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' COLLBKSE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, MONDAY, AUGUST 1,19p
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For. the third st^ai^ht year,
an Aggie’has been narhed as
the outstanding cpdet at the
Field Artillery summer camp,
Fort SOI, Oklahonja.
The honor went to J. T. Dotson
~=who was presented »an award to
that effect by Preston J. Moore,
department commander of the
American Legion of Oklahoma, at
final exercises Thursday July 28.
Bobby Sykes was the outstand
ing cadet of his batiery and Hu
bert BeUtel, Jr., and; Floyd Henk
. were the outstanding cadets of
their ''
At the same cerenjony, recently
graduated A&M students Charles
Maisel, James Kirkland, and John
Flanagan weife commissioned 1 sec
ond lieutenants in the Officers’ Re-
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serve Corps.
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Honors to jij&M
i i ■ Th# boys, from A&M ran away
' ' ‘ With most of! the other rhonors of
camp Awhile they were at it. Per-
/ __ haps the most satisfying was the
' * \ attention paid the yfoung Aggies
I by the local' belles of Lawton and
Oklahoma College - for Yfomen at
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The girls believed ft the end of
j. the camp that A&M (was the only
school represented at Fort Sill.
Actually,, there were (seven schools
there including Oklahjoma, Arizona
State, Colorado A&M and others.
One of the big features of 'the
social season was tfe inevitable
1 ’ Aggie j)arty. This or e took place
in the sleepy little rfountain vill
age of Medicine Park. The town’s
usual serenity got ^uite a jolt
wh,en the Ajizes hit t in force.
v i Highlight Of the affair was a
"yell practice led by ex-Aggie R
J. Standiey. The usujtf “joke” was
furnished this time by -f Major,
Charles Ostner of thi; A&M Mili-
• / 'i iary Department. * j
Three Dances
There were three dances heldi on
the post for the cadets^with girls
furnished by the city of Lawton.
The most memorable jwas the last
which was field at ihe Officers’
Club. ~ ' | a U » 1
The program included.. Aggie
Buddy Boyd singing several songs
and a novelty number by the
“Wichita Mountain Boys” (jailed
the “Fort Sijl Blues!” -This, last
group was made ;up |of Earl Ed
wards, Dave Sanflersi and Chuck
Maisel, all of A&M.d
The cadets at; Fort jSill claim', to
have shot upjmore| of Uncle’s
money than ‘any iother camp thi^
summer. In the 240 hpurs of prac
tical field artillery training, oVer
8000 rounds of 105 fnm.f and 45
mm. ammunition haft been fired
and observed by the Students
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ConsoMafed Will
Have Neil Teachers
A&M Consolidated: elementary feevan i
ind high school will begin the fall Virginia
jjin the fall
school
L. S.
superintendent said
and high
term with
and eight
Richardson,!
Friday. | ; v .n|| " \ : > j
College Station schools hai*e been
allotted 11 teachers, three of; whom
are Negro, and a 35 per cent in
crease in state funds under the
Gilmer-, Aiken foundation fund.
This is an increase of eight white,
and three Negro teachers, over
la^tijyear, Richardson said,
The new junior high school will
occupy thb building which formerly
housed the high school, according
to Richardson. W. T. Riedel will
be; the principal. Riedel has been
teaching science at Consolidate*!
for two years. :
Full Time Librarian
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Students Com|mand
the students have occu*
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AH of the studentii
pied positions of comjiiand. Under
the system of rotatiion of com
mand the cadets have jed their out
fits from battalion to squad. A
favorite expression hds been “Bat
talion Commander today, Private
tomorrow.”
The big rivals amonjg the schools
have been, the Aggies and the boys
from Okie U. “Beat! OU” should
have special meaning’to the artil-
^ lery students this Fall. -
The A&M men had at least one
moment Of. supreme [ triumph in
the course of the canip. After the
i —— boys from north of the Red River
had listened for six; weeks to the
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—not unusual boastingj of the Ag-
_ gies, Post Commander Major Ge%
•r---- eral Joseph Swing mgde a speech
in Vrhich he said tbat-ROTC stu-
. .’(See Ft. SILL, jPage 4)
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Among the hew teachers will be
Ccmsolidajted’s "first full-time lib
rarian, a high school principal,
junior and senior high coaches, and
a high school history and Spanish
teacher.: I
Miss Geraldine Bender from Tex
arkana, a 1949 TSCW graduate
will b(e t^ first full-time librarian.
However,' before school starts she
will marty an Aggie. | :• ■
Jim Bevan, A&M physical edu
cation student, who will graduate
next; month will be the junior high
school coach next year, Richardson
said: From Columbus, Tennessee,
attended Vanderbilt and
irginia University while a Navy
:rainee.
Senior High School
The senior high school coach
will be O. V. Chafin, a 1947 grad-
jate of Southwestern University
»t Georgetown. He has been as
sistant coach at Hearne and at
Georgetown. In addition to being
coach, he will teach physics and
chemistry.
L. E. Boze of Carey will take the
jlace of Richardson as the new
ligh school principal. Richardson
las been named superintendent.
Boze graduated from East Texas
State Teachers College Commerce,
a,nd has had nine years teaching
experience. He taught at Nevada
and Carey, where he was principal,
then superintendent. Richardson
said that Boze . may teach public
speaking. v > V \
History and Spanish Teacher
History and Spanish teacher at
msolidated High School will be
VIrs. j Sidney Sorensen, who has
ieen teaching at Edinburg. She
was graduated from West Chester
State Teachers College in Pennsyl
vania, and received her master’s
degree in Spanish from the Uni
versity of Texas.
Mrs. Sorensen is also ai free
ance writer. Many of hfer articles
have appeared in Sunday magazine
sections of Texas papers. !
Recent rains have slowed work very little on the Memorial Student
Center. Roofwork on the pew bowling alley is nearing completion.
If the present rate of progress is continued the Center should be
ready for use in the latter part of next year.
tchison New
rticulturist
hn E. Hutchison ’36, be-
his duties as associate ex
ion horticulturist at A&M,
Hiitchison is a native ojf Itasca,
graduated from Itasca High
J in 1931 and received a BS
e from A&M in 1936.
r the past year, he has been
doinjg graduate work under a
Sears-Roebuck Fellowship and will
receive his MS degree from A&M
at the end of the second, j term of
summer school. The MS degree will
be* in horticulture.
From 1936-39, he taught voca
tional agriculture at Missouri City
and 1 from 1939-45 he held the
same position in the Bay City High
School. He was appointed County
agricultural agent in Matagorda
^county in August, 1945 and served
til he was gf-anted leave of ab-
to do graduate work.
summer camp.
Thfe title of outstanding cadet in ekich company wasiihaj
s—if l r r ~ h-fbighest award made :o any of tk4
835 collcite students attending im
afj 1!I49 summer rami).
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Gondoliers Strike Too
LUlilll
until
sehcie
Water Streets atlWeniee
John Hiitchlsoa began his dutirti
as associate extension horticul
turist here today.
Something New to Aggi
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Camp Lee Cadets Return After
‘Roughing It’ in Bivouac Area
By BEE LANDRUM
Camp Lee Batt Correspondent
Friday, July 22, at 16; a. m. the
Cadets of the GM ROTC Summer
Camp loaded on trucks and moved
out bf the bivouac area of the A.
jP. Hill Military Reservation.
Abd, they gladly left. They were
leaving those mosquitos, ticks, and
chiggers behind. No longer would
they-have to eat out of mess kits.
Tonight, they could take a shower
and sleep in ! a nice, hard army
bunk instead of on the ground iq
A pup tent. ; T •
As the, truck convoy moved;
through the main gate at Camp:
jLeej one Aggie cadet remarked,
“This is one time that I am glad
to get back to this place.”
Experience Gained
Taking everything into consid-’
eration, the week at "the Hill” Was
nqt bad after all. Almost perfect
weather prevailed during the
whole time. The problems worked
on there were much less boring
than the lectures which are the
GROVE SCHEDULE
usual routine at Camp LeeT The
cadets gained valuable experience
in setting up and operatiPX QM-
equipment such as bakeries and
l&unqriesj.: / . 'V
Athletic Activity
The athletic program continued
to ..function as at Camp; Lee.; The
Aggije volleyball team to°k a serieS\
of t^vo from Illinois to win the
Company D championship. Both
were very good games, the Aggies
winning the first 16 to 14 and the
second 15 to 5.
The fighting Illinois ran up a'
pcore of 9 runs before the fighting
Texas Aggies scratched In' the
first j ganae. In the second game,
the Aggies who had j the
ees 10-0, Monday,; July 25,
ggies will play either Indiana
or Okla. A&M in the semi-finals.
The only softball game of in-
teresjt to the Aggies last! week was
a 11-5 defeat of Michigan by Ill
inois which eliminated the Aggies
from) the competition, Illinois tak
ing the company title.
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it was
Yankee!
the Agf
Monday, August 1—Bingo.
Tuesday, August 2—Free movie, liter
“Les i Miserables,” with ..Charles
Laughton. j . j
Wednesday, August 3—Juke Box
Dance.
Thursday, August 4—Free movie,
“Deep Waters,” with Dana An
drews.
Friday; August 5—Square Danc-
.injd' r li ‘ 1 Z.,t~ \\ L
Saturday, August 6—Ddnce with;
Aggie Combo. " , ji
Thursday, July 20, the Aggies
took! on Texas in a practice volley
ball ; series ; and smothered the
“teaSips” m three straight games.
Therefore, the athletic competition
re Aggies at Camp Lee has
been a perfect success regardless
of which universities win the camp
chan|pionships.
Aggie company officers for fh®
weeft of July 18 were Thomas
Muldowney, executive officer, and
Hal Storey and Tom \ Brundett,
platoon sergeants. For the week of
July 11, Bill Mahaley Was execu
tive officer, and Hugh Adams was
olatoon leader.
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By DON JARVIS | i
Battalion European Correspondent
Venice, July 27-vJVe had been
on the road—same companions,
same driver, same bus, same bum
py seats—for nine days when we
left Rome. Our brief stay in I^y’s
capital had been pleasant enough,
except possibly for the side walk
vendors who stop you every ten
steps and the hotel’s rnixup in
returning oup laundry to the yrong
But the trip north through the
mountains was long and tiring.
Everyone was snapping at each
other’s throats by thfe end of the
day, and our overnight stops in
i^ore
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Siena and. Florence did little
than postpone the arguments! till
the next day. ,.j T jN
Yesterday, however, we came to
the most pleasant city yet—that
mecca- of all resort town!*, Venice.
As we came to the city limits,
much ill*® the approaches to Gal
veston, we had to. park our bus
in a large garage and take: a
“taxi”—a motor boat—to our
hotel. We’d heard of Venice’s
water-streets all our lives, and
that didn’t seem too strange.
But when we saw that signal
light at a canal crossing and a
traffic cop at the. corner, we
began to think we were in dream
land. But it’s real enough and
has its many drawbacks.
Last week, for instance, the gon
doliers went on strike against the
motorboat drivers, complaining tl
the motorboats were ruining th
trade—they charged less, got th<
faster, and made waves, frights
ing the passengers. I don’t know if
their Strike was successiful, but I’ll
side with the gondoliers. It’s j a
pleasure just to watch their skill
at handling those boats with one
oar on one side.
Venice’s ideal climate and pic
turesque beauty attracts man;
tourists.. Americans are here b;
the thousands, and prices an
very high. We are all glad tha|
our hotel bill includes meals s
that our expenses are cbt to
minimum.
But' when we do buy something
we learn the European way of sell
ing. An article has a price teig
on it simply for a “come-on.” Th®
salesman usually doesn’t expect to
get that much for it, and many
jtimes, especially when buying from
peddlers, we’ve been able to buy an
article at one-third the price orig
inally asked. Wouldn’t they
MSC Not Delay*
Because of Rain
Work on the Memorial Studenit
Center has not been delayed by the
recent rains, K. R. Simmons, coi
struction superintendent, said
day. ' ’•;j
All work has been going a
cording to schedule and the dead
line of November, I960, will, be
met, Simmons added.
At the present tiirte, the laying
of brick and Austin stone comprise
the major part of the work being
done, Simmons said. The most
progress, however, has been made
on the bowling alley and pool hall
where steel decking has been laid
and the roof completed,
Noi important units are expected
to be finished by September as the
bulk of the wogk scheduled consists
of wiring, plumbing and brick lay-
to*.
(Editor’s Note: Art Howard
and Don Jarvis, European cor
respondents ter the Battalion
have both Written their impres
sions of Venice. Rather than
leave one out, we have included
them both under a single head
line.
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By ART HOWARD
ittalion European Correspond
Venice, July 27—The streets, not
the!; canals, are the amazing part
id cit;y. Filthy
surprised at our silly American
ways!
They are surprised at one thing
we do. Breakfasts here consist of
one menu—some small hard golf-
ball-like rolls and cqffee or choco!
late. The noom meal is the main
meal of the day, and after stuffing
it down everyone takes his after
noon snooze.
Probably 95 percent of the shops
in Rome were closed between 1:30
and 4. They just couldn’t under
stand our willingness to go any
where or do anything except sleep
during those hours!
Our French bus driver espec
ially has become irked with us.
and many times when we’ve in
sisted that he drive on after
lunch, continuing his speedy pace
of 35 m.p.h., he has seen some
shady spot on the roadside,
stopped, and announced the bus
was too hot, we would stop there
for an hour. \ \ 1
Of course we had been siesta-ing
all along in good old history class
room style. The bus is surely hard
to get comfortable in, though.
Tomorrow we leave Venice to
head for Switzerland. But there
are still many towns left where
the people will look up in surprise:
first at 'the “American Express”
sign on our bus, then at the Texas
Aggie sticker on the window, and
then at the strange sounds of
"hulla balloo caneck caneck.”
Owen Reassigned;
Replaced by Lewis
of tjhis multiple islanjd! ,
and;odorous canals, pluf wave-prt*
during motorboats, make| gondola
ridihg much less exciting and ro
mantic than the travelogue movies
indicate.
But the main area of Venice
needed no wide streets for carte
or wagons when the city! was Jaid
out, 1 so most of them are just Wide
enough for two people to pass. And
they never go in a straight line
ter ever 100 yards.
A group of us students were
within two blocks of ! a famous
staircase and we had to hunt over
an hour before we found it. After
retracing our steps for the fifth
time a native guided us down a
narrow walk to a dead end. And
tHeite it was.
There are many dead ends on
•these streets. Some of them hang
:1>ver the canals, and others butt
jup against stone walls.
i There are three main means
il of transportation in Venice. First
: are the gondolas, then speed-boat
S water-taxis, and finally there are
! the large ferry-busses. The last
is the cheapest and the quickest.
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: Clur first experience with the
water-taxis was on the way from
(thel parking pavillion to our hotel.
: We rounded a comer and there
Was a traffic light over an inter-
keeijidn of canals. Then our taxi
bounded its horn as it came close.
; Another good laugh game when
We ! passed the local fire depart-
|nejit—four boats with pumps. One
thing they don’t have to vforry
about is a shortage of water or a
iff.
NegM Claim
Choice of Tom
ark is Insult
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•^replug.
As ®x peel
fu) piece of architecture here is
eted, the most beauti-
Lt Col Ulehn B Owen senior 1 * f[y®G’. beautiful and modenr-
foriti; prvTP -sJfl loojking structure. Corbusier, the
infantry instructor, ROTC, since
September 1946, has been assign
ed to the Student Detachment Com
mand and General Staff College,
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Colonel Owen saw service over
seas from April 1944 to April 1946,
in the Pacific Theater. He will
leave for his new post August 20.
Lt. Col. William F. Lewis, in
fantry, a 1940 West Point gradu
ate, will succeed Colonel Owen. He
is with the Air Command and Staff
School, Air University, Maxwell
Air Force Base, Montgomery, Ala
bama, V
Colonel Lewis spent 43 months
overseas in the Asiatic, Pacific and
Iceland theaters. ^
the Cathedral of St. Marks. A
close second is the Doge’s Palace
« Very "
bous Frenc
nch ai
iteV
building.
architect, is said
to‘have gotten his style from
a
enice had a gvea
contract With Asia
jrituries and
by! Sara-
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Book Gyp Artists
In College Area
An attempt to sell reference
books at exhorbitant prices in
CoNfcge Station area has been
called to the attention of The
Battalion.
Reports said that door-to-door
making calls were
prices for reference
books that were way above
normal.
People in doubt about the
prices of books can get infor
mation from the College library.
salesmen
charging
deal of trade
linbr during
the 12th and 13th ter
was greatly influenced
cenic architecture! As
most of the buildings
more Saracenic than !
For once we have aj
class/ hotel. Situated op the\ L
or sea-side island, ii commands
excellent view of the main islai
pf Venice. We can tell it is a
class hotel because it has hot wa^
in : the afternoon.
\ We came to Venice from Floi
npe, which is a very inice plac*.
ts\ leather is supposed to be th
est in the world, although
ink It is cheap and shoddy.
[orticulture Class
its Jacksonville
He fruit production class arid
orchard management class; of
. Horticulture, Department visit-
five peach orchards neat Jack-
“le Thursday^ '
and Pro-
panied
n the trip.
tion
cover
ob-
YORK. Aug. 1-UP).
The ciiril rights congress Sat
urday termed the nomination
of \Attorney General Tom C.
Clark as an associate justice
of the U. S. Supreme Court
"a gratuitous insult thrown
into the faces o
people. 0
the negro
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Clark’^ elevation to thq(court
would constitute a “major Nra/eat
to the future pf American )C(0n-
stitutiondl Liberty,” tnfe-/GoTTgm*
declared in a telegram sehtejoin
ly to vice-president Alben Barkley"
and Sen.iMcCartan (D-Nev.).
It urgAd Barkley and McCarrah
to do “everything in your poWer*’
to persudde the Senate na{: to con
firm Clark’s appointment.'
Clark lias cited the organization
as subversive, i -
Text of the telegram ’was ro-
leased hire, 1 1 K •H; fj /
The telegram: accused the At
torney -general i of conducting a
“witch hunt” in His anti-Communipt
campaign. It also charged, among
other things, that he had refused
to use the power of his department
to “prosecute the plan of any other
group wtljiich conspires to lynch or
to otherwise discriminate” against
negro citizens, i
“Instead of furthering these
democratic policies by appointing
Tom Clark,” the Congress said,
“Presideait Truman can advabce
American Democracy by appoint
ing any one of scores of qualified
negro jurists to the office former
ly held by Justice Murphy,who
was an j ardent champion of the
liberties and the constitution Mr.
Clark seeks to destroy.” \ i f
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Parsons Ordered!.
1949 summer cbmp- \ i,r.
Duke, together with outstanding
cadets frlm the six other ROTC
esl was presented to tils
|er camp assembly at
krtment The|nter.
■ A&M
ther A&M men wers ]
outstanding cadets in
■|J They were Chester
hamedfjs
their pis
M. Bell, jy., 3rd plato
pahy A, infantry; Jbe E. Mi
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3rd platoon of Cqm-1
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la toon ofj Company B,
ne|l, 3rd
hy;1V i,
.platooi of Company F, cavalry^
('unroll F, CpSalL
To Leavenworth C were George Harris, James “Red”
Duke, Stanley [Beck, Bucko Wyler,
, 1.1
Major N. Wj. Parsons, senior
Cavalry Instructor at A&M for the
last threb years; has been ordered
to Command and General Stuff
School hi Fort Leavenworth, Kan
sas. . •!
Major Parsonp will probably be
ordered overseas upon cpmpletio
of a 10-month course at the school
He and his wife and four child
ren, will leave here August 20|f
will report to Fort Leaven wo
' respective'
orchards
in producing El
Ricking methods,
fertilizers,
were the major
TEXAS —Partly (Moudy
fioon, (tonight and ^
ered mostly diy-
time thunder
showers tibia |r
the upper coajst;
not mu d h
change In; tem
perature; ! ifl
erate .1 vajrfe
winds on t
coast. HU
WEST
AS -TPari!!
cloudy [ thtsfi
In, temperature:
Fivei Get ComrjiisRioha
Commisflions as second lieuten
ants ip thif Officers Reserve Corps
were presi nted to fjve A&M ca
dets at tne final exercises.
Major General Albert Q.-Smith,
commanding general jif the Second
Armored/Hivision, handed the cer
tificates 7 oil commissipn to Aggi®*
Chester Mi Bell, Jit, Leonard O.
Col man and Bill C. Nichols of th#
inflantry. S /,: '’yiT
| Two cavalry cadets also tecehred
commission^ from General Smith.
They were Albert J. Busch, Jr. and
Paul B: Wdlls.
In additi in to the outstanding
cadet pwan s and the commission-
(teg ceremt riles, recognition
giyen those | cadets who had
winners in inter-camp spoi
events during the past six
SporJ^ Medals Given
The Aggies who were given med
als were Wehdy Elliott of Company
F for winning thq ROTC ca^np
diving championship and Gene Hol
lar of Company G for being a! mem
ber of the vanning 100 yard relay
team* l. . ,
Bill Billingsley of Company
was also given a medal an a mem
' p 200 yard
ay team. |
polonel, E| H. Keltner, ROTC
camp executive officer, made the
awards.
V^&M raiklrBeb. Speer of Com-
pany- Br'mfi ntry, wm a member
of the Amp softball championship
team and ale > received a medal.
Pres denta Attend
Present at the final exercises in
ditjon to th s ROTC regiment and
, rs of he Camp Hood and
RDTG camp : faffs were the presi-*
dents of thre) ot the schools with
cadets \tt® n itig summer camp,
Thosfe schools represented by their
presidents Xvfere Allen Military
Academy, New Mexico Military in
stitute and Oklahoma A&M, ! \
At the conclusion of the exor
cises the entile ROTC regiment
participated ip a final review Tin
the camp paifade-grour>d. ^
Arnst Makes Expert V ^
James E. ImstliA&M cavalry
cadet attending ROTC summer
camp at Camn Hood, was awarded
an experts nnklal for the Ml rifl®
at ceremonies jiheld during the final
days of the sifmmer training.
,j Arnst scor _
possible 210 tb tie for second place
jin the cavali
place went to
Oklahoma Mi (tary Academy w^o
scored 192 p tots.
Arnst tied vith James E. Gra-
alman also of O.M.A.
ntad
ent
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187 points out 6f 4,
( tie for second place
i y companies. /First 1
John F. Hamilton of
to all cadets w
'Sharps!
The rifle m4dals were ptesent
t io qualified at rece
range firing 11 Camp Hood,
outers Medals 7
Sharpshooters medals were
‘ A&M cadets. They
/vyn
Glenn Ramey, Duane Strother, Bohr
by Lowe, and (Louie Lawson.
Joice Cox, tommy Cooper, Del-
mar Libby, EM Lueckemeyer r Telrry
Anderson, don Kinnisbn, Bill
Pumphrey, am) Johnny Gimarc.
Raymond" 4 oong, • John Zerr,
Holt Magee, James $eed> George
Reed, Carroll Cdgan, Bill King,
Jack Irish, Bert Reyes, and John
Taylor.
The rifle me dale were presented
by the cbmpan; j commanders of the
two cavalry co apatites. Major Ma
rio F. Zecca cf the University, of
Arizona made„ he presentation foe j
Company F, aid M a i° r Heniy B.
Greer of A&M awarded the Com*
pany G medal ,\\ . [ .
Major Greei was one of two
A&M-officers Who assisted in the
operation of th s 1949 cavalry sum
mer camp. Cap ain David J. Moran
of A&M was th e 1st platoon leader
of Company F
Mothers’ Diorm at TSCW
Denton, Texi-tA’i—Texaa State
College fer Wo mr plans to make
it easy for mot ter to be a student.
Beginning with the fall session
pening Sept. 9, the college wHT
set aside one <f the smaller dor
mitories lor movers with children.