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DIAL 4-5444
STUDENT TRI WEEKLY
NEWSPAPER OF
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
The Battalion
DIAL 4-5444
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
VOL. 40
122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG.
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, JAN. 30, 1941
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NO. 47
Faculty Gives Go-Ahead Sign To Student Aid Fund
Registration
Procedure Is
Simplified
Bottlenecks
Eliminated With
Induction of Plan
Plans recently completed by E.
J. Howell, registrar, will simplify
the registration procedure for the
second semester. There wil be no
crowding at former “bottlenecks”
and no distinction will be made be
tween freshmen and upperclass
men.
To register, a student must still
go through the same steps as for
merly but he will have more time
to do so and not as many other
students will be trying to do so at
the same time.
Students may save still more
time by completing their reg
istration now through the Fiscal
department and the Commandant’s
office. Fees of $57.25 for the month
or $139.25 for the whole semester
may be paid now by dormitory stu
dents. For day students, the fees
amount to $33.00. These figures
include $2.50 for a YMCA privi
lege card.
Room assignments may also be
verified now through the Comman
dant’s office.
Assignment cards for students
who were passing ten or more hours
Assignment cards for students
who were passing ten or more
hours November 16 will be releas
ed from the registrar’s office ac
cording to the following schedule:
Monday, February 3, 8 to 12
a.m.—Students whose last names
begin with M, N, O, P, Q.
Monday, February 3, 1 to 5
p.m.—Students whose last names
begin with G, H, I, J, K, L.
Tuesday, February 4, 8 to
12 a.m.—Students whose last
names begin with T, U, V, W,
X, Y, Z.
Tuesday, February 4, 1 to 5
p.m.—Students whose last names
begin with A, B.
Wednesday, February 5, 8 to
12 a.m.—Students whose last
names begin with R, S.
Wednesday, February 6, 1 to
5 p.m.—Students whose last
names begin with C, D, , F.
Students who are unable to get
their assignment cards at the spec
ified time may get them on Thurs
day, Friday, and Saturday. Stu
dents who were not passing in 10
hours of work on November 16
must get the approval of their dean
and may obtain their assignment
cards Monday, February 10. Their
grades will not be in the hands of
the deans until that time. New stu
dents will also register on Monday.
Walton Appoints 7-Man
Committee to Guide Fund
Activities and Executive Committees
Approve Fund Before Faculty Approval
At the regular meeting of the A. & M. faculty held Tuesday after
noon in the Administration building, the proposed Student Aid Fund
was officially sanctioned and became a reality after half a year of
organization planning.
Early Wednesday, President T. O. Walton announced the commit
tee which would conduct the Student Aid Fund and guide its organ
ization. The seven-man committee includes student members J. H.
Focke, Field Artillery band senior, Mexia; George Fuermann, Battalion
associate editor, Houston; Skeen Staley, junior yell-leader, Wichita
Falls; and Tom Gillis, sergeant-major of the cadet corps. Faculty rep
resentatives include E. L. Angell, manager of student publications;
George B. Wilcox, education departmen and a member of the Student
Publications Board; and Dan A. Russell, head of the Rural Sociology
department.
The Student Aid Fund, which will give assistance to deserving
Aggies, will start to function with a fund of approximately $1150.
This amount has accumulated from several sources; $774.43 of it hav
ing been left in the George Stidham fund raised last year.
The idea for the fund arose last year when money was being
raised for George Stidham, an injured Aggie. Through the agency of
this permanent committee, similar needful Aggies are to be aided
when they are in difficulty.
The organization of the fund be-
Russ Morgan Will Play for the Field Artillery Ball
Is Orchestra That
Played Senior Ring
Dance Last Year
Russ Morgan and his orchestra
have been chosen to furnish the
music and entertainment for the
annual Field Artillery ball on Feb
ruary 28.
Morgan and his orchestra will
be remembered as having played
last year for the Senior King dance
and as being among the outstanding
bands of the year to appear on the
A. & M. campus.
In charge of arrangements for
the dance are Louis Kercheville
and Rufus Pearce, Field Artillery
juniors.
Besides playing for the Field Ar
tillery ball, Morgan has also been
contracted to play for a corps
dance the night following. From
A. & M., Morgan will go to Los
Angeles for an engagement at the
Paladium.
Last year the cadet corps rank
ed Morgan and his 18-piece orch
estra in a tie for second place a-
mong the several orchestras to play
on the campus during 1940’s social
season. According to the annual
poll made by The Battalion’s col
umn “Backwash,” Morgan tied with
Shep Fields for second place honors.
Battalion Sponsors Drive to Aid
British War Relief; Committee Named
A committee was appointed yes--
terday by The Battalion to obtain
donations in the form of old cloth
ing from the corps and college
Station civilians to send to England.
Mrs. C. B. Campbell and W. A.
Becker, cadet colonel, have been ap
pointed co-chairmen of the commit
tee. Other members of the com
mittee are Mrs. D. W. Williams,
Mrs. N. M. McGinnis, Tom Hagood,
Lee Rogers and Mike Speer.
The committee will endeavor to
obtain from willing solicitors as
many old clothes as posisble and
send them from College Station
to needy English citizens.
This work is typical of the
various war reliefs for England.
Similar projects are being conduct
ed in every large American city.
A study of the manner in which
these drives are being made will
be made by Mrs. Campbell and the
local drive will be conducted in a
like manner.
Those students who intend to
go home between terms are urged
to look around and gather up any
suitable old clothing they may pos-
ess and which they are willing to
contribute to this committee for
England’s war relief.
300 Expected For
Friday Meeting Of
A&M Women’s Club
Three hundred members of the
A. & M. Women’s Social Club are
expected to attend the January
meeting in Sbisa Hall parlors
Friday afternoon at 3 p.m.
This organization is made up of
the wives of the men connected
with A. & M.
The program for Friday’s meet
ing will be a play directed by
Mrs. H. C. Spencer, assisted by
Mrs. Paul Talley and Mrs. A. B.
Conner.
Officers bf the organization
are as follows: Mrs. T. O. Wal
ton, president; Mrs. C. N. Shep-
ardson, vice president; Mrs. Frank
Anderson, General Chairman; Mrs.
Jack Hays, secretary; Mrs. H. P.
Holleman, treasurer; and Mrs. J. E.
Roberts, reporter.
The program for the club’s Feb
ruary meeting will be, “An Af
ternoon of Music,” by the Music
Group headed by Mrs. Dan Russell.
The Battalion Staff
Has Gotta Study Too!
No Papers Next Week
Publication of The Battialiofri
will be suspended during final ex
amination week. The last issue
of the current semester will be
delivered Saturday morning, Feb
ruary 1. No paper will be printed
on the following Tuesday, Thurs
day or Saturday.
Final examinations will prevent
the staff from editing The Bat
talion on those days. The first
issue of the paper following the
examinations will be published Feb.
11.
Film Club’s
Second Showing
Scheduled Tonight
The Campus Film Club’s second
presentation for the current year,
“Jalisco Nunca Pierde,” will be
shown tonight at the Campus
Theater at 8:40.
At 8:30 the doors will be closed
and only students with club tickets
will be admitted. After 8:40, stu
dents will be admitted on regular
box office tickets.
The film will be shown again at
10:20 for the general public
so that any person unable to attend
the earlier show may see the
Spanish musical.
“Jalisco Nunca Pierde” will be
of special interest to those persons
familiar with Spanish, because the
film will have all dialogue and mus
ic in that language. The film con
tains scenes which present native
living and will have native Mex
ican music.
The program will also include a
short subject, “The Beautiful Blue
Danube,” which will feature the
Philadelphia Philharmonic Orches
tra.
Buster Here to Confer
With Poultry Department
M. W. Buster, poultry specialist
of the Federal Bureau of Animal
Industry, will arrive today from
Louisiana to confer with the poul
try department prior to a survey
of the poultry industry in Texas.
G. H. Draper, official of the Tex
as Poultry Improvement program,
will accompany Buster on the in
spection tour of the leading poultry
farm.
Former Battalion
Editor, R. L. Doss,
Begins New Work
R. L. Doss, editor of The Bat
talion during 1938-39, has just
accepted a position as inspector
for the U. S. Regional Labor Board.
He will leave Saturday to take
over his district.
R. L. Doss
Although there is some uncer
tainty in the matter, in all proba
bility Doss will work in a new
branch of the U. S. Regional Labor
Board which is to be established in
Houston to aid the over-worked
Dallas office.
Doss has been with the Economics
department of the college since
he graduated in 1939. He recently
passed his examinations for a Mas
ter of Arts degree in Economics.
Group Plan
For Hospitalization
Becomes Effective
The Group Hospitalization Plan,
headed by the committee on In
surance and with S. W. Henslee as
acting manager, became effective
Friday at noon.
The plan, carried by the Occident
al Life Insurance Company of Cal
ifornia, went into effect when 95
per cent of the required 75 per cent
membership who ratified it sent
in their $7 dues. Membership will
be open to all faculty members
and persons working for the col
lege for a month upon their fil
ing of an application card and the
payment of $7, dues charged for
the first six months of protection.
After such time faculty members
acquiring membership will be re
quired to take a medical exam.
The organization is designed to
protect its members in three dif
ferent ways. Hospitalization is
paid for members up to 70 days;
special hospital services up to $25,
for any one accident or sickness;
and all surgeon’s bills for any sur
gical operation up to $150.00, are
paid by the organization.
Aggies Contribute
$65.37 To Brazos
County Red Cross
The Red Cross Drive conducted
at A. & M. last Friday, Jan. 17,
received donations from the Aggies
totaling $65.37. The donations
were taken up at each door of the
mess halls at the noon and night
meals.
The drive was sponsored by
Howard Blessington, Tom Gillis,
W. M. Pena, Lee Rice, Warren
Ringgold, George Summerville, and
Jabus Barker.
The entire donation of the stud
ents will be turned over to the
Brazos County Chapter of the Red
Cross.
A&M Poultry to
Enter Houston Show
A group of poultry is being
groomed by the poultry depart
ment for the Houston Fat Stock
Show which will be held in Hous
ton Feb. 5 to 12.
E. D. Parnell, professor in the
poultry department, has been nam
ed superintendent for the poultry
show this year.
Five Rhode Island Reds and fif
teen Barred Plymouth Rocks will
comprise the group which will be
placed on exhibition. They will be
shown in individual and group
classes.
Benefit Football
Game Nets $640
It was announced today by Tom
C. Richey, Senior class president,
that the net profits from the
charity football game held Sunday,
Jan. 19, amounted to $640.
This is the first year that an
event of this kind has been sponsor
ed at A. & M. and it has certainly
been a success. The money will
be divided between the Bundles
for Britain and the Student Aid
Fund.
Jake Wilk, Tom Richey and H. O.
Johnson promoted the game which
Dr. Virgil Jones and Charles De
Ware coached.
gan last May after the drive for
funds to aid Stidham. Late last
summer a tentative committee com
posed of Col. Ike Ashburn, Regis
trar E. J. Howell, Dan A. Russell, E.
L. Angel, and cadets J. H. Focke
and George Fuermann met to dis
cuss the possibility and uses of
such a permanent fund, similar in
scope and purpose but to be per
manent.
Two meetings of the tentative
committee resulted in the appoint
ment of Russell, Angell, and Fuer
mann to prepare plans for such a
permanent fund to be presented
to the proper authorities for ap
proval.
The plan was prepared and sub
mitted to the Student Activities
Committee Jan. 4, which approved
the plan.
Approval by a resolution of the
Executive Committee was given
at a special meeting held Jan. 8.
With the approval of the faculty,
Monday, the plan is now ready to
begin operations.
At its first meeting to be held
soon, the members of the commit
tee will complete the organization
and formulate plans for activities
during the initial year.
Money in the fund and that rais
ed at a later date will be used to
pay for operations on needy stu
dents, send suitable expressions
of sympathy to families of Aggies
which lose a member or on the
death of an Aggie, or any other
merited need of an Aggie which
comes to the attention of the com
mittee.
The committee will draw up rules
for procedure and the handling
of cases at its first meeting. This
meeting will be held soon after the
beginning of the second semes
ter.
Gilchrist Will
Speak Over TQN
Friday on Defense
“Engineering Defense Training”
will be the topic that Gibb Gil
christ, Dean of the college of engi
neering, will broadcast over the
Texas Quality Network from 9:30
to 9:45 tonight.
Gilchrist will outline the program
for Civilian Defense Trainees
which is being arranged by A. &
M .and will start February 10. The
college is cooperating with the Na
tional Defense Program and is re
pairing Foster Hall to facilitate the
housing of the trainees. The de
partment of building and grounds is
making the repairs on the build
ings. Only those repairs which are
necessary to make the building liv
able and weather-proof are being
done so that the trainees will be
required to pay the smallest rate
possible.
The United States Office of Ed
ucation is providing all expenses
of instruction, materials and equip
ment. Although there will be no
tuition fee, the trainees will be re
quired to furnish their own text
books, note books, and provide for
their rooms and board.
Fifth Faculty Dance
Set for Friday l^ght
Members of the Faculty Dance
club will hold their fifth club
dance of the year when members
and prospective members of the
club assemble in the banquet room
of Sbisa Hall on Friday night at
9 p.m.
W. J. (Bill) Lawson, Aggie-Ex, Is
Made Texas’ New Secretary of State
Wm. J. “Bill” Lawson, A. & M/'
graduate in 1922, for the past two
years private secretary of Gover
nor W. Lee O’Daniel, has been ap
pointed Secretary of State by the
Governor.
When Governor O’Daniel took
office, Lawson was drafted as his
private secretary from his position
as executive director of the Texas
State Parks Board.
Although he studied chemical
engineering at A. & M., Lawson
has been in public work since 1926.
He served for two years as man
ager of the Chamber of Commerce
at Center, Texas; from 1928 to
1930 he was publisher of a weekly
newspaper at Center; from 1931
to 1933 he was manager of the
Chamber of Commerce at Mt.
Pleasant. He then served a year in
Austin as private secretary to Sen
ator J. W. E. H. Beck. From 1934
to 1936 he was manager of the
Huntsville Chamber of Commerce,
leaving that position to become ex
ecutive secretary of the Texas
State Parks Board.
At the time he went into the Gov
ernor’s Office, he expected the as
signment to be temporary. He prov
ed so effective, however, and so
useful to the Governor, he was pre
vailed upon to continue in that ca
pacity.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawson and their
daughter have recently completed
a new home in Austin. He is serv
ing as president of the Capital
City A. & M. Club at the present
time and is a member of the board
of directors and executive commit
tee of the Association of Former
Students.
Largest Collection
Of Attwater Prairie
Chickens At A & M
The largest single collection of
Attwater prairie chickens in the
world is found in the Texas Co
operative Wildlife Collections of
A. & M. College.
Most of the specimens were col
lected and prepared by Valgene W.
Lehman, of the Texas State Game,
Fish and Oyster Commission and
in cooperation with Dr. Walter P.
Traylor, Head of the Fish and Game
Department of A. & M. College.