The Battalion
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Volume 48
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1949
Number 129
Two Ring Dances
Being Considered
The possibility of having two-f
Ring Dances this year was dis
cussed yesterday by the ring dance
committee and it was decided to
leave the matter up to members of
the senior class, Roy Blanton, so
cial secretary of the class, said this
morning.
Blanton stated that approxi
mately 2200 men would be eligible
to attend the dance this year and
that it would be impractical for
all these men to go through the
ring in one night. Of this num
ber, around 500 are in the Corps
and 1700 are non-Corps.
The committee decided that bal
loting on the issue would be con
ducted sometime this week by the
student senators. Married students
will obtain a ballot in Student Ac
tivities office.
The ballot will contain two
main questions: Are you planning
to attend the dance this spring?
If so, which of the following plans
would you prefer?
After this second question, four
plans are listed. Each senior is to
vote on one of them. The first
plan suggests two dances, one on
Friday night and the other Sat
urday night. Under this particular
plan there is again another choice
to be made: To have one night
for the Corps students and another
for the non-Corps students or to
divide the students alphabetically.
The second plan is to have just
one dance attended by the 2200
students and their dates, making a
total of 4400.
The third plan suggests a Fri-
tlay night dance for those gradu
ating in June and a Saturday night
dance for those graduating in the
summer and the following Jan
uary.
LIFE Presses
Running Color
Shot of
Corps
A full page color photo
graph of the cadet corps in
mass formation is rolling off
the presses of LIFE maga
zine, according to word re
ceived today from Milton Or-
shefsky, Southwestern repre
sentative for LIFE.
Orshefsky, in a phone call to
Henderson Shuffler, director of in
formation for A&M, stated that he
did not know how many black and
white pictures would be printed to
go along with the color spread.
The picture story should appear
within two or three weeks, Orshef
sky stated. If'the usual procedure
is followed it will be run in a LIFE
Goes to a Military Ball” section.
There is a possibility however,
that the story might still be
pulled from the presses if mater
ial on other subjects should de
velop that would warrant such
action.
Orshefsky told Shuffler that he
would inform him of the exact date
the feature would be published as
soon as he is notified.
The last plan may be voted on
by January graduates only. It gives
them the choice of having one
dance this spring for the June and
August graduates and another
dance next fall for the January
graduates.
The committee decided to handle
the matter by vote since so many
students were involved and this
would be their only ring dance.
Blanton added that in the event
two dances ai*e held, every effort
will be made to make them as
much alike as possible.
He also requested that all sen
iors cooperate in the balloting so
as to get an accurate account.
Apartments
Now Available
At Bryan Field
A number of quarters for
married students are avail
able at Bryan Army Air
Field, according to H. L. Boy
er, Chief of Housing.
These quarters were Bachelor
Officer Quarters during the war
and as long as the college has con
trol of the Field, these places will
be available, Boyer said.
The apartments are 20x24 feet
and are divided by semi-parti
tions into three rooms and are
equipped with electricity and one
space heater in the living room
with no other gas outlets.
The toilets and showers are in
outside buildings which are gas
heated and have hot and cold run
ning water. Thirty-six students
are living in these quarters at
this time and some of them have
been made very comfortable, he
stated. These students have sup
plied themselves with hot plates to
prepare some of their meals, Boy
er added.
These apartments rent for $12
per month and the college will
furnish an ice box for $1 per
month extra. The furniture is
dormitory equipment plus a din
ette suite with four chairs. Utili
ties are included in the rent.
Acceptance of one of these a-
partments will not help or hinder
a student’s chance for one of the
cooking apartments, Boyer con
cluded.
Bennett Named
Art Club Chairman
Boyse M. Bennett, senior chem
istry major from Brownwood, was
elected temporary chairman of the
Art Club being formed by persons
of the community interested in
painting.
J. W. Stark, director of the Stu
dent Memorial Center, said at the
initial meeting Friday, “that just
because the center is not yet com
pleted, is no reason for not having
an Art Club formed now.”
Under sponsoi-ship of the Me
morial Center, the next meeting
of the club will be held at 7 p. m.
in Room 157, Bizzell Hall.
‘So You Know A&M?’
All-Star Music Review
Wednesday In Guion
“Music On the Air” will be music in the air Wednesday evening in Guion Hall when
the stars of the Columbia Broadcasting System radio show of the same name make their
first appearance at A&M.
Headliner for the all star revue is Splendora, a young soprano who was interned in
Italy throughout the war.
Editing Conference
Will Begin Tonight
An Industrial Editing Conference featuring four speak
ers on personnel relations and writing for industrial pur
poses will be held tonight at 7 p. m. in the Physics Lecture
Room.
Leading off in the discussion will be Walter G. Beach,
•fsupervisor of public relations for
Humble Oil & Refining Company.
His talk will be titled “The Tech
nique of Writing for Industrial
and Trade Magazines.”
From Bach to Duranty
Templeton’s Concert Wows
Dogs, Kids And Long Hairs
GEORGE WEST, comedian, will appear in Guion Hall Wednes
day night at 8, in “Music On The Air,” a CBS radio show.
West will be master of ceremonies for the stage review which
will feature Splendora, operatic soprano, as star.
By CHARLES KIRKHAM
A near capacity crowd of great
er College Station citizens—bach
elors and married Aggies, wives,
profs, and high schoolers—were
delighted by Alec Templeton’s
concert of classics and his novel
antics at the keyboard in Guion
Hall last evening. Everyone should
have been pleased for Templeton
traversed the musical spectrum
from formal Bach, Beethoven and
Brahms to a jive version of “Ma
rie.”
The pleasure of the audience
was expressed by thunderous ap
plause that was only partially sat
isfied after three encores and nu
merous curtain calls. Even then
the audience was reluctant to go
home. They wanted more Temple
ton.
Selections that would fit well
into the atmosphere of an eight
eenth century English drawing
room were played until the inter
mission. These selections were not
very well known to this reporter
but the enthusiastic ovations they
received indicated that Guion Hall
contained many classical music
lovers who knew and appreciated
them. “La Cathedrale Engloutie”
by Debussy, “Intermezzo in C Ma
jor” by Brahms, “Toccata and
Fugue in D Minor” by Bach are
examples of the pre-intermission
classics.
After the intermission our
heretofore formal concertist let
his hair down and “Surprise-
Surprised” everyone with this
Haydn classic set to several tem
pos, but never was the main
theme lost.
Next, Templeton played Rach-
manioff’s “Second Piano Concer
to” (“Full Moon and Empty
Arms”) in the styles of Gershwin,
Chopin, Cole Porter, and (believe
it or not) Spike Jones. Vocal
sound effects accompanied the
Jones’ rendition.
With famed Templetonian gen
ius our master pianist wove the
melodies of “The Twelfth Street
Rag,” “Warsaw Concerto,” “Star
dust,” and “Polonaise” into a sin
gle logical and beautiful piano se
lection.
“Stardust” faded into the “War
saw Concerto” with more smooth
ness than less able musicians play
ORC Expects To
Get More Money
The Army Organized Reserve
Corps will receive more money in
the 1950 fiscal year than in 1949
if Congress approves the recom
mendations contained in President
Truman’s budget message.
According to a release from the
Texas Military District Head
quarters, it is estimated that the
sum suggested for the ORC will
be sufficient to provide drill pay
for 230,000 reservists. The 1950
estimate for the Army ORC is
$115,000,000, as compared to the
combined appropriation of $125,-
000,000 for the Army and Air
Force Reserve for fiscal year 1949.
while turning pages of a song.
The whole pei’formance was
brilliant. Any music lover whether
classical or modern would enjoy
listening to Templeton. His deli
cate and effective interpretations
of the masters, and his mimicing
of the moderns entertains and
delights the audience. Last night
at Guion Hall, he achieved this.
However, he did commit one
great social blunder-—he admitted
that he had never heard “Old Rat
tler.”
In spite of this, Templeton would
be welcome at A&M again. J
WTAW Manager
Resigns to Join
Bryan Radio Staff
Frank Sosolik, manager of Ra
dio Station WTAW, will leave
Mai’ch 1 to join the staff at Sta
tion KORA, according to Hender
son Shuffler, director of Infor
mation and Publicity of the A&M
System.
Sosolik joined WTAW’s staff in
1943 as chief engineer, and was
promoted to station manager in
July, 1948. He said that he has
purchased ’ 49 per cent of the
KORA stock and will assume
the position of manager upon his
release from A&M.
“We intend,” said Sosolik, “to
improve KORA and give the ad
vertisers more for their money.”
He said that immediate changes
would be made.
No successor has been appointed
as yet to succeed Sosolik, Shuffler
said.
Clonts Elected To
Head HJSK Club
Joe Clonts, senior Management
Engineering student from Knox
City, was elected pi’esident of the
HJSK club at a meeting last
Thursday night.
Frankie Simsie is the new vice
president of the organizataion and
Howard Brass will serve as secre
tary-treasurer. Troy Gauntt was
elected reporter and Wallace Cox
will act as social chairman for the
club representing men from Has
kell, Jones, Stonewall and Knox
counties.
Speech Correction
Lectures Planned
Students who have an impedi
ment in their speech may have a
chance to hear an authority on
speech correction in the near fu
ture. Bob Weynand, student sena
tor of dorm 17, announced today
that if enough students request it,
a speech correction authority will
address them soon.
Weynand suggested that all in
terested students either contact
him by mail at Box 673, or see him
in Room 303, Dorm 17.
By FRANK CUSHING
Semi-scrubbed children, yapping
dogs, and worried looking mothers
predominated at the afternoon con
cert presented by Alec Templeton.
Ironically enough, many Aggies
were busy shushing the younger
fry and casting indignant looks in
the general direction of the noise
makers.
Mr. Templeton appeared un-ruf-
fled by the competition offered in
the audience and carried off his
entire program with calm infor
mality. When questioned about the
audience later, the blind but un
handicapped musician said that he
sincerely thought the response
wonderful. “Those attending,” as
he put it, “were not only wonder
ful—but terrific.”
One of the original numbers
played by Mr. Templeton was
named “Bells and Music Boxes,”
an impression. During a post-con
cert interview the piano star of
radio, theater and motion pictures
confessed that chiming clocks and
music boxes were his secret pas
sion. From listening to the differ
ent ones in his collection, he con
ceived this melody.
Anyone visiting the Templeton
home is subjected to a constant
barrage of tunes. “No matter what
you touch, or where you look,” Mr.
Templeton said, “You’re bound to
encounter a tune-playing mecha
nism.” Bottles, cigarette boxes and
doors will all give forth a melody
when given the proper stimuli.
Even Mr. Templeton’s hair brush
and clothes brush contain conceal
ed apparatus for playing tunes.
The talented pianist exclaimed in
a voice edged with pride, “My wife
and I are constantly surrounded by
music.”
Both the long-hairs and the crew
cuts could find pieces that appeal
ed to them during the afternoon
concert. Mr. Templeton’s selections
ranged from Johann Bach to an
imitation of Jimmy Duranty.
Without a doubt the younger set
in attendance liked far more the
second part of the concei’t. Dur
ing that time Templeton gave forth
with some of his own variations
of popular tunes and also did
some very convincing imitations.
The noisest number on the pro
gram, and the one that seemed to
have the loudest audience response
was that of “I Wonder Who’s Kiss
ing Her Now” as it might be play
ed by Spike Jones.
Another huge success was a
speciality number improvised bjr
the pianist from four tunes pro
posed by the audience—two classi
cal and two popular. The resulting
affair was the combining of the
songs “Far Away Places,” “Blues,
in the Night”, “Saber Dance” and
“Polonaise” into one continuous
melody. The result was not the
utter chaos to be expected.
The only casulty resulting from
the excellent afternoon program
was the drinking fountain. It will
never be the same after the heavy
and continuous work-out given it
by the youthful crowd. Never-the-
less, even the dogs went home con
vinced that Alec Templeton well
deserves his reputation as an en
tertainer of the highest order.
Cadets to Get
Commissions
At Graduation
Distinguished military
graduates will be commission
ed in the regular army on
graduation day at A&M, ac
cording to Lt. Col. W. S. Mc-
Elhenny, executive officer of
the Military Department.
This will be the first time that
the commissioning will take place
at the regular graduation exercises
he said. This procedure will become
effective in June.
Graduates who are commission
ed in the regular army may re
ceive a deferment of thirty days
with the permission of the head-
quarters of the Fourth Amy in
order to make family arrange
ments, take professional examina
tions or because of sickness or ill
health of members of thteir famil
ies.
No deferments will be given
for the purpose of awaiting the
results of other professional ap
plications or for rest or recrea
tion.
Academic deferment of not
more than two years may be given
for advanced work if the courses
taken are of value to the army.
Officers deferred for this purpose
will be placed on duty and then
will be granted leaves without pay
or allowance.
They must, however, sign an
agreement to remain in the reg
ular army for a period of four
years after the completion of
their graduate work, McElhenny
said.
Similar arrangements have been
made for graduates who are less
than twenty-one years of age.
They may either go on duty as
reserve officers until they become
qualified or may wait until they
are twenty-one, at which timd they
may request to be placed on duty,
McElhenny concluded.
ROTC Payments
Reach New High
The Army paid a total of $45,-
728.94 to advanced ROTC students
at A&M for the month of January
according to Lt. Col. W. S. McEl
henny, Executive Officer of the
Military Department.
This is the largest amount ever
to be paid at this school for a one
month period, McElhenny said.
This record amount was brought
about by the payment of the regu
lar payroll and the back payment
of eleven cents per day, plus the
payment of all students who had
completed two semesters of ad
vanced military science and had
not been paid for the summer.
Some students drew three pay
checks totaling eighty dollars, he
concluded.
Other persons who will take
part in the discussion are Jack C.
Shannon, public relations coordi
nator for Humble, and Frank
Fields, ’38, staff writer for the
“Humble Way.”
Fourth speaker of the evening
will be V. J. McCoy, training su
pervisor for Shell Oil Company.
The conference is sponsored
jointly by the Journalism De
partment, Management Engi
neering Department and Student
Publications.
“This conference is being con
ducted for every student who is
likely to find writing necessary
in his field of work or who is
interested in writing for indus
trial publications,” D. D. Burch-
ard, head of the Journalism De
partment, said.
Following the discussion, there
will be an open house discussion
in which the speakers will answer
questions. In addition, they will
display various company magazine
publications.
March 1 Final Day
To File Application
For June Degree
March 1 is the deadline for fil
ing all applications for degrees to
be conferred in June, H. L. Heaton,
registrar, announced today.
Students who have deficiencies
in their curricula will be called to
the Registrar’s Office during the
semester to have their records
checked. At the same time recom
mendations will be made as to
clearing up the deficiency.
Persons who have no deficiencies
on record will have confirmation
of their degree after May 15, Hea
ton said.
Graduate students must pay a
diploma fee of $2.50 at the Fiscal
Office. Receipt of this diploma fee
should be presented at the Regis
trar’s Office before April 1st.
Sharing the spotlight with
Splendora will be the Kings
Guards, a male quartet. A double
piano team, Whittell and Steel,
will be featured in their special
rendition of the “Warsaw Con
certo.”
Margo Brown will furnish the
dancing sidelight of the Wednes
day evening performance with her
special Spanish dances. At the
Hammond organ will be Eunice
Steel who will play “Tico-Tico”
along with other selections.
Splendora, who is the soprano
star of the Pacific Coast Grand
Opera Association, will sing two
solos, “Traviata” and “11 Bacio.”
The Kings Guards will join
with Splendora to present a med
ley from the stage play “Okla
homa.” The final selections on
the program will also be pre
sented by Splendora and the
Kings Guards when they sing
“Romany Life” and “Let My
Song Fill Your Heart.”
In addition to joining with the
soprano star, the quartet will sing
a number entitled “Sea Chantes.”
The dancer of the Wednesday
show, Margo Brown, was the prin
cipal dancer with the San Francis
co Opera Association, and has ap
peared in several New York stage
productions. She combines Spanish
dancing with a style of ballet tap.
The dual piano team of Steel
and Whittell were performers
for three years with Ken Mur
ray’s “Blackouts,” a Hollywood
Review, and they just returned
from a three week engagement
at the Palladium in London.
The four members of the Kings
Guards are all experienced singers.
Tenor Carl Schlaegel has given a
concert in Carnegie Hall and is
presented regularly on the Colum
bia Broadcasting System.
Johnny Downing is the lyric ten
or for the quartet, and has sung
the roles of Faust, Don Jose, and
of Tamino in “The Magic Flute.”
George Saunders is an alumnus of
Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians, and
has sung under the direction of
both Leopold Stokowski and Leon
ard Bernstein.
A former Air Force major,
Dave Stevens, completes the
singing group. He is currently on
the faculty of the San Francisco
Conservatory of Music. He also
does the arranging and directing
for the quartet.
The “Music On The Air” show
will begin at 8 p. m. Wednesday
evening. Tickets will be 50 cents
for students and $1 for adults, ac
cording to Grady Elms, assistant
director of student activities.
Each candidaate for a degree is
responsible for checking the list
which will be posted June 2, in the
lobby of the Registrar’s office.
Should there be any irregularity
in the list, a student should notify
the Registrar.
This list will be the official one
for persons who will participate in
graduating ceremonies June 3.
Junior AVMAs To
Hear Hale Tonight
Fred Hale, professor of animal
husbandry in charge of swine in
vestigation, will be the guest spea
ker at the regular meeting of the
Junior AVMA, Tuesday at 7:30 in
the amphitheater of the Veteri
nary Hospital.
Professor Hale’s talk, which will
be illustrated with slides, will cov
er “The Relation of Maternal Vit
amin A Deficiency to Embryonal
Development.”
MacARTHUR FREEZES
OCCUPATIONAL LEVEL
TOKYO, Feb. 22 —(#>— Gen.
MacArthur’s headquarters yester
day virtually “froze” the occupa
tion of Japan at its present level.
The move is in line with army
secretary Kenneth RoyalTs an
nouncement that no additional
troops are coming to this country.
SPLENDORA, soprano opera star of the Pacific Coast Grand
Opera Association, will appear in Guion Hall Wednesday evening
to sing a medley from “Oklahoma” and a series of songs by Victor
Herbert.