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PAGE FOUR
THE J-TAC
Tuesday, Matfch 25, 1947
Swing Cadets Begin
Spring Engagements
Haying a long list of accom-
plishments for this year behind
them, the Swing Cadets, Tarleton's
own swing. band, are now begin'
ning to work on their spring* en-
gagaments * which, include campus
dances, out-of-town engagements,
.and their popular weekly radio
program heard every Saturday ov-
er-Station KORC, Mineral "Wells,
at 5 o'clock.
The orchestra diligently rehear-
ses several hours each week, and
their hard work is paying off.
They expect to have their program
sponsored in the near future, and
their engagements at the Mineral
Wells Country Club, as well as oth-
er dances and parties in that city,
are already going a long way to-
ward paying the expenses of the
weekly trips which are made in a
chartered bus.
The next dance for which the
Swing Cadets will play here at
Tarleton is the O.W.L.fe. formal
dance to be given in the Recrea-
tion Hall Saturday night.
The boys who play in the orches-
tra are all competent musicians,
but oddly enough, only one is a
music major. That one is Harold
T, Baxter, a Stephenville boy who
is in charge of the Swing Cadets
since he is responsible for the or-
ganization of the present group,
Baxter is a senior and plays first
trumpet.
Easter Dance For
Social Club April 2
The first Spring formal dance
will be given by the Lords and
Commoners April 2. This will be
an all club affair and promises to
be a Very colorful event. Easter
will provide the theme and all the
lovely colors which breathe the es-
sence of spring will decorate the
walls of the rec hall.
The Lord and Commoners pre-
viously sponscjred the Hallowe'en
Carnival«which was a very suc-
cessful affair.
House Council Is
Decorating Kitchen
Because of the coming exams,
Mrs. Edwards has postponed all
house meetings in the girls dor-
mitory until after the nine weeks
period is finished. The plans to
present programs on grooming and
other topics of interest will then
be fulfilled.
Funds raised by the House Coun-
cil by selling sandwiches in the
dormitory are ,being used to re-
decorate the kitchen. The re-paint-
ing has been done, and new cur-
tains are near completion fox* use
there. - .
HOLIDAYS—
ing will not finish their tests un-
til May 31. Dead week this sem-
ester will be from 19th to 25th.
Pamphlets containing . list of
courses to be offered this summer
are now in the registrar's office.
Registration for the summer term
starts one week after the spring
1 session ends.
The last summer session will
end August 30. This will allow
two weeks between the summer
session and the fall term.
Mark Anthony, a journalism ma-
jor from Ralls, directs the band
and plays those first trombone so-
los that receive so much praise.
That tenor sax man" is George
Minter, senior from Stephenville,
who majors in poultry. George al-
so does very good musical arrange-
ments.
R. B. Hutchinson, the only fac-
ulty member in the : orchestra,
plays alto saxophone.' Mr. Hutch-
inson is from Tucson, Arizona.
On second and thjrd. trumpets
are Roy Harris, a senior B., A.
major from Mineral • Wells, and
Gene Russell, who "majors in pre-
law. Russell is from Coleman.
Playing second trombone is Dale
Pryor, who is a senior and hold
down two majors, petroleum and
mechanical engineering, Pryor is
from Fairbanks.' Norwood Cooper,
a freshman from Bropkshire, plays
the third trombone part. His ma-
jor is electrical engineering.
James Farmer of Stephenville
alternates on alto saxophone and
clarinet. Farmer, a senior, majors
in business administration. Also
on saxophone is David Cannon of
Dayton who plays tenor. Cannon is
a business administration major
and a senior.
Playing piano with a style all
his own is Dean Moore, pf Dallas,
Who is a freshman pre-dental ma-
jor.
Clarence White of Stephenville
acts both as string bass pjayer
and manager for the orchestra.
White is a freshman pre-Iaw ma-
jor.
Drummer for the Swing Cadets
is Bob Davenport, a freshman from
Del Rio. His major is agriculture.
Betty Brewer, vocalist with the
orchestra, 'hails from rip-roaring
Odessa. Betty is majoring in jour-
nalism and is a freshman. She says
that the Swing Cadets are the best
guys ever, and that if you don't
believe it, just ask her I
Concert Trip Made
By 21 Musician^
' Appearing in an over-night con-
cert trip last weekend were 21
Tarleton music students. These
students appeared in four concerts,
one each in Dublin, Brady, Brown-
wood and Melvin.
The following students made the
trip: Harold T. Baxter, Betty Bre-
wer, Moody Burnett, Jimmy Fry,
Joy Hamilton, Patsy Murrell, John
Neel, Martha. Patton, Jim Rob-
erts, Lou Dean Schwanke, Law-
rence, Charles Vandervoort, Betty
and Marianna Yarbrough, Cleon
Denison, Clarence White, Frankie
Luker, Virginia Hall, Dean Moore,
Mark Anthony and George Minter.
The group was chaperoned by
Miss Mary Perry and -Mr. Bob
Hutchinson.
Five Dairy Scholarships Presented
f
Annually to Deserving Aggies
MUCH INTEREST IS SHOWN IN
AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT
YETS TO HEAR DOPE ON1
GOVERNMENT INSURANCE
Tarleton veterans can learn
of the advantages of govern-
ment life insurance April 10
when Grady M. Sharp,, veterans
administration insurance officer
with the Waco Regional Office
will lecture in the college audi-
torium. Mr, Sharp will be in
the main auditorium from 8 to
12 o'clock, and in the small aud-
itorium in the Home Economics
building from 1 to 5.
From 9 pntil 3, ✓Mr. Sharp
will talk on the benefits Of gov-
ernment insurance, and from 3
to 5 he will hold an opeii forum.
The two hour question and an-
swer period in the afternoon
will permit the veterans to ob-
tain specific information on
their problems.
Officers May Be
Re-Commissioned
Former Instructor-
Retires at NTAC
Professor 0. L, Killian, a for-
mer instructor in physics at- Tar-
leton, has partially retired ''after
serving in the biology department
at NTAC for 23 years.
After teaching as a substitute
instructor at NTAC for a (year,
Killian was made head of the bio-
logy department.-
Boisterous Betty goes
Into her two new songs
with that hectic Hutton hubbub.
'poppa, Don't Preach
To Me'
'Rumble/ Rumble,
Rumble'
with JOE L1UEY and his orchestra
from the Paramount Picture/ "Perils of Paulina" *
CAP, 330 *
* m * •
CORDS
With the mis houywooo
• At TOW
• Drib?
Former commissioned officer
veterans, who left the service in
order to complete their education
in colleges and universities and
who could not participate in the
current officer integration pro-
gram due to the press of school
work, may now apply for their
commisions in the Regular Army
and will be screened at, or near
their schools, provided, they write
letters or file applications with the
War Department on or .before Ap-
ril 15, the Fourth Army Public Re-
lations Office reported recently.
Letters should be addressed to
the Adjutant General," Attention:
AGSO-R, Washington, 25, D, C.',
for application forms and should
contain the following information:
college or university of enrollment,
scheduled date of graduation, de-
gree to be conferx*ed, date of birth,
date entered active commissioned
service, choice of arm or service,
names of all previous ' command-
ing or supervisory officers, and ad-
dress anticipated for 45 days af-
ter graduation.
Former commissioned officers
who will receive a college degree
or complete graduate work before
July 15, 1947 may apply for Air
Corps, Judge Advocate General's
Department, Medical Corps, Den-
tal Corps, Veterinary Corps, and
Chaplain Corps.
Colleges with the most appli-
cants and most centrally located in
an area will be visited by a Fourth
Army screening center composed
of a board of 3 Army Airforces
officers and a board of 3 Army
Ground Forces and service offi-
cers at a future date.
Legion Publication
Features Tarleton
A picture of the officers of the
William E. Dyess Post of the Am-
erican Legion at John Tarleton
recently appeared on the front
page of "The Texas Legion", offi-
cial American Legion newspaper
of Texas. Another picture of Char-
les Gafford and Robert Kennedy,
Tarleton students, also appeared
in the issue.
The picture and materal were
sent in by Aubrey Woolsey, re-
porter of the Campus Post and a
member of the J-Tac staff.
Woolsey is a third semester stu-
dent at Tarleton, majoring in Ag-
ricultural Education, He has writ-
ten many interesting news stor-
ies and sports stories for the J-Tac
and other leading newspapers over
the state.
Some of the cows which have
provided scholarships for over 25
deserving Tarleton students are
among those above which are be-
ing exhibited to a group of vet-
erans who are . enrolled in Palo
Pinto County vocational agricul-
ture short courses.
Tarleton has - five Dairy Cow
Scholarships which provide finan-
cial aid to Tarleton students in the
Division of Agriculture. The schol-
arships which are awarded by the
semester are self-perpetuating.
The recipient of each receives an
amount of money equal to the pro-
fit over the care and feeding of
the animals. This amount to about
$25 a semester.
In addition the student has the
opportunity of working 60 to 80
hours a month on the college farm
at regular student pay. He must
also do creditable work in his
school work.
The oldest of these scholarships,
the Roy J, Beard-J. J. Warren
scholarship, was established in
1928 by Roy J. Beard of Houston
for boys with initiative who were
interested enough in getting an
education to work their way. Since
its origin 13 boys have been award-
ed this scholarship.
In 1943 Mr. George Kessler of
New York City, whose son was
an ASTP student at Tarleton dur-
ing the war,' gave the college
$1,000 with which to buy three ad-
ditional scholarships to ,be named
after his children, George, Sadie,
and Richard. These cows were pur-
chased from George S. Wright' of
Dallas, who gave a bred heifer
which has become the George S.
Wright Scholarship. Six boys have
been awarded these.
Anyone interested in one of
these scholarships may apply to
A. J. Spangler, head of the Divi-
sion of Agriculture.
NO REGULAR J-TAC
UNTIL APRIL 15
Emphasis is on advance news,
in this issue of the J-Tac which
will be the last regular edition
until April 15.
A special April Food edition,
all strictly nonsense, will come
out on April 1, but don't be-
lieve anything you read in it.
.No paper will be printed on
April 8 because of Easter holi-
days.
For these reasons this issue
has all the important dope up
to April 15.
Dean Cunyus Makes
Trip to Long-view
l *
• Associate Dean Paul A. Cunyus
returned recently from a business
trip to Lbngview, where he attend-
ed to some personal matters and
visited with friends and relations.
Mr. Cunyus owned and operated
a soap factor there prior to his
appointment as Associate Dean at
John Tarleton College,
Several interesting letters have
been received recently by v(A.. J.
Spangler, head of the Agriculture
Department, and other members
of the Department concerning the
Tarleton Egg Laying Test, and
the" Tarleton Tutkey Egg Laying
Test, t.
Among these^is a letter from B,
A. Waddle," former Tarleton stu-
dent, now an 1 instructor in the
Hunt County Veterans Vocational
School, 'Waddle- attended Tarleton
in 1938 to 194Q, majoring in Ag-
ronomy. He later graduated from
A&M. In his "letter to Mr. Spang-
ler, Mr. Maddle says, "Numerous
inquiries from GI students here
concern the' laying characteristics
of , various breeds of . chickens
prompts me to ask your help.-
"If possible, we would like to
know the results of the past egg-
laying contests and the progress of
the present one."
A similar inquiry was made by
Ernest B. Whitaker, Jack County
Coordinator oi Veteran Vocation-
al schools. Mr. Whitaker broUg'ht
a group of his students to tour
the College poilltry farm and stock
farm in February.
W,. Doyle Gi-aves, head of the
Poultry Department, received a
letter recently from H. O. Hams,
Coordinator of Veteran Vocational
Schools of Denton County, request-,
ing that several copies of the Egg
Test results be sent to him each
month for his veteran students.
Mr. Harris also' asked permission
to bring his group to visit the
poultry farm here soon.
Other former Tarleton, students
who have shown interest in the
Egg Tests are Raymond Puryear
from HicO) J. Dickson Turner of
Mineral Wells, and Walter E.
Crews. Mr. Crews graduated from
Tarleton in 1942 and from A&M
last February as an Animal Hus-
bandry major.
A recent visitor at Tarleton was
Marshall Fox of Eastland. Mr, Fox
is regional supervisor on the State
Board of Veteran Vocational Ag-
riculture. He graduated from Tar-
leton in 1936 and taught Vocation-
al Agriculture at San Saba and
Cisco. While attending Tarleton,
Mr. • Fox worked at the poultry
farm, helping with the Egg Tests
and kept records of the Tests. His
interest in it is a personal one
since he understands how the Tests
are run and the great amount ,o£
work that goes into them.
CHAPTER PLANS—
Edwin Palmer, Dublin; L. F. New-
ton, Cross Cut; Jack Lacy, Cross.
Plains; David Clinton, Putnair,
William Nix, Stephenville; Evelyn
Bruce, Santa Anna; Billy Deckel1,
Haskell; Clement Rochat, San Sa-
ba; Dale Allen, Cisco; Bob Gross-
man, Seymour; Gene Mauldin, Al-
bany; Ernest Lindig, Hye; Joe
Burtschell, Sealy; Listen Todd, Al-
bany; Harold Walker, Stephen-
ville; H. W. Alford, Brownwood;
Marshall Pennington, Brecken-
ridge; Earl Behrens, Brady; Don
C. King, Jermyn; John Waddill,
Placid; J. D. Eubank, Rochelle;
Billy B. Hancock, Dublin; Karl
Walker, Mineral Wells; Martha
Dobson, Talpa; Stanley Oakley,
Stephenville; Caleman Walton,
Goldthwaite; Beeler Owen, Jacks-
boro; Aubrey Woolsey, Hamilton;
Mark Geeslin, Stephenville; Low-
ell D. Cox, Sidney; Charles Rodri-'
quez, Albany; L. D, Jones, Miner-
al Wells; Harold Garrett, Cross
Plains; Wilmer Crum, Jermyn;
Ken Garrett, Anson; Henry Law-
rence, Albany; Truman Kidwell,
Weatherford; Josh Oden, Presidio;
William Boyd, Burkburnett; James
Newton, Crosscut; Andy Smith,
Henrietta; Brad Rowland, Stam-
ford.... Wayne Geeslin, Stephen-
ville; Glenn Key, Stephenville;
James Wann, Paluxy; Arlan
■Weems, Dublin; Tom Lewis Pea-
cock, Dublin; Joe Waring, Coman-
che..,. Lowell Cure, Gilliland; C.
E. Mitchell, Winters; Mark Arm-
strong, Granbbury; Wayland Car-
roll, Lampasas; Frank Sims, Stam-
ford; James Herring, Whitney;
Frank Turner, Mineral Wells; and
Benson Gilbert, Lipan,
City Barber
Garrett Pictured
In Star-Telegram
Morgan Garrett, Tarleton's Dean
of Men, was pictured in the March
6 edition of the Fort Worth Star-
Telegram for his work as scout^
master along with four Stephen-
ville boys who were recently made
Eagle Scouts of the Comanche
Trail Council.
Garrett has been actively work-
ing with Stephenville Scouts since
he returned from the army. Last
summer he supervised a scout
camp.
George Ferguson Is
Visiting- Parents Here
George Oliver Ferguson, Jr., is
now visiting in the home of his
father, Professor George O. Fer-
guson, prior to reporting to Atlan-
ta, Georgia, where he will be em-
ployed by the Cotton Insurance Co.
Being- discharged from the Army
recently, he has-made a very good
record for himself, and is wfell-
known around Stephenville.
All Grades Must Be
In Office April 1
A notice has been sent to all
the faculty members by the Reg-
istrar that all nine-weeky grades
and the present enrollment in each
section must be in the Registrar's
office by Tuesday noon, April 1. ■
Note: this is not included in Ap-
ril Fool tricks.
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