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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 9, 1949)
I ii 2: r If r. a .turally; t outdoors! An:: peciallj doesn A&M s;i " the clay .../ in If • port rtm the outd it is siirifl .Hwelteri ■■ th^m.: HeVftTHil ures take thel day ufteKjh 'I A;,. ii; v, Editorials MONDAY, MAY 9, l! A Swimming Plan . . . the year when the be taken aw ng 1 hot, the student’s the pond anc getting cool, and na- ter and the ay from around the edge of a platform built in the cen- result would be an excellent ey think of going swimming— “swimming Hole.” m I (S >1U« :r Ail (ii ncnr th< outing. M th(» just a lilt hi elf <ji: ; plcftsant plttC" 1 ■ fmHL ? into an t : ■WUi * vide a Ttas their' f '.(Nimi | Whore $or re' . btweW thilivieuf eomiiut m 1 j Alt. r Md,l« f jiBronii W- • ter how .1 quo ,, i d< •e Sic pages b np. (frt -^jScheH the Coipii with ac Friday to and their dalt j.lii Thb all-collei peciailly I yell praj danceJ free of i and Satju r e: ff* '|M l : TM • ■ h enjoying the pleas- j* life. Other students ‘ dfttes there for Sunt! §ip ’ors ft pleasant apot, o|i1 students to havt an ug thing is, that with iron Id be a much more hear Easterwood Air- he ideal solution for tjjg problem. Although !llilies and underbrush, * * i t j _ Since the college seems to be concerned ing pool is fine, es- with recreation, especially during the sum , but in the summer mer months, this would be a good place to the bill. So, for the spend a few dollars for improvements. Bryan Country Club, The initiaf cost of the operation would sh Lake. naturally be somewhat larger than the continued upkeep. A road of some to be constructed in underbrush would have to be would have area and the cut away. A few boats there would also n| haven't let that stbp provide an excellent form of exercise for ir^ day you will find relaxing students. , / eirte enjoying the pleas- As it stands now, the place has unlim ited possibilities. If the movement could get started, maybe the lake could be re stocked with fish for those who like this sport. Combining all these we would have a place for swimming, plcnlclng, fishing, boat fog, and various otheir outdoor sports. Wo feel sure that the student’s an* be hind such a movement. So the only other b|V cleaned up nnd miulo question that remains is “Can we get it Ip tiirea. The weeds could clone?” I [formation from TSCW p excerpts from the $ front and editorial ir new corps trip set e).', , ■ jV .15 in Fort Worth, be a one-day affair d here at TSCW for rtered buses running i\yij)rth for the girls and e events will be an on Friday night, es- A i ?ies, and a midnight campus following the dates will be housed lie College that night also if they desire. . jh the College will pro- liarters room in the students may meet rates and leave their 11 also reserve rooms rchange their dresses, lienton, was resumed after the war, has the ad vantage of leing less expensive, easier on the students and better for maintaining • i , I the standdres of the College, (end quote). (Editorji.l quote): The plan is not in tended as a restriction on the students. It is not evenhjnade compulsory. It is worked out for the benefit of the student body as a whole, and) if carried out by the students in the spirit in which it was planned, the Corps trip will become a credit to the school more than a possible blot on its name, j ^ Tho Corps Trip is a tradition which is one of the strongest ties with our brother school, A&M. The TSCW students welcom ed the resumption of this special trip after the war, and the old one-day program was s % \ ■ / abandoned.. Then the program began to get out of hand; After this year’s tripHo Dallas, parents and students complained about many of the things which went on in the hotels In Dallas. And the College .. . .: realized that it could no longer take re- V^m^yZhiZ *Y k£ T d , of ent iM tai t* With the laat nnaa ment vvfm« it was dearly Impossible to ^ provide adequate chaperonage, ' Karlt student must fee) responsible for the reputation we want TSCW to have, for the whole group is judged by the con- duel of Its jmtlvtdtial memhers, This plan will make |t easier for us to uphold our standards nod maintain a reputation the all-college dances Is will not he compel* urday night, the Cob tespMisiblllty for elm- [trip. Ami the one-day until the Corps Trli| which THCW deserves, (unquote). r rr+“ • •’ • ftnjg note from Atlanta ur faith that ho mat- humane and unthink- masks in pjublic. ' - ^ The city council voted unanimously The Battalion "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions <jial newspaper of the; Agricultural and ikechanical College of Texas jij Texas, is published five times a week T circulated every Monday furnished on request (ss is entitled exclusively to the use for lerwise credited in the paper and local iblication of all other matter herein ate also matur st Port Tex**. onJtr I. 1170. Member of The Associated Press may be made by telephone (4-5444) ed ads may be placed by telephbne (■ CARTER.., T i Win Kdltefi Usnafim Editor* <i»»eee Mdltov feCTF* Hrown. S)»eee*NBpmoe*eeceeMeaenr>$t9ff | in / .1 j rate $4.80 per school news of spontaneous origin publish- Repmented nationally by National A4- vertialny Srtrtn Inc., at New Verb City. Chicago, Lot Angel**, and 8u Pnnatna. at the editorial office, Room 201 41-0324) or at Uie Student Activitiei Battalion Poem Contest Boyce’s Column Woman Contracting v . It. f Crocetti B, HAL BOV!* ; , —-. x - NEW TORK-wf-Mr.. Mary 5"^“ ?„ Crocetti, who loves to putter about the kitchen,'has the biggest ceiling problem in America today. She is a plump, pleasant woman of 50 who operates a $l,600,000-a- u n de‘r“me by men. "Being a wOmar she smiled, “beca a reliable group year business, one of the nation’* largest tile contracting firms. Her workmen now are installing clay tik on the twin new $80,000,000 tur link Brooklyn and M, “They are the longest ever in stalled in the United States—9,117 feet,” she said. “That will take about 3,200,000—all set by hand.^' Semester’s Final Editii The Engineer’ Off th “My husband ai on Italian here a qi my husband oppoiii a time when many vored him.” v! ! Forced to enU her husband, G. M, a tile contractor. I ' I l, rgest Tile* mmm""' i The April copy of 'The Engl- 'many C j i MW ff new” is hot off the press tlentally, this is the last publics for this semester smi editor N. Brown and staff have commendable Job, When cloudo give forth precipitation, There is no place like College Station. MUd and slush and streets so sloppy, • mefa a«^ a ••••••• ape *■••••••***•«••• a •••••••••• >*•*••••#*• Sneak Preview Turner Stages One Night Stands in ‘Three Musketeers’ By ANDY DAVIS The Three Masketeers (MGM) staring Lana Turner, Gene Kel ly, June Allyson, and Van Hef lin. (Guion Sat). This technicolor version of Alex ander Dumas’ classic has every thing one could ask for, including action, suspense, romance a la Turner,] and humor a la Kelly. With Gene Kelly as the acro batic swordsman, D’Artagnan, Lana Turner, as the notorious Lady de Winter, Van Heflin as Athos, and June Allyson as Constance, ‘The Three Muske teers” get off to a start with a bang. [ 1 The sword play and roof top The Kings men or the muske- jumping is fast and furious! with teers take it upon themselves to Genie Kelly supplying most (>f the keep Richelieu, Vincent Price, from action, The cast is outstanding and the film ift tops from start tjo firj- Lady de ish. > Winter in the game, mixing busii* ness wlthj pleasure, staging] one night stands, their tasks are [made difficult, j Lady die Winter Is finally cap tured in England, but manages to escape, after murdering Con stance and the Duke of Buck ingham, the Queen’s lover. D’Artagnan swears revenge for Constancy death, makes good his; threat, when LadV del Winters head is sheared from her body from the blow ^>f a sharpened axe. After Richjelieu is removed from office, the mus keteers are given free rangje of France to do what they please. The sword play and roof tot dragging France into a bloody war with England. But with Letters To The Editor yesterday to outlaw masks except for holi- > they will eventually, da y celebrations such as Halloween. t these faults. lAP U ■}■ [ v , t < En ? quote) Now juHt to help the KKK s along, we should let them wear their littl^ bed sheets his capital of jthe Ku and masks] for one holiday a year—All t^ hooded order to wear Fools day. OUTFIT RLOC VOTING TO tl»d Claw of 'fill Hound linn noNt wtwk iltti Htipho’ hiniP o o&t. will hold an tdnrlinfi of offit'oii for m>Nti yuMi'Si juniorrlnaa, Thr nljpi't of (his Hucllwfi, an lt» th« in imp importam'P of ovary nlertimjii lit In rlmotm Dio IiphI iiihii for ihft Job. fttHiiy out fils. Imwrvt'r, httvr lijoolml loHvdter with tlm hlmt of inimng lMr]tm>ti Into offir# ipgn»d(nM of who pisp if iioiulimi- t'tl. Asta ipiult, Urn whole class Is divuldo into Hired t>> four "bitten, hutting their heads against each other. It matters not if the man wears Air Fdrce brass, marches with the Cavalry, or lives in Bryan, he’s still afi Aggie—an Aggie in the Class of ’01!!! If ho* can take the pieces of our disunited class and mold (hem into what we want— the bejst class that has ever gone through A&M—he’s the man -for the jw and the man we want! Th£ | vote should be made by se cret ballot! and not by count of heads in a mass meeting where everyqne sits with his outfit and votes the way the outfit does. The tical Joke Fatal ORE, Tex., May 6 (AS — Whittington, 18, was fa med yesterday as the re- some good-natured horse- hieu of thU unit patriotism U pof. ftfct * for sports and <tom||itetitiviu drill, hut when It wluoU Um dsmoerstih rigid for an hid viduftl to voIp as he pleases, for whom hr plun-sp*. it hegins to reel witlh the kind of politics you won d fluid in fralcndlfps and ccrlalft "Uid* v«*rsil|ps“|l Whan ymi vote nest week, dun'i Ihink of "X-" t'mrtpany tliiftl ur Y Fllghti (luftl 4Hlnk uf 'ho i!U* uf Name Withheld hy Hequest Blue Bonnet Farm Funds Not Okeycd j 1/ < 1 ■ 'if The State of Texas will not grant A&M tho necessary funds to con tinue operations on its vast; 17,000 acre Bluebonnet Farms near Mic- Gregor, according to State Senator James EJ Taylor, finance commit tee chairijoan. The legislature plans to | refuse to grant any money whatsoever, according to Taylor; , thei House and Senate have already refused the necessary appropriations for the new proposed experiment sta tion facilities of which th|: Blue- time that mu ft? to do shopping Inasmuch as W everyone in dally l| Foftt Worth (ifo Bine* It Is primarily amagaainf meht Director, a fftr eaitnaara, two staff man, R. (niporinnoe of roll W, McDaniel and Joss D. Melver, of waU|r forffftn have pooled their efforta and dug meatlc purpoaos h up the history of surveying. This nil over the enu might be of some Interest to the for its conservath engineers taking 800 8 thla sum- KlnsUin mer. It aeema that some eager bea- lht , ory ot ••R # |,»tlk| ver on the Nile ntarted the whole ;,* Yo scheme of surveying about 200 B, Engineer goes C. Only In those days no chalni They have wrltta i were available to measure diatan* j n||f out w { t h nhn ces. Ropes were used and survey- ftn alrplano UHv i] ora were called ,4 ped(»«»Ptaers, ’ re ctlons or mak °r juat plain rope itretchers. something, and C. C. Schwab contributed on urti* blowine writer cle on the problem of parking j r> en( f B ’ U p in 8t < troubles in our cities and towns. cu i a tion with a foi He says that many people work after squaring e <[ to earn money to buy an auto, but Tj,e piano ii after buying it, they have to rely wind with the, plUtl upon street cars and busses be- and tomato sandw .cause traffic congestion is so , Not to leaVe ou jtj ir, | poop, page eleven troduction - to t “5 i Powerful Serum," Aggie student tpr. gineer) has )us : INTERVIEWS Physics quiz. But (1.) May 10—Fidelity Union Life ||? a J Insurance'Company, Dallas, Texas, ^ . will interview men) interested in insurance sales work. • (2) May lK-CelanAe Corpora- d • j e „ n b h e r f tion of Americ^Clarkswood, Tex- chemistry for research work. practically drove (3) May Inc., Dallas, civil and archi for sales work In _ ENGINEERING (iy There is an opening in the good tubl "cation Texas Highway DepartiAit, at g00d l put>llctttl0 “l!8 Groesbeck, Texas, [for a dvifyngi- neer. (2) Arma Corporation, manujne- turers of perdsiorj mechanical ai electro-mechanical instruments, ha) openings in their research and de velopment department for men trained In mechanical and electri cal engineering and phyairs, teaching , I tl) Opening aviilahlft for »n In* xtrupinr of industiHal arts at N»w HiaunfeU. t If 1 r ob Calls 1 If.: J . *! ’ i i " over the business, t do much of the contract like to do the collecting, fun,” she said. I industry say, how- |t Ifra.'Crocetti is a shrewd g capable executive who kiiowa *ry detail of tile contracting. ^ ^ * the biggest problema ia s tilesetters happy,” she ey art akilled craftsmen, they are as temperamental as Tnsy work in teams—a tllenet- kid his helper. And we call husband and wife.’ A good , is. something like a happy igt. Thay want to stay to- gethe 1 . | •;.] ' [. ! / . v„ j .. "Itti If the team quarrels and vfo mtn don’t'work well with bar eaftk, (« well, one of them hi n Kahn ” <h: < thep— taWe li trip to Ratio. 1 About 75 per cant of titarf o % Per cant of tho tila f Italiati' descent, jalhjis three children. One son! icjtes sociology, h Another is a tdbate student ^ In psychology, r dtvjfhtcr, Emma, 17, la In col. .. 4 j pnly ona tn tha frilly who to jfo Into tho Ub bualncM Ihiar-yaaroW !iMa»:f'lfa wants for mar i . P ' I r MU DAY v mnkiis WORK wtutits <Y lold plnsli qmny, mt - \JM mo;. oST hf i »;(i' ■■■■ duds. Iiss upriiliigs fill' boys fn summsr work tn kstvs wmk, 4U) Hmtlhwss , lUl T ComMstty, Italian. jpJUMi foot oiishings In Tytai' It Waco for summaij Work- selected will be assigned work, relating to the «oH< dial service in the nattfSo ii iiii ttiia IhVft SIX Kl I Man o ftiwn vehtun to ties. . bonnet Farms is one. it >.r - ttington and a f buckets of wat snd were on each other at a local establishment. republication of all news dispatches the the gasoi sporty f 1 ignited the youth’s clothing. ,.Co-Editors Ken nets ....... ar .. w .~«iH—-^.-JNetws Wrtten 4*. Hill Potts Iporta Hdtten ink Rlmman, Andy Matula, mer. frevie Hmek. Rea ink Mssiues «........ Cmsdal •M LsafeN, ft. Morelee..f W<f ( | lees, l)re4 InlMSi. . ■I’keie , ' ' . : bucket happened to con iine. The companion threw aline on Whittington, and from a welding machine the died in a hospital last night. A&M accepted the deed ( to the vast Bluebonnet spread from the War Assets Administration, prom ising to develop itj into a many- sided crop and livestock experiment station, j : / V . Secretary of Agriculture, Brannon visited the farm] day, and it is believed Federal Government is furnishing the necessary money I keeping the farm in operation. ELECTRICAL P APPLIANCE STORE In Bryan- * . t / kLJ , | > Come In and see us for large or small appliances: ! I RADIOS . . ELECTRIC IRON STUDmW' LAMPS FLOOR LAMPS PRESTO COO] COFFEE MAI KELVINATOR . . HOT POINT —emd many other usefuls— UNITED APPUANCES farm & 'Home store A AGGIE RADIO ll>l r.7a j F WED, t i:40 ^ 8: l IKS iatui PALACE &ryan if : B - - it DOUG’S CAFF. College and 27th : IkW Specializing In . MEXICAN DISHES CHICKEN TRIED STEAK DINNERS AGGIES ALWAYS WELCOME ■/ TFW- • /'/ A NOW if ! “Mopi, shin. Tardi If: ■ . 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