The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, November 12, 1946, Image 1
Texas A*M See Editorial ‘How About a Truce?’ ryif - ■ r% The B alion SW Conference Eyes on Kyle Field VOLUME 46 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 12, 1946 NUMBER 12 CORPS, ALL-COLLEGE DANCES, AND JAMBOREE SET FOR RICE WEEK-END Floyd Graham Will Play for Friday Night Corps Dance Big- plans are being made for a big weekend when the Rice Owls turn out in full for the first game at College Sta* tion since 1942. Since this is one of the most important games of the year for both teams as well as the whole conference, a big turnout with a capacity crowd on Kyle Field is expected. Entertainment for the weekend includes a military ball for the Corps Friday in Sbisa Hall 9 to 12 p.m. with the Aces of College- land headed by Floyd Graham of N.T.S.C. in Denton. The dance will be a formal affair, it was an nounced. Preceding the dance Friday night the orchestra will put on a Variety Show on the Stage of Guion Hall at 7 o’clock. Coming down with the' band for the show is a group of entertainers which includes a chorus line, dancers and vocalists. From all reports this show will be one of the best to perform on the campus this year. Saturday an All-College dance will be held from 9 to 12 p.m. in Sbisa. The Aggieland Orchestra will play for this affair which is semi-formal. The Aggieland has been gaining popularity through out the state and has been play ing for numerous dances in differ ent areas. Friday night they furnish music for the Federated Women’s Club in Austin and they are signed for the coming In augural Ball after the induction of Beauford Jester in January. Dates will be housed in Dormi tory No. 8 and P. G. Hall it was announced. Rooms may be reserv ed at the Placement Office on the main floor of the Administration Building. Social Calendar for 1947Spring Semester Schedules Events from February to May Al'Lena’ Capp To Pick Vanity Fair Beauties Perhaps this year the selection of Vanity Fair beauties will work in reverse. Heretofore, it has al ways been the policy to select the most beautiful eight pictures for the Vanity Fair section. But anything can happen now— A1 Capp, of Lil Abner and Lena the Hyena fame, will select the pictures of girls entered by the senior class for the Vanity Fair section of the Longhorn, Hary Saunders and Jimmie Demopulos, co-editors, have announced. Capp’s acceptance of the invitation was received last week by the editors of the annual. Of the pictures which will be sent to A1 Capp, eight will be selected to be placed in Vanity Fair, and the remainder will be placed in the Senior Favorites section. Seniors are reminded that the deadline, for this section is Decem ber 15. No pictures submitted after that date will be accepted. Three 6x7 glossy pictures are required: one bust picture, one formal, full length, and one sports, full-length picture. Charge for Vanity Fair is $1.50, payable when pictures are turned in to the Student Ac tivities office. Museum Curator Addresses Fish And Game Majors At a regular meeting of the Fish and Game Club Tuesday evening, students majoring in that department were startled to hear that they were witnessing the re placement of hardwoods in the great post-oak and blackjack belt around College Station by pines and cedars. This statement was made by the guest speaker, Mr. H. B. Parks, curator of the College mus eum, in a talk on plant seed dis tribution by migratory birds. According to Mr. Parks, nature operates in cycles in establishing the dominant plant life of an area, and we are now approaching the end of the hardwood cycle in South-central Texas. In his talk, Mr. Parks also called the atten tion of his audience to the many unusual combinations of plants brought about through random distribution of seed by migrating birds. At the conclusion of this talk, members were shown the U. S. Fish and Wildlife film “Beavers at Home”. This film presented the life story, natural history, and something of the ecology of beav ers in America, along with some shots of beavers at work on their dams and houses. Chem. Engineering Dept. Accredited By NatT Council A&M Joins Texas and Rice With Accredited Chem. Engineer Dept. One of the newer branches of engineering at A. & M. reacher maturity and nationwide recog nition recently as the Engineering Council for Profesisonal Develop ment, a national committee, an nounced accrediting of the A. & M. chemical engineering depart ment. The announcement, which places A. &. M. alongside Rice Institute and Texas University as the only schools in Texas having accredited chemical engineering curricula, climaxed a five-year wait by Dr. J. D. Lindsay, head of the depart ment, and his staff. Original steps were taken by President Gilchrist while he was serving as Dean of Engineering. The chemical engineering de partment was divorced from the A. &. M. chemistry department in June, 1940, and inspected by a committee from the American In stitute of Chemical Engineers later that year. The committee reported favorably, but urged that accrediting be held in abeyance until the infant department be came, a bit older. Just before Pearl Harbor, anoth er committee inspected the depart ment and approved—but war came along and all accrediting was frozen. Last April another in spection was held, with the com mittee approving. This approval came through channels and last week the final approval was bes towed. Heads of Veieran Organization Two Civil Service Booklets Explain Exam Procedures Pamphlets and Forms May Be Obtained from Local Secretary in PO The Civil Service Commission has just issued two examination announcements in booklet form, each covering a number of differ ent types of positions located in Washington, D. C., and throughout the Unite States. One examination is for Junior Professional Assistant. Persons applying for this examination may choose one or more options from among the following wields: Ar chives, Chemistry, Economics, Geography, Mathematics, Metal lurgy, Physics, Statistics, and Textile Technology. The second examination is for positions in the US Forest Ser vice of the Department of Agri culture, and some positions in the Department of Interior, as follows: Forest Ecologist, Range Ecologist, Forest Pathologist, Silviculturist, Forest Products Technologist, For est Soils Technologist, and Forest Management. The age limits, 18 to 62, are waived for persons en titled to veteran preference, and no written test is required. Applications for the JPA exam will be accepted through Decem ber 3, 1946, and forestry and range exam applications are ac ceptable through December 10. Announcements and application forms may be obtained from the Commission’s local secretary, Mr. Homer N. Yardley, located in the College Station Post Office, or from the US Civil Service Com mission, Washington, 25, D. C. YET OFFICERS, John Lindsey, vice-president, Sid Smith, pres ident, and Sam S. Williams, treasurer. Veterans Administration Clarifies Ex-Servicemen’s Hospital Benefits The Veterans Administration has released the follow ing information concerning benefits to which ex-servicemen and women are entitled in cases of hospitalization and out patient treatment. By following this procedure, undue delay may be prevented in filing claims and obtaining payment. When in need of hospitalization or out-patient treat ment veterans should communicate with the nearest Con tact Representative or Training Officer of the Veterans Administration. Hospitalization 1. Non-service connected cases. Within the limits of Veterans Ad ministration facilities, hospital treatment may be authorized by the Chief, Out-Patient Service, Waco, Texas, for veterans who served during a period of war, who were discharged under other than dishonorable conditions, who are unable to defray the expense of hospitalization, including the ex pense of transportation from their place of residence to a Veterans Administration Hospital and re turn, who are suffering from a disability being susceptible of cure or decided improvement, which indicates need for hospital care. Those eligible for hospital treatment include all persons who were enrolled in the Federal serv ice during a period of war, regard less of length of service, when there is a bed available in a Government hospital. 2. Service connected cases. Per sons eligible for hospitalization who are suffering from a disease or injury incurred or aggravated in line of duty in active service, and for which they are medically determined to be in need of hos pital treatment, may be hospital ized in a contract or private hos pital at Government expense, pro vided there is not Veterans Ad ministration facility available, in the event of an emergency. Ordi narily, service connected cases will be treated in Veterans Ad ministration Hospitals. 3. Trainees under Public Law 16. Part VII trainees receiving vo cational rehabilitation under Public Law 16 are entitled to such treat ment as is medically determined necessary to prevent interruption of their training. Treatment under this principle may be given not only for the disease or injury for which the training was authorized, but for any intercurrent condi tion, regardless of its relation to former military . service. Such treatment as is medically determ ined necessary to prevent inter ruption of training may be auth orized in a hospital or on an out patient basis. Contact or private (See VETERANS, Page 4) K. J. Ewards Heads Mission to Arabia K. J. Edwards, district agent of the Extension Service, has made request for a leave of one year to become the head of an Agricultural Mission to Saudi Arabia. The pur pose of the program is to set up and guide the early activities of a department of agriculture for Saudi Arabia. The king and the government of Saudi Arabia requested that such a program be inaugurated and it has been approved by the State Department and the United States Department of Agriculture in Washington. It is part of an over all program to build up American friendship and prestige with the peoples of the middle east. Mr. Edwards, who is an Aggie -ex states that his staff of nine men will include as many Texas Aggies as possible. College Employees To Dine Thursday The first regular meeting of the newly formed College Employees Club wil be held Thursday night in Sbisa Hall. Tickets for the dinner went on sale yesterday at the Aggieland Inn, and are available to members for $1.25 each. This sum pays for a meal served by the Subsistence Director at cost and includes a dance following. It is suggested that the attire be formal, however it was steted that this was not compulsory. A card showing the owner’s depart ment would be worn to facilitate identification. This club was formed to enable the various employees of the col lege to become better acquainted and to provide the group with food, fellowship, and entertain ment. A committee headed by Dr. G. W. Schlesselman and Mrs. W. M. Turner was appointed by the President to start such an organ- iation and the College Employees Dinner Club had its enception. Engineering Mag. Staff Elected at Council Meeting Davies Named Editor Of Monthly Mag-azine; Other Workers Needed Robert W. Davies, a veteran me chanical engineering student of Forth Worth, was elected Editor of the “Texas A. & M. Engineer”, monthly publication of the Student Engineering Council. The election was held at the council meeting on Monday evening, November 4. Robert K. Williams of Midland and Gene Field of Calvert, both of whom are mechanical engineering veterans, were named assistant editor and business manager, re spectively. These men have all been named to serve for the 1946- 47 school year. J. L. Latimer from Fort Worth was previously named managing editor for the fall term. It was decided that Terry A. Clark, an aeronautical engineering student, would serve as chairman for the Engineers’ Day activities to be held next spring. George R. Hughes, also majoring in aeronau tical engineering, was named as his assistant. Bob Latimer, managing editor of the “Engineer”, outlined the staff to the members of the coun cil, and at the same time he is sued a call for all engineering stu dents to assist in the publication of this magazine. Plans call for a 50-page magazine, to commence publication in January. Help is needed from all departments; par ticularly are sophomores and jun iors requested to assist in the pub lication in order to continue the work during the ensuing years. Staff photographers are urged to join the Engineering staff. A meeting of the staff will be held Wednesday evening, Novem ber 13, at 6:30 p.m. in Room 102, ME Building. All men who are in terested in joining the staff, and all present members, are requested to be present at this time, since further plans will be made. 12 Science Clubs In Texas Academy A&M’s United Science Clubs gained a new lease on life Mon day night when the Steering Com mittee, composed of twelve of the fifteen former member clubs on the campus, met in the biology building with Dr. C. C. Doak, head of the biology department and for mer councilor of the U.S.C. The leadership of the U.S.C. falls, according to the by-laws of rotation, from one club to another annually, this time on the Kream and Kow Klub, of which Kenneth D. Garvin is president; Robert E. Hall, vice-president; Vurell A. Yentzen, secretary-treasurer; and Professor A. V. Moore of the Dairy Husbandry department, faculty advisor. In 1940 the A&M Chapter re ceived its charter from the col legiate division of the Texas Acad emy of Science. The fifteen mem ber clubs united under the direc tion of Dr. Doak for the purpose of fostering the scientific attitude, promoting interest in science, and furnishing the basis of selection for speakers and delegates to represent A&M at the Academy .meetings. The next meeting of the Texas Academy of Science will be held in Dallas, December 12. The* second of the two annual meetings each school year will be held during the spring semester. This organization, composed of the Junior, Collegiate, and Senior divisions is now headed by Dr. Fred A. Barkley, a botanist of the University of Texas. “As Many Name Bands as Possible”, Says Elms Regarding Social Season The Social Calendar for the spring semester of the 1946-47 school year has been announced this week by the Student Activities office. Commencing on February 8 and continuing through May 30, a dance will be held on the campus every week-end. Efforts to get name bands will be made by the Student Activities office, and this list will be sent to the booking agents soon. The Social Calendar reads as Three-Per-Room Refund Ready at Fiscal Office Refunds of room rent for students who paid for the full semester and who were living three to a room at the end of pctober are ready and may be (called for at the Fiscal Depart ment between the hours of 8 a. m. and 12 noon and from 1 p. m. to 2 p. m. each day. Hillel Foundation Holds Interfaith Relation Contest Aggies are invited to participate in an Essay Writing Contest spon sored by the A. & M. Hillel Foun dation in cooperation with the Henry Cohen Interfaith Fellow ship. The subject is Interfaith Re lationship. The purpose of the contest is to stimulate an intellectual and friendly understanding among var ious denominational groups and develop an awareness among stu dents of the contributions which various religious creeds and denom inations have made to the advance ment of American civilization. No limitation is placed on the student’s own choice and presentation of the subject. The winning essays as determin ed by the judges will receive s first prize of $25.00; second prize, $15.00; and third prize, $10.00. The winners of the contest will be ex pected to read their essays before an interfaith group meeting. Clos ing date of the contest is Decem ber 18. Each manuscript must be accom panied by a sealed envelope con taining the name and post office address o%the sender. All essays must be the writer’s original con tribution, and average approxi mately 1000 to 1500 words. If pos sible, manuscripts should be type written, double-spaced. The members of the Committee shall have sole and final authority in choosing the winners. If no manuscript in the opinion of the judges is of sufficient merit, the (See HILLEL, Page 4) Work Underway on Two New Projects The office of the College Arch itect has made two new announce ments concerning projects now un der way on the campus. . First and perhaps most interest ing to students relates to the Grove. All excavation has been completed, and the concrete for the floor will be laid as soon as weather conditions permit. The Grove will also have a new fence. A contract is to be awerded soon for the same type special fence that was recently placed around the athletic field. The new veteran’s housing pro ject, as yet unnamed, is the topic of the second item. Materials have been obtained and work will start sometime this week on the laying of water and gas lines. A short age of materials has delayed this project. "Your 1150 Listening Habit’’... Radio Activity on Campus Begun Thirty-Four Years Ago Has Now Produced Present-Day Affiliated Station Did you know that the first ath letic event ever sent over the ether waves was an Aggie contest, and that the broadcatsing was done by our own WTAW? A football game was reported in the dot-dash of the Morse system some years before the first radio-telephone broadcast, which was of the Demp- sey-Carpentier boxing match in New Jersey. Radio activities at the A. & M. College of Texas began in 1912 when a station was set up for ex perimental purposes. It was in 1919 that the football game report was sent out in Morse code and picked up in Waco. In 1923 radiophoning was begun at this institution with a power of 250 watts. In 1925 the power was increased to 500 watts. With this doubling of power, WTAW went on the air twice a week, and the Association of Former Students took charge of the programs. Athletic events and chapel ser vices were broadcast. In the spring of 1926 the Extension Service as sumed responsibility for the pro grams and inaugurated the Texas Farm and Home Hour, which is now one of the most widely lis tened to programs in the state. WTAW was a pioneering broad casting station, and was built en tirely through the efforts of the faculty and students at very little expense. It is now partially operat ed by students under the direction of Frank J. Sosolik, chief engineer. In 1942 the station was moved from its second floor location in the YMCA to its present location on the third floor of the Adminis tration building. There are three studios at the present location. Studio A is a large studio where all the programs originating at WTAW are “aired”. Studio B is the announcing room, and Studio G houses the control room. From this new location, WTAW conducts daily broadcasts from 6:01 a.m. until local sunset, which for the month of November will be 5:30 p. m. WTAW has its own Associated Press teletype machine that brings in the latest news, weather, market reports, and a complete coverage of world events. It is also an af filiated station of the American Broadcasting Co. network. This affiliation brings many national programs to Brazos county lis teners, including “Ladies Be Seat- te”, “Bride and Groom,” “The Col umbia Workshop”, “The Breakfast Club,” “Terry and the Pirates”, and “Jack Armstrong”. News ana lysts featured are Martin Agron- sky and Baukhage. “The Texas School of the Air”, and “Jobs Ahead” are feature programs pro- uced here on the A. & M. c ampus. Among the men and women res ponsible for the job done by WTAW are G. Byron Winstead, director; H. C. Dillingham, techni cal director; Mrs. M. E. Collins, sales staff; Mrs. E. C. Montel, secretary; Frank J. Sosolik, Chief engineer; Bob Scudder, assistant program director; Mark Halleck, sports editor and commercial an nouncer; Dick Erwin, spot news programs; Homer R. Vaughn, transmitter operator; D. E. Cold- iron, Floyd E. Page, Jr., and W. Robert Adams, student assistant operators. Many of the students who work ed at WTAW in the past have continued in radio after their graduation, and now hold respons ible posts wRh broadcasting sta tions all over' the country. follows: February 8, 1947 Reserve Officers’ Dinner Dance. February 14, 1947 Architect’s Ball. February 15, 1947 All-College Dance. February 21, 1947 Freshman Ball. February 22, 1947 All-College Dance. February 27, 1947 Sophomore Ball. March 1, 1947 All-College Dance. March 7, 1947 Junior Prom. v March 8, 1947 All-College Dance. March 14, 1947 Cattlemen’s Ball. March 15, 1947 Veterans Association Dance. March 21, 1947 Infantry Ball. March 22, 1947 All-College Dance. March 28, 1947 Cotton Ball. March 29, 1947 All-College Dance. April 11, 1947 Artillery Ball. April 12, 1947 All-College Dance. April 18, 1947 Composite Regiment Ball. April 19, 1947 All-College Dance. April 25, 1947 Veterans Association Dance. April 26, 1947 Barnyard Frolic. May 16, 1947 Senior Ring Dance. May 17, 1947 All-College Dance. May 30, 1947 Final Ball. 'The Hilberts And Spoilers Club 9 is Newest A &M Group Dilberts and Spoilers came into their own last week, as they or ganized their own club on the A. & M. campus. In case you haven’t the faintest idea what Dilberts and Spoilers are don’t feel dismayed. Only those serving during the war in naval or marine aviation understand the significance of the terms, which come from cartoon caricatures of an aviator (Dilbert) and his me chanic (Spoiler). The new club, meeting at the YMCA last week, adopted a con stitution and set 7:00 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month as a regular meeting time. The purpose of the club is to bring together ex-navy and ma rine aviation personnel on the campus for social activities and to convey new ideas, information, policies and development in naval and marine aviation to them, ac cording to C. C. Nathan, acting president of the club. A major objective of the club is to obtain recognition from the naval air reserve unit in Dallas so that billets may be secured for men on the campus, who are in terested in continuing flying. Re cently, Naval Air Station, Dallas has been sending a plane here every other week-end for several reserve pilots who have been as signed a billet in the reserve unit, and want to get in their flying time. There will be a special meeting Nov. 18, to plan a stag party which will be held sometime in Decem ber. All men who have served in navy and marine aviation and would like to keep up with present activities, as well get togther for an occasional “bull session” are invit ed to attend future meetings. - Oldest Grad is Still Aggie Booster After Seventy Long Years Do you want a recipe for a long happy life? Just graduate from A&M, and perhaps you can equal the record of Rev. Malcom Black, a member of the first class that ever left College Station. Rev. Black, who will’ be 92 next month, is the oldest living graduate. Still spry and hearty, he was a guest at the recent State Fair in Dallas and gave a newspaper interview, despite a broken hearing aid.