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PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A & M COLLEGE
VOLUME 46
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1947
in umber 32
Cadet Corps Is Reorganized After Five-Day Interval
Promotion List Announced
By Col. Meloy Yesterday
Athletic Council Decision On
Norton Issue Sent to President
Texas Tech Contract Extended
Three Years for San Antonio
A decision regarding Head Coach Homer Norton was
reached by the Athletic Council Saturday afternoon and
will be sent in a confidential report to President Gibb Gil
christ, C. W. Crawford, athletic council chairman, stated.
Meeting in a four-hour session, the council considered
demands by the A. & M. Ex-Student Association that Norton
be replaced.
President Gilchrist will make a
report on the findings of the coun
cil to the board of directors later
this month, and no public an^
nouncement will be made until taht
time, Crawford said.
Coach Norton, Aggie head coach
for the past 13 years, has been un
der fire from ex-students since
early in the 1946 football season
when the*Aggies dropped three out
of the first four games. “We hope
that whatever comes out of this
meeting this afternoon will be
beneficial to all concerned,” Craw
ford declared, but declined to give
any hints as to matters discussed
or decisions.
Former students have asked that
Norton, whose contract does not
expire until August 31, 1950, be re
placed and the contract be dis
solved.
Recently, Norton has been men
tioned in connection with the
coaching position vacancy which
now exists at the University of
California. The announcement
from California was supposed to
have been made after the national
coaches meeting held the early
part of last month.
Norton was closeted with the
council for nearly three hours
while routine business was discus
sed.
One member of the council, C. D.
Ownby, disqualified himself from
the discussion on the Norton issue,
saying that he was employed by
the athletic department and under
direct supervision of the coach and
athletic director. Ownby is busi
ness manager of athletics at A. &
M.
Another member, S. A. Lips
comb, who was in Corpus Christi at
the time, telephoned his vote to
the Athletic Council.
Red Raider Contract
It was announced that the coun
cil took action extending A. & M.’s
contract with Texas Tech another
three years. This decision was
reached in conjunction with the
San Antonio chamber of commerce
in which city the Red Raiders and
Aggies will play through the 1950
football season.
Final Date for Ordering
Senior Ring Favors Feb. 12
Orders for senior ring favors
are now being taken in the Stu
dent Activities Office, Grady
Elms, acting director, has an
nounced. Cost of these favors
is $2.50, and orders should be
placed prior to Wednesday, Feb
ruary 12.
Learning How To Do It for Arabia
Staff Member Will Attend
National Medical Meeting
Maurine Hearn, vice-director for
women and state home demonstra
tion agent, will represent the A.
& M. Extension Service at the
second annual meeting of the
American Medical Association’s
National Conference on Rural
Health. The meeting will take
place in Chicago, Illinois, February
6-8.
Purpose of the conference is to
give doctors and rural health
workers an opportunity to ex
change views' regarding vital ques
tions in the development of a bet
ter health service in rural com
munities throughout the United
States.
Baby-Sitter Rules
Associated Press, keeping a
close eye on developments in the
baby-sitter world, reported that
Collector of International Revenue
Francis R. Smith has ruled that
fees paid to baby-sitters cannot be
deducted from income-tax returns.
“Paying someone for watching a
baby is no different than paying
someone for shoveling snow from
the sidewalk,” said the collector.
Camera Club to Meet
The A. & M. Club will meet
Monday, February 10, in the club-
room, located in the basement of
Guion Hall. The meeting will be
gin at 7 p. m.
Saddle and Sirloin Club
The election of officers will be
the purpose of the Saddle and Sir
loin Club at its meeting tonight
at 7:30 p. m. The club will meet
in the AI lecture room.
Marines’ Deaths Set Mark
In World War II the Marine
Corps proved the most perilous of
the United States services as a
whole, with a battle death rate of
4 per cent.
San Antonio Sports Editor
Blasts ‘Petition’ Squabble
According to an Associated Press release, Bill Bellamy,
sports editor of the San Antonio Evening News, added more
fuel to the A. & M. football coaching, squabble when he re
vealed in his daily column, “Strictly Sporting”, that the re
fusal to sign a petition favoring the Aggie Coach Homer
Norton, lost an Alamo City two-letterman his scholarship.
Bellamy wrote:
“We’d like to pause here mo
mentarily to look into one of those
petitions in circulation. As we
understand it, one of several per
sons on the athletic staff, including
Lil Dimmitt, were canvassing the
football dormitories for signatures
of the players to the effect that
the squad and Norton were just
one big, happy family, etc.
“Seems as if one burly San An
tonio youngster who had lettered
two years on the varsity didn’t like
the idea of signing something he
didn’t believe in, and he didn’t be
lieve in Norton. Coincidentally
(local A. and M. Club please take
note), this lad, whose name we’re
leaving out purposely so that he
won’t be branded a trouble-maker,
NORTON DENIES STORY
Norton stated to newspaper
men: “If they are talking about
the same man I’m thinking of,
it’s not true. That man left
under far different circumstances
than reported to the San Antonio
News. His indifference and
poor attitude were responsible.
“As to coercion, the first I
heard of the letter was when I
returned from the trip to the
Coast and to the coaches’ meet
ing. It was written and signed
while I was away.”
was called on the carpet at the
end of the semester last week and
was told that ‘he didn’t fit into
the picture and his scholarship
would no longer be in effect.’
“It seems funny to our minds
why a two-year letterman in a
position that the Aggies are weak
est and with two more years of
eligibility left would be cut loose.
Maybe we’re wrong, but this
youngster is bitter about it all
and at the present time is consid
ering enrolling at Trinity Uftiver-
sity.
“lV(aybe the Aggie publicity bu
reau should announce that two
more lettermen—Mann Scott, half
back, and Bill Johnson, center,
have quit the squad and are slated
to enroll at a California univer
sity.
“Something needs a washing be
sides our dirty socks, especially if
the ‘sign or else’ condition actual
ly does exist or has existed in the
present athletic setup.”
Erroneous Statement
The article by Bill Bellamy also
stated that Tommy Johns, editor
of The Battalion, was told to “lay
off’ Norton in his editorials. This
statement was erroneous in two
ways. One, John is NOT the editor
of the paper. Two, neither John
nor the real editor, Allen Self, have
been told to “lay off” Norton in
editorials. Not even Larry Good
win, vitriolic sports columnist of
the Batt, has had any such threats.
Thermo Books!
The Mechanical Engineering
Department requests all students
who have Thermodynamics text
books, and wish to either sell or
lend them to leave their names
in the departmental office.
At present many students are
still without texts, and there are
no prospects of procuring them
in the near future through reg
ular channels.
Reserve Officers to Hold Dinner-Dance
Saturday Evening, Feb. 8, in Sbisa Hall
The Brazos County Reserve Officers’ Association will
sponsor a dinner-dance at Sbisa Hall Saturday, February 8,
at 7:30 p. m., President E. N. Holmgreen has announced.
In addition to the members of
the Reserve Officers’ Association,
all Navy, Marine, and National
Guard x-eserve officers are invited
to attend.
Tickets Available
Tickets at $2.25 per person are
now available in College Station
from the Agieland Inn, Lipscomb’s
Pharmacy, George’s Confectionary,
'Sicf Loveless, Taylor Wilkins, and
Grady Elms. In Bryan tickets may
be obtained at Waldrop and Com
pany.
Music for the dance will be fur
nished by the Aggieland Orchestra
under the direction of Bill Turner.
Men who desire rooms for their
dates may make accommodations
at the Placement Office in the Ad
ministration Building.
Ex-V-12 & V-5 Students May
Get Credit for Advanced MS
Col. Guy S. Meloy Jr., professor
of militaxy science and tactics,
announced January 31 that infor
mation has been received which
will allow credit toward advanced
standing to ROTC for former stu
dents of the Navy V-12 and V-5
programs.
All students who desire to apply
for advanced ROTC contracts util
izing the provisions of this new di
rective in lieu of basic ROTC train
ing should apply at once to the Ad
jutant’s Office, Ross Hall, for ver
ification of service and to secure
necessary forms.
A smiling SAUDI ARABIAN prince learns about cotton
breeding at A. & M. Crown Prince Saud Al-Saud last Saturday
visited the college and was shown the latest research work in
cotton® breeding. Left to right—Prince Saud, President Gibb
Gilchrist, Dr. Afif Tannous, USD A, and Dr. Meta Brown, cyto
geneticist of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. Behind
Dr. Brown is Tom Richmond, agronomist.
American Chemical Society Secretary,
Business Manager to Speak Here Feb. 12
Alden H. Emery of Washington, D. C., national secretary and
business manager of the American Chemical Society, will address the
college section on Wednesday evening, February 12. His lecture will
include the aims and activities of the American Chemical Society, the
♦’largest professional organization
of scientists in the world, with
48,000 members and 112 local sec
tions throughout the United States.
Dr. William M. Potts, chairman
of the local section, will preside at
the session.
A former official of the United
States Bureau of Mines, Emery is
a native of New Hampshire, and
received his B.A. degree in chem
istry from Oberlin College. After
obtaining a Master of Arts degree
from Ohio State University in
1923, Emery joined the staff of
the Bureau of Mines as a chemist
at the Pittsburgh Experiment Sta
tion. In 1927 he went to Washing
ton to take up administrative work
in the bureau, later becoming as
sistant chief engineer of the Bu
reau’s Experiment Stations Di
vision. He resigned in 1936 to
become assistant manager of the
American Chemical Society. In
1943 he was appointed assistant
secretary and was elected secre
tary and business manager a year
ago.
As a member of the American
Institute of Mining and Metallur
gical Engineers, Emery helped to
establish the organization’s Indus
trial Minerals Division, of which
he was secretary in 1938 and vice-
chairman in 1939.
He is a fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement
of Science, and is the author of
several Bureau of Mines Publica
tion.
Sophs Appoint
Committees for
’Revue’ Feb. 28
Bearing the name of the Sopho
more Sweetheart Revue, the an
nual sophomore ball will be pre
sented by the Class of 1949 on
Friday evening, February 28, at
9 p. m. The dance will be held in
Sbisa Hall to the music of the
Aggieland Orchestra.
The following committees have
been appointed, George R. Ed
wards, sophomore class president,
announced. The invitation com
mittee is composed of Chester M.
Bell, Tniman G. aMrtin, Donald H.
Barrett, Lee Holder, and James D.
Bell. The decorations committee
includes A. K. Jacobson, J. Fred
Hambright, D. G. Kaspar, and Al
len B. Bradshaw. John Orr, W.
Hawes, Charles D. Glass, and Lar
ry Kinnard are members of the
refreshment committee, and the
programs will be handed by Hiram
Smith, James H. Simpson, and
Bernard Kitchens.
Deadline for Vet
Club Filing Feb. 6
Nine vacancies in the Veter
ans’ Association are now open,
and students interested in filing
may do so in the Student Acti
vities Office prior to 5 p. m.,
February 6, Dave Bruce, acting
president announced. Positions
of president, vice-president, sec
retary, treasurer, parliamentar
ian, and sergeant-at-arms are
open. Also, three members for
the newly formed Mess Com
mittee and one veteran on the
Student Life Committee will be
elected.
Any veteran is eligible to file
for any of the above-named pos
itions.
Voting will take place in the
rotunda of the Academic Build
ing on February 11-12, from 8
a. m. to 5 p. m. Yellow fee
slips must be presented in order
to cast a vote.
Rio Grande Valley To
Judge Beards Thursday
A beard judging contest will be
the principal feature of the Rio
Grande Valley Club, when it meets
Thursday, February 6, in the YM-
CA, J. Tippit, reporter, revealed.
The meeting will begin at 7 p. m.
The “brush” is in preparation
for Charro Days in the Rio Grande
Valley from February 13-16. All
students from that vicinity—and
especially those with beards —
are urged to attend.
Thief May Get Stung
The thief who took a box from
the car of a California herpetolo
gist may wish he hadn’t. The snake
expert told police the box con
tained three live rattlesnakes, com
plete with fangs and poison ducts.
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Cadet Col. Ed Brandt
57 of 179 Cadet Officers Renamed;
Majority Receive Old Commissions
Cadet commissioned officers are once more in their po
sitions of authority over the Cadet Corps, after a five-day
period in which disorganization prevailed, following a mass
midnight resignation.
Col. G. S. Meloy, commandant, announced the revised
promotion list to restored cadet officers in a meeting in Good
win Hall Monday noon. * Only a
skeleton organization of command
ers and higher staffs exists under
the present setup, but further pro
motions will be announced soon, ac
cording to the militai’y depart
ment.
Non-commissioned officers have
been reinstated in an acting capac
ity, subject to future approval by
the new cadet officers.
Majority Signs
Late Friday afternoon, seniors
began lining up to sign the appli
cations for recommissioning as
cadet officers. This action was
precipitated by an order calling
for all government property to be
turned in to the authorities, and
px-oviding for immediate movement
of seniors from former cadet dor
mitories.
By 6 p. m. Friday evening, 143
senioj’s had signed the requests for
commissions, which also embodied
a pledge to obey orders of college
and military authorities and as
sessment of 10 demerits and 10 ex
tra hours of duty.
Tour of Clubs
Teams of cadets toured to Ft.
Worth, Dallas, Amarillo, and San
Antonio to sample the sentiment
of former students and to attempt
to give exes the true picture of the
situation and the causes for the
protest.
Sentiment both pro and con was
discovered by these students but
none of the clubs made a conclu
sive move supporting either the
students or the administration.
President’s Statement
President Gilchrist issued the
following statement Monday:
February 3, 1947.
I have today approved the ap
pointment of Cadet Officers sub
mitted by Colonel G. S. Meloy, Jr.
in his fe-organization of the Corps.
Included in the list are 57 of the
179 Cadet Officers whose resigna
tions were accepted by me early
last Wednesday morning.
Colonel Meloy advises that this
first list is to initiate his reorgan
ization and that he has not fully
examined all of the applications.
He still needs 30 to 35 commission
ed officers in the Corps and will
try to get them from the applica
tions submitted. It looks now as
though the commissions granted
will not be much in excess of one-
half the number who resigned.
These young men have agreed in
their applications to support the
Basic Policy, and we are expecting
them to do that.
Gibb Gilchrist,
President.
In another statement issued Sat
urday, President Gilchrist said, in
part,
“During the past semester, and
before any grades had been re
ported, 176 freshmen left school,
74 giving hazing as the principle
reason. Reports now indicate 430 1
fi*eshmen who entered in Septem
ber either resigned or were drop
ped for deficient scholarship at the
end of the semester. This repre
sents approximately 48 percent of
the freshmen students who were
living with the corps of cadets and
is indicative that conditions in the
corps were not conducive to the
pursuit of a college education.”
CORPS STAFF
Col. Ed Brandt, Lt. Col. Allen
Self, Lt. Col. Joe Coddou, Major
Philip Kosub.
Infantry Band
Captain Paul Allen, First Lt.
State Press Jumbles Facts, Emphasizes ‘Paddle’ Issue
By Allen Self
Statewide press coverage of the
cadet officer resignation and mid
night march, with its consequent
repercussions, brought curses and
fervent denials from all quarters of
the Aggie campus, but undoubted
ly boosted sales.
Only newspaper to send a cor
respondent to A. & M. within a
reasonable length of time was the
Dallas News, which dispatched
Charles Burton, veteran reporter,
with instructions to get the full
story from both sides and send
back Reports giving the middle-of-
the-road story.
Burton’s first story, which was
headlined with the news of the
cadets’ request for President Gil
christ’s ouster, was lauded jby
corpsmen as the first unbiased
version of the protest. The facts
were straight, and both sides of
the issue were equally represented.
Byron Winstead, publicity direc
tor for the college, and represen
tative of the statewide wire serv
ices as well, sent out the first
news about the midnight march.
His dispatches were printed in the
Wednesday morning papers. Pro
testing cadets considered adding
him to their list of those whose
resignations they were demanding,
for they felt Winstead’s version
was biased from the administra
tion point of view, as he cited anti
hazing regulations as the principal
cause of the mass resignation.
Winstead’s Defense
Winstead said he had no other
alternative but to report it as such,
as.no written statement of cadet
policy had ever been given him,
while administration officials had
been only too glad to air their
views, with permission to quote
fully.
The garbled story which ap
peared in Thursday’s Houston Post
was not his doing, Winstead held.
The news editor of the Post pulled
out the seventeenth paragraph of
his story concerning the resump
tion of military formations, and
made it the lead, according to
Winstead. Then they boldly at
tached untrue headlines to the story
in order to give the impression
that the “revolt” was over, when
it was still going strong.
The good, solid, unthinking San
Antonio Express came through
Saturday • morning with the most
erroneous report of any, and pro
claimed it to the world in 1%”
double deck headlines on the front
page—“188 A. & M. Cadet Officers
Ousted Fi’om Corps”. In reality,
practically every one of the cadet
officers had already decided to
take their medicine and sign back
up when the Express hit the
streets.
The Express had misconstrued
a threat as an actuality.
Even Batt Slips
Even The Battalion slipped once
as, faced with changing situations
and changing minds, it printed a
late bulletin asserting Col. Meloy
was recommending that the college
revert to a civilian status. What
the Commandant actually said
was, “If the juniors and seniors
fail to cooperate, I will have no
other alternative than to recom
mend that A. & M. be made a civil
ian college.”
Eagle Jumps Gun .
Our neighbor, the Bryan Daily
Eagle, headlined the assertion
“TEXAS A&M IS NOT A MILI
TARY COLLEGE TODAY”, which
sounded like it would have been
followed with “BY GOSH” if space
had allowed.
This statement was, of course,
erroneous, as the military standing
of the college had not changed ov
ernight, even if there had been a
midnight march on proxy’s home.
Richard Alves, First Lt. Larry
Mangold.
Field Artillery Band
Captain William S. Dixon.
Infantry Regimental Headquarters
Staff
Lt. Col. H. C. Hosch.
First Battalion Infantry
Headquarters Staff
Major B. Z. Strange.
Company A, Infantry
Captain Richard Reed.
Company B, Infantry
Captain Teddy Holekamp.
Company C, Infantry
Captain Oliver Potter.
Company D, Infantry
Captain Herschel Wood.
Second Battalion Infantry Staff
Major W. D. O’Hara.
Company E, Infantry
Captain Walter Higgins.
Company F, Infantry
Capain Thomas Eubank.
Company G, Infantry
Captain Donald Hudman.
Company A, Signal Corps
Captain Dean M. Denton.
Artillery Regimental Staff
Lt. Col. J. H. Cochrane, Major
S. D. Davidson.
First Battalion Artillery Staff
Major Joe Mueller.
Battery A, Field Artillery
Captain F. M. McMillan.
Battery B, Field Artillery
Captain Robert Martin.
Battery C, Field Artillery
Captain C. T. Spence.
Battery D, Field Artillery
Captain Don Farrell.
Second Battalion Artillery Staff
Major J. E. Mortenson, Captain
G. B. Bell.
Battery E, Field Artillery
Captain Vernon Hill.
Battery F, Field Artillery
Captain Arthur Haws.
Battery G, Field Artillery
Captain J. L. Nichols.
Battery H, Field Artillery
Major Jere Lewis.
Battery A, Coast Artillery
Captain Edward Bateman.
Company A, Quartermaster
Captain R. L. Moore, First Lt.
J. J, Tores, First Lt. A. F. Moore,
Jr.
Composite Regimental Staff
Lt. Col. Donald Nelson, Jr.
Cavalry Squadron
Major J. C. Dickson, Captain
Michael Williams.
Troop A, Cavalry
Captain Joe Knight.
Troop B, Cavalry
Captain Charles Tate.
Troop C, Cavalry
Captain J. N. Miller.
Troop D, Cavalry
Captain C. W. Thoma.
Troop E, Cavalry
Captain Harrell Foitik.
Engineer Battalion
Major B. J. McCormick, Captain
A. O. Hamon, First Lt. Oscar Jim
enez.
Company A, Engineers
Captain C. W. Cecil.
Company B, Engineers
Captain W. J. Mannas.
Company C, Engineers
Captain Billy Bowden.
Company A, Chemical Corps
Captain R. F. Huston, First Lt.
George Knox, First Lt. Earl
Snavely.
Army Air Force Group
Major Edwin R. Daniels.
Squadron A, AF
Captain Tommy Blackstone.
(See CADET CORPS on Page 4)
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