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PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland) . TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1950
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Nation's Top
Collegiate Daily
AS 1949 Survey
Number 79
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Invitation^ have been mailed to
24 Texas senior and junior col
leges for the debate tournament
which the A&M Discussion and De
bate Club is Broirte to spondsr on
March 10-and 11, Harry fe. Heirth,
club sponsor, announced. This will
• ®e the first tournament of this
"Hypo ever to be heMat A&M.
IHie invltat Ions were addressed to
-inomber schools of L the Southwest
^Conference (incluiling the Univer
sity of Arkansas} and junior col-
.Iokcs near here that may bfc in-
iterestod, lluirth said. A&M is plan-
ninif’to enter three freshman
teams in the junior division and
ifour-teams in the senior division,
j Debate Subject
The subject for-"debate at the
A&M tournament will be thlB^
-year’s national debate subject:
“Resolved that the United States
Tfhould nationalize all its basic
CluB Officers’
Conference On
Campus Jan. 21
More than 150 former students
are expected to attend the fourth
annual club officers conference to
be held at Texas A&M College
January 21-22.
Past and present officers of
Texas blubs and other states will
be on hand. In fact, some are al
ready on the campus.
The conference is to be held for
the "purpose of! orienting new of
ficers in the rhatter of club man
agement and for the exchange of
Ideas relating to A&M club work.
Panel discussions \ witht studen
body leaders, faculty. Association
ofrFormer Students officers and
cliib representatives, are included
on the agenda.
Registration vvill begin at 1 p.m.
January 21 in the lobby of the
YMCA. At 2 p.m. the officers will
go on ah officially conducted tour
of the ‘Memorial Student Center,
expected to be completed in Sep
tember. J. Wayne Stark, director,
of the Center, will be in charge of
the tour.
The main business session will
he held Sunday morning, following
a breakfast at 8:30.
The officers will attend the Braz
os County A&M club and the Ath
letic Council banquet at Sbisa hall
at 7 p.m. Saturday; honoring the
football team arid the cross-coun
try team. I •
Louts A. Hartung of San An
tonio, ts president of the Associa
tion ofr Former Students and Dick
Hervey is executive-secretary. W.
N. (Flop) Colson is president of
ihe Brazos County A&M club.
Experiment Station
Receives Grant
A research grant of $7,250 has
been made to the Texas Agricul
tural Experiment Station, v The
grant is effective January 1, 1050
through' December 31, 1950.
. The grant will be used in the
“conduct of research project ‘The
Effect , of Diet on the Embryonic
Development of Chickens and Tur-
-keys,’ ” Dr. R. D. Lewis, direc
tor of the station, announced.
non-agricultural industries”. Sev
eral teams from the A&M
going to debate the same subject
in Waco, February 4, when Baylor
will sponsor
Club
a tou I'
Ll niversity
nament, L. J. Martin, co-sponsor
of the; local debate cluj), ‘said-
Visting debate teams to the A&M
tournament will be housed In the
vacant wlng pf Walton and In P.
Q. Hall. j ;;
A&M Debating History!
A&M students have been Inter-
ctscd in debating for many years.
C, O. Spriggs, sponsor of Aggie
debate teams for a number of
years, recalled that when he came
to A&M in 1926, debate teams were
already on the campus. Spriggs
woiked with the teams from 1926
until 1935 when funds for the col
lege became ^so low that debating
was discontinued.
The Discussion and Debate, Club
remained dormant unt^l 1946 when
it was reactivated under the spon
sorship of Karl Elmquist. j
Spriggs said that the most dis
tant group that the A&M team
ever debated on the A&M Campus
was a team from Istanbul, Turkey.
Last year an Aggie debate team
won the deMison over a visiting
team from the United States Mil
itary Acaderiny at West Pointy New
York. The subject was on cotnpul-
sory military training. The Aggies
argued the negative side of the
question.' U .'
' "We are optimistic over debating
prospects this year,” Joe Fuller,
club president said. “There seems
to be a lot of interest on the part
of several good debaters her*, and
A&M should do well in competi
tion this spring.”
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Music Program
Planned Today
A musical program for the
benefit of the Negro children
of College Station and the
surrounding area will be pre
sented Friday evening jin the
gymnasium of A&M. Consolidated
High School.
A girl’s glee club, the elepiontary
chorus,\ a boy’s chorus, and ja
mixed chorus ^ill present the pro
gram. .x ,!;
Some of the pieces toj bei sung
include "Lift x , Every VWce arid
Sing,’’ “Jesus Toy of Man’s De
siring,” “Beautiful DMamerr
“Stars of the Summer Night?* “De
Boatman,” "The Voice of the Old
Village Choir,” “InfUmatusL”
"Cheer the Weary Traveler,” nij.l
"Good News.” , „ [ ; |
Tickets are now nvajlalMeLj Neg
ro children will sell them fro)
door to door.
The price is 50 cents fdr adults
and 26 cents for children. I
The Campus Study Club Is spo^
soring the ticket sale, with M;
R. R. Lyle in charge. Sha Will
assisted by Mrs. Lynn L. Gee.
lusical Depreciation Revue
Rocks Guion ‘Music Lovers’
The Maddox Brothers and Rose, popular re
cording stars, will appear in Guion Hall February
27. Thfs popular hillbUly band has recorded such
favorites as “Tramp on the Street,” “Flowers for
the Master’s Bouquet,” and “Whoa Sailor." These
recordings have been on many of the Western
Hit Parades.
The Fantastic Forties
Texas Booms, Faces Fifties
As Uncertainty Palls Scene
Rotary Varieties
Set in February
The first annual variety shc( w
staged by the Bryan-College Sta
tion Rotary Club will be held in
the S. F. A. -high school auditor
ium Thursday Feb. 2 beginning bt
8:00 p. m.
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By WILBUR MARTIN
(This is the last of three ar
ticles on Texas and the Fan
tastic Forties).
You could rent a four-room,
furnished apartment for $45 a
month in Dallas bn Jan. 1, 1940.
That same ogy pork chops were
advertised at 15 cents a pound and
six cans of sardines for 19 cents.
The first day o£\pur decade was
the beginning of siotae^ bewildering
times and prices were a major
item of the Fantastic Forties.
The high cost pf living became
an almost fanatical .subject in the
years right after the war ended.
Thousands' of veterans carrie back
with a hundred dollars discharge
pay in their pocket and not much
prospect for anything but another
nundred-dollar payment. \
They cariio back to glut colleges>
to overwhelm trade schools, to dry
up 'a job market that for years
had gone begging.
War workers joined the vete
rans in n mass switch from the
temporary to the permanent.
Statistically, the times were
abundantly prosperous. Banks had
record deposits bn hands; industry
had set new records; Crop values
were astronomical.
In 1947, for Instance, Texas’
wheat harvest was a record 121,
$70,000 bushels. It brought high
prices.
The state’s livestock was val
ued at $996,369,000 in 1948. That
same year some 892,632,000 bar
rels of oil was worth $2,329,769,-
00.
Cotton, cotton seed, grain sor-
I’hums, corn, rice,: nuts, and citrus
growers were part of a multi
million dollar industry. And their
production totals were in the mil-
ions of bushels and bales.
The Forties were a changing
times. Many tried to keep pace.
The state started a general re
form of the prison system under
u new general manager, O. B. Ellis.
The Gilmer-Aiken school , bills
j overhauled the state’s school sys-
! tern and provided for an elective
! board bf education and an ap
pointive superintendent. Miles of
i rural roads were authorised,
i For a while, money ran free. It
was easy to make during the war.
There was a lot of saving stacked
up for the years after the war.
Sports cashed in on this back
log of cash. So did the entertain
ment world.
Baseball boomed until Texas had
seven professional leagues. Foot
ball attendance mushroomed until
almost every game of i note was a
sellout months in advance.
The pinch is on right how..
Night club operators ! and ; bar
owners are frank to adjmit that the
lush days are over. But they’re
still far, far ahead of! business in
1939.
These Were funny j times; the
forties.
There was a period When most
people juijt ditln’t giv^ a hoot for
anything. This was during the war.
To S\lot of people, it was "live
now, for tomorrow you ipay die."
There\was u period right after
the war, a period of confusion, un
certainty. x For a lot I of people—
especially veterans—there was n
firm conviction that filings were
permanently snafued. |
There’s another period now.
It’s n period where Jthe major-
cure. \ j f
There are fewer applications for
loans to start small ^businesses.
There’s a much smaller\ turnover
among workers. “Hahg bp to it,
you don’t know what’s gbing to
happen” is the general attitude for
many. \
You’ll find this feeling in Nall
groups, the white collar class, tnp
small business man, the industrial,
worker.
You can point to booming Texas:
A new oil field in Scurry County:
millions of dollars worth of new
construction, highly variep indus
try, more people w'orkiiig than
ever before and making more mon
ey for the most part.
You can quote statistics to show
that the Forties are fantastic in
the opportunities they provided.
You’ll still get his answer from
many:
“Yeah, but; I haven’t got any of
that.”
An ex-bomber pilot might have
summed up these times.
“Look, I was in the army for
nearly five years. I didn’t get any
of that easy money in war plants.
I topk the best job I could get. I;
haven’t got a house of my own or!
an automobile. I’m in a rut and I
know it. Three, four years ago I’d
have said to heil with it and gone
out looking for something better.
But not now. I don’f know what’s
going to happen today, much less
tomorrow. I can’t leave something
for nothing. I don’t know where!
I’M going and.I’m sure as hell not!
getting there very fast. You tell
me." i . j
? The Fifties might. The Forties 1
can’t.
District YMCA
Officer Speaks
For RE Week
D. Ned Unegar, regional
YMCA secretary for Arkan
sas, Oklahoma and Texas,
will be one of the seven, spec
ialists to hold open forums
land discussions during Religious
Emphasis jWeek, February 13
through 17,1 according lb Gordon
Gay, associate secretary of tKe
A&M YMCA. I ■ '.'
Some of Linegar’s special fields
«re Rbcreatjon and Religion, Per
sonality Grojwth! and Development,
Christianity! and Communism, The
Campus Community, Education Is
Not Enough^ Brotherhood—a mat-!
ter of Hearf and Mind, and Moral
Leadership. [ :
The sevep specialists will hold
informal disjeussions. in the YMCA
each afternoion from 4 to 5:30 p. tn.
They will also be available for
discussion ip the dormitories at
9 p. m. each night.
The discussions will be operated
on a come jand go basis thereby
ing the students without much
time come |and| leave when they
want to, Gjay said. Subjects dis
cussed will jbe at the discretion of
the groups,! and will be held be
fore any si^e group.
Linegar received his A. B. De
gree in 1936, from Miami Uni
versity, then entered the Univer
sity of Cincinnati to work on his.
Masters in jthe field of sociology.
In 1938, hC entered George Wil
liams College to do sociology work
in Group Work Education. While
in Chicago (he Also studied at the
University of Chicago Divinity
School.
After graduation, Linegar join
ed the staff of the Pennsylvania
State College Association, where
he served until he accepted the
executive secretaryship of the as
sociation ai; the University of
Kansas in 7946, From this job, he
accepted hi i present position, i
While at Pennsylvania State
College, Letjiigar was secretary of
the ministe rial alliance, preaching
often in lo<jal Lutheran and Pres
byterian Churches.
Among ether honors, he holds
membership in numerous frater
nities including Omicron Delta
Kappa, Sigtna Alpha Epilson. Phi
Sigma, Tab, Kappa Alpha, and Tau
Kappa Alppa.
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Spike Jones Combines Gags and Gals,
Madcap Melodies to
By DAVE COSLETT
Rate as Success
More than 1,000 weary students
forgot there were such things as
final exams last night in Guion
Hall as Spike Jonei) and Company,
with at least the nominal aid of
local personalities, proceeded to
wreck music and the Guion Stage
with his usual careless abandon
in the “Musical Depreciation Re
view of 19B0 t ”
Two action and laugh packed
Syrian Rodents Replacements
For Pigs, Rats in Experiments
Symphony Concert
Planned in Guion
ity want most of all to be so- By LYTLE BLANKENSHIP
“They’re lots of fun, but they
surely are ferocious until they’re
gentled,” said P^ul Hodges, Bio;
logy student fnpm Tomball, in
reference tq his new pets.
“What do they cat Paul?”*
someone asked.
“Right now. I’jm I feeding them
dog biscuits.”
“Dog biscuits?’’ j
, “Yes, but that’? just to balance
their diet. They usually eat grain
cereals, and sormtipies they’ll eat
green vegetation such as grass
and 'alfalfa '
o\,HoHo ww ..
re par .
and partNcow. The apimals in ques*
No,\Hodges is j nbt raising ani-
that are part dog, part bird,
Thd apimals in ques*
litt|e Syrian rodents
mals
Efrem Kurtz, director of the Houston Hymphony will appear
Town Hall, February 6 In Guion Hall.
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known as hai
By C. C. CLARK
An bid favorite, the Houston
I Symphony Orchestra, returns to
Town Hall on February 6. This is
the orchestra’s first performance
here since the spring of -1947.
The, February performance will
be the first ' at College Station
since Efrem Kurtz has assume^
leadership of the orchestra.
In 1948 Kurtz was asked to as
sume the musical direction of the
Houston Symphony and commis
sioned to' reorganise the orches
tra from top to bottom. Imme
diately upon his acceptance of this
assignment, Kurtz set out on a
flying tour of the principal cities
of the country, where he held
auditions to select the best Instru
mental talent obtainable. During
three weeks of this "time-table
audition ing”, ’ Kurts crossed the
entire country three times and lis
tened t.<> more than 500 musicians.
Kurt* was signed to a three year
contract as director of the orch
estra In 1948 and the number of
musicians in the orchestra was
tncreasiKI from 78 to 8S. The aver-
of the musicians in the
orchestra is 28.
Kurtz has conducted opera,
ballet and symphony orchestras
on six continents.
He is now an American citizen
but he was born in Russia and
was forced to flee the IPissian
revolution in 1917.
Kurtz first visited the United
States as principal conductor of
the famed Ballet Russe.
He has served as permanent con
ductor of the Berlin Philharmonic,
the Stuttgart Philharmonic, Kansas
City Symphony and others. He has
served as guest conductor of major
orchestras including the San 'Fran
cisco, Cincinnati, Detroit and Chi
cago. He estimates that during his
twenty-odd years as a conductor,
he has directed more than 300
different symphony orchestras.
An expert linguist, Kurts
speaks five languages fluently,
Rngllzh, French, German. Rus
sian, and Italian.
In addition to the Town Hall per
formance on February 6; the Hous
ton Symphony will also ulay for
a matlnef. The time Ond prices
for the matinee will be announced
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Paul is keepirjg the hamsters
because he says they make good
pets, but the* main j importance of
the little rodents (today is their use
as laboratory animals. They are,
in many instancbsX replacing the
guinea pigs and white rats for ex
perimental purposes. Hamsters are
important in researchX work on
human diseases because \they are
susceptible to njariy thibgs tha)t
man is.
When Paul first got his pets
he thought ’he w!as starving them
to death, since there never was any
food remaining in sight. After i.
few days he cleaned out their
nest, and much to his surprise he
could not find anything but food.
Hamsters have a pouch on each
side of their jaw where they put
their food while eating. After re
turning to their neat, the hamsters
remove the food and Store Ht
away for a rainy day.,
Hodges doesn’t know whether, to
take it as an insult or ■wrhether to
accept it as ; part bf their na
ture. Anyway] the hamsters 'al
ways wash i themselves thoroughly
after being* handled by him.
When he was asked how many
younguns a hamster raises, ‘Paul
just shook his head. But accord
ing to his knowledge bn the sub
ject, a female hamster must be
37 days ol<l before breeding; she
gives birth to young 16 days iaftcr
being bred and can be bred; four
days later. * l
One of you mathecaticiana Can
figure it out, but regardless oif
the answer here’s hoping that Paul
keeps his door closed. Why? I live,
next door.
MCki
shows kept U (total crowd of 3,000
person* thoroughly entertained.
The funny man that seldom
smiles combined corn, gags, ground
effects, motion pictures, » %w
touches of real art, arid an ample
supply of uttc)- bedlam to achieve
his results. |- .
Highlighting the show i was
Winstead “Doodles” Weaver, an
extremely versatile coiriic who em
ployed pantomime, slap-sticki im
personations, and a glib-tqngiue to
draw from his audience varyirig re
sponse that ranked from Might
titters to uncontrollable guffaws.
Baseball Game
What was probably his top per
formance came as a triplej role
pantomine of ja base-ball game in
which “Doodles” pitched, batted,
and caught an imaginary ball, i
The cleverest rendition of thej
night was hisj job on his frimous
'“William Tell; Overture.” Using
motion pictures to graphically por
tray the actior) he desired, Weaver
interwove names of local personal
ities ranging from Dean Pen-
berthy through Art Adamson as
participants in the hilarious af-
fair. j J r Pjj
Juggler King
Placing a close second to-“Dood
les” in the talent department was
comic juggler Bill King. This lad
threw more things around the
stage than the rest of the band
put together.
His outstanding performance
came as he stood on one foot bn
a stool, spun hoops with the other
foot and an available arm, juggled
hoops with the repiaining hand,
"and balanced a' spinning tray on an
oversized cigar-Tike stick clinched
between his tejeth. Just to make it
difficult, he also balanced a glass
of coke on his, head during the'
display. And did, a little of the
impossible with Indian clubs,
Another of the night’s presen
tations was sfrjkingly beautiful.
This was a Jones’ version of “The
Hawaiian War Chant” in which
ultrarviolet ‘fights brought forth
colorfully radiant costumes j)n an
otherwise darkj stage. Apparently
unattached hanjda, Kula-hulg dreaa-
Spanish Official DenieH
RuHMian Wheat. Trading
Paris, Ja«i. !18 'Ah—A Spanish
embassy official today denied re
ports that anii-Communist Spain
la negotiating with Soviet trade
representatives here to buy Rus
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es, tamborines
low' cheeks ga\
and beautiful effect.
glowing yelf
act an eerie
Females Provide Bye Appeal
Helping outl in this 'particular
skit were Evelyn and Betty, A
pair of dancinir beauties who dis
played an atlded knowledge ojr
tumbling and ebntortioui.
Also among the female contri
butions, for the evening was « lovif-
ly little new clomen to the Rovui, ,
Lois Ray. This gorgeous gal dill
a right pleasing tap-dance routlr^'
aided and abetted bv an eye-catch
ing figure amply displayed.
In the sultry female division wi(a
Helen Grayco, alias Mrs, Spike
Jones, who drew a hearty response
as* much with hef provocative form
and voice a's with her singing nhij-
ities. ,' * 4
/Among the other assorted gnij-
sters for the evening was Earle
Bennett, better known us Sir
Frederic Gas, who proceeded tn
do a unique routine in which hjc
produced unearthly music from
a pair of tree branches. \
‘Master’ Rock,
Also worthy!of note was falseti-
to-voiced, 280-pound George Rocjc [
whose best job, was’ done on hip
facous “All I Want fpr Christniak
is My Two' (Front (Teeth.’* DA.
Horation G. Birdbath, added more
strength to th|e gagster role. Hii?
real name is purv Pullen and
claims the distinction of beinj?
able to imitate some 125 bird cal.li. i
A straight presentation of “Fid
dle Faddle” was very well done bly
Dick Gardner, assisted by varioijs
members of tbe band. Hard-work- .
ing Straight male vocalist for tnc
night was Eddie MeUjalfe.
La Verne “Cherub” Pearson add
ed considerable weight to the pro
gram by helping in a quasi-opdr-
atic presentation of “The Gldw
Worm.” Her leading cpntributin
to the humor section was a sqrt
of abdominal hula-hula.
Tlie “Big Nail” Jiimself got
a few gags, a, couple of the
layed action ‘variety, but maiijljr
contented himself with directing
the systematised confusion. He
wore no less than four different
suits in the course of each show.
Even The Battalion i got a pljug
in the two and an half hour pro
gram. A purported Batt muWic-
eritic set rip his typewriter ini jhe
left isle at Guion arid proceeded! to
have a verbal- Imitate with SpikjC.
Lark rif Space
Lack of stage space kept he
City Slickers from getting In all
of tbeir regular routine, but they
managed to Vpuster p continu ug
barrage of skunks, frogs, pigeons,,
and dead bodies. Sound effeetsj
run the usual Spike Jones (acalel
from deafening to ludicrous.
Though the show dragged in
some places,-it presented a line
example of the split-second tlhiing
that have put across the U lty
Sllck,ers usually absurd routljnes
and made of their originator;
master of corn and huislcal satire.
College Gets Cash ij
For Laboratory
The Gonsales chamber of con»
more* has given the Texas Agri-
more* has given tge Texas Agri
cultural Experiment Station $1,600.
Th* money will be used to aid
in the construction and equipping
of the poultry pathology labora
tory at the Gonsales substation, Dr.
R. D. Lewis, director of the TAES,
soya.
Forestry Clubmen
Meet in Santone |
Fifteen A&M students in Range
and Forestry land members of the
departmental staff attended the
third annual meeting of the Ameri
can Society of Range Management
in San Antonio, January 10-12.
More than 250 range technicians
and ranchers from Texas and oth
er western range states- attended
the program, according to Dr. ‘ V.
Young, head of the d
Range and forestry,
students who attended the meet
ing were: J. P. Classen, Jr., J*hn
J. Dhrry, Glen W. Green, Harry
C. Lawson, and Joe H. Nagy, j; T.
Damersbn, D. W. Hedrick, J. T.
Hood, Hy M. Kilpatrick. J. L.
Laurichbaugh, Raymond M. Moore,
J. A. B. McArthur, J. J. Norris,
E. E. Ruby arid W. J. Waldrin.
Dr. Young Was a member of the
arrangements enmmittoe for the
annual meeting. He wae also one
of 20 members who received certi
ficate* of Ilf* membership In the
society. \
Other Staff mem
riveted in the range
gram were: Dr. H. F.
Dr. Alfred H. Walker, e:
range specialist.
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violinist, will appear oa Towp Hall March <4.
play la Onion Hall aa the laat vtruoeo mi the Tmyn
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