Romance While You Dance
Jayne Walton, glamorous vocalist featured with Lawrence Welk
and his orchestra, creator of the famed “Champagne Music”, who
will play for the Coast Artillery Ball and corps dance at A. & M.
Friday and Saturday.
Jayne Walton Adds Feminine
Touch to f Champagne Music’
A feminine touch is added to
“Champagne Music” by Jayne
Walton, one of Lawrence Welk’s
featured vocalists, appearing with
his band at A. & M. this weekend.
Jayne, a dark-eyed, dark-haired
miss of twenty, has been singing
professionally since she was
twelve and possesses a mellow and
smooth flowing voice which blends
perfectly with the distinctive
styling of “Champagne Music.”
She was born on the United
States side of the U. S.-Mexico
border as her father was an engi
neer in Mexico and the family liv
ed there. Her mother insisted that
her daughter be brought into the
world on United States soil and
traveled across the border in the
nick of time. After spending her
first few days in the world in the
U. S., Jayne was taken to Mexico
where she was raised. She went
to school in that country and
learned to speak Spanish before
English. As Jayne knows Span
ish fluently and speaks it like a
native, she adds a Spanish flavor
to “Champagne Music” with her
vocal interpretations of choruses
to many popular tangos and
rhumbas.
Jayne’s first professional en
gagement was singing on a chil
dren’s show broadcast over a Mexi
can radio station. In her early
-fteens the family moved to San
Antonio, Texas, and she began ra
dio work in that city. Because of
her father’s work, the family trav
eled quite a bit thru-out the
Southwest and wherever they re
sided for any period of time Jayne
was certain to be heard over local
stations. In 1937 she thought she
would like to sing with an orches
tra and left home to join a band
that played engagements thru-out
the South and Southwest. Her
first trip outside of that section
of the country was when she was
offered a job with radio station
WOW, N.B.C. affiliate in Omaha,
Nebraska. However, after a short
time of doing radio work again,
she longed to be back on the band
stand. Hearing that Lawrence
Welk was searching for a “Cham
pagne Lady,” she took a week’s
vacation and traveled to Chicago,
where Welk was appearing at the
time, to seek an audition with the
band.
That Lawrence Welk was much
impressed with Jayne’s vocal abil
ity during that audition is a com
mon fact and Jayne will be on the
bandstand, singing choruses in her
inimitable manner, with the
“Champagne Music” orchestra
during their engagement at A. &
M.
Over 100 Concessions on Campus Aid
Students in Earning School Expenses
In a recent checkup it was found-
that there are over one hundred
student concessions on the campus
which furnish jobs for a great
many boys. The holders of these
various concessions must be eligi
ble for student labor, and are de
signated by O. R. Simpson, head
of the Student Labor Office, up
on the approval of applications
which are filed at the Student
Labor Office. Students who have
concessions must file monthly fi
nancial statements, which furnish
employment for two Accounting
and Statistics students who com
pile and check them.
As a step to protect th / '
dents and to eliminate unau
ed selling of merchandise .
dormitories, Simpson has i
cards to the authorized con
cession holders, which are
signed by him and countersigned
by the holder. Anyone who does
not bear one of these cards is not
an authorized concession holder
and is responsible to the Dis
ciplinary Committee for unauthor
ized selling of merchandise. The
efficiency of this newly created
system depends upon the co-opera
tion given by the students in de
manding that concession cards be
shown, and demanding receipts for
any deposits. If any merchandise
is not delivered, or is of an in
ferior quality, the purchaser
should notify Mr. Simpson and
give the name and ijard number of
the seller.
- Much complaint has been made
concerning soliciting in the halls
after Call to Quarters. This is pro
hibited, and anyone who violates
this provision by soliciting at un
reasonable hours should be report
ed. There are no concessions on jew
elry or any type of clothing ex
cepting organization sweaters, and
there are no authorized civilian
concessions on the campus.
The active concessions and agents
are: tennis equipment, T. E. Duce;
organization sweaters, Allen Erck
and Charlie Ballou^; portable
drawing st° > ‘ ’ Jchenstein;
tv~ sttit; towel
yw shades,
...era supplies,
-..vjur; stationery, Edgar
... Seay; pennants and armbands,
Jack Slater; mathematical charts,
O. M. Watkins and W. G. North;
dance photos, James Wall.
In most cases each holder has
several agents working under him
who are responsible to him. The
holder is in turn responsible to
the Student Labor Office .
It is not contemplated that ad
ditional concessions will be given
this year, but the students who re
main eligible for student labor and
have handled the concessions sat
isfactorily this year will be reas
signed the concessions next year if
they return.
All concessions that are not re
assigned to the present holder will
be declared open for applications
from May 1 to 10.
VOL. 39 122 ADMINISTRATION BUILDING COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 5, 1940 Z725 NO. 59
Hall Leader In “Ugly Boy” Primary
No Finals
On Final
Review Day
Faculty Moves June
1st Exams to 7th To
Accommodate Corps
Final examinations for the cur
rent semester will not be held
Final Review day. Dean F. C.
Bolton has just announced.
In response to requests made by
The Battalion, the Student Welfare
Committee, and leaders of the
student body, the Executive Com
mittee, acting for the general fac
ulty, has issued the following an
nouncement:
“Final examinations for the cur
rent semester were originally
scheduled to begin Saturday after
noon, June 1. In view of the fact
that graduation exercises will be
held Friday, May 31; that the
Final Ball will be held following
graduation exercises; that the
Final Review will be held on Sat
urday morning, June 1; and that
many students will have their fam
ily and friends here at that time,
it is thought that the best inter
ests of all concerned will be served
better if final examinations for
undergraduates do not begin until
Monday morning, June 3.
“In order to effect this change
in the final examination schedule,
all examinations scheduled for
period K, 1 p. m. Saturday, June
1, will be changed to 1 p. m. Fri
day, June 7. The regularly sched
uled examinations for the conflict
period will be held Saturday morn
ing and Saturday afternoon, June
8.
Fitzhugh, Ex-Aggie, Heads Texas Fair
Association, Manages Tyler Program
V. F. Fitzhugh, ’28, assistant-fsouri, Columbia, Missouri; and
manager and agricultural director Lester Fitzgerald, ’40.
Nick Stuart
Will Play At
Country Club
of the Tyler Chamber of Com
merce, and secretary-manager of
the East Texas Fair, was recently
elected president of the Texas As
sociation of Fairs. Fitzhugh is the
oldest of a family of six boys, all
of whom have either finished A.
& M., or are in school at the pres
ent time. Among the brothers are:
H. M. Fitzhugh, ’38, teacher of vo
cational agriculture at Garden
City; H. A. Fitzhugh, ’33, county
agent at San Antonio; P. P. Fitz
hugh, ’39, teacher of vocational
agriculture at Robert Lee; T. C.
Fitzhugh, ’38, Engineering Draw
ing Department, University of Mis-
V. F. Fitzhugh taught vocation
al agriculture at Georgetown the
first year out of school; then spent
five years as superintendent of
schools and teacher of vocational
agriculture at Tolar. In 1934 he
went to Tyler where he taught vo
cational agriculture and on June
1, 1936, he took over his present
work. The Tyler and Smith County
Agricultural program is one of the
best programs in the South. In his
present position, Fitzhugh replac
ed W. O. Cox, ’28, now manager of
the Agricultural Department of
the Houston Chamber of Com
merce. In his work as manager of
the East Texas Fair at Tyler, Fitz
hugh has become one of-the best
known men in that field in the
Southwest. The Texas Association
of Fairs is an organization made
up of all the Fairs of the state.
FILM CLUB TO SHOW
GERMAN MOVIE HERE
The recently organized College
Film Club will present the Ger
man show “Hauptmann von
Koepenck” tonight at 7:30 in the
Chemistry Lecture Room, accord
ing to the club secretary.
Because of the conflict with the
meeting of the faculty of the Col
lege of Arts and Sciences, a sec
ond show will begin immediately
after the faculty meeting. Since
two showings are to be given, each
member may bring one guest with
out charge.
Local dance fans will have an
opportunity to dance to the music
of one of the best of the top-flight
bands now on tour when Nick
Stuart and his orchestra play for
a dance at the Bryan Country Club
on Thursday night, March 7th.
NICK STUART
The orchestra is coming to Bryan
at the instance of the Young Men’s
Civic League of Brazos County.
Stuart, featuring saxophones in
his music, gives a program of
swing numbers distinguished for
their tone color, combined with the
smooth, sweet tunes so popular
with southern dancers.
(Continued on page 4)
"Melody Lingers On” After Annual Artillery
Ball Held in Sbisa Hall Here Friday Night
Four Other
Candidates
In Run-Off
Contest Arousing
Nationwide Interest
With a total of 2,614 votes cast
in the first primary of Backwash’s
Ugly Boy contest, the five candi
dates in the runoff election are R.
C. “Eddie” Hall, S. D. “Red” Mar
tin, Roy Chappell, M. E. Shepherd,
and Irvin Thompson.
Hall, who received 455 votes, is
a senior agricultural administra
tion student from Electra and is
a member of A Company Infan
try. Martin, with 404 votes, is a
mechanical engineering senior of
E Company Engineers from Chris
tine. Chappell, a member of the
Field Artillery Band, was third in
the first primary with 394 votes
and is a petroleum engineering
junior from Kaufman. Shepherd
and Thompson tied for fourth
place with 236 votes each. Shep
herd is a member of Headquarters
Company Signal Corps and an
electrical engineering senior from
Bryan; while Thompson is a lib
eral arts junior from Silsbee, and
a member of First Combat Train
Field Artillery.
Other candidates who received
more than a hundred votes for the
honor were C. V. Kirkpatrick, 182;
Jack Fugate, 151; and James
Singleton, 109. There were num
erous other nominees who receiv
ed less than one hundred votes
each. One candidate who received
more than a hundred votes with
drew before the end of the first
primary.
(Continued on page 4)
“No other changes in the exam
ination schedule are necessary, and
the rest of the schedule as an
nounced on page 4 of the official
schedule of classes will be follow
ed.”
BILLY COLVIN,
INFANTRY FISH,
DIES IN ACCIDENT
Bill Colvin, C Infantry fresh
man, was killed and two other per
sons injured when two automobiles
collided near Rockdale last Sun
day night.
Colvin and M. U. Ferrari, Coast
Artillery sophomore, were return
ing to College from their home in
Rockdale with Robert Griffon, also
of Rockdale when the accident oc
curred.
Colvin was a freshman student
in mechanical engineering. His
body was take back to Rockdale.
Ferrari, who sustained a serious
head injury, was rushed to the
College Hospital and arrived here
at 7:10 p. m. Sunday evening. His
condition seems improved, accord
ing to the doctors. However, the
full extent of his injuries are not
known as yet. Due to his shocked
condition, X-rays cannot yet be
taken.
The condition of the third boy,
Robert Griffon, is not known as
he was rushed to a hospital in
Cameron.
Occupants of the other auto
mobile escaped with minor bruises.
Geology Club To Discuss
Field Trip Thursday Night
The Geology Club will meet
Thursday, March 7th at 7:30 p. m.
Members of last summer’s field
trip will discuss Sophomore Field
Geology and the various phases
of the course. A field course may
be offered the first semester this
summer and all those interested
should attend the meeting.
Movies of Architectural
Tour To Be Shown Public
Color movies of the architectural
student tour to Mexico during the
summer of 1938 will be shown
in the Architectural Department
Wednesday, March 6, at 7:30 p. m.
The public is invited.
By George Fuermann a
The sixth annual Field Artillery
Ball is history, but “the melody
lingers on” in a manner which
leaves no possibility for a future
blackout from the minds of the
twelve hundred cadets and their
dates who attended the function.
Highlighted by the “Candid Ca
mera” music of Del Courtney and
his nationally significant orchestra,
the prom was important for more
reasons than one. Not only did
“jitterbuggin’ ” give way to waltz
ing and “put-your-little-footin’”;
not only did the galaxy of Texas
beauties on hand shade the efforts
of a sizable coed college; but Ag-
gieland’s impressive new bandstand
made its initial appearance.
A long-awaited addition to A. &
M. social functions, the unique
and pretentious stand is striking
in appearance, colorful, arid re
presents a tremendous improvement
over previous individual-dance de
corations.
And as for maestro Courtney—
“I’m very sincere when I say that
the orchestra has never played at
any college where we have more
completely enjoyed ourselves than
here at Texas A. & M.” Vocalist
Sherman Hayes was the “hit” star
of the evening, Joe Martin’s man
ner of singing the new song-hit
“Princess Poo Pooly” made it an
oft-requested number, and singer
Dick Dildine was also popular with
the Field Artillerymen and their
dates.
But back to Del again, he could
n’t say enough about Aggieland.
“I can hardly find words to tell
how the orchestra feels about this
college. The cadets ‘took us in’ as
though we were one of them; we
played baseball, tennis, and went
swimming with Aggies. In fact,
I haven’t enjoyed myself so much
in a long time.”
“And by the way,” he went on,
“We were lucky enough to see
A. & M.’s national football cham
pions in a practice game, and to
us they look even better than
they did last year.” Del Courtney’s
band was one of several nationally
prominent dance-bands which feted
the Aggies last November by play- j
ing “The Spirit of Aggieland” over
a national radio network. The Field
Artillery Ball was the occasion of I
his second visit to Aggieland, his
orchestra having played for the
Senior Ring Dance last year.
SENIORS—CAST YOUR VOTES FOR
YOUR MOST POPULAR CLASSMATES
Senior President Max McCullar and Longhorn editor George
Smith Monday made the following announcement for The Battalion:
“Since only about 75 votes were cast last week by members of the
senior class in their election of the five most popular seniors of the
class of 1940, it has been thought necessary to conduct a new and en
tirely different election for the same purpose.
“It is hoped that enough members of the class will express their
opinions so that at least a representative number of votes can be
counted.”
Last year less than twenty percent of the entire class voted. For
the past several years, the seniors have been growing more and more
lax in their election of the most popular seniors. As pointed out pre
viously by a Battalion editorial, the election has become shamefully
unrepresentative—almost farcical.
It has been stated by the Longhorn staff that unless the seniors
in the future manifest a due interest, the five pages of the annual
devoted to the five most popular seniors each year will not be justified,
and may as a result have to be discontinued.
It is the hope of all the class leaders and publications editors that
such a situation will not come about this year. By holding a second
election and extending to every senior one more urgent and earnest
plea that he do his part, it is hoped that it can yet be made a repre
sentative and true election.
Only classified seniors may be elected to this honor. All members
of the original class of ’40 may cast their votes. To you members
of the class of ’40 it is a real opportunity, in fact your duty, to ex
press your opinions.
This is your last chance to do so. Seniors, do your part.
•
Ballots will be collected by first sergeants of all organizations.
They will be turned in to Max McCullar at room 228, hall 9, by Wed
nesday evening at 7:30.
Ballots will not be counted until a report has been made by every
first sergeant.
MOST POPULAR SENIOR BALLOT
To the President of the Senior Class:
Following are my nominations for the Five Most Popular
Seniors of the Class of ’40:
(Signed),
(Organization)
Maintenance Cost
Is Reduced For
Balance of Term
At a recent meeting of the
Board of Directors of the College
in Waco a motion was brought up
and passed to lower the monthly
maintenance to the amount of $1.75
per month from what it is quoted
in the catalog at present. The
object of the reduction was to
lower the cost to a level that will
be the most accommodating to the
majority of the students, and still
maintain the same quality of food.
It was decided by the subsistence
department that it would be better
to narrow the variety rather than
use food of a lower quality.
This lowering of charges applies
to board only, and the other items
will remain at the original figures.
The fiscal department has an
nounced that all students who have
already paid their maintenance this
month, or have paid it for tho
entire semester may receive a re
fund in about ten days.
The total payable for March is
$26.75, for April the maintenance
will be $26.00, and for May it
will be $26.50. This reduction will
save each student $5.25 of the
original cost that was set for this
semester.
CIVIL SERVICE
EXAM SCHEDULED
FOR APRIL 6TH
The secretary of the United
States Civil Service Commission
of College Station announced to
day that the examination for Jun
ior Professional Assistant will be
held on April 6th. There are 426
seniors at A. & M. qualified to
take the examination.
Last Saturday, - two men on the
campus received orders to report
for duty as Junior Soil Scientists,
j These two men passed the exami
nation that was given in April,
1939. C. D. Trail will report to
Spartenburg, South Carolina, and
O. G. Smith will report to Alber-
querque, New Mexico.
Dr. L. G. Jones of the Agrono
my Department will meet with
those interested in taking the ex
amination and will assist them
with the I. Q. examination Tues
day night in the A. I. Building.