VOLUME 44
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 1, 1944
NUMBER 26
Aeronautics Department To Build
Wind Tunnel At Easterwood Field
McCann Construction
Co. Sets Lowest Bid
Bids were received yesterday
morning at 10:00 on the new wind
tunnel to be built at the Easter
wood Airport. The McCann Con
struction Company of Fort Worth
set the low bid of $51,293, and the
contract was executed that after
noon by the contractor and Presi
dent Gilchrist, who was acting
for the Board of Directors. The
plans are complete for the first
usable unit of the tunnel which
will enable the college to carry on
much aerodynamic research work
and to do important testing for air
plane manufactures in this vicinity.
It will provide important expan
sion of the instruction work of
the Aeronautical Engineering de
partment. The new tunnel will
have a test chamber seven by ten
feet in cross section permitting
tests on scale models of planes and
full sized sections of planes. It is
the only tunnel of its size between
the eastern part of the United
States and the Pacific coast. For
research and development work it
will serve some 30 manufacturers
of airplanes and airplane engines
who are located closer to College
Station than any other city with a
large wind tunnel.
The construction of the tunnel
is an important milestone in the
Aeronautical Engineering depart
ments history, and is made pos
sible by an appropriation of the
state legislature of $60,000 for
this unit of the tunnel and for the
equipment. Plans have been pre
pared by W. E. Simpson and Co.,
consulting engineers of San An
tonio. Simpson was present at the
letting of the contract.
In the studies that preceded the
preparation of these plans mem
bers of the Aeronautical Engineer
ing Department; Dean Barlow,
R. M. Pinkerton, acting head of
(See AERO, Page 4)
Snapshots Needed
ForLonghorn Pages
According to word from Marc
Smith, editor of the 1945-46 Long
horn, work is progressing rapidly
toward putting out the yearbook.
However, there is a shortage of
men to help work on the project
and a shortage of men with ideas
to put out the yearbook.
There has been trouble in find
ing picture-prints of campus ac
tivities to put in the Longhorn.
Snapshots of any kind, showing
what goes on on the A. & M. cam
pus are requested by the staff. So
for those who have such pictures
or who can take such pictures, do
so and send them in to the Long
horn staff as soon as possible. The
office of the Longhorn staff, Room
3, Administration Building, will be
open every afternoon except Wed
nesday.
Smith has stressed the need of
experienced men to work on the
Longhorn. Men who have had ex
perience in newspaper work, pre
vious annual work, or other such
literary projects, can find a job
in putting out the yearbook. There
is still lots of work to be done, in
fact only the preliminaries have
been started toward the editing.
According to Smith, the Longhorn
will come off the press about the
first or second week of May, 1945.
Plans have thus far been com
pleted. The make-up and content
seem to meet the requirements of
the staff and those who have been
working with it so far. The year
book will be approximately 325
pages, and will be divided into dif
ferent sections of college activi
ties. Some of them are the college
administration, campus views, ath
letics, military- favorites, organi-
(See LONGHORN, Page 4)
Rise Stevens, “Going My Way” Star
To Appear On Town Hall Next Season
One of the best features on the
Town Hall 1944-45 season is the
Metropolitan Opera and film star,
Rise (pronounced Ree-suh) Ste
vens, mezzo-soprano, who comes to
the campus March 3, 1945.
Miss Stevens began her musical
career at ten when she sang on
ope of the early Milton Cross ra
dio programs. At seventeen she
was leading lady with the Opera
Comique at the Hechscher Theatre
in New York.
In 1936, Miss Stevens made her
operatic debut at the Prague Opera
House in the title role of “Mignon.”
Following this, she sang in Vienna,
Cairo, and at the Teatro Colon in
Buenos Aires, South America. She
(See TOWN HALL, Page 3)
Veterinarians Meet Here September 25
Press Club Dinner
Will Be Wed. Night
On Wednesday night, September
6, the Student Activities Office
will sponsor the Press Club ban
quet. The banquet will be held in
the dining room of the Aggieland
Inn at 7 o’clock.
Speakers for the affair will be
announced later in the Batt. A
large number of guests who have
contributed to the publication of
the Batt and who have worked on
the Batt will be present.
Awards will be given to those
who have earned them during the
summer semester. Dick Goad,
president of the Press Club, will
preside over the banquet.
Exes In New Guinea
Hold Board Meeting
It was quite a session on a Com
pany street, in the rain, by lantern
light, somewhere in New Guinea,
when four ex-Aggie Cavalrymen
got together in August. They even
included the remains of their
“Board” when they sent in a re
port. .
Present were Privates Harry
Blankfield, ’44, and Bob Kokernot,
’44, both former members of “C”
Cavalry, First Lieutenant Clark
O. “Lam” Irving, ’45, from “D”
Cavalry, and Lieutenant Don W.
Carlson, ’43, from “A” Cavalry.
Carlson and Irving are teammates
and Blankfield and Kokernot are
in nearby companies.
Irving requests his brother, Jack
“G.I.” Irving, to drop him a letter.
“G.I.” is somewhere in England
in a hospital, having been wounded
in Normandy.
The ex-Cavalrymen in New
Guinea would be happy to hear
from some of their pals, accord
ing to a letter received from them.
Dean R. P. Marsteller, School
of Veterinary Medicine, announced
thisr morning that the thirty-fourth
annual meeting of the State Vet
erinary Medical Association of
Texas will be held at College Sta
tion on September 25 and 26. Ex
aminations will be given for vet
erinarians who wish to become ac
credited for official tuberculin test
ing of cattle.
A well rounded program has
been worked out by President Dr.
William D. Roberts. Activities of
the association will center around
the veterinary hospital and head
quarters for attending veterinari
ans will be the Aggieland Inn.
The State Board of Veterinary
Medical Examiners of Texas will
give the examinations to those de
siring to qualify as official tuber
culin testers of cattle.
Officers of the State Veterinary
Medical Association of Texas who
were elected in January of 1943
include two A. & M. graduates.
They are Dr. William D. Roberts,
president, Wichita Falls, and Dr.
Walter E. Wupperman, Secretary-
Treasurer, Austin. Other officers
are Dr. Charles W. Koberg, first
vice-president, San Angelo, and
Dr. W. M. Smotherman, second
vice-president, Huntsville.
Ex-Aggie Promoted
At Signal School .
John W. Houston, class of ’44,
has been promoted from the rank
of technician, fifth grade, to that
of corporal. He,is an instructor in
Elements of Radio, Radio Division,
Central Signal Corps School.
Houston, 24, is the son of Sump
ter W. Houston, of Lake Village,
Ark. He entered A. & M. in 1940
as an Electrical Engineering stu
dent. He left at the end of his
freshman year to enter the army.
He was in the Arkansas National
Guard for almost two years.
Kyle Field Has Been Scene Of Many
Displays Of Famous Aggie Spirit
San Antonio Club
To Give Dance
Saturday, September 30, in the
Rose Room of the Gunter Hotel,
the San Antonio Club’s Gridiron
Dance will be held. Starting at
11:30 p. m., and lasting until?, the
music of the Aggieland Orchestra
will be heard.
Starting immediately after the
football game in Alamo Stadium,
the dance promises to be the big
social event of the mid-semester
holidays.
“Tickets will be on sale by any
San Antonio Aggie,” said Dick
Smith, President of the club. Smith
also said that, “Any San Antonio
Aggie will help Aggies get dates
for the game and the dance.”
All Aggies and Texas Tech stu
dents and their dates are invited.
The script for the dance will be
$2.00. '
Boy Scouts Will
Collect Paper
Troops 102 and 411, Boy Scouts
and the Cub Scouts of College Sta
tion, will collect paper for the
National Paper Drive in the Col
lege Station area, Saturday morn
ing from 10:00 to 12:00, announced
Dr. L. G’. Jones, chairman of the
paper drive for this immediate
vicinity.
Residents can assist the drive
(See SCOUTS, Page 7)
Dallas Pastor Will
Speak to Freshman
Appearing as the tenth speak
er in this semester’s list of Fresh
man Orientation programs will be
Rev. John Donaho, pastor of the
Oak Lawn Methodist Church, Dal
las, in Guion Hall at 11 o’clock
Saturday morning.
The Rev. Donaho, a graduate
of Southern Methodist University,
is known throughout the Southwest
as a worker among student groups.
He has held pastorates at Calvert,
Houston, Mineola, and for the past
five years has been at the Oak
Lawn church in Dallas.
He is a former college mate of
J. Gordon Gay, secretary at the
College Y. M. C. A., and will a
guest in the Gay home while on
the campus Friday night and Sat
urday.
By Dick Osterholm
Many a battle has been fought
the world over but never like the
battles fought on Kyle Field here
at A. & M. Never has any crowd
anywhere ever witnessed spirit as
! shown by the Aggies when they
! cheer the men who carry the col-
! ors of maroon and white for the
Texas Aggies. Never has tradition
been more sincere and true than
on the field here at Texas A. & M.
“Home of the Texas Aggies,” the
fighting Aggies, is a name well
known in the sports writers’ world.
Hallowed and sacred to every Ag
gie is the soil covering Kyle Field.
Whenever the name of Kyle
Field is spoken, memories of foot-
(See KYLE FIELD, Page 7)