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Volume 49
Stiteler Talks To
Quarterback Club
BY HAROLD GANN
Head Coach Harry Stiteler high
lighted the final Qukrterback Club
meeting of the year last night
when he addressed one of, the larg
est crowds on hand in the Assembly
Hall. T
; Stiteler extended praise to the
student body for its tremendous
backing ojf A&M’s football team
this year. 1
Starting with the '46 season,
Stiteler gayp the audience a brief
summary of A&M football. He said,
“Back in 1946, A&M had a pretty
fair football team. With just a lit
tle luck, they could have won the
' Southwest Conference.”
“After ’46, they started going
down. They proved this in 1947.
In 1948, we had only the remnants
of the '46 -team. Those boys played
‘ pretty fair ball.”
He continued, “I didn’t realize
how much two or three of those
boys meant to a football team until
this year. If we could’ve had three
or four players of last year’s team,
we would have won our share of
.games this year.”
Stiteler then pointed out that
sophomores are of little value if
the team doesn’t have some game-
savvy veterans on hand. The crowd
greeted Stiteler with mild humor
when he nonchantly stated, “Cher
ry says that the reason Texas
lost their games this' year was
because of sophomores. Texas starts
two sophomores. When Turkey
Day gets here, I hope those sopho
mores have to play a little bit
Biprei” ■
‘ Stiteler then defined a sopho
more as a person who, because of
inexperience can contribute little
to a team’s success -but gains ex
perience for the team’s future
suc^ess^
Offense Better
“Sophomores hurt Us most on de
fense,” he said. “You will find that
a group of sophomores generally
fare much more effectively on of
fense than On defense. Although
defensive line-play has hurt ua a
lot this year, our defensive back-
field, consisting mostly of sopho
mores, has hurt us the most.”
Stiteler boasted of the team’s
morale when he said.j “The group
this year has tried just as hard
_ as any bunch of boys I’ve seen.
~ Since mid-season, they have really
played ball.”
He informed the group that the
Aggies r played a better' game
against Rice than against SMU.
‘Texas Tech’s line is the only line
that we have been equal to this
year.’*- Stiteler blamed Saturday's
defeat on “that tremendous Rice
line.”
He hinted that the squad is in
worse physical condition at the
present than at any other time
during the season. Rice’s big ag
gressive team is the cause of this.”
Then he,said, "with just a little
more luck and fewer fumbles, we
might have beaten Rice.” ' i >
. Stiteler thinks that the long
lay-off will provide ample time for
a complete recovery.
n j,-! Planning On Freshmen
Stiteler surprised fans when he
said that next year might introduce
another rebuilding program be
cause of a strong freshman team
Dallas Club Forms,
Party at Cowtown
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Reorganization of the Dallas A
&M Club was completed • Wednes
day night in the group’s first meet
ing for the year.
Officers elected to serve during
the present school year were Bill
Beatty, president; Jack Happy,
vice-president; Bob Byington, sec
retary-treasurer, and Bob McOlas-
this year. “We are planning on
help from this year’s freshmen
team and we’re going to get plen
ty help in the line.”
Of the first-year men, Stiteler
has faith in Fish forwards SchultCi
Little, Dickson, Langford Niland,
Rush, and Smith. "Some of the
Varsity men may have to take a
back seat next year. We are wait
ing for spring training in ord^r
to decide.” s
Stiteler had much praise for
backfield men Graves, Haas, Hoop
er, Magourik, Hill and McJunken.
Stiteler put the group in an op
timistic frame of mind when he
said, “We are doing everything
possible to be ready for Thanksgiv
ing. Everybody is working hard
and there’s lots of spirit.”
To round out last night’s pro
gram, highlights of 1949 Southwest
Conference football were shown
With Kern Tips, ,dean of South
west sportsoasters, doing the narra-
ilon. .
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j PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST Of A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
rl~ COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1949
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Students Given
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Kuder Tests In
Three Schools
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Kuder preference tests are
being used] ah three high
schools to determine the oc
cupational interests of stu
dents in their first, second,
and third years of high school, ac
cording to E. V. Walton, associate
professbr of agricultural educa-
tion. . i'-
The results of these tests will
reveal the mathematical, scientific,
literary, social, and artistic per
formance of the students. Results
from these studies will enable the
teacher to guide and understand
the students and help them in se
lecting their vocational careers.
Studies are now being made in
the Bryson, Graiham and Jacksboro
High Schools, j
J. K. Bradshaw, vocational agri
culture instructor at Bryson, Is
conducting the studies as part of
his work in Agriculture Education
605. f ' '
Several other teachers of voca
tional agriculture are undertak
ing comprehensive field studies in
different problems in order to
make their work more effective,
Walton added. 1
A&M Students At
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Lutheran Meeting
Officers of the Lutheran Student
Association from A&M attending
the .annual regional conference of
the Gulf Region of Lutheran Stu
dent Association of America are
Ken Bernhardt, presideut; Werner
Ludwig, vice president, Laurence
Bernhardt, treasurer; Calvin
Beckmann, recording secretary
and Ed Paul as corresponding sec
retary. ,j .
The conference will be held a
Clifton Junior College, Clifton Tex
as, Nov. 18 through Nov. 20.
Douglas Dittmar, a senior A H
major and rice president of the
regional association will also at
tend.
Albert Timmerman Will attend as
alternate.
The group will register at 4:3(
Friday. Saturday night there wil
be a banquet with the Reverenc
F. G. Rosener of Austin as speaker
The conference will close with
services at the Trinity Lutherar
Church Sunday morning.
Singing Cadets In
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Presid
Heard
These memlx rs of the Danish Gym Team demonstrate a precision
handstand, \ hlch is only a small party of the performance In
tumbling and gymnastics which they will present on the campus
The enthusiastic reception of the team everywhere
States is a tribute to the character and performance
of the persoijnel and the excellent leadership.
Dr. Willipm
ddent of Rice
principal speal
Pi banquet
Sbisa Hall We
Dr. Houstor
eye. He expla
how engineering
and partly a
The president
brief history o:
;nt of Rice Institute
'
at Tau Beta Pi Banquet
during the buelneu aeallon, The
party would be held during the
ChriNtmai holiday*. ~
T The Dallas students organization
has filed an entry In the club div
ision of the Intramural flag foot
ball competition and club president
BUI Beatty expressed a desire that
all Interested persons plan to take
part in the group’s football play.
Names Omitted
In Story
By error, several names were
omitted from a story in Thurs
day’s Battalion. The story, con
cerning the joint A&M-Rice
student council dinner held after
Saturday’s game, should have
included , the fdllowing names,
all A&M. representatives.
Joe Fuller, senate parliamen
tarian; Bill Moss and Charles
Kirkham, senate members. Those
names which did appear in the
Jrtory were Keith Allsup, presi
dent of the senate, and BUI
Parse.
son, social chairman.
A Join^ti party with tne Fortj rj ! if
Worth A&M Club was discussed SerVlCC i hUrSCiaV
Ion. The *
The Singing Cadets will take par;
in the annual Union Thanksgiving
service to be held Thanksglvin
morning at 9 at the A&M Chris!
Ian Church, Old Highway 6, south
of Kyle Field, said James
Moudy, minister of the church
president of the local * minister’^
association.
V. Houston, pres-
Institute, was the
jer at the Tau Beta
hich was held in
inesday evening.
told Tau Beta Pi
members and ^heir guests that en
gineering is bacoming a profession
of increasing i tature in the public
ned to his audience
g is partly an art
science.
of Rice gave a
chemistry jand phy
sics and told how intimately the
two are relat-d. He pointed out
that the two fields are rapidly
expanding. Sciences which were
nearly uhhearl of several years
ago, are how prominent in the en
gineering field Seventh of the sci
ences mention ?d by Dr. Houston
are hydrodym mics, aerodynamics,
thermodynamii s and dynamics of
sound.
He continue 1 by stating that the
matter studiec by chemists in the
nineteenth century is now being
studied by the physicists in the
twentieth. He traced the progress
which has b<en made since the
discovery of tie electron. The nu
cleus was ne: t discovered and it
was not! unti 1921 that nuclear
night to heqr
M. Craig of
master for tli
Harry Boyer,
disintegration was first accom
plished.
After 1930 the study of nuclear
physics was accelerated consid
erably. Dr. Houston pointed out
that it now seems aj if there is
no end to the number of new
particles which may still be found
in nuclear physics.
His Education
Dr. Houston attended Ohio State
University where hei received his
B. A. and B. S. deiree in 1920.
For his Masters degree he attend
ed the University of Chicago and
then returned to Ohio State Uni
versity where he received his Ph.
D. degree in 1925.
He received a National Research
Fellowship in Physics and worked all lodges wit
at the California Institute of Tech
nology from 1930 to 1946. During
the war he was on leave to Col-i
umbus University where he served
with the Division of War Research.
Since 1946, he has been the presi
dent of Rice Institute.
He is a member of the American
Physical Society, the American
Mathematical Society, the Amer-i
ican Association for Advancement
of Science and the National Aca
demy of Sciences. He is also the
author of the book entitled “Prin-
(See TAU BETA PI, Page 6)
Y, NOVEMBER 18, 1949
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Bonfire, Dj
Number 46
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g-TU Clash Gains Momentnin
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11 Tickets Gone;
adiuni May Bulge
Ducats for the Turkey Day
ame here -have finally gone
ff sale, with a capacity crowd
ue to see the game. Final
icket salesjwere made Thurs
day evening When 30 temporary
jboxes were placed on sale at the
Athletic Officej and about 100 date
{tickets were put on sale at the
YMCA. . |
According to Howard Nelson, in
charge of ticket sales, the stadium
will be filled for the game, In
formation on the ticket sales in
Austin is lacking, but 17,000 tick
ets were sent to Texas University
and all are expected to be sold,
Nelson said. 1 ,
Limited numbers of bleacher
seats were sold Thursday afternoon
beginning bt 1 p. m. Nelson said
[tabulation shojwed\ that by Thurs
day afternoon}, 40,850 tickets had
been sold. The! gates to Kyle Field
will be open- a}t 12 noon, he said.
Box Seats
maximum
temporary box
pdople into
seats were set up in
bleachers and temporary seats, the
stadium will, hold 42,000.
Date tickets for fche corps were
sold to Juniors aqd Seniors Mon
day and to Sophomores and Fresh
men Tuesday [morning at 8 a. m.
in the YMCA, Non-corps members
Area Masons Will
Hear Grand Master
Five hundred Masons from this
area will gather in Sbisa Hall to-
Sul Ross lodge.
Invitations
kn address by Hugh
Fort Worth, grand
e state, according to
worshipful master of
have been mailed to
hin 100 miles of Col
lege Station, said Boyer. Masons
whose home lodges are scattered all
the way from Austin and Waco to
Crockett and Houston are expected
to be present!, he said.
Tonight’s meeting will begin at
8. l'
Craig, a 1918 graduate of the Ma
sonic Home and School in Fort
Worth, is the first graudate of the
school to become grand master of
the Grand Lodge of Texas, Boyer
said, It is possible that several
other grand officers will be pre
sent tonight, he added.
obtained their tickets at the YMCA
previously] ]
Persons holding date tickets must
be accompanied by a studeftt. |j
Advance Tickets
Advance tickets for the Thanks
giving game went on sale during
the summer. According to Nelson
the college controls a certain
amount of these, about 10,000 were
sold to students and their dates.
The remaining tickets are offered
to Aggie ex’s the faculty mem
bers and their families and em
ployees of the college.}
A certain allotment was sent to
Texas and the remainder offered
for sale to the general public,
Nelson added.
Advisory Speed
Sign Described
A few month ago a new
type of highway sign, an ad
visory speed sign designed to
aid in traffic safety, made its
appearance on Texas main
highways.
This was part of the Texas High
way Department’s program of in
forming motorists of the maximum
safe and comfortable speed on
curves and turns which are not
considered safe to travel at speeds
above 50 mph. It is a sign with
a yellow background and black
numearsl and letters and is
placed below curve signs.
According to the Texas Highway
Department, the speed indicated
on the sign is not the maximum gt
which a turn may be taken, it is the
maximum at which the average
car can make the turn without an
uncomfortable side-throw of its
passengers and still stay on its side
of the road...
The Governor’s Highway Safety
Conference held last spring recom
mended that the Texas Department
institute a program of speed zoning
and marking curves with safe
speeds, and these signs are a re
sult of that recommendation.
Motorists using speeds indicated
on the signs are enthusiastic in
praise of them. Letters commend
ing the signs as part of the high
way safety program are received
daily in the Austin office of the
Texas Highway Department. ]•_
. BER . M
Plans for a “bigger than ever” bonfirq, great
tioas for the Tommy Dorsey dance next Wednead;
and the annual A&M J
minds of the local
An all college dance to
;M-TU gridiron clas
citizenry this Veejc.
dance to the musk
clash are
usic of
oi^chestra 9:30 to l2:30 Wednesday night will highlight the
pre-game festivities.
The schedule released by the Dean of Students office
for Wednesday is as follows: 8:15 to 7:15, a concert by Torp-
my Dorsey and his orchestra;: 7:30, the big bonfire ahd yell
practice; and 9:30 to 12:30Tommy Dorsey dance.
’ Som« of the players and coaches
[ini scheduled to make talks at
yell practice. I
Some wood for the bonfire has
already been collected but fuel
{Icollection will not get fully under
i way until late today and Saturday. -
-.Guard will be mounted over the
• boflfirji—- rr*. - _
Way Over the Waves
Student-Prof Bas Philippine Station
The Cadets will sing "To Thejs
My Lord I Lift Up My Soul” amt
“A Mighty Fortress is Ohr God,
said director Bill Turner.
Helvey, rector olf
u
pf
sy, rectc
piscopal Chapel, wi I
hanksgiving sermoi .
Reverend
St. Thomas
preach the
Aggies and} their guests and lockl
residents are invited tte the seif-
vicea, Moudy said.
Syrian Populists Lead
Damascus,
Syria, Nov.
.8 <*>--
i’s twe-
Incomplete returns in Syria’s
day nationa election of * new
constituent assembly today .
the strong populist party 42
of the first 83 seats
assembly is to
114 seats.
decided. Ths
comprised of
THOMPSON
Craig B. Kennedy has a modi
fication of th< old “rags to riches”
story. His sttry is from Army to
a vice-presidency in a Philippine
corporation, a id back to a student.
Kennedy, j senior EE major
from Kerens, enrolled at A&M in
1941, but Uncle Sam csdled dur
ing his sqph< more year. Since he
had always been interested in
electronics, he chose the branch
of service ebsest to his major.
The army ha i the last word, but
he finally landed in the Signal
Corps.
The former signal officer served
in the Soutl Pacific during the
war. He senred with the Eighth
Army hsadqu liters and later with
the 37th and $7th divisions.
The Philippine Islands proved
especially eventful for Kennedy.
He met his w ife there. He and his
bride moved to Manila shortly
after his sepi ration from the army
and started t< work for the Bollano
Electronic Corporation. He soon
became vice-i resident in charge of
engineering.
After some time he decided that
it would be more profitable to
set up his ov n radio station. This
station proved to be a big suc
cess. In add! Jon to his own sta
tion, the man became engineering
advisor for the Philippine Broad
casting Corporation. PBS has two
stations them, KZOK and KZIP.
When the political situation in
the Phillipines became upset, Ken
nedy and his wife decided to come
back to the United States to get
his degree. His radio station is
now in the p rocess of beihg sold.
At present the ex-lieutenant is
working as a graduate assistant
in the E. E. 1 )epartment and as an
ASA Militar r Science aide.
Last year le sponsored the An
nex Ham Club and is now president
of the Campus Ham Club.
His wife, who is a native of the
Philippine Islands, was a history
and language teacher in the Phil
ippine school system before she
married Kennedy. She has recently
received an offer from the Tuber
culosis Association to write a series
of articles on “The; Little Brown
Girl and the Big White Plague.”
The article is about tuberculosis.
The Kennedys have not decided
whether or not they want to go
back to the Philippines after “the
lord and master” finishes school.
He plans to take a master’s de
gree in electrical engineering and
says he wjll probably get a doctor’s
degree somewhere before he goes
back Into business.
Herman Heep
Awards to Be
Made Nov. 22
Annual presentation of the
Herman F. Heep Scholarships
will be made Nov. 22, at the
meeting of the Kream and
Kow Klub, said Jack McCar-
ley, reporter of the club.
These scholarships! are awarded
to dairy husbandry students on
the basis of work done in college
the preceding year and on the
other interests the student shows in
the dairy field. j. j.
Heep was a dairy husbandry stu
dent here before entering Worid
War I. After the war his interests
in dairying were continued through’
the establishment of the Heep Jer
sey Farms at Buda,
In addition to being very ac
tive in the development and p|x>-
motion of the Jersey brqed, Heep’s
herd in Buda, Texas is recognised
as one of the outstanding in the
nation. His interest in the Jersey
has been extended to administra-
tibn of the American Jei^ey Cat
tle Club where he served two terms
on the board of directors.
During his first, term as direc
tor, Heep was elected and sefyed
t*o terms as the club’s president.
While president, he spent a lot of
his own time and money moving the
4JCC offices from:New York fjity
UT Columbus, Ohia, a more central
ly located site.
Because of his deep interest in
the perfection of improved dairy
cattle, Heep has established five
partnerships with youiig t men,
through which he has furnished
these men cattle with which to
establish herds, three of these
herds are owned by A&M graduates
who majored in dairy husbandry^
Heep Scholarships were estab
lished in 1944. At the present time,
six scholarships are given. These
awards are for senior, junior, [and
sophomore students who are major
ing in dairy husbandry. It is hoped
that Heep will be present to pre
sent the awards Tuesday night. ‘
Along with his dairy interests,
Heep entered the oil business via
the “wildcat” route, and had icon-
siderable success In developing the
Conroe and Corpus^Christi fields.
He is now president of the Heep
Gil Company. j - i. ' t T
uai-d will be mount
proper} tonight
Guardi shifts will be fi
m., 11 p. m.
over
tonight, at 7 p. m.
ill be from 7 p. m.
to 11 jpi m., ll p. m. to 3 a.‘im.,
and 3; a. m. to 7 a. m. Outpost
guards will go Mon duty
Saturday it 7 p.m. and will
aturd ay at
guard : the caijipus until Wednes
day Dtiore tnq
Uniform for! gjuards jis fatigues.
At noitime wiH there be more than
10 men at a gate outpost. Men 7o
excess of this; number will report
to the drill field. Cars will not be
stopped at the! gates under any cir-
cum stances. Suspicious cars will
be reported by radio tt> the main
guard at the drill field.} M ,•
||| : Coffee For GuSrds '
. mess hall will furnish cof-
to the men on gurd. The Stu
dent Activities office will furnish
a {truck and driver to deliver cof-
tip the guard posts at 9 a. m.,
and 3|30 a. m. Friday night
coffee I will be delivered to the
drill field only.
v No lumber is to be picked up
from any of the building projects
on the campps, announced Walter
W. Zimmerman, chairman of the
bonfire guard roster. He added that
“Chick sale” will be provided by
the band since this has been a
trucks haul them to the • campus
and: then have to Raul them back
again after! the bonfire he con
cluded. j
The menuje for the Thanksgiving
supper Tuesday night was released
by Jay Penhiston, dining hall sup
erintendent, Thursday. The meal
will be served at the regular sup-
»r hour,>Penniston said.
The menu will be asaor
with cJhi
The Philippine Islands still have
a lot to offer the Kennedys. Mrs.
Kennedy’s family is very influen
tial in the Philippines and he hits
a large timber grant there, also.
He said he might go back to the
Islands and enter the lumber busi
ness, if the advantages were right
when he finished his education.
“We don’t know yet; that remains
to be seen," he said.
Ex-Tarletonites
To Organize Here
per hour,>Penniston sail
The menu will be assorted fruit
dish, relish! tray with chilled cele
ry hearts pnd olives, roast young. L’
Cuero turkfey, corn bread dressing,
cranberry cause, ..candied yams, j .
giblet [sauce, green peas, hearts i ,
of lettuce covered with Thousamr t, '‘‘'
Island* dressing, pumpkin pie, hot .'j
rqllb; and butter, coffee
Enough? f
M 4 Hotels Fall
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If you are planning to keep the
folks or ithpt certain someone in
ope of Hie local hotels forget it.
They i are:—booked solidi* The Ag-
gieland Inn hafr beeiMbooked fqr the
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Former Tarleton students will
meet Friday at 7:30 p.m, in Room
301 of Goodwin Hall to organize a
Tarleton Club on the A&M cam-
pus.
A self appointed committee un
der the leadership of Jim j;Tom
House, agriculture education' ma
jor. from Goldwaite, and James F.
Houx, also an agriculture educa
tion major, from! Gordon ia re
sponsible for the organization of
the club.
Houx said that the Friday meet
ing would be held with the hope of
adopting a constitution, selecting
a sponsor, electing officers] and
setting in the time and: place for
future meetings of the clUD. 'j j
All ex-Tarleton students are eli
gible for membership and Hbu*
says a large turnout for the Fri
day meeting should assure the suc
cess of the club.;
Hickman Asks For
Traffic Helpers
Thirty students will be heeded
to help handle traffic and: park
ing on Thanksgiving Day, accord-!
ing to Fred Hickman, chief : of the
Campus Security Office.
Any student interested in such
work is asked to report to Hick
man in his office in Goodwin Hall
before Tuesday, November 22, for
an assignment of place and hor^-
Televised Football | i f
NEW YORK~ —Incrhasn in
the number of cameras has ^ohsid->
erably heightened the o
feet of footbaU television.
.«.t five months for Wednesday
pnd Thursday nights, , , '"\
■ Kickotf time is set at'2 p. m.
the game will be broadcast over
WTAW and by the Humble Oil
and Refining Company's regularly
scheduled Southwest Conference
broadcast. [j !/
Latimer and Fields
Speak at ASMEi
eak
La,tlm
guest
R. Latimer and Frahk Fields,
iwere guest speakers at the ASME
meeting Tuesday evening, Robert
Federico, club reporter, said.
Latimer graduated from A&M in
importance of the engineer’s abil
ity to write well and how he got
the post; he now holds, Latimer
the editor of the Enginepfr v
Engine^ while
he was in school
Fields; now conducting] a
pondencc course for civil engin
eers through Humbls; Oil, empha
sised the effectiveness of writing
directly land simply,/ j;
corres- :
engin- ;
Library Hours
Set for Holiday
LlblWl ach-dul- for th«
Thunkwving holiday, will b-
as follows:
Wednesday—closing at 5 p.m.
iday—dosed all day.
y—open from. 9 a.m.
/ fj to 5 p.m.
I8fi(tfrday—open 9 a.m.
to 12 noon.
Sunday—closed all day.
Texas Engineer’s Library
eterinary Library will be
from 5 p.m. Wednesday
ng, ac
House,
librarian.