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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1953
Eleventh Hour Faces HST
TiHE ELEVENTH hour tasks of an out-
going President beseiged Mr. Truman this
week as he entered the final week of his
term.
But don’t think he will have little to do
in the fading hours of his administration.
There are dozens of fare-well letters to
be written, numerous well-wishers to see, and
on top all this the regular duties of the White
House.
Before his term expires next Tuesday at
noon, President Truman must render a deci
sion on whether or not the convicted atomic
spies, Julius and Ethel, Rosenberg, shall live
or die.
“It requires skill and labor to
erect a building, but any idle tramp
can burn it doivn.”—J. M. Gibson.
Complaint Promised
Investigation
rpHE AGGIES aren’t the only people who
complain about rules and regulations from
administrative levels.
Girls at a junior high school in Los An
geles have filed an official complaint with
the school board asking reconsidering of a
rule that prohibits them from going bare
legged.
The young ladies submitted a written
protest which said:
“After great thought and consideration,
we wish to inform you that our school is
about the only one in which there is a rule
that all girl students must wear socks or
nylons. We do not feel that this is right. We
would appreciate if you would go into this
matter a little deeper.”
An investigation was promised.
Two speeches must be made by the presi
dent before moving back to Missouri.
His last annual economic message to Con
gress is due today, and a personal report to
the nation, which promises to be an overall
account of his nearly eight years as Presi
dent, will be made Thursday night.
MARCH
OF
DIMES
JANUARY 2 TO 31
Experiment Station
Receives Grants
A grant-in-aid of $28 and two
grants of $1200 each, have been
made available to the Texas Agri
cultural Experiment Station, ac-
¥F GEORGE WASHINGTON could see the cording to Dr. R. D. Lewis, di-
way we inaugurate a President today he rector of the station,
might be a little jealous that he didn’t live
in the 20th century. aid to be used in support of turf
One of the most unique programs ever in the Department of Agronomy.
planned is slated for General Eisenhower TeLr'Tm-o
Jan. 20 as the Republican, who swept into Company of Fort Worth. The
the position of commander-in-chief by a land
slide, when he officially takes office.
The parade which precedes the inaugural
ceremonies will be something to talk about and Pasture Section of the
for years to come. Plans have been made for Agrononiy de P artment > Dl '* Lcw i s
„ says,
everything from an Alaskan snow sled—pull
ed by five-dog team of Alaskan huskies—to
a mass air armada which will include a van
guard of 460 aircraft.
“A human being is not, in any
proper sense, a human being till he
is educated”—H. Mann.
Lone Star Beauty
For Ike’s Parade
IF GEORGE WASHINGTON could see the
Local Names in the News
T
'Dr. F. C. Bolton Elected
President of Local C of C
T'fcR. F. C. BOLTON was unani- Dr. W. E. Paulson, marketing On Jan. 8, he attended a Na-
•^mously elected president of the specialist of-the agricultural eqo- tional Turkey Federation Conven-
College Station Civic Development nomics department, was elected as- tion in Dallas, where he presented
Association and Chamber of Com- sistant Tailtwister. a paper on “The Use of Antibotics
merce Monday. The club heard a discussion of in Turkey Feeds.”
the Student Activities program at He appeared Jan. 9 on the pro-
K. A. Manning was elected vice- a&M by C. G. “Spike” White, di- gram of the Texas Agricultural
president, with Mrs. C. C. Doak as re ctor. White told of plans for Worker’s Convention in Fort
secretary and Nestor McGinnis as bringing outstanding performers Worth, and on Jan. 10 he left for
man ?„? er - * to College Station for A&M stu- Phoenix, Ariz., to attend te Am-
Offrcers last year were Marion derdg and local residents.
Pugh, president; Bolton, vice-pres- * * *
ident; Manning, secx-etary; and Me-
Ginnis, manager. /.OS/ PUSS Gets
A report on the Yokum—Terrell
high school championship playoff- U nname d Retum
here Dec. 26 showed that each team
If you are the person who
placed a „Jost AGO pass in the
campus mail to Lt. Col. A. B.
Currie, he wants to know your
name.
This Air Force officer said he
was surprised with an unsigned
letter containing the pass Mon
day. He wants to thank the
sender.
“Just like other Air Force of
ficers, I can’t keep some of my
personal things from flying
away, especially money,” he
said.
erican Dehydrators Association
meeting.
Dr. Couch will leave Phoenix Jan.
19 for Kansas City where he will
present two papers at the Kansas
Feed Conference.
made a profit of $4200. Arrang
ing the game cost the Development
Association one hundred dollars.
grant will “renew for the period
Jan. 1 to July 1, 1953, their sup
port of the turf assistantship
which is administered by the For-
Texas won’t be left out in the demonstra- moniated furfural
lamb
The Quaker Oats Company of |
Chicago made the other $1200 11
available “to be used in our Ani
mal Husbandry department for
studies of the value of an am-
by-product in
Dr. Lewis.
Dr. F. C. Bolton
New C of C President
tion. In addition to the float and marching feedia £> says , , , ,
. . a These studies will be conducted
units representing the Lone Star State, the by W. G. Kammlade of AH depart-
colorful Kilgore College Rangerettes will be ment under our Project 867,” Dr.
displaying further proof about Texas’ claim Lewis points out ‘
for having the most and best looking girls
still holds true.
’51 Poll Tax Needed
For Bond Election
“Silence is the one great art of
conversation.”—Hazlitt.
‘Housewife’ Is Unsatisfactory
Agronomists Name
Fischgrabe Proxy
Dale Fischgrabe was elected
president of the Agronomy Soc
iety for the spring semester. Pat
Hitt was elected vice-president.
Other officers are Will Polzer,
Treasurer; Roy Bruns, -secre
tary; Tom Payne, parliamentar
ian; and Leonard Thornton, re
porter.
Committees were appointed to
start work on the cotton pageant
and a group picture was taken
for the Aggieland ’53.
‘Jills-Of-All-Trades’ Ask
For More Dignified Title
By DOROTHY ROE
AP Women’s Editor
RANTED: a new name for “housewife.”
T Garry Moore, whose afternoon TV program
draws thousands of fan letters from the ladies who
stay home and take care of the chores, says it’s
high time someone thought up a more dignified
napie for these jills-of-all-trades. He explains:
“When a woman has to reply ‘occupation house
wife’ to a census taker or pollster, I think she al
ways feels the term is somewhat derogatory. Wo
men are inclined to assume a sort of apologetic air
when they say, ‘I’m only a housewife’.
“Should Be Proud of Title”
“The fact is, they should be proud of it. That’s
the' object of all the love stories and romantic
movies—to turn a bachelor girl into a housewife.
Yet after they achieve their goal, they resent be-
iiig relegated to the humdrum category of ‘house
wife.” Something should be done about it.”
Garfy is thinking about running a contest on his
show, to dig Up a new term. He points out that a
At a meeting of the Citizens
Committee of the A&M Consolida
ted school board last night, Su
perintendent Les Richardson an
nounced that anyone who was eli
gible to vote in the presidential
election Avill be able to vote in the
bond issue election Jan. 20.
The Attorney General’s office ' i: * ^
has ruled that the 1951 poll tax, RaillSCV, Bell Gel
which was used for voting m -1952,- _ - - y j 7 *
must be used for voting in the
$650,000 bond issue election.
Under this ruling, election clerks
can not permit people who hold the
new poll tax only to vote.
Also at the meeting was a re-
, .» . „ ,, . port on the organization of the
housewife is onej3f^the^most accomplished ^artisans * lec . tion pu bii ci t y committee by
Herb Thompson, chairman.
AYMA Will Hear
Mrs. Richard Bass
jyps. RICHARD C. BASS, in
coming president of the Aux
iliary to the Texas State Veterin
ary Medical Association, will speak
to the student wives organization
tonight at 7:30 in the Social Room
of the MSC.
Election of officers for the
AVMA student auxiliary will also
be held. Following her talk, Mrs.
Bass will lead a discussion on the
advantages of auxiliary partici
pation of veterinarian wives and
the assistance wives can lend their
practioner husbands.
Prior to the meeting a dinner
will be given at The Oaks in honor
of Mrs. Bass with retiring officers
and sponsors of the local auxiliary
as guests.
* * *
Dr. Couch Gives
Antibotics Paper
T^R. J. R. COUCH of the poultry
^ husbandry and biochemistry
and nutrition departments has at
tended three conferences in three
states within a Week.
Dr. J. R. Couch
Busy Attending Conferences
Lions Cl id} Offices
J ONES RAMSEY A&M sports
publicity director, was named
in our society. If she does her job well she must
be a skilled cook, a nurse, an engineer, an efficiency
expert, a party-giver, a psychologist, a community
leader, a liaison officer between family, school and
church, a glamor girl to her husband and a mother
to her children. Wednesday
“Some such term as ‘chairman of the board’ or 5 to 6 p. m.—MSC House Com-
‘general manager’ would come closer,” says Moore, mittec Coffee, Assembly Room,
“but it has to be more descriptive than that. The MSC.
old term ‘lady of the house’ has been overworked
by brush salesmen. ‘Mom’ definitely won’t do.”
Adopt Business Term
We might adopt a big housewife “assistant to
the president,” the way they do in corporations with
a valuable man who has no special title but dips
into all departments.
Tailtwister of the College Station
Lions Club Monday.
Aggie baseball coach Beau Bell
was elected a director of the club,
to fill a term expiring June 30.
What’s Cooking
7 p. m.—Bowling
Room 2D, MSC.
7:15 p. m.—Browsing Library
Committee, Room 2C, MSC.
Executive Committee,
Chamber, MSC.
YMCA South Solarium, Election
of officers.
ASAE, Ag. Engineering Bldg.
Thursday
9 a. m. to 5 p. m.—Forest Service
Staff Conference, Room 2A, MSC.
7:30 p. m.—A&M Employees Din-
Senate ned Dance Club, Ballroom, MSC.
Aggie Wives Bridge Club,
Dan Davis to Head
Local A A UP Group
Dan R. Davis of the depart
ment of agricultural economics
and sociology, and Dr. Dale L.
Leipper, head of the department
of oceanography, are the new
president and vice-president of
the A&M chapter of the Ameri
can Association of University
Professors.
Davis succeeds Dr. Walter
Delaplane, head of the depart*
ment of economics, as president.
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Hall Elected i > rex) s
By Range-Fi> rest ry
Y/’EN HALL was elected presi<
•*' V ident of the Range and Fores*
try Club last night for 1953-54
at a meeting in the Agriculture
Engineering Building.
Other officers chosen by the
group are Jakie Landers, vice-
president; Joe Schuster, secretary-
treasurer; Eugene Dayhoff, report
er; Bob Landrum, parliamentarian
rr , i . and attendance officer; Gene Lesh-
In Texas the need for observing soc j a i chairman; and Fred
Arbor Day was first recognized ^ ose) assistant to the social chair-
in 1889 at Temple, a community
which had comparatively few
Arbor Day Set For
Friday by Shivers
Arbor Day in Texas will be ob
served Friday according to a pro
clamation issued by Governor Al
lan Shivers.
Committee,
We might try out “home manager” or “doctor of Hans do Meiss-Tevffen of Switzer
the humanites” or “specialist in living.” All these land
are too cumbersome, however, and it’s doubtful if
any woman would work up nerve to write down such
an occupation on the census blank.”
Hillel Foundation, Rooms 3B & Rooms 2C & 2D, MSC.
3C, MSC, “The Near East-Crass- Student Senate, Senate Room,
roads of the World,” by Baron MSC.
Group Rodgers, Room 3D, MSC.
trees.
D. A. Anderson, head of Re
search and Education Department
of the Texas Forest Service makes
these suggestions. It is not essen
tial to plant trees and shrubs.
“Actually,” he said, “it is more
desirable to protect growing trees
than to plant additional
man.
Hall is a junior range and for
estry major from Groom.
Taylor Will Speak’
To YAK T Meeting
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
“Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentlemap”
AVMA Auxiliary, Social Room,
MSC.
Air Force Reserve, Room 2A &
2B, MSC.
Christian Science Church, Room
3D, MSC.
Architectural Wives Society,
Employees Dinner Dance Club,
MSC Ballroom.
Knights of Columbus, basement
of St. Mary’s Chapel.
Lt. H. Q. Taylor will be in
charge of the 9807 VART Squadron
trees meeting, 7:30 p. m. tonight in
without adequate protection. Any the MSC. He will discuss “The
program designed to acquaint Tex- Air Inspector” and will show a
ans with the economic value of training film on the subject,
forests would be a creditable ob- Air Reservist, both airmen and
servance of Arbor Day.” officers, who attend the weekly
This year Arbor Day offers
special opportunities for schools,
8 p. m.—MSC Bridge Committee, garden clubs, civic clubs, youth
Social Room, MSC.
8:30 p. m.—Battalion
Assembly Room, MSC.
groups and other organizations to
Program, recognize and observe Jan. 16 as
Arbor Day.
meeting of the 9807th VART
Squadron earn points toward re
tirement and promotion. All Air
Reserve personnel may attend even
though they are not members of
the squadron.
LFL ABNER
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