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14**? on Published By A&M Students For 75 Years PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Number 2G: Volume 53 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1953 Price Five Ceuta Hew Radio Created by Stars Local Series Kidd Talent Science’s effect on Texas agri culture and industry will be dram atized on a series of 15 radio pro grams. Written and directed by H. L. Kidd Jr., associate professor of English and an established free lance writer, the programs will be broadcast starting Mai’cb 1 from WTAW. The program will be car ried as a public service over the Texas State Network. Kidd also' wrote and directed a similar pro duction, “The Story of Texas A&M”, which was broadcast last year. The entire cast is composed of local talent. Students, student wives and members of the WTAW staff have contributed to the pro duction. The 13 programs have been dramatized and recorded in the studios of the college radio station. John Scoggin, manager of WTAW, is studio assistant and sound effects man for the produc tions. The cast includes Calvin Pigg Jr., Bob Hollenbaugh, Rob ert McClure, Mrs. Jere Bell, Mrs. Margaret Place, Raymond Fields, Charles Evans, Ray Hosfelt, J. Hosfelt and Justin Kidd. “The Age of Science” is the first program of the series. It deals with the beginnings of sci ence in Texas industry and agri culture. The battle to save Texas rangelands will be dramatized next in “Seas of Grass.” Poultry Industry The third program, “Dollars from Heaven” will tell of the ; Fate’s water problem. It will be followed by “Gardens of Tomor- row” which will concern science’s effects on gardening. Science and the poultry industry will be the topic of program five, “Laboratory Drumsticks.” It will be followed by “King of the Southland.” This sixth program will tell the history of Texas’ cotton. It is titled “King of the Southland.” “Ten Million Iron Slaves,” a story of the state’s early farm pro cesses and labor will be told in the seventh program. It will be fol lowed by “A Cinderella Story” which will give the history of cot tonseed research. “The Flowing Gold of Texas,” next on the series, will dramatize the story of Texas oil production. Program 11 will deal with the development of oceanography. Title of the story will be “The Record of the Sea.” Problems facing Texas forestry will be told in “Forest Bounty”, production number 12. Completing the series will be “Science Tomorrow,” which will predict Texas industry and ag riculture in 1975. Bryan AFB Band Presents Guinn Show Monday Night The Bryan Air Force Base band will give a concert at 8:15 p. m. Monday in Guion Hall, said Barton Raynaud, chair man of the MSC Music Committee, co-sponsors of the event with the Student Activities office. Conducted by Warrant Officer Junior Grade Joseph F. Lanzillotti, the bandsmen will present a varied program of opera, classics and other serious music. Among the musical selections to he played by the group are “Overture to Tanntyiuser,” by Richard Wagner; “Medi tation from ‘Thais,’ ” by Massenet; “Lady of Spain,” by Tol- chard Evans and “Pictures at an Exhibition,” by Moussorg- sky. 1 No admission will be charged to hear the 32-piece band. Faith Emphasized As Greatest Power Publication Names Aggic-Ex and Profs Three staff members and a for mer student of A&M are named in a recent publication, “Cotton In The Middle- East,” by Read P. Dunn Jr., director of foreign trade, National Cotton Council of Ameri ca. The staff members are H. P. Smith, agricultural engineer and former technical advisor to the EGA mission in Turkey; D. T. Kil- lough, agronomist. Darwish A1 Haidari, ’31, direct or general of the Ministry of Ag riculture for Iran, is the former student of whom Dunn said, “(He) is highly I’egarded for his techni- ■< cal and his administrative ability and particularly for his driving force. He is especially well qual ified to direct the cotton improve- -ment program, having graduated in cotton agronomy from Texas A&M College.” Dunn quoted all three staff members from A&M on various phases of the cotton improvement program, and used two pictures provided by Smith. “Cotton In the Middle East,” was published last October. Faith is the greatest power in the universe, Dr. Robert E. Good rich emphasized today at the fin al Religious Emphasis Week sei*- vice in Guion Hall. “Being the greatest power in the universe, faith must be the biggest thing in each persons life,” he said. The mountains which occur in each person’s life, Goodrich de clared, can be moved by faith. He quoted Matthew 17-20: “For verily I say unto you, if ye have faith as a grain of mus- tardseed, ye shall say unto this mountain, remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you.” The true meaning of this pass age has been obscured by the dis cussion of whether or not faith can move literal mountains, said Goodrich. Predominant Religion “The predominant religion in America today is the one embraced by those who feel that just being good is good enough,” he said. Goodrich explained that a religion without faith in God can make its own Ten Commandments as the Communists have done. Goodrich used this as a fur ther proof that deeds are the ulti mate result of creeds “Environment, heredity, educa tion and material substance are all important factors in life,” Goodrich said. “None of these is the determinant factor in life. “Faith, because it determines how a person utilizes all of these factors, must be the determining factor in life itself,” he explained. Faith Over Atom He explained that faith is even more powerful than the atomic bomb since faith determines what is to be done with the bomb. “Heredity,” said Goodrich, “ob viously is not the detei'minant fac tor in life since the opportunity to rise from obscurity is a cardinal principal of democracy.” Some of our nation’s greatest people have come from impossible environments but the circumstanc es in which people live does have its effect, he said. “Education alone can make a man a better criminal and money, can make a man a fool,” Goodrich continued. Faith influences health, deter mines physical well being, con duct and the ultimate value of each person’s life, he added. Bridge Tourney Opens Tonight Seventeen A&M students will compete tonight in Rooms 2C and 2D of the MSC in the National Intercollegiate Bridge Tourna ment. Sponsored by the MSC Bridge Committee, the local tourney will be conducted by Gladys Black, as sisted by Mrs. Ann Hilliard and Lloyd Keel. The contestants’ score sheets will be graded and ranked by the national judges by March 15. The national region and campus cha’m- pions will be announced at that time. Taking part in the contest are Johnny Harris, Luke Senior, J. R. Ewing, J. D. Linton, L. R. Bruce, C. R. King, A. A. Tomches- sen, H. J. Keibler, Clarkson Mose ley, Gus Fox, Jim Royalty, David Beanie, L. L. Brawner and David Williams. Rice Institute won the national tournament last year. Applications Wanted For Follies Talent Applications are being accepted for positions in the 1953 Aggie Follies, said John S. Samuels, chairman of the follies committee. “Anyone with talent who would like to be in the follies should ap ply now,” he said, Samuels’ of fice is in the MSC Directorate of fice. Audtions will be held later, he added. New Books Arrive In Facuity Reserve Shelves in the reserve room of Cushing Memorial Library have been set aside for the special fac ulty collection of books on “The Improvement of College Teach ing,” according to Robert A. Houze, librarian. All books in the collection were selected by a library subcommit tee appointed by the college com mittee on the development of teaching personnel, Houze said. There are 57 books and 24 per iodicals in the group. Additional titles and references will be added later. The books may be used in the' reserve room and the browsing room, or may be checked out for two weeks. Term loans will not be made, he said. Study Awards Will Be Given The Danforth Foundation has allotted two 1953 summer study fellowships for outstanding stu dents in agriculture, according to Charles N. Shepardson, dean of agriculture. Fellowships will be awarded to an outstanding junior and an out standing freshman. Selection will be based on scholarship, leader ship, activities and general culture. The junior will study for two weeks at St. Louis with other land grant college winners and then will attend a two week’s lead ership training camp on Lake 1 Michigan. Travel and living ex penses will be furnished. The freshman will attend a lead ership training conference at Shel by, Mich., Aug. 17-30. Camp ex penses will be covered but the stu dent must pay his own travel fees, Shepardson said. Juniors who are interested in the program may call J. W. Barger, Room 401 Agriculture Building, and freshmen, Dr. Robert Jacobs, Basic Division counselor, for fur ther information and application blanks, he added. Norther to Disappear As Overcast Dissolves College Station’s mild norther will disappear this after noon as the overcast clears, according to the CAA Weather Bureau at Easterwood Airport. The norther hit A&M at about 5 a.m. and a low of 47 degrees was maintained through the late morning hours. The temperature is expected to reach 58 or 60 degrees this afternoon, the Weather Bureau said. Wind gusts up to 35 miles per hour were recorded this morning. However, the temperature will drop to 38 degrees to night, the bureau added. Should the overcast clear, the bureau said, the temperature will drop lower. Winds during the night reached a velocity of 32 miles per hour, but much of the night there was no wind. Little wind is expected today. About .50 inches of rain had fallen since Wednesday, the bureau added. The Associated Press reported aA- 1 a r ,g e tornado bouncing Billy May Billy May Signed For Ring Dance Billy May has been signed to play for the Senior Ring Dance May 16 in The Grove, said C. R. (Bubba) Blank, senior class social secretary. May was chosen because of the popularity and the quality of his music displayed last fall at the All-College dance after the Rice football game, Blank said. May was signed for $2,000, half of which was paid in ad vance. This $1,000 payment left only $19 in the senior class fund. The rest of the cost for the dance is to be made from the sale of tickets. Public School Week School Needs Cited During March 1-7 Encouraging and promoting vis its to schools by parents and oth er community citizens is one of the main objectives of the citizen’s committee for Public School Week, March 1-7. The time was set aside by the committee to better acquaint the public with the woi'k and activities of the schools. Other objectives of the special week set foi'th by the committee are: • To foster recognition and bet- Monday Deadline Set For Banquet Tickets Monday is the deadline for buy ing Junior Banquet tickets, said T. B. Fields, president of the jun ior class. Banquet tickets cost $1.50 a piece. Tickets for the Junior Ball, to be held after the banquet, cost $2 with or without a date. The banquet will start at 6:30 p. m. Feb. 28. The dance will be gin at 9 p. m. Film Society Show Is ‘Oscar’ Tonight Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable team up to make “It Hap pened One Night” one of the epic light comedy films ever turned out by the movie industry, said Ed Holder, president of the A&M Film Society. The society will show the Oscar- winning film at 7:30 tonight in the MSC Ballroom, an admission j price of 25 cents will be charged for persons not having a season pass. “It Happened One Night” is the story of a young lady forced by ‘circumstances to share a tourist cabin with a strange man. Her ef forts to divide the small cabin into two bedrooms by using a blanket for a partition is a humor ous highlight of the film. NEW ISSUES OFF PRESS—Both The Commentator and The Engineer magazines are entering the final stages of preparation. The February issues of each magazine will be distributed to students by the end of next week. The Engineer is in the distribution process now, and The Commentator is being bound. ter understanding of the needs of the schools by all the people in the community. @ To bring about a recognition of the individual members of the teaching staff, permitting them and the public to become better ac quainted. Committee chairman J. B. Baty said all committee members will be given assignments to bring full publicity to Public School Week. J. J. Skrivanek, principal of Consolidated High School, will ar range a program of events, includ ing an open house. He also is planning exhibits by students, visits to classes and oth er steps to insure public partici pation in various school activities. Don Vestal and John Rogers, members of the school board, will present special programs at Ki- wanis and Lions Club meetings to show needs of the schools and to obtain recognition for the teaching staffs. Radio Publicity Set Radio publicity programs from prepared tape recordings will be presented by Richai'd Webb, man ager of radio station WTAW. Luther Jones and other commit tee members will arrange for ob servance of Public School Week at church services. They also will obtain a proclamation from Mayor Ernest Langford, and carry out other publicity activities. Next meeting of the committee is set for 4 p. m. Wednesday. Deferment Tests Set for April 23 Selective Service College Quali fication Tests for 1953 will be given April 23, announced Selective Service National Headquarters. Applications can be obtained from any local Selective Service board and must be filled out ac cording to instructions given in a bulletin of information and post marked no later than March 9, of ficials said. Results of the tests will be re ported to the student’s local board of jurisdiction, which will consider his deferment as a student, accord ing to Educational Testing Service, which prepares and administers the College Qualification Test, they said. across Southeast Texas—uprooting trees, tearing away roofs and smashing small frame houses. While thun derstorms and high winds poised a tornado threat for East Texas, snow and bitter cold—as low as 10 above zero—were forecast for the Panhandle and South Plains. A slow moving norther was pushing across the state, drawing damp gulf air toward it like a magnet. Chances of the winter storm for bringing any rain in Central Texas faded fast, however. Hopewell Hit Hardest Hardest hit by the vicious hit and run tornado was the little com munity of Hopewell where six small farm houses were smashed. The brick school was damaged. Several houses Were unroofed at Pine Hill and Pearson Chapel. Many power poles were snapped and lines were stripped from in sulators in the Hopewell and Pear son Chapel areas. Weches in the northern end of Houston county escaped whirling winds but got its heaviest hail storm in the memory of old time residents. Hickory creek was filled bank to bank with hail stones. One farmer told of hail stones drifted a foot deep on his front porch. The tornado apparently blew it self out in the western edge of the Davey Crockett National Forest. Ranger Orrie Hansen said a 14 mile swath was cut into the edge of the forest, knocking down an estimated 250,000 board feet of timber. R. A. Miller of Dallas, a sales man, said he outran the tornado while enroute to Crockett. He said he didn’t know how fast the twister was coming down the highway but that he outdistanced it in his auto mobile at 70 miles an hour. Rain at Corsicana Heaviest rain Thursday morning was Corsicana’s .80 of an inch. Lighter rain was reported then at ' '(Cee WEATHER, Page 4) Dean Shepardson Speaks to TDP1 Dean of Agriculture Charles N. Shepardson and Dr. A. V. Moore, dairy husbandry professor, will speak before the annual conven tion of the Texas Dairy Products Institute. The meeting will begin Sunday and end Tuesday. Shepardson will speak on “An Industry Program for Personnel Recruitment.” Moore will conduct a scoring cljnic for frozen desserts, along with Dr. J. J. Willingham of Texas Tech. Goodrich Attends Dallas Banquet Dr. Robert E. Goodrich, Jr., main speaker during A&M’s RE Week, left Wednesday to attend a Brotherhood Week banquet in Dal las, said W. L. Penberthy, dean of men. The banquet was given by the First Methodist Church in Dallas of which Goodrich is pastor. Mar tin S. Burkhead, sophomore petrol eum engineering major from La- mesa, went with Goodrich to rep resent A&M in the Brotherhood program, Penberthy said. In accordance with Brotherhood Week, members of Goodrich’s church brought a Catholic or Jew ish guest to the banquet. It was held Wednesday night. Both Goodrich and Burkhead re turned in time for the morning service in Guion Hall Thursday. Aggieland ’53 Extends Club Picture Deadline Deadline for club picture reser vations for the Aggieland ’53 has been extended to March 1. “Get your reservations in early so pic tures can be scheduled,” said Jim Royalty, clubs editor for the year book. SLC to Hear Chest’s Request S^or Benefit Tilt An Air Force-Ground Force benefit basketball game will be considered at 4 p. m. Mon day by the Student Life Com mittee. It will meet in the MSC Senate Chamber. A request for the game has been submitted to the committee by the Campus Chest committee of the Student Senate. Dan Russell of the SLC is sche duled to give a financial report on the 1952 12th Man Bowl game. He will present plans for future games and possible division of pro fits from them. Russell was chair man of the Bowl committee. C. G. (Spike) White, Student Activities head, will report on the action of the Academic Council amendment to the Student Life Committee Constitution concern ing the selection of Who’s Who. The committee will discuss the time and place for awarding keys and certificates to students named on Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Col leges. Subcommittee reports will be given by Dr. Carl Landiss ’ of the faculty-student relation subcom mittee and J. Gordon Gay of the student welfare and recreation subcommittee. Dance Classes Set To Start Monday Dancing classes will begin again at 7:15 p. m. Monday in the MSC Assembly Room. Classes were discontinued dur ing Religious Emphasis Week but will again be held every Monday and Tuesday, said Mrs. Ann Hilli ard, MSC social director. The classes are a continuation of last semester’s lessons. Manning Smith will continue as instructor. Lessohs include square dancing. Local girls are scheduled to help with the dancing instruc tion, Mrs. Hilliard said. Intercollegiate Rodeo Set Here The annual A&M Intercollegiate Rodeo will be held April 16-18 with schools participating from throughout the United States. It will be held in the Aggie Rodeo Arena, across the tracks from Kyle Field. Roland Reid from Hillsboro pro bably will furnish the rough stock for six events in each perform ance, which shall consist of bare- back bronc riding, saddle-bronc riding, calf roping, ribbon calf roping, bull-dogging and bull rid ing. The girls’ events are goat tying, barrel races and flag races. This rodeo is sponsored by Tex as Aggie Rodeo Club. Journalism Majors To Get Internships Four journalism majors will re ceive 10 week inteinships on four state newspapers this summer. Those receiving the internships and the papers for which they will work are Jerry Bennett, The Fort Worth Press; Joe Hipp, the San Antonio Express; Calvin Pigg, The Refugio Timely-Remarks, and Gardner Collins undecided. These students, all juniors prob ably will have their summer camp postponed. “This is an official in ternship program,” Burchard said, “And we have never had summer camp complications before,”