The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, March 09, 1950, Image 1
. J ‘-v? JS 1 City Of College Station Official Newspaper - i m . 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 - ment Sub-Station Nurrtbep 10. iff ■ fj T ' ■ .•V 1; J . | PUBLISHED IN COLLEGE STATIO: i r '•'« L'i Bryan Builder Gets Meth odist Con tract A contract for the Sanctuary and between Warner’s Jewelry store P- "Udf: i ■ 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 h* ‘ 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 c-r\ lif / . • 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 ing.: : A i * ;‘ti ' 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 1 b ft 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 iu, Citizen’s Honesty Costs Him Money ■ I * ; 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 *1' 1 I I I I' 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 beitwe 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 ing. ■Mi # . : -’U' T Price Five Cent i N Succes Fittiire Goa Told by Cates i • f John C. Truehardt 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. i 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 1 1 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- m •X 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. ,‘ j *~r'- r~“ 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 ter stated. % < 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." * 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 rhjt in rsf M« atjon. Ptljra. 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. -l L—1 j- •- - .. Architects to Hear 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 T total du.n- uled; the live saith enter