The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, November 03, 1944, Image 1

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, November 03, 1944, Image 1

Newspaper Page TextDIAL 4-5444 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION Texas A«M The B SEMI-WEEKLY STUDENT NEWSPAPER TEXAS A. & M. DEEP IN AGGIELAND VOLUME 44 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 3, 1944 NUMBER 41 ARKANSAS NEXT ON AGGIE LIST F. M. Law Resigns As Chief Of Directors Gives Absence of Problems asReason Dough Rollins Establishes Offices In Hart Hall Dry Field Assured For Saturday’s Grid Battle Cashion Recovered From Injuries, Back In Line-up; Last Home Game This Season E. W. Harrison, An A. & M. Graduate Is Now Appointee F. M. Law, chairman of the Board of Directors of Texas A. & M. and member for 28 years, was relived of that position at his own request by Governor Coke Stevenson Tuesday after a confer ence between the two. Edwin W. Harrison, class of ’13, and a farm er from South Bend, Young County, was named to succeed Law. Pressure of personal business and activities connected with war bond sales are understood to have been the reason for Law’s resigna tion. Two years ago Law requested the governor not to reappoint him but consented to serve two more yeards at Stevenson’s insistence. “At that time they had a lot of problems shaping up, said Law Wednesday. “But we no longer have any problems now. They' have the new president and the next extension director and everyone is working together with excellent teamwork. There is no dissension among the board of directors or faculty or former students, and that goes for the three branch colleges too. “The sun is shining brightly and I have never seen the college with finer prospects for the future than now. I felt it was just an ideal time for me to ask for a (See LAW, Page 3) BEAT THE HOGS Committee Adopts New Soil Program Culminating a series of meetings held at the Texas A. & M. College to adopt a program for coordinat ing the efforts of all agencies hav ing to do with the maintenance of soil values, the Texas Committee on Conservation of Soil Resources Tuesday adopted a five-point edu cational campaign and elected Dr. Ide P. Trotter, new director of Ex tension, permanent chairman, and Paul H. Walser, State coordinator, USDA Soil Conservation Service, permanent secretary. The Texas Committee on Con servation of Soil Resources was ap pointed by E. J. Kyle, dean of Ag riculture, and comprises represent atives of State and Federal soil agencies, key personnel of agricul tural branches of the Texas A. & M. College, and individual farmers and. ranchmen. The TCCSR authorized Dr. Trot ter to appoint an executive com mittee of five members. This com mittee was directed to prepare and set in motion a campaign to reach: 1. City and town resident land- owners. 2. Industrial organizations. 3. Community organizations and service clubs. 4. Furnish material for these groups to use in soil conser vation brochures and pro grams. 5. Reach and stimulate interest of farmers and ranchmen. In the call for Tuesday’s meet ing, Dean Kyle warned members of the TCCSR that “the welfare of the State, as well as the nation, depends primarily upon our being able to give better protection to our soils and to increase their pro ductive capacity.” Represented in the meeting were the main soil divisions of Texas by practical farmers, many of whom are members of soil conservation districts set up to carry out pro visions of the State law on soil conservation. Livestock interests were represented by Marsh Lea of Fort Stockton, president of the Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers As sociation, and Claude K. McCan of Victoria, former president of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association. Invites Students To Visit Anytime John W. “Dough” Rollins, new ly appointed director of the newly created Office of Student Affairs, has arrived on the A. & M. cam pus and will establish his offices in Hart Hall. In assuming the duties of the office Rollins requested that all students at A. & M. come by to see him. He added that he stands ready to advise and help any stu dent at any time. Rollins was appointed to the di rectorship of the Office of Student Affairs last summer and the an nouncement of his appointment was made on September 18. He will be the direct representative of the executive office in the administra tion of student affairs and activi ties. Rollins will handle numerous duties that were formerly per formed by other offices as part time or extra activities. When President Gibb Gilchrist announced the appointment last summer he said, “The new director of student affairs will deal closely with stu dents in a civilian capacity, and will act as representative of the president in connection with mili tary discipline and cooperation outside the academic field.” Rollins is well qualified to han dle the position as he has been Connected with the college since 1913 and comes from a family closely associated with A. & M. He has seven brothers who are gradu ates of A. & M. and 12 nephews who have attended. He was com missioned a captain in 1942 and upon receiving the commission was relieved of his duties as man ager of athletics, varsity track coach, and football end coach. Upon graduation from A. & M. in 1917 he was commissioned a captain and took a company of in fantry to France. When discharged after the last war he began coach ing football in 1923 at Wesley Col lege in Greenville. He worked in county agricultural extension work until 1928 when he again returned to Wesley. From 1930 to 1935 he coached at East Texas State Teach ers College and joined Homer Nor ton’s coaching staff at A. & M. in 1935. At the time of his release from the army Rollins held a commis sion as a major. BEAT THE HOGS E. E. Profs Attend Meeting In Houston L. M. Haupt announced that six members of the Electrical Engi neering staff of A. & M. attended the American Institute of Electri cal Engineers meeting in Houston, Thursday, November 2. Those who attended were M. C. Hughes, L. L. Fouraker, H. C. Dil lingham, A. R. Elliott, C. 0. Phelps and himself, Haupt added. The speaker was Samuel G. Hibben of the Westinghouse Lamp Division, and his topic was “Lighting Is Your Business.” BEAT THE HOGS Turner Asks For More Singing Cadets W. M. Turner, director of the Singing Cadets, asked all Aggies interested in singing to come to rehearsals which are held at 4:00 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays and at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Band Room of Dormitory 16. Future plans call for a number of out of town engagements throughout the state. He invites every Aggie who is interested in singing to join the Cadets. Turner declared that no one should hes itate because he feels that his voice is not good enough. He wants the Singing Cadets to be an Organiza tion of which every Aggie can be proud. It’s now or never for the Texas Aggies as far as the Southwest Conference football race is concerned, for Satur day afternoon at 2:30 the Cadets meet the Arkansas Razor- backs in a game which will tell whether or not the Aggies are to stay in the race. Rice Institute, by virtue of their 7-0 win over Texas last Saturday, are now in the favorites seat, and only by winning their four remaining conference games can the Aggies stay in the race. FORMATIONS — Pictured below is the famous Aggie “T” as it was formed here on Kyle Field at the A. & M.-T.C.U. game two weeks ago. At the left is shown the Aggie Band as it marched down the field after the “T” had broken. + Coach Homer Norton said yes terday that covers had been placed over the Field so that a dry turf would be assured for the game Saturday. The Razorbacks will bring a big and fairly well experienced team to Kyle Field Saturday, a team that has won two games, lost two, and tied one. Arkansas holds vic tories over Missouri and Missis sippi, while they have lost to the Norman Navy Air Station and Oklahoma A. & M. The tie game was played with Texas Christian University. Leading the Hog s offense will be Leon Pense, 183 pound quarter back. Pense was selected as an all-conference guard in 1943, but he has been moved to the back- field this year to fully utalize his passing abilities. This game will mark the final home appearance of the Aggies during 1944, the remaining games with.S. M. U-, Texas, and Miami are all to be played on the road. The Cadets will also be seeking their initial conference win of the season, and should they fail, it will be the first itme in many years that A. & M. has failed to win at least one conference vic tory on Kyle Field during a sea son. (See AGGIES, Page 3) BEAT THE HOGS Committee Plans Bond Drive Soon Freshmen Dance In Sbisa Tonight; Aggie-Navy Dance Saturday Night WTAW To Present Spanish Lessons Radio Station WTAW will pre sent a series of radio Spanish les sons beginning Monday morning at 7:15. The lessons will also be broadcast on Wednesday and Fri day mornings. The program forms will be dramatized with a man-in-the- street conversation and his Span ish speaking friends. The Spanish ^lessons will be in conversational style rather than classical. These programs are produced by Time and Life magazines and are designed so that a beginning can learn Spanish in three weeks. They are further designed so that if one lesson is mixed there is no diffi culty in taking up the lesson on the next broadcast. WTAW has booklets that are used in conjunction with the pro gram which are available for 50 cents each. They may be had by enclosing 50with a request to Radio Station WTAW. BEAT THE HOGS College Station To Vote At High School National election day arrives next Tuesday, November 7. The voting place for College Station will be in the Music Room of the Consolidated School Building. The polls will be open from 8:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. Aggieland Orchestra To Play for Dances Tonight the Class of ’48 will present its Freshman Ball in the main dining hall of Sbisa from 9 p.m. until 1 a.m. Regulation uni form will be the usual khaki num ber two uniform, not O. D. wools. Admission will be $1.50, either with or without dates. Seniors will be required to pay only the regu lar tax of 25«f. Exes now in the service are cordially invited, said R. E. Lane, class president. Dates are being housed in Dor mitories 5 and 7 of the Duncan Hall area. They will be expected to leave sometime Sunday morn ing. Music will be furnished by the Aggieland Orchestra under the di rection of W. M. Turner. Natalie Lane will handle the vocal num bers. Tomorrow night beginning at 9 p.m. there will be an all-service dance held in honor of Navy men stationed on the campus. Admis sion for the Aggie-Navy dance will be $1.20. Other freshman officers are: R. E. Lane, president; John Macs, vice-president; Harry Hopkins, sec retary; and Richard Dennings, treasurer. Committees for the ball are headed by E. R. Baugh and Raymond Hennig, finance and dec orations chairmen respectively. A. & M. Professor Heads Committee to Study Agriculture Postwar Economic Recommendations Will Be Main Duty After a full day’s discussion of the major problems confronting Texas agriculture, V. C. Marshall, administrative officer for the Tex as State Soil Conservation Board, appointed a seven-man committee to study recommendations made by members of the agricultural com mittee of the Texas Postwar Eco nomic Planning Commission and to formulate an agricultural pro gram for the State in the postwar period. Heading this committee will be E. R. Alexander, head of the De partment of Agricultural Educa tion of Texas A. & M. College, and its other members will be Roy H. (See A. & M., Page 3) BEAT THE HOGS Marlin Pastor to Speak to Freshmen Reverend H. B. Streater, pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Mar lin, Texas will speak at the Fresh men Assembly, 11:00 a.m., Satur day, November 4, according to G. R. Wilcox, director of the Student Personel Office. The Y. M. C. A. will have charge of the program and invites all those interested to attend. Wilcox urges all Freshmen to assemble without delay. Mayo to Succeed Summey As English Department Head Dr. George Summey, Jr., since 1922 professor and head of the Department of English of the Tex as A. & M. College, has been re lieved of administrative responsi bilities of the Department at his own request and will occupy his time wholly with teaching as pro fessor of English, being succeeded immediately as head of the De partment by Dr. T. F. Mayo, now professor of English and College Librarian, Dr. T. D. Brooks, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, has announced. Dr. Summey’s request for this change has been presented orally several times, Dean Brooks said, and added, “I have valued Dr. Summey’s services in his present capacity so highly that I have been slow to grant his request and have more than once asked him to defer it. It seems unfair to delay longer.” A native of Covington, Ky., Dr. Summey received his B.A. and M.A. degrees at Southwestern Presbyterian University, and his Ph.D. in English from Columbia. He did postgraduate work at the University of Leipzig and at the University of Wisconsin. His teach ing assignments embraced South western Presbyterian University, North Carolina College of Agri culture, Alabama Polytechnic In stitute, Columbia and the Texas A. & M. College. Dr. T. F. Mayo came to the Texas A. & M. College in 1916 as (See MAYO, Page 4) Plans were made Wednesday night by 11 members of the corps working with W. L. Penberthy, head of the physical education de partment, to begin a war bond and stamp buying campaign among the student body. The drive at A. & M. is a part of a nationwide plan to encourage college students to invest in gov ernment war securities. Colleges with adequate participation will be privileged to fly a “College At War” flag as long as they maintain a record of 90 per cent of the stu dent body buying war bonds or stamps. A finance committee will be ap pointed in each company to handle the details of collection and ad ministration. Although each organ ization will be responsible for working out its own method of participatiotn the committe rec ommends that the students buy their stamps and report to the fi nance officer between the first and tenth of each month as to the amount purchased. , To be eligible to fly the “Col leges At War” flag A. & M. will (See COMMITTEE, Page 4) BEAT THE HOGS President Gilchrist Returns From Fast Southeast Texas Trip President Gibb Gilchrist left early Thursday morning for Beau mont and Port Arthur where he will make a series of addresses. Yesterday noon he spoke to a group at a luncheon and last night he addressed the Beaumont A. & M. Club. From Beaumont he went to Port Arthur where he spoke to Lions Club at their weekly luncheon meeting. Gilchrist will return to the A. & M. College late tonight.

Texas A&M Newspaper Collection

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, November 03, 1944, Image 1

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