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4* ? * * * » ’ I i 1 *1 1 If 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, MAY 10, 1945 NUMBER 79 Senior Ring Dance Tomorrow Nite In Sbisa “Old Timers” Ball Game To Feature Community Picnic As Sophs Enjoyed Annual Ball Wmmm is > ' Sigma Xi Formal Installation Set For May Fifteenth Formal installation of the Sigma Xi Club of the Texas A. & M. Col lege will be held on the campus the evening of May 15, A. A. L. Mathews, club secretary has an nounced. Dr. E. J. Lund, professor of Physiology at the University of Texas, has been appointed in stallation officer by Dr. G. A. Bait- sell, executive secretary of the na tional Sigma Xi Society. All members of the local Sigma Xi Society will be on hand for the installation ceremony, Mr. Mat hews said. When this is completed members will be joined by their wives and other guests for a dinner commensurate with the oc casion. At that time Dr. Lund will give a brief explanation of the purposes, functions and ideals of the scientific research society, then will tell the group about the Insti- ute of Marine Science for Texas. The public is cordially invited to hear Dr. Lund’s address on this subject, Mr. Mathews said. The Society of Sigma Xi was organized in 1887 when a group of students and young faculty mem bers of Cornell University form ed a “Brotherhood of Science and Engineering.” One of its objectives was to encourage and promote higher attainments. This spirit through all ages has been of im portance to educators, Mr. Mathews pointed out. In 1895 the Yale Scientific Monthly said editorially: “An indifference to high schol arship is far too prevalent and any society which by high standards of admission and by development of its members should encourage a better standard of work would be an invaluable force in the Scientific School.” The Sigma Xi organization is now national in scope and is com prised of well over 100 local or ganizations at major colleges and universities throughout the coun try. The Texas A. & M. College Sig ma Xi Club was formed several months ago and has held several successful meetings. Other officers are Dr. J. D. Lindsay, president, and Dr. W. A. Varvel, president elect. Conference Track Meet To Be Held In Dallas Saturday By Dick Goad Conference athletic interest will center in Dallas this week-end when league championships will be decided in three sports. On tap at Dal-Hi Stadium Friday and Saturday is the conference track meet with all conference schools except Baylor entering teams. Tex as, Rice, Arkansas, and A. & M. will send ijpll squads while S. M. U., and T. C. U. will bring five and six man teams. Preliminaries are due to be run off Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock in the sprints with Saturday’s finals scheduled to be gin at 1:30. Texas u., undefeated all season, is the heavy favorite in the two day meet. The Longhorns boast victories in the Laredo Olympics, Ft. Worth Stock Show Meet, Tex as Relays, and in dual meets with Rice and A. & M. The steers were also easy winners in the Little Conference Meet held in Houston recently. Rice and A. & M. are not to be counted out though, for with a lit tle luck Coach Lil Dimmit’s thin- clads could finish ahead of Clyde (See AGGIES, Page 3) Affair Is Sponsored By College Station Recreation Council A softball team bearing the name of the “Old Timers”, com posed of players fifty years of age and older, and captained and managed by Col. Frank Anderson and Ernest Langford, will meet the A. & M. Consolidated High School team in the feature attraction of a community family picnic to be sponsored Friday evening, May 11, by the College Station Recreation Council at the Grove on the A. & M. College campus. In the second of two scheduled softball games, a team of boys will face an aggregation made up of their dads. The skating slab will be turned over to youngsters through the sixth grade from 6:00 until 8:00, at which time the older group will be allowed on the con crete. Phonograph music for the skaters will be furnished, and sev eral prizes will be offered for various skating events, according to J. Gordon Gay, chairman of the committee on arrangements. A committee has been appointed to keeping the skates in good condi tion during the evening. Supper will be spread on the ground in picnic fashion, and each family is asked to bring enough food for its own group. Ray Oden will be in charge of the soft-drink stand, and will also provide ice water for the gathering. This affair is the third skating party sponsored by the Recreation Council. Work on the summer park program of the city has started with the park areas in the com munity already mowed and readied for the summer play. A well round ed summer program is planned for the community, including soft- ball and other athletic contests, as well as social affairs in which both adults and the youth of the city may participate. SlfiTHE mm Shown above are scenes from the Sophomore Ball held in Sbisa Hall Friday night. Since the theme of the occasion was the Sweet heart Revue the BATTALION photographer promptly lined up a few of the fairer sex and the results are shown above. In lower cen ter, Sigmar, the magician, is shown practicing his wiles on Roy Quisenberry. Sigmar gave an entertaining half-hour performance as a special feature of the ball. / Scout Camp To Be Held at Arrowmoon Around 100 Boy Scouts of Brazos county will attend the 1945 summer camp to be held June 3-10 at Camp Arrowmoon, about 25 miles out of Bryan, E. R. Bryant, district chairman, has advised the local executive committee. Details of the annual summer camp re ceived a thorough going over Thursday evening at a meeting of the executive committee held in the Bryant yard. Each individual Boy Scout and leader aatending the summer camp will pay a $7.50 camp fee which will include payment for all meals and operating costs for the eight days of the camp. An advance reg istration fee of $1.00 is to be turn ed in by each boy to his scout master not later than May 15, and the balance of $6.50 is to be paid when the boy registers at Arrow moon on June 3. Parents of all Boy Scouts at tending the summer camp are urged to be present at Arrowmoon on Friday, June 8 which has been designated a visitors day. A Court of Honor is scheduled for Sunday June 10 from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m. Presentation of a medical exam ination certificate will be required upon registration. Each boy intend ing to go to the summer camp should get a blank from his scout master, then report to the office of Dr. J. L. Hart, head of the Brazos County Health Unit, for examination Saturday, May 26 or Saturday, June 2 after 9:30 a.m. Thad B. Bailey again will be camp director. He will be assisted by Linton Robertson and others who have given of their time to the Boy Scout movement in Brazos County. W. C. Youngblood, local field executive, will be at the camp all that week. Local Eiwanians Sponsor College Station Youth Activities; To Prepare Recreation Facilities Competitive play in boys’ and girls’ softball leagues in College Station is expected to get under way early in June .according to an announcement by the Boys’ and Hillel Club To Hold Victory Day Services In compliance with President Truman’s proclamation to dedicate Sunday, May 13, as a day of pray ers and thanksgiving in celebra tion of V-E Day, the Hillel Club will hold special Religious Services on Sunday morning, 11:00 a.m. at the Y.M.C.A. building. The re gular evening program will be dis pensed with and the morning pro gram will consist of religious serv ices and recorded Jewish synago gue music. Aggies and service men having parents or dates with them that day are invited to bring their guests to the services. New Texaco Service Station Opened Here Opening of the Texaco Service Station on Highway 6 east of the College campus was announced to day by P. P. Bishop, operator. Bishop is a native of Bedias, and has operated service stations in Fairfield and Hearne, Texas. His experience in the service-station business includes ten years of sta tion management, he states. Besides selling the regular line of Texaco gasolines and motor oils, the new operator advises that he will specialize in washing auto mobiles and correct lubrication. Girls' Work Committee of the College Station Kiwanis Club. Teams entered in the summer competition will be divided into two age groups, with players from 15 to 18 years old playing in the senior league and those 14 years of age and younger in the junior classification. The Presbyterian, Methodist, and Baptist churches of the city have announced that they will enter junior teams in both the girls’ and boys’ competition, and other churches, as well as clubs and community groups, are ex pected to sponsor teams in one or both of the leagues. Plans of the Kiwanis Club in clude the preparation of softball diamonds at the high school, in the College Hills park, and at other strategic spots in the residential area. Any individual interested in organizing a team or assisting in the program in any other manner is urged to contact the Kiwanis Club committee by calling 4-4197 after 5:00 p. m. The Kiwanis Clubs of the United States and Canada are planning to throw their combined influence be hind a drive to reduce production costs on the farm. Major James E. Breland, president of the College Station Kiwanis club, said today, a nationwide community agricultural program would be announced at Richmond, Ind., on May 9. This program will be in line with the Kiwanis theme: ’’Win the War— Build for peace.” Although details of the program will not be disclosed until that date Major Bi’eland said he had been advised that its general ob jective was to help insure the per manent prosperity of agriculture. This would be accomplished by carrying out agricultural projects in each community where Kiwanis clubs are located. These projects are designed to permit Kiwanis members to do the things they can do as business and professional men which will benefit agriculture. After the program is announced at Richmond, Major Breland said, the board of directors of the Col lege Station club will meet to con sider the best way to carry out the program in Brazos County. Soil conservation undoubtedly will occupy an important position in the Kiwanis program, Major Breland said. Other phases of the program will have to do with en couraging better farming prac tices in the community and setting up better marketing conditions. Claims of national advertisers on the subject of electronics were debunked by H. C. Dillingham at the weekly meeting of the College Station Kiwanis Club held Tues day, May 8, at Duncan Hall. Con trary to the impression given in the advertising of some of the major electrical companies of the nation that electronics is a recent discovery, this field has been under study and development since 1903, according to Dillingham, and its scientific principles have been em ployed in the fields of radio and telephone for several years. The program was opened by group singing led by Bill Turner, and the invocation was delivered by Raymond Terry. Gordon T. Hill, of the A. & M. College Civil En gineering Department, was intro duced as a new member. Guests attending the weekly luncheon were Wallace Kimbrough, W. Lamar Fly, and Mrs. Elizabeth Cook. Five Aggies Are Prize Winners At Judging Last Saturday, the Judging contest sponsored by the Sad dle and Sirloin club turned out as successful as was anticipated by the sponsors. The judging began promptly at one-fifteen and every thing ran very satisfactorily to end at four-thirty o’clock when the prizes were awarded. Five prizes were awarded to the following: M. S. Mullimax won first prize, donated by J. E. Loupot. C. T. Holecamp won prize number two donated by Holick’s boot shop. D. R. Hranitzky won third prize which was donated by Lauter- stein’s cleaning shop. D. M. White received fourth prize donated by the student Co-op. R. L. Rector was awarded fifth prize which was donated by A. M. Waldrop com pany. The sponsors of this con test wish to express their appi’e- ciation to the above donors for making the contest possible. Lt. Col. D. S. Buchanan, U. S. M. C., has been stationed at the Corpus Christi Naval Base. Col. Buchanan is a member of the board of directors of A. & M. col lege. West To Lead Ring Ceremony By J. L. Everett Dan McGurk, president of the Senior class, announced today that final plans for the annual Senior Ring Dance and Banquet to be held Friday night, May 11, have been completed. The program be gins with the banquet in Duncan Hall at 7:30 with the ring cere monies and dance to follow in Sbisa Hall. Guests of honor will include college administrative heads and members of the faculty. Music for the dance will be furnished by Bill Turner and his Aggieland orchestra. A special decorations committee headed by Johnny Spragins has been hard at work for the last two weeks getting things ready for the occa sion. The decorations include an indoor pond with gardenias float ing on it. Although there will be no Corps dance Saturday night, tentative plans are being made to reserve half of Franklin’s for Seniors and their dates Saturday night. No dormitory has been reserved for the dates to stay in but Kiest Lounge will be open Friday, Sat urday, and Sunday. Tickets may be obtained from Charles Crabtree, Melvin Maltz, and Alex Mijalis. Engraved invi tations will be given with each ticket. Members of the committee who have made arrangements for .the ceremonies are; Banquet—Henry Bennett, Harry Robinson, Stanley Wyble and Bob Zivney; Program and Invitations—Dick Goad, Bubba Jones, Delbert Runyon, and Dwight McAnally; Decorations — Johnny Spragins, Bob Morris, Doc Kelty, and Spick Leventhal; Dance—Bill Harper, C. A. Banker, Warren Brown, and Jere Higgs; Finance, Alex Mijalis, Melvin Maltz, Charlie Crabtree, and J. B. Kearby. V-E Day Here With Services In Guion Tuesday night,' May 8 and also official V-E Day, student services were held in Guion Hall in ob servance of the Allied victory in Europe. The various organizations assembled in their own dormitory areas and marched enmass to Guion where many residents of College Station had already gathered wait ing for services to begin. Charlie West, corps commander, presided over the assembly and in troduced the various speakers. Cliff Harris asked the corps to rise while he led them in prayer. C. W. Crawford, head of the Mechanical Engineering Depart ment, gave a brief but interesting talk on the part that Aggies have played and are playing in this war. After his speech Crawford asked the student body to please rise and sing the Spirit of Aggie land. President Gibb Gilchrist told the corps that the war is only half over and that we must not relax our ef forts until final victory is ours. He explained that the fight with Japan will be a long and hard one and that we must give our government the full support that it needs in order that final victory will be ours. Taps were played in memory of those Aggies that will not come back. W. W. Watson Is New Butcher At Luke’s Addition of W. W. Watson to the meat department of Luke’s Grocery was announced today by Luke Patronella, owner. Watson is a native of San Saba, Texas, and comes here from Austin with 35 years of experience as a butcher. He was formerly con nected with Slaughter’s Food Stores in Austin. “We will continue our established policy of offering a high quality of merchandise, and of empha sizing cleanliness and sanitation in handling our meats,” Patronella stated in issuing the announce ment.