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* 1 * • \ * f r * * DIAL 4-5444 STUDENT SUMMER 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, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 2, 1941 NUMBER 4 3500 Expected Attendance Will Be Installed For Farmer’s Short Course 4-H Club Members t Should Register 3500 For Division Program “The 30th annual Farmers’ Short Course, oldest and largest of all the summer short courses offered by A. & M. College, will begin Sun day July 13 with an expected at tendance of 3500 adults/’ Roy W. Snyder, chairman of the program committee announced Tuesday. “2500 4-H Club boys and girls will attend the 4-H Club division beginning Wednesday July 16.” The adult division will begin Sunday morning with a, song ser vice directed by Walter Jenkins of Houston, Rotary International Song Leader who will lead singing at all general assemblies. Rev. Harry C. Knowles, Minister of the First Christian Church of Houston, will deliver the sermon at 11:00 A. M. Jeff Williams, lawyer, humorist, and philosopher of Chocasha, Okla homa, will deliver the Sunday night address. “Monday and Tuesday will be de voted to actual demonstrations in volving the house, garden, field, and licestock,” Snyder said. Hon. Coke R. Stevenson will deliver the address of the evening Monday night. There will also be music by the Campus Choral Club lead by Mrs. E. L. Williams. Illustrations of wild flowers the world over will be given by Mrs. Nancy Richey Ranson. The pro gram Tuesday night will consist of a lecture by Roy Dickerson, So cial Security Division, Washington, D. C., and also a program given by the Stephen F. Austin High School of Bryan entitled “Freedom We Defend.” The adult division of the course will be finished Wednesday with .the annual conference of all Ex tension agents and Headquarters Staff members. The 4-H Club boys and girls will arrive Wednesday night and will attend a program, “Freedoms We Defend,” given by Stephen F. Aus tin High School of Bryan. Thursday all boys and girls will enter state judging contests. Those few who do not enter contests will have an opportunity to attend a variety of demonstrations. Thurs- (Continued on Page 4) College Station Students Register In New Draft Call “No information has been re ceived by the draft board as to whether the students who register ed Tuesday will be called after the first registration list has been ex pired, or whether other provisions will be made,” R. B. Grant of the Bryan Draft Board said. “The draft numbers of the boys who registered yesterday in Bryan will be sent to the draft boards of their respective home towns. Fur ther information concerning dates for physical examinations and ap pointments will be sent from the home town board.” The students who registered yes- day from 7 A. M. until 9 P. M. in the office of the Bryan Draft Board on the second floor of the First National Bank building in Bryan have become 21 since the last registration on October 16, 1940. Work On Waldrop Building Proceeds Rapidly This Week The construction on the new modern business ‘building, which is located just east of the Aggie- land Pharmacy is proceeding rapid ly- The statement “Waldrop begins construction on new drug store” was erroneous. The staff regrets that the error occurred. The build ing is being erected for A. M. Wal drop and Company, and will be ready for occupancy by September 1. William E. Nash, a graduate of the school of architecture in 1936, has designed the building which will have a modern styled exterior. Sam R. Murphy, the contractor, is well known as builder since he has erected several establishments in the surrounding business section. Amapola Didn’t Know But The Juke Box Fixed That Defense Course In Explosives Begins Second Major Part “Look at your hands and fing ers! That is what explosive experts always do after they finish an ex periment,” Professor F. F. Bishop of the Chemical Engineering De partment said. “Here at A. & M. young men are being trained in the National Defense Exposive Course because of a need for ar senal operators, inspectors, and chemists for explosives handling and manufacture. There are two parts to the course. Part A, requiring comple tion of sophomore college chemis try, provides a good foundation in chemistry for the study of explo sives. Part B, for which completion of part A on Junior college chem istry is required, goes deeply into the manufacture and handling of explosives. Each part lasts four weeks; the first Part B course to be given this summer was com pleted last Saturday, and another one will start next week. The first course covering Part A will be fin ished this week. Because of the present need for trained men, the government gives graduates of Part B credit for one full years experience in obtaining a civil service explosives job. Many of the graduates will probably be employed by the government, and it is hoped to secure positions for some of them with such explosives companies as duPont, Hercules, and Western Cartridge. The new $13,000,00 shell-loading plant at j (Continued on page 4) By Florence Hollingshead When last Saturday rolled around, it brought with it another highly successful Juke Box prom. All day long our hero, Casanovs, worried trying to figure a way and means to take his girl friend, Ama pola, to the rug-cutting center. The final salution was his roommate’s car—wonderful people, roommates. So that night he was on her door-step with Aggie promptness, fifteen minutes late; thirty minutes later she was ready and waiting, and they dashed off. They could tell when they neared the dance because the car started shaking it self into the “nigger shuffle”. So out they leaped, into the mob pour ing into the mess hall annex, as fast as it could stretch its walls to take them in. When they had commented on the people, known and unknown, bouncing around the floor, and Amapola had carefully looked the stags over, they too started sway ing. To himself Cassie said, “She really can dance!” A moment later he felt a light tap on his left shoulder; glaring around he spied the villain, who smiled, “May I cut, please?” Unwillingly he released his beam ing lady and strode off to take his place with the other stags stacked with the loud speaker in the middle of the floor. For a while he watch ed other couples waltz, jitterbug, and conga, and decided the ratio of stags to girls was ten to one| He thoroughly approved the in formal atmosphere, impartially sprinkled with girls from Houston, Dallas, and Waco. When intermission came, he re membered his date and began to hunt for her. She was found just (Continued from Page 4) A three thousand kilowatt gen erator and a new boiler twice ^he size of the largest boiler now in operation will make up the new equipment to be added to the college power plant. The contracts for the work are to be let at the Board of Directors’ meeting to be held sometime next week, Dean F. C. Bolton said. The addition to the power plant will necesitate an enlargement of the plant itself. The machine shop on the west side of the building will be moved into the basement to give room for the new equipment that is to be added. It is not expected that the new equipment wil Ibe ready for use until the beginning of the school year of 1942 because of the delay which will be incurred in securing the supplies. Agronomy Men Return To Campus From Cotton Tour Ralph B. Hargraves, J. H. Rob inson, Professor Louis M. Thomp son and E. R. Butler, alternate who replaced F. J. Collard when his R.O.T.C. contract forced him to attend camp, will return here Wednesday after having completed the 1941 cotton study tour through the United States and Canada. They were originally scheduled to return on July 5 but are ahead of schedule. • The following is a partial list of the points visited by this group. They left College Station Satur day May 31 and went to Shreve port, Louisiana, from Shreveport to Greenville, Mississippi, leaving there to go to the Experiment sta tion at Leland, Mississippi. They went from Leland to Baton Rouge, Louisiana passing through Stone- ville and Scott. In Baton Rouge they visited the agronomy depart ment of L.S.U. continuing from there to New Orleans where they visited the' U. S. Government Lab oratory. They went from New Orleans to Montgomery, Alabama. Other points visited in Alabama while going to West Point, Georgia were Tuskegee and Arburn. In West Point they visited the West Point Testing Laboratory. After visiting Clemson the party went to Wash ington, D. C., where they visited the Bureau of Agricultural Eco nomics, and Official U.S.D.A. They went from here to New York, visiting a rayon plant in Wilmington Delaware and went through the New York Cotton Ex change. From New York the stu dents went to Montreal, Canada and returned by way of Detroit and Chicago ending the trip in Col lege Station. Two highway improvements are scheduled for the campus provided expected appropriations for the des ignated roads is realized, Gibb Gil christ, dean of the school of engi neering, announced^ Tuesday. The first road will result in an “H” formation. It will connect Jer sey street south of the campus to the Sulphur Springs road north of the campus to a tentative road ex tending to the newly laid pave ment on College Road. The new ^ road will cross the campus on the east side of the Animal Husbandry building and will continue at the rear of the Administration build ing straight through to Bryan. The second tentative road im provement was designated May 31 of this year. The road will be an extenuated paved road from the Sulphur Springs Road to the Air port. A double track underpass was called for in this designation. This road came under the national de fense needs as a joining link from College Station to the airport. Stubbs Elected Head Of Accounting Society S. M. Stubbs, assistant profes sor of accounting and statistics of A. & M. was elected president of the Texas Association of Univer sity Instructors of Accounting which met in Houston Friday June 13. Annual Farm Security Short Course Will Convene Monday Tentative Highway Scheduled To Cross East Side of Campus Votes in Election Tally 150 To Amaze § 75 Surprised Voters Assignment To Defense Courses Given WPA Men Assignment of 56 WPA workers from various parts of Texas to de fense industry training classes at A. & M. was announced by State Works Projects Administrator H. P. Drought last Thursday. Beginning immediately, the 56 selected workers from WPA rolls will receive a twelve-weeks course as machinists and machine tool op erators under A. & M. faculty in structors. Workers are selected on a basis of previous experience or training which qualifies them for the type of work which is taught in the re fresher courses, Drought said. They are paid standard WPA wages dur ing the time of the training course and a small charge for food and lodging is deducted from the pay of each worker to defray living ex penses at the college. Cooperating in the training venture, in addition to A. & M. and WPA, is the State Department of Education. Alexander Is New Manager Texas Farm Bureau Federation E. R. Alexander, head of the de partment of Agricultural Educa tion, is now managing the Texas Farm Bureau Federation. Mr. Alexander is in Waco where his work is centered. He returns to A. & M. on the week-ends, in order to keep the business of the Agri cultural Education Department underhand. He will return to the college in the fall to resume his regular duties as head of the Ag ricultural Education department. In a close and guarded race, E. N. Holmgreen, Business Manager of the college, forged to the front to win the presidency of the Fac ulty Dane Club at their last festivi ties recently. Subversive influences entered the contest between Holmgreen and G. J. Samuelson of the Chemistry de partment, thereby giving Holm green the majority of the 150 votes cast by 75 faculty members. Holm green could not contest the count as it was rumored that he had com mitted some of the very same high- jinks in elections before. Quoted Mr. Holmgreen, “Samuel son under an honest election would have been elected hands down.” Gerald Mann Polls Majority Votes of College Gerald C. Mann carried College Station and the third precinct of Brazos county in the election for United States Senator Saturday. Man received 238 of the 450 votes cast in this precinct while Lyndon Johnson received 123 votes. Governor W. Lee O’Daniel and Martin Dies received 54 and 34 votes respectively in this precinct. The precinct officers for the election which was held in the Con solidated High School building were J. E. Breland, H. E. Bui'gess, and S. L. Loveless. In this precinct there are 861 voters who have paid their poll taxes. Of this number 451 voters cast their votes in the Saturday election. Only one vote was dis qualified. American Saddle Stallion Reaches Ripe Old Age of 24 Liberty Loan, American Saddle stallion owned by the animal hus bandry department, reached his 24th birthday on June 20. Richly bred, he has been popular among saddle horse breeders for the past two decades. Liberty Loan is a son of Rex Pea- vine out of Lady Winsome. He was a consistant winner as a show horse before he was retired. His greatest win was the championship in Lex ington, Kentucky as a three-year old. After this win he was sold to California. After a number of years he was sent to the college as a gift, whe he continued in active service. The stallion has been prominent as a sire of winners. Probably his greatest son is William the Con queror which also duplicated his sire’s win with a championship in the same show in Kentucky last year. One of Liberty Loan’s foals, bred at the college, was grand champion at Fort Worth year be fore last. Deep River Plantation Singers Portray Vivid Southern Songs; First Summer Entertainment The old South was vividly por-- portray in Assembly Hall Tuesday morning during the second period when the Deep River Plantation singers presented a program before an enthusiastic audience. Listening to then, one could close his eyes and imagine himself on an old South ern plantation such as Tara of “Gone with the Wind” fame. There are few who do not enjoy the old favorite melodies of the ■sicians yet their abandonment and^. spontaneity which so richly char acterizes the rare artistry of their race was not forced. A number of the old favorites such as Roll, Jor dan, Roll, Swing Low, Sweet Char iot, Da’s a Jubilee, Climb Up, Ye Little Chilian, and When the Moon Swings Low were well received. This was a repeat performance and, like wine, “good things always improve with age.” Two years ago, they were one of the most popular colored race. Their rhythms and attractions of the Town Hall se- songs combine joy, superstitions, { ries. Tuesday, they made one forget and religion with an underlying! that it was hot and there were note of sadness. The Deep River | letter quizzes just around the cor- Plantation Singers are trained mu-! ner. Opening with an original scene, these entertainers offered an un usual musical production. Stage set tings and costumes were advantag eously used in the first part of the program, -while the latter half was devoted to Negro spirituals, south ern and plantation melodies. It would be harder to imagine a pleasanter break in a scholastic routine than that provided the oth er day—a “break” that was both educational and entertaining. Not soon to be forgotten were the voic es blending in perfect harmony as they expressed a race’s hopes and j sorrows in songs. Maj. Howell Assigned To Washington E. J. Howell, registrar, left for Washington, D. C. Tuesday at noon, following a sudden change in ord ers. He was previously ordered to Presidio, California. Before Howell left he was pre sented with a book of approxi mately thirty-eight letters from various faculty members by T. O. Walton, president of the college. As registrar Howell has seen an amusing and pathetic phase of A. & M. not often revealed to the public. Parents all over the state look upon his as the most direct way of getting in touch with sons. Some years ago during one of Tex as’ most bitter cold spells he was awakened at 4:00 in the morning by a long distance telephone call from East Texas. An Aggie’s fath er had been critically injured, and the family wanted him to come home immediately. Howell found the boy, delivered the message, and had gone back to bed when the tel ephone rang again. This time it was the boy wanting to be reassur ed that his work would not suffer if he left! It requires four hours every day to open and sort the mail which comes into his office. Monotony is kept out of this job by such letters as the one from a man in distress wanting to sell his body to the college for experimental purposes, and one from a boy requesting a course in horse-shoeing. E. J. Howell first came to Aggie- land in 1918 as a student. His scholarship and his engenuity in working his way through college developed a capable and likeable personality. He was a charter mem ber of the Tau Beta Phi, honorary scholarship fraternity, president of the Baptist Student Union, and circulation manager of the Battal ion. T375 Members Will Attend Discussion Of Farm Problems About three-hundred and sev enty-five staff members of the Farm Security Administration in cluding the county personnel, will attend their seventh annual short course to be held here July 7-9, R. W. Snyder, Supervisor of Special ist Work, announced. This year the short course will emphasize dairying, which will in volve the selection and breeding for better production, purchase of herd bulls, feeding and manage ment, production and conservation of home grown feed, pastures, care of milk for the home and market, and the marketing of surpluses. The purpose of this short course is to act as a refresher to the per sonnel of the Farm Security Ad ministration on things they are concerned with in county work and to give them the latest information on foods nutrition, livestock man agement, and crops. There will also be programs on poultry, beef cattle, hogs, better nutrition of farm clients, nutri tion in the national defense pro gram, the development of orchards on tenant farms, diseases of poul try, livestock, and one-half day will be devoted to the coordination of their work through land use plan ning committees. This will be their fourth meeting of the total seven to be held at College Station. Camp Bullis In Social Swim With Dance Last Friday The San Antonio A. & M. Moth ers’ Club gave its annual summer dance for cadets at Camp Bullis t last Friday night. The dance was held on the open air terrace in front of the recreation center. One hundred girls from San Antonio were taken out in G. I. trucks to be guests of the Texas Aggies for the occasion. Music was furnished by a four-piece Mexican orchestra, and special trumpet numbers were given by a camper from Colorado A. & M. Among those jitterbugging around the large terrace were Chip Routt, teaching the San Antonio belles the steps he and Maverne did so well on the A. & M. floor last winter; Joe Bill Pierce, who was having a good time dancing while bemoaning the fact that all day Saturday he would be on K. P. peeling potatoes; Skeen Staley, gettjng practice for his next year’s job by acting as master of cere monies; and Marion Lyle, Louis Tregg, Pete Frost, Roy Bucek, Bar ney Leathers, Pete Tumlinson, and Gordon McCutchan, all enjoying the affair and showing off their newly acquired deep bronze tans. Lt. Joe Davis was head chaperon with Lt. Howard Wilson, Lt. Gene Shields and other A. & M. lieutenants help ing. The entire conversation was tak en up with lively tales of camp life, the engineers’ all day trip to Ran dolph Field, and Saturday’s tent inspection. Dancing lasted from 8 to 11, with the occasion ending im pressively with the playing of Taps and the Aggies and their dates j standing at attention. Nine Graduates Pass Scientists’s Option Exams Nine graduates received tele grams Friday morning stating that they had passed the Soil Scientists’ Option for which they qualified by taking the Soil Conservation Jun ior Professional Assistant exam on March 8, 1941. These men were graduated this spring. The courses in which they majored and their homes are as follows: G. E. Barnum, agricul tural education major from Emory, M. Bingham, agronomy major from Haskell, W. B. Chapmon, agronomy major from Waco, D. T. Horton, agricultural education major from Caradan, A. E. Hosch, animal hus bandry major from Belton, T. L. Marshall, agricultural education major from Temple, A. B. Penlan, agronomy major from Collegeport, and E. A. Vivian, agronomy ^ma jor from George West. W. R. Crowley, Tildon Easley, L. M. Thompson, H. W. Gillespie, R. B. Hartgraves, and Ralf Tatum, Jr., previously received offers of employment as Junior Professional Assistant Soil Scientists. Cowley, Easley, and Thompson are mem bers of the staff of agronomy here at A. & M. College. Gillespie, Hart- graves and Tatum are agronomy majors from Dallas, Jonesboro and Corsicana, respectively. Thompson and Easley of the Ag ronomy staff were thirteenth and seventeenth respectively among all of the persons in the United States who took this exam. Of the twenty- three men who took the examina tion here, fifteen have been offer ed jobs. Dulan Completes Qualifications For C. P.A. Certificate H. A. Dulan, instructor of ac counting and statistics, received word from the State Board of Public Accounting of Texas stat ing that he had successfully pass ed the exam for a Certified Pub lic Accountancy and had qualified for a C. P. A. certificate. Dulan is the fifth member of the department of accounting and sta tistics to receive his C. P. A. cer tificate.
