$
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.
/