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Volume 49 Nation’s Top Daih NAS 1949 Survey Collegiate Daily Plans Slated For Visitors Thursday ElaBolate plans to take care of the visitors on th^ campus Thanks giving Day have been readied, ac wording to W. L. Penberthy, dean of students. : Cafeteria at Sbisa hall opens at 10:30 a. m. Duncan hall cafe teria will serve the Corps at 11 .a m. Visitors may eat at the cafe teria at 12 noon. Tables and chairs will be, provided for visitors to use them for picnic lunches at the Grove. _ Guion Hall, operated by a Stu dent Senate committee, has been designated as headquarters for Headquarters for Texas Univer ity visitors. The Main Lobby of the YMCA has been designated as headquar- Hughes Head Guest Speaker At SAM Meet Harry E. Rogers, vice pres ident in charge of manufact uring for the Hughes Tool Company, Houston will be the guest speaker for the Tues day night meeting of the Stu dent Chapter of -the Society for Advancement of Management, 4c- cording to Charles J. Goodwin Jr., president of the chapter. The meeting, which will start immediately after yell practice in Room 301, Goodwin Hall, is open to/all Man E students and to any other students or faculty members wno wish to attend. Goodwin said. Rogers will not deliver a pre pared speech, Goodwin said, but will (tlscuss with the audience the importance of Industrial - engineers ami some reasons why so many of the fall. . , v Rogers has spent about 2ft years in Industries devoted to the man ufacture of' passenger and freight cars and steam and dlerfel locomo tives, before coming to the Hughes Tool Company, During that time he was as sociated with the American Car and Foundry Company,' the ConW monWealth Steel Company and the General Steel Castings Corpora tion. In 1940 he went to the Nord- berg Manufacturing Company in Milwaukee, manufacturers of die sel engines, mine hoists, crushers^ and railroad maintenance-of-way equipment. In 1945 he went to the Hughes Tool Company in the capacity of mechanical assistant to the gen eral manager. He has since been promoted to vice president-manu facturing, and is a. member.of the board Of directors."— Rogers’ entire business life has been spent in management for large industrial plants and he has served in practically every capa city to be found in such organiza tions, Goodwin concluded. • - Beat TU Baylor Bears Happy, More Cubs on Way WACO, Tex.—(A*)—Joe and Jo sephine, Baylor University’s black bear mascots, are about to become parents again, veterinarians said. They figure it will be next nioiitb. Josephine had a couple of cubs ^winter but papa Joe ate ohe fatally mauled the other. ters for former students. Informa tion booths will be set up at the YMCA and Guion Hall. First aid station on the west side of Clark Street near the foot ball [Stadium^ill be set up. .Parking, areas have been design nated as the old drill field south of Law and Puryear Halls, in cluding the area West of Law Hall and the old residence area South of the drill field near the tennis courts and the new drill field South of Duncan mess hall. Directional and parking area signs will bf sot up. Extra police and state patrol men will be on hand. Sack lunches will be provided for student guards and special care be taken to keep ap proaches to the hospital i clear of parked cars. Wherever possible, all College Station residents are urged to walk to the game; college Employees who drive to the game Will use the regular parking areas assigned to; them; all resident students will park their vehicles in assigned parking ares and walk to the game; all day students will use student parking lots. Spence street will be the only street open for crossing the cam pus. ' S ’ In case of rain tractors to help cars out of the parking area will be provided. ; 'A parcel checking stand will be located in the YMCA chapel. Beat TU • V- % y ■. y ; '*P ^ . Burning Effok ‘fpj) Backfires, Tw# TJL ': ryL, Sophs Injured TO Plfty LiOIlCCrt. DanceTomorrowNight ienti- A large stack of wood in* tended for the University of Texas pre-game bonfire was set afire Sunday evening by two A&M sophomore stu dents. Both men received second and third degree bums on their arms and legs when they set fire to their own clothing during their attempt to ignite the wood. . The story of the attempted bon fire-burning came from the two participants, Albert P. Kutzer and James W. Phillips, both of A In fantry, who are now in the col lege hospital being treated for their burns. According to word received from Austin last night, little damage was done to the bonfire since only a preliminary stack was burned. Fire was started in the stack of timber, about ten feet high, ilby dashing eight gallons of gaso line onto the stack and lighting it I ■ ■ Cadet Captain leorge Kent received a Department of th« Army medal from Co onel H. L. Boatner, PMSAT. Kent Waa on® of en members ol the 1948-1^49 Rifle Team which placed third In at tonal compet tlon this spring. Five of the team’s sharpshooters rho are still in school were awarded the medals at a corps review st Wednesday, V To Buy B Purchase of a $100 Ruytor .Sta dium bond, with moneyappropriat ed from the student activities fund, and donation of a $270 surplus of student money from vacated dors mttorfe* to the various loan funds were two of the more important actions taken by the Student Life committee in its meeting yesterday afteniooh. ' .r , of the plained, the Alt, oratory is hesi Purchase of the. stadium bond t .|job eg which matures at 3%, was auth orized by the conpittee as an in dication of good will toward the Waco school’s drive to construct a new, 40,000 seat stadium. The $270 surplus fund accrued from the dorm coke funds of Dor mitories 1, 5, 9 and Bizzell Hall. When these dormitories were changed from non-military hous ing areas, their funds remained in tact in the Student Activities of fice, Spike White, assistant to the Dean of Students, and administra tor of the funds said. White also gave a report on the cost and expenditures of the Aggie- lan^ 1949. The report, given in conjunction with Aggieland ’50 co- editor Chuck Cabaniss and business manager Floyd Henk, was in ans wer to a student letter inquiring into the finances of the yearbook. ' & ■ Explaining the costs of the an nual, White said the price is still the. same it has been over a period of years, an<| \ is considerably cheaper than other Southwestern annuals of comparable quality. This year particularly, White said, the engraving and printing contracts were let to bidders above the low bid in order to obtain quality of workmanship. The quality of this year’s annual bore out the wis- ' An Associated Press dispatch In today’s Dallas Morning News saM A University of Texas student had been injured while guarding a portion of the Texas bonfire. A fellow student mistook the guard for an Aggie and hit him on the head with a club. Students’ Money Earmarked of that polle n defense of t emit of the club business manager solid the same air advertisers for $1 ecause of : the Stadium Bond t, White added, tie $3ft per page photo sections, Henk said he ount of space to 1)0. seasonal nature hotographir work, White ex- Visual Aids lab- iijt to take oh the Tm* . thg or the annual. The charge two dollans ft r four exposures also in line wi -h other commer- photographs, he concluded. ,■ At the conclusion of the dis- culssion,'the committee voted a com mendation to th<i Aggieland 1949 staff for its good job on this year’s annual. jA letter to Pnsident Bolton, re commending advancement of fee payment date to the fifth of each mjonth, rather tbrn near the end of tlje month, was ruthorized by the committee. Thio move would make iti easier for stud* nts to gauge their expenditures,^ j.b‘ committee said in its minutes; The Welfare and Recreation sub committee was d reeled by its par ent committee to investigate the telling of off-color jokes at yell practice. The sub-cOmmittee is to report to the Sti dent Life commit tee at its next nr eeting. ! A report on his European tour and plans of rep< rting it to the stu dent body was given by Donald jjarvis, winner of last year’s joint tudent Life an4 YMCA sponsored Dur. Creation of a il or , Gle$te (rest side of the one-way street of Street, on the new area, was re plied by Studdnt Life committee chairman Raljph \ i. ! i , m i The committee i« compelled' of. eleven student* and nine facul ty member*, and concym* itaelf with all matter* relating to student life. | ' 1 . M Beat TU—~ O 1 Up* said, with not identifying W#-n Wf-kad |rc* gie Insignia, and were never c aievens opeaKS Ey umverai* .^1$ ■ t l | i An annual competition la 1 On Pfeyrrs At Friday Meeting Plans for this year’s pro ductions and the organization and history of The Aggie Players, were discussed by Carl Stevens, publicity and public relations m& na g er of the Players, at a Jourwalism 201 meet ing Friday. Stevens, a charter member of the club and member of the Class of ’48, became publicity director of the group in the spring of 1948. “There is no reason a school the size of A&M cannot support an organization such as The Aggie Players,” Stevens; said. “The Play ers has been operating bn a ‘shoe string’ basis since its! beginning in 1946, but we are hoping to create & greater interest this year in dramatics at A&M,” he said. Next production of the dramatic group will be a satire-bunssque, “R. U. R.” This play, said Stevens, will concern Rossum’s Universal Robots, hence the title. “R. U. R.” will be produced on December 8 and 9 in Guion Hall. First production of The Aggie Players, Stevens ! said, was “You Can’t Take It With You.” The group, then an experimental organ ization, met with limitjed success, he said, but an average of three productions a year have been given since then. Several types of plays have been produced, Stevens said, in order to lend variety to the organization’s season. Dramas Gabler" and the es" were staged such as “Hedda “The Little Fox* during the past several seasons, while several com edies and operettjus completed the agenda. "Our most was ‘The Chocolate fht opera which Walt Hill, bruising line bucker from Ballinger, churns Into the end zone In the ■Flih t game Sat urday to score the "first touchdown In the Cadet win, Shorthorn quarterback T. Jones futllely att«npta to halt the AggiB• , progreM. The score ■ n ' ■ •/ .:" .ci . .'il i eight-yard Mast in he second period. Maroon squad turned In a fine per- came on an The entire; formance. Ignoring the Memorial Stadium jinx and besting the capable Yearllig eleven, 13-to-0 with matches, according to Kut zer and Phillips. Some of the gaso line splashed on Phillips’ pants legs and he ran to the pair’s car with his clothes burning. Kutzer was burned while beating out the fire in Phillips’ clothing. After extinguishing Phillips' burning clothes, the pair treated their ovyn burns with a medicant salve and then wont to an Austin hospital. ~ The attempted burning took place about 6 p. m., and the two men returned to College Station at 10:30 p. m. They turned Into the local hospital on their arrival. They were dressed in levis, Phil- ip* said, with not identifying Ag- it insignia, and were never chsl- collect the most wood for th& pre- game bonfire. Apparently the two A&M sophomores set fire to one of the individual fraternity’s col lection of timber. No Battalion On Thursday The Battalion will not be pub lished, Thursday, November 23, the co-editors announced today. The suspension is being made, the co-editors said, to give their staff more time to prepare for the Thanksgiving game and hol idays. Tommy Dorsey, fairied “Sen mental Gentleman of Swing”, will arrive on the campus tomorrow night to play for a concert in Guion Hall and the Bonfire Dance in Sbisa. Dorsey brings his famous band with him, [nicluding such stellar performers is vocalist Sonny Cal- ello, Jack Duffy, Charles Shavers, drummer Louis Bellson, and sax ophonist Boomie Richman. “Sonny” Calello, whos real name is Frank never intended to be a professional singer with anybody’s orchestra much less Tommy Dor sey's. Frank was headed for a bus iness career when Uncle Sam de cided there was a place for him in the Nivy, where Frank spent two years following his high! school graduation. L Upon his return from the service, his father persuaded him to enter a Aggieland ’80 editors have released this picture aa an example of toe sports attire-type picture required for Vanity Fair entries tola year. The sports attire can be either a bathing suit or shorts and halter or Mouse, the editors said. The girlf Oh, the editors wouldn’t say anything axoept that, she was from Houston. Sorry. Bryan and College Rotary Club To Name Fellowship Candidate sin^mc contest, which he prompt* ly won. After winning several .contests, “Sonny" was offered a job in the DMais Club in Secaucus. Plkying it safe, Frank kept his regular daytime job with the Hol lander Fur Corporation. From the D’Jqis, Sonny moved to the Mea- dowbrook, where he entered and won; the Arthur Godfrey talent scout program. This win led to a" session at the Copacabana in New York, where Dorsey first heard him. Dorsey, liked him so well that he immediately offered him the highly-coveted job as vocalist, with the Dorsey aggregation. I j Louia/Bellson, considered the finest 1 ' drummer in ths business to day; h from Moline. He studied drums for 18 years, and while still in high school won the National Snare Drum Contest for thbee yean • in a row. In 1941, he won the Gene Kruppa National Contest. Author of several articles on drumming, he has had them bound and is hop ing to publish “Method No. 3” soon. Me personally designed his own drum*:,,..facsimiles are being sold"* by : the Gretch Drum Company. Bellson also designs accessories and hardware for drums. Louis first worked with. Ted Fio- Rit», then j with Benny Goodman. He! has been with Dorsey for sev eral years now. Dorsey says he has a job for life] ftomy’s orchestra has been an any pi McKinley, Glenn 1 The Bryan-College tary Club has been a «ri« a Station Ro- been asked to nom* candidate for a 1960-50 “ ‘ p for An annual competition is held Rotary Foundation Fellowship for amoqg the Austin fraternities to foreign study, according to Dean determine whifefr organisation’ can T. D. Brooks, chairman of the club’s fellowship committee. Sam R. Gammon, nominee of the club for 1949-50, was approved by the Rotary International com mittee on fellowships, and is tipw doing graduate work in the Uni versity of London. There he is en rolled in Professor J. E. Neale’s Seminar. Garmon is one of the 56 Rotary fellowship winners studying in 20 foreign countries. 1 r j / li : Studies under Rotary fellowships include preparation for careers in history, education, international politics, journalism, business ad ministration, economics, religion, engineering, and specialized medi cine, Dean Brooks said. After the death of Paul Harris, founder of the Rotarians, the group created a Paul Harris Memorial Fund, a* part of the Rotary Foun- datlon. This fund assure* perma nent; support of Rotary objectives, pean Brooke said. Income from this fund promotes Rotary's fourth objective, he added —international understanding and good will—through fellowships for advanced students in universities in countries other than their own. The grants that have been made Vary from $1,500 to $2,900, care fully adjusted to the needs of -the individual grantee, Brooks said. The Rotary Club nearest the uni versity in which each man studies becomes his “host” club and will help him gain the fullest possible understanding of the country, he said. Each of the 6,589 Rotary Clubs in the world is eligible to nominate one candidate, who must be be tween the ages of 20 ahd 28 and ( See ROTARY, Page 4) Dorsey’s orchei origin of many present-dxy orches tra leaders, Ray McKinlby, Glenn Miller, Bob Croabv, Bunny Berl- gap, Jen Stacy, Buddy Rich, Bob Allen, and Gene Kruppa have at one time or another been in thf * ' kM* f .’ M | During World War II, he and hi* bond played to more than 400 aer- vice audience* in camp*, hoaplUln and canteens. Over thirty-four mil lion rtoordlnga have been mad# dur ing hla many years of playing music that all America, young apd ohL > ■■ ^r^|! ii' . [ J j. l ^ ’ 1 I h Dorsey’s hour-long concert here tomorrow bight begins at) 8ilf) on the Guion stage. Admission to the concert i* one dollar per per* son. Following the concert, the bonfire Willi be lighted on .the main drill fielil »t 7:30 p. m, 1 fl at 9:30 in Sbisa, the 1 ? * drill field Beglnnini dance wilL continue until 12:30. will be semi-formal: Admission tp the dance is $2.50, stag or drag. [ Tickets to both dance and con- >rt are now/; on sale in the Stu- mt Activities Office, and will on sale at the door of both af- A- v ig to Gradv or of Stude Elms, Pay It With Flowers Aggies Concoct Coinages • ' T /_ ' ; ' 'H # j | j To Finance College Career said Stevens, was produced in summer.” Three plays, w th “R. U. R.” the first, are scheduled for this season. The other two plays to be produced have not been del'initely announced. Stevens discus led technical and business organization of the group and illustrated With charts, show ing exact positions and respon sibilities of each club official and officer. -.'{j I ■ George Dillavcu, English profes sor at the college ,is director of The Aggie Players, while Darwin Hodges is technical producer. . o “We definitely welcome anyone who would like to join our organiza- BY DAVE COSLETT A group of Aggies are earning their way through college by add ing beauty to flowers. Undertak ers of this task of trying to improve the works of nature are the mem bers of the student floral con cession. It might be rather hard to ima gine a group of Aggies dealing with the delicate beauty of a floral corsage. Dubious readers, however, need only look at the organisa tion's profit for last year, some $1,033.39, to *e« that they not only do ju*t that, but they make a sub- Rtantial profit from their labors^ The aim of the student floral concenidon 1* to provide stu dent* with corKfges and bouqueta while aiding the financial statoa of its member*. The students by whom and for whom it is run 4 'are no mere ama teurs satisfied with slip-shod meth ods and products. All of their flor al products are designed with two things in mind—to keep the flow ers they sell as fresh and as long- lasting as possible. But just how does someone go about enhancing the beauty of flowers? The local students flor ists do' it on a mass production ’MSu, Li tion, for we are stages. We have vancing our group and Would like to see a more active interest taken by both the student body of A&M and the faculty,” he concluded. still in our initial many plans for ad- corsage making, their chief source of Income,^into three distinct steps. A different person handles each phase of the manufacture, j v Primary step in the process is removing each flower from ita natural stem and placing it on a sturdier charged with this duty, a fairly simple procedure, snips the stem at the calyx or green, cup-like structure holding the petals. This done, he selects a wire of sufficient gauge to support the weight of the bloom and inserts it into the aalyx or otherwise at tacked iti to the flower. After inserting the wire, the worker twists it upon itself to se curely lock it to the blossom. Next he takes a tape, colored green to relemble a true stem, adheres to itaelf. Once wraped, the wire ia hard to dUtinguish from the ori ginal green stem. The next p*rt of the Job is. done by the designer, the most ■killed member of the manufact uring group. His i* the job of tak ing the number of flower* de sired and putting them In a well- l>liuin*Ml componitlon. Hla major taek .la to make the corsage sturdy—to make it stay together and to make it stay together as it wia put together. In formulating the design he is faced with a number of considera tions. Foremost among these is that; the composition must suggest a triangle, the preferred form all floral work, J If he decides to use a ribbon in corsage, designer choose that carefully. It should not prominent that it crowds out the importance of the flower. Where flowers look bare by them selves,'which is often the case with roses, he must add leaves. Rpses, incidentally, present other head aches to Hie deisgner. They, like Canda or baby orchids, often re- sra and placing it on Canda or baby orchids, often re- fashioning students, is just lil wire *t«in. The worker fuse to stay in place. Carnations, going to college—it costs money. ■i- If. : ' ! : I ■ Ii. on the other hand, are extremely easy to design. Final step in the corsage making operation is the packaging. The finished product goes into either a package, a bag, or a box, accord ing to the type of flower used in it. Corsages are sold by the floral concession through salesmen Uv- ing in each dormitory on the cam pus. These men solicit orders and deliver corsages to the buy- ers. Student salesmen are paid on a commission baaia. Other atudent worker! are usually .employed on an hourly wage baaia, Entirely a student affair, the conoetaion is not connected with any department of the college. "Profit*, Incidentally, are only: those amounts of mohey over and’ above the cost of materials ; and labor. All profits are turned back to students in the form of fellow ships and gratuities. The concession manager Is an elected official. Presently hold-: ing this position is L, J. Tolle.t a floriculture senior from San Antonio. The men who make their money on flowers, have 4 few tips to pas* on to corsage buyers. They point out, for instance, that orchids are probably the best investmei in the way of durable corsages, is not at all unusual! for an ore! to last two or three weeks, or gardenias, by way of con only keep from two or three hoi .j This business of getting the l for your girl, say these flo fashioning students, is just 1! tin, accord siktant director ities. J 1 —— Beat TU—i r | Livestock Team Off to Chicago The Senior Livestock Judg ing Team left Saturday for Chicago, accompanied by W. M. Warren, team coach. | . In Chicago, the team will compete in the intercollegiate judging, contest to be held «t the International Livestock Exposition November 26. The Aggie' team will compete with 30 other major college and university groups for the cham pionship judging trophy. The tro phy was won last year by Okla homa A&M. While in Chicago, the team will vieit Purdue Unlvenity, the Cir cle A Hereford ranch,-and Lynn wood Bhrm$, according to Warren. Thar# they will perform practice Judging, Team winners and high point in- . dividual* will be announced with;] trophies and medal* being award- 1 ' ed, at a Imuquet Sunday morning; ! ‘ r S7. making the trip ie Carl Kempttn, CL K. ear* Sentcll, C. D. Green, P. R. Weyerte, and IJ. R. Strntm, Jr. The team plans to return I Nov- ember 30, with the exception of KemplinTi Wttmer of Swift and Company’i essay contest, Kemp- lin will remain in Chicago to study marketing and processing of beef cattle for another week. < . .‘J i I November 2 The group composed Turn bow. Beat TU- Board of Directors Meet on Campus Wed. at board of the board of di hold their November College Station, Wed- mber 23. The meeting a. m. Wednesday at meeting room on the r