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> Take Ten! You Deserve a Rest Texas A<M The B Vote Saturday Democratic Run-off VOLUME 45 COLLEGE STATION, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 22, 1946 Students Headed to Mexico on Ag Tour To Be Feasted in Matamoras Sunday Ten Texas A. & M. College stu dents selected to make a 12-day agricultural tour of Mexico have received their final instructions from Dean Charles N. Shepard- son, and are completing final ex aminations this week. In addition to the trip through Mexico, the students will spend August 25 touring the Rio Grande Valley of Texas prior to their meeting with the Mexican student group at a banquet in Matamoras being tendered by the Sears-Roe- buck Foundation Sunday evening. The tour of the Rio Grande Valley has been arranged by Dr. Guy W. Adriance, head of the department of horticulture, who also will make the trip to Mexico with Dean Shepardson and G. B. Winstead of the college staff. The party will leave via South- em Pacific Lines from College Station Saturday evening. They will detrain at Elsa early Sunday morning and make a complete tour of the Valley during the day, ar riving at Brownsville in time to clear customs and register at the Moctezuma Hotel at Matamoras. Javier del Pino and Luis Mas Sinta of the Mexican School of Agriculture will be in charge of the students from the Chapingo school who will accompany the Texas group on the tour. The tour will be under the auspices of the Mexican Ministry of Agricul ture. The invitation from Secre tary of Agriculture Marte R. Go mez resulted from a trip over Texas last November by a group of the students from the Chapingo School in the suburbs of Mexico City. Six seniors, two juniors and two sophomores were the students whose grades and extra-curricular Architects Finish Busy Summer; Hear O’Neil Ford Rounding out a full summer program, the Architectural So ciety heard O’Neil Ford, architect from San Antonio, as guest speak er at a meeting last week. Held at Professor C. J. Finney’s home in College Park, the get-to gether with Architect Ford was enjoyed by a group of around sixty architecture students, pro fessors, and wives. Mr. Ford flew his own plane from San Antonio to College Sta tion, arriving here Tuesday after noon in time to spend some time discussing student problems in the Department of Architecture. He placed special emphasis on the fact that it is the architect’s re sponsibility to understand the whole picture of society instead of closing his eyes to everything but the one building which he is designing. A group of studies and render ings by Mr. Ford are on display in the Architecture Library on the fourth floor of the Academic Building. Under the guiding hand of Pres ident C. H. Jordan of Dallas, the Architectural Society has func tioned during a regular summer session for the first time since its organization. Pop Shaw Has Sold Hamburgers to Aggies for, 13 Years activities resulted in their selec tion to make the trip. They are: W. E. Berry, Jr., Coahoma, How ard county; W. A. McKenzie, Houston; Robert G. Martin, Whar ton; J. R. Mcllroy, Hillsboro; D. B. McCombs, Abilene; B. W, Frier son, Haskell; M. J. Morgan, Ran- gerville, Cameron county; W. H. Kiel, Jr., Brenham; M. W. Press- ler, Brownsville, and W. M. Hut to, Aquilla, Hill county. All are former servicemen excepting Kiel. From Matamoras the group will spend next Monday (Aug. 26) in specting flood control and irriga tion installations on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, spending the night at Reynosa. Two days will be spent in and around Monterrey studying irri gation facilities of the Rio San Juan area, and the industrial en terprises. Stops overnight along the Pan- American highway will be made at Victoria, Valles and Zimpan, with the group observing cotton, cit rus, coffee, banana and sugar mill ing operations enroute to Mexico City. For the next four days head quarters will be at the National School of Agriculture at Chapingo, with trips to Mexico City and in teresting historical, cultural, agri cultural and tourist attractions in the area. On September 6 the Texas A. & M. College group will fly back to Laredo where the Sear-Roebuck Foundation will provide transpor tation bafck to College Station. Six Instructors To Attend Purdue Seminar Six members of the Texas A. and M. College agricultural engineering staff will attend the Purdue Uni versity teaching seminar at Lafay ette, Ind., August 30 to September 4, it was announced today by F. R. Jones, department head. The A. and M. delegation will in clude Professor P. T. Montfort, Associate Professor Price Hobgood, Assistant Professors Roy C. Gar rett and Bob N. Craig, and In structors R. L. Patrick and Elmer B. Hudspeth, Jr. The Purdue seminar is being held under the auspices of the Am erican Society of Agricultural En gineers, and is made possible through a grant of the Ferguson Foundation. Heads of departments of agricultural engineering in all land grant colleges and universities were invited to send staff members who will be engaged in teaching students enrolled in professional agricultural engineering curricu- lums or the equivalent. The primary objective of the seminar is to improve training of professional agricultural engineers through better teaching. The pro gram of the seminar has been ar ranged by the A. S. A. E. commit tee on teacher training and includ es George B. Nutt, H. E. Pinches, H. J. Barre, A. W. Farrall and A. H. Hollenberg. Speakers and discussion leaders for the seminar include some of the outstanding experts in their res pective fields in the nation. Prif. Montfort of Texas A. and M. will lead the discussion on rural elect rification. At Last! Ten Minutes ’Til Deadline No this isn’t this issues dead-line but it is typical of the activities of the summer in The Battalion office. Across the front row from left to right are Cliff Ackerman and U. V. Johnston, talking sports; Vick Lindey, Wallace Bennett, and Paul Martin assuring themselves of completed stories. On the back row are Hub Johnson reviewing L. R. Schalit’s piece of copy, Kathy Wilson and Mrs. Maudie Johnson reading proofs. Army Considers Soil Work Here Texas A. & M. College is being considered as a site for U. S. army soil experiments. Lt. Col G. B. Schoolcraft of the Army En gineer Board and R. L. Talbert, representing the Research and De velopment Branch of the Office of the Chief of Engineers, visited the college to review and discuss new facilities being installed hjpre in connection with research in soil mechanics and foundation engin eering for the Army. Inspection included new facili ties in the soil mechanics labora tory of the civil engineering de partment; the college-owned Eas- terwood airport, where tests of airfield pavements may be made; and the college plantation on the banks of the Brazos river, where various types of soil are available for field experimentation. Local facilities, both climatic and material, were pronounced favorable for the army’s long- range research program in the use of soils in military construc tion. Schoolcraft and Talbert were accompanied on their tour by Dr. H. W. Barlow, dean of engineer ing; Dr. A. A. Jakkula, Engineer ing Experiment Statjon; and Prof. Spencer J. Buchanan, civil engin eering department. Jakkula Appointed A&M’s Foundation Reseach Director Hart and Walton to Be Reconverted to Single Men’s Dorm Changes to Take Place at Beginning of ’47 Spring And Fall Semesters A memorandum to all staff mem bers from President Gilchrist on August 10, 1946, stated that Hart Hall would be reconverted by the Spring Semester opening January 27, 1947, and Wal ton Hall will be converted not later than the opening of the Fall term of September, 1947. Perhaps this shift will be made at the same time as Hart Hall. A defi nite decision as to the shift of Walton Hall will be made before November 1, 1946. Students now living in Walton will be inform ed. The students living in Hart and Walton halls at the time of the shifts will probably be given ac commodations in other college con trolled facilities, according to Dean of Men Rollins. Bill Mann Dies In Veteran Hospital William T. Mann, Jr., of Big Spring and a student at A. & M. College died last Thursday, Aug ust 8, of polio at the veterans hos pital at McKinney. Mann, a veteran of World War II, entered A. & M. in February of this year. Many New Faces to Be Seen In Teaching Staff for Fall Semester The A. & M. faculty, which will face the challenge of teaching an unprecedented number of students this fall, was substantially aug mented this week, as departments announced many new appoint ments. Dr. C. Wilson Randle has been appointed as professor of eco nomics, it is announced by Dr. F. B. Clark, head of the department. Dr. Randle comes to Texas A. & M. from a post as vice-chairman of the Region 7 (Kansas City) of the National Wage Stabilization Board, formerly the War Labor Board, where he served during the war. Before that, he was a teacher at Texas A. & I. College, Kings ville, for seven years. He holds a Master’s degree from Duke Uni versity and a Ph.D. from the Uni versity of Kentucky. Three additions to the staff of the accounting and statistics de partment of Texas A. & M. Col lege were announced by T. W. Le- land, department head. They are Associate Professor W. Fred Farrar from the Univer sity of Omaha; Dr. Jean D. Neal, professor of business and account ing from the University of Omaha; Dr. Jean D. Neal, professor of business and accounting from the University of Houston; and Thom as D. Ledbetter, instructor from Manhattan, Kans. School of Agriculture Seven new members of the fac ulty in the School of Agriculture have been announced by Dean Charles N. Shepardson. Joining the Agronomy faculty will be Albert W. Crain, who holds a master of science degree from the University of Illinois, and T. A. McAfee, who has a master of science degree frbm Oklahoma A. & M. College. Crain has spent the last two years as an agronomist with the Guayule Emergency Rub ber Project at Pearsall, Texas. Before entering the service in 1944, McAfee was with the Bureau of Plant Industry at McAllen as a technical supervisor. Returning to assume charge of the fisheries in the Fish and Game Department will be G. H. Soulen. A Texas A. & M. graduate, Soulen holds a master of science degree in fish and game. He served as a lieutenant colonel during the war. The Genetics Department will (See NEW FACES, Page 4) Academic Council Approves Senior Petition On Exams The request of the graduating seniors to be exempt from final examinations this term of summer school was approved by the Aca demic Council, according to Dean F. C. Bolton, Dean of the college. Official notice of this action has been sent to all departments of the college, and a copy has been posted at Sbisa Hall. According to students who at tended the meeting and waited for the results, the issue was contest ed for nearly two hours. Dr. Arne A. Jakkula, who has been engineering professor and executive at Texas A. & M. Col lege for the past 10 years, last week was appointed director of research for the Texas A. & M. Research Foundation, an indepen dent organization devoted to fur nishing research facilities for in dustry and agriculture. A graduate of the University of Minnesota and holder of a Ph. D. degree from the Univer sity of Michigan, Jakkula will take up his new duties September 1, at a yearly salary of $10,000. While acting vice director of the Texas A. & M. Engineering Experiment Station for the past two years, Jakkula has been active in Foundation affairs, assisting Dean of Engineering Howard W. Barlow, who was acting director of the Foundation, since its incep tion in 1944. Jakkula, 42, is regarded as a national expert on bridge construc tion, having served on the com mittee of engineers investigating the cause of the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows bridge. The appointment was made, but announcement held up, at a meet ing of Foundation trustees Aug ust 10. At the meeting Barlow was given a commendation for his conduct as acting director. George Chance of Bryan was re-elected president of the Foun dation, and D. B. Harris, of Hum-, ble Oil, Houston, was chosen sec retary. Charles A. Roeber of Tex as A. & M. College was reelected treasurer. Harris also was named to the executive committee, replacing R. W. Briggs of San Antonio. Other committeemen are Barlow, Pres ident Gibb Gilchrist of Texas A. & M. and Rufus Peeples of Te- huacana. by Max B. Rotholz George B. (Pop) Shaw, A. & M. College’s own hamburger man, completed his thirteenth year of selling hamburgers and cold drinks to the Aggies last week. Pop’s stand is located on the campus behind Legget Hall and is a fa vorite spot for both Aggies and professors between classes and at noon. Shaw started selling hamburgers in Bryan in 1916 in a little stand on Main Street and took over the college concession in 1933. Since that time he has been serving Ag gies and their associates without a single complaint. He has served boys from India, South America, China, Egypt and many other countries as well as the Ag gies from the States and also from millionaires to tramps that have chanced to enter his stand. Pop said, “I put up a hamburger stand along the road side here at A. & M. and have watched a gen eration of Aggies pass.” It is the boast of all Aggies that Pop’s hamburgers are the best in the country and he agrees with them. Like all successful business men, Pop says he has a secret recipe for his hamburgers and mixes that with a lot of sani tation and has never been short of customers. The concession is controlled by the Athletic Association and the rent from the stand goes directly to the Association. It changed operators many times between 1923 and the time Pop took it over, but now Pop says he hopes to continue serving Aggies until the Good Lord calls him to make hamburgers in Heaven. After Years of Study and Service These Graduate The following is the list of can didates for degrees to be confer red August 24, 1946: ADVANCED DEGREES Master of Education Jess Dee Bellamy, Ag Ed, Lam pasas William Allen Bloodworth, Ag Education, Lexington Halbert Chester Boyd, Ag Ed, Lewisville Clyde U. Butler, Indus Ed, Fort Worth Everett Douglas Clement, Ag Ed, Granger James D. Cody, Indus Ed, Fort Worth Raymond Nash Cowart, Indus Ed, Wesson, Miss. George Raymond Freeman, Edu cation, Corpus Christi Everett Ruthven Glazner, Indus Ed, Poplarville, Miss. Julian Clarence Green, Ag Ed, Lufkin Luther Pearson, Education, Bry an Edwin Euell Porter, Education, Huntsville Norman Kerrigan Quarles, Ag Educ, Nacogdoches Elbert D. Steele, Ag Educ, Sid ney Master of Science Robert B. Glasgow, Economics, Baton Rouge, La. Bryan P. Glass, Fish and Game, Fort Worth Gregory A. Hill, Agricultural Ed, Gonzales Nathan I. Mitchell, Aeronauti cal Engineering, Newcastle Louis E. Otts, Jr., Municipal and Sanitary Engineering, Cuero Edward Bruce Parmelee, Geol ogy, Helena, Ark. Michael R. Throckmorton, Fish and Game, Twin Falls, Idaho Raymond Alden Underhill, Ento mology, College Place, Wash. Luther Joe Westbrook, Econom ics, Kerens BACCALAUREATE DEGREES Bachelor of Science In Agricultural Administration James R. Bradley, Alta Loma John Winfield Cosby, Jr., San Antonio Ralph M. Criswell, Calvert James Q. Erwin, Dallas Francis L. Evans, Bryan Leerie R. Giese, La Grange James Doyle Gillespie, Jermyn Thomas Franklin Kahlich, Wei mar William Allen McKenzie, Hous ton George Edward Manning, Killeen Melvin R. Mirick, Bruceville Albert Leroy Murry, Miami Earnest Wayne Pettit, Throck morton Melville Martin Jones Phillips, Greenville Charles Lewis Quill, San Antonio Ernest Brady Reynolds, Jr., Green ville, Miss John Frank Rougagnac, Jr., Houston George Christopher Schleeter, Jr., Houston Irvine Fisher Smither, Hous- Lester Goree Smith, Bryan ton Van Elliott Teel, Sanger ^ In Agricultural Education Willie Leroy Adcock, Houston Winborn Lee Barber, Weather ford Richard Nicholas Brennan, Mil ano Leonard Nichols Bridges, Jr., Knox City Ray O’Dell Brooks, Barry Arvil Devon Davis, Canton Jack Edward Jenkins, De Leon Homer Henry Lynch, Gainesville Vernie C. Marshall, Temple Willie L. Madford, Haskell Travis B. Reese, Rogers Lonnie Ray Seale, Giddings Cal Pangbum Wester, Sulphur Springs In Agricultural Engineering Edward H^ Bush, Bryan Arthur Harold Ivey, Ysleta Tonner D. Lobrecht, Alice Melton Jess Pollan, Rice In Agriculture Olan E. Anderson, Waco Wesley S. Buller, Jr., Brookshire Pat A. Carpenter, Jr., Dallas Clarence O. Dube, The Grove Jack Hiram Hagler, Joshua James C. Holekamp, Comfort Jack Charles Hollimon, Houston Ben L. Ivey, Ysleta Joe C. McNair, Kemp Charles W. Machemehl, Bellville Robert Athell Magers, Sulphur Springs Robert King Meredith, Coolidge Lyle Ralph Morgan, Weslaco Odis Alfred Muennink, Hondo Kinion H. Reese, Brenham William Patrick Riley, Jr., Junc tion John Albert Shuford, Rio Grande City Arthur W. Smith, Mertzon Markus K. Soderquist, Hot Springs, Ark. Jerome M. Stein, Chicago, 111. William Robert Strieber, El Paso Joe C. Taylor, Jr., Dallas Charles Alton Thompson, Bloom ing Grove James W. Wischkaemper, Victor ia In Landscape Art John R. Watson, Groesbeck Kyle Atkins McFerrin, Pecan Gap Bachelor of Arts In Liberal Arts Peter Cantu, San Antonio Samuel Rhea Gammon, III, Col lege Station Elbridge Haynes Gerry, Weslaco Carl Scott Heltzel, Jr., San An tonio Thomas Hendra Littlepage, Dal las Harold A. Staine, Houston Pete Howard Tumlinson, Bryan Luther P. Utesch, Brenham Bachelor of Science In Economics Robert Wayne Baker, Baytown Kervin L. Giese, La Grange Jack Gore, Beaumont Thomas Tapscott League, Jr., Tyler Paul Barrett Pennington, Jr., Houston , Edward Emanuel Stuckey, III, Port Arthur In Science Clarence D. N. Elwell, San An gelo Rex Warren Hill, Bryan Perry Guess Johnson, Midland Stanley Marvin Leventhal, Dal las Ambrose L. Lyth, Jr., Bellville Sam Ab Nixon, Jr., Fort Worth Wilfred Hunt Rilat, La Marque G. C. Stanley, Jr., Brady Jack Llewellyn Turner, Fort Worth SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING Bachelor of Architecture LaVere Brooks, Dallas Bachelor of Science In Aeronautical Engineering Clifton Leon Adcock, Houston Orville Baker, Baytown John J. Hosek, Jr., Victoria Elgin H. Lochte, Fredericksburg Allister Lawrence Presnal, Tabor Bernard Henry Varnau, Sugar Land In Architectural Engineering Peter A. Coussoulis, Jr., Laredo Hugh Dinsmore Reich, Jr., Aus tin In Chemical Engineering John Lee Carson, Dallas William C. Goodson, Longview Leon C. Grosjean, Jr., Shreve port, La. Raymond C. Hatfield, San An tonio (See SUMMER GRADS, Page 4) NUMBER Cadets Must Buy Own Uniforms If Not Contracted Col. Meloy Scotches Rumor Announces Regulations For Interim Courses A misunderstanding about mil itary plans for the fall semestej was cleared up this week by Col G. S. Melroy, Jr., PMS & T. Cadets taking ROTC elementa or advanced courses as elective will buy their own uniforms' which will not be furnished by thj government, Col. Melroy states Furthermore, those who ente ed the interim program at the b ginning of the Spring semeste and who have therefore complete the second semester of the fir year, will be required to take th first semester, first year, cours f this fall. Col. Melroy’s statements folio “There seems to be an erroneo rumor floating around the ca pus that cadets taking ROTC el mentary or advanced course trar ing as an elective will be furnis" ed uniforms by the Government will be permitted to buy uniforr from the Government at Cover - ment prices. This is not true. Std dents taking ROTC training as a! elective will provide their owl uniforms without expense to thj Government. “There will be no change in th| policy under which uniforms we: furnished only for those und contract. “The latest information fro Army Ground Forces indicates change in policy for students tali ing the Interim ROTC Advanc - Course. “Advanced course students w' were entered in the interim courc during the school year 1945-19^ will continue with the interi course during the school yea 1946-1947 and whatever part of th school year 1947-1948 as is nece^ sary to complete this two-year it terim course. “Specifically, any student wh during the last half of the 194^ 1946 term at A. & M. entered i the second semester of the fid year interim ROTC advance course, will take the first semet ter of the first year interim ROT advanced course beginning Se^ tember, 1946. “This is published to corre previous information which indical ed students under the above cor (See CADETS MUST, Page 4) Fish & Game Dept Leads College In Number of ‘Ologie The Texas A. and M. College D partment of Fish and Game, hea^ ed by Dr. W. B. Davis, believes holds the record of having mo “ologies” than any other depari ment in the college. The curriq lum in range and wildlife manag ment requires that eight ologies r taken. There are also nine ologi- that may be taken as electives. The required “ologies” are ici thyology, study of fishes; herpeto ogy, study of creeping kinds of a imals such as snakes and amphil ians; ecology, study of inter-rel- tionship of plants and animals ar a study of the home; zoology, stuc of animals of all kinds; ornithc ogy, study of birds; mammalogy, study of mammals; sociolog study of human relations; and e: tomology, study of insects. The elective “ologies” are ge ogy, study of the earth; parasit ogy, study of both internal and e: ternal parasites; embryology, tl study of the development of tl young; cytology, study of cell; histology, study of tissues; ps: chology, study of the mind; osteo ogy, study of bones; and morp‘ ology, study of form, shape a structures. The wildlife curriculum at Tex? A. and M. College is a four-yes course leading to a Bachelor <! Science degree in range and wil life management, with a major i fish and game. A common currij ulum is set up for the first tv- years for students planning to ms jor either in range management in wildlife conservation and mar agement. Aggie-Ex Prexy of Arkansas A. & M. William E. (Bill) Morgan, graduate of Texas A. & M. Co] lege, has been elected preside of the Arkansas A. & M. College Morgan received his B. S. D gree in Agricultural Administr tion in 1930 from Texas A. & In 1933 he received his maste; of science degree in agriculture economics at the University o California. After graduation fror Texas A. & M. he was assistap registrar here until he enters UC. He completed his courses for Doctorate at Harvard Universit- in 1939-40 ^and was preparing hi' thesis at the time he was calle, into the army on active duty.