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TARLETON STATE COLLEGE, STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1950
No. 25
Senior
ers In "Beowulf
II
300
To Meet Here
Delegates of 18 West Texas
counties will attend the First Dis-
trict, TFWC March 27-29 on the
campus of Tarleton State College,
according to Mrs. L, G; Rich, con-
vention chairman.
Reservations indicating attend-,
ance by more than 300' clubwomen
are being receive^ by Miss Mary
Marrs, Stephenville,' Lodging for
many guests/ is being provided in
the girls' dormitories at the col-
lege,'and all meals will be served
in the college dining rooms.
Mrs. Howard Hodge, Midland,
president of the Texas Federation
of Women's Clubs, will hiake the
main address Tuesday morning.
Carrying out the theme, "Educa-
tion for World Cooperation," she
will speak on "The Road to
Peace." Dr. Stewart A, Newman
of the Southwestern (Baptist* The-
ological Seminary will also ad-
dress the convention on "The Prob-
lem of Authority in the Western
World."
Addresses will also be presented
by two Tarleton faculty members
with Dr. O. A. Grant of the history
department speaking on "World
Communism" and Miss Mary Hope
Westbrook, head of the English de-
partment, talking on "An Open
HIGH SCHOOL
DANCING TEAM
PERfORMSHERE
. The Tarleton Square D a n c e
Clu6 met Wednesday for theiir
weekly meeting. The club mem-
. bers and TSC visitors .were enter-
tained by the Bar-K Swingsters,
a high school square dance team
from Proctor. „ /
The Swingsters exhibited their
skill in many square figures. The
three figures danced by the team
were "Inside Arch and Outside
Under," "Allemande Dar" and the
TSC business major from Dublin,
"Texas Whirl." Weldon Lippard,
called each of the figures. Weldon-
is a member of the T arleton
Square Dance Club- - <
The four couples that made up
the tea,m were T. J. Kelly Jr. and
Miss Neva Tinney, Jamie Boyd
aricl'Miss Alma Tinney, Kay Boyd
and Miss Patricia Kelly, and
David-Hancock and Miss Margaret
Jane Bradley. x
Jerry Boyd and- Miss Mary Ann
Mayfield were the extra.couple for
the tefm}. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Kelly
and Mr. and Mrs. Fait Tinney
served as chaperones.
House Honoring the Literary
Arts."
Entertainment for the delegates
will include a concert by the Tar-
leton music department, an Inter-
national , Relations department
Itincheon, a tea given by the Tar-
leton some economics" department
in the home of President and Mrs.
E. J. Howell, an Americaij home
department dinner, a brain-teaser
breakfast, and a Fine Arts depart-
ment luncheon.
Honoring members of the distriot
board following a meeting at 8:30
p.m. will be a tea by the Stephen-
ville Twentieth Century Club and
a dinner by the Stephenville Cham-
ber of Commerce.
Official hosts for the convention
are the three federated clubs at
Stephenville, the Twentieth Cen-
tury Club, Tarleton Campus Club,
and Stephenville Study Club, and
the Stephenville Chamber of Com-
merce. Miss Dollie Glover is chair-
man of the Hospitality Committee
for the college.
Theme of the convention is "For-
ward in Federation Now."
Registration of delegates will
start, at 8 ,a.m.1 on; March 28. The
convention will be formally opened
at 9 a.m. when President Howell
and Mayor R. N. Pittman welcome
the visitors. The convention will
adjourn at 2:30 p.m. March 29.
In addition to Mrs. Hodge, state
officers in attendance will include
Mrs. Herschel Nash, state chair-
man of. the American Home De-
partment, and Mrs. George Reck-
nagel, state chairman of the Fine
Arts Department.
Attending the meeting will be
representatives from federated
clubs 'in the following counties:
Wilbarger, Wichita, Clay, Mon-
tague, Knox, Baylor, Archer, Stone-
wall, Throckmorton, Young, Jack,
Wise, Jones, Shackleford, Stephens,
Palo Pinto, Parker and Erath.
TSC TO HOLD
SECOND ANNUAL
4H CONTEST
The second annual Tarleton 4-H
Club Judging Contest will bring
more than 400 boys from 60 cen-
tral Texas counties to the campus
and college farms on April 20.
The organization of the contest
will be similar to that of the con-
test last year, in which it was di-
vided into six parts: dairy, live-
stock, poultry, entomology, grasses
and field crops.' Each division is
organized and supervised by a
member of the agriculture faculty
and the A&M extension office,
I '
headed by R. G. Burwell, district
agent.
The Tarleton contest is an elim-
ination contest for the state con-
test to be held at a later date.
The purpose of the contests are
to assist in teaching 4-H club
members the correct type of live-
stock to select for their hon^e
farms and to enable them to make
use of the knowledge obtained here
in selling products from their own
farms.
Track May Be
At The Parents'
Dedicated
Day Fete
Dedication of the new cinder
track on Memorial Field as a part
of celebrations connected. with
Tarleton Parents' Day and Ex-
Students' Day, April 29-30, is
tentatively planned by the Parents'
Day Committee, according to Neal
Raldolph, general chairman.
, Randolph, in recently appointing
25.,committees., to. function in con-
nection with the two-day joint
festivities, stated that considera-
tion was also being given to an
intercollegiate track meet to be
held Saturday evening', April 29.
Immediately following the track
dedication and the track- competi-
tion. he said, the spectacular
crowning of the Tarleton Queen
and other colorful attractions .will
be presented.
. A prospective program for Sun-
day, April 30, includes a morning
program to be presented by stu-
dents, ex-students and faculty in
the college auditorium. The morn-
ing program will be concluded early
enough for students and guests to
attend church.
Track Meet Committee: Mr. Fra-
zier, chairman, Willie Zapalac Mr.
Ballow.
Saturday Evening Progr.am (ex-
clusive of track meet); Miss Fell-
-matty-ehairman, Randolph Foster,
Mr. Morton, Mr. Flory,' Doyle
Graves, E. A. Blanchard, Miss
Sallie Hilliard, [Mrs, T- HI Benson,
Bob Tullis. * .■ . '
Lighting and Public Address 'Sys-
tem: Mr. H. W. Leach, chairman,
George Beakley.
Sunday Morning Program: Mr.
Crounse, chairman, Dr. Dick Smith,
Mr. J. R. Davis,' J. W. 'Thomas,
Miss Dollie Glover, Maj. George
Ganer.
Publicity: Mr. Hart, J. E. Tomp-
kins, Robert Herring.
Registration of Parents and Ijlx-
Students: Mr. Tompkins, chairman,
Mrs. Rebecca Norrell, Miss Betty
McLarty, Miss Pat Smith} Miss
Alice McLean, Mrs. Sue Williams,
Miss Jo Rellihan, Miss Ramonia
Davidson.
Decoration of Auditorium: Miss
Out-of-town guests may eat 'Moselle Hilswick, "chairman, Mr.
lunch at the college dining hall, or
other places, of their choice^
"We also ,plan to allot time dur-
ing the . day for, an ex-students'
meeting, a reception by the faculty,
Laird, Dan Peacock, Miss Patty
Jean Katz, Mr. Thomas.
Ex-Student Coftimittee: Joseph
Chandler, chairman, W. J. Oxford,
Mr. tlerrington, Miss Thompson,
partments," Randolph said.
Committees named by Randolph
were as follows:
Program Compiittee (to serve
with' the general chairman - and
President Howell): T. V. Crounse,
Miss Mary Hope Westbrook, C. M.
Flory, O. H. Frazier, Col. But'ton
O. Morrison, Miss Laura Fellman,
head tile hospitality committee Miss Lola Thompson, Miss May
and an open house in several de- j Mrs, J. Lewis Evans, Miss, West-
brook, Mr. Herring,
Gerald Fanning.
Mr. Hart,
Student Entertainment Saturday
Evening (to follow earlier program
at Athletic Field): Student Coun-.
cil in charge;'Dick Spencer, presi-
dent, and Dean Cunyus and Miss
Terry, faculty advisers.
Arrange for ushers; Saturday
evening, Sunday morning and
guides for Sunday afternoon: Dean
..Cunyus,, chairman, Miss Willard^
Mr.' Ballow.
Military: Col. Morrison and the
Military Staff,.
Arrange for ice water: H, C.
Doremus, chairman, W. P. Sho-
walter, Capt., Curly le P. Woelfer,
C. H. Dawson, Mr. Emmet't.
Arrangement Committee: Miss
Willard, chairman, Miss Aillee Wil-
ford, Joe Tarpley, Miss Dorothy
Pittman, Miss Katz, B. R. Brogdon.
Refreshment Committee: Bliss
Johnnie Shirley, chairman, Frank
O. Moosberg, Miss Lee Edwin
Terry, tylr. Fanning, Miss Bess Ed-
wards, Miss Mary Marrs, Mrs.
Clara Louise Grady.
Open house in departments: Fine
Arts, Mr. Morton and faculty; Ag-
riculture, Mr. Spang'ler and fac-
ulty; Biology, Mr. English and
faculty; Engineering, Mr. Doremus
and faculty; Chemistry, Mr. S. F.
Davis and faculty; Home Eco-
nomics, Miss Walker and faculty;
Library, Miss Thompson and fac-
ulty; Military, 'Col. Morrison and
staff.
46 Adults Take
Night Courses
Forty-six adults are, taking night
courses at Tarleton, These people
are studying shorthand,. Spanish,
and English under the direction of
Misses Wynon Smith, Mozelle Hils-
wick and Dollie Marie Glover, re-
spectively.
Miss Glover's class is ' studying*
grammar composition now, and the
class contains secretaries, doctors,
ministers, wives of business men,
and the district attorney. One Tar-
leton -student, Ernest Belcher, is?
'taking the course.
Miss Glover stated that she en-
joyed teaching these adults be-
cause they ;were interested and
eager to learn. They study ,hard,
fcaid Miss Glover, and did better
on the Purdue placement test than
regular college students. ■
During the last eight weeks of
the course, the class will take up
essays and composition. Anyone
Wishing to enter then may do so
by paying a fee of $5.
In Miss 'Hilswick's Spanish class
of 12 are Dean Cunyus and two
Tarleton students. There are' also
two high school students. The Tars
leton students are taking the course
as a supplement to their regularly
scheduled course.
The class is working on the fun-
damentals now, and are learning
to increase their vocabulary rapid-
ly, stated Miss Hilswick: She said
that they were interested and real-
ly wanted to learn conversational
Spanish.
This class" is non-credit and there-
fore there are no tests.
Eleven women, Misses Pat Smith,
Mary Frances Hook, Betty Mc-
Larty, Ruby Faye Jones, Dorothy
Jackson, Jo Bioore and Mary Lou
Begley; Mrs. Rebecca Norrell, Dor-
othy Mitchell and Dorothy Curbelo,
are taking- beginner's shorthand
under Miss Wynon Smith-.
The class, which will run until
June 1, has had two lessons and
are still working on the basic prin-
ciples. Miss Smith stated that it
was a very interesting class to
teach because her students are
eager to learn and seem more re-
sponsive. The class meets, on Mon-
day and Thursday nights.
PRESENTATION TO BE TAKE-OFF,
WILL BE IN MAIN AUDITORIUM
Tarleton's interpretation of "Beowulf" will be presented by the Fort
Players* and' sponsored by the Senior class in the main auditorium
Thursday night'featuring an all male cast of approximately 26 stu-
dents. A take-off pn the original epic, the script was written by Har-
old Warford, journalism major from Breckenridge.
Preparation for the three-act
play began about two months ago
when the -Font Players decided to
put on the pseudo-drama to bene-
fit the senior treasury. ,
Leading" parts have been assign-
ed to Billy Earl Askins, as the
', ' Tickets for the affair are now on
sale for-35c. The performance will
start promptly at 7:30 in the main
auditorium.
Others appearing in the play will,
be Pat Thompson, Gus Herrera,
Roy Anderson, Bill Dozier, Jack
monster Grendel; Walter Johnson, Jones, Melvin Chapman, Winston
as the hero Beowulf; Dale Witcher,
as the king Hrothgar; and 'Hunky'
Coble as the recently created Gren-;
dolyn, Grendel's mother. Many
other major and? minor parts have
also been taken by the capable
Fort Players.
Harold Warford will serve in the
dual roles of director and pro-
ducer, with the assistance of Tues-
day Stasney, Joann Bradley, Bev-
erly Burns, Jack Serpas, Harvey
Summers, and others.
Girls
800
To Meet Here
Tarleton Home Economics girls
will be hosts on April 1 to 800
FHA girls from Area 11, made up
of 17 counties.
Mrs. Hannah Hdff Brown, whose
office, is on the third floor of the
Tarleton Home Economics build-
ing. is the area supervisor of home
economics education in this area.
Mrs. Brown has eighty high school
onsor
Judging Contest
Glover To Head
Hospitality Group
Miss Dollie Marie Glover will
which will welcome the 300 club-
women >vho will visit the campus
March 27, 28, 29. Misses Laura
, Felfman and Helen WiUard are the
other faculty members of the com-
mittee:.
Students on the committee are
Sara Ann Eclcert, Nancy Howell,
Lyndith Leifeste, Sue.Spratt Cecil
Denmau, Ronnie Stephens Harvey
Summers and Alvin Young;
Jones, Donald Morton, Miss Mattie
Walker.
' Headquarters for Guests Com-
mittee: Mrs. Weichsel Baxley,
chairman, J. V. Laird, Dr. O. A.
Grant, .Jim Hart, Miss Helen Wil-
lard, Royal Brantley, Jack D. Her-
rington.
Housing Committee: Cecil Bal-
low, chairman, Miss Willard, L. G.
Rich,' Miss Adele Clem.
Students To Get
Annuals May 15
Grassburrs will be out May 15,
Editor Nancy Howell announced
recently. The finishing touches are
being put on the annual now by
the staff. Qnly a few minor de-
tails to be finished remain, Nancy
said.
Of the total 208 pages in the
book, 137 pages had been sent to
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The Agriculture Engineering club sponsored their first dance, an informal one, recently.
The club was organized the fall semester, for the first time.
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the printer and all of the pages
have been sent to the engraver ex-
cept for six.
All, the class sections, the fac-
ulty section, the military section,
personality section, and organiza-
tions sections have been completed.
After working many months on
the annual, the staff is taking a
well earned rest. .
The staff will attempt to sell 25
pages of ads. Of this number, 17 %
have already "been sold and are
worked out. Picture ads, which was
the type used in last year's annual,
are the type to be used in the
1050 book.
The theme of the book is 50 years
of progress at TSC., The activities
section, which is the first section
in the book, will be presented in
a calendar theme. This is an orig-
inal idea of the 1950 Grassburr
staff.
The annual will be dedicated and
the staff will receive their annuals
in a special dedication ceremony in
the main, auditorium when the
books arrive. In this ceremony, the
non-athletic awards will be pre-
sented and the TTS and TTP recog-
nized. Other students will receive
their annuals in the business office.
All students bought annuals when
they paid their fees upon entering
school.
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Over 800 FFA judges will come
to Tarleton April 17 for the 22nd
annual Tarleton Tri-Area Future
Farmer Judging Contest sponsor-
ed by the agriculture faculty and
agriculture students, according to
H. L. Self, one of the directors of
the contest.
This contest, the largest of its
type' in the nation, will represent
three FFA Areas, IV, VIII and XII,
anrl more than 00 Central Texas
counties. Over 150 teams are ex-
pected to take parb in the livestock
judging, 130 in dairy, and 110 in
poultry.
The, Tarleton contest is planned
and conducted by agriculture fac-
ulty and students, for the benefit
of vocational agriculture students
in this section of the state under
the regulations of the National Fu-
ture Farmer Contests.
Tarleton professors in charge of
the contest are W. W. Reed of the
dairy department—the dairy con-
test; H. L. Self of the animal
husbandry department — livestock
judging; W. Doyle Graves of the
poultry department—poultry judg-
ing, and L. G. Worthington Of the
math departments—tabulations.
Assisting, the cm'.ec.toi's^v-:£i :be
R. V. Derrick, ag engineering pro-
fessor—livestock division; L. G.
Rich of the agronomy department
—poultry judging, and Neal M,
Randolph, biology department—
dairy judging.
"About 200 agriculture students
will aid in carrying out various'
phases of the contest, and the suc-
cess, of the operation will depend
in a large measure upon the work
of these students," Self said.
The livestock division, the lar-
gest single part of the congest, will
be made up of 10 classes of ani-
mals:' three grading divisions' in-
cluding' one of feeder steers, one
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home economics, teachers from
these 17 counties under her author-
ity. This is her third year on the
campus.
At 9 a.m. on April 1, the officers
of this FHA group, whose presi-
dent is Nancy Sue Cathey of Mid-
lothian, will present a program
over KSTV. The program will con-
sist of a history and description of
the FHA organization ' in Texas.
The girls will explain tKe activities
and accomplishments of the FHA
groups. , ' r
" The girls, will register -in-^the-
main auditorium at 9 a.m. The
group will be welcomed by Presi-
dent E. J. Howell and entertained
by the Tarleton A 'Capella Choir
/undi/r the direction of Royal Brant-
ley. The main address of the day
will be .given by Miss Josephine
Pazdra.il of (Austin. Miss Pa'sidrall,
state director of the FHA, will
speak on'the subject of "FHA—
What It Means."
Cox's Department Stores of Fort
Worth and Stephenville will enter-
tain the g;irls with a style show in
the home' economic auditorium. A
panel of the boys taking home
economics in Area 11 will be led by
Mrs. Mi'ra Huffhines, Dallas. There
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Lackey, Oris Reynolds, Lloyd Cor-
der, Eugene Hardin, Jack Serpas,
John, Badgwell, and Guy Husker-
son. More characters, both Official
and unofficial, will complete the
east.
In the original story, the mon-
ster Grendel has been terrorizing
the kingdom of King Hrothgar by
taking and eating soldiers in the
kings mead hall. The warrior Beo-
wulf, learns of the fate of., the..un-
fortunate kingdom and leaves his
home to go and help defeat the
monster. Beowulf meets the mon-
ster in the mead hall and a terrible
fight ensues,, in which Grendel is
defeated.
After this, the' mother of Gren-
del, attacks the soldiers in the mead
hall, so Beowulf tracks her. down
to the -bottom of a lake and kills
her. ■
"Any resemblance to the original
epic is purely unintentional and
aceidential," Harold Warford de-
clares. .
CADETUNITS
HOLD PRACTICE
FOB FESTIVAL
- .,£}}§the-Wainwright
Rifles are'practicing on the drill
that they will, present at the Fes-
tival Pageant to be held .it High-
land Park oh March 31, at 8:00
p.m. This drill will be similiar to
the ones executed at the home foot-
ball games at Tarleton. The per-
formance will last for eight min-
ute^.
The pageant will procede in the
following order: the parade of
queens, the coronation of the festi-
val queen, massed formations on
the field, Magnolia High School
band drill from Magnolia, Arkan-
sas, Highland Park High School
ROTC drill, Tarleton's band and
Wainwright Rifle drill, the ' Okla-
homa Kiltie band drill, and a mass-
ed .band concert.
Tractor School Teaches
TSC Agriculture Students
CALENDAR
Tuesday, March 21—Square Dance
Club, Rec-Hall, 6:00-8:00.
Tuesday, March 21—Sine Ceras
Cluh Meeting, Glub Rooni, 6:30-
8:00.
Wednesday, March 22.—A&M Club
Meeting, Club Room.
Wednesday, March 22—AMVETS
Meeting, Shack 34, 0:30'.
Wednesday, March 22—Home Ec.
Club Meeting, Home Cc. Build-
iWo*
Thursday, March 23—"Beowolf,"
Sponsored by the Senior Class,
7:30. ;
Saturday, March 25 — Fencing,
Gymnasium, 1:00.
Saturday, Mat'ch 25—DST Dance,
Rec Hall, 8:00.
■Monday,' March 27— Eternas' Club
Meeting, Mrs, Dorsey's Studio,
5:30. ' ■
Monday, March 27—OWLS' Club
Meeting, Girls' Dorm, 6:30-8:00.
Monday, . March 27—Lords and
Commoners Meeting, 7:00.
The department of agricultural
engineering held it first annual
Tractor Maintenance School for
general vocational agriculture' stu-
dents in the Mechanic Arts shop'
Thursday and Friday.
This two-day scho.ol was con-
ducted in cooperation with the de-
partment of mechanic arts of the
division of engineering, the Texas
Agriculture Extension Service, the
Stanolind Oil Company, and local
farm implement dealers in Steph-
enville.
U. L. Rich, extension agricu'tur-
al engineer of . the Texas A&M Col-
lege Extension Service, and, Ed-
ward Wickhorst, of the Stanolind
Oil and Gas Company, were the in-
structors for the sehool. The the-
ory classes met in the mechanic
arts class room in the Mechanic
Arts building. The laboratory
classes we're held in the Mechanic
Arts shop.
Students taking the vocation ag-'
riculture course were .excused from
class'es those' days the tractor
school .was held.'-Those students in
the corps were also excused from
Thursday's afternoon drill.
Mr. Ulich said while conducting
the school, "Tractor care equals
more and better farming with lar--
ger proceeds to the farmer. In this
way the' tractor school ' will aid
the future, farmers to be successful
in their career in'tilling the soil."
The program of :the school cov-
ered many . services and, rules for >
safety-on-operating a tractor. Also
on • the program was the actual
practice of the operations taught
in theory.
The students of the School stud-
ied and performed eight important
phases of tractor maintenance and
operation. Among the bight, there
were included rules on' driving,
starting and earing for a tractor,
The "Operator's Mamfal" was used
in this respect.
Other phases were the air clean-
er service1, the cooling system serv-
ice ijind the spark plugs, wiring and
battery service, all of which per-
tained to the care of these parts,'
Instructions on care of the car-
buretor represented the sixth uhase
of the program.
In the seventh and eighlh chases
of the program, the lubrication 't
the tractor and its engine >vab
taught.
Mr. E. A. Blanche ci and Mr. It.
V. Derrick, prof esse is :u mechan-
ical arts and agriculUiro. engineer-
ing, respectively, assisted in the
program of the tractor, school.^
SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS
Itex )Millholleiij left, and John L, "Chip" Merrill won the
dairy cow scholarship recently awarded by the ag depart-
ment. These'; were the first to be awarded and there are
more to be given at the end of this semester,
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