Texas A&M
SATURDAY
Baseball Game
Intra-squad Football
The B
College
alion
SLATED FOR MAY 10
“A-E Day”
“Sports Day”
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A & M COLLEGE
VOLUME 46
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1947
Number 67
Exhibits, Review, Athletic
Events Planned for May 10-11
Through the years, tradition has provided that on Saturday before
Parents Day, the Agriculture and Engineering Schools hold A-E Day.
On this day, each department selects outstanding workdone that year,
and with this work forms a display. The parents are able to see the
type work done by their sons and the general nature of work carried
on at A. & M.
In charge of this years program are Terry A. Clark, School of
Engineering, and Victor R. Norvell, School of Agriculture. Handling
the publicity for the engineers is William J. Graff, while Ag students
have W. T. Little in charge of publicity. The schedule for A-E Day
will be:
9 a.m. - 5 p.m.—Agriculture exhibits open.
9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.—Engineering exhibits open.
1:30 p.m.—Dual track meet—Kyle Field—Texas University vs.
A. & M.
3 p.m.—Baseball game—Kyle Field—Brooks Army Air Field
vs. A. & M.
4 p.m.—Football game—Kyle Field—Intra-squad game.
7 p.m.—Pitchfork-Slipstick Follies—Guion Hall.
The following day is marked with festivities designed to honor the
Fathres and Mothers of Aggies. Included among the days program are
a Corps Review, inspection of the dormitories and a reception at the
President’s home. The program for Parent’s Day will be:
8:15 a.m. - 9 a.m.—Pinning of flowers on cadets by organiza
tion commanders and mothers.
9:30 a.m.—Corps Review. '
11 a.m.—Program honoring parents at Guion Hall.
1 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.—Cadet dorms open for inspection.
2 p.m. - 4' p.m.—Reception for visiting parents at President’s
home.
3 p.m.—Concert by the Aggie Band.
Tributes from both the students and President Gilchrist will be
voiced during the Parent’s Day program. Tributes to “Mom” and
“Pop” will be read by Bill McCormick, President of the Senior Class,
and Allen Self, acting Cadet Colonel, respectively. Also included on
the program are the Singing Cadets.
The band, under the direction of Verne Adams, will close the week
end festivities at 3 p. m. Sunday on the lawn across from the Presi
dent’s home.
Houston Ex
Offers Prize In
Management
To create thinking among
students as to management
plans for East Texas and to
promote an increased econom
ic and conservative program, Thom
as W. Blake, Houston businessman,
is giving a cash prize of $25 for
the best paper on “desirable prac
tices that might be introduced to
make the ranch more scientifically
managed and more productive.”
Open to any member of the sen
ior class in range management, this
is the first such prize to be offered
to students interested in that sci
ence. There is no limit to the num
ber of words, and all essays must
be submitted to Dr. Y. A. Young,
of the Range and Forestry Depart
ment, prior to May 25. Only sen
ior students in range management
are eligible.
Blake, a 1940 Aggie graduate,
owns a 5,000-acre timber and range
area near Dobbin, Texas, with 400
head of cattle.
He has been host to three range
management classes, the members
of which have inspected and dis
cussed management practices fol
lowed over a number of years.
It is hoped that further prizes
to stimulate desirable management
plans in better range conservation
will be offered in the future.
‘Texas Needs Population
Study’, Says Sociologist
By Richard Alterman
_ '‘Population study is greatly needed now to supplement future
policies of the state”, stated Dr. Rupert Vance, University of North
Carolina, as he opened discussion at the Texas Conference on Popula
tion Research, which met in the YMCA Chapel May 1-2.
The purpose of the conference was to provide a means whereby
some of the leading scholars in the field of population analysis may
aid research personnel in maturing plans and techniques for conducting
a study of the Texas population. The program got under way Thursday
morning with introductory re-4—^
marks by R. D. Lewis, chairman, ry • o 1
toreign students
To Attend Summer
Cotton Conference
The 38th session of the cotton
classing short course to be held
on the campus June 2 to July 12,
promises to have students from all
parts of the world. To date, 40
ginners, cotton classes, and textile
workers have signified their in
tention of attending.
Foreign countries indicating they
will send representatives are Nor
way, Peru, and Mexico, the latter
sending delegates from Coahuila,
Monterrey, and Mexico City. States
sending representatives besides
Texas include Oklahoma, Georgia,
Alabama, Tennessee, Missouri, Ari
zona, Louisiana, and Califorhia.
Outstanding leaders in cotton
marketing, processing and produc
tion will lectures to those attend
ing the short course. The object
of the cotton course is to prepare
men and women to enter the bus
iness of cotton; to train cotton
growers to market their cotton in
telligently and profitably; to as
sist cotton buyers to become more
familiar with low grade and off
colored cotton and to judge staple.
Certificates will be awarded to
those passing the Government ex
am as certified cotton graders
at the completion of the school.
Dr. Vance, Kenan Professor of
Sociology, Institute for Research
in Social Science of the University
of North Carolina, spoke on “The
Role of Population Research in a
Growing State”. He declared that
“Texas is fortunate in the respect
that the study of population re
search has been delayed until tech
niques have been developed that
will make such studies more mean
ingful. This is particularly signi
ficant because of the great growth
of population in Texas and the
emergence of metropolitan centers
that will play a large part in fu
ture industrial development.” He
also stated that “Educational needs,
provisions for old-age security,
city planning, future labor supply
for industry, improved health, and
migration from farm to cities can
be shown and even predicted by
population research”.
Population Outlook
The second topic for discussion
was “The Outlook for Population
Increases in Texas”, which was pre
sented by Henry S. Shryock of
the Population Division, Bureau of
the Census, of the U. S. Depart
ment of Commerce.
His estimated population in
creases in Texas for five-year per
iods until 1975, were as follows:
1950, 7,357,000 people; 1955, 7,398,-
000; 1960, 7,995,0000; 1965, 8,283,-
000; 1970, 8,558,000; and 1975, 8,-
786,000.
Quoting from a report by P. M.
Hauser, Deputy Director of the U.
S. Bureau of Census, Dr. Shryock
gave the prospects of some Texas
cities for retaining their wartime
growth. Dallas, Houston, San An
tonio, Corpus Christi, and Galves
ton were rated as most likely to
retain their present population. He
pointed out that only by providing
extra inducement can Beaumont,
Port Arthur, Fort Worth, and Am
arillo expect to maintain their pres
ent size. El Paso and Waco have
made a temporary gain, but only
if they make plans to convert war-
(See POPULATION on Page 4)
Fathers Under Fire
Make Better Grades
(ACP)—“Veterans do better
work in college than non-veterans,
married veterans make better
grades than unmarried ones, and
the grades of veterans with chil
dren are the highest of all.” This
is the finding of Dr. Harold Tay
lor, youthful president of Sarah
Lawrence College of Bronxville,
New York.
In explanation, the noted 32-
year-old educator pointed out that
men with children have greater
responsibility. By responsibility,
it can be assumed that Dr. Taylor
had in mind the fact that it is in
evitably easier to take home an
“F” to mother and dad than to the
“little woman” and Junior.
What self-respecting father could
hold his head up at. the end
of the semester if Junior had a
right to turn to his mother and
say, “Gee, Ma, this birdbrain you
married has flunked his chemistry
again!”
Ag Mag Editor
Filings Open
All students in the School of
Agriculture who are interested
in filing for the editorship of the
AGRICULTURIST for the 1947-
48 term should contact Otis Mil
ler, journalism instructor of the
rural sociology department, of
one of the following students:
Larry Barton, agriculture engi
neering; Billy Welch, fish and
game; or Charlie Ball, present
editor of the publication.
Information regarding quali
fications may be obtained from
any of the above persons, stated
LeRoy Hendrick, chairman of the
Agricultural Council.
Applications must be submit
ted to Miller before Saturday
May 10.
The editor of next year’s Ag
riculturist will be decided at the
next meeting of the Agricultural
Council on May 14.
Former Students Give Board
Confidence to Solve Problem
MANY LONG YEARS AGO—
A. E. Hinman and son looked
like this. “Red” Hinman, Cor
pus Christi, was elected president
of the Former Students Associa
tion at its meeting over the
week-end.
District Agent To .
Be Among Delegates
To Galveston Meet
E. A. Miller, district agent for
cooperative agricultural extension
work, will be among the 400 dele
gates from 21 states to attend the
annual meeting of the National
Peanut Council scheduled for Gal
veston May 11-14.
Among the guest speakers will
be Emmit Martin, president of Na
tional Food Distributors of Ameri
ca; E. A. Meyers, administrator of
Research and Marketing Act; and
Charles E. Lund, chief of the Food
stuffs Division, Office of Interna
tional Trade. Boyce House, Texas
humorist and columnist, will en
tertain with tall tales at the ban
quet Tuesday night, May 13.
First session of the convention
will be an open government in
dustry conference on Sunday af
ternoon, May 11, at which W. T.
Parker, Oil Seeds Division, Com
modity Credit Corporation, will
preside.
New Cottonseed
Oil Extraction
Process Started
Making his first public dis-
c 1 o s u r e of results obtained
through years of research, Dr.
W. D. Harris will present a
paper on the “Use of Isopropanol
as a Solvent in the Extraction of
Cottonseed Oil” before the nation
al meeting of the American Oil
Chemists Society at New Orleans
May 20.
Harris has been working for six
years, the last three under the
sponsorship of the Cotton Research
Committee of Texas, on a new me
thod of extracting oil and other
constituents from cottonseed. New
practices will eliminate the cook
ing, pressing, and a great deal of
the manual labor involved in the
commercial hydraulic process, ac
cording to Harris-
He has developed a method of
using an isopropyl alcohol as a
solvent to remove practically all
the oil—valuable for shortening
and oleomargarine manufacture—
and other by-products from the
seed, leaving a meal found super
ior in nutrient value by actual
tests made with swine at the col
lege farms.
A process for the recovery of
by-products from the oil makes
possible separation of fatty acids
in the pure state, in which they
are useful in the making of high-
grade soaps, and extraction of lac-
ithin, an anti-oxidant used as a
smoothing agent in mayonnaise
and candy, and as a detergent in
lubricants. In addition, a sugar,
raffinose, which Harris believes
has commercial syrup possibilities,
can be extracted.
Harris estimated that 14 percent
more oil is extracted by the solvent
process. Patent application has
been made for the process.
Calculator To
Be Exhibited
During AE Day
Although only partially in
stalled, A.&M.’s new network
calculator board, valued at
more than $100,000, will be
placed on public display during
A-E Day, to be held here May 10.
Lewis M. Haupt, professor of
electrical engineering who is in
charge of installation and opera
tion of the massive equipment, said
that the doors of the air-condition
ed laboratory in Bolton Hall would
be open to visitors, and that guides
would be present to explain the op
eration of the calculator, a device
designed to solve transmission-line
and elecetrical distrbution prob
lems.
The calculator, purchased by the
Research Foundation from West-
inghouse through co-operation of
a number of Southwestern utility
companies, probably will be in op
eration by June 1, Haupt said, and
ready for use by the college and
the sponsoring companies.
All departments of the schools
of engineering and agriculture are
preparing displays and exhibits
for the instructions of visitors who
come to the campus for ceremonies
on Mothers’ Day, May 11.
A number of sports events, in
cluding a track meet, a baseball
game and an intramural football
game winding up Aggie spring
practice, are schedule for the af
ternoon of May 10, and that even
ing the “Slipstick and Pitchfork
Follies,” a series of skits, will be
presented prior to an all-college
dance.
Mothers’ Day will bring a corps
review, with presentation of the
General George F. Moore award
to the outstanding organization and
the Abert Sidney Johnson saber
to the outstanding cadet.
A. E. Hinman Elected President For
Year; Approve of Athletic Department
Refusing to take either side in the controversy between
A. & M. students and the administration, the Ex-Students
association meeting on the campus this past week-end, voted
its full confidence in the college board of directors and asked
them to take any steps necessary to work out a solution.
The Council of the exes heard
three officers of the Veteran Stu
dents Association present their
side of the case Saturday night.
Bill Andrews, VSA president; Sam
Williams, treasurer; and Ed Fish
er, secretary, are ex-officio mem
bers of the exes council and as
such stated their views before the
convention of graduates. The meet
ing was held behind closed doors.
The Norton issue, which troub
led the exes association last fall,
was marked “closed” with a reso
lution expressing approval of the
athletic department reorganiza
tion by which the post of Athlet
ic Director was established, and
temporarily filled by appoint
ment of J. W. Rollins as acting
director. The resolution includ
ed best wishes for success to all
Aggie coaches.
Conservation
Chief Guest Of
Range Dept.
W- B. Allred, chief of
Range Division of Region 4,
Soil Conservation Service,
Fort Worth, was the guest lec
turer for the Department of Range
and Forestry for the past two days
discussing pertinent range prob
lems in the state and how soil con
servation service is promoting pro
grams to correct range abuses. All-
red, who addressed all range
management classes Monday and
today, will be on hand tomorrow to
counsel with students and interview
them with relation to their desires
for employment in range conserv
ation and region wanted.
Speaking on soil conservation or
ganization and functions in the
region, as well as some of the gen
eral conservation programs being
carried on in various state districts;
Allred is a specialist in his field.
He has worked in the Rocky Moun
tain and Great Plains areas of the
west.
Former chief of Range Division
Region 5, with headquarters in
Lincoln, Nebraska, Allred has also
served as chief of operations for
a period of time.
Dr. Y. A. Young, head of the
Range, and Forestry Department,
urges all students in that field to
speak with Allred Wednesday on
problems regarding future em
ployment.
Eastland and Stephens Club
To Meet Thursday Evening
The Eastland and Stephens
County A. & M. Club will meet at
7 p.m. Thursday night, May 8, in
Room 321 Academic Building to
discuss plans for a picnic, Tillman
L. Wheat, club reporter, announ
ced.
Barbecue May 19 to Honor
Winter, Spring Athletes
May 19 has been selected
as the date for the Brazos
County A. & MI. Club’s an
nual spring barbecue, honor
ing Aggie athletes participa
ting in winter and spring
sports, Fred Hale, club pres
ident, has announced. These
sports include all but football
and cross country, the partici
pants of which are honored at
a banquet each January.
The barbecue will be held at
the Bryan Country Club, be
ginning at 7 p.m.; tickets will
cost $1 each. Hale urges all
members of the Brazos County
Club to buy two tickets, one
for himself and the other for
an athlete being honored.
W. R. Carmichael is general
chairman of the program. In
charge of food and arrange
ments are W. G. Breazale, W.
N. Colson, and Charlie De-
,Ware; tickets will be handled
by George McCulloch, Elmer
Smith, and Lucian Margan; and
P. L. Downs, Jr. and Wallace
Kimbrough will be in charge of
transportation.
All former students residing
in Brazos County are urged to
participate in the program,
Hale stated.
The Texas Poll Indicates
Officials Get Blame for Unrest
College officials are getting
most of the blame for the stu
dent uprising now being in
vestigated by the senate-house
committee, a statewide survey
of the Texas Poll shows.
Among people who know
something about the ruckus,
opinion is almost two to one
against officials.
One-fourth of the public have
not heard or read anything about
the unrest at A.&M., and the other
one-fourth are not ready to reply.
Three questions were asked by
44 interviewers in a representative
cross section poll throughout the
state.
1. “Have you heard or read any
thing about the trouble or fuss at
Texas A. & M. College?”
Yes No
All men and wo
men 74% 26%
All those who have
have attended col
lege 99% 1%
All those who have
never gone to col
lege 64% 36%
2. “What, if anything, is wrong
at the college?” (Only the 74 per
cent who had read or heard about
the dispute were asked this ques
tion.)
Hazing _...12%
Insubordinate students 5%
President Gibb Gilchrist....16%
Politics, lack of understand
ing, general unrest fol
lowing war 18%
Undecided 23%
3. “Who would you say is most
to blame for the trouble—the offi
cials of the college, the students,
or someone else?”
Officials most to blame.... 31%
Students most to blame.... 16%
Officials and students
equally to blame 6%
Ex-students, politicians,
others 3%
Undecided 18%
100%
In pointing out the fault at A.
& M., persons with opinions who
have never been to college split up
in almost exactly the same propor
tion as those who have attended
college. The results follow:
Non-
College College
Officials most
to blame 55% 54%
Students most
to blame 28% 29%
Officials and stu
dents equally to
blame ...* 11% 11%
Ex-students, pol
iticians, others..6% 6%
100% 100%
No important difference of opin
ion between men and women was
noted. Some of the typical com
ments are:
ANTI-ADMINISTRATION
“More than 50% of the students
are men whom we depended upon
to save our nation during the war
time; now they are being treated
like kids just out of high school.”
“What is wrong is too much one-
man authority.”
“Too much dictatorship from the
top; not enough attention is being
paid to wishes of students who
happen to be men—not boys.”
ANTI-STUDENT
“Hazing ought to be stopped.”
“The boys are all wet.”
“Who wants to send their chil
dren there to be chambermaids ? ”
MIDDLE OF ROAD
“There is a general unrest every
where. It naturally affects the
college.”
“Too much politics.”
“Official hard-headedness and
smart alec students.”
An Orchid Grows
In Brazos County!
Not in a greenhouse! Not in
a floral shop! But near Peach
Creek, 10 miles southwest of
college, an orchid has been
found!
Discovered in a post oak wood
land area by W. D. Lewis and
J. L. Liverman, members of the
department of biology, the or
chid has not been previously re
ported from this area. In the
places where it is known to oc
cur, it is rarely found.
The plant has large lavender
flowers, which is beauty rival
the commercial orchid. It grows
to a height of about 8% inches
and has a rather large under
ground tuber.
Geology Students,
Faculty Honored
Tonight at Houston
Geology students and faculty
members will be guests of the
Houston Geological Society tonight
at the 1947 annual award dinner
in the Texas State Hotel, Maury
M. Travis, publicity chairman, an
nounced Saturday.
The Houston society annually
sponsors A. & M. in a nationwide
series of academic competitions
under the auspices of the American
Association of Petroleum Geolo
gists.
Presentation of technical papers
by winners in student competition
in geology and petroleum engineer
ing will feature the dinner. Two
awards will be made, one in each
division, consisting of association
membership in the AAPG.
These yearly competitions are
to encourage scientific research
among college students and post
graduate geologists and petroleum
engineers.
Storm-Locator At.
Brownsville Begins
Operation June 5
A network of college-operated
storm-locator stations will be in
creased to three effective June 5,
when a radio direction-finding unit
installed at Brownsville will go into
operation. The Brownsville unit, to
be operated during the summer
months by F. L. Brooks of the phy
sics department, is located in a for
mer parachute loft at the Pan-
American Airways terminal, where
PA A and US Weather Bureau sta
tions already are in operation.
The storm-locator project is
sponsored by Dow Chemical Com
pany, Humble Oil and Refining
Company, and the Carbied and Car
bon Chemical Company, through
the college Research Foundation.
Director of the project is A. E.
Salis of the electrical engineering
department.
Other station sites are located at
college and at Freeport. It is hoped
eventually to add another along the
gulf coast in order to locate ap
proaching storms more accurately.
Airport Management
Conference June 4-7
A three-day conference on air
port management will be held here
June 4-7, co-sponsored by the col
lege and Southern Flight magazine
in cooperation with the Civil Aero
nautics Administration, it was an
nounced today.
Airport officials from all parts
of the southwest are expected tq
attend the conference, which will
deal with problems arising in the
expanding aviation field.
Dean H. W. Barlow of the School
of Engineering and George Hadda-
way, editor of Southern Flight,
will serve as co-chairmen for the
conference, assisted by W. T.
Brown of the CAA.
Officers Elected
A. E. Hinman of Corpus Christi
was elected president of the Exes
Association for the coming year.
Vice-presidents will be Clarence El-
well, Austin; and Tom C. Morris,
Waxahachie. Elected to the exe
cutive board of the council were C.
P. Dodson, Decatur; J. B. Hervey,
Dallas; and Ed Carraway, Kilgore
New representatives on the Student
Loan Fund are A. F. Mitchell, Cor
sicana; Sterling Evans, Houston;
Ford Munnerlyn, College Station.
Placed on the Development Fund
Board were Wofford Cain, Dallas;
J. P. Hamblen, Houston. Added to
the school athletic council was
James W. Williams, Dallas.
In stating their position with re
gard to “recent serious and dis
turbing upheavals” the association
resolved, in part:
“We regret that the situation
has resulted in such harmful pub
licity, inflicting great damage to
our institution. We urge that
the legislative committee contin
ue to make its investigation care
fully, completely, without fear or
favor. We urge a full and com
plete report of findings be made
to the people of Texas.
“We urge that the board of
directors make whatever sacri
fices of time and effort as may
be necessary to work out a solu
tion.
“We express to the board of
directors full confidence in them
and hope that these disturbing
problems may be solved at the
earliest possible date.”
Marion S. Church of Dallas, ’05
graduate, told the exes Sunday
morning not to worry about the
current controversy. “Controver
sies come and controversies go, but
A. & M. will go on forever!” the
former president of the exes as
sured the meeting. He pointed out
that in his opinion it was import
ant that the exes association stay
out of the fight, as it was the only
body of the college not yet in
volved, and therefore in a position
to help adjust the difficulties. The
association has a big job ahead
in helping A. & M. regain its form
er reputation, Church pointed out.
He called on the older and younger
groups of Aggie exes to act to
gether in the best interests of
the college.
Bob Poison, VSA vice-president,
pledged the aid of the veterans
in explaining to the public why
the constitutional amendment for
long-range colleges financing
should be adopted in this summer’s
election. Features of the amend
ment were explained by Sen.
George C. Moffet, Aggie ex and
member of the state committee
now investigating the college.
The A. & M. development fund
is now one of the largest alumni
funds in the nation, A. F. Mitchell
of Corsicana told the exes. In the
17 months since the campus office
of the fund was opened, almost
half a million dollars in gifts have
been made either to the Fund or as
special gifts to the college. R.
Henderson Shuffler, executive dir
ector of the fund, explained how
increased research and scholar
ships are rapidly being made pos
sible.
San Antonio Elects
Officers Thursday
Officers will be elected and plans
made for an end-of-the-semester
party at the San Antonio A. & M.
Club meeting Thursday evening,
May 8, Tommy John, club presi
dent, has announced. The meeting
will be held in Room 205, Academic
Building, beginning at 7:30 p.m.