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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1944)
$ THE BATTALION VOLUME 44 COLLEGE STATION, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1944 NO. 3 Student Elections To Be Held Wednesday Major Davis Leaves for Staff, Command School To Take Two Month Refresher Course at Leavenworth, Kansas Culminating fourteen years of service at A. & M., twelve as as sistant Commandant, Major Joe E. Davis left the campus on June 5 to report to the Command and General Staff School in Leaven worth, Kansas. An Aggie-Ex of the Class of ’29, Major Davis received his degree in Rural Sociology in 1930. Immedi ately after graduation, he was em ployed by the college as a super visor over the day-students or cas uals, who were living on the cam pus at that time, and he has been in the employ of the college since. During his collegiate years at Ag- gieland, Major Davis was a mem ber of “C” Company Infantry. He was appointed Assistant Commandant in 1933 and held that office at the time of his departure last week. In 1938-39, Major Davis visited several infantry schools and was placed on active duty. He will likely be at the Staff School two months as he is sched uled to take the Army’s short re fresher course while there and from there he will be liable to any orders. While at A. & M., Major Davis served on the disciplinary commit tee and also handled most of the minor cadet offenses. He was a familiar sight around the little gym as he usually managed to spend an hour of each day working out with the weights and bars with other Aggies. During his tenure at A. & M., Major Davis resided with his wife md small son at 244 Lubbock St. & M. Animal Husbandry Major Serving in The Fighting Marine Corps Marine Corporal James L. Owens, 31, of Gordon, Texas, has been promoted to his present rank from private first class. Corporal Owens is in charge of personnel classification for an infantry unit in training at Camp Pendleton, Calif. Corporal Owens, son of Mrs. Lula M. Gibbs, of Gordon, studied agriculture at Texas A. & M., and was Assistant Animal Husband man at the Texas Agricultural Ex periment Sub Station No. 7 at Spur, Texas. He also supervised the beef cattle and swine feeding programs throughout the South Plains area of Texas. He enlisted on July 19, 1943, at Dallas, Texas. Red Cross Needs Medical Dressings With American boys fighting a war of liberation all over the world, and the need for surgical dressings greater than ever before, there is grave danger that the Red Cross surgical dressing chapters in Bryan and College Station will be closed on acount of the general lack of support given these units by the women of the respective communities, according to an an nouncement by a committee com prising the county chairman, Mrs. Betty Howard of College Station, Mrs. R. S. Hopkins, Jr., hairman at College Station, and Mrs. F. H. Wilson, chajrman of the Bryan room. The • Brazos County Red Cross surgical dressing headquarters has received two communications re cently from the midwestern office of the American Red Cross in St. Louis, one calling attention to the multiple increased demands due to the invasion of Northern France and the stepping up of our opera tions in the South Pacific and on the Asiastic mainland. But the second directive is a warning that unless the output of surgical dressings from Brazos county is inreased and assigned (See RED CROSS, Page 6) 4 Placement Office Will Administer Gaber Loan Fund In Summer Months Mrs. J. J. Taubenhaus, adminis trator of the Ernestine Gaber Loan Fund, will be gone on leave of ab sence during the summer, it was announced here last week. During her absence, the fund will be han dled by the Placement Office. This loan fund was established by Leo Gaber of Houston, in mem ory of his mother. It is designed to provide small amounts as tempo rary help to any Aggie in need, it was pointed out. Those who may need such help are asked to call on W. R. Horsley at the Placement Office until further notice. L. D. Boone L. D. Boone Leaves For Naval Training Announcement was made, re cently of the appointment of a new director of Student Activities. L. Millard Collins, former assist ant director, was appointed to the position succeeding L. D. Boone. Boone will report June 15 at Tucson, Arizona, where he will en ter officers training school. He re cently received his commission in the naval reserve and will be acti vated as soon as he finishes his training in Tucson. Boone obtained his B.S. degree in business admin istration from Rice Institute. Prior to his appointment two years ago as manager of student activities he was employed by the Burroughs Adding Machine Company of Hous ton. Replacing Boone will be L. Mil lard Collins who has been assist ant director for the past eighteen months. Collins received his bach elor’s degree in business admin istration from North Texas State Teachers College. For four years previous to his coming to A. & M., Collins was business manager of athletics and student activities at the public high school in Sherman, Texas. He assumed his new duties as director of Student Activities soon after the start of the sum mer semester. Petitions for Class Officers, Yell Leaders Must Be Filed Saturday Noon Meeting Monday afternoon at five o’clock in the Student Activities office, the Student Activity Committee of the faculty and the activity committee of the corps discussed qualifications for class officers and yell leaders together +with plans for student activities Sunkist Vanities Play Free Show In Guion Hall Tonight In what should prove to be one of the most versatile and enter taining shows ever brought to the campus, the Student Activities Committees will present the Sun kist Vanities entertainers on the Guion Hall stage at 7 and 9 o’clock, Tuesday evening. This show, coming directly from sunny California, will offer sever- (See STAGE SHOW, Page 4) June 15 Announced As Visitors Day At Poultry Department June 15 has been designated as ‘‘Visitor’s Day” at the Poultry Short Course now in progress at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, according to an announcement released today by Prof. E. D. Parnell, head of the college poultry department and di rector of the Short Course. Vis itors are expected at the campus on that day to visit the Poultry Department and to see the work that is being carried on in that department. Monday, June 19, will start the third and final week of the Short Course Prof. Parnell stated. The first two weeks of the course were devoted to the care, raising and production of chickens while the last week will take up turkey rais ing. Over 100 broad-breasted turkey enthusiasts are expected to be in attendance during the final week of the course, it was stated. All On Campus Can Benefit From Improved Hitch Hiking Manners In the summer a young man’s I an Aggie to miss his date in “Big fancy turns to . . . Dallas, to' D”, and more than a few sailors Houston, to Fort Worth or to j and marines to lose precious fur- Austin. But changing too are trav- i lough time. More careful obedience el conditions, especially for those to the simple rules of the Aggie of us with light purses who rely [ Hitch-hikers Code will do - much upon the old weekend thumb to get to remedy the situation. This logi ns there. Upstreaming, disorgan- i cal, courtesy-based system has ized corners, and car-rushing are been getting Aggies there “fust making an already discouraging! est with the mostest” since the situation worse, thus forcing many ] earliest Model T bumped north ward past A. & M. In 1941 it took Keyes Carson to New York, across to the Pacific, and back to A. & M. over the week-end. In ’42 it moved our 6,000-man Cadet Corps en mas'se to Dallas for the last S. M. U. Corps trip. It works because it’s common sense. This common sense tells us that we’re better off if we cooperate. (See Hitch Hiking, Page 2) for the summer. The faculty Student Activity committee is composed of G. B. Wilcox, chairman; Ernest Lang ford and L. M. Collins, secretary. The student committee is compos ed of R. L. “Butch” Butchofsky, Dan Hightower, Bill Griffin, Charles Haenisch, and Tom Alley. As a result of the meeting the following rules and regulations governing student elections were formulated: Candidates for senior class offi cers must have the following qual- fifications: (1) The candidate must be a senior who has completed at least five or more semesters; (2) he must have passed at least three fifths of his normal semester’s work, in the semester immediately preceding his candidacy; (3) he must be a senior with a grade point ratio of 1.5; and (4) he must be a man who has made a satisfac tory discipline record. Candidates for junior officers must have the following qualifica tions: (1) The candidate must be a (See ELECTIONS, Page 3) Fish Orientation Classes Held Sat. Plans have been made for week ly freshmen orientation programs to be held every Saturday morn ing at 11:00 in Guion Hall. Fea tured on these program will be talks by outstanding men from various departments. The object of these programs will he to orient new students to college life and to help them with their personal prob lems. The second program in this series will be held this coming Saturday morning in Guion Hall at 11:00 a.m. Speaker of the morning will be E. E. McQuillen, president of the Former Student’s Association. Subject of his talk will be “Cus toms and Traditions of A. & M.” He will distinguish between cus toms and traditions and point out examples of each. He will explain the reasons for them and the freshman’s part in each one. The program for the following weeks will feature talks on varied and interesting subjects designed to aid the freshmen in thoroughly adjusting themselves to college life and to assist them in choosing the course of study they best like. The talks will be on literature, English, mathematics, physical fit ness, and extra curricula activities. /