Town Hall Tomorrow
Whittemore and Lowe
VOLUME 46
Texas A«M
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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 5, 1946
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NUMBER 10
Cadet Corps to Hold Formal Review
For Governor-Elect Beauford Jester
Holiday Allows Students to Turn Out EnMasse For
SMU Grid Tilt and First “Corps Trip” of the Year
DFC to Be Awarded
Aggie-ex Class ’39
For ETC Campaign
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Company Infantry --First Moore Trophy Winners
A combined parade review
will be held tomorrow after
noon with Beauford Jester,
governor-elect, as guest of
honor. At the review, the
first of the semester, Mr.
Jester will present First Lieuten
ant Gilbert C. Holick, ’39, with a
Distinguished Flying Cross cita
tion.
The entire Cadet Corps will par
ticipate in the first big military
affair of the year. The parade will
be held at 5:30 p.m. on the main
drill field.
Mr. Jester who will be the guest
of President Gibb Gilchrist, is ex
pected to arrive shortly before the
review and probably will be taken
a na tour of the campus.
The presentation of the D.F.C.
to Lt. Holick, son of the College
Station bootmaker and graduate
of the class of 1939, is for outstand
ing service as lead navigator in
overcoming adverse weather con
ditions to lead bomber formations
to successful bombing targets re
quiring deep penetrations over en
emy occupied territory in Ger
many.
The review will last about half
an hour according to Col. Guy S.
Meloy, commandant of the Cadet
Corps. The entire corps will fall out
and leave the area at about 5:15
p.m. and will be assembled on the
main drill field by 5:30 p.m.
Sociology Seniors
Eligible for State
Public Welfare
Senior students qualified for
graduate sociology work are eli
gible for jobs with the State De
partment of Public Welfare it was
stated by John H. Winters, execu
tive director of the Department,
as he addressed the Sociology Club
at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday (Oct. 29) in
the Agriculture Building.
With Mr. Winters were Herbert
Wilson, assistant executive direc
tor, and James Lands, assistant
to the director.
Mr. Winters said students who
were selected for these jobs would
be sent to school with a scholar
ship of $125 a month for one year
and possibly another year during
a following period of five years.
A salary of $209 a month will
be paid after completion of the
first year of graduate work with
an excellent chance for promotion.
Mr. Winters said the need for
qualified workers is acute.
A person is obligated to the de
partment for two years after com
pletion of training, after which
time he may leave or continue to
work for the department which is
based on the merit system.
The State Department of Public
Welfare has three branches to
which it gives it’s assistance, old
age assistance, needy blind, and
dependent children. Mr. Winters
criticized the department because
there was no way in which they
could help other people who were
in dire need of assistance. He also
stated that the department was
not operating a pension program.
It is designed to give aid to the
needy while they are helped to be
self-supporting and still retain
their self-respect.
Community Chest
Drive Begins With
Budget of $8,321
Last Friday was the opening
date for the annual Community
Chest Drive. Coinciding with sim
ilar drives in cities throughout the
state, the College Station cam
paign will run approximately ten
days, it was announced by Dr. R.
W. Steen, chairman of the com
munity chest committee. He also
stated that the goal for this city
has been set at $8321.
This figure amounts to three-
quarters of one day’s pay for each
citizen, which is a reduction of
some $800 from last years budget.
All persons in this area are urged
to contribute to this single fund
which was established to help sev
eral causes at once. It is the agen
cy through which the residents of
College Station and College em
ployees can aid charitable and wel
fare organizations of national im
portance.
College division heads will soli
cit those persons working for the
school and a committee headed by
H. E. Burgess are to canvas the
business section of the city. Con
tributors to the drive fund are
helping the following organizations
by the listed amounts:
American Red Cross, $2,700;
Boy Scouts, $1,331; Girl Scouts,
$900; World Student Service Fund,
$500; China Relief, $400; YMCA,
$400; USO, $400; Mothers’ Club,
A&M Consolidated School, $400;
Tubercular fund, $300; County
hospitalization, $300; Salvation
Army, $240; Jewish Relief, $100;
March of Dimes, $50; local charity,
$100; contingent fund, $200. Total
$8,321.
Members of the College com
munity chest committee who have
been assisting Steen include: C.
W. Crawford; J. H. Milliff; S. L.
Frost; H. E. Burgess; Fred Hale;
J. G. Gay; J. W. Rollins; J. D.
Prewit; F. I. Dahlberg; W. W.
Wallace; and Lester Hanks.
This Week’s Poll...
Opinions Divided on Plans For
Additional Athletic Facilities
(This is the second in a series
of articles recording the results of
polls taken by the Battalion on
subjects concerning the student
body of Texas A & M—Eds. note)
Wotza-matter? You can’t get
tickets to the T.u. game—and the
best you could get for your folks
was two in the end zone for the
Rice game? You say the gym’s
too crowded and that you noticed
a shortage of handball and basket
ball courts? Well, cheer up, bud
dy, better days are ahead, if you
care to wait around long enough.
At least, that’s the information
the Battalion learned this week
after conducting its weekly poll
on the question:
“Do you think A&M needs in
creased athletic facilities?”
Malcolm “Spike” White, intra
mural director, replied to the
query that the present needs of the
athletic department are far from
filled. According to White the
school needs four to six more in
door basketball courts, six more
indoor volleyball courts, and 20-30
indoor handball courts. In short,
White said A&M “needs a gym
nasium twice the size of T. u’s
Gregory Gymnasium in Austin
(the largest field house in the
South) and, even then, could ade
quately put to use additional
space.”
Just how near these improve
ments are, White declined to say.
However, Head Football Coach
Homer Norton, when questioned
about the possibility of increasing
the capacity of Kyle Field, said
that plans had already been com
pleted for building a second tier
of seats extending from the 20
yard line to the twenty yard line
on both sides of the field. Norton
said that architects worked on the
plans for 18 months during the
war before completing them. He
explained that the reason the de
cision was made to add a second
tier rather than simply closing the
open end of the horseshoe was that
the proposed new plan will offer
more GOOD seats. Like White,
Norton declined to say when the
plans will blossom into actual
seats.
Norton also said that plans to
install lights moth on the football
practice field and on Kyle Field
(See WEEKLY POLL, Page 4)
Those Maroon and White Patches? ^
Moore Trophy Winners Wear Them
With mid semester grades right
around the comer, and intramural
contests already weeding the
wheat from the chaff, top com
petitors for the coveted Moore
Trophy and Flag honors vie for
this coveted award to cadet or
ganizations.
Last year “F” company In
fantry amassed 1490 points, based
on scholarship, military profic
iency, intramural excellence, and
extracurricular activities to walk
Juniors Discuss
Class Prom Plans
Plans for the Junior Prom were
discussed at a meeting of the Ju
nior class Tuesday night in the
chapel of the Y.M.C.A. The class
voted to get a name band and lea
ther-backed programs for the
prom. A definite date for the
affair was not set. The publish
ing of a “Cadence” by the class
for the freshmen next fall was al
so discussed.
N. R. “Jug” Leatherwood, class
president, presided at the meeting
and Marvin Jones, secretary, read
the minutes of the last meeting.
Y Will Play Host
To WSSF Speaker
Miss Margaret Ann Willson, re
cent graduate of the University
of West Virginia, will visit the A.
& M. campus on November 5 and
6 as a guest of the YMCA to aid
in the local World Student Service
Fund drive.
Miss Wilson has recently attend
ed the Pittsburg Youth Confer
ence, sponsored by the American
Friends Committee, and the Chris
tian Youth Conference held in
West Virginia under the auspices
of the YMCA’s and YWCA’s of
three states.
The YMCA Cabinet will honor
Miss Wilson with a steak supper
Tuesday evening at 6 o’clock. She
will also speak to the Kiwanis
Club and to the Planning Com
mittee of the World Student Ser
vice Fund.
Ag. Ed. Students to
Practice Teaching
Agricultural Education students
from Texas A. & M. College soon
will begin their actual teaching
experience by conducting special
classes in vocational agriculture in
schools throughout Texas, E. R.
Alexander, head of the agricultur
al education department announ
ced today.
The students, all college seniors,
selected their subjects from sug
gestions sent to Mr. Alexander by
the vocational instructors. All
preparation on the subjects is be
ing gathered by the students from
the numerous departments of
Texas A. & &M. College prior to
actual instruction of the vocation
al students. The department fa
culty corrects and approves the
subject matter before the senior
students are sent to the different
assignments.
The superintendent of schools
and the vocational agriculture in
structors of the following towns
have made arrangements for the
special classes: Kerens, Arlington,
Decatur, Edgewood, Tyler, Frank-
ston, Grand Saline, Schulenburg,
Hearne, Caldwell and Navasota.
off with the first presentation of
the Moore Flag and Trophy. The
Flag was presented at the Moth
er’s Day Review last May, and
can be seen borne proudly at the
head of “F” Company at all par
ades and reviews.
Named in honor of Maj. Gen.
George F. Moore, an Aggie of the
class of ’07, and former comman
dant here from 1937 to 1940, the
award -carries—with it 'weighty
privileges and honors. Seniors of
the winning outfit are given gold
medals significant of their efforts
in attaining excellence among
their charges. Shoulder patches dis
tinctive in maroon and white, are
worn on all shirts, coats and
blouses.
Competition is keen at the pres
ent time among all outfits, with
unit commanders especially anx
ious that in addition to winning
back the Blue Star, they will come
out on top with the George F.
Moore Trophy.
Norton Gives Dope
On Aggie Football
To Local Kiwanis
Coach Homer Norton was the
guest speaker at the last weekly
luncheon meeting of the College
Station Kiwanis Club. He ex
plained the difficulties encounter
ed by the Aggie coaching squad
this year, including an unusually
large number of injuries to key
players and the short time of prac
tice allotted before the opening of
the semester. It was pointed out
that 26 A-squad players had had
no previous experience in the T-
formation offense before this year.
Norton emphasized the impor
tance of participation in athletics
in developing courage and the “will
to win”, the latter being the decid
ing factor in the Rice-Texas foot
ball game. Sports teach men the
value of a thorough knowledge of
their professions or vocations, he
added. At the conclusion of his
discussion, he introduced Botchey
Koch, Aggie end coach, and Bill
James, line coach.
Miss Bernice Jensen sang
“Night and Day” and “Memories”,
accompanied by Mrs. Grace Krug.
The Kiwanis Nominating Commit
tee submitted a report for the elec
tion of club officers and directors
and the next meeting.
Deadline Set for
VA Report Slips
Today is the deadline for sub
mitting a report of earnings for
all veterans in school or partici
pating in on-the-job training
These reports must be sent to the
Veterans Administration, Waco.
The report of earnings was set
by Congress in legislation placing
a ceiling on all veterans’ earnings;
this report must be sent to the
proper regional office, which is
Waco in the case of all A. & M.
students.
Forms to be turned in are en
titled “Trainee’s Report of Earn
ings” and have been included in
subsistence checks to veterans ei
ther for September or October. If
a student has lost this form, he
may submit a signed letter stat
ing his earnings for the months of
August, September, and October.
Although similar information
was required on the forms signed
in Sbisa Hall, it is still required
that the enclosed forms, blue in
color, be submitted to the Waco
office.
g Council Makes
Plans for Student
Agriculture Mag.
Editor to Be Elected
From Ag. Seniors With
1.5 Grade Point Avg.
Plans for resuming publication
of the Agriculturist, student Agri
culture magazine of A. & M., were
discussed at the first meeting of
the Agricultural Council Thursday
evening, October 24.
The editor of The Agriculturist
will be eelcted by the council on
November 13. First semester sen
ior Agriculture majors with a 1.5
grade point average are eligible
for the editorship. Applications
are acceptable to Prof. Norris G.
Davis in Room 210, Agriculture
building until November 9.
Dean C. N. Shepardson of the
School of Agriculture opened the
meeting of the council by explain
ing the aims and benefits which
the council wouid render to the
agricultural students at A. & M.
“The purpose of the council is to
sponsor publication of the Agri
culturist and to discuss student
problems in the School of Agri
culture”, Dean Shepardson ex
plained.
B. W. Frierson was elected tem
porary chairman of the Agricul
tural Council until permanent of
ficers are elected at the next meet
ing. D. B. McCombs, L. L. Bar
ton, and K. M. Trigg were elected
as a committee to check the qual
ifications of applicants for the ed
itorial position.
Regular meetings were schedul
ed for the second Wednesday of
each month.
Extension Servicer
Resigns from A&M
Resignation on October 31 of S.
A. Moore as poultry husbandman
for the A. and M. College Exten
sion Service has been announced
by Director Ide P. Trotter.
Mr. Moore is taking the position
of supervisor of the National Poul
try and Turkey Improvement Plan
for the state of Arkansas, with
headquarters at Little Rock. The
program is sponsored cooperative
ly by the Arkansas Livestock San
itary Board, the Arkansas Poultry
Improvement Association and the
University of Arkansas.
Native of Haywood County,
Tenn., Mr. Moore attended high
school at Mt. Vernon, Texas. He
received his B. S. degree from A.
and M. in 1930 and took graduate
work at Washington State College
in 1931.
First Extension Service appoint
ment was that of poultryman for
the Arkansas Extension Service at
the University of Arkansas in
1936. From there he came to the
A. and M. Extension Service head
quarters staff as poultry husband
man in January, 1944.
CORRECTION ON GRANTS
OF CARS TO VETERANS
A significant fact was uninten
tionally omitted from an article
in the last issue concerning autos
for disabled veterans. It has been
pointed out by W. H. Bailey, col
lege training officer that only
those veterans who suffer the loss
of use or amputation of one or
both legs above or at the ankle
are entitled to receive these vehi
cles.
Aggies to Present Tessie Sweetheart
At Half-Time; Cadets to Stage Parade
The student body of Texas A&M vacates the campus
this coming weekend for the first Corps trip of the season
and heads for Dallas to see the Texas Aggies tangle on the
gridiron with the SMU mustangs.
Classes have been dismissed for Saturday morning,
November 9, to enable all of the student body to attend the
game, and all that goes with it. Every year, Aggies ascend
on either Dallas or Ft. Worth for the annual tilts with TCU
or SMU, and to see the Aggie Sweetheart presented to the
Cadet Corps at that time.
DRUM AND BUGLE CORPS
Vergne Adams, bandmaster of
the Aggie band, plans to or
ganize a Drum and Bugle Corps
from among members of the
Cadet Corps.
Any members of the Corps
with experience playing the cor
net, trumpet, or drum, are re
quested to report to Col. Adams
in Room 427 Dorm 11 any time
this week.
Agricultural Dept.
Streamlined Policy
Effective Nov. 1st
Classroom, Research,
And Extension Service
Activities Coordinated
f
Heads of nine A. & M. agricul
tural departments were announced
recently by Vice-President for Ag
riculture D. W. Williams. The ap
pointments, effective November 1,
were the first to be announced
under the policy of coordinating
teaching, research and extension
activities of the college on a sub
ject matter basis. The changes
in departmental organization were
made as follows:
1. D. J. E. Adams will become
head of the department of agron
omy, also including the agronomy
division of the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station and the agron
omy specialists of the Extension
Service.
2. L. P. Gabbard will become
head of the department of agricul
tural economics and rural sociol
ogy. This, department will also
include the farm and ranch eco
nomics division of the Texas Agri
cultural Experiment Station and
agricultural economists and sociol
ogists of the Extension Service.
3. Fred R. Jones will become
head of the department of agri
cultural engineering. In addition,
this department will include the
agricultural engineering division
of the Texas Agricultural Exper
iment Station and specialists in
agricultural engineering and cot
ton ginning of the Extension Ser
vice.
4. Dr. I. W. Rupel will become
head of the department of dairy
husbandry. This department will
also include the division of dairy
husbandry of the Agricultural Ex
periment Station and the^ dairy
specialists of the Extension Ser
vice.
5. F. W. Hensel will become
head of the department of land
scape art to include the landscape
art specialists of the Extension
Service.
6. Dr. A. A. Dunlap will be
come head of the department of
plant physiology and pathology,
which will also apply to the Texas
Agricultural Experiment Station.
(See AG. DEPT. Page 4)
Plans have been completed so
that TSCW students will also be
present in force in Dallas over the
weekend. Tessie classes will be
dismissed at 5:30 on Friday after
noon, November 8, and special
busses will be available to take all
of the students to Dallas who want
to go. Reliable approximations
say that at least ninety percent
of TSCW plans to attend the Ag-
gie-SMU game as guests of the
Aggies. Transportation to Dallas
for Aggies has been facilitated by
the Southern Pacific railroad,
which plans to run three special
trains to Dallas both Friday after
noon and Saturday morning. The
first special will leave College
Station at 5:30 Friday afternoon
and will arrive at 9:30 that night.
The other two trains will depart
Saturday morning, the first one
at 5 o’clock, and the second will
leave ten minutes later. They will
arrive in Dallas at 9 and 9:10 res
pectfully. All specials will leave
Dallas Sunday afternoon at 4
o’clock.
Aggie Corps trips to the two
northern Texas cities have long
been a tradition for A&M stu
dents. TSCW students have been
making these corps trips with the
Aggies since 1936 when it was
started under the sponsorship of
Dr. F. L. McDonald, head of the
school of journalism at TSCW. The
annual event of interest to both
Aggies and Tessies is the presen
tation of the Aggie sweetheart,
chosen by the senior class out of
the tudent body at TSCW, to the
Cadet Corps at half time of the
game. While the entire section of
A&M students sings “Let Me
Call You Sweetheart”, the Cadet
Colonel presents her with a huge
bouquet of roses and a kiss in be
half of the corps. This year’s
sweetheart is Peggy Hendricks, a
senior from Kilgore.
The Corps of Cadets will march
down the Main Street of Dallas
Saturday morning starting at 9:30
as part of the traditional Corps
Trip.
The Dallas Chapter of the TSCW
Ex-student Association will main
tain a hostess in the Baker Hotel
from Friday afternoon through
Saturday. This will serve as a
meeting place and also as a hous
ing aid for all Tessies.
From 9 until 1 Saturday night
the Dallas A. & M. Mothers’ Club
will sponsor a dance in Fair Park
Skating Rink. The Aggieland Or
chestra, under the direction of
Bill Turner, will furnish music for
the occasion. Admission is $1.25.
Game time is tentatively set for
2 o’clock Saturday afternoon in
the State Fair Grounds’ Cotton
Bowl.
TROTTER ATTENDS MEET
OF EXTENSION SERVICE
Director Ide P. Trotter of the
A. and M. College Extension Ser
vice has been in Madison, Wis.,
attending the Extension Adminis
trators’ Workshop, October 21 to
November 2.
State administrators who have
not previously attended a work
shop and representatives from the
Hawaii Extension Service were in
cluded in the two-week series of
meetings.
Whittemore and Lowe, Piano
Twins, Are Next on Town Hall
On the stage of Gunon Hall to
morrow at 8 p. m., Town Hall fans
will see two of the most promis
ing young pianists yet to be heard
in this section, Whittemore and
Lowe. These twins of the ivor
ies are to present a full program
of their own arrangements of a
variety of musical selections.
The two men were released from
the Navy last January where they
gave over 500 concerts and imme
diately embarked on a three-
month tour of the East, Middle
West and South. Their repertoire
now consists of some 175 numbers
which practice before more than
half a million listeners has stayed
with them.
From among this great reser
voir of music Whittemore and
Lowe have chosen to include in
their performance here such fav
orites as “Overture to Alexander’s
Feast” by Handel, “Coronation
Scene from “Boris Godounov” by
Moussorgsky, “Clair de Lune” by
Debussy, and “Bolero” by Ravel.
The audience should get plenty
of music in this attraction as the
pianists have prepared a score of
selections to be played. Filling
out the remainder of the program
are four waltzes by Brahms; three
selections from “Musical Comedy”,
Falling in Love with Love, That
Old Black Magic, and Lover;
“Roumanian Rhapsody No. 1 by
Enesco; Bach’s “Sonata in E-flat
Major”; March from “The Love
of Three Oranges” by Prokofieff;
Stavinsky’s “Pastorale” and “Tri-
ana” by Albeniz.
The two members of the piano
team have been very popular
throughout the country, playing
on radio programs over various
networks including Fred Waring’s
show. They have distinguished
themselves in glee club work hav
ing come out with top honors sev
eral times. The group from the
University of Rochester which
they trained walked off with top
men’s glee club honors in the fi
nals at Carnegie Hall.
The College is very fortunate in
securing these two talented pian
ists as the second Town Hall fea
ture. Ten other programs are on
the schedule for this season in
what should prove interesting and
varied entertainment.