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VOL. 39 122 ADMINISTRATION BUILDING COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 9, 1940
Z725 NO. 61
T MEN HOLD A. & M.’S FOURTH ANNUAL SPORTS DAY
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Governor Pays Surprise Visit For Dairymen’s Convention
National Dairy Products
Leaders Attend Convention
Kraft President
Among Leaders
By Earle A. Shields
Governor W. Lee O’Daniel ap
peared as an unexpected guest
here Thursday at the annual con
vention of the Texas Dairy Pro
ducts Association and was greeted
with a nineteen-gun salute from
one of the R.O.T.C. Field Artillery
batteries as the cadets marched in
to Sbisa Hall with Miss Molly
O’Daniel, the governor’s daughter,
as guest of honor.
Carl Hill Jr., senior of D Troop
Cavalry, was Miss O’Daniel’s per
sonal escort at the convention ban
quet and during the rest of her
stay. Governor O’Daniel was es
corted by President T. O. Walton
and executive assistant Colonel Ike
Ashburn.
An estimated crowd of 600 fill
ed the mess hall annex for the ban
quet climaxing the Dairymen’s
Convention. Dr. C. N. Shepardson,
head of the Dairy Husbandry De
partment sponsoring the conven
tion, presided.
The banquet was opened with
Dr. Shepardson’s introduction of
Aggie Coach Homer Norton who,
in turn, introduced five of the mem
bers of the No. 1 Football team
of the Nation: “Cotton” Price,
Tommy Vaughn, Ernie Pannell,
Jim Thomason, and John Kim
brough.
After these introductions the
octet of the A. & M. Singing Ca
dets, consisting of Maynard Cur
tis, “Sig” Neubert, Ed Furley,
Charlie Zahn, “Gib” Michalk, Joe
Casey, Ed Bush, and Tom Stevens,
presented a program of several
numbers beautifully sung. They
sang “Kentucky Babe,” “When the
Drive Goes Down,” and “I’d Rather
Be a Texas Aggie,” and were so
enthusiastically received that they
were called back for an encore and
they obliged by singing “Stout
Hearted Men.” After this, every
body at the luncheon, led by the
octet, sang “Everybody Milks in
Texas.”
Governor O’Daniel was intro
duced at this time. He started off
his speech telling of his pride in
A. & M., its football team and its
singing cadets, and then went on
to speak of Texas and its relation
to the dairy industry. He stated
that Texas could be the most out
standing state in the nation with
the industry fully developed. He
forecast a future which would see
milk processing plants in every
community, preparing and selling
all of the dairy products needed
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Egg School To Be
Held Here Monday
Approximately 50 produce men
engaged in the handling and grad
ing of eggs are expected to attend
an intensive course in egg grading
and marketing on the A. & M.
College campus next week. The
school, which is scheduled March
11 to 16, will be conducted by
H. G. F. Hamann, associate mar
keting specialist for the agricul
tural marketing service of the
United States Department of Agri
culture.
The college is cooperating with
the State Department of Agricul
ture and the United S ^ ' or t-
ment of Agriculture .
improve the quality
duced and sold in Texas, act
ing to George P. McCarthy, Ex
tension Service poultry husband
man, who is assisting with ar
rangements for the school.
Persons interested in egg-grad
ing work are invited to attend,
and accommodations on or near the
campus will be available to pro
duce men here for the school.
Professor C. N. Shepardson,
head of the Dairy Husbandry De
partment, which sponsored the
huge annual Dairymen’s Conven
tion, which was attended by lead
ers in the industry from many
parts of the state and nation. Dr.
Shepardson presided at the colorful
banquet climaxing the meet.
Sulphur Springs
Citizens Visit Here
A committee of Sulphur Springs
citizens, headed by Mayor Allen E.
Ardis, paid a visit to Texas A. & M.
one day this week and made a tour
of inspection of the campus with F.
L. Hensel, head of the college Land
scape Art Department.
The committee visited the Flower
Show in Houston to gather ideas
for the beautification of their city
and then came to the college to dis
cuss their plans with Mr. Hensel.
They were guests of Miss Sadie
Hatfield, of the A. & M. Extension
Service, at lunch in the college din
ing hall and returned to their homes
late in the afternoon.
Those in the party included
Mayor Ardis, Mrs. E. L. Mead,
Mrs. Earl Mead, Mr. and Mrs.
Weber Fouts, and Miss Altha Mae
Anderson, Hopkins County Home
Demonstration Agent.
While on the campus they visit
ed several of the buildings and
saw landscaping being done in the
new dormitory area.
KING OF UGLIES TO BE ANNOUNCED SATURDAY
Committee Could
Not Get Together
Friday Afternoon
Winner of the “Ugly Boy Con
test” which has had the campus
in a dither for days, will not be
known until Saturday afternoon,
when the entire judging commit
tee of forty-one members, candi
dates and campaign managers, will
meet in Guion Hall at 2:00 o’clock
where the final tabulation of votes
will be made. As originally an
nounced, the winner was to have
been declared yesterday. Since
the entire committee could not be
present at that time, it was deemed
advisable to postpone the counting
of votes one more day.
Balloting was officially conclud
ed as scheduled and the ballots
placed with the Commandant for
safekeeping until the official count
is made.
Voting was unusually heavy and
the winner may be sure that his
choice, while certainly not unani
mous, will be representative of
the majority.
Run-off candidates are Roy
Chappell, Robert C. “Eddie” Hall,
S. R. “Red” Martin, Maurice E.
Shepherd, and Irvin Thompson.
By-product of the high-spirited
campaign is the attraction of na
tional publicty to the contest, the
first of its kind ever held at A. &
M. Reliable authority has it that
a picture magazine of national cir
culation is more than mildly in
terested in the proceedings. Fur
ther information will be forthcom
ing in the near future.
Aggie Bandmaster
To Conduct at Band
Leaders’ Convention
Lieutenant-Colonel R. J. Dunn,
bandmaster of the 210 piece Ag
gie band, has been selected to con
duct the opening number at the
annual convention of the Ameri
can Bandmasters’ Association in
Hagerstown, Maryland, on March
10. The number which Lieutenant-
Colonel Dunn will conduct is “Wel
come,” written by Peter Buys, pres
ident of the organization. The
band is to be composed of members
of the Hagerstown Municipal
Band and of the Army, Navy, and
Marine bands.
Lieutenant-Colonel Dunn and
Everett McCracken, bandmaster at
Baylor University, are the only
original charter members of the
American Bandmasters’ Associa
tion in Texas. Today there are
only six members of the organiza
tion in Texas.
Animal Husbandry Department Plays
Big Part in Ft. Worth Fat Stock Show
Not exactly the backbone but-fTuesday to make an inspection
at least a strong contributing fac
tor—that’s the A. & M. Animal
Husbandry Department’s part in
the Southwestern Exposition and
Fat Stock Show at Fort Worth
which opened yesterday. Almost
every member of the faculty con
nected with the department, around
35 students, and almost 100 of the
school’s prize cattle, horses, and
sheep are all part of the A. & M.
share. Aside from this a large
part of the student body are mak
ing the trip to Cowtown to take
in the show.
Those this year who are to car
ry the name of A. & M. before the
trip.
Another team representing A. &
M. will be picked from the fresh
meats judging squad coached by C.
E. Murphy. Those on the squad
are R. P. Barnhill, C. V. Breith-
aupt, Jack Cleveland, N. H. “Newt”
Foster, Ed Felder, J. R. “Shorty”
Fuller, L. A. Maddox, C. D. Ram-
sel, H. J. “Slick” Richards, E. M.
Rosenthal, T. E. Stuart, and N. B.
Willey.
It is the policy of the A. H.
Department to use as many stu
dents as possible in fitting and
showing the animals and in help
ing in the show ring. Several
who are to help along those lines
this year are James Grote, R. S.
^al public as the school’s live- J Huddle, and R. D. Evans.
team which will be I Almost every member of the de-
";ollowing livestock' partment has some job in connec-
L. *E. Frandes, O. tion with the stock show. They
are either in charge of part of the
school’s livestock exhibit or act as
superintendent of some division. Of
these D. W. Williams, head of the
Animal Husbandry Department, is
superintendent of the horse show
and F. I. Dahlberg is superintend
ent of swine.
J
F. Brewster, - . R. Calliham, B. F.
Curnutt, R. T. Foster, Buster Gen
try, A. H. Hamner, M. B. Inman,
Mac F. Jones, A. W. Maddox, J. L.
Rice, H. E. Shahan, J. P. Steel,
and M. H. Turner. This team is
coached by Larry Miller who ac
companied them to Fort Worth last
^
(Upper left) Part of the crowd of
Aggies that assembled to hear candi
date “Eddie ” (Alley Oop) Hall’s poli
tical address, over his own amplifying
system, in the election for “King of
the Uglies” which has taken the
campus by storm. Hall led in the
primary. (Upper right) S. D. “Red”
Martin, mechanical engineering sen
ior of E Company Engineers, who
came in second in the primary, is
shown fm one of his handsomest
poses. (Lower right) NO. They’re not
candidates . . * Here are shown a
majority of the members of the 41-
man election committee, with Batta
lion editor Bill Murray and “Back
wash” columnist George Fuermann
who sponsored the contest.
Charged with the weighty responsibility of running the election, the impartial committee of judges
in the contest are as follows: Don Peterson, “Bodie” Pierce, Jack Bibbs, Dick Pitts, Gat Garrison, A.
D. Toland, Morris Pettit, Leonard Glaser, Jimmy Radford, George Mueller, Graham Purcell, Joe
Snow, Max Melcher, Mac Duncan, Harold Hausman, Ed Robnett, Mac Oliver, Alden Cathey, Tom
Richards, Fred Clarke, Sid Kimball, Rob Trimble, Cecil Reavis, Jack Richmond, Ernest Schott, Tom Richey,
Pete Gerlich, Charles Stechman, R. L. Peterson, A. J. Carroll, George Bingham, Clayton Bird, Maurice
Dunklin, Ross Cox, Walter Carmichael, Lloyd Ator, Horace Landers, Ross Cashion, Roth Parker, W. A.
Sanders, and E. E. Inman.
Refunds on Early
Maintenance Fees
Paid Made Monday
Hotard Says Neither
Quantity or Quality Of
Food Will Be Reduced
The Fiscal Office has announced
the correction of $5.25 in expenses
for the remainder of the year.
Refunds to those students who paid
their fees before the reduction was
announced will be made from 8 a.
m. to 1 p. m. Monday. Students
who have paid in full for the en
tire semester will be remitted
$5.25.
The Fiscal Office requests that
the students whose parents send
the payments directly to the Fis
cal Office clip out the correction of
expenses and send it home.
J. C. Hotard, head of the Sub-
sistance Department, has stated
that there will positively be no
reduction in the variety, quality,
or quantity of the food served in
the mess hall as a result of the
fee reduction. According to Mr.
Hotard, because of the department’s
policy of buying large amounts
of food, there is enough of cer
tain types of food in storage now
to last the remainder of the term,
thus insuring the same service as
in the past.
Correction of Expenses for 1939-40
Fee payable:
March 4-8,
Room Rent to April 8 $ 5.00
Board to April 8 19.50
Laundry to April 8 2.25
Total payable $26.75
April 4-8,
Room Rent to May 8 $ 5.00
Board to May 8 19.00
Laundry to May 8 2.00
Total payable $26.00
May 4-8,
Room Rent to June 8 $ 5.00
Board to June 8 19.50
Laundry to June 8 2.00
Total payable $26.50
This change represents a reduc
tion of $1.75 per month beginning
with the payment for March.
A. & M. Consolidated School To Begin
Classes In New Buildings Monday Morn
By Bob Nisbet
A. & M. Consolidated school
students were given an unexpect
ed holiday yesterday when school
was turned out in order that the
old school system may be moved
from the old buildings to the new
building just completed, located
south of the campus. School will
continue as usual Monday morn
ing from College Station’s new
school.
Five hundred and forty boys and
girls in both grade school and high
school will enjoy the conveniences
of the new buildings. According to
Paul Edge, superintendent, there
are 360 students in grammar
school and half that number in
high school. These students come
from four local school districts
with a total area of 50 square
miles and including the old Col
lege Independent School District,
Wellborn, Rock Prairie, and part
of Union Hill School Districts.
Built at an approximate total
cost of $81,000, the school unit con
tains a total of six buildings, four
housing the grade school, and two
for the high school. Separate
buildings of two rooms each are
set aside for the first and second
grades. Another of the grade
school buildings contains the third
and seventh grades. The other
houses the fourth, fifth, and sixth.
Also in the system is office for
the principal and a store room for
school supplies.
For the high school two build
ings are provided. One of these
will be a shop and a music room
that will also serve as an audi
torium for assembly and will be
used for showing films. The other
building will be for classes, offices,
and a library.
The buildings are one-story
structures, designed to give maxi
mum usability and convenience to
each square foot of floor space.
Some space is provided between
the buildings to lower the probabil
ity of fire hazards .
■ In the financing of the school
unit, the buildings were provided
for by bond issue, but the improve
ments in the grounds and land
scape were made by donations of
the citizens of College Station, that
were collected by J. W. Mitchell,
M. L. Cashion, and D. B. Gofer.
Donations were taken to the
amount of $5,039.75 and all but
$12.75 has been spent in beautify
ing the 14.69 acres forming the
school campus.
Welk’s Band
Featured At
Corps Dance
Last Saturday night it was Del
Courtney and his orchestra with
their nationally known “Candid
Camera Music” and tonight it is
Lawrence Welk with his famous
“Champagne Music” furnishing
music for the Aggie corps, thus
making it the second straight week
end the Aggies have had the
chance to dance to the music of
well-known orchestras.
Welk and his orchestra will fin
ish their two-day engagement at
Aggieland tonight. Friday night
they furnished the music for the
annual Coast Artillery Ball.
Featured with the band is lovely
Jayne Walton who does the lion’s
share of the vocal work. Hers is
a distinctive style which fits in
well with the smoothly rhythmic
type of music the band plays.
She is also adept at singing tangos
and rhumbas since she was reared
in Mexico—“south of the border”
so to speak.
The orchestra has had many
successful engagements throughout
the country during the past and
have just recently finished an en
gagement at the Rice Hotel in
Houston.
Proceeds Go
To Finnish
Relief Fund
Baseball, Track
And Football Meets
Featured Events
At one o’clock today the um
pire will yell “Play ball” and A.
& M.’s Fourth Annual Sports Day
will get under way with half of
the income going to the Finnish
Relief Fund. At this time the
Texas Aggie “T” Association is
staging its annual Sports Day and
presents the 1940 baseball team in
a game against the Grand Prize
Brewers of Houston, a series of
track events for trackmen not
participating at the Border Olymp
ics in Laredo, and a full football
game between the Champion
“Green Bay Packers” and the rest
of the Aggie grid squad.
Before the game there will be a
series of dashes by the gridsters
by positions and a final to find
the four fastest men on the squad
to represent the college at Fort
Worth next Saturday.
HOPE FOR CROWD
Coach Norton and his staff, as
well as all the Aggie athletes, hope
that the crowd will break all rec
ords for such an event. Admis
sion will be 50 cents for adults
and 25 cents for students.
The gates will open at 1 o’clock
and the baseball game will get un
der way at 1:15. As soon as that
is over the crowd will move over
to the Kyle Field Stadium where
the track events will be held. That
out of the way Coach Norton will
introduce his grid squad and then
the races for football players will
follow.
The four fastest men will be
entered in the Fort Worth Fat
Stock Show track meet and they
will run a 400-yard relay in full
football equipment, passing a foot
ball instead of a baton as is cus
tomary in relay events.
After the “speed” merchants are
uncovered the football game will
get under way. The probable
starting lineup will be short some
of the likely 1940 starters as Rob
nett is in Laredo and Thomason and
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Welfare Committee
Votes To Increase
Activities Fee
A recommendation that the Stu
dent Activities Fee be raised $1.50
next session to provide greater fi
nancial aid to A. & M.’s Town
Hall was unanimously adopted by
the student members of the Stu
dent Welfare Committee at that
organization’s monthly business
meeting in Sbisa Hall Thursday
night.
For some time the Committee
has been making a study of the
financing of student activities, con
sidering the situation here as well
as the steps other colleges and
universities are taking.
The recommendation will be
placed with the Board of Directors
of A. & M. at its meeting here
this morning.
Plans for the representative stu
dents who will visit the various
high schools of the state, probab
ly the weekend before Mothers’
Day, to talk to the graduating
classes, are under way. Cadet Col
onel D. B. Varner is in charge
of arrangements.
Possibilities of extending scho
lastic aid to freshmen earlier next
session were also considered.
Col. Ashburn Speaks For
Madisonville C. of C. Meet
Colonel Ike Ashburn, executive
assistant to President Walton, gave
the main address at the Madison
ville Chamber of Commerce an
nual banquet Thursday night. For
merly manager of the Houston
Chamber of Commerce, he is rec
ognized as an authority on cham
ber of commerce work.