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i 7 -sr'b >- ■ • .1' i 1 1 " D • f aty Of College Stati< Official Newspa] i. M' •i. Volume 49 T: IP ■Um vli 1 ■ COLLEGE THE STATION ( "j, l T. Cadet Colonel J. T. Dotson, commander of the Artillery Regiment, and his staff reviewed the regiment Wednesday afternoon during the in formal federal inspection. Members of the in specting team witnessed the review, but were not in the reviewing stand. AFS President Praises Local Student Group The local student chapter of the American Foundry Soc iety celebrated' its first an niversary with a banquet Fri day night in Bryan. C. R. McGrail, president of the Texas Chapter of the A. F. S., one of the honor guests, congratulated the chapter on its first full year of activity. -To other guests at the anniversary banquet were_Jak* Dee, Houston, past chairman of the A. F. H. Texas (’hapterj M. J. Henley, student chapter Industrial advisor and head of the Texas Chapter's edu cation committee; and Dean H, W, Barlow, dean (4 the School of Knflneerlng, ^uTar meeting ter was held In conjunction with ittli fli a cegtilar meeting of th« chap- the banquet. Student members were- presented to the guests. Robert Jones, sen ior mechanical engineering major, gave n talk on "The Recent Grad uate Engineer’s Rlace In the Foun dry Industry." Dean Barlow discussed foundry education, and faculty advisor L. G. Berryman announced that a new foundry scholarship has been established by the Texas Chapter of the T. F. S. Films of the A&M-SMU football game climaxed the celebration. I HI BY ROGER CO! With Christmas onjly thirteen days away the Brazos County Tu berculosis Association is near the half-way mark in itt. Christmas Seal Campaign. The association hopes to raise $5,000 to aid the fight against tuberculosis. $eal sale donations t!> date stand at $2,11)4.08. Mrs. W. L. Penbertliy, chairman of the sale, is confident uf reaching tha $5,000 by Christman. The funds wljl finance the local uiociation's Tlj educational and case-finding program fur ths year. Mrs. Catherine Gt jit, publicity chairman for the drive summed up th$ Association'll convictions that copmidnlty education is the first line of defense against TB. Tlic second Important phase of the local work, the (use finding, Is!done In close coopiration with the Brazos County Piibllc Health Unit. TB suspects am brought In for chest X-ray and hospitaliza tion If possible, to protect others fr<9m the contagious disease. The funds also help to finance rehab ilitation for arrested :ases of TB. If present plans am carried out by the association the students and faculty of A&M will be included in the mass X-ray survey this coming spring. Letters, eachi containing Poop for the Profs . . . New HandboO Incoming Facu Christmas Seals, were mailed | to 7,000 residents on Nov ember 21. Much of cash now on hand was, and will continue to be, raised through a large number of small Contributions. , t j ! Through the efforts of Mrs. B. R. Hollanii, and her committee, unique Chiristijias Seal dispensers, have been pfueed in the four pharmacies in College Station, the Cave, the Campus Corner and the AAM Grill for those who wish to serve them selves in the purchase of the seals, The continued success of the cainpuign will depend upon mnir help. ! j ' : [ : ‘Europe in 1949’ Is Slated for Monday ! ■"Europe in 194ft" will be pre- iMnlMj in the YMjCA Assembly Ubom Monday, December 12, at 7:30 |p. m. The program, which w|ll be led by Mrs. Lilia Graham Bryan, is under the sponsorship of the International Committee of the American Association of Uni versity Women. Everyone in the community is incited, Mrs. Bryan concluded. '■ ' 1 i i m d), TEXAS MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1949 Aggies Meet ACC Here at 8 Tonight A&M will face Abilene Christ ian at 8 p. m. tonight in DeWare Fleldhouae as the Aggies Attempt to break into the win coliimn for the first time this year. Students whose names begin with A through M will be admitted to tqe game first. _ ' The * Cadets have droppled their first four games, but the) compe tition before whom the Aggies fell was among the best in the coun try. St. Louis’ Billikens wrire rated third in the nation last year, but the Missourians had to overcome an early deficit to edge !the Ma roons, 55-51. Niagra, University, thq second team to drop the Aggie! quintet, continues undefeated so jfar this season and lists among its victims still another SWC team, Southern Methodist. The Mustangs lost to the Buffalo team by ^ 55-47 score. Long Island University lahoma A&M, the other tjwo fives that defeated A&M, art always ranked among the top teams in the country. Last winter ,he Cow pokes rated the number and Ok- two slot BY JOHN WHITMORE The'new Hand Book for Faculty and Staff is now being distributed by the Office of the President. In this handbook is a collec tion of information compiled to tell the newcomer, and refresh the memories of the old staffers of some of the history of the school and benefits that the system of fers its employees. Within the cover of this booklet is a short course on insurance, the Texas Teachers Retirement program, and even a plug for the graduate schooL This guide was collected and com piled by R. L. "Sach" Elkins, as sistant to the president. V The opening paragraphs deal with the study opportunities avail able for the staff members who wish to take advanced work. Un der the p&*ent set up the teachers in any department, with the con sent of the head of the depart ment, may take up to four semes ter hours. This work may bo taken In addition to a regular teaching schedule. r The retirement, us explained in the booklet, is divided into three divisions. The first is a plan for modified service after a man hae reached the age of 66. If a mao has. been with the college more than ten ycart and Is over 65, he may be relieved of his administra tive duties and do part-time teach- ing. - The second division of the retire ment plan is under the Texaa Teacher’s Retirement Program. This is a state-wide program which has nothing to db with the time spent at any one school. The last retirement plan which is listed is for people coming under the Em ployee’s Retirement System of Tex- •»-. 1 An interesting note is that sev en pages’ out of 20 are devoted to Will Inform ty Members means of getting out lof work. This ipcludes retirements, hospitaliza tion, leaves of atysejnee, holidays and military leaves of absence. One of the added benefits that the A&M System gives is adding to military pay, if it is less than that the man earns while an em ployee of the college. Another interesting fact is five Ijines are devoted to remuneration, Vhile twelve lines are spent on employee charities. Ending the part on the school is a short section on the Placement Office. This tells how the office helps graduates find employment upon graduation. The last two pages are devoted tb telling the advantages of mov ing to College Station. Here are listed some of the recreational fa cilities available for college em ployees and their families. One of the choice statements made in the handbook is "living costs are somewhat lower here than in the cities and other parts of the United States.” As I said in the opening para- graph; this is a hand book for FACULTY members. One of the petroleum Kennedy, checkr professors. Dr. H. T. the faculty guide book. right behind the chan)ipion8hip Kentucky Wildcats Ags Scoring Fast The Cadets are setting |a sparkl ing scoring pace so far as they average nearly 47 points per con test. Pacing the Ags has been ag gressive guard Jewell McDowell, 5’9” speedster who was an all- state performer for Amarillo in ’47. McDowell has ripped the cords for 53 points in the four tilts. This average of more than 13 points per game puts hi|n at the top of the Cadet scorers A tight race for the second spot among the scorers has etterman forward John DeWitt bogsting 42 points and rookie soph ceiter Walt "Buddy" Davis close on his heels with 41 markers. DeWitt, a Junior wljo was a highly regarded member of the ’47 Waco team that went to the Class AA championship tourney in Austin, stands 6*4" and Is expect ed to bo one of th» Southwest’* top player* this winter, Dnvl* To Prowpject Davl*, fl’H" nolnt-mnljer from Nederland, U holding down the Center position. DeWitt w#s shifted to forward from ccntef so that the Farmers could utHIzg big Bud dy's height. Junior letterman Wajlly Moon Profs to Addifess Volunteer Reserve Harold D. Loden, of nomy Department, and :he Agro- Fred E. Smith, of the Geology Department, will speak to Flight A of the 9807th Volunteer Air Reserve Training Squadron Monday night, December 12, at 7:30 in room 301, Goodwin Hall. Loden will continue his lecture on ‘The Genetic Implications of Atomic Radiation," one part of which he gave at the last meeting; and Smith will speak oij “Military Law.” f Plans of Chapel Shown to Students Plans for the new chapel of the Saint Mary’s Catholic Ohurch will be presented at a meeting of'all Catholic students Monday, 7:30 p. m., in the C. E. Lecture Room. Executive Co-chairman of the chapel committee are Lt. Col. Wal ter O. Parsons and (J. A. Bon- nen, Agricultural Econpmics pro fessor. and veteran senior Bill Turnbow complete the starting five. Turn- bow has earned three letters and us an aggressive, experienced for ward can compete bn even terms with any man in the league. Moon so far this year has out- scored Turnbow—although the Per rin senior had been the team’s number two scorer for the last two years. Wally has meshed 27 points to Turnbow’s 9. Moon is the only out-of-stater on the squad. He is from Bay, Arkansas. i '• & ■;.• V ■j ' j 1 ' ; , •f. W. ft Help Stwap Ovt TB Num TISA Receives Offic Ratification AftAus ; i •M The Texas Intercollegiate Stu dents Association, holding thtir executive council meeting in Austin Saturday, met their own require ments for ratification, and became an official organisation. Rice Institute wired the results of their meeting in Houston, not ifying the TISA constitution. Ricfe’s ratification, the fourteenth since organization of the association, gave the necessary number lot le galizing the constitution. Ben Hammond, president of the Rice Student Council, wired) thbilr approval to the group In dfQstin, where the ratification wai an nounced at a banquet Satqrduy Meanwhile the delegation,; meet- Meanwhile the delegation,; ibeet ing at Texaa University to plan this spring's Annual Contention of the ( association, voted jrocom- mendatiph that the 1950 meet be held April 21-22 in Wucp. ; l Exact dates must be approved, however, by the Baylor University group, who received the convention 4—Pw* site by vote at last ipijlng’* bat ing. Convention dittos wore f thf atively iet‘it Saturday ter a 'motion was mn Allsup, A&M dcleguti meeting be a tw,o-duy Aggie Delegation A&M’s delegation wqs com of AUsup,, president of the tent- s melt af- Keith the ffujir. tosed Btu- Tlw plot thicken* In "R.tJ.R.", Aggie Player* production of lout week. From left to right are Jeanne Outlier, Karl "Ruckn" Wyler, George IT Wlllman, Chuck lten*holtcr, Gordon Mllnn (far rear), Vernon Berry, and Elmore "Rip" Torn, 1 !■ 1 ll<£_. Horticulture Show Begins, Produce Displayed in Sbisa f[ f- The Horticulture club’s annual show of outstanding fruits, vegc- tables, and other truck produces is being held in the East wing of Sbisa Hall tonight and. tomorrow. The show opened today at noon and will close at nine. The same schedule will be followed tomorrow night, Professor Fred Brinson, of the Horticulture Department, said today. The show wiil be divided into five main divisions, A. H. Krez- dorn, instructor of Horticulture, said. All planning and assembly of material for the show has been done by the students. As in past years, the goods exhibited will be auctioned off and the pro ceeds will be to the club. Quick Freeze One of the exhibits under can ning is a demonstration of a quick freeze unit. This unit is able to maintain a constant temperature of 90 degrees below zero. In this unit, which operates on dry ice only, about one hour is required to freeze a large package of peas, but it takes only four seconds to freeze one pea, one of the students in charge of the exhibit said. In conjunction with this quick freeze unit in an exhibit of park- ages used in freezing. This in cludes such things as paper and plastic boxes, tin cans, and. cello phane. -1 To round out the canning exhibit, an exhibit of canning procedures used in packaging fruit juices and cherries is shown. Plenty of Apples Part of the fruit division is de voted to apples. On display are 22 a * j ji 1 1 ‘I k H* different Varieties. Them} apples come from The University of New Hampshire, Purdue University, University of Connectlcutq and the University of Missouri. All of these fruits come irj)tn a college exchange program. Also) In the fruit division are two vurlities of poufs, three kinds of grapes, and one type of persimmon, r The citrus ifruit comes from the lower Rip Grande Valley. These fruits were selected by a committee (See SHOW, Page 4) New Aggie Desk Calender Inserts Now Bein$\ Sold j BY B. F. ROLAND I . The newest edition of the Aggie Calendar is now being sold; by student concessionaires. The new ness, however, refers only to the insert sheets for the 1950 edition, since the cover of last year’s cal endar is being retained on this year’s form. A standard size desk affair, it) Oilmen Told Latest Methods, Aids in Drilling Techniques Old and new method^ of oil well completion were outlined before the annual joint meeting of the Texas Sections of the American Mining and Metallurgical En gineers held on the cjimpus last week. More than 200 oil me^i registered for the two-day session Thursday and Friday. Students from A&M, Texas Tech, and Texas University were included In the registration books. "Acldisatlon has been responsi ble for a great number of im proved and more effective: comple tions in the Permian Banin as a whole," Bill R. Weaver of Midland, told the convention. "Technique is advancing at such a rapid rate that it is difficult to keep abreast of its possibilities," he said. “There is a definite place in well completion work for the ap plication of the various types of drilling piuds," R. L. Whiting of A&M anfl E. H. Lancaster of Hous ton, pointed out in a joint paper on “The Relation of Drilling to Well Completions.” "The choice of the type of mud best suifed to any given comple- iJH : i _ | i! ii tion is dependent > on < accurate knowledge of formation charac teristics such as permeability, por osity, pressure and extent of hy- dratahle material present. "Published data on comparative productivity indices substantiate the benefits to he derived from the un of oil emulsion and oil-base where comparatively unfavorable formalin conditions are known to exist. "Further progress on the drill ing fluid phase of well completion technique is the joint responsibility of the reservoir specialists, mud engineers and the operators," the paper pointed out., Cementing Techniques "Laboratory and field testing of various squeeze cementing tech niques and materials revealed that many improvements could be made in squeeze cementing Operations," George C. Howard and C. R. Fast of Tulsa, Okla., pointed out in a joint paper. “The use of a slow-pumping squeeze cementing procedure per mitted the control of the quantity of cement displayed into forma tion and aided in obtaining a high final squeeze pressure. "Field testing indicated the de sirability of obtaining high final squeeze pressure, the need for im proved fornfation breakdown fluids 1 and the necessity of I con trolling the pressure differential after a squeezo job," it was iwint- ed ou l Diamond Bit* Robert F. Todd of tljc Core Laboratories, Inc., DallaC ih an addresk on "Diamond Bit Coring" said that "at the present time specia equipment 1* being designed for the use In slim-hole diamond coring in Wildcatting unproven areas. It is only a matter of time that slimhole diamond coring equipment will be available to core to a depth of lb,000 feet at a cost greatly reduced from the now ex pensive large holes. This equip ment is being, so designed to take core from grass root to total depth. During the past few years the min ing industry has stink holes, less than three inches in diameter to deptk of 10,000 feet with the use I See OILMEN/ Page 2) Mil d • j f l . i:-. u contains days ahd dates, fcpatfe for day-by-day data, pictures of yearly events (normal or other wise), and isage comnfients pn the monthly doings in these parts. Student publication’s artist Ken neth Marajk is responsible for some rather pleasing art and picture lay out and Commentator Editor Mack T. Nolen takes blame for the short and appropriate bits of copy spaced thrpugh-out the book-like calendar. || 1 -T . The calendar, unlike jast year’s edition,ris pot being sold or spon sored by the Senior Glass. It is strictly a student concessions’ pro duct being: sold by student con cessionaires under the direction of sales manager Fred Hambright. A complete calendar, including the maroon leatherette: cover, will sell for $1.60. Refills: for those who already have a suitable cover will sell for $.76. A mailing cover will be included with !each culen* di i-| . f Pictures included In:the range from strictly social, military, or! sporting scene* through a few shots of the lighter am} more spon taneous events of an Aggie year. The very u*eful little booklet U alio available through the Asso ciation ofilrormer 8tu$ent* and at the Student Actlvltlci) Office. H—[ “V jU ■■ ■ '■ - v{" jj — ' volunu ,jtriias Column Planned tnnounc- cheduled igin in’ The Battalipn Wednes day, the ico-editors jsaid today. All dubs wishing to inake dance announcements In this column asked to report $hem to The holt** Battalion office. ■!: T i •f ■ dent Senate; Dan Daviji, vice-jpres- ident of . the TISA; and Joe Ful ler, Student Senate piirliuimntar-j ian. - \ ■ / ' . ] i • Allsup was appointed cha rmnn of the committee which will plari panel discussions to be i held ut the spring convention of | the TISA. Most of Saturday’s meeting was taken up with discussion (f the vkrious topics which wqre su fgest- ed for the panels. .< • • i Among these topics kerc ssvdral brought to the floor bjf the A&M contingent. Cumpui chest charity drives, out-of-state panels, Taquf- ty-student relationship, and others were suggested by the threje-mun Aggieland delegation. Fuller suggested coordination of the TISA with the Americah As sociation of University Profissors, the Council of Dfeansj and other bodies representing faiculty > and staff groups, in order to nmintian u high degree of cooperation tmong these groups and the studeht as sociation. ■ I J • I•) r r/ V* \ AUsup Takes Vote As committee chairman for [panel discussions, Allsup \^ill take a vote by mail 6f topical to be iHSted 1 on the 1950 convention agenda. Other subjects requested for dis cussion in the spring were i dis placed persons committee, j fine arts program, an intercollegiate ... book exchange, faculty evaluation, and sanitation protection, fc'rom jA; these topics, Allsup'* committee / will Melect from ‘aix io ten--by a vote of member schools—o bo discussed in April, Jim Siefkes, Trinity Unlv»r«lty delegate, said ut Sattuday night’s banquet that he wmild intioduce i a resolution at the spring njnven- tion to pet mil Negro student us- Noctutiun* to enter the T1.HA, ac cording to the Dally jl'exin. * it the afienioon meet, Hlefke* hud brought the subject IP ~ "Suppose u negro (jollege a mlled now," sold Bill Huihuwuy, [trlu- i Ity delegule, "We could not) deny admit l ance o n constltutlonul grounds.’’ * TlMA's constitution stated that any Tcxns school offering two or more yeurs of College work lend ing to u degree muy apply fjir ad mission. Admission, will be granted the applying school by a minority' vote of the association. Argument, Closed With the argument never bipenm- ing a motion, Dick Bamaby, TISA president from North Texas State, proceeded with the meeting U|hmi a call for “order of the day" by Peggyi^rowder of North Texas. A&M’s delegation! was housed at the Theta Xi fraternity houiie. Ellis Brown, president of the Texas U. student body, was toast master at Saturday night’s ban quet, with Barnaby giving the in vocation. Featured speaker, fdi' the evening was Judge Ralph Yar borough) Texas! University sponsored the executive council’s meet, arranging for housing, meals, and datek for visiting delegates. MfCA, the Men’* Independent Campus* Association of Texas University, extended in vitations to the delegates to 'their annual Christmas formal ball; Sat urday night after the banquet. — ■ -■»-T" 1 j] , • ■) ! Camera Club Sets Officer Election There will be a nailed meetiri the Camera Club In Room 33, iPhy- sics Building, on Mcjnday, Decem ber 12th at 7:30 p. to George P. Bristow ident. .The purpose of the meeting ia to re-elect officers and to discurit the choice of equipment for thA jlark- room ip the Memorial Center next year. . iV] — i 1 " i—j"- ■■ ■. i Shakespeare Pty Planned Thursday "The Taming of the Shrew,by William Shakespeare, will be ji>re- Mnted on the stage of Gulon Hall, Thursday, December 16, at $ p. m., according to C. Gv "Spike" White, assistant dean of student* for activjities. The Shukesptearcan production will be given by the National (jluss Theatre, under the auspice* oft the Student Activities Offic* herd Clgre Tree Major, founded of the theater group, is directo)! the production. The National ic Theatre brought another St speare play . to A&M last “Romeo and Juliet" T m., according acting] Pres- •V ' pjHH T'*; v iiiiA I