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COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1950
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Gilchrist Asks
Governors OK
On Liberty Bell
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Governor Allan Shivers has
been asked to make A&M Col
lege the final depository for
the replica of the Liberty Bell
which is to be given to the
State of Texas at the conclusion
\pf the coming Savings Bond drive.
\The request was made on behalf
of\the college and its former
students by Chancellor Gibb Gil-
christ. • ■ ■ . .
. “A&ftUykdleK** should be, a nat
ural depository for the Liberty
BeW replica allotted to Texas,”
GilehrisCs letter to the Governor
raid, “I have been asked by the
President of A&M College, joined
by the President-elect, tip submit
a request to yon that A&M be
chosen as.the site where the bell
will be placed.”
“On their behalf and my own
I can-.assure you that a suitable
display will be made of the bell
and one in keeping with its im-
> portance and with the traditions
of this great institution which it
self is dedicated -to; freedom and
liberty,” Gilchrist sSfld. '
A&M men throughout the st^te
are seriously interested in having
their college named as the per-
matjenf-home of the Liberty Bell
in Texas, J. B. Hervey, executive
secretary of the A&M Association
of Former Students, 'said today.
Hervey ds serving on a three-
ntan committee with Brazos Coun
ty Judge A. S. Ware and R. H.
Shuffler, director of Information
for the A&M System, to secure
final designation of the siteu
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a ‘Barber of Seville 9
To Be Shown in Y
A program of musical films con
sisting of the comic ohera, The
. Barber of Seville, and Sfcbiiberfs
Unfinished Symphony wjll be pre
sented in the YfVfCA tonight and
tomorrow evening at 7:15 p. m., ac
cording to M. L. Cushion, secretary
of the YMCA.
^ The symphony will be played by
11 the 84-piece Radio Philharmonic
Orchestra of Italy under the di
rection of Fernando Previtali. The/
: Barber of Seville was photographed
on the stage of the Rome Opera
House. Leading artists such as
Tito Gobbi and Clo Elmo-will be
'featured in the film.
Because the films ha\4 been
edited considerably, the. shows,
should not last, oyer 45 minutes.
Cash ion sank- ? •
English cotmnentaijy has been
added to give the films mo^c mus
ical appreciation.
The narrator for, the shows is
. Olin Downes of the! New York
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By B. F. ROLAND
Aggieland 1960’s Vanity Fair
winners—six luscious damsels se
lected by a keen-^yed committee
of young College staff members
—were announced yesterday by the
co-editors of the yearbook.
Irt alphabetical order, the six
winning beauties are Cherry Blair,
Janie Boothe, Jennnine Holland,
Joan Temple, Patsy Jo Templeton,
and June ToepporWlne,
Aggieland co-editors Jim Wood-
nil and Chuck Calmnt** reported
that members of the selection com
mittee said-,-the,six winners wore,
chosen only ‘ after a great deal of
deliberation since all Mii of the
Vanity Fair, nominees were the
type girls "who would stand out
in any crowd.”
Texas Beauty Wins
Miss Blair is a freshman at
the University of Texas and bails
from Amarillo. She was entered in
the beauty section competition by
Dale Collins, Navy veteran ma-
K in business who lives in
15.
The brown-eyed TU lovely with
brown hair has also attracted
considerable attention as a beauty
at the Forty Acres, having been
chosen 1950 Aqua Carnival Queen
and a Texas Ranger Girl of the
Month.
Still another winner from the
Austin campus is Janie Boothe of
San Antonio. Ralph “Rocky” Ver
non, vet company cadet who is
an animal husbandry major, no
minated the Alamo City beauty.
M iss Boothe, a freshman at Tex
as, has light brown hair and green
eyes.
Miss Holland, a junior at TSCW,
calls Houston home. She was placed
in the competition by Rex L. "Bill”
Billingsley, journalism major liv
ing ip Lcgget Hall who saw Navy
service during the war.
The Tessie beauty is the current
Aggie Sweetheart and a* such the
-brown-eyed brunette has repre
sented A&M at many social func
tions during the past school year,
A Paris Junior College fresh
man, Joan Temple of Purls, was
the beauty entered In the Vanity
Fair race by Bob Skidmore, B
Infantry Cadet majoring in Agri
cultural Economics,
Miss Temple In an ash-blond
with brown eyes.
A "Missus” .Triumphs
Not a "miss” but a “missus" Is
Patsy Jo, wife of Ben Templeton.
Templeton is I&E officer on the
Corps Staff and is majoring in
civil engineering. The Templetons
live in College View.
The brown-haired , beauty is a
former Dallasite.
Another San Antonio lovely is
Miss Toepporwine. She was nomin
ated by Dick Magers, Navy vete
ran taking civil engineering who
lives in Law Hall.
The sparkling black-haired miss
with dark brown eyes graduated
from Thomas Jefferson High in
her home city in 1949 and is now
working in the accounting de
partment of the Southwestern Bell
Telephone Company there.'
Co-editors Wopdall and Cabaniss
said that the previously planned
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Patsy Jo Templeton
Mrs. T^mple^on '(above and
right) is Jhe wife of i Ben Tem
pleton, I&E officer on the Corps
Staff. She was among the six
beauties selected to appear in the
Vanity Fair section of the Ag
gieland I95U. A former Dallas
ite, she and her husband now re
side in College View.
Marketing Finance
Sets Meet Tonight
The Marketing and Finance Club
will Ju>ld its unnuaLdinner Thurs
day, May 4, 7:00 p. m. at Franklin’s
according - to Joe E. McConnell,
president.
Staff members arid students plus
wives and dates are invited to at
tend the informal affair. The
charge will be fl.60 per plate.
' - Tickgjp may be purchased from any
officer of the club.
A Bravos County’s best known
citizen, Joe / R. Motheral, will be
the principal speaker. Other fea
tures are Being arranged including
door prizes and special music,
said McConnell.
Student Senate
Sets Agenda In
Final Meeting
The agenda for tonight’s
Student Senate meeting was
set yesterday afternoon by
the executive committee of
the Student Senate, Joe Ful
ler, Senate parliamentarian and
executive committeeman an
nounced.
Reports and recommendations
from all standing committees head
the agenda. These reports will Out
line committee activity througbrthis
past year and offer recommenda
tions for next y/saf’s committees
to consider, Fuller said.
Monte Montgomery will present
his final report on the Campus
Chest campaign earlier this year.
The Senate will allocate portions
of the Chest fund to the 12th Man
Scholarship Fund, the World Stu
dent Service Fund and the Chest
contingency fund.
Reiforts will be given by Sen
ate delegates who attended the re
cent TiSA Convention in Waco,
.Fuller said.
The special Senate committee to
investigate the possibilities for.
holdingy chapel services next year
will report to the Senate at to
nights’ meeting.
Fuller said that one or two con
stitutional amendments were be
ing prepared for introduction by
Senate members. One would give
positions on the Senate to all state
officers to the Texas Intercollegiate
Students Association, statewide or
ganization of student governments.
At their Waco convention, the
TISA voted'to hold its 1951 con
tention on the A&M campus. The
Senate this year will select an exe
cutive vi.ee-president and an exec
utive secretary for next year’s
TISA. These officers will plan and
present the program Tor the 1951
convention, Fuller said.
Another constitutional amend
ment that will probably be intro-
duced, Fuller added, 18'an amend
ment to create ,a .Senate vice-pres
ident. The“preHent organization
of the Seriate has only two execu
tive officers—president and secre
tary. •*.
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Miss Temple (above and left)
is a Paris Junior College fresh
man who was announced yes
terday as one of the 1950 Aggie
land Vanity Fair beauties. The
18 - year - old, hi own-eyed ash
blond is 5’ 5''. She was nominated
by Boh Skidmore, B Infantry.
Huey Wins Journal
^Student Award
('ceil Hardy Huey III, business
major ffom College Station! has
been awarded the Wall Street
Journal Achievemen Award. The
award isi a specially designed sil
ver medal and a year’s subscrip
tion to the Journal.
Instructors of corporation fi
nance of the Business and Account
ing Department made the selection,
emblematic of the outstanding
graduating senidr from their class
es. J.he ju'csent&Hon W ‘H he made
at the Business Society banquet
May 12.
Huey is a member of the ROTC,
the rifle team, j Business Society,
president; Intralmural golf cham
pion, Student Senate member Stu
dent Life] Committee, a distinguish
ed student for two semesters and
a distip>(uished 'military, student.
Natives Fear
African Lion
Prowls Near
Paris, Tex., May 4——Folks
in the Cunningham Community,
about 10 miles southeast oL here,
yesterday that an Afri-
had b(>en sighted on a
r Cunningham.
Bert Hell, a Cunningham resi
dent, said the folks were forming
a posse .onight jto search for the
lion.
Tlfey believe it is one that es
caped frem a 'wrecked circus truck
in Oklahoma last year.. A Kelly
Brothers iCircus truck was wreck
ed iu tlje Cornish Mountains in
Oklahoma last year. They believe
it may have wandered down into
Lamar County, which is on the
North Texas boirder next to Ok
lahoma.
Several residents of Lamar
County hpve reported finding lion
tracks iri the alrea recently, but
today wap the first report of the
beast being sighted.
In the circus! truck crash, "Hie
driver a(id a female lion were
killed but! a male lion escaped.
Radio station KPLT in Paris
was asked last night to broadcast
an appeal for men and dogs to
help in the search.
reported
can lion
farm nea
Elevep students have Been nahied
winners of the annual spring
awards [which total $3,360, Dr. M
j T. Harrington, chairman of the
] faculty committee on scholarships,
j announced this morning,
! The ujwards will be presented at
j the Awards and Merits Day Pro-
[ gram, Sunday, May 14,
Veteran Wins
Stumi M. Hauser, Junior jhy*
sics major from Los Angeles, Cal.,
will receive the Krueger AWarii
lof gfriHi Hauser, a married vet
eran, has u grade point uvehage
of 2.9 Ills G.I. benefits will [ex
pire In August,
Hausdr Is a member of Jpht
Beta Sigma and the Texas ^ol-
legiate Academy, of Science. He
was chairman of the committee
which organized the Physics Club
this year and now serves the club
as secretary-treasurer.
He hgs supplemented his G, I.
benefits! by employment with [the
Dairy Qjueen iri Bryan, by drafting
Kyle’s Portrait
To Be Unveiled
In Y’ Chapel
Edwin J. Kyle, dean emer
itus of ,the School of Agricul
ture was honored this after
noon at 2 p. iri. when a por
trait of him was presented to
the college by a group of ! his
friends and associates.
Dean ! Kyle was United States
Ambassador to Guatamala from
1945 until his retirement fromj the
State Department in 1948. H|e is
now retired and living in Bryjan. ,
President Frank C. Bolton) ac
cepted t|he paintirig on behaljf of
the college. Mrs. T. H. B^ker,
Jr., daughter of the Kyles handled
the official unveiling.
The program w-as held in the
YMCA Chapel and an Informal
reception followed in the Sputh
Solarium. John C. Mayfield,’Hjous-
ton executive and civic leader,
served as master of ceremonies.
Seymour M. Stone completed the
portrait this spring in the Kyle’s
Bryan home. Shortly after fin
ishing the portrait Stone was brit-
icully injured in an automobile
accident. He is still recuperating
from the accident and unable (h
attend.'
Stone has painted such rind
uals as United States presid
vid-
ents
Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Hoover,
Franklin I). Roosevelt, and H»rry
Truman
and tutoring. He wijl graduate iri
June, 1961. % . |
Jones Award
Landon D. Wythe, Jri, junior
animal husbandry major , from
Granbury, has won the Jesse H.
Jones $333 Reward for Achieve
ment. Possessing a grade iiqint
average of 2,2,'Wytli* Is president
of the Saddle and Sirloin Flub,
First sergeant of B 'I runipor-
tation company, he is also o mem
ber of the Agricultural Council
and of both the Junior Livestock
and Meat Judging Teams.
Wythe Inis made nii>4t of his
college expenses by fjtrin umli
ranch work during the summers
and by employment at the Animal
Husbandry Cuttle Burns (|urlng the
school year.
Royal Ferris Brown, Jr., has
been named to receive the Albert
Bunta Senior Award of $)300.
Brown, a junior bdsines* major
from Dallas, is a masteri sergcimt
on the Corps Staff ajnd d member
of the Ross Volunteers. He is also
a member of the YMCA Cabinet.
Brown has earned a laige part
of his college expenses by summer
employment as a shoe ! salesman
and in the Federal Reserve Bank
Training Prograiq^in Dallas. As
a student, he is employed in the
Business and Accounting Depart
ment.
Three Awards
W. S. Mosher Memorial Awards
were made to three students. James
All alfternoori. classes today,
from 3-5 will be dismissed for
(he purpose of Surjinjer School
registration. President Bolton
announced 1 today.
Newman Treasurer
Chosen at Meeting
James T. Brown, junior Civil
engineering major from San pen
ile, was! chosen treasurer, of) the
South Texas Province of New
man Clubs during the annual |con-
vention of Newman Clubs at Tbxas
A&I, April 28.
The A&M Newman Club jwas
represented at the convention by
Dick Marrow, Austin; Jamesj T.
Brown, jSan Benito; Ray Larig-
linais, Sjan Antonio; and Thcjmas
Stack, Sydney, Australia.
Anw'ay, She* 1 !! Get Boinjuets
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A&M Men Present
Papers At Meet
Staff members and graduate
students, wiR give papers at the
meeting of the Southwestern Sec-
g m of the Society for Experimen-
1 Biology and Medicine, to be
held at . Baylor University May
6-6. U>
Joan Temple
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Meigel to Address
Business Society
Willard Weigel, personnel di
rector of the Lone Star Gas Com
pany^, will deliver the principle
speech Friday evening, May 12,
at the firkt annual Business So
ciety banquet, Cecil Huey, society
president announced today.
Weigel will speak upon the gen
eral topic, "The Business Outlook
for June College Graduates.”
The banquet will feature enter
tainment by a trombone quartet
from the Aggie Band. Tickets may
be bought from Business Society
officers or from the secretary in
the Business Department office.
Tickets are $1 perl plate.
A» personnel director for the
Lone Star Gas Company, Weigel
is responsible for coordinating per
sonnel policies and practices of- all
divisions and subsidiaries of the
company into one centralized de
partment. He assumed that posi
tion in 1942. *
Prior to that time We'igel was
with Lone Star Gas in the ca
pacities of public relations man
and advertising manager.
’s Operation
Suspends Same for Show
By BILL BILLINGSLEY
The Aggie Players, A&M’s ori
ginal hard luck group, have had
it again.
just a few hours'’ Before the
opening curtain of their new play,
“O Mistress Mine", the leading
lady had gu appendectomy.
.Accustomed as the player's are
to begging places to i stage their
plays, borrowing costumes and sets,
and pleading for the minor finan
cial support they need—nlf to
give the localities excellent and
inexpensive entertainment Which,
for all their pains, is oftimes
spurred—the hospitalization . of a
•leadThg lady is just too much; even
for the Aggie Players.
The leading lady was Mrs.
Jean Kernodle, formerly secre
tary in the student activities of
fice during the daylight hours
who was playing the part of
Olivia in the Terrence Rattigan
play about the loves and prob-
. lems of a cabinet minister apd
his mistress.
On Broadway, of bourse, an un
derstudy would blitnely leap into
place, mouth her lines l faultlessly.
and a netv star would probably be
born. Bull the players are about
as short-handed’ as a cotton glove
that has [passed through the A&M
laundry. [As the leading lady went,
so went the production.
A Battjalion reporter tried fran
tically all afternoon to contact
George pillavou,' director of the
players. 4>i<F probably^ the unhappi-
est man bn the faculty at this time.
But Dillavou, with his castle made
of several weeks of hard and thank
less work tumbled around him,
had gone to his home which has
no phone!
When the reporter offered to get
on his J Bicycle and pedal out to
Muntterlyn Village, the managing,
editor said never .mind, and con
tinued we might have a suicide
story, which Js better than a play
cancellation story anyway.
David Haines, another of the
three lending characters in the
production, said a meeting had
been ca led of the players for
tonight ix> determine what could
be salvaged from the produc
tion. i' !..
When i sked for his reaction af
ter hearing of Mrs. Kernodle’s con
dition, closed his eyep to
bettor visualize the long nighjs of
practice and., said feelingly, “I
peutrified!”
The attending surgeon has
ten days us the least possible
that can elapse before Jeal
out of bed ami back on a stage,
“And with lhat being so close to
exams” Haines said, shrugging,
“1 iust don’t know.” He went away
looking as if he hud just bjeen
busted down to PFC. t
Mrs. Kernodle was taken to the
hospital yesterday morning tuid
the operatiim was performed
about 1 that afternoon, Haines
'Said. She had complained of a
slight pain in her stomach at
the final rehearsal Tuesday
.night, Haines added, but had
gone through her lines well.
This interruption is only the
latest of a long line of player
mishaps, j Freezing weather, rainy
weather, and auditorium problems
are old Stories to the thespians.
But what it lacks in originality,
this makiss up in completeness.
Did you say Texas City? Man,
it ain’t got nothin’ on the Aggie-
Play era.
Twelve Juniors
Left Tonight
In Final Ballot
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The Class of ’5l makes a
final decision tonight on can
didates for six class offices.
. Voting for the posts began
last week with 36 men com
peting for five jobs. The sixth
position was opened last Thursday
when the class decided to elect a
non-military vice president. ■
Twelve men remain in the [race
—two qualified candidates for iach
office. They won their way to| the
finals Tuesday night by edging
out opponents in the second run
off.
Remaining candidate* for (jlnss
presidents are Joe Johnson [arid
Dare Keelan.
The military vice-president ial
race has been .narrowed' to Ralph
Gorman and Bill Purse. Opponents
in the non-military. vice-president
ial race are Doyce Aarqii and |Bob
Allen. “
In the final run-off for secre
tary-treasurer, Gale Brundrett] has
paired off against David Haines.
Social Secretary candidates \v i 11
be John Gossett and Kenpeth
Schaake.
Remaining candidates for cjlass
historian are George Charlton and
Gordon Edgar. .
Don Joseph and Jim Pianta kvon
the two senior yell leader ptosts
in Tuesday’s run-off.
Tonight’s final vote will aj^ain
be by secret vallot. Class mem
bers will meet . at 7:30 in [ the
Chemistry Lecture Room to vpte.
Joel, sophomore
student frotr
eevi
receive $150
his jiiulor m
A member of the
to be dividei betwe
years.
MCA Cabi
was u first .jlaes wlnw
fieifhinan slide rule CO!
pluymwnt nclades »ut i
civil
Pa
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tout. His eui
mer I’Ostom ,wheat jin
surviiylng vmrk duriiig
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KuHsell -Hagens, s JluriWfr
tecturnl co istructiun
Houston, v
for lllls soul
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he lips a g
ismicunn ma
ill be a war<
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f of 'lit. p
Mile point! rip
I'tnlter |of
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utlo of
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Beta I
rnglheflt’-
Okla., will
$300 for lips
■ice-preside! it
member of
au Betii Tl,
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tlje Erigljii-
Hugdiis Is a nn
ltoelui;nl 8 .irlet y, Tau
and tlhe Ji^t ktou- Club.
Tj«rse Named
Bill Purse, Junior civil
Ing major from This
receive an' award" of
seniori year. Parse in
of t|ie juni >r clusi*,
Phi Eta .Sigma and
junior editor , of T
and sorgeai t major
eer BattalU rj.
Hej has turned pajilt of his job I
lege [expenses by "sunilmei employ
ment with the U». S, Engineers
and with construction jfirms in
Tulsa, and through student sales
concessions.
Erwin' Wf. NeuvUrj, spphomhre
chemistry student from HallfctS
vilje, will receive the LhlSe Hugh
ey Lane Award of $100 from the
Texas Society, ■ U. S. Daughters
of lhl2.
Nehvar his a grade paint aver
age of 2.8 r nd is a member of the
Newman Club, the Press (Ji
the Biology Club. He
as u liriotyt ipt in Brya
, ! Freshman Wi
iWilliam Floyd Eurt, jfreshmajn
electrical engineering student frojn
Fort Worth, will receive the Fort
Worth A&M Mothers’! Club awatjd
of $200. A graduate of the Lena
Pope; Orphi ns Home jit IFoirt
Wortlh, East is employed^ at the
Housing Of Fice at the A irtexj an
has a sunm er employment with
Fort! Worth construct on firm.-
had fi grad? point average oU
in hj,s first term. '
John Ste’-ensori Lancaster, j jurii
ior geology student from Coliegje
Station, has been named for the
Club award of $100. J
Lancaster played football dur
ing his freshman year, ik a mem
ber of Phi Eta Sigma, and holds
the rank o' cadet tifehriicaT ser
geant. He D eniployed us a gate
keeper at Kyle Field and works
in the mailing room Of the Agrh
cultural. Ex ||>eri ment -StUtion.
flub, ni^d
employ
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Two Ag
Lloyd M. P;
will
Htu<pente 4
U|h> and Jack W.
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Carley will receive the Vit-A-.Way
Inc. Reward* for Achievement for
students in the School Of Agricul
ture. Pape, a . junior animal hus
bandry nia.it r from Wijnbjerly, will
receive $30(1 ^for hi senior year.
Holding a grade poini average of
2.44, he is a sergeant in the Corps-
of Cadets gnd a member of rihie
Saddle and Srrloiiji Club, . j,
McCarley, a junior dairy husban
dry student from Denisrm, Will roj
seive $200 fir hig'seniji? year. Re
porter for the Kyeam and Kow
Klub, he is also a‘member of the
YMCA Cabinet atgl waal top man
in the National Dairy Judging
Contest this year. Ht'Shas a grade
point ratio (if 2.4. ! i I
Dr. George Van
here May 16, lays claj
who turned up an ei
Equipped with Special
to prove that the gravi
passing nearby 2.01
as Einstein had predict
ri-oi
Toeck, noted aati
m to the distinction of
r in the calculations
instruments of his own
‘tational force of the ■
ends of arc, instead of
ed.
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design he
nds
II speak
scientist
Einstein,
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itarllght
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