THE BATTALION
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-THURSDAY, APRIL 24,1941
Largest Number of Models Ever Sent
To A&M to Be Here for Cotton Show
Excess-Cut Petition to Faculty
Sfrange "Goings On" Heard From
Laboratory in Old Pfeuffer Hall
The largest number of models and
helpers ever sent to A. & M. for
the annual Cotton Pageant and
Style Show by any store handling
the event will be at A. & M. on the
night of May 2. According to ad
vance information among this
group of twenty-four from Sang
er Brothers of Dallas will be 12
or 14 of the store’s best and most
beautiful models.
The girls will present to the aud
ience a preview of the latest styles
and coming designs in the world
of cotton fashion. As part of their
presentation they will show the
advancement of cotton clothes and
will give a prediction of coming
streamlined garments.
Before the style show begins,
the crowning of the king and queen
150 to 5 p. m. - 200 After
LAST DAY
BIG DOUBLE FEATURE •
PROGRAM
No. 1
“Santa Fe Trail”
Shows at 2:00 - 5:02 - 8:02
No. 2
“Ride Kelly Ride”
Shows at 1:00 - 4:02 - 7:02 - 9:52
FRIDAY - SATURDAY
A UNIVERSAL PICTURE
—Also 3 Stooges, Wild Hare, A
Wabbit Twacks, Cartoon — Donald
Duck and Mickey Mouse—and the
Annual A. & M. Horse Show Film
ed by Aggietone.
of the cotton ball will take place.
Sterling C. Evans, president of the
Federal Land Bank of Houston, is
the person who has been selected to
present J. T. Anderson with his
symbol of regeancy.
The forming of the king and
queen’s court will follow the cor
onation and in turn it will be fol
lowed by the style show.
Intermingled with and immedi
ately after the style show the
Agronomy Society will present pro
fessional entertainers. The enter
tainment will include a team of
professional ball room dancers, a
group of novelty dancers and other
specialties. The grand finale of
the pageant will be a la conga by
the king and queen’s court and the
duchesses and their escorts.
After the pageant from ten un
til two in the main dining room
and the annex of Sbisa Hall the
Cotton Ball will be held with Ed
Minock and the Aggieland Orches
tra playing.
Arrangements have been made
for one of the new dormitories
to be vacated for the visiting girls
during the cotton festivities which
will be held at the same time as
the Ag Day events.
Pinson said yesterday during a
Battalion interview that there are
still several of the duchesses and
some of the models from Dallas
who don’t as yet have dates. Any
cadets who wish to escort one of
these girls may contact Pinson at
the Agronomy office before Thurs
day.
The 1940 production of wool in
the United States both shorn and
pulled, totaled 449,763,000 pounds
and was the largest on record, the
Agricultural Marketing Service re
ports.
Dr. David Rubio, head of the
Romance language department of
Catholic university of America, is
visiting Spain and Portugal to col
lect additional volumes for the li
brary of congress.
Academic Council
Considers Measure
In Next Two Weeks
Absences Without
Grade Point Deductions
Is Essence of the Plan
The recently submitted petition
to abolish all penalties for excess
cuts in class will be presented to
the Academic Council for consid
eration at their next meeting which
will be held sometime within the
next two weeks, Dean F. C. Bolton
stated.
The plan to modify the present
system of forcing class attendance
by deducting from the student’s
total number of grade points for
excessive cuts was presented ori
ginally at the meeting of the Stu
dent Engineer’s Council last Thurs
day night.
The essence of the proposed plan
is that the student be allowed to
take as many cuts as he desires
without having the absences affect
his grade point total.
Instructors will be required to
keep a record of class attendance
and turn in a record of all absenc
es to the registrar when grades
are sent in so that a correlation of
grades and cuts may be made. The
total number of cuts will be sent
out with each report of the stu
dent’s grades.
The plan was founded on the
basis that students are penalized
sufficiently by cutting class and
that their grades should not be
lowered because of excess cuts.
Flight Instructors
Course Is Offered
Trainees . who have completed
the secondary phase of the Civil
Pilot Training Program are eli
gible to praticipate in the third
stage of the flight training. This
stage is called the Student Flight
Instructors Course and consists of
about forty hours of flight train
ing at the college airport. The ob
ject of the training is to prepare
students to act as flight instructors
for new trainees in the primary
flight stage. There is a great short
age of flight instructors at the
present time, and this is one meth
od taken to remedy the deficiency.
There is a small amount of ground
school work given at the airport
in connection with the flight train
ing.
The only expenses attached to
the training and insurance and
transportation, provided the train
ee’s commercial CPT secondary
physical examination is still in
effect. The requirements for the
English Contests
Set for May 15
The English contest examina
tions for both sophomores and
freshmen will be held at 7 p. m.,
Thursday, May 15 in the library
classroom (basement) and infor
mation about the material of the
examinations will be published not
later than May 1, Dr. George
Summey, head of the English de
partment, announced yesterday.
The cash prizes offered are as
follows: first prize $15 and second
prize $10 in the William Morriss
English Contest for sophomores;
first prize $20 and second prize $5
in the F. M. Law English Contest
for freshmen.
Conditions of eligibility for the
sophomore contest are grade ‘A’ in
English 203 or 231, distinguished
student rating for the first semes
ter, and grade ‘A’ on any course
paper or book review that may be
required in the sophomore English
course the student is now taking.
For the Freshman English Con
test, conditions of eligibility are
grade ‘A’ in English 103 and dis
tinguished student rating, first se
mester; grade ‘A’ or ‘B’ in English
104 to April 1, and satisfactory
oral work in the same course to
April 19.
Eligible students are required to
file their names with their instruct
ors or with the secretary in the
English office by noon Friday,
April 25, after which time no en
tries can be accepted. If the num
ber of entries appear to be too
few, the donors of the prizes, F.
M. Law of Houston and William
Morriss of Dallas, have the right
to withdraw them, Dr. Summey
said. For this reason it is necessary
that eligible students file their en
tries promptly.
course are that the student must
have satisfactorily completed the
secondary course and must be rec
ommended by his flight instructor
as being acceptable instructor ma
terial.
A quota of ten students has al
ready been allotted to A. & M.
College. Five of these will start
training immediately. The second
group of five will start about June
1. Provided a sufficient number of
applications are received, a furth
er quota of ten will be allotted,
and the training will probably be
given in either the first or second
summer sessions.
Any student now in college who
has completed the secondary train
ing either here or elsewhere is re
quested to get in touch with Cap
tain C. A. Miller of the Kadet
Aviation Company at the Airport.
By W. F. Oxford Jr.
If you hear any strange mut-
terings coming from Pfeuffer hall,
don’t be afraid and run on to that
calculus class to escape the “spir
its.” It’s neither the voicings of
the ex-Aggies who used the hall
as a place of abode or the echoes
of the students of the Consolidated
High School who used to attend
classes there. It is merely the stu
dious work of three graduate as
sistants of the biology department,
Marshall Wheeler, Martin Burow
and Bryan Glass.
Their laboratory of the “hollow”
as it is called, is a strange con
glomeration of hides on the wall,
snakes in boxes, a baby owl in the
window, quail in a light proof box
and microscopic crayfish.
“Oscar,” the baby owl and a
gift from a student who caught the
animal, is soon to be stuffed and
will be a permanent fixture in the
college museum. “Oscar” doesn’t
know this yet. More of their live
stock includes a possum with six
Youth Training
Course Will be
Offered in June
A three-weeks course in youth
leadership training carrying col
lege credit will be offered at A.
& M. June 9-28, Daniel Russell,
head of the college rural sociology
department, announced here this
week.
Cooperating with the college in
holding the course will be the Hogg
Foundation of Texas and the Boy
Scouts of America with O. H. Ben
son, director of rural scouting, Boy
Scouts of America; V. K. Brown,
director of playgrounds, Chicago,
111.; and Prof. Russell named to
give the series of lectures.
The course will be divided into
sections so that the first and third
weeks will serve as institutes
which professional or voluntary
workers not seeking college credit
may attend.
The week of June 9-14 will be
directed by Benson and will deal
with rural youth problems and ru
ral youth leadership attempting to
interest leaders in 4-H Clubs, Fu
ture Farmers of America, Boy
Scouts and similar organizations.
During the week of June 16-21,
both Benson and Russell will leqf
ture to those students who are en
rolled for the full three-week
course.
Instruction during the week of
June 23-28 will be under the di
rection of Brown and this period
will serve as the second institute
for those not taking the full course.
He will discuss the problems of or
ganizing recreation for youth in
local communities. Prof. Russel]
has pointed out that this part of
the course should particularly in
terest leaders and teachers in
schools, N.Y.A., W.P.A., Y.W.C.A.,
Y.M.C.A., and other recreational
instructors. Personality and per
sonality adjustment will be stress
ed throughout the entire course.
Students who satisfactorily com
plete the course will be given three
hours of college credit.
Goodrum, Lehmann
Are Campus Visitors
Visitors on the campus yester
day were Phil D. Goodrum, direct
or of restoration, Texas Game,
Fish and Oyster Commission, and
Valgene W. Lehmann, regional
game manager, Texas Game, Fish
and Oyster Commission.
Goodrum and Lehmann confer
red with leaders of the Texas Co
operative Wildlife Research Unit
relative to summer employment
for fish and game majors.
A New York commercial jour
nal recently attributed gains rin
cotton futures to expectancy of
high loans in Washington and to
acceptance of bids for 80,000 bales
of cotton and 6,270,000 yards of
ticking by the Surplus Marketing
Administration. The cotton and
ticking will be used in the federal
cotton mattress demonstration pro
gram.
The Agricultural Marketing Ser
vice, USD A, reports the number
of turkeys on hand February 1 for
breeding in the United States was
14 percent lower than on the cor
responding date a year ago.
^-little ones, and seven male quail.
The quail belong to Burow who
is working on photoperiodicity or
in plain English, showing that an
increase in light will increase the
sexual cycle.
Their prize assistant, “Butch,” a
white rat, was out for a vacation
and could not be interviewed. He
escaped from a hormone experi
ment and is very much happier in
his new life running around with
the common rats of Pfeuffer hall
—which are many.
Wheeler, the herpetologist by av
ocation is studying an indigo snake
along with his crayfish. The snake
formerly belong to Tex Flynn but
it seems that his room mate did
not like the idea of sleeping in the
same room with a snake, so
Wheeler was presented with the
reptile.
Wheeler’s thesis is the micros
copic Crustacea of Brazos county
while Burow is hard at work on
the parisites of man.
One of these days when you are
looking for something new around
the college and in the mood to learn
something, drop in most any grad
uate laboratory and the “grads”
will be glad to show you around.
Engineer Aide Jobs
Open to June Grads
Vacancies for aeroplane engi
neering aide, $1800 per annum,
and junior aeronautical engineer
and junior mechanical engineer,
$2000 per annum, exist at the
Naval Aircraft Factory. It is sug
gested that any member of the
June graduating class who is in
terested in such employment write
the Factory immediately, outlin
ing his education and experience,
if any, and enclosing a photograph.
Probational appointments in the
above ratings can be issued to can
didates selected by the Factory and
can be held until the appointtees
are available after graduation. Pro
bational appointments become per
manent appointments after six
months of satisfactory service.
The Factory also has a number
of vacancies for Associate Aero
nautical Engineer, $3200 per an
num, and Assistant Aeronautical
Engineer, $2600 per annum, which
it is authorized to fill by proba
tional appointment of individuals
selected. Qualified graduates who
desire to be considered for such
employment should immediately
forward a complete outline of train
ing and experience, with photo
graph, to the Factory.
Any comments which you may
care to forward concerning your
graduates or students who are in
terested in employment at the Na-
vail Aircraft Factory will be ap
preciated.
If you’re off for the shore, the club or
the hills—a good first aid to a good time
is a Goodall
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Take a White for moonlight—and a
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What eye appeal! What value at
$17.75
The Evening Formal $20.00 - And the Slacks $5.50
Goodall makes the cloth - Goodall tai
lors the suit - Always look for this label!
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Be sure to look your best this
. week. To do so, send your gar-
^ ments to
HOLICK CLEANERS
Ben Youngblood, Mgr.
Agents in most halls ... if not,
save on our cash and carry prices.
To be assured of first class
work, be sure it’s
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the easy-feeling lounge models
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and deep tones,
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5, tOO ... • •
Palm Beach Evening Formals (white
jacket and black trousers), $20. Palm
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makers—the new Goodall Tropic
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worsted suits, $25.
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$3250 Prize Contest. See
your clothier for details.
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