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V Page 2 THE BATTALION Friday, October 16, 1953 Consolidated School’s Growth Shows Progress With a history closely parallel ing that of A&M College, the A&M Consolidated school system has grown from one small building to a proposed $385,000 high school building. The modern era of the system be gan in 1920. In that year Rock Prairie, Union Hill and Wellborn districts combined their resources With the college district for high School instruction. The same stucco building now used by the college for the Music hall was built at that time. Soon afterward four classrooms were added. It was not until 1926, however, that the A&M Consolidated inde pendent school district was created. This move combined the four dis tricts already using the same high school facilities. In the early 1930’s the high school was moved to another build ing still used by the college— Pfeuffer hall. The school stayed on the campus until February 1, 1940, when it was moved to its present location. This new school plant included the pre sent junior high school building, the shop and music room and 14 elementary classrooms. A sub scription campaign by local re sidents raised $5,000 to purchase the present site. Only one addition was made dui*- ing the war years. This was the construction of the gymnasium at Special Trips Are Planned For Tree Study Special field classes are being planned by the floriculture depart ment for persons who wish to know more about Texas’ shrubs, trees and vines. L. J. Tolle jr. assistant profes sor in the department, said no technical knowledge or special pre paration will be required, since in struction will be simple and ques tions welcomed. Classes will be held during the spring semester, and will replace in the spring garden forum for Home Gardeners. Tentative plans set the class times from 2 to 4 p. m. April 2, 9, 23 and 30, 1954. Registration will be open to anyone interested, Tolle Said. Instruction will be given during informal outdoor talks, tours of greenhouses and nurseries and ex amination of the plants. “Gaining a better practical knowledge of the many beautiful woody plants available for study on the campus and in the nurseries at A&M is the goal of the classes,” said Tolle. Employes Dinner Club Meets Soon The October meeting of the A& M College Employes Dinner club will be at 7:30 p. m. Thursday, in the Memorial Student Center ball room, said Dean Walter H. Dela- plane, arrangements chairman. Dancing will follow the dinner, with Lee Thompson in charge of the music. For those who do not care to dance, the Center’s game room will be open, Dean Delaplane said. M r s. S. T. Keim will sup ervise table arrangements and de corations for the dinner. Reserva tions must be made before 2 p. m. Wednesday at the MSC main desk. CHS and the main building at the Lincoln school for Negroes. In 1949 the present high school building and a four-room building at Lincoln were added. Also that year, the Peach Creek and Minter Springs districts were added to the district under provisions of the Gilmer-Aiken School Law. Most recent of the improvements to the school plant were the cafe teria and six classrooms for the elementary school and a shop and A&M Consolidated high school is catching up on the idea of in troducing swing music into half time marching activities at foot ball games. “School bands all over the state are playing more and more swing,” said Robert L. Boone, CHS music director. “We have been behind in the idea, but we are catching up fast.” This is the first year the 43- piece marching band has done any actual formations, Boone said. So far this year the band has done nothing but letter formations. “We are limited by our small News Briefs Arts, Sciences Council Meets Monday Night THE ARTS and Sciences coun cil will hold its first meeting of the year at 7:30 Monday night in room 108 of the Academic build ing. j * * * * JAMES H. KIDD Jr. of Harl ingen has received his commission and Navy “wings” at Pensacola, Fla. Kidd attended A&M prior to entering the navy. * * * JAMES B. HETH of Dallas has become a qualified carrier pilot. He attended A&M before entering the cadet program. * * * CAPT. EUGENE R. Siebert of Merkel arrived on Okinawa recent ly from Korea. He was recalled to active duty in the army in March, 1952, and is a former A&M stu dent. PAUL G. BOOZMAN was re cently graduated from navy pre flight school. He is a former A&M student. * * * THE STUDENT senate hospital committee and the faculty hospital committee will hold a joint meet ing at 5 p. m. Monday. Anyone who wishes to present something to the committees concerning the hospital should see Bennie Zinn, assistant dean of men. * * * THE FIRST state - wide com modity group for peach growers was set up here at the conclusion of an educational meeting on peach production problems. Ninety persons attended the meeting. * * * A CANVASS of industry’s tran sportation needs for the future is being made by researchers here as part of a program jointly sponsor ed by the Texas Highway depart ment and the A&M system. science room at the Lincoln school. These were all added in 1951. Two hotly contested bond elec tions were held this year to further improve the school’s facilities. A first election for $650,000 was vot ed down, but later a $385,000 bond issue was passed. To be finished by September, 1954, are two classroom buildings. Also included in the construction will be a 600 seat auditorium band and choral rooms and a gen eral purpose room for Lincoln. number,” Booned explained. Enthusiasm over the band is ap parently growing, Boone said. Be sides the growth in numbers, he seemed pleased with the students’ interest and willingness to help. At the first of the school year Bonne appointed a committee to help plan halftime activities. This group meets once each week and offers suggestions to Boone. “Their suggestions are- very good,” he said. Boone also described how he plans the marching activities. He said they try to salute the visiting team, the CHS team, and then fea ture the band or majorettes in a marching or twirling exhibition. The band practices one 45-minute period each day and sometimes after school. Some members even come in at other periods during the day and do individual practic ing, Boone said. “We have a better band this year because the kids wanted it to be better. With the help of the community, the band boosters and the civic clubs we were able to buy some new instruments and uni forms,” he said. Will Receive Degree A graduate of the University of Houston with a bachelor of science degree in music, Boone came to CHS in 1950. His first two years he was choral director, but this year he also handles the band. He will receive his master of science from Sam Houston State college next summer. Members of the marching com mittee, which assists Boone in planning the halftime activities, are Roy Courin, Betsy Burchard, Mildred Dew, Ann Flemming and Pat Owens. CHS Band Plans Skating Party A skating party and picnic for all band members will be given by the A&M Consolidated school Band Booster’s club from 6 to 8 p. m. Tuesday on the Luke Patranella Memorial Slab. Plans for the party were dis cussed at a meeting of the Band Boosters club Tuesday night at the junior high school. President Mrs. W. A. Varvel told about the progress on the calendar drive. “All of the advertising for the calendar has been sold, but we do need more people to list their birthdays, anniversaries and club meeting dates at 25 cents for each date,” she said. Deadline for all calendar sales and for listings is Wednesday, Oct. 21. Anyone not contacted by a con solidated student my call Mrs. Varvel to get an event listed. WED.thru SAT. OCT. 14, 15, 16,17 AGGIELAND PHARMACY —Free Delivery— North Gate Phone 4-4344 The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions “Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechan ical College of Texas, is published by students four times a week, during the regular school year. During the summer terms, and examination and vacation periods, The Battalion is published twice a week. 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Classified ads may be placed by telephone (4-5324) or at the Student Activities Office, Room 209 Goodwin Hall. JERRY BENNETT, ED HOLDER Co-Editors Chuck Neighbors Managing Editor Harri Baker Campus Editor Bob Boriskie Sports Editor Jon Kinslow City Editor Jerry Estes Basic Division Editor Bob Hendry Feature Editor Barbara Rubin Society Editor Bill Turner Advertising Manager Band Likes Swing Music at Halftime FROM THE CITY DESK City Faces Acute Sewer Problem By JON KINSLOW Battalion City Editor College Station again is attempting to improve its pre sent sewage disposal system. A committee appointed from the city council last year looked into the city’s sewerage problem and found that there is something that needs to be improved Although the north part of the city has a disposal sys tem, it is handled by Bryan, through an agreement by the two cities. But in the south and east parts there is no dis posal system. In fact, there is not a disposal plant anywhere in College Station. In the south and east, there is only a system of septic tanks, except in the Negro districts where there is no system of disposal at all. These two sections of the city must have improved sew erage facilities. Advisory Board Appointed Mayor Ernest Langford recently appointed a Citizen’s Advisory board to meet with Fred Benson, city engineer. Benson is now work ing on the ways the problem can be solved and the cost of each. It will be at least 30 days before this re port is ready. After considering the city engi neer’s proposals, it will be up to the advisory board to choose the Financing f most practical plan. But this will be only the beginning of the pro ject. The board’s recommendation must then be taken to the city council for approval. If the council approves any plan for improving the disposal system, a bond issue must be passed before the por- ject can be carried out. ic Solution Langford said the project would cost between $350,000 and $500,- 000. But he also said this would probably not mean an increase in taxes. Here’s why: Besides taxes the city also gets income from utilities. If the city passed a bond issue calling for tax bonds, then naturally the retirement of these bonds would have to come from tax money. But, there is another type of bonds that can be passed, revenue bonds. These bonds would be retired by revenue from the city’s utilities and taxes would not be raised. However, there are several things whoc cannot be worked out until the advisory board reviews the possible solutions to the problem. Ran Boswell said there is no way of knowing how the project will be financed—either by revenue bonds or by tax bonds. If the move should be financed through revenue bonds, Boswell says there is also no way of knowing if this will raise utility rates. “There are a number of things that go into figuring the financial aspect of such a program,” he said. “We will have to wait until the advisory board and the council make some definite actions.” Needed Improvement Does the city actually need the new sewers ? “Yes,” says Langford. “It’s go ing to have to come sooner or later, and the public should realize this.” It should also be taken into con sideration that if such a project is planned, it will be quite a while until it can be started. Also, not only would this new system take care of present city needs, but provisions would be made for any annexation that might be undertaken. The only direction which the city can annex is to the south, and this is where this system would be built. Boswell emphasized that any new additions to the city could be linked to the system without diffi culty. Taxpayer’s Viewpoint The first thing the taxpayer begins to think about is, “How will this effect me?” As Boswell said, it is too early to tell. It could be possibly that the utility rate would be raised, but Bos well said this was something that will be decided if the plan is ap proved by the council. He emphasized that the project need not mean an increase on the taxpayer in any way. As it now stands, there is only one thing definite—the city will have to have some sort of disposal system for the south and east sections. TIRE HEADQUARTERS B. F. Goodrich & Kelly Springfield TIRES • TUBES • BATTERIES • Factory Method Re-Treading Vulcanizing and Repairs • We Loan You a Tire While We Re-Tread Your Old Tire. • Complete Stock on Used Tires All Sizes (White or Black Wall) BRAZOS TIRE SERVICE 2707 Hwy. No. 6 South Ph. 3-3078 Conserving Water Is A&M’s Exhibit By BILL PARSONS Battalion Staff Writer The A&M System is showing thousands of visitors at the Texas state fair why they should conserve water. They are doing this by Using exhibits which fill half the fair’s agriculture building. The exhibit’s name is “Water of Texas.” The first part of the display shows a large color map of Texas mounted on an inclined plane. The map shows how much rain falls in different sections of the state. Resting in a storm cloud over the state is a life size figure of Mother Nature. The figure tells people looking at the map how Texas gets fresh water from the salt water of the Gulf. Statue Talks As she talks, Mother Nature pulls a lever in the cloud which causes thunder and lightening to roar through the building. Also included on the map are a few major city locations and rivers for orientation purposes. The map and Mother Nature are set against Study Club Plans Opera Workshop An opera workshop is planned by the Campus Study club, 3 p. m. Tuesday at the YMCA. This is the first general meet ing of the year for the club. Mrs. J. B. Baty is in charge of the pro gram. The meeting will be preceded by a short meeting of the exe cutive board at 2:30 p. m. Mrs. Carl Lyman is Study club president. a background of a painting of a typical section of Texas country side showing such things as field crops, the weather, and the oil and cattle industry. Walking up the ramp to the dis play and around this front exhibit, the visitors view approximately seventeen settings demonstrating why Texans should conserve water. Twelve of these settings represent the twelve extension service dis tricts of the state. In the Piney Woods exhibit, for instance, there is a boy sitting on the bank of a pond pulling out a fish with his line and pole. The boy and pole ac tually move. The pond is filled with live bullfrogs and giant bass and perch. Cowboy Ropes Cloud A cowboy on a jeep has a rope around a cloud trying to squeeze the last drop of water from it in the Panhandle exhibit. This scene fades into the dimness of the hor izon. Water actually drops from the clouds which the cowboy has lassoed. The other five auxiliary displays show some of the more important features of water in relation to the welfare of Texans. These five are entitled; “Underground Water Resources and Problems”, “Water shed Management”, “Water and Life”, “Weather and Water Rela tionships” and “Water Treatment and Processing”. This year’s elaborate display is quite a contrast to the first state fair exhibit held in 1886 which cen tered around a crude steam engine. This steam engine was made by F. E. Giesecke and seniors of that year. Today the antique may be seen in the Mechanical Engineering Shops. 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