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)