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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 16, 1949)
Ff '. l n I Hi v\ •iy ('■ ‘S- I : .1' • I 1 : I! \ 4 m i; I n yw M' /*■ 7 r My l] -n. 7i' fti r :i i r y ii * : PUBLISHED r IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE ;: . ./U s COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16,1949 ;rt terdi 10:5 "tl Im iteVe ulay sen torium, on KHduy. He had Heveral Temple tinned weekn n, A imtiyt of 8a rttmb to AAM In WiVi and gradMUd in 1907 tfrlt Degree, fe took b& Hcience ddgrec at Co i ivo l’ 1 IT •■vj- In 1918, he this time aa Horticultu came the scope Ark established Hensel sl, of the memorial the; eampi who died more the new golf co sponsible for havi ;the A&M campus the most beautiful trjN Daring his 86 yeatsi hj a er here, Hensel becajfno dne best known and most members of the- cfelreg Deeply interested ip dll with whom he came!in cbri-^ kept in touch with njany who scattered over the |country' graduation. . 1 di i n ll These former studen ed ;heir affection ahd rl: him when in. 194i tHe“ ^ the F. W. Hensel his honor. The. o in this country In dents themselvesfu it has hot only been year* but has been _ encfe by the establishme endowment fund fro rjt earnings. (At The Battaliof February 24 6f lh was honored b r iy with a dlsttn ce award “for h s . Escaping and ) beaiitt jrk through his 1 ^rvlce on tha A& lenael is survived and a son, W. F. |r.. logo staff; a brother^ ofi College Station; tors, Mrs. Henry M]h. W. H. Rood t Sullivan^ all of Snr ; Silver Taps wHI at! 11 for Mr. Honi< Util.til ftli! je| Schedule 4 1 • A “Buttons 4nd j I ndll be given by ; he ployees Dinner ClUb day night at 6:hfinn 1A club pamphlet! a.._ T _ although any k?nc of ^ be acceptable; ca ico blue jeans will 1 i Musid for the rovided by B« lis Melody Kings [and 'rising -demonstration men by local talen.t. r emorial r ensel ,ti W. Hensel, 65, who died yes- ital, will be held Thursday at 1, the Scott and White Sana- underwent a major operation 1 Aggie Debaters Will Contest ' Ell So You Know A&M? r; A! If 1 . i i ■* ] It J > -ii : I if ^ it M Tm > l / 'i i & \ v \ ' L ' ' Metropolitian papers are intended to supple compete with them, said Felix McKnight, assist ing News, las ; night. j Til Speaking to members of the publications stdjff, stu Department, and visitors in the Y|1CA, McKnight said umber 144 flsses; Official hosts die evening will F. W. Barker, Clark, Mr. and pr. and Mrs, I. Mrs. Frank Thor, and Mrs. A. Cecil | - Tickets will be on i land Inn u Plans for the A&M-West Point debate Saturday have | been completed, Harri son | Heirth, acting director of for- |ensics, announced today. A car will go to Austin to bring the West Pointers here Saturday mbrning to debate in the YMCA at; 11 a. m., be said. The subject for the debate is: | Resolved, That the Federal Gov ernment Should Adopt a Policy of slizing Educational I tunities in Tax Supported Schools | bjr Means of Annual Grants. A&M is to take the negative side of the I issue. The West Point party is com- I posed of Captain Ralph Scott, of- ficer-in-chargt of debate cadets and Clay T. Buckingham of Verb I Beach, Fla., and Kirby Lamar of I Cabool, Mo. Both cadets are vet- | eran debaters, Heirth added. He said the A&M debaters will [be selected at a final practice to [be held Wednesday. • Hensel Tribute First Obj I Of Memorial Fund Plans for a permanent Citizen’s Memorial Fund for A&M College and College Station ware announc ed today by a citizen’s memorial committee. Purpose of the fund, is to pro vide memorials and lasting exprss- sions of tribute to citizens who have rendered outstanding service to the college and to the communi ty, one of the members said. Funds will be raised by contrib utions from friends who prefer to join efforts and create a lasting memorial rather than to spend the same amount of money on a trib ute of temporary nature. First objective of the fund will be to provide a memorial to the late F. W. Hensel, head of the Landscape Arts Department. His family is in sympathy with the plan. I j The fund will be handled by a committee composed of W. R. Horsley, head of the Placement .Office, N. M. McGinnis, of the Landscape Department, W. ,’L. Penberthy, dean of men, D. W. Williams, vice-chancellor for agri culture, and C. G. White, manager of the Student Activities office. Contributions for the memorial fund may be sent to any member of the committee, and all funds will be deposited in the {College Station State Bank. Money donated for the Hensel Memorial will probably be used to Mr. beautify the entrance of the Col lege Station Cemetery or a similar project to bej selected by the com mittee. if Service . . K i J ** .lA Ends Arm iT-W- Simeon C. Leyland of the Westinghouae El poration closed the second annual conference foil relay engineers this afternoon by delivering a $ recent developments in protective relaying. Seventy-six engineers from aU parts of the U< registered for the conference. 4—4— - r* iBSPl m: . mm Church and Agriculture Leaders Discuss Texas’ Part in CROP A group of church farm organizations and educational agency leaders met yesterday in the YMCA for the purpose of discussing and planning for the 1949 Christian Rural Overseas Program. ' This program, commonly known as “CROP” is sponsor- i. - WA Y HE KINO, the waltz king will feature hU orchestra In OuJon Hall Saturday night In a popular concetjt. Band to Feature Specialty Numbers A drum solo and trumpet trio will headline the A&M Band’s an nual concert at 7:80 p.m. Friday in Guion Hall, Lt. Col. E. V. Adams, director, announced today. Under his direction the, band will present a program of concert marches, popular tunes, classical and semi-classical pieces, and spe ciality numbers. Music directors of high schools in the south-central part of the state have been invited With their band members, Colonel Adams sta ted. Aggie Players Set “Play’s The Thing” As New Offering “The Play’s the Thing,’’ by Fer- en<i Molnnr, will be presented by the Aggie Players on March 24 and 25, according to George Dill- nvou, sponsor and director of the players. A dramatic love story, It takes place on the Italian Riviera. Bill Krause has the lending part as a noted playwright, Sandjor Turn!. Ilona Szabo, a well-known sing er and actress, is plnyc<l by Jeanne Ostner. • fj- Other parts are played by Jerry McFarland, as Ilona’s lover; C. G. Milne, as Mansky, a partrikr of- Sandor and Albert; and Alien Sli- ger, as Almady, Ilona’s old!lover. Dillavou said that this play had recently been released from Broad way for amateur production. A&M is one of the first colleges to pre sent it on the stage. “The Play’s, the Thing,” is dif ferent from any other thing that I have encountered in the field of dramatics,” according to Jerry Mc Farland. “It is spicy and sugges tive.” P. G. Wodehouse, writer of the Jeeves stories, translated the play from the French writer’s original. The story is presented in three acts, Dillavou added. ed by the Catholic Rural Life Church World Service and the Lu theran World Relief organization Through CROP, gifts in kinc from American fields and live stock pens will be sent overseas where distribution is made solely upon the basis of need, regardless of race, nationality, or religioun affiliation, Arnold Lambert, na tional field representative of CR OP, said. J. D. Prewit, acting director of the Extension Service, was ip cMirge of the meeting. The 1948 program in Texas got n very late start and then due to state wide drought, contributions to the program were limited, Pre wit, said. The Extension Service will as sist in getting the committees set up in the counties and will help with educational meetings, but it is up to the committees to carry out the actual program, Prewit said. » Lambert gave the group a plan of organization that should he followed if a successful program is to be conducted. The crop prospects for 1949 in Texas at this time are very good and a successful program could be conducted this year, Lambert con cluded. . ] J ! , Approximately 49 engineers from Texas were in attendance, ■ five from Louisiana, five from Okla homa, four from New Jersey, two from Kansas, and two from New York. Representatives from^rk- ansas, Georgia, Michigan, Missouri and Pennsylvania were also pres ent at the meeting. Norman F. Rode, professor of Blectrical engineering, was in charge of the program given Tues day morning. During this time papers were given by W. E. Doug lass of the Central Power & Light Company of Corpus Chri$jti; J. P. Barron of the Dallas Power and Light Company of Dallas; and W. D. Jordan of the Texas EWtric Service Company in Fort Worth. Douglas spoke on correlation of product and overcurrent relays'for ground fault protection; -Barron discussed distribution line protec tion fuse and relay coordination; and Jordan talked on protection of plant auxiliaries at the N ew Han dley Steam Electric Station. F. W. Tantum of Southern Methodist University was; in charge of the program Tuesday afternoon. F. Von Voigtlander of Jackson, Michigan, who is an employe of The Commonwenlth and Southern Corporation, 1 apoke on ground impedence. E. E. George of New York delivered a paper on the preparation for a- flhort circuit on n network cal culator. He Is sn employe of Ebssco Service Incorporated in New York. The final paper of the afternoon was given by H. P. Peters of the Georgia School of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Ho talked on the limitations of A-C and D-C calculators. I * h s A little-known ‘untold in the niqt Icampus’ ‘fourth; ok • a story auite 'un| jfound in the nutic | semi-official his . jlege. I The story Is the ilifc of A&M pi half a century, could sneak, wo il< dent’s Home in ' f' rooms past am of Texas’ oldest stj found peaceful ing administrat The house wi brought the on the campus even four. T; _ built by well-to-idc k gay nineties, it; \ newspapers of “elegant mans! First occuj was Lai who, With dren, lived though, five considered si any new % AfeM lies r if the family foi over Wi* it Presi- Ceiling leaders have press- and jLi:. r* as an must have had a different idea, for,he added a pack of hounds which he kept in the back yard. During President Ross’ stay in the home, the first of many elab orate ceremonies was staged there. “Sully’s” daughter was married to H. H. Harrington, a future president of A.&M. Next to inhabit the house was President L. L. Foster. President Foster wai content to do without the hounds, finding sufficient com panionship in his wife and four children. Following President Foster were President and Mrs. David F. Hous ton and their one son. They relin quished the house to “Sully’s” son-in-law. President Harrington, in 1905. The Harringtons had only one son.i During this first dozen years of Proxy’s home, the house had al ready undergone a few alterations. The gingerbread — ornamental wood work around the rambling porches—was a distinctive feature of the bouse when it was first built, but was removed sometime in the eariy part of the present century. The stampede of little feet • .'! once more enlivened the sedate manaion when President and Mrs. R. T. Milner and their four children took up residence tnere in 1908. Before President Mil ner’s term expired in 1913, the house was fast approaching its second decade of life and the lengthening line of inhabitants had already stamped it with an indelible atmosphere of gentility and quiet friendliness. The year 1914 found President and Mrs. W. B. Bizzell and their two children setting up housekeep ing in the frame dwelling. They were to occupy the house for eleven years. Several student revolts had come and gone and more than one of the presidents had stepped onto the spacious front porch to listen to the protests of torch-bearing stu dents. Such incidents, however, failed to alter the sedate aspect of the pleasant home. 'By 1925 the house was again playing host to a full-sized family as President and Mrs. T. O. Walton fell heir to the presidential quar ters. They had four children. Pres ident Walton earned the distinc tion of maintaining the longest residence in the house—some 18 years. The present Chancellor and Mrs Gibb Gilchrist took over the col lege presidency in 1944 and with it the home. Their son lived with them during the time he was not in the army. Last fall President and Mrs. Bolton became the ninth family to live in the familiar white house. The picket fence and the board walk which led to the porch had long since disappeared and the house had undergone numerous renovations, but the outward appearance of the house was still essentially the same aa it had made more than half a century previously. President Bolton found the ga rage, not an original part of the house, an ideal situation for his wood-working shop in which he finds relaxation from his execu tive duties. Today the house still stands much as it has for 56 years, pleas ant in its beautiful border of Well- kept lawns, spotlessly white from its latest coat of paint, and silent ly proud as though aware of its honored position. V A&M Professors To Address English Teachers Meeting Addresses by several A&M Eng lish professors will make ite part of the Texas Conference of College Teachers of English at San Antonio March 19, according to Dr. J. Q. Hays of the A&M English Depart ment. Dr. T, F. Mayo, head of, the A&M English Department, will re port on the progress of a program 'which is designed to improve the quality of English teaching in Tex as by state-wide cooperation be tween high school and college teachers of English. The idea for this, joint effort originated at A&M three years ago, Hays said. Mayo is President of the conference. Dr. Hays will present a paper on “The Origin and Growth of Surnames.” Dr. J. P. Abbott, dean Of the A &M Annex and professor of Eng lish will attend the conference as a member of the executive council. Other members of the English staff plan to aittend the meeting, Hays added. The principal speaker for the conference will be the semantloist, S. I. Hayakawa, author of the book “Language in Action.” Hayakawa will speak on “Art as Order,” Hays said. Navarro Club Will Meet Thursday The Navarro County Club meet at 7:30 Thursday in J 228, Academic Building to officers, John TayloSJ retiring president, announced todajK Plans for an Easter party will also be discussed, he announced. Juniors Extend Photo Deadline The deadline for turning in pictures of candidates for jun ior class duchess has been ex tended, Doyle Avant, junior class president, announced, to day. Avant requested that all jun iors who wish to submit pic tures contact Don McClure, Room 316, Dormitory, 10. They must be turned in before Fri day, March 25, he said. 0 [ere Apfil >3 I, .jj.'-f. i • iir / . i.j ditor . . 1 1 ; . •a ^ tapers and not replace or litor of the ^Dallas Morn- i andfaculty of the Journalism iy newspapeta lost sight ii'ir primary aim ofi nerving »eop]i(, then th«| jiewspaper Mr .should be closed, ive newspaper pqople are con- jjtiy dismayed at our qeadcnV of knowledge of the diffl- « encountered n printing a paper, the motives of Ihe pilb- r, and the alms [if the paper,’[ old the group. “Our renders t that nowsnui er people are pi ly normal peoplsL 7 vlur can make rs. Unfortunate y, i errors of newspaper are paraded before '|J> / If- : Hut tri if ’ 13 1 . i vernor Beauiford JT will be the mai Petroleum Recovery Co erice Banquet which Wi held at 7 p. m.,^ April 7 Sbisa Hall, Alberij B. Ste ,'ei cl airman of the : con£er m* r< ported. N Stevens is a professor o: lejpm engineering here. 4 Primary arid sec uh r« ill be discussed idaryinpthdde w Tdxas epcjpgh item t set'i 0- petroleum recovery hr ?ers at the conference wile ronsored by the Texas Petrol Research Committe sii '■!;> I All meetings will lipril 8. W. J. Murray, 1 he Texas Railroad 1 hairman of the 1 lommitt.ee, will fj ailrond Commissitj ncrensing Oil Reel iported. Harold G. Vnnhtjjrii an S. Guenther, A& dents, will present ^Research on a mination of Water tirical Resitlvlty he ICA with registration beginh ng 8:80 a. m. Aprll;6. Stov^nsj rq* iorted the confer C wpuld jpnd i r„ moiriboj* of Commission; and 'exas BfHeWrch leak m mo n’s Fiihdtlojtj In cry/" StofoehR Jr; ■ ' : tl __ od nf Flood X Rhodsif |i i a rd loth Other subjects Up he ery Will Mean tp Textfs, Return of Salt ;;WaterMo Woodbine Sand iijf the E|h|. as Oil Field,” “Results in Several Secondary Ketooyfr Projects," “Gas - Pressuring Texas,” and “BeHavior <?t Wr Input Wells ” J Students are welcome the meetings and'Will qlbt quired to pay the wgistratioi Stevens added. § f F—■—■■■" —Iw— worli Need Humor Stories ll]e said that the editors of the wa had difficulty in finding human Interest stories s .with humor. Editors up news oh a proportion- a'sis with consideration given 1, state, natit nal, and inter nal news. 1 J ewapapers are; intended to re- rt and print news, and not make he emphasized. ildvertisers do „ attempt to dic- $ the policies of newspapers, he mitited. Considerition lis given ftret to the value off a news story 4hd the right of the readers to: it before the desires of the vertisers are con? idered; he poin- Public Interest Prevails -• , j| ' ; '[Public interest and not publiij ( iifiosity is considi red when stor- iqi which might degrade the aub- are being wrtten,” he s a *d. ewspapers do put place a stig- upon a person unless he Com- Is a public often se that deserves iring his name published.” n commenting on the huge costs printing a pap sr, he said that jsenptiorts cnhrges are inade- qtliato to pay-for newsprint' and nting ink. Reporting on, a study the Dallas Mopping News, he ,id that subscri ber* would pay 5 per year fop their papers in- d of llll if the paper did notj 1 advertising space. After the itnlk he answered cations from jh is listeners. Ijh ;; edlqtioni of tljo News during the csidential race he commented, a Wer* wroni; in this cam-;’ ign as wo havjo been, with a few inceptions, for tb<r pn*t 16 yonrs/’ FoPlne|• litudentj , |[McKnlght spok< to the Kijwanls “ub at its luncheon yesterday ut on. I’rbipnt at the luncheon was C. Bci-uggs, nfsoclate edlter of c Progressive Firmer, who Is Uo a former student of A&M. A&M Club To Meet Thursday ii il- * ! ' ; : The Fayette C ounty Club will Hold a meeting Thursday evening it 8 in Room 227 of the Academic Building, Conan Willman, club president, announjeed today. Plans for an 1 laster party end je made. Arrangements for lies of the A&M ilso be made, Willman said. ubs parttcipatn n in the activi thd iviJ \ .I Open House ...4' 'd: • ffi J Prcsideat campus. ! { // . ■ ■ Although it has undergi home that was referred to in M ; I- •; S- I '.‘I Uk is esseutrally still the same *• /