The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 8, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 29, 1940 Page: 1 of 4
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STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1940
NUMBER 8
PLANS MADE FOR
JUNIOR CLASS TO
ELECT OFFICERS
The Student Council met last
week and selectd a group of fresh-
men students which met last night
to make nominations for junior
class officers.
Nominations were made for pres-
ident, vice-president, secretary-
treasure of the class, and a boy
and a girl representative of the
Student Council. Three nomina-
tions were made for each office.
These students will be presented to
freshman class in an essembly per-
iod Thursday morning. Final elec-
tions will be held Novmber 4.
Students on the nominating com-
mittee were Helen Wharton, Nan-
cy Collier, Cathrine Mae McDan-
iel, Nancy Lovett, Betty Mat-
thews, Betty Logan, Betty Adkis-
son Hazel Hulse, Mary Rogers,
Louise McLain, Lucile McHargue,
Lucile Burnett.
Othene Maulden, Wilma Hingst,
Scottie Gilbert, Tommy Foreman,
Jean Leigon, Marian Glenn, Mary
Dunbar, Barbara Kate Negy, Helen
Clay, Bob Kirk, Douglas Bibby,
Douglas Glover, Gene Porter, Ra-
ford Russell.
Floyd Stigler, "Wilson Pack,
George Moon, Hugh Cole, Poole
Roberson, Joe Buchanan, Norman
Hatcher* Ben Cowling, Bobby Sav-
age, R. A. Schmidt, Elmer Kruse,
William Bradley, Forest • Parks,
Joe Karr, George Wilcox, and Mal-
colm Schultz.
Art Club Exhibits
Prints, Etchings,
And Lithographs
For the past two weeks the Art
Club' has been exhibiting a group
of lithographs, block "prints, and
etchings distributed by the Lone
Star Printmakers, an organization
composed of Dallas artists inter-
ested in promoting art in Texas.
The Art Club, at its last regular
meeting, had the privilege of in-
specting the lithographs.^ These
lithographs were later placed in
the library, in the home economics
building, and on the bulletin
boards in the hall of the adminis-
tration building. The lithographs
will be on exhibit until Wednes-
day, October 30th. Anyone desir-
ious of obtaining one of these
.^prints may order it from Margie
Brown, head of the art depart-
ment.
Later, on in the year the Art
Club will sponsor an exhibit of a
group of prize-winning posters
which have gained national recog-
nition in recent contests.
LOMETA STUDENTS
TARLETON SHOWN WITH DEAN DAVIS
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The large number of Lometians now attending Tarleton is evidence of the fact that they like the "Davis system" of education.
In Lometa High School they had for principal William Davis, now Dr. William Davis of the history department at Texas Tech.
Now they have as their dean J. Thomas Davis, father of William Davis.
Among those from Lometa attending Tarleton shown in the picture above with Dr. Davis and Dean Davis are, first row, left to
right: Dr. Davis, Vernon Jones, Monreva Bagley, Novellene O'Neal, Beulah Godwin, Marie Hasty, Louise Price, Dean J. Thomas
Davis* Second row, left to right: Donald Barclay, William Reed, Douglas Brown, Carol Underwood, Forrest Dale Palmer, Leslie
Hereford, and Thurman Head.
Members of Music
Department Help
Ft. Worth Musician
R. Berton and Mrs. Coffin, bari-
tone and soprano, assisted Frances
Rix, pianist, in a program which
she presented for the University
Women's Music .Club Monday in
the T.C.U. auditorium.
Mr. and Mrs. Coffin gave the
following numbers:
Let Us Wander—Purcell.
Biagne-toi mes mains (Thais)
—Massenet.
Gondoliers—Henschel.
Calm as the night—Goetze.
Now art thou mine own—Hil-
dach.
Trot here and there (Veroni-
cjue)—Message.
Mrs. Rix studied at the Chicago
Musical College with Rudolph
Ganz at the time Mr. and Mrs.
Coffin were doing graduate work
there. Last year Mrs. Rix was
soloist with the Dallas Symphony
Orchestra.
Mr. and Mrs. Coffin were accom-
panied to Fort Worth by Dorothy
Slaughter, a Tarleton student
from Stephenville taking piano
from Donald W. Morton.
Two Brothers
Feed 15 Head of
Cattle for Show
Heston and Juston McBride, bro-
thers from Brown County who are
students in John Tarleton College,
are carrying on an outstanding
livestock feeding program at home.
Both boys are Lone Star Farmers
and applicants for the American
Farmer Degree, They have been
carrying on such feeding programs
since they entered vocational agri-
culture work in 1932.
For the past two consecutive
years they have fed and shown
the Grand and Reserve Champion
Hereford steers at the West Tex-
as Livestock Show held in Brown-
wood. At the present time they
have on feed twelve head of Here-
ford baby beves and three regis-
tered Hereford bulls, which they
will show and sell at the Fort
Worth Fat Stock Show and other
livestock shows held in the spring.
At the recent State Fair Livestock
Show held from October 5-20 in
Dallas they showed an eleven
month old registered Hereford bull
calf that won his class in the sale
cattle and sold in the Hereford
sale for. $300.
Juston, who is a freshman in
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Yellow Lights Shock
Passers But Prevent
Highway Accidents
Of course everyone has noticed
those peculiar yellow lights on the
southwest corner of the campus.
Yet those lights which so often
shock you and which make you
look like a victim of yellow jaun-
dice or a first class ghost do
really have a purpose. Probably
you also have noticed their loca-
tion at the sudden curve of High-
way 07 into Stephenville.
These lights were installed about
two years ago, according to G. O.
Ferguson, associate dean, for the
prevention of traffic accidents.
There are some more such lights
on the highway between Glen tfose
and Stephenville.
Before these lamps were put in,
several very serious accidents oc-
curred at this dangerous curve.
A truck, on one occasion, drove
through the wall and plowed in-
to a tree and turned over on the
drill field, and a bus ran off the
road and was wrecked. Because of
a succession of accidents at this
corner of the campus, a request
was made by the people of Ste-
phenville or the city officials for
the installation of some sort of
safety signal at this point. No ac-
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Cole Explains to
Students Art of
A Successful Date
In a chapel talk to the student
body Reverend W. H. Cole spoke
on "Development Through Dat-
ing." He used "Do unto others
as ye would that they should do
unto you" as the main thing for
yong people to remember when
dating.
Reverend Cole brought out that
one becomes skilled in adjustment
if he has social contacts and prac-
tices etiquette and the Golden Rule.
One's date will think one is a fine
person if that one is thoughtful
and considerate. He further stated
that a necessity to successful dat-
ing is being agreeable, not in good
.lo'oks alone, but in neatness, good
taste, and alertness. Looking for
the best in others, and helping
others to succeed and enjoy them
selves while one puts himself last
were some of Reverend Cole's oth-
er points.
His ten rules for dating were:
1. Give your best self as a con-
tribution to fellowship.
2. Show an interest in what the
other is doing- and thinking.
3. Cultivate pleasures that are
wholesome, simple ,and inexpen-
sive.
4. Plan your good times care-
fully.
6. Be considerate of each oth-
er, sharing fellowship but never
exploiting another.
6. Develop special gifts and tal-
ents in yourself and others.
7. Date with various persons to
secure a broad range of fellow-
ship.
8. Be sincere and worthy of
trust, not playing at love with
each date.
9. Get the habit of speaking
kindly of people.
10. Let your personal friend-
ships be developed in an atmos-
phere of good influences, such as
homes, educational groups, church-
es, and all the fellowships of the
kingdom of God.
BRADY SPECIAL
TAKES 535 FANS
Five hundred and thirty-five en-
thusiastic students and fans rode
the- special train to Brady Sat-
urday.
Between 2500 and 3000 people
of the Brady area turned out for
the parade of Tarleton students
from the railroad station to the
square around the courthouse. The
parade was followed by concerts
by the Tarleton Military Band un-
der the direction of D. G. Hune-
well, and by the Girls' Band under
the direction of Harold J. Bluhm.
These two organizations also per-
formed btwn halvs at th game.
Students paraded about the
square before the game, blowing
whistles, rattling rattlers and cow-
bells, and gathering in groups on
the street corners to give Tarle-
ton yells.
Students Eat Enough
Ice Cream in Week to
Build J-Tac Shack
ALL-COLLEGE PARTY PLANNED AS
HEYDAY OF SPOOKS APPROACHES
Performance of Kryl
Symphony Orchestra
Pleases Audience
Phyllis Knight Is In TSCW
Phyllis Knight, Tarleton stu-
dent last year, was mentioned in a
personality column on red heads
in the "Lasso," student weekly
publication of TSCW. Phyllis is
majoring in physical education and
is very much pleased with that
department at TSCW. She is the
brother of James Knight, a stu-
dent in Tarleton now.
The illustrio/us Bohumir Kryl
and liis symphony orchestra gave
a program of matchless music for
Tarleton students Saturday in an
assembly period.
The students forgot that they
were in a required assembly and
concentrated only on the wonder-
ful presentation of the beautiful
music known to all the world. Mr.
Kryl himself delighted the audi-
ence because he is a typical con-
ductor—even to the long white
hair. The fact that all the mem-
bers of the orchestra are so young
amazed the students. It seems al-
most impossible that people so
young could have learned to play
instruments so marvelously. The
two feminine soloists received
much well deserved applause and
the violinist brought gasps of de-
light from his enchanted audience.
Even though the concert was a
long one, the orchestra was forc-
ed to meet the students' demand by
playing two encores. Tarleton stu-
dents truly appreciated the op-
portunity for hearing such excel-
lent music and the graciousness
of Mr. Kryl and his orchestra in
presenting the concert.
Did you ever hear of building a
house with bricks of ice~ cream?
No, probably you never will; yet
such a thing might be possible.
Take for example the ice cream
served to the 690 students that eat
at the college dining hall. If the ice
cream, consumed by this large
group' for lunch and for dinner
were molded into average size
building bricks, in one week the
students would have eaten enough
ice cream to transform the shack
in which the J-Tac office is located
into a brick bulding.
The college dining hall serves
approximately 2050 individual
meals in one day. -At these meals
from 1800 to 2000 dinner rolls are
eaten besides approximately 200
loves of bread, and about 2000 half
pints of milk are drunk.
Three hundred and forty-eight
barbecued chickens were prepared
for the students to take on the
Brady special. Daily food con-
sumption regularly consists of 450
pounds of meat and 400 pounds of
potatoes at one meal and 32
pounds of butter at three meals.
When the beverage is ice tea, 75
gallons are drunk and when it is
cocoa, 50 gallons of milk are re-
quired to prepare it.
If the dessert is pie at the dining
hall, the pastry cook prepares 116
pies. The meringue for chocolate
pies requires three and three-
fourth quarts of egg whites. Two
hundred and forty eggs are put in
the batter for cream puffs and
300 eggs are used in the meat loaf
served at one meal.
Approximately 60 dozen eggs are
scrambled for breakfast at the
dining hall. Twenty-seven pounds
of sugar are used in the cake that
the students eat. When pork sau-
sage is on the menu, about 450
pounds is purchased.
The equipment used in the prep-
aration of the food at the dining
hall is practically al lof stainless
steel to insure cleanliness. Two
large tea pots, holding 30 gallons
each, are used for making tea, and
coffee is made in two automatic
coffee urns. The ice cream is stored
in the refrigerator at freezing
temperature.
ANNUAL JUBILEE
TO BE GIVEN ON
NOVEMBER 12
The Tarleton Players, drama
group sponsored by the speech de-
partment under the direction of
Lillie V. Lillard, will present their
Eighth Annual. Dramatic Jubilee
in the college auditorium on Tues-
day evening, November 12.
A loud fanfare of trumpets on
the stage will announce the Jubi-
lee which will be dedicated to the
American Theatre.
The first one-act play on the pro-
gram will be "Pink and Patches"
with a cast of freshmen including
Betty Lee Marshall, Milton Johns-
ton, Marguerite Kelso, and Letha
Mae Beaman. This folk comedy
has been very popular with schools,
colleges, and Little Theatres over
the country and has probably won
more dramatic contests than any
other drama. It won the National
Little Theatre tournament in New
York a number of years ago and
also was the winner of the re-
cent State One-Act Play Meet of
Texas Junior Colleges.
During the fiist intermission
Grace Mutz will give an extem-
poraneous dramatic review of
the best - seller, "Rebecca," and
Jack Helms will give a short
pantomime of a young college co-
ed making her first appearance at
ty Matthews. Two years ago the
Tarleton students requested the
presentation of "Back Home" by
William M. Sloane which is to be
given after the intermission. Rex
Nixon and Weldon Longbotham will
play the roles of gangsters flee-
ing from justice, assisted by Bet-
ty Mathews. Two years ago the
Tarleton Players won second place
with this tense drama in a tour-
nament of Texas Junior Colleges.
During the second intermission
Jerrye McClaran will' impersonate
a famous Italian actress, giving
advice to dramatic aspirants.
, "Caesby," an idyll by Percival
Wilde, featuring Craig Marshall
and Mary Louise Kaiser, will con-
clude the evening's program.
An admission fee of twenty
cents will be charged. Tickets will
go on sale soon.
Gym To Be Scene Of
Masquerade Pete;
Prizes To Be Offered
Hallowe'en is creeping up behind
us like a stealthy pussy, and be-
fore we know it, all the witches
and spooks and bats and owls will
swoop down upon us, wreaking
vengeance right and left.
Tarleton students will celebrate
"witches' night" on Thursday
evening, October 31, at 8:00 o'clock
in the gymnasium.
The guests will be met at the
door by a reception committee and
will be conducted through a grav-
yard, a hall of horrors, and a for-
tune telling booth. Then they will
be served refreshments which they
will eat on the bleachers on the
athletic fild.
After refreshments are served,
the students' costumes will be
judged. A,box of Pangburn's choc-
olates will be given for the most
beautiful, the most original, and
the most comical costumes, boys'
and girls' costumes being judged
separately.
In order for students to enter
into the spirit of the occasion, they
are requested to "dike out" in their
most festive costumes.
COLLEGE SWING ORCHESTRA
HAS 15 NEW SWING TUNES
Sara Andrews visited Sibyl Rol-
lings worth in Brownwood after
the game Saturday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Phillips
of Dallas, both former students of
Tarleton. have announced the birth
of a daughter, Diane Adair Phil-
lips. The baby was born on Octo-
ber 23, and weighed 8 pounds,
and 6 ounces.
The College Swing Orchestra,
directed by Morton ?. Brooks, and
managed by Morris White, recent-
ly received fourteen neT?r dance
tunes and is practicing on them ort
Monday and Wednesday nights.
The new tunes are "Star Dust,"
"Rumbugie," "Whispering Grass,"
"Blueberry Hill," "Huckleberry
Duck," "Trade Winds," "Love
Lies," "Bugle Call Rag," "Maybe,"
"The Nearness of You," "Pompton
Turnpike," "It Tad To Be You,"
"The Same Old Story," and "Fif-
teen Minute Intermission."
The old campus favorite, "Villa,"
by Franz Lehan and Lorenzo Hart,
begins its seventh year as the or-
chestra's theme song.
The members of the orchestra
this year are Morris White, bass;
Norman Matcher, piano; Joe Dy-
son, drums; James Martin, first
saxophone; August Behling, sec-
ond saxophone; Bobby Richards,
third alto saxophone; Billy Alli-
son, fourth tenor saxophone; J.
Lewis Evans, trumpet; Bert Boyn-
ton, third trumpet; and Ewell
Bowers, trombone.
Soloists are J. Lewis Evans and
James Martin.
Winners Chosen In
Personality Show
On Thursday Night
Charline Stovall, representing
the American Legion, won the title
of "Miss Personality," and Jerrye
McClaran won first place in the
amateur talent division at the City
Recreation Hall Thursday night.
Jerrye gave the reading "Modem
Little Girl's Version of Red Riding
Hood and the Wolfe."
Other Tarleton students in the
talent show were Mary Dunbar,
who played "Smoke Gets In Your
Eyes" and "Deep In a Dream,"
and Lucille McHargue and Louise
McLain who twirled batons..
Lovelace Plays for Show
Irwin Lovelace, another Tarleton
student, played popular song hits
as the girls competing in the per-
sonality coiltest walked across the
stage.
Tarleton girls in the personality
contest were Nell Patton, Marga-
ret Lovette, Tommie Foreman,
Claudia Newton, Dorothy Earles,
Fanella Walker, Scottie Gilbert.
Marilyn Paschall, Peggy Hill,
Virginia Pullig, Louise Jarratt,
Pauline Snyder, Marcella Paschall,
Dorothy Tunnell, Mary Ella Shuf-
field, Jane Porter, Babs Negy, Ma-
rion Glenn, Stella Nix, Dorothy
Dee Goodwin.
Rose Ellen Eberhart, Helen Ma-
rie Futch, Minon Lawlis, Nona"
Dell Cleveland, Doris Blackwell,
Elizabeth Sexton, Neva Francis
Harrell, Nancy Collier, Joy Rob-
erts, Dot Farris, Joy Gerald, Jerry
McClaran, Eloise Brown, Betty
Beene, Joe Stewart, Jo Maye
Payne, Lucille McHargue, Louise
McClaine.
Joyce Davis was called to Okla-
homa to the bedside of her grand-
mother.
CALENDAR
Monday, Oct. 28—Press Club meet- -+•
ins, 7:30.
Tuesday, Oct. 29—J-Tae Staff meet* 41
ing. 7:00 p. m.
After Dinner Dance, 7:00-8:00.
Pearl Mahan, head of the Eng-
lish department, has assumed her
usual'teaching duties after a re-
cent illness.
Liberty exists in proportion to
wholesome restraint.—Webster.
Wednesday,' Oct. 30 — Gramopbilea, * •
7:15.
Mrs. Virginia Humphries, who
was Virginia Norman before her
marriage, and who formerly at-
tended Tarleton was married re-
cently. Her husband is the Bud-
get Manager of the Goodrich Tire
Company in Lubbock, and the
couple now reside at 24G8 Broad-
way Avenue in Lubbock.
Thursday, Oct. 31 — After Dinner
Dance, 7:00-8:00.
Aggette meeting, 8:00-9:00.
Saturday, Nov. 2—Tarleton vs. Lamar 4*
Jr. College at Beaumont.
Tuesday. Nov. 5—A. W. S. Benefit
Show.
After Dinner Dance, 7:00-8:00.
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