTU program is
open not only to ex-Marines, but
to all men between the ages of 17
and 32 regardless of their former
military affiliation or non-service.
All men interested may call Cap
tain G. A. Adams at 2-5550, or
Captain Forest Jones, at 2-2832
for further information.
Time, Motion Short
Course Ends Meet
A group of men from Texas in
dustrial firms has just completed
a four week Time and Motion
Study short course on the campus.
The course was sponsored by the
management engineering depart
ment and taught by George Dew
of the Methods Engineering Coun
cil of Kansas City, Mo.
After learning slide rule tech
niques, the group received theory
and practice training in industrial
time and motion study. Experience
was gained from field trips to ob
serve operations at the A&M
Creamery, the A&M Laundry and
the International Furniture Com
pany in Bryan.
This was the first course of its
kind to be conducted in the South
west although similar work has
been given in the East and Mid-
West.
Meat Judging Team
Wins at Ft. Worth
The A&M Meat Judging Team
won first place in lamb judging at
the Southwestern Exposition and
Fat Stock Show held last week in
Ft. Worth, W. M. Warren of the
Animal Husbandry Department an
nounced today.
Oklahoma University took top
judging honors at the show.
W. G. Dunkum, Bobby Bland,
JULIET is shown in the potion sceli^e of Shakespeare’s “Romeo
and Juliet.” The Clare Tree Major Company is scheduled to present
the play February 7 in Guion Hall.
Romeo And Juliet
Tonight In Guion
By BILL ROSE
For the benefit of those students who have never known
Shakespeare except in the classroom, the Student Activities
office is presenting the National Classic Theater of New
York in “Romeo and Juliet” at Guion Hall tonight at 8.
This most popular of Shakespeare’s plays is directed
fhby Clare Tree Major who is noted
•frw Lnr* nvrtoll onh infFi rm nT*
Grad Student
Hear Geneticist
Speak Tonight
Dr. Paul C. Manglesdorf,
Harvard University genetic
ist, will speak on “Economic
Plants and Human Culture
Patterns” in the Physics Lec
ture Room at 8 p. m. Monday
according to P. B. Pearson,
dean of the graduate school.
The lecture will be illustrated
with slides and charts. Persons
connected with the physical and
social sciences as well as persons
concerned with the biological scien
ces should be interested, Pearson
said.
Dr. Manglesdorf has served on
the Rockefeller Foundation, Agri
cultural Commission to Mexico, the
National Academy of Science, the
Genetics Society of America, and
the American Society of Agrono
my.
Manglesdorf’s lecture is the third
in a series for graduate students
since last September. Three more
are scheduled for the current year.
Monday’s lecture will be open to
anyone wishing to attend, Pearson
said.
ManE Department
Completes Course
On Metal Parts
The management engineering de
partment completed a shoi’t course
here Friday on precision measure
ment of metal parts, according to
A. R. Burgess, professor of man
agement engineering at A&M and
chairman of the conference.
The group of about thirty engi
neers and inspectors from Texas
plants were welcomed by President
F. C. Bolton, who pointed out the
importance of precision measure
ment in American mass production.
The principal problem discussed
at the conference was the change
over that will be necessary after
adopting an international standard
thread screw, which is to fit British
Canadian, and American military
equipment, ‘Burgess said.
“The group used the U. S. Or
dnance gauge laboratory here in
demonstrations that made the
course very successful,” Burgess
concluded.
Gage Conference
Concludes Friday
Thirty representatives of Texas
industrial plants attended a two-
day conference on gage engineer
ing (precision measurement of met
al parts) here Thursday and Fri
day. The conference was sponsored
by the Management Engineering
Department.
A. R. Burgess of the A&M Man
agement Engineering Department
and H, E» Riley competed for A&M. was chairman of the conference
for her excellent interpretation of
the Bard of Avon. Miss Major
Teels that she gained this reputa
tion because of her belief that
Jester, Teague, Truman’s Aide
Head Military Ball Guest List
Chief of Staff for Air, British Attaches,
Meloy, Will Be Among Visiting Notables
GE Researcher
Talks on Atom
Fission Future
Dr. Kenneth H. Kingdon, assist
ant director of the General Electric
Research Laboratory, declared in
an address to the Clarkson College
Alumni Association that only a
small portion of engineers and
scientists will need to be familiar
with atomic fission after it is de
veloped.
The Doctor also declared that
those engineers and scientists who
are engaged in the atomic fission
field will have to be specialists.
Making a comparison of the gen
eral field of science and engineer
ing, atomic fission and the petro
leum industry, Dr. Kingdon said
that 16 large oil companies employ
about 3,600 engineers. This number
is only a small portion of 300,000
engineers and 150,000 scientists.
Of this vast pool of scientific peo
ple, Dr. Kingdon said that about
10 per cent would need the new
fission and neutron knowledge of
modern nuclear physics.
Four fundamental tasks to be
done in the atomic field, according
to the doctor, are the production of
raw materials, preparation of new
fissionable materials in nuclear re
actors, and production of useful
power from energy liberated in
such reactors. The fourth funda
mental task is that of applying the
radioactive isotopes produced.
A special problem of shielding
personnel from radiations produo
Shakespeare’s characters and their ed in the reactor arises, said the
problems are not necessarily the doctor, and it is met by using re
problems of the Seventeenth Cen
tury but apply just as well to the
^people of today. To her, this is
! the true magic of Shakespeare and
she feels that the way her com
pany presents his works should
therefore appeal to the college stu
dent.
Everyone is familiar with the
plot of the play which concerns
the few ups and many downs of
the world’s most famous lovers.
Juliet is to be played by Patricia
Larson while the character of the
romantic Romeo is portrayed by
Winton Sedgity.
Once again, the remodeled Guion
Hall gets a plug as this play with
its extensive scenery would never
have been produced on the old
stage.
Curtain time is at 8 and tickets
are priced at 50 cents for students
and 70 cents for others. These may
be purchased at the Student Ac
tivities office or from Mrs. Ann
Hilliard at the annex. Busses will
be provided for attending freshmen.
motely controled mechanisms.
Houston Engineer
To Address ASCE
Tuesday Evening
Mason G. Lockwood, member of
the Houston consulting firm of
Lockwood and Andrews, will be
guest speaker of the J.T.L. Mc-
New Student Chapter of the Amer
ican Society of Civil Engineers, at
7:30 p. m. Tuesday.
Lockwood is a member of the
ASCE and since 1935 has partici
pated in phases of engineering re
lative to civil and public works,
pipelines, valuations, plant site se
lection, and economic and indus
trial reports. He has also handled
engineering problems of import
ance to flour milling, meat packing
and natural gas distribution.
Governor Beauford Jester, Congressman Olin Teague, and Major General Harry
Vaughn, military aide to President Truman, will head the party of guests of the cadet
corps at the military ball Saturday night in Sbisa Hall.
A large group of notables is planning to fly to College Station from Washington, D. C.,
to attend the ball. In addition to Congressman Teague, and General Vaughn, the capitol
■•fguests include Liuetenant General
Hallsville High School Senior
Wins Jim Tucker Award to A&M
Sixteen-year-old William H. Huffman of Harrison Coun
ty,, Texas won the $2000 Jim Tucker calf scramble scholar
ship at A&M at the Houston Fat Stock Show last week.
The scholarship, awarded by Jim Tucker, Houston in
surance man, provides $2000 for four years at A&M based on
best record of feeding calves won+
at the calf scramble at the Hous
ton Fat Stock Show the previous
year.
The award was set up for win
ners of the calf scramble at the
stock show in 1948 and achieve
ments of the boys in the year be
tween were the basis on which the
award was made. Tucker will con
tinue the award annually.
Huffman, senior student at
Hallsville High School near
Longview, won the scholarship
because of his record keeping
and scholarship in school. He
maintained a 98 average in his
studies the first half of this
school year.
Huffman gives much credit for
his championship to Ben Browning
who until recently was county
agent for Harrison County, and to
the new county agent, Joe Frobese.
One hundred and thirty-seven
calves were awarded at the 1948
Fat Stock Show. Huffman’s en
try, an 845 pound Hereford nam
ed Huffy’s Pride, placed sixth in
the judging but the scholarship
was granted for record keeping
and scholarship.
Huffman has raised eight beef
cattle to date and now owns three.
Two of these were won at the
Houston show. His calf was spon
sored at the show by E. R. Odom
of the Sabine Supply Company at
Orange.
Agronomy Society
Will Meet Tuesday
The Agronomy Society will elect
a club representative Tuesday at
7:30 p. m., to go to Denton to
choose the Cotton Pageant and
Ball Queen, according to John En-
drizze, president of the Society.
This will be the first meeting of
the semester and Endrizze asked
that all members be present.
Began As Cow Pasture
Easterwood Airport Grows to
Busy Field in Last Decade
By DAVE COSLETT
“Airplanes ? Just stuff and
nonsense—another way for foolish
young upstarts to break their
necks. Ride in one ? Huh, I’d rath
er fight a cage full of lions bare
handed. It’d be a darn site safer.”
Such was the general opinion
concerning aeronautics a few dec
ades ago. And, like the other
skeptics, the officials of A&M Col
lege could see no use in wasting
time or money bothering with “an
other way for dare-devil stunt men
to make money.”
With the passing of the years,
however, aviation proved its pow
er. The air age was arriving. It
first took a precarious foothold at
A&M ten years ago when the col
lege established an “air field” con
sisting of a few acres of the A&M
farm and pasture land to the west
of the campus.
Manager H. G. Smith stands in front of the passenger plane
belonging to the A&M System.
Today, only a decade old, the
college airport is a modern, 24
hour a day project housing 13
college-owned planes and serv
ing as a stop-over base for an
average of 400 transient aircraft
per month.
The college became aviation
minded about ten years ago with
the establishment of a course in
Civilian Pilot Training under the
auspices of the Civil Aeronautics
Administration. The base of opera
tions was the newly cleared, col
lege-owned, “cow-pasture air
field.”
Within a short while a newly
formed private organization, the
Kadett Aviation Company, obtain
ed a contract for giving flight
training to students in the CPT
courses. The college continued
teaching the grounding training to
those enrolled in the flying course.
In 1942, the CPT course was
changed to the War Training Serv
ice Program and Kadett assumed
control of the entire program. The
“cow pasture” field was changing,
too. Kadett had already construct
ed the field’s first building, a tem
porary hangar.
Flying conditions were greatly
improved that year when the CAA
started a grading and paving proj
ect which elevated Easterwood Air
port, for that was its name even
at that time, to the position of
fourth class air field. These added
facilities completed the following
year, resulted in a 150 x 5,150 sys
tem of concrete runways for the
air base.
Following these improvements,
the college once again assumed
(See EASTERWOOD, Page 4)
DR. PAUL C. MANGELSDORF
will speak tonight at 8 p. m. in
the Physics Lecture Room. His
subject will be “Economic Plants
and Human Culture Patterns.”
Examinations For
Federal Positions
Are Announced
The U. S. Civil Service Com
mission has announced an exami
nation for Physical Science Aid
and Biological Aid to fill positions
in various Federal agencies in
Washington, D. C., and vicinity.
The jobs pay from $2,152 to $3,727
a year.
To qualify, applicants must pass
a written test and, except for the
lowest salary level, must have had
additional experience in either phy
sical science or biological science.
Appropriate college study may be
substituted for the required ex
perience.
Detailed information on this ex
amination may be secured at the
post office or at the placement of
fice.
Application forms may be ob
tained from Civil Service regional
offices, or from the U. S. Civil
Service Commission, Washington
25, D. C. Applications for the Phy
sical Science and Biological Aid
examination must be on file not
later than February 24, 1949, the
Commission announced.
Rep. McKnight’s
First Bill Before
Texas Legislature
Representative Charles P. Mc-
Knight, class of ’45, Quitman, has
introduced the first bill in the 51st
Texas Legislature.
McKnight’s bill calls for the crea
tion of a seperate board to manage
state hospitals, taking this func
tion away from the State Board
of Control.
Last summer, McKnight succes-
fully campaigned for representa
tive while attending A&M. He
graduated last month.
Approximately 300 measures
have been filed with the chief clerk
for introduction in the House, but
only three have been formally in
troduced by first reading. Speaker
Durwood Manford called on all
House Committee Chairmen to call
organization meetings immediately
to expedite the processing of bills,
according to an AP wire release.
The second bill introduced was
that of Rep. W. O. Reed and others
appx-opriating $3,600,000 for es
tablishment of tlxe Southwestern
Medical College at Dallas, under
direction of the University of Tex
as.
E. R. Quesada, deputy chief of air
staff, civilian components; Major
Genei’al C. W. Ryder, assistant to
the army chief of staff, civilian
components; Bxdgadier Genei’al E.
A. Evans, executive director of the
Reserve Officer’s Association and
Brigadier General W. Westover,
executive for reserve affairs, de
partment of the army.
The British Militax-y Mission to
the United States will also be rep-
x’esented. Major General J. A. Gas
coigne, chief of the mission and
Colonel J. C. Windsor Lewis, mili
tary attache of the British Embas
sy will be present.
Colonel Guy S. Meloy, former
PMS&T for A&M has accepted
an invitation to be present and
will accompany the Washington
guests.
The State of Texas will be rep
resented by Governor Jester and
the state’s adjutant general, Ma
jor General K. L. Berry. Also on
the list of state guests ai’e Major
General H. M. Ainswoi’th, com
manding genei’al of the 36th Di
vision of the National Guai’d and
Colonel John W. Mayo, president
of the Texas Department of the
Reserve Officer’s Association.
Colonel George Smith, president
of the Foi’mer Student’s Associa
tion and Lt. Colonel G. A. Hill,
chairman of the Houston Military
Affairs Committee are included on
the military ball guest list. Als®
from Houston, the President of tha
Chamber of Commerce W. S. Bek
lows will attend.
Audie Murphy, the Farmersvilla
boy who became the most decoi’at-
ed soldier in Woi’ld War II will at
tend the ball. Murphy is now in
Texas for the preview of his new
picture, “Bad Boy” which opens in
Dallas February 16. In the finale
of the picture Murphy enrolls at
A&M.
President Louis H. Hubbard of
Texas State College for Women
will join with the officials of A&M
in attending the ball.
The official opening of the mil
itary ball weekend will be a full
dress review by the corps of
cadets on the main drill field at
4:30 Saturday afternoon. Then
in the eveixing Vaughn Monroe
and his orchestra will give a
concert in Guion Hall.
The regular Saturday night
broadcast of the Camel Caravan
radio program over the Columbia
Broadcasting System will be heard
from the stage of Guion.
All of the cadet corps guests to
the military ball will be served
dinner in Duncan Hall at 6:30 with
the corps.
The formal military ball will be
gin at 9 p. m. in Sbisa Hall. Ad
mission will be by invitation only.
Spring Semester
Parade Schedule
The following corps parade sche
dule for the spring semester has
been announced by Major Leonard
E. Garrett, operations officer.'
The Infantry Regiment will hold
parades February 22 and April 12;
Artillery Regiment parades will be
held February 29 and April 19.
The date set for the Air Group is
March 8 and April 26.
The Composite Regiment will
parade March 22 and May 10. The
Corps Troops will parade March
29 and May 17.
All the above parades will be
held on the Infantry Didll Field,
Major Garrett said.
The entire Cadet Corps will pa
rade on the Main Drill Field Feb
ruary 12, April 5, and June 3.
Business Society
Meets Tomorrow
The A&M Business Society will
hold its first regular meeting of
the semester tomorrow night at
7:30 in the ex-students lounge of
the YMCA.
The purpose of this meeting will
be to elect new society officers for
this semester. This is necessary
under the constitution of the so
ciety.
Also, any announcements con
cerning speakers that will address
the society this semester will be
made.
All members are requested to be
present because this is a very im
portant meeting.