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PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Number 50: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1950
Price Five Cents
Student Life Hears
Egger Report, OKs
$3,945 Expenditure
Cadets Invited to Play
In Post Season Game
Assistant City Secretary Kan Hoswell adminis
ters the oath of special city policeman to four of
the ten Campus Security officers of the college
at the City Hall. Standing from left to right
are K. S. Rosier, A. A. ‘Top” Ward, L. L. Sweat,
and (i. E. Holton.
Student Senate Allots Ducats
Between Corps and Non Corps
Date tickets for the Texas Uni
versity game will go on sale Thurs
day morning, Student Senate presi
dent Bill Parse announced this
morning.
Non-corps students may obtain
tickets at a booth in the Memorial
Student Center. Corps students will
receive tickets through their first
sergeants.
The number of date tickets avail
able will depend upon the sale of
student tickets, due to end Wednes
day at 5 p. m. for all students
and their wives. Sixty-nine bund
led tickets were allotted A&M—
for students, students’ wives, and
students’ dates.
Remaining Tickets
Remaining student tickets will
lie marked and sold as date tick
ets when Wednesday’s sale is
vompleted.
Tickets will be divided between
corps and single non-corps students
on a proportionate basis, the Sen
ate decided in its special meeting
last night.
Non-corps date tickets will be
sold on a first-come, first-served
basis in the MSC booth Thursday
morning. A student ticket and an
ID card must be presented to pur
chase a date ticket. Only one date
ticket will be sold to a person.
Corps Procedure
Corps first sergeants received in
structions today on procedure for
sales within the corps. They will
obtain a list of cadets desiring
date tickets and submit it by Wed
nesday night, at which time the
number of date tickets should be
known. Tickets will then be sold,
in order, to seniors, juniors, soph
omores, and freshmen.
Three other matters wound up
the short Senate meeting. Bill
Cornish made a motion that the
blanket received from the SMU
Browning Gives
Painting Tips
To Art Group
John G. Browning, noted
Central Texas artist, ex
plained his art techniques and , for th e top winners.
student body be placed in an MSC
showcase, with the permission of
the MSC Council, then later moved
to the Senate Chamber.
Bill Sturdivant requested and re
ceived a resolution from the Senate
to back the Senior Class’s beauti
fication program for the campus.
The vote was unanimous. The reso
lution reads as follows:
“That the Student Senate sup
port and commend activities of the
Senior Class in its efforts to beau
tify the A&M campus.”
A Traffic Committee report was
passed unanimously and will be
presented to Dr. M. T. Harrington,
president of the college, today.
Details of the report will be made
public Wednesday.
Freshmen Sweat Out
Slide Rule Competition
Sixty eager freshmen began fev
erishly working on the fifty min
ute slide rule contest at 4 p. m.
in room 303 of the Mechanical En
gineering Building yesterday.
Although the afternoon was cool,
perspiration dotted the brows of
the “fish” as slipsticks slid and
blood pressures rose.
For here in one room was as
sembled the “brains” of the Fresh
men engineering students to com
pete in the top contest of the
fish year.
The competition in this contest
is rough, because only the top ten
percent of ME 101 students, chosen
by their instructors as the best
contestants, are eligible to enter.
The problems included on the
quiz were similar to the problems
on Quiz A in ME 101, the type
that leaves all but the brilliant
muttering about extensions to the
left, square roots, cubes, and deci
mal points.
The principal contest is between
students registered in ME 101 who
have had no prior college work.
Separate awards are provided for
those who compete in the contest
but who are ineligible for the prin
cipal contest because they have had
prior college work.
A small plaque which bears on
its back side a commendation from
the head of the department in
which each student is registered
will be presented to all contestants.
Winners of the first prize and
second prize will not only receive
large plaques but will also receive
special prizes. These special prizes
in the past have been slide rules
gave tips on painting to the
MSC Gallery Committee at
7:30 p.m. in the Assembly Room of
the Center.
The painter from Brownwood
brought three of his latest paint
ings to the meeting and explained
his work techniques.
Browning also spoke on trends !
of art and modern art works. The !
artist ,expressed the opinion there
is some good and worthwhile value
in the modernistic type of works.
The Central Texan continued
that he believed that the part of
modern art built upon fundamen
tals will stand, while the part with
no basis will fade away and even
now shows a tendency to do that.
After giving the group sugges
tions for experiments, Browning-
told them to get the fundamental
background for painting and to
then branch out into Whatever they
desired.
After the session in the Assem
bly room the committee adjourned
to the Crafts shop where the
Brownwood artist demonstrated
works in ceramics.
In addition to the first and sec
ond prizes, a first and second prize
Deadline Set For
Invitation Orders
Orders for January graduation
announcements must be placed be
fore Dec. 9, Grady Elms, assistant
manager of Student Activities, has
announced.
Types available are leather book
let, cardboard booklet, and French
fold.
T h e leather and cardboard
booklets contain a list of degree
candidates plus three etchings of
campus scenes.
Leather booklets are 50c, card
board booklets are 23c, and French
fold are 9c.
Personal cards may also be or
dered.
will be awarded in each branch of
engineering.
For these ineligible for the regu
lar contest, first, second, and third
prizes will be awarded.
Following the contest, the ex
hausted but expectant freshmen
face a long period of waiting to
learn the outcome of the contest,
since the winners will not be an
nounced until Dec. 11 at 4 p. m. in
the Assembly Hall, when the
awards will be presented.
Expenditures of $3,935 were ap
proved by the Student l ife Com
mittee yesterday for purchase of
Dormitory athletic equipment,
Guion Hall fireproof projection
equipment, soccer team uniforms,
and a piano for Cashion’s Cabin.
Other items on the Life Commit
tee agenda were a report by King
Egger, who last summer took the
summer European Tour sponsored
by that group; a report on enter
tainment other than Town Hall at
tractions to be signed for appear
ances here, and preliminary consid-
eration was given proposed changes
to the Activities point system ad
ministered by the Committee.
Largest Item
Largest item approved was
$2,1)10 for Dormitory athletic
equipment requested by the Intra
mural Athletics Department. Five-
hundred dollars was passed for
purchase of safety rewind and fire
proof film storage for Guion Hall.
An expenditure of $500 for ad
ditional gates and sidewalks at the
Grove was approved. Presently,
temporary gates have been cut in
the fence to facilitate the large
yell practice group.
A request by the A&M Soccer
Team for $175 with which to buy
uniforms was okayed after some
discussion. The Committee has
not, in the past, appropriated mon
ey for such teams, but it was point
ed out that the soccer team was
composed of foreign students who
did not participate in the intramu
ral atheltic program sponsored by
the college.
Piano for Cashion’s Cabin
On a request by King Egger,
president of the YMCA Cabinet,
the Committee approved $150 for
purchase of a second-hand piano
for use at Cashion’s Cabin.
Several other requests for mon
ey were tabled until the Life Com
mittee receives further Exchange
Stare profits for disbursal. Among
these were requests for a new con
cert Grand piano for the music ac
tivities department; drinking foun
tains, tee shelters, and shrubbery
for the new Golf Course, and picnic
facilities for the Grove.
European Trip Report
King Egger’s report on his Eu
ropean trip was first on the Life
Committee agenda.
His report was aimed at giving
Committee members some insight
into the value of the European tour
so that they might vote later in
the year on whether it should be
continued.
Egger stressed particularly the
need for American visitors to Eu
rope who wanted to give the people
some knowledge of the American
way of life.
He said that the European’s im
pression of Americans was based
primarily on tourists who went
there to do nothing more than have
a good time. As a result, he said,
these people think that we are a
selfish, carefree people who are
unconcerned with Europe’s prob
lems.
Better Informed
They (European students) are
much better informed than Ameri
can students on all phases of poli
tics, Egger said. They are aware
of American aid, but are much
more impressed by sympathetic
American actions than by Ameri
can money, he explained.
Reporting on plans for student
entertainment, C. G. “Spike” White
presented a list of eight possible
groups or individuals approved by
the Social and Entertainment com
mittee for shows here.
Included in the list were the
TSCW Modern Dance Team;
Gwynne, The Magician, and The
Bauer Sisters (Golf Professionals).
These groups already have been
signed to appear at A&M, White
said.
Other Entertainers
Other possible entertainers were
The Golden Gate Quartet, Jo Staf
ford, Grand Old Opry, TSCW
Choir, Texas Girls Glee Club, and
an opera group from NTSC.
Letters have been mailed to these
groups checking on possible show
dates and costs, White said.
Proopsed changes to the present
activity point system were submit
ted by a committee appointed to
investigate inadequacies of the
present point values.
Copies of the proopsed changes
are to be provided Life Committee
men for consideration before the
next meeting, Dr. Ralph Steen,
chairman of the Student Life Com
mittee, said.
Dance Class Fees
Payable in MSC
Fees for dancing classes may
be paid anytime after Tuesday at
5 p. m. in the Front Office of
the MSC, Miss Betty Bolander,
assistant social director said this
morning.
Dance class members should try
to pick up receipts before time for
dancing lessons, Miss Bolander con
tinued.
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Barlow (Bones) Irvin
UN Assembly
Rejects Red’s
Peace Program
New York, Nov. 21—(AP)
—The United Nations Assem
bly yesterday rejected Rus
sia’s terms for cooperating in
the development of Secretary-
General Trygve Lie’s 20-year peace
program. Instead, it adopted a
nine-power resolution calling for
the appropriate U. N. bodies to
work on various phases of Lie’s
plan.
The backbone of the Secretary-
General’s 10-point plan was a ser
ies of high-level security council
meetings at which top officials
would tackle the U. N.’s outstand
ing problems.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Y. Vishinsky had countered with
a series of conditions, including
the participation of Red China in
the council meetings and the ab
solute prohibition of the atomic
bomb.
The U. S. charged this was an
attempt to barter peace.
The 60-nation assembly beat
down each section of the Soviet
resolution in a paragraph-by-para
graph vote.
The Lie program was elaborated
by the secretary-general last spring
and presented to him by President
Truman, Prime Minister Attlee and
Prime Minister Stalin.
'Don 7 Walk Here * Signs Posted . . .
Beautification Effort Begins
Signs designating “Please don’t resolution last night pledging sup- Below on this page may be in need of re-seeding. Grass will
walk here” areas were erected in port to the beautification program, found the first of three campus be planted in these areas by the j
the central, or Academic Building The beautification effort is be- maps designating areas which the Grounds Department if the beauti-
section of the campus this morn- ing carried out in cooperation committee is asking the coopera- fication committee effort is suc-
ing to open officially the campus with a grass re-seeding program tion of students and other pedes- cessful.
beautification program sponsored planned by the College Grounds trians in keeping clear of walkers Lawns next to Guion and Bizzell
by the Senior Class. Maintenance Department, Bob and bicycle riders. Halls already have been plowed by
Installation of the signs came on Sturdivant, beautification commit- Areas in black are those' consid- the Grounds Department in pre-
the heels of a Student Senate tee chairman, said this morning. ered by the committee to be most para tion for the re-seeding work.
Grass will be planted in these areas
A&M’s eleven will play in the President’s Cup football
game at College Park, Md., as far as A&M’s football team,
Athletic Council, Academic Council, and the Southwest Con
ference are concerned.
President M. T. Harrington said at noon today that ne
gotiations for the game are still in progress. If approved, all
that remains is signing of the contract by Athletic Directof
Barlow Irvin. Irvin is in Maryland today making necessary
arrangements for possible final approval of the game.
Among the terms of the contract is an advance of
$10,000 for expenses and a guarantee of 40 per cent of the
gate.
The game will be played in a stadium which seats
50,000 for the benefit of the American Legion Welfare
Fund.
Upon hearing of the invitation to the game, the Cadet
V -fteam was very enthusiastic over
the offer. The Aggies’ opponent in
the game will probably be Mary
land.
Although Maryland’s Head Foot
ball Coach Jim Tatum said, “We
haven’t been issued a formal in
vitation to play in the game,” he
did say that he had heard of plans
being made to invite the Maryland
eleven.
A&M’s Head Football Coach
Harry Stiteler said yesterday, as
far as he knew, the game w r as still
being investigated as a possibil
ity.
The entile Aggie team was in
favor of che game with Maryland in
the President’s Cup. The Cadets’
top quarterback Dick Gardemal
said, “It’s the best thing that has
happened since the invention of the
wheel. This offer to play in Col
lege Park has helped the team’s
morale a hundred per cent.
TIJ Game First
“But we still have another thing
that is No. 1 on our agenda. That’s
to beat Texas U” Gardemal con
cluded.
The Maryland Terrapins have
won six games while losing two
and tying one game so far this
season.
Their season record includes
Engineers Plan
Honor Review
For Blakelock
A funeral wreath will be
the sole occupant of the re
viewing stand Wednesday
when the Engineer Battalion
passes in review in honor of
Lt. David R. Blakelock, class of ’50,
who was killed in action in Korea
Oct. 19.
After the parade the battalion
will march to the flag pole in
front of the Academic Building,
come to present arms, and a
wreath will be placed at the base
of the flag pole.
This is one of the few times that
an Aggie has been honored pos
thumously by a parade.
Blakelock was a former Cadet
Captain* on the Engineer Battalion
staff and a member of B Engineers.
In January, 1950, he was graduated
with a degree; in Civil Engineering.
While in the Army he received
the Bronze Star for gallantry in | wins over Navy, 35-21; Michigan
State, 34-7; Georgetown, 25-14;
Duke, 26-14; George Washington,
123-7; and West Virginia, 41-0.
Their two losses were to Georgia,
I 7-27; and North Carolina State, 16-
; 13, while they tied North Carolina,
i 7*7.
Equal Victories
A&M has the same number of
victories as the Terrapins, but have
acquired three losses — Oklahoma,
28-34; Baylor, 20-27,' and Rice 13-
21. But at the same time the Cadets
have downed Nevada, 48-18; Texas
Tech, 34-13; Virginia Military, 52-
action.
Aggies Visit Austin
Plan Corps Trip
An A&M delegation is in Austin
today making plans for the Corps
Parade through the Capital City
scheduled to precede the annual
Turkey Day football game, Thurs
day, Nov. 30.
The group which left this morn- „ r „ ,
ing at 9 will discuss parade plans Tex^Chm .ah 42-23; Arkan-
and other matters pertaining to the ! 8 » s - aml Southern Meth °-
game with the president of the J (u ’ '
Austin Chamber of Commerce, the j
president of the Austin A&M Club, r,.,17:^1, r'lo CC< )> <i
a representative of the Austin Po- IM1 Vvld.S*!»es
lice Department and TU Dean of ; To DISCUSS DfUlCP Plait
Students.
Making the trip were Col. H. L. Junior and Freshman classes
Boatner, commandant and PMS&T; 1 will hold a joint meeting this if-
Lt. Col. M. P. Bowden, assistant ternoon at 5 p. m. in the Assembly
commandant, W. L. Penberthy, I Hall.
dean of men; A. D. Martin, colonel 1 The purpose of the meeting is to
of the corps; James Pianta, corps j discuss plans for a dance to be held
operations officer; and Dave Cos- jointly by the TSCW-A&M Junior
lett, corps information officer., i and Freshman classes.
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Signs were posted tills morning in the black areas indicated on this map to begin the
official campus beautification program sponsored by the Senior Class. If the cam
paign is successful, grass re-seeding will be done in these areas.
as soon as weather conditions are
favorable, Sturdivant said.
Other Areas
Other areas planned in the cam
paign are in the “new area” and in
the Administration Building sec
tion of the campus. Boundaries of
these sections will be designated in
maps in tomorrow’s and Thurs
day’s Battalions.
Cooperation of both civilian and
Cadet Corps seniors has been ob
tained in planning and implement
ing the campaign, Sturdivant said.
Kenneth Rickenbrode, civilian elec
trical engineering major of Mitch
ell Hall, and Bill Smith, civilian
ag engineering major of Mitchell,
were named by Senior Class Civil
ian-president, Bob Allen to work on
the committee.
Corps Representatives
Representing the Cadet Corps on
the committee besides Sturdivant
are Milton Patterson, senior arch
itecture major of Dorm. 9, and
Brad McAllister, senior architec
ture major of Dorm 3.
This afternoon at three the com
mittee meets with President M. T.
Harrington to ask his assistance in
informing the college staff of the
beautification and asking their co
operation.
A schedule of dining hall an
nouncements is also planned this
week in an effort to contact every
student and ask his cooperation.
Signs put up this morning were
financed by the Student Activities
Department and built by the beau
tification committee.
Teasippers Land,
Intentions Good
By JOE FULLER Poor Ellie, who really lives up to
her title, will just have to make
Believe it or not, seven smiling the best of her environment.
Teasippers invaded the campus yes- ; o ut 0 n the Starlite Terrace a
terday with highly honorable inten- j spirited discussion ensued as to
1 ed by Student Body Presi- which paper could louse up more
tions
dent Lloyd Hand, the ’Sips check
ed their cans of orange paint in
the MSC checkroom and proceed
ed on a short tour of the Center
escorted by Bill Parse, Student
Senate proxy.
The occasion was the official
welcoming of the A&M Student
Body to the 40 Acres for the tradi
tional Turkey Day fracas. Al
though we hate to admit it, Hand
and his cohorts did a bang-up job
of welcoming.
Knowing what is closest to an
Aggies heart, Hand brought
along beautiful Miss Jackie Far
ris, sweetheart of the “Univer
sity.” Aggie Welcoming Commit
teeman Bill Cornish almost drop
ped his teeth when she walked
through the door.
Also making the trip over were
Sterling Steves and Wales Madden,
presidents of the Silver Spurs and
Cowboys, respectively. These or
ganizations correspond approxi
mately to Ag majors here at A&M.
Most generous compliment of the
afternoon came when “Most Beau
tiful Freshman” Ellie Luckett ask
ed if there weren’t some way she
could transfer to A&M.
A long distance phone call to the
Board of Directors was made to
see if they would change the rules
just this once, but to no avail.
articles. The Battalion or the Daily
Texan. Through sheer logic and
wit the argument was won by Tex-
anite Evelyn Rheubush, probably
because no Batt staffers were, pre
sent.
MSC Council President Joe Ful
ler and a TU assemblyman
disappeared into the Photograph
ic Darkroom to plot a new gigan
tic political coup, and have not
been heard of since. “Most Beau
tiful” declined to participate in
the plot.
The sojurn ended in the Fountain
Room, where Social Committee
chairman Allen Eubank’s profuse
apologies about not having any tea
on the menu were only met with
haughty stares and cold shoulders.
Tommy Redman merely unsluhf
the thermos jug of tea that he
had been' toting around all after
noon, grumbling something about
“not being able to make it back
to TU.”
In all seriousness, however, the
Texas delegation was doing a swell
job to improve the usually-strained
relations between the two great
rivals. Hand almost looked like he
meant it w'hen wished us luck on
Thanksgiving.
A good time- was had by all.
Sterling Steves poured.