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ft ! 7 '•rv' : •’ V' -/ 5T ^ , City Of College Station Official Newspaper 7< l I: • . * . J ] \ ' Volume 49 :■ i Standardized Arms, Training Program Told London, Dec. 20 UP)— Britain, the United States, and Canada announced today a plan for standardizing their arms and military training. The program ia aimed at cor recting and eliminating technical differences which interfered with cooperation of the three powers in two World Wars. Its purpose is to permit swift integration of their men and arms into a' smoothly-functioning mili tary machine in event of another international conflict. The British ministry of defense said technical experts of the three countries have been working op stamlurdixatlon since 1047. Th*y have made considerable progress in preliminary studies, It is known, uiul have made recommendations for standardisation of certain key weapons. LeftlNt force* In Britain opposed this cooperation, and in parliamen tary debates called the move to ward, arms standardisation an ag- presslve weapons aimed at Soviet Ruesia. In connection with the standard- fixation studiesjjthere have been frequent exchanges of military per sonnel between the two nations on operational levels. American pilots have been as signed to study British jet bomb ers. At the same time British and Canadian officers have worked in developing American planes. Sim ilar exchanges have been made in the other branches of the armed Bernices. ' 5 ; iT* 'PS •If • v7.i \ Hi i! I . I PUBLISHED V' ■"! r-p' -i! - f 1 ■ ■ r'p GREATER COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, ■ur^n.ivipiL.n. ^u, Banning of Off-Campus Midnight Yell Practice Asked by Student Life k, i , -r COLLEGE jtiL A I r v tie* i U 'i ! r 17 I! Demonstrating the pre-holiday “E” Flight Air Force decorate i red crepe paper, colored lights, stmas spirit. Sophomores of Iteir Dorm 6 hall with green and tinsiL Corps Has Annual Christmas i ■ ' j ' | 1 .• % L ipwfi J Meal inDuncanHall Tonight J a • BY DAVE COSLETT ; ' Duncan Hall takes on that un- : accustomed quiet Atmosphere to night at the Cadet Corps tackles the annual Christmas Dinner, dcheduled to hit the plates a little after 6:30 p. m. Included in the Yule-tide offer ing will be assorted fruits roast turkey with cornbread dressing, giblet gravy, cranberry sauce, can died sweet potatoes, green peas, lettuce with 1,000 Island dressing, celery and olives. Beverages will include both cof- fee and milk. Top-off treat for the night will be mince pie. Definitely not a snack affair,. the meal will offer gobbler ga lore to the diners. Cadets have been alloted a pound of turkey apiece. Other delicacies have been figured in quarter-pound allot ments. ] Averaging about 25 pounds apiece, the birds contributing meat for thr. meal have been adjudged by - Director of Subsistence J. G. Peniston as some of the finest the college has ever bought. Food will not be the finest holi day treat around Duncan. Christ mas decorations, furnished by mess-hall employees, will be add ing to the jfestive atmosphere. Thq gigantic‘tree in the center of the hull was furnished by the Land scape Art Department. Mainly responsible for the other decorations is head waiter L. D. Treveno who directed all the extra work. He, and the other Duncan workers, did a great deal of work on their own time. They even trudged to the woods to gather the boughs with which they fashioned almost profes sional decoration theme. The ^ meal will jbe eaten by candle-light. Candlesj are being fur nished by the student , waiters. Some student waiters also plan to decorate their tables. Joining the new-area troops at the soeclal cho\V will be residents of Hart Hall. ‘ •=- : The special guest list for the A, i / I TrunianHomeward Bound For Meet BY ERNEST B. VACCARO Key West, Fla., Dec. 20 bT>— PresidentTruman took a last dip in the waymj waters of the Gulf yes terday before heading back to Washington for a hot fight for the “fair deal” He flies to the capital at 7:45 a. m. (CST) Tuesday to make a quick surVey of the legislative out look and imeet with his cabinet at 9 a. m. Thursday. He’ll talk over with the cabinet the all-important “state of the un ion” message to be delivered per sonally to adjoint Senate-House session-Jgn. 4-or 5, was well as the budget and economic messages. , Final decisions are yet to be made on whether to recommend repeal of War-time excise taxes and the' levying of hew taxes on cor poration profits to offset an anti cipated deficit. night includes military and staff officials from all’^departments of the college. Eating with the corps will be Colonel and Mrs. H- L. Boatner; Dean and Mrs. Ide P. Trotter and their children, Ide, i Jr. and Ben; Library Hours Are Announced p- [ J Holiday hours for Cushing Memorial Library, the Texas Engineers’ Library, and the Veterinary Library were an nounced today by Robert A. House, acting librarian, f* V Cushing Library will maintain the following schedule:; j Friday, Dec. 23—Closed at 5 P- m. Saturday, Dec.'24--ClMtd. Sunday, Dec. 25—Closed. Monday, Dec. 26—CloNeA- Tuesday, Dec, 27 to Friday. Dec. 30—Open from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. Saturday, Dec. 31—Open from 8 a. m. to 12 noon. |[ 1 j Sunday, Jan. 1—Closed. ’ The Engineers’ and Veterinary Libraries will close bfginning at 5 p. m. Friday, Dec. 2a, and re main closed through Sunday, Jan. i. - T For freshmen at the 'A&M An nex, the library will close at 5 p. m. Thursday, Dec. ^22, and remain closed through Monday, Jan. 2, House concluded. Genetics Authority Arrives January 1 ap „te arm visi nd: Dr. Anton Lang, an outstand ing authority in the genetics of photoperiodism, will arrive on the campus Jan. 1 as a visiting pro fessor in agronomy and genetics. Lang is a member of the De partment of Genetics ■ at McGill University in Montreal,] Canada rainin; n «n< . search at the Kaiser Wilhelm In- He received his training University Of Berlin dnd at the did re stitute in Germany. Dr. Lang will give k series of lectures under a special course title of “Special Topics in : Genetics,” and will hold individual consulta tion with the local staff, and in itiate research on photoperiodism in cotton. Recent developments in European research in genetics 'and plant physiology will be discussed in his classes. Navarro County Club Holds Dance Dec. SO The Navarro County Club w 11 have i their annual All-Colleg* Dance in Corsicana, at the, Corsi cana Country Club on December 30, L. T. Copper, president of the club said today. f ) Arrangements for “ will be completed this er said. The dance, formal, will last nor a. m. | --i ' i T . J Col. and Mrs. Joe Davis; the Rev erend H. L. Logan; Dean and Mrs. W. L. Penberthy; Bennie Zinn, President and Mrs. F. C. Bolton; Dean and Mrs. J. P, Abbott; Vice- Chancellor and Mrs. D. ; W. Wilr hams;.and Colonel and'lfMHhmnk Si Vaden. Also among the special guests will be Mrs. John H. Kelly; Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Spence; Colonel and Mrs. M. P. Bowden; Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Peniston; Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Holzmann; E. L. Angell; Dean and Mrs. M. T. Harrington; Dean and Mrs. H. W. Barlow; Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Heaton; and Mr. and Mrs! Grady Eunk ' Denfeld Rejects itlantic Command Washilngton, Dec. 20 Ad miral Louis E. Denfeld, ousted chief of navil operations, has de clined the post of commander in chief of naval forces in the East ern Atlantic and Mediterranean. He turned it down In a stinging letter to Secretary of the Navy Matthews which the Navy made public today. In the letter, Denfeld recalled Matthew’s statement, made when Denfeld was removed as Chief of Naval Operations, that Denfeld was not loyal to his superiors and did not have proper respect for auth ority. jl . . . A recommendation to discon- Unue off-campus midnight yell practices was unanimously ap proved by the Student Life Com mittee yesterday afternoon and sent to the Academic Council. The action came after more than an hour pf discussion by members of the committee. Advantages and disadvuntugei of off-campus mid night yell practice* were presented before the vote was taken. Reasons Given Severs! reasons for recommend ing abandonment of the off-cam pus midnight yell practices were listed by the committee in a spec ial report. They included: “1. For at least the past three years there hove been frequent fights and injuries as outgrowths of every midnight yell practice awav from the campus. The death of an Aggie is inevitable. “2. Much unfavorable publicity has been directed against the col lege and the student body as a result of diftturbances attendant to midnight yell practices off the cam pus. “3. Midnight yell practices off the campus |have become increas ingly unpopular with civic, busi ness, and former student groups. The recommendation of the Stu dent Life Committee will now be sent to the Academic Council for' consideration. Aggie Dance Possible The possibility of a free Aggie dance to be held the night before corps trip football games will be investigated by the Social and Entertainment Committee of the Student Life Committee. A motion to consider the ad visability of such a dance was made after the recommendation to discontinue off-campus midnight yell practices was passed. Recommend More Holidays The committee recommended to tRr Academic Council that Christ mas holidays next year extend from Dec. 16 until Jan 3. The re commendation came after several plans for longer years-end vaca tions had been offered. This action was the direct re sult of a resolution approved by the Student Senate at its last meeting. Who’s Who Committees Two committees were named to make preliminary arrangements for selecting candidates for the 1949-1950 Who’s Who awards. Doyle Avant, colonel of the corps, will head the committee to choose nominees from the cadet corps. Hal Stringer,-Student Sen ate committeeman*, will serve as chairman of the committee to make rominees from the non-military student group. Both committees were asked by Chairman Dr. Ralph Steen to pre sent their plans for making selec tions at the next committee meet ing. Yell bender Responsibility A request for clarification of the Student Life Committee’s position in regard to the responsibilities of the yell leaders was approved and sent to the Academic Council. A yell leader’s policy, signed eaijier this year by Gienn Koth- man, head yell leader; Barlow nes” Irvin, athletic director; W. L. Penberthy, dean of stu dents, states that yell leaders shall be resjponsible to the Student Life Committee. Several incidents involving yell leaders occurred this year and were not) < referred to the Student Life Committee. Because of the state ment in the yell leader's policy, the Welfare and Recreation sPb- committee recommended a clarifi cation of authority from the Aca- deijnic Couhcll. Job Clinic Support of the student body for u proposed Job Clinic was recom mended to the Student Life Com mittee by W. R. Horsley, director of the placement service. the clinic would Rring leading Football Gates Increase Over ‘48 Attendance New York, Dec. 20 UP) — Despite a marked decline in the attendance figures of oth er major sports, college foot ball crowds showed a surpris ing 1.3 per cent increase this year over the bumper turnouts of 1948. An Associated Press survey of 88 major schools disclosed the eqst fell 3.5 and the far west 2.2 per cent from the figures of 1948. All other sections of the coun try were up. The Southwest, with Southern Methodists’ weekly jam session lending a big hand, rose 2.1 pep cent. The 88 institutions this year played 444 games, drawing a total of 12,398,157 customers. Last year, the sftme school, in 443 home games, attracted 12,005,625 fans. Michigan, the national leader, lured a total of 563,500 fans for six games, an astounding average of 93,917. Southern Methodist, playing in t;he spacious Cotton Bowl, was sec ond in total attendance with 484,- 0p0 fans for eight games, an aver age of 60,500. Southwest figures showed: ] SMU: 1949—8 homes games, 484,000; 1948—5 home games, 256,- 981. ] Texas: 1949—5 home games, 203; 1949—6 home games, 330,750. Rice: 1949—6 home - games, 152,913; 1949—6 home games, 159,- 694. A&M: 1949—6 home games (in cluding Texas Tech game), 143,000; 1948—3 home games, 62,000. Arkansas: 6 home games, 111,- 000; 1948—7 home games, 139,000. TCU; 1949—5home games, 116,- 500; 1948—4 home games, 94,000. Baylor: 1949—4 home games, 53,116; 1948—4 home games, 61,- 490. Totals: 1949—39 home games, 1,263,629; 1948—35 home games, 1,103,397. figures in business, engineering, and agriculture to the campus for a series of lectures on job possi bilities. 1], “We can develop a worthwhile job clinic if we have the support of the Student Senate, the Stu dent Life Committee, and the stu dent body,” Horsley said, Such a clinic would probably take from one to three days, Hors ley continued, with the longer lo'd only if all three major fields ught at A&M were represented. “Industry is very much in favor of such clinics,” he concluded,” ami is willing to send representa tives and exhibits here at their own expense.” j !!]; The commltU* expressed its full support of the plan and a commit tee will be appointed by Chairman Steen to work with Horsley. Traffic Committee Two recommendations Were sent to the Traffic Committee of the Academic Council by the Student Life Committee. The first culled for investigation of a plan to establish fifteen ihi.n- ute parking areas near Goodwin Hall, the Exchange Store, and the Administration Building. The proposed parking areas would be open to all drivers, both iStudents gnd others, who had busi ness to transact at any of these locations. The committee recom mendation included a Suggestion that one cent parking meters be used in these special parking areas. The second recommendation was to move the bus stop from in front of Aggieland Inn. Committee mem bers pointed out that the narrow traffic lane at that location is further restricted when the Bryan- College Station bus is parked in front of the Inn. nqqiflfl/nd (Mfkski cMst/rms kip l l Here ia the acheduled route of the Aggieland Orchestra’s annual Christmas musical safari. Beginning in Galveston on Dec. 23, they will go, by bos, on their looping tonr np Into the pan- • \'| 1 I ' ! • ■ ' . i handle, back state, and country i back through id finally back and College Bt the mid west to the South part Texas of the brush r 7 Gent Studies Union Building Chris F. Gent, assistant di rector and business manager of the Memorial Student Cen ter, returned Sunday after a 13 day visit at student un ions in three states, j' Gent visited the Memorial Un ion of the University Of Wiscon sin at Madison, the Michigan State College Union at East Lansing, and Purdue Memorial Union at Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana. _ The purpose of Gent’s trip was to study business procedure, gen eral financial control, and build ing maintenance that might prove beneficial to the operation of the Student Union here. Of, the unjon buildings, visited, Gent said that the most exceptional unions Were at Wisconsin and Pur due, Michigan State has problems of a now, organization that has been in operation only a short time. The method of how to fit busi ness operations with social pur poses so that a wider use may be made of available facilities by the students is a nroblom that con fronts all student unions, Gent concluded, j Candidates Filing For Agriculturist Applicants interested in filing for the position of editor of the Agriculturist may now do so in the office of Roland Bing, manag er of student publications. The editorship, now held by Jim Park, Will be vacated ip January when Park graduates. A candidate for the editorship of the Agriculturist must be in the school of agriculture, have a grade point ratio Of 1.25, be taking at least 12 hours of work, have one years experience with the publi cations, Junior classification, and serve out the school year if elect ed. Applications must be filed in Bing’s office before Jan. 9. The agriculture council will make the final selection for the ieditorsKip, I; i .Jip f Ff; ‘‘. f ^ L: ' : ' •• , / _ Help Stamp Oet II '■.7 Number 65 — ■ l4.» -MB No doubt hoping that Rant* holidays, thrrk cadets from K Flight Veterans put the final Uhk on their outfit’s (Christmas tree. Ffom left to right am Marsl Rutherford, company iromn ' V '' -l College Employees Feted Tomorrow p. m. in j:j i\- J . in recog- -.fe Newton Elected NAM Director j John W. Newton, viwe-president 6f the A&M Board of directors, has been elected to the board of di rectors of the National Associa tion of Manufacturers. Newton is a graduate of A&M and is also vice-president and manager of Magnolia | Petroleum Co., Beau mont. Of the 35 new members of the board, only two are from Texas. The other director from Texas is W. W. Lynch, president and gene ral manager, Texas Power and Light Co., Dallas. ' ill 1 ; j); ni Twenty-three persons who haye been employed by the A&M College for 25 years or more will be hon or guests at the annual Christmas dinner party for employees of the college, Dec. 2l (l 7:1,5 Cbisa Hall. Pins and certificates! nition of long years of service Ito the college will be awarded to the 23 honorees a't the dinner. Gibb Gilchrist, chancellor of the A&M System, is to deliver the m^in ad dress of the evening. ( A. B. Jolley of the Extension Service at Dallas, wilj serve pa master of ceremonies. More than f00 new employees will also be honor guysts at the Christmas dinner. Reverend Nor man Anderson of the First Pres byterian Church will deliver the in vocation. Dean H. Vf. Barlow gnd his faculty orchestra will j furn|sh music for a Special daneje to i be held after the dinner “and the Singing Cadet$ are to: present a program of Christmas songs, i On the certificates will be Merry Christmas Store for European Paris, •A’i—Western Europe due for the merriesf Christrtia.s slqce the war. | Food rationing has] practically disappeared, except in Britain Seandinjavia a«d The But “nockethook rat it* L You |cuw b|uy all Methemnd*. oning” has t{he Christ- in Franco— at about $1 a pound. That imikcs a 10-pound bind cpst the average m ‘ taken it* phic*. 4»y if mas turkey you w*nt workingman ‘In iearly u week’* elgium, Swe ti" : following: • " “Like other institution*, A&M College is the “lengthening shad ow” of the men and women who have given it devoted an< able service. Those wno have rVt 'd the college for a quarter of pi cen tury or more havl* been the nost important forces in director its development, and shaping its char acter. i “We' therefore, as friends fellow workers, do hereby ey to (name of person being host 0ur gratitude and appreciatio; 25 years of loyal, fruitful for our college and for us, and our sincere wish foy years of ([oiif ued happinjess and helpfuln|ess >> 1 and kfress red) ui for bor 'mankind. Signed: Frank C. Bolton L ] T8SJ ■ The 24 honorees are as ri>ll)ws: Miss Ruth Lord, former sec retary to the. dean of the Gradua School; Dr. J. E. Marsh, pile; hospital; Willie G. Barrow, An|ma Husbandry Department; Dip I Smith, Physics Department; H0me K. Rea, Agronomy Departnient James P. Burrell, B&CU Depart ment'; Miss Josephine McCall, Agj- rieultural Experiment Sthtion; 1) F. L. Thomas, Entoniblog'y Der ment; J. R. Quimby, Agricjull Experiment Station; and Mi|M Cooper, Agricultural (Service. Louis A. Fridel, Hubsistailce D partment; Isidro Sulaiii- tency Department; Silver W|hit*ctjt, College Station; Jt A. Barton, Ballinger; G. J. Lobe, Paducah; J. O. Mossbcrg, Comer; Miss Muj gie Peach, Cantonj^W. 1. Ross, Murliij; J. 8- Mayo,. Prairie View; Lynlal Ward, College Station; a! m mi- bers of the Agricultural Ejjiten^ojn Service. > R. E. Snugga, Chemistry Pena mentp Julhp S. Biazek, yetfri ary Research Farm; add Ifyihi Dorsey, B&CU Depiirtmenjt. I ,7 (. j * Gil i> ‘H 1 ' 1 11111 'jj 1 Schools Inadequa For State Childr Austin, Tex. IA 1 )— An nuthoril on training mentally defect’ children said here he ha|s foji; children id state schools "star France, Italy, Bel den and Western'. Qe^many, <ven the few rationed! items are plenti fully aVailabfe op mope or leasj le gal "free markets." Rationing is, still toughest in Austerity - minded Britain, but quantities have been raised some what in the past ye*r and there are special allotment* for Christ mas. Food Minister John Strarh^y* promises a “limited quantity’'’ pork, hithertolalrpost unobtaipL... , His office added that there Wpuld [ the Arizona Childheh’s Cqlbn be far more fowls thijs year than last. Poidtr - is on free sale, but expensive. j m-|J ; j.; ■. Norway, like Britain, still ra tions meat, butter, marg* nnO, eggs, sugar and coffee, but Spec ial Christmas! allotments wil be enough for an>«d fashioned loli- day. * 71/T Denmark still!has some restric tions too, though fewer than Nor- dfiJ tp death for training.” nobtain*ble. J. Thomas MclntSre, dinecio way. I Italians are looking forwari to a boost ih their economy from loly Year visitors, jto help pay for -heir unrationed but expensive Christ mas cheer. The; first groups of pilgrims are already arriving. i 4- hffH i Students On m' Steve-Linds, sey, and Bill round table methods and hog lice over at 12.45 Thu 22. This is an* farm progra ricultural Edu x a »ns of contnlling Jio sUtion WTAW t ! n Mb . >ekly majors i Phoenix, Ariz., re Hospital • Board Kelly that the coridition from shortage of personnel at| f in January sports U the be available 7 until early in J; written reports would not in December or ea Mclntire also age bf recreation rooips in, all three tions he visited. All schools studied were overcrowded, he 'said. Mclntire said he found tutions clean, the food care f |at to no ts institutions. He visifed th* Ads jin State School, Mexia State School and the Abilene State Hospital and School. | j -! His survey,was one of a rum- j her requested by the board in its “program to improve-cond tions at 1 eleemosynary institutions Kelly said a Dei), 19 meeting of the board woulcf bc postponed bee kuse surveys ntil mbnth. rted ;a\*hQrt- litics and < ay f thq inntiltu- is clean, the food good of the children good. He said he foupd “astuuneji: people on tjhe ly employes and would ta few” trained peo; but found many wanted to learn all linsti- *nd fl training offered % .iV'i; L:„il 7 ! -