The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, March 08, 1950, Image 1

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, March 08, 1950, Image 1

Newspaper Page TextEllington Tickets On Sale Thursday BILK BIUJNOHI.RY „ Tickets fo» the Dt<ke RIllriKton Concert will go on Male Thurndey momihjr In the Student Activities office, with non-military students getting a two-way jump on all other buyers, Grady Kims, Assist ant director of Student Activities, announced this morning. -■ J AH seats will be offered Thurs day and, Friday to non-military students only, Elms said, and after that they wilt be sold to any and all comers. Reserved section seats are priced at $1.25, and general admission tickets go at 80f. Concert tickets are being offer- e d to non-hulitary students first, Elms said, to compensate for their not being able to attend the Mili tary Ball, where Ellington and his \ orchestra will play latOr that night. Date of the concert-ball is Sat urday, March 18, and the con cert will begin at 6:30 p. m. in Guion Hall and the Ball will follow at 9 p. mr in Sbisa. An im pressive list olrguests. has already been announced by the Military Ball committeei with more expect- ed to be revealed later. Ellington and his celebrated dance aggregation are making their Aggielahd stop /on a rapid swing from" West coast to East coast. Elms said, thus making their local appearance one of their few mid-continent stands of the sea- eon. The Ellington group will be^the third' name band to visit the cam pus this year, following Tommy Dorsey and Frankie Carle whose bands were here during-the Fall semester. Since Ellington is playing here on a travel stop-over, rather than ojn .an organized cross-country tour,' Student Activities is confident thh Ellington band will be . intact with-all it’s outstanding sidemen, unlike many of the touring bands. Many .students expressed displea- sure, particularly after the Dorsey ' date here, at the touring bands for h}ring local, musicians to swell Ij the Aggie dancers had expected from recordings and previous views d- Consolidated Jr. High Adds to Staff The addition of two new teach ers And the appointment of a new social chairman were recent chan ges made in the faculty of A&M Consolidated Junior High School, W. T. Reidel, principal, said this morning. _ V . Mrs. Ann Barnes, junior high mathematics instructor, replaces Mrs. Gloria Stroud who is leaving for Houston. Mrs. Barnes, a Uni versity of Texas graduate, has a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree hi mathematics. •“i-The • other replacement is that of Mrs. Dorothy Rush for Mrs. Florence Mohr as English instruc tor. Mrs. Rush attended Baylor University, after which she taught two years in Liberty, Texas and two years in Waco. The appointment was- that of Mrs. Rowena Creswell, principal of the name outfits. Ellington is almost as welt known for th« noma sidemen he has developed In his orchestra ns for the orchestrations and songs he has produced. He is the author of “Sophisticated Lady”, “Mood Indigo", “Black and Tan Fan- tasiad, “Pink Cocktail for a Blue Lady”, and over 200 other publW ed, and many of them hit para< caliber, ..songs. Who's Dave! Coslett Js— ^Consolidated Elementary over School, as social studies chairman for 7 the elementary school prin cipal’s convention to be held April 14 in Sah Antonio. Weick Discusses Plane Progress In Fort Worth Fort Worth, March 7— : (AP)—An all-metal, low- wing airplane being built by hand A&M was described 1 yesterday at the sec- iai Nattonai Agricultural Aviation Conference being^held in Fort Worth. ~ | Fred Weick, director of re search for the plane, hopes it will be the ideal craft for use in agri cultural and farm operations. Weick, member of the Aeronautic cal Engineering department! at the college, told a crowd of 400 about work under way at College Sta tion. ' r The project is being sponsored jointly by A&M, th^U. S. Depart ment' of Agriculture, the Flying Farmers Foundation and the Civil Aeronautics Board. Weick said this airplane will have a flat engine and will be de signed to give maximum and minij- mum speeds required in the tricky and dangerous work of spraying and dusting crops. | Safety of the pilot is being con sidered, he said, with the low wings giving protection in case of a crash. Visibility, will be insured at all times, something lacking ip today’s planes. The fuselage will serve as a hop per for the materials. A payload of 800 pounds is planned. Weick'was one of several speak ers who gave a thorough goinj annan 1 BMed on A$ epanaion of ic and f< tralninj yeate Jl5c mittee turo Fi The fi and rajich group drew up a teptative resolution calling was edera form Reports A&te’s do- reign trade i -ecommended in Austin by a com- the T^xas Agricul- ieratlon. gr. Hoi the Brannan plail “worse than noria at all,” and offered a sub- stit ite agriculture program The expansion <f the domestic am foreign trade t raining at A&M wa included in ' he suggestions off red by the committee’s reso- lut in. Other sugi 'estions includ ed :reatipn of a Texas Marketing Coi i unisaion to study the market ing status of Texas products. 1 . B. .Stiles of Hamilton head ed the committee, which offered an “eight-ball’ fa m program to get the federal go 'eminent out of the farming business. Said the tentative resolution in part: “Since Cong: ess, agriculture and the American public are be- hirl i the eight ball due to the cur- L explosive federal farm pro- m, offered for adoption as the future onal farm policy.’ -Commission Brannan Plan le plan would allow the gov- ment! 18 mont is in which to ume its responsibilities for ning | world m trket, trim the sal s of the presen; farm program, bring it into Iry-dock for de mission.” three-point 1 ederal program i offered. First t suggested that federal goverrment dispose of cqiimmodity icldings by the of 1951, retai ling only a rea sonable stock sup >ly for national security- cond, the resolution urged use ofpthe present la Vi on price sup- pofrts, acreage alio ments, and mar keting quotas onlv , through 1950, with corrections o be made for 1951, and these pn grams to be dis- continued by Jan. 1962. Httorer Recommendations t|rged ird, a prompt enactment of tiqns on agriculture into law was I i/f’ At the state level, the resolu tion recommended L that Texas the eight ball A “Class of 1952” carved from hundreds Of pounds of ice was probably one of the most unique and unusual at tractions ever placed in Sbisa Hall. Prepared by Class President Dick Ingels, right, and Dave Nelson, left, the carving featured decorations for Sophomore Sweetheart Ball. Singing Cadets Go On Tour Tomorrow Sixty Singing Cadets will leave drive back to thle Dallas studios I Ji.l-T? i Turin A A OOA faipnera not join production and gratns after 1950 grams are improv [On a county ranch people were agriculture counc riculture inventor farm labor probl :ms, to promote rural development of housing, hos pital, schools, churches, roads, and utilities. any government mat-keting Ipro- unless the pro- ed- :>asis, farm and ■ advised to form Is, to make ag es, to solve the Thursday morning for an extend ed week-end singing tour of North Central Texas. The. Cadets — along I with di-] rector Bill Turner, assisjtant direct or Leonard Perkins, and accom panist YaVerne • Hunt—ydU gave six concerts and record a 30 min ute radio program during their four-day tour, which will cover five cities. : Leaving College Station at 7:30 a. m. Thursday, they will drive to Arlington State College: for a 1 p. m. concert. From Arlington, they will motor across to McKin ney for an 8 p. in. concert in the McKinney High School auditorium, under the sponsorship of the Mc Kinney A&M exes. They will spend the night in McKinney and drive to Dallas Friday morning for a 10 o’clock concert at the Highland Park school for that school's stu- bodyjiud faculty. rom Dallas they go to Fort Worth Polytechnic high school auditorium [for a similar 1:15 p. m. program for that student body and faculty*. j , Later that afternoon they will •- Who's Who at A&M - tend- of WFAA- 880 to cut a transcrip tion, which will that station Saturday from 4 un til 4:30 p. m. Friday night dets will appear Alex Spence Jr. the Singing Ca in concert in the High school au- Thirty minutes will be televised. Friday night in urday night, ani lege Station Sur be broadcast on ditorium, under tie sponsorship of the Dallas A&M Mother’s Club. of the- program They will spend Dallas. Net Campus Chest At noon Saturday they embark for TSCW for the final concert of their tour in the main auditorium at 7:30 p. m They will remtiin in Denton Sat- retum to Col- day. ; r riuui concer high! i dmkb Froi ‘Pinkie 9 First In Chest Drive P. L. “Pinkie” [Downs, Jr., was the first nian to Contribute to the Campus Chest drive. During a speech at Monday’s evening meal in Duncan Hall, he presented con tributions fori six [Aggies who have died during the past year and for himself. hs were given in i;an D. Roberts, ferry O. Bisson, San Antonio, Texas; Norbert J. Lucas, Marlin, Texas; Hugh R. Wood, CorsifcanaJ Texas; Marcus K, Brown, Wichita: Falls, Texhs; and Warren J. Melton, Ft. Worth, Next concert tour for the Ca dets, according tj Perkins, will be an April 22 tour to Corpus Christ!. This weekend’s! tour will be made . In.!tSA ctoftorod | Uuagw and * pri vate car, Perk ini added. Watson Joins Agronomy Staff Dr. James E. Watson, Jr., first A&M graduate to obtain an advanced degree in turf, will return March 15 to the Department of Agronomy to lead turf investigations and in struction, according to Dr. J. Ej Adams, department head. Since graduation here in 1947i Watson has been doing advanced studies in . turf at Penn State Col lege under the sponsorship of the U. S. Golf Association. A degree of doctor of philosophy was recent ly conferred upon him by that inj stitution. . While completing his last year Here Watson was a graduate as sistant in the Department of Ag ronomy Boatner Talk On Training Given in Sbisa By CURT EDWARDS Col. H. L. Boatner, com mandant and PMS&T' spoke on A&M’s ROTC program yesterday at the weekly luncheon of College Station’s Kiwanis Club held in Sbisa Hall. Vice-President A. C. Magee pre sided over the meeting in the ab sence of President Joe Motheral. Motheral is attending a meeting in Washington with the Bureau of Agriculture Economics, and the representatives of the Land Grant Colleges. The primary objective of the military training of A&M is to develop leadership, Col. Boatner told the group in an after-dinner speech. X good military leader makes a good civilian leader and a good civilian leader makes a good mili tary leader, he said. The exact time of any possible future war being so uncertain, he continued, a man graduating from A&M may enter the service im mediately or he may wait several yeays if he enters at all. During his [wait he forgets much of the nomenclature and details of mili tary life but what leadership he has learned stays with him. Boatner praised the citizens of the community and college offi cial* for their splendid coopera tion in the past “With your kind of cooperation from everyone, the corps of cadets will continue to achieve the rating of “pre-immln- ently outstanding” received in last year’s federal inspection,” Boat ner said. * • Earlier in the meeting, W. M. Potts, chairman of the underprlv- ileged children’s committee, re ported that the primary need of a of local school children was Much needed eye and care is being arranged for ugh the state and local prac- tioners. The teachers of the Negro school have provided a list of seven girls who are in need of dresses in the following sixes: three girls, four feet tall, weighing GO pounds; two girls, four feet-si* inches tall, weighting 70 pounds; and two girls, four feet-six inches tall, weighing 60 pounds a piece.,; By RID ABERNATHY all-fiuiuUy ori'hsstraiu Ths Campus Chest last night iut- [fi#* followed'by /'I Bawl ed approximately $400 towafd polka". Its $4)000; goal with the presenta tion of the Campus Chest'Variety Show in Guion Haiti Entertainers from Bryan and College Station combined talents to provide a lui-ge crowd with! a variety of entertainment. H. W. '“Bud” Barlow and his good as of work Scribe ress Talk ournalists newspaper is only as clothing, teeth car Loveless, Stockwell ORC Representatives Lt. Colonel Sidney L, Loveless, ORC Unit Commander, and Capt. Albert W. Stockwell, ORC In- striictpr, will represent College Station at an Organized Reserve Corps conference at Fort Sam Houston on .March: 9 and 10. The purpose of the coinference will pe to work with an indoctrina- tion ' team, appointed by the Sec retary of the Army, to implement the Restudy of the Organized Re serve Corps program. the type and quality put into it,” Wi. R. Beaumier, vice president and general manager of the Luf kin Daily News told journalism Students last night. The veteran newspaperman of 16 years explained that the suc cess of a paper depends on the de sire of the workers and the com munity service of the paper. A newspapejr has no right to exist un less it exists for the benefit [of the comdiunity, Beaumier added. Publisher Beaumier told listen ers that pince he had entered Jhe newspaper profession in 1924, wheels in the newspaper world have turned- to the extent that no longer are journalism graduates frowned upon by editors of the old school of] apprenticeship and-slow advancement. The Lufkin Daily News under Beapmie|’s supervision last! year was awarded third place in com munity service by the Associated Preps Managing Editor’s Confer ence, This award was presented by the APME after reviewing the New’s crusade against jopen gar bage cans in Lufkin. * “A'he^spapcfhnln ' m\iil ' :1ave pride in his production, the Will- ingnms to wotk, and; the native ability to write,Beaumier con cluded. [ ■ ' ■ r; ] ■ !T he show War Featured with (ItirloW'e bond was a junior high school trio com- Ellen HUMPH, 1 I sed of Mary 3$: A'it hi the turifc .Jiersfljjf ! r Hi|tri id ninde —'teST sui I’lcWii . Mury ijma Ixils aund won Joe Bar- Darnell, gton nnd enld sever- as “Oh Mama”, cl i in eti Do aylor. | ured witf u duet composed ran and Miss Ms: both music teachei-sjp , Edwin L. “Ed” HlUtrin his hillbilly band at old time favorite: Johnnie”, f'Pistol PL. r „ and “More Beer”. If W. P. Singleton, gi nee ring [ major, ceremonies and pra for the epowd'with]flie hand tricks and easy goir Singing Cadets The Singing Cadrt* the live itariion of; [the singing such favoriteil; as Like a Dame’’. “In t Night”, ahd “I LovC Y< The audience pirtiripated in singing “Spirit of A$gie|and”, the .,pK ;h];m syl-gc ■i leum en- njiaster of laughter slight of umor. Sllg g hi wound up show by “Nothing Itillof the last number on *th« Before the showi: dgram. the film, ced”,Mon- T of We’ve Never Beenj^ick-- , tv Montgomery, chairman of the] chest drive, gave a, report on re ceipts for the night ;|tnd total dor mitory collections uj} to date. Funds Rii Final tabulation llijr dormitory ; contributions at 4:3(L p. n. yester-; day was $928. Approximate re<4jbts for the] show were $400, liitking a totpl; of approximately $li80(l contribu ted to wal'd the goaljii- The Campus CheMf:plans to set aside $2j000 of thf glal for a; Twelfth Man Srhq^^rsliip- 1 This; will be a student spqpsored schol-; urship which will *■ liable some de-; serving youth to c^^plcte his ed *t of the! ’tunids will go; H I “ ‘eiit Service; i Indent nr ucation. A -qua for the [ World S FunVan jlntcrontloi™ —r lief fund. jp Remaining funds ’will bt> held ns a reserve fund to jbletj the needs; of the student body f . Student Drops From Floors Unsepecting 1 P \[\ Another Mrs. Reynolds Proje ct j By JOHN TAPLEY “I’ve seen thousands 1 of them oome through the door, but that’s the first one that ever c*me through the roof to see me.” This unusual remark was voiced today by R. A. “Pop” Downard of the Industr|al Extension Service. He w!as speaking of Douglas ; C. Osburnj a 233-lb. senior, who step ped off a ladder last Thursday af ternoon! and landed op Pop’s Head about |8 feet; later. Osburn had ibeen climbing a :lad- der to [ fix an aerial, for the re cently held Industrial Education Conference. The ladder began to slip backward, and Osburn, seeing the firm looking M decided tb jump ontfrijt. When he hit it, r beslos roof Hhatuji Osburn was delive: ward Luckily, no jured. pownard. •1 Bin Billingsley The Religious Emphasis Week committee was en tertained at a banquet last Thursday night by the YMCA. Successes and failures of the var ious phases of the past .RE Week were dis cussed and plans were mad* for next year’s week of inspiration. Members of the committee are first row: Gordon Gay, King Egger, Curtis Ed wards, David Rice, Don Hinton, Lditia Bruecher, and Allan Eubank. Second Jarvis Mille y Charles Russell, M. L. Cashion, r Lindig, N Wenter Thifd row: C- O. Smith, Fred Brisen, Treiman, Lie yd Man Patrick, C. I. Ram Sneed, F. C. Bolton. r. rJvr T -1 .iv j.-; Davis, lig, Nlorman Braslau, Willis m Irvine, Josh anjeot, Walter Manning, R. L. isdeli, W. L. Penberthy, James w. Bennie Zinn, Doran, Mrs. lack McCarley, Cates to Speak In Issues Class f John M. Cates, public liai son officer with the State De partment, will be the main speaker tonight before the Great Issues Class, Dr. S. R. Gammon, head of the History De partment, said this morning. Cates is an expert on the work of the United Nations, Gammon said. His subject for tonight’s talk is “Accomplishments of the Uni ted Nations.” Cates will come to A&M from Dallas where he spoke yesterday. After spending the night here, he will continue on to Houston where he will deliver another talk. Tonight’s talk will take place in Room 301 of the Electrical En gineering Buildings. All students enrolled in the Great Issues class were asked by Gammon to. be pre sent. Any other persons Interested in hearing Cates’ £alk are also in vited. The talk will begin at 8 p. m. Yesterday’s Great Issues Class was canceled, Gammon said, so that students would not have to spend more than the required num ber of hours in actual classroom work. The next Great Issues speaker after Cates will be Harrison For man. His talk is scheduled Mon day evening, Dr. Gammon conclud ed. Civic-Conscious Housewife Plans School Days ’ Drama receive a cut on tH jured vertabra anc Osburn suffered sore fingers. Pop j “if he hid landed er to me he would' neck. As it was, glancing 1 blow.” Two either persor at the time, wer down. Downard for a few minutes, the only 1 damage Pop added thati had been eight ii] the right, he mi* fatally injured Pop relates thatl utes ’til |ll Thursdi I was in the tool ( student. Then the ■l come down on us." Shop roof,: irittle as- ! and thus r i ito Dow nf ; one seriously in-; ard, hib w e v e r, did; ■! h'ad, an in-; tore' ankle.; j- fon y several]/ fleeted that inches clos- e broken’ my] was only ui By GEORGE CHARLTON A gray-hair«id College Station lady with a friendly way about her and a long list of past achieve ments on record is presently managing, casting, and directing a local production called “The Dis trict School of Blueberry Cor ner" to be presented on the Con solidated gym stage March 17. Her name is Mrs. E. B. Reynolds. Not only is she ramroding the entire affair, but she is also writing-in special parts. Mrs. Reynolds at one time Mr another has been in charge of the Cotton Pageant on the campus, a regeant of the LaViliita Chapter of the DAR, treasurer of that or ganization, president of the Moth ers and Dads Club, treasurer of the Brazos County A&M Mothers Club, in charge;of the book fair at Consolidated la: it fall, member of the Girl Scou; Council, and Gi-ey Lady during the war. In t she Was partic latter capacity, ariy active in Field area. During the regular parties dents and offered her home the Bryan A i - war, she scheduled for wives of sty- meeting place organisations. She regularly enter tained Aggies : : for their various when her son was a bunch of boys,” she says con cerning the time. The boys liked to visit Mrs. Reynolds house so much that they came to call it the “Holiday Inn.” Her latest endeavor, this March 17 production, is in three acts and concerns the goings-on in a typical little red school house of the old fashioned variety. Coun try educational institutions in those days consisted usually of one room in which all grades were taught. AU scenes during the play will take place in the school- house equipped with such props as benches, blackboards, teach er’s table, dunce stool and cap, oaken backet, and gourd dip per. All costumes will be auth entic to the period of about M ”0 years ago. ying the part of to 79 years ago. Playing the pai er, one Hezechiah Pende: the irgai he English O. G. Hel- ectory has teach- iHii be C. K. Esten of the t. Reverend of St Thomas I taken another outstanding role, t of the little 4-year-old stu dent bedecked in rompers. When the play was last produced in Col lege Station 12 years ago, Ike his band in a concert before cur tain time and during intermissions. All members of the band will be appropriately dressed for the oc casion. Barlow’s band will provide musical background for dancing in the; gym after the play. [ [ Other members of the cast con sisting of approximately 30 per sons have been selected but have not been cast in roles yet. Final assignments to roles will be made next Sunday at rehearsals. Profits from the affair Which costs 50 cents for adults and 26 cents for school age will be used in helping to raise money for the Consolidated Band which was or ganized only last year. Announce ment of wheire tickets maybe pur chased will be made at a later date, i ] admission will pay for ly and dniwing after- ikes will lie sold at the lr * ' . Mrs. Reynolds was ap proached in an interview concern ing this, her latest project, she was also busily working on the State DAR scrapbook. The huge volume when completed will in clude all newspaper clippings of all chapters of DAR’s throughout the state. R will be sent to Dallas Perhaps this proves )what many ■ know—thaj.; anything cap at A&Mli| Tl un roof i,n Pop is hepBng, ~ , and Ozzy re ladders. | already happend patched. Pop .isn’t climbing anjjinore Exes’ Loans Boom, Exceed $180,000 j J , i i the room tbo knocked unconscious le r than that, a torn roof; ; the “visitor” further to, I lave been : j a machine, j it was (Lminl morning, and mr helping u if seemed to If/' ''[[if' ■ivi ' ill I '■ Loans totaling 026 were made tci Aggies iw 1949 by tip) Student Loan Fund; of the Asso ciation pf Former S|tyd''nts accord- B. Locke [of he associd- \: ing to tion. “The said short studen This plished a student on tie campus. ... ... “Our house w|»s always full-with engineering, will once again lead ri and from be judged etate sera; to Washington to a national contest of L , rpose o “is to it deservi: to get urpose w in 1,900 — i to the of the association, dents which commi ing a board meetii Any student w! A&M at least pne at least a 1.5 gr* eligible for a Ion: is not obligated to] dent loan fund, loans is. a minimi percent interest loans charge. At the end of the loan fund totaled $246,109, these loans]” ow financially and capable iu|gh school;”! yell accoia. para to loan* , cutive board Former Stti- ec Locke dnj'- Sunday. has been ter and ha: p<tiint ratio i providing y other sty charge for of 60*. Four charged on the mipimoin f d ' Locke.

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