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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1950)
Standing at her cash register where she can usually be found throughout the day, Mrs. Juanita Kearby, known to most students as “Nita” accepts money from a customer for the latest edition of one of the many magazines that line the shelves of her store. CofC Leaders Discuss Plans For Sidewalk Plans for construction of a sidewalk along Jersey Street for A&M Consolidated School children were further discuss- i ed yesterday at the regular meeting of the board of directors of the College Station Development Association and Chamber of Com merce. The board authorized Hershal Burgess, president of the organi zation, to appoint a committee to contact property owners along the surveyed route of the sidewalk for their permission for the project to go across their property. The com mittee is to report back to the i board upon completion of its job. The proposed sidewalk would run i from Timber Street (adjacent to : Consolidated School) in a westerly direction along Jersey Street to east Dexter Drive. The possibili ties of extending the sidewalk from Dexter across the city park to West Dexter were discussed. Means of financing the project and other matters relative to con structing the sidewalk were dis cussed. CS Business Review . . . Complete Magazine Stock Now at Nila’s By B. F. ROLAND Owned and operated by Aggies for Aggies, Nita’s Newsstand and Confectionery is now the only com plete newsstand in College Sta tion. “Hamburgers just like Mother makes,” were what Mrs. Juanita Kearby endeared herself to prac tically every Aggie on the cam pus. Remodeled last June, however, Nita’s now has magazines, pocket books, post cards, cigars, cigar ettes, candies, malts, shakes, novel ties, and even some drugs, to name a few of the things. When last year’s returning Ag gies pore into Nita’s about the sec ond week after school starts in September, they will find the booths and cherished hamburger grill removed. Will Find Magazines Instead they will stare unbeliev ing to the left where the popular magazine section is now located and then to the right and find pocket novels, sports magazines, and detective stories. Looking further to the back where the grill had been, they will find ice cream and soda boxes, a case containing cigars, cigarettes, and candies and shelves of miscel laneous drug items. Mrs. Kearby, known to most people as Nita, came to College Station from Midland at the sug gestion of her son, Jerome C, Kearby. Kearby, 22, was a June graduate in petroleum engineer ing. Proposed Newsstand Kearby had proposed the build ing of a newsstand, but Nita ac customed to cooking for two sons, had a better idea of what Aggies wanted. On Dec. 2, 1947, Nita started making hamburgers and sandwiches in her new building at North Gate. This summer poor health forced Nita to revise the old plan for a newsstand. Thus College Station has gained its only complete news stand. Nita’s second son, Jack C., 22, is a second year animal husbandry major at A&M. After two and a half years, Nita is taking a much deserved vaca tion. Her newsstand will be closed from Aug. 15 to Sept. 15. The board talked about having a clean-up campaign in College Sta tion, but action on the subject was held up so city officials could be consulted on various matters rela ted to the campaign. R. L. Hunt, chairman of the road extension committee, was told to contact south side property owners for permission to construct a road from old highway 6 to new highway 6. If built, the road would conect the highways south of the Lincoln Consolidated School. Jo Ann Mgebroff Is League Delegate Miss Jo Ann Mgebroff, acting as ! the official delegate from the American Luthern League of Col lege Station, left Friday morning for a convention in Fredericksburg with her parents the Reverend and Mrs. Fred Mgebroff. Johnny Zernial Jr., Edwin Schroeder, Jr. and Elwpod Schom- burg all of Brenham. All drove to Fredericksburg to attend the Texas District Luther League Convention. The conven tion will last three days. Gilchrist to Graduate Henry Gilchrist, son of Chan cellor and Mrs. Gibb Gilchrist of College Station, will receive his law degree on August 31 from the University of Texas School of Law. One hundred and one candidates for the degree were announced by W. Page Keeton, Dean of the Uni versity of Texas Law School. EAT THE SEED . . . And you lose the harvest! The merchant who doesn’t spend a portion of every sale as insurance for future sales is apt to reap what he’s failed to plant. Nothing! There’s no more fer tile ground for planting buying ideas than the Col lege Station Market. What medium reaches all College Station every day? Only THE BATTALION! The Battalion I ii ■ K ... From the City Desk ... Open Doors Won 7 Help Petitioners By JOEL AUSTIN Battalion City Editor Many people in College Station have been asking for twenty-four hour police service for a long time now, but Monday night at the city council meeting they found how firmly the council was opposed to such a thing. Twice within the last thirty days the same question has come before the group, and each time they have deemed it inadvisable to employ an additional man to boost the staff to three. The proposed city budget, as presented to the council for its OK in July, included funds for paying three police patrolmen. These plans were immediately squelched by the council, believing that through alternating shifts the two policemen already employed could reasonably handle what work had to be done. A petition bearing the names of several College Station businessmen was presented to the council at its meeting Monday night asking the city to add another man to its police department. The petition received similar action as the clause in the proposed budget. And why shouldn’t the council refuse to hire another policeman. It was the businessmen who asked for the added protection, and in many cases these same men have been called from their homes late at night to come down and lock doors left open to their stores. Perhaps we hold some kind of record here for doors left open to business at night. City Manager Raymond Rog ers said that in January, 15 were left open. In February, 91 were reported as compared with 22 in March, 59 in April, 52 in May, and 155 in June. Certainly a town the size or College Station needs a policeman on duty twenty-four hours a day, but how can the councilmen be convinced of such a thing when a record as the one above exists. Jersey Street Sidewalk- The board of directors of the College Station Chamber of Com merce discussed yesterday further plans for constructing the side walk along Jersey Street for Con solidated School children. Although final action was not taken at the meeting, plans of routing and financing the project were discussed. Within the next few weeks definite action may be gin to take place on the sidewalk’s construction. In fact the largest barrier, as far as we could tell, was securing permission from all people living along the route of the sidewalk which would afford a safe place for school children living- in the south side area to walk to and News About —A “Must” For Safety from school. v Some mention was made at the meeting concerning a few people who had already voiced opposition to laying the sidewalk across their property. Naturally someone is going to have some shrubs or a flower bed in the path of the sidewalk, but at the same time (as we understand the proposition) they will have the sidewalk laid with little, if any, expense incurred on their part. If you live along that portion of Jersey Street which is included in the plans for the sidewalk, be generous in your dealings with the; chamber representative when he calls on you. After all, you will be helping to safeguard the lives of hundreds of school children. the City . . . Director Says 85,000 Men To Be Called Washington,, Aug. 16 — (AP)—The selective service director said yesterday he ex pects additional draft calls in the next few months for per haps far more than 85,000 men. Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey told a reporter these would be in addi tion to calls already out for 100,000 men forces in September and October. In testimony given Aug. 1 and made public yesterday by the House Appropriations Committee, Hershey said he had been auth orized to ask for around 185,000 men during the fiscal year ending next June 30. This would mean lhat in addi tion to the 100,000 calls already an nounced, 85,000 men would be drafted. But Hershey said the figures were based on estimates made in July and are considerably out of date. “I don’t think we’ll try to get by with anywhere near as low as 85,000 additional men,” he said. Hershey appeared before the committee in support of a request of $20,475,000 previously voted. He told the committee he already i has called for 100,000 inductees “and I expect a 50,000 call for November, which will leave me only 35,000 for the rest of the year” running to next June 30. Kiwanians Hear Although the water shortage has improved and local residents may water their lawns and gardens today and Friday from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., work hasn’t slowed on the new water system. The large machine in front is excavating ground to lay pipe, which will carry water from the new college wells near Bryan Field to join the present college system. The system is expected to be in complete operation early in the winter. Talk on Chinese W. S. Allen of the Agricultural Extension Service was guest speak er at the Kiwanis Club luncheon yesterday in Sbisa Hall Annex. Allen, who spent several years in the Chinese theatre during the war, spoke on “The last time I saw China.” He told of various activities in which he took part and witnessed while in China. Telling of the in capability of the Chinese soldiers, Allen said, “The Chinese method of induction, training, supplying, equipping was very bad. We tried to give them as many necessities of war as possible.” In closing, he said, If you ever read a book on China, don’t read just one book and establish your ideas from it, bec'aues you will have an erroneous conclusion about the people of China. Former President Honored at Supper Mr. and Mrs. Brad Waddle, past president of the Kum Duby Class of the A&M Methodist Church, were honored with a covered dish supper on Sunday evening. The couple will leave shortly for In diana, where Mr. Waddle will en ter Purdue University. The supper was held on the lawn of Dr. and Mrs. Dallas Belcher at their home in College Hills. Mrs. Fred Mims presented the couple with the religious book, In His Image, on behalf of the Kum Dubl Class. Council to Broadcast The College Station Council of Church Women will present its weekly broadcast Thursday morn ing at 10 a. m. over station WTAW. A&M Man Returns From Swine Meet E. M. Regenbrecht, extension swine specialist, returned this last week from the National Duroc Type Conference at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and the National Hampshire Type Conference at Springfield, Illinois. At the type conference the na tional breed improvement program was decided upon and a pattern of type of swine was adopted for use in all swine shows for the com ing year. Present at the meetings were approximately two thousand parti* cipants from twenty eight states, composed of officials of breed rec ord associations, directors of breed associations, breeders, swine spec ialist. and educational men. • City workmen finished work fires, however, and we believe the yesterday on clearing the lot be- cause can’t be attributed to cig- hind the Boyett Building and also arettes carelessly tossed into dry the space between Lipscomb’s and weeds every time. the Boyett Building on Sulphur The city has an ordinance which Springs Road. makes it unlawful to start a fire Plans call for some 20 to 25 for any reason within the city lim- loads of gravel to be spread on the its. Someone is going to be sur- lot behind the building so people prised some day when they get working in the immediate vicinity fined for burning trash or garbage of that building will have ample within the city limits, parking space, leaving more room • The city council authorized for customers in front of the the city manager to place several stores. maps around town showing plans • College Station has certain- for changing street numbers and ly had its share of grass fires this in only a few cases, street names, summer. With the weather as it Look for these maps which will has been lately, it is no wonder the be placed in conspicuous places fire department is called to ex- in the different sections of the tinguish grass fires several times city, because only a very few peo- a week. pie will not be affected by this Something has to start these change. In Passing . . . Nearly $70 had been collected in fines as of the fifteenth of this month for traffic violations. An additional $119 is yet to be paid on the tickets given during the first half of this month. City policemen have been told to crack down on speeding and other traf fic violations, and from the amount of tickets passed out, they must be doing a good job . . . The water scare is apparently over, although restrictions are still being imposed in order to keep an abundance of water as long as the dry spell lasts. City officials are still requesting that residents water their grass and shrubs be tween the hours of 6 and 10 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. As of August 9, $2,201.04 in unpaid taxes were on the city books. As the September 1 dead line approaches, however, City Manager Rogers reports that many people are coming by to pay their debts in order to keep from hav ing their names on the deliquent taxpayer list to be published after the deadline. Battalion CLASSIFIED ADS Page 4 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1950 SELL WITH A BATTALION CLASSIFIED AD. Rates ... 3c a word per Insertion with a 25c minimum. Space rate in Classified Section . . . 60c per column inch. Send ail classifieds with remit tance to the Student Activities Office. All ads should be turned in by 10:00 a.m. of the day before publication. • FOR SALE • 1948 BUICK Super Sedanette in excellent condition. See Clyde Franklin or call 6-1711 after 0:30 p.m. FRIGIDAIRE Refrigerator, 6 Cu. Ft., 1948 Model. $100.00. Knight, X-l-B, College View. TABLE MODEL RADIO with phonograph. Good condition, cheap. Cole, Walton Hall, J-5. UNPAINTED CHEST, 4 drawers, 36 inches high, $10.00. Oldson, 601 Park Place, phone 4-8712. • WANTED TO RENT • COUPLE wants small unfurnished house. Must be in College Station. Call after 5 p.m., 4-9374. • PERSONAL • Frank, You can stop pestering me. I will pay the additional money to the jeweler. Margartt. ♦ HELP WANTED • STUDENT TO DO ART WORK for Student Publications. Long hours, low pay. If interested, bring sample of your work to room 211 Goodwin Hall, in the after noons. Hours may be arranged to suit convenience of student. Should be able to do free hand drawing with pencil and India Ink. Prefer a student who is interested in learning mechanics of mag azine design. • MISCELLANEOUS • PORTRAITS—Formal and informal, in cluding “Beefcake”. See Martin How ard, Room 62, Milner Hall, or write Box 464. • SPECIAL NOTICE • Sul Ross Lodge No. 1300 A. F. & A. M. Called meeting, Thursday, August 17 at 7 p.m. Work in M.M. Degree. S. R. Wright, W.M. N. M. McGinnis, Sec. Dr. Carlton R. Lee OPTOMETRIST 203 S. Main Street Call 2-1662 for Appointment