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Attend Veterans’ Meeting Monday VOLUME 46 Texas A«M The B College alion “The Real Issue” ... On Page 2 PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1947 Number 31 Cadet Officers Still Out; Corps Status In Question Aggie-Ex Group Urges Coach Dismissa Athletic Council Will Meet Saturday 17 . m cu , a And Recommend Findings to President Veterans 10 Mart MaSOH The executive committee of the Former Students Asso ciation has unanimously approved a resolution asking for the dismissal of Homer Norton as head coach and athletic director, according to a story by Mike Haikin, Aggie-ex, which appeared in the Houston Post last Tuesday. This story has neither been affirmed nor denied by the committee. The action was said to have been revealed at a closed meeting of the Houston Texas A. & M. Club this week; however Haikin, former Battalion sports editor and now a sports writer for the Post, was present as a member of the club. According to Haikin, the reso lution was sent to the athletic council with a demand that some final action be taken this week: either that Norton be confirmed as coach for next year, or that the council make some settlement with Norton. The story pointed out that since Norton has a bona- fide contract good for more than three years yet, nothing can be done without his consent. The resolution, as quoted in the Post, said in part: “It has become evident that Mr. Norton, though he may be a well qualified coach, has lost the confidence of the ex students and thus can no longer bring full satisfaction to Texas A. & M. Athletic Council to Meet The Athletic Council will meet Saturday afternoon after lunch, and for the first time in some years the student body will be re presented by a duly elected mem ber of the senior class, if election procedures can be carried out in time. Decisions reached by the board will be sent to President Gilchrist in the form of a recommendation. National Research Men to Speak Here at Feb. 3 Meeting Dr. M. K. Horne and Dr. Leo nard Smith of the research staff of the National Cotton Council in Washington, D. C., will participate in a cotton research meeting here on Monday, February 3, John Leahy, director of the cotton re search committee of Texas, an nounced today. The cotton research meeting is being sponsored by the state-wide cotton committee of Texa’s, which represents all of the associations in Texas interested in cotton pro duction, processing, marketing and utilization. Burris C. Jackson, of Hillsboro, is chairman of this committee. The meeting will attract leading research personnel through-out the State associated with public and private institutions as well as technical personnel employed by industry, Leahy said. The meeting has for its purpose a thorough examination of re search projects in progress and de velopment of an integrated pro gram of research between research institutions and industry for the benefit of the Texas cotton com munity. The meeting also will consider methods of financing fu ture research undertakings with particular respect to Public Law 733 and other supporting sources. Dr. R. D. Lewis, Director of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, will be discussion leader for the meeting. Longhorn Photos Are Scheduled For Ten Campus Groups 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. In case of rain another date will be announced in The Battalion. Monday, February 3 Young County Club American Chem. Society Tuesday, February 4' Tyler Club Agronomy Society Wednesday, February 5 Kaufman County Club Astronomy Club Thursday, February 6 Victoria County Club Geology Club Friday, February 7 Marketing and Sirloin Club Saddle and Sirloin Club Presidents of clubs whose pic tures have been taken are asked to select the final picture from proofs at A & M Photo Shop before Tues day, February 4. HOMER H. NORTON Head Coach and Athletic Director Recreational Club Plans Being Made Under the auspices of the Phy sic a 1 Education Department a number of recreational clubs are being organized, according to an announcement by W. M. Dowell, chairman of recreation. All clubs are receptive to anyone who might want to become a member and those interested in joining may do so at any of the regular meetings. The badminton club meets reg ularly on Tuesday and Friday at 7:00 p. m. in the gymnasium, and is sponsored by Dowell. Plans are being made for matches against out-of-town teams as well as local teams. Trips may be made to near-by cities to promote competition and any member of the club may be permitted to com pete upon request. The fencing club meets every Monday, Tuesday and Friday at 5:00 p. m. at the gymnasium and the first formal meet is tentatively arranged for Saturday, February 1 at Cherryhurst Park in Houston. The Volleyball club, under the sponsorship of Nicky Ponthieux, will hold it’s first meeting Tues day, February 4 at 5:00 p. m. Old members and those wishing to join are urged to come suited out in order to begin play immediately. A meeting for the purpose of organizing a handball club will be held Monday, February 3 at 5:00 p. m. in the gymnasium. Plans I Meloy Recommends Civilian 1 Basis For College R0TC With Free Movie Monday Two Big Dances, Vaudeville Slated In Future; Elections in February Spring semester activities of the Veteran Student As sociation will begin on Monday, when all veteran students and their wives are invited to attend a jamboree in Guion Hall at 7:00 o’clock. A short business meeting, just enough to get the association legally organized for the new semes ter, will be followed by a showing of the moving picture “We’ve Never Been Licked,”, made-* on the campus some years ago by Walter Wanger. Many social events are sche duled by the association for the spring term. During the past few months the club has been inactive, due to a reorganization. When a new constitution was adopted last fall, the group was changed to a social organization, after having served for some time as a debating society and “sounding board.” The reorganization is now com plete, the association is ready to go into high gear. Membership Cards All veterans on the campus are considered associate members of the association; active members pay $1 membership fee for the school year and are allowed to purchase tickets for the big dan ces at 50 cents less than door val ue. Two such dances are sched uled for the spring term: the Washington’s Birthday Ball on February 22, with Frankie Mas ters furnishing the music, and the Veterans Grand Ball on April 25, for which the orchestra has not been announced. Tickets for these dances will be on sale two weeks before events, in order to eliminate long ticket lines at the Sbisa Hall entrance. A March 15 dance, erroneously announced as a veterans affair, will be an all-college dance. Membership cards will be on sale at the February meeting Monday night at Gnion. Other events planned for the term include an all-college vaude ville show, a stage show and the San Jacinto Day muster. The lat- (See VETERANS on Page Four) Waterworks Short Course Set Feb. 10 Final arrangements for the twenty-ninth . annual Waterworks and Sewerage Short School, to be held on the campus February 10- 13, have been made, it was an nounced today. Registration will be held in Sbisa at 3 p. m. on February 9 and again at 8 a. m. the following day. Approximately 400 registrants will be housed both on the campus and at the Bryan Field Annex. The short school is sponsored by an organization of waterworks and sewerage operators and en gineers, headed by Joe B. Winston of Weslaco, in cooperation with the department of municipal and sanitary engineering at A. & M. Extension Service Adds Agricultural Engineer to Staff, Effective February 1 William S. Allen has been appointed agricultural engin eer for the College Extension Service effective February 1, Director Ide P. Trotter has announced. The addition of Allen to the+ staff of the agricultural engineer ing department is in line with plans on which the Extension Ser vice has been working for well over a year, according to Fred Jones, head of the department. A committee of six extension staff members began an analysis of the Texas rural housing situation in October, 1945 and drew up plans for a definite program. In addition to setting up general standards in housing and farm buildings, the com mittee will draw up plans for a functional house for each principal area of the state.- Another phase is work with county agricultural and home demonstration agents in the fundamentals of rural housing. Allen will work with the com mittee and put these plans in op eration. He is a native of Water- town, Tennessee, and was grad uated from the University of Ten nessee in 1946 with a B. S. in agricultural engineering. For three years he worked as assistant to the rural architect for the Tennessee Extension Service. Veterans’ Calendar Feb. 3, 7:00 p.m.—Moving Pic ture “We’ve Never Been Licked.” Feb. 6—Last date for filing for officers at Student Ac tivities Office Ad. Bldg. Feb. 11-12—Voting for officers, rotunda. Academic Bldg. Feb. 22—Washington’s Birth day Ball, Sbisa Hall. Frankie Masters O r- chestra. March 3—Football movie. April 7—S t u d e n t vaudeville show. April 21—S a n Jacinto Day Muster. April 25—Veterans’ Grand Ball. May 5—Stage show. (?) Air Training Will Not Effect School Time Under GI Bill Veteran students at A. & M. will be able to take flight training un der the GI Bill of Rights without shortening their time in school, under a plan announced January 27 by Dean of Engineering How ard W. Barlow. The private pilot course, former ly completed in one semester, will be offered veterans over three se mesters instead, and tuition cost will be deducted in three install ments, instead of a lump sum as before. The plan has been ap proved by the Veterans Adminis tration. The private pilot, commercial pilot and flight instructor courses, will be offered on an intensive one-semester basis for others than students enrolled in the college, Barlow said. Colored Lists To Designate Laundry Areas Colored laundry lists will be used to distinguish the dif ferent stations starting next week, it was announced by J. W. Rollins, dean of men. Stu dents are asked to turn in white slips to their sub-stations for those of the correct color. All laundry will be returned to the stations strictly according to list color irrespective of the laun dry mark, it was pointed out. The color assignments are as follows White — Station 1 — Project House Area; Blue—Station 2 —Across from Dorm 8; Green —Station 3—Foster Hall; Yel low—Station 4—West Side of P. G. Hall; White—Station 5—An nex; Pink — Station 6 — North End of P. G. Hall. Regulations as to number of pieces and limits on various items remain unchanged. In each bun dle of the allowable 23 pieces may be the maximum of 4 shirts, 2 pants, 2 polos, 1 pr. coveralls, and 4 sheets, it was stated. Schedules for turning in laundry to stations are the same as for last semester with an 8 a.m. deadline on the designated days. The first two weeks the laun dry will be slowed because of the necessity of assigning marks to incoming students, but following this period laundry will be returned approximately three days after it has been turned in, it was an nounced. Aggie Player Try- Outs Set Feb. 3-4 18-Year Olds Must Register on Exact Day of Their Birth There may not be a war on, but selective service is still with us, so it is important that all students register on their eighteenth birth day, according to the Brazos Coun ty Selective Service Board. A. & M. students who reach their eighteenth birthdays while attending school should report to the Brazos County Board, located in the county court house, Bryan. The records will not be kept there, but will be forwarded to the prop er home-town board, according to Brazos county officials. The law reads that registration shall be made on the birthday it self, unless that is a Saturday, Sunday or holiday, in which case registration is to be made the next business day. Those who do not register at that time are reported as late registrants, subject to pen alties at the discretion of their home boards. Bulletin Tells Best Portable Fan Usage Air-conditioning for everybody may still be. far in the future, but maximum cooling efficiency from the lowly electric fan can be ob tained by any one willing to fol low the directions of a bulletin just published by the A. & M. En gineering Experiment Station. Entitled “The Efficient Use of Portable Fans”, the bulletin em bodies the scientific conclusions drawn by Dr. E. G. Smith of the collegb physics department after exhaustive research, which was sponsored by the Westinghouse Electric corporation. For instance, it was found that a room could be cooled best by directing a fan at an open win dow, providing there is an air in let at the opposite side of the room and the fan is properly situ ated. Full directions for proper plac ing of fans in all types of resi dences are contained in the free 89-page bulletin, which may be obtained before hot weather ar rives by writing the Texas Engi- neesing Experiment Station here for Bulletin No. 95. Flight Training Students To Meet Monday at 7 p. m. A meeting of all students inter ested and others who have regis tered for flight training during the present and subsequent semes ters has been set for 7 p. m. on Monday, February 3 in the petro leum lecture room, Dr. H. W. Bar- low, dean of engineering, has an nounced. Any other persons interested in learning to fly are invited to at tend. More than 100 already have registered for the private pilot course, to be held over a three- semester period, Dean Barlow said. Try-outs for the next Aggie Players production, “A MUR DER HAS BEEN ARRANGED”, will be held Monday and Tues day, February 3-4, from 5-6 p. m. and 7-8 p. m., George J. Dil- lavou has announced. The try outs will be held on the stage of the Assembly Hall, and all stu dents and townspeople hre urged to come and try their hand at acting. Veterans’ wives are es pecially requested to come. Anyone interested in other as pects of the theater—scene con struction, painting, publicity, box office, make-up, lighting, or costumes—may leave his name and address in the English de partment on the third floor of the Academic Building, or may contact George Dillavou or Art Angrist, whose offices are loca ted on the second floor of Fos ter Hall. “A MURDER HAS BEEN ARRANGED” will be presented by the Thespians on March 12, 13, and 14 in the Assembly Hall. Short Course Tops Enrollment Limit Williams Trying To Repeat School Later Enrollment for the third annual Motor Fleet Supervisors short course, slated’ February 10-14 at A. & M., already has reached its limit of 50, but Director E. L. Williams today held out hope for those who registered too late. Williams is trying to arrange for a repetition of the popular short course later in the spring, if he can obtain the scientific testing instruments and other equipment at that time. Arrangements have been made for use of a mobile driver-testing clinic for use during the regular course, the clinic consisting of a bus equipped with a multitude of test equipment to determine a driver’s ability. 10,000 Flying Legs A Pan American World Airways Constellation arrived at LaGuardia Field recently with half of it re moved to make way for a ship ment of 10,000 frog legs and 6,000 pounds of lobsters from Cuba. Air line officials said it was the first shipment by air of these delicacies from Cuba to New York and one of the largest air shipments of food by any line. The plane was chartered by the Hudson Bay Fro zen Food Company of Manhattan. BULLETIN—Col. Meloy stated he was recommending that A.&M. be made a civilian college this morning, following refusal of the cadet officers to resume their commissionsi Thursday night. “This is not a protest against Col. Meloy and his staff, but a refusal to tolerate the arbitrary dictations of President Gilchrist,” stated a spokesman for the senior class. “The problem of room orderlies and freshman details has become one of the minor issues,” he continued. BULLETIN—Col. Meloy stated in a meeting with selected seniors yesterday that he no longer recognizes the senior class as a bar gaining power, but that he would deal with ex-cadet officers individu ally in regard to reassuming commissions. More than five hundred commissioned and non-commis sioned officers of the Cadet Corps resigned their cadet of fices Tuesday evening of this week, following the announce ment of restrictions on upper-class privileges under a new disciplinary system. President Gibb Gilchrist hastily dress ed with collar still open, accepted the resignations on the front porch of his home, with his .regrets, while participants in the midnight demonstration looked on. • All but the commanding officer and the executive officer of the corps were included in the mass resignation. Cadet Col. Ed Brandt and Lt. Col. Allen Self stated that they could not, in good conscience, resign at that time. However, their resignations were tendered the following morning to the Commandant. Col. Guy S. Meloy, Jr. took over the newly restored office of Com mandant of Cadets on the first day of the spring semester, January 27. First notice of the proposed changes in privilege came in the Tuesday, January 28 edition of the Battalion. The Senior Class voted to protest the curtailment in a meeting at 6:30 p. m. in the YM- CA Chapel. At a meeting of the Senior Class in Goodwin Hall at 7:30 p. m., Col. Meloy explained the circumstances under which the change in disci pline had been approved by the Board of Directors. The Directors had ruled that certain practices, though traditional, were violations of the Basic Policy and would not be permitted. Following Col. Meloy’s speech, Bill McCormick, class president, asked for an opportunity to pre sent the class’s objections to the rulings, which was granted by Col. Meloy. Shannon Jones also spoke in behalf of the class and their protests. Col. Meloy offered no comment. Seniors Vote to Resign Later in the evening, the seniors held another caucus in the YMCA, and a majority of the cadet offi cers voted to resign their commis sions in protest. Plans for a mid night march on the President’s home, bearing the resignations, were formulated. At. midnight the cadets formed in their dormitory area, prepared to move out behind the band. At this point, Ccfl. Meloy and some of his staff appeared, and asked that resignations be turned in to him and his officers. This was not done, and agitation for continuance of the march spread among the cadet officers assembled. ! ' “I’m ordering you back to your dormitories,” stated Col. Meloy. Band members turned in their GI instruments upon or ders. A trumpeter sounded off with the Aggie War Hymn, and the march began. Upon reaching the President’s home, several of the high ranking cadet officers bore the resignations to Mr. Gilchrist, who accepted them “with regret.” Twelve-Point Request The following morning, a com mittee of seniors, including Cadet, Col. Brandt, Bill McCormick, Al len Self, Joe Mueller, Dean Denton, Teddy Holekamp, John Roper, A. O. Hamon, Shannon Jones, and Jimmy Nichols, met with Col. Me loy in his office, presenting a twelve point list of requests. This list of requests had been drawn up by the committee in a session last ing until 2:30 a. m. Eight points of the program were agreed to wholly and some in part, by Col. Meloy after the all morning meeting. Senior court to replace the old student court. That no army personnel be housed in the dormitory area. Removal of threats to deprive advanced students of ROTC con tracts. , Privilege of keeping the pres ent uniform if desired in a ma jority vote. That cadet officers be granted more voice in issuing orders to corps. s That promotion lists be refer red to the Senior Class for dis cussion. That extra drill of any auth orized type be permitted if com pany commanders deem it neces sary. That two weeks notice be giv en of impending changes in large- (See CADETS on Page Four) Alexander Alexander Speaker On Religious Week Program Feb. 10 Noted Lecturer Comes To Campus to Address Religious Meetings Dr. W. H. Alexander, pastor of the First Christian Church of Ok lahoma City, will be the guest speaker for Religious Emphasis Week at A. & M. College, Feb ruary 10-15. Dr. Alexander was graduated from the University of Tulsa after which he received an honorary scholarship to the Uni versity of Chicago, the institution in which he pursued his graduate work. During World War II, he served as War Correspondent for the Daily Oklahoman, the Oklahoma City Times and the Christian Evan gelist. Recently the tall, red-head ed, former amateur boxing cham pion turned down an offer from Hollywood because, as he put it— “Just entertainment would not fur ther the cause to which I have given my life.” In constant demand for Nation al Conventions, Red Cross Work and other civic enterprises, he also has the largest, most progressive young people’s group in the South west. The secret of all this is con tained in the soldier’s phrase—“He makes me want to live up to the best that’s in me.” Due to professional experience he is a master entertainer and on a broad, religious plain speaks the language of young people in a dynamic way that has no peer. His lectures will present a sup reme challenge to vital religion to the 7,000 college men here. Poultry Marketing Class Attends Fat Stock Show Jan. 30 Students of the poultry mar keting class at A. & M. attended the Houston Fat Stock Show Thursday, January 30, to observe the poultry judging show. Judges for the show were E. D. Parnell, professor in the poultry husbandry department, F. Z. Bean- blossom, poultry marketing spe cialist of the college, extension service, and Clyde Ingram of Lou isiana State University. Approximately 1500 capons, 400-500 fryers and broilers, 250 fat hens, and turkeys were in the show. Last year’s champion ca pon brought $1200, and the cham pion turkey brought $500. Par nell explained, that prices for the poultry are expected to be con sistent with previous year’s sales.