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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 1950)
1 College Employees Slate First Dinner Employees Dinner Club of A&M ■will hold its first meeting Thurs day, in the ball room of the MSC, Bennie A. Zinn, club chairman stated. Newcomers on the staff will be guests of President M. T. Harring ton. Do You Know- LOUPOT MY FRIEND He’s A Crazy Trader and An ' h ' tv ' bp Aggies Man YOUR FRIEND North Gate Texas A&M EVERY AGGIES FRIEND P.S. 331/s to 50% Off on all Books & Supplies Ds\ Youngblood Retires After 21 Years with College The Community Development Committee of the East Texas Chamber of Commerce met with officials of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service here Friday to discuss means of im proving rural community life. Attending the meeting were, left to right, back row, Chancellor Gibb Gilchrist of the A&M College System; J. M. Bullock of Bryan; Frank E. White, W. N. Wil liamson, Extension Service; Bob Mahon, William A. Wilson, executive secretary of the East Texas Chamber of Commerce, Longview; G. G. Gibson, Extension Service director; E. C. Martin, state program leader of the Extension Service; Jack Sloan, extension visual aids specialist; Leslie Kelley, Bryan chamber of commerce manager; front row, John W. Etheredge,; P. M. Standley Perry Pace, M. T. Harrington, president of A&M College; Gladys Darden, assistant extension home management specialist; Charles Berry, Community Development Department, East Texas Chamber of Commerce, Longview; W. I. Chen- ault, Production and Marketing Administration, College Station; C. R. Noles, Thurman Kerr, and Robert A. Von Doenhoff. Episcopal Church Announce Services Fall schedule of Sunday services at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Bryan have been announced by the Rev. Vern Swartsfager, rector. The Holy Eucharist will be cele brated at 8:30 a.m. and at 10:45 a.m. Morning Prayer and sermon with Church school will be held. 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LOW PRICES • BEST ALTERATIONS You must be satisfied at . . . LEON B. WEISS CLOTHIERS - FURNISHERS MILITARY - CIVILIAN Miss Richter, John Winder Married Here In a candle light service Miss Lucille Richter became the bride of John Winder recently in the YMCA Chapel at College Station, the Rev. Fred Megebroff, officiat ing. For the double ring ceremony the altar of the chapel was adorned with groupings of ferns and palms and lighted with a myriad of white tapers in floor candelabras. Miss Richter is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Richter of Col lege Station. Winder is the son of Mrs. Molly T. Winder of Hen derson. The couple honeymooned in Houston and Louisiana. They returned to College Station and their home in College View. A graduate of the Stephen F. Austin High School, the bride also studied at McKenzie-Baldwin Busi ness College and was working in the office of the superintendent of A&M Consolidated High School. Mrs. Winder will hold her position at the high school until Winder finishes his degree at A&M. Former Aggie, agricultural eco nomist, soldier, rancher, and agri cultural experiment station pioneer, Dr. Bonney Youngblood, recently retired from his duties as Phinci- pal Economist in the Office of Ex periment Stations in the USDA. Dr. Youngblood served as Direc tor of the Texas Agricultural Ex periment Station from 1911 until 1926. The story of his life work was featured at the national meeting of the Rural Sociological Society held last week at Eestes Park, Colorado, where, on September 3, Dr. Youngblood delivered his val edictory as sponsor for the organ ization. A&M Graduate Dr. Youngblood was born on July 31, 1881, on a stock farm near Milano, in Miliam County, Texas. He received his B. S. in 1902 and his M. S. in 1907 from A&M and his Ph.D. from the Uni versity of Wisconsin in 1921. He came to the A&M campus a war veteran, having served in the First Texas Volunteer Infantry in the Spanish-American War. Upon his graduation from A&M in 1902, he became manager of the Smith Ranch, near Sherman, Texas. He was a school head at Henderson and at Mineola, Texas, and at Paul’s Valley, Oklahoma, at which places he introduced, for the first time in either of these states, the teaching of agriculture in the public schools. From 1907 to 1911 he was in charge of farm management investigations in the United States Department of Ag riculture. From 1911 to 1926 Dr. Young blood was Director of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station at College Station. During his ad ministration the total state and federal appropriations for the TABS grew from $29,000 in 1910 to $670,000 in 1928, and the work of the Station grew to include the Ranch Experiment Station near Sonora, the first of its kind to be established by a state government institution; the inauguration of soil and water conservation research at the station at Spur; the develop- DON’T BE A SCHMOO! A GOOD DEAL Trade With LOU IN USED BOOKS He’s the Man With the Deal for You! LAMPS & SUPPLIES LOUPOT’S TRADING POST Vs to off First Baptists Hold Reception for Past The Rev. and Mrs. O. Byron Richardson, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bass and Mr. and Mrs. David Alex ander, were honored at a reception held at the First Baptist Church of College Station, Saturday even ing from 7:30 until 9 p. m. The Rev.' Richardson is the new pastor of the church, Mr. Bass is the educational director, and Mr! Alexander is the B. S. U. secretary for A&M. Guests were received in the lounge of the educational building where they were received by C. H. Ransdell Church School superin tendent, Mrs. R. O. Berry, C. H. Bates, chairman of the board of deacons, and the Rev. and Mrs. R. L. Brown, the former pastor of the church and his wife. Dr. Peters Named Assistant Professor Dr. I. W. Rupel, head of the Dairy Husbandry Department, has announced appointment of Dr. Isaac Peters as an assistant pro fessor in the department. Dr. Peters succeeds Dr. W. H. Hoecker, who resigned to enter commercial work. He is a graduate of the Univer sity of Manitoba in Canada. He obtained a master of science degree from Michigan State College and a doctorate from Iowa State Col lege in 1947. Official Notice Laboratory assistants and graders are needed immediately in the physics depart ment. Men who have completed sopho more courses with superior records are wanted to assist with instruction, grading and the handling of apparatus in the lab oratories. The scale of compensation is .60 per hour for new assistants and .70 per hour for experienced assistants. The opportunity for experience, as well as arnings, should be considered. Applicants are invited to register at the office of the department at their earliest convenience. J. G. Potter, Head, Dept, of Physics. ment of the Rio Grande Valley Citrue Experiment Station at Wes laco, and the Irrigation Experiment Station near Wichita Falls. In his efforts to make the Ranch Station at Sonora the research and social center of the Edwards Pla teau region— to bring science and the spirit of youth to bear upon the technical, economic, and social problems of the area—he helped or ganize the Texas Sheep and Goat Breeders Association and establish ed an annual meeting of the ranch people called the Ranchmen’s Roundup at the Ranch Experiment Station. Farm Management Research Early in his administration Dr. Youngblood proposed and obtained funds for farm management re search which gradually evolved into the Department of Farm and Ranch Economics research. Before bio- chemistricians were available, he employed mathematicians to im prove the planning of research un dertakings and the interpretation Kiwanians Name Delegates to Meet A. C. Magee and L. G. Jones have been named delegates from the College Station Kiwanis Club to the Texas-Oklahoma district meeting to be held in Galveston Oct. 1-3, according to Joe Moth- erall, president of the local group. The three-day meeting will be attended by representatives of 190 clubs which have a total of some 13,000 members. Albert V. Zimmerman of Alex andria, La. will be the feature speaker for the session. Zimmer man is a well known lumberman and bank official as well as a trustee of Kiwanis International. District Governor Hugh M. Sandlin will be the presiding of ficer at the convention. Sandlin is a Holdenville, Okla. attorney. Dur ing- the process of the meeting of ficers will be elected, committees will hold conferences and plans for the coming year will be discussed, Motherall said. Anniversary — (Continued from Page 1) series of programs by the various schools of the College planned in March and April. Also in the Spring will come the 1951 Annual Muster which will also be a homecoming for all A&M men. • The more immediate future will reecive thorough discussion tonight at the All-College gathering. Head Yell Leader Don Joseph and Senior Yell Leader Jimmy Pianta will be assisted by John Tapley, Lewis Jobe and Ed Fulbright, the two junior and the vet yell leaders, in directing the program. Joining in the launching of what promises to be a rosier-than-usual grid season will be the Aggie Band, President Harrington, Head Coach Harry Stiteler, Athletic Director Bones Irvin, and the varsity and freshman football squads. Could be, you know, that this big birthday year could be the one when the A&M gridsters join everyone else around here in prov ing that a 75-year-old Aggieland is very much alive and kicking. FOR SALE BY OWNER: An attractive and liveable 3- bed room home, lovely yard, double garage, l /i block from Campus. Call 4-7904 for details. Have You Seen . . . Henry A. Miller’s POT-OF-GOLD? Dr. Carlton R. Lee OPTOMETRIST 203 S. Main Street Call 2-1662 for Appointment ITS SMART ... to have your shoes repaired . . . • You get new shoe appearance with old shoe comfort • First class materials—Expert workmanship. • Satisfaction guaranteed or money back. ALSO* ^ 0U can ^ 0Ur c * one ^ ere now ‘ * QUICK SERVICE! CANCELOSI SHOE SHOP South Gate College Station of data with the result that the quality of the Texas Station bulle tins was greatly improved. At the beginning of his admin istration, the main station was under one board and the substation system under another. In 1926 Dr. Youngblood was asked by the Secretary of Agri culture to return to Washington to help organize and develop a nation-wide program of cotton mar keting research in the Bereau of Agricultural Economics, a program that resulted in the establishment of the now internationally famous ginning laboratory at Stoneville, Mississippi, and in the establish ment of a foreign agricultural ser vice so that Americans might learn as much about the agriculture coun tries as foreigners know about ours. In 1929 Dr. Youngblood was ap pointed Principal Agricultural Eco nomist in the Office of the Ex periment Stations, and for the past 21 years he has inspected the work of the agricultural experi ment stations in the United States and Puerto Rico. In 1934 he served as adviser to the United States Indian Service on the economic and social problems of the Navajo Indians. He estab lished the Southwestern Range and Sheep Breeding Laboratory at Fort Wingate, New Mexico, which seeks to develop sheep suitable to the southwestern desert and to the needs of the Navajo people. Research Farm On his trips of inspection, Dr. Youngblood encouraged putting re search results into practical farm operations. And now that he is re tiring from government service, he is putting some of the things that he has learned in a lifetime of re search into practical farm opera tions at Rion Hall, the Young blood's 308-acre farm in the Shen andoah Valley near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. THE BATTALION * Page 4 MON., SEPT. 18, 1950 Coming to Palace Starring John Barrymore, Jr., co- starring Chill Wills and with petitL Lois Butler heading the supporting cast, “High Lonesome” will soon reach the screen with a huge “Made In Texas” sign stamped all over it. Every exciting foot of it was filmed in the Big Bend country of Texas in magnificent Technicolor. A great many Texans appear in the picture, as many of the citizens of 5larfa and surrounding areas have minor roles in this story of a Texas fence w'ar. The movie win* have its World Premiere on August 24 at Fort Worth, to be followed by an unprecedented 350-theatre show- ing throughout the state. It was written and directed by Alan Le- May and produced by George Tern- pleton for Eagle Lion Classic# release. Night school classes in Shorthand, Typing and Bookkeeping | will begin October 16 at 7 p.m. For further information call ^ 3-6655. McKENZIE-BALDWIN BUSINESS COLLEGE 702 South Washington Avenue Bryan, Texas FLIGHT INSTRUCTION • PLANE RENTAL We are Flying To AH Out of Town A. & M. Football Games BOWLES-DAVIS Flying Service Timberlake Airport —on— Old College Road Call 4-9662 for Free Transportation to Field or to Reserve a Plane TRAVEL *>y WANTED!... A NAME FOR COLLEGE STATION’S NEWEST BARBER SHOP If you can name it, we will cut your hair for 3 months. 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