DIAL 4-5444
STUDENT TRI WEEKLY
NEWSPAPER OF
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
The Battalion
DIAL 4-5444
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
VOLUME 41
122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG.
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT. 25, 1941
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NUMBER 8
Junior ClclSS Station’s Motorized Police Patrol
Prexy Picked
Friday Night
Seating Sections,
Motion Picture Set
Up to Be Discussed
Officers of the Junior Class will
be elected after yell practice Fri
day night in Guion Hall, Cadet
Colonel Tom Gillis stated Wednes
day.
A president, vice president, sec
retary-treasurer, historian, and
three representatives on the Stu
dent Welfare board will be elect
ed at the meeting.
Gillis will preside during the
election and will be aided in tab
ulating the votes by the regimental
commanders and the yell-leaders.
In order to complete the election
rapidly, Gillis asked that the jun
iors be as orderly as possible during
the voting.
The junior section in the stadium
will be explained to the class mem
bers, and in addition the motion
picture situation will be clarified.
Other business will be taken up by
the class officers as they see fit.
Last year’s officers of the soph
omore class were Billy Bryant,
president; Jack Miller, vice presi
dent; Joe G. Maples, secretary-
treasurer; J. M. Wilkinson, his
torian; and Bob Bryant and H.
R. Bright, student welfare repre
sentatives.
Turkey Day Clash Dedicated to Former
Aggies Now in Service of Uncle Sam
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Aggies Sleep As
Tail of Hurricane
Sweeps College Station
C. N. Surber, campus patrolman, stops Bill Wofford with his new motorcycle. The motorcycle is used
cooperatively by the college and the city in enforcing the local speed limit of 20 miles per hour.
Motorcycle Officer Turns
Aggieland into ’Safety City
Seniors From
Battalions Added
To Welfare Group
Senior members of the student
Welfare committee were appoint'
ed at the meeting of the commit
tee yesterday afternoon.
The student welfare committee
is made up of one senior from each
battalion on the campus and rep
resentatives from each of the three
other classes and certain members
of the faculty who meet with the
student members to discuss cam
pus problems.
The members of the committee
are as follows: first, second and
third battalion Infantry; Willard
C. Clark, A. J. Landua, and C. B.
Admire; first, second, and third
battalion, Field Artillery, Otto
Scherz, Jack Tilton and Robin Ro-
minger; first and second battalion
Coast Artillery Corps, Gerald R.
King and L. A. Dubose; first and
second squadron Cavalry, R. H.
Martin and John Yelameter; first
and second battalion engineers, W.
E. Frosh and A. E. Anderson; Sig
nal Corps battalion, John Persohn;
Chemical Warfare battalion, Ted
Overbeck; and in the band, Jones
F. Webb.
A Battalion Feature
With the addition of a motor
cycle patrolman to the College po
lice force and the strict enforce
ment of the 20 mile speed limit,
College Station has become the
“Safety City” of Brazos county.
The ever-increasing enrollment
and the greater number of cars
travelling on the campus created
a traffic hazard which brought a
number of complaints to the au
thorities. This brought about the
ideas of setting a standard speed
C. E. Society
Begins New Year
Vanity Fair
Deadline Is Set
All Vanity Fair and Senior Fav
orite pictures for the 1942 Long
horn must be in by December 18,
1941.
This year entrants in the Vanity
Fair must submit three glossy fin
ish pictures; an 8 by 10 inch full
length picture taken in an eve
ning gown, a 5 by 7 inch full
length taken in a street or sport
dress, and a 5 by 7 inch close-up.
A light plain background for all
pictures is desired. For Senior
Favorites any close-up will suf
fice.
This year as in past years the
charge for Vanity Fair will be
$3.00 and will include a free pic
ture in the Senior Favorite sec
tion. The Senior Favorite charge
is $1.50 for each picture submit
ted.
All Vanity Fair and Senior Fav
orite pictures should be handed in
to Bennie Hancock, features edi
tor, Room 117, Dorm 4.
The A. S. C. E. held its open
ing meeting of the year in the lec
ture room of the C. E. Building
after yell practice Tuesday night.
A total of 160 members and vis
itors were present.
Mark Goode, B. Engineers, was
elected vice-president of the or
ganization, J. C. Denny, secre
tary-treasurer; G. R. Thenn, Jr.
reporter. Previously elected offi
cers are Jesse A. Teague, presi
dent and Dan Ray Sutherland,
student representative on the Engi
neering Council. The club is spon
sored by J. T. L. McNew head of
the civil engineering department.
F. J. Benson, assistant professor
of civil engineering is the junior
contact member and Col. O. A.
Seward, Texas State Highway resi
dent engineer of Groesbeck is the
senior contact member.
Opening the meeting, J. T. L.
McNew gave a short talk, the
salient points of which were the
national recognition which the stu
dent society had received during the
past two years on their annual re
ports.
The plans for the coming year
include at least two combined in
spection-convention trips. Regular
meetings of the student society are
held on the second and fourth
Tuesdays of each month in the C.
E. lecture room.
limit and the enforcing of the rul
ing with a penalty of a fine on
each offender.
Sgt. C. N. Surber, the first and
only motorcycle policeman of Col
lege Station diligently pursues
any person who speeds through
the campus at a rate of more than
20 miles an hour. The total fines
for the first two weeks of the new
speed enforcement project were
$140 which meant that 140 persons
were travelling through the campus
at a hazardous rate. Offenders are
overtaken by Surber and must
appear before the city judge of
College Station to pay the penal
ty. City officials act as a collecting
agency for the college.
Surber came here in the fall of
1938 to work for the College laun
dry. The following year he was
made a campus sergeant in the
new area. During the year he was
transferred to another part of the
campus to perform similar dut
ies. It was during the past sum
mer that Surber was motorized in
order to enable him to more ef
ficiently patrol the entire cam
pus.
Evidence of his ability to act
as patrolman lies in the fact that
he was connected with the Sheriff’s
offices in Waco before coming to
College Station to the position of
receiving and returning the stu
dent laundry.
Since the enforcement of a
standard speed limit there have
been no casualties on the campus.
Opening of Guion
As Picture House
Delayed Till Oct 8
Postponment of Curtain
Delivery Causes YMCA
Officials to Set Date Up
Delivery of curtains will delay
the opening of Guion Hall as a new
motion picture showplace until
October 8 if not later, J. Gordon
Gay, who is in charge of the thea
ter, states.
When it was originally plan
ned, the staff of the YMCA ex
pected to be moved into the new
building by the beginnig of school,
but construction and delivery of
material has caused the opening to
be delayed.
Moving of the picture show from
the Assembly Hall to Guion Hall
will make room for a new student
program under the direction of Ri
chard Jenkii s, who is the new di
rector of the singing cadets.
After the moving of the equip
ment from the Assembly Hall,
Jenkins will have his office there
and will start work on organiza
tion shows such as the engineers
show which was held last year. The
programs will be made up of var
ious forms of talent found, in the
organizations over the campus.
Repercussions of the much talk
ed of Texas hurricane hit College
Station Tuesday night while most
of the Aggies were in bed or burn
ing the mid-night oil.
At approximately 8:30 Tuesday
night the hurricane battered the
Texas coast with a wind velocity
of 90 to 100 miles an hour. After
doing minor damage in Galveston,
the storm lost some of its inten
sity and headed for Houston and
points north west. Shortly before
midnight Tuesday winds, estimat
ed at 40 miles an hour, hit College
Station. This was accompanied by
a hard blowing rain that chalked up
1.31 inches in some five hours.
The only known damage on the
campus was a tree blown down by
Guion Hall. This is a striking
contrast to the 1915 storm which
struck about 2:30 in the morning
and in two hours had several houses
roofless. The 1915 storm brought
a wind of between 75 and 80 miles
an hour, some 30 to 35 miles
per hour stronger than the winds
that blew through here Tuesday
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SENIOR PICTURE
DEADLINES
Sept. 23 through 29—In
fantry.
Sept. 30 through Oct. 5—
Composite Regiment.
Oct. 6 through Oct. 8—
Cavalry.
Oct. 9 through Oct. 13—
Engineers.
Supplementary
Promotion List To
Be Out October First
The second promotion list of
Corps Cadet will be published com
plete on October 1, Lieut. Joe E.
Davis, assistant commandant, an
nounced. The cadet officers that
will be named on this list will be
the permanent cadet corps officers
and no other changes will be made.
Haltom Heads Fort
Worth Club for Year
The Fort Worth A. & M. Club
has elected officers for the term
1941-42 with G. W. Haltom as
president. Bob McLarn was elect
ed vice president; Lyle Reynolds
secretary-treasurer; Cliff Mitchell,
reporter, Rufus Lackland, sgt. at
arms.
The club voted to meet the first
and third Tuesdays of each month.
The club also has tentative plans
to cooperate with the Dallas club
in giving a Christmas dance and
various other functions. The orch
estra has not as yet been select
ed.
Editor Announces
Vacancies Open On
Engineer Magazine
Several vacancies on the staff
of the Engineer Magazine are re
ported by Billy Davis, editor of
the publication. Positions are op
en to sophomores and juniors who
are taking engineering.
Students wishing to join the
staff should contact Billy Davis im
mediately. By doing so at this time
the applicants will be qualified for
position of editor their senior year.
The applicants will be judged on
their scholastic ability, experience,
and willingness to work. To qual
ify as editor the candidate must
have worked on the publication a
year before the election and be a
classified senior with a 1.25 grade
point average.
Davis requested all who are
interested to see him at room 218
dormitory eight as soon as pos
sible.
634 Applicants
Get By Physical
For MS Contracts
Passing of Exam
Is Not Assurance Of
Obtaining Government OK
Of the 685 juniors and seniors
who took physical examinations
last week for first year advanced
military contracts, 634 passed. Re
jections numbered 43, five men
were recommended on waiver and
three were recommended with no
waiver.
The 685 who took the physical
examinations compared with ap
proximately 510 who took them last
year.
Some of the applicants for con
tracts who passed their examina
tions will be unable to obtain them
since there is a limited number
available. However, some seniors
who had contracts last year are
not eligible to continue their ad
vanced study for various reasons,
both scholastic and physical, and
some failed to return to school.
These contracts will be given to
new students in the advanced
course.
Governor Stevenson
Scheduled to Deliver
Dedicatory Address
The annual Thanksgiving Day
football game between A. & M.
and the University of Texas to be
played on Kyle Field November
27 will be dedicated to all former
Aggies now in the armed forces
of the United States, it was an
nounced by President T. O. Wal
ton.
Tom Gillis, Cadet Colonel of the
A. & M. Corps has written the
president of the University of
Texas student body asking him to
solicit the cooperation of the Tex
as student body in the dedication
ceremonies. It is planned that the
University of Texas too shall ded
icate the game to all former stu
dents of their school who are now
serving in the armed forces.
Appropriate ceremonies are plan
ned just prior, to the opening kick
off of the game and it is likely
that Governor Coke Stevenson will
make the dedicatory address.
The annual Thanksgiving clash
between the two state schools al
ways attracts thousands of alum
ni of both institutions, and many
of the sexVice men to whom the
game will be dedicated will be in
the stands. Hundreds of tickets
to the game have been mailed to
former students in various army
camps throughout the entire Un
ited States, and it is estimated
that about 37,000 persons will see
the game.
PH Group Makes
Up Replacement
Center Regiment
64 Men from Two Houses
In Each of 8 Companies
Organized by Lieut Sale
Results of the physical examina
tions will be sent to the Eighth
Corps Area Headquarters where
they will be received and remitted
to A. & M. September 11 is the
date from which the contracts are
effective.
Of those Infantry students tak
ing the physical examinations 182
qualified; 147 Field Artillery stu
dents; 99 C. A. C.; 74 Cavalry;
68 Engineers; 33 Signal Corps; and
31 C. W. S.
Both the Infantry and Field
Artillery have 264 contracts each,
both new and old. The Coast Ar
tillery has 117; the Cavalry 105;
and the Signal Corps and Chemi
cal Warfare each has 63. This
makes a total of 1,051 new and old
contracts for the entire school.
Senior Section At
Games Designated
Class sections in the stadium
were announced yesterday for the
current football season. Sections
for the four classes are clearly
defined and must be adhered to,
Cadet Colonel Tom Gillis stated.
Underclassmen caught in the
senior class section will be sub
ject to trial by the Senior Court.
The senior section includes sec
tions 130, 131, 132, from the top
of the ramp to the top row. This
is from the 50-yard line to the
15. •
The junior class section is be
low the senior section to the aisle
in sections 130, 131, 132, all of
section 129 from the top down
to the aisle, and eight seats in
section 128 adjacent to Ramp O
from the top row to the aisle.
Sophomores will sit in sections
128, 129, 130, 131, from row 11
to the aisle and from the top row
down to row 24 in section
128 and around in the end zone as
far as necessary.
Freshmen will sit in sections
131, 130, 129, 128, from the first
row through row ten and around
in the end zone below the aisle
as far as necessary.
Section 132 below the aisle has
been reserved for the band.
Lieutenant E. B. Sales, tactical
officer in charge of the 16 project
houses on the campus, has or
ganized the students living in the
project houses into a Replacement
Center Regiment of eight com
panies. Each company consists of
two houses, each containing 32
boys, making a company of 64
men.
All companies have a sports
manager, social officer, and an of
ficer in charge of discipline. These
newly created organizations will
compete in intramural contests on
the same basis a& a dormitory or
ganization. There are a number of
■potential athletes, Lieutenant
Sale contends, among these stu
dents who have not taken the op
portunity, heretofore, to partici
pate in intramural sports contests.
Officers of the companies are
contemplating holding competition
drills between their respective or
ganizations. Lieutenant S]ale is
also working on the possibility of
securing a number of rifles for the
students to drill with thus giving
them a better opportunity to be
come more efficient in the art of
the manual of arms.
Those cadet officers who are to
command the companies are John
Box, Co. A; M. J. Morris, Jr., Co.
B; L. A. Maddox, Co. C; Swish
Filgo, Co. D; Fred Coley, E Co.;
G. C. McGourik, G. Co.; F. G.
Collard, F Co.; E. L. Davis, H
Co.; C. O. Duty, I Co.
The Cadet Major, who will com
mand the regiment, has not as yet
been appointed by the Military
department.
Pearce & Company with Vocalist Norma Jean
Take Over Tonight’s Yell Practice in Guion
Company Captains
Will Sell Town Hall
Tickets Until Friday
Season tickets for Town Hall
will be sold to any sttudent through
Thursday, Sepetmber 25 for the
regular price of $2.09, Fred
Smitham, Town Hall Manager an
nounced yesterday. Until that date
these tickets may be obtained fronj
any company commander.
Anyone wishing to purchase re
serve seat tickets may do so at
eight o’clock Wednesday, October
1 at the “Y” and at A. M. Waldrop
and Co. in Bryan. The cost of
the reserve seat tickets will be
$4.00. Single admissions will be
on sale at all times, Smitham stat
ed.
Classifications
Given All Clubs
Asking for Y Money
Grinding through a two-hour
session Wednesday afternoon, the
Student Activities Committee pas
sed a motion whereby all student
campus organizations will be re
quired to submit application to the
student activities office before be
ing granted certain funds for op
eration.
As a means of determining
which clubs will receive the limi
ted funds four classifications were-
set up, and the various clubs will
be given money according to which
classification they are assigned.
Classifications are based on points
of general benefit to the college,
to the cadet corps as a student
body and as a plan of service.
To be eligible for classifica
tion the clubs must be a dues-pay-
ing organization and must submit
their annual budget at the time
of application.
Several other matters were
brought up for discussion, but
formal action was postponed un
til a more complete investigation
could be made of the various cas-
All pending matters and new
business will be discussed at a fu
ture meeting soon.
A free 30-minute concert of tice short in order that the con-
Horticultural Society
Lays Plans for , 41-42
The A. & M. Horticulture Society
held its first meeting of the year
last Thursday night.
Plans were discussed and made
for the current year’s work to be
done by the club with special em
phasis on the annual horticulture
show to be held in the Fall.
The Society is planning on get
ting several new members in the
club and having the largest and
most educational show in its his
tory.
popular music will be presented
tonight at yell practice by Toppy
Pearce and his Aggieland Orches
tra previewing their “Music As
You Like It!” for the corps and
introducing the organization’s new
blonde singing star Norma Jean
Jahn. The program is being spon
sored by the senior class through
ifs social secretary, Alden Cathey.
In order to save time and facil
itate assemblage, yell practice will
be held in Guion Hall where the
concert is to be presented. Yell
practice will begin at the regular
time, 7 p. m., but it has been ar
ranged with head yell leader,
Skeen Staley to cut tonight’s prac-
cert may start at 7: 15 o’clock.
The picture show at the As
sembly Hall, in order to accom
modate the program will not begin
until 7:45.
The familiar strains of “I’d Rath
er Be a Texas Aggie,” the theme
song for the Aggieland, will get
the program under way. The lat
est hit tunes will be presented as
a sample of their new and im
proved style. The feature of the
program will be the introduction
of the orchestra’s new singer,
Norma Jean Jahn, who makes her
first appearance at A. & M. She
will sing several numbers.
With this concert Toppy Pearce
initiates a campaign to furnish
music the Aggies like played as the
Aggies like it played. For that
reason he has dubbed his music,
“Music As You Like It!” The
orchestra will keep abreast of the
battle of Swing vs. Swing this
year and will attempt to please
the majority.
But that portion of the orches
tra that is sure to please all is
pretty Norma Jean Jahn (pro
nounced Yahn) who sparkles with
personality and who sings with her
eyes. Featured in the past with
such orchestras as Phil Spitalny’s
All Girl Orchestra, Peck Kelly,
and Eddie Fitzpatrick, Norma Jean
is a real asset to the group.
Ex 4-H Committees
Appointed at Meeting
At the first meeting of the Ex-
4-H club last Tuesday night, so
cial and program committees were
appointed and a regular meeting
night on the first Thursday in
each month was selected.
Officers of the club are Bugs
Tate, president; J. D. Gordan, vice
president; Floyd Clyburn, secre
tary-treasurer; and Billy Kidd, re
porter.
At the meeting a movie of the
wildlife reserve at Rockport, and
some scenes of the A. & M. cam
pus were shown by Mr. L. L.
Johnson, State 4-H club agent.
Dallas Club President
Announces New Policy
The newly reorganized Dallas
County A. & M. Club has announc
ed a new policy for the coming
year. In the past it has been the
custom, if not the rule, for only
the boys from the city of Dallas
to take active participation in the
club work. The custom will hold no
longer, President Vincent Hagan
said.
Hagan issued an invitation to all
boys from Dallas and Dallas coun
ty to meet Thursday night in the
Y chapel. Plans for the next year
will be discussed. The activities
for this year will be under the
leadership of Rod Gambrell, vice
president; T. K. Pierce, secretary;
and Austin Nance, treasurer.