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'y \ v -V ili r- I! : .• -* :;.'t I 1 - •: T ' i '■ " v >' 7 m , / r 7f X 1 ’/' published COLLEGE STi By G Speculation among the| ci' . College S ment, if a. vr| the currenij wi at Friday of the A The boa*!'* mittee will prei the problem ah directors that pwn water sup ■till secret re| Hunter, Da) las Possibl. Bryan cit; the board ’• Station t lishing an ind tan watei " ^ ilation Varies Widely tion of Board Friday RLTON nning wild df Bryan and [o what agree- i'cached about {ply question lay’s meeting Of Directors, water com- ir solution to rjimend to the procure its outlined in a Homer H. mg engineer. ilated, v The oh will ask lly of College r ; hi in estab- ilt metropoli- Such a dis trict. the speculators assert, would take over the wells and the city of Bryan and sell water pumping system now owned by wholesale to Bryan, College Sta tion, and the College. The three agencies would then sell the water retail through their distributive systems, as is being done now. Other speculations,'’ this time from disturbed citizens, were ag gravated when it was reported that representatives of the College were contacting property owners “up stream” from the city of Bryan’s water well field. This contacting is supposedly the attempts to eith er lease the water rights, or at least take options on those rights, in preparation for putting down The spection tourj p States rettinv * Langford,, he one faculty m Clini 148 MM One * fiuindr eight patiejjity by leading plastic surgeorjs annual Cnipii Clinic held pn terday morpin Children from in this area, { sc)! never been < before, atten , 1 nationh. wereljco; m. to about f[ pj Examining bert E. Hip from Waco; orthopedic s ton; Dr. Jam orthopedic ni Dr. T. G. B1 from Galve rens, neun James the crippled' ehi the state I health 'Austin; Mrs. cational rehahili representative: adult phyp!c|l Hi perviaur frowj Wi Abercrombie, |-eha cilor from, Cbllegls ’attended t|ie|clln J Pan IIupsp1.|| hw Hwlolnify PfBfrtm tor of .Hu* ennlp wBill the KiwanM Pluh Hi) with the r hflil wnlfni'M hM'wn vflluntper worhfri.il billy fop khkiti nluhou frop, l|p !# iiairlps fornishfI fi tinea Cola IjnUlInjt Hr. Pepppr BudiliH| nlshpd free! sl.ft children and tfielr ire Students Return l^ve Eastern Trip lUlre seniors who left last month for an in- iC north central and northeastern United A&M Saturday, according to Ernest t ihe department. Twenty two students and jer made the tour in a chartered bus. They visited Little Hock, St. Louis, Chicago, Niagara Falls, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and areas in Michigan, Canada, and Indiana, Langford said. In St. Louis, they inspected the -American Stove Company’s new sales office, which was designed bv Harris Armstrong. The group also visited one of the modem homes Armstrong has designed. In Chicago, the students saw Frank L. Wright’s “Robie House,” one of the first in the country to have indirect lighting. They ’ also inspected the Architecture Depart ment at Illinois Tech. ere and forty i examined >^dic and the fourth Children’s pusyes- rgeoti p 15 * in bker counties horn had jjbyj a doctor lc. Exami- from 9 a. si We$e Dr. Her- surgeon . Eggers, Galves- ‘loh, another jjalveston; tic surgeon jjr. K. Tor- Galveston. i<ector of igency of iment in rliBler, vo- After visiting some cities in Michigan, they traveled to Niaga ra. Falls. From Niagara Falls, they went to Boston, making a swing nesday evening. the College’s own source of supply. Tracts in this immediate area belong to J. N. Dulaney, James 1 Seigert, J. L. Burt, Louis Brand- esky, M. Cahill Estate, Mrs. Dendy Cahill and John Kalinec. At least one of these parties is said to haVe been approached by two college representatives. The property owner, according to re ports, indicated that he did not un derstand the details of the pro posal ■'■very well, except that a dollar an acre was involved, with a promise of additional revenue based on gallonage produced. ★ Since 1940 A&M has been the biggest water consumer and cus tomer of Bryan’s eight wells drill ed in Sparta sand north of the city. When the present contract was signed in 1940, Bryan was granted $260,000 from the govern ment to help drill the wells. Before the present contract was signed, A&M was.furnished water from two wells near the present site of the College View Apart ments. Containing u large amount of minerals and especially hydro gen sulfide, the water could not be used in college boilers or laundry plant. “Everyone agreed it tasted pretty bad,” said T. R. Spence, supervisor of Physical Plants. “But the water presently furnish ed to the college is very pure and contains only a small amount of minerals.” The water supply in Bryan last year was serious. Dry weather caused the sprinkling of lawns to be prohibited by a city ordinance ^or a short period of time. At the present time Bryan lacks sufficient sjupply for any large size industry. Methodists Honor June Graduates Graduating seniors of the A&M Methodist Church and Wesley Foundation were honor guests at a supper at the church on Wed- II 1 in v limlp : '*'• •• division KHIion, ton su- James Mion coun- Im alao \o Rural dire<N held hy iwatinii htwUli fwell m jiiy fill** AnlUry and the liny and Ittny fair* n i| to the r la. II! up through Canada. In Boston, the group had to sleep one night on cots set up for them in the bowling alleys in- the basement of ; the YMCA. They had estimated that theUrip from Niagara Falls would be made easily in one day, but for got about the mountains. The 475 miles took over 19 hours. Three days were spent In New York. The first two days, they toured the Museum of Modern Art and several examples of modern architecture. Saturday, April 30, they were tree to sight-see. 1 On the w,urn try), the group visited cities in Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas. Sophomores Plan Meeting Tonight The Huphomore CIms will meat in tin* Assembly Hell tonight nt 7 to nominate class officers for next year, class president A, I). Martin announced today. The field of candidates for the Offices will he narrowed to three per office. A t‘un*off election be* tween these finalists will he held next week by written ballot at an other sophomore class meeting. i ' ■ 1 /-. . 7 / ’ - /\y; A :AV ' j attalion EREST OP A GREATER ASM COLLEGE land), TEXAS, TUESDAY, MAY 10,1949 *41, 1/ * • ■' l'"7fc fr. ~. -T*’¥ V. ’ : 'I- .Ij Iittw i;1i ..]J I j I I*'!— , TEXAS, TUESDAY, MAY 10,1949 ww A. . ■ /1 Dean of Men W. L. 1'enberthy affectionately manhandles an un stem Livestock Show Bat* urday night. Dean 1'enberthy was the only college dean who ac* cooperative pig at the Little Southfreatem Livestock Show Sat* “ ' the * N. him in a pig roping contest. lege cepted Dean of Agriculture C. N. Shepardlon’s challenge to meet Dean 1'enberthy out-walked and out-roped Dean Shepardson and, by dint of superior knot work, won the contest. Rent Decontrol Bill Is Hit By State Legion Commander The supper and program, was sponsored by the Men’s Fellowship Grpup, the- Methodist Students Grbup, and the WSCS, with W. R. Horsley in charge of the program and J. E. Loupot in charge of the' food. Fifty seniors were present and they were greeted by Rev. Ferris Baker and Dallas Belcher, who served as toastmaster. The address of the evening was given by Rev. Tom Dyal of the Firsts Presbyter ian Church of Bryan. ^ AH Seminar Hears Elder on Breeding Henry Elder, secretary- manager of the Texas Hereford Association, spoke to the members of the ani mal husbandry seminar class Mon day night. Rider stated that the pvirpose of the Texas Hereford Association is to piomote the breed, to assist members in buying and selling, and to sponsor activities that are twite* firial to the breed amt breedet* In TeXas, , Elder said that Hhe chief pur pose of the purebred breeder Is to produce sires that wilt improve our commercial cattle herds. AUSTIN, Tex., May 10 (&’)—The rent decontrol bill was hit yester day by the state American Legion commander as “back-door legisla tion.” ' * Following House passage on sec ond reading of the bill to abolish rent control in Texas, Legion com mander Bill McCraw demanded a public hearing before the measure is acted on further. “Bpck-door legislation at the close of a legislative session is not new to Texas. The American Le gion hopes to prevent this or any other vital measure being greased through the current session until the general public has had an op portunity to express itself,” Mc Craw said in a prepared statement issued from sjtate headquarters here. \ House Vote The House Vote on the bill was 98 to 30. An attempt to suspend rules so the measure could be vot ed on for final passage failed, de laying further option at least until Friday—probably longer. An effort bylRep. Otis Lee to halt floor debaite of the bill by Rep.Carlton Moore of \louston on a point of order was overruled by the acting speaker, Rep. Jerry Stockard. Lee said the bill had not been giving an public hearing be fore it was reported from the Htuta Affairs Committee, Htpekard' said previous rulings had sustained a committee’s right im ’ %,■ pSI fef b ■ M : sa&Bgai A ■" J l/f- A- my A *7 ' m i » .•to; 1 I I r fA The | awarded 'annual M drill fltld * Daan of Mat , * v- : t r fc'i 1 trophy la being Agency at the j|aw hald on tha .main thy holda tha plaqua 7 which will go U Captain Jonn ) engineering ma Praaidant P. C, Backar are the outfit commanded by Cadet !. Wallace, senior agricultural or from Condcaaa. Bolton and U. Colonel W. A. rn on tha right. to net mi bills without bidding pub* Ha hearing, Mrt'ruw said Muure'x measure "may nr may md he the finest bill In the world, but If It Is passed without a public bearing, ft will nrouae suspicions In everybody, es pecially veterans." Vital Matter "Any matter so vital as housing should he given due and thought ful consideration, and not he blitzed through," McCrjiw's statement con* tinned. “Many, nearly a million, Texas men and women have fought In Adriance Conducts Date Investigation Dr. Guy W. Adriance, head of the Horticulture Department, and Dr. Walter Reuther, sub-tropical fruit investigator for USD A, Or lando, Florida, have returned from a survey of date plantings in the Winter Haven, Laredo, and Wes laco areas. Date plantings studied by the investigators were made over a period of 25 years. Five varieties of dates—Amir Haj, Halawi, Hay- amy, Zahidi, and Majul—were found to be doing favorably well in the Winter Haven and Laredo areas, Dr. Adriance said. General ly, however, tests ini the Rio Grande Valley have not been successful. For the next three or four years cooperative commercial plantings in the Winter Haven and Laredo areas will be expanded to provide off-shoots for more plantings in these areas. No large scale indus try is contemplated to develop in Texas. [0 | Most of the date plantings at Weslaco are to be removed leaving only a small portion of the better varieties 'for [ continued study ip ripening by quick freezing initlic ted by G. Morris of Godfrey and J, S. WmImo. lit .H A .•I ,• two world wars for the principles of democracy. The action of the House in passing so important a piece of legislation without a hear ing would certainly shake the con fidence of those who elected its members. “The American Legion feels that veterans have been badly mistreat ed in regard to housing. This feel ing is not alleviated when a meas ure passes concerning housing and the public is not allowed to express itself. J Range Class Will Have 2-Day Trip The. graduate class in plant and range ecology, Range and For estry 609, will make a two-day field trip May 14 and 16 to study range conditions througout most of the vegetated regions of the state. Dr. H. F. Heady, of the Depart ment of Range and Forestry wftt be in charge of the class on jthe trip. The group of 11 students Mil visit the Soil Conservation Service Grass Nursery at San Antonio. They will observe range conditiona and grazing practices in the Ed wards Plateau, Rio Grande Plain, and the Coastal Plain, SOVIET SCORES IN DECATIIEON MOSCOW - W ~ A » KstmiliiH village hoy, llelito l«lim, Im* nmtle a great snowing In the decathlon, Now a sOnlent at Tartu University, he registered last year 7,7X0 pohita In the decathlon, According to Soviet sport* writ ers, this Is the best record “turned In anywhere in the past 1$ years," individual records are encourag ed in the USSR, but of course are not the main thing. The primary objective here is mass- eport. Oil Supply Says Stand • . i 1 J X 1 Hillsboroites Escape Old ' / ' / ■ \. f ' j. Aggie Custom S ’ i Life for visitors to A&M has its ups and downs, and officials from Hillsboro Junior College are no ex ceptions. | iVtr The registrar and the track coach from the junior institution were visiting A&M this past week end and they brought with them several Urge trophies. Both the officials i and the tro phies were quartered in dormitory fivi e. The men were in one room and the trophies in the next. ’ Several cx-studenta of HJC now attending A&M heard of th«* visitors and decided to welcome them in true Aggie style. They borrowed a pass key to the doy- mitory and in the still of the night attempted to Introduce tie junior men to the unique exper ience of being "drowned out." Unfortunately, the well mean ing Aggies got the wrong room, missed the coach and the regis trar, and succeeded only in drown ing out the trophies. We wonder what the visiting schoolmen thought when they found their trophies floundering in water the next morning? Register Thursday For Summer Teria Schedules are now available in the Registrar’s Office for about 2000 students who are expected to register Thursday for spmmer school, according to H. L. Heaton, registrar. Classes will be officially suspen ded Thursday afternoon frpm 1 to 6 p. m, for registration, Heaton said. Registration cards will be re leased according to the following schedule: 1 to 2—All whose surnames be gin with L, M, N, O, P, Q, R. 2 to 3—All whose surnames be gin with E, F, G, H, I, J, K. 3 to 4—All whose surnames be gin with A, B, C, D. 4 to 6—All whose surnames be gin with S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z. New students and old returning, students will register on June 6' in the morning. | 1 1 i. i ] umber 180 V The worl< drawj op excli cordipg to Johl ard OU of Nei uman gal or Officer Address The basic t of the Army ject of a talk when Major sek, Jr., speak^ bined meeting County Chap serve Offieertl and other res#l this area. "Major Rousok, # tlve officer of thd Koncc' Battalion o ored Division sta Hood, was invited ROA by Cantuid president of the lc^ Prior to his Camp Hood, Ma ved overseas 1 During this peril the [102nd Mech the 38th Cavalry Squadron, the 9 vision, and the 11 Regiment. Major Roasek Normandy, Northe land, Ardennes, au Campaigns. Originally from Jersey, Major Roi that state’s nation) He was compiiseioiji clj promoted to the t h when he was calle< in 1941. He holds the Sole Bronise Star with; Cluster, the Belgiar re, and the Britis Service Order.. The meeting on held at 7:30 p..m. it Engineerings Lectin announced. Points 1 credit will be givet e if! 72 bil)i<Jn jiident & 11) leq u ci an rrel$ of oil to y Russia, ac- BlS Rti :tor of Stand- : 1 fi rid integrated lives la) it n git Ration anting Aceombi n; d i thii)*« Compa iy Barlow Schdo , man’s w. iff *' cli efci Gtrieit Issues Class lf$culty and their t. He conducted a Srtsjver session this ssues Class. Suman to A&M -nipXtyees of Humble AbcJTrding to Howard lein of the En^ineer- tjhf! t|iree represented IT1S, t> £ ln*J tut of Hjuthb lie r^iti Latti he ass of ; *41, M Engini*e yettr' Xft led 90 y+ait* a alcohol t, plio Jbbsr ah sopiij ■ii Util section.” They Fihhikan, assistant, to ont o|t!]ifumble Oil; D. B. and vice pftal- il and Class of J. R. jLattimer, an for HumMe member of the s editor of the agazine in 1947, ated.V (JiscriBed the his- the first well was . rigo.Jie mentloti- fAl'H, and synthetic the by-products ’ ^ I 4 P F«r Drawing Meeting Proves Successful The first Engineering Drawing Conference has ended, and general chairman J, C. McGuire said that it was a successful one. Plans war* discussed to hold another meeting next year and to make this an an nual affair. Thursday night Hblsa Hall was the scene of a banquet for eonfar* enee member*. 3 Reconvening Friday morning, discussions were held on "Terrill* nal Dr*fling Courses, Asonometriiv I Projection for Industrial Drawings, and The Engineering Graduate's Attitude Toward Drafting." After conclusion of the talks, conference members made conference members made a gen eral tour of the campus and visited classes. ,3 E. f\ Roberts, el presently sales ma John Deere Plow sion in Dallas, addrtf ricultural Engineer! a regular meeting evening. Following the add picture on the one latest types of fai was shown to the * John Deere repMsm ent at the meeting to arson, lamtary sales M M, llroadus of the saf *ii denartineiit. The Agrlciiltnrkl society nominated off) year. Balloting was ci ing the week In the c Jones, department he( a barbecue and plcnt at the next meftini made. ml Economy Forces Win Round lb Texas Senate, Lose in House r« H!!n rd ft i tja{t »>st ijSldi. "Throui hef-Jaid, | the primary ijcou oil compan- a prq- eful world. The cklls for a Hugo the European ‘h hi C menfio|u‘|jl|c Carribonn area os, Middle East, t of the United ing or potential p-to-date meth- e oil coknpnnies • ;ecover llhree jor uch oil py n^rw Cieratf' ihas. also made it ife twice as much |y with the s&ftie pie this with an pioiint of work V.and the United (siblje to proi ver us iformj^ {urtt oi oil. leasjo in ■ tl ph cab be d lea: ah|l'{th(||Morld has enough < tations. 1 e , the present 1 oil will justify S of synthetic oil , ) le. It is apparent thew is ce o igh. potential en- the k| (o rld’l need in the ibli fut. v. Possibly atomic dollar eheijfjS may eventually upply more pow- larpeftfechte i | Musi onasish r i •4 v|n[B, Nevi I’oW ;h» thu *toi i, wi I|*t Hot) ' ity • "WflJ Educate that the United not ^>|on supplying the ‘‘We must carry techniques to >LY, Page 6i Address Society chief purchasing ifwon Iron Works >eak to the Rusi- ght at ,7:30 in iji YMGAilacoard* reporler »•( tho 4)11 he on "Piir* anil Ethic*," A irciiasiiig Agents Houston, Nevlll mi the Assoclft* (lonuhlttee. mla of the meet* of ptans for the rtl'8 [to be held this bers are urged (led) AUSTIN, Tex., May 10 (iW — Economy forces won yesterday’s round in the Senate but lost in the House. \ ,. The Senate turned back efforts to bring up bills providing money for soil conservation, medical schools at San Antonio, Dallas and Temple, and expansion of Lamar Junior College at Beaumont to a senior college. The House shook off arguments of would-be money savers, added $1,175,000 to the junior college ap propriation for the next two years, and passed the measure on second reading, 89-43. It now awaits a House Refuses The House’s refusal to listen re sulted in an increase from $125 $175 per year for each student the state’s public junior colleges. / Though defeated for the moment, Senate sponsors of the single-pur pose bills said they would continue their fight to push the measures to final passage.. The projects call for $5,000,0( for a statewide soil conservaf program; $2,000,000 for the me cal school at Dallas; $1,000,000 fa the one at San Antonio; $500,0 for Temple’s; and $1,000,000 make Lamar Junior College S CakVtlllg | * V *IV» TV «*»» M* BSS—■,•[ w «aa>>w* .11 vote on third reading and passage Ifour-year college. City Finances Financial worries of Texas cities to the Senate. Given final House approval was a bill providing $4,015,614 for vo cational education in the next bi ennium. There was no quarrel over the measure, which represents an approximate 10 per cent increase over the current two-year appro priation. Rop. Ray Kirkpatrick of Tren* ton told the House the legislature might "be able to adioum without a tax" if it would refuse to up the aihount originally fixed by the Appropriation! Committee for jun ior collefei, were also given consideration the House. It passed on seci reading, 83*46, a bill that wout grant gasoline tax refunds on mo tor fuel used by city-owned ve hicles on city business. j Rep. Jeff Woodruff of Pasade na, author, said the refund* would decrease the state treasury $400,- 000 a year. “This would be no great loss to the state and would-be of consid* erable help to the' 718 incorporated cities in Texgi," he said. Mias Ethyl CrohHbo was one parade of »u< _ 4 speculation n was laid down throtoi A / » / /A 7 ii. > . i Y ■'ii. 11 i V i/ '■ V •> \ /!v[ Xy i [ • /, ■' / : aV j V / ' /YYy •(>/ ••1,1 \ Ii ! I . I i ! by yell leader Aggie Follies. » the object ramp which