Battalion
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Volume 48
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1949
Number 142
Senior Dance To
Have Two Rings
Another step has been taken to facilitate handling of
this year’s record graduating class at the Senior Ring Dance
by the addition of another ring replica to be used in tradi
tional Ring Dance Ceremony.
Roy Blanton, social secretary of the senior class, announ
ced yesterday that construction off-
a second ring- replica has begun.
This latest action came as pro
cedures for the ceremony were be
ing completed by the Ring Dance
Committee Friday. The class has
previously decided to give two
ring dances this year.
With the addition of this sec
ond paper mache ring, the com
mittee hopes to cut in half the
time normally required for stu
dents to pass through the rings.
Blanton stated that cards will
be given to each student who
purchases a ticket, telling him
the ring through which he goes
and the approximate time he is
scheduled for the ceremony.
The cards will be of different
colors and ring designation will
be placed in the upper left hand
corner as a double method of iden
tification.
Students will be given the choice
of attending either dance, as long
as ticekts are available for both
dances. One will be given Friday,
April 22, and the other will be
Saturday, April 23.
The time and place of ticket
sales will be announced later, Blan
ton said. No orchestra has been
contracted yet and the price of
the tickets cannot be determined
until arrangements for the orches
tra are complete.
Every effort is being made to
get a name band for both dances
said Blanton, but there is a big
demand for the best orchestras
at that particular time of the
year and it will be difficult to
secure one for both nights.
Blanton added that the commit
tee is trying to make all the ar
rangements as convenient as pos
sible for the largest number of
students. He asked the cooperation
of the seniors, especially in the
ring ceremony.
Journalism Course
In Public Relations
Slated for Summer
Journalism 406, a new course in
publicity and public relations will
be offered by the Journalism De
partment the second term of sum
mer school, according to Donald
D. Burchard, head of the Journal
ism Department.
“The three hour course embodies
theory and practice in the various
aspects of functioning publicity,
including newswriting, advertising
and radio,” Burchard said.
He added that the Journalism
Department would schedule a total
of 45 hours of courses next fall, as
well as two sections of Agricul
tural Journalism 415 for the first
semester of summer school.
Strain to Speak At
A&M ACS Section
Dr. Harold H. Strain of the
Carnegie Institute of Washington,
will address the A&M Section of
the American Chemical Society to
night at 8 in the Chemistry Lecture
Room. His talk will be on “The
Chromatography of Chloroplast
Pigments.”
Dr. Strain has been associated
with the Carnegie Institute since
1927 and has written two books.
One is on the leaf xanthophylls
and a summary of chromatogra
phic absorption methods.
A dinner in honor of the speak
er will be held in the Aggieland
Inn at 6:30. Section members and
their wives may attend the dinner.
A.A.U.P. Meeting
Schedule Changed
The regular meeting of the
American Association of Univer
sity Professors scheduled for
Thursday afternoon has been post
poned until March 24, according
to N. F. Rhodes of the Electrical
Engineering Department.
The postponement, Rhodes said,
was necessary because of the con
flict between the regularly sche
duled meeting date and the college
employees dinner which is to be
held Thursday night.
The AAUP meeting on the 24th
will be held at 7 p. m. in the
Physics Lecture Room, he said.
Collegiate FFA
To Meet Monday
Final plans for the selection of
a duchess to represent the Colle
giate FFA Chapter will be made
tonight in the lecture room of the
Agricultural Engineering Building
John Bradford, president, announ
ced today.
Bradford requested that all mem
bers be present as a number of
committee reports will be read.
Prizes Offered
For Ideas On
Electricity Use
The Extension Service of
conducting the Texas 4-H
Club boys’ and girls’ electric
contest, Fred Lynch, state 4-
H Club leader of A&M, an
nounced today.
Sponsored by twelve Texas elec
tric service companies, the contest
purpose is to find better ways of
doing things on the farm and in
the farm home through the use of
electricity, Lynch said.
Contestants are to pick out some
job that requires much time and
work which can be done quicker
and easier the electrical way, then
make a study of this job and re
port the improvements that could
be made. Records will be submit
ted to the county agent or the
county home demonstration agent.
The standard report form or the
Westinghouse Educational Founda
tion General 4-H Club Record or
Report Form will be used in re
porting these records, Lynch said.
Cash prizes will be awarded to
the winners in each of the 14 Ex
tension Service districts. All en
tries will be judged by the Texas
Extension Service, Lynch said.
County winners will receive a
gold-filled medal of honor. The
state winner will receive an all
expense trip to the National 4-H
Club Congress in Chicago. Six
college scholarships will be pre
sented to a group selected from
the state winners, said Lynch.
It is not necessary for the con
testant to live on an electrified
farm or on one served by any of
the electric service companies spon
soring the contest, Lynch added.
MISS JANE MILLIKAN of
Avalos, Mexico, junior at Trini
ty University in San Antonio,
has been selected to represent
the Sociology Club as duchess at
the Cotton Ball, April 29.
SMU Professor
To Speak At
Faculty Meet
Professor W. B. Mahan of Sou
thern Methodist University will be
the special speaker at the regular
spring meeting of the faculty of
the School of Arts and Sciences,
according to Dr. M. T. Harrington,
dean of the college.
The meeting will be held Tues
day at 8 p. m. in the lecture room
of the Physics Building.
Professor Mahan will discuss the
value of courses in philosophy in
the liberal arts and sciences pro
gram of study.
Because of numerous requests
from students and faculty members
for courses in philosophy and logic,
the meeting will be an open one,
and all interested students are in
vited to attend, Harrington said.
North Texas Club
Will Meet Tonight
A duchess for the Cotton Ball
and Pageant will be selected to
night at a meeting of the North
Texas A&M Club at 7:15 in Room
.301 Goodwin Hall, according to
Archie Andrews, vice-president of
the organization.
Andrews asked that all mem
bers of the club be present in order
that a representative vote may be
taken.
So You Know A&M?
ROTC Grads Not
Needed By Army
“It will no longer be necessary to call newly commis
sioned ROTC graduates to extended active duty as second
lieutenants following graduation,” Colonel H. L. Boatner,
PMS&T and Commandant, announced this morning.
The announcement from the Department of the Army
■fsaid the requirements for officers
on extended active duty have been
greatly reduced because of the re
duction of the planned strength
of the Armed Forces.
Colonel Boatner stated that the
provisions of the Selective Service
Act which permitted calling offi
cers to extended active duty with
out their permission following
graduation has been temporarily
suspended, and that according to
current policies students complet
ing their ROTC course and receiv
ing commissions will not be or
dered to active duty unless they so
request.
He said that students grad
uating in June who desire to ap
ply for a competitive tour, ex
tended active duty, or flight
training may obtain more infor
mation at Ross Hall.
The Department of the Air Force
previously announced they would
continue their policy of not call
ing newly commissioned United
States Air Force Reserve ROTC
oficers to extended active duty.
Still No Place Like Home
Fun Seeking Aggies Fussy
In Choosing Favorite City
By DAVE COSLETT
Anyone who would hitchhike 300
miles for a four hour date could
be classified in only one of two
ways—he’s either a screwball or
an Aggie.
For some reason or another,
wanderlust seems to reach epidemic
stages around A&M as each week
draws to a close. Even a heavy so
cial slate doesn’t prove a strong
enough drawing card to outweigh
the lure of far-distant lands for all
of the inmates of Sing-Sing on the
Brazos. Someone always has that
itch to read a few more Burma-
Shave signs.
But just where do most of the
Aggies drown the sorrows of slip-
sticks, quizzes, and slave-driving
profs ?
A survey to determine this
Mecca failed to disclose any one
place rated by Aggies as ideal.
It did disclose, however, the list
of qualifications considered by
the modern Marco Polos when
they chart their weekend course.
The first point considered is dis
tance. Students plagued by noncut
Saturday classes usually confine
their wanderings to an area with
in a 200 mile radius of College
Station. Included in this scope are
Houston, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Gal
veston, Austin, San Antonio, Waco
and of course, Denton.
English Group Has
Discussion of Plato
Dr. S. S. Morgan, of the English
Department, will discuss the works
of Plato tonight at the first meet
ing of a newly formed discussion
group composed of English majors,
according to Dr. T. F. Mayo, head
of the English Department.
The club, which is formed to give
English majors a background in
philosophy, will hear speakers on
subjects ranging from Plato to
modern American philosophy, Dr.
Mayo said.
Speakers scheduled to lead the
discussion at future meetings in
clude Dr. J. P. Abbott and M. A.
Huggett of the English Depart
ment, Dr. J. H. Hill of the History
Department, and Dr. Joseph Stadel-
man of the Modern Language De
partment.
The meetings, which will be held
every other Monday evening, will
be open to anyone interested, Dr.
Mayo said.
Some few hardy individuals, not
hindered by Saturday classes or
the necessity of hitch-hiking, ex
tend their field of operations to a
few of the not to readily accessible
metropolises such as Wichita Falls
Corpus Christi, and San Angelo.
The next limiting factor is the
availability of females. Thus, the
out-of-the-way location and none
too lively aspect of Denton is off
set by the presence of TSCW.
Dallas with it’s Hockaday girls
and SMU coeds ranks high in
this category as does Austin
with its TU coeds.
Another thing to be considered
is the liveliness of the possible week
end encampment: Galveston ranks
high on the Aggie list in the early
fall and late spring, but is usually
forgotten during the winter when
the beaches, stellar attraction of
the island city, and the accompany
ing variety of outdoor water sports
become anything but inviting.
Dallas seems to lead the fields
of lively towns although many
students are loud in their praise
of Ft. Worth, Houston and San
Antonio.
Still another element in rating
the favorite weekend cities is the
social angle. Cities boasting large
co-education or all-girl colleges are
usually characterized by a steady
stream of social events and soro
rity functions. This accounts in
part for the popularity of Houston,
Austin, and Dallas.
But even these many factors
don’t absolutely determine just
where the book-weary Aggie is
going to forget it all for those
precious Saturdays and Sundays.
Two more items enter the ques
tion.
First is the romantic status of
the student. None of the forego
ing points matter to the fellow
who’s found the woman, be she a
Tessie or a senior in high-school
McKnight to Speak
In YMCA Tuesday
Felix McKnight, managing edi
tor of the Dallas Morning News,
will discuss opportunities in the
newspaper field with journalism
students at 7 p. m. Tuesday in the
YMCA Assembly Room, according
to D. D. Burchard, head of the
Journalism Department.
McKnight will address the Ki-
wanis at their Tuesday luncheon
in Bryan.
His address is open to the public,
Burchard stated.
back home. True; to the tradition,
of love, few obstacles prove too
much for these/ardent suitors.
The remaining question to be
considered is' the condition of the
Aggies’ bank-rolls. A thin bill-fold
renders its owner absolutely im
mune to the lure of Dallas and
San Antonio nite-spots. From this
point of view, Denton scores an
other victory, for few places can
be found where a dollar stretches
farther.
One place, however, did rank as
a sure-fire favorite with everyone.
Whether it be in the heart of a
city, large, on the outskirts of
some wide spot in the road, or in
the desolate plains of West Texas,
home continues to hold priority in
the heart of every Aggie.
to outstanding freshmen. One of
the freshman must be taking the
pre-veterinary medicine course.
The other may be enrolled in any
curriculum in the school of Agri
culture.
The junior winner will join a
group of 34 representatives of oth
er land-grant colleges at St. Louis
August 1, for two weeks. As guest
of the Ralston Purina Mills, they
will study the problems of manu
facturing, commercial research,
distribution, advertising, and per
sonnel. They will then attend a two
weeks’ Leadership Training Camp
on Lake Michigan.
The freshmen will be members
of a group of 47 representatives of
other, colleges in attending the
leadership Training Conference in
Michigan the last two weeks in
August.
A faculty committee to award
the fellowships has been appoint
ed, with J. Wheeler Barger, pro
fessor of agricultural economics
as chairman. Other members of
the committee are Professors G.
L. Robertson, Price Hobgood, H.
E. Hampton, A. V. Moore, O. E.
Sperry, and T. E. McAfee.
The selections will be made on
April 6. Consideration will be giv
en to scholarship, leadership, ac
tivities and general culture, Dean
$20,000 Approved F or
Dorm Water Fountains
By CHARLES KIRKHAM
Meeting in Stephenville, on the campus of John Tarleton Agricultural College, the
| Board of Directors of the A&M College System approved Friday appropriations of $20,-
000 for drinking fountains in the A&M College dormitories, $26,000 for installation of
new underground electrical transmission lines to the Mechanical Engineering shops. $10,-
800 for street improvements in College View, $12,000 for reroofing the Project House
Apartments and $40,000 for a milk
ing barn for the Dairy Husbandry
Department.
According to the plan presented
by T. R. Spence, manager of the
System’s buildings and construc
tion, and approved by the Board,
two drinking fountains will be
placed in each of the four-story
dormitories and a drinking foun
tain will be installed in every oth
er ramp of the four ramp-type
dormitories. In College View the
streets will receive asphalt top
pings. Shingle roofs will replace
the present galvanized roofs on
the Project Houses.
The underground electrical tran
smission lines to the Mechanical
Engineering shops will handle pre
sent increased electrical demands
by the ME shops and will also be
heavy enough to handle any con
templated increase in electrical
consumption in the central area of
the campus, Spence told the board.
This underground project will eli
minate the last of overhead elec
trical feeder lines in the central
area.
Dr. Ide P. Trotter was named
Dean of the Graduate School for
A&M College. He succeeds Dr.
Paul B. Pearson who was given
leave of absence from the College
to serve with the Atomic Energy
Commission. Mr. J. D. Prewitt,
vice director of the Extension
Service will temporarily act as
director.
Authority was granted the Col
lege to advertise for bids for con
struction of the new Science Build
ing. This will be a three-story stru
cture costing an estimated $640,000
and will be located on the east half
of the block now occupied by the
old science building built in 1905.
This is the first step in the major
expansion program planned under
the $5,000,000 funds made available
through the College Building A-
mendment to the Texas Constitu
tion.
The Board also approved the fol
lowing distribution of the 1947-48
Exchange Store profits of $64,-
681.54: $3,000 to the Student Life
Committee for awards and trips
for the A&M Band; $2,000 to the
College Library for the purchase
of additional books for supplemen
tary reading; $11,420.36 to the Stu
dent Life Committee to be used
for student welfare and recreation,
$16,420.36 to the Memorial Stu
dent Center Building Operating
Fund: and the remaining 50%
of the profits to be held for opera
tion and improvement of the Ex
change Store.
An appropriation of $15,000
was made to move the Wool
Scouring Plant now located on
the main campus of A&M to the
Bluebonnet Farm, McGregor. The
move will place the scouring
plant nearer main centers of
wool and mohair production and
at the Bluebonnet Farm where
major sheep and goat breeding
research programs are now be
ing centered by the System.
Authority was given the Direc
tor of the Texas Agricultural Ex
periment Station to sign leases for
the rental of land to be used for
carrying on outlying research in
vestigations being conducted by
the various substations of the Tex
as Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion. This is part of a new trend
for doing experimental work on
privately owned land in various
sections of Texas in order to use
the greatest variety of soils, etc.,
possible at the least cost.
John Tarleton Agricultural Col
lege, host to the Board meeting,
was granted $91,000 to remodel two
old dormitories—Lewis and Cham
berlain Halls—and to construct a
large room to serve as a parlor to
connect Gough and Lewis Halls.
Approval was given John Tarleton
College to move the Physical Edu
cation and athletic facilities onto
the newly acquired 8-acre tract
west of the present campus. The
move will make available space
now occupied on the main campus
by these facilities for expansion of
adequate facilities when constitu
tional amendment money becomes
available. Board member John W.
Newton told guests at the Steph
enville Chamber of Commerce ban
quet that JTAC will launch a $1,-
000,000 expansion program over the
next few years.
Completion of the cinder track
at Prairie View A&M College
Livestock at Show tional $2,500 appropriation. The
Saber Award Will
Be Made by Past
ROA Presidents
The outstanding non-commissio
ned officer of the cadet corps this
year will be presented an officer’s
saber by the past presidents of
the Brazos County Chapter of the
Reserve Officers Association, ac
cording to Grady Elms, chapter
president.
Heretofore, Elms said, the chap
ter has presented the saber, but
as a result of a suggestion by Lt.
Col. Sid Loveless and Lt. Fred
Benson, members of the chapter,
the past president will make the
presentation in the future.
The change was approved at the
monthly meeting of the ROA held
Thursday evening in the Petroleum
Lecture Room.
Loveless discussed the newest
phases of National Service Life In
surance at the meeting. He advised
all men who had allowed their N.S.
L. I. to lapse to reinstate it before
considering any other form of life
insurance.
Also under discussion was the
Hook Bill, presently in Congress.
The bill, Loveless stated, would
eliminate G. I. insurance as it is
now known for new members of
the armed services.
In its place, he said, a free in
surance plan would be instituted
for a man while he is in the service
but it would end automatically
when he was discharged.
VA Requests New
Eligibility Papers
Any veteran who receives a sup
plemental certificate of eligibility
from the Veterans Administration
should submit this certificate of
elgibility to the Veterans Advisors
Office, Room 105 of Goodwin Hall,
Taylor Wilkins, veterans advisor,
announced yesterday.
These certificates should be sub
mitted immediately, Wilkins said,
regardless of the number of papers
that have been filled out through
the Veterans Advisor previously.
Danforth Foundation Offering
Three Agriculture Scholarships
Three 1949 summer study fellowships have been made
available for agricultural students by the Danforth Founda
tion, according to an announcement received by Charles N.
Shepardson, dean of the School of Agriculture.
One of these fellowships will be awarded to an out
standing junior and the two others-f
Shepardson said.
Barger said that anyone inter
ested should come by his office
for information and see Truman
Martin, Room 409, Dorm 7, last
year’s junior winner, or John M.
Oglesby, Room 419, Dorm 9, last
year’s freshman winner.
The students who definitely de
sire to be considered should do the
following Barger added.
Turn in name, campus address
and the hour he desires to appear
before the committee on Wednes
day afternoon, April 6 for an in
terview.
Prepare a 200 word theme on
the subject of “The Importance
of Well Balanced Development—
Physical, Mental, Social, and Re
ligious—in Attaining Leader
ship.”
Report to Sociology Department
office Wednesday, April 6, at the
hour scheduled for his interview.
Barger cautioned each prospec
tive candidates to be sure he ful
filled all qualifications of being a
major in the school of agriculture,
single, not over 23 if a junior, and
not over 21 if a freshman. If se
lected, the candidates must furnish
a certificate of good health, miss
the second semester of summer
school, and afford his own tran
sportation.
Livestock Team
To Participate In
Oklahoma Contest
The A&M Livestock Judging
Team will leave for Oklahoma City
tomorrow, to participate in the
annual judging contest to be held
there Monday, W. M. Warren, team
coach, has announced.
The Oklahoma City Chamber of
Commerce is sponsoring the con
test in connection with their Jun
ior Livestock Show. Approximate
ly 12 teams will be entered.
The team will leave Saturday
after lunch and return Tuesday.
Enroute they will stop at the R. L.
Underwood ranch at Wichita Falls
to judge several classes of quarter
horses, Warren said.
Men expected to take the ti’ip are
Charles R. Green, J. Sears Sentell,
Bryan M. Mills, Bobby Joe Bland,
Tom P. McNeill, Jr., and Warren.
The classes to be judged in the
contest are four classes of cattle,
both fat and breeding; three clas
ses of fat barrows; three classes
of sheep both fat and breeding;
and two classes of quarter horses.
Eight of the 12 classes are reasons
classes and the remaining four are
placing classes, Warren said.
Who’s Who at A&M
DOYLE AVANT
A&M Men to Judgi
Two A&M men will serve as
judges at the annual Wiliiamson
County Livestock Show, to be held
at Georgetown, March 14 through
16, S. L. Neal, district agent of
the Extension Service, said today.
These men are George Robert
son, animal husbandry instructor,
and Richard Burleson, dairy spec
ialist of the Extension Service.
Robertson will judge the swine
show, and Burleson will judge the
dairy show, Neal said.
track is used for the Texas In
terscholastic League Track Meet
and the Intercollegiate Track
Meet for Texas, Louisiana, Ar
kansas, and Oklahoma for Neg
roes.
The Board accepted gifts and
grants offered since its last meet
ing—$21,300 in cash, $9,000 in
equipment, and an unspecified sum
in loans.
In addition to fiscal considera
tions, the Boai'd heard a report on
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