The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, April 26, 1946, Image 1

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    “Meller Drammer”
To Be Feature
Of Band Concert
Nell the Farmers Daughter
And Gremlin Ball Will
Be Played Tuesday
Texas A. & M. College
BATTALION
Volume 45 College Station, Texas, Friday Afternoon,'April 26, 1946 Number 52
Aggie Jamboree
Slated for Guion
On Sat. Afternoon
Orchestra, Singing Cadets
To Be Featured; Seniors
Are Sponsors
Parrish, Hardesty Elected President,
V-President Ex-Servicemen's Club
“Nell the Farmers Daughter, or
Jack Dalton Rides Again”, a
“Musical Meller Drammer” with
John Stiles as narrator, will be an
unusual feature of the A. & M.
Band concert next Tuesday. In this
number the band furnishes both
desired and undesired sound ef
fects as well as symphonic musical
interludes to help the narrator.
Nell, the farmer’s daughter is the
lass in need. Jack Dalton, our hero,
comes to the aid of Nell to the
dimay of the Villain. The Hero
gets the applause and the Girl; the
Villain gets the customary hisses
and boos. Like all “Meller Dram-
mers”, everyone is happy at the
end.
Another novelty number will be
the “Gremlin Ball”—an usual work
for the Aggie Band to present in
that it is of a “Swingy” nature.
This number depicts the trouble
given the RAF in the early stages
of the war by these mischievious
trouble makers, the Gremlins.
The concert opens with a Span
ish march, El Caballero, and a
new march, Salute to the Chief
of Staff, will also be presented.
Too, there will be entertaining over
tures and a Fantasie ‘“Over
There” arranged by Ferde Grofe
from melodies that were popular
during the First World War.
Band directors from neighboring
cities have been invited and several
plan to bring their bands. There
is no admission charge for the con
cert.
Chapter of AVC
Being Formed
By Local Vets
E. V. Walton Temporary
Chairman of Branch;
Will Meet Wednesday
The local chapter of the Ameri
can Veterans Committee will meet
in the Cabinet Room, YMCA, at
7 p.m., Wednesday, May 1, E. V.
Walton, temporary chairman, has
announced.
Walton has invited veterans on
the campus interested in the AVC,
which is being organized on a na
tional scale by veterans of World
War I, to sit in on the meeting and
find out what the AVC is.
The first local meeting of AVC
was held April 14, on short notice,
when it was learned that April 16
was the closing date for founding
chapters if they were to be repre
sented by delegates at the national
convention in Des Moines, Iowa,
in June. For all practical purposes,
the May 1 meeting will constitute
the first organizational meeting,
Walton said, since the previous
meeting consisted merely of sign
ing up the 10 men required for a
charter.
Fred Schmidt, of Austin, state
secretary of AVC, has been ex
tended an invitation to speak at
the meeting and to explain the
basis of AVC.
The American Veterans Commit
tee is an incorporated organiza
tion of World War II veterans and
was founded by five servicemen
in 1943. It has received national
attention of late for its stand on
veterans’ housing and other na
tional issues.
Tiger Supper-Dance
Will Be Tomorrow
A community supper, for the
purpose of raising funds for light
ing the Consolidated school foot
ball field, will be given Saturday,
April 27 at 6:00 p.m. in the grove
of trees near the school gym. Dr.
R. L. Hunt is in charge of ar
rangements. A 75 cent charge will
be made for each plate.
A dance will be held immediately
after the crowning of the Sports
Queen, who will be chosen by Con
solidated students. Admission will
be 254 for couples and 354 for
stags.
Raymond Parrish, a senior from
Lufkin, has been elected president
of the Ex-Servicemen’s Club of
A. & M. The club, which is the
campus-wide organization of vete
ran students, recently chose a
complete new set of officials.
Parrish, ’41, is majoring in
architecture and working as a
student instructor. He served as a
first lieutenant in the artillery.
Pete Hardesty, vice-president,
is an accounting major from Tyler.
Originally in the class of ’44, he
served in the Navy.
Bob Kachtick, secretary, is from
Houston and a geophysics major.
West Pointers
Will Come to
A&M This June
Fifteen Regular Officers
To Take Special Training
In Engineering
Six regular army officers of the
Corps of Engineers already have
been assigned to Texas A. & M.
College for a year’s specialized
training in advanced engineering,
starting in June, and nine more
will be ordered here shortly, it
has been announced by Dr. Howard
W. Barlow, dean of the school of
engineering.
The officers, most of them West
Pointers, come to Texas A. & M.
as part of the resumption of the
war department’s civilian school
postgraduate training program for
engineer officers, interrupted by
national emergency in 1940. How
ever, Dr. Barlow said, this is the
first time the officer students have
been sent to colleges outside the
East.
The following officers, all hold
ing the rank of lieutenant-colonel,
have been assigned to Texas A. &
M.: Lawrence E. Laurion, Edmund
Kirby-Smith, Guy . Goddard, Rich
ard D. Wolfe, William A. Orr and
Samuel R. Peterson.
A special curriculum in advanced
civil engineering has been set up
for the officers and approved by
the plans and training officer
Chief Engineers’ Office. Courses in
electrical and mechanical engineer
ing also will be made available for
specially-qualified officers in the
group by the college.
DRILLING CONFERENCE
TO BE MAY 13-15
A conference on drilling fluids
for representatives of the petro
leum industry will be held at Tex
as A. & M. College May 13-15
under sponsorship of the Petro
leum engineering department.
Cowbell Summons
Tea-Sippers from
Austin Pasture
Texas u. is the scene of a
strange story told in the current
Readers Digest.
D. L. Halpenny of San Antonio
describes how, when driving near
Austin one night, he heard the
urgent clang of a bell coming from
a seemingly empty pasture. Soon
he heard motors starting up: many
headlights appeared from nowhere,
and a long line of cars slid out of
the pasture and headed for Aus
tin.
Later Mr. Halpenny got the story
from an Austinite: “The kids of
the university had no place to park
where they wouldn’t be molested by
police or robbers, so old Dilling
ham opened his pasture to them.
Every night he patrols it to see
that things are as they should be.
“The girls have to be in at 11,
so at 10:45 he rings his cowbell
to let them know its time to leave.”
Originally ’43, he spent three
years as a navigator in the Air
Forces.
Claude Buntyn, treasurer, is
from Temple. Originally ’45, he
returned to Aggieland last year
after a tour of duty with the
Navy.
Louis Buck, parliamentarian,
served in Patton’s Third Army. A
veterinary medicine student from
George West, he was ’45.
LeRoy Hendricks, sergeant-at-
arms, is an Ag. Ed. major from
McKinney, formerly ’44. He served
in the Air Corps.
ATTENTION MASONS
All Masons interested in or
ganizing a local lodge are asked
to meet in the Cabinet room of
the Y. M. C. A., second floor,
Monday evening April 29 at
7:30. All Master Masons inter
ested in organizing a Masonic
Lodge at College Station, are
asked to contact Sgt. Jas. D.
Coody at Dormitory 5, phone
4-1173.
Pamphlets Will
Replace Huge
A&M Catalogue
Did you ever wonder what had
become of the large general cata
logues that were formerly issued
by A. & M. ?
The bulky catalogues are being
replaced by a series of ten pam
phlets which will be issued later
this year. No. 1, General Informa
tion, has been available for almost
a year, but the other booklets are
now in the process of competition.
No. 8, concerning the Agricultural
Experiment Station, is now being
finished. The departmental pam
phlets will not be distributed un
til the series is complete.
The ten booklets will cover, in
order: General Information; Agri
culture, Arts and Sciences; En
gineering; Military Science; Vete
rinary Medicine; Graduate School;
Agricultural Experiment Station;
Agricultural Extension Service;
Register of Faculty and Stu
dents.
CHEMISTS TO HOLD
INSTRUMENT MEETING
Plans are being made to hold a
conference on instrumentation for
the process industries here next
September, it is revealed by Dr.
J. D. Lindsay, head of the Texas
A. & M. College chemical engineer
ing department. Representatives of
instrument manufacturers and the
industries using instruments would
be brought in the conference, Dr.
Lindsay said.
AGGIE ENGINEERS
GO WESTWARD—HO
The terrain between College Sta
tion and Llano underwent a
thorough inspection this week
(April 25-28) as 32 Texas A. &
M. College civil engineering stu
dents made a special trip west
ward.
CITY TAXES DUE
BEFORE MAY 11
All property owners in College
Station who have not rendered
their 1946 taxes are requested
to come to the City office and
do so before May 11, 1946. Un
less property is assessed, own
ers surrender right to partici
pate in fixing values.
You’ll Never Guess
Where Jones Found
His Missing Jeep
Jerry Jones, a veteran now en
rolled in A. & M. College walked
out of the Cotton Ball on April
12 to find that his jeep, which he
had bought three days earlier, had
been stolen.
Jerry reported this to the Col
lege Station City Marshall who in
turn alerted all local police to be
on the lookout for the jeep. The
search was carried on all night and
continued until 3:00 o’clock Sat
urday afternoon. About 2:30, while
at work, Jones received a phone
call telling him that his jeep had
been located. He rushed back to
the campus, contacted the police,
and proceeded to the place de
signated by the informant.
There, as directed, Jones found
his jeep—sitting in Colonel Maurice
Welty’s back yard. (Note: The
colonel was unaware of the jeep’s
presence.)
Free Cigars Are
A Soft Touch At
Student Affairs
Open season on free cigars was
declared this week at the office of
the Dean of Men.
Judy Varner, a baby girl tipping
the scales at one-half ounce over
eight pounds, was born at 5:30
a.m. on April 24 at St. Joseph’s
Hospital in Bryan.
Both Judy and her mother, Mrs.
D. B. Varner, are in tip-top condi
tion. “Woody” is walking the
clouds.
Aggie in Tokyo
Receives Medal
In a Tokyo ceremony recently,
Aggie T-3 Lloyd T. Phillips re
ceived the Bronze Star from Maj.
Gen. Hugh C. Casey, chief engineer
for the U. S. Army Forces, Pa
cific.
Phillips, who comes from Clarks
ville, plans to return to College
Station and continue his engineer
ing studies after he is discharged.
At present he is chief clerk of the
technical intelligence branch of the
office of the chief engineer.
LONE STAR FLAG FLIES
IN PARISIAN STREET
The Texas flag flew over the
streets of Paris on San Jacinto
day. Maj. Homer Fry of Dallas and
five other Aggies held a muster
at the Lotti Hotel, billet for of
ficers of the American graves reg
istration office, and from that
building they hung the Lone Star
banner. The flag has been carried
by Maj. Fry ever since he went
overseas 18 months ago.
Old Army, Move Over;
The Navy Wants In!
Plan Campus Club
A Texas A. & M. Navy Club is
now being formed on the campus
by veterans who served in the
Navy or Marine Corps. Former
aviators from the two services
have held several meetings during
the last week,and the response has
justified their going ahead with
plans for a Navy Club and possi
bly for a branch of the Naval Re
serve (Ready) now being estab
lished throughout the country.
Plans for the club are still in
the tentative stage, but it is ex
pected that the base may be broad
ened by including non-flyers, both
former officers and former en
listed men.
Future meetings and definite
plans will be announced in the
Battalion.
Good news—another Aggie Jam
boree will be held Saturday after
noon at 1:30 in Guion Hall.
The Jamboree is being spon
sored by the Senior Class and ad
mission price will be 25 cents.
Half jam-session, half stage-
show, these Jamborees put on by
the Aggieland Orchestra have long
been an Aggie tradition.
Highlights of the program will
be Brax (Four Gun) Doak sing
ing “Sioux City Sue” with the aid
of the Westerners. The new tune,
“Cement Mixer” will be sung by
the entire orchestra.
The Singing Cadets of Aggieland
will be on hand with “The Song
of the Jolly Roger” and “The
Night Is Young and You’re So
Beautiful,” featuring the voice of
Harry Doran.
Boyd Rogers will sing the cur
rent hit “Laughing on the Out
side, Crying on the Inside,” and
the all-time Hit Parader, “Night
and Day.”
Bill Turner will direct both the
orchestra and the Singing Cadets.
Questionnaires On
City Cemetery to
Be Mailed April 30
Questionnaires prepared for the
purpose of ascertaining the reac
tion of College Station citizens
to the question of a municipal
cemetery will be mailed with util
ity bills to all residents of the
city on April 30, it was stated to
day by the City Office.
The questionnaire will give the
brief details of the cemetery pro
posal and request citizens to indi
cate whether or not they wish to
buy lots. If enough afirmative
answers are received, the City
Council will act to purchase the
surrounding the burial grounds 30-
acre tract known as the old Shiloh
cemetery, it was stated. A 60-day
option on the property has already
been acquired at a price of $6,000.
The ground is located on High
way 6 about miles south of
College Station.
If the cemetery is established,
the city plans to sell plots to in
dividuals, with perpetual mainten
ance guaranteed, for the following
prices:
One-grave lot (five by ten feet)
$50.
Six-grave plot (12 by 20 feet)
$144.
Eight-grave plot (16 by 20 feet)
$160.
R. V. Johnson Gets
Merit Medal From
Czechoslovakia
The government of Czechoslo
vakia has sent the Medal of Merit
to R. Verle Johnson of the Texas
Forestry Service, A. & M., for his
work in directing the photography
of “The Beaches of Dunkirk.”
Johnson was director of photo
graphy for the motion picture “The
Beaches of Dunkirk,” which show
ed the Czechoslovakian brigade in
action in France. The picture has
been shown in England and Czech
oslovakia. Johnson also directed
“The French Return”, was sound
engineer for “The Battle of Rus
sia,” released in theatres in the
United States.
CHINESE PROFESSOR
WILL STUDY HERE
Hsia "Sheng Ku, engineering in
structor at Utopia University,
Shanghai, China, will come to Tex
as A. & M. College next Septem
ber to work toward a master’s
degree in sanitary engineering, it
was announced by S. R. Wright,
head of the municipal and sanitary
engineering department.
Ku will serve as a graduate re
search assistant during his year’s
residence at the college.