The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, August 08, 1946, Image 1
* 3 ¥ * « * 4 ^ f ' a £ Teddy Phdlips Will Play At Final Ball Next Friday Former Ben Bernie Arranger Now Making Hit With Own Band Texas A«M The B VOLUME 45 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 8, 1946 NUMBER 16 Operetta Opens at Assembly Hall H. M. S. Pinafore Will "Sail” Tonight and Tomorrow at 8 Teddy Phillips, the first big name orchestra to play on the cam pus since Russ Morgan in the Spring of this year, is to furnish the music for the Final Ball spon sored by the Ex-Service Men’s Club. The dance will be held the night of August 16, between the bourse of 8:30 - 12:30 and will be given in honor of the more than 100 students graduating at the end of this summer semester. Teddy Phillips, who was former ly Ben Bernie’s arranger and music styler, is completing a long term The deadline for ordering Sen ior Graduating Announcements for the present summer terms has been extended until 4 p. m. to morrow, August 9th, Grady Elms has announced. This extension has been granted because only about 40 graduating seniors have ordered theirs so far. No minimum 'limit has been set on the number of announcements a student can order but personal cards must be ordered in lots of A majority of the states of the Union and eleven foreign nations are represented at Texas A. & M. College this summer. One student came to the college from Sweden, two from India and many others from South American nations. A total of 258 students from 31 states, Washington, D. C., and the eleven foreign countries are registered for summer study. Louisiana has the largest out-of- state representation. Students from the Pelican State total 65 and from Oklahoma, 23. Arkansas is in third place with 21, and Missis sippi is next with 16. Of the foreign countries repre sented, Mexico leads with 14 regis trations, and Costa Rico is next highest with four. Peru, Puerto Rico and Venezuela each have three students registered, and Guatemala and India each have two. The states of sunshine, ■ citrus and chambers of commerce are represented by seven students— four from California and three from Florida. Among the other out-of-state registrations are Missouri, 13; Il linois, 9; Pennsylvania, 9; New York, 9; New Mexico, 8; Massa chusetts, 5; Alabama, 4; Georgia, Development Fund Has Reached Two Major Objectives Construction of Union Center Assured; Scholar ship Fund Completed Realization of its two original goals and expansion of its program was announced yesterday by the Texas A. & M. Development Fund. Erection of a Student Union Building on the Aggie campus is assured, stated E. E. McQuillen, secretary of the Fund, who gave a report on accomplishments of the drive before the weekly meeting of the College Station Kiwanis Club. A total of $300,000 has been donat ed by ex-Aggies and friends of the College, while sufficient money to assure the building has been provided by the College’s Board of Directors. Construction will start as soon as materials are available, McQuillen said. Another $50,000 has been donat ed through the fund to be used for the education of the children of ex-Aggies who lost their lives in World, War II, McQuillen revealed, thus realizing the second of the Fund’s two objectives. Plans for the future provide for the establishment of scholarships on a large-scale basis, the secre tary said. Sixteen awards will be made this year to attract students who meet high standards of schol arships, leadership, and other qual ities. The awards will provide for assistance in the amounts of $200 and $300 per year for four years, so that the Fund will eventually be contributing to the education of 64 students each year as new awards are made. McQuillen pointed out that ex student participation in the pro gram would result in a working partnership between ex-Aggies and the College administration in a constructive endeavor, and praised the spirit of cooperation displayed by College officials in support of the program. Research Group To Meet Sunday An important meeting of the Texas A. & M. Research Founda tion will be held here at 2 p. m. Sunday, it has been announced by Dr. Howard W. Barlow, dean of engineering and acting director of the Foundation. > The Founda tion recently held an election of trustees, with W. P. Luse, Dallas oilman, the only newcomer to the board. engagement at Elich’s Garden ir Denver. Upon completion of this engagement he will come to A. 4 M. for one night and from here will proceed to Dallas where h( will open at the Plantation on August 18. Teddy’s 16 piece or chestra is recommended by Ho gan Hancock of the Music Cor poration of America as, “possibly one of the finest music groups in the country.” The dance will be informal, gen eral admission $1.50, come drag or stag. a hundred or more. Orders are to be placed with the Student Ac tivities Office and payment must be made by August 21st. The an nouncements can be obtained on August 24th. They will not be issued earlier because there is to be no graduation ceremony this summer. The announcements, bound in either leather or paper, are simi lar to those issued for the spring graduates. Each will contain a full list of all those graduating. 4; Ohio, 4; Tennessee, 3; Indiana, 2; New Jersey, 2; Kansas, 2; Rhode Island, 2; the District of Columbia, 4; and one student each from Colorado, Delaware, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mon tana, Nevada, Oregon, Virginia and Washington. Foreign nations represented by one student each^are Brazil, Nica ragua, El Salvador and Sweden. Many of these students are former members of the armed forces who are now completing their educations under the G. I. Bill of Rights, and a large number of them have brought their wives and families to A. & M. with them. Cadet Corps to Be Strictly Military Next Semester Many New Instructors Are Expected in Military Sciences and Tactics Dept. By Le Roy Hendrick The A. & M. Cadet Corps will again be strictly military this fall with all the branches of military training offered as before the war under plans revealed by Col. G. S. Meloy, Jr. in an interview this week. All cadet officers and non-com missioned officers again will be military science students taking advanced either as an elective or under contract. These leaders will be selected jointly by the Military Department and the Office of Stu dent Affairs with the recommen dations of the cadet officers of last semester. If interest in each branch is suf ficient to warrant it there will be nine branches of training initiated this fall. These will include Infan try, Field Artillery, Mechanized Cavalry, Coast Artillery, Engi neers, Signal Corps, Chemical War fare Service, Ordinance Corps, and Quartermaster Corps. All students taking courses that qualify them for the specialized branches such as the Corps' of Engineers, Chem. Warfare and Signal Corps are advised, but not required, to transfer to these branches this fall. However, it will be necessary for an Engineer to take some engineering course, a Chem. Warfare Cadet to take Chemistry. Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Account ing, or Law, and a Signal Corps aspirant to major in Electrical En gineering .Freshmen entering A. & M. this fall will be assigned to an appropriate branch if they do (See MILITARY, Page 4) New Professors Join Engineering School Faculty Two branches of the school of engineering at Texas A. & M. College announced the addition of three new faculty members this week, in anticipation of heavy enrollment in September. The management engineering department, a relatively new but fast-growing branch, has added two associate professors, Walter Torgersen and Jack P. CoVan. Torgersen, recently discharged from the Navy, holds degrees from New York University, and CoVan attended Ohio State and the University of Illinois, receiv ing his M.S. in mechanical en gineering from the latter school in 1942. Associate Professor R. L. Whit ing will begin his duties in the petroleum engineering department on September 1. 'He held a simi lar position at the University oi Missouri the past school year prior to which he was an instruct or at the University of Texas where he received his M.S. in pe troleum engineering in 1942. Ten Aggies Picked To Tour Mexico At End of Term Mexican School of Agricul. At Chapingo to Be Center Of Activity for Group Ten students have been chosen from the School of Agriculture to make the Agricultural Inspection trip to Mexico, which leaves Col lege Station, Saturday night, Aug ust 24, and returns September 7. Because of outstanding scholastic and extra curricula work the fol lowing Aggies were chosen to make the ten day tour: W. E. Berry, Jr., Senior, A. H. from Coa homa, Texas; W. A. McKenzie, Senior, Ag. Eco., from Houston; M. J. Morgan, Junior, Ag. Eng., from Rangerville, Texas; Robert G. Martin, Senior, D. H., from Wharton, Texas; M. W. Pressler, Soph., Hort., from Brownsville, Texas; W. M. Hutto, Soph. Agr. from Aquilla, Texas; W. H. Kiel, Jr., Junior, Fish and Game, from Brenham, Texas; J. R. Mcllroy, Senior, Ag. Ed., from Hillsboro, Texas; D. B. McCombs, Senior, Ag. Ed., from Abilene, Texas; and B. W. Frierson, Senior, Ag. Eco., from Haskell, Texas. This trip which is sponsored by the Mexican National School of (See TEN AGGIES, Page 3) Parrish Withdraws From School to Join Rainey Staff Ex-Servicemen’s Club Head Returns in Sept, to Finish School Work, Club Affairs Raymond Parrish, ’41, president of the Texas A. & M. Ex-Service men’s Club and student and part time instructor in the Architec ture Department left Tuesday morning, August 6 for Austin to work at the campaign headquar ters of Dr. Homer P. Rainey. Parrish, who is to graduate here in February, 1947, will re turn in September to continue his education. He attended A. & M. prior to entering the. Army, where he served in the field artil lery and was returned to inactive duty as a first lieutenant. Prof A. V. Moore to Return in September Professor A. V. Moore, who is on leave of absence from the Dairy Husbandry Department’s teaching staff to complete his studies on his Ph.D. at Michigan State College, Lansing, Michigan, will return in the D. H. Depart ment this September. Prof. Moore received his B.S. at Purdue University in 1927, and was an instructor in that insti tution from 1928 until 1935 at which time he received his M. S. Degree in Dairy Husbandry. For the next two years he was Di rector of Laboratories for the Telling-Belle Vernon Company, which is a subsidary of National Dairies, Inc. at Cleveland, Ohio. He came to Texas A. & M. in 1937, and was a professor in dairying until September, 1946. Prof. Moore will receive his Ph.D. August 31, 1946. On his return he will teach courses in dairy manufacturing. Automatic Cop At North Gate Really Stops Cars Somedays it is better to stay in bed. Sunday was one of these days when the automatic cop' at the North Gate had traffic com pletely confused. Drivers along the Sulphur Springs road were able to pass the North Gate in tersection without interruption but drivers trying' to enter or leave the College Campus hesitated be fore passing under the ever watch ing eye of the weather-weary Au tomatic Policeman. Short tempers flared and honk ing horns challenged the delay. “Sunday Drivers” patiently awaited their turn and Jay-walk ing Aggies watched with eager eyes all to no avail. Finally courage shadowed the baffled driv ers and College traffic cautiously felt its way across the intersection. What had caused all of this be wilderment; merely the fact that the traffic light at the North Gate had stuck with its glaring red light opposing College traffic. Later in the day, drivers, again passing the North Gate, were not to be heckled a second time by the misleading traffic light. When faced by a red signal, they disre garded the warning and crossed the intersection only to find to their amazement that the Auto matic Policeman was once again faithfully carrying out his du ties and that confusion had faded from the Gate. by Kathy Wilson Tonight at eight o’clock the curtains of the old assembly hall will open to reveal the decks of the talked-about ship, H. H. S. Pinafore where hoop-skirted la dies of the eighteenth century will. be seen cavorting with the boys in blue of the English fleet. Mariam Forman and Watson Ken ney’s voices will be heard in the leading roles. Keeney, a senior M. E. student and a former first prize winner in a state voice con test is the assistant director of the Singing Cadets and a past president of the organization. Keeney received his musical train ing in. Wesleco, his home town. Ruth Echols who brilliantly por trays Buttercup, received her de gree in music education from T.S.C.W. and did two years of graduate work at Columbia Uni versity. Miss Echols, the wife of Marvin Echols, Jr., a graduate studeiit of chemical engineering, is the former Miss Ruth Hilde brand of Galveston. The colorful character Sir Jo- NOTICE FOR VETERANS A special meeting of the Ex- Servicemen’s Club will be held at 6:30, Monday evening in the Assembly Hall. Election of a co-editor of the Battalion to represent the vet erans will be acted upon. Other business of the evening will in clude final disposition of the Mess Hall question and an nouncements and discussion of final social activities. Val Lehman of King Ranch Tells Of Game Program Val Lehman, Wild Life Man ager of the million acre King Ranch, made an informal talk concerning the game management program on the ranch to the mem bers of the Fish and Game Club Monday night. The Game Management Pro gram on the ranch was started in November of last year and Leh man says that- considerable in crease in the wild game has al ready been noted. The purpose of this program is to experiment with the various means of scien tific control and at the same time increase and preserve the wild game on the ranch. The two problems that seem to be of most importance are the enforcement of the game laws and the control of the predatory animals. One of the very interesting pro jects underway at the present is that of quail management. New and improved methods of poison ing coyotes, experimental meth ods of increasing natural cover for quail, and the planting • of plants that are good for food have already increased the quail population on the ranch to 600% more than it was when the pro gram started. There are now 15.000 acres under quail man agement. An intensive program has also been launched in the improvement and restocking of the 750 lakes on the ranch, but the results are, as yet, uncertain. In some of the lakes very good results have been obtained but in most of,the lakes the results are negative. Last year the ranch allowed 500 persons to hunt on the ranch under very strict supervision. Of these hunters, the majority were service men and 85% of these were required to be enlisted per sonnel. There are now four trappers and four game managers employed by the ranch, and there are several uniformed game wardens. At the present, Lehman esti mates that the wild life popula tion on the ranch is 16,000 deer, 7.000 turkey,. 12,000 quail, and many water fowl. Lehman received his Bachelors degree at the University of Texas and his Masters degree at Texas A. & M. in 1940. W.S.D. Remodels North Gate Store The College Station branch of the W.S.D. clothing store is now undergoing a complete remodeling job in order to handle a more com plete line of civilian clothing. This branch, which has in the past carried primarily military uni forms and assessories, will carry four leading brands of suits and several outstanding brands of- shoes. The changes will include new show windows, display cases and in terior decorations. It will remain open during the alterations. seph Porter is played by Lloyd Bailey, a M. E. student of the class of ’44, who has done ex tensive voice work in his home town of Waco. Bailey, who served for four years with the engineers, has the distinction of being the only white man to have sung with a colered choir in his battalion. College Station’s own Bemyce Jensen, who is the daughter of Professor F. W. Jensen of the Chemistry Department plays the role of Hebe. Miss Jensen will be a senior in the Consolidated high school this September. Captain Corcoran, the gold braided seaman, is portrayed by Harry G. Doran Jr., a Veterinary Medicine student from San Saba. Doran, who is a transfer student, has sung with the A Capella Choir at North Texas State Teacher’s College in Denton and with the Colorado Aggies of Col orado A. & M. The Boatswain on the H. M. S. Pinafore is Helmuth G. Quiram, class of ’46, who returned to 1,326 Acres at Bluebonnet Now Deeded to A. & M. By N. A. Vick Approximately 1,326 acres of the 18,000 acre Bluebonnet Ordnance Plant, near McGregor, has been recently deeded to A. & M. by the Federal Securities Administration and, if the college proposal is ap proved by the War Assets Admin istration, A. & M. will eventually have control of the entire 18,000 acres, President Gibb Gilchrist stated Tuesday after his return from conferences in Washington, D. C. A. & M. has proposed to pur chase the Bluebonnet Plant acreage and facilities for $5,320,862, but if the college proposal is approved un der the Surplus Property Act and Surplus Property Administration Regulations, there will be a 100% discount from the purchasing price. Among the various uses the college proposes to make of the 18,000 acres are development and research, such as improvement in dairying practices; the study of corn and sorghum, both for chemur- ic and industrial purposes; and improved feeding practices. Also included is the improvement of range practices and management of sheep, goats, and cattle, with farmer internship for graduate students and vocational training for a volume of students not desiring to spend four full years in college. V. A. Issues New Regulations on Visitor Classes The Veterans Administration in a recent circular announced vari- out ammendments to the G. I. Bill of Rights. These amend ments restrict participation in “auditor” or “visitor” courses. Under the new provisions, the Veterans Administration will fur nish books if the student fulfills all the class, including all exams with the exception of the final. To be eligible for full subsis tence allowance, a student must take 8 credit hours for the sum mer term or 24 hours for the long term. This applies only to “vis itor” courses. M. D. Jones Heads ASCE for Next Year In view of the anticipated heavy enrollment of civil engineering sty- dents and a full and busy year of activities, it was decided Tuesday night that ASCE student officers for the coming year would be elected and installed this summer. This makes it possible to have a well rounded and smooth function ing organization ready to greet new civil engineering students as well as those re-entering A. & M. this fall. At the Tuesday meeting in the C. E. Lecture Room, the following officers were elected for the com ing year: M. D. Jones, senior civil engineering student from Dallas, president; Marshall Amis, Fort Worth senior, vice-president; L. H. Stiles of Celina, secretary, and Bill Ely of Mineral Wells, treas urer. Both Ely and Stiles are jun iors. W. W. Grief of Del Rio was appointed reporter and public re lations chairman. Present at the meeting were 33 members from the student body, Dr. S. R. Wright, Head of the Civil Engineering Department, and Pro fessors C. E. Sandstedt and Spen cer J. Buchanan, Faculty Advisors. school in February to continue his studies in Fish and Game. From the faculty of the Civil Engineering Department comes the rather unpopular character, Deadeye Dick, played by Tom Terrell who is quite well known on the campus. His stu dents will have a chance to boo him—legally. The young ladies of the chorus are Nell Arhopulos, Betty Smith, Shirley Hampton, Leila Winstead, Signe Jakkula, Helen Ludwig, Jean Kernodle, and Dale Laird. John Helm, Tommy Miller, John Ward Buchanan, Frederick Hall, Robert A. Seyle, Wesely Fielder and John Alston Smith compose the sailor chorus. Make up for the production is being handled The production has been joint ly directed by Forrest Hood of the English department and Bill Tur ner, director of the Singing Ca dets. A second performance will be given Friday night for those un able to obtain tickets for the ini tial performance. * JUKE BOX PROM * * SATURDAY NIGHT * * An all-College Juke Box * * Prom will be held at Sbisa * * Hall Saturday night 8 p.m. * * to 12 p.m. under auspices of * * of the Student Activities Of- * * fice. * Hickman Says 3,000 Autos Expected to Crowd Campus There will be approximately 3,- 000 student automobiles on the campus this coming semester, an increase of 1,000% over the auto mobiles that were here before the veterans started returning “en masse”, Mr. Fred Hickman, Cam pus Security Chief estimated. Adding the approximate 400 au tomobiles of the college staff, this will make a total number of 3,400 automobiles being driven about the campus daily. Of the 3,000 student automo biles, Mr. Hickman estimated that 60% will belong to students liv ing in the trailer houses,* project houses, and off the campus, 35% will belong to students living in dormitories, and only 5% will be long to the students of the corps. At the present moment there are approximately 2,000 automobiles registered on the campus. And even now the parking lots on the campus are inadequate to accom odate the daily influx of traffic efficiently. Mr. Hickman says that there are hopes that the parking accomodations will be im proved soon. In the near future the present registration stickers are to be re placed with metal tags, students tags being maroon and white and faculty tags being black and white. The parking lots on the campus are now divided into three dif ferent types. The small lots around the buildings where class es are held are for parking only for persons disabled physically, faculty members and employees, and service vehicles. There are other parking lots, some being for day students only and some being for dorm students only. Mr. Hickman says that the best solution for the traffic and park ing problems this coming semes ter will be to refrain from driv ing when at all possible and to park only in authorized parking lots. Discussion Group Changes Set-up Since there was not enough in terest in the college wide program for discussion groups with profes sors at the head of each panel, a new plan is being formulated. A suggestion has been made to allow interested students to form a small group and form their own programs. It is not the plan to restrict the group, but to start it with as few as request to join. There is a sincere desire on the part of the committee to reach any person that is interested in joining such a group. Reports of the progress of the new plan will be published *in the Battalion along with the name of person to contact if interested. It is hoped that the pioneering of these few who are now interes- ed will spread until it is a col lege wide afair with paid special ists coming in from al over the country to present new ideas deal ing with current social, political, technical, and educational problems that affect education. VA Waco Office Strikes Out Fees For Activities Batt, Longhorn Issues Football Tickets Affected; Decision Is Appealed The Waco office of the Veteran’s Administration notified the col lege last week that the Veteran’s Administration will not pay the Student Activities fees of stu dents who are attending school under the GI Bill. The school has appealed this decision to the VA Headquarters in Washington, but no answer has been received as yet. If the Veteran’s Administration headquarters upholds the branch office’s decision, it will mean that all veterans who enroll for the next school year will be required to pay their own fees. These fees for the next school year will be $16, and will include subscription to the Battallion, an issue of the Longhorn, and the athletic cou pon book which will admit stu dents to all athletic contests played at College Station. At present the Veteran’s Admin istration owes the college approxi mately $25,000 in back fees that the VA agreed to pay under the first contract. It now depends on the headquarters’ decision as to whether or not this will be paid. An official of the Veteran’s Administration has stated that any decision that the VA makes will not be retroactive—that is, the school will be paid for any thing already furnished the vet erans, but they will not pay these fees in the future. This however is an unofficial statement, and the school still stands to lose money already advanced to stu dents for these items. Under Public Law 16 and 346 the government agrees to pay for all equipment, fees, and supplies that are required of all students, but since the student activities fee is optional it does not come under this heading*. The fact that approximately 80% of all students enrolled before the war paid these fees, however, indi cates that the student activity fee has long been considered a normal item of college costs. ASCE Students Plan Barbecue The Student Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engin eers has announced a Barbecue and Picnic Supper with appropri ate refreshments to be held Fri day, August 16th, at 6:30 P. M. at the Bryan City Park, located between Bryan and College Sta tion. All students taking Civil Engineering, and all faculty mem bers of the C. E. Department, are invited to attend and bring their wives and friends. All persons desiring to attend must make arrangements with the secretary in the C. E. Office, or with Bill Ely, treasurer of the chapter, by not later than 5:00 P. M. Tuesday, August 13, 1946. Those desiring transportation pro vided for all. G. I. Ingenuity Turns Out New Clothes Washer on Kwajalin Although there’s not a live tree left on Kwajalein, that island is literally over-run with “wind mills.” However, the soldiers and sail ors stationed on that Pacific is land, which was used as a jump ing-off place for the plane carry ing the atomic bomb for the re cent Bikini test, are not trying to pump water, nor are they home sick Hollanders. According to Dr. William D. Coolidge, formerly vice president of General Electric and director of .the company’s Research Labo ratory, the windmills on Kwajalein are there for a useful purpose. Dr. Coolidge, now consultant for the G-E Research Laboratory, visited the island for the Bikini bomb test as special observer for the Manhattan District of the Ar my engineers. “On Kwajalein we saw the marks of war,” said the eminent scientist. “Not a live tree was left—only a half dozen bare dismsmbered trunk 0 “ “I was intrigued by the sight of many small windmills, each three or four feet in diameter and located only a few feet above the ground,” Dr. Coolidge pointed out. “On closer view it developed that each of these was a soldier’s or sailor’s power plant for an in dividual clothes washing machine consisting of the windmill, an erstwhile garbage can and some one of a variety of different mechanisms for translating rotary into reciprocating vertical motion and so swashing the clothes up and down in the wash-water in the can.” Only the first ten minutes of a memorizing period are valuable.— A. & M. Handbook. / Grady Elms Announces Extension of Deadline on Graduate Announcements Many States, Countries Represented By A. & M. Students This Summer