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Brandt and Nelson
Offer Resignations
Action Follows Senior Class Meeting;
All Senior Cadets Ordered to Report
To Ross Hall Before Monday Afternoon
Edward Brandt has tendered his resignation as cadet
colonel, the Battalion learned yesterday. Jack Nelson, a
cadet lieutenant colonel and commanding officer of the
Composite Regiment, resigned at the same time.
Col. Guy S. Meloy, commandant, refused to comment on
the resignations or to indicate whether or not they had been
accepted.
The resignations followed a special meeting of the Sen
ior Class Wednesday night. According to Bill McCormick,
president of the Senior Class, the class expressed its lack
of confidence in Brandt and Nelson.
At a Thursday night meeting of the class, according to
McCormick, Col. Meloy appeared and ordered all senior cad
ets and cadet officers to report to the Military Department
and state whether or not they had participated in the Wed
nesday night meeting, and if they had been there, to repu
diate the opinion of that meeting.
Because of apparent misunderstanding of that order,
the following bulletin was issued yesterday by the Military
Department:
“Information has been received indicating considerable mis
understanding of verbal orders issued the evening of 20 March
1947 to Cadet Seniors.
“In order to prevent an injustice being done to any indivi
dual, each member of the Senior Class in the Cadet Corps and
each Cadet Officer will report individually to Colonel Meloy, Col.
Zmn, Colonel Adcock, Colonel Owen, or Colonel Sommers on the
Morning of Saturday, 22 March 1947, or Monday, 24 March 1947,
prior to 1300 hours (1 p. m.) for interview before final action is
taken against members of the Senior Class in the Cadet Corps
for disobedience of orders and disregard of constituted authority.”
The Brandt-Nelson resignations are an outgrowth of the
mass-resignation two months ago, when most of the corps
officers turned in their commissions after a midnight march
to President Gibb Gilchrist’s home.
Texas A*M
Aggies Defeat Cowboys 5 to 4
by Andy Matula
It took 12 innings for the Aggie baseball team to finally win from
the Hardin Simmons Cowboys on Kyle Field yesterday afternoon.
Victory came when Cowboy pitcher McChesney relieved his teammate'
Hedrick with the bases loaded, and then walked Floyd Walker to make
the score 5 to 4.
Score by Innings:
Aggies: Oil
Cowboys: 0 0 0
Batteries: A & M, Beesley,
Hedrick, McChesney, Forsyth.
Officials: Tongate, Pugh.
10 0
10 1
0 0 0
0 10
1 0 1
10 0
R H E
5 6 7
4 7 2
Calvert, Walker; Hardin Simmons,
First Henry Cohen
Fellowship To Be
Given This Spring
The B’nai B’rith Hillel Founda
tion will award the student who
has contributed the most to inter
faith amity and group relations on
the campus a fellowship amount
ing to $300. Acting under the
Henry Cohen Interfaith Fellow
ship established in honor of the
aged Galveston rabbi, a committee
composed of faculty members will
choose the winner sometime this
spring.
To be eligible the student apply
ing for the scholarship must be
a “classified junior of outstanding
character and possess leadership
ability”. Any member of the fac
ulty or minister may recommend
a student who he thinks qualified
for the award. Application blanks
may be obtained from J. Gordon
Gay in the Y.M.C.A.
The fellowship was set up under
the auspices of the National B’nai
B’rith Association with a local
committee in charge of the award.
Members of the committee are F.
C. Bolton, chairman; J. Gordon
Gay, secretary; Mrs. J. J. Tauben-
haus; and T. F. Mayo. Similar
scholarships have been established
at nine other colleges throughout
the nation.
Ray Hodgson, ’34,
Establishes New
Opportunity Award
R. B. “Ray” Hodgson, ’34,
Lubbock contractor, has es
tablished a new scholarship
under the Opportunity
Awards program, through a spec
ial gift to the Development Fund.
Hodgson’s award will be made in
September to a winner in the state
wide competition who enters the
school of engineering.
To be known as the R. B. Hodg
son Opportunity Award, this new
scholarship will be awarded by
the Scholarship Committee of the
College under the regular pro
cedure for the statewide competi
tion. It will pay $300 per year,
and will carry the came opportun
ity for additional student earnings
carried by the others in this major
offering.
A 1934 graduate in Civil Engi
neering, Hodgson is a member of
the firm of Cullum & Hodgson,
municipal engineers, 2415 20th St.,
Lubbock. During his Senior year
at A. & M. he was captain of Com
pany A, Engineers.
■ Earl Beesley went all the way
for the Aggies giving up 4 runs
off 7 hits and walking just 2
batters. Beesley struck out 13 of
the Cowboys in the 12-inning game.
The Hardin Simmons pitcher,
Hedrick, tossed to all but one bat
ter putting up a fine show. The
Aggies collected 5 runs off 6 hits
and 10 walks from him.
Fielding errors hampered the
Aggies throughout the afternoon
and accounted for the Cowboys
scores. Considering Thursday’s
game with Brooke Medics, this
shows a big letdown in the Aggie
defense. Seven errors were mark
ed against the Aggies, most of
them in the infield.
Fielding honors belong to the
Cowboys. Center fielder Cleveland
made 2 excellent catches out near
the fence and short stop Spires
took a Texas Leaguer over his
shoulder in the eleventh inning
that appeared to be a safe hit.
In the fourth, Julian Pressly
stepped up to bat first and knock
ed out a home run only about a
foot fair along the third base
line. It was clearly the hit of the
day.
Cowboy Coach Evans brought
only 14 men on this trip. His
team lost to TU 28 to 9 earlier
this week. A full house viewed
the game which was played under
perfect weather.
Sample Wins!
Joe T. Sample was elected by
majority vote yesterday in the
race for veterans’ representa
tive on the Athletic Council,
the election committee announc
ed last night after the ballots
had been counted.
Sample, a veteran senior stu
dent, defeated Claude Buntyn
and Dan Kuykendall.
Two Speakers For
Monday FFA Meet
Robert A. Manire, state direc
tor of Agricultural Education, and
Lano Barron, director of Future
Farmers of America in Texas,
will both address the A & M Col
legiate Chapter of the F. F. A.
Monday evening at 7:15 p. m. in
the lecture room of the Agricul
ture Engineering Building.
Manire will present the outlook
for vocational agrocultural edu
cation in Texas. Barron will dis
cuss the obstacles met in the de
velopment of F. F. A. programs
by teachers of agriculture, and
will suggest methods by which
these obstacles may be surmount
ed.
All interested persons are urged
to attend.
N
y
All-College Dance Cancelled
The All-College Dance, originally scheduled for to
night, has been cancelled, Grady Elms, acting Student
Activities director, announced Friday. Lack of atten
dance at previous Saturday night dances and the Fresh
man Ball at TSCW brought about the cancellation.
The B
College
at ion
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A & M COLLEGE
VOLUME 46
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS& SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1947
Number 50
Kiwanians Begin Move For
City Chamber of Commerce
College Station will soon have its own Chamber of Com
merce, if the petition now being circulated by the community
Kiwanis Club achieves its intended results. Business men
of the community from the various “gates” are behind the
movement. The petition was drawn up by Edward Madely
of the Kiwanis Club.
Among the activities under con
sideration for the proposed cham
ber would be cooperation with stu
dents in the School of Business Ad
ministration.
The petition circulated this week
states:
“Acting upon the sober and well
considered conviction that a better
College Station community will be
the result, we the undersigned cor
dially invite you to register as a
charter member of the College Sta
tion Chamber of Commerce.
“Our belief that community ben
efits will be realized from this step
are based upon an unshakable
faith in the progressiveness, fair-
mindedness, and citizenship of Col-
1 e g e Station people and in an
awareness of certain common needs
which can be satisfied only by an
organization of this type.
“Proof of the capabilities of an
organized College Station commun
ity has already been evidenced
through many successful civic pro
jects. Courageous and able lead
ership has been demonstrated upon
many occasions. The ability to
work and play, worship and vote
together in harmony is established
beyond question.
“We who sign below believe in
College Station, its present and
future. We believe that it is a
fine place to live and a desirable
environment in which to rear our
families. We believe that it has
certain inherent economic and so
cial resources, many of which are
as yet undeveloped.
“Recognizing these condtions,
we feel an obligation to support
the institutions and welfare of Col
lege Station, and we accordingly
pledge ourselves to work unselfish
ly through this organization for
the following broad objectives:
“To develop College Station’s
economic resources for the good
of the community.
“To protect and foster the
welfare and good reputation of
Texas A. & M. College, the A.
& M. Consolidated Independent
School District, our city govern
ment, and other worthy institu
tions in our midst.
“To encourage and perpetuate
the ideals of fellowship and good
citizenship in the College Station
community in every possible
way.”
Two Fellowships
Of $1250 Will Be
Given Graduates
Two outstanding graduates of
A & M will be selected May 1 as
recipients of the newly establish
ed Humble Oil and Refining cimp-
any fellowships in mechanical and
civil engineering, it was announc
ed today by Dean Howard W. Bar-
low of the school of engineering.
The Humble grants of $1250 per
year each will enable worthy can
didates to continue study toward
advanced degrees, conducting re-
searc in the selected fields under
guidance of College departments,
Dean Barow said.
. Named as the A & M committee
for selection of candidates and ap
proval of research problems were
Dean Barlow, Dean T. D. Brooks,
of the graduate school; C. W.
Crawford, head of the mechanical
engineering department and S. R.
Wright, head of the civil engineer
ing department. Applications are
now being accepted by this com
mittee.
“This gift from the Humble
company is a gratifying mark of
the growing recognition by indus
try of the need for increased train
ing in the higher levels in science
and engineering,” Dean Barlow
said. “Not only do such grants en
able young men of outstanding
ability to better prepare them
selves for service in industry, but
at the same time they make pos
sible in our colleges the enlarge
ment of badly needed research pro
grams.
“Industrial sponsorship of gra
duate study is a natural answer
to the problem of securing in in
dustry the services of men ade
quately trained for the highly spe
cialized work now necessary to
industrial advancement.”
‘Anyone Can
Sell’ ASCE
Speaker Says
On Tuesday night George
Smith, vice-president of the
Texas Materials Construction
Company, Houston, gave the
Student Chapter of the American
Society of Civil Engineers a speech
on Salesmanship in Engineering.
Practically everyone learns to
sell, stated Smith. The first stage
—courage—is the acquiring of in
formation about the product, and
then setting forth on a mission.
The second stage is the period of
conquest in which the salesman
knows that he is succeeding. Then
the third step is the completion
of the formula—confidence. These
three steps produce salesmanship,
according to Smith.
There is a triangle of maximum
success in which all three legs ax^e
equal—technical knowledge of your
product; hard work; and person
ality.
¥
Four types of personalities fall
into salesmanship.
ENGAGING—don’t think or talk
of yourself; look for the good in
others; look for some way of ren
dering service to others; respect,
but don’t fall in love with, your
self; don’t volunteer opinion; be
considerate of everyone; and smile.
ASSURING—cause people to be
lieve in you and accept your recom
mendations with confidence. Mas
ter your product on the surface,
and never tell a lie.
COMPELLING — develop self
control; get determination that will
nrxf V.r: rlonigA ? rloiz/atoSB
fulness.
DYNAMIC — be dynamic, but
don’t overdo it.
Whenever a person starts on a
trip over which most of the road
will be unfamiliar, he usually takes
along a guide in the form of a
road map and reads the road signs
carefully, compared Mr. Smith. A
sales engineer does the same thing.
He lays out his route and uses
signs to guide his way. Then be
fore he journeys on his way for
a sales call be measures it with
regards to five questions that are
asked by the client—“why; when;
who says so; who did it; and what
do I get?”
The formula for salemanship is
as follows: 1. Intrigue the inter
est of your listener; 2. Cx^eate sus
pense; 3. Make presentation; 4.
Close with an urge the desired ac
tion. But most of all remember
that the first thirty seconds is the
most important in a sales call. It
will take the average client only
that long to size you up and have
his mind made up as to whether
he is going to deal with you or not,
Mr. Smith concluded.
Singing Cadets To
Present Free Annex
Program Tuesday
Students and residents of
Bryan Field Annex will hear
a free performance of the
Singing Cadets Tuesday
evening at 7:30 p.m., Bill Turner,
director, announced yesterday. The
group of 50 will sing the same
program as presented on Town
Hall last Tuesday evening.
On the program will be heard
such songs as “The Lost Chord”,
“Welsh Choral”, “Red River Val
ley”, and “Night and Day”. Fac
ulty member Jason Moore, Leon
ard Perkins, Richard Alves, Tom
my Holcomb will be featured so
loists.
The program will consist of clas
sical, semi-classical, and popular
choral music.
Everyone is invited to hear the
Singing Cadets’ performance,
which will be held in the Bryan
Field auditorium.
Green, Flowers Set New Swim Records
Danny Green and Jim Flowers hung up three new records
yesterday in the preliminaries of the Conference Swimming Meet
which is being held in Austin. Green set his two records in the
50-yard free style with a time of 23.5 as compared to the old
record of 24, and in the 100-yard free style with a time of 53.1
which is 1.9 seconds better than conference record.
Jim Flowers broke the 100-yard breast stroke record with a
time of 1:06.3 as compared with the old time of 1:07.
Final outcome of the meet was still in doubt last night and
the results will not be certain until after the relays.
Failure of the Aggies to qualify a single diver gives Texas
a monopoly on that particular event.
At the Piano
CAUGHT INFORMALLY AT
THE PIANO, Stan Kenton will
play for the All-College Dance
on Saturday evening, April 12.
On the night before, the Artil
lery Ball will be held in Sbisa
Hall.
Pay Increase
Bill Effects
Few Workers
College employees who have
not received a “cost-of-living”
salary increase since Septem
ber 1, 1945, are eligible for
such increase under a bill to that
effect passed by the State Senate,
according to F. C. Bolton, execu
tive vice-president of the college.
By orders of the Board of Direct
ors and the State Comptroller,
each salary in the main college
has been checked and it was found
that most of the salaries already
carried an increase equal to or
greater than that provided by the
bill, and ax-e therefore not eligible
for further increase under its
terms.
Although this bill applies only to
appropriated salaries it does re
lease certain local funds which
have been used- to increase the
salax-ies by 5% on the first $5,000
of all full-time employees on the
payroll of February 12, 1947. Those
lgiSte e %iSl rt lr°o r ra lll kMe w fe 0 c8i
funds, will participate in the “cost-
of-living” increase, said Dean Bol
ton.
There is no assurance that these
increases can be continued after
August 31, 1947, as the Appropri
ation Bill for the next fiscal year
has not yet been passed, Dean
Bolton explained.
Payment for the period Febx-u-
ary 12-28 will be made as soon as
payrolls with increases can be pre
pared.
pro-
Thomas, EE Prof,
Resigns to Accept
Research Position
H. A. Thomas, associate
fessor of electrical engineering at
Texas A&M College, has resigned,
effective April 1, to accept a re
search position with the national
Bureau of Standards in Washing
ton, D. C., it was announced to
day.
Thomas, a faculty member at
Texas A&M since 1942, has done
outstanding work on development
of a mass spectrometer placed at
the college by Westinghouse "Ele
ctric corporation, and expects to
do similar research in his new pos
ition, where he will work under
Dr. J. A. Hippie, who developed
the Westinghouse instrument.
During the war, Thomas was
an associate of Dr. Hippie at West
inghouse, while the mass spectro
meter was being developed into a
commercial instrument for deter
mining the constituents of gases.
House Passes Building Fund
With Revenue Change; Goes
To Senate for Confirmation
The House of Representatives Tuesday voted final pass
age of the proposed Constitutional amendment giving $60,-
000,000 to state-supported college and universities to finance
post-war building programs, including $5,000,000 to A. & M.
College.
Here’s Answer
To $ Question
--Natl Guard
By L. I. Lipscomb
Are you a vet, and can you
use an extra three to five dol
lars a week? If the answer to
both of these is yes, then
here is your answer. There are a
lot of good ratings open for quali
fied men in the two companies of
the Texas National Guard that are
being organized in Bryan and Col
lege Station now.
The Guard companies will meet
one night each week for an instruc
tion period of two hours. For each
instruction period members will
receive a day’s pay at the rating
which they hold. Longevity pay
also applies. Under the present
army system, pay rates range
fx-om $2.50 per day for privates, to
$5.50 per day for Master Ser
geants. There are no privates un
de rthe present T/O for these com
panies.
Initial enlistment periods are for
three years, but administrative
discharge from the National Guard
is automatic if you move from the
vicinity.
All the technical schools of the
U. S. Army are open to members
of the National Board on a pro-
x'ata basis, and service in the Guard
counts a slongevity time in the
event of any futux’e ixxilitary ser
vice.
For the men now in the Reserve
Corps; if you join the National
Guard «V>d laXor i\ni'\Aa J-n fT,\ Viqyilr
to the Reserves, you can transler
at any time with your Reserve
Corps rank, or with your new rank
in the Guard, whichever is most
advantageous to you.
An organizational meeting will
be held Monday, March 24, at 7
p. m. in the offices of the Chamber
of Commerce in Bryan. Attend
this meeting and ask any questions
you like. These two companies
are just getting started, and the
best ratings will be given to the
first qualified men available. If
you cannot attend the meeting and
desire additional information, con
tact T. G. Campbell of the C. E.
Department, L. I. Lipscomb, Box
2702, College Station, or A. B. Jar-
nigan, 1-14, Hart Hall.
Health Unit Closes
Grill Temporarily
As a result of an inspection of
off-the-campus eating establish
ments this week, the A.&M. Grill
has been closed until it can pass
the minimum requirements of
the health code and its permit
has been revoked temporarily,
the Health Unit stated Friday
morning.
A member of the Veterans’
Mess and Sanitation Committee
accompanied the officials on the
inspection tour.
It was reported that the A.
& M. Grill had requested anoth
er inspection last night, but the
results are not known.
SAM Receives First Texas
Student Charter Tuesday
W. W. Finlay, vice-president and"
general manager of the Guilber-
son Corporation of Dallas, will be
the principal speaker at the Man
agement Society banquet Tuesday
evening, March 25, Austin Burch,
club president, announced. The ban
quet will be held in Sbisa Dining
Hall at 6 p. m.
Ceremonies will include the in
stallation of society officers and
official presentation of the char
ter for the first student chapter
of the Society for the Advance
ment of Management in the State
of Texas.
The Management Engineering
course on the campus was known
as Industrial Engineering in 1940,
at which time it was a fifth year
to be added to other courses. In
1941 Virgil M. Faires became de
partmental head, and the nama
was changed to Management En
gineering. From 1943 to February,
1946 lack of students discontin
ued the course. For over a year
the Management Engineering de
partment is now operating again,
with a senior enrollment of about
fifty.
Austin Burch is the society
president; Dallas Criswell, vice-
president; Robert Reese, secre
tary; and Franklin H. Mikell, pub-
licity chairman.
Tickets, which cost $1.25 per
plate, should be purchased from
Mr. Faires in his Austin Hall of
fice before 11 a. m., Monday, All
students, especially those major
ing in Management Engineering,
and guests are invited.
Navy Recruiters In
Goodwin Hall Daily
Navy representatives will be
in Room 207, Goodwin Hall
from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. daily,
through Friday, March 28, to
enlist veterans of all branch
es of service in the Naval Re
serve. Most ex-army men are
eligible to enlist with the eq
uivalent rating which they
held in the Army.
Men interested in enlisting
should bring with them the
original or photostatic copy
of their discharge and separ
ation papers.
The two-thirds favorable major
ity — 100-38 — by which it was
passed, was the minimum neces
sary to send the bill measure to
the free-conference committee.
The proposed amendment, auth
ored by Senator Rogers Kelly of
Edinburg, was titled “Senate Joint
Resolution 14, and the free con-
f e r e n c e committee will begin
smoothing differences in the meth
od to finance the programs of the
fourteen state-supported schools
besides A. & M. and the University
of Texas.
As passed by the Senate, the
building programs will be financed
by appropriating five cents from
the thirty-five cent state general
ad valorem levy. The House Con
stitutional Amendments Committee
proposed financing the other four
teen colleges with the five-cent un
used portion of the Confederate
veterans’ pension fund, provided
for by the Constitution. With sev-
en-cent maximum constitutionally
levy, only two cents is now neces
sary to care for the Confederate
veterans.
After the conference committee
irons out the wrinkles to the sat
isfaction of both legislature hous
es, the bill will be put before the
people on August 23 for voting.
★
Representative Preston E. Smith
of Lubbock proposed three amend
ments to the college building pro
gram, all of which were defeated:
1. To provide for schools created in
the future to receive part of the
state funds; 2. To prohibit crea
tion of other state-supported
schools until after 30-year loan
period; and 3. To prohibit the
University of Texas to use the
Permanent Fund for use other
than for erecting permanent build
ings.
An amendment by Representa
tive W. H. Rampy of Winters de-
/> A— -
would allow Texas Tech to share
in the University’s Permanent
Fund.
Representative Grady Moore of
Clarksville’s bill to erase the pro
vision prohibiting state-supported
bschools from asking for addition
al building revenue during the 30-
year period, was defeated.
★
A resolution by Representative
Jim Wright of Weathersford to
invite Charles G. Bolte, national
chairman of the American Veter
ans’ Committee, to speak to the
House on March 31, received a neg
ative answer.
trampling out
the vintage .. .
By Mack T. Nolen
i. ' SHIBlw
America is the land of golden
opportunity and silver wedding
rings. Statistics prove that a gal
has a better chance to get hitched
before nineteen in the United
States than in any other land on
the face of this terrestial ball.
The golden opportunity is no
doubt the father’s—chances are
he will not be called on to support
little Flossie Lou too long after
her nineteenth summer. The silver
rings are the worry of the fiance!
(Have you ever noticed the simi
larity between “fiance” and “fin
ance?” It goes deeper than the
sound alone, so I’m told.)
An old American custom is for
the bridegroom to receive a gold
band in the wedding ceremony. I
don’t want to accuse the jewelers
of the nation of using base metals
in their rings, but how odd it is
that the gold band so often turns
to iron and slips down around the
ankles.
Mind you, I’m not opposed
to marriage. I just can’t un
derstand how the Emancipa
tion Proclamation fits in.
Will Rogers expressed my senti
ments when he said, “Women are
like elephants; I like to see them,
but I don’t want to own one.”
★
Fifty years of married life to
gether earns a golden wedding
anniversary, twenty-five years
gets a silver anniversary. Most of
the weddings of today fall into
the wooden nickel category.
Music Club to Hear
Harpist Tuesday
The March meeting of the Col
lege Music Club will be held Tues
day evening, March 25, at 7:30
p.m., Mrs. J. H. Bass, club report
er, announced yesterday. The so
cial affair will take place in the
R. R. Lancaster home, 207 E.
Dexter Drive, College Park. Miss
Cynthia Lancaster will be present
ed in a harp recital.
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