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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
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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
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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.
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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
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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-
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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
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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-
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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.