THE BATTALION
VOLUME 44 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 4, 1944 NUMBER 9
Aggieland to Play for Corps Ball Be Held on Drill Field Seven o’clock
First Review of Current Semester Will
All Service Dance
In Grove Saturday
Student musicians have organ
ized an Aggieland Orchestra affil
iated with the Student Activities
Office and according to present in
dications will play for the series
of dances this weekend on the
campus it was announced Tuesday
morning by the Student Activities
Office.
According to arrangements made
by the Student Activities Commit
tee the corps dance will be held in
the main dining room of Sbisa Fri
day night and the all service dance
will be held under the trees in the
Grove Saturday night. The dance
Friday night will be semi-formal
but the dance in the Grove will be
informal.
Arrangements are not complete
for dormitory accommodations for
Aggie guests but it is likely that
they will be quartered either in
Dorm 14 or 15 if the college fol
lows its policy of the last few
weeks when guests were on the
campus. Charges are not definite
and will depend largely upon the
number of reservations that are
made b yAggies for their guests.
Tickets were issued Monday
night by the Student Activities
Committee to go on sale at $1.50
for the corps ball to which only
Aggies and their dates are invited
and tickets are also available at
$1.20 for the all service dance Sat
urday night in the Grove to which
all personnel on the campus are
invited.
Application Blanks
Available for AIMME
Application blanks for member
ship in the American Institute of
Mining and Metallurgical Engi
neers are available in room 106 of
the Petroleum building it was an
nounced yesterday by Harold
Vance, Head of the Department
of Petroleum Engineering.
The local chapter is affiliated
with the national institution. Mem
bership in the institute also in
cludes membership in the Petrol
eum Engineering Club. Vance stat
ed that membership fees were basi
cally 50tf per semester for the
club and $2.00 for the complete
membership in the club and In
stitute which -includes a subscrip
tion to Petroleum Technology, the
official publication of the Petro
leum division of the Institute.
This magazine is published six
times yearly.
Brig. Gen. Harbold
To Visit Campns,
Award Certificates
Brig. General M. B. Harbold,
commanding the 80th Flying Train
ing Wing, with headquarters at
the San Marcos Army Air Field,
will arrive at Texas A. & M. Col
lege Wednesday morning to pre
sent the college with a certificate
of service, it was announced to
day by Capt. M. J. Birdwell of
the 2568th Base Unit (College
Training, Aircrew).
General Harbold and his party
will arrive in Bryan Tuesday even
ing and will make the presentation
at an informal ceremony in the of
fices of President Gibb Gilchrist
at 9 a.m. Wednesday.
The certificate of service is be
ing presented the college for the
training done for the Army Air
Corps during the past few months.
General Harbold also will in
spect college premises to be turn
ed back to the college since the
Air Corps training has been term
inated. He will be accompanied by
Capt. Ernest G. Wrage of the A-3
Section, Headquarters Army Air
Forces Central Flying Training
Command, of Randolph Field. The
party will leave Bryan about 5
p.m. Wednesday.
Girl Scout Camp To
Begin Fri. Morning
Registration for the biggest Girl
Scout Day to be held in this area
will get under way Friday morn
ing at 9 o’clock at the Girl Scout
Little House, located halfway be
tween Bryan and College Station,
it has been announced by Mrs. C.
O. Spriggs, chairman in charge of
camping.
All Girl Scouts and Brownies
(See GIRL SCOUTS, Page 8)
As a special attraction Summer
Town Hall will present John Gur
ney, a leading bass-baritone of the
Metropolitan Opera Company. This
show will be given on Kyle Field
at 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 11,
and all Aggies, servicemen, and
the public are invited as there
will be no charge for admission.
Gurney has a very colorful back
ground, and among his many other
Eudaly Rejected As
Extension Director
E. R. “Hico” Eudaly is not ac
ceptable as Texas Extension Di
rector to M. L. Wilson, national ex
tension director, President Gibb
Gilchrist of Texas A. & M. College
was informed today in an airmail
letter from Wilson.
In announcing receipt of the let
ter President Gilchrist said:
“From M. L. Wilson, National
Director of Extension Work in
Washington we have today received
a definite refusal to accept the
nomination of E. R. Eudaly as
Extension Director of Texas.
Eudaly’s name had been submitted
first by the Board of Directors
and later by the President. We con
sider him a very capable man and
believe he would make an efficient
director. However, Mr. Wilson does
not agree and the mutual nature
of the contract between the A. &
M. College of Texas and the De
partment of Agriculture gives the
latter the right of approval or dis
approval.”
Professor Street
Elected Editor
Of Eng. Journal
Professor W. E. Street, head of
the Engineering Drawing Depart
ment, was elected editor of the
Journal of Engineering Drawing
for 1944-45 at the annual meeting
of the Society for the Promotion
of Engineering Education at Cin-
cinatti, Ohio. Street succeeds Pro
fessor R. R. Worsencroft of the
University of Wiisconsin. The
Journal is the official publication
of the Society.
Street has been with the Enginee
ring Department here for the past
three years. He received his bache-
(See PROF., Page 7)
achievements has a real ability for
athletics. As roving center on the
Oberlin College eleven he proved
to be a huge success in helping
his team score the biggest upset of
the 1921 season when his light
team, which was outweighed 25
pounds to the man, defeated the
highly-rated Ohio State University
team. This was not his only sport
(See GURNEY, Page 7)
John Gurney, Bass Baritone
To Appear On Town Hall July 11
Announcement was made early this week by Cadet
Colonel George Strickhausen that there will be a corps re
view Friday evening at 7 o'clock on the field artillery drill
field.
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.
Hughes Is Elected
7th District AIEE
Com. Chairman
Martin C. Hughes, Head of the
Electrical Engineering Depart
ment, was elected Chairman of the
Committee of Student Activities
of the AIEE 7th Southern district
at the AIEE Summer Technical
convention in St. Louis which met
April 26th to the 30th.
Hughes has been at A. & M.
since 1923 and head of the Elec
trical Engineering Department
since 1932. He is counselor of the
AIEE chapter at A. & M. and also
a member of the National Commit
tee on Student Branches for the
AIEE.
A convention of the AIEE 7th
district is scheduled for the school
year 1944-45 at a time and place
not yet decided. In conjunction with
this meeting a student convention
will be held. As chairman Hughes
will have charge of the arrange
ments for this convention. Among
his other duties Hughes will ar
range the program of the sched
uled convention and supervise the
student reports which are present
ed competitively by students for
prizes.
Paul Olschner, a senior student
in Electrical Engineering, accom
panied Hughes to the St. Louis
convention as Student Chairman
of the A. & M. chapter of the
AIEE.
Press Club Meets
Wednesday Night
There will be a meeting of the 3
Press Club in the Cabinet Room
of the YMCA at 7:15 p.m. on Wed
nesday, July 5. All members are
urged to attend as further plans
for the coming semester will be
discussed,” stated Dick Goad.
Present plans call for a forma
tion of the crops in line of regi
ments company mass front. The
Aggie Band will play for the re
view as the corps marches down
the field past the reviewing stand.
Colonel M. D. Welty, Commandant
of the College, will be in the re
viewing stand as the corps passes
in review.
This review will mark the first
review of the semester and the
first review for about one thousand
new freshman. It is not customary
for a review to be held this early
in the semester but student lead
ers were of the opinion that a
review of the corps would do much
to indicate the progress made in
military drill.
A memorandum concerning the
review has been released to cadet
officers indicating the line of
march, the formations and parade
areas. Further orders will origi
nate and be passed down as the
need arises.
The last review of the corps was
held near the end of last semester
when cadet commissions signed by
the president of the college were
presented to cadet officers. Since
that time the corps has been reor
ganized along the lines that were
used in the pre-war period. For
the last few semesters the corps
has been divided into regiments
(See CORPS, Page 7)
Forest Management
Head of Texas Leaves
For Nat’l Conference
Paul W. Schoen, chief of the di
vision of forest management of
the Texas Forest Service, left Sat
urday for Fayetteville, Arkansas
to attend a two weeks regional ed
ucational conservation conference
at the University of Arkansas.
The conference, which is being
sponsored by the General Educa
tion Board of Washington, D. C.,
has as its purpose the development
of a conservation teaching program
for Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma
and Texas. Schoen, who is one of
seven Texans selected to represent
the state, is a member of the ad
visory committee to direct the pol
icy of the conference.
Schoen's previous work in help
ing to outline a forestry teaching
manual for Texas schools with the
state department of education led
to his appointment on the resource
conference committee, W. E. White,
director of the Texas Forest Serv
ice said.