The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, March 04, 1941, Image 1

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, March 04, 1941, Image 1

Newspaper Page TextDIAL 4-5444 nriw IT!) ,4 j w * DIAL 4-5444 ' : STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER NEWSPAPER OF k/ aW fiC (B dUP B Jjjjr S M H mf |g| Ergs OF THE CITY OF TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE M JL O' IL fLC ^ Jr H COLLEGE STATION f •. VOL. 40 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 4, 1941 Z725 NO. 58 * * * ♦ ^ r * 4 » } Plane Crash At Airport Early Sunday Pilot of Plane Escapes With Only Slight Injuries The College airport lost one of its Taylor Cub primary training planes in a crash which happened at the airport Sunday moi-ning. The plane was piloted by John Pittman, an instructor at the air port. Pittman survived the crash with no other injury than a slight ly bruised left eye. Pittman at tributed his fortunate escape to the fact that he took the precau tion to fasten his safety belt be fore taking off. Pittman attempt ed to taxi the plane into the hanger to protect it from a very high wind which was sweeping across the air field. The wind caught the plane and turned it over in spite of Pittman’s efforts to keep it under control. The plane is a total wreck which will require about two or three weeks for repairs at a cost of from $800 to $900. The dam aged plane is being replaced at once by another plane in order that Pittman and his classes will continue without interruption, ac cording to a statement made yes terday by Captain C. A. Miller, director of the airport. Mothers’ Club Of Consolidated Hi Sponsors Show The Mothers’ dub of the Con solidated grade and high school will sponsor a benefit motion picture show at the Campus theater Thurs day, proceeds of which will go to the school’s athletic equipment fund. Through the cooperation of Ben Ferguson, theater owner, the en tire day’s proceeds will be given to the fund. The feature Thursday will be “Pride and Prejudice”, fea turing Lawrence Olivier, one of the year’s finest pictures. It is a story of a mother’s am bition to marry her five daughters favorably, and a father’s success ful efforts to see that his daugh ters’ happiness is placed upper most in selection of husbands. First showing will be at 1 p.m. Thursday and will provide badly needed athletic equipment for the College Station schools. American Chem Society to Hold Twelfth Meet Today The twelfth meeting of the Texas A. & M. Section of the American Chemical Society will be held today at 8 p.m. in the main lecture room of the Petroleum building. The members of the sec tion and their wives will have an opportunity to meet Dr. Keyes at an informal dinner, which will be held at the Aggieland Hotel at 6:30 p.m. The program will consist of “A study of catalysts for the vapor phase oxidation of organic com pounds” by Dr. D. B. Keyes, de partment of chemistry, University of Illinois. Business meeting: Appointment of committee to recommend chang es in by-laws. All interested are invited to at tend. Those who have a paper they wish to present at a future meeting should communicate with the Chairman of the Program Committee. At the regular meeting on Tues day, May 13, 1941 papers will be presented by local chemists F. W. Jensen, chairman; J. D. Lindsay, chairman-elect; G. S. Fraps, sec- retary-treasui*er; N. E. Rigler, councilor; R. E. Snuggs, chair man, program committee; F. M. Smith, chairman, membership com mittee. A &M Can Encore If Necessary THIS EXCLUSIVE PICTURE, made for The Battalion by Life photographer Francis (Nig) Miller, shows the service flag hanging in the Academic Building. Granted by an act of Con gress, the outside stars represent Texas Aggies who served in World War I. The inside group represents those Aggies who died in that war. Next Town Hall Engagement to Be Held on March 12 Marine Corps Officer to Visit Campus for Interviews An officer of the Marine Corps'fand must be native born citizens. William L. White, war corres pondent and next feature on the Town Hall entertainment series, will appear here in Guion Hall March 12 instead of March 5 as orig inally announced, Paul Haines, manager of the Town Hall, stated yesterday. Journeying to England on one of the 50 destroyers which this country traded for Atlantic bases, he wrote of that passage in Life and in the Reader’s Digest of Jan uary, 1941. A brilliant speaker, White will, nevertheless, leave time for the audience to guide the program. The corps will be given ample time to question him on conditions in (Continued on Page 4) Coast Guard Officer To Interview Students The United States Coast Guard will send an officer to College Station for interviews of appli cants to the United States Coast Guard Academy. He will be in the Assembly Hall at 5 p.m., Thursday March 6. The United States Coast Guard Academy is operated by the gov ernment on the same basis as the Military and Naval Academies. All who are interested are urged to attend. It will not be necessary to do so if students leave their names in Room 17, Ross Hall. They will be passed on to the officer upon his arrival. will visit the campus in a few days to interview students who are interested in being appointed as Second Lieutenants in the Mar ine Corps Reserve, in order to meet the increased demands of the Corps during the limited national emerg ency proclaimed by the President. The Marine Corps will have vac ancies for additional reserve offi cers on active duty during the course of the next year. It is the intention to secure these officers by an extension of the Platoon Leader’s Class system that has been operating so successfully for several years. The service of accept ed candidates will fall into the fol lowing four categories: A candidate status as enlisted men undergoing basic training for three months; a Reserve Second Lieutenant on active duty under going a course of instruction at the Marine Corps School for three months; active duty with troops as a Second Lieutenant, Marine Corps Reserve, for the duration of the emergency if required by the needs of the service; and inactive duty as a Second Lieutenant, Mar ine Corps Reserve, in one of the classes now provided by law. Applicants for the appointments must qualify under the follow ing requirements: They must have completed two years basic mili tary training. They must not have enrolled in advance with a con tract. A physical examination must be passed. Candidates must be over 20 and under 25 years of age, Candidates are required to turn in their names not later than noon Thursday, March 6, to the Sgt. Major, room 17, Ross Hall. Other requirements for candi dates are that they must be unmar ried, recommended for Reserve commission by the Commanding Officer, and obligate themselves for the duration of the emergency as officers of the Marine Corps Re serve on active duty. On appointment the Reserve Of ficer will receive the pay and al lowances of a Second Lieutenant. The Officers will be given an op portunity to request for a specif ic assignment, and those who make outstanding records may have the opportunity for appoiftt- ment as officers in the regular ser vice. On satisfactory completion of this period of active duty, the Re serve officer will be ordered to in active duty in the Volunteer re serve, or if vacancies exist, in the Organized Reserves on approved application. His service and prom otion in the Marine Corps Re serve will depend on his activities or on his association with an organ ized unit. At such time as the emergency ceases to exist, officers and enlisted men will be placed on an inactive status, or officers may resign and enlisted men be dis charged at their own request, pro vided the exigencies of the service permit. Honorably discharged en listed men and men transferred to (Continued on Page 4) Purdue Official Is Visitor on Campus F. C. Hockema, assistant to the president and secretary of the board of trustees at Purdue Uni versity, arrived here Sunday on an extended tour of the larger col leges and universities in the coun try. The tour will include about 30 colleges and many large factories which employ graduates from these schools, Hokema said. The object of the tour is to study the admission standards, type of students and quality of training in universities and colleges in var ious parts of the country. “The main things that impressed me most at A. & M. is the great military training program, the friendliness and hospitality exhibit ed by both faculty members and students,” Hockema said. State Agencies Working in Behalf Of Texas Agriculture Representatives of 19 state agen cies working in behalf of agri culture attended a meeting on the A. & M. campus yesterday in the conference room of the adminis tration building. Director H. H. Williamson of the A. & M. college Extension Service has called the meeting and is serv ing as chairman. Subject for dis cussion is a unified agricultural program for Texas to meet the im pact of war. On Tuesday the State Land Use Planning Committee, composed of agency representatives and 18 farm and ranch men and women, will be in session at the same place. Faculty Changes Date Of Final Review to June 7 Rachel Cordor to Represent Aggies At Texas Round-Up Selection Made By Senior Committee Miss Rachel Cordor of Burnett was selected yesterday as the A. & M. Sweetheart to participate m the Round-Up at the University of Texas held on April 4, 5 and 6. A sweetheart is selected from each of the southwest conference schools and the presentation is an elaborate affair, assuming the pro portions of a stage production. The Round-Up, similar in nature to A. & M.’s own Cotton Pageant, is held as an annual affair under the sponsorship of the Ex-Stu dents Association of that school. The Sweethearts will participate in a downtown parade as well as the stage presentation, and will be feted at various fraternity and sorority banquets, dinners, and luncheons. Miss Corder is a former stu dent of the Texas State College for Women. She is from Burnett, but is now in Waco attending a business college. Brunette, brown eyed, her picture will run in a later edition of The Battalion. She will announce her escort at that time. The selection of Round-Up sweet heart from A. & M. was made by a committee composed of seniors on the corps staff, regimental com manders and senior yell leaders at a meeting held yesterday in the Corps Headquarters office in Ross Hall. GE Representative To Address Engineers At Meeting Tonight D. C. Prince, manager of the commercial engineering department of the General Electric Company and president-elect of the Amer ican Institute of Electrical Engi- neersj will address students and faculty members of the school of engineering tonight at 7 o’clock in the Chemistry Lecture Room. Prince was recently honored with the modern pioneer award for outstanding contributions to engi neering science. Besides being the author of numerous technical pap ers and co-author of two well- known text books, he is credited with the design of many important devices, among which are the cir cuit breakers used in the Boulder Dam project. Decision Made In Called Meeting Saturday Afternoon The date of final review has been changed from May 31 as listed to June 7. This was done at a called meeting of the academ ic council of the general faculty Saturday afternoon in the consid eration of a petition from the sen ior class requesting the change. Previously the faculty decision had been postponed from Tuesday to Thursday, and Thursday was re ferred to the Executive committee for initial consideration. The exec utive committee met Friday and re turned its opinion to the faculty in the session Saturday. With the change of final re view, the dates of commencement, junior prom, and final ball are also subject to the week’s change. Final examination dates will not necess itate the change. The college calendar as it now reads is as follows: June 6, Friday a.m., Commence ment sermon. June 6, Friday p.m., Commence ment. June 7, Saturday, a.m., Final Review. Before faculty action the date of the final review was May 31, before the semester examinations. A senior class meeting approved a petition to request the change and the other classes held similar meet ings to state their stand. One faculty meeting consider ed the petition on January 25, but the issue was potsponed until the next regular faculty meeting Feb ruary 25 in order that the ques tion could be further studied. At that meeting, which was postponed two days because several of the fac ulty members were away on bus iness, the group decided to refer the matter to the executive com- mittee for initial consideration in order that a counter-petition might be heard. As the commencement commit tee could not function until the date was definitely settled, the executive committee met the follow ing day to consider the matter and in turn reported their find ings to the faculty in a meeting Saturday called by President Wal ton. The committee from the senior class selected to submit the pe tition to the academic council in clude Tom Richey, senior class president, Bill Becker, cadet colo nel, Bob Nisbet, Battalion editor, and Roy Chappell, captain. Field Artillery. Popular Game of Bowling Was Once a Drunken Brawl Bowling—one of the oldest gam es of the hardwood floors—was at first played on the greens of the larger homes of England. Later is was introduced to the common people only to take a bad name in the eyes of the public. Groups of men would gather in the bowling halls which usually adjoined a beer garden or saloon. Drinking and playing the game, the events of the evening went by without marring until the end of competition. The loosers challenged the winners to a street brawl. Thus it grew that rather than to win as many games as possible, a team would choose to drop them. Bowling as we see it today is a game for the satisfying of pleasure and the betterment of health. Play ing the game exercises and loosens all the muscles of the body. Proper timing and foot work develops alertness and balance. The game is an independent one. That is, it can be played with any number of players and if played by teams, one man’s play does not depend on the skill, ability or co operation of the other. Being distributed at the Y. M. C. A. are booklets, “How To Bowl,” copy-wrighted and distributed by the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., makers of bowling supplies and equipment. (Continued on Page 4) National Egg Festival Week Here March 6-13 Because A. & M. college Ex tension Service is interested in any movement which focuses the at tention of the consumer public on any good food, its field and headquarters forces are cooperat ing in Egg Festival Week, March 6-13. The national egg festival, as it is called, is sponsored by the In ternational Baby Chick Associa tion, and in Texas extension work ers are cooperating in promotional work with the Texas Baby Chick Association. George P. McCarthy, extension poultry husbandman, ex plains that the current movement will not only help to bring more eggs to the tables of Texas fam ilies but will also help to increase the cash income on Texas farms and ranches. Marketing and education com mittees in the county home dem- stration councils are cooperating with local merchants and produce men in encouraging the public to buy and eat more eggs. /

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, March 04, 1941, Image 1

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