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1 f ■rr iy,ii m • • " ;! f '? f, 'll': i • • No, It tfin’t a | conga line. It'a all the danceri a.t the regular Friday night Expert Care When Bulba iquare Grove aquare dance Heaaion joining hand* to" ‘‘circle all”. : m! T H f-'t; ! j ■' : tiy HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE AP Science Editor ^ s ’ * \ T ; ■ 1 I' ' I New York—tJPl—When you get polio, infantile paralysis, your fate "passes opt of your^hands. AH you can do is to turn your self over tQ. specialists, doctors and nurses, and there are not many of I these specialists in the entire Unit ed StatesJ j .That’s Where the[ dimes you and others gave last" winter come to your aid. They produced more thari $20,000,000 now ready to do | the incredible medical! job ;df | making this scarce aid "ready . [ everywhere. Your community* has a} local : chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, one of 2,- -H 800 in the United States. Call thp community or nearest national foundation office. They , have , plans ready/For those! un- I able to pay the full expenses, the foundation expects to pay the bal ance. And this fs a lot of money, about $1,000 being an average ex pense fqfr a single Case. Some run j. far higher. .1 i ’ ;V : . Help Depends On Need Local chapters of the foundation keep half of the March of Dimes I funds collected, and most of this f goes to pay patients’ bills, the policy of the foundation is 'to pay all or part of the expense, depend ing 1 upon each family’s need for help. When local funds are ex hausted, the national headquarters advances “money to help meet the Costi. Last year the foundation nnd “its chapters spent. $17,000,000 for patieht care, including $0,700,000 •from the national headquarters. When cases are humorous, the fchimhttion main tit Ins teams of ox- IHtrt doctors and nurses to go to that areit and train nurses und iid- loeal doctors. These teams I lire fop men in polio,"in the leadlh medical institutions bf the ptafUfcr— • • ! \ Only Treatment r Polio Strikes h!i * ; I i ! .. ‘ i ; r L i H'. loading United will db <an be done at home by relatives oh; friends. That will be in the cases where it takes years qf trainir g stricken muscles, i I Where people are unable to move a musclc r nprses or relatives pr apparatuii biuilt for the purpose does this exiercise. Some day the weakened ratiscles get able to do some of their own work. Results sometime i look like miracles. The reasons arc intricate, but there is little guess-work.^ Bulbar polio, the kind that comes from damage to the “bulb” at the top of the! spinal cord, has lost some of its death-dealing power. Bulbar kills in several ways. It may paralyze swallowing muscles, or breathing muscles or interfere with heart action. In' the swallow ing trouble, the person chokes to death. Opening the windpipe saves most of hese, and fhat |was dis covered only two years ago. Iron lungs kepp themu alive in the breathing paralysis-and pure oxy- -r —* f r-f-trl——*-t gen helps fide Crises, the heart Pain Relievers , The doctors say give the' suf ferer myanesin of priscol to relieve pain, j but not because they think there; ?s any curative effect. They use chrare tb .loosen muscles that insist; on tying themselves into knots. They have tried new rerpe- dies like darivsul and gureomycin. There are swimming pools, rocking beds and other devices for mild exercise. There are more than a score of medicines being used on animals, with hopeful effects, and two vftc- cinesi again for animals. Whether any of these will work for human beings is unknown. The best and only remedies go under the broad name of physio- therhpiy, which means long, pati ent,, understanding and affection ate bare and painstaking direction in teaching stricken muscles to piake a comeback. Polio Might Be Licked by 1952 i k j fll 1 * *'l" ^ Dallas, Aug. 8 —(^P)—In fantile paralysis may b e whiped in 1952, an official of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis said here Thursday. ! -I “Far the first time, medical science has set a date by which it hopes to conquer poliomyletis,” said Joe M. Savage of New York City, executive director of the foundation. ‘ The official has been in Texas for the past eight days to study the heavier-hjt epidemic areas. , Hope that a vaccine to immunize against polio infection will be de veloped by 1962, Savage said, if based on experiments at four cent ers financed by the foundation. “So far research has discovered that monkeys can be vaccinated against massive dose* of one strain of live polio virus,the official related. “Scientists are now work ing feverishly to disenvor the num ber and type of polio viruses.” j When all of the, polio viruses are isolated there is strong reason to believe that a composite vaccine, such as i that now ufeed for pneu monia, may be developed, Savage said. To date doctors do not know how many strains of polio virus there are. Prewit Leaves For Council Meeting J. D. Prewit, extension vice dir ector and state agent at A&M left Saturday for Laramie, Wyoming to attend the annual meetirtg of the Great Plains Agricultural Council according to G. G. Gibson, direc tor of extension service. The Council Ayas set up to study, major agricultural problems with in the Great Plains Area with spe cial emphasis on conservation and reclamation. Representatives from the. various agencies working in the field of agriculture make up the Council. ‘ j j '{ Prewdt will represent the admin istrative staff of the Texas Exten sion Service. LIT ABNER i nxmspesv/i Whin chuff f 0 , •A'* LTL ABNER Five Hundred Three ' : I j. . “J • Summer Session Degrees Five hundred and three graduate and undergraduate students have applied for A&M degrees to be conferred August 27. According to Johnnie P. Zinn of the registrar’s office, the actual number of students who will re ceive degrees may be less than this number, depending upon the num|- ber who finally qualify. No graduation ceremonies are held other than at the end of the spring semester. The graduates Will receive their diplomas by mail during September, Zinn said. The Graduate School had 82 graduate students to apply for their decrees. Of this total, 45 ap plied for master of science degrees, 33 for master of education, and ere engineering Battalion CLASSIFIED Things to (Do at Home - r ■ ¥ SbnijB. things fwhich the expertjB Agronomy Society To Meet Tuesday - / / | i The Agronomy Society will hold its last meeting for the summer term tomorrow evening at 7:30 in the conference room of the Agri- cultural Experiment-Station build ing- . ' • - ]• j > Two proposals, worked out in committee, will be submitted for approval at , the minting, accord- (ing to Chairmanl T. i R. O’Brien, senior Agronomy s^ui^nt. . is proposed fhit a form letter printed to be j&r'esonted to each registrant in Ag^bnomy. Secondly, it will be proposed tliiit a question- • naire be usea'iri/ap attemnt to de termine group . interest. j All summer activities will lie ter minated at this\meetihg pnd reso lutions for thb organization of the Society for the Tall term will be adopted, stated president W. S. >.r Dalby, senior ^ Agronomy/ student. Dr. T. F. Mayo*, 1 head pf the Eng- Tlish Department, will, speak iw' l [ '* I ■ ]• li if - 'I .j < i ' ' 1 I Brannan Invited To Go Over New Price Support Program Washington, Aug. ?!—CT*)—Farm winded Senators^iv vited Secretary of Agriculture Brannan to go over their newest model of a “Long-range, variable price support program,” ! That description came from Senator Anderson (D-NM), I ; 1 ♦former cahiitet member. jpj | T! 1 Aiideraoh claimed unanimous np- Idilpepper Un Kcal T ■ y » Estate Commission J. C. Cul popper of the Col pepper Realty Conpany here Ims received Snotjce Iron (lovornor Allan Shiv- ‘Quelle Femme’ Frenchmen Say About Miss America In Paris era of his appointment to the first Texas Real Estate, Commission for n four-yen* twin. (julpeppcr hps been in the real estite bus ness for the paitt 12 years. Before | moving to College Station in 1937 he was ih the wholesale cpnfectionery business in Cameron* He is a pa.4t president of the Bryan-Condge Real Estate Board and has bejen regional vice; presi dent of the Texas Real Estate As sociation for six terms. - r-n I 'r± “What Do Americans "! ill spei Want? I ---■ - (_ RTILES FLOWER SHOP f 1903 S. College Rd-Ph. 2-6188 f»RO] ¥ f /. J. S. St Reed Allbr tY and SERVh CE IT Consult Dr. Carlton R. Lee OPTOMETRIST With Your Visual Problems 203 8. Main — Bryan Phone 2-1662 Jk New York Cafe IIS 0. MAIN: BBYAN — • i r •I 0 TV Stations Nei ets Gojod Reception ST. CLCrtJD, Fla.—lAh — Ray Charleston, radio engineer, doesn't Worry about a Tack of television sending stations in the south. He. gfets just aliout any kind of recep- tiion on his set here. , He’s logged the station; he connected with and they includ; just about every one iup to 1,20) miles away—icxcept Miami. ? idiami his a 78-foot elevation above sea level, with a 60-foot wfer. Reison for the reception he saj s, is tropospheric jprop- Senate.! proval bi-pqrtisan ^ven-member Agriculture group. It even includcH production pay- ments—Huhtddlcs—foi* fnmhjsd"ruits and vegetable!--and possible many other food and farm products which Secretary Brannan has been iurgihgi; I ; BiiaiihAn was asked to discuss the new measure with- Senators behind closed doors Saturday. the new compromise involves a complex revision of the formula for parity, which is a computed price intended to give a farm prod uct! the same relative purchasing power itj had in a past period fav orable tb agriculture. The major feature of the change would be ad-‘ dition of “hired farm labor” costs ps d factor,] with a resulting in crease under present conditions of about 6 per cent in parity levels. The Anderson bill would provide supports from 75 to 90 per cent of parity for cptton, wheat, corn, rice, tobacco and, peanuts when farmers approved crop controls. These are classed as j basic crops, For the next year supports would stay at the 90 [per [cerit level" for most crow. •'.[ i j j. It would also provide a similar flexible support level for non-basic crops that could be stored, such as meats, butter, bats and rye; and allow loans, supports, oh produc tion payments for fresh fruits, fresh vegetables and other non- basic perishable crops such as vegetables and tree crops. Paris, Aug. 8—^1—A! French customs officer took one. look at the current Miss America of 1949 Saturday and exclaimed: “Quelle Femme!” (What a*woman!) The bathing beauty queen— blonde Bebe Shopp of Hopkins, Mihn.—got an enthusiastic wel come in Paris, but! she said she hasn’t changed her mind about French swim suite! She Still doesn’t like them. The 18-ycar old beauty is on n 33-day European tour to show herself at leading bathing bench es. She came out iit London against falsies and abbreviated heachwenr. ■ i - | !‘I don’t approve of Bikini suite for American girls”: Bebe told her French intervfewerKj “The French girls can wear thorn if they want to, hut I still don't ajiprovo of thenf on American girls. After ali> they are the ones I repnjseni." She wns wearing n bright ml suit when she stepped off a Pan American plane at Orlcy nirfiald. Traffic in nil diroetjons stepped'as word got spread throughout the place that the prettiest girl in America had just arrived in France. “She’s awfully tall,” one Frenchman said with an ap preciative eye on the body beaut iful, measuring 5 feet 9 inches. .“She towers over the French girls.” Miss Shopp and traveling com panion, Virginia Safford of the Minneapolis Star, arc going to spend Sunday in Deauville, a beach resprt in Normandy. , ’ They're going in swimming, too —in American bathing suits. fqur for master degrees. Engineering Largest Among 1 the undergraduate schpolk, the School of (Engineering had' the largest numbjer of appli cants with a total ojf 219. Nine students applied for bachelop of architecture degrees. Six students applied for bachelor of science degrees In aeronuatical engineering, nine in architectural construction, 16 in chemical en gineering, 42 in civil engineering, 24 in electrical engineering, 5 in geology, 11 in geological engineer ing; 12 in industrial education; 15 in management, 57 in mechanical engineering and 13 in petroleum engineering. ■ '! -jj I . 1 • Eighty Arts and Sciences In the School of Arts and Sciences, 80 undergraduate stu dents applied for degrees. Of this total, 15 students asked for bache lor of arts degrees in I liberal arts. Five students applied Tor bacheloV of science degrees in' accounting, 44 in business, two in education, four in physical education and 10 in science. The School of Agriculture^! has 122 undergraduate applicants; In this group there were 12 who ap plied for bachelor of; science de grees in agricultural! administra tion, 25 in agricultural education, 63 ih agriculture, eight in agri cultural engineering, two In land scape art, seven in range forestry and five in wildlife management. SBXt WITH A BATTALION CLAI . AD. Rates -. . . 3c a word t>er with a 25c minimum. Space Classified .Section ... . 60c per column Send all claealfleds with] reralt- the Student Activities Office, should be burned in' by 10:00 the day before rubllcat: FOR ISA 14:—Senior Boots (8 W ) W/Bre*ch- es {25.00; ’tl Studebaker floormal; em broidered silk kimono, combination !ra- dlo-vlctrola; slide rules; classlqal] Rec ords, steel cabinette; large woodeil; cab- niette, bookcase. Potter, 1-L Pufy^ar. —i, | — l/l l,'4—1..;, FOR HAfcfi—Three room house all 4o2 Cooner Street, College Station; nice; lawn and walks, fenced' In back yard FOR SALE—Rexalr vacuum cleans cel lent condition. Attachments ; $50.00. call 4-537(4, Mrs, Pryor, ". •; -r—- ■ ■ ; 'i ' ' FOR SALE—1941 4-door Ford—O004 con- ' dition for $675.00; ,See at Change of Quarters, A&M Annex on Monday or Wed. from 10 a.m, on/ or call 2-1402 J 1 ' * 1 after 5 p.m. FOR SALE—Ice box, capacity 75 good condition! cheap. B-7-C. m tub* on rollers, C-20-B iher, like! tiest,! 2 , College (View.'. FOR SALE—Standard tiypewriter.l |t5 0d, good condition. See nt 2318 Franklin . Drive, corner Willlanison Drive; after 5:00 P.M, ■ f . Apologies To The Methodists — 1 • . j j AVo our faces.ted! To the meihbers and others associated with the First Methodist Church in Bryan, we offer our apolo gies The story healded "Bishop J Smith to Officiate in Ceremony” in Friday’s Battalion was an er ror resulting from! a number of "accidental happenings.” The story was written a week ago last Thursday) but not used in the Batt. In Some way, it got mixed in with last Friday’s popy and was sent to j the print shop, i I i From there, it went into the paper and was pot detected un- after the papers Were print ed. Houston to Get Sky-Way Roads . r ,' l Houston—(/P)—A spectac ular “Skyway” for motor ve- hicleH, carrying speeding traf fic across the city on double- decker four-lane roadways reaching up to six stories in height, is in the planning stage for Houston. The project, according to (engine ers of the State Highway Depart ment, will cost about $30,000,000 and will extend from 1 a junction with the Houston-Port Arthur highway on the east, to Eureka, just west of the present city lim its. The proposed elevation highway system, which has yet to be ap proved by city officials and the state highway commission, contem plates an intricate set of approach es and exits to tie ih with other urban expressways. The engineers explained that their plan—one of five or six ideas for improvement of arterial high way problems here-r-is considered more feasible than surface road ways or tunnels because of the prohibitive costs of both. According to tentative plans for the structure, which would provide some five miles of double-decker highways, height of the upper deck would range from'. 40 feet above surface. level to approximately six stories. A lower roadway would be 15 feet under the upper roadway. The engineers, pointed out. that there is nothing certain that the plan will ever become an actuality, since many aspects of securing right of way and financing the structures have not yet been dis-, cussed. But they admit that the “Sky way,” if it is translated into steel concrete, will be the most Ladies Glasses Found A pair of ladies bi-focal glasses with plastic rims In in red plush case wore found in College Hills Friday. They have boon turned in to tho Campus Security Office and may he picked up hy tho oymer on IdcuW tifieatloh. . .. I , fl . r Production Record Taken on Holstein k f BUSIN SEWINb Alt ' BONkBI.K A-14.A, doll ICES raTiREL- CpLLIN*. < TOK nun, D.G. X*RA* 808;EJ28th St < Phond 2-6243 BRYAN Your Frjqndl r I I OTdBiOO. ' [Ford' N< M iln St. lortf Dealer Open ifcailf j7:30 a m. tf Last Wash Rccrived Monday 7:00 p.mri— Bat. 3:80 p.m. \ t . \ v\ \ ■ .) OVYvw ■pm. Hazel Tritomia Blanche, year old registered Holstein ian cow at A&M, recently cq ed production records, ac<o|rdiqg i . a. six ries- plet- rb the Ver- ■in. to information received fre Holatein-Friesian Assn, in mont. Hazel gave 599 pounds of buttcy- fat, 15,093 pounds of milk in 865 days with two milkings daily. Tho production record w^s recorded; by tho Herd Improvement K'glairy Department. II ! i I f; 1^. m Starchipffm •Avail Ing FnctUtlM ile. FOR SALI By Owner—I 1 Bcdroorh’hoif lot, with ill dtj New 14’Ik' workshop iw: concrete : hx>r Lakeview South of Pay owner, $2,800.00 & Loan. living ‘r Tl1 .T : m I-' Town on 132* x 21! cortv 'niencei garige and wa er-proof o-o ited in miles llghway assume Brym Bldg. L. Cvans. On th OF • ,rAffS 'N Hisro, m *• J? l I it ill ' 1 Hi srt:S ng (>fit8kindinth r j ”* l ;ir }r\i 4. y ifflc Hnf»] and grim F: • .. ; i If f A , ler, standing third \< was tho principal A- from right In the white shift, :[• Picks Pockets to Pay Help, Japanese Says Tokyo—Police picking pickpockets picked up the preah dent of an automobile body plant And what, they asked the liftlf! Japanese Industrialist, was such respectable citizen doing pick! pockets? 1 L Collections from customers were most difficult, he replied. 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