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* 1 ' -f * §u CAMPUS THEATER FILES ARBITRATION CASE 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, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 17, 1941 NUMBER 74 < v- Ft t 1^ I ■ ! Juniors Will March to Polls Today to Fill 3 Positions • * * * * * Construction on New Dormitories to Begin About May 1 Decision Made By Directors at Meeting Yesterday Office Building Located On Corner of Highway 6 And Sulfur Springs Road Construction will begin again on the four new dormitories about May 1 it was announced today af ter a meeting yesterday of the col lege board of directors. Delayed since November because the state auditor refused approval of the means of finance, the dormitories are a part of a large-scale build ing program now being undertak en by the college. It was revealed at the meeting that during the delay prices of ma terials had risen to the extent that costs would be increased by 2 per cent. The state has authorized the college to borrow ■ sufficiently to cover the loss. It was decided that the new fed eral office building included in the program would be located on the corner of Highway 6 and the Sul phur Springs road. Parking space is to be provided so that the em ployees in the building will not be required to cross the congested areas of the campus in traveling to and from work. Also at the meeting the board approved construction of additional ladies rest rooms at the Kyle Field stadium and agreed to improve the visitor’s dressing room. This meeting of the board of directors is a follow-through from a meeting in Austin last week at which Governor O’Daniel signed the bill renewing the $1,575,000 building program which was start ed in part on the campus last fall. In the bill are plans for four dormitories to cost approximately one million dollars, power plant and utilities extension to cost about $275,000 and an office build ing to house federal agencies to cost about $300,000. Funds for the program are to be box-rowed through bonds issued against the revenues and rentals of the improvements. The bonds may run as long as 30 yeai*s at in terest rates not to exceed 4 per cent. It will be remembered that it was upon this question that work was halted last fall by the state auditor. College authorities are hopeful that the money may be secured at an even lower rate of interest. It is thought likely the loans will be made through the Reconstruction Finance Corpora tion. The new dormitories will be lo cated in the area west of the Col lege hospital and will be similar in type to the twelve new dormi tories built two years ago. Plans include one dormitory equipped with rehearsal room suitable for use by the band. Clearing of the (Continued on Page 6) Spencer Resigns A&M Post in June Goes to Illinois School at End of Current School Year Prof. H. C. Spencer, head of the A. & M. engineering drawing de partment, has resigned that post, effective at the end of the current school year, to become head of the department of technical drawing at the Illinois Institute of Tech nology, Chicago, 111., according to announcement made here by Gibb Gilchrist, dean of the School of Engineering. The Illinois Institute of Tech nology is the new school formed by the consolidation of Armour In stitute of Techhology and the Lewis Institute about a year ago with a complete rebuilding pro gram now under way. L. E. Grin- ter, former professor of structures in the A. & M. civil engineering department, is now vice-president of the new school and also dean of the graduate school there. Spencer is widely known for the five textbooks on technical draw ing of which he is co-author. “Technical Drawing” by Dr. F. E. Giesecke, Alva Mitchell andSpen- cer, all of the A. & M. staff leads the field of college textbooks hav ing been adopted and in use by over 200 colleges and universities. The same trio co-authored “Tech nical Drawing Problems” and “Lettering Exercises”, all of them widely adopted. In addition he collaborated with E. L. Williams, head of the col lege’s industrial education depart ment, in writing “Technical Draw ing for High Schools”, Volumes I and II. Spencer received his A. B. de gree from Baylor university in 1929; his M. S. degree in indus trial education from Texas A. & M. in 1931; and a B. S. degree in (Continued on Page 6) Senior Favorite Pix Now Available Cadets who have turned in pic tures for entry in the Vanity Fair or Senior Favorite sections of The 1941 Longhorn may secure these pictures from Joe Jones, room 101, dormitory five, Longhorn Editor Morton Robinson announced yes terday afternoon. Progress on the 1941 publication is as rapid as original plans had scheduled, editors announced, and the annual should be off the press and ready for distribution on May 15. Clearance Issue To be Arbitrated “We Expect Action Within the Next Two Weeks,” Rice Says Via Long Distance Ben S. Ferguson, president of the local Campus Theater, announced late yesterday afternoon that his theater had filed a clearance case with the American Arbitration Asso ciation early Wednesday morning. “Our attorney, L. M. Rice of Dallas, filed the case this morning,” Ferguson said, “and we expect action within the next two weeks.” Rice, a nationally-famed theater attorney, declared in a long distance conversation with a senior class motion pic ture committeeman that, “We are doing everything in our power to win this case which has come about through the investigation of the A. & M. cadet corps.” In a meeting with the senior Valedictory Election Is Set All Day Tomorrow Richey Urges Class To Turn Out Record Vote for High Post Ten seniors have been listed as candidates for the election of val edictorian of the senior class which will be held Friday in the rotunda of the Academic building from 8 to 5:30, E. J. Howell, registrar, announced Wednesday following the issuance of a list of the 20 seniors with the highest grade point averages. The ten seniors who have been declared eligible are William J. Montgomery, petroleum engineer ing, 2.945; Jack M. Simpson, elec trical engineering, 2.895; Tom D. Harris, Jr., veterinary medicine, 2.852; Buck Joe Miller, petroleum engineering, 2.836, Leslie L. Ap- pelt, mechanical engineering 2.815, Jack E. Minnock, mechanical en gineering, 2.812; Ernest Lee Weh- ner, agricultural administration, 2.800; Robert Alexander Lynch, liberal ai’ts, 2.787; Charles Wil liam Brown Jr., electrical engineer ing, 2.701; and Joe W. McCrary, petroleum engineering, 2.683. The second group of ten seniors have a grade point average of 2.547 or better. As a group the first quarter of the senior class averaged 1.7765 and over. The second quarter rang ed from 1.4270 to 1.7765. A X’ange of 1.1490 to 1.4269 was scored by the third quarter. The last group had an average of 1.490 or less. Tom Richey, senior class pres ident, earnestly requested that all seniors turn out and vote. “If a large number vote,” Richey said, “the election will be representative of the senior class, in contrast with the meager vote which was cast last year.” class motion picture committee late Tuesday night, Ferguson ex plained the status-quo of the sit uation and revealed that the case would be filed the following day. The senior class committee, com posed of Cadet Colonel W. A. Beck er, Battalion Associate Editor George Fuermann and Engineering Council President Bentol Elliott, instigated the current bid for day- and-date motion pictures between College Station and Bryan when committeemen went to Dallas March 18 to interview prominent threaten executives there. TWO-FOLD MOTIVE Behind the committee’s trip to Dallas was a two-fold purpose. First, to learn who was respon sible for the fact that Bryan ob tained motion pictures 45 days ahead of College Station. Second, to learn what, if anything, could be done to remedy the situation. Concerning the first point, thea ter executives rested the respon sibility for the situation with the Bryan Amusement Company. Principal remedy for the situa tion lies with the Federal Consent Decree passed last fall. Rice pointed out that one arbi trator will be selected from a pan- nel of arbitrators which makeup the Dallas branch of the American Arbitration Association. The ar bitrators are prominent Dallas bus inessmen and S. M. U. professors. CLEARANCE IS ISSUE “When the case reaches the ar bitrator,” Ferguson said, “it will be his job to determine whether (Continued on Page 6) Student Aid Fund’s Work Is Rapidly Expanding as Organization Work Nears Completion; 8 Cases Handled By Tom Gillis The recently formed Student Aid Fund committee has been able to assist Aggies in eight separate cases since its formation. Chair man George Fuermann stated at the regular meeting of the com mittee Tuesday afternoon. This does not include expressions of sympathy which have been sent to the families of Aggies suffering a death. Uses to which the fund has been put include the following: 2 pair of eye glasses purchased for Ag gies; examinations of 2 students; payment of hospital charges in Brenham for an injured cadet and ambulance charges, and payment of two physicians for treating students. • A note similar to the type to be- sent out to students who have used the fund was presented at the meeting. The note is an ordinary non-interest bearing note with the addition of one statement to the effect that payment of the note is to be contingent upon the maker’s financial ability to do so. Payment will allow continued service of the fund to other Ag gies in the same manner that the student himself received aid. The note is to be sent to the student at a time designated by himself and is an honor obligation. Printed cards, which are to be sent by the committee with floral tributes to Aggie families suffer ing the death of a member, will read “Sincere Sympathy from the ■A. & M. Cadet Corps.” It was stated that the sending of such expressions of sympathy should be handled through the Student Activities office, who will notify the florist. A supply of the cards is to be given to the florist to be sent with the flowers. Dan Russell, executive-secretary of the Student Aid Fund Commit tee, stated that he had approved the request for aid of a foreign student who was attending A. & M. but would like the opinion of the committee as to policy in fu ture cases. By unanimous vote it was decided that the only quali fication to receive aid from the fund is that the beneficiary be a regular student enrolled in A. & M. college. Student Leaders Dine With Nelson Claude Nelson, director of the World Student Service Fund, dined with students and representatives of the YMCA Tuesday night and discussed with them the possibili ties of raising funds on the cam pus to be used by the fund. Present at the dinner were M. H. Turner, Terry Thrift, Fred Smitham, Paul Haines, Tom Richey, Bill Becker, Tom Gillis, Bob Nis- bet, George Fuermann, A1 Payne, Preston Bolton, and Gordon Gay. Barnyard Frolic, Cattlemen’s Ball Slated Tomorrow Texas U. Girls’ Glee Club Present Annual Program Friday Night The annual Cattlemen’s Ball, presented jointly by the Saddle and Sirloin Club and the Kream and Kow Klub, will be held in Sbisa Hall Friday night from 9 ’til 1, Graham B. Purcell, president of the Saddle and Sirloin Club, an nounced yesterday. Ed Gerlach and his orchestra will play for the event. The girls’ glee club from Texas university will be presented by the Saddle and Sirloin Club in the Assembly Hall at 7:15 p.m. and af ter the program, each girl will be escorted to the dance. This glee club is made up of 54 girls and has been presented be fore this ball for the last 10 years. It is one of the favorite pro grams here at A. & M., Purcell said. Everyone will wear white trous ers, a bright colored sash, and a bright colored shirt. At the intermission medals will be given to the members of the senior livestock judging team which won second place at the livestock judging contest in Chi cago last Thanksgiving. • The annual Bax-nyard Frolic, presented by the student branch of the A.S.A.E. will be held on the third floor of the agri cultural engineering building Friday night from 9 til 1, J. C. Bloodworth, president of the A. S. A. E. an nounced yesterday. The Aggieland orchestra vyll play for the event. This is strictly a comic dance in which everyone is dressed as a farmer or farmer’s wife. A prize of $5 will be presented to the best dressed couple and comic prizes will be presented to the best dressed individual boy or girl. The money made from the dance will be used to send members of the A. S. A. E. to the national agricultural engineering meeting. Bloodworth pointed out that all cadets were eligible to attend the dance. Voting to Take Place in Academic Building Rotunda Local Airport Becomes Terminus For Randolph Planes Arrangements have been made between the Easterwood Airport and Randolph Field to have pilots from Randolph Field use the local airport as a terminus on solo cross country flights. Four flights of 22 to 24 planes each and many individual planes— more than 100 in all—have already landed here, and more planes are expected this week, airport offi cials have announced. The airpoi-t will continue to re ceive the planes from Randolph Field throughout the spring. Cadets to Speak At High Schools May 2 through 6 A list of students who have been selected to return to their high schools to speak to the graduating seniors about coming to A. & M. is now posted on the bulletin board on the ground floor of Ross Hall, Cadet Colonel Bill Becker announc ed today. Students who requested permis sion to return to their high schools should examine the list for their names. The students whose names are listed will be given excused ab sences for two days so that they may visit the school while it is in session. Cadets should turn in a pass to the Commandant’s office for either May 2 and 3 or for May 5 and 6. The excused absences will be granted if the cadet is not defi cient nor on tour duty for that week. Students visiting high schools mare than 250 miles away from the college will be given three days in which to make the trip. All the students will be required to at tend a banquet April 30 for in structions. General Election Slate Completed With 7 in Races Gillis Adds Name To Editorship Race As Two Sophs File Three men for Battalion editor and four for Junior Publications representative were left in the gen eral campus election races after the' Student Elections committee completed its investigation of elig ibilities Wednesday afternoon. Tom Gillis, editorship candidate, filed just under the deadline. He has been junior editor of both the Battalion magazine and newspa per, as well as junior representa tive on the publications board. He is the vice-president of the junior class and the sergeant major of the cadet corps.' The Student Elections committee in a meeting Wednesday afternoon declared Lee Rogers ineligible to run for the office of editor-in-chief of The Battalion. The basis for the declaration was his low grade- point average. Qualifications for the office state that the candidate must have a grade-point average of 1.25. Rogers’ average was only 1.07. In the Junior Representative race two candidates added their names to the ballot. They are H. E. Norton, a sophomore of I Field Artillery from Grand Prairie, and Charlie Babcock, a sophomore of A Battery Field Artillery from Beaumont. Four candidates for Junior Rep resentative on the the Student Publications Board have filed for the office and four were de clared eligible. Candidates will draw for places on the ballot before the election but in order of filing, the ballot now reads as follows: Battalion Editor . E. M. (Manny) Rosenthal D. C. (Bug) Thurman Tom Gillis Junior Representative Billy Bryant H. EL Norton Charlie Babcock Nagel, Chalmers Elected Junior Yell Leaders Jack Nagel, Houston, and W. H. “Chuck” Chalmers, Houston, were elected next year’s junior yell leaders at a joint meeting of the junior and sophomore classes April 8. The men were selected from a list of five candidates qualified by the Student Elections committee and will assist senior yell leaders Skeen Staley and J. O. Alexander next year. The votes cast for such candi dates were: Jack Nagel 503 W. H. “Chuck” Chalmers....199 J. P. Alford 152 Russell Brient. 112 Claude H. Wallace 67 Nagel and Chalmers were yell leaders together in high school at John Reagan High in Houston. They will appear before the corps for their first time as yell leaders at College Night next Sep tember. Polls Open from 7:45 A. M. until 5:30 P. M. Today The junior class decides today who will be its officers for next year after having heard them speak last night at a class meet ing. A voting booth will be erected in the rotunda of the Academic building and will be maintained throughout the day from 7:45 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. Juniors will find printed ballots at the booth. Voters must present at the booth before voting a receipt for mid term maintenance; also as a means of identifying voters, a committee of juniors will stay at the polls. One member of the student elec tion committee will be at the polls the entire day and frequent refer ence will be made to the student directory. The election committee representative holds the right to consult the office of the registrar if any doubt arises as to any vo ter’s eligibility, of the election committee. Mac Sterling, the ineligible can didate, was ruled out of the race for Town Hall manager because he had not been in attendance at A. & M. the required number of semesters. The qualifications call for an attendance of at least five continuous semesters. Sterling has only three to his credit. The ballot as will be voted to day is as follows: Longhorn Editor R. L. (Rusty) Heitkamp J. Bennie Hancock Social Secretary Lewis Kercheville Alden Cathey W. E. (Pete) Frost Town Hall Manager J. F. Stephenson Fred Smitham Billy Bolton G. W. (Buddy) Ramsel Jack Hollimon Smith-Hughes Day Events Will Draw 1,300 Here Monday Monday, April 21, 1,300 Future Farmers of America and their vo cational agriculture teachers will be swarming over the campus to attend the 24th annual Smith- Hughes activities. Coming from all parts of Texas, the boys and their teachers will be here to enter the various agricul tural judging contest to be held on that day. Smith-Hughes Day, considered one of the highlights of the Fu ture Farmers’ school year, grew out of an invitation made by the School of Agriculture at A. & M. to the 750 vocational agriculture teachers throughout the state to bring some of their 35,000 stu dents here to enter contests in beef cattle, dairy cattle, horses, sheep, swine, poultry, crops, budding and grafting and various other agricul ture subjects. Last year, approximately 2,500 Future Farmers attended these contests, but due to added re strictions only a selected number approximating 1,300 will be allow ed to participate in this year’s proceedings. As there is no place to accom modate such a large crowd over night, the boys are bedded down on a foot of hay under Kyle sta dium.