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Page 4 THE BATTALION Tuesday, January 8, 1.955! Forum to 1 Gibson and Timm Two College Station men will take part in the fifth annual South ern Farm Forum in New Orleans, Jan. 17-18. Forum Chairman Emile L. Mor- vant said G. G. Gibson, director of the Texas Agriculture Exten sion Service, would be director for a panel discussion on high food prices. Dr. Tyrus Timm of the Agri cultural Economics and Sociology Department will speak on “The Growing Interdependence of Ag riculture and Business,” Morvant said. Fral Pledges Rebel lo Help March of Dimes Fund Drive Rough and Ready, Calif., Jan. 8—(AP)—Fifteen fra ternity pledges lowered the American flag from the post of fice Sunday and ran up the stars and bars of the Confederacy. About half of the town’s 125 population cheered and feted the “Rebels,” then contributed to the March of Dimes. It was part of initiation week of Alpha Kappa Phi, a local at College of the Pacific, Stockton, Calif. The frater nity changed traditional “hell” week to “help” week to boost the Polio fund campaign. The boys adopted the confederate motif because the fraternity was split by the Civil War. They chose Rough and Ready because this former gold mining camp seceded from the union 90 years ago. Texas and Southwest Keep in Economy Pace Washinngton, Jan. 8—GP)—Tex as and the Southwest have more than kept pace with the nation’s expanding economy, according to a Commerce Department study of trends from 1929 to 1950. Industrial construction marked the development in the four-state area, which also includes Oklaho ma, New Mexico and Arizona. Tex as boomed the most. Per Capita Income Higher The per capita income in the re gion increased at a higher rate than the national average during the two decades, although it still was less than the 48-state average at the close of the period. The figure was $1,160 for the region in 1949 compared with $1,880 for the country as a whole. These figures represented a 151 per cent reegional increase com pared with a national average in crease of only 96 per cent. The per capita income in Texas for 1949 was $1,205, up 159 per cent. With 6.6 per cent of the total IT. S. income, the Southwest had about 10 per cent of the total new construction. Big industrial and' other expansion has been a major factor in its income advance from 4 billion dollars in 1929 to 18 bil lion in 1949. Population Increase The Southwestern, region, the Commerce study disclosed, increas ed 27 per cent in population during the 20 years ending in 1950 not withstanding the fact that Okla homa showed a 6 per cent decline. The national average population increase for the period; was 24 per Cent. Arizona’s population soared 74 per cent, New Mexico’s 62 per cent and Texas’ 34 per cent. Texas and New Mexico, experi enced only “nominal inflows of peo ple by migration” during the 1940- 1950 decade, the report noted, while Oklahoma lost a number equal to one-fifth of its population by out-migration. Arizona, mean while, gained a number approxi mately one-fourth of its 1940 pop ulation. “It is clear, therefore,” the re port added, “That the region’s above-average rate of population increase was entirely due to its unusually high rate of natural in crease, half again higher than the national average rate.” Manufacturing' now constitutes the Southwest’s fourth largest in dustry, the government survey re vealed, and has been increasing in the region faster than the national average. “Most of the industrial growth of the regiom in these two decades was concentrated in Texas,” the report continued. “Manufacturing establishments in Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona barely kept pace, as mea sured by manufacturing worker’s, with the national average rate of increase. Texas employment ex panded much faster. Wages Below National Average “Wages paid in the region’s fac tories were 11 per cent below the national average in 1939, and de spite subsequent wage increases at a rate above the national aver age increase, they were still 8 per cent below in 1947. This can not be explained by unduly large proportions of low-earnings indus tries in the region; on the con trary, the Southwest has unusually large proportions of its manufac turing workers employed in high- and-medium-eamings industries. “In most instances, the industry wage scale is less than the national average. An outstanding exception is the petroleum and coal products industry, in which Southwest an nual average wages were second highest of all the regions in 1939, and highest in 1947.” Agriculture contributed a larger shqre to the total income in the Southwest than in any other major region except the Northwest, the report stated. In respect to its con tribution to the nation’s total in come, the Southwest’s agricultural output now ranks third. The Southwest is second in size among seven major regions into which the country is divided in the USE BATTALION CLASSIFIED ADS TO BUY, SELL, RENT OR TRADE. Rales .... 3c a word per insertion with a 25c minimum. Space rate in classified section .... 60c per column-inch. Send all classified to STUDENT ACTIVITIES OFFICE. All ads must he received in Student Activities office hy 10 a.m. on the day before publication. • FOR RENT • NICE LARGE furnished apartment, util ities paid. 737 Eagle Pass St., Mead- owbrook Addition. Call 4-S907. • FOR SALE ® BLONDE colored baby bed with water proof innerspring mattress. Both for $25.00. See Campbell at 9B Vet Village. 1—36'’ WINDOW FAN with third H. P. motor; fits College View window $30.00. 1 swing set $8. C-17-D College View after 5:30 p.m. 3947 FORD CLUB COUPE, excellent con dition. C-17-D College View. SEVEN CUBIC FOOT Serve! Gas Refrig erator-excellent condition. Real bar gain Ph. 6-3234. BABY SULKY, bathinette, car bed, apart ment size washing machine and Westing- heuse floor fan. Call 6-1583, Apt. 13A, Project House. • WANTED • TO LOCATE boots owned originally by Bruce Baker ’50; want to buy back at end of year. Send information to B. Honeycutt, Box 6.81, College Station. • HELP WANTED • EXPERIENCED bookkeeper by Cade Mo tor Co., 415 N. Main Street. Phone 51-1333, • SPECIAL NOTICE • Protection for sale: Buy your auto lia bility insurance from an Aggie — Call Ty Jennings, ’54 6-1636 D-3-B College View. SUL ROSS LODGE NO. 1300 A.F. & A.M. Stated meeting Thursday Jan. 10, 7 p.m. 3 H. Sorrels, W. M. N. M. McGinnis, Sec. Directory of Business Services INSURANCE of all lines. Homer Adams. North Gate. Call 4-1217. Official Notice The Fiscal Office will begin taking fees for the Second Semester immediately after the Christmas Holidays, beginning Janu ary 4. In order to hold the rooms they now occupy, for the second semester, students must pay fees and reserve rooms at the Housing Office in Goodwin Hall before January 22. First installment lees ror military stu dents for the second semester are $75.20 and for non-military students are $48.80. Fees for the entire semester for military students are $244.60; for non-military, $92.85. GRADUATE STUDENTS A student wishing to register for any term after his first term of graduate work must bring his copy of his official grad uate course of study to registration with notations on it to show the courses already taken and the grades received. Ide P. Trotter Dean, Graduate School study. Tho other areas are the Middle East, New England, South east, Central, Northwest and Far West. With four-fifths of its area in pasture, range and forest, only 13 per cent of the Southwestern region is in crop land; the average farm has only 18 per cent of its area in crops—the smallest propor tion in. the nation. Largely because of a decreased relative share of the nation’s total cotton crop, the Southwest’s re ceipts share of the nation’s total cotton crop, the Southwest’s re ceipts from agriculture barely kept pace with that of the country as a whole in tho 20-year period. Trade Second To Agriculture Trade rates second only to agri culture as the Southwest’s most! important industry. Retail sales in the region virtually tripled be tween 1929 and 1948. In this per iod, the per capita sales in the region rose from 87 to 95 per cent of the national average. Like per capita income, however, it re mained the lowest in the country except for the Southeast. , Mineral Resources Mineral resources, especially pe troleum and natural gas, are more important to the economy of the Southwest than, to any other part of the country. The region was the leading producer of minerals in 1948, having moved from second place in 1929—the percentage of the national output increasing from 48 to 53 per cent regarding oil and gas. The entire output of coal for the region comprised only 1 per cent of the total national pro duction. Among the non-commodity-pro ducing industries, government ac tivities expanded most, largely in the nature of military installations. SWC Gagers (Continued from Page 3) Station, Baylor vs. Texas Christian at Fort Worth. Saturday—Arkansas vs. Texas at Austin. Leading Scorers Player— G. Ft. Tp. Geo. McLeod, TCU ....94 54 242 Billy Hester, Ark. ....57 59 173 R. Johnson, Bay. .... ....66 32 164 Walt Davis. A&M.... ...66 29 161 Ted Price, Texas ...62 35 156 D. Murphy, SMU .... ....56 41 153 M. Teague, Rice .... ....59 34 152 Jim Dowies, Tex ....47 56 150 G. Schwinger, Rice .. ....58 24 140 T. Reynolds, TCU .... ....50 37 137 TODAY LAST DAY FIRST RUN —Features Start— 1:36 - 3:42 - 5:48 - 7:54 - 10:00 NEWS — CARTOON STARTS WEDNESDAY FIRST RUN NEWS — CARTOON Cooler Air Moves In Over Texas By Associated Press Cooler air eased into upper por tions of Texas today, while un seasonably mild temperatures pre vailed elsewhere. The front lowered temperatures to freezing or below only in the upper Panhandle — with Dalhart recording a 30-degree minimum. Skies were mostly cloudy in south, south-central and east Tex as, clear in the Panhandle and South Plains and mostly fair else where. Light drizzle fell around San Antonio and Laredo this morn ing and the weather bureau said there was a chance of showers in East Texas tonight. Yesterday’s maximum ranged from 78 degrees at Salt Flat and 74 at Brownsville down to 42 de grees at Amarillo. Additional overnight minimums: Win 34 degrees, Amarillo 37, Big Spring 42, Texarkana 46, Beaumont 48, Lufkin 50, Dallas, Abilene and Waco 51, Austin 53, El Paso, La redo and San Antonio 54. The weather bureau said the cooler air moved past Amarillo at midnight, reached below Chil dress and Lubbock at dawn and should move into north-central Texas by nightfall. No precipita tion or severe cold accompanied the front. Britisher Hears Top US Pianist Washington, Jan. 8 — CP) — America’s most famous amateur pianist tinkled through a little Chopin for Britain’s best known amateur painter last night. The Briton, who dabbels in oil landscapes, listened through a haze of after-dinner cigar smoke. After five minutes the British embassy’s grand piano was si lent. President Truman bade Prime Minister Churchill good night and went home to Blair House. Cotton Maid Candidates The five finalists in (he 1952 “Maid of Colton” contest put on their best smiles before moving into the final round of judging in Mem phis, Tcnn., to see which lucky one will represent the cotton in dustry tfn a tour of this country and abroad. Left to right, they are: Catherine Bailey, Anniston, Ala.; Betty Goosmann, Bells, Tenn. Lucianne Knight, Austin, Texas; Patricia Ann Mullarkey, Dallas, Texas, the winner of the contest, and Allyn Smith, Los Angeles, Calif. (AP Wirephoto). WhaFs Cooking ACCOUNTING SOCIETY: Tues day, 7:30 p. m., Room 2-B MSG. Picture to be taken. EAST LAND-STEP HENS CLUB: Tuesday, 7:30 p. m., Acad. Bldg. HORTICULTURE SOCIETY: Tuesday, 7:30 p. m., Room 3-A MSG. Slides on Florida trip. INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION WIVE’S CLUB: Tuesday, 7:45 p. m., M. E. Shops Bldg. RANGE & FORESTRY CLUB: Tuesday, 7:30 p. m., 3rd floor Acad. Bldg. Election of officers. PRE-LAW SOCIETY: Tuesday, 7:30 p. m., YMCA Assembly Room. The sheriff of Brazos County will speak. TEXAS ACADEMY OF SCI ENCE: Tuesday, 7:30 p. m., New Science Bldg, lecture room. Dis cuss chapter’s plans for the com ing year and business resulting for convention in Austin. Bowlers to Meet The M.S.C. Bowling Club will have a very important meeting, Wednesday, Jan. 9 at 7:15 p.m. in Room 2C of the MSC. Plans will be made for the match with Rice on Saturday afternoon. give to ■AARCHo'DIMES FIGHT. IN PANTILE PARALYSIS J A N U A R Y .3 ^3 1 CoL Davis Speaks At Junior Meeting “We have been more interested in what we can make a man do in past years than in what we can get out of him,” said Col. Joe E. Davis last night at a meeting of junior non-commissioned offi cers in the MSC Ball Room. The colonel added that we need to develop a corps of men who will love the Corps for what it is and everything that goes to make it up or cause it to function. He urged the men not to harrass and needle their troops constantly, but to deal with them intelligently at all times.. “Be alert to evaluate experiences you may havb had this year and also observe the experiences of your cadet officers for two rea sons: (1) so you can correct the mistakes next year, and (2) so you may profit by those things which have been implemented this year,” Col. Davis said. He told the group that much history has been made this year in the corps of cadets to eliminate many practices which had hereto fore brought bad publicity to the Corps and to the college. F A B I O L A” With Corps Commander Eric Carlson serving as coordinator for the group, several other matters were discussed at the meeting at tended by first sergeants, regimen tal and battalion sergeant-majors with Col. Davis and Col. E. W. Napier, PAS&T, and Col. S. P. Myers, PMS&T. The group discussed other items which included plans for sum pier camp and the moving of sopho mores to freshman units. 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