Page 2 THE BATTALION Friday, December 18, 1953 Pioneer Starts Flying First Class Mail Who's Who At Texas The fh'st pouch of U. S. mail other than air mail ever to be sent from College Station left Wednes day on Pioneer Air Lines said Morrision, company manager. The Civil Aeronautics board and the U. S. post office authorized the nation’s 14 local service airlines to start the transport of first class mail Tuesday. The authorization became effective Wednesday. The CAB and post office plan to give permits to Pioneer and oth- or local service carriers to trans port first class mail on an experi mental basis from Dec. 1 through Jan. 11. The plan will give Pioneer addi tional mail revenue at the rate of .‘50 cents per ton mile of mail car- ried. This is the first time first class mail has been transported by air plane in the Southwest. Pioneer’s transport of first class newspapers, special delivery parcel post and other classes of mail will greatly alleviate the problem of mail handling during this season of the year, Morrison said. The local post office of College Station presented the first pouch of the new type of mail to Morri son Wednesday to take to Houston on Pineer’s 8:2G p. m. flight. The first pouch o.f such mail arrived in College Station from Fort Worth on Pioneer’s 3:12 flight Wednesday. Christmas Decorations To Be Judged Monday Christmas decorations on lawn and porches of College Station res idents will be judged Monday night. The judging starts at 7 p.m. The contest is sponsored by the College Station Chamber of Com merce and the Civic Development association. Extension Service Club Holds Christmas Meeting It was guest day at the annual Christmas meeting of the Exten sion Service club Thursday after noon at the Memorial Student Center. Members had been invited to bring a guest to this meeting which featured a program in keeping with the Christmas season. Mis. H. H. Broach gave a Christmas scripture reading - and offered a prayer to open the meet ing. Mrs. John E. Hutchinson, t h e program chairman, gave a lead ing of “The Littlest Angel”. Guests of the members included Mesdames Neil F. Graham, F. L. Thomas, Hugh M. Latimer, Russell Hillier, R. F. Buck, Smith Carr, S. S. Morgan, M. M. Daugherty. Mesdames A. H. Krezdorn, L. E. ChatrnansSay "Thank You' For Kindness Editors, The Battalion: I wish to thank everybody, both white and colored, for thcir kindness last week when our home was destroyed by Lie. ■' . 7 wish to think you all for your clothing and food and home furnishings. And now T want to thank the Presbyterian, church for the wonderful shower they gave us on Wednesday night Decem- ber 1C. We are now living in one of the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Chew on old Highway 6. Kindly thanking you all, Mr and Mis. Bennie Chatman Spangler, David Kaufman, E. B. Middleton, Harry Stiteler, W. C. Banks, Sadek Husseinic of Saudi Arabia, Tom Porter. Mesdames H. T. Blackhurst, W. H. Delaplane, Elva L. Hine, M. T. Harrington, E. L. Angell, R. D. Lewis, D. T. Hegi, C. A. Hensar- ling, Armstrong Price. Other g'uests were Misses Nancy Hewitt, Janelle Hutchison, and Frances Kimbrough. After the program coffee and fruit cakes were served during the social hour. Mrs. W. J. Moore, club president, and Mrs. Ben Cook presided at the coffee service. The table was covered with a dark green cloth. The centerpiece featured six white tapers surround ed by gold leaves, pine cones cind greenery. On the piano was a single sequin studded candle nestled among pine branches. Nearby stood a minia ture angel. There was a huge box of Christ mas gifts on the table brought by the members for needy families. Hostesses for Thursday’s meet ing were Mesdames A. M. Meek- ma, E. H. Bush, D. A. Adam, C. H. Bates, I. W. Rupel. Also Mesdames B. G. Hancock, E. A. Miller, C. B. Hewitt, Ver non A. Young and Louis P. Ans- ler. IOL CAR TRAVELS OTTAWA, Kan. _ Jerry Catt attracted a heap of attention to Ottawa University. The freshman student tui'ned up in a 1915 car (Ford). He said he made the trip from his home in Anderson, Ind., with only such minor troubles as a broken fan belt and a flat tire. Catt said he bought the car from an Indiana farmer for $10. Clam Diggers Are Exonerated WOODS HOLE, Mass. — Shooting all clam diggers to save the clam “won’t do the job in Massachusetts waters,” two ex perts report. Biologists Harry Turner and J. Arthur Nsgay, who are working to save the clams off Cape Cod agree that the horseshoe crab and the boring snail are more deadly than the clam digger. They say the crab and the snail eat 10 times their weight in clams a year— and both move so fast they can’t be eliminated. But Turner and Nosgay are trying to find a way. When the Black Ball Line esta blished the first regular sailings across the Atlantic in 1818, the average time on the eastward journey was 24 days and on the return trip, 38 days. 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. Days of publications are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year, and ’Tuesday and Thursday during examination and vacation periods and the summer terms. Subscription rates $9.00 per year or $.75 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. JSMiprecI as second-class naHtier at Post Office at College Station, Texas under the Act of Con- srea» of March 3, 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Advertising | Services, Inc., at New ' York City, Chicago, Nos Angeles, and San Fran cisco. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republi cation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in j the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. 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. JERRY BENNETT, ED HOLDER. .Co-Editors llbuck Neighbors .„...Managing Editor j Harri Baker Campus Editor j Jon Kinslow City Editor ! Jerry Estes Basic Division Editor j Bob Hendry Feature Editor Barbara Rubin Society Editor 1 Jerry Wizig Associate Sports Editor Bill Turner Advertising Manager Frank Hines, Jerry Neighbors, Bob Homey, Jim Collins, Ray Wall, A1 Kisenberg, Arnold Goldstein, Bill Parsons, Bill Warren, Jack Farley, John Hinton. King McGowan, Jay Ireland, Charles Kingsbury, George Manitzas, E. B. McGowan. Staff Writers | Gardner Collins Exchange Editor Bob Palmer. Tom Skrabanek . Advertising Staff James Earle. . .... . . .V. . . Staff CaRoonlst ; Seymour Smith, Will Hplladay, John ilvaoher ...Staff Photographers | Harry Higiitfoot . . Circulation Manager j Roland Baird, Jewel Raymond. Monroe Odom, Tom Syier, Buddy Williams, Russell Reed .Circulation Staff [ Gives Up Garbage Truck For Sewing Needle SAN DIGA, Calif. (A 5 ) _ This city’s last lady garbage truck driver has traded her three-ton truck for the sewing needle and the broom after more than 10 years service. Mrs. Ethel Jackson, 67-year-old widow, doffed her gloves and cap for the contrasting quiet of de- mesticity. She had hauled thousands of tons of garbage and drove more than 190,000 miles. She was one of seven women garbage truck drivers hired by the city during the World War IT man power shortage. Mrs. Jackson didn’t especially want to retire, but she’d passed the 65-year age limit. A storage- battery does not store electricity, but produces it through a reversible chemical reaction. SALE! 25% OFF ON Boy’s and Girl’s Western Suits A T HI,MIES 10(11 K. College Pli. 2-1018 B R Y A N Free Parking Space. By Walt Kelly ; WHY ISN'T YOU TAPS FRACTION 7 UP PCZ CHRISTMAS I U A PAOKAfiE TA66EP FOR YOUIL OPEN IT J2KSHT QUICK...) AN’All.YEAR YOU SHOWED YO' MAMS AH’ PAPS, yo'UNCke^, AUNT0 AN'KIN THAT THE WORtD IS RgAUY A PLACB OF LOVE 3Y gsIN '£WS5T TO'gvW — KESF1N 7 'gM AS READY FOR CHRISTMAS AS YOU IS? HELPIN' 'BM 617 THSOUSH? THINK THESe'-6 ATIU- Tl/Vl£ TO SiVfe 'EM A