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MARCH 29,1950
Two Men, Truckload of Gravel, andOi
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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!
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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
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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. ~
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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.
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The Nevadan (Columbia) star-
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ring Randolph Scott, Dorqthy Ma-
rrest Tucker,
loubt make a Weat-
erh.” This seems to be the current
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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.
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aU while Forrest Tucker, a new
rUer to f the “movie .mica’’ takes
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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-
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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
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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.
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Poultry Judgers
Plan Memphis Trip
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; 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
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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
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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
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