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Get the Habit “Hello” Texas AaM rVfM . Th The B VOLUME 45 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 13, 1946 NUMBER 68 Share the Walk! NEW TRAINING PLANS ANNOUNCED FOR A. & M. C. Major General Anderson Tells Of Air Reserve Plan Assistant Chief Air Staff Informs Reserves Flying Unit Needed Here Major General Fred L. Ander son, Jr., Assistant Chief of Air Staff-Personnel and former Com manding General of the Eighth Bomber Command and Chief j>f Op erations of the United States Stra tegical Air Forces in Europe, ap peared before the Brazos County Chapter of the Reserve Officers Association last Tuesday night to discuss the air reserve and its pur poses. Following a six-hour flight from Washington, a tour of the campus and a quick review of the facilities of the college, General Anderson spoke to over four hundred re serve officers interested in the air force in peace as in war. The general pointed out that late developments in aircraft had made all cities neighbors and all industrial and military installa tions vulnerable in case of an at tack. Small maps were passed to members of the addience from which could be seen that Chicago is about 500 miles closer to Berlin across the North Pole than by way of New York, and that Tokio is some 2,700 miles closer by this route than by normally traveled routes. These routes, it was point ed out, are closed to ground and naval forces but unrestricted to air forces. Air Reserve Plan Establishing the need for units that are well trained and that can be called on to quickly supple ment the regular flying organiza tions, General Anderson presented the plan for the air reserve. In general the plan proposes that the Active Reserve will in clude 17,500 combat crew pilot officers, 5,000 staff and administra tive pilot officers, 27,500 non-pilot officers and 120,000 enlisted per sonnel who will receive indivi dual proficiency training through an annual period of 15 days active duty and frequent progress train ing periods throughout the year. No training is contemplated for the Inactive Reserve. General Anderson stated that, “It is proposed that training will be conducted for the Air Reserve at 130 Air Reserve bases distrib uted throughout the United States on a basis of population density. For flying training, it is planned to use, initially, AT-6’s, AT-ll’s and P-51 type aircraft.” Texas Bases The first bases will commence operations June 15 with a number to bring the total to 40 opening on July 1. Texas bases will be located at Houston, Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, El Paso, Amarillo and Waco. General Anderson assured the 179 reserve officers who are in terested in the organization of a unit here at Easterwood airfield, College Station, that he and Colo nel Monro Mac Closky, Assistant A-3 in Charge of Reserve Officers and National Guard Training who accompanied him, would make known to the commanding general the immediate needs of such a unit. Reserve Promotions Colonel Mac Closky told those officers looking forward to promo tion that attendance at Reserve Officer classes, completion of ex tension courses, completion of the 15 days active duty and the satis factory completion of from four to fifteen hours flying time each month would be the basis of ad vancement. Mrs. Taibenhaus To Concentrate On Hillel Club Mrs. Esther H. Taubenhaus, Tracy Herbarium assistant since 1937, has resigned effective June 30 to assume less strenous duties as executive director of the A. & M. Hillel Foundation. Mrs. Taub- enhous assisted her late husband, Dr. J. J. Taubenhaus, in organiz ing this foundation about 25 years ago for the benefit of Jewish stu dents attending Texas A. & M. College. Mrs. Taubenhaus holds a bach elors degree in psychology from Ecole Normale of Paris, France, and a masters in philosophy from Columbia University. She also ful filled the requirements for a doc torate from Columbia except final submission of her thesis. She holds membership in the American Asso- (See TAUBENHAUS, Page 4) Margaret Kelso New President Of Vets Wives Club Plans Activities For Summer Term; Will Hold Barbecue Tuesday New president of the Ex-Ser vicemen’s Wives Club is Margaret Kelso, wife of Rex Kelso, Petrol eum Engineering student. The Kelsos, who come from Fort Worth, are living at Bryan Field village, with their four-year old son, Larry. Mrs. Kelso was active in club work while in Kilgore High School. Others officers elected by the women’s group include Lois Gun ter, vice-president; Jean Clark, Secretary; Peggy VanHorn, Treas urer; Joyce Cavendish, reporter; and Helen DeBona, historian. The foods group and the style- fashion group of the club will con tinue their activities through the summer. The club held a Get-Acquainted Tea on June 11 in the lounge of Sbisa for all wives on the campus. Approximately 150 guests regis tered. The retiring officers stood in the receiving line with the newly elected heads. Mrs. Gibb Gilchrist, Mrs. Dick Miller, Mrs. J. S. Mogford, Mrs. George War ner and Mrs. E. R. Alexander as sisted in serving at the dining table. A demonstration barbeque will be held Tuesday at the home of Mrs. J. S. Mogford, 214 Lee Street, at 7:00 p. m. Those in attendance will learn how to prepare a picnic and how to prepare a barbeque— and then will eat one. Registra tions for the barbeque may be made through Jean Clark, Hart E 13-14. The group will meet at Sbisa at 6:45 p. m. and those with cars are asked to bring them. Regular bridge sessions are held at Sbisa every Thursday evening. College Station Bank to Open In Middle of June Chalk up another first for the College Station area: when the College Station Bank opens for business sometime this month, it will be the first commercial bank to operate in pre-fab huts! The bank, organized by College Station citizens, had just approved plans for a modern banking house to be erected on New Sulphur Springs Road next to the Student Coop, when the Civilian Build- Administration restricted all non Quarter of a Million Dollars Plan Announced by Construction Head ROTC CONTRACT PLAN ANNOUNCED BY WELTY Plan to Go Into Effect In Fall; Air ROTC Under Consideration Colonel M. D. Welty, Comman dant and PMS and T, announced this week that the War Depart ment had approved a postwar pol icy concerning the Reserve Of ficers Training Corps which makes provision for military training in two divisions, the Junior ROTC at approximately the secondary school educational level, and the Senior ROTC at the junior college and college level. The Junior ROTC and the ele mentary course of the Senior ROTC will provide only general military training. The advanced Senior ROTC will be of a specialized branch type, designed to qualify selected students for reserve com missions in the several branches of the service, such as Infantry, Field Artillery, and others. Air Corps At present, there are no Air Force ROTC units, establishment of which will require legislative action. Colonel Monro Mac Closky, who accompanied General F. L. Anderson, Jr. here Tuesday and who is a member of the A-3 Staff of the Army Air Forces, stated that Texas A. and M. College was being considered as one of the col leges to be assigned an Air Corps ROTC unit. Advanced Course The advanced course will consist of a minimum of five hours of for mal instruction per week for two \ - j f ; Smith Resigns As Local City Manager The resignation of Lloyd D. Smith as city manager of College Station was announced yesterday by Mayor Ernest Langford. Smith, who was formerly a member of the city council, served as city manager since December 1, 1942. He has recently organized the Smith-Turner Company, dealers in hardware hardware and furniture, whose business will be located in the new building now under con struction near the north gate of the city of College Station. The A. & M. College museum was founded seven years ago. academic years of 32 weeks each. The summer camp period will be of eight weeks duration instead of the present six, if legislation permitting the extension is enacted. The advanced course will be con ducted only at civilian and military colleges and universities offering four-year courses or longer lead ing to a degree. Land Grant colleges which have required military training may continue this requirement with the War Department encouraging and assisting. However, all students will not necessarily be formally enrolled in the ROTC and eligible for its proposed emoluments un less they meet prescribed require ments. The War Department will seek passage of enabling legisla tion to grant emoluments to stu dents in the elementary course of the Senior ROTC of 66 cents per day plus uniforms, and to increase the emoluments to students in the advanced course to 66 cents plus $1.25 per day. The advanced stu dents would be required to buy their own uniforms. Institutions desiring to provide a distinctive type of uniform or individually tailored uniforms for the Junior ROTC or the elementary Senior course may draw commutation in lieu of issuance of Government uni forms in an amount set by the Quartermaster. Students at ROTC summer camps will be furnished the neCf^ry field-type uniforms. Minimum requirements for a reserve commission will include the successful completion of four years i education at the college level and the successful corapetion of the Senior ROTC course. The student also must have reached the age of 21 before he is granted a com mission. For a commission as a First Lieutenant in a professional branch, such as the Medical Corps, the candidate must have received his professional degree. Effective Sept., 1946 The new program will go into effect with the start of the fall term of 1946. The present ROTC program will be absorbed into the new program insofar as practic able. To date there has been no definite assignment of advanced units to the college. Vets Plan Free Dance And Membership Drive COLLEGE STATION, June 13— (A&MC) More than a quarter- million dollars worth of construc tion and building rehabilitation work is to be done at A. & M. College this summer, it was an nounced Tuesday by T. R. Spence, manager of the college construc tion program. Expenditures will total $281,182 in preparing and furnishing 512 more apartments for married vet eran students, installation of sew er and electric lines, three new warehouses, laboratory ‘expansion and additional tennis courts. Contracts already have been awarded to C. L. Andrews of Bryan for concrete floors for three 40 by 100 foot Quonset huts which will be used as warehouses by the building and college utili ties department, for new sidewalks in “Vets Village” near Kyle field, and for 12 new tennis courts. An drews’ $53,007 contract also calls for extension of “The Grove”, outdoor concrete dance slab, to twice its present size. Another award of $13,675 has gone to the Construction Special ties Co., Dallas, for asphalt tile floors in Law, Puryear and Le- gett dormitories, in the college hospital basement and in a new manageipent engineering labora tory. The college plans to spend $150,000 to prepare the old polo grounds, northeast of the traffic circle on the Sulphur Springs road, for building of 500 veterans’ apart ments by the Federal Public Hous ing Administration. The college will install utilities and provide furniture for the units. A sum of $24,000 has been ear marked for expanding the mech anical engineering shops by closing in two long ventilating bays, which will increase shop space consider ably, and another $7500 will go to remodel the shop building to pro vide air-conditioned housing for a gage laboratory which will be op erated by the college for the Army Ordnance department. A new power line will relieve the electrical load at Kyle field, where the athletic department plans to install lights for night work on a practice field. Another $8000 will be used to build laboratory and office space for the range management department in the Agricultural Engineering building. RAINEY CLUB TO BE ORGANIZED TONIGHT A Students’ Rainey-for-Gover- nor club will be formed this eve ning at a meeting called for 7:30 at the Y. M. C. A. The meeting is open to students only: veterans, their wives and members of the cadet corp. housing construction. Authority was received, however, for erection of the concrete and steel vault, which is the heart of a bank’s operation. The vault is now being completed, but it will be surrounded by temporary pre-fab- ricated buildings of the type known to the Army as Texas huts and to the Navy as Dallas huts. They are being set on a concrete slab. Even tually this temporary construction will be removed and the permanent bank building erected. By Red Bennett Who dunit? Did some ambitious student in the chem lab do it? Did a gas main break again ? Who stunk up this place last Sunday? People around the campus that day will remember a pungent odor floating over the grounds, boiling over the tops of the buildings and pouring into houses through doors and windows. Remember a couple weeks ago when people were waking of a morning to find that a mysterious hand with a gigantic paint brush had repainted several houses dur- R. DONALD LEWIS New Head of Ag. Exp. Station Is Research Leader Dr. Robert D. Lewis, whose ap pointment as the director of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station was announced last week, is one of the outstanding agri cultural research scientists of the country. His work has been done both under college sponsorship and under the U. S. Department of Agriculture.^His outstanding work has been on cereal seeds. Dr. Lewis was born in Wyalxt- sing, Pa. November 4, 1897, and took his bachelor of science de gree in agronomy in 1919 at Penn- | sylvania State College. He receiv ed his doctor of philosophy degree at Cornell University in 1926 with his major study irj v> 'en^tics and plant breeding. Minor studies were in plant physiology and agronomy. He remained at Cornell on the teaching staff until 1930 when he became professor of agronomy and secretary-treasurer of the Ohio Seed Improvement Association. Dr. Lewis has served on many faculty committees of Ohio State University and was chairman of the graduate school committee on training and research in coopera tion with the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station and was in itiator of the Ohio Field Crop Im provement Endowment Fmid in 1945. Dr. Lewis began his teaching and research activities in 1917 as a student assistant in the soils laboratory of Pennsylvania State College, became an instructor in 1919, and became a University Fel low in Agriculture at Cornell Uni versity in 1922, served as assist ant in plant breeding at Cornell in 1923 and was from 1924 until 1926 an instructor in plant breeding doing research, teaching and ex tension work until he became an assistant professor of plant breed ing extension at Cornell in 1926. Research work now underway will prevent Dr. Lewis from as suming his new duties until Sep tember 1, President Gilchrist an nounced, but he plans to visit College Station as often as pos sible prior to that time. Dr. and Mrs. Lewis have two sons, Charles Milton Lewis now in the U. S. Navy and William Mason Lewis a junior in high school. ing the night. The general opinion was that the wind had blown the gas from a new well being drilled over toward Madisonville, and was sweeping the countryside in a wave of new colors. But the “well- people” denied that their gases could do such a thing. And now this new thing; could it be a new kind of warfare? Has the war department discovered a new weapon and unleashed its fury on the campus of A. and M. for a test? In the future, will the people run around waving a fan with one hand and holding their nose with the other? Or maybe it Ag Scholarships Presented to A&M By Jesse Jones $50,000 Fund Will Provide For Ten or More Students Each Year for Ten Years A $50,000 endowment to provide scholarships for agricultural stu dents at A. & M. was presented to the college last week by Jesse Jones of Houston, former R. F. C. head, and his wife. Announcement was made Saturday in Houston at a meeting between Mr. Jones, President Gibb Gilchrist, and G. R. White, president of the board of directors of the college. Stated Mr. Jones in a letter to the college: “I have had a feeling for a number of years that too many of our young men were being educat ed away from the farm, and it is our expectation that scholarships from this fund will be awarded to young men who are interested in the study of agriculture and re lated fields, and who would expect to return to the farm.” The money will be issued to agriculture students over a period of ten years, and it is expected that more than 10 awards will be made each year. No repayment will be required; however, any repayments that are made will be added to the fund for future students. Mr. Jones, banker and publisher of the Houston Chronicle, has long been considered a friend of A. & M. College, and has stated that he considered it to be one of the greatest institutions of Texas. He and Mrs. Jones have made ,two other donations of Scholarships re cently; $50,000 to TSCW, A. & M.’s “sister school” at Denton; and $25,000 to Prairie View, the negro school which is administered by A. & M. J. H. Quisenberry Named Head of Poultry Dept. Dr. John H. Quisenberry, A. & M. graduate in ’31, will become head of the college department of poultry husbandry when he re turns from Hawaii this fall, ac cording to announcement by C. N. Shepardson, dean of the school of agriculture. Dr. Quisenberry is now on leave from A. & M. as head of the poultry department at the University of Hawaii, is director of poultry research in the Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station, and is building a modern poultry research plant there. Professor Henry Duncan Reid, head of the poultry department since 1923, has reached the age for modified service, and is being relieved of administrative duties to devote more time to visits over the state with poultry flock own ers, hateherymen and others. His radio program has made his voice well-known throughout the state, and the new arrangement will make it possible for him to ex pand his broadcasting activities. Pending Dr. Quisenberry’s re- (See QUISENBERRY, Page 4) will be more convenient to pur chase a gas mask from the army surplus stock. Instead of the post man tipping his hat and saying. “Good Morning”, he will lower his mouth-piece and whisper, “Beastly day, don’t you think?” The chemistry building is still standing in its proper place, so the terrible stink must have come from somewhere else. The local gas company denies they had anything to do with it. Maybe the truth will disclose its self someday. In the meantime people can only look at one another and say, “This place sure stinks!” A dance as Sbisa Hall, free to active members of the Ex-Ser vicemen’s Club, will be the first big social event of the summer season, it was announced Monday night at the June meeting of the club. The Aggieland Orchestra will furnish the music, and The Wives’ Club is cooperating in staging the event. During the remainder of this week, a membership drive will be The following telegram was sent to the president of the student body of Texas University yester day afternoon: Mr. Jim Smith: In view of the present aca demic and political upheaval in our state schools, it was re solved at the last meeting that the Ex-Servicemen’s Club of Texas A. & M. College extend its most sincere support to your cause in your fight for academic freedom and high scholarship standards. Ex-Servicemen’s Club Texas A. & M. College Raymond Parrish, Pres. Robert F. Kachtick, Sec. staged by the club. Although many veterans now in school have been registered as active members; it is hoped to raise the total. Pointing to accomplishments of i the club during the past semester, speakers at the meeting pointed ; out that committees had a large ■ part in securing an improved method of registration, and issu- i ance of books, as shown in the mew procedure for the first summer term. The club also has commit tees now working for improve ment of mess-hall conditions, hos pitalization procedure, and on get ting telephone facilities for dor- . mitories that have none. The club was active in setting up and main taining the veterans’ lounge in Sbisa Hall, and is making plans for a larger and better lounge in American Legion Hall when the pre-fab living area is completed. Several major social events are planned by the club for the sum mer. I Yates was elected sergeant- al arms for the club. Plans were made at the meeting for election of new prepresenta- tives from dormitories and areas now without representation in the club council. Some of the men previously elected are not in sum mer school, while other areas have not yet made any selection. Future summer meetings of the Ex-Servicemen’s club will be held in Sbisa Hall rather than in the Assembly Hall. Cooling fans and a loud-speaker system will be available in the new meeting place. Phew!... "This Place Sure Stinks"