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When I Ms Are Checked
Registration Exc
Old Dormitories
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The Office of the rommaijd^nt announced that the
crowded room situation wifl be cleai ad op aa soon as possible
—probably m ^bout a week’s tinje. The number of students
for the summer semester exceeded all estimates
oy more than a thousand. For thi i reason, many students
were given rtjoms without! regard *to military organization
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lies May
f Do Farm Labor As
i Hands Are Scarce
Then- are many rooms eontain-
ing three studenta and there have
be*n jrases where as mshy as six
stijdtjits were assifriuii to a single
Harry Boyer’s office has
for the* part few
dajrs *with boys trying to get their
roin^ situatxin straightened out.
' room,
been ^ swamped
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I^ahor I'lans Have Approval Kvery effort i» being made to re-
Of War Board and Student l '’ v *' th<? situation at -o.on as pos-
I^ibor Committee’s Office sib ^|t>ut it will take time, the
Committes’8 Office
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Student farm labor i* now
cogupandant’s office stated.
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Dan R. “Rockey”
ineers, from Winnsbor
class of '43 at the I
summer semester. H<
ry, from College Static
[arrison Secretary
id Smith Historian
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commandant’s office e^->
reality in tha new plan sponsored< the hope that students will
“by the collegiate chapter of the ** P ? tient be ° ,,UM! th ^ «• Worl ‘-
Future f’wnnera of America due
to begin • sometime next week if
possible accord^ig to Phillip Al
ford, president of the F. F. 'A.
Chapter. W F 1 1 1
An unusual amount of interest
has been shnwh in this scheme
! '"4 Pt top speed to relieve the
situation.
Tl^e college had planned to reno-
vatej.Milner, Legett, Foster, Good
win ,)uid Bixxell Halls during the
The top two floors of
Mi|i*r are now being recondition
ed. R light registration was ex
pected for the summer semester
2** •^T' »' «>“ *nJ finer th, rwrditionh, work
^ jt^rir fohao werk I," .ktwily undrr w.y, student, Ihr.
*d a, wrll at five employm«nt to
•tudenta. The unusual absence of
farm workers due to the war has
made it imperative that some help
•be found somewhere, so this plan
has the approval of the Brasoa
County War Board and the Stu
dent Labor CoUMhittee. * j
Transportation to and from the
farms and mealg will be provided
for all those who sign up for this
employment. Yon will be doing
four country a favor as well as-
earning money at a good, healthy
job if you tako. advantage of this
offer. Application blanks and ftnv
ther information may be obtained
from Alford, t FA, or Worn the
Agricultural Education Office,
Room 106, Agricultural Engineer
ing Building
ing hi these halls will'intely under
go Jdtiine inconvenience,
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Aeronautical Club
Nominates Officers
Al the first meeting of the year,
the institute of Aeronautical Sci-
enodi nominated officers for the
coming year last Thursday. Steve
Kaflarp O Eng. acted as chairman
of |he meeting. Attended by ap
proximately 150 menfbers and po
tential members, nominations for
the offices of chairman, vice chair-
ma)| secretary-treasurer, and sen
ior <and junior representative of
the t Student Council. Sophomore
» jSee AERO CLUE Page 4)
For the first time the eatire cadet corps will be able to eaj
during a summer semester when all of the student body is
first Juke Box Prom of a series will be held under the dire
an evening of informal entertainment
the campus to enjby it. Tonight the
»n of Hobby Stepheni, social secretary.
’land, 'Captain of E Company
was elected president of tho
it meeting of the Senior class
defeated Jack Mfller of C Troop
in the run-off. Miller was last
yt-ars pre»id.-nt of the junior class.
Sutherland, who promises new
hopes for the clas|i will be assisted
by Gun Link, vicetprvsidentt Bland,
Harrison; secretary. J. C. Denney,
treasurer and John W. Smith, his-
tsriaa.
The meeting whs conducted by ]
the cadet colonel, Walter Cardwell
Jh, and was tjie most irderly
meeting ever held by the class,
members asserted. Cardwell per-
Wplrnmsi r I\v nlitt * d ^ nominations to be made
O 1 from ** noor ’ rrest
I resnnu II Alddu t»y number of candidates from which
Walton, Kyle; Wel^y > 10 choo ’ e , ;
Coach Homer Norton, head m n- f tl i j
tor of the Texas Aggies, was h n- i^ltOVCr SU^cU* At
ored at the annual College NiAt * - f 0 __
: Breakfast Is Used
^sz:' ^ * nd , ‘ n4u - In Lunchtime Tea
Welcome speeches were made to
the ftashman class Ijy Dr. TF
First of Social Events Scheduled For
Nine O’clock Tonight in Old Mess Hall
Summer social activities will get
underway tonight at 9 o'clock, in
the Annex of Bbisa Hall, states
Bobby Stephens, social secretary
of the senior claaa. This will be the
first Juke Box Prom of the new
semester, with favorite tunes by
the nation's beat dance bands.
These Proms- originated during
the summer session of 1840. The
idea was conceived by George
former Battalion eol-
aad carried into effect by
the; intramural department, under
the .direction of W. L. Penberthy.
The increasing numbers attending
thege dances give proof of their
popUarHy.
juniors will be allowed to wear
civic* at this evening’s affair,
while the rest of the Corps will at
tend in No. 2 uniform, states Ste-
pbatis.
The number of stags who attend
futAre proms may have to be limit
edhowever, for the present there
wilj be no limiution.
Drawing Course
To Be Offered In
Training Series
A course of evening study in ad
vanced engineering drawing will
be offered by Texas A. A M. Col
lege on or before June 22, it was
announced today by W. E. Street,
head of ‘ fhe department of en
gineering drawing.
The course, under the sponsor
ship of national Engineering, Sci
ence and Management Defense
Training, will be tuition-free, but
only applicants with necessary
qualifications will be accepted.
Street said.
Prerequisites are graduation
from high school with two years
of mathematics and one of draw
ing; or sufficient indbstrial draw
ing experience; or completion of a
previously-offered ESAMDT draw
ing course.
If enough applicants appear at
a preliminary meeting, which will
be held in Room S3 of the Civil
Engineering building here at 8
p.m. June 15, two sections may be
created, possibly one at Bryan and
one here.
Times and places of section
meetings will be decided at the
registration session June 15, Street
said.
The course, to run 16 weeks,
calls for six hours of practice each
week.
Loving Instruction:
Featured Attractii
Of Kadet Kapers at 7
He Thinks It’s Great;
in H
In National
Need instruction on lovuj mak
ing? You can get it withouj pay
ing a cent for it along witl^ a lot
of fun and super entertainment at
Kadet Kapers tonight at Ufe As
sembly Hall at seven when HKchard
W. Jenkins presents the f^rst in
the new series of Aggie Entertain
ment shows.
All the new Fish as well ^s the
Navy and Marine personpei *re
especially invited to atte
There will be several contests
the winners of whieh will gst won
derful prises to say nothing of a
swell time. Special instruction will
also be given to those fish ioming
to Aggieland for the first tjme on
the manly art of love makjlg.
Baptist Church Holds
Young People Service
The First Baptist Church of
Bryan will conduct s special serv
ice for all Aggies, old anil new,
as well ss all other students and
young people. The service ig to be
gin at 6:30, this Sunday evening.
/ Dr. William H. Andrei* will
preach at the service, to w^lch all
vacationing students in Brjian end
Naval Cadets srei invite<j. Pete
Adams, Aggie '42, will sin^ a spe
cial number.
Student Activities
Officials Approve
Contracts, Editor
Meeting for the first time, the
new Student Activities Committee
yesterday afternoon approved con
tracts for the 1943 Longhorn and
the appointment of Mike Haikin
M sports editor of the Battalion
newspaper, ?
The engraving contract for the
Longhorn wfs awarded to the
Wallace Engraving Company of,
Austin and the printing contract
to the Gulf Printing Company of
Houeton.
Mike Haiktn was approved as
sports editor pf the newspaper for
the eoming year. At the same time
a committee was appointed by
Deaa Bolton - to investigate and
recommend standards to be used
in appointing staffs in the future.
E. L. Angell; L. D. Boone, John
Lonfley and fj Brooks Cofer were
appointed to Serve on this commit
tee, and to report to the committee
at its next rqrettag.
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Walton, president of - the coll
E. J. {Kyle, dean of the School of
Agriculture; Col. Madrice D. VI >1-
ty, commandant of the corps of
R*ticm Books Are Not Used
To Obtain Sugar Supplic.
But Are m Safe Keeping
What remains of the bowl of
•ugar that m on the breakfast
cadet*; Coach Norton; and •»-; ell table is Used tq sweeten the tea
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leader* Jack (Big Foot) Nagai nd
J. O. Alexander. '
An engraved desk set was ] re
sented to Coach Norton by he
corps on behalf of hit splei lid
work in producing rruyiy fin* f ot-
ball teams. The presentation rus
made by Mike Haikin, Bati^ion
sports editor.
Eleventh Annual
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The eleventh annuafl cotton * sdy
tour ms completed last Fri lay,
May 29, by Professor R. C. P (Us,
F. G. Collard and!A; B. Wa< die,
who went to New Oceans, B#ton
Rouge, Memphis and Dalla* In
Mexico they visited Saltillo/; for-
reon. ParTas and Mexico * pity
studying cotton conditions, t ©.
Wilmeth and G. C. MeGourik 1 font
on the first part at Uie trip h| the
>t w3re unahl t to
lexico
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United Slates but
make the trip to Me
they had to
duty M*y 17.
V MCA Continues Picture Calendar In
Summer Months Aiding Student dr
A* part of ita extensive training
and entertaining program on the
A. At M. campus, the Young Men’s
Christian Association, popularly
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By Clyde C. Franklin
Many things have been mid
about A. A M It all began hack
when Coach Hopier Norton started
conference wIn-
prod uc mg
ning Aggie foo
that a new
A. * M. is *
< f of publicity th
Latest of the
Quentin Reynol
issue of Coll
getting
teams but nhw
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at the aatien.
*ls by
in thw May 30
In this article, the featured ar
ticle of th* isa^e.'h* was talking
about Aggies
found college
- no students I
tent on hi
they would be
and could get;
Walked <
' That
1 when he got ti
j! tide be really
take College-
> a got to be
Texas. During
!*▼* worked in
Europ* And
• but n#**r in
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he said. “I
its studying taa
saw Study, ln-
the day wtyen
eninmisBion*
i to active set-nee. 4
LaagMng
little WU
into tha nr
looa* with, “N >w
>n, Texas. I’ve
when I talk ahyit
past ten ye^rs
every country ;m
everywhere,
I just came
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las Lauds Aggie’s Training Program
Weekly Magazine Article About College
fnpn spending two weeks there
Khi; I walked out of the state
l*4pthing. I was laughing at Hit
ler, and Hirohito aad a* the defeat-
!•* and enemies within our own
border*. I was laughing at their
g that they
our country,
effects you like that Texas
dilnTt wait to be subbed in the
bark During the pest two yeaua.
I’ve met kids from Texas on Brit
ish destroyers in the Channel and
Uue North Atlantic; flying with
RAF bomber groups and with our
oi^nf magnificent Eagle Squadron,
N|. 71, the first to go into com-
b*t; flying Curtiss-Wright P-40’s
btLibya, and I met them all places
od the sorely be!.-h*ured island
oflfalU in the Mediterranean. I’d
been in Texas before but I’d
l| Texans all right
_ „ a song down there,
i Eyes of Texas are Upon You.
putting forth her hundred-
♦cent war effort intelligently,
with hatred in her heart
those who would snap Un-
has her eye*
of us. If we lag in our
ittl
war efforts, Texas is liable to get
mad and fight the war alone. Tex
as is like that. When I die I want
to go to Texas.
Norton Praises Team
: *L*t’s go back to College SU-
tion, Texas. You probably never
heard of the place unless you're
a football fan. There’s nothing
there but a college. College SUtion
is the home of Texas A. A M., the
great Texas Aggies. I doubt wheth
er they’ll have much of a football
team there next fall. Those 4,500
atudenU are too inUrested in
learning ways and means of kill
ing Japs and Germans to bother
with football. They were just wind
ing up spring football practice
when I was there and Coach Nor
ton was mighty pleased.
“They’ll make great soldiers,’
he gloated, watching hi* tall, lean
boys run to the showers. ‘Maybe
football will help them a little.’
** ‘What kind of a team will
you have next year?’ I asked him.
"‘There’s only on* team that
counts now,* he said a little re
proachfully. That’s America. A lot
of our boys will have qualified for
service by fall. They
ful boys and they'll
soldiers.’ * If;
Aggiee Have Fun, Too
“I sat up late with a
those cadets at Texas
They are all cadeta at T«
M. Every one of thou* 4,
will be in one service or
within a short tima. I sat
them and tanked and list
them and it was exciting,
the generation that is
win the war for ps. It’s
generation. They’ve had tkoir lit
tle fun with girls and with juke
boxes and with a little }wer on
the side and with footb il|, and
with junior proaos. But th *y were
just killing time doing t iat and
now they’re Amertbans, a uj their
country has said, *We nee^ f little
help, boys,’ and they Ye qaife wil
ling and very anxious a id soon
will be technically trainei . in th*
various ways of taniifrt the
brains out of those silly fimmans
and Japs. ' , j ||
“When yon return from
tone, you got asked an ^rful lot
of fool questions. Peonla iak you.
‘What is the truth about the Hess
case?’ They ask (as though two
million Russians hadn’t already
proved It), ‘Can we trust the Rus
sians?' They ask, ’Are the British
on* hundred p<-r cent behind their
war effort?’ <As though thousands
of British civilians hadn’t proved
that too.) Bpt those men from
Texas A.-A M. didn’t ask questions
like that. We sat for many hours
and they ask*d, ‘What weapon do
the British'Commandos use? How
do they sneak hi places and kill
Germans without rousing the
whole German army?’ I knew tha
answer to that and when I told
them of the knives and the beau
tifully effective methods used by
the Commandos, their eye* glisten
ed and their young hands clenched
and you knew everything was all
right with young America.’’
Reynolds continues his article
and he states that he finds condi
tions just as good for the defeat
of th* enemy all over the United
States aa he does in the words
printed above in praise of Texas
and A. A M. Reynold* appeared hi
the past Town Hall aeries here.
day
known as th* “Y," trill
to operate Jts daily) n
Guion Hall this sutnm er aa {
done in the past. According
Gordon Gay, associate
of the Y and man^gorl
shows, • |bis season's shows
represent the best thaft can
tained ill the movie; world,
states.
Besidea. the regular week
shows in. the aftemoqn and
supper, the Y also brih*» to
Hall a free show each Sunday aft
ernoon. These shows, are fix the
benefit of the corps and visits v on
the campus Due to grange! ont*
with the producers which ms le it
possible to show these films fc no
cost to tbs audience, it is ira| pasi-
ble to advertise them as othei mo
vies are advertised and hence they
are more in less sight-and-ui pen
The caAst corps regularly a Area
in the prafita from the Y abfcws.
Twenty percent of th* pro
put into the student activiti
so that say campus organishtion,
dub or satiety which is in Used
of funds far a worthy projeef
apply to the student
mittee and the amount
be given to them. This
the benefit shows that were
acred in juev.ous year* by vdriou*
campus groups in cooperation with
the YMCA.
Until last October, the Y Ucws
were regularly given in thh As
sembly Hall At that) time Juion
Hall was adopted aa the theatre
by purchasing a new scree* and
curtain* for the windows. The
change was made fa order to gain
the added asatii
comfort of Guion msii
at noon and there is no more after
that supply is gone. With the ex
eepttonally small amount of sugar
that the mesa kali is allowed, it
cannot give ua^ any more than
twenty ounces a day for every
twenty-four me*. This means ten
ounces per Xable a day—all of
which ia put one for breakfast as
that ia our hefeviest sugar eon
suming meal, a<,u J. C. H
supervisor of subsists nee.
By a little figuring, you will see
that each student gets about
twelve ounces of sugar every four
teen days instead of the'sixteen
that Ije is allowed. Thi* aad state
of affairs is caused by Uncle Sam
The Ifw has cut thi mess hall’s
xupply t« 60 percent of its regular
•upply, using March ua th*
for the ^mount that we get now.
Contrary to the general opinion,
the ration books' that the students
turned in are not used to buy our
Wfeur. Th* books were taken up
ao that the students could not use
them elsewhere. Th* mesa hall is
allowed just so much sugar and
the ration, books are stored for
safe Keeping. Hotard said that if
the ideas hall could replenish its
■upply on the basis of the ration
books, they would have ample sug
ar to meet the real needs of the
a tudenta but until »oinethii« t» t
ter comes along* we srill have to
he satisfied witl( what w* have.
Fish & Game Gass
Studies in Mexico
A contingent of Texas A. A If.
College agricultural students, spe-
rialixing in fiah and game service,
> en route to Mexico for a sum
mer of field studies deep id the
heart of.th* neighboring rwpubtie.
Headed by Dr.^W. B. Davit, act
ing head of instauction in the fiah
and gam* service department of
the college, the group making the
field trip is traveling fa. two
bu**s and a station wagon.
The itinerary calls for storm m
the vicinities of Montemorelia^
Tamazunchale, Puebla, Chilpan-
cfago and Oaxaca, the laat-namad
citjr—about 200 miles south of
Mexico City-A^arking the south
ernmost point of the field trip.
Students majfeg the trip, whieh
will end upon their return to Col
lege Station September 15, will re
ceive 18 credit hour*—four hours
in ornfthology and seven each fa
Gald studies and practical fiah
culture.
Among the students making the
trip are Edward W. Bonn, Alton,
m.;; D. Homer Buck, Houston
Harry L. GiRmti Jr., Moat Bel-
vie%, Texas; J. W- McKamy, Cur-
rollton, Texas; (meat H. Powell
■nd R. R. Ruschtg both of San An-
toafa; Edmond M Talk, Ingleeide,
TaKas; H. D. Tuitior, Port Arthur;
AM. Vajdos, Hohaon, Texaa; Sam
Whatiar, Houston;' and Matt H.
Whiaenhunt, Idabel, Okla.
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