Texas A. & M. College
Battalion
College Station, Texas, Friday Afternoon, May 3, 1946
Number 55
Pilots, Fill Your Questionnaires
Flight Curriculum Announced
Volume 45
Outfits Sweating
Out Moore Trophy
Competition is keen among the
18 ROTC cadet organizations on
the Texas A. & M. College cam
pus, as each vies for the General
George F. Moore trophy and flag,
to be awarded for the first time at
a Mother’s Day parade here May
12.
The trophy, designs for which
are now being submitted, will go
to the best-all-around company,
battery or troop, excellence to be
determined on a basis of scholar
ship, military proficiency, intra
mural athletic proficiency and ex
tra-curricular activity of the men
making up the outfit.
The winning organization will
hold the trophy for a year, and
during that time will carry the
Gen. George F. Moore honor flag
in all parades and reviews. In ad-
FLASH
A forty-girl troupe from TSCW,
including the “Serenaders Orch
estra”, will be on the Texas A&M
campus on May 11 for the All-Col
lege party in Sbisa Hall honoring
the parents of Aggies. Rooms for
parents will be available for par
ents in Dorms 14 and 17, and res
ervations must be made at the
Placement Office by 12:00 noon on
Friday, May 10.
dition, a distinctive shoulder-patch
or ribbon, to be worn by members
of the honor organization, is plan
ned.
Major General Moore, for whom
the award is named, was cadet
commandant at Texas A. & M.
in 1937-40, and shortly after be
came one of the heroes of Corregi-
dor. He was voted an honorary doc
tor of laws degree by the College
in 1944, while still a prisoner of
the Japs, and the degree was con
ferred on him at a special convo
cation October 15, 1945.
NO DOPE YET ON
BLUE STAR AWARD
It’s like being a playwright and
waiting for the critics’ reviews—or
being a movie star and waiting for
the box-office reports of a picture
this waiting to learn how the Army
liked the ROTC inspection, and
whether or not the cadet corps will
wear the Blue Star for another
year.
But it may be several weeks yet
before the official Army report is
made, and the Commandant’s office
points out that any estimate made
before the report comes out is just
pure guessing.
So relax, cadets. Anyway, it look
ed good to us.
REV. TERRY TO GIVE
BACCALAUREATE
Rev. R. C. Terry, pastor of the
A. & M. Methodist Church, will give
the baccalaureate sermon for the
Consolidated High School Sunday
May 19 at the First Baptist
Church.
Did You See Self
In Newsreels
Of Aggie Muster?
Twentieth-Century-Fox newsreel
this week showed the Victory
Homecoming Muster to millions of
theatre-goers throughout the U.
S.
Pictures of Gen. Eisenhower ad
dressing the muster and crowd
in Kyle Field that heard him were
exhibited. The film narrator de
scribed the war record of the col
lege, and told how A. & M. furn
ished more * army officers during
the war than West Point.
Time magazine, in its current
issue, carries a long report on the
muster and its traditional back
ground—^without mentioning Gen
eral Ike!
Questionnaires designed to deter
mine the number of students in
terested in pilot and refresher
flight training were placed for dis
tribution today at the Exchange
Store, the office of the Veterans’
Advisor and all deans’ offices.
Quick action in obtaining, fill
ing out and returning the ques
tionnaires is urged by Dean H.
W. Barlow of the school of en
gineering, since plans for ground
instruction and obtaining of more
planes and equipment must be
made quickly if the six flight
courses are to go into operation
June 1. ,
An instruction sheet containing
all information necessary regard
ing the six flight courses—includ
ing the fact that arrangements are
being made with the Veterans Ad
ministration to bring the pilot
courses under the G. I. Bill of
Rights—is obtainable along with
the questionnaire.
The six flight courses each will
carry full 3-hour credit in the
aeronautical engineering depart-
i
Texas Leads In
Highway Building,
Kennedy Declares
More than 250 attended the
twentieth annual highway engi
neering short course held on the
campus this week, and heard G.
Donald Kennedy, vice-president of
the Automotive Safety Foundation,
declare that Texas leads the na
tion in highway building.
“About one-eighth of all the
federal-aid highway work now un
der way in America is being done
in this state, and you are off to a
fast start in preparing for tomor
row’s traffic needs,” Kennedy de
clared. “Texas isn’t just talking
highways, it is building them.”
Flying Farmers
Organize Here
Clayton Beard of Tahoka, Texas
was elected president of the Texas
chapter of the Flying Farmers in
their first meeting held at College
Station April 29 and 30.
During a day and a half program,
starting at 1:00 p.m. on the 29th,
addresses were given by several
members of the Oklahoma chapter
and the election of officers was
completed. They included R. L.
Fields of Wharton as vice president
and Miss Ama Lee Jameson of Staf
ford as secretary- treasurer.
Monday Last Day
For Senior Ducats
Senior Ring Dance tickets will
go off sale Monday afternoon,
May 6, at five o’clock.
Tickets may be obtained from
Willie Williams, Goose Hall, Sam
Nixon, Bob King, and Bill Sammis.
They cost five dollars each and in
clude the cost of both the dance
and the banquet.
Senior Ring Dance favors are
also on sale at the Student Activ
ities office at $2.50 each.
BAPTISTS PLAN PICNIC
The Young Peoples’ Department
of the Sunday School, First Bap
tist Church, College, is cooperating
with classes planning outings for
Saturday evening in a picnic for
the entire department at Hensel
Park at 7 o’clock.
ment. The courses, as announced
earlier, lead to licenses as private
pilot, advanced pilot, commercial
pilot, flight instructor and instru
ment pilot, and in addition there
is a commercial refresher course
available for those already holding
that license.
Physical requirements for the
flight courses are those set up by
the C., A. A. for the various types
of licenses.
The curriculum is as follows:
FLIGHT COURSE CURRICULUM
221. Aeronautics—Private Pilots Course—
2-2 Credit S.
Civil Air Regulations, Meterology, Aer
ial Navigation, Radio Facilities, General
Service of Aircraft, Flight Instruction.
(36 hours of ground instruction, 45-50
hours of flight instruction.)
223. Aeronautics—Advanced Pilots Course
—2-3 Credit 3.
Civil Air Regulations, Meterology, Aer
ial Navigation, Radio Facilities, Aircraft
Engines, Theory of Aircraft, Flight In
struction. Prerequisite—Aero 221 or equiv
alent. (36. hours of ground instruction, 55-
60 hours of flight instruction).
225. Aeronautics—Commercial Piolts
Course—2-3 Credit 3.
Civil Air Regulations, Meterology, Aer
ial Navigation, Radio Facilities, Aircraft
Engines, Theory of Aircraft, Flight In-
AUCTION NOTICE
Small, miscellaneous lot of
pamphlets on vetrebrates and
invertebrates for examination
prior to auction in office of H.
M. Smith, Ag. Eng. Building.
Auction to be held Saturday,
May 11, 1:15 p.m.
A&M to Cooperate
In Research on
Plane Designing
A cooperative research project
btween the Model Industry Asso
ciation, Inc., and the Industrial
Education department of Texas A.
& M. College has been announced
by Dean Howard W. Barlow of the
School of Engineering.
Glenn M. Tindell, executive di
rector of the Model Industry Asso
ciation, of Chicago, has just com
pleted arrangements for the re
search project with Chris J. Grone-
man, acting head of the Industrial
Education department. Roger Bar
ton, model airplane designer and
builder and winner of many model
airplane contests, is the member of
the teaching staff of the college
assigned to the project. Mr. Barton
has been a member of the engi
neering drawing- staff.
The research work will involve
grading and evaluation of model
airplane kits now on the market,
and an effort will be made to
standardize the available kits so
they will be more acceptable to
schools and recreational groups,
Mr. Groneman, who will supervise
the project, explained. It is hoped
to devise courses of study for pub
lic schools in model aircraft de
sign, construction and flight, Mr.
Groneman said.
The first stage of the coopera
tive research will take about four
months, to be followed by other
work along the same lines look
ing toward standardization of the
model industry which, including
airplanes, jeeps, trucks, trains, etc.,
accounts for a $50,000,000 per year
volume of business. The model air
plane field alone includes gliders,
helicopters and planes powered by
rubber bands, gasoline motors;
and radio controlled models.
AGGIES AT KENEDY RANCH
Five hundred Aggie exes are ex
pected to attend the seventeenth
annual A. & M. Round-up on the
John G. Kennedy Jr. Ranch near
Kingsville this weekend.
struction. Prerequisite—Aero 223 or equiv
alent. (36 hours of ground instruction, 55-
60 hours of flight instruction).
227. Aeronautics—Commercial Pilots Re
fresher Course—2-2 Credit 3.
Civil Air Regulations, Meterology, Aer
ial Navigation, Radio Aids, Aircraft En
gines, Aircraft Theory, Flight Instruction.
Prerequisite—This course is designed
for former military pilots who were issued
commercial pilots licenses by the C. A. A.
on their military competency or for others
by special permission. This course will
familiarize them with civilian types of
airplanes and the performance of maneu
vers necessary for commercial pilots and
to enable such pilots to obtain pilot ratings
on additional types of airplanes. (36
hours of ground instruction and 36 hours
of flight instruction).
229. Aeronautics—Flight Instructors
Course—2-2 Credit 3.
Fundamentals of flight instruction
technique and methods. Flight Instruction.
Prerequisite—Aero, 225, 227 or equivalent.
(40 hours of ground instruction and 40
hours of flight instruction).
231. Aeronautics—Instrument Pilot
Course 2-2 Credit 3.
Civil air Regulations, Meterology, Air
craft and Theory of Flight, Navigation,
Instruments and Radio and Navigation
Aids, Instrument Flight Procedure, Flight
Instruction. Prerequisite—Aero. 225,' 227
or equivalent. (30 hours of ground in
struction and 30 hours of flight instruc
tion).
College Asks
Increase In
Appropriation
Salaries and Increased
Enrollment Basis of
New Biennial Budget
Looking forward to future needs,
the officials of A. & M. College
have requested from the state leg
islature an appropriation of $8,-
500,000 for the next two years, al
most twice the amount appropriat
ed in the previous biennial budget.
The sum was for the main college
and its subsidiaries.
Most important item was for
proposed salary increases. The
state board of control was told
that even with these increases,
salaries for faculty members would
still not be at the same level as
at Texas university.
Officials pointed out that the in
crease in budget also is based on
an increase in enrollment from 6,-
900 to 8,000 at the main college.
For the main college $2,126,042
was requested, compared to $1,307,-
362 currently appropriated; for
main college extramural, $1,448,465
compared to $195,502; for experi
ment stations, $2,538,430 compared
to $1,091,298; for the extension
service, $1,506,646 compared to
$718,824; for firemen’s training
school, $36,000 compared to $12,-
700; for rodent control, $124,290
compared to $79,100, and for the
Texas Forestry Service, $999,043
compared to $373,771.
Aircraft Paintings
Presented to A&M
Eight reproductions of paintings
by the noted artist, Frank Lemon,
depicting modern aircraft in the
war, have been presented to Texas
A. & M.’s engineering school by
W. W. Finlay, vice president and
general manager of the Gtiiberson
Corporation, Dallas.
Entitled “A Gallery of Air Pow
er”, the pictures, each signed by
the artist, will be hung in display
cases in the college petroleum
building, and later will be exhib
ited in the library and other de
partments.
CHURCH WOMEN GREET
NEW PRESIDENT
The Federated Council of Church
Women of College Station on Mon
day installed Mrs. J. R. Hillman as
president.
Vets Jamboree
And Meeting Set
For Monday Night
Aggieland Orchestra
Will Play Novelties
In Assembly Hall
The Ex-Servicemen’s Club will
combine business and pleasure
Monday night, when a short meet
ing in the Assembly Hall will be
followed by a social jamboree. The
Aggieland Orchestra will be the
chief attraction of the social ses
sion.
This will be the first meeting of
the club since new officers were
elected. All veterans and their
wives are invited. The meeting will
begin at 7:00 p.m.
The Aggielanders under the di
rection of Bill Turner will present
several novelty numbers. On the
program will be “The Cement
Mixer”, Brax (Four-Gun) Doak
singing ‘“Sioux City Sue”, and a
medley of school songs.
The Aggieland Orchestra includ
es veterans as well as cadets
among its players. Some of the
veterans in the group are Fred
Nelson, piano; Jerry Steves, tenor
sax; and Nelson McLain, trombone.
Dr. A. C. Chandler
Banquet Speaker
For AAUP and SX
The Sigma Xi Club and the A.
and M. Chapter of the American
Association of University Profes
sors will have as the speaker for
their spring banquet next Wednes
day. Dr. Asa C. Chandler of Rice
Institute.
Dr. Chandler is an outstanding
biologist, and is the author of a
number of books on parasitology.
One of his latest books “The Eaters
Digest”, has had considerable pop
ular appeal. Dr. Chandler has serv
ed on the faculty of Oregon State
College and with the United States
Public Health Service. Dr. Chand
ler was for some time in charge
of some parasitological research
at the Calcutta (India) School for
Tropical Medicine.
The banquet will be held at Sbisa
Hall at 7:15 PM, Wednesday, May
8. The meeting is open to all
interested persons. Dr. C. C. Doak,
Dr. E. P. Humbert, Prof. A. A. L.
Mathews and Dr. J. J. Sperry are
in charge of the arrangements.
WILLIAMS TO ADVISE
SHOP PUBLICATION •
E. L Williams, head of the Texas
A. & M. Colege Industrial Ex
tension Service, has accepted an ap
pointment as member of the 12-
man editorial advisory board of
the trade magazine “School Shop”*
His appointment by the magazine*
which is published primarily for
industrial education teachers, is
for a four-year period.
Four Sergeants Get •
Shiny New Stripes 1
In Military Dept.
Four promotions have been made
in the military department of A.
& M. College, it was announced re
cently. The following enlisted men
have received their master-ser
geant stripes:
Ray J. Chandler, who has been
Sergeant-major of the detach
ment since December 1945. He was
assigned to A. & M. after serving
in Europe with the 103rd Divi
sion.
Claude R. Misenheimer, who has
been at A. & M. for only two
weks, saw service with the 725th
Ordnance Company. His previous
rank was S-Sgt.
J. D. Mandel, holder of the Sil
ver Star, Bronze Star, and Eur-
opean-African-Mediterranian thea
ter ribbon with six bronze cam
paign stars, has been at A. & M.
since January 1946 and was pro
moted from Sgt. to M/Sgt.
Arthur W. Sabo, who was con
nected with the Military Depart
ment of A. & M. from 1935 to 1943,
was promoted from S/Sgt. to
M/Sgt.