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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 23, 1949)
THE BATTALION ; College StatTbn, Texas^ Wednesday, Feb, 25, 194$ TYPE FOR TODAY'S BATTALION RUINED BRYAN AND_ AIM SVilMMING TEAM TO l-aCET BAILOR TOMORROW A1M f S swIr:imIn^ te am take s to the road ajain toraorrow for a return engagement with the Baylor Bear a In Waco. The dual, meet will be hold in McLean Gym to- ■ o r r o w a f t o r n o o n a t 3 * Thie will be the second meeting of the two teams this season. The first meet found the A v>w ies on the aop sid0i of a 51-24 score,. Should the Angies win this rneot it will be their fourth victory of the soason and will give the team a . 6 6 6 a v e r a g e. Bullet Manale of Baylor v/ill take to the board. As in the other meet, it is highly possible that Danny Green and Bernard Syfan will not see as much action as usual, and the same may go for other A^ io Stalwarts. MUSIC ON THE AIR’ PROGRAM FAILS TO ARRIVE FOR GUION PERFORMANCE THE Music on the Air program which was scheduled for Guion Hall tonight, has been , ■cancelled, ac c o rding to C . G. Wh.11e , d:lr e c t or of student activities. Commencement Exercises to be Hold J11ne 3, Sonior T J r o s i dcn t Re ve ala d C o mine n c e me n t o xe r c i s o s f o r graduating seniors will be held at 8 p. in. June 3, and Baccalau reate services .will bo at 10 a.rn. D o n G. K a s p e r, pr e s i d ■ .:■ n t o f th e Senior Class, has announced.. The Final Ball lias been set for Friday night, June 3, from 0 p. m*. until 1 a. a. The Final Review will be hold Saturday, Jine 4, at 9:30 a. i;n Kasper said that neither the baccalaureate or commencement ' speakcir has been selected and that ho would like to have s v g g e stio n s for a s poaker. The date and time of commis sioning" exorcises will be deter mined later, lie said. IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT BETWEEN COLLEGE STATION Bran P r i n t i n g t yp e f o r t o d a s ; a. 11- a 1 ion was unceremonioi?.s 1 y d:Ls 1,r ’ - bu.ted along College Road at 4 :4 l . this afternoon. This fiendish deed was egm.U t^ no t b y wo u 1 d b e s u p r e s s o r s anc censors. The Campus Socurlty v . in no way responsible for tod". ? ^ fiasco nor was Tom Puddy, man-.u < or of Guion Hall. Ironically enough, it was an automobile accident that accomplish ed what some people on a few oc casions have tried in vain to sup press - -T he B a 11 a 1 i o n. The accident occurred as printing forms for the paper were being taken into Bryan on a truck belonging to the BBCU n© pai 1 1me n t. A c c o r d I n g t o e y e w 11 n e s s e s, t he driver of the truck stooped sudden ly to avoid hitting a car that nad stopped in front of the truck. A car foilov;i n_ the 11 1 1 \ck pI.owed Into the printing forms and com pleted the job of demolishing the type. The automobile episode brought an e nd t o an e n t i re d ay ’ s m i s f o r t\: n o s . Earlier in the day, a part on the big Goss Press in the basement of Goodwin Hall, broke aiyd was taken for a we 1 d3 ng job. The welded part proceeded to break again after It was placed on the press,The printing forms were then loaded on the truck for the Ill- fated trip to Bryan. The im; 1 ac t of fc 11e fo r’ms s tr 1 k 1.ng the highway was so great that the meta1 f1ew in a11 directions. A shovel was used to gather up the loose metal marking the Vi ret time that a shovel has been necossarv equi. pment in connection with the Battalion. J. W. Hall, manager of the A'.-M Pres^ -and Roy Goode, pressman, re trieved all remains and returned them to Goodwin Hall. Hall expres sed hope that the press would bo re- p a I r e d i n fc i ne t o p r i n t T hu r s • s ; s Battalion. Battalion editor’s :• ox-sod ovotime getting out mimeograohod sheets explaining to their j?r.omh. -'s that traffic accident ranker " bankruptcy had prevented risk U tion of fcoday»s 3a11a1ion. According to one Batt staPf : • -- ber, irate readers of t;ao L«■ ;■ 1 ' to the Ed 11 or co 3.u >n wer se ' ; madly for We dne e day • s o (\ i t j. o n. Battalion Editors Kenneth .'Mod and Tom Carter voiced their .:>gB' Mon that the Thursday paper would' • c !;• o u t on so he du 1 e .