The Battalion
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A & M COLLEGE
Volume 47 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1947 Number 25
Total Enrollment of 7500 Students Estimated
39 Members Join
Faculty for Fall
English Department Adds 7 to Staff;
6 Men Assigned as Tactical Officers
Thirty-nine new faculty members and a large number
of graduate assistants have been added to facilitate the
great load of students attending A. & M. this fall.
Included in this list and working in the English De
partment as instructors are: Louis V. Hanna, Bolton M.
House, James D. Pyle, Nicholas-f
W. Quick, Mettie A. Rodgers,
Charles A. Sauer, Jr., and Sam
Southwell.
Forest Service To
The Commandant’s Office has a
full house of tactical officers, in
cluding: Ernest W. Jackson, Jr.,
Robert L. Melcher, Lester W.
Stiles, Charles M. Taylor, Jr.,
Frank S. Vaden, Jr., and John H.
Willard.
R. E. Leighton, assistant pro
fessor, is in the Department of
Dairy Husbandry, and Allen C.
Gunter is instructor for the En
tomology Department. Working in
the Fish and Game Department,
are Cecil W. Reid, assistant pro
fessor, and Helmut K. Buechner,
instructor.
While Thomas S. Stephens, in
structor, will teach Horticulture,
Robert F. White will serve as assis
tant professor in the Landscape
Art Department. In the School of
Arts and Sciences is William J.
Dobson, assistant professor of Bi
ology, and Homer Adams, Edwin
C. Cass, and Edward S. Packen-
ham, instructors in Business and
Accounting, and R. M. Stevenson
professor.
As M. L. Downey, Jr. and Wil
liam T. Williams, instructors,
teach in Chemistry, the Economics
Department has Karl E. Ashbum,
professor, Aurelius Morgner, as
sociate professor, and Kenneth R.
Grubbs, instructor.
The History, Modern Languages,
and Civil Engineering Departments
have Richard A. Bartlett, Carl H.
Mueller, and Howard L. Furr, re
spectively, serving as instructors.
Walter H. Alexander, Jr. is assis
tant professor in Geology; Rich
ard L. Acres serves as associate
professor and Robert H. Fletcher,
Charles G. Pou, and George R.
Tippett are instructors in Mechan
ical Engineering.
Dr. Samuel W. Law, instructor,
is teaching in the Veterinary Path
ological and Bacteriology Depart
ment.
Martin J. Broussard has been
added as trainer in the Athletic
Department.
The above list of employees will
be submitted for confirmation to
the Board of Directors, who will
meet in San Antonio on September
26. The recommendations of the
appropriate deans and heads of
divisions for the appointments
have been approved subject to such
confirmation.
Teague to Sail On
Sept. 18 to Europe
Rep. Olin E. Teague, who for
the past month has maintained of
fices in the AAA Building, will
leave for Europe from New York
City on September 18 with a group
of House Foreign Affairs commit
tee members.
Final confirmation was receiv
ed from Rep. Charles Eaton, chair
man of the committee.
Sailing on the Queen Elizabeth
to London, the group will visit
Paris, Rome, Greece, and Turkey,
with particular interest on the lat
ter two countries.
From there, Rep. Teague will re
turn home, while the others con
tinue to Palestine and Africa.
Offer Kiln Drying
Of Lumber Course
Taking the lead step in com
batting the bugaboo of un
seasoned lumber so prevalent
in new building projects, Tex
as and federal forest services have
planned a two-week’s course in
kiln drying lumber October 13-24
at Lufkin.
The Texas Forest Service at
A. & M., aided by the Forest Prod
ucts Laboratory of the U. S. For
est Services, has designed the
course to help industries produce
dry lumber of superior quality
more quickly.
Only 30 students will be accept
ed. Firms may obtain application
blanks and information about the
course from E. D. Marshall, Texas
Forest Service, Lufkin. The Texas
Lumber Manufacturers Associa
tion, Box 58, Lufkin, is assisting
in sponsoring the course and will
accept checks covering the fee,
which is $150. This covers only the
cost of instruction. Enrollees must
make payments before September
14 if they desire to attend.
Instructions will be given by
experts from the Forest Products
Laboratory where wood seasoning
problems have been studied for
many years.
The course, centered chiefly at
the Lufkin Forest Products Lab
oratory, will cover the basic prin
ciples of kiln diying, types of dry
kilns and equipment, testing and
analysis of problems arising in
kiln operation.
Revised Text By
Faires Published
A revised edition of “Applied
Thermodynamics,” written by Pro
fessor Virgil M. Faires, head of
the management engineering de
partment, has been adopted and
placed on college book shelves, it
was announced last week.
Ranked as the top textbook in
its field, “Applied Thermodynam
ics” is used by almost 60 other
schools in the nation. The revised
text incorporates several changes,
among which are more and clearer
illustrations and greater unification
of allied topics.
The chapter on heat transfer
has been rewritten and expanded
considerably, now including the lat
est developments in this branch
of thermodynamics. In addition, a
new discussion of the internal com
bustion gas turbine has been add
ed.
“Applied Thermodynamics,” pub
lished by The MacMillan Company,
has 840 pages with 47 illustra
tions. Among the colleges and uni
versities using the text are such
schools as Virginia Polytechnic,
Cal Tech, Georgia Tech, Purdue,
University of Wisconsin, Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology,
Rensselaer, and Notre Dame.
Batt to Publish Williamson’s
Weekly Football Winner List
Today The Battalion is happy to announce that it
will again publish Paul B. Williamson’s Football Ratings
and Predictions, the Number 1 system for forecasting
and ranking of the nation’s gridiron teams from top to
bottom.
In 33,000 games during the past 14 years, Wil
liamson has been 85 per cent right in his scientific fore
casting. Williamson sees the 1947 setup as a “super
season” with more than 800 collegiate teams in the
race. He predicts the outcome of these 800 teams and
issues a weekly rating of the 100 leaders each week.
No other system has proved so accurate. For in
stance, in 1946, Williamson picked 19 out of 26 bowl
teams, 16 of them 22 top teams in the nation’s 11 major
sections, and was the only national previewer to choose
Kansas as champs of the Big Six.
Follow Williamson in The Battalion during the
grid season and know what you’re talking about when
you get into a gridiron gabfest.
Brown Leads Cadet Corps
For ’48; Appointments Made
Bill Brown, senior pre-med student from Cleburne, was
appointed Cadet Colonel for the school year ’47-’48. He
will command the four regiments on the main campus and
the two at Bryan Field Annex. Brown was First Sergeant
of D Battery, Field Artillery last
year and winner of the Caldwell
Trophy for the outstanding cadet.
Executive Officer of the Corps
of Cadets is Billy M. Vaughn, Busi
ness and Accounting major from
Temple. He was Albert Banta
Scholarship winner last spring, and
has been a distinguished student
for several semesters. He was in
D Infantry last year.
The first regimental commander,
Jack A. Krueger, is a Business and
Accounting major from New
Braunfels, and is a distinguished
student. He was First Sergeant of
A Battery, Field Artillery, last
year.
Jack E. Jackson, second regi
mental commander, is a veteran
student from Farmersville, Texas.
He holds the Air Medal with four
clusters, the Good Conduct Medal,
and the ETO ribbon with two
bronze battle stars. Serving in the
Army Air Corps during the war,
Jackson was an aerial gunner. He
is an accounting major, and was
in B Squadron, Air Force, last
year. He is also a distinguished
student.
Ralph L. Shannon, electrical en
gineering student and a member
of Vet Company 1, last year, will
head the third regiment this fall.
During the war, Shannon served in
the Asiatic-Pacific Theater, and
was chief technician on an Armed
Forces Radio station. His home is
Bonita, Texas.
Another electrical engineering
student, Gene E. Lewis, has been
Fish to Edit
Tittle Batt’
Twice Weekly
Friday afternoon the first “Little
Batt” was circulated at the A.&M.
College Annex, or “Little Aggie-
land.” Published by three fresh
men, Clayton Selph, Royce Beck,
and George Crocker, The Little
Batt is a four-page mimeographed
paper dealing with activities of
special interest to Annex person
nel.
The Little Batt will be a semi
weekly paper, circulated every
Tuesday and Friday afternoon.
Selph was, and still is, staff
correspondent for the Houston
Post; Crocker was news editor of
Pleasanton High School; and Beck
was former sports editor of the
White Deer News Review.
The number of pages in each
Little Batt will vary from time to
time, depending on the flow of
news.
Freshmen interested in working
on The Little Batt staff are re
quested to contact Mrs. Ann Hil
liard in the Student Center. Expe
rience on the small annex paper
will lead to a better chance for
those who hope to work on the
Battalion staff later.
A meeting of freshmen interest
ed in newspaper work will be held
tonight at 7 in the Student Center.
In addition, The Battalion will
be circulated at the annex five
days each week.
Extension Service
Specialist Resigns
Dora R. Barnes, of the head
quarters staff of the A. & M. Ex
tension Service, has resigned after
twenty-eight years of service as
clothing specialist.
Maurine Hearn, extension vice
director for women and state
home demonstration agent, an
nounced the resignation, effective
August 31.
Mrs. Barnes has served as cloth
ing specialist since November 1,
1920, coming to the staff at that
time from the position of district
agent. She had taught school in
her native state of Kentucky, and
worked as home demonstration
agent in Florida previous to com
ing to Texas. She holds a Masters
Degree from Columbia University,
having received a B. S. from the
University of Wisconsin.
A complete history of clothing
in Texas home demonstration work
with women and 4-H girls has
been compiled by Mrs. Barnes and
given to the Extension Service li
brary, with copies of publications.
Succeeding Mrs. Barnes in this
field of work will be Mary Routh,
as clothing specialist, with Nena
Roberson as associate clothing
specialist after September 15.
BILL BROWN
Cadet Colonel
named fourth regimental comman
der. He is a distinguished student
from Terrell, Texas, and was a
member of A Signal Corps last
year.
In addition to Brown and
Vaughn, the following men are on
the corps staff: Maj. James D.
Tittle, Adjutant; Maj. Randolph
Blumberg, Publicity; Maj. Sam B.
White, Operation; Maj. Clyde H.
Patterson, Supply; and Maj. Clif
ton S. Harris, Chaplain.
Listed below is a complete ros
ter of promotions:
Band
Capt. David R. Howell, Com
mander; 1st Lt., William E. La-
Roche, Second-in-Command; 1st
Sgt., Jas. R. Wilkinson, First
Sergeant; and S/Sgt., Carl B.
Whyte, Supply Sergeant.
First Regimental Hq.
Lt. Col., Jack A. Krueger,
Commander; Maj., Henry A.
Pate, Executive; and Capt. Dan
D. Stedham, Adjutant.
Infantry Battalion Hq.
Maj. John P. McConnell, Com-
Singing Cadets,
Orchestra to Meet
Tuesday, Thurs.
An organizational meeting
of the Singing Cadets will be
held Tuesday afternoon at 5
p.m. in the Music Hall, Bill
Turner, director of music, has an
nounced.
Trips to Fort Worth, Houston,
Dallas, Denton, and Huntsville
have been planned for this year.
In order to get organized as soon
as possible, Turner asks that all
new members come by for audi
tions at their earliest convenience.
The Aggieland Orchestra will
hold its first meeting Tuesday
night at 7:30 p.m. at the Music
Hall. All prospective members are
asked to see Turner before that
date. The orchestra will play for
the Southwestern game dance at
the Grove, Saturday night, weath
er permitting.
Annex freshmen who wish to
join the Annex Singing Cadets and
the Annex Orchestra should see
Leonard Perkins, student assist
ant, at the Student Center. He will
be at the Annex at 5 p. m. on
Tuesday and Thursday afternoon.
Loan Guaranteers
Exams to Be Given
Examinations for the positions
of loan guarantee examiner and
closely allied employment have
been announced today by the Civil
Service Commission.
Annual entrance salaries range
from $3,397 to $7,102. Employment
will be with the Veterans Admin
istration in the states of Texas,
Louisiana, and Mississippi.
Additional information and ap
plication blanks may be obtained
from H. N. Yardley at the post
office.
’47 Graduate on EE Staff
Appointment of Edward H. An
drews, Jr., a 1947 graduate, as
instructor was announced by M. C.
Hughes, head of the electrical en
gineering department. Andrews
served as a student assistant in
the department last year.
mander; and Capt. Norman E.
Luker, Executive.
“A” Company Infantry
Capt. Sam C. McKenzie, Jr.,
Commander; 1st Lt. Guinn C.
Fergus, Second-in-Command; 1st
Sgt. John E. Dieb, First Ser
geant; and S/Sgt. Gerald R.
MacManus, Supply Sergeant.
“B” Company Infantry
Capt. James W. Alexander,
Commander; 1st Lt. John T.
Wier, Second-in-Command; 1st
Sgt. Elvis B. Chapman, First
Sergeant; and S/Sgt. Aaron
Charles, Supply Sergeant.
“C” Company Infantry
1st Lt. James E. Kunkel, Sec
ond-in-Command; 1st Sgt. Leland
G. Stewart, First Sergeant;
and S/Sgt. Billie B. Wales, Sup
ply Sergeant.
Artillery Battalion Hq.
Maj. Nathaniel R. Leather-
wood, Commander; Capt. Wil
liam D. Barnett, Executive; and
1st Lt. Frank R. Hardin, Adju
tant.
“A” Battery F.A.
Capt. James C. Winkler, Com
mander; 1st Lt. Thomas R. Par
sons, Second-in-Command; and
S/Sgt. Doyce R. Black, Supply
Sergeant.
“B” Battery F.A.
Capt. Marvin L. Jones, Com
mander; 1st Lt. Jack R. James,
Second-in-Command; 1st Sgt.
Burton French, First Sergeant;
and S/Sgt. Charles J. Maisel,
Jr., Supply Sergeant.
“C” Battery F.A.
Capt. Fred L. Hughes, Com
mander; 1st Lt. Jerrol E. Taylor,
Second-in-Command; 1st Sgt.
Jethro B. Rochelle, First Ser
geant; and S/Sgt. Homer C.
Osborne, Supply Sergeant.
“D” Battery F.A.
Capt. Louie M. Hardy, Com
mander; 1st Lt. John Windrow
Thompson, Second-in-Command;
1st Sgt. Marvin S. Mixon, First
Sergeant; and S/Sgt. Curtis G.
Timmerman, Supply Sergeant.
“E” Battery F.A.
Capt. Arthur N. Hartman,
Commander; 1st Lt. George A.
Whitten, Second - in - Command;
1st Sgt. Robert R. Smith, First
Sergeant.
Second Regimental Hq.
Lt. Col. Jack E. Jackson, Com
mander; Maj. Charles L. Jones,
Executive; and Capt. Gene R.
Summers, Adjutant.
Air Force Group Hq.
Maj. John T. Miller, Comman
der; Capt. John T. Berry, Ex
ecutive; and 1st Lt. John P.
Stanford, Adjutant.
“A” Squadron Air Force
Capt. Edward A. Hinkle, Com
mander; and 1st Lt. Gilford W.
Koopman, Second-in-Command.
“B” Squadron Air Force
Capt. Cord E. Olsen, Jr., Com
mander; and 1st Lt. Bill E. Pola-
sek, Second-in-Command.
Cavalry Squadron Hq.
Maj. William T. Stephens,
Commander; Capt. Marshall E.
Lasswell, Executive; and 1st Lt.
See CADET CORPS, Page 4
Vets Total 4,500;
Cadet Corps 3,500
1,100 Freshmen, Including 200 Vets,
Are Housed at A. & M College Annex
A total of 7,500 students are expected at A. & M. and
the Annex for the 1947-48 school, Registrar H. L. Heaton
announced last week.
of that number, approximately 1,900 students are esti-
f mated in the freshman class;
_ , . . 1,900 in the sophomore class;
Ireshman Aggie
Football Team
Slates 5 Games
A five-game football sched
ule including tilts with four
Southwest conference schools,
has been arranged for the Ag
gie freshman team, it was an
nounced today.
Part of each game, according to
Freshman Coach Charlie DeWare,
probably will be played by the
varsity “B” team, coached by
Johnnie Frankie. Last season,
when freshmen still were eligible
for varsity play, a schedule was
played out by conference “B”
clubs, but this year the freshman
rule is back in force.
Opening practice this week
brought out 67 freshman players,
with more expected later, DeWare
said. Frankie’s “B” squad numbers
only 21 players, who use the T-
formation in scrimmage sessions
against the varsity eleven.
Assisting DeWare as coaches
are Tom Pickett and Marion Flan
agan, who were varsity backfield
men last year, and Wayne Cure, a
1942 letterman at tackle.
The schedule:
*Sept. 26—North Texas Aggies
at Arlington.
*Oct. 15 — T.C.U. Polliwogs at
Fort Worth.
Nov. 7—S.M.U. Ponies at Col
lege Station.
Nov. 14—Rice Slimes at College
Station.
Nov. 22—Texas U. Shorthorns
at College Station.
*Night game.
Annex Entitled
‘Little Aggieland’
The A.&M. College Annex will
be known as “Little Aggieland,”
it was decided by a committee of
judges Thursday afternoon.
Submitted by freshmen in
Barracks 226, “Little Aggieland”
was judged best from the many
entries in the name contest.
Judges in the Annex name con
test were Dean J. P. Abbott,
Luther A. “Luke” Harrison, Lt.
Col. R. L. Melcher, and Lt. Col.
Bill Becker.
As a reward for submitting
the prize-winning entry, mem
bers of Barracks 226 were pre
sented a chocolate cake, made
by Mrs. W. L. Penberthy.
1,750 in the junior class; 1,500 m
the senior class; 100 five-year stu
dents; and 300 graduate students.
This total figure represents a
decrease of about 1,100 students
over last fall’s enrollment, which
was 8,632. The slump in enrollment
was among veteran students, since
only 4,500 are expected, as com
pared to the 6,000 of last fall.
Around 1,100 freshmen students
are being housed at the A. & M.
College Annex, formerly Bryan
Army Air Field. The difference
between 1,100 freshmen at the an
nex and 1,900 in the freshman class
lies in the fact that all classified
first-year students are included in
the latter figure.
The group of 1,900 includes old
returning students who have had
a little college background and
transferees academically classified
freshmen.
Two hundred of the freshmen
at the Annex are veterans.
In addition, there are 112 fresh
man athletes housed on the main
campus.
Twenty-six hundred and fifty-
two students registered on August
30, at the close of the summer ses
sion. Of that number, 2,450 were
veterans.
The number of 1947 high school
graduates remained about the same
as that of last year—1,100.
Early predictions for A. & M.
enrollment estimated that 8,400
would be attending school here this
fall. That prediction of July 1 has
since decreased to the 7,500 fig
ure.
There will be approximately
3,500 in the Cadet Corps for the
1947-48 school year.
Classrooms Added
Thirty-five more classrooms and
laboratories will be available on
the main campus this year, housed
in temporary structures, while
forty new office spaces for in
structors will eliminate a crowding
which made last year’s operation
difficult. These additions will make
normal class and laboratory sched
ules possible, eliminating the ne
cessity for 7 o’clock and night
classes.
All dormitories are this year
reserved for single students, and
older dormitories have been reno
vated to offer accommodations
equal to those in the newest hous
ing area.
The college now operates 731
apartments for married veterans
and their families, in addition to
furnishing space and utility con
nections for 128 student-owned
trailers and 19 student-owned resi
dences.
‘Most Frequent Errors’ ....
6,000 Boxes, Mail for 15,000
Persons Handled by Post Office
By Kenneth Bond
In general, most people love to
receive mail but very few like to
write, or as it goes, “You write
them and I read them.”
About midway between these
points, you may find the College
Station Post Office, headed by T.
O. Walton, postmaster, and his as
sistant, N. L. McCullough. Walton
and McCullough and their fifteen
full-time and ten part-time em
ployees are there ready to serve
you from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Mon
day through Friday and until noon
on Saturday.
During the coming year, McCul
lough expects to handle mail for
approximately fifteen thousand
students, faculty, and citizens of
College Station. To facilitate such
a flow of people, the postal de
partment has 3029 boxes at the
main post office, 1500 boxes at the
south station, and 1500 boxes for
the use of freshmen at the Annex.
Of this large number of boxes,
there are a very few still available
at the South Station and some at
the Annex. These boxes rent to stu
dents for 75 cents per quarter. To
get a box, a person must make
formal application and if an empty
box is available, then it will be
rented.
Tentative plans have been made
to follow a mail delivery system
similar to last year’s in delivering
mail to the ROTC units on the
campus.
There are two day trains that
deliver mail to College Station.
The northbound train arrives at
College Station at 9:50 a.m. and
the southbound train arrives at
12:10 p.m. All mail for the day
trains must be deposited in the
post office at least one hour prior
to train departure. All night mail
must be in the post office by clos
ing time, which is 10 p.m.
For the benefit of those who de
sire an earlier reply, northbound
air mail leaves College Station at
7:10 a.m. and 4 p.m., and south
bound air mail leaves at 11:30 a.m.
and 7:30 p.m. All the air mail
must be in the postoffice at least
thirty minutes prior to departure
of mail to the plane.
McCullough has found through
experience that the most frequent
errors made by patrons which
cause unnecessary delays in de
livery and dispatch of mail are as
follow:
1. Failure to give the return
address.
2. Failure to write address on
envelope.
3. Failure to write or print lig-
ibly.
4. Failure to attach correct post
age.
5. Failure to give all necessary
information in address.
6. Failure of freshmen to show
the Annex postoffice as their ad
dress.
All students who expect special
delivery letters are requested to
notify the sender of the dormitory,
as well as the room number, to fa
cilitate delivery.
He also advised persons to reg
ister all letters containing valu
ables or money. As always, veter
ans who receive subsistence checks
through the General Delivery win
dow will be required to show iden
tification.
“We stand ready to give the
very best service possible to every
one,” says McCullough, “and we
will cooperate with all concerned
to see that they receive their
mail.”