A V C Reports
On Food Prices
VOLUME 46
Tern AaM
The B
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1946
Aggie “Brats”
Parade Sunday
Number 18
PHYSICALS FOR AIR CORPS
RESERVE OFFICERS MON.
A flight surgeon will visit
the A. & M. campus on Monday,
December 9, for the purpose of
giving physical examinations to
Air Corps Reserve Officers.
These examinations will be ad
ministered at the college hospi
tal.
Prior to taking the exam,
each officer must make an ap
pointment with W. R. Aven in
room 29, Leggett Hall. Appli
cations will be taken by Aven
through Sunday, December 8.
Gen. Wainwrighf and Inspecting
Party to Visit Campus December
10, Unconfirmed Reports Disclose
The eyes of the army seemed to be turning toward the
ROTC Unit at A. & M. with ever-increasing intensity as five
different inspections and visits were announced by the ROTC
Headquarters.
The second of four informal in-'
spection tours by officers of the
Fourth Army Headquarters in San
Antonio tops the list. The in
specting party, due to arrive on
December 10 for a two-day stay,
is expected to be headed by Gen.
Jonathan Wainwright, commander
of the Fourth Army, but as yet
no official confirmation has been
received.
This inspection party will fol
low the tactics of the first, which
was conducted in October under
the leadership of Maj. Gen. Clark
son, in reviewing the performance
of cadets in the classroom, at drill,
and on the campus.
The report of the four informal
inspections will be combined with
that of the annual Federal inspec
tion, slated for March, in determin
ing the military rating of the RO
TC at A.&M.
Annual Audit
On the campus for an extended
stay, probably to exceed three
months, is Mathias Crandall, civ
ilian senior auditor from the Fin
ance Office, Fort Sam Houston, in
San Antonio.
Mr. Crandall is engaged in mak
ing a complete audit of all govern
ment equipment on the campus,
counting every piece, and compar
ing his records to those of the
Headquarters.
Ordnance Experts
A class A Ordnance inspection
team, composed of one officer, Lt.
Robert Speek, two enlisted men,
and five civilian experts are now
inspecting the condition of all ord
nance equipment.
The Ordnance ROTC unit is also
under surveillance by this group.
R. M. Bush, representative of
the Chief of Ordnance in Washing
ton, will also be on the campus
December 12 to inspect.
More Visitors
Col. N. F. Galbraith, of the RO
TC G-3 section of the Fourth Ar
my, inspected the cadets Thurs
day and Friday.
tL. Col. Jack Nendell, HQ 10th
Air Force at Brooks Field, will
arrive on December 9 to consult
with Col. Meloy and Lt. Col. Dex
ter Hodge, Professor of Air Sci
ence and Tactics, concerning the
Air ROTC unit at A. & M.
Dorsey '45 Submits
Best Campus-tivity
Snap for November
George Darsey, class of ’45, is the
November winner in the Longhorn
monthly photo contest, it was an
nounced by the Longhorn staff.
The winning shot depicts a droopy-
eyed, over-weary Aggie in the wee
hours of the morning before that
major quiz. “It doesn’t take an
expert photographer to win this
monthly prize,” says Jimmie De-
mopolus, co-editor, “and pictures
of all forms of Aggie life are in
demand for the Aggieland Section.”
Another $5.00 prize will be award
ed for the best picture for the
month of December. Boxes for
these pictures will be placed in
both Sbisa and Duncan mess hall
entrances, or pictures may be mail
ed or turned in at the Student Act
ivities Office.
Demopolus also announced that
negatives of good Aggieland shots
may be left at the A. & M. Photo
Shop for printing. These pictures
will automatically be entered in
the monthly photo Contest and
negatives will be returned by call
ing for them at the photo shop.
Veterans and freshmen are re
minded that December 15 is the
last day class section pictures will
be made at the A. & M. Photo
Shop. Deadline for Senior Favor
ite entries remains at January 15.
A 5 x 7 glbssy bust picture is
required with a $1.50 entry fee.
Deadline for Vanity Fair pic
tures has been extended to Jan
uary 15 due to numerous requests
from Seniors whose pictures will
not arrive in time. Pictures turn
ed in are to be 5x7 glossy prints
of three different poses: one bust
view, one full-length in street
dress, and one full-length in even
ing dress. The fee for entry is
$1.50.
MARKETING & FINANCE
CLUB TO MEET TUESDAY
Members of the Marketing and
Finance Club will hold their mon
thly meeting at 7:30 p. m., Tues
day, December 10, 1946, in Room
312 of the Agriculture Building.
All Aggies are urged to attend.
Plans will be made for a party,
and speaker will be on hand for
the meeting.
Guizar and His
Guitar To Play
On Town Hall
Tito Guizar, Latin- American
impresario of the guitar and sil
ver-throated ambassador of Span
ish song, has been engaged to
appear with his famous Trouba
dours on the stage of Guion Hall
in late January. Included in his
group of fifteen artists are
Mexican Tipica Sinfoneta, a beau
tiful dance team, a soloist, and a
concert pianist. The Town Hall
presentation will be of two and
one-half hour duration. There will
be two performances, an after
noon and evening showing.
Guizar has been very popular
with past audiences who admire
his jaunty presentation of Mexican
songs and comical ad-lib. He has
appeared in both Mexican and
American movies, and is currently
starred in the M-G-M musical pro
duction, “Holiday in Mexico”.
Cullman, Brandt, and Buntyn
To Attend Chicago Conference
Student Council representatives from the veterans and
the Cadet Corps met Wednesday night in Sbisa Hall to com
plete organization of the Council, and to consider and make
recommendations concerning policy problems on the campus.
Following election of Bill Mc
Cormick as permanent chairman of
the Council, and Louis L’Homme-
dieu as secretary, discussion cen
tered around the prospect of send
ing delegates to the Chicago Stu
dent Conference, December 28-30.
Joseph Cullinan, Ed Brandt, and
Claude Buntyn were nominated
delegates with Jug Leatherwood
recommended as observer, pending
approval and appropriation of the
To Denton Singing
Cadets Will Go for
First Trip of Year
Aggieland’s Singing Cadets,
numbering fifty-five strong, will
make their first off-the-campus
trip of the present school year to
morrow night at TSCW.
Rehearsals have been speeded
up during this past week, in or
der that the entire club will be
ready to begin its ninth year at
A. & M. Tomorrow night’s concert
will be the second tour to Denton
this year for the group, the first
visit having l^pen made during the
spring.
Bill Turner, director of the
Singing Cadets, announced that
this tour will mark the official
debut of the chorus this year. It
has appeared once before this se
mester at a Saturday night Jam
boree.
Included in the TSCW concert
tomorrow night will be the follow
ing selections: “The House I Live
In,” then several Negro Spir
ituals, two songs from Wales, “All
Through the Night” and “Welch
Choral”. They will also sing “Dark
Eyes” and “Stouthearted Men”.
Further plans for the Singing
Cadets this year call for concerts
at Beaumont, Sam Houston State
Teachers College, and John Tarle-
ton Agricultural College.
necessary funds by the Student
Life Committee.
The problem of seating at bas
ketball games in DeWare Field
House was considered, and no so
lution was offered which would
provide seating for all holders of
coupon books, numbering 8600, in
bleachers accomodating only 3200
spectators.
However, the recommendation
was made to C. D. Ownby, busi
ness manager of athletics, that ad
mission to the games be by cou
pon book only, and that coupon
books numbering from 1 to 4300,
and books from 4301 to 8600, be
valid at alternate games.
Such' an arrangement would
preclude the necessity of long vig
ils at the gate to insure gaining
admission, and would prevent turn
ing away students who want to see
the game, but cannot be accom
modated in an already jammed
gymnasium. Also, the difference
between the seating capacity and
the number of coupon books de
clared valid would doubtless be
absorbed by those failing to at
tend, the recommendation stated.
Complaints about the sanitary
conditions at eating places sur
rounding campus brought forth a
resolution requesting a strict in
vestigation of all cafes and con
fectioneries in the campus area.
Present at the meeting were
Cadet Col. Ed Brandt, Bill Mc
Cormick, senior class president,
Jug Leatherwood, junior prexy,
and George Edwards, soph class
president, as delegates from the
Cadet Corps.
From the non-military group
were Claude Buntyn, Darrell Man-
ley, John Poole, Gerald Nash, and
Louis L’Hommedieu.
Bennie Zinn, assistant dean of
men, and Bob Murray, assistant
director of student affairs, also
attended the meeting in an advis
ory capacity, and Allen Self sat
in as student publications repre
sentatives.
Hear Ye, Housewives . . .
A VC Conducts Food Price Survey
In Bryan-College Station Vicinity
The American Veterans Comm
ittee has inaugurated a bi-monthly
survey of foodstuff prices in the
College Station-Bryan vicinity in
an effort to provide the veterans
of this area with an accurate shop
ping guide. The survey is a com
parative analysis of the prices of
Bryan and College Station stores,
and shows that by observant shop
ping the veteran can cut his mon
thly grocery bill by 15-20%.
This survey, if used properly,
COMMODITY
will help a great deal in bringing
food prices back down to the vet
eran’s income level by forcing
wholesale grocery prices down. It
is the aim of the survey to guard
against the inflation of foodstuff
prices which would devaluate the
dollar even worse than it is now.
Only by careful shopping can the
veteran stretch his subsistence
check the required distance. Fol
lowing is a list of commodoties
and their prices at various stores:
Sugar (5 Lbs.)
White corn meal (% lb.)
Shortening (Mrs. Tucker 1
Pork shoulders
Pork chops
Beef or Veal chop (grade A).
Southside
Lukes
Kelley’s
Fussell’s
Safeway
College
College
Bryan
Bryan
Bryan
51
45
47
47
42
51
49
48
47
44
46
47
48
s 47
43
... .13
14
13
13
11
65
67
67
63
60
96
99
94
1.00
87
26
29
20
—
21
12
12
11
14
10
14
14
14
18
15
45
45
43
42
42
60
60
45
46
49
65
70
69
69
59
35
30
39
33-35
39
37
40
40
38
35
45
50
49
45
42-49
95
—
79
90
82
6
9
8
8
7
7
8
5
8
6
33
35
31
34
29
Louis Bromfield
Farmer-lecturer-author Louis
Bromfield, who has made four
appearances on the campus with
in the last two days. He is the
author of “The Green Bay Tree”
and “Mrs. Tarkington”.
Smith Announces
Results of Veteran
Dormitory Election
Results of the room-to-room
election of dormitory representa
tives for unmarried veterans have
been announced this week by Sid
ney V. Smith, president of the
campus veterans group. These men
will represent the veterans in all
questions concerning student life.
The following veterans were
elected for their respective dormi
tories:
Dorm 14 George M. Williams
Dorm 15 B. M. Anderson
Dorm 16 V. C. Marshall
Dorm 17 E. K. Fisher
Bizzell Hall G. W. Guinn
Law Hall R. G. Shearer
Leggett Hall R. A. Poison
Milner Hall Scott E. Hood
Mitchell Hall M. G. Matis
Puryear Hall J. G. Handcock
Dorm 1 Rex Shanks
Dorm 3 R. P. Saunders
Dorm 5 John Ballentine
Dorm 7 Edgar H. Peveto
Dorm 9 Robt. E. Gostellou
Longhorn Deadlines
For Military Units /
Clubs and Societies
Clubs and Societies
The following schedule will be
followed for taking club pictures
for the 1947 LONGHORN. Pic
tures will be made at Guion Hall
at 12:30 on the day indicated.
Shirts, ties, and, .dark trousers
should be worn. This schedule su
percedes all preceding schedules.
Additions will be made as required.
Monday, December 9
FFA Chapter
Victoria County Club
Tuesday, December 10
San Angelo Club
Business Society
Wednesday, December 11
Lavaca County Club
Latin-American Club
Thursday, December 12
Lutheran Association
Wichita Falls Club
Friday, December 13
A. S. M. E.
Bell County Club
Monday, December 16
Dallas Club
Oklahoma Club
Tuesday, December 17
Southwest Texas Club
Wichita County Club
Wednesday, December 18
Brown County Club
Landscape Art Club
Monday, January 6
Newman Club
Land of the Lakes Club
Tuesday, January 7
Spanish Club
El Paso Club
Wednesday, January 8
Industrial Education Club
East Texas Club
Thursday, January 9
Kream and Kow Klub
Kaufman County Club
Friday, January 10
Baptist Student Council
A. S. A. E.
Monday, January 13
Shreveport Club
Beaumont Club
Tuesday, January 14
Port Arthur Club
Panhandle Club
Wednesday, January 15
Lamar County Club
Navarro County Club
Thursday, January 16
Abilene Club
French Club
Friday, January 17
Cooke County Club
Entomology Club
Monday, January 20
Fort Worth Club
A. E. Ch. E.
Tuesday, January 21
Corpus Christi Club
A. S. C. E.
Wednesday, January 22
Del Rio Club
Wesley Foundation Club
Wednesday, January 29
Grayson County Club
Accounting Society
Thursday, January 30
Brush Country Club
Biology Club
Friday, January 31
Architectural Society
I. A. S. Student Branch
Monday, February 3
Young Country Club
American Chem. Society
Tuesday, February 4
Tyler Club
Agronomy Society
See LONGHORN Page 4
WHO’S WHO SELECTION
COMMITTEE APPOINTED
Investigation of Unsanitary Conditions,
Reseating Guion Hall Lower Floor Okeyed
Joe Skiles, director of Student Activities, M. L. Cash-
ion, YMCA secretary, Bennie Zinn, assistant dean of men,
and Ray Perryman, assistant registrar, wet with nine stu
dent members of the Student Life Committee yesterday af
ternoon to discuss and make decisions on current school is
sues.
Dolls-Diapers
Parade Before
Judges Sunday
A last chance Sunday for Aggie
fathers ! to ^xhibit their young
’uns! Everyone is invited to the
Doll and Diaper; Parade—a baby
show—to be held Sunday after
noon, December 8, between 3 and
5 o’clock at the Assembly Hall.
The Brazos County A. & M.
Mother’s Club and Ex-Servicemen’s
Wives Club are co-sponsoring this
child show. Final registration date
was Wednesday, and any child up
to and including five-years-old was
eligible for entrance. His or her
father must be currently enrolled
in A. & M.
There are six age groups in
the contest, and the boy- and
girl- winners of each group will
compete for King and Queen of
the Day. Engraved loving cups
will be presented to the King and
Queen, and runners-up will be a-
warded consolation prizes.
Mrs. W. M. Dowell of College
Station, Mrs. Gordon Lloyd of
Austin, and Mrs. Jud Collier of
Mumford, have been selected to
serve as judges of the 90-odd con
testants. Mrs. R. Henry Harri
son, president of the Brazos Coun
ty Club, will present the awards.
Rev. T. J. Valenta to
Address Newmans
Father Tim Valenta, having re
cently returned from Temple, Tex
as, will address the entire A. & M.
Newman Club at a special meet
ing to be held in St. Mary’s chapel
on Friday, December 13, at 7:15
pm. According to Herman Neusch,
president of the club, this meeting
will be the most important of the
season, as a complete set of plans
has been formulated for obtaining
the necessary funds for the new
chapel.
Neusch states that a new chapel
for Catholic students and their
families is an immediate necessity,
and construction must be begun
before the semester’s end. The
general public is willing to help
this worthy cause if the Catholic
students themselves can prove they
actually want and will work for
a new chapel. Up to this time
returns have been very slow and
immediate action must be taken
if the goal is to be realized. The
assistance of every Newman Club
member is urgently needed so all
members are requested to be pre
sent.
College Employees
To Honor 25-ers at
Christmas Banquet
The College Employees Dinner
Club will have a Christmas party
in Sbisa Hall, Thursday, Decem
ber 19, at 7:00 p. m., announced
Dr. G. W. Schlesselman, co-chair
man of the club. There will be a
banquet followed by a dance.
Those colleg'e employees who
have served for 25 years on the
A.&M. staff will be honored.
Tickets for the banquet and
dance will cost $1.25 and may be
obtained at. the Aggieland Inn any
time before December 18, 1946.
Combining pioneer spirit with
business efficiency has enabled
W. Wipprecht of Bryan, Texas, to
prove that pine trees could be
grown with desirable results in
Brazos County.
Mr. Wipprecht is a pioneer of
Bryan and of A.&M. College, hav
ing graduated in 1884. He was the
first student of A.&M. to receive
a Bachelor of Science degree in
Chemistry. Also, Mr. Wipprecht
was the first research chemist for
the Experiment Station, working
there for two years. Then in 1914,
he returned to A.&M. as the first
business manager, remaining with
the college for 23 years and re
tiring in 1927. Mr. Wipprecht is
well known in Bryan as being in
strumental in organizing the first
local telephone company.
It was while on a hunting trip
in the Big Thicket area near Beau
mont that he noticed the similarity
between the soils there and the
soil on his own farm and surmised
that perhaps pines would grow on
his land. Then, assuming that the
trees would grow, Mr. Wipprecht
considered the possibilities of a
Christmas tree market and this
furnished the final impetus to
plant the trees.
MISSIONARY TO SPEAK
TO BAPTISTS SUNDAY
The Rev. R. N. Clinkscales, a
returned missionary from Bra
zil, will bring a message to the
First Baptist Church at morn
ing services Sunday, it has been
announced by R. L. Brown, pas
tor.
Schedule of services for this
Sunday are as follows:
9:45 a. m.—Sunday School.
10:50 a. m.—Morning Wor-
School.
2:30 p. m.—Youth Choir.
6:15 p. m.—Training Union.
7:15 p.m.—Evening Wor
ship.
Texas state Highway
Engineer Addresses
Student ASCE Group
A summary of the functions of
the Texas State Highway Depart
ment was presented by Dewitt
Greer, ’23, at the December 3
meeting of the American Society
of Civil Engineers, which was held
in the CE lecture room. Mr. Greer,
a Texas State Highway Engineer,
presented his subject which stress
ed “Service to Humanity” to a
large number of prospective en
gineers and then held an informal
discussion with the group.
At the end of his talk, Mr. Greer
passed out speech maps and pam
phlets to each member.
The Civil Engineering Society
has planned a banquet to be held
in Sbisa Hall on December 17.
Tickets are now on sale at the CE
office or from Thomas Marshall.
Brooks Will Attend
MemphisConference
T. D. Brooks, Dean of the School
of Arts and Sciences and the Grad
uate School of A. & M., will attend
the 51st annual meeting of the
Southern Association of Colleges
and Secondary Schools from Dec
ember 9-13 in Memphis, Tennessee.
This association was organized
to promote better relations be
tween colleges and secondary
schools, set standards for achieve
ment, accredit and rate colleges,
and give the necessary approval
in transfer of credits between col
leges.
Dean Brooks will leave in time
to arrive for a meeting with the
deans of Southern Graduate Schools
to be held on the 7th and 8th. In
addition to these two meetings, the
deans of the Schools of Arts and
Sciences will hold sessions, as well
as representatives, of all tax-sup
ported institutions.
In February, 1929, Mr. Wipp
recht planted 500 shortleaf and
1000 loblolly pine seedlings on a
plot of ground that had been sev
ered from the rest of the farm and
was subject to overflows from a
nearby creek. When Mr. Wipp
recht saw the excellent growth
of the trees, he got the idea that
he might have hit upon a method
whereby other worn out and ero
ded land might be benefited by the
planting of pines. In the fact of
this reasoning, he did not sell the
pines for Christmas trees as he
had planned.
Mr. Wipprecht, in proudly show
ing his polt of pines, points out
that the land, with an initial cost
of $18 per acre, has increased to
three times that value due to fer
tilization by the decay of pine
needles and other humus material
and land saved from erosion.
According to Mr. W. E. White,
director of the Texas Forest Ser
vice at A.&M., “Mr. Wipprecht’s
foresightness may well be the fore
runner of a profitable cash crop
for other farmers in this com
munity who wish to rebuild their
worn out farm lands and at the
same time, grow a cash crop on the
land.”
Who’s Who
First topic was the appointment
of nine students to compose the
Who’s Who selection committee.
Cadet Colonel Ed Brandt, Bill Mc
Cormick, senior class president, N.
R. “Jug” Leatherwood, president
of the junior class, and Corps Edi
tor of the Battalion, Allen Self,
were named Cadet Corps commit
tee members; Ben T. Blankenship,
A. D. Bruce, Jr., Joel Coolidge,
Eugene F. Howard, and Louis P.
L’Hommedieu are veteran mem
bers of the committee.
It was decided that twenty Corps
men and ten veterans, or approx
imately that proportion, will be
chosen for the Who’s Who of A.
& M. College for the 1946-47 school
year.
Basis of selection wil be as fol
lows: leadership, activities, popu
larity, and scholarship. Any man
selected must have a 1.5 grade
point average.
Unsanitary Investigation
A report was received from the
Student Council regarding the un
sanitary conditions of local eating
establishments in the Bryan-Col
lege Station area. The commit
tee voted to request an investiga
tion of the eating places by sani
tary officials.
Guion Hall Seats
Joe Skiles was authorized to
complete the reseating of Guion
Hall’s lower floor with upholster
ed seats, like those 300 seats al
ready in the building. A seating
plan has been submitted to the
colelge architect, and seatts should
be installed by the end of the se
mester.
Chicago Conferences
Ed Brandt, Joseph Cullinan, and
Claude Buntyn were appointed to
represent A. & M. at the Chicago
Student Conference to be held at
the University of Chicago on De
cember 28. Jug Leatherwood will
attend as observer.
A committee was also appointed
to send four delegates to the Na
tional Assembly of the Student
Christian Association Movement at
the University of Illinois. This
session will be held December 27
to January 3.
Testing Engineer
Will Visit Campus
Test Laboratories
Various departments using test
equipment will be visited Tuesday
afternoon, December 10 by F. G.
Tatnall, test engineer of the Bald-
win-Southwark Locomotive Works.
As a part of his one day visit to
the campus, Tatnall will also
speak to interested faculty mem
bers and students in the Chem
istry Lecture Room that night at
7 o’clock.
Advice based on his experience
and knowledge of new techniques
will be given to the laboratories
by Tatnall in an attempt to mod
ernize test equipment of the school,
it was stated by T. H. Terrell of
the Civil Engineering Dept.
Terrell also announced that the
talk by Tatnall will be a required
meeting for all students taking C.
E. 315 Strength of Materials Lab
replacing a regular class. An op
portunity for questions to be asked
will be given at the meeting for
the benefit of those who would
like to get information on testing
technique, equipment, or new tests.
Prison System of
Texas Is Subject
For RS Club Meet
Guest speakers will discuss ju
venile delinquency and the Texas
Prison System at a special meet
ing of the Rural Sociology Club
Tuesday night, December 10, at
7:30 p. m. in Room 203, Agricul
ture Building.
The speakers will be W. E. Rob
ertson, chief probation officer of
Harris County, and Carl Basland,
classification officer of the Texas
Prison System. They will point
out job opportunities for A. & M.
students in their respective fields
of work.
This will be the last program of
the semester, revealed Truman
Turner, president of the Sociology
Club. He also stated that the gen
eral public is invited.
Who Says It Don’t Pay? . . .
Trail Blazer of 1884 Proves That
Brazos Bottoms Can Be Profitable