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COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, JUNE 29,1951
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Extension Meetings
End With Afternoon
Conference Today
The annual Extension Agents
■Conference ended this afternoon
■ after an address by H. C. Sanders,
Mi director of the Agriculture Exten-
f| sion Service at Louisiana State
■ University.
Attended by state extension
■ agents, the conference began
■ Thursday morning with the first
B address given by H. H. Williamson,
H retired director, Extension Ser-
^sistice, U.S. Department of Agricul-
Wir*re.
“Greatest in Nation”
“The Texas Extension Service
Ip is the greatest in the nation,” Wil-
■ liamson declared, adding, “its
greatest achievement is the foster-
p ing of the 4-H Club movement.”
pi Williamson served with the Ex-
r tension Service at A&M from 1911
■ until 1943.
Other speakers which the confer-
H ence member's heard were Dr. 0. B.
|4 Jesness, head of the Department
ll of Agricultural Economics at the
H University of Minnesota; Judge
h Otha Dent, who is president of
R: the County Judges and Commis-
|f sioners Association; G. G. Gibson,
if director of the Texas Extension
g Service at A&M.
During the conference, county
I’ agents saw exhibits of services
K available to County Extension
H Agents in Duncan Hall. These ex-
I: hibits were set up to enable the
I county agents to be better able to
help the man on the farm.
Jolly Elected President
A. B. Jolly, Dallas County, was
I sleeted president of the Texas Agri-
i culture Agents Association. Other
I officers elected were E. B. Em-
» mons, vice-president; and Bred-
I Iheur was re-elected secretary.
Emphasizing the importance of
keeping Extension close to farm
people, Williamson said, “Thei’e is
no other group of public servants
closer to the farm families then the
county Extension agents who might
well be called ambassadors to rural
America.”
The development of better public
relations was stressed by both
Williamson and Sanders in their
speeches.
“There should be three basic
planks in our platform on public
relations,” Sanders said:
• We want everybody to come
to realize that agriculture is a
great basic industry and that on
its perpetuation depends the fu
ture of ouv democracy.
• We want to convince the pub
lic that it is to its best interest
that agriculture be served by an
Extension type organization, es
tablished and operated in keeping
with the principles of government
which enabled us to become a great
nation.
• We need to convince the pub
lic that this organization of which
we are a part is efficiently and ef
fectively doing its job, and that
all segments of our economy have
a vital stake in its operation.”
Board of Directors
To Meet Saturday
The June meeting of the board
of directors of the A&M System,
will be at 9 a.m. Saturday, at
the college.
The 1951-52 budgets and the
annual report of Pres. M. T. Har
rington of A&M, ai’e the principal
items on the agenda.
Fort Hood ROTC
Men Total 2,000
I
Fort Hood, Tex.—(Spl)—Nearly
1,000 college cadets from ten states
and Puerto Rico began a six-week
Reserve Officer Training Corps
Summer camp here yesterday.
The cadets, most of whom will be
commissioned as second lieutenants
at the end of their college careers,
heard Brigadier General Bruce C.
Clarke,;, commander of the First
Armored Division and Fort Hood,
tell them that the enlisted men of
his command “demand good lead
ership.”
“Can’t Fool Men”
“You can’t fool or bluff them,”
le continued. “You can’t do any
thing to them. On the other hand,
they respond enthusiastically to
good leadership.”
General Clarke spoke to the
cadets in one of Fort Hood’s thea
ters, then began the six-week con
centrated laboratory course on mil
itary science and tactics.
Under the command of Col. H. L.
Boatner, professor of military
science and tactics at A&M, the
cadets will attend lectures, engage
in military operations and simu-
.^.lated tactical problems and watch
Infield demonstrations by regular
T troops of the First Armored.
Classroom Knowledge Tested
They will learn the technical op
eration, maintenance, firing and
tactical use of the Army’s wide
range of hand weapons. From now
until July 27 they will put to the
test the three and four years of
classroom instruction they have re
ceived.
Instructors for the course are
largely officers and non-commis
sioned officers of the ROTC groups
at the institutions represented by
the cadets.
On Saturday, July 14, the entire
First Armored Division will march
in review for the cadets and on
July 27, the final day of the course,
a formal closing ceremony will be
held.
Of the present group of students,
161 are from Puerto Rico. The re
mainder come from 20 educational
institutions spread over 10 states;
the fatherest, North Carolina, the
nearest, Texas,
The other states represented are
as follows: Arizona, Oklahoma, Ar
kansas, New Mexico, Alabama,
Kansas, Mississippi, and Wyoming.
Song Comes True; Clock
Stops When Caretaker Dies
Long Beach, Calif., June 29—(iP)“. . . . but it stopped
short—never to run again, when the old man died.”
These words from a familiar song yesterday were much
in the minds of citizens who, for 44 years, have set their
watches and gauged their daily lives by the big four-faced
clock in the tower of a downtown office building.
Charles E. Hilkey was one of the crewmen who installed
the clock, back in 1907. He was assigned to be its keeper.
Thereafter Hilkey climbed the steps to the roof twice
each week to wind the mechanism by hauling on long cables
attached to a drum.
“It will run five and a half days,” he often said, “but 1 | ;
wind it twice a week just to make sure.
Hilkey, 70, left Saturday, after assuring himself the M
clock was in good shape. Sunday night a small piece of metal |
jammed in the cogs, stopping the clock shortly before 9:30.
At almost the same hour and minute, Hilkey was taken
ill and died a few hours later.
Shivers Signs New Election Law
To ‘Safeguard Purity’ at Polls
Snyder Asks Senate
To Boost Tax Bill
Washington, June 29—(A*)—Sec
retary of the Treasury Snyder
asked the Senate yesterday to
boost the House-appi'oved $7,200,-
000,000 tax bill by at least $3,000,-
000,000. This would, among other
things, raise everybody’s income
tax even more than the House bill
provides.
Members of the Senate Finance
Committee, looked coldly on Sny
der’s request.
Senator Byrd (D-Va) said the
new taxes voted by the House
should be lowered, not increased.
He expressed belief that $4,600,-
000,000 would be enough if the ad
ministration yould practice econo
my.
No Future Program
With the Korean war one year
old, Taft declared, the administra
tion still hasn’t come up with a
program looking at least three
years ahead.
“How much money are we going
to spend ? How many more tax bills
are we going to have?” Taft said.
The bill passed by the House is
the third new tax measure since
war broke out in Korea. Snyder
didn’t say how many more there
may be. But he did give a new
estimate of government spending
in the next fiscal year—$68,400,-
000,000. President Truman estimat
ed last January it would reach
$71,600,000,000.
Snyder was the first witness
heard by the Senate group as it
began a possible six weeks of
hearings on tax legislation. Lead
ers have indicated they want to
make a close study of government
spending befox-e voting new levies.
The secretaxy said the tax in
crease voted by the House would
leave the government in the red
Swing Your Partner
Popi
Margaret Sees
ie; Chats
About Her Trip
Rome, June 29—(#*)—Mar
garet Truman chatted with
Pope Pius XII about her
European vacation trip yes
terday.
It was the first meeting in his
tory between a daughter of a Uni
ted States pi’esident and a Pon
tiff of the Roman Catholic Church.
“He asked me how I liked Italy
and then we just talked about my
trip,” Miss Truman said.
Asked if she knelt before the
Pope, Miss Truman diplomatically
replied: “Frankly, I don’t remem
ber. Whatever I did was the prop
er thing, I hope.”
President Truman is a Baptist;
Mrs. Truman and Margaret are
Episcopalians.
Miss Truman was veiled and
wearing the traditional black for
the private audience.
and would add to the pressure of
inflation.
He said most of the exti’a $3,-
000,000,000 he asked should come
fi’om income taxes and excise
(sales) taxes.
In addition to the 12(4 per cent
increase in individual income taxes
voted by the House, Snyder pro
posed a x'ise of one per centage
point. This would take an addi
tional $1 of each $100 in taxable
income.
As for excise taxes, Snyder said
tax rates should be raised on
liquox*, tobacco and “a number of
consumer dui’able goods.” He men
tioned television and radio sets
and various electrical appliances
as items on which taxes could be
x'aised. The present tax on such
appliances is six percent.
♦ Austin, June 29—UP)—Texas politicians will operate un
der a new set of rules next year.
Gov. Shivers signed the mammoth election-law recodifi
cation bill yesterday. It becomes effective Jan. 1, 1952.
The purpose is stated in the first article of the bill, which
says:
“The aim in adopting this code is to state in plain lan
guage the laws governing the nomination and election of
officers and of holding other elections, to simplify, clarify
and harmonize the existing laws in regard to parties, suf
frage, nominations, and elections, and to safeguard the pur
ity of the ballot-box against error, fraud, mistake and cor
ruption, to the end that the will of the people shall prevail
and that true democracy shall not perish from the Lone Star
state.”
While the Governor endox’sed the
original bill with its xxxore than 100
changes, he hesitated until the last
minute before signing the much-
amended final version.
He said his approval hinged on
whether he thought the good out
weighed the bad.
Crack Down on Fraud
Receiving a special state-wide recognition award for outstanding
work with 4-H Club boys and girls is Mrs. B. M. Harris of Plain-
view. G. G. Gibson, director of the Extension Service is presenting
the award. Mrs. Harris was recognized for the work done in
Hale county and as chairman of the State 4-H Committee of Texas
Home Demonstration Association. She is the mother of two 4-H
members, Patsy and Jack.
Military Training in Texas
Centers Booming Once More
Square-dancing is still quite a hit in College Station as these two
enthusiasts can prove. The Grove is the scene of a weekly square-
dance party on Saturday nights for all students and local girls.
By Associated Press
Texas is booming again as a
militaxy training center. But the
accent today is on brains, not
brawn.
A decade ago, a plaintive chant
from foot-sore GI’s echoed over
the state’s hot, sandy plains and
dusty hills in Woxld War II.
“Left, left . . . you had a good
home but you left . . . left.”
It swelled from plodding thou
sands at the giant infantry train
ing centers at Camp Bowie,
Bxownwood; Wolters, Mineral
Wells; Maxey, Paris; Bliss, El
Paso; Swift, Bastrop; Hood, Bel
ton ; and from a dozen lesser
posts and scores of air fields.
The accent then was on the guy
with the gun.
Today—five years after these
soldier incubators shut down or
went on reduced operations—Texas
is bustling as a militaxy training
center.
But the training isn’t for the
I'ifleman, machine gunner-, or tank
destroyer.
And the state isn’t sending thou
sands of fledging flyers hopscotch-
ing over its vast area.
The men in training now are
jet mechanics, engineers, anti-air
craft gunners, and techxxicians.
There is still some flying
training—and still some infantry.
But compared to the 15 camps
and 40 air fields that operated in
the state in World War II, it’s
practically nil.,
But the soldiers you see in Texas
now, for the most part, are trained
technicians, or they ax-e training
technicians.
Sheppard Air Force Base at
Wichita Falls is on a round-the
clock schedule for px-oducing aix - -
plane mechanics.
Amax-illo Air Foixe Base expects
to have 60,000 future jet mechanics
by the first of next year.
Wolters Air Force Base has
been named headquarters for the
Air Force engineers, and the men
in blue at Mineral Wells are
learning how to build bases—and
defend them.
The Army’s intricrate anti-aix--
craft guns are getting operators
at Fort Bliss, where training is
highly specialized.
Fort Hood, home of the tank-
destroyer in World War Two, now
houses the First Ai'mox-ed Division,
one of the few regular army divi
sion in the nation. The Second Ar
mored has been ordered to Eu-
x'opc.
At Fort Worth, Carswell Air
Force Base is headquartex-s fox' the
atomic bomb carrier—the B-36
bomber.
Ellington Air Force Base ixx
Houston is turning out navigators
for the Air Force.
There are a few flying train
ing centers: Connally Air Force
Base at Waco; Goodfellow Air
Foixe Base at San Angelo; Ran
dolph Air Force Base at San
Antonio; the Corpus Christi Nav
al Air Station; Perrin Air Force
Base between Denison and Sher
man; San Marcos Air Force Base
for helicopter training. Big
Spring Air Force base will soon
be added.
And Waco has been designated
home for the Air Force’s new fly
ing training command.
But these aren’t turning out fly
ers, bombadiers, and navigatox-s on
the mass production basis of World
War II.
Draft Testing
Scheduled In
MSC Saturday
Selective Service draft qual
ification tests will be given
Saturday in the Ballroom of
the MSC, announced Dr. Rob
ert Jacobs, examiner for the
A&M testing center.
The tests will be the last to be
adxxxinistered under the x*egular
schedule set by the selective sex-v
ice for college students. The tests
are given so that local draft boards
may determine whether or not a
potential draftee is qualified to
finish college work before being-
drafted.
Ninty-one students, are sched
uled to take the tests which will
begin at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Dr.
Jacobs said. Only those mexx who
have assignment cax-ds for the
June 30 test will be admitted to
the room.
Fingerprints will be taken as a
xxxeans of securing proof of iden
tification of the person taking the
examination, he said.
“Many freshman who have just
graduated from high school are in
quiring about their chances of tak
ing the test,” Dx-. Jacobs said. “Al
though I am not certain of this,
there is a possibility that the ex
aminations will be given again
next Spring so as to include all
May high school graduates.”
Assisting Dr. Jacobs in giving
the test will be Dr. Walter Varvel
of the Education and Psychology
Department and Dx*. Albert Kings
ton, director of i-exxxedial reading,
Basic Division.
The examiner said the test had
originally been scheduled for Sbisa
Hall.
To help the state crack down on
election fraud, the statute empow
ers the Attorney General to inves
tigate elections, impound records
and prosecute if he believes a vi
olation exists.
The Attorney General can exer
cise this prerogative only if the
election involves two or mox-e coun
ties.
He may prosecute fraud in either
the home county or an adjoining
county, and in statewide races or
one involving a national office.
To prevent possible attempts to
influence voters on election day,
the new law sets up a $1,000 fine
for anyone making a prematui-e an
nouncement of returns or giving
out information before the polls
close concex-ning which candidate
is leading or trailing ixx his pre
cinct. M
Quicker Election Returns
Election returns must be report
ed more rapidly. The election judge
is given 60 hours after the polls
close to forward written retruns
to the county judge, who must re
port to the secretary of state with
in 48 hours after the results of
general and special elections are
canvassed.
The secretary of state can send a
special messenger to secure returns
at the county’s expense if they are
not filed in Austin within 10 days.
New rules on party procedure
are established.
One permits cross-filing of a
candidate under more than on*
political party. The other allows
any qualified voter to take part in
a party convention.
Opponents said these rules will
deal the Democratic party a body
blow by wiping out party lines and
by allowing Republicans, Dixiecrats
or anyone else to take over Dem
ocratic conventions.
‘He Jests the Scar’
Who IN’er Hath Shaved
‘The Razor’s Edge’—Or Why Males
Like Mirrors Less than Women Do
Ray Elected YMCA
Conference Officer
C. L. Ray, Jr. was recently elect
ed co-chairman of the regional
conference of the YMCA, at the
annual meeting held at Camp Par-
thenia, Okla.
Ray is president of the college
“Y”, and is also co-chaix-man of
the regional council.
At the Grove
Tonight
Dancing, Music by the Aggieland
Combo—8 p. m.
By DAVE COSLETT
Battalion News Staff
There comes a time in evex-y
man’s life—usually once a day—
when he must stand before a mir-
ror and contemplate the face he
sees.
Not for the sake of vanity, nor
to find some ixxysterious innerself
there reflected does he perform
this regular task. Far wox-se, in
deed, he must shave.
It’s about time someone paid at-
tentioxx to this male x-itual—at least
that’s what AP columnist Hal
Boyle seems to think. This Pulitz
er prize winner (he didn’t win the
prize for this particular undertak
ing) x-ecexxtly investigated the top
ic in one of his daily columns.
I would like to add a bit to
Mr. Boyle’s commentary. I do
not claim to be an expert on the
subject since I was not blessed—
or cursed—with what is known
as a “heavy” beard. I can skip
the daily ritual every now and
then and no one but me and my
dog, who has a penchant for lick
ing my face, will be the wisex-.
To the subject, though.
Mi-. Boyle sought out an expert
for his information. And this ex
pert, one Otto Kraus who is the
top official in the Personna and
Pal blade companies, declares that
most men don’t know how to shave.
To make this criticism constimc-
tive, Kraus points out various mis
takes and tells how to overcome
them. His formula boils down to
this:
• Wash your face first “to get
oil and dirt out of the skin so the
beard stands out.
• Use at least 150 strokes—
there’s no glory in under-par shav
ing.
• Keep looking in the mirx-or,
not at a convenient pin-up picture.
Our expex't has a formula fox-
women, too. It’s simply 1) use
your own razor and 2) shave wet,
not dry.
are varied with lighter ones hold
ing precedence over luxuriant
growths. Those with twirled and
waxed tip ends are rare hold
overs from the last cenutry or
else part of the stock in trade
of a professional stage villain.
The uses are innumerable, too.
They provide something with which
As for the women, we won’t nervous men can fidget, a good
comment. But on the more fanxil- balance for bushy eye-brows, won-
iar male aspects of shaving arise derful distraction fi'om over-sized
many random thoughts.
In the first place, why shave?
It has been suggested that men
are given beai'ds to assure the
fact that they wash their face at
least once each day. This, how
ever, would cast aspersions on our however-, shows that they are an adam’s apples and lips are qspec-
noses and, to men young in face,
a sign of maturity.
Some would say they make a
man look distinguished and let it
go at that.
Some men vouch for the electric
razors maintaining that, “after you
get used to it, it’s wonderful.” It
does have the decided advantage of
chewing your face away in dainty
chunks.
As for the act of shaving,
grimaces are an absolute neces
sity. A careful scrutiny of a
man shaving is always good for
a laugh except to the man doing
the shaving. He dast not survey
his face en toto lest he part with
a surplus of epidermis.
Humming is the appx-oved diver
sion for the shavex - . And singing
and talking can be done in the
A close suiwey of mustaches, cheek and chin phases. Since
beaxded brethren.
Our ancestors quite often ne
glected the habit. In Shakes
peare’s day, for instance, the
Bard of Avon tended to look on
a “fresh reaped” face as a male
oddity. Even today, the beard
is reserved to only certain mem-
bexs of society. A lumberjack,
for instance, is permitted one,
supposedly on the grounds that
it helps to keep his face warm
during cold northern winters.
Elderly gentlemen, too, quite oft
en sport an enviable set of whis
kers. Young men with beards,
however, are considered in one of
three categories — fresh off the
adox-nment limited to only certain ially vulnerable, though, more care
types of men—those who can grow is called fox' during neck and mouth
them and those who have the face operations.
to accommodate them. Certain accompanying features
And every mustache-weai'er de- are usually pi'esent at the scene,
serves inspect merely on the Someone invariably wants some-
grounds that he has undergone the thing fi'om the medicine cabinet
ridicule always connected with the behind the mirror. Extremely dex-
infant styles of mustaches. terous shavers seldom let this slow
A scientific survey, inciden- them down—and they have the
tally, recently indicated a very
important fact about mustaches:
they axe germ carriers. Most
women confronted with this
charge, however, still seem to
show a definite preference for
kissing the lads so adorned—
“they tickle.”
scars to px'ove it.
And the shaver can usually
expect to find the water either
scalding or ice-cold. The former
is preferable since the first ap
plication of the razor numbs the
skin to further pain.
The final touch is the after-shav
ing applications. Fix-st comes
something to stop the blood. Next
. Accepting the fact that we must
front lines, extremely distinguished shave even if we wear a mus-
or just too lazy to shave._ tache, we move now to the science comes a patented preparation guar-
Exclxxding these exceptions, most itself. Px-erequisites are shaving anteed to bum worse than the
people in our own country consider cream, razor, mirror and band aids, scalding water. The prepax-ation
the beard outmoded. The mustache, j n absence of the first two items, has to burn, of course, to heighten
however, is another thing entii'ely. a roommate will suffice. the sense of coolness once the
The “cookie-duster” holds a The shaving cream can be either burning qualities have ebbed,
slight bit more popularity than full lather or brushless. Expex-ts say At least a man can draw one
facial adox-nment. In fact, any boy they ai'e of equal quality. Of the consolation from the ritual. He
• Keep the shaving cream wet. reaching the age of 20 who has razors available, the straight-edge
• Use an oblique stroke, not not tried at least once to x-aise a is considered vastly superior. In
a hox-izontal one. mustache has missed part of grow- view of most men’s ability with
• Pull the skin in the opposite ing up. this weapon, though, the safety
direction of your shaving stroke. Styles and classes of mustaches razor is generally recommended.
would have to be brave to do some
thing like that daily. Yet it’s
hard to explain why all the proph
ets, supposedly the wisest of men,
wox-e beax-ds.