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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 19, 1939)
Rose Festival Beauty The comely lady above, depicted as a Spanish senorita in the midst of Tyler roses, was one reason for Aggies enjoying the Tyler Rose Festival last Saturday. Texas A. & M. Puerto Rican Club To Be Established Here A petition in the name of the many students of Puerto Rico here at A. & M. has been made by M. A. Rodriquez, L. Infantry senior, for the formation of the Puerto Rico Texas A. & M. Club, E. L. Angell, head of the committee on student activities, passed his ap proval on the petition and showed much interest in the organization of the club as it will be the first of its kind in the history of A. & M. The purpose in establishing this club is not only to give the stu dents from Puerto Rico an oppor tunity to get together but also to establish closer relations between the state of Texas and Puerto Rico. This will be done by an exchange of letters and corre spondence between Texas A. & M. and Puerto Rico A. & M. Many of the Puerto Rican stu dents here are former students of the Puerto Rican agricultural col lege where they say Texas A. & M. is not only well known but al so is highly praised as one of the outstanding institutions of learn ing in the world. According to Rodriquez, the first meeting of the club will be held Thursday night after yell practice in room 110 Academic Building, and all boys from Puerto Rico are urged to attend and co operate. Annual T.S.C.W. - A. &M. Junior Dance Scheduled Cuffs on their pants and stripes-^- If everything runs on schedule, on their aims, the junior class will travel via automobile, train, and thumb to Denton Friday for a rendevous with the juniors from T.S.C.W., self-styled Texas’ Sweet est Collection of Women. Pro gram for the evening will feature, in addition to other things, a steak fry and a dance. In order to avoid hampering a good time, the faculty has allowed juniors excused absences from Friday’s classes to make the jour ney to Denton. Because of a change in busses, the cost of the round trip to Den ton has been raised to $4.75. The fare to Dallas Friday afternoon is still $3.55. A special train which leaves at 12:15 a. m. Friday will take the boys as far as Dallas. Busses from the Dixie lines will then furnish passage from Dallas to Denton. These same busses will go to Ft. Worth the next morning at eight o’clock in time for the parade. Train tickets for the return trip will be good on any regularly scheduled Southern Pacific train from either Dallas ©r Ft. Worth. the busses should arrive in Denton at 5:00 o’clock Friday afternoon. A steak fry will follow necessary introductions and adjustments to rooms. The committee for ar rangements has specified number two uniform, khaki or serge shirt, as “reg’ for both the steak fry and the dance to be held at 9:30 that night, although number one can be worn if desired. Room reservations have been made for 140 boys to stay in Stoddard hall. The first to sign for the rooms will be given pref erence, but for those who get left out the rates in local tourist camps and hotels have been reduc ed. Schedules for trains making the return trip are as follows; From Ft. Worth—8:30 a_ m., and 10:35 p. m. From Dallas—8:00 a. m., and. 11:30 p. m. These are regular trains, and the schedule applies to both Sat urday and Sunday. Any train but the Streamlined Sunbeam number 14 may be ridden on with the re turn tickets. _ CTBRARYi Agricultural 6 Mechanical College of Texas Library Student Tri-Weekly Newspaper of Texas A. & M. College campus Official Newspaper of the City of College Station VOL. 39 PHONE 4-5444 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. 19, 1939 Z752 NO. 12 Aggies Move To Fort Worth Saturday Telephone Installation Starts Today Cable Work on New Dormitories Ready For Telephone Use The installation of phones in the old dormitories will definitely be started today, M. C. Atkins, Dis trict Manager of the Southwest Telephone Company, stated Wed nesday. He also said that despite numerous delays the cable work to the new dorms has been com pleted and installation in them will begin not later than Satur day. The student body is reminded that requests for phones are to be made through the organization commanders to the Commandant’s Office. The cost will be $1.50 for installing plus $2.50 a month flat rate. It has been noted that some units are financing this charge through the organization fund, while others have created a special fund for this purpose. Mr. Atkins revealed that some 35 or 36 applicants for phones have been received and that these orders will soon be filled. Consider ing the time necessary to get re quests approved, it is expected that additional orders can be fill ed as soon as they are received; consequently, Mr. Atkins stated, “All units desiring phones are again urged to submit their appli cations immediately.” As has been pointed out before these phones will all be of the manual type and not dial. COLLEGE STATION ZONING COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO PLAN FOR CITY DEVELOPMENT The city council of College Sta-fand in the office of tion recently appointed a Zoning Commission, consisting of Ernest Langford of the architecture de partment, Guy Boyett of College Station, V. M. Faires of the me chanical engineering department, W. R. Horsley of the landscape art department, and E. W. Steel of the municipal and sanitary engineering department, Chairman of the com mittee. The Zoning Commission announ ces a public hearing to be held 7:30 p. m. November 1, in Room 11, C. E. Building, at which time the proposed zoning plan will be ex plained and comments and sug gestions will be received. Attend ance of all interested property owners is urged. A map showing the proposed zones is available for examination at the office of the City Secretary E. W. Steel. Other maps will be available at other places in the near future. Later announcements will be made giving the locations of other maps. The proposed zoning plan pro vides for five types of districts as follows: A first residential district, in which the principal requirement is that not less than 5000 square feet of lot area must be provided per family. A second residential district, in which the principal re quirement is that not less than 2500 square feet of lot area per family, an apartment house dis trict. A first business district for retail stores, filling stations, etc. A second business district for such businesses as laundries, lumber yards, blacksmith shops, etc. In addition there is provision for spe cial districts for special uses. (Continued on page 4 Fish Discussion Program To Start Monday, October 23 In order to reach more fresh men and to contribute more to their well-being here at A. & M. a highly-educational program is to he followed for the freshman dis cussion groups this year accord ing to ^lans announced by the “Y” cabinet. Twelve different programs will be given .throughout the year for the entire Freshman class. The dis cussion groups will have the same topics as [presented by the speaker at these programs. Those Fresh man attending will naturally be able to contribute more to their discussion groups as the discus sion groups will be held during the week following the programs. The first program will be held Monday, Octbdber 23, in the “Y” Chapel after Yell Practice. Col. Ike Ashburn, Executive Assistant at A. & M. wM be in charge and will discuss the problem of ad justing one’s self to college life. The "Y” Cabinet urges all Fresh men to attend this first meeting in order that they will be able to join in the discussion groups later. Each program will be announced before hand, and it is understood that there will be discussion groups during the following week. The discussion group committee will make arrangements with the or ganization commander and discus sion leader as to time and place of meeting etc. As Aggies Mark Up 33-7 Victory James Thomason, junior back in the Aggie team, is shown in the upper picture rushed by four Vil- lanova players during the Satur day game when the Aggies ran over the Wildcats 33 to 7. Kim brough, 39, and Pugh are coming up in the background. Derace Moser, sophomore back, is shown in the lower photo carry ing the ball around end. The mem ber of the opposing team about to try for a tackle is Benjamin Morkum of the Pennsylvanian team. In the stands in the background are a few of the 15,900 football fans who jammed the stadium and crowded into the end zones to wit ness the closing feature of the annual Tyler Rose Festival. Fort Worth Department Store Will Be Meeting Place For Aggie Date Bureau By R. R. Pierce “Applicants for dates with T. S. C. W. girls at Ft. Worth will meet their dates at the Fair De partment Store just after the parade Saturday morning,” ac cording to Bodie Pierce, Chief Yell Leader. A special booth will be set up in the Sports Shop, and a public address system will be used in finding each date. As each Aggie arrives, he will obtain the name of his date, and she will be paged by the speaker system . . . (Continued on page 4) Student Directory For 39-40 Will Go On Sale Wednesday A. & M. STUDENTS WHO ARE keeping up with their stamp col lections may be interested to know that five new commemorative stamps have been put on sale at the postoffice. The new issues are the 25th Anniversary Panama Canal, 300th Anniversary of Printing in Colonial America, the Sesquicentennial of the Inaugura tion of Washington as First Presi dent, Golden Gate Exposition, and New York Worlds Fair. According to an announcement made by E. L. Angell, manager of student publications, this year’s issue of the Student Directory will be on sale after next Wednesday. The directory will be much the same as last year’s as few changes have been made in the style. It will contain names and addresses of heads of departments and pro fessors, and names, classification, courses, home addresses and dormi tory addresses of students. In ad dition it will also carry a directory of the Extension Service. This year’s directory is being published much later than last year’s due to delays in the printing office and to the many changes made in dormitory arrangements which necessitated changes in the directory. The price will be 25 cents as it has been in former years. Seniors Plan Flag Pole For Kyle Field At Meeting Held Tuesday Night Though no one anticipates losing any future football games played at home, such must inevitably be the case. A new custom to be followed when the Aggies lose a home game will go into effect in case the senior class decides to erect a flagpole at Kyle Field as was discussed in their class meet ing Tuesday night. The idea is to erect a flagpole at the open end of the stadium at Kyle Field as a gift from the senior class of 1940. At every home game a large flag with an attractive Aggie emblem would be flown from the peak. Then in addition to the usual custom of playing taps after a loss, the flag could be lowered to half-mast. To indicate a win perhaps a small pennant could be raised to a point just below the big flag. Many favorable comments were made on this plan. Too few attended the meeting for a vote on final action so that another meeting will be held in the near future to take a vote on the matter. Also taken up at this meeting was the designing and erection of a new ring to be used at the ring dance this year. This matter will be taken up with the junior class, since they will use it the following year. Building a new band stand for orchestras to use at dances was another topic of discussion. Lack of Equipment Is Delaying Work On New Post Office Completion of the new post of fice sub-station is being delayed because the necessary equipment has not as yet been delivered. According to word received Wednesday, Colonel Ike Ashburn has stated that the sub-station will be ready for use immediately after delivery of the equipment. All possible construction work on the building has been done so that installation of the equipment may be effected as soon as it is delivered. At present all mail for students in the new dormitories is being de-' livered to the first sergeants of each company for distribution a- mong the members of the company or battery. 5,000 Cadets Expected To Make Jaunt A.&M.-T.C.U. Game Will Be Highlight Of First Corps Trip By Bob Nisbet Five thousand strong the cadet corps will move to Fort Worth early Saturday morning on the first and only official corps trip of the current year. This wave of uniformed males will be met by a similar wave of girls on a corp trip from T.S.C.W., the Aggies sister school. Nucleus for this mass movement is the bi-annual football game at Fort Worth be tween the Texas Aggies and the T.C.U. Horned Frogs. Some confusion as to time and cost of the train trip has resulted from the fact that a Junior special is being run Friday afternoon. The trains carrying the main body of the corps will leave Saturday morn ing as follows: 4:10 a. m.—Band, corps staff, and Infantry regiment. 4:25 a. m.—Field Artillery and Composite regiments. 4:40 a. m.—Cavalry, Engineer, and Coast Artillery regiments. Tickets will» cost $2.55 for a round trip and will be on sale as late as 5:00 p. m. Friday. A corps parade will be staged at 10:30 a. m. Satux'day mornil/g and will start at the Texas and Pacific Railway Resexwation. Marching down Main Street in number one uniform the corp will do “eyes right” at the reviewing stand in the Texas Hotel. Bill Chappell, president of the T.C.U. student body, will address the corp at yell practice tonight to officially invite the corp to en joy the use of the dormitories at T.C.U. and a free barbecue Sat urday noon. CADET SERGEANT S. O. Callahan, III, Sophomore, Veteri nary Medicine Troop D Cavalry, Texas A. & M. won first, Open Jumping Class, ten entrees of top, jumping horses, Royal Live Stock Exposition, Kansas City, Missouri, Monday afternoon. The horse, Lady Joy, was trained by Callahan, and is owned by Mrs. A. R. Ander son, Amarillo, Texas. Senior Rings Expected Before T.C.U. Corps Trip “The remaining senior rings of the October 1 order are expected Thursday or Friday morning ac cording to Mr. R. G. Perryman.. Mr. Perryman suggests that sen iors telephone the registrar’s of fice each morning iabout their rings since they may save them selves a trip to the office. Rings are being sent air mail express special delivery as soon as they are finished, so that they may be delivered before the T. C, U. corps trip. Of the 121 rings received in 1 the last shipment Monday, about 45 are still in the registrar’s of-' fice, and may be claimed by thei*’ owners. Last year’s seniors order ed 626 rings but a total of more than 700 rings is expected for this year, of which 427 have already been ordered. BATTALION WILL ISSUE “CORPS TRIP SPECIAL” Saturday morning’s Battalion will be issued in the form of a Corps Trip Special, the editors of The Battalion announced to day. Around 2,500 copies will be plac ed in the lobbies of leading Fort Worth hotels for students leav ing early for the corps trip. Papers will also be distributed on the Aggie special trains Saturday morning as well as several hun dred copies placed in the halls for students remaining at school. The paper will carry a complete schedule of events occurring dur ing the ‘Aggie-stay’ in Ft. Worth.