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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
Texas AaM
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WEEKLY
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
DEEP IN AGGIELAND
TEXAS A. & M.
VOLUME 44
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 21, 1945
NUMBER 84
J. R. Bryant of
Austin Is Named
To Lead Freshmen
J. R. Bryant of Austin, Texas
was elected president of the Fresh
man Class at Texas A. & M. Col
lege for the 1945 summer semes
ter. Other officers chosen at the
meeting held Thursday, June 14,
at the Assembly Hall were Jef
fries, of Houston, vice president;
W. I. Watson of Dallas, secretary;
and W. J. Hallmark of San An
tonio, treasurer.
Bryant and the other newly
elected officers expressed their
appreciation of the confidence ex
pressed by the class and their
determination to furnish capable
and devoted leadership to the class.
Plans for a Fish Ball to be given
during the semester were discuss
ed in detail.
Clean-up Week Is
Planned by City
The week of June 25 has been
designated as “Clean-up Week” by
the mayor and city council of Col
lege Station. Rubbish which is not
ordinarily taken up by the garbage
collectors will be picked up free
of charge by the city truck if
placed on the street in front of
residences, in boxes or bundles
which will permit easy handling.
Collections will be made in accord
ance with the following schedule:
June 25—College Park, West
Park, and Oakwood.
June 26—College Hills, Cooner,
Gorzycki, and North of Highway 6.
June 27—North Gate.
Cooperation of College Station
residents has also been solicited in
maintaining the present favorable
fire insurance rate. “We have re
cently had some fire alarms which
were unnecessary owing to the
fact that they were grass fires,”
stated City Manager Lloyd Smith.
“Citizens are requested to cooper
ate by cutting back at least six feet
from their hedges and lot lines.
There is not much danger except
with an extremely high wind that
the grass fire will spread over
that distance. Please do not turn
in a fire alarm unless it is neces
sary to protect buildings, since the
cost to taxpayers is approximately
$50.00 per call, and this money
can be used to greater advantage
in other places. In addition to the
cost, there is a hazard to the fire
men riding on the high-powered
trucks.”
“We hope that citizens will not
make the wrong interpretation of
this statement,” continued Smith.
“If buildings are involved, do not
hesitate to turn in the alarm. Your
cooperation in this matter will be
greatly appreciated by your mayor
and city council.”
Gilchrist Testifies Before
Legislative Committee on
Military Training Policy
President Gibb Gilchrist of Tex
as A. & M. College returned yes
terday from Washington, where
he testified before the House of
Representatives Select Committee
on Military Policy on June 14,
1945. President Gilchrist presented
to the committee a statement on
a policy of universal military train
ing on behalf of the Board of Di
rectors, the Association of Former
Students of A. & M. College, and
the administrative staff of the
college.
Excerpts from the statement
follow: “A system of universal
military training has been in ef
fect on the campus of A. & M.
College since its creation ... It
has been found that military train
ing at A. & M. has been beneficial
to graduates and former students.
By this training they have been
improved in mind and in body and
by the very method of housing
and living they have found it
necessary and desirable to get
along with their fellows . . .
Qualities of self-confidence and
leadership have been the reward.
“Early in 1944 the question of
universal military training was
considered by the Board of Direc
tors and a committee was ap
pointed to study the question. . .
The policy in four sections which
follows was adopted by the Board
W.C. “Bill” Harper
Elected President
Of Singing Cadets
William C. “Bill’ Harper, pre
law student from Levelland, Tex
as, was elected president of the
Singing Cadets by a unanimous
vote last week. Other officers elect
ed were Fount Ray, vice president,
and Charles Thoma, secretary and
business manager.
Harper, who is commander of
Company A and president of the
South Plains A. & M. Club, entered
Texas A. & M. College in June
1943 and is classified as a Senior.
He plans to study law at Columbia
University in New York after
graduating here. He has been a
member of the Singing Cadets for
the past four semesters.
“It is with a great deal of pride
that I am accepting the presidency
of the Singing Cadets,” stated Har
per yesterday, “and it is my main
desire and aim to see the Singing
Cadets continue as the finest all
male choir of the South. The Sing
ing Cadets will grow only with
the cooperation, help, and pride
of the rest of the corps; and we
want to urge all boys, whether ex
perienced or not, to come over and
get acquainted with the gang.”
What’s Cooking
Thursday, June 21: Softball, A. & M. Military Staff vs. BAAF Student
Officers, 9:30 p.m. at Haswell Park, Bryan.
Friday, June 22: Beginners’ swimming instruction, 1:45 p.m. at Downs
Natatorium.
Softball, A. & M. Methodists vs. Hearne, 9:30 p.m. at Has
well Park, Bryan.
Saturday, June 23: Advanced swimming instruction, 11:00 a.m. at
Downs Natatorium.
Monday, June 25: Beginners’ swimming instruction, 1:45 p.m. at Downs
Natatox*ium.
Softball, A. & M. Methodists vs. Conoco, 8:00 p.m.; A. & M.
Military Staff vs. Hearne, 9:30 p.m. at Haswell Park, Bryan.
Tuesday, June 26: Opening of 20th Annual Conference of County Sup
erintendents and Supervisors.
Freshman orientation, 11:00 a.m.
Advanced swimming instruction, 11:00 a.m. at Downs Nata
torium.
Kiwanis Club luncheon, 12:00 noon at Duncan Hall.
Wednesday, June 27: Beginners’ swimming instruction, 1:45 p.m. at
Downs Natatorium.
Aggieland Orchestra and Singing Cadets in War Bond Jam
boree, 7:15 p.m. at Guion Hall.
Lecture on German horror camps by M. T. Walter, managing
editor Houston Chronicle, 8:00 plm! at First Baptist Church.
of Directors of the Agricultural
and Mechanical College of Texas
on October f4, 1944.
I
“We believe in a sound program
of national defense, adequately fi
nanced and maintained.
II
“We believe that the time has
come when the national welfare
and the future peace and prosper
ity of the Nation can only be as
sured by a system of universal mil
itary training of our able-bodied
male citizens in their early man
hood.
III
“We believe that a universal
military training act should be
passed which will afford the min
imum possible disruption of nor
mal educational processes, and
which should include provision for
due allowance and credit for mili
tary training in the R. O. T. C.
IV
“We believe in the preservation
of balance and integrity between
the regular army and its civilian
components.”
The statement of policy em
phasizes the importance of avoid
ing the undue retarding of youth
in entering either schools or gain
ful employment, the handicapping
of production industries by “elim
inating a pool of needed labor or
scientific men in certain age brack
ets” or the production of “a mili
tary cast not responsive to the
will of the people, for civil author
ity must always be paramount.”
“ . . . The real national defense
value of any system of Universal
Military Training will be destroy
ed if the period of training is too
long, or if it interferes unneces
sarily with the educational develop
ment of young men. . . There seems
to be no reason why training of
(See GILCHRIST, Page 4)
Summer Cotton School
Goes Into Third Week
With 27 Registrants
The 36th session of the Summer
Cotton School has been under way
two weeks with 27 registrants, in
cluding eleven from Mexico, one
each from Missouri and California,
two from Louisiana and twelve
from Texas. Most of the regis
trants this year are. gin operators
who are interested in the effect of
grade and staple on the gin sam
ple. Two registrants are ladies.
The summer cotton school is con
ducted by the Department of Agro
nomy of Texas A. & M. College
under the supervision of Dr. L. G.
Jones, acting director. Conductor
of the course is Harold G. Con
nolly, who has had wide experience
in the cotton business.
One of the out-of-state visitors
expressed surprise that the quality
of cotton grown in Texas is so
fine, and he predicts a good future
for the industry in the central part
of the State, Dr. Jones said.
Lectures on special phases of
cotton production, spinning and
marketing to date have been given
by Dr. Ide P. Trotter, director of
Extension; Chas. N. Shepardson,
A. & M. dean of Agriculture; R. L.
Lee, Washington fiber laboratories;
J. M. Ward, Extension Service;
Miss Mary Anna Grimes of the A.
& M. cotton laboratory; Conductor
Connolly; J. S. Mogford, professor
of Agronomy; J. L. McCollum,
chief, USD A cotton and fiber div
ision, Dallas, and Dr. R. L. Hunt,
Department of Agricultural Econ
omics.
Lectures scheduled for the re
maining four weeks of the school,
Dr. Jones said, include Dr. E. P.
Humbert, Department of Genetics;
John Leahy, Cotton Research Com
mittee of Texas; H. P. Smith, Div
ision of Agricultural Engineering;
Dr. F. L. Thomas, Division of En
tomology, S. E. Lichte, Extension
I Service, and others.
Sophomores Elect
Cecil President
For Summer Term
At the first meeting of the
semester of the Sophomore Class
on Tuesday evening, June 19, Clyde
Cecil of Houston was elected Pres
ident of the Class. Norton Higgins
of Galveston was elected Vice Pres
ident, and E. R. Daniels of Corsi
cana was elected Secretary-Treas
urer, to assist Cecil.
No other business was consider
ed at the meeting, but plans were
made to hold another meeting in
the near future for the purpose
of arranging some sort of enter
tainment for the class.
Seniors Plan to
Elect Yell Leaders
The Senior Class has announced
that plans are under way to hold
an election of yell leaders. Ar
rangements are being made to se
cure approval by college officials
of an all-college election of one
junior and one senior yell leader
to leadd the corps in yell practices
for the present semester. The plan
of the Seniors is to elect one yell
leader from the junior class and
pne from the senior class to serve
for the current semester, and then
hold another election this coming
fall for the purpose of choosing
two more yell leaders, one from
each of the two classes. That means
that for the present semester, there
will be only two yell leaders, but
this fall, they will be joined by
two more to make a total of four
yell leaders—two juniors, and two
seniors.
Announcements of the election
are expected within the next week
pending the approval of the
nominees by college officials, and
as in the past the election will be
handled through the Battalion.
Reveille Book Will Be Released Friday;
Company Commanders To Handle Sales
Houston Layman Will
Preach at Church of
Christ Here Sunday
Dr. C. R. Hocott, of Houston,
will preach two layman’s sermons
at the morning and evening wor
ship services of the Church of
Christ on Sunday, June 24. Dr.
Hocott is filliing the pulpit for Rev.
R. B. Sweet, minister of the church,
who is working during the month
of June at the Church of Christ
in Cleburne, Texas.
Dr. Hocott, a chemical engineer,
is head of the Research and Ex
ploration Department of the Hum
ble Oil and Refining Company at
Houston. His appearance Sunday is
in response to a number of re
quests resulting from a previous
appearance here on June 10, said
Sweet.
Last Sunday’s services at the
Church of Christ were conducted
by C. R. Allen at the morning
worship and by W. E. Street at
the evening period.
Reproduced above is one of the many pictures of Reveille,
loved deceased mascot of the Aggie Corps, which appears in
Reveille book being released Friday under the sponsorship of
First Class of 1947.
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Full House Sees Turner’s
2nd “Summer Jamboree”
By Junior Canis
Another capacity crowd
Guion Hall last night to witness
the second of Bill Turner’s “Sum
mer Jamborees”, with music by
the Aggieland Orchestra and the
Singing Cadets.
A new addition to the program
was the “Rhythmettes”, a quartet
consisting of Marian Holick and
Katherine Mathes of Bryan and
Frog Thomas and Frog Holcomb.
The “Rhythmettes” received a
grand ovation from the audience
for theiyarrangement of “I Dream
of You”. More wolf calls and whist
les greeted the appearance of lovely
Sybil Bannister, who sang “Bell
Bottomed Trousers” accompanied
by the orchestra. She also sang
“Meet Me in St. Louis” which
brought a rafter-shaking applause.
The ever popular Singing Cadets
sang “Let My People Go” and
“The Surry With the Fringe on
Top”, the latter from the Broad
way musical “Oklahoma”. The
filled program closed with the singing
of “The Spirit of Aggieland” and
Cadet Colonel Verne Scott an
nounced earlier this week that the
new Reveille booklet is to be made
available for sale on Friday, June
22. After many weeks of anxious
waiting, the corps will at last be
privileged to purchase this book
let.
Dwight McAnally, Senior from
Dallas, spent many months com
piling and editing the booklet, and
the results of his hard labors have
proved most gratifying. Scott as
serted that he felt certain the book
let will be well received by every
one, and he urges everyone on the
campus to purchase the booklet and
help back the Reveille Memorial
Fund.
The distribution of the booklet
is being made through the company
commanders, and anyone desiring
to purchase a copy can obtain one
from his organization commander.
The price is twenty-five cents per
copy, and all money derived from
its sale will go into the Reveille
fund to construct a memorial on
her grave.
Kiwanis Sponsored
Civic League Holds
2nd Meeting at Y
The second meeting of the newly-
“The Aggie War Hymn” by the I organized business men’s civic
Singing Cadets and the audience.
Turner announced that plans are
developed for a super-duper War
Bond Show at Guion Hall to be
held on Wednesday, June 27 with
the curtain rising promptly at
7:15 p.m. Using the talents of the
Aggieland Orchestra and the Sing
ing Cadets. Turner plans to com
bine this with a spaidtling array
of visiting talent for this particu
lar show. Admittance will be by
the purchase of war bonds or
stamps of any denomination. In
next week’s show the Singing
Cadets will be heard in the popu
lar Fred Waring arrangement of
“This Is My Country”; this stir
ring choral arrangement has been
given orchestral accompaniment
by Turner and promises to be the
highlight of the evening.
Jones, Donahue Speak
At S. U. Conference
Drs. L. G. Jones and R. L. Dona
hue are giving lectures this week
at Southwestern University in
Georgetown before the annual
Town and Country Conference.
Subjects assigned Dr. Donahue
by Dr. J. N. R. Score, president
of Southwestern, were “Introduc
tion to Soil and Plant World” for
Tuesday, and “Soil Fertility and
Human Welfare” for Wednesday.
Dr. Jones talked on “Humus and
Soil Improvement” today, and wilk a l wa y s a ble t° buy them.
discuss “Building the Soil” Fri
day, and “The TVA as a Working
Basis of Improving Human and
Land Welfare” Saturday.
Mrs. Nat Edmondson
Gives Her Collection
Of Novels to Library
Eighty-nine fiction books were
added to the Library’s collection
this week through a gift from
Mrs. Nat Edmondson. The Brows
ing Room collection, particularly,
has been enriched by this gift of
books, which includes best sellers
and recent novels of the type often
in demand but not always sup-
lied because the Library is not
The books which Mrs. Edmond
son gave to the Library were the
nucleus of the Brown Cottage Li-
(Continued on Page 3)
Ag-gie of the Week .
J. B. Kearby, Senior Class President
By J. F. Spragins
To commence the first “Aggie
of the Week” column of the new
semester, no one could be chosen
more appropriately than J. B.
Kearby. His honors on this campus
are numerous enough that he
deserves the honor of being the
first Aggie to be featured, since
he is able to boast being the pres
ident of the Senior Class and a
nominee for Who’s Who.
The tall brown-haired and brown
eyed Senior was born in Waxa-
hachie on August 11, 1926, but
since that time, he has moved
nearly every time the rent has
come due. He claims Ft. Worth
as home since he attended high
school there, but his current home
is at Coronado, California. While
living in Ft. Worth, he attended
Arlington Heights High School
J. B. Kearby
where he lettered in football and
in track.
Jerome Blount, his real name,
is commander of Company “L”, af
ter serving as commander of “E”
Company the past semester. At
the present time, his greatest in
terest lies in Dallas in the form
of a ravishing platinum blonde, and
what a shape. J. B’s favorite song
is “There, I’ve Said It Again” and
quite often one can hear him hum
ming it and see him day dream
of Dallas and that blonde. When
asked what his greatest dislike
is, he promptly replied, “The Mess
hall food!”
J. B. is a Veterinary Medicine
student, and has been able to
maintain a “B” average in his
course of study. Upon graduation
he plans to enter practice some
where in Texas.
league, sponsored by the College
Station Kiwanis Club, was held
Thursday, June 14, at the Y.M.C.A.
Ray Oden, co-chairman of the
committee, presided at the meet
ing and appointed several sub
committees to obtain factual in
formation with regard to the var
ious projects which were discussed.
The league functions as a com
mittee of the College Station Kiwa
nis Club, but includes both Kiwa-
nians and non-Kiwanians in its
membership. No dues are assessed,
and the organization has as its
purpose the initiation and exe
cution of projects beneficial to the
community as a whole.
Arrangements are under way at
the present time to obtain a speak
er who is qualified to discuss pro
bable post-war economic develop
ments for a special meeting of the
Kiwanis Club, at which business
men who are not members of the
club will be special guests.
Houston Newsman
Will Tell Eyewitness
Story of HorrorCamps
M. E. Walter, managing editor
of the Houston Chronicle, will de
liver a public lecture on the things
he saw in German horror camps
during a recent trip over the area
with a party of leading newspaper
men of the country.
The lecture will be held at 8
p.m. Wednesday, June 27th in the
College Station Baptist church,
and will be open to the public un
der auspices of the College Station
Kiwanis Club. Ernest Langford
is general chairman, and has is
sued a cordial invitation to all
Brazos county people to hear Mr.
Walter’s first-hand information
about the German death camps.
Mr. Walter has been in much
demand since his return from the
Em-opean battlefields and concen
tration camps, and the Kiwanis
committee was fortunate in ar
ranging for him to stop over, in
College Station on the evening of
June 27th to make the talk. He
will talk in Dallas at noon on June
28th, and therefore will have only
a few hours in this city.
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