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j. DIAL 4-5444 r w~TM 4 4 w § DIAL 4-5444 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER » * OF THE CITY OF # ## is M \ # a mm rk OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION JL JL ms JlJ U B m* 1 B m w COLLEGE STATION 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. - VOLUME 42 COLLEGE STATION, TLXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 13, 1942 2275 NUMBER 31 Juniors In Honor" Announced Meeting Will Be Held Soon to Fill Secretarial Vacancy Juniors eligible for membership in the Scholarship Honor Society have been announced by Bill Gal loway, president of the society. Grade point averages were deter mined by the registrar’s office and it is on this basis that member ship is figured. The junior mem bership is limited to the top four per cent of the juniors in that particular school. Senior member ship is the top eight per cent. Averages in the school of agri culture ranged from 2.71 down to 1.86. Those men who had averages between these two were: Lacy, Arthur T.; Lacy, Albert 0.; Hol lingsworth, Joe; Taylor, Benton C-; Kelsey, Joe F.; Norris, H. W.; McMillan, Marvin; Anthony, Dan iel; Robertson, James L.; Holde- man, Harold W.; and Bonn, Ed ward W. Men from the school of engin eering who are eligible are: Mc- Swain, Angus; Jacobson, H. S.; Goatley, James H. Jr.; Sommer, Helmut; Benet, Humberto J.; Riggs, Claude A.; Goodson, W. C.; Fowler, Andrew H.; Reagan, Chas.; W.; Canfield, Eugene H.; Keeney, Fred C.;, Bums, L. L.; Latimer, James R.; Hawthorne, Ray R-; Keith, Jack J.; Roddy, Lloyd W.; and Pledger Flave A. Averages in this school varied from 2.92 to 2.49. . Juniors in the school of liberal arts are: Gulley, Robert L.; Banks, William F.; Elmendorf, H. F.; and Gammon, Sam R. Gulley had the highest average of all juniors with a 3.03 grade point ratio. The veterinary medicine school had the following men to qualify: Johnson, Don F.; Kokernot, Robert H.; and Brown, Robert L. Aver ages in this school ranged from 2.80 to 2.48. According to. Galloway a meet ing of the organization will be held in the near future, probably next week, at which time a secre tary will be elected- This vacancy was created by the resignation of Walter Cardwell as president. The next officers in line, Galloway and Adolph Specia, moved up to president and vice-president re spectively, and the position as secretary was open. If any student thinks that he has been left off the list he should contact the registrar’s office and determine his grade point average. Cadets Tell Co-op Leaders of College Market Training J. Wheeler Barger, head of the Marketing and Finance depart ment, presented several A. & M. students to over 100 leaders of the state’s cooperatives attending the fifth annual Texas Cooperative In stitute sponsored by A. & M-, the Texas Federation of Cooperatives, and the Houston Bank for Coop eratives, Monday night. The students told how the col lege is providing instruction to train boys in the “business side of agriculture.” Chas. B. Martain, Jr., of Plainsville, Aggie senior, told of how Future Farmers are getting actual cooperative experience in vocational agriculture classes in Texas high schools. 0. W. Hermman, acting chief of cooperative research and serv ice, Farm Credit Administration, said that America’s 10,600 farm er cooperatives are playing an im portant part in the war effort through helping with production, conservation, and furnishing fin ished products. He said that the year ahead promises “sacrifices— the price for maintaining our de mocracy—in more difficult times.” A banquet was held for the vis itors in the college mess hall Mon day evening. Sterling Evans, pres ident of the Federal Land Bank of Houston, talked of the role co-ops must play now and after the war, in a world divided over principles of democracy and totalitarianism. Aggieland Drive TowardBandwagon ame Gains Power Hometown Friends Of Aggies May Prove Deciding Factor in Race The campaign to ge# the Aggie land orchestra on the Fitch Sum mer Band Wagon NBC program from Dallas September 13th is well under way. According to Cur ley Brient, leader of the Aggie land Orchestra, the voting has been heavy from the immediate vicinty of the college. The response to the request that everyone vote for the Aggieland has been gratifying, but Brient urged that the votes from here will not be sufficient to get the Aggieland on the sum mer broadcast from Dallas next month. It is going to take many more votes than can possibly be cast here to help the Aggieland get its chance for fame and for tune. Therefore, Brient has urg ed that all Aggies get in touch with friends, and relatives within the next few days and ask them to be sure and vote for the orches tra. One vote may be cast with every 25 cent purchase of anything in drug stores in the Dallas area. In other words, a purchase of ciga rettes, prescriptions, fountain drinks, cosmetics, anything on the counters of any drug store will count as a vote for the Aggieland if the purchaser will simply tell the clerk that he wants to cast a vote for the Aggieland orchestra of A. & M. Drug stores in the following cities will take votes for the Ag gieland orchestra: Abilene, Big Spring, Bonham, Breckenridge, Cisco, Cleburne, Corsicana, Dallas, Denison, Denton, Ennis, Ft. Worth, Gainesville, Graham, Greenville, Henderson, Kilgore, Jacksonville, Longview, McKinney, Midland, Mineral Wells, Palestine, Paris, Ranger, Sherman, Sulphur Springs, Sweetwater, Terrell, Tyler, Ver non, Waxahachie, Weaherford, Wichita Falls, Hillsboro, Bryan, College Station and Waco. ASME Holds Informal Dance At Grove Friday No Charge Will Be Made For ME Students; Fish Admitted Without Dates The A. S. M. E. will hold its annual dance Friday night from 9 to 12 p. m. at The Grove. It will be an informal juke box dance ac cording to A. S. M. E. President Tom Bolling. All M. E. students are invited to attend and there will be no admission charge. Bolling s announced also that freshmen will be admitted without dates. The A. S. M. E. is extend ing invitations to the presidents of the seven engineering clubs on the campus, Dean Gibb Gilchirst, and all M. E. professors and in structors. Church Council Holds Election; Proposes Sunday MorningMusic Meeting last Thursday night the Inner Church Council held its most important meeting of the semester thus far at which its officers were elected and some of the projects of the coming term were discus sed. Officers seleced were D. A. Treadwell from Shreveport, Louisi ana, president; vice-president Tom Meyers from Brownfield; secretary H. S. Martin from Clarksdale, Tex. Taking into consideration the graduation date, the date of the college’s annual Religion Emphasis Week has been re-set from Feb ruary to the week of December 6th through 11th. Plans were discussed also for the playing of records of religious music and chimes thru the loud speaker system of the academic building on Sunday mornings. If this should be inaugruated every Sunday morning at 9:30, about the time for chuch services to be gin, the music would begin to play as a symbol of an invitation ex tended to every one -to attend church sometime during the day. Saddle-SirloinClubPresentsAnnualRodeo Twenty-Fourth Ag Rodeo Will Be in Bryan Fri, Sat Tactically Proficient, Physically Superior llgiMi&tf M & First men to negotiate the new comando course were the above troopers f rom A Cavalry. The course is approximately 900 yards long and good running time is said to be about four and a half minutes. Scaling a ten foot wall constructed of railroad ties is shown at the top left. Farther along on the course the trainees take an 18 foot ladder in their stride. One cavalryman was in a hurry and didn’t wait to climb down—time is the important factor. A warmup for the course is provided by the low hurdles (lower left) which are found at the beginning of the course. At the halfway mark is a series of high hurdles. The rivets which protrude on the inside of the tubes seen at the lower right are not easy on the knees, a trial run proved. - Singing Cadets Appear at Fort Worth Convention Thirty of the Singing Cadets will go to Ft. Worth next Wednes day to sing before the Texas Home Demonstration Association conven tion which will be attended by more than five hundred women from all over the state, according to an announcement by Richard Jenkins, director of the singers. This is the first of a series of small group trips where the Sing ing Cadets will perform f or con ventions, luncheon clubs, and or ganizations of that type. The group making the trip will return to the campus the following day. Jenkins stresses the fact that the group riiaking the trip is not made up of the thirty best singers in the organization but rather is a representative cross section. While at the convention, they will sing the same type of music that they have presented for the past two years. Jenkins will serve as the official song leader for the convention. W. Lee O’Daniel and James V. Allred just aren’t going to have a chance in the senatorial election after the August issue of the Bat- .talion Magazine comes out next Wednesday. In fact, they might as well withdraw right now for the Battalion Magazine is entering its own dark horsd in the race for senator. Magazine Editor John Holman won’t tell who the candidate is, but he states that the campaign will leave hilly billy music and biscuits as out dated as grand ma’s bustle. Fish and Game Club Holds Melon Feed All Fish and Game majors and minors who plan to attend the watermelon party Monday night, August 17, are requested to leave their names on the list outside the Fish and Game office Monday be fore noon in order to get their share of the watermelon. The watermelon party will be held in the back yard at the home of Dr. W. P. Taylor, head of the Wildlife department. Dr. Taylor lives in South Oakwood at 113 Lee Avenue, and all those who plan to attend will get an excel lent watermelon feed at this ad dress. Battalion Magazine Throws Its Ponderous Force Behind Politics Varvel Speaks on War Adjustment Problems Discussing some of youths prob lems as a result of the war was Dr. W. A. Varvel of the Psychology Department, speaker of the Y.M.- C.A. Cabinet meeting Tuesday night. Dr. Varvel spoke on such points as the problem of the student dur ing war time, the psychological re actions of youth to war conditions, adjustment to life in and out of the armed services, and wartime mar riages. These points were said too have been popular being recognized as very vital problems of the con dition today. Among the other things brought up during the course of the meet ing was the discussion of a plan to collect books to be sent to and distributed in prision camps all over the world in order to keep up the moral of the soldiers of every country, who will someday during peace time need the knowledege that can be obtained for a posi tion in the business world, Albert Smith, president of the cabinet said. Autumn Graduates Meet to Discuss Graduation Plans All candidates for degrees to be conferred September 19 are called by President T. O. Walton to at tend a meeting tonight at 7:00 p. m. in the chemistry lecture room concerning graduation ex ercises. According to Dr. E. P. Humbert who is in charge of the graduation, it is not yet decided whether there will be a formal ex ercise or if diplomas simply will be mailed to the candidates. Humbert urged that all can didates for graduation in Septem ber be present at the meeting to decide on the question of having excercises. He stated that it is the wish of the college to give the students what they want and that the subject of graduation is en tirely . up to them. At present, there are about one hundred and thirty students eligi ble for graduation in September, according to Dean F. C. Bolton. Enrollment Still Open in Twelve Week Vocational Course Additional enrollments in a 12- weeks night school course in ma chine operation, to be offered by A. & M. under the Vocational Ed ucation for National Defense pro gram, are being sought, it was an nounced today by C. W. Crawford, head of the department of mechan ical engineering. The course, to be held from 6 p. m. to 2 a. m. five nights a week starting August 24, is tuition-free and open to all men from 18 to 60 who have a grammar-school edu cation or its equivalent. Registration may be made thru any U. S. Unemployment Service bureau, or by writing to the U. S, E. S. station at Bryan. King and Queen Omitted; Busses Have Been Provided to Go to American Legion Grounds On Friday and Saturday nights, August 14 and 15, the Saddle and Sirloin Club will present the twenty-fourth an nual Texas Aggie Rodeo in Bryan at the American Legion Park. Reliable sources state that this is to be one of the; wildest and fastest rodeos ever to be staged by the Aggies. The rodeo is being moved from its- traditional place In the Animal Husbandry Pavilion in order to provide a larger and cooler place for the spectators. In order to facilitate transportation between the campus-f" and the American Legion Park, special busses have been obtained. A wide variety of events will be presented both nights including calf roping, bareback riding, bronc busting, wild bull riding, roping, and cowpony contests. Ac-, cording to a spokesman for the Saddle and Sirloin Club, the cere mony of crowning a king and queen of the rodeo will be ommitt- ed this year. Shorty Fuller of Colorado City will be back in action. Many Ag gies will remember Shorty as man ager of the 1940 rodeo and king of the 1941 rodeo. He is supposed to be recognized as one of the oustanding bronc busters in the country. He will be accompanied by Caddo Wright from Junction and Zeno Hemphill from Cole man. Annual Charity Turtle Derby Will Be In Dallas Tigner Wants 500 Within Next Two Weeks; Offers Five Cents Each A Turtle Derby, sponsored by the Variety Clubs of America, a showman’s organization, will be held in Dallas on September 2^, 25 26, and 27, the purpose of which is to obtain money to be donated to charity. Charlie Tigner, manager of the Campus Theater, is looking for all turtles in Brazos and surround ing counties to enter in the race. Tigner said, “Anyone with a gar denful of turtles that wants to get rid of them, please see me at the theater. I will pay five cents for each terrapin brought to me.” Tigner said he needs 600 terra pins in the next 'two weeks, so here is a good market for any and all terrapins that anybody will take the trouble to find and bring in. Different from past years, the Turtle Derby this year will go hand in hand with a Gene Autry Rodeo, with Gene Autry himself as manager, director, and main actor. It will, be a regular wild and wooly show, with bulldogging. calf-roping, wild steer riding, pa rades, horse shows, and all that goes with a 1'odeo. The Turtle Derby is made up of ten heats or races in which the turtles are dumped into a ring 50 feet in diameter, and about two feet off the ground. Under the circular platform is a stove which heats the racing arena- When the race-track gets hot the turtles try to get off, and thus the race for the outside ring 25 feet away is on. After the ten races have been run off, a final is run, the winner of each preliminary race consti tuting the field of the grand finale. Each turtle has a piece of ad hesive tape on his back with a number on it corresponding to a number that each person who en tered a turtle holds. Entrance fee on each turtle is $10, with prizes foil winners ranging from $2500 down to $50. Walton, Winstead Meet Raine in Dallas President T. O. Walton left for Dallas yesterday with Publicity Di rector G. Byron Winstead. While there, they will confer with Nor man Riley Raine, writer of “We’ve Never Been Licked”, the film to be produced at A. & M. Walton and Winstead will return to tlie campus some time today. Mayhugh Elected President of Co-op Federation Here New Organization Also Selects Other Officers At Three Day Meeting L. T. Mayhugh of Plainview Wednesday became first president of the Texas Federation of Co operatives^ as election of officers for the new organization climaxed a three-day session of the fifth annual state co-operative institute at A. & M. College. R. B. McLeaish of Weslaco, man ager of the Rio Grande Valley Citrus Exchange, was chosen vice president and B. E. Stallones, man ager of the South Texas Milk Producers association, Houston, was named secretary-treasurer. Others chosen to the board of directors were D. B. Denney, man ager of NeTex Cooperative Oil Mill, Wolfe City; John A. Loyd, director of the Plains Cooperatives, Inc., Floydada; A. K. Mackey, man ager of the Texas Livestock Co operative Marketing 'association, Fort Worth; and Leonard F- Cow- den, director of Consumers Co operatives association, Amarillo. A dozen district representatives also were selected. They are H. H. Hogue of Dalhart, A. B. Tarr water of Plainview, Luther Streit of Vernon, J. H. Bowman of Plane, E. K. Ziegler of Quitman, W. R. Squires of El Paso, Dick Weekes of Gorman, Emmett Cook o f Georgetown, A. H. B°yt of Beau mont, Warren LeBourveali of Bee- ville, Lamar Folda of Corpus Chris- ti; and Tom Fields of E r yan. Purpose of the new organization is to establish “cooperation among cooperatives,” according to May hugh, through coordination of edu cational dnd other programs af fecting Texas farms and ranches. Consolidated Opens School September 7 The A. & M. Consolidated School will open its 1942-43 school session September 7. Those who are planning a trip during the week of Sept. 19 to Sept. 25 can make arrangements with the principals concerning the absence of their children. The school board has adopted the following calendar for the school year 1942-43: School opening .. Sept. 1, 1942 Holiday, (Armistice) Nov. 11 Holiday (Thanksgiving) Nov. 26 & 27, 1942 Holiday (Christmas) .... Dec. 19 to Dec. v 28, 1942 Firs Semester Ends .... Jan. 15, 1943 Commencement Sermon .....May 16, 1943 School close and Commence ment Program .. May 21, ’43 The daily time schedule will par allel that of the College so there will be no conflicts in time. Regis tration will begin at 8:30 o’clock Monday morning, September 7, and the children will be dismissed to go home between eleven and twelve o’clock. The full time sche dule will begin Tuesday morning at 8:00 o’clock, noon period from 12:00 to 1:00 o’clock and dismis sal for the first week at 3:00 o’clock. All students will be required to have a vaccination certificate on file in the superintendent’s office and it would be wise for all begin ners in the first grade to have their vaccination done immediately to give time for the arm to heal before school opens.