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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1949)
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C. and Ann English, one of the six couples receiving prizes for most original costumes at Saturday evening’s Shipwreck Patty* ^^"rkhJm^ ^ ^ Cr ° Wd ^ ^ ® r ° Ve ^ danCe f ^oTgeTwell's™ The extent of her injulries has Author of‘Gone With the W ind’ IP Cri ‘ ieall > Atlanta, Aug. 15 —UP)— Margaret Mitchell, author of “Gone With The Wind,” par tially regained consciousness today and recognized friends. She was struck down Thursday nighlf by a speeding car driven by an off-duty taxi driver.' Miss Mitchell, in private life Mrs.! John Marsh, aroused from a coma today and got mad over being fed intravenously. She asked a relative to remove a tube from her arm through which a saline solution wrs being administered. “\fhen Pegg^ gets mad it’s a good! sign,” said a physician and family friend. “The chances for her i recovery look better today than! We thought they would when she j was brought in here.” Oiice when being given a drink of vpater, Miss Mitchell said she “hurt all over.” Though she/Was reported earlier '^to bje rallying, a hospital spokes man 1 said- the creator of Scarlett O’Hara is “not out of the woods yet by any means.” Throughout the day the hospital was flooded with telegrams and telephone calls from well wishers. President Truman wired: '“Hope Six Couples Sweep ‘Shipwreck’ Prizes ' Six married'couples made a clean sweep of the. twelve prizes awarded Saturday night at the Grove’s Shipwreck Party. They were chosen for the mo3t original costumes at .the dance t : _ ' ' • I ' ' 7..". r Joe and Beth Denman (she in a large towel, he.in the * flipper portions of his naval uni form), James and Virgipia Lem y^t to be determined. Physicians have said she is too critically ijl to be moved even for x-rays. | z •1 Oklahoman Wins A&M Fellowship ' -i < ' Charles D. Olsen, a graduate of the University of Oklahoma, has been awarded a Tennessee Gas .Transmission Fellowship, to A&M, « for the school year 1949-50. Olsen; a native of Quay, Okla- |. ho)na, saw service in the last wab , and is married. Candidates for the Fellowship ♦ may be graduates of any accredit ed college or university who wish to pursue work on either master / >)r doctorate degrees in petroleum * engineering. i 7’- ' The Fellowship pays $2,000 for i ? ft 10-month period and an addition 1 nl/$500 is made available, to expe- , dite the purchase of necessary re- ' search equipment. - -4— ^ 1 Ir. M. ' 1 '• GROVE SCHEDULE Monday, August 15—Bingo. Tuesday, August 16—Free movie, ’“Thunder in the Valley,”'Tech- nicolor. . ]1’ Wednesday, August 17—Juke box ’ dahce.j 1 A rjtini and i codli Ann Ehf coiiiit-in- Kny! unlforiin | without :lish mon (grass skirt, pajamas), Ace and (upper Navy .unil pants, sweater and shorts)^ Jini and Marie Farrell (one pair of pajamas—she in thp uppers, he in the bottoms), Jim and Pa|t Greg ory (dressed like the Farrqllfs, but Jim half shaved), and Mr. arid Mrs J. H. Eaton (he n shirt, tieJ shoes and garters, she in a sheet)-j-these were the winner; f. Each couple re ceived two prizps in addition to candy slickers i All 12 were qaizzed by Charles Klrkham, chairman of the [dance, on questions about the sea, the Navy, and boats. One question ask ed why sailors’ One qupsti pants aji aie “bell bottomed.” The answer (was be cause bell botto ned pants do not bind around | the ankles When the sailor .if i in wa ;er. Present at ti e dance j were an estimated two lun’dred. Of these, less than half came dressed as shipwrecked su vivors who were fought in unusuil costupie. Music was pli yed by Bill Turn er’s summer Ag fie Combo. The dance thu coming Saturday, August 21, at the Grove will be the last one giv >n by the Summer Recreation Comjmittee ttyis year. illWi v'C W>‘: i iilL f : 7 - -m -fl- 7 Zimmerman to Be Executive; , J - * • J , j I ' [ I : J j ; ; Six Other f Colonels Named W" Wi mi mm '-'7" !> ■; I# m t. • “Cold Water.” This 300S man climbing an embankment to get to his water jug depicts the ruggedness of A&M’s summer survey ing course as seen by a Batt reporter. - '- — i’..i .. i -... ■■ ■ « - n ■ i..i. ■■■■ll, i ■ i ■■ Woolket, Tishler and Families : r . '. IN 7 . L f. • .i •; •* : , ■ N.; •. .s Visit Mexico City Newspaper Quisenberry Is Back from Trip Dr. John H. Quisenberry, head of the Poultry Husband-, ry Department, returned to the campus Thursday after an extensive business and pleasure trip. Dr.j Qqisenberry left College Station with his family on July 16 and drove to Chicago; then he re turned to St. Louis to attend the International Baby Chick Associa tion convention from July 19 through July 22. ’ He said that to his knowledge the banquet given at the close of this convention was the largest of its kind ever given in the United States—4.(j)00 were in attendance. After his return.to Chicago, Dr. Quisenberry began what he de scribed as a very successful fish ing trip. He and his father-in-law caught seventy game fish. while roughing it in the Iron Mountain area! of—Michigan. Dr. Quisenberry joined other members of the . A&M Poultry Husbandry Department at Guelph, Ontario, to attend the Poultry Science Association’s convention. He| praised the friendliness and hospitality of their Canadian hosts.. After leaving Guelph, Dr. Quis enberry rejoined his family in Chicago, and they motored to Dal- las where he attended ttte Texas Poultry Improvement Association convention. J. J. Woolket, head of the Mod ern Languages Department; C. E. Tishler, head of, the Physical Ed ucation Department; their witfes, and Ward Tishler, son of the Tish- lers, visited the Excelsior newspa per office in Mexico (jhtyi A u * gust 7. , • g, >• The tw/o faimilies are oh vaca tion in Mexico City. Mr. and Mrs. Wooklet have been visiting Mex ico regularly for the past 25 years. The morning after the five vis ited the newspaper office, the fol lowing story,, as translated by Al len Moore of the Modern Lang uages Department, appeared in the newspaper: . “Professor J. J. Woolket of A&M .^vho at the present time is in this Capital, is surely one of the most sincere friends which Mexico has in Texas. He visited Excelsior last night'with his wife ami other persons. Mr. Thomas Marentes of the National Lottery accompanied them. “The affection which professor Woolket feels for our country is not recent but dates back many years during which he has vigor ously defended our countrymen as often as it has been in his power to do so. “At A&M,” Mr. Woolket' told us, “The word discrimination is not known. All students are treat ed with equal consideration. If any favoritism exists, it would surely be toward the Mexicans.” “Professor Woolket has in his office the most recent records of Mexican music which he frequent ly offers to Mexican students. He is an admirer of President Aleman and an old personal friend of his. Our 1 President offered him his yacht when he goes to the port of Acapulco next Monday. ! “Accompanying the professor are Mrs. Woolket, Professor ;C. E. Tishler* head of, the Physical Education Department, and his wife and son, as well as young Tomas Martenes who is studyirig at A&M." r - ' .* ■* . i . ■ Ijii : ■ : . ‘j, 1,1 Potter Reads Paper at Meet Dr. J, G. Potter, head of the Physics Department, has attended two society meet ings in the East during the. summer. Thp first of the meetings was with the American Physical Soci ety in Cambridge, Mats. At the meeting he delivered a ! paper en titled “X-Ray Analysis of Clays for 'Quality of Montmorillonite," which was written by L. H. Sim ons, D. F. Weekes, and Dr. Pot ter. ' 'j ; J . . j 7, The paper reported work done by the authors which should be of value experimentally in better pre dicting the problems to be en countered in laying of foundations on; local clays. i . The second meeting was the national annual meeting of the American Society of Engineering Education in Troy, N. Y., in con junction with the American Soci ety of Physics Teachers. At/; the meeting i: Dr. Potter served for the second year on the National Coun cil of ASEE, the governing body of that organization, as well as on the executive nominating commit tee for 'the nomination of national officers of the ASEE for the com ing year. . v Mrs. Potter accompanied Dr^; Potter on the trip. They stopped in Indiana and Chicago for a brief vacation on their way back to College Station. Martin Leaves To Attend Program E. C. Martin, assistant state agent, and four extension service specialists from A&M left Wed nesday for Lake Texoma, Okla homa, to attend a two-*tate meet ing there dealing with the Rural Neighborhood Progress Program. This is a joint meeting with the group fjrom Oklahoma that has charge of the Rural Neighbor hood Progress Program in that state. The four extension specialists from Texas are Miss Gena Thames, Mrs. Florence Low, Roy L. Donahoe and C. H. Bates. Ag Ed Department Checked By State The staff and equipment of the Agricultural Education Depart ment, as well as the instructional facilities of other agricultural de partments, were inspected last week by a committee of the State Board of Education, C. N. Shep- ardson, idean of the School of Ag riculture, announced. The purpose of the investiga tion, requested by a number of educational institutions in Texas, waa to establish a standard for vocational agriculture 1 1 e a c h e r training programs. The committee was composed of W. E. Lowry, executive director of vocational education in agri culture; George Hurt, assistant state supervisor of agricultural education and Drj| G. A. Swanson, supervisor of teacher training in vocational agriculture for the U S. Office of Education. 7 ■ , ' ■ ■+ Doyle R. Avant, petroleum engineering Laredo, has been named Cadet Colonel of the Corps, laecbrdf ing to Colonel H. L. Boatner, commandant and PM! ‘ Second m command will be Walter W. Zimwerm* petroleum engineering major from McAllen. Zimmerm '■> . c '/ yrn ms , r i. i. ♦■was corps supply ' year. J - Sam G. Pate, J. T. Dotson, Lqu A. Eubank, Franklin A. Clelani) and W. F. Behlmann Jr. ( ]Will heail the five Army ROTC rieginw The Air ROTC Group wip be com manded by Jimmy G, MtGruder; Corpa Staff Assignments on the corps staff announced by Boatner were Lt. Colonels, Robert Mitchell, S-l; Her bert W. Beutel Jr.* S-2; Herm| Dietrich Jr.Js-3; William Thor son, commander consolidated band.s| Clark, Munroe, public information Rowland tigger .corps chaplain; officer; Curtis Schroeder, commun ications; John Templeton, I&E of ficer. Major Martell Moore, drum £ major consolidated band. Master Sergeants, David Haines, I I&E; Wayne BaU, communications , Richard Goodwin, band liaison; La- Von Massengale Jr/ infantry lift- sion; A. p. Martin/artillery Jiasion , Gossett, M Doyle R. Avant, petroleum en gineering major from Laredo, has been named Cadet Colonel of the Corps for 1949-50. Gayton Named Research Head W. B. Qlayton, vice-presi dent of the General Electric Company, Dallas, was re elected president of the A&M Research Foundation at the quarterly meeting of the Foundation on the Campus Friday. Other officers elected for the coming year include J. B. Thomas, president of the Texas Electric Company, Fort Worth, vice-presi dent, and C. A. Roeber, auditor, A&M System re-elected secretary and treasurer. The budget for 1949-1950 was approved and an executive com mittee iwhich fundtions between board meetings was elected. The executive committee in ad dition to the president who is an ex-officio member, consists of Gibb Gilchrist, Chancellor, A&M System; . H. W. Barlow, dean of engineering; D. : B. Hprrig, vice- president and treasurer, Humble Oil and Refining Company, Hous ton, and J. B. Thomas. In the Valley of Death... TU II Vfe. ■ i 1 ' / ;• I . Lj Bait Reporter Dedicates His ‘Memoirs ’ to droops in 300S iii I Hi i. • iMal Ur. IP‘1 ill ii m§m ifiS ii m UpfifTlf Wmm By W. K. COLVILLE Half a league, half a league, half league onward, into Die valley of Death strode S-300. Flashed all their transits bare,' flashed all their range poles there, surveying with alidades, charging tick arm ies, while Aggieland wondered. dismayed ? Damn right! .... roughly 45 sun- And was there a man m I 1 ' !'/ ' 1 Hold - I;- ■ - l,' or OK aa signaled by the man behini > the transit U just a small part of the day's work for the ^5 boys taking surveying 3008 here thii t m ii'..; ,‘K Ml . . • r t^. 1 * nco, f\ [5 ■ : : .1 \-/ 1 : 1 ti: i : / ; ■ J baked 300-S students who for the past four weeks have bush-knifed their prostrate bodies through ter ritory that would make Big Bend lodk like a pool table, i So to those unfortunates, who have tracked their way through trekless wastes and treked their way through trackless wastes, consuming much to their distaste infinite amounts of water, this article is dedicated. Like Stanley after Livingston, Ali after Rita, and Lemon after Tequila, my trusted photograph er and I went to seek out the lost sufferers of diabolical 300-S. These are our memories, jotted hastily on birch-bark and poison sumac leaves. Pass the Cala mine, pal o’ mini.:; Entry: At Uncle Ed's jumping off ; place, gathering safari and necessary provisions. After 4 quick provisions photographer would have willingly jumped off water- tower. A healthy brorao quieted him and we started! bravely into the land of “whatthehellwasthat- lastreading." i Entry: First day on safari. He . | .L: ii tired and I carried him a . No sign of life, except in g while photographer, who still insisted on jumping off water-tower. Subdued him with a quick shot of Aqua Velva and flash-bulb frappe. During late afternoon came across traces of 300-S group. Three skeletons bleached white, clinging grotesquely to rotten range pole. One cro-magnon, one neanderthal, one homo sapien. All obviously A&M 300-S students. Photographer taught me basic Sat around all night eating neg- T*"? w * n k ly ^ lrou ?fc * rounded.fis^ atives and singing in loud nasal voices, “Oh Dem Bones.” Rest of safari went back to : Uncle, Ed’s—touchy beggers, their. Entry: Second day out. En countered Brazos native who gave us first real clue as to where abouts of patrol S-300. Reported that three days before he’d seen a bedraggled bunch of men in ( varying stages of 1st, ~ 2nd, and 3rd degree bums struggling down the road with bent/and blistered transits. They scratched themselves inter- mittantly and mouthed dry phras es like “Get the one out of my ear, Joe, before he goes in for the kill!” “Yes, Bwana,” said my photo grapher wisely, “We on right Entry: And we were! Three flalks of Aqua Velva later we stumbled upon the pitiful rem nants of the S-troopa. 6h, path- .If j.:. M etic sight! Oh, pathos! Oh, dis taste.! Oh, where’s my diction ary? , One of the canteen-laden dere licts was muttering, “The square of the watchacalit is equivalent to the heat of the youknowwhn “ while a comrade took his temper ature with a stadia board, ’y Another was hurredly working calculus on his outstretched tongue with a chunk of pumice, his eyes revolving like demented compass and screaming, “Over dammit, I said over,” to a distant figure do ing a head^stand on a triangle tower. X J I wept. My photographer wept. The human suffering of it all! Be sides, we were out of Aqua Velva. “W® must go back and tell the )rid of this ... the people must now!” I said to my photograpl </ '. wor kno IBithera!” HR... „ . * Entry: Caught a taxi back to the campus. Wrote “The Walk- lug Heels,” which ' sifted into a movie, and thus later « siuea into ■ none, ana thus ^ immortalized the intrepid 300-S / students. When can their glory fade? 0 the wild surveys made! ■ Aggieland wondered. Honor iwa maps they scratched, Honor the ticks they hatched, tree hundred! Noble three l! t. i- Methodists Resume Paper Publication The Wesleyan Window, student Methodist publication of the leyan foundation here, will re publication as soon as a staf; organized, according to plans made, . at a meeting of sorile of the staff : toon leader; First Sergei members last week. neth Schaake; Tech Sergei John a ills, cavalry- liason igmeer liaison : Hdrbakt iaison; R. Brown Jrvcomposite liaison. CotoRdated Band ty. Captains, Ted Lokey, S-2; Ben i Bickham, S-3; Grayson Wyly, S-4*- Master sergeants, Robert Jack, ii sergeant major; Charles Neeley, supply. 1 ■ ! Maroon Band . Captain Willie Hollar, Ururii nmi- " jor; First Lieutenants, John; Mor- tenson, platoon leader^ Jamea j Slayton, athletic officer; First Ser- fj gcant Joe Rutherford; .Tech Ser- j geants, Charles Wyatt,j Be^iram 1 Beecrdft, platoon sergeants./ . | ; j White Band j i j Captains, Charles Lundelius, n commander; Alan Waldle, drum ^ major; First Lieutenants, Jr ‘ Gimarc, executive; “ Frank Davidson Jr., ers; Henry Bass, scholi Tech Sergeants, Stanley Thompson Edward Rodriquez Jr„ Mike Ad- kisson, platoon sergeants. . Infantry Regiment Hq. Colonel Sam Pate, commander; Lt. Col. Glenn, Kothmann, execu tive; Majors, Robert Gregg/S-l; William Mackey. S-2; Arthur ^ Hengst, S-3; Jimmy Hiester, S-4;; ■ Master Sergeant Jack Holloway,^ sergeant major. First Battalion Hq, Lt. Col. Arthur Gorman, com- | mander, Major Bo^by Skidmore, executive; Captain#; Rosa Curtis, S-l; Charles Hamilton, S^ZJ WH* liam Beatty, S-3) Tech Sergeants, Paul Coffin, sergeant majc)r; Mac- key TrJckey/supply, ;. A Infantry Captajri Donald McClurje, comJ mander; | First Lieutenants, John Turc otte, executive; Patrick .Ram sey/ platoon leader;; Grant Judge Jr7 scholastic Officer; Fli eant Arthur Noll. . • •■|| ' J Blrfufey 11 ■ Captain Henry O’Neal, Oomman- der; First Lieutenants, Robert Pat rick, executive; Charles The paper will bo published twice monthly. Mrs. Curtis Hol land is editor of the publication. Other’ staff members include Mr. and Mrs. David Mock, circulation; Davis Kemodle, artist, Mrs*, Rob ert Schlieder, book review editor and Cleve Walcup and Jarvis Mil ler, reporters. All jhembers of the staff) are or Aggie wives, except |Mrs. Occupations to Be Theme of Films Aptitudes and occupations will be the theme , of the educational film showing in the Petroleum en gineering auditorium at 3:30i Wed nesday afternoon. Names of the films sche4uled for showing are “Aptitudes and Occupations,” “Finding Your Life Work” and “I Want a Job,” ac cording to Howard Berry, director of the visual aids lab. All persons interested are invit ed to attend the showing, Berry said. Arrangements for Showing the films to classes may be made by calling the Photographic and Visual Aid Laboratory. aid Pittman, platoon ser C Infantry Captain Lance Chase, First Lieutenants, jgs, 1 executive; Jamt Robert McGlasson, plate ers; Riley Epps, athletic First Sergeant Robert Na Sergeants, Jim Steen, Al\ platoon sergeants. it man- Merton r.Rackel, m lead- office*; Tech Deck, command- execu- ey, S-l; Simp- Billy, Eggs Rout Little Rock, Amos Ryan cou dn’t find a handy Assailant Ark.—(A’l—-Grocer weapon when a would-be assailan made a lOnge at him with a knife. Ryan, howeve*, picked up a sack of fresh eggs and tossed them ini ‘ face. The trick the intruder’s worked. Police picked son, a negro few blocks, streaming off U , 11 . ' J i ^ yji ip James Stephen- ‘ sr a chase of a yokes still were 4u4' ’ vL'U . i/.-, ■■ 1 Second Battalion Lt. Col. Bryan Mills,, er; Major John Hi live; Captains, T. F. Robert LatSon, S-2; Ed son, S-4; Tech Sergeu..^,, Brabham, sergeant major,j toward Karren, supply. D Infantry Captain Jimmy Woodall, coolr mander; First Lieutenant William Menger, executive; First Sergeant Henry Atchison; Tech Sergeant, Thomas Collins, platoon sergeant. E Infantry Captain Charles Bailey com manddr; First Lieutenant Hug a I (See igtO-.IO, WEAT] . 4 / % n East Texas: Partly cloudy this afternoon, tonight ana Tuesday; a few thundershowers in extreme east portion Tuesday afternoon; not much change in temperatures. Moderate south- ...... wly winds on SHOWERS the coast. Went Texas: Partly cloudy this afternoon, tonight and Tuesday; not much change in temperatures. <1