DIAL 4-5444
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
The Battalion
DIAL 4-5444
STUDENT TRI WEEKLY
NEWSPAPER OF
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
VOL. 40 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, DEC. 7, 1940
Z725 NO. 33
Six A & M Employees To Be
Honored at Xmas Banquet
Plaques, Canes
To Be Given In Honor
Of 25 Years Service
Six employees of A. & M. Col
lege will be honored for twenty-
five years service at the annual
College Christmas banquet given
all college employees by the For
mer Students Association in the
main dining room of Sbisa Hall
Friday, December 20.
As is customary, all employees
of the college with twenty-five
years service are honored by the
Former Students Association at
their annual Christmas Banquet.
The six men who have completed
twenty-five years service will
each be presented with a citation
recognizing their service and a
walking cane with Twenty Five
Year Club engraved on it. Bert
Pfaff ’25, President of the Former
Student Association, will present
the citations to A. L. Darnell, Pro
fessor of Dairy Husbandry; S. C.
Hoyle, editor of college publica
tions; Dr. E. B. Reynolds, Chief of
the Division of Agronomy Agri
cultural Experiment Station; R. E.
Karper, Agronomist in charge of
Sorghum investigation for the Ag
ricultural Experiment Station at
Lubbock, M. P. Holleman, Chief
clerk, Agricultural Experiment
Station, and Sam Steptoe (colored)
connected with the Entomology
Department.
About 800 employees and their
wives will attend the banquet. Wal
ter Jenkins of Houston will be in
charge of the musical program.
President Walton will deliver a
Christmas message to all the
guests.
Swift Essay
Contest Winner
Leaves for Chicago
W. T. Berry, winner of the Swift
Essay Contest for students ma
joring in Animal Husbandry, left
Thursday for Chicago to attend
the International Livestock Show
which is from December 8 to 11.
After the show Berry will remain
in Chicago until Wednesday to
make a study of the Swift Packing
Plant.
The essays entered in the con
test discussed the relation of the
meat packer to the producer and
consumer of animal products. The
winning essay titled “The Packer’s
Marketing Machine,’ stressed tbe
fact that the packer helps the pro
ducer obtain a good price for his
product and at the same time sup
plies the consumer with a whole
some food.
Berry’s effort was judged to be
the best after the original number
of papers entered had been nar-
jowed down to five in the final
judging. The committee judging
the essays was composed of four
men in the animal husbandry de
partment.
Shepardson
Will Make Trip
To Ottawa, Canada
A study of Canadian methods
and technique in the production of
milk records will be made by C. N.
Shepardson, head of the Dairy Hus
bandry Department, who will leave
for Ottawa, Canada, Sunday.
Shepardson will represent the
Board of Directors of the Amer
ican Jersey Cattle Club when he
confers with officials of the Cana
dian Jersey Cattle Club and the
dairy representatives of the Cana
dian Government in an effort to
determine the principles underly
ing the large records the Jersey
cows in Canada have been mak
ing.
From a study of the Canadian
production records, Shepardson
will develop a program to be in
corporated in the present breed im
provement program which is spon
sored by the American Jersey Cat
tle Club. From Ottawa, Shepard
son will leave for New York City
for a conference with the officials
of the Jersey club, of which he is
now serving his second term as a
member of the Board of Directors.
(Continued on Page 4)
Remainder of
Official Club List
Announced Today
Given below is the remainder of
the list of the officially recognized
clubs. A portion of this list was
printed in a previous issue of The
Battalion. The list will be com
pleted with this issue.
ARCHITECTURE CLUB. . .Presi
dent, LaVere Brooks; V-President,
Sid Lord; Treasurer, Terry Thrift;
Secretary, Gordon McCutchan; Sgt.
at Arms, Moffit Adams; Reporter,
J. B. Pierce.
A. S. C. E. . . .President, Henry
Drumwright; V-President, Ross H.
Cox; Sec-Treas., Jessie A. Teague;
Reporter, W. C. Carter.
A. S. M. E. . . .President, J. J.
Walker; V-President, Bob Nalley;
Secretary, Ed Clark; Treasurer, H.
M. Rollins.
A.V.M.A., JR. CHAPTER. . . Pres
ident, O. H. Stalheim; V-Pres.,
Aaron Appleby; Pres-Elect, Wil
liam Banks; Sec-Treas, Vernon Is-
sac.
AZTECA CLUB. . . President, H.
V. Vasquez; V-Pres, David Phillips;
Sec-Treas, F. G. Ruiz.
BIG SPRINGS A. & M. CLUB. . .
Pres, R. S. Crawford; V-Pres, Mor
ris Burns; Sec-Treas, W. T. Robin
son.
(Continued on Page 4)
Eleven More A & M Men Complete
Basic Air Training at Randolph Field
Eleven Texas A. & M. flying"
cadets are among the 266 embryo
pilots who finished the second
step of their basic phase of train
ing for military pilots November
25 at Randolph Field, Texas, the
“West Point of the Air”.
The flying cadets who have at
tended Texas A. & M. are J. I.
Hopkins, Palestine, Texas, ’40; D.
E. Braswell, Dallas, Texas, ’40;
John P. Couch, McKinney, Texas,
’40; J. J. Keeter, Throckmorton,
Texas, ’40; V. C. Denton, Pahokee,
Fla., ’40; C. A. Montgomery, Den
ton, Texas, ’39; Ken T. Merritt,
Arlington, Texas, ’40; Wm. C. Mel
ton, Mt. Pleasant, Texas, ’40; John
R. Propst, Amarillo, Texas, ’40;
H. E. “Herbie” Smith, Big Lake,
Texas, ,’40; Wade C. Walles, Port
Neches, Texas, ’36. They transfer
red to the Advanced Flying school
at Kelly Field, Texas, for a final
ten week aerial training in forma
tion flying and cross country nav
igation, both day and night, before
winning their “Wings” and should
er bars as Second Lieutenants in
the Air Corps Reserve.
The ninth class of flying cadets
■to complete basic training under
the expansion program of the Air
Corps started their Primary trai-
ing last July. They spent their
first ten weeks learning the funda
mentals of pilotage on rugged 200
horsepower army biplanes, logging
about 65 hours of flying time,
about half of it solo.
In September all were assembled
at Randolph Field for their basic
flight training. The flying cadets
stepped from their low powered
primary training planes into a 450
horse-power low wing basic train
er with a cruising speed of about
150 miles an hour.
Ahead of them lies the final step
in the transformation of a young
college man into a full-fledged mil
itary pilot. At Kelly Field they
will fly even speedier planes on
navigation fights several hundred
miles in extent.
At graduation, scheduled some
time soon in January, they will get
their coveted “Wings” and be ready
for service on combat squadrons of
the rapidly expanding Air Corps.
When commissioned their pay will
be increased to $205 per month.
Flowers For a Star
Jean Dickenson smiles for the camera as she is presented with
a bouquet of roses during intermission at her performance on the
Town Hall program series Wednesday night. With her in the pic
ture are (left to right) Henry Beville, David Yarborough, Paul
Haines, and William Hensel who..were responsible for arranging the
program.
Cadets Enjoy Jean Dickenson As
Town Hall Presents Third Concert
By George Fuermann "
The audience enjoyed Jean Dick
enson—and Jean enjoyed the aud
ience.
Blessed with an attractive face
and figure, an excellent stage per
sonality and a fairly capable—
though young—voice, the popular
radio and concert singer present
ed the third concert of the cur
rent Town Hall series Wednesday
night in Guion Hall before an
audience of 2,000 cadets and civil
ians.
Few concert artists who have ap
peared at A. & M. have so obvious
ly enjoyed performing for the
corps as did Miss Dickenson. Amaz
ed at the typically enthusiastic Ag
gie reception given her throughout
the concert, she commented that,
“I’ve never before been so thrilled
by such a breath-taking reception
as the cadets gave me tonight; I can
hardly find words to describe my
feelings.”
Presenting a concert composed,
for the main part, of semi-classi-
cal numbers. Miss Dickenson and
her accompanist, Marian Kalay-
jian, were quick to win the audi
ence’s favor. Unique in the history
of A. & M. concert goers were Miss
Dickenson’s clever verbal intro
ductions explaining the various
songs as each was sung.
Many in the audience commented
on the concert in comparison with
last year’s Gladys Swarthout pro-
YMCA To Have
Organization Xmas
Trees Ready Dec. 16
Christmas trees will be available
for the various organizations by
December 16, M. L. Cashion, head
of the Y. M. C. A., announced Fri
day.
The trees, which are furnished
by the Landscape Arts Department
will be placed in the old “Y” build
ing and the new “Y” building at
the Consolidated High School. Dat
es will be reserved for the time
that each organization to hold its
tree according to request made by
each company commander at the
"V. M. C. A. Companies making the
first requests will get their choice
of holding their tree nearest the
holidays.
Aeronautical Students
To Hold 2d Meeting Monday
The A. & M. College Student
Branch of the Institute of Aero
nautical Sciences will meet Monday
at 7 p. m. in the chemistry lecture
room. By-laws of the chapter will
be presented to the members for
adoption and other important bus
iness will be discussed.
Membership application cards are
available to those interested in
becoming members of the Insti
tute of Aeronautical Sciences. The
film, “Conquest of the Air” will be
shown. Any visitors are welcome to
come see the film.
■gram. However, the two are dif
ficult to justly compare as Miss
Swarthout is in an entirely dif
ferent class than Miss Dickenson.
The Swarthout voice is more ma
tured, is a coloratura rather than
a lyric soprano and has consid
erably more depth than the Dicken
son voice. In years to come it is
possible that Miss Dickenson will
rank with Gladys Swarthout as a
singer; but thus far she has had
neither the experience nor the
training of the famed American
coloratura soprano.
In summary, the Dickenson con
cert was excellent and well re
ceived, will undoubtedly be one of
the highlights of the current Town
Hall season' and presented a gra
cious, beautiful and capable Amer
ican singer to an appreciative
audience.
List Grows
As Another Aggie
Joins “Airwayers” Club
Another Aggie has been added
to the list of those who have “high-
wayed” a ride by plane. This time
it was Arthur Lapham, freshman of
B Battery Coast Artillery who did
the ‘airwaying.’ He was starting
on his way to Austin for the
Thanksgiving game via “thumb
special” in typical Aggie style
when he was picked up by a Tay-
lorcraft salesman and taken to the
airport.
From there he was flown to
Waco. The salesman then took
Lapham out to the Austin highway
and had him well on his way again.
It took him less than an hour to go
from College Station to Waco.
Regional Officials
Of FSA Here for Meet
Thirty regional officials of the
Farm Security Administration are
on the campus of A. & M. college
today for a conference to which
the college personnel is invited.
C. M. Evans, formerly of College
Station, regional administrator of
the FSA, is in charge of the meet
ing.
One of the conference features
was a banquet scheduled last
night in Sbisa Hall.
President T. O. Walton is one
of the speakers, addressing the
group on “Home Ownership.” Also
appearing on the program is V.
K. Sugareff, professor of history,
who will speak on “The Challenge
to Our Democracy and our React
ions to It.” Two hundred Singing
Cadets will entertain the visitors
with banquet music.
Conferences are held in the ag
ricultural engineering lecture room.
Work Progressing on New Dormitory
Location; Many Houses Are Being Moved
Car Mechanics
Short Course Is
Presented in Bryan
Under the cooperative plan be
tween A. & M. College and the
State Board for Vocational Ed
ucation, a short course open to
all automobile mechanics opened
in Bryan last Tuesday night.
Classes under the leadership of
J. R. Crawford and Elmer Frede
are being held each night from
7 to 10 p.m. at the Murray Chevro
let Company Garage in Bryan. The
course will last for ten nights and
is open to any mechanic or mechan
ics’ helper in this vicinity. The
equipment they are using in the
course is of the latest type and
includes all the tools necessary to
check for front wheel align
ment, carburation, motor tuneup
and front wheel balancing.
Classes are limited to twenty
men each so that each will have a
chance to become familiar with the
equipment. The course will cover
all the fundamental principles of
the automobile. Anyone desiring
further information may phone the
Department of Industrial Edu
cation, College 4-7564.
1st Club Dance
Of Season Given
By Civil Engineers
A. & M.’s social season for
1940-41 started off last night when
the American Society of Civil En
gineers swung out to the strains
of Ed Minnock and his Aggieland
Orchestra in the Banquet Room of
Sbisa Hall. The first of twenty-
two club and organization spon
sored dances on the current season
program, the affair ushered in the
holiday spirit in grand style.
The banquet room was gaily
decorated in Christmas colors with
holly adorning the walls and a
large colorfully lighted Christmas
tree at one end of the room.
Only Civil Engineering, Indus
trial Education, and Engineering
Administration students were al
lowed to attend and dates came
from all over the state with Sam
Houston State Teachers College
furnishing the majority of the op-'
posite sex.
The A.S.C.E.’s held the first
dance ever sponsored by any chap
ter of an engineering society at
A. & M. last year and following its
success and the success of the
dance last night the affair prom
ises to become an annual affair
for the C.E.’s to look forward to.
Russell Will
Preside At Annual
Welfare Assn Meeting
Prof. Dan Russell, head of the
rural sociology department and
president of the Texas Social Wel
fare Association, left Thursday
to attend the regional meetings of
the association in Dallas, Green
ville and Tyler this week.
The theme of the meetings will
be the pamphlet “Need”. This pam
phlet is a study of the bqsic soc
ial needs of Texas which has re
cently been put in book form by the
association. The studies to be made
at these meetings will tend to
show the development made for
common welfare all over Texas.
Professor Russell will have an
active part in all the meetings in
addition to acting as the presiding
officer. He will return to College
Station Tuesday, December 10.
Longhorn Vanity Fair
Deadline Set Dec. 21
The dead-line for freshmen pic
tures has been set for December
21, Ele Baggett, editor of the Long
horn, announced today.
All reservations for Vanity Fair
and Senior Favorites must be in
for the Christmas holidays, al
though the dead-line for the ac
tual entries has been set for Jan
uary 12.
Rice Institute
Dean Perplexed So
“Sammy Owl” Returns
“Sammy” Owl has returned to
the A. & M. trophy case after a
brief stay at Rice Institute.
Sammy is the stuffed owl that
was taken early Wednesday morn
ing when pranksters broke the
glass trophy case and scattered
handfulls of rice in their wake.
After news of the theft reached
Houston, officials of the Institute
made an investigation of the affair
and Friday afternoon Dean Harry
B. Weiser announced that the ob
ject of the search had been found.
J. N. Miller, president of the Stu
dent Association and M. C. Sul-
lender, chairman of the Halls Com
mittee of Rice journeyed from
Houston the same afternoon de
positing the prize with Dean Bol
ton and making remuneration for
the damage done to the trophy
case.
This morning Sammy was his
cheery self in his customary perch
in the AJcademic trophy case.
4_—
Crop Judging
Team Places 2nd
In Chicago Contest
The livestock judging team re
turned Wednesday night from Chi
cago after a successful trip to the
International Livestock Exposition.
The team representing A. & M.
won second place in the entire
contest in which 31 teams con
sisting of 155 contestants repre
senting 29 states were entered.
They won second place in the cat
tle division, third place in the
sheep division, fifth in swine and
eleventh in horses. They also won
a trophy cup given by the Berk
shire Breeds Association for being
the top team in the Berkshire
division of the swine classes.
R. T. Foster was the fourth man
in the entire contest taking fourth
place in both the cattle and horse
divisions. Melvin R. Calliham, the
only other boy from A. & M. rank
ing in the first ten of any division
of the contest, won seventh place
in the horse classes.
The team made several stops on
the way to Chicago, stopping at Es-
chelman’s Percheron Farm in Sedg
wick, Kansas, Goods Belgian Farm,
Nebraska State College and Fitch
Farm near Des Moines, Iowa to
judge horses; Kansas State College
at Manhattan to judge cattle, sheep
and hogs; and at Turner Hereford
Ranch at Sulphur, Okla., to judge
cattle. For variety the team re
turned through Kentucky, Tennes
see, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
Composing the team were M.
R. Callihan of Conway, R. T. Fos
ter of Sterling City, L. J. Gentry
of Henrietta, J. T. Rice of McLean,
L. E. Brandes of Weimar, and M. B.
Inman of Childress. Team coach is
R. J. von Roeder.
classes in “Institutional Manage
ment” and “Equipment” from T.
S. C. W. visited the college yes
terday specifically for the purpose
of studying the A. & M. dining
halls system. Accompanied by their
two teachers Miss Nell Morris,
chief dietician, and Miss Grace
Augustine, assistant professor of
foods, they toured and took notes
on the kitchen equipment, servicb,
baker shop, and store rooms of
both mess halls. The girls are ju
niors and seniors in the depart
ment of Home Economics specializ
ing in the management of school
lunch rooms, hotel cafes, and in
stitutional kitchens. Their visit
here at the college is the only stop
on their inspection trip.
The students left Denton yes
terday morning at 5 a. m. and ar
rived here at 11 a. m. in two buss
es. They breakfasted on the bus
and after having an early lunch
Vicinity Must Be
Moved or Destroyed
A two story dwelling and sev
eral small buildings have fallen
under the axes of wrecking crews
engaged in clearing ground for the
new dormitories being constructed
near the west entrance to the A. &
M. campus.
Two crews have actually been
engaged in the work. One crew is
razing the small structures, and
the other crew is busy moving the
large structure to a new location
between the college hospital and the
Aggieland Inn. After the house has
been moved it will be remodeled
for use as the nurse’s home.
Bellows Construction Company
has been hauling in equipment and
erecting store rooms and offices.
The spur track which branches
off the Missouri Pacific Lines has
been removed and placed back of
the new dorm location, parallel to
the old road to' Bryan. It will be
used to ship in necessary equip
ment and supplies.
All of the houses in the vicin
ity are to be moved or razed with
the exception of Dean Kyle’s house
which is far enough away as not
to interfere.
The dormitories located in the
cleared sections are already staked
out and the excavation on the foun
dations has began. Three of the
dormitories will be placed perpen
dicular to the street running by the
side of the hospital and one will
sit at an angle on the corner and
the other two will sit parallel to
the street and behind the first
three.
State Board
Meets Here To
License Architects
The State Board of Architectur
al Examiners, consisting of C. H.
Page, Austin, chairman of the
Board; Herbert Voelker, Wichita
Falls, vice chairman; and T. D.
Broad, Dallas, Secretary, has ar
rived here to give an examination
for the license to practice archi
tecture.
The examination will continue
for four days, December 4, 5, 6,
and 7, and will be held here under
the supervision of the A. & M.
Architectural Department. About
12 persons are taking the axamina-
tion including John C. Kerr, a
senior majoring in architecture.
In order to pass the examination
and to receive a license to practice
architecture, a candidate must
average a grade of 75 on the test.
The examination will cover many
different phases of the field of
architecture such as mechanics of
materials, practice and supervision,
reinforced concrete and fireproof
design, graphic statistics, architec
tural composition, history of ar
chitecture, and practical building
design. Each of these various sub
jects will be covered on different
days by the examination.
their inspection tour. The entire
two classes were very much im
pressed with the display of equip
ment in the mess hall system as
ably expressed by Miss Nell Mor
ris, chief dietician and in charge
of the group, “The A. & M. college
dining halls have the nicest display
of equipment I have seen any
where”. The group left for Denton
in their busses at 4 p. m. Friday
afternoon.
Senior Horticulture
Students To Make Trip
Senior Horticulture majors are
planning to leave December 14 for
their annual inspection trip. This
year the group will visit citrus and
vegetable farms in Louisiana, Miss
issippi, Alabama and Florida. They
will return on December 24.
Forty Six TSCWites Descend On
Campus To Inspect Mess Equipment
The forty six girls of the two" "in the mess hall they visited various
friends in the corps, then started