Chairman Outlines
Campaign Plans
Collections for the March of
Dimes began to roll in as the year
ly campaign got into the early
stages this week, according to IT.
T. Blackhurst, chairman for Bra
zos County.
Locally, Blackhurst said, the
Campaign is to rely on the follow
ing means of money:
• Mile of Dimes stands operated
by members of the Lion’s Club or
ganization of Bryan and College
Station.
• School cards to be circulated
at schools in the county.
• March of Dimes mail-out
cards which are being distributed.
® Iron Lung coin collection box
es.
• Pin-up boxes being worn by
filling station attendants in Bryan
and College Station.
What’s Cookin’
AG COUNCIL, Wednesday, 7:45
p. m., in MSG Lounge, Aggieland
'51 picture.
BRUSH COUNTRY CLUB,
Thursday, 7:15 p. m., Room. 304,
Academic Bldg.
CALDWELL COUNTY CLUB,
Wednesday, 7:30 p. m., Academic
Bldg.
COLLIN COUNTY CLUB
Thursday, 7:30 p. m., Room, 2B,
MSC.
CORPUS CHRISTI CLUB,
Thursday, 7:15 p. m., Room. 3B-
3C MSC. Important meeting to dis
cuss Aggieland ’51 picture and
mid-term party plans.
EAST TEXAS CLUB, Wednes
day, 7:30 p. m., MSC Lounge, Ag
gieland ’51 picture.
EL PASO CLUB, Wednesday,
8:00 p. m., MSC Lounge.
FOUR STATES (TEXARTCA-
Nj'T) CLUB, Thursday, 7 p. m.,
room 106, Academic Building.
HILLEL CLUB, Friday, 7:15 p.
m., YMCA Chapel. Club picture
for Aggieland ’51 will be taken.
NEWMAN CLUB, Wednesday,
7:30 p. m., St. Mary’s Chapel, Bus
iness meeting.
PERMIAN BASIN CLUB,
Thursday, 7:30 p.m. in Lounge of
YMCA. Emergency meeting to
make plans for picture in Aggie
land.
SAN ANTONIO CLUB, Wednes
day, 5:20 p. m., steps of Agricul
ture Building, for picture for Ag
gieland ’51. Wear No. 1 Uniform,
blouse and overseas cap.
SOUTHWEST TEXAS CLUB,
Wednesday, 7:30 p. m., Room 3C,
MSC.
WACO-McLENNAN COUNTY
CLUB, Wednesday, 5:05 p. m.,.
steps of Agriculture Building, Ag
gieland ’51 picture.
• Theater collections in the final
week of the campaign in both
cities.
Recent surveys show that more
than 80 per cent of persons over
the age of 15 have specific polio
anti-bodies in their blood, indicat-
infection with polio virus, said
Blackhurst.
It is still a mystery why only
a fraction of those infected are
disabled, he commented. March of
Dimes supported scientists in lead
ing institutions throughout Amer
ica are trying to find ways to pro
tect the susceptible. The National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
has spent $13,100,000 for polio re
search into treatment and pre
vention, the chan-man pointed out.
Scientists Are Confident.
Scientists feel confident that
March of Dimes financed research
will end in control of infantile par
alysis within our lifetime, Black-
hurst said. The people of Brazos
County can help by increasing their
contributions to meet the 1951 need
for $50,000,000 throughout the na
tion, the chairman emphasized.
For the third successive year,
polio has hammered Texas with
epidemic force. In 1950, Texas out
ranked every other state in over
all March of Dimes aid received.
Blackhurst said that into Texas
went the most respirators, most
hot pack machines, most cribs and
beds, most nurses and physical
therapists, most resident physi
cians and most orthopedic nursing
advisers during 1950.
Kiwanis Hears
Music Program
Members of the College
Station Kiwanis Club were
entertained yesterday with
several vocal selections by
Mrs. Marvin Butler. Accom
panied on the piano by Mrs. J. B.
Baty, Mrs. Butler offered rendi
tions of “My Creed” by Miriam L.
Fisher, “Carmena,” by H. Lane
Wilson, and “The Kerry Dance” by
J. L. Molloy.
Frederic D. Meyers, instructor
in the Ehgineering Drawing De
partment, was announced to have
accepted membership in the local
club. Otis Miller, presiding in the
absence of President A. C. Magee,
announced that several new mem
bers will be introduced at the meet
ing next Tuesday.
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Something new has been added for sports
or casual wear. Picturesque stockings are
featured with whip stitching. White
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“It’s Expensive” Says Hubby
The stickpin fashion is translated into a
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outlined with tiny rhinestones. This sub
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Aggies should be interested to note this
new Spring hosiery decoration for the
misses. Gracefully angled across the front
of one stocking is a delicate daisy design
sparked with rhinestones.
Spring Fashions Promote Leg-Gazing
By VIVIAN CASTLEBERRY
Battalion Women’s Editor
If Texas Aggies ever needed an
excuse to look at women’s legs, the
hosiery industry is providing it.
At a recent showing of hosiery
styles for Spring, designers went
all out to add oomph to milady’s
lower extremities. As if a neatly
turned ankle were not enough, the
well-dressed lady now wears flow
ers on her ankles, satin appliques
on her heels or diamonds on her
toes.
If the girl of your dreams f"
a sports; woman, you might “d ,
light” her with a pair of n^ c D
stockings featuring the whippesg
stitch heel. These are done ,
white floss, hand sewed arourPU
the frame of the heel to providVe
a bright contrast to what wouhi
otherwise be just another pair or*
gossamer-robed (ahem) legs. *
For her" gay-as-a-feather mom
ents the dream girl can now come
out in a pair of Swiss dot stock
ings. These, (not that you guys
would possibly be interested in
how they came to be after you once
cast your peepers on a gal in ’em)
are done by an electronic process
which shoots 100,000 volts through
sheer nylon.
The woman who likes pleats now
can go pleated all the way, for
there is available a new pleated
stocking. Nobody would ever know
this, of course, after the lady has
stretched the pleats over her legs.
“Sparkle,” featuring diamond
shaped satin appliques on a pic
ture-frame heel, is another entry
in the things to come for the well-
dressed woman’s hosiery ward
robe.
For the really daring girl of
your dreams there is a new 24-
karat gold pattern stocking that
she can wear out dancing—
For day wear with her after
noon dresses, or to do her house
work if she’s so a-nlind, a lady
may have her hose with tiny pin
points in black, brown or royal
blue following the seam. This is
supposed to create a slenderizing
effect to the leg. It doubtless
would serve other purposes, too.
Daisies may not tell, but you
probably can prove just how much
your fd** 1 voVvii’ ; s vying for at-
several mornings eaun a. pair
^ . an ^-tluns "of the city in the early morning hours.
The idea that motivated them to buy the apparatus was
principally an effort to cut down on cases of polio. But flies,
mosquitoes and other insects were cut to a minimum.
Maybe the idea could be discussed in other local circles.
One never knows how much a project of that kind can do,
and College Station’s large number of polio cases for 1950
could use something toward prevention of this disease—if
DDT can do the job. y
Dimes Drive Needs Your Support
3.
of Mention of the large number of polio cases brings to
wil ind the current March of Dimes campaign. H. T. Blackhurst
; i his committee from the College Station Lion’s Club are
“ s ho)g a lot of work to put Brazos County over the top in
A ributions to the 1951 fund,
ankle Certainly your determined effort could be used in this
sfockriy (j r i ve to support research to fight infantile paralysis
determ? ?* ve to those who have been stricken with the
right tf.disease.
nd your check today
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never bothered you. They belong
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of society. Your interest is whet-
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committee, you
Lights are also burning in the
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Many changes, and for the better,
Senior Companies
Remain in Spring
There will be no change in the
status of the Senior Companies
during the Spring Semester, Lt.
Col. M. P. Bowden, assistant Com
mandant, said this morning.
Men eligible for promotions will
be moved into the regular units
as openings occur.
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seemed less serious. W. M. Snow
of the Business Department
termed the hike “in. line with
everything else.” He was refer
ring to the over-all price-of-liv-
ing jump.
I. D. Steele of that department
just hoped that “nickel coffee does
not go the way of the five cent
hamburger.” Though he admitted
that the two-cents pinched the
budget allotment he received from
his wife, he added that with the
advantages and services of the
MSC “My morale is boosted two-
cents worth.”
Both suggested that students did
not fully appreciate the building
and what it offered. They cited
their own college experience with
unions or student centers.
But what’s on the other side of
the ledger? MSC Director J.
Wayne Stark did the talking, from
this side.
He termed the increase a long-
delayed but necessary move. And
he had support for his conten
tion. Stark recalled a previous
move toward higher-priced cof
fee that had been suggested as
a cooperative move by all local
establishments.
Such a move, said Stark, would
have fallen under the scope of
price-fixing, a definitely illegal
procedure. He went on to explain
why the MSC did finally raise the
price.
Coffee trade, he points out, con
stitutes more than one-sixth of the
foods business done by the MSC.
You can’t afford to take a loss on
that much of your operation, he
contends, adding that the MSC has
been taking a loss.
But the thing goes deeper
than that, the director stressed.
He blames much of the apparent
furor on lack of education on
the part of MSC users as to
just how the Center operates fi
nancially.
Operations at the MSC are
sharply divided into two groups—
the service activities that offer
club activities, the browsing libra
ry, the dark-room facilities, the
lounge provisions and the other of-
jfi, ? the building that go to
U and the business facili-
Jx^make the money to pay
ervice offerings,
urged users to remember
business end has to run
fit to pay for the other,
inder was directed at the
1 ption that the building op-
A a non-profit basis. Prof-
'merely turned back into
ing.
V on the coffee question,
•d to other unions or stu-
•ers that have made jumps
le last two months. The
;y of Illinois reports all
t seven-cents while the
University of Chicago is now op
erating on a seven and five-cent
basis.
He said that no one that has
paid a grocery bill lately could
fail to notice recent and severe
jumps in price. And he added
that no price hike for other foods
or drinks is contemplated.
In a more concrete respect, the
MSC serves from 85,000 to 100,000
cups of coffee monthly. It figures
consumers are split about 50-50 as
to preference for cream. That
cream costs, according to MSC esti
mates, about 1.4 cents per serving.
Stark was backed up in his ar
guments by Roy Bertrand, presi
dent of the Texas Restaurant As
sociation and manager of the B. K.
Coffee Shop in Waco. Speaking
from Waco, Bertrand said:
“The average operator is losing
three-cents on every nickel cup of
coffee he sells. A higher price for
coffee can be backed up with a
million reasons.”
The well-known restaurant op
erator explained that several
places in Waco already charged
10 cents per cup. Others have
gone up to seven and eight cents.
“All drug stores,” he reports,
“charge seven cents.”
From Houston came a like state
ment from Roy P. Etchison, exe
cutive vice-president of the Texas
Restaurant Association. He termed
coffee-price increase as “definitely
justified.” He has charged ten-
cents for a year at his Etchison
Coffee Shop in downtown Houston.
Stark concluded his arguments^
by pointing to the peculiarities of ~
restaurant operation. Cost, he says,
must always be kept to from 40
to 45% of sales price. Various
factors reduce this apparently high
profit to a bare five to ten percent.
The first day of seven-cent tof
fee found a slight decrease, about
five percent, in total coffee sales.
Black coffee drinkers took several
converts into their fold.
But who took the severest beat
ing from the jump? I say, with
prejudice, the Batt staff. We do
not drink the stuff—we inhale it.
Dr. Carlton R. Lee
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