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STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY
NEWSPAPER OF
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
The Battalion
CIRCULATION 5,500
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
VOL. 39 122 ADMINISTRATION BUILDING COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 16, 1940
Z725 NO. 75
Elaborate Cotton Pageant Program Planned
HA-HA . .. We’re Still Wondering WHEN?’
A Reprint From The Battalion Issues of March 21 and December 12, 1939
150 ATTEND
WILDLIFE SHORT
COURSE FRIDAY
First Annual Fish-Game
Conservation Meet Held
Over 150 Texas sportsmen at
tended the First Annual Wildlife
Short Course which opened here
Friday morning in the Animal In
dustries Building and continued
through Friday evening, terminat
ing with a banquet in Sbisa Hall
at 7:30 p. m.
Dean E. J. Kyle welcomed the
guests, stating that he was heartily
in accord with wildlife conservation
and is proud of the strides which
have been made in that field. He
pointed out that the college as a
whole is working to make conser
vation a success and that this co
operation of the various schools, de
partments and divisions of the col
lege has done great service*;in
combating some of the causes of
depletion of game.
Other speakers during the course
included: Phil D. Goodrum and J.
B. Arnold, both of the Texas Game,
Fish and Oyster Commission, Aus
tin and Corpus Christi respective
ly; A. B. Conner, director of the
Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station; Dr. B. B. Harris, dean of
the North Texas State Teachers
College; Dr. Walter P. Taylor, head
of the fish and game conservation
department at the college; W. O.
Horvill, secretary of the Texas
Wildlife Association, Kerrville;
and Dr. T. Leo Murray, president
of the Texas Nature Federation,
Baylor University, Waco.
Stokdyk Begins
Lecture Series
On Cooperatives
Dr. E. A. Stokdyk, president,
Berkeley Bank for Cooperatives,
Berkeley, California, opened his se
ries of agricultural economic lec
tures here yesterday morning in
Guion Hall when he spoke on the
current status and future pros
pects of cooperatives.
He will continue with morning
and afternoon lectures through Fri
day.
Dr. Stokdyk is president of the
largest Bank for Cooperatives of the
Farm Credit Administration. For a
year he served as Deputy Gover
nor of the Farm Credit Administra
tion in Washington. Previously he
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HIGH SCHOOL
SPEAKERS WILL
BE PICKED SOON
Seniors To Be Given
Preference This Year
Students who this spring will
make the annual spring pilgrimage
from A. & M. to high schools all ov
er the state to address graduating
classes and impress the boys of
those classes with the numerous
and unique advantages of coming
to A. & M., will soon be chosen,
Cadet Colonel D. B. Varner, in
charge of the project, has announc
ed.
The trips may be made Friday
and Saturday, May 3 and 4, or
Monday and Tuesday, May 6 and
7, at the students’ preference. They
will be excused from classes dur
ing the time they must be absent.
Those going to schools more than
500 miles away will be excused for
an extra day.
One student will go to each high
school of average size, and several
to each of the big city schools.
In the past chiefly underclass
men have made these trips; but
this year, for a number of reasons,
seniors will be given preference in
the choices made. Juniors will come
second, sophomores third, freshmen
fourth.
Application cards may be secur
ed from first sergeants of each or
ganization beginning this morning.
Anyone may apply, whatever his
class. First sergeants in the new
area will turn in their cards to Bill
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Wings Over ’West Point of the Air’
THOSE WHO WOULD FLY. NOW MUST APPLY
To man the 5,500 airplanes that-
will make up the Army Air Corps
by mid-1941, classes of four hun
dred Flying Cadets -start train
ing every six weeks. Center of
all Air Corps activity is Randolph
Field (shown above) giant. “West
Point of the Air” at San Antonio,
-where a number of ex-Aggies are -
now in training as Flying Cadets.
Less than a year after signing
up, they are graduated from the
Advanced Flying School as mili
tary pilots, receive their wings,
and are commissioned as second
lieutenants in the Air Corps Re
serve.
• Monday through Wednesday of
this week a board of examiners
from Barksdale Field, Louisiana,
are at A. & M. examining appli
cants for flying training at Ran
dolph and Kelly Fields. The ex
aminations are being conducted
in the basement of the College Hos
pital.
22 File As
Candidates
TWENHOFEL TO
OPEN LECTURE
SERIES TODAY
For Election
Geology Problems To Be
Discussed in Conference
Deadline Passes To
Announce for Office
With yesterday being the dead
line for all aspirants to the posi
tions of social secretary, Long
horn editor, junior yell leaders, and
manager of the Town Hall series
to announce their candidacies,
twenty-two more students enter
ed the race for the various offices.
Those who are on the list of
candidates for the position of so
cial secretary are Jack Nelson,
Infantry Band; J. P. Giles, A Field
Artillery; A. V. Hamilton, A Chem
ical Warfare; Bob Little, F Coast
Artillery; Ed Ivey, B Chemical
Warfare; Eli Whitney, A Cavalry;
W. Loyd Mayfield, F Field Ar
tillery; Jim Noton, F Infantry;
and Ed Felder, B Infantry, all jun
iors.
Candidates for the editor of the
Longhorn are W. A. Becker, C
Field Artillery, and Ele Baggett,
B Infantry.
The candidates for the manager
of the Town Hall series post are
Paul Haines, D Cavalry; Jack
Bailey, F Field Artillery; and
David Yarbrough, A Engineers.
Junior yell-leader candidates are
Skeen Staley, E Engineers; R. L.
Heitkamp, A Field Artillery; James
C. Borden, B Signal Corps; J. O.
Alexander, C Cavalry; M. W. Cur
tis, A Coast Artillery; Fred
Renaud, M. Infantry; Ed Allen,
3rd Hq. Field Artillery; Herman
Spoede, H Coast Artillery; A. E.
(Buddy) White, G Infantry; Bill
Davis, D Coast Artillery; Bill Beck,
Field Artillery Band; Louis Byrd,
A Coast Artillery; and Irvin Smith-
er, H Coast Artillery, all sopho
mores.
Reunion Classes
Plan Gatherings
On May 31-June 1
Reunion classes scheduled for
campus gatherings at Commence
ment and Final Review, May 31-
June 1, are industriously at work
with plans to make this year’s class
reunions highly successful.
Featuring the commencement
weekend will be regular commence,
ment activities, graduation cere
mony, Final Ball, and Final Review.
From the ex-student point of view,
most important will be the annual
meeting of the Association of For
mer Students, class reunions, and
the Faculty-Former Student Lun-
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A popular lecture on “People,
Scenery, Geography and Geology
of the St. Lawrence Region” today
opens the five-day series of lectures
and conferences by W. H. Twen-
hofel, Professor of Geology at the
University of Wisconsin. Prof.
Twenhofel has been brought to the
A. & M. campus by the Geology
Department and school officials.
Geologists from all over the
State of Texas are expected to
come to A. & M. to hear Dr. Twen
hofel on his lectures concerning
Dr. W. H. Twenhofel, of the
University of Wisconsin,
“Phases and Problems in Sediment
ary Geology.” The conference op
ens tonight at 7:30 and will con
tinue through the week to be con
cluded with a dinner Saturday
night being given by the Geology
Club.
As the subject which Dr. Twen
hofel will be discussing while at
A. & M. is of interest to oil geol
ogists, men connected with oil
firms throughout Texas are ex
pected to attend. The Houston Geo
logical Society, composed princi
pally of geologists representing oil
companies operating in Houston,
and one of the most active geolo
gical societies in this part of the
state, is expected to be well rep
resented at the conferences.
ONLY NON-MILITARIES
MUST WEAR CAP-GOWN
The Commandant’s Office recent
ly issued notice that “All non-
ROTC students who are to receive
degrees at the June Commence
ment are required to attend the
ceremonies in appropriate academic
costume”. Non-ROTC, in the above
case, applies only to those students
that have not had any military
training and do not possess a num
ber one uniform.
HORSE SHOW SUCCESS AS GOOD
WEATHER. FINE HORSES COMBINE
Fine weather and fine horses-
combined with fine riders and driv
ers to make the Seventeenth An
nual Texas A. & M. College Horse
Show the best of its long history
at the college arena last Saturday
afternoon.
Highest honors went to the Joe
D. Hughes Stable, of Houston,
which captured six first places in
the gaited and fine harness class
es. The stable also took two seconds.
Harry Pelot, student in veteri
nary medicine at the college and
professional horse trainer, was the
standout performer, bringing in
four first and one second place for
Mr. Hughes.
Mr. Hughes’ mount Me-Oh-My
was the high winner in the gaited
and harness classes winning two
firsts and one second place.
In the classes open to college
students riding college and U. S.
Army mounts, the army horses
Hitler and Ramble accounted for
the largest number of wins. Both
of these horses have been regular
winners in the past.
Winners in the various events,
their mounts and trophies, are as
follows:
■ Class I, polo pony model class,
Cadet Bill Hohmeyer on Mr. Davis.
The first place cup was donated by
the Exchange Store.
Class II, three gaited saddle
horse, Cadet Harry Pelot riding
Me-Oh-My of the Joe D. Hughes
Stable of Houston, won the first
place cup which was donated by the
Coca Cola Bottling Company of
Bryan.
Class III, Colt class, Frank Mc
Millan Jr., of Cameron, won the
cup donated by Bryan and Brazos
County Chamber of Commerce.
Class IV, five - gaited saddle
horse, Cadet Harry Pelot, riding
Hughes’ Gypsy King, won the first
place cup donated by First State
Bank and. Trust Company and
Charlie’s Food Market.
Class V—No entries.
Class VI—V. J. Sladek, Overton,
riding his Sunlady won the cup do
nated by Bryan Rotary Club
Class VII, Hunt team: Team of
Miss Virginia Gibson, Austin, rid
ing her own Relay; Miss Winifred
Small, riding Rolin, and W. T. Bell,
riding Buddy. Both horses are
from the Biltmore Stables at Aus-
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Plans Completed For 9th
Annual Cotton Festivities
Baroque Setting To Furnish Background
For Annual Cotton Pageant, Style Show
Next Friday night A. & M.’s+
Agronomy Society will present the
Ninth Annual Cotton Pageant,
Style Show, and Ball.
The frame work for the Baroque
setting for the Cotton Style Show
and Pageant is almost complete,
and finishing touches are being
added. According to the plans this
should be the most unusual and
artistic setting provided for this
event in several years.
The program as planned at this
time will include an introduction
of the speaker of the evening, Hon
orable Oscar Johnston, President,
National Cotton Council of Amer
ica. After a few brief remarks by
Mr. Johnston, he will crown Cadet
Captain E. W. Seay as King Cot
ton. King Cotton will then review
his Court which will be made up
of eighty duchesses and their
cadet escorts. Miss Mamie
Tramonte, popular student from
Texas State College for Women
will then be crowned Queen Cot
ton by the King. Following the
crowning of the Queen there will
be a style show sponsored by The
Fashion exclusive shop of Houston,
Texas. Mr. Perrault of The Fash
ion has announced that he will
bring a large number of beautiful
professional models who will dis
play a gorgeous array of clothes
for milady—everything she wears
from morning till night in cotton.
The Queen’s robe has been de
signed by Brooks of New York.
She will be attended by seven
maids, all representative students
from Texas State College for i
Women. All of their costumes fol- ]
low a military theme and will be
further enhanced by the military
escorts—seven A. & M. seniors in
full dress. As the style show
passes from the stage, the audi
ence will be entertained by
Kotchetovsky and his lovely danc
ers.
The program of Alexander
Kotchetovsky, which is presented
by scantily clad artists of exception
al talent, has been outlined by
Kotchetovsky as follows: First,
will be given a Spanish number by
Zehner and Wynne which is de
signed to take the breath of the
audience with its clever action. The
program will next slip into a waltz
of acrobatic nature given by Jean
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One of the attractive dancers
featured with Alexander Kotche-
tovsky’s troupe of dancers who will
perform at the Cotton Pageant
Friday night.
575 Students Are
On Deficient List
575 students, or approximately
10.6% of the total enrollment of
5,429 undergraduates, were on the
deficient list April 1, according to
figures recently issued from the
Registrars’s Office. This includes
only those students passing less
than 10 hours of work.
This represents a decrease of
about 4% from the same statistics
of April 1, 1939, when 766 students
out of 5,328, or 14.5% were defi
cient, but is a greater percentage
than that of April 1, 1938, when
only 10.2% were passing less than
the required 10 hours.
The School of Engineering led
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His Fifteenth
The staunchest of staunch “Aggies”—as true a friend of the cadet
corps as it will ever have—a man whose inspiring messages to the
“twelfth man” have for many years been read by yell-leaders from
the Y steps—is James O. (Jimmy) Chance, to whom The Battalion
and the cadet corps pay tribute.
For fifteen years Jimmy has. each spring, given a magnificient
farewell banquet for departing officers and friends from the senior
class. He is shown at the head of the table above, facing the camera
of photographer Joe Sosolik, at the conclusion of his fifteenth such
banquet last Thursday night—and a highly enjoyable one it was indeed.
Guests were, left to right, J. F. Casey, of Casey’s Confectionery,
a friend of the family; and the following students: F. M. “Max”
McCullar, senior president; F. A, “Bodie” Pierce, head yell-leader;
Hubie Braunig, king of the Ross Volunteer court; George Smith, editor
of the 1940 Longhorn; Bobby Hearne, a major of the Field Artillery
and friend of the family; Tommy Balmer, Band major; Bill Murray,
editor-in-chief of The Battalion; J. M. “Dan” Sharp, captain of the
Ross Volunteer company; Charlie Hamner, senior social secretary;
and Bill Oswalt, lieutenant-colonel second in command of the corps.
Cadet Colonel D. B. “Woody” Varner was unable to attend because of
illness.