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: i at-m Nation’s To; Collegiate Daily NAS 1949 Top Dailj Survey Volume 49 Ags Get Invitation For Starlight Ball TSCW’b Senior Class has invited president of the TSCW senior clw«. Aggie Seniors .to attend their The Stardust Ball is a TSCW Stardust Ball this Saturday, I)e- cember 3, Bob Byington, president of the senior class said tolday. The'invitation came as a letter to Byington fron} Miss-Oa Lee Smart, u_ JJ—' r-—rj—r Hatzenbuehler Elected RV’s Exec Officer Jim Hatzenbuehler, senior aeronautical engineering ma jor from Dallas, was elected executive officer of the Ross Volunteers at the organiza tion’s last meeting before the holi days. 1 He filled the position formerly .held by J. T. Dotson. Dotson a regimental commander and presi dent of the Senior.Court resigned because of other activities. Other Ross Volunteer officers were elected last spring. They were Don McClure, commander; Herb Buetel, Ken Landrum, and King Egger, platoon leaders; anw John L. Taylor, first sergeant. McClure is a senior business major from Corpus Christi. Beutel, a senior from Dallas, and Landrum, a senior from Kingsville, are both pre-med majors. Egger is a petroleum-mechanical engineering senior from Shreve port, Louisiana. A business major, Taylor is a senior from Big Springs. Applications- for membership in the RV’s are now being accepted, McClure told The Battalion today. Bobh juniors and seniors may ap- plV, he saiid. All men must have a/1.5 grade point ratio, a B aver- L age in military science, and exhi bit a proficiency in drill. Men wishing to apply for mem bership were asked by McClure to contact him. 1' • 1 . r r The company has made arrange ments to sell Christmas cards prior to the December vacation. Don Jarvis, who designed and sold campus scene cards last year, has designed the cards which the RV’s will sell this year, McClure said. - Representatives will call on both military and non-military dormi tories. Ags Asked to Consider Job In Iran Army Would you like a trip abroad? Would you like .to teach English to j Iranian Army officers? Well, if ■ your’re a reserve officer with an “excellent scholastic standing" you j may have the chance* A letter sent to the college by the Iranian Embassy in Washington . states the proposition. The Iranian Army needs men with military training to teach English in its army establishments. Current legal, restrictions prohibit retired army officers from being hired by foreign governments, but reserve officers can be hired. Brig. Gen. M. Mazhari, military and fiir attache of the Iranian Em bassy, asked in the letter to the college if there were any interested men at A&M or among A&M grad uates. Mazharia wrote, “We wonder whether among your alumni are some reserve officers of previous excellent scholastic standing who would like to take on an assign ment with the Iranian Army to teuph the English language in army ejitablilhmenta. v. “The U. S. law prohibits the hir ing of retired U. S. Army offl- cers, but in peacetime it Is possible to hire reserve personnel. If you have anyone in mind that you could recommend, we would appreciate it if you would ask them.to write this office. -A abort biography ,of the iippliumt together with a photo graph and request fot'compensation should accompany the first tetter." Men interested in applying for the position may apply directly to the Iranian Embassy, Washing ton. D. C. John Ben Templeton .. Marries Dallas Girl John Ben Templeton, Jr;, senior civil engineering major, and Patsy Jo Williams of Dallas weye mar ried Friday evening in Dallas. Best man was Doyle AvaWt of Laredo, and groomsmen were Sam Pate, Sweetwater; Don McClure, Corpus Christi; Fred Lunho'w, Bill Benfer, Franklin Simmons^and Ace Jordan, Austin. The newlyweds will live in Col lege Station. Senior Class function and amounts to a senior ball. Girls attending the dance are expected to be sen- * ^ ‘.I lore. Miss Smart’s letter of invitation stated that a date bureau would be set up for Aggies desiring dates for the bill. Those Aggies wanting dates arranged by the date bu reau must submit their names and heights by Tuesday, 9:30 p. m., November 29, Byington said. Corps seniors desiring dates through the date bureau are to contact Conrad Ohlendorf, Room 118, Dormitory 12. Non-military seniors wanting dates are to contact Charles Kirk- ham, 4-F Puryer. ! : Byington reported that a few stag tickets would be available until time for the dance. Overnight accommodations will be available, as they are each weekend, on Friday and Saturday nights in one of the college guest homes for the charge of 75 cents per person each night, Miss Smart's} letter said. K TSGW’s Hostess Committee will welcome the guests from A&M in the living room of Stoddard Hajl Saturday afternoon and evening, December 3, the letter further stat ed. The Stardust Ball opens TSCW’s holiday season. The dance will last from 9 until 12; highlighting the occasion will be the presentation of class beauty nominees from each of the four classes, ,Miss Smart’s letter added. Prior to the evening dance, the A&M Singing Cadets will pre sent a concert in the TSCW audi torium. Signing the invitation letter with Miss Smart were Misses Anita Carrway, vice president, Mary Eve lyn Williams, secretary, and Emily Wood, treasurer. -r.U th. n*w How Much Wood Was There? Slide Rule Boys Know All Whether this year's bonfire was the biggest yet, we don’t know. But we do know that the blaze at the tlrpe this picture was made looked like the biggest one yet. That ball bf “fire” at the right did not blow off the bonfire. It is the glow from the Kyle Field lights. | Lay men s Investment Course^ Begins on Campus Tomorrow i ' By .^EE LANDRUM “The ABO’s of Investment” is the theme of a course to be given in the Chemistry Lecture Room be ginning Wednesday, November 30. The course will consist of a series Of lectures, given in three sessions at one week intervals; The lectures will be cond acted by Merrill Lynch, Jarvis Wins $200 Honor Scholarship Putter Jarvis is off to a good start in his college career at Texas A&M. Jarvis, a freshman Ag Stu dent, is the winner of a $200 col lege scholarship offered on a na tional basis by a national agricul tural fraternity, Alpha Ganjma Rho. | R. A. Turner, Senior Agricul turist with the United States Ex tension Service in Washington D. C. made the announcement naming Jarvis as the winner of the schol arship. /j' The 18-year-old freshman is the son. of Mrs. O. T. Jarvis of Brownwood. He holds the dis tinction of being the first Texan to receive this scholarship. A major point considered by the national selection committee was the candidate’s scholastic record in high school, but more impor tant was his 4-H record. Jarvis says that his 4-H career started when he made a critical decision to spend his Christmas money for cattle instead .of a bi cycle. This was back in 1941. He invested his money in a young Jersey steer and ^started trading. By the summer of that year the; steer had turned into three calves, one of which was a good Hereford. FYom there on out it was a series of swapping and mani pulations, interspersed with en- : tries in many livestock shows. In; 1947 Putter showed the re serve grapd champion of the ■ Brown wood Show. Soon afterwards, his father’s health became bad, and Jarvis, along with his brothers, had to as sume the running of 2,200 acres of land. He adds that he feels that his previois 4-H work made his job much easier. As a resjult of this extra work, Putter was forced to continue his 4-H work on a reduced scale. He substituted other activities for the demonstratjions he was forced to drop. He still took on active in terest in Ipii work with registered stock. Jarvis has been president of his local and county 4-H club three times, twice president of the dis trict organization, and has won three tribs to state 4-H Round- Up and ; many other judging and showmanship awards. He was also active in school and commun ity affairs. ,When asked about the value of 4-H work; Putter said, “I think 4-H has helped me develop prop er attitudes and personality. It can do tlje same for every boy and girl who is interessted in our nation’s Welfare and in keeping it democrajtic and the world’s leader in agriculture.” Fisherman’s Luck Hamburjg—<JP)— "Fishing per mitted onlv with rod and signature erf the mayor,” says a sign on a small laka near Hamburg. - Pierce, Fenner & Beane, nationally- known stock brokerage firm. These lectures will afford an opportunity for A&M students to learn some of the principles of the country’s stock exchanges and some of the facts about their op eration. No charge of any kind will be connected with the course. T. W. Leland, head of the Busi ness and Accounting Department, through which the course was ar ranged said that everyone interest ed is invited to attend the course. Clear Understanding The course is designed to give a dear understanding of such questions as: what investment^ afe; how they help make America se cure; how intelligent investing and your standard of living are related; how invested money can earn in terest and dividends; various kinds of investments; how to evaluate an investment; the functions of stock exchange and brokerage firms; and corporation vs. government fi nancing. Personnel from the Merrill Lynch will discuss these topics and ans wer questions concerning these and allied topics in the fields of invest ment and banking. This course is one of a number of identical courses currently be ing given by the company through out the country. Several of the courses have been given at dif ferent cities in Texas and were well attended by interested men and women. The course was given in > ■ A cowpoke and a decidedly active the National Intercollegiate Rodeo In Cm year’s version of the college rodeo will be 2 and S. The Aggie Rodeo team wUI be host to all member schools of the NIRA which send delegates to the event. I C0 'VT > « n / ** In California ill be held at t their stuff at last year. This at A&M December Hollis Presents Third Talk In Graduate Series Dr. Ernest V. Hollis, chief of college administration, Of fice of Education for the Fed eral Security Agency will present the third in the 1949- 50 graduate lectyre series on the campus. , The lecture has been scheduled by the Graduate School in the Physics Lecture Room at 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. I. Dr. Hollis will speak on the subject, “Potentialities and Pitfalls of Graduate Pro grams.” As field coordinator on the staff of the Commission of Teacher Ed ucation, Dr. Hollis conducted an exhaustive study of graduate pro grams, which was published, in 1945 under the title "Toward Im proving Ph. D Programs.” The report describes and analyzes ac tivities and problems and offers suggestions designed to point the way toward Improvement of doctor ate programs, especially for teach- •ra. Dr. Hollis, who also serves as principle specialist in higher edu cation, is at the present time active ly engaged in a study of education for thb social sciences as director of study of social work education. “His lecture will bring to us many Valuable suggestions to guide us in j the further development of our own Graduate School program,” said Dr. Ide P. Trotter, dean of the Graduate School. “These Will be drawn from his long experience, wide contacts and critical study of the Graduate Educational Programs throughout the United States/ 1 • Dr. Hollis will be available at the college from 11 a. m. Wednes day Until noon Thursday for fac ulty or staff appointments. $ Houston this year during the month of May, in Bay City during June, and in Bryan during September. Introduction Given Jack Wiggin, Jr., resident part ner of the Merrill Lynch firm, will give an introduction to the course, Wednesday, explaining its purpose and outlining the different topics of the subject to be covered. Following Wiggin’s introduction, Henry FI Weghorst, sales man ager will speak on the topic “Why Invest—Who Should Invest”. He will discuss three objectives of in- vesting. J ff Wiggins received his Bi 8. A. degree from Tulane University, New Orleans. He became' branch manager of Merrill Lynch on Jan uary 1, 1933 and has been a part ner) since January 1, 1949. Weghorst attended Blinn Mem orial College, Brenham, Texas. For eight years he was in the banking business in Taylor. He has been with the Merrill Lynch firm since 1928. | . First Speaker Charles J. Ritchie, acount exe cutive, will be first speaker at the second session on December 7, at 7:30 p. m. His subject is “Types of Securities” The second speaker for the evening will be David Hull, account executive. He will speak on the topic, “How to Read a Fi nancial Report". 1 i Ritchie was :in the banking busi ness in Helena, Arkansas and Houston from 1917 to 1930. Since 1930 he has been continuously with the present firm in Houston. Hull received his B. S. degree (See INVESTMENT, Page 4) fadets to answer the big question last week—“How much wood is in the bonfire?” The cadets, all of whom are in Major V. C. Williams military sci ence class, went all out to calcu late the volume of the wood used in building the bonfire, its weight, and the number of man hours re quired to build the bonfire from start to finish. The class estimated the wood weighed about 50 pounds per cubic foot and that 30 per, cent of the bonfire was void space. Using these figures, each man arrived at an answer for each of the three un knowns. Averages were taken of all answers. The results showed that 34,350 man hours were required to stack 615 tons or 37,750 cubic feet of wood into its final bonfire position. One cadet carried his calcu lations further. He estimated that one man would have to labor by himself for nine years and.ten months to build a similar pile. Any rainy days would have ex tended the working time. The engineering military science class wasn't the only curious group on the campus who did some thing about determining the amount Ijhiversity iln 1925 and took his PH. D at Iowa State in 1939. He has also done graduate World at Tulane and the Univeiisity of Wis consin. He has been a -member; of the faculty at A&M since 1926.|| .. f!- ( Conirarts l.<*l Contracts Jnion Building in Waco, and in! Iklahdma University student uni Abbott Named Dean Dr. John Paul Abbott, Serving fs administrative head of the Bryan Field Annex, was naiped dean of the School of Arts Snd Sciences, by the board. ; »f wood in the bontin,. The board : Dr. Abb^t. e n.ti.e of WC of directors were interested. Mem- K™duated frpm Vandelr- bers were making guesses as to the number of cords in the pile they were'eating dinner in Hall Wednesday noon; ■ Needing an answer, Doyle Avant, cadet colonel, was called in to pro vide the necessary information. Avant turned to Herb Mills, corps staff math specialist, for the ans wer. After extejiaive calculations, MiBa J tained wood. With the East Texas price of wood at $12 a cord, the invest ment in wood alone (for the fire ; exceeded $4,200. ) V Members of the engineer milvi tary science class which figured the amount! of wood in the bon fire iriclude<l Walter Bachus, Car* ral Blair, Willie Bohlman, Roland Russell, B. P. Chamlee, Bob Crosse, Joe Durenhoeffer, Steve Dunklo- berg, Allan Eubank, James Fennell, Allen Landby, Joe Maddox, Bill McMillin, Marvin Mueller, Bi|l Munson. ! . ! Phil Parker, Alex Pegues, Ted Pitzer, Tom Reynolds, Tilman Riewi, Bob Schero, Leonard Schwab, Bruce Thompson, Bob White, G. 'B. Whiaenhunt,;and Tim Word; were let? with Texas architeetuml firms to handjle Quade of Dallas, Norljon and May field of Bryan, 1 and Wyatt Hedrick of Fort Worth were firms approved. ; A member of each firm will serve on an architects’ council with the arohitects of the college and the system, and with the head of the college Architecture Department, Voelcker will plaii the new col lege administration building. This structure, which will occupy 6,000 square feet of floor space, will be devoted entirely ,to college adpi n- istratibn. The present administra tion building will then serve as the center of the A&M Systenf) n- stead of serving in its present dual status as a college and a) (See MEETING, Page 4) !’ There was more than one A&M team on 1 field at last Thursday’s game. The 1909 Aggie team lined up on the field at the half and pre sented a plaque to the college in honor of the Championship at Stake late Charles B. Mo I to 1914. The plaque j uttered by | Moran wl j campus, "I didn’t come [ coach fron the famous first came to the to lose.” College Cowboys to Clash At Inter-Collegiate Rodeo BY DAVE COSLETT j • j I j‘ j Range-wise lads and lassies from throughout the nation de scend on Aggieland this coming Friday and Saturday for the Fijrst Texas A&M Inter-Collegiate Rodeo. The affair, the first inter-school rodeo ever held here, will con sist of three performances held Friday and Saturday, Dec. 1-2. Top college cowbpys from 14 colleges and universities are ex pected to be on hand. Scene of ac tion will he the AH Pavilion. Fifteen member teams of the Na tional Intcr-Cpllogiate Rodeo As sociation are already entered and more teams are expected to take part. Signed up so far are teams from Colorado A&M, University of New Mexico, Sul Ross State College, Texas Tech, Baylor, Texas, Texas A&I, Oklahoma A&M, New Mexi co A&M, Hardin Simmons, West Texas State College, Stephen F. Austin, Arlington State College, and Weatherford College. Girls Teams Entered Accompanying some of the six man teams will be female prac titioners of cattle-country arts. Sul Ross has already entered an eight- member girls team-in the cowgirls cow milking event The rodeo, the final meet this year for NIRA rodeo teams, should offer plenty of action, since it •could well decide the first na tional champion of the recently formed organization. Present leader in the title race is Sul Ross of Alpine who has n amassed the greatest number of points at NIRA rodeos held at the various member colleges in the past year. A&M is running a close second. Aggie NIRA President Charlie Rankin, a member of the six-man A&M tieum, is currently president of the Rational organist- lion. Other men on the Aggie .team are Bubba Day, Bo Damutn, Charv. lie Wampler, Wallle Cardwell, and Bill Hogg. More meet scramble team from each of the corps regi ments will vie for merchandise prises. ' ' Teams from three of the regi ments will chase a greased porker Friday night, the remaining three teams will compete Saturday after noon, and the wjnning aggregation from each of these clashes wilj have a go for grand: prize atj the .final performance Saturday night' The NIRA saddle-busters will match skills in a number of events including saddle Ibronc riding, steer ribbon roping, bull-dogging, celf roping, bare-back riding, bull rid ing, and girl's <|ow milking. is Prize 1 j. : 1 ! ■ The college cowboys will have n j r lOgg. re local competition at the will be provided by a pig ble in which a ten-member plenty to shoot for In the way of prizes. Best all-round cowboy; for the affair will receive a $185 hand- stamped saddle donated The winninlg team at the meet byj the Kings Ranch. tea will receive a trophy in the form of a wooden plaque, donated by the H. H. Hogg Dairy Farm. Among the lesser pries will be eight $75 gold and silver trophy belt buckles, five broad-brimmed western hats, several cowboy shirts, and several pkirs of boots and lev! pants as well us a variety of leather and riding accessorius. J \ Providing Humor at the two-day asasion will be u professional rodeo clown. Profpluioijal rodeo stock Will also be uaed because, accord*; ing to Rankin, other types of stock are too tame for the rough-rji college lads. The Texas Aggie Rodeo Associa tion, sponsors of the event, is one of 29 teams representing 10 states presently Indludeil on the NIRA roater. The roll includes 350' stu dent members. • Only 200 n telling at S1.80 will be available at each of the three performances. General admission price will be $1.20 and children’s ducats will go at $.60. j J !,■: Tickets are now on sale at the Campus Treater,; College Station Shoe Repair, the Animal Husban dry offices, and the Student! Ac- in Goodwin Talk on Tracer Speaking on the. 8u “Isotopic Tracers in search," Dr. Robert J. S principal chemist of the T Research Foundation, will ad dress the A&M Sectioni of the “odety; td- ect, simcin'mi Chemical Sodjety ui-i night, Novembar 29'f in the Chem-; Speer work chemist for American C night, Novem istry Lecture Room r Dr. Speer is a native Toxun, born in Denton, and took his- under graduate training at North Texas State Teachers Collage. He obtained hla graduate work leading to both master’s and doctor's, degrees while; attending Texas University In the f prormaceutlcaf and modi- tjimUtvy . | j j W, as a [research the General Aniline ding and Film Corpsratloti of ^ew Jer- J isey, then served ph Director of -■ Research at Southland Paper Mills, Inc.. He also did; work at the Atomic Energy Commiaaion at Oak Ridge during i and followitkg the mi memoens. r . i Ip; his present capacity of Prin- Only 206 reserved seat tiejeeta, clpaft;Chemist of the TRF, Speer’s in * *i oa —in v ti-u- interests have been devoted to the preparation of isotopically labelled organic molecules and to the in vestigation of the synthesis and properties of organic compounds of titanium. .. j , There will be an informal dinner in honor of the speaker fbr sec tibn members and their w - 6:30 p. m. at the Aggieland T