The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 3, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 26, 1950 Page: 1 of 8
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Published Weekly by Tarleton Students
Have Your Grassburr
Pictures Made Now!
81ST YEAR
STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1950
NO.
FIRST ASSEMBLY
INITIATED WITH
MUSK, YELLS
Band music and marching feet
opened the first assembly held on
the campus this year. This assem-
bly is the first of a series to meet
on Thursday at 3 p.m. in the main
auditorium during the school year.
The Tarleton Symphonic Band
played the Tarleton Fight Song1
and the Color Song as the Cadet
Corps marched into the auditorium.
President E. J. Howell made a
short welcoming address in which
he gave reasons for the renewal
of assembles at TSC.
' The 1950 Tarleton yell staff was
. elected by the assemblage. They
are Gene Ragsdale, Rising Star;
Herbie Harkrider, Brady; Frankie
Blanton, Coleman; Barbara Mc-
■ Daniels,'Pampa, and Eva VVyatt,
Stephenville.
Coach Willie Zapalac introduced
the 1950 Plowboys Dan Coultas,
John Badgwell, Cedric Bettis, cen-
ters; Dean Roberson, Donald Deel,
James. Coble, Wendell Lackey, Joe
Wheeler, Raymond Coppic, Martin
Kinney, James Cammack, guards.
Tackles Floyd Styles, Lee Wise,
Joe Edgar, Jean Sexton, Bob Ken-
iiimer; ends Jack Jones, Louis
Holt, Richard Bentley, Elori Baker,
Harold Thomson,'Wurth Ross and
Tex.Manev; Pence Dacus, Joe Bill
Fox, Charles Bullock and Oris
Reynolds, quarterbacks. ■
Marvin Brown, Edsal January,
Buddy Fair, Charles Seydler, Bu-
ren, fullbacks; Lloyd Corder, Ron-
nie Miller, Ewell Pearcy, Gene
Hardin, left half; Elmer Shaw,
Harold Warford, James McKie;
Dave Swisher, Buddy Bentley and
Donald Roberson, right half; Joe
Ammerman, James Yancey, and
Carroll Henderson, riianagers.
Nominations for president and
vice-president of the Student Coun-
cil were also made.
Tickets Now on Sale
For Trip to Ranger '
Tcikets are on sale now in the
Fiscal Office for all who want to
see the Plowboys clash with Ranger
Thursday night.
A bus will be taken to Ranger if
a minimum of 29 students want to
ride it. The bus tickets are $1.50
round trip, and football tickets are
60e.
Wednesday afternoon is the dead-
line for buying tickets, and the bus
will leave, for Ranger from in front
of the dining hall at 5:30 Thursday
afternoon.
More Freshmen
Eat Breakfast
Those few second-year stu-
dents who managed to get up
in time for breakfast last year
can't realize that the miles of
students they now "see at 7:15
are not part of the dream they
just left in bed.
Yes, it's true. Energetic frosh
are getting out of bed. in tha
wee hours of the morning to go
and stand in front of the chow
hall. Maybe freshmen are set-
ting the examples this year..
No Excuse for
Dirty Clothes
Girls who live in the dorm
now have no excuse for not hav-
ing their clothes look whiter
and brighter than ■ new. Last
"Wednesday a new Firestone
washing machine was installed
in the laundry room.
Jane -Hicks, the first to take
advantage of the new machine,
says, "It works fine!"
U. S. Army Photo
MORE WORK FOR THE
MAJOR—Major Henry B. Duke,
assigned ;to the Tarleton military
staff to replace Major George J.
Ganer, will also assume the du-
ties of Captain Carlyle P. Weolf-
er, who is leaving Tarleton in
October for San Francisco and
the Pacific.
KIBITZERS CAN "
SEE PROGRESS
FROM NOW ON ■
Work on the new ag building
will be above the ground and visi-
ble to kibitzers from this week on.
Foundations have been laid and
the first floor slabs will be poured
before the end of the week on the
5327,000 structure, which is ex-
pected to be completed by July 1;
leady for occupacy nexj; year.
Work this week will consist
largely of finishing the pouring of
the first floor slabs. The concrete
is poured in huge, removable steel
form's called pans, which are taken
out after the concrete hardens.
Half of the floor area had been
poured Wednesday and the rest
was ready.,
The next major step will be
erection of the concrete-and-steel
columns to support the next floors,
followed by laying the brick of the
walls, which is scheduled to begin
about December 15. The columns
have been poured and are ready
for erection as soon as more steel
arrives.
Construction of the building',
which will house the business ad-
ministration department as well
as the agriculture division, calls
for a monthly outlay of $40,000
for carrying the program on sched-
ule. The project employs 37 men
full-time, with additional labor
hired during rushed periods, such
'as mixing and pouring cement and
bricklaying.
Moore Sweats;
Cadets Hope, Too
"Greetings from the Presi-
dent . . ." the letter, ran.
• Seeing it, Vic Moore, senior
from Naples, vvent into action.
Upon the advice of PMS&T, Col.
B. O. Morrison, he appealed last
week for a deferment from ac-
tive duty until the end of the
school year. Cadets, a great
many in similar positions, await
with great interest the outcome
of the appeal.
Col. Morrison was confident.
"We can obtain deferment for
any cadet in good military and
scholastic standing until the
end of the semester," he said
in a corps meeting. Thursday.
Moore, a lieutenant colonel in
the cadet corps, commanded the
Wainwrig'ht Rifles last year.
REGISTRATION
REACHES 841:
1000 EXPECTED
Eight hundred forty-one stu-
dents had moved across -registra-
tion lines Thursday at noon, ex-
ceeding all expectations for that
date.
Registration will continue through
September 30, with . total figures
cxpected to equal last year's 1,024
mark.
A breakdown shows that more
than 64 per cent, or about 550, arfi
men, with over 200' women. Wed-
nesday, the total of 826 included
58 veterans, one of whom, Mrs,
Edna Fulfer, was a woman.
The total includes a number of
adults who have registered for
night classes. Some of the classes
offered will be English, modern
languages, typing, interior decora-
tion and an engineering class for
Soil Conservation- Service em-
ployees which will meet on Sat-
urday rather than at night.
A recent meeting in the m^un
auditorium of adults from the Ste-
phenville area interested in enroll-
ing in the expanding night class
program was the deciding factor
as to which courses would be of-
fered.
The number of veterans at Tar-
leton shows a sharp drop from last
year's total of 119, which was con-
siderably lower than the number
enrolled the previous year.
Photo by "BAX"'
ANOTHER SERVING, PLEASE
—Miss Jo Olander, new college
dietician, assumed duties at the
beginning of the semester — in
time for beginning students to
get their first meal when they
hit the campus.
FACULTY NIGHT
BEING PLANNED
Faculty members again this "year
will set aside nights to forget stu-
dents and classes, unbend their
brows, and have fun.
President Howell last week ap-
pointed a committee to plan this
semester's first Faculty Fun Night,
which will be held October 3.
With Dr. G. E. Waggener as
chairman, the group will set the
date for the entertainment, plan
the program, and make provisions
for prizes and refreshments.
Other committee members are
Joe W. Autry, Miss Pauline Hois-
ington, Miss Wynon Smith, and A.
M. McMahan. .
NOTICE
■ Mrs, Sallie Clarke, dormitory maT
tron, is selling sandwiches in the
dorm' kitchen every evening. 'She
has two different mixes ready for
anyone who wants a between-meals
snack or before bedtime. Proceeds
from the sandwiches go isito a fund
for paying for the new washing
machine in the dorm.
Students To N ame
Council Leaders
Two top student positions will
be filled Thursday by a special
election assembly.
President and vice-president of
the Student Council will be chosen
by the student body in secret bal-
loting from candidates nominated
last week.
The candidates include Elwin
Clarke of Beeville, Wayne Rich-
ardson of Midland, and Joe Bill Fox
of Fort Worth, president, and Gina
Seastedt of Stephenville, Joe Schu-
ster of Mexia, and Pence Dacus
of Brady for vice-president
Two gf the candidates, Richard-
son and Fox are freshmen.
Clarke, a senior petroleum en-
gineering major, won the neatest
cadet competition last year. He is
a Scholarship Society member and
was on the honor roll both semes-
ters last year. • A member of the
Military Band, he also works in
the dining hall. In high school he
lettered in baseball, track and
basketball, and won third place in
the state track meet in 1949.
Wayne Richardson, a first-year
nursery management major, was
vice-president of the Midland High
School FFA and vocational agri-
culture club. He lettered in football
and ranks scholastically in the
second quarter of the class.
Joe Fox, voted last year the
outstanding athlete in all Fort
Worth schools, is a freshman P.E.
student and a Plowboy quarter-
back. He was also elected most
popular boy in high school, was
junior class president, and captain
of the track team. He also won
two high school football letters.
Gina Seastedt, the first vice-
presidential candidate to be nomi-
nated, was born in Jamestown,
J-Tac Editors '
Just Seem Mad!
What becomes of J-Tac edi-
tors?.
Does the nine-month gjjid of
meeting' deadlines drive them all
ot the bughouse?
Not quite all.
Rosemary Colburn, '46, got a
degree from the University of
Arizona, is married, and lives
in Dublin when she and her
husband are not following 'the
big-time rodeo circuits.
Bill Jackson, 47, took a de-'
i gree in pournalism at NTSC at
■Denton, went on to win his M.
A., married, and is teaching.
Rus Kersten, 48, and H'arvey
Summers, '49, are taking jour-
nalism at the University of
Texas, where Rus will get his
degree this year.
Maybe it isn't such a hard life
after all.
CALENDAR
++++++++++++++++++++++++
Tuesday, Sept. 26—Sine Cera Club
Meeting, 6:30, club room of
dorm.
Tuesday, Sept. 26—Barons-Coronas
Club Meeting, girls' dorm
Wednesday, Sept. 27—Canterbury
Club Meeting, 7' p.m., 1055 Van-
derbilt.
Thursday, Sept. 28—Yell Meeting,
3:45, in front of auditorium.
Thursday, Sept. 28^—Assembly for
Election of Student Council Of-
ficers, 3 p.m., auditorium. '
Saturday, Sept. 30—Sine Cera
Dance, rec hall.
Monday, Oct. 2—FFA Meeting, Ag
Building, room 6.
Tuesday, Oct. 3—Faculty Fun
Night, rec hall.
New York,-but came to Stephen- '
ville to attend Tarleton. A senior
chemistry major, she plans to be
a lab technician. She is vice-presi-
dent of the newly-organized Stu-
dents Association, and was one of .
three s'tudents to earn a 3.00 grade
point average last year.
Schuster, a senior range and
wildlife student, is a Wainwright
Rifles. member and . ranks in the
upper 20 per cent of his class. He
played in all intramural sports last
year and managed an intramural
football team. In high school he
lettered in football and baseball
and was treasurer of the high
school FFA.
Pence Dacus, a Plowboy starting
quarterback, is a senior P.E. ma-
jor. He was elected outstanding
senior in high school and was
president of the athletic club. He
won one Tarleton football letter,
two in basketball, one in track and
one in tennis.
Candidates were nominated last
Thursday in the same election
which picked this year's yell lead-
FIRST ANNUAL
PHOTQSfAKEN •
Shutters began clicking yester-
day at the local photographers as
coeds and cadets lined up to have
pictures made for tfiis year's
Grassburr,
The class picture schedule, an-
nounced'Friday by Annual Editor
Bill Nix, lists the following order
in which the photos are to be
taken:
A through F—September 25-30.
G through K—October 2.-7.
L through P—October 9-14.
Q through Z—October 16-2,1.
Girls are requested, to wear
close - to - the - head hairdos and
dresses with simple necklines. Ca-
dets must wear Class A wool uni-
forms without caps.
Non-cadet male students should
wear coats and ties, but no hat.
A 25-cent fine will, be levied for
pictures not taken during the
proper period. The photos may. be
taken at either of the downtown
studios.
Band, Rifles to
Participate in
Texas State Fair
. Over 100 members- of the Mili-
tary Band and Wainwright Rifles
will participate in the Texas A&M
System Day at the State Fair
October 8.
Four busloads of cadets will
leave the campus at 8 a.m. for
Dallas. The units will take part in
a Guard Mount, a formal parade
ceremony, with units from A&M
and Arlington.
Each of the military units now
numbers more than 50 members, '
since new cadets were added to
both last week. More than 110.
cadets came out for the crack rifle
company at tryouts' last Wednes-
day, but most, of the, new members
will not participate in the Dallas
trip.
After the formal ceremonies are-
over, the cadeits will have the rest
of the day at the fair to them-
selves. The buses will leave the
fair grounds at 11 p.m.
Students who earn 40 or more
grade points one semester may
carry live extra hours the follow-
ing semester.
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