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PAGE 4 THE BATTALION Official Notices SCHEDULE OF EVENTS May 4—S. M. U. vs. A. & M., Baseball, Kyle Field. May 6—Faculty Dance, Sbisa Hall May 8—Little Symphony Orchestra, Guion Hall, 7:30 p. m. May 9 & 10—I. E. Benefit show, 7 p. i May 9 & 10—Architectural Club ben lay fit show, 7 p. May 10—Senior Ri May 10—Senior Ring Dane May 11—Baylor University taseball, Kyle Field. Dance, Sbisa Hall, vs. A. & M., ay 11—Corp Dance, Sbisa Hall. CITY TAXES All taxpayers of the city of College Station will render their taxes for the year 1940 beginning April 15th at the City Office. ENGINEERING LECTURES Senior engineering students are excused from the 11 o’clock period on Tuesday, May 7, and Thursday, May 9, in order to attend the lectures by Colonel Williard Chevalier in the Chemistry lecture room. Attendance will be checked. F. C. BOLTON, Dean OPENING FOR AG GRADUATE The Placement Bureau has received an inquiry as to the possibility of secur ing a young agricultural graduate to lease a small farm in Archer County. Any senior interested in looking into this matter! should contact the Placement Bureau immediately. LUCIAN M. MORGAN, The Association of Former Students INTERIOR DEPT. JOBS The Placement Bureau has received an announcement concerning the types of professional and other services utilized by thi Interio: the Ci been held in recent years, from which the Department of Interior has recruited its personnel. All seniors interested should call at the Placement Bureau for additional in formation. UUCIAN M. MORGAN, Association of Former Students FELLOWSHIP :ly Fellows held every Thursday 23. LUNCHEON ip Luncheon w noon through May STUDENTS SPEAKING TO HIGH SCHOOLS The committee for selecting students to apeak to high schools requests that No. 1 uniform be worn while making this talk. D. B. VARNER, Committee Chairman LAST FACULTY DANCE The last Faculty Dance for the current session will be held in the Sbisa Hall Banquet Room Monday, May 6, from 9 to 12 p. m. The date has had to be ad vanced over that previously due to stu dent demand for the Banquet Room. This dance will be the SPRING INFOR MAL and it is suggested that very in formal sports wear be the dress keynote with sports clothes of any type being worn, and slack suits for men—cotton dresses for ladies, or any other very cool attire, being quite satisfactory. The wearing of sports clothes is merely a suggestion and if for any reason it is more convenient to attend in other at tire by tall means do so. All staff members of the college are cordially invited to come and bring their com friends. It is hoped that a larg of couples will find it possible number be pre- ENGLISH CONTEST 1. Entries for the English Contest will close at 10 a. m. Saturday, May 4. After that time no entires will be ac- STYLED IN CALIFORNIA Featuring Built-in Comfort LOOK FOR TH£ FLYING FISH Through the skillful use of that marvelous elastic yarn . . . Control- astic . . . Catalinas fit sleek as a seal, yet through their special “bqilt-in comfort” fea ture give complete free dom of motion. Note the • Color Matched Support • Custom Built Crotch • Special Seam- Reinforcement • Drawstring in all all Models $1.95 to §4.95 tlTaldropflfS “Two Convenient Stores” College Station - Bryan has been posted on bulletin board 20 near 2ng] The first part of the examination ■en poi the English Office. 2. cepted, whatever reason may be offered for delay in filing notice. A list of students whose entries have already come to me hot t part of the « will be a general vocabulary test—not the form used in the contest a year ago or any test given to students in this college in or before the fall of 1939. No specific preparation for the vocabulary section is possible. 3. Lists of the material in English 104, 207, 210, and 232 on which the course questions will be based will be posted on bulletin board 20 by May 3. 4. Each examination will include high- value questions that will test the stu dent’s ability to organize and develop short papers, with enough options in sub ject matter to allow for differences of training and special interests. 5. The examination will be held in the Library classroom (third floor) be tween 6:50 and 9:30 p. m. on Thurs day, May 9. All who are admitted to and actually attend the examination are in vited to attend the Mathematics-English Contest dinner at 6:30 on Tuesday, May 21, tickets for which will be furnished without charge. GEORGE SUMMEY, Jr. FINGERPRINTS OF FUTURE O.R.C.’s In order to obtain fingerprints of all students to be appointed in the Officers’ Reserve Corps at the end of this school year, as required by Army Regulations 345-120, all students who have so applied, except those who have yet to attend R.O.T. C. Camp or who will be under 21 years of age on May 31, 1940, will report in the west basement of the Old Mess Hall, to be fingerprinted, according to the following schedule: Tuesday, May 7, 1940—Cavalry and En gineers. Wednesday, May 8, 1940—Coast Artillery, Signal Corps, and Chemical Warfare. Thursday, May 9, 1940—Cavalry, Engi neers, Coast Artillery, Signal Corps, and Chemical Warfare. Col. Geo. F. Moore, Commandant. DEADLINE FOR GRADUATE THESES The Graduate Bulletin carries the date for the graduating exercises as June 7 and fixes the deadline for completed theses, approved by department heads, to be turned in to this office as May 18. Inas much as the date for the graduating exer cises has been changed to May 3l it will be necessary for us to have completed theses in this office not later than May 11, in order that they may be read by our Committee in time for the orals, most of which will fall in the period May 20-24. T. D. BROOKS, Dean, . The Graduate School. Organizations DAMES CLUB PICNIC The Dames Club is having a picnic Saturday night. The picnic will be held in the Y Cabin. The married students and their wives are requested to meet in front of the Y.M.C.A. Building at 6 o’clock with their picnic lunches and go together to the Y Cabin. GIRL SCOUTS’ BRIDGE, “42’' PRIZE BENEFITS The Girls Scouts are having a bridge benefit at the Country Club on Thursday, May 9, at 2:30 o’clock. There will be tables of forty-two for those who do not play bridge. Prizes and refreshments. For reservations at college, phone Mrs. Fred Hale, College 208, or Mrs. V. M. Faires, Jons in Bryan, phone man, Bryan 623, or Mrs. Lamar Jones, Bryan 464. Price $0.50 per person. C. 659. For reservations in Bryan, Mrs. M. P. Holleman, Bryan 6: BAPTISTS’ YOUTH DAY The First Baptist Church of College Station will dedicate its services Sun day to our youth. Sermon subjects: Morning, “America’s Greatest Need”; evening, “A Challenge to Our Youth”. Cadet H. W. Monzingo will sing “Does Jesus Care?” by Hall at the morning hour. A girls’ quartet will bring a special number at the evening service. MARKETING AND FINANCE CLUB The annual Marketing and Finance Club banquet will be held Tuesday, May 7, in the banquet room of Sbisa Hall. All club members will be admitted free. However, they must sign up with the secretary of the Agricultural Economics Department before noon Monday, May 6. All mem bers who have not paid their dues for this year will be charged 75 cents. HILLEL CLUB The A. & M. Hillel Club meeting of Sunday, May 5, will be held at 2:30 in the afternoon in the lounge room of Sbisa Hall, instead of at the usual evening hour. Dr. T. F. Mayo will be guest speaker. Classified LOST—Cravenette raincoat at the high- wajring corner in Bryan last Saturday afternoon. The name “Sully Ross” was written in the collar and also on the sleeve. For a liberal reward return to L. S. Ross at 423, hall 4. LOST—Royal portable typewriter, with ca: i g' ring. Ten dollars’ reward for return. See 1 po: maroon finish, in black carrying Also a girl’s small white gold diamond Tom Chapoton or Charles Daniel at pro ject house 12. qgle M. er, Curts, second floor of Francis Hall FOR RENT—Nicely furnished, practi- re- 1011 E. 25th pn cally new garage apartment, electric frigerator, on pavement. Street, Bryan, Phone B-806J after 5 p. m. Available for Summer School. Pre fer student and wife. DOWN IN PRICE UP IN QUALITY Good Gas Thriftane—14c Better Gas Humble—IGV^c Best Gas Esso Extra—I8V2C rop Mil HUMBLE SERVICE STATION Phone C-511 Movie Campaign— (Continued from page 1) spirit and stating it will never yield until our demand is granted.” Administrative officers and fac ulty members are maintaining a hands-off policy, said Colonel Ike Ashburn, executive assistant to President T. O. Walton, who is ill. They feel that the affair is one for the students to handle and one in which they cannot interfere properly, he said, adding that Ash burn said the officials could not order the students to go to Bryan, but that they regret they took the boycott route. View of Townspeople Bryan merchants declined to talk for publication, but indicated that they felt the faculty should take a firmer attitude against the move ment. The townspeople’s belief that faculty members are almost all in sympathy with the students seems entirely correct. Students and merchants appar ently have made up their minds to sit tight, although Bryan busi nessmen would like to see a set tlement reached. Clothing and drugstores particularly have suf fered from the lack of student trade. Plans were announced two years ago by Mrs. Schulman for build ing a movie theater in a new addi tion on the highway close to the campus. Legal and financial dif ficulties arose, Mrs. Schulman said, adding that she never intended the theater to be a first-run show and never so announced. The sign on Mrs. Schulman’s lot announcing plans for a movie still stands, to the irritation of the students. In the town of College Station, at the campus North Gate, A. P. Boyett, former Aggie, has built a movie theater. V. A. Walker, the manager, was reported in Dallas Wednesday trying to arrange for films. His assistant, C. E. Lewis, said the show would open soon. He didn’t know whether first-run films would be available. Mrs. Schulman said she was approached to take over the theater but de clined. She said she could not operate a first-run show at College Station as long as the Y.M.C.A. operated a second-run show on the campus. Picketing Stopped During the first few days of the boycott students appeared in town apparently watching for classmates who might go to the Bryan shows. This practice was dropped after Ashburn, beloved by students, sug gested it might be considered pick eting and bordering on intimida tion. “A committee of students de manded that I give them a first- run show at the college,” Mrs. Schulman said. She explained that she could not do that without giv ing up her contract with film dis tributors in Bryan, which she said she could not do because of her in vestment. “The administrative officials are in entire sympathy with the boys in their objective,” said Ashburn. “They regret the boys felt it was necessary to follow the course they have followed, but frankly they knew of no other recourse they might take to bring about the de sired results—movies of current ly-run pictures on or near the campus. Our chief concern has been to preserve a neighborly re lationship between the college and Bryan.” Mrs. Schulman said the mer chants in Bryan feel that the fac ulty is sponsoring the strike and that while the movement is aimed at her, the whole town is being boycotted. The boycott has not been enter ed into by persons not conducted with the college living at College Station, according to E. E. Yeager, president of the Bryan Chamber of Commerce. Bryan merchants are suffering, D. L. Wilson, chamber secretary, admitted. He said the feeling ex ists that the students want the merchants to put pressure on Mrs. Schulman to accede to their de mands, while the merchants so far have no disposition to do. “Merchants have done nothing definite, expecting the boycott would blow over,” said Wilson. “They think the whole affair is unjust to them, since they are not in the picture business.” Go 20 Miles For Movie Some students hitchhike to Nava- sota, twenty miles away, and to Heame, twenty-five miles, to see movies, which is a further irritant to Bryan merchants. Reports were heard in Bryan that students for a time advised College Station residents not to attend Bryan movies and also that the A. & M. military organization is being used by the leaders to enforce the boy cott. Varner denied that these practices have been followed. Talk on the campus was that the boycott will be carried along as an Aggie tradition if Bryan businessmen are unable to find a Welfare Committee— (Continued from page 1) seniors Woody Varner, Jack Bibbs, and J. E. Copeland; and juniors W. L. Mayfield, J. P. Ledbetter, and A. V. Hamilton. This committee is to make its report on the advisability of the rating system to the Welfare group at a special meeting soon to be called. If the rating scale as set up by this group is recom mended by the Welfare Committee, the plan is to go to the faculty for consideration and final adop tion. All students are being urged to* express their opinions of the plan and the rating scale to the mem bers of the sub-committee making the study, in order that it may be made as accurate and just as pos sible. Proponents of the plan express the opinion that it should afford opportunities for more students to handle the positions open; should create incentive for more students to run for these offices; and should afford greater time for study and recreation to all the student lead- Also to come in for discussion was the present state of the mov ing picture campaign being wag ed by the student body. Cadet Colonel Varner and other student members of the committee stat ed emphatically that there is no pressure being brought to bear to prevent any student from go ing to Bryan for ordinary busi ness; and that the campaign is not directed against the merchants of Bryan but only against the dis criminatory theater enterprise. Varner expressed confidence in the ultimate success of the move ment. Numerous motion picture distributors of Dallas, he said, have been to College Station for con ferences with local leaders, and he said that they are in sympathy with the purpose of the move ment. Senior Banquet— (Continued from page 1) Russ Morgan and his “Music In the Morgan Manner” have recent ly completed a two-year engage ment on the Phillip Morris pro gram—on which they gained na tional recognition as one of the outstanding orchestras in the land. The band has played some out standing spots, including Paradise Restaurant, New York City; Bilt- more Hotel, New York City; Chez Paree, Chicago; Rice Hotel, Hous ton; and the Claridge Hotel, Mem phis, Texas. way to satisfy the students’ de sire for first-run movies close to the campus. Considerable real estate development has been started near the campus; and College Sta tion recently incorporated. If IP?’ mm Behind The Scenes TROUBLE Calls for Expert Attention Call for STUDENT CO-OP North Gate Congratulations! College Amusement Co. on the opening of your beautiful new Campus Theatre Here is a sincere wish for your success. Compliments of— THE VARSITY Home of Good Ice Cream Aggie Managed and Operated Yell-Leaders— (Continued from page 1) Over 700 members of the two classes were assembled in Guion Hall for the meeting which was held under the direction of Cadet Colonel Woody Varner. Each can didate was given the same oppor tunity to appear before the meet ing and give a demonstration of his ability to hold the post. No discussion was entered into by members of the two classes. Staley, petroleum engineering student, is a member of E Engi neers. Beck, majoring in straight agriculture, is a member of the Field Artillery Band. Both junior yell leaders pledged themselves to full cooperation with senior yell leaders, the A. & M. football team, and the student body. They will be introduced to the corps at a yell practice to be held before the end of May. Adolph Hitler, Ann Sheridan, Superman, and others received one vote each. Second Place— (Continued from page 3) right he is hard to beat, while Bumpers is considered one of the finest major league prospects on the team. Atchison is the out standing pitcher on the Southern Methodist ball club. The Mustangs have an even .500 percentage with four won and four lost, and the Aggies have a record of five won and three lost. The Aggies and the Mustangs have beep rained out twice in Dallas and these games may be played after the Texas Aggie-University of Texas games, May 17 and 18. The probable line-ups for the game: A. & M.—Ballow, short stop; Stone, 3rd base; Alsobrook, centerfield; Scoggins, leftfield; Kirkpatrick or Cooper, rightfield; Doran, catcher; Lindsay, 2nd base; Henderson, 1st base; Bass or Bum pers, pitcher. S. M. U.—Kilmer, shortstop; RING DANCE MONEY MUST BE IN TUESDAY Tuesday afternoon at 5:00 will be the deadline for pay ment of all money for the Senior Ring Dance and Ban quet to be held May 10, senior president Max McCul- lar has announced. 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