Published Weekly by the Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
VOL. XXVIII
BRYAN, TEXAS, OCTOBER 9, 1929.
NO. 4
A.& M.TO PARTICIPATE IN STATE FAIR DALLAS
ROSS VOLUNTEER
OFFICERS ELECTED
Hable to Head Organization.
R. E. Hable, Corsicana, was elected
captain and Louis A. M; bhamehl,
Beeville, first lieutenant and second
in command at a meeting of the Ross
Volunteers in the “Y” chapel Sun
day afternoon.
Hable, a captain on the corps
staff this year, is a popular man on
the campus and until he was taken
off the train for an appendicitis op
eration while on his way to the pre
season training camp was expected
to be one of the outstanding con
tenders for an end position on the
Aggie grid team this fall. Last
year he was a reserve guard and
end on the squad.
E. C. Werner, San Antonio, a mem
ber of the Aggieland Orchestra, and
Curtis M. Everts, Houston, captain
of Troop A, Cavalry, were chosen as
second lieutenants. John Neal, Den
ton, was elected secretary-treasurer
of the organization.
All of these men have been prom
inent in student and R. V. activities
on the campus in the past and are
well known on the campus.
Most of the junior members of
the Volunteers last year are back for
the present session and with the elec
tion of new seniors a week after the
Fort Worth corps trip and juniors
two weeks later, the full quota of
the company will be reached.
Last year a committee headed by
Curtis Everts was named to draw
up a new constitution and they are
at present working upon one that
will eliminate objectionable features
shown in the past.
IN MEMORIAM.
Allen P. Powell, student of A. & M. College from Center
ville, was killed Sunday afternoon, October 6, when the air
plane in which he was riding crashed near his home. The plane
was carrying three passengers and was piloted by an exper
ienced pilot when the accident occured. All four people were
killed.
While at an altitude of approximately 1500 feet one of the
wings buckled, folding back over the cock-pit and hurtled to
the ground, killing the pilot and passengers almost instantly.
Powell, though a junior in classification, was in his first
year at A. and M., having attended his basic years at John
Tarleton, where he was a major in the cadet corps, an in
structor in military science and president of his senior class.
The accident occured on Powell’s twenty-first birthday,
sixteen minutes after the hour of his death.
A firing squad composed of freshmen from A Company,
Infantry, and several freshmen from other organizations who
had been Powell’s classmates at Tarleton was sent to offi
ciate at the funeral.
Powell, though only a member of the Aggie cadet corps
a few days, had already demonstrated characteristics which
marked him as a man possessing abilities which would have
made him an invaluable asset to the school. His death has
left indelibly stamped upon the minds of the members of the
cadet corps the feeling that they have lost a dear friend and
valuable comrade.
Did you know that Bo McMillan’s
nephew was the star of the Aggie-
Purdue conflict and will direct his
best talent to make up for the humil
iation his uncle suffered in Dallas
in 1921.
Plans for Rodeo
Now Being Made
Movement to make the eleventh
annual Rodeo and Pageant to be
present by the Saddle and Sirloin
Club Friday, November 8, the largest
and most colorful in the history of
the club was begun at a recent meet
ing when the committee for arrang
ing the program was appointed.
H. E. Smith was appointed Ring-
ma.ster, D. H. Taylor, business man
ager; A. V. Pearson, social direc
tor; D. W. Shei’rill, publicity direc
tor; and N. E. Schuessler, decora
tion director.
In an effort to make the rodeo the
most thrilling ever staged at A. &
M., this committee is arranging for
the wildest possible broncs and
steers that can be imported, and it
is said that when the arrangements
are complete the nerve of the most
daring riders at A. and M. will be
put to the supreme test.
The riders are to be selected ac
cording to their daring and experi
ence. With an array of excellent
riders that the school boasts, some
real cowboys will probably be found
to make the show so spectacular as
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College Debaters
Discuss Plans
The College Debaters met last
Thursday night for the purpose of
reorganizing the Forensic Society
and to discuss the plans for the
on-coming i year. The election of of
ficers was held and the following
men took their respective offices
for this term: P. L. Tracy, president;
W. G. Alexander, vice-president; S.
C. Leslie, secretary-treasurer; and
W. G. Carnahan, publicity agent.
These were chosen from the ten
members present. The meetings here
after will be held every second
Thursday night in the “Y” parlor,
and a cordial invitation is extended
by President Tracy to all the stu
dents interested in debating.
The Forensic Society and plans to
make the meetings more interest
ing were discussed and the club vot
ed unanimously to organize with
the purpose of furthering speech at
A. and M.
At the next meeting a debate will
be held on tthe question; Resolved:
That the United States should adopt
National Marriage and Divorce Laws.
The negative will be upheld by
Tracy, Johnson, Perry, and Carna-
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AGGIE GAME TO BE
OUR MAIN EVENT
Animal Husbandry and Extension
Service Plan Exhibits.
Contributing the major sport event
of the opening day of the State Fair
of Texas at Dallas Saturday October
12 and a number of agricultural and
animal husbandry exhibits depicting
outstanding problems of the farm
and the progress that is being made
in their solution, the A. and M. Col
lege of Texas is taking no small
part in the State Fair this year.
Coach Matty Bell’s Texas Aggies
will meet the Kansas Aggies of
Coach Bo McMillan in the major in-
tersectiona 1 v u o, »t of the Southwest
on the opening day at the Fair Park
Stadium to contribute their part to
ward making the fair one of the
most successful in history. The game
is expected to attract one of the
largest crowds ever gathered in Dal
las for a similar event.
The rainbow of hope and opportu
nity will flash from a badly run
down, eroded farm to a well terrac
ed thrifty farm growing legumes
and cover crops in addition to cotton
and corn in the feature exhibits of
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