1949-01-12 The Plainsman

              Vlcdri&mari TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT &
Vol. LXXV ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA WEDNESDAY, JAN. 12, 1949 Number "14"
Sonata Recital For Violin And Piano
To Be Presented By S. T. Jones And Wife
By Mac Farrier . .
Mr. S. Turner Jones, pianist, and Mrs. Lucile Rice Jones,
violinist, both members Of the Auburn faculty, will present
a recital of four sonatas for violin Monday at 8:15 p. m. in
Langdon Hall.
The sonata for Violin and piano is one of the most intimate
forms of chamber music. Using
the minimum of pertormers, both
of whom- are soloists, it possesses
an interdependence of parts which
is one of its most attractive quali­ties.
The two instruments share
equally the burden of the en­semble,
each also having its indi­vidual
ends to achieve.
Lacking the varied colprs. of
the orchestra and the brilliance
of the virtuoso splp,. the sonata, as
well as ay. chamber groups, pro­vides
the listener with rewards
which are rarely gained from oth­er
types of music.
Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann,
and Hindemith will be represent­ed
in the recital. The Mozart and
Beethoven s o n a t a s reflect the
buoyancy and joy felt by the com­posers
while; they were working
on their compositions.
The Schumann sonata was writ­ten
when the composer was strug­gling
under the shadow of a fast
approaching mental collapse. A
gloomy restlessness pervades the
first movement, while a feverish
intensity and drive are quite evi­dent
in the last movement. Hinde­mith
has in his sonata an excel­lent
example of the use of dis­sonant
harmony and counterpart,
two devices employed by modern
composers.
This is probable the first time
a violin and piano sonata has been
presented on this campus. It is
hoped that a large number of
people will take advantage of this
opportunity to hear Mr. and Mrs.
Jones in their unusual perform­ance.
Admission is free.'
Mrs. Jones received her B.A.
from the University of Southern
California and M. AfrOm-New^
York" 'University. "She Is ' a Silver*
Medallist of the Royal Academy
of Music in London, a scholarship
pupil of Louis Persinger, a student
of. Spencer Dyke of London and
Jacques Gordon of the Eastman
School of Music, Rochester.
Mr. Jones, who received his
B.S. and M.A. from New York
University, has also studied at the
Eastman School of Music, Roches­ter.
He is a student of Cecile
Staub Genhart, former concert
pianist now on the faculty at East­man.
Mr. Jones taught at the
State Teachers College, Indiana,
Pai, and Juniata College, Pa.
Seven Additions
Listed In Faculty
Classes for over 7,000 students
got underway last Wednesday with
the beginning of the winter quar­ter
at Auburn.
Registrar Charles W. Edwards
predicted that the quarter's en­rollment
will exceed 7,200 after
the books are closed for late re­gistrants
this week. While the
highest enrollment at the college
was recorded at 7,655 for the fall
quarter just ended, the enroll­ment
for the winter quarter al­ready
is well over that of the
6,955 who registered here for the
winter quarter, 1948.
Few changes have been made
in the faculty and administrative
staff, Rufus Nettles, personnel di­rector,
disclosed. He listed as new
additions Mrs. Aileen Lewis
Schaller, o% Roanoke, Va., as a
new instructor in economics.
Ben T. Lanham, Jr., of Edge­field,
S.C., has been appointed as­sociate
agricultural agronomist in
the school of agriculture. New as­sistant
professor of agronomy
and soils is Joseph T. Hood, na­tive
of Commerce, Ga., who comes
here from Purdue University,
where he just received an M.S.
degree.
An Emory Universitjr*ti*aduate,
Mathew S. Hazelrig, Jr., of De­catur,
Ga., has been appointed in­structor
in English. Dr. James
Frederick Ferry, of Morgantown,
W. Va., has accepted the appoint­ment
as associate professor of
botany and Sheldon DeBardele-beh,
Auburn alumnus and local
resident, has been named instruc­tor
in electrical engineering. Mel-vin
Luther Snow, Jr., also of Au­burn,
has accepted an instructor-ship
in industrial management,
and at the same time will' work
for his master's degree in the
same field. j *
Three Noted Speakers Have Been Invited
To Take Part In Religious Emphasis Week
Announcing t e n t a t i v e plans for Religious Emphasis Week
F e b r u a r y 13-18, Charles. W. Edwards, chairman of t h e faculty
committee on religious life at Auburn, today s t a t e d that three
noted speakers had been invited to speak here. Dr. William
J . Hutchins, Dr. H e n r y . M . Edmons, and Dr. Alton True-blood
are the three lay speakers
who will join with preachers in­vited
by local churches to bring
the series of lectures, discussions,
and sermons.
Dr. Hutchins, father of Robert
M. Hutchins, chancellor of the
University of Chicago, will come
here from the Danforth Founda­tion
of St. Louis.
Dr. Henry M. Edmonds, formeV
pastor of the Independent Pres­byterian
Church of Birmingham
and now personnel counselor at e
Birmingham department store,
has also accepted an invitation to
speak.
Dr. Alton Trueblood, professor
of philosophy at Earlham College
and former professor of philoso­phy
and dean of the chapel at
Stanford University, has been in­vited
as third speaker, but a re­ply
has not been received. True-blood
is author of a number of
important volumes, among them
"Logic of Belief," "The Predica-ment
of Modern Man," and a book
just released, "Common Ventures
of Life."
The Religious Emphasis week is
being sponsored by the faculty
committee on religious life, the
student committee on religious
activities, and churches of the
city. Students and townspeople
alike are being urged to attend as
many of the events of the week
as possible.
Baptist. Episcopal, Methodist,
and Presbyterian churches are
now arranging to bring outstand­ing
preachers to conduct even­ing
services at their respective
churches and talks onthe campus.
Announcement of all" preachers
invited is expected to be made in
the near future.
Tentative plans call for three
student convocations to be, held
in the Student Activities Build­ing
or Langdon Hall. In addition
both lay and clerical speakers
will probably address classes and
informal meetings.
Serving on the faculty commit­tee
are Charles W. Edwards,
chairman, Mrs. Mary G. Bickler,
J. S. Dendy, Gordon Fuller, Wal­ter
Gibbon,-Winifred A. Hill, Paul
Irvine,^ J. G. Kuderna, J. R.
Moore, and B. R. Showalter.
Members of the student com­mittee
are Herbert Kohn, chair­man,
C. W. Edwards, T. C. Clark,
Gillis Cammack, Anna Jean
Franklin, Rev. Hoyt A. Ayers,
Father P. J. Doran, Rev. T. F.
Cauthen, Rev. James Stirling,
Rev. J. H, Leith, Rev. Vernon
Boriack, Rabbi Eugene Blach-schleger,
Norwood Jones, Gene
Poe, Allen McDowell, Robert
Lawrence, James McHugh, Curtis
Hinson, Jean Haden, Ashland
Shaw, and Gordon Fuller.
Shaw's 'Candida'
Opens January 24
Robert Eberle, assistant profes­sor
of dramatic arts and director
of the forthcoming Auburn Play­ers
production of "Candida", an­nounced
that rehearsals are pro­gressing
nicely. The George Ber­nard
Shaw comedy will open in
Langdon Hall on Monday, Janu­ary
24. January 25 and 27 are the
other scheduled Auburn dates.
The cast of the play includes
Hazel Riley as Candida, E. B.
Miles as Morrell, Bill Manley as
Marshbanks, Dot Bost as Prossy,
Lenney Hart as Burgess, and Jim
Wynn as Lexy Mill.
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This is one of the plays that
the Players will take oh the
road. The following engagements
have been made:
January 30 at Ft. Benning,
February 1 in Dothan, February
8 in Camp Hill, February 18 in
Demopolis and February 11 in
Linden. Other possible dates may
be arranged.
TO GIVE RECITAL
Education School
Dean's List Given
Twenty-three upper classmen
in the School of Education at the
Alabama Polytecnic Institute have
been named to the dean's list for
t h e fall quarter, Dr. Zebulon Judd,
dean, announced today.
They are John E. Andress, Hon-oraville;
Ralph D. Bailey, Mont­gomery;
Rebecca Bailey, Birming­ham;
Curtis Nathan Beverly,
Sweetwater; Glenda G. Bradley,
Red Level; Maimer R. Brpwder,
McKenzie; Frances P. Carter,
Montgomery; Christine DuBpse,
Huntsville, Harold Dumas, Tho-masville;
Sidney Louise Caines,
Elberton, Ga:; Jamie Luther
Jones, Stapleton.
Charles A.. Knowles, Monte-vallo;
Eli Thomas Malone, Camp
Hill; Martha Ross, Meadows, Ope­lika;
P e t e Millican, Dutton;
Frank Joseph Mitchell, Fairfield;
Melvin M. Merrer, Silver Cross;
Mary Andrews Rea, Birmingham;
Katherine D. Shelburne, Hollis C.
Smith, Florence; Inez Jones Tuck­er,
Logan; Grace M. Walsh, Au­burn;
and Canty W. Wprley, Jr.,
Birmingham.
Players Announce
Cast Of'The Jest'
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Results of the tryouts for parts
in the Auburn Players forthcom­ing
"The Jest" were announced
last week. Those receiving parts
were:
Robert Blackburn, Neri; Mar-jorie
Shores, Ginevra; Jim Masey,
Tomaquinci; Jack Seay, Gabriel-lo;
jEthel Tatum, Calandra; Arn­old
Liles, Nencio; Lloyd Lancas­ter,
Camus; Tommy Malone, the
doctor.
Robert Nixon, the Executioner;
Rowena Kidd, Lucrezia; Kitty
Bartee, Fiametta; Carol Dorrough,
Lisabetta; Anne Smythe, Cintia;
Earl Blakely, Capo, and Dick Mac-koy,
the 1st. Lieutenant.
The play will be directed by
Telfair Peet, associate professor of
dramatic arts, and is scheduled to
open on February 21 in the "Y"
Hut. i
Construction Work On Stadium Begins;
Contract Calls For 13,000 New Seats
Construction work has begun on the 13,500 additional
seats in Auburn's football stadium, according to a statement
from Joseph R. Bowman, construction engineer for the col­lege.
The contract was signed last week by the Ray W. Lee
construction company of Atlanta, calling for a $450,000 con­crete
stadium to be erected on the east side of the playing
field. When completed, the sta-
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Dean's List Given
Eight students in the school of
Pharmacy have been named tp
the dean's list fpr the fall quarter,
Dean L. S. Blake annpunced re­cently.
The students are Kay Andrews,
Nashville, Tenn.; John H. Greene,
Jr., Whistler; Donald B. Farn-ham,
Norrisville; Serepta Ann
Ford', Roanoke. "
James A. Smith, Gadsden;
Perry Lanier Smith, Ashland; Joe
K. Wallace, Sweetwater, Tenn.,
and Charles A. Walton, Tallassee.
Seventy-two hundred seats are on
present time and 13,500 seats are
being built under the present con­tract.
According to Mr. Bowman the
new stadium will be twice as high
as the grandstand now existing on
the west side. Half-way up the
stands on vthe • underside will be
five large ramps and a concrete
walkway. On this walkway there
will be placed several concession
stands and two large restrooms,
much like the design of Legion
Field stadium in Birmingham.
A cyclone wire fence will com­pletely
encircle the stadium, hav­ing
five gates on each side for
general admission, and three ser­vice
entrances. Inside the fence
will be hedges and evergreen
shrubery. Two ticket booths wiil
be on each side of the stadium.
As yet, no plans have been made
for erecting a new' score' "board,
but the Coca-Cola Bottling-Com­pany
has offered to constrjuc^ one
if at least two games are played
each season in the stadium.
The Building and Grounds de­partment
has already cleared the
ground and construction equip­ment
has been moved in. The date
of completion has been set at
August 30.
NOTICES
The Dairy Science Club will
meet in Room 217, of the Ani­mal
Husbandry Building, to­morrow
night at 7 o'clock. All
rstudents interested in dairying
are invited to attend.
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Theta Epsilon honor society
will'meet Thursday at 4 p.m. in
Smith Hall.
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The Ag Club will meet in Ross
AuditoriumJMohday at 7:30 p.m.
The meeting is opened to all ag
students.
Auburn Band Will LeaU ParlcJe
At Inauguration On January 20
AIO Award Given
To Bennie McCrary
Bennie McCrary, Centreville, a
sophomore in the school of edu­cation,
was recently presented
the first annual AIO Scholar­ship
by the scholarship commit­tee
of the college.
The awarding of this scholar­ship,
the original plans of which
were layed in 1947, is depen­dent
upon the student's grades
and his needs. It will provide for
payment of basis fees and tu­ition
not in excess of $45 per
quarter. The award is to extend
throughout the winter and spring
quarters for McCrary, but there­after
will be given for three
quarters. The money for the
scholarship will come from re­ceipts
of the yearly AIO "King
for a Day" program.
The scholarship is open to all
independent students who have
not completed more >than the
first quarter of the sophomore
year. Each competitor must write
a statement on the subject, "Why
I Want to Go to College and Why
I Need a Scholarship^', and must
obtain recomendations from a
pastor, welfare pfficer, and high
schppl principal.
The applicant must have had
at least a "B" average fpr his
last twp years in high schppl, and
must have passed all cpllege
work taken. He needs not be a
student at Auburn, but must at­tend
this schppl upon deceiving
the award. In additdpn, passing
grades must be maintained after
the scholarship is received.
Applications for the scholar­ship
should be made tp the cpl­lege
schplarship bpard.
Tiger Musicians Win Toss From 6ama;
Will Leave From Birmingham Tuesday
Having won the toss from the University of Alabama,
Auburn's 100-man marching band will lead the Alabama sec­tion
of the presidential inaugural parade in Washington on
January 20. The band will leave Birmingham on the Sea­board
Railway's ("Presidential Inaugural Special" on Janu­ary
18.
Physics Department
Gets New Facilities
When the rempdeling wprk now
under way in the east wing pf
the new building basement is
cpmpleted, the additional facili­ties
of five research labs, two dark
rooms, and extra shop and storage
space will be available to the
physics department.
The section of the basement be­ing
rebuilt was previously used
by the department of buildings
and grounds for storage space. Jt
contains approximately 5000 sq.
feet of floor space.
Reconstruction, according to Dr.
Gordon Hughes who is in charge
of the project, is mostly a matter
of refinishing, so it can be done at
a very reasonable cost. The space,
he said, has long been needed by
the department.
The physics department hopes
to begin occupation of their new
space in about six weeks. Once
completed, the facilities offered
will be used to aid in specialized
research programs mosffy in the
fields of nuclear physics.
Air Reserve Officers
Plan Special Meeting
A special meeting of all execu­tive
officers of the Auburn chapt­er
of the Air Reserves Asspciatipn
will take place" tpmprrpw night.
T/O and E units are being paid
fpr 60 per cent attendance at re­gularly
scheduled meeting.
The T/O and E unit at Gunter
Air Force Base may be reclassi­fied
as a class A unit.
Complete plans for the parade
have not yet been received from
Washingtpn, but the band has
been practising the traditional
"Ruffles" which is played as the
band passes the presidential re­viewing
stand.
Chief P. R. Bidez and Band­master
David Herbert will accom­pany
the band on the trip. Mem­bers
of the band will remain in
Washington through January 21
to permit sightseeing. They will
be back in Auburn on January 22.
The Auburn band was chosen by
Governor James E. Folsom to
participate in the parade after
seeing their performance, in the
Auburn-Alabama football game.
Members of the band making the
trip are:
James A. Arnold Jr., Gadsden;
Nancy Jean Bailey, Birmingham;
Gene Allen Bates, Montgomery;
Richard G. Berberich, Birming­ham;
Jerry B. Betzbe, Mobile;
Thaudeus R. Blaskmarr, Atlanta,
Ga.; Grady C. Boswell, Montgo­mery;
William S. Bowden, Mpn-roeville;
David A. Beyett, Ft.
Payne.
Norma Lee Brandenburg, Mo­bile;'
Dean Adams Bray, Chicka­saw;
James T. Brown, Atmore;
Needham A. Brown, Birmingham;
William T. Brown, Opelika; Al­bert
B. Bryars, Enterprise; Wiley
C. Bunn, Montgomery; Marshall
B. Carden, Phenix City; William S.
Carpenter, Aliceville; Martin K.
Cochran, Albertville; David L.
Conley, Wetumpka; J. Brown
Cooper, Jr., Birmingham.
Charles B. Cox, Montgomery;
Thomas B. Cunningham, Colum­bus,
Ga.; Lloyd Darnell, Gunters-ville;
John Q. David, St. Cloud,
Minn,; Hubert L. Davis, Columbus,
Ga.; Bernard C. Deloach, Birm­ingham;
William G. DeMouy, Mo­bile;
Charles E. DeRamus Jr.,
Selma; Rayford M. Dennis, Dothan;
James W. Donelly, Birmingham,
Arnold BY Dbpson, TallaBS«e;
James P. Everett, Rockmart; Ha­rold
Lee Falkenberry," Marianna,
Fla.; Francis W. Farnsworth, At­lantic
Beach, Fla.; Iris V. Fergu­son,
Talladega; Charles J. Fricke,
Guntersville; .Jack L. Gaylord,
Columbus, Ga.; Danny Sue Gibson,
Clayton, Miss.; Amos N. Gordy Jr.,
Phenix City; Howard L. Grayson,
Greenville.
Fred W. Gunn Jr., Mobile; June
Hall, Birmingham; Harry O. Han­sen,
Birmingham; Frank C. Har­vey,
Anniston; Edward H. Haslam,
Jr., Anniston; Paul Z. Hinson,
Green; Jere R. Hoar, Troy; Sam­my
M. Howell, Dothan; James M.
Hunnicutt, Jr., Birmingham; Joy
Beth Irwin, Birmingham; James
S. Jennings, Birmingham; Lewis
L. Johnson, Louisville; David J.
Jones, Phenix City; Joseph J.
West, Phenix City.
Albert D. Kaiser, Natchez, Miss.;
William H. Keown, Scottsboro;
James R. Kuykendall, Fort Payne;
Billy L. Lane, Dothan; James Sid­ney
Lock, Montgomery; Harold P.
Lovelace, Krafton; Billy James
Mann, Bonnie Frank Mann, Earl
Dean Mann, Harold L. Mann, Tal-lasee;
William D. Marty, Good-water;
Joseph E. McAdory, Besse­mer.
John T. McClintik, Dothan;
Clarence E. Middleton, Chickasaw;
Gene A. Mullins, Auburn; Hunter
B. Parker, Union Springs; Joe H.
Patterson, Dothan; William O. Pat­terson,
Fort Mitchell; Clarence A.
Perley, Anniston; Thomas R. Per­ry,
Auburn.
William H. Piper, Tallassee; Ro­bert
T. Porteous, Birmingham; Rex
B. Powell, Columbus, Ga.; Clyde
A. Pruitt, Tallassee; John W. Rey­nolds,
Fairfax.
Henry B. Richards, Montgomery;
O. C. Riser, Birmingham; David W.
Scobey, Nashville, Tenn.; Carol E.
Scott, Fortson, Ga.; John W. See-gar,
Auburn; Edgar H. Simmons,
Atlanta, Ga.
Roderick B. Slater, Mobile;
Marion J. Smith, Birmingham;
Arthur E. Sortet, Memphis, Tenn.;
Irving Steinberg, Tuskegee; Jones
H. Stewart, Opelika; Howard D.
Sumrall, Mobile; Donald R. Tho­mas,
Montgomery; James Turnip-seed,
Aliceville; Henry W. Tyree,
Florence; Joe B. Vinyard, Albert-viHe.~
Frederick A. Waits, Hattiesburg,
Miss.; Billy Edward Waller, Pher
nix City; Henry G. Wasley, Birm­ingham;
Thomas C. Watson, Mon-roevill'e;
Billy D. Wear, Decatur;
Albert G. Westbrook, Demopolis;
Charles E. Weyant, Opelika; Hous­ton
White, Jr., Henry T. Wingate,
Jr., Auburn; Donald Woods, Mo­bile
and K. Lemone Yielding,
Blanton.
Industrial Design Exhibit Opened
By School Of Architecture And Arts
The first traveling exhibition of 1949 to be presented in
the gallery' of the School of Architecture and the Arts will
be an exhibition of thirty-five industrial designs selected from
the 1947 competition, and an exhibition of nineteen stills of
film sets of interiors, awarded citations of merit in the 1947
competition for film interior sets, sponsored by the American
THE AUBURN BAND. 103 members strong including seven
majorettes, three twirlers and the drum major are pictured in
marching formation on the lawn of President Draughon's home.
The members are dressed in the new uniforms that were worn
for the first time during the half-time performance at the Ala­bama
game December, 4. The Auburn band has been invited to
Washington, D.C. to lead the Alabama section of the inaugural
parade of President Truman January 20. The invitation was ex­tended
by Governpr FPISPHI pn the merits pf the perfprmance
of the band at the half-time ceremonies of the Alabama game.
Institute of Decpratprs. It will be
shpwn frpm January 10 tP 20 and
the public is cprdially invited to
attend.
The industrial designs are of
fabric, furniture, lighting and wall
covering, used in the home furn­ishing
field during 1947.
Six winners of the first award
and eleven receiving honorable
mention were announced at a.
banquet held in their honor at the
opening of the showing at the
Architectural L e a g u e in New
York, February 26, 1948, when the
citations were presented to the
winners by Joseph Mullen, Presi­dent
of the American Institute of
Decorators.
Joan Maag, New York City won
the first award for the best woven
fabric design of 1947; Kurt Versen
of Englewood, N. J., was winner
of, the first award for the best
lighting design of 1947; Erwine
and Mrs. Estelle Laverne of New
York City, were winners of the
first award for the best printed
fabric design of 1947; Claire Falk-enstein,
Berkeley, Calif., was win­ner
of the first award for the best
wall covering of 1947; Maurice
Martine, Corona del Mar, Calif.,
received the first award for the
best furniture design of 1947.
The awards for the film interior
sets are as follows:
First award for Interior Design
—"The Senator was Indiscreet".
Four Stills.
Second award for Interior De­sign—"
The Bachelor and the Bob­by
Soxer". Six stills.
Third award for Interior De-'
sigp: "Living in a Big Way". Four
stills.
Special award for Imagination
—"The Secret Life of Walter Mit-ty".
Five stills. The collection is'
being circulated in various parts
of the country through January,
1949, when the next annual cpm-petitipn
will be held and shown
in 1949.
Students On Probation
Should Take Tests Now
Mr. W. O. Barrow, Director,
Veterans Advisory Center asks
all students now on probation
from.the fall quarter tp schedule
their tests now to avoid a last
minute rush later in the quarter.
These tests have to be taken by
veteran and non-veteran students
who are now on .probation as one
step in clearing their status. Vet­erans
may make appointments by
contacting Thpmas H. Cpnway,
Chief, Veterans Guidance Center
and npn-veterans by calling Mrs.
Dpris Quarles, Veterans Advispry
Center.
Subsistence Increase
Given ROTC Students
An increase in subsistence pf 11
cents per day, retroactive to July
1, 1948, has been granted to stu­dents
of the advanced ROTC
course.
This information was received
by the military department in
an Army circular and Air Force .
letter dated December 2.
Formerly, the daily subsistence
allpwance was 79 cents per day.
With the increase it now totals 90
cents per day, or an average of
$27 per month.
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Kappa Delta ancf Pi Kappa Alpha Formals Will Be Held Here This Weefeend
Miss Marjorie Hester To Lead
Kappa Delta Formal Saturday
Sigma Lambda chapter of Kap­pa
Delta sorority will hold its an­nual
Emerald Ball in the student
activities building Saturday night,
January 15, from 9 until 12 o'­clock.
Music will be furnished by
the Auburn Knights.
Miss Marjorie Hester, a senior
in Science and Literature from
Livingston, will lead the dance
with Aubrey Greer. Miss Mary
George Lamar will make the pre­sentation
of flowers during the
leadout.
Members, pledges, and their
dates are Lucy McCaslan, Ted
Hixon; Jane Wilcox, Felix Mc-
Kinney; Lutie Easter, Jim Cleve­land;
Sue Miller, Searcy McClure;
Pat Dabney, Fritze Kosack; Cissy
Mbulton, Bob Johnson; Anne
Blaylock, John Goodson; Cathe­rine
Beall, Bill Byrd.
Shay Tidmore, Lucius Colmant;
Gene Hurt, Phil Mullare; Ann
Summerour, James Monk; Rossie
Meadows, Fred Rutledge; Leila
A. Flewellen, Harold Cole; Emily
Cammack, Claude Morton; Ethel:
Sholston, Alfred Cook; Carolyn
Curtis, George Pierce.
Mimi Folmar, Guy Fblmar;
Anne Bingham, Mac Wood; Bar­bara
Williams, Joe McGee, Jr.;
Carolyn Flanders, Dick Hutchin'-
son; Louise Floyd, George Free-
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WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
JANUARY 12-T3
Starring.
TYRONE POWER
ANNE BAXTER
News and Cartoon
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
JANUARY 14-15
Miss Cecil ia McOowin To Lea J"
PT Kappa Alpha Formal Friday
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and
MARCH OF TIME
Extra!
Football Highlights of 1948
SATURDAY NITE, JAN. 15
LATE SHOW 11:00 P.M.
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DICK POWEtrand
JANE GREER
SUNDAY AND MONDAY
JANUARY 1^17
STATION WEST
With >
DICK POWELL and
JANE GREER
News and Cartoon
TUESDAY, JANUARY l&
HANGMEN ALSO DIE
With
BRIAN DONLEVY and
i DENNIS O'KEEFE
Selected Shorts
Miss Cecelia McGowan
Under The Spires
Presbyterian Church
Barbara Vinson of Brewton and
Thomas C. Casaday of Milstead
attended the Ecumenical Student
Conference at the University of
Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, from
December 27 to January 1.
Dr. Elton Trueblood, of Earl-ham
College, one of the speakers
at the conference, has been invit­ed
to comehere for Religious Em­phasis
Week, February 13-18.
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Catholic Church
The Newman Club met Mon­day
night at 7 o'clock in the base­ment
of the Sacred Heart Church
at-230 E. Magnolia Ave. The inter-church
.Jeague basketball tour;
ment was discussed. , .
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Jewish Church
The Hillel Foundation met
Monday night in Room 214; of the
Classroom Building under the su­pervision
of Rabbi Eugene Blach-schleger
from Temple Beth^Or in
Montgomery.
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Baptist- Church
January 9-16 is Dedicated Vo­cations
Week. The Sunday. School
set January 30 as enlistment day
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man, Joan Monroe, Ralph White.
Margaret Anj)e Richardson,
John Morrison; Wanda Mitchell,
Malcolm Marsh; Connie Neville,
Hubert Nbrris; Marilyn String-fellow,
Jim' Larkin; Marion Guth­rie,
Bill Pappas; Dorothy A. Slade,
Bbbby Lockwood.
Claudia Taylor, John Bryan;
Judy Spence, Al Kennemef; Sally
Lanier, Hamlett Simmons; Syd­ney
Gaines, Cam Lanier; Jb'Ann
Mallory, A. Dean; Kate Lee, Curt
Presley; Ann Dbnovan, Phil
Marsh; Tootsie Stammer, Hugh
Craig.
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Episcopal'
Sunday night' following Ves­pers,
which begin at 5:30, Canter­bury
Club members will begin a
series of discussions on success­ful
marriage in a Christian fam­ily.
Dr. John Leith of the Presby­terian
church will speak on"Mar-riage,
1949 Model Versus Chris­tian
Marriage." ,
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Lutheran
Rev. Vernon Bbriack will hold
Divine services at IV a.m. at the
War Eagle Theatre.
Officers for the Lutheran Club
will be elected Sunday night at
the meeting following- supper in
Me home of Sgt. and Mrs. Ralph:
Iteay.i Wrights Mill Road. Trans­portation
will be furnished at
Upsilon Chapter of Pi Kappa
AlRha ffaternity will present its
annual Dream Girl Formal Friday
evening/from 9,'til 12 o'clock. Miss
Cecelia McGowin, of Chapman,
will' lead! the dance with chapter
;presidentvGh'aries'W; Jones, III.
Music for the dance<will be fur­nished"
by the Auburn -Knights. A1
tea. dance at the Opelika Country
Gliib will-be given Saturday after­noon
from 3- 'till-- 5' o'clock. Music
Will5 be by the Knights Quintet;
The name'-of "the annual i "Dream
Girl of Pi! Kappa Alpha" will be
revealed' at: the conclusioni of' the
leadout; She will^be presented with
ar. bouquet1, and the dream girl
trophy at- that- time.
Members, pledges; and their
dates are as follows:
Charles W.' Jones, III,' Cecelia
MeGoWin; Gaston Jones, Martha
Norton; Philip Boss, HI; Ratherine
Ann Mathews?- Felix- McKinney,
Jane" Wilcox-; Joe- Moore, Martha
Bailey; Dyke McCulloch, Beverly
RisHer; HaTBreedlove, Helen Tur­ner;
Jim Dow,. Jeanette Gore;
Roger Abbott; Judy Hubbard; Jim
Haygood; Betty Scott Dunklin;
Ralph Jennings; Virginia Mfjrton;
Paul Sturdivant,. Sybil Doris
Griffin; Bob McMillan, Elizabeth
iSnowden; Preston Bailey, Elise
Black;/ Chester Stocks, Bess Tal-
;bert; James B; Henderson, Dale
'Hyiand? Gene Byrd; Dale Pratt-
Waller Wedgeworth, Elizabeth
McGee; Willis- MaeArthur, Jackie
Solomon; Tommy Burton, Grace
deGraffenried; Glynn Sharit, Lin­da
Myrick.
Jpp, Moody, Melba Studdard;
Tommy Kennedy, Margaret Joe
Williamson; Felix Harris, Jean
Griffith; John Goodloe, Rosemary
Watters; Robert Taylor; Marilyn
Bailey; John Lewis, Francis Kil-patrick;
David Myrick, Suzanne
Eger; Bobby Hawthorne, Olivia^
Watts. ;
Howard Ham, Flora Mallette;
Charlie Mathews, Betty Scofield;
Ted Davies, Avas Freeman; Frank
Barrow, Faye Parker; Bill Burnett,
Barbara Burnett; Charlie Mills,
Inez Wise; Aian Hiley, Martha
Ann Dickerson; Charlie Brunson,
Jonell Boyette; Hurdie • Burke,
Marian Griffin; Robert McBride,
Betty Elliot; Percy Rogers, Doris
Riggan.
Jim Ra'ulston, Mary Jo DeFord;
James Johnson, Beverly Haith-cock;
Bob Windham, June Shaw;
Claude Coker, Mary Belle Nail;
Tex Shewell, Jill Bowen; Law­rence
Lacy, Carolyn Barnes; Ri­ley
Stuart, Wbodgie Tate; Jack
Roberts, Alice Westbrook. ,
Bob Newton, Helen Smith; Len
Pratt, Ruth Goldsmith; Jim Weber,
Catherine. Davis; Ralph Pass,
Betty , Nichols; Crawford Nevins,
Beverly Benson; Joe Burnett,
Jackie Goodgame; Jake Merrill,
Kathryn Jackson; Ernest Lund-berg,
Mary Louise Dickson; Louis
Baldwin, Mary Lange;
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Garrett; Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Breedlove; Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur. Heuer, Jr.; Mr. and
Mrs. Guy Woodliff; Mr. and Mrs.
Darwin Pippin; Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Franklin; Mr. and Mrs.
Bob Warner.
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Methodist
Worship programs' sponsored by
the Wesley Foundation will con­tinue
to be held in the churchrthis
quater at 7'p.m. Among those in
charge of the programs will be
the Worship Commission of the
W e s 1 e y Foundation, Norwood
Jones, Director of the Foundation;
Rev. Cullen Wilson, Opelika, and
Frances Hastings, Tuskegee.
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Auburn; Alabama
fr-THE PLAINSMAN Wednesday, Jan. 12, 19*9
Auburn Bows To Alabama And Florida;
Meet Georgia, Rebels, Maroons; Next
By Bob Ingram
Auburn's- victory-starved Tigers, returned to the Plains
last night to meet the strong Georgia Tech basketball teami,
still searching for their first S.E:C. win o$ the season after
four consecutive conference losses. Last week the'Plainsmen
were handed two league setbacks by Alabama and Florida.
Thursday night in- the sports
arena before an all-student crowd
of nearly 4000; Coach Danny
Doyle's crew bowed} to a smooth-working
Alabama five, 46-38;
Then on Saturday night in Gairis-ville,
Florida, Auburn lost to the
University of Florida, 61-45.
In the Alabama1 game, a- rather
cut and dried affair throughout,
the visitors out played, outfought,
and-' most important', outscoredi the
Auburn team duririg the entire ac­tion.
Alabama jumped into- an
early lead and weie never headed
during the game. In the early mo­ments
of thei second half, Auburn
pulled to within one point of the
Tide, at 22"-21, but three successive
goals by the 'Baima sharp-shooters
gave them a seven point lead
which they never; relinquished.
Auburn had trouble all night
hitting the basket, connecting for
only 12 goals from the field' dur­ing
the game. Trje: Tigers were
tense, over anxious,, apparently
trying too. hard, and were missing
shots that they would have ordi­narily
made with ease.
Leading: the scoring for the
night was Alabama's little for­ward,
Dyson. Bamjier, who rack­ed!
up. 15 points. Lynn. and. McAfee
shared Auburn's scoring honors
with 11 points each.:
Against the Gators in Gains-vilte-
it was- the same old story.
Florida went into the lead aj the
outset and were never headed, al­though
Auburn did tie it up mid­way
of the "first half. The Florida
offense quickly connected for five
successive field goals and- from
that stage on the outcome of the
game was-never in- doubt. At- half-time
Florida- had built themselves
a commanding 35-23 lead, and
went on to win handily, 61-45.
Following last night's encounter
with Georgia Tech in the sports
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A SCRAMBLE FOR THE BALL was going on under the Auburn basket when this shot was
taken during the Auburn-Aiabama basketball game .here January 6. Mac McAfee (25) and "Roy
Brawner (center)-are moving into aid Auburn players Ardie Robinson and William Lynn. An all
student crowd of over 3500 witnessed the-game. (Photo-by Raymond Kearney.-)'
Won By Sigma Chi's
. The Sigma Chi wrestling team,
paced by Davis, Hulsey and
Whitespunner, chalked up their
second, consecutive wrestling
championship in the annual" in­terfraternity
tournament.
The winners gained a total of
150 points toward the coveted
All-Sports Trophy as they com­pletely
dominated the tourna­ment.
Besides Davis, Hulsey and
Whitespunner, who. came in first
in their divisions, the SC's also
had two second-place winners,
and three third-rplace winners.
In- the runnerup spots in the
tourney were theATO's followed
arena, the *Figers will go on the
road. Friday night they will; be in
Athens to battle the Georgia Bull­dogs;
Monday night they will play
Mississippi in Oxford, and: Tues­day
night in Starkville they meet
Mississippi State.'
Two NROTC Graduates
Are Given Commissions:
Two graduates, of the past,
quarter, Richard, Hv Gilliam and
Hugh W. Griffith, Jr., received
commissions as Ensigns in me
Naval Reserve on December 15.
Griffith, who graduated with a.
B. S. in electrical engineering,
was the commander of the
NROTC battalion during Ms- last
year. Gilliam was a platoon lead<-
er in- his senior year graduating
with a B. S. degree in agriculture.
by the KA's and PiKA's.
Results of the finals in each
weight division were: 121 pound,
Davis .(SC) over Hartwick
(ATO); 128 pound, Dragoin,
(PiKA) over Keller (SC); 136
pound, Orcutt (SAE) over Little
CSC).
145 pound, Martin (EA) over
Moore (ATO); 155-pound,,Hulsey.
(SC) over Kidd (ATO); 165
pound, Whitespunner (SC) over
JSipg,. (SN);. ,.175. pound,- Pate
:4TKEX.. over . Maddox (AGR);-
heavyweight, Voyles- (KA) over
Beard (KS).
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Studying For PhD
William E. Knight, who recei­ved
his masters degree last week
from Auburn and was a graduate
assistant in the agronomy and.
soils department of the Agricul­tural
Experiment Station, left
here to enter Pennsylvania State
College where he will work on his
doctorate.
Knight has been granted a. fel­lowship
to work oh Ladino clover
breeding under the direction of
Dr. William Meyers, re-cent reci­pient
of the first Stevenson Award
made by the American, Society
of Agronomy, and geneticist at
the Regional Pasture Laboratory
near State .College.
. 'A native of La con, Alabama,
Knight received the B.S. in Agri­cultural'
Education from Auburn
Interfraternity Basketball Season
Begins Wiffr Games Al Sports Arena
By Bruce Greenhill
Six games marked the inauguration of the interfraternity
basketball season last Thursday night at the sports arena. Ex­hibitions
of both good and extremely poor floor, work and
shot-making were seen as some of the quints proved to be
slow in rounding into form and couldn't hit the basket or
handle the ball with much finesse.
The three best teams on the | u n d e r t h e basket and a capable
basis of the first night perfor- ! s t r i n g of r e s e r v e s t o dqfeat. TKE
by a score of 24-7. Pierson,, start­ing
guard, for PKT, hit for four
goals from the field to top the
scoring with eight points. Martin's
'four points was high for' the Te-kes>
i
Arthur Phillips sacked up four
baskets in Sigma Alpha Epsilon's
22-19 win over ATG. It was an in­teresting
contest all the way with
the lead changing hands several
times. ATO lea at half time 11-0
but a last- half spurt gave
the football champs a three point
margin of victory.
mances appeared to be- last year's
champion and runner-up, Sigma
Chi and Alpha Psi, along with a
sharp-shooting Phi Kappa Tau
five. Other winners in the initial
tilts were: Theta. Chi, Aapha Gam­ma
Rho, and. SAE. These three
squads, as well as at least three of
the teams which have not yet
seen action, .should figure in the
battle for the four league titles
and the campus championship.
In League I, two games were,
played. In the opener, Theta Chi
edged Sigma Pi 20-18 in.one of-the
better games of the, night
Guard Crawson sapked two field,
goals and a couple of foul shots to.
lead TC with six points. Ed
Knight's even half-dozen markers
was- the best for Sigma Pi. In
the other game,, strong Sigma Chi
took a 20-8 win from a hapless
Pi-KA five. Whitespunner contri­buted
eight point's to lead Sigrem
Chi' and Dub Ellis was the top
Pike with: five points.
The Alpha- Psi-Kappa Sig game
was far and above the best of the
two games played in League II
competition. The: other game, be­tween
-Alpha Gamma Rho and
SPE, was an unexciting contest
in; which neither team was able to
hit the hoop with much regula­rity.:
Lamar Moree scored thirteen-points,
the night's hest effort, in
the- 25.-12 Alpha Psi win over
Kappa Sigma. Hunter's four point
total was the best for Kappa Sig.
In the other contest, Davis' three
points was AGR's top total in the-
10-4 win over SPE.
Phi Kappa Tau flashed power
in 1942; and served in the Air­borne
Field- Artillery of the Army
until 1946. He returned to Au­burn
to do graduate work. His
thesis was an alfalfa seed produc­tion
in Alabama. He is a member
of the honorary agricultural; soc­ieties
Gamma' Sigma. Delta and
Alpha Zeta.
AIO Meeting Features
Singing By Ruth Poor
Ruth Poor, soprano, will sing at
AIO' meeting tonight in ' student
center at 7:30 o'clock. Miss- Poor,
junior in Education from Phenix
City, has been- featured with the
Methodist and Baptist church
choirs.
A-. business meeting will be held
following Miss Poor's program.
Plans for the annual King For A
Day dance will be discussed.
All: independent students are
Sigma Nus Are Robbed
During Christmas Week
Thieves broke into the Sigma
Nu house during the recent holi­days
and stole an estimated sever­al
hundred dollars worth of cloth­ing
and other articles. The burgu-lary
was discovered by return­ing
students last Tuesday night
who notified the city police.
Police were unable to deter­mine
how the thieves had entered
the house. Locks on the doors of
individual rooms had all been-broken.
The police are continu­ing
their investigation and have"
contacted the police in surround­ing
towns.
Members of the fraternity say
that clothing and slide rules seem
to have been the main objects
stolen.
LOST: Silver Royce wrist
watch with silver wrist band.
Five dollar reward offered to
finder. Phone Burton Killings-worth
at the Alpha Gamma
Rho House.
urged, to be present and partici­pate
in the activities of the AIO. :^
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Bruce Greenhill, John Herring, Boyd Hin-ton,
Sue Hunter, Sara Jane Kent, Joe
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Stough, Jim Watson, Spud Wright.
Salute To The Band
It's too bad the Plainsman staff can't
play musical instruments. If we could,
we'd give big fanfare and flourish to the
Auburn band.
It's about time that the Auburn band is
recognized. The University of Alabama's
band has been publicized for the past few
years as the "Million Dollar" band. But
despite the lack of publicity, Auburn's
band has consistently turned in a good
performance. Always good, it has become
better and better in the past year or so.
Recognition, although late, seems to have
been inevitable.
Two elements of the band deserve con­gratulations
and praise: the band members
themselves and their director. Like most
college bands, members of the Auburn
band receive mostly psychic income for
their work in it. The credit amounts to
only one hour. A great share of the credit
is due Mr. David Herbert, the band's
hard working director. ^ g|
The Plainsman staff isn't alone ir^jfc^
praise of the Auburn band. Alabama's
press made much over the appearance of
the band at the Auburn-Alabama football
game. Articles appeared in dailys and
weeklys all over the state commenting on
the superiority of the Auburn band at the
half time ceremonies.
It might not be a bad idea if a proud stu­dent
body went down to see a victorious
band band off to Washington for a change
next Tuesday when they leave to lead the
Alabama section of the inaugural parade
for President Harry Truman.
Conduct In The Movies
There was a time at Auburn when an
overworked student could r e l a x by taking
in a good movie at one of the local thea­t
e r s . But those days seem to be gone for­ever.
Local cinemas havg become a meeting
place for the school's5 self-assumed come­dians
and wits. Characters on the screen
a r e forced to give way to the off-color or
other uncalled for remarks from charac­t
e r s in t h e audience, 'i
The theater-going public has long ac­cepted
the fact that college men show
t h e i r enthusiasm for shapely female legs
and torsos by an appreciative whistle. But
when this perogative is carried to t h e point
of boorishness and crudeness, it becomes
b o t h i r r i t a t i n g and obnoxious.
The Plainsman believes that the man­agement
of both the Tiger and the War
Eagle would be justified in taking steps to
counteract . all of the unnecessary noise
which has come to accompany so many of
their shows.
As we have said, an occasional apprecia­t
i v e whistle to show approval or enthu­s
i a sm for female pulchritude is permis-sable.
What we condemn is t h e individuals
who persist in greeting everything on the
screen with some newly invented laugh
r other noise which they believe will pa­l
e the audience.
Traffic Snafu
The Plainsman—along with a good many
students and faculty members—wonders
what ever happened to the proposals of
the committee which was formed to look
into the traffic and parking situation on
the campus.
As far as we can tell the committee's re­port
has resulted in few if any changes
in the traffic situation.1
On Fraternities
In his article in Colliers for January 8,
1949, on American college fraternities,
Howard Whitman has created in his mind
and perhaps in the minds of a few unin­formed
readers, the idea that these frater­nities
are faced with a grave crisis. From
the few inquiries he seems to have made,
combined with the old idea of blackhooded
fraternity men meeting and secretly plot­ting
against their college or non-fraternity
associates, he would have us believe that
the American college fraternity is just
before bringing doom to the United States
and to the entire world. It is true that the
fraternities are faced with a problem, but
they have been faced with many similar
and more pressing- problems since the
early part of the last century when the
first social fraternity was founded.
The problems of social* stratification and
discrimination are comparatively new as
major fraternity problems. There were
formerly enough good fraternities on most
college campuses to take care of all college
men who desired to affiliate. On other
campuses where the majority preferred to
remain independent, there was no need for
large numbers of fraternities, and those lo­cated
on such campuses had to struggle
for existence.
At the close of the past war, the un­precedented
increase in college enroll­ments
also brought the largest fraternity
chapters in history. Even with the return
of chapters that were inactive during the
war, there were not enough to meet the
new demand. Many of the fraternities ex­panded
by installing new chapters, but
naturally this expansion was slow and
cautious. The chapters did not have ade­quate
facilities to promote successful fra­ternity
organization on a large scale. Fur­thermore,
if the chapters over-expand they
defeat their own purpose. They no longer
have a close brotherhood of college friends,
but the members fall into cliques and
small groups. The assumption t h at
fraternities advocate social stratification is
false. True, there is a certain quality of
ethnocentrism among chapters on the same
campus, but on the present day campus,
one fraternity man will have many friends
in other fraternities, as well as many who
are not in fraternities at all.
Ironically enough, on many of the
major college campuses where fraternities
Sexist they" are looked down on by non-fraternity
men. The old idea of fraternity
superiority and chapter seclusion had pass­ed
out of existence even before the war.
The other problem of racial discrimination
is really a matter for the fraternity itself
and not for outsiders. Mr. Whitman has
spirited his articles by the "secret clauses"
and similarities to Mein Kampf. All of
these clauses have been and are now open
to anyone with interest enough to look into
them. They are available to boys who wish
to affiliate with the fraternities, and be­fore
initiation, the boys are required to
learn content and substance. After becom­ing
completely familiar with the fraternity
and its policies, they are given the oppor­tunity
to withdraw before taking any
oaths.
Mr. Whitman insists that our fraternities
are highly undemocratic and infers that
men who fought for democracy have as
much right to belong to a fraternity as
anyone else. Does he forget that the same
veteran has the right to choose his own
associates? If he doesn't like a man, then
it is his freedom not to associate with him.
Living in a democracy, he is given the
right to choose whom he wants as his as­sociates
and his privacy from -intrusion by -
the same principles. ,
It is true that our fraternities have faults.
But it is remarkable that a group so large
as pur national and local fraternities have
as few faults as they do. Mr. Whitman has
indeed drawn a warped conclusion from a
few radical and extreme chapters and in­dividuals.
But he must remember that
there are always a few radicals in every
chapter and that no, one fraternity is ex­emplified
by one chapter. There are a
few bad chapters among the good ones in
every fraternity just as there are a few bad
articles among the good ones in Collier's.
—Vanderbilt Hustler
College Figures
Figures have been released that show
twenty per cent of the country's total col­lege
students are enrolled in twenty col­leges
and universities.
Colleges and universities in the state of
New York led the list with a total of more
than 120,000 students. California, Illinois,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas and Michigan
all had enrollments over 100,000.
Out of this list of twenty schools, there
were only two southern colleges, Temple
University and the University of Texas.
Bigg: The Exchange Post ***•***«« Dead End
By Joe Pilcher
ReprintedJrom t
January. 1948 issue of ESQUIRE
Copyright 1947 by Esquire. Inc.
The Common Man * Mitch Sharpe
If the United States Post
year hashmarks to extra help,
one this past Christmas. A
dents would have too. In fact,
love, business manager of the
gomery office with me.
Still punchy from that Econo­mics
201 final (by the way, I
made a "C" in that damned
course!) I staggered into the
ready room of the carrier di­vision
of the post office. A few
brief words from the ranking
brass and I was once again off
plodding the streets of the ebony
end of Montgomery.
The postman rides from the
post office to his route on the
city bus line. This time interval
can be spent in reading the mag­azines
in his bag or, against pos­tal
regulations, doing what I
used to do . . . reading loose pos­tal
cards. However, this fascinat­ing
sport soon palls even the
greenest postman. People never
write anything sexy, personal or
funny on penny postals. And one
gets tired-;of-~"Teadirig the usual
drivel of how Aunt Clara's
floating kidney gave her so much
trouble that she finally had to
go back to Doctor Proctor and
have the anatomnical bit of
flotsom anchored for the hiimp-teenth
time.
As I have said, I was out in the
ebony end of town. I was on
route eight to be exact. This is
the usual domain of a worldly
but preserving carrier named
Pete. He gave me all of the ec­centricities
of the route before I
started out. It was one of those
routes where the postman never
rings twice—or at all. There
were no doorbells and damned
few • doors. But what boots it?
The folks from Garrison to Ellis
street took to me right off. In no
time at all I wais surrounded by
a milling group of young Afro-
Americans all calling to me in
their quaint and untranslatable
dialect.
And when one of them finally
made me understand < that he
wanted the mail for Gussielee
Brown, familiarly called "muh'-
dea", I would shake 'my head
sadly and say, "Bless you child,
there's nothing here but an evic­tion
notice from a white capita­list
in town." Nothing loath, he
would take the letter and dash
off yelling for "muh'dea" and
waving the message.
About the only thing Messianic
Office Department gave three-
I would have received my first
good many other Auburn stu-bumbling,
leisurely Hal Breed-
Plainsman worked in the Mont-about
postmen is that they suffer
little children. They have to.
There's nothing else they can do.
The postoffice department in its
usual parochial view frowns on
a carrier's using that excellent
weapon, the umbrella, on them.
So the postman suffers little
children. And I was no exception.
To illustrate my feeling for the
little nippers I can point out
what happened at No. 34A Joe
Louis Place. I had just started up
the suicidal flight of front stairs
when a taffy-hued child of in-discernable
age ran out to the
edge of the porch. I looked up in
the nick of time. The child, dia­betic
since birth, was manifesting
down the stairs. Throwing pos­tal
dignity and mail bag to the
winds, I leapt wildly back. I
waited demurely af the -bottom
until the coast as it were, was"
clear, Then with all the gravity
and sang froid only a postman
could muster, I handed the child
an unctious appeal from the Ever
So Peachy Future Finance Cor­poration
(one of Montgomery's
3,987 loan sharks.)
There's no arguing with a
homesteader on one's route. Af­ter
a manner of speaking they
are the customer and the' cus­tomer
is always right. I had just
. deposited another form letter
from the Rosebud Personal Fi­nance
Corporation of the Western
Hemisphere in the mail box of
No. 26 A % Unsightly View Ter­race
when a voice hailed me. I
trudged back and found a de­termined
housewife standing on
the porch handing me back the
letter. She said "Dis gempmun
don't live here anymore." I
looked at the address—OCCU­PANT,
26A% Unsightly View
Terrace. "But," I started to ex­plain,
"occupant. . .'" She broke
in on me with a flip, "He lef
yestiddy."
Now that it's all over and I
am back being a college gentle­man,
I can look at the postal
life in a more encompassing view.
Tell you what, Uncle Sam, raise
the pay to a livable level, kill all
of the dogs in Montgomery, send
all the children under sixteen to
the gas chamber, and I'll be a
postman /for you.
FILE THIRTEEN By Jimmy c °i e m a n
(Jimmy Coleman, popular 1946-
47 editor of the Plainsman, drop­ped,
into the office on a little visit
and to tell one of his everpresent
jokes. I made him put it in print.
Editor)
A little story I heard in Mont­gomery
last quarter could easily
be called "The Bewildered Bar­tender"
although the person who
told it didn't give it a title. '
The story is about three drink­ing
pals who suddenly found
t themselves with­out
drink and
funds one even­ing.
Their thirst
was approaching
"Lost Weekend"
proportions when
one of the trio
came up with an
idea. He led his
two pals to the
nearest barroom
and seated them
it a table.
"Watch me," he said, "while I
get a free drink on the house."
Whereupon, he made his way to
the bar and was served. Presently,
Coleman
the bartender returned and re­quested
payment. Looking shock­ed,
our customer retorted that the
drink had been paid for. It was
hard for the bartender to believe
—but he decided that after all it
was his fault for not remember­ing.
Upon seeing the success of his
ally, the second person made his
way to the crowded bar and went
through precisely the same pro­cedure.
This time the bartender
put up a stiff argument but the
customer was unyielding. With
illusions of the state insane asy­lum,
the bartender again gave up
in despair.
The third person strode to the
bar and immediately ordered a
drink. The bartender served him
and returned a few minutes later."
"Listen, pal," he said, "I've served
two guys tonight who swore they
had paid me, so don't you tell me
if
"Listen buddy", the customer
interrupted, "Don't tell me your
troubles. Gimme my change. I'm
in a hurry!"
She was only a printer's daugh­ter
but the boys liked her type.
—Lowry Times
* * » •
i
Algebra is the square of the
multiplier added to that which
was subtracted from the product
by the function of "x", together
with what the farmer thought and
added to a negative element of a
reciprocal nature, we get . . .
Minnie Ha! Ha!
—Jacksonville Jr. College
* * »
"I draw the line at kissing"
She said in accent fine,
But he was a football hero
And so he crossed the line.
—U. of Akron
* * *
The roadster skidded around the
corner, jumped in the air, smacked
three cars, ran against a stone
fence, and stopped. A girl climbed
put of the wreck.
"Darling," she exclaimed, "that's
what I call a kiss!"
—Bradford Durfee Tech
.*. * *
At a college examination a pro­fessor
asked: "Does the question
embarrass you?"
"Not at all, sir," replied the stu­dent,
"not at all. It is quite clear.
It is the answer that bothers me!"
—Bradford Durfee Tech
"I didn't raise my daughter to
be fiddled with," said the cat as
she rescued her offspring from the
Violin factory.
-Miss State
"Who are the two biggest wolves
in the world?"
"Chase and Sanborn because
they date all bags."
—Howard Crimson
* * *
"Was your friend shocked over
the death of his mother-in-law?"
"Shocked? He was electro­cuted."
—U. of Akron
* * *
Joe Tech: "Prof, if you'll pass
me, I'll give you this thoroughbred
bloodhound."
Prof: "How do I know it's a
bloodhound?"
Joe Tech: "Oscar, bleed for the
man."
—Distaff
* * *
Art teacher, looking quizically
at the blurred clouds in a student's
oil painting: "Cirrus?"
"No, smearus," answered the
student ironically.
—U. of Kentucky
* * *
The U. of Miami recently held a
freshman-sophomore field day. In
a series of rugged tug-of-war
events, the sophomore class came
out victorious. As a finale to the
days events, the sophs had the pri­vilege
of throwing the freshmen
into a lake—lucky for them that
it all happened in Miami where
it is nice and warm.
A Dash of Bitters *^T**«m
Why are the Arabs so deter­mined
to keep the Jews out of
the Holy Land? Looking at the
problem from the viewpoint of
advancing civilization, the es­tablishment
of a Jewish state will
certainly add to that. Newsreel
scenes of the progress made in
those Jewish Communities already
established indicate that the- Jews
are past masters at the art of
transforming desert waste lands
into-flowering paradises. Certain­ly
the area over
. t h e r e around
Palestine could
use some trans­forming.
W h y , then,
| are the Arabs
I fighting to keep
I the Jews out?
In this newest
I of Holy Wars,
jwhat is it that
prevents the
Foriester Arabs from ac­cepting
the Jews? How do the
religious teachings of the Arabs
treat the accepting of the Jews?
Our religion, the religion on
which the Western World has
been built, is more or less fami­liar
to us. But do we know any­thing
of the religion of the Arabs,,
the Moslems, whose belief is that
there is no God but Allah, and
that Mohammed was the last and
greatest of Allah's prophets?
There are six beliefs and five
duties of the good Moslem. The
beliefs are: in the one God,
Allah; in angels who intercede
with Allah for the forgiveness of
,the faithful; in the Koran as the
last of the sacred books, which
includes also the Jewish Torah
and The Psalms, and the words
of Jesus; in the prophets of
Allah, who include Adam, Noah,
Abraham, Moses, David, Solo­mon,
John the Baptist, Jesus,
Alexander the Great, and Mo­hammed;
in the final judgment;
and in the' divine decrees of
Allah.
The five duties are: to repeat
every day in Arabic, "There is
.no God but Allah, and Moham­med
is his prophet"; to pray at
least three times a day, at day­break,
at noon, and at night, with
the face turned toward Mecca;
to give alms; to fast during the
month of Ramadan; and to make
at least one pilgrimage to Mecca
during a lifetime.
The Moslem bible, the Koran,
has this to say concerning infi­dels:
"O Believers! Take not the
Jews or Christians as friends.
They are but friends to one
another; and if any of you taketh
them for his friends, then surely
he is one of them! Verily God
will not guide the evil-doers."
Religion is a compelling force,
and the Koran is probably the
most faithfully read scripture in
the world. And so the Arabs
fight.
BURP By Boyd Hinlon
Plato had his Republic, Sir
Thomas Moore had his Utopia and
Lord Bacon had his New Atlan­tis,
but I once had an experience
that would put all those worthy
gentlemen to shame.
I was peacefully riding the
subway in New York ^ one rainy
night when the train entered one
of the tunnels under the river,
heading west. Somehow, the river
bed shifted and we found our­selves
(me and the motorman) in
a dry chasm (the rest of the pas­sengers
were being interviewed
by Elmo Ropo, no relation to
Elmo Roper, the prophet). When
the motorman realized he wasn't
in control of the train he turned
on his wrist-radio (Dick Tracy
model 13S26039L) and heard the
news that Landon narrowly
missed getting elected by a mere
46 states. It upset him so that he
dropped dead on the spot. He
had bet his life savings on the
prediction of Elmo Ropo (still no
relation to Elmo Roper).
Alone, (I don't know how I got
lost) I looked around to find a
way to get out. I went through
the first door (revolving) and
found myself on a beautiful col­lege
campus. Upon seeing me, the
president rushed out to meet me,
yelling "War Eagle" at the top
of his lungs.
He thrust a fifty-cent cigar in
my mouth and asked me to cup
my hands and he filled them
with 25-year old Scotch. After
several handfuls, he gave me an
Irish linen handkerchief on which
to wipe my mouth and bade me
follow him.
We went into the 120-story ad­ministration
building and enter­ed
the registrar's office. Upon
seeing us, the registrar braced
against the wall but the president
put him at his ease. With this
fine gesture, he relaxed and scur­ried
around to his huge teak
' desk and asked me what I wished
to take. "I hate to bother you
with such details," he apologized,
"but you know how it is." Not
knowing how it was, I answered
simply "Roger."
With a rapid fire tongue I re­gistered
for 50 quaintrain hours
(equivalent to semester hours but
lasting only ten minutes.) My ma­jor
was to be spinning wheel re­pair
and motorcycle differential
design,' (not much business but
lots of .free time).
With this triviality (as the pre­sident
persisted in calling it), I
was ushered out for a tour of the
campus. On our tour around (we
were riding in a 36-cylinder Cros-ley)
all the sights were pointed
out. We stopped in front of the
field house where the football
team was practicing. I asked
about the schedule but was in­formed
that they didn't actually
play games. All the sports writ­ers
were so good that they merely
predicted the outcome and let it
go at that.
All the students were standing
in line for their tickets to the
Chesta Bowl. Since they didn't
play • the games they would
gather every Saturday afternoon
and watch the sport writers do
their stuff. It was also true that
the Chesta Bowl, in which old
U. of Lyceum Fantasta (as the
college was called) was to play
was ten years away but they
wanted to be sure of getting
seats.
Due to a limitation of space,
I can't relate to you all that hap­pened
during the four years I
was there but watch this column
in the future for more details.
It is almost impossible today
to pick up a paper without seeing
the words "communist," "capital­ist,"
or "socialist" smeared indis­criminately
across the front page.
We are informed that there is a
titanic struggle occurring between
capitalism and communism. The
House Un-American Committee
reports that our governmental
structure has been overrun with
communists. America is spending
billions of dollars yearly on the
Marshall Plan in the hope of halt­ing
the spread of communism.
Communism and socialism are
undoubtedly topics which will af­fect
the lives of all of us. We, as
college students, should be thor­oughly
familiar with meaning and
background of both systems of go­vernment.
But are we?
I asked a number of students to
give me a short definition for a
capitalist, a communist, and a
socialist. The answers that I got
would have been ludicrous, had it
not been for the serious implica­tions
contained in the vast amount
of misinformation which I receiv­ed.
With very few exceptions, al­most
none of the students I ques­tioned
knew the basic differences
between the three systems of go­vernment.
Some of them were
very critical of capitalism, despite
the fact that they heartily approv­ed
of the economic system en­joyed
in these hopelessly capital­istic
United States.
Listed below is a verbatim copy
of my conversation with a senior
who was selected for membership
in "Who's Who in American Col­leges
and Universities." His an­swers
are typical of those given
.by most of the students I ques­tioned.
Q. What is a capitalist?
A. A capitalist is a group of
people who control the damn
world. They are doing everything
possible to cause another war,
since they didn't make enough
(continued on page 5)
Chaff
" . . . which the wind driveth ,
away . . . "
by Jims Watson and Williams
Auburn students go to the mo­vies
for the definite purpose of
having a gobd time.'This may be
attributed to three factors: (1)
fairly inexpensive tickets (before
taxes), (2) good pop corn, and (3)
good looking gals selling tickets.
Conclusive tests have proved that
some psychoneurotics even go just
to see the picture.
Actually the title of the picture
has little effect on the attendance.
If the show is poor, the audience
chips in with its witticism which
often proves funnier than the mo­vie.
We overheard two students
going into the Tiger one night pro­claiming,
"The show's no good;
maybe the audience will be okay,
though."
One of the best impromptu re­marks
was during one of those
stupendous-colossal w i 1 d-w e s t
movies. Hordes of Indians came
howling upon a small group of
settlers. The heroine, standing in
the middle of the besieged fort
screamed, "What will we do now?"
An Auburn lad y e l l e d back,
"Punt!"
Between shows one day, there
was a baby contest. The house
was packed . . . nobody knew there
was going to be a baby contest. As
the babies walked across the stage
the audience was obviously bored
and unresponsive. Finally, one of
the kids became stage struck and
refused to leave the stage. His
mother was a very voluptuous
blonde. When she walked out on
the stage to retrieve her bashful
boy, audience response grew from
practically nil to a savage frenzy.
We think she won the contest.
When you see a girl in the mid-nite
show, she is either married, a
citizen of Auburn, or has slipped
out of one of the dormitories.
Girls who don't ever get to go to
the mid-nite shows due to some
minor regulation about being in
by eleven o'clock miss a most en­joyable
treat. '.
Practically everyone at the mid-nities
buys popcorn. After the popr
corn has been eaten or else
bounced off the head of a worthy
target, the boxes are unwound in
a long thin spiral about the box's
girth, and the end of the strip is
passed up one aisle and down the
next. When the strip ends, a new
one is spliced on, and a continuous
line of pasteboard usually encircles
the audience by the time the show
commences. Local inebriates are
more frequent in the mid-nite
shows than at' any other shows.
They occupy their time by sleep­ing,
leading the community sings,
or traipesing down the aisles try­ing
to borrw a bottle opener.
And if you ever want to know
what to give an Auburn theater
manager for a Christmas present,
just buy him a box of aspirin.
5—THE mLNESSMXN; Wednesday, Jan. 12, 1949
Tigers Open 1949 Wrestling Season;
Battle Washington And tee Tonight
By Bob Ingram
Coach "Swede" Umbach and his fine Auburn wrestling
team departed from Auburn Monday enroute to Lexington,
Virginia, where tonight they will open their 1949 schedule
against a favored Washington and Lee squad. The Colonels
captured the Southern Conference championship last year,
and are expected to have another
mmm* FLIPS ONE
strong team this season.
Coach Umbach and his team
have been working for weeks in
preparation for their, ten - meet
schedule. Competition for starting
berths on the team were so keen
that only this week was Coach
Umbach able to select his starting
team.
The squad is bolstered by four
veterans of last year's S-.E.A.A.U.
title winning team. Coach Umbach
•also picked up some good ma­terial
from the recent interfra-ternity
wrestling tournament, and
two of his starters tonight will be
former fraternity champions.
In the 121' pound class, Jack
Gray will represent the Tigers.
Gray was awarded the starting
nod only after plenty of compe­tition
from Ed Latham and John
Howard.
D I N E
IN A FRIENDLY
ATMOSPHIRE
You'll like' our courteous
help and pleasant surround­ings.
STEAKS CHICKEN
SEAFOOD
AUBURN GRILLE
In the 128 pound class, Sonny
Dragoin beat out all 'other rivals.
Dragoin recently won ' the 128
pound championship in the inter-fraternity
tournament.
Robin Baker will be the starter
in the 136 pound class, but Coach
Umbach has a very capable alter­nate
in this division in Jack Or-cuttj
should Baker weaken.
Carroll Keller, a holdover from
last year's squad will wrestle
in the 145 pound bracket, and
John "Spider" McKenzie, another
veteran, will compete in the 155
pound class.
Phil Smith is back for another
year and will be counted on to
garner plenty of points for Au­burn
in the 165 pound bracket. In
the 175 pound class will be Jeth
Whitespunner, who was one of
the big reasons why the Sigma
Chi's won the recent interfraterni-ty
wrestling title for the second
consecutive year.
Topping off the list will be big
John Brnilovich in the heavy­weight
department, i John, who
plays football for Coach Brown
and hurls the javelin for Coach
Hutsell, was a mainstay on Coach
Umbach's wrestling team of last
year. Should Big Jim falter,
though, Jim M a d d o x can be
counted on to step into his shoes.
Auburn Fraternity Football Champions
By BOB INGRAM
The Sigma Alpha Epsilon touch football team, Auburn's
1948 interfraternity champs, defeated the University of Ala­bama
fraternity champions, Sigma Chi, in a hard fought game
in Tuscaloosa on December 11. The final score was 8-7, the
SAE's winning the game in a sudden death playoff after the
regulation game had ended in a j winning 8-7.
Leading the winners in their
fine victory were Rollins, Biggers,
Green, Johnson, Kelly and Phil­lips.
Probably the outstanding ele­ment
of the game was the exemp­lary
sportsmanship displayed by
all participants throughout the
bruising game. >.',.''
SAE Leads Fraternities
In Sports Trophy Race
After one quarter of competi­tion,
the Sigma Alpha Epsilon
fraternity is leading all other fra­ternities
for the Interfraternity
All-Sports Trophy. This trophy is
awarded each year to the frater­nity
which scores the most points
in interfraternity sports compe­tition.
Winners of this trophy for the
past two years, the SAE's, have
amassed a total of 365 points in
touch football, horseshoes, and
wrestling. In second place, only
80 points behind, are the Sigma
Chi's with 285; The KA's arid Pi-
'KA'sc';;are next in order with
scores of 280 and 270 respectively.
The fraternities and point to-
ROY BRAWNER SINKS ONE for Auburn d uring the last Auburn-Alabama basketball game.
Jack Glasgow is shown screening for the shooter, and William Lynn is getting ready to cut for
the basket to follow the shot. Ardie Robinson, an Auburn Forward is moving toward the basket
at the extreme left. Alabama won the game -45 to 38. (Photo by Raymond Kearney.) :
Auburn Frosh Win
Auburn's freshman basketball
team won two decisive victories
over Opelika High's "A" and "B"
teams in games at the Opelika
Armory Saturday night.
In the first game, Auburn's "B"
team downed Opelika's "B" team
53 to 14. High scorers for Auburn
were Kelcy Cargile with 16 points
and Mickey Logue with 10 points.
Sellers and Waldheim paced the
losers with six and five points re­spectively.
The freshman regulars beat
Opelika's varsity in the final
game 58 to 18. Bill Walter with 14
points and Gene Hoehle with 11
points were high scorers for the
frosh. Asbury and Finney were
the high point men for Opelika
with four points each.
In their only other start,'. Au­burn
beat Opelika 38 to 26 in the
sports arena before Christmas.
The freshmen's next game will be
with a team from Roanoke Fri­day
night. The place where . the
game will be played has not been
decided yet.
tals are: SAE, 365; SC, 285; KA,
280; PiKA, 270; AP, 265; ATO,
250; LCA, 250; SPE, 235; PKP,
-175; KS, 170; TC, 47Q;- SN, 155;
AGR, 150; PKT, 140; TKE, 140;
DSP, 125; PDT, 120; OTS, 105;
SP, 75.
J. W. Shaddix Joins
Veterans Center Staff
Mr. W. O. Barrow, director,
Veterans Advisory Center, an­nounced
the addition of Mr. J. W.
Shaddix of Lanett to the staff of
the Center. He will assist in the
grading of the tests given to stu­dents
and*veterans at the Center.
Mr. Shaddix graduated from
Auburn in December and is now
working toward a master's degree.
FOR RENT: Room for couple
or single student. Good location
Phone Allen Callen at 652-J or
see him at 305 S. College Street.
FOUND: One pair of plastic
glasses on south side of Bank of
Auburn. Call for at 138 West
Magnolia.
FOR', RENT: Two rooms up­stairs..
Private lavatory and toi­let
(Bath privileges). Gas heat.
Will furnish to first four boys.
Cafe next door. Phone Mrs. C.
B. Mayberry at 2371 Waverly.
LOST: One black bill fold.
January 7. Finder please return
to Frances Harwell. Dormitory
IV.
BASKETBALL.
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All Colors
$1.50 up
BASKETBALLS
Goals, Knee Pads,
Scorebooks, Etc.
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Phone 925
7-7 tie.
The first quarter was scoreless,
although SAE made two deter­mined
drives deep into Sigma
Chi territory. Midway of the sec­ond
quarter the1 Alabama title-holders
caught the SAE defenses
napping and scored on a 40 yard
pass, Stevens to Gammage. The
try for point was good, and the
half ended with SC's leading 7-0,
The third quarter was1 featured
by vicious line play, but with nei­ther
team able to get into scoring
position. Late in the game, with
time running out, the SAE's be­gan
to move goalward. This drive
I was given new life when Hooper
Turner made a sensational diving
catch to the SAE's a first down in
Sigma Chi territory. After two
incompletions Rollins fired a pass
to Art Phillips, who had gotten
behind the 'Bama defenses, and
Phillips went all the way. The
SAE's surprised the SC's by pas­sing
for their extra point, Rollins
to Biggers, and the garne ended
shortly after, the score Y-7.
In the playoff that followed, the
inspired SAE's rolled for 15 yards,
apd then turned back the Sigma
Chi's on all four downs, thereby
Dead End
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on the last one.
Q. What is a communist?
A. Well, a capitalist is a damn
communist.
Q. Isn't communism opposed to
capitalism? .
A. No, only in the newspapers.
Actually, they are working right,
along together.
Q. Is Russia communist-con­trolled?
A. Sure!
Q'. Is the United States a capi­talistic
nation? v
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Q. Are these two nations work­ing
together? »
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war. I've got some inside
information on that.
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Make a new type of cable sheath no one has
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put up to Western Electric's manufacturing
engineers.
The new type of cable sheath—developed
through cooperative research at Bell Tele­phone
Laboratories and Western Electric
Company—is a Valuable alternative to the
traditional lead covering for telephone cable.
It is called Alpeth. " A l " stands for an inner
shield of aluminum}''peth" for the outer
coating of the plastic, polyethylene.
To produce this new cable sheath, Western
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line—a combination of new machines
and new manufacturing techniques—which
turns out finished cable in a fas: moving,
straight-line operation.
From »he desert-dry 125° F "hot room" where thoroughly dried coble
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gleaming black polyethylene. Finally, after a 100-foot bath in a
roollng trough, the finished cable is wound on reels and readied far
ahipmam to Bel! Telephone companies.
Engineering problems are many and varied at Western Electric, where manufacturing tele*
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mechanical, industrial, chemical, metallurgical—are constantly working to devise and
improve machines and processes for production of highest quality communications equipment*
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detailed here. We cordially invite interested students engaged
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FRATERNITY FOOTBALL CHAMPS Six Year Course And Regional Training
To Be Installed At Auburn's Vet School
By Fran Harper
The year 1949 brings a new era1 in Veterinary Medicine
to Auburn.
Commencing with the class entering in the fall of 1949,
the School of Veterinary Medicine will change from a five
year program to one requiring six years of study, two years
pre-professional and four years
of veterinary medicine work.
1 The school is also preparing for
' regional t r a i n i n g , a program
which was approved in Savan­nah,
Ga., in December, and which
awaits how the final approval of
the legislatures of the southern
states, J
. The field of veterinary medi­cine
is becoming as specialized as
human medicine, Dean R. S.
Sugg points out. A graduate vet­erinarian
will find opportunity
and adventure in private prac­tice,
be it general or specialized.
The United States Bureau of Ani­mal
Industry offers varied posi­tions,
and there is a growing need
for municipal and state inspec­tors
for food, meat and milk.
Commercial biological labora­tories
require^ graduate veteri­narians,
and there is a continued
need for college teacners and re­search
workers. Large dairy and
livestock farms have openings
for veterinarians who double as
superintendents, and every state
6—THE PLAINSMAti Wednesday, Jan. 12, 1949
employs veterinarians, bacterid
ologists and pathologists.
The degree of Doctor of Vet­erinary
Medicine awarded at Au­burn
is recognized by the United
States Department of Agricul­ture,
the United States Civil
Service Commission, the United
States Army and state examina­tion
boards.
A three-month period of in­ternship
under a graduate vet­erinarian
is required of all grad­uates
here. Young "vets" at Au­burn
gain' first-hand knowledge
in the diagnosis and treatment of
LOST: Man's gold wrist watch
with gold band on December 13
between Midway and Graves
Apartments. Finder phone Fred
C. Jones at 1251-J.
FOR SALE: Furniture in good
condition. Bargain prices. Con­tact
W. R. Dickson at phone
652-J.
all kinds of animal diseases. The
school' operates a small animal
clinic, a large animal clinic and
an ambulatory clinic.
MEMBERS OF THE SAE FOOTBALL TEAM who defeated the Alpha Psi's in the play-off
1 game for the fraternity championship are bo:;om row Fred Jones, Arthur Phillips. Charles
'•• Phillips, Dave Kelley, Bud Whittlesey, Ben Crabb, and Jimmy Biggers.
Second row Bobby Johnson, Jim Bob Mayfield, Otis Gilliam, Charles Peay, Felix Hoke, Bill
. Shelby, and Clark Hungerford.
* Top row Gene Chambless, Fred Johnson, James Anderson, Hooper Turner, James Green,
Felix Baker, and Brock Lippitt. . . . • ' -
Members Of ACIA
Hold Annual Meet
The Alabama Crop Improve­ment
Association held its annual
meeting in Auburn yesterday.
Over-100 members plus seedsmen
a n d professional agricultural
workers were at the meeting, ac­cording
to Ralph Jones, secre­tary
of the association. and Au­burn
extension specialist in seed
crop marketing.
The association reviewed the
year's work and made plans to
expand during 1949, President
Will. Howard Smith of Prattville
explained.
Robert R. McDonald of Birm>
ingham, president of the- Ala­bama
Seedsmen's Association, ad­dressed
the group. His subject
was "The Seed Industry in Ala­bama."
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65 o
1. Clean plugs
2. Change Transmission grease
3. Change Differential grease
4. Complete lubrication
5. Oil Change
6. Pack wheels
7. Switch tires
8. Check brake fluid
9. Check tires
10. Drain and flush radiator
11. Check Anti-freeze
12. Check battery
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ention All Studen
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