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Number .117: Volume 51
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Proposed Church
This is (he artists conception of the A&M Meth- injf, now nearinjr completion will be tomorrow
odist Church’s chapel and Student Center. Cor- at 11 a.m. The ceremony was postponed last
nerstone laying ceremonies for the church build- month because of the inclement weather.
American Bull-fighter Seeks
Advice of AH Department
• Ry DAVE COSLETT
| When you want to find out some
thing- about animals—the domes-
Kicated kind—just check with the
AH Department at A&M.
gj That advice is on good authority,
Straight from the mouth of “The
Kid from Brooklyn.” The Kid
knows his animals, too. He’s been
matching- wits with ‘ the meanest
kind made for over 20 years.
The Kid is Sidney Franklin, the
only American bull-fighter. He
made a quick trip to A&M this
past week-end to seek a little
advice from James C. Miller,
Kiwanis Hear
Holman Speak
On Greatness
• “Freedom is not free,” Lu-
man W. Holman, governor of
“ the Texas-Oklahoma district
of Kiwanis International, told
members of the College Sta-
ij tion Kiwanis at their weekly meet-
ing in the MSC Assembly Room.
H Holman speaking on “The Essen-
g tials of a Great People,” broke the
If subject into three major divisions
m and then defined each division.
“Examination of a priceless past,
" knowledge of the true needs of to-
1 day’s world, and preparation for
I a successful life,” are the only
| ivays in which a person is able to
| ichieve greatness,” he said.
“A man is only worth what he
i has to give to his fellow men,”
I Ihe speaker said . in conclusion.
Guests from Navasota attended
| Ihe luncheon to hear Holman speak.
| Approximately 10 members of the
!; Navasota chapter attended the
l meeting and afterwards made a
. tour of the facilities of the MSC.
The group issued an invitation to
the local Kiwanis to visit Nava-
I sota at any time.
Two projects are currently re-
’ceiving backing from the local Ki
wanis. One is the chest X-rays be
ing sponsored by the Brazos Coun-
! ty Anti-Tuberculosis Association in
this area in April and the other
. is the residential postal delivery
service now pending action by the
U. S. Postal Department.
The speaker for next week will
.. be professor Fred J. Benson of the
Civil Engineering Department who
will speak on “Traffic Safety”.
head of the Animal Husbandry De
partment.
The advice, of course, wasn’t
concerned with bull-fighting. Dr.
Miller doesn’t quite qualify as an
expert in that line. But he did tell
Franklin quite a bit about select
breeding of animals.
The Brooklyn bull-fighter is
right now in the process of set
ting up a ranch outside of San
Antonio on which he intends to
raise and display the finest
breeds of the various domestic
animals found in this, country.
The ranch, Franklin hopes, would
make San Antonio a center for
South American visitors interest
ed in American breeds of cattle,
poultry, sheep, dogs or anything
else you could name.
His interest in the project was
aroused by his experience in the
bull-fighting profession. Every
matador entering an arena, he ex
plains, has to be an expert con
cerning that hunk of beef-steak
with which he hopes to tussle. He
must know every habit and pecul
iarity of the animal.
Franklin first became interest
ed in bull-fighting in 1923. A
real native of Brooklyn, he had
gone to Mexico City for a vaca
tion. He enjoyed the metropolis
so much that he set up a silk-
screen reproduction process bus
iness that lasted for about a
year.
The notion to try bluffing El
I-H Service Unit
Is Visiting Campus
An International Harvester mo
bile unit, designed to present the
latest factory-approved service
techniques was on the campus yes
terday afternoon and today.
The unit consists of an Interna
tional L-180 series truck and 32
ft. drop frame, enclosed semi
trailer especially equipped and
manned by instructors with exten
sive field and factory experience.
School on the entire Internation
al industrial power line will be pre
sented with the aid of cross-sec
tioned and working models of
crawler tractor transmission, final
driver, and diesel engines.
International Harvester presen-
tde a program to the student
branch of the American Society of
Agricultural Engineers, last night
in the Agricultural Engineering
lecture room. A film was shown
relating to the mobile unit.
WTAW Featured In March
Issue of The Commentator^
The March issue of the Com
mentator is off the press and be-
• ing mailed to subscribers.
Aggieland’s voice of culture, as
usual, ranges from the ridiculous to
the sublime, the humorous to the
more serious side.
n “A & M’s One and Only
WTAW” is featured in the new
issue. WTAW, had it’s start
through the efforts of the oper-
• ators of “ham station” 5YA, the
forerunner of WTAW.
“Ham station” 5YA broadcast
the first football game ever broad
cast in the world. The broadcast
was received in a Waco newspaper
office in November, 1922. The game
„was between—that’s right—Texas
A&M and Texas University. A&M
won the game by one touchdown,
14-7.
Fish Blotto, of many years ago,
and the joke page furnish the
usual humor for the magazine
while “The O. D„ His Brother’s
Keeper” and “Spring House
cleaning” furnish laughs aplenty.
“Pretty People,” featuring Miss
Lynne Lovingood, will supply a fav
orable change of scenery.
‘Korean Monologue,” “Easter
Sunday,” “A Campus Meditation”
and “Writers are Made, Not Born”
bring up the more serious side.
The Commentator takes a look
at the 1951 Baseball squad in this
issue. Leading prospects and pre
dictions as well as positions and
data on the players furnish a com
plete picture of the outlook for
the 1951 baseball aeason.
Toro came suddenly. According to
Franklin he took a two week in
doctrination period at bull-fighting
then spent four days on a ranch.
Thus prepared, he entered a
Mexico City arena for the first
time. “That Providence that looks
after drunkards and fools must
have been with me,” he says look
ing back on the incident. “It went
beautifully.”
But the episode convinced him
that his training had just begun.
He spent his next six months on
ranches studying the bulls in their
natural suiroundings.
He learned the fundamental
principle that, when he had once
done something with an animal,
he could do that same thing with
that same animal in one way or
another again.
Next came three years of ap
pearing around Mexico. This jaunt
taught him that two things held
him back in the profession. First
was professional jealousy. And sec
ond—“I found out I wasn’t as
good as I thought I was.”
So he began a study of animal
psychology then returned for four
Border fights before the left for
Spain in 1929. .
“It took months to get into the
ring in Seville,” he says. And he
quickly adds that it was worth all
the time. An appearance in that
ring spelled acceptance into the
bull-fighting world. No half-baked
matadors found a place on the Se
ville program.
This was my million-to-one
shot—and I made it.” After his
Seville success, the Kid had only
one big trouble—“No one would
believe that I was an American.”
Accepted as a bull-fighter,
Franklin claims that he still is
not unquestionably accepted as
an American.
Franklin, who some place among
the six top bull-fighters in the
world, introduced protective pad
ding for horses to Spanish practi
tioners of the sport. The padding
has reduced incidence of injury to
horses 100 to one.
Speaking of chances of human
injury in the sport, Franklin says
that it rarely occurs. “It’s not even
worth comparison with football.”
Law requires that all bull-fight
arenas have expert surgeons on
hand at all times.
The American matador quickly
resents any inference that bull
fighting is a cruel sport. “The ani
mal is doing only what he wants
to do at all times. He is never
goaded or infuriated.”
Franklin explains that the
secret to good bull-fighting is to
take the known qualities of the
bull and couple the performance
to those qualities. The degree of
expertness is measured by how
well a matador can judge the ac
tion of the bull.
The animal, which relies basicly
on sound to formulate its attack,
does not know fear, Franklin cau
tions. And the bull is always on
the offensive.
The Kid was a guest of Sam
Liberto, ManE major from San
Antonio during his week-end trip to
the campus. After returning to
San Antonio Franklin plans to
tour the country finding choice
breeds of stock. Before he leaves
for the bull-fighting season in
Spain, the Kid intends to take a
lecture tour through most of the
states.
Apparently Franklin doesn’t plan
to give up bull-fighting very soon.
Speaking about his age, the grey
ing matador says, “I’ve been 29 as
long as Jack Benny has been 39.”
He will admit, though, that he’s
a lot oldei 1 —especially in wisdom—
than he was when he first entered
that ring in Mexico City.
Gloom Driving Kids Invade
MSC for Birthday Singing
, Gloom was transformed into good spirit yesterday in
the MSC.
Students, profs, visitors—all were lounging comfortably,
but with looks on their faces that would make a clown cry.
Then entered 50 cheerful faces, accompanied by 50 chat
tering voices and 50 pairs of eager, glancing eyes.
The morning class from the Wee Aggieland Kinder
garten had arrived. They were there simply to wish two of
their classmates “happy birthdays.”
Soon the mood created by the waist-high brigade spread
over the MSC rooms, just as did the children. The gay group
of pre-school Kiddie Kadettes then started singing—“The
Marines’ Hymn,” “Spirit of Aggieland,” and, for their own
purposes, “Happy Birthday.”
The transformation was accomplished.
Vote of Confidence
Is Given Stiteler
Football Team
By
A&M’s football team last night ler’s resignation, A&M was con-
expressed keen regret that Harry
Stiteler had resigned as Aggie
football coach and gave its former
mentor a parting “vote of confi
dence.”
After the coach resigned Mon
day from a post he had held over
three years, the team asked a pub
lic acknowledgment of their re
spect and faith for “Harry.”
“Regardless of what the papers
may say,” said W. T. Rush, Walter
Hill, and Bob Smith, who were
spokesmen for the squad, “we be
lieve that whatever happened to
Mr. Stiteler was a personal mat
ter, and it should have remained
that.”
“Because of Harry”
“A lot of us boys came to A&M
in 1948, not because A&M had won
its football games, but simply be
cause of Harry Stiteler and his
character. He has never ceased to
set us that same example in the
years we have played and worked
for him.”
The 1948 freshman team now
comprises a large portion of the
1961 football squad. Prior to Stite-
RCA Scientist
Will Address
Science Meet
Noted scientists from the
Radio Corporation of America
and from the Oak Ridge Na
tional Laboratory will address
general sessions of the region
al meeting’ for Eastern Texas,
Texas Academy of Science, to be
held here April 6-7.
Dr. Liane B. Russell of Oak
Ridge, will give her talk on “Rad
iation as a Tool in Mammalian Em
bryology,” at a dinner for the sen
ior academy.
Dr. Raymond I. Miller of the
RCA, whose film and addi’ess,
“The Thinnest Section,” will show
how the electron microscope is
used in biological work. The other
RCA scientist, Dr. Cyril N. Hoyer,
will explain electronic computing
instruments.
Dr. C. C. Doak, head of the Bio
logy Department is president of
the TAS and W. Armstrong Price
of the Oceanography Department
is general chairman of the meet
ing.
Dr. Miller, Dr. Russell and Dr.
Hoyer are among a list of dis
tinguished scientists who will take
part in the meeting, which is a
part of the Arts and Sciences Week
at the college.
AF Plans Rotation
Of Overseas Men
Headquqarters, United States
Air Force, is planning to increase
the flow of Air Force personnel to
the Far East in order to resume ro
tation of Far East Air Force per
sonnel to the United States in May
1951.
These replacements will maintain
the combat strength of the Far
Eastern Air Force at its present
level.
Present plan calls for return dur
ing May of personnel previously
scheduled for rotation in July 1950.
A normal tour of duty in Japan is
30 months and varies throughout
the rest of the Far Eastern Air
Force.
Far Eastern Air Force will ro
tate personnel, exclusive of com
bat crews, in order of length of
foreign service on current tour.
Personnel on combat crews are and
the United States, in the specialty
fields required to provide U. S.
training establishments an newly^
activated units with a valuable lea
vening of individuals with recent
will continue to be handled as a
separate project.
Combat experienced crew person
nel are presently being returned to
sidered one of the top Southwest
Conference teams.
“Although we would have liked
to have Mr. Stiteler coach us this
fall,” they said, “he can’t, so we
will play the best football this fall
we possibly can. We will certainly
play to win.”
“We have only one wish and mo
tive in mind now—to let other peo
ple know that we have never ques
tioned Mi*. Stiteler and his motives
or character.”
Summer School Corps
Set-Up for Freshmen
There will be a oCrps of Cadets
for freshmen taking military Sci
ence this summer, W. L. Penber-
thy; dean of men, announced this
morning.
This announcement came a week
after the college decided to offer
one semester credit for the first
semester basic Military or Air Sci
ence during the two summer ses
sions.
Lt. Col. M. P. Bowden, who will
be the commandant during the
summer period, is now working out
details as to the organization of
the units and the assignment of
cadet officers for the units.
“It is to be emphasized that the
military traditions and high stan
dards heretofore expected,” Col
onel Bowden says, “of the Corps
of Cadets during the regular ses
sion will be demanded of this group
during the summer.”
Maintain Standards
“Only in this way,” he continued,
“can we maintain the national rep
utation and obligations of the
Corps.”
The plans now set out by the
Military Department call for 1 first
year basic Military and Air Sci
ence to be taught. Only by tak
ing this course for the entire sum
mer session the new freshmen will
get the one semester credit.
The summer cadets will attend
a one hour’ drill period on Monday,
Tuesday or Wednesday afternoons,
a two-hour’ drill period on Fridays,
and three hours of classroom in
struction per week.
This drill was set up, Colonel
Richardson Named New
President of Council
New officers of the College Sta- elected for a three year term as
' member of the board at-large.
Members of the board of direct
ors whose terms continue are. Mrs.
Jack Miller, Mrs. Fred Hale, W. G.
Breazeale, D. D. Burchard, Dowell,
Mrs. Lindsey, Raymond Rogers,
and Richardson.
The next monthly meeting is
scheduled for April 17, Richardson
said.
tion Recreation Council and new
board of director members were
elected at the regular monthly
meeting yesterday.
A budget request was presented
at the meeting held in C. G.
“Spike” White’s office in Goodwin
Hall. White is retiring president.
New Officers
New officers are L. S. Richard
son, president; W. M. Dowell, vice-
president; Mrs. J. D. Lindsey,
treasurer; and Mrs. Jack Miller,
secretary. Retiring officers are
White; Gordon Gay, vice-president;
Mrs. O. K. Smith, treasurer; and
Tad Moses, secretary.
The officers will serve one year
terms, and the new board of di
rector members will serve until
1954, Richardson added. New board
of director members are Ralph H.
Rogers, Kiwanis Club; Dr. George
Potter, Rotary Club; W. A. Boney,
Lion’s Club; Mrs. J. R. Couch,
Mothers and Dads’ Club; and Mar
ion Pugh, Chamber of Commerce.
At Large
Mrs/ Norman Anderson was
elected director at large for one
year to fill the place of Homer
Adams. Mrs. Walter Delaplane was
Officers Return
From 0RC School
Capt. Freddie A. Wolters, and
1st. Lt. Eminent Trant, Jr., Re
serve officers from College Station,
have returned from a one week
Armed Forces school at Ft. Knox,
Ky. Capt. M. B. Findlay, ORC
Unit instructor, announced today.
Captain Wolters is a student
from College Station majoring in
Ag. Ed., and Lieut. Trant, from
Bryan, is majoring in Arch.
Captain Wolters and Lieutenant
Trant are battery commanders of
Service and “C” batteries, respec
tively, of the Reserve 325nd Armor
ed Field Artillery Battalion located
in the Bryan-College Station area.
Captain Findlay stated the two
officers were selected to represent
their battalion to attend school at
Ft. Knox along with 50 other of
ficers from the Reserve 22nd Ar
mored Division, of which the local
battalion is a part.
TDNA to Discuss
Internee Program
Donald D. Burchard, head of the
Journalism Department and the
heads of other Journalism schools
of the state will meet Friday at
Temple with the newspaper pub
lishers of Texas to discuss the
Journalism Internship Program
sponsored by the Texas Daily
Newspaper Association.
The Journalism Internship Pro
gram is three years old this year.
Newspapers who belong to the
TDNA agree to take, an internee
for a 10 week period during the
summer, preferably between the
junior and senior year, to give
young people actual experience in
journalism.
Last year Aggies John Whitmore
and Jerry Zuber took advantage of
the program. Whitmore did news
work with the San Antonio Ex
press and Zuber did advertising
work with the Beaumont Enter
prise.
Bowden explained, to assist the ca
dets in attaining the military pro
ficiency needed for them to take
their place in the Corps of Cadets
next Fall.
Determination of just what
course of Military and Air Science
which will be offered will be de
termined by the enrollment in
June.
Howeer the Military Department
is planning to offer MS 121 and
AS 141 to all incoming freshmen.
It is also possible A MS 122 and
AS 142 will be offered to a limited
group.
Keep Up
Actual selection of what course
the men will take will be deter
mined by the desirability of keep
ing the phase of the student’s mili
tary Science courses and their ac
ademic courses.
Consideration must also be given
Dean Penberthy pointed out, to
maintain the military traditions of
mm
Great Issues
Class to Hear
Foreign Expert
William L. Shirer, noted
radio commentator and ex
pert on foreign affairs will
speak at the Great Issues lec
ture which will be held in the
MSC ballroom March 29 at 8 p.
m. His topic will be “Our struggle
for Survival.”
Born in Chicago in 1904, Shirer
attended Coe College at Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. Upon graduating, he
immediately worked his way abroad
on a cattle boat for the summer. He
stayed fifteen years.
From 1925 to 1932 he was Eu
ropean correspondent for the Chi
cago Tribune, and in 1934 became
chief of the Berlin Bureau for Uni
versal News Service. During the
next seven years he compiled his
notes which were later to become
the best-selling book Berlin Diary.
For his work as a commentator,
Shirer received one of radio’s high
est honors, the G'eorge Foster Pea
body award for “dutstahding inter
pretation of the news.” He also re
ceived the Wendell Wilkie One
World Award for outstanding
achievements in journalism.
the Corps of Cadets and to keep
the extra-curricular actviities of
the incoming student in phase and
coordinated with their academic
and ROTC instruction.
Under the proposed set up, the
two hour drill on Fridays will be
deoted initiall yto individual in
struction, but in the latter part of
the summer military ceremonies
will be held.
The offering of the regular RO
TC program will provide an oppor
tunity for this year’s high school
graduate to take advantage of this
summer to accelerate entrance into
their college careers.
“This,” Colonel Bowden says,”
is especially desirable during the
current national emergency in
which there is so much uncertain
ty as to the ability of many young
men to complete their college edu
cation before being called into
service.” j
Draft Question
As of this morning the Military
Department has not been able to
determine just what status the
newly-enrolled Summer School ca
dets will have during the summer
with- the draft boards.
It is believed that their early
entrance into military training will
probably be concrete evidence of
their desire to obtain that military
training which fits them to be of
ficers and thus carry out the spir
it of Selective Service for ROTO
cadets, which provides deferments
to ROTC students entirely on the
basis of their future use as officers
of the Armed Forces.
Bones" to Be
Head Coach
—Gallagher
We’re off to the races!
Speculation over the successor
to Harry Stiteler as A&M’s head
football coach has begun with a
bang. Ex-students have started
pouring in suggestions and every
one has a favorite for the mentor
spot.
Jack Gallagher, sports columnist
of The Houston Post, got the jump
on other state writers this morn
ing when he predicted Barlow
“Bones” Irvin would be named.
Gallagher wrote that confirma
tion of Irvin’s appointment will be
made next week when D. W. Wil
liams, chairman of the Athletic
Council, returns from a trip to
New Zealand.
College officials reaffirmed to
day a previous statement that no
action could be initiated until AVil-
liams returns, probably Sunday,
Then the search begins.
Gallagher’s candidate, Irvin, is
athletic director for A&M. He was
out of town last night and no com
ment has been received from him
today.
High School Graduates
May Pick Army School
All men who have completed
high school may select any of 23
Army Technical Schools before
enlistment and if the application is
appi’oved by the school, the enlistee
is guaranteed assignment to that,
school after completing basic
training. This is available only to
volunteers.
Saddle and Sirloin
Sponsors Contest
“The Fertility Contribution of
Livestock” is the topic for the
1951 Medal Essay Contest spon
sored by the Saddle and Sirloin
Club of the Union Stock Yards,
Chicago.
The contest is offered by the
A&M branch of the club to all stu
dents enrolled in the school of
agriculture.
Suitable prizes will be offei’ed
for the top three essays submitted
at A&M, and all essays showing
promise will be entered in the na
tional contest.
The object of the contest is to
promote the livestock industry
said John Moffitt, faculty advisor
for the contest.
Only Employee 20 Years Ago
Howard Berry Responsible
For A&M’s Photo Service
From a job which required only Visual Aids Laboratory, was grad- the headquarters at College Sta-
one man in 1931, photographic ser- uated from Mississippi State Col- tion.
vice at A&M has expanded until lege with a degree in entomology. Now, in addition to regular
a staff of seven persons are now But his interest in photography photography, the laboratory’s ser-
employed. And this expansion has started long before he came to vices include lithographic and phot-
resulted from te efforts of that A&M. He took pictures of campus ostat work, ozalid printing, illus-
one man employed 20 years ago. scenes at Mississippi State and trating and projection services.
Howard Berry, director of the sold them to other students to help Berry also teaches a course in
pay his expenses through school, audio-visual methods of teaching
He came to A&M when he for the Department of Education
heard that the Texas Agricultur- and Psychology,
al Experiment Station was look- Last year, the laboratory printed
ing for a photographer with a 49,618 pictures from 11, 510 photo
college background. graphic negatives. These pictures
As the Experiment Station’s were used to illustrate annual re
photographer, Berry’s job con- ports, technical and popular bulle-
sisted only of photography. He took tins, student publications and ex
pictures and developed and printed hibits of A&M at the State Fair,
them. It also developed 1,576 sheets
About five years after he came of film and 285 film packs that
on the job, Berry began doing were taken by person's not on the
photographic work for other parts laboratory staff,
of the college in addition to the The laboratory turned out 8,432
Experiment Station work. photostats, 9,178 ozalid prints and
As the laboratory increased its 1,813 offset plates—in addition to
service, the staff was increased. It numerous hand illustrations, pro-
was moved in 1947 from the Ex- jection services and projector re-
periment Station building to its pair work.
present location in the basement of In addition to Berry, the present
the Administration Building and staff members are Charles Ge-
placed under the supervision of the bauer, technician; Eugene Sutphen,
college. lithographer; Don Thurmond,
When the System was set up in photographer; Mrs. Alice Brock-
1948, the laboratory became a smith, laboratory assistant; Miss
System sendee. However, its ser- Martha Jane Koneony, illustrator,
vices are confined primarily to and Mrs, Jerry Rutledge, secretary.
Howard Berry