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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1949)
PUBLISHED IN T OF A CREATES A&M l d), TEXAS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1949 Station Newspaper •- 1 COLLEGE STATU Nt mbef 20 Yell (Practice, Parade Plans Completed For Fort Worth Vaudeville Comfy Weft;# BY GEORGE CHARLTON kns, and it es Enjoyable •' i-. 1 •V Vaudeville made ; a most enjoy able come back In Jit nigbt on the Guion HaR stage, j It presented a new and exciting experience to the uninitiated and brought back sen timental memories iof older, more historic acts to the still enthusi astic followers of Ohe of the great est mediums of entertainment IBy the looks of the audience, many older people were anxious , to renew footllght acquaintances and the younger generation curious to see entertainment the way their folks liked it. Spearhead, ramrod, orchestra, leader, singer, and geheral handy man whenever 1 ahy unrehearsed ..crisis arose was penny Beckner, master of ceremonies. Beckner got !_ the show underway with an ani mated song and dance of Pryde and Day, a juggling act. There was nothing amateurish about their juggling. It; not only had some of the pld routines we have seen before in the movies, but it had a few hpw ones throwin 1n also. Pryde and Day squeezed the most out of their comedy rou tines, and that was a lot. At one time during their act, Day climb ed on Pryd’s shoulders after which both went into a double jug* gling routine. In ithe process of ascending, Day hid a little dift ficulty topping her partner’s shoulders. Finally She made it half the way up and then proceeded to step on his face periodically while nonchantly juggling three rubber balls. Next on the bill was an inter nationally known balanping act, the Troyans. One was! straight man the other, a wobbling drunk. The act showed originality—the way the common action of lighting a cijgarette led into a startling de monstration of balancing, The Troy- * r? Floral Display Contest HeM In landscape Art The Landscape Art Depart- -ment, in cooperation with the Student Floral Concession, is sponsoring, a florist’ window display contest for interested students in the Department and men working with the floral con cession, according to A. F. De- Werth, head of the Landscape Art Department. ( The contest will be open to all - i, members of the Landscape Art De partment and participants in Stud ent Floral ' ConcesHfion activities. Two or more students may enter Ihe same display together, dividing I. the prize if they win. Students may enter themes for three different displays, one to be held Thanksgiving, :oue Christmas, and the final, one op Mother’s Day. Deadlines for entries for these dis plays are November 8, December 1 and April .23, respectively.' ‘ Winners will be. expected to exe- :ute their window design at the appropriate date. The designs mupt be suitable for execution in the large window in the north end of the Floriculture greenhouse. The display should' emphasize flowers as the central attraction. Costs ahoul'd be kept low,] as practicable. " Cost .of flowers apd material will bp bornls by the Student Floral Concession. r vl Sprott’s Stock To Be Used in Rodeo Dr. Darrell B. Sproutt, ’38, has been contracted to furnish the stock for the Aggie Rodeo Oct. 28- 29. Some of the outstanding buck- * jng horses and Brahms hulls in the state will be featured in the show, along with special acts, clowns, i and all other events which go to make up a real wild westrphow. . ~ Among the buckjng horses will be euch notables as Screaming Eagle* River Bottom amf Wind storm. ' A professional ’ rodeo an nouncer will be on hand to deBtribo the show and actioh shots will be taken by a rodeo photographer as the show] 5 progresses. 11 The Aggie Rodeo will again be - ,J in the Anirtal Husbandry held ■jl Pavilion and construction bf chutes and pens toehold the stock la npw underway. There will jbe three preformancep: one Friday night, one Saturday afternoon and lege s is no crowned handbalancing champions in Mexico in 1945. i Fred Lowery, “the blind |! whist ler,’’ was the most versatile eriter- tainer of the evening. His rendi tion of “Indian Love Call” and “Listen to the Mockingbird” gave many people their initial opportun ity to- hear whistling at is best Lowery also gave Imitations of calls qf the mockingbirdfjthe toon, the canary, and the cardinal. His female partner, 1 gifted more with looks than a voice; combined tal ents Withjthe great whistler. The result was medium to good music. One of the Hnapptat acts in the show was the Winter Sisters. Their acrobatics was fast and furious set to the pace pf gallop ing music styled by BecknCr’s orchestra. The overly enthusias tic team was sharp 1 and seemed to be enjoying themselves more than the audience. Climax ;of the evening’s enter tainment was the appearance of Eddie Peabody,! his shiny banjo, uion Stage ■\ > 'll' i 1 j: wonder, 1 wpre | anc| friendly smile. His fervor for ng champions banjo playing seemed to capture the aiince's spirit, arid they became thusiastic also—especially when aue enthusiastic everyone joined voices to sing one of Peabody’s renditions. He has the stage personality, gift for playihg the banjo, and wild-qyed animations to carry the brunt of a show alone for two or three hours. Called pack for encores among which times he played a medley. of Stephen Foster’s ( music of the Southland, Peabodylfinally made his last bow. The audience was pacified only at the promise that he would return late! > n tbe show. The show was obviously enjoy ed by everyone. But, especially did they appreciate Beckner who had a number of regular fans present. Beckner was the perfect master of cereniobies and made only one blunder of the evening. That viras when he referred to the campus as “here on the base.” i ■ |' No e' r en Beckner could get out of that one. ■ • . - 'll By di C. M UN ROE 11 j I : j! Final plans for thf TClJ corps trip were released today. | .Word received from the Fort Worth A&M Club, which has been handling arrangements for the Coming weekend, confirmed tenta tive plans made at a meeting last week in Fort Worth petwCen col lege representatives, Fort Worth Aggies, and city officials. Arrangement to hold midnight yell practice at the county court house at 11:30 p.m. were given the go-ahead signal bjr Fort Worth of ficials. The police have arranged to block off all traffic from the area, and will have sufficient pa trolmen on hand to prevent inter ruption of the yell practice by spec tators. President of the; Fort Worth A&M Club Fred A. Elliston inform ed Doyle Avant, cadet colonel of the corps, that Weatherford Street, which is directly in front of the court house, will be blocked off between Houston and Commerce Streets. “There will be more than enough room for the yell practice," Ellis- —e ^—<■ Stiteler Reviews Football Fortunes Coach Harry Stiteler reviewed A&M’s football fortunes for the year last night when (he spoke to members of the Quarterback Club in the Assembly Halj. “We took a good old fashioned country licking at LSU," Coach Stiteler said, t - ill “We went to Baton Rouge hoping we had a chance for a win. We knew that with a determination to fight and a dry field we had that qhance. We|l, we didn’t have a dry field, but I can’t $^y We would have won if we would have had. “We tried all the way, but they havej a good,-big experienced team pnd they beat us.” A&.M’s head coach went on to say that the first four games of this year were, as far as he was concerned now, a different sea son. Victor Barge, fentun over two continents, iuf f roflK D*MMiFk the American, publ I huipormongi II appear at and piano satirist, famous on Hall November 2. Arriv- beeame popular with Octopi Take Note | “Saturday Iwe face TjCU, the first game of our; new sealsjon, and we’ll do the very; best we can,]'just as We have ddne in tlje p^st four games.” 1 ; Stiteler then asked for Questions from members of the audience. One student asked why LSU ! officials had not covered the footba: ils had 11 fi^M Steele ing. Stiteler replied that the Hoiv to Roll a Cigarette 'm One Impossible Lesson | I j By DAVE COSLETTi 1 Listen partners, while Cdctus Dave I tells you how to roll a ci garette. It’s come! to the attention of this office that not too | mahy Batt readers have made plana to enroll in the cigarette rolling divi sion of the Battalion A nn Uhi Ripe Smoking Contest. i The burden is upon me, there fore, to 'point out I what opportuni ties lie in this' oft scorned phase of the nicotine arts. Ill 1 jp And how do I qualify as an ex pert? Being a 'native Texan (I came here five years ago) and hav ing strejtched my lanky frame pvOr many a corral fence (I esvered * story behind the AH Pav lion last year), IVe been broke enough times to find Cigarette rolling skill a def inite asset.] ■ j 1 ]. i- ] : I shail explain it to you as my room-mate explained it ft< me, j To begin with, you 1 must havfe the raw materials. At the forthcoming contest, 'intrants will be supplied with th<s finest grade tobacco and papeis. room-mate and I used ;i finely shredded cigar butt and i slight ly soiled mess-hall napkin. Take the paper in I the lift I hand, the tobacco containeir in |he right I *. hprid imd shake some contents from the first onto the second. The correct amount can be found only through experimentation. Next^ if you are using one of the conventional “roll your own" con tainers, you pull the strings with the right hand and two incisors ■w a An estimated avejrnge caps belonging to fa< ulty members visitors; and students A&M campus' each diHic to Fred Hickman, piai security. | come onto the day, according Sad of campus vded i The crowd parking lots indicatef that the her at cars present i: er this year, Hickmi vises that all car owners 'use their assigned parting lots avoi i- % may, 1 the final event Satiurday night Dr. Sprotthas agreed with rnem- • bers of the Saddle ahd Sirloin Club, sponsors of the show, to furnish . the stock at cost sio as to' enable the club to make a,,more sizeable ./ r gestion an|d tirtets to Hickman* student'- rkTtheir vehicles on jjcol- axd in employee lots er 5 p. in, on Mo idays Fridays, Saturday i fternoons jand all day Sundays. However, l cars irnust jnot be pirked in p. than! their assigi tec 2 a. m. ea< cars :i other areas a|fl added. 1 gned pa: each nigh' p Caudill Attends School Council Wi W. Caudill, research en gineer of the Texas Engineer ing Experiment Station is at- tendjng the twenty-sixth an nual meeting of the National Council on Schoolhouse Construc tion; October 13-15; in Indianapolis, India m, Ernest Langford, head of the department of Architecture, said oday. He will speak on details deal ing with his research project on the affec s of architectural shapes on ligjjtt, air, and sound in panel ses- in which the governor of In- and other principle speakers also appear, Langford said. TfU! National Council oh School- housf Contruction was formed in 1922 for the purpose of promoting stancards for improving 1 school buddings. Its membership consists of ' d; vision heads of federal and state departments of education and menders of educational institutions chifged with direction of school- house planning. Caudill was elect ed! n> membership in the organ- tic n at the annual meeting in 1949 »t San Fraacisco, Langford ’Inance b Has Barbecue Th; Marketing and Finance Club rt >d its social life for the year iji a barbecue stag party Tues- : light. embers of the club met at the Ajhiculture Building at 6 p. m., then went to the barbecue grounds where the barbecue was served and party continued by the light of a nonfire. About 40 people attended, includ ing members of the club, professors * Ti he Agricultural Economics De- ent, and guests. bntil the package is securely closed. [Toothless persons njust deVise th^jr Own method. Now conies the real test of skill. Using the free righ^ hand (it’s taken for granted you have gotten rid of the package), you ^mouth the tobacco on the paper. A local inventor is working dn a miniature rake for this purpose. Lift the two sides of the paper until they match evehly. I don’t know what this accomplished, but piy, room-mate advises me that it is necessary. I j The actual rolling itself in volves the use of all seven fin gers of both hands. I know that this statement sounds ab surd, but you haven’t met my room-mate. His feet, though, are normal. He has-t^i toes just like everyone else—seven on one foot and three on the other. But, to get back to the rolling, the cigarette is rdlled toward the maker. The thumbs, therefore, can be used to hold it in shape. Next, saliva is applied to the seams. The procedure is slightly Varied for gummed paper, but such paper is frowned upon in most lo cal circles. No\y the newly fashioned fag is held perpendicularly in the left hand and stroked upwardly With two right hand fingers. I’ve found it a rather good idea i to twist the downward end shut before pro ceeding to this step. The stroking is supposed to net tle the tobacco, enhance the shape, and make the weed more firm. On mine it does all of thesa.!; | It settles all of the tobacco into lower halfj of the paper/ give school did not have a fic*d cover. The reason for this was, he said, because they had not had occa sion to use one in a good number of years. They had had a cover at one time, he continued, but it had been used so seldom that when it be came useless they djd not replace it. “We doubt if it would havfe done any good anyway,’! | he said, “be cause the field is so low that water would have seeped underneath the cover.” After answering several ques tions regarding players and posi-i tions, Stiteler left the stage so he could narrate for the pictures of the LSU game. Preceding the coach’s talk and the movies, Ben Brittain, advertis ing manager for The Battalion, awarded prizes won in the weekly Quarterback Club Contest. Prizes were awarded to eleven winners. They Were'^ohn F. Buch anan, Mrs. Odell Frazier, Robert L. Jones, D. E. Nuisance, E. E. Neal, Ted Means, Lewold Connor, Ralph L. Terry, Ray P. Reed, W. C. Davis, and Ray N. Williams. Prizes for the winners were do- l j; 1 1 1 i , ■’ J' Hi ton said, “and there is lots of park- ton Street and th ihg space available on surrounding streets.” j' I" . 1 . V ; The street will be blocked off at 11 p.m., Elliston said. Parade Plans The parade through downtown Fort Worth will begin at 10 a.m. First call is: at 9 a.m., and all ca dets will b£ required ,to be in the assembly area atr thafjUinu), according to Herman Dieterich, gpyps operations Sfficer. “This is necessary," Dieterich said, so that the corps can be formed and ready to move out at 10. The parade time was set at 10 a.m. instead; of 10:30 a.m. So that cadets would have ample time to get to the TCU stadium. The assembly area, which is the same as in 1947, is on the Texas and Pacific Railroad reservation across from the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company and the General Engineering Company. This is.at. the south end Of Main $treet beyoiid the underpass. The route bf march will carry the corps under the underpass, across the tracks tjb Main Street, and up Main Street’to Fifth. At Fifth the parade will be routed over to Hous- en the resume its Origin* of march until it reaches We ford. i ' j IM The corps will tojirn right derford and eontinuf treet until it gets in ft Weathe that street until it gets in th cinity of Grove Street, which the dismissal are(i. The band will be Eighth Street at Main, across the Texas Hotel The reyieji stand will be in front of th* hotel A map showing the parade routk is posted in each corps dj>rmitory, Dieterich said. The van for band instruments rill court placA •R J Welding Award Scholarships will be parked at the : Houston Street side of the county fcou house. Band members may their instruments in the van the conclusion of the parade. I Housing Plana ; < The Fort Worth A&M Mothers Club has agreed; to try to provide rooms for all ptodents in need of them. Students who failed to reg ister for rooms with their company commanders or housemasters by Friday may checkt on available rooms at a booth in the Texas Hi tel which will be m the Aggie Mothers. Students who! dici apply; fqj rooms through this organization may receive assignments and di tions at the satrielbodtlL Football fiatne, ! L X| ' to Fort W Wortl all-col le* the Cash way, hoi .students ffrom Ai * Cbpstiah Urjversit)!, and Ar ir State College have beeh invit admissioi| of 75 cent* wi 1 rged and fkkets may at. the Hotel Texas or at the Casirto. letter fvqtn LL Col. A. J. S uth- erlftnd, PMS^T for Fort Wo High SchoolIROTC unita* to onbl r> < al H. L. Boatner said that a irchestrn woijld be playing fo: 1 lahce, and that arrangements expensive endugh to accdmmOdi ■e than T,(M)0 people, nly soft drinks Will b* all The official Aggie Saturday night will] be hdld in toe Crystal Ballrbom and the Bluebon net I Court of Texas Hotel. The 1949-50 Ag$e Sweetheart, Miss Jeanine Holljind, apd her- eecort, for the weekend have been invited to attend. ! j Both the tellrooirts for the Ag gie] Dance ane’ on the top floOreof Texas Hotel. The Fort Worth M Club; .wnich is sponsoring- be Texas HW tho t iptained by A& r tracted wit)ii[ h his band to fi > A si t e at * . j I The kickoff for the ball game Jjsjin downto • scheduled for 2:30; p.m. Those ca-'lr#in, chal: Jdets not having transportation to “** ' Are Announced when it began rain- "*ted by the sponsors of the Quar terback Club. They are J. C. Hotard, H. J. Peters Music Company, Charlie Ferreri of the Triangle Drive-In, C. E. Griesser of Griesser’s Elec tric Company, Joe Faulk of Lack’s Auto Supply, and W.S.D. Clothiers. Travis B. Bryan of the First National Bank, the Parker-Astin Hardware Company, Alexander Beal Insurance Company, and the Bryan Motor Company. . The speaker for next week’s quarterback club will be Clyde La- Motte, sports editor of The Houston Post. The James F. Lincoln, Arc Welding Foundation of Cleve land, Ohio, has announced it will sponsor the third annual Engineering Undergraduate' Award and Scholarship program. This program offers annually $6750 in awards and scholarship funds to engineering undergrade uate students and to schools fo! the best papers prepared by un dergraduates on arc welded de sign, research, fabrication, or main- tenanD^f 2 ^/ f-pf | According to the rules of the contest, all resident, engineering undergraduate students, including agricultural, and architectural; are' able to compete in the writing of papers for awards. First prize will be $1000. Awards ojf $500 and $250 will be given to second and third prize winners. Other prized are four $150 awards, eight $100 prizes, twelve prides of $50, and fifty $25 awards. A copy of the rules! and conditions of the contest may be obtained by writ ing the James F. Lincoln Arc Weld- (See AWARDS. Page 4) or “Texas • Christian University” Thede busses make scheduled stops at the stadium. ■ : ^ i. * (•■ F They may be boarded at; any corner on Main Street . between Third and Eighth Streets. Dances Planned Two dances have been scheduled fot" the weekentj. Early arpvajs ‘Iftagf • |! or ie danee jcom- several Kiwanis Club Launches Book Drive for School Library Saturday! night (lance, has con- Red Woodward and urnish the music direc- A^,," i /! fit’s the biggest place we have wn Fort Worth,” Paul irman of the dan mittee said,! Rand, although othpr places- had been sugi wethough that the hofel like our beaf bet.” Irwin said;! that only* soft would be pormitted at the Parking and Baggage The Fort! Worth A&M Club in vestigated the availability ofidtetk- ing facilities within the vicinity, of' the Texas Hotel and found! that thebe are jthree main check rpjotns. Qn* is in the hotel; anbthe yhound jBus Station, ant thifd in the Continental Trai ways *> Bus Terminal. Both of the, laat two rooms are near the hotel- ): mittee members in chaitg« of thej parade inequested cadets i)ot to part their cars on Eighth Street until after the parade! That street will be cleared of all cans by | a,.m. Saturday so that thd Aggie (Band can form there after pai reviewing stand. “We’d hate to have some cl lot or f car! moved and capse him a worry]" club members said that’s what] will nave to be done there and go off and thing a shape like a bowling pin, and converts the cigarette! into a 'imoaot" M J> W fine weapon for fighting mosqui- tos. ]: / 7 . jH Could anyone lend me a ready roll? Robt. M. Ledbetter Is New Club Prexy Robert M. Ledbetter of -Breck- enfidge was elected president of the Stephens and Gotland Coun tv A&M Club, Thursday night. Other club, of fleers selected were John iBridges, Breckenridge, vice- president; plm Kelly, Ranger, siee- retary-treasurer; and Frank John son, Ranger, social chairman. “A Book or a Buck or Both.” With this campaign Slo gan, the College Station Kiwanis Club launched its book drive which is planned to raise one thousand good used books or their equivalent in money to fill the library shelves of the A&M Consolidated Schools. 4 While the slogan is in the sing ular, the Kjwanians are quick to tell you that: their expectations are in the plural, and Dr. C. 6. Camp bell, retired head of A&M’s Mod ern Languages Department, Who is chairman of the book drive com mittee, says be has his eye on sev eral contributors who should come fourth with a hundred or so vol umes each. First Contributors Mrs. F. W. Hensel has the dis tinction of being the first con tributor according to Less Rich ardson, Superintendent of the A&M Consolidated Schools. She gave over a hundred volumes from the library of her late husband, the former head of the Landscape Art Depart ment of A&M. Those volumes in clude the compleite works of Shakespeare* Browning and Words worth, modern fiction, technical books and many others. Mrs. Charles N. Shepardson was also one of the early donors. Her gift was a complete-iseit of the New International Encyclopedia together with its special book stand, according to Mrs. Owen Lee, Libra,rikn for the Consollda- h Schc Soviet Request Shunned by UN LAKE SUCCESS, Oct. 12, (JP).—Russia has renewed her demand for a wold-wide count of atomic bombs by the Uni ted Nations. U. S. delegate Warren Austin called the Soviet move “another attempt to fool the public.” jj The Soviet demand was made by Deputy Foreign Minister j Jakob Malik late yesterday! in the U. N. Security Council. It called for a tally of all weapons from atom bombs to airplanes (and artillery, frob battleships to bayonets. Each nation would report on its own weapons under Malik’s proposal, with no provision for checking on the truth of the statements. Warren Austin, U, S. Delegate who is this month's chairman of the council, did not answer Malik on the floor. But immediately af ter the meeting he told newsmen: "A census of weapons without ver- .. • , . ification is meaningless. This is able [9 r a school library are ac F. I. Dahlberg from the Stat* served as a Judge In a breeding swine contest. returned today Fair where he Harris, Welch Tell Of ASAE Meeting Dick Harris and Bill Welch, members of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, gave reports on their trip to the na tional convention:of the A. S.(. A. E. at the regular i j society meeting Tuwday evening. The national [[convention! of the A. S, A. E. was held at Michigan State College last JUne. Harris and Welch both reported ai) enjoyable and educational trip. They urged more members fo re present the A&M chapter nt the national convention to be held in Washington, D. C„ in June of 1! Harris reported that the A Chapter ranged fiftechth In contest for the Farm Equipment Institute Trophy. The trophy is awarded to the! Outstanding chap ter in the nation each year. 1 ; J, , During the ebusiness session, M. J.r* ! W. Gordon, Vice-president of the "fH® . society, appointed L. L. Lomax i to the F. E. L; Trophy committe«l| i, 171 Gordon presided at the meeti”'* in the absence: of the presiden pick Harris,'athletic officer i0l the society, gave a short:— on intramural ; athletu Hi- '■ 1 i • H, 4 Dean Franklin Thomai California institute of Techn0]o wh<i is, president of fb*: Ambri whq 'Soc|< address the! members [of J Mcjitew Stodent Chapter Society on October 24 at ety of j Civil Engineers,^ w HI diaha University has professor of civil erigineerihg lit California Tech since 1918. He h*a been Dean pf Students since j 1 Along! with: his duties, he has been active civic affairs A)f the cRy of Pasa dena. ■ ickets are 1 available in rqom 3 of the! Civil engineering bqild Vi for (those w shing to attend. Jounu ected t< l Ml. it of to m< Society ministi another attempt to fool the pub lic,” I - “The proposal for; the addition of atomic bombs to the census adds nothing new," Austin said. “It continues to reflect an unwilling ness on the part oif the Soviet Union to recognize the real na ture of the atomic problem.” The Russian proposal was not 1 on and Malik refused to go detail on it when he spoke to imen after the meeting. Malik was directly asked if Rus sia has atomic weapons. He answered, "read the Tass communication.” (See SOVIET, Page 4) ted High School. All books in good condition suit- be entered by the soci Coffee and doughn served after the meeti ceptable in this drive, or if the donor does not have such books, his money with which to buy books will be cheerfully accepted, Dr. Campbell said. Many college pro fessors probably have books which are not suitable, but which can be sold for the benefit of the drive, Ralph Steen[ Kiwanis Club presi dent explained. 1 ' ., j Those who] have books may take them to the collection boxes which have been placed in the High School Library, Black’s Pharmacy, South- side Food Market, and the! College Station Bank, or call Le> Rich ardson at 4-t624, who will arrange ( to have the books collected. bf Jour Reduce Without Diet Denver—Want to reduce your waistline without dieting, fella?: Wear suspemUire, ^ attending the AitWi Association. Tie sll victory who doesn’t named said the; Belt wearing men M expand their stomad their trousers from He said 26 pot switched to brace*! j and their waistlines an gyerttg and five-eights ‘ 1 •j :i ' I ' . j •" 4 ];) I • ■ : - !' •! U ..I, , i . v. J Li;. f Air w *! A& m h toie Ameri Hsm Rchool as announced yest ;ment Head Donald D. m* bf the American lurnalism School is to!.foster, aid #1 advancement of job Ing ml the college lev member instltul raities of Ala ylor, Creightan, the South, Vevada, N ota, South Da * TraiiF ~ Virgin! ng (omen, and Texas Technologii Present officers are: presidi are: L, .