City Of
College Station
Official Newspaper
Volume 49
Houston Rabbi
To Hold Forum
Over RE Week
Rabbi William S. Malev,
spiritual leader of congrega
tion Beth Yeshurun of Hous
ton, will hold open forums
and special discussions dur
ing Religious Emphasis Week, Feb
ruary 13 through 17, Gordon Gay,
assistant secretary of the YMCA,
announced today.
Rabbi Malev is one six special
ists to be here at that time to hold
informal discussions in the YMCA
each afternoon from 4 to 5:30 p.
m. and in the dormitories at 9 p.
m. each night.
The speaker will also be avail
able for class room discussions at
the professor’s discretion. All of
the speakers are extremely well
educated and well qualified to
speak on many of the subjects
being taught here at A&M, Gay
said. 1
After serving for 18 years as
Rabbi of the Jamaica Jewish Cen
ter, Rabbi Malev came to Beth
Yeshurun, the only conservative
congregation in Houston and one
of the largest in the Southwest
He is also a past president of
the Houston Zionist District and
has recently returned from a trip
to Israel during which time he
spent several months in seeing the
country and studying its problems.
Other honored positions held by
the Rabbi are the Vice-presidency
of the Inter-Racial Commissiion
of Houston, membership on the
Board of Overseers of the Jewish
Theological Seminary and the
chairman of the Southwest Zionist
Region.
He was formerly a Chancellor
Commander of the Plymouth Lodge
in the Knights of Pythias, and Sky
Pilot of the Jamaica Kiwanis Com
mittee for the state of New York.
Rabbi Malev is a graduate of
City College of New York where
he was honored with membership
'n the Phi Beta Kappa, and Colum
bia University where he received
his masters degree. Also a grad
uate of the Jewish Teachers Insti
tute. He was ordained by the Jew
ish Theological Seminary in 1925.
The Battalion
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST Of A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1950
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Molina to Play Here
For Valentine Ball
Dr. Henry H. Crane
Principal speaker for Religious
Emphasis Week, February ;13
to 17, will be Dr. Henry H.
Crane, pastor of the Central
Methodist Church of Detroit,
Michigan.
Rabbi William Malev
Rabbi Malev will be one of six
specialists to be on the campus
during Religious Emphasis Week
to conduct group discussions
among the students.
Agg-Orr to Houston
For Student Awards
Four A&M scholarship students
will travel to Houston Saturday
night to participate in scholarship
presentation ceremonies at the
1950 Houston Fat Stock Show.
The students—L. O. Tiedt, W. M.
Huffman, J. W. Taylor, and Jessie
Hughitt—all received their schol
arships at previous stock shows
held annually in the coastal city.
The men will be accompanied
by a color guard, two corps repre
sentatives, and officials of the col
lege.
Two of the largest scholarships
to be awarded at the show will go
to future A&M men. One, which is
given annually, is the $2,000 Jim
Houston, Feb. 3—CP>—Clinton
Bippert, 15-year-old Lacoste, Me
dina County, FFA boy, last night
won a $2,000 scholarship to Texas
A&M College.
Bippert was selected as the boy
establishing the best all-around
record since winning a scramble
calf at last year’s Houston Fat
Stock Show and Livestock Exhibi
tion.
Tucker award. The other is a
$2,500 scholarship being given by
L. E. Cowling. Both Tucker and
Cowling are insurance men.
Each of the scholarships pays
the winner $500 a school year, and
the Cowling afard gives the stu
dent $500 when he is graduated.
Previous Winners
Tiedt was the winner of the
Tucker award in 1948 and Huffman
ill 1949. Taylor was given a spec
ial scholarship in 1948 by George
Echols of Houston and Hughitt
won another special scholarship
donated in 1949 by Ralph McCul
lough. Echols and McCullough are
also insurance men.
Engineers Attend
Ice Short Course
Forty-four ice plant engineers
from all parts of Texas gathered
here last week for a short course
in ice plant engineering sponsored
by the Southwestern Ice Manufac
turers Association, Inc.
With leading authorities from
the industry as instructors, the
engineers were brought up to date
on developments in their field.
The week-long session was cli
maxed by laboratory work Thurs
day and Friday, dealing with safety
and sanitation, efficient plant op
eration, and water testing.
^Saturday was devoted to exam
inations.
The short course was held in
the mechanical engineering depart
ment.
The Tucker scholarship is given
to the winner of the calf scramble
at the Houston stock show.
Each man, to qualify for the
award, must meet strict scholistic
and personal qualifications. He
must also care for the calf he cap
tures in the scramble, returning it
for exhibition to the stock show the
year after he catches it.
The Cowling award is operated
in a similar manner with identical
qualifications except that the
scramble in which the boy partici
pates is for dairy calves.
Representatives
The cadet corps representative at
the ceremony will be Herschel
Maltz, commander of B Athletics
from Houston.
They will be accompanied by
Captain Lester Stiles of the Mili
tary Department.
The color guard from A&M will
consist of David Haines, master
sergeant on the corps staff; Bill
Thompson, first sergeant of A
Chem Warfare; Milt Patterson,
first sergeant of C Cavalry; and
John C. Standard, technical ser
geant in D Vet Company.
The scholarship presentation is
scheduled at 9 p. m. Saturday.
By RAY WILLIAMS
Ushering in the Spring all col
lege dance season will be Carlos
Molina and his “Music of the
Americas.” He will furnish music
for the annual St. Valentine Ball
and will also appear in a concert
at Guion Hall.
The handsome South American
will appear in Guion at 6:30 p. m.
for an hour and a half show be
fore moving down to Siba for the
all college St. Valentine Ball at 9.
Molina and company will pre
sent an entire floor show at Guion
with special accent on music of
two continents. The show includes
dance teams, a magician, an acro
batic dancer, and that famous 300
pounds of blues singer, Sophy
Parker.
Hotel Entertainer
Molina and his orchestra ar
rive here after a long series of
hotel engagements, some of which
were at the Hotel Ambassador,
Los Angeles; Stevens Hotel, Chi
cago; Copacabana Club, Holly
wood; and La Conga Club, New
York, to name but a few. One of
the more recent engagements was
at the Rice Hotel, Houston, whei’e
Molina broadcast twice weekly on a
nationwide network.
Molina is remembered through
out the nation as the man who
first introduced the Tango and
the Rhumba to America. The music
for the St. Valentine Ball, how
ever, will be outstanding North
American music, romantically
fashioned for dancing and also a
few South American rhythms.
The St. Valentine Ball is the
Ann Dansby Is
Houston Rodeo
Queen Nominee
Miss Ann Dansby, a 16 year
old junior at Bryan’s Stephen
F. Austin High School, is the
Bryan-College Station entry
in the, Houston Rodeo (4)ueen
contest, and will appear af that
rodeo’s night performance toiiight,
according to a letter frorh the
Bryan chamber of commerce.
Miss Dansby received notice of
her acceptance in the contest last
week, and will ride in the grand
entry of the rodeo at 8 p. m.
She will compete with other
representatives from South Texas
towns for the title of Queen for
the Day of the rodeo, which is an
automatic entry into the final
contest for Queen of the 1950 rodeo
on February 12.
Miss Dansby’s parents are Mr.
and Mrs. Horace P. Dansby, Jr.,
of Bryan, and her father is a mem
ber of the class of ’32. Her uncle,
Mit Dansby, is a member of the
class of ’27.
Winner of the daily queen prize
at the Houston rodeo will receive
$150, and all the contestants will
be entertained at dinner by Glenn
McCarthy at his Shamrock Hotel.
The grand prize for the 1950
rodeo queen is a new Ford con
vertible.
first all college dance of the
Spring semester and everyone is
invited, according to Grady Elms,
assistant director of Student Activ
ities.
Cost of admission to the con
cert will be 70 cents. Persons at
tending the concert may remain
free of charge for the regularly
scheduled movie following.
Admission to the barw^C'l be, , .
*1.50 Stag or drag. Ticke,
purchased at the Stude.t Activ
ities Office, beginning Wednes
day, March 8.
ASABAB Satirizes Mid Century
Issue In Sbisa Saturday Night
By GEORGE CHARLTON
ASABAB!
Colorful posters on the campus
have proclaimed its existence for
weeks and tomorrow night in Sbisa
Hall the annual affair will blossom
The boys from the Academic
Buildi ng top loft have made good
use of past experience in such af
fairs \and have chosen as theme
for the dance, beginning at 8 p.
m., the recent mid century issue of
Life magazine. The issue contains
such facts as personalities, clothes
styles, social enjoyments, artistic
achievements, inventions, scientific
advances, and transportation dur
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
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The finishing touches are put on the decorations
which will add to the 1950 edition of the ASABAB
Ball. The annual architectural social splurge
will get underway Saturday evening, and reports
from the upper floor of the Academic Building
promise that this year the affair will be bigger,
better, and wilder than ever.
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’Tides * (If Marcli Help Gain
Full Moon For Soph Ball
Grain Research Grant
The General Foods Corp., Ho
boken, N. J., has renewed its an
nual grant of $1,000 to the Texas
Agricultural Experiment Station.
The grant is used in the sup
port of sorghum research under
R. E. Karper, agronomist in charge
of sorghum investigations.
By DEAN REED
There’ll be a full moon the night
of March 4, complicated arrange
ments having been completed with
Diana, goddess of the moon
through efforts of the Sophomore
Sweetheart Ball committee.
The Aggieland Orchestra, big
gest name band of Brazos County,
was chosen by the committee to
render sweet music for the occa
sion. Several other groups, includ
ing Guy Lombardo’s, Vaughn Mon
roe’s, the New York Philharmonic,
the Muleshot Mountaineers, and
the San Antonio Salvation Army
Band, applied for the job, but
were refused due to various dis
crepancies.
Highlighting the Ball will be the
presentation of the class sweet
heart, who will be selected from
a group of finalists at the Sbisa
Hall event. Ralph Rowe, chairman
of the selection committee, an
nounces that a complete roster of
judg-es is still unavailable, but will
be released soon.
“We are making it a point to
Plans for the Sophomore Sweetheart Ball, slated
for March 4, begin to formulate, as the commit
tee meets with Grady Elms of Student Activities.
Seated, from left to right, are Duane Vanden-
berg, class secretary; Dan Davis, vice-president;
Dick Ingels, class president; Harold Chandler,
guest committee chairman; Jack Brandt, pro
grams chairman, and Elms. Standing in that
order are Reg Beene, refreshments; Eric Carlson,
decorations; Dean Reed, publicity; and John Tap-
ley, entertainment.
choose men who have proven their
capabilities in this field, thus mak
ing competition for the judging
positions keen,” said Rowe.
Committees Busy
Other committee members were
equally enthusiastic over plans for
the Sweetheart Ball. Guest com
mittee chairman Harold Chandler
is busily studying red tape proce
dures by which the class can in
vite Governor Allan Shivers and
other state dignitaries
“There’ll be a moon over Sbisa,
and there’ll be as much artificial
moonlight, moonbeams, stars and
such stuff inside as we can mus-
tere,” proclaims Eric Carlson, de
corations chairman.
All entries for the sweetheart
selection must be taken to the Stu
dent Activities office by 5 p. m.
Friday, February 24, announced
Rowe.
“One bust p^fcture will suffice,”
Rowe added, “although a snapshot
in sports attire and any other
pictures will a&d to the chances of
selection.”
Picture entries are requested to
be removed from frames or folios
so they may be printed in The
Battalion, if possible.
Six Finalists
/
Preliminary elimination of con-
teestants will be conducted the
week before the Ball, with six
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Ground Hog’s
Ritual Fails
A squinting little animal, a
ground hog - , peeked out of his hole
in College Station Thursday. It
was his day, Ground Hog Day,
and he was going to make the most
jof it.
Getting up enough nerve to
;worm his way out the under-
! ground home, he prepared to cli-
imax the traditional events of this,
his only true day in the limelight,
j He arched his furry back and sat
i up. And as he turned his head
' to properly observe the shadow,
jbe scared, and jump in his hole, he
perceived the cold gray scene of
i Thursday’s College Station before
| him.
) After a few disconsolate grunts,
;he calmly unarched his back and
iproceeded to descend into his
home.
According to legend, the post-
)ponement of the little animal’s
i February 2 ritual and frantic
-jump means only one thing—six
more long weeks of winter weather.
finalists to be named. These girls
will be presented at the Ball, and
the winner will be chosen from this
group, Rowe said.
Accosted while studying a cru
cial chapter in Betty Crocker’s
Cookbook was refreshments chair
man Dan Scott. Refreshments will
be free, Scott said, and all efforts
are being made to furnish a max
imum of quantity and quality.
Invitations for the Ball will be
placed with a class representative
of each crops unit, announced John
Tapley, chairman of the invitation
committee. Other arrangements
will be announced for non-corps
students.
various corners of the room, mem
bers of the assemblage will see
traditional dead trees, always as
sociated with ASABAB affairs.
Pages from the mid century Life
issue will hang from the trees’
branches.
The bandstand will be located
at the West end of the hall. Behind
the stand will be hung a 14 foot
high backdrop interpretation of
the special issue’s cover. Repre-
U. S. Might Is
Ready for Reds
Johnson States
Washington, Feb. 2—(AP)
—Defense Secretary Louis A.
Johnson said tonight Amer
ica’s armed might will be sent
to “lick hell’’ out of Joe Sta
lin if he starts anything.
Johnson told a gathering of
afyout 300 fellow alumni of the
U%iversity of Virginia, that this
country’s defense system is reach
ing a point where it can be ready
for action within an hour.
Johnson said that through unifi
cation, “the defense of the Uni
ted States is in better shape and
stronger than at any time since
the point system wrecked it in
1945.”
That was a reference to the
point system under which the
armed forces were demobilized af
ter the war.
Johnson added that this country
is getting stronger every day.
“In all we are d,oing we are seek-
ng peace,” Johnson told applaud
ing listeners. “There is only one
nation in the wo'rld that would
start a war. We seek to have a
military establishment sufficient
to defer that aggressdr and to lick
hell out of her if she /doesn’t stay
deterred,” he assertedL
“Joe Stalin will know that if
he starts something atifour a. m.,
the fighting power of /the United
States will be on the jjob at five
a. m,” Johnson promised.
“Describing a movefnent to pull
service men away frdm desk jobs
and assign them as cfeombat troops,
Johnson said that despite an antici
pated reduction of 100,000 men
in the services bjj 1951, “there will
be more men in combat units
ready to fight than before the re
duction.” /
Hammering at “wastage of mon
ey in defense” as “approaching
treason” Johnson said that it
would be futile to build “the finest
military rpachine in the world”
if America’s economy was to be
wrecked in the process.
Along this line he called for the
elimination of such coastal estab
lishments as Sandy Hook, (N. J.,),
the upkeep of which he said ran
into the billions and which he as
serted “have nothing to do witth
security or adequate defense.”
From Where I Sit
Symph ony Sla ted
For Concert Here
By HERMAN C. GQLLOR
When Conductor Efrem Krutz
brings the Houston Symphony Or
chestra to Guion Hall this Mon
day for two performances—a spec
ial matinee at four and Town Hall
at eight—audiences will hear their
classical facorites played by what
has been referred to in spite of
the youth of its members as “one
of the nation’s top symphonic or
ganizations.”
As soon as Kurtz took over the
Houston Symphony, in the spring
of 1948, he began to reorganize,
a process that led him to this
country’s key cities where he audi
tioned over five hundred musicians
before choosing those whom he
thought capable of bringing world
wide recognition to the orchestra.
Youthful and Talented
The end product of Kurtz’s
painstaking quest for, musical tal
ent is an orchestra in which the
average age of the musicians is
twenty-eight. Young? yes. But
only in years, claims Kurtz. “They
are old in experience, and with
the proverbial optimism of youth,
they approach each musical work
as a new challenge which they
must conquer.” Recent proof of
the orchestra’s proficiency is their
recording of “Swan Lake” and
“South Pacific Symphonic Suite”
for Columbia Records.
Virtuoso musicians, bedecked
with impeccable reputations in the
music world, are intermingled with
younger instrumentalists who have
incurred wide-spread adulation in
the world’s famous conservatories.
Elaine Shaffer, the Symphony’s
first violinist has served successful
tours with the Hollywood Bowl
Orchestra, the Philadelphia Or
chestra, and the Kansas City Phil
harmonic. And two more of the or
chestra’s female members, solo
harpist Janet Remington and prin
cipal cellist Marion Davies, came
to the Houston Symphony bearing
glowing accounts of their previous
musical accomplishments.
Kurtz a Luminary
Maestro Kurtz himself is quite
a luminary in the music world.
Since first coming to the United
States with the Ballet Russe,
Kurtz has made fruitful appear
ances as conductor of the New
York Philharmonic Symphony, the
(See SYMPHONY, Page 2)
GI Farm Trainee’s
Earnings Data Due
Veterans taking GI Bill institu
tional on-farm training must make
reports of their 1949 earnings to
their regional Veteran’s Adminis
tration office by March 1.
This warning came today from
the Waco VA office which added
that failure to submit the reports
before the deadline may result in
suspension of subsistence payments
until such time as the reports
reach VA.
sented in the mural-like picture
will be the beautiful Gibson girl
with an expression slightly more
provocative than on the original
cover.
Thousands of cardboard flying
saucers in black, yellow, and
orange colors will be suspended
from the ceiling just over the
dancers heads.
In the middle of the dance floor
will be an eight foot high center-
piece—a paper mache replica of
Brancusi’s statute, “The Kjss,”
representing the cubically contort
ed figures of two lovers in pas
sionate embrace.
Around the walls of the hall will
be hung caricatures of such out
standing personalities of the era
as Jack Dempsey, Eleanor Roose
velt, and “Teddy” Roosevelt. Also
copies of popular modern art of the
period including “Nude Descend
ing A Staircase” and “Luxury,
Calm, and Voluptousness” will
adorn the walls.
Providing musical enjoyment will
be the Prairie View Ramblers, a
9 piece band which played for
the affair last 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 for admission to paid mem
bers will be one dollar stag or
drag and three dollars to new
members stag or drag. Tickets may
be purchased from Frank Welch,
president of the Architecture So
ciety, or Jack Stansbury, Dorm 7.
Any member of the Architec
ture Society, Landscape Art S6:-
ciety, or American General Con
tractors is entitled to attend and
may bring with him one outside
guest or couple, according to
Welch. Cost for their admission
will be three dollars. Also, compli
mentary tickets are being sent all
presidents of architecture societies
in the state, Welch said.
ASABAB is the oldest of club
or organization dances at A&M,
having begun in 1922. At that
time there were only three dances
held on the campus, .the 'Wianks-
giving, the Ross Vdluhtfeeiv alKi "
the Final Ball.
Aggie Debaters
Leave for Waco
Two teams from the A&M
Discussion and Debate Club
left this morning- % for Waco
where they will participate in
the Baylor Debate! Tourna
ment, Harry E. Hiertls, faculty
co-sponsor with L. J. Martin,
nounced. Both teams are)^u:tered
in the senior division.
Members of the two ^Bmis are
Dan Davis and James J^rFarmer,
and Joe Fuller and Charles Kirk-
ham. Farmer and Fuller are also
entered in the extemporaneous
speaking division.
Extemporaneous speaking con
testants will draw a subject on
current news events from speech
judges and, after an hour’s prepar
ation, will present a six minute
speech. Both junior and senior di
vision teams will debate the sub
ject, “Resolved: That the United
States should nationalize its basic
non-agricultural industries.
Hierth said that the Baylor
tournament will be attended; by an
estimated 500 debaters represent
ing- most of the colleges in Texas
and several colleges out of state.
The A&M Discussion and Debate
Club will sponsor a tournament
March 10 and 11, Joe Fuller, club
pjresident announced. InvitaJtion’s
have been mailed member schools
of the Southw T est Conference to
enter the senior and junior divi
sions, and to junior colleges witiW
in a 100 mile radius. Response
from the invitations is encourag
ing, Fuller said. No tabulation of
invitations accepted or declined
has been computed.
Students Go To
Lucas Funeral
Funeral services were held
today for Norbert James Lu
cas in the St. Joseph Catholic
Church at Marlin. Lucas, a
freshman engineering major
died Wednesday morning at 9:00
after contracting spinal mengitis
only last Sunday.
A special bus left the Annex this
morning at 7:30 for Marlin with
friends and classmates of the de
ceased. Officials of the college
from the Annex were also absent
from their offices today while at
tending the services.
Silver Taps were held Wednesday
night both at the Annex and on
the main campus. The flag at the
Annex was flown at half mast all
day yesterday.