The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 21, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 10, 1953 Page: 1 of 8
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Published Weekly by Tarleton Students
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TARLETON
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33JRD YEAR
STEPHENVILLE,-TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1953
NO. 21
AVIATION TEAM
WILL INTERVIEW
TSC STUDENTS
An Aviation Cadet „ Selection
Team composed of officers and
airmen of the United States Air
Poree will be at the Recreation
Hall on the campus of Tarleton
State College on Wednesday March'
18th from 0:00 a.m. until 3:00p.m.
to-diseuss chafiges in the Aviation
Cadet Training Program. Interest-
ed young men will be given in-
formation concerning the type of
aircraft currently being flown, the
type and length of training receiv-
ed, and the benefits graduates of
the program will receive upon com-
pletion of their training,
Aviation Cadet Training is now
available to all qualified men;
who have completed a minimum of
60 semester or 90 quarter hours
of college courses. Applicants must
be unmarried citizens of the Un-
ited States between the ages of
19 and 26% at the time of applica-
tion.
The United States Air Force is
primarily interested in securing
applications from college 'gradu-
ates or from men who will com-
plete their college education at
the conclusion of the current se-
mester,, However, "applications will
be accepted from men who will he
farced to discontinue their college
training after at least two acade-
mic, years.
CUNYUS TO HELP
SELECT BEST
TEXAS AG LEADER
■ JPean Paul A. Cunyus hag been
-named to a committee for receiv-
ing, and making nominations for
the 1958 Hoblitaelle Achievement
Avyai'd for tbe Advancement of
Texas Rural Life.
This year the award will go to
tile professional worker in the field
of .agriculture who has made ■ the
. most worthwhile contribution to
agriculture in Texas during the
past three years. The $5,000 cash
prize and a gold medal will be
• made through the Karl Hoblitaelle
Agriculture Laboratory of the Tex-
as Research Foundation at Ranner
in May.
Dean Cunyus is_ serving on the
North Texas Central area com-
mittee, which is headed by the
First National Bank of Waco.
Others serving with Cunyus are
Bill Durham, Farm Editor, Fort
Worth Star Telegram; Jach Aus-
■ tin, Chamber of Commerce, Wich-
ita Falls; and Murray Cox, Radio
Station WFAA, Dallas.
Bitner Added to
Scholar Society
Ludie Bitner, son of Mr. and
Mrs. L. S, Bitner of 3205 North
20th Street, Waco, has just been
admitted to the Scholarship So-
ciety at Tarleton State College.
Requirements for admission to
the Society are that a student take
a full load of work and' maintain
a high "B" average in grades.
Ludie lettered as a guard on the
Tarleton Plowboys football team
this year.
In Waco High School, Ludie let-
tered two years in both football
and baseball and one year in track.
He was vice-president of the senior
class and a member of the National
Honor Society. His name was in-
advertently omitted from the
Scholarship Society list by the
registrar's office recently.
Profs to Judge
At Breckenridge
Professors W. W. Reed and W.
D. Graves of the Tarleton agricul-
tural division will judge the Steph-
ens County FFA and 4-H Club
Show at Breckenridge March 14,
Mr. Reed will judge the beef
cattle, dairy cattle, sheep, swine,
and goats, and Mr. Graves will
judge all classes of poultry.
CALENDAR
Tuesday, March 10—
"' Eternas club meeting, girls'
. - dormitory, 6:30 p.m.
:OWLS club meeting, Miss Jones'
home, 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 11— -
Presbyterian Church; State Men's
Convention, main' auditorium,
' agriculture aditorium, home ec-
onomics auditorium, and little
auditorium,
- D. S. T. club meeting,, Mrs.
Clark's apartment,-4 p.in.
Barons and Coronas joint club
, meeting, Art Lab
Semper Idem club meeting, sci-
ence building, room no. 159.
>fhursday, March 12—
Sine Cera club" meetihg, little
parlor of girls' dormitroy.
Monday, March 16—
*F. F. A. regular club meeting
auditorium of agriculture build-
ing-
COLLEGE BUYS
HAMPSHIRE BOAR
The animal husbandry depart-
ment at Tarleton State College re-
cently purchased a Hampshire
boar sired by "Texas Choice" —
this year's All American Senior
Yearling Boar.
The first Texas boar ever to at-
tain this high national recogni-
tion, "Texas Choice" was sold re-
cently to a breeder in Illinois for
$2500. '
Prof, W. W, Reed, who selected
the new TSC boar for the college,
says that the dam is ! also ' out-
standing, having won the grand
championship in the, Louisiana
State Show and in the Texas State
Fair. A littermate of the TSC boar
was selected by Oklahoma A&M
College for use in their herd.
Sanford Talks to
Senior Students
Coach Sandy SanfoM made a
trip into the Rio Grande valleg lats
week to talk to high school groups
of the Harlingen-Brownsville area.
He also attended a recent meet-
ing in . Odessa where high school
students of the Permian Basin area
gathered to talk to representatives
of various Texas colleges. On this
trip Sanford also addressed grad-
uating seniors at Coleman, Balling-
er, and Midland high schools.
DOREMUS WILL
DELIVER PAPER
H. C. Doremus, head of the en-
gineering "division at Tarleton
State pollege, will deliver an ad-
dress at the annual Southwest
Regional Convention of the Ameri-
can Society of Engineering Educa-
tion on April 4 in Albuquerque,
N. M.
'Bis subject will be "Adjusting
the Engineering Curriculum in the
Junior and Senior Colleges." Mr.
Doremus talked along similar lines
at an engineering meeting at Col'
lege. Station last year, and Since
that time there have been some ad-
justments made by senior colleges.
H. W. Leach and George Beakley
of the engineering department will
also attend the convention.
COUNCIL MAKES
GRADING SYSTEM
CHANGES AT TSC
A change in the grading system
used at Tarleton .was made by the
Academic Council at a meeting
Thursday afternoon. /
, The change, which will become
effective this summer,' eliriliriates
the use of numerical grades. Let-
ter grades without figures will
be used on mid-term grades, term
grades and final examination
grades. ' - . ■ •:/=- • ;-
The new system will be printed
in the college catalog, and the
letter grades Will have the fol-
lowing meanings; A, excellent; B,
good; C. fair; D, passing; F!, fail-
ing-; and K, incomplete.
Grade points will be counted as
formerly, A's B's, and C's will
count three, two, and. one, grade
points respectively. ■
Under the old system, A's'rang-
ed from 92-100, B's from 84-91,
C's from 76-83, D's from 70-75
and F's were below >70,
The Council also changed the
procedure , for students dropping
a course. Now a drop card must
be signed only by the registrar
and the counselor. Before, the
signatures of the teacher and of
the department head were requir-
ed.
Church Convention Will
Be on Campus Tomorrow
A state-wide convention of the
Presbyterian Synod ..of Texas will
be held on- the campus of Tarleton
State College tomorrow. Men re-
p resenting the Presbyterian
EX-J-TAC EDITOR
Contract was signed this week
for publication of a book- by Dick
King, former editor of the J-TAC
and a former instructor in En-
glish at Tarleton college.
The work, a collection of ghost
town yarns, will" be published by
the Naylor eomany of San An-
tonio. Release" date has not yet
been announced.
The author was instructor in
English here in 1952 and was a
student in 1944. He served as fea-
ture editor then editor-in-chief of
The J-TAC.
King has written more than 60
features which have been carried
in the Southwestern Historical
Quarterly, Farm and Ranch, The
Progressive Farmer, Farmer-
Stockman, Texas Parade, East
Texas magazine", Grit, Texas Ranch
and Farm" News; The Grazer, Dal-
las News, Dallas Times Herald,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram and
F6rt' Worth' Pre'ssr He is present-
ly publicity director at East Texas
State college and is correspondent
for the Dallas Times Herald,
He has written a pamphlet,
John Tarleton, which was publish-
ed in Austin two ,years ago, -
Military Movies to Be
Shown in MS Building
The military movies, for this
iveek are."Light AAA with In-
fantry and 'Armored Division],"
and "Armed Forces Screen Mag-
azine.' . "
These movies will be shown on
Friday afternoon in Classroom 1
of the Military Science 'building.
All are invited to attend.
Nancy Carter Is
Student of Week
Nancy Sue Gaiter of Proctor
was recently honored as "Tarleton
Student of the Week" by the Step-
henville Lions Club.
Nancy is a freshman majoring
in business administration. She is
a member of the Scholarship So-
ciety and of the-Eternas, girls so-
cial club. Next year she will do
secretarial work in the registrar's
office.
At - Comanche ' High School,
Nancy was valedictorian. She won
the state. contest in typing and
held the DAR Good Citizenship
award. She- held scholarships in
her freshman, sophomore, and jun-
ior years, and received the Don-
forth Award.
Also she worked on the yearbook
and the newspaper aiid acted in
the senior play. She was an FHA
member> and was secretary.to the
principal for two years. She made
straight A's all four years in high
school. '
Church from all over the state will
be present. George Shiels, state
president, stated that about 400
dr 500 delegates were expected to
attend.
The general meeting will be held
in the main atuditorium, and class
rooms will be -used for small group
meetings during the convention.
Delegates will register in th®
conservatory at 9:80 a.m., and
group singing will be from 10 to"
10:30. The keynote address will be
made by Reverend William Ever-
heart from Amarillo. Next on the
program will be Paul Moser, na-
tional executive for. the Council of
Presbyterian Men,- who will make'
a report on the nation as it stands.
Last on the agenda for the morn-
ing meeting will be an open dis-
cussion period conducted by Arthur*
M, Bannerman, president of Waren
Williams .College, Swannanona, N -
C.
The afternoon .program will be
presented by the International,
Student Team. This group will in-
clude news of youth work around
the world and solos and group
musical selections jn their pro-
gram. Mepibejt-| - of the team are-
W. S. TheophijjUS,- from: JuHunditr -
City, "In.clia, who- is; studying rui'&t;
education at,Iowa State College;
Claudia Mubayyed, Lebanon, who-
is now studying at .the - University
of Illionis; Yoshi Takahashi, who -
is a graduate of. the Tokyo Acade-
my of"MuiSie,,and has taught-music
for a, number of years in the
See No 2—Page 8
TSC Girls Help
With FHA Meet
, Sixteen Tarleton co-eds were ex-
cused from clas.ses Saturday morn-
ing to assist in the convention of
the Future Ilomemakers of Ameri-
ca.
: They were Mary Darling, Patsy
Haynes, Joyce Cook, Dorothy Gar-
rett, Jean 'Smith, Johnie Johnson,
June Hensley, Margie McCleskey.
Alson Jane . Watkins, Romona.
Chaney,, Carolyn Reese, Patsy -
Rymer, Mary Rose Templeton,
Betty Anglin, Barbara Schuman,.
and, Pat Harris, i
Academy Class May Be Last
This year's class of seventeen
academy students at' Tarleton
State College could cop the honor
of being the last group to take high
School work here. ,
1 Passage of a bill now before the
Texas Legislature would elimin-
ate Tarleton's offering high school
work. The bill was introduced by
the Hon. W. W. Perry," an ex-
Tarleton student now serving in
the house of'representatives.
Tarleton is now the only one of
the 18 state-supported colleges
which offers high school work:
John Tarleton, the school's foun-
der stipulated in his will that the
college should give this training;
therefore when-the state took over
Tarleton in 1917, academy training
was continued. \
Because of the limited number
of academy students, the per-stu-
dent cost is now considered to be
excessive; and hence this bill has
been introduced.
Of the 17 students now in the
academy, 2 are from Stephenville,
2 are from Lorenzo, and the re-
mainder from places over the state.
Wilma Faye Barber, wife of
Jerry Barber, Tareton football
player, comes from Mineral Wells.
In high School she participated in
basketball and baseball and is now
a member of the Tarleton student
council, -
' From Waco comes Walter Hubert
Bateman, son of Mrs'. J. C. Patter-
son. In high 'school, he participated
in football and baseball, acheiving
>a high batting average in baseball.
Glenda Ann Brock, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Brock, is from
Denton. In high school, she was
elected "Typical Girl", served on
the student council and as editor
of the Freshman paper. .
Walter Ellis Brown is the son
of W, R. Brown of Lorenzo. Walter
See No. 1—Page 8
Exes to Discuss
'My Ideal Co-ed'
Three of eight men selected to
take part on a panel- at East Texas
State College are former students
of Tarleton State; College. \
. The panel, "My ideal Coed," will
be sponsored by the Association of
Women Students and will be dir-
ected by Dean J. W. Rollins, dean'
of men.
Taking part will be John T.
Walker of Breckenridge, Bill Hunt
of-Rockport and Billy Wayne' Mc~
Corkle of Gatesville", ; . . :
TSC Rifle Team
Travels to ASC
The Tarleton Men's Rifle Team
traveled to Arlington for a shoul-
der-to-shoulder match .February 27.
This was the first match of this
kind that the Tarleton team has
engaged in this year.
The members making the trip-
were James' Slay, Harry Tibbetts,
Stanley Toeppich, Robert Dana,:
James Starnater, Julius Nussbaum,
Dennis. Jacob. ,' -
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