. "T■ . I- 1 A m City Of f \ ' • : - -v. MW* College Station Offieial Newspaper - I '■ *717 mm * — ■ • .. PUBLISHED IN COLLEGE STA1 • X . Nation’s IV p Collegiate O lily NAS 1949 Sui vey !j I n s 1 Volume 49, Number 118 i ' — w & i. 3 !||; i l • v . Alumni Gives Twelve Million To US Schools The alumni of 189 colleges and universities of the United States and Canada contribut- edfr twelve million, one hun dred sixty-nine thousand dol- loras. to their: respective alma maters last yeaj- through annual giving plans in optratftwi at these institutions. These figures were announced here today by E. E. McQuillen, ■ director for funds of the American Alumni Council, who has completed the Council’s'annual survey and re port of colleges and universities using the alumhi fund /plan." Another 26 institutions normal ly following the fund plan are now r —engaged in major and special fi nancial campaigns, and their totals of alumni gifts are not included. J-’ [ The 1949 Alumni Fund Report ^ shows an increase of; $1,000,000 Aver similar-contributions in 1948. Four; hundred thirty five thous and, five hundred and ninety one Alumni contributors were listed - in 1849, an increase 1 of ten per centi ojver 1948. In both respects, . t I nuw records were set. Thb .-most significant features of the’ survey, the report points out, are that these contributions represent annual and recurring gifts by alunini for’ the support of higher education and that the tot als have, shown a steady increase. A siminar survey in 1939 showed a > total of $2,815,000. A sum of 400 million dollars at three per cent interest would be required to match this year’s alumni support to the 189 schools. General officers of the American Alumhl t Council are Chesley Worth ington, Brown University, pres ident; Elizabeth C. Duncan, Emory University, secretary; Leonard C. Dill, Pennsylvania, treasursr; Eliz- r ■•-t' abeth W. Durham, Rutgers, editor; T, . Hawley Tapping, 1 Michigan^ president elect; William S. Gibson, Minnesota, past president; Doug- , las O. Woodruff, Utah, director for offices; Reward J. Marsh, Bow- doin, director for magazines, and Mf.Qtiillen ffom A&M, '"'-'.—e '■ '■ ’ ’ ;W' ' ' Ll- [' ■ M ' L M-i \. ■ •- ^ Teddie Marie Hubert Miss Hubert will-represent the AVMA as duchess in the Cotton Pageant and Ball. Her escort will be Pat Hubert,, junior vet erinary medicine major from Riviera, Texas. Senior Ring Order Available April 5 Senior rings ordered on or be fore March 31 will be delivered April 5 and 6 in Room 15 of the Administration Building, accord ing to Mrs. Dell Bauer, Senior King Clerk. Rings' will be delivered between 8 a. m. and 12 noon on those two days. They^piust be picked up in person, Mrs. Bauer added. Rings not picked up April 6 and 6 may be secured,, any day after wards between 8 a. m. and 12 noon at the Senior Ring window in the Registrar's office. 'Students should bring receipts ( When calling for their rings, Mrs. Bauer concluded. p ft Etiquette Leaflets To Be Distributed Sets of twelve leaflets used in the senior courtesy courses are to be bound in semi-permanent form and distributed to the lounge of -each dormitory, said J. C. Failp, senior publicity chairban. Anyone, interested in obtaining ’sets of the leaflets should see Le roy Shiller at 201 Dorm, 8, Fails added* -- x"» — Subjects of the leaflets, are as follows: How" Do You Do? Eti-cues for Mealtime, Come to Dinner, Let ter Cues, Cues for Popularity, Date Cues for Lads and Lassies, Cour tesy Cues for Public Places, Cues for Dining Out, Conduct Cues for Travel, Hotel Eti-cues, Buffet Entertaining Cues, and Parliamen tary Cues. „ , Gwen Taylor Gwen is another of the Foley’s models who will be in the Senior Class production “From Boots to Boutonieres” tomorrow night in Guion. The show is part of the letiquette course now being con ducted. It will feature clothing euhibtt* for young businessmen. Seniors Set Stage For Clothing Show x By R-F. ROLAND I “From Boots to Boutonieres,” the Senior Class clothing exhibit that has taken on the proportions of a full-fledged variety show opens for tT one-night stand to morrow nighidn Guion Hall. A bevy of models from Foley’s in Houston will team With a group of cadets including the corps com mander and three regimental colo nels to put on a sh i I! All students who are interested in addressing hometown high school grolups during the Easter Holidays are requested to contact Bennie Zinn, assistant dean of students tq make the necessary ar rangement^, Joe Mullins told the All College Day Committee at a meeting yesterday evening. Mullins is th^ chairman of the invitations sub-committee for the All-College Day group and is be ing assisted by Richard Tumlin-j son. I '■ r X Students: delivering the talks will be given an excused absence from classes for the day on which the addresses will be made, Mul lins stated^ ; A commjttee consisting of C. G. White, , Behnie Zinn, W. L. Fen- berthy, and Mullins met today and T Helen Harrison Miss Harrison of McGregor, a 19-year-old junior education Ma jor at Baylor, will represent the Kream and Kow Klub as their duchess at the Cotton Pageant and Ball. which is to be drafted a letter sent to all h|gh school principals. This letter explains! that' the All College Day Is being held for the purpose of acquainting high school seniors, parents of students, and friends of the college with educa tional opportunities offered at A&M. If The letter also requests that some selected Aggie' be given the opportunity to deliver a short ad dress to the student group in the high school at some convenient time immediately after the Easter Holidays. Mullins pointed out that students jlesiring to make such a talk •Should contact Zinn immediately. Frank Cleland, chairman of the program and! scheduling sub-com mittee, reported that his group was making good progress in ar ranging the events and in planning a master schedule for tl|e day. [iLngUBOBKW * go to press Easter Holii ed. Johnnie Reeves, concessions chairman for All College Day, re ported that the Ross Volunteers had requested permission to oper ate a soft drink stand. The question as to whether or not a club should be (given permis sion to operate, more than one con cession stand on All College Day was brought up by Reeves. After a short discussion the committee decided to limit all I clubs to one concession for the time being. If at a later date, the committee de cides that the concession stands requested to not adequately cover the campus, then a particular club may be given the permission to run a second stand. Reeves pointed out once more that all concession stands would be required to comply with the rules and regulation^ of the Public Health Department. The All College Day Committee will meet again on the first Monday ofter the Easter Holidays. Capture Hearst T - By GEORGE McBEB A&M’s Army ROTC rifle team took first place ; ir. competition with approximately 17. senior ROTC schools at the 29th annual William Randolph Hearst ROTC Rifle Competition, Sergeant W. R. Reese, coaph of the team an nounced today.. , “To the best of my knowledge this is the first time the Army Rifle team has won first place in competition for this trophy,” Sgt. Reese said Notification of the winning of this award was received yesterday from the Commanding General of the Fourth Army Area. Tre Wil liam Randolph Hearst Trophy is offered to Senior ROTC Units lo cated in the Fourth Army Area. High Point Team The team collected a high score of 948 out of a possible 1,000 ponts. The firing was with .22 cal iber ammunition from a distance of 50 feet. , Firing for this trophy was be- +gun Dec. 1 and compleUfd Feb. 10. The firing on the tatgets is performed at each school and has to be witnessed by an officer on active duty, or by somie member H. G. Till SAM To Hear Katy Executive H . G. Till, Director Re search and Development, Mis- souri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, of Dallas, Texas, will speak jto-jto student chapter of - SAM tonight at 7:30 p. m. in room .301 Goodwin, according to Robert A. Flake, chapter chairman;. Till’s topic will be “Development and Valuation of Industrial Property.” The speaker, formerly a St. Louis advertising agency execu tive, has been connected with M-K-T since 1946. He handled the M-K-T company’s advertising for a number of years, i After joining the Katy,' Till sought to accomplish a three-fold task. First, he planned to do the best possible pob for industrial ists looking for new plant sites in the Southwest. Second, Till planned to work with industries already located on the Katy in an effort to get them to expand their present mar kets and to find new markets. Third, the speaker planned to develop a program to work with farmers who still give the South west its dominant industry, at tempt to help them in moderniz ing their methods, introduce new crops and practice soil conser vation. Nj'.I- j, shroud of Locals Turn Out To Watch u ‘Murdoch House 9 Nears Completion ton, first aoclation leg*. By GEORGE CHARLTON If you happen to be driving through Beverly Estates sometime soon and find yourself on Rose mary Drive, you may come across One of the most ultra-modern homes down in this part of the country—the Murdoch house. Bryanites and! College Station folk have been talking and spec ulating about it since construction began in the latter part of October. Any Sunday afternoon will find numerous cars parked out in front, their: recent occupants inspecting the two story structure. “I haven’t been to the house yet that two to 20 people weren’t there looking it over,” says Bill Fitch, contractor. The house is in the final stages of construc tion. ' People who came to see it eith er like it a lot or not at all, ac cording to Fitch. At any rate, the homes was designed especially for the Murdochs, a family of three. P. G. Murdoch, of the Chem ical Engineering Department, has been a faculty member for five years. Before that time, he was associated with the Shell Oil Com pany. “We should be through with the house in about two weeks,” Fitch says. Construction began in Octo ber, but because of bad weather, active building did not get under way until January. Rooms included downstairs are a porch, living rooia, study, kitchen, bathroom and dining area. Upstairs are a master bed room, smaller bedroom, and bath room. One whole side of the long upstairs hallway is devoted to sliding panel closets. A : more outstanding feature of the functional structure is the fly ing staircase. It consists of large slabs of mahogany wood suspend ed from the ceiling by steel pipes of graduated length. A sliding glass panel separat ing the living room from the porch has caused much favorable com ment, Fitch says. Two areas for planting greenery are intended In the floor space on both sides of the sliding partition. If desired the glass panel may be slided back up into the wall. The house is constructed of limestone and redwood. Rowlett of Caudill, Rowlett and Scott, architect firm, handled details for the procuring and laying of stone work. Caudill drew up the original design. A landscaping plan prepared by Bob White, of the Landscape Art Department, will be developed in the future. Included will be a pea- gravel walk and a planting area lor- cated within a one-foot- high stone wall. At one end of the wall will be a small piece of sculpture per ched on an 18-inch pedestal. Interior draperies and color schemes have been designed by Frank Coulter of Coulter’s Gift and Decorator’s Shop in Bryan. Many colors now on the walls are not final but only primary cqats, according to Murdoch. The colors he is referring to are shades of red, yellow, greens, and bule4. Rock and natural gum plywood are used in interior struetjure. One of the most attractive features in the living room is a stone fire place. The living room is approx imately 19-20 ft. The car port is topped by a cantalever roof extending 14 ft. ? out from the south side of the house. No traces of a driveway have been marked off yet. A recent addition in the con struction work has been a louvered redwood fence, which allows air to pass through so that cool breezes will not be shut off] in warm weather. Another purpose it serves will be “to tie the house down” to the landscape, accord ing to Fitch. ! | J M After being conducted on a tour through the structure, radical'for this part of the country, with [its striking lines, wide open wondow space, and functional interior, we came to the conclusion we liked it. But that’s rather a minor point one way or the other—Tt wasn’t built for us. i ■ | j .mJ -■ ays Thompson Aon Is Concise News Coverage “It is the aim of the Wall Street Journal to present all of the important news in as brief a space as is possible,” Dr. J. Leroy Thompson, di rector of the educational service* of the Wall Street Journal told the Business and Accounting So ciety last night in 1 the YMOA Chapel. Thompson discussed the “Finan cial News Gathering and Dissem ination” of the Wall Street Jour nal. “News stories dome from a mass of information, and t|>us thous ands of stories written never see athe li^ht of publication,7 he said. During the course of; his talk, Thompson briefly outlined the changing views of big business to ward the reporter, ago a paper sUch was not possible. Bi MiTf secrecy.” > jf The Wall Street youri>al is a nation-wide business paper, which in addition to strictly business matters it carries all qf the na tional news. But it is written in a very concise form, Thompson pointed out. Column Preparation In addition to the paper the publishers of the Journal operate a ticker tape line which covers most' of the United States. Getting back to some! of the in side functions of the paper, Thompson told how a column is prepared. He cited the (jxample of the Washington colunuj. It comes out once a 'week,' yet it reouires 18 men to father and edit the news. In concluding his talk, Thomp son pointed out that the Journal is a young man’s paper. The average age of the Wash ington reporters is in their early thirties. of the fi head of complete Military the hqad certificat cials whe ing. This scores is ty so designated by the | > school. , ,. . After Ihe firing is completed, the . certi i :ate on each targeti is [ by the Professor i of ience and Tactics or:by i>f the school. A match is signed by the offi- have wityiessed the fir- combined report of the kigned by the Profeskbr of Militajry Science and Tactjcs. They are then sent to the Com manding I General of the Army The C< mmanding General sup ervises t) e scoring of the targets which ar> then sent to the Adju tant Gen ifal, acting for the Sec retary of the Army. He is trophy judge for the Army division and his decisi >n as to results is filial. Teams are composed members who must be enrolled ttudents in go ing at th > school. They be enroll •(! in the Reswrro cer’s Tra sing Corps. Studen s representing this mate i are Clifford AV Vets, Ge rge S. Kent, “A nance Di qne C. Unrue, i| rolled th s semester, Rdl Grosser, enior Company, And land T. 2 ipata, ASA. :! Each i lertiber fired five sht| for recon in each of the fbur posl*. tions—pr qie, sitting, Kneeling, and stem ing. Medals and awards' the rifle team has won will be presented the team ’ tation of Day. members during presqn- awards on Mothei-’- Rus iell Elected Fam ily Life j Council Head Russell, head of ill Sociology Depart^ elected president bf| i Council on Family Life ara Farfiily Life Educa- A ment, w The Ti AH 441 Sets Meet Tonight Students planning to, take the Travel Tour Course, AH 441, this summer will meet tohight at 7:30 in the main lecture room of the Animal Industries buildingj ac cording to Frederick A. Rau, of the AH department. The course car ries four hours credit. - Puriwse of the meeting is to fle- termine approximately how many boys | intend to take the bourse, and how many of these win have to attend summer tamp. Ifl many of tl|osy planning to ; take) the four weeks course havp to ^ttend summer camp, the tmir may not begin until August, Rau said/ Probable costs of the trip will be discussed, as well t as ways of re ducing costs. Veterans may use the GI Bill for tuition and subsis tence, he added. AH 441 is open to all classified juniors and seniors in the depi ment of Agriculture. The course is designed to give students a com prehensive pjeture of the major livestock and grain producing areas of the United States. USA Delegates’ I Sign by ApriLl All students who wish to at tend the TISA convention at Baylor on April as unofficial delegates must register with Student Senate President Keith Allsup before April 1, and pay thdir registration fee of $4 be fore April 9, Allsup said this morning. rficlal delegates have al ly been named, Allaup said, but the Senate would like as large an unofficial < egallon aa possible attend. tion last ing on Universit Counci up of teachers, cies, min ested in The ch cil, accon give earl life to students number before eek, at a state me«t- « Southern; Methodist Campus. jmembership was made qbjlege and high schqbl '-mily services agqn- ;rs, and others intqr- nily relations. ’ objective of the . codn- g to Dr. Russell, is ito counseling on family h school and'' college prevent the great problems that arise shortly after marriage. The Council members agreed !tqat bad coun ipling is worse than ho' counseling at all. Membe * reached the general conclusioi that family lift edudi- , tlon shou d be broad, rather than J specialize I and the counselor should b< an adjusted individual who is ac icptuble and accessible to the public; Counseling before marriage is known Uj be best, and the state council hfepes in the near future to see e; ch community form an organizat on In which the doc tors, mini ters, school teachers, and local cluts can make such coun seling av dlable to young people, y>r. Russf 1 said. Many parents Are no|t qual tied to give the type of family, advice to their children that is n eded, and the reluctance of parent i to give this advice to their chil ren forces them to seek help frortj 'someone else, he added. d ha tei choose 4- -i/ A senio • cadet leanigd-tbis week end how t feels tb~Tvave ‘had it.” Bright an I early Saturday he head ed down ; he road to New Braun fels to vii t a queen of his acquain- • ince. At ired in his best ; Sunday- to-mee t|n’ togs, he wujked onto er front porch and knocked on e door. The yoi hg lady’s nJothkr opened the port* and, upon learning of [the kayd 't’s mission, said “Pm sorry bui my daughter can’t .go put with you any more/ . ' The ea fer one’s face fell open and he jr juired for the reason behind th a announcement. “You’re too old for njy daugh ter,” was the reply. “What Jo you mean, '‘too old," the cadet countered. “Well, i fter nil,” the mother said With cold finality, “my daughter’s i)ly four ben.’ QUEST ION OF THE WEEK— “Sully’ headed fpr fatuity pan- Yestgrday afternoon 'it 4:46 '' of 1 aba was discovered mic rd in Building |dne hand. The in front done would -"“SS ^ have been % leaa conspidous spot. I