Texas A& M
alion
Volume 45
College Station, Texas, Monday Afternoon, March 4, 1946
$750 TCCA Award
Resumed This Year
Postwar resumption of the an
nual $750 Texas Cottonseed Crush
ers’ Association graduate fellow
ship at the Texas A. and M. Col
lege has been announced by R. H.
Blyth, president. The association
also will resume its custom of hold
ing the winter board of directors
meeting on the A. and M. College
campus March 4, it was announced
by Dean Charles N. Shepardson of
the School of Agriculture.
The mechanized production of
cotton will be the study financed
by the graduate fellowship award,
and the honor has been granted to
W. L. Ulich of Caldwell who grad
uated from Texas A. and M. Col
lege with a bachelor of science de
gree in^agricultural engineering in
February, 1943.
Ulich, a national 4-H Club win
ner in 1939, originally entered the
college as the 6000th student to
register for the fall semester which
broke all existing attendance rec
ords at the college. He entered on
proceeds of a $300 cash scholarship
award for his proficiency as a 4-H
Club boy in raising cotton, hogs
and beef cattle.
Following his graduation in 1943,
Ulich joined the Army Air Corps
and flew C-54 ships over the Hima
layas in the China-Burma-India
theater of operations. He flew the
hump on 58 missions safely and
came home a first lieutenant wear
ing the Distinguished Flying Cross,
the Air Medal, the Chinese Libera
tion Medal and the Chinese Memo
rial Medal. He is married and the
father of one child.
As a Texas Cottonseed Crushers’
Association research fellow, Ulich
will conduct his graduate work on
the Brazos river plantation owned
by Texas A. and M. College, Dean
Shepardson announced.
County Officials to
Have Short Course
A short course on current prob
lems of county officials, especially
county judges and commissioners,
will be held here March 20-22 by
Texas A. & M. College in coopera
tion with the County Judges and
Commissioners Association of Tex
as.
Subjects covered will include
road construction and maintenance,
mixed-in-place asphalt surfacing,
developments in soil stabilization,
soil conservation, county agent
work and tax delinquencies and
other tax problems. Lecturers, in
addition to college staff members,
will include state highway engi
neers.
Hotel reservations may be made
by writing J. A. Orr, professor
of civil engineering, who is direc
tor of the short course. The pro
gram is jointly-presented by the
college department of civil engi
neering, Extension Service and Ag
ricultural Experiment Station.
The program of the course fol
lows:
March 20—Registration, 10 a.m.;
1:30 p.m.—Welcoming address by
Gibb Gilchrist, president of Texas
A. & M. College; 2 p.m.—Stabili
zation of soils for county roads, by
A. C. Love, senior laboratory and
research engineer, Texas Highway
department; 3 p.m.—Discussion of
soil stabilization, led by J. T. L.
McNew, college vice president for
(See SHORT COURSE, Page 2)
BATTALION STAFF TO
HAVE DINNER TUESDAY
Members of The Battalion staff
will meet at 6:00 p.m. Tuesday,
March 5, in Room 3 of the Admin
istration building. After a short
discussion period, the staff will ad
journ to Sbisa Hall for dinner.
Any student who wishes to write
for the paper is invited to attend.
Texas Association Sponsors Research
L. S. KEEN O. D. BUTLER
L. S. Keen, Corsicana (left), president of the Texas Frozen Food
Locker Association, has announced the awarding of a fellowship by the
Association to O. D. Butler (right), graduate student at the Agricul
tural and Mechanical College of Texas from Orange. Butler will do re
search at Texas A. & M. on problems affecting the handling of meats in
frozen food locker plants under the fellowship. The grant was made
through the Texas A. & M. College Development Fund.
Second REA Short
Course Will Be Held
Second of a series of four short
courses in foremanship and super
vision for leaders of REA line
crews will be held in Lubbock
March 21-23, it was announced to
day by E. L. Williams, director of
the Texas A. & M. College Indus
trial Extension Service.
The courses are designed to as
sist foremen of the rural electrifi
cation construction and mainten
ance teams in their work. The first
was held recently in San Antonio,
Williams said, and two more are
planned this spring at Dallas and
Tyler. In addition, two courses for
crew chiefs of the Lower Colorado
River Authority are being sched
uled.
Kennel Club Meets
Tonight at 7:15
An important meeting of the
Brazos Valley Kennel Club will be
held in the Animal Industries build
ing reading room at 7:15 p.m. Mon
day to discuss final plans for the
Dog Show which will bring hun
dreds of outstanding animals on
the Texas Circuit to College Sta
tion in April, it was announced by
club officials.
A full attendance of members of
the club and any interested per
sons is urged by club officials. It
is likely that the bench show un
der American Kennel Club auspices
will attract some of the finest dogs
in the nation to the College Sta
tion show r , it was stated, and a full
representation of Brazos Valley
citizens and dog-lovers is necessary
to the success of the event.
NOTICE
ENGINEERING STUDENTS
All engineering students will
gather in Guion Hall at 11 a.m.
Tuesday, March 5, to hear a
talk by Curtis E. Calder of New
York City, an outstanding fig
ure in the national public util
ity field and chairman of the
board of the Electric Bond and
Share Company.
Students will meet their 11
o’clock classes and then proceed
to Guion Hall. Calder, who long
has professed a great interest
in Texas A. & M. College, will
spend the day on the campus.
AGGIE HORSEMEN PLAN
NEW RIDING CLUB
All persons interested in organ
izing a riding club on the Texas
A. & M. campus are invited to
meet Tuesday night, March 5, At
7:30 in Room 205 Petroleum Eng
ineering Building.
Purposes of the organizatioon
will be to promote better facilities
for those who wish to keep horses
while at school and to revive the
polo team and jumping team. The
meeting is open too all students
and staff .members who are inter
ested in good horsemanship.
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OPEN
TO WIVES OF GRAD STUDENTS
The Rural Sociology Extension
course open to wives of graduate
students at 3:00 Mondays, Wednes-
lays and Fridays in Room 203,
Agricultural Building, is being
changed from R. S. 312 (General
Sociology) to R. S. 311 (Social
Psychology.)
The new course will deal prima
rily with analysis of social rela
tions in various types of groups—
family, school, occupational, recrea
tional, communiay, etc., and the
effect of these upon the develop
ment of personality. Emphasis will
be placed upon practical problems
of adjustment within these groups
of special interest to those taking
the course.
This course will carry college
credit of three semester hours. A
previous course in sociology is not
a prerequisite.
Freshmen Elect
C. M. Bell President
At a meeting of the freshman
class last Thursday the fish elect
ed their class officers for the
spring semester. They were: Pres
ident, Chester M. Bell, Jr., Ag Eco
major from San Antonio; vice-
president, Robert B. McJilton, M.E.
major from Fort Worth; secretary-
treasurer, Donald M. Dietz, Agri
culture major from McAllen.
Brazos Aggies to
Take Over “T” Party
Members of the Brazos A. &
M. Club voted Thursday night to
accept a committee report whereby
the club would take over the “T”
banquet given for years by the Tex
as A. & M. Athletic Council and
combine its functions with the an
nual Christmas party of the club.
The combined event in the future
will be held the night of the third
Friday in January.
Through the courtesy of the Tex
as High School Coaches Associa
tion, club members saw motion pic
tures of the State championship
high school football game last
Christmas day between Waco and
Highland Park.
Other action taken at the meet
ing included: voted not to hold the
annual club muster this year, but
to combine this normal function
with the homecoming of the Texas
A. & M. Former Students Associa
tion; adoption of a committee re
port on appropriate signs for'
streets, business houses, and yards
incident to the homecoming; com
mendation to Athletic Council for
appointment of P. L. Downs, Jr.
as business manager of athletics,
and to Marty Karow for his out
standing job of coaching the 1946
Aggie basketball team; condolence
to Judge A. S. Ware on the acci
dental death of his son. Captain
A. S. Ware, Jr. in an automobile
accident overseas; instructed W. R.
Carmichael, club president, to ap
point a committee to select a duch
ess to represent the club at the
Cotton Pageant Ball; heard re
ports from other committees not
requiring positive action.
Mit Dansby won the attendance
prize drawing.
Aggie Linksters
Battle Wind in
First Workouts
Saturday, March 2, competion
got underway for positions on the
Aggie golf team. The matches
were held on the Bryan Country
club course.
Top scores of the day were turn
ed in by Washington who carded a
75, Dutan 75, Qualls 78, Frank 82,
Johnston 82, and Harwood 83.
Sunday, while the wind practical
ly blew a gale, the top scorers
Qualls beat Washington 3 up.
Qualls carding a 76 and Washing
ton a 79. Frank dumped Rutan,
2 up. Frank had an 85 while Ru
tan jumped to a hefty, wind-blown
87. Johnston shaded Harwood 2
up. Johnston 85, Harwood 85.
Next Thursday at 3 o’clock
there will be another inter-squad
match, and Sunday at 1 o’clock the
team will have a match with the
better player members of the
Bryan country club.
W. G. CAMPBELL APPOINTED
TO FARM LABOR OFFICE
Appointment of W. G. Campbell
as state migratory field assistant
with the Extension Service Farm
Labor Office has been announced
by Director Ide P. Trotter. Recent
ly discharged from the army, Mr.
Campbell will take up his new
work at San Antonio, March 1.
Top American Saddle Horse Group Given Texas A, & M.
Edgar W. Brown, Jr., Orange, Texas, capitalist, rancher, shipbuilder, presents to the Animal Husbandry
Department of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas a group of the finest American saddle
horses in the South. Included in his gift were six famous mares from the Pinehurst Stables, among which
were ^American Model,” a winner of championships at the Kentucky State Fair, Chicago Charter Jubilee
Show and other top shows; and “Jingle Bells,” shown in the fine harness and five-gaited classes, and pos
sessor of an outstanding record of winnings. Also given to the College was the stallion, “Proctor’s Red
Light,” an outstanding show horse who has sired a long string of winners, including “Man of Destiny,” one
of the outstanding champions of the breed. Shown as the gift is presented are, left to right, F. I. Dahlberg,
acting head of the Animal Husbandry Department; Owen Garrigan, college horseman; Brown, and Lt. Col.
D. W^Williams, head of the Animal Husbandry Department, who has just returned to the campus.