The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, March 29, 1950, Image 1
4' Volume 49: City Of College Station Official Newspaper :r r?- V'- ’ mmmm N U mberll9 d ■ - 1 ■ i '■ .L-J _• 1 h’i*4 H ! ' . 1 . !/ w : f . N v.-" The 'jit PUBLISHED IN COLLEGE STATION (Aggidand), TEXAS, MARCH 29, 1950 Till Reveals Value Of Texas Industry r By CHARLES KIRKHAM “If we have opportunities that exist in Texas, why go to Chicago or New York and ask men to come down here 'to build factories and then take our money back with them,” H. G. Till, Director of Research and Development, Mis- souri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, ash ed Society for the Advancement of Management members last night. “Rather, wve should seek out pro ducts that could be manufactured and marketed profitably in this area, an d start manufacturing them," he added. [■ “The industrial East was not built by ambitious people asking English investors to please build factories ■ in America; factories were built by industrious Yankees who saw something to make and Started making them,” he contin ued. Till cited examples of the availability of Texas capital ready and willing to aid industrial eX- jmnsion in this region. “It tooW Six ho^rs to raise IMt.OOO.OOO for jin exi he m \* State Businesses ||i I - I'M f-- "We need more ’"new businesses ‘Many businesses ready, but the surface has only been, scratched. However, Till continued; “Texas industrial expansion ^annot be con fined to locally initiated enter prises. Many industries are mov ing into the Southwest. This is not a trend toward the much pub licized ‘re-location of; industry' but more as a normal movement of manufacturing plants to satisfy markets our increased population has created. Present Data In order to interest an indus try to re-locate or expand in this' region, “You cannot say ‘please come to Texas' to industrial execu tives,” Till stated “You must pre sent factual data on markets avail able, labor supply, raw materials supply, utility rates and quantities supply, utility rates and quantities available, and the many other plant location factors which must be con- itdered in iiny locatio >r industrial .‘RecetrtMrt— . ■ording to Till, sho ment will be sound economically,” he said. Fields in the Southwest offer ing the greatest opportunities to young men. Till stated, are in cere- mics, the manufacture of household items, and processing and manu facturing food pfbducts. Till was accompanied by Claude H. Burke, Industrial Agent, and Jordan Thome, Agricultural Agent. Burke and Thom are both January 1949 graduates of A AM. Juniors Select Aggie Film As Class Project ^ A 20-minute film depicting student life at A&M was vot ed unanimously as class pro ject by the Class of ’51 at a meeting held in the Chemistry I-*£t\» re . Room last night. Bob McClure, last year’s cadet colonel of the corps, made a spe cial talk to the class outlining fundamentals of the movie.“ A ma jor portion of the .project would probably be completed by June of 51,” McClure said. The movie will be in color and have a sound track. Previous to McClure’s talk, the class decided unanimously to use a secret ballot in its upcoming 1 elec tions after regular school spring elections. W. D. “Pusher” Barnes, class president explained that this would eliminate last year’s block voting techniques. Opening the meeting, Barnes an- npunced that the class had cleared, oyer a hundred dollars from Ju nior Prom and Banquet receipts. The class treasury is now approx-i imately $800, he said. Next Barnes told class members -that if they have enough hours and grade-points to classify, they may order seizor rings on or after May ’ If tliey do not have required '-V idered in itny location of a plant ar industrial enterprise,” he said. •- ‘Jiecetrt r trends established, ac cording to Till, show that distribu tion companies moving into the . Southwest to locate [in large cities, while sizeable manufacturing plants want small towns. “If this trend continues, M-K-T’s program will aid many small towns,” he saiti. “Anything that helps cities and towns along our lines helps us,” he told the group. “If they don’t haul a pound of -freight over our lines, their presence still helps us.” J M-K-T Assists An example of M-K-T’s assist- Jince in getting , new enterprises located in this region was told by Till. Two days ago a deal was closed with a firm, to convert an abandoned oil storage tank farm to a grain storage location. This farm located near Henrietta, Texas will heip surrounding farmers, and the M-K-T, who will haul the grain to and from the storage facilities. Engineering details on handling the grain from freight car to stor age oin as well as methods of pre venting the grain in storage from overheating were Worked out by M-K-T engineers, [Till announced. He emphasized that facts must sell an industrial location site rath er than fast talking. ‘.‘You can’t soft soap a man to| invest millions of dollars ; without showing him ir - .... . Rings ordered in May may be received around August 15. Then followed a lengthy discus sion of the status ofi the' Corps next year. conclusively that his new invest- TipsitjTa^klt, * . High Schools Need 130 Ag. Teaehere Approximately 130 h gh school vocational agricultural teaching positions will he filled between June 1 and September 1 of this year, E. V. Walton of the Agri cultural Education Department, told the Collegite F. F. A. Chap ter' Monday. ! j ; ! There may be as ma applicants for these job A&M is expected to gri agricultural education students this spring and summer. Graduates should turn in their dpplieations as soon .as posible, Walton said, since it will not be Possible to place all men in teaching positions, even though thc. Agricpltural Ed ucation Department is doing its best to place A&M graduates In teaching positions. There will be positio fields of agricultural : mainder of the gradual ■yfvj'j i. , I : Stdwart Leaves C Position •State Fair Dallas, March 29—(AP)— James H. Stewart, for five yean executive secretary of the Southwest Conference, to day became vice - president and general manager of the State Fair >f Texas. Th< re were indications that Abb Curti i, assistant to Stewart and also director of officals of the confe -ence, would succeed him. Stewart will continue with the Southwest Conference until its sprin t meeting in Austin May 11- 12 at which time a successor will be ni imed by the conference fac ulty committee. Ste wart Served as executive sec- retar r at a salary of $9,000 a year ahd also received a like amount as djrector-general of the Cotton E|owlL The job with the State Fair ill pe pay a basic salary -of $15 t - year. There also are bonus tiona. Out of Cotton Bowl —,n Rogers, chairman of the Board of the Cotton Bowl, said Stewart accepting the position with: the State Fair undoubtedly Would mean he would / sever his Connections with the Cotton Bowl, i “Ih the first place, he probably wouldn’t have time to operate the fair and also the Cotton Bowl,” Rogers said. “In the second place We probably will want to operate the Cotton Bowl independently from any Other enterprise.” ij Rogers said Stewart’s succes sor as executive secretary of the Conference likely would become director-general of the Cotton Bowl which is tied up with the host team in the New Year’s Day foot ball classic. ; Curtis last year was director of officials for the Pacific Coast Conference! but recently came here jto assist $tewart and direct the officials, j ! Stewart ; is a national figure in collegiate athletics. He was an All-Southwest Conference* football player at Southern Methodist and also was a star in track and bas ketball. He coached at Wesley -where he remained 20 jbeara as roach, athletic director and busi ness manager of athletics, holding the latter i post 10 years. He was athletic director of the Texas Cen- itennial Exposition and the Pan- American jExposition in Dallas in j 1986 and 1937. He was appointed eveeutive secretary of the South west Conference in 1945. When the National Collegiate Athletic Association woriced out its “san ity code” two years ago Stewart Was named a member of the; Com pliance Committee. ty as 500 he said, iuate ijO is in other I’or the re- es, he said. Jeaaine Holland Jeanine, 1950 Aggie Sweetheart, will represent A&M at the Texas University Roundup this weekend in Austin. She will be escorted by Colonel of the Corps Doyle Avant. MSC-Sponsored Camera \ Club Now Has Own ,Model “Batt” Calls For Duchess Pictures If there is any club or organ- ization that has not turned in their duchess’s picture to the Battalion office, they are urged to do so immediately. This ia necessary to prevent a last minute rush and the pos- ilbilky of having to omit a pic ture because of lack of spacer the Week before the Cotton Pageant and Ball. . iflffnrea may be turned ht at anytime during the day to Ray Williams, duchess pix editor, or to anyone on The Battalion staff. Scholarship Four-Year Coll By JOHN W'HITMORE Many people ma r think the tasks of waiting tables .are menial, but they might do well to check with ** “ ’ ’ found; it a Way Inner Earns e Expenses 4, Jeff Cheek, who of getting through college. In 1946 when Jeff first de cided to come to A&M> he was confronted with a common ailment —no funds. One of the first jobs he found available upon arrival at College Station was one as a waiter. ' , . The red-headed, freckled face lad from Cbmmanche is a senior history major, who in a few months, will be on the look-out for a teacher’s job. This will mark both the end of his career as a student and as a waiter. Because of his ready smile and pleasant personality, Jeff has en joyed his life as a waiter and been l successful enough at it he’ll con clude his book larnin’ “only $65 in debt.” “It’s been fuii,” he says, “and I’m grateful to be able to dp it,” But it gets kind of old after a time.” . / The youngest of a farm family of 11 children, ^Jeff got his atart r When ready for coll- financial aid from hoi ir joint as a waiter in a haml while still in high schj found e jjust out of the question. But he) went ahead to school, earning enough on the side to meet current expenses. He worked, in the summer to) enable himself to pay his fees in ute fall. Singled out as an outetanii^f ; example of those who have met their own expenses in A&1 f, Jeff has been heralded of late in several of toe stage’s larger newspapers. Most of the time, by seven nights a week, he able to supplement hia wages with enough ji his weekly earnings up “It’s easy to get tips, 1 “if you know your cus' the dishes and a kind they like.” Somewhat su; about his luck, he ping waiters when dining self, even though he the bottom of the fina For his senior year, ceived % scholarship <| awarded each year by Jones, of Houston to student of junior the table. After that the cus- ner didn’t have to ask for salt, hourly to run ISO. rs and ing his way through school. A i waiter, Jeff believes,- has a ring-side seat at a perpetual cir cus. By! way of example, he tells of the regular customer who once left m quarter under every dish tom- pepper or sugar, One Way of finding oiit who is in charge of a party—in order to know where to leave the check —is to inquire if the table is suit able. The person who answers is the one to give the check to, Cheek says. v Once he asked the question of a group and received an emphatic “no." He took the party to every empty table in the house and re ceived the same answer. “I’m sorry,” se said as diplo matically as possible. “If you wish you may wait in toe lounge and I will call you when another table is empty ” “That’s okay,” said the leader of the party: “Just give us any table. We always raise a lot of cape on one of these parties, so we want a waiter with a lot of patience. We were just testing you out.” His patience paid off in tips. By JOHN TAPLEY There’s one organization, on the campus which can have a pretty model pose for them and still con centrate on its work—the recently formed Camera Club. The model is Mrs. Betty Hol combe, who posed patiently under hot lights for hours the other night while club members snapped their shutters and renewed all membership. /One of the groups organized through the Memorial Student Center, the Camera Club used Mrs. Holcombe as an incentive for its Hearne Movie, Gin Destroyed By Early Fire The Queen Theatre and Brady Gin of Hearne, were de stroyed and an adjoining gro cery store was badly damaged by a fire that broke out about 1:15 this morning. ;nt bpuse was smoke and wat- A farm implement bP use wa P badly damaged by si ' er, according to Bill Moss, IA & M student on the Bryan fire crew which answered the alarm. Four units were; fighting the blaze, in cluding one from Calvert in addi tion to the two from Hearne and Bryan. Bryan’s new $30,000 pumper got a real workout in its first big run since its Addition to the, depart ment Monday, Moss said. Loss to the Gin was estimated at $30,000 by the Hearne chief and the theater suffered a comparable loss. Moss said. The fire reportedly started in the gin, Moss said, and jumped the alley which separated ft ffom the theater. It spread quickly through ven tilating ducts in the theater and the adjoining buildings. ‘It was thought to be under con trol about 1:30, Moss added, but broke out again |and firemen were on the scene until 4:30 this mom- ing. r | r The Bryan department’s pew American; LaFrance pumper had a light test yesterday afternoon at 1:55 wheh it answered a mlinor alarm of a watelr heater overheat ing at the home of J. D. Wilson, 1406 East 24th street. The pumper came in Monday and is unwrapped Tuesday, Moss was said. LSA Delegates Will Attend Austin Meet Twelve delegates from A&M Lutheran Students Association will be guests of the University L S A in Austin Sunday afternoon, April 2, at 5 o’clock, according to Ken Bernhardt, president of the A&M L$A. Included in the delegation are Warner Lindig,! Doug Dittmar, A1 J ton Tieken, Less Fissler, Quinton Johnson, Leon! Tolle. Bernhardt, Eric Carlson, Calvin Beckman; James Lehmann, Oscar Bockhom, and Lariry Bernhardt. Dr. Ruth Witk of Chicago, act ing executive secretary of Divi sion of Student Service, National Lutheran Student Association, will speak to jthe delegation. £ ■ s jU - idk first (contest of Jtihe year. Using their ; own cameras, the members took pictures from; all angles and to their heart’s content. When the top pictures are se lected, prizes totaling around $13 will be awarded to the win ners. The three top men, as chosen by three judges, will re- 'ceive photo supplies. President of the; club is Martin Howard. 'The group has set as iU goal a program that will interest all types of people interested in photography, Howard said. ‘ Chib membership now numbers about 15, he said. but it is hoped that the club’s roster will soon in crease. . - When the MSC .building opens this fall, special rooms will be available for the club, including a dark room. Four enlargers and about $1,500 worth of equip ment will also be available to the club, Howard said. Plans for the shutterbugs for the near future include a campus landscape contest, printing and color photo printjng instructions, and other activities to aid in the At the meeting! last week, Bob Butler lectured on “Portraitures” to the club. He demonstrated; how to use lighting and the best poses alqng with other fine points ih the photographic field. Hill Chosen For European Farm Summer Tour n r , Edward H. Hill, sophomore cultural education major om Garland, Texas will ipend the summer and early all as an exchange student bf Western European farming the- pries and practices. Hill will also be a sort of un official good-will emissary of the farmers of America, along with forty-nine other '! carefully chosen American youngsters. The trip will be for 4% months and will be under the auspices of the Intemational Farm Youth Exchange, through the United State Agricultural Extension Ser vice. The state and federal govern ments are financing part of the trip, but $900 will have, to be raised by popular subscription at fyome. 'I u Top Daily Survey V By B. F. HpLAND Senior Cadets of Class the take their first fling at stage pro ductions tonight when A&M’s first clothing show opens in Guion Hall at 7:30. The forty five , minute show “From Boots to Bpul£>niere*” will headline ten students who will be joined by a group of models im ported from Houston to givte the show a bit of the feminine touch. Foley’s of Houston is provid- — ing all the trimmings to go into toe-production.! Aj. script written by’ Foley’s Special Events Depart ment in collaboration with dhdet master of ceremonies “Bucko” Wy ler, commander of C Troop Caval ry” will be backed up by , musical offerings by Leonard Perkins at the Guion Hall organ. Special backdrops, designed par ticularly for this show, will be shipped in from Houston today. Already more than enough vol unteers have offered their services Price Five 1 — — Accountant-Agents Are Vital Segment of FBI ' 1 ! -? Ii 11 •* itimate from the Illegitimate. Com mon cases involving investigations By KEN BERNHARDT “Accounting is involved in near ly every violation of the law to day", Merrill V. Gregory,' special agent accountant with the Hous ton field division of the F. B. L, told a group of ujiout 50 members ’of the Accountlnng; Society 'last night. Gregory received his degree in accounting from the University of Wisconsin and now has C. P. A. certificates from Wisconsin, Ill inois, and Texas. Since 1940, when he entered the F. B. L, Gregory has served with branch offices in Washington, Chi cago, Denver, and Houston. The F. B. I. is primarily com posed of law-enforcing officers. Special accounting agents are of ficers besides being accountants, he said. I \! Someone with an accounting mind is needed to separate the leg- mon are those violating the Nationail Bankruptcy Act and the Anti trust Acts, Gregory *4id. Many war contracts found their way into claim* courts because of attempted fraud on the pa,rt of contractors trying to make excess profit*. iF. B. I. accountants not only dis cover fraud, but; they also must -find motives and! facts to build a Some people ar case on which to make indictment* ,i1e makingjnoney thin we spend tr T- orq for . spending mo: time finding illegal method* making money than we spend ing to find out how to make mon. ey legally, he said. The F. B, I is kept busy tracking down these offender!:. To qualify for an accounting agent’s position with the F. B.. IJ, an applik-ant hiust be a C. [P. AJ, must be at least 26 years ojd and not ovei- 40, and has to f thorough physical examina 1 National Competition / Hill and the others were picked in national competition of farm youngsters based on their entire 4-H Club records over the years. A member of the Garland 4-H Club since he was ten, Hill hgs grossed nearly $23,000 in - 4-H prizes in livestock and field crop competitions. ! 1 _ team up for a sight-see ing tour of the continent. The country to which Hill will be sent is not known at present. After the trip Hill will be ex pected to discuss the trip with various groups:land tell about the practical methods of fanning. ! ! : it I • ; !• . .■! . i ‘ r ’! ;!‘ y* Mh T? GWEN TAYLOR Gwen Taylor,'Foley’s model, will be on hand tonight to help “Bucko” Wyler, master of, cere monies, present “Boots to Bout- oniers,” Senior Clothing Show. Robbery Plan Shows Profit Houston, March 29——The Paul Patton family was no long er destitute yesterday. Patton was captured and jailed yesterday after he attempted to rob the National Bank of Com merce with a wooden dummy hand grenade. Shortly after his arrest, Patton asked reporters: “What can a man do when he is hungry?” T[ K IT.-' A reporter found only three po tatoes and a can of beans in the two-room apartment where Mrs. Patton was caring for a! two- month-old daughter and two sons, aged two and nine. Mrs. Patton was showered with gift* today. She received large quantities of 'latum food, cash. ired dollars refrigerators, and washing m A neighbor drove her downtown to bank the money. “What bank?” a reporter asked. “The National Bank of (Com merce, of course,” she said. " That’s where my husband has a checking account.** to pass a -i - -n »inajBt>*i. Gregory was introduced by Mr. N. D. Durst, professor of acj- counting. ' I';' After the address, coffee and cakes were served. 1 _! I ~T ■ | ! Singing Cadets Air Voices For Cancer Crusade |: I j / j /T ' * IH jj The Singing Cadets will ap pear on a-! special broadcast, to originate in Austin, over the Texas Quality Network Monday, April 3, from 9:30 until 10 p. jm. according to Bill Turner, director. The broadcast will be the kick off for the State Cancer Crusade during April. Principal speaker for the program will be Governor Allan Shivqrt. The announcer of the program tation W< will be Jerry Lee of static /OAI Ltldl. San Antoni^. Other stations sla- HP [least i&re Jf MB ted tpi carry the bro; KPRC ' Houston, ,WFAAJ »»»». KRGN Weslac/o, and KVA.1 ; Brownsville, according to Turner. The Singing Cadets will leave College Station at 5 p. m. Monday for Austin for the broadcast In the Senate Chamber of the Capitol. They will rcjtum immediately after Ahe program. Turner said. The cadets will sing Martin Luther's hymn of praise, “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God,”j the ii, “Wandering;” “Now Let Every Tongue Adore Thee,” by Bach; and the spiritual, j’Set Down ‘ ‘‘Dry Bones.” Servant," Students Schedule Trip to San Jacinto A trip to the San Jacinto (Bat tleground near Houston is plan ned for the 7th grade history stu dents of Consolidated Junior High School, Saturday. i* M. L. Gremillion, social stud*' ies teacher, will sponsor the trip and has scheduled a tour of the Texas History museum, in the base of the monument. Also included in the days activities w* 11 he a pic nic lunch and an inspection of the Battleship Texas, whi<|h is berthed at the park in the jfSan Jacinto River* ; 1 j The students are to make the trip in automobiles furnished by parents. Pasture Managers Plan South Texas Field Trip The Agronomy'417 pasture man agement class will leave April 6 tor 4 two day field ffip to South according to Texas, ... -. Potts, associate proftjaao; ronomy. The class will stud; provements ahd pi lems in | the will | also visit the t Station to work there, class will j iU I; moving and spent the afterr decorating the Guion stage, dress rehenutl began at H m. (r IH vHj as fitted with three clothing whicn will be fe ih the show. Sports, business formal wear selected from medium price, (range will be s , j The students who will aj ' i the show tonight include >vant, Jim Magruder, Sam rank Cleland, D. P. “Doggj Clure, Buddy Dealy, John tensen, Connie Ohlendorf and)Her man Dieterich. Li i ! Military Wedding 5 A complete mock military wed ding will be included among the scenes tonight. A 30 foot runWay reaching out into the center sec tion seats on Guion’s first (floor will be used. Members of the Town Hall staff will serve as ushers at the production, and they will alsb dis tribute the 1,700 programs being prepared by- Foley’s. The proheums will contain information on all the, clothes to be worn throughout the *hpw. The production staff from Fol ey’s arrived on the campus this afternoon m. m fir 1 i'P'IH" v'j!;||F : ' Bobby Bylngton, Sejilor ClhiS president, extended an Invitation to all students, student wives, and member* of the community to at tend the show tonight. No admis sion charge is to be required and there will bo no reserved seat*, jj .. Part Of Coufao ll jfl The clothing show is a part of ' the curijent eliquette course be ing conducted by senior , c* •Ten minbte classroom lecture various phases of manners correct social behavior began last week in all military science class, es. The lectures are being given by senior cadets. A fouF talk series of ‘'master” lectures, opened tho etiquette course. They were given by tho Director of the Placement'lOffico Wendell (Horsley, Mrs. Fred Smith and Mr*. Ross SherwOod nil of College Station. ;‘|j : Hj: The first etiquette course was begun l»y. the Senior Class last year. Members of this yekr> class decided to continue the course and it was they who added the cloth ing shojw idea. Purpqse of the show, Byingtqn said, is to acquaint all students with the accepted dre^s for; all oc casions. Since college graduates enterinj); the business world have unlimited amounts of to spetid on their wardrot was decided to limit the dtothing selection to the middle price range. Versatility in dress will be em phasized throughout the show. E do not money be*, it lothi Bill Invitations S till Available Invitation*! to the combined regimental ball on Friday night are available from atl first ser geants within the regiments, the corps sergeant major said to day. 1 n . All {Hen who plan to attend the ball were requested to pick up their invitations as soon as possible. . T h * r*** 1 "*"** sponnoriog the 1>*II *»«• the Cavalry-Engineer, Artillery, and Infantry. , ! f : AH Meat* Class Visits Houston packing Co. The Aninial Husbandry 807 meats class went to Houston Tues. ] day tq observe each of tho Hous ton Packing Company’s 24 depart ments of Operations. The students were accompanied by O. D. Butler, instructot 1 of the course. i? .. J Two profs were called upon re- capUiUto fill in for, a third teach!- er who was absent from his duties. Prof A went into one Of the miss ing man’s classes, remained there a short time and returned to his office long before classes are nor mally released. * f , ( Prof B, knowing Prof A was supposed to be substituting for tho missing man said, ’’How come you Jet them out so early?” j. Prof A answered, “Well, he'(the missing prof) didn't mark in his book where he had left off^ nor where he intended to stop. I just went my distance and quR.” If Yell leader “Red” Duke revealed an idea yesterday that is worthy of note. Encountered in the Stu dent Activities Office, "Red” said he was ordering two ertifa Senior favors. Questioned as to!the rea ped” in- They son for the purchase, “ formed ua that he plana to have a pair of cuff links made from the two ring seals which serve as Sen- ir favors.