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§350 Profit Apiece Officials Refuse Computers From Surplus-buying Texan Sadie Hawkins Dance Washington, Nov. 27— ( ^P)—The lucky Texan who paid $6.89 for some surplus Air Force equipment and then sold it to Air Force of ficers for $63,000 has found some more at bargain prices, it was re ported yesterday. Two different sources said the canny Texan acquired the same type of instruments but the Air Force refused to buy them back this time. The name of the Texan has been withheld from the public by both the Sente armed services prepar edness subcommittee and Air Force officers. Questions Refused Pentagon spokesmen for the Air Force refused to answer any ques tions, saying that all information Battalion CLASSIFIED ADS Page 4 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1950 aarpt, WITH A BA1TAUOM CLASSIFIED AD. Rates . . . 3o, a word per Inaertlcm with a 35e minimum. Space rate In ('iassltled Heo.tJon ... 60c per column Uicta fiend all classified with remit tance to the Student Activities Office. All ads should he turned in by J0;00 a.m. of the day before publication. FOB SAJJS 1940- 3-Door Ford. Rhone 4-ISOS after O. KRUSlDATKE. good condition, $48.00. A--I4-X, College View, after 5:00 p.m. 1950 Chevrolet Sedan, 4-door dark green, hew In. July; 6,500 miles. Leaving Col lege station Nov. 2S for 5 months Uni ted Nations travel, heavy discount. Frank M, Eaton, 4-9224 or 0-C674. Fun COAT—\ length Mouton Lamb, good ' condition, less than % price. Phone 4-9442 after 5. Duplex Apartment Building FOR SALE FiAgh apartment lias 2 large bed rooms, living room, dining room, kitchen, bath, garages. Pre-war brick veneer construc tion, excellent condition, a 11 rented. , Property large- lot in .good residential area, walking distance to business -district. Ideal investment or for 1 'owner tenant occupancy. Casli trans action, no agents. Shown by appointment only. Located in Rryan, Texas. REPLY BOX ONE THE HATl'ALLION COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS Merle Norman Cosmetics Treatment as well as make-up. For information, call 4-4884. Dr. Carlton R. Lee OPTOMETRIST 208- S. Main Street Call 2-1662 for Appointment RADIOS & REPAIRING Call For and Delivery STUDENT CO-OP Phone 4-4114 JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS A Drastic Reduction of Nationally Advertised ALARM CLOCKS Electric, wind up & 8 day Clocks. These are brand new 1956 models. You Can Afford the Best At— S H A F F E R ’ S BOOK STORE Across from the P.O. N. Gate WANTED TO BUY TWO OR FOUR TICKETS for Thanksgiv ing Game. Gall 4-1109, Carleton W. Adams. FOUR TICKETS for Thanksgiving Game. Gall 4-1149. FOR BENT NSW UNFURNISHED apartment, 2 bed rooms, living room, kitchen, dinette, hath, good location. Also new furnished apartment with ileal nice furniture, 2 bedroom, Idtchen and dinette combined, hath. Call daytime, 3-6015; after <5 p.m., call 2-7859. BEAUTIFUL five-room brick unfurnished apartment. Two bedrooms and bath with plenty closet space. Large glassed- in front porch, living room, large kit chen with double sink and tile draln- . board. Hardwood floors. Venetian blinds throughout, carport. Conveniently lo cated to grocery market, and laundro mat. Sulphur Springs Road. Call 2-1419 or 3-2655. FURNISHED Apartment — Phone , 4-S578, Meadowhrook addition, 200 Meadowlane, MISCELLANEOUS FOR ESTIMATES on building, general re pairs and concrete work, call D. K. Dale General Contractor, Ph. 4-8272. PERM A .STONE DISTRIBUTOR. WILL KEfeP CHILDREN ages 2 to 6 during working hours. Located new North Gate. Phone 6-6491. LOST! Tan Duffle Bag- Aggie corner on Highway 6. Contact Galloway, Box 1462, College. Official Notice A change will he made In the regular class schedule on Wednesday, Occcmher 6th, to equalisse the abssnoes which have occurred during the fall. Thursday class es, scheduled to meet from S a.m. to fl; p.m., will meet Wednesday, December 6th, at their usual periods. All classes nor mally scheduled to meet oh Wednesday, December 6th, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. will not meet oh that date. C. Clesnent FYench Dean of the College January Graduation Announcements must be ordered prior to .December 9, in student ActKItics Office. Room 299, Goodwin Hall Grady Elms, Assistant Director, Student Activities. Candidates for degrees in January must: file a formal application not later than! December 1, in the Registrar's office.! This applies to both undergraduate and- graduate students. H. L. Heatfin, . Registrar “ i NQTICE TO UANDIDAXES FOR GRAlii- FATE DEGREES IN JASt AHV, 1951" "Graduate students planning to grad uate at the etid-.df the current semesUr must, submit formal application before December i. Forms are available In the office of the Dean of the Graduate School.’'' (Signed) IDE P. TROTTER, Dean" “OFFICIAL NOTICE—GRADUATE STUDENTS Re: Committee, and Course of Study Forms Each graduate student is responsible for seeing that his .committee and course of study forhia are now properly’ filed in the offlee of the Graduate School. A student wishing to register for any term after his first term of graduate work must bring..hia eopy of his official grad uate course of study to registration with notations oh It to show the courses already taken and the grades received. (Signed) IDE>. TROTTER, Dean" NOTICE An invltallon to college marketing stu dents to cohajiete 'ln a national essay con test on problems of the' grain trade has been received by Charles N. Shepard soil. Dean, School of Agriculture, Cash prizes totaling over five hundred dollars are available to the winners of the contest from the Uhlmann Awards Fund. Prizes are available for the best papers written by both undergraduate and grad uate students. Essays may be submitted until June j 30, 1951. Anyone interested in the rules of the contest may secure information tit I the office of Dean Shepardsou.. Cham Ni Shepardsou ; Dean of’ Agriculture' had been, supplied to the Senate group which is acting as a “watch dog committee” over the multi-bil lion dollar defense program and Korean war. Senator Lyndon Johnson (D- Tex), chairman of the investigat ing group who first called atten tion to the “most astounding Case of shortsightedness,” was out of the city. Aides of the Senator said any questions about additional lots of the surplus equipment could be answered by the Air Force offi cers. Johnson, when ho. first called at tention to the transaction, said he was not making- the name of the Texan public because lie had co operated with the subcommittee ami its investigators and double- checks had verified the Unusual story, The East Texan said he thought he was buying some small card board computers in 1946 when he hid less than 5 cents apiece for the surplus'- offered for sale at San Antonio. Unused Computers Later he discovered he had bought “168 serviceable unused ail' craft parralax computers” valued at $7,200 each or worth $1,209,600. These are electric gun fire-con trol instruments for airplanes. The Texan put them in a ware house, contacted Air Force pro curement officers and sold them back for $63,000, a year and a half after he got them, after spending about $4,000 for storage, shipping and other costs. In a later report, Chairman Johnson said the “transaction was, insofar as the subcommittee can ascertain, entirely lawful” adding that “the taxpayers have suf fered and corrective action at this date is not feasible.” Buyer Says The unidentified Texan was quote,d as saying: “The thing may be summed up by saying that the disposal agency was delighted to unload what they thought was a heap of junk on an unsuspecting country boy and that l.he colonel in charge of the pur chasing agency and the personnel at Wright Field were delighted to repurchase this equipment in brand new condition at a cost which saved saved the tax-payer one- half million dollars.” The Texans got back more than $350 for each five cents on his original purchase. Reports here were, that he went out and found some four of these computers, bought them for about $30 each but has failed to sell the second set back to the Air Force. The subcommittee said the Texan was a former naval offi cer who first bought small amounts of war surplus goods for a farm. The man is not a full time farmer or rancher and his brothers joined him in the second computer purchase, it was. report ed. Questions Unanswered Air Force spokesmen said they could not answer questions as to why they did not repurchase the second set, what had been done to officers, involved in these sales, or any other questions about the in cident. Elsewhere a reporter was told that originally the Air Force de clared the World War II comput ers surplus, because a new fire control instrument had been de signed and was being produced. ; Later, it was said, these failed to prove as good as the first models and so the surplus was re purchased. Rent Extension Asks 90 Day Grace In a colorful array of costumes depicting the comic strip characters of A1 Lapp’s Li’l Abner are these students of A&M Consolidated High School as they, attended the annual Sadie Hawk ins Dance Friday night. Louise Street and Fred Anderson were chosen to have the “best” cos tumes. INew Installment Buying Procedure Proposed Washington, Nov. 27—Sen ator Maybank (D-SC) yesterday proposed the issuance of govern ment “certificates of necessity” en titling some purchasers of lower- priced automobiles to more liber al installment-buying terms. Maybank said he will ask the Federal Reserve Board to con sider the idea of studying the complaints of car dealers and others against the credit restric tions now in effect. These require a down payment of one-third, with no more than 15 months to clear up the balance. “It’s apparent,” Maybank de clared, “that those terms are caus ing a lot of hardship among lower- income workers who need cars to get back and forth to their jobs.” On Committee The South Carolina Senator is in line to he chairman of a new Senate-House “watchdog” commit tee which will start hearings soon on automobile credit controls. May- E-Texas Club Sets Thanksgiving Party The Annual East Texas A&M Club Thanksgiving party will be held at the Club Do-Si-Do midway between Longview and Kilgore be ginning at 8 p. m. Friday Dec. 1. An invitation to all East Texas Aggies and members of other clubs has been extended by the East Texas A&M Club. Admission prices have been set at $2 drag and $1.50 stag. bank also heads the Senate Bank ing Committee, which helped draft the law giving the Federal Re serve Board full discretion to in voke installment buying curbs on a variety of products. After enactment of the law last September, the board ‘issued an order fixing one-third down and 21 months as the maximum period for paying the balance on cars. Those terms were in effect only a few weeks when the: board decided they were not tight enough. So it cut the payment time to 15 months and left the amount down at one- third. Dealers Forced Dealers have contended they are being forced out of business. “What I have in mind general ly,” he said, “is that the board could set up standards qualifying certain persons for more liberal credit terms. Possibly 18 months or even longer in some cases could be substituted for the present 15 i'nOnths to nav, up the balance. “I would limit the program to the lower-priced cars and to pur chasers with low or moderate in comes. Those who can afford the higher priced cars don’t need any special consideration. “The purchaser also would lie required to show that a car is essential in his work.” Senator Douglas (D-Ill) said meanwhile that,there must be some cut in the production of such things as cars, refrigerators and washing machine's “if we are to have tanks, plants v and other ma terial needed for the defense pro gram.” • Said Douglas: “You can’t have your cake and eat it too.' What’s Cooking BEAUMONT PORT A RTHUR CLUB, Monday, 7:30 p. m, 301 Goodwin. Christmas Party details. BRIDGE FOR BEGINNER'S, Wednesday, 7:30 p. m., Game Room MSC. BRIDGE PARTY, Monday 7:30 p. m. Game Room, MSC. CALDWELL COUNTY CLUB, Monday, 7:30 p. m., fourth floor Academic Building. CAMERA CLUB, Monday, 7:p0 p. m. Room 3C and 3D MSC. East man Slide Show. Slides will fea ture leg art, landscaping, etc. COLLEGIATE CHAPTER, FU TURE FARMERS OV AMERI CA, Monday, 7:15 p. m., Lecture Room Agricultural Engineering Building. PERIMAN CLUB, Emergency meeting in MSC Room 3C, 7:30 p, m. Monday. Christmas dance disD cussion. . i Eagles™ (Continued from Page 3) '! against Austin College. Following the Aggie' game here Friday, they, will start their heaviest schedule in history, meeting Drake, Creigh ton, Mississippi Southern, Text's Wesleyan, Texas Christian, South ern Methodist, Baylor, Houstqh, Oklahoma City and others in ad dition to Gulf Coast Confcrenijld foes Midwestern arid Trinity. £■’' Coach Shands is building 1950-51 team around six returning lettermen: Captain Ed Kelly, Dick Wall, Tom Edwards aud Charfe| Johnson, all, of Fort Worth, Pcjf Gain of Dallas and Lew Lutrick;(>f Abernathy. Squadmen include B\||L ba Slaughter and Pat Kelley, btijth of Dallas, Buddy Simpson of Lew isville, Pucker Barse ! of, F$rt Worth, Larry Conces of PaskdeM' Bill Allison of Houston, and Ditk Woodward of Worden, Ill. OFFICIAL NOTICE The Executive Committee has authorized the cancellation of all Military Science Classes scheduled I for the period of 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. I Nov. 29. H. L. Boatner Colonel Infantry Commandant School of Military Science. We Stil Have Plenty of . . . AXES and FILES for you to use on that Agine Bonfire nr? COME SEE US FIRST Henrv A. Miller J North Gate College Station The Perfect Christmas Gift RONSO\ a n d ZIPPO H E Y F E I. L A S - L O O K ! A SPECIAL treat for YOU and YOUR ROOMMATE at the CHA Pl) LTEPEC TWO Complete Regular Dinners; including drinks for the price of $1.00 CHAPULTEPEC 1313 S. Cojlegf Phone 3-2002 INSIGNIA LIGHTERS Washington, Nov. 27—1A 5 )—Rep. Spence (D-Ky) said today he prob ably will offer either today or to morrow a bill to extend the federal rent control program for 90 days beyond Dec. 31. Spence, chairman of the House Banking Committee, outlined Ills plans to newsmen in advance of the start at noon (EST) of the final short session of the 81st Con gress. Spence said that before introduc ing his rent bill he planned to confer with Senator Maybank (D- SC), chairman of the Senate Bank ing Committee. Maybank has pre dicted the rent program will be ex tended, but has indicated he wants Mrs. C. Sauer, Jr. Latest Polio Victim Mrs. Charles A. Sauer Jr. is Brazos County’s eleventh polio case in 1950. Sauer, a professor in the Eng lish department, fook his wife to Waco Friday morning where her illness was diagnosed as polio. Sauer returned here Friday night and reported that his wife was responding nicely to hot pack treatments. The affected areas of her hips, throat, and mouth seem ed to be improving he said. The Sauers and daughter, Mary Ruth, live at 403 South Nall, in the same block with the Jolley family whose son also has polio. The daughter’s grandparents, both maternal and paternal, have been missionaries. Mi;s. Sauers parents, Rev. and Mrs. Fred Mit chell, are now in Winnipeg, Mani toba, where Rev. Mitchell holds a pastorate. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Sauer were in Korea prior to the present hostilities. They are now in Japan. Turkey-Day Dance on Sale Tickets are now on sale for the Austin pro-game Turkey-Day dance Nov. 21), A1 Lock, Austin Club president said yesterday. The dance,.'to be held in Austin City Coliseum, will start at 9 p. m. and continue until 1 a. m. with music by the Aggieland Or chestra. Ail night club conven iences will be available. Lock said. Lock has asked that all outfits bring their signs so they may be used for decorations at the dance. Tickets may be purchased from any Austin Club member or at the door of the coliseum. Dean Bertrand Is AAUW Group Guest Speaker John Bertrand, dean of the. Basic Division, will be the speaker for the Education Cbrhmittee and Study Group of the American As sociation of University Women at 7:30 p. m. Monday, NoV. 27, accord ing to W. J. Dobson. any continuance to 60 days. The- present rent law is .sched uled to expire Dec. 31, except in communities which vote to con tinue controls another six months. More than 600 areas have so voted, but most of the communities still covered by the federal program have not acted. This inaction, plus decontrol ac tion taken by 377 cities, was cited yesterday by Robert P. Cetholtz, president of the National Associa tion of Real Estate Boards, as evi dence that no extension is needed. Gerholz said some 2,000 cities have taken no action to extend controls. He called,the program “the big gest fraud that has ever been per petrated on a free people in a peacetime economy,” but housing expeditor Tight- E. Woods said con trols are needed to protect tenants against exhorbitant rent bikes. They debated the issue on a radio program. Woods said the present law is not a rent freeze, and that land lords are being allowed rent (in creases to pay higher costs. He said an existing housing shortage will, become more acute us the de fense program gets rolling. Rep. Spence said last week that President Truman wants a 90-day extension of the law, pending con sideration of a longer continuance by the new Congress which con venes Jan. 3. Maybank said he had not decid ed whether to sponsor a stop-gap extension in the Senate. Making it clear he is reluctant to support any extension, Maybank was critical of communities Which have not aranged for a vote on whether the rent program should lie continued through June 30 in their areas. “Congress provided every area with a means for expression of the sentiment of its people,” Maybank said. “It is to be regretted that so many places have done nothing about it.” TOBACCO fOtUf CQ'CO 650 F. £ »hSt W.Cg HfJNt A T 08ACCO ro NG>vt."o" Oh o A FUR$ T °RAGE MATTERS Loopot's Trading Post-Agents SPECIAL NOTICE... BUY YOUR TICKETS EARLY ... so we can get special busses for the T.U. - A&M game. Sales will close at 4:00 PM, Wed nesday, 29 November. 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