THE BATTALION
“ VOLUME 44
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 27, 1944
NUMBER 7
A. & M. Host To Extension Service Agents
Three Day Conference To Be War-Time
First Corps Ball Sot For July 7 Refresher Course For County Agents
Friday Dance For
Aggie Corps Only
* Announcement was made Tues
day morning, June 26, by the Stu
dent Activities Committee that
plans have been made and ar
rangements are underway for a
corps ball on Friday night, July 7,
and for an all-service dance Sat-
jjrday night, July 8th. ,
Music for the two dances will
-probably by furnished by Sgt.
Hank Hoffman’s band from Elling
ton Field is was announced by the
Student Activities Committee but
"'in. the event that this band will
not be available some other band
of like calibre will be engaged to
~ playe for the two dances.
- Tickets for the corps ball to
which .only Aggies are eligible will
cost $1.50 including tax. Tickets
' for the all-service dance to which
" all Aggies and servicemen station
ed on the campus are invited will
,cost $1.20 including tax. The price
(See CORPS, Page 5)
# Equalization Board
-Has Completed Work
The City of College Station
board of equalization has complet
ed its work for the current year,
according to announcement made
today by city officials and has
equalized and adjusted taxation.
The board will meet in public
hearing Monday, July 3 for the
purpose of hearing claims in re
gard to taxation. The public is
urged to take notice of this meet
ing and to present their claims be
fore the board on that date.
By Eli Barker
Among the approximately 900
freshmen who just entered A. & M.
are to be found many varying per
sonalities and interests, but Fish
Joe D. Crawford with his hobby
of hypnotism seems to be the talk"
of the campus at the present. He
hails from Rolling Fork, Mississip
pi, and is here to study Veterinary
Medicine after spending a year at
Mississippi State College where he
Batt Costs $1.50
Battalion subscriptions may
* be paid to the Student Activities
office in room 3 of the Admin
istration Building. The subscrip
tion price is $1.50 for the rest
of the summer semester.
Dean Kyle Member
Of Latin American
Studies Commtitee
Dean E. J. Kyle of the Texas A.
& M. Colege School of Agriculture
has been made a member of the
Joint Committee on Latin Ameri
can Studies, Washington, D. C., for
a four-year term, ending June 30,
1948.
Selection of Dean Kyle was by
the Conference Board of the As
sociated Research Councils. These
include the National Research
Council, American Council of
Learned Societies and the Social
Science Research Council. Lewis
Hanke of the Library of Congress
is chairman of the Joint Commit
tee on Latin American Studies and
other members in additions to Dean
Kyle are J. G. Beebe-Center, Tufts
College; Earl J. Hamilton, Duke
University; Rene d’Harnoncourt,
(See DEAN KYLE, Page 5)
City Budget Hearing
Set For June 29; 7:30
Elsewhere in this issue of The
Battalion appears the budget for
the City of College Station for the
coming fiscal year. A budget hear
ing on these items will be held on
June 29th at 7:30 at the city of
fices in the Casey-Burgess build
ing in the southgate business area.
This meeting is open to the pub
lic and all who are interested are
urged to attend.
took his pre-Vet courses.
Having been interested in hyp
notism for quite some time, Fish
Crawford first tried his powers
out on a friend last October. At
that time he used a coin for his
subject to gaze at but has lately
dispensed with even this formality.
This first experiment of his was a
success, and this is quite remark
able considering the fact that he
has never had any formal instruc
tion of any sort. In fact, his only
experience or background to this
hobby was watching and talking
to a fellow student who had sev
eral books on hypnotism and men
tal telepathy.
Then in the early part of this
year came his chance to observe
(See FRESHMAN, Page 5)
Pass Not Required
For Corps Holiday
In a memorandum issued June
26 to all tactical officers instruc
tions were outlined regarding the
holiday of July 1, which was an
nounced by the Executive Com
mittee recently.
Students will not be required
to turn in passes for the weekend
but it was stated that each stu
dent leaving must sign out in the
orderly room of their respective
organizations. This procedure, it
was pointed out, will suffice for the
pass that is noramlly issued to
cadets leaving the campus. Harry
Boyer in a statement Tuesday
morning said that the dormitories
would not be closed during the
holidays and that those students
remaining on the campus over
Saturday and Sunday would not
be required to move to another
dormitory as lias been the practice
in some instances. Those students
staying on the campus will con
tinue to live in their regularly as
signed rooms.
The July 1st holiday will begin
officially after a students last
class of Friday and will extend
until Reveille Monday morning,
July 3, 1944. Saturday was chosen
as the day for the holiday osten
sibly to relieve the transportation
shortage that is expected to exist
over the Independence Day holi
day.
A.&M. Is Host To
T.S.A. Conference
City school superintendents
from a good cross-section of Texas
are attending the 9th annual Tex
as School Administration Confer
ence which opened its four-day
meeting here yesterday with an ad
dress of welcome by President Gibb
Gilchrist. T. D. Brooks, dean of
the School of Arts and Sciences, is
executive secretary of the confer
ence.
Monday’s program featured the
effect of the war on the school
program and panel type dicussions
took up some of the problems
which will face the school systems
in the postwar period.
Curtis Morris, of the East Texas
Chamber of Commerce, will lead
a discussion tonight at 7:30 on
what our schools can contribute to
postwar planning.
President Gilchrist asked the
Texas School Administration Con
ference to suggest an outstanding
(See A. & M., Page 2)
Freshman Footballer Is
.Hypnotist In Spare Time
The aristocracy of service is coming into its own, said
the Rev. W. R. Willis, pastor of the First Methodist Church
of Bryan, in addressing county Extension agents from 254
Texas counties and the headquarters staff members of the
f A. and M. College Extension Serv
ice. The occasion was the opening
session of a three days conference
of Extension Service workers from
over the state. After the joint
morning session the group divid
ed and county agricultural agents
and county home demonstration
agents will devote the succeeding
four half-day sessions to demon
strations, or refresher courses, on
basic Extension work under the
leadership of headquarters spec
ialists. The conference will close
Wednesday afternon when Pres
ident Gibb Gilchrist of A. and
M. College is expected to address
the agents.
Mr. Willis, who also pronounced
the invocation, was introduced by
James D. Prewit, acting director
of Extension after a short period
of group singing led by L. L.
Johnson, state boys’ club agent.
Mr. Willis drew an analogy be
tween the organization of the
church and the Extension Serv
ice. Leadership no longer is con
fined to titles, he said. Laymen are
being called to do the work and
Extension workers are the leaders
of a new aristocracy of service.
The religion of Jesus was one of
service because he spent more
time with his fellbw men that He
did preaching and teaching. Ex
tension agents constantly are be
ing asked to do ‘‘something else,”
and this service to others brings
the joy of a job well done. “What
(See EXTENSION, Page 4')
Red Cross Workers
Needed In College
Station and Bryan
With 11,668 surgical dressings
completed last week, women of
Brazos County volunteering at the
Red Cross chapters in College Sta
tion and Bryan believe they will be
be able to fill the surgical dress
ing quota assigned this county by
the War Department through the
Red Cross, if the number of work
ers in the remaining five weeks
holds up.
Despite the heat wave that has
gripped the country, 326 women
registered last week in the two
chapters. This was an increase of
27 over the number reporting the
preceding week. The heat wave,
however, has been a pertinent sub
ject as several have remarked that
it is no hotter here than it is
where these dressings will be used
on wounded American boys.
This work started very slowly,
only 123 women reporting the first
week in June, and turning out 4,243
completed dressings. Then the
great need for these dressings was
impressed upon the women of Braz
os county, plus a plain statement
from Red Cross headquarters that
unless the June-July quota of 52,-
(See RED CROSS, Page 2)
McElroy Describes Six Foot Jap
Soldiers In Tarawa Fighting
H. B. (Mr. Mac) McElroy, for
mer assistant director of publicity
at Texas A&M College, but now
Henry M. McElroy, CM2c, of the
United States Naval Construction
Battalions, the Seabees, gave the
sophomores a word picture of what
those fighting construction men
did on the Tarawa atoll where he
participated in the invasion and
building of the air strip and other
facilities on the island where he
was stationed. He talked to the
group during the Tuesday drill
period.
McElroy described the heroic
work done by the United States
Marines who headed the invasion
and secured the less than one
square mile island in 75 hours after
the Japanese War Lords had de
clared, according to a captured Jap
captain, that “It will take the
United States one year to take
Tarawa and will cost them one
million Marines to do it.” The offi
cial count of casualties announced
by the Navy Department after the
battle showed that slightly over
1,000 Marines had been killed and
another approximate 2500 had been
(See McELROY, Page 7)
Fees Can Be Paid
Now At Fiscal Dept.
Second installment of Main
tenance fees of $37.00, due July
4-9, 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.