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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,”