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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 29, 1943)
Only Two Yell Leaders To Be Elected For Semester Ex-Aggie Named To Extension Service Position at AMC Oliver W. Thompson, Texas A. & M. College graduate who has done outstanding dairy work in the state, has been named dairy man for the A. & M. College Ex tension Service. Director H. H. Williamson says his appointment becomes effective July 1. The new Extension dairyman succeeds G. G. Gibson who resigned May 1 to become manager of a dairy farm near Waco. Mr. Thompson has been Gon zales County agricultural agent since April, 1938. Prior to that time he was county agricultural agent of Wilson County and agri cultural adjustment assistant of Bxar County. His dairy experience includes serving as a herdsman for a large dairy in the San An tonio area and work as a labora tory technician for a Southwest dairy products concern. A native of Winnsboro, Mr. Thompson received his B. S. de gree from Texas A. & M. in 1930. Clearing Pecan Groves Is Aid To Production Clearing low producing trees and all foreign timber from a pe can grove often may double pro duction in a relatively short time. According to J. F. Rosborough, horticulturist for the A. & M. Col lege Extension Service, this clean up has the further benefit of aid ing in the control of certain in sects and diseases, and facilitating the harvesting of nuts. In all cases, however, it should be followed through with the elimination of stumps and sprouts. Moreover, pasture grasses and legumes may become established if weeds are kept down by mowing or grazing, thereby putting a “sec ond story” of production on the plot. Before undertaking the clearing job trees which the owner knows from observation to be good pro ducers should be marked for pres ervation. In many cases he will (See CLEARING, Page 4) Senior Ring’s for July Firsts Are Here Now H. L. Heaton, acting registrar, announces that Senior class rings which were due in the Registrar’s office July 1st are now ready for delivery. Another order for rings will be sent off on July 1. Classi fied juniors are eligible for a Sen ior ring and the ring clerk is in the Registrar’s office from 8 a.m. to noon only. A. & M. Camera Club To Hold Meeting Wednesday Night The A. & M. Camera Club will hold a meeting in the Petroleum Lecture Room at 6:30 Wednesday night. It is under the new supervision of C. D. Bradley. A darkroom has been located that the club may use after it gets under way and organized. All old members are asked to be present and any new students who are interested in joining the club are also invited. The meeting will adjourn in plenty of time for CQ. Second Installment Can Be Paid Now The second installment of main tenance fees, amounting to $34.00 and due from July 1 to 8 inclusive, can be paid now. These fees in clude room rent $5.76, board $25.75, and laundry $2.50. This in stallment will complete mainten ance until August 10, 1943. The cashier of the Fiscal Office will accept these fees from 8 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. Bryan Installs Parking Meters This little bit of news is in tended for you people who still have a car to drive and a ration book that goes with it. The next time you undertake an expedi tion to Bryan be sure to include, besides extra gas, tube patches, etc., a couple of nickels. The reason is because the thriving metropolis of Bryan is install ing parking meters. Of course you poor Aggies and servicemen won’t need such small change, for obvious reasons. Football Candidate Meeting To Be Held Tuesday At 5:00 List Of Prospects For Next Fall Now Held By Norton A meeting for Tuesday after noon at 5:00 has been called by Coach Homer Norton at the Gym nasium for all those boys interest ed in playing football. A list of boys who have good possibilities of staying here next semester has been turned in to Coach Norton. Those boys are: Stanley Turner, Donald Deere, Earl Beesley, Charles Smith, Mar ion Settegast, Earl Hallmark, Go ble Bryant, Earl Cook, Jim Turley, Hardy Nevill, Arland Brosn, Ken neth Thompson, Jere Higgs, Dick Wright, Sparkey Eberle, Charlie Hohn, Charlie Wright, Clovis 01- sak, T. M. Hughes, Tommy Davis, Munson C. Bryan, Bobby Seyle, and Kenneth Pogue. Dewitt Coulter, of Fort Worth, who received his army papers the day after he arrived on the cam pus this semester. Much was ex pected from him and his loss was regretted. Dick Jones, from Paris, Texas, came at the start of the semester, but decided to wait until next fall to enter. Norton said concerning the fu ture of the Aggie eleven, “In Sep tember we will have a football team to represent A. & M. College, and never will a boy have a better chance of making the Aggie eleven than during the coming season.” Intramural Volley Ball To Start Soon The intramural program will get into full swing around July 15 when the volley ball competition will begin. Basket ball will begin soon after that and in the latter part of July the intramural track meet will be held. The various companies should begin to think about these events and organize their teams. At a later date entry cards for the various toumeyments which are going to be held will be sent out. These toumeyments will in clude golf, badminton, ping pong, and handball. In the only tennis match that was played the latter part of the week, Swatzell, Heaney, Felper, Lipscomb, Stotzer, and Buck of the 8th Co. teamed up and won two out of three matches from the best that the 7th Co. could drum up. All other tennis matches were won on forfeits. Soft ball results were: 1st Co. 11; 4th H. Q. Co. 3; 2nd HQ Co. 5; 1st HQ Co. 3; 8th Co., 25; A. Co. 2; 5th Co. 13; C. Co. 7; HQ Co. 5; 1st HQ Co. 5; and F Co. forfeited to the 2nd Co. GRADUATES AT PECOS PECOS, Texas, June 29—Second Lieutenant Vincent DeSaluo, son of Mr. and Mrs. Pete DeSaluo of 2006 Gentry Street, Houston, Tex as, has arrived at the Pecos Army Air Field here to take his basic training as -a student pilot. Lt. De Saluo is a graduate of the Texas A. & M. College, member of the class of 1942. Students attending the 34th Summer Cotton School now being conducted at A. & M. The school is under the supervision of Dr. Ide P. Trotter of the Agronomy Department. Central figure in the picture is Dean E. J. Kyle, Dean of the School of Agriculture. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Annual Summer Cotton School Has Women Among Its Students; School ToEndon July 10th Above are shown the students attending the 34th Summer Cot ton School being conducted at the Agricultural and Mechanical Col lege of Texas, under the direction of Dr. Ide P. Trotter, head of the Department of Agronomy. The 1943 school opened May 31 and will continue through July 10. These Summer Cotton Schools are designed to prepare young men( and in the case of the pres ent school, young women) to en ter the business of cotton; to train cotton growers to produce better cotton and to market their cotton intelligently and profit ably; to assist cotton buyers to become more familiar with low grade and off-color cotton, and to judge staple. In outlining the course of in- structin fr the 1943 Summer Cot ton School, Dr. Trotter stated that the cotton industry was faced with a decreasing number of ex perienced cotton classers and too few new recruits. The war crop goals of the United States demand increased quantities of food, feed, and fiber, and cotton is the coun try’s only crop which produces all three. Therefore, the course is serving both those wishing to ac quire training, experience and the basic fundamentals of cotton class ification, and those who have had considerable experience in produc ing, processing or handling cot ton, but who wish to improve their understanding of cotton classing and the effect that recent research has had on the type of cotton recommended for best production and spinning. All students who complete the entire six-weeks’ instruction will be given a certificate indicating the work done. In the picture, left to right, are: FRONT ROW—Roy L. King, Austin, Texas; Enrique Domene Corral, Torreon, Coah, Mexico; Mrs. D. E. Beck, Oklaunion, Texas; Mrs. Vivian Buck, Hutto, Texas; E. J. Kyle, dean, School of Agri culture, A. & M. College; Mrs. Helen Beasley, USD A Cotton Spinning Laboratory, College Sta tion; Gladys C. Conway, Bryan; Luis Estrada, Mexico City, Mex ico; O. Cuauhtemoc Campos, Tor reon; Santiago Guajardo, Jr., La redo, Tamps., Mexico. SECOND ROW — Mr. D. E. Beck, Oklaunion; Antonio Hur tado, Mexicali, L. C., Mexico; J. Luis Gutierrez, Calexico, Calif.; Jose G. Tijerina, Matamoros, Tamps., Mexico; Raul Holguin, Torreon; Fernando Estrada, Mat amoros; Federico Navarro, Mexico City; Eduardo Garza, Anahuac, N. L., Mexico; Guillermo Torres, Torreon; E. H. Chadderdon, Ray- ville, La.; Earl Parsons, Jr^, Bryan. THIRD ROW—Jose Luis de la Mora, Mexico* City; J. Miguel Gutierrez, Calexico; Carlos A. Moreno, Mexicali; Hector Lorenzo Cuaron, Juarez, Chih., Mexico; Enrique A. Briseno, Juarez; Giro Pacheco, Brownsville, Texas; Raul Cavazos, El Cercado, N. L., Mex ico; Roberto Martinez, Torreon; Geo. W. Pfeiffenberger, in charge, USD A Cotton Research Labora tory, College Station; J. B. Bag- ley, professor of Cotton Market ing, A. & M. College; Earl Par sons, instructor in Cotton Class ing A. & M. College. FOURTH ROW — Fernando Sayan, Lima Peru; Rodrigo Ore llana, Quito, Ecuador; Leyva Ortis Mauricio, Torreon; Manuel E. Gon zalez, Juarez; Francisco Arellano, Torreon; Raul Valdez Berlanga, Torreon; John McCleskey, Afton, Texas; J. W. DeLong, Chicopee, (See COTTON, Page 4) Ex Bo ft Editor Says That Ex's Of 44 and45 Run Camp Roberts By John M. Holman, ’44 CAMP ROBERTS, California.— Instead of the Army taking the Aggies, it is beginning to look like the Aggies have taken the Army. At least, the officers and enlisted instructors of the 88th Infantry Training Battalion are beginning to think so. To have the battalion command er say the Texas A. & M. privates are instructing the instructors in stead of the normal way may be a pat on the back for the Aggie military department, but when a dyed-in-the-wool Yankee sergeant is made an honorary 6-year-man so he will have the legal privilege of “bleeding” at the privates— that’s a bullseye at any range for the Spirit of Aggieland. In this heavy weapons training battalion 370 Aggies of the Classes of ’44 and ’45 have converted the old-time Army “rats” into the Aggie way of thinking. A Minne sota farm boy draftee calls for “bullneck” without batting an eye, and a New York army cook says he can’t find enough “cush” to fill even one Texas stomach. One platoon sergeant in Com pany A, 88th, was made an hon orary Aggie 6-year-man so he could get in on a “bleed meeting” being held by former A. & M. Cav alry juniors. The sarge has never seen Texas, and the Yankee “twang” which his voice carries makes him stand out like a water- hole in California when he gets into a bull-session with his Aggie- privates. The battalion commander, vet eran of. Guadalcanal, has threat ened his staff of officer-instructors with a “duration in Camp Roberts” if they didn’t start teaching the Aggies something instead of the Aggies teeaching them. The offi cers complain they are at a dis advantage by having so many previously trained men under them. As one Indian second-lieu tenant put it: “We stay scared stiff. We make the slightest mistake and about 20 Texas Aggies correct you on the spot—regardless of whether the Captain or Colonel is there watching you, with a promotion in mind.” After only one week of train ing, Company C (mostly Infantry juniors) was three weeks ahead of their training schedule in most subjects. Only 200 miles from Hollywood trip” for the first week-end after pay day “just to check up” on “We’ve Never Been Licked”—a movie they all worked in. Thinking they were miles from all touch with civilization, the Roberts trainees had given up hope of see ing WNBL, at least for the pres ent, but a consoling note came from College Station and G. Byron Winstead promising a Camp Rob erts showing of the Wanger film as soos as possible. Temperatures of 120 degrees are common daily items in this mountain beset camp which boasts the world’s largest parade ground. The training is the toughest of all U. S. basic training centers as at tested by Columnist Walter Win- chell when he said a short time ago, “America’s greatest concen tration camp is not filled with Germans and Japs, but honest, straight-forward American sol dier boys. That place is Camp Rob erts, California.” The Aggies agree with him and miss the touch of Texas so neces sary to all Texans, but all are taking Roberts training in their stride and some day, after further training at various Officer Candi date Schools, will join the thou sands of other Aggies fighting for and Universal Studios, one group of Aggies are planning a “corps , freedom all over the world. Yell Leaders To Be From Sophomore Class Only Student Election Committee Decided Eligibility Rules For Offices The Student Elections Committee in a meeting Mon day afternoon decided that for this semester there would be only two yell leaders elected from the Corps. The stu dents elected will be from the sophomore classes, one from the first semester sophomores and one from the second semester sophomores. Each candidate for position of yell leader will present a petition signed by at least fifty students asking to be a candidate for yell leader. These petitions must be in the College Radio Club To Meet At 7:00 Wednesday Night Program Includes A Fifteen Minute Skit Which Will Be Recorded Wednesday night at 7:00 in the WTAW studios on the third floor of the Administration Building, there will be a meeting of the Col lege Radio Club. On the bill will be a fifteen min ute recorded program including a dramatic skit, a short interview between a Bryan girl and an Ag gie, and a five minute novelty act. The program will be recorded and played back for those taking part so that they will know what they sound like on the air. Any group of boys that is inter ested in joinging and singing songs as a trio, quartet, or other wise, is asked to be present. Any one who takes part on any of these programs is eligible for act ual broadcasting. New students interested in this type of work are especially invited to be present at the meeting. It will be over in time for the 8:30 Call to Quarters. New Weapons Are Far Superior To Those In Use Now AKRON, Ohio,—The scope of Anierican industry’s development of new secret weapons is so huge that two years hence arms will only slightly resemble those in use now, the chief of the Ordnance Department’s 10th Technical Divi sion declared. Major Gen. C. M. Barnes of Washington said that more than 1,000 contracts for research and developments of new weapons are in the hands of the nation’s indus try. “If the war lasts two more years, the weapons then in use will only slightly resemble those used at the present time,” he told scientists dedicating a new re search laboratory. “Industry is do ing a magnificent job of creating new devices.” Bazooka’s Power. The bazooka, America’s new rocket gun, already has scores of new military uses. The secret of the bazooka is its two-and-a-half- pound shell, containing and undis closed explosive more powerful than TNT. the explosion blows a (See WEAPON, Page 4) Aggie Completes Flying Training .Student Activities Office by 2 p.m. July 2. On Wednesday, July 7, there will be a meeting of the corps on the lawn in front of Walton in order that the candidates may be pre sented and make their speeches. The election will be held on the following Thursday and the poll will be at the newstand in front of Sbisa. Time of voting will be from 8 to 12 in the morning and 1 to 5 in the afternoon. When a candidate turns in his petition, he should include a pic ture of himself and any other in formation he might want to add. All candidates will be given space in the Battalion for campaign promises and his picture. Qualifications for candidates are as follows. For second semester sophomores: 1. He must be a man that has completed three consecutive semes ters at A. & M. at the time of his candidacy be in his fourth conse cutive semester. 2. He must be a classified soph omore with a grade point average of 1.25. 3. He must be a man who in all probability will graduate with his class not later than June 1945. 4. He must have passed at least three-fifths of a normal semes ter’s work during the semester preceeding his candidacy. First Semester Sophomores: 1. He must have completed two consecutive semesters at A. & M. and be in attendance at this third continuous semester. 2. He must be a classified soph omore with a grade point average of 1.25. 3. He must be a man who in all probability with his class not later than June 1945. 4. He must have passed three fifths of a normal semester’s work during the semester immediately proceeding his candidacy. Everybody is eligible to vote pro viding he brings his receipt with him when he votes. Transferred To Headquarters Effective July 1, W. N. Wil liamson, for four years Johnson County agricultural agent, is be ing transferred to the headquar ters of the Texas A. & M. College Extension Service. His title is Special District Agent and he will assist. with Extension administrative duties, according to G. E. Adams, vice director and state agent. ♦Prior to his work in Johnson County Mr. Williamson was coun ty agricultural agent in Franklin County and assistant agent in Dal las County. A graduate of Sam Houston State Teachers College, Mr. Williamson also holds an M.S. degree in agriculture from Texas A. and M. College. LEMOORE, Calif., June 29.— Aviation Cadet Rudolph L. Kubin, 21, former student of Texas A. & M. College, has successfully com pleted his basic flying training at the Lemoore Army Flying School and now takes his final hurdle at an Army Air Forces Advanced Flying Training School before re ceiving his silver wings. Thus far in his Army Air Force career, Rudolph has had training at Onard Field and Santa Ana which is the headquarters of the West Coast Training Center. James, ’40, Named Officer in MT Bn. MEDICAL REPLACEMENT CENTER, Camp Barkeley, Texas, June 29.—2nd Lt. James W. James, Jr., MAC, who graduated from Texas A. and M. in 1940, has been appointed training officer of the 53rd Medical Training Battalion, according to orders of MRTC head quarters here. Lt. James, a resident of Bryan, has been on duty with Co. D, of the same battalion.