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.
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Burning Effok ‘fpj)
Backfires, Tw# TJL ': ryL,
Sophs Injured TO Plfty LiOIlCCrt.
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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
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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.
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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
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The committee i« compelled' of.
eleven student* and nine facul
ty member*, and concym* itaelf
with all matter* relating to student
life. | ' 1 . M
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W#-n Wf-kad |rc* gie Insignia, and were never c
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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
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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
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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.
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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 *
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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 >
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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
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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
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or of Stude
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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.
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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.
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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; !
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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. < .
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November 2
The group
composed
Turn bow.
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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
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