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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
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COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, ■ur^n.ivipiL.n. ^u,
Banning of Off-Campus
Midnight Yell Practice
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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-
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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,
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holidays, thrrk cadets from K Flight Veterans put the final Uhk
on their outfit’s (Christmas tree. Ffom left to right am Marsl
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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. '
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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
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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
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“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
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'mankind.
Signed: Frank C. Bolton
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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.
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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-
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Denmark still!has some restric
tions too, though fewer than Nor-
dfiJ tp death for training.”
nobtain*ble. J. Thomas MclntSre, dinecio
way.
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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.
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sey, and Bill
round table
methods and
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at 12.45 Thu
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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
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to
no
ts
institutions. He visifed th* Ads jin
State School, Mexia State School
and the Abilene State Hospital and
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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
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