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.
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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.”