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V VETERANS’ RUN-OFF Who Will Be Elected— Andrews or Bruce? Texas AaM rim . The B PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A & M COLLEGE WEEK-END CALENDAR Fish Ball Friday Masters Ball Saturday VOLUME 46 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1947 Number 36 They Vie for Vet President Dave Bruce Veterans’ Run-Off Election Tomorrow Finishes Campaign The run-off election of the Veteran Students’ Associa tion for the offices of president and Student Life Commit tee will be held in the Rotunda of the Academic Building tomorrow from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. William S. “Big Bill” Andrews and A. D. “Dave” Bruce, two top candidates in last week’s preliminary election, will vie for the presidency; and Marvin Brown and Arthur Buckner are on the ballot for Student Life Committee member. Saturday David N. “Ish” Elliott filed for Sergeant-at-Arms, and Marvin M. Kuers filed for Mess Committee member. They are the only candidates in each of the offices. Any Vet Eligible All veterans are eligible to vote Wednesday, regardless of whether or not they are paid members of the Veterans’ Asso ciation. Elliott, a member of the Class of ’48, is from Austin, and is major ing in pre-med. Kuers, Class of ’44, is taking mechanical engineer ing and his hometown is Houston. Platforms for the two presiden tial candidates are printed on page 2. A political rally for finalists to present their platforms will be held this evening at 7 p.m. in the Assembly Hall. Salami With Tears Somewhere in New Jersey there is a band of burglars eating sal ami and crying. The other night they entered a delicatessen and made off with $600 worth of cheese and salami. Not satisfied, they went back for the “lettuce”, which consisted of $10 tucked away in a safe. They knocked off the com bination dial, releasing a powerful flood of tear gas. Exit burglars. The store manager arrived the next morning and burst into tears. The police arrived shortly after and also burst into tears. Placidity returned after complete deconta mination. Australia ‘Oldest Continent’ Geologically Australia is thought to be the oldest of the continents, as it is the most regular in out line. Boyce House To Speak at Junior Prom on March 7 Boyce House, well-known Texas tall tale teller and na tionwide newspaper columnist, will be guest speaker at the Ju nior Banquet on March 7, R. N. “Jug” Leatherwood, class pres ident, stated. Following the banquet, Nick Stuart and his orhestra will play for the dance in Sbisa Hall. The banquet will commence at 7:15, Friday evening, March 7, and will be followed at 9 p.m. by dancing in the main dining hall. Reserves Set Up 5 Flight Squadrons Five Monthly Jaunts To Houston Arranged The local National Air Reserve has set up squadrons which will fly to Ellington Air Field in Hous ton five times each month, W. R. Aven, chairman of the Brazos County Air Reserves Committee, announced. These squadrons will fly on the first Sunday of each month, first and second Wednesdays of each month and the third and fourth Thursdays of each month. At each period of instruction the squadrons will fly as a group. Headquarters, Tenth Air Force, Brooke Field, will send a C-47 to Easterwood Field and take the groups to El lington Field. The planes will leave here at 8 a. m. and 1 p. m. on the designated days. Those who were not present should contact W. R. Aven at 26 Leggett or Terry Clark, 2A, Vet erans’ Village. Clip This Out! . . . Revised Social Calendar For Spring Semester Lists Changes A revised social calendar for this semester has been released by Grady Elms, acting director of Student Activities. Changes from the previously announced calendar include the cancellation of the Cat tlemen’s Ball on March 14, change in date of the Cotton Ball, the AVMA Dance on March 15, Composite Regimental Ball, and the April 12 All-College Dance with Stan Kenton and his orchestra. The AVMA Ball replaces the Veterans’ Association Dance on March 15; the March 14 Cattlemen's Ball has been cancelled; the Cot ton Ball, originally slated March 28, has been changed to April 18; and the Composite Regimental Ball will be held on March 28. The revised schedule of dances is as follows: February 21—Freshman Ball. February 22—Washington Birthday Ball with Frankie Masters February 28—Sophomore Ball. March 1—All-College Dance. March 7—Junior Prom with Nick Stuart. March 8—All-College Dance. ♦March 15—AVMA Ball. March 21—Infantry Ball. March 22—All-College Dance. ♦March 28—Composite Regiment Ball. March 29—All-College Dance. April 11—Artillery Ball. ♦April 12—All College Dance with Stan Kenton. ♦April 18—Cotton Ball. April 19—All-College Dance. April 25—Veterans’ Association Dance. April 26—Barnyard Frolic. May 16—Senior Ring Dance. May 17—All-College Dance. May 30—Final Ball. ♦Denotes a change in original calendar. Freshman and Washington Ball To Highlight Campus Week-End Sixteen TSCW Beauties Will Be Presented and Selection Made by Frankie Masters at Saturday Night Dance in Sbisa Get set for the second big week-end of the social calen dar, as the Freshman Ball and George Washington Birthday Ball get under way Friday and Saturday nights. The Aggieland Orchestra, led by Bill Turner, will play for the Freshman Ball, to be held from 9-1 Friday even ing in Sbisa Hall. Then the next night Frankie Masters and his popular dance band will play a one-night stand Air Mail Service to A&M Goes Into Use Tomorrow Air mail service to and from College Station will be inaugura ted tomorrow, February 19, T. O. Walton, postmaster, has an nounced. Letters mailed prior to 2 p. m. tomorrow will make the first flight. Students and residents of Col lege Station are urged to send a letter via air mail in this first shipment of outgoing mail to morrow afternoon at 2 o’clock. Use of air mail from College Station in the future depends on the amount sent in this ship ment. 4 A&M Camera Club Best-Photo Contest Ends Friday Night James L. Aiken, Jr. and Claude R. Stone, Jr. were elected presi dent and vice-president respective ly of the Camera Club Monday evening in the Guion Hall club- room. After the election of officers, a contest was announced for all club members. Prints to be entered should be 5x7 or larger, and no mounting is required. Pictures, regardless of subject matter and date taken, will be eligible for en try. Non-members of the Camera Club are urged to contact Tom Puddy at Guion Hall and pay dues in order to be eligible. Prizes from A&M Photo Shop Aggieland Studio, and Aggie land Pharmacy will be awarded the winners. Pictures will be divided into two groups: first, black and white prints; and second, color slides. In connection with the black and white hotoes, several rizes will be given for the best pictures of the A. & M. campus. Pictures must be submitted to Tom Puddy before Friday night, February 21, for judging. At the meeting to be held Monday, February 24, final decisions of the contest will be announced and winning pictures shown. Also at the Monday meeting Howard Berry, photographer for the Agricultural Experiment Sta tion, will speak on the fundamen tals of photography. in Sbisa Hall. An advance sale of tickets will take place in front of the mess halls during this week. For registered -members of the Veteran Students’ Association, tickets will cost $2, but the price will be $2.50 for non-Veteran As sociation members. 16 TSCW Beauties Sixteen TSCW beauties will be presented immediately preceding intermission by Gloria Echols, edi tor of the Daedalian, the school annual. According to a long stand ing tradition, the four winners, each featured in the Daedalian with a full page, will not be re-> vealed until the TSCW Senior For mal, May 3. There are four beau ties from each class, and from each class Masters will select the ONE winner. Special busses from TSCW, leav ing Saturday morning, February 22, will bring the nominees to A. & M. The group will be ac- Correction Officer Exam Open for Vets Applicants File Not Later Than March 17 A civil service examination has been announced for Correctional Officer, according to the Correc tional Institution, Seagoville, Tex as. The salary for this position, which will be filled in the Federal Correctional Institutional at Dal las, El Paso, and Texarkana, is $2,694.96 per year. A written test is required for this examination, with competi tion restricted to persons entitled to military preference. Applicants must be between 21 and 45 years of age, and in no cases will these age limits be waived. Aplications must be on file with the Executive Secretary, Board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners, Fed eral Correctional Institution, Sea goville, Texas, not later than March 17. Application forms may be ob tained from the above named of fice or from the Director, Four teenth U. S. Civil Service Regional Office, 210 South Harwood Street, Dallas. Parnell to Represent A&M At Kansas City Convention E. D. Parnell, professor in the poultry husbandry department, will represent Texas at the third an nual agricultural forum of the Midwest Feed Manufacturers’ As sociation Convention to be held in Kansas City, February 20-21. Mr. Parnell will speak to the convention on the future outlook of the turkey situation in the Uni ted States. He will base his speech on material gathered from leading turkey states in the coun try. companied by a faculty member, Gloria Echols, and Mary Beth Fo- shee, Daedalian business manager. Dorms to Be Vacated Dormitory 2 and PG Hall will be opened on Friday and Saturday nights. For Dorm 2, students having guests will be assessed a charge of 75c per night to cover incidental expenses. Students with dates in PG Hall will be charged $1 per night. Students may secure room as signments in these two dorms in the Placement Office, Room 126, Administration Building. Stan Kenton to Play For All-College Ball April 12 Stan Kenton’s Orchestra has been booked‘for the All-College dance on April 12, following the Artillery Ball on April 11, ac cording to Grady Elms, acting director of Student Activities. Preceding the dance, a one-hour concert, featuring Kenton’s fa mous orchestra, will also be played, the time and place to be announced at a later date. Vatvel to Address Sigma Xi Club At Banquet Feb. 19 The Sigma Xi Club will hold its annual banquet at Sbisa Hall, Wed nesday, February 19 at 7 p.m. Dr. W. A. Varvel of the department of education and psychology will discuss “Psychology in World War II.” Dr. Varvel came to A. & M. in 1941 with a long record of research accomplishments. He received his Ph.D. degree at the University of Iowa and later held a post-doc torate fellowship there, conducting research on clinical psychology. On completing these studies he joined the staff of the University of Chi cago where he worked with Dr. L. L. Thurstone. Dr. Varvel has been president of the A. & M. Sigma Xi Club for the past year. President Gibb Gilchrist and the board of directors of the college have approved an application for the establishment of a chapter of the Sigma Xi at A. & M. If the application is successful, Sigma Xi will be the first honorary frater nity to be established at A. & M. The purpose of the Society is to encourage original investigation in science, pure and applied. Elec tion to membership is on the basis of accomplishment in scientific re search. At the present time the A. & M. Club consists of members who were elected to the society at other institutions. Dr. and Mrs. A. A. L. Mathews will be honored guests for the oc casion. Dr. Mathews was former secretary-treasurer of the Sigma Xi Club. Physicist, Chemist Positions Open By US Civil Service American Welding Society Sponsors Under grad Awards The American Welding Society has announced the 1947 A. F. Davis Undergraduate Welding Award consisting of four cash prizes, totaling $700, to be given to the authors and publications for the two best articles on welding published in undergraduate magazines between The United States Civil Serv ice Commission today announced examinations for Physicist and Chemist for probational appoint ment to positions in Washington, D. C., and vicinity. The salaries range from $3,397 to $5,905 a year. Persons applying for the Physi cist examination must have com pleted either a four-year college course leading to a bachelor’s de gree in physics, or 24 hours of physics courses and enough addi tional experience to total 4 years of education and experience. For the Chemist examination, appli cants must have completed a four- year college course leading to a bachelor’s degree in chemistry, or 30 hours of college credit and enough practical experience to to tal 4 years of education and ex perience. In addition to meeting these ba sic erquirements, applicants for both examinations must have had from one to four years of appro priate professional experience. Further information and appli cation forms may be obtained from the Commission’s Local Secretary, H. N. Yardley, whose office is lo cated at the Post Office. Appli cations for these examinations must be received in the Commis sion’s Washington office not later than March 5. Petroleum Club Picture The Petroleum Club will have its picture taken Wednesday, February 19, at 12:30 p.m. in front of Guion Hall. Members should wear coats and ties. July 1, 1946 and April T, 1947. A prize of $200 will be given to the author or authors of the best ar ticle on welding and a similar award of $200 will be given to the publication in which this article appears. The author or authors of the second best article will re ceive $150 and another $150 will go to the magazine in which it is published. Particular attention is directed to the time limit of April 1, a permanent change from the previous closing date of July 1 for this annual contest conduct ed by the American Welding So ciety. The articles may be on any phase of any type of welding or its application vto design or con struction and must be published within the time limits to be eligi ble for the 1947 prizes. Any un dergraduate of any college or uni versity in the United States, its possessions, or Canada, is eligible. The papers will be judged by a group selected by the American Welding Society. Judging will be done on the basis of originality of subject, thoroughness with which the subject is presented. The au thors and publications to receive awards will be notified by mail on May 15, 1947. The awards will be presented during the annual meet ing of the American Welding So ciety to be held the week of Oc tober 19, 1947, at Chicago. Funds for this annual Award program were donated to the So ciety by A. F. Davis, vice-presi dent and secretary of The Lincoln Electric Company. Fire Prevention Group Convenes In Washington May 6 A National Committee for Fire Prevention will meet in Washing ton May 6, 7, and 8 in an effort to reduce the appalling loss of life and property due to fire, General Philip B. Fleming, General Chair man, announced. This committee is working along with President Truman to bring down last year’s total of 10,000 deaths and $560,000,000 property loss. Representatives of municipal and state governments, federal agencies, and of non-official or ganizations with a basic interest in fire prevention have been or ganized into a coordination com mittee to draft an agenda for the conference and to appoint commit tees which will prepare recommen dations to be submitted to the con ference as a whole. More than 2,000 delegates are expected to attend the conference, representing federal departments, state, county, and municipal gov ernments, and business and civic organizations with a basic interest in the fire prevention problem. Popular American Baritone Donald Dickson Donald Dickson Versatile Artist to Appear On Town Hall Thursday Evening One of the outstanding events of the musical season is scheduled by Town Hall on Thursday evening, February 20, when noted American baritone, Donald Dickson, will appear in recital on the stage of Guion Hall. The program will be gin at 8 p. m. : f Although in his early thirties, Musical Silver Tea Scheduled April 20 The Musical Silver Tea which is sponsored each year by the Wo man’s Society of Christian Serv ice of the A&M Methodist Church, will be presented at the church on Sunday, April 20 at 3 p.m. Mrs. Ray Oden, president of the society, has announced the following list of committee chairman: Mrs. Ralph Steen, general chairman and program chairman; Mrs. Gibb Gil christ, chairman of refreshments; Mrs. C. B. Godbey, chairman of decorations; and Mrs. J. M. Nance, poster chairman. Other meembers of the committees will be an nounced later. The program will feature Mrs. Albert Goodman, pianist; Miss Betty Jo Cook, reader; Miss Cyn thia Lancaster, harpist; The Ste phen F. Austin A Capella Choir, under the direction of Claude Guthrie; and a string quartet made up of Mrs. Chris H. Groneman, first violin, Mrs. Earl Vezey, Jr., second violin, Louis F. Hauer, vi ola, and Tom Leland, cello. Bob Poison Named Mr. Whiskers ’47 Bob Poison of Harlingen was named “Mr. Whiskers of 1947” last week by the A. & M. Rio Grande Valley Club. Members of the club grew beards for the Char- ro Days fiesta at Brownsville last week, and Poison’s red bush was acknowledged as the largest. Neil Kendrick of San Benito was rated possessor of the most origi nal chin-decorations. He grew a pointed goatee, and waxed his long mustachios. The whiskers, which had become conspicuous on the campus, were due to be shaved off yesterday, the fiesta having been concluded during the weekend. this young singer has won an en viable reputation for himself in three distinct fields—opera, con cert, and radio. Each has proved a successful milestone in his car eer. Dickson’s first professional ap pearance was as soloist with the Cleveland Symphony at the age of nineteen. Discovered by Arthur Rodzinski, he made his debut as Ford in “The Merry Wives of Windsor”. Six years later found him at the Metropolitan Opera. When he entered the field of radio, he started in a blaze of glory on the Sealtest program, and since then has been heard as a reg ular member and guest soloist on such programs as the Chase and Sanborn Hour, Coca Cola program, Kraft Music Hall, and General Mo tors Concerts of the Air. Although radio took up the major part of his time for several years, he still makes guest opera appearances with the Chicago Opera and throughout the country. Dickson is looking forward to the time when he can devote a greater por tion of his time to opera. One of the country’s favorite singers, he has been acclaimed from coast to coast in concert for his virile, opulent voice, youth and handsomeness and for his musical intergrity in the selection and in terpretation of his program. The program for the evening performance will begin with 16th and 17th Century poems set by modern composers. Dickson will then sing, to name a few selec tions, Debussy’s “Beau Soir”; “Songs My Mother Taught Me” by Dvorak; “Oh! Could I Express in Song” by Malashkin; Marlin Skile’s “Thunderin’ Wonderin’”; and “Lord, I Want To Be”, ar ranged by Stewart Wille. Mr. Dickson will be accompan ied by Max Werner at the piano. Tickets will be on sale at the door of Guion Hall at 7:30 p.m., Thursday evening. Adult general admission tickets will cost $1; and student tickets will sell for 60c. Fourteen Retreat Parades Scheduled The following schedule of retreat parades for this semester, com mencing at 5:30 p. m. on the day indicated, has been announced by Col. G. S. Meloy Jr., PMS&T. The parades will normally be held on the Infantry Drill Field, except corps reviews, which will be held on the main parade grounds. All members of the staff and faculty, students, and residents are invited to attend these retreat formations. They are subject to change due to inclement weather. Wednesday, February 19, Second Composite Regiment (Air Force and Veteran) Wednesday, February 26, Infantry Regiment Wednesday, March 5, Artillery Regiment Wednesday, March 12, Corps Review (Main Parade) Wednesday, March 19, First Composite Regiment Wednesday, March 26, Second Composite Regiment Wednesday, April 2, Infantry Regiment Wednesday, April 9, Artillery Regiment Wednesday, April 16, Cadet Corps (Main Parade) Wednesday, April 23, First Composite Regiment Wednesday, April 30, Second Composite Regiment Wednesday, May 7, Infantry Regiment Wednesday, May 14, Artillery Regiment Wednesday, May 21, Cadet Corps (Main Parade)