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LIBRARY CAMPUS If this paper is not called for return postage is guaranteed by publisher. ~~ - i Jeet - § 1 Agricultural & Mechan College Statior , " LOIN £2e + Lalion, 1 8X3 HE TEXAS AGGIE RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED Published Semi-Monthly Except During the Summer Months when issued mont hly by the Association of Former Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College. VOL. X COCLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, JANUARY 1, 1936. NUMBER 49 NEW BUILDING T0 HOUSE THREE AAA DEPARTMENTS MOVED FROM WASHINGTONTO A. aM. CAMPUS Further concentration at College Station of the Agricultural Ad- justment Act program will be ef- fected early in March, following a decision of the Roosevelt adminis- tration to decentralize various ac- tivities of the AAA program. By March 1 all the checking, auditing, and disbursing in connection with "approximately 450,000 commodity contracts, one-tenth of the total amount of the AAA, will be done at College Station. Handling the task will require a staff of from 600 to 1,000 men and women. The new offices will be housed in the new building, erec- tion of which has already been started, located just South of the Kyle Field Stadium. The building will be a one story frame struc- ture, containing some 20,000 feet of floor space. In this building will be located the General Accounting Office and the Auditing Section of the AAA for all work in Texas. The Disbursing Office, which is a branch of the U. S. Treasury De- partment, will be located in the old Serum Laboratory Building, near the Administration Buildnig. Arrangements for the location: of these three new units of the AAA program, have been made by College authorities with Henry Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture; Chester Davis, AAA Administra- tor; J. R. MecCarl, Comptroller General of the United States; and Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury. The erection of the new building on the site chosen will make its use for other purposes possible, if the work for which it is being con- structed is finally abandoned. It could be used for the housing of students, for short course visitors, and for various other purposes. The commodities included in the contracts to be handled at College, from checking to payment of bene- fits, are cotton, wheat, corn-hogs, rice, potatoes, peanuts, and sugar cane. Heretofore all auditing work and disbursing of benefits and oth- er payments has been handled from Washington. In the past the num- ber of AAA employees on the campus has ranged from 100 to a peak of about 600. Establishment of the new offices here will great- ly increase the number of AAA employees. Some 150 employees will come from Washington, D. C. arriving during January and Feb- ruary. This group includes the Tex- | ans now engaged in the work of these units at the Capitol and they will be continued in the work at College. The other employees for the three units and for all other phases of adjustment work that may be carried on at College will be drawn from the state at large as they have been since the inau- guration of the work. Plans for the new building have been prepared by the College ar- chitect’s offices. The building will cost approximately $20,000 and will be located on the road that runs through the campus from the North entrance, in front of the Y. M. C. A., and down through the campus to College Park. A visitor for the S. M. U. Game on the campus was Sid Miley, ’19, accompanied by his 6 foot 2 inch son. Sid is district manager of pro- duction for the Skelly Oil Com- pany with headquarters at Ard- more, Oklahoma. It was his first visit to the campus in several years and he was astonished at the many changes. His son is now in high school and he is hoping to send him to A. & M. within a few years. EAGLESTON TAKES McGREGOR PLACE HOUSTON C. OF G E. G. “Polly” Eagleston, "13, who has been Collection Supervisor for the Federal Land Bank at Houston, became manager of the Agricul- tural Department of the Houston Chamber of Commerce on January 1. He succeeds J. I. McGregor, ’16, who has been head of the depart- ment since 1933, but who recently resigned to become actively asso- ciated with the McGregor-Spencer Real Estate and Insurance Agency of Houston. Both McGregor and Eagleston are well known among agricultural workers of the state and among A. & M. men. McGre- gor is a past president of the Hous- ton A. & M. Club and has for many years been an active worker in that club and in the Association. “Polly” Eagleston is best re- membered by his classmates as ole of the outstanding sprinters of the South during his college days. Af- ter his graduation from A. & M., he was engaged for five years in the active management of a large plantation in Bastrop County. He later taught vocational agriculture, served with the Houston Chamber of Commerce, and held positions with the Southern Pacific Lines and the Progressive Farmer. Fol- lowing the death of his father in 1929, he returned to his home town of Smithville to take charge of an estate as independent executor. During this period from 1929 to 1932, he was made active vice president of the Smithville First National Bank. In 1932 he became associated with the Farm Credit Administration as Collection Sup- ervisor for the Federal Land Bank of Houston. His new office will be located in the Chamber of Com- merce Building at Houston. CADET CAGERS OPEN SEASON WITH PORKERY The Texas Aggie basketball team will open its conference schedule on January 10 and 11 when they meet the Arkansas Razorbacks in a two-game series at College. Des- pite predictions that the Aggies would- be weak on the court this winter, Coach “Hub” McQuillan’s team has gone through an unus- ually successful pre-season sched- ule. Two barn-storming trips have been taken on which the Cadets won 8 out of 10 games played against some of the strongest in- dependent teams in East Texas, Southeast Texas, and Louisiana. The Aggies originally were scheduled to open the conference season against Rice on January 4 but this tilt was postponed until a later date because of an extension of the A. & M. student holiday period. Following the Arkansas games on January 10 and 11, the Aggies will meet S. M. U. in Dal- las on January 18; and T. C. TU. in Fort Worth January 20. Although MecQuillan’s team has done well in its pre-season games, it is not expected to go far in the conference race. Rice and Arkan- sas are favored to fight for the title with Baylor and Texas next in line. (CARVES CAREER IN OLD MEXICO R. S. “Bob” Camp, 18, sends this snap-shot of himself, taken recent- ly on his road building job at Go- mez-Palacio, Durango, Mexico. He has been in the contracting bus- {iness in Central Mexico for the past 14 years. Camp makes his per- manent headquarters at Saltillo, Coah.. Mexico, Apartado Postal No. 3. The job he is on at present calls for the building of 25 miles of road leading into Torreon. In addition to his construction business Camp owns and operates one of the finest tourist camps in Mexico at Saltillo. It is called the HUIZACHE COURTS, and has be- come a popular stopping place for American visitors to Monterrey or Saltillo. Any travelling A. & M. folk will find a warm welcome at this pretentious camp. “Bob” lived at Navasota while a student at A. & M. He entered Leon Springs Officers Training Camp after his junior year at A. & M. and was delayed a year in receiving his degree. He was com- missioned after the training course at Leon Springs. He graduated in 1919, taking his degree in Horti- culture. Just how he happened to change from a horticulturist to a highway contractor has not been related. However, he is one of the most successful men in his business in the Republic of Mexico. He sends regards to his old A. & M. friends, and invites them to look him up when they come to his sec- tion of Mexico. HOUSTON GLUB HONORS SQUADS AT RUMP BUMP The entire membership of both Varsity and Freshman Aggie foot- ball squads, together with their coaches, was entertained by the Houston A. & M. Club at an Aggie “RUMPBUMP” party on the night of December 12. The affair was in the nature of a smoker with a Dutch lunch preceding the infor- mal program. Short talks were made by the coaches, by various members of the Freshman and Varsity football squads, G. A. “Cop” Forsythe, ’17, Victor Bar- raco, ’'15, and @thers. Gus Saper, ’15, acted as chairman of the in- formal program. Approximately 200 were present, with 75 of these coming from College Station. Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Schu- macher, '92, of Houston, are en- joying a trip around the world, which will not bring them back home until spring. Mr. Schuh- macher is president of the Schuh- macher Company, of Houston, wholesale groceries, and is a’ mem- ber of the Board of Directors of Texas A. & M. WEINBAUM AND BABCOCK TREAT BEAUMONT GLUB “Weinbaum Night” was celebrat- ed by the Beaumont A. & M. Club at its meeting on December 9, largely because Charlie Weinbaum, Beaumont insurance man and chairman of the Beaumont Club’s New York University Section, brought along a keg of beer to go with the club’s buffet supper at the Edson hotel. A feature of the program at this meeting was a report on Pacific Coast football from John Newton, ’12, who had recently returned from a trip to California where he saw several of the leading teams play. Approx- imately 50 members of the club were present. Among the guests were C. M. Hardy and Emmett T. Smith, smart football tackles from French High and Lamar Junior College. The club voted that its second December meeting would be known as “Babcock Night”. Babcock was fined a keg of beer because it was ‘declared, “He talks too much”. The Beaumont Club is planning 2 big meeting on the night of Jan- uary 13 with some members of the A. & M. coaching staff and Secre- tary E. E. McQuillen present as guests. A. & M. men from the en- tire Sabine section are especially invited to this party. Full details will be announced in the Beaumont papers. - Erosion Project At Lockhart Has Many A. & M:- Men A. & M. men who make up a large part of the administrative and technical staff of the Plum Creek Project, Soil Conservation Service, at Lockhart, send their best regards to their A. & M. class- mates and friends and extend a cordial invitation to all to visit their interesting project. The Plum Creek Project at Lockhart is one of several similar projects now under way by the Soil Conservation Service of the U. S. Department of Agriculture in Texas. Among A. & M. products con- nected with the project are: W. H. DuPuy, '19, Project Manager; U. S. Allison, ’24, Agricultural Engineer; L. W. Stasney, ’24, Associate Agronomist; J. M. Parks, 27, As- sociate Soil Conservationist; J. D. Burch, ’32, Junior Agricultural En- gineer; W. S. Cunningham, 34, As- sistant Erosion Specialist; T. O. JPridgeon, ’32, Assistant Erosion Specialist; J. T. Bounds, ’32, Junior Agronomist; Millard Shaw, '34, En- gineering Aide; George A. Logan, ’34, Junior Agronomist; John W. Herring, ’34, Junior Agronomist; J. A. Nicols, ’33, Junior Agricultu- ral Engineer; Meredith Owen, ’26, Junior Agricultural Engineer; and Miss Margaret King, formerly Sec- retary of the Agricultural En- gineering Department at A. & M., now Project Secretary at Lockhart. VERNE SCOTT'S HOME BUILT OF HISTORIC WEST TEXAS STONES The Fort Worth Star Telegram recently carried an interesting story, together with a picture about the Stephenville home of Dr. Verne A. Scott, ’14, who is a member of the faculty of the John Tarleton Junior Agricultural Col- lege. The Scott home in Stephen- ville is built of native rocks. Prac- tically every one of them has a his- tory. Dr. Scott spent several years collecting the rocks in various sec- tions of West Texas. One stone was once a part of a mission built near Fort Stockton in 1690, and many other stones carry intensely interesting histories. College Hospital Will Be Enlarged By Additional Wing Doubling Frontage To Acommodate Increased Students NEW ARRANGEMENTS TO INCLUDE PRIVATE OFFICES AND QUARTERS $60,000 Expenditure Alloted to Building Work To Be Completed By Fall of ’36 Dr. T. O. Walton, president of the college, announced Tuesday that plans were under way for extensive enlarge- ment of the college Hospital. This expansion is the result of action taken by the executive committee at its last meeting. The addition, which will be built on the east end of the present structure, will entail an expenditure of approximate- ly $55,000 to $60,000 and will double the frontage of the building. The enlargement will be constructed and furnished in the most modern manner and will consist, in the main, of private rooms to facilitate the caring for serious cases, al- though rooms will be included for doctors’ and nurses’ offi- ces, and nurses’ quarters. Garages will be constructed as a A. & M. HISTORY The long and eagerly i awaited HISTORY OF THE i A. & M. COLLEGE OF TEXAS is now on the press and will be ready for distri- bution in January. It is being printed and bound by the A. & M. Press, and is the work of Col. Clarence Owsley, aid- ed by various members of the College staff. The history will be mailed free to all ac- tive, paid-up members of the Association as of January - first, and will also be mailed free to those paying their dues during the coniing year. It is not yet known if other § copies will be available for purchase as only a limited number will be printed. PT. ARTHUR HAS JOINT MEETING AGGIES & OWLS Recent activities of the Port Arthur A. & M. Club started on December 2 with a banquet which featured a program by the Flor- ence Coleman school of dancing and the Texas Hillbillies. A brief recess during the evening was held for the purpose of discussing plans for the annual Christmas Fun Fest of the Port Arthur Club. This annual Christmas party was held in the form of a holiday dance on the Goodhue roof on the night of December 21. The affair was staged under the direction of a committee headed by Paul Siecke, ’31. The A. & M. Student Port Arthur Club cooperated in the af- fair which was a big success. On December 16, the Port Arthur A. & M. Club and the Port Arthur Rice Institute Club held their sec- ond annual joint dinner. H. K. Deason, ’16, served as toastmaster. Among the speakers were O. T. Hotchkiss, ’24, President of the Port Arthur Club, and M. L. Rosen- berg, ’22. The latter headed the Entertainment Committee from the ED) OE ED) ED) EEE ame se 1@ be? oan aE) Sm O)-_— 0.0 ‘A. & M. club for the party. Plans were made to continue the joint Rice-A. & M. meeting annually. The next big affair on the pro- gram of the Port Arthur Club will be its annual Yellow Jacket Ban- quet sometime in January or Feb- ruary, at which party the Port Arthur high school football squad and its coaches will be honored. Officers of the Port Arthur Club include: O. T. Hotchkiss, ’24, Pres- ident; M. R. Kunitz, ’28, Vice Pres- ident; Ned A. Scardino, ’29, Secre- tary-Treasurer; C. E. Praeger,’33, Publicity Chairman. part of the basement layout and will be alloted to the nurses for their automobiles. Dr. F. E. Giesecke, college architect, stated that prelimi- nary designs have already been completed and construction will start early in February. It will be completed for use next fall at the opening of the 1936-37 ses- sion. Its design will conform with the design of the present building and will almost double the room capacity. Another frontage wing will be built out toward the south to match the present ones, but the main new wing will be built on the east end, with a door facing the Mess hall to take care of students coming in that way. The original structure, complet- ed in 1916 was fully able to care for the enrollment for a number of years, but with the present en- rollment increasing each year with leaps and bounds it has proved it- self far inadequate. The disastrous “flu” epidemic of 1929 is recalled by many who went through its. course. Such an overflow of pa- tients reported at that time that it was necessary to set aside cer- tain dormitories to care for them. Of course, this plan was extremely unsatisfactory and considerable dis- cussion was waged at that time for a new and larger building. This year, with an over-average increase in students it was imperative that action be carried out. The execu- tive committee finally reached a decision at its last meeting. The new structure will provide an increase of about 100 beds, the present number being about 100. SAN TONE CLUB PLANS PROGRAM FOR THIS YEAR Under the leadership of Alvin R. Rees, '19, and his staff, recently elected by the San Antonio A. & M. Club, a full program of activ- ities is being planned for the San Antonio Club. The weekly luncheon of the club, held at the Y. M. C. A., has been divided into social and business meetings. Constructive work for the benefit of Texas A. & M. and the City of San Antonio is being planned by the club. Rees recently announced appoint- ment of the following committee chairmen: Major E. E. Aldridge, 16, Social Committee; “Dody”’ Smith, ’30, Projects Committee; C. D. “Babe” Watts, ’26, Athletic Committee; Ed Knox, Jr., 22, past president, Publicity Committee; Sandy Engle, 29, Program Com- mittee; John O. Flannery, 27, Civic Projects Committee; Henry Weir, ’18, to promote the return of San Antonio Ex-Students to the campus for special occasions. THE AGGIE WISHES TO ALL A & M MEN A VERY HAPPY 1936