The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 17, 1942, Image 1

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 17, 1942, Image 1

Newspaper Page TextDIAL 4-5444 STUDENT TRI WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE The Battalion DIAL 4-5444 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPB9 OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. VOLUME 41 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 17, 1942 Z275 NO. 59 Ag Council Plans Second Agriculture Day for April 4 Scholarship Society Still OpentoJuniorsandSeniors t Aero Department Complimented By Haddaway at Meet Annual Joint Banquet Held With CE Department In Sbisa Hall Saturday “You have made more history in the shortest time than any school of aeronautical engineering in the United States,” Texas A. & M. College civil and aero engineers were told at their annual joint banquet in Sbisa hall Saturday evening by George E. Haddaway, of Dallas, publisher of Southern Flight aviation magazine. The speaker, one of the pioneer civil aviation enthusiasts and an authority on aviation, paid high tribute to the accomplishments of the recently established school of aeronautical engineering at Texas A. & M. College. He made a plea that the government use the many thousands of civilian pilots and the private planes in the country “as errand boys for the armed forces,” pointing out that there are many duties that can be performed by the civilian fliers. Haddaway urged immediate es tablishment of Texas A. & M. Col lege of aeronautical engineering research laboratory to supplement the war-endangered centers now maintained at Langley Field, Va., and Sunnyvale, California; point ing out the vulnerability of those places. “This war is going to be won or lost in the air,” Haddaway de clared, “and it is imperative that we immediately set out to dis cover new theories of flight and aerodynamic principles that will enable us to build bigger, better, faster, higher-flying and heavier armed planes than our enemies.” Samuel J Parks, ’41, At Turner Field Base , Second Lieutenant Samuel J. Parks, class of ’41, of Dallas, Tex as, recently reported to the Ad vanced Flying School, Turner Field, Albany, Georgia, for duty. He was formerly at the Barrage Balloon Training Center, Camp Davis, North Carolina. He is a graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School, Dallas and he received his Bachelor of Science degree from Texas A. & M. College in June, 1941. Meeting to be Held In CE Lecture Room; Committees Named Membership in the Scholarship Honor Society has not been filled as yet, according to Jack Tay lor, president of the club, and any senior or junior who can meet the requirements, but whose name has not apeared in the lists previous ly published, may l still associate himself with the society by seeing Taylor, Room 328, Dorm 4, or A. J. Landua, Room 218, Dorm 7, to day. Required grade point average for members is as follows: Sen iors; School of Agriculture, 2.12; Enginering, 2.23; Arts and Scien ces, 2.25; and Veterinary Medi cine, 2.05. Juniors must have the following averages to qualify: Agriculture, 1.95; Engineers, 2. 57; Arts and Sciences, 2.37, and Veterinavy Medicine, 2.01. Those seniors who were mem bers last year automatically con tinue to hold their membership if they pay their tlues today or at the meeting tonight in the CE lec ture room. This will be the last time that dues can be paid because plans are being made for a ban quet. If dues are paid, the mem ber is entitled to have his picture published in the Scholarship Hon or Society section of the Long horn by paying the 50 cent fee at the studio by Tuesday night. Affiliation of A. & M. with na tional scholarship honor, fratern ities, a goodwill trip to other lead ing universities by an outstanding senior from each school, a ban quet, and those whose names will appear in the Longhorn; all these matters will receive attention to night at what will probably be one of the most important meetings this year, club officers said. All members may order keys by placing a dollar deposit with Landua or the total amount of $3.85. Medals are awarded each year by the society to the outstanding freshman, sophomore and junior. This award is based purely on the student’s grades, said Jack Lam- berson, chairman of the medals commitee. Committees were appointed at last Friday’s meeting to make ar rangements for the banquet and to plan the medals to be awarded this year. On the medals committee are Jack Lamberson, chairman, and J. T. Pesek and C. E. Wyatt. The banquet committee consists of Hpy- wood Clemens, chairman, J. H. Mc Allister, Jack Miller, Walter Card- well and Austin Nance. Waterworks Meet Ends; Awards Made o Three Cities Beaumont, San Antonio, And Lubbock Named For Outstanding Achievements.. Examination of a dozen men for certificates as water plant oper ators last week brought to a close one of the most successful meet ings of the 24 annual A. & M. Col lege water works and sewerage short courses. The meeting was held under the auspices of the col lege, the Texas Division, South west Section, American Water works Association, the State Board of Health and the State Board for Vocational Education. Sessions ran from Feb. 9 through the 13, and the general theme of the meeting was the effect of the war emerg ency on water works and sewer age plant operations. Officers elected included M. J. Salmon, Commerce, president; Roy Matthews, Albany, first vice-presi dent; W. F. Hicks, Paris, second vice-president; W. N. Joiner, San Marcos, third vice-president; J. B. Winston, San Benito, fourth vice- president; V. M. Ehlers, Austin, secretary-treasurer and Mrs. E. H. Goodwin, Austin, assistant secre tary-treasurer. Awards for accomplishments during 1941 went to Beaumont for the city making the most improve ments to its water works; Lubbock for the city making most improve ments to its sewerage works and to San Antonio for the city treat ing its sewerage most adequately. Honorary life membership in the Water Works Association for out standing service were given to W. N. Joiner, San Marcos, and W. S. Mahlie, Fort Worth. College Employees Invest for Victory; Over 12,000 a Month A F Chalk to Speak To Discussion Group Alfred F. Chalk, Professor of Economics, will speak on inter- American trade to the Inter-Amer ican Discussion Group, tonight at 8 p.m. in room 124 Academic Bldg. The speaker will stress war time problems and possible solutions. Professor Chalk is the second speaker on this week’s program which has for its main purpose quick, intensive orientation into Pan-American history, geography, communications, peoples, military preparations, together with com mercial, cultural and economic re lations. After this general preparation (including the students’ own work on specific topics) a number of round table or panel discussions will be held. As soon as possible eight students will be selected to represent A. & M. College at the University of Texas in the District Extempore-Discussion contest. Bill Lewis Ex-Captain Rifle Team Shoots Python in Dark By Ken Bresnen And then the Japs wonder why MacArthur is still holding them off in the Phillipines! It is all very simple when you stop to think that there is more than one man there who can shoot like Bill Lewis, ’40. Several days ago Lewis and two other sodiers were on a scouting party when in the dark they came across a large python who seemed to be on a midnight marauding party of his own. The others be came alarmed, but Bill in typical Aggie calmness simply said, “Step back a little boys, so I don’t hurt you.” Then, drawing his .45, he fired six shots into the dark. When the snakes gyrations had ceased, they approached the carcass and one of the officers ventured to use his flash light even though it might have exposed the party to enemy observation. Eix shots in the dark—six shots true to their mark. Of the half dozen holes in the hide of the big snake, three were dead center! They had broken his spinal column. Shortly afterward, Mrs. Lewis, Bill’s wife, received a letter from him telling that he had sent the skin to Australia to be tanned. The first time he has a chance, he plans to have a pair of shoes and a belt made out of the skin for his wife. While he was attending A. & M., Lewis was captain of the pistol team. “One of the most expert shots A. & M. has produced,” commented M. L. Cushion, an old friend of the family. Yes, with men like Lieut. Bill Lewis who can kill pythons in the dark, and Captain Arthur Wer- muth who has killed 116 Japs ac cording to War Department re leases, it isn’t any wonder that our armies in the Far East are making an unbelievably gallant stand. And the Nipponese thought they want ed to pick on us! Lieut. Bill Lewis, ’40, is on duty with the Coast Artillery Corps in the Phillipine Islands, where he proved his training on the A. & M. pistol team was not wasted by any means, as he killed a large snake one night while on duty. Fourteen hundred employees of A. & M. College, all pledged to invest a day’s pay each month to purchase of Defense Bonds actual ly bought the equivalent of three days pay when salary checks for the month of January were dis tributed, it was anonunced by Dr. F. C. Bolton, dean of the college. A total of $40,500 in bonds were listed in the purchases, against a pledge to purchase approximately $12,695 each month. Prior to this month A. & M. employees had invested more than $100,000 in defense bonds. Dean Bolton said. At the present rate of purchase 10 per cent of total salaries paid are being invested in defense bonds and stamps. Aero Research Support Given By Former Students Tyree Bell Plans Center Comparable To Sunnyvale, California At a meeting of the ex-students association here Saturday the for mer students pledged as their im mediate objectives the • extablish- ment of an aeronautical engineer ing research center second to none in the United States. “With one of the fastest grow ing schools of aeronautical engin eering in the United States, and a fine airport nearing completion, the college should have, and its former students pledge that it shall have a research center com parable to those at Langley Field, Virginia, and Sunnyvale, Califor nia,” Tyree L. Bell, of Dallas, pres ident of the ex-students declared. Another objective of the group will be to prge the goverment to give engineering, medical and oth er scientific students needed in the war effort the same military ser vice status as those at West Point and Annapolis. A recent survey of land grant colleges and state universities shows that the three semester plan as instituted here has been adoped by 11 institutions, and several others have this plan in rocess of adoption. A four quarter plan has been adopted by two unversities and 15 other universities already on the quarter system of instruc tion have gone on a year-round basis of speed-up education. Pre-Med Students Take Trip to Dallas Twenty-three pre-medical stu dents traveled to Dallas the past week end on an iinspection trip to the Baylor medical school. They left by bus Friday afternoon and on their arrival were greeted by members of the medical fraterni ties of the school who acted as hosts to the group. Friday night the Aggies who made the trip were entertained by the medical students in Dallas. Saturday morning the group was divided into two sections, one of which was shown the equipment of the school at the facilities of Baylor hospital. The other section watched an amputation of a leg performed at the Parkland Hos pital in Dallas. Those who expect to apply for admission to the Dalas school were afforded an opportunity to con fer with the admision councol of the school. Those who made the trip were: T. A. Carlile, Thomas Collins, Jack Connor, Lloyd Darwin, Sol Forman, J. E. Green, Giles Fort, Wm. Jones, R. G. Jordan, Fred Kolle, Jack Levine, Tom Long, B. W. London, C. E. Murtha, Irving Murland, Maurice Nethery, Wm. Ozier, J. R. Raney, W. F. Robinson, Tom Sparks, Jim Stinson, George Willeford and Jack Williams. Registration Of Local Boards Completed Monday Students and Local Residents Sign Up In Administration Building BULLETIN A final count of the number registered yesterday showed 1179 for the college. Of these, 888 were students and the re mainder were local residents. Registration under the selective service act was completed last night at nine o’clock. It has been estimated by those in charge that over a thousand students and local residents registered in the Ad ministration building. Exact fig ures had not been tabulated at the time of this printing. All men who were born on or before 31, 1921 and who had not passed the age of 45 were requir ed to register. Students were urged not to cut classes, but to register during their off periods. Facilities were provided for the registration of local) residents and members of the college staff as well as for cadets so that no one would / be required to leave the campus. All those other than cad ets who had to sign up, were regis tered on the ground floor of the Administration building. Students registration was con ducted by members of the student body who were stationed on the first floor of the same building. Tractor Exhibition Postponed Because Of Inclement Conditions The tractor demonstration sched uled to be held this week at the main experiment station one-half mile west of the campus has been postponed till Wednesday, Thurs day and Friday because of rainy weather. The demonstration is sponsored by the Agricultural En gineering Department under the auspices of the Bull-Stewart Com pany. Students and others interested in seeing these free demonstra tions of modern farm methods are invited to do so on any one of the days most convenient. Sound equipment will be provided so that all who attend may follow the pro gram regardless of what part of the field they are in. Mothers Day Visitors Will Be Invited to See Exhibits Cooperation Stressed by Members of Ag Council at Meeting to Plan Annual Event Students, mothers, dads, and visitors will have the op portunity for visiting exhibits of the Second Annual Agri culture Day which will be held April 4, it was decided at a meeting of the Student Ag Council in Dean Kyle’s office at 5 o’clock yesterday. This motion was carried unanimously before the committee. There will be a consolidation as much as possible of the exhibits of all the Agriculture clubs. The secretary of the council is to ad vise all clubs to submit their pro grams for the Ag festivities by March 1. The annual Mother’s Day review will be held April 5, Easter Sun day, this year as there is such lit tle time between Mother’s Day and the Final Review which will be held May 16. This will enable many visitors and parents who could not otherwise attend both of these big days to see the exhibits and the review on the same weekend. The council suggested complete cooperation with the Engineers, whose annual day will also be held April 4. The programs for the Ag Day will be printed in the March issue of the Agriculturalist. Additional programs will be printed for tHe guests of Ag Day. The Annual Former Students Reunion which will be held April 10-11-12 was also discussed at the meeting. Five exes from each Ag riculture club will be guests of the clubs at a program to be held Fri day night, April 10. Each club is to have a program for this meet ing. Three alternates were select ed by each club. On Saturday afternoon there will be a baseball game far the exes from the different Agricul ture clubs. Fifteen Agriculture clubs will be represented at the homecoming. Tickets for Sophomore Ball Available in Halls Tickets for the Sophomore Ball are available from representatives in each hall. All Sophomores who are planning to attend the dance Friday night in.. Sbisa Hall are urged to purchase their tickets at once, according to Bob Philips, president of the class. Tickets are priced at $1.10, .couple or stag. Ross Volunteers Go to Marlin For Patriotic Program Governor Coke Stevenson Speaks at Rally Stressing Patriotism and Defense Around 30 Ross Volunteers wfent to Marlin last Saturday to act as an honor guard for Governor Coke R. Stevenson when he spoke there on a Town Hall program the theme of which was patriotism. Governor Stevenson’s talk was on national defense. A saber arch was formed for the governor and his party when they entered the Marlin High School gymnasium. The R. V.’s made the trip in private cars and a bus furn ished by the college and had sup per at the Marlin High School be fore going to the program. After the program the R. V.’s were entertained at the Fall Hot el in Marlin. During the course of the evening various leaders of civic groups were asked to pledge the support of their group in national defense at which time Louis Kerch- eville, captain of the R. V.s’, and Tom S. Gillis, cadet colonel, made short speeches. L M Thompson On Duty at Fort Benning Lieutenant Louis M. Thompson, class of ’32, of College Station, is now a member of the Infantry School’s Rifle and Heavy Wea pons course at Fort Benning, Geor gia. Lt. Thompson was a winner of a cotton contest and a tour of Eu rope. Later he i^ught in agronomy at A. & M. Mrs.-Thompson, son, Louis Mil- ton, Jr., and daughter Margaret Ann, are now residing in College Station. Iguana Owned by Tex Lynn Proves to Be Enjoyable Pet By Clyde C. Franklin “A reluctant dragon” is what Tex Lynn’s roommate said of Lynn’s pet iguana. This iguana is one of several large tropical American Lizards of which the iguana is the best known. These animals reach a length of five or six feet, Lynn’s being a middle one about three and a half feet long. Lynn caught this lizard which he calls Neiwah about 300 miles south of Mexico City on the Pac ific coast. While visiting there last year he and an Indian guide were going up a river in a dugout canoe and spotted the reptile on the bank of the stream. They immediately made for shore and managed to catch the lizard by throwing a hot over his head. Neiwah diets on raw meat and bananas mostly, probably because these are most like his native diet. He has spent most of his college career under the radiator where he finds a simulated tropical cli mate. Ordinarily he remains in his haven quietly but when excited he runs savagely across the room and lashes at his antagonizer with his tail. His tail carries quite a punch and Lynn finds boots con- Tex Lynn and his pet iguana, Neiwah, are shown at Tek’s desk in a familiar pose. Neiwah was captured on the coast of Mexico last summer and lives in Lynn’s room, subsisting on a diet of raw meat and bananas. venient necessities when his pet goes on a spree. Dogs are afraid of these lizards as they bluff th^, dogs by remain ing still and inflating the waddles under their chins and erecting the spines on their backs much to the dismay of the watching canine. If the dog should call the iguana’s bluff the iguana will make a lash at the dog with his tail and run in the opposite direction. Neiwah is a pretty animal with several touches of mother nature’s paint brush displayed on his green and brown hide. An iguana was used in the recent motion picture 1,000,000 B. C. in the scene in which a supposed prehistoric mon ster appeared. Shots were first taken of the iguana, then enlarged and run with shots of human be ings making the monster look much larger than the normally siz ed men about him. Importation laws forbid bringing in such pets as Neiwah but that didn’t stump Lynn. He packed his pet in a collapsible suitcase under several layers of newspaper under the front seat of his car and when the customs inspector started removing the paper and looking for hidden material, Lynn told him that there was only a bunch of trash under the seat. During the trip back, Lynn’s traveling companion felt a sharp prick on his leg and when he look ed down to see what had caused it he came face to face with Neiwah. By this time the care had been (See LYNN, Page 4) J

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