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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, JULY 12, 1945 NUMBER 87 Dean Barlow Elected To Head Automotive Engineers , Society Dr. Howard W. Barlow, dean of Engineering, recently was elected chairman of the Texas Section of the Society of Automotive Engi neers. The Texas Section of S. A. E. was formed in 1942 as the result of a discussion at the first Texas Aviation Conference to be held at the College. This section has ap proximately 140 members and holds nine meetings each year, al ternating between Fort Worth and Dallas. Other officers of the Texas Sec tion include: S. V. Jay, Humble Oil & Refining Company, first vice president; A. J. Dolan, Dolan Aircraft Manufacturing Company, second vice president; Harry Sher idan, Guiberson Diesel Engine Company, treasurer, and Ross Peterson, North American Avia tion, secretary. Carolyn Roeber Passes Away Friday Carolyn Roeber ,three-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. A. Roeber, passed away Friday, July 6, at 3:45 p. m., after a lingering illness. Survivors include the parents and one brother, Chas. A. Roeber, Jr. ( Funeral services were held Sun day, with Rev. R. C. Terry offi ciating. Interment was made in the Bryan City cemetery with ar rangements by Hillier Funeral Home. Six Boy Scouts from Troop 411 acted as pallbearers. These were Luther Jones, John Parnell, Gene Potts, Dempsey Gerthridge, Wally Anderson, and John Gay. Annual Poultry Short Course to Open Here Monday The annual Texas A. & M. poultry short course will open on Monday afternoon, July 16 in Room 317 of the Animal Industries Building. The short course, which will continue through August 3, will have as instructors outstand ing poultry experts, hatcherymen, and research workers, and will be jointly sponsored by the A. & M. College, the agricultural experi ment station, and the extension service, according to Prof. D. H. Reid, head of the A. & M. poultry husbandry department. The first two weeks of the short course will be held on the subject of chickens, while the third week will be given over to the study of turkeys, according to Reid. Field demonstrations at the various col lege poultry plants will be incor porated in the program. College credit will be given those who take the course for that purpose, and those who complete the course satisfactorily will be eligible for designation as State Flock Select ing Agents. July 24 has been designated as visitor’s day at the poultry short course, and will feature discus sions by Baker Jones, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, on “What Is Doing in the United States”; R. B. Thompson, of the Oklahoma A. & M. poultry depart ment, on “What We’re Doing in Oklahoma”; C. G. Shietenger, of the Sanitary Hatcheries at Weim ar, on “The Hatcheryman’s Duty to His Community”; and H. H. Drumm, of the Dixie Poultry Farm at Brenham, on “Hatchery Sanita tion”. The afternoon session will be given over to an open forum discussion of hatchery problems. On Tuesday, July 31, Judge Wal ter Burton of Arlington will dis cuss “The Standard Feather Mark ings of the Different Breeds of Turkeys”. Other speakers sched uled besides Prof. Reid, are Sam Moore and E. D. Parnell of the Ex tension Service; Dr. John P. Dela- plane and Dr. W. A. oBney, Jr. of the experiment station veterin ary science division; and Ross M. Sherwood, chief, and Dr. J. N. Thompson, turkey nutritionist, of the experiment station poultry division; and Louis Jurcak, state turkey inspector. What’s Cooking (Organizations and individuals of the college and the community are invited to this column for announcements of group and organization meetings, etc.) 1:45 p.m.: 4:15 p.m.: 5:00 p.m.: 5:00 p.m.: 7:00 p.m.: 11:00 a.m.: 4:00 p.m.: 4:00 p.m.: 1:00 p.m.: 1:45 p.m.: 4:15 p.m.: 5:00 p.m.^ 5:00 p.m.: 7:00 p.m.: 11:00 a.m.: 12:00 a.m.: 1:00 p.m.: 4:15 p.m.: 5:00 p.m.: 5:00 p.m.: 7:00 p.m.: 1:45 p.m.: 4:15 p.m.: 5:00 p.m.: 7:15 p.m.: 11:00 a.m.: 4:15 p.m.: 7:00 p.m.: FRIDAY, JULY 13 Beginners’ swimming instruction at Downs Natatorium. Intramural softball, 1st Co. vs. A Co.. Intramural volleyball, 3rd Co. vs. 4th Co. N/ and 7th Co. vs. Dorm 6. Intramural tennis, L Co. vs. B Co. City softball league, Yankees vs. Indians at College Park diamond. SATURDAY, JULY 14 Advanced swimming instruction at Downs Natatorium. Board of Directors of Former Students Association at Sbisa Hall. SUNDAY, JULY 15 Poultry short course registration at Aggieland Inn. MONDAY, JULY 16 Poultry short course, opening meeting in Room 317 of Animal Industries Building. Beginners’ swimming instruction at Downs Natatorium. Intramural softball, 6th Co. vs. Dorm 6. Intramural tennis, 4th Co. vs. 5th Co., and A Co. vs. L Co. Intramural volleyball, 3rd Co. vs. 7th Co. City softball league, Tigers vs. Orioles at College Hills diamond. TUESDAY, JULY 17 Advanced swimming instruction at Downs Natatorium. Kiwanis Club at Duncan Hall. Army Air Force demonstration of educational aircraft equipment. Intramural softball, L Co. vs. Dorm 6. Intramural volleyball, 1st Co. vs. 4th Co., and 5th Co. vs. 6th Co. Intramural tennis, B Co. vs. 2nd Co., and A Co. vs 7th Co. Houston Aggies’ Club, Room 2 of the New “Y”. WEDNESDAY, JULY 18 Beginners’ swimming instruction at Downs Natatorium. Intramural softball, B Co. vs. 4th Co. and A Co. vs. Dorm 6. Intramural tennis, L Co. vs. 7th Co. Aggieland Orchestra and Singing Cadets in Summer Jam boree at Guion Hall. THURSDAY, JULY 19 Advanced swimming instruction at Downs Natatorium. Intramural softball, B Co. vs. 5th Co., and A Co. vs. 3rd Co. City softball league, Military Dept. vs. Indians at College Park diamond. Student Activities Installs NewspaperEngravingPlant What has been an ambition of long- standing is about to be realized by the Student Activities office with the ad dition recently of a complete newspaper engraving plant to serve the needs of The Battalion newspaper, it has been announced. The new equipment has been in stalled and has been placed under the management of Tom Puddy, an outstanding amateur photo grapher. Puddy has had experience in all types of art work, layouts, photography and has recently completed a course of study in newspaper engraving work. The first engraving from the new plant appear in this issue of The Battalion. As the need for larger engraving increases, new equipment will be added to pro vide for fine screen engravings and color plates. The present equipment will permit the making of line drawings for comic strips, cartoons, and will enable the pub lication staff to reproduce pic tures in less than three hours time. Not only will the plant permit an increased service to the corps and the College Station commun ity but it will provide training opportunity for students who de sire to learn the photo-engraving trade. All of the equipment is own ed by Student Concessions and will be operated on a concession. Increased photographic service will be provided by the same de partment. The latest photographic equipment has been ordered and when received will increase the coverage of student events, ath letic contests and local happenings. The School of Engineering has recently established a Visual Aid Department, offering blue-printing services, photostats and other aids of that kind to the college. This de partment will be expanded to pro vide a complete visual aid service to the corps. Appearing above is one of the first engravings to be produced on the new engraving equipment ac quired by the Student Activities office. Photographs and engraving are by Tom Puddy. The pictures were taken during the intramural softball competition Tuesday afternoon. Top left: R. D. Morris connects for a base-hit. Top center: Bob King goes down to first on a single. Top right: Leslie Schlautcr hits a long ball into left field. Bottom left: Glen Enmon rounds first base on a two-bagger. Bottom center: J. D. Gee takes a hefty swing at the horsehide. Bottom right: Pitcher Bostwick throws a strike against 5th Company. Maestro Shows Pupils How to Play Stardust. Bottled Corn and Six Pretty Girls Feature Bill Turner’s Jamboree Animal Husbandry At A&M Attracts Visiting Teachers Among recent visitors to the Texas A&M College were a dele gation from Mississippi looking over facilities and methods of operation of the Animal Husband ry Department, and a professor of animal breeding of the Rural Uni versity, Escola Nacional de Agron- omia, Brazil, checking with var ious livestock divisions. In the group from Mississippi were R. H. Means of the Animal Husbandry Department of Mis sissippi State College; Paul F. Newell, Extension animal husband man, and State Senator Frank Barlow. They spent Thursday with F. I. Dahlberg, acting head of the department, Roy Snyder, in charge of the meats laboratory, Dr. Paul B. Pearson, professor of animal husbandry, and other member’s of the department. The spokesman for the Missis sippi delegation said Mississippi State College planned an expan sion program in animal husband ry, and their interest at College Station chiefly was in animal nutrition and breeding. After leav ing the College they planned to visit some well-known Texas herds. Dr. Octavio Domingues, profes sor of animal breeding at Rural University, Escola Nacional de Agronomia, Rio de Janeiro, ar rived Tuesday for a week’s stay after spending some three months at Iowa State College. Second week of his Texas A&M visit will be spent in the field with district agents of the Extension Service, and Dr. Domingues hopes to in clude a visit to the King Ranch with headquarters at Kingsville. After leaving Texas, Dr. Dom ingues will do some work in New Mexico and Arizona, then wind up his stay in the United States in Maine, New Hampshire and Ver mont. While at Texas A&M headquar ters, Dr. Domingues has conferred _ . . with various representatives of the 61 C a exaS ^ gie ' By Mark Kury In spite of the rain that damp ened the body but not the spirit, Guion Hall was again crowded for the customary Wednesday even ing frolic last night. The ever-faith- ful Bill Turner was on hand again to present another bang-up jamboree to a drenched but en thusiastic audience. To set the pace for the even ing, the band gave out with a lit tle jive served Confederate style called “Southern Fried”. To offer a little contrast, the old maestro himself gave out with a little toot ing on the trumpet on “Stardust”. After two such numbers, the aud ience had completely forgotten jts wet clothing and was in a mood for anything. So, Bill decided to give them all he could in the way of corn a la cob. This was served in the form of the band and their musical bottles who proceeded to butcher “Long Long Ago.” Con sidering the quality of the song and the texture of the bottles, which were the finest available around Whiteway, the piece bore some resemblence to the original song. At any rate, it left everyone satisfied—the band with the fact that no tomatoes Were hurled and the audience with the fact that the thing had ended. Then to the delight of everyone, the guest star of the evening, the Daydreamers, made their appear ance. Dressed in their very best evening clothes, six lovely gh-ls swooned the Aggies with “Dream.” Never allowing anyone to regain fully his consciousnes, they struck another swooning blow by “I’m Remembering You” which was composed by an Aggie-ex. For en cores, the ladies returned to present their rendition of “Sentimental Joui’ney” and “The Haunting Mel ody” which, like all the others, brought sighs of glee from the male audience. To’revive the cadets, Turner took command of things and led the band in “Lamental Tropical”. Following him, the always wel comed Singing Cadets filed on stage amid a hearty wild-cat. Lead ing off with “Just a Prayer Away,” the Cadets then proceeded to the all time Aggie favorite, “I’d Rath- College Gives McNew Additional Duties J. T. L. McNew, in addition to his duties as vice president for En gineering of Texas A&M College, will also serve as director of En gineering Extension, President Gibb Gilchrist said Wednesday. These added duties will include the proposed area schools insofar as engineering is concerned, super vision of any extension courses in engineering, and industrial edu cation extension or industrial ex tension service courses, President Gilchrist announced. Mr. McNew also has been des ignated as the representative of the College for handling all mat ters pertaining to surplus war properties. Departments of Genetics and Ani mal Husbandry, livestock spec ialists of the Extension Service, and livestock divisions of the Agricul tural Experiment StaHon. Climaxing the jamboree was the mass singing of “Spirit of Aggie land” and “Aggie War Hymn” to bring to a close one more fun packed and enjoyable evening. Aggie Orchestra to Repeat at NCO Club A repeat engagement has been booked for Bill Turner and the Aggieland Orchestra at the Non commissioned Officers Club at Bryan Field for Saturday night. The Aggieland aggregation played at the club on Saturday evening, Army Air Force to DemonstrateTeaching Equipment Here ' A demonstration of aircraft training equipment will be staged by the Army Air Froces here at 1:00 p.m. on July 17. High-school and college educators within a radius of 150 miles are expected to attend the show, which will fea ture a demonstration of equip ment now being donated to civilian schools and utilization of mechan ically operated training devices, or mock-ups, used in connection with the streamlined teaching tech niques employed by the Army Air Forces. “This new program has two major objectives,’ ’stated Lt. Col. Carl F. Modglin, chief training liaison officer for Area VIII of the AAF,” (1) to convey infor mation to civilian educators as to how they may obtain airplanes, engines, instruments, carburetors, and other aircraft equipment for instructional purposes, this equip ment being donated to the schools absolutely free, except for minor packing and shipping costs, and (2) to discuss AAF teaching tech niques featuring the method of ‘learning by doing’ that has proved so successful.” The demonstration unit is car ried within huge vans which con tain a number of mock-ups pertain ing to electrical systems, fuel sys tems, engines, carburetion, and others; also, training film, photo graphs, technical manuals, charts, and other training aids. The per sonnel is composed of six technical military specialists, selected from the Army Air Forces Technical Training Command. July 7, and are returning this week by popular demand of the club personnel. Aggie of the Week . . . W.J.Poynor, West Texas Man By Clyde Crittendon This week W. J. Poynor, of Ma son, Texas, “land of thousands of white-faced cattle and white-tailed deer”, is the aptly chosen Aggie of the week. Until C and D com panies consolidated, “Jay” was commander of D company, while last semester he was second in command of C company. Since the consolidation, he has been made a captain on the battalion staff. W. J. was born August 18, 1926, in Brady, Texas, and lived there until he moved to Mason, where he attended public school. He partici pated in football, basketball, and track, and lettered in the last two sports. Apparently, W. J. can be trusted because he was treasurer of the senior class at Mason. W. J. enjoys nothing more than taking part in a good rodeo, or listening to some real hillbilly music. However, he likes to dance with a certain blonde (University W. J. Poynor ★ ★★★★★★★ of Colorado) to “Stardust” or any thing else that’s sweet. W. J., an Agricultural Education student, plans to settle down on a ranch and raise cattle after grad uation. Ex-Student Board To Meet Saturday A called meeting of the board of directors of the Texas A. & M. Former Students Association will be held at College Station Satur day and Sunday, E. E. McQuillen, executive secretary, announced today. It has been customary to hold the annual meeting of the Associa tion in conjunction with May com mencement exercises but due to ODT regulations on travel no an nual meeting was held this year. Important business to the or ganization is expected to come up for discussion which may include election of a new president and vice president as it has been cus tomary to limit terms of these of fices to one year. Rufus R. Peeples of Tehuacana, also member of the College board of directors, is pres ident, and Dick Winters of Brady, vice president. Navy Opens Flight Training Course for Seventeen-Y ear-Olds Seventeen-year-old boys who want to learn to fly will be ex tended the opportunity under the Flight Training Program which has been reopened by the United States Navy. Applicants for the new Navy V-5 Class must be in their last semester of high school or in at tendance at an accredited college or university. Educational require ments include two years of high- school mathematics, preferably ele mentary algebra and plane geom etry, and it is desirable to have had one year of high school physics and a course in high school trigo nometry. A mental test will be giv en to qualify applicants for the class. Physical requirements include weight of maximum 200 pounds and minimum 115 pounds, height of maximum 76 inches and mini mum 64 inches, 20/20 vision for each eye with normal color percep tion, and 18 sound, vital teeth. Applicants must be unmanned and must sign up for active duty for four years from the date of completing their training. A birth certificate, educational transcripts, and parents’ papers of consent must be presented. Successful applicants will enter Naval Aviation Preparatory Train ing at Navy V-12 units on or about November 1, whete they will re main for one to three college terms of four months each. Upon com pletion of preparatory training, they will be transferred to the status of Aviation Cadet, and will pass through three stages of train ing prior to commissioning: Pre flight, 26 weeks; Primary flight, 16 weeks; and Intermediate flight, about 20 weeks. Interested applicants who meet these requirements should assem ble the required documents and mail them to the Office of Naval Procurement, 824 Niels-Esperson Building, Houston 2, Texas.