The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 18, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 26, 1945 Page: 1 of 4
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JUN 2 7 '45
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VOL. XXY.
STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JUNE 26,: 1945
N<X 18
Committee Members
Consider Changes
In Curricula
Associate Dean G. O. Ferguson,
H. C. Doremus, Dr. Hijgh B. Smith,
and A. J. Spangler of the Tarleton
faculty attended a meeting of the
heads of departments at the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College
and the Junior College department
heads involved, to consider pro-
posed changes in the General Ag-
riculture curriculum. The meeting
was called by C. N. Shepardson,
Dean of the School of Agriculture
at the Agricultural and Mechani-
cal College, who has placed our
dairy cattle in a' number of Tarle-
ton Future Farmers of America
contests.
Preliminary . discussions have
been going on for sometime. The
principal changes tentatively
agreed upon are the addition - of
orfe-semester courses in each of the
fallowing subjects: Biology, Phy-
sics, and Algebra.
All freshmen students are to be
given entrance examination in
Algebra, and those* that fail or
are weak will be required to 'take
a semester course in Farm Arith-
metic just as they are doing now,
except without credit. •
The second' year course in Eco-
nomics was dropped; Agricultural
Chemistry wai> dropped, and a
semester each of Organic and Qual-
itative Analysis is to take the place
of Agricultural Chemistry. Or-
ganic Chemistry is not to have a
laboratory, and probably Physics
will not. The number of technical
Agricultural courses at Tarleton
will be little affected. All four J
hour laboratory courses are to be
cut to three hours except Bacter-
iology and probably Animal Hus-
bandry,- with no cut in the credit
hours. AH. this is in the General
Agricultural curriculum.
•, Agricultural Education, Agri-
cultural Administration and Agri-
cultural Engineering ar'p not affect-
ed as matters stand. Fully half of
the agricultural students in Tarle-
ton take Agricultural Education,
since most all agricultural students
and many engineering students
took one or more. years of voca-
tional agriculture in high school.
These prospective changes will
not go into effect until the fall
semester of 1946.
MRS. NEATHERY'S SISTER
DIES IN HOSPITAL
Mrs. George Murphy, sister of
Mrs. Effie Neathery, died on Thurs-
day afternoon, June 14. She was a
patient in the Stephenville Hos-
pital, where she had suffered a
lingering illness." The funeral ser-
vices were h'eld at the residence of
Mrs. Neathery Thursday evening
at 7:00 o'clock, after which the
body was removed to McKinney,
Texas, where, the-last rites were
held Friday, June 15,
STUDENT FORUM NOT TO
OPERATE THIS SUMMER
Mr. Ferguson has made the an-
nouncement that there will not be
a Student Forum this semester be-
cause the loud speaking system of
the picture machine in the auditor-
ium is broken. For the information
of new students, the Student Forum
was the committee that chose the
picture shows that are shown on
the campus every other Thursday
night. There is hope that there will
be one on the campus this next fall.
Dean Davis Expects
Return Of Teachers
From War Service
Students Enjoy the
Two After-Dinner
Dances in Rec Hall
Two 'school dances have been
sponsored by the students, one on
June 9 and the other on June 21.
At both dances music was furnish-
ed by the juke box ,and cokes were
served. The students in good num-
bers entered into the spirit of fun,
and everyone had a swell tinje.
The dance'on June 21 was espe-
cially successful because the rec-
ords on the juke box had just been
changed, and everyone had at least
one favorite .number in the collec-
tion. One person whose presence
was plainly evident and doubly
welcome was Oscar P. Spirit him-
self.
t Question of the I
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CALENDAR
4- Wednesday. June 27—D. S. T. Rush
+ party.
+ Thursday, June 28—Sine Cera Rush
4- Party.
+ Ffiday, June 29—Owls Rush Party
Monday^ July 2—J-Tac Staff Meet-
4- ing.
•4- Tuesday^ July Z—-Aggettes Meeting.
+ Monday, July 9—Holiday.
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What kind of articles would you
like to have in the J-Tac?
Marie Hale: Feature stories.
Leroy Williford: Cadet Chatter.
Don Magness: Gossip.
Claud Mattingly: Lots of gossip.
Mickey Noonan: Gossip (facts.)
Tubba Harrison: S. A. column.
Bobby Crounch: Sports.
Dick DeShazo: Articles to keep
up school spirit.
George Wilcox: General gossip.
Donald Martin: Gossip, facts.
Fred Thompson: Less Alumini
News.
W. S. Garnett: Rows and rows
of pictures of pin-up girls.
Margaret Mikeska: Gossip. '
Joyce Eoff: Dormitory news.
Maggie Searcy: Love-lorn col-
'umn.
Billie Keisling: Funnies.
Nadine Gentry: Gossip.
Eugenia Fowler: Talk of John
Tarleton.
. Jack Kennon: Full page of Cadet
Chatter.
Melva Rogers: Gossip.
C. Q. Davis: Sports (detailed ac-
counts. )
Kathryn White: Feature stories.
Barbara Rothe: What goes on on
the campus.
Jean Mason: What students are
doing.
Mary Jane Fraser: Up to date
happenings.
Clarice Thompson: Articles
about the students and what they
are doing.
Nancy Carmack: Something
humorous.
Jackie Timmons: Baseball,
Doris Lake: Dick Tracy.
Mrs. Davis: More social activi-
ties.
Betty Jo Lane: Good gossip.
Dean Moore: Pin-up pictures.
(Ed.'Note: If you want gossip
turn it in; the J-Tac office has a
slot in the door made for such pur-
poses!)
Dean Davis has stated that he is
expecting Capt. T. A. Hensarling,
head of the Poultry Husbandry,
Horticulture, and Entomology De-
partment; Lieut.-Col'. Gabe Lewis,
Registrar and Dean of Students;
and Col. J. Earl Rudder, formerly
associate professor in the Athletic
and Physical Education bepaj-t-
menfc, to be released fropi "their
duties in the army between n6w
and the middle of August. These
men have been on leave of absence
from the college while they were
serving in the army.
COCA COLA CO. ANNOUNCES
PRODUCTION CURTAILMENT
The supply of Coca-Cola in Ste-
phenville definitely will be affect-
ed by the further curtailment in
the supply of sugar after July 1st
because the manufacturer of that
popular drink will not compromise
with the use of substitutes. Ac-
cording to W. E. Jarrett, General
Manager of Texas Coca-Cola Bot-
tling Company, an equitable sys-
tem of rationing will be maintain-
ed during the shortage. The Coca-
Cola Company states that this' su-
gar shortage is world-wide and not
merely national and is directly at-
tributed to the confusion in the
production and distribution of sug-
ar occasioned by the war. The com-
pany asks that if your dealer does
not havp Coca-Cola available on
the day you seek it, ask him an-
other day.
Bill Wilson, May graduate of
the Academy now in the Air Corps,
has written that he ran into J. V.
'Heliums and Charles Gaines at
Sheppard Fitjld.
Pvt. Walter Brandstetter of the
Army Air Corps, who is stationed
at : Keesler Field, Mississippi,
wrote recently that on his first''
week-end pass he went swimming
in the Mississippi River.
STUDENTS ELECT NEW STUDENT
COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR SUMMER
News In Review
General of the Army, Dwight
D. Eisenhower, returned to this
country last Monday; and over
four million cheering and admiring
people of New York gave him a
hero's welcome. In a joint session
Congress gave the general a re-
ception thatr was unrivaled in
warmth 'and spontaneity. His
speech revealed him as the gallant
personality which the advance com-
ments abroad had described him
to be.
'. The end of the Okinawa camT
paign was anonunced last week,
giving the United States a base
only 325 miles from Japan. Be-
cause of the death in action of
Lieutenant Buckner, General Jos-,
eph Stillwell was appointed to take
charge of the Tenth Army now
cleaning up Okinawa. On the Asia-
tic mainland the hard-fighting Chi-
nese continue to clear the ' coast
line on both sides of' Foochow.. All
of these events, in addition, to the
continued destruction of the indus-
trial cities of Japan by our B-29's,
have the enemy somewhat jittery
and apprehensive.
In San Francisco a charter em-
bracing the views of fifty Uiiited
Nations was completed last Thurs-
day. This world document is de-
signed to keep the peace. The Un-
ited Nations Conference will be
formally closed Tuesday, June 26,
by a speech from President Tru-
man, who is now taking a short
holiday on the Pacific coast. A few
minor details remain to be worked
out, but the real work of the Con-
ference, which met April 25, is fin-
ished.
Rochat and Kirby
To Lead Students
This Semester
On Friday, June 23, an assembly
was held for an election of Student
Council members. Since there were
no old members of the council, an
entire new membership w&s elected
as well as a president and vice-
president. Three senior boys and
four senior girls were elected.
From the four - girls elccted the
council will, elect a secretary-treas-
urer. ".
The president, elected was Louis
Rochat;' and- running a close second
was Jack Kirby, who is vice-presi-
dent. The girls ^elected were Helen
Gray, Mildred Hensarling, Cleo
Laing, and Barbara Rothe. The
boys elected were Benny Alley, W.
J. Richmond, and. Calvin Shoup.
Dean Ferguson, who is sponsor,
announced that members for the
council from the freshman group
will be elected at a later date.-
Hunewell Park Opens
At John Tarleton
For Summer Games
This past week-end Hunewell
Park opened with much joy to the
students. ,_Tlje opening of Hunewell _
Park will do much toward bringing
the students closer together. Vari- '
ous games such as table tennis,
washers, horseshoes, golf, and bad-
minton will be played every Mon-
day, Wednesday and Friday even-
ing from 6:30 to &:45. This leaves
Tuesday and Thursday open for the
Tarleton Intramural Baseball Lea-
gue.
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Science teacher: "What happens
when a body is immersed in
water?"
Susie Q: "The telephone ring's."
A Horned Toad Goes Visiting in the
Dormitory—or Why Girls Don't Sleep
'Twas an hour after midnight in
Wilkerson Hall; not a girl was
stirring, so everyone thought. Help!
came a loud cry. Nancy Carmack,
Jackie Timmons, and Doris Lake,
who were studying their after-
hour lessons in the parlor, heard
these high-pitched shrieks. Think-
ing that the dormitory was on fire,
Nancy and Doris ran upstairs to
put out the blaze. They were met
at the head of the stairs by Helen
Gray. She was standing there, pale
as a half ripe peach, shaking like
a lonely leaf in a Texas cyclone.
"What's the matter, Helen ? What
has happened!" exclaimed Nancy.
Helen gasped for words but
wouldn't seem to find any.
"I—er—they—errrr—' she mur-
mured as, her teeth chattered.
Doris and Nancy finally calmed
her down enough to learn , the na-
ture of her disheveled condition.
As the story came from- the still-
shaking • Helen, it seems that fshe
had crawled sleepily into bed at. ap-
proximately 11:30. Since the wea-
ther outside was none too pleas-,
ant, Helen had slipped beneath the
covers in anticipation of some
much needed and comfortable rest
and sleep. She stretched her feet
out close to the end of the bed.
Without warning, she sat' bolt up-
right in bed. There was something
in her bed besides Helen. It fright-
ened her almost into panic, but she
got up and peered cautiously under
the cover. It was then that she
emitted the terror-strickened shriek,
for under that sheet was an ap-
parently very angry horned toad.
To make this story shorter, she
made several accusations but met
only denials. The prize suspect was
Lillian Ashom.
Wednesday Helen came to the
table , where Doris, Jackie', and
Nancy were sitting and said, "Lis-
ten you-all! Let's get the horned
toad and put it in Lillian's bed to-
night."
Nancy answered in all serious-
ness and without a moment's
thought, "Oh, we can't put it in
Lillian's bed, because she saw us
with it last night." Then the secret
was out.
There's a moral to this little saga
of the horned toad. Nexer play a
prank unless you have the wits to
keep it to yourself; or, always look
before you leap—into bed anyway.
We can make this program a big
success if everyone will' turn out
for- both the ball games and the
games at Hunewell'Park. Boys and
girls, let's all turn out and have a
big time. •
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Tarleton now has three airplane
motors to be used for study in the
Aeronautical Engineering Depart-
ment. These engines include a new.
Packard-built Rolls Royce motor,
a P-51 twelve cylinder motor, and
a "cut-away" motor which shows
an intersection and the construc- .
tion of the motor. In addition to
these motors, the United States
Air Corps has recently given the
college several propellers, which
enable the class to study propeller
assemblies. Mr. Cecil Davis said
his summ'er enrollment is twice
that of the spring trimester, and
with the new equipment they ex-
pect to accomplish much this tri-
mester.
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June 30—Robert Cox.'
July 1—Charles Meals.
July 4—Alton Lucas.
July 6—Bobby Hensley
July 6—1-Margaret Lindgjpy.
July 7—Clep Laing. -
July 8—Edwin Harrison.
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