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. '0- S *. ^ Ce^ eT C 0 ^ ; p5 S-t^ 3 Co^f iV-f * Circulated to More than 90% Of College Station’s Residents Nation’s Top Safety Section Lumberman’s 1949 Contest PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Number 37: Volume 51 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1950 Price Five Cents Sophs Choose Run-Off Contenders; V ote Small 0. C. “Putter” Jarvis, Willie East, and William S. Thornton last -night out balloted other Sophomore class presidential nominees for a position on the run-off ballott. Held in the Assembly Hall with Sophomores coming in to cast their ballots, the election is the first of the year for official offi cers of the Class of ’53. The run-off election will be held in the Assembly Hall Monday night. Also among the presidential nominees but without the necessary number of votes to edge out either G. B. Shaw, Noted Author, Critic, Dies um N amed liy ASSOCIATED PRESS t\ yot St. Lawrence, Eng., Nov. 2 —tTI—George Bernard Shaw, the century’s most famous playwright, died today at the age of 91. The life of the frail old Irish- born wit who massed a fortune by poking fun at the shortcomings of this civilized age, flicked out at last at 4:59 a.m. (11:59 p.m., East ern Slandard Time, Wednesday). A tumble in his garden on Sept. 10 while pruning a tree proved the undoing of the self-styled Napoleon of drama. He broke his left thigh bone and was taken to Luton Hos pital to have the bones pinned to gether. A bladder ailment compli- • rated his condilion. A minor' op eration eased the trouble and he was brought home Oct. 4, but suf fered a relapse Sunday. Death Followed Coma Mrs. Alice Laden, his housekeep er at the brick cottage, “Shaws • Corner,” announced the death to reporter's. He had lapsed into a Aggie Rodeo Sets Two Shows For Weekend , The first' of two perform ances of the 29th Annual All Aggie Rodeo will be held 'Triday at 8 p. m. • Stock that was used in this (ears Prison Rodeo at Huntsville will be used for' this show. This stock Iras the reputation of being about the roughest in the south- . west. Bareback riding, saddle bronc riding, steer dogging, calf roping, bull riding, wild cow milking, spcc- • laity acts, and rodeo clowns will constitute the main events of the rodeo. This will be the first perform ance in the new rodeo arena which was built entirely by members of the Saddle and Sirloin Club and the Rodeo Club. A second performance will be held Saturday at 2.30 p. m. It will he over irr time for the night foot- Irall game with Arkansas. Proceeds from the two s6r - - fornrances will go toward financing the livestock judging teams of the school. The Saddle and Sirloin Club an- . rurally sends the teams to the IP- Lernational Livestock Show at Chicago and the American Royal Livestock Show at Kansas City. coma at 3 a.m. yesterday. No announcement has been made of funeral plans, but friends ex pected the body will be cremated, the ashes mixed with his wife’s and scattered over the Shaw garden. Only two nurses were with the elderly man at his death. Dr. Thomas Prohyn, Shaw’s physician, hurried into the house 20 minutes later. F. E. Loewenstein, the play wright’s longtime biographer, told reporters Shaw died peacefully without regaining consciousness. The author of 55 plays, five novels and countless essays—the best of which were turned out aft er he was 40—Bhaw was credited by many critics with reviving Brit ish drama after its' golden age of Goldsmith and Sheridan, No stick ler as to modesty, Shaw considered himself the successor to Shakes peare and even an improvement on the Bard of Avon. Political Propagandist As a political propagandist he espoused the cause of the Fabian Socialists and helped lay the foun dation of the present Labor party. He claimed to be a Communist and an atheist. But if he was a Communist, the brand was not orthodox. Some of his comments, if made in Russia, would have land ed him in Siberia. He attacked Karl Marx, the writer of Com munism’s “Bible,” as an out-of- date fuddy-duddy, and said most Communists were talking through their hats. His atheism also was questioned. He himself once declared, “Religion is always l ight. . . . Science always is wrong.” The quizzical sage, whose bushy, once-red eyebrows and beard and unruly white mane were known to millions, kept the ear of the world for 50 years by his mastery of the studied insult. Though his career spanned the years from the Victorian to the Atomic ages, he never lost the knack of getting attention by need ling the pretentious or questioning the world’s most cherished notions. Comments Worldwide The self-described “journalist, critic, playwright and agitator” never tired of attacking the socially wrong or the phoney. As a dra matist he exposed slum housing, prostitution, class distinction, shortsighted politicians. His acid comment ranged from religion and education to doctors and tax col lectors. Americans were among his chief targets. He said he made it a point never to say a “civil word” about the United States arid as a result “they adore me.” of the three top men who had 59, 28, and 27 votes respectively, were Don Buchner, Bruce Gibson, Jimmie C. Ledlow, Billy Ray Mil ler, Burl Purvis, and Pat Richman. Also vicing for the run-off spot were Gene W. Sparks, Robert S. Travis, Dick Van Tyne, Richard O. Wheat, and W. K. Zimmerman. Vice President In the vice presidential race, 1 W. A. Dunn with 38 votes, and Max M. Newsom and James H. Sykora, each with 32 votes, will appear in the run-off. Other can didates were Edward E. Adams, Joel Austin, Marvin E. Beck, Jack Frits, Boh G. Johnson, Don F. Newman, and G'jrald Staffel Jr. Pat LeBlanc’s 71 votes well ex ceeded the 53 votes of John M. Yantis and R. Morgan Anderson’s 41 for lead spot in the secretarial race. John Haas, A1 Higgins, Dan ny Howell, Raymond C. Jones, and Bill Shudder were among the can didates for class secretary. Treasurer Holding the class’s pursestrings for the year will be either Charles M. Scott, Joe Blanchette, or R. A. Newman. Primary balloting shows Scott in'the lead with 72 votes against Blanchettee’s 54 or New man’s 42. Davis Bottom, T. L. Hurta, H. L. Simon and Richard C. Tanner’s names will be left: from the run-off ballot. In the four man Social Secre tary race, only Larry Minims name will he left off the next ballot. His 35 votes failed to top Allen Pen- gelly’s 94, Charles Bruchmiller’s 79 or W. B. Hamlin’s 45 votes. Sergeant-At-Arms A similar situation occurred in the Sergeant-at-Arms race when F. X. “Paco” Coronado with 104 votes, William L. Minturn Jr. with 86, and Shelton G. Black with 53 votes dominated the top three posi tions. Bill Hegmann also ran., With three men automatically receiving a spot on the ruri-off ballot, James H. Uptmore, Peary J. Shepard, and William C. Moses were guaranteed a chance for an other voting. The three received 119,' 64, and 63 votes. Student Senate In selecting representatives of the class to act as non-voting members of the Student Senate, the, sophomores cast three votes,. with >six men’s names scheduled to appear on the run-off ballot. They are Joe Mattel, Harold Hudspeth, Gene E. Steed, Jerry Mugg, Don R. Heath, and Wayne A. Showers. Other candidates were John S. Brown, Thomas E. Kelly, Elwood L. Schmidt, Luke Senior Jr., R. L. Shanahan, and Berthold L. Wheeler. 1950 Aggie Sweetheart Aggie Sweetheart Extra Rooms Winner Was Cotton Queen Here In '49 P»y Dave CosJett Miss Dorothy Mangum, petite and pretty brown-eyed brunette from Cotulla, Texas, is the Aggie Sweetheart for 1950-51. The former A&M Cotton Queen took the top nod from an Aggie selection committee that judged 12 TSCW nominees for the honor last-Thursday, Friday and Saturday. She will be introduced to the student body and to the state during half time ceremonies of the A&M-SMU game in Dallas, No vember 11. Waymond Nutt, Corps Executive Officer, will present her with a dozen American Beauty roses and a kiss on behalf of the student body at that time. The Aggie Band will offer its traditional salute by playing “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” while formed in a heart-shaped formation. The 5' 2” Tessie senior will represent A&M at various functions during the remainder of the school year. Chief among these will be the Texas University Roundup and the Rice Rondelet to which an Aggie will be selected to escort her. The couple will be introduced as the A&M duke and duchess. “Dot,” the name to which she more readily answers, is definitely not a newcomer to the list of Aggie beauties. Besides serving as Cotton Queen in 1949, she was a duchess to the Cotton Ball in 1.948 and TSCW junior represen tative to the Ball last spring. Holds Other Honors The charming, 20-year-old lass, began her beauty career in high school at Cotulla, where she was a eheerlstder and a senior class beauty. Throughout her first three years at TSCW, she managed to pick up just a , few honors, too, She has been a Redbud Princess for three straight years and both a fresh man and sophomore beauty nom inee. Active in other fields, the Speech Therapy major, is a member of Zeta Phi Eta, national honorary speech fraternity; the Chaperelles, a TSCW social-literary club, the Speech Club and the San Antonio j participation in , . freshman orientation program. ' She plans, upon graduation trom A program is being planned TSCW, to go into speech therapy whereby the different clubs will invite students of the Basic Divi sion to attend a club meeting and AgEco Major Elected to Head Ag Council Marvin G. Twenhafel, sen ior agricultural economics major from Mercedes, was elected president of the Stu dent Agricultural Council at a special election meeting last Wednesday night. Other officers elected to the council were Jack Birkner, vice- president; Walter Tanamachi, sec- retary; and Bee Landrum, reporter. Two seniors and two juniors were also named from the Ag Council membership to serve on the Inter- Council Committee. Richard Good win and Curtis. Edwards were the two seniors named, and the two juniors were Jack Birkner and Johnny Hudnall. ; Professor C. H. Ransdell of the j Basic Division met with the coun- | cil to discuss departmental club phase of the j Eiub. n mTierra m 1 She Dorothy Mangum San Antonio Newspaper Honors A&M Anniversary Seventy-five-year-old Aggieland receives another salute this com ing Sunday—this one from the Harry Boyer, on the right, chief of housing, inspects foundation holes being drilled for the new Administration Building. Rumor’s have it Boyer is figuring how to put three men to a hole. Freshmen Set Runoff Tonight The Class of 1954 under takes its first official business tonight with a run-off election for class officers. Freshmen will vote on candidates for six class offices and three Student Senate “sitters”—non-voting mem hers. On tonight’s ballot for president are Thomas Clemens, Hosea E. Taylor, and Jerry A. Jeansonne. Clemens led the original 10-man field in last night’s primary vot ing with 282 votes. Taylor had 117, Jeansonne 94. Clyde Massey was top man for vice president with 146 votes. He enters the run-off tonight with Jerry C. Dunlap and Herbert W. Brewer. The latter two polled 135 and 98 votes respectively. Only two men are still in the race for class secretary. William H. Rowland Jr. and Harold Kupfer are the candidates. Rowland led Kupfer last night, 389 to 201. All other positions in the class- office lineup were decided by last night’s vote. Robert H. Ball be came historian of the class by de feating his one opponent. J. Dan Reynolds was unopposed for social secretary. Charles G. Andres won over his opponent for the position of class treasurer. Danny Chitwood, Jack W. .Garrett, and Charles A. Gary were elected Senate "sitters.” San Antonio Express Magazine. The South Texas newspaper de votes its entire Nov. 5 supplement to a 28-page “Aggie Anniversary Edition.” Eight stories describe the college and the A&M System. The magazine section, first such section devoted by the Express to any college, is preceded by a full- color cover photo of President M. T. Harrington surrounded by seven Aggies. Five of the lads are San Antonio natives, the other two, in nocent bystanders. Santone cover boys include home town club president John F. Ire land and John Knox, David Ryan, John Peeler, and Edward Heusin- ger, Jr. Lead-off story in the issue is “What A&M Means to You,” an explaining how the life of every Texan is affected daily by the A&M College System. Work of colleges within the System as well as the functions of the Ag Experiment Station, the Ag Extension Service, the Forest Service, the Engineering Experiment Station and the Engi neering Extension Service are dis- Credit Supervisor To Address BAs Kenneth Steffy, credit report supervisor of Dun and Bradstreet, Inc., will address students of the business department and other in terested persons tonight at 7:30 in the YMCA Chapel. He will speak on “The History Organization, and Functions of Dun and Bradstreet.” Steffy is a graduate of Penn State Col lege and a native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He has been asso ciated with Dun and Bradstreet for five years. cussed in the article. “Great Men of A&M,” the next story, explains the contributions of men like Edgar McFadden, H. P. Smith, Mark Francis and J. O. Beasley to Texas agriculture. “A&M Old Grads” concerns it self with the accomplishments of Aggie-exes. Mentioned in the ar ticle are leaders in engineering, ag riculture and education. Opportunity Award winners re ceive a salute in “Working Their Way Through College,” a story which also deals with student labor on the campus. Other scholarships and fellowships are discussed in the article. The military side of Aggie life is reviewed in a feature entitled “Be yond the Call.” A&M’s six Con gressional Medal of Honor winners and 29 generals are honored on this two page spread. Still another part of Aggie life receives mention in “The Twelfth Man,” the story of Aggie spirit and the A&M athletic program. A historical view relates high- ] lights in the reign of “A Dozen f Presidents,” tracing A&M admin istrators-from Gathright through Harrington. Another article “Seventy-five Years” describes the building of the college physical plant in the last three-quarters of a century. All in all, the section contains fifty-nine pictures of A&M high lights and events. The rotogravure supplement to the San Antonio Ex press is circulated to approximate ly 130,000 homes in South and Cen tral Texas. A larger than usual number of copies of the Sunday paper have been promised for local circulation over the week-end. receive information about the de partment and field represented by 1 the club. Club members expressed their approval of the program and promised the support of the different clubs in carrying it out. Cat Says Charge It .. . Cherry Grove Beach S. C.—UP)—There’s no back-alley browsing at mealtime for J. Carl Lynn’s tomcat. He just purrs, “charge it, please.” A restaurant across the street from Lynn’s store serves hamburger and milk three times a day for Tom. Lynn gets a monthly bill. “It’s cheaper than taking time off to feed it myself,” he explains. “And besides, it teaches him not to go sticking his head into tin cans.” work. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Mangum of Cotulla. Other Nominees Reds Reinforce Border, Allies Rack On Defense Other nominees for this year’s Aggie Sweethart were Charlotte Williams from Munday, Nan Hass- ler from Memphis, Tenn., Betty Jo Slaughter from El Dorado, Ark., Nancy Coolidge from Kansas City, Mo., Came Fenichis from Fort Worth, Martha Gill from Houston, Johnnie Neal from OIney, Carole Perkins from Pampa, Ina Hubbard from Texarkana, Tex., Betty Ann Timmerman from New Braunfels and Marianne Senders from Fort Worth. Selected members from this group will also represent A&M at various social functions for the re mainder of this school year. Members of the A&M committee making this year’s selection were Ken Schaake, Wilman D. Barnes, Bill Parse, Joe Fuller, A. D. Mar tin, Tom Flukinger, Karl Meyers, Bob Allen, Allen Eubank, Roy Nance, George Charlton, Dare Keelan and Dave Coslett. Seoul, Nov. 2—8P)—Red troops threw their new military might against advancing Allied forces to day to block approaches to the Ko- rean-Manchurian border. They met with some success. A U.S. First Army Corps spokesman said the situation was “very ser ious” in the northwest sector. The Communists—some Chinese but mostly North Koreans — hit with big guns, rockets and rifles. The fury of their attacks put United Nations troops on the de fensive in the northwest, where the biggest Allied gains had been made recently. It was an obvious all-out effort by the Reds to keep United Na tions troops away from power pro ducing reservoirs which pump life blood into both North Korean and Manchurian industry. The cold of Winter and the Little Gobi sands which whip across the country at this time of year mul tiplied the misery of ground fight ing. Here is the way the battle shaped in the Korean theaters: Northwest: A series of Chi nese and North Korean attacks set the Allies on their heels. . . . The South Koreans were attacking. . . . A spokesman said the situation was serious but improving. A U.S. armored column pushed northward along the inland coastal area to within 15 air miles of Sinuiju, the last Korean city before the Com munist Manchurian border. Reds cut off one U.S. First Cavalry division battalion; two others fought back to the main force. No Bing Crosby Tickets for SMU Dance Tickets are now on sale for the SMU Homecoming Dance, featuring Ray McKinley and his Orchestra. They may be pur chased in the Student Activities Office. Bells of A&M Ring Out, Night and Day, in MSC Every fifteen minutes, from the There are several units to the belfry of the Memorial Student elaborate system. One of the units, Center, comes the clear, loud ring- located in the belfry of the MSC ing sound of Westminster Chimes, controls the loud speakers. The chimes, electrically con- Located right off the lobby, the trolled, toll the hour with a sound control room is a picture of con- of sixteen notes, in four units of fusion to anvone but the most four notes each, ‘with the peal of brilliant EE * major. The control a deep bass note for each hour, boxes with clocks, relays and other The quarter, half and three quarter necessarv equipment to operate the marks are noted by one, two and chimes may he controlled auto- three units respectively. _ matically or when the occasion When (he bells are function- arises, manually controlled by us ing a console located in the lobby of the MSC. The chimes were donated to the MSC bv the two classes of 1949. Installation of the chimes, man ufactured by Stromberg-Carlson, was done by E. E. Gilder, engineer for Archer Bros., Dallas. ing properly, they will be heard from 7:30 a. m. until 9 p. m. on weekdays. On Sunday the sche dule will be slightly different. Every hour on the hour, from 7 a. m. until 1 p. m., the chimes will ring out with the church bells. At 1 p. m., the bells will resume the weekday operational procedure.