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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, MAY 2. 1934
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NUMBER 30
Heldenfels
Some Reasons High School
Boys Should Come to A and M
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Endorsement of Victor Made
by Present Editor of Year
book.
Tony Heklenfels, junior student
of afrrkulturai admfnigtration from
Beeville, member of Battery' “B",
Coast Artillery, was elected edi
tor of the 1935 Lonfhorn at a
meeting of the junior clsuis, held
Thursday night. April 26, by a
'majority eote of 83-68 over Gard
ner Post, runner-up from San An
tonio.
This election was a run-off which
resulted from a plurality vote cast
for the two men in the primary,
held on the Tuesday evening im
mediately preceding the spring
holidays, in which Edward Mat
tingly, I* Grange, the only other
candidate for the editorship, was
eliminated.
• - Heldenfels. a member of the
Ross Volunteers, has been work
ing on the Longhorn staff for a
full year, and received the endorse
ment of the present editor, Bill
Dryden, previous to the election.
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Elected Editor
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TdMESSES PRESS
CLUB IT BANQUET
Tlstngrr Elected ‘ to
Prewt (iroup During
Year.
l/ead
Next
HORT. SOCIETY TO
HOLD PICNIC NEXT
THURSDAY, MAY 10
«. C. HELDENFELS
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H. Ci Heldenfels, junior student
from Bpeville, will edit The Long
horn ndxt year.
Textile Eng. School
Lloyd Gregory, sports editor of
■ the Houston Post, addressed mem
bers of the A and M Press Club
at their annual spring havquet
Friday evening, April 27, in the
banquet room of the mess hall.
For his subject, ^ Mr. Gregory
chose some of the interesting ex
periences in his career as a sports
writer. This was the last formal
meeting of the club this year,
though a business meeting will be
held within the next few weeks,
at which time senior members will
be presented the official club key.
Besides forty-five members of
the club, the following guests were
present: Dean F. C. Bolton; Dan
iel Russell; T. F. Mayo; T. B.
Ketterson; and Curtis Vinson,
sponsor of the club; and Mr.
1. A and M has five divisions^
ment Station, Agricultoral Extension Service,
Surveyed in Report c A lwh - ' , '* <|UI,C -
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Event Will Conclude Activi- * Se«. u,tiW
president of the club, presided.
D. L. Tisinger, Garland, editor-
elect of the Battalion, was chosen-
ties of Horticultural Group , ‘"K m ‘‘cHng schools or institutes mg temporary chairman to organ-
for \ ear. of the nation, one of which ia the ix« the club next year. Permanent
Texas and M College, are sur
veyed ih a report just published
by thr^pextile Foundation, Wash-
Prof. J. B. Bagiev.
TO FEATURE EXHIBITS OF THE WOBK ,
DONE BV ENGINEERING DEPARTMENTS
Receives Honor
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E. J. HOWELL
Plans for the annual picnic of :
the Horticulture Society, the event
which wrill end Its getivities for
this school year, were completed ington, D. C.
at the regular meeting last Thurs- head of the textile engineering de
day might. The picnic will be held part merit of the college, has been
at the Agricultural Engineering advised by Edward T. Pickard.
Farm on Thursday, May 10. j secrUtanr of the foundation. The
At a recent meeting of the so- report Outlines the results pf a
officers will not be elected until
the first meeting of the new club.
ciety. Dr. Young spoke to the
group on the plant breeding ex
six months’ study of educational
facilitieg and method* of' training
periments being carriecTon by the men fo^ the textile industry, the
Experiment Station at A and M survey teing made with a view to
College. He pointed out the good the requirements of a nine billion
and bad characteristics of differ- dollar industry for trained person-
ent plants and related the gradual: nel. ; J
results of some of the experiments
now being carried on. Mr. Ros-
borough was scheduled to speak
to the society at its last meeting
but was unable to be present at
the meeting because of out-of-town
business. Mr. Rosborough was to
speak on the grape industries and
their products and it is hoped that
he will he able to deliver his ad
dress to the society at one of its
futare meetings.
The) Horticulture Society made
fhel
ini
an inspection ! trip to the Rio
Grande Valley which extended ov
er four day* of the first week in
March. Headquarters were estab
lished at Edinburg where the Tex
as Association of Citrus Fruit
Growers was holding its convent-
tion. Using this as a base, trips
were made to the fruit growing
regions of the surrounding coun
ties. On April 9, the Horticulture
Society made another inspection
trip to Houston and down into
Galveston County to look over the
hortkt^ture packing plants and in
dustries in
Three;of the textile schools sur
veyed e*e located in Massachus
etts, twd in Texa* and one each in
Rhode Inland. Pennsylvania. North
Carolina; South Carolina, Georgia,
and Alabama.
Opportunities for trained men
ta the taatile industry are review
ed in the report which also dis
cusses the specialised training
necessary to equip men to cope
with the- problems of the industry,
as well as the opportunity for tex
tile schools to meet the new re
quirements (of trained personnel.
The report is available from the
Textile Foundation, Secretary
Pickard advised.
that vicinity.
Their fondest ambitions: JACK
TOSCH and CHARLEY SLOAN
rooming together .... LEE SCAR-
PINATO and JUD LOU POT win
ning the cotton contest trip ....
“FUZZY” DOUGLAS making the
REVIEW .... EVERYBODY get
ting to see the GREENHORN be
fore it comes out. '
AU in a glance: NASTY NOS-
TER helping the boys with their
experimenta .... KRAEPPER j meet.
NEAL imitating WILBUR
MOORE . . . ..BOB BLODGETT
not speaking to REVEILLE . .
“YANNIGAN” SCHOOT getting
over big with the girls .... HOM
ER McKENZIE working on the en
gineering show. i
Nominations for a “GOODFEL-
LOWS CLUB” .... MOIfLY
SAUNDERS. “BLACK JACK”
JOHNSON, LLOYD ZAPP, AL DA
VIES, “BULL” STAPLES. SAM
LANGLEY, and “ZERO” GREEN
BERG.
DRAKE RELAY TEAM
CAPTURES HONORS'
IRWIN AGAIN STAR
Htrrfw Ntya Fourth In
Hunflea; Irwin Beaten I
Torrance In Both Discus
and Shot.
Members of the A and M track
team who entered the Drake re
lays retjhmed to school Monday
afternooi after nearly a week's
absence pn the trip. Two second
GLEE CLUB LEAVES
FOR CONCERT TOUR
OF NORTH TEXAS
Inaugurating the first annual
concert tour, the Texas A and M
Glee Club left college Wednesday
afternoon at one p. m. to fulfill a
schedule of appearances in the
larger towns enroute between here
and Dallas.
The first stop, according to the
schedule, will be Marlin, where the
club will appear at three p. m. be
fore the high school student body.
Waco will be the next atop with a
concert to be offered that evening
and a radio broadcast to follow.
With stops at Hillsboro and
Fort Worth, the club will com
plete their tour Friday evening
when they present a concert from
the studio of the radio station in
Dallas.
Many entertainments for the
club have been planned in the var
ious points where stops will be
made.
Those cadets making the trip
will be: Aldwell, L. R.; Ashby, G.
K. ; Barnes. W. W.; Bonaer, R. B ;
Cassell, G. F.; Chaney, P. E.; Cox,
L. B.; Farber, S. E.; Goldsmith,
E. A.; Johnson, F. G.; Mueller, C.
B.; Melvik, F. T.; Garrard. S. E.;
Otto, A. H.; Pittinger, J, E.; Tay
lor, R. S.; Trewitt, H. S.; Menefee,
T. W.; Silvey, J. F.; Johnston, J.
M. ; Comeyy, M. C.; Sapp. W. L.;
Pair, R. B.; Harper, I. W.; Gantt,
W. K., Jordan. E. W.; and Wea-
therall, F. M. *
Agricultural Ex peri
Engineering Ex peri
ment Station* and Forestry Service.
2. There are six schools in the Teaching Divisions: Agriculture,
Engineering, Veterinary Medicine, Arts and'Scienqes, Vocational Teach
ing, and Graduate. All except the Graduate school require military
arifeM*! I ! ||] v ^
S: There are forty departments ‘in :tha teaching division in which
a student may specialise. ■ ; | >
4. The engineering school, the largest in the college, is also one
of the largest in the United States. *
6. Coursp* are offered in the engineering school in architectural
design; architectural engineering; ehlmfcal engineering, including gas,
petroleum refining and cotton seed joil wqrk; civil engineering with
highway, structural, municipal, and <*nitary branches; electrical engi
neering. emlirgcing electric power atu^ cnniniumration engineering, geo
logical engineering; mechanical engineering, including both power
enginering add industrial engineeriig; 1 petroleum engineering; and
textile engineering.
6. Graduhtes of the engineering trh*aol are found employed in
every state and many foreign lands. v ! j \
7. Graduates of the engineering sjrhqol 'are employed in large
numbers by tip* largest industrial coni cm* hi the country.
8. Graduates of the engineering ^Jrhool pre rated by the large in
dustrial concerns as having a training equal to that of the graduates
of aay engineering school in the United -Stages.
9. In nupiy instances A and M Engineering graduate* teceive
favorable consideration from industrial'employers over graduate* of
other schools. |
10. The Engineering school is niantkeii, by a corp of well Grained E. J. Howell, registrar, was cl-
ay^prtftMfe tokdNraj I . I I I ' ecn-d president of the Association
11. The elass rooms and laboratories of the engineering school of Texas Colleges at a meeting
are housed in right modern fire-proof> buildings, each designed tor this held in Ft. Worth on April 27 and
special purpose and each supplied witN most modem equipment 28. The purpose of the Association
12. The agricultural school, the seqond largest school in the col- is the classification and study of
lege, ia the fqiirth school of ita kind in the United States. The school mutual problem*, one meeting is
ha* one of tKq best trained and most etficMt teaching staffs in the held each year. Mr. Howell sur-
country. ‘ I I i (5ce«ded I>ean Colby D. Hall | of T
18. The sew $300,000 Animal tndistrie* Building and $250,000 C U as president of the organixa-
Agricultural Khgineefing Building make ,the physical equipment of the | tion. In commenting on his elec-
school perhaps, second to none in the-cottativ. j tion, Mr. Howell said, “I consider
14. Practically every agricultural position of importance in the rt an honor to my institution as
State is filled fcy an agricultural graduate of this college. They also a * a personal tribute.”
occupy many oif the most important (jositionp in the United States. Mr. Howell succeeded Charles E.
15. A few of the outstanding position* held by agricultural ex- Friley as registrar the Fall of 1932.
students of the college are as follmVll' |_I j prior to that time. Mr. Howell {held
Principal Economist. Nationil Agricultural Experiment Sta- the position of civilian Comirnn-
tion, Washington D. C. dgnt at John Tarleton Agrkrul-
Dean, Texas A and M School of Agriculture. ; tufal College. He received hi* B.
President, vice-president and secretary of the Production Credit (s^ degrees from A and M College
Association of the Farm Credit Administration, and
of Bonk for Cooperatives
Manager, Texas Livestock Ifatekgting Association.
Chief jor soils survey, U. S. Pegqrttnent of Agriculture.
Director Federal Land Bank, Director of Luling Foundation.
Agricultural Director Missouri Pacific Railroad.
Dean and several instructors, .Teats Technological School,
. Lubbock, Texas.
Agricultural Director Texas and Pacific Railroad.
' A number of secretaries of local PVodurtion Credit Associa
tions and land appr^sen of the Federal laind Bank.
Dean, knd Head of All Agricultural.Departments, John Tafle-
■ ton Agricultural Colfc>g«L
Vice Director, Texas Extension Service
a Director, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station.
Many pf the 400 county agents and vocational agrigultural
» ' I teachers of Texas. ‘
Managers of many of the outstanding farms and ranches of the professor of Agronomy. Three
aouthwest J » i | this number will be selected on
Managers and field mea of pmay agricultural organisations May g for the purpose of studying
All Branches Plan Various
Modern and Scientific Dis-
iHr** for May 12.
i in chemical engineering in the class
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8 COMPETITORS
LEFT IN COTTON
TOUR CONTEST
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Only eight of the original eigh
teen participants in the Annual,
Cotton Contest which began April
10 are left in competition lor the
trip to the Japanese Ikies and
China according to J. S. Mogford,
of
of the country. ,
Many graduates are found in
foreign countries. !
agricul
tural enterprises in
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Anson Weeks Hails From Long
Line of Musicians; Work Taken
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Seriously By Young Maestro
Anson Weeks* “America’s mas-(record—but there is no business
ter of meiodiea everyone loves,” m#n who takes his work more ter-
comes from a ring line of musi- logsly. than does Anson Weeks. He
cians. In the W*eks family album, defotos himself whole heartedly to
places ai|d a fourth place
brought |ack from the meet. B. M.
Irwin brought back the highest
honors ft r the team by taking sec
ond places in the shot and diacus,
while Jol n Herring took a fourth
in the hi fh hurdles.
The diitance relay team com
posed of Herring, Cook, Puentes,
and liayl >r, did not place in the
Irwin tame out second in the
meet onl; ’ to. Jack Torrance of L
S U who threw the shot to a new
world's r (cord of 55 feet 1 Vk in
ches to rin first. In the diacus,
Irwin fni ed 10 live up to his beat
marks anl although he has beaten
Torrance in this event had to be
satisfield with a second this time.
Torrance in thia event, had to be
satisfied srith a second this time.
Torrance sailed the disk slightly
over 150 feet aad Irwin was four
feet behind this mark:
Nagry Twins Married
In Double Wedding
John Nagy and Miss Delia Kon
eeny and Frank Nagy and Mias
Helen Vitopil were married in
double wedding ceremony Sunday
at the St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
in Bryan. The double ceremony
was read by Msgr. J. B. Gleissner.
John and Frank Nagy, twin sons
of Mrs. Joe Nagy of DiUey, Gra
duated faom Texas A and M last
year in agriculture. Mias Delia
Konecny is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Konecny of Bryan
and Mias Helen Vitopil is the dau
ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Antone Vit-
ophil of Bryan.
Following the wedding ceremony
a reception was held in the
Knights of Columbus Hall. That
afternoon the couples left for a
motor trip to Monterrey. Mexico,
and on their return Mr. and Mrs.
John Nagy will tive in Catulla;
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nagy will re
side in George West. \
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there ar* pictures of Anson’s
grandfather, with the band he or
ganised in Caiteda, back in the
gay nineties whirn the waits step
along with the square dance and
maxurkas were the favorites of
the belles and the beaux.
Over a few pqges further in the
album are pictures of Anson
Weeks' father who played the
flute and sang ah well. His mother
wooed and won' away Anson Sr.
partially she was an ex
cellent pianist and played the
songs “After the Ball” and other
such hits when Anson Week*’
father drove over in hia rig to call
on Sunday nighte.
But H was left to Anson's aunt,
a church organist in Toronto, Can
ada. to give the yroung maestro his
first and oaly piano lesson when
the lad had to sit on the family al
bum to reach the keyboard. Little
did she appreciate as she counted
the measure and marked off the
fingering that so*ne day her curley
headed nephew who rebelled
against practicing, woald be one
of the most popular dance band
leaders of the Music Corporation
of America. . I
Anson Weeks has
his work, Several years ago he
outlined a most ambitious prog-
• f> ant he has never lost sight
of hia goal. At one time he had
th4 ^contract to furnish orchestras
fo# the Matson Steamship line—
anl Mi*, bands were heard on all
th* steamships to and from Aus
tralia and the Hawaiian Islands.
He has new built up nine other or
chestras besides his famous hotel
Mdrk Hopkins aggregation. Eight
of' the bends are still playing on
hirers -sailing from the San Fran-
ctoo j»it-
fo prove that one always finds
urfe to do the things be wants to
do, Ajison Weeks schedules him
self to be up at nine in the morn-
;nfs to make phonograph records
—at 11 he sets out for a game of
*°Jf and 'at 2 ia the afteraooa he
has tii*e for a swim or a game of
handball. Then he rehearses his
some of the arranging
loeca a tune now and
ttyn. In between times he listens
to- other dance bands. And there
ia real music on the air according
to AnanmtyVieks who is the kind of
v' if £ |
a chap who appreciate* the splen
did work of his fellow artists—
thfc cotton industries of these
countries
There has already been five ex
aminations given covering the fun
damentals of the cotton courses of
fered at this institution. These ex
aminations have covered cotton
marketing, the botnny of cotton,
i cotton production machinery, fab
ric analysis, and genetics of cot
ton. Examination on grading,
stapling, production, and diseases
of cotton will be given between
now and May 8.
High individuals in each of the
examinations will not be announc
ed until the hist test has been giv
en and the winners announced, Mr.
Mdgford stated.
The students who are still left
in competition are as follows: J.
P. Porter, Terrell; Bennett, R.I».
Decatur; Floyd Thurman, Cisco;
J. E. Loupot, Dallas; Lee Scarpi-
na to, Bryan; Louifi Kacxmarek.
Panna Maria; W. T. Bruton, Love-
lady; and J. W. Huckabee, Hol
land.
For the first time in five years,
all the engineering departments of
the school are preparing to take
part in the annual Engineering
show to he held the afternoon and
night of May 12. This show will
include exhibit* by the Civil En
gineers, the Mechanical Engineers,
the Electrical Engineers, the Pet-
roleam Engineers, Chemical Engi
neers, the Agricultural Engineers,
and the Textile Engineers.
Many interesting exhibits are
being planned which will include
various modem and scientific fea-
lurei that will prove both amas-
ing and educational. The program*
for the Mechanical, Chemical, Ag
ricultural, and Electrical Engi
neers have been completed and the
final arrangements are being made.
The Electrical 'Engineers program
was printed twO weeks ago and the
other completed programs are as
follows, according to L. O. Zapp,
general chairman of the Engineer
ing Show. ‘j
The Mechanical Engineers ex
hibit will include airplane diesel
engines, valves, steam engines,
and s cut-away model of a turbo
generator. Various types of diesel
engines, hot air engines, and a
small locomotive in operation will
be displayed also along with a cut
away model of a Plymouth car in
•peration showing all the working
parts. Then the general machine
shdp practice will be demonstrated
as well as the foundry and pattern
shop followed^ by a replica +f old
“Ml Vesuvius” belching forth its
molten lava as a finale for the
show. The Mechanical Engineers
program is being arranged W.
E. Scarborough, sut^chairmaK for
that paid of the program.
The Chemical Engineer's prog
ram -has been divided ito three
parts, one for the seniors, one for
the juniors, and one for the soph-
ontoros, giving the visilors a
chance to see the work done by the
different classes. The seniors will
run the cotton-seed laboratory and
give a liquid air demonstration a-
long with a "golden snowstorm”,
a chemical clock, and severer ether
interesting features. The juniors
will feature the “blushing lady”,
diving moth balls, chemical shrub
bery. and a Rube Goldberg appar
atus. with other features. The
sophomore program will include
weighing names, a carbon dioxide
gas mill, a chemical fountain, and
a hydrogen gun. J. A. Burns ia
sub-chairman for this program.
The Agricultural Engineers will
organise their program according
to depatments with the farm ma
chinery department exhibiting all
kinds of farm machinery at rest
and in motion, including a combine
and a cotton stripper. The farm
power department will exhibit
tractors, automobiles, gas engines
and elertrvral motors for farm use.
Then the home utilities department
display will include water pumps
and supply systems, farm lighting
Captain Nachman Is
Ordered To Panama
Captain Leonard R. Nachman,
infantry.-Bow «>n duty at A and M,
has been assigned to duty in Pa
sms for the next four years be
ginning about August 9. At that
date, CaptaiB Nachman will anil
aboard a Government
from New York.
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LONGHORN WILL
BE DISTRIBUTED
HUDDLE OP MAY
College Yearbook Is Now In
'Hie hands of Rain A Co-,
Prirdent, and 1450 Copicn
Are Being Printed.
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i The 1934 edition of the Long-
horn has left the Stafford Engrav
ing Cooipany of Ft Worth and
is now in the hands of the printers.
Rein and Company, Houston. Edi
tor J. i W. Dryden made a trip to
HousteJ early this week to put
transport on the finishing touches and num
ber the pagesr Dryden announces
While at A and M, Captain that the yearbook will be ready
Nachman was coach of the Aggie for distribution sometime between
rifle team for two years and has the fifteenth and twentieth of May.
given his services voluntarily as
coach of the swimming team for
four years.
enviable and he doesn’t heattate to say so.
Hie total enrollment for the
193$-’34 session at A and M is
2,276 as compare with 2,077 stu
dents enrolled for the 1932-IS ses-
.k*..
The book this year will contain
about the same number of pages
as last year's annual, however, the
*ixe of the volume will be seme-
what larger due to the fact that
a more. costly grade of paper is
being used. The printers have or
ders to print 1460 copies of The
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