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Member of the Littlefield Ballet group to be presented on the
next Town Hall program, February 12.
Eighty-One Students Eligible
For Degrees At End Of Semester
H
Eighty-one students will receive
various degrees here at the end of
the current semester. The degrees
will be conferred on the last day
of the semester, February 8.
Candidates for the degrees are!
MASTER OF SCIENCE
Ottis F. Armstrong, Salvador
Jose Carrillo, Robert L. Doss, Wil
liam Howard Frazier, Arthur
Franklin Halloran, Cecil Proctor
James, Vincent 0. Johnson, George
C. Menzies and John William Moore
BACCALAUREATE DEGREES
Edwin Ernest Aldridge, Jr.,
Ralph E. Ashwander, Herman Her-
shall Attaway, John Carrol Bar
ton, Robert C. Barton, Otto H. W.
Blume, William David Boone
Reese Junior Brentzel, Darrell Dee
Carden, Ray Carson, Jr., Paul T.
Conly, Frank K. Courtney, Wil
burn Clyde Cox, Charles Donald
Crawford, Sam P. Davenport, Ot-
Jr., Vinson L. Duvall, Elwyn
L. Dysart, Henry Florey Fow
ler, Lewis Marvin Grover, Dur-
ward A. Gunn, John W. Hall,
Jr., James Allen Heath, James
Neill Hewitt, Chancey W. Hobert,
J. D. Hancock, Carl Hugo Hoefs,
H. G. Howard, Jr., Marion B. Inman,
Jr., Jack W. Kay, Jr., John Col
umbus Kerr, Ruble M. Knox, Jos
eph Baker Lassiter Jr., Osdar
Victor Lawrence, Jr., Ralph E. Lind
sey, William R. Louderback, Den
ny Poseph Lovoi, Bernard Eugene
Ludeman, Alvin Marcile Martin,
Tracy Beall Medders, Charles How
ard Melton, John B. Merriwether,
Milton Edgar Mitchell, Jr., Ken
neth Elwin Montague, Paul J.
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Dairy Husbandry
Students Inspect
Milk Establishments
Forty-one dairy husbandry stu
dents spent one day last week in
Houston inspecting the various
milk processing establishments and
larger dairies in and near Hous
ton.
The inspection tour is an an
nual affair with students enrolled
in Dairy Husbandry 301, a course
dealing with market milk. The trip
is designed to give the students
first hand information on large
scale, operations in the marketing
of milk. During the day, the group
observed the plant operations in
butter making, powdering of skim
milk, cottage cheese making and
the processing of milk in the ad
dition of vitamin D. The students
were more interested however in the
rate at which large volumes of
whole milk were passed through
the plants, observing the many
steps and processes through which
the milk goes.
The tour was under the super
vision of Professor C. N. Shepard-
son, dairy husbandry department
head.
New Military
Contracts Go Into
Effect January 10
The new military contracts that
have been awarded to the College
will be effective as of Friday, Jan
uary 10, 1941 and payment will be
from that date instead of Septem
ber as has been rumored around
the campus.
These contracts will be appor
tioned to the different military or
ganizations on a percentage basis
in the same manner that the con
tracts at the beginning of the year
were given out. Of the total num
ber of 100 the Field Artillery and
the Infantry will both receive 26.
The Coast Artillery Corps will get
15, the Engineers, eleven, the Cav
alry ten, and the Signal Corps and
Chemical Warfare Service, six each.
In the event that any organiza
tion does not have enough men now
taking military science but with
out contracts to take up the num
ber of new contracts offered some
other organization will have the
opportunity of filling them.
According to the Commandant’s
office the reason that A. & M. was
selected for the new contracts was
because the college is so well able
to handle the additional number.
The facilities and qualifications of
A. & M. along the military lines
are unequaled by those of any
other school in the collegiate world,
it is claimed.
Those students who will receive
the new contracts will not be paid
for them until the next regular
paytime after the one that is com
ing up in the next few days.
Poultry Science
Club Holds Annual
Election Of Officers
The Poultry Science Club held its
annual reorganization and election
of officers last Friday night in
Room 132 of the Animal Industries
building.
The new officers are Robert S.
Beesley of Lancaster, president,
Edward C. Schuyler of Murchison,
vice-president, R. K. Whitfill of
Denison, secretary-treasurer and
Robert E. Biggs of Gordon, re
porter.
Following the election of of
ficers, new committees were or
ganized and plans for future meet
ings were discussed. Ways and
means of increasing the club’s
membership and the arrangement
of educational programs were of
particular interest.
The Battalion
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Band And RV’s To Attend Inauguration
And Another
1st Swap
Of Editors
Is Thursday
Sinclair and Dolph
Of The Daily Texan
Bait Editors For Day
Inaugurating an unprecedented
series of editorial exchanges be
tween southwestern colleges and
universities, Battalion Editor Bob
Nisbet, Bryan, and Battalion As
sociate Editor George Fuermann,
Houston, will welcome Boyd Sin
clair, editor of the Daily Texan
and Jack Dolph, associate editor
of the Daily Texan, as guest ed
itors of Thursday’s edition of The
Battalion newspaper.
Arriving on the A. & M. campus
Wednesday morning, Sinclair and
Dolph will perform their functions
with the regular staff which works
Wednesday afternoon. In order that
the most benefit be gained from the
venture, the staff will work in ex
actly the same manner as is cus
tomary for each issue, except that
Sinclair and Dolph will fill the
positions of editor and associate.
Under the scope of their work
will come the editorial columns in
which each man will write one ed
itorial. Front page layout for the
day will be made by Dolph who
will fill the managing editor’s
chair as is customary for the as
sociate editor to do on Wednesday.
As a special item, Sinclair has been
invited to write the Backwash col
umn for that day.
In the agreement Nisbet and
Fuermann are to return the visit
February 3 to edit the February
4 issue of The Daily Texan and
will in turn be guest editors at
Texas University.
Purpose of these exchanges is
in observation of the methods used
by the other paper and in mutual
criticism and exchange of ideas. It
is probable that similar exchanges
will be made with the editors of the
other schools in the Southwest
Conference.
Singing Cadets
Give Performance
Bryan High School
The Singing Cadets made their
third appearance of the year when
they sang for the Bryan high
school last Friday. This was the
first time for the club to sing for
a Bryan audience, although it is
our neighboring city.
Tentative plans are being made
for a trip to Huntsville this com
ing Friday, where the club will
sing at the municipal auditorium.
While in Huntsville, the group will
visit the prison and other spots
of interest.
Date For
Freshman Ball
Set, February 15
The freshman class held its
first meeting under their new of
ficers last Friday night in Guion
Hall with president T. S. Parker
presiding.
The “Fish” Ball was definitely
set for February 15, and it was de
cided that if over 300 tickets were
sold before the tenth of Febru
ary an invitation would be sent to
the freshman class at the Texas
State College for Women, inviting
them to be the guests of the Aggie
Freshmen. 300 tickets must be
sold in advance of the date in or
der to pay the cost of the dance.
Tickets are $1.10 and will admit
either a couple or a single per
son.
A. & M. has offered the use of
a dormitory to the visiting T. S. C.
W.-ites.
The Aggieland orchestra has been
secured and preparations are al
ready under way to decorate Sbisa
Hall.
Due to the absence of the pub
lic address system it was almost im
possible for the new president to
maintain order.
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Film Club To
Open 1941 Series
Thursday Evening
The Campus Film Club has
completed final arrangements for
the 1941 series of outstanding mov
ing pictures of different nations
which will be shown at the Cam
pus Theater on Thursday evenings
at 8:30.
Persons interested in this or
ganization may still obtain sub
scriptions from members of the
Committee or may purchase them
at the Campus Theater. The sub
scriptions will admit the bearer to
six programs instead of the five
which was previously announced.
Arrangements have been made to
admit classes interested in certain
programs at the regular admission
prices. Also it is possible for mem
bers of the club to take friends at
the regular admission prices.
The list of films that have been
chosen and the dates on which
they will be shown are: “Stolen
Life” (in English) with Elizabeth
Bergner, on January 16. “The
City”, a famous American docu
mentary shown at the New York
World’s Fair for the past two years
will be shown at this date.
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Not My Dice
Teller of Tall Tales Is
Sam Step toe, Colored Employee
By D. C. Thurman
Sam Steptoe, colored, was re
cently honored for 25 years ser
vice at A. & M. College. His ac
tual service for A. & M. and the
Entomology department reaches
back as far as 28 years ago. He
has been known and respected by
entomologists for many years as
handy man about the entomology
department who oftentimes knows
more practical entomology than the
students. His knowledge is the
kind gleaned from constant labor
and loyal endeavor with men who
know bugs from the antennae back.
Just “Sam” to the entomology
students, or “Bus” to his colored
acquaintances, he is not an impos
ing spectacle, as he is only about
five feet, four inches tall and stick
ily built, with a fringe of gray-
white hair around a polished black
head. He is strong and active for
.his size and age despite a
and adventurous life. He will work
industriously at any task.
Sam was afflicted with deaf
ness a number of years ago which
has been a matter of inconvenience
and has caused him to develop a
slight lip-reading ability. When he
becomes excited, however, he can
not understand anything unless it
is written.
Most of the entomology students
would give their best Sunday hats
for the practical training in the
not too technical side of insect
work in which the little negro has
had so much experience. In his
many years of service he has be
come a veritable storeroom of in
significant facts that count so
much in saving time while carry
ing on insect experiments and ob
taining entomological material.
Perhaps the most interesting
thing about Sam is his ability to
hard+spiel out long-winded accounts of
his adventures. He does this unin
terruptedly and carefully since to
ask questions the listener has to
write in his notebook pad. Sam is
usually the chief character but not
always the hero of his stories, nor
always too innocent. Also very
interesting are the stories told
about Sam Steptoe by the members
of the entomology department.
One particular incident concern
ed a pair of dice which dropped
from his pocket where his employ
er found them. When questioned
he replied:
“No suh, mistah Bilsin’, them’s
not my dice. I was out behind the
graveya’d t’other night watching
a bunch of niggahs when something
goes wrong and one of the nig
gahs pulls a gun. All the others
run. Since there wasn’t nothing
else to do I jest gathers up the dice
and everything and goes home.”
Draft Law
Amendment
A Possibility
Prediction Made
By President Walton
In Interview Monday
“There is every possibility that
during this next session of Congress
the draft law will be amended so
that college students will be able
to complete their schooling before
they are subject to call for the
draft,” were the words of Dr. T.
O. Walton in a private interview
yesterday afternoon. He also said
that it may also be made possible
by congress for the training re
ceived in high school and/or col
lege to exempt students from the
draft.
Dr. Walton’s views are the re
sult of the meeting of the Com
mittee on National Defense and Ed
ucation of which he is a member.
This committee, which met the past
week in Washington, has been set
up by the National Education Soc
iety and the American Council
on Education.
While in Washington, Dr. Wal
ton also attended a meeting of
the executive committee on Land
Grant Colleges and conferred with
representatives of both the House
and Senate Military Affairs Com
mittees. The Land Grant Colleges
officials were trying to obtain
adequate officer personnel and
modern equipment and a sufficient
number of R. O. T. C. contracts
for those additional students wish
ing to take advanced military
training. In the past the War De
partment has claimed that the
colleges were producing enough re
serve officers, but now the com
mittee using the argument that
since the government is planning
to establish officers training camps
that there is a need for more of
ficers and that the colleges should
be the place to train them. If the
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Refund On
Maintenance
For 400 Students
Approximately 400 students who
paid their maintenance in full for
the first school semester before
December 1 will receive a refund
of $4.50 from the fiscal depart
ment as soon as they call for it.
This refund consists of $2.75 for
the four days missed a result of the
early dismissal for the Christmas
holidays, and $1.75 which is for
the reduction of the cost of meals
that became effective January 1.
Those students who are eligible
for this fund must come to the
fiscal office in person for this re
fund. This is necessary since they
must sign for the refunds them
selves. Refunds will be made to
no persons other than those enti
tled to them.
Charles Roeber of the fiscal of
fice urged all those students who
are to get this money to come
by for it before the end of the
week.
New Guidon
Presented Coast
Artillery Regiment
A new honor battery guidon has
been presented to the Coast Artil
lery Regiment by the 972 Reserve
Regiment Coast Artillery of Dal
las, commanded by Lt. Col. Frank
F. Bell.
The new guidon is distinguished
by the words “Honor Battery” in
yellow on a red background. The
former symbol of the honor bat
tery was a red E on a white pen
nant, carried under the battery
guidon on the same staff.
A regimental review is planned
in the near future for the purpose
of presenting the new guidon to
this year’s honor battery, “D” Bat
tery.
RV’s To Form
Traditional Saber
Arch For Governor
Appropriation
Covering- Expenses
Furnished By College
The Texas Aggie band of 200
pieces and the company of Ros?
Volunteers have been invited to
attend the inauguration festivi
ties in Austin next Tuesday as the
Governor’s escort.
Immediately following the re
ceipt of the invitation from the Ad
jutant General of the State of
Texas, who is acting as chairman
of the military committee for the
governor’s inauguration, the mat
ter was taken up with the Texas A.
& M. board of directors. Approval
was given for these two organ
izations to attend the ceremonies
and money was appropriated to
cover their expenses.
In a letter to President Walton,
General PagO stated, “I now ex
tend you the official invitation for
the Ross Volunteers and the Band
to participate in this event. We
earnestly hope that you will find
it possible to permit these two
Second Committee Sends
Invitation to TU Band
A mix-up in the arrange
ments caused another invi
tation committee to send an
invitation to participate as
official band to the direc
tor of the Texas University
Band.
The following wire was
received by Dr. T. O. Walton,
president of Texas A. & M.
shortly thereafter:
“Have just read copy of
Adjutant General’s letter to
you concerning band and Ross
Volunteers. Committee fbn
arrangements knew nothing
of this. University band will
gladly welcome full A. & M.
Band as official band for
inauguration. Hope Band can
accept invitation.
George E. Hurt
Director, University Band
organizations to do tribute to the
Governor and to the State otf
Texas by permitting the two or
ganizations to attend.”
General Page also expressed a
desire for the Ross Volunteers
to make again this year the trad
itional arch of sabers for the Gov
ernor to pass through during the
actual inaugural ceremonies.
The Aggie band and the Ross
Volunteers have participated in this
event for countless years in the
past, having performed in the same
capacity for last year’s inaugur
ation of W. Lee O’Daniel in his
first term of office.
Scholarships To
Air School Offered
By United Airlines
United Airlines is offering four
scholarships to the Boeing School
of Aeronautics in Oakland, Cali
fornia. Scholarships will be given
as awards in an essay contest to
be conducted throughout the col
leges in the United States.
Candidates must be male, under
graduate students in good standing
and regular attendance at colleges
such as the A. & M. College of
Texas, must be of the white race,
between the ages of 18 and 25 in
clusive, in good health, and have
no physical handicaps. The essay
or composition submitted should
be not more than 3500 words in
length on some forward looking
technical or non-technical aero
nautical subject. Papers submitted
in the competition must be mailed
to the Boeing School of Aero
nautics not later than March 7,
1941. Four awards will be given.
The total tuition value amounts to
approximately $9,000 and the win
ner must enroll in the Boeing
school of Aeronautics. Classes
start June 28, 1941.