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rj vf ■/ : ;.V 'i ' . City Of Colton; Htatlon OfflotoiNowiipatMr Volume 40 |w *• Ransdell Is Name Abbott’s Successor Clifford H. • Ransdell, as sistant to the Dean of Engin eering, has been named to re present the Dean of the Col lege at Bryan Field Annex. This appointment was effective De cember 1. ' ; ( ." Eansdey succeeds Dr. John P. Abbott, who has assumed the of fice as Dean of the School of Arts apd Sciences. In addition to be ing the representative of Dean of the College M. T. Harrington, RqnsdeH will work with Dean Ab bott. - Born at Breckenridge, Texas, in 1909, Ransdell attended Texas Tech where he received a degree of bachelor of science. Comings to A&M in 1937, Ransdell served as an instructor of engin- .: eering. He is now an associate J professor in the Engineering Draw- I _ > N Clifford H. Ransdell . New Annex Head ^ Wanted v Entire Family Can Get Job The name of A&M goes a lot further than just opehing the doors of work for a graduate. In a notice recently received in the Placement Office, a man is looking for the family of an Aggie to manage his farm. Author of the letter desires a couple to manage a 175 acre farm on the Trinity Bay. The owner of this property wants the family of a man who is at present enrolled in A&M. Duties of the 45 to 50 year pld couple would consist of maintaining property and looking after stock. Stock on thfe place consists of a few cows, hogs, ducks and chickens. A brick home will be provided ia for the family of some Aggie along —with truck garden crops, milk, butter andf the other farm pro duct. —Forty acres of the land is cov ered with trees, ^which will have to be pruned. The grouftd must bfe kept clear of brush. Interested students can get fur ther information at the’ Placement Office. : J ' i ing Department Of a total of 18 years of teaching experience, Rans dell has spent. 12 at AAM., Before he wan named to his new administrative poalt, Ransdell was Annex representative of the Dean of Engineering. He served as ad visor to freshman engineering stu dents at the Annex. Ransdell is a junior member of the American Society of anical Engineers and is a n of the American Associat University, professors Mech- ember on of the American Society of Engineering Education. | He has also spent three sum mers as office engineer for the Texas Highway Department. vf ‘ i ' ■■r.- t * :' m • i. O V j I \ . ; , i- f r J . | fl . : v ■ . -if I ■ i , ■ - : I . Battalion in tub mam or a otara ami collkgk IN THE STATION (AlgieUnd), mam of a cuara ami colugs FRIDAY. DECKMIlKIt», 1M8 Cadets Offered r j Regular Army Commissions Regular Army commissions have been offered to 19 ground force cadets by the Department of theArmy, the Military Department said to day. All the men tendered the commissions are enrolled in mili tary science courses.” Five of the men named in the announcement are«.to be gradu ated in January. The remainder are scheduled for June graduation. January graduates eligible to ac cept the commissions are D. R. Blakelock, corps of engineers; H. J. Mack, quartermaster corps; T. J. Muldowney, medical service corps; E. E. Phillips Jr., trans portation corps; and W. S. Bouldln, infantry. Cadets who can accept regular commissions after their Juiie grad- uatiion are W. 0. Bachu$, corpa of engineers; J. W. Bleker, ord nance; F. A. Cleland, chemical corps; C. F. COgan, ordnance; J. T. Dotson, field artillery. A. Harris, chemical corps; E, H. Johnsen, quartermaster corps; C. B. Modisett, signal corps; C.jfl. ' ’his mixed group of pro 'esslon&l and student (obstruction irten got together on the campus 1 hl» week when the officers of the Houston chap- 1 er of the American General Contractors visited 1 ho A&M chapter. From left to: right are A&M vl«? president Joe Denman, Houston treasurer ote from North Pol Fred Fisher ,A&M secretary-treasurer John Pian- ta, Houston secretary Lloyd Huddleston, A&M reporter A. J. Trevino, Houston vice-president Howard Telepsen, A&M president Bob Page, and Houston president Carl Schneider. / Santa Comes Up to Date, Secures Help of Airlines Inspection Report Delayed by Phones Because! of telephone disorders it was impossible to obtain an of ficial statement of the annual in formal inspection which took place .Tuesday and Wednpschty- A telegram was dispatched yes terday afternoon from Colonel H. L. Boatner’s office to Colonel Ma lone who headed the fourth army inspection team, and an answer is expected today. D Field Artillery took first place in yesterday’s Artillery Par ade with a score of 800 points, Lt. Colonel Joe Davis, assistant com mandant announced yesterday. E Field Artillery and A Coast Ar tillery w^ere tied for second place with 794 points, and B . Coast Ar tillery took ihird place with 787 points. ' | , Officers Named By Women’s Council y.— I , - ■ i , Tj Officers for the coming year were elected by members of the Women’s Council of the A&M Christian Church at their, monthly business meeting, held last Mon day afternoon. Mrs. R. I;. Patrick is the new president; Mrs. C. M. Hertz, vice- president; Mrs. Dan Ri Davis, sec retary; Mrs. C. C. Hodges, report:" er and Mrs. J. H. Bass, parlia mentarian.: ! | Plans were made for the coun cil Christmas party, to be held December 12 at 2:30 p? m. at .the churfch. Each member will bring a gift, which will be sent on to the Juliette Fdwler ,! Homes in Dallas as part of this year’s Christmas offering. — ^ . i ,.^j Munroe, cavalry; S. G. Pate, i fantry; V. R. Porter,''quartermas ter corps; T. A. Riewe, corps pf engineers; D. A. Strother, cavalry; and W. D. Turly, field artillery. There are other men who have applied for Regular Ariny coin- missions, the Military Department said, but final action has not been taken on these applications. None of the men hanjed in fhe Military Department announce ment are required to a cce Pt ihe commissions. Those who do must be graduated as Distinguished Mil itary Graduates, pass a physical examination, and receive confirma tion of their appointment by the U. S. Senate. I Students to Attend ACS Region Meet A. C., Flory, chairman of the Stbdent Affiliates of the American Chemical Society at A&M t Ralph F. Gilby, secretary, a|nd Bryan Zimmerman, chairman-Clcct, are attending the Southwest Regional meeting of the American Chemical Society at Oklahoma City, Decem ber 8 through 10. Members of the faculty of A&M making the trip are Dr. Carl M. Lyman, Donald Hood, |Dr. J. R. Crouch,-Dr. W. M. Pottsj Dr. Royce H. LeRoy, Dr. C. K. Hancock, Dr. George M. Watson and! Dr. Fred W. Jensen. Southwest Region includes all local sections of the American Chemical Society in Tex as; Louisi ana, and Oklahoma, with some representation from Arkansas and . Kansas. R. L. Whiting of tl e Petrol eum Engineering Depai tment has been the main speaker at the annual joint meeting of the American Institute of mining and Metallurgical Engineers. One hundred and fifty me^i attended the meeting. il . 1 ails BY JOHN TAPLEY Still believe in Santa Claus? W(41, whether you do, or don’t be lie rein the old Gent, thousands of Anetican kids will be reassured be; rond a doubt this year that there renlly is such a wonderful person. The idea comes from the Pair American World Airways. The air- lint officials have made a gener ous dffer to the parents of Amer-i ica. : Thpy are going to solr} the: pr )b(em of the letter to Santa Cl ius, an annual function in every household where there are those wl o believe. \11 the parents have to do to get a signed letter from the old gent, is follow a set of niipplei rules. The airline has offered to rufi 6 special dogsled to Fairbanks and return with Santa’s letter to th; kids. Hgge are the instructions. IPWrite a letter to your youngster and sign it Santa ; Claus. 2. Place the letter in ap air- : qiail envelop addressed to your boy or girl. Don’t forget to place q six cents airmail stamp on it. Allow plenty of room op the lift for Santa’s picture which ifill be stamped on by the air- In*. 3. Take the letter to the Pan American Airways District Sales Office in your city. If Pan Ameri- ejan is not in your city, put the letter in another envelop and sjend it to Pan American World Rifleman Lame, Lousy Aim When After Game Birwyn, Md. —— Earl L. Wells, 21, went hunting^ for squir rels but shot a piggy instead-- the big one on his right foot. He managed to hobble home and call a dbetor. I Airways, Seattle, Washington, and write on the envelope the words “Attention Santa Claus"’. 4. Your letters must reach Seattle or the Pan American District Office bv Monday, Dec. 12, 1949. Then sit back ajid wait while the special dogsled” takes the lett^ta to the headquarters of all Santk’s mail. They will then be mailed I in the Fairbanks Post Office. Fair banks was designated the closest pdit office to the North Pole. Bridge and Canasta Club Slates Meet The Bridge and Canasta Club will hold an organizational meet ing Monday at 7 p.m. in.room 1^7, West Wing, Bizzell Hall, accord ing to Wayne Stark, director of the Student Memorial Center. Sponsored by the Student Cen ter, the club will be provided its special room in the new Student Center with bridge tables and chairs. Stark further added that possible plans for the Spring semester would include practice or teaching sessions from famous authorities in either Bridge or Canasta. A runoff among members be held sometime in the future for persons from this college to com pete with similarly chosen mem bers of other colleges’ bridge clubs. Winners in this section will re ceive a free; expense paid trip to' the national tournament. The city where the Intercollege Bridge Tournament will be held has not been announced as of yet, Stark added. Three hundred colleges’ repre sented were asked to attend last year. - . : ili: r N’ L M: il Numtw !rfW Ostner, Aggie Players’ Stringer Named A&M Delegate To Coronation Hal Stringer and Miss Beth Avery will represent A&M to night at Sam Houston State College’s Cornation Ball, re ported Allen Eubank, chair man of the Student Senate social committee. Stringer is a senior landscape art major from Waco. Miss Avery is a senior at TSCW and one of the beauties chosen by the sociql committee of the iStudent,, Seri ate to represent A&M at func tions where a representative from A&M is invited to attend. The Coronation Ball in an animal formal dance at Sam Houston State College climaxed by the crowning of a king and queen from that: college. Representatives from other schools attend the Coronartion Ball as dukes and dutchesses. Whije in Huntsville all lodgings and meals are provided the visit ing representatives by the host school. , Stringer is the student senator from Dormitory 17 and a member of the Student Life Committee. Former BSU Director To Attend Friday Meet j j i , 1 Prentiss W. Chunn, former BSU director, will bring the evening devotional at the Baptist Stu dent Union meeting, 7:30 p. m. Friday at the YMCA Chapel, re ported Bobbie W. Davis, BSU pub licity directqr, today. Arthur Smith, head of the Bap tist Bible Chair of A&M, will of fer a challenge concerning the Stu dent Fund Raising Project for the Baptist Student Union Center now being built, said Davis. Dorm and Area chairmen are urged to come. Coffee and Donuts will be served, Davis concluded. Band to Leave "Vj • , ; Z- j! Wednesday For Lufkin Parade The Aggie Band will leave Wednesday to participate in the Parade of Industry in Lufkin, ushering in the South’s Man-of-the-Year, Re cording to Lt. Col. E, V. Adams, director of the band. j { Parading through downtown Luf kin, the band will herald the victory of tpat city’s nominee to the title. E. L. Kurth. All arrangements for transpor tation of the band are being hand led by the sponsors of the parade. Busses will carry the group to and from Lufkin. The band will be feted with a luncheon at the Lufkin Country Clulj) preceding the parade. I • Kurth, president of the South land Paper Mills of Lufkin w*s chosen for this honor by the Dixie Business Magazine of Atlanta, Ga. Editor Hubert L. Lee of the maga zine reported that no other nomin ation for the post hud resulted in a larger avalanche of votes. Kurth more than any other man alnoe the honor was first conveyed In 1946. ’ { Three other Texans were among those selected as leaders in the South. They were Jesse H. Jones, publisher of the Houston Chron icle: John W. Carpenter, qf Dal las, chairman of the board, of the Texas Power and Light Company; and Will Clayton, board chairman of Anderson-Clayton Company of Horiston. Williams to Head Gallery Committee Jimmie Williams from Dallais was elected chairman of the Gal lery Committee at a meeting which was held last Monday evening. The Gallery Committee is an Art Club which' is sponsored by the Mem orial Student Center. Representatives from the nop- corp students, and from the facul ty and graduate group were cho sen. Wm. B. Smith was selected 1o represent the non-corp group as a co-chairman and Price Hobgood as acuity co-chairman. Ralph elected as publi T,. Ligament Pullers Danish Tumblers Bound In For Show Here Next Week BY JOHN WHITMORE 1 "1’! ^ # I r ■ i j . v ' I j/ The Danish “goodwill” tumbling team will come bounding into Col lege Station December 14 for their exhibition of gymnastics in DeWare Field House. This is the third trip the tearh has made to the United States un der the direction of Erik Flensted- Jensen. The firat trip was made in 1940, and this team generally won the hearts of all who saw the liga ment pulling escapades. In their ’47 tour they perfo ed at the Madison Square Card at the intermission. The group was given the greatest applause ac corded any injtermission perfor mance, a NBC announcer reiriarked. the ’49 team is made up of 40 young athletejs selected from Schools, clubs or other organiza tions from all over Denmark. This m of the girl’s and boy's ‘ * n trairi- 0 xur wiia ii ip ivi a ivilg time. any of the feats that the team il) attempt are seemingly against ' yity, Erik Flensted- is press releases, m they do it, seems to Md laws of gra sen said in h umbling, as resemble a new T form of attempt suicide and their calisthentics sug gested a trace of masochism. Also scheduled for the intermis sion is a short exhibition of typical Danish Folk Dancing. This is done in the native costumes. Sixteen boys and girls go through a rou tine which would tire out even the most avid jitterbug. From the pic tures and press releases it seems as if this dance is a cross between a square dance, polka, minuet-, and a few filings of the Apache dance thrown in for good measure. The finale of the dance is the picking up of the girls and throw ing them across the floor. Of course this is hard on gymnists, but are longa, vita brevis. If the program goes as it did in New York the second part of the program will begin with the team doing calisthenics. The girls will try to show that they, have muscle^, made of tempered steel and the boys trying to prove that bones are meant to be shaped -like pretzels. Part of the program will be de monstrations of the tumbling ap paratus. This will consist of homes, rings, bucks, and ‘"Swedish boxes.” .3 ;a The work done on the apparatus makes it look as if each man had three people to do the jumps. I spent quite a while trying to fig ure out one of the leaps. It starts out with the jumper j standing on his feet, jumping over a horse and a long box (during this time he does a flip) and then ending up with a few spins. Do you follow me? It makes me dizzy just to try to figure it out. Another of the feats that they will do is a single hand stand on the horse. This is a cojnbination of balance, strength and grip. This tour is intended to have a two fold purpose. One is to better Danish-American relations and the second & to give the team members a chance to travel and learn a lit tle about Americal | The team is entirely amateur and travel for their expenses only. The team started to work as a team on July 1. August 26 after a per formance in Stockholm, they left for the United States and arrived September 6. • _ •^Tickets are now on sale in the Student Activities Office for $.35 for students and $1.25 for non students. j r ' -4 ‘ ’ Te^ry was chairman. The group decided to put on an art contest for all artists in Brazps County as a project for the Campris Open House on Mother’s Day. Fur ther notice and plans of this ek-' hibit will be given later,* Terry •am*. M . ' ■) | Another decision wqs made invite rine of the prominent Texas artists to A&M in the near futu for a lectufe and exhibition of his work, Terry stated. Chenault Explains Newest Ag Program W. I. Chenault, information. and public relations director of state Production and Marke Administration, spoke Tuesday night before the Marketing and Finance Club in the Agricultu Building. Chenault discussed the new gov ernment agriculture program whith goes into effect in I960, after briefly explaining the organization of the Froducrion and Marketing Administration. i I' ’ I Hy IIFiRMA A restive Galon Hall all RUR x. N GOLLOtt dience watched laat night a« 1,3 ^ talents on their pro odrama, "R. U. K” Neither the imaginative touch of director George Dilla- vou nor the robust abilities of our local thespians w^re pro- vided full and pro- act Gilchrist Is ' ii 1 i i , III - * |l j j State Lodge s Grand Warden Gibb Gilchrist; chancellor of the A&M System, was elec ted Grand Junior; Warden of the Grand Lodge of Texas Thursday night in Waco. Elected at the 114th Communi cation Itjf the Grand Lodge, Gil christ how is in the station first in the lineup that eventually leads to that ; of Grand-Master of the State lodge. ' Gilchrist will be installed this afternoori at tjje closing session Of th meet, along wdth other newly- elected grand officers. Several other College Station - Bryan area Mason* were also iristalled In of fices during this week's meetings In Wacio. P. B. Cofcir of the W. T- Austin Council of Royal and Se lect Masomi (Bryan I was appoint ed and installed as Grand Stcw-j ard of; the Grand Council of Tex as. 'lT)0|Texa8 coufici! Is the larj gest Gjrand , Councili of Royal aocf Select Masters in the world. H. il. Reinhart, I grand vlsltpr: from this district, |‘was installecj Grand Marshal of the Grand Chap-' ter of Royal Arch Masons of Tejjcj as. Harry Boyer, present mastjei the Aggie Players extravagantly wasted sturdy theatri ts on their production of Karel Capek’s moralistl , “R. U. ther the tba cnjmmio vii,, vm* iwvai kiivajiiaun j proper outlet byjCapek’s preachy three parable concerning man’s destruction of himself through visionless scientific and technical development. To be told an interesting story, to be shown interesting —r—^— ji j 4people doing interesting things — that Is what an audience wants. What its gets in "R,U.R.” Is for t.he most part a group of, tedious speeches strung together without provoking one another, mouthed by an assortment of <jharac)Lers; which is neither arresting, stipiti-; lating, or amusing. There is action, emotional ten sion, and a conflict of willsj to bo sUre. But they are of the ari-ificia! type which is more likely | to b« encountered In the Saturday serin than in respectable drabia. Fall of Mankind Briefly, the plot concerns thi misfortune that befalls mankim with the manufacture of hurrjan ro bqts. Scientist Harry Dpmln wltl five associates has carried on tl practice, originally deviled by thj materialistic Rossum w{ho <iisco' erpd an artificial life | Hub(Htani with which he could create illvlni, soulless things incapable of expi ■ rlencing emotion and fooling. Dora' In’s Idea Irt producing these r>' bots is an Idealistic one ) to relieve mankind of the burden bf work no that It may attain" the 'ultliriate Ini perfection, uhhampefed by 44lie sordid cares Of life. ' When, •beautiful, sympathetjic Helena Glbry appears ajt the Fa tory of Rossum’s Universal pots to plead on behalf iOf hutm itarian organization for’ the ces4 lion of further robot manufacture, 1 Lomtn tries to convince her of lihe necessity of riibot propagation. The end result of this 'meeting their marriage. Harry Boyer, present maatp of Sul Ross Lodge ’No. 1300, ('ol lege Station, received the degrjv of the Knights of the York Cra»; of Honour. r j- i; / , Other arch Masons present v..e state meet were J. J. Woolket| A. L. Evans, and J. F. Casey. ■‘-j i— Singing Cadets Set Trip to Hockaday . IT ( ‘ "J j | * r 'T ’ The Singing Cadets will journey to Hockaday Junior College Sat urday to sing a Tioncert and be guests for a dance following their performance, according to Bill Moss, reporter for the group. ? j Beginning at 8 0. m., the con cert will open at the Dallas girls’ school with Bill Turner, director, leading the cbdets jin Luther’s Mighty Fortress I* Our God”?ti) open the official concert season for the local choir. Beginning in a religious vein, the concert progranf will also ? inj- elude Negro spirituals, populai songs, a special Christmas grou of songs, and song’s of Aggielan Musical selections to be present ed at the. concert are the “Allej- luia Chorus,” "The Triumph o’" Time and Truth,” “Ole Man River, “Battle Hymn oft the Repub “Shadrak,” “Set Down Servarit,f’ “Iri the Still of the Night,” “I Love You,” and many others. The program will end with |Tn Rather Be A Texas Aggie,” pnd “The Spirit of Aggieland.” Railroad Man Retire^ After 48 Years Duty Sherman, Tex. bTl—W. J. fIbI has given other railroad men sonv thing |to shoot at. He retired the' other day after 48'4 years with the Frisco With out missing a day’s work. 'I Ten Years iJiler Ten years pass, each year see ng a further increape in robot po >u- lution, with a corresponding le-' dine in mankind's numbers, until at last human birth ceases a to gether. Added to 1 this,’ robots Re quire a certain amount'of sensi bility as a result of having b icn tampered with by one of Dorn n’s colleague’s at the request of Hel ena ,who pitiCs the soul-void ro bots. There ^follows then a' unlveral revolution, in which mankind is ' le-^ stroyed by the product of its o vn hand. Alquist, the builder, Is saved’ in order that he may dev se a new robot-making formula I to replace the old one, burned Jay Helena. It is Asquith, god-fearii|g, conscious of the great wrong herent in the manufacture of th: imitations of men, who moufjhB most of the moral tracts preaci by Capek, and in doing so, emerges as paralytic in his effect upon play’s pace. - j Fault Lies In | k Iay The fault with “R. U. R”, lies In the play itself,] not in production. Dillavou has done that is possible In eVoking knd contrasting what moods "R. U. R.” does have to offer with fullress and clarity. His cast, In the m a capable Jr and enthusiastic were tense with opening-night citement, tended in spots either 1 muff lines or pronounce them iso low as to be inaudible beyond ihe first nine or ten rows, and at times were slightly awkward in their stage presence. These dis crepancies should be ironed out be-, fore tonight’* performance. Particularly Impressive In he cast were Karl Wyler and Jear he Ostner, who interpret their ro es with commendable style and imag ination. Wyler a striking stiige personality, is gifted With ext -a- tfion Lhe ordinary acting Intelligence, dnd can make his body, as well as This N; ' .1 voice, count as an actor, Ostner is not only (See PLAYERS, Page 2) ~ *«»«* ctor. | Miss pretty but . . ■ ■ 2M4 1 .ji '•.v < .. i y L ■*. v,’ . . < >1 III during an Eastern tool. I r ’'i i ,' j