The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 22, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 17, 1953 Page: 1 of 8
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ATTEND
RELAYS
Published Weekly by Tarleton Students
33KD YEAR
STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1953
NO. 22
FFA CONTEST
W ELL BE HELD
HERE APRIL 11
Approximately 1750 .high school
FFA students are expected to at-
tend the annual Tri-Area Judging
Contests scheduled to be Held on
this campus April 11. Represented
at the contests will be Areas IV,
VII, and VIII. Area supervisors
are J. B. Payne, Bill Childers, and-
-J. A. Marshall. • r-
Professor W. W. Reed, who or-
ganizes and ■ supervises the live-
stock and dairy cattle judging con-
test, expects 300 teams of three
boys to the team to compete in
livestock and dairly cattle judging'.
There' will be nine classes of
livestock including beef cattle,
sheep and .swine, and six classes
of dairy cattle for the contestants
to place. i'
Professor W. D. Graves, super-
visor of the poulti'y contest, ex-
pects about. 300 boys to be entered
in this contest. ; .
There will be nine classes .of
poultry for the contestants to
judge. Those classes are one class
of brown eggs; one: class of white
eggs—both classes! being judged
according to TJ. S, grades; one
class of dressed market poultry;
one class of market live poultry;
two classes for eggs production;
and two classes for selection for
breeding stock.
The Tarleton Contests are the
largest of the kind in the entire
nation. , ..
: All" or' the agriculture faculty
along with ProfessOr L. G. Worth-
ington, head of the math depart-
- ment, help with grading of the
-contestants placing cards and tab-
ulating the results. Seventy-five
"to one, hundi'ed " agriculture stu->
dents are used to help handle the
contest along with thirty steno-
graphers to record and total up
the scores.
Tarleton has been highly com-
plimented by the supervisors and
See No. 1—Page 8
Coleman Student
Honored by Lions
Gene Russell of Coleman was
■honored recently as Tarleton Stu-
dent of the Week by the Stephen-
ville Lions Club.
Gene, a veteran of Korean fight-
ing, re-entered Tarleton last Sept-
ember. He had previously been re-
gistered at the college before en-
tering the Armed Forces. He was
in the Navy being assigned to the
USS Pine Island, an aircraft car-
rier on duty in the Pacific.
Gene is majoring in geology at
Tarleton and is a member pf Los
Cobbs, a men's sociaJ club.
Reading Hour to
Be Held Tomorrow
The regular English Department
reading hour will be held tomor-
row tit 4 p.m. in Room 210 of the
Administration' Building.
Miss Mary Hope VVestbrook will
read from Thomas Wolfe and "other
writers. Everyone is invited to at-
tend. . ..
Miss Ruth Hilliard will read at
the next reading hour, April 1.
NEXT ISSUE TO
BE ON APRIL 1
The J-TAC will not be published
next week due to nine 'weeks
exams. The next issue will be the
April Fool's edition, to be publish-
ed on Wednesday, April 1.
All news stories, features, and
ads in the April Fool's edition
are to be written in keeping with
the spirit of the day, and noth-
ing printed in that issue should be
taken seriously.
Following the April 1 paper, the
next issue will be printed on April
14. There will be no paper on April
7, because of the Easter Holidays.
Therefore, this issue of the J-TAC
will attempt to carry advance news
on all events to take place be-
tween now and April 14.
Faculty Donates
To Booster Drive
Tarleton faculty members have
made a cash contribution of $408.-
80 to the publicity fund of the
Booster ■ Committee, , according ■ to
Dr. Vance Terrell, chairman.
In addition, three $250 scholar-
Ships have been established by Tar-
leton faculty members for use next
fall. Two' students are now being
assisted by funds from one of these
recent contributions.
Also two Tarleton faculty mem-
bers have recently given to the
J, Thomas Davis Scholarship Fund.
Slumber Party Will be
In College Hospital
Mrs. Maryd Todd, Dean of
women and Mrs. Lillian Bareck-
man, college nurse, will entertain
all second year girls with aslum-
ber party in the college hospital on
April 11.
This party is given annually to
honor those girls in their second
year at Tarleton. It is for both
town girls and dormitory girls.
NOTICE
All boys interested in playing
baseball this spring should contact
Dean Cecil Ballow,
T
TSC Boys May Learn
Of Air Force March 18
. Tarleton Cadets will have an op-
portunity tomorrow to learn about
the Aviation Cacje't Selection Pro-
gram of the United' States Air
l^orce. ■
A , team of two or three Air
Force officers will be in the Rec
Hall from 9 a.m.j Wednesday until
■3 p.m. to discuss and explain re-
cent changes in the program. -
They will answer questions about
the type of " aircraft now being
flown, the type and length of train-
ing given, and benefits graduates
of the program will receive upoii
completion of their training.
Among- requirements, is that ap-
plicants must have completed at
least 60 semester.' or 90 quarter
hours of college course. Also, ap-
plicants must be unmarried citiz-
ens of the United States between
the ages of 19 and 2GVa at the time
of application.
College graduates or men who
will receive their degrees at the
end of the current semester are
the applicants most desired for
Aviation Cadet Training. However,
applications will be accepted from
men who will be forced to discon-
tinue their college training after a
minimum of two academic yeais.
CIVIC SERIES
WILL PRESENT
FRANZ P0LGAR
Dr. Franz Polgar, entertainer,
magician, and hypnotist, will be
presented by the Tarleton Civic
Series Committee in the main audi-
torium on the Tarleton campus on
April 11.
Dr. Polgar is one of the coun-
try's leading hypnotists. Since
coming to the United States 16
years ago, Polgar figures that he
has put more than a million people
to sleep, usually with their willing
assistance. Dr. Polgar is not. a
medical man, the "Dr." represents
degrees of doctor of psychology
and doctor of economics acquired
in his native Hungary. Neverthe-
less he is convinced hypnosis has
many beneficial uses in medical
science and is campaigning for its
wider application is psychiatry
and surgery.
Polgar puts on demonstrations
of the art to about 300 audiences
a year. He says that younger
people are his best subjects, while
New Yorkers are the most diffi-
cult. •
Hypnosis was little used excopt
as a parlor stunt until World War
II. During' the war, however, hy-
pnosis was used successfully to
releive airsickness and nervous
strain brought on by battle. Al-
though not widely used in the field
of medicine, hypnosis is now being-
used by some medical men. Den-
tists in North. Dakota use it to
relieve paifl.
Dr. Polgar is one of the few men
who can handle hypnosis effec-
tively, and he knows a great deal
about what it can do.
Dr. Polgar received a writeup
in Life Magazine in July of 1949.
NOTICE
All students who are candidates
for graduation at- the end of this
semester please leaves their names
at the Information Desk of the
Registrar's Office at . once. Should
there be any doubt-' i« any stu-
dent's mind, it is requested that
they leave their name and let the
Registrar determine their eligibili-
ty.
CALENDAR
Tuesday, March 17—
O. W. L. S. Club meeting, Miss
Jones, home, 6:30.
Wednesday, March 18—
• Eternas and Lords and Common-
ers joint club meeting, Girls'
Parlor, 6:30 p.m.
Barons and Coronas Club meet-
ing, Art Lab. ■ ..
D. S. T. Club meeting, Mrs.
Clark's apartment, 4 p.m.
Saturday, March 21—r
Tarle'ton Relays, here, field.
Monday, March 23—
FFA regular club' meeting, ag.
auditorium.
March 23-28—•
Nine weeks' exams.
Saturday, March 28—
Barons and Coronas picnic.
Wednesday, April 1—
April P'ool's Day.
Thursday, April 2-7—■
Spring Holidays.
Friday, April 10— . .
Interscholastic League one act
plays, Area meet, ag. auditor-
ium.
Friday, April 10—
, Area IV FHA dance, Rec Hall.
Saturday, April 11—
Slumber party for second year
girls,' college hospital.
Civic Series , prograta, Franz
Polgar, magician - hypnotist,
main auditorium.
..FFA Judging'contest, here.
Tarleton Profs
Attend Meeting
Recently Miss Dollie Marie
Glover and Miss Mary Hope West-
brook attended the English sec-
tion of the Mid-Texas State
Teacher's Association in Brown-
wood. i
The main topic for discussion
was "What College Teachers Ex-
pect Entering High School Gradu-
ates to Know."
SPRING HOLIDAYS
Tarleton students,-. will begin
their spring holidays oh Thursday,
April 2. Students must attend all
classes that day, and they will be
free after their last class or lab.
Dormitories will close at 6. p.m.
on that day and will reopen on
April 6. The holidays will be of-
ficially over on April 7 at 8 a.m.
The school calendar lists three
other important dates for the rest
of the Semester,. The week of May
18-21 has been designated as Dead
Week, with restricted social ac-
tivities.
Corhmencement exercises for
graduating sepiors will be Ijeld on
May. 24. Second semester final ex-
aminations wi)l be held from May
22-30.
Military Ball Is
Set: for April 18
The date for Tarle'ton's' annual
•Military Ball has been set for
April 18. it will be formal with
flowers, and will be held in the
dining hall.. x
Representatives are expected
from other R. O. T. C. colleges
throughout Texas.
Other plans, which have not been
completed, will' be announced lat-
er.
NOTICE
All girls planning to return to
Tarleton next year should consult
Mrs. Maryd Todd, Dean of Wom-
en, about room reservation imme-
diately.
SIX NOMINEES
ARE ANNOUNCED
FOR BALL QUEEN
Six candidates were chosen for
Military Ball Queen Thursday dur-
ing drill period,. Each cadet , sub-
mitted a nominee by secret ballot,- •
and the six girls with the most
votes will make up the Queen and
her court. '.
. The candidates are Hazel Brown,
Carolyn Reese, Jane Watkins, Kit-
ty Corder, Billic Jean Wright, and
Rosemary Spui.dor. •
Hazel Ellen Bown is a freshman
elementary education major from
Rock Springs, In, high school she
was drum majorette and junior,
class favorite. She played basket-:'
ball and won-two awards, ;• (
Carolyn Reese is a freshman
home economics, major from San
Antonio. At - Tarleton she is .. a
cheerleader, a military sponsor,,
and a member of the Eternas. In
Stephenville high school she was ft
class favorite, a class officer, a '
member of the student council, and ■
a club officer.
Jane Watkins of Monahans is a
freshman student majoring in
home economics.- In high school
she lettered in basketball, won a
scholarship award, a home ecomo-
mics award, a journalism award,
and a social science award. She
was associate editor of the schoOI
newspape^ and editor of the year-
book. At Tarleton she is a military
sponsor and a member of the Eter-
nas. . - ,
Kitty. Corder is a senior social1"
• See No.'2—Page 8
Murray Cox to be
Here on March 25
Murray Cox, farm editor from-
radio station WFAA, Fort Worth,
will be at Tarelton March 25. The
time has not yet been set.
Cox will show movies of his trip:
to South America.
All agriculture students will be
excused from classes for these
movies,
Reporter Sits in on
Art Class Discussion
By ANN COLEMAN
" '.' . , , it lacks composition, it
is too low, and there is not enough
variation of line." Those were just
a few of the things wrong. I never
realized that so much was. consider-
ed in the drawing of a picture,
but I found out , when I sat in on
one of Mrs, Baxley's art classes
the other day. It was very inter-
esting; you really should try it
some time., '
The class was one of Mrs. Bax-
ley's design classes. They were do-
ing some scratch jboard work. If
you are like I am 'you don't know
what scratch board work is, I didn't
until I listened to that class.
They have not received their
real scratch boards yet, but are
making their own. They take the
back of a tablet, color it 'with any
color crayola they desire, then go
over it with black tempera paint.
After they have their board fix-
ed they take a sharp pointed tool
and make their drawing. After this
is done they have a black back-
ground with colored lines on it;
The students pick oiit whatever
.they want to draw. The drawing is
^supposed to-, be made to fit the
space, not the space made to fit
the drawing. . • /
Where I came into this was list-
ening to the class discuss and criti-
cize their drawings after they
were finished. They had made their
work talk. By that I mean that
thej main idea of the drawing
spoke to .you, first, then the lesser
things came to you as they should.
Perhaps Mrs. Baxley gave the
best explanation of what they were
striving for by comparing the
drawings'-to' a theme. Sheisaid
that in a theme you have words, in -,
the drawing you have lines; with
these words you make a sentence
which should have unity, cohei';.
ence, and emphasis; with the lines
you should make an object- with
the same • .qualities' of' the- sen-
tence. Finally, you' take the sen-
tences .and make them into para-
graphs which compose the theme;
you do the same thing' with t.he-
drawing, putting in the little ex-
tra lines as they are- needed like
you put in words in a theme. .
To someone who has never had
any • art it would give them a.
greater appreciation of paintings
to go over some time and listen to.
the art class discuss their prob-
lems.
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