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WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OT
TEXAS ASM. COLLEGE
4
m ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 2ft. 1940.
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Dorm Assignments To
Be Same As Last Year
* »
Field Artillery UniU
To Be Reorganized
)!• ehMiw will b* m* in
fmtr mtmpi In Um •idOion of wv-
(MtMto. ot tte rwu ArtilWr,
Eayii—t, it Imm Jast bMii in
by Um rommaiMlant'i if.
Official Hours Given
For Hospital, Library, >
Swimming Pool, and T
For tbo benefit ot tbooe who
were not bore tbo ftrot ooniter
tbo fottowbtf hot of official boon
M (teen for referoore:
Tbo Library will be open front
* a. m. to 19 y m Monday tbrou(b
Friday, • a. at. to noon latnrday,
and | to I f. at. and 7 to 10 p.
». Sunday
Tbo Collect Hospital boon will
Preu Club Officer*
It tbo PWd Artillery lUfiment
tbo lat < ombot Train baa boon
rodaaijnatad Headquarter* Battery
111 Battalion Headquarter! Bat
tory, lat Battalia; tbo tad Coat-
bat Traia; and tbs 4rd Combat
Train bare boon ronamsd Batter
ios 0, B, and I importhnly TU * 10 a. at. ta t p at. Maaday
room oaoifaoionts will bo (hroa Uiniwti Saturday. 8 to 10 a. m
a^ m as t» inaare two bono- Sunday, and noon to S p. m boll,
drawn and two track-drawn bat- 4,^
^'“iLtent. wKo ^ F 00 * wU1 ^
Malar aad malar caiaonta aa fro|> | § I* the afternoon and
^ ^ f -MM ^lx -cep.
* m Ito. c**.+*■ ^ ^ y
Catpa students adB make ap lal
Catpa Headqaarten and aM Rat
tal the two bwor stoops of Lotfett
Hail The Coealry and Cbomira!
Warfare students will bo placed
in tnd Corps Hoadquarters and
will occupy the two top floors of
Lotfett Tbc Coact Artillery will
awbe op the Ird Corps Hoadquar
ten and will lira in Goodwin. The
lafbatry will moke up 4th Corpo
Headquarter* and will be placed ia
the lot and 2nd floors of Na. 12,
and the Field Artillery students
wtB make up 6 Corps Headquarters
and he* in the two top floors of
No. It.
Football players who lived in
No. It last year will be alk>ered
M. C. A. d«
wM bo from » a. at to It noon,
Ittlp. qUMdlWV**
CM pass art mhoduiod bt l
morn In* frtNa T.00 to t:0B SA to
1044, 10:10 to 11 » Mi 11:10
tc It W Afternoon rlaaoos 1
befin pt 1:10.
REGISTRATION FOR
2nd SEMETSER LESS
THAN EXPECTED
Total of Women
Students Drop
As 43 Register
The officer* of the Preea rleb elected for lost semester etll carry
00 for the seroad sii-eeoks Loft to riffbt. they are ss foliees Msr
■•ret Heilinfsbeed. tressorer; Jsmes 4sbb> vice-preeideot: Pefty
< ompbell. president
Second Semester Press Club Meets;
Plans Made for Remaining Session
New Ruling Allows
Public Use of A.&M.
Library Facilities
Loon facilities of the Cushing
Memorial Library have been made
available to tvoryont under recent
provisions mark by the Board of
Directors of the Collefe.
In the past the use of the li
brary books and facilities has
beef! limited to students, employes
of Ihs roller* system and their
families, bat under the new pro
visions others may now borrow
books from the library, Dr T. F
With 14 members present at ♦elected during the first term of Bayo, librarian, has announced
UM lirtl meeting for the second cummer school, and these same of-1 Th* requisite is that non
ismeamr, Bm Summer Press Club fleers will be held over They are ^Hegv connected borrowers will
V* Mr W • eUi < MomU) Peggy Campbell, president, Jim required to mak* s »« deposit
•ifbt at IBo BatlaHaa ctftoa. K • Ashby, vice-prsoident, and Mar with the Fiscal Department of
ot the MW mombscs Mm twaret Hollingshoad, treasurer the college before any books con
secretory, will not ** drawn The borrowers will be
On Defeme I loan!
t
tbo eeuecq cf tbo ww momboro tbo Igai-vt Hollmgsh.
ocUvtttoo and polk ios W tbs organ Aiwim Moor*, •*
imMm won mMBned Um* osmos bo hi osbool tbw
fnr omaUkBi wot' held on Sundays 1 tbo meeting Man
to ovoid cnnfBot with the Twilight teetdM that tbo
President Waites, she has re
cently been appointed to repreeoot
By Monday night a total ot 1.100
Students had registered for the <
second term summer school. This
figure almost equals the enroll
ment for the same time loot year,
showing a decrease of Only tight.
Thor* were, however, MS more
studento enrolled for the ftrot
•emeeeter of summer school this
year Total registration is nine par
cant higher than It was last sum
mer.
K. J. Howell, Begtatrur, predicts
that a number of late regietratioas
will bring up tbo total enrollment
before the deadline Thursday aflsr-
noon v I
There ar* only 48 women stu
dents registered for this semester.
Walton Hall ban been assigned to
semester, sqd st required to maintain such deposit (fc# um Grant < ellegoo on the these women students and to mar-
scom OKDDtS
REVOKED; WILL
NOT BE HERE
M It was * n d *ny fin*, or other charges
M mure muat ** paid at the loan desk in
library If they are not paid
Bta loan desk they will be
poked from the deposit and
other books loaned until the
oolt, after such deduction, shall
brought book to its original
Colonel W. W. Scott, wbo was afternoons
to have beer Commandant at A for work on the pope
term.
A M. during the 1040-41
to remain there this year if they has received word that bis trana
desire but it the future, they must fer has beer revoked, which means
stay with then organisation or that the office of the Cummand
the proper Corpo Hoadquarters. ! snt remains unfilled The Chief
—— - - - ' of Staff. Washington. D. C.. has
ordered him to Camp Ord. Cali-
hntertainment Sene* I form* where Major j a c«iia
To Knd This Week -< < V- c r su^k
League ball games, but from now tary wouM bo Msgouasd with
on they will be held every Thun Members of the Bummsr Pvwas
day night st 7 80 (lab are Bob Nisbrt, Farts A.
Members of the ataff will re- Shields, D C. Thurman, Jeff
ceive their assignments at The i^larke, W. 0. Brimherry. W. D
Battalion office Monday afternoon.* C. Jones, Tommy Cnllins, Jack
rather than st the weekly meet- Decker, John Sandstedt. Margaret ^
mgs. as has been customary in Hollmgshead. Lucille Thornton The iepNlt may b* withdrawn
the past Monday and Tuesday Kate Stowe, Sunny Campbell, Jim an ) r t,m * toom the Final De-
have been set sank Ashby, Margaret Ann W'illiams. partment on nmaulatiou ot a
Phil (iolmaa. Betty Jane Winkler, clearance slip fro* the Mbnry
tKficers of the Press Club were Betty Shelton and Pegpy Campbell whe " ^ borrower tNbbii la die-
continue the use O^ tbo Mwury.
Dr Mayo pohNi Ml that the
ruling does ia uo wug apph
the use of material bmMe of
library, as st present, bdt has been'
made so that books may be taken
from the library, s service that
Gordon Gay, assistant seere tHays, University of Nebraska; Bob has not been possible in the past
Nstiaual Committee 00 Relotton
ship of Kdocslion to Defense
Eleventh Annual
Coaching School
Is August 18-24
risd students, while Law, Puryear
and Bitaell Halls are occupied by
the remaining students. Many of
the project houses are open during
the summer, and there are a num
ber of commuters from Bryan and
other neighboring towns
Gay Elected to Executive Committee
Of Y. M. C. A. Secretaries Association
337 STUDENTS
DISTINGUISHED
Texas A A M. will offer its
Rventh annual dosching school for IN LONG TERM
Aches and athletes here August
A total * 4»1
It-24, aoesrdfaw «■
ags Mm U ’\nu#w
0. W
ft M.
tto sf lbs
•f A.
. One ot the most successful En
tertainment Series ever to be pre
sented during an A. A M Summer
Session will be wound op this week
with two musical programs
The first of these will be the to be stationed three months
Caao County Kids, popular radio temporary duty
entertainers, heard frequently over,
station WFAA. They will present
0 program of light folk song*
“right off the cob." This program
will bo bold la the Assembly Hall
Tuesday morning, July 80, at 10:00
a. m As usual, classes will be
dismissed for this period in order
that professor* and studento may
report, on August 1. Col. Moore tory of the College Station Y M
stated that Col. Scott was greatly C A., was elected to the executive
Schumpert, Uaivcrsity of Wiscon
sin, Bob Bishop, University of
disappointed in his change of or- committee of the National Student OncmnStti; Henry Wilson, Univer-
drrs Y M C. A Secretaries Assorts sity of Illinois; M. D. Woodbury,
Lt. Col. R L. Christian left t * on tbo notional convention University of Washington; and W
Monday for Washington from ^ ooootiotioo held in Este* J Davi% University of Californio,
where he will go to South America Pmrk - Colorado, July 1 to 18 Accompanying Gay to the meet-
Goy was elected to represent the ,n * w> * * A. Smith, general sec-
southwest region of the bssocim r *tory of the l mversity of Texas
tkin which is composed of Texas
Oklahoma Arkansas, and Missouri
Sunday. August 10, will be used to a list released by the Registrar’s
for registration. The only charge Office This is an increase of
for the course will be $3.00 room 28 over tbe second semester last
rent in the darmitory for the ee year, and shows the increasing
tire course. Room and board may schoksatic ability of A. A M. stu-
also be secured at othar places in dents.
College Station and Bryan Studento whose names appeared
Solo Work At Knd The football courses will be eon 0,1 ^ lirt "<> rrade below
Twenty Seven Do
Of First Semester
A. & M. ENGINEERS Officers of the association elect
AGAIN VICTORIOUS ^'^'TJZn^ — a.
at Blue Ridge, North Carolina.
About one hundred persona at-
tiag
Tbe last entertainment, Tbe
Marimba Duo, featuring Mise Doris
Jean Feterson, will be an evening
program, August 1, at 7 48 p m
in the Aaeembly Hall.
Work Finished By
Equalization Board
Tbo Board of Equalisation for
tbs CKy of College Station com
pitied its work this week, follow
tag 0 long series of night meet
togs Members of the Board ore
A. Mitchell U1 Dtmmitt, Not
Bdtaomtoon. J H Quito berry and
E. E. MoQuilkn, all property
owners of the city.
In a statement to Tbe Battalion
tbo Board Mid, “Tbe chief tin of
this group has been to place
equable and cempsrtlw values
upon all personal aad real proper
ty in the city. To that end the
rendition shoot of every property
owner bt been reviewed. With
the information available to os
wo have made every effort to
value both personal and real prop-
•rip upon a Just and equal basis.”
Principal locroots in property
roudHiono wore muds by tbo Board
ap Personal Property, such Ip-
wo ssi being based not only upon
aotomebilt, but eddtUoMl porounal
property t well
Tbs Bourd will bold Strings ou
August It and II, st which thus
pvapsrty owners are tnvHod ta
apptr to diocut any valuation
GETS BAD BURN
ON MANEUVERS
Jack Hendrick. Band tnior and
member of tbe advertising staff
of The Battalion during the long
term, suffered s severe burn oa bis
head while oa maneuvers around
Hot Spring. New Mexico, in con
nection with RO.t.C. comp
IN SPEE CONTESTS City; Kenneth Kline, vice-president.
t U ,„ nnu ... ?*.»««» u-'—w. *r~ JACK HENDRICK
losmg iwo nrsts, two seconds, Hssck, secretary-treasurer, Wash
and one third place out of a poesi University, St Louis, Mia-
bio 17, A. A M engineering drew- gouri Besides Gay, other mem
mg students tied for first place, bert of the executive committee
in number of plocings, with elected Include W W Mendenhall.
Rensoeleor Polytechnic Institute, Cornell University, Ithico. New
Troy. N. Y„ st tbe annual National York; Fay Campbell. Yale Unhrer
Drawing Competition held in con t jt 7 , New Hawn, Conn.; Harry
nsqtion with the meeting of the Seamens. Penn State Collage; P
Society for the Promotion of Engl- B Holtaendorff. Clemeon College.
•taoruig Education at Berkeley, ctemson. South Carolina; C. D
Calif., this past month .. , ..
By tying for first place, Tepaa
A. ft M. ssaintained its load over
the entire field of engineering
schools and bos won mors awards
in the SPEE contests than any
other school In the country Last
year they took first place untied
Uniwroity of Detroit placed
third with one first, two seconds
sod on* third placing
Texas A. A M students winning
places included Firsts—Arthur
Huse and William Adktaaon. sec
onds F T. Phillips and J H
Scholl; third-R L Rii
r. Lynch, Texas Tech, with a
third piuea, was the saly other
Texas collage student to finish
m the winners circle
ducted by Homer Norton, coach “C" and had a grade point aver-
of the 1089 national gnd cham of <H,t °< • Possible 1.00.
pions; J V. Sikes, end coach of Of the 837 so hoaorod 10 were
the University of Georgia; Jack ***** make a grade of ;*A* in
all their sobjects Tbe majority
the minimum required by the U.| Sut « Teachers College, champions ,,f thw •«•«> rolled ta the
8 Civil Aeronautics Authority, 27 * LoB * SUr Conference; and ^ 1 * 00 * ® f Art though
ot the 45 students enrolled in the * G Keyes, cooch of Lubbock High | * Engumering and Agri
School.
After having completed eight
Y M C. A. Gay also attended hours of dual instruction, which is i S'*™, j*»aeh thv North Texas
the last conference held in 1980
A. & M. STUDENT
DIES SATURDAY
AT SILSBEE, TEX.
Edwin A. Bo iron, a freshman
rtudent thq part year from SI taboo,
Texas, was drowned Saturday while
swimming hi • nearby crook
Dolton, white hi A. ft M . was
a mimhar ot Hoadquarters Signal
Curds Company and wm a stu
dent hi Etertrteal Engineering
Eighteen years ot ago, Edwin was
a former Bilahoo High School
football player.
Sugareff Returns from Washington,
D. C, With Interesting War Facts
Returning from Washington, D Professor Sugarrff left the lega
cy V. K Sugareff, professor of tion faeling, os hr put R, “As
history, brought with him sn ta- ; though it would bt better for me
terestisg side light on tbe present to plan to publish my book ta the
European War. United States”
Professor Sugareff spent most — 1 * ■ ■■ .' ' —'
of this past semester doing rv- 11 4 ivyc D A DPI V
search is tbe Library of Congress ** 1
on bis new book Tbe Bioe ot Bel MISSES INJURY
*!*<■■»» u -" ’- FROM BUIXET
to tbo Library of Congress the
professor quite naturally visited Last Wednesday sight Paul
the Bulgarian legation ta search Homos, manager of Town Hall for
of information. Ho was received "«* nairewly escaped being
with ovary courtesy, but there wo* by • bullet when some an
no information forthcoming bnown person fired.
Though the Bulgarian represent or otherwise, 0 .80 eel tbe
atlvs told the professor that ho was lnt ® bta horn* ta Bryan
quite aura that bta government Members of the fatally
wuuld welcome the booh, and even listening to tbs radio whoa the bul
suggested that the hook bo first
published la Bulgaria, >bo also
taftafetel tkta# kta Wtata Uinta KIta tdy mpiwta
vwUM A MM WM® MrlMUlW WlV pTWW
any official nows from tbo gov-
onuuoot, since be has not reooivvd
say information hi the post throe
months Tbo EMUok blockade
has frit off all stall channels ta as
tbe Balks ns, and at tbs present m
time tbe only possible Una ot
tbe tnute-Siberian route
* . Tv l .* L A • ;
lot ws# fir*d through the front
M itaMhit «4<wk* — — -A m
rwn tnHit , viirtJU®n •
obuir, and iodgod hi tho booksnu
Puol sold K mtaaod him shoot two
foot
Knowing of no ono wbo weotd
to uo» tbo Haines borne
tergal tbo fondly dsekted
someone muet hove fired »t a Stray
cut sr possibly sotao fear led in
truder without taking inn. account
tbo tats tion of tbe Hataue home
course hove done solo work The
first ten of these are as follows:
Gey Davis end Frederick Ander
son, first on July 12; Alfred Nel
son. Raymond Berger, Glenn Rolo-
aon. Ford Ivey, Carl R Higgins,
Jack Cox, Jock Garner, and Lowis
Ritchey
Solo work represents the first
major step toward tbe receipt of
s private liconae for operating an
airplane In order to fulfill the
remain tag requirements, students
must fly from 38 to 80 Hours ta
the primary training planes and
17 to 27 hours of this time must
be solo flight The dead-line tor
the primary course ta September
18, hut W. I. Truettner, instructor
in charge ot C.A.A. operations st
A. A M , announces that he expects
all students will finish before Sep
tember 1.
The two plane* which burned
July 4 are ta Dellas being com
ptetoly remade end are expected
to be sent back bore next week
after being ro-Uconood by Wash
ington authorities
Of Urn 19,000 students from over
tbe United States who art taking
tbe summer CAJk. training course,
l.(MK) ore enrolled in tbo advanced
tours* Spring graduates from A.
ft M who were selected to take
advanced work include V. M.
Kummol, Sam K. Brown, and H.
M. Rollins. However, the time and
place for those boy* to take tbo
course has not boon doeignatod
This advanced work eonotota of
• minimum of 40 end • maximum
of M Hours flight In • Typo 1-8
•bip which ta of tbe L400 lb eiaoo
powered by a US heteopowor mu
ter, and 141 hours of ground
sebool. When they have comptetod
this Murto, students art then oligi-
Mo for a commercial Itaonoo
You now rrafta of tbo 01 boros-
powwr ijrp* win pro Ml My M fMO#
availabta for primary work next
m
J W Rollina. H R MrQuill.n,;
end Marty Ksrow will conduct
courses in track, basketball, tnd
base boll respectively There will
slso be couruos given by Lil Dim
mitt on prevention and treatment
of injuries, end by W. L. Pen
berthy on pbyoicol education end
intramural sports This is the moat
complete school which any high
school consb eon attend Harry
Vi net, • mombar of the Southwest
Conference Fastball Officials As
sociation, will be bar* to discuss
football rwtae
culture students also attained this
honor.
181* straight A students toe lode:
Billy D. Brondidge, Dallas; Oran
L Culberson, Luling, Tom Strat
ton Gillis, Fort Worth; Ralph THL
man Groan, Paxton; Robert L.
Gulley. Dellas; Gaurgo C. Hardin,
Oak wood; Donald J. Here tag, Con
verse; Robert A. Lynch, Point;
Curtis L Mason. Now Boston; Wil
liam J Montgomery, Maeoa; A. T.
F Seale, Lufkin; R. H Shannon,
Fori Worth; Robert B White. En
nis; Phillip T. Williams, Pfert
Arthur; Jordan B Wolf, Lamps***;
Paul Wolfe Jr., Amnrfllo.
Four Short Courses
Remain On Calendar
‘te*
Foot short courses remain oa the
lendar far tbe rest of the sum
cr session. This ta tbo Mh year
short courses hove been bold ot A.
A M , but tbo Extrusion Service
has only fostered them store 1923
Tbo mooting will begin with the
Firemen’* Short Course to bo held
July 20 until August I with ap
proximately 000 firemen f sad city
officials from all ever tbo state
to attendance.
Following tbs Fireman's course
will be Um annus) State Confer-
enee of Teachers of Vocational
Agrtoulturo. August 7 te Id, with
B. A. Man ire of Austin acting as
chairman. Seven hundred teach
era are sxpartad.
Wayne E. Long of thu Mschani-
cal Enghtsering Department will
direct aa Air Osndtalisiag Sh
Coo roe from August 18 te 17 wHh
over a buudrad to sttondaum.
Tbe final eeqrse wiB b* I
annual Coachtef HcH-h.I to be baM
August 11 to M . One bund rod
high sebaal Mte aaltate Maobee a!
Sthtatk directors sis *xpoetod te
MUSEUM ADDS
SNAKE SKULL
TO COLLECTION
Tfc. ( olUt, Hinmia bu bn.
fortunate to obtaining tbs sirsp
ttonally rare iportmea of a foatol
iba skoll, found by Mrs. Clauds
Riley, of Crockett, to a shale ex-
•nre near Cold Springs.
C. J. Hose* asetotaat curator
of tbe museum, says that there has
boon but little eridoucu of feuafl
snakes dtooavorsd to tbo reeks tal
North America From tbe ftost
find to Iddd down te tbo prsaint
time only 04 species have boon
(ullootad Meet of tbeee are te-
complete aad are fragments such
om o tow vortobra* or a piece of
ja« with ewe or two teeth.
Tbo skull aew hi tbo A. ft M.
Muooum ta tbo third wbkh has
boon found la A marten, which
xtakoo B an object af sxtrouM te-
Dr. Hess* says that B ta awl
tbe skull af s poisonous aaake aa
B baa ho ftoodlo Ittm fangs H*
«tao says that tbo abalsa la which
It was dlofovored, tbs Fiimteg, art
af tbe Middle Miocene age and ware
m^mtoxt fttons ftas ^mftl
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