DIAL 44444 ornciAi NiwgpAPm or thi cmr or COLLIGK STATION ' i*'* -* DIAL 4*6444 lURMB WSULT NIWOP rKXAM A. • VOL. t IS ADMINISTRATION ftUILDI^G COLLEGE STATION. TEXAS. THURSDAY MORNING. JULY 4. I»40 7.72.', NO* Mayor Frank Anderson Issues City Financial Statement 4,500 Expected At 29th Fanners’ Short Course Farm Security Administrators Cancel Meet To Have Been Held Here Mr C. M Ermm, fUgumtl Di-tumMl 4-H Club Short Course Begins Six-Day Meeting b OUmt Amd Ltrgmi Of A. * M. Short ( m.r« Water j.. Water Everywhere - And PLENTY To Drink!! rector of Um Pam Security Ad minutntton, ha* advised H. H. WtlUamaon, director af Um Texas Extension Servica, Id cancel the Pam BocurHy Adntalstration Con ference which was to have been held here July 11-11. Thu was to have been the tilth of the Tesne Admiaietration Pam Security About <10 persons attended each of the previous meet inn, and ap- proximately the mmm number were expected to attend thi* year. Aecordiitf to Roy Snyder, Super vioer, Specialists Work, there was no definite reaeon fiven for the cancellation of the nMetinf lain And a lot Ihe 9th annual Parmer*’ Short Cauree, oldeet aad larpeet of all the summer rouraes offered by 'A. 4 M Collet*, will be held her* Jttly 7 through July 11 It indude* tan ttparat* ceur***. the 4-H Club Short Court* and the Parmer*' Short Cow re* proper The 4-H Club courae. wIRch wUl he held July I and t, will be at tended by tome MOO youth* of high achool aad pro-college age Boy* arriving Friday and Satur day to participate in judging con tost* will be bouaed in Milner Hall Thoa* arriving later will be bouaed ia Leggett aad Mitcbell Hail* Girh will stay ia dormitories I, S. 6, 7, and t. Sponsors will be quar terod m dormitory I. The judging contests held all day Saturday will begin with a meeting of aU boys in Guion Hall ' Sunday morning wil be spent tour ing the Braaos bottom pita tattoos and at noon * picnic lunch wiB be served at the County Pair It Per three day*—all *f them nice day* for duefc*—Collage Station and vicinity received a wetting that hasn't been equalled since June, 1M1. Pram • p. m. last Friday until the mim time Sunday, a rainfall of 4.11 laches was recorded by the A. A M Experiment Station This brought the average for June to 1.97 inch**- a figure which is three times m great as the normal rainfall of 2.19 inches The only damage reported in this area s4 a result of the heavy rains was a small amount of crop dam afa The street fronting the Y M C. A. was flooded a foot above the curb and almost resulted in flooding adjoining Puryear Hall through the windows facing the My” Experiment Station records show HELP WANTED, The Aggie Kind! Grounds Kyle Field will be open that A i M s record rain fell in for recreation at S ©'dock Sunday June, 1906 That month’s rainfall afternoon and a 7 30 Sunday night was 16.03 inches, which made the a Voaper Service will be held in average for the yeur rise to 46.7 Guion Hall under the direction of Kim Ruth Higdon On Monday the course proper will bag in with a general aaaem bly ia Guion Hall at 8:30 a. m At 10 6. m a group picture will be taken on tke Eaat side of Guion Hall At 10 40 another meeting will be held in Gnton Hall The boy* will meet in the Assembly HaB at 2 p m . and at 4 p m they will go to Kyle Field for ro- (Continued on page 4) inches. For the past 61 years, the average rainfall for College Sta turn has bee* 38 41 inches AN EDITORIAL EXPRESSION • A front page editorial in last Thursday's Battalion pointod •ut the striking need for more R.O.T.C. advanced military science contracts at A. A M during the coming long session And there's a way that this desired increase may bs ob tained' Terns' senior Senator, Morris Sheppard, is Chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Commit toe—always an important committee, but especially so in view *f the current world crisis. A reliable and dependable authority has assured the edi tors of The Battalion that Senator Sheppard can have con siderable influence in gaming this desired end for Texas A. d M College. And, with that in mind, The Battalion asks all Aggies, *x Aggies'and friends of the college to write to Senator Shep pard and ask hie cooperation in this matter A marked copy of last Thursday's Battalion was mailed to Senator Sheppard and college officials have familiarised him with thq situation In your letters, explain to Senator Sheppard that six thousand Texas Aggies, ss well as twenty two thous and former students, are vitally interested in the increase of the number of these contracts and ars looking to him for assistance in this matter. This is important to you. to your college, and to the de fense of your nation l>o your part and urge other Aggies and ex Aggies to do the same by writing now to Senator Shep pard The editorial which appeared is last Thursday * Battalion. “Too Many l.O.T.C. Ofieers!”, is reprinted on today's editorial page Brazos County Population Ups To High Of 27,052 According to W J. Stringer, nans supervisor for ths sixth congressional district, the popula tion for Braaos County has gam- ad 6417 in the ported between 1930 and 1946 The population now stands at 27J)42 as compared with 214S6 in 1910 The preliminary census report for 1940 shows that the city of Bryan has gained 4.116 hi the ten year period, I saving a gain of 1.102 for the county outside of Bryan A large part of this num ber will probably be accounted for when the report for College Station come* In. Bryan's 1940 population was reported as 11429. This being the case, the popu lotion of the rural areas of Braaos County will show a shrinkage, as has been the ease in a number of Texas coeat tea where the report has already been made The mater ial shrinkage m Texas farms ac- couats for a marked decrease in the rural population throughout the state The preliminary report for 1940 shows 1,780 farms core pared to 2,197 for 1936 and 2,493 for 1930 As reported in last Thursday's Battalion, preliminary reports give the city of College Station a per manent population of 2,1M. This indicates that the long session pop ulation is approximately 9,600 Tax Income and Expense Problems Of Financing Young City Are Revealed In a lengthy statement issued specially to The Battalion yester day, College Station mayor Prank G. Anderson relenaed important farts and figure* in reaped to the ibloma of financing a new city government First Publication Of City’s Finances! Since Incorporation We have not been raialog Last year the City i to borrow 9M0. KOSO ia tax** was rauteii leavi* c •*4» lor the city I* operate on “Our city marshal, Garlaad Brown, ia ala* an electrician apd . • plumber He installs metofa. Included hi the statement, which makes electrics! connections and is published in full below, are fig c^Hmcts the new home* to ure. on tax income and expenses *. Ur MV , r Itnss. for this w. are of the < ity *f College Station for paying him $100 per month ' 1 think we are fortunate in gettfeg a man of sack ralteqr^ • We have a dty sorretary, Mr*. Lucy Sneed, who doe* office work, collects taiea, sends out utility bill*, and makos collection*. is paid $9000 per aionth The garbage man furnishing his own truck receive* $86 00 per morgh. Office rent ie $20 00 -per moigh. The care taker of sewage bed receive* $2640 per month Hu* totals $320 per month or $S.»40 per year After the 1800 which tee borrowed lest year was deducted It left us $3420 to pay current ex penses which amount to $8440. Ex-Aggie DeWitt C. Greer Promoted To One Of Texas’ Most Responsible Positions - State Highway Engineer DeWitt C. Greer, member ef thefof parks, after which he entered ♦served in that capacity until his Nelson To Austin For Two Conferences Pickard Wins Danforth Training Award For 1940 class of '23, wss recently appoint ed highway engineer to succeed Julian Montgomery When he as sumed kis new duties last Monday. ; July 1, he was one of the young est highway engineers in the his tory of the department Gibb Gil christ, now Dean of Engineering at A. 0 M . was approximately j Greer’s age when he was state engineer for a short timt before Albert M Pickard, of Latonia, j He returned in 1927 and freshman student m veterinary 1 held the post until 1917 when Mont- medicine at A. 4 M . has been fomery succeeded him Montgom awarded one of the Danforth I rry was 4M at the time of his Foundation Bummer Leadership appointment Training Scholarship* and will Reared at Pittsburg, Texas, spend two weeks this summer at where he received his public achool the American Youth Foundation education. Greer attended A 4 M Camp near Shelby, Mich, on the *nd when graduated he was a first shores of Lake Michigan Lieutenant of P Company Infan Such awards are madr annually »nr. » member of the Y Cabinet, to one freshman ia each school of the Baewf, Ross Volunteers, and the veterinary medicine ia the country Civil Engineering Society He was and the winner* are selected from alto president of the Northeast the outstanding student*, not on Texaa ARM Club )y on the basis of their class After receiving his degree of grades but o« their qualities of Bachelor of Science in chril engt- leadershtp and their personal lives, neermg. Greer's first job was in M otII. , | construction as an employee of Pickard has rereived informs- rock* A Turner, highway contrac- th* camp will be held tors. Later he was connected with lt-28, inclusive < tb* Park Board in the construction private practice at Dallas and transfer to the mam office at Au* Athens Lnter he served a* city tin in November, 1934, where he engineer of Athens in charge of has been chief engineer of cpn- water, sewer and street pevmg struct ion and design until his re- Thirteen years ago he became a cent appointment member of the engineering person Greer, s member of the Amer nel of th* Highway Department ican Society of Civil Engineers, ia His first jpb with the department a registered professional engineer was a field engineer in 1927 In and ■ member of the board of July, 1929 t he was promoted to stewards of the First Methodist acting division engtner at Tyler. Church of Aastm He was married where kls father, Sam R Greer, in June, 1928, U> Helen Cotton of resido* I* 1930 he was elevated Athena They have a to division engineer at Tyler and daughter. Dr. A1 B Nelson of the His tory Department returned this morning from Austin where he had been attending two conferences earlier this week Both meetings of national im portance in their respective fields, one was the annual meeting of the Southwestern. Committee for Hispanic Culture, and the othei was th* conference of the Insti tution for Latin-American Affairs. The meetings were addressed by men of national significance in the field of Latin-American affairs Indeded in this group were Dr C. H Haring, professor of Latin- American History, Harvard Uni versity; Dana G. Munro, director of School of Public and Intema- tional Affairs. Princeton UnivaT-1 4 year-old sity, aad Henry F Grady, assist aat U 8 Secretary of Statf the past year Mayor Anderson's statement is regarded as especially important in that H is the first official publi cation ef the city’s finances since incorporation two year* ago Fol lowing ia the complete statement: "Within a couple of weeks the Equilisation Board will be in aea- Aggie R.O.T.C. Campers Leave On 10-Day Maneuvers J The people at the North Gate The R. 0. T. C. encampment at us the utilities, but it vag Camp Bullit was practically dc- "«<*ss*ry during the last few •erted Monday while 643 cadets month* to spend $1,000 in electrical from the camp rolled into Port nwtallationa U five servtee to that Bliss, El Paso, by motor onlumfc to ^ campus, begin ten days of field maneuvers “9770 was the mat to complete with other R O. T C. unit* from 1°®P hhtsreen College and Sooth the Eighth Corps Area. Oak wood We hanr installed MUl The maneuver* will carry the ar * installed a number «f cadets over 290 miles of rugged ^ hfdraat* ,B °K** r te gvt the terrain between El FVu. and Albu- n *’ w fhu r * t * M*; whoasas Fire At CAtllege Airport Destroys Two C.A.A. Training Planes; Course Is Slowed querqur. N M and Will be earned on by motomed rohimn, with num erous tactical marches afoot. Ap proximately 1,000 cadets will par ticipate from Camp Bullis, Fort Blise, Port Crockett, Fort Sill, Okla , and Fort l-ogmn, Colorado. The enflre force will be under the command of Col Allen Fletch er, commandant of Gamp Bullis Th# cadets from Camp Bullis are using trucks and ears, part of them bejbnging to the R 0. T. C. unit ttettea more defense and part loaned by Fort Sam Hous- «maci©ua then ever before, th* ton. annual Firemen's Training flrhagl Th# Camp Crockett detachment T * tM d M Uollefe, July came to San Aatonio from Galvra- ^ Au f »tanda out as highly Um and traveled to El Paso with ^P^rtant to Texans this year, H. the cadets from Camp Bullie The ^ H r *yt®h. director of the eCloql, large scale maneuver will be the P° ,nU out ia a letter to all mapota first ever conducted by th# R 0. ** *** •tete. T. C. units AU branch#* of the 1 ^• r * the former rate wa* one dollar! "It was necessary to sppwd around $1,000 in obtaining the ra- (Continued on page 4) i Annual Firemen’s Training School Begins July 28 grosmd force* v^j take part. By V A. Moore 4 Early Thursday morning a fin of undetermined origin complete ly destroyed two Tayloreraft planes that were being uaed in the C.A.A training program at the Col lege Airport Thia, together with the course lasting these months bad weather during moat the past week, has Considerably delayed fly ing. although moot af the etudenU on]y two ^ three new training planes when the* Primary solo work for a flying burned ships are replaced period of five hour* is the second When the new planes arrive, ftege. flying from daylight to dark will The flnel stage comprise* 13 begin at the College Airport u 46 hour » “pr*eteion , ' flying, land ARM students seek to qualify a* "W*- oighta, around pylona, pilot* during the roitege summer dead-stick landing*, .stall*, spins. Conservation Short Course Lectures Continue Students may take only 80 min utes of instruction at one period have completed from taro to four hours of ftymg time They usual recoverie*. and a minimum of 50 In compliance with the newly de- miles Cross-country flight signatsd holiday* the Agricultural Armed with a private rating Economic* Department Will cou nt the conclusion of kis course tjnoe today the series ef lectures Weep On Stiulents - * No jfoe Box Prom This Weekend The usual Saturday night Juke4«tat* One summer school student Bos Proas VrlH not be bald this irsskrnd because of the Fourth of July holiday* which will take the vaat majority af th* 1.400 summer school student* away from th* The dance* will be resumed again ths following Saturday night, July 1$, with th* aaaal fifteen cant, two fet-«-quarter admission charge ia faeua, W L. Penberthy and Luke Harrteon, dirartors, have announc ed Last SatarRay night * dance set a new attendance record ia spite af th* heavy rate with mart than 400 "Juke Boxers” attending the The uaiqM promi la gam ruaeguittea recently received a tetter from a Houston friend which Mid, in part, “What’s this we have been bearing about something rated Juke Box MM? They sound swell from -*. Are they just for summer achpol students or can k crowd of «s drive ap far on* aemt Satur day night? We're really anxious to coma to oat of these dances, a* let me know as aeon as posai hk” Aad that's • better-than aver age recemmendation — when group af Houston rug-cutters, surrounded by sight dubs and buy reaarter* with name orchestras rhythmtng ia ths flash, want to attend the Juke Box Proms, they than nteaty miles from Houston to solo after completing eight hour* The two destroyed plane* ill be replaced soon, and one of th* Cube has recently been traded in on a new one. This will give Gay Attending National Y.M.C.A. Meeting In Colorado mg one hour . After 12 hours of flying, length of the periods may be ts*! tended to one hour but only two boar* may be flown in one *r The A RM student flying course is a part of th* vast govern msmt-sponaored civilian training program designed to give 46,000 young Anaer leans an elementary coarse ia flying by July 1941. Trainas* Will not-necessarily con tinue into the army training J. Gordon Gay. atairtaat mct* . number of tery of the Coilag* Station Y M may 4, m , C. A. ia now attending the Na Wtih u» ml Student Y M C A. Confer u gWided into a preview sure at Rate* Park. Colorado. The ^ nyinf iUft# confarenc*. which is held every The first ported familterteo* ata fourth ygor, will be ia aoMion ^nts with the fundamental makeup July 1 to 14. More than a bun M *^*1* Motor function, drod Y M C A. leaders from the ^ controls art studied in this eatiro nation are attending th* rwm6 .ug* i An eight hour doe* of dual la- that permits him to carry a paa- ^Uaagur, but not to fly for hire, th* new pilot ia ready to go into the air on his own account; or, under the insignia of the army and the navy air corps, to continue hia study hi advanced fields. W. A. Bmith, general atcretary ef the Uitveraitp af Texaa Y. M < A aecompanted Gay aad hte family to th* meeting Gay ateo attended th* tort con ference hold la 19M at Blue Ridge North Carolina. stturttea la Urn air follows, aad th* Student learn* to tail, th* takeoff, tovei flight, climb, gURe. turn, aad spiral. The M apin M aad recovery from It must he mastered 24 Conclude Annual Three-Week Poultry Short Course Here Texas hateberymen, poultry breeder*, vocational agriculture teacher* and other poultry workers have just completed a special three- week poultry course at A. R M lor th* direction of D. H. Reid poultry deportment bend Practical experience la chick sex teg, culling, selection of brooder* destroying poultry parasites, diag nosing diaeasM, feeding th* farm flock, houfttnf. and other fa mi job* was given members af th* cUma. r^MMaaRu* F rise a m Re s rl m ■> 9 m smsAmm a p * J f^wi • MuAeQeFfam qrivvvHJ* ad. Seven hear* a day fur • day* a week, th* members beard lecture* aad did practical work ut the Col- tegs Poultry farm. offered by that department m con junction with the special courae Agricultural Economics 423 akich comprises a sene* of