The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, July 20, 1949, Image 2
-H' - ' ■V ■ 'V ' : ' v W-i.- ■ ■ 1 vl Page 2 Jt . i - ,-'-V. n h' ■ : r hi V" '•/ Make Youf Student Activity Fe « " ; ! i * * ■pummer session Students justf,don’t seem to care whether ^r hot thley get their money’s worth from their stu tie^fee. • •] | _ Last Thursday nij^ht, the J to atten the Col ent activi-. them he M p Zucker sis- brought ters, a piano team from New York, put siderabk iii-- *:» •vi-. on one of the finest prof featured at A&M in the last (couple of years. Attendance at (the performance was around 700, but consisted almost. wholly of Veterans and their wives and members of the College staff IJ ! isn’t much use in the trouble to bring ' j ■ h ' . , ' 'I;, /l- 1 ’ lers likOxtbe Zucker sisters are iere during the summer at eon- expense, and that expense is pf music; covered by your student activities fee. An effort is made to sign shows that feature a gc gram. s Next for these summer pro- ■ k week, the third and last of the and their families, professional entertainment groups signed who didn’t attend th^ performance knew j. You paid for the show when you paid what they Were missing? , * 1 • t your fees for this six weeks, so why not The shows are brought here primarily get your money’s woyth by going down for students, and if students aren’t going to see it ? The Rolling Maine’s Days Are Numbered ip't I ii / A '!• rj I; eealiMalAg Be Added thigh School Vocational j. agricul t u r a I •lining is oncij again being *red at Consol i- High School, and as in past the lack >f interest the students* is the big- L etacle in Ub way of Jtion, says lies Rich- principal. \ facts wore brought! tjo it Saturday when throe of Peach Crh*ck objcctod inclusion in the AftM district, in objections were the lack ‘ »nal agricultural training, hing at odd hour*, and $1.50 tax yate. to stimulate interest in jii j •»: 11 Crossword Puzzle If. Perfect felt Sneak Preview students * *y farmers of training in the past, urged to become in the Future d Vocational m ' "I jf! ~ • *| .1 f J >. Weak kneed; landlubbers who can’t standi the rolling 1 of a! ship may find hope and comfort in the pi|omises cf the Navy ‘ about their new antifrolling gadget. The we see (he roll Reducing gadget as a boon gadget, they promise] will to 810% of a ship’s polling side to side motion ofjthe ship as it plows rolling imd pitching floors that j through rough waters. M ( stand still beneath his feet. ‘ ' x T M. rvp'JC- j Just to make surfc that their claims are right, the Navy i* equipping a mine- , . . swedper, the PeregFine, With the device. ' The mihesweeiicr will bo' taken into rough seas to cbnfh^n the Navy’s stories about the roll eliminator's !effectiveness. As We are among those most suscept ible to the dread sea nausea—Sea-sickness —our interests are naturally aroused and If 1 \ stand still beneath his feet. We are not moved very much by the Navy r s omission of any claims to the commercial use. The Navy is more interested in the device’s war uses. Heav> fiS k|*h Imp*. IT. Kir"; ji. aijltirunitoc |n IT. B ff NH' to -.-t L today* at; %4 ! I A | ; o«wh 2. NotlSu 1 Ira r • r? at 4 ! schedule training nts shojw an interest but so fnr Mic for A By s^NDY »avi^ Sorrowfnl^Jonc* (Paramount) . < t8 starring Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Wm. Demarest.x and introducing Richardson brande< mg air calm ru Actually the rolls jure not eliminated; they arc dampened, jrwo jmirs of large tanks are mounted ojn opposite sides;of pump : --A.iJJ transfer wate targets. The heart melts under the hressure of a lovable little girl. The tittle girl, Mary Jane Sailhdef*, is com(|r, and the cutest trie A the ijcreen in mjkhy a day. taught afterschool time teachers were said; craft carriers may become almost nways for thq pilot coming in to ‘Sjorrowful” jonef was brou to watch hirf money. You land. Our gun crews will not have such a hit-or-n|iii«ft task in their firing at enemy from one war wl the Whip. High kpeed pumps] operating uh is th set of tanks to another as the! ship starts we. look for the gadget’s commercial uses is thus aboard civilian ships. But war or peace, automatically, set of tanks fto another tu to roll. The balance (of the skip changed suddenly and ckjptftSapTaMea, Knack Twice and Ask far Gus difference between the Navy and at the Navy (presupposes another n the gadget will be useful and this will be a better anti-rolling invention. world with this new ia \a new- trick\to hit V. rougbt P . would not' Exactly cull hjm utingy, bu\ murni sny he hik thk.firat dime ho - ever made, ami the . few he atole from the blimj. When “Big Stfvc,” Bruor Cabot, fixes I a race, “Sor- rowfiur deans up on the deal, in cluding a four yearjold girl, named "Sholrtu.’* She’s left as security for u twenty dollar bet; which Sorrow ful never collects. Her Dad is found in the Baat-; River, j disposed of by "Big Steve.- With the aid of! his girl friend GladU, Lucille Bail, the two take “Shotts” in hand. Its really the other way toround, because ‘Snprts’ g<|>es to work ou Sorrowful. The shell isn’t hard to break, and once broken, there’4 no turning back. He even parts with a few sheckles, buys himsdf a new suit, the first 1 in half a century, moves to a larger apartment, arid each night finds him kneeling besides “Shorts” saying his ; prayers. When “Big Steve!'; is thrown out I/this course bL the race by the racipg coinmis- Tiught duel sion, he signs his-hqrse, “Oreamie ; hfdurs. Joe,’’ over to “Shorts,” not Tonow. ing who she is. Gifen a “Speed- Ball,” the horse will; win the race, but will die from its; after effects. "Shorts’’ identity I is discovered and; “Big Steve” tries to remove her from Sorrowful’* company. ic child falls from the fire-es cape; ami is critically injured. In a coma she calls out for “Drcamic Joc,”\o Sorrowful steals the horse before Nthe race, and fneaks him into the\hospital. One > look at Dreamic, \and its sweet dreams from then Op. The police round up the gang, ahd Sorrowful figtiring two can live cheaper than one, de cides to marry. Glndis. The two adopt “Shorts” aiyl tjhc three go on a honeymoon. \/ The incou may include if enough »tu . .. , in it, added Richardsoln, but so only courses like Latin and pul syeaking have been added Meanwhile jn ni# full time music I tdaeher has been added to the staff of the school; Richardson said. Mrs. Kathryn Stokes will be the first full time music teacher Con- ; swidated ha: graduate of SMU anid has been a j private teacher of music in Crock- eit for the p$st two years. v t|(»c rumor that muiio has been as erroneous hours. Part imploycd for but it was the regular .school tifi i »«• ■si « I M A* N$wih*w$ *t. Move 4J. Hidden 4’. Cliquo U. Asiatic <\ Evil |4A Wrltar 'Mt 41. Extinct] SL City In 4 B. Uaacuit M. And n« l ♦ ii. i; Letters To The Edii \ | ! i' ■ ■ ■ ' ij-. , ^ j , . ^ ! -j j r j Tbe State of Kansas is no longer “on i liquor bdsinbsrf annually flourished in that the wagon” and legal liquor is being sold ; state where ja law for the past 32 years ^ 'after 70 long years of prohibition. , i made possession of so much as a thimble- By a ratio of 17-14 Kansajns voted Ipst ful of liquor punishable by a jail sentence. pOGS AGAIN Editor. IThe j, Bstl Might Ii be 80 bo! tulldn: Id as to inquire how aroi t sroTr Ikiitor. The Kattaiion: \ There is a rumor going anHjnd the campus to the Jeffect that November that they were tired of buying bootleg whiskey ani they were fed up with playing ostrich (to the liquor problem. ito the ;open l So they brought liquor out I (this past week. ■ Package stores, similar i to 1 J those of sp Texas, sell oyer-the+cqunter quantities of any kind of intoxicants the customer wants. Tbe Kan cided thjat there no Public drinking. sas Legislature has de- would be no saloons and J|he chofce of ‘Vet” of the communities is traditionally dry state has placed .« . or “dry” in the hands/ themselves. Thus far -This return to the days of the 1870\s is an admission on the part of the people of Itansas that prohibition cannot be legislated. Kansas produced many who whipped the, nation into adoption of the Eighteenth Amendment of our Constitu tion. This amendment made prohibition a legal condition honored more in the breach than the observance; this amend ment proved national prohibition unwork able; ■!' Iz 11 ! ' j' , * ; ■ ft. ! ■ / j| . ' • • , ; / The choice of indulgence or temper ance is an individual problem and not onp - to what ICvel the JKK’b can dr bp • . —- r _— , Is there not a man, on the fotce unlicensed-dogs are ito be impou: with a Ifejart big enough to like a I ed and eventually killed. Is th dog?, (Who is, byj the way. item’s) any tnith to this rumor? If best friend?) is theix; any way ‘Spot" can At first they jverci content to ; savad from this fate? i <. only shoot the p>or animals, but > Pleasje understand that ' I 250 of the state’s 597 incorporated cities for the state to decide! The only way the may have liquor sales. Only 10 of the 105 v ptate’s voice should be heard on the liquor counties do not have a/'wetf city. problem is in levying taxes on liquor and Kansans have lejarned that prohibition in fixing severe penalties on drivers who is m6re a state of mind lhan an effective venture into traiffie while they ; arc in law. An estimated $60 million bootleg !oxicnted.|\ v: 1 . A > ■ \ E'vim EHui". Walking ifiii’t a lost;art—l Headline in t|he New Castle (Pa.) one must, by some(mfeansidfet to the gar- News: i ? _y age. • * • 'u .i 4 •/. '<■ ■ 4 ..r-Vrrr Sif 1 “Bill Would Strip Commissioner/ IV H r ■ J .f • now the ice w r ater ip their veins has frozen over; and they have planned tp turn tjhe (logs over to the 'veterinary department. Being ap ex vet; I can well describe the cruel torture these doigs are given. Why don’t the Kit’s just pull their legs off one at a timej? (The dog’s that is.) j , {- J ! T Sure thqy ,say! their excuse is • tiiat the jdogh arc djingerous but has anybody been bitten yet ? « > Believe) me if al four-legged- cn ature (jould shoot Back I’d glad ly give him a gup. S ', Bob Ramsey -1 )ClaM4 ’50 T Editorls Note: I am afraid that yop didn’t n-ad our story very closely Mr;- Ramsey. If you wtH; rereadjtt, you nil I find that the a nnooncemcnt was made bjt the office of the Dean of Men -find that students have been cniployisl to plek up the dogs. The Campus Security Of fice lias nothing to do with the dog catching campaign.) ISPlj Chapter To Inspejct Brenham writing; this letter to secure information, and I not- in; any way c in an alter ipt mdentning am jm the 1 The Battalion fj '■ n, yj./.; • ,■ ■ i;i ■■' "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentlem#? V . 1! i' i Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions \\j actjohsj of any group or group; i. Bill L. Stephenson Claos ’4H j .(Editors Note: According ; Bennie Zinn. assistant dean ; men. “.Spot" has not been, and ! will not la 1 plckt'd up “due to IJs unofficial affiliation ikith the ! student body.”) Civil Service Has Federal Openings Examinations to fill vacancies in the federal service have been announced by the Civil Service Commission. Positions to bo filled art that of Conservation Aid. En trance salaries range from $2284 to $2724 per year. Employrricpt will be with Field Headquarters of the 1 Soil Conserva tion Service ami tbe Bureau of Indian Affairs ip the states of T(;xas, Oklahoma, Arkansas,; and ' ? .!' ; Application fbvniis may pc obtain ed either from any pout office or the’ Kw’outivc SecretuTy, Boprd of Yf * *' H 8. Civil Sorvlpe EgamlPeps, U. •fJr.iV ,m h * )0C ( , t , 0, L tr y S. Department of Agriculture, 1114 l ^’l Ju, .L?“'„" C . COnhnK tp *• Comnicrco Street,! Dallas 2. Texas. ’ Gift to G)|ege [onors Teeplc Mrs. Nancy Te^lc Duggar ,ap contributed a valuable ollection ol Hawaiian plant :imen» to the college in onor of hep brother, Law- ence Homes Teeple, who was illed in an automobile acci dent November 9, , Teeple, a distinguished student, bttendbd AAM from June 1042 to September 1943, and from Feb ruary 1947 until his death in Nov- lenber. He mgjored in chgmmi and was f interred in music, (sides serving ias acolyte in the Episcopalian church, Teeplc sabg jin the xrhoir and was active in other church activities. While serving as ii radar niv- igator in the South Pacific Theater, ^ he had to bail out from his plane* became a memper of the Cat- illar Club. Teeplc also received \Air Medal and was discharged h\lhe rank of captain. The jdant collection presented in hifj memory consists of more tl(ian unje (hundred specimens, mainly; of mountainoihi Hawaiian species. Some of these specimens are rare but are excellently preserved and labeled. Pertinept habitat data and the native fifaqiws identify ejaef* article. ■ ; j Teeple’s parents, NMr. and. Mrs. Perry M. Teeple, are. from 'Jack sonville, Florida, whilevhis'sit the donor of the collection, res in Minneapolis, Minnesota Girl Bojrn to Dr. Am Mrs. Howerton M On (Monday afternoon a b girl was bprn to Dr. and \ Murlin T. i Howerton of Coll Station. She VTighed six and nine ounces. Howerton is connected with j the Chemical Engineering Departi MARS Network Acclawerf By , Ham Radio Operators in Texas tW* S •vary / Syt»tbm which in now in oj)er- ation, accotjding to Colonel Oscar B. Abbot, executive of ficer of the Texan Military Diattct. • |.' P\'TT Th' ayntcm luis been almost atoppwl for the aummer months, but nany of the operators are still utlve in Order to keen the orgai izntion alive and maintain actively on the [ Various MARS Young Volunteers To Be Discharged Approximately (500 l8-y<jar' old Army /volunteers fijoni Texas that entered the service .last tlummcr arc 10 1,0 discharged during the n*‘Xt sixty days, Colonel Oscar B. Abbott, executive of the Texas Military District, has announced. 18-year old$ entered service under the Selective Senfiec Act projlisiori that vpluiitoers Ip that age bracket who served one year would no longer be subject to the drfft. Butythese: men «mus]t remain in an orgfnized unit! of the Nat ional Guprd or the Or^apizpd Re- -rve Corps for 4 period of four ^ ar8 * \ ' I I All of these volunteers must ‘port to the Texas MUitary Dis- ■ict by letter withirfiflve daj*s, 'Abbott said. They will be assigned to a National Guard or up Organiz ed Reserve Corps unit according to the physical location of ihe volun teer’s. home. [/ ' City Budget Hearing To Be Helfl August 4 freqt Esthhlishmcnt of MARS wm brought »bout in ordjfr to crciti inten»$<| Ami furUpT/training ir, mllltan' radio commilnicatioM; ti promote Htqdy and Experimenta tion; to 4'oordlnaU' brActlcea And procedure^ of nmateu(r radio opera tors With thoHc of, military rAdio com n/lditi! com event) gene lea Ilona provide ah-1JJ 'training radio •aonnel In ihe TheBrAzoi. ojf Pn feaiiional Engineers I The Battalion, off cial newa^iai City of College Station, Texas, ie Friday afternoon, dxcept during 1 talion is published tri-Weekly on Monday, Wednesday and Friday; year. Advertising rates furnished on request. - (1 The Associated; ^ esh ';is entitled exclusively (to the use for republication of all news dispatches Credited to it oif n<A (tlicrwisc credited in the paper and local hews of spontaneous origin publish- -dd, herein. Rights of re publication* of all other mutter herein are also reserved. /V I u ii I I i M' ; L '■! 1 '-japter of the Texas Society “ ‘ will mal _ Hrehhum/July G. McGuifeJ secretary. Plurm fhr meeting for the trip, according! to McGuire, are for those in Bryan area, to meet oh north sidei of the Bryan courthouse square ut: 4 p. m. Those fit the College Station area are (to meet in front of the YMCA at) the (uime time. J Membciisj planning to attend should phbne H. C. Dillingham or McGuire, jin order that car ar- rnngenicnts may be made, McGuire aikled. ' PALACE Brqan 2‘fi87‘9 IT DAY Experiment Group deceives Grant - m BOB HOPE and LUCILLE BALL 7 ijotcrrd u Offico r.t ’ * tbe Act of ■ 7 v r class i ’>tter j at Po Tif '4 CoUese atnliod* Tcxtt*, CdncroBS of Slarch 3. • News contri' Goodwin Hall. Office, Room 209; MARVIN BROWN, CLAYTON SELPH. Official Notice of ted Press Uaprscnted nationillr bj National Ad- ▼ertiling Service lac* at New York City, Chicago. U* Angeles and Sas Franeiaco. iPF made by tdephonc (4-5444) or at the editorial offlae, . . . . "ho Student Activities • |.j j A public Jifarlnl;. will be lield Thursday. August J. at p. m. in the Colle(e Station City j Hall to disciua the city bud get. -I I RAYMOND ROGKRS 4 i qity Manager be placed by telephone (4-5324) or at the Room 201, 4- r WlUlaiuo ...... Andy Dnvisi.i... Charlie KirLluuu • •» W. K. Colville, David HuiUik. Burton, Fayzo Kandt-j, IjOuIbo Jt ••••••-••(••a. Wire Editor ...Feature Writer; fnes, Henry Iwcrtr, J3obic Myers, prucc (staton, Borjry Spilth, Uohcrt .... .......... ... .Staff Reporters .'... Movie Kcvie-vei UNAL, !■ ■' .Al. UMillSTRA , JWy k, is TiON DATE — Co-Editors FNiduy, JWy 22, is the last day registration ,in tUe eoUoge divUlon credit durln^thc [second term of Uie *(tm-. mrr sesaiotuij- '■ i _ -j. "m ..Sports Co-EUitora uhicli V«u., ,y .SporU Writers --— ../.U Pliotographer Travis Brack. Bill Pott*..— Bill Uttilc, Bill Thornton.. K LLiHelvey.i...; AiU , ^ _ Brad Holmes, Hardy tttwi, Joe Trevino Photo Engravers Kcnnttli Muruk — Staff Cartoonist Ben Brit*Me 'utrey WesdrlrV-. . .Advertising Repreacctatlvcs Krldaj-, c! second terra? of 32, U the last date registration for he 19J» Summer Seliool can. be made tv tilout peniilty. Subjects dropped afte^ tliefe, dates will allow grades cu a. wiere, uaies as tint flnajl cr;ules. ! r J-1 A gratvt-in-ald of $300 has been niade to the Texas Agricultural Elxperiment Station, acordlng to DT, R. D. Lewis, director of the. station. The fund, from the Agricultural Research Division of the American Cyanamid Company of New York, “will be used in the support' of cooperative experiments at the Lower Rip Grande Valley Station on weed control in onions and oth er crops," Dr. Lewis said. j NOTICE or 1-lBIJC 1IKAR1X« , The. City Council hi considering a i>ru‘ poeai to rezone tlie Kyle Pearson traft o land located on Highway 6 South of tli Sulphur Springs Road In the If- Cart- Survey from .the' cxieting District No. 3 Apartment House District, to District No 5, Second Business DUrtet. AU of those that are affected by th t H. L. UKATON Registrar pruswcd change In, the zoning arc Invite^ M| stota HC ill _t 7t» Tburtday, August », JP4». to l»e pr-isent tp present, such th City Comicll at a Public H. _ held In the. City Hall at M. *» !• ’ . M i ; i "'•i. A publi^ blaring (will be Thursday. August 1,i at .7:30 held :30 n. m »l louice mqit|dn» ... t of |i local o^tiaiionaremcr- At prissent thcl membership In limited to mllltart iH>rsoiuirt,| Or ganis'd RtwerveaJ National (iuanl or KOTO peraonn)-! who possaHa » valid amateur radio operators; li cense issued by the Federal Com munications Con()tniwfon. 1 1‘lhns (are heiflg made tio admit civilians who aift at present ,dot authorized. Anyfene interestodL in joining MARS (ian obtain full de tails from any Organized fteacree or National Guqrd instructor’s of fice. RMSATs pf all ROTT units or al any regular \\vny post, camp or station. ^ , Atomic Authority Publishes Book HHHE. I on (Group bf the United Na tidns Secretarial Its (Wo volume, will mark the first attempt.to pro JiT Volume one,| i'hlch contains m« teHals on thei political, scientific, of atomic ener i An International Bibliogra] on I Atomic Energy has been ,pi pared by the Atomic Energy Coi miteion Group lof the United Na- tioins Secretariat. Its t/wp volumes A and social asp gY.iji Dow a vi dealing with publish Uternture on atomic two, ittflc Volume blished sden 1 energy, will be published later ip 1949; TI I i;-- CIVI cod today. N TODAY & WM FOJKT R1 JDAY pH ^S^rrowful Joikjs i 1 ;*-!.*.-.r" —- QUEEN LAST DAY ‘The Crooked N- ! Starring j . PAYiOP . GLEN DREW ... worlds CARTOON U-. NEWS ii —Features Start— 1:13 - 3:06 -.8:24 - 5:22 8:38; *10:00 .1 ■; , — No Friday Prevue — 5 : FRIDAY - SAT _ GENE TIERNEY “BELLE STARr i! t . i: most wauled 7I penlll S.., happy birthday! Give yean of writ ng pleas ure with the pen that itea dry with wet ’...Parker ”51“. ice of aJaart; ~ color* and hrrci ground points. SI IFpf* w : 'Ik 1 ' T Beivlng Texfti* Aggies r^.