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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.