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Page 4 THE BATTALION Wednesday, April 7, 1954 • Anna Beaty, junior at A&M Consolidated high school, was elect ed area president at the meeting of the Future Homemakers of America last weekend in Waco. Anna will be recognized at the state meet in Fort Worth this month and will also attend the regional meeting in Daytona Beach, Fla. this summer. Thirteen girls attended from College Station. They are Anna, Mary Lou Lloyd Anna Patsy Nolan, Marilyn Floeck, Marian Gaddis, Carolyn Landiss, Bonnie Carrol, Elsie Richards, Jean Puddy, Helen Holmes, Rosanne Phillips, Eugenia Rush and Patsy Byrd. Accompanying the group were Mrs. A. M. Gaddis, Mrs. Jim Beaty and Mrs. Charles Byrd, FHA ad viser. Anna is incoming president of the local FHA chapter. She has been to FHA summer workshops two summers and attended the state FHA meeting in San An tonio last year. She holds her junior and chapter degrees and will work on her state degree next year. Phi Zeta Elects Officers Saturday The A&M chapter of Phi Zeta, national veterinary fraternity, held its annual initiation banquet and elected officers Saturday at Mag gie Parker’s dining room in Bryan. Officers elected for next year are Dr. Leon Gibbs, president; . Moore, vice president; and Ticken, secretary-treasurer. Dr. W. W. Armistead, dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine, was the speaker. Admission to the fraternity is based primarily on scholarship. Members initiated at the meeting were William Smith, Lloyd Reedy, Tommy Abbott, Ralph George, Jer ry Hosek, Richard More, Edward Tieken, and Billy Westbrook. 11,320 Licenses Sold in This County Eleven - thousand three hundred twenty license plates have been sold in Brazos county between Feb. 15 through April 2, said Norton Burkhalter, Brazos county tax assessor and collector. This rep-resents an increase of approximately 300 over the same period last year he said. Of the plates sold, 9,365 were for passenger cars; 1,240 were for commercial vehicles; and 715 were for farm vehicles. During 1953, 14,000 plates were sold, Burkhalter expects an in crease of 500 - 800 over last year’s sales. Thirty-five students in the Texas history class left at 7 a. m. this morning for Austin to visit the state legislature. The group is scheduled to visit the offices of the land commission er, the treasurer, the comptroller and the governor. They will also attend sessions at the House of Representatives and the Senate. The group will return to Col lege Station tonight. Six weeks tests begin Tuesday at the high school. They will con tinue during Wednesday and Thurs day. Friday will be holiday for all College Station schools. April 22 and 23 have been set as the dates for the opera to be pre sented by the high school. “The Lowland Sea” will be pre sented in the high school gym at 8:15 p. m. Claire Rogers and Margaret Berry will accompany the show. Roy Courim is engineer and will handle lighting and staging. The Stephen F. Austin choir will sing at an assembly program at the high school at 2 p. m. Thursday. A vocational testing program has begun at the high school in cooperation with the basic division at A&M. Last week the seniors received a preference test and the juniors will be given one this week. Later this semester a test of abilities will be given and the scores will be compared. Buddy Deaton of the A&M basic division is administering the tests. Mrs. Williams Gets High Score Prize Mrs. Janette Williams won high score prize for the regulars at the Aggie Wives Bridge club meeting Thursday night. The second high prize went to Mrs. Mary Mackin and the low prize to Mrs. Barbara Bryant. For the Intermediate group, score prizes were won by Mrs. Jane Foust and Mrs Barbara Jones. Hostess for Thursday’s meeting at the MSC are Mesdames Mary Mackin, Tyleen Wales, Allene Stutts and Juda Hayes. Meeting time is 7:30 p. m. CHS Announces Honor Roll For Six Weeks The A&M Consolidated High School has announced the honor roll for the last six weeks. The eight seniors on the list are David Bonnen, Bobby Jack- son, Carolyn Landiss, Penny Laverty, Robert Cleland, Charles Johnson, Fred Anderson and San dra Couch. There were also eight juniors on the honor roll. They were Jack Smith, Henry Phillips, Eugenia Rush, Bill Little, George Litton, Anna Beaty, Bonnie Cari’oll and Grace Cummings. Bobbie Miller, Marilyn Davis, Grant Lindsay, Anna Parsons, and Ann Flemming made up the list for the sophomore class. The freshman class has ninteen representatives. They are Jerry Kinman, David Lloyd, Joe Marek, Charles Delaplane, Jimmy Simp son, Marcia Smith, Larry Leighton, Don Patton and Maurice Olian. Also Dali McCannon, Ronald Gandy, Donald Barker, Marcus Reynolds, James Martin, Melanee Way, Jo Ann Walker, Bobbie Huff, Butch Couch, and John Skrivanek. IE Wives Plan Family Picnic A picnic for all of the industrial education and industrial technology married students and their families will be given by the I. E. Wives club. The picnic will be at 6:30 p. m. Friday in Hensel Park. Each family is to bring their own hot dogs and buns. Cold drinks, potato salad, baked beans and desert will be furnished by the club. Rodeo Team Goes To Alpine Friday The A&M rodeo team will go to Alpine this weekend to enter the Sul Ross intercollegiate rodeo which will be held Friday and Saturday April 9 and 10. The members of the team are Bobby Rankin, Lowie Rice, Billy Steele, Kenneth Beasley, R. S. Hig gins, and John Royall. James Dickey and Buddy Fincher are still suffering injuries thay received in the Sam Houston Rodeo and will not make the trip. Check the inventory of your food freezer often. This way you will be sure to use all foods within storage period recommended. Are You Tired . . . of the flat grayed monotony of today’s decoration ? Enrich it with the bright, textured world of wallpaper. ALWAYS SPECIAL PRICES ON CLOSE-OUTS CHAPMAN’S Paint & Wallpaper Co. BRYAN, TEXAS ^..IF J - Battalion Classifieds - BtTY, SELL, RENT OR TRADE. Rates ... 3e a word per insertion with a 25c minimum. Space rate in elassified section .... 00c per column-inch. Send all classified to STUDENT ACTIVITIES OFFICE. AH ads must be received in Student Activities Office by 10 a.m. on the day before publication. • FOR SALE • (1) 1939 DODGE % ton Pickup truck. Sealed bids will be receivied in the Office of the Auditor, College Administration Building until 10 a.m., April 19, 1954. The right is reserved to reject any and all bids and to waive any and all tech nicalities. Address Auditor, A&M College of Texas, College Station, Texas, for further information. 1947 INDIAN CHIEF motorcycle. Excel lent condition. See Mrs. Whitney, Tri angle Drive-In. BENDIX AUTOMATIC Washing machine, couch, baby bed, high chair, and desk. R. B. Hampton, Apt. A-7-D, College View. • HELP WANTED • BRAUTY OPERATOR. Pruitt’s Beauty Shoppe. • HOUSES FOR SALE • BY .OWNER, .reasonable price. Two bed- ropm home near College. Garage, garden area, fenced yards, attic fan, newly re decorated. GI or FHA financing. Call 6-4498 after 5:30 p.m. or anytime week ends. READ BATTALION CLASSIFIED Notice — June Graduates FOR SALE Used Tailor-Made Qft BLOUSES Used Government <210 CO Reg. BLOUSES Like new OD PANTS and “Ike” JACK ETS Set $12.95 LOUPOT’S TRADING POST North Gate • LOST • GREEN PARAKEET. Vicinity of College View. If found call 6-2702. • SPECIAL NOTICE • CALL 4-9099 for typing and related work, after 5 and on weekends. WANTED: Typing. Reasonable rates Pbone: 3-1776 (after 6 p.m.I MJL ROSS LODGE NO. 1HO0 A.F. * A.M. Stated meeting Sul Ross No. 1300 AF and AM. Thursday, April 8, 7 p.m. E. D. Madeley, W.M. N. M. McGinnis, Sec'y. IF YOU SEE this ad, other people will see the ad you run. Call 4-5324 or 4-1149 for Battalion Classified Ads. Official Notice The School of Agriculture of the A&M College of Texas is co-operating with all other Land-Grant Colleges, . the United States Department of Agriculture, and the United States Civil Service Commission in a study of the qualifications and train ing of our agricultural graduates for civil service and similar state and federal posi tions. Tliis study necessitates that all graduating seniors in the School of Agri culture take. the Civil Service Exam for Junior Agricultural Assistant. The test involves two parts requiring approximately 3 hours each. You will therefore be excused from all classes on Friday, April 9 for the purpose of participating in this test. You will report to the Biology Lecture Room at 8:00 a.m. and again at 1 p.m. The suc cess of this test depends on the partici pation of all graduating seniors, and I earnestly request your full cooperation. Charles N. Shepardson Dean of Agriculture LOU’S RIGHT WITH YOU . . . Buy from Lou—you have 30 days to get your money back. Sell to Lou—your have 30 days to get your books back. 30 Day Guarantee at LOUPOT’S Classes will be dismissed at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 21, in order that all stu dents and faculty members may attend hte Annual Aggie Muster Program at which Governor Allan Shivers will make the principal address. J. P. Abbott Dean of the College REGALIA FOR COMMENCEMENT For the Commencement Exercises and Baccalaurete Service in accordance with action taken earlier by the Academic Council, all non-military students who are candidates for degrees will wear academic regalia. Candidates for the Ph.D. degree and candidates for the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine will wear the Doctor’s cap and gown. Candidates for the Mas ter’s and professional degrees will wear the Master’s cap and gown, and those re ceiving the Bachelor’s degree will wear the Bachelor’s cap and gown. All military students who are candidates for degrees will wear Uniform No. 1. Candidates for the Ph.D. degree are re quired also to have a hood. This will not be worn in the procession since all Ph.D. candidates will be hooded on the stage. All faculty members above the rank of Instructor are expected to attend the Com mencement Exercises unless excused by their deans. Those with the Doctor’s de gree will wear cap, gown and hood. The wearing of the Master’s or Bachelor’s hood is optional for other members of the in structional staff. The academic regalia can be rented from the Exchange Store on or before April 30 but it is desirable that orders be placed as soon as possible. Rental fees cover the use or the regalia by the faculty for the Inauguration as well as for Commencement and Baccalaureate services. The rental fee is $3.90 for Doctor's cap and gown. $3.60 for Master’s cap and gown, and $3.30 for Bachelor’s cap and gown. The rental fees for hoods are the same as those shown for caps and gowns. • Blue line prints • Blue prints • Photostats SCOATES INDUSTRIES Phone 3-6887 Dr. Carlton R. Lee OPTOMETRIST SOSA East 26th Call 2-1662 for Appointment (Across from Court House) TROPHY WINNERS—Several members of the A&M Newman club pose with Father Sylvester Fuchs holding the trophy the group won for “Best Club” at the south Texas province convention in Kingsville. They are (left to right) Jerry Ledwig, Charlie Hlav- inka, Pat Moroney, Tommy Toudouze, Billy Cecherski, Frank Adamcik, Father Fuchs, Bill Soltis, Ted Upmore, John Fetter, Lawrence Laskoskie and Jimmy Wendland. Campus Study Hears Program Of Coming Year A tentative program for the coming year was present ed to the Campus Study club Tuesday. Mrs. George L. Huebner jr. is chairman of the 1954 Yearbook committee. Other members of this committee are Mesdames H. R. Blank, Marvin H. Butler, Morris J. Garber and M. M. Rotsch. Mis. Gail M. Lyman presided over the business meeting and Mrs. W. L. Wilson led in the repeating of the club prayer. Mrs. Robert N. Craig, incoming president of the club, reported on the qonvention of the Fourth Dis trict of the Texas Federation of Women’s clubs held in Houston. Mrs. Craig was the club’s dele gate to the convention. Mrs. Louis J. Horn, vice-presi dent, introduced members of the panel who discussed “How Faculty Wives Increase the Family In come.” Taking part in the discussion were Mrs. J. H. Sorrels, Mrs. H. L. Heaton and Mrs. A. W. Melloh, moderator. Newman Club Gets ‘Rest Club” Award The A&M Newman club was awarded the “Best Club” trophy at the yearly convention held last weekend by the south Texas pro vince of the national Newman club federation. The selection is based on a point system for activities sponsored during the year. Students from five colleges were represented at this year’s con vention at Texas A&I in Kings ville. Fifteen A&M students at tended the convention. Aggie Tommy Toudouze was elected vice chairman and Charles Hlavinka of A&M was re-elected corresponding secretary for the south Texas province. Jerry Ledwig of A&M was chair man of the south Texas province last year. Paul J. Hallinan, national chap lain of the national Newman club federation, was honor guest at the convention. Mrs. Whitman Will Review Indian Rook Mrs. Charles Whitman, jr. will review the book “Our American Indians Today” at the Daughters of American Revolution meeting Thursday night. The meeting will be in the home of Mrs. Clifford Barth, South Rosemary drive, at 7:30 Thurs day p. m. SALE .Vs Off Spring DRESSES BOYS SUITS - HATS SHIRTS IMMIE’S 1001 S. College Ave. Bryan FREE PARKING Phone 2-1618 Americais ludglits of the Sly... T/ie Spartan Band that held the pass. The Knights of Arthur's train The Light Brigade that charged the guns. 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