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Frankie Masters and
Orchestra From 9-12
VOLUME 46
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1947
Number 38
Frankie Masters Plays For
Washington Ball Tonight
The George Washington Ball, sponsored by the Veteran
Students’ Association, will be held tonight in Sbisa Hall.
Frankie Masters and his orchestra provides the music which
will feature his vocalists. Coming with the band are a
"♦"quartet of beautiful girls and the
lead singer, a blonde with a spark
ling smile.
As part of the evening’s pro
gram, Masters will select the
TSCW class beauties from a group
of nominees coming down for the
occasion. These girls will appear
in the Daedalian, yearbook of
TSCW.
216 College View
Apartments Ready;
80 More by March 1
Material Shortages
Hinder Completion
Two hundred and sixteen Col
lege View Apartments were.open
ed to occupants, February 15.
Married veterans and their wives
began moving into the newly com
pleted apartments before the paint
was dry.
According to T. R. Spence,
manager of the construction pro
gram, 80 more apartments are ex
pected to be completed by March
1, and final work on this pro
ject will be completed on April
12.
There will be a total of 466
apartments when the work is fin
ished, 16 of which will be occu
pied by married graduate students,
32 will be occupied by married men
on the college staff, and the re
mainder to be occupied by married
veteran students.
This housing project has been
made possible through an appro
priation by Congress expended
through the Federal Public Hous
ing Authority. The buildings
are former army barracks at
Foster Field, Victoria, Texas.
They were brought here, erected,
and remodeled as apartments by
the F.P.H.A. at a cost of over
one million dollars. In addition
to furnishing the land the Col
lege is spending $150,000 for
streets, sidewalks, water, elec
tricity, sewer lines, and fur
niture. Each building houses 8
two bedroom apartments. The
project will have his own laundry
salon, and public telephone books
will be installed in the “Quonset”
building just west of the area.
Many material shortages have
hampered and still hamper the
work, according to Spence. The
F.P.H.A. has not yet obtained de
livery on apartment ranges. The
only ranges installed in the new
apartments at present are the 152
ranges that the College had in
Hart and Walton Halls. The long
delay in opening the apartments
was due to the difficulty in getting
sewer pumps. Pumps were order
ed last August, but were not de
livered to the project until Feb
ruary 10.
Tickets, which have been on sale
in the rotunda of the Academic
Building and in front of the mess
halls this week, are priced at $2
for members of the association and
$2.50 to nonmembers. The dance
will begin at 9 p. m. and last until
midnight, it was announced.
It was decided that the affair
be semi-formal so that girls may
wear either street or evening
length dresses.
Frankie Masters just finished a
series of broadcasts on the “Show
time” program which is heard on
Sunday afternoons under the aus
pices of Interstate Theaters.
New Teaching Ideas
To Be Discussed
February 24-26
A series of talks will be given
by Col. W. J. Baird, Fort Leaven
worth, Kansas, February 24-26, Dr.
F. C. Bolton, dean of the college,
has announced. “New Ideas in
Teaching” is the subject for these
talks, to be given at 7:30 each of
the three evenings in Sbisa Hall
by Col. Baird, Chief of the Train
ing Section of the Army Command
and Staff College.
“The Command College” has
given more serious consideration
to teaching methods and has been
more progressivte in adopting new
er ones for its faculty than any
other institution”, Dr. Bolton
stated. He pointed out that every
one who has occasion to address
groups will find these “lessons
in teaching” both inspiring and
useful.
Dr. Bolton has appointed a com
mittee to arrange the program
composed of Dr. R. W. Steen, pro
fessor of history; Dr. F. P. Jaggi,
professor of veterinary medicine;
Dr. J. H. Quisenberry, head of the
Department of Husbandry; L. M.
Haupt, professor of electrical en
gineering; and C. W. Jackson,
radio editor for the Texas Ex
tension Service.
f Murder Has Been Arranged’
Cast Released for March 12-14
Cast for the Aggie Players production of the British
play “A Murder Has Been Arranged” has been announced
by George Dillavou of the English department. The play
will be staged in the Assembly Hall on March 12 through 14.
Miss Groze will be portrayed by
Betty Smith of College Station.
Miss Smith is a senior at Consoli
dated High School and has appear
ed in several previous campus pro
ductions.
Sybil Claire Banister of WTAW
“Farm and Home” and “Texas
School of the Air” is cast as Mrs.
Wragg. Miss Banister, who ap
peared in “The Male Animal”, is
a graduate of the University of
Texas where she was a member of
the Curtain Club.
Jimmy North is being played by
Bob Blakeney. Blakeney is from
Oklahoma City, when he partici
pated in high school theatrics.
Mary (Coosie) Johnson, of Bry
an, will play Lady Beatrice Jas
per. Miss Johnson attended T.S.-
C.W. where she majored in draip-
atics.
Portraying Mrs. Arthur is Nan
cy Tucker who is from Marshall.
She attended the University of
Texas, and was a member of the
Curtain Club. Mrs. Tucker is the
wife of Jack Tucker.
Art Stauffer plays the part of
Sir Charles Jasper. Stauffer is
a junior from Houston.
Maurice Mullins is enacted by
Bill Kraus, who played the mas
culine lead in “The Male Animal”.
Kraus is from Houston and was
a navigator in the Air Corps dur-
in the war.
The “Mysterious Woman” of the
play is portrayed by Patty Kirk
patrick. Mrs. Kirkpatrick gradua
ted from the University of Roches
ter, and received her Masters De
gree in Dramatic Arts at Colum
bia University. She performed on
the Columbia Radio Workshop, and
was a member of the Columbia Lit
tle Theater Group. Aside from
her role in “A Murder Has Been
Arranged”, she is being heard ov
er WTAW’s “Texas School of the
Air”. Mrs. Kirkpatrick was as
sistant director of “The Male An
imal”. She is the wife of Oran
Kirkpatrick, an A. & M. student
from San Antonio.
The play is being directed by
Mr. Dillavou, a graduate of the
University of Illinois, who was
cited by the Battalion for his work
with the Aggie Players last fall.
Choloriquine Drug
Promises Advances
In Malaria Field
A new drug, choloriquine, dis
covered and perfected by U. S. doc
tors and research chemists, pro
mises new advances in the treat
ment of malaria, a Veterans Ad
ministration consultant has report
ed.
Dr. Edwin S. Kagy, tropical
medicine specialist from Tulane
University, discussed the new drug
during a conference of VA doctors
and consultants in Dallas.
“Choloriquine is much more ef
fective than drugs formerly used
and lacks the toxic effects of qui
nine and atabrine,” Dr. Kagy said.
For the Pacific veteran who re
turned to the United States with
out signs of tropical diseases, the
doctor had a cheerful word.
“The chances are very slight
that these veterans will become ill
as a result of their tour of duty,”
he said.
Class of ’46 To
Meet Monday at 7
The Class of ’46 will meet Mon
day evening, February 24, at 7
p.m. in the Assembly Hall for
the purpose of selecting a duchess
to represent the class at the Cot
ton Pageant and Ball, Jim Trigg,
vice-president, announced.
THIS is partially what you will see at the Ballet Theatre’s perfor
mance on the campus March 12.
Board Reaffirms Statement
Of White Concerning Hazing’
Officials Concerning New Rulings
BULLETIN
After the Board session Friday afternoon, E. L. Angell, secretary,
stated that no conclusions on the Norton issue would be made known
until the two new appointees to the Board have been made and confirm
ed by the Senate. Governor Jester had expected that the appointments
would be official at the end of this week, but it was stated that final
action would not be released until probably Wednesday, February 26.
The next meeting of the Board of Directors will be held probably
at the end of next week, which would be the earliest possible time
for the new members to arrive.
Upon releasing this statement to the press, a state newspaper
reporter asked, “Does this mean that the Board is not unanimous in
its decision?” (concerning Norton). In reply, Angell stated that he
was not authorized to give any further information.
A committee of cadet Seniors, Bill McCormick, Ed Brandt,
Allen Self, Rick Hosch, Joe Mueller, Boots Gilbert, and Clyde
Huddleston, met Friday afternoon with the Board of Dir
ectors to air their complaints concerning the recent changes
in the cadet system. McCormick, who acted as spokesman
for the group, stated that they, the seniors, objected to the
“method used to bring about the
change,” and urged that the Board
undertake a complete investigation
of student life at the college.
After listening to the complaints
which the seven seniors set forth,
the following statement was issued
by the Board:
“We have today heard a com
mittee of Seniors concerning their
grievances. The recent disturbance
at the A. & M. College, involving
179 members of the Senior Class,
was caused by the administration’s
enforcement of regulations adopted
by the Board of Directors govern
ing student life.
Continued on Page Four
Proper Clearance
Necessary for Vet
To Leave School
Failure to obtain proper clear
ance before leaving school may re
sult in unnecessary cuts, no re
funds, loss of time under the GI
Bill, veterans advisor, warned
Wednesday. Submitting a resig
nation of clearance form is appli
cable to both veterans and non
veterans, he revealed.
Students who, for some reason,
resign from A. & M., are urged to
get a resignation or clearance
form. They are set up to assist
the student in getting his record
cleared prior to the time he leaves
the campus. Forms are available
at the following places:
For day students and students
living in:
Leggett, Milner, Walton, Dorm
itories 14, 15, 16, 17, and College
View Apartments obtain blanks
from Bob Murray, Room 28, Mil
ner Hall.
Law, Puryear, and Mitchell ob
tain clearance forms from “Breezy”
Breazeale, Room 102, Goodwin
Hall.
Hart, Bizzell, Dormitories 1, 3,
and 5, Trailer Camp, Vet Village 1,
Project Houses, and top three
floors of Dormitory 7 receive
team in a practice game. If inter-
105, Goodwin Hall.
ROTC students at the Annex
pick up forms at Building 166, Ma
jor Sory.
Annex veterans can get blanks
from Roy Bucek, Building 1.
New Air Mail Schedule
Outgoing
North 8:00a.m. — 3:00 p.m.
South 3:30 p.m. — 7:50 p.m.
Incoming
North 1:55 p.m. — 9:10 p.m.
South 9:50a.m. — 4:20p.m.
Veterans Required
To Submit Report
Of Compensation
All students attending school
under Public Law 346, G. I. Bill
of Rights are required to file a
report of compensation from pro
ductive labor V. A. form 7-1963 at
least once every four months Tay
lor Wilkins, Veterans’ Advisor of
A & M stated.
This form is being sent directly
to the veterans and is to be filled
out regardless of the number sent
before. After completion, it should
be returned to V. A., Waco, Texas.
This report' should include income
from productive labor while in
training. Part B should no longer
be completed regardless of whether
the veteran is working or not. The
recent forms ask for the number
of days absent the past four
months. It is essential that this
be answered correctly.
To determine the days absent,
veterans should add the number
of absences from all classes during
the period, divide by the number
of classes enrolled in. For ex
ample, during the past four months
John Doe was absent from Eng
lish, five times, math, four times,
history, four times, chemistry,
three times and biology, five
times. John Doe was absent a total
of 21 times and is taking five
courses so five into 21 gives four
days absent. Fractions below V2
will not be counted and fractions
above % will count as a day.
This information is essential to
the Veterans Administration in
determining the number of days
leave a student has accrued.
Construction Head
Addresses ASCE
“Those engineers who build
bridges, highways, and buildings
have monuments to themselves and
should take pride in their con
struction,” said L. R. White, Vice
President of the Brown Root Com
pany of Houston, Texas, in an
address to the A. S. C. E. “A
young engineer should take on re
sponsibilities with zeal and much
interest and not be a 'clock watch
er’ if he ever plans to make some
thing of himself,” he said.
You will get a wider knowledge
of the work if you start in the
field. You do a lot of figuring in
the office, but never get a chance
to be in on the actual construction.
It was voted before the meeting
was closed to have the meetings
set up to 7:00 p. m. instead of
7:30 p. m.
Student Life Sets Limitations
On Clubs for Financial A id
^Proposal of Faculty, Student Increase
On Athletic Council Sent to Directors
A meeting of the Student Life Committee with 12 of
its members present was held last Wednesday afternoon.
Several topics of current interest were on the agenda in
cluding allotments of money from Student Activities to
♦'certain clubs, the increase of stu-
FM Station Begins
Test Operation On
Campus Monday
The new FM, line-of-sight
broadcasting unit at A. & M.,
went into test operation for
a short period Monday after
noon, and as a result approximate
ly 25 telephone calls were received
by the station from listeners with
FM receiving sets, Byron Win
stead, director of publicity, stated.
Listeners expressed amazement
at the static-free tone quality of
FM quality. Operating with a
power of 250 watts, KAMT, the
college station, may be picked up
at 94.5 megacycles on an FM set.
Later it will shift to 1,000 watts,
using a 500-foot tower and having
a range of approximately 50 miles.
Beginning Monday, February 24,
the FM station will begin a regu
lar broadcast schedule from 3 p.m.
to 9 p.m. daily. In the afternoon
programs will be duplicated with
those of WTAW, but in the even
ing the station’s own programs and
network features will be heard.
The station will go into full-time
operation as soon as enough sets
are in the area to warrant the
change-over.
r ABC Roundup' To
Salute A & M On
Program March 12
The Texas State Network
and eight of its affiliated sta
tions will salute Texas A. &
M. at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday,
March 12 on Chesterfield’s
“ABC Roundup”.
The program, emceed by Jack
Hurt, will originate at K F G Z,
Fort Worth, and be broadcast over
WRR, Dallas; WACO, Waco;
KNOW, Austin; KABC, San An
tonio; KXYZ, Houston; KGKL,
San Angelo; and KRBC, Abilene.
It will also be carried over the
Aggies own FM Station KAMT.
During the half-hour program
some of the Aggies World War II
history will be told and six or
seven musical selections will be
played. These selections will be
chosen from requests sent in by
students and faculty members
here at the college. Request slips
will be distributed. Each student
should fill in a request slip and
turn it in to the Battalion office
not later than Friday, March 7.
These slips will be forwarded to
Fort Worth in time for the broad
cast.
Senate Passes $5
Million Proposal
The proposed constitutional am-
mendment permitting A&M and
Texas University to issue bonds in
the amounts of $15,000,000 and
$10,000,000 for additional build
ings, passed the Senate Thursday.
The amendment which will now
be sent to the House, also provides
for 5 cents of the state advalorem
tax to be set aside for the con
struction of buildings at fourteen
other state colleges.
It is expected that the resolu
tion will be adopted by the House,
and then be submitted to a vote of
the people of Texas on August 23.
The constitutional amendment
passed the Senate by the over
whelming vote of 26 to 2. Sena
tors voting against the measure
were Sterling J. Parrish of Lub
bock and Pat Bullock of Colorado
City.
Representatives of all state sup
ported institutions had previously
approved the measure while the
only opposition being voted was
that of the West Texas Chamber
of Commerce which had urged that
the permanent building fund be
divided among all the state sup
ported colleges.
Reed to Head New
Poultry Station
Appointment of James R. Reed,
Jr., as superintendent of the newly
established poultry substation at
Gonzales was announced today by
Dr. R. D. Lewis, director of the
Agricultural Experiment Station.
This substation was created to
study the requirements of broiler
production, the general managerial
problems of poultry raising, and
reduction of high poultry mor
tality. The Gonzales substation will
be No. 21 in the Texas A&M Ag
ricultural Experiment Station sys
tem.
May Be Directors . . .
C. C. Krueger
Tyree Bell
Jester Nomination
Of Krueger, Bell as
Directors Imminent
To Replace Buchanan
And Brees Rejections
Appointment of C. C. Krueger
of San Antonio and Tyree L. Bell
of Dallas to the A&M Board- of
Directors appeared imminent today
according to reports from reliable
sources in Austin.
According to a Dallas News
story, Governor Jester indicated
that he would send the names of
Bell and Krueger to the Senate on
Friday before leaving Austin to at
tend a George Washington Birth
day Celebration in Laredo.
Senator Walter Tynan of San
Antonio said that Governor Beau-
ford Jester had assured him that
Krueger would be appointed to the
A&M board.
Krueger, an official of the San
Antonio Machine and Supply Com
pany, conferred with the Governor
on Thursday. He is a graduate of
the 1912 class.
Tyree Bell, former captain of
the Aggie football team, is a past
President of the Association of
Former Students. He is an engi
neer and has been in Dallas for
a number of years.
If Bell and Krueger are appoint
ed by the Governor and are con
firmed by the Senate, they will
take the places vacated by D. S.
Buchanan of Buda and Maj. Gen.
H. J. Brees of San Antonio.
Social Science Assn, to Hold
Annual Meeting in Dalis
The Southwestern Social Science
Association, composed of those per
sons teaching and otherwise inter
ested in Social Sciences through
out the Southwest, will hold an
annual meeting at the Baker Hotel,
Dallas, April 4-5.
This includes all educational in
stitutions in Texas, New Mexico,
Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, and
Louisiana. Anyone desiring to be
come a member of Social Science
Association may call by the office
of the Department of Economics
and file a membership card. The
dues, payable in advance, are $3
per year and this includes a year’s
subscription to the Southwestern
Social Science Quarterly.
dent representation on the Ath
letic Council, establishment of an
information center on the campus,
and the creation of a student lib
rary committee.
The committee authorized the
manager of Student Activities to
allocate money from the dance
proceeds to aid clubs on the cam
pus. Certain limitations were set
up to select which clubs were en-
tited to receive this help. Eligi
bility of the clubs to rate pay
ment and the conditions for al
location of funds is determined as
follows:
Eligibility Rules
Only those clubs whose mem
bers pay dues, except service or
ganizations can be considered for
financial aid.
1. Clubs which have intercolle
giate representatives for whom the
college supplies no funds.
2. Service organizations.
3. Organizations that send dele
gates to state or national conven
tions providing the club shall al
locate some of its own money to
defray expenses. The amount of
money from Student Activities
cannot exceed 50% of the club’s
expenses.
4. Clubs that bring outstanding
speakers to the campus.
A requirement that applicants
for this money submit a financial
statement of income and expen
ditures of the previous year and
a proposed budget for the cur
rent year was recommended.
More Students on Council
Acting on the request for more
student members on the Athletic
Council, the Student Life Comm
ittee passed a resolution that a re
commendation be made to the
Board of Directors to effect an
increase in the faculty represen
tation on the Council from three
members to four and to up the
number of students sitting with
the group to two members. A pro
vision that one of the student re
presentatives through the year
1949-50 be an ex-serviceman with
senior classification.
In the discussion on the idea of
an information center to facilitate
reaching students by telephone,
Dean Rollins, chairman of the com
mittee, pointed out that the College
was making plans to establish
such a center to operate 24 hours
a day. No action was taken pend
ing reports from the College’s
activities.
In answer to a request from
the Student Council that a library
committee be created, the Life
Committee authorized the head
Librarian to select 5 men to as
sist him in library problems such
as selection of books, facilities of
the institution, and services to be
rendered.
Solicit Contributions
Of importance to the students
of the College was a proposal of
the Student Life Committee that
contributions be solicited from the
students to defray the bills pre
sented to the College for property
destroyed or damaged at the time
of the bonfire last fall. Statements
amounting to $191 have been sub
stantiated, it was said, and a cam
paign to collect a small sum from
each student was recommended.
Some danger of the discontinuance
of the bonfire due to this destruc
tion of personal property has been
registered.
A subcommittee was appointed
to study the plan presented the
group by a student to operate a
cooperative buying concession for
married veterant to eliminate the
high food costs.
Brazos County Club
To Meet Tuesday
A play-by-play motion picture
of the State championship football
game between Odessa and Thomas
Jefferson of San Antonio will
highlight the meeting of the Braz
os County A&M Club to be held
at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, at the Bryan
Country Club, President Fred Hale
announced today.
This meeting will complete plans
for the April 21 Muster of the
former students of A. & M. resid
ing in the Bryan-College Station
area, and will hear reports from
various committees. Final account
ing will also be made of the ban
quet and dance given by the Club
and the Athletic Council for mem
bers of the football and cross
country teams.
The Club will welcome all former
students at the Tuesday night
meeting, Hale said.