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VOL. 39
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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 24, 1939
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NO. 14
Telephone
Installation
Under Way
Phones Already
In Old Dorms,
40 Ordered In All
Telephone installation is well
underway in both the new and
the old dormitories with the Tele
phone Co. rushing work to com
plete the 40 orders received to
date, according t’b information re
ceived yesterday.
Nearly all of the telephones or
dered for the old dorms have been
installed. This was a fairly simple
job for the buildings were wired
last year, and all that had to be
done was to connect the telephones
up and check the wiring.
At the new dormitories, cable
and conduit construction has been
completed, and all that is neces
sary to be done now to make the
telephone installation complete is
for the organizations to tell the
Telephone Company where they
want their telephones. As soon as
this is done, lines will be run to
the buildings from the conduit
outlets and telephones will be
hooked up.
Orders have been coming in
every day for telephones and
many more are expected from the
new dormitories as soon as a few
telephones have been installed and
the st. dents are convinced that the
phones are working in good order.
Orders for phones are to be
made through the Commandant’s
Office by the organization com
manders. All units desiring phones
should put their applications
through as soon as possible so
work will not be delayed.
Cost for the telephones is $1.50
for installation and a flat rate of
$2.50 per month thereafter.
Glenn Now Assisting
Advisory Committee
Apprentice Training
E. W. Glenn of the Department
of Industrial Education is now as
sisting the Joint Advisory Com
mittees on Apprentice Training
for plumbing, machinist, carpen
try, painting and decorating, elec
trical, sheet metal, and other ap
prentices in Houston, Galveston,
and San Antonio.
His work with these committees
includes the development of indus
trial outlines, work books, and
references, and the selection of
tradesmen to become instructors of
the apprentices.
Mr. Glenn will work in Houston
and Galveston with the building
trades apprentices during the week
of October 23, after attending a
dinner of the delegates of the As
sociated Journeymen Plumbers of
the United Association, on Octo
ber 22, to which he was invited
by the Joint Advisory Committee
on Apprentice Training of the
Houston Vocational School. At
this dinner, he discussed plans for
the establishment of a standard
course of training for plumbers’
apprentices in the State of Texas.
The Federal Committee on Ap
prentice Training will be represent
ed at this discussion by Fred
Erhard, who received his B. S.
degree in industrial education from
A. & M. in 1928, and his B. S. de
gree in mechanical engineering
from A. & M. in 1933.
LADIE’S QUARTER BACK
CLUB TO BE ORGANIZED
The first ladies’ quarterback
club in the Southwest will be form
ed tonight in the Chemistry lecture
room, it was announced yesterday.
At the last meeting of the local
men’s quarterback club, it was de
cided that they would sponsor a
similar organization for the ladies
in order that they might see the
game pictures as the students and
men do.
The meeting has been scheduled
for 7:30 p. m. with the pictures
of the A. & M.-Villanova game to
be shown.
CADET 0. D.
DRISDALE DIES
OF PERITONITIS
Funeral services will be held in
San Antonio today for Oscar D.
Drisdale, 17, freshman student of
Battery A Coast Artillery, who
passed away Sunday night.
Death was due to an infection of
the peritoneum caused by a rup
tured appendix. Drisdale entered
the college hospital on the morn
ing of Friday, October 13, after
having had several abdominal
pains for a few days previous. He
was operated on the following Sat
urday night after a consultation
had been held of the college physi
cians and two other doctors. Dur
ing the past week he had showed
some improvement, but passed
away early Sunday night.
I. O. Mayhew and Charles Miller,
cadet officers of Battery A. Coast
Artillery, accompanied the body to
San Antonio.
Survivors include both parents
and a brother and sister.
Last Order Of Senior
Rings Arrive; Total
Now Stands At 421
The last order of senior rings,
which was not due until Nov. 1st,
arrived early Monday morning via
airmail from the Josten Jewelry
Co. of Owatoona, Minnesota.
The 26 rings which arrived
brought the total up to 421, and
completed all of the senior ring
orders except for six rings which
were sent back for adjustment
and havd not yet been returned.
Seniors may get their rings
at the Registrar’s office.
Hamilton Is Author
Of Article On Wool
Prices Due To War"
Professor T. R. Hamilton of the
Accounting and Statistics Depart
ment is the writer of an article on
American wool production which
appeared in the Semi-Weekly Farm
News, Friday, October 6. Profes
sor Hamilton dealt with the pros
pective increased demand for wool
as a result of the European war
and the ability of the American
producers to meet this demand. It
was noted that 1939 wool prices
are approximately £ifty per cent
above the 1938 prices, even though
1939 production exceeds 1938 pro
duction by about 4,000,000 pounds.
Professor Hamilton states that
Texas .as well as the United States
is in a better position now than it
has been in some time to make up
for the expected deficit in wool
imports as a result of Britain hav
ing bought the entire crop of
Australia before it was shorn.
Prize Offered For
Best Essay Dealing
With Confederacy
A prize of $1,000, to be awarded
to the college student or one who
has graduated within the three
preceding years, who writes the
best essay or monograph on South
ern history, has been announced
by the United Daughters of the
Confederacy^' The iannounctement
stated that essays concerning the
Confederacy or the causes of the
Civil War are preferred.
All essays must comprise not
less than ten thousand words, must
be scholarly in form, and must be
based, partly at least, upon the
use of source materials. All im
portant statements should be ac
companied with citations of the
source from which the data have
been drawn, and a bibliography
should be appended. All essays
must be in the hands of Mrs. Liv
ingston Rowe Schuyler, 520 West
114th Street, New York, N. Y., by
May 1, 1940.
THE STUDENT DIRECTORY
of Texas A. & M. will go on sale
at the campus news stand and the
Aggieland Inn beginning Wed
nesday, it was announced from
the office of Director of Student
Publications today.
The directories will be on sale
for 25 cents.
As Frogs Bow To Aggies, 20 to 6
Walemon Price, Aggie back
and captain of the A. & M. forces
in T. C. U. stadium Saturday, is
shown in the upper picture taking
the ball through right tackle dur
ing the second quarter for a 12
yard gain and a first down. A
good example of the perfect block
ing the cadet team was making is
shown in the picture.
In the lower picture Big John
Kimbrough, ace back fielder for
the Aggies, drags three Frogs a-
long with him for a five yard gain
during the third period.
Filling the stands in the back
ground are a few of the 5,000
cadets who shed their blouses early
in the day due to a sweltering sun.
Aggies Traveled To Cowtownln
Airplanes, Trucks and Trains,
But Important Thing Was, They Went
By George Fuermann
The Greeks have a word for it;
and so do the Texas Aggies—they
came, the say, they conquered!
Fifty-five hundred strong, they
came, and were supplemented by
2,000 of T.S.C.W.’s lovely coeds
and half a thousand exes.
For two days, and two whole
nights, all roads led to Fort Worth
as far as A. & M.’s cadet corps
was concerned. Three special
trains carried them, but hundreds
didn’t wait for Saturday morning’s
“special.” They “highwayed” in
every kind of conveyance from new
1940 models to the back end of a
fertilizer truck. They went by
bus, they went in their own cars,
two even went by airplane, but
the important thing was—they
went; the largest number of Tex
as Aggies ever to make a corps
trip in the college’s 67-year his
tory.
And when they arrived and form
ed for their annual corps-trip
parade, the area surrounding the
Fort Worth Union Terminal re
sembled a super-mob scene in a
Hollywood spectacle. An hour
after the parade a person not ac
quainted with the circumstances
might well have concluded that
Fort Worth was under martial law.
The old saying that female
hearts beat faster at the sight of
a uniform still bore fruit as the
2,000-odd T.S.C.W.-ites and sev
eral hundred T.C.U. coeds greet
ed the Aggies at the station and
after the parade.
Even the parade was unusual.
Witnessed by thousands who jam
med downtown streets, it was the
Aggies’' first public presentation
-f-of the new “streamlined” drill.-f And so it was . . . It’s history
Miniature paper snowstorms fell
on the cadets as the parade passed
Fort Worth’s downtown office
buildings and hotels.
After the parade there was a
barbecue awaiting the Aggies and
their dates in the T.C.U. gymnas
ium. After the barbeque there
was a football game—and what a
game it was!—especially from the
Aggie viewpoint.
Twenty-five thousand people
jammed every avaliable nook of
T.C.U.’s stadium, and the tradition
ally great Aggie spirit was at an
all-time high. A New Yorker, vis
iting Texas for the first time, was
overheard saying “I’ve seen foot
ball games from coast.to coast; I
believe I’ve seen every major
American college and university
play at least one game; but I’ve
never before seen a cheering sec
tion or a school spirit like the one
these Texas Aggies have shown
today.”
“Rev,” the famous Aggie mascot,
sported her new blanket during
the parade and at the game;
T.S.C.W.’s Aggie Day sweetheart,
Edna Clarke, was presented at the
half; but best of all of the game’s
sidelights was the great Aggie
Band. Even the corps, accustom
ed as it is to the band’s fine per
formances, was amazed at the be-
tween-the-halves demonstration.
And after the game, several
hours afterward, there were two
dances—one on the T.C.U. gym
and one in the Texas Hotel. At
the latter dance Tommy Little
john’s famous Aggieland Orches
tra was featured and a tremendous
crowd attended both functions.
now, but in the minds of those
who took part in 1939’s Fort Worth
corps trip, it was a never-to-be-
forgotten weekend—and a histor
ic one for Aggieland’s great foot
ball teams.
Walton Compliments
Corps On Conduct,
Parade, Game Result
“I want to compliment the whole
Aggie corps and all others who
helped to make the Ft. Worth
corps trip such a tremendous suc
cess,” stated President T. O.
Walton Monday afternoon.
The President went on to say
that this corps trip was probably
the best in the history of A. &
M. because of the excellent parade,
the outcome of the game, and the
generally good conduct of the Ag
gies.
THE NEXT FACULTY DANCE,
which is to be held in Sbisa Hall
Annex Tuesday, October 31, will be
a costume ball. The date corre
sponds with that of Halloween
and appropriate dressing will be
observed.
All members of the college staff
are invited to attend the affair,
in costume if ^possible, or in regu
lar attire, the dance chairman has
announced.
Sam Houston College
Professor Here As
Students Are Gone
Dr. C. C. Doak, head of the
Biology Department, announced
today that he had received a visit
from Dr. S. R. Warner of Sam
Houston State Teachers’ College
who said that his visit was made
possible because the student body
had taken a holiday to celebrate
their football victory over Rice.
Dr. Warner’s visit was in the in
terest of the biology section of
the Texas Academy of Science,
which will hold its convention this
year at the University of Texas
November 9 through November 11.
Dr. Doak stated that several mem
bers of the Biology Department
would attend the convention.
Hot Water
Will Be In
By Saturday
Equipment Here
And Ready To Be
Installed Soon
If everything goes off according
to schedule the Aggies will have
hot water by Saturday, according
to word received Monday by Guy
M. Hines, chief engineer of the
power plant. The final pieces of
equipment, a heat exchanger has
arrived in Houston and will get
here sometime this morning. Work
will be started immediately and
the installation should be complet
ed by Saturday.
The head exchanger was shipped
direct from the Sims Manufactur
ing Co. of Erie, Pennsylvania. Ac
cording to this company the delay
in the manufacture of the equip
ment was due to the extensive
manufacture of war materials
which caused a shortage of the
type of copper and steel needed
to make the heat exchanger.
The new equipment was needed
because the whole power plant
system has been changed to pro
vide the heat and power needed
for the new dormitories. The heat
exchanger will provide the final
link in the new system. It is a
tank something similar to a boiler,
and is composed of a steel shell
with a copper lining inside of
which is a maze of copper tubes
in which. the water is heated.
SECOND CORPS
DANCE OF YEAR _
SATURDAY NIGHT
The second corps dance of the
year, the Baylor-A. & M. dance,
will be held Saturday night in
Sbisa Hall according to Charles
Hamner, social secretary of the
senior class.
A special train from Baylor will
arrive Saturday morning. On the
train will be a group of lovely
coeds who will remain for the
dance after the game.
The Aggieland Orchestra, who
claim the finest band they have
had in years, will furnish the mu
sic for the affair. Tickets are
$1.00.
The whole corps, including
freshmen, is invited to the dance.
Dairy Products Team
Judges In California
The A. & M. Dairy Products
Judging Team competed yesterday
in the National Dairy Show in San
Francisco, California, for the first
time in the history of the college.
Members of the Dairy Cattle
Judging Team were in the nation
al competition in their field at the?
same time, but for their twentieth*
consecutive year.
Three dairy research fellowships^,
together with silver cups and golcE
and silver medals, were offered!
as awards to winning teams and
individuals. Results of the contest
will be announced this week.
SECOND LARGE CASH GIFT TO
LIBRARY IN RECENT YEARS MADE
BY SONORA MOTHER’S CLUB
A lump sum contribution'
amounting to $110 has been voted
to the A. & M. Library by the
Sonora A. & M. Mothers’ Club,
Dr. Thomas F. Mayo, Librarian,
announced today. The following
letter signed by Mrs. W. T. Hardy,
Secretary-Treasurer, accompanied
the contribution from this organi
zation :
Dr. T. F. Mayo,
College Station, Texas.
Dear Dr. Mayo:
At the last meeting of our A.
& M. Mothers’ Club we voted to
send our contribution to the A.
& M. Library in a lump sum and
not in partial payments. This
check for one hundred and ten dol
lars includes ten dollars for sub
scriptions to the magazines For
tune and Esquire, as well as one
hundred dollars for the general
fund or for what ever use you see
fit.
Our club is especially interested
in the work and efforts of the A.
& M. Library and we wish you the
best of success.
Sincerely yours,
Mrs. W. T. Hardy,
Sec.-Treas.
A. & M. Mothers’ Club.
This is the second outstanding
gift presented by the Sonora A.
& M. Mothers’ Club to the A. &
M. Library within recent years.
The previous one consisted of five-
year subscriptions to the Esquire
and Fortune magazines, several
maps, and plate glass sections for
use in the lounge.