CIRCULATION 5,500
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
The Battalion
DIAL 4-5444
STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY
NEWSPAPER OF
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
VOL. 39
122 ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 27, 1940
Z725
NO. 80
Regulations Are
Passed by Council
City Mayor Makes
Assignments To
Each Councilman
Installation of Water
Meters on All City
Services Begins at Once
The activities of the City Coun
cil of College Station got off to
a start soon after the election
of Mayor Frank G. Anderson
when measures pertaining to traf
fic regulations and city utilities
were made and submitted to the
citizens of College Station.
At the meeting of the City
Council an ordinance was passed
requiring all parking on Bell
Street to be parallel to the curbs.
Bell Street is the street which
passes between the Aggieland
Pharmacy and Lipscomb’s Pharm
acy, and because of the narrow
ness of the thoroughfare, it creates
one of the most serious traffic
hazards of the city.
In addition to the elimination of
this hazard, the city has also been
patching the holes in the streets,
including Oakwood Addition, Col
lege Park and the North Gate
area. Another coat of topping will
be added to the streets later in
the spring. Electric lines in the
area of the North Gate are under
going repairs, and some are be
ing rebuilt.
Duties of Councilmen
Mayor Anderson has made the
following assignments and duties
to the Councilmen:
Anderson—finance, budget, pub
lic relations, garbage.
Langford—codes, permits, zon
ing, and planning.
Lipscomb—police and fire.
Munson—water, sewer north and
east areas of the city.
Orr—sewer in southern area of
city; streets, and electric lines.
Wilcox—ordinances, sanitation,
health and publicity.
All complaints to the city office
during the day should be directed
to the City Marshall, and at night
to Garland Brown.
Water Meters
Installation of water meters on
all city services will begin immed
iately. In order to carry the ex
pense of installing meters the
council decided that all meter costs
will be absorbed by the property
receiving water service rather than
by general taxation. A meter tap
fee of $15.00 per service has been
set for each domestic connection
and is payable either by a cash
payment of $15.00 to the City
Secretary on or before May 1 for
each service connection; or if the
$15.00 tap charge is not- paid in
cash by May 1, the meter will be
installed by the City and there
after each monthly water bill will
be increased $1.50 for a period
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‘Greek’ Mitchell
Awarded A.I.M.E.
Student Prize
Again proving the fallacy of the
statement, “athletes are the dumb
est of all college students”, the 21-
jeweled pocket watch awarded an
nually by the Student Chapter of
the American Institute of Mining
Engineers to the senior student
having the highest grade point ra
tio in petroleum engineering at
Texas A. & M., has been awarded
to George P. “Greek” Mitchell, of
Galveston.
Mitchell, No. 1 tennis letterman
for three years and captain this
year, has made a grade point ratio
of 2.37 for his four years out of a
possible 3.00, made only by stu
dents having straight “A” grades.
Last'year the watch went to Tony
Polanovich, Fort Worth, letterman
baseball pitcher. Another athlete,
Ed Dreiss, San Antono, track co
captain and letterman, placed third
in the standing this year.
In his course, Mitchell has ac
cumulated approximately 390 grade
points whereas a total of 160 are
all that are required for gradua
tion. He has been on the Distin
guished Student list regularly and
is a member of the Student Schol
arship Honor Society, an honor
comparative to Phi Beta Kappa.
450 Cadets
Talk To Home
Town Schools
Four hundred fifty students
representing 350 high schools will
be returning to their home towns
within the next week to talk to
high school senior boys about A. &
M. These students have been se
lected to represent the A. & M.
Corps at their home-town schools
from a large field of applicants.
The students have their choice
of either May 3rd and 4th or May
6th and 7th to make the trips.
Those whose home towns are more
than 500 miles from A. & M. will
be given an extra day.
A banquet will be held Monday
night at 6:15 in the banquet room
of Sbisa Hall for all those return
ing to their home towns. Sheets
will be passed out with instruc
tions concerning talking to the
high school seniors and informa
tion about securing passes for the
trips.
At the banquet will be Regis
trar E. J. Howell, Dan Russell,
Dean F. C. Bolton, Col. Ike Ash-
burn, and Col. George Moore. Mr.
Howell will speak about the trips
home, and Mr. Russell will talk
on the project houses.
Geology Students
Offered 3 Field
Trips This Summer
Approximately thirty students in
the department of geology will
take part in three different field
trips that are being offered this
summer by the Geology Depart
ment. Two of the trips will be
made during the first semester
of summer school, and the other
will be made during the last
semester.
One of the trips that will be
made the first semester will be un
der the supervision of Dr. Fred
Smith, and will consist of a tour
of the Eagle Mountain region
southwest of Van Horn, Texas.
The other trip, which will be made
the first semester, will be conduct
ed by C. L. Baker, head of the
department, and will be a tour of
the San Andres Mountains in New
Mexico, in the region north of El
Paso, Texas. Both of these trips
are available for the students who
will be juniors next year.
The third trip will be taken the
second semester with Dr. F. E.
Turner in charge. The students
will be taken to the Wind River
Mountain range in west-central
Wyoming. This trip will be avail
able to students who will be sen
iors next year.
The object of the trips is to
study and map the geological
structures, determine the age of
fossils and rocks of the various
regions, and try to explain the
present land structures. The stu
dents will travel in departmental
trucks as far as possible and then
take to foot. Several days will
be spent by the various groups in
Yellow Stone National Park, Salt
Lake City, and Carlsbad Cavern.
Puss On Vacation From Aggieland
Cadet Leo The Lion Now
On Vacation from A&M
Two-Year-Old “Puss” Is Rather Unusual
Cadet; Now Roams His Master’s Ranch
Story and ilustration from the Houston Chronicle
Two-year-old “Puss” is on his-fwas sold to the boy by Hans Nagel,
vacation from A. & M. College. He
was a rather unusual cadet, being
the only lion on the campus!
He’s been spending the past few
weeks on his master’s 2,300-acre
ranch on Katy Road outside. Hous
ton, and has been gaining a little
weight on a diet of barbecue and
hens, a slight departure from the
feeding ration he was given at the
dormitories of A. & M.
He’s the pet of Homer Buck,
freshman of A. & M., who moved
to Houston from his White Moun
tain home in Arizona a few years
ago.
At A. & M. Puss was kept in
the poultry husbandry department
when he wasn’t out roaming the
campus. He was the biggest at
traction at the school, the cadets
all declare, and attracted more girls
than all the Aggies at the school.
The 200-pound cat is the son of
“Hermann,” the 565-pound lion at
Hermann Park Zoo in Houston. He
zoo-keeper, when the animal was
a tiny baby. Homer had been the
keeper of the San Jacinto High
School mascot, a bear, until he en
tered A. & M.
The cat was fed for a long time
on a bottle, and while a baby cul
tivated the friendship of “Tiny,”
Homer’s fox terrier.
The cat wrestles with the boy,
roams the 2,300-acre pasture, and
plays with all the dogs on the
farm.
One of the greatest sports Puss
enjoys is swimming. Although he
is a member of the cat family, he
will swim all afternoon with his
master, the latter said.
Swims With Master
Many Houstonians have gather
ed on summer afternoons to see
the unusual sight of a lion brav
ing the waves with the boy, Hom
er’s father said. Citizens of the
city have also seen the big animal
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698 OUT OF ORIGINAL 726 SENIORS
EXPECTED TO RECEIVE DEGREES
Figures released yesterday
through the Registrar’s Office by
H. L. Heaton, assistant registrar,
show that a total of 726 students
have made application for degrees
to be conferred this spring, and
of this number who originally ap
plied, 698 are still candidates.
A drop of 28 in the School of
Engineering, one in the School of
Agriculture, and a gain of one
for an advanced degree results in
the total of 698 who are still
candidates.
The decrease was due to the new
special examination ruling, stated
Mr. Heaton, who said in making
his announcement: “These figures
are correct as of today, but it’s
possible that there may be still
more to fall by the wayside.”
Five hundred and ninety-five
students were graduated in June,
1939.
In the School of Agriculture,
which has the most candidates,
there are still 305 of the original
306 applicants eligible for degrees.
Of this number 104 are in agri
cultural education, 14 in agricul
tural engineering, and four in
landscape art.
The School of Engineering, which
originally had 287 applicants for
degrees in ten courses of study,
now has 259. There are ten candi
dates for degrees in the five-year
course in architecture, and one in
architectural engineering. There
are 26 in chemical engineering, 25
in civil engineering, 40 in elec
trical engineering, 18 in engineer
ing administration, two in geologi
cal engineering, and nine in in
dustrial education. Mechanical
Engineering leads the other de
partments ^ with 66 candidates, and
petroleum engineering is next with
63.
The School of Veterinary Medi
cine has 38 applicants for the de
gree of doctor of veterinary medi
cine.
The Graduate School has had
applications for 43 advanced de
grees—41 of these being master’s,
one a doctor’s, and one a profes
sional degree.
Press Club’s Annual
Banquet for Students
To Be Given Tuesday
The annual Press Club Banquet
given by the Student Publications
Board for students who have work
ed on Student Publications will be
held in the banquet room of Sbisa
Hall .Tuesday at 6:30 p. m.
President T. O. Walton will be
the guest speaker of the occasion,
and Dean Bolton will present the
awards for the year. The awards
consist of bronze, silver and gold
press keys. Eight watches will
be presented to seniors who have
worked oh student publications.
Following the banquet a busi
ness meeting will be held and of
ficers for next year’s staff will
be elected. Invitations are being
sent out to all members of the
various staffs.
College Wives Decorate Ad
Building for Flower Show, Tea
The ornate but generally quite*
staid Administration Building of
Texas A. & M. underwent a start
ling transformation and took on an
air of gaiety, beauty, and charm
o’er all its main floor Friday
noon when the Garden Club of
College Station, consisting of
about 75 floriculturally inclined
wives of college faculty men and
College Station and Bryan wom
en, decorated the entire place with
flowers of every description—with
the one distinguishing feature that
all were beautiful.
Declared by all to be the most
elaborate and successful floral
spectacle ever offered in this vicin
ity, the show was thronged by
hundreds of college and Bryan
men and their wives, and not a
few Aggies, throughout an after
noon climaxing and culminating
many weeks of work and plan
ning on the part of the Garden
Club, which is officered by Mrs.
C. B. Campbell, president; Mrs.
Howard Berry, secretary-treasurer;
Mrs. P. C. Mangelsdorf, program
chairman; and Mrs. V. K. Sugareff,
reporter.
Judging of the hundreds of col
orful entries began at 2 p. m.
and lasted till 5:30.
Judges of the event were Mrs.
J. Frank Dobie of Austin, wife of
the famed author of Southwestern
lore and famed in her own right
as one of the outstanding botan-
| ists and authors of work on flori-
I culture in the state; Mrs. Allen
Woodard of Houston, an authority
on flower arrangements; and Mrs.
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Jack Nelson Is Elected Next
Years Social Secretary
Sophs Narrow
Yell Leader Field
To 6 Candidates
Largest Engineers’ Day in History Of
Event Is Goal of This Year's Show
By W. C. Carter Jr.
The largest Engineers’ Day
since the event was started is the
goal of the committee in charge
of the 1940 show. The program,
which will be participated in by
all engineering departments of the
college, will begin at 9:00 a. m.
Saturday, May 11, and will con
tinue throughout the day until
9 p. m. that night.
Following last year’s proced
ure, the program is so arranged
that all of the show may be seen
in a systematic tour. William P.
Smith Jr., A Signal Corps, is
chairman of this year’s show. A
chairman for each department’s
show has been selected.
The Department of Architecture
will have student exhibits as well
as exhibits of the work of promi
nent Texas architects. Joe F.
Bourn is in charge.
The Chemical Engineering De
partment is going to put on a
liquid air program at 2:00, 4:00,
and 8:00 p. m. in the lecture room.
Some of the individual projects
include a model sulphur plant, pa
per being made from southern
yellow pine, chemical flowers, a
Chemical Warfare demonstration
at 3:00 p. m., the everflowing oil
well and many others. A. T.
Hingle is in charge.
The Civil Engineering Depart
ment will have all of their equip
ment on display. The hydraulics
lab will feature the “Fountain of
Youth.” The soils lab will run
experiments on different types of
soil. The strength lab will demon
strate their massive testing appa
ratus at work, testing concrete
specimens. There will be a dis
play of surveying equipment, fea
turing a tiny model viewed through
a transit. Jack West is chairman.
The Electrical Engineering De
partment is sponsoring some 26
separate exhibits. Some of the
more unusual will be the Testa
Coil demonstration, the polarized
light exhibits, a small train con
trolled entirely by voice, and the
oscillograph exhibit showing
“shape” of the voice. Gilbert P.
Rhoten is in charge.
The Mechanical Engineering De
partment will have on display all
of their equipment and will fea
ture a display of projects designed
and constructed by students and
the pouring of iron in the volcano
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Ten Best FFA Teams in Agriculture
Judging Picked from 500 Texas Teams
Approximately 3,500 Future-
Farmers of America, representing
500 Texas schools, wended their
weary way home Tuesday morn
ing after competing in the annual
Smith-Hughes Day state judging
contests Monday, but 10 of those
teams were happy for they were
the best in Texas in one particular
phase of agriculture.
The town of Hamlin won the
livestock trophy with a score of
3,225 points, beating out Sterling
City whose total was 3,195. Other
teams placing included Claude, 3,-
165; Westover, 3,150; and Denison,
3,150. High individual was Jacx
Robbins, Coolidge, whose team did
not place.
Arlington won the wildlife con
test with a score of 601 points
with Stephenville losing by one
point and a total of 600 Billie Joe
Hale, Loraine, was high individu
al.
Fulbright with a total of 236
won the cotton classing contest
with Bishop second with 228. Ger
ald Porter, Duncanville, was high
individual.
Cleburne was the winner of the
horticulture contest with 3,685
points and Caldwell took second
with 3,628. James Thornton, San
Saba, was high point individual.
Poultry judging trophy went to
Alpine with a total of 2,750 points
and Abilene was second with
2,631. Other winners included
Woodville, 2,603; Marshall, 2,595;
and Corsicana, 2,585. A. Dallas of
Cayuga, was high individual but
his team was unplaced.
The crop contest was won by
Big Sandy with 3,300 points. Italy
was second with 3,255, Gilmer
third, 3,230; Terrell fourth, 3,225
and Navasota fifth, 3,155. Billy
Clark, Sherman, was high individu
al but his team was not in top
five.
Farm shop contest was won by
Throckmorton with 2,634 points,
Robstown was second with 2,606,
Hooks third, 2,574; Mineral Wells
fourth, 2,548; Cherokee, fifth,
■2,509; Ted Armstrong, Throck
morton was high individual.
Santa Anna was first in soil
conservation with 2,380 points.
Tolar second, 2344; Whitesboro
third, 2,327; Terrell fourth, 2,281;
and Valley Mills fifth, 2,272. C.
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Entomology Club
Elects Officers For
1940-41 Session
M. K. Rethke of Port Arthur
was elected to head the Entomology
Club for next year at a business
meeting of the club held Friday
morning. Other officers to serve
the club next year are W. G. White-
I head, vice-president; D. C. Thur-
I man, secretary-treasurer; J. C.
Barton, social secretary; and S. J.
Frank, publicity secretary.
The club approved the motion
made at the meeting that they join
with the collegiate division of the
campus in a union for affiliation
with the collegiate division of the
Texas Academy of Sciences.
Midwestern
English Comes
To the Front
English as it is spoken in the
Midwest is forging to the front
over dialectic usage of the East
and South, is the opinion of Dr.-
Kemp Malone of Johns Hopkins
University who spoke Wednesday
evening in the A. & M. College
Chemistry lecture room under aus
pices of the Department of Eng
lish.
Professor Malone’s lecture was
of intense interest to the large
audience of students and faculty
members of the College, and nu
merous questions were fired at him
at the conclusion of his formal ad
dress.
Prof. Malone came to the de
fense of “who to”, but feared that
“ain’t” still is doomed to unpopu
lar usage.
Professor Malone, one of the
founders of “American Speech”
and for several years managing
editor of that publication, remain
ed over in College Station for a
private conference Thursday af
ternoon with the A. & M. English
staff. He was in Austin for a con
ference on linguistics at the Uni
versity of Texas Friday afternoon
and addressed the Graduate Union
Friday evening. Saturday he is to
make the principal address at the
annual meeting of the Conference
of College Teachers of English at
Southwestern University in George
town.
Professor Malone made the trip
to Austin with Dr. George Sum-
mey Jr., head of the A. & M. Eng
lish Department, who attended the
linguistics conference at the Uni
versity and then went to George
town for a meeting of the Council
of the Conference of College teach
ers of English Friday evening and
the annual meeting Saturday. Oth
er members of the A. & M. English
staff attending the meeting in
Georgetown are Dr. S. S. Morgan,
chairman of the conference pro
gram committee, and Messrs. Car-
roll Laverty, A. S. Limouze, George
D. Stephens, and C. W. Wilkinson.
The paper prepared for the confer
ence by Dr. John Paul Abbott, now
convalescing in a local hospital
after an operation was read by Mr.
Wilkinson.
Staley, Beck, Borden,
Allan, Alexander And
Davis Left in Runoff
Jack Nelson, Infantry Band ju
nior, became senior social secretary
for 1940-41 when he defeated Bob
Little, F Coast Artillery in the
runoff election Thursday. Nelson
polled 188 votes while Little receiv
ed 136.
In the primary election held
Monday, Nelson and Little led a
field of six candidates including
Aubrey Hamilton, Jimmie Giles,
Lloyd Mayfield, and Ed Ivey. Al
though Nelson was the leader in
Monday’s balloting, he did not at
tain a majority and it was neces
sary for a runoff election to de
termine the winner.
A total of 324 votes were cast
by the junior class in the runoff
election which topped the primary
voting by over 70 votes.
Another important election was
held Thursday night when the
sophomore class met in Guion Hall
for the primary voting in the junior
yell leader race. The field of 12
was narrowed down to six by the
voting.
Results in the race are as fol
lows:
Skeen Staley 269
Bill Beck 237
James C. Borden 133
Ed Allen 128
J. O. Alexander 119
Bill Davis 65
W. M. Curtis 58
A. E. White 45
Louis Byrd 34
R. L. Heitkamp 26
Luke Moore 20
Herman Spoede 19
From the six leaders—Skeen
Staley, E Engineers; Bill Beck,
Field Artillery Band; James C.
Borden, B Signal Corps; Ed Allen,
3d Headquarters Field Artillery;
J. O. Alexander, C Cavalry; and
Bill Davis, H Infantry—two will
be selected as junior yell leaders
for 1940-41 and will automatically
become senior yell leaders the fol
lowing year. The selection will be
made by the junior and sophomore
classes in a joint meeting which
will be held next Thursday night
in Guion Hall.
This method of selecting junior
yell leaders is comparatively new,
having been innovated only three
years ago.
Is Your Home Where
You Drop Your Hat?
If So, U. S. Census
Bureau Wants You
Do you claim your home to be
wherever you take off your hat?
If so, you’re just the one that
College Station Census enumera
tors are trying to locate.
In order that all cadets are to
be included in the National Census
it is necessary that all students at
A. & M. who do not have a regular
permanent residence elsewhere
should get in touch with either
Joe Mathews at 81 Milner, phone
College 115, or Mrs. R. B. Hick-
erson, at College 354, who is in
charge of the census for College
Station.
Under normal census procedure
all college students are reported by
their parents but any students that
do not have a permanent home
elsewhere should get in touch with
either of the census personnel at
College Station.
Dames Club Meets
Wednesday Night
The Dames Club is having its
regular meeting Wednesday in the
parlor of Kiest Hall. The busi
ness meeting is to start at 7:30
and the program to begin at 8
o’clock.
Wednesday night will be “Hobby
Night” and the girls are urged to
attend and to bring their hobbies
for display. Mrs. C. E. Murphey,
Mrs. K. Bonham and Mrs. J. Gor
don Gay are to be on the pro
gram and are going to talk about
their hobbies.