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COLLEGE STATION (Aggiefend), TEXAS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1950 j .
Nation’s Top
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Volume 49: Number 97
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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
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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
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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,
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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.