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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.