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The Last Word
Miss Elinor Walker
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Miss Walker,
Jack Simpson
Set Wedding
Miss Elinor Walker of Grand
Junction, Colo., daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Walker, is the
bride-to-be of John A. Simpson.
Nuptials will be read on Sept.
4 with Jack Rice, business admin
istration major from Dallas, acting
as best man.
The bride-to-be attended South
ern Methodist University, where
she was working toward a degree
in education. She also attended the
University of Colorado.
Simpson was captain of the 1951
SWC Track Champions and was
also the Southwest’s top pole vault-
er. The A & M student is also a
resident of Grand Junction.
The couple intends to spend a
few days in Glenwood Springs,
Colo, before returning to College
Station where they will reside un
til Jack graduates in January. He
is majoring in business adminis
tration.
Ray Holbrook, T. K. Burk, both
of A&M, and Jack’s brother, Ned
Simpson, will act as ushers at the
wedding.
Businessmen Hear
OPS Price Clinic
A price clinic was held at the
Chamber of Commerce offices in
the Varisco Building, Bryan from
9 a. m. until noon today in an
effort to aid businessmen of South
west Texas in complying with price
regulations.
Price Specialists L. L. S. Sims
and Edwin Phillips conducted the
clinic and answered questions from
businessmen about OPS regula
tions.
For intellectual fun—Post Grad
uation Studies.
You Can t Miss
The ‘Shipwreck’
Spectacle Friday
By PAT MORLEY
Battalion Women’s Editor
D O YOU have eight arms? If so, you’ll be a sensation at
the “Shipwreck” Dance Friday night! We haven’t heard
of anyone else planning to dress like an octopus! You say
you don’t have eight arms? Well, don’t be discouraged; get
into an over-sized box, and masquerade as Davey Jones’ Lock
er!
Five lusty pirates, jazz men of “The Cutthroat Combo,”
will keep the star-lit evening filled with music until eleven.
“Peg Leg” Pete Carson will set the stage; Frank “Black
Jack” Manitzas will be Master of Ceremonies, and five dis
tinguished judges will perambulate through the audience,
looking for the most unique costumes. “Spike” White, as-
activities insists that any brib
ery of the judges will not be tolerated!
Ladies of the Court are Mrs. Donald Burchard and Mrs.
Ann Hilliard. Tom Rountree.will help judge, and has been
asked to keep an eye on the remaining judges, President
“Crossbones” Harrington, and Dean “Ferocious” French, to
see that justice is done.
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The Veteran’s Wives Bridge Club wishes to enlarge its Thursday
night attendance, and Club President Jewell Marshall urges any vet
erans’ wives interested in the game to join the weekly meetings at the
first of the next semester. Non-brndge players are invited, as local
bridge experts have graciously consented to teach the game to classes
of interested beginners. The meetings will be held at 7:30 each Thurs
day evening at the MSC.
Seven happy children had a high wind blow ice cream in their
faces at a July 21st birthday party at College View. It seems that
they did not mind the wind at all, but we cannot vouch for the happiness
of seven mothers, when the party was over! The mint green cake
with yellow camels, lions, and elephants was undisturbed by the wind,
but suffered complete destruction by little Bonnie and Susie Rober,
Joeleen Maddux, Tommy Horton, Chris Cook, Jim Hurst, and the.
guest of honor, Robbie Robbins. Robbie was celebrating his sixth
birthday.
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Frances and Frank Stuart are leaving Aggieland next
Tuesday with a degree in Electrical Engineering. Frances
has worked in the Office of Campus Security since Sep
tember, 1949, and her husband spent three years overseas
in the Air Corns before coming to A&M. They will go to
Dallas, where Frank will work with the Dallas Power and
Light Company. Though they have enjoyed living here,
both Frances and Frank are “ready to leave”, and are look
ing forward with pleasure to living in Dallas, again.
Curt Castleberry. June Ag. Ed. graduate, has moved
his family to Burkville (close to the Louisiana border)
where Curt will teach agriculture. His wife, Vivian,
former Battalion Women’s Editor, is already looking over
the newspaper situation in Newton county, as might be
expected. Young daughter, Carol, is as thrilled as her
parents, as they are going to live in a “real house, with
a yard.” (‘Bye, bye, College Views).
Popular bride-to-be Betty Pot
ter was guest of honor at a tea
from 5 till 7 yesterday afternoon
in the home of Mrs. Gibb Gilchrist.
Mrs. Frank Anderson was co-hos
tess with Mrs. Gilchrist. Betty
will marry Errol D. Fi’y at the
First Baptist Church of Bryan,
Sept. 8.
Richard N. Clark, Aggie senior
student, made Frances Robinson of
Fort Worth his bride at the Poly-
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tent Activities office by 10 a.m. on the
lay before publication.
• FOR SALE •
t)NE LOTT “ROTO” photographic print
dryer. Sealed Bids wil Ibe received
until 9:00 A. M. Monday, Aug. 20,
1951. Inspection of the equipment and
bid forms may be obtained at the Texas
Forest Service. Room 345, Administra
tion Building.
LATE MODEL
Phone 6-2512.
Wringer-type Maytag.
100 BY 142 FT. lot on knoll. College
Station. Cheap. Phone 4-8124.
• WANTED TO BUY •
USED CLOTHES and shoes, men’s —
women’s — and children’s. Curtains,
spreads, dishes, cheap furniture. 502
N. Main. Bryan, Texas.
• WANTED •
LADY or gentleman bookkeeper — half
day—beginning Sept. 1. Must have
working knowledge of double-entry book
keeping and typing. Reply backgrund
and how long will be here. Box 542,
Bryan.
• HOME REPAIR •
ALL TYPES home repair work—additions,
roofing, siding, painting, concrete work,
and redecorating. Low down payment
and 30 months to pay. For free esti
mates call 4-9589 or 4-4236.
Directory of
Business Services
ALL LINES of Life Insurance. Homer
Adams, North Gate. Call 4-1217.
FREE termite inspection and estimate.
International Exterminators Corporation
Power spraying for flies, mosquitoes, and
other pests. Phone 2-1937.
• MISCELLANEOUS •
SUL ROSS LODGE NO. 1300 A.F. & A.M.
Stated meeting August 16,
7 p.m.
J H. Sorrels, W. M.
K. M. McGinnis, Sec.
EXPERIENCED, capable bookkeeper. Good
salary, permanent position. Good hours.
Call 4-1149 for appointment
Dr. Carlton R. Lee
OPTOMETRIST
203 S. Main Street
Call 2-1662 for Appointment
RADIOS & REPAIRING
Call For and Delivery
STUDENT CO-OP
EXPERT WATCH, JEWELRY,
and
OPTICAL REPAIR
CALDWELL’S
JEWELRY STORE
112 N. Main, Bryan Ph. 2-2435
technic Church of Christ in Fort
Worth, last Friday evening; The
Clarks will be at home in Bryan,
while Dick finishes the require
ments for his degre next June.
The Newcomers Club will have a
Bridge and Canasta party this af
ternoon at 2:15 in the home of
Mrs. W. H. LeRoy, 603 Highland
South.
Husbands of members of the
Campus Study Club will be guests
at the club’s third Summer party
at 8 Aug. 21. Bridge, forty-two,
and canasta is to be the tntertain-
ment, with prizes for high score
winners. Refreshments of pie and
coffee will be served. Phone 4-7977
or 4-9449 for reservations.
Erskine Hightower urges all stu
dents, faculty and staff members
interested in square dancing to at
tend the last square dance of the
Season Saturday night at 8. If you
can’t “square”, Ersnine will be
glad for you to come to the Grove
at 7:30, and he promises that by 8,
you’ll be keeping up with the best
of the dancers.
Geologists
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sweat drenched faces. Ah, when
again shall we see such courage
and determination under such ad
verse conditions. Two runs came
across. Oh, happy day. Kent and
Odom, the Goliaths who made the
runs, were the heroes of the hour.
From then on, it was a pitcher’s
duel all the way. The Mullets got
one run in the fourth, the Rock-
crashers picked up four. The fifth
saw the Mullets bouncing back
with two more rans, but again the
fighting blood of the Rockcrashers
told as they got seven.
With renewed vigor the Mullets
pressed the attack in the sixth and
scored six rans. The Rockcrashers
though tiring fast, made five rans.
Then the fatal seventh inning
came. The Mullets came from be
hind and made seven rans to gain
a two ran lead. A gallant, never
say die Rockcrasher team then
came to bats and by sheer grit and
determination drag three rans
across to win the game. What jub
ilation. What rapture was in their
hearts we can never know.
After the broken bodies of the
heroes were removed from the
field, game statistics were com
piled and Mullets garnered 11 hits,
20 runs, nine errors and Rock-
crushers 11 hits, 21 runs and eight
errors.
Phone 4-4114
First American Life Insurance Co.
in Texas
At Houston
Brj^an-College Agency
JOE DILLARD, Mgr.
REPRESENTATIVES
L. E. (Skeeter) Winder, ’50 John T. Knight
Charles H. Sledge, ’50 H. E. Winder, ’52
306 VARISCO BLDG. PHONE 3-3700
The new college Administration Building gets fin
ishing touches on the outside as workmen hurry
to complete the interior by late October or early
November. Offcies of the deans and president, as
well as the Fiscal and Registrar’s Offices will
occupy the new structure. A recent bricklayer’s
strike has held up masonry work for over two
weeks, however the men returned to their jobs
Monday.
A Few Facts
State Entomologist
Talks To Kiwanis
“One cannot look at a bee col
ony without forgetting the troubles
of life,” Dr. F. L. Thomas, pro
fessor of entomology at A&M told
members and guests of the College
Station Kiwanis Club yesterday at
their weekly luncheon in the MSC.
Speaking on the topic “Little
Known Facts About the Honey-
Bee,” Dr. Thomas told the group
that the honey bee knew about
air conditioning long before man,
that strikes in a bee colony are
unknown, and that the honey bee
has a system of communication
which approaches human intelli
gence.
A bee colony like human society
is broken down into groups which
perform specific functions. With
in the colony there are, the archi
tects which make bees wax, bio
chemists which produce the honey,
nurses which care for the young,
sanitarians which keep the hive
free of refuse, and engineers
which regulate the air by flapping
their wings.
The honey bee, like an army
patrol, finds directions by observ
ing its position in relationship to
other objects. The directional
marker for the bee is the sun, ac
cording to Dr. Thomas. A bee hive
is constructed vertically, and when
a worker bee locates a fertile
source of nectar, he returns to the
hive and through a “wagtail dance
similar to that performed by a
hula dancer, communicates to the
other bees the position of the field.
Communication is in this man
ner: if the bee “dances” upward
in the vertical hive, the nectar is
in the direction of the ran; the dis
tance depends upon the length and
pace of the dance. Conversely if-
the bee moves downward in the.
hive, the source is away from the
sun. To the right is East and to
the left is West, and even com-!
pass degrees are relayed in this
fashion.
The honey bee, which came to
the United States from Europe,
with the Pilgrims, is necessary for
the pollination of 50 crops, accord
ing to Dr. Thomas. There are
300,000 bee colonies in Texas, the
entomologist said. Since agricul
tural practices^ have destroyed the
native bee, the honey bee which
can be controlled is as important
to agriculture today as the native
bee has been to the plant world
for centuries.
Seniors, get a Bachelor of Phil
osophy degree via Post Graduation
Studies.
A
175 years ago our forefathers risked meir necks ana an
their earthly goods to put together history’s greatest dec
laration of a free people... Since then we’ve enjoyed a
big package offreedom * for free”... And now Freedom
needs us, lest in time to come she become no more than
a worn-out word in a dog-eared dictionary ...
How would you like to roll out of
bed some dark morning and have
a big palooka tell you where you’re
going to work that week, what
your wife’s going to wear, and what
your kids have to do?
Don’t shrug it off, sink it in—
it can happen here!
The point is, we’re more likely
to toss Freedom away ourselves—
unthinking as with an old ciga
rette butt—than lose it in a fight.
Over the years we have tended
to become a nation of spectators of
the things that keep us free, just
as we are at baseball games,
movies, or our TV sets. In govern
ment, we have tended to
become a nation of Monday
morning quarterbacks,
grandstand umpires and sideline
sophisticates. Haven’t we?
We watch a few others vote, then
gripe because the wrong man gets
in, and moral standards suffer.
We look on while the commu
nity discusses a project, then kick
like steers because the new school
didn’t get built.
We view with alarm prices going
up but don’t stop to think of put
ting some of our excess change into
Defense Bonds and other savings.
Here are four short words to
think about:
WORK •SAVE' VOTE • PRAY
It takes doing things like that
to keep Freedom solvent—and
America needs 150 million people
in the act. Doesn’t it?
Now-Freedom needs YOU!
The Declaration of Independence was signed at Independence Hall,
Philadelphia, in 1776. Here will gather the Delegates of Freedom on
July 1, 2, 3 and 4. They will come from all over America and from
freedom-loving countries.
This is the year of re-dedication throughout America. Take a new
look at Freedom, think how it works for you in your community, and
help it along today as it has helped you in the past.
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