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Appointment of R. D. Lewis At Ag Experiment Station Announced By President Without a head leader for over a year, the Texas Agriculture Ex periment station has appointed as its director, Dr. Robert Donald Lewis, according to an announce ment made yesterday by President Gibb Gilchrist. The new appoint ment becomes effective September 1, 1946. Dr. Lewis since 1940 has been professor and chairman of the Ohio State University department of agronomy. He also has held the third position of agent of the division of cereal crops and dis ease of the Bureau of Plant In dustry, United States Department of Agriculture. Dr. Lewis is director of the Ohio Seed Improvement Association, a group considered the model state organization for the entire coun try and he also was adviser of the seed industry and seed grower committee on federal appropria tions for improvement of legumes in 1945-46. International crop im provement committees of which Dr. Lewis is a member include those on general certification, red clover standards, alfalfa standards and seed standards for grasses. Additionally, he served as chair man of the American Society of Agronomy committee on war and postwar adjustments from 1942 to 1946. Dr. Lewis was born in Wyalus- ing, Pa., and took his B. S. in agronomy in 1919 at Pennsylvania State College. He received his Ph.D. at Cornell in 1926 with his major study in genetics and plant breeding. 3,031 Register For Term; Top 1940 Record by 100% Mrs. Ruby Bauer, Ex-Wac, Is First Woman GI Here With 3,031 student enrolled, the first summer term since pre-war days began at A. & M. this week. Of the total enrollment, 2,731 were veterans of the war, and 1,200 of them were newly returned from military duty. Of the veterans enrolled here last semester, 1,531 re-registered. Mrs. Ruby A. Bauer, former pri vate first class in the WAC, was the first woman veteran to enroll under the GI Bill. Mrs. Bauer, from Paris, Texas, was in service eighteen months. During the first part of the war she was a para chute rigger under Civil Service; after entering the WAC she serv ed in clerical work. She is taking English and Landscape Art this summer. Her husband, Benjamin B. Bauer, is studying veterinary medicine here. Among other servicewomen reg istered are Mrs. Don Early, Hazel R. Davenport, Delmo R. Alford and Lynn C. Atkins. The number enrolled is believed to set a new high record for sum mer courses at A. & M. by better than 100’%. The peak was reached in 1940 when 1,457 were register ed. In 1939 the figure had been 1,279, and in 1941, when war clouds were clearly gathering, the enrollment was 1,269. That was the last regular summer session held at the college, as by summer of 1942 the college was on its war time speed-up program. Registration for the first sum mer term proceeded smoothly under the new plan devised by R. L. Heaton, registrar. Aggieland Ork Will Go to Yoakum As Tom-Tom Band The Aggieland Orchestra will journey to Yoakum, Texas to play for the first annual tomato festi val to be held since the beginning of the war. Chosen as the official Tom Tom Orchestra for the celebration, the band will play for the Queen’s Cornation, Queen’s Ball and two other dances on June 13, 14 and 15. All the members of the Aggie land Orchestra for the spring se mester, 1946 will make the trip. Model Airplane Meet to be Held Here Next Week War-deferred since 1942, the annual statewide model airplane contest will be held June 14-15, ac cording to Chris Groneman, acting head of the sponsoring Industrial Education department. Both the meet and its director, Rogers Barton, are approved by the Academy of .Model Aeronaut ics, Groneman said. Barton, a mem ber of the college staff, is widely- known as a model plane champion, and at preent is engaged on re search work in the subject. Information on entering the meet, at which appropriate cash prizes will be awarded winners, may be obtained either by writing the Industrial Education depart ment here or through model clubs. There wilf be rubber-powered, free flight gas-powered and control line events in both junior and sen ior divisions, as well as several open events. Veterans Club Invites New Ex-Servicemen to Attend Group’s First Summer Meeting Monday Raymond Parrish, president of the Ex-Servicemen’s Club, an nounced yesterday that the first summer meeting of his organiza tion will be held next Monday nite in its traditional meeting place, the Assembly Hall. Meeting time will be at 7:30 p. m. The Ex-Servicemen’s Club, ac tive throughout the last two se mesters, plans a full program for the summer terms. Possible topics for discussion for next Monday’s meeting are state and local poli tics, campus activities and summer entertainment. Being the largest club on the campus, the Ex-Servicemen’s Club offers students who were members of one of the services a contact with the provisions of the G. 1. Bill of Rights and the legislative action pending for the benefit of the “Forgotten men”. The organization was recognized by the Association of Former Stu dents at its recent annual meet ing as one of the most influential clubs of the campd!. The elected officers of the club were named to the board of directors of the for mer students association. Expected to attend the first “va cation” session meeting are four ex-service women, one from the Army Nurses Corps and three from the Women’s Army Corps. Parrish stated that so far defi nite entertainment had not been arranged for, but that every effort was being made to have some form of entertainment to follow the bus iness session. All ex-servicemen enrolled in A. & M. College are automatically made associate members of the Ex-Servicemen’s Club, which is to the veterans what the cadet corps is to other students. However, those who wish to take a more ac tive part in the club may become active members by paying the fif- ty-cent summer membership fee. Meetings are open to all veterans, but the active members have the right to vote for officers and on questions which come before the club. In order to operate in a truly democratic fashion, the club has representatives elected by each dormitory and apartment area, who are rather like city councilmen. They are able to handle many minor “griefs” which are constant ly arising. This feature has play ed an important part in making the Ex-Servicemen’s Club a potent part of post-war campus life. Texas A«M The B . GoOega ration VOLUME 45 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 6, 1946 NUMBER 67 Board Approves $16,404,884 Budget For College and Branch Operation Prof. Kirkbridge To Be Observer At A-Bomb Test Will Go From Campus To Bikini Atoll Aboard Naval Flagship Texas A&M College will have an observer at Operation Cross roads, the Bikini atoll atomic bomb tests, in the person of Chalmer G. Kirkbride, professor of chemical engineering. Well-known as a chemical en gineer and for his war work in producing aviation gas and toluene for explosives, Kirkbride will leave San Francisco June 12 for the Marshall Islands, aboard one of the flagships of Task Force One, the A-bomb test fleet. He will re turn to the college in September. Kirkbride’s invitation to attend the tests as one of 20 non-partici pating scientist-observers came from Vice Admiral W. H. P. A $16,404,884 budget was ap proved by the board of directors of A. & M. College at their annual budget meeting, held on the cam pus last week end. The amount is the total for the main college, extramural divisions and branch colleges. The salary of Gibb Gilchrist was increased from $12,000 to $15,000 annually. “The increase is a token of appreciation for the splendid work he is doing,” stated G. R. White, president of the board. The board changed the status of W. W. Holzmann from acting business manager to comptroller of the college and its branches. This action was taken to arrange for the return to duty of Lt. Col. E. N. Holmgreen, business mana ger of the college who has been on leave in the army for several years, but who is expected to re-> sume his activities on the campus July 15. Future enrollments in the veter inary school will be limited to 64 new students a year. Present equipment will take care of only that many students properly, al though more were accepted on an emergency basis during the war. The board authorized establish ment of a soil analysis laboratory to be operated under direction of the Division of Chemistry of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. On a nominal fee basis, it is believed this service will be self-sustaining, and when soil sam ples are analyzed, the report and the suggested soil treatment will be forwarded to the landowner through his Extension service county agent, who will follow up on the case and assist the owner in carrying out the recommended treatment. For the main college, the Texas extension service, Texas agricul tural experiment station and fores try service the 1946-47 budget to tals $14,174,781. Next in amount is for Prairie View university, $1,- 125,496; North Texas Agricultur al college, $3,543,534; and John Tarleton Agricultural College, $562,073. More Housing Gilchrist also received approval of an appropriation of $150,000 for the college’s part of the ex pense of adding 516 additional housing units to be provided by the federal public housing admin istration for married veterans. In his forecast of the enroll ment for the September semester, President Gilchrist stated there probably would be housing ac commodations for 6417 students in dormitories and in housing units under control of the college, and an additional thousand quartered in the Bryan-College Station com munity. The college expects to have ready by September a total of 908 family units for married veterans, Gilchrist stated. It was point ed out that the faculty is listing enrollment priority in the follow ing order: First, veterans who are former students of Texas A&M.; second, veterans who are bona fide Texas residents, and third, the graduates of Texas high schools in the upper half of their classes scholastically. High School Exams It is planned to give special ex aminations for Texas high school graduates in the lower half of their classes to ascertain their ability to pursue college-level stu dy. Travel allowances of employees of extramural divisions of the college was increased to $5.50 per diem. Others are limited to $4. The board also authorized the following: Flight Courses Expenditure of $30,000 for planes and instructors to give flight train ing for veterans under the G. I. bill. Installation of a $17,000 outfall sewer line, a $5000 electric line to the southwest portion of the campus to serve veterans and to supply power for a lighted foot ball practice field; $7500 to install an air conditioned gage laboratory with government equipment, value at $125,000; a $24,000 addition to the mechanical engineering shops to house surplus machine shop equipment furnished by the gov ernment. An expenditure of $27,000 for tennis courts, $10,500 for a con crete outdoor dance slab, $8300 for sidewalks in the veterans vil lage and $30,000 for improve ments to the athletic plant. The college construction and re habilitation program is being fi nanced from the university avail able fund and for the current bi ennium a total of $995,000 will be available, of which $911,000 has been earmarked for needed im provements, it was announced. Candidate Teague To Be Guest at Barbecue Tonight Ike Ashbum to Be M. C. At Country Club Event Honoring Aggie Hero Tiger Teague, more formally known as Col. Olin E. Teague, will be the honored guest at a barbe cue dinner tonight at the Bryan Country Club. The principal speak er at the dinner will be Col. Ike Ashburn. The event is scheduled to take place at 6:30 and celebrates the announcement by Teague that he will run for the Democratic nomination for U. S. Congressman from the sixth Texas district. Tiger Teague, an Aggie in the class of ’32, was one of the major A&M heroes in World War II. He is still being treated at Brooke General Hospital, Fort Sam Hous ton, Texas for a leg wound that he received while in combat, but has Olin E. “Tiger” Teague C. G. Kirkbride Musicians in Demand . . . Want to k Sing or Toot Horn? Three Groups Seek Talent Blandy, Task Force One command er. He had been nominated as ob server by the National Academy of Sciences, acting upon recom mendations from both the Ameri can Institute of Chemists and the American Institute of Chemical engineers. Preliminary advices inform Kirk bride, who joined the Texas A. & (Continued on Page 4) Final Review Is Held Despite Rain; 219 Graduate Rep. Sumners Warns That Bureaucracy is Replacing Traditional Democracy Stormy weather failed to stop the Final Review last week. Col. lege officials, military officers and the cadet corps stood in pouring rain for the pre-com mencement ceremony. An Aggie tradition was upheld. There were 219 graduates in the class of ’47 who received their diplomas in Guion Hall last I week. Hatton W. Sumners, congres- 1 sional representative from the fifth Texas district, warned the graduates that they face no easy world. “We have left you a heri tage of confusion,” he stated. “A governmental organization which during our responsibility has had its distinct characteris tics changed from that of a de mocracy to that of a bureaucracy now operating from the top downward instead of from the tics changed from that of a de- upward—as a democracy by its nature functions.” H. C. DILLINGHAM NAMED SECRETARY H. <C. “Dutch” Dillingham of the Texas A&M College electrical engineering department has been named secretary of the Houston section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, it was re vealed today. The Houston section includes this part of Southeast Texas. MUNSON ACTING AS HEAD OF C. E. DEPT. Professor T. A. Munson today became acting head of the civil en gineering department in place of C. E. Sandstedt, who is vacation ing. Musicians and singei's are in demand at A. & M. this summer. Three organizations will be active during the season, and if enough talent turns out, some major pro grams may be staged. The new A. & M. Symphony or chestra will hold its first rehearsal Tuesday night in the assembly hall at 7:00 p.m. All musicians in Col lege Station, whether students or not, are eligible. The college has some instruments available; how ever, those with their own instru ments are asked to bring them. The symphony is directed by Bill Turner of the Student Activities office, and musicians who would like to join the orchestra are ask ed to contact him in Room 5, Ad ministration building, or come di rectly to rehearsal. The A. & M. men’s choir, known as the Singing Cadets of Aggie land, will meet Monday and Tues- Development Fund Has Biggest Year The Association of Former* * * Stu dents closed its 1946 fiscal year May 31 receiving $78,566.80 from 8,500 donors through the Develop ment Fund. This is the largest contribution received from the greatest number of contributors since the fund had its beginning in 1943. The association has reached its two main objectives agreed upon at the end of the 1945 fiscal year. One was to place another $25,000 in the Gold Star Student Aid Fund, which provides financial as sistance for the education of child ren of A&M men killed in the mili tary service during World War II. This makes a total of $50,000 now in this fund. The other objective was to present additional war bonds to the college for the purpose of building a Memorial Student Center. With the 1946 contribution of $48,000, this fund now has a total of $234,000. Restricted gifts amounted to $4,650, which is used for purposes specified by the don ors. Number of Amount Year Contributors Given 1943 6,277 $51,119.75 1944 7,404 63,780.78 1945 8,108 74,374.07 1946 8,500 78,566.80 day of next week at the assembly hall at 5:00 p.m. both days. Though the group bears the name of “cadets”, all A. & M. students, whether in the corps or veterans, are eligible. Anyone interested in choral singing is asked to see Mr. Turner at rehearsal or in his of fice. It is expected that the Singing Cadets will have several out-of- town engagements this summer. The Aggieland Orchestra, college dance band, has several vacancies this semester, and will hold audi tions Wednesday night at 7:00 in the assembly hall. Bill Turner also conducts this group, and queries can be made at his office. For the benefit of new students: the assembly hall, which should not be confused with Guion Mall, is the white stucco building, al most hidden by trees, which stands diagonally opposite the Y. M. C. A. ‘Mr. Chips of A. & M.’ Dallas News Writer Calls Amb. Kyle A new expression, “Mr. Chips of A. & M.” was coined by Victor Shofelmayer, agriculture editor of the Dallas News, as a descrip tion of E. J. Kyle, American Am bassador to Guatemala and form er dean of agriculture at this col lege. The expression referred to the leading character in James Hilton’s novel, “Goodbye, Mr. Chips,” who spent a lifetime at an English boy’s school and came to be an embody- ment of the school’s tradition. So completely has the old de signation of “Dean” clung to Mr. Kyle, that all during his tour of Texas with a group of Guatemalan agriculturalists he was never ad dressed as “Mr. Ambassador” but always as “Dean”. ********* *** * FRIDAY LAST DAY * * FOR DROPPING * * * * Friday, June 7 is the last day * * for changing your schedule for * * the first term of Summer * * School. Courses dropped after * * Friday, June 7 will carry a * * grade of “F”. * * F. C. BOLTON, * * Dean * Plan Conference On Electron and Ion Ballistics EE and Physics Depts. Cooperate In Graduate Seminar This Summer A summer conference on elec tron and ion ballistics, especially designed for research physicists and engineers, will be held June 24-July 13, jointly-presented by the electrical engineering and physics departments of the college. The conference will be divided into two general parts, the first half being devoted to electron mic roscopes and other devices de pending upon electron or ion beams for operation, and the latter half to the mass spectrometer and al lied instruments. The college has a Westinghouse mass spectrometer in operation. Two distinguished lecturers have been obtained for the course. They are Dr. Ladislaw Marton of the Division of Electron Optics of Stanford university, formerly with R.C.A., who will preside over the first portion of the conference, and Dr. John A. Hippie of the Westinghouse research laborator ies, in charge of Westinghouse mass spectrometer development. The conference is of graduate level, and all persons registering will be assumed to have a back ground of electron theory in order that the daily two-hour lecture per iod may be devoted to advanced phases of the science. Four semes ter hours of college credit will be granted those completing the con ference. Wives to Elect New Officers at Meeting Tonight Election of officers will be the principal business at the first meeting of the summer of the Ex- Servicemen’s Wives Club tonight at 7:30 in Sbisa Lounge. The bus iness meeting will be followed by the regular bridge social. The following nominations were made by the group at its May 29 meeting: President, Rowena Mc- Gaughey, Jean Clark, Naomi Sim mons, Margaret Kelso and Jean Kernodle; Vice-President, Marjorie Manning, Jackie McCarty and Ben nie Hefner; Historian, Doris Voel- kel and Helen DeBona; Reporter, Katherine DeMontel, Alice Clark and Joyce Cavender. been granted a few days leave and plans to use much of that time here. t A three time winner of the Sil ver Star, Teague fought from Cher bourg, across France, and into Ger many before he was put out of action by his third wound (Teague is also a three-time father; two boys and a girl). As battalion com mander in the the 79th Infantry, he spent 180 days in combat. Ac cording to his friends, the last (Continued on Page 4) Army Engineers Begin Classes In C. E. Dept < It was back to college this week for 17 regular army Corps of En gineers officers, who began a year of special graduate work in the civil engineering department. All the student officers were on hand for the opening classes ex cept 1st Lt. Michell Goldenthal, who was several days late due to a delay in returning from over seas duty in Germany. Lt. Col. Lawrence Laurion, the senior officer present, is in charge of the group, which includes: Lt. Cols. Edmund Kirby-Smith, Wins ton C. Fowler, Guy H. Goddard, Stanley R. Kelly, William A. Orr, and Samuel R. Peterson; Majors Robert D. Brown, Frederick Zit- zer, Byron Kirkpatrick and Fred erick J. Baker; Captains Edsel J. Burkhart, Walter J. Hutchin, Ed- mon L. Faust and Jesse Thomas, Jr. Concession Requests Must Be Made Before Saturday This Week All students desiring concessions for the summer are asked to make application at the Student Activ ities offices before this Saturday. The concession will be awarded Monday, June 10. For those who do not have a student employment card, it will be necessary to make application with the student labor office in Goodwin Hall first. N. F. RODE NAMED AIEE COUNSELOR Professor Norman F. Rode has been chosen as counselor by the A&M College student branch of the American Institute of Electri cal Engineers, it was announced today.