NEWSIn Brief

SLAYER REVEALS WEAPON LOCATION

VERNON, Tex., Feb. 9 —CP)— Sheriff Ed Luttrell announced yes­terday that Robert Bagwill, 17, had admitted the slaying of a service station operator at Steph- enville, Texas, Jan. 28 and had led officers to the gun used in the murder.

Sheriff Luttrell said Bagwill, who has been charged with murder in the slaying, found the gun for officers in a creek near Mineral Wells.

Bagwill is being held in jail at Vernon, because, as Luttrell said, Stephenville citizens were “pretty riled up.”

Luttrell said the young prisoner had made a full statement admit­ting that he shot Crockett Ross, Stephenville service station opera­tor, during a holdup, while a com­panion waited in an automobile.

The companion, Dan White, 48, has been charged as an accomplice in the slaying. Luttrell said White has also made a statement in con­nection with the slaying of Ross.

Citizens of Stephenville had of­fered a reward of more than $1,000 for the arrest and conviction of Ross’ slayer.

OIL SLICK SIGHTED NEAR SHIPS POSITION

CORPUS CHRISTI, Feb. 9 — The Corpus Christi Naval Air Sta­tion announced yesterday that one of its search planes sighted an oil slick in the area where a missing banana boat was reported in dis­tress.

The oil slick was sighted Mon­day afternoon by a patrol craft and a coast guard cutter, also as­sisting in the search, was directed to proceed at once to the location of the slick.

The Navy said the cutter, the Triton, should have reached the oil slick Tuesday morning but that the whole area is covered by fog.

FIGHTING FLARES AGAIN IN CHINA

NANKING, Feb. 9 —(#) China’s dormant civil war flared into a light fight on the Yangtze yester­day.

Government patrol boats attack­ed a flotilla of communist supply craft west of Wuhu, which is about 40 miles west of Nanking. Sever­al Red boats were sunk and 31 junks captured, along with a few communist prisoners.

A naval spokesman denied the Communists were trying a cross­ing.

The action, first of importance in a month, came as peace hopes wilted.

AGREEMENT REACHED IN WATER SQUABBLE

AUSTIN, Feb. 9 —(#) Factions in a bitter fight over the proposed rewriting of Texas water laws have reached an agreement.

Guy C. Jackson, Jr., of Anahuac, president of the Texas Water Con­servation Association, said last night that an agreement had been reached with the west Texas Chamber of Commerce.

“We’ve reached an agreement in principle on their protests to the bill,” Jackson said, “and I believe without doubt we’ll reach a final agreement.”

The compromise session between the two groups disbanded and the 17 suggested amendments to the bill were turned over to the TW- CA water laws committee.

HOUSTON COMPANY SEEKS INJUNCTION

HOUSTON, Feb. 9 —(A>)_ The Metallic Building Company Mon­day filed a petition to restrain the Houston Metal Trades Council, A- FL, from acts of violence.

The petition was filed with Dis­trict Clerk J. W. Mills. It asserts that on Jan. 26 one of the com­pany’s non-union employes was stopped on the Wallisville road and beaten by two men and left un­conscious on the road.

The petition continued that one day later, another employee was stopped on his way home from work by a member of the council and threatened because he had not signed with the union.

BODIES OF EIGHT FLIERS RECOVERED

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 9 —(#> The bodies of eight airmen killed in the plunge of a burning B-25 bomber into mist-shrouded Lake Pontchartrain here Friday have been recovered.

Scattered pieces of wreckage over a radius of 100 yards were hauled to the lake surface from a depth of 14 feet, the naval air station said last night.

The public relations officer said cause of the crash remains a mys­tery.

The bomber was on a training flight from Keesler Air Force Base at Biloxi, Miss., to Ft. Worth Texas.

Port Arthur Club To Meet Thursday

The Port Arthur A&M Club will hold its first meeting of the se­mester at 7:30 Thursday evening in Room 225 Academic Building, Gene Broussard, president, announ­ced.

A duchess will be selected to represent the club at the Cotton Pageant, Broussard said. Plans for entertaining high school lead­ers during the All-College Day weekend will also be made.

Broussard invited new students from Port Arthur and vicinity to attend.

BattalionPUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE

Volume 48 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1949 Number 119

Civic Life Program Outlined By Development Association

Budget requests, inter-city re­lationships, and the proposed col­lege-community development plan were discussed at the Tuesday meeting of the College Station De­velopment Association Directors meeting.

Outlines of the detailed program for community advancement took definite shape as committee chair­men reported. As budget requests were made, the committee reported accomplishments during the past year as well as plans for the next twelve months.

The phases of civic life, rep­resented in the association’s program include agriculture,

athletics, business development and trade extension, civic devel­opment, churches, education, in­tercity relationships, finance, legislative, membership, public health, publicity, recreat i o n, transportation and public safety and city planning.The membership drive, which

will finance association activities for the year, is about 60 percent completed, H. E. Burgess told the directors. With E. E. Ames and Robert L. Hunt, the committee expects to complete its canvass within the next 10 days. Response has been almost 100 per cent, Bur­gess reported, pointing out .the

Thirty-First Texas Water Anl

Sewage Short Course EndingThe thirty-first Texas Water and Sewage Works Short

Course, which began here Sunday, is entering its final phases today.

The school is sponsored jointly by the State Board of Health; Southwest section, American Water Works Associa-

*+tion; State Board for Vocational Education; and the Civil Engineer-

H. N. Yardley, Post Office Employee, Dies

Homer Noel Yardley, post office employee at College Station for twelve years, died Monday after undergoing a surgical operation in a St. Louis hospital.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. H. N. Yardley of Bryan; two sons, Noel and Jack, both of Bryan; two sisters, Mrs. Rena Hargrove of Marshall and Miss Anna Yard- ley of Nacogdoches; and two bro­thers, W. J. Yardley and Finley Yardley both of St. Louis.

Noel Yardley is a third year chemical engineering student at A&M. Jack is a student at the Lamar Junior High School in Bry­an.

Yardley attended A&M for approximately one year. He ser­ved in the first world war, was a member of the First Methodist Church in Bryan, was a member of the Masonic Lodge, and had served on the Board of Stewards.He was a lover of outdoor life

and spent much of his spare time hunting and fishing.

Yardley was born on April 5, 1899. He was reared in Ben Arnold Texas, and was appointed a rural carrier of its post office on May 17, 1920. He served as carrier for approximately 17 years.

On August 1, 1937, Yardley was transferred to the College Station Post Office where he served as a clerk until February 1, 1947.

He was promoted to superin­tendent of mails and held the position until he Secured sick leave from the Post Office De­partment several weeks ago. Yardley had been suffering from ill health for several months.Funeral arrangements are pend­

ing. The Hillierd Funeral Home is in charge of the funeral.

Foreign Education Covered by GI Bill

Students may do graduate and under-graduate work in Sweden and Denmark under the GI Bill.

In Sweden the University of Stockholm offers courses in social and political sciences. They are primarily intended for graduate students, but outstanding under­graduates who will have completed at least the Sophomore year by June 149 are also acceptable.

At the Universities of Copen­hagen and Aarhus, Denmark, clas­ses are conducted in English by Danish professors. Subjects in­clude social welfare and labor leg­islation, political science, econo­mics, Danish language and culture, Danish philosophy and education and Nordic archaeology.

The American-Scand i n a v i a n Foundation also offers six travel­ing fellowships for graduate study in Denmark, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden for 1949-50.

Application papers will be mail­ed on request to the Student Su­pervisor, 116 East 64th St., New York City.

LAREDO CLUB MEETS TOMORROW NIGHT

The Laredo Club will meet at 7 Thursday night in the Academic Building, Ralph Duke, treasurer, announced today.

Officers will be elected and re­sults of the Christmas dance will be given, Duke said.

ing Department of A&M. The school will last through Thursday.

The water and sewage engineers were welcomed to the campus by President F. C. Bolton. “The man­ner in which you have kept our water safe for consumption, al­though often taken for granted, is a source of gratification,” Presi­dent Bolton said. “We don’t real­ize what you are doing until we visit a country where water can’t be drunk ‘raw’ but must be boiled first.”

The first session, which was held Monday morning was pre-' sided over by N. E. Trestle of Temple, president of the Texas Water and Sewage Works Asso­ciation.The course is divided into sec­

tions among which are the Water Supply Section, with C. A. Sand­ers, itinerant instructor, Industrial Extension Service presiding; and the Surface Sources Session, lead by J. L. Swanson, water superin­tendent of Port Arthur. Other di­visions are the Well Sources Ses­sion, the Sewerage Session and the Well Water Session.

C, B, and A examinations will be given at the end of the school.

Approximately 400 engineers are attending.

Discussion leaders include M. T. Rowland of Houston, Julian Willke of San Antonio, and R. H. Weiss, Engineer, State Depart­ment of Health, Kerrville.Discussion leaders on the “Fac­

tors Involved in the Selection of Impounding Reservoir Sites” in­clude T. C. Forrest, consulting en­gineer, Dallas, Texas; and J. L. Robinson, engineer State Depart­ment of Health, Fort Worth.

A banquet will be held by the group in the Sbisa Dining Room this evening at 7.

need for generous contributions if the $4,000 budget requests are to be met.

The question of inter-city re­lationships was discussed. Presi­dent C. N. Shepardson pointed out that the College Station associa­tion has a standing committee on inter-city relationships, headed by Dean H. W. Barlow as chairman with H. Sullivan as the director in charge.

S. R. Wright reported progress on plans for drafting a commun­ity-college development program. Chancellor Gibb Gilchrist and T. R. Spence have been added to the committee working on the project.Barlow, chairman of the College

Station Recreation Council, pre­sented the council’s budget request. The Recreation Council is support­ed jointly by the Development As­sociation, the City of College Sta­tion and the Community Chest.

Plans for the coming year call for continuing every activity suc­cessfully conducted during the past 12 months and adding sev­eral new phases of work as well as improving services now offer­ed.During the next few weeks the

finance committee under N. R. Durst will analyze all budget re­quests and recommend allocation of funds at the next board meeting in March. ,

Scouts Honored At Kiwanis Luncheon

“The Boy Scout movement is one of the greatest in the world today for the establishment and preservation of democracy,” Rever­end A. T. Dyal, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Bryan, told members of the College Sta­tion Kiwanis Club Tuesday.The meeting and luncheon observ­ed National Boy Scout Week.

Bill Manning, scoutmaster of Troop 102, which is sponsored by the College Station Kiwanis Club, presented members of his troop in a demonstration of firebuilding. Members who participated were Jake McGee, John Hildebrand, George Johnston, Homer LaMotte, and Dick Howe.

Representatives of Scout Troop 411 of Bryan, sponsored by the Bryan Rotary Club, and Cub Pack 102, sponsored by the College Sta­tion Mothers and Dads Club, ^were also present. > \

Sorghum Research Grant Is Renewed

The Agricultural Experiment Station has been granted $1,000 by the General Foods Corporation, Dr. R. D. Lewis, director of the Experiment Station, announced to­day.

The money, a renewal for 1949 of a previous grant, is to be used for further research on improved varieties of sorghum, Lewis said.

Research on surghum is conduc­ted by the station under the di­rection of R. E. Karper, agrono­mist of the experiment substation at Lubbock.

SHORT HOUSE SESSION AUSTIN, Feb. 9 —OR The House of Representatives met for an hour Tuesday morning and adjourned until 10:30 a. m. today.

Episcopalians! To Honor Late Thomas Adcock

The late Colonel Thomas A. Adcock will be commemorat­ed by a wooden reredos be­hind the altar in the chapel of St. Thomas Episcopal cha­pel, the vestry committee an­nounced Tuesday.

The memorial screen will rise six feet up from the wall behind the altar, forming a background for the altar brass.

Nelson McLain and John Cum­mings, committeemen, said a woo­den reredos was chosen because Colonel Adcock was a collector and lover of woods.

Colonel Adcock was stationed at A&M from 1939 Until he was call­ed to field duty at the beginning of the war, and returned to serve here afterwards. He was killed in an accident while serving at Fort Belvoir last summer;

“Members of the committee feel that the many friends of Colonel Adcock would like to share in presenting this tribute to his memory,” Gumming ssaid. “An appropriate tablet, with the names of all who shared in the memorial, will be placed on the reredos.”Contributions may be sent to

Colonel John Cummings, c/o Chem­istry Department, A&M; or to Nelson McLain, Box 93, College Station, the committee announced;

Overstreet Places 4th in Bull Riding

Maxie Overstreet, sophomore A H major from Haslet, was award­ed $943 last week for placing fourth in the Brahman bull riding event at Ft. Worth’s 53rd annual rodeo.

He was “second all around cow­boy” at the 27th Annual Aggie Rodeo held last fall.

WILLARD COLLINS has been scheduled as one of the speakers at the A&M Church of Christ during Religious Week.

TRINE STARNES, Waco min­ister, will be one of the Church of Christ’s speakers at an all­church dinner tomorrow night.

Collins, Barbour and Hardin to Speak Here

All-Church Dinner Scheduled Tomorrow by Church of Christ

Pomerat Will Speak to Local Science Club

Dr. Charles M. Pomerat, director of the tissue culture laboratory in the medical branch of the University of Texas, will address the local Academy of Science Club next Wednesday evening, Dr. Charles LaMotte of the Bi­ology Department announced today.

Pomerat is scheduled to speak at 7 p. m. in the Agricultural En­gineering Lecture Room.

The lecture, which will be illus­trated by lantern slides and motion pictures, will be on Dr. Pomerat’s observations from his study of living cells from the various or­gans of the body grown under ase­ptic conditions in glass containers, LaMotte said.

Dr. Pomerat received his BA in biology from Clark University, and his MA and PhD from Harvard. He served as a research fellow with the Rockefeller Foundation and as professor of biology at the Uni­versity of Alabama before coming to the Texas medical school at Gal­veston.

The meeting will be open to all persons interested in Dr. Pome- rat’s talk, LaMotte said.

Trophy Case in Student Center Small From Shortage of Funds

By BUDDY LUCEA&M’s trophy winners in the

next few years may have to start keeping their cups and medals _ in their dormitory rooms, according to Wayne Stark, director of the Memorial Student Center.

The trophy case in the plans of the new student center will be sad in size because of the shortage of funds in building the construction. It won’t even be large enough to hold the trophies that have already been won.

The student center trophy case will occupy a position on one of the walls in the game room design­ed for playing cards, dominoes, chess and the like. The case will be 29 feet long, 3V2 feet high, and 1 foot three inches deep.

The old trophy case in the academic building with its anci­ent metalwork is jammed with relics of bygone Aggie victories on different fields of battle. Packed in sardine can fashion, the old case reached its capa­city years ago.The new trophy case to be in­

stalled in the student center will have to be used for trophies not over two or three years old. If Aggies don’t decrease their trophy winning rate seriously, two or three years winnings will keep the case filled all the time.

An outdoor trophy case has been suggested by the athletic depart­ment. This case would be construc­ted in front of Kyle Field under a roof of some sort and would be seen by visitors and Aggies alike when entering the stadium.

The only other solution to the

trophy case problem lies in some type of money raising scheme in view of a trophy case fund. In most student centers the trophy case or room is the result of some kind of donation or live-wire pro­motion effort.

The student center could have been designed to incorporate a trophy room, but the general trophy-consciousness of Aggies was thought not to merit such consideration. In order that the display should be at least partly conspicious, it was decided that it should be included in one of the more frequented rooms of entertainment afforded by the center.

So, until such time as some gen­erous soul or group of benefactors feels behooved to provide funds for a more spacious trophy case in the new student center, the loving cups may have to be lodged with the lovers.

Parking Plans Set For Military Ball

To help alleviate the anticipated parking problem in the vicinity of Sbisa Hall during the Military Ball, February 12, Fred Hickman, chief of Campus Security, has sug­gested a parking plan for use by students.

It is suggested that Military Walk and the space in front of the Aggieland Inn be kept clear for the use of the many visiting digni­taries. The Academic parking lot will be open for the use of stu­dents, as will the other streets around Sbisa Hall.

‘Greedy Commercializin’

Large Stadium In Houston Opposed by Rice Thresher

By CHUCK MAISELThere has been much argument

on several Southwest campuses of late concerning the merits of mem­bership in Who’s Who Among Students In American Colleges. TCU started the talk when they withdrew their membership be­cause they felt that the thing was not an honor, but actually a way of getting to the students for much of the long green. Students chosen are expected to buy direc­tories and expensive keys.

TSCW’s editorial column in the Daily Lass-0 adds the latest comment by saying that they are all for Who’s Who. The Lass-0 editor believes that it is an honor to be chosen and that no pressure is brought to bear to. buy anything. She believes that TSCW students should be mature enough to make the

choice without “being victims of commercialism.”A&M pulled stakes from the na­

tional organization several years ago.

★The Rice Thresher is noted for

its bold editorial policy. In one of its latest, the editor lashes out at the city of Houston. He refers to the plans to build the 110,000 seat stadium in that city and the glee­ful cries of the city fathers that the structure may lure Notre Dame to Houston to play Rice. The Thresher condemns all this saying that it is “one more ex­ample of the greedy commercial­ism which has come to dominate college football throughout the nation.”

The editor is particularly peev­ed that no reference has been made at any time to the best

interests of Rice Institute as a school, “the desires of the stu­dents, or the attitude of the school officials.”

★Students complaining about

the housing situation at A&M should take a look at what’s go­ing on at Baylor. Three Baylor students—Charlie Allen, Charles Erwin, and John Kavanaugh— all of New York have built up an army surplus tent in the woods out side of Waco and es­tablished living quarters. Their first time in Texas, they assum­ed the weather of the Lone Star state to be mild so they didn’t buy any stove. One norther from the Panhandle changed their minds.The men admit that living in a

tent is no paradise, but at least “Impolite Manor,” as they call it, is absolutely rent free.

An all-church dinner, preparatory to the coming of Re­ligious Emphasis Week Guest Willard Collins, will be held tomorrow night at 7 by the A&M Church of Christ, John B. Fowler, minister, said Tuesday.

The banquet will be given at the Scout Little House.i ^ Trine Starnes, minister of the

Columbus Avenue Church of Christ in Waco, will be guest speaker for the occasion, Fowler said.

A committee of more than 50 ladies are preparing a complete banquet dinner to be attended by approximately a hundred students,

£>( <1 student wives, and residents. Themil'llflQ-vr b^quet is expected to be the larg- kJ UlilUt y est church-student function ever

J sponsored by the A&M Church of Christ, Fowler said.

The program planned includes three selections by a male quartet, a ladies trio, and an after-dinner speech by Starnes.

Reverend F. G. Roesener, pastor ^uesJf ,expe?ei in: the St. Martin’s Lutheran attendance include Mi. and Mis*

Lutherans Will Open Student Center

The Lutheran Student Cen­ter at Main and Cross Streets will be dedicated at 10 a. m. Sunday.

of the St. Martin’s Lutheran Church in Austin, will deliver the message and start the dedication ceremonies, Fred Mgebroff, pastor of the A&M Lutheran Church, an­nounced today.

A&M’s Lutheran Student Center is the first of its kind in the US to be built or sponsored by the National Lutheran Churches, Mge­broff stated. At other colleges, student activities are held in the chapels of Lutheran churches near the campuses.

Official representatives of the United Lutheran Church, the American Lutheran Church, theEvangelical Lutheran Church, and ~as ma.in speaker for Religious ■’ * ~ ........... Emphasis Week on the campusthe Augustana Synod will be pre­sent at the ceremonies.

Informal services will be held at the Center at 2:30 p. m. Sun­day. Rev. Eric N. Hawkins of the Ascension Lutheran .Church in San Antonio will deliver a special address. Hawkins is the student pastor for colleges in the San Antonio area.An open house will be held after

the service, and refreshments will be served, Mgebroff said.

$3,000 Allocated For A&M Bond By Exchange Store

The Exchange Store Advisory Board allocated $3,000 in Exchange Store profits for the fiscal year 1947-48 to the Student Life Com­mittee for band trips and awards.

The ' action was taken at the Board meeting February 4. Exact­ly how the fund will be used has not yet been announced.

The Library was given $2,000 of the store profits for the pur- chasen of additional books for sup­plementary reading.

The board recommended that the remaining $11,420.36 of the store profits be allocated to the Student Life Committee to be used for student welfare and recreation.

All of these proposals were in the form of recommendations and the Board of Directors will have to pass on them at their March meeting before they become final.

The manager of the Exchange Store was commended by the com­mittee for his efficient manage­ment of the business. The Student Life Committee was also commen­ded for the excellent manner in which it expended the funds allo­cated to it before.

The advisory board will meet again Friday, March 25.

Spring Enrollment Now Totals 7,366

A&M has registered 7,366 stu­dents for the spring semester, ac­cording to H. L. Heaton, registrar.The figure includes students on TWa/W % the main campus and at the Bryan - - y> v‘ Air Field Annex.

Registration for regular students closed Tuesday. However, students with special programs may regis­ter until Tuesday, Feb. 15.

Of the present students, 3,850 or very little more than half are veterans, according to Taylor Wil­kins, veterans advisor for A&M College.

The cadet corps now has an es­timated strength of 3,800. Several hundred veterans are in the ROTC corps.

“For the first time, we now have a sizeable number of veteran stu­dents who are paying their own way, having exhausted their time under the GI Bill,” Wilkins says.About 100 students are in this group.

Approximately 1,500 of the vet­erans are married.

R. Allen of Paris, Texas, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Long of Austin, and Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Williams of Austin all of which are former members. C. W. Scott, minister of the Bryan Church of Christ, and Mrs. Scott are also to be guests of the college group.

Rev. H. Grady Hardin, associate pastor of the First Methodist Church of Houston, will conduct Religious Emphasis Week Services at the Annex, Gordon Gay, YMCA secretary, has announced. Hardin

last year.Educated at Duke University,

Hardin has held pastorates in North Carolina since 1936 at Dur­ham, Mount Airmy, Winstom Sal­em, and Black Mountain College. He has been in Houston since May 1947.

Dr. Fred E. Barbour of Knox­ville, Tennessee, will open the 7th annual Religious Emphasis Week on the campus Monday morning in Guion Hall. He will deliver the first five lectures of the week.

Dr. Barbour, pastor of the sec­ond Presbyterian Church of Knox­ville, is dean of the school of re­ligion of the University of Tennes­see, a director of Maryville Col­lege and vice-moderator of the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A.

He holds bachelors degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and Western Theological Seminary, and a Ph. D. from the University of Edinburgh of Scotland.

Each of the morning services in Guion Hall will be presided over by a student leader. Special music will be furnished and the morning prayer will be given by a different student each day.

Johnson Addresses Dallas Cotton Men

Dr. H. G. Johnson, head of A& M s department of entomology dis­cussed the latest developments in insect control before a county­wide meeting of cotton men in Dallas yesterday.

Johnson discussed control mea­sures for the boll weevil, boll worm, cotton flea hopper, thrip, cotton leaf worm and grasshopp­ers.

Also on the program were F. C. Elliott and Allen Gunter, cotton work specialists with the A&M extension service.

Faires Speaks At Physics Seminar

At the regular seminar of th Physics Department at 4:15 p. m Thursday, W. M. Faires, of th Management Engineering Depart ment will speak on “The Meaninj of Heat,” according to Dr. J. G Potter, head of the Physics De partment.

This subject was chosen for th seminar because of a discrepanc; noted in textbooks under revie\ in the Physics Department, Potte said.

The seminar is open to gradual students, faculty members, and an; one interested in this subject, Pot ter concluded.

STOCK SHOW HAS CROWDS HOUSTON, Feb. 9 —<A>>_ A r<

cord 40,674 persons Sunday attem ed the Houston Fat Stock Shov W. O. Cox, general manager, ar nounced.

A total of 80,954 attended ove the week-end.