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VOLUME 44 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 11, 1944 NUMBER 20. Aircraft Mechanics Courses To Begin Here Next Monday First class of the new aircraft' and aircraft engine technical school to be conducted by the Industrial Extension Service of the Texas A. & M. School of Engineering will get under way Monday afternoon Howard %W. Barlow, acting dean, has announced. This technical school, which was organized at the urgent request of the War Manpower Commis sion, is being given in cooperation with the State Board for Voca tional Education and will run forty weeks for full-time students, or eighty weks for half-day regis trants. It is another step in the announced plan of President Gibb Gilchrist for the Texas A. & M. ( Collge, to bridge the wide gap between the semi-skilled worker and the highly trained technical engineer, Dean Barlow said. J. W. Smith, licensed CAA air craft engine mechanic, has been engaged by the Industrial Exten sion Service as instructor in the technical school, Dean Barlow ad- ^ (See AIRCRAFT, Page 4) New Group ASTRP Students Arrive Beginning a new semester on Monday, August 7, students en rolled in the ASTP and the ASTRP took up their new schedules. One- hundred twenty new enrollees re ported for the second phase of this work. The general subject matter is built around a training in en gineering. In the ASTP program 59 men in terms 6 and 7 are continuing their work in EE. Gilchrist Makes A Short Trip To Inks Lake Crippled School Gibb Gilchrist, President of A. & M., left Thursday morning for Inks Lake School located 60 miles north of Austin for a business meeting concerning the adminis tration of this jointly operated school for the benefit of crippled boys and men. T^he school is operat- de by A. & M. and the State De partment of Education. Inks Lake School was the scene of a summer meeting of the Asso ciation of Former Students, Board of Directors July 15 and 16. Gil christ was present at this meet ing also. Equitation Course Progresses Daily Three sections, a total of 90 men, are enrolled in the equitation course which is instructed by Lt. M. H. Beams, every Wednesday and Thursday from four to six, and every Friday from one to three. The men, who come from all the dormitories on the campus, will start their fourth week of instruc tions next week. All riding is under the direct supervision of Lt. Beams at all times. * The men take care of their own horses by way of grooming, sad dling, etc. They are being given (.See EQUITATION, Page 3) Ide Potter Speaks To Pastor's School Recognizing the necessity for rural pastors knowing the prob lems of the people in their com munities, the Methodist Rural Pas- to^ School which opened Tues day at Southwestern University in Georgetown invited Dr. Ide P. Trot ter, head of Texas A. & M/s De partment of Agronomy, to address two groups of registrants each day through Saturday on “The Soils That Support Us In Texas,” For rest D. Kellogg, dean of the pas tors’ school, announced. Also on the instructional staff of the pastprs’ school is / Reverend C. W. Lokey, presiding elder for the Methodist Church in this dis trict. Dean Kellogg was connected with-the Rural Sociology Depart ment of the Texas A. & M. Col lege and now is in the same ca pacity at Southwestern University. Subject of the addresses by Rev. Lokey will be “Rural Church Fi nances.” The Methodist Church has over 50 percent of its pastors in Texas located in rural areas, according to an announcement by Dean Kel logg, and this pastors’ school is said to be the first the Church has held in the State. Its purpose is to give thoughtful consideration and intelligent planning to meet the adjustmental problems of rural society. To be a real leader in a community, the minister must un derstand and appreciate the prob lems of the people with whomvhe is in daily contact, Dean Kellogg said. Plans Call For Revision Of “Cadence” A post war planning committee headed by C. C. Doak, Head of the Department of Biology, has been working on a revision of the “Ca dence,” a book on traditions and customs written by Tom Gillis in 1941 and 1942, and will soon re port to the central committee charged with postwar planning con cerning students, it was learned from Doak Thursday afternoon. To be included in the revised “Cadence” is much of the present material* with the addition of a code which is to be written by some member of the corps with the as sistance of faculty members. Cer tain sections of the book will be omitted such as the calendar and other things that date the book. Ten faculty members have been asked to submit suggestions and also 20 freshmen have been asked to read the “Cadence” and offer suggestions. These reports will be considered next week. Eight committees were estab lished by the Academic Council a few years back under the admin istration of former President T. O. Walton and the first meetings were held October 28, 1942. Included in (See CADENCE. Page 3) Ernie Fields Plays Tonight In Sbisa; In Grove Saturday Supper To Be Held In Bryan Monday A supper for the members of the Battalion newspaper, Guion Hall employees, and members of the Student Activities Committee, will be held Monday,. August 14, at tl^e Oaks, the home of Mrs. Maggie Parker in Bryan. Members of the Batt staff to at tend are: Calvin Brumley, Dick Goad, Alfred Jefferson, J. W. Bell, Robert Gold, S. L*. Inzer, Eli Barker, D. V. Hudson, Jimmy Dempulos, and Dick Osterholm. Guion Hall employees are: Bud dy Foitik, J. R. English, Graham Horsley, L. A. Jistel, G. W. Little, J. C. Palmer, and Jack Roach. Those on the Student Activities Committee are: Robert Butchofsky, Tom Alley, Dan Hightower, Bill Griffin, and Charles Haenisch. The group will meet at the bus stop across from George’s at 7 p.m. Monday. If there aren’t enough cars to take all some will ride the bus. Any person will cooperate if he has his own way. ^ Aggies of the First Regiment and their dates will dance tonight to the sweet and hot rhythm of Ernie Fields and his orchestra at Sbisa Hall. This promises to be one of the best dances of the sea son, if the ticket sales are any indication. Fields and his boys have built up quite a reputation as Tenderers of dance music, and he is sometimes called the “Crown Prince of Swing”. With the band are two vocalists, Estelle Edson and Mel Moore. The price of the dance is $1.50, and the tax is thirty e^nts, making a total of $1.80 for the night’s en tertainment. Men on the Decorating Com mittee for the dance are as fol lows: Ben Cordell, Delbert Runyon, Bob Rosenthal, Sam Marshall, and Guy Moran. These men have spent much time in preparation for the ball, and are to be commended for their work, said L. M. Collins, Student Activities Office head. Saturday night’s All-Service Dance will cost $1.20 for both stags and couples. Fields will also play at this dance. It will be held in the Grove, unless the weather is bad. However, if the temperature is at its usual height, the dancers will be glad to be in the Grove in stead of the mess hall. Aggies In The South Pacific Houston Symphony Organize Ex-Students Club Here Next Thurs. Ernst Hoffman will bring his Houston Symphony Orchestra to the A. & M. Campus Thursday night, August 17. The program I to be presented will be of such : variety that every type of musical j taste should be satisfied. Divided into two sections the j first half will open with one of , John Philip Sousa’s best marches, | “King Cotton,” followed by the fa mous “Blue Danube” waltzes. Ros- l sini, composer of the “William I Tell” overture will have his “Semi- , ramide” overture played at this concert, and it is one of his best. It contains the first quartet for French horns ever included in an operatic overture. David Guion, Texas born composer, will have two of his compositions on the pro gram; “The Harmonica Player” (See SYMPHONY, Page 2) When Texas Aggies are thrown together for a while, they imme diately initiate plans for a club, no matter whether they are home in Texas or somewhere out in the Southseas. Such an occurence took place down in the Southwest Pacific on March 15, Major Marcus H. Mul ler, ’25, of San Antonio, Cept. Jack C. Stringfellow, ’35, of Terrell, and Capt. Henry Hauser, ’41, called the Aggies stationed in that vicini ty together. Eighteen men respond ed to their call. At the second session, on March 29 they planned their traditional Aggie Muster for April 21, San Jacinto Day. Twenty-four Aggies were present for the muster, at which time they elected the follow ing officers for that particular club: Col. M. J. Conway, ’17, of Mission, president; Col. B. A. vice-president; and Major Max D. Lovett, ’35, of San Angelo, secre- tary-treasbrer. At their regular monthly meet ings they usually have a good meal, after which they provide va ried types of entertainment. Re cently at one of these affairs they invited 17 Texas nurses stationed there. It was called an all-Texas night. Everyone was seated around a T-shaped table and souvenirs of the party—menus with illustrations— were passed around for auto graphs. On the back page was a picture of Reveille. Another guest on that evening was Brig. Gen. G. B. Denit, from Virginia, but who told the group present that after the war he was going to live in Texas. “I always feel at home with Texans”, he said. Aggies who were present on this (See AGGIES, Page 6)