1946-12-11 The Plainsman

              Overton Breaks
Ca ke Race! Mark
William O. "Whitey" Overton, 18-year old Theta Chi
pledge from Montgomery, fresh from his record-setting run
at the three mile Birmingham Road Race last Saturday, easily
sprinted down the finish chute in the eighteenth annual ODK-W'ilbur
Hutsell Cake Race yesterday to set a new record of
13:45.1 minutes.
"Where's Miss A u b u r n ?"
Whitey asked just after crossing
the line.
The previous record of 14:05.6
was set by John Ball. ATO, in
1939.
Theta Chi Wim
Theta Chi fraternity, for the
fifth time in the past seven years
won the trophy that is given to
the fraternity having the first
four men to cross the finish line.
The runners, challenging Theta
Chi's last year's team score
placed first, third, eighth, and
ninth.
The cup was presented by ODK
president Bronze Youmans to
Jesse Twilley, Theta Chi presi­dent
on the stage of the Tiger
Theater last night.
Last year Theta Chi freshmen
placed second, third, fifth, and
seventh. ATO took second place
score placing twelve, thirty-one
thirty-two, thirty-four in the 2.7
mile run yesterday.
Overton, finishing the race in
excellent condition, was able to
watch the other freshmen, at va­rious
stages of exhaustion, file in.
Dick Huthinson, KA from Jack­sonville,
Fla., hot after Overton's
heels also finished in fine condi­tion.
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Vol. LXXI
TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1946 ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA Number 30
135 Receive Degrees December 18
SPADES TAP 10 MEN
The tapping of ten outstanding juniors for membership in
Spades, the highest h o n o r to be bestowed on an Au
burn undergraduate, was made public by the appearance on
Toomer's Corner Monday afternoon of the new members.
They are William Flanagan, F. M. Fuller, Jr., Robert (Buck)
Hails, William Byrd Lee, HI, C.
Ray Martin, Ed Miller, Gene Mill-sap,
Clyde Orr, John Harvsy
Thomas, and Loyce Turner.
Ten men are selected from the
junior class each year by the
retiring Spade members, and
these 10 constitute the active
membership during the following
year. To wear a Spade is a goal
which all underclassmen may
seek as the highest honor an Au-bnrn
man may obtain.
The purpose of Spades is to
fulfill the need of some organiza­tion
in the senior class of this
institution which, wholly inde­pendent
of social and other rela­tions,
shall seek to gather to­gether
the most prominent and
influential men of the class and
of the institution.
William S. Flanagan, junior in
mechanical engineering from
Florence, is a member of Kappa
Alpha social fraternity; Pi Tau
Sigma, engineering honorary fra­ternity;
American Society of Me­chanical
Engineers, Glomerata
staff, and senior representative to
the Executive Cabinet.
W. M. Fuller, Jr., is a junior 'in
chanical Engineers; Veterans As­sociation;
Inter-Fraternity Coun
cil; former manager of basketball
team; Plainsman staff; senior
representative to the Executive
Cabinet, and Veterans Associa­tion.
•
William Byrd Lee, III, member
of Kappa Sigma social fraternity
Delta Sigma Pi, business honor­ary
fraternity; Blue Key, Nation­al
honorary fraternity; Publica­tions
Board; Elections Committee;
Who's Who Among American
Colleges and Universities; and
business manager of the Glom
erata.
C. Ray Marlin, junior in me­chanical
engineering from Iron
City, Ga., is house manager of Pi
Kappa Alpha social fraternity;
assistant business manager of
Tiger Rag; member of Glomerata
staff; Alpha Phi Omega, national
honorary fraternity; Executive
Council of Veterans Association;
Publications B o a r d ; Business
Manager elect of The Plainsman,
and American Society of Me­chanical
Engineers.
Ed Miller, senior in aeronauti­cal
administration from Birming-
Ag Science from Perryville; mem- j ham, is a member of the Plains
ber of Ag Club; former editor of
Alpha Zeta Elects Two
Charlie Kornegay is new chan­cellor
of Alpha Zeta, replacing
Jerry Roden. Bob Denison re­places
F. S. McCain as censor.
ON THE CAMPUS
Christmas Party
. . . will be held at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Louis O. Brac-keen,
495 Samford avenue be­ginning
at 8 p. m. Saturday night.
Informal. Guests will include the
complete roster of Church of
Christ college set and others.
* * *
AIEE holds
. . .its meetings every other
Monday at 7 p. m. in Ramsay
109. All electrical engineering
students are invited.
Convocation
" . . . for freshmen, sophomores,
and juniors will be held tomor­row
at 5 p. m. in Langdon Kail.
AIO
. . . meets tonight at 7:15 in
Samford 214. All independents
are invited to attend.
* * *
Telephone Directories
. . . of faculty and students may
be obtained free at the mailing
room in the basement of Sam­ford.
There are 2000 left.
The Alabama Farmer; Squires;
former president of the junior
class; Alpha Zeta, Agricultural
honorary fraternity; Who's Who
Among American Colleges and
Universities: Publications' Board;
senior representative to the Ex-man
Staff; Veterans Association;
Air Reserve Corps; Auburn Inde­pendent
Organization; Institute of
Aeronautical Sciences; and AIO
representative to the Executive
Cabinet. . • : v ; ,•-... *-.'
'Gene Millsap, junior in in-chi-"
lecture from Monroeville, is a
ecutive Cabinet; and Alpha Gam--member of American Institute of
ma Rho social fraternity. J Architects; president of Alpha
Robert "Buck" Hails, junior in j Tau Omega social fraternity; Sea-aeronautical
engineering fromlrab; president of Inter-Fraternity
Montgomery, is a member of the j Council; and Who's Who Among
Sigma Alpha Epsilon social fra-1 Colleges and Universities,
teinity, American Society of Mc- Clyde Orr, junior in mechani-
Five-Month Tour of States Awaits
Contest Winner, 1947'Maid of Cotton'
Would you like to make a five-month
tour of the United States
as the fashion and goodwill am­bassador
of the American cotton
industry? Would you like a com­plete
wardrobe of high fashion
cottons created especially for you
by the nation's topmost design­ers?
Would you like to meet na­tionally
known leaders in the
Quiz, PF, Scholastic Regulations
Are Changed By Council Of Deans
The API Council of Deans has (1) eliminated Saturdays
quizzes, (2) eliminated required physical education for al] PRES
junors, (3) eliminated condition grades, and (4) ruled that
hereafter it will be necessary for a student to maintain an
overall grade average of one point (D) in order to remain in
good standing. All four major
changes will become effective
with the Winter Quarter, Janu­ary,
1947.
Announcement of revised regu­lations
came today from Dean
Roger W. Allen, vice-chairman of
the council.
Major provisions of the four
changes were discussed by Dean
Allen as follows;
Elimination of Saturday quizzes
necessitates having two Satur­days
(first and last of the quar­ter)
set aside for regular class at­tendance.
This because regula­tions
require fifty class days ex­clusive
of registration and exami­nations.
An exception to.this rule
will be the Fall Quarter, when
there will be no Saturday classes.
To take the place of former
Saturday quizzes, there will be a
minimum of two announced
quizzes each quarter, scheduled
during the week, the time to be
set at the discretion of individual
professors.
Dean Allen pointed out elimi­nation
of required physical edu­cation
for all juniors does not
mean that the subject will be
dropped from the curriculum. He
said; Juniors or seniors may elect
P.E. and use such credit as elec­tive
credit in three or five hour
courses.
The council's action is elimi­nating
the condition grade of "E"
means that hereafter a student
will receive either a passing or
failing grade for any particular
subject. Incompletes will still be
given, but after the allowed week
to clear up such a grade, the final
mark will be passing or failing,
Dean Allen explained.
Commenting on the require­ment
that hereafter a student
must maintain an overall grade
average of one point in order to
remain in good standing. Dean
Allen said such action repre­sents
an effort on the council's
part to emphasize scholarship.
The present regulatios of pass­ing
a minimum of ten quarter
hours still remains in force, said
Dean Allen, and the overall one
point average is in addition to
the first requirement.
L N. DUNCAN
WRITES LETTER
TO THE FACULTY, STU
DENTS, AND OTHER FRIENDS
OF AUBURN;
May I very genuinely and sin­cerely
wish for each of you a
joyous and happy Christmas sea-,
' , ., ' . , , ., . chaperon. She will spend three
son and the greatest and finest %. XT „ , *, J!.ii j
fields of beauty, fashions, busi­ness
and government?
If the answer is "yes," Miss Co-
Ed, you'll be interested in know­ing
more about the 1947 Maid of
Cotton contest whose finals will
be held at Memphis next Jan. 13.
In a message directed to coeds
of API, the National Cotton
Council at Memphis announced
that the contest is open to all
girls who are natives of a cotton-producing
state, who are between
the ages of 18 and 25, and who
have never been married.
The Birmingham Post will pay
the expenses to Memphis of a
candidate from API, who will be
a finalist. Applicants should turn
in their names to the News Bu­reau
by noon Saturday. Judges
(whose names will remain a se­cret)
will select a beauty to repre­sent
Auburn Monday, Dec. 16.
Entrants will be notified of the
time and place.
Shortly after her selection, the
1947 Maid will leave for New
York, accompanied by the Cot­ton
Council tour manager and
New Year of your life.
The institution appreciates pro­foundly
your loyalty and your co­operation
in dealing with the
multitude of problems confront­ing
our beloved Auburn.
Pledging you the best that I
have for the years ahead, I am
Sincerely your friend,
L. N. Duncan
President
Forestry Club Elects
Bill Certain was elected presi­dent
of the Forestry Club Mon
day to serve with the following
other new officers for the next
quarter: O. H. Mimms, vice pre:*
dent; Frank Stewart, secretary;
Ernie Moore, treasurer; and
Wendel Vickery, reporter.
weeks in New York being fitted
with her new wardrobe, receiving
modeling instructions, and posing
for fashion photographs. The tour
will open officially in Miami ear­ly
in February.
During the course of her tour
which extends through mid-June,
the Maid will appear as featured
model in cotton fashion shows in
more than 30 major cities. She
will likewise extend the indus­try's
greetings to mayors, gov­ernors,
federal officials, and ci­vic
leaders. Her tour will carry
her across the United States to
the leading cities on the West
Coast.
The Maid of Cotton tour and
contest are sponsored on behalf
of the cotton industry by the Na­tional
Cotton Council, Memphis
Cotton Carnival Association, and
the Cotton Exchanges of Mem­phis,
New Orleans and New York.
cal engineering from Birming­ham,
is past president of Sigma
Phi Epsilon social fraternity;
Glomerata staff; representative to
t h e Inter - Fraternity Council;
Plainsman Staff; Veterans Asso­ciation;
and American Society of
Mechanical Engineers.
John Harvey Thomas, senior in
science and literature from Mont­gomery,
is a member of Sigma
Chi social fraternity; former man­ager
of the football team; Scarab;
past sports editor of both The
Plainsman and Glomerata, and
president of the Baptist Student
Union.
Loyce Turner, senior in veteri­nary
medicine from Valdosta, Ga.,
is a member of Alpha Psi, pro­fessional
veterinary medicine fra­ternity;
vice president of Squires,
sophomore honor society; mem­ber
of junior branch of the Ameri­can
Veterinary Medical Associa­tion;
and Secretary and Treasurer
of Inter-Fraternity Council.
Combined Choruses Sing
At 3:30 P. M. Sunday
Stanley Perry, tenor from
Atlanta, Ga., will be the only
out-of-town soloist in the sec
ond annual presentation of
Handel's "Messiah" Sunday at
Langdon Hall. Doors open at 3
p. m. and the concert starts at
3:30 p. m.
Station WJHO will broadcast
the program.
Local soloists are Eleanor Ab-ercrombie,
soprano; Charlotte
''Bannister, alto; James Overton,
baritone; and Homer Russell,
bass-baritone.
Dr. Hollace Arment, head of
the music department, will di­rect
the chorus, which includes
the API Glee Clubs, the Au­burn
Singers, and the Auburn
Community Chorus. The final
rehearsal will be at 4 p. m.
Saturday in Langdon Hall.
Accompanists for the occasion
are Edna Bass, Ruby Winters,
and Barbara Edwards, pianists;
and Billy Tamblyn, organist.
Members of the Piano Club
will usher.
For more than 200 years
Handel's "Messiah" has had
countless performances and is a
favorite of concert - goers the
world over. Its happy combina­tion
of spiritual significance
and grand style has made it
universally acclaimed one of
the great masterpieces of mu­sic
literature.
Dr. Zebulon Judd To Deliver
Commencement Speech 2 P. M.
Commencement Speaker
'MESSIAH' SOLOIST
Dr. Zebulon Judd, top will
speak to the graduating class
next Wednesday. Stanley Perry,
bottom, of Atlanta, Ga., will
sing in the "Messiah" Sunday.
Registrar Charles Edwards will
award 135 degrees at commence­ment
exercises in Langdon Hall
next Wednesday. The program
starts at 2 p. m. and will be
broadcast over station WJHO.
Dr. Zebulon Judd, dean of the
School of Education will deliver
the address.
Of the 135 degrees, 131 will be
bachelor of science and four will
be master's.
Candidates for graduation are
listed below:
SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE
Bachelor of Science in Agricul­ture
— Rufus Barnett, Reform;
Preston Coleman Bennett, Jr..
Selma; Frank Lloyd Haynes, Jr.,
Birmingham; ' Charles Webster
Killough, Eclectic; John Hayes
Maddox, Montgomery; Paul Cam­eron
Mills, Andalusia; Vernon
Leon Norton, Heflin; John Pel-ham
Thomas, Mobile; John Le-
Bron Wilson, Jr., Hackleburg;
James Bailey Williams, Auburn:
and Jesse Pate Ridgeway, Rem-lap.
Bachelor of Science in Agri­cultural
Engineering—John Cal­houn
Bailey, Jr., Wadley, and
Robert Edward Bailey, Wadley.
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
AND THE ARTS
Bachelor of Applied Art—Jesse
Dorrance Kiser, Gardendale.
SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY
Bachelor of Science in Chemi­cal
Engineering — Phillip Frank
Eiland, Jr., Birmingham; Samuel
Adolphus Mosley, Birmingham:
Charles Lee Cray, Birmingham:
W i l l i a m Blackwell Williams.
Sheffield; and Clyde Dennis
Wood, Jr., Birmingham.
Bachelor of Science in Labora­tory
Technology — Thelma Mac
Meherg, Fayetteville; Marguerite
Everett Sherlock, Montgomery;
and Betty Watkins, Birmingham.
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Educa-
Continued on page 10)
Tau Beta Pi Taps 19 Outstanding
Men in the School of Engineering
Alabama Alpha chapter of Tau Beta Pi, highest engineer­ing
honorary society on the Auburn campus, recently tapped
19 men in recognition of scholarship and leadership. They
are listed below:
Yndalecio (Pete) Jose Elizondo,
2 ME from Auburn, is a member
of Pi Tau Sigma and Theta (*ii.
Robert Cherry Martin, 3 EE,
Tuscumbia.
John Powell McKinnon, 3 EE,
Auburn.
Brax Hartness Batson, 4 AgE,
Miss Auburn, above, is Pat Patrick, sophomore in applied art
from Birmingham. She awarded the cake and kiss to Whitey Over­ton
last night at the Tiger Theater. (Photo by W. L. Goodman).
Wiggins, Miss., a member of Al­pha
Zeta, Theta Xi.
James Monroe Clayton, Jr.,
4 EE, Columbus, Ga., is a mem­ber
of Eta Kappa Nu.
John Barnard Clopton, Jr., 4
CN, Scottsboro, is president of
Phi Lambda Upsilon.
Philip Frank Eiland, Jr., 4 CN,
Birmingham, is a member of Phi
Lambda Upsilon.
Albert Lowery Gaines, 4 ME,
Birmingham, is a member of Pi
Tau Sigma and Phi Kappa Tau.
Robert Harding Harris, 4 AF,
Montgomery, is a member of Pi
Tau Sigma and Sigma Nu.
Beverly Z. Henry, 4 AE, Birm­ingham,
holds a B3 degree in
mechanical engineering, is a
member of Pi Tau Sigma and
Lambda Chi Alpha.
William Norville Johnston, 4
ME, Mobile, is a member of Pi
Tau Sigma and Sigma Chi.
John Breckenridge Kirk, 4 EE,
Birmingham, is a member of
Theta Sigma Lambda.
Hugh Montgomery Long, Jr., 4
EE, Foley, is a member of Theta
Chi.
Harry Cecil Mickleboro, Jr., 4
AE, is from Marion.
Edward Wilberforce Morris, 4
EE, Camden, is a member of
Briarean Society, honorary coop
society, president of Eta Kappa
Nu.
William Wallace Penn, Jr., 4
AE, Goodwater, is a member of
PiKA.
Orris Judson Strock, 4 EE, Ver­bena.
George Ferguson Strother, 4
ME, Birmingham, is a member of
Pi Tau Sigma and PiKA.
John Robert Thompson, 4 EE,
Piper, is a member of Pi Tau Sig­ma.
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ALPHA DELTA PI PLANS FORMAL
will lead the dance with Atwood
Rush, Auburn, and will be pre­sented
a banquet of red roses by-
Mildred Baggett, retiring presi­dent.
The Auburn Knights will
furnish the music.
Members, pledges, and dates
are Craig Green, Atwood Rush,
Auburn; Mildred Baggett, Charlie
Roach, Atlanta; Betty Brown
Ben Jones, West Point; Barbara
Ingram, "Buck" Byrd, Mobile;
Lee Morrow, Bob Cater, Birming­ham;
Jean Bradford, Bill Paxton,
Florence; Betty Hester, Bill
Grant, Russellville; Nancy Lea
Brown, Knotty Walker, Colum­bus;
Betty Ramsey, Charles Har­rison,
Maryland; Gene Rinnert,
James McLendon, Gadsden; Dot
Reynolds, Clint Wilkinson, Selma;
Pat Patrick, Erwin Mangrum,
Beta Omega chapter of Alpha Delta Pi will present its an­nual
formal at Girl's Gym on the Opelika Road Friday, Dec.
13. A banquet will be held before the dance at the Casino. A
Christmas theme is to pervade throughout the dance, with a
•15-foot tree, Santa Claus, and Christmas packages.
Craig Green, chapter president,
Birmingham; Katherine Green,
Percy Carter, Russellville.
Danny Sue Gibson, Mitchell
Galiyas, Clairton, Pa.; Evelyn
Corbett, Joe Logan, Bainbridge,
Ga.; Frances Johnson, Glenn
Crim, Birmingham; V i r g i n ia
Fletcher, Robert Baker, Annis-ton;
Toosie Hester, John E. Mil­ler,
Russellville; June Miller, Bil­ly
Thompson, Russellville; Anne
Hines, Ed Tylor, Brunswick, Ga.;
Audrey Early, Russell Mayer,
Sheffield; Cynthia Mayer, Warren
Nesmith, Cullman; Jane Bel),
Harry Maddox, Memphis; Sara
Ann McCall, Ed Lee, Monroe-ville;
Norma Jeanne Bohannon,
Buddy Alford, Birmingham; Ma­rion
Frances Grove, Charley
Henegan, Birmingham; Jeanne
Orr, Bill Moncrief, Selma; Betty
Adair, Bob T a t e , Anniston;
Nancy Hearn, Earl Pippin, Ope­lika.
Bess Talbert, Bob Spence, Gads­den;
Evelyn Barksdale, Bill
Broome, Anniston; Jane Frazer,
Horace McCurry, Opelika; Jerry
Ashcraft, Rufus Ray, Montgom­ery;
Mary Frances Crowley, Paul
Eyrich Birmingham; Ann Cow-art,
"Goat" Morgan, Columbus;
Jane Keener, Clyde Orr, Birming­ham;
Dot Moncrief, Eugene Key,
Selma; Jennie Sue Pate, Billy
Ratchford, Lafayette; Anne Hand-
WATCHES
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Gifts For Every
Occasion
EYES TESTED
GLASSES FITTED
It's Smart to Shop at
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OPELIKA, ALA
ley, Bobby Humphrey, Columbus;
Helen Cowles, Walter Dorsey,
Opelika; Audrey Lee Nelson,
Arnold Berthaume, Montgomery;
Sally Sallade, Charles Graves,
Birmingham; Sara Vaughn, Bill
Certain, Huntsville; Berma Dale
Kyle, Walter Brooks, Birming­ham;
Kathryn Gilder, Ray Moore,
Memphis; Mildred Preuit, "Fuz­zy"
Perritt, Florence; Nancy Jane
Young, Jack Coursey.
Janet Hall, Charles Warner,
Montgomery; Helen Chapman,
Tom. Parkinson, Memphis; Jane
Ardis, Bob Hints, Birmingham;
Becky Fraser, Frank Cater, Bir­mingham;
Sara Glenn, Alfred
Sawyer; Mr. and Mrs. Sonny Lee;
Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Fitten; Mr. and
Mrs. Barry Shiflett; Mr. and Mrs.
Bevo Biggins; Mr. and Mrs. Billy
Williams; Mr. -and Mrs. Conrad
S.ummerlin; Mr. and Mrs. John
Bath; Mr. and Mrs. Tom Richard­son.
. Guests of honor will include
Mrs. Marshall Green, Dean Kath­erine
Cater, Mrs. Marietta F
Robinson, and Mr. and Mrs.
Glenn Stewart.
LOST: Pair horn - rimmed
glasses in Red leather case. Re­ward.
Call 960 extension 326.
LOST: One strand pearls be­tween
the textile building and
Auburn Hall last Wednesday.
Finder please notify Rachael
Murphy at Auburn Hall. Phone
945.
STUDENT SUPPLIES
School books and supplies are available at
reasonable prices
Basement Samford Hall
Phone 960-Extension 347
COLLEGE SUPPLY STORE
Pan-American Dance To Be Presented
The Latin American Club of Auburn will give its first
Pan-American dance Saturday evening, December 14, at the
Alumni Gym. Miss Jean Mims, Union Springs, will lead the
dance with Jose. Luis Soler, Puerto Rico.
Members and their dates at­tending
are Jean Mims, Jose Lois
Soler; Patricia Reeve, Victor E
Bendeck; Helen Turner, Francisco
Paillie; Bernice Zimmerman, Or­lando
Morales; Janice Rust, Ram­on
Lobo Lopez; Betty Borntraeg-er,
Eugenio Wagner; Gloria
Meadows, Angel Garriga.
Honor guests are Mr. and Mrs.
Yndalecio Elizondo; Dr. Luther
N. Duncan; Dean Katherine Cat­er;
Miss Janice Turnipseed; Miss
Margarita Elizondo; Mr. T. P. At­kinson;
Mr. John W. Roe; Mr.
Robert B. Skelton; and Mr. Wiley
Allen.
Stags are Luis Allvaro Alladro;
Armando Aladro; Angel del Hier-ro;
Shucry Z. Bendeck; Antonio
.Moreno; Ambrosio Mantilla; Pep-ito
Elizondo; Billy Favors; Lucas
Martinez; Marco; Antonio Marl
tinez; Rodolfo Escobar; Martin
Lleras; and Humberto" Diaz de
Arce.
Bill Williams and his orchestra
will furnish the music. An added
feature of the dance will be a
floor show presented by a group
of Latin American students from
Georgia Tech.
The dance which will be semi-formal
will last from 8:30 to 12
and all coeds and their dates are
invited.
S&ofc S&tfy!
C. E. Leonard .-left, former treasurer of Alabama Alpha chapter
of Sigma Phi Epsilon watches while Roger D. Smith, president,
burns the morgage. Otis Ward is on the right. ( Lewis Arnold pix.)
DINE
IN A FRIENDLY
ATMOSPHERE
You'll like our courteous
help and pleasant surround­ings.
STEAKS CHICKEN
SEAFOOD
Auburn Grille
Methodists To Give
Christmas Music Sunday
"Christmas around the World"
will be the theme of the music
program to be given by the Au­burn
Methodist Choir at 7:30 p. m.
next Sunday.
The chorus choir of 30 voices
will sing carols of many lands.
The Young People's Choir, a trio,
and a male chorus will be heard.
The choruses are directed by
Dr. Paul Irvine and Miss Mary
Newman Graves. Mrs. George T.
Bryars is organist.
CHRISTMAS GIFTING
HEART WINNING ITEMS FOR GIVING . . . OR RECEIVING.
CHOOSE NOW WHILE STOCKS ARE COMPLETE — AND
MAKE HER HAPPY THIS CHRISTMAS.
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AND OPTICAL CO.
OPELIKA
AG CLUB ELECTS
TOM RICHARDSON
In an election of officers by
that organization Monday night,
Tom Richardson ag science stu­dent
from Auburn, was named
I president of the ag club. Tom is
well-known on Ag Hill, and drew
much praise for his work on ex­hibits
for the Ag Fair this year.
Other officers elected are: vice-president,
Robert Moore; secre­tary,
John McCraney; treasurer,
Wyndel Murrah; reporter, Jesse
Culp; monitor, Carl Norrell.
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Handkerchiefs, Men's and Ladies'
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Silk Hose by Mojud
Bunny Mitts and Ear Muffs
Dresses, Coats, Jackets, Blouses
Gloves and Bags
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1946 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Three
ALPHA ZETA LAUNCHES DRIVE TO
IMPROVE AG HILL'S APPEARANCE
By Joseph Ray
Alpha Zeta, agricultural hon­orary
fraternity, has initiated a
drive to improve the appearance
of Ag Hill. The fraternity, after
careful consideration of possibili­ties
for improvement, has made
a few recommendations for an
improvement project. Of course,
before these suggestions were
made the many war difficulties—
labor, materials, etc.—were taken
into account. It is obvious that,
when there is as acute labor
shortage as this whole country
has experienced, no institution is
able to be up to normal expecta­tions.
There is also the shortage
of materials. Many things are
still almost unobtainable. These
conditions were even worse dur­ing
the war.
A committee of three, Charles
Kornegay, Bob Scofield, and Brax
Batson, has been appointed to
make investigations, talk with
the authorities, and try to get
some program of improvement
under way. This committee wel­comes
any suggestions from any­one
who is interested, especially
men in the field of agriculture.
This committee has noticed that
the following features might be
improved. A nice, well kept
lawn would add much to the ap­pearance
of Comer Hall, one of
the main buildings on Ag Hill.
Then, the muddy drive between
Comer Hall and the Animal Hus­bandry
and Dairy Building is a
very distasteful feature. After
rain the drive becomes almost
impassable. It has improved
somewhat since last summer,
when I have seen as many as
three cars crosswise in the road
because of the slick condition
caused by rain. If this problem
were overcome, it would be very
helpful to the convenience of all.
The committee has also recogn­ized
the great need for more park­ing
area. With the great increase
in enrollment, Ag Hill shares in
the problem of a place to leave
one's car.
One is aware also of the ab­sence
of adequate walks. At pres­ent
the only side walks on Ag Hill
are those on either side of Mel]
Street in front of Duncan Hail.
It seems that more sidewalks
should be constructed. Why not
build two diagonal walks, one
from the front of the Ag House
to Comer and the other from the
entrance to Graves Center below
Duncan Hall to Comer. With a
beautiful, well kept lawn and
these two walks, the area in front
of Comer would be improved ex­ceedingly.
We are sure that, through these
improvements — more parking
area, better lawns, more walks,
and a better drive between Com­er
and the Dairy Building—the
appearance of Ag Hill can be
improved almost 100 per cent.
Picking The Bones •
With Bill Dearman
In a Tigertown cafe one day
(Louisiana State U.) a student
asked a woman if she were kin
to the owner. The startling ans­wer
was a laugh: "I sure am. I'm
both his daughter and his daugh
ter-in-law." His expression wa:
what you would expect.
"But how can you be both, un­less
you married your brother?"
he asked.
"That's just what I did. I mar
The Exchange Post By Phil Bookman
From Texas Christian U. comes
a tale of something that could
only happen in an English class
of GI students. Miss Hippy, the
instructor, wrote on the board.
"Jack is a captain," and went on
to explain that in this case the
word "captain" was a predicate
nominative.
"Now if I said, 'Jack struck the
captain.'" continued Miss Rippy,
"what would that be?" Without
hesitation the class in unison
answered, "Court Martial!" (The
Collegiate World).
J. S. Owens, agronomist of the
Agricultural Extension Service,
University of Connecticut, has
been granted a year's leave of ab­sence
to do agronomic work with
General MacArthur's headquar­ters
in Tokyo.
As agronomist with the natural
resources section, Mr. Owens will
supervise the collection and main­tenance
of information and data
on all field crops in Japan and
Korea devoting particular atten­tion
to the cereal crops. He will
also recommend policies and ac­tions
affecting all phases of field
crop production in those two
countries.
* * *
hey there clarence
have you got your
fluorescent hitch
hiking thumb all
polished up for
Wednesday noon
the mighty wabash
rr has let us down
now i suppose the
buses will go on
strike i can see
all the coeds riding
the roads now to get
back to ma and
clean sheets
c'est la guerre.
Mudball (Purdue)
Coach Wilbur Hutsell was the
only casualty of the Florida foot­ball
fame. He pulled a muscle in
his leg; claims that he did it
while jumping over the chain to
help an injured player off the
field. We are still wondering if
he didn't injure that leg while
he was going those indian War-
Dances on the sideline as the
Auburn backs racked up those
long gains. We are inclined to
agree with one of the boys who
was on the bench and said "with
Coach in that form and with a
"Special tape job" he would be a
cinch to win the high hurdles."
* * *
The five graduating seniors on
the Auburn football squad were
presented with watches by the
Birmingham Alumni Association
at the football banquet held in
Birmingham Friday night. At the
banquet Professor "Boozer" Pitts
was in fine form and those jokes
he told were well appreciated.
Jim Pharr came with a swell job
of introducing the football play­ers.
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Congratulations are in order for
Harold Lannom and Hal Herring
who were elected Captain and al­ternate
Captain of the 47 Tiger
football squad. We feel sure that
these two men will do an excel­lent
job of leading the Tigers to
victory in 47.
* * *
Enroute to the banquet Friday
afternoon, Hal (Needle - Nose)
Herring was in fine form and his
special rendition of "Hugging and
Chalking" was something well
worth hearing. If anything should
happen to stop Hal's football ca­reer,
we feel sure that he could
earn good money by being paid
to sing, or not to sing, just as you
see it.
ried my step-brother."
So the father's daughter is also
his daughter-in-law and t he
mother's son is her son-in-law.
Roden, Owens Honored By 'Farmer'
Jerry Roden Jr., selected man
of the month on Ag Hill for the
month of October by the Alabama
Farmer, is a senior in agricultur­al
education from Pisgah.
Jerry came to Auburn as a
freshman just out of high school
in September 1941. He enlisted in
the Enlisted Reserve Corps in the
fall of 1942 and was called to ac­tive
duty in February 1943, and
was discharged in December,
1945. He served overseas in the
European Theater of Operations
with the 15th Air Force.
Every since Jerry's entry into
college at API he has made an
outstanding scholastic average—
has made the Dean's list for sev­eral
quarters—and has served un­selfishly
since that time the in­terests
of agriculture students.
Jerry has been vice-president
and reporter of the Collegiate
F.F.A. Chapter; is now president
of the API Agricultural Club and
chancellor of Alpha Zeta, national
honorary agriculture fraternity; is
a member of the Sears Scholar­ship
Club; was tapped this spring
lor Kappa Delta Pi, national edu­cational
fraternity; and is on the
editorial staff of the Alabama
Farmer.
Lorene Owens from Armuchee,
Ga., has been selected as Decem­ber's
"Girl of the Month in Home
Economics" by the Alabama
Farmer.
Lorene was graduated with the
class of 1943, but she wasn't sure
about college. It was while work­ing
with the Finance Corporation
in Atlanta that she decided to
make Auburn her school. She had
always desired to be a dress de­signer.
She believes the idea came
to her while a member of the
home economics club in high
school.
When she entered the school of
home economics at Alabama
Polytechnic Institute as a clothing
major, Lorene set out in earnest
•to prepare herself as best she
could for the job ahead. She af­filiated
with the home economics
professional organization, t he
Dana King Gatchell Home Econ­omics
Club. At the present she is
treasurer of this organization.'
Lorene's interests are • by no
means confined to the field of
home economics, however. She
loves classical and semi-classical
music. She is very fond of sports
and outstanding in them all. She
is also a member of the Auburn
Independent Organization.
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A b a c k w o o d s mountaineer
found a mirror which a tourist
had lost. "Well, if it ain't my old
dad," he said as he looked in the
mirror, "never knowned he had
had his picture took." He took it
home that night and while he
slept his wife found the mirror.
"Humm-m" she said, looking into
it, "so that's the old hag he's
been chasing."
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easier to be critical than to be
correct."
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Page Four T H E P L A I N S M AN WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1946
Next It'll Be Alumni-'Jim'!
Some people intentionally walk red
lights, some trump their partner's aces,
some even read The Plainsman—and some
people still insist on spelling Samford Hall
"Sanford", Broun Hall "Brown" and Ram­say
Hall "Ramsey".
Now this is a definite breach of Auburn-ite
etiquette — and one that's likely to
cause the Emily Posts of our fair city to
fall away in a dead swoon.
Every week memorandums, bulletins,
notices, and what-nots appear in The
Plainsman office and too often "Sanford"
Hall and "Brown" Hall are misspelled.
And recently a row of signs on East Mag­nolia
had "Ramsey" Hall instead of Ram­say.
The present Samford Hall has been on
the spot since 1888, and there was one
which burned down before that, so surely
all these years should have been long
enough for us to have learned that it
isn't "Sanford" Hall. It was named for the
late William J. Samford, once governor
of Alabama, and if you'll take a look up
on the front of the building you'll see Sam­ford
Hall—in big letters—and spelled with
an M.
Broun Hall was named for the late Wil­liam
Leroy Broun, former president of
API, and surely we should pay our former
presidents enough respect not to spell their
names wrong. You wouldn't go around
writing "Dr. Duncen"; would you?
Ramsay Hall was named for Erskine
Ramsay, Birmingham industrialist who
contributed a huge sum of money for the
erection of the building — and yet some
people spell his name "Ramsey".
Of course, matters could be worse, but
it does seem a good idea for the student
and faculty members to learn the correct
spelling of three of our most prominent
campus buildings.
We Want Recreation Instead of PE
Five tennis courts for over 6000 students,
a few—very few—lockers, about 10 show­ers,
and outmoded curriculum. These facil­ities
are not sufficient for the kind of phy­sical
education department API needs.
True, juniors will not be required to
take PE next quarter. This will relieve
the condition considerably as far as classes
are concerned. Students are whole-heart­edly
behind this action. They would recom­mend
aboliton of all compulsory PE, but
they would still want recreational facili­ties
available—preferably corecreational.
Members of the PE staff have intimated
that they are in favor of revamping the
present curriculum to provide for core­creational
classes, and to offer a more var­ied
course for boys, since they ARE re­quired
to take what is given.
We hope this problem will be solved
satisfactorily. Since the PE department is
willing and anxious to provide more rec­reation,
students and others concerned
should work with them in increasing the
facilities. Maybe some honor organizations
could sponsor a project which would pro­vide
more recreation for the entire student
body.
How Council of Deans' Decisions Affect Us
Busy as students are cramming for final
exams, they can take time out to rejoice
over the Council of Dean's decision to
eliminate Saturday quizzes and physical
education for all juniors. There may not
be much rejoicing over the other decisions
of the deans — elimination of condition
grades and setting the over-all grade of
one point necessary for one to remain in
good standing.
But these new rules don't place too harsh
a set of laws on people who are of necessity
in college. In fact, there's leniency and the
tang of a modernistic trend. For instance,
elimination of Saturday quizzesis parallel
to the wshes of many veterans who know
Saturday as a work-day, and to all for
whom that is a fundamental time for earn­ing
their daily bread or for leisure. Dean
Allen well recognizes the inclination to­ward
lessening modern physical education
requirements as can be seen in his state­ment:
"Juniors or seniors may elect P. E.
and use such credit as elective credit in
three or five-hour courses."
An indiction of the Council's ultimate
purpose may be noted in Dean Allen's
further statement that the elimination of
condition grades represents an effort on
the council's part to emphasize scholarship.
This is, to say the least, a wise attitude.
In attempting to boost the general grade
standard at Auburn and in lowering PE
requirements, the Council of Deans has ac­complished
a definite end. Their rules are
a sign that more fresh legislation is yet to
come.
War Eagle!
Laurels to James Baskett, the Actor
Laurels go to James Baskett, who rend­ers
a top performance in Walt Disney's
production, "Song of the South." It was
one of the most sincere pieces of acting
ever executed in the American theater
world, and should remain in the memories
of Southerners, Yankees, and Westerners
as presenting an honest portrayal of the
pre-Civil War South.
Uncle Remus, as acted by James Baskett,
is a faithful, happy Negro, oblivious of
the worries pervading the "white folks'"
family; in fact, he is oblivious of any
"pangs and arrows of outrageous fortune."
Wearing a tattered coat and whittling a
length of wood, he wraps the listener
around his little finger with tales of Brer
Rabbit, of Brer Fox, and of Brer Bear.
Not all of the Uncle Remus tales are
related (such as the one about the drought)
but those which are pictured are singular,
significant in that they rival the fairy tales
of the ancients. They are spicy, new, real.
They exhume the odors of the United
States since its founding. They are not of
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Bill Dearman sports editor
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one section, nor yet of one man .. .They are
of America.
Neither the picture nor the protagonist
actor have received the acclaim they de­serve.
But here go our laurels to James
Baskett, "Song of the South," and the
originator, Walt Disney.
Up to Sept. 1, the Veterans Administra­tion
had guaranteed a total of 2293,931
home, farm and business loans for veterans
under the GI Bill. Nearly 90 percent are
for homes.
Whoever splattered the walls in a room
of the architecture building used what to
them was just "mud" but to a student in
the clay modeling class, the "mud" repres­ented
much thought, work, and time. Such
vandalistic behavior is most unbecoming
to the individual as well as to Auburn.
Over a year has passed since hostilities
ended; the whole world continues its
struggle to restore some semblance of
equilibrium to economic, social, and poli­tical
life. Not the least of the tasks we face
is the replenishment of our greatly deplet­ed
supply of properly trained engineers
and scientists ,to help meet the many prob­lems
which have come in the wake of a
six-year war.—Karl T. Compton, president,
M.I.T.
Crown jewels are "practical" too. Ac­cording
to the Encyclopaedia Britannica,
part of the chain of the Order of St. An­drew,
one of the Russian Crown Jewels,
contains twenty detachable pieces of dif­ferent
design, each of which may be used
as a separate ornament.
Rubber was not used commercally in
Europe until three centuries after it was
noted by Columbus during his second visit
to South America, according to the En­cyclopaedia
Britannica. Even then it was
not marketed for its elastic properties, but
to rub out pencil marks, hence its name.
FILE THIRTEEN By The Editor
This and That By Ole Timer
Well, the football season is all over—that is, all except the
various bowl games. It has been a season of many upsets—the
downfall of mighty Alabama, the surprising record of little
Wake Forest, and at the end, a Navy team with an unimpres­sive
record which came within a half minute or so of downing
invincible Army.
From the standpoint of an Au-burnite,
we'd like to forget the
overall record of our team. We'd
like to just remember the. per­formance
of the team in a few
games.—games in which no criti­cism
whatsoever of the team
would have been justified. There
was something wrong as a whole,
though—what we don't know.
We only hope and pray that by
next season whatever it is will
be straightened out and the Tigers
will rise to the national promi­nence
they deserve.
This year the Rose Bowl took
a tremendous drop in popularity
following the signing of the con­tract
which limited the choice of
teams to participate in the bowl.
We believe that this action will
raise New Orleans Sugar Bowl to
the number one bowl in the
country.
This is the time for Ail-Ameri­can,
All-conference, and' All-this
and-that teams. We don't pretend
to be an expert, but everybody is
entitled to an individual opinion
and we have some very definite
ideas about the All-Southeastern
teams we have seen. The Ole
Timer fails to see how the back-field
could fail to include Geor­gia's
Rauch' and Trippi and Au­burn's
Tidwell. The remaining
spot would be a three-way fight
among 'Bama's Gilmer, Tech's
Broyles, and Miss. State's Davis.
Of course Tech's Duke would
have the center spot cinched. For
guards we'd pick Georgia's St.
John and LSU's Worley. At the
tackle spots would be Tech's Da­vis
and Tennessee's Huffman.
And at ends we would select
'Bama's Cook and Georgia's Tere-shenski.
But as far as an All-Southeast­ern
team, one couldn't go very far
wrong in just naming the entire
Georgia first team. We'd like to
have seen Georgia and Army
tangle in a bowl game this year.
And for next year we'd like to
see the Southeastern Conference
accept the proposal that every
two years each conference team
must have played every other
conference team, with no excep­tions.
Then weM have a real Con­ference
champion. And we'd like
to see a rule adopted limiting the
number of "breather" games a
season to one, or certainly not
more than two. Games played
with a team far outclassed do
nothing to help the team except
to run the scoring record up.
And speaking of All-teams one
selector picked Indiana's Bob Ra-vensburg
as one of the nation's
outstanding college ends. The
catch is that Bob is in the army
and didn't play all season. And
Villanova heard that one of it's
former athletes who got married
during the summer and left school
received honorable mention on
another team.
* * *
Well, Ye Ed tells me this is the
last issue of the quarter. So, "so
long, guys and gals." The Ole
Timer hopes that you make all
"A's" and that you have a really
nice Christmas vacation. And un­less
something happens we'll be
seeing many of you again next
quarter.
Smiles and Great Men
By BABs
Higher Math
Teacher: (in arithmetic) "If you
have ten potatoes and have to di­vide
them between three persons,
how would you do it?"
Bright Boy: "Mash 'em."
* * *
Will Rogers: "Everytime we
(Uncle Sam) start out on a hu­manitarian
mission we come back
with both legs in a sling."
* * *
Page St. Peter:
Tommy: "Father, my Sunday-
School teacher says if I'm good
I'll go to Heaven."
Father: "Yes."
Tommy: "Well, you said if I
was good I'd go to the circus.
Now, I want to know who's tellin'
the truth?"
* * *
Love thy enemies: "It is said of
Henry Ward Beecher that one
never felt the full force of his
kindness until he did Beecher an
injury. Beecher never retaliated
in kind."
* * *
Half the Truth:
Husband: (reprovingly) "Mary,
why did you tell your friends
your dress came from abroad?"
Mary: "I didn't exactly say that.
After ten years I am so tired of
it that I turned it inside out. I
simply said to them: It's from
the other side'."
Looking ahead:
Frosh: "If I had a million dol­lars
do you know where I'd be?"
Pretty thing: "I surely do. We'd
be on our honey-moon!"
* *V. ' *
West "Pointer":
"Melvin! Melvin!"
"What, Ma?"
"Are you spitting in the fish-bowl?"
"Not yet, Ma, but I'm comin'
pretty close."
Honesty: "Play the game abso­lutely
square. You will enjoy it
more and earn the respect of the
other players who aren't cheap."
* * *
As the Pendulum Swings:
History Teacher: (after a long
talk on the value of peace) "Now
is there anyone who objects to
.war?"
Boy in Back Row: "Yes mam!
I do!"
History Teacher: (beaming)
"Now tell us why?"
Boy in Back Row: "Wars make
history, and I hate history."
* * *
Bull's Eye:
Teacher: "Who has done most
to arouse the working classes?"
Sleepy Student: "The inventor
of alarm clocks."
(Continued on page 7)
This is number 30, our final issue of The Plainsman, and
by golly, sez we, we're gonna write a column.
We still think trig is a waste of time for journalism students
unless they elect it.
* * *
The usual practice is' for retiring editors to shake off all his
grudges in the last issue. Before
we get worked up, though, we'd
like to wish everyone a Merry
Christmas with plenty of fuel for
warming his home and fullness
of pocketbooks or physical or
spiritual warmth or whatever :t
is that makes Christmas mean­ingful.
• * ' * •
Our thanks go to the adminis­trators
of the college who have
given us freedom to make a lab­oratory
of The Plainsman. We
could mention a column of names,
like Dr. L. N. Duncan, Mr. Ralph
Draughon, Mr. Kirtley Brown,
Mr. Travis Ingram, Dr. Russell
Poor, Mr. Charles Edwards, and
others who have been most co­operative.
And to the readers—a
source of amusement and dismay
— whom we silently have ob­served
as they read the paper, we
would like to express our appre­ciation.
Came weal and woe, but the
business staff has really been on
the job. In spite of our frequent
ultimatums governing the number
of inches of advertising, they have
some secret charm which makes
people bring ads and beg to have
them run. The financial status of
The Plainsman is good, thanks to
them. We are proud to report that
there has not been a single fight
between the business and edi­torial
staffs.
* * *
The staff of the Lee County
Bulletin — the men behind the
scenes—deserve credit for seeing
that the paper was published on
time. Suggestions from Mr. Neil
Davis have been most helpful,
and the men in the shop have
caught many errors that the edi­tor
missed.
* * *
The News Bureau—our aide
but also our scoopinist rival—has
been an excellent news source,
and we are grateful to Mr. Baker
and his staff for the tips and
stories they have furnished.
* * *
Politiking in front of Langdon
Hall on a cold, cold election day
. . . watching the marks go up
as the votes were counted . . .
too numb to believe the count,
trying to help Mimi Simms edit
the extra . . . talks with individ­uals
who tried to make the front
page every week and with those
who were grateful for the publici­ty
they deserved . . . discussions
with the faculty . . . Joe, the
make-up man, saying "Here, chew
this gum and cool off" . . . Room­mate
Trudi pretending she didn't
mind our irregular hours. . .
* * *
We still think trig is a waste of
time for journalism students un­less
they elect it.
* * »
We thing the expansion of the
library, of the art, music, and re­search'
departments is doing
much to make Auburn a true
university. We have faith in it.
* * *
We have written when we
didn't want to write; spoken
when we should have remained
quiet. We have made mistakes. If
we apologized, people thought we
were lying. If we didn't apologize
people thought we didn't give a
darn. Sometimes we didn't.
We have Deen praised for things
we didn't do and criticized for
things we did. We have listened
to what people said when we
thought it tommyrot. We have be­lieved
some tommyrot without
realizing it, and missed truths.
Exhausted mentally and physi­cally,
we are happy to turn our
job over to a capable new editor.
* * *
We've been disciplined. Next
quarter we take trig again.
On The Side With Lenny Payne
The time has come for closing
editorials—a closing, it is true,
which to most of us only precedes
a Christmas vacation to be fol­lowed
by the beginning of an­other
quarter—and to those who
will not return, the almost
legendary creatures known as
graduating seniors, I would pay
tribute. In their four years, or
twelve quarters, they have prob­ably
seen more changes and cha­otic
conditions than ever before
in the history of a single class.
To them we are indebted for the
continuance of API and for the
wise leadership that they have
given us who follow them. To
those who fought and to those
who kept the home front we are
grateful, grateful that there is an
API and grateful that its tradi-ions
have been preserved.
* * *
As I look back at the quarter
in retrospect my heart swells
with pride and my arteries hard­en
with arteriosclerosis as I think
of the countless reforms achieved
by the editors and columnists of
this publication. The incompara­ble
papers of Bjurberg with the
international flavor should be
quoted internationally and doubt­less
have been read with great
interest by the student body.
Ole Timer has come out with
some timely and sage advice and
opinions, BABS has quoted wis­dom
and wit from great men, and
Bookman has a positive genius
for plagiarizing the best of news
from other places.- I am most
proud of our magnificent edi­torials
both in columns and else­where.
Their reforms are count­less.
(Last Wednesday's ballot
stuffing was only a test to see if
it could still be done.)
And as for my own modest at­tempts,
I need merely to observe
that as a result of my single-minded,
quarter long, heart-rend­ing,
bravely fought crusade in
inspirational phraselogy for a
great reform all the walks in the
quadrangle will be relaid with
the bricks running parallel rath­er
than herringbone. Modesty re­strains
me from enumerating the
countless other dazzling coup.'
d'etat which the Plainsman edi­tors
and columnists have achiev­ed.
* * *
Spirits are high,
Hearts are gay.
Christmas is here,
Or so they say.
(Hie!)
GUEST COLUMN
Christmas 1946
By J. S. Griffin, Jr.
As Christmas nears, naturally
we think first of the Man, the
Love, and the Peace that are sym­bolized
by this season. As always,
the beauty and promise of that
first clear cold night come down
to us, unaltered through the cen­turies.
And we think of what Christ­mas
used to be—of the traditions
handed down by those who came
before—things that have always
been a part of the American
Christmas. These festivities didn't
fit in very well with war, so they
were neglected last year and be­fore
that; everyone—the rich man
and the poor man, the merchant
and the scientist—each was busy,
playing his part in the fighting
team that won. It won for the na­tion,
and, we hope, for our God
and His world.
This year, as the old-fashioned
Christmas returns, we have a new
appreciation for the majesty and
beauty oi God and His Christmas.
And the very fact that our coun­try
recognizes God takes on a
new meaning.
For this will be a free Christ­mas,
the kind some nations have­n't
known for years. There'll be
all kinds of church spires rising
to the sky, instead of the one kind
somebody ordered, or none .at all.
Nobody will have to hide in the
cellar to pray. And it will be a
happy Christmas, with lighted
trees and some of the boys back
home, no longer risking their
lives to keep it free and happy.
This Christmas we may be
grateful for the love of Christ we
honor, and we may be grateful for
the land that believes in Him.
And if we are truly glad we may
make Christ happier and the land
better, just by remembering—re­membering
to practice the Good
Will He advocates and remem­bering
to be happy and help oth­ers
be happy, for that's the whole
spirit of Christmas.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1946 THE P L A I N S M AN Page Five
Publications Board Approves
Veterans' Paper for Campus
The Board of Publications recently accepted the appli­cation
for an official veteran's newspaper for API. The initial
issue will be published the first week of the next quarter as
a two-page insertion in The Plainsman.
Name of the paper has been changed from the Vet's Ga­zette
to The Veterans Jurnal, the reason being that no one
on the staff could spell "Gazette" correctly. In fact one mem­ber,
whose father has a two per
cent interest in a certain razor
company, has been writing the
name as "Gillette".
The Veterans Journal needs
many veterans to fill the import­ant
positions. In order to become
a reporter, one must have the fol­lowing
requirements:
1. Must be at least two feet tall
and not weigh more than 500
pounds.
2. Must have two years experi­ence
in advanced hypnotism.
3. Must have Veterans Journal
tattooed on chest.
4. Must own boy-scout knife.
5. Must not have more than
two autographed pictures of John
L. Lewis in possession.
6. Must be able to recite the
Constitution of The United States
of America and explain the eigh­teenth
amendment.
7. Must present the names and
telephone numbers of 24 beauti
ful coeds.
8. Must be able to explain the
functions of the atom bomb and
draw blue-print of same.
9. Must have read the following
books: Rasputin's Theory of the
Semi-Dynamic Molecule Expand­er,
Construction Notes of the Vir­ginia
Bridge and Foot-Log Com­pany,
Autobiography of an Olive
Stuffer, The Rise and Decline of
the Siberian Sahibs. Problems
Confronting the Banana Grower
in Northern Greenland, What
E v e r y Y o u n g Octogenerian
Should Know, and Forever Am­ber.
Experience
The reporters of The Veterans
Journal have the most fascinat­ing
experiences of all newspaper
men. Just last week, two brilliant
reporters were sent to the book
store to see why veterans can't
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H I L L ' S BOOTERY
get seven pencils instead of six
through the G. I. Bill. They were
attracted by the blonde at the Ink
Eradicator, Leaky Pen, and Blot­ter
counter, and have not been
seen since.
The Veterans Journal will ap­pear
with the Plainsman every
week. However, there will be a
small packet of bi-carbonate of
soda folded inside The Veterans
Journal. Immediately after the
first issue, there will be asbestos-lined
suggestion boxes placed on
the campus.
Scholarship
Each year The Veterans Jour­nal
will sponsor an essay contest,
the winner of which will receive
a three months scholarship to the
University of Hawaii in the field
of Penguin Culture. In order to
compete for the contest, you must
finish the essay "I never read
The Veterans Journal because"
. . . in three additional words or
less. Last year's winner was
Monsieur Jacques La Strappe,
Spanish teacher, who was later
disqualified because of un-origi
nality. All essays must be post
marked February 30, or will be­come
the property of the trash
collector.
Projects
The Veterans Journal will spon
sor many projects next quarter.
The biggest project will be to
encourage boarding-house owners
to cut their rates ninety-four per
cent. The only obstacle met thus-far,
is the boarding-houses want
to raise their rates ninety-three
percent. Another great project
will be to get every veteran to
write his congressman or woman
(which ever the case may be) and
request that snookerology fees be
paid by the government.
Committees
There will be a special anti-propaganda
committee appointed
which will consist of veterans
who have had at least eight years
of combat experience. Their only
jobs will be to install small
bombs under the seats of recruit
ing service cars, so that when the
starter is depressed, the driver of
the car will return to the Great
Master Sergeant.
The Editor-in-Chief of The
Veterans Journal is Jim Watson,
who expects to be Editor-in
Grief after the first issue. The
reason Watson was elected editor
is because he is ambidextrous
(which means he can write with
both hands) but nobody can read
the writing! He intends to soon
sponsor .the installation of sub­marine
detectors in Lake Che
wacla. In a recent statement con­cerning
The Veterans Journal
the new editor said "The Vet­erans
Journal" is "the Veterans
Journal".
The city editor is Jack Burke
(the country editor has not yet
been selected). Jack's main job
will be to remember the combi­nation
of the safe and to censor
the lingerie advertisements. Jack
plans to start a drive to lessen the
confusion in the book stores. Only
last quarter, a veteran who was
getting his books told the clerk
that he was taking medicine, and
NOTICE TO ALL STUDENTS
No books, equipment or supplies to be used in the Win­ter
Quarter will sold to any students before January 1, 1947.
This action is being taken for the following reasons:
1. Large shipments of books, etc., will not be received un­til
late in December.
2. By holding up all sales until January 1, students can
more nearly obtain their needed items on one trip to the book­stores.
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3. This will reduce losses of books and eliminate sales to
those who decide not to return to school in January after pre-registering.
Note: All students charging their books, etc., to Veterans
Administration or on requisitions must present their
schedule cards carrying their course numbers at the
bookstores before making such purchases.
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
College Supply Store
Burton's Bookstore
Crine Chosen To Head
AIEE For Winter Term
At their last meeting of the
current quarter the American In­stitute
of Electrical Engineers
elected Henry Crine, senior from
Dothan, as president for the win­ter
quarter. Shelby Bostick, New-ville,
was chosen as vice-presi­dent;
and Don Seibert, Atlanta,
Ga., secretary-treasurer.
Director of Engineering Exten­sion
Service, Alexander O. Taylor
spoke oniFthe development of the
extension service and of its works
and achievements. He also ex­pressed
the opinion that the engi­neer
should publically express
himself more freely in regard to
his work.
LOST: In Student Center,
field jacket and glasses. Finder
please return and exchange for
own field jacket. Return to Mrs.
Jolly in Student Center.
RICE and OLD SHOES
Coleman-Pearce
At 5 p. m., Dec. 28, First Pres­byterian
Church, Decatur, Sara
Lee Coleman will become the
bride of Henon Wiley Pearce of
Decatur. Mr. Pearce is a gradu­ate
of A.P.I. His fraternity is Phi
Delta Theta. He served as captain
with the corps of engineers in the
Pacific theatre. He is now em­ployed
in West Point, Ga.
* * *
David-Roddenberry
Miss Gladys Davis became the
bride of Lt. H. Roddenberry, Jr.,
Nov. 3, at a home ceremony. Lt.
Roddenberry attended A.P.I. He
graduated from the USMA, June
1945.
* * *
Clark-Groover
The engagement of Linda Lou
Clark to Herbert Davis Groover
was announced last week. Mr.
Groover attended A.P.I., where he
was affiliated with the S.A.E.
Fraternity. He is now connected
with the Columbus Interstate In­surance
Co., Ga.
* * *
Thornton - Sea well
The marriage of Miss Katherine
Hails Thornton to Henry Ravesies
Seawell, Jr., took place Friday
evening at St. John's Church,
Montgomery. A reception at the
Governor's mansion followed at
6:30.
Mr. Seawell is a graduate of
A.P.I. He was affiliated with Phi
Delta Theta, Spades, Blue Key,
Scabbard and Blade, Phi Kappa
Phi, and listed in Who's Who. He
served in ETO as Lieutenant with
the 35th Artillery.
* * *
Langsion-Cook
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Thomas
Langston, Savannah, Ga., an­nounce
the approaching marriage
of their daughter, Mary Camille,
to William Collom Cook, Jr., Bir­mingham.
The ceremony will take
place during the Christmas holi­days.
Miss Langston is a junior in
pharmacy at API, a member of
Oracles her freshman year and
a member of the American Phar­maceutical
Association. Mr. Cook
is a junior in veterinary medicine
and is head cheerleader.
* * *
Hinkle-Kirby
Miss Virginia Ruth Hinkle,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben­jamin
Louis Hinkle, Birmingham,
became the bride of Dr. Robert
Amos Kirby on Friday, November
1, at the Woodlawn Baptist
Church, Birmingham.
* * *
Stephenson-Johnson
The marriage of Mrs. Eula Hall
Stephenson to Wylie Pierson
Johnson took place, Nov. 9, in
the Dalradia Baptist Church. The
groom is an A.P.I, graduate. He
is a member of Lambda Chi Al­pha.
During the war years he
served as lieutenant in the U. S.
L
the clerk issued him two bottles
of castor oil.
Seriously, it is the purpose of
The Veterans Journal to unite
the veterans of API and to help
arrive at a common solution for
all problems concerning veterans.
It will publish all acts of con­gress
which affect veterans, and
all other local and national vet­eran
news. If you are a veteran
and would like to write for The
Veterans Journal, please get in
touch with Jim Watson at 331
Armstrong Street, by phoning
278-J.
Navy. He is now connected with
the engineering department of
the Alabama Power Company.
* * *
Hewman-Howell
Miss Rachel Estelle Newman
was married Nov. 13 in the First
Baptist Church. Opelika, to Nor­man
Wesley Howell of Jersey
City, N. J. Miss Newman gradu­ated
from A.P.I. The newly-weds
will reside at 58 Bentley avenue,
Jersey City.
* * *
Merrill-Nelson
The marriage of Miss Helen
Ruth Merrill to Harry Nelson took
place at the late afternoon cere­mony
in the Methodist Church,
Dozier. After a wedding trip the
young couple will reside in Au­burn
where Mr. Nelson is a stu­dent.
* * *
Browne-Persons
The wedding of Daisy Marie
Browne and Paul Turner Per­sons
will take place at the First
Baptist Church, Opelika, Decem­ber
27. Miss Browne is a junior
at A.P.I. Mr. Persons is a junior
in M. E., member of Pi Kappa Phi,
and recently discharged from
U.S.A.A.C., after three years of
service.
ASCE Members Hear
Lecture by Jim Seay
Speaking before a regular
meeting of the local chapter of
the American Society of Civil
Engineers last week Jim Seay,
senior from Montgomery, pre­sented
a detailed description on
the underpinning of the Wash­ington
Monument.
In this meeting, the last of the
current quarter, officers for the
coming quarter were elected.
They are president, Ed Gunter,
Montgomery; vice president, M.
A. Barnes, Jr., Auburn; secre­tary,
Howard Nunez, Natchez,
Miss.; and treasurer, Bill Tackett,
Mobile.
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T H E P L A I N S M AN WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1946
WSSF Plans Tenth
Relief Drive
"Since wars begin in the minds
of men, it is in the minds of men
that the defenses of peace must
be constructed." (First sentence in
the constitution of UNESCO —
The United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organiza­tion).
In this spirit, World Student
Service Fund announces plans for
the tenth year of its operation on
behalf of American students in
their activities for relief and re­construction
among students in
war devastated countries.
Auburn's drive will be held
next quarter.
According to word received by
Martha Hay, co-chairman of the
Auburn chapter, from WSSF
headquarters, an authoritative re­port
of student conditions in Eu­rope
and Asia is now available
from the international conference
of student representatives of
World Student Relief held in
London on Aug. 2-4, 1946.
Remarkably rapid recovery is
reported from Holland, Denmark,
Belgium, France and Czechoslo­vakia.
These countries have now
become contributors to, rather
than receivers from, World Stu­dent
Relief funds.
Appealing need for food, cloth­ing,
medicine and supplies is re­ported
from Poland, Hungary,
Greece, Austria, Yugoslavia and
Germany. The most distressing
need in Europe is now in these
countries and here the relief work
of the Fund will place major em­phasis
for the coming months.
Aid will be continued also to
Italy, Czechoslovakia and to the
international projects.
In China the second great mi­gration
of students is still in pro­gress.
90,000 students are moving
back from the war-time^centers of
study in the interior to the uni­versity
campuses on the coast
which had to be abandoned with
the invasion. The hardships of
travel are immense and the task
of rebuilding shattered campuses
is enormous. WSSF offers help
and encouragement through relief
operations at rail and road cen­ters
where supplemental food,
lodging, medical aid and other
necessities are supplied. Ten -new
relief centers are being establish­ed
in cities where the aggrega­tion
of students is greatest.
The actual need for the prose­cution
of this work in Europe and
Asia is estimated at $5,000,000. A
realistic appraisal of possibilities
for income points -to a minimum
world budget of $2,000,000, half of
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MEN MAY APPLY
FOR ADVANCED ROTC
The military department an­nounced
recently that applica
tions are now open for advanced
ROTC in the field artillery, engi­neers,
and air corps. The appli
cant, if he is a veteran, must have
at least six quarters in school,
after the present quarter, or if
not a veteran must have com
pleted the basic ROTC course.
Students t a k i n g advanced
ROTC receive a ration allowance
of 20 dollars per month while in
school in addition to a complete
Army officer's type uniform. Be
fore receiving a reserve commis
sion each student must complete
the advanced ROTC course and
summer camp. The student will
receive five cents a mile travel
pay to the summer camp, and ra­tions,
quarters, and 75 dollars
while in camp.
Any student interested in ad
vanced ROTC should contact Ma
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Col. Francis J. Loomis, en
gineers, or Col. James C. Stewart,
air corps, in room five, Electrical
Engineering Laboratory.
DEAN J. E. HANNUM
IS BANQUET SPEAKER
AT VANDERBILT
Dean J. E. Hannum of the
School of Engineering was guest
speaker at the first banquet fol­lowing
the installation ceremonies
of a new chapter of Tau Beta Pi
at Vanderbilt University Friday
night. The Tau Beta Pi Associa­tion
is the national honorary en­gineering
fraternity with under­graduate
chapters in the majority
of engineering colleges in the
United States, founded in 1885.
Dean Hannum was elected a
member of the Pennsylvania Beta
Chapter of Tau Beta Pi Associa­tion
in 1914 when he was a
senior engineering student at The
Pennsylvania State College.
The title of his address was
"Our Rich Heritage". He indi
cated the richness of the heritage
of the engineering profession by
tracing engineering developments
from remote primitive origins,
through the early civilizations of
antiquity, the Dark Ages, the
Renaissance, the Industrial Revo
lution, to the emergence of a pro
fessional consciousness in the
nineteenth century, and to full
professional recognition in the
present century.
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over the previous year. To reach
the budgetted need this year, we
must more than double' last year's
achievement. It can be done with
the continued full cooperation of
the university community.
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HOLDS GATHERING
Chairs grew scarce at West­minster
House last Sunday night
as one of the largest crowds of
this quarter gathered for fellow­ship
and vespers at the regular
Sunday night hour.
Encouraged by the after-dinner
effect upon Marty Hay's and Burt
Vardeman's "chef" concoctions,
everyone settled down to the in­evitable
"snow jobs" except the
dish washers. These victims of
circumstance battled gaily away
in the kitchen until quieted down
so that others could enter un­interrupted
into the more serious
and inspiraional part of West­minster
Fellowship, the vespers.
The song service set the mood
for worship. A very inspiring de­votion
was lead by Sara Good-son,
after which Faye Barnes in­troduced
a discussion on "Our
Part as Christians in the World
Today.". Tom Parkinson and Jesse
Mitchell gave background ma­terial
on religious organizations
in which students could partici­pate.
From this point Bill Wood­son
lead the discussion.
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Two Rank Superior
In Alabama Debate
The Auburn Debate Council re­cently
returned from a statewide
discussion of the national debate
question. The subject concerned
was, "Resolved: That labor should
be given a direct share in the
management of industry."
Members of the Debate Coun­cil
attending the debate at Uni­versity,
Alabama, were Fred
Donaldson, Harrison Campbell,
Lenny P a y n e , Dan Meador,
Jeanne Ingram, Hazel Edwards.
Max Howard, Sherman L. Pros-ser,
and Prof. E. D. Hess.
Studying each of the six panels
in the discussion, which in­volved
(1) definitions, (2) prob­lem
steps, and (3) a summary,
were critics who rated the de­baters
superior, excellent, good,
average, and below average, in
that order.
Two Auburn boys received su­perior,
Sherman L. Prosser and
Harrison Campbell. R i c h a rd
Smith of the University ranked
highest.
Four colleges competed in the
debate. Spring Hill appointed
four representatives, the Univer­sity
13, Alabama College 5, and
API 8.
Inter-Faith Council
Sponsors Discussion
"Education for What?" was the
topic discussed at the first of the
new series of student-faculty dis­cussions
sponsored by the Inter-
Faith Council. Howard. Nunez and
Martha Nichols were in charge of
the program. The group met at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
B. Draughon.
Those present were, Joelle
Rush, Mary Moling Kirkman,
Jackie Robinson, Madelyn Dees,
Melba Mitchell, Martha Hay,
Burt Vardeman, Stanley Jones,
Mary Lee, Pat Kirkwood, Blanche
Carlton, Ashland D. Shaw, Helen
Brown, Jimmy Hatch, David
Mathews, R. L. Bentell, Irene
Long, M. A. Mauldin;, D. L. Mar­tin,
Howard Nunez, Ada Wright,
Dr. Russell S. Poor, and Dr. Rus­sell
Stevens.
J r . J.' E. Hannum, dean of
the S c h o o l of Engineering,
spoke on "Our Rich Heritage"
at installation ceremonies of a
new chapter of Tau Beta Pi
last week at Vanderbilt Uni­versity.
V
API Is Represented
At Inauguration
State College, Miss., Nov. 27—
Thomas N. Jones represented
Alabama Polytechnic Institute at
the formal inauguration cere­monies
of Dr. Fred T. Mitchell
as president of Mississippi State
College on Nov. 16.
FACULTY MEMBERS
ATTEND MEETS
Four members of Auburn's
Agricultural Education staff at­tended
the annual meeting of
American Vocational Association
in St. Louis Dec. 3-6.
Delegates were S. L. Chesnutc,
R. W. Montgomery, L. L. Sellers,
and T. L. Faulkner.
Auburn's Director of Instruc­tion
R. B. Draughon and Dean
of Graduate School Russell S.
Poor are representing API at the
51st annual meeting of the South­ern
Association of Colleges and
Secondary Schools in Memphis,
Tenn., this week.
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1946 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Seven
Out of the Mist of Auburn's Plain
Steps a Legendary Character, Mr. X
By L u t h e r Smith
T h e r e is a man at Auburn who, many claim, haunt their
dreams. He is a fly-by-night, and editor-in-chief of the Au­b
u r n grapevine. He is the mysterious Mr. X. It is next to
t h e impossible to follow this s t r e a k of larded lightning, for he
is always everywhere at once and never neither here nor
there.
Usually, if one is very observant and owns the eyes of
an owl, one may locate him half
way between here and there—
usually at the Windmill, a tavern
of the town. In fact, the Wind­mill
has been his obsession since
1937. Then, in a fit of vexation,
gnd having become overly in­ebriated,
this mysterious one
huffed and puffed and actuary
with the might of his huffing and
puffing, turned the windmill.
That is the only time an earthly
being has caused the windmill to
revolve without the help of an
astral one.
Since then, Jack Mosely has
been proudly exhibiting his windy
potentialities. Exponent of the
double dip at Toomer's Auburn
Drug S t o r e every week-day
morning, Jack began his tumul­tous
experiences by jumping off
the Dixie Sherman Hotel roof
garden at Panama City, Fla. If a
Trailway bus had not been for­tunately
passing by, and if Jack
had not landed on its top, he
might have carved a hole two-feet
deep in the concrete paving.
That the roof garden incident
was the changing point of Jack's
life has never been questioned.
When a man jumped off the dock
onto the back of a shark in the
Gulf of Mexico, bystanders said,
'That's "Spider" Mosely. The time
a gentleman called Dr. Duncan at
3:30 one morning and asked him
to go hunting . . . well .needless
to say, Dr. Duncan is still hunt­ing—
for "Spider" Mosely.
In Chicago, they're still talking
about that man who walked into
the Black Hawk Hotel and check­ed
not his hat, not his coat, but
his shoes. "Spider" Mosely, none
other. And in Columbus, Ga.,
they're still gaping at the fallen
tree in a lady's front yard, a tree
which Frankie (Fireball) Sink-wich
and . . . "Spider" Mosely
emotionally blocked after the Au­burn-
Georgia game of '42.
Whenever a friend gets mar­ried,
"Spider" is invited, for he
always adds spice to the spirit of
such an affair. But Jack states
unequivocally he will forever re­main
a bachelor; certain girls are
out to sabotage him, it is be­lieved.
"Spider" played guard on the
Union Springs High football team
in the late 1930s. Some time after
receiving his sheekskin, he was
lifted into the Army Air Forces,
wherein he served as a ground
crewman and as a Staff Sergeant.
Having been wounded at Dan­zig,
"Spider" is attending API
under Public Law 16. He is a
member of Disabled American
Veterans, the VFW, and a capable
jerk—soda, that is—at Toomer's.
To top it all, John L. Lewis got
a telephone call from Alabama in
the midst of his recent court
fiasco.
"Hello," J. L. said, "What do
you — all think of me down
there?"
The blasphemies coming from
the Alabama end do not bear re­peating.
Folks say it was "Spider"
Mosely.
And another tale is attached to
this legend.
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M A N N I N G STUDIO
Dr. Allison Speaks
A-Bomb Principle
An audience of approximately
70 people, including members of
the American Society of Mechan­ical
Engineers, other societies,
and faculty members heard Dr.
Fred Allison, head of physics de­partment,
speak on atomic theory
at Ramsay last Monday night.
Highlights of Dr. Allison's in­teresting
discussion were neu-clear
physics discoveries leading
to the discovery of the A-bomb
•principle, Einstein's theoretical
equation for the conversion of
matter to energy, the chair reac­tion
as applied to the energy re­lease
in the explosion of an A-bomb,
cost of A-bomb project, and
the application of the A-bomb
principles to industry and every­day
life.
Examples were given by Dr.
Allison as he explained atomic
structures and their breakdowns.
In closing he expressed the
urgent need of educating the
people of the United States and
the world on the appalling im­plications
of the menace to civili­zation.
CATCH ALL
The art instructor p a s s ed
among her students, and made
many corrections and demonstra­tions—
especially demonstrations
—on gesture drawing. After a
while she revisited a student
whom she . h a d . corrected. "That
drawing isn't what I want—you
don't seem to have the right
idea", she said.
"You did it", smiled the stu­dent.
* * #
Bull's Eye:
Patient: "I seem to have a cold.
I've already seen the druggist
about it."
Doctor: "And what idiotic ad­vice
did he give you?"
Patient: "He told me to see
you."
Smiles
(Continued from page 4)
No. Nine, Clementine:
Corporal: (to r a w recruit)
"Mark time, there, you!"
Recruit Midgit: (whose shoes
are too big) "Please, sir, I am,
sir, inside me boots!"
* * *
West Pointer: "A wedding bell
is a tourniquet . . . it stops your
circulation."
* * •
Retreat:
2nd Looie (roaring in rage):
"Who told you to put those flow­ers
on the table?"
Sergeant: "The Colonel, sir."
2nd Looie (modestly): "Pretty,
aren't they?"
* * *
Charles Dickens: "I have known
a vast amount of nonsense talked
about bad men not looking one in
the face. Don't trust that idea too
far. Dishonesty will stare honesty
out of countenance any day in
the week if there is anything to
be gotten by it."
* * *
Presence of mind:
Two men in a car slid past the
red traffic light. "Halt," cried the
cop. Thinking quickly the driver
of the car said: "I'm sorry offi­cer;
I happen to be a doctor and
I'm taking this patient to the
asylum in a hurry." The police­man's
face was wreathed in sus­picion.
Then the man beside the
driver leaned out the window to­ward
the irate cop and said, "Kiss
me, darling!" They got away
with it.
* * *
What?
"Who can recall any form of
Man who is not superfluous some­times?"
LOST—Sheaffer pencil with
gold lop and brown striped bot­tom—
Part of a set—Reward is
offered. Contact Kerby at 671-J.
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FOR SALE: 1942 model Har-ley-
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John J. Trippe, Opelika Dormi­tories.
Phone 9100.
FOR SALE: Doberman Pin-scher
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Best of bloodlines. Registered
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Survey Is Conducted On Kinds of Jobs
Which Disabled Veterans May Hold
The Alabama State Department of Veteran's Affairs is
conducting a survey of t h e i n d u s t r i e s in t h e s t a t e to determine
what jobs veterans with disabilities can hold down. The let­t
e r from C. C. Horton, department director, sent to all in­dustries
and manufacturing plants in the state said in part:
"If it w e r e possible for the people of America to owe more
to one group t h a n to any other I am sure that we would all
agree that the group would be
might have. There is no charge
connected with this service. The
County Commissioner for .Lee
County is W. V. Lord, who has
his office over the Home Furni­ture
Company, 814V2 Avenue A,
Opelika.
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those men who were disabled in
the service of their country.
These men draw a small pension
from the government but the
amount is not sufficient to pro­vide
living expenses. We are in­terested
in making them self-supporting
citizens who will use
their pensions only as an emerg­ency
fund.
"This office has learned that
no agency has ever made a sur­vey
of industry to learn exactly
what jobs a man with a particu­lar
disability could hold down.
Accordingly, I am asking you to
go through the jobs in your plant
and ask yourself 'What job could
be held by a man who has no
left arm? What job could be held
by a man who has lost one leg?'
and so on through the complete
list of disabilities.
"I realize that I am asking you
to do a big job but I think that
we will all be repaid if we can
find useful jobs for these men
to do—and they will do them
well, I know."
County Service Commissioners
of the State Department are lo­cated
in the county seat of each
county and are glad to assist all
veterans in any problems they
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JET DESIGNER
The Story of
ALAN HOWARD
PURDUE '27
IN CHARGE of a group of G-E gas-tur­bine
engineers and technicians, Alan
Howard has directed the design and develop­ment
of two General Electric engines t h a t are
today powering some of our fastest planes.
One, the' Propjet, is the first propeller-drive
gas turbine in the world. Alan's
second design, the T-G 180, is a pure jet
engine, a departure from earlier jets in that
it is designed on "axial-flow" principles
which make possible a super-streamlined
shape.
Gas-turbine engineering is, of course, a
highly specialized field. Alan, however, is
thankful today not so much for any special
knowledge he learned in college, but for the
solid understanding of engineering funda­mentals
which he gained as he worked for
his B.S. degree at Purdue.
When, in 1941, Alan Howard undertook
the design of the Propjet and the axial-flow
engines, this sound training in engineering
principles, followed by his years of practical
experience with G.E., fitted him well for
success.
Next to schools and the U. S. Government, General Elec­tric
employs more college engineering graduates than
any other organization.
After graduating in electrical engineering at
Purdue, Alan came on "Test" with G.E.
Today he designs engines like the Propjet,
which provides both propeller-drive, jet thrust.
It may power tomorrow's giant airliners.
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Page Eight T H E P L A I N S M AN WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1946-
rom the PI ains
By Richard Bjurberg
Lee Morrow, center., invades a men's field to help rebuild the L-2 Taylor craft, while Dick Felix,
left, lends a helping hand. Professor M. J. Poriner looks on. (Photo by Lewis Arnold.)
New Swimming Group, Dolphin Club
Plans To Give Wafer Ballet, Show
Paging Billy Rose!
One of Auburn's newest organizations, the Dolphin Club,
will soon be letting the public watch their routines to the tune
of "Three O'Clock in the Morning," "Let Me Call You Sweet­heart,"
"Memories," "The Waltz You Saved for Me," "That
Naughty Waltz," "Till We Meet Again," "Blue Danube
Waltz" and "Turkey in the Straw."
The girls meet at 6:45 every
Monday night for stunts, forma­tions,
and ballets — everything
from beginner's routines to sea
mythology.
Miss Harriete Donahoo, assist­ant
professor of women's physi­cal
education, is instructor of the
Dolphins, a voluntary group
limited to a small group at pres­ent.
Members are Jackie Davis,
junior in education; Janet Blake,
senior in chemistry; Emily Grace,
junior in education; Mary Frances
Kilpatrick, junior in education;
Dorothy Mandragos, sophomore
in education; Ann Moreland,
junior in science and lit; Martee
McReynolds, junior in applied
arts; Sara Peters, senior in edu­cation;
Gene Rinnert, senior in
education; Anna Ruth White,
junior in education; and Joyce
Williams, junior in education.
Coeds wear a black swim suit
with a personalized dolphine on
the suit at the meetings. They
have formed a constitution and
standards for the club. Included
in their plans are exhibits by
visiting college swimming teams.
Synchronized swimming is a
WHERE EVERY GARMENT
IS A
"SPECIAL"
BILL HAM DRY CLEANERS
"For Auburn Always"
Presbyterian Students
Hear Mr. Wilds DuBose
Rev. Wilds DuBose, from Capi­tol
Heights Presbyterian Church,
Montgomery, spoke to the Pres­byterian
Students last Sunday
evening at the Westminster Fel­lowship
worship program.
Mr. DuBose, a young minister
recently graduated from Colum­bia
Seminary, brought a most
challenging a n d inspirational
message. The subject which he
gave such an enlightning talk on
was, "Being Real Christians and
Not Seemingly Real." The stu­dents
enjoyed the message so
much, especially as Mr. DuBose,
a young man himself, was able to
captivate the students' attention
with a sermon that was practical
and appropriate for young peo­ple.
Auburnites Attend
Birmingham Conference
Mary Moling Kirkman, direc­tor
of the Wesley Foundation;
Martha Nell Simpson, state presi­dent
of the Methodist Student
Movement; and Sue Carder, pres­ident-
elect of the Wesley Founda­tion,
attended a planning con­ference
in Birmingham last week­end.
Plans were made for the
state Methodist conference to be
held here Feb. 7-9.
new form of swimming requiring
endurance, not speed; versatility
in the ease of all strokes, not
specialization in one; a keen
sense of rhythm; the specific de­velopment
of the ability to adapt
ones' strokes to the average
strokes of the group.
FLY HOME C H R I S T M AS
A representative of Waterman Air Lines, Inc., will be at the
Pitts Hotel on Friday December 13 to make reservations and
give information concerning flights home for Christmas.
Frequent flights will be made possible from Montgomery to
Mobile, Birmingham, Huntsville, and Muscle Shoals.
On October 15, 1946, one of the
.nost ambitious world projects to­ward
peace got underway. It was
jn this date that the Students for
federal World Government open­ed
their drive for 10,000,000 signa­tures
to be attached to a petition
calling for a federal world gov­ernment.
"We the people of the earth,
this petition starts, "united across
national boundaries by our com­mon
desire for freedom, justice,
and a warless world—alarmed at
the imminent threat of global
war which menaces our families,
our homes, our jobs, our lives,
feel that the creation of a federal
government is an urgent necessi­ty.
"Therefore, we petition our re­spective
governments and the
General Assembly of the United
Nations to call-a World Constitu­tional
Convention without delay,
and arrange for the election of
delegates from all countries.
"If an effective call to a World
Constitutional Convention does
not come from national govern­ments
or the United Nations As­sembly
by the time 10,000,000
people have signed this petition,
then WE DO HEREBY AUTHO­RIZE
a committee of the signers
of this petition, to call immedi­ately
a World Constitutional Con­vention
of delegates from all
lands."
The Working Committee for
this tremendous project has its
headquarters at 626V2 Library
Place, Evanston, Illinois. It is this
committee which has explained
the purpose and reasons for this
petition.
"We are in peril because na­tional
governments still keep con­trol
over activities that affect the
whole world . . . Conditions to­day,
in our independent world,
show that national governments
alone can no longer protect life
or promote the welfare of their
citizens. Neither can the United
Nations, because it may only ad­vise
national governments which
aire left free to press their rival
interests by military force.
"For survival, control over
world affairs must be transferred
from national governments to a
federal world government, open
to all countries, a government
empowered by the people to
make and enforce world legisla­tion
for everyone's benefit."
With such an important pur­pose
to work toward, men like
E. Stanley Jones, foreign mission­ary,
Norman Cousins, executive
committee chairman of Ameri­cans
United for World Govern
ment, Rufus M. Jones, leader of
the Quaker Church and others
have greatly endorsed such a
project.
To help defray the expenses of
this great undertaking, the signa­tory
of the petition is asked to
contribute a "Penny for Peace".
Sudent groups throughout the
world are rallying to the support
of the Students for Federal World
Government. The ideals behind
such a movement as this are ex­cellent.
There are few people who
would not agree with the pur­pose
and petition of this great
movement. Few people would
doubt the possibility that this was
the solution toward world peace.
But there are many who would
disagree on the practicality of
such a petition and its chances of
success.
This writer firmly believes that
time is running out for world
peace and that the world must be­come
conscious of the impending
crisies. But are the nations of the
world ready to relinguish their
sovereignty for humanity? On the
answer of this question must rest
the success or failure of this
movement started by the Stu­dents
for Federal World Govern­ment.
VOYLES PRESENTED
WATCH AT A-DANCE
Five members of the A-Club
who are seniors presented an en­graved
watch to Coach Carl Voy-les
during intermission at their
dance Saturday night.
j Completely surprised, Coach
I Voyles said, "I would have ap-
; predated this from a champion­ship
team, but this is even more
wonderful."
Teedie Faulk, president, pre­sented
the watch on behalf of Jim
Pharr, Jack Cornelius, Jimmy
Rose, and McCoy Hewlett.
Mrs. Wallace Tidmore, college
chaperon, said this was the best
A-Club dance she has seen in the
five years she has been attending
them.
Wives' Plan Xmas Party
The Marion Spidle club wives
will entertain their husbands at
an informal Christmas party Fri­day
13 from eight to eleven at
Student Center. Entertainment
will consist of dancing, bridge,
and bingo for which prizes will
be given. Mrs. Margaret Howard,
Mrs. Sue Brown and Mrs. Alice
Cobleigh are on the party com­mittee.
Waterman Lines Plan
Flights for Holidays
Waterman Air Lines, Inc., is
making arrangements for flights
from Montgomery to Birming­ham,
Mobile, Huntsville, and
Muscle Shoals to serve the stu­dents
between quarters so that
more time can be had at home
to enjoy the holiday season".
IDEAL HOME SITE for sale,
walking distance of college, in
Saidla subdivision. 75 x 190
feet. Contact Roy Edwaids at
API Trailer Camp. Lot No. 30.
LOST: "Feeds and Feeding"
by Morrison, in Ross 103 about
4 weeks ago. William Plummer,
OTS, written in front. Finder
please call 324, OTS House. Re­ward.
SUE CARDER IS NEW
FOUNDATION PREXY
Sue Carder, junior in science
and lit from Tarrant, was elected
president of the Wesley Founda­tion
Sunday night. Other new of­ficers,
to serve with her for the
next two quarters, are Chuck
Yarborough, vice president; Joel-le
Rush, secretary; and John Ed
Butler, treasurer.
They will be installed next
Sunday night, with Ann Hughen,
retiring president, directing.
Get that clock repaired. See
Ed Gray, c/o Jockisch Jewelry.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS
HAPPY NEW YEAR
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CHILDREN'S SETS
THE NIGHT BEFORE XMAS—Fibber McGee & Molly
PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN—Ingred Bergman
THE KING WHO COULDN'T DANCE—Gene Kelly
PETER RABBIT and other tales—Frank Luther
GOLDILOCKS AND THREE BEARS—Margaret O'Brien
FORWARD MARCH—Goldman Band
WINNIE THE POOH—Craig McDonnell
LITTLE BLACK SAMBO—Paul Wing
ALBUMS FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY
THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER—Nelson Eddy & Rise Stevens
FAVORITE RHUMBA—Xavier Cugat
COLE PORTER HITS—Allan Jones
THE RUBYAIT OF OMAR KHAYAN—Ralph Bellamy
MADAME BUTTERFLY excerpts—James Melton
RIMSKY KORSAKOW—SCHEHEREZADE
JEROME KERN FAVORITES
GETTIN'. SENTIMENTAL—Tommy Dorsey
LOFTIN MUSIC STORE
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1946 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Nine
Auburn Captures Cros's-Co'untry Meet
Whitey Overton Breaks 1923 Record
With 14:52.9 in Slagtown Road Race
A driving sprint at the finish line gave Whitey Overton
a well earned victory in the Optimist Club-sponsored three
mile road race at Birmingham Saturday morning. The time
was a new rocord of 14:52.9. Jim Davis, Duke,-came in two
strides behind Overton and Fred Carley, Auburn, came in
third.
Auburn walked off with the team championship by total­ing
25 points. Georgia Tech came in second with 51 and
Emory was third with 97 points. Low score is counted in the
cross country races.
The victory was Overton's,
fourth this year and the third
time he has broken" a record. In
his first race as a collegian he
toppled the SEC .cross country
mark, then broke that mark at a
recent meet in Atlanta. Saturday
he established a new record, beat­ing
one that had stood for 23
years.
In the race Saturday, Overton
and Davis broke fast and got a
lead on the field with Fred Car-ley
running third, but after
three blocks Tommy Lowe, 1945
winner took the lead but on the
third trip Lowe relinguished the
lead to Overton. '
Davis took the lead as trie
racers rounded Capitol Park and
held it until they entered the
home stretch. For the final 225
yards Davis and Overton raced
neck and neck, but Overton came
through with a driving sprint to
win by two steps.
ARA HEARS BROOKS,
ARRANGE FLIGHT
TRAINING PROGRAM
The Auburn chapter of ARA
held its last meeting of the quar­ter
last Monday night. Guest
speaker was Maj. Brooks, CO. of
the training detachment at Gun-ter
Field, who stressed certain
points that had been brought be­fore
the national convention,; re­cently
held in Memphis, Tenn.
Arrangements were made for
transportation to and fromGun-ter
Field for the purpose of flight
training. Anyone on reserve stat­us
who wishes to keep up his
flying efficiency may contact
Gordon T. Blair at 259-R. Blair,
vice president and air' operations
officer of the local ARA chapter
may also be reached at 851.
G I VE
AZALEAS — CAMELLIAS
FOR CHRISTMAS
We Have a Large Assortment
Priced $1.25 Up
Consumers Coal & Feed Co.
N. College & RR.
Nine members of the Dolphin Club, snapped in formation by
Photographer Lewis Arnold, are getting in shape for a water
show to be presented soon. Story on page eight.
Tiger Basketeers Face Ole Miss
In Conference Curtain-Raiser
i •
Auburn's second opponent of the current basketball sea­son
will be the powerful University of Mississippi team and
unexpected help will have to come.from a'large group of
new-comers if Auburn's basketball team, coached by V J Ed-ney*
cpmes up with a large number of victories this season.
From last season's squad that broke even in playing a
tough schedule, Coach Edney has only five lettermen back.1
bright spots in the picture are forwards Quinton Burgess,
one of the leading scorers in the Southeastern Conference last
season, and Jack Powell. Center Ray Williams and Guards
Dick O'Cain and Ted Krzmenski are the other lettermen back
but they are expected to face strong competition in their at­tempt
to retain their starting position.
Also on hand are two Tigers
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who lettered before entering the
service, Center Frank Williams
and Guard Herbert Burton. Wil­liams,
if he shows his pre-war
class, will be one of Auburn's
thinclad aces.
Several football players have
turned out for basketball and they
are expected to furnish added
strength to the Tiger team.
At the present ^time Auburn is
scheduled to meet only one South­eastern
Conference foe more than
one time. The Tigers will tangle
with Florida at 'Gainesville Jan.
17 and 18 for a two games series
and will play in Auburn on Feb.
7 and 8 for the return series.
API Student Witnesses
Atlanta's Winecoff Fire
By Bob Crowder
In the early dawn of Dec." 7—
Pearl Harbor Day:—the Winecoff
Hotel in downtown Atlanta was
turned into a blazing inferno 'with
a loss of life of over 120 persons
with many more hospitalized.
I saw two women leap to their
death on the sidewalks below
through sheer panic, the suffo­cating
smoke and lunging flames
at their backs. Cries of panic and
screams of agony pierced the
chill darkness from the funeral
pyre, while in contrast some
stood motionless at their win­dows,
either crazed into silence
or calmy, vainly hoping their res­cue
would come any minute.
Gallons upon gallons of water
poured into the human-fed fur­nace,
but the fire raged on with
a consuming stubbornness. Al­though
there were many deeds of
heroism and bravery, the majori­ty
of occupants were helplessly
trapped, by flames and smoke in
their, own rooms, or corridors of
the 15-story structure.
It was a horrible, sickening
spectacle, with little that could
be done from the ground level.
From many windows there were
ropes hanging, fashioned from
bedclothes in a not-too-success­ful
escape idea. There were no
fire escapes and no way to come
down the building wall.
A very large percentage of the
dead and occupants as a whole
were young, some very young. A
modern city with its "safety"
codes is not to be commended on
allowing such- hazards to life from
being installed.
A grim reminder—it can al­ways
happen here!
Anyone wanting to share ex­penses
for ride to Washington,
D. C. on Dec. 19, call Doug
Hayes at 546-W.
Auburn Football Statistical Chart For 1946
NAME
Tidwell, hb
Cochran, fb
Inman, fb
Wilson, hb
Brause, fb
Ball, hb
Kovacic, hb
Hewlett, hb
Shiver, hb
Bryant, fb
Gafford, hb
Lucia, hb
Resser, fb
Christian, hb
Herring, qb
Gendusa, qb
McDaniel, qb
Pelfrey, hb
Vason, fb
RUSHING:
Times Gained
181 772
76
59
38
25
14
13
10
10
335
216
57
73
48
29
19
14
38
81
15
20
1
3
4
4
0
—5
Name
Tidwell, hb
Ball, hb
Shiver, hb
Hewlett, hb
Wilson, hb
Lucia, hb
Inman, fb
PASSING:
No. Comp. Gained
158
10
8
7
2
79
5
4
3
1
SCORING
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Tidwell, hb
Brause, fb
Cochran, fb
McClurkin, e
McDaniel, qb
Faulk, e
Wilson, hb
Ball, hb
Christian, hb
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Smalley, g
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41
42
24
47
0
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Points
48
18
13
12
11
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6
6
6
5
1
FIRST DOWNS
AUBURN .......137
OPPONENTS -.111
SCORE, BY QUARTERS
1 2 3 4
AUBURN 7 53 33 39
OPPONENTS .... 54 47 44 65
PUNTING AVERAGES
Name
Tidwell, hb
Ball, hb
Shiver, hb
Vason, hb
Wilson, hb
Gafford, hb
Times
45
12
9
8
6
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Caught
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17,.
8
6
5
5
5
4
4
3
3
2
3
2
1
1
1
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1
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Gained
Faulk, e
McClurkin, e
Williams, e
Waddail, e
Russell, e
Wilson, hb
Cochran, fb
McDaniel, qb
Kovacic, hb
Tidwell, hb
Hewlett, hb
Herring, qb
Fletcher, e
Gendusa, qb
Trapani, e
Sisco, e
Pyburn, qb
Ball, hb
Lucia, hb
Christian, hb
Inman, fb
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144
167
115
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Page Ten T H E P L A I N S M AN WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11,-1946
Degrees Awarded
(Continued from page 1)
tion—Wyatt Thomas Burkett, Jr.,
Dothan; Rema Strickland Carnes
Auburn; Arthur Hampton Coker
Jr., Tallassee; Harold Burke Du-puy,
Birmingham; Ralph Lamar
Frazier, Langdale; C l a r e n ce
Thomas Harkins, Gadsden; Mary
Evelyn Howard, Birmingham; Ca­rol
Anne McCool, Fayette; Doro­thy
Jo Smith, Sylacauga; and
Willie Frank Taunton, Tallassee.
Bachelor of Science in Agri­cultural
Education—William Mc-
Cullough Fenn, Jr., Clayton;
Cordice O'Mary, Eldridge; Arthur
Prince, Somerville; and Jeremiah
Roden, Jr., Pisgah.
Bachelor of Science in Home
Economics Education — Evelyn
Decker, Crossville; " Lillie Mae
Glasscock, Hartselle; Betty Sue
Griffin, Florence; Lois Justine
Meadows, Tallassee; Annie Tate
Walker, Florence; and Louie
Verle Warren, Alexander City.
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
Bachelor of Aeronautical Ad­ministration—
Nylen Wilber Ed­wards,
Warrensburg; Fred Frank­lin
Fulton, Birmingham; Forrest
York Lamb, Fairfax; Dean Sessa-men,
Birmingham; Conrad Phil­lip
Summerlin, Luverne; and
Robert Edward Varner, Tuske-gee.
Bachelor of Aeronautical En-
ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
Auburn, Alabama
5 December 1946
MEMORANDUM TO STUDENTS CONCERNED:
The college has delayed advancing the price of room and board
as long as it can and has done everything to hold the cost within
the amount now being collected. Now, due to the continued ad­vance
in food costs and operating costs, we find it necessary to in
crease the present payments by $19.50 per quarter, or approximately
$6.50 per month. We regret that this is necessary and assure you
that as soon as costs are reduced charges to you will be lowered
accordingly. The new rates will be effective with the beginning of
the Winter Quarter and are as follows:
ROOM AND BOARD RATES
Present New
FOR MEN STUDENTS Rate Increase Rate
Deck Houses $ 94.50 $ 19.50 $114.00
Graves Cottages, Drake House and
FPHA Dormitories 100.50 19.50 120.00
Opelika Dormitories 91-50 19.50 111.00
FOR WOMEN STUDENTS
All Women's Dormitories 105.00 19.50 124.50
ALL STUDENTS RESERVING ROOMS IN THESE FACILITIES
WILL BE EXPECTED TO OBTAIN MEALS IN COLLEGE DINING
HALLS.
PAYMENTS FOR WINTER AND SPRING QUARTERS
Residence Jan.
45.60
Feb.
45.60
48.00
44.40
49.80
Mar.
1-20
22.80
24.00
22.20
24.90
Mar.
24-31
22.80
24.00
—
24.90
Apr.
May 1-
45.60
48.00
.—
49.80
June 6
45.60
48.00
—
49.80
Deck Houses
Graves Center, Drake
House & FPHA Dorms. 48.00
Opelika Dormitory 44.40
Women's Dormitories 49.80
Students who plan to continue from Winter Quarter to Spring
Quarter may make one regular payment covering both periods fall­ing
in March 1947.
The above schedule of payments seems to be more practical in­asmuch
as the payments are distributed over a period of five months.
Sincerely Yours.
L. N. DUNCAN, President
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Whenever a Church steeple rises to pierce the blue
skies of daylight, and commune with the stars of
night—there is peace. And as we enter our Church
this Christmastide, the full spirit—meanding—and
essence of the word shall enter our beings and in­spire
each of us to fulfill our own small roles in
achieving for all time Peace On Earth: Good Will
to Men.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
TO ALL
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gineering—Monroe Floyd, Webb;
Beverly Z. Henry, Jr., Birming­ham;
Robert Edward Jordan,
Birmingham; L e s t e r Jemison
Owens, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Rich­ard
Horace Parvin, Bradenton,
Fla.; and Emil Retz Hargett, Rus-sellville.
Bachelor of Electrical Engi­neering—
Billy Joe Dooley, Boak;
Nolan Wilson Hudson, Jasper;
Thomas Clarence Pridmore, Birm­ingham;
Grady Lawrence Smith,
Birmingham; and John Robert
Thompson, Opelika.
Bachelor of Industrial Engi­neering—
Arthur Chester Smith,
Birmingham.
Bachelor, of Industrial Manage­ment—
Thomas Jefferson Bailey
Jr., Gadsden.
Bachelor of Mechanical Engi­neering—
Zacarias Elias Bendeck,
Honduras, C. A.; Henry Gray
Carter, Jr., Savannah, Ga.; Eliza­beth
Juliet Clinkscales, Mont­gomery;
Joe Lee Davis, Jr., Jack­sonville,
Fla.; Albert William
Gowans Ervine, Tallahassee, Fla.;
Walter Jethro Everitt, Birming­ham;
Ralph Angus French, Sam­son;
Albert Lowery Gaines, Birm­ingham;
William Gregory Her­ring,
Montgomery; Robert Em-mett
Russell, Birmingham; Her­bert'
George Schiff, ^r,,,^. Mobile:
Victor Scott? Siluria; and Ralph
Milton West, Birmingham.
Bachelor of Textile Chemistry
—Piper McKnight Osborne, La-nett.
Bachelor of Textile Engineer­ing
— John Foster Blue, Opp;
Frank Scarborough Monk, Jr.,
Columbus, Ga.; and Kenneth
Harrison Thomas, Columbus, Ga.
SCHOOL OF HOME
ECONOMICS
Bachelor of Science in Home
Economics—Perry Nell Caraway,
Auburn; Mary Elizabeth Easter,
Athens; Lillian Nellodean Fields,
Hayneville; Ralphine Gunter, Au­burn;
Ella Mae Owens Jones,
Brewton; Phyllis Anne Kloeti,
Havana, Cuba; Martha Janette
Knight, Clio; Martha Irene Lee,
Geiger; Sandy Jean Loyd, Stev­enson;
Donna Marie Sims, Birm­ingham;
Mary Ellen Thomas,
Section; and Reita Joyce Thomas,
Milltown.
SCHOOL OF PHARMACY
Bachelor of Science in Phar­macy
— Winifred Wyleen Hill,
Daltori, Ga.; and Dan Earl Mur-phree,
Montgomery.
SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND
LITERATURE
Bachelor of Science — John
Clinton Arnold, Jr., Atlanta, Ga.;
Mary Juanita Arnold, Roanoke;
Russell Arnold, Auburn; Whit­field
Grayson Brooke, Auburn;
Ezra Winston Burton, Opelika;
Albert Sidney Byars, Jr., Moul-ton;
Eltrym Dorsett Davis, Mid-dletown,
Ohio; Otto Louis Evans,
Appomattox, Va.; Walter "'Scott
Farley, Opelika; James Aiken
Faucett, Gadsden; Juanita Marie
Fernandez, Wallace, La.; James
Lawrence Goyer, Jr., Florence;
Kathryn Ann Houston, Talladega;
Annie Ruth Hughen, Beatrice;
William Harry Isbell, Auburn;
Walter Pratt Kennon, Opelika;
Maree Adams Patrick, Scotts-boro;
Edward Eugene Perry
Hurtsboro; Mary Jim Pinckard,
Atlanta, Ga.; Robert Guy Rhodes,
Jr., Columbia; Atwood Bullock
Rush, Auburn; Margaret Alice
Shugart, Fort Payne; Margaret
Hunter Snead, Opelika; Harold
Curtis Stanfield, Fairfax; Walton
Lamar T h o m a s , Wellington;
Madge Tompkins, Thomasville;
and George Richard Turner, Jack­sonville,
Fla.
SCHOOL OF VETERINARY
MEDICINE
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
—John Burdine Crum, Bartow
Fla.; William Arthur Faulkner
Moreland, Ga.; Hewlett Moran
Hendricks, Woodland, Ga.; Louis
Cray ton McClain, Anderson, S. C;
Aubrey Glass Robinson, Crest-view,
Fla; James Roderick Smith,
Whiteville, N. C; William Lamar
Stabler, Snow Hill; and Agee Mil-lage
Wiggins, Brewton.
SCHOOL OF GRADUATE
STUDIES
Master of Science in Chemis­try—
Paul E. Shoffeitt, Newell;
B.S., API, 1937; Thesis "Semi-
Cicro Method for the Quantita­tive
Determination of DDT in the
Presence of Animal Tissue".
Master of Science in Chemical
Engineering—Arthur Edwin Har­vey,
Jr., Brewton; B.S., 1940.
Master of Science in Education
—Woodrow Wilson Breland, Hen-agar;
B. S., API, 1943; and Cal­vin
Leonard Johnson, Montgom­ery;
A.B.; Harding College, 1935.
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