The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 21, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 12, 1940 Page: 1 of 4

Parents' Day
May 5th.
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Leaders Meet
March 30
VOLUME XIX.
STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1940
NUMBER 21
Plowboys, Tyler Here Friday in State Title
Decider; Open in East Texas Wednesday
STATE TITLISTS,
TARLETONMEET
FOR FIRST TIME
Apaches Whipped
Lee Saturday
In First Tilt, 40-25
Twice innior college basketball
champions of Texas, the Tyler
Apashes challenge Tarleton's best
team since '36 in Tyler Wednesday
night and here Friday night in the
final go of a round robin tourney
in which Lee Junior College was
also included.
It will be the first Meeting of
the two clubs, though both hare
been touted Texas' strongest for
many yecrs. Tarleton whipped Lee
twice last week to firmly establish
a hand on the state title for 1940.
Saturday night in Tyler tJie Apa-
ches turned the trick, 40 to 25.
The two clubs met again Monday
night .
Have Fallen Three Times
The Apaches, who possess a rec-
ord of only tasting defeat three
time3 this year, are out to keep
their slat*? clean of any more de-
feats.
On the Apaches starting line-
up are listed four freshmen and one
senior, End yet these boys have de-
feated some of the strongest teams
in the eastern section of the state.
On the basis of competitive score,
the Apaches look somewhat stron-
ger offensively as they downed
the Lee cagers 45-25 in their first
game, while Tarleton took the
. Goose Creek lads by the score of
-35-20 anrt 41-29.
Last Game for Plowboy Starters
Tarleton's Plowboys are riding
on the crest of a winning streak,
having won 19 Consecutive games
and 23 out of 24. Their only loss
of the season was to the San Mar-
cus State Teachers College.
When the Plowboys step onto
their home court to face the Apa-
ches in the final game of the se-
ries, wili write finish to the ca-
reer of the entire first string of
the Plowboys. The boys who wi)l
wear the uniform of Tarleton for
the last time are La Voice Seudday,
Forsan; Otis Ritchey, Springfield;
Raymond Blair, Port Worth; Joe
White, San Angelo; and Raymond
Jarrett, Stephenville, In order to
put a perfect ending to three years
of playing togehter, these boys
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Student Leadership Meeting
Set for March 30 to Name
Student Office Nominees
JOE GRACEY TO
PRESIDE; ABOUT
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R. D. Lancaster to
Represent Annual
At T, 1. P. A. Meet
When April 26 rolls around, ac-
cording to decision made by the
Tarleton Crassburr staff this
week, R. D. Lancaster will be in
San Marcos representing the year-
book staff at the annual convention
of the Texas Intercollegiate Press
Association.
John Phelan will represent the
J-Tac staff and Rex Nixon will
represent the Press Club; the
Press Club voted last week.
About one hundred students rep-
resenting Texas junior and senior
colleges are expected to attend the
convention. The purpose of the
convention is to contribute to the
increased usefulness and excel-
lence of collegiate publications.
Important personages of the
press from all over the state will
attend the convention and will
speak.
Before the convention opens, con-
tests will be held in which editor-
ials, feature stories, columns, sport
stories, sport columns, general
news columns, short stories, poems,
essays, school annuals, and school
yearbooks from all member insti-
tutions will be judged. Among
judges for this year's contests are
Lynn Landrum, nationally known
columnist of the Dallas News;
Lloyd Gregory; Albert Reese, Gal-
veston Daily News' sport writer;
Dr. Robert Montgomery, Univers-
ity of Texas professor; and Felix
R. MeKnLght, Associated Press
sports writer.
Yearbooks will be sent to /the
University of Southern California
to be judged.
Since contest material must be
in the hands of TIPA officials by
midnight March 25, Tarleton con-
test Material is benig compiled
this week. There will be a Tarleton
entry in every contest except the
short story and formal essay con-
test.
Contest decisions will be announ-
ced at the convention at the ban-
quet which climaxes activities. The
Southwest Texas State Teachers'
College Press Club is to be con-
vention host.
RIFLE TEAM IN
QUESTOFTROPHY
John Tarleton's rifle team Fri-
day completed its bid for Eighth
Corps Area William Randolph
Hearts Trophy with scores of 888
from Team A and 871 for Team B.
Five' members compose each
team, who turned in much better
scores than teams of last year.
Team scores last year were 862 for
Team A and 833 for Team B.
Members of the first team are
William T. Jones, Hubert O. Mey-
er, Clifford J. Clyburn, Collins W.
Wise, and Weldon R. Watson. On
the second five are Joe Ned Brown
Louis W. Conradt, Lavern F. Pass,
Oran W. Bigby, and Billy D. Aber-
nathy.
Lord Rothermere, the British
publisher, is Baid to have once
made about $50,000,000 in Ameri-
can investments.
Bull-baiting was a favorite sport
in England during the reign of
King John in 1209,
Annual Student Leadership Con-
ference, designed to discuss stu-
dent problems and to select nomi-
nees for student officers of the
following year, will go into all-
day session Saturday, March 30 at
a place to be designated later.
Joe Gracey, president of the Stu-
dent council which calls and ar-
ranges conference plans, will pre-
side over the meeting.
Representatives to the confer-
ence include all members of the
Student council and its faculty
advisor four representatives from
the J- TAG staff and its faculty
advisor;four representatives from
the AWS council; the head yell
leader, the athletic sponsor, the
colonel of the cadet corps, the
dean of women, and the dean of
men.
Students problems will be pre-
sented at this conference—if there
are any—and will be held subject
to debate. If considered of suf-
ficient interest to the student body
the cotiference will refer by vote
the problem to the school for a
student vote, which serves purely
as a recommendation to Dean J.
Thomas Davis.
The J-Tac staff, the Grassburr
staff, the Student Council, the yell
leaders, and the present athletic
sponsor will present their nomi-
nees for offices for the school
year, 1D40-'41 at this time. Can-
didates will be considered official.
However, if anyone not chosen at
this conference chooses to run for
an office, he must declare his in-
tention to Gracey, who in turn will
cheek grade averages, demerits,
and other qualifications in ac-
cordance with regulations. Candi-
dates will be announced and intro-
duced in chapel.
Following the business meeting
on Saturday afternoon, conference
representatives will be the guests
of the Student council at a dinner.
Tarleton Singers To
Sponsor Picture Show
At Majestic Theatre
How old are you? 17? 18? 19?
49? No sir, you are "As Young
As You Feel." That is the name of
the latest Jones Family picture
released from Hollywood,
Tuesday night the Tarleton Col-
lege Singers will sponsor the
show and the proceeds will gp to
defray their expenses while on the
annual trip.
Students have general privileges
Wednesday night, and tickets may
be obtained from any of the mem-
bers of the chorus.
Speech Students To
Go to Nearby Schools
For League Events
As has been the custom for the
last several years, Tarleton speech
students are going to schools in
the surrounding district to judge
Interscholastic League events.
They have judged story-telling
and declamation contests in sev-
eral communities.
Phillis Knight, Mildred Hittson,
Marjorie Ann Newton, George
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Honorary Corps of
Cadets Accepts 11
New Memberships
Eleven new members have been
elected to the Honorary Corps of
Cadets following approval of Maj.
James D. Bender, Dean J. Thomas
Davis, and company officers.
The new men are J. II. Chisholm
Don Price, Byron Andrews,
Charles Loekharfc, Gerald Louder,
Jim Shuttlesworth, Willard Rea-
vis, Mac Hoppock, Gerald Knight,
Hugh Spotts, and Max Steck,
No Demerits for 159
Tarleton Girls In
1st Semester Work
Tarelton co-eds, it seems, are
good girls.
During the fi/st semester, 33
per cent of all girls enrolled, or
159 individuals, behaved so emi-
nently well that, at the end of
the semester, they had not a singly
demerit marked against them.
Among the 159 demerit-less
girls were 36 Stephenville girls,
according to Miss Clara Savage,
dean of women.
Miss Lillard Gives
Review of Behrman
Play This Afternoon
Miss Lillie V. Lillard of the
Tarleton speech department will
review S. N. Behrman's play, "No
Time for Comedy," for members
of the Tarleton Campus club when
they meet this afternoon at the
home of Miss Lena Lewis. Misa
Lewis and Mrs. Gabe Lewis will
be hostesses for the club.
Miss Lillard saw Behrman's
popular play when it was present-
ed in Fort Worth, with Katherine
Cornell as star. In addition to
her discussion of the pldy, she will
consider technical problems which
comfort the professional director.
TARLETON FIRST
IN ONE-ACT PLAY
MEET AT RANGER
Betty Elliott, Rex
Nixon, Bill Smith
Cast of "Radio"
Students from John Tarleton
College, Stephenville, won first
honors in the District 5 One-Act
Play Contest of the Texas Junior
College Speech Association, last
Friday evening, at Ranger Junior
College. Betty Elliott of Brecken-
ridge, Rex Nixon of Ballinger, and
Bill Smith of Eliasville, made up
the Tarleton cast, presenting the
forceful drama, "Radio," by Alice
C. D. Riley. The play was directed
by Miss Lillie V. Lillard, head of
the Speech department of Tarle-
ton and one of the officials of the
Junior College Speech Association.
Weather ford College won second
place with the play, "The Last
Curtain," by N. L. Hosey, and
Ranger Junior College won third
place with Lord Tennyson's "The
Falcon." Mrs. Hal Hunter of Ran
ger College, district director, was
in charge of the mett.
The Tarleton Players will now
compete for state championship
with eleven winning district plays
from various sections of the state
at the meet to be held at Hillsboro
Junior College on Friday, March
15. -Twenty-four junior colleges of
the state are members of the Tex-
as Junior College Speech Associ-
ation.
With her portrayal of Manle
Stewart, Miss Elliott gave one of
the finest performances of the
year. Mame moved to the farm be-
cause she. loved Jim, Mr. Nixon,
but after six years of hardships
she was about to leave him. She
wanted the finer things of life, or
anything except the life she was
leading in Western Kansas. Con-
noly, an Irishman, played by Mr.
Smith, gave her a radio to keep
her company. Instead of keeping
her company, however, it made
her long for the bright lights of
the city. Mame was about to kill
Jim when the "Slumber Song,"
her dead baby's favorite lullaby,
drifted through the loud speaker,
making a fitting climax.
Plans for Parents' Day,
Sunday, May, 5 Are
Hearing Completion
All-day Affair to Include Student
Parade, Band Concert, Devotional
Exercises, Open House, Pageant
Nearing completion are plans for John Tarleton's annual
Parents' Day Celebration, which are being formulated by a
faculty committee headed by Miss May Jones, associate pro-
fessor of mathematics.
The Rev, W. H. Andrews of the
EXAMS TAKEN BY
13 NON-COMS TO
NAME OFFICERS
Thirteen selected non-commis-
sioned officers Saturday afternoon
took a four-hour competitive ex-
amination for the commission of
second lieutenant,
Scope of the test, which included
20 questions, embraced close and
extended order drill, the subjects
of rifle marksmanship, map read-
ing, the automatic rifle, infantry
weapons, scouting and patrolling,
and musketry. All are familiar
only to second year cadets.
This examination was the first
of its kind to be introduced here
by Maj. James D. Bender, P. M.
S. & T.
Candidates for commissions in-
clude Joe C. Hanna, Biron Hig-
gins, Tyrrel De Volin, Joe White,
Edwin Gaskin, Jimmie Yeoman,
Carroll Olson, Viron Higgins, Wil-
liam Borders, Jim Shuttlesworth,
Clifford Clyburn, Edwin Moseley,
and Gordon Robe.
Grexi Made Adjutant
In First Battalion
Of Cadet Corps
Cadet First Sergeant Robert
Grey has been promoted to the
rank of second lieutenant upon the
recommendation of Maj. James D.
Bender and the approval of Dean
J. Thomas Davis.
He has been assigned to adju-
tant duty to Cadet Maj. Bill Ellis
in the first batallion.
WILLIAM PARKS GRANT RECOGNIZED
AS "ONE OF LEADING AMERICAN
COMPOSERS" IN PHILADELPHIA HALL
A member of the Tarleton music
faculty received recognition, as
"one of the leading American com-
posers" last week when William
Parks Grant was invited to send
manuscripts of five compositions
to the Edwin A. Fleischer music
collection of the Free Library of
Philadelphia.
The Fleischer collection houses
the world's largest collection of
orchestral music. At present, it is
making especial effort to add con-
temporary orchestral compositions
and for that reason wishes to place
some of Mr. Grant's compositions
on their shelves.
Mr. Grant is requested to send
his Symphony No. 1, which has
been presented by the Rochester
Philharmonic orchestra; his Over-
ture to Shakespeare's "Macbeth,"
the Minuet in D, and Poeme Ele-
giaque.
Inclusion of his compositions in
the Fleischer collection insure that
his work will be available for ref-
erence and study by any person
who visits the Library, and make
certain his work's permanent pres-
ervation. It will become a part of
the largest collection of orchestral
music in the world and. will, prop-
erly catalogued, be entered in the
supplementary list to be published
later.
Mr, Grant's music has been
played on several occasions from
the John Tarleton Auditorium
stage, has been played on Tarleton
broadcasts over WBAP and KTAT
and has been presented by Ohio
orchestras and chamber music
.groups. Last year the Pro Arte
string quartet of Fort Worth in-
cluded a ballet written by Mr.
Grant on one of its programs.
Last Sunday afternoon the Steph-
enville Music Club presented an
entire concert of Mr. Grant's
music.
Recordings of his Symphony No.
1 and of a cyele of songs are in-
cluded in the Tarleton record li-
brary.
FIVE MORE C.A.A.
STUDENTS SOLO
Flyers will gaze upon another
phase of their course within a few
days. Charles Hall, Douglas Hous-
ton, H. L. Phillips, Jack Brewton,
Eddie Gaskiri,, George Eckhardt,
and Darrell Tate have already
made their first solo fight. Thus
they completed the first 'phase of
the course.
Now the work will begin. The
students will learn to do the dif-
ficult maneuvers, spins, dives,
rolls, loops, and acrobatics in gen-
eral. However, this will not be
done until H. G. Harwell and Bur-
rell Tibbs, flight instructors, are
confident tbe students have mas-
tered the elementary work. Before
the pilots make application for
private licenses,'they must make a
triangular flight of 100 miles and
land at three different places. The
student will do this alone and will
make a report in writing, when he
returns, specifying that he has
made the flight, and giving the de-
tails of the trip.
After doing this, the student
meets the other requirements of
the Civilian Aeronautics Author-
ity, and then he may make appli-
cation for a private license.
Euaena Gentru> '38
Graduatet To Play
For Fine Arts
Tonight at 7:15 o'clock the Fine
Arts club will present Miss Eu-
gena Lou Gentry in a piano recital
in the Little Auditorium.
ftjiss Gentry, who has completed
her degree work at the American
conservatory, Chicago, graduated
from Tarleton in the spring of '38.
While here she was a prominent
student on the campus, being sec-
retary-treasurer of the O. W. L.
S. and of the Fine Arts clubs, and
a member of the Little Symphony
orchestra. As a student of Charles
W. Froh, she was presented in a
graduation recital.
Her recital will include selec-
tions from Bach, Brahms, Chopin,
Dubussyy Fiiml, Liszt. Also Miss
Gentry will play one of her own
compositions.
First Baptist church of Bryan,
former pastor of the Stephenville
lioptist church, will speak at the
morning devotional services. Im-
mediately after lunch the military
band „will play in Hunewell park,
and after that concert, a moving
picture showing Tarleton College
activities will be shown in the
auditorium.
Pageant pn Hays Field
At 3:45 o'clock a pageant, "Tar-
leton on Parade," will be presented
on Hays field. Students of the
women's physical education de-
partment, the Tarleton Chorus,
Girls' band, Military band, and the
Honorary Corps of Cadets will co-
operate in presenting the pageant.
Before the pageant begins, rec-
ognition will be given to parents
among those registered who live
the greatest distant from Tarle-
ton, to parents who have the larg-
est number of children in Tarle-
ton now, and to parents who have
have had the largest number of
children attending Tarleton as stu-
dents during the years since the
college opened.
Assisting Miss Jones in arrang-
ing for Parents Day activities are
R. Berton Coffin and Harold J.
Bluhm, who have charge of music
for the morning parade devotion-
al exercises; Charles W. Froh,
Donald Morton and William P.
Grant, who will arrange music for
the afternoon faculty reception;
D. G. IJunewell, who will direct
the military band for its concert;
and Mr. Coffin, Miss Laura Fell-
man, and Maj James D. Bender,
who are in charge of arrange-
ments for the pageant.
MARIONETTE ACT
TO BE PRESENTED
THIS AFTERNOON
The stories of little Cosette,
taken from Les Miserable^, and
Little Sallie Mandy, will be pre-
sented in the form of marionettes
by the art education classes this
afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Homo
Economics building auditorium.
Interested students, faculty, and
children are invited.
Scene of Little Cosette, the first
play, is in the French village of
Montfermiel on Christmas eve
night. The following are making
and operating the dolls: Clara
Evelyn Peach, Ruth McKay, Helen.
Marie Futch, Jocille Burroughs,
Dorothy Lee Sherrill, Dorothy
Hall, Ina Bea Hale and Joan Con-
ger.
Katherine Bledsoe is stage man-
ager and Cathrine Snead is prop-
erty manager. Bobbie Sue Burns,
Dorothy Morris, Dorothy Sparks,
and Jessie Ruth Ellis have charge
of property. Era Lea Bode, Lillian
Mack, Elouise Brown, Nina Sum-
my, and Ruth Hardison hava
charge of scenery.
In the second play the scene i3
at Sallie Mandy's home and in. the
forest. It is the story of a little*
girl who goes into the woods to
play with a cat and field mouse.
She gets lost and an owl Iead3 her
home.
Cast includes Thelma Dean, Mil-
dred Furr, Evelyn Gregg, Oma
Mae McClellan, Wynogene Med-
ford, Mozelle Jackson, and Adele
Chapman.
Ruth Murray1 is general man-
ager; Thelma Dean and Mildred
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