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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 . . .
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Danforth Fellowship
Features Month To
^ By^CLAYTON SELPH - lieve all of ua gained 10
each
Jeff
This ©anforth Summer Study
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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
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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
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have;
price
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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
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Aug-
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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
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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.
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toaeh \U
class Cor
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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. \| ■)
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“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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sam Hemthrott
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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.
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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. !
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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
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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
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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.
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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.