1955-06-29 The Plainsman

              Lions Award Honor Band Second Place
THAT LUCKY OLE SUN, who has nothing to do except keep an eye on such lovely coeds as
these, makes us want to change places with him. Basking in the sun at the city pool are Sara Kathe-rine
Quinn, Monroeville; Deryl Parker, Thomasville, Ga.; Pat Strain, Rome, Ga.; Sue Saxon, Syla-cauga,
and Libby Whitman, Mobile.
77i£ Plmndrnort
Volume 83
TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT
AtTBURN, ALABAMA, JUNE 29, 1955 Number 2
Auburn Recipient Of Federal Grant
For Continued Research, Extension
Auburn's Agriculture De­p
a r t m e n t was t h e recipient of
$298,800 in t h e form of a fed­eral
grant last week, which is
one of t h e largest Federal ap­propriations
in the state's his­t
o r y .
Of "the amount donated $117,-
000 will go to the Experiment
Station and $181,000 will, go to
the Extension Service, according
to officials in the- Agriculture De­p
a r t m e n t here.
Twenty-five percent of the
money for experiment will be
used for marketing research on
farm products. This will include
the study of the possibility of
marketing what is now consider-
- ed low-value timber grown in
Alabama as well as the valuable
pine. The marketing of such
things as Christmas trees, fruits,
and foods grown in the state will
also be given proper considera­tion
in continuing the research
now underway.
The research done by the Au­burn
Experiment Station, which
now includes such things as di­seases
of poultry and animals, ir­rigation
problems, and insect con­trol
will be continued and broad­ened.
In general the experiment
work will continue in efforts to
answer some of the important
problems in Alabama agriculture.
The Extension Service carries
out to all parts of the state prac­tical
applications of the work
done by the experiment division.
The money will be used to ex­pand
the program already in
progress in farm and home de­velopment
work.
Penalty For Cutting
Before, After Fourth
Students missing classes this
Friday or next Tuesday will
receive a five percent reduction
in the final grade for each class
in each course missed, accord­ing
to M. C. Huntley, Dean of
Faculities.
Absences by students can only
be excused by the Council of
Deans or by the College Phy­sician.
'LOVELIEST OF THE PLAINS'
Summer SGA, IFC
Officers Announced
• Student Government and IFC
officials were named in Senate,
WSGA, and IFC meetings * at the
close of last quarter.
Dick Scott, SGA president, fin­ished
filling his fall cabinet, nam­ing
Lee Abraham, Memphis,
Tenn., superintendent of student
welfare' arid Herbie Pearce, Birm­ingham,
superintendent of intra­mural
sports.
Summer appointments also ap­proved
by the senate were social
affairs, Bob Shields, Nashville,
Term., and campus drives, Vic
Talbert, Pensacola, Fla.
SGA officers for the ..summer
will be president, Jim Johnson,
Tuscumbia; vice president, Strick
Newsom, Sandersville, Ga.; and
treasurer, Bill Blount, Dothan.
Doug Lunsford, Troy, w as
named summer IFC president,
along w i t h Tommy Johnson,
Montevallo, vice president; and
Bill Dawson, Phenix City, secre­tary-
treasurer.
Filling in on the summer senate
will be senior senators Bob Word,
Scottsboro; Jerry Whittle, Gads­den;
Carolyn Jones, Columbus,
Ga.; aqd Bill Lovin, Decatur;
junior senators Max Rosenberg,
Columbus, Ga.; Juanita Flowers,
Thomaston; and David Shipley,
Greenville, Miss.; and sophomore
senators Elaine Kettles, Dalton,
Ga.; Don -Baird, Bessemer; and
William Regan, Mobile.
Serving on the summer publi­cations
board will be Doug Luns­ford,
Troy; Bob Ellis, Enterprise;
Bob Shields, Nashville, Tenn.;
and Bertis Rasco, Cullman.
Atlantic City Applauds Confederates
At Annual International Convention
By Sam Houston
Plainsman Associate Editor
A u b u r n ' s Honor Band copped a coveted second place
in the band competitions at the International Lion's Club
Convention in Atlantic City, N. J.,, last week as thousands of
t o u r i s t s and world-wide delegates watched.
Sponsored by -the Alabama wide competition earlier in the
Lion's Club, the Honor Band was
selected as- "the band" to repre­sent
the state of Alabama this
year. The Auburn Lion's Club
nominated the band in the state
SITTING.ON TOP of the world and soaking up the sunshine ap­pears
to be keeping this week's loveliest busy. She's Emma Kane, a
freshman in art from Rome, Ga. It's scenes like this that make
Chewacla the popular place it is.
Players To Present
'Arms and the Man'
Here In August
The Auburn Players will pre­sent
"Arms and the Man" by
George Bernard Shaw on August
3-6 and 8-13.-
Prof. Telfair B. Peet, who will
direct the student players in the
summer production announced
the members of the cast.
Laurie Lynn Benson of Geneva
as Raina and Bill Bundy of Or­lando,
Fla., as Capt. Bluntchli will
play the leading roles.
Other members of the cast are
Jerry Denny, Cookville, Tenn., as
Major Petkoff; Mary Elizabeth
Thomas, Homer, La., as Katherine
Petkoff; Pat Thompson, Decatur,
as Major Sergius Saranoff; Fay
Hollingsworth, Opelika, as Lauka;
N. S. Inlow, Clantori, as Nicola;
and John S. McElroy, Ft. Payne,
as an officer.
Ruth Dupont of Auburn will
serve as the prompter and Ethel
Marty of Auburn will design the
costumes.
Shaw's "Arms and the Man,"
which was the basis for the oper­etta
"Chocolate Soldier" by Oscar
Straus, will be presented nightly
during the eight day run at 8:15
p.m. in the Y-Hut.
year and the selection was ulti­mately
made from the many
bands in the state.
The 21 members of the corps,
and director Dave Herbert, left
oh June 19, prepared for three
days of concerts and rehearsals,
the final and deciding contest be­ing
scheduled for Wednesday of
that week. The group found, that
getting places to rehearse was
easy, if one wasn't too particular,
and so they ended up practicing
on the lawn of the Thomas Jef-N
Person Home, and on the board­walks,
to mention two.
The band was decked out in
grey and white Confederate uni­forms
for the Wednesday parade
and when the final- judging was
over they had been rated as one
of the best-dressed, best-playing
bands of the 50 in the contest.
When it was known that they had
placed second, many spectators
yelled, "give 'em first, give 'em
first."
The Honor Band was formed
in 1952 by Herbert so that a se­lect
group could represent the
Greater Auburn Band in contests
where it would be impossible for
the entire band to perform. The
Confederate uniforms were do­nated
to the band by the class
of '43.
Invitations Sale
Invitations will go on sale July
5 and will be sold until July 14,
according to Bertis' Rasco, Cull­man,
invitations chairman.
Students may order their invi­tations
at the information desk in
the Union on Monday through
Friday at 9-10 a.m. and at 2-5
p.m.
Death Takes No Holiday
How much longer will you live? Will you live to grad­uate
or will you die this weekend, a victim of the highways?
Morbid? It sure is, but with an extended 4th of July
weekend coming up it's time to face reality and the possibility
of meeting an untimely death due to the carelessness of an
automobile driver.
It happens every day and it could happen to you. It
will happen to hundreds of people over the United States
this weekend despite the many pleas of safety conscious peo­ple
who warn motorists to "Slow Down And Live." It's almost
a certainty that someone from each of the 48 states will die
due to an automobile accident before next Tuesday.
If you drive, you're not immune. Around any curve in
the road, over any hill, death might await you. So be careful.
Slow down. Live to graduate.
Auburn's Summer Quarter Enrollment
Zooms To 3,933 As Influx Continues
By Jim Parrish
Plainsman Staff Writer
Enrollment figures for the summer q u a r t e r tell t h e suc­cessful
story of Auburn's expansion and growing popularity
as 3,933 s t u d e n t s recently registered for t h e "holiday" quarter.
These totals, compiled as of J u n e 21, a r e 597 higher t h a n last
y e a r ' s totals.
The School of Engineering re­ported
the highest number en­rolled
with 1,197.
Running a close second was the
School of Education with 1,095.
This high figure for this school
is probably due to the excep­tionally
high number of teachers
attending the summer session.
There are approximately 642 reg­istered.
The remaining schools and their
attendance figures are as .follows:
the School, of Science and Litera­ture,
708; School of Agriculture,
287; School of Architecture, 190;
School of Pharmacy, 136; School
of Chemistry, 133; School of
Home Economics, 119; Vet Medi­cine,
68.
The Graduate School is close to
it peak with 605 enrolled.
A very interesting note, schol-astically
speaking, is the number
of students returning to summer
school because of grade deficienc-es.
This past year was a more
successful one scholastically since
only 829 were among the "select"
group compared to last year's to­tal
of 950.
The ratio of women to men is
not too close. With the figures
telling the story, social life on the
campus is in danger since there
are only 935 women enrolled as
compared to the 2,998 male stu-
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Sykes Painting Bought
By Metropolitan Museum
IGAS Selects Trellis' Engraving
For Distribution Among Members
More honors and further recognition has come to Au­burn's
distinguished and internationally known artist Maltby
Sykes.
His "Energetic Lines,", a color lithograph, formerly dis­played
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in its Exhibition
of American Watercolors, Drawings, and Prints in 1952, has
been acquired by the Metropo­litan
for its permanent collection.
Sykes' "Trellis" a three color
engraving, has been selected by
the International Graphic Arts
Society as one of its selections for
distribution among its members.
The IGAS, a membership or­ganization
that aims to distribute
the works of outstanding Ameri­can
and European graphic artists
to its members through its juries
in Europe and America, selects
and distributes each year from
18 to 36 new works by the world's
leading graphic artists. Each edi­tion
is limited to 210, numbered,
and signed by the artist.
The board of experts that
serves as the jury of selection
for America includes Una E.
Johnson, curator of prints at the
Brooklyn Museum, Karl Kup,
curator of prints at New York
Public Library, and William S.
Lieborman, curator of prints of
the Museum of Modern Art in
New York City.
Groschwitz, senior curator of
prints at Cincinnati Art Museum,
"is one of the best prints Maltby
Sykes has made to, date. It is a
subtle, sensitive design. . .
Says Sykes, "'Trellis' is an or­ganization
of shapes derived from
plants a.nd other forms in my
garden and hung on a sort of
space-frame. The degree of ab­straction
or realism is not espe­cially
important; . . .(rather) the
fitness of the form to the idea."
Sykes, painter, printmaker, and
professor of art at Auburn, stu­died
in New York and Paris, was
mural assistant to Diego Rivera,
and has exhibited in many im­portant
exhibitions. He has re­ceived
awards in painting, print-making
and typographic design.
His color lithograph "Beach-birds"
is now in a State Depart­ment
exhibit being circulated
overseas, and one of his prints is
included in the volume "Ameri­can
Prize Prints of the 20th Cen-
'Trellis'," says Gustavo von tury."
Sphinx Names Roy
President For Year;
Committees Given
Officers for the year 1955-56
were elected by members of
Sphinx at the last meeting of
spring quarter. Sphinx is the top
senior women's honorary, based
on leadership, scholarship, char­acter
and service.
The following
elected: president,
burn; secretary,
Mobile; treasurer,
hall, Newbern,
Ruth Mary Wise,
officers were
Lucy Roy, Au-
Shirley Brown,
Francis Walt-and
historian,
Montgomery.
Chairmen for the coming year
will be: publicity, Dolly Fulker-son,
Mobile; Skit Night, Mary Jo
Hubbard, Birmingham; Sphinx
Sing, Liz Warren, Jackson; Mortar
Board, Jerry Nelson, Anniston;
Susan Smith Project, Leiser Mil-
Hgan, Montgomery; Scholarship,
Lois Carter, Troy; foreign stu­dents,
Doris Ann Smith, Jackson,
Miss., and Lora Gosser, Auburn;
and Owls, Sarah Margaret Smith,
Eufaula.
The chairmanship of Mortar
Board was added at this time.
Mortar Board is a nationally out­standing
senior women's honor­ary.
It is hoped that Sphinx will
soon become a chapter of Mortar
Board.
Street man Named
Associate Economist
Dr. Harold L. Streetman has
been appointed associate agricul­tural
economist and associate
professor at the API Agricultural
Experiment Station and School of
Agriculture, announced Dr. L. V.
Smith, dean and director.
Dr. Streetman comes to Au­burn
from Clemson College in
South Carolina where he was as­sistant
agricultural economist for
the past four years.
A native of Hominy, Oklahoma,
Dr. Streetman received his B.S.
and M. S. degrees from Oklahoma
A&M College and his doctorate
from Ohio State University.
Streetman served five years
during World War II, two years
of which were in the European
Theater. He is a member of the
American Farm Economic Asso­ciation.
His publications include three
bulletins—"Economics of Mech­anical
Cotton Picker," "Costs and
Practices of Soybean Production,"
and "Costs and Practices in Pro­ducing
Peanuts," -issued by the
South Carolina Agricultural Ex­periment
Station.
Union Given Records
By Music Department
The music department has pre­sented
the Auburn Union a record
collection and player.
John H. Liverman, head of the
music department, said that 19
albums of classical music and a
record player with a set of six
head phones will be on perma­nent
loan to the Union.
Students and student wives will
be able to check records out at
the main desk in the Union Lob­by
for use in the second floor rec­ord
rooms.
Among the recordings are se­lections
by Beethoven, Mendeles-sohn,
Mozart, and Rimsky-Kor-sakoff.
Freshmen, Transfers Feted With Party
The Freshman Advisory Council
entertained the new freshmen and
transfer coed students with a
party last Thursday night. The
party was an informal gathering
at social center with Miss Cater,
Dean of Women, and Miss Tur-nipseed,
Head of Women's Hous­ing,
as guests. Julia Hanlin, Dorm
3 Advisory Council member,
served as chairman of the re­freshment
committee.
The new students were assem­bled
prior to the party in Thach
Auditorium to take a short quiz
on the WSGA handbook, a test
given to all coeds entering Au­burn
for the first time. Everyone
passed the test, it was announced
by Ann Walker, Dorm 4, chair­man
of the Freshman Advisory
Council.
2—THE PLAINSMAN Wed., June 29, 1955
Enrollment
(Continued from Page 1)
dents.
Getting off to a quick start are
849 freshmen, A large percentage
of this total are first quarter
students.
A nearly equally large class is
the juniors, .823 strong. Not far
behind are 756 seniors and 742
sophomores. Graduate students
number 605 while there are 85
special and unclassified students.
Fifth year students total 73.
The GI Bill of Rights is sending
119 World War II students and
1400 Korean veterans.
4 H Convention Set
For Next Week Here
The annual statewide 4-H Club
Convention will be held in Au­burn
July 5 through 9, with ap­proximately
703 high school stu­dents
participating.
The convention schedule will
include an address by Dr. Ralph
B. Draughon, Tuesday night in
the Union Ballroom. A talent
contest will be held with con­testants
from each county.
Other activities are, for the
girls—a baking contest, and a
dress revue; for the boys—a trac­tor
driving elimination. A tour
of the campus, swimming, square
dancing and a short talk by Mar­tha
Boyett, president of Alpha
Beta Alpha, are also included in
the schedule.
At the culmination of the con­vention
there will be an^assembly
at which presentation of loving
cups to all contest winners, and
to the eight most outstanding 4-H
club members in Alabama, will
be made.
Administrators To Meet
A conference for School Ad­ministrators
will be held July 7
and 8 in Thach Auditorium. Dr.
Omer Carmichael, Superinten-dant
of public schools in Louis-
Miss Coter At Conclave
Miss Katharine Cater, Dean of
Women is in Los Angeles, Calif,
this week representing API and
the state of Alabama at the
American Association of Univer­sity
Women's Convention.
ville, Ky. will be the speaker.
The annual administration pic­nic
will be a steak fry at Lake
Chewacla July 14.
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Frosh Approve Traditional Rat Caps
Symposium Shows 8 To 2 In Favor
By Robert Vaughn
Plainsman Staff Writer
Freshmen do not object to wearing r a t hats, t h e traditional
symbol of t h e A u b u r n Frosh, according to a recent symposium
conducted by The Plainsman.
Ten freshmen were asked the question, "Do you object
t o wearing a rat h a t ? " and asked to state a reason for their
answer.
Of the five boys and five girls
interviewed, only two girls ob­jected
to the rat hats.
I "Tradition," was the main rea­son
given in support of the rat
hat.
Sylvia Cabiness, a secretarial
training major from Aliceville,
favored the rat hats because, "It
is traditional for the Auburn
freshmen to wear them."
Neal Bonds of Thomaston, Ga.,
a science and literature major,
approved of the rat hats and
stated, "Rat hats add spirit and
life to the school."
Barbara Smith, a home eco­nomics
major from Dalton, Ga.,
disapproved because, "They make
a girl appear conspicuous."
Judy Wouden of Macos, Ga.,
a major in science and literature,
also objected to the rat hats and
said, "1 believe that they are all
right for boys, but silly for girls."
. Bobby Davis, an electrical en­gineering
major from Alabama
City, supported the wearing of
rat hats because, "People can tell
that you are new at Auburn, and
will be more likely to offer you
help when you are having dif­ficulty
with something like reg­istration."
Virginia Brown of Fort Valley,
Ga., an elementary education ma­jor,
thought the rat hats helped
to promote school spirit, but, "It
would be better to wear them in
the fall instead of the summer
quarter."
'2Ray Bain, a pre-vet major
from Carroltown, also approved
because, "It helps the traditions
of the school."
Patsy Lynn, a home ec. major
from Jasper, thought, "The rat
hats are a good idea for helping
Auburn tradition."
Marvin Smith of Thomaston,
Ga., a mechanical engineering
major, approved because, "It fol­lows
through with freshman tra­dition."
Guy Womack, an electrical en­gineering
major from Cedar-town,
Ga., also approved and
stated, "I would hate to see the
Auburn traditions die."
MARY ANN NORTON, Au­burn,
senior at API, will repre­sent
Lee County in the state
Maid of Cotton Contest in Birm­ingham
in early October.
WINNERS of the All-Sports trophy, Theta Chi fraternity presi­dent
James Griffin, Haverstraw, N. J., and Sonny Alsup, Mobile
receive the coveted trophy from Coach R. K. Evans, director of
Men's Intramurals. . •
Intramural Sports Active For Summer
Concert Scheduled
In Ballroom July 13
The next attraction of the sum­mer
lecture and concert series
will be presented on Wednesday,
July 13. It will be a concert pre­sented
by the Reisman Trio, three
very talented sisters. A varied and
appealing program is expected
with selections being played on
the violin, cello, and piano in solo
numbers and combinations.
The July 13 program will be
presented in the Union ball room
at 8:15. The admission will be
free.
Auburn students will have an
opportunity to participate in in-
.tramural softball, tennis, and
volleyball this summer.
Softball games are to be play­ed
on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wed­nesdays,
and Thursdays, starting
July 5.
Competition in singles, doubles
and mixed doubles in tennis will
be held.
All softball teams and those
wishing to take part in the fennis
tournaments must be entered by
Friday, July 1. Volleyball entries
must be in by July 8.
3—THE PLAINSMAN Wed., June 29,1955
Irvine At Convention
In Western States
Dr. Paul Irvine, head of the
Education Interpretation Service
at API is now attending a two-weeks
Western States Writer's
Short Course in Agriculture Eco­nomics.
The course is being held at the
University of Wyoming in Lara­mie
and is sponsored by the Na­tional
Project in Agriculture
Communications which is subsi­dized
by the Kellogg Foundation.
While there he will conduct a
writer's workshop.
MARTIN
Theatre
Thursday-Friday
June 30-July 1
D ARI - DELITE
Cool off with our
Malts and Shakes 25c
Sundaes 20c - 30c
Foot Long Hot- Dogs 30c
5c - 10c - 15c Cones
API's Manley Leaves
For Israel Post
Dr. F. H. Manley, professor of
bacteriology in the School of
Veterinary Medicine will leave
this month to take up an assign­ment
in Israel with the Point
I^our program of the Foreign Of­fice
Administration.
His work in Israel will be con­cerned
mainly with the reorgani­zation
of the veterinary labora­tory
service of that country.
Enroute, Dr. Manley will visit
the Government Veterinary Lab­oratory
in London, England, and
the animal production branch of
the food and agricultural organ­ization
of the United Nations in
Rome, Italy.
Basore Attending
CE Convention
Dr. C. A. Basore, head of
chemical engineering at API, is
attending a meeting of the Amer­ican
Society for Engineering Ed­ucation
at Pennsylvania State
University, University Park, Pa.,
this week.
Dr. Basore will take part in
the Chemical Engineering Divi­sion-
Fourth Summer School for
Chemical Engineering Teachers.
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Want To Live? LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
On the front page of this week's Plains­man
is an editorial urging Auburn stu­dents
to be careful over, the Fourth of July
weekend. In effect it utilizes two well-worn
phrases, "slow down and live," and
"the life you save may be your own."
We feel that we cannot say enough con­cerning
highway caution, especially since
the approaching weekend will last through
Monday. Auburn students will have a
grand three-day holiday, three days of fun
and frolic—if you're careful.
There are more cars on the highways
now than ever before, which means that
there will be more deaths this July than
ever before. We haven't seen the predic­tions
by the National Safety Council but
we're almost certain that they will expect
a record fatality list.
Will an Auburn student be one of the
statistics next week? We don't know and
neither do you, but we do know that many
will be exposed to the dangers pf the
highway.
We urge you to play it safe and not flirt
with death. Don't drink and drive, don't
speed, watch the yellow lines and you'll
live longer. Listed below are some facts
about driving which you might keep in
mind this weekend:
Twenty-five -per cent of all drivers in­volved
in fatal automobile accidents in the
United States last year were under 25 years
old.
Three out of four ..traffic accidents hap­pen
in clear weather on dry roads.
Saturday is the most dangerous day of
the week in traffic.
The hour from six to seven p.m. is the
most dangerous time of day or night in
traffic.
Ninety-seven per cent ' of drivers in-.
volved in automobile accidents last year
had at least one year of experience behind
the wheel.
Second only to speeding as an accident
cause last year was failure to respect the
right-of-way.
The highways are not the only hazard
the weekend offers, however. Pick up the
paper any morning and you can find news
of a drowning or fire which cost the.lives
of some Americans. You are eligible.
We urge you again to use common sense
and sound judgement this weekend and
come back^o meet those classes next
Tuesday.
"I'd better help that new student stretch his canvas—he seems
pretty anxious to get started."
Ah, For The Good Old Days.
About Rat Caps
There has been a very noticeable lack of
color on the campus the past few days
and we've missed it. We're referring to the
radiant orange and blue of rat hats, of
course, which have been conspicious be­cause
of their absence.
Since freshmen weren't wearing their
caps, as is their and only their privilege,
we assumed that they objected. So we
conducted a symposium to find the basis
of the objection and try to remedy it if
possible.
Strangely enough, there were only two
objectors among the 10 people interviewed
(both were female). Which leads us to
this question:. "If you don't mind wearing
them, why don't you wear them?"
Nobody's going to try to make you wear
these caps, at least no one will this sum­mer.
This fall you will find that most of
the fraternities and sororities will require
their freshman pledges to wear rat hats,
but that will be more or less an act by
an individual group.
The point is, you should wear the cap
because you want to, not because some­body
requires it. You are embarking on a
to foster the Auburn spirit
RONALD OWEN
Editor
DOLLY FULKERSON Managing Editor
Sam Houston Associate Editor
Carol Ann Smith Associate Editor
Bill Klemm Associate Editor
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Parrish, Robert Vaughan, Rose Ward.
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and the only way to reap all the
benefits is play the game by the rules.
Wearing rat hats is an old Auburn tra­dition.
It's an integral part of the famous
Auburn spirit. Let's not start a new trend.
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By Dolly Fulkerson
"Alas, things are not what they
used to be!"
This is a translation of what is
believed to be the oldest existing
•piece of human writing, inscrib­ed
on a clay tablet. The tablet was
found in the Tigris Euphrates
Valley and is now located in a
museum at Constantinople. It is
dated at about 3,500 B.C.
A World History of Art, by
Sheldon Cheney, is the source of
this gem of information. He states
further that "One-half of man­kind
perpetually hangs its hopes
and judgments — and its enjoy­ments—
upon the past; the best
and ultimate things belong to the
days gone beyond recall."
It would seem to indicate that
indeed, things are very much as
they used to be. How many times
have we heard people speak of the
"good ole days" and bewail the
fact that the "younger generation
is going to the dogs?" Judging
from this clay tablet, someone
about 5,455 years ago felt the
same way.
To inject a bit of optimism—for
a world civilization in which the
younger generation has been go­ing
to the dogs for over 5,000
years, I think we've managed
pretty well.
Further indication that world
problems and personal problems
have been the same since time be­gan,
are the following exerpts
from letters of the pharoahs of
ancient Egypt: In the 10th dynasty
fin attempt was made to intro­duce
a Communistic government,
and an Egyptian writer whose
sympathies were aristoratic, re­cords
this with horror:
"A few lawless men have at­tempted,"
he says, "to rid the land
of its monarchy. He who possess­ed
no property is now a man of
wealth; the poor have become
rich; and the property owner has
become a pauper . . . Jewels ad­orn
the necks of servants, and
their mistresses say, 'Would that,
we~had something to eat!'—for the
poor have become the owners of
the good things, and the possesors
of robes are now in rags. The Pa­lace
has been overthrown in a
minute; the King has been turned
out by working men; and the roy­al
treasury is the common prop- *
erty of everyone.
About 2,300 B. C. a pharoah
wrote to his son the following ad­vice:
"Make a lasting monument
for yourself in your subjects' love
of you. Respect a life of energy,
for self-complacence will make a
wretched man of you. Do justice;
comfort the mourner; oppress not
the widow; expel no man from the
possessions of his father. Take
care that you do not punish
wrongfully; and do not kill, for
it does not profit you. Rule men
as the flocks of God, for they are
made in His own image and pro­ceed
from Him."
Times may have changed in
•some ways, but human nature has
been the same for quite a while.
The same things happen over and
over again, and each time weN
think they're something new that
only we have to cope with. "Alas,
things are not what they used to
be." People are still- saying this.
Thinking to
* By Sam Houston
Once, in the land of Not, lived
a little man who dreamed. Of ail
the Nots he dreamed more than
any of the rest. He was a strange
one, they said, and "they" amount­ed
to a lot of people. But let's talk
about "they" first.
The Nots were a very ordinary
group of people. Their existence
was much like people in other
lands. They worked and slept and
ate and loved. They were basic in
their needs as the great majority
in any land was basic. The battle '
for a living was primary—it was
foremost—in their minds. They
fulfilled their primary desires and
were happy.
But the little man was differ­ent.
He was beyond that. He want­ed
something more, something in­finitely
richer from being. He had
seen the people around him and
studied them. He realized their
simple wishes and was happy in _
that they could gratify themselves
so easily. It plagued him because
the simplicity of mind could be so
comfortable. *
So he sought for a while to lose
himself in their simplicity. He
grasped heartily onto their life.
He lived, loved, drank, and curs­ed
with them. He forced his mind
to conform to their minds. And he
was happy—for a while. It was
pleasant to be "one of them," to be
"one of the boys." It was accepted.
It wasn't long before he found
that simply being accepted by his
fellows wasn't enough. Conform­ity
wasn't the answer.' It was
deeper.
He began his quest then: the
search for a better meaning. When
his friends heard what he was do­ing,
they laughted. They pointed
their fingers at him and said,
"You're a fool!" and they scorned
him. But he didn't take notice. He
knew that what he was after could
never be understood by all the
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in milium Illli I I
The Salesman's Plight
By Bill Klemm
"Good morning to you, madam
. . . Five minutes of your time
will permit you to see the world's
most durable cutlery, beautifully
fashioned by the best artisans in
the trade!"
That was how I began my sales
talk. In those days I was a bud­ding
young salesman—that is, be­fore
I got nipped in the bud.
But let's get back to the sales
talk. Upon entering the living
room, I proceeded to display my
line of cutlery to the lady of the
house. Suddenly a most terrify­ing
scream eminated from the
television set. "Oh my gosh!" I
said to myself, " 'Portia Faces
Death' is on." Determined to win
out over my competition, I at­tracted
the lady's attention by
showing her how easily our carv­ing
knife halved a slice of bread.
Before I could even gather the
crumbs, my customer was over­come
with tears as Portia was
being led to the gas chamber. I
gave up.
Then there was the time I ran
into a house full of kids. Now that
was exciting! The little brats
started throwing my knives at
their dartboard. I tried to break
it up by saying they might cut
themselves. After splitting a
couple of hairs on their little
pointed heads, I convinced 'em.
Oh yes, the busy housewife.
She's the type who probably
loafs all day, but suddenly finds
an apalling number of things to
do in the middle of a sales dem­onstration.
I managed to fight my
way through such interruptions as
checking the oven, changing a
radio station, and setting up the
ironing board. The last straw came
When she started some such thing
as fixing the cat's breakfast.
When a customer did listen to
my speal, I found I had even more
obstalcles to overcome. A case in
point: "I think the knives are
wonderful, very durable, sharp,
reasonably priced—BUT, we just
purchased a new car, bought
school clothes for the kids, had
our bills re-financed, etc."
Or the lady of the house would
say, "I'm sold; now how about
coming back tonight and giving
your demonstration to my hus­band."
So what do I do? I break
the date I spent three weeks of
finagling to get and hustle back
to the customer's house. By the
time I get there, the old man has
talked her out of it.
Despite t h e s e discouraging
events, I occasionally worked up
real enthusiasm and presented a
cracker-jack sales demonstra­tion.
Invafibly I would get some
such reaction as: "I bought some
knives a few weeks ago; I just
wanted to se how they compared."
Incidents like those I have
mentioned served as my initia­tion
into the brotherhood of sales­men.
I endured these many trials
and tribulations, all for the sake
of my selling career — of three
weeks!
Appropriations Pay Dividends
By Carol Ann Smith
There is perhaps more to this
business of Auburn than meets the
eye. After hearing and reading
about the recent appropriation for
the continuation and enlargement
of the agriculture research and
extension program here, many
may wish to know more about it.
Each state has one (or more)-
land grant colleges. These colleges
are due federal as well as state
consideration. And because of this,
we have received a larger federal
appropriation tHis year than ever
before. Here is how the set-up
works and how some of the funds
will be used:
Auburn is divided into three
fields, each of vital importance.
These fields are instruction, re­search,
and extension. The part
with which most of us, as stu­dents,
are familiar is the teach­ing
phase. But the research and
extension phases not only effect
us, but our families and the whole
state of Alabama.
Money js appropriated to us
through the state and national
governments each year for the
betterment of our citizens through
the research that is done here and
through the extension which
reaches all parts of the state. The
research, carried on by the Au­burn
Experiment Station, is in
agricultural and related fields.
Work is done in forestry, irriga­tion,
nutrition, animal diseases,
insects, and many other fields.
One of the recent projects, for
example, is that of studying the
prospects of marketing timber that
is now considered practically
valueless. Pine lumber is one of
Alabama's main industries. In
recent years much of it has been
depleated and other trees such as
scrub oaks have been invading the
timberlands. A study is being
made of the possibility of finding
some marketing purposes for
such trees.
The Extension Division takes
the information gathered by the
Experiment Station and puts it
into practical use. Each county has
a county agriculture agent who
works as part of the Extension
Service. They distribute soil, ani­mal,
and crop information gather-
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Houston Column
(Continued from Page 4)
Nots. Their wishes were too
simple.
And he went away, far away,
up to the top of a high mountain.
He went to think. The little'" man
carried with him two robes, one
black and one white: the black to
wear up and white to wear down.
At last, the people in the valley
forgot him. He was a crank, a
nonconformist. They, after their
obligatory gossip, dismissed him.
And so, he was left alone to him­self,
alone on his mountain.
Then he did something very
rare to those in the valley. He
thought. He thought and dream­ed,
and pondered. He walked on
his mountain and considered life
and afterlife and beforelife. He
got up early and watched the sun
rise in its orbit and sink into the
eternal hills beyond. He watched
the skies seethe with constella­tions,
and he pondered "man. He
took eternity and dismissed it and
brought it back and dismissed it
again. And then he took eternity
and man and God and put them
together and shook them for ten
years. Like a centrifuge the right
particles coalesced and the waste
droped off and he had his answer.
So, at the end of his pilgrimage,
the little man came down, wearing
his white robe. The people saw
him and saw that he had risen in
some way, in some stature. They
saw that he had risen in know­ledge,
the one thing they didn't
have. He had gone so high, so far
ed here and see that it is put to
the best use of the Alabama farm­er.
Most bills asking for appropria­tions
are born in the state house
of representatives. If they are
asking for federal money, the bill
will make its way to the federal
secretary of agriculture or to a
floor of the United States legis­lature
under the guidance of such
people as our Senator Lister Hill,
a man much interested in the
contributions of a g r i c u l t u re
through research and medicine.
With such forces as the Experi­ment
Station and the Extension
division working hand in hand,
and with the funds to further their
work, almost everyone in our
state is affected through the ad­vances
made.
There is one stipulation, how­ever.
That is that the state must
match any federal appropriation
to land grant colleges for the col­lege
to be able to use the federal
grant money.
Cochran Receives Grant
Barbara Cochran of Talladega
has been - presented the A..T.O.
Gift Scholarship at Auburn.
Miss Cochran, a student in the
School of Home Economics, will
receive a check for $150. from the
Auburn Independent Organiza­tion.
above them, that they wouldn't
attempt to explain. They couldn't.
He was a man beyond men. And
so, since they couldn't understand,
they worshiped him.
(Apologies to F. N.)
Tau Beta Pi Names
Morton New President
Tau Beta Pi, national engineer­ing
honorary at API, elected the
following new officers to serve
through fall term of 1955.
New president is Calvin Mor­ton,
Auburn; vice-president, BoJ»
Bliss, Birmingham; recording
secretary, Douglas Fain, Wetump-*
ka; corresponding secretary, JJ1-
dred Nixon, Montgomery; engi­neering
council representative,
Wayne Summerford, Hartselle,
and publicity chairman, Doa
Watson, Clantoti.
5—THE PLAINSMAN Wed., June 29, 1955
ONLY 3 MORE DAYS TO SHOP
DURING OUR
PRE-4th VACATION SALE
SAVINGS IN EVERY DEPARTMENT!
Here are only a few of the many
values offered during this sale, which
ends Saturday, July 2.
1. Ladies' Summer Dresses. Values to $14.95
$6.00 each
2. Ladies' Shoes. Values to $11.95—$7.90 a pr.
3. Ladies' Cotton Plisse Panties—3 prs. for $1
4. Men's Socks—5 pairs for $1.00 •
5. Summer Fabrics. Values to $1.98 a yd.—89c
6. Children's Cotton Training Pants. Reg. 2 5 c—
5 pairs for $1.00
opcum /
Our Biggest
SALE
Of The Year
Begins Wednesday
July 6th 8:30 a. m.
OPEN ALL DAY NEXT WEDNESDAY
Parker's
V
Vet Medicine Goes Television
Hoerlein's Vertebral Disc Operation
Viewed By 800 Over Television
7." "V)Q
fc. Officials of the School of Veterinary Medicine here are
turning to' "closed circuit" television in getting new discov­eries
ib veterinarians throughout the country.
About 800 Veterinarians located throughout the United
States saw Dr. B. F. Hoerlein's operation for correcting inter-veterbral
discs in dogs. The operation was performed at the
annual meeting of the American
Animal Hospital Association in
Detroit, Mich., and was televised
"over a nation-wide "closed cir­cuit."
The Auburn professor of small
animal surgery and medicine de­veloped
the new-type operation
which is attracting international
recognition.
Plans are being made to tele­vise
by "closed circuit" part of
the 48th annual Veterinary Con­ference
here July 24-27. The
"closed circuit" telecasts will be
done under supervision of Ed
Wegener, director of educational
television on the Auburn campus,
and will be telecast only to vet­erinarians
attending the confer­ence.
The telecasts at the Auburn
conference will be produced as
"practice" programs to help mem­bers
of the veterinary staff get
ready for telecasting live pro­grams
when Auburn starts ori­ginating
educational telecasts this
fall.
The "closed circuit" telecasts
will be produced in the new tele­vision
studios which have just
been completed on the Auburn
campus. Plans are for the API
educational television staff to
move into the new building this
week.
Director Wegener reports that
he and his co-workers are at
present getting ready for API
to start presenting live television
programs from Auburn about the
first-of September. In the mean­time
programs are being telecast
from the University and Birming­ham
over Channel 7, Cheaha, and
Channel 10 in Birmingham. Chan­nel
2 at Andalusia will be added
to the statewide Educational Te­levision
System at a later date.
Plans are for all divisions, de­partments
and schools of the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute to
present programs over the state­wide
television system which is
being operated by the Alabama
Educational Television Commis­sion
with headquarters in Bir­mingham.
Allison Appointed
To Texas Position
Dr. Fred Allison, former head
of the physics department and
dean of the Graduate School at
API, and presently head of the
division of mathematics a nd
science at Emory & Henry Col­lege,
Emory, Va., has been ap­pointed
Visiting Professor of
Physics at the • University of
Texas, which in cooperation with
FOA in Washington, D. C, is und­er
contract to furnish three ad­visers
a year in different fields of
higher education to Chulalong-korn
University in Bangkok, Thai­land.
Dr. Allison will be sent to
Bangkok on a one-year assign­ment
to serve this ""University in
an advisory capacity in the sub­jects
of physios and engineering
phySics.
The renowned physicist, who re­tired
from API in 1953, is a grad­uate
of Emory and Henry and
received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees
from the University of Virginia.
He is well known for his discov­ery,
with his co-workers, of the
85th and 87th elements.
Dr. and Mrs. Allison will de­part
for Bangkok from California
by air some time in June.
Head Civil Engineer
Brown Publishes Article
Dr. Earl I. Brown, II, head ci­vil
engineer at Auburn, is the
author of an article in the May
issue of the Journal of the Amer­ican
Concrete Institute.
Dr. Brown's report entitled,
"Strength of Reinforced Concrete
T-Beams Under Combined Direct
Shear and Torsion," is the result
of research carried on by him.
Tests on longitudinally rein­forced
concrete sections without
web reinforcement are covered in
the article. Dr. Brown compares
the strength of reinforced con­crete
T-Beams in combined direct
shear and torsion to the strength
of similar sections in direct shear
alone.
Tests using.the theoretical tor­sion
strengths based upon the
plastic theory and the elastic the­ory
were run in preparation of
the report.
r A method for calculating tor­sion
shear using the plastic the­ory
is included in the article.
Dr. Brown concludes that the
plastic theory gives more reason­able
results in predicting the
cracking strength under torsion
or combined direct shear and tor­sion
for concrete members than
does the more generally used
elastic theory.
Hall Receive? Award,
Wins Danforth Courses
Douglas Hall of Titus has been
selected to receive the Junior
Danforth Fellowship Award this
summer, according to an an­nouncement
by Charles F. Sim­mons,
associate dean, API School
of Agriculture.
Hall is a junior in agricultural
administration. He is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Hall of Titus.
The award consists of two, two
weeks courses with all expenses
paid. The first will be at Ralston
Purina Company, St,- Louis, Mo.,
from August 1 to 14. The second
course, August 15 to 30, will be
at Leadership Training Camp of
the American Youth Foundation
on Lake Michigan.
The fellowship is given to help
SAE Fraternity
Elects Officers
New officers for the coming
year have been elected by Sigma
Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Elected
to their fraternity's high posts
were J. Robert Bishop, Greenville,
S. C, president; W. D. Magruder,
Memphis, Tenn., vice-president;
W. T. Heard, Columbus, Ga., re?
corder; Charles Stewart, Savan­nah,
Ga., herald; Reuben Hyde,
Montgomery, warden; Paul Turn­er,
Montgomery, chaplain; and Fob
James, Lanett, representative to
Inter-Fraternity Council.
Outgoing officers are Norman
Pease, Columbus, Ga., president,
and Alfred Blackmon, Columbus,
Ga., vice-president.
Recent additions to the SAE
pledge class are Morrill Woodfin,
Deatsville, and Will Bradley, Co­lumbus,
Ga.
Mathematics Professors
Write Magazine Articles
Three faculty members of the
department of mathematics at
API have articles in the latest
issue of the Proceedings of the
American Mathematical Society.
Dr. W. V. Parker, head pro­fessor,
is the author of an article
on matrix theory entitled, "A
Note on a Theorem of Roth."
Dr. E. P. Miles and Dr. Ernest
Williams are co-authors of a pa­per
on complex variable theory
called, "A Basic Set of Homogen­eous
Harmonic Polynomials in K
Variables."
Five Future Frosh
Win Scholarships
Five freshmen entering Auburn
in the fall quarter have been
awarded $3,000 scholarships by
Avondale Mills, according to Dr.
Ralph B. Draughon, president.
All five winners of the Scholar­ship
Awards given by the Avon-dale
Educational and Charitable
Foundation are graduates of high
schools in Avondale communities
and will study some phase of tex­tiles
at API.
The winners are Decie Finney,
LaFayette; William T. Huddleston,
Intramural Entries
Auburn students interested in
intramural sports during the
summer quarter should turn in
their entries for Softball, tennis,
and volleyball to Coach Robert
K. Evans, director, in Thach 319.
a graduate of B. B. Comer High
School in Sylacauga; Gerald Den­ny
McGill, a graduate of Benjamin
Russell High School, Alexander
City; George Templeton Pridmore,
a graduate of Benjamin Russell
High School in Alexander City;
and Douglas Bruce Stallworth, of
Trussville, a graduate of Woodr
lawn High School in Birmingham.
6—THE PLAINSMAN Wed. June 29,1955
Art Guild Names
Seven Members
The Art Guild at Auburn an- |
nounces the tapping of seven new
members.
Those students selected for
membership in the advertising
and industrial design honorary i
are Margaret Ann Fountain, Jas- |
per; Joanne Gladys Palm, Mobile;
Dot Preuit, Leighton; Robert
Lawrence Godwin, Brundidge;
James Daniel Jones, Jr., Mont­gomery;
William James Jeffery,
Sylacauga; and David Rogers
Powell, St. Petersburg, Fla.
Clark V. Britton was named fa­culty
advisor for the coming year.
college agricultural students to
enlarge their horizons, to broaden
their contacts, to make decisions,
and to assist them in finding their
largest places in life. It is award­ed
jointly by the Danforth Foun­dation
and the Ralston Purina
Company.
Holiday Headquarters
For that picnic or outing on the 4th, there are
many items that will make your excursion even
more enjoyable!
* COOLERS * PLEASURE CHESTS
* CHARCOAL * BARBECUE GRILLS
* NEW "E-ZE-LITE, FOR LIGHTING FIRES
* FISHING TACKLE * LIVE BAIT
TAMPLIN HARDWARE
109 E. Magnolia
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Where all parts and service are guaranteed
for 90 days
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Sales and Service
141 N. COLLEGE PHONE 3fe7
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WASH TUB WILT
With Our
Sanfone Cotton Clinic
at
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Phone 193
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Drop by THE BOOTERY the next time you're up
town and see the beautiful selection of flats and
heels in all the seasonal colors! Thats . , :
THE BOOTERY
"Shoe Headquarters for Auburn Students"
N. College Phone 62-J Auburn
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GONE, AND ALMOST FORGOTTEN is this part of Cliff Hare Stadium. The ancient press box
was voted as one of the three most undesirable ones in the nation by visiting sports writers last year
but it is now being replaced by a. new, modern structure, complete with TV facilities.
What's Happening . . .
At Other Colleges
By Dolly Fulkerson
Plainsman Managing Editor
" It seems that the graduate wom­en
at George Peabody College for
Teachers are having a little
trouble with a "vicious rumor"
concerning their sunbathing on the
roof of their dormitory.
Someone remarked that the
title of Tennessee Williams' latest
Broadway production "Cat on a
Hat Roof," was suggested by the
sunbathers at Graduate. The girls
resented being called cats.
a stocking that
wiSl not run
Your stocking worries are
over! Palmyra's here with
sheer-textured beauty
that will not run!
Millions of tiny inter­locked
stitches assure
you they cannot run even
if you cut, burn or snag
them. Try lovely
Palmyra stockings
tomorrow . . . $2.50 pr.
Potty- *7e6 S6*£
College Street
However, they admit that they
all have places in the sun. They
allege that other dorms entertain
more royally than they do though,
stating that men would be rather
unwelcome on the top of their
dorm, "since none of the women
would be dressed-up enough to
receive visitors."
* * *
In The Flat Hat, college news­paper
of William and Mary, Wil­liamsburg,
Va., they seem quite
interested in the birthdate of the
revered Alexander Hamilton. The
question is "Why did historians
seize on 1757 as Hamilton's birth
date and mistakenly repeat it for
nearly 200 years?"
The answer is: "Hamilton had
to take a cram course in a New
Jersey grammar school before he
could enter Columbia in 1773.
Since he was in competition with
youths three to four years young­er
than himself—a situation that
made him look "backward," what
could be more convenient than
forgetting the exact date of one's
birth and saying to his inquiring
schoolmates, "I'm about sixteen
years old, the same age as" you
are."
This would place his birthdate
at 1757 while records in the Vir­gin
Islands, where he lived as a
boy, state that he was born in
1755. Dr. Adair, editor of the Wil­liam
and Mary Quarterly is stak­ing
his professional reputation and
that of his magazine on the 1755
date.
« * *
The following was "lifted" from
the "Other Colleges Say" column
of The Technique, Atlanta, Ga.:
"At least one Louisiana State
University student has a little
50 million
times a day
at home, at work
or while at play
There's
nothing
7—THE PLAINSMAN Wed., June 29, 18(35
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you . . . so tangy in taste,,
ever-fresh in sparkle.
SO BRACING . . . so quickly
refreshing with its bit of
wholesome energy.
BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY
OPELIKA COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY
"Coke" is a registered trademark. © 1955. THE COCA-COLA COMPANY
Opportunities Available
In Opelika Reserve Unit
. There are currently 185 oppor­tunities
for enlisted personnel
and four positions for warrant
officers in the recently activated
494th Reserve Signal Company
(Base Maintenance) in Opelika.
Students with no previous 'mi­litary
experience may use this
method of building up rank, lon­gevity,
retirement benefits and
may learn about communications
and equipment. This information
can later be used, regardless of
the ROTC branch in which stu­dents
are currently enrolled, ac­cording
to officials.
Pay is drawn at the rate of one
full day for each meeting attend­ed.
Meetings are held each Wed­nesday
night at the U. S. Army
Reserve Training Station, 1200 1st
Avenue in Opelika.
Further information can be ob-common
sense. After searching in
vain for a place to park, one
sharpster pulled into a restricted
zone, whipped out an old parking
ticket, shoved it under his wiper
and went on his way. He must be
living right because he got away
with it. We knew it could be done
somewhere successfully. It was
just a matter of time."
War Eagle
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ON WEST MAGNOLIA
WED.-THURS.
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" A South Sea Shangri-La!
In Technicolor
with
Linda Darnell
Tab Hunter
The Sensational Star
of "Battle Cry"
Friday & Saturday
Sunday & Monday
'The Big Combo'
starring
Cornell Wilde
Richard Conte
'A Bullet for Judy'
with
Edward G. Robinson
and
George Raft
Walker New Head
Of Auburn ASME ;
Herbert O. Walker of Jackson,
Miss., has been elected chairman
of the Auburn student chapter of
the American Society of Michan-^r
ical Engineers. u<
Other new officers are Carl H.
Maroney, New Hope, vice chair­man;
M. Francile Scott, Leeds, r e - /
cording secretary; Albert S.
Naughton, Birmingham, corres­ponding
secretary; Melvin Webb,'
Auburn, treasurer. John R. Bur­ton,
Jr., Altoona, Engineers Coun­cil
representative; and Prof. Rob-'
ert F. Clothier, faculty advisor.
For Sale—1948 Chrysler. In ex­cellent
condition. Contact Dick.
Lester, phone 1699-M.
tained from John Dougherty, Phi
Kappa Tau, or George Hamrick,
1117 Magnolia Hall< phone 9204.
Today and Thursday
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Latest World News
Tues. - Wed. - Thurs,
Light-hearted love affairs
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Three Schools Give Dean's Lists
School Of Engineering, Education,
Home Economics Release Honor Rolls
Three schools, Engineering, Home Economics, and Edu-v
cation, have released the names of those students making
tbe dean's honor roll for the spring quarter.
Home Economics
Dean Marion W. Spidle, School
Home Economis, announces that
15 students have been placed on
tbe Dean's Honor Roll for the
tip ring quarter.
Those students who have main­tained
a high scholastic average
during the past quarter in the
School of Home Economics are
Margaret Ann Wilson, Birming­ham;
Betty Doris Pearson, Dade-ville;
Julia Katherine Hanlin,
Birmingham; Martha Laura Boy-
•ett, Rockford, and Ann Pierce
Jeter, Kinston.
Mary Garriety Watson,' Annis­ton;
Dorothy Mae Thomas, Wash­ington,
D. C; Patsy June Keefe,
Andalusia; Elizabeth A. Chad-v/
ick, Nashville, Tenn.; Jimmie
Graves, Mobile; Lyndel Ann Al­len,
Birmingham; Eleanor Che-nault,
Decatur; Glendat Yvonne
Gullatte, Selma; Daisy Ann Gol-
S9n, Calhoun; and Nancy C. Shep
herd, Birmingham.
Engineering
Education
According to Dr. Zebulofi Judd,
41 students in the School of Edu­cation
have been placed on the
Dean's Honor Roll for the spring
quarter.
Those students are Wannie Dud­ley
Acker, Phenix City; Fannie
Beth Adams, Auburn; Gerald An­derson,
Coffeeville; Martha Jean
Bryan, Union Springs; Elizabeth
Ann Burton, Tifton, Ga.; Mil-born
N. Chesser, Auburn; Mary
Frances Cliett, Childersburg;
Daniel William Deloney, Ozark;
Nell Braben Gaither, Auburn.
Thelma Louise Gandy, Opelika;
Charles Thomas Gilmer, Sulli-gent;
Roberta Janel Hadley, St.
Petersburg, Fla.; Alvin Henry
Halcomb, Brilliant; Gloria L.
Harden, Eclectic; Tommie Ann
Harris, Gadsden; Barbara R. Hen­dricks,
Phenix City; Gloria Di-anne
Hughey, Pensacola, Fla.;
Virgil Houston Hughey, Lanett.
Laurene Adams Hunts, Auburn;
Sally Sue Jacobs, Atlanta, Ga.;
Betty Jo Johnson, Cullman; Bob­by
Dodd Jones, Kennedy; Mollie
Murphree Jones, Auburn; Mar-gean
C. Ledbetter, Mt. Olive;
Fred H. Loworn, Newell; John
Delbert Loworn, Auburn; Peggy
Lagay Merritt,. Camp Hill; Sarah
Ana Morton, Gulfport, Miss.
Sheila Ann Oliver, Lanett;
Mary Kathryne Price, Centre-viHe;
Grace Marie Smith, Man­chester,
Ga.; Roberta Jane Smith,
Mobile; Mary Earline Speer,
Equality; Elinor P. Sprague, Bir­mingham;
Shirley Anne Stewart,
Sytacauga; Jacquelyn Fay Peel,
Auburn; Rheta Jane Thompson,
Ft. Payne; Macon Byron Tidwell,
Auburn; Frances M. Marshall,
Newbern; Elizabeth Warren,
Jackson; and Mary Augusta York,
Birmingham.
According to Dean J. E. Han-num,
106 students in the School of
Engineering are listed on the
Dean's Honor Roll for the spring
quarter,
The Dean's List engineering
students-are Richard M. Bragdon,
Gardiner, Maine; Thomas H. Can­non,
Jr., Fayette; Calvin C. Close,
Jr., LaGrange, Ga.;v Edward L.
Daniel, Bessemer; William Fran­cis
Dolan, Cedartown, Ga.; Paul
S. Gillespie, Montgomery; Gor­don
H. Griffith, Birmingham;
James Richard Hancken, Birm­ingham;
William Ray Hinds, Dil­lon,
S. C.
Reuben Loyce Hyde, Jr., Mont­gomery;
Charles Edgar Kennedy,
Gulfport, Miss.; Charles M. Land-street,
Ft. Payne; Calvin T. Mor­ton,
Baldwin, N. Y; Allen' Gar-ver
Myers, Galveston, Texas;
Willie Lee McDaniel, Montgom­ery;
Carl Donald Strickland, Bir­mingham;
Grady Reubin Vines,
Bessemer; Vernon Bell Watwood,
Jr., Auburn; Thomas Daniel Bur-son,
Anniston.
Samuel Ransom Crain, New-nan,
Ga.; Carl David Todd, Jack­son,
Tenn.; Ben Franklin Baker,
Auburn; Kenneth. L. Wheeler,
Gadsden; Charles Ronald Henter,
Chickasaw; James Fred O'Brien,
Jr., Dothan John Robert Burton,
Altoona; Gordon Christiansen,
Milaca, Minn.
Ho Kang Liu, Calcutta, India;
Hugh Allison Thompson, Bir­mingham;
W. Lawrence Harrison,
Birmingham; John Thomas Hart­ley,
Jacksonville, Fla.
William David Rice, Birming­ham;
Ernest Cary Bryan, Union
Springs; John .Owen Lampkin,
Jr., Birmingham; John Radney
Spivey, Roanoke; Ray W. Tuggle,
Cedartown, Ga.; Henry Wyatt
Shows, Montgomery; Jack Ellis
Land, Columbus, Ga.; Sherrard
A. Hodges, Andefsonville, Ga.
Robert Gentry Haley, Birming­ham;
William Edward Bundy,
Orlando, Fla.; Roy H. Krotzer,
Jasper; Kirk Long Sessions,
Montgomery; Henry Ellis Aus­tin,
Wetumpka; Thomas Ray­mond
Baxter, Montgomery; Paul
Jon Driscoll, Harrison, Ark.; Guy
H. Kaylor, Talladega; Bobby Ray
McCurley, Attalla; William Hom­er
Panter, Birmingham; James
Elbert Peters, Samson.
John David Robbins, Birming­ham;
Mason Martin Watkins,
Montgomery; Wallace Eugene
Wood, Gardendale; Norman Har­old
Alford, Montgomery; Terry
Marlin Eskew, Birmingham;
Phillip Samuel Sugg, Goodwater.
James H. Bowman, Pisgah;; Ar­thur
William Fort, Anderson, S.
C; Fred F. Denton, Jr., Prichard;
Kenneth W. Etheredge, Dothan;
William Doster Hines, Opelika;
Charles Edward Story, Mobile;
W. Thomas Edwards, Jr., Madi-
Rozelle Motors
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in Auburn
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s,on, N. J.
Nolan Lester Hardin, Eclectic;
Clarence K. Andrews, Birming­ham;
Robert Benson Bliss, Bir­mingham;
Guy Paul Dunnavant,
Auburn; John M. Marriott, Jr.,
Mobile; James Thomas Moates,
Andalusia; George Richard Bar­nard,
Birmingham; Edron Lin­coln
Cato, Trafford; 'Larry Dale
Stamps, Grantville, Ga.
William Joseph Ward, Auburn;
Albert S. Naughton, Birmingham;
Thomas Talbot Butler, Anniston;
Clayton Dunklin Pruett, Grove
Hill; Hoyt Oron Smith,. Collin-wood,
Tenn.; Charles L. Cosmin-sky,
Mobile; Ben C. Blasingame,
Camp Hill; James R. Briney, III,
Demopolis.
John Hagedorn, Jr., Gadsden:
William C. Wallace, Birmingham;
John Collins Cooper, Caracas,
Venezuela; -Herbert J. Furman,
Florence; James Howard Gentry,
Reynolds, Ga.; Forrest Donald
Gray, Langdale; Billy Myers
Guthrie, Parrish; Joseph R. Mose-ley,
Augusta, Ga.
John Henry Turney, Decatur;
James Bartow Askew, Auburn;
Larry Howard Lanier, Talladega;
Thomas J. Norman, Jr., Auburn;
James William Wagnon, Wetump­ka;
John Phillip Brandel, Orlan­do,
Fla.; George Allen Odom,
Houman, La.; William K. Brack-ney,
Anniston; Robert Carlton
Francis, Hartselle; Ben E. Hig-gins,
Jr., Montgomery.
Marvin Mosteliar, Jr., Mobile;
Jimmy Eugene McDowell, Bes­semer;
Elbert Leonard McGarr,
Auburn; William H. Wood, Jr.,
Auburn; William Edward Owen,
Birmingham; Earl T. Kinzer, Jr.,
Birmingham; and Marion Lynn
Laster, Macon, Ga.
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No Plainsman
Next Week
There will not be an issue of
The Plainsman next Wednesday,
according to iionald Owen, Cull­man,
editor. The paper will not
be printed again until July '•-13,
there only being seven issues
scheduled for this quarter.
, Today and Thursday
8—THE PLAINSMAN Wed., June 29,1955
DR. C. B. BARKSDALE
—OPTOMETRIST—
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Variety of Dinners
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Short Orders & Fountain Drinks
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