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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1950)
1 !>• :: - ■ ; 1, . ^ ^ ; ' ■ ' ■ ' L • . / j - ' ' • ' , I 1 ! ( 1 1 Page 2 / / ? ;j battalion Edito ’ V . WEDNES . ' £ rial DAY, MAR< i n ■ ' 'i i ; 1 r s 7H 15, 1950 k r A n ltd Croi j If you ably recall at nominal Cross. Yo fee and d V everywhei barking fi "on the job as a batl Ulf you dent of Ft 1949, ydU/'j to you ari< J cumstance. the Red C Red Cross MAN OF THE MONTH ■'■'J.iri What Category Do You Fall Into? . . . you think about when you. see ? | ■ : f': ere in the service you prob- the clubs overseas operated osts to servicemen by the Red remember the Red Cross cof- ;hnuts thfit caught you almost you went—at th^POE. disem- m the troop ship overseas, out hether as an air mechanic or on aid station medic, ere a Trinity River bank resi- Worth during the flood of member the Red Cross’ aid others in your homeless cir- You appreciated the money ross gave, and the food that mobile kitchens served. - 1 If you were 6ne of the 50 Aggies that Red Cross funds helped in 1949, you will appreciate the helping h|nd exter when it was needed. f /then If you are in none o: f these groups, you are still probably familiar with assistance that the Red Cross gives to people in need and in times of emergency. If you believe that the work of the Red Cross is worth supporting by your dona- tions, first sergeants and dormitory housemasters have been instructed to re ceive your contributions this week. These contributions will go partially to local Red * Cross services, and partially to the nation al efforts of the Red Cross. This is no great drive by the Red Cross on the campus. If you: want to give, do, mm* d/ i Vs. -“•‘wUjSfc*,. • . .> • If U* TtOK.?* , i , - r ,f - J - M | i . , ; |i Little Voices Drowned by Proxys’ Roars • L . United States Steel, Incorporated, per haps the nn)ost powerful force in this coun try before the atom bomb, heard its pol icies and p ractices criticized the other day by a handful of its 240,000 stockholders at a stockholder’s meeting. Leading the chorus of criticisms were women stjckholders who don’t like the way men i olks are running the giant cor poration. Public relations are bad, the little ladies claim. “We might be national- ized,. they charged. / are so poor,” one of them £ 2' !■ The ladies didn’t like the way the cor-' poration had signed up with the CIO Steelwork n*s’ union granting pensions be fore consulting stockholder. ■ n - ...j Dollar-jminded, they fired a barrage of questions about high salaries to company executives, and top heavy pensjoni; for them after retirement. Board Chairman Irving Olds gets $164,200 per year with The Tlliin Ice Is No Place to Wrestle a $50,000 annual pension fund set aside for him when he retired. Despite these and olheii criticism, the Board of Directors was unabashed. It held over half of the company’s voting power through delegated authority to vote by proxy for stockholders! absent from the meeting. Nothing that could be said at the stockholders’ meeting Could phase Board policy. Empowered by the inajority of stock holders to vote as it pleased, the Board was actually bending over backwards even to Usten to little stockholders’ comments at the meeting. | , j The I960 meeting of sbockholders in Hoboken, New Jersey: turned out to be n n fro Singing Cadets Beaten Down After 10-Program Downbeat iiw unuuv niTftiv u ^ nothing more than a!free m ful of stockholders and an opportunity for them to blow pff a little si earn. That done. all went home to continue normal pursuits until |the meeting next year. • • eal for a hand-- Disorganization and chaos which come will be some interferehee.’ with war and continue to live in countries / The reshuffling of freq lency spots on and continents that war has visited sttll radio dials has benefitteo. several Iron lingers in Europe. - ^Curtain countries who will now be using frequencies formerly assigned tp German stations carrying Aiperioan - controlled This disorganization takes various brms—etonomic, pohtical, social. It may also manifest itself in the air waves. " Beginning yesterday the radio stations of Europe) started using new broadcasting frequences assigned to them after an in broadcasts, i Several (German stations within the west German sector—Frank furt, Stuttgart and Munich—will not con form to the Copenhagen agreement to cut ternational meeting in Copenhagen. I Like? broadcasting power to ?70 kilowatts. These American stations, European stations, German stations will dontijnue to operate at 100 kilowatts. I What prompts otir? American officials to believe they should bo permitted to shift their frequencies about to select the best frequencies at different times— is dif ficult to fathom. The American foot in Europe is unpopular enough even though broadcast at assigned frequencies. Heretofore, in Europe, west German stations being'operated by the United States haye been using their own frequen cy schedules for broadcasts from the Ger man fron tier in the cold War. "This means we roam quencies out too m tries," which would best be used with- 1 " uch interference with other coun- one American official explained. There will be a howl from some of these countries frequencies American stations choose to broadcast on) since undoubtedly there tricky business even on an 3d around and found the fre-* By BOBBY DUNN Tho Singing: Cadets returned this weekend from a three-day jaunt around northcaMt Texan, in cluding tripe to Dullait, Ft. Worth, TSCW, and Arlington. Embarking from College Station early Thursday morning, the Ca dets arrived at Arlington State College, eating lunch at the mess hall there. Early that afternoon, the group presented a program before about 1,000 people there. The vocalizers were personally welcomed to the Arlington cam pus by Dr. E. H. Hereford, presi dent of the college. Next stop for the swift-moving songsters wap McKinney, where they arrived at 3 p. m. Dining that night in the high school cafeteria with the Collin County A&M Club, the Cadets sang to another 1,000 onlookers there. After the con cert, the senior class of McKin ney gave a dance for their uni formed visitors that night. A&M Club members opened their homes j to provide the Cadets with quar ters for the night. Highland;: Park was next on the agenda, with the singers ddirig their stuff for the local student body Friday morning. Fort Worth found the Cadets performing at Polytech High, just before a return trip to Dallas. A broadcast at WFAA, tran scribed and presented Saturday afternoon from 4 to 4:30, featured the stay in “Big X>.” After a meal at the Italian Vil lage in Dallas, courtesy Of tliat city’s A&M Mother’s Club, the SKYWAY SHOWS AT 6:4A - g:4fi DRIVEiNto; Tonite Lucky Licence Nile) Greer (jiarnon In “DESIRE ME** THCR. - ER1. — “AMBl/SH" TOCRH. - FRIDAY — “AMBLKM** StfVU/JgY (whose stations will be using both Americans and western Europeans realize that our mutual strength depends on American troops ; iit Europe. ^ This guest-guardian re ationship is al ways a struggle dn thin ice. ic attitudes on Europeai TONITE Shows — 6:45 8:45 / v'-'-'W -r The Battalion I % |i ; "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions 1 1. —l ; : The Associated Press is entitled exclusively *h® n««> tnr ronnkiiMfinn ^ Our ddgmat- brpadcasting is iriside ice rink, | 1. ted Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to) it or not otherwise credited ih the paper and local news of spontaneous origin publish ed herein. 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Deeu' Eaed, rrook A w - Yredtrialu, n&iir^ - w.^ueneuTBSW . ■ News News Copy Editor Editor Editor If neither of the two licenses selected are present — and have not signed the absentee book— THEN A THIRD LICENSE WILL BE SELECTED FOR $500 (Less Tax) : Chief Editorialist I.. .ABlatant Feature Editor it ; ftimiengtr Edltnr 4 # • t BporU FtRtur* Bdltor ten- Jr Sportr Wrttora Tom ny Uitia. —- On the Screen Vtm GAKSOR • I0WT MITCHUR etattvee CadetH were presented in concert at Alexander Spence Junior High School. Friday night found mem bers of the Mother’s dub open ing their doors to u weary group of vocalists. j Last leg of (he long ! trip was spent in friendly territory, TSCW. All day Saturday the boys were “on their own” until the evening meal in Brackonridge Hall. A full concert was presented the Tcssie audience in the Auditorium at 7:30 Saturday night. Danciiig in the Union Building followe<jii the pro gram. The entire trip was )nade with hut one casualty, that a case of flu. Plans are now being made for a concert trip to Corpus Christi April 22. , J PALACE Bryan 2'g$79 LAST DAY j| “When Willie Comes Home” THI RS. - FRI. - SAT. Hasmf Ctor|t Montji at Dory CrocU toufti, forlitsl of the Irwrtiet!] Montgomery Croctatt... sorless lightor Hit itrocw Iscout ll Philip Rood tt Rod Hawk... tom betaoea low and toyoltyl QUEEN NOW SHOWING < ' ' . , ! ,} . ^10 years/ .( I; Lutherans Landscape I •rT -.7 4; Members of the Lutheran Stu dent Association exaoaated a liurge porton of the landscape develop ment designed for the Lutheran Student Center, Fri)day, March 10, according to Ken Bernhardt, pres ident of the association. Landscaping was! done by Noel Elliot, a senior landscape art ma jor. Shrubbery was! planted by V. E. Linnstaedter, A.; W. Tiekep, 0. E. Bockhorn, E. “ x *~ *■ ^ Dittmar, L. G. Lindig, Ken Bern! Bernhardt. The shrubbery planted is about oi total development already been planting and con open for the said. Plants were d memory of Dr. pastor of St. Jol Church, San Antonio Bernhardt. It, and 1^ J. it hss been fourth of the n. Plans have for future tions are 4U1 r, Bernhardt icated in the ugust Wolff, in’s Lutheran Texas, said Bible Verse And further, by be admonished: of books there is no study is a wearine these, my son, making many end; and much is of the flesh. Ecclesiastes 12: 12 Official All Phyaleol Education Majors Including Fraahman an nquaatM to chack with tha department March IS. aaerataiy Notice to food Techno! contact A. V. Moon, phone t-0S24, baton THi IS. Notice before Saturday, C. W. lathdlaa j | I’hyalcal Education Department logy major*, plaaaa Dairy Departmant, mrsday noon, March mat TODAY A THURSDAY —Features Start Today— 1:25 - 3:36 - 6:45 : 7:56 - 10:00 ■ —Friday Features Start— 1:25 - 3:20 - 5:1)6^ 7:10 - 9:05 PLUS: CARTOON—N THURSDAY PREVUE 11:00 P.M. FRIDAY & — Prevue Feats K> P-M. fc SATURDAY ttufe 11:50 P.M. — .Jisfss.. win ifir MO (HIRIIV! cost ANNK IRVIN IUOINI PAUiTTR STfHH jMTCHIT -NEWS PLUS: CAI .. I i . . ■ • A X; : i,- 1 f : Revival yfNurses Story Stars Tufts By JOHN WHITMORE “So Proudly We Hail” (Par mount) starring Claudette bert, Paulette Goddard. Ve lea Lake and Sonny Tuft* In order to motion picture mount has rel So Proudly Wt of some nurses only thing about 4L good choice ip up with reducers a war picture— Hail. The story Corregidor. The this is they made of .revivals. This picture had the usual amount of the early war propaganda but it was presented ijn a very exci manner. A revival U i sometimes thing very good, because it shame to leave some of the good shows in the stoi the producers. I This film ■Up this statement. It had Ve Lidce, 'Sonny Tufts, Claudette bert and the beautiful Goddard. Incidentally (his is (he movie that Sonny Tufts It caught the big bashful sv in a refreshing degree of nat nest. II f ]i Under the able direction of I Sandieal a sound stage ' field achieves u remarkable of excellence. Tha one thing is disgusting to us is a phoney looking setting. Sd Today’s Special VEAL CIJTLEhrS * ' . j ! with Spaghetti , and othef foods prepared to please you HOTARD’ [ Cafeteria Proudly We Hail—no. Veronica Lake, A girl we don’t se Very much any more, was excel lent. With a fairly smalli part jshh tantalised the audience with the sultryness that made her famous. This show), written by A|len Scott, took place for the most part in the Philippines (Hollyr wood version, that is) with a lev actual shots of Corregidor. I In our opinion Sonny Tufts, who played the j part of a bashful ex-football placer from KafioaS, recently turned i Marine stole thp show. The big hulking Blonde stamered througlir enough lin?s to make us want to sit through couple more hours of it -k ny extra operations go > Mum-Bush shoes in Many into] s determined effort to make them the world's most j SATISFYING shoes for men. A/m/ stylet 1/5.95 It $19.95 Edcctton Shoca {too $9.9} I HEME CUOTHIN* IS a ro«lgK # tough it life in a tale of life h. ^ , Texas boom town l JEWEL t sola of tkuldugasry, Texas oil town about i IstwniMd to Wat ha was ptangsd This is a rip-anortit lash action all sot in i When young Baaa I Mg mother's shm-gua tangle of intrigue. < light bi hie life wu hia 1 a twbtaient background < the endtoee traffic la He Jewel Gibson knows her Texaa boom towns as few writers , do—and she writes about them with understanding and real,. affection. SJJM — I anil villainy. > for Gloria. Their story mptoMwa aiction, auddea and whip> yean ago. _ i. Texas, for a black only bright told against violence and LTL ABNER The Four Horsemen don't CHASE. MIM,LAD.?k / E-EAY/T-Cdme: f THAT'S 'ANKLXS-AAIWyVtAltK.’ri ( OF IT- ALTHO HE'S DISGUISED AS A KID-HE'S TK HOST CRIMINAL. M AMERICA -AND youRc NOT ARMED, LAD.^ ■!: i. •' ! Ill i 4 i 1 -. 7