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e Junior Students Picked
all Achievement Awards
in*
m^io
the
it !fr
Sla>1on
been aeldc*
awarda at
„ Jae« this ye»r.
will receive tha
L ! hk James C.
the WOO Ban*
t J. Cheek will
Jones Reward,
fd la presented
r student who
;&ntlal part of
liree years of
achieved high
id who has ev-
3ter arid qual-
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student arid
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and at a vi
lie Is from A'
ented by C.
ident of the
was won by James Slayton, is pre
sented annually under the same
considerations as thje Krueger
award by a bequest from the late
Albert Banta of Shreveport, Louis
iana.
Slayton Is an
ministration stud
(cultural ad-
udenti and a staff
sergeant in the band. He has
waited tables in the bess halls for
tribe years,- worked each .summer;
and has a 2.79 grade point ratio.
Slayton is from Overton.
Sausage Room
Uden^Srid U
Added to Meats
| Lab Equipment
im
The newest thing in the
Animal Husbandry Depart-
ami supply ment is the meats laboratory's
and a present sausage room. According to
relf
ti
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§ k %tv
will bi
tho j ci
rib#,
tmm
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of ihio
clAdon*
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caaf
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an<
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tinues
ABC’s
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the Animal Husband
partraent, sausage
But
turnl 1
DA; ex^
ted on J
ma
to
Als
of W.
bandry
duajryj
(iemoni
mninat
Hu|l
met
[pn WTAW has
equle of its fea-
for the com-
bg at lO, WTAW
mi the stage of
re an amateur
ft# tho benefit of
Fund drive,
ns WTAW will
-aconc pick-up
Golfers As«o-
at the Her-
b i\Ulchmond
leasts will be-
oon aNl with
Atnorican
i portscaater
0f wm 0 ijL_
nnlng ^at-
. featuring a
< ie of the Humph-
who teams with
ijtologist to solve
of crimes. Peter
of “The Shadow"
Police," will write
jj[- * ||' I • ,|| .. (■}'. , j.
y and Thursday
Javid Harding con
ic tricate cases on
•flfhe Counterapy."
m
antlry
raakir
De
ng op
erations should get underway
sometime this summer..
J. T. Keene, of the Augie Pack
ing Company of San Antonio, sta
ted that A&M now has one of the
most modem and completely equip
ped sausage deportments that he
has seen.
Tho major plant equipment in
cludes a grinder, a silent cutter
for hashing meat, a mixer for
blending, a staffer, rind a linking
or stuffing table where tho links
are tied off. Next in the assembly
line set up is tho smoko house,
which is designed for smoking
sausngo. 1 i
After the sausage is smoked, It
is transferred to an electric cook
er, the latest model manufactured
The Jesse H. Jones Reward for
Achievement, which was awarded
to Jeff Cheek, is presented "In the
belief that a student who has earn
ed practically, or aU of his college
expenses through three years, has
done a Job worthy of recognition
and rigs proven himself worthy of
assistance." The award is given
by the Hon. Jesse H. Jones of
Houston.
^ Cheek
Cheek Is a Junior from Coman
che majoring In liberal arts. Por
the past two years he has worked
as a waiter at George’s Confec
tionery and at the Fin Feather
Club.
Winners of these awards last
ye
LI
Toppy Hicks.
rear in the same order are James
Iverman, Floyd Blackburn, and
WBDNEHDAY, MAY 25,1949
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The Student Senate voted lastiable vote was
evening to ratify the constitution |eiablo discuss
of the Texas Intercollegiate
dent Association and thereby -
come a member of this state-wide
organization-of student govern
ments. The/overwhelmingly fftvor-
>d last Table
itutlon I crat
o I Sta-1 and reports oi
by be- TISA Constita
Marvin Brown, left. Junior management engineering major from
Edinburg, and Clayton iSelph, sophe
Houston,
session.
omore architecture major from
will be co-editors of the Battalion for the
summer
George Gibson New Director
Of Texas Extension Service
George G. Gibson today was
named director of the Texas Agri
cultural Extension Service.
The appointment was announced
by Chancellor Gibb Gilchrist with
approval of Secretary of Agricul
ture Brannan. Gibson will assume
his new duties June 1. ,
A native Texan, bom at Trinity
in 1907,. Gibson graduated from
A&M in 1929 with his B. S. in agri
culture. He took his Masters De
gree at Iowa State College in 1930.
In 1933-35 he attended the Univer
sity of Texas Law School, where
ho took no degree, but was admit
ted land licensed as an attorney
and counsclor-at-law by the Su
preme Court of Texas on Decem
ber 10, 1935.
Known ta his friends as "Hoot,"
he has served ah a dairy specialist
Sausage ^ rl hm h ted to°the AgritaftaJaf E?tan!
tawVmcbed? taen'chuKr^a tant dajoLn'.^h 1943 and U 1B44
cold water spray. he worked as manager of a private
Snyder said that the sausage dairy farm near Waco, returning
Y .to the Texas oxtfnation organiza-
tjtion as dairy husbandman in 1944.
He held the latter position until
room would be used for short
courses held for Taxis sausage,
makers and in A. H. 482, an ad-
meats course.
rJ a obtained from
I idustry Agricul-
dministration, US
ire being condv
meats of the nmi
he Ifers as a guide
iucing ability,
der the direction
ior daily hus-
au of Daiiw In
ti tly spent three
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Dr, R. R. Shro<le
Department, work
Krejrimental stage,
(b» said about,tM
i^cdictions on the
/biased on the eval
in calvls. j
dots show isomc
ijn j ike some of the
pi the selection of
» { Jltiiih do not hive
of their own,
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Hampton Voted
FFA rriesident
J. D. llamptonYAggie track
star and agricultural educa
tion major from Brady, was
elected president of the\jColle-
giate FFA Chapter forxthe
summer and fall semesters^at
a regular chapter meeting las
Tuesday evening.
Other officers elected were Char-
die Wrilker of Stephenville, first
vice president; L. P. Newton of
Cross [Cut, second vice-president;
and Joe Tate of StaphenviHe, third
vice-president.
Billie J. Seale was elected sec
retary, Billie R. Boling, treasurer;
Chester Giesecke, advisor; Harold
Freeman, historian; Harold Stone,
parliamentarian; Jack Daniels, re
porter and Jesse Hudgins, sentinel.
Vernon Boykin was selected to
be the chapter’s representative at
large on the student Agricultural
Council next year.
A progress report covering the
present semester's activities was
given by each committee of the
chapter before the meeting was
adjourned. ) j || »
FFA CiubOiFfers
{125 Sfboliudrip
Tho Collegiute FFA Chapter has
$126 acholanihip to award hut
thira art no applicant!, according
to J, c. Mnow, chairman of the
FFA Scholarship Fund
The FFA Chapter started this
fchdlarshlp for anj outHtiuidtng
high oehool Future Farmer as an
aitnual award last year. Leroy Hue-
fall r of Caldwell was the wlnnar of
last year's award and ii a fresh-
mail in Agricultaral odneutlon at
the Annex this jMr,
Funds for the award are derived
from a candy concession which the
chapter operates in the lobby of
the Agricultural Engineering
Building. The concession hes net
ted a *a50 profit during the 1948*
49 school year.
AAUP to Meet In
YMCAThi
ticularly dealing with planning
and bunding modem daily bams
and pens, feed and care of the
dairy herd.
1
“Mr. Gibson’s appointment was
made by the Board of Directors
on May 14,” Chancellor Gilchrist
his new appointment.
Jibs on is the a
her of outstanding extension pub
Gibson is the author of a num-
. of outstanding exU
Heitions in the driiry field, per
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Thursday at 7:30
chapter of the
elation of
will mi
of the.
Uhiversil
in the
CA.
m. the local
Professors
ference Room
of -the
and
preeen
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committee'! report.
Extension Worker
Gets USDA Award
ale L. Weddington, of the Ex
tension Service, has received an
awaixkfrom the Department of Ag
riculture for superior service. Wed
dington developed and administered
a fiscal sy^em ta “insure accurate
and efficient/ accounting for the
use of all extension funds."
The awards were, presented ta
outstanding employees of the De
partment of Agriculture at cere
monies at the SyJavrKTheatre on
the Monument Grounds;. Washing
ton, D. C., May 16. Secretary of
Agriculture Charles F. Brannan
presented the awards.
\
Yes, Quite Cheesy!
MONROE, Wis., May 25 -Wi-
Seven-year-old Sharon Broge has
found that honesty is its own re
ward. Or just about.
Sharon, found what she thought
was a pencil case on the sidewalk.
When she and several other young
sters opened it, they found $63,000
in cash and negotiable securities,
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said in his announcement today.
“It was not announced at that time
because this is the one position in
our cooperative plan with the De
partment of Agriculture Which re
quires approval of the Department.
We have just had word from M. L.
Wilson, National Director of the
Extension Service, that the Sec
retary of Agriculture has express
ed himself a* satisfied \rith this
appointment." |
"Mr. Gibson is well fitted for
th|s post," the Chancellor contin
ued. "lie has been thoroughly
trained in agriculture ami in the
Extension Service ahd in addition
is a licensed attorney in Iho State
of Texas, This selection was made
after an exhaustive seoirch, not
only of our own organization, but
throughout the country. We be
lieve thot in Mr. Gibson we have
selected a man who will lead the
Extension Service capably and ef
ficiently."
Gibson succeeds Dr. Ide P.
Trotter, who last March left the
post of director of the Exten
sion Service to become Dean of
the Graduate School. '
“Since former Director Trotter
assumed his new post.’l Chancellor
Gilchrist said, “and on many oc
casions prior to that, |tho affairs
of tho Extension Service have been
administered by Vice Director J. D.
Pro wit. Mr. Prewit has not only
carried on his own duties, but those
of the director with riuch ability
and our thanks/have been extend
ed to him."
Liquid Petroleum Gas Appliance
Short Course to Start June 6
Text books, whether pres
ently in use at A&M or dis
continued, will be bought at
the Exchange Store during
the second annual Spring Us*
ed Book Sale from May 31
through June 3, according to
Harry Rainey, chairman of
the Student Senate Exchange
Store committee. • 1 i
Th« Exchange Store will pay
approximately 50% of list price
for books in ttsei here. A/book
broker representing the Wilcox
and Pollett Company ijof Chicago
will buyj all text books that the
Exchange Store do£s not care to
buy. Tho price givert by the broker
will be based on the cost of handl
ing and storing, the date of Issue,
the number of schools using tho
books currently, and the condition
of the book.
According ta Rainey the .student;
may expect ta get from 5 to 40%
on tho books ho sells to the broker.
The Student Senate is sponsoring
tho used book sale and 5% of the
gross receipt from the Solo will
go to the Student Scholarship Fund.
This fund Is being established by ’ 'J
the Senate to provide a itadent RS/L’
body—sponsored* scholarship for a J""* 4 * 101
student to attend A&M. Should 1 0< ....
a student want to contribute hi* Z, u „ Zl
books to the Student Scholarship 1 W j
Fund, ho con leave his -books with. Si I
Ids dormitory or area Senator. The, * ?!; J
Senator iwld be mponslble for of posted
Denton April
tho Senate wh
tho convantior
loose organizai
emmenta aff<
for different
discuss their
Interests.
This was
the Student Se]
year. The m
Sbi?a r Hall whe|
proceeded the
Guests attendi;
Senators* wiv
lege officials
President
speech to the
its work this
of working
terment of
the Senate’s
Passed also
evening were
of the special
tee headed byiBei
student body s
would be kno'
Man Scholars
four year sch
of $350 per
raittee rccommSh
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A&M now hi
Kodachromu ctgloi
Going on sol
and confection
eleven post ,
pictures of c^rlpi
lions ranging wei
For secretary-treasurer tho class
elected John McFall of A Cavalry,
and Bill Thompson of A (pWS was
elected social secretary.
Barnes won the presidential post
by a vote of 168 over his run-off
opponent Don Joseph who polled
89 votes. Parse was elected vice
president by a margin of!32 votes
over Joe Johnson.
A business major from Abilene,
Barnes will take over his duties as
president next fall, Parsej, an out-
of-stater, is a civil engineering stu
dent from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Also from Abilene, McjFall is a
business major. Thompson is from
Saginaw and is taking chemical
engineering.
$50 Gift Presented
To AH Department
A gift of $50 has been given tho
Animal Husbandry Department by
the Texas Sheep and Goat Raisera
Association, J. C. Mlllerj, head of
♦of butane appliances.
Subjects will include rules and
regulations, safety practices, con
trols, refrigeration, customer re
lations, domestic heating, ranges,
and venting. Instructors for three
of these subjects will l[e Nat Har
ris of the Texas Railroad Commis
sion, rules and regulations; G. M.
Kintz, supervising engineer of the
Bureau of Mines, safety practices;
and D. L. Belcher, Extension Ser
vice, customer relations.
Arrangements for factory train
ed instructors are being made by
William J. Lawson, executive sec
retary of the Texas Butane Deal
ers Association.
Registration for the short course
will begin Monday morning, June
6, in the YMCA Chapel. Meetings
will be held in the afternoons in
Building D, and in the mornings
in Buildings D and E. |
Classes will be arranged with
a maximum of twelve tnen to each
group. The class periods will be
roppod hy q cheese company clerk. 1 the department, onnotmcod today.
book, dealer will be at-tty AntiCx J
njtory or a
, The Industrial Extension Service will conduct t second tketxxfc ‘and^deporitin^ ft**®
annual Liquid Petroleum Gas^ Appliance Short Course June the money in the student .Scholar- j ^ a .
fer instruction on actual adjustment, repair and maintenance
' . ' J ! : ! ♦of butane appliances.
Juniors Fleet
Barnes, Parsed
Wilman Barnes of B Infan
try and Bill Parse oi! B En
gineers were elected to head
next years junior class in a
light final vote by the class
of ’51 last night.
hat prices
paid for the used books will be no
where near, list price but the prices
paid in. many cases are for books
which cannot T be sold in the college
area.
itution
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r the Hcholnwhlp by raisml by
e Sohate’.n spon-ioring a dancO
ttiethsm next fall. . ... ,
ill DuHi g dlscufsion on tho whol-
Otrslnp proposal, several members
oioed, >bjiHtion to any campaign
rni te money for the fund
>ugl personal solicitations. How
ver, t m motion as carried men-
ioned personal, solicitatioha only
if oecersniy. Tho fooling of Uio
Senate sis expressed by tho motion,.
Were tl at solicltotion." would be a
last resiort, Hueibner mid. - •••,
Harry Rainey, chai man of the
Senatq Exchange St<jre commits
tc«, outlined for the Senate the
N plana for ^le Used! Book Sale
sponsolred by the Senate and
conducted by the Exchange Stare. -
Ihe Senate voted is a prevtouH
meeting ta deposit tho 5% of
H gross receipts from the sale that
the npotvsoring organization will
reeetvii Into the Twelfth Man
I Beholarahlp Fund.
Sena ors’ wives present were
Messrs.! Hairy Rainey, Robert Ran
som, David Seligman, and Richard
Hodgest J, [ ' ,
! Facu ty guests of the .Senate
jvrere: |PresidentJ and Mrs. F. C.
Bolton, Dean and Mrs. W. L. Fpn-
bevthy, Mr. and Mrs. Bennie Ziim,
and Mi . and Mrs. C. G. “Sptp’
White.
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Dormitories To
Close June 4
. All dormitory students now
in school who intend to go to
summer school must be moved
to their- new rooms by 2 p.
m. Saturday, June 4, Bennie
Zinn, assistant dean of men,
announced: today.
.... All dormitories except those to
alternated so that each group will be used during the summer session
attend every class being taught win be closed and locked at that
This will provide for personalized
instruction, Belcher said.
: The short course will be spon
sored by the Industriail Extension
Service in cooperation with the
State Bureau of Vocational Educa
tion and the Texas Butane Deal
ers Association.
A banquet will bo held in Shiga
Hall Wednesday, Juno 8, Belcher
said. Speakers at the banquet will
bp factory-trained instructors.
Ramps I, J, and Ki of Walton
Hall and the first floor of Dormi
tory 16 will bo open for men at
tending
time. Students who must change
rooms but who wish to leave the
campus before the semester is
completed may make arrangements
with the present occupants of their
new room concerning storage of
possessions until they return, Zinn
continued- ji [
Any students who desire to tarn
in their room keys may present
their keys and yellow receipts
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housli
showing their key deposit to
irsonnel in Room 100,
the short
mg pel
Goodwin null at any time during
regular office hours, Zinn conclud
ed. , / iS"
‘Plans forf
CA Cabinet!
Monday eve:
Miller, YMC,
dent, at the;
faculty-cabini
Y Cabin, norMi
ery. ; ;
Miller proposed
sponsor group!
cuss such s '
justice, attainment
of life, racial folu-i- _ r
marriage, and ifaiatuB
He stated Bp 1 ™
groups this yosrjl
ialized as dcsitad
additional cffojltys
to organize d*
The supper|
steak fry with
her inviting a f i cu ihi
urged closer stpde
tionships in, his w
the group.
Dean M. T. Is
group in the pm
hymns.
This was the
YMCA Cabinet
About sixty sf
members were
f Texas in 1918.
1 this game the A&M
d never tied or defeated
vendty team In Memor-
lum. By unexpectedly ty-
lr«nc University squad,
team broke the Memor-
ilium jinx and upset the .
’done !bi|cket r —making a happy
emilpM to the season."
Odf HtMdfng among tlie poMtonrd
Series iii a full color picture of this
your’s I onfire. Another card shows
ysll pnrile® tvith yell
action i ,hd tho cor
Pcnumi ih this picture can
gnlzcd I or 9 rows book.
One i f tho molt colorful pictures
ever token of the Administration!
Building Is featured on one post
card. ] ; . V
On one i card Is a picture of'tho
corps in mass formation very slm r
Hor to [a photograph used (n Life
magniine ! recently, except that this
picture I has more color and. in
cludes the color guards left out in
Life’s pictured T I
turcs
the bqkh
Kf"
trds are devoted to pic*
re YMCA Building ahd
Memo
Ten
stand, the
id the ceremony
ith on the Woi'
to
fifteen per cent
profits jwiU go to cadet o
and the remaining amount Will go
to the senior class and will be spent
on n. gi r t to the Student Memorial
:Cente|. qgpgJMHHBMM
0RC Eliminates
Comiposite Groups
Kiwanis Hear Simons Speak
On Texas Oil Conservation
A.
"The Texas Oil Conservation the control of tho industry cannot
make a target out of tho oil in
dustry but ntMdtney must try
to find fault In tho lews. To coun
ter this attack the citizens must
familiarize himself with the state
conservation laws and their admin
istration. V[ ;
“Many criticize the law because
it limits production, but without it
producers might go back to the
days of the SplmUetop Field where
there were so many derricks that
it was possible to walk from one
rig to another without touching
and. Leases were only a
derricks
had to be built so that the legs
Laws are being criticised by non-
Texsns an& men ouUide tho oil
industry,” Charles E. Simons, vice-
president and general manager of
the Mid-Continent OH and Gas An-
‘ >, Dallas, said at the Ki-
nchcon yesterday,
ini the oil industry think
the industry is now in good hands,
as it is bring run by you and me,
he said as' he enumerated twelve
of the elected officers concerned
With the control of oil and gas in-
of Texas.
oil industry has done a good
job] in finding new fields. Nearly
12.4 billion barrels of oil are in
fields, yet to be tapped,
ag the *8$ ino plane at
west for want of oil or
The people that would usurp
I ■ ;
■ground
feW feet square and the
had ta be built s
were overlapping.
causes i great underground waste,"
baeas-
market
Id give Ski
of men
tion some
more than
Imfe^oU and
waste
of gas and water which would seal
•“ areas^in the reservoir," Slm-
is vice-president of the
lor to
neuded it, but this
control to a email
rather than the
I "Without such
producers would get
their fair share of
would also cause
through irregular
Williams Talks Tf
AH Seminar Group
D. W. Willlamti, vlM-chancollof
for Agriculture, spoke on the con*
traits of European and UnjUf
Htates livestock production,
iw them during his
rU 1 ,rM<
Uni tad
sanitary conditions.«.
grasses, and breedini
triple purpose cattle.
This Pair Beate! !
Host Everything
HILLSBORO, Tex.; May;
Two masked bandits held the win-
uUfo.
Comdpsjte Groups, formerly *a
catoh-al for unassigned reservists,
have been eliminated in Texas, Col.
Oscar R. Abbott executive for the
Hlitary District; announced
training units have
for the various bran-
t .organized reservists
e training in their mili-
‘ty rather than traitj-
to nil branches,
these units an- the lofis*
on, military government
rical teams, infantry
ivisions, station compls-
special ssnriec compan-
,'L. 1
he new program rsasr*
» oh a thrc«-yo«r dydo
piNi" them to accept
assignments In unltfi
It ions, or as Instructors:
Texas
today, 1
Sped
been
ches
may
i*ry
ingi
Ami
ticnl
and
training
manta i
U-n. ;•
Undo
vista tthii
which
erne
ft
in st
units
they m<
vld\
condlt|e
Hi train ta a noint ao
Ik* mohiUztni Immedtn
mobilised readily
training. n j
»nt of training for loty
■ will dvpoiw on local
and faellltles, < Y
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Forti
nomy
Bxp*rti
inspwl
momists
ile Field
I
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in a
game in a past
in Austlu. .
he worked on
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game, oraertq ill .five to take off
their trousers, aod tben raked up
ifiwwSly
EDWIN O.
awarded a
aUUite of .
for having
point
gnduatioa.
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six members of tho
pasture ■■■
the Temple
nt Station Datunlaj
the work .fejlng dono
pasture^ there,
A complete tour of tho at
wtts mdde and the doss
the 1<M2 months grazing
which U now underway. '
tare cohslsts of
ko Mi
par day ware
»«ef cattle now on tha 1
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