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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1946)
4 * A DIAL 4-6444 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION The Texas A«M College alion WEEKLY STUDENT NEWSPAPER DEEP IN AGGIELAND TEXAS A. & M. VOLUME 45 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 24, 1946 NUMBER 16 Melody Maids Slated For All-Girl Show at Guion Hall Friday The Melody Maids, a group of 50 personable girl sing ers from Beaumont, will be presented here on Friday, Jan uary 25, under the auspices of the Senior Class. One of Beaumont’s youngest and most popular choral groups, the Melody Maids were organized in 1942 by Mrs. Eloise Milam, the present director. Several soloists are featured in the all-girl show, and accompanist is Miss Lera Mae Gosch. The girls are not connected with any particular school, but are made up of high school and Lamar Junior College students in com bination with local Beaumont busi ness girls. Eco Club Invites “ Public to Hear E. 0. Cartwright E. O. Cartwright, manager of the Dallas office of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Beane, will speak at an open meeting of the Economics Club here at 7:30 o’clock tonight in the Chemistry lecture room. Subject for Mr. Cartwright’s discussion will be “Investments and the Stock Exchange.” Cartwright is noted as an au thority on stock exchange opera tions and investments. He has ap peared on the A. & M. Campus several times during the past few years, and has the reputation of being an interesting and informa tive speaker. The meeting is open to the pub lic, and all faculty members, stu dents, and other residents are in vited to attend. Cooperation Is Requested in Scheduling Dates Individuals and organizations on the Texas A. & M. campus and in College Station are urged to use the facilities of The Battalion and the Student Activities office to schedule meetings and social af fairs. “Your cooperation in this respect will accomplish a two-fold pur pose,” stated the manager of Stu dent Activities today. “All too often three or four affairs have been scheduled for the same time on the same day, so that persons are often prevented from attending meetings at which they would like to be present. “Secondly, reporting your meet ing dates in advance to the office will permit inclusion in ‘What’s Cooking’, the calendar of events printed weekly in The Battalion. This should help to avoid misun derstanding as to the time and place of meetings and make for better attendance.” The information should be tele phoned to The Battalion office at 4-5444 or 4-5324, or addressed to Student Activities through the Fac ulty Exchange. What’s Cooking Thursday, Jan. 24 7:30 p.m.: Economics Club at Chemistry lecture room, open to public. 7:30 p.m.: Ex-Servicemen’s wives at clubhouse. Friday, Jan. 25 2:30 p.m.: College Women’s So cial Club at Sbisa Hall. 6:15 p.m.: Singing Cadets ban quet at Sbisa Hall. 8:00 p.m.: Melody Maids All- Girl stage show at Guion Hall. Monday, Jan. 26 9:00 a.m.: Registration for Soft Drink Bottlers short course at Y. M. C. A. Tuesday, Jan. 27 12:00 noon: Kiwanis Club at Sbisa Hall. Wednesday, Jan. 28 7:30 p.m.: Aggieland Orchestra and Singing Cadets in Final Jam boree at Guion Hall. Thursday, Jan. 29 6:30 p.m.: Annual Aggie football banquet at Sbisa Hall. During the war the Melody Maids presented their show “Sere nade in Blue” at many army camps, naval bases, hospitals, and War Bond rallies throughout Tex as and Louisiana, and were cited by the Texas Federation of Music Clubs “for exceptional services in promotion of the war effort”. Press clippings from Fort Crockett and Camp Polk indicate that they were enormously popular with the GI’s and were called back for repeat performances time after time. From the Beaumont Rotary Club comes the observation that “Every body knows they are the Rotary Club’s favorite entertainers. An informal vote by the program committee chairmen chose their last program as the best enter tainment program for the first six months . . The girls are beauti ful, vivacious, charming, gracious —and they can sing! . . . Their director embodies in one small package enough personality, enough magnetism, enough musical genius ... for a whole room full of women.” Expected to be heard on Friday’s show are such Aggie favorites as “Stardust”, “Rhapsody in Blue”, “Ave Maria”, “Sweet and Love ly”, “Tea for Two”, and many other popular numbers. The group also features several numbers such as Miss Nell Ray’s whistling rendi tion of “Indian Love Call” and a military skit which includes a muted trumpet solo by Margaret Jones. The Melody Maids’ show is Scheduled to get under way at 8:00 p. jn. at Guion Hall. Admission price is 25tf. The show is not" a Town Hall performance. Kiwanis Observes Anniversary With Record Attendance The College Station Kiwanis Club observed the 31st Anniversary of Kiwanis International Tuesday as a record attendance of 116 members was recorded at the regu lar weekly luncheon meeting. Program for the day was in charge of John J. Sperry, chair man of the Kiwanis Education Committee. George Wilcox, pres ident of the College Station club, read an Anniversary Message from Hamilton Halt, president of Kiwa nis International, and C. B. Camp bell outlined and explained the functions of the committee on Ki wanis Education. The meeting was concluded by the unison reading of a pledge of rededication to Ki wanis principles by members of the club, led by A1 B. Nelson. Visitors included several enrollees at the R. E. A. Co-op managers’ short course, and Mrs. Ara Has- well who made an appeal in behalf of the March of Dimes drive for the Infantile Paralysis Fund. fH : ■ ra jm , i i \ 1 ’ , ' J K- Rib l rMIS ■ THE MELODY MAIDS will appear at Guion Hall tomorrow night at 8:00 under the sponsorship of the Senior Class of Texas A. & M. In accepting the invitation to perform on the Aggie campus, Mrs. Eloise Milam, director of the group, made this comment: “I believe you will like the girls. They are attractive, entertaining and well behaved.” Off to a Flying Start Try oh ts Bpgin For Aggie Play Final Jamboree Will Be Next Wed. A farewell Jamboree will be held next Wednesday night that prom ises to be one of the best of the series. The Aggieland Orchestra and the Singing Cadets, both under the direction of Bill Turner, are scheduled to be the feature attrac tions. The boys in the band have some new arrangements of both old and new Aggie favorites, some of which are Woody Herman’s “Apple Honey,” and “Carioca.” Boyd Rog- ex-s, talented fish from Abilene, will render “Love Letters,” and a new style “I Don’t Know Why I Love You Like I Do.” The ever popular Singing Cadets will sing “Begin the Beguine,” and “The Lost Choi'd,” With a spe cial solo part by Watson Keeny. The Jamboree will start prompt ly at 7:30 next Wednesday night. Short Course for Soft Drink Bottlers Attracts 32 Out-of-State Enrollees Approximately 50 pei’sons, in cluding 32 out-of-state enrollees, are expected to attend A. & M.’s second short course for the bott ling industry here from January 28 through February 16. Insti’uction for the short course, designed to provide training for representatives of soft drink bott lers in all phases of the industry, will be furnished by Texas A. & M. staff members and by tech nicians from many firms who sup ply materials to the industry. Mem bers of the A. & M. faculty who will assist in the short course are Dr. W. M. Potts and Dr. M. T. Harring ton of the Chemistry Department, Professor E. H. Gibbons of the Biology Department, Dr. James G. Potter of the Physics Depart ment, Hall Logan and V. M. Faires of Management Engineering, Joe H. Sorrels and P. J. Alwin Zeller of the Municipal Sanitary Engineer ing Department, J. S. Hopper of the School of Engineering, E. Sim- mang of the Mechanical Engineer ing Department, E. L. Williams of Industrial Education, and Ernest Langford of the Ai'chitecture De partment. Registrations have been received from enrollees from California, North Carolina, and many other states, according to L. R. Hick man, who is in charge of arrange ments for the coux*se. Those attend ing will be housed on the top floor of Dormitory 11, and meals will be taken in Duncan Hall. Registration will be held in the Y. M. C. A. Mon day morning, January 28, and ses sions will be conducted in the Petroleum Engineering, lecture room. • Over 45 persons attended the't' first meeting of the Texas A. & M. Dramatic Club held in the Assem bly Hall Tuesday evening, January 22. Mr. Harry Kida spoke to the group on “The Barter Theater” of Bristol, Tennessee, explaining that The Barter Theater, as the naihe implies, bartered acting for com modities of any nature useful to the actors. At one time, Kidd re lated, a patron of the theater led a cow into the theater, milked it in front of the audience, and pre sented the pail of milk for admis sion. The Barter Theater became famous as a testing ground for new plays and new talent for Broadway. Tryouts were held for the first major play of the spring semester, “You Can’t Take It With You,” to be presented dui’ing March, 1946. Tryouts will be continued at the next meeting on February 5. Following an introductory talk by F. L. Hood, faculty advisor, out lining tentative plans for the or ganization, Bill Zoller took charge of a business meeting as tempo rary chaii*man. A committee was elected to prepare a slate of offi cers for election at the Febnxary 5 meeting. E. W. Glenn Resigns Position at A. & M. Edgar W. Glenn, on militay leave fi’om the A. & M. College depart ment of industrial education has x-esigned to accept appointment as deputy director, Construction and Supply Seiwice, Veterans Admins- tration, Dallas, it was announced today. Mr. Glenn was associated with A. & M. College from 1928 until he left for military duty in 1941. He taught in both the departments of engineering drawing and indus trial education, and directed the Singing Cadets from 1932 until 1937. He also served as executive secretary of the Texas State Plan ning Committee for Industrial Arts Ex-Servicemen’s Wives Meet Tonite Four committee chairmen and other committeemen were appoint ed Thursday night at an executive meeting of the Ex-Servicemen’s Wives Club. Doris Ford will serve as chair man of the social committee with Marion Cittadino, Ossie McKenna, and Lucy Westbrook assisting. Ludy Sullivan was named head of the publicity committee with Hilda Steig and Mary Higbee as com mittee members. Betty Webb, chairman, and Claire Evans are serving as the membership com mittee. Elizabeth Gibbs was named as chairman of the program commit tee. Walt Wester and vice president Mozelle Sturkie will also serve with her. President Wilma Parker an nounced that officers and commit teemen will meet again at the Ex- Servicemen’s Clubhouse tonight at 7:30 o’clock to complete plans for the spring semester. Social Calendar Has 16 Dances Already Set For Spring Semester Nights Four Class Balls, Two Regimental Formals, Veteran’s Dance, Cotton Pageant, Eight Corps Balls — Wheee Longhorn Wants More Snapshots of Outfit Activities The LONGHORN is again asking all company commanders to have the men in their companies make snapshots of company and dormi tory life in their respective com panies. They are also requested to have these men take snaps of any activities from bull sessions to formal dances. This will have to be done in order to have all compa nies and individuals properly re presented in the yearbook. The presidents of the campus clubs are reminded that there is very little room left in the annual for Home Town Clubs and the vari ous other clubs on the campus. Re servations for the space for these in the yearbook must be made by the end of this week. After the resei'vation has been made, the edi tor will notify the club as to the time and place the picture will be made. H. P. Smith Named Chairman of Texas Resources Library H. P. Smith, chief of the Divi sion of Agricultural Engineering, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, was named chairman of the boai'd of the Library of the Texas Natux*al Resources Founda tion at the recent meeting of that organization in San Antonio. Mi*. Smith had been vice chairman of the board and chairman of the budget committee. Harold Vance, head of the Petro leum Engineering Department, was renamed chairman of the Library’s book committee. The Library of the Texas Natural Resources Foundation, which main tains headquarters • in the Aztec building at San Antonio, provides means through which knowledge of Texas’ natural resources and their development and conservation may be readily available to the citizens of the State. ♦ A full social calendar for the spring semester has been scheduled by the Office of Student Activities, with the close cooperation of the various heads of the planning com mittees of the affairs. There are sixteen dances on the roster at present, and another will be added, that of the Final Ball, as soon as plans for the old-time Final Review are completed. There are dates al ready set for four class balls, two regimental formals, an ex-service men’s dance and the Cotton Pa geant. A Corps Ball will be held on the night after each of these; eight are scheduled. The planning committees are be ing organized at the present and will start work as soon as possible on their respective dances. The spring semester social cal endar follows: Feb. 22-23, Composite Regimen tal Formal and Corps Ball. March 8-9, Ex-Servicemen’s Dance and Corps Dance. March 15-16, Infantry Regimen tal Foi’mal and Corps Ball. March 29-30, Freshman Ball and Corps Dance; April 12-13, Cotton Pageant and Corps Ball. Api'il 26-27, Sophomore Dance and Corps Dance. May 3-4, Junior Prom and Corps Dance. May 10-11, Senior Ring Dance and Corps Ball; and the Final Ball. “This is to be the biggest and best social season since the begin ning of the war, and the ensuing slump in enrallment here,” was the opinion of Joe Skiles, manager of Student Activities. NOTICE All students who wish part- time employment during the Spring term (February 4 to May 25) are urged to file an application I’enewal with the Placement Office immediately. Those students who have not filed applications but desire em ployment should file with us an application at this time. Re newals and applications will be accepted beginning Friday, Jan. 18, 1946. The Placement Office. Julia Ball Lee Endowment Fund Open to Biology Scholars Who Need Assistance A scholarship fund for needy Aggies who do outstanding work in the Biological Sciences has been announced to be the Julia Lee Ball Endowment Fund, which was set up by the late Dr. and Mrs. O. M. Ball, consisting of thirty-two thou sand dollars in bonds. The income from these bonds is to be used for the rewarding and assistance of outstanding men who have shown special aptitudes in one or more of the Biological Sciences, and who have a definite need for finances. Dr. Ball is the late head of the Biology Department. These awards are made through a committee composed of the Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, the head of the Biology Depart- Education. ment, and one other Biology pro fessor. The present committee is headed by Dean T. D. Bx-ooks, and includes Dr. C. C. Doak and Dr. G. E. Potter. The first award from the fund is to be made on February 1 for the next semester. Applications are now being received by this com mittee by letter. They are filed in the Registx-ar’s office until the committee meets. The maximum sum for next semester will be two hundred dol lars. The award will be continued with a maximum amount of two hundred and twenty-five dollars for the long terms. v The award will be made on out standing work in the Biologic Sci ences, with other courses and the grade point ratio in correlation. NOTICE Students in the following groups may register for the Spring semester during their vacant periods on Wednesday and Thursday, January 30 and 31. A. Those who have no failing grades on their permanent rec ords in past semesters and none on their preliminary grade re ports in residence. B. Those who were distin guished during their last prev ious semester in residence. Students qualifying under either of these conditions must make application for this priv ilege on forms to be obtained in the Registrar’s office. Thursday, January 24 is the last date on which a student may apply for early registra tion. H. L. HEATON, Registrar. NOTICE OF AWARD FROM JULIA BALL LEE ENDOWMENT A selection will be made February 1st of the recipient of an undergraduate fellowship award in Biology which will pay a maximum of $200 for the en suing semester. Applications will be made in form of a letter addressed to the Julia Ball Lee Endowment Committee and filed at the office of the Registrar. The Committee will select for this fellowship, the student with the best record in the Biologic Sciences with consideration also of other grades. Stipend will be adjusted to needs of the student within the announced maximum. Applicants should include in let ters of application their classi fication, the amount of work taken in Biologic Sciences and a statement of the extent to which they have been dependent on their own earnings. Dean T. D. Brooks, Chairman Julia Ball Lee Endowment Com mittee. 4