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Battalion Editorials Page 2 THE BATTALION FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1954 This Silly Business About this soft drink bottle business, which was expounded upon in yesterday’s Battalion. The Aggies are breaking 10 per cent of the soft drink bottles, and it’s costing them two cents for each one, or a loss to student aid projects of about $1,000 a year. Seems awful silly, doesn’t it? It is. One or two per cent of that breakage is the normal breakage that would occur any where—accidental breakage. The rest of it is because of one of the school’s most ridiculous traditions—it’s a “senior privilege” to break a soft drink bot tle. However, that pretty well pin-points the blame. Since the seniors won’t let under classmen usurp their “privileges”, obvious ly the seniors are breaking almost all the bottles. So all that has to be done to stop the excess breakage is have the seniors grow up. Chest Needs Help The College Station Community Chest drive is in grave danger of falling far short of its goal this year. With the drive ending today, less than three-fourths of the $14,707 goal had been collected. The Community Chest does just what its name implies—it benefits the community. Agencies which participate in the chest are Brazos County Tuberculosis association, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Salvation Army, Local Chest Charity fund, Brazos Charity Hospital fund, the College Station Recreation Council, College Station YMCA, United Service or ganization, College Station Youth commit tee, American Red Cross and the Community Center Inc. These organizations will have their re quests for funds cut if the drive falls* short of its goal. This is your community, these organizations are your community agencies, and they need your help. Town Hall (Continued from Page 1) has an estimated audience of 30 million. Majoring in Medicine at the Uni versity of Southern Calif omia Schumann took several courses in music as electives and became in terested in it as a subject he liked ■—and. for financial reasons. Or ganizing a student orchestra he was able to put himself through school. Following a brief career as a crooner with the Vincent Lo pez orchestra he turned to writing musical scores. Since his first job working on “The. House Party,” a kitchen pro gram over KHJ, he has worked on the Eddie Cantor show, Eddie Pea body show, Andre Kostalanetz, and the Forest Lawn Memorial Chapel show. After signing with RKO Radio studios in 1940 as musical director he published his first hit song, the “Hut Sut Song.” Leaving the army in 1946 he was musical director Women Give Talks At Extension Club Mesdames G. G. Gibson, A. M. Meekma and A. L. Smith presented . the program of the last Extension seiwice club meeting in the Me morial Student Center. The ladies gave talks and dem onstrations of traditional Christ mas decorations,- points on how to wrap gifts, and items to be hand made for Christmas presents. Hostesses for the meeting were Mesdames Roy Snyder, W. M. Wil liamson, J. D. .Prewit, John Mc- Harmey and F. E. Lickte. Guests at the meeting were Mes dames A. L. Smith jr., G. V. Cham bers, Price Hobgood, Joe Faulk, T. R. Spence, G. W. Spence, R. P. Marsteller, T. T. Ralban and P. T. Montfort. with Universal Studios and also worked with such radio shows as “Junior Miss,” “Dr. Kildare,” and the radio version of “Dragnet.” When the latter switched to TV he remained with the program and is still writing the score at this time. Also starring . on the show is “America’s number one dancing team,” Marge and Gower Cham pion. Coming to Hollywood in 1950 their first picture was the Bing Crosby musical “Mr. Music.” They were soon signed by M-G-M Studios for a seven year stretch and have appeared in such hits as “Show Boat,” and “Lovely to Look At.” Their latest appearance has been their own show “Every thing I Have Is Yours.” Having joined forces earlier Paul Gregory and Charles Laugh ton have produced such shows as “Don Juan In Hell,” '“That Fab ulous Redhead,” “The Caine Mu tiny Court Martial,” “John Browns’ Body,” and the recently completed picture “Night of the Hunter,” starring Robert Mitchum, Shelly Winters and Lillian Gish. The Champions will choose beau ty queens for the Baylor yearbook, The Round-Up Tuesday night at a special reception after the show. Town Hall tickets are good for this show, said Bill Johnson, man ager of student entertainment. The seats will be on a first come, first serve basis, and the doors will open at 7 p.m. Individual tickets will be available at the door for $2 each or may be purchased at Goodwin Hall. Blood For Horses MIAMI—(A 5 )—Blood transfusians for ailing horses are common prac tice today, although it was con- sidered a rare thing only 10 years ago. The normal transfusion for a horse is a gallon of blood. A&M Pugilists Will Compete In Fight Night A group of A&M boxers will compete in a Fight Night Jan. 15 at Sam Houston State Teachers college in Huntsville. The boxers include three regional Golden Gloves winners. They are trying to get college and A&M boxing sponsorship for team. Anybody interested in joining the group should contact Barney Welch at the intramural office in De Ware field house or James Earle, room 90 Leggett. Earle said the group is plan ning warmup matches with other college teams before competing in the regional Golden Gloves tour nament at Waco in February. Those working, out include Earle, a lightweight semi-finalist in the 1954 state Golden Gloves tourney; heavyweight Jack Davis, a finalist last year in the Okla homa state tourney; light-heavy weights Tony Campos, Jim Van- dermeer and Don Burton; Middleweight Frank Roberts, welterweight Jim Herbert and featherweight Don Willis. Burton, Hebert and Willis have competed in regional Golden Gloves tournaments. Light-heavyweight Jack Fowler is a regional Golden Gloves win ner in that division. Cadet Slouch by James Earle tu* vJ&f i Fkxbrs rr fs IP 5 MISS&S J£S»' OKIE MOVIE VLL I4AVE. "'MUFF ;MOKlEV tTy ©OY *SOME , CMRltrrM&fc, feEA-U-S* AM WEL.P FTGUT TK»* ' SIDE'S TS4AT, I CeuLDMT CUT UP, AK1VUOWT V46H! TAM'S SAA S , k.' UOT MBt QOOD OLE SAC f s mim aeA s&c Crop Team Places In JNational Shows The crops judging team placed sixth and eighth in two interna tional judging contests recently. The team placed sixth at the In ternational Intercollegiate crops judging contest at Kansas City and eighth in the same contest at Chicago. J. R. Coleman was third high individual in commercial grading of grain, and Carlos Griffin wls third high individual in crops judg ing-. Other team members are Eu gene Buckholt, and Craig Weigand, Dr. R. C. Potts is team coach. Getting Married At Christmas Time, Aggie? If so, or at any time in the next few months, then you’ll want to present the lucky girl with a life insurance policy as a part of the bargain package she’ll be getting, won’t you? A minister, in talking about marriage, i-ecently made the following statement: “You have no right to take a girl from a position where she may be earning her own living, and tie her up to you and later tie her down to a family of little children who make it difficult for her to make a living again—unless you give her some protection and security. Before you buy her a car, buy her an insurance policy—and after you buy the car you will need insurance all the more in these days of highway fatal ities. Get her a policy before you get her a television set. Put first things first; let the other things come along as you can afford them.” Come by and talk with me if you are interested, and we’ll see if we can’t work out some plan of life insurance protection which you can afford until you get out of school and start earning enough money to pay for a more substantial policy. EUGENE RUSH, Gen. Agt. NORTH GATE, College Station American National Ins. Co. Office above Aggieland Phcy. Alpha Zeta Installs 21 New Members Twenty-one initiates were ac cepted into Alpha Zeta, national agricultural honor fraternity, in the birch room of the Memorial Student Center Monday night. Student initiated were L. M. Braziel, Eugene Faltin, William Gober, Harry Gi-eenbaum, Sam Harris, Roscoe Holt, Alton Keith, Ed Kelinkovsky, R. C. Michelson, Ivan Meith, Robert Pearce, Jerry Proctor, John Williams and Leroy Williams. Leonard Berger, Edward Bieri, Don Dierschke, Raymond Diete- rich, Monroe Fuchs, Milton Nitsch and Franklyn Waddell. After the initiation ceremony, Charles Shepardson, Dean of Agri culture, spoke on history of Alpha Zeta. A CAMPUS-TO-CAREER CASE HISTORY Pageant The Battalion The Editorial Policy of The Battalion Represents tl^e Views of the Student Editors The Battalion, newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station, is published by stu dents four times a week during the regular school year. During the summer terms The Battalion is published twice a week, and during examination and vacation periods, once a Aveek. Days of publication axe Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year, Tuesday and Thursday during the summer terms, and Thursday dxxring examination and vacation periods. The Battalion is not published on the Wednesday immediately px-eceding Easter or Thanksgiving. Subscription rates ai-e $3.50 per semester, $6.00 per school year, $7.00 per full year, or $1.00 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. (Continued from Page 1) Px-esent plans call for making the pageant ox - something like it an annual affaix-. The costumes used will be put in a “community costume closet” for the use of chux-ches or other groxips staging plays. Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas under the Act of Con gress of March 3, 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Advertising Services, Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Los 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 the paper and local news of spontaneous oi’igin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. A&M Club Party The Hill County A&M club will hold a Christmas party at 8 p.m. Dec. 21 in the Hillsboro Countxy club. Willie Zapalac, freshman coach, will speak and show films of the Fish-ShoxThorn football game. A shox-t dance aa-UI follow. Graduate Students To Visit Trotters Graduate students fi-om outside the continental United States at tending A&M have been invited to be guests at the home of Grad uate School Dean Ide P. Trotter and Mrs. Trotter Friday. Single men and married men whose wives are not here were guests Monday. Friday, married men and their wives will be guests. “The international get-togethers have been most happy occasions for us in the years past and ha\-e helped us all get better acquaited,” Trotter said. W. D. Garland, E.E. ’52, Univ. of California, is xvorking for the Pacific Telephone Company. We thought you’d be intcx-ested in xvhat Don told us about his first assignment. (Reading time: 45 seconds) Extension Worker Will Visit Campus Dr. W. R. Taschei’, extension soil conservationist for the U. S. Department of Agriculture, will be on the campus next week to confer with State Extension Sex-vice of ficials on educational phases of soil conservation. W. N. Williamson, assistant di- x'ector of the Texas Extension sex-vice, said Dr. Tascher, cooper ates with state extension services in the development of a program for agricultural extension educa tion. Tascher will speak to a meeting of the Soil Conservation society Monday night. Here Don Garland makes noise distribution mcasurcilienls ivith a Level Distribution Recorder JVTy job is to help solve problems of noise and other interference on tele-, phone lines due to power interference. Inductive co-ordination is the technical term for the work. “First thing the Chief Engineer ex plained to me was that ‘all the answers aren’t in the book.’ He was right. Most of the problems have required a com bination of electrical engineering, a knowledge of costs and generous amount of ingenuity. / like it that ivay. It’s given me an immediate opportunity to put into practice the theory I learned at school. “In addition to this on-the-job ex perience, I have attended several spe cial training courses conducted by the company. Now I’m breaking in a new man, just like when I started.” Don Garland’s work is typical of many engineering assignments in the Bell Telephone Companies. There are simi lar opportunities for college graduates with Bell Telephone Laboratories, Western Electric and Sandia Corpora tion. If you’d like to get more details, see your Placement Officer. He will be glad to help you. BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM u* LI’L ABNER By A1 Capp News contributions may be made by telephone (4-5444 or 4-7604) or at the editorial office room, 202 Goodwin Hall. 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