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I *. I Volume 48 l- • « • HI # 1*. / • • • ' VI • * ■ M • • ^ f W i'i: i iis .{• ,•! . 1 " ■ The PUBLISHED iSp >’ N. g ii I M <ier Six poles su eld with 216,00 atound this year; t I Bids on consttu<}t«x, bhll field were opened;-Ti Administration Boil 1 *' e&ven bids submitted elt bidders are now elation for further concerning equipmentl a •tipn experience. s s jThe three }ow bidder* Grimes Electric Co. off At $48,750; J. S. Copelarid. A do. of Houston biddiiig ^dl.C ^oley Electric Co. ofiHou bid of $61,940. | The highest bid %as e» T. Cook of pobs I,SOO. ..If Construction will ,begii days after af cenl icd with the a y, and the li ly for use 949, T. R. Spence^ hysical plants said, Six poles will support , ree on each side of tlje, iach pole there will be twi 500 watt flood lamps J ^ -00 feet long, will stah . •^te pestals fifteen feet A—. ^ mnd and twenty-four ftejtn $ e ground. " T J j j | In addition each jpole iv 11 jifort two entrance ilighti IN ihtrill light up the entrancpj ending to the stadium.: ,, . , ...pi j •Accountants Meet Tubs The second amiudl hff conference will b he campus next jTUesp ednesday. Accoimittm 11 parts of the Sputhtet^iifo expected to (attend. The purpose of |he[ (is to discuss the pjfdt accountants today pni nate their practices,’ T head of the. Business a ing Department, safd. : Last year, at tlje firs ence of its kind heljil in the! west, 366 accountants: frbm field registered fori the rijeet r This year some 2200 iniitatlonK ut for Ith^iih onstruction Of Lights Opened COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEPNESDAY, APRIL 20,1949 flood lamps will light Kyle* /hen the football season rolls | -4 . ' . ' . lighting system for the foot evening in Rpom 215 Of the j are being sent out for ihfe' ference, Leland sijjid. (j This year's program wtlifite nine speakers, a banquet ^ luncheon. The subject of Sj ers will be “Accounting^ Gojli in an Expahding fEconofulJlf, ventory Valuation,!’ - Tlh# ahce of Accounting in fti lations,” “The Challenges: i portunities in Financial ftjjpoijting, 1 ” “Influence of Taxes-ibh ?!54! agement Decisions^’ "A Labof R resentatfve Views i Accoojhtin}r[ ] ports,” “Accounting Lqng ;['Fo Reports,” “Standard €c Their iUses in Accountir “Internal Auditing — A Management.” ■/ imlm I Ml |v/y-.©4 1 $ JES —? Miss Kathryn Dyer will be the duchess to the Cotton Ball and Pageant-of the Navasota Cham ber of Commerce. Aggie Muster Observation ( ’ 11 1 ■T/ ' ll Set Thursday . ■ . . “Tpo student body of Toxn* A A M Colloge, under the jaunpicea of ttio Student Senate, present this year’s muster program on the front steps of the Adminlntrntibn Building, J3an Jacinto Day, Anril 21, from 8:30 to 9 p. m.,’’ MurvCn Q. Rice, Muster committee chairman, announced today. “This is a Very solemi pressive occasion whin AAM men, wherever they may be, join togeth er to. hold the traditional Muster. It symbolizes the friendship and loyalty of A&M men to each other, to their Alma Mater, and to the state of Texas. . } . “We wish to invite personally all members of the student body, the faculty, college officials, and resi dents of the Bryan-College area to be present,” Rice said.' The Muster' program will be broadcast over the Texas Quality Network. Hatch to Speak To Engineers On Turbines ' ij k - I .'\VA B. ,G. Hatch of the General Electric Company’s'/ turbine division at Schenectady, N. Y. j.Will speak on gas turbines be fore a joint meeting of, A&M’s student engineering societies Thursday night at 7 in the Physics Lecture Room, Carl Files of the Mechanical Engi neering Department announc ed today. Student chapters of the Ameri can Society of Mechanical Engi- neerg, the Institute for Aeronautic Science, the Society of Automotive Engineers, and Ithe American In stitute of Electrical Engineers will hear Hatch. “Apart from the interest of all engineers in a hew prime mover, gas turbine development presents special problems in several special ized fields. “The electrical engineers will be interested in the work done with the gag turbine as a prime mover for electrical generation. “The special metals required for the high temperatures involved in gas turbine operation will concern men interested in mctalurgy,” Files said. ■ / .1 M. C. Compton, G. E. district tm-blno specialist at Dallas, W. B. Clayton, commercial vice president at Dallas, and J. B. Burr, G. E. Salop engineer at Houston, will bo present at the meeting, Files said. LheSTifc Bol) ‘Hut t° Meet thf Singing Cadets Hope GivCS Show Hefei FBI Head From P 0 " 8 ^ ^ and 0r : C Number 1(6 Style Show Escorts To Meet in YMCA Escorts for the Cotton Style- Show and Pageant will m e ?t in the YMCA Chapel this afternoon at 5 p. m. N. N. Hinchliffe announced yesterday. Information will be given to the escorts concerning their duties at the Cotton Style Show and pageant Hinchliffe said. * i lit- Organized Reserve Defense Sessions A short term radiological de fense course for Organized Reserve Corps officers will be conducted at two armed forces installations this summer, Colonel Oscar B. Abbott, executive for the Texas Military District, announced today. The course at Keesler Air Force Base, Biloxi, Mississippi, will be from June 12 to 24 and another from August 14 to 26. The second location will be at the United States Naval Damage Control Cen ter, Treasure Island, California, and will be held from June 19 through July 1, and a second from August 7 through August 19,. \ Reserve officers desiring to at tend this course must have com pleted a minimum of two years of college education to Include one year of mathematics and one year of -college chemistry or physics. Also, applicants must successfully complete a United States Navy correspondence course in nuclear physics which will be furnished the applicants by Fourth Army Head quarters. Colonel Abbott requested that all Reserve Offices interested in attending one! of these courses submit their application at least 40 days in advance of the report ing date of the course requested by the individual. The Singing Cadets will present a concert at the Uni versity of Texas Saturday in Gregory Gymnasium, Helinut Quiram, president of the Ca dets announced today. Although final plans are not completed, the program wilj be similar to ones previously present ed this season td T audiences through out the state, Quiram stated. Ten tatively scheduled are “You’ll Nev er Walk Alone,” Ringwald’s ar rangement of “The Night is Young” and “If I Loved Ypu” by Rodgers an(J Hammerstein. Among the spirituals are “Deep River,” “Joshua Fit the Battle of. Jerico” and “It’s Me, Oh Lord,” in which Ralph Wheat sings the in troduction, Quiramsaid. Buddy Boyd is the soloist in “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” ar ranged for mile voices by Roy Ringwald. In the old favorite “Whoopie Ti Yi Yo,’’.soloists are Buddy Boyd and. Leonard Perkins, assistant director of the Cadets. The Cadets are accompanied on several of the numbers by Leonard Perkins and Miss Laverne Hunt of College Station), i The program wJH be concluded with the songs “Twelfth Man,” “I’d Rather Be A Texas Aggie” and “Spirit of Aggfieland.” Routt Reburial Services Today The body of Gapt, Joo Routt, A&M lottermnn and two year All- American guard, will arrive in Bronham today fbr reburial ser vices. i Routt entered A&M in the clans of ’37 ami received his degree in petroleum engineering. In 1930-37 ho was selected Ail-Americ&n gugrd. Final rites will be held at 3 p.m. today from the Simanik Funeral Home in Brcnham; Military honors will bte held;by the Brenham Vet erans of Foreign Wars post with all members of the Washington County Club serving as honorary pallbearers. During the war Routt was the commanding officer of Company A 405th Regiment, 102 Infantry Di vision. He was killed on December 10, 1944, in the Battle of the Bulgd. j. Survivors include his parents Mr. and Mrs. Chip Routt of Chapel Hill, and two brothers. !• Yi ■J ;4 ! i •; •v: it mam ! ■ ■< :? f I ■ iliL . *y T MRSL GEORG wui Jfipifl on the Bob ;J /• < Is one of two Local girls who ey Women's store of Bryan a* mod«|s in Kyle Field. -,ia Senior Exams Set For VM Accreditation Examinations for accreditation by the Bureau of (Animal Industry for seniors; majoring in Veterinary Medicine will begin at 8 a. m. Mon day, I. B. Boughton, dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine, an nounced today. Houston Talks fo Kiwanians Carl Sherman, head of the Houston FBI office, was the guest speaker at the regular Tuesday Kiwanian luncheon: * j - Sherman, in summing up his talk said that law enforcement has become a profession of profession als in order to combat the profes sional criminal. He stressed the neetb of the help of' citizens in combating crime. To illustrate the need of citizen’s help he cited the case of “Pretty- boy Floyd” ,who was turned in and killed by his former neighbors in Oklahoma. Last year there was an increase of 765,000 fingerprints, in the cen- teral fingerprinting bureau, Sher man said, and all of these were for the more serious crimes and did not include rural arrests. This year the FBI estimates that there will be one arrest serious enough to warrant fingerprinting out of; every fifteen people. Bank robberies were at a low in 1940 but have increased four or five times in the last year or so, Sherman said. R. Henderson Schuffler, head of the office of Information and Pub lication’s. was introduced as a now member by R. L. Nelson, assistant to the Preeident Arthur Carter, head of the Huntsville FBI and Ralph H. Rog ers of the Agronomy Department, were gueatfi at the luncheon, Hougen to Address Chemical Society > Dr. 0. A. Dougen of the Uni versity of Wisconsin will address A&M’s Chemical Society in the Chemistry Lecture Room at 8 p. m. Saturday on “Applied Kinetics in Catalytic Reactions,” Fred W; Jensen, secretary, reported today. The meeting is open to the public he added. An informal dinner in honor of the speaker for the members of the society and their wives will be held at 6:30 p. m. at the Aggieland Inn. Members attending the dinner should notify Dr. E. B. Middleton at 4-5514 before noon Friday, Jen sen added. X\ > After the program will be an informal social hour at the home of Dr. and Mrs. J. D. Lindsay, 529 Walton Drive, College Hills. Beauties to Lend Assistance a By DAVE COSLETT' Bob Hope, that twinkle-eyed fellow with the gift iof day together with his full Hollywood cast for the fun f< Kyle Field. I ‘ T\| Accompanying Hope on his whirlwind tour of the. So Irene Ryan, mellow-voiced Hy Averback, baritone Billy t li ' "i ; ; ’ 1 1 < 'A&r * 'V > t rn ;JK> *- *.«! 'F hi iAwiikiMyia ' V Kir iSflr, : *V- : C k- ll; w ''li Wifcffl ■ ; College Employee Interred Sunday William Manihall Rosier, em ployee of the Subsistence Depart ment, died suddenly at his farm near George, Texas Saturday mor ning. Mr. Rosier was born in Madison County In 1904, and was 44 at tho ttfne of his death. He had been a resident of the community for the past 30 years. Dr. W. II, Andrew, pastdif of the First llaptlst Church of Hryan, conducted the funeral services nun- day at 4 p. m. at the Plplnvlew cemetery, I Surviving are his wife, Mrs, Haile Hosier, his father. George Holder, two daughters, Geraldine amt Klaine Hosier, and four sis ters and six brothers. 'Jmm I H V 1 ■ -H ft • ^ • '5 fey |»v| slip! ' ' ' . "j • : i i c mm i ’ 1 41:1 W/'i ■ j *' ix A r _ , T . M hii I 1 | yM 4 * I 1 n m .,'1 Rideout Funeral/ Scheduled Sunday Funeral services for Anson F. (Bud) Rideout, Jr., class of ’44 will take place Sunday at 2:30 p^ m. in DeRidder, La. A 2nd lieutenant in the infantry he was killed in action on Septem ber 14, 1944 during the offensive in the Moselle River Sector, in France. Honorably pallbearers are all members of K Infantry, 'A&M class of ’44. I kt MRS. PAUL McDANIEL will model an evening dress for The Collegiate Shop on the Bob Hope Show tonight in Kyle Field. Mrs. McDaniel is one of seven local girls who will appear on the show as models. .. || j 1 ' MISS DOROTHY CLARY of Bryan with appear on the 'Bob Show Wednesday night in Kyle Field as a model for WAD. C^j iers of Bryan and College Station. Miss Clary is one of seven girls who will appear on the first part of Hope’s show as, me for four local women's shops. . j 1 i! jc; j I . | j j * /j i |* j j ITj III md Engineering Drawing Contest | To Bo Postponed Until April miLm, '■ -tM '•#1™ , m ft i ft/ft T jj 1 ii Plans have been made to postpone the 1949 Engineer Drawing contest until April 30, said B. Eft K. Mullins, jfei neering drawing instructor at the Annex. The contes postponed, Mullins said, because the Freshman Drill 1 and the Freshman Band will be in {San Antonio foi “Battle of the Flowers” on April 26, the date originally set for the contest. Bulletins denoting the rules and qualifications for the annual con test have bfeen placed at all central points at the Annex, said Mullins. The contest will begin at 1 p. m. said Mullins, and will end at exactly 5 p. m. The contest time will be limited to those four hours. Annex contestants, according to the bulletin issued, must report to Room 4, Building 367, at the An nex at 1 p. m. April 30. They will report to the designated building with all their regular drafting equipment, and any textbooks, ref erence material, and scratch paper, needed for each class competition, The paper on which tho contest drawings will be made will be fill 1 ' nished by the K. D. Department of the college, All students entering must ho recommended to enter by their In- atruetor, said Mullins, ami Ih gen- oral, only “A” or “B” stMdenti should enter. The MU* strip form for esch drawing ami other; sn|cl» fir problem Information Is oiitllned on the attached sheets to b« sup plied at the time of the contest. Each contestant will be limited to one of four classes of ctimpetl- per; Class B« complete ablution of a descriptive geometry! prob lem, the data of which will be supplied at the time of thie con- test; Claee C—freehand lettering; O) a a a D V freehand pictorial sketch. \-7\m First prise for the winner of cIsse A will be a set of drawing instruments, said Mullins: For Class B» a large portable draft ie will be the first in Class C, the erla-; another portable e. The Class D winner will receive a small port able drafting machine. :h entrant will receive a to- prize for his efforts in the ing niai prize, whi ner wiU drafting I! knof In i tjir r 1 Ci W: K MlfS '+r :yle Field ' ■ft : !' J '3, College Ststio i to- Iduled for 8 tohigit in ■ ■ ide Doris Day, zany Brown anti his jtenovpn.” |jth(| often contrary College eother-man sites little irevehting the ski-nosed he wise-crack from giv- two-hour shindig. Should dfehipt program plans, how- ipto phows will be given in fid House, one at 6:30 er at 9:30, J ' : . will also be assisted in Itonight by a goodly Ideal talent—of the femi- T^ety. that is. I / 1 ' mty department Ihe will »morous Texas : emales for the honor o ‘ being r “Beaut yof the Bob oW|” Contenders ar i Helen )allas, Patsy M Her of xulio, Joan Tollett of Ber- fn M Ireland of Bi enham, rtha Elliott Of Dallas, t orml assistance wi 1 ijome Jtiyeii models displaying mer- : from Bryan and st ores' as part of bd held in Conjunct i i affair. ago, serten and rad (| comic glinto Aggiolaml at about, iffornoon aboard hfs thar- PC«I Mainliner. 11c i i flying hero he has ped* nii Iptroduition to , li|ns of Americans who :Ml him tliclr iuvoilto gag- j 1 his nutiop-Wld 11 debut lorn in Bltham, Eitgland, nTn to Atnerica 1 at dti aarly j it d fspent his; childhood In : Ll.tfJ • j . i. humble sUrt as a news- ogrtesed tbCough clerk- lOteycompany,'tc a short with amateur boxlrg. Three jte discouraged all pugi is- »ichcite. || in tho vouldfbe iku Kld,«sb : Ho traded tho ||* ithe vaudeville stage and fh>m there to pis pres- itjon of national reclaim. lisMing tho glamor portion Ij ni’s activities will be Doris # tocit, pugnosed, freckle- bli[e-oyed blond who claims ab her home town. Af- ig a professional vocal tifthe flge of 17, she rose p ihe well-known ladder jvorking. first for Bob then for Les Brown. featured qn Hope’s Show, she has made hit with Les BroWn’s Jour- 6{ “Sentimental /Jour- 1 fans mpy bes ; remem- lt “ — u — ng trou- On the s the gupv-chew in! “Romance with Jack Curson. HOPJ3, Page Ti o. .t! / ; { ,v.1 MRS. R. W. m I ft i. ■, ft! ■ ; Mj' if : J ' : M ft Braley Women's Store ln in Kyle Field. Mrs. Bulk appear’An the show, 7 ^ (! I I 4 Ki • i v (j j \|. i ft I il 1\', ,1 ) thing fte>m ab Hope local model* jvho will 't ■ I- »I M J 1 k teverley tonight