The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, November 09, 1940, Image 1

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, November 09, 1940, Image 1

Newspaper Page TextDIAL 4-5444 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION The Battalion DIAL 4-5444 STUDENT TRI WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE YOL. 40 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, NOV. 9, 1940 Z725 NO. 24 Dormitory Contracts Let; Work Starts Immediately Dallas, Houston Firms Are Awarded Majority of Contracts Notice has been received from Alfred C. Finn, architect, that the Bellows Construction Company of Houston has been awarded the general contract for the construc tion of the six new dormitories that will be located just west of the College Hospital. Application was made this summer with the Reconstruction Finance Corpora tion for a $600,000 loan for pur pose of erecting new dormitories on the campus. Contract for the plumbing and heating was awarded to Martyn Bros., Inc., of Dallas and the Eu gene Ashe Electric Company of Houston and Dallas received the contract for the electrical work. According to Finn, work on the new dormitories will start im mediately. Each dorm will contain 112 rooms and will be of reinforced concrete and brick construction similar to the twelve dormitories completed last year. Before the construction begins the houses on the site will have to be moved to a location off the cam pus. The college authorities have ruled that only administrative heads of the institution will be permitted to remain on the cam pus and that other persons now residing on the campus will be given first option on the houses they live in and they will have to move them to a point off the cam pus. With the addition of these new dormitories the college will have twenty-seven dorms in use on the campus. No Trace Yet Of Carnes; Reward Is Increased to $1000 Notice has been received from Webb M. Carnes of San Antonio that the reward for any informa tion leading to the whereabouts of his son, Webb M. Carnes, Jr, has been raised to $1,000. The latest developments in the case are that Carnes was seen at Roundrock, Texas some time after he left Waco on Sunday morning, October 27th. Carnes is about five feet, ten inches in height, and weighs 150 pounds. When last seen, he was wearing a brown leather jacket and carrying a brown zipper bag. He has blue eyes and closely-crop ped blonde hair. He is known to have left Waco in a new Pontiac coupe with white sidewall tires. College authorities are cooperat ing in the fullest extent in the search for Carnes. Dallas A&M Club Honors Kyle With Informal Banquet Dean and Mrs. E. J. Kyle were guests of honor at a banquet in the Adolphus Hotel on November 8 which celebrated the 38th year which Dean Kyle has been con nected with Texas A. & M. The Dallas A. & M. club gave the ban quet, as is its custom each year, and selected Kyle as the guest of. honor because of his long period of service and outstanding achieve ments which he has made for the college. The banquet, which was inform al, was attended by many of Dean Kyle’s out of state friends and over 800 former students, their wives and friends. C. M. Evans was toastmaster for the occasion. The principal speakers were Hon. Wright Patman, United States Congressman; Col. T. H. Barton, president of the Lion Oil Refiner ies and a classmate of Kyle’s, El dorado, Arkansas; and Marion S. Church, Dallas Attorney. Although Kyle’s association with the faculty of the college has been continuous for 38 year, he was connected with the college prior to that time as a student. He was graduated in the Class of ’99 and (Continued on Page 4) Latin American Relations Subject Of Ag Eco Lectures The Department of Agricultural Economics is conducting a confer ence on the relations of the United States with Latin American coun tries it was announced by J. W. Barger, head of the department. The conference will consist of three lectures to be given Wednes day, November 13 at the hours of 3 o’clock, 4 o’clock, and 7:30 in the Chemistry lecture room. The first of the three addresses will be on the subject of “Our Eco nomic Relations with Latin Amer ica.” The talk will be delivered by T. U. Purcell, manager of the Houston district office of the U. S. Department of Commerce. Pur cell was for many years Amer ican consul in various Latin-Amer ican countries. The speaker at the 4:30 meeting will be Edgar C. H. Soule, attorney and vice-consul for Ecuador in Houston. His subject will be “Our Cultural and Political Relations with Latin America.” Soule has also served as American consul in several South American countries. (Continued on Page 4) Double-Value Seen In A&M Dance With Two Orchestras Two dances for the price of one" is the bargain cry for the official Aggie dance tonight in Dallas after the football game between A. & M. and S.M.U. Beginning at 9:30 and ending at 12:30, the dance will feature both the music of the Ag- gieland Orchestra and a local Dal las orchestra in two different ball rooms in the Adolphus Hotel. Sponsored by the A. & M. Mo thers’ Club of Dallas, the dance will be official for both the oppos ing schools. For this reason, one ticket will admit the bearer to both floors. Profits made from the affair will be turned over to the A. & M. Library fund to be used in the purchase of new books or in any way the library sees fit. Featured before intermission will be the introduction of the Aggie Day Sweetheart, Miss Mary Mar garet McCarthy. Following this will be a grand march led by Miss Mc Carthy and her escort, Cadet Col onel W. A. Becker. The usual admission price of $1.10 will be charged per couple ‘■and will admit the bearer to both dances. Contrary to recent adver tising, this is the only official Ag gie dance in Dallas this week-end. It will be held in the Adolphus Ho tel, located in the center of down town business district on the cor ner of Commerce and Akard streets, opposite the Magnolia building. For those who like a sweet tune played well, the Aggieland orchestra has developed a swing style for sweet music that pleases the “anti-jitterbugs” as well as the “rug cutters.” The band has worked on a solid style patterned after Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, and Tommy Dorsey, whose arrange ments the band is using. Many of the arrangements are by Bud Nel son, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, recognized as one of the best in the Southwest. Jack Littlejohn, last year’s leader and composer of the popular “I’d Rather Be a Tex as Aggie” also furnishes the band library with arrangement.s Aggie Day Sweetheart Mary Margaret McCarthy of T. S. C. W., Aggie Day Sweetheart, was chosen by a committee of six Aggies. She was presented at the banquet for Dean Kyle in Dallas Friday night and will reign as queen during festivities between the halves of the A. & M. - S. M. U. game today. Miss McCarthy and Cadet Colonel W. A. Becker will lead the grand march tonight at the official Aggie dance at the Adolphus. Famous Aggie Band, 216 Strong, Plays Today in Dallas Parade Will Be From Union Station to SP Depot Juniors Get Head Start On Corps Trip Frolics Friday night in Denton the jun ior classes of A. & M. and T. S. C. W. got*a head start on their fellow students in beginning the festivities with a steak fry and informal dance. The Aggie uni forms were all over the T. S. C. W. campus and many new friendships were started amidst the laughter and frolic which will be continued today at the S. M. U. football game in Dallas. Some of the juniors arrived in Denton by bus and many by the famed “Digit express” but all were in the spirit of a good time when they came up to Brackenridge Hall, the girls’ dormitory, where each man met his date. The par lor was filled with self-conscious students inquiring after unknown and never-before-seen dates. The steaks served to the mem bers of the classes in Lowry woods just put them in the right spirit for a yell practice which was con ducted by junior yell leaders Skeen Staley and Bill Beck. The girls quickly learned the Aggie yells and will be helping the Twelfth Man in (Continued on Page 4) Flying Season Is In Full Swing; All Trainees Enrolled All Tickets To Fracas Have Been Sold Out for 2 Weeks Packed cars, clotted highwaying points, and ever decreasing classes since mid-week. . . . These have been familiar sights to the remain der of the corps who boarded the two Southern Pacific Specials to go to Dallas for the first official corps trip of the year. The junior class, having left in full force Friday for the annual pre-corps trip dinner and dance given them by the juniors of T. S. C. W., will meet the corps in Dallas Saturday morning. The trains will leave College Station at 6 Saturday morn ing and arrive in Dallas at ID o’clock. The units will detrain and march to the designated assembly areas in preparation for the par ade which starts at 10:45. The corps will march down Main Street with the corps staff and the Field Artillery band leading. The reviewing stand will be located at the City Hall Building where the Field Artillery Band will leave the column. The Infantry Band will continue with the column to the Southern Pacific freight depots where the corps will be dismissed. The organizations will fall in as a column of battalions which will be divided into a column of com panies in mass formation with a nine man front. After having disposed of the preliminaries the Aggies will go to Ownby Stadium for the Aggie- SMU tilt which is the outstand- (Continued on Page 4) The flying season for the cur rent season is now in full swing, according to a recent statement made by Gibb Gilchrist, dean of the school of engineering. All students who are to take either the primary or secondary ground school and flight train ing courses have been enrolled, and in the near future, there will prob ably be room for a few additional fliers who wish to pay for the training. However, before the train ing can be given trainees who are students at A. & M., they must have a permit from Dean Gil christ’s office. This permit can be obtained after the application has been submitted and parental con sent obtained if the applicants are up with their scholastic work. Although all matters pertaining to the airport will be retained as a part of the school of engineer ing, Professor H. W. Barlow, Head of the Department of Aeronautical Engineering, in the future will be Co-Ordinator of Flight Training and as such will deal with the op erator of the airport and the Civil Aeronautics Administration. Industrial Safety Section Holds 1st Meeting The first meeting of the Indust rial section of the Texas Safe ty Association, Inc., has been an nounced by Judson Neff, head of the recently formed Industrial Eng ineering department here at the College. The safety Association has been organized and operating ac tively in Texas for some time but the local group which com prises the Industrial Section is the first division of its kind with in the Association. The Safety Association has been conducting the Highway Safety Campaign which has attracted so much attention and turned the eyes of the citizens on the tremendous toll of deaths caused by automo bile accidents, but this group is the first one to begin a safety (Continued on Page 4) The Aggie Band—the nation’s- largest collegiate musical organi zation and voted the best drilled band in the Southwest. The pulse of the spirit of Aggieland. In Dallas today the Artillery Band will lead the parade of ca dets and the Infantry Band will march in the middle to lead the last half of the cadet corps. Between halves of the S.M.U.- A. & M. football game at Ownby stadium the band will carry out an annual tradition between A. & M. and T.S.C.W., the brother and sis ter schools of Texas, when the drum major, Cadet Capt. J. P. Ledbetter, standing in the center of an enormous heart, shaped by the Aggie Band, presents a bou quet of flowers to the Aggie Day Sweetheart, Miss Mary Margaret McCarthy. Numbering 216 members, the Aggie Band is a distinct military organization on the campus with its own Cadet Major, Captains, Lieutenants, and Sergeants. Com posed of an Artillery and an In fantry Band, the members apply their military ideals into their dril ling as well as in their classwork and military science. In their band formation there is a junior or senior at each end of every line. This man is made re line will play in each portion of a drill, which letter or part of a let ter his line will form, and for see ing to it that it is done and done well. Much time is spent by the band in working out each maneu- Cotton Society Hears Talk on the Cotton Problem The Cotton Society, recently or ganized to arouse more interest in the numerous cotton marketing problems that the farmer of the South faces, met Tuesday night to hear J. T. Wegington, Associate Cotton Technologist of the U. S. D. A., speak on the cotton problem. Mr. Wegington has charge of the cotton spinning and fibre re search laboratories of the Agricul tural Service and came to College Station after spending eight years in coton research at Clemson, South Carolina. The following men were elected to guide the club activities for 1940-41: John M. Dixon, President; H. H. Bodine, Vice-President; Ver non Woolridge, Secretary-Treasur er; and Jack Jones, Reporter. The organization of the club was brought about through the efforts of John M. Dixon, marketing and finance senior. ■ver in order that the performance will be perfect in every respect. All members of the band are re quired to live in one dormitory, Harrington Hall, one of the new dormitories constructed last year in the lot of twelve costing $2,000,- 000. A concert band selected on a merit basis from both the Artillery and the Infantry Bands composed of approximately 70 pieces practi ces four nights each week in an hour rehearsal. The finest music published for symphonic band goes under the director’s baton. During the spring several Sunday con certs are played on the campus, and several times each year the band plays programs over the col lege radio station, WTAW. A con cert tour of neighboring towns and a trip to T.S.C.W. is planned each spring. The combined bands form the largest school band in the South and the instrumentation is almost perfect, being equipped with all instruments such as oboes, bas soons, two contra-bass sarruso- phones, flugelhoms, etc. The first introduction which the freshman receives to that renown ed Aggie Spirit is on College Night, as the student body assem- (Continued on Page 4) Becker Featured as Guest Chairman At College Government Week in Denton W. A. Becker, cadet colonel of the corps, and Paul Haines, corps exe cutive, were in Denton Wednes day participating in a college gov ernment conference which was held on the T. S. C. W. campus. Democracy and campus citizen ship formed the main theme and symposiums and panel discussions were held on several phases of these subjects. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thurs day were College Government Week on the campus and the con ference was formally opened by L. H. Hubbard, president of T. S. C. W., on Tuesday. Student lead ers from T. C. U. and S. M. U. as well as those from A. & M. and T. S. C. W. were present as representatives of their schools. “Today’s Democracy” was the subject of a panel discussion held under the leadership of Dick Jay from T. C. U. Melvin Stephenson, student president of T. C. U., Mary Ellen Kellhofer, Betsy Ross, and Dr. Spencer Stoker, who is inter ested in the National Student Fed eration of America, helped con tribute to the discussion. Tuesday night Jack Wilkes, S. M. U. president, led a discussion on “You and Democracy” in the Science Auditorium. Assisting him were Betty Ostlund, former stu dent body president of Florida State College, and Naomi Bout- well, T. S. C. W. student body president. Cadet Colonel W. A. Becker pre sided as guest chairman at a dis cussion of “Making Democracy Work” which was held Wednes day night. Helping him were Meg Greene, chairman of the T. S. C. W. college government committee; Mary Elizabeth Robertson, govern ment week sponsor and vice-presi dent of the National Student Fed eration of America; Sara Troy; and Mary Hess. Circulars, tags, charts, and bul letin boards were used Thursday night in meetings concerning “The Wheels of College Government” and “The Citizen in Action.” As an entertaining feature of the con ference a program was put on call ed “Parade of the Charades” which was acted out by both students and faculty members.

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, November 09, 1940, Image 1

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