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“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.
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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
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SPECIALIZING IN STEAKS
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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.
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“Two Convenient Stores”
College Station - Bryan