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VOLUME 44 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 18, 1944 NUMBER 22 Publication Of Longhorn To Be Resumed Smith, English To Head Staff; To Yell Practice To Be Held Monday Night Begin Work Immediately On Annual Dean Barlow Will Sponsor Flying Group To Be Trained At Easterwood Andy Jones Leads Corps in First Yell Practice of Semester Andy Jones, head yell leader, announced this morning that the first yell practice of this semester will be held Monday evening im mediately after mess in a place as yet undecided. Two yell practices a week will be held for the remainder of this semester, Jones said, “if at all possible. ,, The number of yell prac tices will be increased if the need arises and when football season opens September 23. Yell leaders that were elected for this year are: A. C. Jones, head yell leader; H. Q. (Breezy) Sibley, senior yell leader. R. H. Seyle and D. L. McGurk were elected junior yell leaders. An announcement yill be made Monday over the speaker system in Duncan Hall giving the exact time and place for the yell prac tice. Six ASTP Men, Once Here, Sent To OCS Among the 26 men who have just graduated from the ASTP san itary engineers unit at the Univer sity of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, are included six who were formerly stationed with the ASTP unit here at A. & M. These six mem who left here the (See A.S.T.P.7 Page 7) By Eli Barker Thursday evening, the Houston Summer Symphony, Ernst Hoff mann, conductor, was presented on Kyle Field for the enjoyment of Aggies, Servicemen, and the local people. This was the second annual appearance of the orchestra here at A. & M., as a very success ful concert was given last summer. Having been an annual feature of the regular winter series of Town Hall for several years, the Houston Symphony has been met with much acclaim at each appear- Henderson’s Band To Play For 2nd Regimental Ball On Friday night, August 25, Fletcher Henderson and his or chestra will play here in Sbisa Hall for the Second Regimental Ball. He will also play at the All- Service Dance which is to be held the next night. Henderson has long been famous as the “King of all arrangers”. This title came to him when he twice won the national award for musical arrangement. Many musi cal experts agree that his arrange ments deserve much of the credit for making Benny Goodman the “King of Swing”. He was Good man’s arranger for a number of years, and has composed some very popular swing music. With Henderson's Band will be George Floyd, a singer who is quite well known in the North. He got his start by singing a vocal at a dance “just for fun”, and at a birthday party given for Duke Ellington. He was so well-liked by those who heard him that he was (See DANCE, Page 7) ance. The summer orchestra, con sisting of some 45 of the select members, is playing its most suc cessful season. Divided into two sections, the first half of the program consisted of many interesting pieces includ ing one of John Phillip Sousa’s best marches, “King* Cotton,” and the famous “Blue Danube” waltzes. Rossini, composer of the “William Tell Ovetrure” had his “Semira- mide” played previous to the pre sentation of two pieces by David (See SYMPHONY, Page 5) Club Officers Will Be Elected Next Tuesday Officers will be elected, flying schedules arranged, and rules set up at a meeting Tuesday night in room 107 of the Academic building of all A. & M. students interested in taking flying lessons, it has been announced by H. W. Barlow, Acting Dean of Engineering, who is sponsoring a flying club. Facilities of the A. & M. owned Easterwood Airfield including In terstate and Taylor Cub training planes will be used by the flying club for training purposes. The purpose of the club is to provide a means whereby students may obtain flying instruction at a minimum cost. At the present time flying time costs $8 an hour, but the formation of a flying club will cut the cost to $5 an hour for mem bers. About 75 men are needed for the formation of the club although Barney Myatt, one of the orga nizers, said that the club could ac commodate about 100 men. Before a student can begin fly ing he must obtain a club member- (See DEAN, Page 5) Dean Kyle Meets With Dept. Heads Dean E. J. Kyle, of the School of Agriculture, held a meeting of the heads of the fifteen depart ments in the Agriculture School yesterday. According to the Dean,* important topics were discussed. A number of new courses were discussed, and it is planned to in stitute them soon. One of these plans was to bring farm boys here and let them spend a major portion of their time working on the dairy, I poultry, horticulture, and animal! husbandry plants. These boys would be learning the practical as well as the teoretical side of agri culture. It was also planned to have a number of farm boys come here to work on the farms in the (See KYLE, Page 4) Applications Must Be Made For Renewal Of Basic “A” Gas Books .The Placement Office has ap plications for renewal of basic “A” books, for the convenience of employees of the College. The in structions in connection with these applications are as follows: “Fill out and attach cover of old “A” book, or if unable to locate it, at tach automobile license receipt to verify ownership of vehicle, which will be returned when new books are processed and mailed back.” Applications must be completed early enough for the Placement Office to be able to turn them to the O. P. A. by September l. New books will be issued by September 22. Seniors Meet With Doak Wed. For Revision of Cadence Seniors will meet with Dr. C. C. Doak, chairman of Sub-Com mittee No. IV of the Post War Plans and Policies Committee, Wednesday night, in Room 32, Sci ence Hall, at 7:30 o’clock, to dis cuss the use and possible revision (See SENIORS, Page 8) By Billy Blankenship Relatively young, the Museum of A. & M. was founded in Sep tember, 1937. It houses the Mark Francis collection of fossil verte- braes, the 0. W. Ball collection of fossil plants, and the S. M. Tracy Herbarium of about fifty thousand recent plants. From time to time various rel ics have been given to the museum by collectors over the country. Some of the museum’s relics can be classified as precious. W’hen entering the museum the first things that catch the observ er’s eye are the wood carvings. Marc Smith, Agricultural Eco nomics major from Fort Worth, and Bob English, Economics major from Dallas, were elected editor and advertising manager respec tively of the Longhorn, A. & M. yearbook, last Tuesday night in a meeting of the Senior class. Smith said that work would be gin immediately on the Longhorn and English said that advertising feelers would be extended in the near future. Work for the first few weeks will consist largely of settling contracts with publishing and engraving companies and photographic studios. Offices of the Longhorn wil be set up in Room 3 of the Administration building in the offices now occu pied by the Battalion. The two pub lications will use the same me chanical equipment in so far as possible. Company commanders are scour ing their companies in search of (ee LONGHORN, Page 5) Watermelon Party Held by AVMA Group Members of the American Vet- erinary Medicine Association Chap ter here were treated to a Water melon party last Wednesday night by the club. The party was held on the lawn of the college hospital. Dean Marsteller and a large number of other Vet Medicine pro fessors and their wives attended. Ed Maddox is president of the club. Chinese and Balinese collections are the most prized items. These carvings are made out of light maple and oak, and some of the carvings have a picturesque ap pearance. Here in the same part of the building can be found beau tiful fur rugs, obtained from ani mals of the far north and all parts of the world. Leaving the entrance of the building and going toward the rear part, the visitor first spies a pe culiar looking mummy case lying in the second room. Under the lid of this case lies the oldest man on (See OLDEST, Page 8) Houston Symphony Is Great Success As They Close Program With Jive Oldest Man On A. & M. Campus Rests In Museum Founded In 1937