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Volume 49 , :
Farm! Bure
Fir^t Meeti
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(Aggieland), TEXAS, MONDAY,
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The first Texas Farm Bureau Institute
l yesterday afternoon with registration in the
ires have
IYMGA.; Two hundred and fifty people have Registered or
,iave paid their fees, although final fi
icompiUd. : r | / ^ j
Marvin Carter, state organization^ ' I I t
director, of the Texan Farm Bureau
! Federation, Will preside ?over tcj-
v, day’s session which opened at S
/. in the YMCA. After a 15 minute
Jaynes,
singing iprogram
chairman, Farm -
(ooperative Marketing of the A&M
Extension Service, introduced the
I hosts of Che Institute. ’ 1 (
Wjest Gives History
" J/:> Following the introduction, J. H.
^ Wefrt, sucretary.treasurer of ihe
Texas Fterm Bureau federation,
gave the hiatory bf the organiza
tion, The next speaker on the
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gram was R. G, Arnold, southtm
region; organization director, who
spoke on I the growth and develop-
ment of !the Farm Bureau in the
f South. M Iv. i :•••
Following Arnold’s talk, dasa-
^ rooin inatructian was lH<gg{i. The
IimtiUitc will offer four basic
Bub/«ctM~|n the curriculum: jihfl*
nsnphy and policies of the Farm
Bureau, salesmanahip, public speak
ing, and; membership acquisition
k ''-and maintenance. ^ j |
* ‘ f • Panel Diecuseion Lf/
_ The highlight of-> the Institute
will be the panel discussion on
Friday afternoon, with the subjec
being “Farm Bureau and Govern
inient Agricultural Agency Rela
tionship.* 7 ! Jaynes will be the mod
Orator for the discussion.
Speakers who will take'part in
the discussion include D. W. Will
iamson, vice chancellor^, A&M Col
lege System; ■ G, N. Shepardson,
dean of the School of Agriculture,
A&M; and J. D. PrOwit, vice di-
ector Texas Extension Service.
Others to take part in the forum
are J. Walter Hammond, president
T of the TFBF; Allan Kl^ne, presi-
f dent of the Americanj Farm Bureau
Federations Roger Fleming, direct
or of the Washington, D. G< office,
AFBF; J. H. West; B. C. Lowery,
State vocational education direct-
qr; B.,F, Vance, State PMA direct-
.•orj L. J. Capplemah, state ,FHA
- director; S. J. Payne, chairman,
State Soil Conservation Board; and
Sterling Evans of the Farm Credit
Administration.
'' 175 Units 1 1 ^
,y
The; Texas Farm Bureau Fed
eration has 175 organized county
units with a total membership jaf-J-^
approximately 38,000. The Ameri
can . Farm Bureau ( Federation, of
which the TFBF is a member, is
made up of 43 state federation^
and, one in Puerto Rico, and has
an estimated 1,250,000 members. ;
The institute will close with a
banquet Friday night at f which
certificates will be awarded • ti>
those who complete the course.
began here
obby of the
not yet been
Fief
Aggies Revive
‘Reb’ Customs
By BERT HI
Chanute Field Batt I Correat
(At?)
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This “off we go | Into the wild
blue ...” is pure nropaganda--
nothlng oUo--it should go as fol
lows: “you’re in taa j Army now
, . , * r Camp Hood was never like
thlaJ . L v ( '},
j This past wcokoml marked the 1
mblpolnt of loui^ stay here at.
Chatmte Field. On,]ioy» joy,.BPt
on (he other hand there me still
three more Weeks to go, or should
I faly:^''endilt , e. , * ;
Every evening before Retreat a
very intemting thing happens. We
“Rebels” hold Advance, since a
Southern army never refreato; it
is only natural that the lowering
of a Confederate flag while the
Rebpls sing Dixie,should be called
“Advance.”
It is a very ceremonious occa
sion;, with a bugler, roll call of
Southern states, a pertinent com
munique telling of the Yankees’
retajew/ etc.; ' j j
Last Saturday night the first of
three scheduled dances was held
for j us. The lights were dim, the
music ! was soft, the boots were
shirted, but only 30. girls. The
next dance, which is scheduled for
next Saturday should prove to be
much better.
In many respects this is very
similar to A&M. We get up about
6;30 a. m., walk about 15 miles per
day, and then attend classes from
C uptiF 10 every night! In ray
outfit there are nine other Aggies,
so about 15 minutes after the class
staraT,! can look around me and
see pine Aggies sacked outj I feel
right at home.
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That “Alaskan' Look" Is on Its way out. Bob (center) and Dick
Overly are getting their Alaskan grown beards removed by a north
gate barber. ^ j
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Washington, July 24
tremendous outpouring of dollars
will sweeten the pockets of 16,000,*-
000 World War II veterans early
next year.
The dollars will come from a
$2,800/100,000 dividend built up by
the National Service Life Insur
ance fund over the past nine years.
The long awaited application
blanks for the G. I. life insurance
refund will be handed out begin
ning August 29.
Veterans Administrator Carl R.
Gray Jr., said today the forms will
be available on that date in every
post office, every VA office and at
veteran’s service organizations.
Gray advised veterans to send in
their applications (illed out as com
pletely as possible.
“Then wait until the checks stprt
out in January,” he said.
200,000 Checks Per Day
The checks being mailed out will
reach a rate of 200,000 a day, five
days per week,t \
The average check will be $175
with veterans gutting mure or lesa
depending [upon age when they
bought NSLI, mimbev of montha
the insurance was kept in force,
and total amount of insurance held,
Every veteran who held some
NSLI for at least three months
will get a dividend if he applies
for it.
It is highly probable that some
veterans never''will apply, Cither
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s will
|cies issued from 1940 through 1947.
Eight Year Accumulation
The money represents an eight-
year accumulation of what, In ef
fect, have been overpayments of
premiums. The death rate | has
been lower than the standard table
holders\and their de-'i upon which the prenliium rate has
because they don’t want to or be
cause they won’t hear about the
payments. The Veterans. Adminis
tration has announced that it will
do its best to\ see 1 that dividend
information is spread to all points
in the country: \ ' j
Abount 16,000,000 present and
fbnnfcr - x -
pendents will share \ln the pay
ments through the 2O,0QO,OOO poll-
been based.
In Dallas, Veterans Administra-
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Fail to Become‘Sourdoughs’ ... r
Overly Boys Hie Northward
To Bask Uridtir Alaskan Sun
tnose wno complete me course.
J \ Hammond Will be toastmaster arid
r Kline will deliter an address.
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Wade Wins Prize
At Local Theatre
Malcolm: E. Wade, an A&M man
agement engineering student, and
Mrs. Wade were the surprised win
ners of $175 ' Wednesday night.
They won the money when their
car license ..number, KT-4335, was
drawn as the “lucky license” at
the Skyway pfive-Jn‘Theater.
Mr. and Mrs. -Wgde almost de-
. cided not to go to; the Drive-In
that night, but as he puif it, “It’*-
just one of those things a fel-
- low falls into once in a life-time,;
♦ I guess.”
Wade said that he has been
ing to A&M under Part VII of the
GI Bill, but his eligibility recency
ended. He stated that the prize
money will enable him to extend
his training here through the last
term of summer school. ••
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Prairie View Receives
Alexander Loan Fund
T •ISMT 1 s ■
iTRp M. J. Alexander Loan Fund
Has made $100 available to Prairie
View A&M to be used as scholar
ships for agricultural students, ac
cording to Dr. E. B. Evans, presi-
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WEATHER
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EAST TEXAS— Partly cloudy
< Ihls afternoon, tonight and Tues-
. day with scattered thundershow
ers in east por
tion; not htich
change in teni-
peratmW} mod
erate' to Ideally
fresh southeast
winds on t h e
coast.
WEST TEX
AS — P'artly
cloudy this af
ternoon, tonight
a n d Tuesday
with mattered
evening thunder-
the Pecoe Valley
much change In
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SHOWERS
afternoon and
showers from
westward; not
temperatuim
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Veterans Advisors
ttjrt Thursday
A | representative from the con
tact office and the insurance office
ojf the Veterans’ Administration
regional office in Waeo will be on
the Campus Thursday to discuss
problems of any kind With veterans,
Taylor Wilkins, veterans advisor
here, said today.
The representative will be in
room 261 Bizzell Hall from 9:30
Thursday morning to 3:30 in the
afternoon,Hv^ilkins said.
Wilkins urged that all veterans
\yith Isubsistence or other problems
see the represchtative regardless
of previous j action\ that has been
taken.!
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By W. K. COLVILLE
While we A&M summer- unfor
tunates par-boiled in juices secret
ed by minds squeezing and cramp
ing 4% months work, into 6 weeks,
$h«i Overly brothers, Dick and Bob,
ithd. Jim, packed their tents and
stole more or less silently north
ward to bask in the cooling rays
of the Midnight Sun.
The trio returned a week ago
from the Alaskan and Yukon
areas with tales of mountains, mal-
amutes, and moose as wild and
wooly as the tapgled beards sport
ed on their respective faces.
' Dick, an ME major and three-
year letterman on the A&M foot
ball team, Jim, a BA major, and
Bob, an ME major, packed grub,
guns, and their father into an
-auto on i June 7, and started
Alaska way.
I was, wandering around the,
Mitchell catacombs the other day
and dropped in their room to get
a second-hand taste of life in the
Arctic social circle. The boys were
engaged in unsnarling travel-kinks
in their face fur and I managed to
untangle some highlights of the
trip.
“We had a hell-raisin’ time,”
Bob said, flicking a bit of foreign
material from his burnt-orange
beard.. “Fishin’, huntin’, layin’
around flat of our backs; there
ain’t nothin’ like it” . After the Overlys hit Fairbanks,
The first leg of the trip was | Alaska, they unanimously decided
comparatively uneventful with vis
its to Pike’s Peak, Yellowstone,
aRid Glacier National Park, but:
the long trek up the rugged Al
askan Highway from Alberta, Can
ada, would make the Rover Boys
feel like recluses.
• Tasked the brothers about the
condition of the Alaskan Highway.
“It’s no * Pennsylvania T u r n -
pike,” said Dick, “but it’s pretty
good for that territory. We got pn
thfe tail Of. a moose that was run
ning dojwn the , highway. He
couldn’t get off because of the
steep sides. Damn near ran ’im
to death trying to get a shot with
the camera."
They hunted and fished for most
of their food on the way up, spend
ing the night in sleeping bags.
Sometimes when the weather was
a little raw, they sardined them
selves in the car, started the mot
or, and turned on the heater. This
whs a luxury seldom enjoyed with
gas selling at about four-bits a
gallon.
Black bear, caribou, and moose
wicre the biggest gaijnc they came
across. Bob told his special formula
for hunting black bear.
“You take a grin and a fifth
when you go out huntin’ bear.
If you don’t kill a bear, .kill a
fifth” !• !
Steer Clear of Red Gathering
Seeing the Sights of Rome
Possible in One Morning
By ART HOWARD
Battalion European Correspondent
LOME, July 25—(Spl),—I never
be eved it possible, to see most of
his ;oric Rome, in one morning, but
thef A&M Architectural tour did it
today. After a quick mail check
at the American Express we saw
the Colosseum, a large Commun
ist gathering, the Roman Forum,
tenple rums, the Arches of Con-
stentine, Titus, and Septius Serv-
us, the Pantheon, and the Column
f gjiSp 1 v ^
: loweve:
all tour
coi nplete
da rs. Last; night we drove by! the
Vatican and saw St. Peters Cathe
dral—which haa the second largest
dofne in the world.
Communist Demons!
’The Communist demonstration
wc saW was held in part ; of the
Colosseum. There was a crowd
of; approximately 9,000 there to
hear someone speak—we never
found' out who. Our bus haia an
t “American Express" sign on it,
and we were afraid to park near
this wak a quick over-
we will make & moire
udy In the next three
ylthe
there
s rim Goodrum, Don Jarvis, Hank
Di via, and I climbed up some ruins
behind the speaker and took pic
tures of the crowd. It might have
been awlkWnrd to mingle there be-
cause there is much antl-Amerl-
can feeling. j
All over Italy we have seen the
hammer and sickle, plus posters
proclaiming tqe North Atlantic
Pact as a harbinger of war. And
as we left the forum we saw
trucks of soldiers Standing by in
case riot < broke out.
Americans Disliked
Even without agitation, how
ever, it is easy to see why Ameri
cans are disliked here. As we
drove down the Riviera at least
one-fifth of the houses had been
shelled or bombed and the seaports
were even harder hit.
Yesterday we had a very pleas
ant stop in Pisa where we saw the
famous leaning tower and the Ca
thedral of Pisa—both excellent ex
amples of Romanesque Architec
ture. Nearly every member of the
group climbed to the top of the
tower. Whenfeyou walk around the
outer railing the lean is very, very
apparent.
Across the square we had our
first , Cokes since leaving the
States, and it was worth the 20
cents they cost. For some (reason
they are plentiful in Italy, but
jscarce In France.
Five Course Dinner
Another memorable event in the
past few days wu a five-course
dinner in Livorono, th,e town we
’ — for some reason.
a small break
know as .Leghorn, f
We had ieaten only
fast, and it was 3:
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time we sat down to eat.
A thick potato soup was follow
ed by a large serving j of roast
beief. Then came the main course
of spaghetti, with cake jand fruit
for dessert. All of this was doused
with liberal quantities of: wine and
water, i 1 • | .
Cigarettes are still a very good
medium of exchange over here.
Our prof, Joe Meador, ram out and
has had to smoke the j local Bull
Durham product or pay! 50 cents
a pack! ifor American Cigarettes.
All it took to cross the French-
Italian border customs was a
slight bribe of two pqel
j Only Few Misha]
We have had only a tew minor
mishaps thus far. Our group scat
ters so fabt that Meador has in
stituted the Army method of
couhting-off, assigning Everybody
a numbeir.: / l
After a rest stop in Ue French
Alps the motor of our bus was
running, ready to leave, when the
“count-off” showed one m an to be
absent. It turned out oi
mod Jaccard of Houston,
been looking for a “bonfire decor
ation,” {as he put it. it !-
One must be careful of gold
bricks in this town. One member
of our group almost bought a Pan
ker “51" pen when .1
that It was spelled PerU,.
Aftei we leave Rome,: Florence
an to b<
be Mar*
who had
and Venice will be our
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(t Stops.
to become sourdoughs—a, sour
dough being a man who has spit
in the Yukon River, made love to
an Eskimo, killed a bear, rind en
dured a few other unprintable
orgies. They aimed toward Arctic
Circle. City, home of the Yukon,
determined to christen themselves
“doughs of some sour degree.”
In a few days they were full-
fledged sourdoughs, though none
could or would, admit the Es
kimo requirement.
“I’d rather make love to the
bqar,’’ Jim confided, with ja gesture
indicating that the female Eskimo
has all of the sex-appeal of a
leprous Ubangi.”
On the way back from the Yukon
saturnalia, the Overlys had a mis
understanding on the nari’ow high?
way, and with typical Aggie in
genuity, ran into the only othqr
car for hundreds of miles. No oije
was seriously injured, brit the car
was left a twisted • caricature qf
its former self.
This left them roughly 4d00
miles from home with: no means
of transportation on a highway
that snickered at the pleading jerks
of a hitch-hikers thumb. The only
store thereabouts was' owned by
tbo other participant ini the wreck,
and he had closed his business mid
gone up river to a doctor.
So, the Overlys sphnij two frigid
days trying to snag u ride back
into Fairbanks, and bickering pro
and coition the nutritional qualities
of cold canned beans arid bread.
(The final episode of the Overly’s
“Alaskan adventure” will appear
in Wednesday’s Battalion,)
Redecoration job
Planned for Guion
| The interior of Guion Hall will
have a new face by the time stu
dents return for the: fall semester.
Tom Puddy, manager of Guion
Hall, estimated the paint job
would cost around $4,000. ,
Hi R. Covington is In charge of
the painting and has {six painters
doing the job. The newi colors on
the interior are green, gold, old
rose, purple and buff. Three coats
of paint were put on the walls.
Covington said the painting job
would take about five wrecks.
Puddy Is also haying all the
drapes renovated.
pnpp^i ipppHiHH
tion officials reported about 1,400,-
000 (M) premium record cards
have been microfilmed in prepara
tion for payment of dividends to
Texas, Louisiana 1 and Mississippi
veterans. ’ • 11 •- :, i
The application blanks that vet
erans will receive next month are
in three detachable parts. One part
carries, the instructions. Another
portion contains blanks to be filled
in .by the veteran or his beneficL
ary. The third part is a post card
which the VA will mail' bagk tjo
the veteran iiuiicatingrthe claim Is
being processed. > • j;
!• The ajppliyation forms wiR be
handed out at every post
, VA of file and vctoranV
centers. ] / V;'i' :'"
| Beneficiaries of deceased vetet*
nns l riho 'carried the insurance will
bo eligible for dividends.
uranee win |
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800,000 Trixans Eligible i
Dallas! VA officials estimated 1
about 800,000 Texans will have the [
right to a»k for dividends.
it (IimWuT natter greatly i|f Ut«.|
veteran docs imt kimwi the mimbrir*
olMi'U litsut'uivce policy, Gray suijl.
.Withe apiillchtion cup readily ho
identified by service ritf tuber J rank
arid the expel tltto ijsed during
Service,”’ lie explained. ; I ’ [!
| “It will not be necessttry to write
to us about the. Insurance number
or about thei status of the applica
tion.” - 11
“Veterans who do wr|te in, wttl
only delay their own payment, be
cause It will delay the production
line.” i| : . i if -. ,j
President Truman has ordered
that, payment of tho special divG"
(lend be completed tyefo
June 30. •
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Doralnc Rcnarri and her partner Ellis Lucas will n’eaont t
program of "Costumed Cameos of Famous Musicals” in ifhe G
Wednesday evening.
their
riove
Robertson to Get .
Doctor’s Degree
G. L. Robertsori, instructor of
animal husbandry at A&M, left
Tuesday for the University of Wis
consin where he will work on his
doctor’s degree in animal breed
ing, J. C. Miller, head of It
mal husbandry depa:
nounced today.
Robertson secured hi:
gree atj L. S. U. and
degree here. He joined
husbandly dtptrtUMt
the fall of 1946 and now has been
Wednesday evening.
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Performance Here Wednesday
Soprano Doraine Henard and Tenor Ellis Lucas will pre
sent the last show of the Summer entertainment series in
The Grove Wednesday evening at 8.
' Their show, entitled “Costumed Cameos of Famous Mu
sicals,” presents a complete lyrical story of various musicalia.
if the ani-
an-
S; De-
granted a year’s leave of absence
to work on his doctorate
v.
The' pair arc already known here
because of theiri summer performy
ancc last year. I As a rule, enter
tainers are not re-signed for shows
in successive years, but the sum
mer entertainment committee of
the Student Senate asked for them
again because their popularity
last summer, according to C, G.
White; director |of student activi
ties.
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No Admission Charge
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Yellow fee slips will be the only
udmlseion charge for students and
members of the college staff. Oth
ers who wish to see the perform
ance, must bring their own chairs,
White said.
Wherever their duo presenta
tions of the light opera classics
have appeared, the, twtf singers
have won the acclaim of audiences
and critics alike, said White.! :
Last year the pair appeared {on
Town Hall in New York City, ^he
praise of Edward Johnson, general
manager of the Metropolitan Qp-
era Association, brought the (Juo
an offer to appear in concert: at
the Cleveland Public Auditorium.
There, they sang before an aiidi-
ence of 10,000, White said.
New Thought Needed
Lucas and Miss Renard met dur
ing the summer after thejr grad
uation from college and afteit a
brief courtship were married. Their
unique presentation of cameosj of
famous musicals created that sum
mer resulted from their realization
that success ip the musical world
demanded new thought.
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Music from such shows as “Stu
dent Prince,” “Naughty Marietta,”
“Sweethearts,” “Showboat,” “Vag
abond King,” and “Rio Rita” has
been used in their presentations.
At their performance here last
year, the two sang parts from
“Student Prince,” and “Annie Get
Your Gun.”
Ag Men to Attend
Rambouillet Show
jefoiwl.next?.
Lynn
First in Bryan
Beauty Contest
/Lynn Sparks of College
of College Station and Mar
jorie Kelley of Hearne were
judged first place and runner-t
up in Bryan ? s Junior Chamber .
of Commerce beauty contest |
hetld at Bomber Baseball Field \
in ^Bryari Saturday night.
^MiSs Brazos Valley of 19t9”. is
the title that went to Miss Sparks
ns winner of the contest. : Shje will
Represent the (Brazoi Valley area
in] the “Miss Te
Four members <!>f A&M's agri
cultural division will attend the
San Angelo Rambquilirt Show un<l
SaleX tomorrow anil Wfcdnesday. i
Members making the trip are
Dr. J. C. Miller, head of the Animal
Husbandry Department; Dr., R. EL
Patterson, assistant (director of tint
razoif
-exas” eontejst ...
■t, Arthur Ajigust 5.
■bird iri the contest was Tidgo
Rnjttan of! Station. She was
thlii smallest .entry in thei edritest,
hi Insuring only: five feet lone inch
tall. • r.jv j
Lynn was cliosen first in the
cdhprit from a field of, thjrtecn
candidates. She was prezlnted tno
winners trjjphyk and a bouquet of
flowers by Bonnie Bland of Orange
Who' was “Miss Texas of 1948.”
: Stjcond p lace Marjorie Kelley, a
llcariid hlj h school graduate, re
ceived a i roatj applause ati each
one Of her eritrancos. She v/ns at
iu disndvar teKO however becailso
•f 1 :
eift Tea
thp afternojori foli•
n,f.„ ’T 1 ]
animal husl)amlry : in charge of
sheep and goat iiiwmtigution;. nndj
J. H. Jones, profl«sor of animal
husbandry. < |
In addition to t)he; show, the
group will meet with fbe sheep!
breeders who furnished rams for
an experiment conducted at Sonora
to test the improvement of sheep
through the selection j of perform
ance - tested and progeny - tested
breeding animals. i
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Doraine and Ellis were the fifst
classical artists to be sent over-
sead to entertain servicemen dur
ing the last war. Prior to and dur
ing the invasion of the European
continent, the two were doing their
show in England. They sang for
allied armies all the way from
Dutch Guiana to Iceland, White
said. ■•>■!• ■
nlf had not appeared on the “Tal*
put Tt'a” held in Bryan earlier In
M...
tot- thu.candidates.
At the tea, Lynn impressed the
Texas Agricultural Experiment jUflgeS Nyitl a dramatic NkiU piano
Station; J. M. Joncji, professor of playing, arid singing.
-a jPorls Turek hi d Jeanine Brown
off Bryan, imst w
tept, siervedl as
yoai
nners in the cqn-
losteBses to this
lira conteatants. j j
(Miss. Spurkfi was sponsored In
the Coriteiri j by A[ M. Waldrop arid
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