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* Battalion PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Volume 48 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1949 Number 139 Roosevelt To Speak tn Guion Tonight KermiiJ Roosevelt, grandson of the late Theodore Roose velt, will lecture on “The Near East” in Guion Hall at 8 this evening. He is appearing under the auspices of the Great Issues class. Roosevelt is presently on a cross country tour. He at tended school at Buckley, Groton-f and Harvard and graduated from' the latter with honors in a period of three years. For two years after graduation, he taught in the history depart ment at Harvard and then went to the California Institute of Tech nology to teach modern history. He was writing a doctoral thesis on propaganda in the English Civil War when World War II inter rupted his work. Roosevelt worked in the office of the Coordinator of Information, and later served in the State De partment as special assistant to Dean Acheson, then under secre tary of State. He served with the Army in the Middle East and Italy until he was invalided by an acci dent. During the war Roosevelt travel ed extensively in Egypt, Saudi Ar abia, Syria, Palestine, Iran, and Ethopia. In the summer of 1947 he and Mrs. Roosevelt visited the Middle East on an “interview tour.” In December of 1947 he au thored “Will The Arabs Fight?” which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. Recently he was appointed Executive Director of the Com mittee for Justice and Peace in the Holy Land with headquarters in Washington. There will be no admission char ges and all interested persons are invited to attend, S. R. Gammon of Ihe History Department announc ed. Open House, Dairy Show Planned For All College Day “The Spring dairy show and open house at the college cream ery will be ouy contribution to All jCollege Day,” announced Dr. I. W. [Rupel head of the Dairy Husban dry Department. f The dairy show will be held in the Animal Husbandry Pavilion on May 7 between 1 and 3 p. m. Open house will be in effect at the col lege dairy, the Feeding & Breed ing Experiment Station, and the dairy calf barns from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. Dairy production and the dairy manufacture majors will explain the operation of the different equipment used by the plant. “Visitors to the open house will see some acquisitions that have been made in the past year,” Dr. Rupel said. Among the new animals in the herd is Dreaming Moor Sweet Aim a proved Jersey bull from Isern and Knoop of Ellwood, Kansas. In the field of new equipment will be the continuous ice cream freezing machine on exhibition in the creamery. ALASKA AND HAWAII STATEHOOD APPROVED WASHINGTON, March 9 —CP) The House Public Lands Commit tee yesterday approved statehood for Hawaii and Alaska. Board Meet At JTAC to Study Building Plans A meeting of the A&M Board of Directors will be held Friday at John Tarleton Agricultural College accord ing to Henderson Shuffler, director of Information and Education. Directors and officials of the System will be guests of the Stephenville Chamber of Commerce at that organization’s annual ban quet Friday night. Dr. Ide P. Trotter, director, will review of activities of the Texas Agricultural Extension S e r vice when the meeting opens at 9 a.m. Friday, Shuffler said. On the agenda are proposed im provements at the four colleges of the System. Authority will be ask ed to advertise for bids on a new science building at A&M. First on the building program at College Station, the new science building will have an area of 53,330 square feet. Bids will be reported to the board at the May meeting. Proposed improvements include a new milking barn for the A&M Dairy Husbandry Department, es timated to cost $40,000; remodel ing of girls’ dormitories at John Tarleton Agricultural College and an appropriation for changing the site of the physical education and athletic facilities at that school to make room for academic facility expansion; and an appropriation for improvement of athletic facili ties at Prairie View A&M College. So You Know A&M? mmm tfMMI & m m im m A 1 Chi ink. Pistol Team Fires In Inter-Collegiate Match This Week The A&M Pistol Team will fire in the National Inter-Collegiate Team Championship Match, this week, Colonel F. R. Swoger, team coach, announced today. He reported the team is sche duled to fire in a match with Vir ginia Military Institute. J. B. Alto, S. W. Smith, P. G. Silber, and C. P. Suderman will fire in the national individual in ter-collegiate championship match. They will fire on special targets furnished by the National Rifle As sociation, Swoger reported. Final score of the match will not be known for another month because all scores must be sent to the National Rifle Association in Washington which must calculate the scores, Swoger said. N liilllfi ■ Baptists Complete Plan For Studen tEduca tionBu ilding BOB SMITH, King of Cotton, and DOROTHY MANGUM, Queen of Cotton, are flanked by the other TSCW nominees for the position of Queen. Nine members of the Agronomy Society are sprinkled among the beauties. By BUDDY LUCE Plans for a Baptist Student Cen ter in College Station have been completed by Norton & Mayfield, Bryan architects. The plans, which will further the educational building aims of the proposed Baptist Church plant, were submitted today to the build ing committee headed by Dr. Dan Russell of College Station. According to Norton & Mayfield, the project will give the Baptist students of A&M College the most modern and complete student un ion building that has been built to date. The building will include class room space for the teaching of re ligious education, a library, offices for Rev. Prentis Chunn, director of Student Work and for Rev. Ar thur Smith, head of Baptist Re ligious Teaching at A&M. Prayer and conference rooms are included along with accommodations for the Baptist Student Union. A dark room is also incorporated in the plans. A recreation room complete with kitchen facilities and a spac ious lounge completes the project. With a concrete slab foundation, the building will have both maple Snow Hits Upper Portion of Texas; Cold Moving South by the Associated Press ,Snow swept the Texas Panhan dle today as a moderate cold wave moved southward through the state. Snow was reported at Amarillo, where the temperature was 29 de grees and at Clarendon where the mercury stood at 33 degrees. Cold er weather was predicted for both east and west Texas tonight. With the exception of parts of West Texas and the Rio Grande Valley, the weather in Texas to day was generally cloudy. Texar kana reported a heavy thunder storm. There were light rains at Austin and San Antonio. A fog blanketed Galveston. El Paso, Big Spring, Midland and Brownsville reported clear weather. East Texas—Cloudy to partly; cloudy, a few showers near upper coast, colder north and west por tion this afternoon. Partly cloudy, colder tonight and in southeast portion Thursday, lowest tempera tures 28 to 32 extreme northwest portion tonight. Fresh to strong southerly winds on coast shifting to northwest and north this after noon and tonight. Williams Elected To Chemurgic Post D. W. Williams, vice-chancellor of agriculture, was elected to the board of directors of the Texas Chemurgic Council at the closing session of that organization. Victor H. Schoffelmayer of Dal las, was re-elected president of the Council for the fifth consecu tive year. Waco Club Meeting Set for Thursday The Waco-McLennan County Club will meet at 7:30 Thursday night in Room 301, Goodwin Hall, Ross B. Fryer, club president, said today. Martin Ruby, former Aggie foot ball star, will be guest speaker for the evening, Fryer said. In addition, the selection of a duchess for the Cotton Ball will be I discussed, Fryer added. and asphalt tile floors. Exterior and interior walls will be made of pumice blocks with an exterior ve neer of brick, Roman brick, precast concrete panels, and cut limestone trim. The fireplace in the lounge will be of Austin limestone. Windows and exterior doors will be of steel. The roof is to be of steel con struction and ceilings will be made of insulation board. R. L. Brown, pastor, revealed that the building will cost $80,000, $50,000 of which the Baptist State Convention has already appropria ted. A program to raise the rer Parker, McClure Represent A&M At TU Round-Up Miss Pat Parker, Aggie Sweet heart of 1948-49, and Marvin R. McClure, cadet colonel of the corps will represent A&M at the Annual Round-Up of the University of Texas, April 1 and 2. According to a letter received from Stewart P. Smith, chairman of the Sweetheart Entertainment Committee of the university, Miss Parker will be the guest of the University that weekend and will be honored on various occasions, such as riding in the Round-Up Parade and being presented at the Round-Up Revue and Ball. He said that she would be a member of the Queen’s Court at the Texas Relays, as well as being guest at numerous other social functions given in honor of all the visiting Sweethearts. Miss Parker is a TSCW senior of last semester who was chosen to represent the A&M student body at all of its official social functions. She is from Fort Worth. maining $30,000 was officially launched Sunday by the College Station Baptist Church. Rev. Brown began his religious work at A&M in 1920 among the 325 Baptist students em’olled in the college at that time. First services were held in Guion Hall. Total of ferings for that year were $200. The College Station Church was organized in 1923 with 91 mem bers. The lot on which the present building is located, corner of Church St. and College Main, was purchased the same year for $4,- 000. A temporary building was erected in the fall of 1928. The present church building was completed jn early 1942. Dr. George W. Truett, who was the principal speaker for A&M’s first Religious Emphasis Week, delivered the ser mon on dedication day. Drawings and specifications for the addition to the church plant will be released to the contractors this Saturday and bids are to be received March 31. State, City Engineers Here For Short Course Thirty state and city highway engineers will address the annual highway engineering short course which began here this morning. Dr. S. R. Wright, head of the Civil Engineering Department, is acting as chairman of the first session. Chancellor Gibb Gilchrist gave the address of welcome. D. C. Greer of Austin, State Highway Engineer, respond- Pianist Jean Casadesus Plays For Artists Series Tonight Jean Casadesus, pianist, will appear on the Bryan Ar tists Series in Stephen F. Austin High School Auditorium at 8 p. m. tonight. Casadesus, who was born in Paris, began study of the piano at the age of five. At the age of twelve he won his first medal at the Paris Conserva- - * tiore as a solfege student. Jean is the son of Robert Casa desus, who is also a concert pian ist. His father and four of his great uncles are listed in Grove’s Musical Dictionary. Since 1940 he has lived in the United States where he has con tinued his musical studies with his father and mother. He is a grad uate of Lawrenceville and has done post graduate work at Princeton. He won the Youth Contest sponsored in 1946 by the Phila delphia Orchestra and was also a winner in the International Musical Contest held in Geneva Switzerland, in October, 1947. Last year he started his career in this country by giving recitals in Toledo, Princeton, and Phila delphia. Jean made his European debut in Amsterdam and the Hague last April. The Deniewe, newspaper of the Hague, wrote “The Mozart and Beethoven were perfectly played. Soul, color, perseverance, intelli gence, the sense of greatness and of color—th young man possesses all these qualities together and the magnificent gift to hold the per fect balance everywhere.” JOE E. BROWN ILL PHILADELPHIA, March 9 —(TP) Comedian Joe E. Brown is des cribed as “quite ill” today as a result of recurring malaria, con tacted while entertaining Ameri can troops in the South Pacific. MISS PAT PARKER, Aggie sweetheart of 1948-49; will be escorted by Cadet Colonel Mar vin R. McClure at the annual Round-up of the University of Texas. Illinois’ Loss Soph Sweetheart Pictures Due 26th Sophomores who wish to turn in pictures as candidates for the Sophomore Sweetheart should do so before March 26, DeLoach Mar tin, class president, has announced. Pictures should be submitted to the managing editor’s desk at The Battalion office. Each picture should be labeled as to the girl’s name, home town, and the escort’s name. There should be one por trait, 5x7 minimum, and one full- length snapshot of any size. All pictures will be returned. Martin said the Sophomore Ball is scheduled for April 8. ‘Aggieland’ Wants Grads’ Addresses Graduating seniors should leave their mailing addresses with Mrs. Helen Roberts in the Student Ac tivities Office if they wish to re ceive their copy of the “Aggieland 1949”, according to Co-editor Tru man Martin. Martin said these copies would probably not reach graduated sen iors until the latter part of the fall semester as all students on the campus will receive their copies before any issues are mailed. History Is Never Du It Wh en Taught By Dr. P. J. Woods By FRANK CUSHING Dr. Paul J. Woods throughout his teaching career at A&M has managed to maintain a position of prominence is the history depart ment as a character. That is no small achievement when you con sider the competition offered by his fellow history professors. Anyone who has come into con tact with Dr. Woods must agree that his reputation is not unearned Students of this instructor usu ally remember him best for his snappy repartee and powerful vo cabulary. If the spint moves him, Dr. Woods can deliver impromptu a fifty minute lecture and never use a word of less than five syll ables. Webster himself would have difficulty taking notes in one the Doctor’s courses. Mainly because of this command of words, “P. J.” has never been known to be bested in a verbal duel. His opponent is usually bat tered beyond hope by the terrific onslaught of lengthy words. Last semester some of the fish laboring under History 105 with Dr. Woods laid a little bet as to his age. The odds given were that he was over 40. One frosh went so far as to suggest that Woods was a lot older than that. In fact this student maintained that Dr. Woods has personally put the finger on John Wilkes Booth when the Yankees were looking for him. Naturally the student fail ed the course. To settle such disputes in the future, the Doctor was born in 1916 in Champaign, Illinois. (Pro nounce Illinois with a silent “s” if you want to pass one of his cour ses.) Champaign happens to be the location of some minor school named University of Illinois. It was there that our hero received his BA in ’38, Master’s degree in ’40 and Doctor’s degree in ’41. While attending the University, Dr. Woods earned three matrices for working on the school paper. He rapidly rose through the ranks of the writers and finally was ap pointed Junior Sports Editor. (Ed itor’s Note: The Battalion equiva lent for this position is assistant sweeper.) “P. J. worked earnestly for many worthwhile causes during his ca reer as a writer for “The Daily Illini.” For instance he campaign ed vigorously against the descrimi- nation shown by the school in not allowing a women on the gold team. Junior Sports Editor Woods wore out two typewriters attempt ing to get the state woman’s cham pion a position on the university’s team. It was a futile attempt though. As he ruthfully remarks, “I was thwarted by the sexless Director of Athletics.” Dr. Woods was a letterman from the University of Illinois. Our subject won his “I" for his valor and prowess shown as a manager. Besides his other college distinc tions, the Doctor was made a mem ber of Phi Kappa Phi. This honor ary fraternity’s membership is re stricted on a scholastic basis. January 15, 1942, the ex-Illini man was drafted as a private. He completed O.C.S. in July of that year and married on the same day. His wife, Ruth, is the daughter of (See HISTORY, Page 4) StudentPanel Give Views On 16thPrexy “What the Next A&M Pres ident Should Be” was the sub ject of a student panel before the Kiwanis at their dinner yesterday. The student group discussed the qualities they would like to see in the sixteenth president of A&M and then answered questions from the Kiwanis. The panel discussed the next A &M president from the Student Body’s viewpoint, the Faculty and College’s viewpoint, and former students and parents’ viewpoint. Personality, education,, experience, attitude, and ambitions were some of the traits covered by the panel. Charlie Kirkham from Cleburne and president of the Student Sen ate served as moderator for the panel. Members of the panel included Clark Munroe, from Waco and Feature Editor of The Battalion; Tom Carter, from Beaumont and Corps Editor of The Battalion; Clayton Selph, from Houston and copy reader of The Battalion; Bill Billingsley, from Waxahachie and Wire Editor of The Battalion; and Kenneth Bond, from Pampa and Veteran Editor of The Battalion. The group was asked to pre sent the discussion by Prof. Otis Miller of the Journalism Depart ment who is program chairman for the Kiwanis. Four of the panel are members of Miller’s ed itorial writing class. President Frank C. Bolton was a special guest of the Kiwanis. Approximately 70 men attended the weekly dinner. NTAC Club Meets To Elect Officers The members of the NTAC club will meet tonight to elect officers and to vote on the constitution, Harold O. Spann said today. The meeting will be held in the Civil Engineering Lecture Room at 7:30 p. m. ed. J. F. Snyder, district engineer for the state highway department at Pharr, will preside over the session this afternoon. Thomas K. Wood, apprentice en gineer at Austin; J. H. Davis, as sistant district engineer, Dallas; and W. J. Van London, engineer- manager, Houston, will address the group this afternoon. Speaking This Afternoon T. E. Willier, city of Houston Traffic Engineer, will speak. Also to be heard are Eugene Maier, assistant traffic engineer, city of Houston; W. C. Brandes, traffic engineer, city of Dallas and O. H. Koch, consulting engineer of Dal las. Ike S. Ashburn, executive vice- president of the Texas Good Roads Association, will be toastmaster at the annual banquet in Sbisa Hall tonight at 7 p. m. F. M. Davis, district engineer for the highway department at Paris, will preside at tomorrow morning’s sessions. Heard then will be seven mem bers of the highway department staff: Burney F. Stinson, office engineer; D. K. Shepard, traffic manager; Reed Baker, assistant traffic manager; George L. Carver, inventor manager; Chester Mc Dowell, senior soils engineer; M. D. Shelby, senior designing engi neer; all of Austin and F. A. Har ris, soils engineer, Houston. Tomorrow afternoon the presid ing officer will be F. S. Maddox, district engineer, San Antonio. Policies Discussed F. W. Heldenfels Jr. of Rockport will discuss suggested improve ment of highway construction poli cies. Nine members of the highway department staff to be heard at the final session Thursday include Greer; Marshall Brown, supervis ing laboratory engineer; G. B. Finley, maintenance engineer, John B. Nations, director equipment and procurement; D. T. Harkrider, di rector insurance, all of Austin; Roger Q. Spencer, Jr., district maintenance engineer, Fort Worth; Rudolph Riefkogel, senior land scape adviser; San Antonio; J. W. Cravens, district maintenance en gineer, Paris, and Milton Hayes, district maintenance engineer, of Beaumont. Waltz King Ducats On Sale Thursday Tickets for the two concerts to be given by Wayne King on March 19, will go on sale tomorrow at the Student Activities Office, accord ing to Grady Elms, assistant direc tor of Student Activities. Elms said that all tickets would be general admission with student tickets costing 70 cents and non student tickets costing $1.50. The first concert will be at 6:30 and the other will begin at 9 p. m. MISS EMILY FOLDS, 19-year-old Delmer College senior from Corpus Christ!, will be the Sixth Regiment’s Duchess at the Cotton, Ball. Miss Folds is dancing with Kenneth Shobe of A Athletic Company.