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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
Texas A«M
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WEEKLY
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
DEEP IN AGGIELAND
TEXAS A. & M.
VOLUME 44
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 19, 1945
NUMBER 88
Seniors Engage Sonny Dunham Band For Corps Dance
34 Registrants Begin Intensified
Program of Theory and Practice at
A&M’s Annual Poultry Short Course
Speaks, Grainger,
Hughes Booked on
Town Hall Program
Bookings for the 1945-6 Town
Hall season have been virtually-
completed, it has been announced
by the. Student Activities Office.
Headlining present attractions
booked for the coming season will
be Margaret Speaks and Conrad
Theabault in a joint recital. Both
artists are familiar to the radio
audience of America and have been
popular on the concert stage for
a number of seasons.
Percy Grainger, popular Ameri
can pianist, will appear on the
1945-46 season and other numbers
include The Gordan String Quar
tet with Lois Bannerman, outstand
ing harpist, the Ostas Spanish
dance team, the Modern Choir of
TSCW, the A Cappella choir of
Bryan High School and the Sing
ing Cadets of Aggieland.
Other numbers will be added if
finances permit, it was stated.
Ticket sales will begin about the
first of the fall semester.
The noted news commentator,
John B. Hughes, will be brought
to the campus in his famous
“News and Views by John B.
Hughes.”
Two Corps Dances
To Be Held in Aug.
Two and possible three more
corps dances will be held during
the summeer, according to an an
nouncement from the Student Ac
tivities office.
In view of the unofficial trip to
TSCW on the weekend of August
31st have been designated as
Corps dance dates. Music will be
furnished by the Aggieland Or
chestra and the dances will be held
in The Grove.
It has not been decided if any
special class dances would be held
in addition to the corps dances.
The first corps dance of the sum
mer, sponsored by the Senior class,
was generally regarded as a com
plete success. Proceeds from this
dance will be used by the Seniors
for some worthwhile Corps pur
pose.
The annual poultry short course,
one of the best attended schools
of instruction during the college
year, got under way Monday and
will continue throughout August
4. The object of this short course
is to improve Texas poultry by in
structing poultrymen and hatchery
employees about their problems.
The first class sessions were got
ten under way at 1:30 p.m. Mon
day with a talk on poultry terms
by Louis Jurcak of the A. & M.
College staff. Breeds and their
characteristics were discussed by
Prof. D. H. Reid, head of A. & M.’s
poultry husbandry department,
while R. M. Sherwood, chief of the
poultry division of the Texas Agri
cultural Experiment Station, dis
cussed the divisions of the college
occupied with the problems of poul
try. >
Tuesday Dr. W. A. Boney and
Dr. John P. Delaplane of the Divi
sion of Veterinary Science opened
the school with a discussion of the
history, benefits and technique of
blood testing of poultry. Prof.
Reid’s topic on Tuesday was the
history of- the breeds, giving rea
sons why brass, redbreast, white
feathers, slate under-color and
other disqualifications should be
avoided. Mr. Jurcak also discussed
the necessary equipment for lay
ing flocks.
The topics discussed by Jurcak,
A. D. Keith, and Prof. Reid on
Wednesday were: practice culling
for egg production, improving
Texas chickens, and the Texas U.
5. Poultry improvement plan.
Better Ships Are
Beating Japs, Says
U. S. Civil Service
“United States ships beat the
Japs because greater skill is used
in building them, requiring wiser,
better machinists and electricians
to repair them, said H. N. Yard-
ley, Secretary, U. S. Civil Service
at the post office yesterday.
“Many a ship has fought back to
stay afloat and reach a home navy
yard because we spend more on
equipment and so we lose fewer
(See BETTER SHIPS, Page 3)
The second week of the school
will be devoted to such topics as
disease resistance, 'post war condi
tions of poultry raising, culling
and the care of hatching eggs, and
poultry equipment. The third week
of the school will be largely given
over to instruction in turkey pro
duction, including blood collecting,
the turkey industry, the care and
hatching of eggs, and the differ
ence in the breeds of turkeys.
The registration Monday indi
cates a fine attendance. Those
who registered were: Robert Mac
Gregor, Houston; Wm. F. Bor-
gatedte, Washington, Texas; Irish
Erikson and Howard Erikson, Alva,
Oklahoma; Leland Johnson, Hico;
0. A. Weaver, Hamilton; Milton
Lyon, Waxahachie; Thos. W. Pa
trick, Corsicana; Ernest E. Rawl
ings, Sweetwater; Marion Shiplett,
Sweetwater; W. B. Wilson, Clyde;
E. R. Gibson, Devine; Louis Czim-
sky, Taylor; T. C. Lupton, Dallas;
C. F. Platte, Riesel; C. C. Carpen
ter, Sweetwater; Erwin Kretzch-
mar, Floresville; Chester Boyd,
Lewisville; L. W. Ceason, Era; El
mo Meyer, Fayetteville; J. D. Con
nell, Beaumont; J. L. Owens, Arl
ington; Roy V. Pinson, Hillsboro;
Margaret Harris, Dallas; Mrs. Ro-
ween K. Sniith, Houston; Doyle
Sartin, Austin; W. W. Barker,
Troy; E. D. Clement, Granger; W.
E. Moffett, Hillsboro; J. D. Bel
lamy, Lapipasas; J. H. Faith,
Goldthw^itc; E. 0. Shepard, Flor
ence; R. L. Montgomery, Pandora;
and P. J. McKanahan, Sweet
water.
B-29 Bomber Film
Is Scheduled for
Guion Hall Tuesday
Some facts about the fif-29 bomb
er, now making shambles of the
Japanese homeland, which have
heretofore not been made public
are contained in a film entitled
“B-29’s Over Dixie” scheduled for
showing before civic clubs and the
general public of the Bryan and
College Station areas.
First showing of “B-29’s Over
Dixie” was at the Tuesday luncheon
of the College Station Kiwanis
Club in Duncan Hall. Wednesday
it featured the weekly luncheon
program of the Bryan Rotary Club,
which made the arrangements for
bringing the film to this section.
The film will be shown before
the Bryan Lions Club at their
luncheon July 24 ,and that evening
will be shown in Guion Hall for
the A. & M. College students,
ASTP, ASTRP and the general
public. Starting time for the Guion
Hall program has tentatively been
set for 7:00 p. m.
Dr. Howard W. Barlow, dean of
Engineering, will make a short
talk preceding the showing of the
film at Guion Hall.
Reveille Booklet
Makes Nice Profit
Proceeds from the sale of the
Reveille booklet have pushed the
grand total of funds available for
the monument of the famous Texas
Aggie Mascot to almost the one
thousand dollar mark.
All expenses of the booklet have
been paid and some 2000 copies
are still oh hand for sale to future
classes and to ex-Aggies.
The price to foi'mer students
will be the same as the price
charged the Corps, fifty cents.
Aggies ovei-seas can get a copy
for twenty-five cents.
Sponsors of the booklet urge all
Aggies to send copies of the book
let to former students in hospitals
or overseas. Copies are available
at the Student Activities office, it
was stated.
What’s Cooking
Beginners’ swimming instruction at Downs Natatorium,
Intramural softball, A Co. vs. 6th Co.
Intramural tennis, B Co. vs. 3rd Co., and Dorm 6 vs. 4th
Co.
Community picnic at The Grove, featuring City Softball:
Orioles vs. Pirates, and Yankees vs. Tigers at Drill Field.
SATURDAY, JULY 21
Advanced swimming instruction at Downs Natatorium.
SUNDAY, JULY 22
Prestbyterian Student League party for foreign students
. at Norman Anderson residence.
Baptist Student Union party on First Baptist Church
lawn.
MONDAY, JULY 23
Beginners’ swimming instruction at Downs Natatorium.
Intramural volleyball, 1st Co. vs. A Co. and 3rd Co. vs.
Dorm 6.
Intramural tennis, 6th Co. vs. 5th Co. and L Co. vs. B Co.
City softball, Military Dept. vs. Orioles at College Hills
diamond.
TUUESDAY, JULY 24
Visitors’ day at Poultry Short Course.
Advanced swimming instruction at Downs Natatorium.
Kiwanis Club luncheon at Duncan Hall.
Intramural softball, 1st Co. vs. 6th Co.
Intramural volleyball, B Co. vs. 2nd Co., and 4th Co. vs.
A Co.
Intramural tennis, 2nd Co. vs. 3rd Co.
“B-29’s Over Dixie” at Guion Hall, free to public.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 25
Beginners’ swimming instruction at Downs Natatorium.
Intramural softball, 3rd Co. vs. 6th Co.
Intramural volleyball, A Co. vs. Dorm 6, and B Co. vs.
5th Co.
Aggieland Orchestra and Singing Cadets in Summer Jam
boree at Guion Hall.
Boy Scouts’ swimming meet at Downs Natatorium.
THURSDAY, JULY 26
Advanced swimming instruction at Downs Natatorium.
Intramural softball, 1st Co. vs. 3rd 'Co., and 2nd Co. vs.
B Co.
Intramural volleyball, A Co. vs. 7th Co.
Intramural tennis, L Cu. vs. 2nd Co.
City softball, Tigers vs. Indians.
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At the Poultry Short Course
The above picture was snapped at Tuesday’s field demonstration of
poultry culling at the College Poultry farm. J. L. Owens, of the North
Texas Agricultural College at Arlington is shown pointing out the finer
points of culling for egg production to Mrs. Fox Smith, of Houston,
as other short course enrollees look on.
Photograph and engraving are by Tom Puddy, of the Student Ac
tivities Office.
Aggieland Orchestra and Singing
Cadets Book Dates at TSCW and Howze
Bill Turner’s Aggieland Orches
tra and Singing Cadets have been
booked for engagements at the
Texas State College for Women
and at Camp Howze near Gaines
ville, according to an announce
ment by the Student Activities
Office.
The Orchestra and Cadets will
appear in a special program at
T.S.C.W. on Saturday, August 11,
after which the Aggieland Orches
tra will play for an all-college
dance at the girls’ school. The Ag
gie musicians will be housed on
the T.S.C.WW. campus on Satur
day night.
Sunday the two organizations
will move on to Camp Howze, where
they will present a concert and
show for the servicemen that aft
ernoon. They are expected to re
turn to Aggieland Sunday night.
The two North Texas engage
ments are an indication of the
mounting popularity of the Ag
gieland Orchestra and the Sing
ing Cadets.
First Venezeulan
City Manager to
Get A&M Training
Texas A. & M. College has been
selected to train the first city
manager to be selected by a Vene
zuelan city, S. R. Wright, acting
head of the Department of Muni
cipal and Sanitary Engineering,
announced today.
Mr. Wright has just received a
letter from Lt. Col. S. W. Steel
in Caracas, Venezuela, that the
City of Maracay has chosen a
young student, Marcelo Gonzales
Molina, who will graduate in civil
engineering from a university of
that country in February, as city
manager and are to send him to
Texas A. & M. for a year to stu
dy municipal affairs and man
agement in the United States.
Molina will arrive at College Sta
tion in March, 1946.
Dr. Arnaldo Gabaldon, chief
of the Division of Malariology of
the Venezuelan Ministry of Health,
is given credit by Lt. Col. Steel
for interesting the, Maracay Muni
cipal Council in this experiment.
‘A number of the graduate stu
dents in sanitary engineering Tex
as A.&M. has had in the past have
been sent to us by Dr. Gabaldon,”
Lt. Col. Steel wrote.
Lt. Col. Steel is on leave from
Texas A. & M. College as head of
the Department of Municipal and
Sanitary Engineering.
His letter continued, “I think we
should feel flattered that Dr. Ga
baldon wishes to send the young
man to Texas A. & M. in this
particular field. This pioneer step
may lead to something very im
portant both for Venezuela and
Texas A. & M. College.”
Memorial Group
Named by Seniors
At the last meeting of the Senior
Class on Friday evening, July 13,
the Seniors announced the appoint
ment of five members of its class
to serve on the committee to select
and order the memorial for Rev
eille. Morris Boone was named as
chairman of the committee, and
as assistants, R. V. Sawyer, Monte
Moncrief, and Alex Mijalis were
chosen.
Arrangements are already under
way to draw up detailed plans of
the monument, and as soon as
they are completed, additional ar
rangements for its construction and
Famous Band to Play on
Eve of First Grid Game
After a majority vote on Friday
evening, July 13, the Senior Class
announced its decision to engage
Sonny Dunham and his orchestra
for the corps dance featuring a
name band. The date for the af
fair was set for Friday evening,
September 21, according to Dun
ham’s availability. Dunham, who
has frequented the bandstands of
the Hollywood Paladium and the
Meadowbrook, near Newark, New
Jersey as well as other top night
spots over the United States, comes
to Aggieland from an extended
road tour of the East en route to
the West Coast. For the past five
years now, it has been the desire
of the various Senior Classes to en
gage Dunham and his aggregation
for a dance at A. & M., but such
has been impossible until this time.
The choice of the September 21
date for the long awaited dance
was made in view of the fact that
the first Texas A. & M. football
game of the season is scheduled
for September 22, the day after
the dance. That game which will
be played on Kyle Field will find
the Aggies meeting Ellington
Field. The Seniors felt confident
that their choice of the date was
ideal, since the twenty-first of
September marks the termination
of the current semester; and it is
their belief that a dance with an
outstanding band to terminate the
social season of the summer and to
begin the social and football sea
son of the fall will be welcomed
by all the corps. Although no defi
nite plans habe been announced,
nite plans exist to hold a Re
view of the cadet corps on the
morning of September 22 as a
prelude to the game.
No announcement has yet been
made in regard to the sale of
tickets for the dance, but the Sen
iors have announced that the sales
will be handled through the com
pany commanders when they be
come available.
Betty Gasoway Scores
Hit at Ag Jamboree
Miss Betty Gasoway, former U.
S. O. performer from Denton, Tex
as, stole the show at Bill Turner’s
weekly Jamboree at Guion Hall
last night. Combining an appealing
stage personality with a well-train
ed voice and an accurate sense of
rhythm, Miss Gasoway had the
Aggies in the aisles from the
start of her first song, “Zing Went
the Strings of My Heart”. Two
encores, “It Had to Be You” and
“Swinging On a Star”, plus a
promise to return soon were exact
ed by the enthusiastic Aggies be
fore Miss Gasoway was allowed to
leave the stage.
The Aggieland Orchestra started
the ball rolling with a lively tune,
“It Must Be Jelly”, followed with
a brief and blushing introduction
of “Eager Beaver”.
Not omitting the customary
corn, so popular with Aggie aud
iences, Turner brought the band
through with one of its celebrated
specialty numbers. To the reading
of “The Shooting of Dan McGrew”
the band furnished appropriate
sound effects relating the tale of
a tramp, a villain, and a siren
known as Lou. Switching to a slow,
dreamy mood, the Orchestra next
played “I’ll Remember April”. (/
The ever welcome Singing Cadets
next filled on stage to give a story
in song of Noah and his ark, called
“The Animals Are Coming”, one
of their best numbers heard here in
some time. The performance was
closed as usual with “Tthe Spirit
of Aggieland” and “Aggie War
Hymn.”
delivery will be made. Since it is
the desire of the Seniors to have
the memorial completed as soon
as possible, the committee is at
tempting to push its plans through
without further delay, and every
effort to have the memorial com
pleted in time for the majority of
the football season is being made
by the Senior Class through its
committee.
The Reveille Memorial Fund con
tinues to show a deficit, and the
drive for additional funds will
continue uninterruptedly until the
amount is acquired.
Aggie of the Week . . .
Buddy Howland, Capt. 6th Co.
By Clyde Cfittenden
C. V. Howland, better known to
all of us as just plain “Buddy”, is
the recipient of the spotlight this
week. Buddy, who hails from
Clarksville, Texas, is the good-
looking, dark-haired Senior known
to everyone around Aggieland.
Buddy is serving as captain of
Sixth Company this semester aft
er having served with “E” Com
pany Infantry for several semes
ters. Of SUPREME interest in
his life these days is a certain
little brunette Tessyite, who is not
at all a stranger on this campus.
Their favorite songs, weTe told,
is “Sweetheart of All My Dreams,”
and the choice of that song goes
a long way to tell their story.
Buddy’s favorite orchestra is Tom
my Dorsey, and he prefers the Dor
sey renditions of the sweet, dreamy
pieces.
Majoring in Civil Engineering,
Buddy believes that he will remain
C. Y. Howland
★ ★★★★★★★
in Texas upon his graduation from
A. & M. So far, he has not given
much thought to just what parti
cular field of Civil Engineering he
will enter.
Forty Educators
See Aeronautical
Demonstration
Coming from surrounding com
munities within a radius of 150
miles of College Station, forty
educators attended the demonstra
tion Tuesday of aircraft equip
ment being made available for edu
cational purposes. Visitors at the
demonstration included school and
college administrators and teachers
who are interested in industrial and
vocational training, aeronautics,
and general science from all types
of non-profit schools. The demon
stration was sponsored by Texas
A. & M. College and was conducted
by a crew of six officers and men
who are selected specialists repre
senting the Army Air Forces Tech
nical Training Command.
Purpose of the demonstration,
which lasted for three hours, was to
show new teaching methods for
use in conjunction with specially
prepared “mock-ups” pertaining to
electrical systems, fuel systems, en
gines, c^rburetion, and other aero
nautical technicalities. Also ex
hibited were training films, photo
graphs, charts, technical manuals,
and other training aids employed by
the Army Air Force. Potential in
structors in the courses were also
informed on the method of requi
sitioning equipment and materials
for the needs of their various in
stitutions.
The demonstration here marked
the first stop of the six AAFTTC
officers and men on a 6,000-mile,
five-state tour intended to convey
the necessary information in a
forceful and practical manner di
rectly to civilian educators.