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Page 2 THE BATTALION Thursday, January 12, 1956 Couch Appointed To UT Hospital Dr. Russell Couch, of the poul try husbandry and biochemisty and nutrition department, has been named a consultant biochemist for the University of Texas M.D. An derson Hospital and Tumor Insti tute, Houston. The appointment is for the fiscal year ending - Au gust 31, 1956, subject to renewal. Dr. Couch is a nationally recog nized research scientist and writer in the field of poultry nutrition and biochemistry. This year he announced the discovery of uni dentified growth factors in the ash of distillers dried solubles, which have given one-half as much growth response in test groups of poultry as the original substances from which the ash-was obtained. On Campus tvith Max Shukan (Author of "Barefoot Boy With Cheek,” etc.) VIVE LE POPCORN! The other day as I was walking down the street picking up tinfoil (Philip Morris, incidentally, has the best tinfoil, which is not surprising when you consider that they have the best cigarettes, which is not surprising when you consider that they buy the best tobaccos and the best paper and put them together with skill and loving care and rush them to your tobacco counter, fresh and firm and loaded with gentle smoking pleasure to lull the palate and beguile the senses and shoo the blues) the other day, I say, as I was walking down the street picking up tinfoil (I have, incidentally, the second largest ball of tinfoil in our family. My brother Eleanor’s is bigger —more than four miles in diameter—but, of course, he is taller than I.) the other day, as I was saying, while walking down the street picking up tinfoil, 1 passed a campus and right beside it, a movie theatre which specialized in showing foreign films. “Hmmmm,” I said to my self, “I wonder how come so many theatres which specialize in showing foreign films are located near campuses?” And the answer came right back to me: “Because foreign films are full of culture, art, and esoterica, and where is culture more rife, art more rampant, and esoterica more endemic than on a campus? Nowhere, that’s where!” Hapless Males Faced With Dangerous Year CADET SLOUCH by James Earle H e hopirzD She/l titra ba<~k into <3 I hope that all of you have been taking advantage of the foreign film theatre near your campus. Here you will find no simple-minded Hollywood products — full of treacly sentiment and machine-made bravura. Here you will find life itself —life in all its grimness, its poverty, its naked, raw passion! H ave you, for instance, seen the recent French import, Le Jardin de Ma Tante (“The Kneecap”), a savage and uncom promising story of a man named Claude Parfum, whose con suming ambition is to~ get a job as a meter reader with the Par.s water department? But he is unable, alas, to afford the flashlight one needs for this position. His wife, Bon-Bon, sells her Y ir to a wigmaker and buys him a flashlight. Then, alas, Clam ). discovers that one also requires a leatherette bow tie. This time his two young daughters. Caramel and Nougat, sell their hair to the wigmaker. So Claude has his leatherette bow-tie, but now, alas, his flashlight battery is burned out and the whole family, alas, is bald. Or have you seen the latest Italian masterpiece, La Donna E Mobi^ (“I Ache All Over”), a heart shattering tale of a boy and his dog? Malvolio, a Venetian lad of nine, loves his little dog with every fibre of his being. He has one great dream: to enter the dog in the annual dog show at the Doge’s palace. But that, alas, requires an entrance fee, and Malvolio, alas, is penniless. However, he saves and scrimps and steals and finally gets enough together to enter the dog in tho show. The dog, alas, comes in twenty-third. Malvolio sells him to a vivisectionist. Or have you seen the new Japanese triumph, Kibutzi-San (“The Radish”), a pulse-stirring historical romance about Yamoto, a poor farmer, and his daughter Ethel who are accosted by a warlord on their way to market one morning? The warlord cuts Yamoto in half with his samurai sword and runs off with Ethel. When Yamoto recovers, he seeks out Ethel’s fiance, Chutzpah, and together they find the warlord and kill him. But, alas, the warlord was also a sorcerer and ho has whimsically turned Ethel into a whooping crane. But loyal Chutzpah takes her home where he feeds her fish heads for twenty years and keeps hoping she’ll turn back into a woman. She never does. Alas. ©Max Sliulnian, 1956 The makers of Philip Morris, ivho bring you this column, hop< that if there's smoking in the balcony of your campus theatre, it will be today's new, gentle. Philip Morris you'll be smoking. The Battalion The Editorial Policy of The Battalion Represents the Views of the Student Editors By JIM BOWER Battalion News Editor A look at the calendar will show Aggies that they have more than one problem to cope with this year. For besides the ever dangerous Le'ap Year, 1956 has blessed us with three months that harbor a Friday the 13th. The $64,000 question is whether Leap Year has .combined with the unfortunate Fridays to plan mis fortune or will the two foi'ces act independently to harass the al ready downtrodden male ? Whichever occurs, the situation for the single male looks dark. If the two combine, not even track stars will have a chance to save their futures. They will find their shoes with the spikes broken and all manner of obstacles thrown in their path as the girls laughingly pluck the hapless males from their hiding places. Of if the two forces act sep arately, the unfortunate males will find themselves unable to effective ly combat either of the evils since they will be attacked from two sides. The most immediate problem looming before Aggies will come to light tomorrow in a double dose. Tomorrow is the first of the series of Friday the loths and to top it off, tomorrow night will be the first of the A&M-UT basketball clashes of the year. The next unfortunate Friday does not occur until April—the same day that the Intercollegiate Talent Show is scheduled. Attendance at the show should be high since the spectators will want to see which act draws the short straw and re ceives the bad luck. Also that day A&M meets Baylor here in a base ball game. The next and final unfortunate Friday comes in July. Summer school students will have that bat tle all to themselves since there is nothing planned to help ease the pain. History doesn’t record any ter rible disaster occurring on the 13th day of the three months—January, April and July. Jan. 13 is the birthday of Salmon P. Chase, a Republican political figure who is recorded as respon sible for establishing the national banks with the power to issue cur rency supported by government bonds. April 13 is honored by having T h o m a s Jefferson’s birthday, Huguenot Day and National Bird Day. Huguenot Day is celebrated in memory of the French Huguenots who fled to America from France to escape persecution from the Catholic Church. July 13, birthday of Nathan B. Forrest who won fame as a calvary leader for the Confederate Army during the Civil War, is celebrated as a legal holiday in Tennessee. Down through the years many beliefs have flourished as either the origination of Friday the 13th be ing unlucky or as preventative measures against it. The myth could have started similar to the one harbored against walking under a ladder—simply be cause someone happened to suffer misfortune while strolling beneath the ladder. Currently though, Friday the .13th draws more recognition to those who stay in bed to escape misfortune and get their pictures in the papers for having been able to do such a stunt. It is not recommended that Ag gies stay in bed to escape misfor tune on these unlucky Fridays. The consequences from staying in bed and missing classes would more than likely be greater than those suffered by defying Friday the 13th. What b Cooking 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 once a week, and during examination and vacation periods, once a week. Days of publication are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year, Thursday during the summer terms, and Thursday during examination and va cation periods. The Battalion is not published on the Wednesday im mediately preceding Easter or Thanksgiving. Subscription rates are $3.50 per semester, $6.00 per school year, $6.50 per full year, or $1.00 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. The schedule for tonight is as follows: 7:30 Wichita Falls- Hometown Club will meet in room 323 of the Aca demic Building. A hypnotist will furnish entertainment. Marshall Hometown Club will meet in the Assembly Room of the MSC to make a picture for the Annual. Uniform for Corps mem- Familiarity FIighls Given By Officer Capt. Roger McCauley, junior air science instructor and Assistant PAS, has spent several weekends taking ROTC students up for pre training rides. This is not a part of the flight training for Air Science students. Army branch students are accepted on flights. Flights usually last from 30 to 45 minutes. The student is given a chance to fly the plane and be come familiar with how it operates. Students interested in making a flight should contact Capt. McCau ley about a week in advance. Anderson To Hold Soil Short Course Jack W. Anderson, assistant pi - o- fessor in the Department of Agronomy at A&M, will conduct a Soils and Fertilizer Short Course in Kaufman County Jan. 30 thru Feb. 3. James G. Simmons, Kaufman County agent, is in charge of ar rangements there. Entered as second-class i matter at Post Office at S Collegre Station. Texas, i Under the Act of Con- Kresa of March 3. 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Advertisinp Services. Inc., art New York City. Chicago. Lo*- 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 origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. News contributions may be made by telephone (VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910) or at the editorial office room, 202 Goodwin Hall. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (VI 6-6415) or at the Student Publica tion Office, Room 207 Goodwin Hall. BILL FULLERTON Editor Ralph Cole Managing Editor Ronnie Greathouse Sports Editor Don Shepard, Jim Bower, Dave McReynolds - News Editors Welton Jones - City Editor Barbara Paige - Woman’s Editor Barry Hart. Assistant Sports Editor Jim Neighbors, John West Reporters Maurice Olian - CHS Sports Correspondent Tom Syler - Circulation Manager James Schubert, Mike Keen, Guy Fernandez Photographers That “new suit” I “bought” for Dad is really an old one I had rejuvenated at . . . C A M 1* U S CLEANERS hers will be class “A” and coat and tie for civilians. Amarillo A&M Club will meet in the YMCA and will serve coffee and cookies from Mothers’ Club. Milam County Hometown Club will meet in the YMCA. Williamson County A&M Club will meet in room 3B of the MSC. Lower Rio Grande Valley Club will meet in the YMCA. Houston Hometown Club will meet in room 107 of the Biological Science Building to discuss spring club plans. Winters Hometown Club will meet in room 110 of Bagley Hall. Lubbock Southplain Hometown Club will meet in room 223 of the Academic Building to discuss vis iting high schools. No Time Tyler Smith County Club will meet in room 224 of the Academic Building to present Mothers’ Club and Former Students Association Loan Fund. Van Zandt County Hometown Club will meet in the YMCA lounge for the election of officers Panhandle Club will meet in the Academic Building. West-Texas San Angelo Club will meet in the Ag-ricultural Building to collect money from sale of tickets to Christmas dance. Fayette-Colorado County Home town Club will meet in room 2C of the MSC. J ob Interviews Thursday and Friday U.S. NAVAL LABORATORIES IN CALIFORNIA are interested in majors in mechanical, electrical, aeronautical engineering. Also physics, m a t h e m a t i c s, ocean ography and meteorology majors for opportunities at the U.S. Navy Electronics Laboratory in 'San Diego, Calif, and the U.S. Naval Air Missile Test Center at Point Mugu, Calif. They will also inter view faculty, graduate students, seniors and juniors for summer work. CIRCLE THRU FRIDAY “Southwest Passage” Rod Cameron —Also— “Atomic Kid” Mickey Rooney USED BOOKS WANTED The Exchange Store is in the market for your used books Check our prices before selling THE EXCHANGE S I ORE “Serving Texas Aggies” THE WESTERN STEAKS — CHICKEN — SEA FOOD LUNCH SERVED 11:00 A.M. — 2:00 P.M. OPEN 24 HRS. HWY. 6 SOUTH Local Man Named Livestock Official Henry G. Jones of College Sta tion has been named official am bassador for the College Station area to the Seventh Annual San Antonio Livestock Exposition, E. W. Bickett, Exposition president announced. The enlarged 1956 Exposition will be held in the Bexar County Coliseum Feb. 10-19. Five new divisions have been added to the show this year. These include Charbray and Charollaise cattle, Cheviot and Montadale sheep and Delaine sheep in the junior division. THRU SATURDAY “SHEPHERD OF THE HILLS” John Wayne THRU FRIDAY ' aflamb with ** *%*r*r\ JL/ f ^imnnnnnmrinnnniiiimU ^ t ^torrino ItiCHARD GLYN3S TODD • JOHMS ALL LIVE-ACTION HIT color by TECHNICOLOR Oisliibuled by MO Ridio RiclufM • CopyngM Wilt Oiinty Production TODAY thru SATURDAY FRI. 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