The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 20, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 23, 1937 Page: 4 of 4
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PAGE FOUR
THE J-TAC
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What! Morp baby chicks! Yes,
the poultry department has defi-
nitely decided to import 3,000 more
baby chicks. This is not only news,
it is a tragedy to those poor lads
who have to attend to these brats.
It would certainly be a great dis-
aster if human beings came in
AocKh this size; we would have to
wapc a world war every week-end
to keep the population down to
normal.
This F. F. A. club here at Tar-
leton has had a woman connected
with it for the past two years. "We
call her the F. F. A. sweetheart.
We elected one last semester,
Frances Trice, but she did not re-
turn this second semester, we
are entertaining nominations and
voting, too, at present. The John
Tarleton Agricultural department
got along quite well for several
years without a female in it; but
no industry or department in the
world can run along so perfectly
that a woman does not get mixed
up in it at some time, somewhere.
Since the female business or fever
started two years ago, the F. F. A.
boys can not survive peaceably
without one now. The present can-
didates for chapter sweetheart are
Lorena Miears, Mary Lee Combs,
ami Lois Hawkins,
Roy B. Mefferd, area IV F. F. A.
superviser, informs us that the
local area of F. F. A. has several
banquets scheduled in the several
schools in this area. Mill sap, Colo-
rado, and May each hag a father
and son banquet on schedule with-
in the next two weeks. Dean J.
Thomas Davis is scheduled to be
the principal speaker at the Colo-
rado F. F. A. father and son ban-
quet. These banquets are quite a
help to the F. F. A. organization
in general, because they bring the
father and son together in social
life as well as home life.
May 7 and 8 the Future Farmers
of Area IV are going to hold their
leadership contest here at John.
Tarleton. The contest will include
debate, public speaking, extem-
poraneous speaking, news writing,
one act play, and chapter conduct-
ing contests. Mr. Mefferd states
that he sent out the first an-
nouncement of these contests to
the interested schools.
On the first Saturday in April
Area IV is going to organize an
area band composed of an expected
60 or 70 members. A few of these
Majestic
Theatre
Friday and Saturday—
"Night Waitress"
with
Margot Graham
Gordon Jones
Prevue Saturday Night
also
Sunday and Monday—■
"The Plough and
The Stars"
with
Barbara Stanwick
Preston Foster
Palace
Theatre
Wednesday and Thursday-
"Wild Brian Kent"
with
Kalph Bellamy
Mae Clark
will be picked out to go with the
Texas F. F. A. band to Kansas
City in October to furnish music
for the National F. F. A. conven-
tion. The Texas band has been to
Kansas City more than any other
state band. Congratulations! You
are Kansas City bound again.
We noticed that the horticulture
department, headed by Professor
Neal Randolph, has set out about
100 pecan trees at the poultry
plant. In between each two pecan
trees he is setting a peach tree. It
looks as if the generations yet un-
born will feast off the fruit from
these trees.
We noticed several of the agri-
culture boys who have been at-
tending John Tarleton Agricultur-
al College for two years hoping to
major in agriculture at Texas A.
& M. woke up to find out they
were majoring in military science.
One of our "Sucks," who was
formerly a high school F, F. A.
boy, made good in the public
speaking contest befpre he came to
Tarleton. This lad, Paul Deats, is
the only Texas boy ever to win a
place in the national public speak-
ing contest or even to go beyond
the state public speaking contest.
He won second place in October of
1935 at Kansas City.
BOYS TAKING HOME ECO.
ARE HOSTS FOR DINNER
The girls class in senior foods
served a home dinner on Friday,
February 19. The guests for the oc-
casion were the members of the
Senior Foods class and a group
of 10 from the 307 Home Relation-
ship course.
Dinner was served from four
tables which were decorated with
flags, and red spring flowers cen-
tered the tables. Red, white, and
blue were the colors used in the
place cards and menu which car-
ried out the George Washington
motif.
Those serving as hosts and hos-
tess were Calva McCurdy, Wayne
Robinson, Grace Saylor, Driskall
Stalworth, Von Dean Gesslin, J. O,
Jones, Ruth Chandler, and Ralph
Ashwander.
Guests attending were Miss Nel-
son, Carl McConachie, Delma
Bains, Lewis Taylor, Jimmie Lee
Hood, James Smith, Francis Phil-
lips, Joe Duncan, Juanita Hood,
Fred Dalby, Bennie Oscar, and
Cy Clayton.
BLANKENSHIP CAPTURES
FIRST IN STORY CONTEST
Barney Blankenship won first
place with his story, "Advice to
Freshmen" in the weekly Best
Ctory Contest last week. Second
place was won by Guy McMurry
with his editorial, "A Problem
Grows Worse," and Jimmy Mor-
ris won third place with the fea-
ture, "History of Each of First
String Men on Basketball Squad
Related."
A. M. McMahan, Business Man-
ager, judged last week's paper. The
standing is as follows:
Guy McMurry 80
Bill Pool 35
Pauline Auvenshine 15
Richard Rodney - 15
Barney Glankenship .15
Glenn Pierson 10
Virginia Scott 10
Jimmy Morris — 5
John Allen 5
Dixie Hendrix 5
Billy Stewart 6
N.Y.A. HELPS 7,412 BUT
TURNS DOWN MANY MORE
Austin, Feb. 22.—While the Na-
tional Youth Administration in
Texas has helped 7,412 students
to go to college this year through
part-time employment, more than
three and one-half times that num-
ber of students asked for jobs,
Lyndon B. Johnson, Texas state di-
rector, reported to Aubrey Wil-
liams, the National executive di-
rector.
Each time two students were
given jobs, Mr. Jackson said, five
applications had to be rejected,
since the funds allocated for part-
time employment of college stud-
ents in Texas provided average
wages of $15 a month, for 6,502
students. Some institutions, seek-
ing to spread employment further,
reduced the rate of pay per stud-
ent, this fact accounting for the
difference between the number of
students actually employed and the
quota of jobs approved.
A total of 26,555 students in Tex-
as applied for part-time NYA jobs
at 87 colleges and universities.
Aid was denied to 19,143 of them,
while 7,412 were given part-time
employment.
The Texas ratio of applications
to jobs greatly exceeds that of
the nation as a whole, Mr. Williams
revealed.
Mr. Williams said that a sum-
mary of information received from
moi-e than four-fifths of the col-
leges and universities of the nation
offering NYA work assistance to
students revealed that applications
had been made by 215,334 young
men and women for 98,995 jobs,
leaving 116,339 who could not be
provided for.
WILCOX MAKES RESEARCH
IN JUNIOR COLLEGE FIELD
A. H. Wilcox, head of the educa-
tion department, is doing research
work concerning- the relative costs
to students of junior colleges of
the United States in tuition, fees,
living expenses, and the like. He
is also doing research in regard
to the various departments and the
courses offered. Mr. Wilcox, for
his research, divides the colleges
into three groups—state junior
colleges, municipal junior colleges,
and church junior colleges.
The laurel-cherry tree of Florida
has leaves rich in prussic acid.
Letters From Austin
(Continued from page 1)
by consuming unbelievable quan-
tities of milk and spinach all the
while, I decided that the opportune
moment was at hand on the after-
noon of the ninth day. I came
McCarty's Lunch
Room
We Serve Wray's Ice Cream
Sandwiches — Drinks
Phone 548 — We Deliver
East Side Colleg Tailors
home and found him sitting at his
desk, desperately ill with influ-
enza, making out his will. Now, I
thought, is the time! How could a
man in his weakened condition
with a raging fever protect him-
self against Terrible Thomas in
the pink of condition?
I leaped upon his back, intending
to overpower him, bind him to his
couch, and leave him there a few
days while his sorely persecuted
companions regained their health;
to my embarrassment and chagrin,
however, without turning his
head, he reached over his shoulder,
plucked me off his back, and put
me under his chair, where he held
me with one foot until he finished
his will. He recovered from the
influenza that night at 7 o'clock;
he had taken it at noon.
Of course I do not expect that
you will be able to appreciate
what The Iron Man really is from
this inadequate sketch, but I
think perhaps that it will give you
some slight conception of the fate
that is in store for us, his house-
mates, unless you or someone in a
similar position can help us. I
think that perhaps you can work
out a practicable solution to our
problem, being as you are, sur-
rounded by the scenes of his child-
hood and have a better under-
standing of the environmental
forces that produced such a man
as this.
If you are interested in further
information about The Iron Man
and his exploits at the University,
please correspond as soon aa con-
veniently possible.
Sincerely yours,
Hinds Thomas.
P. S. If you should deem it ad-
visable to acquaint your friends
with this information, please
swear them to secrecy. I would
be in danger of my life should The
Iron Man ever discover that I had
turned stool-pigeon.
TEXAS POWER
&
LIGHT COMPANY
"SERVICE FIRST"
Sizzling Steak, Sandwiches,
Chops, Short Orders,
ONYX CAFE
OPEN ALL NIGHT
GOOD COFFEE
Compliments Of
THE FARMERS-FIRST NATIONAL
BANK
Doris Boney spent the week-end
visiting in her home.
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... sun-cured in the tobacco
fields of Turkey and Greece
... these are the spicy leaves that help make
Chesterfields an outstanding cigarette.
It takes good things to make
good things . . . and there is no
mistaking the fine quality of these
costly Turkish tobaccos in Chest-
erfield cigarettes.
Sunday ,Monday
and Tuesday—
"Under Cover of
Night"
with
Edmund Lowe
Florence Rice
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These are the good things you want
in a cigarette . . . You find them in Chesterfields.
Copyright 1937, Liggett & Mvers Tobacco Co.
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The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 20, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 23, 1937, newspaper, February 23, 1937; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth140287/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.