Advanced ROTC Cadets to Get Requested Deferment
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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
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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-
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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
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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
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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.