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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1939)
Agrlcultorsl & Mechanical College of Texa< College Station, Texas. DON'T FORGET TO ATTEND THE FIRST CORPS DANCE OF THE SEASON TONIGHT. THE AGGIELAND ORCHESTRA WILL SWING OUT "Gentlemen” Tackle Aggies Here This Afternoon ★ ★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★ ★ ★ ★ Registration Has Reached 6,026 The Battalion Student Tri-Weekly Newspaper of Texas A. & M. College Official Newspaper of the City of College Station See This Issue’s Sports Page VOL. 30 PHONE 4-5444 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPT. 30, 1939 Z725 NO. 4 MAX MC CULLAR ELECTED PRESIDENT OF SENIOR CLASS Parking Lots For Dorm Student Cars Provided All Cars Must Be Registered With The Commandant Lot Behind Petroleum Building Designated For Old Dormitory Students Four Annapolis Boys Rilled, Two Injured, in Crash On Way to Academy Establishment of two permanent parking lots on the campus for dormitory students was announced Wednesday by Colonel George F. Moore, P. M. S. & T. and Com mandant of A. & M., to provide a suitable place for resident students to keep their cars. According to the announcement the parking lot for students liv ing in the old dormitories will be the lot between the Petroleum En gineering Building and the Petro leum Engineering Field. In ad dition this lot will serve as the temporary parking space for cars registered by students living in the new dormitories. This is neces sary because the parking lot for students in the new dormitories is not available for use at this time. When completed the parking lot for the new dorms will be to the north of Hall 11, which is the band hall. All cars parked in these lots must be registered with the Com mandant’s office and will not be used on the campus except as pre scribed in the college regulations. Noted Lecturer Comes to A. & M. Campus Monday Roy E. Dickerson, noted author and lecturer on human relations, will arrive at A. & M. Monday for a stay of two weeks. During his stay here he will give several lec tures and hopes to hold several in formal discussions with small groups. Mr. Dickerson has been in boys’ work since 1916 when he became supervisor of George W. Clayton College for Boys in Denver. Since that time he has carried on his work through the Y. M. C. A. and the DeMolay. He was a member of the American delegation to the first World’s Conference of Y. M. C. A. Workers With Boys in Aus tria in 1923. Mr. Dickerson was first active in the Y. M. C. A. in Tucson, Ari zona where he was Boys’ Work Secretary and later General Sec retary. (Continued on page 4) Naramore To Address Local AIME Chapter Chester Naramore, Executive Secretary of the petroleum divis ion of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engi neers, will be the principal speaker at the Petroleum Engineering Club meeting Monday night. He will speak on the subject, “Oil in the Soviet Union.” Britton Cole of Bryan Killed, Frank Thomas Of College Badly Hurt Death came to four midshipmen of the U. S. Naval Academy, and injuries to two Thursday as they were en route to Annapolis to start the new school year. The dead are Philip Sewald of Amarillo; Brit ton Cole of Bry an; Mac McCon nell of Clovis, New Mexico; and T. B. Orr of Ardmore, Okla homa. The injured were Frank Thomas of College Sta tion, and Charles Leveritt of Ama rillo. The extent of Leveritt’s con dition has not yet been ascertained, but Thomas injuries were not thought to be serious. Thomas re ceived bruises about the neck and head, possibly a broken nose, and a fractured rib. He was a member of the Aggie Band at A. & M. through his sophomore year. The party left Gainesville, Tex as, Wednesday in a car to return to classes which start Saturday. About 12:30 a. m., while traveling through a dense fog, the machine in which they were riding struck an apple truck at Braden, Tennessee, 35 miles northeast of Memphis. (Continued on Page 4) $1,200 Voted By Athletic Council For Band Expenses An appropriation for $1200 for the use of the band in making trips in the state was voted by the athletic council in a meeting yes terday. This is a great improvement over previous years, when the band did not know very far in ad vance how they were going to make trips. This appropriation will fully cover expenses of the band to Tyler, Fort Worth, and Houston. The business men of Tyler have agreed to pay half of the band’s expenses to the Rose Festival there. Annual Rodeo Will Be Held November 10 The annual event staged by the junior members of the Saddle and Sirloin Club for aiding the senior livestock judging team in part of its expenses will be held the after noon and night of Friday, Novem ber 10. Britton Cole Mr. Naramore has been employ ed by the Sinclair Refining Com pany for a number of years in charge of all foreign exploration work outside of the United States, working most of the time in Africa and Germany. In addition he has had wide experience as an engineer, executive, and oil operator in the United States. Graham Purcell, secretary, held a meeting last Wednesday night With the junior members of the club. Aids for the different com mittees were selected and a sche dule of events was drawn up. Pur cell is to be manager; Frank Say- ner, arena director; and R. T. Caperton is in charge of adver tising. As the Aggies Will Look At the Whistle This is the aggregation of Texas Aggies that will draw the starting assignment today, except that Price may replace Jeffrey. Front row, left to right—Joe. White, re; Joe Boyd, rt; Charles Henke, rg; Tommie Vaughn, c; Mar shall Robnett, Ig; Ernie Pannell, It; Bill Duncan, le. Backfield, left to right—Derace Moser, Ihb; John Kimbrough, fb; Marland Jeffrey, qb; and Jim Thomason, rhb. Course In Aeronautical Engineering At A. & M. Possible, Says Dean Registration Is Still on Increase Every time another man regis ters, the enrollment record is fresh ly broken. According to the latest figure announced Friday afternoon by Registrar E. J. Howell, 6,026 students had enrolled in the college by that time. Two thousand and forty-five of the number are new students. This figure is twice as great as that of October 10, 1934, and 450 above the enrollment for the first semester last year. Mr. Howell has estimated that the total en rollment should reach 6,100 by the registration deadline, October 6. The 6,000th student to register was Clark Harvey, a senior from West Texas State Teachers Col lege at Canyon, entering A. & M. for the first time, to study agro nomy. He registered Wednesday afternoon. Since all dormitory space has been taken, many day students have been enrolled. The last count announced was 718 in the campus cooperative project houses, 200 in project houses off the campus, and 241 in private homes off the cam pus; and in addition 170 graduate students and 128 married students living off the campus. The last date on which classes may be assigned without the stu dent assuming a grade of “F” is stated by the Registrar’s Office as October 5. Students contemplat ing making changes in their cour ses are being cautioned to ob serve this deadline. Sale of Athletic Coupon Books Has Been Increased The Athletic Council announced that there has been an increase in the sales of both student and faculty coupon books over pre vious years. The student coupon book sales have increased over 300 above the total sales of last year, while the sale of faculty books has increas ed 200. This increase is probably due to the increase in the number of home games as well as the elimination of warm up games and the addi tion of the Centenary game. Also there seems to be a great increase in student interest in the team. Students Interested In Course To Fill Out Forms Available Monday Dean Gibb Gilchrist of the School of Engineering stated today that, in all probability, the students of A. & M. would be offered a course in aeronautical training this year. It is not as yet definite but the chances are that the airport will be completed in time for training this year, the dean stated. Proposals to operators will be out Wednesday. Mimeographed forms will be issued Monday for students interested in taking the course. These forms will be avail able at the offices of the heads of the engineering departments. Dean Gilchrist’s office. Col. Ike Ashburn’s office and the Y.M.C.A. These forms do not in any way bind the student, but are issued only to determine the number of stu dents interested in the course. Plans for the airport are being worked out and when it is definite that the airport will be established, it will require only two or three days’ work to prepare the site for use. The course will consist of 72 hours’ class work, with a minimum of 35 hours and a maximum of 50 hours of flight instruction. The class work will cover history of aviation, civil air regulations, navi gation, meteorology, and para chutes. If enough interest is shown it is hoped that a contract from the government can be acquired and Nationally Known Radio Specialist Visiting on Campus John C. Baker, radio specialist of the United States Department of Agriculture with headquarters at Washington, D. C., is a campus visitor as a guest of Extension Service workers. , He is in Texas for a month’s tour of radio stations and a series of meetings with county agricul tural and home demonstration a- gents. In a conference meeting yesterday he reported on his find ings at meetings held in Beaumont, Houston, San Benito, Corpus Christi, San Antonio, San Angelo, El Paso, Midland, Big Springs, Amarillo, Lubbock, and Abilene. an air corps can be established along with the other organizations. It is to be noted that the training will be conducted on a civilian basis until an air corps is estab lished as a unit here. The training, if established, will be open to any sophomore, junior, or senior who is over 18 years of age and less than 25 years of age. No scholastic requirement will be made. No Hot Water For Dorms Available Until November 5 Dormitories are to be without hot water for another month. Friday, B. D. Marburger, Super intendent of Buildings and College Utilities, said that delay in fabri cation of new heaters would neces sarily cause the hot water supply not to be available until November 5. The new heaters have been com pleted and were shipped from the factory September 27. They are expected to arrive within a week. Upon receipt here installation will proceed and is to be completed within thirty days. Upon comple tion of installing the new water heaters the supply will be turned on for use to the dormitories. Graduate Students To Organize Club on Campus Plans for the formation of an active graduate club to be formed from the members of the graduate school have been announced this week. The first meeting of the club is to be held Monday night at seven o’clock in the Biology lec ture room in the Science Hall. Plans for the first meeting call for the election of a president and other officers of the club and the outlining of temporary plans for the year. The purpose behind the club is to bring a majority of the gradu ate students together in an active club as a means of furthering im provements in the Graduate School. 1 Guy, Bomefeld, Dodson Chosen for Other Senior Positions of Importance Seniors Enact Class Uniform Rules; Decide on Corps Trips Francis M. (Max) McCullar of Kingsville, petroleum engineering senior of Company C Infantry, was elected president of the senior class of 1939-40, by the senior class meeting in Guion Hall Wednesday night after yell practice. William T. (Bill) Guy of Brady, of “E” Engineers and major of the second battalion of the Engineer Regiment, was elected vice- president of the class; Herman A. (Buddy) Bomefeld of Galveston, captain of “B” Coast Artillery, was elected secretary-treasurer; and John L. Dodson, Jr. of Del Rio, of' “C” Coast Artillery and lieutenant- colonel of the Coast Artillery Regi ment, historian. The meeting, attended by nearly every member of the class of ’40, and presided over by Cadet Colonel Durwood B. (Woody) Vamer un til the senior president had been elected and took office, was a successful one in that a consider able amount of business was ac complished. It was, notwithstand ing, a meeting characterized by a great deal of argumentation and discussion. Numerous questions of importance were taken up and thrashed out pro and con, with the election of senior class officers coming as the climax. First of all, Vamer brought to the attention of those present the notice just released by Colonel George P. Moore, Commandant, by which students may keep cars at College Station, using the area be tween the Petroleum Engineering Building and the petroleum en gineering field as the permanent parking place for cars registered by students living in the old dor mitories and as a temporary park ing place for cars registered by students living in the new dormi tories; and announcing the estab lishment soon of a permanent park ing place in the vicinity of the new Band hall, for cars registered by students living in the new dorms. Following this announcement, the senior class acted on the invi tation from Fort Worth to make the corps trip there October 21 for the game with T.C.U., the offi cial corps trip of the 1939 season, only one official corps trip being allowed each year. The senior class First Dance, Fish Attending, Set for Tonight Attention!! Aggie jitterbugs, rug cutters, and gates. To night will be your first chance to shine on the floor of “dear old Sbisa Hall”. Tommy Lit tlejohn and his Swing Cats will furnish the orchestrations in the current popular style of Glenn Miller and other fav orites. Freshmen, this is your first chance to see the corps in ac tion on the dance floor. As this is the first corps and foot ball dance of the season, a capacity crowd is expected as is always at the first of the year. The uniform for tonight, ex cept for seniors, will be No. 1- white shirt and blouse, a tuxe do, or the white uniform. The curtain will go up at 9:00 o’clock sharp and the ad mission will be just $1.00, so let’s all be there for this is the last football dance till the Baylor game, October 28. accepted this as the official trip by a unanimous vote. The trip to game with Rice Institute was un animously accepted as an unof ficial corps trip. Next a number of questions con cerning the uniform regulations were taken up. After prolonged discussion and numerous motions, the following motions were passed and adopted: 1. Seniors may attend all corps dances either in regulation or non regulation uniform, as thew prefer— The class was unanimously in favor of allowing seniors to go to them “non-reg” if they desire. This, of course, does not extend to or ganization balls, the question of what may be worn to them being decided by the seniors of each or ganization. 2. Underclassmen must go “reg” to all dances (regulation uniform including tuxedo and white uni form) and seniors will enforce this rule by assessing demerits to (Continued on Page 4) City Election To Be Held Monday Filling Vacancy A special city election for the purpose of selecting an alderman to fill a vacancy on the city coun cil has been called by the College Station council and will be held Monday at the Missouri-Pacific railway station directly opposite the old entrance to the college. The vacancy resulted from the resignation of W. E. Long, pro-, fessor in the department of me- chanical engineering from the- council. J. A. Orr, associate pro fessor in the Civil Engineering department, is the only candidate to date that has announced for the^ place. Ernest Langford, head of the'- architecture department, whose name had been placed on the tick et, withdrew from the election. The election, which will be held from 8:00 a. m. until 6:00 p. m., will be presided over by V. K. Su- gareff, election judge .for the city. New Mail Service For New Dormitories Inaugurated Monday The Student Labor office an nounces the incorporation of a new mail service for the new dormi tories to begin Monday. Garnet Stone will have charge of transferring all mail from the Post Office to the Captain’s of each organization. Mail will be delivered twice each day, once at 7 a. m. and again at 2 p. m. Because of problems which have arisen, work on the new sub-sta tion is being curtailed but officials are doing everything within their power to see that the sub-station is completed at an early date.