The Texas Aggie. (College Station, Tex.) 1921-current, February 08, 1943, Image 4

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    THE TEXAS AGGIE
Page 4
1939 |
Wedding Bells: S/SGT. BRUNO F |
SCHROEDER, ROBERT EARL DICK. |
SON, CAPT. GEORGE W. STAPLES. |
Proud. Papa: CAPT. BEN A, BALD- |
WIN.
Silver Taps: ROBERT JOSEPH “BOB”
WILLIAMS.
E. BAIRD, Dal-
new Army Air
at San Marcos,
engineering of-
Air Corps Sup-
include Dun-
SECOND LT. ROBERT
las, has reported to the
Forces Navigation School
where he is assigned as
ficer at the sub-depot,
ply. His previous stations
can and Randolph Fields.
FRANK P. BUDDY?
missing action
according to word
Mr. and Mrs.
Texas. This
1ST LT.
HAYNES has
since November
received by his parents,
M. H. Haynes, of Granger,
was their second notice from the War
Department—the first being a report
that Lt. Haynes had been wounded. He
was commander of a tank unit in North
Africa.
been in
25,
ND LT. JOHN ROY NOLES is a
Japanese prisoner in the Philippines, ac-
cording to word received by his mother,
Mrs, E. L. Winn, of Stephenville. He
was at Clark Field when the war broke
out; was wounded on December 29, 1941,
but returned to active service in March
on Bataan.
OWENS “SLICK” ROGERS, formerly
of Mart and former Aggie football star,
is employed at the Bluebonnet Ordnance
Plant at McGregor.
PAUL H. AINSWORTH is a cost ac-
countant with the U. S. Engineers, Gal-
veston and at the present time is in U.
S. Engineer Field Office at Port O’Con-
nor.
JOHN T. ASHFORD is working for the
Associated Engineers, 1912 West Gray,
Houston, Texas. His residence address
is 320 Branard Street of that city.
LT. ROBERT E. BAIRD is the Sub-
Depot Engineering Officer of the Army
Air Forces Navigation School at San Mar-
cos, Texas. LT. HENRY ORGAIN is Post
Engineer at the same place.
LT. ROBERT BALCH has recently been
promoted to the rank of Captain. He is
assigned to Ft. Lewis, Washington.
LT. FRANK E. BALL has been trans-
ferred to Camp McCoy, Wis. from Ft.
Sam Houston, Texas.
LT. R. D. BARNES has a new address:
Santander, Apt. 2K, A. P. Area, Ft. Mon-
mouth, Red Bank, N. J.
LT. WENDELL H. BARNETT, Dallas,
was among those critically injured when a
heavy bomber crashed recently during rou-
tine flying at the Smoke Hill Army Air
Base, Salina, Kansas.
R. CLINTON BECK, formerly of Harlin-
gen, is now a lieutenant on duty at the
Laredo Gunnery School at Laredo, Texas.
LIEUT. ALLYN C. BENNETT is attend-
ing the Gulf Coast Army Air Forces Train-
ing Center at Randolph Field, Texas. He is
a native of Groesbeck.
CAPT. HAROLD F. BOCKHORN is sta-
tioned with the Army Air Forces at March
Field, Riverside, Calif.
BILL BURTON has just received his cap-
taincy in the Army at Camp Wallace. He
was with the United Fruit Company in Hon-
duras, C. A., before going to the Army in
November, 1941. He gets his mail at Box
88, Dickinson, Texas.
LT. ORVILLE L. COUNSELMAN, Con-
way, is with the Air Corps assigned to the
10th Photo Squadron, A. A. B., Colorado
Springs, Colorado.
LT. JAMES S. CRITZ, Austin, is on
foreign duty and can be reached at A. P.
O. 923, San Francisco, Calif.
DAVID FRANKLIN EATON, JR. has
recently been appointed Assistant County
Agricultural Agent of Gray County.
LIEUTENANTS H. R. GOWAN and
Vv. N. BURGESS are on duty somewhere
on a southwest Pacific island. Friends
may write them through A. P. O. No. 708,
¢4, Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.
LT. ROY W. GRAVES, JR. has been
transferred from Kelly Field, Texas to
Santa Maria, Calif.
JACK W. HOLLOWAY has recently
moved from San Antonio to Houston, 1202
Tuam Street. He is working there with
the Navy Department at Brown Shipbuild-
ing Co.
CAPT. AND MRS. ED HRDLICKA re-
cently visited his father, Ed Hrdlicka who
thas been quite ill in Bryan, Texas. Capt.
Hrdlicka is being transferred to Camp
McCoy, Wis.
ENSIGN E. MUNN
cently transferred to Fort Schuyler,
Bronx, New York. He was formerly
cated at Laredo.
LT. JOHN B. JENKINS, JR. has re-
cently been transferred from Ft. Riley,
Kansas to Camp Livingston, La. He says
a cool million dollars couldn’t pay for the
enjoyment he gets out of reading THE
TEXAS AGGIE.
CAPT. ALVA E. KOCH is on duty with
the U. S. Engineers, as are: LEIGH C.
BEESON, ’39; “JIM” COLLINS, ’40; and
STANLEY KROGSTAD, ’40. Mail may be
addressed to them at A. P. O. No. 957,
¢» Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.
1ST. LT. DAN H. McCLENDON’S mail
goes to him at A. P. O. 922, ¢, Post-
master, San Francisco, Calif.
LT. WALTER O. MOSLEY, JR., North
Zulch, is on active military duty with the
732nd F. A. Bn., at Fort Bragg, N. C.
LT. JOHN NAUGHTON, formerly sta-
tioned at Calexico, Calif., is now in train-
JENKINS was re-
the
lo-
At Blackland Army Flying School
Graduates and officers assigned to the Blackland Army Flying School near Waco are shown
above. Five of the group were graduates of the school’s first class of twin engine pilots. Those reg-
ularly stationed at the school include: Major Paul W. Edge, Jr., ’34, director of ground school; Major
William Jack Moser, ’32, commanding officer of Training Group 1; Captain Edwin E. Aldridge,
Jr., ’40, personnel officer; and Major R. N. “Dick” Conolly, commandant. In the group are: Back
row: Major Paul W. Edge, Jr. ’43; Major Wm. J. Moser, ’32; Capt. Edwin E. Aldridge, Jr., ’40;
ond Lieut. T. E. Marchbanks, 43; and 2nd Lieut. J. M. Speer, 43. Front row: 2nd Lieut. J. C. Lackey,
42; 2nd Lieut. D. M. Lansing, ’44; Major R. N. Conolly, ’37; and 2nd Lieut. T. E. Duke, ’38.
1940
Wedding Bells: LT. FRANK KING
COURTNEY, CAPT. JOS. BAKER LAS-
SITER.
Proud Papa:
VARNER.
“WOODY”
CAPT... D. B.
Lt. Marshall H. Kennady, Jr.
2ND. LT. MARSHALL H. KENNADY,
JR is a Japanese prisoner of war in the
Philippines, according to word recently
received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Marshall H. Kennady, Box 97, Rt. 9, Fort
Worth, Texas. Their last communication
from him was a letter written December
1. Following his graduation Lt. Kennady
trained at Fort Knox and went to the
Philippines for assignment to the 192nd
Tank Battalion at Fort Stotsenburg un-
der General McArthur.
LT. ROLPH CARMACK BILLS, native
ing at Ft. Riley, Kansas.
PVT. HENRY F. NEW, of Buda, is on
foreign service and can be reached at
A. P. 0. 949, 9% Postmaster, Seattle, Wash.
WILLIE H. RATCLIFF, of Marshall,
has been appointed assistant county agri-
cultural agent for Taylor County with
headquarters at Abilene, Texas.
LT. WILLIAM R. ROSS is on foreign
duty and can be reached by writing A. P.
0. 929, 9% Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.
STEPHEN P. SAKACH has been com-
missioned a second lieutenant in the Corps
of Engineers and is now on duty at Camp
Claiborne, La. His address is Hdqrs. E. V.
T. C.—B. of that camp. After graduation,
Lt. Sakach was the landscape architect
for the University of Houston.
LT. HARVEY H. STORMS is located at
Camp White, Oregon, where his mailing
address is A. P. O. 91.
STANLEY C. STRIBLING has left A.
and M. where he has been instructor in the
Animal Husbandry Department, for Offi-
cers Candidate School, Marine Base, Quan-
tico, Va.
JOSEPH F. TABOR, Dallas, has com-
pleted officers training school at Quan-
tico, Va., and received his commission as
second lieutenant in the Marine Corps.
LT. H. HL. WEHNER, JR. is seeing serv-
fice on Aruba, in the Dutch Caribbean
Islands. When called to active service, he
was associated with the Hughes Tool Com-
pany in Houston, and an instructor at
the University of Houston. His wife is
spending the duration hours with her
mother in Columbus.
of Navarro County, has been on foreign
duty as a fighter pilot since last Aug-
ust. He is accredited with downing at
least two Japanese Zero fighter planes
in the New Guinea area.
PAUL H. BRUCE, of Gladewater, Texas,
is a Japanese prisoner, according to
word received by relatives. He attended
A. & M. from 1936 to 1939. At the time
he sailed from the Philippines, he was
in a tank battalion after training at
Fort Knox. He left A, & M. to enter the
service.
LT. MELVIN WILSON FAULK, Fort |
Worth, is a flight commander at the
new Army Air Base at Pyote, Texas.
LT. ERNEST H. HAMLETT, JR., re-
at 10 Capra Way, San
where he is on active
ceives his mail
Francisco, Calif.,
duty.
1ST. LT. CARL PIPKIN, of Beaumont,
is a Japanese prisoner of war in the
Philippines, according to word received
by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Pip-
kin of Beaumont. Pipkin was a member
of the Aggie band and the Beaumont A.
& M. Club but joined the army soon after
graduation and received his commission in
the Coast Artillery. He was on Corregidor.
MADS C. ANDERSON is employed at
present on the Blast Furnace Project in
Daingerfield. He gets his mail, however,
at Box 504, Gilmer, Texas.
CAPT. WM. H. ARDIS, Brenham,
an instructor in the Pecos Army Flying
School at Pecos, Texas.
PVT. BRANCH L -AXLEY is with Ha.
Btry., 921st F. A., APO 96, Camp Adair,
Oregon.
LT. CHARLES B. BALLOWE, Pales-
is
tine, is in the Air Corps and his address
is A. P. O. No. 838, New Orleans, La.
He reported a recent meeting of Ex-
Aggies stationed in the vicinity of A.
P. O. 825, New Orleans, La. Plans were
started for an organization.
LT. LEIGH C. BEESON is on active
duty and his address is A. P, O. 957, c/o
Postmaster,” San Francisco, California.
Beeson has been in the Army since last
May.
WILLIAM BLESSING is a glider pilot
at the Lubback Air School. He lives at
2304 Avenue V, Lubbock.
ENSIGN WILLIAM D. BOONE lives
at 295 Summer Street, South Boston, Mass.
CARROLL K. BOSTER, JR. is now
rated as an aviation metalsmith, 3rd class,
employed by the U. S. Navy at Dallas.
His street address is 6239 Victor Street.
HENRY W. BROOKS is an aviation
cadet at the Sterling Law School at New
Haven, Conn.
LT. LAWRENCE C. BROWN is living
at 2023 S. Shepherd Drive, Houston, Tex-
as. He has recently been transferred to
Ellington Field, Texas, where he is teach-
ing a class in radio in the Pre-Flight
School,
LT, QUENTIN S. BULLOCK writes to
send his AGGIE to Bryan and it would be
forwarded to him from there. At the
present time he is stationed at the Army
Air Base, 36th Street Airport, Miami,
Florida.
1941
Wedding Bells: RAEFORD G. EVANS,
LT. WALLACE C. RAGAN, GEORGE C.
ROBINSON, JR., LT. GRAHAM B. PUR-
CELL, JR., LT. LEROY B. EVERETT,
JR., CAPT. WILLIAM R. NELSON, LT.
GEORGE P. TROTTER, JR.
Proud Papas: LT. ALEX C. BASSETT,
A/c THOMAS B. MILLER, CAPT. J.
WATT PAGE, JR.
Lt. T. E. Chapoton, Jr.
LT. TOM ED CHAPOTON, JR., Waco,
was recently graduated from the A. F.
Navigation School at Hondo. It is not
known where he has bee nassigned. He re-
ceived his degree in industrial engineering
and was known to his classmates as ‘‘Buzz’.
Among the many Aggies now at Fort
Bliss, Texas are: BILL BECKER, Kauf-
man, cadet colonel in ‘41; TOM RITCH-
EY, San Benito, president of his senior
class; TOMMY HILL, Dallas; LOUIS
BYRD, ’42; LOYAL “DEACON” EVANS,
’42, Dallas; and LAVERE BROOKS, ’42,
Somerville.
LT. ANDY M. JAMES, JR. of Dal-
hart, is a prisoner of the Japanese in
the Philippines, according to word receiv-
ed by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. M.
James, of Dalhart. He was one of those
immortal Aggies present at the April
21 meeting on Corregidor, although orig-
inally in the Coast Artillery, he trans-
ferred to the Air Corps after arriving in
the Philippines in August, 1941.
LT. ROB L. ADAMS is on foreign
duty and can be written at A. P.
0. 251, c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y.
He reports having seen CLYDE LILLY,
42: ROY CHAPPELL, ’41; GABE AND-
ERSON, ’41, and others.
LIEUT. THOMAS H. AKARMAN has
been listed as ‘missing in action, East-
ern Asiatic Theater of war”, according to
word received by his father, Mr. T. D.
Akarman, Box 25, Absecon, N. J. He
was-captain of the Aggie. fencing team. in
’41, and graduated in February, 42, from
Barksdale Field. He took part in the
Battle of Midway, and later was based
in India. No additional word has been
received since he failed to return from a
raid on November 29, 1042.
CAPT, ROBERT W. ALEXANDER is
now stationed at Camp Funston, Kansas.
LT. EDWARD L. BARKER of Crockett,
recently was awarded his wings as a
Marine flier at the U. S. Naval Air Station,
Jacksonville, Fla. Lt. Barker served with
the Royal Canadian Air Force prior en-
tering Marine Aviation.
LT. ARTHUR M. BAUMGARTEN writes
that he is at one swellest posts in the
country. He is company commander of an
overseas food inspection unit and expects
to be sailing before long. At the present
time he is located at 633-6 McClellan, Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas. Baumgarten took
veterinary medicine while at A. & M.
LT. DALE HENRY BLACK is assigned
to the Aircraft Laboratory, E. E. S. Ma-
terial Center, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio.
LT, JOE C. BLOODWORTH, of Olney,
is on oversea duty and his address is A.
P. O. 929, c/o Postmaster, San Francis-
co, California. He took agricultural
gineering while at A. & M.
en-
LT. P. M. BOLTON has been trans-
ferred from New Orleans to field duty at
Camp Livingston, La.
ROBERT C. BUIE was made assistant
County Agricultural Agent of Smith
County effective November 10.
LT. GEORGE K. CARNES, of Ferris,
is now located with an engineering regi-
ment at A. P. O. 929, c/o Postmaster,
San Francisco, California.
ENS. L. GORDON CARRUTH
completed a course in Diesel engineering
in the Naval Training School at Cornell
has
University, Ithaca, N. Y. and has been
assigned to the engineering staff of the
school as an instructor.
J. LEE CARSON, Dallas, has recently
received his captaincy. He is located at
Camp Sibert, Gadsden, Ala. Carson is
married and has one little girl.
LIEUT. CARROLL W. COOPER, at-
tached to the 2nd Filipino Inf., Camp
Cooke, Calif., writes that it is great to
be one of the “We’ll Be Back” gang.
LT. ROSCOE H. COWAN, JR., LT.
HARTWELL J. KENNARD, JR., LT.
JAMES P. PEEVEY, LT. WALLACE C.
RAGAN, and LT, CLIFFORD B. ROUSE
are attending Gulf Coast Army Air Forces
Training Center at Randolph Field, Texas.
LT. WILLIAM O. “BILL” DAVIS, of
is now located at the Sub-Depot
Supply Office at the Harlingen Armory
Gunnery School, Harlingen, Texas.
LT. LOGAN L. DREIBELBIS is in the
Aireraft Laboratory, E. E. S., Material
Center, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio.
29ND LT. JOE P. DYER was recently
graduated from the Bombardier School at
Midland. In simultaneous ceremonies at
the Midland, Big Spring, and San Angelo
Bombardier Schools, wings and commis-
sions as second lieutenants were awarded
Bryan,
to several hundred.
ROY F. ECKERT has been transferred
to Houston where he is doing Civilian
Pilot Training work.
1942
Wedding Bells: LT. ANGUS T. WEY-
DELL, LT, A. FRED RENAUD, JR., JOE
H. GOLMAN.
LT. GEO. A. ADAMS, JR., U. S. Mar-
ines, recently visited his mother in Bryan.
He has been located at Quantico, Va.
but expects foreign service soon. Adams
was active in the Singing Cadets and other
student affairs while a student at A.&M.
LT." NAT. 'B. "ALLEN, JR., is: with
the U. S. Army stationed at Cheyenne,
Wyo.
LT. BARNEY R. ANDERSON, JR.
is .in North Africa and his mail is sent
to O.P.O. No. 1; ¢% Postmaster, New
York City, N.Y. He recently wrote home
that he has lost his A.&M. ring and it
‘hurt more than anything.” His home
address is 3827 Arlington, Houston, Texas.
A/C W. B. BARRON, JR. is now
with the Aviation Cadet Regiment, U. S.
N. A. A. S., Kingsville, Texas.
LT. EDWARD . G. - BATTE is seeing
foreign duty and gets his mail at A.P.O.
No. 9, % Postmaster, New York City,
N. Y. He wants his AGGIE sent to
Route 4, Waxahachie, Texas.
H. G. BORGFELD recently passed
through Fort Sam Houston enroute to
Officer Candidate School.
LT. CHARLES D. BROWDER, JR.
Dallas is at an unknown destination. His
mail address is A.P.O. 302, ¢% Postmaster,
New York, N.Y.
LT. LEROY BROWN, JR. is on duty
at Fort Bliss, Texas, and writes: “I
never knew what being an Aggie really
meant so much as I do now. I hope the
underclassmen and seniors could feel it the
way we do now.”
Former Aggies now attending the Gulf
Coast Army Air Forces Training Center
at Randolph Field, Texas, are: LT. RAY
H.: CARROLL, JR. . LT. "HENRY XK.
HAMMETT, JR., LT. FRANK B. HAR-
VEY, LT. FRANK E. McGLASSON, LT.
THOMAS E. MARCHBANKS, LT. CLARK
ROSS, LT. JOHN M. SPEER, and LT.
JOHN A, VITKOVITS.
W. B. CARTWRIGHT, son of Mr. E.
B. Cartwright, °’17, of Carrizo Springs,
is a bomber pilot. He is assigned to a
bombadier squadron at Barksdale Field,
La
LT. ROBERT M. COWGILL gets his
mail at A.P.O. 827, % Postmaster, New
Orleans, La.
LT. ARCHIE R. CREWS, JR, is at
a far away destination. His mail can be
sent to A.P.O. 858, ¢ Postmaster, New
York, N. Y. He reports he is the only
Aggie at this base and most of the
other officers are from the northern part
of the United States. Also that he would
give anything to get in a good ole Aggie
“bull
CLIFTON R. CRIM, of Henderson,
attending officer's training school at Fort
session.”
1S
Belvoir, Va.
JOE DODGE has been promoted to
First Lieutenant and is stationed at
Camp Gruber, Okla. He is in the Field
Artillery,
LT. JAMES L. “JIMMY” DUNN, of
Fort Worth, is seeing active service on
one of the Islands. His address is A.P.O.
956, San Francisco. He has run into
Joe Slicker, ’42, Leon Rahn, ’41, and
David Schwinn, ’42, since being ovar
there.
LT. BILL M. FILGO, formerly of Lan-
caster, is wiht Co. “C,” 66th Battalion,
Camp Robinson, Ark.
L. WAYNE FISHER is living at 2403
Bagley Street, Houston.
HAYWARD M. FRIEDRICK is in train-
preparatory to attending Officers’
School in the Marine Corps.
is Platoon No. 49, Recruit
Barracks, Parris Island,
ing
Candidate
His address
Depot, Marine
S. tC. ‘
LT. WINSTON E. FROST is at Indian-
town Gap, Pa.
1st LT. TOM GILLIS recently lost two
fingers from his left hand in an ex-
plosion. His address is 212th CAC (AA),
Seattle, Washington. This news .came in
a letter to student friends from LT. LE-
ROY BROWN, Tom’s former roommate
now at Fort Bliss, Texas. Lt. Brown says
he recently counted ten of his classmates
at a dance.
GILBERT W. GLENN was commission-
ed a 2nd lieutenant in the Army Medical
Corps Dec. 19 and has reported for duty
to Robins Field, Warner Robins Army
Air Depot, Georgia.
CPL. E. M. GOSSETT, JR., is doing
special duty with the Vet. Service under
Capt. M. B. Starnes, 27, at Camp Wolters,
FIRST LIEUT. CHARLIE HAGGARD,
U. S. Air Force, writes a grand letter
from somewhere in French North Africa,
A.P.O. 525, New York, N.Y. Excerpts
from his letter include: “We have just
returned from the front for a rest and
needless to say are enjoying it no end. At
present I am lying under a palm tree on
the Sahara Desert munching some most
delicious dates and tangerines. Our Squad-
ron was most successful while at the
front even though we were all under a
terrific mental and physical strain, not
knowing whether the downcoming bomb
had your name on it or not. I guess I
have been living right, as I came out un-
barmed. Since my arrival in North Af-
rica, I have bumped into Lts. Dick Lewis,
41, and “Buddy” White, ’42. Lts. Shib
Azar, ‘42, Howard Brains, ’42, Luther
Westbrook, ’42, Chas Holland, ’42, and
myself are still together. Also Lt. W.
A. Gilbert, ’42, is over here but not
with our unit any more.”
LT. JOHN E. HARRIS has been trans-
ferred from Mobile, Ala., to Tampa,
Fla., where he is at MecDill Field.
LT. 0. C. “BUTCH” HERMAN, form-
er football star, is a U. S. Air Force
bomber and seeing active duty in North
Africa. His address is A.P.O. 520, %
Postmaster, New York, N. Y. In his
same outfit is Lt, Warren “Red” Church,
’38, another former Aggie football lines-
man.
ELMER B. HUDSPETH, JR., of Caddo,
is an aviation cadet in Squadron 90,
S.A.A.A.B. at Santa Ana, California, He
is classified as a navigator.
LT. JAMES E. INGLEHART tak-
ing primary flight training at the Haw-
thorne School of Aeronautics at Orange-
burg, S.C.
LT. HENRY D. JACKSON, San Angelo,
located with the Haq. & Ha. Co,
Ga. Through the TEXAS
wants to tell his friends
is
is
Camp Gordon,
AGGIE, “Doc”
“hello.”
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1943
1943
TO THE CLASS OF 1943:
Your copies of the TEXAS AGGIE will
be sent to the address you left with us
until we are otherwise advised. When
you feel that you have a permanent ad-
dress, drop a postal card to the Associa-
tion of Former Students, College Station,
Texas, and your TEXAS AGGIE will be
sent direct to you. If you have not ad-
vised us of your present address, please
do so, in order to keep up with news of
your classmates and friends.
Wedding Bells: J. B. BEST, ALEXAN-
DER J. MACNAB, JR.
BEN MURRAY FULTON is training
with the Marines in Jacksonville, Fla.
His Father, ROY C. JONES, ’16, and
grandfather, H. R. JONES, both live in
Corpus Christi.
LT. WILLIAM G. HAUGER recently
completed Officer's Candidate School, and
has been graduated from Brooks Field.
He is due to receive his ““0’s” for camou-
flage knowledge.
LT. GUY W. JACOBS is C. O. of his
outfit on an island in the Pacific. He
writes: “These islands are really beau-
tiful, but there is a terrible shortage of
women. The ones that are here are
dark skinned and slant eyed, but I am
getting blacker every day and they are
getting whiter and more beautiful.” His
address is: APO 958, ¢ Postmaster, San
Francisco, California.
LT. JOHN R. PEAVEY, JR., who re-
signed from A. & M. to enter the Air
Corps, is stationed at Bowman Field, Ky.
LT. LEO J. PICKOFF receives his
mail through APO 841, ¢ Postmaster,
New Orleans, La. .
Wedding Bells—J. NEAL BRYANT.
LT. W. H. (BILL) BENDER, JR., who
took primary training at Corpus Christi
Naval Air Base and was one of two cadets
to be selected for the Marine Air Corps,
recently finished Kingsville Marine School,
and was commissioned. He is now sta-
tioned in Miami, Florida, but receives his
mail at his home address at 310 S. Edge-
field, Dallas.
A/C R. H. COWAN, JR. writes from
Moore Field, Mission, Texas: ‘‘There are
quite a few of us here, and all doing
well. Will be on our way to Tokyo one
of these days. We are plenty anxious to
be with our friends over there, doing their
best.”
CLAUDE. C.. NATHAN, JR., son: of
Mrs. Nine Belle Campbell, Paris, Texas,
is on active duty with the U. S. Navy.
E. J. PICKENS receives his mail at
Stafford Hall, Canyon, Texas.
BOB POSEY, JR’S. new address is Box
575, Alvin, Texas.
1944
RICHARD D. BARTLETT and ROBERT
L .COOK are aviation cadets at the U. S.
Army Air Forces Base at Santa Ana,
Calif.
‘T.-C. HOOKER, “JR. recently was grad-
uated from the Naval Air Station, Corpus
Christi, where he received his commission
as ensign. He has been assigned to Corpus
Christi as a flight instructor.
OMAR F. POWERS is in training with
the Army Air Forces at Santa Ana, Calif.,
where he will take pre-flight training as
a pilot.
BRIDGE COMPANY
MANUFACTURERS
CONTRACTORS - BUILDERS
DALLAS, TEXAS
Roads - Bridges - Road Machinery
The New Tourist Camp
Opposite College on Highway 6
Tile Baths - Simmons Beds
COLLEGE COURTS
P. 0. Box 118, College Station
Phone College 4-1178
right of way.
THE 1,500,000
RAILROAD WORKERS
OF AMERICA
all work together. They
keep the trains rolling and
see that troops, supplies
and essential traffic get the
Copyright 1943, LicGetT & Myers Tosacco Co.
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SMOKERS
each tobacco.
THE CIGARETTE THAT GIVES
WHAT THEY WANT
Chesterfields
give you a MILDER
BETTER TASTE
There are two good reasons why
Chesterfield gives smokers everything
they want in a cigarette.
rirst, Chesterfields are made of the world’s
best cigarette tobaccos.
: secon, Chesterfield blends these choice
= tobaccos in the one right combination to
bring out the best smoking qualities of
That’s why Chesterfields deliver
the goods . . . their MILDNESS and
BETTER TASTE really Satisfy.