I ' -Jl Nation^ Top Collegiate Daily NAS 1949 Survey V ; { SB r HiiJ The Battalion * PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE ■ >'• u i ■ i..’. I ’ * '*> / \ 'ft- ■ 1 r 1 con !;J Official Nt ! • •! 1 !'•( per :iy ■ v • _ f 1 Volume 49 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 19*9 i ■'>- Number Annual Aggie Rodeo Begins In AH Pavilion Tonight At 8 1 a ^ ; BY BILL BILLINGSLEY ^ , « 4 I ' — n ' ' The twenty-first annual Aggie rodeo will rip out of th? chutes at-the AH Pavilion tonight at 8 Over half-a-hundred of A&M’s collegiate cowliandfe will take part in that show and the two Saturday shows which follow at''2:30 p. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sponsored each year by the Saddle and Sirlion putyj the rodeo profits will be used to send A&M stock ju^gin teams to competitions! in Fort* Worth, Oklahoma City, Chiqigo, j . # ^ and Kansas-City. Alt* r I i* As in the past, this years rodeo. |/"mil 1- DM VV/ J. V will featury five main events. Bull ridihV, with 17 entries; bareback oronc riding, with *20 contestants; calf roping with 19 rbpers; bull dogging with 8 'Wrestlers!; .and rib bon roping with 1(5, two-inan teams entered make up the program list. Eager Ooggerh Each yearVthe" Aggif the lead ing college rodeo performers who l will ' go after the $800 worth of prizes offered the top cowhands, Stock for this yeaiis show is being furnished, at cost, by Dr. Darnell B. Sprott, class of ’38, from Killed, Texas. Alt stock are , professional jodeo animals and, along with the-clown, make up the r-only strictly professional 5 portion of tonights show. "I j ! j This year’s clown and bull fight er is Dr. Hershell Dorman, also jn the class of ’38 of Fort Worth. Tickets are $1.80 for reserve seats, $1.20 for genera) admission and $.(50 for children under twelve. They may be bought from J. H. Sullivan, 47 Milner or any 'AH major on the campus, j . _ Judges Judges of this year’s show are Tommie Johnson, ’48, of Auga Dulce and Ray Davis; ’50, from Wichita Falls. Time keepers are Tonv Sheltpn, Tilden; Bill Caruth- ers, Chystal City; and [Tabor Shel ton, Tilden. Special events this- [year are a cutting horse contest and a sheep dog exhibition. Some of the state’s top cutting horses will be enter ed in the contest, according to arena director Prince Wood. (See RODEO, Page 6) To Test Career Minded Aggies j • j * *i; An Air Force officer team from r Brooks Field Willi ar rive on the campus Monday, October 31, to interview sti - dents interested in careers as flying officers in the U. S.iA. f. The team Willi he located in the YMCA, and all interested sttiden s will be given examinutioGs ne cessary to qualify them for'trail ing as pilots or navigators, j To be eligible for Cadet [jtrai i- ing, a student must be ah u i- married citizen between tlie age if 20 and 26/< must have complet'd two years of college, and must {mss the qualifying physical and 'moral examinations. Under a new plan put inito op eration this year, applicants tint will graduate in June can be exam ined now to see; if they qualify, tlf so, their papers will be heljd un ,il graduation amt commissionirg, then proper orders will be |issu?d for pilot or navigator trailing. In-grade training is available to married men. Sophomores atm Jun iors may also take the te$t, but they will not be acOeptad J pnltss they show that they will he unal le to remain in school. The visit to A&M is partj'pf a nationwide program being con ducted by the Air Force to build up an officer corps composed largely of college students. .i-J-— 1 n • 1 Kern Will Install Phi Kappa Phi’s [ • • T . j i Doctor Frank J. Kern, national president of Phi Kappa Ph|i. will install the local chapter here Mon day evening, October 31. Dr. Kern, is head of the grad uate school at Penn State. Resides being national president of Phi Kappa Phi, he is a member of Alpha Zeta, Gamma Sigma delta, Phi Eta Sigma, and Sigmai Xi. He wgs elected to Who’s Who in America. A botanist, Dr. Kern .has been specializing in research concerning plant roots and! fungus diseases in plantk. Newsmen Here Saturday For • Panel Session i Tomorrow the Texas News paper Clinic, sponsored by the A&M Journalism Department, will start, Donald D. Bur- chard, head of the journalism department announced today. The clinic will start at 8 a. m. Saturday, with registration of the visiting journalists. The programs will start at 8:50 a. m. with a dis cussion of “Does Your Job De partment Cost You Money?’’ This discussion will he moderated by 1). E. Newsom of the A&M journalism department. Otis Miller, also of the A&M Journalism department, will pre side over the, second session. The main topic of this period is "Ag ricultural Promotion That Pays." *“How to Promote, a Worth while Special Event," and "Sell- .ing Advertising That Pays," will I fill' out the morning discussions, Burchfrd said. Henderson Shuffler, Director of Information and Publication, will give an address of welcome at the luncheon in Sbisa Hall. Verne Swartzfager, pastor of the St. An drews Church in Bryan, will make a talk entitled “Kids World." jjfc The afternoon activities will in clude a mechanical conference mod erated by Newsom, and demon- stjration of the A&M Press. At 6 p. m. the clinic will meet at the Fin Feather Club for din ner and a short radio quiz pro gram. This is the first time that A&M has sponsored a Newspaper con ference, Burchard concluded. Metzger Pistol Collection, • ! ! i j; |. I | M ./ j . ; . . ; j ' I . I . j I | 1 •. l •j| Second Largest, Given A&M By Colonel R. L. Boatner, PMS&T, and Colonel of the Corps Doyle Avant Inspect two of the more than 700 firearms of the Metzger Collection which have been donated to the college. The pistol held jt Vr [' • ■ '•'K; | i'" if) * ✓ ’’' W .-j T j ■ij, . r-. (/■ Seniors Plan Meet To Choose Delegate The senior class will elect its representative to A&M’s Diamond Jubilee Celebrations Committee Monday night at a class meeting, Bobby Byington, senior president, said today. Each class, Byi.ngton said, has been requested by the Board of,' Directors to name a man to the committee. Its job will be to plan a •year-long series of special events to celebrate A&M’s 75th anniver sary. Byington said that he anticipated discussion of the Houston yell practice arrangements at the Mon day’s meeting. A committee to select graduation announcements will also be named. office spoke to the club on> “ Job All students who desire to place i Opportunities.” “Other Speakers items for discussion on the agenda ' will he engaged for future talks,’’ were asked by Byington to con- 1 announced club sponsor Butler. Itact him before Monday. I ^ extende d a welcome to The location of the senior meet- I all economic majors and minors to ing ■ will be announced in Mon- j take advantage of the club’s edu- day’s Battalion. It will probably be ! rational and social opnortunities. in th^-.a s s e m b 1 y Hall of the! “Social plans for the\,wiy<-will YMCA Chapel, Byingtjm eonclud- be discussed at the Nov. »7meet- ed. i j ing,” Battler concluded!. BY JOHN TAPLEY The $100,000 Carl Metzger Collection of irare military and civilian firearms has been given to A&M % the daugh- I ■I |" stols gnd 200 rifles, e United States. - by Colonel Boatner Is an Austrian Wheellock de veloped In about the year of 1500. The cross-bow held by Avant was made in Germany before the development of the modern pistol. Bill Turley Named Prexv of Eco Club j William Turley, senior econo mics major from i Houston, has been elected to head the Economics Club for the ’49-ffl) school year. The Vice-president position was filled by Norris Yates of San An tonio while the secretary post went Donald Garrett also of San Antonio. Marvin Butler of the Econonjhcs Department was chos en to Sponsor the club. ‘ W. K. Horsley of the placement Western Culture At Peak Here, Conductor Says New York, Oct 28 the high lev els of the earth’s atmosphere, as sociated with high sunspot activ ity and world-wide magnetic-elec tric storms?" , Every few weeks the Associated Press 1 sends out this and other earth shaking information on a legal-sized yellow sheet of paper called “News Fillers for AMs and PMs.” These little tid-bits |)f typewrit ten livia are designed to keep page make-up men in a newspaper shop from going mad trying to figure out how to fill a half inch hole at the button of iji newspaper column. With a collection of these death less fillers lying about, the hard working make-up man! has but to choose one that fills tine holes. The Battalion rarely uses fill ers. Its daily pages are made up by students who arei half nuts already, so the filler is of no practical value. But rather than neglect the education of our daily readers, we have decided to print a few of the more enlightening ones here. Take this one for example “The goldenrod is the state flower of Nebraska.” Pertinent information? Think of the many Aggie hay-fever sufferers! that can he saved no little discomfort by having been forewarned about such a condi tion. Or thisi—“North American water- fowl reached a peak in numbers in 1944, an estimated 125,000,000 birds.” Consider the many hunt ers who, because of reading that, can dreamily wish that they could be back in 1944 with a straight shooting ! gun. Music lovers, attention—“The ukele was taken to the Hawaiian Islands by Portuguese immigrants.” How long have you labored under an impression other than this. Here’s another—“Europe has seven midget principalities: Tri este, Andora, Liechtenstein, San Marino, Monaco, Vatican City and Luxembourg, the largest (999 square mi)es).” just those 20 words may solve the housing problem for countless midgets. AP also informs us “the an cient Greeks made small replicas of radishes out df gold." Chances are they were more digestable than Iheir modern day counter parts in the College mess-halls. Members of the Transportation Corps might be interested in the next one—“The U. S. rapid tran sit industry carried a number of passengers in 1948 equal to about 10 times the population of the earth.” No wonder strap hangers have perfected their art so well. l ocal week-end wanderers can take heart from another of the no tations. “It is estimated there are more than 45 million motor cars on U. S. /highways.” Gad, what a ggs bill. And perhaps you didn’t know, “the eonestoga wagon used in the U. S. covered wagon days was 16 feet long and wheels were as high as a man.” Good thing there were no flat • tires in those days. Another filler disclosed that “more than five miillion Ameri cans work as truck drivers.” Let there be no more slanderous re marks made against a noble pro fession. To prove that a well-rounded education can be gotten from the lowly space-fillers, here’s another of the game—“A large octopus may be as much as 28 feet across.” Remember that next time you bump into one of the critters. It will make a beautiful topic on whicl^ to begin the conversation. After all, what octopus would be inter ested in the weather? ‘Pink’ Thanked By VA Patients Patients of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Temple yesterday expressed their thanks to P. L. “Pinky’' Downs Jr., assistant director of information, for the entertain ment which he had arranged for them during the weekend of the A&M-Baylor game. A letter from M. L. Harper, hospital, to “Pinky” said, “Words are not available to express [the gratitude and appreciation of the patients of this hospital to you and the Texas A&M staff and faculty” for the entertainment provided over the weekend. Harper continued f by saying “Outings of this nature play a very important part in the rehabil itation of those hospitalized here, and the treatment of these pa tients such as was demonstrated by you and your staff is to be highly commended.” “Pinky” has been in charge of making all arrangements for the care of hospitalized veterans who come to the college for football weekends. Currently he is planning to wel come another group of the woundr, ed men to the campus for the A&M-SMU game on November 5. Harper, in his letter to “Pinky’.’, stated that many of the patients who were unable to make the trip from Temple on • October 22 were anxious to be members of the group planning to come down on Novem ber 5. Statement Glenn Kothman, head yell | leader, made this statement to j The Battalion this morning with j the request it be published for ! the information and guidance of the student body. “I was present at a meeting ; held Wednesday afternoon in Dean Penberthy’s office where the question of midnight yell practice in Houston was dis cussed. It is my belief that we should have a midnight yell > practice, but if the Houston! A&M Club, after considering all sides of the question, requests us not to have yell practice Fri day night, I am willing to ac cept their decision. "The important thing about this whole question is that we should act together as a unit. If the Houston A&M Club wants our yell practice Saturday morning, then that Is when we ought to have it.” ,|..i • • f - : | • i! 1 * jrL, \ \ L ! ' J; Short Course : j For Metermen i . i 'J , Starts Monday A Public Utility Short Course for electric metermen will be held here October 31 through November 4. E. N. Mitchell, .superinten dent of the tiiotor department of the West Texas Utilities, will pre side at a banquet for the meter men November 3. Mitchell is pres ident of the Southwestern Electri cal Metermen’s AssociaiUon. E. P. Speer of the Texas Power and Light Company of Dallas will talk on “Customer Relations for Metermen." H. Lee Miller, superintendent of the meter department of the Hous ton Light and Power Company, will lead discussions on standard ization of laboratories. Floyd Salmon, superintendent of the meter department, j. C, Mc Pherson, and Jim Gray, all of the Central Power Light Company of San Antonio, will also take part in the planned program, ; W. H. Farrington and M. W. Emfinger of J the Texas Electric • y t Ingraham, superintendent of the; meter department of Gtilf States Utilities Company of Beaumont, will deliver a talk during the course. Other men in the electric meter business who will attend include Fred Holtz, chief engineer of the Sangamo Company, > Springfield/ Illinois.; T. M. Wallis; General 1 Electric Company; D. A. Young, Westinghouse Corporation;; and L. F. Parachini of the Western In strument Company. ! { President F. C. Bolton will de liver the address of welcome, Norman F. Rode, professor of the Electrical Engineering Depart ment is in charge of arrangements. ters of the late Carl Metzger^ The collection, which includes 587 is one of the finest gun collections in Col. H. L. Boatner, PMS&T and conimand4nt, said M this is one of the finest pistol collections ir the United Statee, and probably the finest private ijollectih i of C^lt revolvers The collection consists of m^ny anc ent pistols. Included in it are weapons made in the 15Ui centuby and Such pistols as t t rftlp Walk* • Colt, (which was ini- tally used in the Tiixaa Revolution; Turkish K; intlock :Horsemans pis tols; LeFt rcheauj| Pinfire revol ver it tnnji many j Derringer But- tfffield piitols, General P. Bris- cpie’a Coltf^atterscli revolver made in 1836; a Costs-Whitneyville- Walker revolver a|d severttl Colts- Hitterson; revolvers. [ Also curtained In the collection »r Mooijiah and .i Arabian Breant Dugger Revolvera; a Civil War C<)lt Sijlpir’s rifle* weighing SO- pounds; about 20 lets of European Duelling pistols^ 2 Philippine bronze cannons made in the Spant ish era *>f that muntry; a large group (tfjtjie earl; flintlock pistols (rjade (it j Harpers Ferry, u group Of the pjarly Kei lucky rifles and piany Others too numerous to meo- tipn in ( ejail. A smqll part »f th* collection (a temporarily housed in the Cadet Reception Center |and the Cushing Library, i l]t will i be permanently housed in the Student Memorial Center pp H w unler oonstructiorv 0(nly about 20 pegeent of the col lection is on display in the gun room at jpne tin®. * Metzger, who idied March 22, 1949, was engaged in the dairy bpsiness tin Dallas until his re tirement in 1939j • , ' I , History of jCollectioh [•He started hij collection as a boy arid after retiring fron) active business, devoteve that all the iccept the decis- II have our best ion that they :h we may make * tie and work- But, whatever they decide, we urge $very stud« ’- full cooperation of accept that decision, for only can assure the success of any ■ ~ i practice id as a grou e or break Our attitude as individ _ break this corps trip. It can mm or qi tation which has been built for A&M. It' • S'i >i; " ■■! ■ ; I': .wl ti. latii whether it fjets the students, ip can make or the good repu- can good s up to you. ■A