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AUGUST 23
VSA All-College
Dance At the Grove
IN THE
AUGUST 23
Vote On College
Building Amendment
OF A GREATER ARM COLLEGE
VohnxM 47
STATION
I. TEXAS. FRIDAY. JULY 18.1847
Number 18
2nd Summer Session Registration
To Be Held Monday in Sbisa Hall
Students studying In the Texas Cooper
ative Wildlife Collection are John E. Wood,
graduate student, left, and Matt H. Whisen-
hunt, right
right are barn
skunk, hog-nose
shown from left to
owl. tsirred owl, spotted
skunk, and striped skunk.
42,000 Specimens Provide
Important Wildlife Data
By M. H. Whisenkunt r f | -y—
More than 42,000 specimens of mammals, birds, reptiles, 1 k• t*abTe**sd»ct'*U^betnr
amphibians, and fish can be found in the Wildlife collection utilised. The cramp* .!
of the roor* is
is learned that there art over
4,000 marasvala, 4,600 birds, S^00
reptiles and smphibiaaa, and over
80,000 fish. Take another look at
the room end oae wonders how
such S small room booses over
41,000 ipecimsns Uaviag room to
on the campus
The Texas Cooperative Woldlife Research aggregate is
under the direction of the Fish and Game Department, which
is headed by Dr. W. B. Davis.
The assemblage was started in 1938 along with the for
mation of the Fish and Game Department This collection is
ths rasult of cooperation bstwaaa* -■ — ■
Mm fish and Gmni Dopartmant,
and Orstar
»h and WUd-
Tsxas
Gama. Fish, »
V. 8. Fish
students, and
k.
Commission, U. 8.
Ufa Sorrica, os-si
tcr.'strd in.liv uiuu
in-
Winners in Essay
Contest Released;
Judged by Aggies
Prisa-wlnnera in the eaaay
contest sponsored by the KT-
RH Farm and Ranch Depart
ment were presented on the
Gelf Coast Farmer program broad
cast ovsr KTRH st noon Saturday
July lit Esaays wars judged by A.
A M. agricultural students.
The assays, on the subject “How
Radio Can Bast Serve the Farm
and the Farm Home”.
The winners wars: Patricia
Gholson, Houston, first prise, $100
Savings Bond; Gilbert Stech of
Weimer, second prise, $60 Savings
Bond: Howard Hicks of Velasco,
third prise, $26 Savings Bond; An
nette Han us of Bryan, fourth prise
$26 bond; Lao Ernstes of Ksty
fifth, $26 band; and Dennis Bren
ek of Sweet Home and Wayne
Cook of Silsbee, who were awarded
$26 Savings Bonds each in a tie
for sixth prise. In addition to the
bonds, KTRH awarded 100 con
solation prises of one dollar each.
Prises were presented to the
seven winners by George Roenner,
dirrctor of the Farm and Ranch
Department of KTRH, who con
ducted the con teat. The prise-win
ners ware entertained at a lun
cheon »t the Texas State Hotel
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\g»ieland Leader
Attends Waring’s
Summer W orkshop
Bill Turner, director of the
AggieUnd Orchestra and the
Harper’s Publish
Story by Watson
Of English Staff
The July issue of Harper's
Magatinc carries a short story
by John C. Watson of the
English department who la
now on a year's leave to writ* a
novel through a Eugene F. Sax
ton Scholarship. The story, ^Tba
Gua ea the Tahl«, M deals with ntr
al people of West Texas. Elmei
Doolittle, “long on judgment but
short on Jesus,” find* himself on
an unofficial jury to pass judgment
upon a preacher who has carried
his religion too far. The verdict
passed by Elmer, two deacons, and
a Justice of the Peace is satisfae
tory to all concerned—except the
preacher.
An earlier story of Watson’s ap
peared in the December, 1946 is
sue of Harper’s, and some of his
work has also been published in the
Atlantic Monthly.
Classes Begin Monday at 1
/ » ■ I | 1 iMr / / I / /' / v 1/ j 'l
llt *f*l*tmi0M for tht second Up* of tho summer session
1 ^.^d MoBtUy. July 21. from 8 a. m. to 12 noon la"
Sbisa Hall. H. L. Heaton, n *i*tr»r, announced Tuesday.
Both old and naw students will register at this time. As
signment cards will bo released Monday at the east entrance
to Sbiaa Hail according to the
♦
■osMay
followii
Camp Hood Aggies
Finish First Six
Weeks of Trainin«:
VSA Sponsors Key
Design Contest;
Deadline August 9
The
€4M|0ft#
i Madr <
public, but It may be seen by <
tacUng a member of the Fiah
Game staff, who will ehow the!
visitor through the collection.
As one enters the room hooting
the collection in the Agriculture
EngineeringHHuildmg, he to coo
fronted with steel eases on one
side, shelve* full of jars on the | expansion, the Ftoh
other, end tkuito of animals bang-
Each week the Flab and Game
Department receive* letter* from
many part* of tht United Btatei
and foreign countries, requeettn)
information that can com# only
from this eeUaetion. The group
not oaly pro video valuable eeienti-
fto data In the United States, hut
alee promote* good will between
MMlW. e>
The eellection include* aevecal
•pectmena of vampire hnto, whkh
nr* rarprieingly aroall. Among the
thicken* like bird*
quail, collected In 1SS7 by Meame
himself. Other item* to be seen, . .. . ...
are perrota, lovebird*, tropical Ticket* for the "Anything
brightly colored bird*, ©wto,h*wka,'Goe*" party of the Brasoe
dock*, |
squirrel
Board of D*ree
ls their Juae meeting ap
proved i>»n»tou of the Ftoh and
Gam* Departawat on the third
floor of the Agriculture Bagla-
eeriag huiMm*
the board approved UmImIW a practical
and Game
ng schedule:
• to $—All •tudeata whoa*
»»». bntn W.U, A Amth
S to 1<) All studeata who**
mimamea begin with 8 through
It tm 11—All students whoa*
r-i W L ~
11 to 12—All students whoa*
samemea begin with E through
X- i|
term enrollment,
leea than the first,
ted at 8,600. Al-
number will be
day for Shnwnee-on-the-Deln-
waiu, Pennsylvania, where he wil
attend Fred Waring’* Summer Mu
sic Work»hop
Within the period of one week
student* of the workshop will re
ceive a practical dcmonatiuilon of
Gam* De- Waring'* technique as apnied to
Ing and
the Animal Industries frtm all over the United
pert men t bps mad* plans to move choral singing end arramm
their offices from the third Door of radio work. College ehornT li
„ . nil over
their new quarters in the Agrieul-1 SUtes will hove an
A contest to design a dis
tinctive key for members of
the Veteran Students Asso
ciation has been announced by
Arch D. Barnes, member of the
Board of Representatives. A first
prise of 10, second prise of $6, and
three third prise* of tickets to the
VSA dance on Anguat 2$ will he
awarded to the doaignere of 1
beet key insignias.
Tto* ia% la he Wor-I on the kev
chain or watch fob, win be present-
Tiber* of the VSA upon
of the membership fee,
stated. It will accompany
the regular membership card. Ac
cording to Bamst, the hoys will
be given beginning with the fill
aemeeter for the year 1947-4t.
All entries in the key-design con-
test must be submitted to the Vet
Five hundred and thirty-six
members of the first post-war
college ROTC advanced class,
including cadets from A. & M.
last weekend finished the first half Tn,. ,
of their summer training program ,
at Camp Hood, Texas, where they k*. r ‘
i studying tactics, weapoua, nrnli-! ZV |t
° th<T v rt*rans, altheurii a few recent
Last wee*?* trafnimr included the h ‘ fh **** nisde
•turfy .urf ( :S, P ' i y' , ° n '° r
try weapon*. TOe week the cadets t fj .
will study tactics, making two > r 0,4 » t 'j <knt » mu » t register by
night tacOEul marches. Over 90 per 5 ^ JV of regtotmtion day or pay
cent of the students participating “ * 44 J** # **1 k»*triculation fee <rf
in the advanced training program 9* tota regfatiratton; July 25 to
are veteran*. lb **. date that anyone may
Students at Camp Hood are
training in three branch** of ser- Juaiors and seniors in the
vice. Infantry, Cavalry, and En- Schools of Arts and Sciences and
gineers. Following tin- summer Agriculture must have their as-
camp the students will take S see- signment card* initialed by the
ond year of advanced training in keada of their major departments
their respe ctive colleges and upon befor)|'the card* are presented to
successful completion they will be their deans for approval.
/:
*d to
payment
Rsmea si
In the Army reserve.
Represented in the ttnMlg bat
talion at Camp Hood, beside* A
A are Texas TMl Prairie
View University, Louisiana State
SStitSuSfew Me^CoJK^S
A. A M.. Oklahoma A A M.. Ok-
lahom* Military Academy, Uhlvtr-
aity of Arkansas, Ouachitn College,
and Herwierson ’ “
Collegu.
turnl Engkieerlng Building. The!
move wtl mk* place upon eompla-
eran Student* Association, Bo* 22,
opportunity College Station, Tetas. or to any
jmed * bora I officer of the duh August 9. Each
the Pennsylvanians, a* they design »hould be accompanied with
complete address of
t* Mieirve Waring'*
Bylvt
Tickets on Sale
_ _ j wove wni mas piace upon com pm-1 group, tko Pennaylvaniana, as they s oeatgn sn<
Rraw/MS f Jinntv ^ ^ ^ kreadeaet their program*. After! the name
r Ol DlaZOS V/jUIliy mov* la completed the Ftoh and each broadcast the teacher* them- **nder.
, * i r.sma offtaaa. Ilbrerv isbnratnrv I _!H ka J ‘ i.t- I *- —
a A&M Club Party
ItontenanU The normal amount of work a
student may carry In a six-week*
tom to six semester hour* (or
seven if part to praettoe).
Ctaaaruom assignments fog all
••w 1 *^*** JnPI
floor at the Aru.i,m*to Building
Soparato diparf el mdcmUE -
atoo will be posted in the respective
offices.
Claw will ivm at 1 •’aJcK.k
Monday nft.rnoop.
State Tear her*'
Fish-Game Majors
natory,
and eollertten will he together. This ■imiiar to the Pennaylvanlane, and
will fenlitaM etoser eaerdlnetiim that gioup will resolve initruetien
between offices, library, and eollee- and methods of techniou* from the
famed maestro himself.
•elves will he formed Into group* I
similar to the Pennaylvaniana, and
Duplicate prise* wtll be awarded
In ease of a tie.
Sees*, pelicans, svrana, bat*.
lb, mountain lions, ocelots,
and otter.
The collection to not open to the
V-
Health Director
Classes
In each pf the steel vault-like,| Turner pointed out that Fred
eases are from nine to twelve Waring to tho only professional
drawers, each packed with aped- m isician In the country who offers
mens of ht«da or mammals. In or- thia type of aen let to roll*** musk
der to appreciate these specimens educator*. Warmg’s work along
This party will bt heVd'july 21 at *• look at the essentials for pro- thia line will increase the quality
the American Legion Hall with the P«ing <>"•„ of them. Any on* of , of college choral groups as a whole,
' ~ these specimens represents hours and wiu enable musk instructors
of tedious labor. First the sped- to keep abreast of the latest trends
County A. A M. Club *r« now
on sale at 11 places in Bryan
and 14 places in College Station
•erring at barbecue and refresh
ments scheduled to begin at 7:80
r
Dr. A L. Waller, director of the
County Health Unit, ad
i a group of daasee in rural
jy, psychology, and health
education recently on venereal die.
ease. Figures were presented from
the Weekly MerWdity Report for
the Btate of Texas, which show
that Braios County ranked seventh
in the number of eases reported
throughout the state for the week
ending July 6.
The two dinks in Braxoa County
treat approximately one hundred
eases of venernl disease each week,
according to Dr. Waller.
Dr. Walar spent four and a half
yearn in the army and served with
the First Army in Africa, Italy.
England. Frame, and Germany.
Ha suffered a brockcn neck in an
ambulance accident overseas and
had to be flown back to tha States
with hie neck In a caat.
p. m.
The ticket commit tee, headed by
B. H. Dewey, Jr. in Bryan and
Wm. O. Brea scale in College Sta
tion, is making every effort to
interest aQ former etadenU in this
section in the fun and fellowship
so much • part of this anaual gath
ering.
In Bryan, tickets may ha secured
at Canady’s Pharmacy and W-$-D,
and from Jack Vick. John M. Law
rence, Jt~ Linton Jones, Louis Ned-
balek, Mike Barron, Chte Sale,
Martels Danaby, sad B. H. Dew
•F. Jr.
At Cottage Station, tickets are
being handled by George’s Lips
comb’*, P. L. Downs, Jr., Lucian
Morgan, A L. Elkins, Roy Garrett,
Dr. W. Arm is tend, Al Eres-
dom, Joe Waidhoffer, Wayne Long,
Dr. S. A Wright, J. D, PmmA,
Fred Hale, and Wf
*1*.
A&M Policeman
Dies Wedne*da\
rilliam G. B Tea
men is collected, weighed, measure- in musical and choral technique
to tak*n, and skfaiaod. Tha
•kins of larger animals are tan-
■I skull and bones of
the .feet afu labeled to go with
the ftetohed specimen. With smal
ler animals the skin to fUled with
cotton and put into natural shape.
Wire, wrapped with cotton, to plac
ed in the legs end tail to retain
sad put
w
the shape of the body. After the
animal is “stuffed ”. It must be
tagged.
Tlie tag to approximately two
inches by one-half inch, with a
string ia one end for attaching
to the specimen. The data that
goes on the tag to the collectors
name, his somber, date and exact
location of collection, measure
ments, stoe of toetoe or ovaries,
and weight The scientific name
and group numoer to added later.
Hie tag to ^Harhwi to the specimen
and the *p«rin»en to placed hi a
fumigated cnee.
—‘My, IrtZZm n .I,
Bible Chair Adds
3 Summer Courses
Three new courses in
NGate Redecorated
-m b, Variety Store At
six weeks by the Baptist Chair of
Bible, according to Reverend Ar
thur M. Smith, who recently took
over the Chair.
('nurses offered are Religious
Education 812, A Gospel of John;
Religious Education 818, Survey of
New Testament; and Raligious
Old Teat-
218, Survey of
Religious Education 812, which
to not in the catalogue, will be
offered on Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays at 9 o’clock aad on
Mondays, Wedaaadaya, aad Fri
days at 11 o’clock.
Notice to Veterans
Veterans Interested la re-la-
•toting their G. I. Insurance
may do eo by ronturting H. E.
Robarda, Room 806. in Dormi
tory 8. This must be done before
August 1 if the veteran does
not wiah to take another physi
cal examination. The A A M
Chapter of the American Vete
rans Committee, of whkh Ro
barda la chairman, ia conducting
this service.
The Aggie Variety Store, located
next to Lipscomb’s Pharmacy at
the North Gate, has just been com
pletely redecorated.
The ceiling of the interior
painted dusty white, while the
walls and wall cases are painted
light aqua. Movable floor fixtures
are painted blue jade, and the in
terior of the display windows are
sunlight yellff*. The front exterior
of the Variety Store to pail
japalec white with nch blue trim.
Ne Gradeetioa Fssrttoea
Graduation exercises for men
v* wn mad m _ ) *»»PWting required work toward
Return From Field T&SL'Si
Tnp in Colorado jrVUtl
1 r 1 ifer graduates during the regular
Nln. FUh «nd Gun* ntu- ^
dtnta and department head Tb# second \ixwrak term |WH
Dr. W. B. DavU returned Frl- *nd August 8v with rvgisiration
day from a atx-wvek eourne In jlbrjUtdoato enrolled at that lime
field work near Colorado Springs, i *«•’ the follow
Colorado. They brought $80 aped- “our and old returning
mona bock with them, some of]^* 11 register
whkh ore now to Mm Tmm Coop
orative wildlife Collation, “r—r .
u T r’Cirt^r ManE Staff Adds
was Interesting, the food was good. _
Z 'SLfZuZ.« VPI Instructor
dents taking advantage qf the
were William B. Wilton, Th* Manae.m*nt
T. WIIIU, WDHam H. KM.
7/
will register September 18 for
classoe boginning September II.
Langdon P. Kindler, Gua A. En-
ng, Robert L. SchuHx, Ernest
Simmons, William Ross Mrs
cham, and Frederick A. Buxton
They received four hours credit
for their work
Among the 660 specimens new
to the college collection are the
pinion jay, rocky mountain jay,
nutcracker, rosy finch, pine gros
beak, and seven ptarmigans. New
mammals iaelude the white-tailed
prairie dog, white-tailed jack rab
bit, water shrew, and a new sub
species of chipmunk.
They atoo made a man genu nt«
with the Colorado gamo officials
dition of S. A. Wykee to the teach
ing staff of the department. Wykee
M at present teaching Industrial
engineering at the Virginia Polyw-
technic Institute aad will arrive
at A. A M. in September,
i Among the courses Wykee will
tesidi are tool design, time and
motion study, and the survey
course in management engineering.
Wykes has had many years of
practical experience in metal-man
ufacturing industries, as well as
five years of teaching experience,
Virgi) M. Faires, head oTQm de
department, seated. HU practical
Dreams Come |Tme-Plans Okayed For Union Building
to get an Elk from that locality* |f ck8r , r ® und e ? > !£ Ud i 10
this fall. Thee* specimen* will add “* n . ^ w " rk * f <W» rtment.
to the somplftoneas of the eolkc- ; bachl ' or °. f <U '
tion of animals in the wildlife col ,n ••“‘“trial engineering from
toetkm 9 rhnneylvanto Btate and a master
* ■ — ■ - ■ — at science in the same field from
Virginia Polytech.
By A A Hinkle
Approximately u year ago Presi
dent Gtkkrtot appointed a Union
Horae* Holden, eempuspolk* of- j Betiding. Committee to draw up
Wednseday aad make pleas sad recommenda
tions for u Union Building to he
constructed on the AAM campus,
•toes then the committee. In-
fleer, died suddenly Wednesday
monihtg at his home on South Col
lrg« Road He was 74 yeure old.
He had been employed by the
•ampua security offtoe for f
teen year*. Oa September l, 1
Mr, Halden was placed en m
fled service because of 111 health.
Up until that time he had served
as ntghtwatohman, policeman, and
aided the nolle* fora* In handling
erowde attracted by •porting
•vento.
Me U survived by hi* widew,
Mr*. Margaret Holden, five daugh
ter*, and iwo Mas. Ills sister and
Union. In
eluding student representatives
has come a long way with plans
and recommendations. To begin
with, a series at tkrae confer seem I American
weie held with Porter Butts, Dir Quillen,
of the Wisconsin Union, on
In tlMss
not to copy the plan
of tha Wisconsin Union, but to
benefit by the expert knowledge
of Uniooa that he poeoeaeod. fJto
lag the suggestions aad oplutoa*
that hs hatfaequlrad by experience,
the committee had something to
start on to planning tho AAM
nnd tight
also eurrim
ffaadOtildren
July K $8, ML 1144. In MMpi<
Wisconsin Union in fOg*r.| la haw
It was financed, haw It was organ
'■ 1 t> > it ««« controlled, and
how It served tho student body nnd
tommonMp. la the** confer-
ence* with Motu the eommitte*
nnd E. L.
srith the con
studied
the A ssorlatisn of
Atoo K. E. Me-
of the committee.
Mototant to the
_ Mm
Unton
thto
at
tor* wl
or failure of a union,
4 /'
to plan a Union whkh wouW con
tain m few defects as possible
whkh other Unions had found to
impair ths efficiency of a Union.
After Mm eeafeeuaeM aad atadtoa
in July of 1846, the committee held
regular meeting* starting In Oct
ober of the same year and tack
led their Imrdeet Job in
Thto job wm oa* of
f
of tho
tho Union
the omnisstion. control and tho
method of financing the Union.
In Its report to the President en
June It, IH7, whkh wm ratoalltod
to the, Board of Director., the
pietion by September 1, 194$. The
committee expressed tie belief that
the minimum facilities needed in
n Union Building for our College
could not be pro\ idrd for lees than
$1,400,000 to $1,500,000 of whkh
approximately |!*00,000 ( a now
available. As to facilities, the corn
ea rnest. iwlttee approved the general out-
tning. In, Ha* of fadlitie* planned for the
of recommendations, ths site building m tad us ted to the latest
i budding, the faetihtoe that arckltoetural design by
nloa would offer Mm students, ArthKeet, Carlton Adai
■the CeUege
Adams. Further,
Museum Adds 1200
Mounted Plant*
Twelve hundred mounted speci-
•f plants native to Texas
■ M. V llTU.nam, wrortlin, H.
skeptktom is comp etoly with- l‘|^kji, eurt’or of the museum
b«s.. Until rveentiy, building botanist la charge
UnlonJ Director,
t 1, JM».
At tta msetlng June t$-t6, 1947,
Hoard of iMriN'tfirii Miithoriie^i
i’nten Building Commltto* raeom- Hm Kpietotoaeat at a Union Dir-
mended that eeaetrueMaa an the .efftetira, Bfptemhar 1, 1$47
Probably quite a few people hav»
become skeptical about a Union:
Building at AAM. To tho#* who _
have been In eleee contact with the 1 have been s.idrd to the 8 M
program of the ** 1 “ - - —-
thto
out
materials were not obtaiaabl* for ium.
each a project as this and even If The plants represent five coilec-
they had been available, their prtoo mlTof the Uwmtnoie genera
delay on the instruction. 1 Tl ^A Rm hmm In progress f»V the
paet two weeks fa an effort to
Union eommenee not later
May 1, 194$, with a view to
X"
X* «Uk wkUk to
n Activttke.
Thto Unlaa Building wbtoh to
■vuMaed ftp oar College to going
to he more than just a WOdlug—It
will he a standing m- mo rial to W
MM Aggtoe wbo gave toetr all
In the service of ib*lr MURtry
•end tome exrher
mater-
nge ftoM
tol to other edueatlone) metltottoM
m T. xss, Oiveon, and Washington.
In thto way Parks hopse that Mm
harbarlum will ha further mtorgid,