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THE BATTALI-ON
Thursday, March 18,1954
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
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What’s Cooking
THURSDAY
7 p.m.—Runnel’s county home
town club meeting, room 106, Aca
demic building.
7:15 p.m. — Falls county A&M
club meeting, room 126, Academic
building.
Pasadena hometown club meet
ing, room 305, Goodwin hall.
Bosque county club meeting,
room 3B, MSC.
San Antonio club meeting, room
301, Goodwin hall. Final plans
for Easter party and club picture.
El Paso A&M club meeting, Aca
demic building.
Corpus Christ! hometown meet
ing, MSC (not Academic building).
All members a^sked to attend.
Pecan Valley hometown club
meeting, bulletin board in Academ
ic building. Plans for consolidation
with Coleman county club.
Tyler-Smith county hometown
club meeting, room 2C, MSC. Cof
fee and cookies will be served.
7:30-—Brazoria county club meet
ing, room 208, Academic building.
Business meeting concerning the
date for picture to be made for the
annual.
Milam county hometown club
meeting, cabinet room YMCA.
Palestine chib meeting, 4th
floor, Academic building. To dis
cuss Easter party.
East Texas A&M club meeting,
room 227, Academic building.
Preparation for high school d;^y.
Orange hometown club meeting,
room 301, Goodwin hall.
Texarkaifa FohiSStat'cs "c l u b
meeting, r o o m 224, Acadeniic
building. Picture: for the Aggie-
land will be discussed.
Caldwell county club meeting,
room 3D, MSC.
Beaumont A&M club meeting,
room 104, Academic building. Se
lection for representative to Cotton
Ball.
FRIDAY
7:15 p.m.—Brazos Flyers Flying
club meeting, projection room of
New Engineering building. Movie
Will be Shown. Everyone inter
ested in flying is invited to attend.
7:30 p.m.—Loving county A&M
club meeting, telephone booth-—
MSC. Picture for annual.
Lyall Visits
a/
Consolidated
Music Classes
Dr«, Jack Lyall, professor of
music education at Teachers
College, Columbia University
and consultant for Silver
Burdett company is spending
Wednesday and Thursday working
with teachers of music at* the'
A&M Consolidated school.
He is., accompanied by Yates
Dickinson, a Solver Burdett re
presentative.
Wednesday, Dr. Lyall gave
demonstrations of teaching mu£ic
in the elementary grades, and dis
cussed in elementary, faculty meet
ing the public school music pro
gram.
Thursday he directed the 600
elementary pupils briefly singing
at Guion hall, where they spent the
morning seeing “Peter Pan” and
the “Bear County” and hearing
organ imisic by Mrs. J. B- Baty and
J>;ivi,d Mitchell,
i luitei' ■ ■ ■
of
CHS Sportlight
alter he Jemonikratecl te;^'bi4ig^ A - a ,!
.. .. a sixth "grade 'Tftttisic <• laKa^yancP
dii cea tir .■Icmentitryghdrus :mu J •?* d
the hi git"'school chords at Lincoln (Continued iaknaiTage I)
school.
New Mexico Shivers
Under New Cold Wave
ALBUQUERQUE, March 18 t—:
Gales, of cold air, snow flurries and
icy r&ins blew into New Mexico
late behind a savage dust storm.
Temperatures tumbled 15 to 20
degrees .■
ers End Week
By Defeating Allen
By CLIFTON BATES
CHS Sports Writer
The A&M Consolidated Tigers completed the first week of the
1954 baseball season last Friday by downing Allen high school, 2-0.
Consolidated edged the Sealy Tigers 4-3 in their season opener earlier
in the week.
The Tigers clash with Sealy today in Sealy while playing host to
Huntsville Hornets tomorrow.
In the contest with Sealy, both clubs got four hits as J. B. Carroll,
Bobby Carter, Manuel Garcia and William Arnold collected one each
for CHS. Pete Hickman started on the mound for the winners, to be
relieved by Pinky Cooner in the fourth inning. The visitors picked
up a single run jm the first half of the second inning. Consolidated
came back quickly in the last half of the inning to pick up four runs.
Sealy closed the.gap to 4-3 in the third inning as they pushed across
two, runs on a double, a single, and'two Tiger errors.
Hickman pitched the first five innings against Allen, being re
lieved by Cooner. Each team picked up five hits. Melvin Free, the
Tiger catcher, was the big gun for CHS at the plate as he hit for two
sipgles and scored the only two runs. Arnold tapped two singles while
Bonnen picked up the other one. .<
Tennis Starts Workouts
Coach Horace Schafer’s tennis hopefuls began working out re
cently. Boys reporting in the senior high division were Fred Ander
son, Bobby Jackson, Roland Beasley, Bubba Engelbrecht, and Robert
Cleland. Girls reporting were Betsy Burchard, Penny Laverty, Janice
Latimer, Sandra Couch, Helen Holmes, Eugenia Rush, and Jo Anne
Walker. Junior high school boys reporting were Don Avera, Richard
Allen, and Jerry Mills.
Tlfe tennis team corqpeted in the Alvin Tournament last week.
In the boys singles, Beasley lost to E. M. Huitt of Alvin in the
quarter finals aifd Englebrecht was defeated by Jerry Dolmick of
Lamar-Rosenberg in the quarter finals. In boys doubles, Anderson
and Jackson downed Graylee and Bob Traylor of Lamar-Rosenberg in
the semi-finals. In Jhc finals;, they lost to Billy Rpye and Roy Powell
of Alvin.
Sandra Couch defeated Judy Cox of Bay City in the first round
play of the girls singles. In the semi-finals, she lost to Charlotte
Landott of Webster. Betsy Burchard was downed by Jarrett Vogan
of Alvin in the first round play. Vogan won the girls singles cham
pionship. Penny Laverty and Janice Latimer were defeated by tour
nament champions Lynda Ryan Jnd Fayrene Wilson in the first round.
In the girls singles junior division, Helen Holmes won over Sue
Brimer of Alvin in the fitst found. In the finals Holmes lost to
Barbara Woodard of Alvin!
■ Schools competing in the tournament were Alvin, CHS, Lamar-
Rosenberg, El Campo, Bay City, Webster, and Sugarland
The Consolidated tennis team took a meet with Navasota last
weekend in College Station, 7-0.
In boys singles, Anderson downed Ivon Lee, 6-2, 6-0; and Beasley
won over Eddie Martin, 6-1,; 6-0. In boys doubles, Englebrecht and
Jackson defeated Fred Lplimeycr and Billy Webb, 6-1, 6-2.
Bets^ Burchard downed Ja|vie Mitchell 6-3, 6-0, in girls singles
Also in_girls singles, Helen Holipes defeated Carol Jo Bindley 6-1, 6-0
In girls doubles, Penny Laverty and Sandra Couch defeated Janie Mit
chell and Harris 8-6, 7-5. j
•■'The Consolidated boys will compete in the Central Texas Tour-
namept jn Austin tomorrow and Saturday.
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Hiway G So.
Skyway Corner
suits of name-calling so they can
get ahead with something good for
the country. He said he, believed
with all his being that it’s serious
when things occur to upset Con
gress 1 and Separate it from the ex
ecutive branch.
As for believing Stevens, the
President said — and repeated—
that of Course he does.
- And as for “all these embroil
ments,” as a newsman put it, hurt
ing armed service morale, Ei
senhower said that while he hasn’t
made a specific check he would
suspect that inside their hearts a
lot of people are hurt. ■
Now justified criticism, said the
President, is another thing.
He said he’d read in the paper
about a genei’al presumably he
meant reports abput Maj. Gen.
Roderick Allen then at Ft. f)ix.,
N. J. who built a dog house with
federal funds. Well, snapped Ei
senhower amid laughter, he ought
to live in it.
A House Appropriations sub-
goniuliftee reported last week Al
len had a dog run, fence and ken
nel built at a cost of $1,200.
Officers Get Four
Of Five Escap ees
MIDLAND, March 17—GP)--Of-
ficers counted four down and one
to go yesterday in their roundup
of five who broke out of the How
ard County jail at Big Spring.
Still at liberty was David Leach,
serving five years for forgery.
Thomas Taylor, who said he led
the way out r of the jail Tuesday,
was nabbed here today at home
with his bride.
Captured earlier were John
Springer, Randall Hendricks and
Jack Thompson.
LWV To Continue
Possible Revision
WACO, March 18—(A 5 ) — The
Texas League of Women Voters
will consider possible improve
ments in state election laws and
changes in the state Constitution
at its convention in Galveston
March 30 - April 1.
Mrs. L. K. Richards of Waco,
president, said yesterday about
300 delegates will vote on a pro
posed two-year work program on
those subjects.
Duval Auditor
Resigns Yesterday
SAN DIEGO, March 18—(TP)—
Duval County Auditor C. T. Stan-
sell quit his job yesterday but gave
no reason.
County commissioners had pre
pared to meet to consider a re
quest for an independent audit of
refords in all county offices.
The Duval County Clean Gov
ernment League had made the re
quest in a petition March 8.
County and school district re
cords have been under investiga
tion by federal and state authori
ties for more than a year.
Ease bail
n at
A&M Consolidated High School
began practice for the 1954 Base
ball season as eighteen hopefuls
turned out to gain themselves a
position on the Tiger baseball team.
Pinkey Cooner, Pete Hickman,
Manuel Garcia, Bobby Potts, and
Michael McGuire are reporting for
the position of pitcher, Catchers
are Melvin Free, Jack McNeely,
and Jimmy Simpson.
The infielders who turned out
are Norman Floeck, David Bonnen,
William Arnold, J. B. Carroll, and
David Smyth. Outfielders are Bob
by Carter, Dick Hickman, Jay
Page, Roy Courim, and Jimmy
Bond.
The Tigers will compete in Dis
trict 50-A. The district is compris
ed of Tomball, Cypress-Fairbanks,
and CHS. The Tigers will begin
district play on Apidl 13 when
they me»t the Tomball Cougars
at home. District competition is
set up on a triple-rqund basis
Workouts
r'TTQ
with each team meeting the other
teams three times each.
CHS will meet the. Sealy Tigers
Tuesday at home and Allen High
School in Bryan, Friday. Coach
Bevens gave possible starters as
Melvin Free, catcher, Pinky Coon
er, Pete Hickman, or Manuel
Garcia, pitcher, Bobby Carter,
first baseman, David Bonnen, sec
ond baseman, William Arnold, third
baseman, and, J. B. Carroll, short
stop. Outfielders are Jimmy Bond,
Jack McNeely and Manuel Gai-cia.
The Tigers finished second be
hind Round-Top-Carmine in the
West Zone competition-'bf District
66-B last year. This saihe team Was
defeated by St. Thomas of Houston
in a two out of three series .for the
Area Four Championship in Ameri
can Legion Baseball.
In 1952 the United States pro
duced about 55 per cei^t .of the oil
in the free world. j- ; A
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Compared to the great cities of
the ancient world, the cities of
Europe in the Middle Ages were
small. • : .
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Team No. 20d are, comingr'to
Texas A&M to show you ■
hpw. They’ll; be here 29,
30, 31 March and 1 April.
Meet them at the MSC dur
ing their stay.
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