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A. A M. Gets Appropriatlens
VOL. 1 PHONE 8
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 14, 1939
COUNCIL PASSES NEEDED TAXI REGULATIONS
Gov. O’Daniel
Signs A.&M.
Money Bill
Vetoes Small Items
In Signing Biennial
Appropriations Bill |
Governor W. Lee O’Deniel Wed
nesday night tigtied the appro
priations hill providing funds for
( Texas A. * M. College for the
next biennium, beginning August
SI of this year.
The sum of $1,043,400 for each
of the two years had been voted
the college proper by the State
Legislature. Governor O'Daniel in
signing the bill vetoed items of
$16,000 each year for laboratory
equipment and 18,000 each year
>for the employment of qualified
researchers by the Engineering
Experiment Station. This reduced
the appropriation for the college
proper to $1,012,400 a year, or
$2,044,800 for both years, ending
August $1, 1941.
Other appropriations far other
branches of the college ware as
follows: $40,000 each year for ex
tramural divisions; $418.0G1 next
year and $374,508 the year after
for the Experiment Station sys
tem; $267,898 each year for the
State Extension, Service; $4,625
ench yea i* for the State Conserva
tion Board; $142360 each year for
the Texas Forest Service; $36,004
yearly for the Rodent Control Ser
vice; and $4,000 yearly for the
Firemen’s graining School.
Appropriations were also made
in the bill for John .Tarleton and
North Taxas Agricultural Colleges
and Prairie View State Normal
and Industrial College, branches
of A. 4 M. College; fer the Uni
versity of Texas and all other col
legiate institutions supported by
the state.
Second I Term
Enrollment To
Be Less Than 1st
Texas County Agents At Guion Monday
Registration Set for
Monday Moniint »t 7:30
Enrollment for the second term
of summer school, according to an
estimate from the/ Registrar’s of
fice, la expected to be smaller
than that for the first term by
three or four hundred students, in
-p te at the fact that a large num
ber of the boys who attended
R. O. T. C. camps for the first
six weeks of the summer are ex-
pMhd him , Monday,! The total
enrollm.T.t for the fimt term was
1367.
Registration will be from 7:30 to
n? oo a. m. Monday morning, July
If, In the Administration Building.
Students who attended the first
term may obtain their assignment
cards st the back entrance. They
y also save time by paying
dr fees for the second term to-
<fcy or tomorrow at the fiscal ©f-
ftce from 8:<"> a. m. to IKK) p. m.
Thursday, July 30, is the last day
of registration for credit in the
dlYi * i 7- .
Department heads will he found
at th.‘ registration tables Monday
morning, aad after that they will
be in their offices for consultstion
ss to courses, etc. Official business
enll be carried en through the of
fice of Dr. C. H. Winkler, direc
tor of tke summer session.
Abbreviated classes will be held
Monday afternoon, beginning at
1:00 p. m. These wilt be counted
4s the first class meetings for the
■tp. ■* i |
Four halls will again be used by
the students. Walton wiU be occu
pied by girls and married students,
and boys will be assigned to Leg-
ttt. Mfhmr, and Mitchell.
I upwati frill cover $12.50 for
the mgtrieulation fee, $2.00 for the
ical fee. and $$.60 fofr room
gent and janitor service. Meals
eaten in the tnfss halt 'will be
$27 MI for fte six weeks' period.
Admission requirements will be
-the same as they ar« in the regular
college watchmen have session! aad additions! information
700 ‘Smoke-I iters’
Will Attend hort
Course Next
Z725 NO. 6
School Help* To
Flr« Insacaajafl
And Fire Eos* o
►
Taxis Must
Be Inspected
And Licensed
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Above ia
the opening m
i part af the crewd af
ef their chart ceurae «
!jr agricultural agents af the state, at GuUu Hall far
M here Monday
1,2001 Here For Course To-£nd Today
ity Policemen
e Traffic Laws
been deputised as city policemen,
by authority of recent action of
the Board of Directors, it has just
been announced. Traffic laws of
College Station are being enforc
ed by theta, in an effort to better
traffic conditions was the installs-
watch your driving!” warns City
Attorney J. Wheeler Barger, who
made’ the announcement.
Another step in improving the
traffic conditions was the instalala- ing Meat
lion of a traffic light at the North piled froi
Gate lately.
with regard to summer school may
summer school
catalog in the Registrar’s office.
Today’s full program of activi
ties marks tke finish of the
three-day session of the adult
division of the Farmers’ Short
Course, held annually at A. A M.
under the auspices of the Texas
Extension Service. This year’s short
course was attended by almost
1.200 men and women from all
parts of Texas.
The course was held in connection
with the county agricultural agents’
meet which began Monday, and the
Texas Writera’ ( onference.
The program of events was ar
ranged in three main divisions,
each one serving as the central
topic for the day’s discussion
“Land Use Planning" was the topic
of the first dfcy; “Fruits of Or
ganisation” was the second day’s
topic; and “The Shift of Agricul
ture” was tho’*ubject of the con
cluding program.
The first session of the short
course was opened at Guion Hall by
Dr. T. O. Walton, president of
the eolle/ * j •tk'o spoke on “The
AN ARTICLE WRITTEN BY
Dr. John Ashton, head of the Rural
Sociology Department appeared in
the June 17 issue of the National
Provisioner, national foods maga-
Tbe article, entitled “Process
Denmark," jras corn-
tea taken on Dr. Ash
ton’s Inst trip to Europe in 19$4.
se Planning in Our
Texas 'Agn. Jkuu.’’ H. H. WU-
(liamson, director of the Extension
Service, waa chairman of the open
ing session.
G. E. Adams was chairman of
the later morning program in
Guion Hall at which various phases
at “Land Uaa Planning’* were pre
sented. I
In the afternoon session, F. N.
Holmgreen was r 4hniimna of the
program, in which “TV Democratic
Family” and “Fruits Festival"
were topics for discussion. Doses
Hale and Jennie Camp presided
over th.-sr <iiHoui«ions
The concluding program began
with an address on “The History
and Personalities Coanected With
the Passing of the Smith-Lever
Act," by A. F. Lever, former Con
gressman from South Carolina who
co sponsored the act. The day’s
topic, ‘The Shift in Agriculture,”
was presented at a discussion group
chaired by Dean of Agriculture
E. J. Kyle, at which the speakers
were F. F. Hill, Sterling C. Evans,
and Jack Shelton. E. R. Alexander
was chairman of the afternoon ses
sion, “Farm Forum," held in the
AaMAly iHall.
The finale of the short coarse is
an interesting program, “Agricul
ture on Parade.” presented tonight
in the Animal Husbandry pavilion
by the agricultural departments of
the college
TEXAS COUNTY
AGENTS ORGANIZE
AT CONFERENCE
Texas county agents, at A. 4 M
for their annuel conference, this
week organised the Texas County
Agricultural Agents’ Association.
Purpose of the organisatioB, aq
announced by Jack (McCullough.
Collia (Vnmty agent, who waa
elected prerident of the group is
to “promote the professional im
provement ef its members, aad to
cooperate ia every manner appro
priate for the welfare of the Ex
tension Service, and to aid in
building and maintaining high
standards of service to the farm Memphis, Tenn.
and ranch people of Texas.” ■•••* on
The Texas group will affiliate Think* of Ua.”
with the national organisation,
which has some 2.500 members,
McCullough mid.
It ia understood that ajl county
rents of the Texas Extension
Service joined the organisation
which resulted in a membership of
287.
The tenth annual m
Firemen's Training
open for a five day pe
ing at A. 4 M M
with an expected
attendance of between
from 280’ Texas town
The purpose of |
which is organised
sored by the Sta
and Fire Marshal's
conducted the
Chemistry 4nd CVmii
ing, is to give\T
opportunity to 1
ments in firvfighti
equipment.
Mr. H. R
the Firemen's Traini
planned a program
able the firemen to
methods of handli
ment, to exchange e
fellow firemen, and j to get
from leaders in’ the field on :
lems of administra
vention and fire fi
each morning and
be devefted to on
which will be in
of ideas and
fire department pi
hours each morning]and afternoon
will be spent in drillfe end practical
work at which qxpegencad firemen
hfflLMl qjr ■
Several speakers national im
poHOMt 4rfl| Mppajp on the pro
giani. among wbona is Richard E.
Vornor, of Chicago! Ill., maoager
of the Fire Preventmn Department
of the Western Actuarial Bureau
director of the Gfoater Chicago
Safety Council, and originator of
the Kir. Departnusit Instructors'
Conference, meeting annually at
Overcrowding,
Unsaf e. Condition,
Now Prohibited
A. & M. Assured N.Y.A.
Aid During Coming Year
About 50 Newspapermen and Women of Texas
Gather Here for Three-Day Writer’s Meet
Taxas newspa perr
ies gathered here
That A. 4 M. students will havr<
N. Y. A. aid during the coming
year became am established fact
last week when Congress appro
priated $100,690,000 to be used for
'National Youth Administration
funds over the nation during the
coming school year.
O. R. Simpson, chairman of the
Student Labor Committee, has not
yet been informed what A. 4 M.’a
allotment will be. Last year the
college received $63,006.
The' $100360300 appropria
made for the coming school
represents an increase of
$0% over last yeel-’s appropriatioal
of $81300,000. However. Mr. Simp
eon pointed out that it does not
necessarily follow that A. 4 M- wiU
receive a proportionate increase h*
its allotment ke most of :h««
$19,000,000 increase will probably
be used for non scholastic purposes.
* During the nine months of the
last long session. 647 studeutikpril
were assisted through N. Y. A.I
r funds. However, over the Hina
period of time, almost 1304 «tu-
Thursday the following men
Wednesday fer the annual Writ-1,poke: Fran* W. Zeiske af the
ers’ Conference held through today Bellville Times, Bob Blake of the
i in connection! urMh the Farmers’ Heerne Democrat, Ray D. Jones
Short Course, iMtardiiig to Arthur' Q f the Hempstead News, and Col-
LcFevre of Houston, secretary one! Ike Askburn, executive assist-
Praaidant H. D. Meister at the ant to the president ef A. 4 M.
t u were employed tkr»,h bMh D.U, B.™kl -IM «l» : , A. D. **■«■
N Y A. and collars fund*. mating to order Tuesday after- th« division of publications ef the
noon, and during the three days an Agricultural Experiment Station,
interesting program has twt*n H. B. Fas of the Mmdiaonville Ma
under way for the visiting writers, teor, and Ross Woodall, Jr., of
Each day’s program was arranged the Huntsville Item spoke. Last on
to allow plenty of time for round- the program of this conference are
table discussian. The annual Writ- 1 committee reports' sod the election
era* Banquet was held in the col- of office*.. •
lege dining Hell Tuesday evening. , 1 » — • ■■■■*
FUNERAL SERVICE -
HELD FOR FATHER
OF PRES. WALTON
Word waa received here Monday
morning of the death Sunday night
ait Gory, his long-time home, of
James Austin Walton. 80, father
of Dr. T. 0 Walton, president of
Togas A. 4 M College. Dr. Wal
ton had gone to the bedside of
his father Saturday, j
Funeral services were held at 6
o’clock Monday afternoon at Mount
Bethel
Mb. Walton is survived by his
widow, by Dr. WaHon, another son,
T. H. Walton of Carthage, and one
daughter, Mrs. Clyde Thomas of
Snyder, * \
A nunmer of College officials
and faculty members drove W
•0 R. SIMPSON f
Mr. Simpson added that the Hme
tudent labor regulations which
(Continued on Page 4)
At thi. m-un* t*» writer, toid Men Take Oral
extension service workers what M 1 m mg -
expected of than, and in return E\aiTIS for Master S
the extension workers told the Nine men took their oral exami
writera at the many services avail- nations for their master’s degree*
able to newspaper readers through here Wednesday and Thursday.
I county . ggricultural agents and Those taking the examinations
home demoni*ration agent* ware J. M. Addison, in agricultural
Wednesday, following the ©pen- education; Hartley Bebout, in a«-
j ing of the meeting by president ncultural economies; 1 Z. C Edgar,
! Meister. apeichas were made by in agticfelfeMli economics; R. fc.
ij. E. Sheaf of the Wood County Petersen, in animal husbandry; 8.
j Democrat. Extension Service editor j E. Schaefer, in industrial educa-
Louis Franks, Texas Editorial Aa-
The Ffijt tflvahm s Course will
be offered again tlks year, outlm
ing best methods o| inspection and
(t’ontinuod 04 Page 4)
By George Peer mans
Finally fettling a problem which i-
has long been a major thorn in
the aide of the Aggie student body,
the /College Station City Council
at its lost meeting enacted a
much-needed regulatory ordinance
in respect to taxicabs opcrstin*r
within the dty hmits.
The ordinance not only provides
for the increased comfort of pas
sengers but also for their increas
ed safety. Divided intw 13 sections,
the first division provides heavy
penalties for anyone operating any
. x passenger vehicle fer purposes of
•-lie safest m| „n«a:ion or hire anlHa a
ire e<jn.; license has been obtained from the
dVittl nty
Sections two through six pro
vide fer various factors in respect
to the license and the operator.
seven, however, is one of
lar importance to the stu-
body ss it prevents over-
of taxis and busses,
passenger sedans, for ex
will not be allowed to carry
more than passengers not in
cluding V»« driver. v.
Another* important division of
the ordinance, section eight, pro-,
vides that spy passenger vehicle
otwrating for hire must be main
tained in suitable mechanical con
dition for the sbfe transportation
of passengers over city streets and
highways.
. Section nine stated \he penalties
in force for the violat*ipa of any of
the former eight divii
ti<m tan provides for
of the vehicles every
Sections It, 12, and 18
the S<hnini*tration of the
and bring it to a dose.
fire
ing. One hour
ftamoon will
tbly session
[for exchange
discussion of
iblem*. Three
Vernor will
nhn Q. Public
Two Comi
Applicatioi
City for Fri
lies File
With
ichises
[ranchIkes have
[City of College
mnity Nature
Applications for
been filed with
Station, by the
a! Gam Company ai^l the Southwest
Telephone Com
J. H. Binney, mkyor, has given
notice that hearings will be con
ducted on these applications in the
city office. July to at 7^M) iflM
8:30 p.m, res
Legion Coop
Being Completed
Picnic Given Grad
Students, Faculty
A picnic supper in honor of the
graduate students and the faculty
wa* given by the College in the
gardens in front of the Adasinis-
tration Building Monday evening
from six to eight.
Dm,Brooks extended a weed of
greeting to the guests and introduc
ed Ssm Hupiwr, master uf cere
monies. Mr. Hopper prssmtsd the
officials of the newly incorporated
dty of College Station, and Mr.
J. J. Woolket led several songs.
Jay A. Rossi tar, Houston, chair-*
man of the sub-committee of Board
of Trustees of th • American Le
gion, has annoiiieed 'admission
regulations concerting the Ameri
can Legion Community House
which is nearing e impletion on the
campus at Tex** A. 4 M. The
building ia just nofth of the present
for the funeral. Among them were fiftaen campus pt eject bouses. -
Col. Ik* Ashburn, W. H. Holxmann, Housing about 7$ boys, the build
r. TIT. Hansel, Byron WinMoad. ing will It. , eompl rted before Sep-
and E. J. tiosril. timber 1. Living cooperative^. H
’ ... , is estimated that the cost to resi-
Power Plant Engineer wfll about*$15 per
month for room l nd board.
•NT RASF WNTT
sociaUon president Ernest A. Bosl,
Jack Howerton of the Caere Daily
Record, and T. C. Richardson, no*
sistant editor of Form and Ranch.
iL f ..4
storting his vacation, went te Waco
tkm; W. M. Simpson, in account- on a bur'ness triR Be was an en-
tng and statistics; R. R. Tippit, in ginoer with the power plant of
agricultural education; and W. A. 4 M., and a long-time resident
E. Williams, in agriceltural educa- of College Station, whore his
Hfeairi j I ■ family also resides. {
whose fathom have died. Other
points entering into admission re
quirements will include financial |
status, reputation and d.-servinR ;
qualities, and corroboration at the
applicant's statements.
Each successful appikmnt will be
required to sign a statement, which
will be furnished him, governing
bis conduct aa a member of the
Community House. Shortly after,
arrival at th.; college those accept
ed will organise their own govern
ing body and each student will have
a port in the responsibility had
Drons Dead in Warn woat, ‘ Ior POO,n V* ^ ,n ^ reaponaibiiUy
Hi AdmiBrion may be gained by op- proper functioning of the house.
V. C. Mousner, well-known Col- plying to local j American Legion Ifer. Romiter mys that it is aa-
lege Station man. dropped dead in im.iW* ia Texas w lich have receiv- Burned that those accepted will havo
Waco Tuesday at mid-aftamoen. ed notice of thrirjallotmenta boded sufficient interest in natioiml de-
Mr. Mousner, who was just upon paid membe^diips, as of June fense to take military training for
1. All application^ should he made the four years they am in school
Aaguet I. ! However, this will not be construct-
All thangs being oqhal, prefer
ence will he given to sons of
hem of the American Legion, and
to sons of Wortt War V
ed to debar an applicant, who is not
ftoptanBr fit for military duty,
frori applying for admiasioa, if
otherwise qualified.