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anted
By BILL BILLINOSUBY
y Battalion Farm E<lltor
(Edltor'a Nat<*: THIn running
*' account of “what Ufa la Ilka out-
! aide Um* walla,'' won aent In hy
Bill from hla home near Waxa-
haehle to let the ttUff know how
ho waa gettlnc alonf. It waa ao
K<nm1, wh' derided to make BUI
i Farm Kdltor, and .run hla altory,
BUI Will return hi<re In the Fall
lo take up hla dutlea um co-editor
of the IMtt-60 lluttallon.)
flomewhare north of .College Bit'
Albn, July 20—(Splt-The poitman
/lluat came roarlnf ln with a apew-
H Ing of gravel, a creaking of leath
er, with hla hbroe air In a lather
and issued me one, copy of El
!| Battalion,: TLe periodical gran
bcaucoup." '
To quote the natives of Hindus
tan, it looks fine. Keep up the
good static and all that sort of
1 thing. 1 ■
And It the paper is good, life on
the Billingsley plantation just
within the shadow of the Mercah-,
tile National Bank Building, iq
much better yeti, ,
I have been working mine
r body off In the fields of cotton
and several other sordid places,
but It beats going to college
eighty different directions.
My arrival here just preceded
the end of the thteshing season
and I got in two days on the
thresher. ^Another day, I was a
carpenter helping build a new
chicken house for our succylent,
potential fried chicken. (Beats
<! Sbisa any day.),
/ Yesterday, my Bad and I played
cowboy by, moving about 30 head
; of cattle from our other place here
and doctoring them for the, pink
eye i a disease affecting cattle,
| . newspapermen, and drunkards.)
• Tomorrow, I will start in or
a week of atubble breaking.
All of this, of course, has beeri’
in the ..daytime. At night, the
lights of‘Dallas come up and I giv<
, three howls at the moon and an
off to the races.-
So far, I haye dated all my
old girl friends but one, and she,
i v (dull creature) is engaged. Her
fiance (a po.v upon him) has
broad shoulders, but a narrow
mind, so I guess that I’ll have to
nuke out with the others..
Last week, I went up to the Da
las News Building and who did I
stumble into but George Charitoi
fourteenth editor ib charge of the
\ Associated Press wire and chief
copy bhy .around make-up. time.
I He seemMi to be enjoying
Work and looked well. We i
iw fa
othsr night, I nawl! Gerald Yo?k
ex-Agriculturist edljtor, I haven't
seen Chuck CablnenlH or J. T. Mllf
bry*t ' ; T
As I suspected, I'm not getting
supposed to go partying
Wednesday n1w»t. ; y i
That News build! ig is really a
piece of g«ar; beautiful equipment,
perfectly lityed out,
has a private offld
I talked with
people on the
..Ofortn- editor
seehia to be a llttl
inclined than some
Out at nit
id everybody
eral other
Including
Rives, who
more Aggie
' the others,
its spot th<
any side writing ddiit, and probab
ly won't do any until get bad:
ther getting
ready to go out or hitting the sac):
around what should be my writ’
ing time. Literature will probab
ly absorb the shock though.
I’m about out of soap and heed
the pleepf so I guess Td better buJt:
WEATHER
TB
cloudiness with scattered thund^r-
aostl;
EAST TEXAS — Considerable
loudlness ^
showers, mi
in north and Cen
tral portio ns
this afterno m
and Thursdty;
partly clou d;
tonight; ii
much change in
tempera-
tures; moderjite
to fresh sou:h*t
east windjs oh
coast. ..
WEST TEX-
i .j LV^r AS — Coniid-
HUMID erable clot di-
ness with scattered thundersh< wv
ers this afternoon, early tonijiht
and Thursday; not much change
Iff temperatui
, , , Hij]
Eight year 014, James Ba
hour of Wichita! Falls Wi
struck by a 1936 Chevrole
coupe, Monday night, shortl
after nine in front of the A
gieland Inn, according to i
formation received from Wil
iam G. Breazeale, assista
director of Student Affair;
Young Barbour was crossing
from the Aggielahd Inn going lo
Sbisa Hall. He darted out from
behind a southbound car and w£s
struck by the northbound Chevro
let, driven by Ben H. Jcanes, a
senior agricultural student.
J. D. Young, a junior agricul
ture student from Harlingen, ard
V. B. Drozd, a junior ugricultui e
student from El Campo, were tie
first to reach the boy. His parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Loys Barbour, wlo,
are attending the Farm Bum u
Institute. Short Course, took ■ipt
to the Bryan Hospital when he
complained that his stomach hurt.
- Jipuhy was released from the
Bryan Hospital after an examina
tion showed (Oily a bruise on his
side.
Jeanes was driving 104a 12 (n.|p
when the child was hit.
Crawford Return
From Hospital
Fred Crawford, a graduate as
sistant in ,the Agricultural Ecojn-
omics and Sociology Departments
rned to A&M after beipg
published
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A&M
WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1949
Doraine
Perform
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Bureau
Brannan Plan
r
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T\ 7
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Federation heard
nan Plan
tall IM J. Walter
ideni! ^)f the Bu-
V. ' J
*k: ‘ft
Yestorday'a i|neetin0; of the Tex
ns Farm Bureau
the much disputed
discussed in
Hammond, pr
reau.
Today marks the [thin! day of
the Bureau’s meet hr re and more
discussion on farm legislature, both
state and national, is evident in
the future, said Ham/mond.
The Brannap. plan! has become
too much of a politibal issue and
no longer has: the interest of the
farmer as its primary objective,
Hammond said. It, has become a
party campaign issue jand the Farm
Bureau, in following
nfle
!its non-part
is opposed
Doraine Benanl and Ellis Lucas, costumed here, for Herbert’s
“Sweethearts” will appear tonight at The! Grove at S p.m., pre
senting! their “Costumed Cameos of Famous Musicals.”
Saves Montgomery $70
Architects
Of Pope on
By ART HOWARD
dion; European Correspondent
isan policy inj polit:
to it
Also the Biiannan j plan has not
based its parity on anything stable
as did the Aikin bill. The present
farm parity is based on the farm
er’s costs of jiving ind is stable,
Hammond said; howtver, it is still
not adequate for a successful farm
program.
The Brannan plan seeks to, put
farm prices on a 100 per cent
parity, but it first (advocates let-
Get Blessings
Vatican Visit
x’ has returned to a&m. alter oei
“a released from'Brooka General H
?; pital in San Antonio after Olf i
m tack of polio, according to Ij>r.
Daniel Russell of the Rural Sco
iology Department. j] '
Crawford spent the early part
i
the summer in Mexico City t
of
id
two days after returning to Sbn
Antonio contracted the dreiad
.disease. .• /’ : . |
He will try to complete his the
sis for a masters degree by the epd
Of August so he can begin wcjrk
on a doctorate at the Univers ty
of Texak.
Eat Beans. Throw Pennies
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Battalion European Correspondent
ROME,; July 21—The architects’
Europeanj tour saw the Pope yes
terday afternoon in the Vatican.
Although no one in the group is
Catholic,, j everyone enjoyed the
spectacle, the pomp and the ritual.
Swiss guards were studded all
along the entrance and the long
corridors leading to the reception
room. Our group was sent to the
balcony where 20 watchful Swiss
guards stood with swords and hal
berds.
We h^d been lucky enough to
visit the; Vatican on Wednesday,
the only day when the Pope has a
public reception. j
As soon as his private guards
came intp the reception room) the
people in the crowd started yell
ing at the top of their 1 voices. The
Pope entered on a chair carried by
light guards, the entire caravan
being guarded by 12 Swiss guards
armed With nickle plated rifles,
halberds, and swords.
Antics of Crowd
Many people in the crowd were
loaded down with rosaries cruci
fixes and various other objects.
They all tried to get the Pope to
touch them as he was carried down
the laislei to the throne. There were
several nuns on the throne and
they were chanting something
while the crowd kept up its re
sounding yell.
Aiapkan J*humbing Bitter
misinebs Claim Overlys t
K. COLVILLE
note. This is the
ond of a series of two features
on the Overlys’ Alaskan trip.
The Iflrsl feature appeared in
J Mondfy’s Battalion.)
Two bl<)ak, bitter, and boreal
days were shuddered through by
the roving Overlys In Artie Circle
City attempting to get back to
Fairbanks, p
ing Company. (Mr. Ovefly was of
fered a good position and is still in
Alaska working for the company.)
The U. S. Mining Company re
cently had, a spread in Life maga
zine telling of the! unearthing of a
pre-historic baby mammoth found
almost completely preserved In a
layer of frozen strata. In the few
days that thdy worked, the bro
ther* themselves uncovered
At ja jsigh from the Pope the
noise ceased, and the Pope began
crowd. He said
have us there,
.. us *nd our home
towns, j J [tk-
The ajmazing part of this was
that he spoke s« different lan
guages’ Italian, French, English,
German, Spanish and Norwegian.
Boy Scout Group *
Then a group of Boy .Scouts
were brpught up to him and re
ceived hjs special greeting. No one
was allbwei to leave until this
time, when the official reception
took plice. One woman with a
Small child in distress tried to
leave, bjut vas restrained by the
Swiss gpanls. *■]
At this t me the Pope began to
circulate through the audience,
blessing! th<[ rosaries and nodding
New
from side to side, (jhir bus driver,
Roger, a Catholic Was able to get
our gift rosaries blessed,
Roger was enthralled by the
ceremony and refused to leave un
til the Pope left.
The ceremony must have been
effective, for it helped us later in
the day when we went swimming
in the Mediterannean. The surf
was fine and there were plehty of
breakers. ’ j
We had taken ouf clothes to.;the
beach because we Were afraid to
leave thein in the bus. When we
got back to the hotel, Ira "Monty”
Montgomery missed his iwallct
with $70 cash in it.
He hired 4 cab and drove back
to the beach. Sure enough, he
fourid it where we had left our
clothes.
Lucky? No, he was blesSed by
the Pope. '; ' i •
York, Washington, Cape
Cod peen by Aberdeen Aggies
By GEORGE Sj KENT
Aberdeen Proving Ground Batt
\ Correspondent (Ord)
I '|1 I b ’ , '
Aggies here have been enjoying
the sights of New York as well
as the beacjhes of Cape Cod. Some
enjoyed 1 the holiday in Washing-
ton - .: | j h' . .J |
Many cases of beautiful sun
burn werel decorating those who
had spent |their time, on thq beach
es.
Part of ^ast week was spent in T
spec ting the Ordnance General De
pot, nearvChambersburg, Pennsyl
vania. Two days were required tb
complete the Inspection as the de-
pot includes 42,000 acres of maga
zines, warehouses, add outside
storage of 30,000 ] tanka, trucks
; I 'if After feeding themselves moun-
' tains of cold canned beans, and the
highway a. small fortune In pennies
for; luck, a(n obsolete sawmill truck th
came along and picked them
From Circle City to Fall
, and Fairbanks to Valdez,
they were to pick up a ne
. .tha hitch-hiking was s;
IT: and scattered Overlys
Alaskan Territory. A
native Alaskan* still
all Texans go to Aft .
nemed Overly. : f
I ) Dick Oviriy was
IV: ‘ !
I,
pack and went on to
coast town of Valdez
another car. H*
gathered up Ms father
there, ..ami ..they
Fairbanks. J (
j" They stayed in
I about a week where, un
they all got jobs with
States Smelting and Refi
mamoth tusk weighing about 300
pounds, and brought a portion of it
• • * " states with them. .
*e representatives of
l Chamber of Com-
:rce, the Overlys told oil
15 pound
as big jab!
* plum
are quite a bit (higher tha
” sold for
and bi
back to
Soun<
the Calif<
cabb-
and
s.
.... ft»
-bits and oix-b:
Houston nite-club d
that
finally broke; ^
to mush their
back i Uizatioru j via
Louise Banff, two of
Odhtl Picturesque and
ular
r Besi
Octirity
Louise
shapely
thers all
Tearing themselves away from
the resorts, they dropped in on the
famous Stampede at Calgary, Can
ada. The) Stampede isj the rodeo to
end all rodeos. Jim said it would
make a Texas rodeo look like a
children’k riding academy, j
For 12 hours straight with no
intermission some of the roughest
rodeo stock in captivity do their
best to kill contestants, rodeo per
formers, and spectators. Sixteen
chutes are kept going almost at
the same time;; almost too much
for one person t> concentrate on.
Horse and cfttuck wagon rac
ing particularly appeal to the j
Overlys — horse racing to
tune of a tidy 1 sum-— left )
the good people of Calgary,
The current >hrase, “Wha hojp-
pen” seems to [have originated in
Canada.
“No matter what you ask a
Canadian,” sahl Jim, “he always
says, 'They did eh? Wha
pppen.’" , '
The wandering boys finally de
cided tp trudge l*ome, but with the
jell of Ihe Yukon still in their
itrils, and tile fur still on their
iks. 1 :
So if you wint some **ge *d-
and artio tales from three
nowshoe
(in Mit-
to
2 A&M Students !
Injured in Wreck
Raymond J. Jochetz Jr., third
year fish and game student from
Eagle Lake, and Jake Watson,
senior landscape art student from
Richardson, were injured last Sun
day night in an automobile acci
dent ai ! Corsicana.
Neither of the students were
seriously injured, according to in
formation received by Bennie A.
Zinn, assistant dean of men. They
are expected to return to school
within the next few days. > i
4M-" 1 "’""i' ■■ Iw?
rdcughs, snows
to the Overly abode in
‘ ly 'Wha hoppen.’
jeeps, and many other anpy vehic*
leg, -4 . ; ' /
A&M led the military end of
the camp with Bill Stoffcngren as
an able company commander. The
2nd and 3rd platoons were com
manded by Bill Bleeker and George
Keene, respectively:
Pinky” Burch and Leon Hamp
ton were platoon sergeants of
their platoons. A&M will have a
big foot irt the situation next week
when the second, third, and fourth
platoons will be commanded by
Horace Ehderle, George Kerit, and
Wylie Wootton. “Tiger” McNeese
will be the platoon sergeant for
the third platoon.
Wednesday, Thursday, and Fri
day were spent on the rifle range
firing .50 calibre machine guns,
M-l Garands, and M-l carbines.
A&M took top honors in this
event all the wqy. The individual
hijjh point man for the camp was
George Kent with a score of 194
oujt of a; possible 200. A&M led
the schools with an average" of
174.5. Nine men of , our group of
24 qualified as experts.
In sports, A&M is still ahead of
the other schools. We beat Clem-
son in a hard fought softball game
by a score Of 7*6-
ting farm prices seek
and demand evel.
Advocate* C ml rolled Production
The Farm Bureau Is endeavor
ing to get IcgjUtntlon passed which
will place the fanners on the sumo
level With libor, Hammond ex
plained.! This will necessitate con
trolled production'to keep prices
up, butjnfter all if Industries and
labor ckn do it why can’t the farm-
ers - i ' . ' : i ' \ . L
In the pad ! the Texas Farm
Bureau j Fede ation has aided in
getting other legislative acts pass
ed which have helped the farmer,
Hammond added. The McLelland
bill, which bought about tjuJ con
struction of nore farm-to-niarket
roads was written by the Bureau
with the help of Senator McLelland.
This type <f state legislation jis
urged just as much as the national
legislation. ! ^
1 j Bureau Cooperates
Wheri asked whether or not the
Bureau cooperated with other farn>
organizations such as the Farmejrs
Union and the Grange, Hamqjond
stated that the Bureau cooperated
with any organization set up by
farmers and rjun by farmers in the
farmers' interest.
So far 140 Bureau members have
attended classes, but thx-oughout
the week 250 |men and women are
expected froip all over the state
to attend classes.
Friday, Allan Kline, president of
the American Farm Bureau Fed
eration, will come here to give
the national ispcct to the plans
of the, Bureai.
Vehicle Course
Began Monday
Monday, July 26, the first
motor vehicle and fleet sup
ervisors short' cohrse opened
under the dii ectipn of the En
gineering Extension Service
in cooperatic n with the State
Board For Vocational Edu
cation,' according to Russell
FitzPatrick, supervisor of the
school.
This yeai:’p classes have been
cut td thje’ bare necessities in order
to give the m ocimum amount of
instruction in t le alloted 32 hours,
FitzPatrick sai l.
Changes in tie new.course were
made oh “the recommenjiation of
those attending thfc course during
the first half of the yeaj - .
The stepped up prograui will
require discipline on the part' of
and students if the
is going to be got-
course, FitzPatrick
the instructors
maximum good
ten ffom the
added.
Practical dow
supervisors
policies to me
problems of
n-to-earth methods
stressed in the instruction
in the hiring !tech-
niqnes and cht nging of company
*t the present-day
transportation, j.
: vV
Doraine
gram of ligl
fit the Grow. . |L
be the last show of the summe^e
Their program will' include arrangements from
‘bvrt’s, “Swoetiiearts," and
n Model
Plane Contest
Ernest Harold ijiOwesj Jr.,
third year Ahro student from
San Antonio,! won first place
in the Class A division of the
model airpljme coMest, July j
23, at Martindale llfield! near r ip
San Antonio. V ; 1 j
The contest wnju tiponsoted by
Alamo -City’* Pij'mhuth dealers
and the San A;itoiih) (Express and
Evening Newjs. . 1/
Fifty dollar! in (prizes were,
brought back 1 y four contt slants
from the Gil egej $tjation’Bryan
area plus t ic otttsltanding lady
contestant’s x >phy. :
Perfect flying weather, brpught
out 3,000 cpnleftanlts for the open
ing of the third annual model
plane contest/I'rizps iawarded win
ning contestant:, wierd mere!andise
certificates to jpver ‘ the pi rchase
of model plane supplies from San
Antonio stores j, ! j
Mrs. Fred Vance of Bryan won
the outstanding lady contestant’s
trophy in thp freje (flight events
with the longest unjie hi a
free flight with a; time
minutes. H. D. Miller of
copped first
ace ip the Class A
speed division ' rith tra'mdnh
also t(j>ok two iccpna place
one ill; the Class A t ivision
flying and the seeordlin thje Class
B speed divisicn.
, Millpr and (Fred Vaijice of Bryan!
teamed together Nfpjr the Class Ci
speed divisiqn to take firtt placcj
with the high speed) ,cif the diay of,
132 ni.p.h.
JLOU lil.fJ.II. j [ ^ j Ml'
McEllienny Moved
To Ca\
airy School
iVillikm S. wjcElhen-
officer for the School
Lt. Colonc
ny, executive
of Military
bor, 1946. hk
the Cavalry sfchobCat Forlf KnoxL
Kentucky.
Col. and Mrs. McElhenny and
daughter Bcjttjy urej making a 30-
day tour th ‘o igh eastern and
northern statejs before he reports
n copipletioii of the
’ ”NV\
““hov^toV” “'[‘I others, ’aceor
Wl
Tim; WKicesH tlui young couph
fii pipvrd hy i*ommkittto mad< by ,
liju'gil jMTWspapi|a , n, Whit* said. Tho
Ht/Loul* IMspiileh Urlntod, “You’l
fall iff love* wltf Doraine and Hills
'Ifliey radiate Wholesome j charm.'
The two Hingbra ieeelvod mi
press space whijn (hoy did the i
ii|iig roles in I'Rio; Rittt”iFor tin
tic Civic Dperp Go. than
who halve appeared - mre.
Dorsiae Renard - ‘
btoine Kenird carried or the
talent inf her i family, 1! 7 hite |
■xplained. He'- father was a prom- .!
nent violin tea<jher/and her ifioth- |
m, hl» star pupiL
When she wap fifteen Miss Ren-
urd sang for j the famous tenor
Siovanni Martirtelli, who preificted
» brilliant future for her. Later
ihe vjas tastruetjjed by Mario I ubini
jamd al*o.worked with the New York
artist teacher liouis Banner
She gractuatel from Qhip State
University with; a five year < mrse
in education p|is a music najor
(by tho time she Iwas seventeei. Sh
playeid first violin in the 0hio(|Stato
prehestfa, and; (also plays
every type of instrument.
One of the few. A meric
have]been chosen fqr the jro:
the Salzbuig ppfcra 'Company |
Renard was preparing to
when the wa«c came, White I
She has composed all the ip!
arrangements c f the seort (
“Costumed,Camfos,” tor whi;b she
has. beep highly (prais^i, Wh;
plained. Each olf.her scorei
thev complete lyrical story
which the song[ is taken.
! Ellis! Lucas
Ellis Lucas ip the son of] a 1 re
nowned Irish baritone. He
draifmiic training early as a
her bf the “McLaughlin PliiyPrs.”
Although he w|is:a boy 8
his voice hegan ({bunging cai |i
by his sikteentl birthday fie had
forgotten (ill abeut singing, i jharlnig
this 1 tiriie, jhe wa i ebneektrat (ng or
ring
jf om ■
draihatic k’qrky mid White. , jjfl
He replaced he leading tenor ‘
in the school Oiigrctta heciUSb fllL
a featriyed soloii t on NBG.
Since ' then h< has appeared on!
CBS ami Mutua pctworfeB.I
ance Tog*
for duty. Utoc
nine months; course
assigned.
f
SlgllCU.
Location <f
is unkn^- "
Warrant
adjutant hefe
During Wpr
served with
unknown.
Officer! R
he will be re
ding to Chief
obert B. Mills,
i j",
rill, Mcllheriny
ic 1st, and 20th Ar
mored Divisions in Eprope. He took
part in the Tu iisia/Algeria, French
Morocco, and Central Europe cam-
paignsN j. I.;' :
The Sjlye • Stair Medal, BrOnze
Star Medal jw th Oak Leaf C ustyri
Army CompuindStlon Ribbori, and
Combat Infan xy Badge are kmong
the decorations he (holds. ^
First Appea
ff- ,,
Djoraine and Ellis madb their.
first appearanew on the s age at
the] Pre-Opera ’ 1 Keek pres< ntation ,]
in Cleveland. Alter an nppeararife
this pew assignment at the Cleveland Public Aucitoriur
' the .young couph developed a mr
icall comedy folk wirig,. thro igh ap
pearances in such shows as
■ ‘Naugjhty Mari itta,” “Vi igabond
King,’] and “Rio Rita,” Wh te s '
While they wei b iri EiUflandJ 1
Rcniard and Luca? recorded (a serie
of rirograms at 1 BG jn London fc
fhe | Armed Fore m Networ c.,
There will l e no a( missiop
(charge for thei • prograr t, how
ever persons not having yellow fee
Blink must bring their own ch
White said.
Our Error* 1
Veterans who sat down and
rred th***" share of the Nat-;
rvice Insurance Divi-
■“ ^ « The
The
should
'V.
we disa
figure $2300,000 (M)
have read $2,800,000,000
it did in the story,
pologies to those whom
ppointed.—The editors.
Animal jHusbandry
Class Tours Santone
The AH 416 class headed by As
sistant Prdfessor R. B. Dana went
to San Antonio Monday to tour a
meat pack ng plant there.
= ~/The grobp were guests of the
company for a lunch held in the
company’s lunch room.
GROVE SCHEDULE
Wednesday, July 27—Doraine ft
_/EUla j
Thursday, July 28—Free movie,
‘ Boomerang,” with Dana An-
' drew* i • - ;
Friday, July 29—Square Dancing
Saturday, July 30—Dance with
Aggie Combo
Sunday, Jjily 31—Skating \
Monday, August 1—Bingo
Tuesday, August 2—Free movie,
“Les Miserable*,” with Charles
Laughton