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THE BATTALION
Official Notices
▲11 notices should bo sent to The
Bsttslion Office. 122 Administration Bnild-
ln«. Ther ohonld be typed and doable-
opscod. The deadline for them ia 4 :0» p. at.
the day prior to the date of Issue.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
January 20—Basketball game. S.M.U.
and Texas A. & M., Gymnasium, 7 :30 p. m.
Jan. 25 and 26—Pre Medical Society
benefit show. Assembly Hall, 7:80 p. m.
January 81—Faculty dance, Banquet
room, Sbisa Hall, 9 p. m. to 12 midnight.
LONGHORN CLUB PICTURES
Space reservations for club pictures in
the 1940 Longhorn must be in by February
1. See Watson in room 208, hall 12.
VANITY FAIR PICTURES
Pictures for the “Vanity Fair” section
of the Longhorn must be in by February
1, 1940. All pictures must be turned in
to Mick Williams, 98 Law.
PERSONNEL LEAFLETS
All seniors and graduate students who
desire the individual personnel leaflets
who have not paid for same, are requested
to come by room 138, Administration
Building, not later than January 20. This
is necessary so that the order for cuts
on the pictures may be made in due time.
LUCIEN M. MORGAN, DIRECTOR
Placement Personnel Division
Association of Former Students
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS
Consolidated school taxes can be paid
without penalty up to and including Jan.
81, 1940.
Penalty schedule for payment of taxes
after January 31 is as follows:
February 1%
March 2%
April 3%
May i°/o
June 5%
July 8%
Taxes are delinquent on July 1 at which
time 6% interest begins.
J. C. CARLL
Tax Collector
A. & M. Consolidated School District
THE BATTALION STAFF
The entire editorial staff of The Batta
lion will meet in The Battalion office, 122
Administration Building, Tuesday night
at 7:15.
All the editors and junior editors are
especially asked to be present. Anyone
wishing to join the staff is invited to
do so at this meeting.
ENGINEERING SENIORS
The Civil Service Commission has an
nounced a junior engineer examination.
Applications must be on file with the
U. S. Civil Service Commission not later
than February 6, 1940. A notice of the
examination giving full details may be
seen on the School of Engineering bulle
tin board in the Academic Building or in
the office of the Dean of Engineering.
If, after reading the notice, you wish to
apply for the examination please leave
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your name in my office and you will be
advised of a meeting prior to February
1 for all engineering seniors who are
interested at which time application blanks
will be furnished and explained. It is
hoped that you will make your plaas to
apply for this examination.
GIBB GILCHRIST
Dean of Engineering
CIVIL SERVICE
All seniors are urged to read Civil
Service Announcement No. 10 for Junior
Professional Assistant. There are twenty-
eight different options offered from Jun
ior Agronomist to Junior Range Examiner,
Junior Biologist (Wild Life), and Junior
Engineer.
The closing date for applications to
ave here should he February
Instructions on filling out the form 8
may be obtained from your department
leave here should be February 1st.
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head. Further instructions will be given
by O. E. Teague, Civil Service Department,
on Wednesday evening at 7:30 in the
Animal Industry Auditorium.
STUDENT LIBRARY COMMITTEE
The regular monthly meeting of the
Student Library Committee will be held
Sunday afternoon beginning at 2 o’clock in
the office of the librarian. Dr. T. F.
Mayo. Members are urged to attend this
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important meeting.
Organizations
HILLEL CLUB
Prof. V. K. Sugareff will address an
open meeting of the A. & M. Hillel
Club on Sunday evening January 21, at
7 p. m. in the lounge room of the old
Mess Hall. His subject will be “War in
Southeastern Europe”.
BIOLOGY CLUB
There will be an important meeting
po:
of the Biology Club next Monday even
ing, January 22, at 6:45. Two reels of
excellent sound pictures on biological to-
sou
pics will be shown and officers will be
elected to serve during the next two
semesters. All students interested in be
coming members for the second semester
are cordially invited to attend. The meet
ing will be held in the Biology lecture
room in the Science Hall.
GLEE CLUB
The regular meeting schedule of the
A. & M. Glee Club is from 6:30 to
7:30 p. m. every Monday, Tuesday and
Thursday night—all in the basement of
the old dining hall.
Special rehearsal of the tenor sections
will be held every Monday; of the base-
baritone sections, every Tuesday. These
begin at 6 p. m. in the above meeting
place.
Lost and Found
LOST: Trench coat in Library cloak
room. Name in collar, brown gloves in
pocket; Return to Newman, room 326,
dorm 8 for reward.
LOST: A wide brown all-wool muffler
with red and yellow stripes, made in Eng
land, lost night after Christmas holidays.
Of high sentimental value to owner. Triple
usual reward for reward to room 113,
dorm 11.
Max A. Melcher
CHURCHES
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
St. Thomas Chapel, College
Rev. Roscoe Hauser Jr., Chaplain
8:30 a. m. Holy Communion
9:30 a. m. Coffee Club and Bible Class
10:45 a. m. Morning Prayer and sermon.
(1st Sundays - Holy Communion)
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
OF COLLEGE STATION
R. L. Brown, Pastor
9:45 a. m. Sunday School
10:50 a. m. Morning worship
6:45 p. m. Baptist Training Union
7:30 p. m. Evening worship
Wednesday—B. S. U. Council 6:45 p. m.;
prayer meeting 7:30 p. m.; choir rehearsal
8:16 p. m. Student prayer meeting every
evening at 6 :45.
A. & M. CHURCH OF CHRIST
R. B. Sweet, Minister
9:45 a. m. Bible classes
10:45 a. m. Worship service
6:45 p. m. Young People’s meeting
7 :S0 p. m. Evening worship
Wednesday—Prayer meeting, 7:30 p. m.
A. & M. METHODIST CHURCH
James Carlin, Pastor
10:00 a. m. Church School
11:00 a. m. Morning warship
7:00 p. m. Epworth League meeting
7:45 p. m. Evening service
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Y. M. C. A. Chapel
Rev. Norman Anderson, Pastor
9:30 a. m. Sunday School
11:00 a. m. Morning worship
6:45 p. m. Young People’s League
7:45 p. m. Evening devotional and fel
lowship.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICE
Y. M. C. A. Parlor
11:00 a. m. Morning worship
LUTHERAN SERVICES
Y. M. C. A. Parlor
Rev. Kurt Hartman, Pastor
7:00 p. m. Evening worship
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address: 609 East 26th Street.
Barber Shop
La Salle Hotel
O’Conner - Jones
Bryan, Texas
Dr. A. Benbow
DENTIST
Phone 375
Austin Building — Bryan
Dead Letter Office—
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and inspected by the postal author
ities in an effort to determine the
address of either the addressee or
the addresser. On occasions one
of these addresses are determined
and the letter is forwarded immed
iately. But in the majority of
cases the reading of these letters is
futile, and they are thereupon de
stroyed by fire. All money and
other valuables found in this mail
is held in Fort Worth for one year
awaiting claim. At the end of that
time all unclaimed matter is auc
tioned off or disposed of in a way
most profitable to the postal serv
ice.
The local postal employees esti
mate that an average of 50 such
letters are received in a month.
According to these men, not one
letter in 10,000 is actually “lost
through the mails,” and if a letter
fails to reach its destination one
may well suppose that it is lying
dormant in some dead letter of
fice. The local office goes out
of its way in trying to discover
the destinaiton of these letters and
when all attempts fail there is
nothing left for the letters but de
struction by fire.
And so these messages, lie inert
in College Station—freaks of the
mails, deformed and definitely
“non-reg.” Their missions are un
performed and their destiny is ex
tremely questionable.
The employees ox the local of
fice were quick to point out a
shortcoming which is far more
common in the general addressing
of a letter. Almost everyone is
guilty of omitting the apparently
unimportant return address. Some
few may go so far as to place
the box number in the upper left
hand corner of the envelope. The
postal employees to the man will
declare grimly and adamantly that
this is bad practice. They insist
that every letter should bear a
return address which is correct on
ly when the sender’s name, box
number, and post office are legibly
placed in the aforementioned cor
ner. They explain that in as much
as some boxes, such as the organ
ization boxes, contain upwards to
70 names it is next to impossible
to return a letter to its rightful
owner without this complete re
turn address. Therefore the local
post office requests that everyone
kindly include his name in the re
turn address, and further, they iq-
vite everyone to better acquaint
himself with the more fundamental
rules of the postal service in order
that delay and confusion may be
reduced to a minimum.
Engineers’ Day—
(Continued from page 1)
dent flying instruction, and simi
lar activities.
It was decided at the meeting to
devote some two weeks to the pro
motion of engineering, so planned
that the Engineer’s Day Show
would fall in the middle of the
period. Dean Gilchrist announced to
the Council that he had contacted
some of the outstanding engineers
is the United States, trying to get
them to come here to make talks
during that two week period. Some
of them have already given favor
able answers.
The main purpose of the Engi
neering Council is to represent the
students. This may be accomplish
ed enly if any student who has a
suggestion will take the time to
get in touch with some member of
the council. The members of the
Council, in the various branches of
engineering, are: Architectural So
ciety, Gordon Siebeck, Marshall Be
thel, D. P. Simpson; Chemical En
gineering, A. T. Hingle, A. K.
Hamilton, C. A. Droll ; Civil En
gineering, B. B. Cloud, C. DeVil-
biss, J. West; Electrical Engineer
ing, W. P. Smith, F. K. Nichols,
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
OF BRYAN
W. H. Andrew, Pastor
9:45 a. m. Sunday School
10:50 a. m. Morning worship
6:30 p. m. Baptist Training Union
7:30 p. m. Evening worship
Free busses for students leave both “Y’s”
at 9:20 every Sunday morning.
COLLEGE AVE. BAPTIST CHURCH
OF BRYAN
R. C. White, Pastor.
9 :45 a. m. Sunday School.
11:00 a. m. Morning Worship.
6:20 p. m. Baptist Training Union.
7:30 p. m. Evening Worship.
Free bus for students leaves old “Y”,
Project House area, and street intersection
near new dormitories at 9:10, 9:16, and
9 :20 respectively each Sunday morning, and
6:10, 6:15, and 6:20 respectively Sunday
evening.
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Bryan-College Traction Co., Inc.
Cadet Pistol Team
Defeats Group Of
State Troopers
With local attraction focused on
the A. & M.-Rice basketball game
Thursday night, the Aggie pistol
team at the same time encountered
and retired winners over the State
Department of Public Safety team
with a margin of 32 points.
Bill Lewis, firing for the Aggies,
claimed high score for the evening
and also set a college record in
slow firing that should stand for
a good number of years. Lewis’
score for the evening was 284 out
of a possible 300.
Dan Lawrence, ex-Aggie, led the
troopers and claimed the second
spot of the match with a score of
277. He also set the lead in rapid
firing, with 92.
Third place was taken by C. A.
“Ears” Lewis with 273 points.
The department’s team arrived
here late Thursday evening and ate
with the Aggies in the mess hall
and also attended the basketball
game. This match has become an
annual affair with the troopers
showing a good bit of interest in
the Aggies’ team.
AGGIES
Slow Timed Rapid Total
Shields, Bob
86
99
81
266
Lewis, C. A.
86
96
91
273
Kennemer, Clint
Lewis, Bill
86
93
93
272
97
96
91
284
STATE
TROOPERS
1,097
Lawrence, Dan
89
96
92
277
Cearley, J. L.
84
96
91
271
Chance, C. L.
76
92
93
266
Callamore, Tom
82
86
88
251
1,065
Future Farmers
To Hold Area Meet
Saturday, Jan. 20
Early Saturday morning about
200 Future Farmers of America
will arrive at A. & M. for their
annual area convention. These boys
are representatives of area three
which takes in a large part of Tex
as, including College Station and
surrounding territory. Area three
has in it forty seven chapters of
Future Farmers and all will prob
ably represented at the meeting.
The main purpose of the conven
tion is to hear reports on the or
ganization’s past year’s work and
elect new officers for the coming
"year.
Upon arriving at College Station
the boys will be privileged to in
spect the college campus and facili
ties. At 10:00 o’clock they will
gather in the Assembly Hall where
they will receive a welcome from
Roy Martin, a member of the Sen
ior Collegiate F. F. A. organiza
tion at A. & M.
The first feature on the day’s
program will be a report on the
experiences in a Leadership Train
ing School held at Miniwauca, Mich
igan. The report will be given
by Leland Main, an active member
of the Slocum Chapter, who is
also treasurer of the state F. F. A.
organization. Following this there
will be given a report on the Nat
ional Convention at Chicago last
year and also plans will be made
for the Texas State Convention of
1940. The state convention will be
held in Houston, Texas, sometime
in July with the members of area
three acting as host to the rest of
the state which is divided into ten
separate areas.
Among the last things on the
program will be a report of the
nominating committee and the elec
tion of new officers for the com
ing year. Those chosen will take
office as they are elected. Next will
be heard the report of the Pro
gram of Work Committee at which
time the goals for 1940 will be
set up and plans will be made
as to how these goals can be
reached.
G. P. Rhoten; Mechanical Engi
neering, B. Burns; T. M. Hagood,
A. Reagor; Petroleum Engineering,
L. J. Lefkofsky, B. H. Elliot, E. H.
Peters.
Who’s Who—
(Continued from page 1)
George W. Smith, editor of the
Longhorn; Joe M. Boyd, All-Amer
ican football player; James M.
Sharp, captain of the Ross Volun
teers; William H. Oswalt, lieuten
ant colonel of the composite regi
ment; Frank H. Corder, president
of the Saddle and Sirloin Club;
Thomas A. Balmer, Band comman
der; William T. Guy, president of
the Scholarship Honor Society;
Howell D. Miller, lieutenant col
onel of the Infantry; Robert T.
Shields, lieutenant colonel of the
Field Artillery; Bruce B. Cloud,
president of the Student Engineer
ing Council; John A. Kimbrough,
All-American football player; Ele
B. Baggett, president of the junior
class.
LONGHORN AND
FROG CAGERS IN
GAME TONIGHT
FORT WORTH, Jan. 20.—Appar
ently again destined for cellar
greatness, T. C. U.’s basketball
team goes to slaughter Saturday
night against the University of
Texas in Austin.
Coach Mike Brumbelow predict
ed he would have a slightly bet
ter bunch of cagers than last year,
when the Frogs dropped 12
straight games, their complete
conference schedule. He still holds
to that prediction.
But the Frogs, still weak even
though stronger, had the bad luck
to draw the conference’s leading
title contenders for three of their
first four games—Rice twice and
Texas once.
“We knew from the start we had
almost no chance to beat those
teams,” Coach Brumbelow says.
“But the Aggies showed unex
pected strength too and took us m
College Station. Now we don’t
trust any of ’em! We ought to win
a game or two, but I’d hate to try
to figure out from which team!”
Floppy Blackmon, rangy fresh
man who becomes eligible for
varsity Feb. 1, will be held out
this year, Brumbelow has decided.
He figures Blackmon will do him
more good with a full year in ’43
than with part of a season in ’40.
ROSE TO FAME FROM
SINGING IN BATH1UB
WACO.—Most coeds, it seems,
like to sing in the bath tub, and
Elizabeth Ray, Baylor University
student from China several years
ago, was no exception.
But as she carolled away one
day at the top of her voice, she
had little idea that she was being
auditioned and that her melodies
that morning would send her to her
present position as contralto solo
ist with the world famous West
minster choir.
So it worked out however. Miss
Roxy Grove, head of the Baylor
school of music, overheard the
singing, was impressed, and intro
duced herself when the bath was
over.
Their conversation resulted in
Miss Ray’s entering the music
school for study under Prof. Robert
Hopkins, director of the Baylor
a cappella choir . . . and in suc
ceeding years in tours of this con
tinent and Europe.
Two coeds are members of the
livestock judging team of Massa
chusetts State College.
The ten “depression classes” of
1930-1939 at Stevens Institute of
Technology are 96 per cent em
ployed.
For the first time in 25 years,
Union College this fall had an un
defeated football team.
-SATURDAY, JAN. 20, 1940
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB
The Cosmopolitan Club will have
its regular meeting in the Y. M. C.
A. parlor Sunday afternoon at 3:00
o'clock. The boys from Mexico
are presenting a special program
about their country in which they
will feaure a trip to Mexico City,
starting at Laredo by way of the
International Highway. The typical
music of the different regions will
be heard throughout the supposed
trip. Also an explanation of a
typical Bull Fight will be given.
Everybody is invited, specially
American boys interested in Cen
tral and South America, for a lot
of valuable information will be
given. Refreshments will be serv
ed as a compliment of the Y. M.
C. A.
W. J. Douglas, Jr.
INSURANCE AGENCY
General Insurance
Commerce Bldg. Phone B-160
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