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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, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 25, 1941
Z725 NO. 67
Connie Lindley Is Queen of Cotton Pageant and Ball
Manpower of Texas A & M- Exhibit
r 'A ” for National Defense
At Saturday’s review or just
any review, this mighty spec
tacle of 6500 cadets in mounted
dress review is what some bird
or in this case an aerial photog
rapher, saw as he “covered” the
review from the air.
With National Defense train
ing as a number one course and
with special emphasis being plac
ed on preparing its students in
seven branches of the army for
service to the nation, it was fit
ting and proper as well as logi
cal that the college hold a re
view to display its facilities be
fore Congressman Ewing Thoma
son, a man who with his bill, the
Thomason Act, enabled a limited
number of R. O. T. C. graduates
to enter the army of the United
States.
Thomson appeared at A. &
M. to witness the wedding of his
son, Lieut. W. E. Thomason, to
Miss Patricia Chance of Bryan.
This photograph was taken by
Life photographer Francis (Nig)
Miller for exclusive use in The
Battalion.
McQuillan Accepts Position as Basketball Coach at Texas Christian University
Reallocation of
Duties Eliminates
Coach Replacement
Coach H. R. McQuillan’s accep
tance of the duties of basketball
coach at Texas Christian Univers
ity will not affect the coaching
staff of the Aggies at the present
time, Coach Homer Norton an
nounced yesterday. Reallocation
of the duties of the present staff
will make unnecessary the replace
ment of McQuillan who coaches the
basketball team and the fresh
man football squad.
A definite announcement will
be made when spring basketball
practice plans have been complet
ed. It is quite probable that a mem
ber of the present staff will step
into McQuillan’s shoes.
T. C. U.’s hunt for a new cage
coach began almost a month ago
when Mike Brumbelow was re
lieved of his basketball duties so
could devote his entire time to the
football linesmeh.
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March “Engineer” to
Be Distributed Tonite
The March issue of the “Engin
eer” will be available today immed
iately after supper in the basement
of the Administration Building. The
magazine will feature a great many
interesting articles which will
discuss a wide variety of topics on
different phases of engineering.
The issue is also featuring sev
eral articles on national defense
which are illustrated by photo
graphs of military training at A.
& M. The magazine will also in
clude a record of the last meetings
of the various engineering clubs
at A. & M.
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H. R. McQuillan
Boy Scouts, 4-H
Clubs to Cooperate
Cooperation between 4-H boys’
clubs and Boy Scouts was forecast
in a memorandum of understand
ing, signed January 6, between the
Extension Service of Texas A. &
M. colelge and the Boy Scouts of
America.
The memorandum provides that
the two programs will be kept sep
arate and distinct, but each party
to it agreed that “We shall ask
our leaders to familiarize them
selves with the other’s program.
We will recognize successful
achievement in either program and
give credit to such achievement
when it is in accord with specifi-
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Chemical Warfare
Plans Training of
Officers at A & M
The Chemical Warfare unit of
the regular army is making plans
to begin the training of officers by
using the facilities of various de
partments here at A. & M.
The plans for the training are
still in the process of development,
but it is expected that the courses
will start sometime this spring. The
training will consist of instruction
in tactics of chemical warfare by
officers of the regular army who
will be sent here. It is expected that
the chemistry department will be
used as the center of instruction.
The courses are not to be offer
ed to men who aspire to become
officers of the unit, but they
will serve as a review and a means
of broadening the field of knowl
edge of officers already in the
Chemical Warfare Service.
It is planned to have the pro
gram working fully by the sum
mer session of school and at that
time an additional group of train
ees will be sent here.
Senior Invitations
Available This Week
Senior commencement and bacca
laureate-announcements and cards
are now available. They can be
obtained from the corps headquar
ter^ office. The deadline for se
curing these cards and announce
ments will be Friday at 5 o’clock.
Juniors and Seniors Meet Tomorrow
To Fill Vacant Yell Leaders Position
Candidates Davis •'
And Alexander Will
Talk Before Election
At a combined meeting of the
junior and senior classes in Guion
Hall at 8 o’clock tomorrow night,
a senior yell leader to replace
Bill Beck will be elected, Cadet
Colonel Bill Becker announced
yesterday.
Candidates are W. C. Davis and
J. O. Alexander.
Each candidate will make a short
speech before the election is held,
Becker stated. One secret ballot
will be taken to determine the win
ner.
These two were candidates for the
office of junior yell leader last
spring with Beck. Since Beck left
school to enter the air corps in
February, the Student Elections
Committee decided that a senior
yell leader should be chosen from
the field that ran last year. Of the
four candidates last year, only
two are still in school.
In order to be eligible, the cand
idates must have a grade-point av
erage of 1.00, be a classified jun
ior, have attended A. & M. college
for five continuous semesters, and
be now in the sixth semester.
Student elections for the .offices
of editor of the Battalion and jun
ior representative on the student
publications will be held on April
22. The Longhorn editor, social
secretary of the senior class, and
Town Hall manager are to be el
ected by a vote of the junior class
alone. The two junior yell leaders
for next year will be elected by
the sophomore and junior classes.
Medicine and
National Defense Is
Pre-Med Fete Theme
“Medicine and the National De
fense” was the theme of speeches
made by Lieut. Col John Dibble
and Lieut. Colonel Beck at the
Seventh Annual State-Wide Pre-
Medical Banquet at Austin Fri
day night at which 15 A. & M.
pre-meds were present.
Lieut. Col. Beck of the Fort Sam
Houston Medical Corps was the
first speaker for the occasion. He
discussed the two groups con
cerned with medicine and nation
al defense. The first of these
groups is the men who were under
21 before October 16 and not
eligible for the draft at that time.
He said that their services may
not be enlisted until Congress pass
es special legislation concerning
them.
The second group in his discus
sion was the group who were 21
years of age before October 16. He
stated that they will be deferred
until the end of the current school
year.
Lieut. Colonel Beck gave a sketch
on his pre-medical life and exper
iences in medical school and dur
ing service in the World War. In
addition he gave a history of the
Medical Reserve Corps and ended
his talk with the statement that
“one doctor is needed for every
1000 men.”
Agriculturist
Magazine Official
Ag Day Program
As the official program for Ag
Day, May 3, the April issue of
the “Agriculturist” will set out
the highlights of the day, and con
tain a program of the events, Tom
Power, editor of the “Agricultur
ist” announced yesterday.
The various departments of the
School of Agriculture have been
divided into four classifications:
The Livestock group includes the
departments of animal husbandry,
dairy husbandry, poultry husband
ry, fish and game and genetics.
The plant industry and soil con
servation group is composed of the
departments of agronomy, horti
culture, landscape art, entomolo
gy, agricultural engineering, and
cotton marketing.
The Agricultui’al Administration
and Education group includes the
departments of agricultural eco
nomics, accounting and statistics,
agricultural education and rural
sociology.
The Extra-mux-al group includes
the Extension Service, the Exper
iment Station and the Forest Ser
vice.
Each of these departments has
been asked to contribute an arti
cle to the “Agriculturist” outlin
ing the function of the department
in connection with Ag Day.
The day’s program will be pre
ceded by a federal inspection review
on May 1, a baseball game on May
2, and the annual Cotton Style
Show and Pageant and Cotton Ball
on the evening of May 2.
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Freshman From
TSCW Reigns With
King J. T. Anderson
Queen Selected
From 100 Girls In
TSCW Rose Bud Festival
Miss Connie Lindley, T. S. C. W.
freshman from Fort Worth, was
selected as queen of the 1941 Cot
ton Ball and Pageant last Sun
day night by a group composed of
members of the Agronomy Society
and Mrs. J. S. Mogford of College
Station.
The queen’s maids of honor were
also selected at the same time.
They are Betty Bowman, fresh
man from Fort Worth; Ruth Til
ley, freshman from Shamrock; Lau
ra Gainer, Menard senior; Edith
Ellison, Denton freshman; Dava
Robison, Honey Grove sophomore;
Sarah Gillet, Whitewright junior;
and Margaret Trulock, senior from
Paris.
The queen and her maids of
honor were chosen from the 100
girls who were in the Rose Bud
Festival held at T. S. C. W. last
Saturday night. First, all eight
were selected and the queen was
then picked from the group Sat
urday morning. The Agronomy
Society members who were on the
selection committee were J. W. Pin
son, J. T. Anderson, J. H. Rob
inson, J. H. Spann, W. M. Roun
tree and R. B. Hartgraves.
Miss Lindley will be escorted in
the pageant by J. T. Anderson who
was recently elected King Cotton.
The maids of honor will be escorted
by any Aggie senior who is able
to get a date with them; however,
members of the committee dated
four of the seven immediately af
ter the selection.
The girls in the Rose Bud Fes
tival were selected by a committee
of T. S. C. W. faculty members
and students. To be eligible for
selection, the girls had to have a
high scholastic standing, be active
in student affairs and be considered
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Training Courses
This Summer for
Aero Engineers
The United Air Lines Transport
Corporation has just advised the
department of aeronautical engi
neering that a summer apprentice
engineering training course is
available for the present summer
to aeronautical engineering stu
dents who have but one year of col
lege to complete.
The object of this training is to
assist United Air Lines Transport
Corporation in procuring satisfac
tory college graduates for the air
line’s engineering work. Students
who are selected spend part of the
summer in the engineering office of
United Air Lines in Chicago and
the remaining time at the repair
base in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The
rate of pay is $.40 per hour, which
is the same as the regular student
apprentice rate. Only specially rec
ommended students are taken into
this course. The requirements are
a reasonably high scholastic stand
ing, a good personality, ability to
get along with fellow workers, and
a decided preference for work in
air transport engineering and main
tenance.
Application should be made to
H. W. Barlow, head of the aero
nautical engineering department.
Press Club Longhorn
Picture to Be Taken
At 5:00 This Evening
The Press Club pictures for the
Longhorn will be taken this after
noon at five o’clock on the steps
of the Administration Building. The
persons to be in the picture are
those who work on the publications
of the Longhorn, The Battalion
newspaper, The Battalion maga
zine, The Agriculturist and The
Engineer. All members of these
staffs should be present, Jeff Mont
gomery, club president, announced.