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THE BATTALION
Thursday, March 29,1951
From the Women’s Desk
(Continued from Page 4)
(This reporter knows by experience!) So we cornered Aggieland ’51
Editor Roy Nance and found that the yearbook is progressing ac.cm'd-
ing to schedule. “We are ahead of where they were this time last
year,” Nance told us. He said that 50 per cent of the book will be in
the hands of publishers by April 15. . . . Also of importance toi
graduating seniors is the fact that they should make arrangements
now for delivery of next year’s annual to their permanent addresses.
For a twenty-five cent mailing fee—paid to the Student Activities
Office—the book will reach any door designated by the senior as soon
next year as it is off the presses.
0
A big credit to the A&M Architect Department conies in
the newly completed modern home of Patti and Hagie
Jones on Clarendon Drive in Dallas. Hagie, ’50, completely
designed their dream house and his father, a contractor,
aided in its construction. It was their Christmas present
to themselves. They moved in on Christmas Day. Archi-
tectural wives will remember Pat as being one of the or
ganizers ami first president, of the Architectural Wives
.Society. It was our good pleasure to spend a wonderful
Saturday evening last in their new home with other guests
and ex-Aggie couple, Helen and Calvin Hodge. ’50.
•
Another Dallas party of Aggie-exes featured guest of honor
Robert Payne, who was about to leave for the Air Force. His hosts
were Aggies Buddy Porter and Don Rogers. In attendance at the
party were exes Bill Billingsley, now of the San Angelo Standard
Times and Charles Kirkham, management engineer, now turned chicken
rancher in Cleburne.
•
NEW WEDDING RINGS . . . belong to Katheryn Abernathy and
Rex E. Chitwood, ’44. The Chitwoods were manned Sunday in
Leonard, will set up housekeeping in Big Spring. . . . Bettye Lou
Edwards and John A. Arnold, Jr., said their “I do’s” Friday in
Ferris. They are at home in Houston. . . . Aggie Joe Burdette was
best man in the weekend wedding of William Dunlap and Peggy Knight.
•
Don Rogers, A Sig senior, is planning a busy summer.
In June he will celebrate his graduation with a new job.
Then in July he’ll ask for time enough to make Harriet
Hilliard of Dallas his Mrs. Rogers. . . . The Houston Hobo
Hop during the Easter holidays was attended by some
200-strong
and a good time reported by' all of them.
Not in a long, long time have we had so much fun as at . Monday
night’s dinner and organization gathering of Mustang alumni in the
Bvyan-College Station area. Fun is always plentiful when “old grads”
get together to talk over the “good old days.” In attendance at
Monday’s MSG dinner were a number of people who are good Aggies,
the husbands of Mustang alums. Our own dinner partners were
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. McQuillan, she a former Mustang, and they the
parents of Judy McQuillan, recent Mustang grad. . . . Among the
association’s new officers is Thelma Elkins, employee of the library
and wife of Elmer Elkins, engineering major from Dallas.
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® FOR SALE •
MAN’S SUIT, size
weight gabardine.
' Medlin
30.
153
Grey, summer
Bizzell, J. T.
• FOR SALE OR RENT
BY OWNER, 2 bedroom home, excellent
condition, detached garage. Ideal for
couple or couple with one child. 110
Fidelity, West College Park. Phone
4-7906.
• USED CARS •
1940 FORD COUPE with radio and heat
er. Good tires, good condition. Rea
sonably priced. Contact Calvin Janak,
Rt. 4, Bryan, or Mrs. Janak at the
Student Activities Office.
• FOR RENT •
I.Ah.GE ftook, entering bath. 500 Main,
College. Phone 4-4819.
TWO-BEDROOM Unfurnished newly built
duplex, near College. Phone 2-5867.
• HELP WANTED •
STUDENT WIVES wanted for steady em
ployment in coffee shop and dining room.
Memorial Student Center. . Apply in
person to Mrs. Nowlin, Management Of
fice, MSC.
Prompt Radio Service
—Call—
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712 S. Main St.
Ph. 2-1941 Bryan
Dr. Carlton R. Lee
OPTOMETRIST
203 S. Main Street
Call 2-1662 for Appointment
SAFETY! L
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ECONOMY! J
SAFE-T-WAY TAXI
Phone 2-1400
HELP WANTED
Cut down those big cleaning bills
by wearing “T” shirts in your
spare time. We have a com
plete stock of “T” shirts in
either maroon or white. These
shirts have your Aggie Seal on
them and they are jvist the thing
to wear in your leisure time.
Just think, a few cleaning jobs
would buy several “T” shirts.
Come in today and stock up
now.
• MISCELLANEOUS •
TYPING—reasonable rates. Phone 3-1776.
• WANTED TO BUY •
USED CLOTHES and shoes, men’s —
women’s — and children’s. Curtains,
spreads, dishes, cheap furniture. 602
N. Main, Bryan, Texas.
• SPECIALS •
Fine Food—Favorite Beverages
Relaxing Atmosphere
All available, starting at 4 p.m. at
FLAMINGO LOUNGE
Four Blocks Back of Louis Mals Store
Off Hlway 6
Phone 6-1721
Local Expert Warns Engineers
Hysteria--Chief Atom Bomb Killer
Fear can mean disaster in an
A-bomb attack.
Lt. Commander Norman Rode,
USNR, made that warning yester
day to a meeting of the fourth an
nual Conference for Protective Re
lay Engineers on the Campus.
Rode assured those present, “You
can survive an atomic attack. And
with proper defensive measures,
casualties may be kept to a mini
mum.”
The commander of the Navy re
serve research unit here said,
“Most individuals who have worked
on the problem of atomic bomb at
tacks agree that the effect of mass
hysteria could be far more disas
trous to this country than the ef
fects of the bomb itself.”
A member of the Electrical En
gineering Department, Rode spent
two weeks in December at the Nu
clear Science Seminar at Oak
Ridge. His comments were part of
a paper pi’esented at yesterday’s
meeting entitled “The Impact of
Atomic Energy on the Electric
Utilities.”
Fire Hazard
“From the viewpoint of electric
utilities,” he said “we have definite
problems facing us. Perhaps the
most critical one is from the fire
hazard to our major cities.”
He emphasized that cities are
dependent upon electrical energy to
pump water. Few, he says, have
any provisions for emergency
standby in case of power failure.
Thus, a power failure would stop
a city’s water supply.
Speaking of new designs for out
door electrical stations, Rode re
viewed known facts about atomic
bomb shock waves.
Oscars Tonight
(Continued from Page 2)
race, please don't blame the fore
caster. He has been wrong be
fore. Principal winners of aca
demy awards through the years
are:
1949—Olivia De Havilland, The
Heiress, and Broderick Crawford,
All The King’s Men.
1948—Jane Wyman, Johnny Be
linda, and Laurence Oliver, Hamlet.
1947—Loretta Young, The Farm
er’s Daughter and Ronald Coleman,
A Double Life.
1946—Olivia De Haviland, To
Each His Own, and Fredric March,
The Best Years of our Life.
1945—Joan Crawford, Mildred
Pierce, and Ray Milland, The Lost
Weekend.
1944— Ingrid Bergman, Gas
Light, and Bing Crosby, Going My
Way.
1943—Jennifer Jones, Song of
Bernadette, and Paul Lukas, Watch
On The Rhine.
1942—Greer Garson, Mrs. Mini
ver, and James Cagney, Yankee
Doodle Dandy.
1941—Joan Fontaine, Suspicion,
and Gary Cooper, Sergeant York.
1940—Ginger Rogers, Kitty
Foyle, and James Stewart, The
Philadelphia Story.
1939—Vivien Leigh, Gone With
The Wind, and Robert Donai,
Goodbye, Mr. Chips.
1938—Bette Davis, Jezebel, and
Spencer Tracy, Boy’s Town.
1937—Luise Rainer, The Good
Earth, and Spencer Tracy, Captains
Courageous.
1936—Luise Rainer, The Great
Ziegfield, and Paul Muni, Pasteur.
1935—Bette Davis, Dangerous,
and Victor MacLeglen, The Inform
er.
1934—Claudette Colbert, It Hap
pened One Night, and Clark Gable,
It Happened One Night.
1932—Helen Hayes, Sin of Made-
Ion Claudet, and Frederic March,
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
1931—Marie Dressier, Min and
Bill, and Lionel Barrymore, A Free
Soul.
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“One of the characteristics of the
shock wave,” he said, is its long
duration and during the positive
phase the blast can engulf and flat
ten whole buildings.
“An examination of areas in
Japan affected by the atomic bomb
ing shows that small masonry
buildings were engulfed by the on
coming pressure and collapsed com
pletely.
“Light buildings and residences
were totally demolished by blast
and fire. Manufacturing buildings
of steel construction were denuded
of roofing and siding and only
twisted frames remained. Nearly
everything above ground at close
range, except reinforced, concreted
smoke stacks were destroyed.
“Telephone poles were snapped
off at ground level, gas holders
ruptured and collapsed, all vehicles
at close range were damaged by
blast and burned out and, most im
portant, all water pressure was
lost because of building collapse.”
Rode then compared pressure re
sistance of various structures.
Whereas test bridges will stand 20
lbs. per square inch and concrete
buildings about 28 lbs. per square
inch, frame houses can withstand
only five lbs. per square inch.
“But,” said Rodes, “wonder of
wonders take man. He by test is
capable of standing from 100 to 150
lbs, per square inch. Thus, in
spite of the bombing, any of the
human beings within areas close to
the bomb may be saved.”
The expert labeled radioactivity
only of secondary importance to
the danger of falling buildings,
flying debris and fire.
“At Hiroshima after the detona
tion of the bomb there developed
the phenomena known as the fire
storm. This consisted of a wind
blowing toward the burning area
from all directions, reaching a ve
locity of 30 to 40 miles per hour
about two to three hours after the
explosion, decreasing to moderate
and variable in direction about 6
horn’s later.”
The phenomena is dependent on
weather conditions, he added, ex
plaining that no such “storm” oc-
cured at Nagasaki. “At both Hiro
shima and Nagasaki, bums, ther
mal or flash accounted for more
than half of the fatal casualties
and probably three quarters of all
casualties.”
Rode warned, "Doctors who will
be need most will be among the
casualties due to atomic attack.”
This, he said, will cause a need for
facilities and personnel of nearby
towns and cities.
“It is imperative,” he said, “that
civil defense officials recognize the
necessity of instructing many peo
ple to give blood plasma and render
first aid for bums and body in
juries.”
Radiation Sickness
Speaking of radiation sickness,
Rode said that about 15 per cent
of those injured would suffer such
sickness. Emphasizing the body’s
ability to withstand such ill effects
he pointed out that “the bomb is
a blast weapon and not a radio
active bomb.”
He summarized the results of
the Japanese bombings as follows:
• Virtually complete destruct
ion will occur out to a radius of one
half mile from ground zero.
• Severe damage, defined as a
major structural damage that
would result in collapse or liability
to collapse will occur out to .a
radial distance slightly in excess
of one mile.
• Moderate damage—short of
major structural damage but suffi
cient to render structure unusable
until repaired out to about 15/8
miles giving an area of about 8
square miles thusly affected.
• Partial damage—plastic, win
dows, etc. to about 2 miles radius.
• Light damage—windows, etc.
to about 8 miles giving an area of
approximately 200 square miles
which will feel the effects in vary
ing degrees.
Health Report-
Shows Drop
In Diseases
College Station and Bryan doc
tors reported a decrease in com
municable diseases this week, ac
cording to the weekly report of
the Brazos County Health Unit.
Chickenpox, which headed last
week’s report, is still highest al
though it dropped to 31 cases. Col- ^
lege Station had 15 cases, while
Bryan had 30.
Second on the list is influenza,
also lower than last week’s 53 »
cases. Bryan had 29 cases and Col
lege Station was listed with nine.
Bryan doctors said one case of
pneumonia and another of tubercu-^
losis was diagnosed last week. Col
lege Station had neither of these
sicknesses reported.
Mumps and measles were listed
with seven and 25 cases respective- 4
ly. College Station had two people
with mumps and eight with mea
sles.
Under the heading of septic sore
throat, two cases from College
Station and six from Bryan were
reported. This heading is used
loosely, said Dr. David E. Brown,
director of the local health unit.
WINNERS OF THE ARVIN - DINEBA
CONTEST
(Announced last week but repeated for
the absentees)
1st prize, L. S. Paine; next 4 prizes: Mel
vin S. Brooks, Daniel Russell; Dixie South
ern; and Mrs. W. M. Dowell.
Let It Be Dinuba
SPECIALS FOR FRIDAY, SATURDAY & MONDAY
March 30 - 31, April 2
Vi Lb. Patties Meadowgold
Butter
each 37c
Check These Low Everyday Prices—
Pasteurized—All Brands
Milk qt. 24c
Homogenized—All Brands
Milk y 2 gal. 43c
1000 Sheet Facial Quality-
Toilet Tissue .
to*
-Fashion
. 2 rolls 25c
1 Lb. Boxes Sunshine
Krispy Crackers . . box 27e
Low Everyday Price—Quarter—Colored
Keyko Oleo Ih.
31c
Heinz Strained
Baby Foods ... 3 cans 26c
Regular Cans Heinz Condensed CREAM OF
Tomato Soup . . 2 cans 21 e
CRC Mountain Grown
Pinto Beans
lbs. 59e
No. 2Vi Cans Airmail—in Syrup
Halves Apricots . 2 cans 45c
Popular Brands
Cigarettes .
Carton Mrs. Tuckers
Shortening .
'/Z Gallon
Mellokreme
carton $1.86
. . 3 lbs. 93c
. . each 59c
Big No. 7 3/4 Size—Rio Grande—Salad Bowl
Stuffed Olives . . each 25c
In 1-Oz. Squares—Semi-Sweet—8-Oz. Bar
Dot Chocolate 35c
Chase and Sanborns Vacuum Pack
Coffee lb. 85c
Best Maid Sandwich Spread or
Salad Dressing . . . pt. 33c
Regular 1 Lb. Cans Armour’s DASH
Dog Food ... 3 cans 38c
No. *4 Cans Libby’s
Deviled Ham . . . each 15c
Crisco 3 lbs. 99c
2'/ 2 Cans Yellow Cling
Hunt’s Peaches
No. 303 Cans Libby’s
Fruit Cocktail .
Large Box
can 27c
cans
45c
Oxydol .
each 29c
• MARKET SPECIALS •
Jasmine Pure Pork
Sausage . . .
. 2 lb. roll 75c
Decker’s Tall Korn
Bacon ....
. . . 2 lbs. 99c
Loin End Cuts
Pork Chops .
.... lb. 55c
Small Cut
Ham Slices .
.... lb. 59c
Heart o’ Texas
Fryers ....
.... 11). 67c
Grade A A Veal or
Shoulder Steaks . . lb. 85c
SHOULDER
Roast lb. 79c
Stew Beef
Short Ribs
Brisket .
lb. 49c
lb. 39c
ARRIVING WEDNESDAY NOON
Fresh Fish - Shrimp
Oysters
• FRESH FRUITS & •
VEGETABLES
Clean, Crisp Bunches ARIZONA
Carrots 2 for I3c
VVax^d Louisiana
Yams . . .
3 lbs. 25c
150 Size Red DELICIOUS
Apples
doz. 43c
10 Lb. Bag No. 1 Idaho RUSSET
Potatoes each 49c
200 Size Florida
Oranges doz.
43c
ARIZONA
Cabbage
2 lbs. 23c
• FROZEN FOODS
Blue Water Ocean—1 Lb. Pkg.
Perch Fillets 49c
Honor Brand
Green Peas . . 2 pkgs. 49c
New Low Everyday Price—
6-Oz. Cans Snow Crop
Orange Juice . .
2 cans 43c
Honor Brand
Broccoli
pkg. 29c
Arvin or Dinuba? These are two towns of approximately
the same size in the San Joaquin Valley in California. A
study of the communities was made beginning in the sum
mer of 1944 by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, lay
buried two years because of political pressures, was finally
made public by the Senate Committee for Small Business.
The agricultural aspect of the
study, while predominant, is not
of direct local importance to us,
because this is not a farming
community. But the fact that
Dinuba, the far better town had
TWO INDEPENDENT BUSI
NESS ESTABLISHMENTS TO
EVERY ONE IN ARVIN was of
interest not only to the Small
Business Committee, but should
be of importance to all of us,
as well.
Recently, the thirteenth inde
pendent retail grocery passed
from the scene right here in
College Station, since our arri
val here some ten years ago.
Certainly this does not indicate
that a healthy business climate
exists locally for the small bus
inessman.
Yet, how very important it is
to all of us that our local busi
ness enterprises prosper and
multiply. Not alone as sources
of taxes without which our local
schools and city government
can never reach the peak of
service we expect of them, but
it is the prospering local businessman who may always be
looked to for support and frequently for inspiration for the
many little refinements that go to raise our community
from the commonplace to the exceptional.
Thus, in DINUBA, we see our Goal.
We might well be at the Crossroads. Fortunately, through
a comparative analysis of Arvin and Dinuba, we can see
clearly what lies at the end of the respective roads. Our
admonition: Try to spend your dollar at College Station
and an independent store FIRST.
ARE WE .
SCOLDING?
Not on your life. So
important do we con
sider this question
that we are not trust
ing to a simple state
ment that our business
was never better! We
have appeared before
Mrs. Florence Neeley,
a Notary Public, and
made this affidavit :
That our dollar vol
ume the first 12 weeks
of 1951 is greater than
in any similar 12
weeks in the history
of our store—in fact,
it is approximately
10 r / greater than the
average of the corres
ponding 12 weeks of
the other four best
years!
ARVIN
DINUBA
POPULATION . . .
6,300
7,800
TRIBUTARY TRADE
AREA (Approx.) . . .
70,000
acres
77,000
acres
RATIO OF NUMBER
OF PERSONS SUP
PORTED BY SAME
DOLLAR VOLUME
OF INCOME . . . .
5
6
RATIO OF INDEPEN
DENT BUSINESS
ESTABLISHMENTS .
1
2
BANKS
(none)
2
NEWSPAPERS . . .
1
2
SCHOOLS ....
One Grammar,
No High School
Four grammar,
one high school
LOCAL
GOVERNMENT . . .
County only
Incorporated,
self-governed
SERVICE AND COM
MERCIAL CLUBS . .
2
5
FRATERNAL AND
WOMEN’S CLUBS . .
(none)
7
CHURCHES . . .
6 (only 3
adequately
housed)
14 (Mostly sub
stantial and in
good condition)
HOUSING ....
Very poor.
Very few brick
or other perman
ent buildings
Modest but gen
erally adequate.
Lawns, trees,
etc.
PAVED STREETS . .
(none)
Almost none
unpaved.
SIDEWALKS ....
(none)
The general rule
YOUTH AND
JUVENILE
DELINQUENCY . . .
Fairly serious,
few recreational
opportunities
Almost nonexistent;
numerous recreation
al facilities.
(Chart from Public Affairs Pamphlet No. 100 and other sources)
SOUTHSIDE FOOD /MARKET
WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT QUANTITIES