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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.”
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danceJ
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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,
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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?”
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[formation from TSCW
p excerpts from the
$ front and editorial
ir new corps trip set
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.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
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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).
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ftnjg note from Atlanta
ur faith that ho mat-
humane and unthink-
masks in pjublic. ' -
^ The city council voted unanimously
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at the editorial office, Room 201
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Battalion Poem Contest
Boyce’s Column
Woman
Contracting
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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.
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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,
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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
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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
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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 ”
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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.
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pnly ona tn tha frilly who
to jfo Into tho Ub bualncM
Ihiar-yaaroW
!iMa»:f'lfa wants
for mar i .
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summsr work tn kstvs wmk,
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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
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vehtun to
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bonnet Farms is one.
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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
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4*. Hill Potts Iporta Hdtten
ink Rlmman, Andy Matula,
mer. frevie Hmek. Rea
ink Mssiues «........
Cmsdal
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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
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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.
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