Thursday, May 12, 1955
THE BATTALION
Page 3
Finalists Picked for Ugly Man Contest
Robert (Bob) McClary
Garden Club
Flower Show
The Garden club has announced
that the flower show “Under The
Big Top” which was postponed in,
April due to the freeze, will be
CIRCLE
THURSDAY & FRIDAY
“Violent Men’ 9
GLENN FORD
— Also —
“Mi SS Sadie
Thompson”
RITA HAYWORTH
SHIE1.D
Mfimiit
Reschedules
For May 17
held Tuesday.
The show will be the same theme
as announced in April with few
exceptions. Mrs. Carl Landiss, pub
licity chairman said. The Men’s
Invitational class, called The Pa
rade, should be of special interest
to Aggies, she said. Pot plants,
horticultural specimens, flower ar
rangements with variations and
driftwood arrangements are some
of the entries that could be pre
sented in the show. Mrs. J. G. Mc
Guire at 4-9362 can give more in
formation on this class.
Magnesium weighs two thirds as Ml
much as aluminum and a fourth
as much as steel.
THURSDAY & FRIDAY
In the wonder of STEREOPHONIC SOUND
— THURSDAY & FRIDAY —
Hot Rod Fans Don’t Miss
“The Racers”
Kirk Douglas
— Also —
“Gentlemen Prefer
Blondes”
Jane Russell — Marilyn Monroe
★ SENIORS^SENIORS ★
Contracted R.O.T.C. seniors gradua
ting in May are eligible to buy New
1955 Chevrolet cars with no down
payment and 30 months to pay.
DELIVERY BEFORE
GRADUATION
— See —
CORBUSIER CHEVROLET CO.
For Full Details
CORBUSIER CHEVROLET CO.
Bryan
For a Better Buy
in DIAMONDS
Better Buy a
Keeps alee
7
Don (Tex) Boehnke
WHO’S UGLIEST—One of these scowling, bearded faces
will be picked as A&M’s ugliest at the first annual Ugly
Man contest Saturday night. The finalists will be judged
by Bill Lawrence, constable of Snook, and Lt. Col. Taylor
Wilkins, assistant commandant, during the intermission
of the Civilian Student ball sponsored by the Civilian Stu
dent Council. The finalists were picked from the entrants
by Bob Murray and W. G. Breazeale, civilian counselors.
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KEEPSAKE
IS YOUR
BEST BUY I
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registered perfect gem” ap
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3. Good Housekeeping Seal
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4. Nationally Established
prices.
5. The Keepsake Certificate,
bearing our signature, GUAR
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6. Exchange privilege is as
sured if turned in later on a
Keepsake of greater value.
7. The only ring
chosen to receive the
Fashion Academy
Award.
Choose Your Keep
sake Diamond Ring
with Confidence at
SANKEY PARK
Jewelers
111 N. Main
Bryan
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We are again approaching the end of the Spring Semester and the time of year you
start thinking about the move home or to a summer job. Among your possessions,
text-books—and the memory of what you paid for them—loom large and volumnous.
Although we are in the book business—and make a considerable portion of our
operating over-head and net profit from buying and selling books—we hope you
will keep the books which have reference value to you. At the same time we hope
you will cull out the ones you want to dispose of and bring them to us.
In order that you, as seller, and we, as buyer, may understand each other better
we feel it is appropriate that we re-state our book buying policy so it will be fresh
in your mind and ours.
First, let’s dispel one idea which seems to become prevalent at this season of the
year. YOU AREN’T GOING TO GET RICH WHEN YOU SELL YOUR BOOKS
TO US OR ANY ONE ELSE. However you are going to salvage a part of your
investment in tools of the learning process of which you have completed use. You
are also going to make those same tools available to the Aggie who will fill your
shoes next year—at a reduced cost to him.
Generally they will fall in
WORRIED
Here’s the answer
to your problem
BRING YOUR CLOTHES
TO THE
CAMPUS
CLEANERS
• Fast Service
• Expert Workmanship
• Use Our Sub-Station
For Convenience
Reimer Elected
Dan Reimer has been elected
president of the Yankee hometown
club. Other officers elected were
Nelson Sprague, vice-president;
Ted Steckie, secretary and Jim
Neighbors, reporter.
U. S. place names range from
Aaron, Ky. to Zylks, La., says the
National Geography Society.
BRING YOUR CAR
TO US FOR . . .
Best “TUNE-UP”
In Town
BRUNER
BATTERY & ELECTRIC CO.
Bruner ’44
28th & Main Phone 2-1218
Second, let’s classify the books you will have to sell,
the following classifications.
CLASS 1. In this group will be those books of current copyright now in use on
the campus and which professors have told us they will re-use, and on
which our existing stock is inadequate for supplying next years classes.
If all the books you offer for sale fall in this category we predict the
seller-buyer relationship between you and us will be pleasant as we are
offering you 50% of publishers list or new price on these books. During
recent months many books have advanced in list price. If you have a
book for which you paid $6.00 last fall and on which the list has increased
to $7.00 you’ll be offered $3.50 instead of $3.
CLASS 2. Class 2 books are Class 1 books on which the binding is broken or the
pages loose. On these books we’ll offer you 50% of list less our cost of
rebinding. This cost varies from 50c to $1.00, depending on the size
of the book.
CLASS 3. Several titles of current copyright have been dropped on our campus.
Some of these books, however, will doubtless be used on other campuses.
Just where they will be used we do not know but there are several USED
BOOK JOBBERS who make it their business to find out. The jobbers
will buy this type of book, ship it to a central warehouse and then try
to find a buyer for it. Obviously they must buy these books at a low
enough figure to cover shipping and warehouse costs, salaries and travel
ing expenses of their representatives, the loss on books which change
editions between time of purchase and time of sale and to show a net
return to them and to the retailers who buy from them.
Many factors—some of which fluctuate—enter into their pricing formula.
Generally speaking if a book is of current copyright and a new edition
is not eminent, if it is authored by a professor of standing in his field
and is published by a reputable publisher, the jobbers price to us will
approximate 25% of list. Thus your $6.00 book has a value of $1.50.
Our policy is to pay you just what the jobber pays us. Their written
quotations to us are available in our store for your inspection.
CLASS 4. This class consists of old editions, locally authored and published books
not used on other campuses, out of print books and in some cases current
copyright books which have waned in popularity over the nation. Class
4 books are referred to by the trade as “dogs” and usually have little or
no value. Some few of such titles may have a national market value
of 25c, 50c or even $1.00. Bring your “dogs” along and we’ll be glad
to appraise them for you.
Third we would like to point out that we—nor any other retail book store in America—
have any control over publishers and their decisions to bring out new editions. Neither
do we have any part in the faculty decisions to change texts. We do believe, how
ever, our faculty honestly and sincerely tries to select the very best available texts
for their courses and that they would be dilatory in their duty and obligations to
you and all future Aggies if they didn’t stay abreast of changing facts and develop
ments in the selection of textbooks.
We hope this discussion will explain to you some of the complexities of the used
book business. WE ALSO GIVE YOU OUR PLEDGE TO PAY YOU THE VERY
HIGHEST PRICE POSSIBLE—CONSISTENT WITH GOOD BUSINESS —FOR
THE BOOKS YOU WANT TO SELL.
We thank you for reading this far.
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Serving Texas Aggies