The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, March 08, 1946, Image 1

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    2 Ex-Aggies
Give Lives
In Germany
Though the war is over, Aggies
are still giving their lives in the
service of their country.
Within the past week news has
been received of the deaths of two
former students who were doing
occupational duty in Germany.
Lt. James H. Wilson of Bryan,
’45, was killed in Berlin when shot
by a Russian sentry. The incident
disturbed the whole country, and
is being investigated. According
to the sentry, the jeep in which
Wilson was riding failed to stop
when so ordered.
Lt. Wilson enrolled at A. & M.
in 1941 in the chemical engineer
ing department and was a mem
ber of F Battery CAC. He left
school to go into the army in May,
1943. Many of his former class
mates are now back on the cam
pus after war service.
Capt. A. S. (Buck) Ware, Jr.,
’43, also of Bryan was killed in a
vehicle accident in Germany. He
entered the Army in 1943 before
completing his work in civil engi
neering and was commissioned in
May of that year. He served for a
while as a liason officer after avia
tion training and landed in France
in September, 1944.
Directors to Be
Chosen by Vets
A Board of Directors for the
A. & M. Ex-Servicemen’s Club
reached the embryonic stage last
night when 25 members of the
Board of Directors Committee met
in the YMCA cabinet room. Plans
for this board were drawn up in
the form of an amendment to the
constitution of the club. A final
draft of the proposed amendment
will be written this week by Per
sons, Bliler, Sammis, and Suther
land. This draft will be presented
for a final going over by the com
mittee at a meeting to be held
next Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. in
the YMCA. It will then be pre
sented to the Club at the next
meeting for ratification.
According to last night’s plans
the Board of Directors will consist
of the executive officers of the
Club and 20 representative mem
bers. There will be one representa
tive from each veterans’ dormitory,
from the project houses, College
Hills, College Park, the trailer
camp, and one for those veterans
living in Bryan. The Board yiU
act upon business matters, bring
pertinent information before Club
meetings, represent the Club, and
in general act for the best interests
of the Club.
Architecture School
Is Back to Normal
Enrollment in the Texas A. &
M. College department of archi
tecture is back up to its normal
level of 150 students, after sink
ing to a war-time low of 12, it was
announced today by Ernest Lang
ford, department head.
Fortunately, the architecture fac
ulty has grown at the same time.
Associate Professor William W.
Caudill has returned recently from
navy service in the Pacific, and
Assistant Professor Joe T. Mead
or has been added to the staff.
Meador, who will specialize in
teaching architectural history and
art, spent three years in the Eur
opean theater, and latterly was an
army drawing and art instructor
in GI schools in Bavaria and at
Biarritz, France.
Caudill, who left Texas A, &
M. m 1942 to design airbases for
the government, .is author of the
popular Texas A. & M. College
Bulletin “Space for Teaching”,
now in its second etfHion, which
treats of school design.
EXPERIMENT STATION
RELEASES BULLETINS
Two new bulletins are being dis
tributed by the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station. “Information
Basic to Adjustments in Rice Pro
duction in Texas” is edited by A.
C. Magee and C. A. Bonnen, while
“Digestibility of Human Foods and
Animal Feeds As Measured by Di
gestion Experiments with Rats” is
handled by G. S. Fraps.
★
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Texas A. & M. College
Battalion
Volume 45
College Station, Texas, Friday Afternoon, March 8, 1946
Number 32
Bryan-College Traffic Problem
A Headache, Says Police Chief
Opening of Texas A&M col
lege’s spring semester on February
4 brought an increase of more than
30 percent in the number of auto
mobiles operating in the Bryan-
College Station area, and thereby
multiplied the tasks of Bryan city
patolmen, acceding to Police Chief
Sam A. Tullous. .
More than 100 moving traffic
arrests were made in February,
he said, and many parking viola
tions in the downtown area were
charged.
Most of the arrests made were
on the routes between Bryan and
College Station, in which area Tul
lous terms the situation “bad” at
peak hours. Not all the officers
haled into court were speeders vio
lating the established 30 miles- per
hour limit, either. Some were
charged with reckless driving, and
other with plain obstruction of
traffic due to driving too slow and
impeding cars moving at a legal
rate.
“We are primarily concerned
with eliminating dangeous or
careless driving,” Tullous said. He
indicated he could use double the
number of patrol cars—three—now
on duty.
Tullous is making plans to clear
up congestion. Five • new traffic
signal lights are on order, one of
which definitely will be placed
Duncan Cafeteria
Serves 300 Meals
On First Day
The Duncan Hall cafeteria
opened yesterday, with 309 non
military students from the New
Area being served. Menus and
prices are similar to those of the
Sbisa Hall cafeteria.
Some of the eligible students
have elected to continue getting
family-style meals by paying in
advance.
Hours of the cafeteria may be
changed in the near future in ac
cordance with experience during
the next week.
Organizational
Parties Must Be
Held On Campus
Organization parties in the fu
ture must be held on the A. & M.
campus, according to notice from
the office of the dean of men. Or
ganization commanders will be
held accountable for strict com
pliance with the new ruling.
The order was issued as a re
sult of complaints from parents,
who considered some of the off-
campus affairs to be too expensive
and, when held in night clubs, to
be in an improper setting.
Full text of the ruling is pub
lished in the Official Notices sec
tion of this Battalion.
Assistance in planning future
organization parties on the cam
pus will be given by the assistant
directors of student activities.
GRONEMAN REVISES
BOOK-BINDING TEXT
A revised edition of “General
Bookbinding”, widely-used text,
is now off the press. Author is C.
H. Groneman, acting head of the
Texas A. & M. College Industrial
Education department.
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GODSHALL TO SPEAK ON
PACIFIC SECURITY
W. Leon Godshall of Bethlehem,
Pa., will address the second of four
forums sponsored by the Bryan
Rotary Club. He will talk on
“Intenational Secuity in the
Pacific” at 8:00 p.m. March 13
at the S. F. Austin High School
in Bryan..
at the intersection of South Main
and College avenue. As soon as
technicians can be obtained, down
town parking meters will be re
vamped to permit two hours park
ing for a nickel—“and then the
parking meter ordinance will be
enforced,” Tullous declared.
Complaints from drivers are
stacking up. They come from Joe
Citizen who objects to being pass
ed when he is doing an even 30
mph, or gets riled at being stuck
behind a road hog doing 20. When
enough of them are in, Tullous
hopes to get the state department
to put on a driving education cam
paign in the area.
Meanwhile, all traffic violations
are filed against the offender’s
driver’s license at Austin, and
someday—soon, Tullous hopes—
the state is going to crack down
on chronic bad drivers. Until then,
his force will work as hard as
possible to prevent accidents by
cutting down on dangerous driving.
Tullous has a special tip for
Texas A&M college students; re
member that the speed limit any
where between college and Bryan
and in Bryan is 30 mph. And, if
possible, come by the police sta
tion in the city hall and obtain
a free printed copy of Bryan traf
fic regulations. They’ll help a lot
in helping the Bryan police.
U. of H. to Send
Elsie Roberts to
the Cotton Ball
Miss Elsie Roberts, potential
Hollywood starlet who is now a
senior at the University of Hous
ton, has been elected to represent
the university at the A. & M. Cot
ton Ball, to be held here April 12.
Miss Roberts is president of the
student association, secretary of
the Red Masque Players, a Vanity
Fair beauty, and is listed in Who’s
Who of American colleges and uni
versities.
She was named National Col
legiate Bond Queen in 1942, and
plans to accept a Hollywood con
tract this summer “on a trial
basis.”
(NOTE: The editors of the Bat
talion are deeply disappointed not
to have a picture of Miss Roberts
to display in this issue, so we have
had to do our best with words.)
PEARSON TO REPORT
TEXAS EXPERIMENTS
Dr. P. B. Pearson, animal nutri
tionist for the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station, will report
some Texas experimental work at
the meetings March 12-15 in At
lantic City, N. J., of the Ameri
can Society of Biological Chemists
and the American Institute of
Nutrition. This will be the first
meetings of these groups in four
years.
The research Dr, Pearson will
discuss is being carried on in col
laboration with the Station’s Divi
sion of Poultry Husbandry. On
this trip, Dr. Pearson will also pay
a two-day visit to the Nutrition
Biochemical Laboratory of the U.
S. Department of Agriculture.
Dance Data
Infantry Ball
Strisa Hall, 9-1
This Evening
Corps Ball
Sbisa Hall, 9-1
Saturday Evening
Aggieland Orchestra
VETERANS and their guests
are always welcome at the Sat
urday night Corps Dances.
Out of Army Again,
Prof. Buchanan
Hopes to Stay Out
Spencer J. Buchanan, professor
of civil engineering is out of the
army again, and this time he hopes
it sticks.
A veteran of Pacific warfare,
Buchanan was released from the
army last fall and returned to his
college duties. Before his terminal
leave had expired, however, the
war department asked Major
Buchanan to return to active serv
ice.
After four months in Washing
ton, where he assisted in prepara
tion of a soil mechanics manual for
the army, Buchanan is out again
and preparing to resume teaching.
Many Experts to
Confer Here on
Nutrition Problems
The 1946 Texas Nutrition Con
ference will be held here April 8
and 9.
Guest speakers will include Dr.
L. C. Norris, professor of nutrition
at Cornell University; Dr. Paul
H. Phillips, professor of biochem
istry, University of Wisconsin; and
Angus Tressidder, Joseph A. Sea
gram & Sons, Louisville, Ky.
The Texas Nutrition Conference
is being held for manufacturers of
livestock and poultry feeds and
for any others interested in the
latest advances in the science of
feeding.
Presiding at the various ses
sions of the two-day meeting will
be college staff members includ
ing Dr. R. D. Turk of the School
of Veterinary Medicine; Dr. P. B.
Pearson, Texas Agricultural Ex
periment Stations; S. A. Moore,
poultry husbandman of the Tex
as Extension Service; and Dr. I.
W. Rupel, head of the A. & M.
College department of dairy hus
bandry.
‘Harvard Report’
To Re Analyzed
By Dr. Mayo
“Education in a Free Society”,
the Harvard report, will be re
viewed and discussed by Dr.
Thomas F. Mayo, head of the Eng
lish department at the meeting
of the Hillel Club, Sunday, March
10, at 7:30 p.m. in the Cabinet
Room of the Y. M. C. A. building.
The report which appeared in
1945 aroused considerable interest
in educational circles. Dr. Mayo
discussed the subject earlier in the
year for a large gathering of the
Faculty club and will now review it
from an angle of student interest.
The meeting is open to the public
and a special invitation is extended
to faculty and students to attend
the leeture and take part in the
discussion.
WILLIAMS TO LEAD
OIL SAFETY PANEL
E. L. Williams, director of the
Texas A. & M. College Industrial
Extension Service, will lead a dis
cussion on safety programs for
oil well drilling crews at a safety
conference for the petroleum in
dustry at Odessa March 12.
GRONEMAN HANDLING
EXHIBITS AT WACO
C. H. Groneman, acting head of
the Texas A. & M. College De
partment of Industrial Education,
will be general manager of com
mercial exhibits at the annual con
vention of the Texas Vocational
Association at Waco, April 18-20.
Groneman is is vice president
of the state association of teach
ers.
Mayors Appoint
Bryan-College
Committee
8-Man Advisory Council
To Consider Problems of
The Two Cities
An eight-man advisory council,
composed of politically-unaffiliated
citizens, has been appointed to
study the mutual problems of the
cities of Bryan and Colleg’e Station
and Brazos county, it was an
nounced jointly by Mayors
Ernest Langford of College Sta
tion and Ivan Langford of Bryan.
The Bryan city commission and
College Station’s city council, in
joint session at the Texas A&M
college Y.M.C.A. Tuesday night,
each nominated four members pf
their respective communities to the
special council. Members of the
advisory group are: Mills P. Wal
ker, Marshall Bullock, Clifford
Mitchell and W. F. Gibbs, of Bryan,
and T. W. Leland, W. F. Munner-
lyn, J. D. Prewit and Dr; I. P.
Trotter of College Station.
Walker later was chosen chair
man of the group, with power
to call its next meeting, and Pre
wit secretary.
It is planned to add two mem
bers appointed from Brazos county.
Function of the advisory council
will be solely to make recommenda
tions to the various governments
for mutual improvements, and to
make long-range plans for civic
betterment. To avoid any possibil
ity of political bias, men were
chosen who had no political inter
ests or connections, the mayors
said.
“There are many problems af
fecting the two city and the coun
ty governments,” Ernest Langford
said, “which will have to be faced
eventually. We hope, by means of
the council, to bring them and
their solutions out into the open
sooner.”
These problems, he indicated, in
clude public health, such as sew
age disposal, improving the farm
road system and racial segrega
tion, among others.
One of the questions which the
council probably will mull over
is a proposal to merge the various
school systems into a single county
system, and, possibly, a merger of
the various governments into a
single county unit, the College Sta
tion mayor said.
However, the mayors revealed,
the advisory council is entirely in
dependent, and will consider and
make recommendations on what
ever issues it chooses. !.
Well-Logging Course
Registration for the Well Log
ging Methods Short Course will
begin at the Petroleum Engineer
ing Building 2:30 p.m. Monday.
The course will be held from
March 11 through 15. ,
Group meetings will be' held in
the lecture room of the Petroleum
building.
The top two floors of Dormitory
No. 5 will be prepared for the
housing of those who have not
already made individual arrange
ments for hotel accommodations.
Rooms will be available for occu
pancy by noon Sunday.
PET. BIBLIOGRAPHY
PUBLISHED THIS WEEK
Publication of Bulletin 83 of
the Texas A. & M. College, entitled
“Bibliography on the Petroleum
Industry,” has been announced by
the Texas Engineering Experiment
Station.
Approximately 20,000 reference
works on some 900 subjects perti
nent to the oil industry are con
veniently indexed in the 730 page
volume, which is the joint work of
Dr. E. DeGolyer, consulting geo
logist, and Harold Vance, head of
the Texas A. & M. College Petro
leum Engineering department.