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VOLUME 44
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 25, 1944
NUMBER 24
Two-Year
Air Course
Is Instituted
A two-year course in Aviation
Operations Management, establish
ed at the request of industry, will
be launched at Texas A. & M. Col
lege in September to train airport
and fixed base operations manag
ers, according to Dr. Howard W.
Barlow, acting dean of engineering.
The course will consist of three
terms each year for a two-year
period and qualifies under terms
of the G. I. Bill making returning
war veterans eligible for the gov-
vernment benefits if they desire
to • take the course, Dr. Barlow
said.
Training in aircraft and air
craft mechanics sufficient to pre-
(See AIRCRAFT, Page 4)
Museum Curator
Completes Trip
Having completed a six-weeks
geology field trip, C. J. Hesse,
Curator of the A. & M. Museum,
has returned to the campus. The
trip was a joint project of the
Yellowstone Big Horn Research
Co^roration and Princeton Univer
sity, the latter institution offering
this as the summer field course of
the Princeton Geology Department.
In charge of the course was Dr.
W. T. Thom, promessor of Geo
logical Engineering at Princeton,
with Hesse assisting in the teach
ing. Nine students, four from Tex
as schools and five from Prince
ton, took the course. Of these, the
four from Texas were undergrad
uates while the other five were ad
vanced.
^The field trip was conducted in
the states of Montana and Wyo
ming, beginning at Casper, Wyo
ming, at the location of the Salt
(See MUSEUM, Page 4)
President Makes
Trip To Austin
President Gibb Gilchrist left
Thursday morning shortly before
noon for - undisclosed business in
Austin. The President’s Office de
clined to disclose the nature of the
business trip.
Gilchrist will probably return to
A. & M. either Sunday or Monday.
A.&M, Flying Club
To Begin Training
More than 50 students at Texas
A. & M. College have organized the
A. & M. Flying Club to receive
flight instruction in eight Inter
state trainer planes recently ac
quired by the college from the De
fense Plant Corporation. Addison
B. Myatt of Houston is president
of the club and the members will
begin their flight training Septem
ber 1, with Dr. Howard W. Barlow,
acting dean of engineering, as
faculty advisor. Instruction will
be given by the college at Easter-
wood airport.
Parental consent is required for
students to take the flight train
ing, and special insurance is ar
ranged for the student pilots. The
planes which the college obtained
are now being inspected and serv
iced in preparation for use in the
training work, Dean Barlow said.
It is probable that an adult fly
ing club will be organized at Col
lege Station in the near future,
Dean Barlow said, since many
members of the faculty and others
interested in flying have express
ed a desire to learn to fly.
New Singing Cadet
Director Procured
William M. Turner has been
named the new director of the
Singing Cadets by the Student Ac
tivities Office. He will begin work
the first part of September. Tur
ner received his B.S. and M.S.
from North Texas State at Den
ton. For the past eight years he
has been director of band in the
Goose Creek public schools. Tur-
(See CADETS, Page 4)
Regimental Ball To Be Held Tonight
Barlow Receives
Engineering Honor
A gold medallion denoting his
service as 1943 national chairman
of the Society of Aeronautical
Weight Engineers has been receiv
ed by Acting Dean Howard Barlow
of the Texas A. & M. College en
gineering school. The trophy was
received from Edward W. Roberts,
Consolidated-Vultee, Inc., Los
Angeles, the 1944 national chair
man.
Dr. Barlow recently has been
elected first vice chairman of the
Texas Section, Society of Automo
tive Engineers. William E. Lind,
Guiberson Diesel Engine Company,
Dallas, is chairman of the Texas
section.
The Texas group w r as organized
at Texas A. & M. College during
the Aeronautical Industry Plan
ning Conference here in 1942. and
holds the record of being sixth
nationally in growth of member
ship.
Ex-Aggie Dies In
French Invasion
According to C. C. Jones, of
Dalhart, word has been received
by the parents of First Lieutenant
Arthur M. Rider (’42) of his death
In the landing on the French Coast
on June 20th.
Jones, whose son, Lieutenant
William T. Jones, roomed with Lt.
Rider here at college, received the
news from Mrs. Rider, who lives
in Mexico City.
Lt. Rider was in the Cavalry unit
here, and served in the mechanized
forces in the Army until the time
of his death. Lt. Jones is now sta
tioned in India under General Still
well, with the mechanized forces.
Tax Board Will Hear Value
Complaints Monday, Tuesday
The A. & M. Consolidated Inde
pendent School District Tax Equal
ization Board has completed its
review of property for the 1944
tax year and will hold meetings
to hear complaints from taxpayers
on Monday and Tuesday, August
28 and 29 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
at the A. & M. Consolidated High
School building.
Cards have been sent to all tax
payers whose rendered value was
changed. If taxpayers received a
card and have a complaint, they
are asked to appear before the
board on the day stated on the
card and give reasons for the com
plaint. If satisfied, they do not
need to appear.
Former Chem Prof
To Return to A&M
Lt. Col. H. R. Brayton, a former
instructor of inorganic chemistry
at A. & M., has beeii honorably
discharged from the army and will
resume his teaching 'at the college
in October.
Col. Brayton entered the service
on Feb. 1, 1941 as a Major and
was sent to the Edgewood Arsenal
as the executive officer of the
chemical warfare school and was
later made director of training in
the chemical warfare service at
the arsenal. He remained at the
arsenal for two years and was then
sent back to the college as Director
of the War Department Civilian
Protection School. He served in
that capacity for nine months when
he went to the Loyola University
of the South at New Orleans, La.
He served as the director of the
same type of school as the one
at A. & M. for a period of seven
months. He was promoted to the
rank of Lt. Col. in March, 1942,
while still at the Edgewood Arse
nal.
Col. Brayton was an instructor
in the chemistry department for
twenty-four years before going in
to the army and has an A. B. and
an M. S. in Chemistry.
Presbyterian League
Has Swimming Party
Thirty-five members of the
Presbyterian League enjoyed a
swimming party at the Bryan
Country Club Pool, Wednesday
night. The group met at the new
“Y” College and went in cars to
the pool. After a swim, the mem
bers of the party were served cokes
and cookies. Mr. and Mrs. Norman
Anderson sponsored the affair.
Fletcher Henderson
Orchestra Will Play
This evening at nine o’lclock
Fletcher Henderson and his orches
tra will play for the Second Regi
mental Ball to be held in Sbisa
Hall. He will also play at the All-
Service Dance which is to be held
the next night at the Grove. The
dance tonight will last until one
o’clock and the one Saturday will
end at twelve.
Henderson has long been famous
as the “King’ of all arrangers.”
This title came to v him when he
twice won the national award for
musical arrangement. He was
Benny Goodman’s arranger for a
number of years, and has com
posed some very popular swing
music.
George Floyd is the male vocal
ist with the Henderson orchestra
and 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 persuaded to take up sing
ing for a profession.
Henderson is not only an ex
cellent band leader, but a college
graduate. He was educated at the
Atlanta University, where he was
graduated with a degree of Bache-
(See DANCE, Page 7)
College Architect
To Resign October 1
Philip G. Norton, A. & M. Col
lege architect, has resigned effec
tive not later than October 1, and
will open Bryan offices at No. 9
Parker building for the private
practice of his profession, it was
announced today.
Norton has served 17 years in
the office of the college architect,
having been employed a year after
(See ARCHITECT, Page 5)
Two Aggie Exes Holding Ranks Of Generals
Fighting In Same Outfit In India-Burma Area
in the last eight months and the move of the 10th was approximate-
A Battalion Feature
Texans Maj. Gen. Howard C.
Davidson, commanding general of
the 10th USAAF Air Force, and
| Brig. Gen. Aubry L. Moore, the
10th’s chief of staff, believe in
riding close hard on their command
and the enemy.
For that reason, headquarters
of the 10th has moved twice with-
nerve center of this vast organiza
tion fighting the Japanese in India
ly 1,000 miles away to Calcutta.
Need of better communications
and Burma, is now at the edge of..with the forces under the pair of
the jungle, in the mud and slush
of a tea plantation only an hour’s
flying time from strong Jap
ground installations.
Originally brought into being in
New Delhi, India, in 1942, the first
Texas star-wearing officers was
the cause. Then came the more re
cent move several hundred miles
north into rain-soaked Assam.
Deserted were the comfortable
(See AGGIES, Page'4)