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DIAL 4-5444 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION Texas A«M The B College alion WEEKLY STUDENT NEWSPAPER DEEP IN AGGIELAND TEXAS A. & M. VOLUME 44 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 29, 1945 NUMBER 73 An Editorial Texas Aggie Libraries In Hospitals A drive is now underway to establish Texas Aggie Li braries at each of the five Army General Hosiptals in Texas. Already, five copies of the Longhorn, dated from 1940 through 1944, have been delivered to recuperating Aggies at McCloskey General Hospital at Temple. Similar copies will be given to the other hospitals in the near future. In providing wounded Aggies with these books it is hoped that their time of convalescing will pass much faster and more pleasantly. At the present time reading is prac tically the only recreation the men can enjoy with their limited means and, as their different expressions of appre ciation proved upon receipt of the first five copies, a Longhorn is truly a gift book from Heaven. Yes, the Longhorn is only a book, but unlike the other books given these menj it is a book whose pictures never fade, whose pages know no ending. As one man exclaimed, “we look at the familiar faces and the familiar places, and then we sit and spend hours • just reminiscing and reliving our years at Aggieland once more. We could never tire of looking through that book. It’s one of those you enjoy the tenth time you read it as much as you do the first time you turn through the pages. We’re all true Aggies to the last man and A. & M. is on our mind constantly, during the day, when we go to sleep and when we get up.” “Mayb^e we’re slowed down just a little now, but we’ll all be back some day,” is the con tinual refrain throughout the wards. The feeling these men have for their school and their constant concern over its welfare is easily understandable. It is no wonder they gain such intense joy and pleasure from an Aggie periodical. Aggieland was the only life they ever knew; the last memorable era before they were shuttled off to sacrifice an arm or a leg for their country. Before them they have their life at A. & M., behind them is their life at Aggieland. Small wonder these men are so conscious of their school. The initial twenty-five Longhorns given to the five hospitals have been supplied by the Student Activities Of fice. More copies, printed prior to the 1940 issue are needed for these men. If you have two copies of an annual, or a Longhorn which you can spare now, give it to these deserv ing men. It really isn’t much, when you consider what they gave for you. Turn in your copies now to the Student Ac tivities Office and give these men an opportunity to fit them selves into the life they knew in happier years. As one misty eyed Ex, who had enjoyed two good legs prior to the battle of Salerno explained, “You don’t know how much it can mean to us.”—Dick Goad. Corps Is Deserving of Highest Praise For Showing In Review, Says Welty Fed. Inspectors Seemed To Have Been Pleased The entire Corps is deserving of the highest praise in regard to the revue Tuesday, said Colonel M. D. Welty today. Colonel Welty stated further he thought that the revue was as good as any ever held here, from a strictly military stand point view. The inspecting officers seemed to have been pleased with every phase of th$ work that they in spected. As yet, however, no word official or otherwise, has been re ceived from the officers and their report is not expected to reach here for a week or so, but it is generally believed that the Corps will be allowed to keep the coveted Blue Star. Although Colonel Coin er did not inspect any dormitories or rooms, he did visit Military Sci ence classes and he did have cer tain organizations give demonstra- tinons of extended order drill,etc. Colonel Welty also declared that the men had made a “fine showing” and that he especially wanted to thank the senior cadet officers for their participation in the revue, which was more or less voluntary. Prof. Sorrels To Speak At Meeting Of Sigma Xi Club Professor J. H. Sorrels, Re search Associate , Engineering Ex periment Station of A. and M. Col lege will lecture on “Essential Oil Production in Texas’ ’at the coming meeting of the Sigma Xi Slub. Professor Sorrels’ subject will cover a part of his research work on es sential oils which are used in per fumes, drugs, flavoring, and es sences. His talk will be illustrated and the products of part of his research will be shown in demon strations. Tre officers, President, J. D. Lindsay, Head of the Chemical Engineering Department; Vice- president W. A. Varvel, Associate Professor of Psychology; and the Secretary and Treasurer A. A. L. Mathews extend a cordial invitation to all who are interested in re search and especially to the wives of the members and invited guests to attend the lecture which will be held in the Geology and Petroleum Building, Room 115, at 8:00 p. m., Wednesday, April 4, 1945. Girl Scout Banquet To Be Held In April The annual Girl Scout banquet, held in celebration of the founding of Girl Scouting in the United States, will be held April 13 at Duncan Hall on the campus of A. & M. College, by the Girl Scouts of Bryan and College Station, it has been announced. The banquet will honor the moth ers and fathers of the Girl Scouts of this Communitiy. Plans to enter tain more than four hundred guests are underway at this time. Attend ance at the banquet held last year was almost four hundred and in view of the exceptiohal growth of Girl Scouting in this community this past year, it is expected that the attendance will be considerably larger than the last one. The ban quet is open to the public and all those in the community who are interested in the work that Girl Scouts are doing are invited to at tend, it has been announced. The banquet is held each year and has alternated in honoring either the fathers or the mothers of the girls. But it was decided by the group that this year the din ner would be held for both parents so that the entire community may see what a valuable asset to our country Grl Scouting is. The pro gram for the banquet will utilize the abilities and interests of the girls in Scouting, which is the largest group of organized girls in the country. It will stress the pro gram of character building and fun that is the dominate factor back of Girl Scouting throughout our nation. This will celebrate the thirty- third birthday of the national or ganization of Girl Scouts of Amer ica, which has a membership of more than a million girls and wom en in America alone. It is part of a world wide organization that in cludes girls from thirty-two coun tries. The national organization is known as the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. In this community alone approximately 400 girls are members of Girl Scout ing. The organization here is headed by a council of advisors, who are headed by I. N. Kelley as commis sioner and Mrs. W. E. Morgan, deputy commissioner. Hearne Guards Score Nine Runs In Wild Eighth Inning To Topple Aggie Nine 14-12; Two Teams Play Rematch On Aggie Diamond Sat. Aggieland’s Own Singing Cadets Major League Vets On Hearne Roster Singing Cadets Scheduled For Town Hall Tuesday Night Geology Department Appoints Asst. Prof. Frederick A. Burt, acting head of the Geology Department, an nounced today that C. O: Nickell has been appointed assistant pro fessor of. Geology for the remain der of the semester. Mr. Nickell re ceived his B. S. in Geology at the University of Texas. From 1919 until 1926 he was divisional geolo gist of the Texas Company, and from 1926 until 1930 he was geolo gist with the Continental Company. He worked at the University of Texas and the Bureau of Economic Geology until 1932 at which time he turned to the job of being an independent consulting geologist in Texas and California. He re mained in this capacity until his retirement in 1939. Since 1942 he has been serving as an ordnance inspector with the United States Army at Boulder, Colorado. During the two years that he was connected with the Bureau of Eco nomic Geology he was co-author of Bulletin No. 3801 entitled “Stra tigraphic and Paleontologic Studies of the Pennsylvanian and Permian Rocks in North-Central Texas.” Houston Aggies to Have Dance Saturday At a recent meeting, the Activi ties Committee of the Houston A. & M. Club made plans for a dance to be held in Houston. The date announced was March 31, and the dance will be held in The Aragon Club, 1010 1-2 Rusk Avenue, from 8:30 until 12:00 p. m. Reservations were not ob tained for the group, but every one will get together inside. Regular admission will be charged. All Ag gies in Houston this weekend have been cordially invited. Choral Group to Offer Series of Sacred; Secular, Patriotic and School Songs Tuesday night, April 3, the' Singing Cadets, under the direction of Wm. M. Turner, will be pre sented on Guion Hall stage in the next to last program that is to be held^on Town Hall this season. The Cadets will sing a medley of tunes both old and new, both classical and popular. The program opens with the singing of the Star Spangled Ban- McDowell Leaves For Experiment Station Director’s Meeting Acting Director C. H. McDowell, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, left Monday for ....ew Or leans to attend a meeting of the Directors of the Experiment Sta tions of twelve Southern States. The meeting begins today and lasts through Thursday. Work be ing done-by the Southern Regional Laboratory at New Orleans, will be discussed. The laboratory, in exis tence only a few years, already has made substantial progress in analytical and physical studies with cotton, sweet potatoes and peanuts. Studies also are under way in the finishing of cotton textiles, the characteristics of cotton fibres and the properties and utilization of cotton and the competing fibre products. Studies of oils and oil seed pro cessing and the possible by-pro ducts that arise from these sub stances are in progress. Studies of plants other than starch plants are also under way and the engineer ing involved in bringing these pro ducts into usefulness is being ex plored. This includes the chemical engineering involved in processing utilization of fats. ner, which is followed by “This Is My Country.” A religious hymn, “The Crusader’s Hymn” immedi ately follows and it is followed by “Ole’ Ark’s A’Moverin”, a popu lar old negro spiritual. In keeping with the occasion, the next number will be “Easter Parade”, a number that has been popular for many years. Burl Ervin, soloist, will sing two numbers in the course of the even ing. His first will be “The Way farer’s Night Song”, and his ^second, “The Desert Song.” The next part of the program consists of five old favorites: “Fin landia”, “Go Down Moses”, a negro spiritual, “Surrey With The Fi'inge On Top”, “Blow Tumpets Blow”, and “They Didn’t Believe Me”, an old favorite that has been presented by the Cadets before and has always been well received by audiences all over the state. James Oates, pianist with the Aggieland Orchestra and Singing Cadets, will play two solos, first of which is De Falla’s “Ritual Fire Dance”, and McDowell’s “March Wind”. Perhaps the best received part of the program will be the last due to the fact that the Cadets will sing five songs that are rated high with the Aggies. Cole Porter’s “Don’t Fence Me In” will be the first number, and “America The Beautiful” will be the second. Munneryn’s “Twelfth Man” will follow, and then the program will come to a close with “Spirit of Ag gieland.” Mr. Turner and the Singing Cadets have spent much time prac ticing for the occasion and it is expected to be one of the best performances staged on Town Hall this season. Industrial Extension Service Head Conducts Training Institute Safety and accident prevention problems are highlighting a Con ference Leader Training Institute being conducted Monday through Friday of this week in Dallas un der the direction of E. L. Williams, head of A&M’s Industrial Extension Service. This conference is in session each day from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Its purpose is to train man agement officials, supervisors and workers in the industries in which they work and inspect. It also is to give them help in teaching safe or correct industrial practices and in putting on demonstrations. Enrollment in the Conference Leader Training Institute now in progress has been selected from various agencies of the U. S. government. Tennis Workouts Being Held Daily By R. F. Huston All men interested in tennis have begun working out this week after a meeting called last Thursday by Coach Norton. With no tennis coach available this season, Tommy Penn, letterman on last year’s team, was appointed by Norton to take over the duties of student coach. Penn is the'only remaining play er from last spring, however, pro spective players include several regional and district high school champions, and the present out look is for a good team, though inexperienced. Games are being scheduled with various Southwest Conference and (See TENNIS, Page 3) Over-coming an Aggie 12-5 lead, the guards of the Hearne Prison Camp piled up nine runs in the eighth to take a -wild scoring ball game there yesterday. Taking the lead early in the game, the Maroon and White nine led the Hearne boys by a score of 12-5 at the close of the fifth in ning. This score was kept at a standstill until the Veteran Base- ballers cut loose in the eighth to pile up a sensational nine runs. Purtle, hurler for the Farmers yesterday, managed to hold the Hearne guards to five hits with nine strike-outs through the first seven innings. After striking Bond out in the eighth, Purtle walked two men and hit one with a pitch ed ball to load the bases for the rally which followed. A single by Weber followed by Rainbolt’s trip le, scored four runs for Hearne. Two more singles by Willoughy and McElroy scored a fifth run and again set root for a scoring spree. An error by Strickhausen allowed the two men on base to come in home as well as allow the batter to take second base; this registered a- score of 12-12. At this critical moment Pete Jones ran in Sterling Deitz, one of his reserve pitchers. Deitz struck lantank out which totaled two outs for Hearne. With one man on base, the Hearne team started around the batting order for the second time as Bond slapped a single over second. Proctor planted the last hit of the game over right short stop to score the winning runs of the ball game. Viera struck out to close a mighty inning of of fensive baseball. The “hit-run-error” ridden Ag gies could make no comeback at the Hearne score in their last try at bat. The game ended with Hearne Prison Camp leading 14-12. The Aggies had three big in nings; everyone registering hits during the ball game except El lis. Prince, Newsome, Purtle, El lis, and Strange scored in the sec ond while Katt, Newsome, Ellis, and Strickhausen tallied in the fourth. These runs piled up a total of nine as compared with Hearne’s four. The last big inning for the Maroon and White was the fifth when DeLafosse, Matthews, and Katt did the good work. There were no home rubs hit during the game, however, New- some hit a high ball over left field in the fourth which was. good for a triple. If you remember, New- some slugged two “homers” in a game against the Southwestern Pi rates last week-end. For eighteen times at bat Newsome has gotten six hits. Walsten pitched for the Hearne boys during the first three innings. He was replaced by Turner who finished the game. Most of the men on the Hearne team have had previous major and Texas league experience. They were all capable of taking advantage of a weakened pitcher. They also scored a run for every hit. The same can be said for the Aggies. Strange as it may seem, both teams tallied a total of twenty-six hits with an equal total of runs. The Aggies will play their last pre-conference baseball game Sat urday, March 31 on the Kyle Field Diamond. The Maroon and White will clash with the Hearne Pris oners of War on that afternoon. The schedule for the remainder of the season will follow this pattern: Hearne Prisoners (H) March 31 Texas April 6 SMU (2-H) April 14 SMU April 19 TCU April 20 TCU April 21 Rice (H) April 27 TCU (H) May 4 Rice May 9 Rice May 10 Texas (H) May 18 Texas (H) May 19 (H) denotes home games)