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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 18, 1949)
vr :;1 1 %! • ; ?fw:wli*’' ' :..l Volume • ^r? W. Li'-V Approv I; 11 ; i,\ f ! i! (L !n ■ he City Zonl iroved the ti we No, 88, el llboerde and i tlina within the of the lonlnir HMjted on the a^ ltd approval R Barlo H, Prewlt^anj lhed'’3 io «( to . IMM iarde are movie, aoft 1 tuthor ndvartUliiv Uon city limit.,| ■ . f I , \ T ■ ' i I * w ' ii; i 1 \ [/' '7 y /i i 51 mm V / i •i/i :4- r, /'l5 . •“a I /1 7 -' i PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER ASM COLLEGE > ■ M ■' i j.;: I t- ^ * ?'• I )LLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 18,1949 •Irlnh te pmeht ortllnattoi* m J blllboardi with denttal and No. 1 of College Htatilyil city council 1. cxj a meeting of th< Called, according- Raymond RoroIh. • This action of as with the so] month, affect tming. They tho detached b: limits, Rogers the IMP iuubwMjjw ad 1, lant ver- James And All The Roys will provide music for the Cattleman's Ball. The Ball Is scheduled night. ' [, . J is West ouse SI !■* •H. f.m arii< tion, esent to be 1 he at it •senidr,- •son.. 1 i m«m Larry Antonio, of College S named to re the debate a; Saturday. The debate ii YMCA Chapel Gbodwyn, la Thomas Jeff where he was +, ,n bate, teiam which i| championship. Any ^ Goodwyn Is editor* of th mentator and writing Follies for ’49.j , $ Farmer, a ffeahm Adamson High! Sfihocil a member of Co debate aquad,! Farmt Texa»«Louisionja| Natloi League Deltatd UoprnM and in the *Ai|m W'nr . Ih axteTrtporam'Oui a| North Texas DIM* oq schoiastio Uag[jo,iip(ii The'Weal ?oVnt>H is composed qf! Chdt mar and CUy BUck debater at field, MUnorni und in the (Ivdi Tournameni jet In 1045, Buckingham ill West Point tom teams, the, Qade superintendent; o Sunday School. ourn i--. m tlu. ttehded ,i School of ;a' 1 de« . By BO BYERS AUSTIN, Te*., March 18 UP)— Both houses of the legislature held only brief sessions yesterday and quit until Monday. The house’s less-than-one-hour meeting followed an all-night meet ing on the Education Committee that sent the Gilimer-Aikin school reorganization bills passed by the Senate to the House floor with “do-pass” irecommendatidns. Eighty-Seven new bills were in troduced in the house this morning and members stood for a moment Johnson of Austin, would set up a state youth development council to curb juvenile delinquency. A companion measure has been in troduced in the senate. - A bill by Rep. Q. E. Latimer of San Antonio would prohibit high school fraternities or soro rities. A similar proposal was passed by the last legislature and vetoed by the governor, j The senate set for special con sideration March 28 a bill by Sen ator Howard Carney of Atlanta to set 1 up a three-man real estate commission to regulate the real- into an executive session at 11:30 a.m. Monday. Senator Gus Strauss of Hallettsville, chair man of the committee on nomi nations, said the session would be devoted to “consideration of the governor’s nominations and such other matters as we see fit to take up.” | Education bill opponents, defeat ed in house committee last night, promised a finish fight on the house floor. Ball ■ • ; i . ' 1 // .* ifi / quipment BBounced By System Schools Donations of equipment by mAnuftcturlntr companleg for Instruetlon In tho A&M Syn- tom have been ennouncod by tho hendM of the departments concerned. A Roth turblnt'typi? bump with direct connected 1/8 Hp Lelihd motoi' has . been received by the Civil Engineering Department for use In tne hydraulics laboratory, donated by the Roy K. Roth Co, of Rock Island, Illinois. Also donated to the GB Depart ment, by the Wintroath Pumps, Ihc x is n deep well turbine pump. “This pump will increase the capacity of our water recirculation system in the laboratory and will also enable us to show our sjtudents what a modern pump looks like,” S. R. Wright, head of the depart ment, said. The Agricultural Engineering Department has received a No. 1 SP 32F Jacuzzi pump with motor from Jacuzzi Bros., Inc., of Rich mond, California, to be used for student instruction and demonstra tion. * . Prairie View A&M has received a farm-type welder, valued at $150, according to G. L. Smith, di rector of agriculture. The Lincoln Electric Co. of Cleveland, Ohio, made this donation. General Electric Co. has donated a 1/50 meter and socket to the North Texas Agricultural College at Arlington, according to E. S. Hopper, dean of the college. pm- •fAggie attended is. As Eastert Dates Ann Easter receii April 16 and April 18, “ ton annoi t S--: ttey’s the Fprwnilc ijf !M>48, '** jl '^Irst the ter- njtest. earn r i La- As a ijflng. sap- bate 0, r jar the r qebate and ♦I^PoInt .. 29 on a bill by Senator‘Kyle Vick of Waco to amend the firemen and policemen civil service law./] The senate al$o voted to go .inney a momen of silent tribute te the memory of estate business. Special Rep. A. Robin Henderson, who[tbn was set for Skrch i died Tuesday and is to be buried at 3 p.m. today at Groesbeck. The senateadjourned after set ting two senjate bills for special hearing. Among nevf house bills was one requiring the ■ state comptroller to make quarterly reports to the y tbmitlo Ux!bo»rd on tKa revenue ^amed US DllcIlt'SS Miss Martha M<,‘Kiiiney of San Antonio was aelectPd duchess for the Cotton Ball and Pageant by the Agricultural Engineering So ciety Tuesday night. Hho will be escorted to tho Cot ton Bull and to the Ham Dance to to t ‘ ' situation of tho state. Another 'bill, I by Rep. Peace 4S IjCjfiol- Catholic Fund Gets $10,000 from Exes For Dallas Opera Next Month By DAVE COSLETT It’ll be a far-cry from the romantic camp fire ballad singing of the “Old West” next month in Dallas as the Met ropolitan Grand Opera opens a three-day schedule In the Fhir Park auditorium. No stranger to Dallas, tho internationally-known New York group Is appearing In tho+ culture-oonscloui Texas town itiji eighth consecutive yea The A AM Catholic Center re ceived $10,000 <6r Ita building fund Monday from Catholic Hsus in Galveston, W, I,. Schumann, president of the Newman Club, sttld today. . , / ! The former students were led by/ Ross Novelll amt Fronds Cantlni, both of Galveston, In their fund raising campaign. During! tho drive the club gave away $10,000 in bonds and in re turn took in $20,000 in donations. This money will be Applied to the building fund, Whose goal is $200,000, Schumann said. The new center will include [ a large chapel, a chaplain’s home,; a library, class rooms and a recreation hall. the Agricultural Bilgi ng April 110, it (Inustnn, , ,fi liming Building April '10, by Dun he held leering J, Lprigserre of Ho 'Leon D, Muslck, vice president of the Southwest Association Jun ior ASAK, urged members to at tend the aoutnwost convention at Texarkana April 16 and 10, after they return from their Rio Grande Valley field trip, The society also set the date for the final barbecue for Thursday, May 19. Plans wk-re discussed for the nomination of five outstanding students in the Senior Class. Fred R. Jones, head of the Agri cultural Engineering Department, spoke on “The Registration of En gineers in Texas.” for car. During thjis year's engagement It will pre- stint four well-known operas. The first performance, scheduled fife April L’ii, will present Lida Al- Muiese, Martha Upton, Ramon Vlnay, and Leonard Warren ip “ptello," the operatic adaption of .Hlmkospcnrn's play, the best-known of the four, it was commissioned for the open ing of the I,a Hrnla Opera House In Milan. Appearing In the final presenta tion will he Margaret ilarshaw, Nicola Mosconn, Htella Roman, and Hot Rvanholm, The Dallas appearance of tho Metropolitan Opera group la hetng Two performances are scheduled sponsored hy the Dallas Arnnd Op- fj>r Saturday, April 211, one In the era Association. Thr troupe will Include 800 artists and hnlfet dan cers. y r So You Know A & M ? >• I . • Li ! • 1 ■It f j ii ; ■ i -i i / ll 1 ’ j '!•! ii ! 11 • K : | j l. 1 i i ■ i| '* \ l 1 iij ' ■ i : 4 i j f m / . / " ■ 1 . ' K ■ 4. • /, ■ / j |. v '! / .. y ' • ; • Jftcrnoon and one at night. Am rolse Thomas* "Mlgnmr will bo too matinee opera ami will feature lulesepjpe Di Stefano, Jerome Ines, Patrice Munael, and Rise Itevens. “Mignon” and the remain- ing two operas will include ballet iln thoir presentation. / Patrice Munsel, 20-wnr-old so- brano from Spokane, Washington, Is one of the youngest members of the group. Rise Elevens is parti cularly well-known for her title jrole in “Carman” and through her several appearances in motion pic- (tures. . / ( The Saturday night opera will be Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro,” or, in English, “The Marriage of Figaro.” Stars will be Salvatore Baccaloni, John . Brownlee, Bidu Sayao, Eleanor Steber, and Italo Tajo, Miss Sayao. is the Brazilian soprano who has made such a hit with the Met in New York. Miss Steber is well-known as a singer on the Monday night “Bell Tele phone Hour.” The fourth and final opera, Guiseppe Verdi’s “Aida,” will come Snnday, April 54. Probably Ag Eco Head Plans Cotton Conference L. P. Gabbard, head of the Do- partmenf of Agricultural Econo mics and Sociology, went to Dallas Tuesday to attend a planning meet ing for this year’s Cotton Research Congress. At this mooting, Gabbard, chair man of the editorial committee of the congress, is working with other representatives in outlining the program for this year's congress which will bo held from July 28 to 80 In the Baker Hotel at Dallas. The cotton research congress, an annual conference of groups who are Interested in the cotton Indus try and Ite problems, la sponsored by the state-wide Cotton Commit tee of Texas. Burris C. Jackson, of Hlllaboro Is general chairman of the State-wide Cotton Committee. Jackson la preaiding chairman j US1C y Jesse James ir •I By ROLLY KOl&YR The annual Cattleman's Ball will get underlay tfer Hall, with (Iron* in the western theme and music by Jess^ J Sblf& will be appropriately dreaaed for the doc wagon* decorating the band stand, and candle-light* persons attending the dance are requestedi to come ■— ll 1 111 —mil i i i iniWii- 1! ' ; X u m ■ 1. •< ber 14 / st 8 O’c "All the 8 }k in Sblsa )ys,“ The MEADOWLARKS will be featured . . . orchestra In two concerts in Guion Hall. They are part of fh of 32 who make music tp "take you out df this worUIr § | ■Lr*—? lies, Topes Hgfin’ ami lethedan^e floor, All dd to the atmosphero, Um utiftoapHnre, Jesse Jamea Sroup, a pro* ’ bdlo stallonT KTnC, Au*. of the most Jn central hi j Of .. . reported as o 1 lav] siring ban uslc of tReliwIn flddN. „ tar, druma Sml piano will \ promptly, jit t p. m. ami will mnj until hildnlilit. v -a Balt will be at ended hy anl- hmibandry and lalry hutbntt- majors amt mnors, faculty IhbeijH In these d« artments, and landing Texas attlemen. A tod to be In dahee and alf tickets will be ii’. PexaS a is ekpdc id all tl« in;advance. L fo tickets will br sold at the c jticketa are now on slle^h Dbrm and by members of the ,dle;& Sirloin Club, and of the ami & Kow Klub for two dol- stag or drag. Freshmen may hake tickets in the office of e Harrison, [ Annex dean of During intermission presenta- ihs qf livestock judging team a- irds will be made and senior med- l will be awarded, and Dr. Char- I H. ]Harris and J. C. Burns, both ill-known Texas cattlemen, ,wlU presented with honorary merfi- shibs in the Saddle and* Sirloin b for their outstanding contri tion to the livestock industry of T LL Aij 1‘stabliHhi‘d y.arly social nction on the campus, the CaG \ ampus, the C lemjin’s Ball is held jointly by lie 1 Kream and Kow Klub laddie and Sirloin Club. i ■ :r ■ i o / JvL'i j' ■ II a In Guion Saturda 'V Jackson Is prcaiding cnairnmn flcial In of the Cotton Research Congress, White laid 180 IE Personnel Attend Meeting Here Last Week One hundred and eighty per sons attended an Industrial Educa tion Conference sponsored by the A&M Industrial Education Depart ment Friday and Saturday. Directors, assistant directors, su pervisors, co-ordinators, and teach ers of industrial arts and indus trial education from Texas and Louisiana attended the conference which was also the March meeting for the East Texas Industrial Edu cation Club, Southeast Texas Vo cational Association, and Gulf Coast Industrial Arts Club.t The conference started Friday night with talks by J. H. Hill, of the A&M Industrial Education De partment, and Jay Holt, graduate student in the Industrial Educa tion Department. Hill spoke on In dustrial Shop Safety and Holt talk ed on Plastic Teaching Aids for Drafting. Conference members toured the Consolidated High School Shops, and Bryan High School Shops. They also visited A&M shop faefl ities and saw demonstrations on foundry practices, plastics, leather carving, and metal spinning. Guion Hypnotist Show Cancelled Frans Polgar, the hypnotist scheduled to perform at Guion Hall April 11, his cancelled his program here, C. G. Whlto, director of Stu dent Actlvitiee, announced today. Because of tha crowded aoelal and entertainment calendar for the period, It waa agreed by Student Activities and Polgar's reprssen- tat Ives that It waa mutually bene* cancel the engagement, \ • ' ■ iW Hy CARLKY JUCKITT | j “fllwny Time tlal, M "I Wonder Who's KUitltig Her Now,” and "if You Are Hut a Dream" are among the number* included In the imt- gram of Wayne King, "The Walt* King," for two concert* lit Guion Hall Saturday, Both bobby eoxem and *edate oldem may feel at home liatenlifg to. the music of "The Golden Sax- )hone” of King and the voice of a featured soloist, Nance Evan*. A veteran stage and radio per former, Nance Evans has been a leading soloist since she was seven. A new discovery, Fred Kendall, will be the leading male soloist. Such numbers as “Dry Bones,” “Cool Water,” and “Lavender Blue” will be sung by the all-male Gre nadiers Chorus who have their own peculiar style, developed by King. Other performers at the concert will be the Meadowlarks, a girls trio; the Double-Daters, a mixed quartet; a-male chorus; and the Don Large Chorus, a mixed choral group. There will also be such music as ‘Warsaw Concerto” with Jean Richards at the piano, “Viennese Midnight Bells,” and “Nutcracker Scott Elected As NTAC Club Prcxy Richard E. Scott, PE student from Murchison, was elected presi dent, of the NTAC club last week. Thirty members attended the meet ing. . /■ !>> . j. Other*; officers elected ] Include John Cummings, vice president; Lawrenet]Beth, secretary-treasurer Oscar Brown, reporter, and Bee Stroud, social chairman. AU members of the NTAC Club are requested by Scott to meet at the YMCA Thursday at TtlBjp. m. to have a group picture made for Aggieland '49, j Proposed plans for the near fu ture Include a spring social. /' at the next meeting, a duel will be ehoeen to resreeent the club at the Cotton Bell and Pageant, Scott said. ' I L q*>l Suite” for the mire oo ear.; V ! Qrto of the fewr/lmnd- oday to wjeyi a lung-11; nrlty. King was festui , CBS "Lady Esther Her,M eight Venrs, He la* ap; other natlon*wld| protfAm is* made recording* forJtC or for several There will be at (Rjto-TOn, M the Ticket* fqr-both.;:oonce« Ote ^ol sale/ In the Stiidlfht Acdyitli C riceis arc 70 $ento f< and\$1.60 for notfestudef It wa* instituted by A&M at ntsj from the western part the state and other* with/West ndeiides who wanted a featuring their own western mujiie a the place of what they describe m “that dry ballroom music” play- lid as moat other Aggie dances, j Through the years It has has Small Outbr M Mealies is t visit to the A& ing to “Mom” Ctoghorn/, at the A&M hospital. ; Both red measles a measles have been re of the patients are fre: :U . jp hospitalized during March. Six |w.eto ac day and six th Mrs. Claghoi ever, that, co; number of stui is not a large and there is The outbreak i; of year. Si /f-^i o“i the ball proved to bo |u«t that, and ha* ulwa th i moNt colorful and exul int qf the annual dance*. iys bwn d exubsr ptist Students II Meet in T lection, Talk i •nnw Ai mfeting of! Baptlft atudbnl* t&M tinder the direction of the rch X ’ A . ..ti# direction Golllsge Baptist Htudant wlllibe held Monday oveplmi 21 !at ?|15 Chabol. i major item bf busine*! on the; agenda for the evening ir the election of next year’s B8U Coun cil, ;which Will direct the affalls of organization from April 9, until April 1950. Prentii W. ** nn, Jr., director of the group, hak announced. , he Hew council will be Install ed .at the annual banquet on jApril )avid Fort, president, appejinted lominnting committee recently, lich will make its report in this , ting and all Baptist students needed to cast their votos. program will feature Dr. Idp P, Trotter, Director o ’ the Krtonsion Service, who ha^ just teen named Dean of the Graduate Ichooi. He will speak on mission rirk which he observed ip China and Japan during his recent tour Of the Orient for the Department HeadSi Dr. A. D. the Texas Fi speak to the Club Monday Qrelh, president, annf ! Tho meeting will third floor of |he Ai gl nee ring Building., There will bo a ing to plan a Club S iratlona for Ai rcth said ess for the cnased. V Oil Agriculture^ and will tqres to dllustrlate his lecturei. ~tion; of the program is direction of Earl G. Rose, Mis- felons Director .of the local gjroup. ItaTMt 'A Cabinet will bej f>r tho evenlni anyone! else interested to attend, Chi nn said ghnuta wi 1. bo served ose of the idling. pic- This under guest and evening, amt d is invited . Coffee and ut the y. I i Y v/X iii iS i \ y\• !\i i \ . ! ■1: i? vitatio erg Now T Orders for June gradua stations are im>w being the ^tudemt ActlvItTei Jrady K%ih, iasslstant di itudenjt festivities, has am Graduate* f may order hrte itopea^leaUier bomid, rdf bound,'or French fold. .... oardi 1ms said. r* tfOit peraonal dn^token, Bins i M