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City Of College Station Official Newspaper Volume 49 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, MONDAY, JANUARY 16. 1950 Nation’s Top Collegiate Dally NAS 1940 Survey Fish Back on Campus, Basic Division Set Lease on Air Base Will End June 1 The Freshman . housed and tau Glass -will be gftt ion the main campus, next fall. President F. C. Belton announced Saturday morn ing. ■! The action came after the Board • of Directors, at its Saturday morn ing meeting, decided that the col lege would give up its lease on Bryan Air Force Base on br about June 1. . ■- - T . A In announcing the move, Presi dent Bolton pointed out" to the di rectors that enrollment of veterans is now dropping rapidly. During -the past two years, the college has graduated around 5,000 men, most of them veteraiis. During the ■ ntbet school year. Veteran - enroll ment is expected to average around 1,500 as compared with 4,000 two years ago. High. School Drop At the same time, a normal drop in the lotal number of boys grad uating from high school, based pji ’ a period of lower birth rate 18 years ago, is causing some drop in the number of students from thi? • source; ; Total enrollment for the next Board Confirms Rev. Logan As A&M Chaplain » • JArv Tho Reverend C. Sumpter Lognn of Lawrence, Illinois, received confirmation by the Board of Directors aa chap lain of A&M. Reverend Logan, how nerving an minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Law- renceville, is expected to take up his duties here in inid-February. A native of Tennessee, reared in Mississjmpi, the new chaplain is 47 years old, married, and . has three childrens After serving a 4-year hitch in the Navy during Worlti War I, he set out to get his education “the hard way” in preparation for the ministry. He worked his way through the University of Mississ ippi, where he received an A. B. degree, and the Louisville Theolo gical Seminary, where he earned the degrees of B. D. and Th. M. In order to support himself and his family while in college, he found it necessary to alternate his school vears with work years. During this period he worked as a cowpuncher in Arizona,, a mer chant seaman and newspaper re porter. Entering the 5 ministry, ’ he served churches at Lancaster, Ken tucky and Indianapolis,. Indiana before returning to Arizona for several years in the mission field in that state. For the past several years he, has been at Lawrence- ville. , * ‘ ij year, President Bolton said, is ex pected to be around 7,000. This compares with an initial enroll ment of about 7,800 this year. With such an enrollment, the entire student body can i be accom modated on the campus, the pres ident continued, although there will be some crowding. New Classrooms ,'i A major factor in relieving the crowding is the completion of one new classroom building and reno vation of several others to provide extra classroom and laboratory: space. The Annex was first opened by the college in 1945 when the en rollment increased with the flood of returning veterans. During its first year both freshmen and up perclassmen lived at the former Army Air Field. Beginning in the fall of 1947, only freshmen were housed there. The Sept. 2, 194®, issue: of The Battalion said ‘’“Between 600 and 800 freshmen will be housed at the field, taking all their instruc tion there. A number of; upper classmen will also live; at the field, but will commute to classes on the main campus. About 1,000 students in all will be housed in the bar racks at the field.’! The decision to house only freshmen at the Annex w^s made at the June 2®, 1947 westing of the Board of Directors, | Caused By Enrollment A mejmorandum from the board at that! tim* said. “The board In eonsldeifing the anticipated heavy enrollment of students has direct ed, for the purpose of riioee ef fectively systematizing the housing ami Instruction, that the incoming freshman class shall be assigned to A&M 1 Annex In so far as facilities are adequate, thereby ; making available the fncilities on the main campus for advanced students.” * No housing arrangeipents for the fall of this year have been an nounced. Plans Made For Journalism Award Plans for an annual Freshman Scholarship and Achievement ;i Award to be made by the Journal- | I ism Department were announced yesterday by Prof. Donald B. Bur- J ] thard, head of ~the department. * Selection of the winner, a reg ularly enrolled freshman planning I , - to major in joiirnalism or in agri- I r ; rultural journalism, will be on a basis of scholarship and participa- * tion in student publications ac tivities, Burchard said. The stu dent’s scholastic record will count CO percent and his publications work 40 percent. '“Through this department award, we hope to encourage both scholar-; ship and pre-professional work on tie Battalion and on campus maga zines,” Burchard said. “Competi-i tion is getting stiffen every year, both in getting a job and in ad vancing on the job. An outstanding college record' is • a proved advan tage jn Finding jobs and earning promotions.” The award, a suitable enscribed scroll, will be presented at the an I - ' nual Spring banquet of the Press Club. The first award will be made in the spring of 1950. Judges will be members of the Student Publi cations Department staff, and of the Journalism Department staff. Forty Expected In Short Course j Meetings of the. Accident Pre- : vention and ' Engineering Short Course will be held in the loung$ of Sbisa Hall. The Course will get underway January 18 and last through January 20. The School of Engineering is sponsor. Forty are expected to at- „ UmL The A&M Board, of Directors poses in a formal session portrait for The Battalion during its meeting on the campus this weekend. Reading around the table from left to right' are; C. C. Krueger, San Antonio; Henry Reese III, Gon zales; Roy C, Potts, Belton; John W. Newton, Beaumont, vice president of the board; G. R. White, Brady, president of the board; A. E. Cudlipp, Lufkin; Rufus R. Peeples, Tehuacana; Tyree Bell, Dallas; and E. W. Harrison, South Bend. Ags Drop Tilt to Texas In Final Second, 48-46 Radio Defense Course Set Up For Reservists ; - ■ .3 ■■■ A series of joint two-week courses in Radiological De fense will be available to Or ganized Reserve Corps offi cers during 1950, according to Colonel Oscar B. Abbott, chief of Texas Military District. All courses will be held at the U. S. Naval Establishment on Treasure Island, California. Dates are June 18 through 30, July 9 through 21, July 23 througih August 4, August 13 through 25, and September 10 through 22. Organized Reservists i desiring participation in this program must have satisfactorily completed two years of college including one year of college mathematics and one year of college physics Or chemis try. Applicants must also have completed the Navy Correspon dence Course in Nuclear Physics. Colonel Abbot stressed: that due to channels through which a paper work must go, in ;this, case, that all applications must reach Texas Military District Headquar ters at least 63 days prior to the desired reporting date in order to receive consideration. ] , Further information and data on the Naval Correspondence Course can be obtained from the Organized Reserve Corps Instruc tor’s office at the PMA Building on the campus, Abbott said. By FRANK K. HI MEN, JR. / TlWo- big points in tho hectic closing second* of Saturday's A&M-Tcxa* clash—on a lay-up by Steer center Joe Ed Falk — gave thy Longhorns a 48-46 de cision «ncl ended u two-gnn)e Ca det winning steak. Grapbingyi quick one-point lead at the first of the game on a charity shqt \by Tojn Hamilton, the Steers eased ahead and re fused to relinquish the lead for the entire first hglf. The score stood at 20-11 with only; three minutey left in the first period when Ihe Farmers finally caught fire \and scored eight poiqts on field, goals by A re-broadcast of the\ A&M- TeXas game will be presented over Station WTAW at 4\30 p. m. today. Turnbow and Martin and free throws by the same players. The talley sheet was notched at 19-20 before Longhorn forward Huff-' man made a charity toss to pull the Longhorns up to a two-point lead, at halftime/ Davis Topped Ag Offense Buddy Davis, high point man for the : night, took only 45 seconds Students Visit Houston Market Students in Horticulture 434, “Vegetable Grading and Packing,” spent half a day in Houston Jan uary 10, examining the condition of vegetables shipped from differ ent parts of the United States as compared to those shipped locally, announced H. C. Mohr, assistant professor of horticulture. . The student group visited the Atlantic Commission Company, na tional distributors of fruits and vegetables, and the Sidney Myers Inc., both located in Houston. “These t wo business concerns have always been very cooperar tive in the past and rather willing to ! show students around their business concerns,” said Mohr. Five senior students are taking the course;; three horticulture ma jors, one agronomy and one agri culture education major. The group traveled by car. i§® llite - -T— z.v 'm r- T k Ar mm For those fortunate lage", here ia a shot of _ early Wednesday morning. Damage to the were estimated at $21,000. m in “Splinter VII- “B” which was gutted by fire mikllng and equipment ) m T -■ ■ ■ after tho iatcnuiNalim to cut the mesh for two no I at*, throwing the game Into a tie— and the crowd Into hysteria. Another field goal hy Davis put the Aggie* out In front for the first time In the game. A rur»n|n of the Steers tied the iffiGne again. side-court field goal by Woinkcl ft Harris of the Sips •(cored oh a free throw to put; the Hqrns ahead by a single; point; then Mc Dowell *unk a long one to put the Ag* hack in front again. It wu* thl* kind of a game that kept the pocked Gregory Gym on It* feet throughout the fray. Neith er team wu* able to grub more than a five-point lead in the (tee* ond half. The by five (See LAST nve-poini ienu m me *ee- f. The Agit splurged ahead point* with six minute* to L.AST SECOND, Page 3) Apartments In Fall Will Be Plentiful—Housing Chief More Guidance for Fr Transfers is The future eontinpes to look brighter for Texas A&M married veterans, according to Harry Ice Sales Topic Of Three-State Meeting Here Ho\V to increase the sale of ice and ice appliances was the main theme of the Ice Mer chandising Short Course which closed Saturday pn the campus. More than \Q representatives from ice manufacturers in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana attend ed the sessions offered by the In dustrial Extension ''(Service. The course was given through the co operation of the Southwestern Ice Manufacturers Association. Four supervisory trainers of the Industrial Extension Service con ducted conferences with individual groups Monday through Wednes day. Monday sessions Were' de voted to building sales organiza tions, and on Tuesday the con ferences turned to the subjects of increasing sales of ide and ice ap pliances through personnel train ing. Wednesday was devoted to discussions of how to increase sales through supervision. F. A. Willeford, jitinerant in structor with the industrial and business training bureau, Univer sity of Texas, discussed the tech niques of merchandising for the group. During Thursday and Fri day emphasis was upcin the prin ciples of selling. The instructors conducted a re view of the week's work and em phasized the “highlightjs.” Certi ficates were awarddd those who attended for 40 hours of work. Fi nal part of the program was a talk by Charles O. ! Spriggs, pro fessor in the English Department, on speaker techiiiquesj to employ in talking to a group. Tentative plans are made to hold a similar short course next year as well as other training through conferences by the In dustrial Extension Service. Trainers from the Industrial Ex tension. Service who participated in the training program were W. W. Mills, R. A. Downward, L. L. O’Connor, and D. L. Belcher. H. D. Beardon worked with Howard Campbell, chairman of the asso ciation in making plans and car rying out the short course. ' t IF Establishment of a Basic Di vision of A&M designed to mhet the special needs of entering; stu dents was authorized by the col lege board of directors meeting here Saturday. The action came asp the result of a proposal unanimously recom mended by the, Acadeipic Council, faculty representative body, pnd will be effective September *1, 1950. Instead of entering directly into one of the degree-granting schools of Agriculture, Engineering, Arts and Sciences or Veterinary Medi cine, high school graduates who come to A&M next Fall will regis ter in the Basic Division. Here they will be given compre hensive tests, close supervision and guidance by people professional- Boyer, chief of housing. Two years ago, approximately 4,000 applica tions for apartments were filed with the housing office. Sinfce ! the college has only 800 cooking apart ments, including those of the main campus and those of the Anhex, many students j took apartments in Bryan or College Station until their turn came for a college apart ment. At the present time, there | are approximately 100 applications which cannot be filled. Since ‘coli lege policy is orie of “first come, first serve”, men who sighed up in June, 1949, will be able to get apartments by February of this year, while those who sign up how may expect one by June, 1950.| There are 77 cooking apartments located at Bryan Field Annex. Re ports show that of all the married veterans now living there, only 30 per cfent would move to the main campus even if there were openings. Ulrich W. Crow, assistant! chief of housing, has sent letters th all veterans not haying college apart ments. He stressed the fact that those desiring ope of these apart ments should nbtify the Housing Office not later, than January 17, 1950. The decision to take i one of these apartments will not help nor hinder chances of getting one on the main campus. Boyer believes that by Septem ber, 1950, any married veteran who wants an apartment will be able to get one. = 1' Medical Aptitude Exam Dates Set The Medical : College Aptitude Test, required before entrance to many medical schools, will be giv en twice this coming year, DC. G. E. Potter, pre-medical advisor, an nounced today. The examination is scheduled to be given here Saturday, May 13 and November 6. Acceptance to the medical school, Who use this exam ination, depend* upon the results of the MCAT, Potter said. Application forms and a Bulle tin of Information, and sample questions are available v in Dr. Potter’s office or many be obtained from the Educational Testing Ser vice, Box 592, Princeton, N. J. y ' j| Buckingham To Address Dairy Short Course Mark Buckingham, dairy husbandman of the Experi ment Station and Extension Service, will deliver a talk at the Dairyman’s Short Course on the campus, today and Tues day. Buckingham will talk on “Utili sation of Records in the Manage ment of the Dairy Herd." W. B. Anthony, instructor, Dai ry Husbandry Department, -will talk on "The Reproductive Tract of the Dairy Cow." i Other speakers on the Monday program include R. E. Leighton of the Dairy Husbandry Department, who will talk on "Our Result* With Wheat Germ /Oil Feeding as Re lated to Sterility;” R. E. Burls- son, associate dairy husbandman, will talk on, "Artificial Breeding of Dairy Cattle’* and A. B. Joiley, ; county agricultural agent of .Dal las, will be the principal speaker at the dinner, with 0. G. Gibjson, director of the Extension Service, as toastmaster. The Tuesday program withi Dr. I. W. Rupel, head of the Dairy Husbandry Department, presiding, will include talks by A. W. Crain of the Agronomy Department, on “Green Acres for the Dairy Herd;” S. E. Von Rosenberg, assistant dairy husbandman, on “Raising the Replacements for the Dairy Herd;” Dr, P. W. (Burns, professor/ vet erinary physiology and pharma cology, will talk, on “The Cow’s Udder and Milk Secretion.” R. E. Leighton will d i s 0 u s s “Our Milking Methods.” He will also deliver; a talk at the morn ing session bn “A Balanced Feed ing Program; for the Dairy Herd.’ Dr. H. E. Redman, associate professor, veterinary medicine and surgery will talk on "Mastitis in Dairy Cattle and Its Contrpl,’’ and Dr. A. V. Moore, professor, Dairy Husbandry Department, will dis cuss “Getting a Good Quality Pro duct do the Plant or Consumer.” C. N. Shepardson, dean iof the School of Agriculture, will deliver the welcome address. A. L. Darnell of the Daimri.Hus- bandry Department, is general chairman. — —Ti Dorm 10 Gets Gas Injection Tear gas in Dorm 10 last Mon day night prevented cadets from entering the building for 30 min utes. Gas was apparently turned loose on the second floor, since it was much thicker there. . f. ! In a matter of a few minutes the gas had covered the" entire building. ? Finally, ilqmeone entered' the dorm and raided the rest of ; the windows and allowed- gas to cape. i. M ly trained to conduct program, before making a final se lection of the professional course in which they will enroll. ! ; Decreases Failures This plan, now being followed in a ^number of leading schools, gives the new student a .much bet ter opportunity to choose the pro per technical course and to prepare himself for it. Some inadequacies of pre-college training can be cor rected and it can be determined that he is capable and prepared for technical training before he enrolls for a degree course. If the student is. prepared at the end of the first year to enter the degree course of his choice, he may do so; if not, he may re main in the Basic Division for one or even two additional semesters. The boy who knows what course he wants to study and is prepared for its loses no time. Standards for enrollment in degree courses, are set so that those, who are ac cepted ha^e a reasonable expect ancy of success. At Louisiana State University, Oklahoma University, Michigan State and others where this plan has been in operation for several years, it has been found that much of th* loss from students who fail because of choo*ing the wrong course can be elithlnabed. Careful ■election of those who are" allow ed to enroll in degree courses has also cut down much lb*t : time in attempting to train ill-prepared students. j; Transfers Affected In addition to entering freshmen, transfer students who have not met the requirement* fiH' enroll ment In degree courses will enter the Basic Division until they have, qualified. Within the Basic Divl- sion a change of courso objectives can he made with much leas lose or ttine than if the atudent had entered a regular decree eshnn of I’rogri a guidance A report bo the course. new plan and iU emphasis on .guidance dur hope, with do'wn the >f ffilurea which ing the first year alarming number o have come from boys choosing courses for which they were either unfitted\Or unprepared/’ President F. C. Bolton said in presenting the proposal to the board. en, m report to the b«|ard oij the new Department , of 0< eanogrnphy was made by. Dr. Dale F. Lelpper, head of the departmet t. BBA Piann«d Authority was, gfan -ed the col- . lege by the board to o fer a Bach elor of Business Administration. The Department of Business and Accounting will her ceforth be known a* the' Departm snt of‘Busi ness Administration, the board de cided. j Another department to lose its name is Landscape Art. The de partment will'be known as the De partment of Floricultu: e and lLand-* scape Architecture. Repairs for the Pe xoleutti En gineering Building received an ap propriation of $20,000 froiji the board. T. R. Spence, manager of physical plants, for the college, reported that mortar jointajin the stone facing are leaki; ig very bad ly, and some of the stone jin the tower must be reset, j dso, most of the upper floori nius ‘ be rie-plas- tered, he said. The board rejected all bids and requested new ones on the (award of farm water and se\ er linbs, and golf course water tin ss. 1 Student activltied fees, tive September 1, 1J60, $14.80 for Ihe firs I $15.00 for the seco id Activities fees for the fumiper terms will be $4.90 ftr each term. Only difference fnm previous fues are the student recrjjatiohal activities fee of dm doljar per semester and fifty co itf pj»r sum mer term, added in ’oi; operation of the Memorial ifltialeqt Center. Fees Reduced UOTC uniform handling irharges will he reduced from $7 l(f $6 per year par student, tie bail'd de cided.. Annex room ‘ent (for the next eetnefiter will be cut from $7.50 per month pof i tudent to $5. The board accepted the resigna tion from the A.thlei Ic council of Dean M. T. Harrington, hnd ap pointed I. B. Bough ;on, clean of the School of Veterlc ary Medicine to the position. Alpha Zeta, an honorary agri cultural fraternity, was Cpprevcd the boaj;d, afteij Chirles — (See BASIC, Inge 4) N. -r Gen. Bradley Will Address Graduates General Omar N. Bradley, chair man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has been selected to deliver the commencement address June 2, it was Announced at Saturday’s meet- First Safety Course Here January 18-20 Approximately 2 5 engin eering educators from South ern, Southwestern, and Mid western colleges and univer sities will attend the first Ac cident Prevention and Engineer ing Short Course to be held at A&M College, January 18-20, under the sponsorship of the A&M School of Engineering and the American Society .of Safety Engineers. After' registration at 8:30 a. Wednesday discussion meetings ng of The 1 r the Board o; Directors»jj honorary deg; ee c f Doctor of Laws will be confened upon Bradley at the regular commence ment exercises. If it cap be ar ranged, he will also be asked to present | the reserve cor amissions prior to| the graduation .ixereiscs, it was announced.! Genera) Bradle y wpa grad uated from the Unit'd Sthtes Mili tary Academy at West Point in 1915. As a young of leer, he exer cised great influent e w thin the educational system d’ th« Army. He is a graduate of t re Infan try School, the Comnand and Gen eral Staff School, ajnd tpe Army Even Sudan Frets About Clothes YFei, Angle-iEgyptian Sudan— i/Pl—Natives have started a week ly discussion group around their camp-fire here. First two subjects discussed: 1. Pros and cons tatf wearing clothes. 2. “The price of brides.” — Cotton Contest Exam Correction Thursday’s Battalion carried a story stating that 6nly agro nomy undergraduates were eli gible to take examinations for mnual A&M coftdn the annual A&M cottdn tour. The story should have read ‘ANY undergraduate during the coming S mester is eligible to examinations.” Students interested ip com peting should contact Professor Ely Whitele” in' rofiii 309 of the New Experiment Str* 1 ''" Building before February 4. r; ■ /, -t in A&M pring Be take the will be held in the Lounge of Sbisa Hall tq discuss many varied phases of Industrial accident pre vention and ; engineering, accord ing to Dr. Howard W. Barlow, dean of the School of Engineering. Dr. Barlow and E. C. iMcFaddcn,' president of the ASSE and first vice president of the Texas Em ployers Insurance Association of Dallas, have secured outstanding industrial and educational men for discussion leaders of the three- day conference. J. C.. Stennet, Na tional Association of Mutual Cas- ualtv Co., Chicago; Dr. W'.'N. Cox, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta; George E. Lewis, Port land -Gas and Coke Co., Portland, Oregon; John J. Aherii, Illinois Institute of Technolpgy, Chicago; I. Lehocsky, Ohio State Uni- mandant of the Infi .Mry School During World Wi r II, he rose to the rank of Geneiaj. Command ing the Twelfth Arpiy Gijoup, lar gest organization >f troops in our his ory, Bradley became ad hinistlrator of the Veterahs Administration upon termination of hos ilitteij war. ■ Tv;/ This work accomplished advanced to the hi rhest within the Army—C hief He was later named Cha the Joint Chiefs of Staff. in ih6 he was osition Staff, rman of r Green- Paul N versity,; Columbus; wood. Western Electric Co., Chi cago; W. Dean Keefer, Ldmber- man’s Mutual Casualty, Chicago; and H. C. Roundtree, Temple Uni versity, Philadelphia will be the discussion leaders, Barlow added. There will be a dinner for the group the evenings of January 18 and 19 at Aggieland en’s i 1 m Graduation lauuary graduates Mi up ai Ities Office, Actlv- 209, G hod win ■ Crippled Child Clinic Set May 8 j In a joint meeting of the Ki- wanis, Brazos Courty anil Shrine Crippled Children’! Gon mittees. May was set as the tentative date for the Crippled Children’s Clihic, Dr. paniel Russ ill, Ag. Eco. Department, rnnoun:ed this morning. -ji Dr. George Schl esselm an. Ge ography Departmer t, and Dr. R. L. Skrabanek, of tie Agriculture Economics Departm mt, we re elect ed joint chairman; of th< Easter Seal Crippled CHldren’ii Fund Drive. . , i.t ’ ■ u A. \ ::