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VOL. 40 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, OCT. 5, 1940 Z725 NO. 9

First College Station Reserve Army Officers Called For Active Duty

A call to active duty was re-11’ ceived by two College Station res­idents this week when Reserve Cap­tain W. H. Badgett, 360th Infantry, and First Lieutenant O. E. Teague, also of the 360th Infantry, were ordered to report to their respect­ive headquarters.

Captain Budget was notified on October 1st that he would be called to active duty. He received his orders yesterday to report Sunday to the Chief of Staff of the 1st Military Area, Fort Sam Houston, Texas for extended active duty. Badgett will be at Fort Sam Hous­ton for temporary duty then he will report for permanent duty as instructor to the Organized Re­serve Headquarters at Houston, Texas. Captain Badgett’s family will join him at Houston.

Lieutenant Teague was ordered to report to Palacios for Military Police duty at Camp Hulen, Texas. He left College Station yesterday to report first at Fort Sam Hous­ton then on to Camp Hulen.

Both Badgett and Teague are ex-Aggies. Badgett was an Archi­tectural Engineer of the class of ’29, Cadet Captain of Co. A In­

fantry, and a distinguished mili­tary student. Teague took a B. S. in Agriculture in the class of ’32, and was Captain of G Infantry, al­so a Ross Volunteer, and a mem­ber of the Saddle and Sirloin Club.

The two newly called officers have been here at College Station since their graduation. Badgett is a Research Associate Engineer with the Experiment Station. Prior to graduation Teague was employ­ed by the Post Office and continued as a clerk in the Postal Service after graduating. Both men have been very active in the Reserve Officer’s Association. Badgett be­ing a former President of the Brazos County Chapter of the Re­serve Officer’s Association. In ’38-’39 he was Secretary-Treasur­er of the Texas Department R. O. A. and last year Vice-President of the Texas Department of the R. O. A. Teague was the first vice-pres­ident of the Brazos County Chap­ter, and has been on the active list since receiving his reserve com­mission. Both men will be given leaves of absence from their res­pective positions here at College.

2400 Thrilled By Excellent Performance of US Marine Band

By George Fuermann -“Excellent” is the word for the

United States Marine Band.Twenty-four hundred Texas Ag­

gies, professors, and civilians heard this outstanding musical organiza­tion’s program Thursday night. And the 50 members of the Marine Band heard the capacity audience give repeated ovations that “were almost without parallel in the Band’s history.”

Blessed with a brass section equal to any in the world; composed of 50 talented and expert musicians; playing a well balanced program with a definite audience-appeal; and using every sound effect in the books, the Marine Band won the enthusiastic and whole-hearted approval of the largest audience ever to witness a Texas A. & M. Town Hall presentation.

Holding an audience’s undivided attention for two and a half hours is no easy thing to do. The United States Marine Band did it, and left the stage with a still music- hungry audience clamoring for more.

The regularly scheduled pro­gram consisted of eight numbers— the encored program was half again as long as the gracious con­ductor, Captain William F. San- telmann, led the Band in twelve extras.

Titled “A Program of American Music,” the concert opened with Burnet Tuthill’s “Symphonic Over­ture,” Opus 19. Probably the least well-received number on the prro- gram, it was followed by a stir­ring medly of military marches be­ginning with “The Marine Hymn.” A tremendous ovation was follow­ed by the second number, the tone poem “Skyward” by Nathaniel Shilkret. Two encores followed.

The next number was a trombone solo played by Robert Isele. Isele’s playing of Arthur Pryor’s “Blue Bells of Scotland” was a high point in an evening full of high points, and the audience felt the same way about it. Isele played two encores beginning with the currently pop-

College Residents To Vote at MP Station

In order to cope with a future problem the citizens of College Station will vote today, Saturday, October 5, on whether to control all future real estate developments or land sub-divisions within the city limits.

All taxpayers are eligible to vote and can cast their ballots at the Missouri Pacific Station from 7 a. m. this morning until 7 p. m. tonight.

The voting will be for or a- gainst controlling “future deve­lopment on land divisons within the City of College Station, Texas, or within a radius of five miles thereof, exclusive of the City of Bryan, with regard to layout of streets, alleys, and zoning restric­tions and require developers or land dividers to obtain the appro­val of the city government in these respects before placing any sub­division or units thereof for sale”.

-ular “When the Swallows Come Back from Capistrano” and ending with “Last Night I Lay Dreaming.” In the “Capistrano” number, as well as in the earlier-played “Ma- mine Hymn,” the Band proved to be an excellent choral organization and in both numbers sang two vers­es of the respective choruses.

George Gershwin’s immortal “Rhapsody In Blue” concluded the first part of the program. A long and extremely difficult piece—eith­er as a solo piano number or with full orchestra—the Marine Band proved its versatility in a special arrangement made for symphonic band by Ferde Grofe.

Following the ten-minute in­termission the program opened with excerpts from Victor Her­bert’s popular opera, “Natoma.” Included in the excerpts was the glorious “Vanquero’s Song,” the “Habanera,” and the intriguing “Dagger Dance.”

At this point Captain Santel- mann addressed the audience from the conductor’s stand and praised the fine work of A. & M.’s band master, Colonel R. J. Dunn, and concluded by inviting Colonel Dunn to conduct the Marine Band—one of the few times in the history of the famed organization that a guest conductor has led the Band.

The tremendous ovation that fol­lowed Captain Santelmann’s an­nouncement and Colonel Dunn’s appearance on the stage was al­most unprecedented even in Guion Hall’s historic past. Colonel Dunn first conducted “The Field Artil­lery Song” and encored with a medley of Southern songs.

With Captain Santelmann con­ducting again, the second solo por­tion of the program featured Charl­es Owen on the xylophone. Playing George H. Green’s “Spanish Valse,” Owen easily proved himself a more- than-capable artist and encored three times. Most unique number on the program was Owen’s clever arrangement of “Chopsticks.”

The andante from Howard Han­son’s “Nordic Symphony” was the seventh number on the program and, after three encores, was fol­lowed by Ernest Schelling’s pon­derous but striking work, “A Vic­tory Ball.”

The number ended with Taps, first heard from the visible or­chestra on the stage and then heard in the distance as a bugler outside Guion Hall played the beau­tiful call again. A tremendously awing conclusion to the program the audience was so silent that a pin dropped in a velvet hat could have been heard in Guion Hall.

Immediately following Taps, the Band began “The Star Spangled Banner” as a thrilled audience rose to its feet.

The night before its A. & M. concert, the Marine Band played at the North Texas State Teachers College in Denton. Yesterday they began a two-day stay in Tyler for the annual Tyler Rose Festival. Now on a six-week tour, they will return to Washington October 27.

Total 1st Semester Enrollment Is 6528

This year’s enrollment, which has broken all previous records, climbed to a new peak of 6,528 in the final totals according to E. J. Howell, Registrar. The final fig­ures for the first semester shows a total of 462 increase over the first semester enrollment last year.

Final registration figures show­ed an approximate percentage in­crease of 12 per cent over last year which amounted to 6,066.

As yet, no tabulations have been made on the number of students enrolled in the various schools. Thursday was the deadline on en­rollment and for dropping and add­ing courses.

Johnson and Golman To Cover UCLA Game

In a meeting of the Athletic Council held last Wednesday morn­ing it was decided to send two of the Battalion staff members to cover the U. C. L. A.-A. & M. game which will be played in Los Angeles next Saturday.

The two men, Hub Johnson, sports editor, and Phil Golman, staff photographer, will leave Tues­day morning via train and will stop in Tucson, Arizona Tuesday night.

Phil, who will be covering the game for the Longhorn also stated that “I won’t leave a single picture out—I intend to cover it from all angles”.

Graduate Club Holds 1st Meeting of Year

John Pasco, M. S., ’40, TexasA. & M., was elected President of the Graduate Club at its first meeting- of the year held in the lecture room of the Old Science Hall Wednesday night.

Retiring President John Green,B. S., ’39, L. S. U., opened the meeting by outlining the objects of the club. Mr. Green emphasized the fact that all persons registered in or graduates of the Graduate School of A. & M. College of Tex­as are eligible for membership in the Graduate Club. Each student introduced himself, giving the de­partment in which he is doing his graduate work and the school from whch he received his undergraduate degree.

Other officers elected were: First Vice-President, Page Teich- ert, BS., ’39, Utah State; Second Vice-President, Vincent O. John­son, BS., ’36, University of Mis- ouri; Club Reporter, David Ros- berg, B.A., ’40, St. Olaf College; and Secretary-Treasurer, Joe Clepp, B.S., ’40, A. & M. College of Texas.

High School PTA Will Sponsor Supper

The Parent-Teachers Association of the Consolidated School of A. & M. will sponsor their yearly Com­munity Supper at the High School unit of the school Thursday even­ing, October 10, at 6:00 p. m.

The Association has promised that the tables will be groaning under the weight of the food from barbecued chicken, and home made cakes to hot dogs and soda pop.

This annual supper is put on by the mothers and teachers in order to raise money for school equip­ment and needs through this year, and also give a chance to the com­munity to become better acquainted with the teaching staff. There are new teachers on the staff and the people will have the opportunity of getting acquainted with the new instructors.

Baptist Church Will Have Anniversary Social

Church-going Baptist Aggies and members of the College Station First Baptist Church will greet the Reverend T. P. Lott, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Hunts­ville, Texas, who will make his sermon delivery to the local Bap­tist church at 7:00 p.m. Saturday night, October 5th.

Following the sermon there will be an All-Church Anniversary so­cial on the church lawn which will terminate Campus Church Week. The general public is cordially in­vited and urged to attend this church event.

Film Club Now Open To Students

Zisman Will Direct Club as President

What was last year the Faculty Film Club has been changed by vote of the members to be called the A.&M. Film Club and will open its membership to students. The club offers foreign, specialty, and unusual pictures unavailable on the commercial theatre calendar.

Plans are being made to get the organization of the club under way and it will be directed by S. B. Zisman of the Architecture de­partment as president of the club and chairman of the executive committee. He will be assisted by Dr. S. O. Brown, Biology Depart­ment, J. P. Abbott, English De­partment, and Dr. C. B. Campbell, Head of the department of Mod­em Languages, and Clifford M. Simmang, Mechanical Engineering department.

Though the club was restricted to faculty members last year, it met with such hearty approval and has been so eagerly sought by a number of undergraduates that there was a motion at the last meet­ing of the club that this restric­tion be removed in order to allow those students who wished to join the club to do so.

The pictures shown at the film club will not be of the ordinary movie type, but will each have some particular significance, either age, extraordinary photography, unusu­al plot or the fact that it was made in a foreign country.

Mr. Zisman stressed the fact that this year will probably be the last in which the club will be able to obtain some of the excellent foreign films now in circulation. After this, propaganda films in which the club is not interested, will probably be the only ones re­ceived in this country. If the club does not obtain some of the for­eign films which are still being run such as “Harvest”, a prize win­ning French film, and “The Human Beast” from a story by Zola, the great French novelist, these films will go out of date and be difficult to obtain.

Other films which the club is considering are: “The Puritan”dramatization of Lian-O’Flahar- ty novel: “The Bakers Wife,” which has played for the fifty-second consective week on Broadway: “The Wave,” a picture of Mexican fisherfolk.

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Special Tickets To Be Good On All MP Trains

There will be two trains leaving San Antonio after the football game on which the special round trip tickets will be useable. One leaves early Sunday morning and the other leaves Sunday night.

The special train leaving for College Station early Sun­day morning will be made up at 11 p.m. and will leave at 2 a.m., arriving here at 7 a. m. The regular train, on which the special tickets will be honored, will leave San Antonio at 8:30 p.m. and will arrive here at 3:06 Mon­day morning.

Sheep, Goat Raisers To Hold Meeting Here

The Sheep and Goat Raiser’s As­sociation will hold its quarterly meeting here on October 17th-19th. This will be the first time the as­sociation has ever met here on the campus. The meeting will be for the purpose of discussing business problems and enjoying social ac­tivities. The Animal Husbandry Rodeo and the Aggie-T. C. U. game will be the leading social events. There will be between 175 and 200 members here who will have their business headquarters in the library of the Animal Industries . Build­ing.

Officers of the association are Pres. E. S. Meyer of San Angelo, and Secreatry A. K. Mackey, for­merly a member of the college fac­ulty.

G. D. Anderson To Head Honor Society

G. D. Anderson will serve as president of the Scholarship Honor

Juniors, Seniors Leave En Masse For Corps Trip

Society for the coming year due to the resignation of William J. “Jeff” Montgomery, it was an­nounced Friday. Montgomery was elected to this post before the close of school last year when he was also made president of the Petro­leum Engineering Club, editor of the “Engineer,” a student publi­cation, and vice-president of the senior class. According to a new point system being put into effect this year by the Student Activities Committee, a student is limited in the number of activities in which he can participate. Having too many of these points, he was forc­ed to resign one of his positions.

Anderson is in Battery C, Field Artillery, and hails from Farwell, Texas, while Montgomery is in Company H, Infantry, and comes from Mason, Texas.

Debate Club Changed To Round Table Club Holds Initial Meeting

The A. & M. Round Table Club, which was last year known as the Debate Club, inaugurated the cur­rent year at its initial meeting this past week. The society will be an organization created for the purpose of intelligently discussing problems of the day.

This type of club became pop­ular throughout the Midwest in Universities and colleges in recent years. Texas A. & M. has the dis­tinction of being the first South­west Conference member to adopt this type of panel discussion club.

At the initial meeting of the lo­cal society this past week, Mayo Thompson, senior of Coast Artil­lery, was elected to the presidency, and G. C. Hardin, senior of the Cav­alry, was made secretary. Dr. G. E. Summey C. O. Spriggs, and J. Q. Hays were appointed as faculty ad­visors.

New Area Dorms Get Bronze Nameplates

The freshman’s task of learn­ing and remembering the names of the various buildings was made no easier Thursday, when new bronze name-plates were attached to the dorms in the new area. Quite likely the numbers will stick for awhile but eventually it will be the Freshman’s task to pick out Byrd E. White Hall from G. Rollie White Hall, these halls being nine and ten respectively. To learn and remember any particular hall and its location among the $2,000,000 worth will probably cause no few amount of headaches.

The halls, named officially last Thanksgiving, were the largest number of college buildings ever to be dedicated at a single cere­mony in this country.

The Edwin J. Kiest Hall has had a bronze plaque displaying a like­ness of the person it was named after attached to the front of it since the dorms were completed because the north end of it is used as a ladies lounge for visitors. The new name plates are smaller and have a green finish with only the name of the hall on them. The re­spective numbers and names are as follows:

No. 1, T. W. Spence, former Dean of Engineering; No. 2, Ed­win J. Kiest, member of the Board of Directors; No. 3, Charles P. Fountain, former Head of the Eng­lish department; No. 4, Robert W. Briggs, member of the Board of Directors; No. 5, C. S. Gainer, former state senator of Bryan; No. 6, Walter G. Lacy, member of the Board of Directors; No. 7, L. L. Mclnnis, former chairman of the faculty; No. 8, Henry C. Schuh- macher, former member of the Board of Directors who died re­cently in Houston; No. 9, Byrd E. White, former member of the Board of Directors; No. 10, G. Rol­lie White, member of the Board of Directors; No. 11, H. H. Harring­ton, former president; and No. 12, Joe Utay, member of the Board of Directors.

Robinson To Be Managing Editor Of 1941 Longhorn

Longhorn Editor Ele Baggett

15 Minute Concert To Be Played by Band

By W. C. Carter, Jr.By noon today approximately

fifteen hundred Aggies will be organizing their forces and con­solidating their forces and posit­ions in preparation for the so-call­ed “Second Battle of the Alamo”.

has announced the following as members of his staff for the com­ing year.

Sports and Managing Editor will be Morton H. Robinson, who hails from Houston and is in Battery A, Field Artillery.

“Corps Trip” fever combined with that extra dose of “Aggie Spirit” obtained Thursday night when the corps sent the team off, has been the cause of the largest number of passes to go through the Commandant’s office in the his­tory of A. & M.

The Junior Assistants will be; Harvey Lynn, B CWS, J. O. Alex­andre, C Cav.; R. L. Heitkamp, A FA; and J. B. Hancock, 1st HQ FA. The Sophomore assistant will be R. S. Shults, H Inf., and the freshman assistant will be Russell Jones, A CWS. Snapshot editor will -be E. B. Kyzar of C Inf., Vanity Fair Editor will be J. P. Jones of G Inf, and the Clubman will be E. A. Fielder, of B Inf.

Ele also said that the final lay­out sketches had been submitted by the artists and had been accept­ed, and the drawings would be fin­ished next week for this year’s Longhorn.

Bill Becker was the original Longhorn Editor for the year but due to the new point system he was forced to resign from the job so that he could keep the posi­tion of Cadet Colonel.

City Council Passes Ordinance Concerning Moving of Buildings

An ordinance concerning the moving of houses, garages, and buildings across streets in the city of College Station was passed by

Ticket sales through Wednesday were around one-thousand, but many students decided to go after the tickets went off sale. Friday evening saw hundreds of Aggies leaving by all of the modes of transportation familiar to the Ca­dets.

The San Antonio Chamber of Commerce has made preparations for the large crowd expected to attend the first college game in the new Alamo Memorial Stadium. A. & M.’s last game in San Anton­io, in 1934, resulted in a 26-13 win for Michigan State. Today the Farmers are out to remove all doubt as to how A. & M. games should come out when played in San Antonio.

To the seniors that encamped there this summer, the trip will give them the opportunity to re­sume any unfinished business they might have and to also show the Junior class around.

Only one hundred and fifty mem­bers of the band will make the trip. As usual, the freshmen mem­bers of the band will not make the initial away-from-college trip. Upon its arrival at the Miss­ouri Pacific Station at 9:30 the band will march east on Houston

(Continued on Page 4)the City Council several days ago and will go into effect Wednes­day, October 9. Following is the new ruling.

No houses, garages, or other buildings shall be moved across the streets or along the streets of the City of College Station, Texas, unless there shall be a permit is­sued by said city for the moving.

Said permit will designate the streets to be used and the time which the moving will be done.

Before any permit will be issued, a deposit of $100 shall be made with the City Secretary. Such fee will be held by the city until the struc­ture is completely moved, and then such damage to the city streets, bridges, or city utility lines will be repaired by the city and the costs charged to the deposit. The balance of the deposit remaining after repairs will then be refunded to the owner.

Anyone violating the provisions of this ordinance when found guilty, shall be fined not more than $100, and each day of viola­tion shall be deemed a separate of­fense.

Parnell Names Four Cadets As Poultry Judgers

E. D. Parnell, associate profes­sor of poultry husbandry, has re­cently released the names of the students who have made the A. & M. collegiate poultry judging team for this year. The team is com­posed of Fred Price, Cleburne; M. A. Ellis, Snyder; Donald Demke, Stephenville; and Jim Wilkerson, Ft. Worth. These men will judge at a contest in Chicago on Nov­ember 30 in competition with teams from the Midwest, Southwest and Western areas.

During the two years that Par­nell has been coaching the team the Texans have ranked fourth high each year. Last year’s team was high in the judging of market poultry with the three Texas team members Earl Roesnes, Fred Swal­low, and O. L. Davis each tied for first with 185 out of a possible 200 points.

220 A & M Students Given Help By Loan Funds of Former Students

Two hundred and twenty A. & M. students were extended a help­ing hand on their financial prob­lems by A. & M. men through the Association of Former Students at the opening of school this year, E. E. McQuillen, secretary of the As­sociation, has announced. A total of over $25,000 was involved in the loans. Included in the group of boys were the winners of the twenty-five Opportunity Awards, established for the first time this fall and expected to prove an im­portant addition to the student loan fund program in the future.

Loans this fall were made under new loan fund regulations formu­lated and approved last spring by the Student Loan Trustees of the Association. The new regulations are more exacting in their scholas­tic requirements, the loan fund trustees believing that loans were made to too many boys whose poor scholastic records caused them to withdraw from school before grad­uation.

Student Loan Fund Trustees this year are A. G. (Bert) Pfaff, ’25,

“Tyler, Association President; Allin F. Mitchell, ’09, Corsicana; and As­sociation Secretary E. E. McQuil­len, ’20, College Station. The pres­ident and executive secretary are ex-officio trustees, with the other elected by the Board of Directors of the Association, in accordance with the by-laws of the Association.

Board of Directors Meets In San Antonio

The Board of Directors will hold a meeting in San Antonio Friday to discuss problems of the school year.

Those attending will be Dr. and Mrs. T. O. Walton, Dr. F. M. Law, President; Walter G. Lacy, Vice- President; G. R. White, R. W. Briggs, Edwin J. Kiest, Joseph U- tay, A. H. Demke, and H. L. Ko- kemot. Mrs. Melle Williamson, secretary to the Board, will also be present.

The Board will attend the A. & M. - Tulsa game which will be play­ed there Saturday.