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"hurch, which was begun in January, will be
;he first of September, according to the Rev.
e:ert, pastor. The church, designed by Ernest
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charged Mon-
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nd his aids were
r o prominent Dem-
om :fort to make the
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wo-party system,
reply. Sen. Stuart
■m.) of Missouri,
>crats named, blas-
as a spreader of
nded doubts as to
ii t integrity of the
ID'armed forces and
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to arise between
ght in the name of
onetime chief aid
dent Truman.
the! last twenty-
onitored telephone
duced as evidence
hearings on the
Carthy and Army
sclosed among oth-
Secretary of the
7. Stevens took a
t on at least three
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drafted McCarthy
gas section of the Engineering Ex
tension service, has prepared a se
ries of extension service training
manuals appearing in the “Petroleo
Americano,” an oil and gas jour
nal published in South America.
The manuals are titled “Funda
mentals of General Refinery Pracr
tices.”
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MORE THAN 12,p00 visitors
were on the campus during the
month of May. The visitors at
tended short courses, conferences
and meetings, the inauguration of
the president, commencement and
Mother’s day activities.
* * *
THE FORMER Students associa
tion is compiling a book on “stories
of the A&M ring.” Everyone who
has a true story of the ring is in
vited to tell Allen Pengelly, editor
of the Texas Aggie.
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THE ARROWMOON district
committee of the Boy Scouts will
have its district meeting tonight
at the Franklin Baptist church in
Franklin. The meeting starts at
8 p.m.
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tions. “Sno-cats”
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in patroling trans-
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School Conference
To Hear Willett
Dr. H. I. Willett, superintend
ent of the Richmond, Va., public
schools, will deliver the principal
address at the general assembly,
opening the school conference here
June 21-23.
President David H. Morgan will
give the welcome address.
The conference will mark the
18th annual meeting of the Texas
School Administration conference,
the 29th of the Texas Association
of County Superintendents and the
fourth meeting of the Texas as
sociation for Instructional Super
visors.
George B. Wilcox, head of the
education and psychology depart
ment, is general chairman and sec
retary to the conference. Six hun
dred are due to attend.
Subjects to be discussed at the
group meetings include, “Accred
itation,” “Evaluation Programs,”
“Special School Services,” “Public
School Finance and Property Eval
uation,” “Supervisory Functions,”
“School Boards,” “Vocational Ed
ucation,” “Summer Programs,” and
“Interscholastic League Activities.”
Statewide 4-11 Club Roundup Starts
Here Today; 1,600 Members Expected
Summer Series
Begins in Grove
Summer entertainment at A&M
will start tomorrow with the first
film in the Grove.
The film, “The Big Leaguer,” is
the first of 23 films to be shown.
Students who paid their activity
fee at registration will be admitted
free. Single admittance tickets are
25 cents for adults and 10 cents
for children. Adult season tickets
are $2.00 and children’s season
tickets are $1.00. Children must
be 12 or under to get in at the
reduce rate.
Movies will be shown each Mon
day, Tuesday, Wednesday, and
Thursday.
Other summer entertainment
features will be the cpllege golf
ppurse and intramural softball.
The golf course will be open
during the daylight hours all sum
mer. The faculty and staff free
Phipps Will Speak
At Pipe Meeting
Bart Phipps, coordinator of
plumbing apprentice training for
the Engineering Extension service,
will give a progress report on in
structional material at the annual
meeting of the Texas Pipe Trades
association June 18-19 in Corpus
Christi.
Phipps plans to urge that a bat
tery of aptitude tests for plumb
ing apprentices, prepared by the
TEES be employed by joint ap
prenticeship committees over the
state in the selection of appren
tices.
The tests were designed upon the
request ,of the state joint appren
ticeship committee, and can only
be used upon the request of that
organization, Phipps said.
The TEES also expects to com
plete instructional material for re
frigeration, heating and air con
ditioning courses by Sept. 1, 1954.
1,100 Registered In
Unofficial Count
Complete figures on yester
day’s summer school registration
are not ready, but an unofficial
count before the end of regis
tration showed about 1,100 stu
dents had registered.
About 1,500 were expected.
Registration will be officially
over at 5 p.m. Thursday, said H.
L. Heaton, registrar, but stu
dents have until Friday to drop
or add courses.
FAMILY IN TUNE
SAN FERNANDO, Calif. (A>)—
Mis. Iva Mead, a social service
worker, asked the man of the house
for his name. “Piano,” he said.
“Your first name?* she asked.
“Parlor,” he said. “Really?” she
asked. “Really!” the man replied.
So she wrote down—“ Mr. Parlor
Piano.”
“Any children?” she inquired.
“Just one,” the answed came.
“And it’s first name, please.”
“Well, to save you time, I’ll
get out the birth certificate,”
Piano said.
The name on the certificate—
“Grand Piano.”
instructional clinic offered by Man
ager Joe Fagan will be given every
Monday and Wednesday at 5 p.m.
Free group classes for ladies and
children will be arranged if inter
est justifies, said C. G. (Spike)
White, student activities director.
At least one intramural game
will be . played each night during
the week, except Friday. Games
will be on the lighted softball dia
mond.
There will not be any live talent
concerts this year, for the first
time in many years. Small atten
dance and high cost are the reasons
for discontinuing the concerts.
White said.
Rebel Troops
Cut Closer To
French Defense
HANOI, Indochina—UP) —
Viet-Minh troops from Dien
Bien Phu cut closer to the Red
River Delta Monday in a huge
scissors movement aimed at
slicing through French Union de
fenses in North-eastern Indochina.
Pivoting from Phu Tho, sixty-
five miles northwest of Hanoi, the
rebel columns pressed on despite
poundings from tons of high explo
sive bombs dropped by French
pilots from American-supplied
B-26’s, Corsairs, Privateers and
Helldivers.
While the rebel columns cut in
from the west, other Viet-Minh
that have infiltrated the delta un
til they now number more than
100,000 struck at small French
garrisons Sunday.
Two Viet-Namese military posts
fell to the rebels after night at
tacks, one near Son Tay, thirty-
five miles northwest of Hanoi, and
the other near Haip-Hong, the big
Chinese Sea port through which in
dispensable American war supplies
reach the French. The French are
heavily reinforcing the Haiphong
area.
North of Haiphong, a third Gar
rison smashed off its attackers in
a six-hour battle that once saw
Viet-Minh troops grab part of the
French fortifications.
Other Viet-Namese and French
troops, mopping up rebels within a
few miles of Hanoi, reported killing
about fifty rebels and capturing a
score more.
PENSIONERS STAY HEALTHY
SYDNEY, N. S.—tP)—They say
if you put a Scotsman on pension
he’ll live forever. Bolstering this
adage are 15 ex-miners, mostly of
Scottish descent, on the pension
rolls of a coal company here.
All are over 90 years old, and
all plan to enjoy retirement for
years to come. They are some of
the men who started in the pits at
11 or 12 years of age, back in the
days before child labor laws and
trade unions. They earned up to
50 cents a day. Some worked in
the same mine-shaft for more than
50 years.
Silver Anniversary
Firemen Get Truck, Building
Plans for the Silver Annversary
Firemen’s Training school are mov
ing ahead, with the construction
of a special building, the gift of a
fire truck, and the invitation of
representatives from the US air
force. More than 1,200 persons
from all over the state will attend
the school.
The building is to be completed
by June 30, according to Col. Ft. R.
Brayton, director of the school.
In addition to serving as a train
ing school base of operations, the
40-foot by 100-foot quonset-type
stiucture will be used to accom
modate fire-pump maintenance
classes and provide storage for
training school fire apparatus and
equipment. The classroom work
shop will accommodate 60 to 75
firemen students.
A 20-foot concrete slab in front
of the building will be used for
washing fire trucks. Water hy
drants will be located nearby. A
fenced area will be used for bulk
storage.
The headquarters will be central
ly located on the 26-acre firemen’s
training field on the campus.
Ladder Truck
The city of Austin has given the
school a 1928-model aerial ladder
truck, to be used in teaching the
principles of fire fighting. The
85-foot truck will be used to illus
trate the mechanics of ladder mani
pulation, raising, lowering, extend
ing a bridging, and advancing of
the hose to upper floors of build
ings.
It also will be used to demon
strate practical methods of testing
ladders, tightening rungs and
beams, and refinishing.
The training school teaches the
latest methods of combatting all
types of fires, featuring realistic
and dramatic educational displays.
House Fires
Instructors show first-hand how
to extinguish fires in houses, large
pits, oil field tanks, dykes, butane
tank fires, simulated ruptured gas
line fires, conflagrations in high-
pressure stills in refineries, service
station fires, airplane crash fires,
and others.
Also invited to attend the school
are representatives from air force
commands in the United States
and Caribbean area. Brayton
said he had received “favorable re
plies” from the air force invita
tions.
Short Courses Included
In Week-Long Meet
About 1,600 4-H club members from Texas, with their
leaders start today a week-long Roundup which will include
study, play, banquets and a judging contest.
Attending the annual Roundup are two boys, two girls
and two adults from each Texas county. The boys and girls
are either winners of district contests or selected for 4-H
achievements.
First to arrive yesterday were the 24 members of the
state 4-H council, who will play leading roles in all the activi
ties. Mildred Harris, assistant state 4-H club leader, is in
charge of the Roundup.
Nineteen short courses on agricultural subjects are
offered the club members in - *
the afternoons. State finals
in fudging and demonstration
contests will be Thursday.
Evening programs include
the Share the Fun festival tonight,
the chuck wagon feed and enter
tainment Wednesday, and the rec
ognition banquet and special enter
tainment Thursday.
The State 4-H recognition com
mittee, headed by Hershel Burgess
of College Station, is responsible
for the Wednesday program, which
is provided by more than 50 indi
viduals, business, commercial, and
industrial firms of the state. The
final night program is given by
the Sears-Roebuck foundation.
Roundup Speakers
Speakers to be heard during the
Roundup morning programs include
G. G. Gibson, Agricultural Exten
sion service director; the Rev. A. T.
Dyal, pastor of the First Presby
terian church of Bay City; Dr.
Imogene Bentley, dean of women at
North Texas State college; M. T.
Harrington, A&M system chancel
lor; David H. Morgan, A&M pres
ident; and Paul (Bear) Bryant,
A&M athletic director.
Short courses offered the club
members are agricultural engineer
ing, agricultural information,
agronomy, animal husbandry,
clothing, dairy husbandry, entomol
ogy, family life, farm management.
Foods and nutrition, forestry,
home management, homestead im
provement, horticulture, poultry,
range management, recreation, thp
role of 4-H leaders, and wildlife.
Largest Meeting
The Roundup is the largest state
wide 4-H meeting held in Texas.
Sponsored by the Agricultural Ex
tension service, the meeting was
once a part of the farmers’ short
course. It has been meeting on the
A&M campus for almost 50 years.
The theme of the 1954 Roundup
is “building a stronger America.”
And for the meeting,- the green-
and-white cloverleaf flag of the
4-H club is flying under the Amer
ican flag on campus flagpoles.
Life Guards Needed
At Swimming Pool
Lifeguards are needed to work
at the P. L. Downs jr. natatorium
during the afternoons.
Interested candidates should see
Art Adamson, swimming coach, at
the pool.
Lifeguards are paid, and must
have a Red Cross senior life saving
certificate.
Batt Loses
Its ‘Ears 9
From Page
There’s something new about
today’s Battalion.
The Bat has lost its ears.
The “ears,” or type on either
side of the “The Battalion”
nameplate at the top of the
page, have been removed to
streamline the page and make
life easier for the postoffice
employees.
The machine that addresses
Battalions for mailing usually
stamps the address right
across the type in the ears,
making it almost impossible to
decipher, according to the post
office.
TEES Men Aid
Industrial School
Two industrial teacher trainers
of the Engineering Extension
service are assisting in conducting
a six-week summer course of the
trade and industrial school at the
University of Texas.
The trainers are M. D. Darrow
and Mark Lowery. Darrow teach
es classes on the development and
use of industrial material and Low-
rey instructs pupils on methods of
teaching industrial subjects.
The trade and industrial school
is a joint enterprise of A&M and
the University pf Texas. Summer
courses are -conducted alternately
at each of the schools.
The training course, which start
ed June 7, provides required certi
fication courses for trade and in
dustrial teachers.
PERILS OF TEACHING
STORM LAKE, la.—(A 1 )—When
the leading man in the class play
fell ill, School Supt. Charles Wa-
terbury of Nemaha filled in.
The roll called for him to spend
considerable time on stage minus
his trousers. The play title was
“Let Me Out of Here.”
Waterbury was voted a smash
hit by the audience.
DINNER TAKES OFF
WINDSOR, Ont. —(A>) —A hen
pheasant crashed through Mrs.
Raymond Pare’s kitchen window.
She later told a Windsor Star pho
tographer she planned to eat the
bird. With that, the pheasant
squawked, flapped its wings and
flew out the window, breaking an
other pane of glass.
Goode Will
Head Study Of
Insurance Laws
^Phillip B. Goode, College Station
attorney and professor of
business law at A&M College, has
been retained by Texas Legisla
tive council at Austin to head a
study to be made of the insurance
laws of Texas.
The Legislative council, made up
of five members of the Senate and
10 members of the House with the
lieutenant governor as its chair
man and the Speaker of the House
as its vice-chairman, makes stud
ies for the legislature.
Executive director, A. W.
Worthy, heads a research staff and
calls in experts from time to time
on a consultation basis to assist in
special fields of study.
Goode, before joining the A&M
staff, had 10 years’ experience in
the insurance field as a claims at
torney and administrator of in
surance for a manufacturing con
cern. Two years ago, he carried
out another assignment for the
Texas Legislative council in a
study on the Gross Premiums Tax.
The study to be made now will
follow three lines of investigation
dictated by the council: (1) Tigh-
er organizational requirements,
such as increasing minimum begin
ning cash assets of certain com
panies.
(2) Improved controls over fin
ancial structures after organiza
tion, such as placing insurance
stocks under the State Securities
act,
(3) Improved administrative en
forcement, such as authorizing an
increased number of examiners for
the Insurance Commission.
Goode’s work will be first to
outline the course qf investigation
and then to coordinate the various
research assignments as work pro
gresses until a final report is pre
sented to the Legislative council.;
Film Society Sets
fe Lif eboat’ Thursday
The Memorial {Student Center
Film society will show “Lifeboat”
for its first show of the summer
season Thursday.
The film will be in the MSC ball
room at 7:15 p.m.
Starring Talullah Bankhead,
John Hodiak, William Bendix, Can
ada Lee, Henry Hull, and Walter
Slezak, the film shows the behavior
of six men and three women, each
with widely different backgrounds,
adrift in a single life boat.
BEAR IS A BIRD
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich.—
(A*)—A black bear was discovered
in Michigan’s Blaney Park making
like a bird.
Unlike brother bruins hibernat
ing in dens in the ground, this bear
slept in a pine tree 53 feet above
the ground. The bear came wob
bling out of a hole near the top
when the giant tree was felled. It
lumbered off, unhurt.
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NEW SCHOOL—Two buildings for A&M Consolidated’s new high school begins to
take form. The steel framework of the large building in the foreground is almost com
pleted and the walls have been put on the smaller building in the background. The new
school is east of the present school.