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VOL 39 PHONE 4-5444 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 12, 1939 Z752 NO. 9
AIR TRAINING TO START HERE WEEK AFTERlOT
Advance Ticket Sales To
Tyler Game Amount to 300 g
WTAW Cannot Use
10,000-Watt Unit
iven It by KRLD
Tickets Stay On
Sale At Athletic
Office Thursday
All Students Are Refused
Excused and Authorized
Absences To Attend Game
In spite of authorized absences
not being given to students making
the trip Saturday, E. W. Hooker,
secretary of the athletic council,
has announced that by Wednesday
morning more than 300 tickets had
been sold to the game between the
Aggies and the Villanova Wild
cats who have gone through two
seasons undefeated. Advance de
mands for tickets have been great
enough to keep them on sale
throughout the day Thursday.
The Commandant’s office has an
nounced that the official uniform
for the students making the trip
will be number one with white
shirt.
At a faculty meeting Friday
night, juniors and seniors were re
fused both authorized and excused
absences. However, Dean Bolton
promises although students missing
classes will receive a cut, they will
be allowed to make up the work.
Juniors and seniors will not be re
quired to obtain passes from the
Commandant’s office, but this rule
will not apply to sophomores and
freshmen.
According to Tommy Balmer,
major of the band, there will be
140 band members making the trip.
As usual the freshmen in the band
will not make the trip. Besides fur
nishing music during the game, the
band will put on a show between
halves of the football game and
will also participate in a downtown
parade Saturday morning. Even
with a third of its members at
home, the A. & M. Band will be
the biggest band in the parade.
The regular train going to Tyler
will leave at 1:42 a. m. Saturday
and will arrive in Tyler about 8:00
a. m. Both the football team and
the band will ride on this train.
Tickets for students are $2.65 and
will be good for a return trip
Sunday for those desiring to stay
over Saturday night.
The two opposing football teams
will be honored with a dance Sat
urday night at the Mayfair Club.
Music will be furnished by the
Aggieland Orchestra.
Inter-Collegiate
Rodeo Possibilities
Discussed At Meeting
At the Saddle and Sirloin Club
meeting Monday night, Robert M.
Denhardt of the Agricultural Eco
nomics Department gave an infor
mal talk on college rodeos and the
possibilities of an inter-collegiate
rodeo to be held here in the future.
Mr. Denhardt expressed his idea
that the advantages to this school
in advancing this type of show are
untold. With one contestant for
each event from each of the lar
ger schools in the southwest, a
real show, drawing interest from
several states, could be promoted.
One deficiency in the annual
rodeo here, he pointed out, is the
fact that we have no stock-horse
class, and that this type is much
more appropriate and appreciated
than the gaited-horse class at a
rodeo. Set rules and participation
of audiences and judges in decis
ions of a stock-horse class will pro
mote interest in any rodeo.
He also discussed the First
National Palamino Horse Show
held at Abilene last week. The Tex
as Association of Palamino Breed
ers, who sponsored the show, has
the largest number of Palamino
horses in the United States.
A. & M. Men Dig Up
Fossil Elephant Jaw
James E. Gillaspy and Morton
Kagan, students of A. & M., accom
panied by C. J. Hesse of the Col
lege Museum, and Allan Heflin
of the School of Veterinary Medi
cine, dug up the lower jaw of a
fossil elephant at Waco last Sun
day. Gillaspy and Kagan discover
ed the jaw last summer while
working for the United States Bu-
reaum of Entomology.
Found in a small gully on the
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Experiment farm at Waco, the
specimen was in such bad con
dition from exposure to the wea
ther that only the teeth were car
ried back to A. & M. The discovery
is important only in its location
since the five teeth, weighing two
or three pounds apiece, are not
good specimens. Probably less
than a million years old, it was
found in gravel of Pleistocene time.
AGGIES GIVEN
CHOICE SEATS
FOR T.C.U. GAME
Although the Aggie and Frog
football teams will be fighting for
choice positions on the football
field, the fight will not be carried
into the grandstand this year.
Seating arrangement for students
has been changed from that of
the past, and T. C, U. officials
have expressed the hope that both
sides will be pleased with the
changes.
This year the entire south side
of the grandstand beginning with
the 20-yard line and extending the
length of the field will be devoted
to the cadet corps. T. C. U. sup
porters will occupy a section on
the north side plus the 20-yard
section on the south side not used
by the Aggies.
Previously the custom was to
put all students on one side of
the field, dividing the stand at the
50-yard marker and giving half
to each college. Under the new
plan the cadet corps will have a
larger number of seats available
besides having a better location.
E. W. Hooker, secretary of the
athletic council, announced that
3,500 tickets have been secured
for the cadet corps so that plen
ty of tickets will be available for
cadets making the corps trip next
week.
Student Welfare
Members Elected
By Battalions
Although all the senior repre 7
sentatives of the Student Welfare
Committee have not as yet been
elected. Woody Varner, cadet col
onel, said that as soon as possible
the committee would organize and
plan work for the year.
Those named thus far are as
follows.
Cavalry, first squadron, F. M.
Pool; second squadron, Jack Lip-
pard.
Coast Artillery, first battalion,
I. Q. Mayhew; second battalion,
Larry Edens.
Engineers, first battalion, Jack
Bibbs; second battalion, Ed Cope
land.
Infantry, first battalion, Fred
Sandlin; second battalion, W. H.
Dwyer; third battalion, R. D.
Evans.
The representatives from the
Field Artillery, Band, Chemical
Warfare Service, and Signal Corps
are as yet unknown.
Equipment Will Be Used
By E. E. Dept, apd By
Amateur Station W5AQY
Contrary to a statement pub
lished in the Tuesday issue of The
Battalion and taken from the Tex
as Aggie, former students’ news
paper, station WTAW, College Sta
tion, is not using the 10,000 watt
transmitter donated to the station
by Edwin J. Kiest, publisher of
the Dallas Times Herald and own
er of KRLD, Dallas, upon which
the transmitter was used before
the remodeling of the Dallas sta
tion and the installation of a 50,-
000-watt unit in its place.
The transmitter given to the
school is not of the same model as
the present equipment of WTAW
so that the unit cannot be used in
its entirety on the A. & M. station.
However, part of the tubes, meters
and other parts of the transmitter
will be installed sometimes in the
near future on the amateur radio,
station, W5AQY, which is also
operated by the college. Other parts
of the equipment will be used in
research and experiments in the
Electrical Engineering Department.
The entire transmitter at the
present time is stored in Austin
Hall but will be used as stated
under an improvement program
proposed for both A. & M. stations.
Methodists Start
New Church Drive
Some 250 Methodist clergymen
and laymen attended the first din
ner in Sbisa Hall Tuesday night
of the campaign to raise $125,000
to build a chapel and students’ cen
ter at A. & M. for the 1600 Meth
odist students here.
Dr. T. O. Walton, president of
A. & M., sponsored the dinner, as
sisted by Rev. Harvey Carlin, pas-
ton of the college church.
The chapel is to be built by the
Wesley Foundation commission of
which Dr. Glenn Flinn of Dallas
is chairman. The commission rep
resents the five Methodist confer
ences in Texas. Option on a site
half a block from the new dormi
tories has already been obtained.
Col. Ike Ashburn, executive as
sistant to Dr. Walton, was toast
master for the occasion. Speakers
included Dr. Walton, Bishop A.
Frank Smith of Houston, Dr. Flinn
and Cadet Owen Watkins of Hous
ton and Dr. T. H. Shelby of Austin,
director of the extension depart
ment of the University of Texas.
Dr. Walton said he welcomed
the activities of religious bodies in
cooperation with the students. He
said the aim of college is to de
velop students morally and spirit
ually as well as mentally and phy
sically.
Among those present were Mrs.
T. O. Walton, Mrs. A. F. Smith,
Mrs. Glenn Flinn, H. L. Millis, edi
tor of The Houston Post, Rev. and
Mrs. Ervin Jackson of Bryan, Dr.
F. M. Richardson, superintendent
of the Galveston district. Dr. W. F.
Bryan, superintendent of the
Huntsville district, and Mrs. O.
M. Watkins of Houston.
U. S. Army Will Be
Expanded to Peace
Limit of 280,000
The U. S. War Department an
nounced October 7 the intention of
expanding the army to fill the
peace-time limit of 280,000' men,
and at the same time ordered mass
training this winter of seven new
“streamlined” divisions.
Five divisions and additional
units comprising over 65,000
troops will be concentrated first
at scattered Southern points and
then at Fort Benning, Georgia, for
large-scale training as an army
corps. Two cavalry divisions will
be concentrated at Fort Bliss, at
El Paso.
Sophomores
Hold First
University Lands
Will Be Offered
At Annual Auction
Meet Tonight
Organization and
Election of Class
Officers Planned
The first sophomore class meet
ing of the year will he held Thurs
day night in Guion Hall imme
diately after yell practice, Woody
Varner, cadet colonel, announced
Wednesday.
The meeting will be featured by
the organization of the class and
the election of the class officers
for the coming year. A general
discussion of business before the
class will follow.
Because of the internal changes
made within the corps this year,
this important meeting is being
held on a later date than has been
the custom for the preceding year.
A lively interest has marked the
meetings, heretofore, and Varner
urged all sophomores to attend. Be
cause meetings in past years have
been of a rather competitively
boisterous nature, Varner express
ed his hopes for the full coopera
tion of the class members, as a
swift and orderly organization of
this class will better equip it for its
responsibilities of the coming term.
Sterling C. Evans
May Address Student
Agronomy Society
Arrangements are now under
way by the Agronomy Depart
ment for the return of Sterling
C, Evans, head of the Bank of
Cooperatives at Houston, whom
they desire to speak before the
Student Agronomy Society at their
regular meeting next Tuesday
night. It is planned that he will
speak on various agricultural in
terests of Brazil as he shows some
1800 feet of film taken this spring.
Mr. Evans visited A. & M. last
Mjonday and spoke before the Ex
periment station Staff Confer
ence in the morning and before
the Extension Service group in
the afternoon. His talk, with mo
tion picture illustrations, dealt
with the harvesting and prepara
tion of cotton for market around
the Sao Paula and Paraguay areas
where he spent two months study
ing South American cotton pro
duction early this year.
Mr. Evans is an ex-Aggie and
while here wa?. prominent in cam
pus affairs having been connect
ed with the first student rodeo.
At present he is very active in
assisting foreign cotton study tour
parties.
Gas and Oil Leases
Will Be Let On 9,643
Acres Of School Land
The directors of Texas Univer
sity lands will offer 9,643 acres in
62 tracts for oil and gas leases at
their ninth public auction Friday,
Oct. 27, at Austin. Proceeds from
this sale will go to the University’s
Permanent Fund, which is used to
support Texas University, Texas
A. & M. and other state schools.
The auction will be held in the
State Highway hearing room at 10
o’clock.
Land located in eight counties,
Ector, Crane, Andrews, Pecos, Rea
gan, Crockett, Upton, and Ward,
will attract representatives from
about 25 major and independent
oil companies, said Dr. Hal P. By
bee, geologist in charge of Uni
versity lands.
Col. E. Walters, of Skeede, Okla.,
United States marshal for almost
60 years and veteran auctioneer for
all the Indian oil and gas leases
in Oklahoma, will handle the auc
tion for the University, his ninth
since 1936. To secure money for
the University’s Permanent Fund,
the sale will be transacted officially
by a three-member board, Dr. K.
H. Aynesworth, chairman, and
Mrs. I. D. Fairchild, and Land
Commissioner Bascom Giles.
Since 1936 sales from eight auc
tions have coined the Permanent
Funds a bonus of $3,554,666.20 for
94,284 acres. This is an average
of $37.70 per acre, said Dr. Bybee.
Only the income from this fund,
which must be invested, is avail
able for use.
GEOLOGY CLUB
PLANNED FOR
SCHOOL YEAR
Election of officers and appoint
ing committees to organize a Geol
ogy Club were the principal fea
tures of a meeting of A. & M. geol
ogy students Monday night.
Geology students had been mem
bers of the Petroleum-Geology
Club in years past. It was thought
advisable by both petroleum engi
neering and and geology students
to organize speakers this year.
Technical speakers in years past
have made talks to the group
which only had bearings on one
set of students. The two clubs will
work together, however.
W. C. White, of Gladewater, was
elected president; James Critz,
vice-president, and W. A. Watson,
secretary treasurer. Doctor S. S.
Goldich was selected as Club spon
sor and advisor.
Gas-Lift Production Conference
Program For Oil Men Announced
The program far the Gas-Lift-
Production Conference to be held
November 9-11 was announced to
day by Chairman A. B. Stevens of
the Petroleum Engineering Depart
ment. Lectures and discussions will
be held as follows:
Thursday, November 9
Afternoon
1:00—Registration: Room 101,
Petroleum Engineering Building.
2:00—Address of Welcome—Gibb
Gilchrist, Dean of Engineering,
Room 140.
2:15—Development and General
Principles Governing Gas-Lift Op
erations, Room 140.
4:15—Discussion.
Evening
7:30—Discussion of Lift, Sub
mergence, and Lifting Efficiency,
Room 140.
9:30—Discussion.
Friday, November 10
Morning
10:00—Conferences and round
table discussion of gas-lift prob
lems, Room 210.
► Afternoon
2:00—Pressure and Its Effect on
Gas-Lift Operations, Room 140.
4:00—Discussion.
Evening
7:30—Discussion of various types
of gas-lift flow; straight, combi
nation, intermittent flow. Room 140.
Saturday, November 11
Morning
10:00—Conferences and round
table discussion of gas-lift prob
lems, Room 210.
12:00—Adjournment.
The purpose of this conference is
to bring together engineers and
others who are interested in the
production of oil, by the gas-lift
method, in order that they might
hear a discussion by an expert of
national reputation, and to afford
them an opportunity to meet with
each other and exchange ideas on
this important subject. The prin
cipal speaker will be S. F. Shaw,
Consulting Engineer and Special
Lecturer of the Petroleum Engi
neering Department.
More Than 155 Ags
Fill Out Application
For Aviation Course
Dean Announces
Thanksgiving To
Be Observed As
Formerly Planned
In spite of the change made by
President Roosevelt, Thanksgiving
holidays at A. & M. will remain as
formerly announced, November 30
to December 2. Numerous inqui
ries caused Dean Bolton to an
nounce the official date which al
ready appears in the catalog.
Changing of the date would in
terfere with the annual Turkey
Day football game between A. & M.
and Texas University. Tickets al
ready sold would have to be alter
ed, football schedules would have
to be changed, and many other ad
justments made.
“E” QUIZZES
ARE NO MORE
According to a report received
Wednesday afternoon from E. J.
Howell, registrar, the practice of
giving “E quizzes” has been dis
continued.
Students may get credit in cours
es in which grades of “E” or “F”
were received only by repeating the
courses. In former years it was
possible for students to take re
examination and pass courses in
which the grade of “E” had been
given by taking “E” quizzes.
Final examinations from which
students were absent may still be
taken by petition of the Execu
tive Committee, if taken not later
than the succeeding semester after
the course was taken.
J. Thomsen Lund Will
Advise Tyler Farmers
Dr. J. Thomsen Lund, assistant
professor of Agricultural Eco
nomics at Texas A. & M. College,
will spend the latter part of this
week as farm management adviser
in a series of conferences around
Tyler and Lindale arranged by the
Soil Conservation Service. He serv
ed in a similar capacity in the Soil
Conservation School conducted at
Madisonville recently.
On October 26th, Dr. Lund will
give an address at Waco before
the Texas Land Association on
“Prices as a Factor in Farm Ap
praisal.”
C.A.A. Establishes
Flying Training At
John Tarleton School
John Tarleton Agricultural Col
lege has been designated by the
Civil Aeronautics Authority as one
of the 220 schools in the United
States to offer flying instruction
in their curricula, according to
word received there recently from
Roper H. Hinckley, chairman of
the C. A. A.
Ground instruction began there
October 1, and actual flying must
be started by November 1, in order
to conform to the regulations of
the C. A. A.
The airport is located on the
north edge of the city limits, and.
will be known as the “Tarleton
Airport.”
It has been through the efforts
of E. A. Blanchard that this
course has been added to the cur
ricula of the school.
One plane for each ten students
is required, and the minimum num
ber of students allowed the college
under the ruling of the C. A. A. is
twenty. Therefore there will be at
least two planes at the field. These
planes will be of the trainer type
and will have motors of at least
fifty horsepower.
Ground School
Course Starts
In Near Future
Only 50 Students Will
Be Allowed To Take Full
Year in Flight Training
More than 155 students have
made application to take aeronau
tical training, a-check by Gibb Gil
christ, dean of the Engineering
School, announced Tuesday. He
also stated that preparations were
being made to start ground school
work on the course the last week
in October with classes in the Me
chanical Engineering Building.
A check of the students apply
ing for the course showed that
sophomores lead in the number of
applicants for the course with 85,
followed by juniors with 54 re
quests, while only 18 seniors show
ed a desire to take the course. As
only 50 students will be allowed to
take the course, some means of eli
mination will be used to reduce
the class to that size.
All students taking the course
must be citizens of the United
States, at least 18 years ofTHSe'
and not over 25, and must, have
completed the freshman year. In
addition all applicants must not
have had any solo flight experience
and must pass a rigid physical ex
amination.
Ground for the 500-acre airport
will not be broken until the appli
cation by the college for an opera
tor’s license for the airport is
granted by the Civil Aeronautics
Authority. The C.A.A. has already
approved an application by the
college for the airport and has
passed on its location so that only
the operator’s license is needed to
start work on the project. Accord
ing to regulations laid down by
the C.A.A., the airport at College
Station must be established be
fore equipment can be transferred
to it from either the Navasota or
Bryan airports, as has been plan
ned by college officials cooperating
with the Bryan city commission.
Present plans call for the use of
the field by both Bryan and College
Station so that in addition to sup
plying a better airport than either
city can afford alone, it will make
possible the designation of A. & M.
as a base for the civilian pilot
training program.
New Water Supply
Available January
1 for College Use
Some day around the first of
January, the Aggies will begin
using water from the new water
system which has been under con
struction now for almost a year.
R. G. Williams, consulting engi
neer from Bryan and supervisor
of the project, stated that he ex
pected the completion around that
date.
The main part of the system is
mostly complete and the conduits
which will distribute the water
over the campus are well on their
way to completion. The new re
servoir for the system is also un
der construction and will be com
pleted in ample time.
The new system, a government
project, will furnish the dormi
tories and residents of College
Station with an adequate supply of
water. Mr. Williams said that fur
ther delay in construction would
be avoided in order to furnish the
college by the indicated time, a-
round the first of January.