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
VOLUME 3
122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG.
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 9, 1941
NUMBER 5
7000 Expected On Campus As Short Courses 1 Begin
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30 Day Clearance Given To Palace In Arbitration
Queen And Dixie
Shows Given Two
Week’s Preference
Klingman Announces The
Decision As Final Unless
Conditions Become Changed
Arbitration awards in the potion
picture arbitration between the
Campus Theatres, Incorporated,
and Jefferson Amusement Company
the intervenor, have just been given
by Lloyd Klingman, arbitrator in
the case and insurance man of the
Equitable Life Insurance Company.
Giving only minor changes,
Klingman awarded a 30 day clear
ance period to the Palace Theatre
on all pictures shown there over
College Station theatres.
Maximum clearance of the Queen
and Dixie Theatres is fixed at 14
days.
In years past the clearance
period of Bryan Theatres over Col
lege Station houses was 30 and 45
days.
The Campus Theatre, helped by
a senior committee from the stu
dent body of A. & M. was seeking
day and date pictures or first run
shows for the College Station area
in the case and may appeal again
in the future for the day and date
showings. Any change of conditions
may open the arbitration case
anew.
The people of College Station
and the A. & M. student body are
benefitted by the arbitrator’s rul
ing to the extent that the College
Station Theatres will get pictures
in much faster time than before.
The firms opposing the Campus
Theatre in the case were: Para
mount Film Distributing Company;
RKO Radio Pictures; Twentieth
Century-Fox Film Corporation;
Warner Brothers Pictures, Incor
porated; and M. G. M. with the
Bryan Amusement Company as
intervenor.
Fire Fighters To Have Busy Day
That the well-trained fireman requires more
knowledge and ability than that required to
douse water on fires is conclusively proven by
observation at the Firemen’s Short Course which
will be held on the campus July 20-25.
Frank Williams shows H. C. Miller of Luling
how to make a “Y” coupling out of a Siamese
coupling by the use of a double male coupling
in the upper left corner.
H. E. Prater of Dallas conducts a class in
salvage in the upper right corner.
To the left, Clay Garrison and H. C. Skags
show how two ladders may be spliced to reach
a higher place on a building '4hen a long ladder
is not available. Garrison hooks his legs to the
lower ladder and his arms to the top ladder to
form the splice.
Tournabout Week Declared
New Sewage
Disposal Plant
Nears Completion
Most of the construction work
for the new sewage disposal plant
for A. & M. college and immediate
vicinity is nearing completion, ac
cording to Mr. E. W. Steel, head
of the Municipal & Sanitary Engi
neering Department.
When finished, the plant will
probably be one of the most unique
to be' found in the southwest. As
a rule, the secondary units for
treatment of sewage would be one
of three types, namely, trickling
filter, Dunbar filter, and activated
sludge type. However, this new dis
posal plant will contain a combina
tion of all three type, and it will
be one of the best that has been
constructed in recent years in any
part of the country.
The first settling chamber was
built several years ago, and the
second chamber is about completed
now. Also, the new sludge digestion
tank is now under construction
and should be finished within 9
short time, as plans for comple
tion of all units are well under
way at the present time.
Most of the plant has been built
in separate units, depending upon
See Sewage Plant, page 4
President Walton
Featured In Texas
News Service Column
Dr. T. O. Walton, president of
A. & M., is featured this week by
the Texas Capital News Service in
their feature, “Interesting Texans.”
The release carries a one-column
picture of Dr. Walton taken by
Howard Berry, A. & M. staff pho-
tographer, at a football game last
fall. The cut line below the picture
gives a thumbnail biography of his
life.
Demure Girls Will
Abandon Tactics And
Contrive For A Date
By Elizabeth McNew
Hear ye! Hear ye! The day of
reckoning is here! Cupid (or some
one) has proclaimed this as Turn-
About Weekend. Fi'om Friday un
til Sunday the girls will make the
dates, pay the bills cut in at the
Juke Prom and all the trimmings.
If you have ever had to miss the
first of the movie because she
just washed her hair and “couldn’t
do a thing wit it” or he got into
an important session with “the
boys” then this may be the op
portunity you have been waiting
for.
Girls, here is your chance to
break the ice with that good-look
ing brunette in your history class
or the cute blonde in English. He’s
probably been admiring you from
afar but he is just bashful. Forget
that you are a little shy too and
barge right up and ask him to go
to the show or the dance with you.
He will be thrilled to his shoelaces.
This is your opportunity to set a
shining example of your idea of
a perfeect date’s behavior. (You
will be surprised to find it isn’t as
easy as you have been telling the
kid brother.
Boys, you have earned a rest.
Haven’t you ever wondered how it
would feel to have someone open
and shut doors for you, pay the
way to the movies, and buy the
eats (Particularly nice after the
holidays have indented the old
banyroll!) This is a good time to
check up on that old charm too.
Perhaps it is getting a little rusty
and a turn-about will bring its
weakness to light. If you should
happen not Lo get a date you don’t
have to deflate your ego entirely—
just remember there is a shortage
of girls and resolve to meet those
who are here so you will rate next
time.
Following the lead of some of
the eastern schools, Baylor Uni
versity sets aside an entire week
of the long term as Turn-About
Week. This practice has become so
popular that it is now an annual
affair in which everyone partici
pates. Last August “Turn-About
Week” was inaugurated here at
A. &M., and—to the delight and
amusement of all \yho knew about
it—a hilarious good time was the
result.
Heaton Appointed
Acting Registrar For
Leave of Maj. Howell
H. Lloyd Heaton has been ap
pointed acting registrar by T. O.
Walton, president of the college,
to serve during the absence of E.
J. Howell, who has been registrar
for the past eleven years, Howell,
a major in the U. S. Infantry Re
serve has been called on to report
at the office of the chief of the
Morale Branch in Washington, D.
C. for a year’s service in the U.
S. Army.
R. G. Perryman will act as as
sistant registrar, Dr. Walton an
nounced.
Heaton is a graduate of the Ste
phen F. Austin State Teacher’s
College but secured a master of
science degree at A. & M. Perry
man graduated from North Texas
State Teacher’s College.
Traffic Light At
North Gate Removed
To Permit House Move
Annual Meet
Of Agricultural
Writers Scheduled
The twentieth annual Confer
ence of Agricultural News Writers
which will be held Monday and
Tuesday, July 14-15, has been ex
tended a special invitation by Dr.
T. O. Walton.
Dr. Walton announced that on
the same dates some three thous
and farm folks of Texas will be
on the campus for the Farmer’s
Annual Short Course. “This meet
ing,” Dr. Walton said, “will fur
nish excellent opportunity for the
farm writers to know these people
they serve and their problems.”
“I am well aware of the contri
bution which you as writers on
farm problems have made to the
advancement of agriculture in
Texas,” said Dr. Walton, “and for
that reason I take great pleasure
in extending to you this invitation.”
Meeting of Texas
Agricultural Workers
Assn. Is Announced
The Texas Agricultural Workers
Association will meet Monday,
July 14 at 9:30 a. m. in the Animal
Industries Building Library.
The association luncheon will be
held in the Banquet Room of Sbisa
Hall, Monday noon, July 14 at
12:15, where Eugene Butler of
the Progressive Farmer Magazine
will preside at the meeting.
The local committee for arrange
ments has been chosen with Min
nie Mae Grubbs, District Agent,
The traffic light at the North I Extension Service, A. & M. College
Gate was removed to permit a of Texas, as chairman. Other mem-
house to be moved east on Sulphur bers of the committee are W. Bas-
Springs Road, Mayor Frank G. sett Orr, B. F. Vance, Maurine
Anderson said. The light will be i Hearne, D. W. Williams and E. O.
replaced immediately. Siecke.
Firemen To
Hold Twelfth h
Short Course
Attendance of 600
Men Expected For
Five Day School
National defense and emer
gency measures are the subjects to
be studied at the twelfth annual
session of the Firemen’s Training
School which opens July 20 at Col
lege Station. It is estimated that
around 600 firement and fire-mar
shalls and 50 teachers wil register
at the largest firemen’s school ever
to be held on the A. & M. campus,
These men will represent approxi
mately 350 cities and towns of
Texas.
The five day school opens July
20 with Dr. C. C. Hedges, head of
the Chemistry department, acting
Director of the Firemen’s Training
School, in charge.
Several prominent men from dif
ferent sections of the state, and
See Firemen, page 4
Large Attendance
Registered For
Farm Security Meet
The county personnel of the
Farm Security Administration con
cludes its seventh annual meeting
here today.
About three hundred and seventy-
five persons attended this meet
ing from Monday through today.
The meeting was held for the pur
pose of acting as a refresher to
the personnel of the Farm Security
Administration and to give them
the latest information on subjects
they are concerned with in their
county work.
This year the meeting emphasiz
ed dairying, involving the selection
and breeding for better production,
purchase of herd bulls, feeding and
management, and other good dairy
ing practices.
This is the fourth of the total
seven meetings that has been held
at College Station.
Lt. Col. Davis
Promoted To Rank
Of Full Colonel
Lt. Col. John F. Davis who was
a student of A. & M. College in
1908-11 and who is now on duty
at Fort Knox, Kentucky was pro
moted to the rank of full Colonel
on July 29, 1941, Major General
Bruce Mangruder, commander of
the division, announced. Col. Davis
was a classmate of Major J. F.
Stevens at West Point where Col.
Davis graduated in 1915. Col. Da
vis was a student in civil engineer
ing while at A. & M.
Col. Davis was graduated from
-the United States Military Acad
emy at West Point in 1915 and
from the Cavalry School Troop
Officers’ Course in 1920. He was
graduated from the Command and
General Staff School in 1926 and
from the Army War College in
1931.
Col. Davis was one of four lieu-
tent colonels of the First Armored
Division at Fort Knox who were
promoted to full colonels at that
time. The others were Col. Willis
D. Crittenberger, General Staff
Corps, Chief of Staff; Col. Floyd
R. Waltz, Infantry, commanding
the 69th Armored Regiment (Me
dium Tanks); and Col. John B.
Wogan, Field Artillery, command
ing the 68th Field Artillery (ar
mored).
Dairy Science
Meeting Slated
ere In June 1943
The Booking - Is Considered
A Recognition of The Rapid
Growth of State Resources
Charles N. Shepardson, head of
the department of dairy husbandry,
“brought back the cream” from a
recent meeting of the American
Dairy Science Association at Bur
lington, Vermont, when he per
suaded the delegates to hold their
1943 meeting at A. & M. College.
Attendance at the Burlington
meeting was in excess of 825 of
the nation’s leading scientists, op
erators, and educators in the dairy
field. The 1942 meeting will be
held in East Lansing, Michigan,
and the June 1943 meeting at Col
lege Station will mark the first
time the American Dairy Science
Association ever has held its an
nual meeting- this far South, a
previous meeting having been held
at Louisville, Kentucky. The four-
day ession is expected to draw
nearly a thousand of the nation’s
dairy leaders to Texas and Shep
ardson already is hard at work ar
ranging to put on display the ad
vances in dairying in the Lone
Star State.
A. & M. already has been host
to the national meetings of the So
ciety for the Promotion of Engi
neering Education and the National
Poultry Congress. The addition of
the national dairying meet is a
recognition of the expanding re
sources of the State, Shepardson
believes.
Entertainment
Slated For 4-H
Club Membership
Three thousand Texas 4-H Club
boys and girls are expected to at
tend the state 4-H Club Short
Course which will be held here
July 16-18..
L. L. Johnson, State Boys’ Club
Agent, will be in charge of the
boys’ division of the 4-H Club, and
Miss Onah Jacks, State Girls’ Club
Agent, will be in charge of the
girls’ division.
Meals for the club boys and
girls will be served at the Mess
Hall in the new dormitory area as
follows: Breakfast 6:45 a.m., Din
ner 12:15 noon, and Supper J6:00
p.m.
The club members can buy meal
tickets for the meals from break
fast Thursday, July 17 to July
18 inclusive, for $1.80 or they
can pay 35tf for each meal.
On Wednesday, July 16 at 6:45
p. m. the group will meet in the
Stadium for a program titled “Or
ganization of Boys,” with E. C.
Martin acting as chairman. At 7:30
the group will go to Guion Hall
for a program with Herbert Ross
presiding. This program will be
composed of music by the Hidalgo
County 41H Club band. “Freedom
We Defend” will be played by the
Stephen F. Austin High School
band from Bryan.
The boys will participate in judg
ing and demonstration contests on
Thursday, July 17 and the girls
will attend meetings that will be
of much interest to them; on Fri
day there will be educational pro
grams for both the girls and boys
which will be concluded Saturday.
Lieutenant-
Governor Is
MainSpeaker
Information Given
By Tours, Programs
On Many Problems
A three-days’ program, packed
with discussion subjects of pri
mary interest to Texas farm and
ranch people, has been prepared
for the 1941 Farmers’ Short
Course, which will be held at Texas
A. & M. College July 13, 14 and 15.
Coke R. Stevenson, Lieutenant
Governor of Texas, will be the prin
cipal speaker at an open air meet
ing in Kyle Stadium Monday, at
7:30 p. m. Mrs. Nancy Richey Ran
som of Dallas, poet laureate of the
state, will be on the program with
the Lieutenant Governor. The adult
section of the Short Course will
be concluded with a program in the
Stadium at 7:30 p. m. on Tuesday,
at which Roy Dickerson of the
Federal Security, Washington, will
speak and the students of the
Stephen F. Austin High School,
Bryan, will perform a pageant,
“Freedoms We Defend.”
Tours of the A. & M. College
Campus, with visits to the college
and administrative buildings, will
be conducted by members of the
college staffs from 2 to 5 p. m.
Sunday.
BULLETIN
The U. S. Post Office Sub
station No. 1 located a little
east of the Extension build
ing and across from Dormi
tory 2 (Kiest Hall) will issue
all mail to short course vis
itors.
The Short Course will begin at
10 a. m. Sunday with a song ser
vice in Guion Hall led by Walter
Jenkins, choir director of the First
Methodist Church of Houston. At
11 a. m., the Rev. Harry G. Know
les of the First Christian Church,
Houston, will preach on “Things
Which Abide.” At 7:45, Jeff Wil
liams of Chickasha, Okla., will
speak at an assembly in Kyle
See Short Course, page 4
Board Of Directors
To Meet Saturday To
Award AAA Contract
The Board of Directors is sched
uled to meet Saturday to award
the contract for the AAA building
from the bids received. The Board
wil transact other pending routine
business.
Officers Will
Interview Naval
Reserve Prospects
Officers fi’om the eighth naval
district headquarters in New Or
leans will be at Ross Hall Satur
day and Sunday, July 12 and 13,
to interview college graduates be
tween 21 and 28 who want to be
come commissioned officers in the
U. S. Naval Reserve.
Lieutenant - Commander Burris
D. Wood, in charge of the party,
will arrive at College Station from
Austin early Saturday and he will
see candidates for enlistment
throughout the day “and as late at
night as any wish to come.” He
will also interview applicants until
Sunday afternoon when he and his
party will leave for Houston.
The first month of the four-
months’ training program which
leads to commissions as Ensigns of
the line in the Naval Reserve, is
spent in basic training and the
following three months are dedi
cated to intensive study and class
work in a midshipman training
school at Northwestern university,
on the USS Prairie State at New
York or at the Naval Academy at
Annapolis. Upon being commission
ed, Ensigns join other officers on
active duty with the fleet, coastal
patrol or at shore station.
The base pay is $125 a month
plus maintenance and liberal al
lowances, including $250 for uni
forms.