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VOLUME 45
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 1, 1945
NUMBER 6
Senior Class Sets Conduct Rules at
Ball Games, Yell Practice, Aggie Lines
The Senior Class met last Tues
day night for the purpose of dis
cussing and acting on the matters
set forth below.
Conduct at Football Games
Hats will be worn at all times
during the football games except
for “Lizzie”, “Old Army”, Spirit of
Aggieland”, and the visiting
school’s alma mater.
The Corps will remain seated at
the half except when the band
comes on or goes off of the field.
“The Aggie War Hymn” is not to
be sung at the half when the band
plays it as a march.
The Corps will stay in the stands
when the game is over until the
yell leaders give the sign to “come
on”.
There will be no more loud pro
fanity on the campus concerning
the coming football games.
There will be no more “Aggie
Confetti” thrown at yell practices.
Sophomores will stay in their
section, and not in front of the
freshmen at yell practices.
Conduct at Aggie Lines
The practice of sending one’s
bag to a line by a friend will stop.
This includes lines at the East
gate, Bryan, and the train station.
It was decided unanimously that
all articles that are on trains when
Aggies get on will also be there
when Aggies get off. All articles
taken at the TCU trip will be re
turned to Eli Barker's room in
Dorm 2.
If this is not done, there is ser
ious talk on the part of the rail
road people about moving the stop
for the Sunbeams. This is one thing
the Aggies do not want to hap
pen.
“Bohemian Girl” to
Play at Town Hall
“The Bohemian Girl”, with a cast
of 64, including a complete pit
orchestra, will be presented on A.
& M. Town Hall on November 9th,
it has been announced. The troupe
is from the famous school of Music
at North Texas State Teachers
College and the production is di
rected by Dr. W. C. Bain and Miss
Mary McCormic, the latter an ex
star of the Chicago Opera.
The story of the production is
one that will please audiences both
young and old. It has beautiful
costuming and songs that will long
be remembered.
Only five Texas cities were able
to engage this outstanding colleg
iate attraction. The reception given
Dr. Bain’s famous A Cappella choir
on its two appearances on Town
Hall was such that the genial di
rector of the Denton school included
College Station on his itinerary.
Texas Foundrymen
Will Convene Here
The Texas Chapter of the
American Foundrymen’s Associa
tion will hold its November meet
ing at Texas A. & M. College, Nov.
9-10 and mechanical engineering
students of the college will meet
with the group. Speakers will in
clude outstanding figures in the
industry among them being Ed
Trout, Lufkin; L. H. August, Hous
ton; Jack Klein, Lufkin; H. L.
Roberts, Corsicana; Ronald Web
ster, Chicago; R. E. Bockrath, Mid
land, Mich.; P. B. Groom, Hous
ton; and members of the A. & M.
College staff.
Lloyd Berryman of the A. & M.
staff is local chairman.
What’s Cooking
Thursday, November 1
7:30 p.m.: A.S.A.E. in Lecture
Room of Ag. Eng. Building.
8:00 p.m.: A.A.U.P. at YMCA
Assembly Room.
Friday, Nov. 2
All Day: Texas Baptist Student
Convention.
3:00 p.m.: College Women’s Soc
ial Club tea at Sbisa Hall.
Saturday, Nov. 3
2:30 p.m.: Broadcast of A. &
M.-Arkansas game at Fayetteville,
Arkansas.
6:00 p.m.: Baptist Student Union
banquet at Duncan Hall.
Sunday, Nov. 4
10:50 a.m.: Church services at
the church of your denomination.
Monday, Nov. 5
7:30 p.m.: Food Demonstration
for Ex-Servicemen’s Wives at Y.
M. C. A.
Tuesday, Nov. 6
11:00 a.m.: Freshman Orienta
tion—Arts and Sciences at YMCA
Chapel, Agriculture at Chemistry
Lecture Room, Engineering in As*
sembly Hall, Veterinary in Room
203 Ampitheater, Mark Francis
Hall. /
12:00 noon: Kiwanis Club at
Sbisa Hall
7:30 p.m.: American Society of
Civil Engineers in C. E. Lecture
Room.
Brazos A&M Club
Sees Grid Pictures
Ernie Pyle was the GI’s walking
delegate to history, Mrs. Edna B.
Woods, reader’s adviser for the
Texas A&M Library, told the
monthly meeting of the Brazos
County A&M Club held Friday
evening at the Bryan Country
Club.
In reviewing Pyle’s book, Brave
Men, Mrs. Woods said Ernie, as he
was affectionately known to the
reading public, became so success
ful as a plain man reporting nor
mal activities and war accomplish
ments of other plain men that he
achieved a lasting fame he never
wanted.
Johnny Frankie, assistant foot
ball coach, showed motion pictures
of the Texas Aggie-Ellington Field
football game, which the Aggies
won 54 to 0 to open the 1945
season.
The club voted to hold another
party near Christmas somewhat
similar to the one held last year.
President W. R. Carmichael ap
pointed J. D. Martin, Jr., J. E. Rob
erts and Roy Garrett a committee
to arrange the party, which will
include wives of the membership.
Committee reports were made by
P. L. Downs, Jr., in handling his
work as Good Samaritan for the
club, and by J. E. Roberts on
athletic relationship. The president
appointed L. G. Perryman, M. T.
Harrington and C. E. Sandstedt a
committee to help Mr. Downs care
for wounded and injured former
students who will attend the
Thanksgiving football game.
Around 125 former A. & M. stu
dents and their wives attended the
meeting.
Ex-Servicemen Plan
Better Organization
Amid prospects for a better or
ganization for the current semes
ter, the Ex-servicemen’s Club met
last Tuesday night, October 16.
After introductory remarks by
president Bob Criswell, in which he
urged attendance at meetings and
cooperation of all, the constitution
of the club was read by the secre
tary.
Mr. Kennedy, Ex-servicemen Ad
ministrator on the campus, gave
advice to the new members of the
club and reiterated the Veteran’s
Administration’s wililngness to aid
all veterans. He also related that
the average grade for ex-servie-
men was higher than for the school
as a whole. J. T. L. McNew gave
a brief talk on what was trying to
be done for veterans by the Col
lege.
Bennie A. Zinn, an ex-service-
man himself, who is in charge of
veterans’ scholastic work, pledged
his aid as adviser to all members
present.
After these talks the club en
tered into social discussions. It
was decided that a dance, sponsor
ed by the club for all new mem
bers be given in the near fu
ture. Details will be forthcoming
after decisions by the entertain
ment committee.
Will Speak At Baptist Students Convention
W. F. Howard
State BSU Secretary
Lt. Billie Patterson
U. S. Navy
Rev. W. O. Vaught
of Little Rock, Arkansas
1,300 Visitors Will Attend Baptist
Student Convention Here November 2-4
Approximately 1,300 out-of-town
registrations have been received
at the Baptist Students’ Union in
Dallas for the 26th annual state
convention which is slated to open
on the Texas A. & M. campus on
November 2.
Three recent graduates of Texas
colleges will address the convention
at the Saturday evening session in
Guion Hall. For one of these young
men, Joe Boyd of Dallas, it will be
a homecoming event. Boyd gained
All-Ameidca fame in 1940 while
playing tackle on the Texas Aggie
football team. Speaking at the
same hotir will be Lt. Billy Pat
terson, USN, who was an opponent
of Boyd while playing all-confer
ence football for Baylor University
from 1937 to 1|940. The third
speaker for the evening is Lt. Orba
Lee Malone, AAF, B-29 pilot and
Baylor graduate.
The pre-convention registration
figure of 1,300 does not include
A. & M. students and other local
persons. It is estimated that at
least 300 Aggies will register and
that attendance for the principal
sessions will near the 2,000 mark.
Baylor University, with 204 re
gistrants, will bring the largest
delegation from out of town. Har-
din-Simmons of Abilene will fur-
ish 175 students, while Mary Har
din with 108, Texas university with
80, Howard Payne with 74, and Tex
as Tech with 70 will be represented.
A total of more than 40 colleges
and universities throughout Texas
will send delegates. They will be
housed in Dorms 14, 15, 16, and
17, and meals will be taken at
Duncan Hall.
The convention will be addressed
by a number of well-known state
religious and educational leaders,
including Pres. Gibb Gilchrist of
Texas A. & M., Rev., R. L. Brown,
of the local First Baptist Church,
Dr. Wallace Bassett of Dallas, Dr.
C. E. Hereford of Lubbock, Rev.
W. O. Vaught of Little Rock, Ark.,
Miss Jenny Lind Gatlin of Nash
ville, Tenn., Rev. Woodson Armes
of Waco, and Dr. J. W. “Bill” Mar
shall of Richmond, Va.
The opening session will be held
at the First Baptist Church as will
the Saturday morning and after
noon sessions. The Saturday eve
ning and Sunday morning meetings
will be held at Guion "Call, and the
A. & M. cadet corps and general
public have been invited to attend.
Engineers Elect
Street President
W. E. Street, head of the depart
ment of engineering drawing of
Texas A. & M. College, was elected
temporary president of the local
chapter of the Texas Society of
Professional Engineers at an or
ganization meeting of engineers of
area 14 held in the Chemistry lec
ture room Thursday evening. J. S.
Griffith, Brazos county engineer,
was elected vice-president and O.
L. Crain, resident engineer for the
Texas Highway department was
elected secretary-treasurer.
Area 14 is composed of the fol
lowing counties: Brazos, Burleson,
Grimes, Leon, Madison, Milam,
Robertson, Walker and Washing
ton. Approximately thirty engineers
attended the meeting and joined
the local chapter.
Feed Manufacturers
Hold Meeting Here
A good cross section of feeding
experiments with livestock and
poultry was given here Friday and
Saturday by Texas A&M College
personnel to the fall meeting of
the Texas Feed Manufacturers As
sociation.
Dr. Paul B. Pearson, Agricultural
Experiment Station nutritionist,
handled the showing of a motion
picture, “Vitamins and Some Def
iciencies,” at the banquet held Fri
day evening at Aggieland Inn.
D. H. Reid, professor of Poultry
Husbandry, was on Saturday’s
program in discussion of “The
Work Before Us.”
Other speakers, all from the
Agricultural Experiment Station,
and their subjects, were: “Feed
Control,” F. D. Brock, chief, Feed
Control Service; “Finishing Poul
try with Natural Feed and Stimu
lants,” R. M. Sherwood, chief, Divi
sion of Poultry Husbandry; “Vit
amin A Requirements for Dairy
Cattle,” O. C. Copeland, chief, Di
vision of Dairy Husbandry; “Re
cent Studies on the Evaluation of
Proteins,” Dr. Carl M. Lyman,
swine nutritionist, and “Choline in
Chick Rations”, Dr. V. H. Melass,
BAR-B-Q and DANCE
A barbecue and dance, spon
sored by the A. & M. Ex-Serv
icemen’s Club, will be held this
Friday night at 7:15 at the
American Legion Hall on the
Madisonville Highway, just out
side of Bryan. All ex-service
men, their wives and dates are
urged to attend.
Mothers and Dads
Will Give Barbecue
The barbecue supper sponsored
by the Mothers and Dads Club of
A. & M. Consolidated school will
open at 6:30 o’clock Thursday night
at the school gymnasium, it has
been announced by H. L. Hunt,
president of the group.
Plans have been mad6 to feed
an entertain several hundred per
sons, since the suppers given by
the club are one of the most pop
ular forms of entertainment of
fered in the community. The sup
per this year has the added attrac
tion of being prepared and planned
by the Dads of the club.
The supper is open to the public
and funds derived from it will be
used to improve the school.
Campus Study Club
Approves Budget,
Hears Mrs. Sorrels
The Campus Study Club, Mrs.
P. B. Pearson, president, presiding,
met at 3:00 o’clock Tuesday after
noon at the YMCA at which time
the budget was presented and ap
proved, and Mrs. D. W. Andres
was granted an associate member
ship.
Mrs. Tom Covey, Jr., hostess, in
troduced Mrs. H. K. Stephenson,
chairman of the Fine Arts Com
mittee, who presented Miss Mar
garet Medbery. Miss Medbery sang
a collection of songs, accompanied
by Grace Krug on the piano.
The subject of the program was
“World Organization for Peace”,
in which Mrs. Joe Sorrels traved
our efforts for a lasting peace
from the Atlantic Charter to the
San Francisco Conference.
Eco Club is Really
Basic Corporation
The Texas A&M Economics
club met at 7 o’clock Wednesday
night in room 307 of the Academic
building for the first time since
before the war.
The club was first organized in
1938, by its sponsor Mr. R. L. El
kins, who has recently returned to
the faculty after serving four
years in the United States Army
as a Lt. Colonel.
At the meeting Wednesday night
these officers were elected: Presi
dent, Pete Utesch, Brenham, Tex
as; vice-president, Frank Smith,
McKinney, Texas; secretary-treas
urer, Wallace Beck, San Antonio,
Texas; publicity manager, Bob En
glish, Dallas, Texas.
These officers and five other
members will serve as the Board
of Directors. Among these direc
tors are: Jerry Dwight, Port Ar
thur; Melvin Pruitt, Aransas Pass;
Fred Nelson, McKinney; Fount
Ray, Brownsville; Jack Gore, Beau
mont.
EX-SERVICEMEN’S WIVES
INVITED TO FOOD SHOW
A food demonstration will be
held for all wives of ex-servicemen
on the campus on Monday, No
vember 5. The demonstration is
scheduled for 7:30 p. m. at the
Y.M.C.A. and all GI wives are in
vited regardless of membership in
the Ex-Servicemen’s Auxiliary.
Community Chest
Has $9,130 Budget
The college community chest
campaign is scheduled to get un
derway Monday with a budget of
$9,130 as this year’s goal, Dr. R.
W. Steen, chairman of the commu
nity chest committee has an
nounced. The budget was set at a
meeting of the committee last Fri
day.
This year’s goal is a reduction
of more than $5,000 over the
budget for last year, with major
reductions on the Red Cross war
fund and the National war fund.
Increases were approved for the
Brazos county Boy and Girl Scout
budgets.
Dr. Steen said that the commit
tee hoped the campaign budget
could be raised by the end of next
week. He explained that the com
munity chest committee had care
fully considered each item in the
budget. “We have studied the
budget requests of various organi
zations and some members of the
committee have spent time gath
ering additional information where
it has been necessary to substanti
ate an item. The final budget, we
feel, is as fair as we could make
it from the contributors stand
point,” Dr. Steen stated.
This is the only community chest
campaign conducted on the cam
pus during the year. No other
public solicitations are permitted
at the college, he pointed out.
Contributors on last year’s com
munity chest included members of
the college system, its staff and
its divisions, Y.M.C.A., exchange
stoi’e, A.A.A., Consolidated school,
College Station merchants and
many citizens of the community.
Hereford Society
To Hold Auction
Here In February
Members of the Mid-South Tex
as Hereford Association meeting
Oct. 26 at the Texas A&M College
voted to hold their annual auction
sale at College Station Feb. 20,
and the executive committee was
instructed to plan for a show the
forenoon of sales’ day.
Dr. J. L. Jinkins of Normangee
was elected president for the com
ing year, replacing his brother, Dr.
W. J. Jinkins. Other officers elect
ed included F. W. Worley, Rock
dale, vice president; B. J. Baskin,
Bryan, secretary, and Ward Moor
ing, Bi’yan, treasurer.
Among the resolutions adopted
was an appeal to the two Texas
senators and Texas Congressmen
representing the nine counties em
braced by the organization to use
their influences to bring a halt to
beef rationing, to pi’evail upon the
U. S. Secretary of Agriculture to
institute a program giving assur
ance to cattle breeders and feeders
as to what market they could ex
pect for a period of six months,
and endorsement was given the
proposal of the American National
Livestock Association to lift beef
subsidies.
F. W. Worley, Fred Wimberly
and B. J. Baskin were named h
sifting committee to pass upon
bulls and heifers consigned to the
annual auction sale.
The executive committee also
was instructed to arrange a tour
of the ranches of the membership
next spring or early summer.
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, the College Community Chest is the agency through
which our citizens contribute to numerous worthy organizations,
and
WHEREAS, the College Community Chest makes it possible
for the people of this community to meet all their charitable ob
ligations through one campaign for funds, and
WHERfcAS, the week of November 5-10 has been set as the date
for Community Chest subscriptions,
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Ernest Langford, Mayor of the City of
College Station, do hereby proclaim November 5-10 as Commun
ity Chest week, and do urge all of our people to contribute gen
erously and promptly to the Community Chest.
ERNEST LANGFORD, Mayor.
Sophomore Class
Prexy is Laughlin
A meeting of the Sophomore
Class for the purpose of electing
officers for the coming scholastic
year was held last Friday evening
immediately after mess. The meet
ing was held in the Assembly Hall.
The meeting was called to order
by Cadet Colonel Eli Barker, who
presided until the class president
was named. Martin Vick, head yell
leader, and Bob King, Senior pres
ident, also attended the meeting
and supervised the election, for the
class.
The officers elected were: Jack
Laughlin, C Company, president;
O. L. Slaughter, D Troop, vice-
president; Hershel Wood, D Com
pany, secretary; and Frank Mar-
couledes, D Battery, treasurer.
Activity of the Sophomore Class
will include, among other things,
the famous Sweetheart Revue
which was inaugurated last spring
and which proved to be one of
the highlights of the spring social
season.
City Restores Ten
Percent Discount
On Utility Bills
Announcement of restoration of
a ten percent discount on city util
ity bills was announced yesterday
by representatives of the City
Council of College Station. The
discount, applicable only to bills
paid before the fifteenth day of
the month following, the rendering
of electrical service, had been cut
to five percent as of July 1 in order
to finance the city recreation pro
gram.
Restoration of the ten percent
deduction was made possible by a
lowering of rates by Texas A. &
M. College, producer of the power,
and takes effect as of October 1.
The lowered rates come within a
few dollars of equalling the exact
amount which will be passed on as
a saving to utility consumers by
means of the discount, according
to Mayor Ernest Langford.
The mayor denied vigorously the
rumor that restoration of the full
discount would have any effect
upon city financial support of the
community play program, stating
that “The City Council has no in
tention of discontinuing its sup
port of whatever recreation pro
gram the community may want”
and that “There is no relation
whatsoever between restoration of
the utility discount and the recre
ation program.”
City records indicate that $746.95
has been allocated to the recrea
tion program during the three-
months duration of the reduced
discount and that approximately
$350.00 of that amount is still un
expended. The city was committed
to support of the recreation pro
gram as the result of an informal
ballot taken last July at a popular
meeting.
Vance to Preside
At Science Academy
Meeting- In Waco
The Geography and Geology
section of the Texas Academy of
Science wil meet at Baylor Uni
versity at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Nov
ember 9, and the subject matter
of speakers will be resources of
Texas.
Harold Vance, vice president,
head of the Petroleum Engineer
ing department of Texas A. & M.
College, College Station, will pre
side.
Speakers will include Dr. Luther
G. Jones, head of the A. & M.
Agronomy department; Trigg
Twichell, hydraulic engineer, Aus
tin; W. L. Broadhurst, U. S. Geo
logical Survey, Austin; Olin Cul
berson, Railroad Commissionetr,
Austin; Z. W. Bartlett, Port Sul
phur, La.; and A. A. L. Matthews,
A. & M. College Geology depart
ment.