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THE BATTALION
Official Notices
OFFICIAL
All summer session classes will
be suspended the 2nd period (8:50
to 10:10) next Tuesday, July 1, in
order that faculty and students
may attend the program given by
the Deep River Plantation Singers
in Assembly Hall.
Dr. C. H. Winkler.
Classified
LOST—White gold fligree bar
pin, about 2% in. long, 3 small
diamonds. Probably near Aggieland
Inn. Mrs. N. S. Holland, care Stu
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ward.
Farm situated about a mile and
a half south of College Station.
140 acres. Deep well, big tank. Well
improved place. For further infor
mation write J. F. Zak, 406A, West
28, Bryan, Texas.
N. Y. A.—
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ing Program for Out of School
Youth.
Tuesday A. F. Wagner talked
to an agricultural education class.
Bryan Dickson spoke to an agri
cultural education class. W. R.
Horsley, chairman of the Student
Labor committee, was in charge of
a forum held in the Science Hall.
J. C. Kellam appeared on a panel
discussion in connection with the
school administrators conference.
Wednesday morning at 7:30 A.
F. Wagner will speak to an edu
cation class on Child Accounting.
At 8:50 Bryan Dickson will speak
on high school methods. At 10:10
A. F. Waggoner will speak to a
group on Counciling.
The program was concluded by
a panel discussion in charge of J.
C. Kellum in connection with the
School Administration Conference.
Student work coordinators held
conferences with N.Y.A. personnel
and Council members each after
noon in the Academic building.
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Survey—
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purposes are to give the students
the proper technique in handling
instruments and to enable them to
do a better job in Civil Engineer
ing work when they get out of
school. Also, A. & M. is one of the
few schools in the south that offers
such a course of summer practice
in surveying.
J. A. Orr, associate profes
sor of Civil Engineering and
E. L. Harrington, instructor in
Civil Engineering, have charge of
the summer practice work.
Road Improvements—
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work. The city has in reserve a
sufficient amount of money to take
care of its part of the proposed
road improvement program.”
Mayor Anderson said that the
city paid all indebtedness occurred
by the $5,000 water and seyage
project in the northeast corner
of the city. The city has also fin
ished paying for the installation of
the fireplugs on the Consolidated
School grounds and, which has re
sulted in a decreased school in
surance rate of $1,400. $1,000
has been invested in putting trans
former conditioning wires and lines
in College Park, West Park and
Oakwood in top condition.
'‘As soon as a suitable loca
tion can be obtained,” Mayor An
derson said, “the present sewage
plant in College Hills will be
moved and greatly enlarged.”
The road east and west from the
south school grounds to old High
way 6 has been graded and will
be graveled within a few weeks.
Economy Cost
Worries Hotard
The number of summer school
students eating in the college mess
hall this summer is approximately
fifty percent greater than in for
mer years J. C. Hotard, supervisor
of subsistence, announced last Mon
day. He stated further that it is
hoped to keep the same low prices
during the second six-weeks of
summer school as prevailed during
Induction Causes
Change Of Position
Between Friends
The present army draft has pro
duced some strange and also hu
morous coincidences, Lieutenant
Lewis Adams, assistant plane and
training officer of the Sixth Train
ing Group Headquarters, at Camp
Wallace can personally attest. In
February of this year Lieutenant
Adams was called to the service
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as a reserve officer. Just about
the same time his ex-boss and col
lege instructor, James L. Van Atten
was being inducted as a buck
private. Both are from Corpus
Christi, Texas.
They were good friends during
high school and had enrolled here
together where Van Atten, as a
student instructor, had taught
Adams in several laboratory and
field courses. Subsequent to grad
uation, the two men continued on
together working for the same
pipeline concern, with Van Atten
always in the capacity of boss,
Adams as assistant.
Then the national defense pro
gram changed everything and for
a time after Van Atten’s induc
tion, they lost track of one an
other completely. A month or so
elapsed before they happened to
stumble on each other unexpected
ly at a Camp Wallace post ex
change, Adams in officer attire,
Van Atten as a private. Previous
to their meeting neither knew of
the other’s whereabouts.
Different duties naturally pre
vent them from seeing much of
each other now, but they have got
ten together at home to a present
opposite sides of the army pic
ture. Van Atten claims Adams
is a Simon Degree while Adams
calls Van Atten a gold-bricking
private, but it’s all very good-
natured in this neat reversal of
civilial roles. At the present time
Van Atten is trying to qualify for
officer’s school to complete the
the valley and the defense program
has made it hard to get vegetables
from other markets.”
During the month of May the
records of the subsistence depart
ment show that there was an in
crease of seven cents per student
per day more than the average of
all the previous months of the past
the first six-weeks in spite of ris-4-school year. This was caused in
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Cotton Program
At Waco Congress
-WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1941
Sociology Class
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strongest backer.
ing food prices.
“An idea of the increase in prices
can be seen by the prices of these
representative articles,” Hotard
said. “The list is as follows and ap
plies to one dozen number ten cans:
tomato juice last year $3.50 now
$3.60, tomato catsup last year $4.84
now $5.61, green peas last year
$6.39 now $6.62, bartlett pears $5.84
last year now $6.68, pineapple
juice $5.30 last year now $5.88, and
peach preserves $8.39 last year and
are now $9.66. There is also a mark
ed increase in the price of butter
and meat.
“These prices are up because of
the demands of the national defense
program in this country. The fresh
vegetable situation has been par
ticularly bad this year because of
the freeze that killed the crop in
part by the Mother’s Day function,
the large number of guests during
the closing of school, and the in
creased activity on the campus
which kept many students on the
campus who would ordinarily have
gone away.
On week-ends when it is thought
that a large number of students will
leave an allowance is made in the
food prepared and the saving is
used to improve other meals, or are
returned to the students as was
done last year when before Jan
uary meals were costing students
sixty-nine cents a day. From Jan
uary to April 8 they were costing
the student 63 cents a day. After
April 8 and until June 7 expenses
were further cut and meals were
given the students for 60 cents a
day.
Rural Sociology Class
Makes Observations
On Houston Trip
E. A. Norton, Chief of Physical
Surveys division, Soil Conservation
Service, U. S. Department of Agri
culture in Washington, is coming
to College Station the first three
weeks of the second semester of
summer school to offer a course
for technical workers in Agricul
ture. Those working in soils,
agronomy, and other phases of
technical agriculture, who have a
B. S. degree in Agriculture, are
eligible.
This course is Agronomy 410,
Soil Classification and Mapping,
and will run for three weeks from
July 21 to August and the credit
is for three semester hours. The
course presents a great opportunity
to every technical workers in soil
survey, land classification, land
use planning, and instructional
work connected with those phases
of agriculture.
The course deals with the various
types of soils, soil genesis, and the
great soil groups of the United
States; the classification of land
according to use capability, prepa
ration of base maps, and the collec
tion of supporting data for the
preparation of base maps. Aerial
photographs are used and their
importance demonstrated in making
base maps., Special emphasis will
be given to the value of land,
erosion, and agricultural use.
National publicity has been given
this course in “Journal of Ameri
can Society of Agronomy,” June,
1941 issue, and also in the Soil
Conservation magazine.
Old Plants, New Plants, Many From Foreign
Countries Are Found in The College Museum
Little known to the student
the Herbarium located in the Mu
seum and under the supervision of
Mrs. J. J. Taubenhaus who does
the preparation and mounting of
the specimans.
The Herbarium occupies the
east wing of the Museum and
houses a collection of 60,000 speci
mens of plants, the majority of
which are mounted, classified, and
catalogued so as to be made avail
able to students and research
workers. It is made up of four
distinct collections, and bears the
name of S. M. Tracy Herbarium,
the botanist whose collection of
the Gulf coast plants formed the
nucleus around which the Herbar
ium was built. The Tracy Her
barium was acquired by purchase
in 1923 from the Tracy estate.
Tracy, a botanist of the old
school is little known in the world
outside his field of work. He was
a veteran of the Civil War. Tracy
was special agricultural agent of
the United States Department of
Agriculture at Biloxi, Mississippi,
and director of the Mississippi
Agricultural Experiment Station.
The Tracy collection, though pri
marily of Gulf coast plants and
numbering 10,000, contains also
specimens from all over the world,
which Tracy obtained in exchange
for specimens of his own.
One comes across plants from
Egypt, Palestine, Australia, Mex-
is-f-ico, Central Europe, with annota
tions in Latin, French, and Span
ish.
A mounted plant from Valois,
France, dates as far back as 1801
and is in a remarkable state of
preservation. There are many
others of equal historic interest.
The first addition to the Tracy
collection was made by Helge Ness,
botanist for the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station for a period
of thirty years. During his con
nection with the Experiment Sta
tion he added about five thous
and specimens to the Tracy collec
tion which he mounted himself.
But the bulk of the contribution
to the Herbarium, both from the
standpoint of volume and of its in
terest to the State of Texas, is
the Parks and Cory collection.
Parks is chief of the Division of
Apiculture at the Texas Experi
ment Station located near San
Antonio. Cory is range botanist
for the Experiment Station located
at Sonora, Texas.
Cory has collected around his sta
tion at Sonora 7,000 specimens of
grass plants, and he and Parks
in their joint collection have con
tributed to the Herbarium over
30,000 specimens of plants. The
Parks and Cory collection forms
the bulk of the Herberium and is
of particular significance because
it is an all over Texas collection.
This is the first State-wide
coverage of scientific importance
•of the flora of Texas. While the
distribution of plants in Texas has
been studied intensively in small
localities, no State-wide study of
scientific caliber that compares to
the Parks and Cory collection has
as yet been undertaken.
Texas with its variation of life
zone from boreal to the tropics,
from sea level to 10,000 feet alti
tude, represents a range of flora
which is of unusual interest. Parks
and Cory covered more than 3,000
miles of Texas area, visiting fields
and forests, swamps and prairies,
deserts and mountains, and
brought back with them stacks of
specimens which they identified
in the fields and further confirmed
the identification by additional
studies in the laboratories, check
ing and rechecking doubtful speci
mens.
Embodying their study and field
work, Parks and Cory have pub
lished two bulletins: “Catalog of
the Flora of Texas,” Bulletin 550,
and “Valuable Plants Native to
Texas,” Bulletin 551, giving a list
and classification of plants which
they collected representing years
of study and research.
A small but valuable contribu
tion from a sentimental as much as
a scientific standpoint is a collec
tion of mounted specimens from the
department of Biology, the work
of A. & M. students, dating as far
back as 1888.
Texas Colleges
To Sponsor NYA
Information Plan
Thirty-four Texas senior colleges
and universities will cooperate this
summer with the NYA State School
Work Council in sponsoring an in
formation program for the pur
pose of clarifying the procedures
and functions of the National
Youth Administration, J. C. Kel
lam, state NYA administrator, an
nounced today.
John P. Manning, chairman of
the NYA State School Work Coun
cil, has invited the general public
and especially Texas educators and
sponsors of NYA out-of-school
work projects to participate in the
programs which will include short
talks before secondary education
and school administration classes,
individual conferences with Coun
cil members and NYA field per
sonnel, and open forum discussions.
The second annual meeting of
the Cotton Research Congress will
be held June 26-28 at Waco, Texas,
A. B. Conner, director of the Ex
periment Station and chairman
of the program committee of the
Congress, announced.
The purpose of the Congress is
to stimulate and develop research
and the use of research results
in growing better cotton, and ex
hibit more uses of cotton products.
The meeting will be for all who
are interested in cotton—the grow
ers, handlers, and processors. Cot
ton is a crop which yields a great
number of products, and it has
never before been realized to what
extent each group depends upon
the other, Conner said.
The Congress will feature ex
hibits which are to be in the Roose
velt Hotel, under the direction of
D. T. Killough, agronomist in the
Agriculture Experiment Station.
These exhibits came from all over
the cotton country. The Agronomy
department sent up eight panels
on cotton as it is taught here.
Two of the panels should be
of special interest. Each shows
a map of the world, one of them
Members of the short course in
Rural Sociology 506 took an all
day trip on Friday to several spots
of interest in the southeastern part
of the state to visit N.Y.A. groups
and other various projects.
The first stop was at Navasota
where they visited the woodworking
construction project. From there
the party proceeded to Brenham
where they inspected the machine
shop, and construction project, and
the Blinn Resident Center.
The third stop was at Hempstead
to see the Community Center., At
Prairie View they inspected both
the girls’ and boys Resident Cen
ters.
They went to Houston after vis
iting Prairie View to attend a buf
fet luncheon and to visit the South
Houston Resident Center. A wood
working shop was then visited by
the party. In addition, both the
Bayland Shore Home for delin
quent children and the DePelchin
Faith home were inspected while
in Houston.
is a representation of the extent
to which the cotton tours have
reached, and on the other shows
the places from which the people
have come here to study cotton.
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