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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)