The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 29, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 25, 1950 Page: 2 of 4
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2—THE J-TAC
Tuesday, April 25, 1950
Official Student Publication of 'Tarleton S.tate College
Published Weekly by Students of. Tarleton State College
Entered as second-class msiil matter at the Pi/.-.toifice in Stcphenville, Texas, undei
Act of Congress of Match 3, 1879.
H a r v ey's
Hear s a y
This will be • the big week-ehd.
Ex-students and parents will flock
to the Tarleton campus to take
part in the two-day-celebration on
which numerous Tarleton students
and faculty members have1 been
working. Here is an ffrchid to Meal
Randolph of the biology depart-
ment, the man behind the affair.
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1950 Convention to be held at
NORTH TEXAS STATE COLLEGE
Denton, In April
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Distributor of
Cblie6iate DieSest;
This event will only be what the
students make it. People will know
before they come, of the building
program going on here. They have
heard of the modern girls' parlor
that has been completed. They I
have heard of ■ the new football |
field. They have heard of the new
wing that is being added tb the
science building.
STAFF MEMBERS
Editor -----
b'ports Editor-
Business Manager
Society Editor —
Engineering- Editor
Agriculture Editor—,—
Editorials Editor-
Circulation Manager
Sponsor —
.-..Harvey Summers
Charles Dunn
I—Jeff Hancock
Ann Bryan
Luther Hewer
Robert Kenny
..." Sue Spratt
....Alton Ferrell
Jim Hart
WHAT SHALL IT BE
The • bigjrest crusade under way on Tarleton campus now
seems to be the. movement to, get the name of ^he football team
changed. There is an opinion among' many students that <he
name "Plowbovs" implies that the TSC enrollment consists of a
bunch of hayseeds. Those against the name-changing declare
that such an argument is silly and besides there is tradition to
think of. While there are many good arguments on both sides,
probably more students favor the idea than oppose it. ;
A lot of things are to be taken into account in such, a! move-
ment. The voice of ex-students plays its part along with other
considerations. , ' 1
If the idea does go through and the name "Plowboys" is
dropped, we will want to think of several qualities in adopting a
new name. It should be a catching name and one whiph sports
writers will like to use. It should be one which is pronounced
easily and one which will fit very easely into the pep yells. A
connotation of action is a good quality, too. It should also be
striking without sounding too much like the name for a neigh-
borhood gang of young boys.
The name "Purple Panthers" has been suggested by Jim
Hart. It is a name worth thinking about. It contains the school
color and is vivid, alliterative, and striking.
What they do not know about is
the students who^are now attend-
ing Tarleton. They do not know of
the progress that the students are
making in their studies, in their
school spii'it, and in their other ac-
complishments. Work of the stu-
dent will be exhibited in the diff-
erent departments. The thing that
will really put the event over is
school spii'it.
We heard of an ex-student who
returned to Tarleton recently and
visited the campus. He was, very
disappointed by the fact that no
one spoke1 to him, as he met them
on the sidewalks. He1 stated that
the students who went to school
with him were not afraid to speak
to strangers. Are you afraid?
We are proud of the fact that
Tarleton is a friendly school. We
must show the strangers we meet
that, we are a friendly group of
student/ as they go about
campus this week-end.
Smiling hazel eyes and brown hair characterize Sue Spratt,
editorial editor of the J-Tac.
Photo by "BAX"
Sue Spratt To Be
TIPA Queen Entry
Faculty
To
Pour members of Tarleton's agri-
culture and mathematics faculties,
will go to Fort Worth Saturday to
direct the Five-Area FFA Meat
and Milk Judging Contest spon-
sored annually by the Fort Worth
Chamber of Commerce.
The Tarleton professors super-
vise the operation of the contests
and direct tabulation of the scores.
With them will go about 80 agri-
culture students who will act as
section leaders, timkeepers and
graders.
W. W. Reed and H. L, Self, pro-
fessors of dairy and. animal hus-
bandry, respectively, went to Fort
Worth yesterday to make final
plans. In a meeting- with W. A.
King, agricultural manager of the
Chamber of Commerce, and repre-
sentatives from Armiour and Com-
pany and Swift and Company; who
furnish the contest with the neces-
sary meat and milk samples, last-
minute problems were discussed
and final details worked out.
The contest will be open to FFA
judging teams from and area
covering- almost half of Texas.
About 60 teams al'e expected to
enter the contests.
In the milk judging contest,
headed by Reed, the contestants
will score samples of milk and
cream on flavor, odor, sediment and
typie of container. Self heads the
meat contest, in which retail and
wholesale cuts of bettf, pork and
mutton will be graded, scored and
identified.
Other Tarleton professors to go
will be L. G. Worthington, head
of the math department, and R. V.
Derrick, agricultural engineering
professor, who are in c.harge of
tabulation. The actual tabulation
and recording -ol' scores will be
done by clerks and stenographers!
to be furnished by Armour and
Swift.'
Committee to Pass
On Non-Athletic
Student Awards
Miss Dollie Marie Glover, chair-
man of the Non-Athletic Awards
Committee, recently asked for fac-
ulty members to submit names
for these awards. Sh'e has asked
for these lists to be in by May 1.
Members pf this committee be-
sides Miss Glover include* li. L,
Eaves, Miss Lillie Lillard,' Mi a a
Mattie Walker, Dr. Oscar Grant,
and Royal Brantley.
An average of one of four traffic
fatalities is a pedestrian.
LONG HOTEL
COFFEE SHOP
WELCOME
TARLETON STUDENTS!
lunches, sandwiches and short orders
MALTS AND COLD DRINKS
Open Until Midnight
CLUB CAFE
OPEN 6:00 A.M.
GOOD CAUSE
r
With war talk circulating over the nation as it has been
the last few days, people are beginning _,to consider the threat
more seriously. The realization of Tarleton students that the
biggest part of the male enrollment is "ripe for the^ plucking"
brings the threat very close to home. The power ot the atom
bomb, the possibility of military service and perhaps unhappy
consequence of battle—all of ..those;-things which to most of us
have been very far off and Vegy'VfaMJgal are now too near and
too real. , 1
With the military service which might confront many stu-
dents in mind, room is made for additional appreciation of a TSC
facility. That is the military training offered here. The advan-
tage of previous training upon entering the service and the.
additional pay and prestige gained by completing RO.T.C. work
and securing a commission, are worth consideration.
CONVENTION COLLEGE
Make way, Chicago, here comes Tarleton! America has a
new convention city!
Well, maybe Tarleton doesn't rival the "Windy City" as a
convention center-yet, but it won't be long. With five conven-
tions (at last count), three contests, fpur special schools, and
public demonstration almost every day, this semester has filled
the campus to overflowing with visitors, but that is just the way
. it looks best. ,
Someday, when your little kiddies are at Tarleton, don't be
. surprised or alarmed when he writes that yesterday the C.I.O.,
Democratic Party, and American Flower Growers' Association all
held conventions at different parts of the "-campus. From the
way things seem now. a condition like that is neither impossible
or unlikely-
Young people, schools and churches, should be encouraged
to think about the meaning of the word success.
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Laundry Shirts at 15c each
Laundry Pants at 25c each
Other Laundry Work Done at a Customary
Price . . , Dry Cleaning
PAULINE BOBO, Manager
Phone 292 Across from Auditorium
CADET CORPS
TO PERFORM
FORP-TA MEET
The cadet corps will put on a
retreat parade today for the PTA
members. Cadets will be dismissed
early from their classes in order
to participate in the ceremony.
A display of all the weapons
in an infantry regiment excepts
the heaviest ones will be set ,iip
on the lawn near the auditorium
today. These weapons are the equ-
ipment of the Tarleton Military
Department and Company D, local
National Guard unit.
Sue Spratt, a Breckenridge girl,
the | has been chosen to represent Tar-
leton's journalism department in a
beauty contest to be sponsored by
the NTSC Press Club to select the
1950 TIPA convention queen. The
contest will be held this week-end
in Denton at the 1950 TIPA Con-
vention.'
Sue is' a member of the Tarleton
Scholarship Society, editorial edi-
tor of the J-Tac, and secretary, of
the DST's. She was a candidate for
AMVET Queen this- year, and she
represented Tarleton at the Cor-
onation ceremonies at Ranger Jun-
ior College.
A graduate of Breckenridge High
School, Sue edited the Dynamo,
high school paper, and won ma'qy
dramatic honors. She was voted
'the best actress at the Regional 1
act play tournament in Abilene.
CADETUMTS
RECEIVE HONOR
AT CEREMONY
, Tarleton's Wainwright Rifles and
Military Band were one of the four
units accorded the special honor
to iiarticipate in a separate cere-
mony at the program held at High-
land- Park recently.
The Tarleton units put on a
ceremony similar to the ones pijt
on at home football games on
Memorial Stadium. The features
of the ceremony were the mass
command marching and the mass
command manual of arms display.
Other features of the program
were the Kiltie Bank from Okla-
homa City, which played various
Scotch instruments, and all of the
bands playing under one director.
Over 1,000 bandsmen participated
in the program.
Candidates for the queen title
will be judged during the conven-
tion and the winner will be an-
nounced and presented at the
closing banquet Saturday, April 29.
Queen candidates are Gene Cut-
sail, Breckenridge, Southwest Tex-
as State College; Joy Deavenport
of Silverton, Abilene Christian Col-
lege; Joan Manes, Tucson, Ariz.,
Midwestern • University; Sharon
Weatherby of Amarillo, Texas
Western College; Grace McWhor-
ter, Andrews, McMurry College;
Sue Spratt, Breckenridge, Tarle- '
ton; Doris Hudgens, Quanah, -Tex-
as Wesleyan; Sue Price, San An-
gelo, San Angelo College; Betty
Phillips of DeKalb, Paris Junior
College; Betty Stoker, Beaumont,
Stephen F. Austin College; Cath-
erine 'Vogel, Palestine, North Tex-
as ■ State College, and Billy Faye
Wheeler, Houston, Howard Payne.
TSC Entertains
4-H Contestants
Tarleton Choir
Makes Broadcast
The A Capella Choir of Tarle-
ton State College presented several
Easter broadcasts by recording
over WFAA and KRLD.
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More than 175 Texas boys eon-
verged on the Tarleton campus
Thursday for the second annual
Tarleton 4-H Clubs Judging Con-
test Thursday morning and enthus-
iastically received a program pre-
pared for them in the main audi-
torium in the afternoon.
Fort the first part of of the
program, Captain Don Lawrence of
the Texas Department of Public
Safety gave an exhibition of
marksmanship in more than 15
acts of skill with firearms, includ-
ing such famous tricks as splitting
a bullet on the edge of an-axe in
order to simultaneously break a
clay pigeon on each side of the
axe; snuffing out flaming candles
with gunfire, and cutting a playing-
card with its edge toward him with
a single bullet.
Following the exhibition, the
Tarleton Symphonic Band presents
ed two numbers, one a piano soio
with orchestral accompaniment by
Janice' Alsup.
The male quartet, then sang
"Passing By" and "The Bullfrog
on the Bank." The quartet included
Victor Moore, Charles Fernandez,
Webb Golston and Royal Brantley.
The chorus, directed by Brantley,
presented a group of Negro spiri-
tuals which included "Deep River,"
"Ezekial Saw de Wheel" and "De
Old Ark's a-Moverin'."
At the conclusion of the program,
the winners were1 announced and
awards made by. the heads of the
divisions of the contest, W. W.
Reed in the dairy contest, H. L.
Self in the livestock1 division, W.
Doyle Graves in the poultry con-
test and L. G. Rich in the grass
division.
Comanche County won first place
in both the livestock and grass
judging contests; McLennan Coun-
ty recevied first place in the dairy
division, and Bosque County won
top honors in the poultry division.
Other winners were Erath Coun-
ty and Eastland County, second
and third, respectively, in the
dairy, contest; Mills County, sec-
ond, and Eastland County, third,
in the livestock division; Johnson
County, second, and Hood County,
third, in the poultry contest, and
Brown County, second, and Hood
County, third, in the grass judging
contest.
The program which was present-
ed had been prepared by the High
School Relations Committee, which
includes Dr. Dick Smith as chair-
man, W. W. Reed, B. R. Brogden,
Willie Zapalac, C. M. Flory, Miss
Dorothy Pittman and Randolph
Foster.
The Tarleton agriculture faculty
was in charge of the 'entire opera-
tion of the "Contest in cooperation
with R. G. Burwell, district A&M
extension agent, and all agricul-
ture professors participated in
some way. Faculty members other
than those in the agriculture de-
partment who participated included
L. G. Worthington, head of the
mathematics department, and Neal
Randolph of the biology depart-
ment, who were in charge of tabu-
lation of. scores. The actual tabu-
lation was done by secretaries in
various departments.
Almost every agriculture1 stu-
dent had some part in the opera-
tion of the contest, performing
roles similar to those they had in
the FFA contest Monday.
Preparatory planning for the
contest began as early as last fall,
and continued steadily until last
week, ■ .
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