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4—THE J-TAC
Tuesday, March 23, 1954
Dance Entertainment
The applause will ring' out as the, dancers
from North Texas conclude their dance for
the evening's entertainment. .
The Breckenridge Dance Band will begin the
music again for the dance to start. After the
students hear the excellent music they will
want to start to dance even before they get
inside the building.
All of this marvelous entertainment is pro-
vided for YOUR enjoyment and primises to
make this year's MILITARY BALL one that
you will never forget! ! ! !
Student Centers
Have you ever heard of the Baptist Student
Center and the Methodist Wesley Foundation?
These organizations are for all of us and not
just a small few."
These are your religious student centers
where you can meet with your fellow students
for a brief devotional period. There are rec-
reation facilities, too. Shuffle board, ping pong,
volley ball, and baseball are many games you'll
enjoy engaging in with your best pals.
For good clean fun and the right kind of
companionship, drop in tonight. All denomina-
tions are welcome. You'll be glad you came!
wmrm
■Ste.w fftai-n t
Kool Khakis
The boys are wearing those "kool khakis"
now, and they surely do look neat. I heard one
boy say that he was mighty glad to get out of
the wools.
The change, is appropriate for the weather.
It makes everything look and feel more like
spring. .There is an air of freshness on the
eampus that came with the "new look."
It's Officially Spring
Spring is at last officially here according to
all dfrthe,fii$lenda,rs—and the.heat! !
One of the ,1'irst signs-of' 'spring is the new
loog ;ih fclo,thes(. All of the cadets are beaming
8V%r thep fact, that at long last they can crawl
into those cool khakis to beat the oncoming
summer heat. 'I'iie'girls have also been bring-
ing theii^sumi^gr tiottdnsj out of the boxes. *
.%tefor|?veryl£mao^>mftfe days the sun will
beaiHfftg;.ctQ,wn to let us know that
summer is approaching, but for the present
time ,we can all enjoy the cool spring days!
Love Is in Bloom
Ah, spring, when the sap starts running and
a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts
of love.
'J'he benches have become quite crowded in
the past few days. It seems that everyone finds
something to study (?) or perhaps they just
like to talk over the class lectures, and the
benches provide the most convenient place to
relax. !
As their "iwnter" thoughts express themsel-
ves in "spring actions all of the young men on
the campus turn to the more elevated thoughts
of love.
t 3l~5far
OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION OF
TARLETON STATE COLLEGE
Stephenville, Texas
Entered as second-class mail matter at the Post
Office in Stephenville, Texas, under Act of Congress
of March 3, 1879.
: Represented by the'National Advertising Service,
Inc.
Member of the Texas Intercollegiate Press Associ-
ation, Associated Collegiate Press, and Collegiate
Scholastic Press Association.
Boo—Boos
By DENNIS PARMER
What the average woman wants
is a great big strong he-man who
can be wrapped around her little
finger.
There is no one so narrow-mind-
ed as the fellow who disagrees with
you.
Summer is the time when the
weather gets too hot to cook and
the relatives come to visit you.
The only place a woman's intui-
tion doesn't work is when she is
tiying to decide which way to turn
the car at a coiner.
The elephant and the donkey
were probably chosen as. political
party emblems because they are
beasts of burden. If a new party is
started, a 'taxpayer might suit-
ably be used as the emblem.
There are some scientists who
believe that the height • of intel-
ligince.is reached at sixteen. Well,
at that ag-g one generally feels
sure of it. ' ' ' ; - , ■■
. Egotism' is a- drug that enables
some people to live with them-
selves.
Federal aid is simply a system
of taking money from the people
and .^making it look like a gift
when you hand it back.
Foreign missionaries will be
more successful when they can
show civilization to the heathens
and not merely tell them about it.
We never could quite understand
why children are too young to
work under eighteen, but are old
enough to drive an $1,800 car sev-
enty miles an hour.
Some of the big guns are silenced
when a war ends; others begin
work in their memoirs.
There is an old story about an
ass being disguised with a lion's
skin. Every . now and then some
college does it with a sheepskin.
An army travels on its stomach,
but some individuals travel on
their gall.
Nothing is more dangerous to
a bachelor than a jealous llusbaiid-
or a single girl.
No politician is ever as bad as
he painted by his enemies or as
good as he is whitewashed by his
friends.
We wortder if nations experience
declining birth rates because the
stork is a bird with a big bill.
When a woman demands equal
rights she is simply indulging in
flattery.
You can get government bullet-
ins on almost every subject except
curbing- government expenditures.
When God made man he didn't
arrange the points of his bones so
he could pat himself on the back.
Vacuum Cleaner
What's this I hear about the boys
not asking the girls to the Military
Ball yet? Come on, boys, it's only
IS days away.
Rumor has it that Tommy Har-
key is bringing his girl down for
the Ball. She is going to Sui Ross.
Jeane Moore has really been get-
ting the mail from New Mexico
lately. What's his name, Jeane?
Well, pardners, that there West-
ern Shindig was shore nuff slick.
Everybody was dressed up west-
ern-like, and the dance music was
strictly "hillbilly." Reminded nie
of West Texas.
Edarlyn Palmer and J6 Ann
Sievers had a pretty good weekend,
I'll bet. They went to A & M.
Boy! Helen Dillon and John
Rouse really have it bad — they
are going steady! At least, he is
wearing 'her ring and she- is wear-
ing his.
Oscar Hunt is pretty interested
in a certain'kid who is "hot stuff."
What about that; Oscar?, .
Truman Blum and Bettie Franz
have been going together. Max
Head's girlfriend came to see him
the other day. Not bad for Max!
Jimjnie Page, I hear that you,
read love letters in history. class.
That's not all. I heard that Jerry
McCallister Sleeps through EVERY
class. What do you do at night?
Frances Mote and Bill Weide-
nian are going together a lot now.
In fact, they are going to the Mil-
itary Ball together I hear. Well,
noW. . -
Sammie Findley is ■ doing all
right. She -gets mail every day
from a good looking (I've seen
his picture) male in the air force.
Does he have any friends,' Sam-
mie ? : ;
Joy Smith and Tony Kirk are
also going steady. Spring fever?
Well, kids, the old clock, on the
wall says it's time to, go, so Bye
Now.
POINT OF VIEW
By MARY ANN PRIDDY ,
Curiosity and interest were aroused wheij
graduate A. W. Turnbow made the unusual
statement, "I slept my way through college."
. Nebraska college student read Russian
vocabulary words and their English translsr-
' tions into a recording machine and slept while
they were run over and over to him.1 The results
were so satisfactory that he started recording
all his class notes into it. He refers to the
experience as "sleep-learning."' "
Companies and individuals have explored
into this subject and there are combination.,
products on, the market that involve a cloclc
and a recorder that will play back informa-
tion at the time it is wanted. Such an adver-
tisement I saw recently. Some of the points it
advocated were that it relaxes you mentally
and physically, develops self-confidence, helps
you to control your emotions, eliminates unde-
sirable habits, improves your personality anti-
hidden talents. The extent of its successfulness
probably has not yet been determined to the
extent that it can be recommended for any
individual to cure any problems that he might
have.
"Don't waste one-third of your life! Learn
while .you sleep! Develop your mental powers!
The principal facts were given as a mes-
sage repeater that records and repeats auto-
matically a 15 second to a 15-minute message ,
continuously or at any desired pre-set inter-
val. The message can be erased instantly and
the cartridge used over and over again. Sim-
ply constructed, it displays the fact that a
person can learn to operate it within five ■:
minutes. '
No' doubt you can get some impression on
the sub-conscious rrtind, through such a means';--
but it seems doubtful that new material, which
the mind has not had acquaintance with, could
be absorbed to the degree of success.
It might well deepen an impression already
there and serve as a reviewing process witlr
dividends. And, it could (be ihat the very men-
tally alert could use a recording apparatus with
good find profitable results. ■
Probably the whole idea is' in the realm of
clairvoyant perception, precognition and men-
tal telepathy.
Little boy to friend in school bus:'"I woke
up ,wjth chills and fever and headache and
sore throat and earacheJand upset stomach —
but it didn't work."
And the one person wisest to that very
thing on Tarleton campus is Mrs. Barekman
at the hospital- She knows just as well as
anyone when the ailment is just a vain at-
tempt to be "fakey." She knows all about
drill and P. E. and those "horrible shooting
pains down the left side of my thumbnail
that are about to kill me." Maybe we better -
grow up and act like college students for ai
change.
STAFF
Yyonne Sibley
David Pinkerton
^Editor
..Business Manager
Trevor Mabrey ' —Circulation Manager
Johanna Stobaugh Society Editor
Charles Clampitt... __..Spflirte'" Editor
Mary Ann Priddy.„. News Editor,
Dennis Parmer -..J —_.,...,__.Cartoonist
Reporters—Betty Howard, Lannon Reed, Joan
Thomas, Melba Jean Neely.
DULL DAY ITEMS
Johanna Stobaugh's first name
is Mary . . . Carlton Hall's nick-
name is "Pete" . . . Tony Kirk's
uncle is Speaker of House of Rep-
resentatives in Texas . . . Helen
Dillon has Some pajamas from
Japan . . . Shirley Cunyus is going
to the Cotton Ball , . . Marilyn
Monroe is not a descendant of
President Monroe . . . Jerry Stub-
blefield has a pair of earrings that
are miniature boots . . ,. Mary K.
Freese has a new pair of glasses
. . . Janig Wbod is going to Baylor
next year . . . Marilyn Morgan has
It is reported by scientists that
man's jaw has .dropped half an
inch in several thousand years.
That's not so bad when you con-
sider the government budgets he
has faced.
The pessimist says when a diplo-
mat lays his cards on the table
it's a good idea to count them.
. A good politician is a fellow who
has prejudices enough to suit the
needs of all his constituents.
attended Odessa J;unior College . . .
Gayle Craft is from Peacock,
Texas . . . Carl Curtis has over
200 love letters, from one girl . . .
Bill McGinnis would like to sell his
cowboy hat . . . Rita Guest, Pat
Stover, Luella Freeman, Rowena
Wood; and Jean (Alison) Pittman
all went to Girls' State together
in the summer of 1952 . . .. Larinon
Reed plans to attend Texas Uni-
versity . . . Dick Draper has the
habit of oversleeping in class . . .
Henry Blahuta's brother goes to
West Point . . . Webb Bishop has
a "crazy" hat that he said, he
bought at the "5 & Dime" . . .
Yvonne Sibley receives letters
from Japan regularly . . . John
Tarleton was known as a thrifty
individual.
Our campus is an increasingly growing won-
der. Can you remember how it, one of the very
best in Texas, looked when this year of work
started? Or how it appeared to you for thev
first time last September?
We first came here six and one half months,,
ago. The trees were green and the grass fresh.
The squirrels were most vigorous then, beat-
ing around in the trees and chattering interest-
edly at people going by.
October didn't show very much change, but
the green was becoming slowly tinged with
brown. The different trees were behaving' in
different ways to express a gradual change, in
temperature and season. ■ '
In November those bushes near the Adminis-
tration building bore red berries' that "could
be seen for several yards. .
Trees lost their leaves around the N-Tae
game, and cedar alone remained to predict
hope for leaves at Christmas. „
During tests of the first semester we had
snow and sleet—January 19, tq be e^act. People
were surprised. - ■ ,
On March 1, the first buds peeped put on \
trees and marched down the skinny branches
ot trees that were still yawning from hiberna-*
tion.
Three days later- we blinked twice to see
snow-blobs fingering the sidewalks. Five days
later, the thermometer stretched to ninety de-
grees. Now the sand is in the air.
Don't pack your long-handles for a couple
more months.
Don't talk of monotony in weather condi-
tions.
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The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 22, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 23, 1954, newspaper, March 23, 1954; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth140540/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.