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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, TUESDAY MORNING, DEC. 10, 1940
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10,000 Tickets Available for Aggies At
Cotton Bowl Game on New Year’s Day
Seats Will Be
Located In North
End Of The Stadium
Tickets for the 10,000 seats set
aside for the A. & M. section at
the Cotton Bowl game on January
1 will probably go on sale at the
Y.M.C.A. desk next Monday ac
cording to E. W. Hooker, in charge
of the ticket sales. It was imposs
ible to say definitely whether the
tickets would be on sale at that
time because arrangements for the
printing had not been completed.
Student tickets may be obtained
with coupon No. 32 for $1.65. Tic
kets other than those to be used
by students will be available for $2.
20. By this arrangement it will be
possible for Aggies to purchase
their date tickets here and there
by eliminate the process of pay
ing an additional price at the gate.
Hooker returned from Dallas
Monday after meeting with the
Cotton Bowl and receiving an
option on the seats in the north
end zone for the Aggie section. Be
cause of the range in prices from
$2.20 to $5.50 it was decided that
the choice of seats in the end zone
would permit a maximum number
of students to attend. The cons
truction of the stadium offers a
better vision of the field from this
point than do most smaller stands.
The Aggie band will have its
section in the student seats, but
it has not been decided whether
it will meet in Dallas or College
Station prior to the game.
Board Votes
On Improvement
Campus Buildings
Improvement of the college
buildings and grounds was the
subject of the last meeting of the
Board of Directors. The official
acceptance of the new college
laundry and dormitory for mess
hall workers as being completed
and in a suitable condition for use
was made at the time.
Appropriation of funds for the
construction of new residences for
Dean E. J. Kyle, Dean R. P. Mars-
teller and Dr. J. E. Marsh was
carried out, but the date of con
struction has not yet been set.
Acceptance of several new stone
benches for the dormitory areas
was approved. The benches are to
be built and donated by R. B.
MjcAshan, Houston contractor,
pending aproval of design by a
committee appointed for that pur
pose.
Plans for the installation of
flourescent lights in the mess halls
and the re-flooring of the A.A.A.
building were completed and work
is expected to be started in the near
future.
Provisions were made for erect
ing several more bicycle racks
around the dormitories and pro
ject houses.
War Department
Increases Quota
Of Flying Cadets
In a letter of recent date the
"Wlar Department increased the
quota of flying cadets to be pro
cured in this corps area and em
phasized the importance of in
stituting a more intensive cam
paign for additional candidates .
Professors of Military Science
and Tactics will interview students
scheduled to graduate at mid-term
of the current school year with a
view to interesting them in the ad
vantages offered by flying cadet
training. In this connection stud
ents should be advised that ap
pointment as a flying cadet will
in no way affect the Reserve com
missions tendered them upon sat
isfactory completion of R.O.T.C.
training. In the event a Reserve
officer successfully completes the
course of instruction as a flying
cadet he is tendered a new appoint
ment as a second lieutenant, Air
Corps Reserve, the acceptance of
which vacates his former Reserve
appointment. Under present regu
lations, he will then be ordered to
extended active duty in his status
as a second lieutenant, Air Corps
Reserve.
All students interested in such
training will be advised to forward
their applications in triplicate
through the Professor of Military
Science and Tactics to this Head
quarters, together with such sup
porting papers as are required in
the pamphlet of general informa
tion, i. e., birth certificate, tran
script of college record, and three
(3) letters of recommendation.
A supply of application blanks
and pamphlets of general informa
tion concerning flying cadet train
ing is being forwarded under sep
arate cover this date.
Engineers Are
Most Sought After
At Placement Bureau
Ninety-five per cent of the calls
for men at the college placement
bureau since late August have been
for engineers, both graduate and
those with some training who have
left college, Lucian Morgan, di
rector of the placement bureau of
the Former Students’ Association
has announced.
Mr. Morgan reported that most
of the calls have come from con
struction and oil companies and
were for positions in Texas. He
attributes the increase to the Na
tional defense program and said
that he had one request for engi
neers in “wholesale lots”. “They
asked for ten senior engineers, ten
junior engineers, twenty-five in
strument men, one chief draftsman
and ten draftsman at salaries rang
ing from $200 to $300 monthly,”
Morgan said.
Formation Time For Evening
Meal Will Not Be Changed This Year
Many students have been won
dering when the formation time
for supper will be set up as is cus
tomary during this part of the
year when the days are becoming
shorter.
It was announced yesterday by
Bill Becker, Cadet Colonel, that
the time will not be moved up this
year for the following reasons:
1. Intramural programs might
be hampered.
2. Some courses have labs last
ing until 6 o'clock and the students
taking those courses do not have
time to change clothes in order to
make formation.
3. There is no particular reason
for moving the time up and when
the time is changed, it causes
somewhat of a confusion not only
to the students but to other parts
of the college as well.
4. Floodlights will soon be put
up on the mess halls so that the
band will be able to play for the
supper formations.
College Presbyterian
Church Choir To Sing
Handel’s Messiah Sunday
The choir of the College Stat
ion Presbyterian Church will sing
five chorouses from the oratorio
“The Messiah” by George Frederick
Handle next Sunday morning at
eleven o’clock in keeping with the
Christmas spirit. In order that
everyone will be assured of a seat,
the program will be presented in
Guion Hall.
This oratorio is considered by
most critics to be one of the best
ever written and in addition it is
easily the best known among such
works. The choir is directed by
Mr. Irving Dietz and consists of
students of the College, faculty
members and other residents of
Bryan and College Station. The
public is invited to attend this pres
entation.
Airplanes
Have New Use;
Antelope Herding
“Antelope herder” might be the
airplane’s newest name, as that has
come to be one of its most recent
uses.
Five fish and game students of
A. & M. recently returned from a
tour through West Texas with one
of their most interesting tales be
ing that of building an antelope
trap for airplane hunting. These
Aggies, L. E. Mann, William De-
Laney, G. W. DeArmond, G. E.
Spofford, A. F. Halloran and Dr.
W. P. Taylor, head of the fish and
game department, did not get to
stay for the drive, however they
later received word that a record
number of antelope were caught.
The plane had never before been
used without help from horsemen
on the ground, however in this
case the pilot used bombs of paper
sacks and flour to drive the ante
lope in the right direction. The
plane was being put to use at
Alpine by the Texas Fish, Game
and Oyster Commission in catch
ing the antelopes for further dis
tribution in the state.
While on the tour, the students
also visited the Fish, Game and
Oyster Commission at Austin, the
McDonald Observatory at Fort
Davis, and the Federal Wildlife
Refuge at Aransas. They traveled
some 1400 miles, returning to the
college with several wild animal
specimens to mount.
Tangora,
Champ Typist,
On Campus Soon
The world’s fastest typest, Al
bert Tangora, will be a visitor on
the campus in the near future.
Tangora, who holds the world
speed record for typing, will be
here to demonstrate his method and
technique which won him his pres
ent title of 141 words per minute
for five stroke words. He won the
title in the years 1935, 1936, and
again in 1937.
He will give his demonstration
at the Stephen F. Austin high
school in Bryan on December 12
at 11 a.m. and in College at 2 p.
m. the same day in the Animal
Husbandry lecture room.
His demonstration will be made
possible by the Deaton Typewriter
Exchange of Bryan.
Walton, Sugareff
Address Agricultural
Workers At Banquet
No civilization can advance be
yond the mental and spiritual hor
izons of the great masses of its
people, Dr. T. O. Walton, president
of A. & M. College, told an audi
ence of agricultural workers at a
banquet given Friday night on the
campus. The banquet which was
the feature of a two-day confer
ence of regional Farm Security Ad
ministration officials from Texas
and Oklahoma, was attended by
65. A number of Extension Service
workers and members of the col
lege faculty were present.
Another speaker, V. K. Sugareff
of the college history department
had as his subject “The Challenge
to Our Democracy and Our React
ion to It.” He said, “The Fascist
system of government is really a
camouflage for martial law,” and
compared it to the Ku Klux Klan
and other vigilante bands which
have sprung up and declined in this
country.
J. J. Woolket directed the Sing
ing Cadets in a group of college
songs, Christmas carols, and pa
triotic selections. Toastmaster for
the occasion was Sam A. McMillan
of Dallas, regional farm manage
ment specialist, who substituted
for C. M. Evans, regional Farm
Security administrator.
Parker Elected to Head
Freshman Class for 1940-41
Kerr Makes
Highest Grade On
Architects’ Exam
John C. Kerr, senior majoring
in architectural engineering, made
the highest grade of all the appli
cants, the State Board of Archi
tectural Examiners, after the com
pletion of the examinations held
December 4, 5, 6, 7, for architects
all over the state who are applying
for their license to practice archi
tecture, announced.
The examination covered seven
different subjects in all in four
days, with perhaps the hardest test
coming the last day when the ap
plicants had to work a twelve hour
design problem. They had to de
sign a children’s beach home, the
purpose of which was to furnish a
place for working mothers to leave
their children during the day time.
Kerr made a grade of ninety on
the problem and the judges were
unusually high in their praise of
his solution.
Kerr, who will graduate at mid
term, is from Amarillo where his
father is also practicing architect
ure. He hopes to go back to work
with his father when he finishes
school. His record in the architect
ure department is a splendid one,
according to Professor Ernest
Langford, and it is a very unusual
feat for a student to pass his exam
before he graduates from school.
The State Board of Examiners
is made up of C. H. Page, of Aus
tin, chairman; Herbert Voelcker,
A. & M. graduate of the class of
’09 from Wichita Falls; and Tom
D. Broad from Dallas, secretary-
treasurer. *
Brooks Attends
Southern College
Association, Memphis
Dr. T. D. Brooks, dean of the
graduate school, left yesterday to
attend a meeting of the Southern
Association of Colleges which will
be held in Memphis, Tennessee, this
week, where he will serve as a
member of a committee on Sec
ondary Schools.
It is customary at each meeting
of the Southern Association of Col
leges to discuss the scholastic prob
lems of various colleges. “A. & M.
is in good standing,” Dean Brooks
said yesterday. “So far as I know,
A. & M. has no problem to be
brought before the association.
Dean Brooks has recently re
turned from a conference in Austin
of the Commission on the Prepa
ration of Teachers of Higher Ed
ucation of the American Council
on Education, which was a regional
conference for the Southwest.
Those attending were graduate
deans from Tulane, L. S. U., Uni
versity of Arkansas and delegates
of other schools.
Venereal Disease
Specialist Speaks To
Family Relation Students
Dr. T. E. Dodd of Bryan, head
of the Bryan Full Time Health
Unit and head of the Bryan Clinic,
lectured and led a discussion on
venereal diseases November 26 for
those students taking Rural So
ciology 315, a course in family re
lations.
Doctor Dodd, being a specialist
for the treatment of syphilis, cen
tered his lecture almost entirely
on this disease. He declared that
ont out of ten persons is afflicted
with this disease; and he described
the different stages of the disease,
its effects on various parts of the
body and the cost and treatment
of the disease. He also spoke on
the importance of the full time
county health units, of which there
are only twenty-five in this state,
and how these clinics aid the pov
erty strickened patient through the
coordinated practice of the doctors
within the county.
Railroad Spur
Running Through
Campus Is Removed
College Station no longer has a
railroad spur running through the
campus. The reason being the rapid
growth of the college.
Due to the ever increasing need
for more dormitories, and the need
for having these buildings located
as near as possible to classes and
to the old mess hall, which will
serve students that will live in
these new structures, the spur,
track which branched off the Mis
souri Pacific Lines has been re
moved.. This spur ran from the de
pot through North Gate, the bus
iness section, and terminated near
the Petroleum Engineering build
ing. This spur has served in years
past for the shipment of building
supplies, feed and equipment used
by the College.
A short spur will be constructed
to serve this purpose; it will be
located near the project house area
and will run parallel to the old
road to Bryan.
Five Texas Aggies
Will Soon Be M. D/s
Five Texas Aggies who com
pleted their pre-medical require
ments last June are now on their
way to become M. D.’s. Allan H.
Neighbors of Austin was on the
first list of students accepted in
The Texas University Medical
School in Galveston. Neighbors was
the secretary-treasurer of The Pre-
Medical Society last year.
John E. Edge of Bryan was also
accepted at Galveston. Edge was
the college organist and played
accompaniment for the Glee Club.
John P. Howard of Lubbock en
tered Baylor University Medical
School in Dallas this fall. Howard
was president of the Pre-Medical
Society last year.
J. C. Martin was the first to re
ceive his acceptance last spring,
and he is now enrolled in Tulane
University Medical School in New
Orleans.
W. R. Hunnicutt of Bryan has
entered The Texas Dental College
of Houston.
Experiment Station
Releases New Bulletin
On Squirrel Population
The Texas Agricultural Experi
ment Station has recently released
a bulletin “A Population Study of
the Gray Squirrel in Eastern Tex
as” which was written by Phil D.
Goodrum, division of Wildlife Re
search.
The gray squirrel is one of the
most important game animals in
Texas, but is steadily decreasing
in numbers. The factors causing
the decline of the squirrel and some
suggested practices that will help
to conserve it as a game resource
are discussed in the bulletin.
Sportsmen in other sections have
reported that the fox squirrel is
invading the gray’s habitat and
they point out that more fox squir
rels are now killed than formerly.
Few data are available on the
inter-relationship of the two spe
cies and more study is necessary
Goodrum states.
Seventeen Geology
Students Study Rock
Formations At Llano
Under the supervision of Dr. S.
S. Goldich, assistant professor of
geology, seventeen geology students
traveled to Llano, Texas, to study
geologic formations during the past
week-end.
The group left the college last
Friday for their trip into this ig
neous rock region, having one of the
larger of the few granite quarries
in the state. They also inspected
a gold and molyldenum mine near
Llano. The students made individ
ual collections of rocks which will
be kept for future study. The Ag
gie geologists returned to College
Station Sunday night.
Boesch Ousts Two Opponents
For Position of Vice-President
Noted Dairy
Expert To Speak
To Manufacturers
Dr. O. F. Hunsaker, noted dairy
products authority from La Grange,
Illinois, has been engaged as the
feature speaker for the fourteenth
annual Manufacturing Short Course
which wtll be held on the campus
January 20, 21 and 23, A. V. Moore,
professor in the Dairy Husbandry
department, announced today.
Hunsaker is the author of two
books, “Butter Industry, and “Con
densed Milk and Milk Powder”.
Much original research has been
done by Hunsaker in experiments
at Purdue University. For a num
ber of years he has had commer
cial experience with the Blue Val
ley Creameries.
The short course has been an an
nual event since 1926. This year
emphasis will be placed on the pro
duction of butter because of re
cent governmental regulations and
activities. Mold mycelium and its
relation to the dairy industry will
also be an important topic of dis
cussion.
Approximately 80 dairy product
ion men are expected for the short
course which will be. marked by the
great number of speakers who are
experts in various divisions of the
dairy field.
Government Needs
Men For Instructor;
Department Guard
The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced open
competitive examinations for the
positions listed below. Applications
must be on file in the Commission’s
Washington office not later than
the dates shown in each case. The
salaries are subject to a deduction
of 3% percent toward a retirement
annuity.
Teacher in Indian Community
and Boarding Schools, for employ
ment in the Indian Field Service
(including Alaska), Department of
the Interior. The entrance salaries
range from $1,620 to $2,000 a year.
Optional branches are: Agriculture,
elementary grades, home economics,
remedial reading, special or oppor
tunity classes, music, and art. Ap
plicants must have completed cer
tain college education and must
have had at least 2 years of ap
propriate teaching experience. Ap
plicants must not have passed their
forty-eighth birthday. Closing dat
es for receipt of applications for
this examination are: January 3
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Birdwell, Bruce
And Hagen Will Be
Other Class Officers
T. S. Parker of San Antonio was
elected president of the freshman
class last Sunday evening in Guion
Hall at the first freshman meeting
of the year.
By a clear majority, Parker was
elected over R. H. Kokernot, R.
W. Ledbetter, J. D. Cowen, and C.
L. Bergin.
The vice-president post was taken
over by G. C. Boesch, A Coast
Artillery Corps, of Whitney. The
opposing candidates were H. G.
Johnson and W. S. Andrews.
P. R. Birdwell, A Engineers,
from El Paso was chosen over
C. E. Hearn to become secretary-
treasurer.
The office of historian went to A.
D. Bruce Jr. from Washington D.
C. of A Signal Corps and he was
opposed by Nelson and R. W. Led
better.
Out of the pack of candidates
running for student welfare rep
resentative emerged J. J. Hagen,
B Chemical Warfare Service, from
Dallas. Those also running were
W. L. Jones, L. B. Wheeler, B. L.
Pedigo, J. R. Ball, and J. R. Brad
ley.
Cadet Colonel Bill Becker pre
sided over the meeting.
Twenty-Five Members
Of College YMCA Hold
Meet With Rice Members
Twenty-five members of the A.
& M. college YMCA, under the di
rection of their secretary, M. C.
Cushion, met last week end with
members of the YWCA and of the
YMCA of Rice Institute in Hous
ton.
The A. & M. boys met the Rice
Institute group at 5 o’clock Sat
urday evening and went from there
to the YMCA retreat at the Casa
del Mar on the bay where they held
their meeting.
Denhardt Contributes
Chapter Book On Horses
Robert M. Denhardt, assistant
professor of agricultural economics,
is the contributor of a chapter of
a book recently published entitled
“Mustangs and Cow Horses,” edit
ed by J. Frank Dobie, and publish
ed by the Texas Folk-Lore So
ciety.
Mr. Denhardt’s chapter consti
tutes a full and authoritative his
tory of the Spanish horse in Amer
ica, and is one of many articles
on this subject of which he is the
author.
Meats Judging Team Takes
Eighth Place At Livestock Meet
Competing with teams from-
many of the major agricultural
schools in the United States, the
A. & M. meats judging team pla
ced eighth in the annual contest
conducted by the National Live
stock and Meat Board at the In
ternational Livestock Exposition
in Chicago this past week.
The team was made up of
Tommy Stuart of Roby, H. J.
“Slick” Richards of Jacksboro and
E. M. Rosenthal of Fort Worth
with C. V. Breithaupt of Corsicana
as alternate. C. E. Murphey, ani
mal husbandry professor, was the
coach.
Traveling by car, the team left
Friday morning after the A. & M.-
Texas football game and arrived
in Chicago the following Sunday.
They practiced on Monday and
participated in the contest the
next day. The contest was an all
day affair that started at nine
thirty in the morning and that
was concluded shortly after five
in the evening. Following the con
test all the participating teams
were guests of Wilson and Com
pany at a banquet. Both the con
test and the banquet were held in
the Wilson plant.
On Wednesday and Thursday
following the contest the team in
spected several of the packing
plants and the stock yards in
Chicago. They also took in the
Exposition and Horse Show and
many of the interesting sights of
the city.
This year’s contest was said to
have been one of the closest that
has ever been held. With a possi
ble 2700 points to be scored there
was an average of only three
points difference between the top
ten teams.
The team, the second to rep
resent the College in Chicago, was
composed of the same members
who carried £he A. & M. colors in
the meats contest in Fort Worth
last spring. At that time they pla
ced second and were nosed out by
Oklahoma by a margin of only
two points.
Friday morning the group left
Chicago and returned to College
Station Sunday evening.