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DIAL 4-5444
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
Texas A*M
The B
BI-WEEKLY
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
TEXAS A. & M.
DEEP IN AGGIELAND
VOLUME 44
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 8, 1944
NUMBER 50
Aggie Cagers Play First Game Saturday
Christmas
Dance Is
Called Off
Activities Office
Says Impossible
To Get Orchestra
It has been announced by the
Student Activities Office that the
Corps Ball and All-Service Dance
scheduled for the weekend of De
cember 15 will not be held. Sally
B. Dansby, acting head of the of
fice, said that it was impossible to
secure an orchestra for that date.
The Aggieland Orchestra is
scheduled to play in Baytown at
the Humble Oil Company’s conven
tion, and therefore is not available
for the dances. Other orchestras
must be booked as they pass
through this region on the road
from the east to the west coast or
vice yersa, and it has been impos
sible to find one which is not com
pletely booked.
Only one more dance will be held
this semester (not including club
dances) unless plans are changed,
the office said. This will be the
annual Senior Ring Dance. No
Corps Dances or All-Seiwice
Dances are scheduled.
Barlow, Williams
To Confer With
Houston Chamber
In a letter sent out last Tuesday
morning, Dean Howard W. Bar-
low advised the heads of all de
partments of the School of Engi
neering of a conference he will at
tend concerning the possibility of
offering a number of engineering
courses in Houston.
Barlow and E. L. Williams, of
the Department of Industrial Ed
ucation, are to confer with the In
dustry-Education Committee of
the Houston Chamber of Commerce
on December 13th concerning the
establishment of courses in Math
ematics, architecture, engineering,
drawing, industrial education, ac
counting and statistics, graphic
arts, and the various types of en
gineering.
A list of the courses wanted by
the Houston committee was at
tached to the letter and Dean Bar-
low asked for any additions that
members of the faculty would sug
gest. He is to meet with the heads
of the departments in his office
for a discussion of these additions
on December 12th. They are asked,
however, to mail in their sugges
tions in case they cannot attend
the meeting.
These courses, if offered, will
probably be given on a tuition
basis. No announcement has been
made of the probable place of the
offering.
Dr. T. 0. Walton
Is Recommended
For Postmaster
Dr. T. O. Walton
Dr. T. 0. Walton, former presi
dent of A. & M., has been recom
mended for appointment to the po
sition of acting postmaster at Col
lege Station by Representative Lu
ther A. Johnson.
It is expected that his appoint
ment will be made and approved.
If he accepts the appointment, he
will succeed the late Anna V.
Smith, who passed away last week.
Rep. Johnson made the recom
mendation at the insistence of
friends of Dr. Walton, who found
that he was interested in the ap
pointment, which would allow him
to spend all his time with his
friends here. He is now a member
of the Regional War Labor Board,
whose headquarters are in Dallas.
Boy Scouts and Cubs
Collect Paper Again
College Station will have a pa
per collection by the Boy Scouts
of Troop 411, 102 and the Cub
Scouts on Saturday morning from
ten to twelve. The city of College
Station trucks will be assigned to
College Park, South Oakwood, and
College Hills, and will be under the
charge of Dr. H. E. Hampton and
Troop 411. The Civil Engineering
Department trucks will have
charge of the campus and the
North Gate area. P. J. Alwin Zel
ler with the Agricultural Engineer
ing trucks and three selected cum
bers, will have charge of College
Hills and the area in the vicinity
of Mais Grocery. The Civil En
gineering trucks will be under the
supervision of A. C. McGee with
troop 102 and will have charge of
the campus and the North Gate
area.
Residents who desire to assist
the scouts in this paper drive, will
please tie their bundles with string
in two directions and place the
bundle on the curb where it will
be in plain view of the collectors.
Plans for this paper drive were an
nounced by L. G. Jones, Chairman
of Paper Collection.
All Bond Salesmen
To Meet Next Week
With Committee
Penberthy Asks
Student To
Buy More Stamps
W. L. Penberthy has announced
that there will be a meeting of
the committee in charge of the
college War Bond Drive sometime
during the early part of next week
to discuss the problems of the
Bond solicitors.
One man from each company on
the campus who has been selected
as bond chairman for the organi
zation is to be present at the meet
ing, besides the committee which
consists of the battalion command
ers. The time of the meeting is
to be announced either Monday or
Tuesday.
Penberthy, chairman of the
drive, stressed the fact that the
effort to sell more bonds and
stamps to students has a dual pur
pose. Though the main objective
of the drive is the same as that any
where, to speed the victory, Pen
berthy says that here at A. & M.
there is a need for some program
to teach boys to save, and this
drive seems to be just what is
needed.
“If a person is taught early in
life to put away a small amount of
the money he gets each month, he
will probably profit greatly in his
later life from this habit,” Pen
berthy observed. Also, he cited a
number of cases in which men had
saved considerable sums by put
ting away only a few cents at a
time.
He concluded by expressing the
hope that all the Aggies would buy
a few stamps each month and win
the “College-at-War” pennant for
A. & M.
Smith Asks More
Longhorn Photos
Marc Smith, Editor of the Long
horn, has < again issued an urgent
call for snapshots to be used in
the company and Aggieland sec
tions of the yearbook.
To date only four companies
have turned in any pictures for
their company sections, and of
these, only one has turned in the
required number. Smith says that
there are to be about 25 pictures
in each company’s layout, and in
order to get that many, the com
panies must submit 40 or 45, be
cause a number of the snapshots
will be unfit for use. Next Wed
nesday is to be the deadline for
these pictures to be turned in.
Men who have not had their
photos made for the class sections
of the Longhorn, whose time for
photographing has passed, will be
allowed to have these pictures
made in a week set aside for this
purpose as soon as the freshmen
pictures are all made.
Ag Experiment
Station Staff
To Honor Conner
Conference Schedule Begins January 6
After 11 Warm-ups With Service Teams
Cadets Lost First Game With A. S. T. Unit
Wednesday; Many Footballers Out for Team
Coach Manning Smith’s Aggie cagers will stage the
first of their non-conference warm-up tilts at DeWare Field
House Saturday night when they tangle with the cagers of
the 4051st Base Unit of Camp Normoyle from San Antonio.
-fThis game marks the first of three
farm-ups to be held here before
Christmas and will be, underway
about 7:30.
Wednesday night the Aggie
cagers lost a practice game to the
3800 A. S. T. U., stationed here
at the college, by the score of 31
to 25.
Men who showed up the best in
intramural basketball were selected
by Coach Smith to form the nucleus
of his team, but the end of football
will find many gridders of high
school basketball experience report
ing. Among the men .who have
been working out since the first
week in November and have shown
up the best are Bobby Sapp, Os
car White, Charles Weinbaum,
Bill McCormick, Bill Tucker, Tom
my Blackstone, and Billy Jack
Fincannon.
Footballers who have had high
school experience on the maple
court and have indicated they will
report for cage practice include
Cotton Howell, Hub Ellis, Milton
Cherno, Jimmie Cashion, Jimmie
Parmer, Mann Scott, Gene Spires,
Tom Daniel, Walter Higgins, Paul
Yates, Morton Shefts, Don Nichols,
Kenneth Voss, Herbert Ewald,
Monte Moncrief, Bob Butchofsky,
and Bill Geer.
“Any boys who have had any
high school experience and would
like to try out for fhe team are
welcome to come out,” Coach Smith
said.
Non-conference games scheduled
are Dec. 9, 4051st Base Unit, Camp
Normoyle, San Antonio, here;
Dec .16, Ward Island Navy School
of Corpus Christi here; Dec. 20,
Corpus Christi Naval Air Station
here; Dec. 27, San Antonio Avia
tion Cadet Center at San Antonio;
Dec. 28, Camp Normoyle at San
Antonio; Dec. 29, Ward Island at
Corpus Christi; Dec. 30, Naval Air
Station at Corpus Christi; and Jan.
1, San Marcos Army Air Field at
San Marcos. Games are now being
arranged with Bergstrom Field in
(See AGGIE, Page 4)
A. B. Conner
*****
A. B. Conner, recently retired
director of the Agricultural Ex
periment Station, and Mrs. Con
nor will be honored by an appre
ciation dinner by the staff of the
Agricultural Experiment Station,
Thursday night, December 14, at
7:00 p. m., in Sbisa Hall.
Tickets for the dinner will be
$1.00 per plate. Fred Hale of the
Agricultural Experiment Station
Swine farm is taking orders for
tickets. Hale will deliver these
tickets that have been ordered on
Tuesday, December 12.
A. D. Jackson as chairman of
the ihvitation committee has stated
that the dinner is open to the pub
lic and all college employees are
especially invited to attend.
Heads of each of the depart
ments at A. & M. have been noti
fied of this dinner and been asked
to notify all the individuals in their
departments of the appreciation
dinner.
North Louisiana
A.&M. Club to Meet
Next Wednesday
A meeting of the newly organized
“North Louisiana” club will be held
in Room 209, Academic Building,
Wednesday, December 13, 1944.
There will be a discussion held
and arrangements made for the
forthcoming Christmas party. All
boys from this part of the state
are urged to be there, said Leon
Grosjean of Shreveport.
Dean C N. Shepardson, Kyle's Successor,
Made Great Improvements In College Dairy
By Calvin Brumley
C. N. Shepardson’s first thought
when he was notified that he had
been named to succeed E. J. Kyle
as Dean of the Texas A. & M.
School of Agriculture was of . . .
“the tremendous opportunity and
responsibility in carrying on the
work of Kyle who established the
largest agricultural college in the
country.”
During Shepardson’s tenure as
head of the Department of Dairy
Husbandry he had charge of a
large part of the agricultural
school at A. & M. even before he
was named Dean of Agriculture
effective December 1. He came
here in 1928 from Colorado State
College to immediately head the
dairy department and in 1933 he
was made general manager of all
college farm lands. Prior to that
time, each department had inde
pendent supervision of its farm.
Last spring, when A. & M. added
2700 acres of Brazos River bottom
land to its large holdings, Shepard
son inherited the task of putting
them on a productive basis. He
received his baptism on the bot
tom lands last spring during the
labor shortage and during one of
the worst floods in 20 years.
Dean Shepardson will not move
to the Administration Building
where Dean Kyle has had his of
fice, but will set up the Dean’s
offices in the Agriculture Build
ing, in keeping with a plan of
President Gibb Gilchrist to have
the deans of the four schools clos
er to their respective student
bodies.
Enumerates Aims
Dean Shepardson expressed the
wish that he could get to know
the boys in the School of Agricul
ture as well as he knew those in
the Dairy Husbandry Department.
“I hope that being Dean of Agri
culture will not interfere with the
closeness of friendship that I have
been accustomed to having with
dairy students,” he said. He added,
“I have no boys of my own, but
the boys of A. & M. have been
my boys.” He indicated that he
cherished highly his relations with
A. & M. boys.
He has as yet formulated no
specific aims for the School of Ag
riculture, but said, “My hope is
that we can continue to increase
A. & M.’s position of influence and
service to the state and constantly
keep abreast of the latest develop
ments in agriculture.” He added
that he would certainly be inter
ested in the Latin American as
pects of farming.
A relatively young man, Shep
ardson was born 48 years ago in
Littleton, Colorado. He took a B.S.
degree from Colorado State Col
lege in 1917. He received his M.S.
degree in 1924 from Iowa State
University. During the interval be
tween the time he received his B.S.
and his M.S., he served for two
years as a captain of infantry, of
which time one and one-half years
was spent in France.
For seven years prior to coming
to A. & M. Shepardson was in
charge of the Dairy Department
in the Animal Husbandry Depart
ment of Colorado State College.
For a time he served as an inspec
tor for the Colorado State Dairy
Commission and as an Extension
(See DEAN, Page 4)
Soil Conservation
Meeting Going On
Here This Week
Supervisors of soil conservation
districts, covering 61 percent of
Texas, held their fourth annual
meeting in College Station Wed
nesday morning. The meeting was
opened with the reading of the
progress reports and a summary
of district developments by Walter
W. Cardwell, chairman of the
State Soil Conservation Board of
Luling.
Dr. F. C. Bolton welcomed the
delegates to the college and W. M.
Turner led the group in a sing
song. Invocation was made by J.
C. Wells and the meeting got under
way. Dr. Thomas H. Taylor, pres
ident of Howard Payne College of
Brownwood was the principal
speaker of the meeting. He dis
cussed the relation of soil conser
vation to human welfare. The rest
of the meeting was spent in dis
cussing administration problems.
R. M. Boswell was the discussion
leader of the meeting.
Progress reports have shown
that more than 22,000 Texas land-
owners have been assisting in be
ginning soil conservation programs
on more than 9,000,000,000 acres
since soil conservation has been
authorized by the State.
Dr. H. H. Bennett spoke on
Thursday morning to the group of
delegates. Dr. Bennett is from the
Soil Conservation Service of Wash
ington, D. C.
V. C. Marshall of Temple pre
sided in absence of W. E. Moncrief
of Arlington. Marshall is the ad
ministration officer of the State
Board of Soil Conservation. Ap
proximately 150 farm and ranch
owners are attending this meet
ing at College Station.
An Editorial
QUESTION . . .
Wednesday the Dallas Morning News published a letter
from Horace H. Shelton of Austin. Shelton in his letter was
somewhat indignant for reasons which A. & M. students
have been unable to fathom.
Shelton’s letter:
“I imagine that thousands of Texas parents who
witnessed the A. & M. parade Thursday morning
in Austin for the football game are asking them
selves this question:
“How does it happen so many young men, ap
parently in the best of health and within the
draft age, are not in the armed forces ?”
Certainly our boys are there.
To me, it seems particularly out of place that
these young men, clothed in the uniform of their
country, are parading to a football game instead
of to the battlefields, where 11,000,000 other young
men are fighting gloriously for their country.
The press here reported many fist fights Wednes
day and Thursday nights between students of A.
& M. and the University of Texas, but do not report
any volunteers for overseas duty.”
Horace H. Shelton
A. & M. REPLIES:
It is surprising that the Dallas Morning News, which
has chronicled the fighting record of A. &, M. in column
after column during the present conflict would print such
a letter as Shelton’s without a. companion article about A.
& M.’s war record.
Shelton seems to have disregarded A. & M.’s contri
bution to the war effort in his complaint. In replying the
Cadet Corps is willing .to use the same measure.
At the present time there are 1,893 students enrolled
in Texas A. & M. The majority of these were in the pa
rade in Austin. Of this total number 1,025 cadets are
below 18 years of age. One hundred and ninety are studying
veterinary medicine, a course which the government deems
necessary to the war effort; 31 are over the draft age of
38; 65 are veterans of World War II; 180 are unfit for
military service; 1 is a service man; 356 are in reserves
awaiting call to active duty; and 45 are students from Latin
America not subject to United States military service.
This figures in percentage that 81.2 percent of the A. & M.
student body is ineligible for military service for the rea
sons stated. Only 18.8 percent are subject to military serv
ice and that number is steadily decreasing.
One other thing was not considered in Shelton’s let
ter. The government has constantly reminded young people
below draft age that their most important contribution to
the war effort is knowledge which they can obtain in
schools. Last fall, near the time for schools to reopen after
the summer vacation, there were governmental efforts to
convince young people that they should return to school.
What of the young boys at A. & M. ? Their government
had asked that they stay in school. They were willing to
comply but they still wanted to do more. They are at A.
& M. “in the uniform of their country” gaining all the
knowledge possible in a short time and in addition they are
receiving military instruction in preparation for the time
when they will be old enough to enter the armed service.
For the record there are a few other items that should
be included. In the present war A. & M.. has 9 major-gen
erals, 16 brigadier-generals, 12,000 commissioned officers
from colonels to second lieutenants, and 4,000 enlisted men
in tjie army. There are 601 Aggies in the Marine Corps, of
which one is a major-general, 300 are commissioned offi
cers, and 300 are enlisted men. In the navy A. & M. has
250 ex-students holding commissions and 250 enlisted men.
Three hundred and fifty Aggie-exes are dead in this
war, 67 are missing, and 118 are prisoners.
These figures quoted were compiled by the A. & M.
Registrar’s Office, Department of Information, and As
sociation of Former Students.
A. & M. will indulge in no spectacular generalities nor
will A. &; M. resort to sarcastic innuendo to bolster its
patriotic reputation. Facts, statistical facts, are enough.—
Calvin Brumley, Editor.
Aggieland Orchestra, Singing Cadets
To Perform At Baytown Celebration
Nine Coast Guard
Schools Now Open
To Boys Seventeen
More than nine Coast Guard
training schools are now open to
17-year-olds, it was announced to
day.
Seventeen-year-old boys who are
qualified may join the Coast Guard
to train for Electrician’s Mates,
Fire Controlmen, Range Finder
and Radar Operators, Fire-fight
ing Equipment Maintenance, Dam-
(See SCHOOL Page 4)
Promotion Given
Ex-Aggie In Italy
15th. A. A. F. in Italy—Lionel H.
Clark, 23, of 1708 Drew St., Hous
ton, Texas, pilot of a 15th Air
Force B-17 Flying Fortress, has
been promoted to the rank of first
lieutenant. Lieutenant Clark is a
veteran of numerous combat mis
sions over enemy occupied terri
tory, and has been awarded the Air
Medal.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
L. W. Clark of Houston, and he is
a graduate of San Jacinto High
School. Prior to entering the A. A.
F., Lt. Clark was a student at Tex
as A. and M. College.
■f An invitation has been extended
to the Aggieland orchestra and
Singing Cadets to give a program
Saturday, December 16, in com
memoration of the one billionth
gallon of 100 octane aviation gas
oline by the Humble Oil Company.
Employees of the Humble Oil and
Refining Company and Humble
Pipe Line Company and Humble
Production Department will attend
the celebration from December 14
to 16. The climax of the convention
will be a dance’Saturday night, at
which the Aggieland Orchestra will
play.
Plans have been made for the
orchestra and choir to leave Sat
urday by bus for Baytown. W. M.
Turner expects to be back at col
lege sometime Sunday. The group
will consist of the 18 members of
the Aggieland and 35 members of
the Singing Cadets.
Garden Club Met
At 3 p.m. Today
A meeting of the College Station
Garden Club was held at 3:00 p.
m., on December 8th, Friday, at
YMCA lounge. Dr. Guy Adriance
delivered a talk on roses. Anyone
having a rose in bloom was asked
to bring one. This talk was inter
esting to anyone having roses or
planning to have a rose garden this
spring.