Final Selection Adds 14 Men to Who’s Who
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VOLUME 46
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1946
Number 22
Freshmen Elect Officers
At First Class Meeting
McClure, Williams, and Bird to Lead
Class of ’50 in Freshman Activities
R. L. McClure, a member of “A” Company, Chemical
Warfare, was elected president of the freshman class at its
first meeting held recently on the campus. McClure, an Op
portunity Scholarship Award winner, hails from Dallas and
is studying Chemical Engineering.
Vice-president of the class of
’60 is Roger H. Williams, also an
Opportunity Scholarship Award
winner, from College Station. He
is an “E” Company, Infantry
freshman, and is studying Agri
culture.
Marliss O. Bird of the Field
Artillery Band was elected secre
tary-treasurer. Bird is from Bor-
ger and is majoring in Petroleum
Engineering.
The freshmen were aided in
carrying out the election by Cadet
Colonel Ed Brandt and Senior
Class president Bill McCormick.
Court Fails to
Grant Mandamus
To Hemann Sweatt
Ruling Result of
Prairieview’s New
Houston Law School
R. L. McClure
Freshman President
Convening Tuesday in Austin,
the 126th District court ruled
against the writ of mandamus
asked for Hemann Sweatt several
months ago to allow him to enter
the University of Texas Law
School. This decision was based
on the announcement of the A.
& M. Board of Directors that first
year training in law would be
provided under the auspices of
Pra me view University upon appli
cation for such.course.
With Judge Roy C. Archer pre
siding, the court stated that should
it be found that the law curricu
lum found that the law curriculum
not be on a standard equal to that
of the university of Texas, or that
the course not be offered beginning
with the February semester, the
court would reopen the case for
redress by Sweatt.
The first year law course to be
set up according to the Board of
Directors provides Negro lawyers
accredited by the Texas Board of
Law Examiners as teachers for
a curriculum and in accordance
with standards set by the Texas
Supreme Court and the American
Bar Association. The school will
be held in Houston, financed by
money to be appropriated from the
Deficiency Fund of the state.
San Antonio Aggie
Christmas Calendar
San Antonio • Aggies have plan
ned several activities for the com
ing Christmas Holidays. The fol-
1 owing social calendar is an
nounced:
Monday, December 23—San An
tonio A. &M. Mothers’ Club semi-
formal dance at LaVillita.
Friday, December 27—Bracken-
ridge Ex-Students’ Dance.
Wednesday, December 31 — San
Antonio A. & M. Club. New Years
Eve party at the home of Frank
lin Young.
Plans are also being made for
a TSCW-A.&M. dance to be held
during the holidays.
College Station
Votes $35,000 in
Tax Bonds Tuesday
Unofficial returns today show
that College Station citizens voted,
in a ratio of 2 to 1, the issuance
of $100,000 in ad valorem tax
bonds in Tuesday’s special elec
tion.
The balloting, -pending official
canvassing of the votes by the
city council Thursday afternoon,
was 148-82 in favor of issuing
$35,000 worth of bonds for ex
tending the water system, 159-71
for issuance of $50,000 in bonds
for sewerage improvements', and
149-75 for $15,000 worth of bonds
for revamping the electrical dis
tribution system. Six Ward 1
voters failed to mark their ballots
on the third proposition.
City Manager Francis A.
Vaughn said today that the first
work probably will be on extension
of water mains, since plans for
that project already have been
completed by Fred Benson, acting
city engineer, and construction
materials appear available. More
study is needed on the other two
projects.
Two Houston firms have agreed
to purchase the bond issue, and
will defray the cost of printing the
bonds and attorneys’ fees, so that
the city shortly will receive a net
$100,000.
All three propositions carried
despite the light vote Tuesday in
Wards 1 and 3, but in Ward 2 the
water and electrical propositions
were defeated by narrow margins.
The unofficial recapitulation of
the vote is as follows:
Waterworks — Ward 1, 93-25;
Ward 2, 39-49; Ward 3, 16-8.
Sewerage—Ward 1, 95-23; Ward
2, 47-41; Ward 3, 17-7.
Electrical distribution — Ward
1, 90-22; Ward 2, 42-46; Ward 3,
17-7.
Drop in Food Prices Indicated
By Second AVC Grocery Survey
The second grocery survey conducted by the local chapter of the
American Veterans Committee was made in five Bryan stores on
December 14th. Selecting only nineteen items, it was found that a
saving of better than $1.50 could be made by careful shopping.
According to these surveys, food prices have leveled off; several
prices have started to fall. Safeway shows a drop of 17 per cent in
shortening price since the previous census. Many other staple items may
follow this lead, it was pointed out, if the careful shopper insists upon
purchasing where the trends develop. This practice, it was added,
would encourage other stores to follow the same lead establishing the
effect of free enterprise.
Karo
Humpty
Dumpty
.... 23
Benbows
19
Sebeste Quality Safeway
22 21 —
Mrs. Tucker’s—1 lb
.... 49
—
45
45
36
Super Suds
.... 41
37
40
Quaker Oats
.... 15
14
15
15
12
Pillsbury Flour—10
.... 89
78
89
89
78
Hershey Cocoa
.... 29
34
29
29
Shelled Pecans 4 oz.
.... 41
45
38
39
Folgers Coffee—1 lb
.... 53
49
51
53
47
Libby Tomato Juice
.... 34
33
35
34
29
Blue Bonnet Dressing ....
.... 35
—
30
French’s Mustard
.... 10
10
13
10
Bama Peanut Butter
.... 39
39
36
Pinto Beans—116
.... 25
25
25
25
21
Yams — 116
7
8
7.5
8
8.3
Potatoes Idaho—IA
6.2
5.5
5.9
6
5
Potatoes Texas New
7
8
7.5
7
3.6
White Onions — 116
7.5
10
10
10.5
6.3
Carrots (Bunch)
.... 10
10
10
10
7.5
Cabbage (16)
5
7
7
7
5
Happy Holiday To All
“Home for Christmas!” The cry that so heartened
the students of Dickens’ day is again sounding through
school rooms and bringing the same happy excitement.
There is no time quite like Christmas, and no place like
home to be on Christmas Day.
Whether you are a cadet, eager to
see the folks again after a hard tus
sle with text-books, or a veteran who
has spent recent Christmases on the
Rhine or in the South Seas, there is
no doubt about your readiness to
grab your bag, lock up your “hole”,
and thumb homeward.
Of all the gifts you receive this
Christmas, will any please you more
than this ten-day cessation of study,
this chance to be home again, to dance
by candle-light, to study the lights
on the evergreen tree, to fill a cup
from the bubbling punch bowl? To
go with the folks to midnight church
service and sing the ancient carols
that tell of the birth of the Christ?
Have a happy holiday. Bring back
memories of holding hands while
Bing Crosby sings “White Christ
mas,” of dancing with the one-and-
only while the gang sings “Auld
Lang Syne” on New Year’s Eve.
From the staff of The Battalion to all you Aggies,
a “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!”
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Christmas Spirit Breaks Out
In Campus Parties This Week
Midst the strains of “Jingle
Bells” and thoughts of jolly old
Saint Nick, members of the dif
ferent organizations will choose
one night this week to celebrate
their annual Christmas Parties.
Full of the Christmas spirit, the
organizations will gather about
dusk in their respective dormitories
for an evening of gaiety. An age
old custom with the Aggies, this
is one of the most memorable oc
casions of the school year.
In preparation for this festive
occasion, freshman have been busy
decorating halls, doors, and win
dows in the dormitories. Trees
have been placed in the dormitories
and are now heavily laden with
decorations. Red and green crepe
paper, tinsel, paint, lights and all
other decorative devices have been
brought into play to lend the prop
er atmosphere to these Christmas
celebrations. Some of them even
have bunches of mistletoe s c a t-
tered around. Well, they cam
dream, can’t they?
This night the freshman are
given full swing. They figure out
the kind of food and drinks which
are to be served and how they can
be acquired. It so happens that
the mess hall is furnishing a lot
of good eats that can be taken to
the dormitories for the feasts. As
soon as everyone is well filled, the
ears of all present are graced by
beautiful carols sung by a group
From the Radio to the
Ash Can Goes ‘The Eyes
of Texas’—Cost of $10
“The Eyes of Texas” had played
once.
Just then the ’phone rang in the
studio and a voice pleaded, “Break
that record and I’ll send you $10”.
The recording was smashed,
right then and there in front of
the radio audience.
In this case, breaking that re
cord was not needful destruction.
It was merely needful betterment.
Building up the Elks Mile O’ Dimes
Drive recently, an early-morning’
KTHT program offered to play
any request for a dime.
From a fan in Austin came a $1
bill for ten renditions of “The
Eyes of Texas”. But it seems
that these 10 numbers were only
one-tenth completed when the
’phone call interrupted.
The next day the radio announ
cer received the $10 and a note of
thanks from “Tommie Penn and
other ex-Texas Aggies”.
DALLAS CLUB PLANS
PARTY AT YACHT CLUB
The Dallas A.&M. Club has an
nounced plans for their Christmas
party at the Yacht Club on the
night of December 26th. The en
tire club has been reserved for the
Aggies and their dates. The dance
music will be furnished by Joe Cap-
po and his orchestra. Other Ag
gies desiring to attend the party
will be required to pay an admis
sion price of $2.00 per couple or
stag.
of melodious freshmen, and some
may be further honored by hear-
i n g themselves remembered in
some final pleas to old Santa.
Skits at.p reenacted ;'id\cVjlir,g
some of those undesirablli charac
teristics all freshmen can see in
their upperclassmen. All is in
fun, though, and it is wondered
just who enjoys these puns most,
the speaker or the victim. Santa
Claus is due at each party to
bring with him the glad tidings of
the season and to distribute the
gifts that have been placed under
the Christmas tree. From all the
presents that are beginning to
stack up under the trees, it looks
as if the poor old fellow might
have some very busy nights.
Dairy Improvement
Course To Be Held
Here Dec. 30-Jan. 4
A Dairy Herd Improvement As
sociation and Official Testers
Training course will be held at
A. & M. December 30, 1946 to
January 4, 1947. The meeting will
be held in the YMCA, college dairy
barn, college creamery, and the
Feeding and Breeding Station of
the Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion.
Discussions on operation of
dairy herd improvement associa
tions, dairy herd improvement as
sociation record keeping, uniform
rules of official testing, disease
and parasites of dairy cattle, and
types of testing and value of pro
duction records will take place at
the meeting.
Principal speakers for the course
are as follows: Dr. I. W. Rupel,
head of the A. & M. dairy hus
bandry department; A. L. Darnell,
professor, and A. V. Moore, pro
fessor, in the above named depart
ment; O. C. Copeland, dairy hus
bandman for the Agricultural Ex
periment Station; Dr. E. A. Grist,
poultry veterinarian; G. G. Gibson,
dairy husbandman, J. W. Davis
and R. E. Burleson, assistant dairy
husbandmen, all of the Texas Ex
tension Service.
Fort Worth Dance
At Skyliner Club
The Ft. Worth A.&M. Club will
give its annual Christmas dance
at the Skyliner Club in Ft. Worth
Monday, December 23rd, it was
announced by president Clyde Hud
dleston. An informal affair, the
dance will start at 8 p. m. and all
students and ex-students from
Dallas as well as Ft. Worth are
invited.
Club members will be admitted
on their membership cards; those
not having cards may pick them
up in Room 428 of Dorm 4, it was
said. Dallas members will be able
to use their own membership cards
for admittance and all other stu
dents who plan to come may pur
chase tickets in the above room
or Room 113 of Dorm 8, the pres
ident said.
Christmas Seals
Display Now at
College Museum
A complete set of Christmas
seals from, all years past are now
on display at the College museum,
according to H. B. Parks, curator.
The display is tied in with the
current campaign of the American
Tubercular Society in the press
and radio to sell Christmas seals
during the holiday season. The
exhibit will remain at the museum
for a short time and then it will
be sent to various other colleges
in Texas and throughout the rest
of the nation.
The American Red Cross origi
nated the Christmas seal in 1907
and produced annually through
1920 when the American Tubercu
lar Society took over the respon
sibility of selling the seals. At
this time, the symbol on the stamp
was changed from the red cross to
a latin cross. Canada also has
a similar organization distribu
ting Christmas seals, but they are
printed in two languages, French
and English.
Student Enrollees
To Number 8510
For Next Semester
H. L. Heaton, registrar of the
college, stated that there will be
8510 students enrolled for the
spring semester. Of this number
four hundred and eighty-four will
be first semester freshmen.
All new students are to be
haused and taught at Bryan Army
Air Field Annex.
Mr. Heaton said that some class
es will still be scheduled for
twelve o’clock next semester but
there will be no more seven o’clock
classes.
Out of the 8510 students to be
enrolled for next spring there will
be a total of 2633 first and second
semester freshmen, 2285 sopho
mores, 2048 juniors, 1442 seniors,
and 102 five-year students.
Agriculture leads in the number
of students to be enrolled with
1590. There will be 810 students
enrolled in the Mechanical Engin
eering Department. Electrical En
gineering ranks third with 711 and
Civil Engineering is next with 685.
Graduates Accept
Agricultural Jobs
James Giggs of Matador and
Arthur W. Smith of Mertzon, both
animal husbandry graduates of A.
& M., have recently accepted agri
cultural positions.
Giggs, who received his degree
in the spring of 1946, accepted
the position of assistant county
agent of McLennan County, with
his office located in Waco.
Smith accepted the position of
statistical dark at the Southwest
ern Range and Sheep Breeding
Laboratory, located at Fort Wind-
gate, New Mexico. Smith completed
his bachelor of science degree in
the summer of 1946 and at the
time of his acceptance was workinv
on a masters degree in animal
husbandry.
Jack Nelson Harry Saunders
Lt. Col., Composite Regiment Veteran Editor, Longhorn
Clyde Cecil Dean Denton
Vice-President, Senior Class Football Letterman
E. C. Kobs
Senior Yell Leader
Philip Kosub
Head Drum Major
Honor Group Totals 21
Veterans and Corpsmen
Popularity, Leadership, Activeness
And Scholarship Basis for Winners
Final selection of Who’s Who winners were announced
yesterday afternoon at the meeting of the Student Life
Committee. It was decided that Who’s Who for this year
be reduced to twenty-one students; of this number fifteen
are members of the Cadet Corps, and the remaining six
are veterans.
Last week seven winners fromf — —
the Corps were named. They were
as follows:
Allen Self, a senior Corps Editor
of The Battalion, and executive of
ficer of the Corps.
Joe Putegnat, Infantry Comman
der and Town Hall Manager.
Joe Coddou, Corps Adjutant.
Jimmy Demopulos, Longhorn
Corps Editor.
Bill McCormick, president of the
Senior Class.
Edwin R. Daniels, social secre
tary of the Senior Class.
Robert Leatherwood, president
of the Junior Class.
At yesterday’s meeting the fol
lowing men were elected for Who’s
Who:
Cadet Corps
Jack Nelson, Lieutenant Colonel
of the Composite Regiment.
Clyde Cecil, vice-president of
the Senior Class.
E. C. Kobs, senior yell leader.
Dean Denton, football letterman.
Shannon Jones, Executive offi
cer of the Infantry Regiment.
John Cochrane, Executive officer
of the Artillery Regiment.
R. F. Huston, Treasurer of the
Senior Class.
Philip Kosub, head drum major
of the combined band.
Veterans
Jennings Anderson, athlete and
housemaster.
Charles E. Ball, Editor of The
Agriculturalist.
Benjamin T. Blankenship, a
member of The Aggieland Orches
tra andl Student Life Committee.
Ned Broun, past secretary of the
Campus Beterans Organization and
housemaster of Law Hall.
Morty Mertz, President of the
Saddle and Sirloin Club.
Harry Saunders, veteran Editor
of the Longhorn.
The Student Life Committee vot
ed that these selections would be
final, instead of the previously an
nounced thirty men for Who’s
Who. Basis of selection were
popularity, activities, leadership,
and scholarship. Regarding schol
arship, the student must have had
a grade point average of 1.5.
Greetings from Prexy
TO THE STUDENTS:
Another Christmas season is upon us. Another year
has gone into history. Whether it has been a good one or a
bad one, it is passed. For most of us I think the feeling
prevails that the good far outweighs the bad.
It is our hope that you and yours have a safe and a
Happy Christmas, and may 1947 bring to each of you the
best that life affords.
It shall be the purpose of all members of the College
staff to do a little better job, and we hope and feel that each
and every student will return possessed with the same de
termination for the year to come. Working together we can
and do accomplish much.
Cordially yours,
Gibb Gilchrist
President.
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