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Wed in Houston
William H. Thompson, sophomore
chemistry student of A Co.
A. S. A., was married to the
former Miss Jacqueline Perry in
Houston, December 22.
The ceremony was held at the
Third Presbyterian Church, with
Reverend R. P. Douglas officiat
ing.
After the wedding, a reception
was held in the home of Mrs.
Thompson’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. N. Peerry.
The couple has established resi
dence in Houston.
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D. L. “Buddy” Boyd (left) and King Egger, sen
ior members of the Town Hall staff, discuss the
night’s program with pianist Jacques Abram.
Groneman Hits News Jaci
Chris H. Groneman, hea.l of the
industrial education department,
hit the jackpot in news last week.
Groneman received first an in-
Old Newspapermen Stunned
By Death of New York Sun
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Grad School Exam
Here Feb. 3 and 4
Graduate Record Examinations,
required to enter certain graduate
schools, will be given on the cam
pus Feb. 1 and 4, according to Dr.
Walter AT Varvel, professor of
psychology.
Applications for permission to
take the examination roust be re
ceived at Princeton University be-
for|e January 21, said Dr. Varvel.
Application blanks may be obtain
ed 1 ; directly from the Educational
Teesting Service, P. O. Bob 592,
Princeton, New Jersey, or from
Dr, Varvel in room 102, Academic
Building.
y- 1 Prospective students should in-
. quire of the graduate school in
which he is interested whether or
not he \fill be required to offer
the examination in partial satis-
- faction of admission requirements.
For his second accomplishment
of the week, his seventh book, Or
namental Tin Craft, was announced
for publication .by. the Brjice Pub
lishing Company of Milwaukee.
q} Dorm 15 Student
Senatorship Open
Applications are now being tak
en for student senator for Dorm
itory 15,; Roy Nance, co-chairman
of the election committee, said to
day.
AH men Interested in applying
should turn in their applications
to Mrs. Helen Roberts in tfie Stu
dent Activities office before Jan
uary 17, Nance said.
Coastal Cops Get Woolens
Glendale, Calif. <•#>)—] letective
Capt. Walter E. Hegi’s face is as
red as the full-length all-wool
longies he received toda; > fcom a
couple of school day pals |n Texas,
but he’s grateful.
Police cars are chilly in Califor
nia’s current freeze but Glendale
Chief Carl Eggers banne 3 use of
heaters in the cars, on the ground
that officers might catch told leav
ing warm cars to make cc Id inves
tigations.
Hegi’s friends in Petersburg,
Tex., Paul Sams and “Fat” Hag-
ood, read about this situation, so
they sent him the wooliesl and a
not which said:
“We nptice that Texans are tak
ing care of Texans in New York
during the water shortage by send
ing them' plenty of good Texas
water, so we think it’s only fair
that fellow Texans who are in
frigid California should* be taken
care of also. We feel it qur Boy
Scout duty to see that you have
good, heavy underwear. Please ex
cept it With our warmest wishes.”
By HAL BOYLE
New jYork—lA 1 )—It ifc a sad and
bitter tilling to dee a great news
paper die.
And that’s the way it was last
week when the famous New York
Sun ceased publication as a sep
arate entity after more than 116
years.
Bought by publisher Roy How
ard, its good will and name will
live on as the merged New York
WorldTelegram and the Sun.
But the New York Sun as such
—the Sun ' that! Charles A. Dana
made into a national institution—
was dead. That is the way the men
and women who nut it out felt.
After the paper had been put
to bed for the last time, they
held a wake for it in a nearby
bar. It was the quietest wake in
newspaper history.
Only about a score of the edi
torial staff of 190 attended the
informal obsequies. The rest, stun
ned, had simply gone home.
An odd thing about the wake
was that few of the men and wo
men talked about how the shutdown
would affect themselves, how hard
it would be for most of them to
find new jobs Jn an overcrowded
field.
What they wanted to talk about
was their paper, the New York
Sun, which some of them had
worked on for 35 to 45 years. For
a newspaper staff, like an army,
has pride of service. And the Sun
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had been America’s first “news
paperman’s newspaper.” -
How could anything 116 years
old die?” Asked one reporter, un
believingly.
Pulitzer-prize winning reporter
Malcolm Johnson, who wrote the
story of the Sun’s sale, told them
Sigma Xi Party
Set at Parkers
The Sigma Xi Club will
hold its annual banquet at
the Maggie Parker Dining
Room at 6:45 p. m. Tuesday,
Jan. 17.
Dr. R. D. Lewis, retiring presi
dent, will give the address. Sigma
Xi members may bring as many
guests as they wish. Ticket* are
$2.00 per plate, and may be pur
chased from Charles LaMotte, Bi
ology: Walter Varvel, Education
and Psychology: Robert F. Cain,
Horticulture: Carl M. Lyman, Bio
chemistry and Nutrition; E. B.
Reynolds, Agronomy; R. H. Leroy,
Chemistry; Travis J. Parker, Geo
logy; Harold Heady, Range and
Forestry.
Dr. Bradley M. Patten, profes
sor of anatomy at the University
of Michigan, wTH speak on Tues
day, Feb. 7. He will speak on “The
First Heart Beats and the Begin
ning of the Embryonic Circula
tion.” He will show movies and
slides to illustrate his lecture.
Dr. Patten is a National Lec
turer for the Society of the Sigma
Xi Club. He will arrive in the morn
ing of Feb. 7 and be available for
conference during the day.
Anyone desiring to confer with
him should contact Dr. J. R. Couch
of the Poultry and Biochemistry
Department.
all he knew. He said the assign
mant was given to him by 70.year-
old executive editor Keats Speed,
one of New York’s best-loved edi
tors. And he said Speed wept
when he. gave it to him.
Johnson, worked all day In
secret on the story—so the Sun
wouldn't be scooped on its l«st
day. And when he handed in the
story, the city editor read the
first page, and broke into tears.
He asked Johnson if he would
like a byline.
“I told him that was a story nt
Sun reporter would want a by
line on,” Johnson said. And it
bore no byline.
The men talked at the bar about
some of the great Sun reporters of
the past—Frank Ward O’Malley
and Richard Harding Davis.
A few were bitter. They ques
tioned the management explana
tion that the Sun’s sale had been!
made necessary by rising produc
tion costs and falling circulation
and advertising revenue. These fac
tors have helped kill many met
ropolitan dalies in the last half
century.
“The papei 1 just wasn’t in touch
with the people like it., was in
Dana’s day,” said one young re
porter.
Others differed. There r were
many attempts at diagnosis. But
postmortems don’t bring anything
back to life. The Sun had set.
That was the numbing fact.
John Fuller Will
Wed Emma Galvin
John L. Fuller Jr., junior AH
major from Mason, has recently
become engaged to Miss Emma
Jeanne Galvin of Kansas City,
Missouri. •. . • -
Miss Galvin is a sociology ma
jor at Texas State College
Women at Denton, Texas.
Shock Test Shows
Bodies in Crashes
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The Air Force, using human guin
ea pigs is proving that .the hu
man body—“a leather sack with a
few bones and 14 quarts of liquid"
—can stand crashes amazingly if
properly protected.
Maj. John P. Stapp of the Medi
cal Corps, who gave the de
scription of a body in describing
tests resembling plane crashes,
said that on some runs of a rock
et-propelled vehicle running on a
track it was braked from 150
miles an hour to 76 miles an hour
in one-fifth of a second. It’s like
stopping an automobile going 75
miles an hour in nine feet.
Such sudden deceleration, he
said, can be compared with plac
ing a man under a mattress and
placing a load of four tons on him
very briefly.
Subjects Examined
After such shock tests the sub
jects were examined for changes
in pulse, temperature, respira
tion, kidney function and heart
action.
“There was no effect that would
differ materially from a brief per
iod of violent exercise,” he report-
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lor your home-town news. It is
doing a job no other newspaper
JU your second newspaper, The
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SP A&m'COLLEGIATE 4-H CLUB,
Monday, January 9, ‘7:^5 ;p. m„
Moore House, (south of ; Extension
Service bufldingB). Formeiv 4-H
Club members invited.
AGRONOMY SOCIETY. 7:30
Tuesday, Jan. 10, in A&I Lecture
room. j j
CAMERA CLUB, Monday, Jan
uary 9, 7:80 p, m., Physics Build
ing, room i 32.
ENTOMOLOGY SOCIETY,
Tuesday, Jan. 19, 8 p. j Boom
Longhorn Director
Suffers Strokes
Col. George Hurt, director of
the Texas University 'Longhorn
Band, is confined to Set9h Hos
pital, Austin, after suffering
strokes two weeks ago. fj. \ *
Doctors said he has a cerewral
disturbance and low blood pres
sure, with little strength in one
arm. He is unable to speak.
Only members of his family are
allowed to visit him.
10, Science Hall. Dr. E. F. Kipling
W, FL?GHT A, 9807th VOLUN
TEER AIR RESERVE TRAINING
SQUADRON, Monday, January 9,
7:30 p. m„ room 30f, Goodwin
Hall, Fred E. Smith and William
S. McCulley, speakers.
HANDICRAFT GROUP of the
College Women’s Sociial .Cli
Tuesday, Jan. 10, 9:30! a. i
YMCA Cabinet Room. [Etl Ruybom
of A&M Industrial Educatior
Dept: will speak.
INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION
WIVES, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 7:30 p
m., South Solarium, YMCA- Elec
tion of officers.
JUNIOR CHAPTER, A V M /
AUX- regular meeting Wednesday
night, Jan. 11, 7:30 p.ni,, 'South
Solarium, YMCA. Election of of
fleers.
S. A. M.f-Tuesday, January 10
7:30! p. in., room 301, Goodwir
Hall, Dick Price, speaker; elec
tions ‘of officers for Spring S<‘
mestpr.
SUL ROSS RESEARCH (iLUB
Wednesday, January 11, 5 L -p. m.,
steps of Agriculture Building
coats and ties or No. 1 uniform foi
Aggieland picture.
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ed.
The story of the tests, released
today by the Air Force and North
rop Aircraft, Inc., said ttye expert
ments, started in 1947,! are be
ing conducted at Edwards Air
Force Base on the desert near
Muroc. Calif. The test vehicle,
weighing 1,500 pounds, travels on
a 2,000-foot railroad-type track.
Four rockets propel it. At a point
1,250 feet from the start there are
46 sets of hydraulic brakes which
can exert a total braking pressure
of 1,056,000 pounds.
Determine Tolerance
Purpose of the tests is to de
termine tolerance of human bodies
and to develop and test equipment
for protecting crews and passen
gers involved in crash landings
or ditchings.
Northrop Engineer Geoi
Nichols said it was found that ny.
Ion yeb straps three inches wide
give much greater shock protec j
tion than the present straps used
by the Air Force, which are only
one and one-half inches wide. H4
said it also was found that the
harness needs more straps, includ
ing an additional chest strap.
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Damaged by burns, tears, moth hdles.
Work guararitetd. Agnes Tydlacka.
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each. H. B. Parks, 209 Highland Street,
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Reclamation Bureau
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Washington, Jan, d-j-tJP)—The
Bureau of Reclamation jput in a
cair for student engineers. today,
' Examination will be j given by
the Civil jService Cjommissioi
shortly after! Jan. 26. Some ap.
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