The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, April 27, 1951 Page: 5 of 8
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Air Force Quota
Up This Month
The quota for Air Force enlist-
ments has been increased for the
month of April, Major Leroy W.
Mueller Commanding Officer, local
U. S. Army ahd Air Force Recruit-
ing Station stated this week.
"Many qualified young men are
under the impression that they will
have their names places on a wait-
ing list a mile long if they try to
join the Air Force," he said.
"This was true, right after the
first of the year—and even up to
a month ago—but the picture has
changed now. A man who wants to
enlist in the U. S. Air Force can
get in immediately up to May 1," he
added.
Married men with no more than
two 'dependents are eligible to apply
for the Air Force. Their applica-
tions will be processed without de-
lay.
The Aviation Cadet program is
wide open also to men with at least
60 semester hours of college work;
who are single and between, the
ages of 20 and 26V2.
Major Mueller invites young men
in this community to call PR-8120
for current information on enlist-
ment opportunities in the U. S.
Air Force, or visit the local recruit-
ing station at 805% Preston.
Irish Wins First
Place In Essay
Contest
Owen Irish, sophomore mechani-
cal engineering major from Tulsa,
was named winner of the Houston
Paint Production Club Essay Award
on Tuesday. He received $50 for
his prize-winning paper on "The
Relation Between Leaching Rate
Tests and Performance of Anti-
Fouling Paints." John L. Reeves,
a sophomore chem engineer, won
second place and $20 for his paper
entitled "Aluminum Paint, An In-
dustrial Material." Neil F. Marsh-
all, another sophomore engineer,
who wrote on "Fire-R e s i s t a n t
Paints" won third place and $10.
Irish will head his prize-winning
paper to a joint meeting of the
Houston and Dallas Paint Produc-
tion Clubs at the Shamrock, April 25.
The essay contest has been con-
ducted at Rice for the last three
years. Similar contests are held at
the University of Houston and at
l&M. Only one of the three first
prize-winners is selected to read his
paper before the joint meeting.
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Nine honorees from other col-
leges will take part in the Rondelet
visiting duchesses are pictured
above.
Top row, 1. to r., Martha Gill,
pageant tomorrow. Seven of the
TSCW, representing Texas A&M,
escorted by James E. Pianta; Rita
Ann Danna, University of St. Thom-
as, escorted by John Oppie; Bonni-
belle Lewis, Baylor University, es-
corted by Tommy Brunson; Ros-
anne Dickson, SMU, escorted by
Benton Musslewhite.
Bottom row, 1. to r., Shalmir Duer-
son, University of Texas, escorted
by Jack Kenney; Mary Margaret
Cox, Sam Houston State Teachers
College, escorted by Ed Jackson;
Leta Eubank, TCU, escprted by Bill
Hooser.
Not pictured are Kitty Look, U of
Houston, escorted by Tom Ham-
mond; and Glenna Foster, U of
Arkansas, escorted by Harold Cox.
Rees, Gobeli Lead
In Squash Tourney
The double elimination squash
singels tournament is in the final
stages of play. Heading the way
into the finals of the. winner's bra-
cket are Compton Rees (last year's
champion) and Garth Bobeli. Rees
drew a bye in the opening round
and deefated Derek Lawford in the
second round 15-5, 15-9. Gobeli beat
Chuck Howe in his opening round
encounter 15-12, and 15-8. In the
next round he found Willie Moreno
a little tougher but finally came
through with a fine 13-15, 15-10, and
15-8 win.
In the loser's bracket Moreno will
meet Stewart and Lawford will
tangle with Howe. These matches
must be played on or before Tues-
day, May 1.
Willie Moreno is taking part in
five intramural tournaments at the
present time. He is in the semi-
finals of the tennis singles tourney,
he was defeated along with Joey
Horn in the semi-fanals in the hand-
ball doubles tourney but is still ac-
tive in the double elimination affair,
he went to the semi-finals in the
tennis double with Jackson; he is
still in the running for squash sing-
les title. Besides all this is the main
cog in the fine Archi-Sharps soft-
ball team that was edged by the
Navy Sharkeys in a recent playoff
game. In addition to the above
tournaments he has competed in
this year he played both singles and
doubles tennis in the fall tourna-
ment. He has won the badminton
title for the fourth consecutive year.
He will no' doubt carry away an-
other title or two in the track meet
tomorrow.
Basketball Squad's
Prospects Better
The Rice Institute Owjs intend to
move back into the ranks of top con-
tenders for the Southwest Confer-
ence basketball title in 1951-52.
Two major shortcomings of the
Owl cagers who finished last in the
SWC for two straight seasons have
been corrected. For a change, Rice
should have a big man available to
fight for control of the backboards,
and the Owls figure to have a
stronger bench.
Coach Don Suman plans to con-
tinue the "run and shoot" style the
Owls have employed for many years
despite the strong trend toward
control ball tactics, especially in the
Southwest. However, the Owls have
a somewhat altered offense from
the 49-50 and 50-51 aggregations
under Suman since some big men
are available. The Rice squad ex-
perimented at length with the double
post type ofense in spring training.
The theory still holds to shoot of-
ten, but emphasis will be placed on
cutting down the - number of offen-
sive errors, primarily losing the
ball by bad passes. To that extent,
the Owls will lean a bit more to-
wards ball control than in the past.
In the 1951 campaign, the Owls
had only 13 men on the varsity
squad, and one player broke an
ankle after playing in only one game
early in the season. There were 20
candidates out for the spring drills
of the '52 season, all of them con-
sidered at least reasonably promis-
ing prospects.
Barring service calls, Suman
should have available four letter-
in e n. (Leonard Childs, Maurice
Teague, Ralph Grawunder, and Bill
Bailey) . . . five '51 squadmen (Tom
Wharton, Earl Bellamy, Bill Lynch,
Bert Dickens, and Walter Baker) . .
one '50 "squadman who didn't play
last winter (Sonny McCurry) . . .
eight sophomores (Gene Schwinger,
James Beavers, Dean Small, Don
Lance, Alfred Jochee, Standlee Ful-
fer, Joe Wylie, and Tom Cullinan)
. . . and two transfer students (Lou
Fulton and Oree "Buzzy" Bryan).
Bryan will not be eligible until mid-
term and may be held out next sea-
son.
Lost fom last winter's squad are
four lettermen - Joe McDermott, the
team's high scorer, J. D. White,
Charley Tighe, and Jim Gerhardt.
Perhaps the most important addi-
tion to the squad is Fulton, lanky
and agressive 6' 7" center from
Breckenridge, Mo. One of the few
out-of-state athletes at Rice, he be-
came interested in the school while
serving in the Air Force under a
famous former Owl athlete, Captain
Olie Cordill, while in Japan in the
late forties. Fulton spent the '50-'51
school year gaining residence eli-
gibility at Rice. He played in no
games, but worked out frequently,
Fulton heads the list of "big men"
candidates for the double-post spots.
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Dramatic Club
To Elect Officers
April 30
Election of officers for the next
school year and final settlement of
bills and accounts for this year will
be the business of the last Dramatic
club meeting, Monday, April 30, at
13:30 in Sallyport Stage.
All members and those interested
in the Rice Players for next year
are urged to attend.
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