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A w ■ Nation’s Top v Collegiate Daily , NAS 1949 Survey Volume 49 ; i: ' r Battalioi published m tbe mmE8f r ^ or a greater a&m college | , h ; CREATES A&M COLLEGE . mr g, ***?*■ COLLEGE STATION (Aggidaad), TEXAS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16,1949 *Kids and Canines Mg m, m vm&mm m 1 J* Turkey Da^ Nears » \ i’ m wi I %/m lllw 1 l : | io i» in is in one i. It wM n yesterj ^ 1 1 M These five graceful ladles form a portion of the Danish Gym team scheduled for a performance on. the campus Dee. 4. The Denmark gymnasts are currently touring the United States giving tumbling demonstrations which Include demon strations pf their native folk dances. There are 24 members on the team. Fat Gobblers Face Doom At Week-end Turkey Shoot By JOHN TAPLEY An old pioneer custom will be re juvenated on Kyle Field, Sunday afternoon when the rifle team sponsors an old-fashioned Turkey Shoot. - The shoot is to raise funds to send the rifle team on shoulder to shoulder matches." Shooting starts at 2 p.m. / The gobblers will be placed in boxes with only their heads and necks showing. The rest of the bird will be protected by a metal plate and a sand bag. Contestants will win a turkey by killing it, or drawing blood. Prices will be 25 cents a or five shots for a dollar, gobblers are large, ranging size from 15 to SO pounds. Two positions, the standing and the kneeling, will be legal, tion will be optional. The will not have slings on them and contestants cannot use their own shootin’irons. The rifles used will be .22 cal. with long rifle ammunition, will have open sights. The guns will be zeroed in for 65 yards. Daniel Boone’s Bridge Tourname Invitation Receive Work on the annual bonfire, expected to be the in the history of the coll year, is now in full swing, blaze will take place the of Wednesday, November 23. 1 The center pole, according Colonel Joe E. Davis, who is charge of arrangements, is piece and is 65 feet high brought to College Station yester day afternoon. Trucks Available A. F. DeWerth of the . Landscape Arts Department, said that depart ment trucks will be available for work on the bonfire Friday, Satur day, Sunday, and Monday to assist in bringing in wood. Coffee for bonfire guards will be furnished by the messhall ami is under the direction ox R. P Mitchell. I f Working with and directly under Col. Davis are head yell leader Glenn Kothmann and senior yeil leader Red Duke. The Communications Committee, .who will set up and maintain radio and telephone .^mmunication to thwart would be firebugs, and direct operations Is composed of V. Schroeder, H. W. Beutel, and W. E. Ball. B. L. Couch, S. H. Barnes. C. Jackson, W. R. Cornish, and J. A. Warmker were in charge of se curing the center pole and ydll see to its erection. Actual building of the bonfire is under the direction of D. R< Thanksgiving oseph, fW. E. Richey, and W. J. >e the biggest Thornton, with wood-cutting de- "ege this tails being directed by T. D. Word, The big D. A; Strother, J. E. Amst, W. B. \e night Richard, S. S. Clark, 00 Roots. C. C. Ohlendorf and J. M. Ogles- > are in charge of equipment and B. Modi sett and S. P. Mistrot are in charge of transportation, Col. Davis said. ; A&M is one off the more than 800 colleges and ^universities in vited to compete in the 1950 Na tional Intercollegiate Bridge Tour nament. Invitations and entry blanks were received last week by ■ icollege officials from Kenney L. Ford of Kansas State College, i Bridg^ Tournament: Committee. Only undergraduates are eligible to play in the duplicate Contract Bridge evept for the ‘title and tro phy. A preliminary round will be played by mail in February, and the sixteen highest ranking pairs Will meet for the face-to-face finals at the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago in April 21 and 22, with their tex- Fish-Shorthorn . i i ■ ' Ducats Co on Sale A spokesman for the Athletic De partment announced yesterday that general admission, or student tick ets for the A&M Fish-Texas Short horn game in Austin Saturday would go bn sale Thursday morning at the athletic office. According to the spokesman, these tickets will be on sale at the athletic office all day Thursday and Friday, and are priced at |1.00 each] ' The spokesman concluded by stating that reserved seats, which are priced at $1.50 each, are being sold by local Shriners and other merchants th this area. Pastor Continues At Baptist Church The Reverend R. L. Brown will have completed 80 years service as Pastor of ((College Station'* Tirst Baptist Church when he leaves his position next Sept. 1. Brown submitted his resignation to the congregation last Sunday morning with the intention of its becoming effective Feb. 1, 1950 but - in accepting his resignation in a church conference, the congrega tion adopted an amendment that he serve until September of 1950 to complete his thirtieth year and of the become the first- pastor of the trig general of the Lhii College Station Baptist Church to bat Command until the do so. r . of Japanese army in Ni penses paid by the Tournament Committee. / \ ■ I 1 . Last Year’s Tournament s In last year’s Intercollegiate tournament, which was won: by the team from Wayne University, 1306 students representing 163 colleges in 45 states played in the: round- by-mail. Ti> insure representation of all parts of the country in the finals, the country is divided into eight zones, with two pairs from each zone qualifying for the finals. Tournament Committee The Intercollegiate Bridge Tour nament Committee, which supports the event so that there is ho cost to the competing colleges or the players, is a group of col‘ mni and officials inte - developing Contract Bri intercollegiate sport in and women can compete! on in equal basis. The committee requires that the approval of the dean or a cor responding authority be granted before a college can be regarded as officially entered in the ; tourna ment. shoot a bird will have to go home. The prizes will be stretch ed out to one per lucky person. Local merchants are donating the targets for the afternoon. So far about 25 turkeys have been re ceived, and if necessary more will be obtained. . / The donors include Holick’s Boot Shop, Subik Tailors, Mendl and. Hornak, College Station Shoe Shop, Charlie’s Food Market, Low- pot s, Smith Cleaners, H. A. Miller Appliances, A&M Grill, Shaefer’s Book Store, Varner’s Jewelers, Ag gie Cleaners, Aggieland Studio, A&M Photo Shop, Campus Clean ers and Smitty’s Grill. Members of the rifle team are prohibited from entering the con test. The contest is open to any one else, and everyone is invited by the rifle team to come try their hand at the sport that used to be so popular in the days before tur keys were sold by the pound. Employees to Dine Thursday Evening A dinner at Sbisa Hall Nov. 17 at 6:45 p. m. will open the 1949- 50 social season of the Employees Dinner Club on the A&M campus. Dinners thereafter will be held on the third Thursday of each month unless other scheduled events conflict. Tickets for the dinner Thursday are on sale at the Aggieland Inn at $1.50 each, and must be pur chased before Wednesday noon, Nov. 16. The Aggieland Orchestra will furnish music following the dinner. Dress for gentlemen and their ladies is optional. City Police Add Third Officer College Station’s two man police force was increased to three when City Manager Raymond Rogers reported the hiring of Curtis E. Bullock of Sherman, formerly of College Sta tion, who will report for work here within 10 days. Bullock, 35, a finger-print ex pert and identification officer with the Sherman police department, will start a fingerprint file on small scale immediately after as suming his new duties here. After serving three years in the Army military police, Bullock was radio car patrolman and nigh : dispatcher at Sherman daring the last four years. He is married, has a three year old son and has many relativ in Brazos county, Rogers said. 'j; j , The city council authorized second patrolman at College Sta tion about a month ago. The posi tion has been filled by C. M. Berry, formerly with Campus Security at A&M College. Lee Norwood is the city’s police chief. In charge of guard-duty assign ments is W. W. Zimmerman, while E. Lukemeyer is in charge of re connaissance. Trucks and busses carrying the wood-cutting details leave the mess hall at one every afternoon, Davis said. At Pet, M BY DAVE COSLETT The AH Pavilion went to the dogs last night—the dogs, cats, kids, cows, and horses that is. And many a young trainer today proudly sports a ribbon proclaim ing his or her prowess as pet raiser extraordinary. \ The event was the tenth Annual Dog and Pet Show of the A&M Consolidated School. Instigator was the Consolidated Mother’s and Dad’s Club. Just short Of 1,000 parents and other interested spectators watched 97 entrants primp and parade a menagerie of birds, beasts, and fowls ranging from, white rats through pole-cats, turtles, cows, horses, and gold-fish. Mediating School Brawls Not Healthy, Allsup Finds Keith Allsup has learned the hard way that It Isn’t healthy to Intervene in high school brawls. He’s wearing bandages covering one nlne-stltch gash on his head and a measley four-stltch cut on his chin. Allsup, president of the Student Senate and acting in the role of peace rhediator, saw that several Reagan High school boys were pre paring jto thresh a lonely Lamar boy near one of Houston’s drive-ins following the Reagan-Lamar football game this past Friday. night. Walking over to the disputants with a bottle In his hand, Allsup found them cold to his suggestions that they not molest the Lamar boy. Seizing hIS bottle, one Reagan boy landed several blows on Allsup before the police, who happened to be just across the street, came to break-up the fight. Had the police not been so close to the scene, Allsup speculates that he would probably still be In Houston, either pushing up daisies or taking blood transfusions. Asked If he had a statement, Allsup replied, "Just say that I was innocent and have learned my lesson—leave squabbling groups alone. And If j you are going over to investigate, for goodness' sake don’t carry a coke bottle with you.” Bleacher Tickets For A&M-Texas A limited number of bleacher tickets for the Thanksgiving Day game will be available to students only for parents and and will go on sale ly at 1 p. m., according >ard Nelson of the Athletic <ets Will be limited to two Department Tickets v per student, and will cost $3.60 each. Students must present ID c«rd at the time of purchase. The tickets will be on sale at a booth set up outside the de partment office at Kyle Field. , I The pint-sized contenders; re, presenting ionly the first through eighth grade age-group, competed in 13 divisions. • i I _ Four youngsters garnered pri zes for thejr ticket Selling efforts. Winner from the first grade was Mike Kirkpatrick; from the second and third [ grade, Mary Varvej, from the fourth, fifth and sixth grades, M^ry Francis Malik; 1 anjd from the seventh aqd eighth, grades, Bernice VaugHh. They all received a >ox of candy as a prize. Yoiingstars were hot the only winners\of the night, though. Mrs. P. D. Ganc y sauntered away from the pavilion with a gobbler tucked neatly und< r her ami S»he won the turkey as the door-prize. !f i Pet Parade Premier event of the night was the parade of pets which got unl- derway at' \p. m. Children and ani mals form sd a procession which completely encircled the large arena. Two pet-owners tied for first place for tlielr parade performance. They were Jimmy Fowler, leading a rabbit, a id Mary Francis Malik, (••ding a Brahma calf. Following the parade four A&M Students, under the direction o "Niekv” I’onthleux, | presented tumbling i nd clown act which wai well rceehed by the crowd. Judging of the pets came next. Three areas were set aside for this purpoke. Two saw-dust rings; situated at opposite ends of the arena, were used to display dogs and larger animals. Pure bred# pranced in the one a" curbstone setters yelped in the other. Smaller i animals were judged on tables in the center pf the arena; Susan (^audill’s Duke, a collie, copped! top (umorg in the large, long-haired, )pure bred dog divi sion. A collie and a cocker took secomL lThe firmer, Flora, was en tered; by Martha Terrell ; the lat ter, Jdike, By Kitt Spencer. I /Third placp winners were Gail Schlehselman’i Gordon > Setter, Nickedemuc and Louise Thompson’s English Setter, Coppeh., Large, purebred, short haired champ was a bird dog nuirted Spar ky o^md bjkMob White. Second and third place winners were, respectively, JDonne Cockran’s La- borador* Retriver, Bess, and Andy Pugh Is bird-dpe. Sport, j | J |j ! j Pure-Bred and Small In 'the pure-bred, small dig di visions, Daisy a Pekinese entered by Darnell Dewey nosed opt a 1 large field lof long-fhaired entries| Sec ond-placer was Frances! Knapp’s Sbotsje, a cocker. Miss Pok Chop, a cocker, and pinkid, another cock- eti tied for third place .Owners were Charles Tigner am Ann El kins. j ! j Whit Bell's! Dachsuml, Penny, nosed out first place in the short- haired division of this group. Num ber two entry; was Coaly Pugh's fox terrier, CijUe. Sherry ^Martin’s Haupt Represents A&M Research Foundation L . M. Haupt, professor of elec trical engineering, left last week for Endicott, New York,’where he will represent the A&M Research Foundation at the Scientific Com- putatiori Forum, sponsored by the International Business Machine Company. Lewis Union Pays Million Plus Fine Washington, Nov. 16 (tfl-John L. Lewis and the linked Mine Workers yesterday paid $1,420,000 in contempt fines—their penalty for failing to obey a court order to end a 1948 coal strike. Welly Hopkins, general counsel to the union, made the payment to Harry M. Hull, clerk of the U. S. District Court. Hopkins remarked that the fine is “probably the biggest ever paid by a defendant in the federal courts—certainly the biggest ever paid by a labor union." On! last Monday, the supreme court declined to hear an appeal by Lewis and the union from the fines imposed by Judge T. Alan Goldsborough. Boatner to S To Harvard Clads Col. H. L. Boatner, commandant and PMS&T of the college, will address graduate students [at Har vard University, December 2. Oth er guest speakers include Ambassa dor to • China Stuart. A student' of Chinese history. Colonel Boatner has spent many years in China. Graduated frpm West Point in 1924, Colonel Boatj- ner was sent to Tientsin, Chi) in 1928 to command the mount scouts of the Fifteenth Infantry. He was a language student and assistant] military attache in Cjhi na from 1930-34 during which t)nv he took Chinese courses at the Ca ifornia College in China.!. He ceived his master’s degree in Ify having written his thesis on Manchu Invasion of China in 1 After serving as head of army’s lend-lease i program China in .1941, Colonel” B went to Burma as a member General Stilwell’s staff. Ai as taken, he served nndde Burma wa egief of fcti ihg genera Perpetual Emotion Becomes Latest Comic Strip Trend By DEAN REED Do you have a newspaper han dy? You do? Fine. Turn to the comic section. Give the strips a quick glance; see if you can notice an outstanding characteristic the heroes or heroines possess, which they didn’t have a few short years ago. Well, we didn’t expect you to recognize it in one glance, so here it is. Most of the outstanding comic strip characters either have, will be, want to be; or should be MARRIED! v Jf More and mord the fictional folks of that great American in stitution, the funnies, are setting sail on wedding waterp, or love sick lakes. /' Who started the trend, we do not know. The first we can re member in our literary survey is “Boots," star of the comic strip by the same name. A pert, blonde-haired lass. Boots hitched a stranguh from way Texas, w ho used Rod handle.. Then, don’t forget Skeezix. chief of operations for the concern of Wallet and Bobble, and featured lad of Gasoline Alley. Not only did young Wallet marry, he became the proud father of what was claimed to be the first baby to bo actually born on newsprint. blonde-haired 1 up with a sti down m Texa Buggies as a Then, don’t f( . Remember, Nina Clock) hopped into (nee Nina a taxi, but •«»asav ca a«a%a« r, Joe Palooka, Gasoline Alley Jmilin’ Jack Mar- Father Time won'. Of course, Chip per was the first child, though ma arrival was not as nationally ‘ aided as that of his sister, For several v years, we seem to have a marriage 1 phase of the fourth estate, it apparently became a fad. In rapid order, Corky (another gentleman), and Smilin' tin took the step. Jack has been the latest recruit, though this wasn't his first trip to the altar, We hope this will not be a rest period between romances, with the wedding ties becoming slip ‘ Palooka, long-time boxer, was won by charms of a Miss 4 another luscious will happen to our Will marriage min lete. this idol of millions pf American boys, including little er, will te^L ,n * , """fj 111 T* Alas, poor Corky. Ho doesn’t seem to be faring as well as his foster brother, Skeezix. But gs long as Hope hopes, we will hope. Then there are the staunch and stalwart defenders of these men number' ent. Leading the blonde, wr friend la this fim -w »» mm mm re are the staunch and Lone Rant fenders of bachelorhood many, we numbering in the doz- gleanings i Ing the parade, natur- newipapar. ally enough, is our own LIT Abner, Dogpatch’s delight. Annually on Sadie Hawkin’s day, Old Man Mose, Daisy May and other harm ful Events and personages seek to nip Abner with the everlasting nuptials. A word to that one-hundred percent, red-blooded American boy: Remember, it only takes do to make a marriage and her grandmother, of the old school of com- has yet to walk down that e, is that spinach-eatin' man, Popeye. His fiancee, has retained her school-girl throughout these many but Popeye still restrains We’re afraid that the man, who holds her hand now for love, may have to hold her hands for self-defense after any marriaae. What can the general trend of wedlock in the comics mean? Will American standard his rreat institution Newspaper Ethics Boosted by Editor Primary aim of the newspaper man is to give an honest and ac curate report of the news, said Robert W. Akers, editor of The Beaumont Enterprise. Akers spoke last night to group of approximate ly 50 journalism students In the YMCA Assembly Room. While reporting the news fairly and in an -unbiased manner, a newspaper still must often inter pret the news, he said. This may be done in columns, features, and on the editorial page. Also, room should be made available for any comments or criticisms of the pap er and its policies, as in a letters column, said Akers. Akers, whq began his work on The Enterprise in 1926 as a re porter on the courthouse run, be came city editor that year. In 1932 he advanced to managing editor, and in 1942 entered the army as a iinti ~ l Political affairs hnd personal friendships should never enter the news columns, said Akers. pecial Problems Newspapers are usually con fronted ypth several: special prob lems also, he said. Among these are monopolies—he used his owh position | as an illustration whereby [one newspaper or one company [operates alone in a city; public records—just how far should a newsman go in printing them, and competition in radio and tele vision fields. Akers was invited to speak 4t the meeting under the auspices of the Journalism Department in ptie of a serifs of reports designed es pecially for the students. - • C. C. Munroe, co-editor of The Battalion, introduced Akers. raent of a Memorial Student] Center Council which would; be charged With operation and organization: of the Center’s activities were : made yesterday by me hoard consists or n ber» of the college staff. M. T.’ Harrington, dean and sciences and acting the Academic Council. The council has appointed _ Memorial Student Center Board to) govern generajly the activities of the 1 council. The 'board consists M folur mem-] hey are an| of arts acting dean ol the college, whose term'will ex pire in 1950; j Ernest kingford 1961; J. R. Bertrand, 1952; F. J Bensea, 1963. | ’ Ex-Officio member and chairmar of the board is W. L. Penberthy dean of students. No ^ppointivn member who has served more thuii two years of e term ii eligible for re-appointment until the [Expiration of at least one year, according to the report released by thE lAcademit Counc]l. <T have hopes,” said Waynjl Stark,; director! of the Center, "thajt this board will meet soon to af point the council which will operat the 70th it of be hentt] the Will this great r _ by so many silent part- for the ar- It remains for decide. | ]. ■! . In sally don’t mind seeing these people get married, though. But if Little Orphan Annie, the Lone Ranger, or Dick Tracy ever marry, we will confine our literary to other sections of the sntry Di- Inside Competition As editor of the Enterprise, Akers competes with an afternoon newspaper which is owned by the same company which publishes the Enterprise. He explained, however, that actually there is more com petition between these two Beau mont newspapers than between many other newspapers which are separately owned and published in other cities. “We have entirely separate news staffs and editorial staffs; in fact, there is no connection between the two papers other than the owner ship and the same print shop.” he said. Newspaper's policies should be shaped, he said, so that all sides of the news should be presented, with an equal amount of space and prominence devoted to them. An editor can not be too careful in complying with this policy, he em phasized. News Obstacles There are many obstacles in the presentation of true and unbiased news, Akers pointed out. He listed four of the principal ones. Probably the greatest obstacle in presenting the news in an un biased and honest way i» personal error. Everyone errs, Aker* ..said, but these errors in the newspaper business will be minimized with experience. Careful thinking is the only method of i errors, he said. Three other obstacles also enter the picture. Foremost among these, Akers said, is the common misbelief "that advertisers dictate the policies of a newspaper. Actually the more advertisers and advertising a paper has, the freer it is from pressure. ‘"This is why a newspaper with out advertising would probably be more biased wan any paper with a sufficient amount supporting the pa; a paper had no ad nancial support would be coming from an Individual or a group, whose own ideas and policies would be instilled in tbe n«wsj?aperz." II11IIMIM6CU Wltll thinking is th« reducing costly Drams? Drams? trap artist with Gentleman” will Ir cal aggregation U the Turkey Day football game. Baiiqupt HeM One of the many events that tpok place during! the Houston corps trip festivities was a Joint dinner held by ljhe Student Association i and AS M in the banquet the College Inn, Saturday after the game. Ben jHarmond, president of the Rice Students Association presided. Rice wi s also represented by Caro lyn Doi glas. Maydelle Exley, Jack; ie Meysr, Tom Eubank, Ann Ir ving, Timmy Adkins, Paula Mere dith, Jick Cooper, Lary West. M tr n K.Uh Allsup, president! of the Student a n d B ill a . gesture by : . . j j ■ :.l, of Rice t room! of day night ; Ui . | . • : 1 ice’s Studen pte better tandiriK betwee After dinner a so elation to pr< tions and undei jie two school j. was held the Rice Campus foi: the tWp student bodies^ The |iance ned by a committee from Rice during Ihe summer. were to be eqi the two s< was plart- A&M add Profits ded betweeh " wi Engineers Bore Moles Through Iron Curtain Salonika, 1 radio engi of America