The Battalion
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Volume 48
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1949
Number 126
Gentry Takes
Highest Score
In Pistol Meet
D. T. Gentry, business ma
jor, Dallas, was high scorer
with 286 points in the pistol
shooting match with Massa
chusetts State College last
week.
A&M’s Pistol Team scored 1390
points of a possible 1500 in the
match, Lt. Col. F. R. Swoger, said.
Other team members with high
scores were John D. Alto, 283;
Sam W. Smith, 278; E. F. Smith,
272; and A. W. Benefield with 271
points. The score of P. G. Silber,
267 points was sent in also, in
case there was a tie.
Making up the Pistol Team for
Massachusetts State College were
Fred Meyer, 272; A. M. Linburg,
266; Fred Chase, 257; Ernest
Charron, 254; and Dan Leary with
238 points.
Colonel Swoger said that the
two opponents for the Pistol Team
this week are the U. S. Naval Aca
demy and Utah State. The Naval
Academy team bested the Aggie
team in a previous match, Colonel
Swoger added.
‘So You Know A&M?’
W:
Jester Offers
Regrets For
Missing Review
Governor Beauford H. Jester
conveyed his regrets for not being
present for the weekend of the
Military Ball in a letter delivered
yesterday to Cadet Colonel of the
Corps Bob McClure.
“I regret very much,” the gov
ernor wrote, “that Mrs. Jester
And I were unable to keep our en
gagement with you and the Cadet
Corps.
“We were looking forward to
our visit with a great deal of
pleasure and \yei‘e keenly disap
pointed when our plane, The Blue
bonnet, developed trouble and had
to return to its home base, Brooks
Field.
In conclusion the governor wrote
“Please convey to the Corps our
apologies and regrets that we were
not able to participate in their ac
tivities as planned.
“The Cadet Corps, in training
and esprit de corps, has again
reached the high level it enjoyed
prior to World War II.
“With best wishes to the Cadet
Corps and to you, I remain, Sin
cerely, Beauford H. Jester.”
Chief of Chaplains
Slonates Posters
For Cadet Corps
Religious Emphasis has taken
on a new light here with the plac
ing of Army religious posters in
prominent places on the campus.
The posters, a gift of the Chief
of Chaplains in Washington, D.C.,
were sent to the Cadet Corps for
their use during Religious Empha
sis Week.
According to Doyle R. Avant,
sergeant major of the Corps, the
placards have been placed on each
of the unit bulletiln boards in the
Corps dormitories. In addition, he
said, they have been placed in
other prominent places over the
campus.
These posters depict various vir
tues that are being emphasized
during this Religious Week,
Avant said.
Five have been placed in the
YMCA, one in the Housing Of
fice, two on the second floor of
Goodwin Hall, one in the Academic
Building, one in the Civil Engi
neering Building, one in the Sci
ence Building, two in the Library,
one in the Petroleum Building, and
one on the Agricultural Building.
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Dali’s Delight
Christ’s Creative Power Theme
Of Fourth ‘Emphasis’ Address
“No normal person is satisfied with himself. Youth | Barbour said that people lack many things, mainly mo-
wants to achieve and age to correct,” said Dr. C. E. Barbour tive, an adequate pattern, and power. “People who succeed
this morning to his Guion Hall audience. His topic was “The in anything are people with a good motive and power,”
Creative Power of Christ” for the fourth main talk of Re- he said.
ligious Emphasis Week. j Christ produces an adequate motive for any personal
Council Prohibits Use
Of Loudspeakers On Streets
Pictured Whatzat Is Right
Side Up Swears Cameraman
By FRANK CUSHING
If you have hopes of winning a
prize in the new “So You Know
A&M?” contest, don’t be discoux--
aged by today’s puzzler. The pic
ture is not a fugitive from an ex
hibit of modern art. Certainly
every Aggie has seen that object;,
it’s definitely a part of this cam
pus.
In case you’re wondering, the
cameraman who snapped the pic
ture swears that the subject is
right side up in the photo. So, you
can stop standing on your head
and start remembering.
“So You Know A&M?” was in
stituted as a contest with yester
day’s photo of a weather vane lo
cated upon an un-named building.
Each day another picture will be
shown. The problem for you is to
properly name the object and tell
where it may be seen on the cam
pus.
The material for this pictorial
quiz will be taken from the im
mediate area of Aggieland only.
Providing you haven’t used a see
ing dog to get from class to class,
you should have noticed the photo
graphed items.
All answers to this week’s con
test must be in the Battalion of
fice at 201 Goodwin by noon Sun
day. The judges will be forced to
disqualify any entry after that
time. The form printed in the Bat
talion yesterday is not necessarily
required.
If you lose the blank, you may
compose your own and turn it in.
Just be certain that you have desi
gnated the location of the subject
and correctly identified it as to the
date it was printed. Naturally
your name must be on the form too
so that you may receive proper
credit.
No prizes will be given for the
A&M Not Involved
In VA Demands
Representative Olin Teague re
ports from Washington that A&M
and most other land grant colleges
in the South will not be involved
in demands from the Veterans Ad
ministration for rebates.
Reason for this is the fact that
A&M runs its GI bill of rights edu
cational setup on a nonresident
basis. This is allowed under VA
procedures. Some Midwest ern
schools which have been operating
on a cost plus basis will have to
make refunds, Teague reported.
Largest refund or rebate de
mands by the VA for overcharges
amounted to over a half million
dollars from Iowa State College,
officials at Ames, Iowa reported.
The dispute among college and
VA officials involves the question
of which funds must be deducted
before a school can start com
puting the cost of educating GI
students, Teague explained.
Pre-Meds Discuss
Annual Trip Plans
Final plans for their annual trip
to Galveston will be discussed by
members of the Pre-Medical and
Pre-Dental Society at a meeting
this afternoon at 5 in the Science
Hall.
Bill Nash, secretary of the so
ciety, said that the society endeav
ors to visit- some medical institu
tion each year.
All students who plan to attend
should be at the meeting, Nash
said.
Church to Sponsor
6 Light Eternal’
The Kum Dubl Sunday school
class of the A&M Methodist
Church will sponsor “The Light
Eternal,” a Biblical story of Jo
seph and his brothers, which will
be given in the Stephen F. Austin
high school auditorium February
24-25.
Mrs. Mildred Fleshman of Alex
andria, Louisiana, is directing the
play. A graduate of Louisiana Col
lege, she received special training
in nroducinv “The Eternal Light”
in Kansas City.
“The Light Eternal” is to be
given for the benefit of the sanc
tuary building fund of the A&M
Methodist Church.
week’-s answers. However you will
have the dubious distinction of
seeing your name in print if you
have the greatest number correct
for that week.
The three prizes which were, con
tributed by “The Campus Corner”
and “The Cave” for this contest
are being held for determination
of the completed quiz winner, The
Evan’s “Boot Lighter,” the “Pan
da” 620 camera, and the Evan’s
pocket lighter will be awarded to
the top three winners in that or
der.
Don’t delay and thus lose your
chance for one of the three prizes.
Start following the contest now.
This week’s winners of the “So
You Know A&M?” contest will be
announced next week. The infor
mation identifying the weather
vane, the mysterious monstrosity
featured today, and the subject for
tomorrow will also be given next
week.
Public School Reorganization
Nears Top of Senate Calendar
AUSTIN, Tex., Feb. 17—UP)—A besieged but intact
public school reorganization bill was near the top of the
senate calendar today as the 51st legislature prepared to
take another Thursday-to-Monday week-end recess.
Senate foes of the central education agency measure
growing out of the Gilmer-Aiken-f
Education Committee’s recommen
dations indicated yesterday they
contemplated no new delaying ac
tion following the 11-hour filibus
ter that started Tuesday after
noon and ended at 2 a.m. yester
day.
The bill moved to the No. 2 spot
on the senate calendar as commit
tee action yesterday sent a new
controversial proposal to the floor
of that branch of the legislature.
“It was the bitterly contested
“basic science” or “minimum stan
dards” bill, fought by chiroprac
tors and defended by medical doc
tors. It was recommended for pas
sage by the Senate’s Public Health
Committee by a 6 to 4 vote last
night.
A wrangle in house committee
sent a proposal to lift the 55 mil
lion dollar ceiling on state money
for old age pensions to a sub
committee for another week of
study.
Four other proposed changes
in the state’s fundamental law,
all seeking to have annual in
stead of biennial sessions of the
legislature, were also sent to
subcommittee by the house com
mittee on constitutional amend
ments.
A legislative pay raise propo
sal — also by the constitutional
amendment route—was shunted in
to subcommittee for more study
before final action is taken.
The public hearing on the pro
posed amendment to lift the ceil
ing on pension payments was
sparked by pleas for “food and
clothing” for the old folks, and a
challenge that the legislature
should rid pensioners of “chiselers”
who take their nickels and dimes.
John Winters, director of the
State Department of Public Wel
fare, told the committee there was
no question that the present grant
for old age pensions in Texas is
too low to pay for the necessities
of life.
The Senate Finance Committee
approved a bill providing an emer
gency fund of $40,000 for protec
tion against entry into Texas of
the black citrus fly. It sent to sub
committee a request from a Pan
handle delegation to pay off a
$300,000 debt against the Palo Du-
ro State Park.
BAYTOWN CLUB TO ELECT
DUCHESS TONIGHT
The Baytown Club, will make
plans for its spring dance when
it meets tonight, according to re
porter Frank Sheffield.
This meeting wiil be held in
Room 106 of the Academic Build
ing at 7:30.
A duchess for the annual Cotton
Ball will also be selected, Sheffield
said.
By JOHN SINGLETARY
An ordinance to prohibit the
use of any loudspeaker system on
the streets of College Station was
unanimously approved last night
by the City Council at its regular
monthly meeting.
This regulation makes it unlaw
ful to operate any machine which
amplifies the human voice either
on the streets of College Station
or in any building from which the
sound is cast upon the public
streets.
Any person convicted of viola
tion of the ordinance is liable to
a fine of not more than $100, and
each day on which a violation oc
curs is to constitute a separate of
fense.
College Streets Included
City Attorney Wheeler Barger
expressed the opinion that this
ordinance would also apply to am
plifiers operated on the campus
streets.
Motion on the ordinance was
made by Councilman Howard Bad-
gett and seconded by Councilman
J. A. Orr.
Mayor Langford said in defense
of the ordinance that the United
States Supreme Court had recently
held that goods may be advertised
aloud on the streets provided the
ordinary human voice is used but
that no amplification may be used
if local authorities rule against it.
Street Paving Discussed
Mayor Langford read to the
council a letter which had been
sent out to the residents of Cooner
Street a street which was recently
paved by the city. The letter sta
ted that the street paving cost over
$9000 of which the residents on
the street were to pay $8083, as
previously agreed. With the ex
ception of four or five people out
of about twenty-five, the assess
ment had not been paid.
Three men, C. F. Gent, E. E.
Wilson, and R. W. Hagler, repre
senting the residents of Cooner
Street met with the council and
requested more time in which to
prepare a statement.
Councilman Orr asked the group
why more time was needed and-
Gent replied that he was not em
powered to answer that question.
The extension was granted and
it was agreed that the council
would meet again soon with the
Cooner Sti’eet representatives. At
torney Barger reminded them that
a meeting should be arranged be
fore March 1 when legal action
was due to begin.
Parking Ordinance Discussed
The problem of parking in the
middle of the street on the Sul
phur Springs road at the North
Gate was discussed by the Council.
An ordinance prohibiting such
parking exists.
Orr contended that commer
cial trucks needed to park there
for unloading purposes since there
was not suffiicent space behind
most of the business houses.
It was decided to attempt to
spot more violations of the park
ing ordinance by having the city
police officer spend at least two
nights a week patrolling the area.
New City Addition Asked
J. C. Culpepper appeared before
the Council to discuss the incor
poration of three additions east
of the College Hills Estates into
the city of College Station. The
three areas are College Hills wood
lands, Woodland Acres, and Wood
land Estates.
Mayor Langford appointed a
committee of Bob Halpin, Fred
Benson, and J. A. Orr to work
with Culpepper on details of the
projected incorporation. Langford
said the value of property in these
areas was $74,383.
Billboard to Be Moved
J. A. Orr told members of the
Council that the billboard which
has been erected at the traffic
circle was a violation of a city or
dinance. City Manager Raymond
Rogers then reported that a notice
has already been sent out to have
the sign removed outside the city
limits.
Mayor Langford read a letter to
the Council from Consolidated
High School in which the school
offered the city $100 a month for
the purpose of collecting school
taxes. Langford said that the city
would furnish $50 a month and
that a clerk had already been hired
to work on the school taxes.
Banquet Slated
For New!( of C
Council Sunday
A council of the Knights
of Columbus will bh organiz
ed at A&M Sunday. This
Council will be the second
“young men’s Council” in the
state.
District Deputy Joe Havel of the
Ninth district will be in charge of
the organization.
A full schedule is planned for
Sunday beginning at 8:30 a.m.
when members and candidates will
attend mas at St. Mary’s Chapel.
First and Second degrees will
be given at 10 a.m. by officers
of the Bryan Council in Bryan
Hall. The Third degree will be put
on at 2 a.m. by State Deputy
R. Carrol Scroggins of Houston.
The day’s activities will be con
cluded with a banquet for all
members in the Parker dining
room at 7 p.m. Msgr. J. B. Gleiss-
ner, pastor of St. Joseph’s Catholic
Church and St. Mary’s Chapel,
Msgr. Bender, state chaplain, and
State Deputy Scroggins will be
among the speakers.
Banquet tickets must be secur
ed before Friday.
Embryo Sixth Plans Fling
Wheels Spin As Committees
Arrange Regimental Caper
By C. C. MUNROE
Everybody enjoys walking into
a formal dance, taking a quick
gander at the decorations, com
menting on the band, and then
latching onto his date to trip the
light fantastic around The floor.
When all the necessities are
there—the decorations, the band,
the wax on the floor—even old
Sbisa is enjoyable, but how did
the necessities get there in the
first place? What was the process
necessary to convert the idea in
someone’s head into the sights
that greet your eyes as you walk
into the dance?
AnybPdy who has ever tried con
verting an idea into reality, es
pecially when the reality is a reg
imental ball, will tell you that it is
committees that do the trick. And
it is hard to find a good committee.
For example, take the sixth
regimental ball that is to be
held March 5. What all went on
after the “wheels” got together
and appointed Dave Sharp, sen
ior accounting major from Waco
to handle the arrangements?
Following the old motto, “If
you have something to be done,
give it to a busy man to do.” Sharp
appointed John Laufenberg, a
member of the Aggie Players and
a ChE major, to handle all the ar
rangements for decorations and
publicity.
Laufenberg, being an old hand
at arranging, appointed a “leg”
man, Ray Smythe a junior archi
tecture major from El Paso, to do
some recruiting for him. Smythe,
in turn, followed the old army
game and took a tour around the
companies to be contained in the
new regiment and appointed ten
volunteers to help him.
The volunteers—Curly Marshall
and John Hill from A Athletic;
Conrad Webb and Jody Zern from
B Athletic; E. E. Richers and J. I.
Casbeer from A Vet; Tom Golden,
Don Sheffield, and Billy Webb
from B Vet; and Ralph Meza from
D Vet—then scoured the country
for materials with which to build
the decorations which Laufenberg
had designed while Smythe was
recruiting.
While all this was going on, a
ticket committee was relaying its
simple order to the A&M print
shop.
“All we want,” the committee
announced to the printers, “are
tickets just like those used at the
Military Ball. Except they must
be smaller, printed in a different
color and say a diffei’ent thing.
They got the tickets in spite
of this.
No dance is complete without
music, so Sharp appointed three
more men to still another commit
tee—the music committee. Thhs it
was that Burnett Loe, an agricul
ture major from Brady, Pete Jones
a CE major from Alice, and Hel
mut Quiram, a fish and ( .game ma
jor from Waco, found themselves
talking with Pop Turner of the
Aggieland Orchestra. After much
consultation they struck a bargain
that was acceptable to all and that
committee had completed its work.
In the meantime, the decora
tion committee had completed
building its sets in the Assembly
Hall and reported itself as being
ready to move into Sbisa when
the word came.
Laufenberg, freed for a while
then took on the pleasant duty of
assemblying photographs of the
various company sweethearts from
which a regimental sweetheart
will be chosen.
Things were beginning to shape
up now. The ticket committee was
distributing the tickets and its job
would soon be done. Decorations
were nearing completion and that
committee will soon be finished.
The reception committee, composed
of the eight company commanders
and their bosses, has only to meet
the invited guests on March 5 and
everything will have gone off well.
That is provided each individual
“date” committee comes through
as each committee swear's it will.
ASAIMB Ball
fill Feature
Seng Titles
By M. N. BROWN
“ASABAB” will be the pass
word next Saturday, when
the Architecture Society
throws its annual costume
ball in Sbisa Hall.
Costumes this year will repre
sent song titles, and they will be
shown in a surrealistic setting of
sheet music and Dali-like paint
ings^
Prizes will be given for the two
best men’s and women’s costumes,
and the architects’ inventiveness
will, no doubt, produce many start
ling and bizarre creations.
Thursday ,the entire department
will suspend all architecture labs
to decorate Sbisa. Sbisa’s entrance
will be a broken record, and the
interior will be illuminated by
spotlights.
Music will be furnished by the
Prairie View Septet.
The entire faculty of the Archi
tecture Department, several local
architects, and representatives of
Texas Tech, the University of
Texas, and the University of Hou
ston has been invited as honor
guest.
Smith WilTjudge
Baylor Co. Show
A. L. Smith, A&M beef cattle
specialist, will judge the calves in
the annual Baylor County Fat
Calf Show for club boys which will
be held in Seymour Saturday.
This show is sponsored by the
Seymour Chamber of Commerce
and the judging will take place in
the bus barn at Seymour High
School.
There will be two divisions in the
show, one for the milk fed calves
and one for the dry lot calves being
fed this year, according to County
Agent Roy McClung.
The ten best fed milk calves will
be shown at the Wichita Falls
show February 25, and the best''
dry lot calves will be shown in
the annual Abilene show, McClung
said.
achievement, Barbour pointed out.
Some great individuals give one a
sense of inferiority, but others
show one the possibilities of un
swerving devotion to an objective.
“There are too many groups
today trying to make everyone
accept their pattern of under
standing Christ,” Barbour con
tinued. “Every person is differ
ent and must ask Christ for aid
to understand Him. Christ will
give us new life and new hope
if we ask for it.”
“Religion is not something that
can be won,” concluded Barbour.
“We must respond to Christ’s ad
vances just as we must respond to
people to get their cooperation and
friendship.”
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The different churches will con
tinue to hold services as their con
tribution to Religious Emphasis
Week. The A&M Methodist Church
services will include a discussion
of “The Place for Youth in the
Advance of the Methodist Church”
at 7:15 tonight.
The A&M Christian Church
will have Dr. W. W. Wasson, of
Houston, as guest speaker. Ser
vices will be held in the chapel
of the YMCA.
Jewish services will be conduc
ted in the YMCA cabinet room
by Rabbi David Lefkowitz, Jr., of
the B’Nai Zion Congregation, of
Shreveport, La.
Rev. W. R. Hall Jr., of the First
Presbyterian Church of Navasota,
will speak at the Presbyterian
Church.
Confirmation Services will ba
Conducted tonight by Bishop Quinn
at the Episcopal Church here.
Dr. L. B. Reavis will speak at
the College Station Baptist
Church. Joe Trussell will be
song leader for the service.
The Church of Christ will fea
ture Mr. Willard Collins, vice-
president of David Lipscomb
College, Nashville, Tenn.
The Lutheran Center will have
Rev. Eric N. Hawkins, pastor of
the Ascension Lutheran Church,
San Antonio, as guest speaker.
Mnsgr. J. B. Gleissner of the
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in
Bryan, will be the speaker at the
Catholic Church.
The First Baptist Church of
Bryan will also hold special ser
vices ,with Dr. Boyd Hunt, pastor
of the First Baptist Church Of
Houston, as preacher.
Dr. Street Returns
From Ohio Meeting
Dr. W. E. Street, head of the
Engineering Drawing Department
has just returned from the mid
winter meeting of the Drawing
Division of the American Society
of Engineering Education in Col
umbus, Ohio. Street is a member
of the executive committee and a
representative of the southwest.
The theme of the program fea
tured methods of teaching, aims
and objectives of engineering edu
cation, and curricula designed to
meet the problems confronted by
engineering educators for the next
25 years.
Professor Street has made a
study of teaching mejthods and
| curricula planning adapted to meet
j the requirements of modern in-
j dustry for several years. In mak-
I ing this study he has visited lead-
I ing colleges, universities and in-
j dustrial plants of the United Sta-
! tes and Canada. He graduated in
J electrical engineering from Texas
' Tech in 1930.
Normal Scheduling
Of Courses to Be
Followed Next Fall
Beginning with the fall semes
ter of 1949, the normal procedure
of regularly scheduling for the fall
semester those courses which nor
mally fall in the first semester
programs will be resumed at A&M
M. T. Harrington, acting dean of
the college has announced.
Exceptions to this general policy
may be made to enable some sen
iors to graduate in January, 1950.
Those students who are irregular
in their programs should make
every effort in the time remaining
before September to complete
what ever work will be prerequi
site to those courses offered in
the fall, Harrington said. Summer
school offei’ings will be made with
that idea in mind.
The normal amount of work a
student may carry in a six-weeks
semester hours or seven, if one
hour is practice) except that with
the approval of the dean concern
ed seven hours may be taken by
a student who has earned at least
27 grade points in the preceding
semester, (or eight, if one hour is
practice).
“Indicate on the form on page
6 your choice of work for the
summer session of 1949 and return
it to the Registrar’s office by 5
p. m. February 18, 1949,” Har
rington said.
Advisory Group Of
Conference Meets
The advisory council of the
Texas Accounting Conference will
meet at noon today in Sbisa Hall,
T. W. Leland, head of the Busi
ness and Accounting Department,
has announced.
The annual accounting confer
ence will be held here in April and
the advisory council plans to fur
ther the program for the meet
ing, Leland said.
S. R. Harwell of Dallas is
chairman of the council.