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The Ballalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Friday, October 4, 1957
Art for
Aggies’ Sake
By WELTON JONES
Some comments have been reach
ing the ears of this column con
cerning the column’s content. The
speakers had various things to say,
some of which will be taken into
consideration in future offerings.
The column will not be so pat
or trite as to say the usual beg
ging, simpering speech of “this
is YOUR column and we want to
put in it what YOU want.” It
most decidedly is not your column;
for the owner’s name see above.
However, the column will duly
consider and possibly answer any
legitimate comment, derogatory or
otherwise, so—feel free.
VARIETY—The biggest news of
the week, entertainment-wise, is,
of course, the return of the Four
Freshmen to the campus under the
auspices of the Town Hall organ
ization.
The popular vocal group, which
set a new style for such quartets
when they w^ere founded 10 years
ago, was extremely successful on
one previous appearance li^re and
adequate on another.
Keynote of the Freshmen is
their individual versatility. If one
man were to be picked as the voice
giving their sound its distinctive
quality, it would probably have to
be the tenor, Bob Flanigan, who
is also responsible for the rather
crude trombone solos heard on
their unaccompanied records. In
addition he plays the bass viol.
Other members are the effer
vescent Ross Barbour, who makes
introductions and handles a trum
pet when he is not laboring over
a meager set of drums, his broth
er, Don Barbour, who is fairly con
stant on the guitar and who belts
the group’s wierdies such as “Cir
cus”, and Ken Albers, vocal solo
ist and sometime trumpet-mello-
phone player.
A more complete list of their ac
complishments and qualifications
may be found elsewhei^e in these
pages, but may this column go on
record as saying that the Four
Freshmen, probably the best small
musical organization of their type
in the country, will provide an
evening of entertainment worth
the price of admission and time
spent,
MUSIC ON RECORDS—Follow
ing last week’s comments about
the state of the MSC Browsing Li
brary’s record collection, this col
umn talked -with Joe Harris, a
harried individual whose job it is
to purchase the $100 worth of new
records allowed the MSC each
year.
Harris told the column that all
is not as easy as it appears and
having a cool one hundred to spend
on records, an enviable position to
most of us, is rather disconcerting
when one has to please an audience
such as the one at A&M.
“Like last year,” he said. “There
was a big cry for some Spanish-
American music, so we bought a
lot and now, well the records are
just as new as they were last
year.”
Harris and this column join to
gether in requesting all music lov
ers, or those who even care at all,
to either leave a note for Harris
in the Library or write this col
umn in care of The Battalion and
give an opinion at least on the
type of music you might enjoy.
TELEVISION — Many readers
may recoil at the mention of this
young media in a column devoted
so bravely to “The Arts”, and, to
confess, this column finds the fact
a bit distasteful also.
Nevertheless, a Houston televis
ion station, KPRC-TV, has pro
duced a coup worthy of notice at
this time. The station has just
finished the first week of a new
film series entitled M-GM Theatre,
which will, each Monday through
Saturday at 10:05 p.m. on channel
2, present most of the memorable
film works produced by that stu
dio.
The list of titles and stars is
much too lengthy to note here, but
included will be such names to con
jure with as the legendary Greta
Garbo and Jean Harlow, the Barry
more family (all three featured in
one film, the only one they did to
gether),' the Marx Brothers, Wal
lace Beery and Sir Laurence Oli
vier.
In the future this column will
attempt to carry some type of
note when an outstanding feature
is scheduled on this series.
MOTION PICTURES—This Fri
day’s offering by the MSC Film
Society will be the always-popular
musical play “Showboat”. The par
ticular version featured will be
that starring Kathryn Grayson,
Howard Keel and Ava Gardner.
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by Jim Earle Fletcher WlIlS
la Engineering
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Fan and Pad
Best Method
To Cool Hens
This column remembers wonder
ing at the time how Miss Gardner,
who is adequately written about in
gossip columns, would fit into a
musical of the caliber of “Show-
boat”.
The most effective method of
cooling hen houses during the hot
summer months is the fan and
pad method L. E. Deacon of B&D
Mills in Grapevine told a group of
men yesterday at the annual Texas
Nutritional Conference in the Me
morial Student Center.
The fan and pad method is more
effective than the other method of
fogging in the cooling of hen
houses in the critical summer
months, said Deacon. Heat waves
during this season yearly kill
hundreds of laying hens by heat
prostration, he explained. In the
fan and pad method two fans on
either side of the entrance of the
hen house circulate the air through
the building to a porous pad on the
inside opposite wall of the house.
Last year in an experiment here
at A&M, continued Deacon, 3500
Arbor Acre White Rock breeder
hens were cooled by the pad and
fan system and 3500 were held for
control, with fogging used to cool
the controls. Pad and fan cooling
wasn’t started until July, 1956 and
by that time production hqd fallen
to 33% due to a heat wave in June,
he went on.
There was an impressive 13.3
percent increase in hen day pro
duction giving 65 cents per hen
extra income with the use of the
Pad and Fan method. Similar re
sults were shown with another
breed, Dekalb 101, the speaker
added.
Social Whirl
Electrical Engineering Wives
will meet for-a social at 8 p. m.
Monday in the south solarium of
the YMCA. Further information
and transportation to the meeting-
may be obtained by calling Norma
Koch, VI 6-5492, after 5:30 p. m.
* **
A business meeting of Agricul
tural Economics and Rural Soci
ology Wives will be held at 7:30
p.m. Monday in the seminar room
on the fourth floor of the Agri
culture Building.
* * *
Petroleum Engineering Wives
will meet at 7:45 p.m. Monday in
the cabinet room of the YMCA.
Election of sponsors will be held.
* **
Agronomy Wives Society meet
ing for next Tuesday has been can
celled because of the agronomy
field trip. The next meeting will
be at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 22 in the
Brooks Room of the YMCA.
Many fine cooks use potato
starch or arrowroot starch for
thickening a sauce because of their
transparent effect.
Writing Contest
Leroy S. (Skippy) Fletcher,
senior mechanical engineer
ing- major, was awarded first
prize in the technical writing
contest sponsored by The En
gineer.
His story entitled “They Test
Tomorrow’s Airplanes” was pub
lished in the March, 1957 issue of
the magazine, a periodical for en
gineering students on the A&M
campus.
Dr. John C. Calhoun, dean of the
School of Engineering, presented
the award, a check for $25 and a
certificate of merit, at a meeting
of the Engineers’ Council in the
engineering building conference
room. Three other prizes were
awarded to students in the School
of Engineering, two of whom have
graduated.
Skippy Fletcher is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Fletcher
of 759 N. Rosemary Drive, Bryan.
He is the student chairman of the
Society of Automotive Engineers.
Aggies, Jets Meet
In Howling Battle
A&M’s Bowling Team will play
host to an aggregation of Bryan
Air Force Base keglers Sunday af
ternoon, October 5th, at the Me
morial Student Center lanesj to
roll a three game match.
The Aggie squad is composed of
the top five bowlers in the Bowling
Club. These bowlers, and their
averages, are Bob Zatopek, 184;
Roger Bose, 179; Stan Workman,
177; Ken Savage, 177 and Pro But
ler, 176.
The air base Jets Will be strong
ly supported Bob Schopfer, 175;
Bob Veolker; 175; Henry Hopper,
175; Bill Littlejohn, 170 and W. E.
Smith, 170.
The match will begin at 2 pmi.
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IVY LEAGUE
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YOUR IVY LEAGUE CENTER
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103 North Main North Gate
Moms And Dads
Of CHS To Meet'
The Mothers and Dads Club of
A&M Consolidated High School
will hold their annual teachers re
ception, Monday, Oct. 7 from 7:30
to 9 p. m. on the Patranella Slab
of the high school.
In case of rain the meeting will
be held in the school gym.
All parents are urged and in
vited to attend.
FRIDAY
“TAMMY AND THE
BACHELOR”
with DEBBIE REYNOLDS
— Plus —
“HOLD THAT HYPNOTIST’
with HUNTZ HALL
— SATURDAY —
“THIS ISLAND EARTH”
“THE BENNY GOODMAN
STORY”
“GUNFIGHTER”
ALSO 4 CARTOONS
What’s Cooking
Hill County Hometown Club
meets tonight at 7:30 in the Cab
inet Room of the YMCA. Offi
cers will be elected and the year’s
activity plans discussed.
TODAY & SATURDAY
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— ALSO
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