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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1942 1928 WILLIAM H. FABIAN, Hous- ton life insurance executive, has been appointed a member of the Houston Housing Authority, a non- salaried position. Active in civic affairs Fabian during the past year has served as secretary to the Coliseum Board in Houston. He is also an active member of the Houston A. and M. Club. LADDIE J. LESIKAR, owner of the Lesikar Electric Company, Palestine, is putting some more gray hairs in his head worrying about priorities to get materials to finish his contract on the new AAA Building under construction on the campus. LIEUTENANT GEORGE MUR- CHINSON, who took his degree in mechanical engineering, recently left for England after being select- ed by Government Officials in Washington to make a survey of aeronautical conditions with the U. S. Embassy in London. After graduating from A. & M,, Murchinson worked as an engineer for the Texas Oil Company, later entering the air service at Ran- dolph Field, San Antonio. Later he was sent to Shreveport as an aeronautical instructor. When the C. A. A. came into being he was sent as a member of the organization to Chicago to serve as aeronautical inspector, at which task he was employed when |i he received his appointment, being the first to be chosen from the C. A. A. for the responsible under- taking. MELVIN A. SMITH has been promoted from a First Lieutenant to the temporary grade of Captain in the U. S. Marine Corps. He was formerly of Houston and has been in service since last spring. He has been stationed at San Diego, California. Prior to his service he was with W. C. Curtin and Company, Houston. A recent campus visitor was E. R. “TONY” TORN, head of the Agricultural Division of the East Texas Chamber of Commerce and believe it or not—slim as a ballet dancer. He declares he is getting ready for the Japs and started preparation by losing many pounds. 1929 OLIN M. GEER is living at 511 Central Avenue, LaPorte, In- diana, where he is with the Allis Chalmers Manufacturing Com- pany. As a student at A. & M,, Geer took agricultural engineering. LIEUTENANT JOE HYLAND is a Senior Lieutenant in the Navy being called to active duty last No- vember. He is stationed in New York City and resides at the Al- lerton House, 143 East 39th Street, New York City. Since leaving A. & M. he has been employed by the Gulf Oil Corporation and has had extensive experience with marine problems. He was raised on the campus and is the son of the late Sergeant J. C. Hyland, who served as a member of the Military Staff of the College for so many years. L. G. LAPHAM is doing full ‘time teaching in the Physies De- partment at A. & M. He took his B. S. degree in E. E. and upon graduation went with the Western Union Tele. Co. In 1939 he was with the Shell Oil Company in Louisiana and resigned that posi- tion to come back to A. & M. for part time teaching and graduate study in physics. He was added to the Physics Dept. staff during the spring term of the past school year. J. B. PARR, who formerly was known to his friends as “Senator” Parr, is now Major J. B. Parr, Ex- ecutive Officer of the 52nd Bat- talion, Camp Wolters, Texas. He was called to active duty about a year ago from his position as Di- vision Installation Foreman of the Southwest Bell Telephone Com- pany at Houston. After completing the Officers’ Training School at Fort Benning, he was assigned to Camp Wolters, where he served as the company commander before being given his present assign- ment. Major Parr is a past president of the Houston A. and M. Club. He and Mrs. Parr and their daughter, age 8, make their home at 2611 Crocker Street, Houston. WILLIAM P. “BILL” PATTON, Lockhart, well known cotton breeder, reports that the cotton- seed business is better than usual this year. 1930 CAPTAIN JACK A. BARNES, of Fort Sam Houston, has been transferred to 3rd Chemical Com- pany (Maintenance), Camp Haan, Riverside County, California. Be- fore being inducted into the Army, Barnes was associated with the Trinity Portland Cement Company with headquarters at Corpus Chris- ti, Texas. STUART S. LANGFORD is with the Humble Oil and Refining Com- pany at Foster, Louisiana. EARLIE B. NEEDHAM who took his degree in Civil Engineer- ing with electives in Municipal and Sanitary Engineering is now in health work and attended the Water-Works short course at A. & THE TEXAS AGGIE M. during the week of February 9. Following graduation Needham went with Cities Service Oil Com- pany Refinery at East Chicago, Ind. After serving with that Com- pany for six years he was with the Standard Oil Company Refin- ery, Whiting, Ind., and later with U. S. Steel, Gary, Ind., before re- turning to Texas. After a year in Coleman as a consulting engineer he became Sanitary Engineer for the Abilene-Taylor County Health Unit. He makes his home at 1934 N. 2nd, Abilene, Texas. JERRELL R. POWELL, chief electrical inspector for the City of Dallas, is back in the Army. Powell, a first lieutenant, was called to service, released when things weren’t looking so bad, then ordered back to active duty after three months. 1931 SECOND LIEUTENANT LLOYD F. BADGETT has been called to active duty and reported to Fort Benning, Georgia Febru- ary 8. He has been employed at Texarkana at the government shell-loading plant. ROBERT L. BULLOCK is with the Carter Oil Company and gets his mail at Box 801, Tulsa, Okla- homa. He is doing geophysics for Carter. As a student at A. & M,, Bullock took electrical engineer- ng. THERMAN A. HENDERSON is living at 2240 Pecos Boulevard, Beaumont, where he is connected with Engineering Department of the Pennsylvania Shipyards, Inec., of that city. JOE M. MARTIN is still with the Farm Security Administration as regional assistant collection of- ficer with headquarters in Dallas. His residence address is 3441 Nor- mandy, Dallas. CAPTAIN FRANK H. NEW- NAM, JR. of the United States Engineers Office, Galveston, was one of the principal lecturers at a recent University of Texas Con- ference on soil mechanics and foun- dation engineering. He addressed the conference on “Utilization of Available Materials for Airport Construction.” Newnam was form- erly a research engineer in the State Highway Laboratory at Aus- tin. 1932 TOM E. HAY, JR. is living at 7017 Hemlock, Houston. Hay is secretary of the Hughes Tool Com- pany at Houston. CLINT W. HERRING, manager of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Com- pany, 402 North Port Avenue, Corpus Christi, has received his orders to report to Fort Riley, Kansas, for active duty with the Cavalry Replacement Center. HENRY F. KOTHMANN has been given leave of absence for the duration of the war for mili- tary service by the A. & M. Ex- tension Service. He was county agent for Reagan County. FIRST LIEUTENANT PERCY J. MIMS reported for active duty at Boling Field, Washington, D. C,, on February 6. He has been living in Washington, D. C., where he was with the Federal Crop In- surance Corporation. Mrs. Mims and their son continue to live in Washington. CAPTAIN GEORGE E. SCHU- NIOR formerly of Houston and College Station, is assigned to the Adjutant General’s Office (Ma- chine Records Section), Munitions Building, Washington, D. C. In Room 1026 of this building, by some rare coincidence, all four of- ficers are A. & M. graduates. George has been on duty at Fort Sam Houston for the past year. His Washington address is 4011 Veazey Street, N. W. Before going into the Service, Schunior was with the Reed-Roller Bit Company, Houston, and previously on the staff in the Registrar’s Office, of A. & M. S. B. STEWART is living at 7123 Avenue C, Apartment No. 1, Houston. He is working for the Houston Lighting and Power Com- any. p DR. WILLIAM S. TERRY is doing a general practice of medi- cine and surgery in Jefferson, Texas, his home town. He has been practicing for the past four years. He gets his mail at P, O. Box 465 of that city. FIRST LIEUTENANT LOUIS M. THOMPSON’S present address is Company E, 2nd Training Bat- talion, 1st Student Training Regt., Fort Benning, Ga. J. B. TURNER’S new mailing address is 750 South Frederick, Evansville, Indiana. 1933 LIEUTENANT ROSS D. MAR- GRAVES was a recent campus vis- itor as a member of the U. S. Naval Recruiting Party. LILBOURN G. MORGAN is liv- ing at 251 Boulevard, Shreveport, Louisiana. Morgan has recently been elected a director of Bolinger Lumber & Supply Co., Inc., Bossier City, Louisiana. MALCOLM L. WILSON has been on active duty over a year and when last heard from was lo- A — MACHINE & SAM INDUSTRIAL & WATER SUPPLIES Five Complete Stocks SAN ANTONIO Waco - Austin - Corpus Christi - Harlingen ; San Antonio SCO SUPPLY CO. Bill Lewis Ex-Captain Rifle Team Shoots Python in Dark By Ken Bresnen And then the Japs wonder why MacArthur is still holding them off in the Phillipines! It is all very simple when you stop to think that there is more than one man there who can shoot like Bill Lewis, ’40. Several days ago Lewis and two other soldiers were on a scouting party when in the dark they came across a large python who seemed to be on a midnight marauding party of his own. The others be- came alarmed, but Bill in typical Aggie calmness simply said, “Step back a little boys, so I don’t hurt you.” Then, drawing his .45, he fired six shots into the dark. When the snakes gyrations had ceased, they approached the carcass and one of the officers ventured to use his flash light even though it might have exposed the party to enemy observation. Six shots in the dark—six shots true to their mark, Of the half dozen holes in the hide of the big snake, three were dead center! They had broken his spinal column. Shortly afterward, Mrs. Lewis, Bill’s wife, received a letter from him telling that he had sent the skin to Australia to be tanned. The first time he has a chance, he plans to have a pair of shoes and a belt made out of the skin for his wife. While he was attending A. & M.,, Lewis was captain of the pistol team. “One of the most expert shots A. & M. has produced,” commented M. L. Cashion, an old friend of the family. | Yes, with men like Lieut. Bill Lewis who can kill pythons in the dark, and Captain Arthur Wer- muth who has killed 116 Japs ac- cording to War Department re- leases, it isn’t any wonder that our armies in the Far East are making an unbelievably gallant stand. And the Nipponese thought they want- ed to pick on us! Lieut. Bill Lewis, 40, is on duty with the Coast Artillery Corps in the Phillipine Islands, where he proved his training on the A. & M. pistol team was not wasted by any means, as he killed a large snake one night while on duty. cated at Fort Bragg, North Caro- lina, as a First Lieutenant. Wil- son was with the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company in their Engineering Department when called to active duty. His home was at Princeton, Texas. RICHARD H. “BEAR” WRIGHT has received his promotion to Cap- tain. He has been stationed at Fort Ringgold, Rio Grande City, Texas, and he and Mrs. Wright are happy over the birth of a daughter in December. In addition to other assignments at Fort Ring- | gold, Captain Wright serves as ex- change officer and athletic of- ficer. His home town is Alice. 1934 JOHN R. “BOB” ACKENHAUS- EN has received his promotion to the rank of captain. He is on ac- tive duty at Camp Wolters, Texas. DONALD S. ELLIOTT writes to change his address to 1328 Jack- son Avenue, New Orleans, Louisi- ana. As a student at A. & M., Don came from Fort Worth, was a member of the Ross Volunteers, and social secretary of the Senior Class of 1933. F. J. FEAGIN, research geo- physicist for the Humble Oil and Refining Company, Houston, is on leave of absence this spring to assist the Electrical Engineering Department of the College in giv- ing a special course in ultra high frequency technique. The course is given to seniors in the Electrical Engineering Department at the re- quest of the War Department and is under the general direction of Professor H. C. Dillingham, ’22. JAMES C. McBRIDE has been granted a leave of absence for the duration of the war for military service by the A. & M. Extension Service as county agricultural agent for Live Oak County, with headquarters at George West, Tex- as. JOHN G. OTTS is with the York Ice Machinery Corporation, Atlan- ta, Georgia, and gets his mail at Box 2210 of that city. As a stu- dent at A. & M. Otts took mechan- ical engineering, was editor of the Technoscope in 1934, and in H. Company, Infantry. He registered from Cuero, Texas, and has been with the York Ice Machinery Corp- oration since graduation. JOHN W. PITTMAN, district superintendent of the Shell Oil Company in the East Texas field, has been ordered to active duty as a First Lieutenant and reported February 9 to Camp Wolters. He has been with Shell since his grad- uation in electrical engineering and East Texas District Superintend- ent for the past two years. He is chairman of the East Texas Chap- ter of the American Petroleum Institute and has been given leave of absence while serving in the army. CHARLES VAN DE PUTTE is still in South America where his address is Santa Fe 2861, Buenos Aires, Argentina, but expects to return to the States this spring. LIEUTENANT THOMAS K. SMITHWICK, formerly of Gar- land, Texas, has been on active duty for about a year at Camp Blanding, Florida. When called to active duty he was with the Engi- neering Department of Allis- Chalmers Manufacturing Company, LaPorte, Indiana. 1935 JAMES C. BRADLEY reports that he has been working in the Design Department for the Ten- nessee Valley Authority for the past year. His address is Taze- well Pike, Route 12, Fountain City, Tenn. MORRIS S. BURTON is civilian telephone engineer with the Signal Corps, U. S. Army, at Washington, D. C. For the past several years Burton has been with the Gulf States Telephone Company at Ty- ler, Texas. PHILIP H. CRIGLER is junior directer of physical training of the Army Air Corps Station at the Pilot Replacement Center at Kelly Field, Texas. His address is 1307 Russell Place, San Antonio. A recent feature story telling of American Army activities in the Bataan Sector carried news of LIEUTENANT TOM DOOLEY, who is serving as aide to Major General John Wainwright. Dooley is the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Dooley, of McKinney, and as a student at A. and M. was head yell leader, a member of the Ross Volunteers, and active in other student affairs. GEORGE D. KEATHLEY is camp superintendent of the CCC- Soil Conservation Service Camp 44-T, Floydada, Texas, where he gets his mail at Box 255. LIEUTENANT HENRY MAY- FIELD, JR., is on active duty at the Field Artillery School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Mayfield was an architect in Bryan before being inducted into the Service. LIEUTENANT J. GRANVILLE PARKER, his wife and four-year old son, are safe and well at Wheel- er Field, near Honolulu, accord- ing to recent news. They were transferred from Pearl Harbor to Wheeler Field just a few days be- fore the December Japanese raid. Lieutenant Parker is in the radio and signal corps. WILBERT H. RANDOW is serving as a Field Executive with the Boy Scouts of America. Wil- bert was a member of the track team during his student days. He is married and makes his home at 414 Clarksville St., Paris, Texas. LIEUTENANT ROY M. VICK, JR., was recently promoted to a Captain by General MacArthur be- cause of his distinguished service in the Philippine Campaign. WALTER M. YOUNG has been named county agent of Smith County with headquarters at Tyler. He has previously served as as- sistant county agent there. Young took the place of veteran County Agent Gentry who died February 12. Mr. Gentry was the oldest county agent in the United States in active service. Young has served as assistant county agent at Tyler since his graduation. 1936 BEN M. BROWNING has been appointed county agent of Gregg County with headquarters at Long- view. He was formerly county agent at Marshall and succeeds C. B. Potts, 24, who recently ac- cepted a position with the Pro- duction Credit Association at Robs- town. L. C. EAKIN is assistant county agent of Wharton County with headquarters at Wharton and turn- ing in an outstanding job in that capacity. He was one of the first students at A. and M. to live under the cooperative program and was a member of the Senior Dairy Judging Team. Before going to Wharton, he taught vocational ag- riculture at Woodson and served as secretary to the Waller County AAA at Hempstead. FIRST LIEUTENANT JOE MOORE is on active duty at the Reception Center at Camp Wolters, Texas. ENSIGN MEARL G. TAYLOR is a pilot in the U. S. Naval Air Force. His address is V P-83, c/o Postmaster, Morgan Annex, New York City, N. Y. FIRST LIEUTENANT WAL- TER H. MOORE, formerly of Waco and more recently of La Porte, Indiana, left February 6 for active duty at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. He was with the Allis- Chalmers Manufacturing Company when called to active duty. 1937 ELMO V. COOK has been trans- ferred from Eastland to Taylor County as county agricultural agent, with headquarters at Abil- ene, Texas. WALTER M. DAGGETT, who has been with the Soil Conserva- tion Service for the past several years, has received orders for ac- tive duty. Daggett is a First Lieu- tenant assigned to the 67th In- fantry Training Battalion, Camp Wolters, Texas. Daggett reports there are so many ex-Aggies at Camp Wolters, that it looks like an A. & M. Homecoming! A stud- ent at A, & M., Daggett was Cap- tain Headquarters First Battalion Infantry, a member of the Saddle & Sirloin Club, a member of the Scholarship Honor Society, and a native of Fort Worth, Texas. ROY EARLE DELAY, of Dallas, has been made an ensign in the Naval Reserve, classed a special- ist in naval aviation. He was grad- uated at the Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida. PRIVATE RAY E. DICKSON, JR., is in the Army now and as- signed to Battery B, 47th Field Artillery, Phoenix, Arizona. He is the son of RAY E. DICKSON, ’12, Spur, Texas. GUS A. ELLIS, of Bryan, re- cently entered Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. He expects to be there for 18 months after which he will be in the service of the government as an accountant. Since his graduation he has been with the Firestone Rubber Co., Houston, as district store account- ant. LIEUTENANT BURTON E. HULL has received his wings at Mather Field, California and as- signed to duty at Selmer, Ala- bama. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Burt E. Hull, '04, 2591 North McGregor Drive, Houston, Texas. H. D. KAY, JR, is an aviation cadet assigned to Squadron 3, Flight B, A. C. R. D., Kelly Field, Texas. Kay enlisted in December. LIEUTENANT JIM P. LOVE is on active duty in the office of the Chemical Officer, 2nd Air Force, Spokane, Washington. WOODROW WILSON MUNN has been appointed acting county agricultural agent by the A. & M. Extension Service for Reagan County with headquarters at Big Lake. Munn was formerly with the Farm Security Administration at Pecos, Texas. LIEUTENANT A. G. NICHOLS, of Dallas, is Base Chemical Officer at Gowen Field, Boise, Idaho. While a student at A. & M. Nich- ols was a roommate of Lieutenant Jim P. Love, ’37, of Spokane, Washington. LIEUTENANT SAMUEL SS. RUTLEDGE is on active duty with the U. S. Army, Utilities Division, Camp Barkeley, Texas. LIEUTENANT JOHN H. ZICH is on active duty at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Aberdeen, Mary- land. He is proof officer on com- bat vehicle test work. He likes his | work very much. JOHN H. ZICH is a Lieutenant in the Ordnance Division at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Mary- land. He was formerly with the Allis - Chalmers Manufacturing Company in the Engineering De- partment. 1938 LIEUTENANT JOHN H. BONE, Wichita Falls, has been called to active duty with the 60th Battal- ion, Company A, Camp Wolters, Texas. John has seen so many of his old buddies it is almost like coming back to A. & M. While a | I student, Bone was first lieutenant of the Band, president of the Sen- | ior Class, a member of the Stud- ent Welfare Committee, and list- ed in Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities. Since graduation Bone has been work- ing in Dallas. WILSON B. BUCKLEY wants his TEXAS AGGIE sent to Boone- ville, Arkansas, Box 123, instead of Madison, Wisconsin. O. L. BURK, who has been teaching vocational agriculture at Priddy, Texas, has been trans- ferred in the same capacity to Paint Rock, Texas . AVIATION CADET WARREN E. CHURCH is attending the Ad- vanced Flying School at Albuquer- que, New Mexico, where he is training as a bombardier. Church is a former football player at A. & M. LIEUTENANT WILLIAM B. COWAN, JR., has been transferred to Globe, Arizona. He was former- ly at Ft. Huachuca, Arizona. LIEUTENANT W. A. “BILL” FRENCH, JR. is on active duty at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. He and Mrs. French and their young son, W. A. French, III, are living at 1002 West Elsmere, San An- tonio, Texas. “Bill” is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. French, ’13, Abilene, Texas. Before being in- ducted into the Army, Bill was a junior member in the firm of French and Pruit, consulting engi- neers of Abilene. LESLIE C. GATES has been granted a leave of absence for the duration of the war for military service by the A. & M. Extension Page 3 Service as assistant county agri- cultural agent for Bexar County, San Antonio, Texas. CHARLES V. GRIFFIN, assist- ant county agent of Wheeler Coun- ty for the past year, has been made county agricultural agent at An- son, Texas. LIEUTENANT ROBERT UL. HARDY, of San Antonio, missed being in Honolulu at Pearl Har- bor on December 7 about a week. He received orders to proceed westward from Honolulu just a week before. WILLIAM M. HOLLAND is liv- ing at Crockett, Texas. HARRY IGO, formerly assist- ant county agricultural agent at Plainview, is now a Lieutenant in the A. C. F. C., Municipal Airport, Long Beach, California. He is on a Ferry Command with the Air Corps. DR. WILLIAM T. KIRK has re- cently resigned from the Bureau of Animal Industry and opened a general veterinary practice in Nat- chitoches, Louisiana, in the Red River bottoms plantation country. He is finding the new work in- tensely interesting. LIEUTENANT DON L. LAN- FORD is on active duty at Scho- field Barracks, Territory of Ha- waii. Don is another one of the Lanford boys from Blanket, Tex- as. He reports there are over 100 Aggies on the Island. H. W. “BUCK” LAUGHLIN is a private with the U. S. Marine Corps. He is located at the Marine Barracks, Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington. FIRST LIEUTENANT SIDNEY L. LOVELESS has been ordered to active duty at Fort Riley, Kan- sas, and writes that he and Mrs. Loveless are happily situated. His address is Box 143, Junction City, Kansas. FIRST LIEUTENANT L. J. Mc- NEILL, JR., Brazoria, was called to active service in February, re- porting to Camp Wolters. Since his graduation he has been active- ly engaged in ranching in Bra- zoria County and in West Texas in Crosby County. He is attached to the 53d Infantry Battalion. A. A. “ANDY” MOORE, D. V. M., has been on duty with the CCC for some time and is now located at Camp SCS-27-N, Albuquerque, N. M. . FIRST LIEUTENANT TOM B. STROTHER, C. A. C. Military De- partment, of the College, was given an appointment in the reg- ular army on February 1. B:LL RECTOR, assistant county agent at Vernon, Texas, has re- ceived his military orders and will report to Fort Benning, Georgia, on March 1. ; LIEUTENANT JOE ROUTT, former Aggie All-American foot- ball star, has been ordered to ac- tive duty. He has been making his home in Houston. CARL E. SORY, who is on active duty at A. & M. in the Military Department, was promoted on I'ebruary 1 from First Lieutenant to a Captain. He is in the field artillery. (54 SERVIC TO THE NATION PS Wy a: IN Ih \ i J ayy mr —— m—— iil Tm ll ervice lo the nation in peace and war’ Following the last World War a bronze and marble group was placed nation in peace and war.” in the lobby of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company build- ing in New York. On it are inscribed these words, “Service to the They are more than words. They are the very spirit of the entire again to the service of the nation . . people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 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