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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 16, 1949)
.4H ’f • • ! f " 'Y ' [• •. ,v k • .J Battalion m THE INTEREST OF A GREATER ARM COLLEGE (AggUuid), TEXAS, MONDAY, MAY 16,1949 bird Southwest Tra ■i- ' !; > : rrri - a Lottin A.I! Antonio the Formtu* Ht in a meeting For hlght: ■■■ group selected of Dallas. J Three memenrtU: tlve Board Seldht! terms'were R^r . Tyler, tV. f ^ T . Houston, and Nbnmh ’22 qt U r,lTrr Eleven were also W. G. McMilUui 6l Rillin of Fort 8 o< Metcalfe, of Sart i Elliston of Fort W ker of Tyler, xlti lin, George B. Mo mont, N. B. Killni nlo, R. N. Conolly (ii ti, A. H. WeyllmJ and Col. TM|: iart do, Arkansas. T r A, F. Mitche 1 C. Evans of Holm Hartung Selected As k • ] y • ! ■ . ■' J i . ■} ‘ | r Student’s President 29, of San president of Association Saturday Hiildeht, the J i faraway, *$4 I ' 1 c f! the Execu- two year - ppell, *41 MiH^rty, ’22 of Buescher r yl^-presidents ey include ubbock, T. W. Kto; 1, Penrose B. ^hglelo, Fred A. ittij J. U. Par- lesta of Mar- uh of Beau- cfj San Anto- CJorpua Chris- Shreveport >f El Dora- Murphy 0] named the tees. Two repres velopment ('orslcana, S. ihd Clyde L. Falls were t loan trus- The Range a class made * f| ton last W*< nekd* made of vt»g{t(iat i normal hydfasa g a vegatallorij!! rjon ttrpiK body of waMr, il rose re was •ne of the few! I. Felt bogs hr iayera of deoai marlly mosaesi are almoat 01 RXSk wet, When drie|,i tan and UMii] dery, ■ ] T ' The bog vial out and the id. Ing sacked ahd and used fdr Ww,si. trip. R, R the Range ment, superviSi Cotton Be H The 40th and stapling. 6, according- coordinator li mer course.|| Approximli. expected to Mexico andj ready made rollment. Me South Amezik pected, Dr. Among pi stry Ecology Eflpj to Lexlng- study was bund In a at bog, slsted of water, on Mjlround the ••“Hlcular hy* at hog and the atata. elected f6r three year terma were George Smith of Houaton and Herman F. Keep of Auatln. T. 7. Smith was elected repre sentative on the Athletic Council for a two-year term. C. L. Bab cock Is the other member of thii board. Retiring President George Smith, retiring president of the organization, said in hia ad dress that "During the past year, it has been my pleasure to be as sociated with the College, its staff and faculty and its student body. I firmly believe that thia great In stitution continues to make strides in'the fields of education, science and in the art of turning out young men equipped tol face the realities and overcome the hardships of a competitive world. The Cadet Corps continues to make a favor able impression on all/occasions.; The fact that A&M won the South west Conference Sportsmanship Trophy is proof enough of 'that statement. On Corps trips, at athletic events, social activities, in the class rooms, and on the drill field, the student body has stood the test of a first class college. . 1 In a report of the student loan fund trustees, Ai F. Mitchell, chairman, said that during the paat Eleven months 1,350 loans have been made' 1 for a total of $50,290, The average amount of each loan was slightly over |37. Donations and Gifts E. E. McQuillen reported that during the last twelve months 1253,072 has been given to the college, Since 1942 nearly two million dollars has been given AAM by former students and friends, Refering to the oppor tunity awards, he aald that 89 winners are nqw In school and he believed 70 new winners would enter In September. Trotter !to Confer With Cotton Men IM iNtiMU* }>r •'i'g contents Ubi iM percent 1 ind are very prance when I Cut il • light Ik it and now- ting worked iertal ie be- kreenhoueee horticultural Forestry as on made the rofessor In i^ry Depart- roup. Tol To ne 6 ton classing ijl begin June i G. Jones, Weeks sum- scheduled Fred C. Elljj Tough. Ellio ton Improv^m# Killoughwi Cotton in C. Lichte ton Ginning After co: passing a c tlon, membe ceiva a eotl Jones said. 5 tudents are Several from ja a have al- ;i )hs for en- tap dications from if pi 1 |nt ties are ex- 11 m< d. *•■1 1 ipeakers course are ir D. T. Kil ls k on "Cot- ’exas,” and Varieties of addition, F. dpon ‘^Cob- idthwest.” ourse and examina- is will re- rtificate, professor will be R- M. Boiait dent of the meeting of that orgtnli was named Other off incoming se Neville, sect- Herb King, From the Gordon Year and Wade ^m the positions h porter and pat tively. After G. R. duties as with. Pit He also contrasted eearch wit methods. ebUd presl- t a recent ihapter of tv Reeves d<ft> rom the Frank r; and larms. lor class Swatxel, for snt, re- respec- is sion Dr. k oh his tCrinarian oratories. Vie which ds of re- cientific Dick Harvey, tMoutive secre tary of tha Former Students Asso ciation, reported that aa of Sat urday 7,340 gifts wars mads to ths De ' “ “ velopment Fund by former > ' He said that this Is ths best yi students with a total of $53,008.42. that thia la the beat year the Fund haa had since its begin ning. Last year's number of gifts were 7,510 a,id Hervey said that the Fund Is twice as far along this year aa it was the same time last year. V ! • L Tommy Splittgerber, yell lead er, explained to the group the meaning of the Southwest Sports manship Award, in order to give the former students some idea of what the student body is doing along those lines. Draw Up Resolution The Former Students decided at their meeting to draw up a reso lution congratulating the student body on winning the trophy this year and they also voted to draw up another resolution commend ing the track team for winning their third Southwest Conference track title in a row, Don Kasper, president of the Senior Class, thanked the group for donating the dress rifles to the Cadet Corps. A Sunday morning the executive council had breakfast with the 'Board of Directors, the deahs, and the directors of the services. J. W. Newton vice-president of the Board talked to the group in con nection with the present and pro jected pW>i tem. Sgram of the A&M Sys- t * s iMik mm Bill Turner, (left) director of the Singing Cadets, and George Dlllavou, director of the Aggie Players, survey the new bandshell at the Grove In preparation for Soldier’’ to i»e produced In July. operetta, "The Chocolate Texas Places S Third As 5 Rec By BACK NPOKDK Tan Aggie seniors finished their college track careers at Fayette ville, Arkansas, Haturtify after noon as the track squad of coach Frank Anderson whipped the Uni versity of Texas ana tm| rest <rf the field. A&M earned a total of 55U points, Texas 49\4, Rice SS» SMU 13, Arkansas 11%, Baylor 9%, and TCU 1. Not Until the last -two events, though^ did the Farmers take the lead to hold Iti Five records fell before the on slaught of the Maroon and WMU thinly clads. Never beforS have so many records fallen in any modern conference track meet, and es pecially not to one team. The Ca dets practically rewrote the record book as they tucked away their third successive championship. These were not flimsy records only recently set by second rate performers. Some stood for 25 years, and others were set by na tional champs and Olympic per formers .Before the team left, this paper said that five records might fall to the Aggies. But one pos sibility was certainly overlooked. When Bob Hall, Junior from Dallas, hurtled out of the straight away in the preliminaries of the 220-yard low hurdles, it seemed seconds before the rest of the pack came into sight from tha- partly hidden runway. It turned out that Hall had lowered the record in that event to 22.8 seconds. Clyde Scott of Arkansas and Fred Wol cott of Rice had held the previous Dr. Ida P, Trlotter will confer with officials of the United Mates Department of Agriculture, May 18-20, on problems of International trade in cotton. Hpedal emphasis will be placed on problems which effect cotton producers in Texas. During the svlmmer of 1948 Trotter, then director of the Ex tension Service, conducted a study of the cotton situation in the Orient. He was loaned to the Office of Foreign Agricultural RelStiona of the 1JSDA. He visited Japan, China, India, Pakistan, and Greece. Trotter is now dean of the Grad uate School and extension consul tant on personnel and professional improvement. He goes to Wash ington in the latter capacity. It is als Trotter is ii participate in a conference on agri cultural extension and agricultural educational activities throughout the world which are being under taken largely with the assistance and advice of various groups of agricultural specialists in the Uni- ted States. Trotter has been asked to bring to this conference his extensive observations and conclusions re garding . these activities obtained,: on his round the world tour last; summer. Some of these observa tions have been presented to ex tension and other groups in Texas since his return. Board Clears Separate Water System; Streets To Be Fixed Stroet* of th* college will be gettliw a $8:1,000 dollar A $000,000 dollar program to develop a aeparate college face lifting thia aummer aa a reault of action by the board of water aupnly ayatem waa given the go-ahead signal by the diroctora it a meet hue on the campua ShI iirelay morning. board of directora at a meeting on the camnua Saturday. The board authorixed the expenditure of that, amount The dedaion to provide the campua with a complete for new guttera, cur bn and black topping for all the atreeta water aupply ayatem independent of the Bryan water sff proposed that while irf Washington - that he Burchard Placed On Plans Board Professor D. D. Burchard, head of ths Journalism Department, hai been asked td serve on the com mittee on arrangements and pro grams at the 80th annual meeting of Sigma Delta Chi, the profes sional Journalistic fraternity. The meeting, which will be held tar Dal-1 las, will celebrate the 40th year of the fraternity. Other members of the commit tee are Ted Burret, of the Dallas Morning News, and B. C. Jeffer son, of the Dallae Times-Herald. Whaley to Address Genetics Class j Dr. W. Gordon Whaley of the Botanical Laboratpries at the Uni versity of Texas will visit the campus Tuesday aa the guest of the graduate, daps in 'Advanced Plant Genetics. In the regular seminar that afternoon he will lead a discussion of the subject “Heterosis:” J Dr. Whaley is author of a com prehensive paper on heterosis that appeared in the 1944 volume of tha Botanical Review. ; in need of such repair, Repairs and improvements In the amount of $12,000 dollars are also In the offing for DeWare Field House. On the recommenda tion of T. R. Spence, manager of the physical plants of the college, the board set aside the sum to improve exercise rooms and to con struct additional shower rooms on the north side of the field house. Prairie View Dormitory Prairie View A&M College was given permission to request bids for construction of a new girl’s dormitory. Dr.; E. B. Evans, presi dent of Prairie View, spoke to the board on the need for the new dormitory. Plans call for construction of a 71 room building. Three girls will be housed in each room. The col lege now has capacity for 1,562 students on a three person to a room basis. However, due to in creased enrollment, it has been necessary to exceed thtsJ limit. The board heard plans for is suing revenue bonds for a 30 year period to pay for the construction. NTAC Appropriation North Texas Agricultural Col lege was given appropriations a- mounting to a total of $66,700 dollars. A major portion of this, $46,000 dollars, will be to furnish a new boy’s dormitory which is expected to be completed in time for the coming fall semester. The remainder of the NTAC ap propriation will be to provide farm improvements including an imple ment shed, warehouse, sheep shed, wash snd disinfecting shed, gar- broiler house, snt fencing. tesvisvi Misiseei/t •seal aviivsii^* The hoard authorised transfer of $4,000 dollars from the Cream ery Improvements Account of A& M for the purchase of a bottle washing machine for the cream- try. Vet School Requirements ' Action wkis taken to approve a recommendation .by the dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine, Dr. I. B. Boughton. Dr. Boughton requested that the school be grant- fed permission to accept a limited number of out of sta£e students. Prior to this time, Dr. Boughton stated, only qualified Texas boys have been enrolled. But now, with a smaller number of jveterans re turning to school and a gradual lessening of the number of appli cations, it will be possible to ad mit a limited number of out-of- state students. Entrance . requirements to the •id 'p»ua*i Boughton with an (See uaaq »asi) (ooqos and only men desire to enter the ‘ Page 4). ■uK -J • Robert Shaw Chorale Has Been Booked for 49 - 50 Town Hall The Robert Shaw Chorale has been booked for the 1949- '60 Town Hall Program, C. G. White, director of Student Ac tivities, a[nnouneed today. V Sha\y will bring an orchestra of 20 pieces and a mixed chorus of 80* people. Tentative arrangements call for the Shaw group to appear here on November 9. Shaw and his work with choral groups was featured in the Decern- ‘ ber 25 issue of the Saturday Even ing Post. jHe haa conducted Glee Clubs for Fred Waring and haa also done work for Bill Rose’s Ac- quacade. Shaw is jrecognized as the great est choral conductor in the country at present] White stated. Bom in Red Bluff, California, the son of a minister, Shaw attended Pomona College, where he sang in the ‘ glee club. The instructor in charge of the glee club had to give up the job because of illness, and Shaw, although still a student was placed in charge of the organi zation anq granted a yearly salary of $500. j It was during his tenure as head of the Potnoha College Glee Club that Shaw met Fred War ing. Waring jeame to Pomona with a movie company, dropped In on ohe glee club, and heard it rehearse. Before leaving ne took Shaw aside and told him that if he ever needed a job to ^ let him know. In 1938 Shaw wired Waring and told him that he needed work. Waring promptly wired $160, with instructions to come to New York, where Shaw immediately organized a choral group. He was awarded a Guggeheim fellowship for his work with choral groups and started to study music under Julius Herford at Juillard School of Music in New York. In his spare time, Shaw organi zed the Collegiate Chorale in New York, which has gained nationwide fame for its singing. This g&up replaced the Edgar Bergen show last summer. 1 « tsyitom wn mada after lengthy discussion between the board and a committee of Bryan officials headed by Mayor R. C. Danaby. The newly authorized college water system will stem from a series of six wells to be drilled north of Bryan Field. Four of the wells will be on the original pl^n of construction; the remaining two will be for later use as the college expands. Bryan Plan Rejected Thus, the board turned down an offer presented by Mayor Dansby to join with the city of Bryan in setting up a water district, opera- w Treasury CMMhs’s Bead CertHkate ted jointly by the college, the city of College Station, and the city of Bryan. This water district, Mayor Dans by suggested, would permit eco nomies . of water production not obtainable under a system involv ing duplicate wells, pumping, and distribution systems. However, in answer to a ques tion from the board, “What as surance does the college have that the city will live up to any water district contract?” Mayor Dansby answered, “That is the $64 dollar question.” V1‘ The purpose of the separate col lege water supply system, T. R. Spence, manager of the physical plants of the college said, would be to assure for the college a con stant and adequate supply of<w*ter In the future. |\ Spence pointed out that several times in the past, during a p longed drought, there were oc cations when there wm not enough watar available to the college in the event of a major fire. “Many times,” he continued, “we were without sufficient water for six hour perloda. and we’ were coasting along on thin ice as long as our tank was empty.” j . No Water “Raee” 1 i The suggestion that construction of sepsrate wells hy the college on the Sparta sands, where the pres ent Bryan water aupply stems from, would result; In a “race” for water was den Engineering resea source of the water in the Sparta sands, Spence outlined, shows that the proposed system of separate college and Bryan wells will ac tually prolong ta sands as a t College uit in a "race- tied hy Spence. »searen Into the er In the Sparta lined, si •tem of Bryan wells ig the ase of the Spar es a water producing area. College Plan The proposed college system will eventually reault in 1 six wells. :ollege syater \i lihfe wHh I wells own* ing and planned wells owned by Bryan so that there will be 20 'l[, fl record of 23 eecon J. D. Hampton fade of records t the flnalfl a> he sty in the mite run, Hd from Brady, lowerUd Jarry Thompson onds to 4:17;2i I Clo» waa Ju officially Herring ed below the old liklc ring is a nophomoj^ Four of the! she in the 440-yard doi the Aggie colors. |i1)| Holbrook, Connie Bilderback, and Do mond Kidd of TexiU of Rice, being the brook would have ' if he had not turnet formance, but! he hinder him. Holbntp outside lane Where to see what the njM was doing and thtjl When it was all ove had cut an evfen ha old record of 47.8 Square dancing # ty K night will be the r" during the summe Dr. Carl Lyman 0 try. department gi for thosp who d techniques of ”D C. 0. White. • director, stated entitled to take pa! mer entertainment Grove, The eohedule fi a* fnllowtt ■ Monday Hkatl Tuesday and T! Wetlneetlay—Bl special eventa, Friday-Square HMurday—Di land Combo makl the time and iukf[ other half of the Sunday “ " Robert partmeht, the square dat stated that si cov is scheduled for , wanting to attend the square dance] not be members of ticipate in its acti< “The Chocolate duced jointly by Ad tra Director Bill TO) Dillavou of the ment, will be om entertainment fea the summer schedU 13 ,the Zucker Sisti will be staged in just recently com July 27, Doraine turned Camels, wi performance, Plans Short uou] The poultry dep^ nounced completion 01 Turkey Short Couhse on the campus duriii g June 6 through Jun mately 30 represenUjth breeders and turk throughout the ata^ to attend. Mr, E. D. Parhe thfe Turkey Short Rice since 1941, ill tho way and prac- into the ground. Inner finished a fad* 1 *' jela joined into the arti in the 100-yard already held by (as, Woli ott of Rice, in of Baylor. Samuels .unbelievable start aa ield by three yards sy from the blocks, [jpton sprinted the he two mile run to Mt record in the con- two seconds. Hamp- llenged by Brooks of the first half of this put the pres- ie last mile to pull a new record in the bed slim as the last m day-approached. All mbejrs of the team e open quarter mile, vtfere even doubting if trace the Rice team. ifoacH Ray i Puti\am rder of the team as -- for this race. In- 11 Don Mitchell, Er- . opened the relay. leorge ^trovich sted poir to for the. m by positio 1 jit even! out tc .belt 'e c. Geofk' his ev [xa« loktj Ih* jav ,l), of Rh Fol ils and L D. Hoi and Bl| gained unex- Unlverslty of ing. in the number in; the shot put, the inished in the 1949 nference Track And etrovich shoved the distance of 47’ 6%’’. rt that he has ever Kadera was second of the!? points taped up Tobin some aa taped up Won with a 195 foot. Ing Rote were Frank ay Marek of Texas. , Warren Wilson, Bob Napier surprlaed tha the 440-yard sprint 8)° * n H Wyler To ‘Ghoste* ; .'Tn, , 1 m (art Wylfer will appear as Mr. deni ii the Aggie Players notion nf Ibsen’s ^Ghosts. It be Jgtojen on Thursday and y evening at 8 in Uulon Hall, yler, M^wn ae “ihu-ko'’ to ftU * •nasdi is A Junior modern e» major and is a member 'lends Jagn'i jl| Cavalry. He ho » to make • er of radio work and one of hmbiti Poultry continp The; turk the first of under the Plan to be ond one .Which 20th of Junje and that week chlckaM provement. ex, will bleeding The elected major the cl {Fear. ng and McConnt Atlanta, for the ■ other id at the of the club du ater, according Sutton, president * S ; 1 !i; •' /airy. He hopei f radio work main ambitions in to be pro- director for a large radio on. yler stirted work in radio e at home in El Paso by an ting several programs for the station there and substituting ‘disk-jockey” and engineer. He announced for several months A!W. ' I •' ,] ' ■■ ■ ie theatre is not entirely new |im either. While attending the Ines in El Paso he Oeyoral plays. One. he will never forget had in “My Sister ‘ fJ jay I was the man who is face every-time he ie stage. Fortunately remaining bruises on abopt his role in Isaid: Us si! ipy first “heavy’’ role, past experience on the has been in comedies. I enjoy playing the part of srs, the pastor. He ia a Stupid individual who is on 1 by almost everyone, jr makes j him a martyr in his eyes upd he enjoys this very Hotfejrer, when na sees that chance that he might all of hit life illy confused.” irs of the cast are 1 Jeanne/ Ker- Janies, an4 George ’■ ' • ' i '’ I It ' IlsVou of the English In charge of thfe ■vK r Ti ■ Ml IIM-lWO—WOIH ilates Final Tuesday | L. McNew Student ASGE will Hold Its _ of the school :80 p. m.dn the . Lecture Room, W ipter president, iy. v ' ; . ISnith, vice-president of Construction Mat Houston, will ing. Officers will be e!