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VOL. 39 122 ADMINISTRATION BUILDING COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 7, 1940
Z725 NO. 60
Grab Your Ballots; Contest Will Close Friday!
Three Bands, Four Dances
Feature Weekend Activities
Aggieland, Lawrence Welk,
Nick Stuart To Play for Hops
Dancing again becomes the favorite weekend pastime of Aggie-
land as A. & M. athletes and Coast Artillerymen dust off their shoes
for Friday night’s hops and the remainder of the corps brush up
for dances tonight and Saturday nights. All four dances offer a well-
selected variety of music, from Jack Littlejohn’s ever-popular Aggie-
land and his “I’d Rather Be A Texas Aggie”, to Lawrence Welk with
his “Champagne Music” and beau--
tiful Jayne Wal
ton to Nick Stu
art and his “Hit
Parade of Pop
ular Music.”
All m a jo r
sports letter-
men, with the
champ ionship
cadet football
team of 1939 in
the lead, togeth-
U£RfZY BuRKC* er with minor
Featured with sports letter-
Lawrence Welk. mellj win gtage
the “T” Club’s annual dance to
be staged in the annex of Sbisa
Hall Friday night. The “T” Club
has invited all juniors and seniors
at A. & M. to attend the dance.
Jo-Jo White, “T” Club prexy, said
that bids may be bought for $1.25
by all freshman numeral winners,
varsity squad men, and all A. &
M. juniors and seniors; however,
no person will be admitted with
out a date. The Aggieland Or
chestra will play for the dance.
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CITY COUNCIL
PASSES TRAFFIC
REGULATIONS
The City Council of College Sta
tion at a recent meeting passed
several necessary traffic regula
tions governing automobile traf
fic within the city limits of Col
lege Station and with particular
reference to North Gate.
These regulations are now in ef
fect, as follows:
1. All traffic will come to a
complete stop at the North Gate
caution light at the intersection
of Bell Street and Sulphur Springs
Road.
2. Parking on Bell Street is to
parallel to the curb. (Bell Street
is the street running northwest
from the campus at the North
Gate.)
3. Parking on Sulphur Springs
Road is to be diagonally heading
into the curb. (The Sulphur
Springs Road is the street connect
ing North Gate with Highway 6.)
4. All driving at the North Gate
must be on the right side of the
street.
5. The reserved space at the
North Gate is for Bryan-College
taxicabs.
6. No U-turns can be made at
the intersection of Bell Street and
the Sulphur Springs Road at the
North Gate.
L/lvSREfl/CJS WBL/C,
Hereford Groups
Presenting Series
Of Lectures Here
The American Hereford Asso
ciation and the Texas Hereford As
sociation are cooperating with the
Animal Husbandry Department at
A. & M. to bring a series of lec
tures on cattle breeding and relat
ed work to the student body. D.
W. Williams, head of the Animal
Husbandry Department, has an
nounced that five or six Such lec
tures are to be given during this
semester at A. & M. by the two
associations.
James Brook of Brady, Texas,
president of the Texas Hereford
Association, was the first number
of the series and showed movies
here recently he took on his trip
to England and South America.
Joe Birdwell of Wichita Falls,
president of the American Asso
ciation will be here in the near
future to talk on how the pure
bred breeder helps serve the com
mercial cattle men. The secretary
of the American Association, R. J.
Kinzer of Kansas City, has just
completed a trip to Europe and
South America, and he will address
the students some time during the
semester on the distribution and
development of Hereford cattle in
the world.
Mr. Williams also expects John
B. Stribling, holder of several
world's records for sales of Here
ford cattle, to talk here on popu
lar blood lines in the Hereford
breed. The last lecture which is
now planned concerns the fitting
and showing of cattle.
“You’d Be Surprised” Says One Who
Saw National Flower Show in Houston
By Bob Nisbet
Expecting to feel as out of place
as the proverbial “bull in the
china closet” at the National Flow
er Show in Houston last weekend,
the writer was pleasantly surpris
ed to find a great number of njales
in attendance and not just a few
Aggies. Of course, it was inevi
table that one would be bumped
and crowded by a bunch of women
who get in your hair with their
incessant chattering. “Oh, just
look at that pretty red—I can’t
think of its name; the one over
there by that white “whatyoumay-
callit.” Mrs. Jones tried to raise
some of those last year, but she
had trouble with Mrs. Smith’s
chickens scratching up the seeds
Seriously, though, the show was
most beautiful, particularly the
•exhibit placed there by the country
of Holland. It was a scene show
ing an old Dutch windmill by a
winding canal and a field literally
covered with tulips.
Another exhibit of unusual na
ture was a typical garden scene
from Japan. Two little boys,
made of plaster of paris, were sit
ting on the bank of a little pool
fishing for goldfish, surrounded by
lillies and other pretty flowers.
Orchids were everywhere in evi
dence. In fact, orchids were plac
ed in a separate division altogether
for judging. The prettiest exhibit
in that section was a white orchid.
Then, too, there was an exhibit
with two fluffy ostriches covering
themselves with glory and orchids.
If you still don’t think you
would enjoy seeing a “bunch of
sissy flowers,” all I can say to you
is, “You’d be surprised.”
From 'Gas Mask’ to ‘Hairless Joe' They're Human
AGGIE VICTIM
OF CAR WRECK
RECOVERING
Reports from the College Hos
pital Wednesday afternoon stated
that the condition of M. U. Ferrari,
Coast Artillery sophomore injur
ed when two automobiles collided
near Rockdale Sunday, was im
proving steadily. Ferrari’s A. &
M. student companion, Bill Col
vin, was killed in the accident.
Hospital authorities stated that
Ferrari, who was brought to the
College Hospital Sunday, had sus
tained serious injuries and had not
been moved since arriving here.
The full extent of his injuries are
not known. However, the report
said that he was in complete con
trol of his senses. His mother
arrived here from her home in
Rockdale shortly after Ferrari was
brought to the college.
Robert Griffon, another occu
pant of the car, was rushed to
Cameron after the accident. No
reports as to his condition or
identity have been made, but he
is not an A. & M. student, no
such person being listed under the
name Robert Griffon in the files
of the Registrar’s Office.
Scientist To
Address Plant
Seminar Tonight
Dr. C. L. Smith, plant physiolo
gist of the Bureau of Plant Indus
try of the U. S. Department of
Agriculture, will be the guest
speaker discussing “Effects of
Indolebutyric Acid in the Root
ing of Transplanted Pecan Trees”
before the Plant Science Seminar
tonight, Walter S. Flory, horticul-
turalist for the Agricultural Ex
periment Station, has announced.
The meeting will be held in the
Experiment Station conference
room, at 7:30 p. m.
Dr. Smith, a native of Alabama,
is a graduate of Alabama Poly
technic Institute. He did gradu
ate work at the University of
Maryland where he received his
Ph.D. For several years he has
been located at the U. S. Pecan
Field Station at Brownwood, where
he has done outstanding work.
While at Brownwood he has de
veloped, among other techniques,
a method of applying plant
hormones to pecan trees (up to 10
years of age) which allows them
to be successfully transplanted
when bare-rooted, and which holds
promise in connection with the
moving of other nursery stock.
Details of this work will be brought
out in the seminar discussion.
SOME PICTORIAL HIGHLIGHTS OF AGGIELAND’S FIRST “UGLY BOY” CONTEST—(Top)
Field Artillery Band junior Roy Chappell, who came out third in the primary of The Battalion’s “Ugly Boy”
contest, is shown being paraded around the mess hall by enthusiastic “supporters”—Aggie Band ‘fish’.
Say the signs: “If you think I’m ugly—You ought to see Chappell!”
(Lower left) Jack “Gas Mask” Fugate, senior of Second Headquarters Field and another strong
contender in the primary, is seen at a happy moment with campaign manager Jimmie Cokinos, who did
some good “barking” in Jack’s behalf. (Right) Jack shakes hands with rival Eddie “Alley Oop” Hall,
Company A Infantry senior who came in first in the primary. This was just following a soapbox speech
and a hillbilly serenade for Hall.
Five Men
Listed On
2nd Ballot
Contest Winner
To Be Announced
In Newscast Friday
By George Fuermann
Today’s the day!
Enthusiasm and excitement on
Backwash’s Ugly Boy contest
reaches an all-time peak as cadets
begin balloting in the runoff elec
tion to select Aggieland’s King
of the Uglies.
With two weeks of colorful,
spirited, and energetic campaign
ing behind them, Eddie Hall, S. D.
Martin, Roy Chappell, Maurice
Shepherd, and Irvin Thompson
have given their all in behalf of
their respective candidacies. From
here on out it’s up to the corps.
Attracting national attention,
the unique contest, which is the
first of its kind in Aggieland’s
history, comes to a close tomor
row noon. With “politickin’ ” and
“vote-cornering” taking on a pro
fessional aspect, candidates are
staging last minute rallies, pa-
i-ades, and demonstrations in the
college’s most exciting election in
years.
The ballot-box stuffing and high-
powered electioneering of the first
primary were given three strikes in
the runoff election as the commit
tee of forty-one cadets in charge
of the election set up new rules.
First sergeants of each organiza
tion and project house managers
will collect the ballots and are
“honor-bound” to see to it that
no one votes more than once. Un
signed ballots will not be counted,
the committee ruled. Before 1:30
Friday, all first sergeants and
managers will turn in their ballots
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COLLEGE STATION GIRL
HONORED AT BARNARD
News has been received here of
the election of Miss Ruth Tauben-
haus, daughter of Mrs. J. J. Tau-
benhaus of College Station, as
president of the student body at
Barnard College in New York City
in the spring elections, which are
to select student officers for
next year.
Miss Taubenhaus, who is a jun
ior this year, has held a student
office each year she has been in
school.
She attended A. & M. Consoli
dated School and then spent her
junior and senior years in the Bry
an high school.
Finns, If Still Here Next Saturday,
Will Get Half of Sports Day Proceeds
Plans Being Made for Biggest Cotton Pagean*
School History by Energetic Student Man?^
There may not be a Finland
left by the time Sports Day comes
around Saturday, but if there
is, the Finns will get half of the
proceeds of the gate and the T
Club will get the other half.
A full afternoon of sports events
will be staged in the Kyle Field
area with the highlight being the
final football tilt of the training
season for the championship of
the squad and the baseball game
between the Aggies and the Grand
Prize team from Hon '•>.
There will also v : es of
4
4ors
$
Harry Forbes, agronomy senior
of B Cavalry and the Agronomy
Society’s social secretary of the
1940 Cotton Ball, Pageant and
Style Show.
■f Work and plans for this year’s^
biggest and best Cotton Ball are
well under way and going strong.
Fairly humming with motion, the
various committees are in the
midst of their busiest activity.
Two of these busy people are
Byron Bing and Harry Forbes.
Bing is the business manager for
the affair, and he is busy sending
and answering requests for the 80
duchesses that will parade in the
Pageant. Forbes is working in
connection with The Fashion Store
of Houston in connection with the
program, and is helping with the
floor show. Both boys are com
peting in the Cotton Study con
test to make the annual prize
tour.
The seniors in the Architect De
partment made a trip to Houston
Monday to get a preview of the
Syle Show that The Fashion will
present before the spectators at
the Cotton Pageant in the gym.
The trip was made for the ex-
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Byron Bing, agronomy senior of
B Infantry and the Agronomy So
ciety’s business manager of the
annual functions known over the
state.
►races between the football players
in full uniform. This will give
track coach Dough Rollins a chance
to pick four men for his track
team. At the Fat Stock Show field
and track events, there will be a
race using four football players
who participated in winter prac
tice. The race will be run as a
relay and the men will wear foot
ball uniforms. Instead of passing
a baton they will pass a football.
In the past the Sports Day has
attracted a large gathering and
it is hoped that the crowd this
year will shatter all records. Some
5,000 are expected to witness the
events. Admission will be $0.25
for students and $0.50 for visitors
and others.
Dallas Mothers
Make Second Gift
To Reading Fund
Receipt of a $60.00 donation by
the Dallas A. & M. Mothers’s
Club to the students’ general read
ing fund was announced this
week by Dr. T. F. Mayo, librarian.
This is the second donation made
by the Dallas club this school
year and brings their total gift
to the reading fund up to $75.00.
Donations for the school year
total $365.50. Included among
these are donations from the Ft.
Worth A. & M. Mother’s Club, the
San Antonio A. & M. Mother’s
Club, the Temple A. & M. Moth
er’s Club, the San Angelo A. & M»
Mother’s Club, and the Dallas A.
& M. Mother’s Club, and numer
ous others.
An anonymous gift of $10.50 has
also been received by the library
as an addition to the fund. Source
of the gift could not be determined.
A.V.M.A., With 212 Members, Is One
Of Campus’ Most Active Organizations
By George Fuermann
Two hundred and twelve active
members, an energetic executive
committee, responsible and inter
ested faculty sponsors, and an or
ganization with a revived spirit—
such, in a few words, is the A.
& M. student chapter of the Amer
ican Veterinary Medical Associa
tion.
It was in 1920 that the organiza
tion was founded by the first grad
uating class of the veterinary
school. And a small enough be
ginning it was. From its original
six charter members, the organiza
tion has grown until today it is
one of the largest on the Aggie
campus.
For thirteen years it was known
as the Veterinary Club, but in 1933
it became affiliated with the sen
ior A.V.M.A., an important step
in adding prestige to the club.
Purposes of the local A.V.M.A.
chapter are three-fold. First, it
is an organization to bring togeth
er in a single unit the veterinary
students of the college; second, the
organization attempts to build a
sense of professional consciousness
and fraternalism among its mem
bers; and, finally, to bring together
socially and educationally the mem
bers of the veterinary profession.
At A.V.M.A. meetings, which are
held bi-monthly In the Veterinary
Hospital lecture room, nationally
prominent speakers in the veteri
nary field are presented, social
activities are held, and technical
discussions on subjects salient to
veterinary students are featured
once each month.
Officers of the local chapter in
clude R. J. Rodgers, president; O.
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