DIAL 4-5444
STUDENT TRI WEEKLY
NEWSPAPER OF
TEXAS A- & M. COLLEGE
The Battalion
DIAL 4-5444
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
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VOL. 40
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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 5, 1941
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For Student
Elections
Student
Interest Grows
As Elections Near
By The Battalion Political Editor
The fast rising cadet interest in
the nearing campus elections re
ceived a shot in the arm Thurs
day and Friday when four juniors
tossed their hats in the political
ring for as many positions.
E. M. (Manny) Rosenthal, Fort
Worth, was the first to file for
editor of The Battalion. A jun
ior editor this past year, he has
been a member of the staff since
the beginning of his sophomore
year.
R. L. (Rusty) Heitkamp, New
Braunfels, filed for the Longhorn
editorship; Louis Kercheville, San
Antonio, filed for social secretary
of the senior class, and W. J.
(Bill) Bryant, Stamford and pres
ident of this year’s sophomore
class, filed for junior representa
tive on the student publications
board.
No candidates have yet filed
for Town Hall manager.
Deadline for filing for Long
horn editor, social secretary of
the senior class and Town Hall
manager is April 10. This means
that cadets wishing to file for
any of these offices must do
so before the beginning of the
spring holidays.
The election of the Longhorn
editor, social secretary and Town
Hall manager will be held Ap
ril 17.
The general campus election to
elect The Battalion editor and
the junior publications repre
sentative, will be held April 22.
The following are the qualifica
tions for the various positions.
LONGHORN EDITOR
To be eligible to become a cand
idate for editor a student must
meet the following requirements:
(a) He must have had at least
one year’s experience on the
Longhorn staff in a capacity
which will provide training for
the editorship.
(b) He must be a junior with a
grade point average of at least
1.25 and his general academic
standing must be such that with
a normal load he can graduate
with his class.
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To Present Program Monday Night
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The Singing Cadets, 110 strong, will present thsir first full length program before the corps Mon
night at 7:30 in Guion Hall. The program, which is divided into three sections, will last an hour and a
half.
Singing Cadets Will Climax Year’s Activities With
Program Before Corps Monday Night in Guion Hall
Seven Sophomores
Are Candidates
For Yell Leader Job ^
Seven sophomores have fulfilled
the requirement of presenting a
petition signed by 100 students and
have filed as candidates for junior
yell leaders next year, it was an
nounced by the Student Publica
tions Board Friday.
The students who are running
for the positions are Jack Nagel
of “F” Field Artillery, Houston;
Russell C. Brient of “A” Field
Artillery, Port Arthur; W. H.
Chalmers of “G” Field Artillery,
Houston; Henry Crew, Jr. of “D”
Cavalry, Orange; Raymond Wolf
of “A” Engineers, Harlingen; and
Claude H. Wallace of “H” Infan
try, San Antonio; J. P. Alford, “D”
Infantry, Waelder.
The seven candidates will appear
before a joint meeting of the soph
omore and junior classes on the
night of April 8 in order that
these two classes may select the
two men who will serve as yell
leaders next year. The positions
will be filled by the candidates who
receive the largest number of
votes.
Eligibility of the candidates is
now being checked.
No. 1 Chess
Player of Texas to
ive Demonstration
J. C. Thompson, Texas’ No. 1
Chess player, will give a demon
stration of simultaneous chess
playing and blind-fold chess play
ing at the YMCA Chapel Thursday
at 7:30 p. m.
The program will include his
playing any number of people si
multaneously, playing without see
ing either the board or men, and
also a talk on the game of chess.
Thompson is an employee of
the Magnolia Petroleum Company
of Dallas, Texas. He is the writer
of the chess column that appears
in the Dallas Morning News every
Monday.
Last Film Club
Showing Postponed
The sixth and final showing of
the Campus Film Club has been
indefinitely postponed Mr. Zisman,
president of the Campus Film Club
and professor of Architecture here
at A. & M. announced yesterday.
The inability to obtain a film
was the reason for the postpone
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Marks 1st Showing
Of Any Student
Group in Town Hall
By Tom Vannoy
As the climax of the year’s work
the Singing Cadets will be in the
spotlight of the Town Hall pro
gram Monday evening in Guion
Hall. The members have been prac
ticing every night for the past
three weeks to perfect the num
bers for the evening’s entertain
ment.
A barbershop octet and a quartet
composed of Latin-American cadets
will be featured along with the
numbers by the entire club.
The program will start at 7:30
o’clock and last for an hour and
a half and will be divided into
three sections, military, special
ties, and formal.
Admission charges for the pres
entation as announced by Paul
Haines, student manager of Town
Hall, are $1 for reserved seats
and 50 cents for students.
The first section of the program
will consist of spirited military
songs such as “Away Down South”,
“Fair Land of Freedom,” “Stout
Hearted Men,” “The Drum,” a
special arrangement of “The Mar
ine Hymn,” and others.
The second portion is an in
formal group of specialty num
bers including the presentations
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Alexander Wins Over
Davis for Yell Leader
Danforth Scholarships
Awarded Williams, Taylor
Trip Consists
Of Two Phases;
Begins July 28
Steven B. Williams, dairy hus
bandry major from Los Fresnos
and Jack B. Taylor, animal hus
bandry major from Aspermont
have been awarded the Danforth
Fellowships for this year, D. W.
Williams, head of the animal
husbandry department announced
Thursday. Williams is in Head
quarters Troop Cavalry and Taylor
is in 3rd Headquarters Battery
Field Artillery. Both are juniors
and have compiled outstanding
records at A. & M.
These fellowships are awarded
jointly by the Danforth Founda
tion and the Ralston Purina Mills
to outstanding junior agricultur
al students in 38 colleges and un
iversities.
Students are given an oppor
tunity to study, through actual
experience, problems of manufac
turing, commercial research, sales
promotion, advertising, personnel,
and leadership.
The purpose of the fellowships
is to help college agricultural
students enlarge their horizons
and broaden their contacts and to
assist them in finding their most
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Additional Short
Course Dates Set
Dates for additional short cours
es to be held at Texas A. & M.
college during July have been an
nounced by Col. Ike Ashbum, ex
ecutive assistant to the president
at the college.
The annual conference of the
staff of the Farm Security Ad
ministration will be held July 7-12
with approximately 600 expected
to attend.
The Farmers’ Short Course for
4-H Club boys and girls and farm
family adults will be held July 13-
18 with between 4500 and 5000 ex
pected to attend both courses.
18th Annual
Horse Show to
Start This Morning
Record Crowd
Expected to View
All Classes of Events
The 18th Annual Horse Show
which is sponsored by the Military
Science department of A. & M.
will be held at 9:30 this morning
and at 1:30 this afternoon at the
arena on highway 6.
A record crowd is expected to
view the events which will be out
standing examples of fine horse
manship. The events will start at
9:30 and continue all day. Twenty-
three classes of events have been
scheduled for the day’s program.
The morning program consists
of polo pony model class, model
colt class, model draft class, model
stock horse class, and R.O.T.C.
jumping class eliminations.
The program for the afternoon
includes the R.O.T.C. jumping fi
nals, three gaited saddle class,
three and five gaited, fine harness
class, R.O.T.C. charger class, la
dies three gaited seat and hands
class, jumping class open, five
gaited saddle class, children’s
three gaited class, and plantation
class.
Special events have been added
to the program to provide color
and humor. The rescue race, hunt
team, cow horse, polo pony rein
ing class, stick and ball race, and
polo pony bending race will be
held outside the arena.
Among the unusual events of
the program will be the Novice
Polo Class. Contestants who have
never played polo will be given a
mount, a mallet, and a ball to
knock 100 yards.
Students from the University of
Texas who are members of the Bit
and Spur Club will also partici-
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New Ordinance Will Permit Stable Expansion of College Station Public Utilities
Extensions to Present Water, Sewer
Lines Must Be Paid by the Developer
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The future policy of College Station in regard to further extension
and purchase of public utilities was decided by an ordinance passed at
a meeting of the city council Thursday night.
In substance the ordinance, which deals with city ownership of
water and sewer extensions provides a policy which allows for future
growth of the city. The new ord
inance provides that all extensions
to water and sewer lines shall be
made by the city forces at the ex
pense of the developer. Said ex
tensions shall comply with all city
standards as provided by the city
planning board. All bills will be
rendered by the city including tap
fees, meter fees, inspection fees,
and all monies so paid shall be
long to the city. The city shall
maintain all lines at city expense.
Title to all lines so placed shall
be vested solely in the city with
out payment of any kind by the
said city.
These provisions mean that in
the future, the cost of water and
sewer lines must be bom by the
real estate developer rather than
the city. This is the policy of
most major cities.
The future policy of the city
is summarized by the last clause
of the new ordinance which reads
as follows: It is the stated pol
icy that no further utility pur
chases will be made by the city.
It is felt that this ordinance
will clarify the position of the
city in regard to further utility
transactions and will permit a
stable expansion of public utilities
in College Station.
Before the incorporation of Col
lege Station, the various real es
tate developments here were all
served by individual utility com
panies. Since the formation of the
city all utilities have been con
solidated and put under city con
trol except electric power in Col
lege Hills Estates. Electric power
for College Hills is supplied by the
Rural Electrification Authority.
The city now supplies water and
sewer connections to all parts of
the city. The city also furnishes
electricity to all sections of the
community except College Hills.
In the future after the devel
opers have laid water and sewer
mains the city will take title to
them and be responsible for their
upkeep and maintenance. Accord
ing to the new ordinance the
cost of installing taps and meters
will be born by the owners of
the property and not the developer.
The city will install all taps, met
ers, etc., and will collect all fees
for doing these services.
These provisions provide for the
orderly expansion of utilities into
all parts of the city. It was felt
that this ordinance was needed be
cause of the rapid growth of the
city during the past few years.
The city council also made the
final and official tabulation of
Tuesday’s election.
Official Election
Results Released
Official results of the biennial
city election which was held last
Tuesday were released yesterday
by Sid Loveless, city secretary.
The votes were tabulated at a
meeting of the city council Thurs
day night. Three councilmen were
elected.
The official results were:
City Secretary:
This Was How Sbisa Hall Looked in 1915
Race Is
Close; Only 8
Votes Difference
Total Votes
Are Still Low
After Three Attempts
J. O. Alexander of C Troop Cav
alry received a majority of eight
votes over Billy Davis in the elec
tion Friday for next year’s senior
assistant yell leader.
Alexander had a total of 94
votes and Davis had a total of
86. Bill Becker, chairman of the
Student Election Committee, said
that the election was very quiet
and unexciting and that he was
disappointed in the extremely
small turnout.
In an exclusive statement to
The Battalion, Alexander had the
following to say: “I’m glad to have
the job and was plenty worried
about the outcome of the election
till the votes were all counted . . .
I’ll do my best to cooperate with
Skeen and the rest of the boys
and try to put the football team
over next year.”
Friday’s election was the third
attempt to select either Alexander
or Davis as next year’s senior yell
leader. During the past two weeks
the juniors and seniors were
twice called to meetings in Guion
Hall for the purpose of casting
ballots on the two candidates. Both
times class officers felt that the
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Candidates For
Degrees Announced
An official list of the candidates
for degrees to be conferred in
June was released by the Regis
trar’s Office yesterday. On the
list were candidates for one Ph.
D., 36 Master of Science, four pro
fessional and 741 Baccalaureate
degrees.
In a statement from the Reg
istrar’s Office,, it was said that
last year’s number of 675 gradu
ates should be exceeded by at least
50 or 100 this June since the pres
ent number of 782 candidates is
the largest in the history of the
college.
Of the candidates, eight will re
ceive two degrees. Leldon Beard,
James Ashton Clay Jr., Charles
William Davis Jr., Henry Earl Hal-
tom and John B. Link will receive
both a Petroleum Engineering and
a Mechanical Engineering degree.
A Veterinary Medicine and a
Science degree will be given to
William Robert Nathan.
Besides their regular degrees in
Agricultural Administration three
men, Homer Booker Bodine; Wil
liam A. Becker; and Frank David
White, Jr., will get Two-Year Cot
ton Marketing and Classing Certif
icates.
The Ph. D. degree to be given to
Jesse Gerald Chaney of Bryan is
the second awarded by the College,
the first having been given last
year.
Sid Loveless
186
W. B. Langford
55
City Councilmen:
S. A. Lipscomb
226
G. B. Wilcox
199
J. A. Orr
186
Luke Patronella
80
R. L. Meyers
34
249 voters participated
in the
election which was the first reg
ular biennial election of city coun
cil officers since the incorpora
tion of the city two years ago.
Senior Electrical
Engineers to Go
On Inspection Trip
The annual Inspection trip for
senior electrical engineering stu
dents will be made next week. The
itinerary will include Beaumont,
Houston, Galveston, and Freeport.
The trip will start Monday at
Beaumont and end Thursday in
Houston. The group will visit
large industrial plants in these
cities.
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Recently the personnel steward at Sbisa Hall, L. W. Brittain, produced for The Battalion the above
picture which shows the mess hall as it appeared in 1915. Noticeable are the white shirts and bow
ties that are worn by the cadets.
Men identified in the picture include Ralph Hill, Lt. Colonel in the Coast Artillery who was sta
tioned here last year; T. S. Porter, now teaching agriculture in Georgia; W. A. Collins of Crockett
and W. R. Nisbet, both who have senior sons in school; George Long, now connected with the branch
Colleges division of the school; D. C. Kelly, now a major in the Chemical Warfare Service and County
Agent Hafner of Childress.
Galveston Rabbi to
Speak to Hillel Club
Rabbi Louis Feigon of Congrega
tion Beth Jacob, Galveston will be
the guest speaker at an open
meeting of the Texas A. & M.
Hillel Club Sunday April 6 at
7:15 p. m. at the Lounge Room
of Sbisa Hall. His subject will be
Palestine and the World Scene.
Rabbi Feigon is a graduate of
the Isaac Elchanan Theological
Seminary, the leading Jewish Or
thodox Seminary in America, and
of New York City College. He has
been in Galveston since 1930 as
Rabbi of Congregation Beth Jacob.
In recognition of his ten years
service in the Texas Jewish Min
istry the Texas Association of
Rabbis held their meeting in Gal
veston in his honor.
Rabbi Feigon’s address is open
to the public, and cordial invita
tion is here extended to all those
interested.