Parents’ Day- ^ High School Edition! NEWS SECTION Student Semi-Weekly Newspaper of Texas A. & M. College JLi PHONE 8 mil] NO. 7? VOL. 38 NO. 71 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 12, 1939 , 1 ■+— r I l FULL WEEKEND PROGRAM ARRANGED FOR PARENTS Plans for l: > New Y Being Judged Now | Campaign To Raise | $350,000 For Yjli^ i Now Under Way Today James K. Monroe Jr., lead- ibr architect of Hou»u>o. and two other men he has selected A as sistants, are engayad in judging •ewen entries from srehitacture .students of A. A M. to determine ■the winner whose plan fof a new Y. MCA. building will be f#l- lowed in constructing an immense •ew M. JL Ortix, Antonio Male, R. R. San Miguel. W. M. Taylor, Ben Christian, F. W. Bush, and Char lie Staudt are the seven men whose entries are being judgeg. Ernest Langford, Head of the Architecture Department, yeeter- dag left for Houston with the sew- en plans to be judged. He will re turn late this evening with the re sults of the contest Prizes offered art $100 for first fisc*. $75 for second, $60 for third, and $25 for fourth. : The campaign to- raise $350.(MX> is now under way, with ('olonel Ike Ash bum in charge. I 1 ? * . I College Station 20 Years Ago—and Today 4'*. uPJJ l-.J !<»! S TinM, two photographs graphically portrs> the growth of l rfJege Station. Above is shawa the entire North Gate 29 years ago. Below is s section of the North Gste today. . r PUBLICATIONS OFFICERS NAMED ! Appointment of business msnsg- ers for The Bsttalisn, The Lotg- hom, and The Sci mtiflc Review asd the editors of The Scientific Review has been announced by E. L. Angell, manager ■ if student pub lications. The sdectiuns were made, gy •HYVIIF'* CRITZ he said, on the an odtlt of work _ . Tr 1 , students have dona. ]• During the last four years the are houses which the “Gate Larry Wehrle wi l! be buspiess f«>»th of College Station has beea boMt of manager of next ys ir** tri-weekly miraculous, but it wna not until BatUlion newspapoj and*; monthly the first of this year that the com- magazine, with 8. D. G. Burk, and J. ‘■ashdanta. Officers of A. I. M. E. Visit Here On National Tour PreMd.nu National Officers Speak for Student Club Banquet Preaiding national officers of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers were guests here yesterday of the stu dent chapter of the organization at a banquet given in their honor in Sbifa Hall D. B. McOorquodale, president of the student chapter, pfarided at the banquet with the guest list deluding Ail. )i. E. national paat- praaiAnit JacfcBng, President Gil lies, Secretary A. B. Parsons, and Assistant Secretary Chester Nat'S- The officers of the national club mad. the stop here as a part of their annual tour of the United States to visit all student and sen ior chapters of the club. On the tour today they have visited or will visit every prominent unlver sity in the South and left A. A M. yesterday to go Vo Houston and Rice Institute. They are traveling in their special railroad car, and from Rice will travel on to the wsaterh part of the United States to visit the University of Colorado and other universities and colleges with student chapters. President Gillies, featured speak er at the banquet, in addition to b< ing president of the national society is a prominent figure in the copper industry and is die owner of a lum ber ( sf producing alines. 10,1 Wi Sund; isitors toA.&M. ialed Saturday, All On ents of Will Put s Saturday The tepth animal Engineers* Day show at A. A )fi will open at 9 a. m. Saturday. Btory department of the School of libgine*ring will be open and will |nt on spuQial ex hibits for an expected 10,000 vis itors to the ca Arrange men been made appointed group of Dead various nranc offered here, there had bee council at this for the show hav. y* by the newly r*s Council, i students from the of engineering is the fifat year If- an Engineering rr Parents Will Be Honored With Dance, Picnic, Tea, Drills Dean (iilchnig, a rear who has the faculty of getting things done, was the priginaior of the Council at A. A .M One t>f the ‘purpose* of this groap is fep coordinate the '•H'h.UN KtuMncfring .Siicietiea on the campus, so Biat a more com plete show may be given, and so that it may be presented in such a manner as chance to see which promise terest this yearj (Con tint allow v of the visitors a exhibits, [be of unusual in- m page 8) BY GEORGE FURRMANN Saturday and Sunday will wit~ es the annual renewal of the A. A M. “open house” for mother* and dads of Aggie MHImIa] From 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. Saturday all of the college's engineering de partments will be open to visitor* and the various branches of the engineering schoel will have special ■Mn*; Another of the important events to be held Saturday is tha South west Conference track and field meet which will be held at Eyle Reid beginning at 2 o'clock. In addition to the Brazos County A. A M Mothers’ Club honoring all vimting parents at a tsa at the Y. M. C. A. from 2 to I Saturday, President and Mrs. T. O. Walton will held a reception at their home beginning at 7:$0 that night Fol lowing this reception, a corps dance will be held in the mete hall at which the Aggieland Orchestra will play. At 8:30 Sunday morning the Ca det Corps will form on the drill {Continued on page 8> College Station Growing Rapidly With Residential and Business Additions can | to be found at the North Gate and many are scattered around the The newest addition to College fringes of the campus. Station is the. restricted College { Church of ull denominations have P ftevennort j I Hills Estates which was estab- , buildings located around the eittr W Jenkinajas incorporated 1 jibed only last year. Besides be- sa well as some worshiping centers . -• ing a residential district this area on the campus. The Methodist AGGIE SWORDSMEN TARE S. W. TITLE Doss To Request Library miMl From AlLMothirs Clubs 3thle Moll /, Will Addrfsd State TF Federation oif Mother* Clubs Here Knturday Station today, less thaa four i months since incorporation, is enjoying all the privileges of a “grown up* dty. j A former student of A A M who has notlbeen back to the cam- pus for three years or more could hardy recognize the city which h . Bill Murr., 1 h “ A. * S. hi th. D. H. Wat,on will b, bu,in„. manager of The Lon ?hom. Woody Varner w U be agricul tural editor and JS B. Maynard will be engineering editor of The Scientific Review. I H. (Bodie) Pierce will be busine » raanagW I was recently elected editor-in-chicf of The BatUlion for next year, and !• a junior class el wtien, George W. Smith way chosen Longhorn editor. * Mr. Angell annoinced May 24 the date for the annual Press Club banquet, at which time press key swards will be for sen iors, five BatUlion 4Uff members will Be cited as “most valuable' sUff members." snd fficer* for -aixt year will be elictAl.. Outgoing and incoming editors ‘«ir The BatUlkm, The Longhorn, .and The Scientific lavipw will be a dinner Tuesday at 6:80 .pi m. in the AggtaMd Inn by President Walton. Editors to be JRpfcwnt are R. L Doss, 39. and 4 11 iMnay. *60, The BatUlion; Warren D. Barton, ' *39, and George W. Smith, *40, The Longhorn; and Sam Marris, last few new business houses for A. A M students and college people have been sdiied as regularly. * Still today, a person can sund in the middle of the A. A M. cam pus, close his eyes and turn around Buddy Mandell, *39, Woojiy Varner.jdnif *40. and Ernie B. Maynaifd, *40, The Scientific Review Raaidcntul see- campus. has added up-to-date tourist courts,! Church at College Button is to a cafe which College SUtion cat: build a fbOO.tsHJ church snd sluAsIlt wall be proud of, and erection of center here sometime in the near business houses is now going on. flture. Plans for the campaign far A new movie theater it promised funds have been in the process of to the Aggie cofps next year, and fsrmation for several months, a night and day golf driving range College Sution has iU traffic is now being coustrueted. j I laws, iU city ordinances, it coa- College Park laid Oakwood addi- sUble, iU mayor snd other city The Aggie fencing team has just completed a very successful sea son by winning the Southwest Con- J 7 R. L. Doss, Biulidn Editor-in ferenee championship “hand* rhief( wi „ ^ Sutr down”, Uking ton out of a possible 11 medals. Alvin Goodstein acted as capUin. and other team members were Tom Akarmpn, Jim Rominger, La Roy Everett, snd John Baird. These men won the conference fencing team title by defeating Baylor in the finals and S. M. U. in the semi- flBHat !'!* Akarman won the individual foil championlhip by defeating Shau- tions have sprung up like mad, and tioua, the oldest residential dia- officers, just as any other city: It tricta at College Station, today are could not lay claim to these last enjoying the greatest building pro ypaT. Neither could it l>oast of the gram in their history. These dia- modern business section several tricta are residential section* sad no business tv-ute* are allowed. College Vtow is another resid. n- three times, open his eyes and start j district, and many homes art people’s trade walking in any direction and hi less than 2 miles time he will find himself in the open country. A. A M. is i large place, and there is lot of territory surrounding the school for the city to fill. Every person who has had any, , association with A. A M. ha a stu- ^ <**°'** hummey *»»« a han-4 dent or aa employee is familiar «•> »*>•<* of the pistol team with the North Gate, center of | Wednesday » v»*ding in the mes* hall at which time awards t« years ago that it has today. Col lege Station is on the up, a center for college students' and college * Awards Made to High Scorers of Pistol team at Summey’s Banqnet bu-u at College SUtior. What was only a business district with a mere hand^. of business houses three years ago has been turned into a thriving trade center today. Large and. afodem cafes, modem A. & M. CHEM SOCIETY wnl MEET TON1GRT The first meeting of ttye A. A M. ■action of the American Chemical Society and • the forty-f fth meet ing of tha College Station and Bryan members of the American Chemical Society will hi held to night at 8 p. m. in lecture room No. 9 of tha Chemistry Building. The A. A M. section, latently authoriz ed by the America if Chemical So ciety at Baltimore, will be organiz ed. . foctioncrw-M, pressing repair she] ■hops, jewel photographers *ry stores, eoa- llors, cleaning and cobbler* and shoe men's furnishing professional men, and barber shops 15,000 copies this issue Ffftoea editioa of aaad copies of this of The Battahoa are being issued. With a normal circulation of MM, The Battalion today add- 1MM to that number in order to ncqnaint high school stadents and parents sf Aggies with A. A M. score for the 1.6, high sloe 88.5, and hig k fir* with 94.1; ■scold in aver- l shooters and catches were made, and also Bob ^hiels was named captain. Gene SlMi Secretsn and W. A. Beckap MMlger of the pistol team for 4«xt yagr. Prises went th Bob Bhiels for high-average hi| season with a fire average wv average ia rnpi L. C. Eaanaaiar 1 age high, and f|%t hi timed; and C. A. Lewis for third hi average high. Dr. Summey Bob Shiels, L J. M. Si gives his for valuable man team. I'The pistol tain Phil for hit work Claodie Federation of jm( A M. Mothers Clubs meeting hjjre *t 10 a. m. Saturday in the {^anqtiet room of the mess hall, pskhtf Diem to pledge an annuaR fund to b. ■tda- i •ignated the ftiMM /nMMMn Fund for the A A M. Library. Thl|Batjta!ion t^is year condor; ed a campaign toAaise $200 to re lieve the immediA* *traia on the Ubrary after leaning of the fi nancial situation it ia iit. Two hun- nj jwaa finally and that money wa4 used tA purchase popu- dies of Baylor inthe finals, 5-2., , , , Everett won the sabre champ,on- d ™. T*,** v • ■hip b, Good*t«in 5-4. ™* HMd ****** Rominger took the epee champion ship by defeating Goodstein 4«S in . u . „ ^ , the finals. The Aggies copped 10 * >n .j ^ ^ ^ Mothers of the 11 medals offered in thi en ,ub * to tire meet. 1 f ' » roun<1 $he fund after After showing up well in the In *** ** tnfomwf of lhe terrible temational Meet at the New Or leans Mardi Gras, the Afgie swordsmen went to Fort Worth a ■tote «f the Libn yy.' “The Battalion 1 js mailed he Lil mat ion plaque by the team for his untiring work with the team snd on the range. Dr. Summey was , made member of the pistol club. Colonel Geo. F. Moore accepted the L. U., C. Katanian trophy that the team won last week in Houston and said that it would be placed ia the trophy'case. The team shooters were given plaques showing that they wen members of the national champion ship team. Those at the dinner were John Ashford. W. A. Becker, Bert Bums. O. D. Butler, W. A. Gohmert, K. E. Hendrix, W. D. Jones, L. C. Emmemer, C. A. Lewis, Gene prizes U Shiels. Bob Shiels. J. M. Singleton, Kennemer and T. R Stellmachert 4. M. Stone. Singleton was and H. C. Warner, members of the being the most teams, and Colonel Geo. F. Moore, the freahman Colonel 0. E. Beealef, Captain J A. Celia. Captaia Philip Easlow, E. C. “Jeep" Oates, Sergeant Claud* Thompson. Sbrgeaat Hil ton Richards, Sergeant B. H. Car tier, Roes Miller, and Dr. Summey I i f * (tf f \ f \ ‘ I ' • S I 4 t u \ ] few weeks ago and won there the! U all Mo Southwestern FoU and Sabre Cham- < ^ nU - l>ionship and second place in the ’'•F* forked to* epee. Tom Akarman won first place d in the individual foil contest and, throaML” jha Goodstein took second place with Th* ^ un d in a earn an-dMmglM* instiotl in that has a semester final examimrfla^. is within the class as then A class aa all moralag. The general faculty (consisting of department heads and all other general officers of the college) adopted the following rule: instructor. The tional with the Although this to alli|||fl)| eluding seniors, the! of R i (nation may m aa exam- provided he exclusive of A or B, and m% of the 1 91 is define-*! regiater • single are op- ^‘ ♦Students With A or B Grades in Upper 25% of (’lass Kxempt eided that the preseat senior class will not be affected by the change, and will therefore be exempt from all final exams before graduation, as in the past. ! Beginning next year, however) candidates for the bachelor*'de gree will take final examinations unless excused on the basis of the exemption aa provided hi this new applies change in regulation* or unleoa a rata in- further modification is made in the has de- future.