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THE BATTALION
Wednesday, March 4, 1953
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
IT’S THE GLASSES THAT GIVE IT THAT LIFE-LIKE LOOK
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Senate
Mail to
Urges
Austin
Editors, The Battalion:
Because of the resolution passed
in the Texas Senate yesterday,
proposing A&M to be coed, we
di’ove to Austin last night to talk
to Senator Bracewell ’38.
The senator especially stressed
the fact that the cadet corps should
Girl Scouts Set
Mom - Daughter
Meet March 13 Bracewell’s Letter
not do anything rash, such as a
corps trip to Austin, or a special
meeting of the cadet corps.
He said that the best thing to
do is to flood pur respective sena
tors with mail, showing our oppo
sition to the resolution.
He gave us the following letter
to have published to the student
body.
Kyle Gruene ’54
Vic Kennedy ’54
Dick Leavitt ’54
Mel Longhofer ’54
John Mearns ’54
Bill Tox-bett ’54
A Mother-Daughter reception
for all Brownies, Girl Scouts and
their mothers in Brazos county
will be given at 8 p. m. March
13 in the A&M Consolidated High
School gymnasium.
Girl Scouts of the Bryan-Col-
lege Station area will join 1.9 mil-
To the Corps of Cadets:
You are aware of the recent de
velopments in the legislature with
reference to a resolution directing
the board of directors of the col
lege to permit the attendance of
women students. This resolution
is now pending before the senate
on a motion to reconsider the vote
NEWS BRIEFS
Military Department Stres^
Improvement In Appearau
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Members of the military depart
ment have put their support be
hind all the dormitory counselors
in a new effort to enforce corps
uniform regulations.
“The counselors cannot possibly
The meeting will be in the Bi‘y- dents. He had been
an Chamber of Commerce rooms Joseph’s Church in Br,
at 7:30 p. m.
years.
Carla Mae McMullan of College
Station is among the 16 per cent
JERR^h
The Red Cross dri^Y) P
enfoi'ce these regulations on their of the students at the Texas State '
College for Women who have
achieved a B average in all classes.
Miss McMullan, a senior psy
chology majoi’, is the daughter of
Mi\ and Mrs. C. E. McMullaxx of
is $2,400, said Mrs. W, A'ing J
Price, chairman for deceive <
ities. will Lr>
M rs. Price is hpldiAid hi *
ness meeting Wednesday
er local Red Cross \f,nmag
organize the drive. The Most
own. They need our help, and
that’s why we decided to staid;
this campaign,” said Lt. Col. Tay
lor Wilkins, assistant commandant.
With fedei'al inspection coming
up soon, the appearance of the Boyett Street
cadets in uniform must be im- 1 .
proved, he said. All advanced AFROTC checks campaign will be from 11
* * ax-e now in and may be picked up ■ H 1
_ „ _ at Room 25 on the second floor of
Ihc Bx-azos County Polio Chapter ji oss Hall
will meet tonight for election of These checks are for the months
next years officers and a report December, January and Feb-
on the March of Dimes drive.
ruary.
lion sister scouts throughout the by which is was passed,
nation in the annual- Girl Scout i am violently opposed to the
Birthday celebration March 12. resolution, and intend to fight vig-
A brief program* will be present- orously the matter to the best of
BACKWARD
GLANCES
TSCW Art Show
Displayed in MSC
, . , . .. mo,™,, , , , , i it -4 . *11 the tournament, Mrs. Griffin said
Art work by the TSCW art de- cut, and two oils. Her picture titles T , a, i.
One Year Ago Today
Three scholarships totaling
$1,750 were given to three senior . .
ed on the origin and ideals of Girl my ability. It was brought up in petroleum engineering majors by partment faculty is being exhibit- include “Refinery,” “I
Scouting by five troops from Car- the senate without my knowledge Magnolia and Standard Oil Com- e d in the MSC. per Peninsula Drive,
and without any discussion on its panics.
Final plans for a bridge tourna
ment to be held April 11 will be
made at the Aggie Wives Bridge
Club business meeting in rooms
2C and 2D of the MSC Thursday
at 7:15 p. m., said Mrs. Lura Grif
fin, reporter.
A floor shoAv will be featured at
ver Elementary School of Bryan
Climax of the program will be a
style show, with members of 37
local troops modeling. Mrs. J. B.
Page, program chairman of the
The seniors were Bax-
merits.
While I do not feel that there is
any real danger that this resolu
tion will pass when the true facts
local Girl Scout Council, will di- concerning it are made known to
rect the program. the members of the legislature, let
“Another feature will be con- irie urge each of you, who feel as
ter D. Honeycutt, William M. Sar
gent and Julian C. Herring.
Five Years Ago Today
The Campus music lovers of
“Old Rattler” by Grandpa Jones
sent a letter to the Batt denounc-
Paintings, lithographs, jewelry,
photographs, pottery, and weav
ings will be displayed through
March 10. The exhibit was set up
Tuesday. A two day delay in
opening the show was caused by
the exhibits’ late arrival, said Mrs.
Emalita Terry, director of the
. *, .« , c i . . ., . r j 4 font act vour resneetive i n 8' those “low caliber programs” J-'manta ierry, director ot
tnbutions made by each individual 1 do. to contact youi lespective denrecatorv MSC Art Gallery committee,
troop to the Juliette Low Friend- representatives and advise them of wft l cn . nave t i 1Ke . n . tl aepiecatoiy
said Mrs. Mary Lan- y° U1 ’ opposition to the measure.
ship Fund,
caster, executive director of the I pledge you my best efforts to
Bryan-College Station Girl Scout fi S ht this resolution with all my
Council strength at my command and so-
This fund is used to send the !! cit + l°?L assistance to the end
Scouts and their leaders to visit that A &M may remain the great
military school that it has always
been, founded on the glorious tra-
ditions of its seventy-five years of
ors of the local Girl Scout Coun- history as the outstanding military
school in the nation.
Searcy Bracewell ’38
Senator
Harris County
girls of foreign countries.
Officers on the board of direct
cil are Mrs. Mary Lancaster, exe
cutive director; Mrs. R. E. Patter
son, president; A. T. Ball, vice-
president; Mrs. Fred Weick, secre
tary; U. M. Alexander, treasurer
and Mrs. I. G. Adams, registrar.
attitude towards this work.’
Ten Years Ago Today
The Agricultural Experiment
Station announced the develop
ment of a new type of grain sor
ghum which will produce a type
of starch needed for special in
dustrial purposes.
Fifteen Years Ago Today
The Aggies downed the Long
horns for the fourth straight time
at polo. The final score was A&M
7, the Longhorns 0.
The exhibit has been arranged
to show A&M students what the
Boots,” “Up-
“Edge of
Town, Taos,” “Back Street,” and
“Main Street.”
Four photographs, “Star Fish,”
“Newton’s Ring,” “Lights at
Night,” and “Moholy-Nagy” were
contributed by Miss Carlotta Corp-
ron.
Oils on exhibit are “Magnolia
Leaves” and “Paradise Lilies” by
Miss Marie Delleney; “Analysis”
and “Peel Off” by Mrs. Wilfred
Higgins; “The Sea” and “Evening”
The tournament will be opened to
everyone for a nominal fee.
Harry Boyer, chief of housing
at Texas A&M, is expected to be
released from Houston Memorial
Hospital Wednesday, said Allan
Madeley of the housing office.
He underwent a major operation
Feb. 16.
Housing officials expect him
back in his office in a few weeks.
TSCW art department is doing, by Mrs. K. B. Loomis; “Tulips”
Mrs. Terry said. The exhibit in- and “Water Lilies” by Miss Thetis
eludes two prize-winners. Many of Lemon.
the displays have been displayed
in shows over the country, she
said.
One Woodcut
‘Dispossessed’
Miss Edith Brisac has the most
works on exhibit with two water-
colors, one lithograph, one wood-
Coeds
(Continued from Page 1)
Former Soviet Worker
Speaks Here Friday
Broadcast Features
Barber Foursome
Dr. Dan Russell, professor in
the agricultural economics and
sociology department, was named
yesterday to the Christian Edu
cation Commission by the execu
tive board of the Baptist General
Miss Coreen Spellman has two Convention of Texas in Dallas,
paintings, “Buildings on 6th The commission will advise the
Street” and “Gallinas Canyon,” nine state Baptist schools on the
and two lithotints, “Sally” and bounds of school curriculum.
“Dispossessed”. in the show. * * *
Other paintings in the show Services were held yesterday
were contributed by Misses Mar- j n Bryan for Msgr. J. B. Gleissner,
jorie Baltzell and Dorothy A. La spiritual advisor for a half oen-
Salle. The pottery and weaving tury to thousands of A&M stu-
are the work of Miss Mabel E.
distinction and the ‘old army’ feel
ing at A&M. “But I’m definitely
for it,” Long added.
Some cadets said coeducation ) v dl speak on Americas Impact
.’as the onlv wav out of our m’nh- in Luiope at /.30 p. m. I* uday
A man who lived and worked for Europe” and
nine years behind the Iron Curtain tion.”
“Europe in Revolu-
A Barber Shop Quartet will be
featured on the WTAW Fountain
Room program from the MSC
March 10.
Maxey. Miss Thetis Lemmon has
an amethyst and a New Zealand
jade necklace on display.
was the only way out of our prob
lems.
A sophomore from Brownwood,
Don Friend, said it was inevietable
that A&M was either going to be
strictly military or coed.
“I’ll take the coeds any day,”
he said.
O. J. Anderson, sophomore from
in the MSC Ballroom.
John Scott, author, lecturer, for
eign correspondent and at var
ious times chief of several over
seas bureaus for Time and Life
Composed of Ken Jones, Bob
The great purge of 1937 forced Jones, Truiett Fields and Ron
him out of Soviet industry. He Cheves, the quartet will be the
Duncan, 4 Sbisa Buy
New Zealand Beef
T-bone steaks and some other
meats served recently in Sbisa and
was a Moscow correspondent for main attraction for next Tuesday Duncan Mess Halls have come
a French news agency and later
the London News Chronicle.
In 1940 and 1941, Scott made
two trips through the Balkans,
evening, said Don Friend, master
of ceremonies.
Port Arthur, put a final note on Journalism Club, The meeting is
the interviews with his comments.
magazines, will present the time- the Middle East, and Asiatic Rus
sia writing reports which at
tracted attention in many coun
tries.
Two weeks before the German
ly topic.
His visit is sponsored by the
“Show Time From the Center”
is broadcast every Tuesday and
Thursday evening from 5 to 5:25
p. m. with entertainment provided
by local talent.
“It’s going to break a lot of cus
toms and traditions,” he said, “Be
sides, I don’t think it will work.”
Jack Brandt, senior architect
major from Houston said, “Line
open to the public, according to ,, , . , ,, ttocot-. 4.1
-nf n/r .4, -j 4- .e 41 attack against the USSR, the Sov-
Frank Mamtzas, president of the . , 4, ... , ’ ,, ,.
club.
iet authorities expelled Scott from
the country for “slandering” Sov-
Having a thorough knowledge of iet foreign policy and “inventing”
the Soviet language, Scott was reports of Soviet-German friction,
able to uncover enough material He left country for good
the corps up and have them count to write several books about his and went to Japan where he joined
off by ‘twos.’ Send the ‘twos’ to stay behind the curtain and its the staff of Time. Scott, who is
Denmark. This would be ‘Opera- effects on Europe. The books were 40 years old, is married and has
tion Coed.” “Beyond the Urals,” “Duel for two children. His home is in Ridge-
field. Conn.
Past programs have featured
such talent as Jimmy Harrison
playing the guitar and singing
folk songs; the Kelly sisters from
Bryan; and a quartet composed of
Richard Reynolds, Lamar Ashley,
Ben Blankenship and Don Friend.
from New Zealand imports, said
J. G. Peniston, supervisor of sub-
sistance.
The college purchased some
30,000 pounds of beef at 22 cents
per pound. A local meat inspector
termed the meat US Good, and
said it is some of the best meat
ever served by the dining halls.
Peniston said more meat is be
ing served now not only because
of cheaper New Zealand beef,
but also because of the 18 per cent
drop in the over-all dressed meat
prices.
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
“Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman”
Faculty
(Continued from Page 1)
the effect coeducation would have
The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Meehan
ical College of Texas, is published by students four times a week, during on . the military department. He
the regular school year. During the summer terms, and examination said a study would have to be
and vacation pei'iods, The Battalion is published twice a week. Days of made of the situation,
publications are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year, “We have thought for a long
and Tuesday and Thursday during examination and vacation periods time that A&M’s present situation
and the summer terms. Subscription rates $6.00 per year or $.50 per has hamnered our trettimr ath-
month. Advertising rates furnished on request. fetes,’’ said Barlow (Boneff Hvin,
Entered as second - class
matter at Post Office at
College Station, Texas
under the Act of Con
gress of March 3, 1870.
Member of
The Associated Press
Represented nationally by athletic director
National Advertising
Services, inc., at New Wouldn’t Hurt Athletics
York City, Chicago, Los
Angeles, and San Fran- “If girls went to school here, it
Clh t ' certainly wouldn’t hurt the athletic
R.
The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republi- department.”
cation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in Basic Division Dean John
the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights Bertrand said the resolution was
of repubucation of all other matter herein are also reserved. ., . .
^ rather surprising.
“In view of things A&M has
stood for many years past, I ques
tion that such a move as proposed
by the resolution is a sound solu-
FRANK N. MANITZAS, JOEL AUSTIN Co-Editors tion to the problems at A&M,” said
Ed Holder, Jerry Bennett.. Managing Editors Dr. Bertrand
News contributions may be made by telephone (4-5444 or 4-7604) or
at the editorial office room, 202 Goodwin Hall. Classified ads may be
placed by telephone (4-5324) or at the Student Activities Office, Room
209 Goodwin Hall.
Harri Baker.. City Editor
Peggy Maddox Women’s News Editor
Today's Issue
Jerry Bennett.
Bob Hendry ...
Jerry Estes
Managing Editor
News Editor
Sports News Editor
He saw no use in speculating
about expected results to his school
because he felt the measure would
probably never become a reality.
Dr. G. G. Schlesselmann, faculty
member of the athletic council and
head of the geography department.
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Dean Kennedy rl i e cierls
ness manager of student activities.
“Without an opportunity to
study the matter further,” he said,
“I would think that coeducation
would benefit the student activities
program and would probably be an
incentive for the student body to
participate more fully in social ac
tivities.”
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