DIAL 4-5444
STUDENT mwiIRLY
NEWSPAPER op
TEXAS A. A It COLLEGE
DIAL 4-5444
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
or the cmr of
COLLEUK STATION
40 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDC.
COLLEGE STATION,
I. OCTOBER 1, 1940
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NO. 7
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Santone MlSS ^ nw an ^ Tide.... and John Kimbrough
Will Reign As
Rodeo Queen
§7 L** Rof^ra
TW» Kard^iMtBf mwmb*r» „f thr
•"d Sirloin ( tub met the
etker m«ht an<1 picked Molly Mr-
Ebttar uf Han Aatunka •• qu«*n of
tbo twenty firat annual Teaaa Kg-
fie Rodeo on October 1M Kulinc
with Miaa McKeller will be (irabant
rbfaaU who haa been rhoaen aa
klltf for the rodeo thia year
laeitatiotMi have been •ent u>
••ma of the hardeet ridinc. eaaleat
lb-look at enwftrla ia the atate In
order that the painma of the ev.
•at will be inmtred entertainment
from all angle* and curve*
The Aggie Tow puncher*” will
fceet again neat week and aelert
two more Teaaa laaaca to act aa
ladle* In waiting u. Queen McKel
ler Theae laaao twirling miaaea an-
•elected for their rtdinf ability a»
well aa their beauty.
The proceed* from the mdeo are
to be uaed to finance tha Interna
Ihwal Idveatock Judging Team on
their toun throughout the nation
ia the various judging contests' in
which the team participates
Oily student* from A AM. ^will
be allowed to Uke part in the rodeo
contest* and of thia group the ma
J°rity will be fwsnpoaeri of student*
btajonng in animal husbandry,
College Citizens
To Hold Meeting
Tomorrow Night
Tomorrow night at 7 o'clock a
mass meeting of all College Station
nUaena will be held in the lecture
room of the Chemistry building
"AH cttHens and interested per
sons are urged to be present,* May
or Frank Anderson said
The purpose of the meeting is to
dtaces* the budget for the year, the
paving of streets, the tax rate, and
to serve as a general round table
diarwaston of Colefe Station activ-
(ties At this time the cRy council
will show the disposition of tax
money
Mayor Frank Anderson will pre
side at tha meeting
Texas Nutrition
Committee Will
Hold 2nd Meeting
Soeond meeting of Texas' state
wide nutrition committee has been
called In Austin osi October 6 for
further consideration of the nutri
tional needs and problems of Tex
ans, according to an announcement
of the committee chairman, Mildred
Hertoa, vice-director and state
home demonstration agent of the
Texas A A M College Rrtension
Some*
The committee wss appointed by
Dr T O. Walton, president of A
A M Collage, and Held its first
meeting in Dallas late in Aagust
Similar committee* are being nam
ad ia other states upon the request
of Dr LouweStanley. chief of the
Bureau of Home Economics, U 8
Department of Agriculture
One fan tare of the meeting will
he a committee report of suggest
ion* for aiding low income group*
in Texas to obtain better diets
Members of the committee assign
*d to work on thia problem are Dr.
Jet Winters of the University of
Texan. Dr Ercel 8 Eppright of the
TTxaa State College for Women,
and Dr Florence Scoular of North
Texas State Teachers Collage
-The purpose of the committee."
Mum Horton explains, "ia to bring
together a roprenentatJve group of
Teaaa home economists and lay
pMple to dtscwaa the needs and the
prebleans of Ttxaa peofftr aa they
relate pritoarily to nutrition The
group will make plana far aaaiatlng
the po»pi« to to»ve tke** F*.
lama and will pt*«« •mphaaia on
bit man woifart, seeking to strength
an aur national defense by strength
•nine opr aeetol deftowe "
OrgAniaations. toetltottona **d
agencies represented ea the eem
mtttoe toetode the three etate to
gUtottona named ahove phis Teaaa
Techno logical Collafe. BUto ieaH
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With flv# minute* left to the fleet quarter John Kimbrnafh (H) retarna a punt down the west aide
•f Kyle Field for a 7d yard gain, la the background rau be aeen Chip Routt (S«) and Jim KterKng (*7).
Member of A & M Board of Directors
Dies At Home In Houston Saturday
Neff To Address
Civil Engineers
At Meet Tonight
Judaon Neff, head of the newly
created department of Industrial
Engineering pill address the stu
dent chapter ef the American So
ciety of Civil Engineers at their
regular meeting Tuesday night, at
7 3(1 p m , in the civil engineering
lecture room
Mr Neff wdl discus* in a fifteen
minute talk to both members of
the chapter and other students at
tending the meeting the subject of
present day engineering a* it af
feels the civil engineer The speech
will he directed to student* of all
claaae* and will bear particular em
phasis on the orientation of the
civil engineer in today's rapidly ad
vancing field of profaMional engi
neering
A short business session will be
held after the address in which the
new officers for the year, Hank
Drumwnght. president; Ross E
Cox, vice president, snd J A Tea
gue, secretary treasurer, will pre
sent several important business i-
terns for action by the chapter and
Its committees All civil engineers
are cordially invited to attend both
the address snd the business ses
sbn
DR. JOHNSON OF
ST. LOUIS WILL
SPEAK TO AGGIES
As s contribution to the religious
life of the campus, the First Bap
list church in Brymn ha* brought
Dr C. Oacar Johnson of 8t Louis
to speak to the cad at eorpa Thun
day and Friday
Dr Johnaon, president of the
Metropolitan Ministerial Aaaocia
tion of St. Lxiuia, is under the direc
tion of the YMCA
Dr Johnson has held pastorates
in Newport Beach and Los Angeles,
California, < empbellsburg. Kentuc
ky. and Tacoma. Washington, and
has been in 8t Louis m the Third
Baptist Church since 1ML The
Christian Herald recently ran a
story of his accomplshment* far
moral welfare in that city His
church turns people away at every
service on even the Wednesday night
•enrice. and yet it has one of the
largest church auditoriums in that
city
The arehdqle of hia addresses on
the campus is as follows Frseh-
men Thursday afternoon, at 4 45
p m Seniors and Juniors- Friday
morning. P g.m. Sophomores, Fr-
day aftemoo* at 4\4i pm
Dr Johnson will speak slso in
the Bryan church at 7 SO p.m both
Thursday and Friday mghte This
church will beek to continue to
bring the outetanding religious per
•onalitiee of Ihe nation for the ben
efit of A.AM student* and resi
dent* of Calloge Station and Bryan
Plnngy To Kupon lac
InatalUllAn Of ('tow
KikibH At Mat# Fair
Professor C J Ftoney, of tho do-
partmont of brehttecturw, loaves
thia Saturday f«. DaHas to supor-
vtoa the InataDatton of tho Texas
A. A M CwQsge Chomurgic Ks-
bibit to tho Touaa State Fair to bs
hold to DaRaa, Get MO
Town Hall Season
Opens Thursday Night
With U S Marine Band
The season for the A A M
Town Hall will begin Thursday
night when the United States Mar
ine Band give* their bag heralded
concert of thrilling marches and
inspiring musical presentation* at
Gui<>n Hall.
This series, managed by Paul
Haines, is due to bring the most
excellent programs possible to
the Texas A A M spudente and
the people of this section of Texas
Although there has been a neg
lect of tour work for the Marine
Band, the radio has brought their
top grade achirvament* to the mil
lions of devoted listeners through
out the nation. Flawlegs precision,
and a balance of light and shade
are symbolic of their playing
Town Hall is bringing the most
well known of all hasd orgamx-
ations to A A M in the United
States Marine Band and it has
every indication of becoming the
most iltustrioua and noteworthy
concert of the decade
Who’s Who Lists
Two From Bryan;
Eleven From A &M
The 1940 41 edition of “Who’s
Who in Amenra" includes the
names of 11 residents of Brasos
county This grouping of the na
tionally eminent is made by the
place of residence of the various
person* Two are listed as living in
Bryan, and nine as living in Col
lege Station
From Bryan, the volume include*
N B Allen, educator of Allen
Academy; and Dr Walter N Eae-
kiel, plant pathologist, of the Texas
Agricultural Expenment Station
The group from College Station:
Prof John Ashton, writer. Dr.
Frank C. BoHoi^ dean of the cob
lege; Dr Thos D Brooks, dean of
the Graduate School; Dr Geo S
Frapa. state chemist; Dean Edwin
J Kyle, School of Agriculture Dr
Geo. E Potter, professor of biol
ogy. Ptif Chaa N Shsuardaon,
head of the Dairy Husbandry de
partment, Dr. Walter P Taylor,
biologist. and Dr Thomas 0 Wal
ton, president of A A M. Collage
John Rowlett Ih New
Architecture Prof
Newest addition to the staff of
tha Department of Architecture is
John M Rowlett who Comes to A
A M College from the state office
of the National Youth Administra
tion in Austin where he was am-
ployed as architect
A native of Georgetown. Texas.
Rowlett graduated from the Uni
versity of Texas with degrees in
both architecture and education At
the University he held membership
in the Sphinx Club, the honorary
architectural society, and in Phi
Delta Theta fraternity. After grad
nation he worked in the office of
Page and Sutherland, Austin ar
chitecte From 19M to 193* he was
employed by the Centennial Divis
ion of the State Board of Control
designing the lettering for approxi
mately 1600 historical marker*
plaaed throughout the etate.
Only Juniors And
Seniors Authorized
To Make Corps Trip
The executive committee of A
A M. College has authorised juniors
and senior* to make the trip to
San Antonio aext Saturday fop the
purpose of witnessing the A A M
Till** football game to be played
there la the recently completed Al
amo stadium Official escuaes from
classes must be filed in the Com
mandant's office before leaving
Freshmen and sophomore* living in
th# vicinity nf San Antonio may
also attend the game provided
they have special peimiaatnn filed
in the Commandant's Office for
this particular trip from their par
ent or guardian and obtain pasara
before departure from the campus.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad
ill run a special train to San An-
tomo leaving (ollegr Station at
4:30 am Saturday The special
train returning to College Station
will be made up at 11:00 p m. Sat
urday night for the convenience of
those who wish to get on the trmin
early Time of departure will be
2:00 a.m., Sunday morning Tick
et# will be honored on the regular
tram leaving San Antonio at 8:30
p.m Sunday night. The round trip
ticket will cost $2 9')
Organisation commanders and
bouse masters will canvass their
organisations and submit to the
Commandant’* Office not later
than 6:00 p.m, Tuesday the num
ber ef student* in their organ
nation* and submit to the Comman
dant's Office not later than 6PM
Tuesday the number of student*
in their organisation who intend to
ride the special tram and also the
number of student* who intend
to do otherwise Passes for this
trip must be submitted to first
sergeant* and housemasters be
fore Thursday noon and submitted
by them to the Commandant’s Of-
fic not later than Thursday noon.
The prescribed uniform for those
students authorised to make the
trip will be No. 1.
Fountain Needs
Only Light Equipment
For Its Completion
The bare triangle In front of
Bblaa Hall (officially kaoem aa
Raunders Park), heretofore note
worthy only aa the site of occa
sional band concert*, will soon be
come one of the beauty spots of the
campus Rapidly nsaring comple
tion in the center of the park ia
the only fountain on the campus,
the gift of the class of '3$
The fountain ia 18 feat acroas
and is built of concrete and cast
stone Marked with two bronse
tablets, th* chief decorative fea
ture of the fountam wil be the
fact that it is illuminated Special
equipment will he installed which
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The Agriculfurisf Magazine
Will Be Issued On October 30
The first issue of The Agricul ♦lanaous part of the magasine which
tunst, the magaxme for all non nxlwde* interesting odd facta, jnkea,
engineering activitiaa, has bees an
nounced for Wednesday, October
30 by the editor, Tom Power. The
staff of the magazine include* a
reporter selected by each of the
nineteen clubs concerned to cafitnb
ute new* and pictures of the toiivi-
ties of hia club
At a meeting of the club pre*.
idente on September 28. K was
agreed that th* clube will eel) at
laaat 1000 subscriptions to their
respective member* Since th* mag
name mill include ankles and fee
tores concerning everything but
engineering, H will be of Interest
to every non engineering student
on tho campus
The subscription rate ef ttc an-
title* the subscriber to four tonga
■ine* per year Roland Bing will
he to charge of tho toetton af the
magasine which will eontato news
of tho various clubs. Tha tolecel-
featores. and pictures, will be in
charge of Lee Rice
The deadline for th# articles to
be in the first issue ia October
12 and all club president* ar* rau
t toned to see that their reporter haa
turned in th# information concern
ing hia club in time for th* dead
line. By covering such a large
field of activity, th* magasiac will
be ef interest to everyone on the
rsmpu* The chib* represented on
the Agriculturist staff arr: Ac
counting Society, Agronomy Soc
iety, Aeddle and Strloto Clnh. Biol
ogy Chib. Kreom and Kow Klub,
Economics nob, Entomology Hub,
Flak and G«m# Onb, Junior F F
A* Horticultural Society Land-
•eape Art deb, Marketing and
Finn nee Club, Poultry Science Club,
Rural Sociology dub. Jaator Chap-
tor A. V M A., Pro-Med Society.
Afrtcwltoml Engtoeeritg (Tuk. and
the Cotton Society,
Junior (1am Meeting
The Junior Haas will meet
tonight in Guion Hall for th*
purpose of organising and
sleeting officers for th# 1940-
41 session The meeting will
be immediately after yell
practice as annouetd by Ca
det Colonel Bill Becker, who
will b* In charga of th* meet
ing
This first tssembly this
session of the class of ‘42 is
important and all juniors
should attend If time per
mit* after the election of of
ficers, other business con
cerning the class will be dia-
cusead
TEACHING STAFF
INCREASED BY 35
NEW PROFESSORS
In ardor to take care of ita ex
ceptionally large enrollment this
year, the faculty at A. A M ha*
been enlarged by the addition of
maay new members to the teaching
staff
The military science department,
which has taken in the greatest
ndm her of new members, has re
ceived Col. James A Wsteon, our
new commandant. Captain Ernest
A El wood Major Tom Fox, Major
0 Everett Hill, Lt Wm Chaa
Janensch, Lt Elbert B Sale, Lt.
Col Charles N Sawyer, Captain
Richard P. Lively, U. Carl Q. Sory,
Major Edwin B Spiller, Major John
F Stevens. Lt Tom B Strother,
U Alton P. Utterhuck, Major
Jamaa B Wisa
Th* chamiatry department has
been tocreasod by the addition of
Mr. Robert Vincent Andrew* and
Mr». 0. P. Parker Th* department
of veterinary medicine haa been to
creased by the addition of WUIIa
Will tom Arwiiotoud. Henry John
Kuaewaki. Ruaaell L Mundhonk
Harold Edwin Redmond. George
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H (\ Hchukmacher
A. & M Exhibits
Will Be Featured
At State Fair
Industrial uses of Texas farm
product* will be graphically ex
plained in • rhemurgic exhibit
which will be Texas A. A M Col-
leg* * contribution to educational
displays in the ( hemurgic Building
at the State Fair of Texas in Dal
las, October 6-20
The 13 panel display, featuring
the college color* -maroon and
white—has been designed and con
structed by student# in the Archi
tectural Department A huge ma
roon and white replica of the col
lege ceal ha* been constructed as a
keystone for the exhibit, and it will
bear this le^rend "The College, the
Experiment Station, and the Ex
tension Service cooperating with
the farmer and industry to better
serve agriculture.”
Panels will be devoted to indus
trial uses of com, tung oil, sweet
potatoes, castor beans, flax, pea
nuts, soybeans, snd cotton, accord
ing to plans of the exhibit com
mittee in charge Each panel will
tell the rhemurgic story of these
raw products through processing
stage* to their various uaes in In
dustry
For example, the tung oil pAnel
will include three photographic en
largement* showing the develop
ment of a tung oil grove, and will
alao show tung nut* whole and in
cross-sections The background of
th* panel will feature a map of
Texas indicating portions of th*
state adapted to the growing of
tung trees, and another portion of
the exhibit will enumerate uses of
tung oil products
Members of th# committee la-
dude the chairman, M K Thornton,
Jr., agricultural chemist for the
Extension Service, J D. landsay,
professor of chemical engineering;
Louis Frsnke, extension editor; E.
B Reynolds, chief, D T. Killough.
snd K F Manke, agronomists, and
E. S. McFadden, associate agron
omist, all of the division of agron
omy, Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion; C. J Finney, professor of
architecture; S. H Yamell, chief,
division of horticulture, Agncul
tural Experiment Station; sad
Howard Berry, technical assistant
for the experiment station
Construction of the exhibit ia
such that it can be shipped to other
fairs at the conclusion of the Dallas
event without being completely dis
mantled, according to Mr Thorn
ton
H. C. Schuhmacher
Member Since 1925
Henry C Schuhmacher ef •Hous
ton. member of the A. A M College
Board of Directors, died to hto
home on Shsdowlawn Drive *$,6 JO
P- ®i Saturday Funeral aervira*
Were held MoAday momtog at the
Holy Rosary'Churrh ip Houston
and th* burial rites were eanducted
In la Grange that aftemoen.
Schuhrpedier graduated frem A.
A M. ip 1892 with a degree in civil
engineering. Ha haa lived to
t«P for tha paat thirty yeara and
was ike president of the Rchith-
toachi r Grocery Company there ’
He was elected as a director of
the college in 11*25 and would hav*
•erved as a m< mher u/itil the ex
piration of hia term In 11*43 Rchuh-
marher waa chairman of tha Prairie
View committee, a member of the
committee in charge of auditing fi
nances and of th* executive com
mittee
%
Henry Schuhmacher was a prom
inent man in business and banking
throughout the state He contribut
ed much of hia time and finances
toward th# promotion of the Port
of Houston, took an active part in
the Rotary Club, and served aa
president of the Houston Chamber
of Commerce. A great part of hia
time was devoted to working with
charitable organisations and at one
time he served as vice chairman of
th* community chest.
Here at A. A M , Schukoiefher
will be remembered by Dormitory
8 which has been named to his
honor.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Katherine Srhuhntorher; tw* sons,
John and Harry; and four slaters,
Mr* M R Robson, Mrs M For
litx, Mrs Lillie King and Mm Bet-
tie Hopper, all of Houston; a broth
er, J C. Schuhmacher of Ruters-
ville, and four grandehildrep, Di-
neen, Nancy, Kathena* and John
Schuhmacher Jr. of Ifouatoe.
Among thoee from College Sta
tion who attended the burial cer
vices were President and Mr*. T.
0 Walton, Dean F C. Bolton, Dean
end Mrs Gibb Gikbriet and Mr.
and Mrs Frit* Henael.
Keeton To Sell Record*
Of School Son ft Ry lUnd
A new concession waa created on
the campus recently when bead yell
leader “Buster” Keeton took over
th# selling end of several recordings
produced by the A A M band and
th* Aggie land orchestra
Three songs, “Goodbye To T#»-
as", "Spirit Of Aggieland", and
"I’d Rather Re A Texas Agf1e M
are all recorded on excellent re-
cording rofn position materiel on
Brown Completes
Twenty Years As
Baptist Minister
Twenty years in Baptist Church
work at Texas A. A M is th* Rev.
and Mra R. L. Brown's record.
Coining here from Ridley Park, Pa.,
in 1920, Rev. Brown has aeen the
roigregation grow from 326 to
more than 1700 members.
The first church was organised
»a 1923 The parsonage waa budt
the following year and th* cbwfth
building in 1928 Last year, the
auditorium waa enlarged and ad
ditional classrooms built.
Reverend Brown says that ip the
beginning the result* were pritetio-
ally negligible, and only $200 was
raiaad during tha first year. TWr*
waa not any vital church program
nearer than Bryan prior to Rev
Brown's coming.
Ust year, the church received
320 members, S3 for baptism.
tribationa far the year amounted to
nearly $9000, approximately |1000
of which was given by A^ 42 M.
student* The Sunday sc host has
23 claaaea with an enrollment last
year of 700. Also there are 1| un
ions in the training union, a W M
U. and a B. 8. U. Cadet William
Kent, president of the local chapter
is also president of th* state B S
U.
Reverend Brown received hie A.
B degree from Wake Forest Cat-
l«gv. attended th* Southern Baptist
Theological seminary at Lou is villa
for a year, received hia R D da-
gree from Crwaier Theological
seaHaary, and hte M A from tha
University of Ponnsylvaata.
Word haa been received from af-
ftetole af th* Baptiet State Get-
rmikm that proparattoaa far aa
adoquau ckureb budding art hte