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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1949)
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VA A, A: / •r I I; •,il H 4 - . 1 \i 1% ■ i V i. i ;i" ■ i 4V dafis Twelv were Class in Ni floor, off electi Don Jose Melvin Mo candidates Joseph, E student fro: a business tis in B Infan is from Dallai - engineering M^d> Joe Johnsoii .and Bill ParseiWtfce inees for vice^ pteaki B Battery, iS Iroih l a mechanica’ Hoermann ft Transportatic animal hi a civil Tulsa, Okl; John and Cl chosen as for secre A Troop ,lene and Coslett, Ai and is a j< ally from) letics and cation ma)i ions For Officers Sophomore Meeting next year’s junior class officers a lively meeting of the Sophomore U. four offices were made from the lected three final nominees for run- . h : : ) A' ■ A* i : ■" i k and4 Bill Qomli Bill Thompk ineaa chosen ‘secretary. jO from Hei a buiinoss Cavalry, i irom Pori Company (Cl : fnginaw leering mh “The a class la next Tu sembly Hi Martin, prefil •‘At that will bo used he said. i it and nom- social jry, is tuul is Troop major . n, A . hi from ci»l engi lass. allots ting,” AUSTI A veteran has lost t|w •step it to i handed j setback Mo; / Rep, J. A. bonanza for T Spanish-Api e wars .was sjen the House tee. The vojte The bill Is weeks of s case mean i storage. Wi sion hearlj oi the bonus p: survive. i 9 Endorsei le: would only m would hav > prove or <jUsSppirl>v<' tional ame idijnfent' ' us, Benton The prop©; given a lohg house comjmi amendmen which r each was islative ),000,000 of the world iup of Commit- fi. get “two r in this of. cold ,ure ses- accorded Chance to gislature iiToRas voters iijty to ap- thja constitu- wding a bon* i si U CO had been Ing by the Stitu tional George Willman will portray Egstrand in the May 19 and 20 presentation of Ibsen's ••Ghosts” by the Aggie Players. William Gets Fourth Role In ‘Ghosts’ The role of Engstraml in Ibsen's “Ghosts," which the Aggie Players will stage in Guion Hall May 10 and 20, is the fourth undertaken by George Willman in Player pro duction*. Seen as constable Wnrren in ‘Our Town’, Oscar Hubbard in “The Little Foxes,” and as Johann Dwornitschek in “The Play’s The Thing," Willman will portray a man he describes as “the kina of oily individual who might be found peddling “feelthy” pictures in a dimly lit portion pf the Paris metro.” i . Willman, Class of ’’45 from Gal veston, was graduated from A&M in 1948, an<L is now a special stu-» dent in business administration. “The ‘special’ type of student I’m supposed to be is a mystery to me,” Willman avers., | Willman served as an intelli gence officer and an operations officer in the army, and was dis charged as a first lieutenant. Other players now rehearsing ‘Ghosts’ are Betty Jo Edwardson, Lindell James, Karl Wyler, and Jean Kemodle. George Dillavou will direct the play. j.' Valley Club to Hold Annual Barbecue The Lower Rio Grande Valley Club will hold its annual barbecue Thursday at Fish Lake. Transpor tation will leave the YMCA at 1:30 and 5:15 p. m. for members who do not have transportation. Swimming is scheduled to be part of the day’s activities. PUBLISHED ' s - ■ ' ■ atta \ /- A Z A Ar ; : Uy. /• (' & LLBQBST. INTEREST or X GREATER ARM COLLEG UaMud), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY U, IMS X 801 FFA Boys Enter Judging Contest Here The annual State Judging Contest for Vocational Agri culture FFA will be held on the campus this week-end, re ports Henry Ross, chairman for the Contest. Since 1921, this has been an an nual affair except for during the war. There will be 801 boys and 174 vocational agriculture teachers present at the contest and 269 judging, teams composed of three boys each will be made. , The livestock judging contest will be under the direction of W. M. Warren, professor of animal husbandry, and 59 teams will judge beef cattle, sheep, and swine in the Animal Husbandry Pavilion. The dairy cattle judging contest will be under the direction of A. L. Darnell, professor of dairy hus bandry, and 58 teams will judge in the dairy barns. Forty Seven Teams Compete In the meats laboratory of the Animal Industrios Building, the meat contest under the direction of 0. D. Butler, professor of animal husbandry, will take place. Forty- seven will participate. The poultry and egg judging contest Will be held at the poultry farm, and 59 teams,will judge un der the direction of E. D. Parnell, professor of poultry husbandry. Under the direction of A. V. Moore, professor of dairy husban dry, 44 teams will judge dairy pro ducts at the college dairy. Friday at 7 p. m. at a meeting in the Assembly Hall, the parti cipants and their instructors will convene and make final plans for the judging contests. The judging contests wil^ com mence at eight Saturday morning, and is expected to be completed by 4 p. m. T I 1 ' 'i MISS JEAN BELL shows why the Parade of Beauties was one of the most popular moments In “The Roaring Twenties” in Guion Hall Friday and Saturday nights. Last Agriculturist Coming Off Press ‘Issues’ Gass To Hear Huse ‘*1 Robert Huse, director of overseas information of the Economic Cooperation Admin istration, will speak on “Pro gress of European Recovery: A First-Hand Report” at 8 tonight in Room 301, Bolton Hall. According to Dr. S. R. Gammon, head of the History Department and chairman of the Great Issues Committee, this speaker will be the last one of the semester. Huse returned in November from a tour of the European countries who are receiving aid under tHe Marshall plan. He will lecture to night and will answer questions tomorrow at 11 in the same room. The public is invited to attend the two meetings of the class, Dr. Gammon said. | )■ rrr~ G3F /A I / A •'.V By BUDDY LUCE Booked to show with a 36-page May isaue of the Agriculturist on the presses. Gerald York ttnd his ‘48-49’ staff have "laid by” a pretty good crop of publishing, The May issue, so profusely illustrated with photographs that it looks more like LIFE maga zine, is the last issue this school year and upholds the standard set by the three preceeding is sues this vear. Buckskin Joe, a famous quarter- horse, is the main character m an article on quarterhorse breeding written by Jimmy Page. He writes a short history of the quarter- horse. j. M. A. Taylor tells why the farm boy goes to the city in an article called The Vanishing American. He gives figures on the number of farm people who are migrating to the city lights, The dangers of Vitamin A de ficiency in livestock are brought out in a well-illustrated article by R. M. Bagley. He cites ex periments conducted in A&M experiment stations as proof of the importance of keeping live stock supplied with the necs- sary vitamin ration. Sirloins from early - maturing’ beef cattle is Byron Swain's sub ject in an article on feeding beef cattle. j v There is a story on mechanical cotton pickers by Earl Smith, a survey of jobs available in agri culture and what they require, and a story on a new tomato by Hal Clark. The new tomato is supposed to thrive in hot climates and will raise tomato production in South Texas,. J Dean of Agriculture Charles N. Shepardson contributes an article in which he points out the need for scientific farming and ranch ing, and what college training can do to bring it about. He shows the high school senior what qppor- tunities there are in the field of agriculture. Page nine of the May issue is a picture story of a comparatively uncommon breed of cattle, the Charbray. It is made up of six pictures of the breed, and is ex plained in picture captions by J. T. Atkinson, Shootin’ 'em up again with a western thriller is Harry Good ing, well remembered for his storied in the preceding issues. The story this time is one nf revenge by a "young feller” on a bully in a real old saloon trip to fist city. The title of th« story is "Take A Man’s Gun.” Harry tkowa his stylo again. From the tri-color cover to the International Harvester advertise ment coloring the back, the May Agriculturist is Interesting reading and looking./ .' L ' _j i -L_ .H ! Tf Registration __ ° FTt ’ - a In ! ; r \ f j Tomorrow Registration fot the summer session will begin tomorrow at 1 p. m. and continue un til 5. All Thursday afternoon classes will be suspended, H. L. Heaton, registrar, said today. This pre-registration is for students cur- r 1 l Tau Beta Pi to Hold Bari Initiation Rites This W p a< ’ The Tau Beta Pi, engineering honor society, barbecue at Hensel Park Friday at 6:30 p. m Howard Oliver, president of the chapter. 1 Members attending the barbecue will meet the Petroleum Engineering Building at 5:45 p. Students having cars are reques to bring them to assist in tra: porting the members to the park, Oliver said. A short business me ing will precede the barbecue. Plans are being made to initiate eight more members into the so ciety Thursday afternoon. Th^sej men were absent when the regular initiation was held in April. F • • m g Building at 5:45 p. ]r| iA&MOfft h rt Chancellor Gibb Dean of Engineerin Barlow and Dean lege Marion Harr turned today frorr where they attend Undergraduates to be initii are Cecil Boatwright* Jr., James Little, Robert Palmer, Kenneth Marak, George Halfin, and Roher' Carter. Henry J. Miles, professor of civil engineering, will be the only facultv member initiated, j R, E. Storms, petroleum ongi*- neer of the class of ’37, is an alu mni member who will he initiated] . , He is chief petroleum engineer of augll ration of Don the Mene Grande Oil Company - , - Venezuela but is presently an va cation here. / | , i M. I The initiation will be held in Dean Howard. Barlow’s conference room. Following the ceremonies, the group will proceed to the Ag« gielnml Inn for dinner, Oliver said, ■ —'•'TV 1 ■' 1 1 — r ■' • j 1 ] "k i/' /A Number 181 •, * .1 l L fh r I th ] f ;•! b 1 r> A : \r -1 i, not for new or Im.j i y<toi eatorl pointed out • new wad returning atu- 81 a.'m|June 6. handed out Hall according ie folljowfg schedule: l AH students whose surnames v UK IAM, N, O, P, Q, R. 1 All atuqpnts whose surnames i v ithEiF, G, H, I, 5, K.F 1 AH. dtudents whose surnames with A[ B, C, D. j AII students whose surnames 4ith $,i\ U, V, W, X, Y, Z. » for V atj th eesj fof the paidjjj at registration, ie fee slig will be stamped by Chief if Ilousing and room cm- tiois conSirmed. He sttklenwi will then go to the of the (departments in which ke work and .regte- IThe registration pproved by the dean registration has been com- letled. .!> Technique to Be Aired Aggie, Tessie Couple Appear On National Radio Program By DAVE COSLETT It’s an old, old story with a new twist. The old part of it is the fact that an Aggie is marrying a Tessie. The new 1 twist will be a coast-to-coast broadcast of the affair. The Aggie, Capt. Charles McDowell, and the Tessie, Miss Mary Francis Johnson, have’been chosen to appear oh the Bride and Groom program* 1 a~i~iTj»~i _, j.,.! , _!/■ • v . ‘ful | • nr V was part of the Open Of the Military Department. llBUiPMi 'If ; fTATIllliliilMWllW'A. \ • i ,i' ■ •.! •! . . ;• • . v I which is being manipo-j Instructors were on hand to explain the uraa nmrt nf thn OttMl of the equipment. . h M: m details i • Eagle Lake Visited By Wild Ufe Class Members of the Wildlife Manage ment 408 class visited the area around Eagle Lake, Texas last Fri day to study and observe the nest ing habits of the mottled duck. Purpose of the trip was to count nests and to find'the number of eggs laid by the ducks in order to estimate the fall population. Dr. I. W. Wing accompanied the students on the trip. The group worked with Gds Bngling, an A&M ex, now employed by the Game, Fish* and Oyster Commission. While on the trip the group ob served the mating and nesting ha bits of the Attwater prairie chic ken. shortly before their wedding on June 1G. * In addition to the chance to ap pear on the program, the couple will receive an all-expense paid honeymoon and a number of val uable gifts. On the program they will tell the story of their ro mance which began,, poetically enough, on Christmas Eve, 1947. McDowell went directly into mil itary service following his grad uation from A&M with a BS de gree in agricultural education in 1943. Duripg a 41 month tour of duty overseas, he was stationed at various times in England, France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Lux embourg, Czechoslovakia, the Phil ippine Islands and Japan. While serving with the Army FFA Group Hears Vocational Head “Initiative, good judgment] and getting along with people are the three essentials that » beginning vocational agriculture teacher must hh«p to aucceed,” L. I. Samuels, supervisor of vocational agricul- turv teachers of Area 5, told A&M Collegiate FFA Chapter Monday night. \ “The most important man in the school is the superintendent. He can do you more good or more harm than any other man. in the school system, and likewise you can do him mors harm or good than any other man btoauio of the con tacts you make. “Discipline of your students of ten means whether you are fired or kept on the job. A teacher should be able to foresee trouble and be re pared to nip it in the bud when of Occupation in Japan, he did graduate work at the Imperial University in Tokyo. He is a hold er of the| Purple Heart, Bronze Star, Combat Badge and Pura4 chutist Badge. j . } ^a Miss Johnson is a 194G graduate of TSCW and holds a BS degree in home economics. A former Rosef bud Princess, the bride-elect 4 now teaching in San Saba High School. Her home is in Richland Springs. Wiggins uh the fift of Texna Tech. The group left Col| yesterday noon. They plane and arrived in terday afternoon. 1 Gilchrist rcprcnqntcl System at t!hc lnaugu| Harrington was the r of A&M and Denft Bii ed as the represent American Society if or Education. Wiggins, whose ho Paso, is widely know catOr. He received hii arts degree from HaA University at Abilerf From there he weht versity where in 192J his master of arts.del tinued his education the University of Chi years. Later he retu where he received 1 philosophy degree in In 1935 he returned became the presidentij College of Mines in 1943 he received a < from Hardin-Simmoii Students In Speaking A&M Poultry Club Honors Three Men Roy McDonald, A. H. Demke, anc Ralph James, Texas poultrymen were elected honorary members by the Poultry Science Club, Bobbin Mayfield, club president, said to} dm •/ . J ■' T j} These men will be guests of the club at the annual “Chicken Fry’f Saturday night. At this dinner they will be presented scrolls making them lifetime members of the cl * /.■ 1/ Four A&M studen a speaking contest Houston Geological day. W. P. Hyman ag ley, geology major Prince and H. B. Ri engineering majors testants: Each man madfe some phase of the dustry with the two awarded associate’ the American Assdc: leum Geologists. Ry were named as the ceive4the award. Ryman spoke oii the Clastic Zopes speech was or Pressure Deple -r- book rem isitions at the Shi reqi is Vjetej'ana rjjay secure 1 approval naximdm load a person may y in the lummer session is 0 i >r 7 he irs if part is in lab- ry work! Heaton said. eS wi start at 7 a. m. he last day tej drop add stiiijctfts will be Junto 10. A lifnikid f umber of class sche- 1»| jorrlgv liable in the regli- •’a office. ; o*iU v, • ~ thousand a I htudeptS and u few womfn bp (ifnjridjkd in the first sum- ply throe loutpn added. i. Il I Tea 'anK r '•i.- The class will hold a jttbetinf i tty right at 7:16L for e purf o$< of electing class Ificers foi the next school rjar; Do rle, Avant, class pres- cent, ar no; meed tod^y. 3ix off cei will be chosen by -Ije junior c iss as a boefy, and ree morp w II be nagied by corps ^embers of 1 he class. / The class } fficers to be named k c prosldeht vice . president, sec- tary-treiau: er, sociaL secretary, storian, and Town Hall manager. ies© officer i will be chosen by summations aid balloting from the )or., '■ j : - ' f . Corps men Will be named to the sifipns of lepresentative on the thletic. Cour cil, yell leaders, and litor of Agg efand 1960. All these ositions.will be voted on by print- bullota which will be distribi the mejetinj. ^ ' Foqr men Y ave filed t for the yell detf jobs ai d two will be chosen h "s Meeting. The position ytll leader will be decided er date-hy ballots in rmhories, > vant said. All menbers of the cla ;ed to attend the meet e Grtrvi!. A vant said, alnce it; Is inned t> complete all the elep- ns except the head yell leader w ition 11 t might's meeting. , { a ll' i-i ect ■ -Wrt A&M' tuthfran Student As- elect officers for aeir regular meeting 10 in the Lutheran ;e, Richard Wormat, itoouhde! today. r. ■/MWm t happens,” he said.| \ Scout Troup 102 Wins Area Award IT. A/iit W ^ m ’ ■' 'f ■i 1 / Boy Scout Troop 102 of College Station will be awarded a banner Thursday evening for outstanding advancement and attendance among Scout troops ih this area, L. S. advancement and attendance i ■J >pa Paine, chairman of advancement for this district, reported. The presentation ceremony will be held at 7:30 p. m. Thursday in the Scout House. The banner will be awarded after each court of honor during 1949, and at the end of the year will be presented per manently to the troop having the In i'>]i ' A proud make ui cadet up a bed Army style. hi. . L> . Xu. ij ' . A \ ly. .. . > TJ how to dormitories .1 y/\ yj Day to allow r Ufa, s\ i ;H'/j n v i i! I v IkJ* 'll.