' / * ' ; !i h City Of College Station I Official Newspaper n ii \ \mr M F- V ■' PUBLISHED ’ ’1 attalio INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE | ___ GREATER A&M COl COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY llj 1950 . w i 1 - ■ •„ iij Nation's Top Collegiate Daily NAS 1949 Survey Volume 49 Buddy Hits Letter On Guion Charges A profit and joss statement for Guion Hall.-durihg the two years ending August 31, 1948 and August 31, 1949, showed that Guion Hall made a total profit of $200.54 for the two years, or .68% of its total operating income. The statement Was released by Tom Puddy, Guion hall manager, in answer to an open letter to “students .and othetrs concerned with Guion hall” fr.om Jack Farr, owner of a local drive in theater. In the letter, printed in yester day’s Battalion as a paid advertise ment, Farr had stated that Guion has “a low operating ^ost, util ities, building, and maintenance . . . furnished by the State of Tex as.” T - After reading the statement, Puddy said Guion pays its own power and light bill, from its own profits, with no Help from state funds. Guion Theater also pays its shareUf the upkeep of its build ing, Puddy said, including paying for seats, carpets, its box office and i its bill boards. Citing the large percentage dif- • -ference between the 30c tickets at Guion and the 40^ charged at Farr’s theater, Puddy said that Guion Theater operates at as near the “breaking even” point as it is possible to estimate. Defending Guion’s box office prices, Spike White, assistant dean of students said, "In line with Guion theater’s often-stated policy of running the best available sec ond run pictures at the cheapest available prices, we can’t book films any cheaper without going to much older and more inferior films*” ' , , To counter balance his $200 one- year profit, Puddy cited his operat ing expenses for the month f of October (1949), which showed Guion Hall $210.23 in the red.i “How close can you cut it?” Puddy asked, indignantly. Puddy also listed several rea sons, which he called “peculiar to an A&M theater’^, and which made Guion profits slimmer. “Our attendance numbers flue* tuate a great deal because of ball games, reviews, and other col-i lege functions”, Puddy said. “Eleven times, during the months of September, October and Novem ber (1949), we were closed be cause of .Town Hall shows, the Cadet Commissioning exercising. It’s Confusing At Twice the Price The Battalion. had the wrong Price yesterday. It was a front page story, however, and not fi nances, that caused the confusion. R. J. “Dick” Price, a Dallas automobile dealer, spoke to the SAM, Tuesday. Dr. Ri H. Price, a South Texas director of an oil concern, spoke to the AICHE*_also on Tuesday. On Tuesday’s ffont page, we ran a picture of Price-* No. 1 over a story on Price No. 2. | One of the stories on one of the Prices was written by R. E. Price, ai Battalion feature writer. What price confusion ? Theology Students ToJSpeak at Annex Richard Ryan, of the, Austin Pjresbyterian Theological Seminary, will be guest pastor Sunday morn ing- at the chapel of the Texas A&M Annex, he said here today. It will be the third time since September that Ryan has occupied the pulpit. A native of Seguin, Ryan is a graduate—°f the University -of Texas arid is currently seeking the Bachelor of Divinity degree from Austin Seminary, where he is a ji>cond-year student. a show by the Singing Cadets, and other functions. Only two of these shows paid for the use of J the au ditorium." Guion Hall is cleaned, heated, and ready for any college aetjivity at any time, Puddy added, which is a care-taking and servipe function that few other theaters offer. After discussing GUion’s new sound equipment an(^ their movies, which, he described as “pre%>m- inantly College Station first runs”, Puddy said his financial statements were open, to inspectioh at all times. ( ! • ’ Boy Struck By Car On Campus, Injuries Light Charlie (Skippy) Cad6 III, son of Charlie Cade Jr,, man ager of the Charlie Cade Mot or Company, was hit; by a car on Houston Street, back of Bizzeil Hall yesterday after noon at 2:30. Skippy was being taken to an art class in Bizzeil Hall by Theo dore Banks, employee of Cade Motor Company, when he was hit. Banks let him out on the right side of the street facing south. As Banks pulled away from the curb, the boy ran out from be hind the car into the path of an approaching automobile' dpiven by Mrs. Thomas Angel, wlidse hub- band is a junior veteringiy medi cine major living in 'I’ifuiler vil lage. - Though Mrs. Angel Was going very slowly, she ' said Skippy ran in front of hef- so suddenly that she was unable to stop sopiji enough to avoid hitting him. j - ‘ The college ambulance carried the seven-year-old boy tp (the col lege hospital where he w^s exam ined and X-rayed. After exam ination of superficial bruises, Skip py was taken home by hi? father, more frightened than hurt; Emergency State Calle After Rabid Doa Scar Early Morning Blaze Destroys Building “B” Wire Outa Whack, No News in Back Price Say Sharin “Profit sharing should start with the - man who sweeps fldors and continue; up through the business organization,” R. J. “Dick” Price, Dallas automobile dealer, told the This Texas cutie in sporting at tire—she’s been fighting off homo sapiens during a crosstown trek—is appearing as a remind er that seniors must make reser vations for Vanity Fair nomin ations by Saturday, January 14.; in ! The Battalion rather startling The AP wire office emitted new? yesterday. From early morning until the wire; service discontinued at 3 p. m., the machine pounded out the following hews items: <•23-4059 $ (%) * 3—&& O'^BK/rez... —&-*^: ART DWWR RTTGJLLIJNNE SED D 4& $$$. Wire copy is being forwarded to the Army Security Agency vhere, Charles Kirkham, wire editor/said. Profit ill Work During the supper profit bonus checks are distributed. Benefits frhm his plan, Pricje, said; include an exceedingly low rate; of employee turnover. “They Management last night/ “With everyone participating —j helping themselves and their employers— everybody gains in profit shar ing,” he continued. Price, a former student lof A&M, businessman, and an active civic leader in Dallas spoke upon pro fit sharing in a small | business using his own company s/s an ex ample. He defined profit) sharing as “a prearranged ‘formula for sharing of a company’s profits.” Using a “simple, direct method” he said that he has fouhd profit sharing a means for better em ployee moral (absenteeism, we don’t have it), lower pperating costs by cutting out wastjes, and a great personal satisfaction. The plan Price outlined as usjed by his company gives 25% of j company profits each month,, to employees. Each employee receives j a share proportionate to his earnings in relation to the total payroll that month. A company party is held each month with a buffet supper served for employees and them families. , * ctv*; yji. tuiuuvci. X Advancement of like; their jobs and feel a part of What a Relief! ... .—.—i "V Helen Grayco Vocalizes, Taritilizes in Jones 9 Shi By CHESTER CRITCHFIELD Helen Grayco, alias Mrs. Spike Jones, is the only member of Spike’s “Musical Depreciation Revue of 1950” who ^doesn’t have to squirt seltzer bottles, ring cow bells, throw pies and shoot off guns. . Why, just take a look, bub, and you will see what makes those guys in Spike’s outfit behave the way they do. “Some shows have what they call 'comedy relief.’ ” explains Spike. “Well, Helen is our relief fronj comedy.” The luscious Helen ha* what comedian Doodles Weaver de scribes as “the type personality that all she has to do to enter tain y«n ' 8 just stand there.” Strangely enough, this type of talent* always seems in demand around these parts. Helen is a native West Coaster, bbrn in Tacoma, Washington, and is now a resident of Beverly Hills, * i • • . • Deprecia debut in e has had California, except when Though “The Musical tion Revue” marks her the legitimate theatre, sli considerable experience sjs a song stress, having been featured with Stan Kenton and Hal McIntyre and on various radio programs Southern California. This lovely “morale specializes in torrid Latln-Amer- ican numbers and sophisticated novelty tunes, but is e?( fective with a lush ballad. Some of her numberp show include “Ca Ca -You Can’t Bo W/roiig Dbingi Right,” “Words and Music” and a, satrical novelty numbei “If I were President.” Spike’s better half w with his show in Thursday, Jan. 19. Theie will be one performance at 6:45] p.m. and another at 9:00 p.m. now be obtained at Activities Office. ually ef- romantic on the £a rumba,” the Company,” he skid. Pince opened his talk with ;a few remarks on going into busi ness for yourself. “Get a profes sion, a field of work you want to folldw and learn it well,” he ad vised- “You are only as efficient : (See PRICE, Page 4) The two-story eight-room frame building housing two classrooms, two laboratories and "tour offices of the Business and Accounting Department in the “Boom Town” temporary building area was badly damaged by fire early Wednesday morning. The inside of the building is a practical loss. Adding machines, calculators and other; equipment were damaged beyond, repair. The fire Was discovered at 4:20 a.m. Extent of damage and how the fire started is noit known. “Provisions will be made for all classes. Students concerned may find out from the Business and Ac counting office where their classes will be rescheduled,” said Dr. J. P. Abbott, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. “But as of yet, I am not sure of what provision will be made for replacing the building,” he con cluded. ge Station was proclaim- Langford following a ie- W. J. Melton Dies In McKinney Tues. Warren J. Melton, freshman student at A&M, died in the Ashburn General Hospital at Mc Kinney Tuesday morning. He' had been ill! for many months and had spent the last four months in the hospital- His wife was at his bedside when he died. One of his last requests was that he might be able to spend Christ mas with his wife and two children at Bryan. He was brought, to their home at 717 Lawrence St., in an ambulance and returned to the hospital several days j after Christ mas. He was a war Veteran. -Services will be held Thursday at 1:30 p.m. in the Shannon Chapel at Fort Worth. Warren J. Melton was a mem ber of the First Baptist church at Bryan and a Mason. He is survived by his wife and two children, Judy Louise, 5, and Warren Melton in, two years old, and his father, W. J. Melton. 10400 Merrill Road, Dallas. Business Was Dead Hull, England—'A*)—Something peculiar was going dn at Thomas Taylor’s grocery. Fire trucks, five taxicabs and a hearse bearing a coffin all pulled up outside. Some body had called them by tele phone. 1 Chief Constable Sydney Law rence was called in to find out just what was going on. He decid ed it was “a despicable hoax.” , - A ■ Vi r ■ v ■■,:. T'K.... llglt V.” ilife * * rip Grayco, featured vocalist with the Spike Jones revue, plays sticks, while Joe Siracusa, who brought along a few Instru- ents himself, accompanies In another key. The revue will be on campus January 19. ’ M . ■ : -I ••I .ji.-i | wi; U ftp lit* J. B. “Dick” Hervey; execu tive secretary of the.Association of Former Students, has been elected president of the Ameri can Alumni Council, District 4. Short Courses On Ice Industry Held onCampus Obtaining ideas toward improv ing the ice industry as their g oa b approximately 100 persons are at tending the Ice Merchandising Short Course, now in session on the campus until Saturday. The course is being sponsored by the A&M Industrial Extension Service. All the meetings of the course are held in Sbisa Hall. Topics for conference discus sion for the first two days were “Building the Sales Organization”, , and “Personnel Training”. Dis cussion today centered on the sub ject of “Increasing Sales Through Supervision”. The evening hours have been left open to allow mem bers time for study periods. Four extension service men are leading the conference conducting courses in the various fields of the ice industry. They are D. L. Belcher, R. A. Downward, W. W. Mills, and L. L. O’Connor. Aiding the directors in the courses are men from the ice in dustry. The subjects are “Princi pals of Selling”, “Planning Mer chandising Program”, “Commercial Equipment”, “Vegetable, Fish and Poultry”, "Domestic Refrigera tors”, “Processed Ice”, and “Safe ty”. There courses will be held Thursday and Friday. The final sessions Saturday are to be used for: summation and re view. A special session not formally scheduled is to be a banquet in Sbisa Hall Thursday night at 7. C. O. Spriggs of the English Department is slated to conduct a general session Friday on public speaking of the ice industry. ♦ A state of emergency for Col ed Monday night by Mayor Ernesi _ port by the State Health Department that a dog killed here January 1 was rabid. The dog was killed by Raymond R. Rogers, College Sta tion City Manager, after it had been at large four days. Dar ing that time the child of its owner had been bitten and fcix other dogs which were bitten were killed. How many other animals were bitten during the four days is not known. —— -; The dog belonged to Mrs. A, B. Robinson of Cooner Street in Col lege Hills. Its head was sent to Austin, Rogers said, and the Re port | from the health department was the dog was rabid. While the dog was at large! it roamed throughout the. entire cjity so the possibility that other dogs wete bitten is very likely, Rogers continued. M|ayor Langford, in addition ! to declaring a stele of emergency issued a proclamation calling on all citizens of College Stetson to faithfully observe an ordinance prohibiting owners of dogs from] al lowing their animals from roaming the ] streets. ! Dogs running loose will be plck- iip by College Station officials :ency has at are {urged to report any untagged trange animals they might see ,eir neighborhoods. : e dog head which was sent to (Austin Jan. 1 is ohfi of! S7 hea—Rita Hayworth and her baby daughter, Yasmin, lare “making completely, normal progress,” the Montchoisi Clinic reported today. Yasmin was born at the clinic Dec. 28. Crop Class Visits Brazos River Farm The agronomy forage crops class visited the A&M experimental for age crops plots on a field trip t() the Brazos River Bottom Farm Saturday afternoon. Objectives of the trip were for identification experience and to study winter grasses and legumes. Students were given production data on the different forage plants, and the growth habits and the im portance of the plants in Texas agriculture were explained. The re cent cold weather provided excel lent opportunity to study the cold tolerant and mrost resistant qual ities of the various plants. A. W. Crain, assistant professor of agronomy and an instructor in the forage crops divisidh of the agfronomy department, supervised the trip. ported negative. The, heads of 14 cows and one pig \tere also sent and all of these were found to be rabid.; Tfext of the mayor’s proclajma- tioit is a follows: V PROCLAMATION During the year 1949 the heads of 72 animals suspected of (be ing rabid were sent to tKd State Health Department hi Austin from College Station. This num ber included dogs, cats, foxes, raid large animals. Of the tqtsl sent. 50 were definitely reported as being ha bid. As recently as January j 1, 1950 a rabid dog was taken only after it had attacked and killed six other dogs. How many others it had attacked will probably never be known. We do know that this dog ran at large four days after it had bitten the child of the owner and that It roamed throughout the entire area of the city. The possibility of danger; to opr people as a result of this re cent outbreak created 1 a, condi tion which we can no longer ig nore. The City Council at its regular meeting on Janusry 9, 1950 passed an ordinance pro hibiting the running ai large of dogs within our city! limits and directed the Mayor to declare ati emergency. I therefore declare that i an emergency exists, that the lives of our people are exposed to possible danger, and call upon the citizens of College Station to obey faithfully the provisions of the ordinance prohibiting the running at large of dogs within the corporate limits of the city. Witness my hand and seal this the 10th day of January. Approved: s/ Ernest Langford Mayor Altteat: j , L ; . s/ N. M. McGinnis, City Secretary •! •; ;—a—— 661 Applicants For Degrees on Jan. 27 A total of 661 graduates (and undergraduate students have] ap plied for degrees to be awarded at the end of the Fall semester, January 27. Of this number 63 are candi dates in the Graduate School While the other 598 are candidates from one of the three undergraduate schools. In the School of Agriculture 202 undergraduates have applied for degrees while 116 undergraduates in the Schocfl of Arts and Sciences are candidates for January de grees. A total of 281 undergrad uates in the School of Engineer ing have applied for degrees) No graduation ceremonies! are planned at the end of the semes ter. Diplomas will be mailed to the successful candidates by the reif' 8 " tear's office- Capt. Russell P.Holmes, Jr.,(right) receives the oath of offeec from Capt. Albert Stpckell, local ORC Instructor, as he'is promoted I Held lieutenant in the 352nd armored field artillery battalion. Ags and Engineers Argue by Magazine By R. L. PILSNER '! I ■ ! t . ’ i. The age-old Aggie argument, that began when tftey put the “A” and thfe “M” in our title in 1876, is breaking out in the open this month/ The Agriculturist and The r fellow '* Engineer, our Goodwin Hall publications, and the respective voi ces of the Schools of Agriculture and Engineering,; 1 are engaging in a gentle tpyographic tiff over the rqlatiye merits of pursuing a plow or slipping a slide rulfe as the best route; : to fame and fortune. We were first Infonaefd of this alphabetical altercation between our title schools *vhen ! gentleman Jim Parks, revered ramrod of the Agriculturist, dropped past the of fice jo bid farewell to the staff before his January graduation. “At least I’m leaving .'em some thing solid as a going away pre sent” he xaid- shoving : back the crumpled paper, ante, {and coke bot tles from the top of my desk. Landrum Laces ’Em Th|en he Went into a description of tljis month’s Agriculturist;' The man handling the blast at the En gineers is Bee Landrum, on old Batt writer who made good. Now one of the big gears on: the Agri culturist’s production j staff, Bee takes a pictorial apd vernal tour of the Schoql of Engineering, is shocked to his very grass roots by what he sees, aW decides that Journalists Plan ! li 'y ^ a ' 1 ’ 1 ,'ft I i Three NewCourses A new course in advertising copyand layout will be offered by the A&M Department of Journal ism the second semester,. D. D. Burcbard, department head, said today. jl>i T The advertising course will be one of the three courses scheduled the second semester which will deal with the business side of newspaper work. Others are news paper production and management, and publicity and public relations. Radio news, a 3-hour course in radio writing techniques, will also be taught by the journalism de partment for the first time next semester, Burcbard said. , -11 Including practical exercises in copy and layout for various types of publications, the advertising course will stress retail advertis ing for newspapers. Texan Found Dead In Isle Mountains Rifle Team Meeting Slated Thursday All members of the Rifle Team will meet at 7:15 p.m. Thursday at the rifle range, according to an announcement from the Mil itary Department. Firing for the Hearst Trophy, the Fourth Army Intercollegiate and the Air Force Intercollegiate matches will be discussed, t •iS’i — Two Texan —have in the Zam- Ataericans—one befen found beheaded bales Mountains. Paul H, Sarles,'36, Uvalde, Tex., and Frank Jirgl, 45, Spring Lake, Mich., the victims, had been run ning a 2,000 acre area. i . ■ ' Their bodies were recovered day by a constabulary patrol. The patrol reported that the two Americans apparently had put up a stiff fight before they were hack ed to death. The patrol said the bodies had been found on a hilltop about ^00 yards from their house. Residents of the area said the slayin ably occurred In mid-Nove the East side' of the campus o the only safe place for a man to be. During his tour, the usual „ tactiturn' Bee is confused first ly the steam lab boys n/easuring hone power with nary a four-foot id filly in sight.' WhCn he pass >8 through the physick labs and dia covers their pursuit of dew poi it has nothing to do With curing scr- gbum hay, young Landrum warns to get the inside word from the m m in charge. After waiting for fo ir hours in what he later discovers is the Dean’s. Team line, Landrum decides that •this te c ^ n ' ca * stlJ ^ is not for him, aftd goes happily] back to his predictable Ag su b- j ejects. ^ ■ Quajl, | Too In addition to the Landrv m treatsie bn how not to be taken in technically, the January Agricill- turist will feature aij article on t te sporting Bob White] quail, written by that old ' expert I On bird , do; rs, Tim McPherson. J. T|. House is a so among the preferred authors rar ks Wit*( a full description of the T