DIAL 4-5444
STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY
NEWSPAPER OF
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
The Battalion
DIAL 4-5444
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
VOL. 40
122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG.
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, OCT. 12, 1940
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NO. 12
Aggietone News World
Premiere Night Nears
Many Notables Will
Attend Ceremonies
7:30 Tuesday Night
The World premiere of Aggie
tone News will be held Tuesday
night at 7:30 at the Campus Thea
ter. College officials, student ex
ecutives, and notables from over
the state will attend the premiere
showing of the newsreel which has
ben sub-titled “The Aggies’ Own
Story On Celluloid.”
Producer and director George
Fuermann has announced that the
theater will be closed Tuesday af
ternoon to prepare for the pre
miere. There will be no advance in
prices for the premiere. The box
office will open at 6:30 p. m.
As it is expected that hundreds
of cadets and civilians will at
tempt to attend the premiere but
will be unable to get in the theater,
junior yell leaders will conduct a
yell practice from the marquee of
the theater and keep lookers-on
informed as to happenings within
the theater.
Following the ceremonies and the
world premiere of Aggietone News,
a regular feature-length product
ion will be shown and following
this a second showing of Aggietone
News will be made which will also
be followed by the feature-length
movie.
The committee to handle ar
rangements for the world premiere
includes Ira F. Lewis, chairman,
George Mueller, Graham Purcell,
Tom Gillis, Skeen Staley, and Bill
Beck.
The regular showing of Aggie
tone News will follow the premiere
on Wednesday and Thursday. In
the future the newsreel will show
every other week.
Fuermann pointed out that al
though the staff had exerted every
effort to produce a professional
newsreel, yet the corps should not
expect too much the first time.
“We have a sound newsreel that
will, we believe, more than satisfy
the vast majority of the corps. Es
pecially will this be true in the
future. However, the staff is an
xious to point out that the first
edition can not possibly be the
equal of the major newsreels which
are international in content.”
Aggietone News is the only reg
ular newsreel produced and direct
ed entirely by the students of a
major American college or uni
versity.
Staff members, besides Fuer
mann, include associate producers
Ira F. Lewis, Mineral Wells;
George Mueller, Alton, Illinois; and
Graham Purcell, Archer City. E.
R. (Buster) Keeton is assistant di
rector. W. Roland Laney, Denton*
is director of photography and he
is assisted by M. K. Soderquist,
Hot Springs, Arkansas, and F. W.
Allen. Sports director is H. O.
(Hub) Johnson, Houston. John
son’s assistants are R. V. (Bob)
Myers, Harlingen, and Jack C.
Hollimon, Houston. Pete H. Tum-
linson, Bryan, is art director and
he is assisted by Sid C. Lord, San
Antonio, and Lavere Brooks, Som
erville. Technical advisor is Howard
Berry, A. & M. photographer.
All facts concerning the world
premiere will appear in Tuesday’s
Battalion.
ASAE Seniors To
Leave Wednesday
On Inspection Trip
The largest group of Seniors to
make an Agricultural Engineering
Inspection Trip will leave Wed
nesday afternoon at 5 o’clock for
Dallas. Traveling by chartered bus,
provided by the Agricultural En
gineering Society, the group will
arrive at the Jefferson Hotel in
Dallas about 9:00 o’clock.
Approximately 30 Seniors will
make the trip, accompanied by
F. R. Jones, Head of the Ag. Eng.
Department, and Professor F. W.
Peikert, instructor in Farm Ma
chinery.
Thursday, the party will be the
guests of the representatives of
the Farm Implement manufactur-.
ers at the State Fair. The latest
developments in farm machinery
will be explained, and the new
models will be demonstrated. They
will also visit the automobile di
vision, and inspect the 1941 model
cars.
Friday morning, the group will
go to the Western State Grocery
Company, which is a large distrib
uting unit for Safeway Stores. The
Company has one of the most mod
ern baking units in the Southwest,
a very large vegetable storage
plant, and a banana curing ware
house. They also roast and grind
all different blends of coffee for
the Safeway Stores in this section.
After leaving the Western States
Grocery Company, the group will
go to Mesquite to the Soil Conser
vation unit there. Methods of strip
cropping, vegetative covering, con
touring and contour furrowing, and
terracing now being used in the
soil conservation programs will be
shown them. They will leave for
College Station about 6:00 p. m.
Friday.
Sheep, Goat Raisers
Will Arrive Thursday
The quarterly meeting of the
directors of the Texas Sheep and
Goat Raisers Association will be
held here on the campus on Octob
er 17 and 18, according to an an
nouncement by Stanley Davis, wool
and mohair specialist connected
with the Agricultural Experiment
Station who is assisting with ar
rangements for the program. The
association has a membership of
approximately 10,000 and has its
own publication and headquarters
in San Angelo, Texas.
Approximately 200 directors,
their wives and friends are ex
pected for the meeting. While here
they will attend a banquet and the
A. & M. rodeo. E. S. Mayer, prom
inent sheep, goat and cattle man,
is president of the association and
A. K. Mackey, formerly of the
animal husbandry department, is
the secretary. E. J. Kyle, Dean of
Agriculture, and R. P. Marsteller,
Dean of Veterinary Medicine, will
talk to the directors.
1,500 To Register For Draft Wednesday
Saddle and Sirloin
Club Preparing For
Large Crowd Friday
Graham Purcell of - Archer City
and Miss Mollie McKcllar of San
Antonio will reign supreme as the
king and queen of the annual A.
& M. Rodeo, which will be held in
the Animal Husbandry Pavilion
Friday, October 18. This rodeo is
sponsored every year by the Saddle
and Sirloin Club and the proceeds
will go to the International Stock
Judging Team of Chicago, Illinois,
of which several A. & M. students
are members.
Preparations for the rodeo are
rapidly nearing completion, with
the pens and chutes almost finish
ed. The horses to be ridden will
be experienced rodeo stock and will
come from Rockdale.
In addition to the regular roping
and riding contests this year’s ro
deo will have two added features.
These will be the hog roping con
test in which the professors of A.
& M. will participate and billy
goat roping by the business men of
Bryan.
There will be two shows, one
Friday afternoon and the other
Friday night. Tickets for the event
may be obtained from any junior
who is a member of the Saddle and
Sirloin Club.
O’Daniel To Be
Here For Prison
Board Conference
Governor W. Lee O’Daniel will
arrive in College Station Wednes
day for a meeting with members
of the Texas Prison Board and a
special committee of faculty mem
bers to consider plans for using
college facilities to aid the Prison
System in improving the prison
farms.
An attempt will be made to
work out a plan for the members
of the college staff to inspect the
various farms, and to make recom
mendations for the improvement of
the dairy, beef, and swine herds.
The faculty committee was ap
pointed by President T. O. Walton;
Dean E. J. Kyle, School of Agri
culture; H. H. Williamson, Direc
tor of the Agricultural Extension
Service; and A. B. Conner, Director
of the Agricultural Experiment
Station. The committee members
are Dean Kyle; Jask Shelton, Vice-
Director of the Extension Service;
J. W. Barger, head of the Agricul
tural Economics Department; L. P.
Gabbard, chief of the Farm and
Ranch Economics Department of
the Experiment Station ;and C. N.
Shepardson, head of the Dairy Hus
bandry department.
Henry Hass To Speak At
Chemical Society Meeting
Dr. Henry B. Haas, Head of the
Department of Chemistry of Pur
due University at LaFayette, In
diana, will speak to the Texas A.
& M. Section of the American
Chemical Society on Wednesday,
October 16 at 8 p. m. in the chem
ical lecture room of the Depart
ment of Chemistry. Dr. Haas’ sub
ject is “The Recent Development
in the Nitroparaffins”. Compounds
of practical importance have been
derived from petroleum by process
es of nitration, and since petroleum
is one of Texas’ greatest material
resources, the subject is of great
importance to Texas. Over seven
hundred organic compounds have
been made available by the nitra
tion processes and further processes
based upon the nitroparaffins. All
interested are invited to attend.
Increase In
Enrollment Due
To Engineers, Fish
The final figures on registration
for the current school year of
1940-41 show a decided gain over
previous years. The enrollment has
increased in ^every department,
with the Engineering department
showing the largest gain by a
small margin.
In the Agriculture School there
are 2,204 students registered as
compared with 2,075 registered in
this department last year. This
shows an increase of 129 students.
In the Arts and Sciences Depart
ment there are 711 students regis
tered which is an increase of 113
over last year’s registration of
598.
In the Veterinary Medicine
School there are 294 students. Last
year there were 386. This is an in
crease of only eight. However, this
department is limited to 100 new
students which accounts for the
small gain.
The freshmen have the largest
number of students enrolled with
a total of 2,246. The sophomores
have 1601 students registered,
which is some 22 less than they
had last year. The Juniors show
an increase of 286 students, hav
ing 1410 students this year as
compared to last year’s 1124. Mem
bership of this year’s senior class
of 996 shows an increase of 39 over
last year’s 957. There are 93 five
year men compared with last year’s
49 and the graduate students show
a loss of 21 men, having 178 stud
ents this year and 199 last year.
The grand total for this year is
6534 students. This is an increase
of 471 over last year’s enrollment
of 6063 and 952 over the 1938-39
enrollment of 5582.
Livestock Judgers
Leave for Dallas Fair
The Senior Livestock Judging
team left Friday for the State Fair
at Dallas.
The boys making the trip are
Wayne Maddox, Bill Cumutt, Mel
vin Callihan; M. B. Inman, Tommy
Foster, Finley Brewster, Leslie
Brandis, Mac Jones, John Stul,
James Rice, Buster Gentry, Grahm
Purcell and Harold Shahan. Prof.
R. R. Van Roeder, Jr., coach of
the team, is making the trip with
the boys.
The team will spend most of its
time at judging classes of animals
for practice. The main purpose of
the trip is to let them work with
cattle which are new to them as
they are already too familiar with
the cattle here at A. & M. to get
any real practice from judging
them. The team will, however, take
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Slicker, Nelson, Stovell, Yarbrough
To Be ’40-’41 Ross Volunteer Officers
The Ross Volunteers, honorary-^-
military organization of A.&Mi.
held its first meeting of the 1940-
41 school year Tuesday night for
the election of officers. Joe Slicker
was elected captain with Jack Nel
son first lieutenant and second-in-
command. Tom Stovell was elected
second lieutenant and Dave Yar
brough, secretary-treasurer. All the
officers chosen were organization
commanders.
The new members of the Ross
Volunteers will be chosen this year
in the same way they were chosen
last year. Each organization com
mander will submit the names of
two outstanding juniors, subject to
the aproval of the commandant,
for membership. The maximum
sstrength of this organization is
150 men. At present there are 75
members.
The Ross Volunteers appeared in
1887 as a crack military organ
ization and the first organized
student activity. At that time they
were called the Scott Volunteers,
and for a time the name changed as
often as the college changed pres
idents, custom dictating that the
organization be named after the
president in office. However, in
1891 the present name was per
manently adopted in honor of Tex
as’ former governor Lawrence Sul
livan Ross who became president of
A. & M.
The original uniform of tLe
company was of white duck with
gold ornaments, and tin hats. How
ever, in 1907 this uniform was
changed to gray and blue with a
large Stetson hat. This dress did
not meet with favor, so the white
uniform was again adopted with
white caps substituted for the tin
hats.
The Ross Volunteers is composed
of two platoons and is unique in
that it follows the old type of
drill regulations, which make for
more snap, military precision, and
showmanship. Nor is the drill a
thing to be taken lightly by the
members of the company. From
January until the middle of May
they drill for forty-five minutes
a day, four days a week.
This year will mark the fifty-
fourth year of continued activ
ity for this organization.
Selection of
Welfare Committee
Nears Completion
With the Sophomore Representa.
tives elected last week, the mem
bers of the Student Welfare Com
mittee for the current session have
almost all been selected.
Composed of members of the fac
ulty and teaching staff, and mem
bers from the student body, the
Committee studies problems af
fecting the welfare of the students,
and makes recommendations to the
faculty, Commandant, or Board of
Directors for the proper measures.
The proposed restroom in the Aca
demic Building, the new drinking
fountain adjacent to the new mess
hall, and the present system of
tailor concessions and lowered
cleaning rates were secured through
the recommendations of the Wel
fare Committee made last year.
The members of the student body
on the committee include one se
nior from each battalion, 3 mem
bers of the junior class, 2 soph
omores, and one freshman, who
has as yet not been elected. The
student representatives are:
Seniors:
Infantry: Tommy Foster, 1st Bn.,
Bob Button, 2nd Bn., Howard Shel
ton, 3rd Bn; Field Artillery: E. E.
Schott, 1st Bn., Lloyd Mayfield,
2nd Bn; Keith Dahl, 3rd Bn;
Cavalry; Lee Campbell, 1st Squad
ron; Jim D. Pinson, 2nd Squad
ron; Coast Artillery: Joe Slicker,
1st Bn.; Walter Hendon, 2nd Bn.;
Engineers: Phil Potts, 1st Bn.;
Paul Wright, 2nd Bn.; Composite
Regiment: E. G. Amundsen, Chem.
Warfare Bn.; L. H. Grasshoff, Sig
nal Corps Bn.
Juniors: Willard Clark, A. C.
Sorrell, and Randon Kenny.
Sophomores: Bob Bryant and
Burn Bright.
Joe Slicker, who has been elect
ed to command the Ross Volun
teer Company this year. Slicker
was first sergeant of the organ
ization last year.
Presbyterians
To Raise Money
For $90,000 Church
$90,000 has been alotted for a
Presbyterian church building here
at College Station. The campaign
to raise funds, which was author
ized by the Presbyterian Synod of
Texas, will be under the general
supervision of a campaign com
mittee appointed by the Synod of
Texas.
Represented on the committee is
Dean Bolton who is an elder in
the local church and a res
ident of College Station. The com
mittee hopes to raise the requested
amount in a very short time
through Presbyterian churches
throughout the state and by means
of personal contributions to the
fund.
In the past the Y. M. C. A.
Chapel has been used as a subs
titute for a church building. How
ever, due to the tremendous growth
in membership and attendance,
the chapel has become entirely too
small to adaquately accommodate
all of the students and people of
the community who wished to at
tend. Rev. Anderson, pastor of the
local church, in giving a review of
the rapid growth of the church’s
membership stated that the to
tal membership had increased from
22 twelve years ago to 170 at this
time. At the present time, over 600
students are enrolled in the church’s
classes.
A&M-UCLA Game To
Be Broadcast Direct
From Sunny California
Today’s tilt between the Texas
Aggies and U. C. L. A. will be
broadcast over the Texas Quality
Network, which includes most ma
jor radio stations throughout the
state, at 4:20 p.m., central stand
ard time.
Kern Tips will handle the pro
gram and it will be a “direct from
the field” broadcast. The credit for
this presentation goes to the Hum
ble Oil and Refining Company.
All of the color of the game will
be retained in this broadcast be
cause it is a direct play-by-play
description from the Coliseum.
This is an improvement over the
West Coast game of 1939 that
was given to the fans in the South
west by a relay system.
Class Officers
Alden Cathey will direct the
destinies of the junior class this
year.
Tom Gillis, who was recently
elected vice-president of the’40-
41 junior class.
Animal Husbandry Dept. To Train
Students For Jobs in Meat Industry
A new course this year, Animal+are four different size lockers that
Husbandry 431, “Meat Plant Oper
ation”, marks the beginning of a
proposed four year curriculum in
meats that the Animal Husbandry
Department hopes to have in full
swing by next fall. No other col
lege offers such a course; in fact,
A.&M. will be the first college in
the nation to give fundamental
training in all phases of the meats
industry.
The Animal Husbandry Depart
ment, in offering a new course to
train students in the operation and
management of frozen food locker
plants is continuing its policy of
keeping abreast of the times. These
frozen food locker plants are a
relatively new industry in Texas
but the number of plants is increas
ing very rapidly and a definite de
mand for managers with a well
rounded meats background has re
sulted. For this training 220 frozen
food lockers have been installed in
the basement of the Meats Lab
oratory. These lockers are design
ed for the storage of all kinds of
meats and a great many different
kinds of fruits and vegetables and
are available to the public for
rental at the very nominal rate of
. from $7 to $12 per year. There
will accommodate from 175 to 275
pounds of packaged meats each.
Meat to be placed in the lockers
is first cut into retail cuts accord
ing to the instructions of the patron
and then wrapped in a special
freezer locker paper and labeled
with the name of the cut, date of
packaging and locker number. It
is then placed in a “quick freezer”
(10 to 15 degrees below zero) and
held there until it is thoroughly
frozen. After this first rapid freez
ing the packages are transferred
to the patron’s locker which is in
a room that is maintained at a
temperature of zero. The patron
has a key to his own locker and
has ready access to it during reg
ular working hours.
Patrons of the lockers will not
only find that they will be able to
live cheaper but also more satis
factorily because meats and other
foods can be placed in the locker
when they are chceap, and con
sumed when they are scarce and
higher in price. Beef and lamb can
be kept a year and pork at least
six months with no appreciable de
terioration in quality. Vegetables
retain practically all of their vita
mins and fresh flavor ever after
long periods of storage.
50 Seniors To
Assist Registrar
Failure To Register
Carries Heavy Fine
Approximately one thousand five
hundred boys are expected to troop
through the office of the registrar
to register themselves under the
Selective Training and Service Act
Wednesday. 'These figures accur
ately compiled by Registrar E. J.
Howell indicate a large part of the
student body affected by conscrip
tion.
All men over 21 years of age and
who are not enrolled in the advan
ced course of R. O. T. C. will be
required to register under the act,
and special arrangement has been
made by E. J. Howell to allow stu
dents in A. & M. to register here
at school in the Registrar’s of
fice rather than to travel to their
respective legal residences to reg
ister there.
Some 50 senior students will be
called in as volunteers in the task
of registration, and the process
will take the entire day, beginning
at 7 a.m. and lasting until 9 p.m.
or until everyone who presents him
self at the office is registered.
As stated in the act, the penalty
for failure to register is five years
in the penitentiary or $10,00 fine
or both.
Local residents and professors
will be cared for by city and county
authorities, and it is believed that
their registration will be handled
in the Consolidated City high
school. Chas. Stasney, election
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R0TC Contracts
For Juniors Out
By Registration
All students active under the ad
vanced course R.O.T.C. contract
will be exempt from the require
ment of registration under the
Conscription Bill on October 16, it
was announced Friday by the mili
tary department. A list will be fur
nished by the Military Department
to the Selectice Service Registra
tion board of this county before
October 16 showing the names of
these students.
The Military Department has
been informed by a member of this
board that those students who
have finished the advanced course
R.O.T.C. under contract and who
are waiting to become eligible for
appointment in the Officers Re
serve Corps, or students who have
finished part of the advanced R.O.
T.C. course and who are not now ac
tive WILL BE REQUIRED To
register.
A copy of the list of those who
are exempt from this measure will
be posted on the “All Units Bulle
tin Board” opposite room 101 in
the Academic Building.
This exemption will affect 951
students who are under the con
tracts which are allotted to this
school for advanced R.O.T.C. en
rollment.
Poultry Team Goes
To Texas State Fair
The A. & M. Poultry Team, com
posed of Melvis A. Ellis of Snyder,
Jim W. Wilkerson of Azle, Donald
Demke of Stephenville, and Fred
Price from Cleburne left Thursday
afternoon for the State Fair of
Texas in Dallas. Two of the boys
are transfer students from North
Texas Agricultural College and two
are from John Tarleton Agricul
tural College. Professor E. D. Par
nell, team coach, is a former stu
dent of John Tarleton.
The team is practicing judging
at the State Fair poultry show in
preparation for the National Poul
try Contest to be held in Chicago
November 30.
Prior to the Dallas trip the team
judged market poultry classes in
Houston and helped judge poultry
shows in La Grange, Brenham, and
Rosenburg.
After leaving College Station
November 25, the team is planning
to judge at Waco, Stillwater,
Springfield, and Columbia, Coach
Parnell said.