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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 4, 1950)
- -t l-- -r.-N - f. ’ v ' -s : ::\m- y, I :i ; r y Here ts a corner view of .the new Hillcrest Apartments, located on South College Road, which are opening this week. The picture was taken before landscaping was begun. A great deal of the construction work was done by local firms. I Squibb Gives 82,275 Grant for Research E. R, Squibb and Sons, New York, has made available $2,275 to the Agricultural Experiment Statiion. y - ' ■ i The money is to be ^sed ‘‘for the therapeutic testing of trifloryl in the treatment of anaplasmosia in (jattle,” Dr. R. D. Lewis, director of the station says. ‘ "This work is to be conducted oa/ supplementary to our regular researen project on this disease of tattle," Lewis says. 1 —y 1 ‘— Allison Named Tennis’ Leader of Half Century Dallas, May 3 —(TP)—. Wilmer Allisoh wanted "to'be-a profession al baseball player and could have, signed a contract in the Texas League. But hfs father didn't want him in professional .sports. So Allison became a tennis play er and reached the heights. He was national, champion in Umu Iffll Trice ON THE “ ouaeiexcameea (KODAK a This smort re^ex-type camera Is a better boy than ever at its new low price. Its big brilliant finder shows yop your picture before you shoot ... dll you' need o do is load, aim, and click the shutter. Negatives, 2 V* x 2$V. Its oversize black-and-white snaps and Kodacolor Prints are about 3 Vi x 3 Vy. Stop in today and let us show you this popular camera. A&M PHOTO SHOP North Gate . . *' College Station 193^ and was on nine Davis Cup teanjis. He was the man Bill Til- den, the greatest tennis player of all time, sajd had absolutely no future in the game. BUt AllisUn had other ideas. He made Tilden look bad with what he did. Ajlison won the National Col legiate championship while at the University of Texas. He recalls an amusing incident on that oc- cnkiUn—that is, amusing to the crowd. S<| anxious was Allison to show his sportsmanship that us soon ns the match elided he ran (b jump the net so he might congratulate his opponent. It hud ruined and the court was muddy. Allison caught his foot in the net and fell flat on his face. Hia. first tour wasn’t very pro mising. He played in nine tourna- •mcnts and lost in the first round of each. He ended up with only his train fare home plus a nibkle. He bought a candy bar and that was all the food he had returning home. Allison, now an Austin business man, was picked almostr Unani mously by Texas sports writers as the greatest tennis player ip this state for the 50 years—1900 to 1950. ' -* Wilfnerr. who admits he home- times was embarassed by having Ijas, name carried as “Wilma’’, scored 81 points in the Texas poll to establish the greatest athletes and events of the state in the ha’.f-century. The only other players receiv ing votes were Bruce Barnes and Lodis Thalheimer, who also starred in tennis at the University of Texas. Barnes became a national figure in the game. Thalheimer teamed with L. N. White in 1923 and 1924 to win the National In tercollegiate doubles champion ships. . . . Aggie Sports On Schedule . . . Thursday, May 4—Freshman baseball, A&M Fish vs. Rice Slimes, Houston. Staff Members Given Positions Three graduating members of the The Battalion staff accepted job offers and will report for their new assign ments immediately after graduation, Rolang Bing, manager of Student Publications, said to- dad. ‘ . Bill Billingsley, co-editor, has accepted a position with the San Angelo Standard Times, . one of the leading newspapers in West Texas, Bing said. Charles Kirkham has accepted a sales position with the Gulf Pub lishing Company of Houston. KiVk- ham has been chief editorial writer for The Battalion. Hardy Ross, head of The Battal ion engraving plant, has accepted a position With the E. I. DuPont Corp. as Chemical Engineer. Ross will be located at the DuPont plant in Orange, Texas. All graduating Battalion staff members, who wanted employment, have had an average of three or mere job offers, Bing said. Several graduating staff mem bers have not decided what type of work they wish to do but all wljp sought employment have a wfol "range of potential employers to choose from. , \ Two graduating staff members, Charles Cabaniss, sports editor and Otto Kunze, news editor, have indicated that they plan to do graduate work. .jmjn M , Of U.N. Secretary Plans Mission To Red Capital Paris, May —Sec retary-General Trygve Lie announced today he is going to carry his “save the U. N.” mission, to Moscow May 10 and—he hope*—-directly to Prime Minister Stalin. He hop,es to achieve a world conference—a meeting of the Uni ted Natioiyi Security Council with head#of states and representatives of all U. N. members----to end the cold war and heal a split he said is threatening to lead "sooner or later to-a third World war.” “The most critical situation since 1945 has developed this year not only for the United Nations but for the future of the world itself,” tne U. N. official said; ill a state ment fo a news conference.: “We are at the cross roads.” “A new and great effort must be made, I believe, and it must be begun this year to bring the cold wair to an .end.” Opening This Week! A, • i 1 J The beautiful new Hillcrest Apartments , are. opening in Bryan this week. We are happy to have furnished Lumber and Supplies for these beautiful apartments on South College Road. * — LUMBER FURNISHED BY — ! j . *" • i ■ G. S PARKER LUMBER CO. 419 N. Main Telephone 2-5325 v c + BARRICADE - (Continued from Page 2) «S was found. Dane Clark and Ruth Roman take the parts played by John and Ida, Raymond Massey is The authless dictator, notfof a ship, but a gold mine, and Hefeert Douglas is the cultured chap, not a (writer like Knox, but a lawyer. Instear of a besotted doctor, there is a judge who has drunk himself to degradation. And the unscrupu lous cook is around, toot. Roman is in a stage-coach wreck; Roman and Clark escape into the desert, only to find their water salted, etc. - By furnishing the story a west ern locale, the seripter his en abled himself to insert the thrill ing runaway stagecoach incident, and the slam-bang fist-fight in which each participant, although kicked in the head, groin, and belly, belted with fists, rocks, and stacks, still nmuages to stay in there and pitch. : Pane Clark, gi lts his teeth, U«y- mnnd Massey ogles, and Rmh Rilnmn uppeifi s nn the verge of nejuseu througlimil the fltiu. Judg ing from his direction, Peter Hod- frvy must have sensed what the aruro was and decided to get evpn, a George Charlton Charlton has been named 1950- 51 co-editor of The Commenta tor. Presently assistant feature editor of The Battalion, he is junior journalism major of A Flight ^ir Force. ' Steve Woznick Is Race Choice Galveston, Tex., May 3— (AP)—Steve Wozniak of Buffalo, N. Y., a truck driver who made $10,000 swimming in 1949, will be a strong fav orite in Galveston’s five-mile Splash Day race .Sunday. The husky five-foot, six-inch strong boy who holds world’s titles for distance up to 15 miles, ar rived here Monday. Woznialk stopped at Fort Worth to meet his flriend, Roy Sutter of Fort Worth, with whom he swam the ten-mile Toronto champion ship grind in 1948. Wozniak won the race! in the record time of four hours and 28 minutes. Two other men who raced against, him in Toronto, M/Sgt. Fred Class of Clarksville, Tenn., and Eddie Oudrus of Galveston, will match strokes With him here Sunday. If the Uulf turns calm, Joe Dem me r of jTyler, former University of Texas tank star, will give Woz- niak a riin for his money. In 1949 Pemmer shattered the old Gulf record for five miles by turning in a tinhe of one hour and 20 minutes. Merton M. Cory To Address Tau Beta Pi Merton M. Cory, national president of Tau Beta Pi, will be bn the campus to address the Texas^ Delta Chapter at a meeting to be held Monday evening, Donald Jarvis, local pres ident, announced today. Cory, a professor of electrical engineering at Michigan State College in East Lansing Michigan, received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of New Hampshire in 1908, and his Mas ter of Scyience degree from the University of Michigan in 1933. He was elected to the position of National President of Tau Beta Pi on December 4, 1947. Cory has been with the department of Elec trical .Engineering at Michigan State College since 1912. Before the president’s address, the Texas Delta Chapter will elect officers for next year. The Tau Beta Pi picnic, which is to he held dn Monday, May 15, will also be j discussed, Jarvis stated. Other business will include the selection of a delegate to the na tional convention of Tau Beta PI, Jarvis concluded, All Tau Beta I’l oietnhers are rei|ueste<l to set Monday evening aside so that they will lie aide' to attoui) the inoetlng, Howard W, Harlow, ileau of the Hehool of Kip glneeVIng, said, PAINTING ami DECORATING of the new HILLCREST APARTMENTS DONE BY 5 F. L Summers & Son .1 j • ' ' * »* 3200 Highway 6, South PHONE 6-1181 i f ' |l InhWHuMi THE Bi THURSDAY, MAY 4,1050 TTALtON 'i 1 PageS Rural EL Iv - upervisor Meeting Scheduled The Conference of County Super intendents and Supervisors and ttie Texas School Administration Con ference (will meet tn joint sessim here, June 26, to’open what is ex pected to be the largest confer ence foil both since their', begin ning, Gi B. Wilcox, head of the Education and Psychology Di- partment and Secretary of the Tex as School Administration Confer ence, announced today. Prominent men in the field of education who are to be present at the sessions include Dr. J. Dm Hull, Office of Education, Wash ington, ^nd Chairman of the N a- tional Cbmmittee on Life Adjust ment Education; Dr. Harl R. Doug las, Dean of School of Education, University of Chicago, Dr. A. L. Chapman, Executive Director, Tex as Association School/Boards, and Dr. Robert . Sutherland, Director of the Hogg Foundation. The conference is to last for three days and from four to. five hundred teachers and educators are expected to be present. personnel the Rural waa r comple last ^week of rural el Industrial Extension (i 1 '•(•[ j :: ■■ * I ' i j ■ .p* i Herman C. Gollob “Night Owl Keeper^ Gollob has been named co-editor of The Commentator for 1950-51. He is amusements editor of the Battal ion and a junior English major IT’S THE . . . TALK OF THE TOWN * . : - . 4 • THE ONE AND ONLY ' • 1' For Good Food and Popular Prices TALK OF THE TOWN —- D E LICIO U S FOOD PREPARED TO PLEASEi THE MOST EXACTING TASTE r Plenty of Hi-chairs for the Kids • 1 i] * 'H^fj We Carry Your Tray ' ii '. ’ , i I • I -jM No Parking Problem» / HOTARD’S Cafeteria a* — 1 - Electrical Work for the New HILLCREST APARTMENTS was done by ns We congratulate the Culpepper Real Estate Ghinpany on the building of this fine addition to the City of Bryan. BRYAN ELECTRIC COMPANY . y I ■ . ■ •' ; ■ 713 S. Main — Bryan TELEPHONE 2-8590 •v — C, t nil ■- j * j ■ I ^ Hillcrest Apartments J Wei congratulate the Culpepper Agency on thei opening of the beautiful n*w Hillcrent npartmenta, South College Road, Bryan. WO are happy to have had a part, aa gen- erail contractors, in errecting these ful new apartment buildings in Bryant n. kh v f •j «•» , I • l. CL Highway 6 — South TELEPHO: 60 •j i ‘|:\ : i ' ikii . 1 • ^ . I 'VdlW'