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I I . City Of College Station Official Newspaper I i 4 Volume 49: Number 121 r r 1 j The . * ' “•'ri f V T ttalion PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A{ GREATER A&M COLLEGE Nations Top Collegiate Daily NAS 1949 Survey k. •vf COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1950 Price Five Cents Guion Variety Show Features Aggieland Eve; Satw Orch( tent fi fbody will get in the act ay hight as the Aggieland Singing Cadets, and ta- jm the student body com ine fir ah hour of entertainment and niusic beginning at 7:30 on the st4ge of Guion Hall. Admjission will be 30 cents, for both the variety show and the SaU Jeff Che Rev. O. G. Helvey Rev. Helvey, pastcfr of St. Thomas Episcopal Church, congratulites Jeff, wh> though paying his way through school by working night, stjll finds time to attend church each Sunday morning, is a senior history major from Comraanche. . All Expenses Paid . . . > Danforth Fellowship Features Month To ^ By^CLAYTON SELPH - lieve all of ua gained 10 each Jeff This ©anforth Summer Study 'elio ** ‘ * • • Fellowship open to junior agri- aulVure and veterinary medicine majoi-s'imust be quite a deal. To War Bobby Bland, senior AH major of H Flight and winner of Ihe award last year; Jell it,. “it’s Ihe best thing^that can happen to \you.” The fellowship consists of an all expense paid two week study and entertainment tour of St. Louis und the Rqlaton-Purina Mills, plus two^yeeks at Camp Miniwanca, American Youth Foundation lead ership Camp on Lake Michigan.' Transportation from big; home to St. Loufi t* the only expense the winner .must nay. Bland mini mised cost bf the trip by hitchhik- forth ing the distance In two days. At St. Loulih ly joined Dunf< winners from 41 other states and Cuniidu, where they spent the first 'three days touring the Purina Re search farm. \ \‘*ni guarantee that you'll find the best chow In the world at their farm, Bland shysl “I he- Grovels New §ite For Gofton Ball The Cotton Bull will be at the Grove instead of in, Sblna Hult as previously scheduled, according to Frank Zubick, president, of 'the Agronomy Society. The Ball will be at 9:30 p. m. Friday', April 28, and it will fol low the Cotton Pageant which will bd presented on Kyle Field at 7:30 the same night, Zabcfk 1 con tinued. A In case of bad weather, the Ball will be held in Sbisa, said Zabcik. gained 10 pojunds each while we were thereL”' The remainder of the two Weeks was spent in St. Louis si such things as breeding, W and feeding at the Purti during the day, and too: town at night. ' What is so good about life, says Bobby, is that 1, paid for, “They plan an|d tntion 1 Mills the rfight is all y *°} miss te Highway tenance Is Problem’ pour entire day. and you a thing.” H Daytime excursions injclt advertising agenev tour through St. Louis’ fame league baseball games most of Bobby’s aftot| si Maurc. • \ On a visit to the* St. Grain Rxchatigo, Blam just missed making 03, I had had 91,000, I coul made 20 times that mticlji o| fluctuations while «|e there." ) 5 Leaving the Misaissibp city, the group went by I Camp Miniwanca. ~"It‘s no place for a softie, but you'll | lilW It jf you cun take the i Bobby explained. Mornings at the cUmi spent in class, but the ife*| day was devoted ; tq Swimming, diving, hull! sand dune mountain climbi: daily \ features. Bobbj camp-wide hog calling cpn says that it was only a he . ‘ifi have; price woroj ' j Rlvtjr rain ti> colngj” “my Aggie yelling expe The tour begins in earl hst Jar and takes the entice nior agriculture and nary medicine majors wi: apply should see Prc|f. Barger in Room 401, A Bidding before April said. J- were of thW utioh. arid were pn a It, but |use of |n|pq.” I Aug- eTeS’ ng to I. Wi gncblture Bland I ..y Census Time Again A. F^ Mitchell, a member of the Statje Highway Commis- s i o r from Corsicana, told the 24th annual meeting of the Highway Engineering Short Oqurse that perpetuation of the stajte’s roads is the most im portant pjroblem facing the State Highv ’ay [Department. Some 9125,000,000 will be re- quireti in 1950 to keep the high ways in Texas in as good a condi tion As iji 1949, without adding more mijles of surfaced roads, Mitchell asserted. A total of 39,890 miles of sur faced road must be maintained he sad, including the 7,985 miles of fai m-tjo-market roads. The! price of road-building and maintenance has increased 88 per cent since 1940, Mitchell, said, but the rite of revenue for road-build ing ijurijoses has remained con stant] ' R. [J. Potts, highway commis sion mem aer from Harlingen, spokt on “A. Policy on Handling Over size and Overweight Loads.” He| called for cooperatioq be- tweeij thle highway department forced and the trucking agencies “We should work with the truck ers ajfr if we were a part of theii businjess plan,” he said. Other speakers included Fred A. Wemple, chairman of the Texas Highway. Commission, Midland; M. Ej. Shelby, Sr., designing en- of the bridge division Of # highway department, "Austin! H. LJ Arno, director of personnel, highway department, Austin; C. S. Klikphtrick, chief engineer, Mis souri! Pacific Lines and Chairman of the Railroad Kngineenit for Texu|i, Houston, Lawrence Orto lan!, i ma erials and test engineer, highway i department, Austin; Frank K_ Scrlvnor, Sr„ research engiiieer road design division, highway’department, Austin; AH 413 ClasHes On Kingsville Trip The Animal Husbandry .413, Horsje apd Mule production class, today for a two day field near Kingsville. class will study breeding and pet ion problems concerning quarter [and thoroughbred horses at the King Ranch. e class will return from the April 2. urday night movie, according to C. G. “Spike” Write, assistant dean of students for activities. The pro gram will be directed by Bill Tur- ner. Opening the show will be the Aggieland Orchestra in its special arrangement of “Tea For Two” with choruses by Chester Donlin, tenor vocalist, Haskell Motheral on the alto sax, and Glenn-Tor rence on the trumpet. Butler Sings Tommy Butler will sing “Em- braceable You” followed by “four boys with a song, Bob Stinson, Tommy Butler, Gordon Keller, and Lindell James singing “I .May Be Wrong.” Bop fans will be treated with variations on an original theme done by Haskell Motheral, Joe Pike, Gordon Keller, Glenn Tor rence, Chester Donlin and Lee Stainback. The Annex is slated to present a Dixieland Band. This type of music has been making a slight comeback in recent weeks. Cadets Wanderin’ Bill Turner will present the Singing Cadets at the close of the show singing the folk song “Wan derin’.” -I Concluding the show will be a combination of the Aggie land Orchestra and Singing Cadets ringing and playing “The Aggie War Hymn” and “The Spirit of Aggieland.” Movie for the evening will be “International Lady” with Llona Massy and George Brent. Editor-Publisher Slated for Address Frank W. Zieske, editor and publisher of the Bellville Times, will address a journalism assem bly at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday in the YMCA Cabinet room, on “German NevWpapen and German People.” He spent last summer in Ger- . , many with the Military tlbvem-1 an upward trend in tttent aiding In rehabilitation of F the - country faces no Elizabeth Barron Elizabeth, a brunette senior from Austin High School, is one of five finalists in the se lection ot sweetheart of the Cavalry-Engineer Regiment. Job Prospects Are Tighter For Graduates Atlantic City, N. J., March 30— —Two U. S. Labor Department officials said today there is a “very mild upward trend in unem ployment.” Job prospects for 1950 college graduates will be worse than any year since the war, one said.. * , r - Edward L. Keenan, deputy di rector of the department’s Bureau of Employment Security, set pre sent unemployment at 4,750,000 Ewan. Clague, the department’s commissioner of labor statistics, estimated 500,000 college grad uates will be seeking jobs in June. Keenan and Clague said in an interview industry has not been expanding in the past year and a half and “we have not created as many jobq as the country’s labor pool requires." They said the nation’s j labor force is growing at the rate of 600,000 to 700,000 a year. Both ex pressed confidence that despite left trip n The prod Adams Asks Co-operation In Forthcoming Tabulation By WAYNE DAVIS Brother, if you think you had troubles filling out your Income-' Tax Jform a couple of weeks back, listen to a real tale of woe; Homer B. Adams is the victim of this one. The genial Adams, Aggie-ex, ’45, and well-known North Gate business man, really has it rough. In case you haven’t heard about it over the local radio stations und through The Battal ion. Adams now has a new job in addition to his regular one. Re’s the director of the 1950 Census for the Bryan-College Station area, and don’t ask him how he fell heir to such a form- 'Httered job. “I didn't even know myself,’’ he smiles ruefully. II' so hard, toaeh \U class Cor >r his Jiir- just happened.' 1 Really, the Job All Adams hits to sia-day, three-houi'-u-da; the Id enumeratora and Isdletton, assign an area to each of them, see that each enumerator completely covers his territory, tnke charge of all fllled-out forms and hold, them for submission to the authorities, and smooth out any difficulty the enumerators may run Into while taking the census. 'This latter duty Is a catch-all covering everything from suspi cious housewives who object to question-asking strangers to watch dogs, who object, to practically anyone. \| ■) ; i “All this for 30 dayi said, “and all this in addition tq my regular work.” [’ It isn’t as bad as ip liquid he, though. Instead of using oine cen sus form for each family, is used for thirty people, saving for all but th turesque families. I • - Each person's name vHll on a separate line. Eve interviewee will be as wer special questions, j and | thirtieth person will even more comprehensive While Adams is jpi from giving a previi blank or the questions, rnsy, "No one need be s answer the questions aii erator asks. All aijss strictly confidential, statistical purposes orjly other than the enumerator* g the Census Bureau w|U them.” ' ' I ■ Adams himself has already at tended a Director’s School at Corsteana; where the** lie at moment a .Warehouse extra forms; In case directors Adams (already knee-deep In sum forms) run out before the ishing deadline,| AurllPBL As a course requireihent, he a small amount of pctual work himself, carrying around ] a set of forma and asking the Re quired questions, by small town German newspapers. The Military Government had es tablished a program designed to teach German newspapers the principles of democracy anil the operation of a free press. As dinner speaker at Hu* last meeting of the Professional Press Club, held at the Fin-Feather Club Ziesjke made a similar talk. He took part In a panel discus sion of the topic, “Agricultural Promotion That Pays.” at the Newspaper fJlinlc sponsored by the Texas Gulf j Coast Press . Assocla- I tion which was held on the cam pus in October. Zieske is a graduate of SMU and a director of the Texas Gulf Coast Press Association. ttT'f T‘ ha < , rraM u > rrs ar Are fe Ro ( / ! - »y of I ting! an insight into the problems of hi* enumerators. Aj» a Result, Adams said, “There is aj great deal people can do to ease the job of the enumerator. He gets I paid on a piecework basis, in accordance with the number of Interviews he gets. He doesn’t get fpaidj for coming back, so ans- juestions immediately. It’ll take a few minutes, and hell late it.” iere la any doubt that a caller is a census enumerator, A<Ums said, ask him for his iden- If he can’t produce him away and notify the ice. If he proven him identity, nVlte him jn. IPs hot Walking around In the sunihintj alt vday, and the chance dt down a few moments will a welcome relief. (Offering a drink Or a slice of cake waa tloned, but it ls“ assumed average census enumera- will 1 be delighted to risk any tomnine offered \ him, ~ mldmornlng or mid men luPI form of pt especially In afternoon)] Don’tl be unreanonable or! i lersant with him; he has a thai un- job al best, a him as you. so make It the quest: they’re ju has to fill as you. can. Remember, ions ne asks aren’t person- just a part of a form 111 out Census taking will begin next M4nday morning, Adams added. Libby Blank Libby, a freshman at TU and from Bryan, has been chosen duchess for the T-Association for the Cotton Pageant and Ball. Her escort will be Ray Holbrook, senior Ch. & Major from High- lands, Texas. . Television to Aid Future Warriors Washington —lA**—Military in- telligrifce officers of the future may study movies of distant enemy areas a few minutes after recon naissance planes fly over them. This possibility was, suggested today by a Navy demonstration of moyiea made from a television screen. The films are the result of four years' research. Similar movies could be made In wartime aboard a carrier, or at an. army or air force commamt post, from television broadcast# by far-ranging reconnaissance planes. Engineers attending the show ing said that television broadcasts from high-flying planes can be re ceived from 200 miles away and, if relayed by other planes, at dis tances many times that. that of the 1930a in the next 10 years. Unemployment In 1949 was heav iest in New England, particularly Rhode Island, Keenan said. Statis tics for last year showed most of the unemployed had been in man ufacturing , lines, such ns textiles and costume jewelry. The south and southwest have the least unemployment due to an Influx of miscellaneous man ufacturing concerns. The far west is expanding, but also receiving ad ditional people seeking Jobs, the.y •dla. ' . * .j I' l / AICE Regimental Ball To Highlight Weekend Old rivalries will be put aside furnish tomorrow night when the Cavalry, Engineer, Infantry, and Artillery regiments gather together in Sbisa Hall for their annual combined regimental ball. The Aggieland Orchestra under the direction of Bill Turner will McCarthy Says Mystery Man • Will Back Him Washington, March 31— ( A*>— Senator McCarthy promised today to produce a mystery witness who he said would prove his charges that Owen J. Lattimore is Rus sians top agent in tjie State De partment. The Wisconsin Republican did not name .the witness. He said he is turning the namC over to the FBI along with documents which he claimed showed that Lattimore, a Johns Hopkins professor and one time State Department consultant, was “receiving instructions from the Soviet Government” as far back as 1946. -In London Lattiijnore branded McCarthy’s accusations as- an “un mitigated He.” -. ^ He is’flying back to the United States from a United Nations mission in Afghanistan to make a personal reply next week to the senator’s charges. McCarthy teed off iagainst Latti more in a senate speech which drew a throng of spectators to the galleries, but only 36 of his col leagues were on the Jfloor when he started talking. I ' v Waving papers, he said they would prove his case, and he -read some of them. When Democratic senators noted that in certain cases he was reading only excerpts, ate could judge them as a whole. McCarthy refused, saying he did not want to bring: out ’^peculiar personal hpblts” disclosed in some pf the documents. ! Shivers Scheduled For Bryan Parade Governor Allan Shivers will be in Bryan Tuesday, April 4, to participate in the observance of Fir* Prevention Week. A parade Tuesday will feature both Shivers and Bryan’s hew city fire truck, which will lead the parade. Participating in the parade for A&M will be the Ross Volunteers, carrying the six regimental flags plus national and corps colors. In addition, the governor’s car will be flanked by an honor guard of six of the Volunteers. Fire at Camp Hood To Run $3 Million Gatesville, Tex., Farch 30—(A*) —Billowing flames Swiftly de stroyed two huge warehouses fill ed with army equipment—includ ing artillery and small arms—at North Camp Hood yesterday after noon. Official at the scene estimated the loss at 93,500,000. But Capt. Max Dolcater, camp public rela- tions officer, said there was no in ventory of the warehouses’ con tents; officers conldn’t be sure exactly how much of each kind of equipment the buildings contained. Dolcater said the loss might turn out to be no more than 12,000,- 000. Student Center Tourw Set Tdday Tours of the Memorial Stu dent Cantor building trill be conducted at 4 and B p.m. this afternoon for onyono Interested In Inapocting the structure. The tourn, which will be guid ed, ore port of a program to no- I students, faculty mem- and local reoldenta with facllitlM to bo offered In new building when It opens, iext September. ; H B&A Department Adds Three Majors Three new major courses are to be offered to business students in the fall semester of I960, ac cording to T. W. Lelnml, head of the Business Department. The new courses are marketing, finance, and personnel manage ment. They are designed to sup plement the course in business now being offered by the department. Based upon the old business course, these new courses can be absorbed into the old curricula by substituting a fewj required cour ses and electives. i music for the dance. De- coratioi|S; will - highlight the regi mental colors of yellow, blue, red, and scarlet and white. Regimental sweethearts will be presented during the intermission; Miss Carolyn Grissom of Waco has been selected to represent the r Jerry Lynn Ray Jerry is one of five finalists in the selection of sweetheart the Cavalry-Engineer Regiment. Brown eyed, 20 years old, she will be escorted to the CEAI Ball Friday night by Robert Schero of A Engineers. Club Rosters Due Thirty-six organizations have not turned jn their rosters and must do so immediately, Aggje- lanrf 1950 co-editor Jim Wood- all has announced. Information can be obtained at the Student Activities Office. Wo oodall explained tl for this section of the'; muat -bo sent to right swap., and——, mean sqme organizations not “get their moneyV i If the pages were sent in without members’ names. T W. A. Barber Elected To Head Cass County Club W. A. Barber of Linden was elected president of the Cass County A&M Club at its organiza tional meeting. Other officers elected were Don ald Ayers of Linden, vice-presi dent; Robert Fitts of Atlanta, sec retary; Ernie Naron of Hughes Springs, reporter, and Channel Al bright of Linden, social chairman. Plans for a Easter party to be held in Texarkana during the Eas ter holidays were discussed. mw Sam Hemthrott 'S’ : ! .’T ii- Hue, a student al Lamar Hlgb School In Houston, has boon so- looted to represent the Lamar Chapter of the Houston A&M Club In tho Cotton Pageant and Ball. She will hi escorted by Johnny Clifford, also from Houo- ton. • yf * fU; / ! 1 -. T infantry. No 1 stranger to A&M Carolyn, was Freshman Sweetheart! ot the Class of ’51. She will be escorted by Charley Easley of D Infantry. ^ SweetfiVdrt Competition Sweetheart of the Cavalry-En gineer RegiJhent will be selected from five finalists Saturday night, f The girls vying for the title are 'Elizabeth Barron of Houston; Pat Torn, University of Texas frqsh- man; Jerry Lynn;of San Antonio; \ Judie Breeding of Houston; and Jane ThUrmond, SMU sophomore. The Artillery Regimental sweet heart also will be selected Satur day night. Competing for the hon or will be the dates of all the ar tillery cadets at the ball. . The sweethearts Will be introi duced and-presented gifts by. th* three regimental commanders. They are Cadet Cojonqjs Allan Eubank of the Cavalry-Engineer Regiment, J. T. Dotson of the Artillery Regi ment, and Sam Pate from the In- . fintary Regiment. Cotton Pageant Too The three sweethearts also will ‘ represent their regiments at the Cotton Pageant and Ball April 28. ■ “Bucko” Wylef, commander of ■C Troop Cavalry^ will , act as mns : ter of ceremonies Saturday night. The ball will begin at 9 p. m. Honor- guests include Chancellor and Mrs. -Gibb Gilchrist, President and Mrs. F. C. Bolton, and Dean 1 and Mrs. M. T. Harrington. Invitations to the ball are avail* ■ able through all company first sergeants and from Bob Gregjf, Room 317, Dormitory- 10.-’ Committee Named By MSC Council The Memorial Student Center Council, in its third meeting last night, named alj student members Of the council ta a social and edu cational committee to help plan the opening of . the Center - 'next fall and to assist in the fqller In tegration of the clubs and group* associated with the Center. Student members of the council are Herb Beutel, Rpl fUringm’. Lnvon Masscngale, Joe FuI1t(e, R. A. Ingels, Dun Davis, J. T. Me- New, and J. C; Wallace. The group also voted on policies concerning functions ami conces sions not sponsored by the Mem orial Rtudentj Oenter held In the building or bn. the surrounding .grounds. Center Director J. Wayne Stark discussed meeting und guest loom reservations and Chris Gent, as« sistant director,; discussed student labor in the Ceijter, - In the course of tke meeting,'the council was takerf rffTn tour of the Student Center warehouse in Blr> zell Hall. ! -■ ■■ sow 4' ■■wO>ei—'wwsVi ii in 1 V Betty Brown Betty, a student at- the Univ«r-j sity of Houston, will represent the San Jacinto 1 Chapter of the Houston A&M Club In the Cotton Pageant and Ball. She will be escorted by Gerald P. Monks, B Coast Artillery. Both hail from Houston. Eaton Takes UN(j) Advisor Position Dr. Frank M. Eaton, USDA principal plant; physiologist head quartering at the Texas Agri cultural Experiment Station, has been selected by the UNO Division of Economic Affairs as advisor for several months on a reclama tion and irrigation project in Haiti near the mouth of the River do j|Artibonite. Accompanied by Mrs. Eaton, Dr. Eaton is scheduled to leave about April 10 for a few days in Wash*, ington, D. C., and Lake Success, N. Y. Their headquarters in Haiti will be In Port-aij-Prince. i as| To Packer Meat Plant Viiilt He Students In the meat plant op III make a field' Packing according to Inimal oration class, 432 trip to (he Iluum party on April i’rnf. Roy Snyder of the A Husbandry Department. Snyder said the class will spend the morning in the sausage do- partmtnt of tho Houston Packing Company. In the afternoon the class will visit Henke Plllot and observe the pre-packing of products for [ the self-service meat departments. CE Group to Take Trip to Houston i ■ ' * i Civil Engineering majors will make an inspection trip to Hous ton on April 5. The tour f will begin at 8:30 Wednesday morning at the city auditorium in Houston and will include inspections of the Gulf Freeway, the, Sheffield' Steel Plant, the North Side Sewage Dis- < pdsal Plant, and several other projects in Houston. The city of J Houston will fur nish chartered busses for all mem-<' bers of the inspection teams, and Thursday the Parker Brothers" Construction Company will furnish, < lunch for the group. All CE majors are required-to make an inspection tour to some city before graduating. s' a - Break’ .j A prominent two-diamond eke* cutive officer and a non-military editor of one qf the local campus magazines recently found they have one thing in common. Unbeknownst to one another, both < they were enrolled in a course not noted for Its strict at tendance requirements. Tho exec officer showed up in class for the second time this semester just test week. The mag editor made fhls third appoarartoo. Just by ohabcp they want on the same day. Neither believed the other was registered for the course, Unfortunately, the Instructor, teaching the class selected that 'particular day on which to give his - ’•A” quia, Tho two stars of this drama had no other rnolre but to try their luck, j When teat seen, tho two non- ittenders Were weeping on on* an other’s shoulders, lamenting what a "chicken” prof they hod drawn.