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VOLUME 46

Texas A«M

The BCOLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1946

First Basketball Game on Wednesday

Number 17

Louis Bromfield Will Speak to Students

Louis Bromfield, noted farmer, lecturer and author of many novels, including “The Green Bay Tree” and “Mrs. Parkington”, will speak to the students of the school of Ag­riculture Wednesday at 11 a. m. in Guion Hall. All agri-

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CAGE STARS oil the Aggie basketball Team are lert fb* right: Homer Adams of Dallas, Mike Garcia ofSan Antonio, and Les Peden. Since this picture was taken, Les Peden has withdrawn from the team due to a knee injury.

Law School in HoustonMess Hall Prices Raised 20 Cents Per Diem; NM’s Allowed Civvies

The A & M College Board of Directors met last Wednes­day and acted on three items that are of particular interest to students. The mess hall subsistence rate was raised 20 cents per diem, a law school for Negroes was authorized to be established in Houston, and the uniform regulations for non-reg students were changed.

The question of the segregation of Negro students was settled by the authorization of a school of higher learning

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culture students are excused from classes and required to attend, an- n o u n c e d dean of Agriculture Charles N. Shepardson.

Bromfield’s lecture to the pub­lic is scheduled at 7:30 p.,m., Wed­nesday, in the Chemistry lecture room. He is also to speak at 9 a. m. Thursday in the YMCA chapel to the Extension Service staff, in­cluding members of the division of farm labor now holding its state meeting in College Station. At 1:30 p. m. he will address the Texas Agriculture Experiment Sta­tion staff in the station confer­ence room, announced E. C. Martin, assistant state Extension Service agent.

Monday and Tuesday Bromfield made appearances in Houston be­fore the Garden Club and the Hous­ton County Club, composed of bus­iness men of the vicinity.

Improvement Plans For Engineering School Discussed

Dean Barlow Presents Ideas at Meeting of A. & M. Chapter AAUPDean H. W. Barlow spoke before

the A. and M. College chapter of American Association of Univer­sity Professors Thursday evening, November 21. He discussed recent accomplishments and plans of the School of Engineering. Attention of the group was brought to the fact that new and valuable equip­ment has been added to the facil­ities of the School of Enineering. This equipment includes a mass spectrometer, an alternating cur­rent calculating board, an internal combustion engine testing cell and new testing apparatus at the wind tunnel Plans for obtaining addi­tional laboratories and testing de­vices are under way.Barlow stressed that more space for research including laborator­ies with controlled temperature is needed. Many new and valuable men have been added to the staff, the Dean said. He added that the school had been unusually fortu­nate in this respect.

Dean Barlow stated that definite plans are under way to improve the scholastic standing of under­graduate students. These include the obtaining of sponsored schol­arships and improved work in freshman orientation. Every course must be re-examined to see that it contributes a maximum to the students curriculum.

Concerning the faculty, Dean Barlow stated that the most vital thing is for the college to encour­age its staff members to grow intellectually to become better men and better teachers for as the men grow so will the institution grow. Such growth may come about by participation in research, indus­trial experience, by constant im­proving of teaching methods and proper orientation, especially of the new faculty members.

Dr. W. M. Potts, President of the local chapter, conducted a brief business session following Dean Barlow’s address. The members of the chapter plan to meet with members of other A.A.U.P. chap­ters of the state at the Texas Academy of Sciences meeting in Dallas, December 13 and 14.

Christmas Dates For Aggieland Set

The Aggieland Orchestra still has two open dates on their Christ­mas calender that they are playing during the coming holidays and anyone desiring one of these dates should contact Bill Turner in the Student Activities Office.

The Aggieland will play in La­redo on December 23 for the La­redo A&M Club, in Harlingen for the A&M Club there on the 24th, for the Lavaca County A&M Club at Hallettsville Christmas night, at Cuero on the 26th for the Cuero A&M Club, on December 27 at San Angelo A&M Club there, and for the American Legion Post at Bra­dy on the 28th of the month.

PRE-MEDS, PRE-DENTS TO DINE AND DANCE

The Pre-Medical — Pre-Dental Society banquet will be held in Sbisa Hall on December 7, and will be followed by a dance. Dean Elliot of the Texas Dental College, Houston, wil be the speaker of the evening.

Tickets are available from all officers of the society and from a large number of members. The last date for reservations is Thurs­day. The society would like for as many local physicians and den­tists as possible to attend the ban­quet.

Report Failure to Receive Payment

Veterans attending A. & M. college who have not received a check prior to December 3, should report to one of the training officers at Ramp B, Hart Hall sometime between December 4 and 7, according to W. H. Bailey, Veterans repre­sentative. He stated, that these cases must be reported in order to get payments renewed as soon as possible.

Schwenke Calls Game Closest to Win Grid Contest

Winners for the contest to fore­tell the score of the Aggie-Long­horn battle can now be announced. Surprising as it may be there were not a few students who decided that the Aggies were going to be on the small end of the final tal­ly-

Six of the winners picked a three-to-one touchdown ratio but only one thought it would be worse and called it 28-7. Part of the contest was to put the right a- mount of each side’s score in prop­er quarter, and this was where a large number fell off the band­wagon.

For first place is James R. Schwenke who figured the final count at 21-7 with the Aggie score in the second quarter and the three Longhorn touchdowns in the first, third and last quarters.

Second place went to Charlie Murray with a 20-7 score and Tex­as’ touchdowns in the correct quarters, but the Farmer score in the first period. He like all the rest didn’t take in to account the possibility of a field goal.

Joe W. Jones and J. A. Whitacre tied for the next position each with 20-7 tallies. Their mistake was in putting the Aggies counter in the first period and a touchdown for the Steers in the first period.

Three ties were found for the next position. These are the ones who picked a close score for the game but put two scores in some quarters for the Longhorns. They are G. E. Williams, 20-7; Clyde B. Miller, 20-7; and the closest score picker, Andy Matula, 28-7.

The winners are asked to be present at the Student Activities office at 5 p. m. Wednesday to receive their prizes. Because of the ties there are seven winners instead of six as planned but pri­zes will be awarded to all.

Patterson Attends Conferences on Animal Production

Dr. R. E. Patterson, animal hus­bandman and professor of gene­tics in the Animal Husbandry de­partment, beef cattle section, at­tended the American Society of Animal Production at its annual meeting in Chicago, November 29- 30.

Dr. Patterson presented his pa­per on “The Comparative Effi­ciency of Single vs. Three Day Weights of Steers,” at the meet­ing. He also appeared on the pro­gram of the American Scientific Work Conference, held in Raleigh, North Carolina, on November 18, 1946. -- 1------------A Joint Meeting of Engineering Groups To Be Held Tonight

A joint meeting of all Engineer­ing Societies will be held tonight, December 3, at 7:15 p. m. in the Chemistry Lecture Room to hear Mr. W. W. Finlay speak on “Na­tional Preparedness.”

Mr. Finlay was born in England and came to this country in 1920. He was responsible for the organ­ization, construction and operation of the Cincinnati, Ohio plant of the Wright Aeronautical Corporation which produced aircraft engines during the recent war. He is presently Vice-President and Gen­eral Manager of the Guiberson Corporation of Dallas.

METHODIST LADIES TO HOLD BAZAAR TODAY

A bazaar sponsored by the ladies of the Methodist Church of Col­lege Station will be held tonight in the Methodist Church at 5:30. Many and various kinds of Christ­mas gifts will be on sale. Supper will be served at 6:00. Everyone is cordially invited to attend.

Ag Judging Team Wins 12th Place At Chicago Meet

A&M’s livestock team Saturday placed twelfth Saturday in the In- tercollegate contest at the Interna­tional Livestock Exposition at Chi­cago. F. I. Dahlberg, head of the animal husbandry department and acting team coach in the absence of W. M. Warren, announced in a telegram to the department Sun­day that the team placed second in sheep, tenth in swine, twelfth in horses and fourteenth in cattle judging.

The team composed of H. G. Law, M. G. Duncan, W. T. Sayles, W. T. Magee, W. E. Berry, Jr. and C. R. Landon with Dahlberg and Charles Love, assistant coach, will return Wednesday to the campus, completing the fifteen day trip to Chicago and to some of the major agriculture colleges in the corn belt.

The people of Texas are be­coming better acquainted with the Singing Cadets of Aggieland as each year passes. And after next week, another section of the state will become familiar with this choral organization when they will sing for the students of TSCW.

The present club was not formal­ly organized until 1938 when 18 Aggies banded together and de­cided to get official sanction for themselves as a glee club. Pro­fessor J. J. Woolkett, head of the Modern Languages department was drafted as club director. Wool­kett was a former member of the glee club at Oberlin College in Ohio and had organized several singing groups at that college. With this, the A&M Glee Club got underway.

Membership increased during the first year as the group made var­ious appearances before clubs on the campus and in other public performances. Enough funds were raised for them to make a trip to San Antonio for their first off-the campus program. It was a prede­cessor of the host of others to follow.

Adding more members to the or­ganization in the school year of 1938-39, another trip was made to Houston and Galveston. In this tour, they appeared at radio sta­tions, schools, and clubs and stim­ulated enough interest to raise the number of members to about 60 in

No Postponements; Deadlines Must Be Kept on Longhorn

Work on the 1947 Longhorn has been slowed down considerably by the Cadet Corps’ failure to coop­erate with the photographers, ac­cording to co-editors Harry Saun­ders and Jimmy Demopulos. Clubs and organizations have not kept their appointments to have their pictures taken. Clubs are request­ing postponements due to the fail­ure of enough members to be pres­ent at the scheduled time to have pictures made. These schedules have already been made and must be kept.

Juniors and seniors have until Saturday, December 7, to select their proofs. After that time proofs will be picked for them by members of the annual staff.

It was also announced that freshmen are lagging in their pho­to schedule.

all. Even though school work and other interests interferred with many of the singers’ practice, the club took another tour the next year through South Texas where the public began to take notice of the Aggie singing organization as it appeared for banquets, radio programs, and theatres.

While enjoying all of this pub­licity, the club was not entirely satisfied with the name of Texas A&M Glee Club and so decided to choose another one. A contest was held to accept suggestions and af­ter long and deliberate considera­tion, it was finally agreed to take, the name of Singing Cadets as the official one, the name of the club ever since.

The Singing Cadets popularity has increased by leaps and bounds since then. Richard Jenkins suc­ceeded Woolkett as director of the club and started a campaign to make the Singing Cadets known throughout the South by making tours of schools, colleges, clubs, and various other groups. Beau­mont was included in the club’s tour of 1941-42. Newer singing arrangements were procured and they included both popular and classical selections. Special at­tention was paid to Aggie songs.

When Universal Pictures began production of “We’ve Never Been Licked” on the campus in the Fall of 1942, the Singing Cadets were selected to do all choral music for

Former Aggie Now Serving in Vienna Transport Command

First Lt. Edgar L. Kellam, son of Mrs. Ina Mae Kellem, 310 Roosevelt Avenue, San Antonio, is currently serving as navigation and briefing officer at Tulin Ar­my Air Base, in Vienna, Austria, it has been announced by that headquarters.

Lt. Kellam attended high school in Columbus, Georgia, graduating from their in 1941. He then came to A. & M., entering the service in September, 1943. After re­ceiving navigation training as an aviation cadet, he was commission­ed in October, 1944.

Tulin Air Base serves as the Austrian Terminal of the Euro­pean Air Transport Service, pro­viding aerial transportation for the US occupation forces in that theater.

He hopes to return to the states in the near future to enroll in pilot training.

the picture. Under the direction of Ken Darby, leader of radio’s King’s Men, the group received valuable experience and training while contributing to the film it­self.

Early in 1943, the Houston Sym­phony included the Singing Cadets on one of its concerts that year. At the time the club was making a trip to Camp Wallace and the vicinity appearing at various clubs, churches, schools, and also at the A&M Exes club.

Not until the Spring of 1944, did the Cadets swing on another tour, this time to East Texas, and Dallas, and Denton. Shortly af­terward, Jenkins resigned to be­come a music director at N.T.A.C. and Euell Porter continued direc­tion of the club until the Fall of that year, when Bill Turner, the present director, took over the or­ganization.

Continuing its tours of the state, the Singing Cadets sang in Beau­mont in the Spring of 1945, at John Tarleton Agriculture College at Stephenville in the Fall of 1945, for Sam Houston State Teachers College during January of 1946, and at TSCW last Spring.

And don’t think that that’s the end of it either. After this next performance Saturday night, the club plans about four other dates to fill in the coming season. On this December 19, they will sing

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Annex Theater to Show Free Movies

Effective Monday, December 2, the Rivoli Theater, located at the Bryan Air Field Annex, was closed for A. & M. students, it was announced by Bill Dominy of the Student Concessions.

Instead of running movies throughout the week, there will be two free shows each week. On Wednesday evening at 7:30 p. m. and Sunday afternoon at 2:30 p. m. movies will be shown for the benefit of Aggies living at the Annex.

Aggie Players Make Debut on December 11th

Plans have been completed by the Aggie Players for their first play of the season when they pre­sent “The Male Animal”, Decem­ber 11 through 14 on the stage of the Assembly Hall.

The original production of “The Male Animal” appeared on Broad­way in 1941 and it was written by James Thurber and Elliot Nugent. It was an instantanious success and remained in the theatre for several seasons.

Male leads in the Aggie Players’ performance include Bill Kruase of Houston, John Steum and Fred English of San Antonio. Mary Frierson and Mamie Lee Jackson will take the female leads. Sup­porting players include Frank Camp of Blum, Texas and Jimmie MacKenzie of San Diego, Calif­ornia.

Tickets to the showing will go on sale the latter part of this week on the campus and at several pla­ces in Bryan. Prices will be 60 cents for reserved seats and 40 cents for general admission tickets.

Arthur Angrist, director of the Aggie Players announced that this is only the first of several plays planned to be put on during this school year. He also stated that anyone interested in taking part in plays, contact him at the English Department in the near future.

Hillel Sponsors United Jewish Appeal Program

The A. and M. Hillel Foundation in cooperation with the Bryan Jewish Community, is sponsoring a United Jewish Appeal Program on Friday evening, December 6, at 7:30 p. m., at the Y.M.C.A. Chapel immediately following the regular Friday evening religious services. Leonard M. Cohen of New York will be guest speaker and explain the program of reconstruction and rehabilitation which the United Jewish Appeal is endeavoring to carry out in this country and over­seas. The talk will be illustrated by a film called “The Battle for Survival” produced by R.K.O.- Pathe.

Funds raised by the United Jew­ish Appeal are distributed through three major American Jewish re­lief organizations. They are the Joint Distribution Committee, which provides for overseas relief and rehabilitation in more than 50 countries; the United Palestine Appeal, which supports the pro­gram for mass settlement and re­construction in Palestine; and the National Refugee Service which maintains a program for the ad­justment of refugees in the United States. Cardinal Spellman and John D. Rockefeller are among the leading Americans supporting the work of the United Jewish Appeal. William Rosenwald, Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, and Charles J. Rosen- bloom are National Chairmen.

A cordial invitation is extended to the College and Bryan commu­nities to attend the meeting.

ton. The school is to offer a first year law course that wil be taught by Negro attorneys, and will be qnder the supervision of Prairie View University, an A & M branch. Governor Stevenson estimated that the cost of beginning the school would be $50,000 and has offered to grant a deficiency appropria­tion to finance the school from the funds at his command.

Effective December 18th the prices of family style meals in the mess halls will be raised from $1.00 to $1.20 per day. The prices of the “pay as you go” meals will be rais­ed from 40 to 50 cents for the noon and evening meal, but the morning meal prices will remain the same.

The price raise was necessitated by the increasing costs of foods. An additional payment of $5.20 must be paid by all students who have paid for their meals for the whole semester in advance. Those paying on the installment plan will pay a total of $42.80 on their next installment.

The Board approved a recom­mendation by Col. G. S. Melay that non-reg students not be required to wear uniform. This pertains to the first and second year students who have been required to wear the uniform in the past even though they are not in military organiza­tion. This is a temporary measure enacted because there are so many veterans who are not in uniform at present, it was stated.

Officers Elected To November 21st Annex Vet Meeting

SHSTC All-Girl Band to Play for Dance December 14On Thursday, November 21, the

A&M Annex Veterans Club elec­ted permanent officers to serve for the duration of the school year. Those elected were: president,John W. Laufenberg of Port Ar­thur; first vice-president, Howard Bumbaugh of San Antonio; second vice-president, Gus W. Lampe; sec­retary, Dudley Smith of Houston; treasurer, W. R. Brown; recording secretary, Elroy Ottie; and par­liamentarian, John W. Hagen of San Antonio.

Membership in the Club is open to all men who served in any branch of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Maritime Service. The club boasts a membership of sev­enty percent of the veterans living at the annex. Club objectives are to encourage greater school spirit, improve student life at the Annex, promote social activities, and to promote a better understanding be­tween the Cadet Corps and the Veterans.

At a special called meeting, pres­ident John Laufenberg announced that the All-Girl Orchestra of Sam Houston State Teachers Col­lege has been engaged to play for the club dance, to be held on De­cember 14 at the Student Center. The dance will be open to both members of the Club and the Cadet Corps, and while stags will be ad­mitted, the president urged that all members arrange to have dates. Dates may stay in the dormitory provided at the annex or in private homes in Bryan.

Meats Course Now Offered at A. & M.

Studies are under way at A&M on the value of meats in the diet for reproduction, particularly as a supplement to rations made up chiefly of cereal grains and their by-products.

Research in this field has been made possible through a grant-in- aid of $3,000 by the National Live- stack and Meat Board of Chicago, which comprises all phases of meat production, processing and mar­keting.

These studies will be conducted by Dr. B. S. Schweigert, nutrition­ist for the Texas Agricultural Ex­periment Station, in the Nutrition Laboratory, which is operated jointly by the Station and the Department of Animal Husbandry.

Singing Cadets In Eight Years Have Featured Varied Programs