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COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 19*9
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Annual Aggie Rodeo Begins
In AH Pavilion Tonight At 8
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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" Aggi<f rodgd is
one of the few cotlegiatje shows to
include the steer iw res tiling rjvent
on its program. Most university
area directors consider bnlldgo-
ging too 4ough an event for their
student contestants. The Aggie
Cowhffhds, however, literally eat
the event up.
Bolstered by the nucleus of Inst
years national-competition rodeo
team, the entry list of this years
rodeo will include some; of the top
money winners in shows across the
state and nation. | .
The program features such"
names as Maxie Overstreet, a bull
dogging/money winner in last years
Houston Fat Stock Snow rodeo;
Biibba Day, last year A&M’s top
all-around cowboy; topi bull rider
Bob Shrode; ropers Bill Hogg,
Prince Wood, Charlie Wampler and
Wally Cardwell; and; - bareback
riders Charlie Rankin; and Bob
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1 $800 in Prizes 4
These are but a few i>f 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 $.(50 for children under twelve.
They may be bought from J. H.
Sullivan, 47 Milner or any 'AH
major on the campus, j
. _ Judges
Judges of this year’s show are
Tommie Johnson, ’48, of Auga
Dulce and Ray Davis; ’50, from
Wichita Falls. Time keepers are
Tonv Sheltpn, Tilden; Bill Caruth-
ers, Chystal City; and [Tabor Shel
ton, Tilden.
Special events this- [year are a
cutting horse contest and a sheep
dog exhibition. Some of the state’s
top cutting horses will be enter
ed in the contest, according to
arena director Prince Wood.
(See RODEO, Page 6)
To Test Career
Minded Aggies
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from r Brooks Field Willi ar
rive on the campus Monday,
October 31, to interview sti -
dents interested in careers as
flying officers in the U. S.iA. f.
The team Willi he located in the
YMCA, and all interested sttiden s
will be given examinutioGs ne
cessary to qualify them for'trail
ing as pilots or navigators, j
To be eligible for Cadet [jtrai i-
ing, a student must be ah u i-
married citizen between tlie age if
20 and 26/< must have complet'd
two years of college, and must
{mss the qualifying physical and
'moral examinations.
Under a new plan put inito op
eration this year, applicants tint
will graduate in June can be exam
ined now to see; if they qualify, tlf
so, their papers will be heljd un ,il
graduation amt commissionirg,
then proper orders will be |issu?d
for pilot or navigator trailing.
In-grade training is available to
married men. Sophomores atm Jun
iors may also take the te$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.
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Kern Will Install
Phi Kappa Phi’s [
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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
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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,
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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
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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-
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stols gnd 200 rifles,
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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
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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 <A , l—“What
the devil is that?” demanded the
August British Orchestra conduct
or, Sir Thomas Beecham, when
asked yesterday what he thought
of bebop.
Sir Thomas, 70, arrived) aboard
the liner Queen Mary for a tour
in this country.
Reporters, who knew all the
things that bebop is not—neither
jazz nor swink nor classical mus
ic-settled for his innocuous de
finition: “A recent development in
modern American music.”
Sir Thomas raised his brows and
breezed on to some generalities.
In Texas, he declared, "west
ern culture has arrived at its
highest peak.” (He will conduct
orchestras in San Antonio, Fort
Worth, Dallas, and Houston.)
Wee Words of Wisdom
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The late Carl Metzger of Dal la* was the founder and builder of
the Metzger Collection of rare military and civili«Ln firearms which
daughters, Mrs. Harold
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United States, is valued at more than $100,000. Part of it Is
now oh display in the Cadet Reception Center In Dormitory 12.
The entire coilectioif will be housed In a special room In the Mem
orial Student Center,
was given to the college this week by his
G. Weil and Mrs. Lee Segal, both of Dallas.
The collection, which Is reported to be the third largest
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Education The Quick Way
In Poor Man's Brittanica
BY DAVE COS
,ETT
Lay down that 600-page volume.
Y’ou can be educated i i one short
paragraph.
Take this for example. Did you
know that the Aurora Borealis is
a display of light in> 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.”
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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
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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, devote<i the latter years
development of
bears, his name.
Iras prersented to
er the terms of
his daughters,
feil and Mr8. Lee
of', his Iffej to tl
the colleetibn th
The collection
the college un
Mhtzger’s jwill
Mts. Harold G.
Sfegai, both pf Dallas.
;Starting! with; oriental match
locks of the perfod bf about 1420,
the collection p^trays the evolu-j
tioii of firearms Jfrom that time to
thj early pjart ofj.the 20th century.
Following the oriental matchlocks
come wheel lock|, invented in Nu-
reiriburg, Germany, about 1609,
.^aphauned pistipls, the forerun
ner of the true jflintlock and dev
eloped about'15^5, Spanish Migu-
let; pistols madq about 1560, and
the true flintlockjthat can be traced
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So Each Man Gtin Speak
(AN EDITORIAL) J 1 ' . ’j
On the editorial page of this issue of Tjie Battalion we
have given a complete report of a meeting held Wednesday
afternoon in the Dean of Students office foi^ the purpose of
deciding whether or not there will be a yell practice in Hous-
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At that meeting a group of students $nd faculty ex
pressed their opinion that the student body! would prefer a
Saturday morning yell practice to having nef yell practice (
all. That opinion was based on a letter received from Georji
Smith, chairman of the corps-trip arrangenjents committ
of the Houston A&M Club, requesting tfiatjwe do not
yell practice Friday night in Houston. ! j ■ , -
There are many students who disagree with the opini
expressed by the group whicl) met Wednesday. It is tty
privilege to disagree. These students contend that, if giv
an opportunity to present their arguments fot* a midnight
practice to thjb former students of Houston,ithey can obi
the support of those former students in theij- efforts to h
a midnight yell practice. : \ 1 ;;
We do not know if the former students*can be made 1
withdraw their request. But, since we art? of the opinic
that every student should be given a chance|to have his saly,
we propose a plan which will give each man that chance.
The Battalion is willing to collect and forward to the
Houston A&il Club any signed letter from |my student giv
ing his ideas, pro or con, for midnight yell practice. [These
letters will be sent to that group Monday) evening. They
will be delivered before the corps trip arrangements com
mittee from A&M goes to Houston to ipalte plans for tne
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This, we believe, is a fair and honest
man an opportunity to voice his opinion in
it can be heard and considered by the pre
Now, when this has been done, we
students in this school should be willing to
ion of the Houston former students. . J
There can be no question that they
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interests in mind; and there can be nd!j
will be in sympathy with any suggestioi
provided they are Convinced that it is
able suggestion.
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authorities.
>ve 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
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id as a
grou
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Our attitude as individ _
break this corps trip. It can mm or qi
tation which has been built for A&M. It'
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whether it
fjets the students,
ip can make or
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