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Number 184: Volume 52
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1952
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Returns
Symphony
January 8
Efrem Kurtz
Registration D§t<|; §et
For Firemen’s School
Registration for the Firemen’s courses
Training^ School begins August 24.
The school lasts through August ;
29.
The Fireman’s Training School
this year offers four different
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the Jbasic course, advanced
course, fire ^harshall’s course, and
the fire department -instructor’s
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ApproxTmat^ly 800 firemen and
fire marshals will attend the week
4-of training. Firemen and fire
marshalls will come from 325 cit
ies, industries and from 49 army,
navy and air force posts, bases
and stations. Last year 18 states
and Puerto Rico were represented
in addition to Texas.
About 80 experienced instructors
from municipal departments, in
dustry and armed forces work with
the student firemen. The student
firemen; are broken down, into «n^iill
groups;ty facilitate feldsfer'imlivid-
jral Ag fteh t i bn A'i.aalhsf ruction Vidth
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fires 4 wfth •’many-, types’|pf < ektin-
-guishingi equipment.-A; -
The. men will select the course in
which they desire training, dnd dur
ing the- week will rotate by sec
tions for three to six-hours in the
‘specific subjects. . . *
At the end of’the" course, those
who pass a written examination are
entitled to a certificate.
Ag Extension
To Move Into
New Building
The Agriculture Extension
Service and the Agricultural
Experiment Station will jgjpon
move to new quarters in the
Systepi Administration Build
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Fourth on this season’s Town Hall schedule will be a
return performance by the Houston Symphony on January 8.
Under the direction of Efrem Kurtz, the orchestra has
been called “comparable throughout to the Northern orches
tras and among the better symphonies in the country.”
After the Houston Symphony was reorganized in 1948,
it made its debut on November 1 of that year. On this pro
gram it presented the world premiere of the works of the
>-contemproary American composer,
Aaron Copland.
Attracting attention , in -the . na
tional-press, the performance soon
gave Houston the distinction of
having one of the principal sym
phony orchestras in the nation.
Efrem Kurtz
The man whose artistry helped
put the Houston Symphony in its
honored position in the musical
world is Efrem Kurtz, the director.
^Before taking direction.) of this
musical group, Kurtz was’ conduc-J
tor of the Kansas City Philharmon
ic orchestra. He had made two
previous visits to Houston and on
each occasion had won the respect
and admiration of the Houston
musical public from his experienced
and intelligent symphony direction.
Kurtz was given a three year
contract with the orchestra and at
the same time saw it undertake
a large expansion pi-ogram. The
budget of the 1948-49 season was
enlarged and the orchestra was in
creased from 78 to 85 musicians.
Also the concert schedule was ex
panded to present more than twice
the number of musical events of
former seasons.
Additional Programs
In addition to regular subscrip
tion concerts, the Houston - Sym
phony annually presents student
concerts, free “pop” programs,
gives radio broadcasts, makes clas
sical recordings and fulfills num
erous out-of-town engagements..
Student tickets for the coming
Town Hall season will be sold on
September 12 and 13 at Registra
tion and in the dormitories after
classes begin. Non-student tick
ets will go on sale at 7 o’clock
(See SYMPHONY, Page 4)
The basement, first and second
fibers of-'the building are being re
modeled and repainted to provide
offices. . . 5.. .
New work handled through the
office of Arch C. Baker, college
architect, is the veterinary hospital
and clinic, 15 percent completed,
the maternity barn and five silos
for the dairy husbandry depart
ment, and the Agronomy Labora
tory, nearly completed.
Dormitories 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, the
three story office section and lec
ture room of the agricultural en
gineering building and the exter
ior of the cotton research labora
tory and petroleum engineering
buildings are to be painted.
Culpepper Plot
Has 30 Units Ready
Thirty units of the Oak Terrace
addition are now completed and
ready for occupants.
* The first families moved in
four weeks ago, said Bill Carl, as
sociate in the Culpepper Realty
Company.
South Likes
Says Dixie Man
Air Force Band
Gives Concert
Wednesday Eve
The 515th Air Force Band
from Bryan will present a
concert of semi-classical selec
tions on the star lighted ter
race of the MSC, Wednesday,
Aug. 13 at 8 p.m., announced War
rant Officer Joseph F. Langillot-
ti.
Langillotti, director, is a former
member of the Air Force Sym
phony Orchestra and the Boston
Symphony Orchestra.
Prelude to Act III from Lohen
grin by Wagner, selections from
the New Moon by Romberg and
Begin the Beguine by Cole Porter
are among the selections that the
band will pi’esent.
The band consists of 32 mem
bers, many of which are profes
sional musicians.
A recent recording has been
made by this band which will be
a prelude to th© Wednesday night
concert. This recording may be
heard over WTAW, Tuesday, Aug.
12, at 6 p.m.
“It is one of the best bands I
have heard and anyone missing the
concert will be missing great mus
ical entertainment” stated J. B.
Raynaud one of the music commit
tee members who was present when
the recording was made.
Denver, Colo., Aug. 11 UP).—A key Dixie supporter of
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower said Monday the GOP presiden
tial nominee apparently is confident “we will crack the Solid
South”—traditional Democratic stronghold—in the Novem
ber election.
John Minor Wisdom, Republican national committeeman
from Louisiana, conferred with Eisenhower and later told a
news conference he. believes Texas—the general’s birthplace
—is most likely to line up in the
GOP column.
And the chances are good, Wi s "
Dr. David Morgan
Arrives August 18
Dr. David H. Morgan will arrive
August 18, to assume his duties
as new dean of the college.
Dr. Morgan is now dean of the
college and dean of the graduate
school at Coloi'ado Agricultural
and Mechanical College at Colo
rado Springs.
The new A&M dean will replace
Dr. C. C. French who resigned
sevei'al months ago to become
president of Washington State Col
lege.
Dr. Morgan started his academic
career as a research assistant in
the Institute of Child Welfare of
the University of California, and
served 10 years as a member of
the staff of the California School
for the Blind.
For the past four years he has
been at Colorado A&M, where he
has been a department head, dean
of the graduate school, and dean
of the college.
Now 43, Dr. Morgan is married
and has two daughters, age 11
and 17.
Grassmen Attending
Turf Meeting Today
Leading grassmen and other
persons interested in lawn grass
problems from all over Texas are
expected to attend a Turf Field
Day at A&M today.
Sponsored by the agronomy de
partment, the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station and the Texas
Turf Association, the meet will be
held on the experimental turf
plots near Easterwood Airport in
College Station.
Many city park directors, golf
course superintendents, and care
takers of playgrounds, athletic
fields, cemeteries and industrial
Dr. Roy Donohue
Accepts New Post
Dr. Roy L. Donohue, professor
of agronomy, has been appointed
head of the agronomy department
of the University of New Hamp
shire.
Donohue received his BS degree
from Michigan State in 1932, and
took his PhD from Cornell Uni
versity in 1939.
He came to A&M in 1939 and
was extension agronomist for sev
en yeai’s. He has been teaching
soils since February.
Donohue’s resignation will be
come effective Aug. 31, and he
will assume his new position in
September.
plants are expected to attend, in
addition to professional grass cul
ture specialists.
Dick King of Fort Worth, presi
dent of the Texas Turf Association;
Jim Jennings of Houston, vie pres
ident, and Bob Shelton of Tyler,
secretary-treasurer of the associa
tion, also will attend.
Experimental tests to be inspec
ted and discussed include strain
tests, fertilizers tests, chemical
tests, cut tests, weed control tests
and warm-cool season grass com
binations.
In addition, tne group will tour.
Kyle Field, the college golf course
and other turf areas on the cam
pus.
J. R. Watson Jr. and R. C. Potts
of the agronomy department, are
arranging the field day.
75 Expected From
Foreign Countries
Seventy-five foreign students
are expected to register in Sep-
tembei*, announced Bennie Zinn,
assistant dean of men.
Approximately 25 students will
be from Mexico, and the remain
der coming from Venezuela, Peru,
El Salvador, Guatemala, and Pan
ama.
Dean of Graduate School, Ide P.
Trotter, has accepted four stu
dents. Two are from India and
two from Pakistan.
dom added, that Florida, Virginia
and Louisiana will go for the gen
eral.
Wisdom and twenty other Eis
enhower supporters from eight
Southern States sat down with the
general and his vice-presidential
running mate, Sen. Richard M.
Nixon of California, to discuss
plans for a GOP.bid in the South.
In addition to Louisiana, there
wei’e representatives from Texas,
Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Mis
sissippi, South Carolina and Flor
ida.
Eisenhower went from that
meeting to a conference with Re
publican farm leaders, including
some members of the Senate and
House agriculture committees.
In advance of the farm session.
Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper of
Iowa, a member of the Senate
committee, told a reporter Eisen
hower must make an intensive
campaign for the farm vote.
“And I am convinced that is
just what he is going to do,” Hick
enlooper added.
Eisenhower aids have empha
sized that all possible steps will
be taken to prevent a repetition
of the Democrats’ success in the
farm belt states in the 1948 presi
dential election.
At the conference of Southern
ers with Eisenhower, Wisdom
served as chairman and spokes-
man of the delegation. At the Re
publican national convention in
July, he headed the pro - Eisenhow
er Louisiana delegation which won
recognition over a rival group
backing Sen. Robert A. Taft of
Ohio for the nomination.
At Monday’s session, Wisdom
said, Eisenhower made a little talk
and emphasized that he is anxious
to seek development of a two-party
system iri the South.
“I think the General recognizes
that we will crack the solid South
this time,” Wisdom declared.
Asked which southern state that
he feels is the most likely to line
up for the general, Wisdom replied
that in his opinion Texas is the
answer.
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