Page 6 THE BATTALION Tuesday, February 13,1951
Latest Farm Implement
Development of Ag Airplane
Featured in Agriculturist
By SID ABERNATHY
A new and unique farm imple
ment, the newly developed agricul
tural airplane, is featured in the
January Agriculturist which is just
off the presses and ready for
distribution.
Along with a complete story on
the development of the plane,
from the original idea to the com
pletion and test flight, there are
pictures of the plane and of the
men responsible for its production.
A picture comparing the new
plane with the old conventional
airplane used in agricultural work
graces the front cover of the lat
est ag student publication.
“Agricultural Facts and Fore
casts’’ offers a few suggestions
on what to do in ’51, some short
predictions, and the general farm
outlook for the new year.
A challenge to the agricultural
student of today for the respon-
WhaFs Cookin’
A G' C, Tuesday, 5:25 p. m., steps
of the YMCA Club pictures to be
taken.
AGRONOMY SOCIETY, Tues
day, 7:30 p. m., room 2A-2B MSC.
Election of officers.
ARCHITECT WIVES SOCIETY,
V/ednesday, 7:30, South solarium of
YMCA.
ARCHITECT SOCIETY, Wed
nesday, 7:30 p. m., Biological sci
ence building. John Lyon Reid will
speak on the philosophy of school
planning-.
EL PASO CLUB, Wednesday,
7:15 p. m., Academic Building.
GALLERY COMMITTEE, Wednes
day, 7:30 p. m., MSC Art Room.
HILLEL CLUB, Wednesday,
7:15 p. m., Room 2B MSC Rabbi
Stillpass will be main speaker, Re
freshments will be served.
KREAM AND KOW KLUB,
Tuesday, 7:30 p. m., Room 3B MSC.
MATHEMATICS CLUB, Tues
day, 7:30 p. m., Assembly Room of
YMCA.
RANGE AND FORESTRY
CLUB, Tuesday, 7:30 p. m., Ag.
Eng. Building, Third floor.
SAE Meeting, Tuesday, 7:30,
MSC. J. P. Jones, CAA, will speak, meetings.
sibility of closing the gap now
existing between the living condi
tions of urban communities and
rural areas, is the theme of an ar
ticle presented by the members of
the Rural Sociology Club.
How F. R. Brison, professor in
the Horticulture Department, in
partnership with J. W. Hill of
Holland, Texas developed a rela
tively low producing farm into a
profitable enterprise is described
in the article, “Profitable Pecan
Production.”
Thirty to thirty-five thousand
pounds of nuts or a gross cash
value of $130 dollars per acre in
good years is an indication of
what these men did with a 75-acre
orchard near Temple.
The prize-winning essay, “Sau
sage,” authored by Twyman G.
Williams is presented in this
edition of the Agriculturist.
Williams won first place at A&M
and was judged third in the na
tional essay contest sponsored
annually by the National Saddle
and Sirloin Club.
An interesting and fact-laden
discussion of the life and habits
of the dove, America’s most abun
dant game bird, is another of the
informative articles presented in
this magazine.
According to this article, hunt
ing pressure coupled with a high
natural morality rate among doves
is fast leading to the depletion of
this game bird.
Bruce Gibson in an article en
titled, “My Trip to the 1950 4-H
Congress,” gives a complete run
down on the congress and what
went on there last year. Since this
trip, ended his career as an active
member of the club, it is only nat
ural that he reminisce about the
Future Farmers
Visit on Campus
Eleven members of the La
Grange High School FFA chapter,
and their Vocational Agriculture
Instructor, J. R. Jackson, visited
the campus Monday.
The chapter put on a demonstra
tion for the Collegiate FFA chapter
on parliamentary procedure during
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Official Notice
In order to permit students and faculty
to attend the services in Guion Hall dur
ing the annual Religious Emphasis Week,
classes will be suspended according to the
following schedule:
Monday and Tuesday, February 12th and
13th—10 to 11 A.M.
Wednesday and Thursday, February 14th
and 15th—11 to 12 A.M.
Friday, February 16th—9 to 10 A. M.
C. Clement French
Dean of the College
TO ALL COLLEGE DEPARTMENTS AND
CUSTOMERS OF THE COLLEGE
ICE PLANT
Effective March 1, 1951, the College Ice
Plant will discontinue all ice deliveries,
and ice will be sold only from the ice
dock of the College Power Plant.
Beginning March 1, 1951, the following
prices will be charged for ice:
10,000 lbs. coupon books .$ .40 per 100 lb.
(No sales less than 100 lb.)
1,000 lbs. coupon Pooks $ .50 per 100 lb.
All Cash Sales $ .60 per 100 lb.
.30 for 50 lb.
.15 for 25 lb.
.10 for 123/, lb.
J. K. WALKER, "
Superintendent
Building and College Utilities
CANDIDATES FDR DEGREES:
Any student who normally expects to
complete all the requirement for a degree
by the end of the current semester should
call by the Registrar’s Office NOW and
make formal application for a degree.
MARCH 1st is the deadline for filing
an application fdr a degree to be con
ferred at the end of the current semester.
This deadline applies to both graduate and
undergraduate students. Those students
who have not already done so should make
formal application in the Registrar’s Office
immediately.
A senior may be allowed one special ex
amination in a subject which he failed
during the preceding semester and which
he is not currently repeating, provided
that on his mid-semester report he is
passing all work of his current schedule
with grades which, if maintained to the
end of the semester, will meet fully, both
in hours and grade points, all the require-
mnts for graduation except for a passing
grade in the subject in which the exam
ination is requested. Requests for such
special examinations should be made to
the Registrar soon after mid-semester.
H. L. HEATON
Registrar
Senior Favors for years prior to ’50 and
’51 must be ordered before February 15.
’50 and ’51 Favors will be sold “Across
the Counter’’ beginning March 1. Office of
Student Activities.
The Second installment of Fees are Pay
able between Feb. 1—Feb. 20.
C. A. Roeber, Auditor.
GRADUATING SENIORS NOTE: Orders
are now being taken for Graduation An
nouncements at the office of Student
Activities Second Floor, Goodwin Hall.
The deadline ia S o’clock, March 13.
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in The Battalion.
Call 4-5324 today
“good old days.”
The author of “What is a Quar
ter Horse,” says the animal is a
horse which is capable of doing
anything under a saddle, and goes
on to pretty well prove his point.
“Teacher of Teachers” is how E.
R. Alexander, head of the Agri
cultural Education Department, is
described in an article by the
same title which presents a bio
graphy of the professor and his
life work.
A two-page spread in the Jan
uary issue is devoted to pictures
of the various judging teams
of the School of Agriculture.
Each picture shows the members
of the team and the faculty
coach and is accompanied with
a short explanation of the ac
complishments of the team.
Also included in the jam-packed
28 pages of agricultural facts and
features is the “Short Rows” col
umn which was added just this
year.
This column presents short top
ics of interest to ag students.
Mrs. G. W. Maybeii
Mrs. Mayben, a recent bride, is
making her home in Muleshoe
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Jesse Osborn and continuing her
teaching duties in Muleshoe High
School. Her husband is a senior
chemical engineering s indent
from Corsicana. He is command
ing officer of the 8th Regiment,
a member of Phi Eta Sigma, Tan
Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, Ross
Volunteers, AIChE, and ACS.
He is also a distinguished stu
dent and a distinguished military
student.
Remedial Reading Given
InFreshman Orientation
By JACK FONTAINE
For the first time at A&M,
along with the introduction of the
Basic Division, five new courses
are being- offered to assist the
beginning freshman in his jump
from high school to college.
These courses come under the
general title of Freshman Orienta
tion. During the first semester the
courses were generally the same.
All of the freshmen attended the
same class one day a week and
branched out into Arts and Sci
ences, Agriculture and Engineer
ing the other day a week.
This semester they will learn
about several different sub
jects—designed to help them in
their remaining three years.
The students who found they
could not read well in the first
semester could take remedial read
ing. This course, with a formal
name of Basic 102, is designed to
remedy a student’s reading rate
and comprehension.
Before when a student could not
read well he had no way to improve
himself.
Through a series of tests and
exercises his faults are determined.
After taking the tests the instruc
tors begin to cure his bad reading
habits and teach him new ones.
“Inside dope” on the teaching
principles are available to the
freshmen. Under the name of
Basic 103, this laboratory course
familiarizes him with education
principles.
To the students who had not de-
offered which helps the student to
better understand himself and the
nature of his society.
Basic 105 familiarizes the stu
dent who has not decided upon a
vocational goal, with the demands,
required skills, and rewards of
various occupational areas.
The more advanced students are
offered Basic 106, a survey course
acquainting the student with the
various schools of thought and the
many areas of knowledge which
comprise our culture. In this
course, such disciplines as phil
osophy, social and physical sci
ences, religion, law and literature
are investigated.
Dr. T. F. Mayo, head of the
English Department, is the prin
cipal lecturer in this course.
Topics from Ancient Grecian his
tory to Shakespearean literature
will be studied. Being in general
a course designed to inform the
student in world affairs several
sciences are elaborated upon.
This course should provide the
student with a better knowledge of
ancient and modern times and the
relation between them.
College authorities say it is too
early to tell what the results will
be, but they are satisfied with
the early indications of their suc
cess.
Petty Picks
Fem Finalist
Out of 51
Fifty-one in ’51 isn’t an adver
tising slogan for an automobile
company, but it is the number of
Vanity Fair entries for the Ag-
gieland ’51.
These pretty pictures are be
lieved to be the largest number
ever entered in the yearbook’s an
nual Vanity Fair Contest.
All of the entries have been for
warded to George Petty, Esquire
artist, for him to select the top
six. He will also pick four alter
nates.
His selections will be presented
to the student body at the concert
preceding the Military Ball. The
alternates will replace any of the
winners who cannot attend the
presentation.
Ag Meeting Postponed
The regular meeting of the Ag
ricultural Council has been post
poned from Feb. 14 to Feb. 21 be
dded on a vacation, Basic 104 is 1 cause of Religious Emphasis Week.
City Council —
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explicity states that all dogs are
required to wear a tag with the
current year stamped on it.
Recommendations for solving the
parking problem along College
Main Street during church hours
was asked by the council of chur
ches along that street. The group
agreed that if no suitable change
is submitted to them, action will
be taken at the next meeting to
order parallel parking in this area.
Bank Note Renewed
A bank note of $300 for equip
ment was renewed for six months
along with agreements by the
council to pay a bill of $1324.41
to C. L. Andrews for water and
sewer line work and $405.82 to
Homer Hunter for engineering
services rendered the city.
Present at the meeting were
Mayor Langford, Councilmen G.
W. Black, R. B. Halpin, W. D.
Fitch, W. H. Badgett, and J. A.
Orr, City Manager Raymond Rog
ers, City Secretary N. M. McGin
nis, City Attorney J. Wheeler Bar
ger, and Assistant City Secretary
Ran Boswell.
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garette rolling, smoke ring blow
ing, pipe smoking — to include
large, small, medium, metal and
miniature bowl as well as cala
bash, churchwarden and corn cob
smoking—and pipe collections as
well.
Co-sponsor of the contest is the
Memorial Student Center.
To enter the contest, which is
open to everyone—women includ
ed—connected with A&M, watch
The Battalion for an entry blank,
clip it and return it to the con
test manager.
In the meantime you had best
get outt hose briars, stoogies or
pack of Dukes and practice up.
In case you are in need of an in
strument with which to enter the
contest the MSC gift shop has re
cently received a complete stock of
pipes and other smoking needs.
From The Agrarian’s Viewpoint
Ag Major Reviews Student
Mag, Suggests Proof ing
By JIM TOM HOUSE
Editor, The Agriculturist
For an Ag major to review the
Commentator is like Eddy Arnold
singing the part of Figaro in “The
Barber of Seville,” but some people
will try anything once.
The logical place to start is with
the cover. In an Ag major’s opin
ion, the cover is best of the year.
It cleverly depicts the typical Ag
gies’ delemma over the foreign sit
uation and the draft.
I have no comment on the “Com
mentatin’’ column.
Bert Avera and John England
give a pictorial two-page spread
on the subject of “How to Give
up Women.” Even a farmer
knows that can be summed up
in three words.—Come to A&M.
“The Great Cheesecake Robbery”
is one of the best pieces of fiction
in the magazine. Harry Gooding
gives agriculture instructors a plug
in this article about the great de
tective, Sham Slade.
As the story goes a certain news
stand at the North Gate was rob
bed of some magazines that only
an Arts and Science major under
stands or has time to read—or
rather look at. Sham’s understudy
guesses an Agriculture Prof.
“Missed again,” replies Sham.
Agriculture instructors are a sim
ple, down to earth type, lacking
the intense imagination necessary
for the full enjoyment of the type
of magazine that was stolen. And
then too, they learn quite a bit
about life even as children on the
farm.”
I suppose the less said about
“Panicky in the Streets” and Violin
Music Maestro, Pulease!” the bet
ter. The latter is a combination
of some of Joe Millers jokes and
enough Aggie slanguage thrown
together to make a fairly humor
ous reading.
The only serious bit of literature
in the magazine is Ray Holbrook’s
“A&M Track Forecast.” After a
pretty good run-down of all the
Aggie Thinclads chances, he sums
this timely article up with this bit
of information:
“And this may well be A&M’s
greatest track team, surpassing the
’48 team which won all but one
meet during the year.”
In a poem, “In Memoriam—to a
GPR,” Frank Sheffield also gives
Ag Majors a mention with these
astute lines.
“The Ag Boys study in another
way,
Collecting from the cow barns
every day
Samples off their hoots which
are not clay
Analyzing them for their exam.”
In cartoon form, Jack Brandt
proves that “Shock Troops Have
Fun,” and five cartoons are pre
sented in “Football in Cartoon Re
trospect.”
“The Doctor Makes a Self Anal
ysis,” by Ai’chie Anderson is a phi
losophical bit of writing about a
50-year-old doctor finding “how to
die properly.”
Pete Tumlinson, graduate of
many years ago, ami Alex Mun-
roe contribute several cartoons
apiece to add to the humor of
the magazine.
Munroe pays tribute to AH ma
jors in one of the cleverest car
toons in this issue.
Clipped jokes, apparently from
other college humor magazines and
humorous ads sprinkled through
out the book add to the general
enjoyment of reading it. *
The only overall criticism is that
good proof reader is badly needed.
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