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Speculation
among the| ci'
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ment, if a. vr|
the currenij wi
at Friday
of the A
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the problem ah
directors that
pwn water sup
■till secret re|
Hunter, Da) las
Possibl.
Bryan cit;
the board
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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
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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
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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.
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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-
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dire<N
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AnlUry
and the
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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.
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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*
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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
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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.
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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.
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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. |
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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-
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rid integrated
lives la) it n git
Ration
anting
Aceombi n; d
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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
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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.
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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.
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Economy Forces Win Round lb
Texas Senate, Lose in House
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tja{t
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ijSldi. "Throui
hef-Jaid,
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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-
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that the United
not ^>|on supplying the
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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
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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
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