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VOL. t IS ADMINISTRATION ftUILDI^G
COLLEGE STATION. TEXAS. THURSDAY MORNING. JULY 4. I»40
7.72.',
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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 <ki!y tec
turo* concerning our natural re
sources and their roneemation
Th* speaker today will be George
Adams, aaetetjuit state agent, A.
R M Extension Service. His sub
ject will be -The Mechanic* of
County Land Um I Pnotag.1
Adams was originally scheduled to
apeak July C
Friday, July 6. W. Bassett Orr,
State ropraaanUtiv*. U. K D. A
will lector* on th* subject Th*
Need for Planning as a Basis ef
Conservation, and tb* Orgaaiaa-
ttea Designed to Achieve Planning
Attoa."
Dr H. N. Wheeler, chief
ar, U. 1. Forest Service, will re
sume the senes ef tect«r*a after
the holidays. Hte nubjeet will he
"The lor* ef the Foroat."
Dr J. F. Kiaibal, noted Texas
educator aad k®f®Mor of
ttofi at 8 M. U4 vies*president.
Bay ter University at Dallas; Law
par; aad tectorer. will spMk Tues
day, July 0, on Texas Tomorrow"
in Texas occupy a
strategically important location hi
our National program.” Prof.
Brayton My* "It is highly m-
•ential that there be no sloping
up of eur efforts from any cquoa,
and th* protective organisation* of
our municipal governments must ha
ready to meet any emergency.
“Your Texaa Firemen's Training
School ■ hoe Id be of vital import*
ane* to you Una year. Approxi
mately 000 fireman from all perta
of Texas will meet at Tex^ Al
M Collage this month far a
concentrated p*-- iod! of training un
der the direction of exi
firemen and technical
Every man will receive approxi
mately f? hour* of drill work and
12 hour* ia th* tlajis rooms Par
ticular emphasis will he laij am
modern and efficient method* of
fir* fighting, fire prevention la-
araon tnveetigatten.
This year a new courae ia b#h«
offered for drivers and poptpmr
operators with the idea af groator
efficiency and economy hi hand ing
thia MMMtou aautoaMfrt. lg h2
dition the achool will offer surma!
CroM first aid coursus so
that th* firemen win he able to
in whatever the imirfagfj
may he when it arts** "
|R97 Texaa citteu ro-
oeteod reduction* M their key lira
insurance rote* by having xi fikiri
af their five departments attowd
th* achool and then pass th* «x-
aminationa gives an the final day.
H* recommends that as
firomea as pom.ble he seig fur
thu courae as that every «$tp to
Texas having j firs
will h
have traised
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