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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1946)
Winner of Car Has To Wait for Rise In Auto Production I ^ Nolan B. Huff, freshman G. I. student from Grapeland, Texas, has a very good reason for want ing the production of automobiles to rise sharply. Huff is now the proud owner of the 1946 Ford given away Saturday at a commun ity Sports Supper. The car was given away as an inducement to get money for the lighting of the Consolidated foot ball field. A full report on the project will be given tomorrow morning over WTAW on the Ki- \vanis sponsored program. Texas A. & M. College BATTALION Volume 46 College Station, Texas, Monday Afternoon, April 29, 1946 Number 1 Aggie Band Will Present Its Spring Concert Tuesday Night Time Change Will Not Affect WTAW The changeover from standard to daylight saving time will not affect WTAW. ABC has developed a plan whereby all programs are to maintain the same time all year around. This is the first year since the war that the problem has aris en, since all time zones reverted to daylight saving time during the war years. Though use of the plan, which involves several complex details, ABC stations, listeners and ad vertisers will avoid the complex reshuffling of programs which nor mally occurs locally from the pro gramming adjustments heretofore necessitated twice each year—first, as various time zones went on day light saving time, and then in the iall when they reverted to standard time. WTAW will have little mixup with its schedule. On Sunday af ternoon, May 5, these programs will broadcast in this manner: Court of Missing Heirs, 2:00 to 2:30; Right Down Your Alley, 2:30 to 3:00; Darts for Dough, 3:00 to 3:30; Counterspy, 3:30 to 4:00; Quiz Kids, 5:30 to 6:00. All other shows will be one hour ear lier. The Aggie’s station will also broadcast each baseball game play ed on Kyle Field. The play-by-play narration begins at ten minutes to game time on Friday, and at five minutes til game time on Sat urday afternoon. Brazos Co. Club Elects Officers Mrs. R. Henry Harrison was elected president of the Brazos County A. & M. Mothers Club last Thursday afternoon at a meeting held at the home of Mrs. M. L. Cashion. Other officers elected were: Mrs. T. W. Leland, vice president; Mrs. E. G. Smith, secretary; Mrs. T. E. Rattan, treasurer; Mrs. M. L. Cashion, parliamentarian; and JVTrs. F. L. Summers, reporter. Mrs. Harrison appointed the fol lowing committee chairmen: Mrs. Cashion, Hospital Committee; Mrs. R. S. Miller, War Service Com- -mittee; and Mrs. Ivan Langford, . Hostesses Committee. Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Cashion, and Mrs. C. A. Medberry were elected as a committee to represent the club at the State meeting of A. & M. Mothers Clubs to be held at College Station on May 11. W. E. WHITE NAMED ON EAST TEXAS COMMITTEE W. E. White, director of the Texas Forest Service, A. & M. College, has been appointed a member of a committee of the East Texas chamber of commerce selected to outline a plan for gathering factual information on the forest wealth of East Texas. The report, which will probably take the remainder of the year to compile, will cover individual coun ty surveys of the amount of tim- berland, forest industries, employ ment, value of timber products, and other related information. DR. SMITH WRITES BOOK ON LIZARDS Dr. Hobart M. Smith, associate professor in the Department of Fish and Game at Texas A. & M. College, is the author of a new book “Handbook of Lizards” re cently published by the Comstock Publishing Company. The Texas Aggie Band pre sents its spring concert tomorrow night, April 30, in the Assembly Hall. The band, which is under the direction of E. V. Adams, will start playing at eight o’clock. The program, which features a novelty musical “meller drammer” and a fantasy on gremlins, is as follows: THE TEXAS AGGIE BAND SPRING CONCERT E. V. ADAMS, Director Cornet Trio Cadet Captain P. B. Kosub Cadet T. D. Prater Cadet S. Vrla Assembly Hall 30 April 1946 PROGRAM I. El CABALLERO Olivadoti Spanish March II. OVER THERE....Arr by Grof III. SALUTE TO THE CHIEF OF STAFF Aker March IV. NELL, THE FARMER’S DAUGHTER OR JACK DALTON RIDES AGAIN Dorr Novelty Musical “Meller Drammer” for Narrator and Band V. MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT , Suppe Overture VI. Bolero Smith Trio for Cornets VII. AT THE GREMLIN BALL ... r Hill The gremlin was first brought to the public’s attention by the RAF in the early days of the war. As a Gremlin Convention gets under way on the outer wing of a mighty transport plane, the Gremlin Jazz Band opens the Grand Ball with the playing of it’s feature Num ber, “At the Gremlin Ball.” VIII. OVERTURE TO “THE NEW MOON” Romberg IX. TEXAS AGGIE WAR HYMN, arr. by Dunn SPANISH CLUB TO MEET TONIGHT The Texas A. & M. Spanish Club will meet tonight at 7:15 in the Academic Building, according to President Pancho Serna. Plans for a dinner to be held soon will be discussed at tonight’s meeting. Louis Bromfield, distinguished author and reclaimer of run-down farm lands, preached the gospel of proper land use and care in Guion Hall at Texas A. & M. College last Thursday evening to an interest ed and enthusiastic audience of Bryan and College Station resi dents and students. Mr. Bromfield gave details of how he and his associates have tak en $50 per acre land, spent $30 per acre in improved practices along conservation and restorative lines, and now are reaping harvests com parable to land worth $250 per acre. The distinguished journalist em phasized that care was exercised in all his farming operations to do only those things which are with in the means of any farmer thru improvement loans from public and private agencies. Throughout a career of writing that has taken him all over the world, Mr. Bromfield “always has kept his fingers in the soil”, he pointed out, and he expressed his confidence that the things he and MISS VIRGINIA THOMAS, a piano Junior Concertist, will appear as an added attraction on Texas A. & M.’s Town Hall series on May 6. Miss Thomas, a sixteen-year-old senior student at the NTSC Demon stration School in Denton, won the Dallas Civic Federation Student Artist competition last June, and appeared in a four-concert series of road performances last winter. Obedience Class Opened to All By Kennel Club A new obedience class, open to owners of all types of dogs, was opened yesterday afternoon at the Animal Husbandry Pavilion by the Brazos County Kennel Club. Dr. D. R. Knight is trainer for the class. While a pure bred dog is likely to make more progress in obe dience training and a better show ing if exhibited in an obedience class, it was emphasized that the class is open to all dog. owners, men, women and children. The class is offered in appreciation of the public interest shown in the first bench show sponsored by the Kennel Club recently. his associates are doing and have done, can be done by any person who has it within his heart to reap a harvest while protecting the soil, water and minerals rather than those who mercilessly “mine the soil, and leave devastation in their wake”. At the conclusion of Mr. Brom- field’s talk he introduced Dr. Jon athan Forman, vice president of Friends of the Land, and editor of the Ohio State Medical Journal. Dr. Forman warned against a policy of pampering sick people with promises of government med icine, and urged widespread edu cation of the people to the fact that health comes from eating nutri tious food, and .that impoverished soil cannot produce food for a healthy people. Mr. Bromfield was introduced by President Gibb Gilchrist of Texas A. & M. College who distributed throughout the state last year cop ies of the writer’s description of the “Mason Place”, a powerful in dictment of American cultural (Continued on Page 2) First-Aid Stations Set Up As GI Wives Plan “Trading Post” Veterans’ wives with an extra pair of nylon hose are invited to bring them along tomorrow when the Style and Fashion Group opens a Trading Post for the exchange of “anything tradeable.” Members of the group are ask ed to bring articles such as cos tume jewelry, belts, accessories, household goods, or any other spare articles that can be traded. The Trading Post will begin bar ter at 7:30 p.m. at Sbisa Hall lounge. The College Hospital has been advised to stand by with ambu lance and nurses, although the haz ard of personal injury will be elim inated as far as possible, it was stated. Wednesday is Last Day for Ordering Senior Invitations Wednesday, May 1, is the dead line for ordering Senior invitations, graduates were reminded today by the Student Activities office. Invitations are made by the Southern Engraving Company of Houston, and are priced at 25c each for those with cardboard cover and 50c each for those with lea ther cover. Engraved cards may also be ordered at the Student Ac tivities office in several different styles. Engineering Short Course Opens Tues. Housing arrangements on the Texas A. & M. College in Febru- have been made for the large num ber of Texas highway engineers and contractors expected to attend the 20th annual short course in highway engineering to be held here April 30-May 1 under spon sorship of the college civil engin eering department. Registration for the short course will be held at 9:00 a.m. on Tues day, April 30, at the College YMCA. The course will be followed by a two-day meeting of the Texas Highway department officials. J. C. CULPEPPER’S FATHER PASSES AWAY C. C. Culpepper, father of J. C. Culpepper of College Station, passed away at Poplarville, Miss issippi on Wednesday afternoon, it was learned today. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Culpepper and son, John Cecil, had left for Miss issippi on Wednesday morning and were with him at the time of his death. L. C. CHAPMAN GOES TO UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA Larue C. Chapman, assistant professor of Agronomy at Tex as A. & M. College has accepted a position as associate agronomist with the University of Arizona. After June 1, he will be asso ciated with R. L. Matlock, former associate professor and specialist in forage crops at Texas A. & M. College. Chapman received a B. S. de gree in 1933 and M. S. in 1936, from the University of Illinois. For the past four years, he has been in service and was a major in the Air Forces at the time of his dis charge. Louis Bromfield Tells Former Can Make $50 & $30 Equal $250 Lawmakers Made Slip of the Pen, Says Att’y-General Funds appropriated by the Tex as legislature for aerodynamic research and chemurgic research at Texas A. & M. College during 1946 will be available in 1947 if they are not spent this year, ac cording to a decision by the At torney General’s office. The biennial appropriation bill listed for the fiscal year of 1946 a $45,000 grant for aerodynamic research and $25,000 for chem urgic research, “provided that any unexpended balance remaining at the expiration of the fiscal year ending Aug. 30, 1947, is hereby reappropriated for the same pur pose for the fiscal year ending Aug. 31, 1948.” The Attorney General’s office read that a comparable provision farther down in the same bill read 1946 and 1947, recalled a con stitutional provision that appro priations cannot be made for long er than two years, made a quick double-check on the calendar, and advised President Gibb Gilchrist that the Legislature intended to make the funds available in 1946 and 1947, even if it did say 1947 and 1948. ¥ Launches World Service Campaign The Young Men’s Christian As sociation here at Texas A. & M. College and in other parts of the country is observing the months of April and May as World Ser vice Months to mark the 57th year of service of the global arm of the North American Y. M. C. A.’s. This was announced here today by M. L. Cashion, general Secre tary of the College ‘Y’, who said that April also witnessed the launching' of a nationwide drive for $850,000 to finance the varied activities of world service in 26 foreign countries. Quota to be rais ed here has been set at $1200 with $250 already paid and sent in from the faculty, he said. World Service of the Y. M. C. A., according to Mr. Cashion today faces its greatest task in years. He said: “Aside from carrying on its reg ular activities in the 15 nations it served during the war, World Service is now resuming its ac tivities in eleven other nations where war conditions made full cooperation from North America impossible in recent years. The funds we contribute now will be investments in constructive citi zenship and a permanent and in telligent peace.” World Service chairman here is Charlie Crabtree, president of the Y. M. C. A. Cabinet, and members of the committee are Gene How ard, Donald Hanks, Raymond Par rish, Mrs. Roland Parker and Mrs. W. L. McCoy. LANGFORD TO ATTEND MIAMI CONVENTION Ernest Langford, head of the Texas A. & M. College architec ture department, will attend the /oint conventions of the Associa tion of Collegiate Schools of Ar chitecture and the American In stitute of Architects at Miami Beach May 6-10. His department is a member of the ASCA, and Langford is an AIA member. VAN ZANDT JOINS FOREST SERVICE STAFF Robert W. Van Zandt, newly ap pointed farm forest agent of the Texas Forest Service, was at for estry headquarters at A. & M. Col lege this week, conferring with staff members. He will be assigned to the farm forestry project at Marshall within the near future. Mr. Van Zandt swerved with the U. S. Army Air Forces for three years as a P-47 fighter pilot. He was shot down on a mission over Germany and interned in a German prison camp for six months until released at the end of the war. PISTOL EXPERTS WANTED FOR MATCHES There will be two Registered Pistol Tournaments in May that A. & M. will be represented in. These are to be held May 19 in Austin, and May 25, 26 in Dal las.