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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1950)
T-r City Of College Station Official Newspaper Tie UBUSHED Battalion IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggiefend), TEXAS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1950 j . Nation’s Top CoUegiate Daily ’ NAS 1949 Survey Volume 49: Number 97 y lb y ' * Z ' IW+ * * f -■ „ A wmmm l,. 'L The 4Q-member ¥sCVV Modem Choli* sang as lovely as they looked in their Guion Hull concert Saturday night. The group was under the di rection of iDr. music at Tletis William E. Jones, professor of eland. ‘Goodwill Tour’ To Prairie View IVlade by Group Nine students representat- ing Student Senate and The Battalion spent Sunday after noon at Prairie View A&M on an unofficial student relations “goodwill visit.” The Aggie group was entertain ed by a group of 12 male and co ed students headed by Lloyd Scott, director of Student Life at Prairie View, and presently ic world’s Negr _.ms championship. « After a short visit with Di\JL- B. Kvnns, Prairie View presf3ent, 'the group was taken on a tour of tho campus add later sat in on a current events forum held regular ly oih Sunday afternoons at Prai rie View. M1»ts Vivian Brooks, junior pol itical; science major, and Miss Ruth Kclwrtnls, sophomore chemistry ma jor, presented a discussion on the „ atomic mini hydrogen .bombs and their affects on the national and international scene. Representing the Student Senate .Were Keith Allsup, president: Joe Fuller, secretary: Allen Ruhnnk, social committee chairman; Tom Calhoun, senator from Legett; and Dan Davis, Sophomore Class vice- president. P Bill Billingsley, Dave Coslett, Clayton Selph, and John Whitmore represented The Battalion. Bennie Zinn T assistant dean of men, ac companied the group. Invitations were extended by the Aggies for a group -of Prairie View students to visit the cam pus this spring. Tessie Vocalizers Make Hit In Guion j } By DAVE COSLETT Well-filled Guion Halt echofet back the voices of 45 singing love lies Saturday night as the TSCV Modem Choir sereneded scores |o:' appreciative Aggie brothers. But the ladies didn’t have ;t< rely on traditional prejudice t< please the crowd. Talent did th job. Collectively and individually they paid fine tribute to the wo!rl of their able director, William !E, Jones, professor of music at Tes sieland. -. jl v A program that contained, as the group had promised, music to appeal to all types of music lovers included among other se lections “Romance”, “Yours is My Heart Alone”, “Sulangdo,” “Ay, Aiy Ay". “Creole Juanita", “Two Lullabies”. “Jolly Farm er”, and “Barn Dance”. Soloists Joan Loerr.el on. th piano and Winona Perkins on jp violin proved fhat the group wan not limited to vocal talent, Othe members of the choir, incidentally are accomplished musicians in o er lines. In the vocal solo line, many the girls displayed fine pitch, tohe and delivery. These soloists n eluded Delores High. Betty- Po n dexter, Kitty' Bethal, and Lou Ah Wright. Ably filling Director Jitoes shoes several times throughout the performance was Lady Lo Terry, assistant conductor a the Modern Choir. Sweet-voiced Loyce Miles hand led announcing .duties for th; night and drew very favorably audience response from her co ments as wen other attributes Mary Ann Watson did a fine : • vV- job of providing piano accompani ment for the night. Before their Guion show the Tessies were entertained at a tea held in the YMCA by the local chapter of TSCW Ex-Stu dents under the head of Mrs. W’illiam L. Braddy, ’38 presi dent. Social Committee Chair man Mrs. Joe Barren, ’46 ar ranged the informal reception. Some of the members attended the Freshman Ball in Sbisa after their Guion performance. - Late Wire Briefs 4 f ■ 1 Washington, Feb. 27—(A*)—Senators,,Taft (R-Ohlo) and Lodge (R-MassT battled openly today over a proposal to change tjhe way j electing presidents. ‘ The—Lodge bill would divide each state's electoral vote betw< e i presidential candidates on the basis of the popular vote they goi. Now, the candidate with the most votes in any state gets all of thait state's electoral votes. -J Wtlmore, Ky„ Feb. 27—(Ap—The spirit of religion and reverfnjt , dedication to Ood which has swept Asbury College here for four dayp was unbated today. A thousand persons crowded the college’s red-bric c Memorial Auditorium again today _and tonight to sing. pr»y, testify and "praise the Lord” with an Impressive tone of sincerity. Dr. T. M. Anderson, a teacher in the department of the Bibl' said regular classes would be resumed Tuesday on & required haul: i, but several students declared the sessions probably would centilitre ^.'as long as necessary.” There were no classes today. Old Fashioned Flu Invades Texas Towns Old-fash ionetl type flu has struck hard in several Texas communities, the Associated Press reported today. The news was. particularly pertinent to College Station, which has been having more thin its share of flu and head colds this week.; Handkerchiefs we,re seen in increasing numbers about! the campus, andj the college hospital reported a rise in its number of flu patients, although the trend was nowhere near serious propor tions. . One physician estimates a third of Abilene’s people are 11^. Flu also has laid its crippling hand on Big Spring. The disease is declining at Wichita Falls after raising school absenteeism there to 25 per cent ten days ago. Abilene doctors were swamped. Some were handling 50 cases daily and had to give prescriptions by telephone. “It's the old fashioned type of flu that we had during the first World War.” the Abilene doctor reported. “Most cases have been light, ami no critically ill patients have been reported.” The World War jl flu epidemic was deadly. Apparently highly contagious, the disease often strikes entire families. Abilene schools had 1,166 absent, Friday. ' | At | Big Spring, bosoital* were jammed. Doctors and druggists worked long hours. School absen ces rose to more thin 500 a day. Coach Carl Coleman cancelled spring football practice. .School absenteeism at Wichita Falls fell from 25 per cent ten days jago, when flu was at its height there, to 12 per cent Fri day.. I At j3an Angelo, absenteeism was up to 10 to ?0 per cent, but plumps were more tp blame than f|u. Council Meeting This Afternoon h 1 - The College Station City Cduncil will meet today at 3:30 p. m. According to reliable sources the Council will decide Wheth er or not to repeal the city ord inance which requires^ that dogs be confined to Hip pre- tnises of their owner#. Dr. Trotter to Address Victoria Rotary Club Ide P. Trotter, dean of the graduate school at AAM, will de liver two talks at Victoria on Tues- February 28. wiU address the Rotary at a noon luncheon meeting low America Does It,” and at ni jht he will talk to the Farm- 1 ..uncheon Club, j N Bids Open For Land Sale In Brazos Bottom One thousand, two hundred and seventy-one acrea of rich §razo8 River bottom land near the Agricultural Experi ment Station land In Burle son County is Mug offered for sale by the Board of Directors of Texas AAM. ' > The land Is located in the John P. Coles Grant on Farm Highway 50 and Is located about seven miles southwest of College Station. Bids will be received on three sep arate tracts of 670, 151, and 450 acres, on the entire acreage, and on anv combinations of the tracts. Sealed proposals for bids will be received in the Office of the Comptroller of the AAM System until 2 p.m., March 15, according to Holzman. At this time the bids will be publicly opened and read In the lecture room of the Agricul tural Engineering building. For full information and bid-j ding forms, write W. H. Hobmann, Comptroller. Texas A&M College System, College Station, Texas. Bidding Forms, other data and in structions, with notice of when property cgn be inspected will be furnished on request. • Proposals shall be submitted only on forms furnished and shall be in sealed Envelopes furnished with proposals Holzman said. The College wlill reserve one-half of the mineral, oil and gas rights. The Board of Directors will re serve the right to reject any and all bids and to waive any and all technicalities, Holzmann con cluded. Student Mother Will Be Named ‘Mother of Day’ This year’s “Aggie Mother of the Day” will be selected from a list of nominees whose sons are now in school accord ing to a vote taken at this month’s meeting of the State Federation of A&M Mother* Club*. Allen Kutmnk, social chuirmaiji of the student senate, presented student letters and the argument of the student body for selecting the Mother of; a student presently in school. The vote taken follow ing Enbnnk’s presentation was un animous. ! E. E. McQuillan, director of the A&M Development Fund, also pre sented to the group a request for approval to contact the various Mothers Clubs explaining the scholarship program of the De velopment Fund. i He also asked that the Mother* Clubs contact high : school prin cipals throughout the state ask ing them to have students write to the college who are interested in a scholarship. About 40 scholarships are avail able for students in the upper third of their class, McQuillen said. Whites Smash Maroon Team Freshmen ‘Swing Out’ all Bobbie Boy(fatun Named Fish Sweetheart at Annual Affair IUH1KK COMLKTT The walla of SbitRi Hall itatoundud to tho (Unclng foot of the claim rtf ’53 Saturday light uh they and tholr date* took to the floor to rjick and »wuy to n variety of mualcal compoHltione rendered by the Aggieland Orcheatra for the annual Freshman Balli Formal bedecked laimeH gnd their dates twirled on the dnhee floor beneath a canopy of mafoon I and white crepe paper sprinkled {with hundreds of differently shipped ballons. Against the wl»ll Were potted palms and evergreen boughs intermingled wi|th flags of the; state, college, arid armed service#. Adding to the affect were cut silhouttes of dancing couples and a; ‘kiss and tell’ statue in the corner near the band staijid. Backprop for the orchestra was a huge cardboard sailfish on a maroon and writ* draped curtain with the class numerals above and to the right of it. Another sail- fish adorned the entrance to the hall. Highlight of the- evening of fes tivities was the presentation of the Freshman Sweetheart. All six finalists were introduced during an early intermission from an original field of 77 entrants by Annex staff members Maj. H. B. Gfeer, Lt. Col. R. L. Melcher, Mrs. Ann Hil liard, W. G. Breazeale and C. H. Ransdell., . Final judging duties wpre turn ed over to J. P. Abbot. Dean of Arts and Sciences; H. W. Barlow, Dean of Engineering, and A. H. Shuffler, director of information and publications. After careful consideration the judges choose Bobbie Boydstun, an 18 year old, 5’5” bruiiett from Shreveport, Louisiana, as Fresh man Sweetheart. The young miss, who was making her first trio to Aggichuid, wore a white should erless formal trimmed in red. Her escort was Willard Sholar, of* bar- Maroon** Hob! StatiMtic* E«igc But Whiten Takje 25-7 Victory By IIAKOM) GANN ' Three iibhh intcrccptionH an urlie Saturday by U 25-7. HtandcrH gameo. oyalty enabled the before a crowd In the aecond of foui a 05-yard to\ chdown run Chiton to trip he Maroona, of 150 nun bleached by* Mpring train ng gridiron Freshman Class President Jack Brooks of McLear, during a brief presentation ceremony. As the evening progressed and the stag ratio continued! to grow with a mild sprinkling of senior boots, a crowd far beyond expect ation necessitated the opening of the east wing of Sbisn Hall. A short inpromptu yell practice was held in the closing hour of the dancet Midnight f<l>und the assembled patronage weaving in familiar fashion to the strains of "Saw Vursitiy’s Homs Off”. Tired but happy’couples stream ed from the Hall with tjhe mem ory of the dance fresh in their minds; headed for the waiting transportation and disappeared into the night. For many Freshmen it was their first dance on, the campus; but to all it was a milestone in their col lege career. racks T-355, from Shreveport. She received a gold loc^ appropriate inscription. from heart of the Freshman Class. Inking on Miss Robbie Boydstun of Freshman Class President Jack Brooks one of the fliinllsts, from Houston. being named Hweot- Mlss Helen Woodward, | j j Brothers and Rose Play Guion Tonight By JOHN WHITMORE ! Slim, dust off I your levi’s the Maddox Bros, and Rose are com ing to^ Guion Hall tonight at 8 p. m. Admission will be 70c for students, #1 for non-students. j. This well-known band is recog nized by some authorities includ ing folklorist Roland Bing, of Oak- wood, Texas as the nation’s most colorful western and hillbilly band. They were selected to entertain at the World’s F^ir held in San Francisco, to play for the Presi- The Sloop System—Reading Made Easy For Youngsters By GEORGE CHARLTON Not many first graders can pick up a newspaper, read it, and under-| stand it all at the same time. But the little six-year-olds at Con solidated High School can. „ They’re not a particularly pre cocious bunch. They are merely under the capable direction of Cornelia Brown. Sloop who Tias found a revolutionary 1 process of teaching children how to read. During her 30 years of teaching, the smiling, good-natured lady dis covered the system that makes it possible for children who enrolled, in the first grade in September to be reading and understanding newspapers and magazines now. Her apecial education innova tion, which she has used for more than 20 years, has been nationally recognized and In based on what she term* the "phonetic method.” Before learning their ' ABC’s, children in her classes ore taught the names of vowels and sounds. Eventually they learn the sounds, and after the first six weeks, they are usually sounding the words for themselves. AH during thi* period, first graders are learning learning them by sound. “A n d without memorizing them,” Mrs. Sloop added. After 12 weeks, the children are usually ready to begin spelling; By the end of the first year they are all reading and, what’s more, understanding what they read. understanding five syllable words. “Most people don’t hear of first graders studying their lessons,” Mrs. Sloop says laughingly. “Well mine do.” To supplement her “phonetic” system, she has written and published her own text. She has written a special pt-e-primer, primer, and a first reader. AH are part of the “Home Life Ser ies of Readers.” “We used to use charts”, she says. She made these too and still has about 200 of them. Each summer Mrs. Sloop con ducts a special class for teachers from all parts of the United States. Last summer she taught her new methods to as large a class as BST( The course, entitled “Improvement of Reading, Spell ing, and Speech," consists of the application of phonetics to the teaching of rending, spelling, and speech included with an insight Into the science of speech and Anerican pronoundatlon. The AAM Department of Education and Psychology offers her sum- mcr course. Newcomers to Hear Bryan Decorator Frank Coulter, Bryan Interior decorator, will address Neweom- Club at A&M College at 3 ers p. m. next Wednesday, March 1, at the YMCA. He will speak on The topic, “How Not To Be A They are also pronouncing and Pumpkin.” She uses children in demon strations in these summer class es, conducted at Consolidated. She has demonstrated her sys tem with children in Gatesville, Bellville, Linden, Hearne, and Calvert. Mrs. Sloop has | spoken to var ious club and education groups concerning her new teaching find and has written qn article on the subject which was published in the 1947 June issue of “The Out look.” Beside the special reading pro gram, Mrs. Sloop tries to schedule history, geography, addition and subtraction, art, health, nature study, and music into the first grader program. “We also study the flag and flag etiquette,” she says. The veteran teacher ha* taught every grade from the first on up. She has even Ween school superin tendent. But She! says she likes first graders besli. During her lengthy education. Who attended TSQW, the Univer sity of Wlsehnslni the University Of Missouri, LSU. A&M, and Welt Texas State Teacher’s College. She has attended seven colleges in all and has received ia bachelor’s arid master’s degree. 1 While at LSU, she began evolv ing her present reading system. She was taking speech at the time. LSU; bigwgs In the education department spotted her work Im mediately and asked her to stay . and teach some summer classes on ’Jjhe subject. dent’s jBall in Sacramento. Coli- fgornin! and to play at tiw Cali fornia pnd to play at the Cali- It Is Ironical that this bund which hailx from Alabama, re ceived its first national recog nition ! (n California, The group started out its entertaining ca reer in California. This family team originally or ganized in 1938, but when the war capie three of the . four brothers went into the army. Al ter the war they re-organitjed apd. have been hitting high on all of the Western band hit parades since. | 1 In 1948, shortly after tfiey re organised, over 200;000 persons paid admissions to se<> the Maddox Brotheijs and Rose. Tjheir popular ity ratjing is attributed ip part, to them radiating personality. As One person said after hear ing them sing “When they Mart to sing, everybody in the audi ence stprts to smile”. Last! year they Started Some thing new for them, They started recording. Their record sales fol lowed ;the same Hne-Mhat their personal appearances did—they skyrocketed. Thejr recordings of “Tramp on the Street". “Flowers for the Master’s Bouquet”, and “Whoa Sailor”, have been on many!of the Western Hit Pa rade in the country. The Maddox Bros, and Hose are four brothers—Fred, v Ca j, Dpn, and Hjenry—and Rose, their sis ter. Helnry plays the mnndhlin, Cal plays jthe guitar and fha monies Don “paws the fiddle", a td Fred doublet^ on the bass and acts as the niafitcr of ceremonies for their apnearpn^es. Rose plays the bass; find also sings, pith the four brothers join ing in on the chorus. Bud Duncan, who has been with the band) so long he is considered -one of the brothers, plavs the steel iruitnif. Jlmnjiy Jeffries, who ulny* a hot otyctric guitar, has just ire cently jolneil,the hand. In order to keep up th >lr rep- elation of being one of t|he best dressed hands in the Country they have 15 different bright colered/uniforms. Rose. ej ercls*d a woman's Dernentlve. has 35 bright cowgirl uniforms. Tickets for thjc concert arc on »-le in the Student Activi ties Of- sent the flee until 5 p. mi, and at the tick- ore the | et offlpe at Guion Hall show. ♦ Gaining revenge Stiver the team that heat them, 20-f, the previous Weekend, the Whit s piled up 111 points liefore tilen'n Lippmnn could put the Maroons ha k in the game with a 70-yiml roijip late in the first quarter. ' , A 86-yard pass f lay in the sec ond quarter with ! Ray Graves throwing and Roy ilty receiving, gave the Whites tin ir third touch down and allowed them to hold a 19-7 halftime leac J The final goal-lii e thrust came early in the fourth chapter] when Quarterback Delmef - Sikes sneak ed 12 inches for i TD after ..di recting the only lustained drive of the White team Statistics Fav ir Losers The Maroons iutplayed the Whites in every i epartment ex cept punting, but alert, Sticky- fingered defensive White hacks were the downfal of the dark jersey eleven. Senior Halfback jRoynlty turned a midfield tug-o-var into wide- open football when re took a Lipp- man punt on his own five-yard line aim! threaded fiis \yay to the first touchdown of the . game pine minutes deep in th • first quarter. Displaying a h ghly effective changc-of-pace, P oyalty eluded many would-be-tai klers, but his long run would hai e been reduced if; it hadn’t been or a block by Bob Smith that era led LiopiPan on the Maroon 15 yar< marker. Doyle Moore, M iroon fullback, blocked End Charlii Hodge’s extra- point attempt. Nohavitza |Scores One minute late4 after ona had nin ‘ Elo Nohavitza sni roona had rUn bafk the /Ik'lekM’f, snagged a Garde- mnls aerial, driftea to the a I d e - lines, and steam-niSled his way 35 yards to paydirt. Hodge split the uprights to give thf Whites n 13-0 lead. The next time t le Mayoona got i\ the (mil, Lippman kook: a toss-out T from Oardemal In;the flats, elud ed three Whiles! Including. Boh Smith, and galloped 70 yards down the slthdlnes. Hooj c;t; liqunecd the Successful converal in off the roof of the little gym.r With four minutes remaining in the firsf. half, |)iincan put the Whites in striking! distance again when he interCetlted ii Maroon miscue on the 35-yjkrd line. Graves (See SCRIMMApE, Page 4) Weick Designs Lightweight Private plane Fred Weick, c irector of the Personal Aircraft Research Center at A&M, iddressed the Institute of Aer unautical Sci ences at a meet ng last Tues day evening. | V ? The topic of hiii discussion was the new agricultural plane which is being developed lat A&M. Weick- is credited with (the design and’ development of flie, Ercoupe, a private plane. 1 Re described thd airplane which is being designed At A&M to have a weight of 3,000i pounds, includ ing an 800 pound payload, The |- airplane is expedted to operate from 60 to 90 milas per hour with the aid of high lift devices. Weick stated Qiat the recent accident record t>f airplanes in agriculture has nof been exception ally high. In the War 1948 there was only one fafal accident for every 100 plane^j that were in operation. According to Weick, the present design consideration* will eliminate most <iT the common type, accidents. > Tha new type iplsne will give the pilot every pqaalble chance of survival In ease of n crash. A special typo shoulder harness and safety belt will be, employed which la designed to hold the pilot firm ly In his seat. Other safety fea tures will also he Incorporated Into the design of the plane. Earlier in the evening, new lAR officers were elected to replace tho*# who gradual ed in January. The men who were elected are John Taylor, chairman; Clyde Fits, vice chairman, and Roy Tute, treasurer. Miss Tina Grefory of Mexla. was chosen, as du :hess to repre- :be IAS at the Cotton Pag eant. She will bo escorted by Jim Kellcher, senior a|eronautical en gineering major.