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PAGE 4 Stephens, Hollingshead, Holmgreen A re Swim Stars khi. pUe* SPt-fc Jack Stephcna, Joe and Florence Holllnphead, inc the part of “Tbe Three tittle Fishes" rma off with the swimming meet Wednesday night before ap proximately 400 onlookers. In the men’s clasa, Stephens won first places in the 50-yard free style, 100-foot breast-stroke, and the 100-foot backstroke. Leslie Me Carthy won the long-distance un derwater race by bolding out for t41V, feet, and W. S. McCttlley, math instructor, swam off with the 100-yard free-style. Clements and Wilson tied for first places in the diving; although they both fell be hind Roland Nuhn, junior entry, Who enured the eeebt to give some more competition In the boy's class or the junior class, Holmgreen srtram away with the 100-foot free-style and the 100- ' yard free-style races, and carried second place in thg 100-foot breast stroke. Roland Nuhn ga*v the crowd some pretty good dives as he ran off from the remaining - entries. He also west second place in the 100-foot free-style and third place in the 100-frpt back-stroke. Sam Gammon carried the back-; . stroke event as Boughton carried off the two-map breast-stroke race. The girls came fewer in number but almost as fast as the boys. Florence Hollingstead set the pace sad held the lead in the lOO^foot free-style and carried off ‘aa^oud behind Anne Kernodle in the -foot back-stroke. In the tree- ‘ style, Cynthia Lancaster won iseo | ^ond place, Helen Hill third; land Carol McKadden fourth. Flo Anne, and Cynthia put on a exhibition in the individual medley showing the breast, back, and crowl strokes. X/ : J | The novelty event, the under water disUnce contest, offered a .good bit of excitement as Dubose set -the first mark at 166 1 1> feet and Wilson came up to set his jnark st 100 feet. Guy Garth then came forward to raise the crowd to their feet as he set When Leslie McCarthy . second turn the spectator* to yell a good bit and the majority «■*“ of them seemed a bit a maxed. The 50-yard free-style tamed out » .to be rather slow as thej eonUst ants required three starts to enter , the water at the same time.-SI — ens’ time was 26 seconds flat. k>n was 'second, McCarthy third, and Nicks fourth. Stephens* time iw the bfrast-stroke was 20.3 sec onds followed close by Carpenter. McCulley s time-in the 100-yard free-style was 62.2 seconds. He was followed by McCarthy and Med dors. Stephens set the clock at 21.1 seconds in the hack-stroke, and was followed by McCarthy and Nicks. The outstanding event of PONDER— I ^rom page 1 that it taka place iksgiving Day, regardless of iaU on which this falls. •ides the change in the foot- schedule. anothaR|#)nsid*rst»U‘ ge will be in the annual m holiday given thd student Tbs holiday will of course be sd ap a week, as is the game, •aidant Reoeevelt’s reason for iglng the Thanksgiving date, for many years on the Tharsday of November, is that has bean too far from Labor and to close to Christmas that many individuals and business houses bad petition to make the change because P* Next year, the he will move ead still one nv I ic changing of Thanksgiving is ►eted to cat tkm of l»i i. -five i a wholesale al- college football games throughout already had been ■di duled for November 90, and | wit i that day no longer a legal hoi lay, gate receipts for tradi- tioi al battles would slump. It is eat mated that if held November H). the A. A M.-Texas game would be attended by only around 10,000 in* rad of the more than 80,000 «Xf feted. If it is held November 23, the new legal holiday, no attend- xnc t decrease is expected. j mong traditional games sched ule I were, besides A. A M.-Texas, Tax on Oil, Not ! On Sales Is Asked By Col. Thompson Placing conservation at hana being above all else. Colonel Ernest O. Thompson fervently appealed to Governor W. Lea O'Daniel this k, «n . r~. enoe session of the Legislature "Your duty is dear. TV oppor tpnity is hers," Thompson pointed out. * His non-political plea Thompson into Utatewid* ship of a campaign against saddl ing a harsh sales tax on the poor—- main objective of rich major ofl companies Thonip*‘>n made mandat ion to preweat ‘soaking' the common cittsehs it a letter to Gov ernor O'Daniel. Be write: "A five-cent-p«r-barrel tax oil Will provide for al social which the people Elaborating Thompson added: “The balance permanent fund against the day oil will be not be spent. The fund would supply the revenue lost from oil depletion*. We know our oil will play out We should have something to take its place when requirements voted. w his solution, go into be invested our Texas fund could of that THE SUMMER BATTALION FINAL EXAMS— THEY’RE HERE AGAIN—DARN IT! Final examinations in undor- graduate courses for the second Bster at the summer session will be held Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of aest wash. Next Thursday aftepmoa at 1 all the examinations for classes which have been meeting at 8:90 p. m. Friday afternoon at 1 exam inations will be held for 24 sections meeting at 19:10. Saturday morning at 8 the re maining 11 section*, which meet at 11:80 will have their finals. This makes a total of 79 section* and 07 ^courses in which final exams are to be given. The schedule of examinations in graduate courses will be arranged by the instructor concerned. All regular summer school work for 1939 will come to a close next Saturday morning. Summer groes earned this semester will be awarded that mornm* AH grades for the second term will be due in the Registrar’s Of flee not later than 8 n. m. Monday] August 28. They are to be mailed out to the students concerned j r § h j Air-Conditioners Open Annual Three-Day Short Course Meeting STl’DEh (Coi VOCATIONAL AG TEACHERS CLOSE SUCCESSFUL MEET the oil is gone. TVn* permsment f The Annual State-Wide Confer- fund Will do the job." He contin- ence of Vocational Agriculture » MNurhtrs was brought to a close "The oil companies want to sad- last Saturday following the last °* 1 $80jDOO over last ses- ued: N. >ENT LABOR— (rontmu. d from page 1) being assigned, about ! are under the N. Y. A. and the >50 under the college. TV allotment of 870.178 A A M. by tV National Admialatratioa for student cmploN during tV next regu- dou ropreoeats the increase received b> ajor college or nai- - •f tV UaHed Stated- far as caa V determined. R. Sim peon, student em- dbwMar, bob dV- U represents an ia- of tblrty-fi* p**r rent tbe N. Y. A. grant made Far tV last regular naHea compared with aa average throughout the of twenty-fire per Aad as far as is known, la also the largest pro of increase allowed $70,173 allotment from the Y. A. wiU be equally divided |r the nine-month pcrxxi, allow- 87,797 to be spent each month. Is nn increase for the period A. * M. is boat this to tV the folk Ccine»- N. Y. U.-Fordham, mis, Misso u r i - yrland-Washington and n-Vanderbilt, Auburn- i-Tulsa, Washing- lA^ V. P. I.-V. M. L, Ue, Flofida, A U. a L am others. 1 any stfiools scheduled to play No ember 30 trill have tougher tax a to flxjthbir schedules than A. R M Mpny have games scheddl- or thk Cviturday (the 25th) bi fdti November 30. and many have 1 alky against playing beyond a rate at cp4aa c die a palea tpx oo our paopie. Yob i area meeting of tV short course, can save the day by keeping this . ^ on. handrod mill,on dohr. p.r PrK>r »« ““ in Texas and make s sales tax for- delivered by & W. Seale, sup- erer unnecessary ih oer state." erintendent of the Sinton public to • The fighting colonel hastened schools, to the general assembly, back to the capital city from ( amp on "Ultimate Aims of Secondary ; Hulen at Palacios, where he wa* Education”. During the talk the in annual enearapmeht as com aims were pointed out as being mandkg officer of the 111th improvements in health, vocation, quartermaster’s regiment of the civics, morals, social responsibility, Texas National guard, to make leadership, sad tolerance, recommendation for a special sea During tV last session a ma- sion directly to tV Oovamor. » jonty vote was carried to hold' is s member of the Texas Railroad M0 ther state-wide conference next Commission and chairman of the summer. Several places were sug gested as possible hosts for the yTTIlI short course next summer, but it Jy Jj jj se of holiday | serration in tV first semester of, «as pointed out that of the places ’s allotment, which was not 852,000 aad was spent st the hb.TSO a month. The in line sp quite a surprise Student Labor Office, Simp- declared; it had even been that thdre might be a dew erdase in the tew allotment. The imReaso should provide about 130 • >’’d • Ma'. joh*,, he said. sir-conditioning workers wV are Via for tV Air-CooRKioning Short Course, which was formally opened Thursday morning and which ends tomorrow. Following the Welcoming address. Dr. F. E. Gieeocke, direc tor of the A. A M Engineering Experissont Station, spoke eh “Re search V Rotated to Air-Condltieo- MrT A discussion .of this lecture was given by d L. KriV, a con sulting engineer from Dallas. The purpose at the fhert course is to give information and instrue- tkw about tV rapidly growing and developing business of air-condi tioning. TV leading manufactur ers of air-conditioning equipment have representatives present who are imparting information concern ing their types of equipment Lee tores of a technical nature are being given for the benefit of the technical employees of distr tutor* Not sH lectures are of a technical nature, for the programs include instructive information of a basx nature which will be interesting to anyone interested in the sir-iondi Honing industry. | Tonight a banquet wiD bo given for the attendants of the short course. For the occasion John How- att,. chief engineer of the Bureau of Engineering, Chicago, will de liver tV main addrts*. ,). . Si FRIDAY, AUGUST 18,1939 A. & M. HOI HAS FINE RECORD William tv Conqueror won the 8500 Championship Stake at Lexington Horse Show, Kentucky, which was 14-15. after defeating n field high stepping competitors, was bred at A. * M. but*sold as a two-year-old to Mrs. John Ken nedy. It eras at IV fall shows that Campbell Sewall of Houston saw the young staBien. Fed tag that William the Conqueror would de velop into an excellent show bene, V persuaded Mrs. Kennedy to part with him for the cum of 87J5O0 William Interstate Oil Cbmpaat Commis sion. He spoke at A. A M. on eoa- WIL1 KE AWARD FOR N USE Hie following persons a sdiduled to sgsak pn the various £«* i, expected pha|ms of air-conditioning: Major ab out 500 beys. Freshman registration on MATRICULATION— (Continued from page 1 partment heads will V located in the Administration Building, “Soma boys may get provoked at having to wait a few hours to register* said Registrar E. J. Howell, "but we feel that it is a desirable change because many de partments register men of only a certain otass or desses, aad this new system will give a much more even flow of traffic and prevent unusual congestion. Moreover, moving some of the departments out at the Main Building will give more elbow-room. We are trying to V ns fair as possible to every body. and this is the best system we have been able to figure out yet. A perfect registration system is just a Utopia. * "Taking tbe student body alpha betically is fair, because we are going to rotate the order each year. Once every few years the first letters of tV alphabet will come first, and 1 once the last let ters, and so on. We have divided the letters so that there will V approximately equal numbers in all groups; for instance the T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z group has about as many boys in it as the R, 8 group. to have summer school. Bird Will Ijpad Race to South p£, suggested. A. * M. is the only, fir. 0. Walton, preside* of dn. rtlh vtatuate hcilitfe. far «| A ., , j,.. mCTtl)r w „ TrHeud Off Gehttan Land Grab ,1—1 I 1 Ml. j* ‘ ,rd ’ 1 OB TON, Mass—Flans for a-f^T : W. E. Stark. Bryan Heater Corp., Cleveland, Prof. fi. EL Deg- ler. University; of Texas, Austin; Herbert Kuenen, Anersastat Corp., New York? A. M. Chaw. York Ice Machinery Corp., Houston; C. L. Kribs, consulting engineer, Dallas; R. r U. Berry,; General Veetric Co., of] Dallas; A. J. Rommel. Ssn An tonio Public Service Co.; H. E. Shu gar*, Barber-Colegiao 'Co., RiXkfoni. Illinois. The short course is being held under the auspices of the Mechsni- of tic race to claim strategic for tV United invasion by era" have been an- Read-Admiral Richard tic territory f< . aad pwwmt _ pow<—" *“ H nod need b; E. Byrd. * hough Byrd declined to name the th< “inva<Vr*", it was understood junior class turned out to V the ^ referred u. Germany who re diving. with Nuhn leading tV event airplane ear- bennd Tb. ^or. 104 .™l ^ ^ th . „ rwprctiv.ly. SlKl.od **»^;U1HI. Amtri,. .nd P.lm.r Und gave some good dives, and shoo J ■ . iT . « [ •. return ih many meet* to come to L ^ ptans to leave Boston by give the present pace-setters some Ahta, 180 tyoubip rMPh 20<> dogs, three airptanes, Mr. Penberthk acted as Vad * ► »rn«jr Ul*s and a 2Mo«. "snow judge for tV gleet. “Nkky” Pon- T n,r ^ tbomms thieux was starter, Eddie Johnson J «V r of Chicago, former expe- time keeper, and George Japhet Mjl, *^*^7^* j} said the United States al rai jy bad claimed about 400,000 aq are raises, much of which is re ly rich in coal, cofMr, ail- ;v«* shd joil. However, he said. TUTXAS BUSINESS ROSE FIVE^RER CENT IN JUBIl! Texas tamn«*9 in Jane climVii 5 per cent ahqve thin time laat year, UniversityWf Texas business statisticians said Saturday. 'i Though tV composiba business announcer. SIX ALL-STAR FOOTBALLERS TO BE HERE IH SEPT. A large numVr of A. A M. men and students and College Sta tion residents went to Houston Saturday to witness tV football game there that night Vtween the high-school all-star football teams representing North and South Tex as. TV game ended in a 6-6 tie, both sides woring a touchdown in the final quarter. Forty-two high school “greats" from aQ over the state were in vited to attend, and most of tVm got to take part in tV game. Of tV 42, six outstanding stars plan to attend Texas A. A M. as fresh men this fall. Hm six future Aggie football star prospects arc as follows: Tom Pickett, Temple; Willie Zapalac, BeUville; Martin Mitchell. Gaines ville; Bob Tull is. North Side High School, Fort Worth; Jack Swank, Highland Park High School, Dal las; and Jake Harvey, Diamond Hill 'High School, Fort Worth. tin re still! was about 1,000,000 !*q iar** miles in the western sec- tk a bordering Little America, wl ich this country wants. 'VariouC countries have tried to -roach Mi Mr claims already", re said “blit so far they have met Wi h but little success. Now ere ar out to make a definite move ta pi -vent further claims Vtag stak . JOHN CROWE RANSOM, not ed poet, critic, and visiting profes sor of English at tbe University of Texas, spoke there Hat week en “Poetry—Old and New". * ‘ ‘ conference of this sixe. However,i , 1. 1 1 .1 . ^ A; the d... .nd PIT, of tk. •xll'M 1 ™" **• <!>'«-">•» ta-rd '•I . •kort oorv will not be decided of trurtee. of the Cotton Reeorch A * . 'T 1 .*' ■ on-.il nelt M.roh .1 .kwh Ink. the A^mrd Fond, oeubli.hed by ^ v,„dl.,in, *n supervisors will meet at tV an- ^ u whi< . h ^ ^ nual Ft. Worth Fat Stock SMw. ; . . . , ^ The next eonfe^ will be the: ^ * P "‘' third such short course to V held to diicever a new process in recent years. that will create an annual market The purpose of tV conference for 300,000 additional .bales of cot each year is to jevelop a program tor| preventing the accumulation of such a large cotton surplus as in previous years. Other members of the board are that will aid the vocatienal agri index for June remataed^lmoiit 1 culture teacVrs in teaching farm- exactly at the May level. the'Wi *rs and farm boys improved pfac- ever June, 1938, was termed “v^K^ tices in farming, couraging" by officials of tV Uii-j Prominont persons who attend- Dri Homer P. Rainey, presideat of versity Bureau of Baainees Re- edKf short course were RoVrt the University of Texaa, and Dr. search. r A. Mshqe. state director of voea- Clifford B. Jones, president of little material change is sntici tional a^rkplture; D. M. ClemenU, Tegas Technological College, pated during tV next few months. SeatVm rekvjnal agent; R. L. but, as tV national business pk- Speer, superintendent of tV SVr- tur* appears to V definitely more man public schoolsXN. W. Pren- favorablc, “any departure from the tke, superintendent 64, Richland pnps« nt almost Vrisontal plane of Spring* public schools; S. W. Seale, is directing tV short eoiaae. Assisting him are J. S. Hotpot, C, E. Crawford, and W. IL Long, aD of the M. E. DepartmenL the Texaa business carve will have an upward rather than a down ward tendency " 4t was stated. superintendent of Sinton schools; and EL L. Blaiudtt, intendent of Ponta public school*. In naming the state school presi dents award trustees, the Legis- latim- imposed only the restriction that cotton "pxi>.Tt.>.'' submitting new processes for cotton consump- tiofi be residents of Tessa. Public BOARD WILL DECIDE— (Continued from page 1) is thought likely that some re vision will V made a$ this tim 16. Tb pass on the reqaest of Secretary K K. Mctlaillen of the Former Students Aanociatioa ; Afr41 central room Ip the dormitory anil to ase ta nillsrtlngi riothei for cleaning and pressing. It i« *prob- sblt that this request will V ap- pnpvAtf .. .1 17. Prepoeed oil lease on State the 20th will be the same as in the past. Everyone, however, will meet at tV Assembly Hall first, to get instructions and the assignment card. Cards won't be there until just before tV group each time is supposed to start; so it won’t do any good to try to.get ahead of time. We ask that everyone aote this carefully, and read the instruc tions for registration in tV official schedule of classes which will not V ready until two or three days before registration," Howell eon- cludad. ) V. C. DENTON CHOSEN ALL-ROUND SPORTS STAR; NO GIRL STAR HERE It might osssv^ wm to aVan In the re fits*.,]** P l * bases—dne at ' tV New Zeals •a, another in tV South i y V called a to lay prior western hem- plan to establish Little America Zealand end of the Palmer Land, can coast and one, about tion grow- bounda, it is quite particular area to a foreign to Much the Amer- th third, h smaller ha f-wsy ‘ With sir tn| by leaps po sible that Wo ild V ET. _ [enry “Boar Track" Hauser, Ag football and golf latterman, itself a small nicV in the golf fM»e Recently wVn ho ted Billy Rewell of Bryan- Walkor Cup team mem- win the annual Bryan in vitation tournament. Hauser scor- a 71 for the 18 Vie*, while veil trailed in one stroke be- iRAfitH A Pahokee, Florida, boy wnaf selected this term as tV most all round sports staf on tV campuU* | V. C. Denton, tV boy, was an overwVlming choice for the hon ored position. Denton during the regular term is a member of, Bat tery A, Field Artillery, and 1 is a student of Industrial Education. He will be a senior iext year and will return to the varsity tennis team on whkb be played this past asa- sim> ■ “A jack of all »ports" and also a master of most of them, Denton was seen nearly every place one might just hspi>cfl to V. He play ed good ball on first base for tV Ag^rMaad Pharmacy, team ami was listed with tV rest of bis fel low plsjrers as one of IV All-Stars. He carried off tV tennis touma- mt-n: by winning the singles, by downing tV rest with bis room mate, Jimmie Giles, In tV men's doubles, and by turning under his opponents with Angel Ornelas in tV mixed doubles. He bowls a good bit, takes an occasional swim in the pool, drives 8 few golf ball now and then, dances as well as the rest. In fact there were few things Denton didn't do this sum- tbe other hand, the girl all- sports star just wasn't here. No definite one could b<- picked. decided to just let it is. Southwest All-Stars Play in Dallas Soon, With Todd on Team Foret 1. at KtrbyvflMt Members bf the Board of f Direc- nse in the few weeks since ton of A. A M. are R. M. Law of legislativo action has fioodod Houston. H. C. SchahmacVr efj Is of each of th* members; Houston, G. R. White of Brady, R. W. Briggs of kPbarr, A. H. Demke of St< ph, nville, H. L. Kok- eraot of Alpine. E. J. Kiest of Dallas, Joseph Utey cf Dallas, and Walter G. Lacy of Waco. Mrs. Melle Williamson, secretary to prVsidoqt T. 0. Walton, is socre- tafy for tim Board. < f, tV of tV beard with plans for new use* of cotton. Monday the research committee of .the State-Wide Getton Commit tee will meet en the A. A M. cam pus, to formulate rules Sad regu lation* to guide the board oh-frus- tefs of tV award fund in the prise-winner and making a award. As the Southwest All-Star game get* under way in Dallas Septem ber 4, A. A M.'» own pride and joy, Dick Todd, will be in tV starting lineup. This will probably V the Vst of the ‘dream games’ ever played, as the material from which to pick tV all-stars was plentiful and the opposition is stronger than ever before. The Southwest’s men will face tV Green Bay Packers, who boast h, 5 ;|ET it If 1 tv Strongest of all professional teams. TV Packers boast an all- time winning record of .703 and have piled up a total of 2,481 points for themselves tb their opponents' ipk.' The Southwest team will be man ned by Dutch Meyer of T. C. U. and Matty Bell of S. M. U. TV definite lineup is not yet known but among those invited to play are Ki Aldrich, I. B. Hale, BUly Pat terson, Sam Boyd, Billy Dewell, Charlie Sprague, Jake Schuehle, raagkm, V« Meempankd tV shift and Bruno Schroeder, another for- fr«m cut-and-dried debate meth- mer A. A M. alar. loda. i I M ' Chicago Debate Team Quits Debating-Now Has ■‘Bull Sessions" ; bffhtuid, a debating society which has abandoned debating as an outmoded form of expression seems almost as ludrioous as a swimming team whkb quit swim- becauae it found out about U. University of Chicago’s stu- deat Debate Union, however, atop- i • d M* hating” last year. It has, in the meantime, developed radio “ ' sessions,” round tables, fo- discusakms, and a Vlf dozen techniques which H believes to be more adapted to a rapid world than the florid presentation of a set of neatly carded debate notes n la “resolved" proposition. A 250 per cent increase ta tV Uaion’s membership, making it tV second largest student organisation on tV University of Chicago quad ASSEMBLY HALL ■ SATURDAY, AAIG. 18 J-t AZA” « , ■ > nd Herbert Marshs 11 11 • ' w a|g. «; “BACK DOOR TO HEAVEJT . Starring Wallace Fird - Patekia Ellis TUT BSD AY, I Mil 1 TH1 ►AY. 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