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
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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
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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. , * ‘
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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-
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.”
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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.
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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
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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
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lauuary graduates
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Ities Office,
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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
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