THE BATTALION
VOLUME 44
COLLEGE STATION, TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1944
NUMBER 5.
Student Election Plans Set For Wednesday
War Bond Show Here Friday
Committee Announces Eligibility
List; Polls Open Eight, Close Five
Movie Stars Will
Be Presented On
Kyle Field Stage
Three Hollywood personalities,
who are touring the state in the
interest of the 5th War Loan, will
appear in Kyle Field on Friday
afternoon at 5 o’clock for a Bond
Rally and outdoor show, accord
ing to an announcement made to
day. The stars, Wild Bill Elliott,
Republic western ace; Adele Mara,
Republic starlet, and Jimmy Wake-
ly, famous radio and screen cow
boy singer, now with Republic, will
head a unit locally which will in
clude several returned war heroes,
and an hour of diversified enter
tainment. This unit of the “Stars
Over Texas” group is one of five
which is touring the state at the
present time in the interest of the
5th War Loan, appearing at rallies
in approximately 200 towns and
cities in Texas.
During the 3rd War Loan, when
the “Stars Over Texas” idea was
inaugurated, for units of stars cov
ered approximately 140 towns, and
sold more than $32,000,000 in War
Bonds. For the present drive, the
War Activities Committee of the
motion picture industry in Texas
expects to sell at least $50,000,000
in bonds during the current drive.
All members of the Aggie Corps,
the servicemen stationed on the
LOVELY—Adele Mara, Republic starlet, whose twinkling brilliance
has been added to the galaxy of the great in the Hollywood firma
ment, will shine in the “Stars Over Texas” War Bond Show to be
presented Friday afternoon at 5 o’clock in Kyle Field.
(See MOVIE STARS, Page 2)
Press Club to Meet In
Y.M.C.A. Wednesday Night
The Press Club will hold its first
meeting of the summer semester
Wednesday night, according to
Calvin Brumley, editor of the Bat
talion. The meeting will begin at
7:15 in the Cabinet Room of the
YMCA building.
The election of officers of the
club and appointment of staff po
sitions will be the main objectives
of the meeting. Plans for activities
for the summer will be discussed.
All club members, new and old,
are urged to attend this important
session.
Tax Payment Due -
To City Fri. June 30
Last half of the split tax pay
ment for the City of College Sta
tion is due by June 30, according
to announcement made this week
by Claude W. Dodgers, collector of
city taxes. After that date a penal
ty and interest will be added to
the tax payment, it was pointed
out.
Those who elected to pay their
taxes in split payments are urged
to make the last half payment be
fore June 30th in order to avoid
the penalty and interest that will
be placed on it after that date.
Freshmen Adapt Themselves To New
Customs; New Fish Awed By “Sully”
Two weeks ago another Fish
class entered A. & M. in much the
same manner as in each year since
the college was founded in 1876.
Immediately spirit picked up, and
Fish Brown, Fish Smith, or Fish
Jones is my name was heard every-
where on the campus. Freshmen
in their new khaki uniforms were
seen in front of Guion Hall, be
hind Sully’s statue, and at every
other inscription as they were
learning the words according to
an old Aggie tradition. It really
made the upperclassmen feel good
and get a good case of the butter
flies.
Figures from * the Registrar’s
Office say that about 50% of the
(See FRESHMEN, Page 2)
Dr. Barlow Leaves
For S.P.E.E. Meet
A group of men including Mr.
Barlow, Mr. Spence, Mr. Street,
Mr. Crawford, and Mr. Faires from
A. & M. will attend a meeting of
the Society for the Promotion of
Engineering Education in Cincin
nati, Ohio, on June 22-24. Mr. Bar-
low is chairman of the Committee
of Aeronautical Engineering Cur
ricula which is a part of the SPEE.
The purpose of this session is to
see what other schools are offer
ing in the way of engineering
courses and exchange various
ideas.
At the conclusion of the meet
ing Mr. Barlow, who is head of
the Aeronautical Engineering De
partment and also acting Dean of
Engineering at the present, will
make a tour of aircraft factories
in Pittsburgh, Dayton, Lafayette,
and Indianapolis before returning
to College on July 2.
Campus Camera Club
To Organize Wednesday
Local camera fans will meet in
room 123 of the Academic build
ing Wednesday night for the or
ganization of a Camera Club for
the summer.
Meeting Monday night, June 19, the Student Elections
Committee considered the eligibility of the men submitted
on petitions for class officers. Those men that were found
eligible for class officers and yell leaders will have their
Fees Can Be Paid
Now At Fiscal Dept.
Second installment of Main
tenance fees of $37.00, due July
1-9, inclusive, can be paid now.
These fees include board
$28.80; room rent $5.70; and
laundry $2.50 to August 10th.
The Cashier of the Fiscal De
partment will accept these fees
from 8 a.m. until 1:30 p.m.
Dean Kyle Returns
From F.C.A. Meet
E. J. Kyle, Dean of x the School
of Agriculture, returned yesterday
from a conference of the Farm
Credit Administration which has
been in progress for the past eight
days in Kansas City, Missouri, na
tional headquarters for this organ
ization.
Dean Kyle, one of the directors
from this district, was called upon
to address the meeting concerning
his plan for post war agriculture.
Copies of this plan, which is the
same one Kyle submitted to Sec
retary of State Cordell Hull re
cently, were distributed to farm
leaders from all over the nation.
Parts of this plan concerning Pan-
American agriculture were com
piled from information which Dean
Kyle gathered on his trip through
the Latin American countries a
few years back.
Directors from each of the
twelve districts which compose the
Farm Credit Administration were
present to discuss plans relating
to the financing of agriculture.
The Farm Credit Administration
(See KYLE on Page 3)
mames placed on a ballot and the
election will be held tomorrow,
Wednesday, in the rotunda of the
Academic Building from 8:00 a.m.
to 12:00 a.m. and from 1:00 p.m.
to 5:00 p.m.
Those men that were found eli
gible for yell leaders and class of
ficers were: Seniors: President,
Tom K. Alley; Vice-President,
William B. Griffin; Secretary-
Treasurer, Sam Law; Social Sec
retary, Oscar Charles Haenisch,
and Calvin Brumley; Senior Yell
Leaders, A. C. Jones and H. Q.
Sibley.
Junior class candidates are:
President, E. A. Baetz, B. B. Wal
lace, and J. B. Kearby; Vice-Presi
dent, John A. Huebner, L. W.
Schuhmann, W. H. Schiefelbein,
and Morris Boone; Secretary-
Treasurer, Jere W. Higgs, and Del
bert Runyon.
Sophomore candidates that were
found eligible are: President, Jack
Lee Ward; Vice-President, Bill
Pratt; Secretary-Treasurer, W. W.
Powell.
Five petitions were submitted for
(See ELECTIONS, Page 7)
New Publication Date
Set For The Battalion
Beginning this Friday the Bat
talion newspaper will be issued on
Tuesday and Friday afternoons
rather than Tuesday’s and Thurs
days as announced previously.
Those men who have been work
ing on the Battalion are requested
by the editor to come down on
Monday and Thursday afternoons
and also any other Aggies who feel
that they have writing or report
ing ability are asked to report to
Room 5 of the Administration
building.
Yell Practice Unifies Corps; “Kyle
Field”, “Farmers Fight”, Shows Aggie
Spirit at Height, Known World Over
Soon aftr the election of yell
leaders this coming Wednesday,
there will be held the first yell
practice of the summer. The time
and place of the practice has not
been announced as of yet.
To the freshmen this will be an
entirely new experience. If they
haven’t already done so, they
should obtain a copy of all the
yells and learn them before the
first yell practice. A copy of the
important yells may be found in
the YMCA Handbook and in a
copy of the old Cadence. It is
important that they know them if
they expect to make this first yell
practice a good one.
The yell practice represents more
than just another campus event. It
is at this type of Corps meeting
where enthusiasm, especially for
our athletic teams, is generated.
The new student often gets his
first sensation of the old Aggie
(See YELL PRACTICE, Page 2)