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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1950)
' I * i r n. * City Of College Station Official Newspaper : i } 7 I': V •!'![ f Battalion IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE ; .. V-f NAS Top Daily Survey il, 11 .1 Volume 49: Number 91 STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1950 Major Course Setup Outlined by Leland I-.' By JERRY Zl’BER Students majoring in business will have five new major fields of study to choose from next fall, according to T. W. Leland. head of the department. Changed from the Business Department to the De- - puitment of Business Administra tion, the department will offer a degree of Bachelor of Business Administration in place of the Bachelor of Science degree offered now. The. date that the change will be effective has npt been announced as yet Leland said. In addition to the general busi ness and accounting majors offer- . ed now, the department will offer courses leading to degrees in Fi nance, Insurance, Personel Admin istration, Statistics, and -Market ing. The course of study in mar keting will be so arranged as to allow students to slant their inter ests to either advertising or'sales. Advertising courses will be of fered in cooperation with the jour nalism department so that con flicts can be avoided and that stu dents cahf take courses, in either department, he added. ■ Students now majoring in the general business course may, if ' they can work the required cour ses in their present curricula, change to one of the more special ized fields if they so desire, he Said. Only change in the general ■business course is the name of the degree to BBA instead of BS. .-Graduate work in the depart ment of BusinessAdministration will lead to a Master of Business \ Administration in; any of the above named fields of major study. Addition of these new major fields of study will permit special ization in businpss - that is now available in other institutions, Le land pointed out The three story wing which will be added to Francis Hall whichi the department of Business Administration is to occupy will contain, three classrooms and three laboratories. There will also "be a business machines room which will have jail the most modern business machines, including tabulators, calculators, adding machines, and typewriters. v Plans for the new wing ' are complete dnd bids will be accepted until March 9 when they will be opened, and read, according to T. R, Spence, head of the department of physical plants. Until the Department of Veter inary Medicine can be housed else where, the department of Busi- : ness Administration will occupy only the new wing of Francis Hall, Leland said. For the. time be ing the-department of Veterinary Medicine will continue to occupy the old portion of the building. With the addition of the new major fields! of study, it will be necessary to offer several new courses. Statistics, machine ac counting, Insurance, auditing, per sonnel techniques, advertising, commercial banking management, and salesmanship are a few of 20 that will be added. In addition to adding new courses, one of two new men will be added to the teaching staff, Leland said. The freshman year for all cour ses will be the same Leland men tioned, and none of the new cour ses will be Offered in the" summer months. , : tig Tax Faces Senate Fight 11 After Weekend Austin, Tex., Feb. 17 (AP) -^Prospects of a stiff fight in the Senate next week faced the administration-backed ci garette tax plan for building -new or enlarged state mental hos pitals and Special schools. Half a dozen senators were busy yesterday liining up opposition based on arguments that the pro posal is an outright sales tax pac ing the way for additional direct levies on -commodities widely bought by the public. Arguments to this effect were hurled against the cigarette ta|c plan for buildings, and the omnibv ppor — ^ ,Tjhe were batted jdown by a big njiajo ity which indicated it is re ~ ' to solve the hospital finance pi h. I , . .JOB levy increase for hospital support, in the House this week. .They V a big major ity which indicated it is yead; to solve the hospital finance Jem by these methods and go home within the 30'day limit Tor spec ial sessions. ill The Senate met briel day and adjourned for end when it ran out It had no legislation before ! iit os a result iof Wednesday night’ State Affairs. Committee action i sending the icigarette tax bill to sub-committee, instead of repo ifig it to the floor for immedia ( action. The: House quit Wednes day until Monday when it alsjo ran out of legislative raw mateil- ial, or willingness to push somle pending bills on the speaker’!* desk. ’ j j gp i>: |il|i i. ' U Recently-Reversed T o Meet Improved O I x if Plaques were awarded to the past presidents of the Brazos County A&M l Club. W. L. “Flop” Colson, president of the club (on the far left), is presenting Jhe awards to (1. to r.) Oscar Crane, resident engineer for the Brazos County State Hiway Department, and president in ’49. P. I- Downs, assistant director of information, who was president of the club in ’42 and Fred Hale, animal husbandry department, who was president in ’45. Bucks of Bygone Days . . . r US Money History Shown • | T , s ' [ • In North Gate Bank Display By DEAN REED A&M’s cage contingent will journey to Houston this afternoon to meet an improved Rice squad in public School Field House to morrow night. Game time is 8 p. m. „ j I Recuperating from , a damaging Ibfts to Arkansas M'onday night, thje Cadets must defeat Rice toJ insure any small portion of hard-j Wood honors in the culminating conference race. “Rice, at the beginning of the season, was capable of Winning) thyir share of conference games,”) said coach Marty |Ki»row. “They hit a terrific slump, but may be: buck on the way up, if Wednesday night’s game is any indication.” Baylor barely edged the Owls in Houston Wednesday night, 60- I 69, in Rice’s closest bid Tor vlc-j torv since an early-season win over TCU,. ■ . i ! 1 ■ m Offensively Tops Though they are nestling firmly in the conference cellar/Rice still will be shy-scrapini dy” Davis, another Walt "Bud-; al-gatherine . _ pnvpBH , . . „ rad lad. Forwards for tlje decisive af- Witt and Bill: 11 and * " dwfell and eith-: ) Wally Moon: c^uit e i n t0 « P ea 0 «o f n2l 8i n?a^*r&M ^ start" a^ce^J/D. White andS both offense and defense. fata will be John Turnbow, with M.cl er Mike Garcia and at the guard slots, j i r i For the Owls, McDermott will; By RAY WILLIAMS I head cashier, said this was the . .... - I only exhibit of its kind in the An exhibit of paper currency | u S dating from Colonial times Ijo the! ‘id the 16 frames are notes in play thi* pounds, shillings, and pence which Bank niart> wefp mediums of «»xchnncFi» in Pmit College Station State ing today, and continuing through the 27th. \ : This exhibit, exhibited in l|> dis play frames, is comprised of paper currency specimens representing jevery type of note, bill and; cert ificate which has been circulated as money in the United States from the beginning of our tiation j until today. Mr. Thomas Wj Lee, —jrr - Late Wire Briefs - • 4 I t 4 I- - OH Companies Merge As Independent Giant Tulsa, Okla., Feb. 17—<JP)—Sun- ray Oil Corp. Completed its $44,- 800,000 merger with Barnsdall Oil Co. yesterday td become one of the biggest independents in the petroleum industry. A check for that amount was handed Floyd Odium of the Atlas Corp. at Los Angeles by Sunray’s presiderit C. H. Wright. ! Barns dall, also a Tulsa firm, had been an Atlas subsidiary. The name will be dropped. Strike Break Hoped After Night Confab Washington, Feb. 17—(A*) — A secret, late-itt-night conference of John L. Lewis, coal operators and government: men gave rise today to new hope for an agreement end ing the soft coal strike. V . . From the sparse details obtain able, it appeared that wages and other termp were discussed more realistically than at any previous meeting in, the eight-month dis pute. The parties were brought togeth er for the unsecheduled bargaining by an urgent appeal from Cyrus S. Ghing, federal mediation direc tor and David L,’Cole, chairman of President Truman’s coal board of inquiry. , j Both Colo and Chlhg sat In on ; the three-hour talk, Which was de- Hcrlbed by one informant as a “real dollarK and cents negotiation” between the chief of the 870,000 striking mine workers and spokes men for the major operators’ groups. Truman Scoren GOP With Inaction’ Dig Washington, Feb. 17, VP) Presi dent Truman Is taking for hia 1950 political line: The Republicans are croaking about 'socialism to hide their own “negative Inacton.” That brought new OOP challenges to day for a November vote test ef the ssue. \ Mr. Truman told a : glittering gathering of 5,300 Democrats to propose something. i '"Then they react with * n out burst of scare words,” he said. To - the chuckling appreciation of his steam-fed listeners, he added: “They are like a cuttlefish that squirts out a cloud of black ink whenever, its slumber is disturbed,” The president called for fu .1 speed on “dur domestic program s for health, education, social secur ity and economic stability.” He said Republican charges that these involve socialism “is an insult to the Intelligence of the American people." ) ^ ■ ’ * I Peoples Court Set To Try American Budapest,; Hungary, Feb. 17, to American businessman Robert A. Vogeler. Jr,, went on trial to day before. te Hungarian peoples court on charges of espionage ard sabotage. The spy case lit a brought strained relations between the United States and Hungary, Vogeler, :38, European repre sentative and an assistant Vice- president of the International Tel ephone and! Telegraph Company, was arraigned with his British as sistant, Edgar Sanders, and five accused Hungarians, including) a Roman Catholic priest and a bgf' maid. -• | Standing quietly in court, th4y were charged with “subversive machinations: spying and sabo tage” on behalf of an Ameridt n espionage organization. The Huh garian government claimed befo the trial started that all had cdh* fessed the charges. Red Strike Fizzles On Frog Railways Paris, Feb. 17—«*•»—A two-hou railroad strike,' ordered by Freni Communists In a campaign again shipment of! American anus und the Atlantic: Pact, appeared to ha flEElnd today. First reports from Northei France Indicated a Red-called 2 hour .coal mine strike was mo successful. At least 50 per cei of the 110,000 miners there faib to report-for work. On France's railways there 1 some stoppage of trains. especU ly on suburban tinea Into Parle. But the etrike order from Uac Communist-led General Federation of Labor was obeyed by only a part of thd nation's 400,000 & M employees. There was no whole sale tie-up of the nation’s rail nejt- work. .r* Sif ■ .• "■’ \ Ice Cream Judging Course Scheduled A dairy products short course is scheduled to be held here on 1 March 29 and 30, said Dr. ^A. V. Moore, professor of' dairy husban dry. The primary purpose of ■ this short course is to instruct in the judging of ice cream and cottage cheese. Invitations will be sent to the various manufacturers of dairy products throughout the ' stdte to send samples of vanilla ice cream and cottage cheese. These samples will be judged by the members of the short course. Dr. P. H. Tracy of the Univer sity of Illinois will be the official judge of the ice cream. The ice cream will be judged as to flavW, body, color, and texture. Cottage cheese will be officially judged by Dr. W. H. Hoecker of the A&M dairy department. It will be classed as either good, fair, or poor. These judges will •give their reasons for their plac- ings and discussions will follow. were mediums of exchange in Paul Rcvere’s and Benjamin Franklin’s time. These famous men were the engraver i)|nd printer, respective ly, of matjy of these Colonial is sues. Obsolete bank notes of 100 years ago. treasury notes of the Republic of Texas, state and na tional issues of the Confeder ate States, early “greenbacks" and “shin plasters" of the Civil War period, and notes on down through the years, including paper currency in circulation to day, will Zlso be displayed. No note above the $100 denom ination are shown, although' they have been and are issued in these higher values: $600, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000. Insurance premiums and transportation charges on the exhibit would be too costly if these larger denominations were includ ed. The 15 frames each contain a certain type of currency, the main on«t of which are as follows: Colonial and Continental curren cy'—Colonial notes that were is sued as early as 1690 by the Mass achusetts Bay Colony and Contin ental money that was used in 1775 to finance the Revolutionary War. Treasury notes of the Repub lic of Texas—t|heae four speci mens represent one note issued [from Houston, when that city was the seat of “The Govern ment of Texas,” and three Trea sury notes issued from Austin during President ministratiun. Lamar's ad- Harsch Slated For Address At Great Issues “The Holes t Saw in the Iron Curtain” will be the sub ject of the Great Issue lec ture to be given in Guion Hall at 8 p. m. Monday, February to./ Joseph C. Harsch, the second guest speaker fot Great Issues is a native of Toledo, Ohio. The address is open to" anyone interest ed in hearing the lecture. In 1927 Harsch received his AL B. from Williams College and waijs given an honorary B. A. from Cor pus Christi College of Cambridg^ University, England. j I During the early years of the war, he was foreign correspondent. f<ir the Monitor in Ro 'ecler idj A Croneman Studies Laredo JC Setup Chris H. Groneman, head of the Industrial Education Department, wjll Serve as a consultant to the administration of the Laredo Jun ior College on February 16-18. j Pres. J. Adkins of larredq Jun- ior College requested Groneman to assist them in making a study of the vocational and terminal program now in operation dnd to make recommendations for possi ble future growth in this area. : Four graduates of indpstriul education department are now teaching In the Laredo system. Junior AH Major Shows Champion** Jim Steen, Junior animal hus bandry major from Oolthtvalte, Texaa, won both champion and re serve titles with his Southdawn rams at the recent Houston Fat Stock Show. / . s The two prize animals word from hia flock which, is located at Gold- thwaite. Competing animals were from top breeders in the United States, British Columbia, and Cam •ST, f ] 1 Negro Folklorist To Give Program Professor J. Mason Brewer, America’s most distinguished Neg ro folklorist and nationally known folk poet, will be presented by the Lee Chapel Methodist Church at the Kemp High School Auditorium 8:00 p. m. Friday Feb. 24. Professor Brewer’s interpreta tion of his poems, songs, sermons and stories have been endorsed hy religious and youth welfare work ers throughout the State. Tiekcts may he obtained from M. L. Cashion at the YMCA. States issued from Richmon ginia. ' Texas Treasury warrants that eompriae the State money issued and circulated in Texas during the Civil War period.' Postage and fractional currency that was issued by the Federal Government during the Civil War —these atfe sometimes called “shin plasters.” ' United States and Treasury notes—in this series appeared the first $1 and $2 notes ever to be issued by the United States Treasury. In the remaining frames the growth of United States, Treasury, and Federal Reserve notes is shown. The trend toward uniform ity is brought out, with the re sult, our currency in use today. The exhibit will be free and open to the public every day dur ing regular banking hours. It will also be shown Feb. 24, from 4 to 8 p. in. to enable the school child ren in the area to attend. Tomorrow night’s, game will find two of the top scorers of the conference—Jewell McDowell of the Aggies and Joe McDermott of Rice—battling again for point honors. McDowell, apparently showing no lasting effects of his trouble some arm injury, tallied 17 points in the Arkansas tilt. In the last meeting of the two teams, the Aggies soundly thrash} ed the Feathered Flock, 56-37, on the court of DeWare Field House} Probable starters for the Hous- -ton game will be the same crew who have initiated most of the Cadet frays this season..At center jih and was present dictated armistice t^r in^uo me and Ber^ when Hitlet rms to Francfe year, Harbor during the Japanese at} tsek. 4 When the Jap invasion of Java began, Mr. Harsch escaped in time to reach Australia when the first Ij. S. troops arrived. Between 1946 and the end of the war, he broadcasted daily fot 1 the Columbia Broadcasting Sysj- tem, his broadcast, was “'nife Meaning of the New$”. Around Washington he was gen erally recognized as an authority pn foreign affairs and his cover age of the political home front was excellent. Since the end of the war, Harsch has been to Europe twice, once in 1947 and again in 1949. Harsch has an exceptional abil ity for getting to sources of news, and was behind the “Iron Curtain" on his two trips to Europe. Everyone is invited and urged to come out to hear Mr. Harsch on Monday evening. Waste Removal Program Begun A state-wide^ program has been devised by the Industrial Extension Service for the de velopment and progress of in dustrial Waste, H. P, Bearden, Assistant to the Director, an nounced yesterday. Hundreds of thousands of dol lars have) been spent by indus tries, es]}ecially along tJie Gulf Coast, in | attempting to improve waste-removing methods. Always) of major concern where large factories or sewage sys tems are) located, the waste-re inoval problem causes .much con troversy between shallow-water enterprises and those depending ■on waterways for waste outlets. “Oyster companies ale |- Wampler Elected Rodeo Club Head Charlie Wampler, senior petrol eum engineer from Longview, last week was elected president of the Rodeo Club for the coming semes ter. Other officers,elected were Wal- ly Cardwell of Rockdale, vice- president; Tommy Shelton of Til- den, secretary-treasurer, and Clay- hourne Smith of San Antonio, re porter. The Rodeo Club voted to send a representative team to the Sul Ross College Rodeo to he held at Alpine, March 9-1T. Sul Ross holds the National Intercollegiate Rodeo championship. 4 t!. ■■# i I •fr.* - iotig thp Gulf Coapt depend on fresh, un polluted jwater for their HvclD hood,” Bearden said. “Waste alsp blocks thf routes of ships in some places.” The task of the it E. S. is to “give instructions to! industry re presentatives on how to analyse waste problems,” Bearden con tinued. Because most of the difficulty exists on the Gulf Coast, the first class will be conducted in Texas City Wednesday under (the super vision of |A. J. Krell, who has held several positions dealing with wat er and waste products. Twelve persons, designated to represent their Coippanies will at tend the first session, known as the pilot course. “Following the pilot course, a definite program will be planned, based upon the information derived,” |Bearden concluded. • • . • +\ . . \ ; r .| Consolidated High Holds RE Services Religious Emphasis Week is be ing observed at A&M Consolidated in conjunction with the observance on the campus. Services were held at high school and junior high Monday through Friday at 2 p. m. and at 9 a. m. on Tuesday and Thurs day at the elementary school. Rabbi Malev of Houston addressed all students of the Consolidated System during the week. This has been the fifst Religious Emphasis program attempted at Consolidated. In the past, students who have so desired attended the A&M services. tions, and , Warrei j Switzer ami) Jim Gerharijt as fbrwards. Hometown Hoping Davis, a g High School, a ;nuluale of Nederlaml , will! have hia firit; opportunity to play in the coast area a& an Aggie Starter. Never, ones to miss such a! chance, many; relatives and frrtnds . of the 6’; 8V4” center are expected to wit-I ness the battle. Currently, tied SWC standings, win all three for any possiblj crown—and this < slip up. Should or TCU finish t) victories, the out of the race. , , . , “Right now, We’re concentrating on beating Ric^ and holding on: to our present; position,” Karow; said yesterday. I ! or fourth in: Cadets must: ining games; share of the; if the leaders: MU, Arkansas,: ilr seasons with; s would be: Other 'Gamed ’ fit ; , '*t In other conference tilts this weekend, Texas will play host to: SMU at Austin, while TCU in-: vades Fayetteville to encounter Arkansas. SMU is currently looming ns the; title favorite, 'not only becausg of their present position in thd top spot, but also because of ,a rel atively easy reipaining schedule, j Arkansas, probably the worst fiiF- Must 1 threat to hopes, must MuMang crown! et SMU in Dallas! The Texas tHtj this weekend is in Austin, and Baylor must play host to the Dallasites onc8 more. The Aggitfs have probably thq liest Mate, With urch-riv-j next eas ai Texas thi game. TCU, be the only game for Watchin, outs hefon Karow sai(J cording to 4 Fort Worth, will *■ out-of-town nffaiv.. r night’s Houston CbdetsT ; no of the final work! m nd the lyestei their )wl encounter} rday, "Rice, ac; coach, around seven easy crip shot! against Baylor—enough to have won the game. Our game will hr rough.” " X. Ray Discusses Pre-Law Study Pre-Law Society member^ and other interested person® will have an opportunity Tuesday in the Dorm 2 lounge Judging ClasH Will Visit Alamo Uitv /U1 > l: v ■f '"i j ti . 7 ' • m D# Ann Malcom, Junior Clasa Sweetheart, receives from Glenn McCarthy. Miss Malcom wan escorted by i of C, Field Artillery. She is a student at Hoekaday in Dallas. ii I is gift D. Hiaton College 1 'Y Visit Alamo City Advanced Livestock Judging class plans to make a practice trip to'San Antonio this Saturday.’ I The class will observe fat steer judging and will participate In practice judging of fat barrows, lambs, steers, and breeding cattle. Jim Bob Steen. Cecil Levels, Glen Dunkle, Pst Henccrling, Bert Gibbs, Ed Latham, Hubefto Reyes, Douglss Wyth, Maxie Overstragt, Charles Smith, B. U. Terry, War ner Lindig, and John Khemann ate members of the group competing for placet on the two teams that will represent A&M (n the Inter- collegiate contest at Oklahoma City on March 18. Child Htudy Club Hears study Book ■■ ■ Revk j. What constitutes the mature mind and its need for stability was the theme of a review of “The Mature Mind” presented to the Child Study Club by Mrs. John Sperry. . to hear jProfegsor Roy R. Ray; chairman of curriculum and su pervisor of instruction at SMli, discuss how an undergraduate stu dent can best prepare himself for law school, Philip Goode, organi zation sponsor, has announced. Ray’s talk will follow the even ing meal in Duncan Mess Hall. The distinguished Southejn Methi- odlst professor and Whitney R. Harris, a Dallas attorney who is presently a visiting professor of law at SMU. will be guests of honr or at the dinner, Goode said. Brian Moran, newly elected pres ident of: the society, explained,thal [all pre-law students and any Oth er interested persons are invited to eat witjh the group. Non-corps students, and non-students will have to pay the usual 50e for the family-style Duncan meal, Morah added. . j Ray will discuss The Law of Ev idence before the Brazos County Bar Association at a iluncheoh meeting Tuesday, Goode bald. Ar thur SleWirt, a vice-president of the association and co-sponsor with Goode pfi the campus Pre-Law Sd- cfety, Commented that the visit ing spe|aket- ip an authority on hfis subject} as he collaborated with Charles T. McCormick In editing “Texas; Law of Evidence”,-if book consulted daily .by practicing law yers and Judges, Harris was fdrmerly a prpseci|- tor In the waif crimes trials at Nurenburg, Germany, and It is #K* peeled that he will be callfd upon at the meeting to discuss some of his unique experiences, Moran cor - jT? : -j———« ;j Bucek Elected To Head Lavaca Club J. F Bucek, buslnsss adntinl®* tratlon major from HallcUvilti-. president of the Lava.: IM Club at the regu- Thursday night, bars elected were Jd vice .president, Jimm sec re try, W. A. Hindi .... Daniel Beran, rep tin Kasper, social chai P for • "Pring party w« ,,,, ,,J 1