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COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16,1949
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KHduy. He had
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weekn n,
A imtiyt of 8a
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and gradMUd in 1907 tfrlt
Degree, fe took b&
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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!
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Schedule
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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
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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
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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.
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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<
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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-
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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.
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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
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family
foi over
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Presi-
Ceiling
leaders
have
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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ill be discussed
idaryinpthdde
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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
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ICA with registration beginh ng
8:80 a. m. Aprll;6. Stov^nsj rq*
iorted the confer
C wpuld jpnd
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Commission; and
'exas BfHeWrch
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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
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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 -•
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'[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
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: 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
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