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DIAL 4-5444 STUDENT TRI WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE The Battalion THIS ISSUE 16,000 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION VOL. 39 122 ADMINISTRATION BUILDING COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 16, 1940 Z725 NO. 38 HUGE IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM IS PLANNED Housing Conference To Open Here Friday Outstanding Leaders Will Direct Group Meeting Is Biggest Of Its Kind To Be Held in the South The first conference of its kind ever to be held on the A. & M. campus—the first one of import ance ever to be held in the South—and one of the most import ant taking place in the entire nation—is the Conference on Low- Cost Housing, sponsored by the Department of Architecture of the School of Engineering, and the Architectural Club of the college, beginning Friday morning and con tinuing through Saturday. “This conference is attracting probably more noted architects and speakers than any other ever held in the Southwest,” stated Ernest Langford, head of the department, who is forced to miss the confer ence here to attend the national convention of the American Insti tute of Architects, the meeting of the Associated Collegiate Schools of Architecture, and the meeting of the Accrediting Board of the Schools of Architecture, taking place this week in Louisville, Ken tucky. • Richard J. Neutra, one of the most outstanding architects in the nation, of Los Angeles, California, who will be on the campus during the following week for lectures and consultations, will be the main speaker. He will also give a lec ture Tuesday night, May 21, for all members of the staff and the entire student body. Mayor Maury Maverick of San Antonio will be the main speaker at the dinner Friday night at which the Archi tectural Club will be host. During the conference there will be an ex tensive exhibit of outstanding resi dential architecture of the United States to which the most famous architects in the country have con tributed their work. Motion pic tures on the low-cost house and (Continued on page 2) A. V.M.A. s To Hold First Annual Dance The American Veterinary Medi cal Association will hold its first annual dance in the annex room of Sbisa Hall Friday night with the Aggieland Orchestra furnish ing music for the occasion. Invitations have been mailed to approximately two hundred mem bers and guests of the A.V.M.A. Faculty members, members of the Veterinary Experiment Station, and graduates of the School of Vet erinary Medicine are invited. R. J. Rodgers, president of the student A.V.M.A. chapter; George Brumble, in charge of ticket sales; and Siegfried Neubert, chairman of the social committee, as well as other students, have been active in promoting this first spring dance of the local chapter. Plans are be ing made to make it an annual af fair. 16,000 Copies this issue Sixteen thousand copies of this edition of The Battalion are be ing issued. With a normal circu lation of 5,500, The Battalion today adds over 10,000 to that number in order to acquaint high school students and people of Texas with A. & M. As Aggieland Celebrated One of Its Greatest Weekends i •fpiilli piftpillpPi T. . f ? ft i ‘ ’ New Laundry, Employees’ Dorm Contract Awarded; Building Soon To Start Four New Dorms, Six New Tennis Courts Applied For; Union Facilities Planned; Lounges To Be Installed, Dorms Repaired By Bill Murray, Battalion Editor A new laundry is scheduled to be ready for use when the sixty- fifth session of-A. & M. College begins September 18; a new dormi tory for employees of the two world’s largest dining halls has been arranged for; and plans are being made by the A. & M. Board of Directors for a gigantic building program which when completed will answer all of the school’s greatest physical needs, President T. O. Walton has just announced for the Board. Contracts for the new dormitory for mess hall help and for the new laundry building, aggregating $167,314, were let by the Board of Directors at a lengthy business session on the campus Saturday. The Smith Building Company of-< <+ ‘ :• . ‘ ' !• . Ten thousand visitors thronged the cam pus last weekend for the annual Senior King Banquet and Dance, Engineers’ Day, and Parents’ Day festivities. A full pro gram kept the visitors entertained throughout the three days of activity. Left to right, top: Bill Lauder, Bat tery A Coast Artillery first lieutenant, presenting captain I. Q. Mayhew a watch from the com year—typical pany for his }f 55 similar service this -ganization T. en rs of the Confederacy, presenting Signal Corps senior A. L. Norton with Downs, esident of the Texas Department of the presentations. Center, Mrs. president of the ' Daughters of the Signal Corps the Albert Sidne; high ranking in tics. Next Johnston saber for ary science and tac- Backwash” Fuermann’s date. ey mili Hockaday junior Helyne Morrow talki: wit] ph tion and Saturd rgan orchestra played for the Senior Ring func- night’s corps dance. non and Saturday nights corps dance. Below is a shot of a typical flower-pinning ceremony which takes place in every or ganization each Mothers’ Day. Right, Mrs. Irene “Mom” Claghorn, assistant superintendent of the College Hospital, to ’ “C Dadet lation to represent the corps er,” is seen receiving con- chosen Mother," is seen receiving gratulations from senior president Max McCullar, Cadet Colonel “Woody” Varner, McCullar, Cadet Colonel "Woody Varner, and lieutenant-colonel Bill Oswalt for her 23 years of devoted and outstanding ser vice to the student body.—Pictures by staff photographer Phil Golman and as sistants Carpenter, Jones, and Blair. Cadet Colonel Durward B. “Woody” Varner makes a surprise presentation of a watch, at the Mothers’ Day revie’ warrant officer “Sergeant” King Military Science Department, who after 20 years’ service on the campus is be ing ordered to foreign service. ew, of t Aggies Go On Record -Wax- At Noon Today By George Fuermann “Watch it!” . . . “Five seconds.” . . '. “Take it.” It’s just as simple as that—a few words from director John Rosser and the thing will be under way— except that there were a few hundred details which had to be arranged first. But to begin where all stories should begin ... It all got started when A. & M. won the national football championship back in ’39. From that day on everything a- bout the institution from the brand of ketchup used in the mess halls to the school songs were quick to hit the nation’s limelight. At least . . . the songs were. As a matter of fact, Rosser had so many inquiries about records of the several school songs that he winced every time the subject (Continued on page 2) top is a model oil-drilling rig in the De- Enginecri departments of engineering, to acquaint | low, students demonstrate the A small part of the big Engineers’ Day show put on last Saturday by all the | partment of Petroleum be- both visitors and students with the work j one of the complex machines in the Me- of the School of Engineering. At the j chanical Engineering Department. inecring; be lie work of in Moore, head of the Military Department, who after three years of the usual four- period as Commandant of A. & M., been ordered to foreign service’ in '‘Harvest Day Feed Will Be Held by Exes Waco was awarded the general con tract on both jobs on a bid of $88,430. The plumbing and heat ing was let to David Vickers of Abilene on a bid of $45,150. The electrical work went to Laddie Lesikar of Palestine for $7,900. A contract for the equipment for the laundry, which will be fireproof, one-story, and 120 by 140 feet, went to the American Laundry and Ma chinery Company on a bid of $28,934. The dormitory will be four stories and fireproof. It will ac commodate a maximum of 272. A. C. Finn, Houston architect who designed the twelve new dormi tories and the new mess hall erect ed on the campus last year, will serve as architect of both struc tures. Construction will start within the next three weeks, Dr. Walton stated. The old laundry is to be tom down to allow for street widening and straightening. The new one is to be erected immediately northwest of the power plant. The mess hall employees’ dormitory will be just north and east of the Board of Directors residence (which is just above Sbisa Dining Hall). • Board Applies for Loan To Build Four New Dorms The Board of Directors has ap plied to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for a sum not to ex ceed $600,000 for the purpose of building four more new dormi tories. The building committee of the Board and college authorities have been studying locations for those buildings, which are expect ed to be in the old dormitory area since they must be serviced from Sbisa Hall. Six More Tennis Courts To Be Built This Summer Application also has been filed with the Works Progress Adminis tration for a loan,, and an ap propriation has been made to take care of the college’s part of the expense, to build six additional concrete tennis courts, probably this summer, and as near the pres ent twelve new dormitories as pos sible. A study of possible loca tions will be made in the near future. Restroom Need Is To Be Answered The building committee of the Board is at present making plans (Continued on page 2) A. & M. Totals 240 Members In A. L M. M. E. Texas A. & M. College member ship in the student association of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers totals 240 for the current year, only one member removed from a tie with the Colorado School of Mines for the leading place in the nation, it was announced by Harold Vance, head of the Department of Pe troleum Engineering. The A. & M. membership is not a requirement for students and is entirely voluntary, also being lim ited to junior and senior students. A. & M. stood eleventh in mem bership in 1938, third in 1939 and is second this year. University of Texas with 189 members is third this year, was seventh in 1939 and 13th in 1938. The two Texas schools probably will lead in 1941. ’41 Seniors Elect New Officers Tonight Senior class officers for the nextf dent is elected and will then turn 4,200 Copies Of New Longhorn Being Issued Longhorns were issued to iors yesterday afternoon; juniors receive their books this afternoon ! from 1:00 to 3:00, sophomores from | 3:00 to 5:00 and freshmen will re- i ceive them on Friday afternoon j from 1:00 to 5:00. This year’s Longhorn is the larg est, most colorful annual that has j ever been published, the editors I believe. The book contains an even j 500 pages and 4,200 copies have I been printed and bound. Binding | is in blue and silver, and further 4color is added by the natural color ! pictures of the campus buildings, j This book is strong evidence of the beauty and color of the A. & M. campus. A special section has j been devoted to the Sugar Bowl j corps trip, made up of pictures ; and descriptions of the New Year’s | football game at New Orleans. Ex- | tensive treatment has been given to the sections on the corps, mili- Ltary organizations, athletic clubs, | activities, etc. (Continued on page 2) year will be elected tonight at 7:30 in Guion Hall when members of this year’s junior class vote in a special meeting of the senior class of 1940-41. Offices to be filled tonight are class president, vice-president, secretary-treasurer, and historian. Senior class officers are to be elected now instead of at the be ginning of the fall term so that the newly elected officers can start work immediately on problems which cannot readily be postponed until the beginning of next term. Contrary to previous statement, numerous classes previous to this one have elected officers during The year’s biggest picnic, with 1,250 guests invited, will be the second annual “Harvest Picnic” given May 27 by the Association of Former Students in honor of the teaching staff of the college and members of the 1940 graduat ing class. The event is given by the Association to celebrate the com- j spring term; the issue being pletion of another year s school i one that is decided individually by ' v01 ^‘ | each class. The senior classes of Invitations have been mailed to , 1939 and 1940 elected their officers both teaching staff and all men ! during the fall term but most of expected to receive their degree^; the classes previous .to these had in June, or during the summer. Ex- elected officers at the end of the Student Secretary E. E. McQuil- junior year so that the officers len requests that any member of could start work at that time and the teaching staff, or any senior, the class could start the senior year not receiving an invitation, should completely organized. the meeting and the election of the other officers over to him. Every member of the junior class is urged to be present, so that the vote will be representative of the whole class. Officers of this year’s junior class include Ele Baggett, presi dent; Tom Richey, vice-president; I. B. Stitt, secretary-treasurer; and Jeff Clarke, historian. The post of social secretary for the senior class of 1940-41 has already been filled as the result of a junior ballot election of Jack Nelson. come anyhow, since mailing lists of this variety are difficult to com- (Continued on page 2) Cadet Colonel “Woody” Varner will preside at the meeting to night until the new senior presi- Barg-er To Be Visiting Prof at Michigan J. Wheeler Barger, head of the Department of Agricultural Eco nomics at A. & M., will serve as a visiting professor at Michigan State College during one term of the coming summer session. Professor Barger will offer a special course there dealing with economic and social planning along agricultural lines, which will be open particularly to county agents, governmental employees and voca tional teachers who are to be in attendance.