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
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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
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• 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