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i . 3 S - C * - : aty Of College Station Official N Newspaper i, - j Volume 49 :^v 4 • • State Police Check Campus Car Thefts v I ,0 Fingerprinte are being checked against likely suspetjts in the re- cent automobile thefts on the cam* pus, Fred Hickman, chief of cam pus security announced today. Decembers, two student automo biles were stolen from student parking lots and a radio was stolen from another car while it was on the Jot. All three cars were 1949 Ponia.: !;. One of the stolen cars, which be longed to Kenneth Shackleford Ag Ed. major from Montague, was found ope .half mile west of the college bn Farm Highway GO by campus police at 3 a.m. Dec. 6. Since it. is known that the car was not at that spot at 1 a, m., the time of theft is narrowed somewhat Hickman said. The ra dio, rear view mirror, and other ' _ accessories were taken, but other- wtise ’the automobile was unharmed. \ i Tpe car was taken from the Law Hall parking lot. j J I S. M. McCarthy, IE major from Weatherford, was the owner of the second stolen car which has not . been recovered yet." McCarthy’s Foj-d was parked near Dorm 12. A radio was stolen from R. R. Rohrer’s Ford which was parked oh the Dorm. 14 parking lot. Hohrer reported the theft Decem- bier 6 to the campus security office. State Patrol Assists State Highway Police were call- on the cases to process the two cars which were taken ed in two Court to Rule If Crap Game Is Job or Not & Austin, Tex. —GP)—The Texas Supreme Court "will decide wheth er or not a crap game was enough a part of a job to allow a laborer tjo collect Workman’s Compensa- tion insurance. ' It. will rule on an award af ^6,416 to the widow of a road Worker who died after a fight over 'a 50 cient side bet with another employe. . f , • j Chief] Justice Thomas B. Coe of the 9th Court of Civil Appeals at Seaumpnt had ruled that in this tase “ihe crap game in which the ieceasbd was participating at the time of his injuries had truly be- dome a part of his working erv- j Vironment.” The Supreme jCourt accepted the.case for review today, j The suit :for workman’s com pensation was brought by Patsy Williams, widow of Clarence Wil liams, who died in Orange Oct. 23, ^947 against the American Gen eral Insurance Co. She claimed the , injuries were received in the * course of his employment wi^i Trotti and Thompson, Inc., road and bridge contractors. The civil appeals court found that it was the “usual and cus tomary practice” of employes to eihoot craps early in thei morning lifter being carried in trucks to the job by their employers^ The em ployer knew of the practice, the court said. 4 Testimony showed that Williams was hit on the head by a piece of two by six timber, weilded by An other employe, after their argu ment over the side bet. Williams fell and hit the concrete floor, and died of his injuries. The man who " hit him was' fined on a guilty plea for negligent homicide. : The ease will be, argued before the Supreme Court Jan. 4. Hort’s Pick, Wax, Pack Tons of Fruit Several Horticulture students left Saturday for the Rio Grande Valley to obtain fruit for the an nual Horticulture Show in Sbiaa December 12 and 13, accord- g to A. H. Krezdom, Horticulture hstructor. ' • > '' The students will pick, wax, and inck three tons of grapefruit, ranges, alvacados, papaya^, and ther subtropical fruit for the how. Another group of horticul- ure students will go to New raden to obtain sweet potatoes. The Horticulture Show will have a wide variety of displays such as ball and burlaping, grafting, btid- ding and a display on the entire life, history of a properly cared- for plant from seed to tree. Persons attending the Ishow may purchase varieties of fruit and nuts, Krezdom said. Profits will go to the Horticulture Chib which will help pay expenses for a field trip to the "Valley” Ire the near future. Lord, What a Waste! Clovis, N. M.—GW— Sheriff Bill I Collins finally has found a use for all that confiscated whiskey he’s gathered up in Dry Curry Counties. V . He uses straight Bourbon to clean his fingerprint ink plates, his own fingers and those of the per son being fingerprinted. ' / •1 i ■ r -J for fingerprints. State Patrolmen Luther and Marsh conducted the investigation. Several latent prints were found on the two cars and they are being checked against suspects. Since the methods are similar, the officers felt that tie same person or persons who committed the thefts this time are tie same who stole two car radios list year and were never apprehended. Any arrests will be promptly re ported, added Hickman. Foreign State Grad Students Now Number 16 Twenty-six students atre from now duate ing to ean of 13 foreign countries enrolled in the G School at A&M, acco: Dr. Ide P. Trotter, the Graduate School. Three students are majoring in chemistry, agricultural economics and horticulture. Chemicajl engin eering, physics, range and fores try, genetics and agronomy- are next with two students ejach ma joring in those fields. The other fields with on]; student each includes agricultural engin eering, civil engineering, biochem istry and nutritiion, wilf life man agement, animal husbandry, veter inary pathology and mechanical engineering. Students from China are Ken Shou Fang, Er-Chen Foo, Ih-Wai Hui, Shao-Hung Ssu and Liang Tsai Wan; India, Konigapogu Joseph Devadanam, Vishrjam Pra sad, Gajendra Nath Raut and Har- bhajam Singh; Canada, Bruce H. Levelton, James A. B. McArthur and Thomas MacKenzie Lothian. From Puerto Rico, Rivera Ovidio Gonzales, Eddie Ortiz and Osvaldo Villafane; Egype, Ahmed Mostafa Abu Nsar and Ahmad Talajat El Wakeel, Australia, Raymond Mil- ton Moore and Thomas N. Stuck; Pakistan, Sheikh Iftekhar Ahmad; Lebanon, Faud S. KhUri. From the Philippine Islands, Shubert Shi- Chien Liao; France, Pierre R. Mommessin; Peru, Orlandp qicese; Palestine, Samir A. Shadid, Iraq; Faud F. Toma. Draper Speaks To Turkeyman ▼ IOWA J.VS& X AO X l/l try Improvement Associatic gave a lecture on the Natior George H. Draper, super visor for the Texas iPoul- ,tion, nal Turkey Improvement Jplan to the Turkey Management clahs un der the direction of Ross Sherwood last Thursday. According to Draper, the purpose of the 1 plan is to afford protection from unscrupulous competition and enable purchasers to buy poultry with more confidence. J Its objectives are to improve production and market qua ity of turkeys through-better and to reduce losses from In order to do this, Draper said, a breeding stage is set up | of U. S. Approved, U. S. Certified, U. S. Register of Performance, and U, S. Register of Merit to help car ry out the purpose and objectives of the plan. To get these classifi cations the breeding stock must meet reqirements- set bp by the N. T. I. P. A pullorum classification is also set up in order to assure turkey raisers of reduced losses from pullorum. It has three stages be ginning at pullorum controlled, and progressing to pullorum passed, and then pullorum clean. ' According to Draper, if every breeder would follow the plan as set forth by the state board, losses from disease would be re duced and the market quality im proved. Early Rush For ’51 SMU-ND nil South Bend, Ind., Dec. 8 GW— Tom Ryan, hotel manager, ans wered a long distance call yester day from Dallas, Texas. ^ . The caller said she vras Miss Louise Meyers and asked for a reservation on Oct 12, “Your’e a little latje, don’t you think—Oct. 12 has come and'gone,” Ryan suggested. ^ "Why, Honey, I thought you would know I meant in 1951,” the ctfller replied. “It’s for the Notre Dame-SMU football game that day.” She got the reservation. rf U f ' .1: ■ ]. f- -c m: 1 1 j: \ x h* PUBLISHED IN THE | COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1949 WJmmM ■C-, I m H fc • ■m - 4 ' : . - j, • »Sp ■ iillii tali It# 1 J.. n s .4 • '(Si” ifc ;!?l| ^ ifclP ira> rf F .;■& , r if i m Viet,- m ■ HP# jUmk The smiling ladies pictured above are all charter members of the newly formed Texas Aggiettes. Reading from left to right across the top of the “T" are Eddie Jean Heard, Judy Chapman, Jean Ray, and Tommie Joe Estes. Prom top to bot tom oh the steam of the “T” are Gloria Spinn, That Texas Hospitality . . Temple Girls With ‘Keydet Mildred Faulkner, and Joy Hoherd. Forming the base, from left to right are Audrey Barnett and Shirley Beth Harrell. Not pictured are two reg ular members, Beverly Hinkle and Camille Black burn, and two honorary members, Elizabeth Peters and Doris Marie King. Now 6 Aggiettes 9 ’Dates as Goal BY DAVE COSLETT Let’s take a little trip to Temple. Why? 'tVell, I can give you i;|> good reasons. And all thirteen of the reasons ciin be summed up in one little plirase—The Texas Aggiettes. It seems that in the town of T jmple,: only some 90 mjles dis tint, the; Aggie Spirit hijs really tt ken root. And l’ll guarantee that it s probably the prettiest bunch of Aggie Spirit you have seen in quite some time. But let’s start at the beginning. Last September, when all of us tiooped in various forms hr reluc- ti nce back to this beauty spot of the Brazos Button, two Temple residents came to Aggieland, too. II was their first trip, and they were rather pleased, to Isay the hast One of them expressed it this way, “We were at Aggieland for the Villanova game and came home so elated over the Aggie Spirit that we could talk about nothing else for days.” The speaker, not one to go at things lightly, continued, “We soon realized that we couldn’t go to A&M every week-end (as much as we’d like to!) so we decided to dp something to build up Aggie in terest ih Temple.” And they did. To fully appreciate the signi ficance of that decision, you hould know the person who ade it. She’s a lively little rown-eyed brunette who stands answers to the name »f “Jodie”, and loves lo dance, late Aggies and come to A&M. The Other member of the duet, ary Mangham, adds pretty rongly to the argument, too. This 6’4”, long-haired brunette sponds to the name of “Clarence” apd loves dancing. The two girls found their solu tion in the formation of the Texas ggiettes, a club composed en- y of Temple girls who “show njte interest in Tej(as A&M 5r Theirl first step was to contact ie president of the Temple A&M others' Club who proved to be in hearty agreement with the ideas p(ut forth by the girls. With the aid of the) A&M Mother’s Club, they deeded to carefully select from what the^r considered Temple’s “cream of the crop.” And thus H was that the Tex as Aggiettes were born with a charter membership of 13 girls. Jody, who goes by the more for mal Jo Ann at Temple Junior College, was elected president and Mary was chosen vice-presi dent. A carefully drawn-up constitu tion was then submitted to the Mother’s Club and approved. The preamble of this form reads as follows: “We, the members of the Texas Aggiettes, ate hereby organized for the purpose of furthering Ag gie interest iii Temple and of sup porting the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College at all times. We also advocate good wholesome entertainment for girls and boys and we will do our best to keep Temple ranked tops, mor ally and physically, in the opinion of the Aggie Another interesting article in the constitution comes under the heading “Sqci&l Activities.” It reads, “Anytime an Aggie wants a date, it is the responsibility of the Texas Aggiettes to see that he gets a cute and nice date. It is also our duty to show him a good time jvhile he is in Temple and to makje him feel welcome and at horn That’s what the lady proposes —and they feally seem to mean it. But, what about the members? Here’s p few of the major points of information. 4. Beverly Hiijikle, secretary for the organization, jhfts light brown hair, blue eyes, (ind stands 6’2”. At Temple Junior College, where she is a student, she answers to the name of “Bug.” Another brunette, this one blue eyed, handles monetary matters for the group. Jean Ray by name, she stands 5’6” tall,; and is also a student at TJC. Gigantic sergeant-at-arms for the group is 5’3” Joy Hoherd, who might weigh almost 100 pounds soppin’ * wet. This brown-eyed brunette also attends TJC. Audrey “^udie” Barnett, Ag- giette, reporter, is 5’ 4” and boasts Green eyes and strawberry blonde hair. She works as a secretary for the Roark Nash Company in Temple. In charge of keeping the his- n pro- tory for the group is Gloria Spinn, —^rs a 5’4” brunette with green eyes. Gloria is known as “Dutch” at her alma-mater, Hieronymous Busi ness School. Tommie Jo Estes, answering ap propriately enough to the nick name “T. J.”, is the Aggiette song- leader. Another brown-eyed brun ette, she is 5’4” and a student at TJC. Stepping down just two inches we find Eddie Jean Heard, £. lit tle gal with brown hair and eyes, who also counts herself among the students at TJC. Another of the non-college girls is 5’4” Camille Blackburn. This brown-haired, green-eyed lass is an employee at Stewarts’ Shop in Temple. For those who prefer brown eyed blondes, there is TJC student Mildred Faulkner who also tips the 5’ 4” mark. In the blue-eyed blonde depart ment there is 5’5” Judy Chapman, another TJC student, whose mark (See AGGIETTES, Page 4) InG rk *• ■ -• i ■ toOrfefMiSMh lA**Jy\A/>AAA*AA/*/V>- MgStMtOftTI ■ ’• I 4- - i I i 8, 1949 x. | 1 1 j , | 1 ^ Number 57 Curtain Rises on ‘RUR’ BY ROGER COSLfcltT Kart Capesk’s "R. U. It.” will be presented to the public tonight, at 8 p. m. by an Aggie Player cast in Guion Hall. Tonight’s performance will be the first of two; the final performance to be presented tomorrov' night. Admission is twenty-five cents, and tickets are now on sale at ;he Stu dent Activities office. W Those who fail to obtain there tickets before curtain tine may purchase them at the doo *. Playing time is about two hours, and will involve for the first time i^nl Tonight Player’s history; the than orte «et. ' New ilso be in Knode to Speak On Metzger Gun Collection The Metzger gun collection will be discussed by Harry C. Knode, private gun collector from Houston, Thursday, De cember 15, at 7:30 p.m., in the Chemistry lecture room, ac cording to Lt. Cpl. Frank* R., Swoger of the military department. Knode assisted Garl Metzger in obtaining and cataloging the 600 gun collection which is now here at A&M. Manager of his own firm in Houston, he is considered the best informed living author ity on the Metzger collection. Selected pieces from the col lection will be the subject matter for the discussion which , will be free to all interested persons, stu dents or otherwise. Besides having assisted Metzger in making the collection, Knode posses a vast knowledge and ex tensive background of old weapons from which to draw his subject ipatter. Among his speci4lties are weapons famous in Texas history, Indian fights, frontier days and Texas independence battles, Swog er said. Knode, according to Swoger, is vary pleased that the collection has been located here at A&M. He believes A&M is the rtost logi cal place for its location since here it will receive the proper main tenance, display and appreciation due a fine collection. “We are very fortunate in having the collection located here and the; talk to be given by Knodes will be a fine opportunity for the students to become better informed on thq history and background bf a. fu ture feature of the A&M pjtmpus,’ Swoger said. ‘ - i— | ; j Invitations Curb Extended for Poll The deadline for ordering Jan. graduation announcements has been extended to Dec. 13 as a result qf the poll to determine whether Or not commencement exercises should be held, Grady Elms, assistant di rector of Student Activities, an nounced today. Results of the poll will not be known until this^weekend. Elms said. f Many studHts have delayed Or dering pending a decision as to whether exercises will be held and the additional two days have been added for this purpose, according to Elms. Orders are taken at th^ Student Activities Office, Room 209, Good win Hall, from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. all week days, Elms concluded. in the Agyjie use of more lighting effects will use. \ j Robots Not Metal The |‘R. U. R.” robots at»: not made of metal as is the robot "Willie” who has been seen ro ing the campus the past few wpek They-are RosumSi Universal; Ro bots and are more or less hujnan, The scene of the play is.fipfar away island sometime in th» fu ture. The blot resolves around the manufacture of the “R. U. R.’’ Ro bot and an | attempt to make rbbots more human. In the process of be ing humanized, the robots revolt against the human race and threat en to destroy it.: “R. U. R.” marks the ninth Af-i gie Player production for Gtorge Dillavou since he took over the director’s reigns along witlj his teaching duties in 1946. Lead: Rolls Jean Gather, president of the board of directors for the Bryan Little Theater, has had consider able experience in acting, direct ing, writing and radio work since receiving her B. S. degree from the University of Tennessee,' She will play the part of Helena Glory. Karl Wyler too, is a man of con siderable experience. The' “C” Troop C. O. has done radio- work ? Vernon Young Chosen to Edit T . I ■ ' j' ...J ' :J fl ' Forester’s Book Dr. Vernon A. Young of the Range and Forestry Depart ment, was recently appointed chairman of a committee to prepare and edit information on management of forest l^nds for the Foresters’. Field Manual to be published during 1950. He vvas ap pointed by the Society of; Ameri can Foresters. The committee includes seven members property distributed geo graphically for a desired regional balance in the United States. Dr. Young is senior member of the Society of American Foresters comprisejd of 6,260 members. Over a period of years Young has con tributed several scientific papers on Range Management topics to the Jaurnal of Forestry.; An announcement was:recently made of the appointment of Robert A. Darrow, associate professor in the Department of Range and For- estery, as editor of the Plant eco logy, section of the international journal Biological research liter ature used as a standard refer ence by technicians in all theore tical and applied fields of biology. In El Paso. Domln in the Many may rei portrayal "Ghosts.” He plays the b["R. U. R.” •member him s thje part of sketc). for hi 1 Pastdrf Mander 11 Supporting Roles Supporting Ostner and will be Georgje Willman, uate student ip education Wylelr n grade ;iiii 1 tin ouiny | viuiuvh lallemeier; Klmore Torn i, ind Counters June* and ecoj- nomics, from Lu Grange, os Ale mist; Chuck Bcnsheltcr, u grad uate student < from MillersvilU State Teachers College, Pa., Dr Gall X Vernon Berry, a sophomore from jLufktn, I as Bubry; Gorddh Milne a^Hall ‘ “ as Busm: as Nana. . , f , Milne is \j professor pf fieri culture here aj, A&M. “R. U, R.” ir Tom’s first stag* appearance, C^uhtcss Jones on the other hand is a 4qteran of "OUl Town” and “Chocolate Soldier.” 1 Countess is an Ex-Tekaie un< publicity director forxthe Players. \| nd past Aggie Free Feed Finds Clubmen Seeking Ag Subscriptions BY DEAN REED Dust off that pitchfork; sharpen that plow—get 45c ready, for the time is NOW. : f , : This uninspired poetry just about sums up Jim Park’s latest maneuver for boosting circulation of the Agriculturist, which he edits. The boys were whoopin’ it up on the second floor of Goodwin and came up with a contest, which should bear much interest for each of the thirteen clubs under the School of Agriculture. 1 11J : • ■ This contest, now in its second week, has each of the club mem bers competing for subscriptions to the Agriculturist, A&M’s reply to Farm and Ranch, selling now at 45< l each.. Presently the Agronomy Society is leading the field, with the Ag Engineers second. The winning group will be awarded a barbecue, courtesy of the Agriculturist. “There are no strings attached, no methods barred,” Park said when asked rules of order for the campaign-contest. “The contest is open to all paid-up members of these clubs,” he added. The contest is an annual one. Last year, victor of the campaign was the Landscape Art Club. Subscription blanks may be ob tained by entrants at the Agricul turist office, or those in the back of the current issue inay be used. The contest will close January 15. 1 4 i-—L r; Duchess Selected By Heart ’O Texans Bonnie Fambro was chosen duch ess to the San Angela Club Christ mas dance by the Heart O’ Texas Club ip the meeting Thuraday night in room 305 of the Academic Building. Bonnie is president of the TSQW Heart O’ Texas Club. Plans; were made for the Heart O’ Texas Club Christmas dance which is to be in Brownwood, De cember 30. All members who wish to get dates to the dance were given names and addresses of TSCW girls. D. D. Engrhal, club president, said if any members who w^re ab sent want addresses, should see him or E. W. Behrens, vice presi dent, in Dormitory 17 as soon as Human Uolxils Human robots are ptyy Cay Sullivan, wife and moi David Leavitt, architecture n from San Antonio; Arthur Hengst, business major from Mid land; Martin Schrank, ag educatior major from Hamilton, and Johr Laufenberg, of Port Arthur. Laufenberg will portray the ro bot leader “Radius.” John i|f * past president of the Aggie Play ers and has appeared 1 in seveta productions. Aggie Player president Lindfell James, and KORA disc jockey Wanda Naylor will play the part of Primus and Helena respectively. Primus and Helena are the first two robots to acquire human feel- ings. ' 7| Darvin Hodges is technical di rector for the play while C, T. Stevens is the present publicity director. • ■ j| • j \f. ASCE Listens To Billig Talk ' Kirk Billig, consulting en- ig, consulting gineer for the Portland Ce ment Company, was the main speaker Tuesday at the reg ular meeting of the student chapter of rthe American Society of Civil Engineers. Billig, who ig currehtly on three-months tour of the Unite States, discussed construction a new type of concrete building. He was introduced to the ASCfc members by Wayne Dollve, flenlcjr civil engineering major; from' Huntsville. Billig, who has served as a cori-i suiting engineer for building pro jects on three continents, Explained _ the method of constructihg an fl 1- With appointment to the editor- verted Canternery curve concre(e ■ - shell building. M 1 •'! i : The structure, when complets, ‘i'fwill withstand winds of up to 1^5 IXrmiles per hour. Actual construction posts TUr the .new type building are veijy low, Billig pointed out. Thlp, ' ned^with. X ial staff of;; Biological Abstracts, Darrow has terminated his mem bership on the editorial : board pf the Journal of Range Management For the past two years he has contributed abstracts oh current literature for the journal which is now in its second year bf publica tion. 'll F > combir Vith. the speed of con- (i . i , 14 > . 4 Phone Service I if ■ j • •• ! -i .* Knocked Out possible. The entire college telephone Sys tem went: out of operation at 9 last night when an underground power line short circuited and burned through a telephone com pany conduit. j The burned phone conduit is one of the main lines serving the cbl- lege and the surrounding com- muniljy. ■ | I ■ r T|!” I Cablemen from the Southwest ern States Telephons* Company were rushed to the scene and worked through the night repair ing the damage. The conduit, which houses between 500 atid 600 lines, was completely destroyed at the burned section. When the line was uncovered it waa reported to be nothing but a charted mass of melted lead and wires. Phone service should be re stored sometime this evening bar ring any further damage, E. H. Utzman, division manager of the Southwestern States Telephone Company, said at press time this morning. j j • ' 4-— j- ■ Wives Club Sets; Ifarty At Y Saturday Night] The Veterans Wivies’} Bridge Club plans, a couples’ party at 8 p. m. Saturday in the South Sol arium of the YMCA.- All members are invited to at tend, Mrs. A. J. Trolinger, re porter of the club, sa^d. Fifty cents per couple will be structtdn and the usefulness of this type of structure make t ideal for low cost, general purpose building, he continued. Willy Bohlmann, president df student chapter of the ASCE, raaid that Billig is considered one of the outstanding consulting ei 1- gineers in the world. He has served as an engineering profes sor in several European universi ties, Bohlmann > said, and is qn authority on concrete cohatructioh. 1 . charged. i Reports on Poultry Experiments Given An experiment conducted by tic Poultry Husbandry Department has proven that high efficiency ration, consisting mainly of Texi s Milo, outrangs standard egg mash, according to Dr. J, jH. Quisenbe *- ry, head of the department and director of the experiment. In the experiment; two sets of White ^ghorn pullets, full blodd sisters, were used./- They wefe housed In laying batteries and r>- ceived like trea^mept except f^r the different laying mashes. During the year-long experi ment, and increase Was noted n egg production, body weight and in come over feed cost, and less feid was consumed when using the high efficiency ration, Dr. Quisenberty concluded. .. . . Gam Girl Sets Hollywood, (A?)—Betty Grable is up to her first million and a hdlf —in cheesecake. Her studio yesterday mailed opt the 1,500,000th copy of the famous Grable—in-a-bathing suit photo graph.