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Page 2 Editorial... In 1947, Let Us Texas A*M The B College alion Open Field in Cage Score Contest VOLUME 46 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1947 Number 23 Eddie Dyer To Speak at Brazos Banquet Jan. 11 Football Letters Will Be Presented; Tickets on Sale at College and Bryan Eddie Dyer, manager of the world champion St. Louis Cardinals, will be the principal speaker at the Brazos Coun ty A. & M. Club’s annual dinner and dance honoring the 1946 Texas Aggie football team. The dinner will be held : fin Sbisa Hall on January 11 at 7 A&M Commandant From 1907-11 Dies In Washington, D.C. Graduate of USMA in 1897, General Moses Buried in Arlington Major General Andrew Moses, retired, 72, commandant at A. & M. from 1907 to 1911, died Sun day, December 22, in Walter Reid Hospital, Washington, D. C., fol lowing a long illness. He is survived by his widow, one daughter, Kathleen, whose husband, Colonel Frank F. Reed, is military attache to the Ameri can Ambassador to England, and one grandson. A native of Burnet, Texas, Gen eral Moses graduated from the U. S. Military Academy in 1897. His 45-year Army career gave him service in seven states, Cuba dur ing the Spanish-American War, France in World War I, the Pan ama Canal Zone, and retirement in 1938 as commanding officer of the General Department of Ha waii. One of General Moses* greatest pleasures since retirement was at tending meetings of the Washing ton Club of the A. & M. Former Students Association and greeting again the men who were students here during the time he was af fectionately known as the “Bull”. Burial of General Moses took place December 24 in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington. Egg Grading Short Course To Be Held Here January 6-9 A. & M.’s Poultry Husbandry Department in cooperation with the US Department of Agriculture will hold a three-day egg-grading school on the campus from Jan uary 6-9, 1947. Feature subjects for discussion include: US grades for eggs, feeding and management for qual ity eggs, and the importance of cooling eggs prior to shipping. Principal speakers for the course will be: J. A. Hamann, regional marketing specialist for the Pro duction and Marketing Adminis tration of the US Department of Agriculture; J. A. Bybee, state marketing specialist of the De partment of Agriculture; E. D. Parnell, professor in the poultry husbandry department at the col lege; and F. Z. Beanblossom, poul try marketing specialist for the Extension Service at A. & M. Various large poultry plants in Texas will send men to the short course to qualify as egg graders. Upon completion of the school, these men will be given certifi cates to qualify them as competent egg graders. VA Evaluates Value of Loans In order to afford veterans all possible protection against over-priced properties in the cur rent high market, the Veterans Administration announced that ef fective January 2, VA, and not the lender, picks the appraiser to evaluate “reasonable value” for purposes of G. I. loans. Under the revised procedure, VA designates by name the person to appraise each piece of property offered for sale to veterans under the guaranty loan provisions of the G. I. Bill. This contrasts with the system in effect for the past 15 months, under which the lender was per mitted to select any appraiser he desired from a panel of local ap praisers whose general qualifica tions had been reviewed and ap proved by VA. The revised procedure, VA said, eliminates the tendency on the part of some lenders to use ex clusively the services of “obliging” appraisers who are most amenable to turning in a high appraisal where necessary to meet the ask ing price. As of November 30, more than 31,000 G.I. loans had been approv ed in VA’s Dallas Branch Area of Texas, Louisiana and Mississip pi. These loans amounted to $164,- 900,315, of which VA guaranteed $78,072,915. p. m. Dyer, who had to replace Billy Southworth at St. Louis, acquitted himself in such a manner as to win national acclaim. His St. Louis team, although riddled with injuries and player losses, defeat ed Brooklyn for the National Lea gue championship and whipped the Boston Red Sox in the World Se ries. Rice Graduate A graduate of Rice Institute, Dyer played both football and baseball. In 1921 he captained the Rice baseball team. One of his outstanding performances of that season was to pitch a no-hit game against Baylor, whose pit cher at the time was none other than Ted Lyons. Dyer went directly from the Rice campus to the St. Louis Car dinals. He developed arm trouble and thus ended his pitching career. In addition to playing baseball, he served as assistant football coach at Rice Institute for several years before becoming Cardinal mana ger. Tickets On Sale A thousand tickets went on sale Tuesday for the occasion. Mike Barron, chairman of the finance and ticket committee, announced the following places where tickets are available at $2 each: Bryan: Waldrops, WSD Clo thiers, Bullock-Sims, Parker-Astin, McCulloch-Dansby, and Canady’s Pharmacy. College Station: Waldrops, Manning Smith’s, Lipscomb Phar macy, George’s Confectionery, and Casey and Sparks. This is the second year that the Brazos County Club has staged the football banquet. Football letters will be awarded and var ious special gifts will be presented during the evening’s program. Aggieland Orchestra Will Play Following the dinner, music for dancing will be furnished by the Aggieland Orchestra. Longhorn Schedule For Club Pictures Club pictures will be taken on the steps of Guion Hall at 12:30 each day, according to the following schedule: 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 Cunty Club Friday, January 10 Baptist Student Cuncil A.S.A.E. Vets and Freshmen Longhorn Picture Deadline Extended Veterans and freshmen may have their pictures made for the 1947 LONGHORN at the A.&M. Photo Shop through Tuesday, Jan uary 7. This announcement by Harry Saunders, veteran editor, came as a result of the last-min ute rush before the Christmas hol idays. Freshmen at Bryan Field Annex will have an opportunity to have their pictures made during the week of January 13-18. At that time a photographer will be at the Student Center each af ternoon from 1 to 5 o’clock. Seniors are reminded that Jan uary 15 is the deadline for Van ity Fair and Senior Favorite pic tures to be turned in to the Stu dent Activities office. Fee for each entry is $1.50. Vanity Fair pictures which- are not included in the final selection will auto matically be placed in the Senior Favorites section of the yearbook. Tu Student Must've Been in o Big Hurry A Texas University student pre sented Justice of the Peace Frank McBee of Austin a “gift of $200” on Christmas Eve. Sounds odd, doesn’t it? Rodrigo Dellano, the student, plead guilty to the charge of allegedly driving 85 miles per hour down Congress Avenue in Austin. The fine of $200 is the maximum punishment for a traffic offense. Final Corps Selections for Who's Who Shannon Jones John Cochrane R- F. Huston _ Executive Officer, Infantry Executive Officer, Artillery Treasurer of the Senior Regiment Regiment d ass McNew Dies in Houston Hospital December 21 Vice-President of Engineering Dies As Result of Cerebral Hemorrhages James Thomas Lamar McNew, vice-president of engi neering, died of cerebral hemorrhages Saturday morning, December 21, in Saint Joseph Infirmary in Houston. J. T. L. McNew was born in 1895+ in Belcherville, Montague County, Texas. His parents were Edgar Ogletree McNew and Sarah Eliz abeth Taylor McNew. Mr. McNew received his Bach elor of Science degree in civil engineering at A.&M. in 1920, and his Master of Science degree in 1926 at A.&M., following receipt of his professional degree of civil engineer at Iowa State College in 1925. He was married to Edna Ethel Murphy on May 27, 1920, and had two children, Mrs. Don Little of Houston and J. T. L. McNew, Jr. of College Station. Mr. McNew served as a lieuten ant of engineers from May, 1918, to June, 1919, in France and Ger many during World War I. He became an instructor in civil en gineering at A.&M. in 1920 and held that position until 1925. He did miscellaneous work with cities and counties in municipal and highway engineering from 1920 until 1928. In 1925 he was Two A&M Faculty Members Elected to Responsible Posts at Land Grant Meet Representatives of A. & M. were+ elected to responsible posts at the annual meeting of the Association of Land-Grant Colleges and Uni versities held in Chicago, Decem ber 13-18. Director R. D. Lewis of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, was elected to a four- year term on the National Com mittee on Organization and Policy by directors of stations of the Sou thern States. James F. Fowler Is New Minister for Church of Christ Succeeds Sweet, Who After Eleven Years, Goes to Austin Church James F. Fowler, who is the new minister for the Church of Christ at College Station, succeed ed Ralph B. Sweet who, after el even years at A. & M., moved to Austin to become minister for the University Church of Christ in that city. The Rev. Fowler came to College Station from the Sham rock Shores Church of Christ in Dallas. Fowler did his undergraduate college work in Abilene College, graduating in 1942. He later ob tained his Master’s Degree in Ed ucation and Psychology from Sou thern Methodist University. As minister of the Church of Christ, Fowler will be a member of the Department of Religious Education of the college and will be teaching several courses in both the Old and the New Testaments. He will also assist in Bible teach ing for public school students of the Consolidated High School. In his first messages to the con gregation, the Rev. Fowler stated: “I come to College Station to do all the good I can, and no harm at all. I come to serve; not to rule.” Dean Chas. N. Shepardson of the School of Agriculture was elected chairman of the newly-or ganized National Committee of Organization and Policy of the Agricultural Instruction Section. The Chicago meeting was at tended by directors of agricultural experiment stations of all 48 states and of Puerto Rico, as well as by representatives of resident teach ing and extension. One. of the principal subjects discussed was the procedure to be followed in securing Federal ap propriations and developing re search projects in agriculture and in the marketing of agricultural products under the Hope-Flanna- gan Act (Public Law 773) passed by Congress in August, 1946. Buildings from Camp Wallace To Relieve Classroom Situation Plans for a 30 percent increase in general classroom space by next spring for overcrowded A. & M. were announced recently by col lege officials. It was revealed that buildings now at Camp Wallace, near Hous ton, will be moved to the campus by the Federal Works Agency, and revamped to form 44 general class rooms, plus 32 small offices for instructors. In addition, A. & M. will obtain from Camp Wallace two small laboratory buildings, a small classroom building for the horti culture farm, a machine shed for the college plantation and a small hangar for the college airport. Value of the total plant when moved and rebuilt on the carftpus was set at $300,000. The Federal Works Agency will obtain the buildings from the armed forces, move them here and rebuild ac cording to plans submitted by the college. A. & M. will provide utilities and special equipment. Horace G. Johnston Named New Head of College Entomology Dr. Horace G. Johnston is the head of the Entomology Depart ment at A. & M., President Gibb Gilchrist announced recently. Here tofore, Dr. Johnston has been as sociated with the Freeport Sulphur Company with headquarters at New Orleans. No stranger to A. & M., Dr. Johnston’s appointment is his third at the school. First he put in 12 years on the faculty, as assistant, then associate professor of entom ology, and later as extension ento mologist from October, 1942, to November, 1944. Dr. Johnston will coordinate the entomological work of the college teaching staff, the agricultural ex periment station and the extension service, in addition to devoting a portion of his time to educational work with farmers and ranchmen of the state through the extension organization.” Entomology is the tenth subject to be placed on a departmental basis cutting across faculty, ex periment station and extension service lines. Nine other agricul tural fields had previously been consolidated. Brooks, Rhodes Scholar, Bound For Ivy-Covered Walls of Oxford Jack E. Brooks of Port Arthur, goes back to England next October —but he will not make this trip as an infantry private, first class. Brooks has been chosen as one of the 48 Rhodes scholars to be sent from American colleges to ancient Oxford university for fur ther study, under a scholarship set up for distinguished students in all English-speaking nations by the late Cecil W- Rhodes in 1904. Originally a member of the class of ’46 at A. & M., before his stu dies were narrowed, not interrupt ed, by three years of war service, Brooks, 22, will receive his degree in electrical engineering next July, after five regular semesters and three six-week summr sessions of work here. During that time he failed to receive the maximum mark of “A” in a course only once. He is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Brooks of Port Arthur and graduated from Thomas Jef ferson High School in that city in the spring of 1942, entering A. & M. the same summer. Having done a great deal of study on his own initiative outside high school classes, especially in mathematics and physics, he was able to com plete his freshman and sophomore work in chemical engineering, his first major course, in one year, by means of passing special exam inations with high marks. Before leaving A. & M. when called to active duty in the Enlist ed Reserve Corps early in 1943, he changed his major study to chemistry, but became interested in electri<tel phenomena during two Army Specialized Training cour ses at the University of Missouri, and switched to electrical engi neering on his return to A. & M. last summer. He went to the ETO with the 66th Infantry division in Novejn- ber 1944, as a wireman in the 263rd regimental signal section. After V-E day, he taught electrical theory and calculus in a regimen tal school in Europe, and then at tended a ten-week civilian course at the University of Sheffield, in England. At Oxford, Brooks plans to read for a physics degree, being cur rently interested in electron bal listics, and after finishing hopes to do research work in the United States. Brooks is the second Rhodes scholar in A. & M.’s history, the first having been C. Wright Thom as of La Grange, who read in En glish at Oxford and now is head of the English department at Grinnel College, Iowa. Inactive since 1938 due to war, the Rhodes scholarships were re newed this year with 48 scholar ships being awarded in the United States instead of the usual 32, due to surplus funds which accumulat ed during the war years. Each scholarship pays approximately $1600 yearly, and may be increas ed. In addition, both Brooks and the only other Texas appointee, Joe W. McKnight of the Univer sity of Texas, qualify for subsis tence payments under the “GI Bill”. Brooks is unmarried. Brooks and McKnight were among six students from the Sou thern District, which includes Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Mis sissippi, Louisiana and Alabama, elected at New Orleans last week as Rhodes scholars. The course of study at Oxford is for two or three years, depend ing on the quality of work done by the Rhodes scholar, the type of work being left to the student’s choice. Brooks currently is carrying a scholastic load of 27 hours, about 50 percent greater than normal, and posted perfect grades at mid semester last' month. He was a member 6f Company A, Chemical Warfare Service, during his cadet days, but now is a non-military veteran student. Vice-president of engineering, J. T. L. McNew, who died Satur day, December 21 in Houston’s Saint Joseph Infirmary. — A C-Number 0-1 Vets Report Four-Month Earnings by Jan. 5 Failure To Report To Cause Suspension of Subsistence Payments Veterans whose C-numbers end in 0 or 1 and who are going to school or taking on-the-job or on- the-farm training under the GI Bill should have received earnings report forms from the Veterans Administration by this time. Fed eral law compels VA to suspend subsistence payments to veterans who fail to make the report or who are too late in making it. This form is being mailed to each veteran and must be complet ed by him and by his trainer or employer and returned to the VA Regional Office, Waco, before Jan uary 5. Instructions will be en closed with each form. During December VA will mail the report form to only the vet erans whose C-numbers end in 0 or 1. Veterans with C-number endings other than 0 or 1 will receive their forms from VA later and should not be concerned about reporting their earnings until VA instructs them by mail to do so. Veterans not in the January- reporting group need not even in quire about reporting or try to report until their turn comes, VA advises. Following is the succes sion in which veterans in other groups will receive forms and in structions from VA to report their earnings: Those with C-numbers ending in 2 or 3 near the end of January. Those ending in 4, 5, or 6 in February. Those ending in 7, 8, or 9 in March. In filling out the form, the vet eran must report his total earn ings for the four-month period, September through December, 1946. He must also estimate his average monthly earnings for Jan uary, February, March, and April of 1947. Pensions and subsistence payments do not count as earn ings and should not be reported. See EARNING, Page 2 made a professor of highway en gineering at A.&M. and held that position until 1940, when he be came head of the department of civil engineering, a position he held until 1943. He rejoined the army engineers corpus in 1943 and served as a lieu tenant colonel as airport engineer in the China-Burma-India theater. Upon his return from military service Colonel McNew was made vice-president for engineering of the college in 1944, and in 1945 he was made director of the En gineering Extension Service of the College. He held Engineer License num ber 10 in the state of Texas and was a prominent member of the American Society of Civil Engin eers, was a past director of the Texas Society of Professional En gineers, vice-chairman of the A&M College Development Board, held memberships in the American So ciety for Engineering Education, American Society of Mechanical Engineers and served as secretary treasurer and president of the Texas Section, American Society of Civil Engineers. At the time of his death, he had served as na tional director of the A.S.C.E. dis trict which includes Louisiana, Texas, Mexico and New Mexico, and was vice president of one and chairman of the committee on engineering education. He was a member of the Kiwanis Club of College Station. Lapsed Insurance Policies May Be Restored by Feb. 1 The Veterans Administration is reminding World War II veterans of important deadlines for benefits to which they are entitled. Approximately 10,000,000 veter ans who let their GI term insur ance lapse, may reinstate this in surance on or before February 1, 1947, without a physical examin ation by signing a statement that their health is as good now as when their policies lapsed, and by paying premiums for only two months. Deadlines for several other bene fits will be set automatically when the Congress or Congress officially declares World War II ended. ANH-HR-HSCPJ -No, It’s Not Morse Code-A Museum Mummy By M. T. EDWARDS In the museum on the campus of A. & M., a visitor is able to see an Egyptian mummy that is approximately 3900 years old. It was discovered in Egypt in 1891 and it is believed that the mummy is of an important person, prob ably a tax collector, according to the inscription. Its name is ANH- HR-H3CPJ. H. B. Parks, curator of the mu seum, will be glad to have visitors every day except Sunday from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. Visitors can see among many things the S. M. Tracy Herbarium, Dr. Mark Fran cis, collection of vertebrate fossils and Dr. Oscar M. Ball’s collection of fossil plants. In addition there are wild life animals that look as if they were real, Babylon Cuneiform tablets dating back to 2200 B. C., all kinds of minerals and flint discs, geol ogy time tables, and the history and development of Texas. Too, a trip to the museum would give one the opportunity to see a huge skull and tusks of a Brazos River elephant, a plaque of dino saur tracks taken from tracks found near Glen Rose, Texas in 1923, and pictures of the develop ment of the horse.