VOLUME 44
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 4, 1944
NUMBER 18
Dorms 14 and 15 Will Be Available
For Regimental Ball Dates August 11
Ernie Fields and his all Negro
orchestra will play for the first
Regimental Ball to be held Fri
day, August 11, from 9 to 12
p.m. He will also play for the All-
Service dance the following even-
{ » ing, August 12.
Fields formed his orchestra less
than a year ago. But he has risen
rapidly and has been acclaimed
the “Crown Prince of Swing by
all who have heard the hot licks
and sweet swing dispensed by the
orchestra. The band has played in
thirty five states in less than a
year, since its inception. It has
also been featured on many Coast-
to-Coast networks of the three
major radio chains and made many
recordings fpr a popular record
ing company. t
Fields himself is quite a talent
ed musician. He can play any in
strument in his band. He frequent
ly picks up the nearest one and
(See DORMS, Page 3)
Neuman Club to Have
Watermelon Party
The Aggie Neuman Club will en
tertain girls from Bryan Saturday
night, wtih a hayride and water
melon feast. The group will meet
at the College Depot at 7:30 p.m.
from which point they will ride
in a wagon to Hensel Park, where
the watermelons will be served,
said Howard Palms, president of
the club.
Palms expects a large number
girls out from Bryan and urges
all Catholic Aggies to attend.
Houston Symphony
Plays Here Aug. 17
The program to be played by
the Houston Summer Symphony at
Kyle Field on the campus of A. &
M. Thursday, August 17th, will be
one of such variety that every type
of musical taste should be satis
fied.
The styles represented will run
the gamut from Haydn and Brahms
to Guion and Sousa. Excerpts from
two symphonies, a rhapsody, a
waltz, and a number of novelties
to a Sousa march will be included.
Conductor Hoffmann always
carefully selects any program he
is to conduct at A. & M. as Aggie-
land’s audiences are among the
most responsive on the orchestra’s
itinerary.
Divided into two sections, the
first half will open with one of
John Philip Sousa’s best marches,
“King Cotton,” followed by the
most popular set of waltzes ever
written, Strauss’s “Blue Danube.”
Rossini is best known as the
composer of the overture “William
Tell,” but his “Semiramide” over
ture, to be played on this concert,
is one of his best. It contains the
first quartette for French horns
ever included in an operatic over
ture.
David Guion, beloved Texas com
poser, will be represented by two
numbers: “The Harmonica Player”
(See SYMPHONY, Page 8)
VA Teachers
End Meeting
On Campus
Around 50 vocational agricul
ture teachers in the 17 counties
comprising the local VA area and
staff members of the State VA
set-up registered here Monday for
a two-day conference on vocation
al agriculture problems and to map
their program for the coming
school year, L. V. Halbrooks, A.
& M. supervisor of vocational agri
culture, announced.
This meeting is one of ten con
ferences to be held throughout the
State in the next two weeks on vo
cational agriculture plans and pro
cedure. Represented at the local
conference today are teachers from
the counties of Brazos* Harris, Bra
zoria, Matagorda, Fort Bend, Aus
tin, Washington, Leon, Burleson,
Wharton, Anderson, Freestone,
Robertson, Houston, Grimes, Wal
ler and Colorado, which comprise
Area 3 of the State’s vocational
agriculture divisions.
Opening the meeting Monday
morning, Halbrooks read an ad
dress which was to have been de
livered by D. M. Clements, direc
tor of agricultural education in
the Southern Region of the coun
try, who was unable to be present.
(See TEACHERS, Page 8)
Draft Stock, Saddle Stock In
Horsebarn, Home of Champs
If the question were asked how
many Aggies had visited the horse
barn, one would find that more
than fifty percent of the Aggies
had never seen or heard of it.
Formerly located where the Ad
ministration building now stands,
the horse bam now stands just
behind the Animal Husbandry
building. From this bam has
come some of the nation’s widely
known showhorses.
The horse barn is well repre
sented by the American Saddle
Horse, Suffolk, Thoroughbreds,
Golden Plume, Kinganudo, and
Flowerdale Juror.
Night Alarm is an American
Saddle Horse. He olds the title
of being undefeated in every show
that he entered.
Golden Plume, a sorrel with a
beautiful blaze face, is the most
prized of all the horses. He shows
great ability as a show horse and
as a sire. Already he has won
che' eye of many judges all over
the country.
Kinganudo is one of the college’s
famous quarter horses. He is from
the famous King Ranch herd. He |
Commandant Lists
Sr. Court Rules
Since 1942, the corps of the col
lege has had no action concerning
the discipline of the students
through their own methods. This
ended with the disbandment of the
Senior Court. During this semes
ter the Court has been reincarnat
ed within the corps* with the ap
proval of the college authorities.
Presiding over the Court of six
organization commanders, will be
the Corps Commander, or the
Corps Executive, or one of the
Regimental Commanders. The ros
ter from which the members of
the Court will be obtained, is kept
by the Corps Commander who is
responsible for the meeting of the
Court.
Town Hall Program For Next Season
Is Announced By Activities Office
FEES PAYABLE NOW
Third installment of mainten
ance fees of $49.80 due August
1-10 inclusive can be paid now.
These fees include board
$38.70, room $7.70 and laundry
$3.40 to September 22, 1944.
The Cashier of the Fiscal De
partment will accept these fees
from 8 a.m. until 1:30 p.m.
Brazos Co. Exes
To Meet Monday
President Gibb Gilchrist will be
the principal speaker at the water
melon supper to be given by the
Brazos County A. & M. Club at
the Bryan Country Club at 8:00
p.m. Monday, August 7, Fred Hale,
club secretary, has announced. All
former students of the Texas A.
& M. College in this section are
invited to attend.
This will be the first meeting
of the Brazos County A. & M.
Club for the current fiscal year,
Hale said.
Other officers of the club are:
J. E. (Jocko) Roberts, president;
W. R. Carmichael, vice president,
and Sgt. W. N. (Flop) Colson, ser
geant at arms.
National Society
Honors Chem. Prof.
Dr. Paul B. Pearson, Nutrition
ist, Division of Veterinary Science,
has received notice of his election
to membership in The American
Society of Biological Chemists.
Dr. Pearson is a frequent con
tributor to the Scientific Journal
published by the society, reporting
on results of his research work on
the Texas A. & M. Experiment Sta
tion.
New Group of Navy
Men Arrive Friday
■ Announcement was made Thurs
day by the Student Activities Of
fice of the schedule of programs
for the Town Hall season of 1944-
45. The schedule includes nine
features ranging from current
events commentaries to harmonica
playing dancers.
Tickets will go on sale during
registration week in October and
adult season tickets will sell for
$6.00 including federal tax and
student season tickets will cost
$2.50 including federal tax. Prices
will be released on other tickets
at a later date, it was revealed
L. M. Collins, manager of Student
%
Activities. ,
Collins also stated that the pro
gram this year ... ‘is designed
to bring cultured artists to the
campus for the benefit of students
and College Station and Bryan
residents.”
First attraction of the season
will be Footlight Favorites, sing
ers, November 7. Next in the order
of their billing will be: A Cappela
Choir from North Texas State
Teachers College; Robert Casade-
sus* pianist, December 12; H. R.
Knickerbocker, world commenta-
(See TOWN HALL, Page 7)
Over 300 Students
Make Dean’s Team
Deficient students numbered
about 330 for the half semester
ended July 31, according to the
list just completed by the Regis
trar’s Ofice and sent to Deans and
Heads of Departments. This figure
represents more than a sixty per
cent increase over last semester’s
mid-term deficiency list; this
figure is partly acounted for by
the slightly greater enrollment this
semester. Also of significance was
the number of freshmen “making
the team”. About seventy seven
per cent of these listed as defi
cient were members of the fresh
man class. Only a small number
of sophomores were listed, and
scattered few juniors and seniors;
this ratio was, of course, somewhat
by the differences in
More than one hundred addition
al naval trainees are scheduled to ! influenced
arrive at the naval training unit | actual class size,
located on the campus of A. & M. Deficient students suffer loss
Friday, August 4th. | of pass privilege and other campus
These men are sent here for! rights until removed from scho-
training in elementary radio school- lastic probation.
Informal sessions of the Court ing and other phases connected | General opinion has it that the
will be called together upon the ; with electrical equipment. Classes j unprecedented size of the deficiency
Quatrer Horses, and many other
well known breeds. I was donated to the college several I call of the president to hear in- I will last for approximately five I list may be attributed to the heat,
For some of the barn’s out- ! years ago. j formally, the cases of students be- months with the majority of them ; to the age of most of the fresh
standing horses are Night Alarm, (See DRAFT STOCK, Page 8) (See COMMANDANT, Page 2) in Bolton and Goodwin halls. men, and to the general unrest.