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Library Campus Let’s Go To The Sugar Bowl, Army! The Battalion Student Tri-Weekly Newspaper of Texas A. & M. College Official Newspaper of the City of College Station Go To The Sugar Bowl, Army! VOL. 39 PHONE 4-5444 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, DEC. 9, 1939 Z725 NO 31 A rrangements Made For Bowl Festival Sugar Bowl Tickets For Aggies $1.75 Railroad Companies Offer Round-Trip Rates To N’Orleans Student tickets for the Tulane- A. & M. game New Year’s Day in New Orleans will be placed on sale at the Y. M. C. A. Monday morning at eight o’clock. The price of the tickets will be $1.75 with coupon number 32. The tickets must be purchased before the Christmas holidays begin. Special prices for round trip to New Orleans have been announced by both the Missouri and South ern Pacific Railroads. The round- trip fare from College Station to New Orleans will be the same on both railroads; $7.15 in coaches and chair cars, in pullman cars the fare will be $20.95 with an extra cost of $1.75 for lower berths and $1.00 for upper berths. The train hours for regular runs between College Station and New Orleans are as follows: Leave College Station, Missouri Pacific: 5:05 a. m. Southern Pacific: 4:17 a. 12:02 p. m.; 7:54 p. m. Arriving at New Orleans, Missouri Pacific: 7:45 p. m. Southern Pacific: 5:45 p. 7:35 a. m.; Leaving New Orleans, Missouri Pacific: 10:30 8:55 a. m. Southern Pacific: 9:50 11:00 a. m.; 11:00 p. m. Arriving at College Station, Missouri Pacific: 1:00 a. m. (Continued on page 6) m.; m.; p. m.; p. m.; New Post Office Sub-Station To Be Opened in Few Days Failure of Equipment To Arrive On Time Is Delaying Factor According to the latest report the new Post Office sub-station is to be opened within a few days. The first shipment of equipment consisting of wire netting arrived yesterday. It is expected that this netting shall be installed imme diately and thus make possible the opening of the station for the pur pose of handling packages, stamps, and money orders. It was announced two weeks ago that this station was to have been opened not later than December 1. This was the arrangements made by the postal inspector. However, it is believed that the department did not approve of the plan as no communication was received on it. Also the necessary equipment fail ed to arrive. The individual boxes were not ordered until November 14 with a 60 day time limit. Thus the com pany has until January 14 to com plete the shipment. If these boxes do not arrive before that date the station cannot reach full comple tion before February 1. FOUR NEW PHONES ARE INSTALLED M. C. Atkins, manager, South west Telephone Company^ report ed today that there are now 43 telephones in the dormitories. Four have been installed since the Battalion published its last list of telephone numbers. The following number may be added to your directory: 1st Headquar ters Field Artillery, 2nd T floor dormitory ten—127; 2nd Combat Train Field Artillery, 2nd floor, south-end, dormitory six—128; Company C Infantry, 3rd floor, south-end, dormitory nine—129; Company I Infantry, 3rd floor, dormitory five—126. Welfare Committee Considers Grades, New Area Problems Many Problems Being Studied, But Await Action by Directors Thursday evening the Student Welfare Committee held its month ly meeting and banquet for the month of December in Sbisa Hall. Following the banquet a busi ness meeting and open forum took place. A number of questions of importance to the college at this time were brought up. Chief among these was the problem of low scho lastic standings of the students. Among the suggestions consider ed by the faculty-student group were (1) establishing a system of negative grade-points for courses failed, and requiring payment for repeating a course failed; and (2) putting out grades at the end of the first month of the school term hereafter, instead of waiting till November 1 to advise students of their standings. The latter was unanimously recommended. The question of scholastic stand ings was referred to the organ i- (Continued on page 6) Aggies Broadcast Over WBAP Today Joe Boyd, Aggieland Orchestra, and Glee Club To Be Featured Tommy Littlejohn’s Aggieland Orchestra and the A. & M. Glee Club will broadcast several songs over WBAP in Ft. Worth this morning from 9 till 9:30 a. m. The Glee Club, accompanied by the Aggieland Orchestra, will sing the “Aggie War Hymn.” The or chestra will also play “I’d Rather be a Texas Aggie,” “I Love A Parade,” “God Bless America,” “Stout Hearted Men,” and several swing arrangements. Harry Spring- field will do some vocalizing for the orchestra. Also to be heard in the broad cast will be an interview of Joe Boyd, All-American Aggie tackle, by “Jeep” Oates. Boyd will tell what he considers the toughest ball club that the Aggies have played this year and why he considers it so. As well as it could be learned this will be the first radio inter view that has been made of any of Colliers’ All-American players. John Rosser, head of WTAW, said that the personnel of the sta tion is putting local talent to work to produce a program that Colum bia Broadcasting System would be proud of. Taxi Ordinance Is To Be Fully Enforced in Future Makes Flying Safer John M. “Sailor” Winston of the class of ’38, former electrical engineering student at A. & M., is now with the Glenn L. Martin Airplane Corporation at Baltimore, Maryland, where he is engaged in trying to make aviation safer. Winston is research engineer in charge of electrical laboratory work. He has a crew of 18 as sistants under his direction and tests and reports on all new and experimental electrical appliances going into the construction of new planes. December 1 Grades Show 201 Flunking The percentage of grade defi ciencies this semester has reached a new peak according to an offi cial report from the registrar’s of fice. Out of a total of 5,908 stu dents at present attending A. & M., 1,189 (20.1%) are on the deficiency list. The closest percentage to this was made back in 1936, when 19.2% of a total of 4,020 students were deficient. In 1937, the per centage dropped to 16.2 out of a total of 4,800 students. Last year, it rose again to 18% out of 5,471 students. Out of the total students defi cient in their grades (those pass ing less than ten hours), the En gineering School headed the list with 657 out of a possible 2,921 students. Planning Of College Station Will Be Made By Committee At the meeting of the City Council Thursday night, a City Planning Commission was appointed by the Council for future work in laying out streets, parks, and school grounds of the city, and general beautification of the city. Members named to serve on the commission are Dean of Engi neering Gibb Gilchrist, chairman; S. R. Wright of the Municipal and Sanitary Engineering Department;^' C. J. Finney of the Department of Architecture; F. W. Hensel, head of the Landscape Art Department, and Col. Ike Ashburn, executive assistant to President Walton. City Engineer J. T. L. McNew of the Civil Engineering Department and City Sanitary Engineer E. W. Steel, head of the Municipal and Sanitary Engineering Department, are ex-officio members of the commission. Besides working as the City Planning Commission, these men also will function on a. newly-ap pointed Committee To Study In dustrial Development Possibilities of this district, in accordance with a request made by Governor W. Lee O’Daniel under his plan for industrialization of the state. This committee will study development possibilities to ascertain the partic ular type of industry that is con sidered adaptable to any natural resource located in this vicinity, and will report to Governor O’Dan iel full details of what kind of fac tories it believes can be located here. Bus Ordinance Also Adopted By City Councilmen Officers Instructed To Execute Ordinances Strictly, Says Binney The taxi ordinance of the city of College. Station will be enforced strictly and in full henceforth, the City Council unanimously agreed at its meeting Thursday night in the City Hall above the Aggieland Studio. The Council voted to instruct City Marshall Howard Lee and all other law enforcement agencies of the city to enforce strictly the taxicab ordinance, which was pass ed by the Council this summer and finally agreed to by the Bryan City Commission. Terms of this ordinance provide securing of licenses for taxis from the city of College Station, pay ment of insurance, inspection of vehicles to see that they are main tained in good mechanical condi tion, and that drivers obey all the traffic ordinances of the city. Most important to the Aggies is the provision that the number of pas sengers that may be carried to six exclusive of the driver. '-We ask that all vases of over loading be reported to the city government,” Mayor J. H. Binney of the Mathematics Department stated at the meeting last night. “Petitions sworn to by the stu dents are fully as legal and effec tive as those made by anyone else. We welcome reports from all stu dents and citizens of College Sta tion of violations of this ordinance, and we intend to enforce it in full for the benefit, comfort and con venience of all College Station passengers. We ask that the stu dents realize that we adopted this ordinance for their increased com- (Continued on page 6) State B.S.U. Head Bill Kent, A. & M. student from Jasper, who is state Baptist Stu dent Union president, left Tuesday night with Rev. J. M. Marshall, state B. S. U. secretary, for Nash ville, Tenn. They will join the south-wide officers and other state officers in a meeting to plan the year’s program for the entire South. AGGIE FISH ATTEND BELTON RECEPTION The freshman class of A. & M. College is again invited this year by the freshman class of Mary Hardin-Baylor College at Belton, 87 miles from College Station, to attend a reception at their school. The reception will be held at Hardy Parlors Saturday, December 9th at eight p. m. Several hundred freshmen from A. & M. are expected to make the trip. Houston Symphony Is “The” Symphony Of the Southwest Orchestra To Appear On Town Hall Program In Guion Hall Thursday The Houston Symphony Orches tra, appearing here next Thursday in Guion Hall, is “the” symphony orchestra in the Southwest, and is the only really professional or chestra in the state of Texas. A large number of its players have been drafted from the more fam ous symphonies in the East where symphony music is on even terms wtih the popular type in so far as entertainment is concerned. Throughout the United States the general opinion is that the so- called “better music” is appreciat ed more in the East than else where; however, according to Ernst Hoffman who conducts the Houston Symphony, this opinion is a warped one due to the fact that symphony music is available to the people of the East at their con venience, whereas the people of Texas (excepting those in Houston, Ft. Worth and Dallas) have to make long trips in order to at tend a single concert. Mr. Hoff man also said that there are many cabarets in the northeastern states that feature symphony music, rather than the popular type; gen erally, we of this part of the country associate cabarets with dinner music and dancing. Soon after its appearance at A. & M. the Houston Symphony will start its autumn tour and will play in a number of the foremost cities of the south, some of which rate it above the accepted “best” symphonies of the East. WELL, SOMEBODY MUST READ THE BATTALION! An almost obscure item in George Fuermann’s “Back wash” in Thursday’s Battal ion pointed out than an In fantry senior continually called the new dining hall to find out what was on the menu. Since publication of the item the dining hall has received approximately one hundred calls in respect to the various menus. J. C. Hotard, supervisor of subsistence, has issued a plea to the corps that such calls be stopped before “we are forced to stop cooking to answer the telephone.” In the future the dining halls will be forced to ignore calls of this nature for their own protection. Sugar Bowl Plans Are Announced Best Entertainment Being Planned For Corps in N’Orleans Complete arrangements for A. & M/s meeting with Tulane’s Green Wave in the Sugar Bowl January 1 were announced by Dean E. J. Kyle, chairman of the athletic coun cil, Thursday night when he spoke to representatives of the student body. His talk centered around the trip to New Orleans made by Homer Norton, Joe Utay, E. W. Hooker, and Dean Kyle recently. Dean Kyle said that as many seats as desired by the Aggies would be available if purchases were made before the Christmas holidays. One of the accomplish ments of the committee was to also will be offered for sale, with f select the end of the Sugar Bowl Horticulture Show To Be Held Here Monday, Tuesday Choice Texas Fruits And Pecans Displayed; Real Arkansas Cider On Sale Choice fruits of the Rio Grande Valley and varieties of the Texas pecan will be featured in the eighth Annual Horticulture^ Show at Tex as A. & M. Monday, according to Q. S. Matthews, Bangs, who is in charge of the show. The show, sponsored each year by the student Horticultural So ciety, will be open to the public from 8:00 a. m. to 9:00 p. m. on Monday and from 8:00 a. m. until 6:00 p. m. Tuesday, during which time purchases may be made of any of the fruits on display. Fruits for the show were donated by outstanding Rio Grande Valley growers and will include such citrus fruits as oranges, grapefruit, papayas and Ponderosa lemons. Ap ples and apple cider from Arkansas Paul A. Harris, Royse City, in charge. An educational display of fruits, nuts, vegetables and can ning products equipment will be arranged. THIS YEAR’S AGGIE PISTOL team is getting under way and will be shooting for another National Championship. As in previous years, the turn-out for this sport has been rather small and anyone interested in trying out for a berth on the squad still, do so by seeing Captain Phil Enslow, who coaches the team. Ross Volunteers’ Initiation Sunday The pre-official initiation of the Ross Volunteer juniors is scheduL ed to take place at 9:00 o’clock Sunday morning on Kyle Field. The public is invited and a record crowd is expected to be on hand. Around 70 men will be initiated, according to Dan Sharp, captain of the company. The formal initiation will take place Sunday night at 6:00 p. m. in the Animal Husbandry Pavillion. This will be a private affair at which only the sponsors of the or ganization and specially invited guests will be present. At 7:00 p. m. tomorrow night, the banquet honoring the new mem bers will take place in the Banquet Room of Sbisa Hall. Following the banquet, there will be an elec tion of non-commissioned officers and the king of the R. V. Company will be selected. A different method of selecting the new members has been adapted this year. Heretofore, the new members have been voted into the company by the members, but this year the captains of each company, battery, and troop were asked to select two men from their respec tive outfits. These names were turned over to the R. V. sponsors (Continued on page 6) A. & M. Student Designated National 4-H Club Winner Early this month, state boys’ 4-H club agent L. L. Johnston of the Texas A. & M. Extension Service and a delegation of 36 out standing 4-H club members went to Chicago for the National 4-H Club Congress. Here, for the first time in the history of the 4-H club work, a Texan was designated as winner of the National 4-H Club Leadership Contest. This honor carries with it a $300' Scholarship and possession of the Moses trophy for leadership. This was presented to Willie Lee Ulich of Lyons, Burleson County, Texas, who is a freshman at A. & M. Ulich, who is 19, was one of the state’s representatives at the Matopa, 4-H Club Encampment in Washington, D. C., during the summer. He will receive his scholarship from Edward Fross Wilson and will hold the H. A. Moses trophy for one year. During the six years that Ulich has been in 4-H club work he has served president of the Lyons 4-H club and the county-wide 4-H club organization in his county. He was one of the organizers of the Burleson County Registered Hog Association and has been its president during the three years of its existence. Ulich became prominently ident ified with 4-H club work in Texas as a member of Burleson County’s cotton classing, plant propagation, and dairy demonstration teams in state contests held in conjunction with the annual A. & M. Short Course. His team won the cotton classing event in 1936, the plant propagation contest in 1937 and was among the five high teams in the 1938 dairy demonstration con test. Ulich married Miss Esther Schoppe of Somerville in June, 1939. Mrs. Ulich is living with her husband at A. & M. and is helping him work his way through school. Ulich was honor guest at a din ner given by the agricultural com mittee of the Houston Chamber of Commerce last week, and he will be honored by a statewide 4-H club achievement dinner December 14th. which will be occupied by A. & M. students. At the other end of the stadium will be seated students of Tulane University. The entire A. & M. Band, said Dean Kyle, will be sent to the game. Lodging for the night pre ceding and the night following the game will be arranged for by Tulane University and the Athle tic Council will pay other expenses. The greatest show by any band be tween halves was promised Tulane by Dean Kyle for the coming game. The Band will also hold a parade in New Orleans on the morning before the game. Dean Kyle said that 150 rooms would be reserved for A.. & M. football players and officials in the St. Charles and Roosevelt Ho tels, the latter of which will be used as general Aggie headquar ters. The football players will be pre sented with gold footballs in New Orleans by the Sugar Bowl As sociation, said Dean Kyle. Dean Kyle stated that no ex pense would be spared to furnish the Aggie football players and band with the best of entertain ment for this special occasion. En tertainment “galore” will be on hand for the corps also. Norton Helps Pick Kate Smith Team Coach Homer Norton, of Texas A. & M., has been named for the third year to the committee of six coaches who will pick Kate Smith’s All-American football team of 1939. Coach Norton wired his accep tance and will serve with Coaches Wallace Wade, Duke; James Crow ley, Fordham; Lynn Waldorf, Northwestern; Frank J. Murray, University of Virginia; and O. E. Hollingberry, Washington State. Joe Routt, Aggie guard of 1936 and 1937 was picked on the Kate Smith teams of those years and is the only Cadet ever to win the honor. Each man named to the team is presented with a pocket watch, suitably engraved. Coach Norton said that his se lection was a secret ballot but that he hoped some of the Aggies would have the watches to wear home for Christmas. JOHN KIMBROUGH ON NBC SUNDAY AFTERNOON John Kimbrough, one of A. & M.’s candidates for All-American honors, will be on the air Sunday afternoon from St. Louis, Missouri, at 4:30 p. m. (CST), the National Broadcasting Company has an nounced. As far as known yesterday, no Texas station is scheduled to car ry the hookup. Students desiring to tune in on the broadcast should do so on some NBC station in the East or mid 1 -West.