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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (July 11, 1949)
Thanks ta, 1 « I ' ■ •y H ■ !. :-BUZZ SAW • t!; i | • :r. Boyle’s Column i)f X \ si ; \ i IX ji 1 , m m ■/' M s -r X i ||| worthwhile addi- for the summer pro- te that time and limit the productions to only one ig the summer term, pwever, this one production, P n Sometimes we wonder whether we ara^r ; right when reflectihg on the “pulse count ot the public,’’ but this time we. feel cer- 0 __ tail that|we have\taken an accurate count, cos We cion4 think 4hat we are missing it Lit: Z&ottlnTatoLtma fu “ 5r pr !T t f i h h: * !i p T n d th 4 v rf Chocolate /Soldier this past weekend thoroughly*enjoyed it and My apprecia, * “X ° f 8 ^ f ted th<f workMope by all th^e who were ? ^ it ^ heP Jj we ^ def . . associated with the product™. c j | initelJr loo)[ ^ tQ putting the Grove Though feelings of appreciation have to setae use during the warmer months been voiced individually here and there; we would like to take this opportunity to as other forms of entertainment could be speak for all those who saw the operetta scdieduled for tha 1 Grove during the first \ | i __ 1 _ and express a full thanks and appreciation and last months of the regular session. Tifi /w to the Aggie-Players the Singing. Cadets, ' “The Chocolate Soldierf’ has been the OjT &M3JLU' the directors, and tolilfthe others who " “trail hlazer” revealing to |us the possibil- ff!' if \\' spent, theirs time helping to make it a sue- -ities of: the Grove.'!! Now it is up to us to cess. •> - , exploit those possibilities to the best ad- HrnnrnMOstrie Unemployment • f Xr l U ’) / ■ ,N ■ X ./ \ 'roblei I ' !» By HAL BOYLE New YoriiMA’l—Rainy | Roundup: ’ / An tinconscious hero of our times is Ray Emmert of Zanesville, Ohio This 401 year old ex-soldier solved hi» personal unempl Council 1 ■4-‘- .1 . i 1 /I *■*..: Three members of the staff of the “ ‘ “ * ' m Jq Ql^l^ ord. His chief! complaint vyas Productions such as . “The Chocolate ' vantage for ourselves and the College. 1949-30 Appr< ban So- Educa '7brk. 1 re- tjerm cuun- served ilnating officers resplu- annual i x ... , B : ; 1; ' IX. \'|p' jj. Welcome to the Visitin* Firemen . . ■ I i 1 ■ ■ ^ i.'jrix r/1. i^T • “N there hasn’t been an eighteen , During it’s twenty year spjan, the alarm fire! on the campus. All those course luls proved its value many times, screaming red trucks and cars and hel- Firemen Who have taken thie coune, most- meted' firemen are on the campus for an ly from si^iall towris, have return jd home education, hot a Conflagration, as well trained as their brother firemen They are here for the twentieth an- in larger dities with ^better financed de- ndal Firemerr’s Training School, a sort partments. Any city whose firemen pass of oversize fireman’s short course; that the course Receives an automatic lowering completely covers the field, of fire fight- of its fire insurance rate by Over iijg. V u the twenty yea^ period, BraV'ton estimates Currently conducted by H. R. Brayton, this alone has saved policy hplders $1,000,- a forjmer A&M Chemistry prof, the course 000. l Was started back in 1029. Every., year since then; firemen from all over the state have rolled in to learn what to do When the flames begin.' ;v In-’29 thei*e Were onlyi 176 nrjen here for the school. iThiijii year more thari GOO >• i J 1 ?' Li T 1 ' ill : J We are pleased that A&^|[ has a part in this excellent program.; Tq the firemen here for the course, we bid you welcome and hope you enjoy your stajy on the cam pus. - i ■; bi I At least We ca^ promise you men will take the; week-long course on the next five days you won’t ire fighting equipment, answer any night alarms. that for have to ? ^ 'll Leaving the detailed breakdown and (itemizing up to Chancellor. Gibb Gifchrist, A&M’s Board of Directors ap proved theVevised 1948-49 budget as the System Budget for 1949-50 in their mating [Saturday morning. 1 f i Hurrying up of[ the approval was necessary because of the late date of the fSMfMd ap- f j 1 | :"|(—— 1 "i 1 i. 1 piopriations from the legislature. Chaneelor-Gilchrist wasi given au thority to go ahead witK the break down of the budget ij| order, to comply with a new istate law requiring an itemized biidgjd. state ment by, September 1.1 ■ i Another reason tot Speedy ap- provaf was pointed out| by Presi dent F. C. Bolton who!! said that “important people” on t|he campus would be signing contracts else where if not given def|nite infor mation soon concerning^ their sal aries for next year. 1 l Special Meeting paiiier it was suggested that the boird Ho|d a special meeting before ‘Septemibfer 1 in order to approve fh^ new budget. This.'; was dis carded when President Bolton em phasized the urgency of getting the information on out by next treek. were meeting ; of the ciety for Ei ‘ tion held in Troy, N Dean H. Wl Barlow elected to serve aj two-: as a member of the g< cil of the Society. He as a member pi Ithe committee for njitib; and as chairman |'df tions committee of meetmg. ■ S- l 1 , * ; , Prof. E. E. Brush, Head, de partment of Aeronauticil Engin eering, was elected chairman: of the Aeronautical Engineering di vision, and Prof. RjL. Peurifoy, professor of civil englnee -ing, was elected chairmah of the c smmittee on construction engineering. ]Mr. Peurifoy is also vice-president; of the Southwestern Seqtio i of the American Society for Engineering Education, whteh include TeHas, Oklahoma and ^tevr Mexico. The American Society} for En gineering Education is: a i national organization, with members from colleges and universities out the nation;, and tries which are interested problem by having himself buried alive in a coffin six feet/ lindjer- ground. { . For weeks thousands of curious people thronged to his Ptttaipor*ry grave and dropped coins into a contribution box for the privilege of staring down through a ten-Hich observation tunrtel at Emmert’* placid countenanMi. After 45 days Emmert emerged, collected his financial tribute, claimed a new “buried alive” V. Walker (Reassigned As ORC Instructor 1 Ootonel Isaa| CkWklkeiy form- “ff" i erly assistant PMS&T and cavalry tries which are interested in eii-L iup n „ ra f/ Rbmvi instructor here, has been assigned gineering education. The Tprimary * a , t '° n ’ /nH ? n e to Waco as the Organized Reserve function of the society* i] to im- ^ at n e nl and * S P e Corps Instructor of that arte, ac- prove the quallty of engineering Schools. [ : | . , | [' ,“j education. Majority of Bil Sponsored b,. Go Jester, JMow Laws Austin, Tex., July '11—i.'Pu-A majority of the legislative propos als sponsored by Gov.: Beuuford H. Jester wete^enacted into law, but there wereachne prominent 1 (fail ures. . .V • n “j f . The Governor’s office has issued what it ! termed a “Partial list of the items he sponsored, mtire or less directly; undKthetr fate.’ r j This shbweil Legislative approval of 31 of Jester’s suggestions,! and rejection ; of 16. K ' From the administration’s View point, important ttccomplfshn)ients of the Slsjit Legislature wbye prison Reform, dilmer-Aikin School Pro r gram; Civil Rights Legislation which irqluded an anti-lynihing law arid submission of a proposed Constitutional Amendhient tp re peal the poll tax; A Yputh Devel- ponded Rural at nothi he got “tired of 1 but faces.” • : .f\ \ The whole experience typlifies the desire of Twentieth Century man to escape from opreasive real ity. And it may set a pattern for th« man of the lfuture. There is no reason (why every man shouldn’t, from rime to time, follow Emmert’s example.: All he needs to “get a war; from. Jt all'’ k a shovel, a cheap pine a friend to cover him] i ' The mi|k man could lower hhn a fresh bottle- of mlik evdry mom ing, and the delivery boy from the delicatessen could drop him a ham sandwich or a Hard-boded egg once or twice a day; It would be a wonderful way to spend a resful vacation—right W your own R- i j opment Council; exp^ cording to Colonel Oscar B. Ab bott. Executive, of the Texas Mil itary District.; j / , 1 . Colonel Walter first entered the army as an en|isted man in 1916 and received his commission in No vember, 1916. He served through World, War If in the “Rainbow” Division and received the Purple ‘Heart for wounds received in ac tion. ’ . . . During World War II, Colonel 1/ • .it 1 ; Mire fighting and fiti : irf n June Graduates, One in the Hand is Better . iXf;.' JpF’l, , |’*i’ I ■ r,J* . 1,1*11 .; i.jl Graduates from the nation’s colleges we should alsd take note that in most sec- anS ijmiversities lasit June are a bunch of tions of our country the desire forj security secupitY seekers, concluded Fortune maga- has seeped down to the level of those now rine after polling graduates from a heal- graduating from colleges. We are the ex- thy sample of American colleges. I In e ceptions, not the rule. Southwest sity of Tulsa were (the oply Southwes - e *l tiion’s willingness duates were more in* colleges polledT g terested in working for large, well es(ta lialied companies offering security (ban taking chances with small com^ahies nr by i [going in business for themselves. “American ; Telephone and Telegraph dbesnft sound very exciting, but there will alwaylp be an AT&T,’ was; the general a tidude. ; [ jlji I * . ; i i* j |* ; Southweste^ners, on the othei? hanjd, expressed a strong desire to go in business fpr tljemselvesi either immediately after graduation of after a few years experi ence. Fortune attributes this adventurous spirit * to a lingering pioneer * philosophy of individualism in the Southwest that vanisnecj in other parts of the country We may be; proud that we of the South west are still strongly individualistjic, ment to render, services tha security. eral ameng ^ will be tha o permit becoipes our popr popula* the govern- promise of \ ession that Could cover a mulltitudejof life’s responsi bilities and entei pfisesj In choosing lead ers for the periods ahead when the drift is toward greater individual security, let ’’ us first make mte that the “security” they speak of is the name “security” we have in mind; j • r. j l <1 Thr] journey toward security—that pot of gold at the Rainbow’s base—is a de parture from our base of many individual freedoms and prerogatives. For each step has but toward promised away from that Ririty, we take a step iiasel of freedom. Within our own minds we are the sole judges of the worth of one dr the desirability of the other. •HN i . *! : if The Battali f, SoUter, Statejmarti The Battalioilr' City of Friday talion Lawrence SuIlivan Ross, Fjounder of Aggie Iffadit ions. official newspaper of the; Agrii ultural and 1M Station; Texas, is published five t$"es a week a: smoon, except during (holidays arid examination bushed txi-weekly on Monday, Wednesdi y and rates furnished on request. credit ed he matter at Post th* Act at Coagreaa of Man* ». 1870. lim . contribu Goodwin Hall. Gi Office, Room 209, BILL BILLINGSLEY* T~+-T— w —-■?—^ —- MARVIN BROWlf, CLAYTON SELPH-—.; dhariw Kirkiinm W. K. ColTille. David by telephone (4-5444) or at ads may be placed by telephone (4-5824 ^tightly Gentl ted every During ^le 1 a 'ption rate 1 \ College of Texas and the ' nday through The Bat- (Membcr of j [ Rapmcnted Thc AssoJated Proj .Ir^* ^ ^ per school ews dispatches origin publish- br National Ad- New York City, Shu FrmncUco. salary changes Walker served on the Armjored Instead of the Board at Ft - Knox * Kentucky, and^ special meeting, the boarfi will wait on the General Staff of the Re-? until some later meeting, to ap- placement School Command j at; - - ^ Birmingham, Alabama. Ordered overseas in 1945, the Colonel was assigned as G-3 of the Tenth Corp$ in Japan. Mrs. Walker, pow in St. Joseph, • Missouri, will j<jin the Colonel in Waco in the very near future- They have one ten, John Q. Walk er, 20, in his second year at A&kL • A ^ . \ Texas Natural Gas And Oil Dwindling Dr. L. P. Gabbard, head of the pepartment of Agricultural Econ-j - omics and Sociology, jias collabo rated in a study of dwindling oil; and natural gas resources in Tex-! as, which is contained, in a copy! of the National Planning Associa-i tion’s report to the President’s! Council of Economic Advisers. The report js titled “The Impact of Federal Policies on the Economy of the South.” j \ ' . Pointing out , that in physical resources Texas and other south ern and southwestern sections of the country chiefly depend on oil and natural gas, the report de clares that the very life blood of these states’ economy is being drained away daily in ever in+ creasing amounts!. It(is a problem which calk for immediate and ■S serious consideration if drastic harm to the states is to be pref vented, the report said. The report continues to say that the supply “will dwindle sharply, during the next 20 years,” leaving this* section of the nation “indeed a blighted area.” Ex-Aggie Donates Scholarship Awar4 Ex-Aggie Dick Price, ’29, own er of the Dick Price Motbr Com pany of Dallas, Texas, has estab lished a new; opportunity award scholarship valued at twelve hun dred dollars, E. E. McQuilleiii, head of the Development Fund, announced. ‘ , / *'j ; This award is granted to the Dallas County high school student who is selected by a faculty com mittee on scholarships. Joe A. Riddle of Dallas has been selected the winner for 1949 and will enter A&M in September as a freshman prove the itemized budget. The revised,* budget 4- for 1948-49 showed a total of $15,73^16.85 as Ai^M’s share of the entire System budget. This amount included all student fees, gifts, and federal fmjids as well as the stjitei appro priation. State funds made avail-] able by legislature action list welek, totaled $4,121,298.54 for A&M. i - j . v *1 J Appropriations approved by the board during their weekend meet ing injcluded $50,000 f^r moving of Agricultural facilities to an area west of the railrodd. A pre views appropriation of $25,000 for this work will be used i|f the work done on the moving before Sep- tember i. >| . 1 ] / • Other Appropriations A total of $25,000 wad approved for minor improvements |and alter ations to the physical plant here." Also appropriated was|i$25,049.52 for payment of lease ;rental on Bryan Army Airfield. Tijis amount included fire insurance parried (on 20 Ibuijdings at the Field. Graijtsiand aids and dther gifts offered since the May meeting of the board webe passec| in their session Friday afternoop. ; ; | ■ [\ ■,] .. ; • Brazos A&M Club To Hold Bailie er oft the Dr. Quisenberry Will Attend Meet Dr. J. H. Quisenberry, (head ofn the Poultry' Husbandry (Depart ment, will leave about August 1 for Guelph, Ontario, Canada,: to attend the annual meeting of the Poultry Science Association. Others who will accompany pr. Quisenberry to Canada ate S.i Z. Beanblossom, - Poultry Marketing Specialist; James R. Grubp, pOul-r try supervisor; Dr, JL R. Couch, E. D. Parnel, D. H. Reid, ind Or lando Olcese, graduate student frbmj Peru, Quisenberry said. : j • While at the meeting, Er Coilch will present a paper on “Fo! ic Acid Studies with the Mature Chicken.”' OlCese will present a paper:on the relationshiplbf unidentified (animal factors to the nutrition of the ma ture domeatic fowl, according to Dr. Quisenberry. This years meeting will he held at the Ontario Agricultural Gjol- legeji and will last from August 1 to (August 4. j'/* -(]• 1 | Riggins-Bilderbaek Nuptials Given T ' j v' • Miss Patricia Mount Riggins,; of Forf Worth, was married td Ervin Glen Bilderback Jr., P&M graduate, Friday] in thh[ Fitet Methodist Church of! Fort' [Worth. Bilderback was a member! of the A&M Championship Mile Relay team, and is a member of the “T” Association, ■ * |/ j | Bilderback is ! a graduate of TS0W, -pif 'i ( ,- The couple are now en mute to Colorado. After their returp they will!! live in South JKexas. Board for c i a 1 The Goyernor'c prominent failures included the Ejeemoaynary Building Program; a Capital De velopment Commission!; a Higher Education Study; the Old Age As sistance Ceiling; a Tax Stiidy* and a Balanced Budget. 4J ME Student Lincoln Conti ins !•' cue The (Brazos chapter oft the Texas Socijete of ProfessionalsEngineei-s will hold its monthly meeting Fri day, July 22, announced: J. G. Mc Guire,; secretary-treasurer of the Chaptelr. ,| , : If ’ ; r I 1 .* Members ^living in the Bryan area' should meet at the Bryan Courthouse Square at v4 p. m., while College Station members wall meet! kt the same time In front >f the YjMCA. Car groups will )e arranged at the designated meet ing places, McGuire said. The meeting will include a trip to Brenham • to inspect the cily utilities, the local cotton mill, 1 and the Dixie Poultry Farm Hatcheijy. Food will be served at (the hatch ery. j All members planning to make the tlripishould contact H. C. Dill-, in ChE. ingham at 4-6784 or McGuire at v | The! scholarshi; 4-845(4, he concluded. j Xi ’ ■ ! ' I ' ' PALACE Bryan 2'$$79 m6n. — TUBS “COLORADO TERRITORY j. ■ 1 \ Joel McCrea Virginia Maya ■ -! ‘ti V \ the editorial or at the St '•» •< , rzaMSSKs j ar Itcwi* Hurton. Fiyw VnnU*y, LoutieiJonu. Henry LectAir, r L. Hrtvey Bobic Myers, Bruce Newton, Barry SmlUi. Rob#t uiiiiams «•••..... ........Staff Reporters .....Mtfvia ItetrH Andy Davin... ! P ’ Br.d Hobaee, "Hsrdy Kenneth MarSk V ! . K, r— hi Ben PrIUe'n, Autrey V' n 1 ■. ■! ; , i ' 1 V • ■[i' .j'.-jl r 1 wleCrelt i; I 'MLL . Room 201, it Activitiei Co-Editors ri.t . Ill Staff CartannUt Houston Engineers Honop Bolton Dr. F.‘C. Bolton, president of meeting of the Hqustoa Engine Club and the Houston (A&M Tha Houston A&M Club joined ferring the honor 1 at a lunch- neeting held at inaon today in the Ben Milam Hotel in Hous ton. r :Ti.i is of four year warranty arid will pay its recipient three hundred dollarsi per year: j : A ; J • , ;• I ' i i l Vehicle Short Course Here in July, August Short courses supervision will tie offered by Industrial Extension Service during July and August, according i to E,. IT! Williams, director, of the ies. i ■ ^ motor vehicle tjhe • •« ■1: \ v" "| |i P4i: .|i iL. >•. I A will receive isntruction weeks of August} 1 and 8, common carriers (getting instruc tion during the week of August 22. QUEEN MON. —ICES: “Mr. Belvede Goes to Col leg I . ; j 1 ;; COMING “CITY ACR0 S RIVER ? / tUd;:, , 'I t U, ■lr Lewis F. Cheek, ME junidr from Abilene, has just received! a $50 award m .the Engineering Under graduate Award and Scholarship Program conducted by the! James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Founda tion, according to a release from the Foundation.1 ,• A total of $5001) in 77 awards, ranging from $1000 to $25L is be ing given to undergraduates of 47 different engineering colleges and universities. Awards were! for ex cellence of papers prepared by en gineering students on the subject :n of arc ,’welded desigin, fabrication, maintenance or research. Cheek's paper! was “Dejsign of Arc Welded Fixtures for Mfar Pro duction.” FT C*ampu. THURS, IT i l :T. % • • » !• .A<*jaa»«r;ss.rsi«. •t[_ MON. thru WED FIRST RUN A i \ GARY PdridafKIIL i TT —Features Start— 1:06 - 3:23 - 5:27 - 7;44 j 10:00 Li < ^r* back yard. And you wouldn't have to go .through that annual argu ment with your wife oy0r whether- to go to the mountai shore, j 17 What could be bettertj No worri some Sunburn, no vexing mos quitoes, no hotel billfjy no sore muscles. , This relaking fad of bfing hur ried alive might Well sweep the country except fori one dhing: Every man has an uheaay feel ing, that once he was six . feet under-ground, his' relatives^ and friends might decide he Wikpn’.t worth the trouble of digging hR.'F Whatl can a man bilieve any-: more? : ! ■ : i H . J j. *. The.corset industry soys Ameri can women buy 3,600,00© “Falsies” a yegr, ;. ,. 1, [ 7 , L7 And, as if that weren’t bad* enough, Manhattan butcher shops, are AovT unde^ rubber parsley in; tVwxi’n- rlicnlaxr their display cases. becaiise his child wks si to talk 51 r Then, one morniri the child looked up ely: “This is now. 1 The Papa is convinced got a genius. i, r '_L L A friend of mide wa(s wonriedl 9 to learn >roak fast, aid grav- |! : {| now he’s -• : MONDAY nr sm I’ 1: III HOW* |i; 1 I i'lii V ■? safe®® and Tut! m * : o • \ 8 o ■ i \\P unwtrsm ihltRNMIONA- li l A . O present, a roWEll iNN UtVTH ..MmUYJOMS 0 ^ ^ermau' 1 v / \ ril ri n: 4 -1 1 il±: r t H i',:-..