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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-
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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
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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
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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.