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DEEP IN AGGIELAND
TEXAS A. & M.
VOLUME 44
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 23, 1945
NUMBER 92
Dance At The Grove To Climax “Good Neighbor Week”
Fraps Retires to
Limited Service
Status August 31
Dr. G. S. Fraps, chief of the
Division of Chemistry, Texas Ag
ricultural Experiment Station, and
ex-officio State chemist since 1905,
will retire August 31 to limited
service status under the title of
collaborating chemist.
Announcement of Dr. Fraps’ re
tirement was made last week by
C. H. McDowell, acting director of
the Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station, who said Dr. Fraps “has
one of the finest records to be
Dr. G. S. Fraps
★ ★★★★★★★
found among the long list of dis
tinguished workers on the Texas
A&M College staff”.
“For more than 40 years, Dr.
Fraps has been one of the leading
spirits in the progress made in
the knowledge of chemistry" and
and its use in making the most of
the whole agricultural enterprise,”
McDowell continued.
Dr. Fraps is the author of sev
eral books since coming to Texas
A&M College in 1903. These, in
addition to many bulletins, articles
in technical journals, and publica
tions of the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station, are acknowl
edged to have shed valuable light
upon chemistry and the chemistry
o^-agriculture.
His name has been in Who’s Who
in America since 1916, all editions
of American Men of Science, a
biographical register of rural in
dustry in the United States and
Canada, Texas Writers of Today,
Who’s Who in American Educa
tion (1945), Who’s Important in
Science (1945), and many others.
He was born in Raleigh, N. Caro
lina on September 9, 1876, and now
comes within the age group whose
retirement to limited service has
been provided for by act of the
College’s board of directors.
ME Department
Gives Three-Day
Welding Course
A three-day course in arc and
gas welding for county agricul
tural agents was completed Wed
nesday with four hours of welding
practice in the afternoon. The ses
sions were held in the mechanical
engineering shops on the campus
of Texas A. & M. College under
the direction of Prof. C. W. Craw
ford, head of the mechanical eng
ineering department, and Assist
ant Professor D. W. Fleming.
Apart from practice work by the
held for county agricultural agents,
attending, the course Consisted of
talks by representatives of equip
ment companies and members of
the staff of the mechanical engin
eering department, and display of
moving pictures portraying details
of welding techniques. Agents at
tending were: W. K. Cottingame
of Carson County; Fred C. Elliott
of Victoria; C. 0. Reed of Donley;
A. P. Brawley of Potter; U. L.
Thompson of Hunt; H. G. Wills of
Ochiltree; V. E. Hafner of Child
ress; J. P. Smith of Gray; J. H.
Surovik of Parker; J. A. Spence of
Hartley; L. A. Weiss of Refugio;
and J. 0. Stovall of Jackson.
The short course, the first ever
held for county agricultlral agents,
was arranged by a committee con
sisting of District Agent Knox
Parr, Extension Service Agricul
tural Engineer M. R. Bentley, and
R. B. Hickerson of the Extension
Service farm labor staff. Parr said
that the purpose was to familiarize
county agricultural agents with
welding in order that they might
be able to advise farmers
AAUP Invites
Faculty Members
To Aug. 30 Meet
The Texas A. & M. chapter of
the American Association of Uni
versity Professors will hold a meet
ing on Thursday, August 30, at
8:00 p. m. in the Y .M. C. A.
parlor.
At this time they will be privi
leged to hear Representative
George E. Adams speak on the
topic “Education and the Texas
Legislature”.
Since the program will be of in
terest to all faculty members as
well as members of the AAUP
chapter, the organization, through
its president, W. P. Taylor, ex
tends a cordial invitation to the
general faculty to attend this
meeting.
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Whatfs Cooking
FRIDAY, AUGUST 24
a.m. to 10:00 p.m.: Latin-American art exhibit at Library,
p.m.: Beginners swimming instruction at Downs Natatorium.
p.m.: Intramural football, A Co. vs. 5th Co. (League A),
p.m.: Community picnic at The Grove, featuring city softball
doubleheader: Orioles vs. Military, Indians vs Yankees.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 25
a.m. to 12:00: Latin-American art exhibit at Library,
p.m.: Preliminaries, intramural swimming meet, at Downs
Natatorium.
p.m.: Latin-American stage show at Guion Hall, free to public,
p.m.: Latin-American dance and floor show at The Grove, with
Aggieland Orchestra; admission free to all students with
dates.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 26
p.m.: Spanish motion- picture with Cantinflas, at Guion Hall,
free to public with compliments of Latin-American Club,
p.m.: Finals, intramural swimming meet, at Downs Natator
ium.
to 10:00 p.m.: Latin-American art exhibit at Library.
MONDAY, AUGUST 27
p.m.: City softball league, Tigers vs. Orioles at College Park
diamond.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 28
noon: Kiwanis Club luncheon at Duncan Hall.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29
p.m.: Aggieland Orchestra and Singing Cadets in Summer
Jamboree at Guion Hall.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 30
p.m.: City softball, Yankees vs. Pirates, at College Hills dia
mond.
p.m.: A. A. U. P. meeting at Y. M. C. A. parlor.
Aggies Celebrate Victory
Announcement of the Japanese surrender touched off a typical Aggie yell practice Tuesday evening
on the steps of Goodwin Hall. A false peace report started the Aggies on a midnight parade Monday,
which brought most of the campus faculty, including President Gilchrist, out of bed.
—Photo and engraving by Puddy
ELECTION SATURDAY
A statewide election on four
constitutional amendments is
slated for Saturday, August 25.
The polls for the College Sta
tion community will be open
from 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. at
the A. & M. Consolidated School.
Four amendments will be vot
ed on, as follows:
1. The elimination of poll
tax for servicemen.
2. A nine-man State Su
preme Court.
3. Increased pay for State
legislators.
4. Old age pension increase
and aid for dependent children
and the needy blind.
C. W. Crawford will act as
judge for the election, replacing
George Wilcox, who has been
called out of town.
3rd Co. “Acuffs”
And Doris Turek
Feature Jamboree
Guion Hall rocked again to the
jive of Bill Turner’s Aggieland
Band and swayed to the songs of
his popular Singing Cadets Wed
nesday night. Another good show,
with the spotlight on a new sing
ing voice (which had plenty to back
it), entertained the crowd of ca
dets and guests who braved the
weather for the show.
Frogs Simpson, trumpet, and
MacKenzie, trombone, soloed on
“Pine Top’s Jump Steady”, which
probably reached the band as a
classy new arrangement. Then
tears came into the eyes of all
(3rd Company men) as Frog Gar
ret and Frog Harmon devastated
in the customary drug store cow
boy manner the love song, “There’s
a New Moon Over My Shoulder”.
The crowd wiped the moisture
from their eyes and wild-catted
for an encore, to which noise the
Texas Troubadours responded with
“There’s a Star-Spangled Banner
(See JAMBOREE, Page 4)
Brazos A&M Club
Elects Officers
W. R. Carmichael was elected
president of the Brazos County A.
& M. Club Tuesday evening at the
business meeting held at the Bryan
Country Club. Approximately 100
former Texas A&M students at
tended the meeting.
Other officers chosen are Fred
Hale, vice president; Fred L. Ca-
vitt, secretary-treasurer, and J. W.
Rollins, sergeant at arms.
Butterflies Bother
Freshmen As First
Yell Practices Start
With the football season drawing
nearer and nearer, it has been a
natural reaction that the corps
become increasingly anxious for
yell practices to begin. After many
weeks of anxious waiting, the sus
pense came to an end when on
the evening of August 9, the an
nouncement of a yell practice float
ed out over the public address sys
tem at evening mess amid a tu
multous wild-cat.
One of the significant highlights
of an Aggie yell practice is the
freshman position of humping,
which means that all frogs and
fish must assume a half-sitting
and a half-standing position dur
ing the yells and addresses. '
And so it was when all the
frogs and fish finally assembled
themselves around the steps at
Goodwin Hall on the evening of
August 9. It was not long until the
upper-classmen could survey the
crowd and, make an estimate of the
yelling strength for the forth
coming football season. For the
frogs, it was their very first par
ticipation in a yell practice; and
for the fish, it was but the third
opportunity to participate. As is
customary, several yells were given
to be followed by talks by the yell
leaders. More yells and songs fol
lowed, each one being climaxed by
a vibrating wild-cat. To many a
freshman, the procedure seemed
strange and his awkwardness in
following instructions displayed his
newness at such procedures. How
ever, by the time the second and
third yell practice rolled around,
a decided improvement over the
first was noticed by every observ
ing. Tension naturally runs high
at the first practice where fresh
men are assembled to do something
for the very first time; and for
that reason, many yells and songs
failed to proceed as smoothly as
is expected.
But with the termination of the
first yell practice with the singing
of “The Spirit of Aggieland,” all
the old-timers could remisence and
think back to the occasion of their
first yell practice, remembering
how they, too, for the first time
felt those old butterflies flying
around within themselves. They
could recall how spirit will always
come to a freshman at yell prac
tices when it has failed to come be
fore, and with that thought in
mind, hopes arose for a mighty
“Twelfth Man” for the 1945 season.
MAINTENANCE FEES
Fourth installment of Mainten
ance fees of $21.70 payable Sept.
1-7 inclusive can be paid now.
These fees include board $15.00,
Room $5.35, and Laundry $1.35
to Sept. 22, 1945. The Cashier
of the Fiscal Department will
accept these fees from 8:00 a.m.
until 1:30 p.m.
OPA and Ration
Chairmen Speak
To Kiwanis Club
A resume of the activities of the
Brazos County Ration Board and
the price panel of the Office of
Price Administration were on the
program at the Tuesday luncheon
meeting of the College Station Ki
wanis Club.
James Whaley, chairman of the
Ration Board, expressed his appre
ciation to the public for their co
operative spirit in making a suc
cess of wartime rationing in the
county, and commended those citi
zens of the county who assisted
in the administration of rationing
regulations.
J. W. Barger, chairman of the
price panel of OPA, also express
ed his gratitude to the people of
the county for their cooperation in
complying with price ceilings, and
gave several illustrations of the
varied types of problems with
which the panel has had to deal.
Dr. Potter Will
Succeed Silvey
Dr. James G. Potter, war re
search physicist for the Bell Tele
phone Research Laboratories, and
former head of the physics de
partment at South Dakota School
of Mines and Technology, will be
come head of the physics depart
ment of Texas A&M College Sept.
1, Dean T. D. Brooks announced
today.
Since 1940, Dr. Potter has been
chairman of the division of phy
sics of the Society for the Promo
tion of Engineering Education, and
for the past two years has been
program chairman for the Amer
ican Association of Physics Teach
ers in its joint pieetings with the
SPEE.
Dr. Potter is a Presbyterian, and
gets his recreation from music
and gardening. Mrs. Potter, nee
Miss Dororthy E. Welch, is a grad
uate of Smith College and formerly
was principal of the Rapid City
(S. D.) high schools.
Famous Mexican Hat Dance
WillFeatureGuionProgram
Saturday evening, August 25, will find many Aggies
swinging out to a mixed program of Latin rhumbas and
American jive by the Aggieland orchestra, as the Latin-
American Club entertains the Corps and A. S. T. P. in com
memoration of “Good Neighbor Week”. The affair will be
gin at 8:30 p.m. at the Grove, and will feature an intermis
sion floor show with entertainers from Houston and Mex
ico.
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AVMA Plans Club
Dance for Aug. 31
The Texas A. & M. junior chap
ter of the American Veterinary
Associaion will present the Aggie
land Orchestra in a club dance on
Friday, August 31. The affair will
continue from 9:00 to 1:00 p. m.
and will be held at The Grove.
A Dance Committee composed of
Bob Ward, chairman, Wayne Gro
gan, and Dan Hightower has been
appointed by President Jim Car-
roll 'to handle arrangements for the
affair. Refreshments will be served,
and there will be no admission
charge for club members and their
dates. The President of the Col
lege, the deans, and department
heads are also invited to attend,
Ward stated.
The A. V. M. A. dance has for
several years been one of the out
standing club dances on the A. &
M. Campus. It was held as an an
nual affair until the wartime
speed-up program was adopted;
since that time it has been held
every other semester. Membership
of the Association at the present
time has been estimated at 200.
S. A. Lipscomb is
New Ex-Ag Member
Of Athletic Council
S. A. (Doc) Lipscomb, College
Station druggist, and former Texas
Aggie athlete, has been named
representative of the Former Stu
dents Association on the athletic
council of the Texas A&M Col
lege.
Lipscomb was a member of the
first great baseball team fielded
by the Texas Aggies, in 1905.
E. E. McQuillen, secretary of
the Former Students Association,
said Lipscomb replaces A. B.
Knickerbocker, adjutant general of
Texas, who asked to be relieved of
athletic council duties on account
of demands on his time incident
to mapping the postwar military
program and its effect upon the
State of Texas.
Seniors and ex-servicemen will
be admitted free of charge, with
or without dates, while all other
classmen will be admitted free
provided they are accompanied by
a date. Underclassmen without
dates will be required to pay an
admission fee of $>1.50.
Housing for guests will be furn
ished in Walton Hall.
Preceding the dance, a stage
show will be presented at Guion
Hall, with singing and dancing by
the same group of entertainers
who will feature the dance show.
Included on the program for the
stage show are the famous Mexi
can Hat Dance and songs and
dances by Senorita Santos Montal-
bo and her mother, Senora Montal-
bo, Senor Villareal, and Senoritas
Gonzales, Reyes ( and de la Paz,
of Houston. There wil also be an
out-of-town speaker, whose ident
ity has not yetbeen announced.
Other attractions for the week
include a Spanish motion picture
“El Gran Hotel” featuring the
famous “Cantinflas”, who is
known as the “Charlie Chaplin
of Mexico”, and a Latin-American
art exhibit at the College Library.
A thirty-minute radio program
will be presented this afternoon
over Station WTAW by members
of the club.
Also commemorating the “Good
Neighbor” week on the A. & M.
campus is a gift to the College
Library of the book “Brazil” by
E. Ramos Noguiera, Brazilian Con
sul stationed in Houston.
Youth Invited to
Baptist Revival
College Station youth of all re
ligious denominations has been in
vited to attend a city-wide Youth
Revival sponsored by the Baptist
young people of Bryan. The revival
will last from August 27-31 at the
First Baptist Church in Bryan,
with services being held at 8:15
p.m. nightly.
Preaching will be done by Rev.
Bob Polk, ministerial student at
Baylor University, who has assist
ed at the College Avenue Baptist
Church during the summer. Another
Baylor student, Frank Boggs, has
been invited to attend the revival
in the capacity of music director’.
Eight A&M Professors With 227 Years of
Service to Go on Modified List Sept. 1
Eight Texas A. & M. College
professors who have devoted a total
of 227 years to youth instruction
at Texas’ oldest state-supported
institution of higher education, will
go on modified service Sept. 1, Dr.
F. C. Bolton, executive vice presi
dent and dean of the College, an
nounced today.
These active faculty members
now taking advantage of the Col
lege’s modified service plan, in
clude four department heads and
three staff members from the
School of Arts and Sciences, and
one staff member from the School
of Agriculture. They are Dr. C.
H. Winkler, Dr. C. B. Campbell, Dr.
O. W. Silvey, Prof. W. L. Hughes,
Dr. George Summey, Jr., Prof, Hil-
lel Halperin, Prof. B. C. Jones, and
Prof. J. B. Baglay.
Dr. Winkler came to A. & M. in
1923 in the school of vocational
teaching and head of the depart
ment of agricultural education. He
was made head of the department
of psychology in 1935 when the
vocational teaching school was dis
continued.
Dr. Campbell came to A. & M. in
1903 and was made head of the
department of modern language in
1914.
Dr. Silvey came to A. & M. in
1916 from Purdue as head of the
department of physics.
Professor Hughes came to Col
lege Station in 1920 as principal
of the A. & M. Consolidated school.
In 1922-23 he was A. & M. instruc
tor in mathematics, headed the ru
ral education department until 1931
when he was made head of the
department of education.
Dr. Summey came to A. & M.
from Columbia in 1922 as head of
the English department. Several
months back he asked to be re
lieved of administrative duties but
continued as proffesor of English.
Hillel Halperin came to A. & M.
in 1920 from the University of
Arkansas and was made professor
of mathematics in 1925. He is a
native of Belgium and came to the
United States in 1910.
B. C. Jones came to A. & M. in
1921 and was made assistant pro
fessor of chemistry in 1926.
J. B. Bagley was at A. & M.
1905-07 as instructor in textile
engineering, then returned in 1908
as head of that department. When
this department was discontinued
he was made professor of cotton
marketing.