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ATTEND
THE
BALL GAME
VOL. XX
STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1941
NUMBER 25
TARLETON SENDS 7 OF THE ISO
DELEGATES AT T. I. P. A. MEETING
Sam Houston State
Teachers' College to
Be Host Next Year
Seven Tarleton students and one
faculty member were among" the
150 delegates who attended (the
Texas Intercollegiate Press As-
sociation convention which was
Held at the College of Mines in El
Paso on April 3-5,
The students who attended the
convention were Wanda Dorris,
J-Tae editor for 1941-42; William
Bradley, Grassburr editor for
19.41-'42; Mary Lou Turner, fea-
ture editor of the Grassburr; Rob-
ert Koons, president of the Press
Club; Sara Andrews, editor of the
J-Tac; Dave Tipton, sports editor
of the J-Tac, and Prentis Ray,
Press Club member. T. V. Crounse,
co-sponsor of the J-Tac was the
faculty member who attended the
convention.
Delegates stayed at the Hotel
Paso del Norte while in El Paso.
The lectures on journalism and the
group sessions of editors, business
managers, etc., were held on the
College of Mines campus.
At the business session Satur-
day morning Sam Houston State
Teachers College at Huntsville was
chosen to be host college for the
convention next spring and new
officers of the association were
elected.
The College of Mines provided
such entertainment as tours of
Juarez, Fort Bliss, McKelligon's
Canyon, a banquet in the Gold
Room of Hotel Paso del Norte, and
n ball at Holliday Hall on the
campus.
Announcement of the contest
winners was made at the formal
banquet given Saturday night at
7*0«> o'clock in. Hotel Paso...del
Norte. The list of the winners is
as follows:
Short story, (1) North Texas
State Teachers' College, (2) John
Tarleton ■ Agricultural College, (3)
Sam Houston State Teachers' Col-
lege; Essay, (1) Stephen F. Aus-
tin State Teachers' College, (2)
Sam Houston State Teachers' Col-
lege, (3) College of Mines.
News article, (1) Southwest
See Tarleton Sends—Page 4
Reorganization Is
Purpose of Press
Club Meeting
According to President Robert
Koons, the Tarleton Press Club
will meet tonight at 6:45 o'clock
in The J-Tac office for the purpose
of reorganizing the club in accord-
ance with TIPA rules and sugges-
tions offered in the roundtable sem-
inars at the TIPA convention h$!d
last week in El Paso. The foun-
dation and structure of active press
clubs was one of the questions dis-
cussed at the roundtable seminars.
During the discussion it was found
that a lack of unity was one of the
major problems confronting the av-
erage college press club. Various
suggestions were offered in solu-
tion to this probjem. One club al-
ways held the meeting at the noon
hour and .served a luncheon. An-
other alternated the social and busi-
ness meetings without announcing
beforehand which was to be held
next.
Another problem brought up at
the roundtable seminars was that
of teaching journalism. Since Tar-
leton has no journalism courses,
the Tarleton Press Club must act on
one of the suggested methods of
teaching phrases of journalism to
the press club members when no
actual course is offered. Some clubs
engaged lecturers for their meet-
ings; another college unable to ob-
tain adequate speakers required
each member to read a book on
journalism and give a summary
of it to the club.
All of these suggestions, and oth-
ers equally as important, will be
discussed at the Press Club meet-
ing tonight. All prospective mem-
bers are also urged to attend this
meeting.
SCHOOL SINGERS
ON FOUR DAY
SPRING TOUR
The Tarleton College Singers
left the campus Sunday for their
four-day annual spring tour which
is taking them to ten cities—Cicso,
Eastland, Albany, Breckenridge,
Bryson, Olney, Graham, Jacksboro,
Bridgeport, and Mineral Wells for
performances.
The program which is being pre-
sented by the Singers at each of
these cities is composed of the fol-
lowing vocal numbers:,
"From 111 do Thou Defend Me"
—Bach.
"0 Lord We Praise Thee"—Ru-
chenmaninoff.
"All in the April Evening"—Rob-
erton.
"Siiul Forth Thy Spirit"—Scn-
eutky.
"Stars of the Summer Night"
(men)—Woodbury.
"Lonesome Road"—by Krone.
"Shepherdess Moon" (girls)—
Hurry-Coffin.
•'Handsome Soldier,"—Row.
"Gentle Annie," (violin obligato
by Pauline Snyder with humming
chorus)—Foster-Coffin.
"Ezekitl Saw de Wheel"—by
Cain.
Pauline Snyder is also playing
a number of violin solos.
The ColLege-S.mgers> include live
first sopranos, five second sopran-
os, six first altos, four second altos,
three first tenors, one second tenor,
four baritones, and four basses.
MISS LILL1E V.
ULLARD GOES TO
DALLAS MEETING
Miss Lillie V. Lillard, head of
the speech department, was in Dal-
las Thursday attending the Com-
mission of Administrators of tho
Texas Junior College Spee'dji
coaches.
The Commission discussed speech
problems in relation to the Texas
Junior College Speech Association
which is under the chairmanship of
President Delaney of Schreiner
Junior College.
Although Dean Davis was not
present for the meeting Thursday,
he is a member of the Commission.
From Dallas Miss Lillard went
to Temple where she was one of
the officials in charge of the tour-
nament, At a business meeting
of the Speech Association, she was
re-elected to serve her sixteenth
year as secretary-treasurer of the
association.
Students Rush To
Airport To See
Bombers Land
Tarleton students flocked to the
Tarleton airport Saturday and
Sunday to see the landing bomber
from the San Angelo Air Train-
ing- School. It was bringing 19-
year-old Thomas Hanes, radio
technician training at San Ange-
lo, to visit his mother, Mrs. B.
Davis.
Two other bombing planes,
which accompanied the plane
bringing young Hanes here, re-
mained in the air and circled over
the campus while he was being set
down at the airport Saturday and
getting aboard Sunday.
Saturday the plane went on to
Dallas and returned Sunday at 1:15
p. m. to carry Hanes back to San
Angelo.
Hanes enlisted in the U. S. Air
Corps at Brownwood on June 28,
He was sent to Dallas for exam-
ination and then assigned to Kelly
Field, San Antonio, where he took
a radio course.
Editor Inspects Press Trophies
wov..:;
Amelia Morton, treasurer of. the
Texas Intercollegiate Press Asso-
ciation, and-editor of the Prospec-
tor, student newspaper of the Col-
lege of Mines, is shown above in-
specting the trophies which were
awarded Saturday night at the ban-
quet in the Gold room of Hotel Pa"so
del Norte, and yearbook contests
which were held in conjunction with
the TIPA Convention held April
4 and 5 on the campus of the Col-
lege of Mines.
Tw.o trophies w^nt to North
Texas Stat" Teach rs College for
the best college yearbook, and for
the best senior college paper. Har-
din Junior College Won- the other
trophy for having the best junior
college newspaper..
Tarleton Wins In
Speech Meet In
Temple on Friday
Grace Mutz returned to Tarle-
ton Saturday from Temple with a
gold medal signifying that she had
brought home the title of state
champion of extempore speech.
Competing with candidates from
twenty-four schools in eight dis-
''tricts, she won the only first place
honor awarded to speakers from
Tarleton's district.
The Temple representative in ex-
tempore speech placed second in
the State Speech Meet of Texas
Junior Colleges. Grace chose for
her subject, "The Cultural Rela-
tions of Pan-America" and spoke
entirely without notes.
See Speech Meet—Page 4
William P. Grant
Wins First Prize
On "Night Poem"
William P. Grant, associate pro-
fessor of public school music, har-
mony, and piano at John Tarle-
ton College, was recently notified
that his "Night Poem" for string
quartet had been awarded first
prize in the Texas Manuscript So-
ciety's annual competition.
This is the second time in three
months that Mr. Grant has won first
place in prize contests with his
compositions. Late in December his
"Piano Sonata No. 1" was given
first place in the Texas Federation
of Music Clubs' competition for
piano pieces.
Both of these prize-winning com-
See William P. Grant—Page 4
TARLETON WINS
SEVERAL PLACES
IN SPEECH MEET
Speech students of Tarleton won
three first places and four second
places In the District No. 5 Speech
Tournament of Texas Junior Col-
leges held at Tarleton on Friday,
March 28. Contesants from Ranger
Junior College, Weatherford Col-
lege, and Tarleton participated in
the events.
Miss Lillie V. Lillard, head of
the speech department, secretary
of the Texas Junior College Speech
Association, and district director,
was in charge of the meet.
Divisions of the meet were de-
bate, oratory, extempore speech,
radio speech, and poetry interpre-
tation, the girls and boys compet-
ing separately. Radio speech and
poetry interpretation were included
this year for the first time in Texas
meets sponsored by the Speech As-
sociation.
Seven Win Places
The Tarleton students who won
places in the various divisions were
Elmer Kreuse, first place in boys'
extempore speech; Grace Mutz,
first place an girls' extempore
speech; Jack Barton and Jack Clem-
f r, first place in boys' debate; Raby
Alford, second place in boys' ora-
tory; Wilma Floyd, second place
in girls' oratory; Aubrey Fife, sec-,
ond place in boys' poetry interpre-
tation; and Letha Mae Beaman,
second place in girls' poetry inter-
pretation.
All three contestants in girls'
oratory tied for first place. This
is the first time that Such a situa-
tion has occurred in the history of
the Association. The judges were
asked to confer in order to decide
the tie and to place the speakers.
The result for Tarleton was as
given above. The judges' decisions
gave Ranger first place and Wea-
therford third in girls' oratory.
Speeches Must Be Original
The contests in extempore speech
and oratory were judged upon de-
livery and the value and arrange-
ment of material. Both divisions
were made up of speeches whjch
were the original compositions of
the contestants-—the oratory being
memorized, and the extempore
speech being given for the first
time on the platform.
In extempore speech each stu-
dent drew five out of fifty topics,
selected one in ;a few seconds, and
put tho- others back. Then he had
thirty minutes t alone in which to
think about and organize his ideas
before going ori the platform.
The topics used for extempore
speech -vere about important na-
See Tarleton Wins—Page 4
COLONEL T.K. SPENCER INSPECTS
CADET CORPS HERE WEDNESDAY
Delegates To TIPA Convention
In El Paso Have Interesting Trip
LECTURERS GIVE
STUDENTS IDEAS
ON REPORTING
At the Texas Intercollegiate
Press Association convention "held
April 4-5 at El Paso the seven
Tarleton students who attended
heard many excellent lectures deal-
ing with journalistic procedure
and the relation of journalism to
other fields of industry.
H. A. Michaels, city editor of the
El Paso Herald-Post, gave some
pointers on how to make a good re-
porter. He stated that first of all
a reporter must understand the
issue at hand to be able to write a
i-tory. As an illustration of this he
said that a cub reporter may be
sent to police headquarters, over-
look an important name which
means nothing to him, and conse-
quently lose the story while the
opposition paper gets a scoop.
A good reporter must be able to
make a complete story out of a
few facts; and to do this, he must
have a knowledge of all the back-
ground material dealing with his
subject.
A good reporter must be able to
cover any type of story. He will
start as a cub at the police station;
and while he works there, he
should study the beat next above
him which is that of the city hall.
By staying a few jumps ahead, he
will be ready for promotion.
Another important point that
Michaels emphasized was under-
standing people. "A good reporter
See Lecturers Give—Page 4
One of the most unusual and ex-
citing experiences of the delegates
at the Texas Intercollegiate Press
Association Convention was seeing
and talking to Bernia Millegan,
publicity director for Kay Kaiser.
When the delegates rushed Mille-
gan for autographs, he remarked
very humbly that the delegates
could not sell his autograph for
anything.
Mr. Millegan said that being
publicity agent for Kay Kaiser is
a snap—all he has to do is to in-
troduce Kay and let him shine.
In Juarez at the "Rio Grande,"
better known to College of Mines
students as "Steve's," a party of
Tarleton delegates met Guirofono.
He is a short, plump, middjeaged
Mexican with twinkling brown
eyes, a black mustache, and a
queer little musical instrument.
Paneho Villa Performs
Guirofono's greatest delight is
pleasing his audience — he loves
enthusiastic applause. He likes to
accompany a soloist and he especi-
ally delights in playing patriotic
country and school songs. He car-
ries with him a little toy pistol,
and at the insistence of his audi-
ence he will draw his gun, grab
hold of his black sombrero, and his
eyes will glitter with mischief as
he pretends to be Pancho Villa.
Before the banquet, which was
held in the Gold Room of Hotel
Paso del Norte, the convention del-
egates heard the Tipica Orchestra,
composed of Mexicans playing
Spanish music such as "Frenesi."
The entire orchestra was dressed
in sombreros and Mexican cloth-
ing with a bright colored scarf
lhrown across each player's shoul-
der.
At the chuck wagon barbecue
1unch at McKelligan's Canyon,
sponsored by Southwestern En-
rraving Company, the EI Paso en-
graver announced that everyone
who wished might have a second
lerving. To his embarrassment he
discovered that there was precious
I'ttle barbecue between him and
""he bottom of the pot. He was in
i cold sweat until he found that
only three people were hungry
enough to eat seconds.
The delegates ate a typical Mex-
ican lunch at La Paloma cafe in
El Paso Friday, and they ate din-
ner that night cafeteria style in
the mess hail at Fort Bliss. Every
one heartily agreed that the sold-
ier boys are not underfed.
Orchestra Has Trained Musicians
After dinner the delegates gath-
ered at a recreation hall at the re-
ception center. The Tarleton stu-
dents played ping pong and danced
to music made by the army orch-
estra. The army drummer is from
Frankie Masters Orchestra, three
other members are from Benny
Goodman's- Orchestra, and one
played with Horace Heidt.
At the Hotel Paso del Norte, the
delegates' rooms were rather
crowded.- Imagine five girls trying
to dress'for a dance in front of
>ne mirror, and nine of them try-
'ng for first chance at the bath
cub!'Imagine 14 cots crammed in-
to one room with boys playing hop
<<e< tch acros sthem to get to their
respective resting places (especial-
ly imagine them hop scotching af-
ter they'd been "south of the bor-
der" in the course of the night.)!
SENIOR PROGRAM
ON APRIL 1 WAS
GREAT SUCCESS
Last Tuesday morning from 9:00
to 9:30 the senior class sponsored
its annual "Faculty Take-Off."
The presentation was declared
by all who attended to be indeed
a credit to the senior council and
to those who appeared in skits.
The first part of th program
was a skit in which was dramatiz-
ed a chapel program preparing for
the Brady trip. Dub Davis took the
part of Dean Davis, and even
though he might be slightly short
in stature for the part, his actions
and mannerisms made it very real-
istic. Dean Travis was presented
to the student body, by master of
ceremonies, Merle Proctor, and he
in turn called on various "facul-
I ty members" for pep talks. Dean
1 Ferguson was impersonated by
James McCreight, Dr. Scott by
James Gibbs, Mr. Brooks by Claude
Knight, Miss Savage by Julia Park-
er, Miss Fellman by Mary Lou Mc-
Creight, and Mr. Hale by Dick Ed-
dleman.
The second skit was a hospital
scene with Mary Dunbar taking
the part of Miss Lucy Hennigan
and Doris Gates as the poor suffer-
ing patient.
As Proctor announced different
teachers, the students impersonat-
ing theih came on the stage say-
ing something typical of that par-
ticular person.
Hugh Spotts with his imper-
sonation of Mr. McSweeny brought
much applause, and Frances Sligh
as Miss Hilswick was well re-
ceived.
Dr. Dick Smith was imjjerson--
ated by Murray Parent, Mi- Eaves'
by Arthur Ziegelmeyer^- Mrs!. ■ G.
E. Woodward by Valerie Beiscamp-
er, Miss Jones by. Mary 'Louise
Poe, Miss Brown by MarceihMad-;
dox, Mr. John Smith by- Li 'H.,-Mat-
thews, Dr. Hugh B. Smith by Hu-
bert Meyer, .Mr. Ddremus, by Mor-
ris White, Mr. Blanchatd..by Lar-
ry King, Colonel Bejidev-V>y Bill
Keeling, and Sergeant- MtJCulIough
by Bill Fletcher. \\ :
Co. E Rates Best
And Wins 350 Points
B is Second; A Is Third
The annual Federal Inspection
was held Wednesday, beginning at
8:00 a. m. and lasting until 3:30
p. m. Colonel T. K. Spencer, the in-
specting officer again this year,
said that the cadet corps was bet-
ter than it was last year and the
very best that he had seen so far
this year. Last year Colonel James
D. Bender said, "This is the best
cadet corps during my four years
here." Therefore, the inspection
this year was a decided success.
Colonel Bender said, "I was es-
pecially pleased with the attitude
and the enthusiasm with which this
inspection was carried out. The
precision and dress were very
good." Every individual had been
looking forward to that day for a
long time, and each' rose to meet
the situation rather than try to
evade it.
The regular schedule was some-
what delayed because of a slight
rain early in the morning. After
the cadet corps assembled on the
drill field, squad, platoon, and com-
pany drill were held in. regular
drill day fashion. Company B placed
first in this drill, with Companies
A, E, and F tying for second place.
Company A demonstrated the
uses of the sighting bar and tri-
angulation in rifle marksmanship.
The combat platoons of Companies
B and 13 then enacted a problem
in combat principles. After the im-
aginary enemy was successfully
routed, the battalions formed for
questioning on the theoretical sub-
jects.
The answers to the questions on
theory were given much better this
year than they were last year. "The
freshmen gave same especially good
answers to their questions," said
Colonel Bender. Each of the bat-
talions was interrogated thirty
minutes, the upper classmen and
freshmen being divided into two
groups in each battalion.
The honorary corps performed
for fifteen minutes just before the
revue in the afternoon. After a
very splendid performance under
the leadership of Captain LaVerne
Pass, the honorary corps assembl-
ed with the remainder of the cadet
corps -for the revue and individual
inspection.
Colonel Spencer made an individ-
ual inspection of each man. He
thoroughly inspected the rifles of
two or three men in each- squad.
The precision and execution of the
manual were two of the things
which counted on the grading of
each company. Company E was
placed first both in the cleanli-
ness of rifles and in personal ap-
pearance of its cadets. Compan-
ies B and A trailed second and third
respectively in clean rifles, and Hfley
tied for second place for the best
personal appearance.
Company E won the much cov-
eted honor of being the best com-
pany in the inspection and conse-
quently won 350 points toward be-
ing the best drilled company this
preliminary. Company B was pla-
ced second and won 250 points, and
Company A won 150 points by be-
ing third.
A. M. McMahan Will
Receive M. A. Degree
From TCU In June
A. M. MeMahan, Tarleton busi-
ness manager, will receive his Mas-
ter of Arts degree from Texas
.Christian .University in June. Edu-
cational administration is his ma-
jdr.'-Mr:; McMahan received his
Bachelor's degree-in 1939 and com-
pleted his. work for his Master's
degr«i<2-afc'_"'l1CUr in . January, with
the exception of his'comprehensive
examination, which he passed re-
cently. ■
Mr. McMahan is a Tarleton grad-
uate and has-Jbeerl connected with
the college^since 1929 as business
man'ageV. v .'
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