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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 29, 1950)
! T7r '■. ■ ' 1 , . 1 • ’ ' r’’ . ^ . , '! ■ / ■■: • ■ : h - ' ' ■ ' v r ■ ' ' * j'M t’ •• •It ;[| P 4 :';l. v :^ . : ■/ 1 : - - : /. ' Ba ? Page 2 ttalion Ea \ liti WEDN 9ri 0>XY als MARCH 29,1950 Two Men, Truckload of Gravel, andOi ieHt >ur . , . Campus car owners who have brought their autos to the college car washing slab just east of the power plant’s cooling tow ers are complaining over the condition of the sfab. . It seems to haVe been Jimilt, and left iVt u alone these one or two; years since its co: struction. M. J. Deep ruts have been cut alongsid alab and dirt washed from cars has piled Up on,the concrete slab to present thick ness of about two inches. What needs to be done is for-a crew to-drop by and shovel off the dirt on the slab. Then they could sprinkle gravel around the rutted edges of the slab. Fortunately no cars have gotten stuck yet. That day, if the ruts get deeper, is not long off> ..BUilt by the college as a service facil- car washing slab by hundreds of students. Thursday afternoon until noon Sat- ny the slabjjis especially busy with Ag- les shining ub their autos for the week end. M f - But this facility is not being main tained as jit should. ) Frequent use has niade the surrounding area a quagmire be cause drainage has been stopped, or slow ed by thej accumulated dirt washed from cars brought there, i Two njien With a truck-full of gravel could eliipinate the :bad rut situation. These san^e Mo men 'working another 30 clean the slab of its thick maintenance job could re washing slab to 100 percent ithe minutes could layer of ipud. This brief store the iar efficiency! 1 More System To Be Present In Teias Education ... chancellor type of over all administration for the University’s educational empire Last Saturday the University of Tex as’ Board of Regents decided to set up a ■ r tj’s similar to the ty ie enjoyed by Texas A&M. v '"This change has been forced by the growth of all units of the University of Texa? system, making administration un der present organic itional lines inefficient! and difficult. Operating Units in Austin^! Galveston, Houston, Dallas and El Paso, the University systeni has been function ing under the President of Texas Univer sity in Austin’s command.’ The new set up would place a chancellor over the whole system o: ing Univ< of the unt actio: is sari s :em Congressional Baby in 1800, Giant Today .. Typical of the United States—always the biggest and, cojnsequently, the best— our national Library of Congress couldn’t be anything other than the largest li- - brary in the world, Stuffed with 8,500,- 000 books, 125,000 bound volumes of news- universities claim- allegiance. Each its own heads. by the an has foUnd a Board of Regents is on of what the successful way educational ’empire flung all over Doubtlessly the Board of Re lied the Texas A&M System not- This not nece: A&M syi to run an the state, gents stu ing its strength and its weaknesses. We aije pleased that the University of Texas has made this organizational change. If they have not followed A&M’s foot step s, let us hope that A&M lit the way whic h they have chosen to follow. papers, 11^320,000 2,000,000 maps and year. manuscripts, almost views, 80,000 reels of motion pictures, 21000,000 volumes and pieces of music, 3^0,000 phonograph re- Jtnicknncks to add up to 227,500,000 pieces. The Library reports a net gain of 1,500,000 ’pieces over last brating this year as its 150th. Back in 1800 congressmen decided that if there was anything they needed, it was a li brary. In this library they could look things up. | . ] Likejnany other -projects we-have be gun in t ns country, what started out a modest-s zed library, has since swelled into thb most formidable collection of knowledg|e in the world. ~ .... -J v\ ■ .t, ’ . a few more years growth at the Without fanfanj or wildly proclaiming ils age, the Library of ^Congress is cele- ! This week’s Time magazine gives three pictures of a new set of chessmen made in Russia.. CommentE Time: “Russia .... produces the world's best chess players After present file a house 1 itf tion. t fate, the Library will probably Clnhn to i the Pentagon Building to storehouse of sundry informa- and most dogged new chessmen symbolize the conflict be tween Communism Capitalists chess king is a skeleton wrap ped in ermine and his anemic-looking r -,„ propagandists. The and Capitalism. The obsolete armor, while queen stands with one _ breast lewdly exposed, holding a cornu copia (horn of plenty) from which pours money- pawns t: triple stands On ~ standing decorout pawns viously, Russian: cient ru sible for the Red J'- Lawrence Sullivan Ross. Founder of The Associated credited to it or not ed herein. Presi Rights of probably dollars. The capitalist re cowering workers bound by of chains, the Communist side, a fine up- gj worked is king, the queen wears t Russian peasant dress, and the liappily swing the sickles. Ob- befbre using the new set, the would have to revise the an- es of chess, to make it impos- the capitalist side to checkmate king. 6 ^ ■ The Battalion 'Soldier, Statesman. Knit Gentleman” s is entitled ezdosively to the o herwise credited in the paper and republication of ail other matter hereii f >r republicat nse i>r n The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural an I xas, is published five times a City of College Station, Texas, Friday afternoon, except during holidays and exa talion is published tri-weekly on Monday, Wednesday y/iar. Advertising rat^a furnished on request. minatio iy and 1 licBi News Contribution: U Goodwin Hall. Class' , Qgice, Room 209, tawuiiE i Jlassifie Goodw: Inland as Meond^tsss i P«lea st CoUajra SUUon. Us Act of Ooosiau of 4- ittar st Post Toss*, ondsr ». un. BILL BILLINGSLEY, C. C. MUNROE- Claytoh U Belph.... Dave Coslett Chuck Cabanisa — John Whitmore, L. O. Tiedt, Dean Reed, Otto KtmXe.... L, O* tjadl. anaJggg | Frank K. Hlmmen, ir. lorry ■ ' I ' '-Jwr aobar........ Bid iSVaathy. jolm*Tapl*y. BUI Thon JW Wllllsns asm Imii Buajsii. Jr X* Xo CartiT* • e • n!: 4.- !. may be made by telephone (4-5444 led ada may be placed by telephone in Hall. Member of The Associated Plots A -r Today's Issue • ••••a aarataai »«■•«■••••» • •••• i as* «i .,«*»««»,«■■»«»»«»»«■•«***«»»«»«» «*»«»»»« «»««« «^a«a»»a«* —i* a«.aaaaaeai i«*'*aaaa*««a»a«»^aaa»aaaaaa»a»aa»aaM»»ai»aa«aaa*aa*eaaaajrtJjaaaa*.»»jaa< Aggie Tradjaoas .— ,T>.. 4 wrru i liarnc ■F" It Seems to Me Hollywood Goes in in ‘The PI il HI ? T I Jnll I I.- V . - By JOHN WHITMORE The Nevadan (Columbia) star- . r* 1 ring Randolph Scott, Dorqthy Ma- rrest Tucker, loubt make a Weat- erh.” This seems to be the current and For douh !»?» ,0 « d j ern.” This » titude of motion picture studios. SS&rfra Tideland Claim Told By Attorney General Washington, lllarch 29—WP)—Texas’ Attorney General Price Daniel told the Suprenite Court yesterday Texas wants to present evidence showing it has ’asserted ownership over submerged lands in the Gulf since 1836. 'TTr T~ 1 Daniel argued his state’s plea that lower court be permitted to hear the conflicting claims of Texas and the government over the oil- rich lands. His argument supplemented a 107-page brief filed by Texas. He told the high [court: • ; 1— Texas would like to refute the federal government (jlaim that the question of ownership of the submerged land had not arisen until recently; that Teias had not asserted its ownership. 2— Texas woiild like to present evidence to show that si pee 1836— the year it became an independent nation—Texas has owned’ the lands and used them fori at least nine miles out. In its brief Texas had asked either a hearing before- a special master or a district court. Technically, the supreme court 4s hearing arguments on a Department of Justice motion asking the high court decide in the federal government’s favor on the strength of briefs filed. Oil At Stake At stake in the Texas case—and one involving Louisiana which the court heard Argued yesterday—are oil beds under the Gulf of Mexico. ; I * . r L, . Several years ago the supreme court ruled in a case against Cali fornia that the government has paramount rights in and full domina tion and power over such submerged lands. U. S. Solicitor General told the court the Texas case is not materially differ- Chinese Reds Nearing Tibet Taipei, Wednesday,iMarch 29 — (AP) — The Chinese Communists have cleared the approach route to Tibet by crumbling Nationalist resis tance in ntr-western Sfkang Pro vince, official dispatches said yes* This sudden eruption of fighting of the long-quiet western front capie as the Communists tei es in sea he Nationfciii Nationalists and ‘ each other’s de- conform with policy go away—It’s it*a different.” The make any mad pass! hiat favorite horse. •"£S? “ aU while Forrest Tucker, a new rUer to f the “movie .mica’’ takes I i *!. hero doean ohate love to In fact the have y Scott, doesn’t Time)- comer to tne "movie mica" lane i pot luck Ss S mis-understoogl out- is®-*** 1 age of ah educaU disgusting to us to the, part of a lad; which could hav<j been more profitably spent with foot- age of an educated horse. It li . see .a gii l tak i! the P>rt of it lady-like-cow >giri. For all of the rabid 'folowerij of “shoot 'em Ups” benefit thera is [no big barroom fight. This it * there le nojflihj* y goes the gauntlet in fat upf-exoept in Jjt tlmjo seeqe ■■ place in ian old deserted mfhe. Randy eatinf »rta in ■WWWP— kre 14 a big caVe in. getting beat up—except in honored chair throwing fig) Speaking of fights, the Ml Of the “boss opera’’ takes i -.1.1 -r assert 4,000 crack Communist troops were kill ed or captured in a big Red raid Monday on Hainan Island, r The Nationalists reported their own regulars a week ago made the' second mainland raid in a month ami were moving inland after seizing the coastal town of Cheing- tiao, 160 air miles South of Shan ghai. >) The Red success in Sikang Pro vince presumably has overrun Sichang, major guerrilla base and site of the only air field left to the forces of Chiang Kai-Shek on the mainland. (An official broadcast from For mosa said Sichiang fell Monday “after fierce fighting.”) The Communist were said to have struck from the Ncirth and Some of the ideas of Three farthes were plagerized (pardon, Mr. GoIIob). The hot sun and lack of water play an important part in on* of the final scenes. The plot for all of. this equine melodrama it the recovery of sto len gold. Very originally pilfered in the background during the “Cre dit*’. This method of introducing the audience to some of ..the happen* inga which take place before action really starts Is very effective. The only critidsrtv we nave jto this Is that it distract* tfrom the reading of the producers, directors and other movie rocks nanuis. ‘ i! “The Nevadan” , is print Cine-Colour. Which we U ono pf the most effective types color filming for outdoor shots. All in all, Columbia has taken a wail worn plot, changed the punch line in a few ptacee put in some, excellent actor* and has cottic out Srith a darn good movie. ■ I jlj. if. .. lj,l'.llL..|..H-.-|' J,| f ' Poultry Judgers Plan Memphis Trip ( la ■ , i I f 1 ' ; C«cil Ryan, professor of poultry husbandry, will tag* B team of four students to thp r annual Jun ior Poultry Judging Contest in Memphis, Tennessee early in April. Ryan has coached five students since early November, hoping to have trained four .of them well enough by April to, win the Poul try. Judging Cbntedt this year. Trying out for [the team are Penix, Dick Taylor, Jack Elwcll, Carl Meydr, and Warren Albrecht —all poultry husbandry majors. The.j four whoKmgke the! team, along with Ryan, will ,,go to the contest in a college car. Man E Inspect ion Trip Scheduled I Junior management Engineering students will take an all-day in spection trip to Lufkin oh IThurs- day, April 8, E. C. PrivaLof tlU- Management Engineering Depart ment anhoiinced this morning. f“niis field trip is designed to give junior students the opriortam- ity to see first hSnd actual produc tion processes arid problems in the j The insp kin Foundry abaAlachine Cdm- All juniors are expected to si^n giW hd 'Machine South with 130,000 men. They had up for the trip in the Me.nagemo Phillip Perlman fror He ent from that involving California. said the fact that Texas, while _ to 1845, claimed its boundary at three leagues into the Gulf made-no independent nation from 1836 difference. When Texas joined the union whatever soverignity Texas had over the submerged land became vested in the United States, Perlman argued. I . v , California Cited Perlman told [the court it decided in the California case that Para mount rights over the submerged land was an incident of national, Boverrijgnsv, . ][, .. . ... J to any “state.” |. . , i-'i, ’Hiis means, said Perlman, it makes no difference what boundary Texas claimed at the time it entered the United States; that the fact that Texas was allowed to keep her “vacant and unappropriated lands” Chinese control., —public lands—when she entered the union wq’s immaterial. |. .. . I 1 . He Said Texjas was allowed to keep such lands merely because Texas was in dept some 10 or 12 million dollars and the land vfas left with Texas to be]*old to liquidate the debt. ' j . Vj “Strange as it may seem now, in thoae days there was some belief in congress that the Texas lands weren't worth $10,000,000,” Ifcrlman said. ' [I left Sikang largely to turncoat Nationalist forcles after breaking organized mainland resistance last December. * . . The dispatches said part of the 35,000 Nationalist troops in Sikang had been taken put by air to Hai- nan. The remainder were left behind to wage guerilla warfare, but it is unlikely they will be able to blqpUjthe route to Tibet. Tibet is right next door to the west. The Cbmmuunists have vowed to “lib erate]” this inaccessible country, which never was under effective ’Siws Department office, indic*rihg whether they will drive their pwi Cars or I will ride with Someone elpe, he said. . H PALACE Brti jn 2'8879 NOW SHOWING voowsuwtgaiA.a^TtctnwivpHh^. 4 . ;. , .*1 14 C e jZf* v'-y {Jjg/ \ ’ cnnMMMsm Mi v! — - i' Lookin’ Back Front the Battalion Filei of 15 Years Ago A call for cadets with the wan derlust was issued in the Sept ember 26, 1934 iisuc of The Bat talion. The Former Students As- sociation was sponsoring a “TEX AS AGGIE SPECIAL” train to carry cadets and exes to Philadel phia where A&M was to play Temple University. Fee for the trip was “less than $100 a man”, and stops were sche duled at Washington, D. C., Phil- ) adelphia for the game New York for a party at the Hotel New York er. and Chicago for a stop at the World’s Fair. With the exception of the one big story, however, no other men tion of the trip was made in the paper and accounts of the game failed to mention any big Aggie representation. Incidentally, the ckdets bowed to- Temple 40 to 6 in a pouring rpin that all but obscured the players from the fans. A&M was way* October T 1934, air- when an All-Aggie program was broadcast over WSM, a 50,000 watt radio ■ i ■ ■ ■sprwstad artfcaanr Mr Ks*m1 44- wrUrtne Berrle* Inc, a* New Tork i mean, in »sa4n sad 1 “T* 1 =&SS rmrifai AmU; o i*»t. ..atr xaitor cnaric* xn ' ri... Actta* Copr Mlteta Ool , BUI Barber. Fraak B. B ter CrtteMWM. Rater Co*K Matuack, Ocor** R4)Ph ' ’altar TabamacW, _. Itaaa. 1 nmi can, M '...?:«n4*Wftu*b AdvtftUUX RcpMccoUtlrca V ' ’ ' 1 " iTSM. station. Sponsored by the National Life and Accident Insurance Com pany, the collegiil was one of the largest of its day. late salute show Script for the play picturing cl written by Dr. librarian of the the broadcast songs—“The “The Spirit < “There Shall show included a [rapus life. It was CJ-F. Mayo, then college. Music on iturcd three A&M — r Hyhtn,’ Aggieland,” and No Regrets.’ J, Official Notice nisn ihasSfe abcBs « tact day on An?*?! ret Um dance. on. r order* (oi b!. h for* rl Apr laundry la ComptroUar. la the deadline (or itaUment o| (eea rmt'.'boart'and ; tONITE ° ^ lH]i 1 ■' ji M f ■ j ■ j,' 1 Shows — 7:00 - 9 ■ 4 I Lucky LicenMe 1 lii’i hr-., . ’ 14 '! Heiress i LAST DAY Less Tax BROADWAY’S NO. 1STACE PUT TWO UCIjNSES IS NOW ON 1 ti . AtkAJdV ' m * i BE [ SELECTED $250 Eich Less Tax _—_ -t m MAN MISTAKEN FOR TRAMP IN HIS OWN HOME! ^1 Hcehsee selected •rciiici iiitviiR iki MLl This is an all too prob able happening. 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