■ City Of College Station Official Newspaper , Volume 49 I Corsages Optional For Junior Prom, Class of ’51 Votes 1 i ; i- |i ■ Nation's Top Collegiate Daily NAS 1949 Survey ■ .'/I W X j ^ , : 5E STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBR UARY 2, 1950 . 'n 'i-i , By JOHN WHITMORE In in orderly meetintr last night In the Chemistry . Lecture Room the Junior class decided to have optional' corsages > and the dead- line date for entries in the Sweet heart contest for the Junior Prom was changed to Monday, February After a discussion of the cost In-- volved, the class decided to patron ise the Aggle Student Floral Con- (‘eiislon for their dates* corsages, ‘ Ralph (Jorman, co-chairman of i the publicity committee, made the motion that the final date for pic- L tures being turned In he moved up to Monday. W. p. Pusher Barnes- president of the class; announced the lihn- quet, to precede the prom, will start at 7:16 p. m. and the door* will open at 7. Tickets for the banquet will go off sale Thursday noon, "February 9. This is being n done ko an accurate count of the people attending the ; ( dinner might be had, Barnes said. McCarthy To Attend Glenn McCarthy, .Houston oil- millionaire, will be at the prom to present the sweetheart, Barnes armounced. All men with free time are needed to help with the decora tion fr the prom, said J. D. Hilton; co-chairman of the decoration com mittee. ' Near tlhe end of the meeting Barnes presented both a proposal to the : Executive council for the continuance of mid-night yell prac tice^ next year, and the executive _ committee’s reidy. - In the proposal, five points were outlined by the junior class exe cutive council. ^ "1. Disturbances frequently sur- v rounding midnight yell practices are. pot necessarily the result^ of lorge gatherings of Aggies and Exes in one central location. In fact, hoodlums are more likely to fi. ^ -ratta^k a few> stragglers than a group of men. “2. Triie, the eventual death of an Aggie at a/yell practice is pro bable, just as probable as an Agi- gie’s' death on the intramural field, on the football gridiron, and in the rodeo is probable. “3. Contrary to some opinions, the majority of; officials in cities Ip which we have conducted yell practices do not object to their being held. - ^ i ! “4. The Student 'Life Commit tee's recommendation was not ex pressing the will of the majority of the students, as evidenced by the vote of bur class. ”5. Mid-hight yell practice dates back to 1922 and Were designed to instill in the student body’s mind a “burning desire” to defeat the opposing teams.’H - In reply to tihfe proposal Dean No Figures Yet On Enrollment Figures on registration for Ihe spring semester were not ready for release this after noon, according to R. G. Fer- *yman, spokesman for the tegistrar’s office. Students were still registering /hte Wednesday afternoon, and no figure of any kind has been re ported from the annex he added. The veteran’s office reported 21S7 students on the main campus and 104 at the annex had register ed. under the G. I. Bill, though they were registering late Wednesday also and no, official figure would be available for two or three days. February 14 is the last day for students to register without pen alty, Perryman concluded. Ex PW’s Eligible For Reimbursing A limited number of WCC Form 601 “Application for Living Ex Prisoner of War Benefits” have been received here. Taylor Wil kins, veterans advisor, said to day. Any former member of the mili tary or naval forces who was held prisoner by *ny enemy government was asked to prepare one of the forma by Wilkins. All ex-service men are eligible, Wilkins said, whether they were regular, ap pointed, enrolled, enlisted or in ducted. i The purpoae of the form ie to enable ex-prisoners to receive re- , imbursoment for the time they were confined by an enemy of the United States. Rate of reimburae- ment is |1 per day for every dey the enemy government failed to furnish the quantity or quality of food required by the terms of the Geneva Convention. 1. Persons desiring additional in formation 1 may inquire at the VA "Ice, Room 104, Goodwin Hall, Ikine said. , M. T. Harrington, chairman of tjie executive committee said: “I want to thank you and yopr committee for the fine presenta tion you made before the Executive Committee on January 23, 19M, in regard to t>ip opinion of' tnp Junior Class with reference U> the holding of midnight yell prac tices off the campus. “The Executive Committee, uftier due consideration of your side of the question and that of the Stu dent Life Committee, recommend- ed to the Academic Council the adoption of the report of the Stu- •hint Life Oommlttee. The Aca demic Council at Its meeting t>n January 24, 1960 voted unantmoiM- ly to adopt the report of the Stu dent Life Committee which recot mended that the holdinii. night yell practices off tn be abandoned. v. "I want to tell you and yojur committee that the Executive Committee appreciated your opin ion arid wants to compliment yjou on the fine job you did in present ing ' your side of the case ev^en though we could not for the best interests of the college and the stu dent body recommend its adoption. Following this discussion the meeting was adjourned. Duke Ellington flere March 1 For Military Ball ^ UNGSLEY tor of student activities, and Walt and concert, S Where Angles Fear to Tread . Aggie Sweetheart Jeanlhe Holland presented Southwest Confer ence individual champion Julian Herring with his second “T” medal bar at t ie Football and Crons Country Banquet held on January 21. Heiring captained the squad of Cadet harriers which swept to a seond consecutive conference championship last fall. * - • ■ 1 ii • . | ■ i Costumed Architects See Strange Sights Saturday By GEORGE CHARLTON -The architects of A&M be decked in costumes of the last 60 years once again will enter Sbisa Hall Saturday night | to whirl amidst an atmosphere | of -gnarled tree limbs, modern art paradoxes, flying disks, and mated cobwebs. Needless to say, the boys from the Academic Building top loft have made good use of their piast experience in imaginative featb for such 'affairs. Their chosen theme for the dance, beginning! at 8 p. m., will be based on the re cent mid-century issue of Life magazine, which contained such facts’" as personalities, clothes styles, social enjoyments, artistic achievements, inventions, scientific advances, and transportation qur- ing the period, 1900-50. Entering the main doors of Sbisa, costumed architects and their dates will wind their way through mazes of cobwebs. At various corners . of the room, members of the assemblage will see the traditional dead trees with pages from the mid century Life issue, hanging from the branches. Down at the west end of : the hall, entering dancers will see the band stand behind which will be hung a 14 foot high backdrop' in terpretation of the special issue’s cover. Represented in the mural like picturfe will be the beautiful Gibson girl with an expression slightly more provocative than that on the original cover. Over the heads of the dangers will be thousands of cardboard fly ing saucers suspended from the ceiling and painted in orange, black and yellow colors. In the middle of the dance floor will be an eight foot high center- piece—a paper mache replica of Brancusi’s statue, "The Kiss,’I re presenting the cubically contorted figures of two lovers in passionate embrace. Around the walls of the hall will be hung caricatures of such out standing personalities of| {the jera as Jack Dempsey, Eleanor Roose velt, and “Teddy” Roosevelt. Also copies of popular modern krp of the period including “Nude De scending a Staircase” an|d "Luxury, Calm, and Voluptousness” will adorn the walls. Providing musical enjoyment in all veiAs from pure old Dixie land Jive to the current bop and romantic ballads will be the Prairie' View Ramblers, a 9 piece band which played for the affair l»*t year. Four prizes will be awarded per sons wearing most original cos tumes. Also the possibility of awarding a special prize for the best rendition of the Charleston is’ being considered. Cost;fox admission to paid mem bers will be one dollar stag or drag and three dollars to new members stag or drag. Any member of the Architecture Society, Landscape Art Society, or American General Contractors is entitled to attend and may bring with him one outside guest or couple, according to Frank Welch, president of the Architecture Soc iety. Cost for their admission will be three dollars. Also, corfipliman- tary tickets are being sent all pres idents of architecture societies in the stateL Welch said. j ASABAB is the oldest of club or organization dances at A&M, having begun in 1922. At that time there were only three dan ces held on the campus, the Thanksgiving, the Ross Volun teer, and the Final Ball. When jhe architects Club was first formed, an annual banquet was held^ and in 1922, a small in formal darice followed. Both ban quet and dance were held in the main room of the department’s offices. Each year after that the dance began more and more to overshadow the banquet. In 1920 the “motif” plan began, with an all Egyptian dance. The large room was decorated in the club’s conception of Cleopatra’s era, and costumes were supposed to follow faithfully the dress of that period. In succeeding years, the motif plan grew stronger, and the deco rations and costumes for the ball became almost the chief source of interest among the architecture students. A Southern ga r d e n. Green temples, Aztec cities, mili tary scenes, a barnyard dance, and a “gay ninties” set have been used at various times. By BILL BILLINGSLEY Duke Ellington, and his ‘IWorld Famous Orchestra”, Will furnish music for the Military Ball, and appear In concert in Guion Hall, March 18. The talented composer and pian ist will bring his bandsmen here for u busy one-day stand th0t will Include a 6:30 p. m. appearance In Guion for an hour and a feklf urogram, and then tin move into Sbisa for the 9 p. m, beginning of A&M's biggest annual military soc ial event. Announcement of Kllliigton’s appearance here came jointly from Grady Kims assistant! direc- Texans Suggest Acheson Ouster Austin, Tex., Feb. 2 (AP) — A resolution “suggesting’’ that President Truman re quest Secretary of State Dean Acheson’s resignation was adopted yesterday by the | House of Representatives after a short lived fight. • House endorsement was jby 92- 24 vote. Rep. Woodrow Bean of El Priso tried unsuccessfully to shunt the resolution to a conjimittee for study. M Reps. Sam Hanna and Jipi Hef lin of Houston presented the reso lution—first controversial measure put to a vote in the House in the special session. Hanna and Hefling based their resolution on the premise that the “Secretary of State of the United States has seen fit to give pjersonal comfort to one proven beyond to have betrayed a public trust.” (The reference was to Alger Hiss, recently convicted qf per jury. Acheson told reporters he would not turn his back on Hiss as a friend.) Zimmerman, chairman of the Mili tary! Ball committee. Tickets for the concert will go on jurie irt Student Activities ofr flee “around March 1”, Elm* said, and* prices will be announced At that time. Ball Jnvltatione Zimmerman will be in charge of invitations for the Military Ball, Elnis said, and admission Is by ip* vltatlon only. Zimmerman was off the campus yesterday morning, ac companying Cadet Colonel of the Corim Doyle Avant to Austin be cause of Illness In Avant's family. Colonel Hayden L. Boatner was in Conference at press time, but Lt. Col. Joe Davis, assistant! til the! commandant' said a. large guest list was Using shape and a partial listing would be released gning Ellington for the ball shortly, In sit Michigan Prof ! To Speak Here Dr. Bradley M. Patten, pro fessor of Anatomy in the University of Michigan School of Medicine, will present a lec ture on “The First Heart Beats and the Beginning of the Embryonic Circulation” before the A&M Sigma Xi Club, Tueseday Fqb. 7, in the Chemistry Lecture Rqom. The lecture will concern results of his recent investigations on the heart, and will bp open to all stu dents and staff members of the college. There will be no admis sion charges. A nationally-known heart re searcher and lecturer, Patten is completing a tour which has cover ed California, Colorado, and New Mexico, as well as Texas. In Texas he has appeared at Texas Tech, the University" qf Texas and Rice Institute. Harrington’s an Usher . College View Post In Senate Vacant Students interested in running for the position of Student Sena tor for College View must file for the position by Monday, Feb ruary 6, according to Bennie A. Zinn, assistant dean of students for student affairs. The position was recently vacat ed by W. D. Trent. Any student living in College View who satis fies all other requirements for the office may file for the position. Applications are now being tak en in the Student Activities Of fice in Goodwin Hall. A&M Profs Load Bryan Production By TAD MOSES The Variety Show, to be staged this evening in the S. F. A. high school auditorium by the Bryan- College Station RoUry Club, has drawn heavily on the A&M College faculty for specialty numbers. Joe J. Woolket, head { of the Modern Language Department, is program director. Dean Howard W. Barlow’s pr- chestra and the Hillbilly Band of E. L. Harrington, associate pro- it sfigi M is H m Thief Loots Market, Gets Citrus Saturated Pasadena, Calif, un—“Look for a man spattered with orange juice.” That’s the advice Hugh Smith, ma|rket proprietor, gave officers investigating a robbery at Smith’s market, Smith said the thief got away, but hot scot-free. Mrs. Smith chucked an; orange at the rob- beil as lie fled, scoring; a direct hit, Learning To Sell A Necessity, Hoi Yourself tley Says Learn to sell yourself, i That doctrine Is the basic ele ment In achieving success, accord ing'to W. R. Horsley, director qf the Placement Office. “When you enter the traiialtion period from a college graduate to a young professional man, you will have to learn to eell yourself and * -|ve e Homl . mentions that should be cultiyated ->r your record to prospect! ployere,” Horsley says. Several selling points Horsley * ’ dd be < ire: personal .appearance, man- hers and bearing, uee of Eigtlsh, adaptability to get along with other people, judgment and com mon oense, scholastic and activities record. nowledge in your own bility in giving ordere, r to accept interviews, correctness in filling out applica tions, anjd taat of ail recognition of the fact that the employee has to be sold. The necessity for learning to eell yourself is evsn more imperative now tha i ever before because, ac- to Horsley, jobs art be- :’ewer and fewer, four-thousand business i ecru It college graduates The Place- cording coming Over ftaimi ' now, the; director says, ment Office usually handles more than 1,000 of these job offers each year. if fl . : .;. - }.;r>>, 6 ’ !\ Architecture students put finishing touches on a pretatlon of a recent Life magazine cover girl, Tlw huge like drawing will be used In bizarre decorations at the ASABAB Ball In Sbisa Saturday night. ■ i- 1 lessor of civil engineering. Burl H. Ervin, mechanical en gineering instructor, will do several vocal numbers. Talent also has been drawn from the wives and daughters of faculty ^members. This includes violin solos by Mrs. John W. Hill, and Mes- dames Paul J. Woods, C. H. Grone- man and Ralph Steen trioing on the marimba, violin and piano. Among the members of the Bar- low orchestra, with the dean at the drums, are: saxophones, L. P. Thompson, B. R. Hollaad, Carl W. Files, M. S. Brooks, T. H. Terrell, J. H. Sylvester and Hansel Hall. Trumpets, Joe Benish, Chas. In gram and A. B. Alter. Trombones, R. L. Skrabanek, R. H. Fletcher and A. V. Moore. Piano, W, W. Gandy. Accordion, D. R. Lee. Vio lins, V. M. Faires and M. H. But ler. Bass Horn, C. N. Hielscher. The "fog horn” voice of H. K. Stephenson, associate professor of civil engineering, will furnish pop ular specialties for the orchestra. With E. L. Harrington and H. K. Stephenson guitaring, other band members are: accordion, B. R. Holland. Mandolin, D. R. Lee. Bass Viol,, C. N. Hielscher. Violin, V. M. Faires. Banjo, F. F. Bishop. “So loaded with talent is the show,” said Director Woolket, "that A&M’s incoming president, two deans and several department heads could only make the ushering committee.” The 120 members of the local Rotary Club are about !evenly di vided between College Station and Bryan. ■i i j, ' t - Tickets are on sale at Aggieland Pharmacy. They may also be se cured from College Station mem bers of the ticket sales committee, including V. A. Young, George g‘ „ Potter, J. E. Adams and Hughes. V j c M. C. I Male for Prexy Says Tessie Poll Women still want men* around. Or so It seems at TSCW. In a re. cent poll taken by the Lass-O, tha TSCW daily paper, 82 per cent of the student wanted a man to re place Dr. L. H. Hubbard as pres ident Hubbard is going to resign Sept ember 1 so the girls are looking around for a new praxy. A finer breakdown of the poll Is 82 per cant for a man, 9 per cent wanted a woman, and the lest 9 per cent just didn N t care. Strident Activities has cornered one of America’s best, and best known, musical groups. Ellington’s piano has produced; a score of top song hits, and his orchestra has graduated an equal number of name musicians. Compositions “Mood Indigo”;. “Sophisticated Lady”, “Caravan”, “Solltudq”, "Black and Tan Fantasy”, “Moon- glow”, “I Got It Bad”, and “I*m Beginning to. Hue the Light” are a few of hls'better known compoifi- tlons, Ellington is also an arran ger of sonm note, and with )jl" Annex Student Dies in Marlin After Illness !| Norbert James Lucas, a freshman engineering major at the Annex, died at 9 a. m. yesterday in Marlin. He had become ill with; spinal menin gitis Sunday! .nooh while he was home between semesters. Funeral services will be held at 10 a. m. Friday in the St. Joseph Catholic Church at Marlin. Burial will be at Bremond. Lucas was a mjember.of Annex Flight 12 and lived in barracks T-330. His address in Marlin was 275 Live Oak. | , • Silver Taps was held last night at the Annex and on the! campus. Lucas had left, the Ainnexf at Bryan Field last Thursday, after completing his ekaminatjions, to spend a few days at homei between terms. He became.ill Sunday and col lege officials were notified Mon day that his illness had been diag nosed as spinal meningitis. The college physjcian, Dr. J. E. Marsh, and assistants interviewed the 20 other students who occup ied a barracks-type dormitory with Lucas. Each of the students was placed under observation and given sulfadiazine treatments. All were moved) to new quar ters, supplied with flew furnishing^' and the old quarters and all be longings were fumigated. ■' Dr. Marsh said that since the incubation period for spinal meninn gitis is from two to five days it was entirely possible that Lucas contracted the illness after leaving' the college. • • ( • , i • I Brannan Names Ex To Advisory Group A. B. Conner/ Texas Agriculture al leader frofl: Marlin, has been named a member of !the National Advisory Committee on Cotton Research, The Battalion learned today. His appointment was made by Secretary of Agriculture Bran- nan. Conner, a graduate of A&M, was the first man to plant sudan grass, which has become one-of the most important annual cultivated grass es in North America. He was con nected with the Texas Agricultur al Experimentation Station for 33 years before his retirement He was largely responsible for developing the system of research substations in Texas (and was not ed for his work in the: breeding and improvement of grain sorghums. Telephone Trouble May Be Reported AH residents of College Station are asked to report any trouble they have had with their telephones to the Citizens Telephony Commit tee, D. D. Burchurd, chairman of the committee, said today. . . "If you live in. College Station and haye what you consider unrea sonable trouble with your tele phone service (or lack of it), write a letter to the citizens Telephone Committee,*’ Burchard said. Address letters to D. D. Bur- chairman of the Citisens tone Committee, Box 233 F; ollege Statiion. Complaints should be specific as to time, place, telephone nurpber and kind of trouble, Burchard said. Nd tele phone calls will be considered. Mrs. Goff President Mrs. Freida Goff was elected president of the Industrial Educa tion Wives Club at their ireffli] lar monthly meetiflg Jan. 10. 1 Other officers elected inc| Mrs, Helen Sieger, vice Mrs. Margaret ‘ treasurer; Mrs. tir, reporter; Mrs, ,m chairman; Mrs. k:: ima, social chairman. ! • • -r. Number . ' /•' ! i ■ 1 d Concert Stray- orchestra arranger, Billy, horn, has scored Several jazk class ics. Ellington’s band, never flne for a rapid turnover in personnel, has cjleveloped, and kept, | soifle top- , nor/V and alto sax combination of'Gestcr ‘ ’ y "Hodges; often called the top’ duo’, 'in - popular nd (11,' v t‘ i o j) (* (j, anu Kcpi| j soiTj© \o notch instrumentalist* ThhURes to be exceptionally outstar Gay said. . Members of the council rujude Jarvis Miller and Jack MqCarley •.Of !the Methodist Church; :Smith and J/ D, Rice, Ba] Jerry Byrd and Don^Hinton Presbyterian.Church; T. T. ( {brick and R. A. Rabroker, Cath olic Church; Harry Dordn and J. W. Porter ' of the Christian Church; Joe Maddox and! L- D. Wythe, Church of Christ; Werner Lindig and Ken Bernhardt; Luth eran Church. W. G. Irvine and ,L. E. Bruecher represent the Episcopal IChqrch while Josh Treiman and Herman Breslau repre*ent the iJ swish Faith. The YMCA represeiititives are Allan Eubank and Lloyd Man jeot. King Egger corps chapli represents the corps on the cil. . I, Seven committees were chosen to plan and direct the var 01 is ac tivities of Religious Emphasis Week. The committees are Wor ship, Social, Program, Pflh licity, AcOomodatioiis, Forums afld Con ferences, and Coordination conA mittee. n Man- ilaln, coun- ROA Has Daflce In Bryan Feh. 18 The Reserve Officers of ! 1 Irazos County will hold their annual dance at the Maggie Parker hall 6h Sat urday, February 18th, according to‘Grady Elms, president i<>f the Jflcal chapter of the Reserve Offi cers Association. Elms stated that reserve offl- cflre of *11 services are ‘eligible to attend and that Invitation i may .be secured through each ]