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VOL. 40 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 11, 1941
Z725 No. 49
Ballet Is
Presented
By Town Hall
Performance
Will Begin at 7:30
Wednesday Evening
By Jack Decker
The Littlefield Ballet, the first
ballet group to be composed of and
directed by Americans, exclusively,
will be presented on the fifth
Town Hall program of the year
1940-41 in Guion Hall Wednes
day at 7:30 p.m.
The Ballet was organized as a
permanent repertory only three
years ago by Catherine Littlefield,
its directress and premiere dans-
euse, but since that time it has
not only appeared with the major
orchestras of this country but has
made a tour of the European con
tinent which surpassed the achieve
ments of any other American dance
group abroad. It was also made
the permanent ballet group of the
Chicago Opera Company and pro
duced American Jubilee at the New
York World’s Fair last summer.
The program to be presented
will be made up of three parts:
“Aurora’s Wedding”, “Cafe Soc
iety”, and “Barn Dance”, all of
which have been highly acclaimed
and praised wherever they have
been presented. The last two of
these three on American themes,
are what contributed largely to
the ballet’s success in Europe.
“Aurora’s Wedding,” which the
group first presented at the Acad
emy of Music in Philadelphia as
the first complete presentation
of this ballet to ever be given in
America, will be the first one of
the three parts to be presented.
The second, “Cafe Society,” de
picts an evening at the 2222 (Too-
too-too-TOO) Club showing the
combined antics of its employees
and habitues. Hat-check girls and
waiters whirl around, a maitre d’
hotel tries to give a hick couple
the brushoff ,a stewed gent does
some extraordinary antics, and the
highpoint is' reached with the en
trance of the “Champ”, who goes"
through the motions of a two-
round bout with an imaginary op
ponent whom he kayoes.
Four College
Vets To Serve In
National Defense
Four prominent College Station
veterinarians will serve in the
front line of the vital national de
fense work being carried on by the
American Veterinary Medical As
sociation. These men have been
named to important posts in the
organization of this association for
1941, Dr. A. E. Wight, Chief of
the Bureau of Animal Industry,
who is president of the A.V.M.A.,
announced today.
They are: Dr. R. L. Mundhenk,
310 Francis Hall, Dr. H. L. Van
Volkenberg and P. W. Burns, both
of A. & M. College of Texas, and
Dr. Hubert Schmidt of College Sta
tion, Texas.
Dr. Mundhenk has been named
Chairman of the A.V.M.A. Commit
tee on Proprietary Pharmaceuti
cals.
Dr. Van Volkenberg has been
re-appointed a member of the As
sociation’s Committee on Parasit
ology.
Dr. Bums has again been select
ed a member of the Sub-Committee
of Veterinary Items of the Nation
al Formulary Committee for the
A.V.M.A.
Dr. Schmidt has been named
Resident State Secretary of the
Association for Texas.
The men named today by Dr.
Wight totaled 181 veterinarians in
the 48 states, in United States ter
ritories and in Canada.
In addition to their part in the
national defense program, they
will participate in the work car-’'
ried on by the American Veterin
ary Medical Association in public
health, in research, in animal dis
ease prevention and in its broad
legislation and poli tacila c
legislation and policy activities.
Guide Student Aid Fund
Above is the seven-man Student Aid Fund committee appointed January 29 by President T. O.
Walton following the fund’s official sanction by the faculty at its meeting January 28.
Top row, left to right: J. H. Focke, Jr., Field Artillery band senior, Mexia; Tom S. Gillis,
sergeant major of the cadet corps, Fort Worth; and Skeen S. Staley, junior yell leader, Wichita
Falls.
Bottom row: George Fuermann, Battalion associate editor, Houston; George B. Wilcox, profes
sor of education; E. L. Angell, manager of student publications; and Dan A. Russell, head of the
rural sociology department.
Committeemen pointed out that the organization of the Student Aid Fund would be completed
at an early meeting and the actual beginning of the fund’s functioning would be announced in The
Battalion within 30 days.
Gridmen Begin Spring Training Today
Around Sixty
Players Expected
To Draw Uniforms
By Hub Johnson
Battalion Sports Editor
Once again the pounding of heads
and the smell of sweaty leather
will be present on Kyle Field as
Coach Homer Norton and his assis
tants set out to try their hand at
rebuilding the Aggie grid machine.
This afternoon twelve lettermen,
some 28 freshmen, and twenty
squadmen and ineligibles will re
turn to the field to draw uniforms
and commence the thirty day train
ing period.
The main problem for the back-
field coaches will be the uncovering
of a hurler nearly as accurate as
Marion Pugh and Marland Jeffrey
proved to be.
Twenty seniors left the team this
year and of these, ten were start
ers.
At present on paper it appears
to be anybody’s conference next
year with Texas and Rice holding
the upper hand.
“We’ll have a good team,” Coach
Norton said, “but there will be no
John Kimbrough, Jim Thomason, or
Marion Pugh or Bill Connatser
in that backfield. And in the line
where will I find another Marsh
all Robnett, Ernie Panell, Tommie
Vaughn, Chipp Routt, Charlie
Henke, Bill Buchanan, and the
senior reserves we had behind these
fellows ?”
Plans for the training season
omit the round-robin tournament
traditional of the past years. Too
much work in rebuilding the squad
to the strength of the ’39 and ’40
teams caused the dropping of the
intra-squad games. ,
Ten Planes Of
Pilots’ Club Land
At College Aiport
Ten planes, piloted by mem
bers of the exclusive Sportsmens
Pilots’ Association of America,
landed at the College Station air
port shortly after noon yesterday
on their way to take part in their
annual cruise which, this year,
wil be their mass flight from
San Antonio to Monterrey, Mex
ico.
They were guests of Dr. L. O.
Wilkerson, of Bryan, who is one
of the seven members of the club
that reside in Texas. They had
lunch in Dr. Wilkerson’s home and
after a stay of several hours took
off again for San Antonio, accom-
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Deadline For
Longhorn Military
Pictures Is Feb. 15
Morton Robinson, managing
editor of The Longhorn, announc
ed Monday that the deadline for
all remaining military pictures
has been set at February 15.
Pictures coming under this
classification include members
of corps, regimental, and battal
ion staffs; captains of organiz
ations; seconds-in-command of
organizations; and first ser
geants.
Civil Service
Wants Printers, Radio
Inspectors, Dieticians
Open competitive examinations
for the positions described below
were announced by the United
States Civil Service Commission
today. Applications will be accept
ed at the Commission’s Washington
office not later than the closing
dates specified. Where two closing
dates are given for receipt of ap
plications, the extra time is allow
ed for those sent from Colorado
and States westward. All salaries,
are subject to a SVz percent re
tirement deduction.
Apprentice, Government Print
ing Office, for appointment in
Washington, D. C., only. The rate
of pay for the first year df ap
prenticeship is $0.40 an hour for a
40-hou'r week. The pay rate is in
creased on the completion of each
year of successful apprenticeship
up to $1.02 an hour for the fifth
and last year of apprenticeship.
Applicants must have reached their
seventeenth but must not have
passed their twentienth birthday.
Applications for this examination
will be accepted for only 10 days,
or until February 15 for States
east of Colorado, and until Feb
ruary 18, 1941 for the other States.
Radio inspector, $2,600 a year,
Federal Communications Commis
sion, and Assistant Radio inspec
tor, $2,000 a year, various depart
ments. The duties of these positions
include the inspection of radio
equipment on ships, aircraft, and
at various land stations. College
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A Weary Party for the Texas Aggies:
Plans Completed for
DefenseWeekActivities
Exemption Arrangement Will Not
Be Changed This Semester-Bolton
Misinterpreted
Announcement Was Basis
For the Rumor of Change
Contrary to the rumor now cur
rent on the campus, exemptions
wil be in order next seemster as
they have been in the past, The
Battlaion learned from Dean F. C.
Bolton, vice president of the col
lege, yesterday.
The basis of this rumor was the
misinterpretation of an announce
ment in the official schedule of
classes to the effect that only cand
idates for baccalaureate degrees on
May 30 are exempted from final
examinations.
This statement has been added
to the schedule of classes to indi
cate that only those seniors that
are cadidates for degrees will
be exempted from finals in courses
in which they have a passing
grade and not all seniors.
As in the past, in addition to
the graduating seniors, any student
may be exempted, whether he is a
non-graduating senior or a fresh
man, provided he has a term aver
age of A or B in the course and
is in the upper 25 per cent of that
class.
It has not been decided as yet as
to whether the graduation exer
cises will be held before or after
the regular examinations but this
will be taken up at the next meet
ing of the faculty on February
25.
Arbuckle To
Fill Vacancy In
Dairy Department
Was Former
Research Technician
At Missouri University
Dr. W. S. Arbuckle, former re
search technician at the Univers
ity of Missouri, will fill the vac
ancy in the dairy husbandry de
partment caused by Dr. T. R. Free
man’s resignation. During the
coming semester he will have
charge of the classes in cheese
manufacturing and technical con
trol of dairy products.
After Dr. Arbuckle received his
B. S. from Purdue in 1933, he was
dairy farm and creamery mana
ger at Earlham college at Rich
mond, Indiana, until 1936. He re
ceived his master’s degree from the
University of Missouri in 1937 and
his Ph. D. in 1940.
An interesting feature that was
introduced in Dr. Arbuckle’s ice
cream classes at the University
of Missouri was motion pictures in
color of the various processes in
ice cream manufacture. Motion pic
tures were also used to compare
the products of the various dairy
companies.
Several Faculty
Members, Students
At Wildlife Meet
A group of faculty members and
students from the wildlife depart
ment will leave Saturday for
Memphis, Tennessee, where they
will attend the North American
Wildlife Conference to be held in
the Peabody hotel Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday. The group
will be composed of Dr. W. P.
Taylor, Dr. W. B. Davis, H. S. Cole
man, R. L. Peterson, J. D. Mauld
in, Doug Hubbard, G. H. Soulen,
A. F. Haloran, P. B. Uzzell, B. E.
Ludeman, and H. O. Borgfeld.
The conference, which will be
the sixth to be held, is sponsored
by the American Wildlife' Institute
and will feature discussions on re
moving surpluses of wildlife,
carrying capacity determination
on wildlife areas, relationships of
fur animals to game and fish man
agement, desirability for control
of predators in wildlife manage
ment, fisheries problems of im
pounded waters and appraisal of
stream improvement programs.
Movies assembled by a special
committee will be shown of various
wildlife activities to those attend
ing the conference.
North Carolina
University Offers
Six Assistantships
The department of agronomy of
the A. and M. college has receiv
ed notice from Dr. L. D. Baver,
head of the agronomy department
of North Carolina University, an
nouncing six assistantships paying
a stipend of seven hundred and
twenty dollars per year. These as
sistantships are in cotton breed
ing, corn breeding, peanut breed
ing, pasture research, soil fertil
ity and analysis in pasture work
and soil conservation work. These
positions require special training,
especially, in physics and chemis
try, as well as plant breeding.
The agronomy department is
eager to have several men from
this institution make application
for thpse positions. Anyone who
is interested should apply to Dr.
Ide P. Trotter, head of the de
partment of agronomy.
The North Carolina State Col
lege of Agriculture and the Agri
cultural Experiment Station have
been rejuvenated and strengthened
so that now they stand among the
leading colleges and universities in
the United States. Dr. Baver who
is the present head of the depart
ment of agronomy was head of the
department of soils at Ohio State
University. Previous to this he was
at the University of Missouri and
was associated with Dr. Bradfield.
Highlighted By
Full Dress Mounted
Review, Feb. 18
Nearly 500 Cadet
Officers To Be Feted
By Local Chapter ROA
A. & M. College, largest of the
nation’s military institutions, will
take a salient part in America’s
National Defense Week observ
ance Feb. 12 to 22.
Highlight of the event for A.
& M. will be a three-day period,
Feb. 18, 19 and 20, which will fea
ture a full-dress mounted review
of the 6500-member cadet corps
Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 18.
The review, first of the 1940-41
long session, will be followed by a
mass rally of the corps and civ
ilians from surrounding commun
ities in Kyle stadium to hear brief
addresses by President T. O. Wal
ton and Lieut. Col. James A. Wat
son, commandant and professor of
military science and tactics.
Although plans have not yet
been completed, committee Chair
man Col. Ike Ashburn, executive
assistant to President W’alton, said
that arrangements were being
made for a detachment of the coast
artillery corps from Fort Crockett
at Galveston to participate in the
activities at College Station.
The seven branches of military
training offered at A. & M. will
stage individual exhibits concern
ing their particular phases of co
operation with the nation’s na
tional defense program.
Cooperating with the cadet corps
in the three days of military ac
tivities will be the Brazos County
branch of the Officers Reserve
corps.
Wednesday night, Feb. 19, the
local - chapter of the R.O.A. will
entertain the near-500 members of
the senior class who are junior
members of the association and
who will receive commissions as
second lieutenants following grad
uation next June.
“This will give us an opportun
ity to explan to these future of
ficers what part the R.O.A. plays
in the current national defense
program,” chapter president R. L.
Elkins said.
The 216-piece A. & M. band will
play half-hour concerts each after
noon of the three-day observance
beginning at 5:30 p. m. This, to
gether with special military ex
hibits, lectures and picture shows,
will complete the calender of
events.
Committeemen expressed the
belief that more than 10,000 per
sons would hear the addresses of
Dr. Walton and Col. Watson Feb.
18 in Kyle stadium.
College officials pointed out that
with the exceptions of the annual
Final Reviews held each June, the
civilian crowd which is expected to
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Registered
Hereford Auction
To Be Held Feb. 25
Former Billiard
Champ To Perform
At YMCA Wednesday
C. C. Peterson, former billiard
champion of America who claims
that there is no billiard shot he
can’t make, will be at the Y. M. C.
A. Wednesday afternoon from 1-5
and 7-10. A billiard table will be
set up in the chapel. Peterson, who
travels under the auspices of the
National Billiard Association, will
give fundamental lessons to be
ginners and will demonstrate com
putation of angles for shots.
Many Inter-collegiate tourna
ments have been conducted by Pet
erson in mail in recent years, since
he has been devoting all his time
to the various colleges and uni
versities in America.
Howell Entertains Fifty-Three Hundred
By Y. A. Yentzen
■f start today and any absences in-
Five thousand, three hundred and
fifty-one students had registered
for the second semester by Wed
nesday noon, E. J. Howell, Regis
trar, sai dlate last night.
According to previous estima
tions, this total is expected to
reach 5,500 because many students
were unable to see their respective
deans and thus complete registra
tion.
The total enrollment for this
semester has an increase of 193
students over the same time last
year.
curred by students registering or
returning to school late will be
charged against them, Howell
stated.
Everyone was confused! Like a
hornet’s nest, the Administration
building has been swarming with
bewildered students, parting reluc
tantly with $30.50 or $54.75.
Registration lines were short, but
everyone was in everyone else’s
way. Gone was the customary wait
of past registrations, but the en
ergy needed to gallop all over the
campus was running short by the
time the student staggered to the
Classes for the second semester j Registrar’! office to turn in his
assignment card.
The Commandant’s office, was
a bedlam of noise with hundreds of
Aggies trying to crowd into too-
small a space. The customary
freshman reply, “But this is the
THIRD time I’ve been here!” was
heard on all sides.
Naturally, every sixth or seventh
Aggie forgot his old auditor’s re
ceipt. From various points in the
line would come “Say, do I have
to have THAT too?” If “green,”
he would take out in a run for
his room; otherwise, he would de
pend upon staring the teller down.
So mechanically has the utterly
fatigued teller stamped everything
-f-placed before him, that the student
was in danger of getting his hand
stamped also.
Total registration for the entire
year has not yet been tabulated,
but pre-registration reports indi
cate that the total number will be
approximately 6,700 students en
rolled at A. & M. for the 1940-
41 year.
The Canadian Royal Air Force,
the National Guard, the Army and
other reasons not so heroic have
accounted for the absence of many
of a large number of students who
had registered for the first sem
ester.
The first auction of registered
Herefords, sponsored by the Mid
South Texas Hereford Association,
will be held in the livestock pavil
ion at A. & M. college, Tuesday,
February 25 at 1 p. m. Entered
for the sale are 29 bulls and 22
females. Some of the cows will
have calves at foot, some bred and
some open.
Col. Earl Gartin of Greensburg,
Ind., nationally known auctioneer
who has handled most of the large
Hereford sales in recent years, will
auction the cattle. In the ring, as
sisting Col. Gartin, will be Pete
Peterson, of The Cattleman; Frank
Farley of The American Hereford
Journal; Ralph Cooper of The
Coastal Cattleman; Frank Reeves
of the Chuck Wagon column of
the Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Walter Britten and Merle Saxe.