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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1949)
7.:' r J • I ' r Page 2 *T | Our B in •v \\ v, without gom|e Many attend thi return se/era For th( p ( tion has hrd L Tdday it h is When the its doors i| boast of e| depositor’s Vault was ai^l a smi ll, handle Its ed liked to ,, iflK. but tho ^ convenii Since and Its hiislp appreciably, awaiting ma •Htruct a n|;W Head, To the Welcome, with us. Y^e’ve go ’tye’ve rea ly We’ve jtiit 1^ pleaSe am had planred as kinfoli. an Tho camp 'around oiji a welcomes not think unnoticed B l^ge c:’ ’ . I I : . -i m. K ■< • . y, v . . dhs A New Period of Service ... , / - V I' : J 1 -TV ■ 'A . / m lion Editorials art, idtc e’rt S’: In i - /A wit for the in the Ci eglsifitui e’s control apppdiiria Texas now the Shaky. Bjut moved to * we could n-water is Over tho piisl) ge le > rtng then Wash i\n I n Jittle oh soil of T ix • —By itnk ■ The ; !/ ; ’j- Every nji stone-hu nan number The with majkin to Amer .< retire ttii An o i J9.08, tt. abroad \ri " V v aasdifi* Times- bath to 'Vil. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15,1949 V 1C TOTHI . S ppt its money in. the street. Finally on bank opened moved; into it had little to afreet and s, College Sta- ened to crowd its small building out into : rso a students hei el Aggies for 1 f^ to some of ou Cutting Ou 1 - handle the new struct l spawned it ■ ‘ y# ’ ast February the bank staff temporary quarters down the Workmen tore the temporary ace to keep its building doWn from around the vault and their modern began erecting forms for the new struc- ructed budding, ture. ff of people toj | Today t|ie College Station Bank is op- people no long- o do their bank n was more of ctunl necessity ening its ncjw quarters. Fully equipped to mnking volume of the city, the uro reflects the city which Jt is young, it is busy, and it College Station; : is growingJ have Increased) College Station Is a city that was built nklng stuff wuh by education. It Is most fitting that its which to con-, bunk shoulil reflect education's traits of business threat- progress and forward .vision. ands, Health, Come Back Anytime... n^been ^<jw|, il)i pie.s|t Y at I we Wo title m years i# for MM gir tid) b the campus - -j All of you have an idea now of wha^ A&M py to have you is like. If you got -lost several times, don’t giz ; to you in that be embarrassed. More than once during ’ you as visitors our first few days here we started for me and go as you one building and wound up at the other Vdu r program meii end of the campus. \^’ve treated you When you return home we hope your | guests. report to your parents will be favorable jpetti yours to roam,, about A&M- This is a great school (we |’ve been busy, our, believe the best in the- world) that tax- However, we do payers have built. During our regular se- here should go mesters the new area where you have Wuld let yoU leave lived housed the cadet corps. You now n us. j know how they live and the kind of food [iave come to they eat. In a way, its unfortunate that, b Round-Up will you couldn’t be here during our regular ^rbfn now to become semesters and see the school going full (tr cears and Texas swing;. 4 s will come back But, you’ll be back. Anytime you want Cli hcc d football games). - to return, you are welcome. ‘ i? i !■ ■ ' Cobsoil and Tidelands Together . . . tjic Ibottmi sftyj tjiel befjt j(leluifitl l’[ ng sa Hi th a iiidelands, ^nd right itive is ^ven to the validity of opr tide- h«jl this explanation Gulf bottom and matching it with soil reductions in flood from, Texas farms along several of our rllsjl * |.; rivers (rampapt at flood time), proof pos- e a^e stai ding on is pretty lands claims* orb )Texas soil could be yf,i he Gulf of Mexico >oH there, tmder all that f ^exas farm fandt. latidiiH we’ve been let |y )i nd filter over ou 1,’here’s the finedt rod Ne So, this wit claims, rather than con- i demn the legislature for their disinterest in flood control, we should praise them. The more lands that wash away, the bet ter our logic in claiming the tidelands as I * part of Texas. • We dojn’t agree with his logic, but at Wsjjof the soil oh the least we can say he is subtle. Parade . .. hen we receive a mile dt dory like this little iflv Army woman credited :irst doughnuts served di iniFrance in 1917 will y v J, f ■ '. v'' «.• .'i - Tho City of doll Friday a to; talion is »u year. Ai IBatoNd OfflM at Um Act of ' e Salvation Army since jPurviance was sent ; Salvation Army offi cers in 1917. • Assigned to a small village near the front, she couldn’t find a stove for baking, so she turned out a batch of doughnuts as an experiment. One of our feature writers glanced over this tidbit and then sighed, his eyes ■moistening just a bit, “Ah how I hate to see her retire. Sentimentality you know. I ate two of that first batch of doughnuts in Paris in 1946!” •/ MFri- ; -.1' : / * ip the Oshawa (Can.) The Montrose (Col.) DaUy Press re- ! 4-Room Apt with a ferred to the documents on the Freedom ,., . , „ Train as w young gir . . ments American history/’ ‘82 of the most immoral docu- Vw "* / ; j Qondw OfflM! B1M. M Mnvit ChtrU* H-rirv LucjiuJ W. K. Col ilw. Arthur Ptift'iM.' Uub«rt The Battalio "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly (yentlem* ence Sullivan Rost, Founder of Aggie ^Traditions newspaper of the Agri xas, ia published five t luring holidays and ex ■ r • * _ icultural j Texas, fa published fiVe times a 1 p't during holidays and! examination Bkly on Monday, Wednesday and furnished on request. is entitled exclusively to the use er and lo ■tter •» Post Toim, und*r Bit >. UTS. ^Member of The Associated Press »y be i DAYTON 8KLI by UU'phono '(4-M44) plaeiid by telephone |t MU t »IMS ll I yV*ISM>>S^Mtty lit »**'*••**/•> tl»-l t»M(r|ttMiM«ui^|ttt»MIISt«ft«IISM*t»Mlt •vU Pwl II Thornta , .j Win K4i«or oil...Matlasltiit ftdIter imum raSUin* leritart . Barn Smith. . Kmiirfh Mt ..Stiff Prnorf#*-. And- f, 1 It, • • I'M !• V 1 ■ e BOTTQI o ■ \. . \ ^ m • Va- . ^1 . j X *// OP IT y* Ky / . . -t— Sneak Preview ■ W Some Well Tu About Tho. ■A statistics. By HAL BOYLE j , It has found that NEW YORK——It. takes a seems to satisfy the lot of figuring figure in bounds. And that watchdog of the anly bulge, The Corset and Bras- the shoulder. (Eds. h siere Association of America, p the feipale T he only thing about contour that has r changed since Cleopa i has cold as ever.) come up with a few well-roun5dj Rysearchers of the ~ , ™', ' : I "T • Cotton Clamor . ‘Champion' Offers Fifteen Rounds of Sizzling Sex ~T. • ^ / WASHINGTON, , u meni officialH txxiay bp planl fng and marketing c leaders of the cotton-p Frank Wooley, apj Agriculture Braiumn, told a ute Agriculture Nuhcommltlee proposal Is "Inflexlhlo*' and pi nhly would result In production of similus cotton. 1. . Senator Andersen (D-NM) and Soutl Over 15—(i?*)—Agl ! cultu a, new mtn for tton backed by 28 clng ntn ing In behalf of 8 n-f 1 !*■- •j Tax Equali i' /( .-.j 1 ■ . ■ i v res lAocording to Ran t a secretary, the College By ANDY DAVIS 1 • : ]j ' Champion (I’nltrd Artists) starring Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell, and Ruth Roma n. (Palace) . j This is the story of a guy from (.he wrong side of the tracks, who became a hero in the eyes of^the public, and a plague to those Who kneW him best. Hi- fists got hirp what he wanted and his personal ity a) little more. Kirk Douglas hits the screen in his porttby|d of Midge Ran dal, with ail t$)je force of an up per-cut to the jaW, and is noth ing short of sensational. Get ting into the fighting game by '’accident. Midge, under the able » guidance of his manager, fights his Way to the top, only to make one mistake. He wins a fight instjead of losing it. After giv ing Midge a rough going over, the big boys pigeon hole him in the fighting profession. Along cpmes a blond bomb shell, Marilyn Maxwell, looking for'a meal ticket, and decides Midge is just the one. She per- suade^him to drop his old man- agejr ip favor of a more influen- M tialj one vyho can but in hia triumph, hi-'< mind crum- blea, and he (lies in the dreading room. ★ - A Woman’s Secret (RKO) starring Maureen O’Hara, Mel- vyn Douglas, and Gloria Gra- hamc. (Campus) This film should be kept secret from all, because you will be in the dark before and after seeing . I it. Maureen O’Hara readily con fesses the shooting of her pro tege, Gloria Grahame. Then, af ter much aimless flashback to depict events leading up to the incident, it is revealed that the shooting was a pure accident. Melvyn Douglas is thrown An the film\for good measure And manages to get lost with the rest i ,of the cast.\Miss Grahamef voice is easy to listen to. and As usual , Maureen p’Hafca adds her beauty to the scene. Anything else you find is pyrely coincidental. Timm Will Attend Extension Meeting T. R. Timm, extension economist Cushing Libi)^ tiali one vyho can get him a .. an( i professor of agricultural be chance at the title. Midge’s onomics/nere, will leave Saturday brother vyalks out on him after this deal. After taking the Championship,, Midge discards the blond, and takes up the option of his manag ers wife. Rut even she Is cast aside for a lump sum payment^ His last fight is as gory and rean istic as any spectators can hope for, with all hia women, inducing his wife, anxiously awaiting his downfall. Midge wins theffight,j » / • ; / Official Notice St MMKK SCIMfOI. hltxiu XtK> ■F- -1 AlUilli-nllmiH for jWi-mm to !»• uwurdrd nt thi> end of the HdjnWr Si’sulort nr» now! beln* accepted by ,ih* Kcglstrafa Office. All.atudenta whofxpect to. complete the| re<|iUreirient« for, either a Bachelor'* !>e» Hiee, Doctor py Veterinary Medicine Dei- Kiee. dr Majutfr'a Degree by the end oj the Summer Should,, fi e forma! nyptlcnlloii! grr* for \Vhshington, D. C., where lie will attend a conference of state extension workers and members , of/the federal extension staff, ac cording to G, G. Gibson, director /of the Texas Extension Service. Timm will stop over in Knoxville, Tennessee, to confer with officials of the University of Tennessee. He will return June U6.® Pori Arthur Cluh Gives Scholarship E. E. McQuilleni director of the Development Fund, recently an nounced an opportunity aftard scholarship created by the Port Arthur A&M Club. . , ' The scholarship will be awarded to a Port Arthur boy who will en ter A&M in September. It is for It also calls for fixed minimum ) | allotments to states, counties and Paul S. Ballancc, act- individual farms. / >j ! ian, has announced {tie The Beltwide Conference also ment of Miss Emma li(t asked continuance of the port-war to the position of cat i government support of cotton pric- Cushing Memorial H es at 90 percent; of parity if Wills began her wbfk Ibt growers vote for acreage and mar- ra ry June 1, 1949. keting controls. But this is not involved directly! in the pending _ ■ 188 ”'/" s Pf¥rlr b jll r r o Texas. She holds an Federal controls over cotton f ™ m Sou i h A e, & Me ^? < acreage and marketing were lifted S1 /y* a ” from "tht} during the war in 1943, and a ®.. A1 5“ an ?“’ an<1 a Pf price-depressing surplus was wiped ^]^Ef nan8 ^ 1 P ^ rom out by wartime demands, ’ f 1 , lexas - Last year more than 23,000,000 Miss Wills has hat acres of cotton produced 14,626,- perience in library 000 bales, with a new threat of her of colleges surplus from an estimated edrty- Texas £tate over of 6,500,000 to 7,000,000 bales. Catawba, and Some type of control program Texps. Her moat'-ilqici is regarded us certain during) the before coming here, \v pext year if cotton growers want at the College of Kdi to continue government price-sup- versity of Alabama, port programs. { j,' Maybe He’s A Bird Of Another Feather WILLINGHAM, Eng., May 26-r- (A*)—This Suffolk village is being bothered by an old owl that IsnT as wise as old owls are supposed to b«. . I‘ /’ The bird, who has been pecking nt unsuspecting passershy on a dark lane, took a nip recently at its own best friend—local game warden Percy Pert. I ,f v siding, said the proposed tion would aaaure a larger cul in cotton productlpn. In case surplui. than existing In/. J equalitation board mk: But Wooley urgejl congfcssibnal meeting tonight, passage of a bill that wtould give mee Ung was held Molt Secretary Brannon rmfre flexible Hn) i ttt |,hat time it wiil power* to offer acreage and mar- thl , t th e meetings wou keting controls fot all basic cfops, ^ tt i )QUt j u i y i t including cotton, corn, wheat, to- „ „ : ,,, bacco, rice and peanuts. J Bowswell said that (|l)i Representatiyes! of cotton-pro- obr I of pew residences ducing states worked out the new a “ded since the laat controls prpgram at a keries of the board a year agbi local, state and regional -confer- a of Work is involv) ences last April.! j The meeting will be Their program calls for a mini- c 'ty council room, mum baleage allotment of 10,000,- 000 hales, or not less than 1,000,- OOO bales less than domestic con- sumption plus exports of the pre- ceding year, whichever is small- ~ 0! :n l: •Ir i': . :!:! U ft P for the de^e inHiim mteiy AbpiicaUoji *1200 for four years. Winner of ■b (1 uj,k* are/av,nabt, m the Begietrar * Of- the 8eholar>hip has not yet been announced, McQuillen said. M H. L. HEATON 4* — TUB m Qampu —OPENS— 5:30 P.M. DAILY I ’ LAST DAY Mechanical College of Texas and the and circulated every Monday through i. During the summer The : Bat- .. Subscription rate $4.30 per school DAVfo coura presei the most ative themes screen has ever / Known. ESA” ,4 ALBERT FLORA republication of all news dispatches liorwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin publish- epublication of all other matter herein; are alse reserved. Reprcientod BsUonaUf by National Ad* vartlalac larvlM lne„ at New York City. Cblaapa, Laa Aatalaa, aad San rnaaltaa. FARRAR 'JOHNS-ROBSON LIEVEN g»rw«»i*t»MiTw filAI ZETTERLING ! '"4 * ■ i Thursday & Friday Qimuy- emt Co-Editor# till Fott*.. n*as • ■swsoeeass..«■; i>«unitmmvn«N«nam*«*«w«ii«*r««t4«»»«uNMi Iimd Hardy Mom. Jo# Trtvlno Photo ICnffavm Mii ^t.a4/t.<i*««»aav*<^'auiii<«4«u<Ha.«44^M<*.i. Rtalf CaFtOOIllrt •t'M.'nitf. H^viaWar A 3 TODAY thru SAT.. FIRST RUN —Features Starts 1:20 - 3:10 - 4:55 - 6:45 8:35 - 10:00 V Z Maureen O'HARA Melvyn DOUGLAS \ iJ Gloria GRAHAME ff 'Jt PLUS: CARTOON—NEWS ’“CONGO BILL” V FRIDAY AT I. , . 8:40 P. M. AY AT . . 8:15 P. M. ' •uiTSTilisri WWWVM'WWW mmm4 Ttm WMMiK «fr i /I v C Vr iidaV LTlTRfc; FBI. JPBEVUE n.ap P.M. Sunday thru Tuesday i FIRST RUN PLUS CAR' f, ■ ±J A / X ■ /: v SArrm^y 'MjvwTrm —TONITE see— ■ - H . : 1 FIRST SHOW AT 7:55 i. :• J ■{ • Lucky License Less Tax — Be Present Two Licenses Selected —EACH- 1 - .1100 -11 X i / ON OUR SCREI Cotntl WILDE Jams CEAIM Williui ETTHE LiBdtVAKNELL Walter BUNNAK isloioatEUN'S TICMNI SSiSIL P\ V- THCRS. - FBI. HOUSTON’S GLEN McCABTOY - ; Hb J \ SHAMBOCK HOTEL ; Vnaral (j mi I’ltomsi.)' XAigufMIt CHAPMAN NjImi OKI NMN U ^ w - .''m a \ 4 m V/ ii /■ C fi fl t ' -/v 'J y / / i J, X t) If * Pi: the Americen woman An ho longer the wasp- ***n of yore. She's «wtiiowy. r- of a mathematical average woman now inches tall and weighs i/EU|n has a SSVk-’inch waist and 38-inch I I / l.y > se are the typical of the women who ndatibn garment*, And 86 of tfose over 16 years of daughter lie short- thc beam than her the rich girl has issla than the work- showed that only ' cjhs out of 18 women has tho nliisurement—A "Perfect 1 ' V . ips tills helps explain the* and I rasaiero Association’s M Ion that 66,000,000 Ameri* ptnen figure they have a roblelm—And do something 800 American flrmi, am* more than 17,000 pehtons, Fear turn out 100.000,000 < res, 4,000,000 "Kalsles’' or pjade, ind 41,000,000 girdtes note. djijy the! industry's liest cust* s tho (test-dressed gir) In ijrld—The American working lie buys four brassieres and rdles S year, 1 j '■! PALACE Bryan w. •Mi I'l ao fll ff? HI i I-; j, .j n ■ I <1 if ii 1 mow A SHOWING T '■K ^ Fighting ... , ' V-•'“V.f or Loving . . . 1 •/ He as the aiAMPION” i H -with— •»P If IRK DO0GLA8 ItlLYN MAXWELL — I r — -U^- 4 ; I X /' k Mr . j| I ! tt j ' mrtB. 51 oa ng •■1 ft F ] A right out In popu- cottes the Walking ' . i! avorite where warm rules the calender, /’re perfect for hot er . For playing or you’ll like them. 4 r i , • ^ f -f V" • M • • ir i ■ i ■ Tt them . . . for cool comfort and smartness. i for every tpr what you do. ^morrow. ,i ' i 4 "! . i / ill % ji /■