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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 26, 1940)
J 220 Foot Antenna Tower, Completed September 4, At Cost of $6,000 Those three red lights which" seem to be floating over the north east corner of the campus each night are the aerial warning lights attached to the recently completed antenna. The lights, the top one of which blinks, are placed on the tow er in compliance with Interstate Commerce Commission regulations which state that such structures must contain three conspicuous red lights, one at the peak and the others one-third and two-thirds down the tower. The frequency with which the light blinks varies in dif ferent parts of the country, but the light here is wired to be on for two seconds and off for one second. This new 220 foot tower has been in use by WTAW since its completion on September 4. Tit total cost to put the tower in oper ation was approximately $6,000; the tower itself, $3,000, the remainder being spent for housing and other facilities. These other facilities include new power and water line ■extensions, transmission lines, and tuning equipment. The antenna tower was construc ted by the Truscon Company of Muskogee, Oklahoma, in one and one-half days. A crew of five men was employed the first day and a four man crew completed the tower by noon of the next day. The con crete foundation for the structure was laid by the Building and Col lege Utilities Department. The foundation is in the form of a con crete slab 18-inches thick. It is in the shape of a hexagon 14 feet on a side. The three legs of the tower are connected to two foot pillars projecting from the slab. The ground system surrounding the antenna contains approximately 3700 feet of wire. This wire is laid in 120 radials, each of which is 310 feet long. These radials were ploughed into the ground by a spec ial type reel which laid the wire in the ditch thus formed. $171,000 Building Program Nears Completion As New Laundry Opens By Tom Gillis Soon the last hod of bricks and the last trowel of mortar will be laid on the new laundry building and the employee’s dormitory com pleting some $180,000 worth of new construction on the A. & M. campus. These new buildings have been completely built during the summer, departing Aggies last spring noted only surveying stakes on the sites where these buildings are now rising. The new laundry will replace the old building and equipment situat ed near the Petroleum-Geology building. This old building is al ready being demolished, and the bare rafters of the annex are ex posed to wind and sun. The old employee’s dormitory was not ex actly a haven for the workers either. The floors sagged and the dull grey exterior was so drab that the rats got tired of looking at it. By comparison, both new build ings are shining pillars of light. The new laundry has exposed met al and windows in the most modem style. The new workers’ dormitor ies may be considered by some to be better than the new student dormitories. Its windows are of the type that fold in a vertical line into two halves instead of the raising type in the new dormitory area. The total cost of the construction of the two new buildings is to be $170,324. The Smith Building Com pany of Waco was awarded the general contract for both jobs on their bid of $88,340. Plumbing and heating is being installed on con tract to Dave Vickers of Abilene for $45,150. The electrical work was awarded to Laddie Lesikar of Palestine on his bid of $7,900. The ■new laundry equpment is being put in by the American Laundry and Machine Company for $28,934. The new laundry is located east of the warehouse and Coast Artillery Armory. The new employees dorm is 132 feet long by 39 feet wide. The building is entirely fireproof and four stories in height. Three per sons will share each room, and the building will accomodate ap proximately 272 persons. The new workers dormitory is located be tween the board of director’s home and the old Post Office. Enrollment Ups To 6,444; Another Hundred Expected This year’s enrollment, which has already broken all previous records, climbed to a new peak of 6,444 according to E. J. Howell, Regis-- trar. Mr. Howell said that he ex pected the total enrollment to reach 6,500 within the next week. The enrollment thus far for the first semester shows a total of 378 increase over the enrollment for the first semester of last year. Registration figures thus far show a 132 per cent increase over those ten years ago which amount ed to 2,740. COLONEL IKE ASHBURN, Ex ecutive assistant to President T. O. Walton, is in Washington, D. C. this week where he is residing at the Hamilton Hotel. He is not ex pected to return until sometime next week. The Battalion VOL. 40 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT. 26, 1940 Z725 NO. 5 Aggietone News To Begin October 9 News Reel Will Be A. & M.’s Own Story On Celluloid Town Hall Plans Pushed For 194041 Latest developments in the cam paign to make this year’s Town Hall program the biggest in its history have carried Paul Haines, Town Hall student manager, Bry an, on two tours of neighboring towns to give out advance pub licity. Accompanying Haines on both trips was Larry Kruse, spe cial representative of the Marine Band. On Monday Haines, Kruse, and E. L. Angell, Manager of Student publications, toured through Nava- sota, Brenham, and Caldwell. On Tuesday Calvert, Heame, Madi- sonville, Bryan High School, and the Consolidated High School were visited. R. C. Stone, journalism instructor, also made the trip. In each place mentioned the men talk ed to superintendents of schools and local principals. Several as semblies of the students were ad dressed and invited to attend the band program. Publicity in the form of feature stories and ads were placed in the town newspaper and no chance to give the Town Hall program advance publicity was overlooked. Col. R. J. Dunn, Aggie Band director, has written to bandmasters at neighboring schools to advise them of this op portunity to hear the band. Captain Taylor Branson is bring ing this renowned band to for the Aggies in Guion Hall on October 3 as the first program of the Town Hall Series. The Ma rine Band, often referred to as the “President’s own” band, is under the direction of W. F. San- telman. The band is now on a 6,400 mile tour lasting 41 days. The musical instruments, valued at $26,000 are being carried by a truck while the members of the band travel in two Greyhound busses. The uniforms for the band are valued at $6,000 and the musi cal library of the organization is worth $5,000. At its Connellsville, Pa. performance on this tour on September 2 the Marine Band played to an audience of 8,000 peo ple. Already more tickets have been sold for this year’s Town Hall program than for any previous year. Approximately 2,500 school children are expected to attend the matinee performance by the Marine band on next Thursday af ternoon, and many high school bands will attend in uniform. Julius Rosenwald Fund Fellowships Are Now Available George M. Reynolds, Director for Fellowships for the Julius Rosen wald Fund, has announced through Dean T. D. Brooks that information concerning the Julius Rosenwald Fellowships for 1941 is now avail able. The fund offers fellowships to Negroes and to white Southerners who wish to work on some problem distinctive to the South and who expect to make their careers in the South. The fellowships, which are intended to provide opportuni ties for advanced study or special experience to individuals of excep tional ability, are not restricted to any special subject or activity. Men and women between the ages of 22 and 35 years are eligible to apply for the awards upon the completion of their college course. Faculty Banquet To Be Tomorrow Night The annual dinner honoring new members of the staff and their wives at Texas A. & M. College will be held in Sbisa Hall, Friday evening, Dr. F. C. Bolton, Dean of the College has announced. The Deans and Directors will act as hosts to all of the new mem bers and their wives and all old members are cordially invited to attend to welcome the newcomers to Texas A. & M. Senior Court Rules Released for 194041 Regulations To Be Same As Last Year The Senior Court which was in stalled last year will be continued this year, meeting twice monthly for formal consideration of offens es which may be referred to it for action. The regular meetings of the Court shall be formal, No. 1 uni form with white shirts, to be worn by members of the court, the of fenders, and such witnesses as may appear before the Court. Senior Court offenses will nor mally consist of the following: Non-reg in Bryan; absence with out leave; disrespect to Cadet Of ficers; Non-reg at Corps Dances; sitting in Senior Section at ath letic contests and at picture shows; throwing water in halls; defacing college property; acts on or off the campus which reflect discredit on the college; or any offense which may be referred to the Court by the Commandant. Punishment to be assessed will consist of tour duty, and restric tion to the campus. Where in the course of investigation it develops that such punishment appears to be inadequate for the case in ques tion, the matter will be referred to the Commandant with a state ment to the effect and with a re commendation that the case be tak en before the Discipline Committee of the college if such action seems necessary or desirable. Power Calls Meeting Of 18 Club Presidents Secretaries Also Asked To Attend Meeting To Organize Agriculturalist The staff of the Agriculturist under the editorship of Tom Power, Post, is getting ready to put out the first issue of the magazine by the latter part of October. Operations are to begin with a meeting of the presidents and sec retary-treasurers of the following clubs: Accounting Society, Agron omy Society, Saddle and Sirloin Club, Biology Club, Kream and Kow Klub, Economics Club, Entomology Club, Fish and Game Club, Junior F.F.A., Horticulture Society, Land scape Art Club, Marketing and Fi- nince Club, Poultry Science Club, Rural Sociology Club, Junior Chap ter A. V. M. A., The Pre-Medical Society, Pre-Law Society, and the Poutry and Egg Club. This meeting will be held at the Student Publications Office this afternoon at 5. The staff of the Agriculturist will be completed and reporters from each club will be selected. Science Clubs Combine To Form “United Science Clubs of A. & M.” The recently organized United"^ Science Clubs of A. & M. is the re sult of an idea which originated with Dr. C. C. Doak, Dr. Charles LaMotte and the presidents of the Pre-Medical Society, Biology Club and the Entomology Club. Taking the leadership in the union the Biology Club first pre sented the plan to its members who were heartily in favor of the pro posed union. The Pre-Medical club next adopted it and the Entomology Club followed suit. Under these three organizations the union hopes to promote closer relationship between club mem bers interested in the various branches of science; to recapture the friendly rivalry between clubs; to bring the clubs and their mem bers into social and scientific con tact with promising young scien tists in other colleges; to bring our clubs into affiliation with outside scientific organizations; to pro vide an easy transition from the young scientist of collegiate grade to the professional scientist capa ble of taking full rank in the work of our state and nation; to provide an opportunity for our young men to present papers before a wider audience than that provided by the limited membership of their res pective clubs; to provide awards and and distinctive emblems for those who are willing to lead in collegiate science. The new Union is affiliated with the Texas Academy of Science un der the old Biology club charter. The Union plans to be well rep- Naramore To Address AIME Meet Tonight Chester Naramore, National Sec retary of the student branch of The American Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Engineers is to speak to the student chapter of the A. I. M. E. in the Petroleum Eng ineering building tonight after yell practice. Mr. Naramore will speak briefly on his experiences with the oil in dustry in foreign fields during the last war and to some extent on the effect of the present war. It is important that all Junior and Senior Petroleum Engineering students be present as several very important business matters, in cluding the election of men to send to the fall meeting of the A. I. M. E. in Tulsa, Oklahoma, will be dis cussed. sented at the Academy meeting this year. Other clubs are being asked to come into the Union that it may take in a wider scope of science this year. Two meetings a year will be held by the union. At these meetings there will be speakers (students) from each of the three clubs as well as a main speaker for the evening. It has been proposed that the men having the best papers have their membership dues in the Texas Academy of Science paid by the Union; that the men be sent as delegates to the state meet and give their papers on the Texas Academy program. Initial AVMA Meeting To Be Held September 26 The Junior A. V. M. A. announces the initial meeting of the coming school year at the Veterinary Hos pital on Sept. 26, 1940 at 7 p. m. Newcomers as well as old members and faculty members, are invited to attend. , Newly elected officers for the coming session include: president, O. H. Stallheim; vice-president, A. A. Appleby; secretary, V. C. Is- sacs, senior representative, Dris coll Stallworth. The publicity com mittee includes: C. W. Zohn, H. E. Carver, and H. L. Schulberg. Dean R. P. Marsteller and the veterinary faculty will deliver an introductory address to the meet ing. The newly formed freshman class is especially urged to take ad vantage of this opportunity to meet the dean, faculty, and the rest of the veterinary school. The program of the association has been developed along social and academic lines. In the past the organization has sponsored barbe cues and, last year, instituted what is to be a permanent fixture, an organization dance. Throughout the semester the association will be addressed by guest speakers, some of the lectures being supplemented with slides and motion pictures. Last year the Association was fort unate enough to have the pleasure of being addressed by Dr. A. V. Finscher of Cornell University and by Dr. P. W. Schroeder of Angell Memorial Hospital. Seniors Organize For 40-41 No Padded Covers; Khaki Reg To Meals; New Final Review The Senior cuass of '40-‘41 held its first meeting of the long ses sion last night in Guion Hall with President Tom Richey in charge. Many issues of interest were dis cussed and voted upon. First question brought up before the assembly was the question of padded covers on the Longhorn for seniors. Ele Baggett, editor, asked for suggestions and comment. A close vote of 135-107 decided that there would be no padded covers made at all in view of the fact that it would be troublesome to de cide just who would be eligible eo receive them. President Richey appointed the chairmen to several committees. Bob Langford was made chairman of the Senior Ring Dance commit tee; Graham Purcell was select ed as chairman of the Decorations committee; a joint chairmanship was established for the Mothers’ Day program and Preston Bolton, Leslie Appelt, and Ted Duce were made co-chairmen. By a unanimous vote of approval it was decided that the Senior class would petition the Board of Directors to have the 30 cent vis itors’ charge lifted from the mess hall. The class felt that the incon venience and loss of tradition were not worth the saving. Also voted on at the meeting was the question of Senior Court. Senior Court will be in force again this year, and it was decided that “extra duty” tours would also be continued, but not with rifles,as was proposed. It was agreed that funds for the yell staff would be collected from among the student body by the first sergeants in the various organizations at the rate of 15 cents per person. A petition to the executive com mittee to change Final Review back to the way it was held before last year was approved by an ov erwhelming majority. The class decided that again this year Fin al Review will be held the last (Continued on Page 4) A bi-monthly news reel, concern ing Texas A. & M. College and Aggie activities on and off the campus, will begin a nine-month run at the Campus Theater October 9. To be titled the “Aggietone News” and sub-titled “Texas A. & M. On Parade”, the news reel will show on alternate Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Produced and directed by Bat talion Associate Editor, G«orge Fuermann, College Station,, the as sociate producers are Ira F- Lewis, Mineral Wells; George Mueller, Alton, Illinois; and Graham Pur cell, Archer City. The assistant director of the Aggietone News will be Head Yell Leader E. R. (Buster) Keeton, Houston. , Sports director will be Battalion Sports Editor H., O. (Hub) John son, Houston, who will be assisted by Bob Myers, Harlingen, and Jack C. Hollimon, Houston. Director of photography will be W. Roland Laney, Denton, Laney will be assisted by M. K. Soder- quist, Hot Springs, Arkansas. Pete H. Tumlinson, Bryan, Battalion art editor, will be art director of the Aggietone News and will be as sisted by Sid C. Lord, San Antonio. Aggietone News will be similar to other news reels which are in ternational in content. Dealing en tirely with Aggies and A. & M. College, the news reel will be de partmentalized. Departments will include Military, Social, Sports, and others. The first Aggietone News, to be shown October 9 and 10, will include pictures of the A. & I. and the San Antonio corps trip. Sports Director Johnson announced that a special section of the first news reel will be devoted to the senior football players. Following the showing of each Aggietine News the film will be given to the College and, at the end of each long session, a feature length picture will be made from the past nine month’s news reels. 1,300 Cadets Under Student Labor Employment Approximately 1300 men are working on the student labor rolls, O. R. Simpson, Student Labor Sec retary, said yesterday. This is about the same number of students who were employed last year at A. & M. On the other hand there has been about a twenty per cent increase in- the number of applications received from students this year, Simpson pointed out. Of this 1300 employed students, 600 are on NYA or federal appro priation. There was no appreciable increase in funds this year despite the advancing demand for student labor. There were 1100 students who were employed last year who returned to their jobs while about 100 new jobs were available due to graduation and other reasons. Simpson stated that all jobs are filled at the present time and only openings likely to exist were those left by students dropping out after school started. Whether there will be more positions open in the near future is a matter of conjecture. When the applications of those stu dents who have already inquired for student labor can be filled is somewhat doubtful. “Some of the students on the N. Y. A. payroll started five days earl ier this year which will result in their check being somewhat larger for this month,” Simpson said. The NYA month this year begins on 16th and extends to the 15th of the next month. Checks for the first months work will probably come in about October 25. A. & M. Dames Club Begins New Year October 2 The first meeting of the A. & M. Dames Club, an organization of student wives is to hear a review of “Native Son” by Dr. T. F. Mayo in the parlor of the Y. M. C. A. on October 2. Officers for the organization are: Mrs. Roy F. Eckert, presi dent, Mrs. Harold J. Schmidt, vice- president; Mrs. J. Wylie Wolfe, secretary; Mrs. Coy Borders, treas urer; Mrs. Tom Legett, reporter, and Mrs. Joe E. Shaw, parliamen tarian. This organization includes wives of students registered in any de partment of the college. A recent survey of the number of married students at A. & M. showed that there were approximately 130 of these students registered. Between 30 and 40 wives of these students are regular in attendance at the Dames Club meetings. As its object the club promotes a spirit of friendliness, provides social intercourse and stimulates general culture among its members. Since its founding in 1936, it has done well in accomplishing its ob ject. During the year the club spon sors parties, picnics, and dances for the husbands and wives. These activities are designed to pro mote friendliness, and to provide a means of entertainment and di version for both husbands and wives. At the meetings programs of interest to student wives will be composed of book reviews, musi cals, and home arts, presented by leading members of the faculty and leaders in various lines on the campus.