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ite, is not shown.
Sauls,
iris Groups Converge
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and mdro
thtut one hu id He
over Texas ’ rill;
rday night,
vy will be tnode|
of the TSdl
the Hdckada r
series .of swimt
rgesting “after da
will be set to musicj
such 3,s “Moonlight
ths Still of the
thd Light of the Silver
“Stardust,” “Moondust
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and
niiimbers will
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Roses;” “Spellbburid,V "Bide
“Manhattan Sere*
First they lock you | in a wash-
roclm. Then they throw an atom
bomb at you. Then the ship sinks.
And now they're going to put you
in the zoo.
It shouldn’t happen to a pig.
But it did.
The Navy announced today that
“Pig No. 311”—survivor of atomic
bl^st, radiation and residual radio
activity at the Bikini A-bomb ex
periments—is being turned over to
the National Zoological Park here.
Drj. William M. Mann, zoo direc
tor. asked for Miss 311 when he
learned she no longer was wanted
j byjthe Navy’s medical department.
The Navy made only one request
When 311 dies they want her back
for an autopsy.
No. 311 never will be able to
t^ll her grandchildren about the
'time she survived an atomic at
tack and the sinking of a cruiser.
Shje won’t have any grandchildren.
For this porker, the only perman
ent result of the A-bomb blast was
sterility.
According to slide-rule calcula
tion, No. 311, never should have
lived beyond the motning of
July 1, 1946. 1 j J
(With other pigs, goats and other
assorted livestock this RO-pound
gilt was aboard the former Japa
nese Cruiser Sakawe. She was
locked in a washroom on the main
dejek.
;The A-bomb went off, the crui-
sejr went down, atvd No. 811 went
swimming in the Iggoon. They
never did find how she got out of
th|p washroom.
Atomic no longer; she will be
transferred to the xoo Monday.
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Junior College Glee Club will
((present two performances, one at
Gulon Hall and the other at the
Annex.
Thej programs will consist of
mi-olsesical and popular nunib-
mong which will be five
gniih. songs, “Into (the Night,”
'awn,” “Night and Day,” “April
$bow«M,” “Italian Street Song,”
and “YouTl Never Walk Alone.”
Featured soloist with the group
is Mary Lou Dollinger, sophomore)
music student and soprano who re
cently won4he Young Artists con
test sponsored by the Civic Federa
tion of Dallas. Gaynelie Little of
Galveston and Mildred Coffman of
Gorcg will make up the two halves
of w piano team.
Composed of 32- members, the
Glee Club is directed by Richard
Moorehcad and accompanied by
Betty Boroughs. President of the
club is Rose Marie Bentsen of
McAllen, Texa&
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Ducats for Bob Hoipe Show
Now on Sale at Guion Hall
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Bob Hope’s spring tour will appear at A&M April 20,
according to Grady Efims, assistant director of Student Ac
tivities. The show will be held in Kyle Field’s horse-shoe,
if the weather permits. Otherwise, there will be two per
fornpances in DeWare Field House, j
Tickets for the show, which in-4 •—
elude! Les Brown and his Orchestra, jjjjjjT STILL CONTINUES
SS'NlS" “The
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’[' Spec:alty numbers ivi 1 T , rT .. .
by a quartette to the .
“Dancing in the Daik,’! ai comedy
routine to “Yellow ’Bills, and a
/, duet to “Blue Moon.’ | i J 11 i !
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is (also Red C’foai ];Water
Chairman of 'Defntdr
as Chairman p£
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National, Sectioi
ca, and a
the National |
Jnidn.
Saturday night
Agj;ie Rod)
Leaves for
Contest in
The Aggie Rodec}
cur tills morning fi
cisco to compete in Itl
N«tioi,al Intercollei
be hell under NIRA
Ag| ie squadmen
trik> a *e Charles D. |
C. Dimuth, Ernest i)
James P. Wood, J.| Tt;
Jabesl'R. Day.
smooth’ arrangements of the lat-
si songs, as well as some old fa-
FOR HOUSTON BANDIT
i HOUSTON, April 6 -<^P) Search
for a gunman who robbed the
suburbaiji Almeda State Bank of
$4500 spread today to a half dozen
southerri states.
The Federal Bureau of Investi
gation, State Police, Texas Rangers
Deputy Sheriffs and Police are in
volved-in the manhunt.
The gunman robbed the bank
shortly before noon yesterday.
Wo$d ahd Soulis (will
ping and wild ;i
, Damuth, ahd !
ca f r >pin]
Rankin, D
baTebuck bucking m
Damuth, Gutherie,
ride >rild bulls. “
alienate for bull
bajek horse riding.
Mfchy president 6f
Rode( Associatio;.
fr>m the rodeo to jtl
ventic n in Denv»h‘|-,
R. R. Schorde of
pirtn ent, J. S. Lanje
1 K amer will be at thi
ventun. I!"
Team
colstir g
throuph
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dng;
Dori4 Day, Billy Farrell, Irene
Ryan, Hy Averbaek, and the Ti
tans,, are on sale now in Guion
Hall. Reserved seats are $3.60 and
$2.40, and general admission is
$1.20.
Hope’s tour is a series of one-
day stands in which his troupe
will give 25 performances in 21
cities in 15 days, covering 15
states. They travel in a DC-6 nam
ed the “Mainliner Bob Hope.” The
troupe is the largest ever tp be
flown from show to show. Some
times two shows in different towns
are given on the same day, accord
ing to Hope’s business manager,
Dick Gibson.
Les Brown’s entire recording
orchestra is traveling with the
group. Brown is ndtable for his
Til
est songs,
voritas. • [ j ,|;
Doris Day, featured vocalist of
the show, was once a singer with
Brown, and rose to her present A&M is getting mighty .crowd-
pot. She is! onp of the, most pop- ed when n few hundred fish are
lar of the younger singers, and housed in an 8’xl2’ shed. But the
has been featured in several musi- fish dpn’t seem to mind, since
cal moviot. | f; . Ii they’re bona fide members of the
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Othjers in the show include Irene t £ 0 , accord i n|C to Roy W. Sny-
Ryan, 1 who acts as ‘vocal coach’ der theil . ownor
for Doris Day; Hy Averbaek, who T ’ h * H [ tle creatU res are inhabi-
announccs the show and is a foil ^3 of Snyder’s aquarium located
for Hope s wit; Billy Farrell, 19- j n a shed j n j,; g g ara g e . This pro-
;! year-old singer who was discovered fe8s0r of animal hu8bandry haa
by Hope in a night club in Buf- wba t i s probably the largest tropi-
falo last summer; and George and ca , fish J ollection in this area.
Al Titan, tumblers, who have tour- Snyder has played nursemaid to
ed with Hope before. ,, , aquatic wild-life for 25 years. The
hobby started When his mother
MISS BETTIE BLEDSOE from
Austin, Texas will be escorted by
Frank Thurmond to ^h« Sopho
more Sweetheart Ball. She has
been chosen as one of six final
ists for Sophomore Sweetheart.
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MISS JERRY GREEN of Hou
ston has been chosen as one of
the six nominees for Sophomore
Sweetheart. She will be escorted
by Curtis Edwards of “A” Flight
Air Force.
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Oil Recovery Meet
Begins Work Today
toustonians Plan
iunny Brawl For
faster Holidays
Tickets for the Houston Club’s
Biinny Brawl to be held April 161
are now on sale Bob Drago, club
sidOnt, announced today.
The holiday dance will be held at
ttye Blossom Heath Club in Hous-
^tqn. Tickets are selling for $1,
g or drag, and may be purchas-
from Drago in Room 113, Dorm
, or from other representatives
the club,
All club members, students and
ex-students from Houston are in-
v ted to attend, Drago added. The
ress for the occasion will be in
formal.
Final plans for the dance are to
made at the next meeting of
e club which will be held on
Monday at 7:15 p. m, in the YMCA.
Hans for a future dance to be
held in the Emerald Room of the
Shamrock Hotel will also be dis-
-cjussed, Drago stated.
Films of the 1948 A&M-Texas
tt
fbotball game will be shown after
the meeting.
PLANES TO IRAN
TEHRAN, Iran, April 6 —<;P)—
even U. S. Air Force C-47 trans-
ort planes will be turned over to
ran today in the first delivery of
viation material uikler the Amer
ican $10,000,000 .Arms Loan to
ran.
AH Prof Plays Nursemaid
To Rare Fish in Off Hours
By DAVE COSLETT
Candidates
Apply for Degrees
i witn disdain
b|;
with
lowly as a go!
His present collection of seven
liforms 1
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heater
upon anything
_ Id-fish,
resen
species of tropical fish includes
, . Twelve hundred and forty-four Befta, red sword-tails, green
students have applied for degrees sword-tails, Platy Varisters, Sca-
ctl y at the June Commencement. laria, red moons, and black-tails.
Sixty-six .r, candidate, for ad- tl,^Tu‘ L T
Tanced dcgreca In tlw.School ot b/ iticK they ":
dates, 220 in the School o(^
and Sciences and 558 candidates for ^ ^ r , ^ >orn . ? ^ °Diers
>" Schoo, of Engineer-
mother’s body).
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Seiventy-two stude
are candi- The egg layers are divided into
dates for doctor of veterinary med- three groups— the bubble-nest
icine degrees. builders, those whose eggs are ad-
csive to plant growth, and those
hose eggs are deposited on the
ccan or aquarium bottom.
Snyder prefers observing the
ntics of the Betta, a bubble-nest
■milder. The Betta^ commonly cull
ed the Siamese fighting fish, rung'
cs in color from light blue to ’‘the
most beautiful lavender an artist
could make.”
The male of the species is from
two and a half to three inches! long'
and the female is slightly smaller.
The male is perfectly content to
swim around looking rather drab
until a female il placed in the
tank with )iim.
Then he immediately puts on a
bewildering display of color in
his tail, fins, and gils that cor
respond to every shade in the
rainbow. After parading vainly
before the female for several
minutes he proceeds to make the
nest.
The nest consists of a series of
air bubbles which he blows on the
top of the water. After the nest
has been prepared, the male Betta
wraps himself around the female
and squeezes the eggs from her.
Quick as a flash, he darts down,
grabs the eggs in his mouth, and
deposits them one by one in sep
arate bubbles. The eggs hatch in
about 48 hours. ; '
The Betta is not the loving fath
er he seems, however, for he is
just as liable as not in a week or
Southwestern Petroleum engineers were welcomed in it
speech by President F. C. Bolton at 10 this morning in the
yMCA Chapel as tpey began their petroleum recovery con
ference.
The coiiferenctj, which will last through Friday, is apon^
j by the Texas Petroleum Re
search Committee.
Registration began at 8:30 thin
morning in the YMCA lobby, and
approximately 250 arc expected to
register by noon today. , ( ;
Chairman for the local arfangct
ments 'is Albert B. Stevens, pro
fessor of petroleum engineering.
Primary and secondary methods
of petroleum recovery in Texas
are the topics for discussion. Pro
gram chairman is Paul D. Torrey,
president of Lynes, Inc., Houston,.
At the morning session Torrey re- e
viewed secondary recovery of pe
j troleum in the United States, and
j explained what increased oil re**
coveryi might mean to Texas.
Dr. Harry H. Power, chair
man of the Petroleum Engineer
ing Department at the Univer
sity of Texas and member of the
research committee, spoke at the
morning session, discussing sig
nificant projects in the petro
leum recovery field.
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Harold G'. Vanhorn and Richard
S. Guenther, research assistants
here, will explain their research
on a method of determination of
water flood by electrical resistivity
methods at 9 a.m. Thursday.
R. C. Earlougher, consultant
from Tulsa, will discuss prediction
of secondary recovery from core
analysis at 11 Thursday morning.
Dr. George H. Fancher, professor
of petroleum engineering at Tex
as University, will discuss theoret
ical consideration ih secondary re
covery at 9:30 a.m. Thursday.
Other speakers to be heard aro:
Henry Holland of Magnolia Petro
leum Co., Dr. John C. Calhoun 0|f
the University of Oklahoma, W.
W. Morris of the East Texas Salt
Water Disposal Co., Dr, A. W.
Gauger, Director of Mineral Indus
tries Experiment Station, Pennsyl
vania State College, and W. J.
Murray, Jr. member of the Rail
road Commission of Texas and
chairman of the Texas Petroleum
Research Com in it too.
Results obtained in several
secondary recovery projects will
be told by Paul and David Dean,
(■tent Expectations Oil Co., Fort
Worth.
A banquet will be held for the
conference members in Sbisa Haill
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speaker at the Senior! Clnl
appeared here previously
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O’Brien Speai
To Issues Me
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James C. O’Brien, director of tHe
Manpower Division of the Naty)pikl
Security Resources Board, '^fll
speak on “Manpower Problema^i-
volved in a National Security ’Pro
gram” Wednesday evening! 28
in Room .301 Electrical, Engipqer-
ing Building, Dr. S. R. Gammopj
head of the History pepnrtn^i,
announced today. /■ ; j!|
Obrien’s talk will Ue one of- the
Great Issues series, but - uppre
mfttely fit) seats in the rfcar of:
room will be available jto otnels
interested In 7 the leeturo, Gunimfn
said. • I'j If :|/|j jll |
O’Brien served as executive Of
ficer of * the national; roster h(id
chief of the labor transfer diyljl^n
of the U. S. Employment Soryli'fl
prior tq World War II.'
’ At tho outbreak of thy iyijr,
O'Brien, with Drl Lednirtt UMml-
chacl, Ostahllshed an agency; [to
channel tho nattoiii scientists iitul
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at the Juhior Ban-
Dijmcah Hall and. firsi:
will act as official ush-
Blanton, socia,! 8ecretar; r
i<jni'>r ejass said that those
fi-st will get the bea ;
Stephens has jeen select*
ister of Ceremo lien for thi; 1
anl Bob Blakniy has. been J
to read the cl »ss history. I
plWho medals and company,
htjerrs awards a|lso will be
at tho banquet ceremo-
induet will be semi-formal
nnjodate seniors who go
friday night dlance, Blan-
effort. Ho served as executivei
fleer of the National Roster;
Scientific and Specialiisbti per/
nol.
tochnologleul experts into the
. He served
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Lat^r In the war, O’BMein jai t
lered the Navy and served
officer in charge of the Na:
system of classifying the
ifications of its officer
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At present, O’Brien's duties
sist of the development of
for the most effective us,e of
manpower in case of war. J
MISS PUDDY HARWELL has
been selected as one of the six
finalists for Sophomore Sweet
heart. She will be escorted by
Robert .Giles.
Students to Make
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Inspection Trips «
Senior agricultural administra
tion students are to make inspec
tion trips to Houston and Dallas,
April 12-14, J. W. Barger, depart
ment head, said today.
Twenty-seven students have been
authorized to go to Dallas and 26
to Houston, he said.
ten days to unceremoniously eat
the young fish. When he isn’t both
ered by these cannibalistic tenden
cies, the Betta, like most of Sny
der’s charges, is content to subsist
on Infusoria, a microscopic form
of animal life used for feeding fish.
According to Snyder, this par
ticular hobby is not too expensive.
About the only cost is for the
Martin Annoum
Uniform Rules F„
Sophomore Daitt
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Permission has been obtain
from the PMS&T for either kle
shirts and serge pants or blouse!
and serge pants to be worn toith
Sophomore Sweetheart' Bau/i { ac
cording to A. D. Martin, Sopho
Class president. J ’ l
“Whatever is decided §11 sohljq-
mores must wear the same uniipfm
and if worn, serge uniform)? must;
be turned in as soon as pos|i$le
after the dance,” Martin > said; [j
1 An announcement will be liagie
Friday noon concerning which
form will be worn, he said
Ticket Baled
tor the banquet nn(l
e vill be yn ,sale the resjt
'Vc 'k in t^e Agriculturist
e second floor of iGooq-
hey will bi sold from
M30| p.m. Wednesday un(l
y tjiui nil day Friday. Snlj-
wlll be orj solo from
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tieket'sales are com*
Hntimlay, a time schedule
ng through the iring will Im
md in the (Battialion, Kai)i
iein(ony stub hdldcr should
ho (tint* u(,Tor(|lng to that
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rings will be jjn the on*t
jbiisu Hall and Hal Mein-
nl his orchestri'wlll be jn
ler end. .As each couple on-
if ring,;; the da^e turns the
Dug around on his finger fo
hh dasa number is facin
f rom Kim. |Thojy kiss and
avo thoir ptctujre made in
Blanton afked cooperation
:lass 01) thtp matter to
f delay iii the! ring procp
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tanks and the original fish. His Thursday, at 7 p.m. Paul Weaver,
aquarium consists of seven five- chief geophyscist of the Gulf Oil
gallon tanks, five fifteen-gallon Corporation, Houston, will be the
tanks, one fifty-gallon tank and principal speaker at the banquet,
several Smaller ones. j“A New Field of Public Service
The fish require very little at- for the Petroleum Engineer,” wa) 1
tention except in the matter of be the subject of his address,
water temperature The best heat , A11 me etings will be held in the .
for the water is 68“ and none of Y MCA. Students may attend the
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louse, speaker for the
t ill a notW Texas writer,
written a-pews column en-
“I (jiive'.You Tfxas.”
ha^ written four boo.
Yt U in. Rpmgeir,” “I iGiVe
jeas;,” “Texlas Rhythm,”-apd
o)on 1,” Also! he served as a
11 dvisor for MGM’s mov|e,
n a newspaper in Ar-
edited dailies in Texas
k is [ where he exposed radk-
Ond unfaithful 1 public offi-
as alsol a roving. corrCs-
r the Fort Worth Star
iahj! and wi.s publicity man
lIlly jRosefs Port Worth Casa
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’if and nFpvspaper colunin-
ifter dinner speaker, House
Tall Talk from Texas” njnd
Proud -and Loud.”
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than 65“
Snyder never has to change
the water in the tanks since plant
life in the tanks supply the neces
sary elements for the fish and
consume the carbon-dioxide giv
en off by them. Incidentally,
some fish collectors are as prond
of their underwater landscaping
as they are of their fish.
Snyder has been with the ex
tension service as a meat specialist
since 1930. An instructor of the
slaughtering class in the meat latf
Snyder likes the extreme contrast
of quitting a hard days work with
a warm carcass and a sharp clea
ver to return home to coddle his
tropical fish collection.
in water colder notings and w i]] no t be required
to pay the registration fee, Stev-i j
ens said.
Methodists Plan
Dish Supper Toda;
The Adult Sunday School Cl;
of the A&M Methodist Church \
have a “Covered Dish Supper” this
evening at 6:30, Mrs. J. S. Mog-|l]
ford, class chairman, said today.
She requested that everyone at
tending bring a covered dish.
Fred Brison and Frank Dahlberg
will direct the recreation and en
tertainment « I . I
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of'some of his tropi
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