1952-12-12 The Auburn Plainsman

              i DEC 13 1952
Students Take
Final Fling Before
Flunking Finals
the Early Grades
Prove Professors
Are Not Santas
AUUftN "X4Z
TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT
VOL. 79 8 Pages
Party For Gridders
Shows Auburnites Aware
Of Team's Sacrifices
By War Eagle
One of the most appropriate
social functions to take place
in sight of this perch in many
moons was held out at Dairy-land
Farms Monday night.
- A ' brainchild o f Barney
Johnson, genial proprietor of
"The Cub," the soiree was a bar­becue
feting the members of the
1952 Tiger football squad. The
gridders, letting off steam after
almost three months of rigorous
training regulations, evidently
enjoyed themselves to the utmost,
and Barney looked like he was
getting quite a kick out of the
proceedings himself.
The party was financed by
hundreds of Tiger fans. Contri­butions
have been accumulating
in a jug over in Barney's beanery
since early in September, and
the total was sufficient to fur­nish
the barbecue. Drinks, bread,
-potato chips and other trimmings
were donated by interested firms
in this area, and the meal was
--•wef^ed in a congenial atmosphere,
despite a rather chilling wind
which was rolling across the
Plains.
A Tough Decision
It's tough to decide whether the
party was a greater tribute to
the '52 grid machine or to its
supporters, and the 2-8 record
of this year's Tigers doesn't help
things any. If the team record
had been more impressive, then
the solid backing given the party
plans wouldn't have been so hard
to explain.
As it is, this excellent method
of honoring a football team—even
one which lost several games—
serves to prove once again that
we have a feeling here which is
conspiciously absent on other
campuses.
It makes me proud to note thai
Auburn students and townspeople
are aware of the sacrifices made
by the men who wear the Orange
and Blue into 10 football games
every season, and it makes me
even prouder to watch them try
to put this awareness, along with
their appreciation of the sacrifi­ces,
into a tangible form which
can be enjoyed by the players.
You're Ambassadors
, When the Christmas holidays
open up, more than 6,000 Auburn
students will have 17 days of inti­mate
contact with people their
own age throughout Alabama and
several other states.
These vacation periods are one
of the best opportunities available
for the distribution of good pub­licity
about Auburn.
When API students are engaged
in the usual "bull sessions" with
students from other colleges and
those still in high school the
question "How do you do it at
Auburn?" is bound to come up,
and I'm depending on each under­graduate
to do his part toward
seeing that API holds its own in
these discussions.
If you're proud of your school,
don't be afraid to let somebody,
anybody, or everybody in your
hometown know it when you get
there.
With that, this ole bird gives
all Plainsman readers the tradi­tional
hope for a joyous holiday
season, and goes on record as en­dorsing
an even greater Auburn
in '53.
AUBURN'S ROTC units were inspected this week by Maj.
Gen. Charles Canham, deputy commanger general, third army.
While in Auburn, General Canham also conferred with Col. W. J.
Klepinger, local PMS&T, and Dr. David Mullins, API vice-presi­dent,
on policies for the Auburn unit.
REW Theme, 'God Speaks Today/
To Be Featured In Annual Services
By JoAnne Lucci
"God Speaks Today" will be the theme of Auburn's 1953
Religious Emphasis Week, which will be held February 1-5.
Major objectives of the program will be to awaken stu­dents
to their need of a dynamic religious faith and to the
fact that their religion should be practiced every hour of
3very day, not simply a few hours
_>ach week.
REW leaders also hope to show
ihat religion is intellectually re­spectable,
dynamic, and continu­ally
relevant to the social issues
3f the day and promotes a
greater understanding and toler­ance
of other faiths and denom­inations.
OTHER OBJECTIVES .are to
encourage young men and women
to p l a n thoughtfully toward
building Christian homes, to en­courage
faculty and students to
more active service in their
churches and t o w a r d better
churchmanship, to arouse an in­terest
in religion among those
students not now taking part in
campus religious activities, and to
bring students and faculty mem­bers
to commitment to religious
principles and to God.
Commission chairmen and com­mitteemen
recently appointed to
serve during REW are: executive
commission—President R a l ph
Draughon, honorary chairman;
Charles W. Edwards, chairman;
Robert Fulton, vice chairman;
John Benton, program chairman;
James E. Foy, treasurer; Kath­arine
Cater, advisor.
P r o m o t i o n commission—Jo_
Anne Lucci, chairman; J a ne
Parks, book displays. Poster and
radio personnel are to be appoint­ed.
Educational commission—Fran­cis
Holland, chairman; P a t ty
Fleming, noonday meditations;
Marianne Jackson and Walter
Brand, house discussions; Jeanne
Morriss, assemblies; Jack Green
and Nelson Conover, classroom
discussions.,._ . ^ . _..- .., -
Social commission—Marilakin
Howard, chairman; Maurice Wil­lis,
reception, and Pen Ivey,
housing.
SEVERAL POSITIONS on the
social commission also remain to
be filled, according to chairman
Howard.
This year, plans have been
made to hold convocations in
three buildings. Arrangements
have been made to hold several
meetings in both the Tiger and
War Eagle Theaters as well as in
Langdon Hall.
With this arrangement, an ap­propriate
total of 2,000 students
can be seated, REW heads ex­plained.
Each local church is inviting a
speaker, and the college is invit­ing
two speakers. Names of
speakers will be released at a
later date, according to Charles
Edwafds, chairman of REW.
Shea Tells Audience 'Neo-Fascism
Now South America's Chief Menace'
By Charles Sullivan
"The chief menace facing South America today is the
spread of Peron's Argentine brand of neo-fascism," asserted
Frank B. Shea, Time and Life bureau chief, in Langdon Hall
Monday night.
Speaking on the topic, "Latin American Ferment," Shea
outlined recent developments in
three South American countries.
Bolivia, Ecuador, and Chile, where
Peron-sponsored groups h a ve
gained governmental control. Ac­cording
to Shea, in each of these
countries, the victorious groups
campaigned along hyper-nation­alist
lines and emphasized anti-
American slogans."
Throughout his discussion, the
speaker emphasized the fact that
Peronism, like Communism, is
menacing enough as a national
phenomenon, but that the great
threat lies in the export of the
commodity.
HITTING AT what he termed
a "zig-zag United States foreign
policy in Argentina," Shea point­ed
out that within a five-year
period our nation sent four dif­ferent
ambassadors to Argentina.
Two of the ambassadors favored
Pcron and his wife, Evita, while
the other two men fought against
their dictatorial policies.
Having been on the scene at the
losing of La Prensa, the Buenos
Aires newspaper which defied
Peron, the speaker stated the La
Prensa conflict was "simply a
conflict between a dictator and
the one great voice he had dared
not still." Shea touched upon the
methods employed by Peron and
Evita to gain and maintain con­trol
of Argentina.
He discussed the affection of
the poverty-stricken lower class
people for their leaders, and the
poor economic condition of Ar­gentina.
A veteran newspaperman, Shea
spent some 16 months in Argen­tina
during 1951-52 as Time and
Life correspondent, and has an
extensive background as a report­er
and political analyst. He spent
two days and nights in a Buenos
Aires jail as a result of witnessing
a riot which occurred when em­ployees
of La Pren6a tried to re­turn
to work. .
IN EXPANDING his topic, Shea
stated that since Argentina has
practically gained control of Bo­livia,
Ecuador, and Chile, she can
channel the tin, cooper, tungsten,
and nitrates of those countries
into her industrial machine.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1952 ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA Number 20
Seniors To Receive Degrees Thursday
Reuben Finney! PiKA Win In 24th Cake Race
Frosh Wins Traditional Awards,
Including Kiss From Miss Auburn
By Herb White
Reuben Finney, PiKA pledge from Buffalo, won the 24th
annual Omicron Delta Kappa-Wilbur Hutsell Cake Race Wed­nesday
afternoon. The winning time was 14 minutes and
30 seconds.
Pi Kappa Alpha also won the fraternity trophy awarded
by the Interfraternity Council for
the Greek group having the first
four with the lowest total number
of points crossing the finish line.
Bob Berg, Fred Sharp and Jim
Johnson finished third, fourth and
seventh to take the race for the
Pike's.
THE RACE is a cross country
y a r d ' s Men Shop (to Nos. 1, 9,
15), one tie; Lipscomb's Drugs.
Old Spice after shave; Auburn
Amusement Center, four games
pool; McMillan Pool Room, five
games of pool; Wright's Drugs,
Aerosol lather-balm; A u b u rn
Pharmacy, Shick injector razor;
, c ,, run required of all puh ysi•c a,l,l y (;fVit 1 Eill Ham Cleaner's v$ 2 ^w orth of
i e u_ Tt -i J K,, cleaning to Nos. 115 and 302
male freshmen. It it sponsored by
ODK, national honor society and
dedicated to Wilbur Hutsell, dean
of southern track coaches.
Each year's winner receives a
large cake, a kiss from "Miss Au­burn"
and a number of prizes
from local merchants. The next
twenty-five receive cakes and
some other positions are desig­nated
for prizes from merchants.
Magnolia Hall had their own
contest with Division K winning.
Tod Hollis, Richard Runyan, Jerry
Oakes and Terry Albert came in
to win for Division K.
..THE TQP
were Ruben Finney, David Pow­ell,
Bob Berg, Fred Sharp, Clar­ence
Vaughn, Jim Johnson, Hank
Terry, Allen Barks, Phil Jones,
Vincent Nardone, Lowell Lcd-better.
Joe Copeland, Hollis Todd, John
Parks, Joe Autrey, Jerry Oakes,
I. R. MacDowell, M. E. Barnett,
Murray Echols, Randy Godwin,
Alex McGowin, Richard Runyan,
Jim Pyburn, and Taylor Wingo.
Merchants donating gifts were
Olin L. Hill, $3 gift certificate;
Cub, one free meal; Burton's,
Auburn pennant; Ware's Jewelry,
cuff links, tie pin and key chain;
Auburn Music Company, album
of 45 r.p.m. records; College Bar­ber
Shop, one hair cut; Varsity
Barber Shop (to No. 28), one
haircut; Jockisch Jewelry, one
key chain; Toomer's Drugs, one
bottle of hair oil; Parker's, one
tie; Pitt's Clothing, one tie; Au­burn
Gift Shop, box of API sta­tionery.
R. K. Owen Named
New Sports Editor
Ronald K. Owen, Cullman, was
appointed sports editor of The
Plainsman this week. He will as­sume
his duties beginning with
the winter quarter, 1953.
Owen, a sophomore in business
administration, will replace sports
editor Dave "Foots" Laney, Col-
25 as they finished 'iumbus,..Ga., who, is graduating
this quarter.
THIS QUARTER Owen has
served as intramural editor, and
has been a member of the sports
staff for three .quarters.
The new sports editor will be
assisted by Larry Conner, East
Point, Ga., sophomore in indus­trial
management, a n d John
Raines, Chapman, sophomore in
science and literature.
Final Fall Edition
This edition, the 12th of the
fall quarter, will be the final
issue of The Plainsman this year.
The first issue of the winter
quarter will be published Wed­nesday,
Jan. 14.
Book Exchange To Open
The student book exchange,
operated on a non-profit basis by
Alpha Phi Omega, national ser­vice
fraternity, will be open to
take in books the last days of this
quarter and the first days of the
winter quarter, according to De-
Wayne McCauley, manager.
The APhiO book exchange will
be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on
Monday and Tuesday, December
15 and 16 for take-in only. On
January 5-7, the exchange will be
open for both take in and selling.
McCauley urged students to
bring their books in this quarter
if possible so that they would
have a better chance of selling
early in the winter quarter.
Student Wounded
By Shotgun Blast
Late Yesterday
Weaver E. Henderson, a sopho­more
in industrial management
from Manchester, Ga., was crit­ically
injured yesterday after­noon
from, the blast of a 20-gauge
shotgun. The accident occured at
approximately 4:30 p.m. in the
forestry plot.
Henderson and Jackie Creel, a
Dothan sophomore, were return­ing
in Creel's automobile from
hunting in the plot Creel, the
only witness to the accident stat­ed
that Henderson saw a squirrel
and stuck the gun out the car
window.
Creel said that he told Hender­son
not to shoot because there
was a car behind them, and then
turned to watch the road. He
heard the gun go off and looked
to see what had happened when
Henderson collapsed.
Creel immediately rushed the
wounded student to the college
infirmary. I n f i r m a r y officials
stated that Henderson had been
wounded behind the right ear,
and that efforts "were" being rha'de'
to secure a brain specialist to
treat the wound. Henderson was
reported as resting but in critical
condition at press time.
New Directories Ready
The News Bureau has com­pleted
the publication of the
1952-53 student and faculty di-directory,
and distribution of
the booklet was begun Monday,
announced publicity director
L. O. Brackeen recently.
In making the announcement
Brackeen stated that students
and faculty members could ob­tain
copies at the office of the
News Bureau and asked that
those receiving the issue draw a
line through their name in the
directory which has been placed
on the desk for that purpose.
'LOVELIEST OF THE PLAINS'
Date Of Publication
Changed For Plainsman
A change in the publication
date of The Plainsman was ap­proved
unanimously Wednesday
by the API Board of Student
Publications.
Beginning with the winter
quarter, 1953, The Plainsman
will be published on Wednes­days
instead of Fridays. This
quarter was the first in a num­ber
of years in which the^paper
was published Friday instead of
Wednesday.
" I t was generally believed by
the board that The Plainsman
could best serve the student body
by coming out on Wednesday,"
said James E.Foy, chairman of
the board.
Alabama College Prexy To Deliver
Address in Student Ac Building
By JoAnne Lucci
Approximately 234 Auburn seniors will receive their de­grees
at the fall quarter graduation exercises to be held on
Thursday, Dec. 18, at 2:30 p.m. in the student activities build­ing-
The commencement address will be given by Dr. F. Edward
Lund, president of Alabama Col-
* : lege at Montevallo. Appointed to
his 'present post early this year,
Dr. Lund received the A.B. and
M.A. degrees from Washington
and Lee University, and a Ph.D.
from the University of Wisconsin.
Dr. Lund is a member of num­erous
honorary organizations and
is past president of the Alabama
Association of College Administra­tors.
API PRESIDENT and Mrs. Ralph
B. Draughon will honor graduates,
their parents and guests at a cof­fee
hour to be held from 10:30 to
12:30 in Smith Hall Thursday
morning.
Candidates for degrees are:
Master of Arts
Jenny Dean Barton, Montgom­ery;
Eleanor Fallin McKeller,
Troy, and Paul LaFayette Muss-leman,
Florence.
Master of Science in Agronomy
Virgil Shell Searcy, Auburn.
Master of Science in Education
Frances Bedwell Gernut, Spring
Garden; William Thomas Duncan,
Talladega; Nina K a t e Temple
Graham, Atmore; Sarah Frances
McDonald, Opelika; Glen Nichols,
Maddox, Andalusia; John Tom
Radney. Wadley; Edward Martin
Robertson, Wadley; M a r y Sue
Greenhaw Slaughter, Columbus,
Ga., and Walter Lawrence Weeks,
Gadsden.
Master of Science in Agricultural
Education
Samuel Hill Alverson, Munford;
Lowery Heywood Davis, Lexing­ton;
Edward Thomas Hollowell,
Rich Square, N.C.; James E. Lee,
Arlington, W. Va„ and Edwin La-
Vern Riddick, Gurley.
Master of Electrical Engineering
Clarence B. Grund, Jr., Dallas,
Oregon.
Master of Science in Entomology
James Albert Griffin, Jr., Lang-dale.
(Continued on page 3)
Joint Committee
On Descriptive Fi
Meets This Week
The joint student government-administration
committee working
on plans for the proposed descrip­tive
film of Auburn met Monday,
Dec. 8, in Samford Hall.
Reports of the three sub-com­mittees
drawing up tentative plans
for the order of the film were
heard. These committees arc made
up of representatives from the stu­dent
body, the research depart­ment,
and the extension service.
THE 20-MINUTE film is tenta­tively
arranged in three sections.
The first 12 minutes will be de­voted
. to a general view of cam­pus
life and instruction. The re­maining
12 minutes will be divided
into two 4 minute section showing
the work of the research depart­ment
and the API extension serv­ice.
The film will thus present an
over-all picture of the college,
showing what API has to offer to
prospective students and to the
state of Alabama.
A committee was appointed to
develop the chronological order of
the film; this report will be given
at the next meeting of the group
which will be held on Friday,
Jan. 23.
IF YOUR DECORATIONS look this good, we'll wager that
you're all set for a very merry Christmas! The chief ornament on
his tree is Gladys Blackburn, junior in interior design from
Birmingham. (API Photo by Les King.)
Navy Unit Gets Award
Auburn's NROTC unit was
presented with the Secretary of
the Navy's motor vehicle safety
award recently.
In presenting the award Cap­tain
P. E. Gillespie, commanding
officer of the U.S. Naval Air Sta­tion
in Birmingham, stated that
the award was presented to the
navy unit for completing a year
without a motor vehicle accident.
Colonel George B. Bell, PNS&T
accepted the award in behalf of
the unit.
Two Students Hurt
In Auto Accident
The corner of South Gay Street
and Samford Avenue, was the
scene Friday night of the third
automobile accident in recent
weeks involving Auburn students.
Only one car, a 1952 Kaiser
driven by David H. Jones, a 19
year old electrical engineering
sophomore from Birmingham, was
involved in the accident. The auto­mobile
was owned by the only
other occupant, Paul DeKelaita of
Chicago.
According to the Auburn Police
Department, Jones attempted to
make a left turn off Gay Street
and failed to make the turn. Al­though
the police department was
unable to establish the speed of
the autdmobile at the time of the
accident, it stated that the speed
limit at the intersection was 15
m.p.h.
API Debate Teams
Take Third Place
In TKA Tourney
In its first intercollegiate com­petition
this fall, API's debate team
placed second in the Southern Re­gional
Tau Kappa Alpha Tourna­ment
held at Louisiana State Uni­versity
last weekend.
Competing with eight other col­leges
and universities, API won
seven and lost three of the debates.
LSU took first place honors with
a total of eight wins and two losses.
Auburn's negative team won four
in five starts, and finished as
runner-up for the best negative
team award.
Team members debating last
weekend were Guy Smith, Annis-ton;
Bettic Jones, Auburn; Bruce
Welch. Columbus, Ga, and Deni-sun
Ray, Anniston.
Invitations Available
Several students who ordered
fall quarter graduation invita­tions
during the sale held earlier
tnis term have not yet picked
them up, according to Ned Ellis,
Ft. Deposit, chairman of the In­vitations
Committee.
The invitations have arrived
and are available at the student
government office in Samford
Basement during regular office
hours there.
Pi Kappa Alpha Neophytes Entertain
With First Campus Pledge Formal
By J e p Greer
The Pledge Class of Pi Kappa Alpha presented the first
pledge formal in API's history Saturday night, Dec. 6.
Decorations for t h e living room were mistletoe, smilax,
acd a huge gold bordered pledge pin mounted on a green
background, with a gold " P i " symbol in t h e center of t he
pin. The Pi opened into a path
way for the leadout.
Music was furnished by the
Starlighters orchestra.
The dance was lead by Miss
Patty Gunn and the president of
the pledge class, Reggie Harp.
Following the president were
other officers of the class and
their dates: Barbara Chenney,
vice-president F e l i x Cochran;
Helen Wilson, secretary Jack Ar­mor,
and Miss Betty Ann John­son,
"Dream Girl" of the Pi
Kappa Alpha Pledge Class, es­corted
by Leon Gorman.
Roses were presented to Miss
Johnson by Mrs. M. L. Steed, Pike
housemother. E s c o r t i n g Mrs.
Steed were Ed White, treasurer
and John Willing, social chair­man.
PLEDGES AND THEIR dates
were Alex Bishop, Sara Cham-bless;
J o h n Clenney, Dottie
Quarles; J e r r y Eskew, Mary
Frances Farley; Sammy Oliver,
Helen Langley; James Spence,
Carol Cherry; Jess Phillips, Helen
Wilson; Bill Watson, Flora Skin­ner;
T o m m y Batson, Bobbie
Mooney; Nick Butler, Harriett
Springer; Frank Woodard, Nancy
Atkinson; Ruben Finney, Teny
Fuller; Toby Young, Bernice Wal­ters.
PETE HUTTO, Lorraine Bobgen;
Winston Payne, Patsy Jones; Wal­ter
Shaw, Marice McKinney; Bill
Hutto, Merry Lou Arthur; Buddy
Bryan, Pat Ramage; Jack Armor,
Peggy Walters; Bobby B e r g,
Martha Spencer; Felix Cochran,
Barbara Chenney; Fred Rhine-hardt,
Barbara Morgan;- ,
LEON GORMAN, Betty Ann
Johnson; Jim Harris, Jean Thames;
Lowell Ledbetter, Sue Hussy;..Jim
Edge, Lynn Mooty; Harold Stro-zier,
Brenda Davis; Hugh Den-man,
Jeanne Oliver; Charlie Cole­man,
Dora Alice Cowen; E. C.
Kilgore, Shirley Poston; Bob Bra-den,
Becky Chisholm.
ROBERT ESKEW, Martha Bor-iner;
Bill Neville, Lora Gasser;
James Cochran, Charlyne Coch­ran;
Kayo Foshee, Rosemary
Suits; Ray King, Frances May;
Bob Lambert, Joyce Ervin; Mc-
Gowan Cook, Louise Jones; Reg­gie
Harp, Patty Gunn. Stags were
THE CLIMAX of API's first pledge formal came Saturday night with the presentation of a
bouquet of roses to Betty Ann Johnson, "Dream Girl" of the Pi Kappa Alpha pledge class. The
presentation was made by Mrs. L. C. Steed, Pike housemother, with the support of Josh Walling,
Ed White; and Leon Gorman. •.' • ' / '
2—THE PLAINSMAN Friday, Dec. 1L, 1952
Bill Morrison, Bill Duncan, and
Carl McClendon.
Officers from the chapter and
their dates were Herman Tillman,
president; Melodie Hamilton; Carl
Harris, treasurer, M a r y Ann
Bearden; Wick/ Watkins, Spirit
Committee, Catherine Cole; Jack
There's fun-filled confusion
when the campus empties
into cars, trains and planes
as Christmas holidays
begin. Heading for good
times? Pause for a Coke .
and go refreshed.
BOTTIB) UNM* AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY
OPELIKA COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY
•Col*" k a reo/.rer*/ frooVmork. © 1952, THE COCA-COLA COMPANY
Stock Judging Team
Represents Auburn
In International Meet
API's livestock judging team
was recognized at the award din­ger
of the International Ipter-collegiate
Livestock Judging" Con­test
held at Chicago recently as
the first team to represent Ala­bama
in the 45-year history of the
international contest. The Ala-b
a m a Cattlemen's Association
sponsored the trip.
Ned Ellis, Fort Deposit, tied for
first place in judging sbeep; Bob
Stanley, Anniston, placed ele­venth
in judging .horses^ and
Braxton Craig, Town'Creek, ele­venth
in judging hogs. In the in­dividual
judging, 180 students
participated.
The API team scored 4,144
points out of a possible! 5,000, and
placed seventeenth in a field of
36 team competing, m placed fifth
among the 12 Southern teams.
Other members of , the team
participating were Billy Hamr
mond, Roanoke; Henry Gray,
Birmingham, and Bobby Thomp­son,
Evergreen. The team was
coached by Prof. James R. Orr.
Cornell was high team with a
score of 4,376.
Pope, House Manager, and Mark
Shipman, editor of the-Plainsman,
Pike.
Come see
for yourself!
See why yea can be sere yoo get the deal
you deserve here. See how you get mere with
Chevrolet...pay less with our low prices.
See for yourself...
There's JOO Value, like
CHEVROLET Value/
LOWEST PRICED IN ITS FIELDI
Thli beautiful Styleline De Lux* 4-Door Sedan lliti
for leu than any comparable model in its field.
(Continuation of standard equipment and trim
Illustrated is dependent on availability of malarial.J
CHEVROLET
SEE WHAT YOU GAIN More Powerful Valve-in-Head Engine poise Power • Safety Plate Glass all
with Powerglide Automatic Transmis-, around, with E-Z-Eye plate glass (op-
WITH THESE EXCLUSIVE sion (optional on De Luxe models at tional at extra cost) • Largest Brakes in
CHEVROLET FEATURES extra cost) • Body by Fisher • Center- its field • Unitized Knee-Action Ride.
SEE WHAT
YOU SAVE
WITH THE Lowest-Priced Line in its Field!
WIN $23,000 FIRST PRIZE IN THE GENERAL MOTORS BETTER HIOHWAVS AWARDS
162 awards totalling $194,000. Come in for free "Facts Book" containing entry blank and complete details of contest.
.
SEE YOUR CHEVROLET DEALER FOR ALL YOUR AUTOMOTIVE NEEDS!
Conveniently listed under "Automobiles" in your local classified telephone directory
)
Auburn Represented
At AAS Convention
Cadets Buster McLain and John
A r n o l d represented Auburn's
chapter of Arnold Air Society at
its 4th National Convention in Los
Angeles, November 28-29.
The convention was attended
by delegates from 188 colleges
and universities throughout the
United States, Hawaii, and Puerto
Rica.
TRANSPORTATION to a nd
from the convention was furnish­ed
by Air Force planes, C-82's,
and Los Angeles' Biltmore Hotel
served as convention headquart­ers.
A two hour variety show was a
highlight of the convention and
included such stage and screen
artists as Ann Blyth, Pat O'Brien,
Dick Weson, Johnny Mercer, and
Bob Crosby.
A snow storm intervened on
the return flight for McLain and
Arnold arid their plane was rout­ed
through Wyoming, Nebraska,
Utah, and Kansas.
BOOMS For four, boys willibe
vacant hext quarter. Close in to
campus. Phone 462.
WE HAVE THE SOLUTION
FOR THEM ALL —WHETHER IT B E ­TH
RASHER-WRIGHT, Inc.
Auburn's Leading Department Store
d? . - Xrtt- a Christmas gift/
Vfhen * « E g j 3 i l l » t i k e s -
for drieea'dn leorv,e ^ s"omVe *U*ici«!. ys "tr ikes I
EArTS?aStt>er,Cone6e
Newark Sfate *«
%
• - uiW, taught so many Words-
^ ^ X s s ^ n
•St*.
• > >
va%ISiW^^i
{£>
•mmm
, AU.K''
LUCKIES TASTE
BETTER!
They're made better to taste
cleaner, fresher, smoother!
Ask yourself this question: Why do I smoke?
You know, yourself, you smoke for enjoyment.
And you get enjoyment only from the taste of a
cigarette.
Luckies taste better—cleaner, fresher, smoother!
Why? Because Luckies are made better to taste
better. And, what's more, Luckies are made of fine
tobacco. L.S./M.F.T.- Lucky Strike Means Fine
Tobacco.
So, for t he thing you want most in a cigarette...
for better taste-cleaner, fresher, smoother t a s t e . ..
Be H a p p y - G o Lucky!
FOR A CLEANER, FRESHER, SMOOTHER TASTE..,
Be Happy-GO LUCKY!
c * G <>• B £ •\ t £ S
©A. T. Co.
l N N A ^ on actual student in-
Nation-wide survey based on ^ ^ ^ m o re
™v i e W s in 80 l e a ^ t ^ ° a n any other cigarette
'smokers p ^ ^ ^ s o n - L u c k i e s ' better
b y a wide margin No. I " ^ . ^ g a i n ed
taste. Survey - l s o ^ c o U e g e s than the na-
^ ^ . ^ r i S - n d s combined.
N? : • : * * :
tion'
, two other pnncip W
A r.s««"N"",c'm"M
PRODUCT ortj&twnttoJ&m<yow&e<>^™yM'^
AMERICA'S LEADINO MANUFACTURES Of ClQARETTEg
_ i - . »!
More Fall Quarter Graduates Listed
(Continued from page 1)
Master of Science in Game
Management
James Howard Dahlen, Cam­bridge,
Wis.
Master of Science in Veterinary
Medicine
Thomas Hubert Vardaman, Au­burn.
Master of Science in Zoology
Harry Herlich, Lynn, Mass.
SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE
Bachelor of Science in Agriculture
Kent Main Barry, Montgomery;
Bobby Joe Dooley, Watkinsville,
Ga.; Vuin Edward Epps, Red Bay;
John William Glenn, Pelham, Ga.;
Joseph Fx-ank Gravlee, Fayette;
Adrian Brown Hannon, Birming­ham;
William Taylor Harbin,
Gadsden; Arnouldrous Burie Hin-son,
Linden; Arthur Abel Hoik,
Foley.
Thomas Albert Howie, Oxford;
Donald Allan Knight, Birming­ham;
Edward Miles Knowles,
Headland; Albert Norris Manning,
Prattville; Dowling Clifton Miller,
Joppa; Bobby Ralph Mims, Vida;
Richard Weldon Payne, Ramer;
John Newton Sullavan, Bessemer;
Richard Thomas T u r n e r , Jr.,
Moulton, and Bob Yates, Wood­land.
Bachelor of Science in Agricultural
Administration
Joe Kenneth Parker, Samson;
Heni-y Alexander Pipes, Jr., Oak
Ridge, La., and Carlos M. Ward,
Jr., Fairhope.
Bachelor of Science in
Agricultural Engineering
Clarence Wendell Kinman, Jr.,
Montezuma, Ga.
Bachelor of Science in Forestry
James Reid Farrell, Augusta,
Ga., T h o m a s Phillip Payne,
Brantley.
Bachelor of Science in Ornamental
Horticulture
Richard Dale O'Barr, Birming­ham.
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
AND THE ARTS
Bachelor of Architecture
Herman Shelby Dean, Anda­lusia;
Roy Ramsey Froom, Pen-sacola,
Fla.; James Melvin Jen­kins,
Hudson, Mass.; Louis Plosser
Locke, Birmingham; William Ab-ner
Phelps, Troy; Marion Jocelyn
Smith, Jr., Birmingham, and Doss
Richard Wills, College Park, Ga.
Bachelor of Applied Art
James Armo Arnold, Jr., Gads­den;
Emory Josephine Crowder,
Griffin, Ga., and Martha Ann
Hamil, Langdale.
Bachelor of Building Construction
Jesse Barker Clark, Alexander
City; Gifford Sutton Garner,
Ozark; Flynn Edward Hudson,
III, Greensboro; John Goodsell
Latt, Hendersonville, N.C.;- Wil­liam
Douglas Thomason, Jr.,
Ozark; James Willie Watson,
Columbus, Ga., and Frazier Evans
Wilson,; Jr., Jackson, Tenn.
Bachelor of Interior Design
Elviri Norman Ricks, Selma.
SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY
Bachelor of Science in Chemical
Engineering
William Leon Barham, Auburn;
William Oliver Brown, Auburn;
James Madison Council, Daphne;
Oscar Clayton Fewell, Jr., Besse­mer,
and Albert Sidney Johnson,
Jr., Birmingham.
Bachelor of Science in Laboratory
Technology
Martha Lou Benbow, Luverne,
and Dannie Carolyn Yates, Au­burn.
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Education
Helen Kasprzycki Abbott, Jas­per;
William Vaughn Andrews,
Brewton; Jewell Smith Bailey,
Pepperell; Peggy Ann Gorday
Brunei-, Dothan; Myrtice Sears
Carson, Roanoke; Betty Jones
Clark, Rochelle, Ga.; Lloyd Den­ton
Cole, Jr., Columbiana; Sara
Chesnut Cook, Columbus, Ga.;
Mary Wallace Cromartie, Lees-burg,
Ga.; Arthur Neil DuBois,
Jupiter, Fla.; Charles Edward
Fetner, Lanett; Belon Ocran Fri­day,
Wadley.
Mary Ellen Blakely Granade,
West Point, Ga.; Eugene James
Guazzo, Jr., Orange, N.J.; John
Andrew Hawkins, Birmingham;
Lee Reede Hayley, Birmingham;
Janette Welch Heard, Roanoke;
Edward Joseph Hugensmith, Jr.,
Birmingham; C h a r l i e Erwin
Johnson, Gadsden; James Alfred
Kite, Jr., Krafton; Katherine Ann
Mathews, Phenix City; Joel Bor­land
Murphree, Elba.
George Velpeau Pate, Auburn;
John Robert Poe, Columbus, Ga.;
Sara Jane Reaves, Eufaula; Jean,
nie Elinor Stokes, Gadsden; Mar­ion
Jean Stuart, Birmingham; Lee
Smith Trotter, Jr., Salem; Lucy
Anne Williams, Ashland, a nd
Grace Lowe Wilson, Seman.
Bachelor of Science in Agricultural
Education
Charles Rudolph Bass, Dozier;
Horace Milton Bolton, Jemison;
Casper Carlisle, Millry; Gene
Edwin Carroll, Hurtsboro; John
Clifford Claunch, Jr., Russell-ville;
Jack Jerome Cornett, Cull­man;
Ralph Camp Davis, Wehad-kee;
George Alexander Dawson,
Loachapoka; James Jackson Dol­lar,
Addison; Ralph Benjamin
Gilbert, G e r a l d i n e ; William
Charles Majors, Jr., Frisco City;
Charles Henry McKay, Delta;
Cleburne O'Neal Melton, Frisco
City.
James Mack Morris, Gadsden;
Ruben Alta Myers, Heflin; Ed­ward
H. Porter, Addison; Grady
Leslie Pratea, Weogufka; Edgar
David Seaman, Elkmont; Edwin
Lee Smith, Albertville; George
Douglas Smith, Clanton; Robert
Leonard S p i g n e r, Billingsley;
Ralph Cranston Thompson, Fort
Payne; Thomas Richard Watkins,
Auburn, and Carl Herbert Yea-ger,
Leoma, Tenn.
Bachelor of Science in Home
Economics Education
Anita James Helms, Crossville;
Betty Grace Ingram, Remlap;
Margaret Alice McKay, Ashland,
and Carloyn Wright Shepherd,
Mathews.
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
Bachelor of Aeronautical
Engineering
Hilary Whitaker Allen, Mont­gomery.
Bachelor of Civil Engineering
Charles Edward Cox, Clanton;
William Russell Haycraft, Bran­denburg,
Ky.; Frank Louis Hoi
man, Chattanooga, Tenn.; William
Henry Parker, Jemison; Linza
Keith Sellers, Mobile; Walter
Bean Smith, Pepperell, and Eu
gene Amos Zwenig, Gordon, Ga.
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering
James Harold Birchfield, Pep
perell; Billy Cassity, Prichard;
Enoch Edwin Culp, Clanton; Ed­ward
Wesley Harris, Jr., Bir­mingham;
Charles Henton Hoi
mes, LaFayette; James Emery
Lillie, Cairo, Ga.; Raymond Walk­er
Plant, Tallassee.
Dudley Branam Powell, Mont­gomery;
John Thomas Robertson,
Hazel Green; James Arthur Stan
ford, Cedartown, Ga.; McCurdy
Alexander Thigpen, Jr., Phenix
City, and David Wilbur Young
Jr., San Antonio, Texas.
Bachelor of Industrial Management
George Starr Barron, Jr., New
nan, Ga.; Duncan Laurin Bryant,
Mobile; Stephen' Bowen Godwin
Jr., Clayton; Charles William
Hoffmeyer, Columbus, Ga.; Tho
mas Northcutt Hooper, Bay Min
ette; Raymond Dave Laney, Co
lumbus, Ga.; Russell Shirley
Long, Birmingham.
Joe Reed McCracken, Birming­ham;
David Davidson Sanderson,
Jr., Birmingham; Robert Dewey
Sansom, Jr., Ragland; Donald
Brown Vaughan, Fairfield, and
Felix Weaver Wood, Jr., Bir
mingham.
Bachelor of Mechanical
Engineering
John Charles Bregger, Belle
Glade, Fla.; Joe Hubert Brown,
Jr., Birmingham; Alfredo Fausto
Fermin Cifuentes-Torres, Cien-fuegos,
Cuba; William Donald
Decker, York, Pa.; John Alfred
Fant, Eclectic; Allen Newman,
Hide, Jr., Birmingham; Charles
David Hightower, Troy; John
Henry Ivey, Chiekasaw.
Forrest Hurley Jones, Jr., Bir­mingham;
William Harold Keown,
Scottsboro; Sueloong Li, Larch-mont,
N.Y.; Douglas Langston
McCrary, Birmingham; John Vic­tor
Melonas, Birmingham; Roldan
Pozo-Ramos, Camaguey, Cuba;
Robertrand Levi Tate, Tarrant;
Harry Engram Taylor, Brewton,
and Cecil Minos Ward, Jr., Spring
Hill.
Bachelor of Textile Engineering
Ajalon Arthur Tillery, Phenix
City.
SCHOOL OF HOME ECONOMICS
Bachelor of Science In Horn*
Economics
Jerry Ann Edmundson, Bir­mingham;
Dot Hawk, Gunters-ville;
Harriet Jean Kettles, Dal-ton,
Ga.; O'Neal Christenberry
Moore, Marion; Stella Sue Norton,
Union Springs; Sibyl Swanner,
Rutledge, and Catherine Williams,
Phenix City.
SCHOOL OF PHARMACY
Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy
Edward Eugene Baylis, Jr.. Co-
[forSmooffiestS/ichsfS/tim
Do As Your
Barber Does
'(/sehsh-Bufforl'
': JUST
PUSH VALVT
OWT COMSS
., LATHCH
fk/esf
fverKnown.'
AERO SHAVE gives you
richer lather instantly! No
brush! No greasy scum!
No razor clog! Contains
soothing Lano-Lotion plus
3 beard softeners for
smoother shaving comfort!
Slt«ATIONAl N W IATHCR BOftM
* 2 f X BUON NATALE
A«oCf
JOYlUx *o«,
«ot«uC* \ «*
wm
No matter how you
say it. .
A rro iv Gifts mean
V€t4
Arrow shirts 13.95 up
Arrow sports shirts 3.95 up
Arrow ties lJOOup
Arrow handkerchiefs 35< up
Arrow undershorts 1.45 up
Arrow undershirt* IStO up
ARROW
SHIRTS • HIS • UNDERWEAR • HANDKERCHIEFS • IPOOTS SHIRTS -J
M > — <
Sold By
OLIN L HILL
The Man With The Tape'
3—THE PLAINSMAN Friday, Dec. 12, 1952
4
lumbia, Miss.; Roberto Conde-No»
riega, Ponce, Puerto Rico; Beall
Dozier Gary, Georgetown, Ga.j
Herbert Stokes Haire, Elba; War­ren
Iver Hanson, Sheffield; Lea-mon
Garland Holliman, Florence;
Morris Teddy Jones, Clanton;
Harold Fay Ledbetter, East Tal­lassee;
Quentin Price, Montgom­ery.
Kelly Scott Segars, Red Bay-
Sam Penland Sellers, Hayesville,
N.C; O s c a r Eugene Taylor;
Double Springs; Robert Floyd
Thrower, Jr., A r a b ; William
Henry Vance, Gadsden; George
Walter Warren, Enterprise; Ken_
non Wayne Washburn, Boaz, and
Wallace Harry Wells, Birming­ham.
SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND
L I T E R A T U RE
Bachelor of Science
Jimmy Brooks Duke, Birming­ham;
Bennie Rodgers Hamner,
Camp Hill; Curtis Talmon Hen-son,
Jr., Wagar; Harry Franklin
Linse, Stamford, Conn.; Edward
Ransom Moore, Sylacauga; Jo
Ann Nunn, Auburn; Betty Jean
Sanders, Clopton, a n d Henry
Mandeville Ufford, Jr., Montgom.
ery.
Bachelor of Science (Business
Administration)
Godfrey Gillespie Bennett, Jr.,
Auburn; Charles Rosser Brown,
Opelika; Fred Lee Clark, Jr., La­Fayette,
Ga.; James Marshall De-
Shields, Jr., Winchester, Ky.; Paul
Monroe Foust, Auburn; James
Hugh Gilbert, Grove Oak; John.
Wendell Harririck, Cullman; Ro­bert
Burns Harris, Jr., Irondale;
Margaret Loftin Hite, Auburn;
John Scarborough Holt, Colum­bus,
Ga.; Russell Leslie Hunger-,
ford, Jr., Prattville; Alfred Hop­kins,
Ke,nnemer, Athens; Eugene
Francis Mulhall, Chicago, 111.
William Howard Piper, Jr., Tal­lassee;
Ollie Kenneth Rodgers,
Andalusia; Johnny Oscar Stan-sell,
Jr., Columbus, Ga.; Joe Has-sell
Stoddard, Arab; John Creel
Tapscbtt, Auburn; Donald J. Vin­cent,
Agricola, Miss., and Robert
Edwin White, Birmingham.
Fprd Resigns Position
As Young Demo Head
The resignation of Lester Ford
as president of the Auburn Chap.
ter of the Alabama Young Demo­crats
was announced today.
In submitting the resignation
Ford said, "I have truly enjoyed
serving as president of the Au­burn
chapter but certain other
obligations will require a great
deal of hiy time in the future, and
in order that the chapter may
continue as an active organiza­tion,
I feel that I must tender my
resignation."
Ford, an industrial management
junior from Greenville, Miss., was
elected in September and served
as president during the presiden­tial
campaigns.
The retiring prexy also stated
that a meeting for the purpose of
selecting a new president will be
called in the near future and until
that time, vice-president Finis St.
John will assume the duties of
the office.
use the New
MICROTOJIUC
—the Absolutely Uniform
DRAWING PENCIL
• Absolute uniformity means drawings without
"weak spots"- clean, legible detail. Femous
for smooth, long-wearing leeds. Easily distin­guished
by bull's-eye degree stamping on 3 i
sides of pencil. At your campus store I Mk
EBERHARD
FABER i
TRADE MARKS M S . U.S. PAT. O f f .
*ititi&*i&$i$i4i0^
• • • • •
O
•••••
o
"Songs of Auburn"
now on
45 and 78 R.P.M. Records
THE GIFT FOR ALL YOUR FRIENDS
Featured in this Album
"Auburn Alma Mater"
'Fight 'em Tigers"
'Glory, Glory to Old
Auburn"
'Somford Tower"
"Hail To Auburn"
"Tiger Rag"
"Auburn Victory
March"
These records are now available on both the 45 and
78 R.P.M. records. Custom processed and pressed by
RCA-Victor, these albums were recorded at Auburn by
the Auburn Band and Glee Clubs.
Get Your Album At
MARKLE'S COLLEGE SUPPLY
AUBURN MUSIC THE VARSITY
,
•••••
o
• • • • •
o
•••••
o
•••••
o
•••••
•••••
o
• • • • •
•••••
•4••»••
•••••
o
•••••
o
•4••»••
m
... ••
•••••
•••••
• • • • •
... •«
o
• • • • •
• • • • •
m
•••••
• ••••
•••••
• • • • •
45*
•••••
•••••
•••••
•••••
o
••••a
4»
• » • • •
4»
• • • • •
4»
•••••
4»
• •*••
<W
• • • • •
•••••
•••••
m
• • • • •
m.
•••••
... ••
• • • • •
m
• • * • •
4»
m
-••tit
• • • • •
4»
In extending our sincerest greetings to our friends at this time we
find an ever deeper meaning in the spirit of Christmas. For it is
the furthering of friendship and brotherhood with others that
brings to us the true joy of living . . .
A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL
Ye Ole Tips From
^&at<z
GROWN UPS
Eastman Kodak and Picture Making
Aids
Scrap Books and Albums
Sheaffer Fountain Pen and Desk
Sets
Zippo Cigarette Lighters
Buxton Billfolds and Key Tainers
Dukit Smoking Accessories
Whiting and Davis Mesh Bags
Eaton's Fine Letter Papers
Hershey Book Ends
Woodcut Book Plates
Picture Frames
Chess—Tinker Toys
Peg Solitaire—You Beat It Puzzle
Children's Party Package
Miniature Croquet—Dominoes
Checkers—Makit Toys
Gilbert Miscroscope Set
Gilbert Puzzles
Gilbert Chemistry Set
Monopoly—Cribbage
The Tower Puzzle—Table Tennis
Golf Balls and Tees
Tennis Balls and Rackets
Footbal Is—Basketballs
Baseballs and Gloves
HOUSEHOLD AND FAMILY GIFTS
Electrical Appliances, by Sunbeam, Westinghouse, GE and Manning Bowman.
Coffee Makers, Waffle Irons, Electric Pads, Mix Master Mixers, Irons, Grills,
Toasters, Dinnerware by Haviland, Franciscan and Vernon kilns.
Haviland patterns: Springtime, Birchmore, Glendale, Kenmore, Pasadena, Clinton, Gotham
Gramercy, Madison, Apple Blossom, Rosalinde, Naomi, Orange Blosom, Embassy.
French Haviland: Autumn Leaf, Poppy, Chantilly, Sheraton. We order other patterns made
by Haviland. Special orders solicited. *
Franciscan patterns: Arcadia Gold, Jade Green, Arcadia Maroon. Listed patterns in stock.
Other patterns ordered by request.
Pope Gosser: Spring patterns.
Vernon Kilns: Homespun and Bel-Air. Beautifully designed and very, very lovely for
luncheon sets.
STERLING by Wallace, Frank Smith, and Watson.
CRYSTAL by Fostoria—etchings, cuttings, and blown.
ALUMINUM by Everlast and West Bend. Lamps by Cambridge. Sierra Col­umbia
combinations Brass and Pottery Planters.
PEWTER by Royal Holland.
ENTERTAINING
Place Cards, Tally Cards, Paper Nap\ins, Place Mats, Great Smoky Mountain
(honies) Honey, pottery jugged. House of H
(honies) Honey, pottery jugged. House of Herbs—Salad Set, Teasing Set, Herb Basket,
Wine Vinegars, and Sauces. And from Hoff Condiments—Tang Tea (a Ceylon blend),
Old Colony Maple Candies, and by all means a set of our Steak Knives with serrated
edges.
SOCIAL GRACES
Christmas cards by Nu Art, Burgoync, Edith Cherry Originals, Henderson, Gibson,
Volland, Rustcraft and.Hallmark.
Christmas note papers by Eaton, Montag, White and Wycoff.
Gift Wraps in plain papers, designs, metallics, cellophanes in colors and ever so many
colors and designs of Scotch Tape and ribbons and ribbonettes. Ask to see the Chicago
Printed String Ensembles with Paper, Ribbon and Enclosure cards matching.
Decorations: Tree Lights, Snow, Tinsel, Tree Stands, Glitters in Gold, Silver, Star
Dust, Red, Green, and Blue.
For Her
Eastman Kodak
Sheaffer fountain pen set
Whiting & Davis evening bag
Buxton billfold
Hershey bookends
Eaton, Montag and W. & W stationery
Subscription to favorite magazine
For Him
Zippo lighter
Dukit tobacco humidor
Graflex camera
Sheaffer desk pen set
Golf balls
Tennis balls and racket
Chess set
Book ends, College seal
GOOD BOOKS YOU MIGHT MISS
RELIGIOUS:
Schmitt: Confessors of the Name
Prescott: The Man on a Donkey
Hurlbut's: Story of the Bible
Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version
Marshall: A Man Named Peter
FICTION:
Gardner: The Count of Last Resort
Scully: The Best of Fun in Bed
Ferbes: The Giant
Spring: The House in Between
Steinbeck: East of Eden
Loring: For All Your Life
COOK BOOKS:
Boston Cooking School Cook Book
Joy of Cooking
Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book
Good Housekeeping Cook Book
Betty Crocker Picture Cook Book
HISTORICAL:
Taylor: Winston Churchill
Ewen: The Encyclopedia of Musical Master­pieces
Mills: The Alexandrians
Webster: Geographical Dictionary
Time 1 Day service.
^>Utt<M & ^60&4fote
© • • • •
# • • • •
• ••••
•••••
• • • • •
o
• ••••
o
o
•••••
• • . . .
GAMES AND PUZZLES FOR ALL §
4&
•••••
•••••
o
43*
• •*..
4SS-
• • • - •
• «..-
• ••••
•••••
o
• • • • •
4 »
tSb
• ••••
•••••
o
o
•••••
•••••
o
o
o
•••••
4&
o
•••••
•••••
o
•••••
•••••
• • • • •
4»
•••••
• ••••
>Stt
SPECIAL SERVICES S
EMBOSSING On Napkins, Fountain Pens, Billfolds, Key Tainers, ^
Christmas Cards, Bibles, and Place Cards. Jjj
Colors Gold, Silver, Blue, Green, Red, Copper, and White. M
Styles Record, Thermo, Keynote, Kaufman Script, Roman, Hollywood, Foun- •£
tain Pen, Broadway, Newport, 18th Century Initials and Greek .g-
Letters.
•at-
"Something New Everyday" J*
4»
• * • • •
DURING CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS Little Man On Campift by Bibler
Drive Safely, Stay Alive
Christmas, 1952 style, is almost upon
us. Though many of us probably can't
think of many things other than next
week's stiff session of final exams, we've
at least thought somewhat about plans for
the yuletide holidays.
A time originally set aside for observ­ing
the birthday of Christ, Christmas is
truly the best time of the year. Ministers
will remind us of the true meaning of
Christmas, and we'll wonder why then are
people are making such a commercial en­terprise
of it today. We'll thank God that
we have so much, while others around us—
in America and in the rest of the world—
have so little. And we'll enjoy the thrill,
for which there is no substitute, of opening
presents early Christmas morning.
But with Christmas comes one of the
most dangerous seasons of the year for
highway accidents. Last year alone, 37,300
Americans were killed in traffic accidents;
1,300,000 were injured. And the greatest
number of the accidents occured during
holiday seasons such as Christmas, July
4th, etc. Again this year thousands are
expected to be slaughtered on the high­ways.
Even though some may take it lightly,
we'd like to appeal to Auburn students to
be careful on the highways between quart­ers,
and be around when the next quarter
begins. Accidents can be prevented, so
why not live and let live. Be careful.
People are warned just about every day
to drive carefully; "the life you save may
be your own." Yet just as often, people
disregard these warnings with "Aw, I
know nothing's going to happen to ME."
Many of these very same people are later
identified in the city morgue.
Naturally, there are numerous reasons
for traffic accidents. Speeding is one of
primary reasons. Last year 28 per cent of
drivers in fatal accidents were driving too
fact for conditions (traffic, weather, road,
speed limits). Speeding has been said to
always be the driver's fault because it is
premediated and deliberate. One of every
three fatal accidents involves a speed ^vio­lation,
which means that in one out of
three cases, the driver took a chance with
death.
Another of the main causes of traffic
accidents is said to be drinking and driv­ing.
Scientific tests have definitely estab­lished
that drivers whose blood contains a
high percentage of alcohol have an acci­dent
rate of 55 times higher than drivers
who have not been drinking. We deplore
the combination of intoxicants and driving,
particularly since drunken drivers not only
endanger their own lives but the lives of
innocent people. Those who figure they
must drink should at least have the com­mon
decency not to jeopardize the lives
of other people and stay off the highways.
The frequency of traffic accidents in
Auburn has risen steadily in the last few
years. There are hundreds more cars on
the campus and in the city now than ever
before, which partially explains the greater
number of accidents. Then too, few driv­ers
seem to respect the nicely painted
speed limit signs planted throughout Au­burn.
We believe, however, that this problem
can be met, that it must be met. Last
week we offered what we believe to be the
most logical solution: the city and campus
police must enforce the local speed limits
and punish violators. A strict enforce­ment
of the law, a "tough" policy, seems
to us to be the only answer.
Now we do not mean to criticize the
police force too severely. They do a good
job, especially in seeing that parking vio­lators
are given tickets. But we sincerely
believe that these public servants are not
doing their best to see that Auburn streets
are safe streets.
It's their duty, as we see it, of Auburn
policemen to maintain safety to the limits
of their power. Right now, they're not
fulfilling this duty, and we don't under­stand
why. Until something is done about
the present critical situation, The Plains­man
will not cease to call for a strict en­forcement
of city speed limits. Laws are
useless unless they're enforced.
But until they're strongly enforced,
we'll encourage Auburn students to drive
safely. Particularly, drive cautiously dur­ing
the Christmas holidays. Don't ever
drive unless you're fully capable of hand­ling
your car.
Remember too that three out of every
five fatal accidents occur at night. During
1951, "an average of 27 per cent of traffic
deaths occurred between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Safe, slow driving at night (and day) may
mean your life.
Someone has said: "The child who runs
out from behind a parked car gives no
warning—but how much comfort is that to
you after you've hit him?" * »
Drive safely, and don't be responsible
for lowering Auburn's enrollment for the
winter quarter, 1953.
The Plainsman's Big-Footed One Departs
There'll be a lot of us who'll remember
him for his shoes and the feet therein,
(size 15V2).
Others among us will remember him
for his wit and ready smile, and his adept
talent for harmonizing (particularly on
"Hang Out The Front Door Key") on many
of the staff's wee hours numbers.
From the day (in January, 1951) that he
became sports editor to this, he has prob-abily
turned out more galleys of type on
one of the major subjects of campus in­terest,
than any other ever has during a
similar period.
Few Plainsman writers have ever chan­ged
horses in the middle of the stream so
successfully as did this native of Colum­bus,
Ga. His first big job was that of as-ociate
editor, which he did amply, but not
nearly so admirably as he did his later
work.
It'll be hard to find a man to fill his
shoes (we could never do that literally)
after he has typed his final "30" in this,
the final Plainsman of the fall quarter, '52.
Naturally he'll be replaced, and we don't
know what the future will reveal, but it'll
be hard to convince a lot of us that Dave
"Foots" Laney wasn't the best darn sports
editor that The Plainsman has ever had.
WALTER ALBRITTON
Editor
MAX HALL _ .... Managing
Lester Ford Associate
Charles Sullivan Associate
JoAnne Lucci __ Associate
Dave "Foots" Laney Sports
John Raines Assistant Sports
Larry Connor Assistant Sports
Ronald Owen _ Intramural
Howard Skelton Feature
Lee Helton Assistant
Fred Nichols Assistant
Margie Sullivan Assistant
Herb White Assistant
Editor
Editor
Editor
Editor
Editor
Editor
Editor
Editor
Editor
Editor
Editor
Editor
Editor
JACK JOHNSON
Business Manager
Gloria Cobb Assistant to Business Manager
Dick Gilliland Advertising Manager
Bill Neville .... Assistant Advertising Manager
Jim Haygood -.. Sales Agent
LaRue Frederick Sales Agent
Jim McCown Sales Promotion Manager
Jeanne-Marie Farrar Exchange Editor
Nancy Connell Secretar>
Gene Doss Circulation Manager
Joe Overton .... Assistant Circulation Manager
Staff Members
Bill Beckwith, Eldonna Brown, Sue Cobb, C. P. Collier, Tom Collins, Tom Duke, Jean Erwin,
Irene Goodall, Jep Greer, Gay Hogan, Doris Less man, Ernest Merriwether, Bill Owens, Barbara
Searcy Kathy Stephens, Sabre Stough, and Betty Teague.
————————__^____ _ _ — — _ » ^ — ^ — _—
Office on Tichenor Avenue. Phone API 242. Deadline for social and organizational news is Sutarriuy noon. Entered as
••cond-class matter at the post office at Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates by mall: $1.00-8 months, $3.00*1 year.
Member
Associated Collegiate Press
Student Should Not Bear
Entire Cheating Blame
"Gosh, what a Christmas list you must be sending 'Noel
Candles' to the whole faculty!"
Les Miserables
Folsom Causing Political Nervousness
By Les Ford
By Max Hall
As the end of another quarter brings final examinations
back to a place of primary importance among campus activi­ties,
the evils of cheating will n a t u r a l l y be widely discussed,
both by students and faculty members.
Blame for cheating is usually laid on any one or a combina­tion
of several factors, including b e s t h e c a n w i t n a s t u d e n t when­ever
they are together, and there
is a big difference in teaching and
helping a student to learn. One
of the most useful things an in­structor
can do is to stimulate
the student to move on his own
mind-power rather than memory.
This vital obligation is often over­looked
by members of the teach­ing
profession.
If instructors would place more
emphasis on thinking under act­ual
job situations and less on
simple recall of subject matter
covered in the course, we believe
that cheating on examinations
would be noticeably reduced:
As for the examination, it has
many possible objectives. Of
these, three obviously call for
emphasis. The examination should
(1) find out what a student
knows, (2) rank the student ac­cording
to what he knows and
how well he knows it, and (3)
help a student find out what he
the student's character, his early
training and environment, his fear
of flunking or his desire to get
more than he deserves.
A glaring fallacy in this type of
reasoning is its failure to con­sider
things other than the stu­dent
which may be partially or
wholly responsible. Three factors
are present at
a n y examina­tion:
the stu­dent,
t h e in­structor,
and
the exam itself.
Each of these
ean have i ts
effect on stu-d
e n t conduct
when exam day
rolls around, so
let's take a look
at the professor
and his examination before we
lay all the blame upon the one
who gets caught cheating.
The teacher's job is to do the
Hall
doesn't know. The third point is
especially valuable to a continued
learning process.
As a solution to the cheating
problem, we suggest more exam­inations
of the "open book" type.
This would do much to eliminate
the panic factor, which may be
closely allied w i t h cheating.
Under such a system, cramming
would become obsolete, and the
word might get around that those
hours spent in searching the frat­ernity
quiz files might be better
invested in a little sleep.
As for cheating on the "open
book" exams, it would take time
and a rare genius to cheat on a
test of mind rather than memory.
This type of test would begin
where the next ends, and result in
a test of chain-fhinking.
The use of notes and text in
most subjects would give the stu­dent
no more information than
would be available on a small
shelf of reference books to which
he would have access on the job.
The student could then con­centrate
on the correlation of
facts at his command, and their
application to situations which he
may be called on to face during
the practice of his profession.
I don't care what you xorite
about me; just spell my name
right.—Folsom
Last weekend, I attended a meet­ing
at which the 1950 candidates
foi Governor of Alabama, and vari­ous
other state politicians made
speeches: Although the speeches
were not of the campaign type, they
presented some interesting aspects
which are coming to the front for
the gubernatorial campaign of
1954.
Bruce Henderson, Buster Bell,
Reuben Neuton, James B. Allen
and others made their talks, but
they were all climaxed by the
address by the former Governor
James E. Folsom. Although Fol­som
denies that he has any in­tention
of running for a second
term as governor, many pundits
agree that he will be a very for­midable
candidate when the cam­paigns
get into full swing.
As proof for
t h i s forecast,
there seems to
be a growing
feeling of un­easiness
in the
camps of politi-c
a 1 aspirants
who oppose the
ideas of Folsom.
The nervous­ness
of his op­position
was to
be witnessed in
the way they gathered around him
tc ask questions and promote argu­ments
over certain issues.
Although the addresses were not
tuned to the campaign key, Fdl-som's
speech seemed to outline
the issues that he would present
in the 1954 campaign. "Big Jim"
Ford
gave a list of issues*which the
group to whom he was speaking
would be responsible for "spelling
out" when the campaign rolls
around, and made known which
side of the fence he stood on re­garding
the questions.
Heading the list of issues that
would need to be "spelled out"
was the poll tax question. In stat­ing
that the poll tax would be a
major subject of controversy, Fol­som
stated that he was for the
repeal of the poll tax and other
voting restrictions.
Folsom also stated his approval
of re-apportionment reforms and
pointed out that he had called
several special sessions of the
state legislature, in an effort to
push the reform through.
The former Governor also add­ed
such issues as road bonds, the
fee system, old age pensions,
the "old folks" home, and added
his stamp of approval to changes
in all of these riieasures.
Perhaps one of the main reasons
for the concern over Folsom's fu­ture
political intentions arises from
a fear that, out of the past defeat
has come a new and different "Big
Jim," a Folsom who realizes his
past mistakes and will judge his
future actions accordingly, a new
Folsom who can appeal' to the
scholar as well as the common
man.
The tone of Folsom's address
was on a somewhat higher plane
than I had expected. His ideas
and methods of delivery were on
an intelligent progressive level, in
keeping with speeches from the
rostrum. Perhaps, a new and wiser '
Folsom has arisen and will make a
second bid for the governorship
—only time will tell.
With Sully— —And Cedric
Coffee 'Round Our Square Table
By Fred Nichols and Charles Sullivan
Tiger Lilies
REW Plans Reach Embryonic Stage
By JoAnne Lucci
As plans for the 1953 Religious
Emphasis Week reached the em­bryonic
stage this week, we could
not help but think of last year's
REW; termed "one of the most
successful in history."
Just what feature placed the
1952 REW so high on the list? Was
it the quality of the speakers? The
interesting subjects they discuss­ed?
No, it was neither of these.
The 1952 program was cited as
successful because of the large
turnout of students attending the
convocations. Apparently those
persons who considered the size
of the audience as a great meas­ure
of success did not stop to re­member
that many students could
have had motives other than re-igious
ones for attending the con­vocations.
To us, REW's success seems like
it should be measured by some
more constructive means than the
number in the aduience. After all,
many students were probably in
the group because they considered
it the lesser of two evils—it was
either convocation or class.
We wonder whether REW actu­ally
achieved any of its major
objectives last year. We hope that
this year the program will achieve
its greatest success, and that its
success can be measured by the
actions of Auburn students rather
than the number of them at con­vocations.
This year, a new system of class
schedules, made to conform better
to the convocation schedule, may
eliminate the use of REW meet­ings
as simply an escape from
classes. Perhaps now a truer
method of evaluating the event's
success can be found.
At any rate, the Council of
Deans, Chairman Charles Edwards,
and those other REW workers
responsible for the better method
of class scheduling deserve a bou­quet.
The cast of Handel's Messiah
also deserve a bouquet for a job
well done. The annual perform­ance
of the Messiah has become
a fine Auburn tradition, and one
that we hope will continue to live
on the Plains.
From the coffee casbah of Au­burn's
answer to Chaise and Sun­burn,
we take you to the very
pivot point where we find Ced­ric
and Sully conducting a square
table discussion preceding their
morning radio program.
Devouring a cup with a single
sip, Sully speaks, "Good morning
Cedric, you look sleepy."
"Well, you'd be sleepy too if you
had sat up all night drinking in
the musical strains of the old
masters — B r a h m s , Beethoven,
Bach, and er Blatz. What did your
night offer, Sully?"
I ."I had what everyone should
have on a cold evening—a date.
Boy, she's what I'd call a college
man's answer to one-arm driving.
Speaking of women, I think that
every man should . . . Egad, we're
on the air! Here's our announcer,
let's listen."
"Station WTGIF is simply elated
to again bring you 'Breakfast with
Cedric and Sully'. Before we take
you directly to C and S at the
square table, we have a word
from our sponsor. Ahem.
"Friends, are you looking for a
breakfast coffee with the old zip
and zing to get you off to a good
start each morning? Well, we have
exactly what you need. Somebody
needs it, we don't. Our deluxe
Chaise and Sunburn slurp and
burp coffee is made from the finest
Mexican jumping beans. It's guar­anteed
to give you that extra hop
in every drop. Try slurp and burp,
and we guarantee that you'll jump
for joy, or for any other nearby
girl.
"And now here they are, that
zany pair of, of er, well, here they
are!"
• "Good morning, everyone. Say
Cedric, I hear a nasty rumor that
finals are approaching. You are a
scholar and a gentleman, how do
you prepare for finals?"
"Well Sully, I always believe in
going into final exams with a clear
mind and a graphite covered cuff.
As an efficiency expert, how do
you beready yourself?"
"Cedric, my method is this, I
sharpen my pencils on both ends
so I can work two pages at once.
Pretty efficient, eh?"
"Eh, speaking of pencils, you
know there are only 10 mere shopf..
ping daze until Christmas. Guess
it's about time to shaft a few girl
friends."
"Yep, anything to cut down
costs. Ced, your thriftness re­minds
me of my uncle who used
to tell his kids that Christmas was
in January so that he could buy
presents during clearance sales.
Cheap ain't the word for him. At
times he'd get so tight, finan­cially
speaking, that he'd fry his
bacon in Lux to keep it from
shrinking."
"Sully, he sounds like a guy
who would give you the sleeves
out of his vest. Hmmmm, it's time
for us to answer a letter from our
only listener. She writes to us
from Twin Hills, California, Jane
Russell's hometown, and says:
"I've got a preblum. My hus­band
bought me a goldfish bowl-with
only one little goldfish in it.
My preblum is, how can I tell
whether it's a boy fish or a girl
fish? Please help me, so I'll know
what to name him or her."
Pleadingly,.
Sarah Bellum
"Sully, superimpose we answer
Miss Bellum thusly. Pour one tea­spoon
of hydrochloric acid in the
water and stir amply. If he floats
to the top, it's a boy, if she floats
to the top, it's a girl."
"Par de excellence, Ced. Look,
here comes another coffee drinker
through the door, and he's head­ing
this way. Kind, sir, what mes­sage
of cheer do you have for us
this a.m.?"
"I think yall stink."
"Grrrrr, oops he got away. Well
anyway, that reminds me of our
; next commercial for our own per­sonal
product. . . . Friends, do
people walk up to you, sniff, and
then walk away? Do they? Be
honest now. Of course they do if
you belong to our 'Bathless Decade
Club'.
Now friends, -you can stop this
embarrassment, without resorting
to soap and water, by using our
'Stink-No-More' creosoted cap­sules.
With S-N-M capsules the
creosote preserves your adam's
apple, embalms halitosis, and
leaves you smelling purina sweet.
BUY some today!"
"Dast Sully, our time is up and
we still have half a cup of our
delicious slurp and burp left. Got
any last minute reminders for our
listeners?"
"Yes Cedric, but first please re­call
that it's your turn to finish
that tasty coffee. By the bye, be­fore
you quit jumping, fasten your
flaming flannels to the flagpole. I
don't care to drill next quarter.
And dear listener, here's our
thought for today—Never put off
until yesterday what you can do
tomorrow."
The Whipping Post
Why Did You Come To College?
By Herb White
Backfire
FROM OUR READERS
Dear Editor:
I have remained in my boiling
stew as long as I can without
blowing my lid. The pressure is
reaching the combustion point.
Summing up the correspond­ence
written to you regarding Mr.
Doriald Knight's letter, one might
generalize the following: that Mr.
Knight is an "irritated heretic;"
that he has a "warped attitude;"
that he has "a chip on his shoul-er:"
and finally that he is a poor
exatnple of the Auburn Spirit.
Could such a person be enhanced
v/ith these many facets (and I use
(Continued on pabe 8)
Why did you decide to come to
college? Was it because your par­ents
made you? Do you think that
in the long run you will be bene­fitted
from your education?
Several years ago it was popu­lar
to be known as a self-made
man, one who did not have or
did not need a college education.
Remnants if this sort of think­ing
are still with us today. All of
us are familiar with those who
scoff at "book learning", and say
that the only way to learn any­thing
is through actual experience
in a particular trade or profession.
It is evident that a number of
persons have made good without a
college education, but it is also
evident that such persons might
be even greater successes had
they gone to college.
The modern college offers a
broad education in both academic,
cultural and social fields in addi­tion
to training in a specific trade
oi profession. This helps to de­velop
in the student a better un­derstanding
in his fellow man and
gives him a higher knowledge of
his particular academic abilities.
More than that, it keeps him
from being what might be called a
"lop-sided" citizen, which is one
who is an expert in a particular
field of endeavor, but a complete
failure outside that field. It is
true that we are living in a more
specialized world, but this does
not mean that we have to sacrifice
happiness in order to be a spec­ialist.
In addition to this, the college
campus serves as a sort of ex­periment
station. When a person
makes a mistake in industry, he
often loses his job and acquires a
reputation for inferior work. If he
makes the same mistake in college
his grades may suffer, but he still
has the chance to make correc­tions.
Certainly it is all right to get an
education in the school of hard
knocks provided one is able to get
off the canvas after every knock­down.
Surely, it is better to train
oneself to avoid some of these hard
knocks. The college campus is the
place to acquire this type of train­ing.
A college education is not an
attainment in itself. It is only a
means to an end that is happiness
and satisfaction.
Thomas Huxley wrote: "The
rung of a fadder was never
meant to rest upon, but only to
hold a man's foot long enough
to enable him to put the other
on something higher."
A college education is the most
important rung to a ladder to suc­cess,
s,
Whoever planned the world did
a good job of it—put most of the
trees out in the country.
» * *
Herb Shrlner knows a man who
was so active that five years after
he died, his self-winding wrist
watch was still running.
* * »
"We should get married. We
have something in common."
"What?"
"We're both common."
API's Billy Peters Represents State
At NAM Convention In New York
By Fred Nichols
"It was a week of hearing and meeting the top men of
industry "in the city of cities," exclaimed Billy Peters of
Ozark, after returning from the 57th annual Congress of
American Industry convention held in New York City De-
> cember 3-5.
Peters, junior in business ad- .
ministration, was chosen to re­present
the state of Alabama as
the guest of the National As­sociation-
of Manufacturers along
with students from the other
states of the union. These students
were invited to attend all sessions
of the three-day meeting so they
could observe industry's thinking
and philosophy at close range.
"All panel discussions, lectures,
and demonstrations were con­ducted
at the convention head­quarters,
the Waldorf-Astoria,"
Peters added. Among the speak­ers
during the course of schedul­ed
events were Douglas Mac-
Arthur, RemingUsi Rand; H. E.
Humphreys, United States Rub­ber;
John R. Suman, Standard
Oil Company; Hon. Wallace F.
Bennett, U.S. Senator from Utah,
and Gordon Dean, Chairman,
Atomic Energy Commission.
TO BALANCE the activities,
humorists, commentators, educa­tors,
editors, and interested per­sons
from all phases of the coun­try's
enonomy contributed their
individual theories and problems
to various committees under
which they were classified.
When asked which one of the
convention's entertainers he en­joyed
most, Peters named Herb
Shriner, television's hoosier hum­orist,
who stole the show when
the entertainers took charge of
the program Thursday afternoon.
Of the many speeches from lead­ers
in the economic and indus­trial
world, Peters chose Douglas
ing.
"The convention planners filled
our evenings with entertainment,
tours of the city, discussions with
prominent men of the fields in
which we were interested, in ad­dition
to footing expenses for all
49 students," Peters concluded.
Plant Nematologist
Addresses Ag Seminar
Dr. J. R. Christie, noted plant
nematologist, spoke to the Plant
Science Seminar at the Agricul­tural
Experiment Station here
December 1.
The expert said that there are
13 different kinds of nematodes
that affect plants in the South­east
and that at least 3 of these
nematodes, the sting, stubby root
and root knot, are of major eco­nomic
importance.
Christie pointed out that cotton
is susceptible to Southern root-knot
nematode injury, and that
various other crops may suffer
nematode injury.
The nematologist explained that
treatment of infested areas with
certain soil fumigants is the best
known means of controlling ne­matodes,
however, crop rbtation
may be of some help.
Christie is senior nematologist
with the U.S. Bureau of Plant In­dustry
and the Central Florida
Experiment Station at Sanford,
Fla. He has been with the Bureau
MacArthur's address as outstand-' about 30 years, the last five of
5—THE PLAINSMAN Friday, Dec. 12, 1952
HAVING MOVING TROUBLES?
If You Need To Move Your Furnishings and
Belongings, Use The NEW VANETTE CO-OP
PLAN . . . They Furnish The Truck and Driver
While YOU Go On The Payroll As A Helper.
• INSURED AND BONDED
• OPERATES THROUGHOUT ALABAMA
VANNETTE LINE
PHONE 839-M-2
Edwards Court Tuskegee Highway
TO A
Give Handsome
Sports Shirts
You'll find gift in­spirations
galore in
our stunning collec­tion
of sports shirts
. . . in just about
every color and pat­tern
you can name.
All h a n d s o m e ly
styled, beautifully
tailored. H u r r y in
for the best selec­tion!
Lee James
ON SOUTH RAILROAD AVENUE IN OPELIKA
Dr. Hughes Speaks
Af Ohio Meeting
£ JM?
Gordon Hughes, ..professer-ol
physics— at AT5!' and William
Hurst,, research associate- in phy­sios,
left tffii week for. a .visit to
the Wright & Br Development
Center at Dayton, Ohio.
* After delivering an invited lee-iurS
at the Wright-Patterson Air
Foh-e Base, Dr. Hughes Will* go
to'{jlK}; Air Development Center
in -Baltinlore, Md., for a similar
lecture. . .. >
£ Dr. Hughes will discuss deve­lopments
in the Air Force con­tract
which hafe been under his
^direction, for the past two years
in'" the physics department at
?Astburn.
ONE OF THE major attractions at the National Association,
of Manufacturers convention in New York was the speech by
Douglas MacAr'thur. Watching the general autograph his photfi-after
the speech are Smedley B. Breedlove, a student-at North
Georgia College; William Hardin, University of South Carolina
student, and Billy Peters, Ozark, a business administration student"
at Auburn.
Creator of 'Little Man On Campus'
Runs Only College Cartoon Syndicate
By Tom Duke
The highlight of The Plainsman's editorial page is the
weekly peek into the life of "Little Man on Campus." Wor-thal,
the hero of the cartoon series, is the creation of Richard
N. Bibler, and he represents the viewpoint of thousands of
American college students.
Bibler, a blond, bespectacled
30-year-old from Elkhart, Kan­sas,
began drawing when very
young. Four of his aunts were
artists, and he would watch them
draw, then imitate them. His first
cartoon, published at the age of
12, dealt with a sit-down strike.
He continued his career during
the war as a field artist for the
Pacific Edition of Yank.
AFTER THE war, Bibler be­came
a G.I. student in art at
Kansas University. In 1946 he
noticed a request in the Daily
Kansan for entries in a cartoon
contest. After a night at his draw­ing
board, he submitted fourteen
cartoons. The contest prize of
$25 was his, and a steady job
as cartoonist for the paper.
It was then that Worthal saw
the light of day. Bibler drew
f o u r t e e n different characters,
then took "the most stupid-look- |
ing features" from each one of'
them and made them into Wor-*
thai. Gordon A. Sabine, now dean
of the University of Oregon school
of journalism and then an in­structor
at K.U., suggested the
title "Little Man on Campus,"
since Worthal represented the
opposite of the Big Man on Cam­pus
type. Snarf, the diabolic pro­fessor,
was evolved later.
The cartoon series became so
popular that other campus papers
began to request it. The Bibler
Feature Service—only syndicated
college cartoon series in existence
Counseling Class Visits
Birmingham Schools
Members of a graduate class, in
counseling at API visited the
Guidance Center of the Birming­ham
Public Schools recently.
They were John Claunch, Rus-sellville;
Lowery Davis, Auburn;
Andrew Guy Duncan, Montgom­ery.
Mary A. Layfield, Auburn;
Glen Maddox, Andalusia; Elison
McDuffie, Milstead; Edward M.
Robertson, Auburn; Dwight C.
Woods, Auburn, and Lila Lee
Wright, Red Bay.
Dr. Frank W. Bainbridge, as­sociate
professor of education, ac­companied
the students.
—was born. Bibler's wife and
mother took over the business and
clerical end of the Service while
Bibler did the cartoons. Now Bib­ler
draws for almost 200 campus
papers.
MEETING THE needs of a var­iety
of papers in all parts of the
country keeps Bibler on the jump.
Some schools said: "No drinking,
no sex;" others, "We're a boys'
school—no cartoons showing girls
in classes." One midwest teachers'
college wanted sex exclusively.
However, a cartoon picturing a
coed in a classroom reading crib
notes pinned to her unmention­ables
and saying, "Professor Snarf
(Continued on page 8)
You Don't Find Dates
on a Christmas Tree
OR
What Are You Doing Mew Year's?
Once there was a Cirl who
wag the Prettiest Pigeon
in Town. She stood out
like a well-constructed
Swan amid a Caggle of
Ceese. So, during the
Christmas holidays, Our
Cirl had a hatful of Invi­tations.
Eighteen just for
the big New Year's Eve
dance. Her Problem was
which Swain" to accent.
She summoned her small sister, aged 10.
"Chick," she said, "here is a lesson in
Practical Psychology. See these eighteen in­vitations?
Only one is from a man of Poise,
Personality and Perception. Masterful . . .
considerate . . . enterprising . . . subtle . . .
sophisticated . . . a Man of Promise. Do you
know which one it is?"
"Jeepers no," said the wee Sister, "I don't."
From the heap Our Heroine selected One In­vitation—
on a yellow Blank. "Always," she
said, "pick one that comes by Telegram."
The Small Fry gulped, "Golly, can you tell
all that* from a Telegram?"
Big Sister closed one lustrous Eye. "Never
forget it," she said. "You can't miss."
The point to remember: wnen you're Lin­ing
Something Up for Yule or anytime send
a Telegram. It flatters the Sendee; gives your
approach a Man-of-the-World touch that
makes it Something Special. Whenever you
want to Do Better . . . on anything from a
Date to a Job Interview . . . stake your claim
via Western Union,
124 NORTH
TELEPHONE:
COLLEGE
858-859
which have been spent at, San­ford,
where he has conducted
extensive research in the field
of nematology.
First Show Starts at 7 p.m.
FRIDAY-SATURDAY DEC. 12-13
/touu#e wrcFMffy Tggjg/
-
THE l AW
fROMfgXAS
f j HOWARD DUFF-MONA FREEMAN
• 1 JOSEPHINE HULL GENE LOCKHART
MfiRror CrfttSCMfls
SUNDAY-MONDAY
AtAeerx
mmm
BETTER THAH EVER
DEC. 14-15
MtW/, MlKTHfOL
,0fL0tf
'A
C O L L E G E
SUPPLY STORE
Supplies For
All Your
School Needs
BENNETT SIMS, Mgr.
Phone Ex. 347
TUESDAY DEC. 16
theiagj;
fSySOtf
UNDA DARNELL STEPHEN McNALLY GIGI PERREAU i
w rd^.rri«»rfflwtffiwmffi»« mst*&*m£#i&f&>tt
WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY DEC. 17-18
MMomSMK ^faM^Jj^-
:> ESTHERJIILLIA
rsKnrre
AH0Y1
ml
MAN TI A—Red Calf
Delmanette—styled by Delman
The most stylish shoe in America—76.95
MATCHING BAG—12.95 Fed. Tax Included
HUSH-BENEDICTINE
PEEK-A-BOO
Black Suede 15.95 AMEERA" King Kid 14.95
• B E C A U S E YOU L O V E (NICE T H I N G S"
NYLON GOWNS
Vs TO I995
From
SLIPS from 4.95 up
Nylon Pajama Sets with
Tommy Coats 25.95
Just received shipments of Gray and Black Suede, and white Buckskin
loafers.
FIRST IN FEMININE WEAR
Plainsman Cagers Slash Jackets
For Third Win; Howard Beaten
6—THE PLAINSMAN Friday, Dec. 12, 1952
SCANNING THE PLAINS
FOOTS L1IEI SPORTS
EDITOR
! Laney
An Old Timer Recalls Recent Sports Past;
Owen Named New Plainsman Sport Chief
With less than a week remaining before Samford's time­piece
signals the conclusion of life's best years, those spent in
the Loveliest Village, a Plainsman reporter, as a prospective
graduate a pillar of omniscience (supposedly) to the outsider,
carries away from the Plains a memory full of never-to-be-forgotten
sports happenings.
Do you remember when, in 1943, the sports arena was built,
allowing more than four times as many fans to comfortably watch
basketball than the crackcr-box-like Alumni
Gym would permit. . . sloshing through the
mud of the unpaved streets leading to the
new arena in its first year was a pleasure
after imitating a sardine to watch the hard­wood
sport at the old site . . >.; ,
Or the signing of Canisius College's
Earl Brown, former Notre Dame player,
the same winter to a head coach's con­tract
. . . or the hey-day of pitcher W i l -
lard Nixon, who pitched at least two no-hitters
in leading Auburn to a runner-up
spot in the conference in 1948, the year
Coach Swede Umbach's wrestlers were
beginning to dominate the mat sport in
the South . . . or the returning of Joel
Eaves to Auburn as head basketball coach, replacing Danny Doyle,
who went back to the Boston Red Sox as a scout, in 1949. . .
The year of 1949, known best in the Plainsman sports realm for
the 14-13 f a l l of Alabama at the hands of All-America Travis Tidwell
and Auburn . . . or how B i l l Lynn, now freshman basketball head,
paced the Plainsmen baskcteers into third pace in the conference
(12 won, 6 lost) in 1950. . .
Or the always good cindermen of Coach Wilbur Hutsell, known
as the dean of Southern track coaches, featuring such men as
Fred Carley, Whitey Overton, Jimmy Walker, Joe Pennington, and
Jack DeMedicis, on through the current Jim Dillion, Bill Fickling,"
Don Johnson, Jackie Creel, and others. . .
The completely disastrous 1950 football season, the worst in Au­burn's
history . . . or the signing of former Tiger center, Ralph Jordan
to replace Coach Brown . . . last y,e^s,ju;id4ers which compiled the
best record seen in several years by Auburn". . . these are just a few
of the highlights of the past few years!
These have been, and always shall be, the happy days, the
melancholy days, moments of ecstacy and solemness, and times of
dreariness and pleasantness. In sports, we'll continue to win close
ones, lose close ones, get beaten badly at times and trounce some­one
ejse soundly. The best part about it is that you don't know
when each is going to happen, but . . .
The one big thing an Auburnitc can always anticipate is that great
Auburn spirit, including the War Eagles and friendliness on the cam­pus.
It's hard to leave these things, but such is the call of life. Some­day
maybe we can gather in the great beyond to give a resounding War
Eagle, that folks who are enjoying life on the Plains may hear.
—Your Student Newspaper
Through the past year, The Plainsman sports staff has tried sin­cerely
to cover and report the local sports goings-on in an unbiased
manner. At limes we over-credited and oft times we failed to recog­nize
the importance of certain issues. Errors through the human ele­ment,
however, are expected.
In bringing the news to you, Athletic Director Jeff Beard,
Coaches Wilbur Hutsell, Shug Jordan, Joel Eaves, Dick McGowen,
their staffs, the Sports Publicist Bill Beckwith have been excep­tionally
cooperative in releasing the information. Without these
resources your newspaper's sports page would have been almost n i l.
Ronald " K i t t y " Owen, Larry Conner, and John Raines have per­formed
magnificently in carrying out their writing assignments. Owen,
a sophomore from Cullman, has won one big battle this quarter . . .
his spoil, achieved on merit and hard-work, is sports editorship of
The Plainsman starting with the next issue.
—Tiger Topics
Tom (Columbus Ledger) Kinney—"Louisiana State has been
picked by SEC coaches to win the conference basketball crown this
season. Tulane, Auburn, and Florida were rated next in order behind
LSU. . . The prc-season All-SEC quintet voting gave highest honors
to Bob Pctlit of LSU, Rick Casarcs of Florida, Pete Silas of Georgia
Tech, Cob Jarvis of Olc Miss, and Frit/. Schulz of Tulane. . . Auburn,
rated third best team, failed to place an individual on the pro-season
star quint. . . That says a lots of overall team strength."
Auburn Proves Itself As SEC Power
By Trouncing Early Season Foes
By Ronald Owen
A hot, then cold Auburn cage team swept to its third
straight win Wednesday night as they took Georgia Tech's
Yellow Jackets, 71-61.
Playing rough in spots, the Tigers found Tech, first SEC
foe, a hard team to handle. The "Swish Kids" lacked their
usual height advantage as the Yel
low Jackets fielded two 6-6 men,
Pete Silas and Bill Cohen, in their
starting five.
After the game, Coach Joel
Eaves said, "We faced a good team
tonight and were fortunate to win."
Although he didn't get hot un­til
the last quarter, Bob Fenn,
JOHN COCHRAN
Auburn's towering center paced
the Tiger attack with 15 points.
Fenn found the going rough most
of the way with two young giants
trailing him and he didn't break
loose until the waning minutes of
the game.
JOHN COCHRAN and Jack
Turner were Eaves' most consistent
men on the floor. Cochran fol­lowed
Fenn with 12 points and
he pulled some imposible shots out
of the hat during the course of the
game. Turner played an outstand­ing
defensive game, racking 10
points to add to his glory.
Eaves again used his substitutes
freely and brought some new stars
to* light. Freshman Jim O'Donnell
Bill Kirkpatrick looked good
against their first SEC foes. O'­Donnell
played a smoo'th floor
game and pushed 9 points through
the hoop, while Kirkpatrick was
impressive in scoring 4 points.
FORWARD BILL Fickling and
Center Dan Fausett were off and
on during the night as each scored
7 points. Fickling racked his points
in the eary portion of the game
While Fausett spread his over the
last half.
Pete Silas, all-conference pick,
paced the Yellow Jackets, scoring
1Z points from his forward position.
Silas, like his teammates, made
most of his points with push shots
from far out.
Eric Crake, a set shot artist,
racked 13 points for the Atlantans.
Crake, a 5 foot 10 inch guard didn't
start the game but played most of
the time. Bill Cohen, highly touted
freshman, looked good under the
board in his frst start, scoring 9
points against the Tigers.
Tigers Nip Howard
Auburn's highly ranked cagers
roared into Birmingham last Sat­urday,
and were startled by a
fighting Howard five, but recover­ed
in time to squeeze by the Bull­dogs,
80-74.
Big Bob Fenn's sterling piay was
all that kept the Tigers in the ball
game the first half. Fenn had
racked 23 points by half-time but
found the going rougher the last
portion, and could only muster 3
points for a total of 26 for the
night. Bill Fickling and Bubber
Farish followed Fenn with 13
points each, and John Cochran
flipped in 10 points for the "Swish
Kids."
COACH EAVES' quintet had
little trouble with the Bulldogs in
Auburn but the Howard five
proved to be a hard team to handle
on their home court. The Bull­dogs
out hustled the Plainsmen,
and led by Jacobs, Harrison and
Breeding took their share of the
rebounds despite being a much
shorter team.
Auburn was never ahead by
more than 10 points and their
margin most of the time was much
less than that. The Tigers found
the red-shirted team close behind
all the way and were never able
to pull out in front into a com­fortable
lead.
BOB FENN
Alpha Gams Score Win
Over Dorm IX To Keep
Volleyball Tourney Lead
Alpha Gamma Delta retained
the lead in the Women's Recrea­tion
Association sponsored intra­mural
volleyball tournament by
defeating Dormitory IX Thursday
night, Dec. 4, by a score of 30-23.
In the game last Tuesday night,
Dec. 9, between Chi Omega and
Auburn Hall, the Chi O's won by
a score of 28-24.
A game between Chir Omega
and Dormiory IX was scheduled
for Wednesday night, Dec. 10. The
winner of that game was sche­duled
to meet the undefeated
Alpha Gam team Thursday night,
Dec. 11 for the championship.
Bill Turnbeaugh Named
Outstanding '52 Gridder
Bill "Radar" Turnbeaugh, who
has accepted an invitation to
perform in the annual Senior
Bowl game in Mobile in early
January, was awarded the A u ­burn
A-Club's "Most Outstand­ing
Football Player" trophy
Wednesday night shortly before
I
the Auburn-Georgia Tech bas­ketball
game.
A-Club president Bill Mc-
Murry made the presentation to
the 265-pound Tucumcari. N.M.,
senior, who for the past two
seasons has been a stronghold
in the Plainsmen's defensive
line. Turnbeaugh was selected
for the honor by secret ballot of
the entire football squad.
—30-
THE
CUB i w ^ i w ^
N. COLLEGE
World's
Best BAR-B-Q
S A N D W I C H E S
HAMBURGERS
M I L K SHAKES
TRY OUR
FRIED CHICKEN
and
REGULAR MEALS
^CUB
SC6UIAR MML<
PROMPT VZLIV€RY f€RV/Cf
MtAL TICKET?
IVwv*
Phone 1717
Jon, @o-ecU Oaty
Just because we are primarily a man's
store doesn't mean that you aren't welcome
. . . In fact, we frankly don't know of any
better place to go to buy those Christmas
presents for the man (or) men in your life
... whether it be Dad, Brother (Little or Big)
or You-Know-Who (also little or Big)... You
know a Man's store is just about where HE
would go himself if he was buying his OWN
present.. .So why not be sure to please him
with one of the hundreds of items from the
'Finest Little Sporting Goods Store' in the
country. . . Items like sports shirts, fishing
tackle and accessories. . . Items for golfers,
tennis players, hunters ... or just plain guys
whose athletic ambitions are confined to
their TV-Sets. . . And, by the way, we don't
completely ignore the ladies in our store
because we do have a complete stock of P.E.
shorts and shirts . . . gym shoes and socks
. . . Girl's tennis racquets . . . and a lot of
other things for the ladies . . . So why not
drop in before going home for Christmas
. . . We'll do our best to help you select the
right gift... and we'll guarantee, of course,
anything we sell.
Reeder & McGaughey
'Specialists in Sports'
106 N. College Phone 1787
Eavesmen Practice
For Christmas Slate
By Ronald Owen
.Coach Joel Eaves' "Swish Kids" take the road for three
engagements during the Christmas holidays, including the
Memphis, Tenn., Invitational Tournament.
The Tigers' first game is with Birmingham-Southern in
Birmingham tomorrow. The Hilltoppers will field a young,
inexperienced team, but will be no
pushover on their home court. So
far this season they have lost to
Tulane, LSU and Mississippi State,
all highly ranked in the confer­ence.
Auburn took the Southern five
twice last year by decisive scores
and will be looking forward to a
repeat performance this season.
AUBURN WILL meet its second
SEC team December 19, when they
take on the Georgia Bulldogs in
Birmingham. The game will be
played in Birmingham Municipal
Auditorium, where a special bas­ketball
floor will be played on for
the first time. Alabama and Geor­gia
Tech will share the other half
of the twin bill.
The Bulldogs fielded a mediocre
team last season but might prove
tc be one of the conference power­houses
this year. Zippy Morrocco,
who used up his football eligibility
last year but still has a year of
basketball time left, will be the
biggest gun the Georgia team will
fire. Morrocco was one of the
big surprises in the conference
last year.
WAR EAGLE THEATRE
ON WEST MAGNOLIA
FRIDAY-SATURDAY DEC. 12-13
Street o£ rogues...reporters...
and romance !
i^Full,
The
p i c t u re
w i t h
t h e
p a g e :
one
p u n c h !
Samuel Fuller's"PARK.RQW"-.^ GENE EVANS • MARY WELCH
«!»BaAK0VACSin<HE»«E«THrft>'Wnlwi.Pit!ta«dtn«0i1cHdl>j S A M U E L F U LLE R • Hi'tind IMu UNITEO AUTISTS
CARTOON AND SHORT
LATE SHOW SATURDAY
SUNDAY-MONDAY DEC. 14-15
'Lets get friendly...stranger/*
JANE RUSSELL f
Montana Belle
GEORGE BRENT i
'$-''fti4&toVSSSSAV.
TRUCOLO&
feitb SCOTT BRADY • FORREST TUCKER* ANDY OEYINE
NEWS AND CARTOON
WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY DEC. 17-18
NEWS AND CARTOON
» >><i One Wild Night in. Las Vegas!
"FULL OF
blurring 'dETON (Mif: I MING • M m
HAWKINS' BOOK COMPANY
"rfui(kvw,,& *P%UnoUef Soafatone" •
Visit Our College Outline Scries Rack — Get Help On The Course That's Giving You Trouble
]
We Will Pay Cash For All Books Of Value
STATIONERY ART SUPPLIES ENGINEERING EQUIPMENT ARCHITECTURAL MATERIALS
. Turnbeaugh, Hayley,, Jordan Picked
By Sports Writers On AP SEC Teams
By Ronald Owen
Despite a losing season, injuries and bad luck, the Auburn
Tigers weren't left out when the post-season grid honor lists
were posted.
Coach "Shug" Jordan and staff placed three of their star
gridders on the All-SEC teams and one on the honorable
mention Alt-America team. Bill
Turnbeaugh, Lee Hayley, and Bob-
Tigers who reaped the harvest of
honors lor Auburn.
He intercepted a pass in the game's
by Jordan, all seniors, were the d-v i n f «*"*"•*• to set the stage
tor Joe Davis' field goal.
Bobby Jordan, a sparkling 155
Turnbeaugh. 265-pound lackle,
was picked on the second string
defense All-SEC team and made
honorable mention on the Associ­ated
Press All-America list. Big
Bill gained national fame with
his radar system of playing de­fense,
and at the beginning of the
season, when Auburn was making
a good showing, was on the road
to being All-American. Turn­beaugh
also rated honorable men­tion
"lineman o£ the week" for
pound safety man, was picked by
AP on their second team SEC de­fensive
unit. Bobby was a danger­ous
man against passes, was good
en punt returns and was a hard
man to get by on the ground.
Despite his size, Jordan was a
standout in a good Tiger defense.
Captain Lee Hayley, Auburn's
best pass receiver in many years,
made third team offense on the
SEC selections. Lee led the con­ference
receivers in t o u c h ­downs
scored byv passes during
his performance against Clemson. most of the seas'on and stayed in
SPE Wins Touch Football Crown
By Ronald Owen
SPE took their third straights touch football play-off win
last Wednesday and with it the fraternity championship
trophy for 1952. SAE was the jyictim, 19-6, in the deciding
game.
A game between the SPE team and the touch football
champions from the University of
SATURDAY DEC. 13
Double Feature
No. 1 No. 2
"NIGHT "Valley of
RAIDERS" The Eagles"
Whip Wilson Jack Warner—Nadia Gray
Serial—Mysterious Island #6 and Cartoon
SUNDAY-MONDAY DEC. 14-15
VINCE DOOLEY
Out for Season
THE HILARIOUS
STORY OF
A DREAM
COME TRUE! IT GROW
EET
Fox News and Cartoon
TUESDAY ONLY DEC. 16
3 BIG DAYS!
WED.-THURS.-FRI. DEC. 17-18-19
History's Most Beautiful
• •.and Treacherous
Woman!
Auburn Wrestlers
Make Clean Sweep
At Davidson Meet
The Tiger wrestling team re­turned
to its lair on the Auburn
campus Monday, after an .im­pressive
sweep of the Davidson
four-team meet.
Led by newly elected captain
Jerry Bains' three victories, the
Tiger matmen dominated the meet,
downing Emory University 31-2,
Davidson 29-5, and VMI 22-10, in
succession.
The Tigers, boasting what is
probably the strongest collegiate
wrestling team east of the Missis­sippi,
had little trouble in winning
their opening meet last Friday
night, against Emory. A draw in
one match was all that saved
Emory from a complete rout. In
this meet the Tigers pinned their
opponents in four out of eight
matches. Downey, Bains, Sanders,
the top five in passes received.
Hayley was a sticky-fingered end
who many times made the passer
look good.
Alabama to decide the state intra­mural
championship has been
scheduled for tomorrow on the
University earnpus. This game is
not sponsored by either college's
intramural department, b e i ng
strictly the fraternities' affair.
EVEN THOUGH in a tough
league, the SPE group failed to
taste defeat. They Won< all their
league games and went through
the playoffs without being headed,
for their second consecutive crown.
In the first round of the playoffs
last week KA lost to SPE 13-6.
Hart and Brown sparked the win­ners
while KA's td came as the
resut of a blocked punt. In the
other game AP took SAE 6-2 on
Stookey's touchdown for a first
round win.
LAST MONDAY saw SAE elimi­nate
KA with a 19-0 victory as
Vann, Austin and Parrish racked
for the winners. Led by Vandiver
the SPE team continued to win as
they edged AP 6-0.
Wednesday was the big day for
the playoffs. SAE, with one loss,
would have had to win twice to
take the title, but the SPE's had
other ideas and swept to a 19-6
win and the championship,
and McNair, each pinned his man.
Davidson fared no better than
Emory when they met the Tigers,
Saturday afternoon. The Plains­men
again pinned four of their
opponents as they went on to
another one-sided victory. David,
Sanders, Myers and McNair won
by pinning.
The VMI Cadets were the last
and toughest of Auburn's oppo­nents.
Trying to live up to their
advance billing as a southern mat
power, the cadets tried hard but
were" just not in the class with the
Tigers. The Auburn . grapplers
pinned three cadets to run their
weekend total to 10 pins in 24
matches. Downey and McNair
again pinned their men.
Auburn coach, Swede Umbach
in a post meet statement said,"this
is the best balanced team we have
sver had."
* * •
INTRAMURAL NOTICE
Independent teams who have
not registered for intramural
basketball have until December
17 to qualify. Team entries must
be accompanied with a list of
ten eligible men.
".• * •
AFROTC Rifle Team
Trains For Matches
Members of the API Air Force
Reserve Officer's Training Corps
Rifle Team are getting set for a
new year of competitive firing.
Schedule for the year, as an­nounced
by Col. James W. Town-send,
PAS&T, will include the
William Randolph Hearst Trophy
competition, the Army, Navy, and
Air Force Area Match, and the
National Intercollegiate Match.
THE TEAM will also fire in
postal matches against the air
force teams at the University of
Tennessee, University of Mississ­ippi,
Ohio Wesleyan, Michigan
College of Mining and Techno­logy,
Baylor University, Georgia
Tech, N.C. State, and Memphis
State College.
Team members are Ike Gray,
Decatur; Roland C. Moodie, Vine­gar
Bend; Brian Brewer, Upatoi;
B. N. Stough, Notasulga; D. S.
Wright, Selma.
W. P. Richie, Memphis, Tenn.;
C. H. Denney, Auburn; B. J. Ber-deau,
Prattville; J. Jackson, Tal-lassee;
Graham Howorth, Auburn;
R. E. Hammack, Auburn; Bob
Morris, Daytona Beach, Fla.
Sherman Bozeman, Grunville;
Bill Dawson, Columbus, Ga.; Fred
Rowland, Auburn; L. J. Haywood,
Shreveport, La.; H. A. Tidwell,
Opelika; Carl Monroney, New
Hope, and H. F. McCrary, Bir­mingham.
FFA Makes Awards
To December Graduates
Recipients of FFA certificates
of merit awards were announced
today by Eugene Chandler, sec­retary
of the local chapter.
Those who satisfied the re­quirements
are Charles Bass,
Horace Bottom, Casper Carlisle,
Ralph Davis, Jarnes Dollar, Cle­burne
Melton, James Morris, Ed-wand
Porter, Edwin Smith, Geor­ge
Smith and Carl Yeager.
In making the awards, the
chapter's advisor, Professor Tho.
mas W. Gandy, stated that the
certificates of merit is an honor
given to seniors during their
graduation quarter.
PKP Presents Rose
A new Rose of Pi Kappa Phi
was presented at the annual Au­burn-
Alabama game celebration
party, held this year at the Pick­wick
Club. She is Gay Birdsong,
a senior in education from One-onta.
LOST gold and blue class ring
with initials RRR in vicinity of
new pool room. Finder please
• cal Bob Ramsey at 167-W.
D I K E
IN A FRIENDLY
ATMOSPHERE
SEAFOOD
STEAKS CHICKEN
You'll like our courteous
help and pleasant surround­ings.
AUBURN GRILLE
Spigner Honored
Robert S p i g n e r , Billingsley,
senior in agricultural education,
was presented the achievement
award by the Alabama Chapter of
Gamma Sigma Delta, at a banquet
at the Pitts Hotel recently.
Dr. D. G. Sturkie made the pres­entation.
Awards are made twice
each year by the society to agri­cultural
seniors for outstanding
scholastic achievement.
DESIRE ride for a couple to St.
Louis or vicinity for Christmas
holidays. Phone 147-W—ask for
H. O. McDonald.
Eta Kappa Nu Initiates
Thirteen At Banquet
Eta Kappa Nu, electrical en­gineering
honorary, held its fall
initiation November 18.
New initiates are R. C. Almond,
Memphis; J. D. Arnold. Birming­ham;
J. W. Carroll, Birmingham;
T. H. Crawford, Geneva; G. T.
Dowe, Montgomery; L. A. Mor­gan,
Ashland; R. J. Spoelstra, Rio
De Janerio, Brazil; J. W. Sum-merford,
Hartselle; P. M. Swin-dall,
Sylacauga; R. L. Townsend,
Florence; H. A. Tynes, Birming­ham;
W. M. Walker, Birmingham,
arid H. J. Calhoun, Bessemer.
A banquet followed the initia­tion
at the Chicken House in
Opelika, with Dr. H. E. Can- as
guest speaker.
7—THE PLAINSMAN Friday, Dec. 12, 1952
Can't afford to miss these!
Priced to fit any budget, these
Hallmark cello-packages are easy
to buy and certain to please.
10 Hallmark Cards, all alike.
Many styles to choose from.,
FOUR PACKAGES —$1.00
JAMES CARD SHOP
On East Magnolia
AUBURN'S ONLY CARD SHOP
**"% S6& & Ww* %
Yes, if you have a gift problem, then you should see our stunning selection
of exciting gifts. As you know, a gift from the jewelers is always some­thing
special, and this year we are offering a larger collection of those sure-to-
please gifts than ever before. Remember too, all items are engraved
FREE and gift wrapped FREE. If you are an Auburn student, your credit
is good at Ware's.
KNOW YOUR JEWELER
KNOW YOUR BRANDS
GIVE THESE FAMOUS BRANDS FROM WARE'S
• WATCHES
HAMILTON _.._'__„.
ELGIN . _ — . - ,
BULOVA
TISSOT
LONGINES
WITTNAUER 111.
HELBROS _.„_•__.„_..
WADSWORTH .
• DIAMONDS
49.50 up
33.75 up
29.75 up
71.50 up
71.50 up
34.50 up
19.75 up
19.75 up
"ART CARVED"
by J. R. Wood & Sons
"ORANGE BLOSSOM"
by Traub
• MEN'S JEWELRY
BALLOU—specialist in sterl­ing
men's jewelry 3.50 up
SWANK - . 1.50 up
ANSON :......---- 1.00 up
CORRECT J 3.50 up
LA MODE 6.75 up
JACQUES KREISLER 4.00 up
• LADIES' JEWELRY
B. A. BALLOU—earrings
MISS VANITY—necklace set
LA MODE—lockets, crosses
DELTAH—pearls
MARVELLA—pearls
LANG—-co;stume jewelry
AMERICAN BEAUTY—rings
• SILVER
GORHAM
TOWLE
LUNT
HEIRLOOM
WALLACE
• CHINA
LENOX
FRANCISCAN
FLINTRIDGE
ROYAL JACKSON
• LIGHTERS
• CRYSTAL
TIFFIN
HEISEY
DUNCAN
SENECA
RONSON—all models in stock—pocket and table
ZIPPO—wind proof
BEATTIE—world's finest pipe lighter
• Compacts
Elgin American 4.95 up
Wadsworth 2.95 up
• Watch Bands • Fountain E%is
Speidel
Jacques Kreisler
Eton
Bretton
Parker _:* 5.00 up
Parker "51" 10.00 up
Sheaffer 4.00 up
FREE one chance on a new
television set with each
$1.00 purchased—c a sh
or charge.
If You Are An Auburn Student Your Credit Is Good At Ware's
API Has South's Best Sleuth
J)r. Carl J. Rehling, director of the state department of
toxicology, located at Auburn, has solved more than 10,000
of Alabama's obscure mysteries in the past 15 years.
Doc Rehling does his sleuthing armed not with a gun but
with a Ph.D. degree in soil-chemistry and an LL.B.; and
probably no other criminologist,
BACKFIRE
(Continued from page 4)
!
outside of fiction, gets more peo­ple
out of serious trouble and sal­vages
more reputations than this
briliant man. Rehling is noted as
EDITOR'S NOTE: This fea­ture
about the work of Dr. Carl
J. Rehling, API graduate of 1929,
was written by Allen Rankin, of
The'Montgomery Advertiser, and
appeared in the October issue
of Coronet magazine under the
title, "The South's Greatest De­tective."
It was reprinted this
month in The Auburn Alumnews.
the "South's Greatest Detective."
IN MONTGOMERY s e v e r al
years ago, an Air Force sergeant
found himself sweating out a
nightmare predicament. If he had
tried conscientiously to frame
himself for murder, he couldn't
have done a better job.
At 7 p.m. he had threatened his
wife at the home of some friends.
Back home about midnight, he
had again quarreled with her so
violently that the noise alarmed
neighbors. The quarrel occurred
just a short while before the lady
suddenly and violently died.
Steps Light
and Pretty
as a
Ballerinas
You'll feel like dancing
the moment you put on
these ballerina-p r e 11 y
slippers of supple leather,
banded and tied in gros-
I'.rain. Shell cut and at
home with casual or oc­casion
clothes. Red leath­er
or black leather. Only
3.95
CHARLES
Shoe Salon
"BUT I TELL you I didn't kill
her!" he insisted under police
questioning.
"Just after I hollered she left
j the house, and I went to bed. The
I first I knew anything was wrong
j was when the noise of something
I falling woke me up.
; There was my wife lying on the
i floor with that blue spot on her
| chin. Thinking she had fainted,
I put her back to bed. I didn't
know until the next morning that
she was dead!"
"Who belted her on the chin?"
"How should I know? I tell you
I was asleep!"
An impossible story, and yet
Rehling emerged from among his
test tubes to announce: "The
man's telling the truth. He didn't
kill his wife—couldn't have. She
died not from the blow on her
chin but from coronary throm-basis.
Under the magnifying glass
that bruise on her chin has a pe­culiar
pattern—the same pattern
as the edge of the dresser in the
death room. The lady died of a
heart attack and, falling, struck
her chin on the dresser."
AS ASLEUTH, Rehling col­lects
evidence at the crime scene.
As a scientist, he analyzes that
evidence in the laboratory. As a
lawyer, he makes the most of it
in the courtroom.
Son of a north Alabama car­penter,
Carl Rehling set up his
first chemistry laboratory at the
age of nine. At 28, he resigned a
chemistry profession at Auburn lo
join the new toxicology depart­ment
as first assistant to its
founder, H. W. Nixon, and has
been its chief since the latter's
resignation in 1945.
One of the first important cases'
Rehling worked on was Mobile's
famous Bell Case in 1939. Police,
fanning out from the scene of the
brutal rape, picked up a frighten­ed
Negro, named Bell.
"I didn't do it" Bell protested
heatedly. "They're trying to frame
me. When that thing happened, I
was all the way over on the other
side of town fixing a flat tire."
"All right, Herman," the tox-icologist
said quietly, "show us
the place where you fixed the
tire."
BELL SHOWED them—and as
a result died in the electric chair.
"Our microscopes gave us ex­ceptionally
clear pictures in that
case," Rehling recalls. "The soil
on Bell's clothes was entirely dis­similar
lo that at the spot where
he claimed to have fixed the tire,
and identical to the soil at the
scene of the crime.
"Also, the crime occurred under
a very rare Japanese bush, of
which there were only a few in
the entire city of Mobile. The dirt
on Bell's clothing contained a
small leaf from that bush."
Confronted with such over­whelming
evidence, Bell confess­ed
to the crime. Since then, Reh­ling
has figured in thousands of
headline cases in which science,
not prejudice or circumstantial
evidence, has had the last word.
FOUND one gold key ring with a
knife and two keys attached.
Loser may pick it up in Biggin
Hail 103.
POPE'S DINING
ROOM
FEATURING
COMPLETE DINNERS
BEVERAGES OF ALL TYPES
CATERING TO-DINNER
PARTIES
Call 813-W3 for Reservations for Fraternity,
Sorority, or Lodge Parties.
P O P E ' S on Loachapoka Highway
3 miles from Auburn
!
the word hesitantly since the au­thor's
of your letters seem to' be
capable of writing with a tremen­dous
vocabulary of approximately
five hundred words) and still be a
member of Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha
Zeta, and Gamma Sigma Delta. If
this be so there should be a whole­sale
firing of certain membership
committees. e
Had Mr. Langford taken the
time to make use of the knowledge
of Mr. Webster, he would not have
called Mr. Knight an "irritated
heretic!" By doing so he took the
stand of advocating an Athletic
Church, and far be it from the
student body to ever stoop to this
low. Athletics rightfully has its
well deserved place, but may I
never see the day our student body
consents to advocating it as an
idol.
Personally, I feel that the Au­burn
Spirit has been infringed up­on
by the joint letter of Misses
Jeanne Stokes and Jeanctte Miller.
Implied inferences were conjec­tured
that the "football spirit"
comprises the greater portion of
the Auburn Spirit. If this be so
my opinion of the Student Body is
greatly lowered.
We, the students of Auburn,
have a relationship existing in our­selves
that other student bodies
of colleges and universities might
well take heed. At what other in­stitution
can the youth increase
their knowledge without fear of
digression as to their financial
background and social status? What
other institution is composed of &
student body as congenial as the
relationship among students at
Auburn, where opinions may be
voiced without fear of the speaker
Special Friday Owl Show
BLOODHOUNDS OF BROADWAY
Mitzi GAYNOR Scott BRADY Mitzi GREEN
Egg-cited Rooster—Cartoon
OWL SHOW SATURDAY
Sunday-Monday
RANGER
EB0RAH1ERR
lOlfiSCALHERNjANEiREER
LEWIS STONE - ROBERT DOUGLAS
(AMESlASON
Men's Glee Club Octet Organized
To Stimulate Singing At Auburn
By Eldonna Brown
A new organization appeared on the Auburn scene last
winter, dedicated to that old adage of "wine, women, and
song."
The Men's Glee Club Octet, organized by Walter Collins,
director of the Glee Clubs, has as its purpose the fostering
of good fellowship and song and
the stimulation of interest in
8—THE PLAINSMAN Friday, Dec. 12, 1952
singing at Auburn.
Patterned after the Whiffenpoofs
of Yale, of which Collins was presi- j
dent, the group is closer to a bar­ber
shop quartet than a glee club,
in that its repertoire consists en­tirely
of light, popular songs.
PROSPECTIVE members arc
given tryouts, and the past mem­bers,
with Collins decide which
ones will fit most harmoniously
into their organization. They must
sing in one of the glee clubs as
well as practicing as an octet about
three hours each week.
The Octet is available, through
aid Chapman, Hapeville, Ga., and'
Hugh McCrary, Birmingham, first
tenors; Gene Guazzo, Orange, N.
J., Millard Petty, Birmingham, and
William Berrey, Birmingham, sec­ond
tenors; William Bamberg, Bir­mingham,
and Carroll Watkins,
Montgomery, first basses, and
David Loiry, Talladega and Jack
Watson, Opelika, second basses.
William Bamberg is president.
Last year the Octet sang for
various organizations, at frater­nity
houses, in churches, and in
the Glee Club concerts. This fall
their first appearance was at the
freshman orientation in the amphi­theater.
NEXT QUARTER they will sing
for the Kiwanis Club in Montgom­ery,
as well as making requested
appearances on the campus. In
February they will tour the south­ern
part of the state with The
Men's Glee Club. There is a pos-sipility
that they will sing at the
Southern Music Educator's Con­ference
in Memphis next spring.
The Octet is available, through
Collins, to any organization inter­ested
in having them appear.
Davis On Committee
Dr. Frank B. Davis, chairman
of the API speech department, has
been elected a member of the five
man committee which is to select
Southern 'representatives to the
National Debate Tournament held
at West Point, N.Y., each spring.
Election to the committee was
by representatives from over 30
colleges and universities in the
states of Kentucky, Tennessee,
Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia,
South Carolina, North Carolina,
and Florida.
being ostracized as a few are at­tempting
to do Mr. Knight?
This student relationship is the
true Auburn Spirit. May we never
see the day this relationship
ceases to exist either in ourselves
or our successors.
Sincerely Yours,
Sam Hocutt
/
C H I E F 'S
Chief s U - Drive - It &
Chief's Sinclair Station
- P h o n e 4 4 6 -
s.«.nPi.»b»J0HNL. BAL0ERST0N
,„•< NOEL LANGLEY
vr k Adaptation by W
Anthony Hope and th<
as RUPERT OF HENTZAl)
oirace* by RICHARD THORPE pouted by PANDR0 S. BERMAN An M GM Picture
Tuesday Wed.-Thurs.
JOHN PAYNE
William Demarest
Agnes Moorehead
Richard Arlen
Susan Morrow
DIKM »I twin mm - vim!" in ni
SOW h IIWIS » fOSl!» It* MtSTIIN MIDI
• i'A% Pildltri h| HIIIIIH » PWt Hi
f f f i j g Pll!l» t. THDMtS • I PMHMW HtHII
Sink or Swim—Cartoon
Latest World News
BIBLER
(Continued from page 5)
doesn't mind if you crib, if the
notes are high enough," drew j
criticism f r o m a high-school j
teacher because he thought it
gave the impression that all
teachers arc sex maniacs. |
When the "Daily Kansan" ran a
cartoon showing two K.U. Student
Union cooks going from garbage '
can to garbage can, bearing bas- j
kets and remarking, "I don't think
the fraternities are feeding us as
well this year," students chided
the paper for yielding to "yellow
journalism."
IT TAKES Bibler about an hour
to complete a cartoon, but some­times
many weeks to think one
Up. Once the ideas start to come,
however, they arrive in clusters.
CHIEF'S
is proud
to salute
Dave
Laney
As an outstand­ing
member ol
the Auburn stu­dent
body.
Where Auburn Students Trade
Foots, a senior in
industrial management
from Columbus, Ga., is
sports editor of The
P l a i n s m a n , national
president of Tau Nu1
Tan honorary for mili­tary
engineers, vice-president
and past sec­retary
of Alpha Tau
Omega social frater-1
nity and a member o#
Omicron Delta Kappa-honor
society.
AT JOCKISCH JEWELRY
* * •
TRAVEL CLOCKS
LIGHTERS
FOUNTAIN PENS
PENCILS
SILVER
SURE TO PLEASE
COMPACTS
BRACELETS
NECKLACE AND
EARRING SETS
BILLFOLDS
CULTURED PEARLS
FLOATING OPALS
I D BRACELETS
CUFF LINKS
TIE BARS
KEY CHAINS
BELT BUCKLES ,
MONEY CLIPS
ELECTRIC RAZORS
Wide selection of world
famous watches. Smartly
styled. All Top Values.
Stunning Collection of
Diamond Rings for La­dies
and Men. GREAT
VALUES.
Jockisch Jewelry
N. COLLEGE PHONE 1131