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L • Volume 48 >• ■<. ! - ] v!. 4 ■ ; t hi m /■ ~ i V m "'A m \ , ■ i ' - ■ . • /1 ‘M \ HI T ■ ■ v- ' n w r4 M /k A 1\ a A ■; ■■. i ; . '? COLLEGE STATION < S STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 19,1949 4" ;• ' . ,J | Bob Hope Tells Program PI . I " ■ ■ ' ■ . I If- |.j . Battalion Reporter By Tele Pi—lrJ ^-.i r' , I I Won’t Mind ' 1 j kY IjT Amerii on ' 1 1 v;-/.- .I' : - ! ■ * r A Ll' •j ./ ■/ II p /■ "* ■ m * .1 r * ill •! I i /, s. : \ ! n / . i I*/' .iH unber 165 I 4 :x x Pat Parker, A^gi* Sfie Nwj 11 represent A&.M'at it)i< Rjmdclet of Hicoi Itjstit wfll be escorted byiCHucV |Ca at|ident senator from! Do I n The Rondelet jj» Hhe; li rinir social event at It stfonsored by the ^Vcancn^ii that school. AcWvdles Iflili “ J rt of the weekend faffBlfl-V Id on both Muj ajhmial Rondelet M Escorts Pat Parker let Coronation-Ball !• ,1. UlSrtK ikenu orir iv « i<nd . i [. el 'cayomjlil' all scheduled forKhj) l«t|f fJottn Hcnumacher; It ip jjtH chosen to rvlaiv ns ' j* tile Rondelet In 0^1 nil s< hold on March U at • tfn school. P»»g5 |llbi) Allene Ray will bo Jn'lm t|c coronation. Rice Co-eds porm | The Senior Class at R r presented by Miarthan dpchess, Yvonne pr^nbe||y^ mt. I( ds* ifargan, Ava Jean McDatlfc Louiso Kllcpora, ;Betly yrosse, Roberta Mitrfee,i 'ff the l Jun ill be Eugenia ilurrie icelber, and Naitcy iHetyi i maids. • | 4 Duchess for dll be Gerry Srottn, ^ i, Gay Schneideri Soil rine Martin, I Be Ah a G i wi If C aids will hannon, ay, Anne lice Flack, and jColIeen ra. Carolyn Doiigl reshman Class duchess oone, Vicky ;Sehvrarti| ielstrom, Aim | doe arts, Margardt |Bla all, and Paula Meredi Miss Parker Repres Miss Parker, A&M g M uii coronation, has repteaented of similar L -iu ; A g- ife •■i’'- -Up in fek,! and ing i the ggieland at a dumber mnts since her sejecti ie Sweetheart ast fall ese events were [tlw Connected with the C( I ante on January 1| in Jniversity of Texas R<) . Austin, the TCU Rdnch 1 he half time Shojw &M-SMU corpjj trip A dietetics majo)* t hristi, the Aggie Swebth^art |je- Heived her B.SiJdegree At; TSCW January; graduate work rrep in the nisa Parker iwifs Ob Iweetheart by a giour ionior cadets. She v{, twelve nominees fo< tlfi wine: fiecymRl!|' Address mi™ Wll lve of who m ians IF’ i-adies This the Boyco House, noted hor and lecturer, Will Brynn^ Rotary Cljub, Ight, Tuesday, wt 1 eeting will take the gulnr Wednesday t House is autho# of <i|he hooks r uch ns, "I Giye |YoU TeVas.” He sra's-technical advisor, pf t*he movie "Boom Town.” I He will also Be the ir at the Senior Ring [uet, Saturday, ni^ht at fi. House lives ib Pt. Wdk th arid has given over 600 spee<|hei irt years. • MISS PAT PARKER General Electric To Give Measuring Show Here Friday The General Electric Company will put on! a “Carnival of Meas urements” show in the Assembly Room ,of Bolton Hall at 8 a. m. Friday! Visitors to the exhibit will see more than 150 devices and com ponents for the measurement of »^ electrical and non-electHcal quan- mo.ng titles. vitips One such device is a: new, fast- response photoelectric Recorder so sensitive that it will measure the temperature difference between two parts of the human body. It is. being used in the field of medi cine to determine temperature dif ferences between two sections of the brain and between two verte brae in the spine. To facilitate close examination of the instruments, many have boon mounted on panels and iden tified by captions as to their us. ago. 0. H. Halttnuncn and K. T. Mo- Entire of tho GE Meter and In struments Divisions, will give ill ustrated talks on tho oneration ami application of various instruments. Experiment Group Gets Donation Robert J. Kleberg, Jr., of Kings ville, has made available $200 to the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. The money will be used in conjunction with the project, “The Food Consumption and Population of White Tailed Deer on the Live; Oak-Mesquite Ranges of the King Ranch<” R- D. Lewis, director of the station, announced. “This research will be conducted by the Department of Wildlife Management in cooperation with the King Ranch,” Lewis said. ip u. llftip Ira ■ *4 Hi ii a« '•r-'i * • ■m .‘[la - vfit ’ W | :p#|| i m MISS N; ■fmble for Wednesday wfll appear ■ I an evening) ifi Shop of Bfyan on thfe~Bob Hope Show FusseJI Is one of seven local girls Who ! .1 had been elected by popular ballot of their classmates at TSCW. Sweetheart Qualified Easily She easily met the requirements for sweetheart nominee which specifies that the candidate must have a C avenge with no failing grades as she had a B average in her undergraduate courses. Evi dently aha met equally aa well the requirements for attractiveness and personality that complete the yardstick by which nominees are judged. The iAggle cadets who selected Miss Parker announced their choice on October 22 with the statement that hy a unanimous decision it had been decided she best met the qualifications for beauty, personality, general ap pearance, and photogenlty. The Corpus miss is a blue-eyed blonde, 6’ 6”. and weighs 111 pounds. Prior to her selection as sweetheart she had gained other honors at TSCW, among them, Redbud Prihcess and social chair man of her dormitory. Cabaniss Named Choice of Chuck Cabaniss as Miss Parker’s escort and represen tative’from A&M at the Rice coro nation-ball was made by the social committee of the Student Senate. Julius Blum, chairman of the com mittee! announced the selection at the last meeting of the group. Cabaniss is a veteran junior from Garland and is taking a prelaw course. He is a member of the Senate and the Student Life Com- mitttep, works on the staff of The Battalion, and is sports editor of the Aggieland 1949. , 11^' / ••.I I Ring Ceremony Plans Ready For 2 Dances The schedule for going through the ring at the Senior Ring Dance* has been announced by J. B. Ro chelle, chairman of the ring cere mony committee, j ■ Rochelle asked that all senior* attending the King Dance comply with the following schedule in order that everyone get through the ring on time: 1 Friday Night 9:15-9:45 1-60 9:45-10:15 ! I 01-120 10:15-10:45 • ■ 121-180 10:45-11:15 I f 181-240 11:16-11:45 I 1 241-300 Saturday Night 8:15- 8:46 1- 60 8:45- 9:16 61-120 9:15- 9:45 | \ 121-180 9:45-10:16 181-240 10:15-10:46 241-300 10:45-11:15 301-360 This schedule allows each couple 30 seconds to go through the ring, Rochelle said. First sergeants/of the different outfits will be on hand to carry out the ceremony on time. / Governor Approves Adjunct For A&M House Bill 64, authorizing establishment of an adjunct of A&M at Junction, Texas, was signed Thursday by Govern or Beauford Jester. / I / This adjunct consist* of 411 acres of land located less the court hpiise at Junction, Texas. It ^borders on the South Llano Riv- rs. The land!was donated t° the ollefa County. Bob Hope, ski-nosed ^ji closed by telephone Inst iuffent scheduled to start at 8 p. Speaking from Phoen on a whirlwind schedule >nw .H* v * [A than one mile from the Ag Committee Sends Papers To Filipino 4 By K. W. ROBHINR Work of an Agricultural Educa tion Committee to gather teaching material for a Fillpipo ended Tues day gfternoon with a report by Bob Laing, chairman, and a stack of technical bulletins, charts, and illustrative material eighteen inch es high. Laing reported for the committee of five men at the meet ing of the Ag Ed 425 class. Work started early in March soon after Dean C. N. Shepardson received a letted addressed to “The Texas Agricultural College, College Station, Texas.” The letter was written by Filamino Hojilla, from Oton, on the Island of Hlolo, in the Philippine*. Hojilla said in his letter that he would teach poultry and swine in the public schools. He added that the subjects would be taught for the first time, and he would ap preciate any bulletins, charts, or illustrative material the college might furnish him. Dean Shepardson, seeing the let ter was connected with teaching Vocational Agriculture, refered it to the Ag Ed Department; W. W. Mcllroy, associate professor in the department, handed the task on down to the group headed by Laing, Laing said his committee had en joyed compiling the material. He said he wrote Hojilla, offering him further help, should he need it. Agronomists Will Toiir Puerto Rico Dr. T, R. ; Richmond, professor of Agronomy and head of tho Ex periment Station cotton group, and C. E. Lewi*, associate professor of agronomy will sail to Puerto Rico late this month to choose different types of cotton to Improve our own varieties here in the U. 8. The trip which Richmond and Lewis are making i* a continuation of work which has been under way for three year*. j \ The two wilt do their work in the U. S. Department of Agricul ture tropical garden. The cotton they pick will be from plant* which have been growing in the for two or three year*. garden They hope to breed some of the good characteristic* of wild cotton into the American cotton so as to make it free from insects and dis- rf, ' / ~ college by the people of Kimble ^Henderson Shuffler, director of Information, said that the adjunct would probably be used for sum mer classes in pro-college train ing for those high lehool students deficient In certain background courses which are advisable for them to take heforo their entrance Into AAM. Those students will take aptitude test* to determine their college (tbllttio*. It will alsb probably be used for the Geology summer field trips. Summer hydraulics cour ses will also be offered and re search work will be done there In horticulture by the Agricultural Experiment Station, particularly in pecans. Shuffler said Uiat no definite plans have ben completed for the adjunct yet. The bill provides that the land be used by the; college for educa tional purposes with but few ex ceptions. One of these is that a student may hot take more than half of his fidl curriculum there. Also not more than $200,000 may be spent on |he adjunct without specific authorization from the legislature. Newman Delegates Attend Convention 'I' * 1 ' *f Five delegates from the A & M Newman Club attended the thir teenth annual South Central Provi dence Convention held at Norman, Oklahoma last week. The men who went were W. L. Schumann, Char les Drapela, Paul Wearden, apd Stanley Kuchorka. i! The object of the convention was to improve th# work of all New man clubs. In the Province, ac cording to W. L. Schumann, one of the delegates. Such subject* as re- ligioua aapect* of the dub. itream- lining the dub, and the club mag- asine were di«tu***d. Suggestion* were made to Improve the club ac- tmMfc • I T ; / ■II' AI 4 • A full report of the convention will be given ,ii$ tho next meeting TueikUy night. A religious discus sion also will held By the mem ber* of the club. Tills will he the first In a series of discussions on the history of jheiehurch Cotton jPugeant TicketN on Sale Tickets for the Cotton Pa geant and Style Show went on sale today alt the Agronomy Department, Lipscomb* Phar macy, and W. S, D. Clothiers in Bryaq. / [I s ! i Reserved tickets are $1.50 and |eneral admission tickets are MRS. TRAVIS BRYAN, JR. of Bryan will model an ensemble made from fabrics at The Fabric Shoppe of Bryan on the Bob Hope Show Wednesday night on Kyle Field. Models from four local women's apparel shops will appear on the show. Mysteries Run Third • • Students Prefer Historical Fiction To many Aggies the term “li brary” Is Mynonomous with loath- sdnu* thoughts such ns “formal re ports" or "required reading.” Some students, however, arc fairly regular visitors to the local storehouse of the written' word. Some few might even deserve the classification “book-worm” accord ing to reading advisor Mrs. Ruth Mills. \ / Self-impelled Aggie readers seem to prefer historical fiction and books with a psychological twist. Their next choice, says Mrs. Mills, is the ever-popular mystery story. • . I \ By method of illustrating the popularity of the latter types of books, she remarked that although the library has several shelves full of mystery stories, only a small space is needed on which to place them. It seems that a great ma jority of the “who-dunnits” are checked out all of the time. Erie Stanley Gardner has the greatest following in this line. The library has no records by which it can ascertain the book or books most read by relaxation seeking Aggies, Mrs. Mills judges from personal experience with the readers, ^though, that the current favorite seems to be the best sell er, “The Naked and the Dead,” by ; • ■ ' ! V ! 4^ i -. L 1/ Reserve Unit Of Navy Activated The firat Volunteer Naval Re- »erve Research Unit in Texas wa# recently activated at College Sta tion. Orders wen presented to Lt. Cdr, Norman F. Rode, commanding .officer of the new unit, by Com- msnder K, W. Mnyhew of the Of fice of Naval Rwcprch in Chicago. Twenty-two naval wwrvai offl- car* received order* for affiliation with the new unit and other ap plication* are still being processed. This Is the third such unit In the Eighth Naval District. Two hsve been organised at Tulsne Univer sity and Louisiana State Univer sity, and a fourth will be started sometime this month at Texas University. Members of the new unit will meet regularly to discuss possible fields of basic scientific research. Suggestions will be forwarded to the parent organization, the Office of Naval Research, which will OMCf j through the work bn a promising ideas. / CIO Speaker For Addres^Al Accounting Com A reprcsehtotlve of tho CIO' , address the Accounting Conjfens to be held altl Texas A&M GoB< April 26-27. f Stanley H. Ruttenbcrg, direfljor Department of Education andi,Rc search, CIO,! will discuss “A Laho Representative Views Accouittlh Reports.” . '''ill! The second annual Conference will be chaired Harwell, controller, Magm troleum Company, Dallas.' Farrar ii in charge of Ideal] 1 rangements& ' j'v J j, . Authorities in the field' qfj 1 counting will take leading in the conference, including! sir Norman Mailer. To Hell And Ilsrk Also well-circulated at the pres ent time is “To Hell and Back”, Audie Murphy’s novel of his war time experiences. Constant favorites with local readers are Max Shulman’s “Fea ther Merchant,” and “Zebra Der by” sand H. Allen Smith’s “Lpw Man On the Totem Pole.” Another interesting fact about ocal students, said Mrs. Mills, is their choice in biographies. “They don’t seem particularly interested in whom they read about just so ong as he has led an interesting ife.” To back up this statement She mentioned the recent biogra phy of Henry Ford. New-Comers New-comers to the college and i;o the library prefer western stor ies, while, in violent contrast, thejre is a small segment of high-brows who regularly peruse the works of Tolstoi and Proust without urging. Aggies also like to read factual )ooks about current controversial questions, said Mrs. Mills, addihg hat some even prefer them to : Iction. Veteran’s wives are pretty con stant customers at the library apd quite often detail hubby , to pick up books for them. Interesting tastes isinong vet’s wives are tho ie of the few British spouses who seem intent to learn all they a n about' the American!, Way of li '• through reading American fiction. Mrs. Mills most startling reva- ation about reading preferences, however, concerned the prof*. “They prefer mysteries for their free-time reading,” she *aW. Pe *• haps that’s where they get Inspir ations for quicses. History Students Take Mexico Toil Five history studont* and Dr, B. Nelson, of the History ment, have completed '* recent toi of Mexico. They observed Uvlm social, and working condition III the various towns in that count™ Dr. Nelson said thsy visited Lg Rosita, Musquig, Sabinas, Monelova and Saltillo, all in the state ot Coahulla. On their return! they viH ited Monterrey. The class also sa a silver plant, and rug factory li Saltillo and observed opersth and working conditions there. The tour covered about 1400 miles and lasted for seven days. School of Business, North TfeijaM State College and president of tjhq Texas Association of U^iivi ^ Instructors in Accounting: McFarland, head, Research National Association of Costj countants. i T. W. Leland, head, BusInesiUnd Accounting Department, AjjfcMj says that at least 275 mbh inlhe various fields of accounting^ hr<j expected to be in attendance.; j Harry Pierson Be Here April !$) Iljtrry H.j^lprson, director i> ih<i student program of tha JnHi tild of Internatljqnai KducafloiL vfl 1 jm on the campus April 30 forjl ilew views, according to R,;u Rich* nssUtant to President Bpltog. i [ Pierson will explain thii rfUr jtiy enaoted Fuilbright Act,, ^hiO}' tip nblck graduate student'*,'and I riril em feasors to do research[gf teBtiliiijii L.j foreign universities, Ht.yF 1LU ' duct personal interviews':-wlj tore ited applicants. E kins asked that hit son^ contact him in ' Academic Building. /V *- lortage imic 4 i y«. < scrooh, nnd radio dia- r his two-hour fun-fo»t w nijrHt Ih/Kyle Field, where ho wan stnrtlnir ill for 25 performanceH ip-tles in 16 days, ,Hops Haul M was looking .forwjurd to li first trip to A&M. the extreme shortage of ii around here dldn' ; seem tttpi'b the English-born comic. A -nil, a fellow ha* to go on lit LtJ ce in «i while,” he c ulppvd reporter’s questions con »cal condition*, vay, I'm bringing *omo lit women of my own,” con “ Hdpe. He wad referring to Inging star Dori* Day and !nne Irepe Ryan, both mem- his ton ring troupe. j isn’t Miss Day it little |f coming to the home of ],000 woman-starved stu- I asked him. en she lesves your cara ts the studentsithat will he id th she’s en he a bun- of the as not he replied ignificantly, , dynsrtltel”; , jtireleSs king-clown 'or over a decade appointed at learnilng that furphy had been Awarded di ary position [in the cadet (n his recent trip to] A&M. 'ced him, “Don’t yjou feel at ndt beinfe offered a position?” ’s all right,” rteturnjed Hope s senior officcfr from away lyhow.” j also admitted [that nis fam- de-kick, Bing ! Cros by, had to accompany bi n when d that the sepedub includ- dl-boys college. Sa d Hope, pretty sick ! of boys—he o have enoughj of hi* own.” ad lib champion promised, tat there would a few ic«t» to A&M bn his Swsn ht «t S pi m, on Ihcw tonl n Which on his $ If HMl ins to cspl- Jsant for wl 1 be Unpo’ji sec md trip tie n less tllm: six months, .’tntly complctot n trip slml- bb present 'xpei Ii Ion In mrfbrmed i i 3>'l cities In I) dial and l^nisltm In .'l.'i iilr horni colneillnn |wl 1 «r- tldi C6lle|< Stfllmn HOpE,, | Pjage ibMlt kuiiorreiw aboard the fhart- i j-fl Malnllnor tjjl because' qrtotlon. for his come ftfom W dflernoqn shoiy l > junkets «rp br , But he ‘'Bob Hope,” t sdrvM a* forrher tour, aro where he sdening, t)t satis* l b s "? * A ! |,!V ■ i m Hi, K'l ! ! K, MM. local mod Stadium Director, partments 4 : of W.I ■ 1 I. K / If t' 1 •k ■! . ' ^ 1: , . N Field | Music women’s de-