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Official Newspaper of the City of College Station
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VOL. 39
PHONE 4-5444
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, DEC. 12, 1939
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NO. 32
NewRV’s
Initiated
Sunday
Braunig Chosen
King; Slicker Is
First Sergeant
Initiation of new members into
the Ross Volunteer Company was
held Sunday, beginning with a
public demonstration on Kyle Field
at 9 o’clock Sunday morning.
Formal initiation was held at
6 o’clock Sunday night in the Ani
mal Husbandry Pavillion, follow
ed by a banquet honoring the fifty-
seven juniors and eight seniors
who had been initiated as new
members. After the banquet the
election of King and non-commis
sioned officers for the company
was held.
Hubert Braunig, E Field Artil
lery, was elected King to preside
over the festivities held during the
Ross Volunteer holidays.
Joe Slicker, D Coast Artillery,
was elected first sergeant of the
company, and Tom Stovell, A Coast
Artillery, and Paul Haines, D
Cavalry, were elected line ser
geants.
New members for this year’s R.
V. Company were chosen from a
list composed of two men repre
senting each organization as select
ed by the organization commander.
Selections from this list were made
by the R. V. Company sponsors
and recommended for membership.
Vernon Smith, 2nd Hq. Field
Artillery, was in-charge of initia
tions.
CIVIL SERVICE
EXAMS TO BEGIN
Junior Professional
Positions In U. S. D. A.
Are Offered Graduates
A consolidated Civil Service ex
amination for junior professional
positions in the U. S. Department
of Agriculture, given a trial for
the first time last year, has work
ed so successfully that the Civil
Service Commission is expected to
make the examinations, offering
nearly 30 options, an annual af
fair.
Under the plan graduating sen
iors from A. & M. who pass the
examination will be eligible for
appointment about July 1, accord
ing to Dean of Agriculture E. J.
Kyle. Announcement of the con
solidated examination will be made
by the Civil Service Commission
about January 1, and the examina
tion will be given about two months
earlier than last year. In this way
the graduating students will know
if they are eligible for appointment
before school closes.
The junior professional positions
pa:y a starting salary of $2,000 a
/ear and offer good opportunity for
advancement for capable workers,
Glares Dean Kyle.
Examinations will be given dur
ing the latt'r part of February or
first of March in the following
junior grades: administrative tech
nician, agricultural economist,
agronomist, animal breeder, biolo
gist, chemist, engineer, entomolo
gist, forester, information assist
ant, librarian, meteorologist,
olericulturist, plant breeder, poul
try husbandman, range examiner,
rural sociologist, social psycholo
gist, soil scientist, statistician, tex
tile technologist, and veterinarian.
Last year the register of eligi
ble applicants was almost exhaust
ed for veterinarians, engineers, and
administrative technicians. Demand
for junior professional workers is
expected to continue in 1940.
What You’ll See When the Curtain Goes Up Tonight
DEAN BOLTON TO VISIT
BRANCHES OF A. S. A. E.
Dean Bolton left recently on a
trip throueh Kansas and Okla
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The eighty-five piece Houston Symphony Orchestra, shown above, which under the direction of Ernst Hoffman, conductor, will
play for a capacity crowd tonight at 7:30 in Guion Hall. The orchestra, most widely known civic symphony in Texas, has chosen best
loved selections from Wagner, Beethoven, Tschaikowsky, Strauss, and Handel for its program.
AIR TRAINING
CONTRACT IS LET
Kadette Aviation Co.
Of Bryan Gets Award
The contract for flying operator
for A. & M. College has been
awarded to the Kadette Aviation
Company of Bryan, according to
Gibb Gilchrist, dean of the School
of Engineering. The manager of
the Kadette Aviation Company is
T. H. Coffelt of Bryan.
Actual flying will begin January
15 at the 500-acre college airport
to be located just west of Lake
Shinola.
The flying operator is designated
by the Civil Aeronautics Author
ity and will be paid $290 for each
student by the government. This
is for the actual cost of the stu
dent’s flying time. New airplanes
will be used for the flying courses,
which will be given 40 students at
the expense of the federal govern
ment.
Capacity Crowd To Hear Houston Symphony
Orchestra In Guion Hall Tuesday Night
M. w. WATSON
IS BURNED BY
LAB EXPLOSION
Miles W. Watson, laboratory as
sistant in charge of the M. E. de
partment foundry, was burned
about the face and hands Monday
morning when an unmarked paper
bag containing potassium chlorate
ignited.
The potassium chlorate, a chalkjr-
white powder, was one of the
chemicals used for display pur
poses in the A. & M. Engineer’s
Day show, and had been stored in
the tool room of the foundry. It
is believed the flare-up occurred
as Watson attempted to move the
bag while holding a lighted ciga
rette.
He was treated by Dr. Marsh,
college physician, and removed to
St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bryan.
A capacity crowd is expected at
the Town Hall program in Guion
Hall Tuesday night for the per
formance of the Houston Sym
phony Orchestra. The performance
will begin at 7:30 p. m. and will
last approximately one and one-
half hours.
Student tickets are available to
those who have no season tickets,
at fifty cents each, while reserved
seat tickets may be had for $1.50
apiece. Holders of season tickets
can buy reserved seat tickets for
one dollar apiece.
There will be a booth for the
sale of student tickets and one
for general admission tickets on
either side of the front entrance
to Guion Hall Tuesday night, ac
cording to W. W. Sullivan, man
ager of the A. & M. Town Hall.
The symphony orchestra has
just finished an engagement in
Austin, where their performance
was the main entertainment fea
ture of the inauguration of Dr.
Homer P. Rainey as president of
the University of Texas. The or
chestra is now in its most exten
sive season of performances and
has thirty definite engagements
on its calendar. It will play at
the Galveston Mardi Gras festival
in February for the fourth con
secutive year.
The performance of the sym
phony orchestra at A. & M. last
year was the most largely attend
ed and enthusiastically received
program on the old Entertainment
Series. This year’s performance
on the A. & M. Town Hall pro
gram is expected to bring an equal
ly as large, if not larger attend
ance.
After the performance" last Jan
uary, conductor Ernest Hoffman
stated that Guion Hall was the
“ ‘livest hall in this part of the
country, and magnified every
sound of the orchestra.” He also
said that he had never seen such
an appreciative audience as he
found at A. & M.
Dr. H. P. Rainey Is One Of Youngest
College Presidents In Nation Today
TEXAS U. STUDENT IS A. & M.
FAN; PRAISES OUR HOSPITALITY
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various in
Society o. - _Ie
is vice-president of the seventh
district of the A. S. E. E.
From, The “State Observer” of
Austin, Texas
Exhibiting the folly which makes
Americans at once objects of
amazement and objects of enviable
pluck to most foreigners, we join
ed 40,000 other Texans to trek
through mud and mire to see the
always-classic Thanksgiving game
between A. & M. and Texas.
Every Texan gets big and proud
when he sees A. & M. Being a
Longhorn ex ourselves, we still
feel the most intense pride when
we see the College Station campus.
Dozens of new buildings have gone
up, there is an atmosphere of prog
ress about the place, there is a
sense of public service in the air.
And remembering what A. & M.
College means to hundreds of
thousands of farm families like
our own, it makes us ardent Ag-
>;ie boosters . . .
Absolutely unequalled in Texas,
and we guess, in the nation, is Ag
gie hospitality. We’ve heard ex-
Aggies offer the criticism that a
boy’s school’s chief limitation is
that it doesn’t give much social
polish. “We let our manners get
sloppy, we don’t learn much about
mixing in company, we don’t have
that training in* social amenities
that every college ought to have,”
one said.
But these social amenities aren’t
necessary. Every cadet we’ve ever
met there in dozens of trips to the
college is full of genuine friend
liness and hospitality, and that’s
the best social amenity we want.
They go out of their way to be
friendly and helpful, and every
cadet is a walking apostle of good
will for his school. They’re not
afraid to say “Hello” to strangers,
and the stranger feels at home
right away. That lesson of genu
ine friendliness is the biggest thing
anybody can learn, and A . & M.
does it to a “T” for its cadets . . .
The biggest sight at the game it
self was that of the cadet cheer
ing. Every seat from the fifty-
yard line to behind the goal line
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On December 9, Dr. Homer Price
Rainey, former Texas league base
ball player and director of the
American Youth Association, was
inaugurated president of the Uni
versity of Texas. Dr. Rainey, who
is only 43, happens to be one of
the youngest college presidents in
the country. The young athletic
director is head of the university
that is only 13 years older than
himself.
Representatives of 300 colleges
and educational societies were pres
ent. to see the former professional
pitcher become head of one of the
richest universities in the nation.
According to the board of re
gents a young man was selected
so that he might serve for at least
20 years.
Dr. Rainey will live with his
wife and two daughters, Helen, 14,
and Lenore, 11, in a new $50,000
home on the campus, which the
regents recently voted to build.
The position of president of the
University of Texas pays $17,500
a year.
Dr. Rainey has broad plans for
the university. In his inaugural
address he stressed the geographi
cal opportunity of the school to be
an important factor in promoting
cultural relations with Latin-
American countries. He said that
“Texas is situated geographically
midway between the North and
South American continents and is
itself potentially one of the richest
pieces of land in the world. This
means that Texas is to have a
destiny thrust upon her whether
Jitterbugging
Is On Way
Out, Says Prof
The jitterbug is dying a slow
death.
Within six months or a year the
cave-man acrobatics and heavy,
rhythmic thump of the species
will be history, and civilized man
will have triumphed again, if the
prophecy of William Kimmel, in
structor of music at Michigan
State College, is fulfilled.
According to Mr. Kimmel, pop
ular music has always traveled in
constant cycles, changing from
“hot” to “smooth and sweet,” per
iodically. The jitterbug style is, or
“was,” merely a novelty.
Fewer and fewer of the “ani
mals” have been noticed on ball
room floors this fall, and re
quests for “swing” and “jitter
bug” tunes of last year have
definitely fallen off. “Sweet” tunes
characterized by slow tempo, de
cided lift and substantial rhythm,
have superceded more bizarre
tunes, according to the leader of a
campus swing band. He says that
these demanded tunes are those
popularized by Glen Miller and
Jack Teagarten, reputed to have
the most modern swing bands in
the country.
■she wills it or not. Our relation
ships, therefore, with the Latin-
American countries — cultural,
scientific and economic—are to be
come increasingly significant.”
Dr. Rainey was quoted as saying
that the university was planning
an institute of Latin-American
studies, the aims of which will
be facilitation of inter-American
relationships.
Although he is young for a uni
versity president, he looks even
younger. Even now he can throw
a mean curve that he retained from
his proiessional baseball career in
the Texas league. He also gives
the university’s tennis stars a stiff
match and blends a glee club tenor
with student’s voices at pep rallies.
CONFERENCE OF
COUNTY JUDGES
ADJOURNS HERE
The conference for county judges
and commissioners adjourned here
Thursday. Judge Jake L. Loy,
Grayson county, presided. It was
decided to abandon their four re
gional meetings yearly and hold
one session at the college to delve
deeper into their problems.
Among the improvements dis
cussed at the conference were the
study of county lateral roads,
county financing and budgeting,
conservation of soil, and county
home and farm demonstration
work, tax assessing and collect
ing, and county purchasing.
Clarence E. Crow, assistant at
torney-general, held a discussion
on points of law concerning the
bonding by counties and explained
how some counties have overbur
dened themselves with unnecessary
debt.
SUGAR BOWL TICKETS
ON SALE THIS MORNING
By E. C. “Jeep” Oates
Battalion Sports Editor
E. W. Hooker, ticket manager of the Athletic Department, has
announced that tickets -for the Sugar Bowl game will go on sale at
eight o’clock Tuesday morning, but added than only the $2.75 tickets
were left.
“A student may purchase a $2.75
Separated Seven
Years; Brothers
Discover Themselves
Neighbors At A.&M.
After being separated for seven
years two brothers recently met
on the A. & M. campus as broth
er Aggies. That’s the story of
Harry P. and Charles H. Neuhardt.
To start from the beginning, the
story goes this way. Both Harry
and Charles were born in Sister-
ville. West Virginia. Harry was
born in 1919, and his brother in
1921. Seven years ago Harry
moved to Amarillo with his par
ents, but brother Charles stayed
in Sisterville and lived with an
aunt. Last year Harry came to
A. & M. and was a fish in ‘A’
Field Artillery. This summer
Charles also decided to come to A.
& M. Harry heard about it, but
wasn’t able to find out what hall
or organization his brother would
be in.
At the first of school both were
busy registering and didn’t have
time to look each other up. How
ever, after school had been going
a week they still hadn’t seen each
other. The unusual side to the
situation is that both were living
in the same hall, dorm No. 10, but
just hadn’t run across each other.
Harry was still in ‘A’ FA, and
Charles was in 1st Headquarters
Battery.
Then one day it happened. Both
A Battery and Headquarters de
cided to do a little moving. When
the moving had ceased Harry had
a room on the third stoop and de
cided to look around and see who
his new neighbors were. The
first place he looked was the room
across the hall from him. On the
door he saw the schedule card
of his younger brother.
BRAZOS MOTHERS
INCREASE FUNDS
A recent donation of $35.00 from
the Brazos County A. & M. Moth
er’s Club, of which Mrs. Ernest
Langford is president, swelled the
library’s general reading fund to
$595.40.
Donations for this school year
alone total nearly $250.00. Includ
ed among these are donations from
the Ft. Worth A. & M. Mothers’
Club, Sonora A. & M. Mothers’
Club, San Angelo A. & M. Mothers’
Club, Temple A. & M. Mothers’
Club, and the San Antonio A. &
M. Mothers’ Club.
Littlejohn Announces Schedule Of
Aggieland For Christmas Holidays
Tommy Littlejohn leader of-f-
the Aggieland Orchestra, announc
ed today the schedule of home
town dances during the Christmas
Holidays for which the music will
be furnished by the Aggieland Or
chestra, and the open dates on
which the orchestra may be secur
ed for other dances. The open date
of January 1 is expected to be
filled by an engagement in New
Orleans following the A. & M.-
Tulane post-season football game.
The following is a list of the
dates and locations: Dec. 21, Wichi
ta Falls; Dec. 22, Greenville; Dec.
23, Sherman; Dec. 24, Paris; Dec.
25, Temple; Dec. 26, San Angelo;
Dec. 27, La Grange; Dec. 28,
Orange; Dec. 29, Lufkin; Dec. 30,
open; Dec. 31, Beaumont; Jan 1,
open; Jan. 2, open.
One home-town club or other
organization which wishes to se
cure the services of the Aggieland
Orchestra for any of the remain
ing open dates should see Tommy
Littlejohn or Jack Littlejohn as
early as possible.
Welfare Committee
Considers Joining
Intercollegiate C. of C.
The Student Welfare Committee
has received a letter from the Na
tional Intercollegiate Chamber of
Commerce at Waco asking the
committee to affiliate with them.
Dean F. C. Bolton, chairman
of the Student Welfare Committee,
has appointed a sub-committee to
consider the matter consisting of
Ed. F. Fullwood, Jack C. Bibbs,
James P. Ledbetter, and Professor
Daniel Russell. In case this sub
committee decides it will not be
appropriate for the Student Wel
fare Committee to affiliate with
the Chamber of Commerce, they
will consider whether any other
agency should properly be affili
ated.
The sub-committee will make a
recommendation at the next meet
ing of the Student Welfare Com
mittee.
ticket for $1.75 if he presents
a coupon book, and will be allowed
to buy two other tickets at the
regular price so long as they last.
To buy more than this number,
student will have to present a let
ter from his home or from the peo
ple who want them,” stated Hook
er.
Dean E. J. Kyle, Chairman of the
Athletic Council, stated that the
Council would bear the one-dollar
reduction in tickets to coupon-book
holders to aid the students and en
courage more of them to go to
the game. Dean Kyle, Head Coach
Homer Norton, Joe Utay of the
Board of Directors and Hooker
made the trip to New Orleans a
few days ago to make arrange
ments for the game, tickets, hotels,
and other things that present
themselves. They came back with
reports that the Athletic Depart
ment would take the Band to the
game and that the Sugar Bowl
would give the band game tickets.
This is the first time the Bowl
Association has ever consented to
give away tickets to anyone.
The giant stadium costing close
to one million dollars, was built
after selling bonds. The bond
holders have the privilege of pur
chasing a certain number of tickets
and they have most of the choice
seats. Dean Kyle stated that the
way the stadium is built every
seat in it is a good seat.
He also stated that all students
must have their tickets before go
ing to New Orleans as none will
be available there.
Some 11,500 tickets have been al
lotted to the Aggies and their
friends. All the choice seats of
this group are scattered over the
stadium, and only the end zone
seats are all together.
-....The Tulane student body will
sit in one end zone and the Aggies
will have the other.
Anyone wanting hotel accom
odations should write to the Hotel
Association in New Orleans. Towns
outside of the city have announc
ed that they will do everything
possible to accomodate the people
unable to secure lodging in New
Orleans.
The Sugar Bowl people are will
ing to do anything within reason
to aid the visitors and are doing
everything possible for their enter
tainment.
Harvard Business
School Offers 20
New Scholarships
BOSTON, Mass.—The Harvard
Business School has announced
that by consolidation of funds from
four donors 20 to 25 national
scholarships carrying a maximum
stipend of $1,000 would be grant
ed for the first time to students
entering the school in September,
1940. These scholarships are made
possible by donations from the W.
T. Grant Fund, the James C. Mel
vin Fund, the Jerome Jones Fund,
and the Commercial Credit Com
pany. They will be similar to the
National Scholarships awarded by
Harvard College to selected under
graduate students from certain
states. The Business School is
the second graduate school in
Harvard University to announce
a national scholarship plan.
Funds are available in sufficient
amount to grant 20 scholarships
of $1,000 each, but it is expected
that the average award will be
slightly less than this figure. The
amount granted to each successful
applicant will depend on his finan
cial need. If a satisfactory record
is achieved in the first year, the
applicant will be assured of ade
quate financial assistance through
scholarships, loans, jobs, and oth
er types of aid to permit him to
complete the work for his M. B.
A. degree in the second year. No
public announcement will be made
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