The Battalion
- VOLUME 42 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, DEC. 15, 1942
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
DIAL 4-5444
2275 NUMBER 79
Today Is Last Day to Take
Oath for Enlisted Reserve
Marshall Emphasizes That Cadets Must
Appear for Proceedings at Time Assigned
Emphasis was placed yesterday by Lieutenant Colonel
Marshall on reporting at the exact hour set today for taking
enlistment oath for the Enlisted Reserve Corps by those
cadets that have already completed the enlisting process.
Official War Department sanction was granted yester
day to extend the time one day for completing ERC enlist
ments for A.&M. cadets, because of the unusually large num
ber to be enlisted here, added Colonel Marshall.
“The fact remains that today is
absolutely the last time any cadet
can be sworn into the ERC. If for
any reason whatsoever, any appli
cant who was scheduled to appear
today be sworn in, fails to report
at the time set, he will not be able
to complete his ERC enlistment
and will not be eligible for ad
vanced military training or a con
tract.” This was the statement
released by Colonel Marshall with
regard to the final day of ERC
recruiting.
Cadets are requested not to re
port to the Ross Hall recruiting
office today for any reason other
than scheduled appearances to take
the oath, since the recruiting staff
will be working overtime endeavor
ing to prepare the papers of all
the cadets to be sworn in today.
Those already enlisted in the
ERC who didn’t receive an iden
tification card at the time of their
enlistment are reminded that after
today they may get those cards
from the recruiting office. Due to
the volume of business being fin
ished today, those cards will not
be issued until tomorrow.
Marvin McMillan
Announces For
Longhorn Editor
' 1944 Longhorn To Portray
Last A.&M. Class to Have
Traditional Freshman Year
Marvin McMillan, candidate for
the editorship of the 1944 Long
horn, seeks his office in the student
election to be held today. He gave
the following statement to the Bat
talion late yesterday:
“Your Longhorn, and I say
‘your’ Longhorn because that is
just what it is, should be a book
written of the Aggies, by the Ag
gies, and for the Aggies. It should
hold between its covers that now-
world-famous something all real
Aggies call the ‘Spirit of Aggie-
land,’ and when thumbing through
its pages, I think your Longhorn
should remind you of your days
at Aggieland, not someone else’s.
On every photo-filled page should
be pictures that remind you of
something you did while here,
something you want to remember
in the years to come.
“Our class has had the rough end
of many a deal around here since
we first walked upon this campus;
and, we have had our share of the
laughs. We are the last class to
serve a full, old-fashioned fish
year, and we are proud of that
year. I think our Longhorn should
embrace everything we have had
and loved at Aggieland, to keep
them alive in our memories
wherever we may be.
“I have worked on the Longhorn
staff for the past two years, in
almost every job necessary to its
publication, so I feel that I am
well-qualified to fill this position.”
Ex-Aggie Is Promoted
To First Lt at BAFS
Second Lieut. Tracey E. Smith
has been notified by the War De
partment of his promotion to First
Lieutenant in the Army Air Forces
at Blackland Army Flying School
at Waco Texas.
Lieut. Smith, who is the Son or
Mr. and Mrs. Tracy I. Smith,1509
W. 5th Ave., Corsicana Texas, re
ceived his B. S. degree from Texas
A. and M. College in 1941 and be
fore his entry into the Army was
an oil field chemist.
Naval Recruiting
Party To Arrive Wed
The Naval Recruiting party will
be on the campus tomorrow to en
list boys under 18 in the Navy V-l
plan. Those who have their papers
ready should be at Assembly Hall
at 11 o’clock, and those who have
not yet had their examinations
will be given authorized absences
to complete them, announced Dean
Bolton.
Firemen to Meet
To Map State-Wide
Training Program
Five Men to Conduct
Classes In Cities Over
State After Meeting Here
Five outstanding fire depart
ment officers will meet on the A.
& M. Campus December 21, 22,
and 23 to plan a schedule for as
sisting in local fireman training
program throughout the state,
was the announcement made yes
terday by E. L. Williams, head of
the department of industrial edu
cation.
These five men were among
those who took a fireman’s train
ing course at the Oklahoma A. &
M. from November 9 to the 20
sponsored by the Civilian Defense.
These five men, employed as in
structors by the Industrial Ex
tension Training School, in co
operation with the State Board for
Vocational Education, will follow
a planned itinerary and hold re
gional school to assist other fire
department officials in planning
their training program.
The men selected to instruct the
training course in their respective
areas are H. A. Davis, El Paso;
A. L. Rathke, San Antonio; J. R.
Dobson, Corpus Christi; J. R.
Dickout, Dallas; and R. E. Atkin
of Beaumont. Davis will hold in
struction courses in Amarillo,
Memphis, Lubbock, San Angelo and
Odessa; Rathke’s territory includes
San Antonio, Waco, Coleman, Abi
lene, and Austin. Dobson will teach
the training courses in Corpus
Christi, Laredo, Mission, and
Cuero; Dickout will cover Dallas,
Sulphur Springs, Wichita Falls,
Fort Worth, and Dallas. Atkin’s
territory will be Beaumont, Hous
ton, Lufkin, Tyler and Bryan.
The Regional schools in Texas
were promoted and organized by
the Texas State Fire Insurance
Commission, the Fire Defense Ad
visor of the Eighth Regional Of
fice of the Civilian Defense and
the Texas Fireman Training
School.
Mothers Clubs Add
$20 to Reading Fund
The El Paso A. & M. Mothers
Club and the Beaumont A. & M.
Mother’s Club each contributed
$10 toward the Student General
Reading Fund.
These generous contributions
will be divided into a 10 and a
90 per cent ratio, the 90 per cent
being used for purchasing new
books that have been requested by
the students and members of the
teaching staff, and the other 10
per cent going toward buying
classical recordings for the Music
Room of the A. & M. College Li
brary.
The request box for the new
books is located on the main floor
of the library in the lobby, while
the box in which to place the re
quests for classical records is in
the Music Room on the third floor.
Saddle, Sirloin Club
To Elect Officers at
Meeting Tonight, 8:30
Saddle and Sirloin Club will meet
at 8:30 o’clock tonight in the Ani
mal Industries building lecture
room, Horace Brown, president of
the club, announced Monday.
Officers for the next year will
be elected and plans will be dis
cussed for holding the Cattleman’s
Ball and a club barbecue as the
business of the meeting.
Brown urged that all members
be present for the election and dis
cussion as it will affect the entire
club.
Corps General Elections to Be Held Today
Now That Longhorn Is Finished, Voting to Be Conducted In
You Can Know Some of Secrets Academic Building Rotunda
By John Holman
Now that the last bit of copy
for the 1943 Longhorn is on its
way* to the publisher, we think we
are safe in letting a few of the
Longhorn staff’s cats out of the
bag and let you in on a little Long
horn lowdown.
Seriously, however, now that all
the work is done, you might be in
terested in knowing just what it
takes to get out a yearbook you
will be proud of.
The thing that is most necessary
is a little four-letter word spelled
“w-o-r-k”, but also in the side
lines is that little factor known
as “brains” or ideas.
Theme^Is Required
First off, the editor, John Long-
ley and his associate, Harry Kun-
kel, had to look through a lot of
catalogs to get a theme for the
book. This year’s was taken from
Monkey-Ward, Summer and Spring,
Tickets for Trains
May Be Purchased
Through Tomorrow
San Antonio Special Is
Not Definite; Should Be
Announced Today at Mess
Tickets for the Dallas and Hous
ton special trains can be bought
at the Southern Pacific Depot un
til Wednesday, according to E. L.
Angell, executive assistant to the
president. Tickets must be bought
by that time in order that the
Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany may know how many cars to
send to College Station to make
up the special trains.
School will be dismissed at 1
o’clock Saturday and the special
trains will leave one hour later at
2 o’clock. Anyone who buys a
ticket by tomorrow night, will be
certain of a ride on the special, but
the ticket must be purchased by
that time.
As yet, there is nothing definite
on a special for San Antonio. The
problem of getting one is now
under question, and the results of
being able to obtain a special train
for San Antonio will be announced
1941.
After that is figured out (which
incidentally doesn’t take much
time, only about six weeks of
nerve - shattering, eye - straining,
back-breaking eating in the mess
hall—between meals) a long series
of conferences between editor, pub
lisher, and the artist who is to
draw all of the fancy thing-a-ma-
jigs for the book follows. They
hem and haw a while, then the
staff goes into a fiftegn-round bout
of correspondence which consists
of something over 60 letters to
CENSORED to get the theme
okayed.
Photography Schedule Made
Just about the time your eyes
start failing you, you must make
up the picture schedules with Joe
Sosolik of the Aggieland schedule.
Movie Making Days End
As Film Unit Departs;
Premiere AboutfApril 1
The movie-making days of the
A. & M. cadet corps are now offi
cially ended as the first unit of the
Universal production unit has start
ed back to Hollywood—with regret
on the part of those who didn’t end
up being Gables, Flynns, or Barry
mores, and relief on the part of
those who spent day after day at
hard work on the movie set. Any
how, to the relief of the profs, the
number one excuse for not having
one’s lessons has now been exhaust
ed.
The first unit of the company
left yesterday noon, leaving the
second unit to remain probably for
the duration of the week to finish
a few extra shots on the campus.
Anne Gwynne, Martha O’Driscoll,
Noah Beery, Richard Quine, and
all the principal actors have also
made their departure.
About six weeks work remain in
Hollywood for finishing touches
and about six weeks more for cut
ting, editing, etc.; and our movie—
according to Milton Krasner, di
rector of photography for Univer
sal—will be ready for its premiere
about April 1.
This is quite a task, for over 10,000
photographs must be made before
the 400-odd page book can be is
sued.
After local picture schedules are
arranged, the staff must begin a
far-reaching search for sports ac
tion shots. This means every school
A. & M. plays must kick in, if
they will, the best sports shots
they have of the Aggie-their team
game. Of cours^, all this letter
writing is incidental, or did you
know that the Longhorn staff had
14 secretaries to do such menial
tasks ?
Seniors Camera-Shy
About this time every year, the
seniors become camera shy and
don’t have their pictures made on
time, so the traditional extension
of deadline begins. As an illustra
tion of why this is necessary, one
on-his-toes senior called the Ag
gieland Studio December 10, just
exactly one month after the dead
line date, to know if he could have
his picture put in the Senior sec
tion. His picture will not be in
(See LONGHORN, Page 4)
Eleventh Annual
Horticulture Show
Will End Today
Fruit on Exhibit to Be
Sold When Show Closes;
Great Variety on Hand
The eleventh annual fruit show,
sponsored by the Horticulture So
ciety, is completing its 1942 exhi
bition today in the first floor of
the agriculture building.
The show features citrus and sub
tropical fruits from Florida and the
Rio Grande Valley, fruits from
Washington, California, the Great
Lakes Region, and a wide variety
of dates and figs from Arizona.
All varieties of pecans from central
and north Texas and local vege
tables are being exhibited by L. M.
Miller, committee chairman.
The exhibit is open to the entire
student body and any other persons
who are interested. All the fruit on
exhibit will be placed on sale after
the completion of the show.
Singing Cadets Win Acclaim
In Houston City Auditorium
By Bill Murphy
After completely taking Hous
ton’s largest high schools by storm,
the Singing Cadets of Aggieland
invaded the sacred walls of the
City Auditorium last night to ap
pear with the Houston Symphony
Orchestra in one of the season’s
most successful and unique per
formances. The appearance of the
Cadets with the Symphony brought
down the curtains of their ’42 tour
which has carried them throughout
greater Houston.
The Singing C’s left college about
8 o’clock Friday morning and after
making a short appearance at the
Fairbank Cypress High School the
boys then left for Houston, arriv
ing in time to appear before the
Houston Bar Association Luncheon
and later were featured on the
weekly program of the Salesman
ship Club.
Boys Get Taste of Real Thing
Not knowing that they were to
sleep in Uncle Sam’s own tents, the
Aggies were completely surprised
when their special busses rolled up
to the MP’s camp located across
from Jeff Davis Hospital and were
told to unload their cots, comforts,
pillows, and the other vital sleep
ing equipment. Immediately follow
ing the “pitching of camp” the ca
dets were whisked off to Milby
High School where, after a 45-
minute program, they were taken
by Army busses to Camp Wallace.
When the busses finally stopped
inside the gates of the camp there
was a mad dash for the camp can
teen when it was learned that cig
arettes could be bought for 12
cents and a carton could be secured
for a buck and 20 cents; however,
“Prof” Jenkins finally restored or
der and the Singing C’s were taken
into officers’ mess as the guests
of the camp. It was immediately
after supper that the boys met one
of the finest “bull shooters” in
Uncle Sammy’s Army.
The boys were standing around
awaiting the busses to come and
carry them up to the Officers’ Club
when a major walked up and intro
duced himself to the whole mob
as “Thompson is my name,” and
after meeting the boys, began
spreading that famous Aggie Bull
that made him head yell leader at
A&M in ’21 and ’22. His name?
Major “Red” Thompson—Class of
“22,” who also formed the first
troop of Cavalry, Troop A, in 1920.
The tales he told were of the type
that makes an Ex a vital part of
our school spirit, and I assure you
that Major “Red’ ’and his Aggie
Bull will not soon be forgotten by
the Singing Cadets.
Soldiers Appreciate Music
Beginning at 8 o’clock the boys
put on a full length show for the
officers, as well as the enlisted
men in the camp’s service club. In
cluded on the program were spir
ituals, a medley of Christmas car
ols, and a few novelties which fea
tured Bob Shuffler and “Frog”
Greenberg. Leaving the camp, the
busses again headed back to Hous
ton and marked the end of the
first day of the ’42 tour.
Saturday was spent rehearsing
for appearances at the First Meth
odist Church on Sunday night and
with the Houston Symphony the
following night; however, Saturday
night Travis Smith of Houston, an
Ex of ’98 was host at a dinner for
the Cadets at the YMCA and im
mediately following the glee club
appeared at the U. S. O., where,
after singing a full length program
they were guests at the weekly
U. S. O. dance.
Cadets Feted by Mother’s Club
After* rehearsing all Sunday
morning, the musical Aggies were
again feted at a dinner, which was
followed by a dance, by the Moth
ers’ Club of Houston. Supper was
furnished at the Methodist Church,
where at 8 o’clock the Cadets sang
to a packed house. Included in the
program was a medley of Christ
mas Carols, “This Is My Country,”
“Adoramus Te Christe,” “The
Lord’s Prayer,” and “Taps.”
Monday Closes Tour
More rehearsing for four hours,
and the Aggies were guests at a
luncheon in the Rice Hotel given
by the Ex-Students of Houston.
Later on in the afternoon, a lengthy
program was presented by the Ca
dets to the students of Jeff Davis
High School, and at 8:30 the Sing
ing Cadets produced their crowning
achievement by appearing with the
Houston Symphony at the city aud
itorium.
Immediately after this, busses
were waiting the carry the cadets
back to A&M.
Throughout the entire tour the
group appeared to be having the
time of their lives, and no time was
there any dissension among the
boys. In fact, “Prof” Jenkins says
it was the finest tour so far. For
further proof consult Houston.
Juniors Only to Vote for Longhorn Editor,
Secretary, Town Hall; Polls Open 9-6:30
Candidates for Longhorn editor, Town Hall Manager,
Social Secretary, Head Yell Leader, Junior Yell Leaders, and
Junior Representative for the Student Activities Committee
were introduced to the cadet corps at yell practice last night.
All these candidates for the different offices made their
campaign speeches in order to get a large following of voters
behind them.
Candidates for the respective offices are as follows:
Candidates
W. A. McKenzie
Richard Downing
Dies As Result 0?
Automobile Wreck
Richard Downing, I Battery
Coast senior, died Friday night in
a Brenham hospital from injuries
received in an automobile accident
which occurred near Giddings as
he was returning to school Novem
ber 30 from the Thanksgiving holi
days. Downing failed to regain con
sciousness, and his death was at
tributed to internal injuries.
A first lieutenant in Battery I,
Downing was a chemical engineer
ing student from Dallas, where he
graduated from Woodrow Wilson
high school. Last year he was a
junior representative on the Stu
dent Welfare Committee, and par
ticipated in other student activi
ties, being a member of the A. I.
Ch. E. and a head-waiter in the
mess hall.
Funeral services will be held this
afternoon at 4 o’clock from the
East Dallas Christian Church.
Christmas Trees Are
Available at YMCA
Christmas trees are at the YMCA
to be signed out to any of the
various military organizations for
their Christmas parties, stated M.
L. Cashion, secretary of the YMCA.
These trees, ranging approxi
mately six feet high, were secured
through F. W. Hensel, head of the
Landscape Art department, and
will be lent to any of the organiza
tions upon application to Cashion
or J. G. Gay at the YMCA office,
second floor.
Since only about 15 trees are
available, it is asked that organi
zations return the trees right after
their use so other organizations
can get them on other nights.
Longhorn Editor:
Marvin McMillan
Harry W. Saunders
Social Secretary:
Bob Parker
Rodney Brauchle
Roy H. Dan-
Town Hall Manager:
John L. Lindsey
W. P. Kincy
Edward Hiltpold
Junior Representative for the Stu
dent Activities Committee:
Joe Dan Longley
R. B. (Bob) Garrett
Head Yell Leader
Bernard (Shorty) Booth
Wiliam A. (Billy Mac) McKentie
Junior Yell Leader:
Don Kuykendall
Gordon Brin
Louis Buck
Johnny Zummo
Following yell practice last night,
the Junior class held a meeting
in the Assembly Hall to introduce
the Longhorn editor. Social Secre
tary of the Senior Class, and the
Town Hall Manager, which will all
be voted on by the members of the
Junior class only.
Today between 9 a.m. and 6:30
p.m. the general election will be
held in the rotunda of the Acade
mic Building with ballot boxes.
One ballot box will be for the gen
eral elections in which all the
corps votes, and the other one will
be used for the Juniors to cast
their ballots. The September main
tenance slip must be presented and
stamped at the time of voting in
order to get the ballot.
Voting for Battalion editor will
be unnecessary since John Holman
automatically won that position
when his two opponents withdrew
in his favor.
Thursday’s Battalion will carry
complete results of today’s pri
mary election, including any ties
that might have to be run off.
These run-offs will be announced
in that issue of the Battalion.
All necessary run-offs will be
held Thursday, and all the final
results will be made public later.
Sergeant J H Minnis
Promoted to First Lt
Technical Sergeant Jess H. Min
nis received notice from the Eighth
Service Command at Dallas of his
promotion to First Lieutenant, ef
fective tomorrow.
Lieutenant Minnis, stationed at
A. & M. for the past nine years
as instructor in the Infantry
branch, reports to Commanding
Officer, Eighth Service Command
for further orders Wednesday.
OrdnanceApplications
Taken Until Saturday
Applications for contracts in the
Ordnance Department will be ac
cepted through December 19, ac
cording to Major Donald D. Alex
ander, senior instructor of ord
nance. The date previously an
nounced was in error.
Juniors taking any engineering
course except Agricultural or In
dustrial Engineering are eligible
for ordnance commissions.
Deadline Announced
For Old Style Rings
The last order of the traditional
old style senior ring will be sent
in January 1, 1943, after which
date only orders for the new type
will be taken, said H. L. Heaton,
acting registrar. All orders posi
tively must be in before that date,
and it will be impossible to obtain
the old type ring after the last or
der.