Let’s Go To The
Sugar Bowl, Army!
VOL. 39 PHONE 4-5444
Dance
Program
Released
21 Dances Listed
For 2nd Semester
Social Activities
Social activities for 1940 will
start off much earliei' this session
than at any time in the past, it
was disclosed this week when the
dance calendar for the new year
and the second semester was fin
ished. The first organization to
swing out with its annual affair
this year will be the Marketing
and Finance Club when it holds
its dance on Friday, January 13.
Following this will be some 20
other balls, not counting corps
dances to be given during the spring
term and closing with the Junior
Prom and Final Ball on May 30
and 31.
Although all dates on the social
calendar are not permanent the
tenative schedule is as follows:
Friday, January 12—Marketing
and Finance Club Dance.
Saturday January 13—Fish Ball.
Friday, January 26—Sophomore
Ball.
Friday, February 16—Architects’
Ball.
Friday, February 23—A. S. C.
E. Ball.
Friday, March 1—Field Artillery
Ball.
Friday, March 8—Coast Artillery
Ball.
Friday, March 15—Engineer’s
Ball.
March 21, 22, 23—Ross Vol-
teer Dances: Thursday, March
21—Queen’s Ball; Friday,
March 22—Captain’s Ball; Sat
urday March 23—R. V. Corps
Dance.
Friday, March 29—Composite
Regiment Ball.
Friday, April 5—Infantry Ball.
Saturday, April 6—Hilel Club
Dance, Corps Dance.
Friday, April 12—Cavalry Ball.
Friday, April 19 — Cotton
Pageant and Ball.
Friday, April 26—Agricultural
Engineers’ Ball.
Friday May 3—Cattleman’s Ball.
Friday, May 30—Junior Prom.
Saturday, May 31—Final Ball.
Dates for all of the corps dances
have not as yet been definitely de
cided but in general corps dances
will be held on the Saturdays fol
lowing all of the major balls and
dances. A definite and permanent
schedule of the corps dances and
the organization balls will be pub
lished in the January issue of The
Battalion magazine.
HOUSTON CLUB
DINNER DANCE
TO HONOR TEAM
500 will Attend Affair
At Rice Hotel December 18
Players and coaches of the cham
pionship Aggie football team will
be guests of the Houston A. M.
Club at a huge dinner dance to be
staged at the Rice Hotel in Hous
ton on the evening of December
18. Attendance is being limited to
500 and guests are urged to secure
their tickets at this time. Box
101, Houston, is ticket chairman.
The Houston Post “Most Valu
able” trophy will be awarded and
presented at the banquet. A floor
show will be given and dancing
enjoyed after the snappy program
which the Houston Club declares
will be brief. Members of the
football squad and their coaches
will be introduced and Homer Nor
ton, head coach, will speak.
Visitors from many South Texas
points are expected to be present
for the party, as well as repre
sentatives from other Texas cities
and other A. & M. Clubs.
Both the Houston A. & M. Club
and the Junior Houston A. & M.
Club are working upon the party
and joining hands to make the af
fair a complete success.
A
The Battalion
Let’s Go To The
Sugar Bowl, Army!
BAT COLUMNIST
TO GO ON AIR
IN WTAW SHOW
News Broadcast Will Be
A Regular Feature On
Friday Student Program
Following the pracitce now being
adopted by many of the nation’s
newspapers, collegiate and other
wise, The Battalion will institute
a weekly radio broadcast begin
ning Friday afternoon.
Under the direction of Battal
ion junior editor George Fuermann,
and assisted by C. A. Montgomery,
the weekly programs will origi
nate from Guion Hall each Friday
afternoon from 5:15 to 5:30. The
Battalion’s program will come at
the end of station WTAW’s popu
lar new radio feature, the Friday
afternoon “Clambake” which has
grown still more popular with the
addition of Tommy Littlejohn’s
outstanding Aggieland Orchestra.
The Clambake begins each Friday
afternoon at 4:30 o’clock.
The programs will consist of a
narration of the following day’s
Backwash, Battalion column, news
casts relating to A. & M., high
lighting the important coming
event of the week ahead, and in
terviews with various cadets in
the corps. Two interviews are
planned for each program, one of
which is to be an interview with
a cadet from the studio audience,
and the other radio interview is to
be with a previously designated
student. The interviews will be of
a special nature and will concern
current events, Aggie opinions, and
other items of interest to the corps.
Battalion editor-in-chief Bill
Murray and WTAW manager John
Roesser, have extended an invita
tion to all cadets and residents of
College Station to attend the
broadcasts in Guion Kali.
Aggie Glee Club
To Carol Campus
On Monday Night
Last year the Aggie Glee Club
started a tradition of spreading
Christmas cheer throughout the
campus by singing carols at vari
ous places. This year’s Glee Club
will carry on this tradition Mon
day night beginning at 8:00 o’
clock.
Riding in one of the Building
and Grounds Department’s big red
trucks, the Club will cruise slowly
through College Park and Oak-
wood, College Hills, and the cam
pus proper, stopping at various
points throughout. Special con
certs will be given at the homes
of the deans, the President, and
other college officials.
Stops will be made to sing to the
students in both the old and new
dormitory areas, and also in the
.project house area.
Record Price Set
In Sell of Angus
A new all-time high price for
any animal bred and developed by
the Animal Husbandry Depart
ment of the college was established
last week when the Aberdeen An
gus heifer, Revemere’s Pride 8th,
556911, was sold to Cold Saturday
Farms, of Finksburg, Maryland,
for $2,000.00. This heifer was 13
months old and was shown in the
senior heifer calf class at the In
ternational Livestock Exposition at
Chicago. She won this class over
about 30 other entries and the
judge indicated that she was the
reserve junior champion.
Previous to taking this Angus
heifer to the International Live
stock Exposition she had been
shown at the Dallas State Fair
where she was the grand cham
pion female. Later she was truck
ed to Shreveport, Louisiana, and
turned over to James B. Hollinger
of Chapman, Kansas, who exhibit
ed her at the Chicago exposition.
Not only was this heifer bred at
the College but her dam was also
bred and raised here. She was sir
ed by Revemere of Wheatland 11th,
479879, and her dame was Prize-
mere’s Pride 4th, 483881.
Student Tri-Weekly Newspaper of Texas A. & M. College
Official Newspaper of the City of College Station
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, DEC. 14, 1939
AHvaan
tjtzo NO. 33
New Campus Show
Will Open Doors
In Early January
Just a few days after the corps
returns from the Christmas vaca
tion, another new motion picture
theater will be opened for business.
The “Campus,” as it will be call
ed, is supposed to be up and ready
to go by January 5, according to
its manager. Buddy Walker.
The new North Gate theater, to
be trimmed with the Aggie colors,
maroon and white, will cost on
completion around $70,000. Locat
ed on a corner two blocks west of
the Post Office, the show will have
a front of 60 feet, and will be light
ed at night with a large neon sign
bearing the word “Campus”
across the front.
Inside, the theater will seat ap
proximately 700 patrons at one
time in seats upholstered with mo
hair. There will be no balcony,
but in the space normally occu
pied by a balcony there will be
rest rooms and lounges.
Mr. Walker maintains that he
will not object to popcorn and pea
nuts in the show, but draws the
line on sod^-pop bottles. These
bottles might cause someone a
trip and fall in the dark.
Equipment for the show will in
clude Four Star Sound equipment
and air-conditioning by refrigera
tion. Fluorescent lighting for the
interior will eliminate the groping
in the dark for a seat. The show
will be light enough to see the
seats and still be dark enough to
get a clear image on the screen.
The price of admission will be
15c in the afternoon and 25 at
night.
According to Mr. Walker, all
help employed in the new theater
will be A. & M. students or their
wives, as much as they can possi
bly be used.
Prexy Makes
Annual Xmas
Dinner Plans
This year, following the custom
of the past few years, a Christmas
dinner is being sponsored by Presi
dent and Mrs. T. O. Walton honor
ing all college employes and their
wives. This year the dinner will
be held in the old mess hall, Tues
day at 7:00 p. m.
Employes of the college, who this
year complete twenty-five years
of service, will receive special re
cognition.
Due to a change in policy affect
ing complimentary meals in the
mess hall, the plates will cost fifty
cents, which is the exact cost of
the meal. Tickets for the dinner
will be available at the following
places:
Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion—Dr. P. C. Mangelsdorf.
Agricultural Extension Service
—Mr. Roy Snyder
’Beaching Division—Heads of
Departments
Buildings and College Utilities
Mr. B. D. Marburger
Registrar’s Office, first floor
of the Administration Building
Supervisor of Subsistence J. C.
Hotard urges that all tickets be
purchased prior to Monday in order
that he may know the number for
which to prepare.
By way of entertainment, the
Glee Club has been asked to at
tend the banquet and provide mu
sic for the program. Their songs
will be Christmas carols and others
which the faculty members might
suggest.
HORTICULTURE
SHOW EXHIBITS
NUTS AND FRUIT
AH Well-Known Varieties
Shown at Annual Display
The Texas A. & M. Horticulture
Show which lasted Through Mon
day and Tuesday of this week was
well up to standards set in past
years, show managers announced
Wednesday. The show was spon
sored and put on as usual by the
student Horticulture Society with
the cooperation of the Horticulture
Department staff. The purpose of
the show is to exhibit and publi
cize horticultural and truck garden
products.
An outstanding feature of the
show was the attractive display of
apples which was said to be the
largest assortment of apples the
show has ever had. In the exhibit
were such well known varieties as
Delicious, Northern Spy, Winesap,
McIntosh, and Golden Delicious as
well as scores of other varieties
less well-known.
A very interesting portion of the
show was the display of citrus from
the Texas Experiment Station. This
attractive exhibit contained not on
ly the most common citrus fruits
but also such hybrids and rare va
rieties as Limequat, Citrange, Tan-
gelo, and Changsha. It was also
interesting to note the citrus fruit
grown on the A. & M. Horticulture
Farm that included oranges, tan
gerines, lemons, and grapefruit.
The green vegetables used in
the show were furnished by the
Texas Experiment Station and
farmers in various parts of Texas.
This exhibit of tempting vegetables
was made up of green beans, rad
ishes, cabbage, turnips, potatoes,
tomatoes, squash, and many other
typical garden products.
One of the largest and most at-
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Landscaping Program Started
On New Dormitory Grounds
W.P.A. Workers
Now Making Fill
All of the gravel walks in the
new dormitory area, which have
been previously laid and allowed
to settle, will be asphalt-topped
during the Chistmas holidays if
the weather will permit, F. W.
Hensel, head of the Landscape
Arts Department, announced today
in a discussion of landscaping plans
for the new dormitories.
Mr. Hensel stated that the walks
were originally to be topped dur
ing the Thanksgiving holidays, but
due to the inclement weather this
was impossible. As much more
time will be available during the
Christmas holidays this work will
be carried on at that time.
In addition, landscaping plans
for the dorms call for the laying
of numerous diagnal walks to save
the students time in going to and
from the various buildings. These
walks will be laid to Kyle Field
and outlets to the Administration
^.building and that end of of the cam-4-
pus in addition to numerous
diagonal walks in the courts in the
center of the area.
In road plans for the area the
road back of the new mess hall
will be extended to join in with
Spence Street just east of the stu-
Accommodations Offered
Faculty Members In New
Orleans by Residents
Any member of the faculty de
siring rooms for himself or his
family in New Orleans for the com
ing Sugar Bowl game may obtain
either an apartment or rooms to
stay in while in New Orleans by
writing Mrs. Pierre S. Freret, 1315
Exposition Boulevard or Mr. J. V.
Slattery, 1122 Lowerline Street ac
cording to letters received by Dean
E. J. Kyle, head of the School of
Agriculture. Mrs. Freret has sev
eral rooms available within walk
ing distance of the stadium and J.
V. Slattery has a five room apart
ment for rent.
Walks To Be Paved
During Holidays
dent parking lot. The street in
front of the new dormitories will
be extended to join in with Spence
Street also. Spence Street is the
street north of the new dormitories
and joining on to the main campus
betwen the Animal Industries
building and the Animal Husban
dry Pavilion.
In addition to the student park
ing lot a parking lot for employees
of the mess hall will be built just
northeast of the new mess hall.
This lot will also serve as a park
ing lot for parents or other visi
tors to the mess hall during meal
hours.
A service street will be built to
extend from Spence Street to just
north of halls 5 and 11 so that gen
eral servicing for the entire dormi
tory area can be speeded up. This
street will be open only to service
and delivery vehicles and will not
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CHRISTMAS PROGRAM
TO RE HELD SUNDAY
Second Annual Holiday Festival To
Feature Singing By Corps, Glee Club
Featuring old-time Christmas carols sung by the entire cadet
corps of A. & M., the second annual Christmas program will be
presented in Guion Hall Sunday afternoon at four o’clock, accord
ing to an announcement made yesterday by Max McCullar, presi
dent of the senior class. Besides carols sung by the corps, the Glee
Club and the Aggie Band will present special numbers during the
afternoon.
NBC Will Feature
Sugar Bowl Teams
On Blue Network
A special half-hour broadcast
featuring the Sugar Bowl over
the blue network of the National
Broadcasting Company will be
staged Sunday night from 7:00
to 7:30.
The first fifteen minutes of
the program will be devoted to
A. & M. and College Station. On
this half of the program will be
featured the Band, the Glee Club,
and the yelling cadet corps. Hom
er Norton and “Big John” Kim
brough will speak on the A. &
M. half of the show.
The other fifteen minutes will
come from New Orleans and the
Sugar Bowl.
According to Mr. Rosser, man
ager of radio station W. T. A. W.,
this is one of the biggest broad
casts to come from the A. & M.
campus this year because the
blue network is a combination
of more than 200 radio stations
throughout the country.
Houston Horseman
Gives Outstanding
Stallion To College
Mr. Campbell Sewell of Houston,
Texas has recently presented the
registered Saddle stallion. Squire
McDonald, to the Animal Hus
bandry Department of the A. & M.
College. Squire McDonald is a
grandson of Lee Rose McDonald
and out of a mare by Astral Pea-
vine. He was bred by Herbert B.
Allen at St. Louis Park, Minnesota,
and was later purchased by Mr.
Sewell. The horse is a beautiful
bay three-year-old and has only
been shown on one occasion, and in
that show was first-prize winner.
BIOLOGY CLUB HAS
MOVIE PROJECTOR
AVAILABLE FOR USE
The Biology Club is offering
its new movie projector on a rental
basis to other organizations and
departments on the campus that
wish to show sound or silent pic
tures of any kind. An operator will
be furnished by the Biology Club
with the projector, thus relieving
others of all responsibility for
loss or damage while using the ma
chine.
► The Christmas program, which
is being sponsored by the senior
class, was inaugurated last year
as a new way in which the students
of Aggieland welcome the Christ
mas season.
Professor J. J. Woolket, director
of the Glee Club, will lead the
corps in singing carols. Accom
paniment will be by organ.
Short talks will be made by
senior president Max McCullar, re
presenting the senior class, and
cadet lieutenant colonel Bill Os
walt, representing the corps.
Arrangements are being made
to have the programs printed with
all carols the audience will sing
placed on them. Also the complete
program will be printed.
The Band will play “God Bless
America”, “Faith Eternal”, and
“Christmas Fantasy”.
All residents of both College Sta
tion and Bryan are being invited to
attend, as well as the corps. The
program which will last one hour
will end with head yell-leader Bod-
ie Pierce leading the corps and
Glee Club, accompanied by the
Band, singing “The Spirit of Ag
gieland”.
CADET LAUNDRY
SCHEDULE SET
FOR HOLIDAYS
New Laundry Plan To Be
In Operation Next Week
In order that all cadets will have
a chance to send off laundry be
fore the Christmas holidays the
College Laundry has announced a
chahge of schedule in laundry take-
up and delivery to remain in ef
fect until Saturday, January 13.
The laundry capacity will be
speeded up so that 24-hour service
will be given on all laundry sent
off after Friday. This service will
be maintained until after the holi
days.
The laundry schedule:
Turn in A, B, C, and D on Fri
day, December 15, 7-8 a. m., back
Saturday, December 16 p. m.
Turn in E, F, G. H, and I on
Saturday, December 16, 7-8 a. m.,
back Sunday, December 18 p. m.
Turn in J, K, L, M, Me, and N
on Sunday, December 17, 7-8 a.
m., back on Monday, December IS
p. m.
Turn in O, P, Q, R, and S on
Monday, December 18, 7-8 a. m.^
back on Tuesday, December 19 p-
m.
Turn in- T, U, V, W, Y, and ZL
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“We Have Never Played at Any Place Where We Really Enjoy Playing
More Than At A. &M.” Ernst Hoffman Stated After Brilliant Concert
By George Fuermann -
For the second consecutive year,
the Houston Symphony Orchestra
has won the enthusiastic approval
of the Texas Aggies—and this
time to the tune of five encores,
a separate program in itself.
Under the direction of its genial
and popular conductor, Ernest
Hoffman, the orchestra presented
the third program in Town Hall’s
1939-40 entertainment series be
fore 1,600 persons in Guion Hall
Tuesday night.
The entire program, which was
informal and highly entertaining,
consisted of seven popular and well
loved classics. Barlioz’s “Hungar
ian March” was the first num
ber and was followed by Handel’s
“Largo” which featured solos by
the orchestra’s concert master,
Joseph Gallo, and its harpist,
Barbara Jones, Strauss’ ever-popu-
lar “Tales From Vienna Woods”
concluded the first group.
Following the intermission, the-
orchestra opened with two move
ments from Tschaikowsky’s Fifth
Symphony, the “Andante Canta-
bile” and “Waltz” movements. The
former movement was readily rec-
organized by the audience as the
classic from which the currently
popular “Moon Love” derives its
theme. The second group con
cluded with the playing of Wag
ner’s “Overture To Die Miester-
singer.”
The last group consisted of two
more Tschaikowsky numbers,
“Dance Of the Flutes” from the
Nutcracker Suite and the “Italian
Caprice.”
Interspaced with tremendous ap
plause and cries of “more”, the
orchestra played five encores
which included two novelty num
bers, Paul Whiteman’s “Mosquito
Dance” and “Pop, Goes the Weasel”
by Cailllet. The third encore was
• Richard Wagner’s “Prelude to Act-
III of Lohengrin” and this was fol
lowed by Baccherini’s famous
“Minuette.” Last of the five en-.
cores was the famous work of
Sibelius, “Finlandia” which Hoff
man informally introduced as “A
tribute to a very fine country.”
One thing in particular which
made the concert of particular in
terest to many Aggies was the fact
that almost every number on the
program is included in the library’s
collection of records.
The program was broadcast to
hundreds of listeners by radio sta
tion WTAW.
Shortly after the conclusion of
the concert, conductor Hoffman
declared, “We have never played
at any place where we really en
joy playing more than at Texas
A. & M., and our visit to the
campus is one which we anxiously
look forward to from year to year.”
The orchestra, during the cur
rent season, will play in cities from
San Angelo to New Orleans, where
it plays next Thursday night, and
this year will give 21 concerts in
Houston. Recognized as the finest
symphony orchestra in the South,
it adds new men from other na
tionally prominent orchestras each
year. With over eighty members,
the orchestra will present more
than thirty concerts this season.
BING AND FORBES TO
HEAD COTTON PAGEANT
The Agronomy Society met a
short time ago and elected B. U.
Bing as business manager of the
1940 Cotton Pageant and Ball and
H. C. Forbes as social secretary.
Bing who was a runner up candi
date for this years Crop Team has
already worked out some of the
details for the 1940 Cotton Ball.
L. F. Aston To
Talk On Marketing
Of Wool Tonight
L. F. Aston, Texas manager for
the Midwest Wool Marketing As-
j sociation, will speak on the “Co
operative Marketing of Wool” and
show a motion picture on the
“Story of Wool,” on Thursday eve
ning at 7:30 in the lecture room
of the Animal Industries Building.
This is the fifth in a series of
lectures by cooperative leaders of
Texas arranged by the Department
of Agricultural Economics of A.
& M. College for the benefit of
students enrolled in the course
on cooperatives in agriculture given
by that department. The lectures,
however, are open to the general
public.
The motion picture to be shown
by Mr. Aston was prepared by the
Farm Credit Administration at
Washington as one of a series
showing the method of marketing
farm products cooperatively.