The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 4, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 3, 1950 Page: 1 of 8
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Go to the Pep Rally
Wednesday Night
Published Weekly by Tarleton Students
31ST YEAR
STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1950
NO. 4
Clarke and Schuster
To Head Council
Elwin Clarke and Joe Schuster
were elected president and vice-
president of the Student Council
Thursday by secret ballot in a
special election held in assembly
in the main auditorium.
A senior from Beeville, Clarke is
majoring in chemical engineering
engineering- and is a member of
the Scholarship Society, as we'll
as being on the honor roll both
semesters last year.'He is a mem-
ber of the Military Band, the
English Teachers
To Hold Workshop
On Campus Soon
High school and college English
teachers from a large area of West
Texas will converge on the campus
October 20 for a two-day remedial
workshop, v
Called the Workshop for the In-
tegration of High School and Col-
lege English Teaching, the correc-
tional school will seek to find why
high school students are not ready
for college IJnglish after gradu-
ation, according to Miss Dollie
Glover, professor of English.
The Tarleton workshop is a part
of a statewide program originated
four years ago by Dr. T. T. Mayo,
head of the A&M English depart-
ment, who will be guest dinner-
speaker October 20. Other colleges
participating in the workshop will
be Howard Payne, Daniel Baker,
and San Angelo. High schools from'
the same area will also send dele-
gations. ,
The English teachers will hold
conferences and discussions in their
effort to bridge the gap between
high school and college English,
Miss Glover said.
Ex, James Atlee,
AnnouncesChange
At Gatesville
James Atlee, Tarleton ex of 1927-
'30, now superintendent of Gates-
ville State School for Boys, an-
nounced some radical changes to
be made in the management meth-
ods at the correctional school.
The announcement, followed a de-
cision of the State Youth Develop-
ment Council for the changes. Two
other members of the council; Lewis
Nordyke of Amarillo and executive
secretary John II. Winters of Aus-
tin, are also ex-Tarletonites.
The state school, now being run
on a mass-custody basis, will be
broken down into smaller units
within the institution designed for
maximum control and rehabilita-
> tion.
New rehabilitation programs will
be instituted and new construction
and repair schedules will soon go
into effect..
Barons social club, and works ir
the dining hall.
While attending A. C, Jones
High School in Beeville, Elwin was
chosen the most outstanding senior
boy by the Eotary club and fac-
ulty, and ranked third highest
scholastically. He was named
Who's Who among Students in
American High Schools.
The oldest of four children,
Clarke lettered in basketball, base-
ball and track while in high school,
won third place in broad jump in
the state track meet in 1949.
Vice-President Schuster is a na-
tive of Mexia where he lettered in
football and baseball in Mexia
High School. He was also treasur-
er of the high school FFA there.
Schuster is a senior student at
Tarleton, and majors in nursery
management. He ranks in the up-
per 20 per cent of his class, and
played' in all intramural sports
last. year. He was manager of an
intramural football team.,
CALENDAR
Tuesday, Oct. 3—Scholarship Soci-
ety Supper, 6 p.m., 446 North
Neblett.
Tuesday, Oct. 3 — Faculty Fun
Night, 7:30,- rec hall.
Wednesday, Oct. 4 — Canterbury
Club Meeting, 7 p.m., 1055 Van-
derbilt,
Thursday, Oct. 5—Yell Meeting,
11:45 p.m. by the cannon.
Thursday, Oct. 5—English Depart-
ment Reading Hour, 4 p.m.,
Room 210, Ad. Building.
Thursday, Oct. 5—Football Game,
Plowboys vs, H-SU at Abilene.
Saturday, Oct. 7—Coronas-Barons
Dance, 8 p.m., rec hall.
ARCHITECTURE
STUDENTS END
EXHIBIT WORK
"Engineering Panorama," title
of the A&M System exhibit in the
Texas State Fair, was completed
in one-third recently by Tarleton
architecture students who have
been' working full time on the
project for the past two weeks.
The other two-thirds of the ex-
hibit were constructed by A&M and
Arlington State College. The three
parts will be curried to Arlington
where they wil be assembled into
one complete exhibit and carried
to the State Fair, which will open
Saturday, October 7. ■
TSC architecture students, un-
der the direction of Jack Herring-
ton, constructed a model village,
complete in every detail. In this
model village are homes, office
buildings, and other parts of a
business district, each finished in
a slightly different manner which
adds interest to the model.
They also constructed a model
railroad yard and oil derrick, using
prototype colors, but bright and
contrasting ones. Small figures of
human beings were also construct-
ed to take their place in the exhibit.
Brown Eyes Smile;
First Annual Pic
Brown eyed, brunette Jackie
Durham was the first this year
to flash a sparkling smile at
the' "birdie" for "Bax."
Jackie is a rodeo fan from
Granbury who had an outstand-
ing hig-h school record. She was
president and vice-president of
the Home Economics Club,
cheer leader, football sweet-
heart, on the, student council,
vice-president and reporter of
her class. She's already keeping
lip the old tradition by her elec-
tion as secretary of the campus
Rodeo Club.
NOTICE
Class meetings will .be held at
G:30 Wednesday. Juniors will meet
in the Main Auditorium; Seniors in
the Home Economics Auditorium;
Academy in the Little Auditorium.
Purpose of meeting is class organ-
ization and election of Student
Council representatives.
SCHOLARSHIP WINNER —To
Gladys Charles Phillips was
awarded ithe Uta Davis Scholar-
ship at a recent Campus Club
meeting as the outstanding sen-
ior girl.
PflMUPS WINS-
DAVE AWARD
Recently selected by the Tarle-
ton Campus Club as the most
worthy senior girl, Charles Phillips
was awarded the Uta Davis Scho-
larship by that club. Mrs. E. J.
Howell, president of the club, made
the award.
Charles is a graduate of Iredell
High School where she was presi-
dent of her senior class, valedic-
torian of the class, senior favorite
and senior yell leader." While in
high school she was a member of
the Future Homemakers of Amer-
ica, and president of that club two
years. She was a member of the
annual staff, vice-president of her
class in her junior year, and re-
porter during- her sophomore year.
A business major at Tarleton,
Charles said that sports are her
hobby. She lettered three years in
volleyball, basketball and baseball
while in high school, and says that
riding and swimming- are her fav-
orite sports.
At Tarleton, Charles is a mem-
ber of the Scholarship Society, the
YWA, and was a member of the
Aggettes last year. She works in
the dining hall, and plans to attend
North Texas after finishing at
TSC. She stated that she planned
to teach after graduation.
It Won't Work!
Good-by, Vic
It won't always work.
Boys, face the facts. If the
Army wants you, it gets you.
And it doesn't matter if you
are commander of the Wain-
■ wright Rifles.
Vic Moore, a Tarleton student
and cadet officer for the past
three years, received his draft
call two weeks ago and applied
for a deferment until the end
of the school year. Days passed,
and no deferment was received.
Tuesday, Vic turned in his uni-
form and prepared to leave
school, but still hoping that
the deferment would come
through.
So all you who are in school
to get out of the draft are out
of luck. Maybe if you tried turn-
ing hermit and making for the
hills?
PLOWBOY FOES
ASC 6, TCU Wogs 6
Kilgore 27, Louisiana State 0
Stadium Fund Approved
By Board of Directors
Approval for construction of
initial'units of the Tarleton Memo-
rial Stadium to cost $40,000 was
given by the Texas A&M Board of
Directors at a meeting in San An -
tonio last weekend.
Stephenville business men,
through a drive conducted last
week, raised $15,000 to add to
$25,000 already in the Stadium
Fund. Contributions last week in-
cluded new donations as well as
advance payment of pledges - due
Dec. 31, 195.0.
The A&M board accepted the
funds from the Tarleton Ex-Stu-
dents Association which were of-
fered for the express purpose of
building a Memorial Stadium.
■ The initial units will, consist of
ten rows of concrete seats with
athletic dressing rooms, equip-
ment rooms, public rest rooms, and
other facilities, also 'of concrete,
being built underneath the seats.
Stipulation was made by the Ex-
Students Association that if the
initial units cost less than $40,000,
the excess money would be re-
turned to college books for use in
completing the stadium. The drive
for funds to add additional seating-
units to the stadium will be con-
tinued by the Tarleton Ex-Students
Association.
According to President E. J.
Howell, specifications for the sta-
dium will be drawn up at once and
bids will be secured as early as
possible with the aim of complet-
ing construction of the initial units
early next year.
The 1950 Thanksgiving holidays
at Tarleton begin on November 22,
and last until November 26.
MINNESOTA REDS
VICTORIOUS IN
LAYING CONTEST
A.pen of Rhode Island Reds from
St. Paul, Minnesota's Capital
Breeding Farm finally won out in
their year-long struggle with Will-
iams Poultry Breeding Farm's
White Leghorns to cop first place
honors in the 21st Annual Tarleton
Egg-Laying Test which ended last
week.
The winning pen smashed all ex-
isting world's records for egg pro-
duction in the test.
One of the Denison, Texas, hens
managed to win high individual
honors, however, by laying 335 eggs
for 360.35 points, as compared with
328 eggs and 359.90 points of Capi-
tal's top producer.
Capital also entered the fourth
and fifth place pens in the Tarleton
test, which this year was one of
the largest and mast successful in
history. J. O. Coombs & Son of
Sedgwick, Kansas, placed"' third
with a pen of inerossbreds.
Other winners were George Her-
berer of San Antonio, who entered
the fourth and ninth place individ-
ual, and Stephenville's Erath Egg
Farm, owner of the ninth high hen.
Capital, hens copped second, third,
fifth, sixth, and tenth places, and a
Coombs Incrossbred was the sev-
enth high, individual.. ,
High pens included Capital, first,
fourth, fifth, and ninth; J. A.
Coombs, third and sixth; Williams,
second and seventh; Rippey and
Miller of Coon Rapids, Iowa, last
year's winner, eighth; and Fore-
man Poultry Farm of Lowell, Mich,
igan, tenth.
Contests are judged on a point
which includes not only number of
eggs but also size and shape, ac-
cording to W. D, Graves, poultry
professor and contest director.
The Memorial Stadium will hon-
or 184 Tarleton faculty and stu-
dents who were killed in World
War II.
EXES KILLED IN
KOREAN STRIFE
News reached the campus during
the last days of September of the
first, two Tarleton casualties in
tjie Korean war.
; Killed in action in the Korean
fighting- were Major Horace E.
Donaho, who attended Tarleton
from 1935 to 1939, and Lieutenant
Sharlon Roberts, a 1941 graduate.
Both were natives of Stephen-
ville, and both fought in Europe in
World War II, Donaho in Italy
and Roberts in Germany,
Donaho entered the Aijmy in
1940 after, graduating from Tar-
leton and was discharged in 1946.
For two years he operated a cafe
in Galveston, reenlisting in Octo-
ber, 1948. He commanded the dar-
ing night foray by Negro troops in
which the mountain dubbed "Little
Cassino" from the violence of the
surrounding fighting-, was won and
then lost through a communica-
tions blunder.
His father, who died in 1944,
was a member of the Tarleton
police force.
Roberts, killed only 10 days
after landing on the Korean beach-
head, attended A&M after his
graduation from Tarleton, enter-
ing the Army in 1943. He was a
veteran of the famous Battle of
the Bulge. in Belgium and Luxem-
bourg in World War II and was
awarded the Bronze Star for action
in helping capture a German-held
town.
The 30-year-old lieutenant was
a nephew of Jim W. Wells, a Col-
lege Store employe.
Widows of both soldiers live in
Los Angeles.
HONOR SOCIETY
TO REORGANIZE
Blue jeans will be the fashion
at the first meeting- of the Scholar-
ship Society, to be held tonight in
the back yard of Dr. Dick Smith's
home at 446 North, Neblett,
The affair will be a meeting
and social combined, the first of
the year. Sponsored last year by
Dr. O. A. Grant and Miss Sally
Ruth Hilliard, the group will be
served a chili supper.
Dr. Smith, Miss Mary Hope
Westbrook, and Dean Paul Cun-
yus, who; are honorary members
of the Scholarship Society, and all
distinguished students with a
grade point ratio of 2.25 are in-
vited as well as all members of
the scholarship society.
Members of the Scholarship So-
ciety arrangements, committee,
which helped plan the event, are
Gina- Seastedt, Billy O'Neil, Louise
Williams, Kenneth Cottle, Janice
Alsup. Program committee mem-
bers are Pat Collinsworth, John'
Clary, Patsy Wilson, sponsored by
Miss Mary Hope Westbrook.
Members for the committee -to
initiate new members are Edward
G. Battle, Vera Boenig-, Dorothy
Corder, Nelson Kahler, sponsored
by Dr. Dick. Smith. Thelma Gees-
lin is head of the invitation com-
mittee.
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