The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, June 20, 1949, Image 1

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COUjKOE STATION ,(Aki’.I' IimhI), TEXAS,
MONDAY, JUNK 20, HMD
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litecture i
an ih-'
hel at Chi-
i:r air tour I
tifih Isles,
ur for
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itecture and al|{ed ^ffiris*
der the sponsobhip : o fill
tecture departipenti |
Gander, ^Nevtfou^idlkihH
the first stopping p ace
group. After iltfl] top
ocean, they •willl refu<}
and then fly
teen days will %e st
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where they unUrbe/thd
ance of an authority
architecture, Le Co t
the consultaiits on i n
tions building.
Italji, Switke!
Belgium, Holland
will be visited
recrosses the .chain
most by August in E
Invitations h iye; b
by the Texaiis to yii
while they are n Eh
arranged fot t le
the rebuildfil? pi P
the guidance of] the
of Plymouth.! |
Students miauling t
Richard I. Atkefhmn
William A; Btlsihg, C
T. Crook, CtyrtniH ‘ ,
will be
for the
oss the
Ireland,
to fif-
Prance,
the guid-
ijv functional
Howard, San Antonio; Emmit In
gram Jr., Fort Worth; Marpiod
Jaccard Jr., Houston; Donald E.
Jarvis, Fort Worth; Tom B. Live-
say, Beaumont; Russell L. Lown,
San Antonio; Ira P. Montgomery,
Baytown; Gerald Sellinger, San
Antonio; Clayton B. Shiver, Am
arillo; James R. Goodrum, Hous
ton; and W. E. Huggins, Bryan.
Joe T. Meador, instructor in archi
tecture, is the faculty member of
the party;
tembourg,
Denmark
group
spend
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deceived
idy Astor
She. has
to see
under
tjhgineer
YMCA Cabinet
Lays Plans For
Fall Semester
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trip
p il htortioif
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in thb ihiarpr Mjt lloti (itf
Aiken law, ^Vjjijlton
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achoolsj eight
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yM,
Already
tej»cli hg in high
RerviicjB
08 H
23 a
erabs* vocatibnj
iAcoim]nercia
into eixtensipi
into ao 1 consbiibtic
ness, ar/ned j st-i-vic
teaching have take
These graidditesi
an average atmjiial shl
with an additional ,
for traveling expeii?bif]
“Due to several mitj-bf-sfate
quests for thabherft kjHilmbre
cancies in the , vet< ^fa* programs
ha!iijl»sfen[||able to
_ , .. /ill pweed at an
accelerated ratje. W(! ajaticihate be
ing out of nipn by the first of
September, Walton* cjqkicluded.
The Summer YMfCA Cabi
net laid plans for next fall’s
cabinet Friday evening at a
lawn pupper given by M. L.
Cashion, YMCA d^ector.
Among the plans announced was
ndtrcft?* r ^ e organization of study and dis-
’cussion groups to bring foreign
students ; and American students
together. This would call for an
organization of a club similar in
character td the Continent*! Club,
formerly a campus organization.
The Continental Club, discontinued
several years ago, was composed
of an equal number of foreign ami
American students, 1
Also discussed were methods t«
encourage local participation In a
nation-wide drive sponsored by (he
Hwan Snap Company, Aecordlng
In reports of the Hwan drive, every
I wo wrapper* of Hwan Honp sent
Care, New Vink, Hie Hwan Com-
jinny would ijehil one liar of soap
in Kuroiie free, This would help
people In couulties where soap I*
*1 III almosl impossflde In olilalu,
said Ken Kuuthlrn, treasurer of
the cabinet,
Members of ihe Hummer Cabinet
present were Lloyd, Manjeot,
Charles Klrkham, (lien (inmlmau.
Sow Kunlhiroinnd Ken Kunlhlro.
C. O. White ntfd Bennie !5lnn were
guests of the Cabinet. Present also
were the hosts, Mr. and Mrs. M. L.
Cashion. :
New Sanctu
For Local
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The new Aggie Combo made its first appearance
of the season at the Grove dance last Saturday
night/ '• .• i f • I
Seated, left to right: Laverne Hunt, Herb Beadle,
Tommy Bullock, Jerry Steves, and Lindell James.'
Standing: Bill Turner, and Roland Johnson.
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Architects Leave Chicago
For Western Europe Tour
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nM Loom
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would
rndnn-
sys
ilmer-
lin vet-
^\\r are
Vc gone
i d two
/al e busi-
d college
iich. ,
iceiving
$3,204,
#r year
B.
f ^
000 jin thi
Associatioi
nounced L.
•FSA. j
This fund u
since 1026, H
mei MudiiuUi
Ex-Agglc |u
husiimss mun
tcmlfd A&M.,
The fund i#as
Agg es wha.Jic h
Ifrl:
pleiod «l )(jil j uiij»
mu
icA(|f $245,-
T ,i Students
Nk an-
of the
L|N i ,
kccumuluting
fts fjoin ffor-
3|thflfS CljullH.
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flimludHl
furii to Ihrtw.ltnndii'
hesn itmde.; n| l e li
InUtest rstoiffHit
griiiti
/terWl chan
dot-
isve
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granted for rel[hibkp
teiC.it chaw
used primal
fund; and kek
tional basis
few
rs
y n
iktnjwideiilnie
ihefti, Tl^ in-
lid Mns is
dihir up the
in hit opern-
Iddcd.
W. E. HUGGINS, from Bryan,
Is another un-hitecture student
who is flying to Europe this
summer. T
GROVE SCHEDULE
Monday, Juno 20 -Skating
. Tuesday, June 21, “Tower of
London," with Boris Karloff and
Basil Kathbone.
Wednesday, June 20—Dance,
Aggie Combo.
Thursday, June 23, "The Man
Who Reclaimed His Head," with
Claude 'Ruins,
Friday, June 24, Skating, rec
ords, 1 / '
By ART HOWARD
(Editor's note: This is the first
of a series of articles which will
appear at Irregular•IntiH'Vnls, Art
oWard, Haflallon conespitnilenl,
is n member of the grou(l of archi*
lecitue sRidcnts louring Europe
ihli summed) ',- i !
CHIOAno, III,, June HI (Mpe>
*ini lo Ihn imn i Hy the lime tills
niljlcle np|iehr* In (lie Haltnllon,
fifteen A4iM archlteitural MtU*
denis will he well on their way to
I'Ill'll, Franck, and a lour of Weal-
em Europe, From the Windy City
we fly (o New York for inure
tourist*, thence do Labrador for
gak. Our flWd *lop In Europe will
he at Ddblln, Ireland, anil then on
to Haris..
The plane I* Mcheduled to leave
at P, Monday morning, b u t
we will be nt the nlrjmrt two hours
before that to get checked through
customs. We arc now staying at
Shbrmnn Hotel in the Loop .
Most of the members came In
Saturday, and the party is now
complete with today's arrival of
Jack Crook and Emmit Ingram,
who thumbed in from Bryan. Joe
Meador, our prof and guide, has
been here three dayh getting ev
erything checked so that there will
Belcher Appoints
New Staff Member
L. L. O'Connor has joined the
staff of the Industrial Division of
the Engineering Extension Service,
according to D. L. Belcher of the
Extension Service. O’Connor will
do supervisory training in eleemos
ynary institutions throughout the
state.
A native of Houston, O’Connor
received BA and MA degrees from
the University of Texas. O'Connor
and h|s family now make their
home in Marlin.
• Before coming to the Extension
Service, O’Connor was employed
as vocational advisor at the VA
Hospital in Waco and served as
psychologist counselor at TU, in
the Testing, and Guidance Bureau.
O’Connor will bpend this week
uf the Hunk State Hospital In
RUsk, Texas, doing supervisory
training. This Is part of a five-
year program undertaken hy the
indmjtrial Division of (he Engin
eering Extension Hervice in oo-
with' the State Hoard of
Oiiiptrnl,. Heleher «nid,
he a minimum of red tape tomor
row.
A meettng of the entire group
has been called for fi p,m„ when
Meador will give u* our final
hrlefingr Humor ha* It that he
will Impose a ten o'clock curfew
loniglit to make certain (hat there
are no hit) nr sleepy heads tomor
row, .j
Nearly everyone In the class has
been In my TOnni this afternoon
using the scales J him owed from
the motel. We'are allowed only
(til pininds of liiggagY'i niut so far
only Russ Lmcn has met I he lum*
dienp. Every |Niuml over mi draws
a |t,2fi lat Iff, and we are having
to leave something behind,
Doniihl Jarvis has a new alarm
but will have to check it at- the
lintel hernuse Its two pounds Wiitild
cost him $2,5(1. Many of os also
have forgotten to bring essentials,
such as razor blades and shaving
soap, which would be hard to pick
up in Europe, 4
It ig a lucky thing that Chicago
has pilenty of cleaning and press*
ing shops with one-day service be
cause most of us had dirty clothes
which had to he cleaned yesterday,
And the problem of clean clothes
will he tne hardest part of our
len-weeks trip through Europe,
Last nig hi, Haturdny, we made a
short tour of some of I he better
burlesque shows on the fringe of
the tjsiop, Russ Lnwn, who are-
rived here Mondfcy, Was our guide,
He also drove us around to all of
Chicago's good examples of ar
chil eel tin yesterday,
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Plant Growers
Short Course
Here June 22
Construction
Methodist Church
to the Rev. Jamt*
second unit to b<
and student cent
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Use of plant hormones for
ornamental plants and for
fruits and vegetables will be
discussed at the Texas Assoc-
ipn of Nurserymen’s Short
Course which starts here Wed
nesday, according to Lucian
Morgan, assistant director of
the Placement Office.
Special methods for handling
hardwood cuttings in [the South
west will be discussed by A. F.
DeWerth, head of -the landscape
Art Department. He will also give
recent development* in control of
greenhouse pests. M ' ,
E. W. Schultz, also of the Land
scape Art Department, willr.pre-
sent problems in seed germipStion,
land give results of tests >vith
various seeds used in 1U4D.
E. M. Hilderbrand of A A M will
talk on plant galls and over
growths. A. A, Dunlap and WuJ,
McJIrath will discuss "Camellia
Pleback and Canker;"] and "Inside
the Riant," respectively,
E, It, Bryson of the Horticulture
Department, will iIIscunn far tars
that influence successful trails-
plnntingi Ollier topics lo he tl|s>
cussed are iiecan Insect eontrol.
spray schedule far {stane fruits,
rantral of major peiMs on orna
mental shruhs, soil* fertility and
fertilisers, and ptirimse and Valin
of adhoreinius,
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EMMITT INGRAM, JR., of Fort
Worth, left,Chicago today with
of architecture sen-
the group of arc
lont and juniors.
New Spectacles f
Have Safety Glass
NEW YORK,-<**>—A now safe
ty glass for eyeglasses was an
nounced today by the Amerleten
Optical Uampany,
Those lenses are sandwich glees,
thq same us auto windshields, In
the middle of each lens is a sheet
of plastic, 1
Sho, Ely, Don't llollfcr Me . . ,
' 5 ‘Eggrrr^^aai^/- ngyagr nTTOirr~Trrr:. j : • . • ■ n>
estruction Await
Fear ye the chophoune named
Sbisa, o lowly house fly. Beat not
your dusty wings and scrape your
muddied boots within its portals,
for only death and disaster await
you! . , .
Extermination of 'the irksome
fly has long bean, a problem for
the messhalls a| A&M. With in
genuity comparable to the A-Bomb
creation, a system has finally been
installed in Sbisa that makes hash
of the puny, fly, figuratively speak-
ins.
Each room in the messhall has
lengths of copper piping running
the span of one wall, with inter
mittent holes, or nozzles in them.
Mounted on these pipes at certain
intervals are half-gallon bottles of
insecticide and chloridine. At night
all the windows are closed, air
pressure is turned into the pipes.
me Fly in ^bisa
nthl the roomi arc "fnggj»d" with oreaiqmv xnvc when one of the
-the mixture for 15 miiHites. After,
the file* have simmered in this
unhealthy atmosphere (for, about 0
hours, .and have, no doubt, gasped
dying curses upon atrocious man,
the watchman comes and 'Opens
the windows, allowing the air to
clear for we mortal insects.
Roaches, too, ignominiously
“cross the bay" when this lethal
mjist comes .creeping into their
rdid quarters, but the singular
ing about these wee crawling
ts is that they can poslibly
bijrird up an immunity against it
e first or second time a new
insecticide is used, they are dis
patched on-the-double, but after
,t they have the strange quality
qf endowing their., progeny with a
distance to it, and another poison
lust be used. /
Now I, personally, bear no ani-
y toward these plucky Uttla
husky rascals
detnijbhn of "(
nips nt the
Old Ferment" cached
in my closet. After all, they, got
kids, they gotta eatl However,
when J they build up resistatnice
against a well-aimed kick, oif a
staggering blow from the business
end of a fly-swatter, I shall pack
my tent and silently steal away.
Now that the fly and I have
gotten all up in the air, and the
muse of poetry has breathed the
vapor of inspiration into my cof
fee-laden soul, I make my bid for
immorality.
Ode To A Fly Entering The
Messhall With The Malicious In
tent of Rubbing His Spavined
Hin4-quarbers Over My Hard
Earned Victuals
Bye,
IW I
Move over Shelley, if you pliz.
Camp Hood Ex
Group Formed
A 36th Division A&M Club
was formed at Camp Hood
recently by a special meeting
of ex-students in that area,
attending the Texas National
Guard summer encampment.
One hundred and fifteen exes
attended the organizational barbe
cue to elect th« first officers. They
are: President,\Maj. William G.
Breqzeale of College Station. Bre-
azeale, of the A&M dean of men’s
office, is executive officer of the
1st Battalion, 143d Regiment of
the division. Honorary vice-presi
dent, Jack Roach of Gatesville. A
1935 graduate of A&M, Roach is
a member of the Coryell County
A&M Club.
Secretary-treasurer, Capt. Jack
Brown of Luling; parliamentarian,
Maj. Karl Wallace of Fort Worth.
Sergeant at arms, Capt. Sam
Wheeler, a 290-pound Houston of
ficer. Gert. H. Miller Ainsworth
of Luling, commander of the divi
sion; is honorary president. He is
a 1918 graduate of A&M.
Ainsworth told the group, “I
can’t think of any two better
groups working together than the
30th Division and A&M College."
The organization will meet an
nually gt the summer encampment.
Of the estimated 0,000 members of
the 30th ami attached units, about
'500 are A&M exes. Hreuzeule said,
He gave credit to the Coryell Coun
ty A&M Club, with Carroll Smith
as president, for helping form the
new organisation,
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Annex Dance Club
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To Meet Mondays
Ttia Hqtiore Dmhi'H Club at Hi'y*
an Field wilt tudd Its flNl meet
ing of Hie summer, bmlgltl, The
weekly meetings will be held mi
the emieeete the concrete ainb lie*
hind the Student Center every
Monday night at i,
Li 8. Dillon .director of, the club,
will be the caller until the return
Of!David Darter In July. Besides
old god new squares, there Will be
waltzes, shoddlshes, and ■ other
group dances.
Special instruction will be given
the beginners at 7:30 each night.
Irrigation problems will be pre
seuted In shurt cOUl'se members,
These problems Inclmlo lit* amount
of water a pump will deliver, melh
ods uf application, effect* on soil
and soil atructure, and eunscnld,
Morgan Nld.
Reglstrallon for the course will
be held In the lobby of’ the Ag
Engineering Building starting at
10 Wednesday mortdng. NliiSty
person*., are expected to register
for the course.
Tickets for a dinner to be held
Thursday evening in Sbisa Hall
may be obtained at the registra
tion desk, according to Morgan.
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RICHARD
< Han Antonio,
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Is one
ebitects taking tlm
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cagw 1
to Europe.
ropi
todu
The grit
T
Organised HesslVa
cers nut on active d!
I Pie 11 (liven the. anthiil
1*1 «r l hr Mill It uf el
the Enlisted Reserve
Ml Oscar U. Alditit,
tile] Texas Military
aithounred, *
Agricultural Films
Slated Wednesday
Films on agricultural subjects
will be featured at the second
weekly film preview, announced
Walter Barnes of the A&M Visual
Aids Laboratory. The show will
be held in the Petroleum Building
lectUie room at 3:30 Wednesday,
afternoon.
Among the films to be shown
are “Adventures of a Junior Rain
Drop,” ah animated cartoon on
soil conservation; "The Lincoln
shire Preacher," a musical short
based on an English folk song
with cartoon illustrations; and
“Imprdvements for Perinanent Pas
tures." Several other films will be
on the program, Barnes added.
All interested persons are in
vited to attend, said Howard tBer-
ry, director of the previews.
N Under lids new
certain selMcted RcH
may xerv; «* ,Rceti||
although U|ey are f»
duly. Many neservl
td.travel over lot) m!ij41
enlisted: now Ihey
llxted in their hbm
home town Reserve
This authority t
the authority grant
physicians to make!
physical examination
Reserve applicants,'v
cUitate enlistments 1
ments of personnel i;
Reserve Corps, es;
lying communities.
The following me:
inted Recruitin]
ilege Station: Mi
edmond. Major Osl
% Captain Allen M
1st Lt. Russell A.
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Aggies Inj
Collision F
—
Lewis M. Teubnej
dent from Dallas, wi
day morning when
colltded with a time!
of South College t
Avenues. The trm
by W. W. McWhorti
Bryan.
Teubner was tak
Hospital and relenN
aid treatment.
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te’ College St|tipi^
ieai future, according'.
alii}. Tip sanctuary is the
rdmoiied three-portion church
—’
PI section of the plant,
J i Edqca i >nal Unit, was recently
ishled. The completed portion,
t t a vst of $110,000, contains
;s •ooirs a nursery,rand a p*r-
i ki x hen, four more, claoz-
ma lard several storage and
oops are on tfie second
whole, portion is used
school and educational
47 by 132 feet, tha
sanctuary will contain
northex, arcade, and
on the first floor. A
occupy one end of the
, and oygan chambers
the other end. Seating
the- s^rirtuary will be
s room and the chancel
eluded |n this portio*
which W»H cost about
i '‘lii ic
feint,
t;i; unit planned
of t i
Ihulftri
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M IMKIm
in* rpi t
DtUh'l tuii
I'd Mli*
us wl I
btft
Mini
jfjth*
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t ie L-shaped sanctuary
a tower-unit will be
he interior Comer of
i unit will contain «n
t iver, an .orcadh, and *
s/of the tower unit 4*
n't $45,000. .-4‘
ho ji tilt v I major portion of ilia
|<tl|p0Mj<d |I lint is thn Sluderit can-
‘ Ic i will oounejt the aanc-
rjy |)(ul tljM HchonJ portiona, It
Inf hi 4 I for atudmil lei'ieaibm
H»l» fuiu'llons, lOilimNUd
piiytliiii I* $liMl,oou,
floor of I ha nmlei* will
iRgi! liiungi', a umlb^'a
Mmall I'hapqli mllliiniy
(I eouiicll I'onm, mid hr*
m eiimii'il pieHidauL Hit
the HillstiuU iiuslni'i
Ip lIlll. Hthl Iwu
(ireypy tho sm'iiml ftuuit
itll ImvM a stage
(nl mi
111 ed
fql UF
ibfiut
it) is
w-
he gHiUM
In uua
looms nt tha
Mir-1
DEI AVER 111' WAR
"hU prijeel was begim Nveral
CjifrH^agt, hut Imx hern delayed
Hu wn The KeVeruml Jackson
that, duit tii present In
k, the tofaJ I'Xtiemltiurex
ioIV plant'will cqme tov
$450,000. Present' contrlbu-
otal
about $100,000, with the
|1 : 0,0t)0 cilucuttonal unit paid for.
" [Icrjt-y steinbbnver is nrchiMCt
projlect, nnd Henry Mayfield
HU leryisihg architect.
d and Meyers
dimmer Staff
dr-W. Arnold, vice^prin-
San Antonio’s Thomas
High School and W. H.
mncipal 6f the Alvin
ool at Alvin, have been L]
the Kfummer faculty of
Idudatiqn Department Both
mi n are graduates of A&M
ere for their fourth sum-
old ; receivied his BS degree
6 dnd MS in 1932. Meygrs;
is also Dean of the Alvin
College, received his de
in (927 nnd 1935, reapective-
rJ G.l B. Wilcox, hpad of the
a| iniiint of Education and
biology, stated that there are
htA&M gro^luateH in the Alvin
iCbocil system.
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Baylor Proxy Names
Stadium Drive Head
WACO, Tex.,—(A*)—Dr. W. R.
White. Baylor Univerzity Prea-
dent, announced the appointment
of Walter G. Lacy Jr., Waco Bank
President and Chamber of Com
merce head, as State General
Chairman of Baylor's Stadium
Campaign.
The drive’s purpose is to fin
ance Baylor’s new 40,000-seat foot
ball bowl, estimated to cost $1,500,-
000.
S. A. Lipscomb pins g
tions from Goi
bulletin board
College Station
Dean of
W. Steea, H. E. Burgens,
Mrs. Elaio