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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 17, 1942
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NO. 59
Ag Council Plans Second Agriculture Day for April 4
Scholarship Society Still
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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)
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