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X-lll—Vol. XXXIII ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 15, 4949 No. 16 Blake Van Leer Begins Sixth Year of Leadership

Attention Veterans List of Achievements All veteran students under Pub­ lic Law 346 or Public Law 16 who plan to be graduated, transfer to Shows Unusual Record another school, withdraw from On July 1, 1944, a little over five years ago, Dr. Blake Ragsdale Van school, or go to work under the Leer was inaugurated as the fifth president of the Georgia Institute of co-op system as of the end of this Technology. The first engineer to head this institution, Dr. Van Leer term, September 10, 1949, are brought to his new position a wealth of experience and knowledged gained urged to secure the offcial with­ in private practice, education, community activities, and military ser­ drawal papers now from Room vice. 102 Knowles Building, and get Since his predecessors in this posi­ them executed as of September Tech Student Killed tion, had built up such fine records 10, 1949. of accomplishment during their terms 1. Co-operative students will of office, it was quite a challenge to The monument recently erected in Peters Park commemorates the execute interruption papers from Dr. Van Leer and his abilities. How­ gift of the park property to Tech by Richard Peters, "Pioneer Citizen, the period September 10, 1949 ever, with the cooperation of the Civil Engineer, and Benefactor." until January 3, 1950. faculty and alumni and the Board of The Tech Athletic Association erected the stone just before the 2. Students to be graduated will Regents, he has produced a list of ac­ end of the Spring Quarter. _ Photo by Bill Cheeley fill out discontinuance forms. complishments which is the pride of 3. Students transferring to an­ the people of Georgia and the institu­ other school o»* to on-the-job tion he represents. training will also fill out discon­ Campus Expanded Plans Almost Completed tinuance forms.- 4. Students planning to drop The campus of Georgia Tech out for one term and return to has increased from approximately 44 For '49FlashcardSection Georgia Tech will fill out inter­ acres to more than 130 acres. ruption forms. The student body inflated from a The flash card section is growing up, but simplicity is the keynote. These papers, having been ex­ pre-war high of 2,910 to 8,556 in Following the formation last quarter of the White and Gold Club, plans for ecuted by the students now, will 1948; the faculty correspondingly in­ the 1949 flash card section are virtually complete. A great amount of work be reported to the Veterans Ad­ creased from 150 to 400. remains to be done, but Fred Wolf, White and Gold president, anticipates ministration from day to day, so And, despite an unprecedented en­ a smoother working outfit than the very cooperative backing of the Ath­ that there will be no delay in the rollment, the quality of education of­ untried group of last season. letic Association, this year's effort Veterans Administration Office fered by Georgia Tech was improved The same cards will be used this promises to be a big step toward receiving due notification. to such an extent that today there year, but a 1% inch hole will he cut perfection. Constructive suggestions are offered doctorate degrees in in the center of the card to allow Fred W. Ajax, Morris Davis Keesee, a Me­ are welcomed and should be directed several of the sciences. section members to better align the Coordinator of Veterans Affairs. chanical Engineering Senior of to Fred Wolf via The Technique. More courses have been accredited cards. Lexington, Kentucky, was killed at Georgia Tech than ever before in The trick will not be executed in an automobile accident on June its history, thereby testifying further during the periods of play, except per­ 11, 1949, at Dalton, Georgia. He to the quality of education offered. haps during time out periods. Pri­ Cruise Schedule Is Announced was returning to his home at the Material Changes marily, the tricks will be run off at time of the accident. the beginning and end of the half The institute has also experienced For Tech's NROTC Midshipmen During the war he served with material changes which have added and at the end of the first and third the Air Corps as a First Lieuten­ quarters. By Bill Shepherd immensely to its worth as a school. ant. He was shot down over Ger­ Tech has constructed or acquired al­ The trick numbers which were glued Over 150 midshipmen enrolled in Tech's NROTC program will complete many and spent a year in a to the cards last year are to be re­ most $10,000,000 worth of buildings summer training cruises by September 21, it was announced recently. These prisoner of war camp. He also and other property, including: placed with 3x5 cards bearing the held a captains commission in the cruises, of three to seven weeks duration, will,take Tech men to such widely Three new dormitories to house numbers of the tricks to be executed reserves. renowned ports of call as Cherbourg, France; Balboa, Canal Zone; and 1,000 ifiore students; at each game. These cards will be Guantanamo, Cuba. Fifty-two col­ given out with the flash cards at the ginning of football practice. The Executive Committee has Eight new apartment house units leges and universities throughout the decided to present him the degree on the campus for 222 families; gates before game time each Satur­ Group Goes To France United States participate in the pro­ of Bachelor of Mechanical Engi An apartment project at Chamblee, day. Special tricks planned will be Cruising with the midshipmen from gram. neering, class of 1949, posthum­ Ga.; posted on the bulletin board in the the US Naval Academy will be 41 Pacific Cruise Slated ously. The degree was presented A $1,500,000 campus at the Naval Administration Building prior to each rising seniors and 48 rising sopho­ Six members of the rising senior to his mother this week. Air Station; game. v mores, who will report to Norfolk, class are scheduled to take the Pacific A new textile building, with in­ Some 900 upperclassmen signed up Virginia, on August 2, and return on cruise, which will depart from San stalled equipment; to be in the section last quarter, leav­ Francisco on August 2. They are September 21. Their cruise wil take I. E. Institute Plans An extension to the stadium in ing the rest of the 1600 seats to be J. E. Andrews, Jr., J. L. Brooks, and them to Cherbourg, France, and Grant Field; filled during registration week. Upper­ C. D. Bobo, who will be aboard the Guantanamo, Cuba. Giving Soph Award classmen will have priority, and all USS Wiltsie; and J. M. Carter, E. f. Sixteen rising seniors, contract stu­ An A.C. Network calculator; seats not filled will be assigned to Dickert, Jr., and P. C. Gaertner, Jr., dents, embarked on June 22 for a At its regular luncheon business And, improvements to existing freshmen. One row of frosh will hold aboard the USS Ozbourn. These men three-week cruise to Cristobal, Canal meeting on July 5, the Georgia Tech buildings and additions to the dining double length cards to cover the aisle will proceed to Balboa, Canal Zone, Zone. They are aboard a CVE, the chapter of the American Institute of hall. across the middle of the section. Industrial Engineers approved a plan via the Galapagos Islands, arriving USS Sicily, and five destroyers, the Research Encouraged Cooperation is essential and de­ Putnam, Henley, W. Keith, J. C. to present an annual Honor's Award on August 16. After a six-day stay, Research has been encouraged much manded by the White and Gold. Men Owens, and the Stromes. to the outstanding industrial engi­ they will head for San Diego, arriv­ to the benefit of faculty and stu­ who continually make mistakes or in ing on August 31. On September 1 neering sophomore. Juniors Go To Pensacola dents, and increased in number and any other way are not conscientious, and 2 they will be engaged in sub­ The award will be called The AIIE On July 2, 49 rising juniors report­ scope of projects to such an extent will be removed from the section and marine training off San Diego, in Scholarship Award for the Outstand­ ed to Little Creek,Virginia, for am­ that the annual budget for this one assigned seats in their respective which six or seven subs will parti­ ing Industrial Engineering Sopho­ phibious training. On July 17, they activity at Georgia Tech is almost class areas. cipate in diving and other operations. more. The purpose of the award is to will proceed to Pensacola, where they one million dollars. Committees have been formed, and On the following day the cruise ships promote interest in and to give will receive aviation training, includ­ New school and departments have some preliminary work was completed return to Long Beach, California, for recognition for outstanding scholastic ing carrier training. They are sched­ been established at Georgia Tech to before the end of last quarter. Ralph three days, after which they will achievement. uled to return from Pensacola on meet the requirements of rapidly ex­ Day is in charge of the committee engage in gunnery exercises off Long To be eligible for the award, I.E. panding southern industry. Further, Beach September 6-9. On September August 27. Tech's Lieutenant Com­ to handle the microphones and control sophomores must be among the three 13 the cruise ships return to San mander M. K. Smith will also take more and more short courses and con­ the section during tricks. Lew Leven- men having the highest grade point Francisco, where the midshipmen will this cruise. ferences are being offered both on and son heads the field committee, which averages in their class. From these disembark and return to their homes. Two Tech Students, E. F. Tucker off the campus. will check the attendance and distri­ three men, the chapter will select the Frizzell Leaves Early and A. E. Trimble, are now engaged Under Dr. Van Leer's able leader­ bute the cards at the gates. Lee Estes man considered to be most outstand­ Lieutenant Boland, of the Tech in the Marine training course at ship, the Institute is now the largest will chairman the planning group ing. whose job will be to conceive, plot, staff, will also make this cruise. One Quantico, Va. Tucker, a regular, is engineering institute in the South and and distribute the various tricks, old student, Gene Frizzell, is now making going through a six-week course, from The first award will be made on the third largest in the United States and new. a similar cruise, which began on June 21 to August 16, and Trimble, Honor's Day in 1950. The AIIE award and Canada. The seal of this institu­ is one of four student awards recent­ tion aptly describes the past five years The flash card section had a rather June 16, and will last until July 28. a contract student, is now engaged in ly instituted in the School of Indus­ of capable guidance—"Progress and shaky beginning, but through the This arrangement was made so that a three-week training program, from trial Engineering. Service." work of the White and Gold and the he could be back in time for the be­ July 8 to July 29. THE TECHNIQUE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA Friday Afternoon, July 15, 1949 Library—Our Paramount Need tyojdw&cMib We must not allow our top standing to be jeopardized.

"The South's Liveliest College Newspaper" Georgia Tech finds itself in such a serious the toughest part lies ahead—the raising of need for new facilities that its standing as a sufficient funds. Principally, there are two ave­ Telephone ATwood 9160—Monday through Friday 1 p. m. to 8 p. m.—Saturday 10 a. m. to 11 a. m. leading engineering school may well be in nues of approach: one through the regular Published weekly by the students of the Georgia Entered at the postoffice in Atlanta as mail matter jeopardy. It is our own studied opinion that appropriations of the state and the second Institute of Technology as an expression of student of the second class. Accepted for mailing at special rat* of postage^provided for in Section 1106, Act of pre-eminent in this need is a new library through alumni gifts. news and opinions only. Letters to the Editor and October 2, 1917, authorized April 8. 1922. which would embody all of the improvements signed articles represent the views of their writers Using the current budget and indications and not necessarily those of the editor. Subscription rates $1.00 per quarter lacking in the current plant. of future appropriations as a basis, it seems The new structure, which will cost one and rather impractical to think that the state will one-half million, would provide reading and provide funds in the forseeable fuutre. The reference rooms for undergraduates, graduates, University of Georgia has over a half million CHEERLEADERS IN SKIRTS and faculty members. And therein lies the dollars for a new library which the state has greatest need. The library becomes an in­ The possibility is not as remote as you might think. been unable to match for several years. How­ creasingly important source of technical data ever, this possibility must not be overlooked Since that mild flurry of excitement back to cheer, what better example could we offer as one progresses from the junior-senior level and every effort made to prod the legislature. in May over the possibility of having girls to than the Green Wave of Tulane. Down in New tc the graduate division. We have one of the Contributions Only Answer most extensive collections of technical pham- team with our cheerleading squad this coming Orleans, the girls of Sophie Newcomb Col­ It is apparent, therefore, that the alumni or plets, books, and reports, according to the autumn, the campaign has more or less been lege do the cheering at Tulane's gridiron some philanthropic foundation is our salvation. General Education Report, but the difficulty forgotten by many interested students who classics with Newcomb having no connection Other schools have certainly received their is in making it available to the student. believe the situation has reached the stage of with Tulane. Is there any reason why Agnes share, viz. Princeton University has a modern Scoft or Oglethorpe girls could not serve in Little Available Space similar attempts in the past;( namely, a com­ functional library which was donated by sub­ like capacities here at Tech? Due to a serious shortage of available space, plete standstill. scriptions, and Emory has an ample endow­ books are stored in every conceivable nook and It has been said that the cheerleading squad ment fund. This is definitely not the case, however, is an extra-curricular activity and thus only cranny of the library with some types over­ We must put all of our eggs in one basket, and those students who demonstrated so de­ open to students. If this is true, how is it that flowing into the basement of Knowles. Ob­ however, and stipulate the need for a library cisively in the Surveyor poll taken last quarter both DramaTech and the Glee Club have girls viously, this is not an ideal situation from when soliciting contributions. True the admin­ that they wanted female cheerleaders may participating? Maybe there are girls going either the students' viewpoint who must shuttle istration would never be so foolish as to be assured that their opinions were not for­ to school here, and we don't even know about back and forth from building to building! and refuse an offer, such* as to build an annex gotten. We feel safe in predicting that, barring it!! floor to floor or the librarian who must track on the A.E. School, but still the public must any unforeseen developments, there will be If the wishes of the student body are over­ down books much the same as a hunter pursues be acquainted1 with our first need. skirts and frills cavorting in front of the whelmingly in favor of girls to cheer and we a fox. stands when the Golden Tornado begins its are sure that they are, the Athletic Board is Even as apparent as this need may seem, A fund raising campaign among students 1949 conquest of the SEC. The main necessity almost certain to give us the green light. it has not procured for us a new building or and faculty members would seem quite ap- is the support of the student body. If you The white and gold of our hallowed institution even offers of a new building. We have a beau­ propo in the light of the fact that money and you and even you want girls for cheer­ may well be seen in a new light before too tiful president's home and an excellent textile attracts more money. The funds gained in such leaders, speak up, and your wishes may come many moons have passed. Do you have any building in the offering but no library. a campaign could be used for alumni dinners true. prospects in mind? However, some measurable progress on the and inspection trips to acquaint interested As for schools similar to Tech that use girls —LSF part of the administration is visible. After persons with the situation and to procure don­ floundering in the doldrums of third and fourth ors of stipends running into five and six digits. priority for three years, the building now The whole situation is a deplorable one, occupies first place in the schedule of building one forced by circumstances and the failure ALABAMA'S KLAN PROBLEM priorities in Dr. Van Leer's annual report to to put first things first; however, the track Auburn's Plainsman gives us a true view of the situation. the Board of Regents. This is most com­ seems clear and the faculty library committee mendable. must now push the idea through with in­ Columnist John Temple Graves recently as­ actions? Klan officials, always maintaining Nevertheless, this fact is just the opening creasing vigor. serted in an address to a citizens' meeting in that their hooded group functions to uphold round, the laying of the cornerstone, since —IMG. Birmingham: white supremacy, flatly deny that Klansmen "The Ku Klux Klan must be dissolved. The have had anything to do with the incidents sole reason the South ever needed a Klan of late, that other groups are taking advan­ was to cope with the Negro question, and tage of the Klan's unpopular position in the TECHNIQUE PLATFORM: today we don't need a Klan for that problem." public eye so as to incite public anger great 1. Student voice In matters of student interest. 6. Encouragement of school spirit. However, the odd thing about the many enough to demand the termination of the 2. An appropriate honor system for Ga. Tech. 7. Erection of a Student Union Building. recent cross-burnings, floggings, and other "brotherhood." 3. Better orientation and vocational guidance. The Technique trffl af an times attempt to represent forms of maltreatment by mobs of robed and 4. Greater intramural sports program. the best interests of the students in current discussions and The Plainsman hopes that the Klan is on a. Promotion of active campus organizations. controversies. hooded men that have had such extensive the way out. Certainly it is politically im­ Editors Mack Gregorie, Lenny Frieden effects (Representative Celler's order for a potent; legislators have no fear in backing full-scale inquiry by a House civil rights sub­ measures directly aimed against that group. Business Manager Dick Fox committee, and the state legislature's action We hope that these measures, strict enforce­ Associate Editor Walt Miller Collection Manager Bill Weiller on an anti-masking bill) is that few of these ment of new bills passed and of pertinent News Editor John Huskisson Circulation Manager Fred Wolf actions have been directed at members of the standing laws, public opinion and public ac­ Negro race. Few of the victims have been able AJ . __ NEWS STAFF: Jeff Powell, Bill Hanbury. Paul tion will succeed in dissolving the ignoble Advertising Manager Bob Gibson Barnett, Jr., Jim Williford, Dick Wasserstein. to give a reason for actions against them. Klan once and for all. BUSINESS STAFF: Joe Breiner, Bennet Mogul. What purpose, then, is the Klan serving Asst. Adv. Mgr. Tom Smith PHOTOGRAPHERS: Bill Cheely, E. Day Wood. at all? 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Friday Afternoon, July 15, 1949 THE TECHNIQUE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA Miss Perfect Lips Will IM Activities Emerson Wins Rotary Award Be Selected by Co-ops To Be Varied For Past Community Services Mr. Cherry L. Emerson, Vice-President of the Georgia Institute of Tech­ By Walt Miller This Summer nology, is the winner of the Armin Maier Award, presented each year to the The Tech Management Club open­ Atlanta Rotarian who has performed the most outstanding services during The officers of the Co-op Club announced that the annual Miss Perfect ed its summer season of activities the preceding year in the field of community service. The presentation was Lips contest is underway with full steam. All of tha forty-six new Co-op with the first business meeting of the made at the June 27 meeting by Ralph *r* freshmen have their kiss cards and are busy soliciting kissprints of their of the Economic Report to the Presi­ quarter last Tuesday afternoon. Paris, chairman of the committee. favorite girls. It has been rumored that some of the rats are even sampling dent of the United States, this report President Lamar Jordan welcomed Following are some of the accomplish­ the merchandise. to be used by Congress in the fram­ both the old and new members to the ments and activities of the award to the Miss Perfect Lips Ball on ing of national legislation. Pertinent Information meeting. winner this year. August 13th which will be an open Probably the outstanding contribu­ At a recent meeting, the fresh­ dance. Plans, for the summer call for a Many Services tion — and sacrifice — he made was men were given a minimum of five The officers of the club will select tour of the Fisher Body Works divi­ Mr. Emerson came into Rotary in when he agreed to give up the presi­ cards and were given two weeks to and announce tfte Miss Perfect Lips sion of General Motors which was 1922 and since then has contributed to dency of a large engineering firm to solicit the five kissprints. The cards for 1949 at this dance. The winner held yesterday afternoon, a round- a host of worthy causes for the good of accept the appointment of Dean of also contain the pertinent informa­ will be presented with a prize, the table discussion of future employ­ his community. Among these activities Engineering at Georgia Tech. This tion about the girls whose lip prints exact nature of which is to be an­ ment opportunities for Industrial have been service on the Board of the was truly "Service above Self." appear on the end. Such information nounced later. Management graduates, and a tenta­ Family Welfare Society; on the Com­ Tech Award as: name, address, PHONE, age, tive tour of the Department of Com­ munity Planning Council, of which His accomplishments in his chosen height, weight, color hair, and color 230 Girls to Be Catalogued merce and Gordon Foods. he later served as president; Com­ field were recently recognized by his eyes will, of course, only be used in This has always proven a favorite munity Fund, Red Cross, and other In addition, it is hoped that an being given the "Distinguished selecting the winner. contest of Tech students, especially campaigns for worthy projects in the advertising speaker will be presented Alumnus Award" by Georgia Tech. These cards will be turned in to those freshmen who later have access sometime in August. community. He was a member of* the to the file cards. This year there are He promoted and completed a $4,- the Co-op Club where the five best will The club is planning to be active Advisory Council on City Planning, forty-six freshmen participating in 000,000 self-liquidating construction be selected by the officers of the club— socially also as plans are now being one outgrowth of which is the Ex­ collecting the prints which means that program on the campus, financed Sam Carastro, president; Bailey formulated to hold a week-end outing pressway System now being built in over 230 girls will be filed and cata­ without any contribution from the Mundy, vice-president; John Pippien, at one of the nearby Georgia state Atlanta. logued away for future reference. Of State and at a unit cost, ait the time secretary; and Klaus Putter, parks. Mr. Emerson's activities in the field course, this file will be highly con­ of soaring prices and scarcity of treasurer. The freshmen who present­ All IM students above the sopho­ of boys' work are too many to list in materials, without parallel in the con­ ed the winners will escort these girls fidential and wiH be opened only to this space. His contributions to the the members who participated for use more level are invited to attend the struction field. next meeting of the club. Boy Scout movement have been out­ in research. standing, culminating in his being This organization is the Tech awarded the Silver Buffalo citation in affiliate of the American Management 1948, the highest individual award Little Margin Shop Association, and the student members YELLOW JACKET A. P. O. Meets granted by the National Boy Scout VE. 6396 53 North Ave. are entitled to all the publications The first Alpha Phi Omega Organization, and he is the only one and privileges of a senior AMA Richard Alewine, Manager pledge meeting will be held this in the Southeast ever to receive this INN membership. Monday night, July 18, at 6 P.M., award except Mel Wilkinson. Corner of Hemphill Avenue Ladies' Watches Repaired in the Tech YMCA. National Recognition and North Avenue Also Men's Chronograph Repeaters If you cannot atend the meet­ Graduate Club Holds He has been honored by high Delicious Hot Dogi and Strikers and Regular Watch ing and want to join Alpha Phi positions in many professional engi­ and Sandwiches Repairing Omega, contact Box N or Vice- neering societies, and only recently he President Ted Lachmann (Box Party at Venetian, Reasonable Rates has received national recognition as Curb Service 3896, room 124, Glenn dormitory). Fifty Couples Attend one who assisted in the preparaton The Graduate Club of Ga. Tech held its first outing of the summer last JOYFUL - INEXPENSIVE Saturday afternoon at the Venetian The Prescott Restaurant Country Club, with over fifty couples Big Town Recreation Billiards 533 W. Peachtree St. Next to Nurses' Home enjoying a swimming party followed One of America's Finest AIR CONDITIONED by a wiener roast and dance. The AT FIVE POINTS - 10 V% EDGEWOOD AVENUE 50c — One r«eat and three vegetables and drink — 50c party's purpose was to welcome and Assortment of eight meats and fifteen vegetables introduce the new members of the club and to promote good fellowship 35c - BREAKFAST ANYTIME - 35c and friendship among Tech's grad­ One egg, bacon or sausage, grits, toast and jelly, coffee uate student body. Entertainment was provided at the pool by Lelan Joiner, a member of Coke Goes Along the professional diving team, the Mariners. His exhibition consisted mostly of difficult dives followed by a A Mark of comic clown diving routine. The grad­ In Handy Picnic Cooler uate students and their dates enjoyed Quality fully an afternoon of swimming, golf driving, and volley ball. After this Foods auspicious start the club announced its intention to line up a full social • calender of dances, picnics, and lec­ tures for the summer quarter. All graduate students are urged to take New and Distinctive active part in the forthcoming events Emblem of as membership in the club is open to all students of the graduate school. A general meeting of the club will be held Tuesday, July 19, at 11 Colonial Stores o'clock, and the place will be an­ T nounced through mail notices.

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WAInut 1870 161 Peachtree Street © 1949, The Coca-Cola Company MAin 2378 4 THE TECHNIQUE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA Friday Afternoon, July 15, 1949 « Other Colleges Say- Seven Interviews Were Arranged Vets File Papers All veteran student, both PL For Average '49 Tech Graduate 346 and PL 16, who expect to A Southwest Texas College change their type of course for The average student graduating released by Associate Dean of Stu­ the Fall term starting Septem­ from the Georgia Institute of Tech­ dents Fred W. Ajax, school placement ber 26, 1949 should come to the Receives Atom Bomb Scare nology during the year ending June officer. Coordinator of Veterans Affairs 1949 was interviewed by at least By Walt Miller A total of 8,141 individual inter­ Office, Room 102 Knowles Build­ seven companies for possible employ­ views were arranged between stu­ ing, for the official change of The "A" bomb scare really hit the campus in a Southwest Texas college. ment, it is indicated in a report just dents and interested companies. course papers. Since a change of A professor, in a quite methodical way, was explaining the uses and Placements resulting from these in­ course involves the approval of effects of uranium salts. In his hand he held a sample jar of the compound. terviews were made without charge Georgia Tech and the Veterans Shaking the jar he said, "If these salts are shaken up a bit and dropped . . ." to student or company. Guidance Center, all veteran stu­ With this statement he faked a drop I provide locomotion, but they will ferti­ Out of 3,300 industrial and govern­ of the jar. At the same time a quick dents planning to change their lize the land as well. Is that a horse witted student in one of the back WGST mental agencies listed by the Georgia present course—such as a change laugh in the background?" Tech placement office, more than ten rows lit a firecracker which expload- from Electrical Engineering to * * * The Ga. Tech Station percent of them sent representatives Mechanical Engineering for the ed with a loud roar. Students left im­ to the campus to interview students. Fall term—are u^ged to complete mediately through every available Two students at the University of About one-third of the listed com­ the necessary papers now, so that exit. Alabama have been running a bus 920 ON YOUR DIAL panies, namely 1,000, are located in there will be no difficulty at reg­ * * * , line between the University and town. These students have made a profit of Georgia. istration time. The Clipsheet of the Board of Tem­ three thousand dollars a year on this Tops in MBS and Local For the year ending June 1948, perance of the Methodist Church an­ Fred W. Ajax, , one route, which is pretty good since Programg the placement office listed 2,122 Coordinator of Veterans Affairs nounced that a new beverage is being the regular city bus service has been organizations. made especially for children. The new beverage will resemble beer in showing a loss on their services. Have Pictures Taken Now every way except that it will have a * * * All students are urged to have low alcohol content. Even the label The Daily Tar Heel reports that a C. D. LeBey & Co. their pictures taken for the 1950 will be made to resemble a regular thief is visiting the fraternity houses LOAN CORRESPONDENTS Blue Print at their earliest conven­ beer label. on their campus. Posing as a seller METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE CO. ience, it was announced today by * * * of Sex movies, he shows his stock Editor Hank McCamish. of films and later returns in the night ATLANTA, GA. More and more colleges with Photos will be taken beginning journalism schools are printing their to rob the students. Monday, July 18, at the Caspar-Ware own papers. The latest addition is the * * * Studios, 876 West Peachtree St., N.W., Cougar of the University of Houston. Recent surveys taken at the Flor­ from 9:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. This method enables the journalism ida State University shows that TECHWOOD THEATRE All students must wear a coat and students to get experience in print­ more stealing is done in the wo­ NORTH AVENUE AT TECHWOOD DRIVE tie as positively no pictures will be ing as well as writing and make-up. men's residences than anywhere else. taken in sport shirts or uniforms of * * * A summary of the survey shows SUNDAY MONDAY, JULY 17 -18 k any kind. From Alabama comes word of tests that during the winter quarter, more "THE RETURN OF OCTOBER" on a possible new automotive fuel. than 1,580 dollars in cash was also "WHAT I WANT NEXT" The Crimson—White says, . . . Hy- stolen; various items of women's TUESDAY - WEDNESDAY, JULY 19 - 20 SENIORS drozine, an organic compound contain­ clothing from raincoats to pajamas "DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS" ing nitrogen was being tested as a and such articles as radios, meal RICHARD WIDMARK For Best possible automotive fuel, the com­ tickets, and electric irons were also also "HECTIC HONEYMOON" bustion of which gives out nitrogen on the missing lists. THURSDAY - FRIDAY, JULY 21 - 22 APPLICATION into the atmosphere. This free nitro­ "THE BIG CLOCK" — "THE SUN COMES UP" PICTURES and "MEETS HERCULES" gen is taken in by plants and utilized N in making richer soils. 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