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VOL. 40 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 4, 1941 Z725 NO. 58
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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
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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
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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.
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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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