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V C Cadet Slouch . . . by James Earle 'I. £> What’s Cooking THURSDAY 5:00—Circle K club, Y M C A, bring ticket money. 7:15—Seabrook - LaPorte home town club, 224 Academic, business meeting. Houston hometown club, 301 Goodwin, plan the annual spring function with the Houston exes. Do you have a summer job ? Bell county club, 103 Academic. East Texas hometown club, room 3C MSC. .22 HANDGUNS The Choice of Experts SMITH & WESSON Hi-Standard Rugers H&R’s Colts Long Terms Low Payments HILLCREST HARDWARE College Road Rusk county A&M club, 411 Aca demic, plan Mother’s Day picnic. Permian Basin club, YMCA, fi nal plans for spring function. 7:30—Texas A&M DeMolay as sociation, I’oom 2C MSC. Hill County hometown club, 106 Academic. Fort Worth hometown club, YMCA chapel, plan the coming pai’ty. Tyler-Smith county hometown club, room 3C MSC. Amarillo club, 2nd floor Aca demic, plan the activities for the remainder of the year. Red River Valley A&M club, room 2D MSC. 7:45—P an American club, YMCA, plan the annual dance and party. Rely On Us for Superior Service When you put clothes in our hands, you know they’ll be returned clean, well pressed and in top form. Our reputation rests on your satisfaction. JR 3TORAQg_ HATTERS WHY PAY MORE NEW HUDSONS $1575.00 up Metropolitan Ramblers Wasp and Hornets Taylor Motor Co. 1301 Texas Ave. Ph. 3-3309 Bryan The Battalion The Editorial Policy of The Battalion Represents the 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 dui’ing the regular school year. During the -<■- summer terms The Battalion is published once a week, and during :• examination and vacation periods, once a week. 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Battalion Editorials Page 2 THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1955 Too Late Last night’s Operation Minuteman not only showed that our National Guard is ready and willing to serve when called, but it also pointed up a sad lack in America’s defense struc ture. Except for a dedicated few, such as the Guardsmen and the members of A&M’s radio club with their disaster net, the American people just plain don’t care about civil defense. In touchy times, when the danger of mass-destruction weapons is a real thing to every part of America, the only way to describe the average citizen’s attitude toward civil de fense is “apathetic.” As one civil defense leader said, “The American people aren’t going to recognize the need for any type of civil de fense organization until the first bomb is dropped here.” Sounds like that would be a little too late. Hagler Elected Society President Jon L. Hagler will be president of Phi Eta Sigma for the 1955-56 school year. Other officers elected Tuesday were Robert J. Ring jr., vice-presi dent; Clarence C. Skrovan, secre tary; Robei’t D. Purrington, treas urer; J. Craig Stephens, historian; Larry D. Piper, junior advisor; and Weldon W. Walker, senior advisor. Faculty advisors are C. H. Rans- dell and James L. Shawn. BITES ON INSURANCE SAN DIEGO, Calif.—<A>>—Patri cia Forsyth, the owner of a big- Afghan dog, took out personal lia bility insurance in case the dog bit anyone. The insurance agent, got a call from her a short time later asking for a new policy. The dog had chewed up the original. Fish Cuz ( Advertisement) By I. Earle A&M Students’ Toads, Snakes To Be on TV Snakes, lizards, toads, frogs, turtles and salaman ders collected by a group of students from A&M will ap pear soon on Humble Oil and Refining company’s television show “Texas in Review.” The collection won first place Sunday morning in an exhibition climaxing the annual meeting of the Texas Herpetological society held at Anahauc. The exhibit was judged on the basis of number and rarity of species, labeling of the specimens, and orignality of the exhibit. Students assisting in the col- lectiong were Anthony Inglis, Dick Hoese, Rex Bramlett and Gene Loi’d of the wildlife department, and Bill Degenhardt, a graduate student from the biology depart ment. Richard Baldauf, biology instructor, assisted in keying the specimens. Baylor university won second place in the exhibit, and a group from Galveston took third. A girl from Texas university, bitten on the finger by a cotton- mouth mocassin, was the only cas ualty reported. She was taken to a hospital, but was not reported to be in serious condition. Carl Birdwell Exchange Store Manager Birdwell (Continued from Page 1) The latest addition of the store is a self-service, supermarket-type book store, the first of its kind in Texas. Birdwell plans to increase the store’s line of fiction and non fiction books, including a full line of paper-bound editions of the classics. And do the Aggies give him any trouble, especially during the be ginning - of - the - semester rushes, when tempers are a bit frayed ? “A minimum amount,” he says. HARRI BAKER Editor i Handball Team Wins SWC Title A&M’s handball team are South west conference champs after win ning the five-team conference meet at Houston last week. Holder of a 4-2 record in match play, the Cadets may schedule one or two more games with Baylor. They have beaten Rice and SMU twice and lost to University of Tex as twice. The Aggies also won third at the national intercollegiate tour nament at Chicago in February. Jim Mathis won third in singles at the SWC tourney and James Johnson finished fourth. Lawrence Laskoskie and Don Grant were sec ond in doubles, and Gary Leslie and Charlie Johnson won third in doub les. - Texas was second, followed by University of Houston, SMU and Rice. SOME STURGEON! CHEROYGAN, Mich. (IP) — The waters of Mullet Lake have yielded a record-breaking sturgeon. Ward Spray of Cheboygan speai 1 - ed the fish which weighed 175 pounds, measured 7 feet 2 inches and had a girth of 3714 inches. ^ T . TUE.GLB WE-kiT N GOOD CSlOYCUE. , BUT l DOwU UEARTGO'P L. N'O”? ‘CAUSE. 1 Klfvl BOV KiGW OA iA 1 SoiigusouS) pdr. K4 OP P f h— L. ..ONfeJ5> PPpK. ry o p . pp* ..OFF?. LI’L ABNER By A1 Capp NO TWO WAN/S 'BOUT IT"'- TH'-s h oPpEr.V-i_aFFTER O' TH'-uGH. r - BOVS AT TH' -G*sP!T- STABLE IS TH' MOST H1DEOUS SOUND EVER MADE BV ROOM IN . VOICE" HOOMIN' mti TH' J'M TURNIN' BACK"- L-ISTENrr- THERE'S A> HERO O' INSANE UACKASSFS AHEAD// IT'S TH' BOVS AT TH' V OH, STABLE//—UEST" <MAMMV- LAFFIN'OUTA SHEER ) AH GOOD NATURE.//—/CAIN’T BUT, WAIT'LL THEY \ FACE. 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