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Call For Track Men Made;
Position On Team Offered
Lil Dimmitt Asks Those With or Without
High School Training to Report for Try
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 10, 1944
VOLUME 43—NUMBER 98
Coach Lil J. Mimmitt todjayf'
issued his annual call for pros
pective track and field events men
to represent Texas A. & M. Col
lege in the various track meets
during the Spring season.
“Any boy who participated in
any event in high school, or those
who did not participate in high
school but want to have a try at
it in college, is welcome and urged
to come out for the team this
year”, Coach Dimmitt said.
“This year is a wonderful op
portunity for every boy to make
the A. & M. track team, and we
are going to participate in several
big meets. We need dash men,
jumpers, hurdlers, distance run
ners and boys who want to enter
the shotput, javelin and discus
throws. High jumpers and pole
vaulters also are needed. There’s
a wonderful opportunity for any
boy with ability and a willingness
to train and take direction to
make the team.
“We are defending champions
this year in track, and I want
every boy in school to have an
opportunity to represent A. & M.
on the track team.”
Coach Dimmitt wants the track
team prospects to meet at the
Athletic office at Kyle Field just
as soon as heir last class is over
Thursday afternoon. At least 100
loyal Aggies are expected to re
port Lr the track team, and the
more the merrier. Coach Dimmitt
says.
P^age Collection
I)ates Are Given
Claude W. Rodgers, assitant city
manager for the City of College
Station, has announced the dates
scheduled for the collection of
garbage and requests that resi
dents of this area please take note
of these days and co-operate with
the city in this new program.
On Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
and Friday mornings the garbage
trucks will collect in the College
Park, West Park and Oakwood
sections. Tuesday afternoon,
Wednesday morning, Friday after
noon and Saturday morning col
lections will be made in College
Hills sections. Wednesday after
noon and Saturday morning col
lections will be made in the North
Gate area, Meadowlane and the
area north of highway No. 6.
Householders and residents of
these areas are asked to aid the
city sanitary department in main
taining this schedule of collection
dates.
Coast College Gets
Addition To Group
Berkeley, Calif. (AGP)—The
University of California is on the
way to having its eighth campus.
Plans are taking shape now for
the incorporation of Santa Bar
bara State College into the Uni
versity of California’s statewide
system.
The incorporation plans are in
accordance with recent action by
the State Legislature and the Uni
versity Board of Regents.
In voting to accept the new
campus, the Regents declared that
it was not proposed to expand the
instruction at Santa Barbara to
the full curriculum offered at
Berkeley or Los Angeles.
“The institution should be pri
marily an undergraduate institu
tion, emphasizing, as it does now,
the industrial arts, home econ
omics, art, music, and teacher
training, but at the same time
giving a substantial general edu
cation,” the Regents resolved.
University officials pointed out,
however, that certain changes
would probably be required to fit
Santa Barbara into the structure
of the statewide institution, and
changes are being considered in
such matters as admission require
ments, faculty organization, de
grees and curricula.
Radio Program To
Enact Scene of
CAP Control Room
Newly-Activated CAP
Forest Patrol Goes
On Duty This Week
A scene from the control room
of a CAP Texas Forest Patrol base
will be re-enacted for the radio by
A. & M. Department of English
instructors next Friday morning
over the Texas Quality Network
at 6:00 a.m., according to Lt. S. L.
Frost, commander of the patrol.
Participating in the program,
which shows how the new Civil Air
Patrol unit coordinates with the
Texas Forest Service, A. & M. Col
lege, on fire prevention and sup
pression, will be J. Q. Hayes,* C. O.
Spriggs and H. L. Kidd. Dick Gott
lieb will be narrator and Ken
Spaulding the announcer. The
script was written,and directed by
Tom Journeay, of the WTAW
staff.
The newly-activated CAP For
est Patrol will go on active duty
this week, following a month’s in
tensive training program for pi
lots, observers and ground person
nel.
In addition to spotting fires
from the air and reporting them
by radio, the unit will droo re
minder messages to farmer^ s _ an
effort to prevent forest fl ^
“Extremely high fire hazards
exist now,” Commander Frost said,
“because of the broken limbs and
tops in the forest caused by the
recent ice damage and we want to
use every possible means to warn
people to be careful with fires.”
“The ‘flying fire fighters’ have
also been trained in directing
ground crews from the air at the
scene of an actual forest fire. An
elaborate system of signals has
been worked out and these will be
used in addition to the two-way
radios of both ground and air
crews.
Members of the Bryan-College
squadron will fly the initial patrols
over the ten million acres of East
Deferments For College Students Scarce
Brazil Poaltryman
Visits Campus To
Study New Methods
Member of Brazilian
Agriculture Arrives
For Two-Week Stay
A member of the staff of the
Brazilian ministry of Agriculture,
Luiz de Rego Cavalcanti de Al
buquerque, is on the A. & M. Col
lege campus for two weeks to
study the latest poultry production,
dressing, and disease control
methods.
Arrangements for Mr. Albuquer
que’s visit in Texas, which is ex
pected to cover a nine-month per
iod, were made by the A. and M.
College Extension Service in co
operation with the federal Exten
sion office and the Institute of
Inter-American Affairs.
Following Mr. Albuquerque's
study here with members of the
poultry faculty and Extension
poultrymen, he will go to the
Luling Foundation Farm for sev
eral weeks work and training. Dur
ing the Houston Livestock Expo
sition and Fat Stock Show Mr.
Albuquerque will confer with a
fellow Brazilian who now is study
ing on a large dairy farm in Jim
Wells County. He, too, was
placed by the Texas Extension
Service.
The Brazilian will conclude his
months of work and study at sev
eral large poultry dressing plants
in the state and with field work
arranged by Extension poultry
husbandmen and county agents.
Mr. Albuquerque is a graduate of
the Escola de Agronomina, Recife,
State of Pernanbuco, Brazil.
Texas timberland and other CAP
pilots and observers will be called
in as needed.
CAP ground crews will also as
sist the personnel of the Texas
Forest Service where needed, serv
ing as radio men and women, tow
er lookout men and other assign
ments, Mr. W. E. White, director
of the Texas Forest Service said.
“Only the churches stood square
ly across the path of Hitler’s cam
paign for suppressing truth.”—
Dr. Albert Einstein.
Assessment Notice
The City of College Station
is now assessing taxes for the
current year. If you have pro
perty in city limits, including
personal and automobile, sub
ject to taxes, please call at city
office^ and render same accord
ing to the law. Unless you do
this you surrender your right
to participate in fixing value.
Claude W. Rodgers
City Tax Collector.
Funds Advanced For
Extension of REA
Co-op Electric Lines
Value of electricity in increas
ing the amount of food produced
and processed on the fai’m is re
vealed in the current expansion of
rural electric cooperatives in Tex
as.
Funds for extending lines and
services have been granted to six
REA co-ops in recent weeks, the
Texas A. and M. College Exten
sion Service has been advised. The
list includes allotments for ex
pansion to rural electric cooper
atives at Navasota, Muenster,
Cleburne, and Livingston.
“Y” War Prisoner
Work Carried Into
Jap Occupied Areas
M. L. Cashion Announces
Extension of Service;
Prisons Are Described
Extension into the Philippine
Islands of the work of War Pris
oners Aid of the Y.M.C.A., a par
ticipating service of the National
War Fund, was announced today
by M. L. Cashion, general secre
tary of the Texas A. & M. Y.M.C.A.
upon receipt of a report from the
organization’s national headquar
ters in New York.
Definite information that the
Philippine Islands have been opened
to Y.M.C.A. representatives in the
Far East was brought to the Unit
ed States by Hugo Cedergren, of
Sweden, Associate Director of the
War Prisoners Aid, who arrived
from Europe last week. The neu
tral War Prisoners Aid delegates
in Japanese-occupied territory are
all Swedish, and it is through
Sweden that news of their activi-
(See WAR, Page 3)
Bolton Gives Lowdown on Draft In
Student Meeting Held at Guion Hall
Dunninger Performs For
Over 2000 Mystic Fans
By Charlie Murray
Performing before an audience
over-running Guion Jlairs seating
capacity of .2000 Joseph Dunnin
ger, nationfily famous mentalist
dud mystified everyone
withes n^Lvelous feats of mind
reading ana slight-of-hand tricks.
He can be hjeard weekly on Sunday
afternoon at 6:30 over station
WJZ of the^ Blue Network.
First on the program 'was a
series of warm-up teasers; a vol
unteer from the audience walked
to the rear of the building, glanc
ed at a card from a supposedly
new deck, and returned to the
stage. Then Dunninger thumbed
through a duplicate deck and held
up a card: four of hearts. Right!
This act started the show with
a bang! Several other card tricks
followed, each mystifying the
audience to a greater extent.
Two more aides were chosen to
assist him in his next act. From
a seemingly empty bag with his
wrists held firmly by the helpers,
Dunninger withdrew a full glass
of water. Again the audience was
spell-bound. -i-f i-k i
Slips of papers were passed FtinYICrS, RcincTlCrS
Speaker To Be At
Guion Hall Feb. 16
Residents of College Station,
the Cadet Corps, Sailors and Mar
ines, and men of the Army Spec
ialized Training Program on the
Campus of A. & M. will be per
mitted to hear Merle Burke speak
ing on “The Oriental Nations as
Contributions to a New World
Order” February 16 on the Stage
of Guion Hall when this author
ity on the Far East is brought to
the campus by the Bryan Rotary
Club through its Institute of In
ternational Understanding. Mr.
Burke will speak at four o’clock
and special guests for that hour
will be the Sailors and Marines
of the Naval Training school, and
again at 7:15 with the Cadet
Corps and the ASTP as special
guests.
Mr. Burke is recognized through
out this nation as an outstand
ing authority on the Orient. He
was born and educated in Illinois
and began traveling in the far
east soon after completing his
formal education. He collaborat
ed with Upton Close, NBC’s ex
pert on Far Eastern affairs, in
writing a text book on world his
tory which is now on the press.
(See SPEAKER Page 3)
Membership in PCC
Increased to 24,000
among the spectators, on which
were written their thoughts at the
time, whether serial numbers, ad
dresses, names, initials, auto
licenses, or birth dates. These
slips were never collected. Seat
ing himself comfortably on the
stage, Dunninger went into a state
of meditation. “Someone in the
crowd is thinking of the letters
P. M. B.”, he said. Imagine Dr.
F. C. Bolton’s surprise, for it was
he who was thinking of “Preston
M. Bolton”! Then the telepathist
related to the audience a birth
date of July 4. Dunninger told
the serial numbers of several ser
vicemen in the crowd, the two
auto licenses of a young lady, and
(See DUNNINGER, Page 2)
Membership of the 36 Texas
Production credit associations has
reached the highest point in their
10-year history. During 1943 the
membership increased to 24,797
farmers and ranchemen, the Texas
A. a ndM. College Extension Ser
vice has been advised by the Pro
duction Credit Corporation of
Houston.
A recent check-up showed that
members now own more than three
million dollars in stock in their
short-term credit cooperatives,
while earned surplus totals were
in excess of two million dollars.
The year just past reflected a 12
per cent gain in membership and
20 per cent increase in locally
owned capital stock.
Philadelphia Opera Company Comes To Town Hall On
February 21 For Next Appearance In Current Series
That grand opera is grand the
atre as well as great music was
the eager belief of two young
Americans a few years ago. David
Hocker, a bank clerk, and Sylvan
Levin, who went from a Baltimore
night club piano to the podium of
the Philadelphia Symphony as Leo
pold Stokowski’s assistant, not
only held this belief. They acted
on it.
Wherefore the Philadelphia Op
era Company, with three astonish
ing years of performance behind it,
is this season making its first tour
under the sponsorship of the vet
eran impresario S. Hurok.
The company which will come to
the Texas A. & M. Town Hall on
Monday, February 21st, is an ag
gregation of young Americans, of
the average age of twenty-seven,
with only one exception native
born, all of them the products of
the great American conservatories
and the excellent quality of Ameri
can musical teaching.
They have proved in three active
seasons that a pretty girl who can
act is not thereby barred from be
ing an admirable soprano, that a
romantic hero who looks romantic
may also be a fine tenor despite
his narrow waistline, and that a
company which demands of itself
at least twenty-five full-cast re-
hearsalts and three to four re
hearsals with full orchestra before
offering a production to the public
can give a well integrated, well
paced, vital performance and inci
dentally can make operatic history,
they have also proved that despite
the moribund state of the major
operatic companies who have been
playing to half-filled houses and
appealing to the public for funds
to keep them alive, the American
people want grand opera and want
it enthusiastically and solvently.
Americans want opera, however,
on their own terms. They want
fresh, well acted, well dressed per
formances instead of shabby ill-re
hearsed ones. They want beauty on
the stage for the eye as well as the
ear. They want opera in a lan
guage they can understand, and at
a price they can pay.
The Messrs. Levin and Hocker
felt strongly that the public had a
case, and the response of both pub
lic and critics have corroborated
them.
“Something momentous is stir
ring. It is time for the country to
take notice,” wrote the New York
Times. The Boston Globe pointed
out: “Boston has just seen a prom
ising ideal in practical operation.
Their ideal of youth, beauty and a
good show is going to make oper
atic history.”
With the emergence of this new
kind of opera in Philadelphia’s de
corous Academy of Music a dwin
dling opera audience was suddenly
augmented by boys and girls from
college and high school, by young
office workers, by thousands who
never before had entered a sym
phony hall or an opera house. They
MODERN MISS—Who sings a
leading role in “Die Fledermaus”
(retitled “The Bat”) by Johann
Strauss will be presented on the
stage of Guion Hall by Town
Hall, February 21.
paid little more than the price of
admission to a neighborhood movie,
and thrilled to great music that
was a first class show besides.
This season they constitute a
solid and reliable audience for the
repertoire of siven operas which
the Philadelphia Opera Company
will offer its home devotees.
Three principles moved -the col
laborative Levin-Hocker brains,
and these principles still guide the
operations of their brain-child: to
show that opera is good theatre,
to win a new and wider opera audi
ence, and to provide the many fine
young American artists with op
portunities in grand opera.
To turn to the show itself, it is
a genuine and enthusiastic collab
oration among the performers, the
stage director and the orchestra.
Stage director and orchestra con
ductor share equal responsibility
and the emphasis is as much on
dramatic as on musical effective
ness.
Thoroughness of rehearsal is an
ironclad rule. The traditional opera
companies, even the greatest
which have borne the banner of
grand opera for generations, nor
mally stage most of the traditional
operas without a single full-cast
rehearsal. A newly imported sing
er often disembarked from a boat
in the morning and stepped onto
the stage as Faust or Siegmund
the same night, uncertain from
which entrance his Marguerite or
Sieglinde would come to greet him
or where and how she would re
ceive his embrace. A rehearsal
with orchestra is almost unheard-
of, except when a new conductor is
given an hour or so to outline to
the players his general conducting
ideas.
Almost the entire membership
of the Philadelphia company is
likely to be found at any given re
hearsal of the Philadelphia Opera,
for the simple reason that the star
system does not exist here. The so
prano who may be singing the
Countess in the Mozart’s “Figaro”
may have a subordinate role in
“The Bat” and an understudy the
leading role in a third work. Even
those who do not have roles in the
opera in rehearsal sit nearby, fol
lowing the score and often mouth
ing the parts being sung, studying
every possible role for which their
voices are suited.
To build his initial audience Gen-
ex-al Manager Hocker toured the
schools and colleges around Phila
delphia with a talk on the company
and illustrated with a few musical
numbers by the singers. How well
the idea appealed to young Ameri
cans was shown by the fact that
two of the six operas presented the
first season were complete sell
outs and the other four drew an
average audience of nearly 3,000.
The third season was more than
half sold out by subscription two
full months before the opening.
Like Hocker and Levin, the per
sonnel of the Philadelphia Opera
Company is average young Ameri
can in background, exceptional in
spirit and enthusiasm. Soloists are
under AGMA contracts and chorus
and orchestra are fully unionized.
And, because all the performers
are devoted enough to learn their
lines and bright enough t oremem-
ber them, the payroll—and the aud
ience—are spared one burdensome
bore heretofore thought indispen
sable to grand opera. The Phila
delphians don’t want, don’t need
and don’t have—a prompter!
Yesterday in various lecture
rooms and in Guion Hall talks were
given by Deans Bolton, Gilchrist,
Kyle, and Marsteller to their re
spective student listeners. Classes
were dismissed at 11:00 Wednes
day morning for the important
talks concerning deferments for
upperclassmen and college regula
tions for freshmen. All students,
however, were given forms on
which to fill out the information
about their draft status.
All the deans stressed the im
portance of filling out the printed
forms, giving them the necessary
information of draft classification
and to be| returned, if the students
have not done so immediately.
Dean Bolton explained in his talk
that during the last few months
more men were needed for the draft
to fill the country’s quota. Now
since the father draft bill has been
passed, the War Manpower Com
mission has decided to take more
college graduates and undergradu
ates rather than married men with
children. Bolton stated that ap
proximately 10,000 college students
would be granted deferments and
these deferments would only be
given on high scholastic grade av
erages. About 16,000 students will
apply for deferments, which means
two-thirds of this number will be
deferred. The present graduating
class is expected to be allowed to
graduate by the War Manpower
Commission, said Bolton.
The eligibility for these draft de
ferments will require a student to
be able to graduate within 24
months of his 18th birthday. Schol
arship will be the determining fac
tor in granting the 10,000 defer
ments, which will be requested for
the student through his local draft
board.
Persons Needed By
Civil Service With
Business Abilitv
Persons with a knowledge of
business and industry will have
an opportunity to serve their gov
ernment in the OPA, WPB, Small
er War Plants Corporation, WMC
and other federal agencies in the
state of Texas, at salaries rang
ing from $2600 to $6500 a year,
plus overtime, College Station,
local civil service secretary said
today posting a new type of civil
service examination announce
ment for top ranking federal ad
ministrative positions.
The general type of positions to
be filled include: statistician,
board operations officer, price
specialist, tire inspector, investi
gator, economist, price analyist,
accountant, chief of office services,
priority and order specialist, in
dustrial analyst, redistribution
analyst, compliance examiner, in
dustrial specialist, contract spec
ialist, training specialist, man
power utilization consultant, place
ment specialist, labor market
analyst, administrative assistant,
training within industry represen
tative, training within industry
specialist and other similar posi
tions.
“Qualifications and duties will
vary with the grade and the posi
tion to which the appointment is
made,” it was stated, emphasizing
that applicants are graded on the
basis of appropriate experience
for the position to which they seek
appointment.
Applications should be filed im
mediately with the director, 10th
civil service region, 210 S. Har
wood St., Dallas, 1, Texas.
All appointments will be made
in conformance with War Man
power Commission regulations.
CREDIT TO FARMERS IN
1943 BY PCC $64,000,000
Credit extended to Texas farm
ers and stockmen through produc
tion credit associations in 1943
amounted to more than sixty-four
million dollars, a gain of about
one million over the previous year.