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By JOEL AUSTIN
Like many other cities of com
parable size, College Station is in
corporated as a council-manager
type government. Meeting the sec
ond Monday of every month, the
council is headed by Mayor Ernest
Langford who doubles as mayor of
College Station and head of the
Agriculture Department at the col
lege.
Assisting Langford, who has
been mayor since 1942, are six
councilmen, J. A. Orr, E. E. Ames,
G. W. Black, R. B. Halpin, W. H.
Badgett, and W. D. Fitch.
Meeting the many common prob
lems which confront most city
governing bodies, the local coun
cil deals with its problems in open
meetings for all to hear.
“Open to all People”
“The proceedings of this coun
cil are open to all people and will
continue to be that way as long
as this council exists,” Mayor
Langford said recently,
summer, the council has added sev
eral blocks within the city’s limits,
City
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set up plans for investigating a tion Court; J. Wheeler Barger,
Writers Will Meet
Here in October
The annual meeting of the Tex
as Writers’ Conference will be held
in the Memorial Student Center on
Oct. 13-15, according to David
Read, president of the Conference
and publisher of the Silsbee Bee.
Working on the program ar
rangements for the writers’ meet
ing is P. L. “Pinky” Downs, as
sistant to the Director of Informa
tion for the A&M System. Program
chairman is Bill Durham of Fort
Worth.
The conference, according to
Read, is made up of country edi
tors, agricultural writers of daily
papers, editors and writers of
farm magazines, radio farm pro
gram directors, and any other
writers interested in “knowing*
more about that basic industry—
agriculture.”
Chicago—hP)—Mrs. Rose Hart
heard the buzz of a bee in her
apartment. She shooed it to a win
dow and removed the screen to let
i tget out. But she lost her balance
and fell 18 feet to a sidewalk.
She suffered slight back injuries.
city-operated electric system, ne
gotiated with officials of the tele
phone company concerning pro
posed increases in telephone rates,
and other similar plans and prob
lems which confront city leaders.
A great deal of interest was
shown throughout the city in elec
tions of these city officials during
the spring. In a close tabulation,
R. B. Halpin won by the narrow
margin of one vote.
Orr Is Mayor Pro-Tem
Orr, who serves as mayor pro-
tem, teaches in the Civil Engineer
ing Department at the College.
Orr was unopposed for re-election
as councilman from Ward I in the
municipal election last spring.
Operator of the local bus sta
tion and a radio-appliance store,
Ames was also re-elected to the
council last spring from Ward III.
Halpin, who works with the
Agricultural Experiment Service
through the Agricultural Econo
mics and Sociology Department,
balloted enough votes in the last
election to return to the council
as Ward II representative.
Badgett, assistant to the man
ager of Physical Plants of the
A&M System; Black, proprietor of
Black’s Pharmacy; and Fitch still
have another year to serve before
their terms expire.
Here Since 1930
Connected with A&M and the
city of College Station sinee 1930,
Nestor M. McGinnis serves as sec
retary for the city. He is always
present at council meetings and
situated in his usual chair to the
left of the mayor.
Other city officials are C. J.
In some of its recent actions this
Gorzycki, recorder of the Corpora-
Man Loses Auto,
Wife Hid Same
Atlanta—(A 1 ) — A slightly tipsy
man telephoned Captain Jimmy
Brown at police headquarters and
reported his car missing.
“What’s the license number?”
asked the captain. “And the mod
el and make?”
“Well,” the gent hiccupped, it’s
a late model car and I don’t re
member the license plate number.
I mean I’ll have to look for it. I’ll
call you back.”
Minutes later a woman called
the captain.
“My husband just phoned you
about a stolen car,” she said soft
ly-
“Yes ma’am,” Brown gnswered
politely, “you have the license num
ber ? ”
“No,” shg whispered, “I hid the
car and dosk’t want him to find it. 1 ’
city attorney; Fred J. Benson, city
engineer, and Dr. J. E. Marsh, city
health officer.
A&M Graduate
Raymond L. Rogers, A&M grad
uate and long-time resident of
College Station, is employed as
city manager. As is customary
for most city managers, Rogers’
duties involve managing of the
city’s business as well as carrying
out and enforcing ordinances and
plans passed on to him from the
council.
Other city employees are Ran
Boswell, assistant city secretary
and tax collector; Lee Norwood,
city marshal; Curtis Bullock, pat
rolman; L. P. Dulaney, utility sup
erintendent; and Mrs. Florence
Neeley, Mrs. Vivian Ince, and Mrs.
Robbie Crum, secretaries.
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Attend a meeting of the City Council almost any
month, and it will be a rare session if several
interested citizens don’t appear to watch the
proceedings. Mayor Ernest Langford, left, who
has headed the city government for eight years,
is just as interested in the citizens, whether they
come to praise or to chastize.
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Growing A&M Consolidated
Expects Record Enrollment
By BETTY ANN POTTER
Enrollment in A&M Consoli
dated High School is increasing
proportionately to College Sta
tion’s population growth. Enroll
ment gained 10 percent last year
and is expected to increase 11 per
cent more this coming year, ac
cording to Les Richardson, super
intendent of schools.
“There are more, children en
rolled in the first grade now than
there were in the entire high
school last year,” Richardson said.
The number of students is grad
ually climbing in the white school,
while the enrollment in the negro
high school remains about the
same, he pointed out.
Began With College
College Station has had a high
school since the establishment of
A&M College. The first classes
were held in a small, one-roorti
shack near Guion Hall’s present
location. Later the high school was
moved to what is now Pfeuffer
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lishment of a department and
started the machinery that led to
the present organization.
Limited to Grads, Seniors
Today work in oceanography at
A&M is limited to graduate and
senior levels. Courses offered coy
er four basic purposes. They are:
• Provision for a survey of the
field of oceanography.
• Furnishing of a minor for
graduate students working to
ward degrees in biology, chem
istry, physics, geology, mathe
matics, engineering, and related
courses.
• To lead a master’s degree in
oceanography.
Dr. Leipper, who has contribut
ed more to placing the department
on firm ground than any other one
man, was graduated from Witten-
burg College in Ohio and received
his master’s degree from Ohio
State University.
Working Toward Doctorate
Last year he received his Ph D
from UCLA, and during the past
summer he has worked toward a
doctorate in oceanography at
Scripps Institute.
“We are expecting some 50 stu
dents to participate in the full-
scale program beginning Sept. 18.”
Dr. Leipper said. The complete
curriculum includes chemical, geo
logical, physical, meteorogical, and
biological ocenography.
The department will maintain a
staff of four instructors, including
Dr. Leipper. One instructor will
handle each curriculum, with phys
ical and meteorogical oceanography
combined.
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Hall.
Elementary-level classes were
taught in the building which now
houses the YMCA. In 1940 the
school was moved to its present
location, south of the college cam
pus.
The buildings were in separate
units, arranged according to the
grades in the new school. The first
grade was housed in the first
building in which they studied.
The high school was nearby and
resembled the elementary school
in architecture, but not in floor
design. In one complete unit, the
high school was a music room a
shop, attached by a “breeze-way.”
The gymnasium was built behind
the high school, with the football
stadium placed to the rear to the
gym.
For Faculty’s* Children
The Consolidated School System
began as a school primarily for
the sons and daughters of the col
lege’s staff and faculty. In 1930
other districts began to join the
system and the consolidation of
the school began.
The 1950 graduating class was
small with but 20 graduates. The
average number of graduates year
ly has been 33. Graduation exer
cises have traditionally been held
in Guion Hall on the campus.
Assisting superintendent Rich
ardson with high school affairs is
Principal L. E. Boze. W. T. Riedel
is principal of the junior high
school. Riedel was, for two years,
a science teacher in the high
school.
Principal of the elementary
school is Mrs. Rowena Kresswell.
W. A. Tarrow is principal of Lin
coln High School, the negro
school. Thirty-one teachers are em
ployed in the white school. Thirty-
one teachers are employed in the
white school, 12 at Lincoln.
School Board Members
Members of the school board
are Dr. Charles LaMotte, president;
C. A. Bonnen, vice-president; Er
nest Redman, secretary; C. B.
Godbey, E. A. Brown, Ross Bond,
and Mit Williams.
Williams, Brown and Redman
are ex-students of Consolidated.
In 1949 the new high school
building was completed, and was
officially opened Aug. 25 of that
year.
Richardson was named super
intendent in 1949 as school af
fairs became large enough to
warrant the office. He has been
with the school since 1946.
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Timber at Me'
Dallas—CP)—The City of Dallas
wants to cut down a pecan tree to
make way for an alley in the Oak
Cliff section.
But as for those plans — Mrs.
John Ernest August Hubert, a
peppery 58-year-old Yankee from
Illinois declares: “that tree is go
ing to stand.”
“It’s a fine thing,” she said to
day, “when a Yankee has to fight
a Texas city council to preserve
the official state tree.”
That very sartie tree has been in
volved in proceedings before the
city council for two years. Resi
dents in the neiyhborhood want an
alley behind their homes. City
engineers say the tree has to come
dow nto make way for the alley.
It has to go, they said.
“I ordered them off my proper
ty,” said Mrs. Hubert, “and I told
them that it looked like what
plants and trees the ice doesn’t
ruin, the city does.”
Many of the younger neighbor
hood residents pass the house
shouting “timberrr,” Mrs. Hubert
said, “but they don’t discourage
Austin, Tex.—CP)—Sam B. Cul
pepper of Hooks has become a new
member of the field service staff
of the Texas State Teachers Asso
ciation.
Culpepper has been superintend
dent at Hooks. He is a graduate
of Howard Payne and Baylor Uni
versity and formerly was a deputy
state school superintendent.
When the superintendent first
came to Consolidated, he was head
coach of the football team and
tutored the “Tigers” to a district
championship during his first year.
In 1947 he became principal and
worked with the superintendent
until he took over the latter posi
tion.
Graduated in 1937 from Milby
High School in Houston, Richard
son attended Marshall Junior Col
lege for two years. He entered
A&M in 1939, where he was a
varsity football player and a mem
ber of K Infantry.
A&M Graduate
After a stint with the Seabees
during the war, he returned to
A&M and received industrial ed
ucation and Master of Education
degrees in 1946. He is now working
on his Ph. D. degree, which he
plans to receive from the Univer
sity of Houston.
Plans for a successful school
year for 1950-51 are now in pro
gress at Consolidated. President
elect of the student body is Jack
Burchard, son of D. D. Burchard,
head of A&M’s Journalism Depart
ment.
Yell leaders for the coming year
will be Dorothy Spriggs, Liz Mil
ler, Celeste Curran, and Louise
Street.
Richard Weick, editor of the
“Shorthorn,” is planning the an
nual’s recording of the year’s ac
tivities. Editor of the “Round-up”
the school’s semi-monthly news
paper, will be Dorothy Bates. Other
staff members will be Martha Ar
nold, society editor; Glenda Brown,
layout editor; and Frank Vaden,
sports editor.
New Band Uniforms
About 30 members of the band
are expected to report in the
newly-created band uniforms to
perform at half-time periods dur
ing football season. First home ap
pearance of the band will be on
Sept. 15 when the Tigers meet
Madisonville.
Director of the band is Col.
Richard S. Dunn, former A&M
bandmaster and composer of the
music to “The Spirit of Aggie-
land,” the college’s school song.
Over 40 boys are expected to en
gage in fall football practice, ac
cording to Coach Othel V. Chafin.
The team lost only one game last
season and is expected to field a
strong squad again this year.
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