The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, September 15, 1944, Image 1

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, September 15, 1944, Image 1

Newspaper Page TextPlans Made To Better Aggie-Navy Feeling * t <s Campus Victory Day Celebration Planned Entire Community " Will Join Program Senior students have inaugurated a movement to begin a plan for a ceremonial campus program in celebration of armistice in Europe when and if it comes. The Executive Committee of A. & M. has not taken any official stand on the proposed plan but they have indicated that they are generally in favor of a campus celebration. Seniors wil submit a program for approval within the next few days and the general in dications are that it will receive the official stamp of approval. No definite plans are ready for announcement but Dean F. C. Bol ton said this morning that it would be campus wide embracing all ele ments at A. & M. Members of the senior class ac tive on this, proposal have express ed the viewpoint that there may not be a sudden armistice and this is born out by reports from the fighting fronts. They say however, that if there is an armistice A. & M. should be ready with an ap propriate program. Rotary Club Begins Broadcasts On What Area Should Know As a public service, the Bryan Rotary Club is presenting a series of 20 weekly radio broadcasts over Station WTAW on the general subject, “What the Community Should Know,” with the next pro gram scheduled for 6:15 p.m. Wed nesday, C. O. Spriggs, chairman of the radio committee of the Bryan Rotary Club, has announced. The first of these programs was presented Friday by Leon Hayes, principal of Travis Elementary School, with a discussion of the recreational facilities in this sec tion. Time of the weekly broadcast has been changed, Sriggs report ed, and it is hoped to present all future programs at 6:15 p. m. Wednesday of each week. Next Wednesday, W. R. Car michael, principal of Lamar Junior School, will have the subject “Back to School”. This will be followed (See ROTARY, Page 7) Seniors Will Be Charged the Regular Admission to Final Semester Corps Ball Press Club Meets Wednesday Night 7:15 There will be a meeting of the Press Club in Room 118 of dormi tory 3 Wednesday night at 7:15. This will be the last meeting of the semester and Dick Goad, presi dent, has asked that each member of the Battalion and Longhorn staffs be present. The primary purpose of the meeting will be to take inventory of the men who will be available to work on student publications next semester. The basic staff will be organized at this time. Goad has invited all persons who think that they might be interested in journalistic work to report to this meeting for interviews. Annual Vet Meeting Here on Sept. 25-26 Dr. R. P. Marsteller, dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine, an nounced September 13, that the 34th annual meeting of the State Veterinary Medical Association will be held at A. & M., through the days of September 25-26. Reg istration and business meetings will be held in the Veterinary Hos pital and headquarters of the or ganization will be at the Aggie- land Inn. Laboratory, speaking, and enter tainment program for the two-day meeting has been arranged by Dr. Wm. D. Roberts of Wichita Falls, president of the association. This will include the anual banquet to be held in Duncan Hall on the night of September .25. According to Dr. Marsteller, dur ing the meeting, the State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners will conduct examinations for those veterinarians who wish to qualify for official tuberculin testing of cattle. These examinations will be given during the two-day period of the meeting. The meeting is expected to end on September 26. • Seniors will be charged the regu lar admission price of $1.20 for the final corps ball of this semes ter it was decided by the Commit tee on Student Activities and the manager of Student Activities it was announced by that Office this morning. This ruling is to apply to all corps dances and to all service dances. It was also announced that seni ors will be invited to attend four class or organization dances du ring the fall semester with the only charge being the federal tax on all amusement tickets. The committee issued the statement that, “Since it has been the policy in prior years to charge seniors the regular admission price for corps dances it would be imprac tical at this time to set up a new precedent which would necessitate change when the enrollment again reaches its peak after the war.” Student Activities expressed the viewpoint that in order to enable (See SENIORS, Page 2) CQ Restrictions Are Reinforced On Non-Regs Non-reg students living in Wal ton Hall were notified yesterday by the Commandant’s Office tha all students living in the non-re* dormitories would be required t< observe call to quarters. This i; not a new issue of orders but ai old one, issued when the regula C. Q. hours were posted for th< whole corps. The reason for th< sudden enforcement of this ordei has become necessary because non reg students have started abusin* the privilege of it not being en forced, stated the Commandant’! office. Due to the unnecessary dis turbances in the Walton area afte] C. Q., this order will now be en forced. Call to quarters is at 7:30 oi regular weekday nights with th< exception of Wednesday nigh when C. Q. is at 8:45. On Satur day night the call to quarters ii extended to 12:00 and sounded oi Sunday at 8:30. "Five Senior Cadets and Six Sailors Discuss Differences Between Two Groups Football Ticket Sales Going Fast Servicemen Admitted 'Free to First Game; Others at Low Rates Tickets for the Bryan Air Field football game to be played on Kyle Field September 23, and for the games with TCU, North Texas Aggies and Arkansas, all to be played at College Station, went on sale Wednesday and may be secured at the Aggies’ athletic of fice, Pete Jones, business manager of athletics, anounced today. Tickets for the Bryan Air Field game will be $1.20 each including tax, while the tickets for the other three games to be played on Kyle Field will cost $2.50 each, includ ing tax, Jones said. All service men in uniform will be admtited free to the Bryan Field game, and will be admitted to the (See FOOTBALL, Page 2) A&M Prof Elected WFA Chairman E. R. Alexander, head of the Department of Agricultural Edu cation of Texas A. & M. College, was selected as temporary chair man of the State WFA Wage Board at its organization meeting on the campus today. I. H. Lloyd, administration officer of the Agri cultural Administration Agency was chosen secretary. Members of the board were se lected and recommended to Brig. General P. G. Bruton, director of labor under Marvin Jones, admin istrator of the War Food Admin istration, and by Acting Director James D. Prewit, of the A. & M. College Extension Service. The appointments were confirmed at Washington Monday. The members are as follows: B. F. Vance, administrative of ficer in charge, AAA, College Sta tion; J. E. Montgomery, chief co operative marketing division, state Department of Agriculture, Aus tin; E. H. Banks, War Manpower Commission, Austin; E. R. Alexan der, College Station; C. B. Hodges, (See A&M, Page 7) The first move in the betterment of Aggie-Navy relations was made last night when a joint commit tee of five seniors and six sailors met to discuss the possibilities of bringing the two groups closer to gether. It was generally agreed after a two hour session in the Ward Room of Dormitory 12 that the underlying trouble was a lack of understanding between the two groups. The sailors confessed that they knew little of Aggie tradi tions and had made little effort to find out while on the other hand the Aggies were forced to ^dmit the same about sailor con ditions. In conclusion it was agreed among the group that the primary thing to better relations would be to abolish the dividing line be tween the Aggie and Navy areas. This line in question is an arbi trary line separating the Navy dorms from the Aggie dorms and was adopted several months ago when the ASTP was living in the dormitories now occupied by mem bers of the corps. The sailors said (See PLANS, Page 3) Junior Prom Date Set for October 20 The junior class met last night in a called meeting to discuss plans for a junior prom and ban quet next semester. A tentative date, October 20, was selected as the date for the annual junior prom. Opinion was not crystallized con cerning a banquet so that decision was postponed for further discus sion. The junior prom is expected to be held the weekend that the Ag gies play TCU in the first con ference game of the season. This game will be played on Kyle Field. It is customary to follow the jun ior prom with a corps dance and in an ordered sequence of events there will be a corps ball or an all service dance, following the junior prom, after the football game against TCU that Saturday. No announcement has been made concerning the music for the dance. The Office of Student Ac tivities will make- arrangements along this line and announcements will be forthcoming.

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, September 15, 1944, Image 1

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