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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
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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.