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J, A. Mortenson
Given Annual
Burpee Award
Jo h n Mortensoh, senior
horticulture major from Cry
stal City, last night received
the annual W. A. Burpee
award from P. R. Brison,
.head of the Horticulture Depart
ment. * ' J
’The _ award, a scholarship of
$100,^ is made available^ annually
by the Burpee Seed Company of
Philadelphia. It is presented to
an outstanding student of horti
culture by a selection cominittee
appointed by the Horticulture De
partment head. f
This year’s award was available'
to junior or senior horticulture
majors, currently enrolled, to be
used-rto defray college expenses.
Scholastic grades, certain pre-re
quisite courses, and general activ
ities of eligible men were consid
ered by - a three man .selecting
committee composed of S. B.
Apple, R. P. Cain, and H. C. Mohr
of the Horticulture Department.
Mortenson, a member i of the
Maroon Band, ia the son of Mr.
and Mm. Ernest Mortensoh. Mor-
~tanson’i father, an e^-Aggie of
the class of ^l, is a horticulturist f
at the Texas Agricultural Expert
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Bryan Builder Gets
Meth odist Con tract
A contract for the Sanctuary and between Warner’s Jewelry store
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the Transverse Unit of the pro
posed Methodis t Building Program
at A&M was let last Saturday
morninrf according to Fred R. Bri
son, professor af thle Horticulture
Department an I a-member of the
A&M Methods t Cturph Building
Comiriittee. ^1
The! contract was
X. Andrews, genera
Bryan. The W. E
Heating, Plumbing
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Miss Nancy Naylor
Misa Naylor has been selected
Bryan Chamber of Commerce
Duchess to A&M’s Cotton Pa
geant and Ball to be held next
month. She is a senior at Bryan’s
Stephen F. Austin High School.
let to Clarence
contractor in
Kutzschbach
i _ and Electri
cal Company has been employed to
install the heating and electrical
equipment, .according to Brison.
Construction Starts Soon
j • Construction work will start
j within Ifae: rieit jtwo weeks. The
Sanctuary will pe cohstructed north
of the present; Education Build
ing and will be located on the lot
Three Injured
In Auto Wreck
Wednesday
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jew de-
page
ir|ng tne
i niew aec-
! facilitate
the concentration of the [greater
part of College Station j news in
one place in the paper. The Bat
talion Co-Editors said tfifs morn
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The new section is aj‘further
step in The Battalion’s' recently
organized city: news department
and was provided as a reader con
venience, the .Co-Editors explain-
Li’l Abner has been moved from
the back page to page two to pro-
ride space for the new section.
( The comic strip will run on page
two each day except for the six/
page Friday edition when it will
' run on page four.
Changes made earlier as a part
•Of the Battalnoh’s city hews pro-
r gram include carrier boy delivery
_^to College Station residents land
V news stand sales. ^
! Baylor Frosh-Chosen
j States Club Duchess
X Patsy Barfield, freshman Bay-
| lor student from New Boston, was
/■■f" chosen to represent " the Four
^ States Area A&M Club at the Cot-
I j ton Ball and Pageant April 28.
[Miss Barfield will be escorted by
: • Jim 'Rodgers, club president
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car collinion on - highway 6,
juat outaido the College Sta
tion city limits.
Mm. Mniinttn Alcxnndrtn of Col
lege Station, driving oast through
the Intersection, received omy'
slight neck Injurtes while her two
and one-half year old daughter
was knocked unconscious.
4 Vardaman Wheeler of Route
Navasota was heading (north on
Highway 0. Wheeler received min
or hip, arm, anii thigh injuries.
The three victims were taken
to the Andre Clinic. According to
an early report, none were ser-
iously/Hurt. ^
The impact knocked both ve
hicles clear of the highway. Neith
er car could be. driven from the
scene. Two wrecker* were dis
patched to tow the cars away.
TO,
RHm McDermott
A junior at the A&
ed High School,
mott will represe
chapter of Future
of America as duchess
Cotton Ball, April| 28.
M Con-nlidal-
Miss McDer-
nt the local
Homemakers
to the
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Citizen’s Honesty
Costs Him Money
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Washington,- March 9—bP)—The
government is richer today because
of the honesty of -one Robert K.
Terry of 4100 Santa Fe Street,
Corpus Christi.
He received a $953.17 dividend
check on his National Service Life
Insurance. He mailed the check to
Representative John E. Lyle j of
Corpus Christi with the explanation
that he should have received only
$197.90.
Lyle is having the Veterans Ad
ministration make the adjustment.
Aggie Rodi* Team
Leaves for Alpine
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Six j members of [the Aggie Ro
deo team left yesterday for Al-
Igne and the second annual Sul
Ross Intercollegiate Rodeo. They
will compete with 12 other col
leges from the Southwest.
M a x i e Overstreet, Ch a r 1 i e
Wampler, Bo Damujth, Max Word,
Martin Manuel, and Bill Soyars
will cotnpete In bareback riding,
bull-riding, team tying, calf-rop
ing, and bulldoggihg.
There will be one performance
each afternoon for [Thursday, Fri
day, and Saturday] This will be
the first rodeo of the season for
the team, i i
Station State
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arid the College
Bank.
Approximately ten months will
be required for the construction of
the new buildings, Brison contin
ued. • J : IL .
The Sanctuary and the Trans
verse Unit will be constructed of
the same
cation Bi
pleted in 1947. When completed
these two buildings together with
the Education Building will cost
approximately $350,000.
Ground Breaking Sunday
(Ground breaking ceremonies for
the new building will be held this
coming Sunday by the local con
gregation and the Student Wesley
an Foundation Organization. Cleve
Walkup, an Industrial Education
major from Kirkland, Texas, is
the president of this student i
ganization. . - i
Ceremonies will be conducted
during the regular morning wor
ship at 11 o’clock. The program
will consist of a review of the
history of ( the A&M Methodist
Church, a presentation of the plan
ol[ financing; the building program,
and the regular morning service.
|At the conclusion of the service,,
tbe ground breaking ceremonies
will be conducted at the site of the
new building. This will consist of
tile dedicatory prayer which will
be followed by the ground break
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The following persons will par.
tlplnate In the ceremony, Brison
Httld. Rev, James F, Jsdkson, pas-
tejr of the A&M Methodist Church;
Tmihardt looks over his winning plate design. He won the 75th
anniversary Commemorative plate design contest held mv-ntly,
Treuhardt Is a first year design architecture student. Tlie plate Is a
standard 10^ Inches In diameter. The (alter and Inner edge of the
plate will lie gold. Hetween the rims will lie maroon ring with the
center white. The nnmeo of the presidents of the college and names
of some of the historic hnlldlngs will he printed In gold.
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By C. C. MUNROK
A mental picture of the inner
workings and the - successes of the
United Nations was painted for
students of the Great Issues class
last night.
John M. Cates, state department
officer in charge of the United
States Division of Public Liaison
at UN Headquarters, outlined the
“Accomplishments of the United
Nations” for 100 students and
guests in the Electrical Engineer
ing Lecture Room.
Corltrary to popular opinibn, 1
Cates, said, the UN has made some
great advances. 5 4iji
“You hear more of our failures,”
he continued, “but you don’t hear
too much of the progress we have
made in some of the little prob
lems which fit into, the great spec4
trum of problems., which* face the
United Nations.” '
.pi Examples
He ; cited disMemination of news
of modern agricultural methods
ns just one example of UN pro.
gress, Sending vaccine ubroiub tti
help curb disease, educating fmv
elgners to protect their crops find
food-'from locustsi rata gnd. ofMr
destroyers were other examples.
Cates used the opirations ol tbe
International iBank evidence
United Nations' p
bank, which is under UN sponsor
ship, provides capital! for vjenlurjs
which are too risky for privat* in
vestors.
Standardization ofj “rules of the
road” for international air travel
is another UN adcomplishtherlt
All the examples >vere effnetod
tthrough specialized Agencies oTtne
United Nations. '
Problems facing lithe UN arc
“fantastically diffictilt” Cates em
phasized. Difference| in langi age,
ideals, goals, and background 1 all
hinder rapid and effective H»ttle-
mehf of the moat aimple probl enr.s.
Social Groups progress
The social groupjof speciajlized
nK«m-it's Hie
also have made
said.
Shipping of iron
during polio epidei
exilniple, he eontimn
rial agenclea train
rited Nn ions
gress, (Fates
.mgs to ! ndia
|ch ia just one
Id. "Then» ho-
ediral pc non*
(form h •alth
its pol ticnl
Pi*ofeHsor M. C.-Hughes, represent
ing the Board of Trustees of the
A&M Methodist Churchf; President
F. C. Bolton, representing the col
lege, Mrs. W. R. Horsley, repre
senting the Women’s Society for
Christian Service; Cleve Walkup,
representing the Student. Wesley
an Foundation and Clarence An
drews, the contractor who has been
employed to construct the build
ings.
‘Engineer’ In Mails Friday
Features Agriculture Expose
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By GEORGE CHARLTON
Ridded Cooling Tower Units
To Furnish Reserve Power
the personal interview with your
employer. Jt is a mere formality
and nothing to get excited over.
The (personal interview is a carry
over from the old days and just
another one of - those obsolete
case Uie stall ol the Engin- practices which industry has not
^ 4 iscrapped.” . ... <
A revolutionary new
An answer to the humor-st|irved
student with the 1 slipstick [ and
drawing board has now been; pub
lished. Finally someone, and 'in
this case the staff of the Engin
Franc*** Simek
Miss Simek, a senior at A&M
Consolidated High School, will
represent the Horticulture Club
as its duchess to the Cotton
Ball, April 28.
the monotonous drudgeries of the?
slide rule student’s life and has
printed a special edition to revive
him from the dry heaves of frac
tions, figures, and formulas.
Initial article of this amusing
issue is an expose on none other;
than the School of Agriculture—
but naturally.: Incriminating pic
tures show the Ag student at work
—Cow Washing 119, Hog Slopping
313,. Education 411 lab (at the;
movies). Plow Pulling 438, Fence'
Building '401, and Hay Stacking
213. A special course offering the
student a precise “working know
ledge of the insides of a cat” is
depicted aiid designated Ugh! 213.
In reading “The Senior Sells
Himself,” we ‘ wele enlightened to
find out that “an overwhelming
percentage of college seniors want
jobs after graduation.” Good
grief! Think of all the competition.
The article goes on to list the
four steps in applying and get
ting a job. The fourth reads: “the !
final step in landing a job is
tiupcy
with graphs and working equa
tions ia expressed in the “Var-^
iables Affecting Intoxication.”
The author’s theory is based on
the following variables: M is
money available; R. A. is num
ber of feathers on last quiz;
V is volume of receiving cavity;
,C is course Majoring in; T is
time available; I) is degree of
.inebriation; and S is stagger
■rhetor. ■. ! - ■
On page 10, we find a short
story concerning the sordid trials
and tribulatioin of one Sam Smok-
easy, “ a belated sewage major in
the Class of ’39.” But now Sam
is jdyful. He needs only one Jiour
courses with which to graduate.
By the end of the stofy, things
come to paps so that, true to the
title, “Sam’s Had It!” He really
has.
Ag majors receive the well-
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By BILL THOMPSON
l ThlH hummer A&M is going to
hgvu more cool dear water than
/ever before. But before men. gut
, trampled In the rush to get the
liquid for the Impending hot! days,
there’s one hitch — ita all going
to be used for the power plant.
For right now the,-budding and
college Utilities' Department la In-
atalllng two new cells to the cool
ing tower ideated between the pow
er plant and “splinter village.”
These two new cells will increase
the capacity of the cooling tower
from 4,000 gallons to (1,000 gal
lons per minute, j
This additional water will be
used to Increase the power load
of generators in the power house.
The new cells, which wll| be put
info operation about Mar. 10, are
of the same type as those now
in operation. Being of the induc
ed draft type, each cell has a
large fan at the top sucking in
air. Water falling from the top
of each cell is then cooled from
98 to 84 degrees farenheit with
g wet bulb temperature of 78 de-
greea.
Guy 1SL Hines, chief engineer
for the power plant, is in charge
■of' the building and operation of
I the additions to the cooling tower
and has been liri charge of the
tem of the college after it is used
in turbines. By the time the vapor
gets buck to the condensers and
cooling tower, piost of it is con-
deitseul
During the summer months,
however, when the heating system
Is not in operation, steam Ims to
be cooled entirely by the conden
sers. Consequently, an extra load
Is placed on condensers and j tower..
..Condensers used by the college
are service type edndensers, Steam
from the turbines goes into the
29-inch vacuum of tna condensing
chamber and cools into water on
the pipes which ran through the
eham tier. Water from the tower Is
circulated through pipes in the
chamber. And when jit gets hot, the
Water; is diverted back to the tow-
ur to !>« cooled.
The boiler that provides steam
for the turbines ! has been in
operation since IH4Q and has
been completely sdlomatlc since
the latter part of I1H48.
It pfpvIdoH 100,000 pounds of
steam per hour or; approximately
.1,000 horsepower. It) operation one
full year without turning off the
"heat”,'the boiler Hus an automa
tic filing'and draft control and
an automatic water control, mak
ing it almost seif Operating.
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plant since 1927.
Hines explains that the pre
sent tower provided enough cool
water to keep one 3,000 kilo
watt generator in operation, but.
that sometimes the power plant
was called upon to provide more
powfer than this, especially dar
ing summer months. The addi
tion of cells will provide a safetjr
factor for the plant.
During the winter months, steam
jed in the turbine generators is
irected through the heating sys-
This recently^completf^coolinR unit shown in earlier j
cooling unit. The unit ia to condense steam used in the generators
in the Power House and is powered by a large suction fan at the
of con-
the college’s
top of the cooling tower.
Trotter Speaks
Before AAUP
Dr. Ide P. Trotter, dean of
the Graduate School, will
apeak to membera of the lo
cal chapter of the American
Association o f University
Professors Thursday night at 7:30
in the Assembly room of the
YMCA. His subject will be, “Prob-
llems Now Confronting the Grad
uate School,”
At the end of his talk, Dr. Trot
ter will be assisted by Dr. I. W.
Rupel, D. FL W. Jensen, Dr. R. D.
Turk, and Dr. A. W. Melloh in
answering questions and in ex
plaining the “problems” of the
Graduate School.
All members of the faculty are
cordially invited to attend and
hear Dr. Trotter, and to participate
in the question and answer period
to follow his talk, Otis Miller, vice
president of the local AAUP chap
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Walton to Address
Father-Son Dinner
E. V. Walton of the Agricul
tural Education Department will
be the principle speaker at the
Princeton Father and Son Ban
quet at Princeton on March 10.
“The Responsibility of Vocation
al Agriculture and the Commun
ity” will be the topic of Walton’s
address.
Combined banquets of this type
are part of the program of the
Future Farmers in developing a
better father-son relationship,
known bucket again in a little tale
iglo-S»xon bj
name of Egbert Yokel. Egbert is
about another Anglo-Saxon by the the purpose well.!
provocative lead sentence of “are
you tired?” If so, the story goo*
on to exploit), and if your G.-PjR.
is below par, change your course
to Play Engineering. The entrance
exairi is easy. AH you nave to do,
son, is “describe one woman, tell
one off color joke,, and.possess one
feminine raiment.” //But it’s really
not as bad as it sounds. / /
Three primary/'teoUrsek of tjhis
department, it seems, are Rhck
403, Bull 311, and Sex 662. When
a student has mastered the art
of telling males from females,
according to the article, he has
mastered the fundamentals of Sex
662. No mention; of lab work ik
made:,
A “For Parent^ Only” page s is
included in the issue, and since
we are not parents, we didn’t
read it. But it did; look good as wp
slyly flipped through the maga
zine a second time. 1' j
A1 in all, this is pne of the best
editions of the Engineer to (hit
the mailboxes in; a long time. The
cartoons are good (as usual. Thp
cover, perhaps, cOuld use a little
more color. And maybe the articles
get a little involved sometimes, but
as a pleasant surprise to humor-
hungry engineers, this issue serves
riel and promote
Htnndimls.”
^ The UN has ha.
aticcesMes ton, Cutes ekpluiiMd.
An a ruNult of u UN prottml, (he
KuhmIuiin withdrew from Irat af
ter Invading that nation. Tin *$•
plosive sit nation In Greece was
quieted because of|UN Interven
tion, he said. j
A ceuse-flre ordef was effected
In. Kaslimali ; l»ecaiiHf' of aetlcn of
11 United Nnilons iniMIutlnu g •itii|!>.
The Pnlestite true! was actum-
pushed. This latter siiccess wa 1 one
of the UN’s greatesl moves, Cates
said. He told of thi: codturien-old
conflicts which had kept that part
of thei world In constant turmoil,
and We explained tHe" significance
of the UN’s success In brir glng
abwt peace there.
Largely through United Nalion;’s
efforts, Gates saidji the Republic,
of Indonesia was < stgblishec.
Difficulties I Placed
“The^JJnited Naticiis faces e ctra?
ordinary difficulties in achi< ving
any satisfactory nej otiatiops. ’ He
told of the varying (oncepts o ! hu
man rights and international mor
ality and how they lindered «very
undertaking of the UN.
“However,” he c mcluded, “we,
are here. There is 4° use wii hing'
we lived in the past or in the days
of Buck Rogers. Vfe must work
out our problems, and the mensure
of our success will] be what will
happen in the next| 20 years ”
“The United Nations can wjrk,”
he said. “The United Statei en
tered into thd
good faith. The cl
framework necessa
nations of the wor]
their difficulties. '
to make It work."
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quite a character and Completely
unpredictable. For instance: "Sad
ie moved toward him as he ex
haled smoke through his ears.
With a High, she slipped into his
arm|i, and he pulled her down and
back on the sofa. Ho said tender
ly, fditl you know that the price
of exmi has gone up 314 cents a
bushel ?”
this month’s “Enghwerlnr
Personality,” a feature Is .Spot.
If you’ve been wondering
whpre the four legged canine
character has been keeping him
self lately, read the article and
sre the picture of the house In
which he’a bring kepi hostage.
Spot U Interviewed and slips l»y
revealing his recent ambition
to be Bean of Engineering,
h rankly, we think his chances
\almoat doubtful.
Other article begins with the
anization in
rtcr hat the I
to enabl > the
to wort; out
is up tjn us
‘Live What You Talk
Page Informs Group
lh, Idngdom of hlavon;
that, doeth the will of my Pi
which lit in henveni*’
The trouble wltli the w<
ui low, we must jive inr
ly we f “ “ ■ “ - ^ r
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By CURTIS EDWARDS
"If We want to keep our civili
sation going, we must not oply
talk about love, we must live )hr
way we talk," Kirby Rage said last
night in an address given in (the
First Methodist Church of ColU'gie
Station. T
Ptige, noted religious nuthqr
and lecturer, used Matthew 7:21
as the text for his speech which
followed u dinner given by -the
Wesleyan Foundation. 1
'“Not everyone that salth unto
ma. Lord, Lord, (shall enter .Into
Betty O’Bannon
Who’s Who at A&M
Miss O’Bannon will represent
the A&M Consolidated High
School as duchess at the annual
Cptton Ball to be held April 28.
She is a senior student.
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Residence Lecture
W. W. Caudill, research archi
tect of the Engineering Expert-;
ment Station, will speak to the
Architectural Society Thursday
evening at 7:30 in the chapel of
the YMCA, Bill Chamlee, club,
reporter, said today.
A former member of the design
staff of the Department of Ar
chitecture, Caudill will speak on
“Residential Architecture.” Col-*
ored slides will be shown with the
talk.
The Architects’ Wives Club has
been invited to attend, Chamlee
trouble wlt(i the wdlid’s
Christians today ij the contrast
of talking of; love Iwul prUet Icing
of violence, Page NMd. 1
We read the weriftturce dernmne-
Ing violence of any) kind and tuy-’ r ,
Ing do good lit ration of evil and
say we believe, yefi when at ag-
gressor threatens, ii nety-nlne twi-.
cent of the Chj lstll is can ex r»|aln
why wo must use vfolenee to pro
tect the chiirch.
Since Constantitiot first got Con
trol of the church " md fought his
wars In the name at the ch jfch,
the churches have Supported war
withbut exception. Small gioUps
may state their op| ositlpn to war
but never in 1600 years haij the
church taught pacif sm. , '
We should give , esus our
allegiance and follow him in
ger and through ai)parent di-feat
always believing.
In! the future, Ffege concl
we had not only better saj
right word but we had bettei
the right way, for | the Lord
he that doeth. my - rill shall
into the kingdom o: heaven.
Harry Boyer
Masonic Cel
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