The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, August 22, 1946, Image 4

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, August 22, 1946, Image 4

Newspaper Page TextPAGE 4 THE BATTALION THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 22, 1946 PAGE Zim On Fir: Effi Zinn i Buildi and Men. erly l ner. Alt in thi policj kins veteri the p Zin advis' ly afl Zin in th witho the Waco ized | Mo persol time, rageo desk, | been ' work wish | with • If in tl one 1‘ three whea shiprj \ I La : i “Kriegies” Story Is Told In New Book by Y.M.C.A. “The Yankee Kriegies,” the story of how American POW’s made little Americas behind Nazi barbed wire, has been published by the Y.M.C.A. and is being dis tributed free of charge at the lob by desk of the Y.M.C.A., it was announced today by M. L. Cashion. The booklet, which would be of particular interest to ex-POW’s, is the story of courage, hardship, and American ingenuity told in pictures, story, and poetry, was written by two former “Kriegies” (short for German “Kriegsge- fangenen”—prisoner of war) who spent long months behind Nazi prison fences, Col. Ross Greening and Sgt. Angelo Spinelli. Pro fusely illustrated with actual pho tographs taken inside the prison camps, “The Yankee Kriegie,” tells the story of the American prisoner from the day he was tak en prisoner till the day of his re lease. It relates how the “Kriegie” ate, slept, played, attempts to es cape and the tradgedy of being caught. Bowles to Survey National Education D. Richard Bowles, summer ses sion instructor in the Texas A. & M. College education-psychology department and principal of Pease Elementary School in Austin, has been appointed a member of a committee to conduct a nation wide survey of elementary edu cation for the Educational Poli cies Commission, on organization set up by the National Education al Association of the U. S. and the American Association of School Administrators, G. B. Wil cox, head of the department, an nounced yesterday. “Bats in Belfry” Of Campus Buildings Recall Old Times There were “bats in the belfry” of the Civil Engineering and Aca demic Buildings this week—hun dreds of them. The little “flyi*g mice” crawled into the cornices above the pillars of the buildings for their daytime sleep, and their squeaking was audible all over the main campus. Old-tipiers among Aggie veter ans, however, insisted that the pre sent crop of bats is much smaller than the hordes that used to live in the attic of old Ross, before the roof of that venerable struc ture was rebuilt. The Ross Hall bats were so familiar as to form a part of the pre-war Aggie tra dition. H. O. “Hub” Johnson After nearly four years service on The Battalion and after once signing “30” to his believed last sports story, Hub Johnson leaves the staff with this issue. Coming to A. & M. from Hous ton with the class of ’41 Hub served as Sports Editor for the year 1940-41. Commissioned with his class in the field artillery he was later transferred to the. air corps as an administrative officer. He served 37 months in the Eur opean Theatre of Operations, ob taining the; rank of major as chief of personnel for the 302nd trans port wing. Johnson returned to school in February to complete his course of study in Engineering Adminis tration, majoring in municipal and sanitary work. His resignation was submitted to the Ex-servicemen’s Club at the last meeting. Aggieland to Be in Movies for Grapette Texas A. & M. again will be in the movies but this time it will be in a short trailer to be shown in over 800 movie houses all over the country through the coopera tion of the Grapette Company of Arkansas. According to word received at the college, the short will not be released until sometime in 1947 but is already booked for a run of 26 weeks. The short, being made from campus still shots, also will carry a few outstanding facts about the college and its record as a military training institution. The Music Room on the third floor of the college library con tains a special record player. More than a thousand records are available. USED BOOKS WANTED Last Spring, official estimates indi cated a top enrollment of 7500 students. Our procurement was aimed at that fig ure and on items that were available we are in good shape to equip that number of students. Recent estimates have boosted the possible enrollment to 10,- 000. The situation can be materially help ed by present students offering to sell back to the book stores any books, en gineering equipment, study lamps, bi ology sets, etc. they do not need or do not want to keep. The Exchange Store, College Book Store, Loupot’s Trading Post and the Student Co-Op are all offering to buy these needed items. If you have one or more books you can spare you will be making it possible foi* an incoming stu dent to be equipped by offering these items to any of the above dealers. THE EXCHANGE STORE “Serving Texas Aggies” —’46 SUMMER GRADUATES— (Continued from Page 1) Ross D. James, Jr., Port Arthur James Forrest Mathis, Dallas Ralph William Sheets, Fort Worth Joel Howard Smith, Lancaster Joe H. Sorrels, College Station William Louis Surovik, Jr., Cald well Raymond Stewart Watson, Fort Worth In Civil Engineering Eli Fred Barker, Wichita Falls Clyde Clayton Franklin, Rockdale Tanner Henry Freeman, Jr., San Antonio Arthur Carl Jones, Jr., Sherman James David Lacy, Terrell Gordon Lowell Smith, Lometa Joe K. Stalcup, Brownwood In Engineering Administration Frank Stanley Bird, College Sta tion Ernest E. Finklea, Amarillo William Benjamin Lewis, Fort Worth In Industrial Education Evans McKinley Bush, Jr., Waco Albert Rowell Campbell, Hous ton Joseph Perry LaGrone, Port Ar thur Joe McGowan, Jr., Dallas Dwayne L. Rhea, Dallas Lester Scott Richardson, Jr., Houston Wilfred Taylor Riedel, York- town Harvey G. Rust, College Station Edwin Formby Thomas, Jeffer son James Edward Williams, Adams- ville In Management Engineering William Brice Allen, Lockney William George Holbrook, Hous ton James R. King, Jr., Dallas David Aller Muirhead, Shreve port, La. In Engineering Administration Hubert O. Johnson, Jr., Houston In Mechanical Engineering James Hanover Beard, Bryan Ralph Eads, Jr., Houston Jack Edward Gissler, Dallas Ray Giles Hollier, Port Arthur Hervey Stuart Hutchins, III, Wichita Falls W. B. Davis Named Fish and Game Department Head W. B. Davis has been appoint ed head of the fish and game de partment at Texas A. & M. Col lege, it was announced today by Dean of the College F. C. Bolton. Davis, who has been at Texas A. & M. since 1937 and acted as head of the fish and game de partment for the past two years, becomes titular chief September 1. College Receives Hereford Bull Royal Domino 85 Texas A* & M. College has ac quired an outstanding Hereford bull, H.A.F. Royal Domino 85th, calved January 7, 1943, and was bred by Fitzsimons. His sire, W.H.R. Royal Domino 85th, cap tured the reserve championship triple crown in 1936 with tri umphs at the Fort Worth Centen nial Fat Stock Show, the Ameri can Royal, and the Chicago Inter national. His dam was Lady Manassa 16th. 3,000 Register Approximately 3,000 students had registered at 8:00 p.m. last night, when the first registration was completed, according to Reg istrar H. L. Heaton. Thomas Nelson Inglis, Jr., Sul phur Springs George R. Jordan, Jr., Dallas Perry A. Luth, Jr., Houston Archie Miller McFarland, Albu querque, N. M. Lew P. Ness, Tupper Lake, N. Y. Robert R. Russell, Mineral Wells Lloyd H. Todd, Weatherford Gordon W. Williams, Marlin Robert Craig Wilson, El Paso In Petroleum Engineering Herbert Rives Alexander, New Orleans, La. Frank William Burger, Amarillo Norman H. Mansfield, Tarpley W. John Owen, Tyler Nicholas John Schaefer, Shreve port, La. SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Jack Monroe Barnes, College Station Robert Chalmers Buie, Waxa- hachie Charles T. Caraway, Tolar Rafael Cordero, Mayaguez, P. R. Kenton R. Fickes, Houston Fernando Gonzalez, Managua, Nicaragua, C. A. George William Gray, Garland John Hamilton Gutteridge, Ar lington, Mass. Walter L. Roots, Jr., Taft William Robert Strieber, El Paso CS Softball Ends In Tie for First This week brought the second half of the College Station soft- ball league to a close, with the Cubs and the Tigers topping the list as co-champs. Both teams won four games and lost one and de cided they would not play the tie off. This last week saw the Tigers defeat the Indians 6 to 0 on the College Park diamond last Wed nesday August 14. Riddle, pitching for the winning team, allowed the Indians to hit 13 times. Carroll was the losing pitcher allowing the Tigers only 7 hits. The longest hit of the game was a home run by Wilkins for the Indians. Last Friday afternoon on the College Hills diamond the Yankees routed the Pirates by a score of 9 tp 3. Jay pitched for the winning team and allowed the Pirates 6 hits. Karow pitched for the Pirates allowing the Indians to hit 6 times. There was one double play in the game: Adams to Hickerson, for the Yankees in the 7th inning. The Cubs won their fourth game from the Tigers on the College Park diamond last Monday after noon. Barlow pitching for the Cubs allowed the Tigers 7 hits for their 3 runs. Riddle pitching for the Tigers allowed the winning team 8 hits for their 7 runs. The only double-play of the game occurred in the 5th inning for the Tigers: Burkhalter to Perryman. Ten leading hitters; at bat or more times 10 Player Heitkamp Team A.B. H. Pet. Giants 12 7 .584 Karow Pirates 14 8 .568 Wilkins Indians 13 7 .538 Terrell Cubs 19 19 .527 Davis Yankees 12 6 .500 Hensel Pirates 15 7 .468 Elms Tigers 16 7 .437 Perryman Tigers 14 6 .426 Elkins Cubs 18 7 .389 Carroll Club Indians Standing, 13 5 2nd half .385 Club Won Lost Pet. Cubs 4 1 .800 Tigers 4 1 .800 Indians 2 3 .400 Pirates 2 3 .400 Yankees 2 3 .400 Giants 1 4 .200 BANK HOLIDAY The banks at Bryan and College Station will be closed Saturday, Aug ust 24, 1946, in observance of Election Day, a legal holiday. FIRST NATIONAL BANK FIRST STATE BANK & TRUST CO. COLLEGE STATION STATE BANK CITY NATIONAL BANK IN AGGIELAND... for Complimentary Photographs and Complete Amateur Equipment It’s The A. & M. PHOTO SHOP North Gate Heard on WTAW Jimmie Fidler, ace movieland re porter, whose commentary is heard Sundays over ABC, is also a syndicated newspaper columnist. Program for Sept. Short Course Finished Program for the first annual “Instrumentation for the Process Industries” short course, to be giv en here September 4-6 by the Tex as A. and M. College chemical en gineering department, has been completed, it was announced today by Chairman P. G. Murdoch. A number of outstanding speak ers from all over the nation have been secured for the course, de signed to unify knowledge of the operations and applications of measuring and control instruments, particularly in continuous fluid- flow processes, Murdoch said. Speakers include both represen tatives of major instrument manu facturers and engineers of indust ries which use the instruments, Murdoch pointed out, which guar antees full coverage of the field of instrumentation. Out-of-state lecturers include L. K. Spink, Foxboro Company, Fox- boro, Mass.; V. L. Parsegian, Port able Products Corporation, Brook lyn; W. N. Greer of Leeds and Northrup, Philadelphia; J. G. Zeig-' ler, Taylor Instruments, Rochester; J. B. McMahon and R. W. Landon, Republic Flow Meters Company, Chicago; W. B. Heinz, Penn Indust rial Instruments, Philadelphia, and many others. Pre-registration, which may be accomplished by mailing the $5 registration fee to Professor Mur doch, chemical engineering depart ment, is encouraged. A booth will be set up for other registrations Tuesday afternoon, September 3, in the lobby of the petroleum en gineering building. An evening banquet, purel ya so cial affair, will be held September 5, with Morris Frank, Houston Post columnist, as toastmaster and Lynn W. Landrum of the Dallas News as principal speaker. —NEW FACES— (Continued from Page 1) add to its faculty Henry H. Had ley, who served with the Air Forc es as a bombsight and automatic pilot maintenance expert. Also a Texas A. & M. graduate with a master of science degree, Had ley will be an assistant profes sor instrucing in plant genetics. An assistant professorship in the Agricultural Economics De partment will be filled by Harley Bebout, who holds a master’s de gree from Texas A. & M. in agri cultural economics. A captain in the Army Military Government in Europe during the war, Bebout will teach general agricultural eco nomics. Joining the Horticulture faculty will be A. H. Krezdorn, who has served in the Navy. A Texas A. & M. graduate with a bachelor of science degree, he will receive an instructorship in horticulture and teach plant propagation. A. F. Deware has accepted an assistant professorship in flori culture in the Landscape Art De partment. After graduating from Ohio State University with a mas ter of science degree, DeWerth did large-scale nursery and green house work in Pittsburgh, Pa., where he also served as a lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh and as garden editor for the Pitts burgh Sun-Telegraph. From 1942 until 1946 he served in the Army. Biology Adds Eight Employment of eight new fac ulty members has brought the staff of the biology department at Texas A. & M. College almost to full strength, Dr. C. C. Doak, de partment head, announced. Additions to the staff include the following: Dr. Sewell H. Hopkins, who re turns to Texas A. & M. after a year’s work with the Virginia Fish eries Institute at Yorktown, Va., to resume his post as associate professor of zoology. Dr. Victor A. Greulach, asso ciate professor of plant physiology, from the University of Houston where he headed the biology di vision. Dr. Howard L. Gravett, as sistant professor of biology, from Elon College, Elon, N. C. H. C. Mohr, botany instructor, recent ly separated from the army, and a veteran fish hatchery man from Garrettsville, Ohio. James F. Mangrum, zoology in structor who did graduate work at Duke University. A. B. Medlen, zoology instructor from the Uni versity of Houston. Durward E. Timmons, biology instructor from McKinney. H. C. Raynolds, botany instructor from the University of Nebraska. Graduate assistants appointed are Hugh B. Lofland, Frank Fitch, Bryce C. Brown and W. O. Clark. ( Who Brought A. & M. College To Aggieland Back In 1871? By Naud Burnett One of the first questions* which comes up in any serious discussion of Aggieland is “Why did the founding fathers choose such a forsaken locatidn for A. and C.?” The answer to that question, long beat, bruised, cussed and dis cussed in bullsessions and heifer- sessions is to be found in a tiny green booklet modestly called “History of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas” by Clarence Ousley, which is avail able in Cushing Library. Yes, Mr. Ousley gives the straight dope on this topic. It seems that in 1871 Governor E. J. Davis had to appoint a com mission, composed of three big wheels of the state, on the loca tion and construction of the A. and M. College of Texas as pro vided by the Act of 1871, and that he did. This Commission was to employ an architect after the lo cation was determined, but the Commission (eager beavers) jumped the gun and engaged him before determining the location. His report, dated June 5, 1871, covers his examination of the two proffered sites in Grimes County, Kellum Springs and Piedmont Springs, both of which he de scribed at, length. On June 21, 1871 the Commission informed him that they had made the lo cation in Brazos County, and on July 6-7, 1871, he reported to the Commission on the results of the Brazos site. To the criticism frequently heard in late years that the Col lege was unwisely located, it should be said that in 1871 Bra zos County was near the center of the population of Texas. North and West Texas, now with their teeming populations and sky scrapers, were then but sparsely settled and it was doubted by many citizens of that day that they would ever be densely popu lated. The rainfall, especially in West Texas was deemed inade quate for dependable agriculture. It is worth remarking that im provement in agricultural meth ods by which crops are produced on lands which receive less rain fall than the region of Brazos County is attributed almost en tirely to the research and demon strations conducted at A. and M. The citizens of Bryan had in vited the Commission to visit Brazos county among other local ities. They did so, and were shown various desirable sites for the College, among them being the present one. In spite of the fact that Brazos County was considered one of the poorest in the state, the Commissioners were pleased —CADETS MUST— with the central location, that the area was well drained, and the fact that a railroad already ran by the site. Consequently, when the bid of $22,000 and 2,416 acres of land offered by the good citi zens of Brazos County was opened, the Commission awarded the lo cation of the College to Brazos County. The architect’s comments on the site are very interesting. “The grounds I found adapted to the purpose almost as if designed by nature or prescribed by a most skillful connoiseur. It would be difficult to find any fault, ex cept the want of water and for this purpose we provide most amply by tanks and pools formed to hand by nature; and by cis terns already reported to you in the plans of the College.” One wonders, doesn’t one? Architect Department Asks Funds For Practical Study Plans are being formed to bring the study of architecture at Texas A. and M. College to the most practical level, it has been revealed by Professor C. J. Finney, acting head of the department. A fund of $25,000 is being sought to finance actual building of homes and other structures by architecture students, working as carpenters and plumbers, after they have designed them in the drafting rooms. Sale of the houses at a profit would increase the fund and make money available for architectural research for the in dividual student or group, Finney said. At the present time, architecture sophomores are gaining valuable practical experience by building, from the ground up, a modern home in nearby College Hills for John Blanford of Beaumont, who is a member of the sophomore group and is financing the con struction and will move his family into the home when it is finished. 2 New Instructors Added to Civil Engineering Dept. Professor R. L. Peurifoy, recent ly of the U. S. Office of Education, Washington, and Assistant Profes sor C. F. DeVilbiss, currently at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Au burn, Ala., have been added to, the Texas A. and M. College civil en gineering faculty, effective Sep tember 1. Resignation of Professor How ard Hansen to accept a post at the University of Florida has been an nounced. (Continued from Page 1) ditions would enter the second year interim advanced course this fall.” When Uniform Must Be Worn The department of Military science and Tactics has also an nounced the following regulations governing the wearing of uni forms for those students taking military training. The designated uniform will be worn at all times by members of the Cadet Corps living with the Corj®. Veterans taking Military Science, not living witth the Cadet Corps but living in quarters on the campus, will wear the designated uniform at all times on the campus between Re veille and Retreat. Veterans tak ing Military Science and living off the campus proper will wear the designated uniform at all times between Reveille and Retreat while they are on the campus. All per sonnel taking Military Science, vet erans or non-veterans, will wear the designated uniform to offi cial, sport and social functions on the campus. WATCH REPAIRS 1 to 4 Day Service Stems - Crowns - Main Springs - Cleaning Staffs and Crystals T. C. HINMAN Lauterstein Bldg. - N. Gate tost Ism sAiiiE b.Clark a woman who caw CAN CEKTajNLY distract/ e A 6 M ADVERTISING CO. 404 GRILL SPECIALIZING IN STEAKS home COOKED FOODS AffiS.SALUE B. CiARK, OWNER h NORTH OAT-E- Jaynes to Attend Co-op Education Meeting Representing the A. and M. Col lege Extension Service, M. C. Jayn es, organization and cooperative marketing specialist, will spend next week in Lafayette, Ind., at a nationwide meeting on cooperative education. Conducted by the American In 7 stitute for Cooperatives ^t Purdue University, the meeting will cover the entire field of cooperation from the community level up. Represen tatives from nearly every state and the Canadian provinces are expect ed to attend. Rapid strides are being made in aviation—and in shoemaking too! Take Dura - Soles for instance. They’re new, they’re soft, they’re pleasant to wear, they outlast leather by a considerable margin. QJaldropflg “Two Convenient Stores” College Station - Bryan

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, August 22, 1946, Image 4

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