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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1941)
Advanced ROTC Cadets to Get Requested Deferment DIAL 4-5444 DIAL 4-5444 STUDENT TRI WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE The Battalion OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION VOL. 40 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, ArxviJL s. iy*i Z725 NO. 73 Twelve Candidates Swamp Publication Office Monday “Good Reason” Is Basis On Which DefermentRests Others Will Begin Active Duty If Funds Available Seniors with advanced military science contracts who are due to become second lieutenants in the regular army following gradua tion in June, but who requested a deferement of more than one month, will receive that deferr- ment if a good reason is given. The long-awaited announcement, made by Headquarters, Eighth Corps Area, was released from the the Commandant’s office late Mon day afternoon. The official release reads: “Information has been received from Headquarters, Eighth Corps Area, that those students due to be commissioned in June who re quested a deferrment of more than one month when question naires were answered in Feb ruary will receive that deferr ment if a good reason was given. 6‘Tt is contemplated that all others who receive reserve com missions will be called to active duty provided enough funds are allotted for that purpose. “Those who did not request de ferrment but have been offered employment of a national defense nature may be granted up to a year deferrment by submitting a request through the military department with proof of em ployment as a basis.” Further details concerning this will be released in an early edi tion of The Battalion. CE Department Offers Defense Course in Drafting An Engineering Defense Train ing course in structural drafting is to be offered in the civil engi neering department beginning) April 15 and continuing for a per iod of 12 weeks. Prerequisites for the course have been changed to two years of en gineering school including mechan ics. Calculus is not required. The course is designed to give the student a practical knowledge of structural drafting sufficient to enable him to obtain a job as draftsman either with a structural (Continued on Page 6) Next Year’s Junior Yell Leaders To Be Chosen Today Nagel, Alford, Brient, Wallace and Chalmers Are Eligible A meeting of the sophomore and junior classes will be held in Guion Hall at 7:30 o’clock for the purpose of electing two of the five candi dates for next year’s junior yell leaders. Of the seven men who filed for the election three were declared ineligible. The five men who are still in the race are Jack Nagle, J. P. Alford, Claude H. Wallace, Russell Brient and W. H. (Chuck) Chalmers. Raymond Wolfe and Henry Crews, Jr., were declared in eligible for the position by the Student Elections Committee. At tonight’s election the men will be elected by ballot and only one vote for one man will be cast by each voter. There will be no run off, and the two who receive the highest number of votes will be elected as next year’s junior yell leaders. The nominees will draw for speaking order at the election. Af ter their order has been decided each will be allowed to give a short talk before the audience and lead several yells if he wishes. All candidates were required to have filed petitions for their can didacies one week prior to the elec- (Continued on Page 6) State Chess Champ to Hold Demonstration J. C. Thompson, State chess champion, will demonstrate his ability Thursday at 7:30 p. m. in the Y Chapel. Students and staff members, wives and sweethearts, and masters and amateurs have been invited to attend. Previous experience and expei’tness are not necessary. Those who attend and find it convenient to do so are required to bring a board and set of men. However, these materials will be furnished those unable to provide them so that all may take part in Luke Patronella Stages Fourteenth Easter Egg Hunt for Local Children An Easter Egg hunt for all Col--f lege Station children under school age and through the fourth grade will be given by Luke Patronella, local merchant, Wednesday after noon at 2:30 o’clock in the ravine adjacent to the old Karper home and AAA offices. This year's hunt will mark the fourteenth annual Easter party giv en by Patronella. For the occasion 1860 eggs will be hidden in the ravine by members of the home economics class of the A. & M. Consolidated School. Patronella and the teachers at the school will supervise the hunt. Twelve prizes will be awarded at the party. In order to win a prize a child must find an egg with a local merchant’s name printed on it. The child will take the egg to the merchant ^vhose name appears on it and be given the prize. The local concerns that have of fered to give prizes are Black’s Drug Store, Aggie Cleaners, Col lege Plumbing Company, Lip scomb’s Pharmacy, Casey’s Con fectionery, Campus Variety Store, H. E. Burgess, College Hills Beauty Shop, College Hills Estates and W. S. D. Clothing Store. Patronella urged that all child ren who live in College Station within the specified ages come to the hunt. Marketing & Finance Seniors to Make Tour Marketing and finance seniors leave Monday in two groups for an inspection trip of different firms in Houston and Dallas. The trip will extend through Thurs day. J. W. Barger, head of the agri cultural economics department, and R. L. Hunt, professor of agricul tural economics, will be in charge of the group visiting in Houston. Among the firms to be visited are the Farm Security Administration and the Great Southern Life In surance Company. L. S. Paine, associate professor of agricultural economics, and P. W. Kimball, ins tructor in agricultural economics will have charge of the group in Dallas. Ross Volunteer Celebrations to Begin Thursday NightjTwo Add Names For Volunteers Begin Fifty-Fourth Year of Continued Activity 1887 to 1941—fifty-four years of continued activity; that’s the record of the Ross Volunteers, Texas A. & M.’s oldest student organization. Originally the organization was called the Scott Volunteers, and the name changed as often as the col lege changed presidents, as custom formerly dictated that the organiz ation should be named after the reigning president. In 1891, how ever, the present name was adopted permanently in honor of Texas’ former governor Lawrence Sullivan Ross, who became president of A. & M. at that time. The Ross Volunteer uniform has also undergone some changes be fore assuming its present-day makeup. During the latter part of the nineteenth century the uniform consisted of white duck, gold or naments, and a metal helmet. Late in 1907 the uniform was changed to blue and gray, with large Stetson hats, but this proved to be short lived and soon the familiar white uniform with white caps was adop ted and is still in use today. Composed of two platoons the organization is unique in that it still follows the old-style drill reg ulations which make for more snap military precision and showman ship. Nor is drill a go-as-you-please affair with Ross Volunteer mem bers. From January to the middle of May they drill forty-five min utes a day, four days a week. And occasions to demonstrate their worth as a military organiz ation are too few. Highlight of their drill year is the annual Ross Volunteer Mothers’ Day drill, and other drilling exhibitions of the Ross Volunteers include the cere monies preceding the presentation of the traditional wreath at the statue of their namesake, Lawrence Sullivan Ross, their annual exhi bition drill at Navasota’s State Bluebonnet Festival and other special occasions throughout the state. But most important of all to every Ross Volunteer is the trad itional and colorful social season held during the college’s spring holidays each year. Led by the ba toning of Phil Levant and his or chestra, Ross Volunteers and their escortees will waltz and tango on five occasions during the coming week-end. Thursday night at 8:00 o’clock there’s the coronation of the Ross Volunteer King and Queen and the introduction of their court. Esther Mae Colombo of Galveston and (Continued on Page 6) Four Experiment Station Employees Present Paper at ACS G. S. Fraps, W. W. Meinke, R. Reiser, and A. R. Kemmerer of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station at A. & M. will present a paper at the 101st meeting of the American Chemical Society at St. Louis, Mo., Wednesday, April 9, which will give the results of ex periments on various kinds of chicken feeds. The paper will explain how chickens and other poultry may suffer from a deficiency of vita min A even though their feed may contain sufficient quantities of vitamin. It was found that many important feeds of animal origin such as meat and bone scraps, dried skim milk, and fish meal have the properties of destroying the yel low pigment called carotene in green and yellow plants and veg etables which is changed to vita min A by the liver of animals that eat it. The paper will discuss methods that have been found which will remedy this undesirable property and will greatly improve the qual ity of many kinds of poultry feeds. Swings Baton for the R V’s Shown above is Phil Levant, leader of the nationally-known orchestra which plays for the four Ross Volunteer dances and a corps dance at Aggieland Thursday, FYiday and Satur day. Levant and his orchestra will open the festivities with the Queen’s Ball beginning at 10 o’clock Thursday night follow ing the royal coronation cere monies starting at 8:00. Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock they will play for the R.V. tea dance; Fri day evening at 7 for the R.V. dinner dance; and tomorrow night at 10 for the Captain’s Ball, climaxing the festivities. Saturday night Levant’s band will play for the corps dance, terminating the social functions of the week. R V Captain Joe Slicker Regimental Headquarters Troop Captures Most Honors at Horse Show By Jack Hollimon Under a warm spring sun, A. & M.’s 18th annual horse show took place at the show ring Satur day where saddle horses from all parts of Texas were taken through their gaits and jumpers exhibited rare precision and timing. Accord ing to horsemen and horse author ities present, the class uniformity and value of the entries was on higher plane than in previous years. Typifying the hunt in jumping, timing, and movement, the hunt team race cup went to the Bexar County Hunt team and this event drew much attention from the crowds massed near the barriers. Regimental Headquarters Caval ry troop took the greatest number of first place trophies among R.O.T.C. student competition when Cadet Captain Robert Tonkin of San Antonio came through to take first in the R.O.T.C. Charger class and first in the jumping finals. Ralph E. Hill Jr., won the R.O.T.C. Horsemanship class cup and Chase Kincannon triumphed in the stick and ball competition. This Cavalry unit also accounted for several place positions. In the open jumping class, Robin was the winning horse with Miss Winfred Small rider and owner. Second place went to Sonny, own ed by the U.S. Army and ridden by E. F. Hernard of the Field Artil lery. Jazz Time with Mrs. H. H. Phillips, owner and rider, took third place. Bill Ehman mounted on Rambler, U.S. Army mount, placed fourth. Tom Power followed Robert Tonkin in the R.O.T.C. Jumping class for second position and Luke Adams and R. L. Fox placed third and fourth respectively. All were riding U.S. Army mounts. Placing behind the Bexar County hunt team was a Cavalry team composed of M. N. Martin, Nig Calliham and Bill Ehman. Third place in the hunt went to a Field Artillery team composed of Cris well, Henard and Lytle. Fourth position was claimed by another Cavalry team made up of members Irving, Powers and Hill. This event was outstanding from an action and an equestrian standpoint. Lee Rice garnered first place in the polo bending race on Jim mie, and he was closely followed (Continued on Page 6) Company Is Named in Honor Of Lawrence S. Ross The first organized student acti vity of A. & M. appeared in 1887 as a crack military company call ed the Scott Volunteers. In 1891 the name was changed to Ross Volunteers in honor of former gov ernor Lawrence Sullivan Ross, who became president of A. & M. at that time. The uniform of the campany at this time was of white duck with gold ornaments and tin helmet. In 1907 the uniform was changed to gray and blue with a big Stetson hat, but since this dress did not meet with favor, the white uni form was again adopted with sub stitution of white caps in place of the tin helmets. As part of the annual activities the Ross Volunteer Company plac es a wreath on Ross’ statue in front of the Academic Building. In choosing the name of Ross Vol unteers, the company could not have picked a more appropriate name from a military standpoint. Ross was born in Iowa, but mov ed to Texas at an early age. From the beginning he was marked for a military career. So able a mil itary leader was he that at 18 he acquired the rank of captain in the Texas Rangers. While serving in this capacity, he defeated a tribe of Comanche Indians and effected the rescue of Cynthia Ann Parker, a girl kidnapped from her home during childhood. When the Civil War started, Ross enlisted as a private, in 1861. Four years later he was discharged as a Brigadier-General. After the war, he returned to Texas to raise cotton on a plantation in the Brazos Riv er valley. Through a campaign carried on mainly by friends, Ross was elected governor of the state. In 1890, immediately after his term of office as Governor of Tex as, Ross was elected president of Texas A. & M. college. So popular was he over the state that many parents in effect sent their sons to Ross rather than to A. & M. During his administration the en rollment of the college increased enormously. In this capacity Ross served until his death in 1898. R. L Heitkamp Is Chosen Junior Editor of Longhorn Russel L. Heitkamp, junior of A Field Artillery, was named jun ior editor of The Longhorn yester day by Morton Robinson, editor of The Longhorn. Heitkamp is major ing in agi'icultural administration and comes from New Braunfels, Texas. In a statement to The Battalion Robinson had the following to say: “I am thoroughly convinced that the most difficult job included in my duties as Longhorn Editor is that of appointing a junior editor. This year the Longhorn was for tunate in having four juniors who really desired to work. Each was an excellent helper and not a mere office ornament. “In appointing a junior editor I judged the four junior assistants on the following qualifications: 1. Grade point requirement (as specified by college regula tions). 2. Ability to work as shown by their work on the ’40-’41 Longhorn. 3. Office organization ability. 4. General attitude toward Stud ent Publication work and the enthusiam they employed in their work. “After much consideration I sin cerely believe that R. L. Heitkamp best meets these qualifications.” Batt Editor Formerly Deserted Town Hall Post Gets 5 Job-Seekers The Student Publication Office secretary had a big day Monday as 12 men indicated their inten tions by filing their names as candidates in forthcoming cam pus elections. For the office of Battalion edi tor-in-chief, two men tossed in their hats. D. C. Thurman of Menard and Lee Rogers of Bishop, both junior editors this year and mem bers of the staff since the’dr sophomore year, followed each other in short order Monday to file as the second and third candidates in the race. To be voted the same day, the office of Junior Representative to the Student Publications Board found another entrant in T. R. (Tommy) Vannoy of McAllen. Van- noy is at present editorial assis tant on The Battalion staff, hav ing worked part-time his freshman year. In the April 17 election in which only the junior class will partici pate five men filed for the office of Town Hall Manager which in the first report found the office vacant. G. W. (Buddy) Ramsel, Jack Hollimon, J. F. Stephenson, Fred Smitham, and Billy Bolton have entered the race. The Senior Social Secretary race livened to three as Alden Cathey and Pete Frost signed in order. J. Bennie Hancock adde dhis name to the list under the editor ship of the Longhorn. BATTALION EDITOR E. M. (Manny) Rosenthal D. C. (Bug) Thurman Lee Rogers JUNIOR REPRESENTATIVE Billy Bryant T. R. (Tommy) Vannoy LONGHORN EDITOR R. L. (Rusty) Heitkamp J. Bennie Hancock TOWN HALL MANAGER G. W. (Buddy) Ramsel Jack Hollimon J. F. Stephenson Fred Smitham Billy Bolton SOCIAL SECRETARY Lewis Kercheville Alden Cathey Pete Frost ROTC Money May Arrive Thursday Leut. Col. James A. Watson an nounced Monday night that every thing possible was being done to obtain payment of subsistence for advanced R.O.T.C. cadets before the beginning of the spring holi days. “It is my opinion that the money will be here by Thursday noon,” Col. Watson said Monday night, “and I want to assure the cadets that we are doing all that is in our power to secure this money for them before the beginning of the holidays.” Today’s Battalion Is Last Before Holidays This issue of The Battalion will be the last issue to be published before the spring holidays which begin Thursday after classes. The decision to eliminate the Thurs day issue came after a number of staff members indicated their in tention to leave early. The next issue of The Battalion will be published Thursday, April 17.