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The Battalion PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Volume 48 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1949 Number 128 Freshman Class Names Officers By E. W. NEUVAR The Freshman Class elected Ralph W. Rowe, a pre-vet student from Texas City, class president in the final ballot ing Friday evening. Rowe defeated his run-off opponent, Raymond J. Eineigl, 451 to 271. Rowe, who led Eineigl by only 1 vote on the first ballot No Brakes . . . Staked Car Frustrates Campus Cop and by only ten votes on the sec ond, campaigned extensively and won most of the votes which had supported seven other original candidates. Harold Chandler of Dallas, who lacked only forty-one votes for a majority on the second ballot, for ged ahead on the third and final voting and was elected corps vice- president. He defeated Cecil Lea- therwood, 484 to 244. By H. C. MICHALAK A new lariat , , . a stretch job for it . , . and lo, a ticket! And it was not a round trip pleasm’e cruise ticket either. Prince Wood, AH major from Sabinal, had a new lariat which needed to be stretched. His room mate, Jack Kingsberry of Santa Anna, volunteered to help with the stretching. The usual procedure cowboys use to stretch a new rope is to tie one end to a post, the other to a car bumper, take up the slack, and “let ’er sit all night.” But you get parking tickets for doing this on the campus. This rope stretching job occur red last week in front of Walton Hall. Kingsberry parked his car there because the parking lot was filled with cars of persons attend ing a short course. One end of Prince’s rope was tied to a post and the other to the rear bumper of Kingsberry’s car. Next morn ing the rope was stretched like a good rope should be, but in addi tion, there was a tag on the wind shield. Usually, a ticket has written on the offense that has been com mitted. This one didn’t. Kingsberry checked with the Campus Security Office to find out why, since there was “no reason why” written on i the ticket. The Campus Security Officer told h^m the ticket was 'given because it seemed danger ous that a car without brakes had to be tied down with a rope. He just could not imagine why else a car would be tied to a post, unless it did not have brakes and had to be staked in place. It Wijs a new car. B&A Club, Faculty To Meet Tuesday David M. Yeager of Houston was elected campus vice-president on the second ballot, voted on Thursday, over W. L. Anderson. Yeager received 367 votes, while Anderson’s ballots totaled 237. The secretary of the class is now Eugene H. Fatheree, an agricul ture major from Pampa. He was chosen over Henderson Murray in the run-off, winning 464 to 257. Social secretary was decided on in Thursday’s election, with A. C. Burkhalter of Houston defeating C. L. Ray, 453. to 335. This office was originally sought by only three men, thus the second vote ended balloting for this position. Ted Stephens ran away from his opponent for class treasurer, Jerry G. Walker, 482 to 231. Stephens is a mechanical engi neering major from San Antonio. Robert Bynes eased out a forty- eight vote margin to be elected sergeant-at-arms over yell leader Arlen Reese. Bynes, in the only close election of the day, received 369 votes in the final balloting, while Reese got 321. Bynes is an other Houston student, majoring in English. In another election decided af ter the second ballot, Eric Carl son of Elgin, received 412 votes to be chosen parliamentarian. His opponent was G. J. Grupe, who received 380 votes. Carlson held a slight lead throughout the election, although this was the most closely-contested office in the entire group. The only office filled by the first vote was veteran vice-presi dent, when Haydon Jenkins de feated Bobby Pettit. Balloting was 300 to 197. These were the only candidates for the office. Dan Russell Will The Business Society will meet Tuesday night at 7:30 in the YM- CA Chapel, Marvin Hagemeier, so ciety president, announced yester day. All of the teaching staff, includ ing T. W. Leland, head of the de partment, are slated to be present and Denton Murphy, social chair man of the society, will introduce them to the club members, Hage- meir said. A report by Charlie Howard of the decisions his committee has made concerning the method of se lecting the society’s duchess for the Cotton Pageant will be given at the meeting. Address Seniors Professor Dan Russell will be the guest speaker tonight in the senior class’ next lesson on Aggie Social Courtesies and Customs at 7:15 in the Chemistry Lecture Room, according to J. Fred Davis, who is chairman of the program. Davis asked that as many sen iors as possible attend the meet ing. He said that the next phase, that of teaching the underclass men, would require about 16 sen iors and that it will be necessary for them to attend all of the lec tures if at all possible. ABOVE—It looks like Adolf Hitler dancing with a normal American girl at the ASABAB, but it’s really EMMETT TRANT as “Right in Der Fuhrer’s Face” and his wife as “Betty Coed.” RIGHT—“Frankie and Johnnie” is the subtle theme of this JIMMY GATTON (Frankie Sinatra) and FRED BUXTON (the John) opus. This selection won first place among the men at the Sbisa Hall mad-cap. MARGO BROWN will offer new interpretations of Spanish dances Wednesday at 8 p. m. in the Guion Hall stage program, “Music On The Air.” ’Twas Nothing . . . Mystery Photos Now Identified By FRANK CUSHING Naturally you already know exactly where all the photo graphs for last week’s “So You Know A&M?” contest were taken. Maybe, though, your roommate’s powers of observa tion aren’t quite as sharp as your own. For his benefit, here are the answers. f 9 Judges Named To Pick Cotton Queen Eight Agronomy Society repre sentatives and King of Cotton Rob ert R. Smith from Rule will leave for TSCW Friday, March 4, to choose the Queen of Cotton from nine TSCW nominees. Representatives elected by the society to make the trip are Don D. Deckex 1 , senior from Childress, W. L. Townsend Jr., senior from Harmon, Louisiana, Arch K. Ja cobson, senior from Doole, Willie Kelling, senior from Brenham, J. E. Troublefield, junior from Qua- nah, Conrad Ohlendorf, junior of Lockhart, Roy C. Cook, junior from Waller, and Raymond Kunze, sop- omore from La Grange. STARK TO ADDRESS SAM J. Wayne Stark, Director of the Memorial Student Center, will ad dress the Society for the Advance ment of Management Tuesday night at 7:30 in Rqom 301, Good win Hall. The busy cowboy and his skit- tery steed can be seen most any time. Just saunter over to the horse barns and look up. Once you figured out what the odd looking object in Thursday’s paper was, the location wasn’t difficult at all. Of course you had a good start towards the identifi cation when you were told that the whatzat was right side up. The photographer got slightly wet producing that shot of the fountain nozzle in Prexy’s Tri angle. To complicate the contest a little the cameraman believed a close up would lend an unusual touch. Thus we had a yell leader’s view of Pi'exy’s Fountain. The weather vane completing the week’s mystery snapshots pro bably was a little tougher to lo cate. If you are majoring in vet medicine, however, you had a dis tinct advantage. The conventional arrow engaged in following the fickle wind is a permanent fixture upon the roof of the Veterinary Hospital Blacksmith Shop. Now then, that wasn’t so hal’d, was it ? The real clinkers will make their appearance later in the con test. The Battalion can’t have all (See MYSTERY, Page 4) Alec Templeton Will Present Concert In Guion Hall Tonight Ag Ed Seniors To Visit Texas Blind Piano Star of Radio, Stage, Screen Will Give Second Program for Aggies at 8 High Schools Fifty high schools in Texas will be visited by A&M senior Agri culture Education majors before May 15, according to Henry Ross, professor of Agricultural Educa tion. During the current semester, 129 seniors majoring in Agricultural Education will leave at various in tervals to all parts of Texas. These potential vocational agricul ture teachers will be expected to stay in close contact with the ag riculture teachers whom they plan to visit, Ross added. Upon the request of the voca tional agriculture teacher in Cald well, two ag education seniors will be sent there to familiarize the students with the subjects of gully control, contour cultivation, and crop disease control. Two Agricultural Education ma jors will spend a week in New Boston, on the invitation of the ag teacher there. They will stress points such as raising milk pro duction in the surrounding com munity through an extens i v e breeding program and the outlook of broiler production in Bowie County. The vocational agriculture teach er at Schulenburg requests that the visiting teacers bring the students up to date on latest cull ing methods and modern pasture improvement practices. “Practice teaching”, said Ross, “gives the potential agriculture teacher a chance to face the actual teaching and farm problems that he will be confronted with after graduation from A&M. After two weeks of practice teaching during the student’s senior year, we be lieve the man will have obtained a part of the vital knowledge in the art of teaching which the person will need upon accepting a teach er’s job in some vocational agri culture department in Texas.” Movies on Family Relationships Will Be Shown Tonight Two short motion pictures on family relationships will be shown in the lecture room of the Chem istry building, February 24 at 7 p.m., Professor David G'. Steinicke, of the Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Department, said today. Both these pictures were pro duced for the New York State Youth Commission and are rated as timely, appealing, and challeng ing in the field of child-parent- community relationships, Profes sor Steinicke said. These shows are intended pri marily for students in R. S. 315 and R. S. 407, but other students and faculty members are welcome, Professor Steinicke said. Mmmm, Good ... Milk and Ice Cream Fine, Wheels Find By MACK T. NOLEN Ever on the alert for ways to improve college life and maintain high standards of performance about the campus, Battalion' Corps Editor Tom Carter and President of the Student Senate Charles Kirkham recently paid a surprise visit to the college creamery. After a thorough inspection of the equipment and the build ings Carter and Kirkham agreed that their trip had been in vain, the creamery was spic and span from top to bottom. Both men conceded that the quality of the ice cream was excellent and that the milk, which they had hoped would be sour, was dis gustingly fresh. “However”, growled Kirkham, “they know we’re a-watching them. They know we’ll be back.” Carter agreed, suggesting that so long as there is free ice cream available the creamery should be watched regularly. Pre-Law Society Will Hold Meeting Tonight in YMCA The Pre-Law Society will hold its first meeting since spring of ficers were elected at 7:15 p. m. tonight, in the Assembly Room of the YMCA. The spring slate of officers includes Ben Lampkin, president; David Kreager, vice- president; Erich Gottlieb, secretary treasurer; and Chuck Cabaniss, re porter. David Hearne has been named to the Activities Committee which is headed by Cabaniss, the presi dent added. Other committee mem bers who retained their positions are Buddy Boyd and Tom Cruz, the committee head stated. Phil Goode, co-sponsor, revealed that the organization membership totals 27 men at present. Scheduled for the business ses sion Monday are decisions on the method of selection for the society Cotton Ball representative, wheth er a spring inspection trip will be made by the members, and the date and details for an informal dinner tentatively set for the first week of March. Lampkin will also re port on the success of the organi zation’s proposed typing classes and the Law in Action radio series which is being presented jointly with the Brazos County Bar Asso ciation. By DEAN REED Alec Templeton, blind piano star of radio, theatre, and motion pictures, will present his second program for Aggie audiences in Guion Hall tonight at 8 p. m. This will be a regular Town Hall performance, and all tickets have been sold. Forest Service Will Enlarge If Given Funds The Texas Forest Service plans to enlarge its small fire department, if the State Leg islature will grant the neces sary funds. Last year the fire department rushed to 3,500 blazes which cost the lumber industry $1,250,000 in timber. Of 65,000,000 timber acres only a small part has fire protec tion. The A&M College System has put out a brochure on the proposed expansion plans of the Forest Ser vice. The Forest Service hopes to purchase sixty mechanical fire fighting units mounted on Jeeps. There are forty-three of these units in operation at the present time. In addition to these there are five airplanes, used to spot fires, a dozen trucks and a like number of patrol cars. The plan calls for an extension to the two large areas in the North west and South east areas of the state and the building of district fire-fighting headquarters at Hen derson and Marshall. The main headquarters are at Lufkin, where a new equipment maintenance shop would be built. Equipment, fire towers, head quarters buildings, salaries and other expenses for the two areas will total $630,000 in the next two years, the service estimates. Di rector Folweiler said that about $1,000,000 of the $2,405,000 re quested for the operations of the Service in the next two years would be used for fighting fires. Tickets on Sale For Concert Tickets for “Music On The Air” at 8 p. m. Wednesday, are on sale in Student Activities Office, according to Grady Elms, assistant director. Stu dent tickets are 50 cents and adult tickets are $1. Templeton will open his program tonight with “Toccata and Fugue in D Minor” by Johann Sebastian Bach. He says that he will play this piece exactly “as I think Bach would play it today.” “Allemande and Musette” will follow, with Richardson’s “Caril lon” next on the program. Temple ton will then go back to the old masters again to present Beetho ven’s “Sonata in F Sharp Major, Opus 78.” This includes the “Moon light Sonata.” Among other numbers included in the evening program are Robert Schumann’s “Final Move m e n t (Lento), Fantasia in C, Opus 17;” Johannes Brahms’ “Intermezzo in C Major;” and “Pastorale,” by Francis Poulenc. “Pastorale” is the only number of the program which was written by a composer who is still alive. Thus Templeton calls Poulenc “a distinguished French modern,” and warns the audience “not to be afraid to laugh.” “Serenata” is one of Temple ton’s own serenades, of which he says, “I have special love for this serenade—it is the portrait of my wife.” Another of his compositions that he will play is “D Fish Hatch ery” inspired by the New York State Fish Hatchery. During a holiday drive outside Saratoga, where the hatchery is located Tem pleton was suddenly engulfed by sounds of the “rushing of water and the splashing of the baby trout. Never before had I heard such a tremendous . . . rippling, boiling, bubbling! ‘Fish Hatchery’ is how it sounded.” Later in the program, Temple ton will play “La Cathedrale Engloutie,” by Claude Debussy, the French composer. “The Sun ken Cathedral” (English trans lation) was the first work of Debussy that Templeton heard. He disagreed then with his mu sic teacher over the sound of the number. She had warned him that it would be discordant and strange. To him, it sounded ab solutely natural and right. “That was a happy way of being intro duced to Debussy, of whose rich impressionism this is a typical example,” Templeton says. Another of Debussy’s work will also be presented. This will be “Prelude (from Suite Pour le Piano).” Templeton presented a special matinee performance this after noon at 3:30 in Guion Hall. It was not a Town Hall production however. The program for tonight is scheduled to last approximately two hours. ABOVE—CECIL K. SMITH as the Barber of Seville tries to clip the wings of OSCAR STEWART’s Great Speckled Bird at the Architectural Society’s Annual Beaux Arts Ball Saturday night. LEFT—First prize in the women’s division at ASABAB went to MRS. W. G. RUCKER for her portrayal of “Paper Doll” Satur day night. Her husband in the outlandish feather-duster get up was “Woody Wood Pecker.”