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It 1 . ' . : ■ " \ I S l i— • ■ ; >• yy ,r*' <•/ A l' (7 ' u > 5 /u4 h! i ji . ;! V j i 'i / ; V t f" '1^ ■;• ,j j! y '■ , i. ! C TT u ^ m 4/L ; W ■! :-'M Xi/ X) IP: r -p fL X-- Volume 49 f k' I —* r J p S \;4b> M S'' f iJ i Pi OF A GREATER WEDNESDAY, JULY «, 1949 lion 1 ' r zr- JBEJm COLLEGE ra •vt \ A I ; -r \ ? I "r 1 ■'l Phi, ■. ii X4: •['■•./ r\ ‘V I %4 :K. . :,7 All jm > J I pPX'fu Rt& /l ”’7m .m©. - •t ''47 ,. - -' r !las«nrroff will b« portrayed by Joe C.laaa la the tbo presentational of ‘‘The Chocolate Soldier” in the Grove Thursday and Friday niKhta. ' ' « i No Speeches .5 ,J- Vetoes New • n. . ..; !• osynary Bill Governor BeaufOrd H. Jester yesterday vetoed from the eleemosynary appropriation bill items approved by the Leg islature for the secanoXyear of the next fiscal biennium, according to an AP rele , . , The veto, which was enough to bring the State budget ♦into temporary balance chopped Twentieth Annual Fireman’s School Largest! in History July 10 marks the opening of the 20th annual Firemen’s Training School under the auspices of the State Firemen’s and Fire Marshal’s Association of Texas, announced H. R. Brayton, director of the Firemen’s Training School, here. v This year’s course will be celebrated as the 20th anni versary of the school, and 'promises* to be the largest yet, said Brayton. The first course, irt 1929, was attended ..by 17C men from 96 Tex ts cities, but this session will train around 600/ ijrien from 300 cities. There will also be mpn from cities all over the country. In addition, the armed forces are sending representatives from" 4th Army Area, nearby Air Force bas es and the Naval Base at Corpus Christi. r | : . ’ J , Industrial firms have also taken a great interest in ihe course, and riff r~ ff fill e<! safety engineers will be sent from carbon^black plants, oil companies, plastic companies i|nd s teel plants. - Instruction will jbe divided into various phajses, added Bijayton. There is to be basic and advanced firemens courses, tire departemnt instructors bourses), fire marshals and city inspectors courses and fire prevention personnel instruction. There will»also be a Red Ooss course on ‘‘Instructing First Aid.” Varied Techniques A wide, assortment of teaching techniques' and roquipment will be used in ‘the school. All types and sizes of modern fire hoses and nozzles, and their specialized uses will be explained. .. | x I Gas masks, hook# and ladder ar rangement*, and respiration sys tems will he among the most use- •auipmewt, TUte size models {Retails «bd the arteiflal sys. Items of Urn laidy will he Used in the respiration'leetwrifs, An MiiHi'lpaii’M high patilt In llie , aettml prai'mCTisspioiis will be a etiutfnd' In whwh a large _ ausitended by a wire and two sRunds of noaeman try in drivel M, with water pressure from fcprny nosslea, over a line. This dampened form of! a tug of war teaches the fire- men how to belter manipulate the spray equipment, Brayton Bald. Nation'* Best! Course . This firemens short Course, is conceded to be the Tiest organized In the roimtEy/said Brayton, and the instructors are the fcest men available for such work. ‘ One outstanding feature about this session is that there will be -.! no speeches. The instruction is to be all practiciTps this is considered the best way to conduct the course in the short time allowed for it. At the end of the course there • will be written examinations which, if passed, will help that representa- •' tive’s city by lowering the fire insurance ratos by 2%. This has saved the policy holders $1,000,000 since the first course in 1929, Brayton rconcluded. Dr. Ludington o r / Teaching Here Dr. John H. Ludington, specialist in industrial arts education U.S. Office of Ed 4 ueation, Washington, D. C.» lias joined the industrial ed ucation staff, according to G- G. Hammier, head of the de partment. He will be here for two weeks teaching an ad vanced IE course, Hammer said. Dr. Ludington received his doc tor of philosophy degree from Ohio State University and has been teacher and administrator in pubr lie schools and jumVersities. Prioi* to taking his present post, hd was chairman of the Industrial Arts Department, University of North Carolina and was consultant to industrial arts for the North Caro lina State Department of Public Instruction. l)r. Ludington has had industri al experience In pattern-making and as a research consultant -on .control of materlnls. Ife is a WffW* lar! contributor o n • professional items and Industrial arts In nati- tfnal magazine* and is serving in an advisory capacity for several editorial boards, I e ia an tWllva member amt tmrilritmies In educational assoeta* Honk including ihc American Kdu- rational Research Association. Nat ional ^duration Association, Amer ican. titiUmlrla! Arts -Association, the National Assodation for the Study of Education and Is a mem ber lof several honorary fraternl Richardson Is Consolidated^ .'inTi * •- ’(T- Superintendent if L. S. Richardson, 30-year- old former high school prin cipal, has been installed as superintendent of the Consoli dated Independent School dis trict here, replacing A. M. Whitiai who moved to Hamil ton, Texas. Richardson revealed, in one of his first official acta, the appoint ment of a new high school coach, a new junior high principal, a new junior high school coach, and a history I teacher. O. V. Chafin, assistant football coach and head basketball coach at Heame, replaced Coach “Boots” Simmons, who is returning to A&M to do graduate work. In addition to his coaching duties at Consolidated, Chafin will teach chemistry, physics, and general science. The hew high school principal, replacing Richardson, is L. E. Boze, 32, a graduate of East Texas State Teachers College at Com merce, who is a veteran teacher with II years of experience. Taylor Riedel, high school teach er of science and industrial arts, becomes Consolidated’s first Jun ior High School principal, j Con struction of the new high school building made the junior high or ganization possible. It vyill be housed in the old high j,(school building. An informal open house under the direction of the Mothers and Dads C|ub will mark the ^opening of the [hew high school building late thik summer. Jim ffevan will have charge of Consolidated’s first junior high athletic program and will also teach science in addition to his coaching duties. Miss Charlene York of Ft. Worth, an honor graduate of Texas Wesleyan College, will teach his tory in .the junior high school ■i' " f I X I-1, ■ Number 12 ‘Chocolate Soldier’ x« Two Night Rub Tomorrow at 8 . / H 1 1/ . ■’ B, LOUISE JONES ] ,: i.J - '—Via'. M « « • •• V ties. 1 •j' ; No folio Reported On A&M Campus No polio victims or symptoms of polio have been reportei on the A&,M campus this summer, and only two bed-patients have reported to the College Hospital for the last week, according to Ma Claghorn, chief nurse. The sick call for the summier has been about average as compared fo the long semesters, but bed- paMents have been extremely few she atld. $17,661,821 from the eleemosynary propriation bill. "ester, in his veto message an- ced that he was ready to change his previous policies in op position to special sessions and new taxes “to assure adequate support of our eleemosynary program." son for Veto He listed\these as his reasons for the veto? “House Bill\No. 321 does not provide adequate appropriations for state hospitals an ^ special schools during the\next two year period, and it makes, no provision for an urgently necessary building program. , “The general revenue ^fund, as estimated by the comptroller, is over-spent by approximately the amount which I have cut: ou$ of House Bill No. 321. “By leaving all state functi provided for during the first yea of the next two, the Legislature can adjourn and return at the call of the governor, or upon arrival of the annual session amendment, work out an adequate building pro gram, re-vote the operational and maintenance appropriations for state hospitals and special schools for the second year and provide the necessary revenues to balance the budget. The delay thus involved which will not exceed six months, will enable the new state board for state hospitals and special schools to make its surveys and present I an approved program for building and operation. During the same interval, it is hoped that a sound and fair tax measure will have be<en worked out.” . Policy Changes “As governor of Texas I have consistently opposed special ses sions andj^ new taxes. To assure adequate Support of our eleemos ynary program I am prepared to change ! both policies. The 61st Legislature has done a magnificent job in many respects and will go down in history as one of our most progressive legislatures. I pledge to ypu and to the people of Texas that the 61st Legislature will have an opportunity to round out its record by providing ade quate eleemosynary facilities and a sound financing program." I Over-ride Motion Offered A motion to over-ride the veto, which would require a two-thirds vote, was offered by Rep. Leslie King of Vernon. After an hour’s debate, the House voted to post pone further consideration of the over-ride motion until 3:30 p. m. Rep. George Nokes of Corsicana defended the veto. He said the leg islature hadn’t solved the fiscal problem and Jester did the only thing he could possibly do. Shortly after the House action^ Comptroller Robert S. Calvert cer tified funds were available for the last big budget bill—$59,607,323 for colleges in the next two years That sent it to the Governor. mam I aliii ‘4 B 4 , Vi Bill Evans, a regular semester member of the Bjnging Cadets, will sing the rote of Colonel Popoff in the Thursday and Friday night productions of ‘The Chocolate Soldier” in the Grove. Krenitsky Gets Library Post Michael V. Krenitsky Has been named head of the Cush ing Library Circulation De partment, Paul S. Ballance, acting librarian, said today. This is the result of an, organi zational change in the library syst em, in which new duties have been assigned the assistant librarian and a job created in the circulation department to fulfill those duties previously assigned the assistant librarian, Ballance said. Krenitsky, who Is a native of Duquesne, Pennslyvania, comes to the college from Texas Military College in Terrell, where he has served as librarian for the past year. He attended Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania where he received his B. S. degree in economics and later attended the Carnegie Institute ot Tech nology Library School. Krenitsky is married and is the father of three children. He is a veteran of three years service in the Army. He served as assistant football and basketball coach while at Texas Military College. Gravy Train Missing At Monmouth > By CLIFTON GRUNWALD Ft. Monmouth Batt Correspondent Thus fax Summer Camp has proved not to be the gravy train most of us were expecting. The thing that most of us dislike is that we are continually changing uniforms. We fall out in khaki for «n hour or so and then we are told to be in fatigues in five minu tes. ' 7 ; - j > This Jersey weather is about like being in a Turkish bath. The sun is hotter than all get out and the humidity is Very high. This combined with a pair of fatigues and combat boots makes for some tirejl and disgusted cadets. Monday night wd had a dance at the officers club. The women and drinks were plentiful. Asbury Park is only six miles from Camp Wood (our post) and all the New York girls seem to congregate there for a little relaxation,! and we help them all we can. ; Most of the guys from A&M are beginning to talk with a Jersey accent. A&M is qu|te well known on the post as we have more men here than any other school. No Card to Punch The Ghost of Schtinks, Or Something’s Rotten WEATHER "icAST TEXAS—Partly cloudy' a few scattered thundershowers in extreme north portion this after- no o n and in ^northeast p o r tion andnear the upper coast Thursday; part ly cloddy to night; not much change in tempera- tures; moder ate .to occa sionally fresh southerly' winds on the c °Mt. « _ Marsters Joins Landscape Staff Lelknd G. Marsters has joined the staff of the Landscape Art Department as superintendent of grounds. His work includes the care ahd maintenance of the land scape art greenhouses. . A native of Kingsville,. Marsters received a BS degree in history from Texas A&I and a BS dfegree in Landscape Art, with a major in floriculture, from Texas A&M. Before coming to the Landscape Art Department, Marsters was em ployed by the Southern Floral Company of Houston. v, 7 X. -i. f \ rv Nightly Prayer Service in jY* Inter - denominational prayer services will be held in the YMCA on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday night# at 9:80. They began July 6. Sponsored by the Baptist Stu dent Union, the services will be conducted In the Motherpi Club Lounge by George Rige, EE major from Texon. ' 7 i 7 •! \ I 5 U ■f BIT W. K. COLVILLE !| !, I ‘The Case of the Late Laminat ed ID Card,” or “Through the Rooking Glass,” a futuristic trag edy in one disgusting episode by A. Dumbeas: Schtinks, A&M student and member of the local S. P. C. A. ! Preface: I love animals. Aggies are ani mals. I love Aggies, (for explana tion see English 210). That is why this story must be written ... be cause Aggies are animals and must be treated With equal kindness . . . like Spot, but only more so. But I digress. Let me. tell you what hap- pened to me one dark night laite in September, 1949. I, Schtinks, saw 4 [ j .. .■ J ' ' j I ... It was the night of September 27, and I waa In my room. I know It was my room because the roaches were nearing my shorts. An individual materialized into the room who looked as if his life * ‘ ‘ a perpetual final exam l" I 7 ; |/ !' “You look shot, pal," I aaid. “I should look shot,” he breath floating over to me, ‘Tm a L I’ve been dead for three days." ."That’s tough," I said feelingly. “Wha happen?” “Before I tell you, 1 need a good healthy slug of ectoplasm. Got any handy?” > r i ! • “No, I whispered “but try some of this. Ha did. I caught i him on the third bounce and held him In n chair until the first spasms had passed. “Zooks!” he chokpd, “ecto plasm ain’t got nothing over that stuff.” . \ “Go on with your story,”! said. “Well,” he began, ‘T live in Big Lick, Texas. I started hitch-hiking on September 11 to come to school at A&M. It took me six days to get here. Caught a ride with a middle-aged Conservative who was backing his Model T to a con vention in Key West, Florida. “I was broke when I hit the campus. My ravenous wallet had snapped a, hole in the back of my pocket and disappeared. I didn’t have enough Identification to get me in n two-bit strip show." ^ "Why didn’t you go to the mesa- hall and eat?” I asked. “I tried,” he said, nolslesaly scratching himself, “but the guard at the door asked me for my ID card. I told him I just wanted to eat... no beer. He laughed, casual ly firing aiburst from the Thomp son sub he carried. Dodging the tracers, I asked him where I could get an ID caird. He told me the Registrar’s Office. So, fool that t am, I went to the Administration building. “On the way I passed students with ID cards around their necks ID rings . ID shirts ID belt buckles neo« ID’s \ it |, : m •Al f some of the atheletas had ID’s tatooed on their blceprf, and one of the pre-meds had engraved his ID on a front incisor. No one even looked at me. ( was the man with out an ID. "When I got to the Registrar’s Office, I knew what would happen. I was right. The man behind the 50 caliber wouldn’t let me in to see the Registrar without my ID card.” "Damned red tape,” I said/’Why doifct you go to TU?" He stood up, his eyes blazing. “I was trapped,” he snarled, "the drivers wouldn’t let me on the busses ... I couldn’t get past the guards at the gates. I was sick, hungry, destitute. My neck had a crick in It from turning around in the Model T." "Tough,” I said with deep emo-; tion, “Why didn’t you try the hospital?” “I did r be screamed violently. “They sutured up a dimple In my left check and gave me three typhoid shots before I could tell them that I was simply hungry. When they found out I didn’t have an ID card, they ripped out the stitches and, putting my arm In a vice, squeezed the serum back in the hypodermic. A cam pus-wide alarm went out and KK’t were ordered to shoot me M Sight Until thrse days ago I existed story tso closely. m N' s '- !• A&M solely on hardtack hiade from a box of pan-cake makeup I purloin ed from one of the women’s loung es. And then, I gave up! the ghost.” •I should have sent flowers,” I said, shedding a tear' ( "where did they bury you?" 1 • "Bury me, achmuryime," he re torted, cyncially, "With no identi fication you think they’d bury me. Just wait till the wind changes." “What about the great beyond," I said, feelingly. "Couldn't! get past St. Pete,” he mourned, Rowing his head. "Same old thing*... no ID. I even tried below. Dante doesn’t have a level for people with no ID’s.” “Say,” I asked, "What did you say your name was ? Your story has touched me deeply... maybe I can help you.” ; 4 "Herbert Hubris,he said eager ly kissing my hand, the one that had the bottle in i*. “Well,” I said confidently, "you’ll have to show me some sort-of iden tification before I can help you— perhaps an ID card.” I must have said something tp offend him r .. he said some pretl raw things for a ghost. The last I saw of him he was doing a roll over Kyle Field singing, “ID’n Know the Gun Was loaded.” Epilogue: 1 / Don’t look for a moral in this story. It has no morals. As a mat ter of fact . . . don’t loo* for a i ; i{'4i, ; .... i- ' ii ,J I ' <'■# .ts 7 / •V SJ; By LOUISE JONES i[. r | : . [A/' ■ “The Chocolate Soldier,” a conr|edy opera by ( Straus, will be presented tomorrow .night and Friday _ at 8 when the new bandshelfe in the) Grove will house its first full-sized production, and Straus’ best operetta, T ka * 1 three act play is a parody of George Bernard Shaw’s sat ♦leal comedy, “Arms and thy Bill Turner, director of the Brooks Aggies Get Rain And Cold Shoulder )! ETjyj J7; | . J Ti k By LAMAR WALKER / Brooks Field Batt Camp / ! Correspondent (AF) Last week the Aggies’ hopes of getting out of camp early nearly came true. For a while it looked as if the jvhole base was going to wash away!any minute. r ! ! The weather service measured 10 „ Inches of rain—but tli« Base has a very good drainage system so it was all In vain/ Most of the" Aggies have found that some of th£ San Antonio "beauties" are not quite ad hospit able and: sociable as Urst rumored. F6r instance, the other night. Stan White, B Flight, and Ray Smythe, D Vet had dates with a pair of the “beauties." j ' After the girls had come to! the. Base to pick up Stan and hay. and after they showed the girls a good time in one of the looal night clubs, the boys had to catch a bus back out to the base because the girls claimed they had to be home eiriy. After questioning eye wit nesses who saw the dates (j ?), the girls actually did need their beau ty rest. | A&M has definitely taken an early lead in all the intrabiuraj contests. We beat Texas Tech 12-1 in baseball. So far, A&M also leads the field in military proficiency. Tomorrow is: payday and most of the troopsi, it means "two line affair!’' 1 One line to get the pay and another line to pay ol(f your debts. 'Everyone has beer eagerly anticipating this weekenl because of the extra holiday for the Fourth and mostly because it will mark the mid-point of our stay here at camp. All in all, most of the boys are having a wonderful paid Vacation and only two of them have said they would rather be home than be here. ■ j ' ' Hi ■; College Gets Bell Phone Exchange College Station may soon boast of a telephone business of its own, D. T* Strickland, executive vice- president of tho Southwestern Stated Telephone Company, told the College Statioi telephone com mittee last week. It will l)e located at one of the sevetal campus gates: and will retain three of the four service men now i i Rpvn! ho said. Strickland and other company executive* met at 1 he College tion City Hall h dlpcuss plan* with n'* telephone commit tee, He will me«t with ihe com mittee every (10 (Hv* [to check on progrea* being made, i Southwestern Hie 11 Telephone Company, which handle* toll call* from tnll area, fea*!' given Ihe Hryau.Colletfe HtaU»n t exchange aix mpre [ fine*, 8|rlckland aaid. Thirty more trunks; are being ad ded between Bryari and College Station, and tWo more toll position* ate being added to! the long ;dia- tance board. Stricklgnd repeated a previous promise to have telephones for all jplipants at College Station byi ovember 1. . | ing Cadets bert Alexius. and/George Dillavou, Director,! have di-i of 29 which feat lean Barrbn of T Butler of Lieutenant Bumcrli, and E /'Beadle of College Station Supporting Cast mportant charac .artin, Mascha; Moss,. Aurelia; Bill Popoff; Jpe Ginn,; Other Gloria Maittin, (Dolly) Colonel sakroff; Duane Evans, Step! and Pat Shiehageh, Katinka. The st^ry of “The Qh Soldier" (follows the advei of Lt. Bumerli, a young and vei wealthy Swiss officer, who carrii chocolate drops instead of bullet The suave and scientific younlj rtian shovmj the; half-savage Bui garians what training and educa tion cair dp against their bombaft and mock heroics. The seeker of the opere laid near Dragoman Pass, B 18/55/ Serbia ghd Bulgaria war. The family of Colonel of the Bulgarian Army, conii of Aurelig; his wife, Nadina, daughter, and her cousin > Mai are w/men who haven't seen man /in years, since all good m; axel employed in the lengthy wRh the Serbs. These three fearfully awaiting in their b the approaching conflict beti armies. Love Interest r T ) N fpr, Nadina, a romantic maiden,f in love with Alexius, a young stupid Bulgarian who accidently became a hero amongst his counr trymen when his horse bolted he dashed into the Serbian li to lead a victorious calvary char ' '..j* •' ‘1 • J. i j ^ 4 * Bulgarian soldiers! then att Bumerli whom they mistake a dangerous enemy spy. The young officer ia really a non-epra- hatant Swiss who is attached to tlhe commissary department of Serbian Army. He eludes the Bul garian;] by climbing into Nadine's boudoir. In order to save his life Bumerli engages in a flirtat with the young girl whe conceits him. Later he falls j in 1 her and she, almost against h|> will, yields her affections to hi^ Sentimental momehts in the ot eretta are ere affi airs of Bumerli and Nad - applipa Novem YMCA Sponsoring Wrapper Campaign The YMCA Cabinet is sponsoring a drive in this area to collect Swan Soap wrappers, according to Fred Millsap, drive chairman/ . I I For each two soap wrappers, the manufacturers of Swan soap will send one bar of soap to CARE to be distributed free in Europe. Places at which wrappers may be left for the drivd aie the Cot tage Cash Grocery, Fu well’s Gro cery, South Side Grocery, Charlie’s Grocery and the YMqA, Millsap said. GROVE SCHEDULE ; July 6—No danw of “Chocolate Sol< Juiy 74-’Chocolate Wednesday, July 6—] cause rehearsal. Thursday, dier.' Iday, dance be- Soldier" T Saturday, Ju Combo. July 8—"Chocolate itii I . 9—Dance, A g g|i« (..if rovided by the am Mascha and Alexius. Comedy ations center around Colonel Pot off’s house, coat and the ant' concerning It. m / l l J .. / ,! j j!h | I Turner Conducts \ Turner will conduct the or tra composed of LaVerne Hunt,! Mary Leland, Mrs. J. W. Hill,i Clayton Akers, Ferria Baker, Mra.i F. Ik. Borcherdlng, Louis Hautr/ Tom Prickott, Nancy Jane Ray- ~ il* noldlli wvwtB* Stuatt, Carlos Hints. Bob Uudar- dale, Eil Hollok, Fayae Fanday, H. J, Coffman, Ed Andrew, Henry Hw**, H. II, Holland, Jtolaivd John* *o», and Jo* Worlay., -1 i ^ , Member* of the rhum* are Nall Ai’lmmilt)*, Ajilre Lee, Nadine Park* EnUmils Millar, Ibubara Hint* , Connie Hudrtm Tldtfe HatUn, Georgs hill well, €«■ iNanry Jtev Hudtita, Tld* nancy inwVV!**, CoVlhtWII JOttS*, Mary Jane Alkln, George Thomil, Raymond Conley, KWth Hairtf^ Bob Btlrtnoft, Ram Lanford, [Thom* gs Wise, Bob Jones/ David It nine*, Bill Lasche, and LihdeW Jamei/ j Tl Urti The score contain*. (IB aonks of which the best kpown is “My Hero." Coming directly from ShaW, Nadina sin^a this solo when she hears that Alexius has become a hero. Other well known songs are “Sympathy,” and “Falling in hove. . .The operetta I. Ufaiesion free and everyone is Invit However^ those not l fee slips will havilto hr own chairs, according to “The Chocolate S) the only major stuck in the Grove; this 8f Announcement. Deadline W^ar The deadline for ordering nummer graduation announce ments id T^nrsday, July 7, Gradk r BiI»a, aaslstent direej tor of Student Activities, said today.: % Announcements W be or dered In tho Rtodent Activitloa office, Elms roncluded. ■ I I/f»i - m