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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 21, 1943
VOLUME 43—NUMBER 58
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First Town Hall Program
Opens Season As Success
Bidu Sayao Thrills Audience With Both
Foreign And American Selections
Singing before a packed house, Bidu Sayao, Metropolitan
opera star who opened the 1943-44 Town Hall season here
Tuesday night, charmed all those who head her with her
lovely voice and charming personality. Miss Sayao, who ap
peared on the stage of Guion Hall,4
was accompanied at the piano by
Milne Charnley, who played sev
eral selections as solos during the
intermisions.
A gracious and charming person
ality, Miss Sayao completely won
her audience from the first selec
tion. She opened the program with
the singing of the “Star Spangled
Banner” acompanied by the aud
ience. Immediately after the open
ing ceremony, Miss Sayao entered
into her concert of three parts,
which was well received by all
those who were privileged to hear
her.
Miss Sayao was introduced to
the audience by Bill Terrell, stu
dent manager of Town Hall.
At the end of her concert she
was presented with a huge bou
quet of roses by Charles West and
Bill Terrell.
Miss Sayao, who speaks several
languages fluently, sang in Eng
lish, French, Italian and Portu
gese.
The audience that was held en
thralled by her lovely voice was
made up of members of the facul
ty and staff of the college, mem
bers of the corps, servicemen and
militafy trainees, and the people
of College Station, Bryan and other
nearby towns.
Seven other features are sche
duled for the Town Hall programs
for this year it was announced.
E. E. Professor Is
Ordered to Service
Norman F. Rode, professor of
electrical engineering at A. & M.
has been commissioned Lieutenant
Commander, Naval Reserve, and
ordered to Annapolis, where he will
teach in the United State Naval
Academy.
Professor Rode has served on the
college staff since 1922 where his
work has been primarily with se
niors and graduate students. He
also has served as director of the
college’s Public Utility Short Cour
ses and conductor of training con
ferences for electrical metermen
in the southwest. During the last
two years, he has been in charge
of war training classes in electrical
engineering in about twenty cities
of the state.
Prior to joining the college facul
ty, Professor Rode served as a ma
rine engineer both with shipbuilding
companies and on active sea duty.
He holds a license as Chief Marine
Engineer. While on the College
staff, he engaged in considerable
amount of consulting work with
leading utility concerns and on fed
eral projects in the Southwest. Du
ring the summer of 1940, he was
employed as a consultant on elec
tric power plant operation with the
principal utility 'Company in Cuba.
Salesmen To Sell
At Games Wanted
Those students desiring to work
as salesmen for the concessions at
the games this season meet Mr.
Ben Waidhofer on the steps of the
annex of Sbisa Hall immediately
after mess this evening.
Mr. Waidhofer has urged that
all students, especially Freshmen,
who wish to make money at the
home games to apply for the jobs.
Employees are in great need and
this affords anyone to see the
football games held at Kyle Field
free.
Aside from free admittance to
the games, salesmen receive a
commission on all sales that they
make. It has long been the cus
tom for Freshmen to sell for these
concessions in the stadium.
The Common Sense Club at the
University of Texas was orga
nized last year to further campus
interest in racial relations, im
proved labor conditions and civil
liberties in wartime. The name was
adopted from the American Revo
lutionary pamphlet written by
Thomas Paine.
Professor Rode is a member of
Tau Beta Pi and numerous pro
fessional electrical engineering so
cieties. He was recently elected a
fellow in the American Institute
of Electrical Engineers. He is a
co-author of two books and au
thor of several technical articles
and papers, and holds degrees from
Clemson College and the A. & M.
College of Texas.
Dean Kyle Attends
Land Bank Meet
E. J. Kyle, the Dean of the
School of Agriculture, left for
Houston Wednesday. There he will
attend the monthly meeting of the
board of directors of the Federal
Land Bank. The bank is connected
with the Farm Credit Association.
This organization is the depart
ment which has charge of govern
ment loans to farmers to finance
their crops.
University of West Virginia ra
dio plans for the current semester
includes a series of programs to
be broadcast simultaneously over
WAJR, Morgantown, and WMMN,
Fairmont.
Aggie Warriors
RED BURDITT
JESSE N. (ERD) BURDITT
plays back for the Aggies, coming
to A. &M. from Abilene. At 17
he has had two years of high
school experience and stands 5
feet 9 inches and weighs 157
pounds. His number is 45.
SPARKY EBERLE
ADOLPH A. (SPARKY) EBER
LE plays at a tackle position for
the Aggies and cames to A. & M.
with three years of high school
experience from Sweetwater. At
19 he weighs 201 pounds and stands
at 6 feet. His number is 70.
New Intramural
Season Opens
For This Fall
Touch Football Has
New Rules To
Speed Up Game
Intramural games started this
past Tuesday with the playing of
two fotball games and two basket
ball games. Interest in intramural
sports seems to have livened up
quite a bit this semester, as each
company that participated in the
games Tuesday had at least two
full teams ready to take part when
called upon.
Touch-football games have been
speeded up with the addition of a
few rules in regard to touching the
man with the ball. The Intramural
Office provides each man with an
additional shirt to be tucked into
the back of the participant’s shorts.
In order for the ball-carrier to be
officially “downed,’’ the opposing
team must strip him of his added
shirt. This has instigated the ac
tual running of plays instead of
the habitual passing plays that
have made up the games in the
past.
All touch-football games have
been scheduled for 5:10, but it has
been necessary for the Intramural
Department to schedule a few bas
ketball games at 5:50 because of
the lack of time and referees; how
ever, each of these latter games
will be over in plenty of time to
enable the players to get dressed
and eat their evening meal.
Saturday Service
Show Resumes
Saturday night at 7:15 there will
be another weekly Saturday Ser
vice Show the Student Activities
Office announced. Richard Jenkins
will be the master of ceremonies
of the show.
As yet, there has not been a pro
gram arranged, however, it will be
in the form of a variety show. Se
veral novelty acts performed by
Aggies and servicemen will lend
to the success of the show. With
the aid of some Bryan talent, the
show promises to be very enter
taining.
The Service Show will be held, as
usual, in the Assembly Hall.
Life For Soldiers
At College
The poem below recently ap
peared in a newspaper published
at Georgia Tech. It tells humorous
ly the life of servicemen stationed
at Colleges:
Mother take down your sirvice
flag,
Your son is at Georgia Tech.
Instead of fighting battles,
He’s learning how to neck.
If he isn’t playing football,
He’s swimming in the pool.
Mother take down your service
flag,
Your son is back in school.
Cub Pack Meets
Next Month
College Station Pack 102 of the
Cub Scouts will not hold the month
ly pack meeting Thursday night,
October 21. The Bryan-College
Station rally that was held last
week took its place.
A November pack meeting will
be held so that Cubs who have
earned awards may secure them.
All Cubs are urged to complete
their work for awards early and
report to their den mother the
awards they are due at the Novem
ber pack meeting. The date of this
meeting will be announced at a
later date through the dens.
Dr. Jones To Wed
Miss Liles Soon
Dr. Virgil Brahma Jones, re
membered by Aggie football fans
as the hard fighting guard on the
1937 Aggie eleven recently an
nounced his approaching marriage
to Helen Liles of Spartenburg,
South Carolina, November 6 at the
Trinity Methodist Church of that
city.
Dr. Jones received his Doctor of
Veterinary Medicine degree from
A. & M. in August 1940.
ktincja
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By Dr. John Ashton
If culture thrives where music reigns,
Then melody rewards our pains
To satisfy, in human breast,
An urge which lives thru every test;
That soulful love of finer things—
For talent such as Sayao brings.
Last eve she sang like nightingale;
But still the simile doth fail
To render all fair Bidu’s due:
Besides her voice, her manner, too,
Entrancing, gay, replete with grace,
Symbolic of her Latin race.
Like dulcet sounds from sylvan dell,
Or mellow peal of old church bell,
Italian, French, and Portuguese
The diva sang with equal ease;
Nor encore meant to calm our roar
Would quell insistent calls for more!
Could we, sweet Bidu, have our say,
We’d never let thee fly away!
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N.T.A.C. Preparing For
Bitter Battle With Aggies
Passing of Beesley and
Hallmark; Flanagan Threat
ARLINGTON, Texas, October
21—North Texas Aggie practice
sessions this week pointing toward
next Saturday’s game at Kyle
Field with the Texas Aggies have
emphasized pass defense.
Aggie coaches, J. G. “Klepto”
Holmes and Ensign Douglas Jack-
son, fearful of the skill of such
splendid ball-tossers as James Hall
mark, Earl Beesley and Marion
Flanagan, have devoted the first
three workouts of the week large
ly to batting down passes tossed
by such NTAC pitchers as Howard
“Red” Maley, Don Hughese, Sam
Weatherford and James Batchelor.
“You’ve got to watch those Ag
gies all the time,” Coach Holmes
said, “or those cadet backs will
bomb you out of the lot.”
Ensign Jackson entertains a
pretty high opinion of the A. &
M. running attack, and has been
stressing the importance of im
proved blocking and tackling in
his work with the NTAC forward
wall.
The Aggie line was pretty well
battered by the Southwestern Pi
rates who pasted NTAC 26-0 last
Friday, and the local coaches do
not know as yet just who will be
starters on Saturday. It isn’t like
ly that either Doyle Caraway or
James Reed, a couple of crack
guards from Texas Tech, will see
a great deal of service, although
Reed may play some of the game.
Coach Holmes said he might shift
Jim Sid Wright, all-Conference
guard from SMU last year, who
has been playing center for NTAC
this season, back to the guard slot,
and start Jim Woodfin, former
Frog star at the center post. Start
ing tackles may be a couple of last
year’s TCU frosh, John Steele and
Emmett Hill, who weigh 215 and
220 pounds respectively, but Bur-
nie “Big Lou” Smith will start at
one tackle post, if he recovers
from bruises received in the South
western game. Smith is a four-
year veteran from SMU. “Easy”
Parham of TWC and Harold Cros-
sen of Texas Tech, both 200-
pounders, are slated to start at the
end positions.
Most serious handicap the NTAC
team faces is the probability of
having to play without Pete Stout,
the great 200-pound tailback from
TCU, who is one of the best run
ning and passing backs in the na
tion. Stuot received a head injury
in the Southwestern contest last
Friday, and was confined to an
Austin hospital for several days.
X-ray pictures show no brain in
jury as was first feared, but it ap
pears very doubtful that Stout will
be permitted to play against the
Aggies.
In his place will be Howard
“Red” Maley, 180-pound triple-
threater from SMU who is a pret
ty nifty passer on his own right.
NTAC’s running game will be
led by “Big John” Bon, 215-pound
fullback who slashed through the
SMU line for 65 yards and a touch
down recently.
Other backs who will probably
see lots of service against the Ag
gies are Don Hughes and Sam
(See NTAC, Page 4)
HITCH-HIKING THE AGGIE WAY—Pictured above is the correct
way of “thumbing” as has been the custom with Aggies as they go
through College at Aggieland. This tradition set down by Aggies who
have been here before has been kept up through these many years
because it has proven to be the best way. Aggies corners are found
on every highway leading from the campus and from Bryan and out
of the larger cities. Find out where these corners are and use them.
All Service Dance After
Game This Saturday Night
Orchestra Will Probably Play in Sbisa
From 9 to 12 For Aggies, Servicemen
Sbisa Dining Hall will be the scene of an All-Service
Dance, to be held from 9 to 12 p.m. on Saturday night. The
dance will be for the benefit of those Aggies and servicemen
who will have dates for the N.T.A.C. game.
Payment Due
The second installment of
$33.65 on the maintenance fee
must be paid on or before the af
ternoon of Saturday, November
6, according to a statement issued
by the Fiscal Office today. If the
fee is not paid by this deadline,
then an extra assesment of one
dollar will be charged.
The Fiscal Office is open on all
week days, Monday through Fri
day, from 9:00 o’clock in the
morning until 2:30 in the after
noon. On Saturdays the office is
only open from 9:00 o’clock un
til 2:00. All students are urged
to pay in advance to avoid the
rush of last-minute payment and
possible assessment.
ASTP Returns
Next Month
The army engineers of A. S. T.
P. Training Unit are scheduled to
return from their furlough the first
few days of next month. The en
gineers are expected to begin re
turning from the second of No
vember until the fifth of the same:
month. At the present time the
trainees only consist of two com
panies.
The exact date for the starting
o ftheir program is not known, but
it will be announced later for fac
ulty members, personnel, and all
others who are concerned by the
A. S. T. P. program.
A.&M. Announces
Shooting Season
every attempt possible to acquire
an orchestra for the occasion.
When arrangements for the or
chestra are completed, the prices
will be set. As yet, there is no
thing definite about prices
The Student Activities Office is
planning to sponsor a dance after
every home game, which will in
clude N. T. A. C., S. M. U., and
Texas University. With the coope
ration of all the students and ser
vicemen in getting dates, these
dances can be very successful.
These dances planned for the
football season, are a continuation
of the Corps Dances held after
fotball games in years before.
Usually, these dances were played
for by the name band that was
scheduled for the Regimental Ball,
the previous night. This year they
have been changed to accommodate
all services on the campus.
In case a band is secured for the
dance, the charge will probably be
$.50, with or without dates. If in
stead a juke box is used, the price
will change to a quarter.
The dance will begin at 9 in the
evening and be over promptly at
midnight because of the college
ruling allowing no dancing on the
campus on Sunday.
Second Coupon
Good For Game
The following notice applies to
all Aggies planning to go to the
N. T. A. C. game. All those Aggies
who have Athletic coupon books
will use coupon No. 2 on entering
the game. Everyone who does not
have a coupon book will need a
$2.50 ticket to see the game.
The mourning dove season in the
South zone of Texas opened Octo
ber 20 and will close November
30, instead of the previous dates
which were November 20 to De
cember 19, according to officials
of the Texas Cooperative Wildlife
Research Unit and the A. & M.
College Department of Fish and
Game. This change was made by
an amendment to the Migratory
Bird Treaty Act which was signed
last week by the President and an
nounced by Secretary of the In
terior Harold L. Ickes.
The new amendment also changed
the opening dates of the mourning
dove season in a number of states.
The open season now will be 42
days rather than the previous 30.
The changes in dates were re
quested by State Game Commis
sioners at a recent meeting in Chi
cago with Dr. Ira N. Gabrielson,
Director of the Fish and Wildlife
Service, and on his recommenda
tion were approved by Secretary
Ickes and the President.
According to these officials, the
mourning doves in the southern
and southeastern states have shown
a substantial increase and late sea
son hatching has been particularly
successful. The change in the sea
sons and the extension of the hunt
ing period as now authorized is
not likely to result in excessive
kills, they declared.
College Papers Feel
Effect Of War
Colleges all over the country are
having a hard time continuing
their publication of school news
papers. With newsprint shortage,
lack of labor and the Selective serv
ice many small college sheets have
folded up. Many more have drop
ped courses in Journalism.
Several colleges have met the
situation in various ways. The
Iowa State Teachers Weekly began
its fall semester as a tabloid with
heavier type. Brown University
and Pembroke college of Connecti
cut, merged for journalistic reasons
only, to save space. The now joint
ly publish the Brown Herald Rec
ord.
Ex-Batt Editor
Visits Campus
Lt. Brooks Gofer, editor in chief
of the Battalion for 1942 and grad
uate of the class of ’43, was a visit
or to the Battalion Wednesday
afternoon.
While at A. & M., Lt. Gofer was
a Cadet Major in the Coast Artil
lery Regiment. Recently he has
been stationed at Fort Davis in
North Carolina. He recieved his
commission this summer.
A. &M. To Hold
Cattle Auction
Because cattlemen locally and in
surrounding counties have express
ed a desire to purchase purebred
beef cattle from the Animal Hus
bandry Department of A. & M., a
small surplus of breeding cattle
will be offered for sale at auction
on Friday, November 12. Thirty-
one Herefords and 11 Aberdeen-
Angus will comprise the offering.
Included will be four yearling
bulls—one Hereford and three An
gus, twenty Hereford cows bred or
with calves at side, ten bred Here
ford heifers, and eight Angus fe
males bred or with calves at side.
The Herefords are sired by such
bulls as Victor Domino, Monty’s
Lad 38th, Thickset Domino, Mon
ty’s Real Domino 63rd, and H. T.
Sheridan Domino 2nd. The bred
Hereford females will carry the
service of Monty’s Real Domino
63rd, Don Blanchard 6th and Han
ley Domino C. 207th.
The Aberdeen-Angus are sired
by Prizemer 225th, Revemere of
Wheatland 11th, and Eileenmere
264th. The bred females will car
ry the service of the latter two
bulls.
These cattle are not highly fit
ted, having received additional feed
on pasture for only a short time.
They are available for inspection
at any time and catalogs giving
their pedigrees are available.