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Published Semi-Monthly Except During the Summer Months when issued monthly by the Association of Former Students of the Agricultural a nd Mechanical College
VOL. XI COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, APRIL 15, 1939. NO. 25
College Directors Express
Opposition To Bill Raising
Jr. Colleges To Senior Rank
Thorough opposition to the legis-
lative to change the
junior colleges at Stephenville and
proposal
Arlington to senior institutions has
been voiced by the Board of Di-
rectors of the A. & M. College in
a letter to Senator Albert Stone
of Brenham. These junior colleges,
since being taken over by the
state many years ago, have been
administered under the direction of
the A. & M. College Board of Di-
rectors and as parts of the A. & M.
College system.
In the message to Senator Stone
the College board declared that
there was at this time no justi-
fication for raising the rank of
these institutions. The statement
pointed out that existing senior in-
stitutions in Texas were insuffi-
ciently provided for, and that no
new senior institutions should be
established until existing institu-
tions were better financed.
This statement of the board put
at rest many misunderstandings
in regard to the official attitude
of the College toward raising these
junior colleges to senior rank.
At the present time the bill to
raise these institutions has been
passed by both the House and the
Senate of the Texas Legislature.
The House of Representatives, how-
ever, has refused to concur in
Senate amendments, and further
consideration of the bill has been
postponed until April 24.
AUSTIN HONOR
AGGIE SOLONS
The Capital A. & M. Club, Aus-
tin, turned out in full force at a
recent regular Monday noon
luncheon at the Driskill Hotel to
do honor to its special guests, the
A. & M. Ex-Student members of
the Texas Legislature. Among the
honor guests were Senators George
Moffett, Chillicothe, and Penrose
Metcalfe, San Angelo, both mem-
bers of the 1916 Class; Represen-
tatives Green Newell, '10, Elias-
ville; W. T. McDonald, ’33, Bryan;
Jeff Stinson, Dallas, and others.
Several other members of the
House who are Ex-Students of
A. & M. were unable to be present.
In the absence of Club President
Herman G. Heard, ’23, Vice Presi-
dent W. J. “Bill” Lawson, 22, pre-
sided. The Capital City Club
meets for luncheon every Monday ]
noon at the Driskill, and extends a
cordial invitation to all visiting
Aggies to be present.
Whing-Dilly
Is Success
At Houston
Several hundred members of the
Houston A. & M. Club and their
guests were present at that organi-
zation’s annual Spring Whing-
Dilly, held last Saturday night at
Dokey Hall in Houston. Coaches
Marty Karow, Hub McQuillen and
Lil Dimmitt, and members of he
Aggie baseball team were honor
guests. The party was in the nature
of a dutch supper, buffet style.
Presiding over the short speak-
ing program was Al Saenger, 232,
Goose Creek, who introduced va-
rious guests and later served as
impresario of the musical and
dancing part of the entertainment.
General chairman of arrangements
was Carleton Speed, 26, ably as-
sisted by Quartermaster Jack Pink,
217, Claude Everett, '20, and others.
Officers of the Club include Victor
Barraco, ’15, President, M. E.
“Dime” Dealy, '25, Vice President,
Jake Hamblen, 27, Secretary-
Treasurer, and the perennial Ser-
geant-At-Arms Charles R. Haile,
12. The Club meets each Monday
noon at the Rice Hotel.’
Ladies Night
At Ft. Worth
The Fort Worth A. & M. Club
will observe San Jacinto Day in
the form of a ladies night on the
evening of April 20 at the Lone
Star Gas Company auditorium in
Ft. Worth. The event will start at
8 p. m., and will feature the show-
ing of A. & M. movies by Athletic
Director Homer Norton and Asso-
ciation Secretary E. E. McQuillen.
Roy Falkenberg, ’27, is in charge
of the evening’s program and urges
that A. & M. men be attended by
their ladies.
Aggies Win
Track Meet
In a triangular meet at Kyle
Field last Saturday, “Dough” Rol-
ling’ Aggie track and field men
won an easy victory over Howard
Payne and Abilene Christian Col-
lege. The Cadets piled up 90 points,
Howard Payne running second with
541% while A. C. C. trailed with
only 25%. Scoring honors went to
Boedeker of Howard Payne with
121% points, closely pushed by
“Red” Cecil of the Aggies with
121%. The red head won both
dashes, took third in the broad
jump and anchored the winning
sprint relay team. One of the best
performances of the day was Ag-
gie Jerry Faubion’s 145 foot heave
of the discus.
Temple Plans
April 21 Party
The Bell County A. & M. Club
will observe April 21 with a meet-
ing and program arranged by a
committee consisting of Emil Wade,
’30, chairman; Sam Floca, Ar
W. C. “Bill” O’Dowd, '32; Robert
Cooper, 31; and H. O. Hill. On
March 27 the Temple and Bell
County Club were special guests
of the Bell County A. & M.
Mothers Club at a community
party, held at the Kyle Hotel in
Temple. Nearly one hundred people
were present, proceeds of the
evening going to the A. & M. Long-
horn for a full page in that publi-
cation for the Bell County A. & M.
Mothers Club.
Club Organized to
Help Ride Catching
College Students
An organization called the Na-
tional College-University Travel
Club is being formed for the pur-
pose of making ride-catching easier
and safer than here-to-fore for
college and university students, by
an A. & M. student.
The organization proposes the
sale of reflecting emblems which
can be obtained only by people
who are college students and mem-
bers of the organization.
This, it is said, will enable stu-
dents to be recognized by drivers
both by day and by night traveling
and will insure drivers of safe
pick-ups, thereby increasing the
number and classes of people who
pick up riders.
The plan was originated by
Keyes Carson of Cuero, an A. & M.
student.
CAPTAIN DONALD OLD, ’23,
U. S. Air Corps, was co-pilot on
the big bomber that flew to Chile
in February, carrying medical sup-
plies to the earthquake district. A
former Aggie track star during
his cadet days, Captain Old has be-
come a real veteran in the U. S.
Air Corps.
[and present
Port Arthur Club Officers
Officers of the Port Arthur Club,
under whose leadership that active
organization has established the
first four year A. & M. College
Scholarship, are shown above. In
the picture, top row, left to right
are 0. T. Hotchkiss, Jr., ’24, a past
president of the club, general chair.
man of the scholarship committee
Club Sergeant-At-
“Arms; M. L. Rosenberg, '22, an-
other past president and one of
the original founders of the Port
Arthur Club; Ned A. Scardino, ’29,
Vice President of the Port Arthur
Club. In the bottom row, left to
right, Charles V. Arisco, '36, Sec-
retary-Treasurer; Clyde V. May,
’26, Publicity Director, and L. L.
Laster, ’30, President, of the Port
Arthur Club.
Dallas Expects
Record Crowd
Advance ticket sales by members
of the Dallas A. & M. Club bear
out that organization’s claim that
this year’s April 21 Stag Party
will be one of the largest gather-
ings of A. & M. men ever held. The
big affair will be staged at the
Morriss Buick Co., Cedar Springs
and Pearl Streets, Dallas, and will
feature a “Dutch” buffet dinner
and football movies with sound ef-
fects by Homer Norton. All A. & M.
men are invited and many tickets
have already been sold in nearby
cities. The party starts at 6:30
P.M
A. F. MOURSUND, 95, IS DE-
scribed in a recent issue of the
Texas Parade as an engineer who
loves ranching. At the present
time he is district engineer at San
Angelo for the State Highway De-
partment.
Shortly after his graduation in
civil engineering in 1895, Mr. Mour-
sund went with the Southern Pa-
cific Railway until 1906, when he
decided to try his hand at ranch-
ing. Engineering called him back,
however, after two years, and he
returned to the Southern Pacific
until 1916. Ranching again got the
upper hand for another three years
before he returned to engineering.
Since 1923 he has been with the
State Highway Department, with
the exception of two years, 1925-
27, when he again engaged in
ranching. Mr. Moursund is a mem-
ber of the American Society of
Civil Engineers, a Thirty-Second
Degree Mason, and a Rotarian. He
is married and has two children.
HENRY B. “PAT”
'22, Laredo, one of the best known
contractors and builders in Texas,
was elected vice president at large
of the Associated General Con-
tractors of America at that or-
ganization’s meeting in San Fran-
cisco in March.
Zachry is expected to ascend to
the presidency of this organization
in 1940. Among others in the Texas
group at the convention was J.
Rutledge “Perch” Hill, '13, presi-
dent of the Texas Highway Branch,
A. G. C., and past president of The
National Sand and Gravel Associa-
tion. He is a member of the firm
of Gifford-Hill and Company, Inc.
of Dallas.
ZACHRY, |
Longhorns In As
Opponents Fold
The Conference baseball race is
over almost before the half-way
mark with the Texas Longhorns
practically in possession of the
flag. When the Aggies split a two
game series against Rice last week-
end they ended their already slim
chances to make the race a close
affair. Texas is undefeated in con-
ference play, while the Aggies,
Baylor, and S. M. U. have each
lost four games and are still ahead
of Rice and T. C. U.
Unsteadiness of a fine college
pitching staff, and the lack of a
real batting punch has been the
Aggie downfall.
Munnerlyn’s Team of
Insurance Company
Win Annual Contest
A team headed by Ford Munner-
lyn, ’26, district manager for Sea-
board Life Insurance Company of
Houston, won first place in the an-
nual March of Progress campaign
held each year in March by the
company. Mr. Munnerlyn’s team
finished 124 points above the sec-
ond team.
In March the College Station
agency for Seaboard sold $233,000
in life insurance, with Sidney L.
Loveless, editor of the 1938 Long-
horn, heading the agency with
$78,117.
Two other Aggie exes are in the
College Station agency, A. H. Mec-
Cutcheon, ’38, and H. E. Burgess,
29,
R. T. “BOB” SHIELS, ’10, STILL
down but far from out, is slowly
staging recovery from his serious
auto accident near:y two months
ago. He is in St. Pauls Hospital in
Dallas. Chief of his injuries is a
badly damaged hip. Recent visitors
found the big fellow cheerful and
full of fight despite the long siege
he has been thru and the certainty
that he must remain in bed sev-
eral additional months. He is an
official of the General Electric Co.
at Dallas, a past president of the
Dallas A. & M. Club and a pres-
ent member of the Board of Direc-
tors of the Association. He can re-
ceive visitors now and will also
enjoy letters from his friends.
Waco To Honor
Prexy Walton
With A. & M. President T. O.
Walton as honor guest and with
all A. & M. men in central Texas
invited, the Waco Club will stage
a San Jacinto Day party, Wednes-
day, April 19, 6:30 p. m., in the
banquet room of the Roosevelt
Hotel in Waco. The largest gather-
ing since the old Cotton Palace
days is expected by officers of the
Waco Cluby
Vice President Bob O’Connell, ’33,
will preside. The committee on
arrangements includes Ben F.
“Reveille” Brown, ’23; Hubert
“Crabby” Davis, "22; and Joe Scud-
der, ’20. New officers will also be
elected at the meeting.
Young Charlie
Beats Old Pat
Kyle Field of twenty or more
years ago looked more natural to
a few oldsters who last Friday
watched the Aggie Fish baseball
team [beat the Gatesville High
team. Coaching the Gatesville
youngsters was P. H. “Pat” Olsen,
16 famed Cadet pitcher of his
day and one-time Baseball cap-
tain. But even “Pat's” wisdom
couldn’t put his lads over with Fish
Star Charley Stevenson sending 15
of the visitors back to their bench
muttering “He hasn’t got a thing”.
The score was 7-2.
Stevenson walked but one man
and gave up six hits. His battery
mate was Earl “bama’ Smith. Out-
side of Stevenson’s performance
the Fish were not impressive.
Waxahachie Party
The Waxahachie A. & M. Club
will meet on the night of April 19
in that city with Homer Norton
and his football movies as enter-
tainment features. Plans for the
party are being made by Dr. J. R.
Gill, ’35, of Waxahachie. All
A. & M. men of that area are ex-
tended a cordial invitation to at-
tend.
F. F. A. Vocational
Judging Contests To
Be Staged April 17
The 22nd Vocational Judging
Contest, in which entrants from
high schools from all parts of
Texas will participate will be held
Monday at A. & M. under the aus-
pices of the Junior and Senior chap-
ters of the Future Farmers of
America.
This contest, which features ten
types of judging, is limited to
boys over Texas who are members
of the Future Farmers of America.
This year, Mr. Henry Ross, who is
chairman of the contest rules
committee, expects some 2500 boys
to attend.
The judging classes will be in
livestock, dairy, poultry, crops, en-
tomology, cotton, horticu ture, farm
shop, plant production. soil con-
servation, and wild life. All of
the contest judges ae chosen by
the contest superintendent, and are
members of the faculties under the
various judging events.
Assured
Movie T heater
A movie theater for College Sta-
tion was assured today by N. E.
Boughton, Developer of College
Hills Estates, city residential and
business addition.
“We will have a picture show
erected here in time for use next
fall,” Mr. Boughton said. He did
not go into details.
College Hills Estates is now su-
ing the Bryan Amusement Comp-
any for $25,000 damages and can-
cellation of a deed to a tract of
land in College Hills for failure to
erect a building as they allege the
Bryan concern should have done.
The Bryan Amusement Company
has not yet filed defendant’s peti-
tion in answer to the one filed in
District Court by College Hills.
First Four Year Scholarship
To Be Awarded High School
Graduate By Pt. Arthur Club
LT. “+
A scholarship, making possible
attendance at Texas A. & M. for
four years, has been established
by the Port Arthur A. & M. Club
and will be awarded to a member
of the 1939 graduating class of
the Port Arthur Thomas Jeffer-
son High School, according to an
announcement by L. L. Laster, ’30,
President of the Port Arthur Club.
The Club has had this matter under
consideration for some time and
the above decision results from the
activities of a special committee
of investigation, approved by the
membership of the Port Arthur
A. & M. Club.
The scholarship will be granted
for a four year period and wiil
carry the following awards; an
annual cash value of $150, paid
the recipient of the scholarship by
the Port Arthur A. & M. Club; a
guarantee of a student job at
College through which the student
may earn as much as $150 per
year. These two sources of revenue,
with his summer earnings, will
enable any student to attend Texas
A. & M.
General requirements to be met
by applicants for the scholarship
are as follows: He must rank in
the upper 25 per cent of his class
scholastically; He must be finan-
cially unable to attend College in
any other way; He must provide
$50 of his own money at the open-
ing of school each year.
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The boy selected must maintain
satisfactory scholastic records
while holding the scholarship, and
will be required to report in per-
son to the club from time to time.
Applicants - will be considered on
the basis of character, personality,
school activities, outside activities
and any other points which may be
deemed desirable by the Scholar-
ship Committee.
Graduates of both January and
June, 1939 classes of the Port
Arthur High School are eligible for
the award. Students desiring in-
formation or consideration for the
scholarship should make applica-
tion in writing to Oscar T. Hotch-
kiss, 4615 Sunken Court, Port
Arthur, prior to April 15, 1939.
NEW CLUB TO
BE ORGANIZED
AT COLORADO
Youngest A. & M. Club is an
organization formed recently at
Colorado, Texas, known as the
Colorado A. & M. Club. Call for
the meeting was made by Jack
Christian, ’32, Colorado High
School athletic director and coach,
and former star Aggie football
linesman.;
W. W. “Rube” Whipkey, ’11,
Colorado printer and publisher, was
named temporary president, with
J. Wiley Holmes, ’37, temporary
fiom wi A permanent organiza-
tion will be affected at the group's
next meeting. It is planned to hold
monthly meetings. Among those
present were the following: Joe C.
Williams, 27; Jack Christian, ’32;
Joe H. Smoot, ’11; R. H. DeLaney,
23; B. W. Scott, ’11; R. C. Made-
ley, Vernon, ’35; F. C. Shilling-
burg, ’35; R. L. Thigpin, 33; M. A.
Stinson, 33; J. L. Galey, '35; L. F.
Lawhon, ’32; C. H. Case, ’38; Dr. J.
D. Williams, ’35; A. B. Kyle, 34;
F. W. Parker, ’30; J. W. Holmes,
37; H. W, Sanders, 22; W. W.
Whipkey, 11.
THE PORT ARTHUR CLUB
will celebrate April 21 with its
annual San Jacinto Dinner-Bridge
Party with the wives and sweet-
hearts of members as honor guests.