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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 16, 1941)
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, OCT. 16, 1941 Z275 NUMBER 17 Bull Text Checks . Arrive; Issued By Chance tor Junior Menses ms office Today Friday Noon Marks Last Seniors, Juniors Alloted Definite Seats at Stadium 35 to 35 Reserved For Boot Men; Juniors Flank Both Sides To 15 Sections for each class have been designated for the A. & M.- T. C. U. football game Saturday. Cadet Colonel Tom Gillis a nonuced today that the corps will occupy the entire east side of the staduim. Sections V and W will be reserved for the seniors and sec tions U and X will be reserved for the juniors. The senior section will extend on both sides of the 50 yard line to approximately the 35 yard line. The junior sections on either side of the senior section ex tend to near the 15 yard line. Sophomores and freshmen will oc cupy the remaining seats. The senior section will be maintained throughout the game but after the first quarter sophomores and freshmen may move in the junior section if it is not already filled. Student tickets to the game are $1.10 with the coupon book. Date tickets cost $2.50. These tickets are on sale at the desk in the lobby of the YMCA. Consolidated School Construction Will Be Completed in 6 Weeks The new combination gymnas ium, cafeteria, and auditorium of the A. & M. Consolidated School will be opened for use in about six weeks if weather conditions permit construction crews to con • tinue work. The building is of the same general structure as the other buildings and will be a valuable addition to the equipment of the schools. The gymnasium will be complete • ly equipped with dressing rooms, showers, and equipment rooms. The building also contains all equip ment necessary for a cafeteria, in cluding a modern kitchen. The stage is situated to the side of the gym floor and will be fur nished with the latest stage props in the near future. On the other side of the gym floor are bleach ers with a seating capacity of 500. If necessary, temporary seats may be placed upon the gym floor to raise the number of available seats to 1,000. The new building will be dedi cated with a large amateur carni val. The funds raised by this show will be used to buy stage furniture. Other Important Decisions Reached At Jr Class Meet Junoris wanting authorized ab sences for Friday afternoon may get them until noon Friday if they want to attend the dance to be given for them by the junior class of TSCW. These and other issues were discussed at a meeting of the class in the Assembly Hall Monday night. It was voted at the meeting to wear the number two uniform with serge shirts at the dance. Before the dance the juniors will be given a steak fry in Lowry Woods near the campus. Captain W. S. McCulley will be detailed as the officer in charge for the dance to be given the juniors. The Dean of Women of TSCW has stated that she would have places for 188 boys in the dormi tory to be vacated and that any one who did not get one of these rooms will have to stay somewhere else. Juniors wanting blind dates for the dance were told to leave their name and a description of them selves at desks which were set up at both the new and old Y’s until 6 p. m. Tuesday. Those wanting to stay in the dormitory which is to be vacated for the class were told to sign at these desks also. Last year it was necessary for those attending the dance to have their passes signed by the officer in charge of the dance, but this will not be necessary this year. At the class meeting it was de cided to let the president of the class, Jack Miller, appoint a com mittee of three to ask the cadet colonel and other members of the regimental staff for permission to establish a junior section in Guion Hall. Although the juniors have never had such a section be fore it is thought that permission will be given because of the moving of the showplace. Bill Callaway was named as chairman of the committee and working with him will be Grover Carathers and Johnnie Crosby. Jarrin’ Jawn Signs Away Shoulder Pads, Dons Chaps and Spurs Students Receive Pay From Senior Instructors $19.25 Is Average Payment Seniors enrolled In the advanced R.O.T.C. can now get their subsis tence checks from their senior mil itary science instructors. These checks were received yesterday and totalled $10,347.75. Some few of the checks were issued yesterday. The checks were’ given to the sen ior instructors of each organization by Captain A. J. Bennett, adjutant. The checks were for around $19.25 each and varied with the time which each student had serv ed. The amount which each org anization received was as follows: Infantry, $2,829.75; Field Artillery, $2,695; Chemical Warfare Service, $518.50; Coast Artillexjy Corps,j 81609.50; Cavalry, $1,135.75; Sig nal Corps, $462; and Engineers, $1,097.25. Receipt of the checks was speed ed in order that they would be in the hands of the advanced students in time for the Fort Worth corps trip Saturday. Lieutenant Colonel O. C. McIntyre contacted Lieuten ant Colonel Charles Lewis, finance officer of the Eighth Corps Area, Tuesday. The checks were received by the adjutant Wednesday and were classified and distributed as soon as possible. Dance Applications Must be in by First November 1 is the deadline for making application for dates for organization dances. These appli cations must be in so that the so cial calender for the year may be arranged. Permit cards can be secured in the Student Activities office in Room 126 of the Ad ministration Building. Organization dances will start with the Freshman Dance shortly after mid-term. This dance will be followed by the Sophomore dance the next week-end. John Kimbrough, Aggie All- American backfield star, signed a five-year contract with Twentieth Century Fox Studios in Hollywood yesterday, according to news re ceived here. The salary that he will receive for his services were not disclosed, but increases are to be made each year. Kimbrough will continue to play cowboy roles until he is a more polished actor. Kimbrough will not play profes sional football after this season, according to the contract. Cadets Move Out Before Dawn Saturday Morning Band to Hold Spelling Session Between Halves at TCU Game Don't Worry, Fish Colonel Gillis Knows Way Around Hometown All of those who will be new to Fort Worth can set their wor ries aside with the knowledge that they will be led by one of the home town boys. There will be no need to ask the chief of police or any of the city lads the way to anything. Adding to the honor of being able to lead the cadet 'Corps on its first official corps trip of the year will be the glory of leading a 6,888 man student body of his alma mater through his own home town. This will be the glory which is to bo Cadet Colonel Tom Gillis’ next Saturday morning. So far as is known this is the first time in the history of the corps that the cadet colonel has led his corps through his own home town. Special Corps Trip Trains Leave Friday, Saturday A special train will be run to Fort Worth to carry the corps there Saturday for the corps trip. The train will leave College Sta tion early Saturday morning and arrive in Fort Worth in time for the parade. A train will also be run Friday afternoon for all the juniors wanting to go to Denton for the dance to be given for them at T.S.C.W. Friday night. The juniors will have to go from Fort Worth to Denton on buses. A round trip ticket to Fort Worth will cost $2.68 which in eludes the tax. For the juniors who want to go on to Denton the bus fare will be 91 cents. The total cost of a round trip ticket to Denton will be $3.59. Students riding the train can come back late Saturday night or on one of the regular trains Sun day. The time each train will leave can be obtained at the local Missouri Pacific Railway station. By Tommy Vannoy For the first conference game of the season the Aggie Band will put on special ceremonies during the half-period at Fort Worth Sta- urday. With a 216-piece organization divided into the Infantry and Field Artillery Bands, they will march onto the field and form the letters T.C.U. in tribute to the Fort Worth team. Then the letters A. M.C. will be formed facing the opposite side of the stadium. After reforming, the band will form A.M.C., and T.S.C.W. While the band is still in this forma tion, Miss Anna Ruth Ashe, Aggie sweetheart from T.S.C.W., will be escorted on the field to the strains of “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” by Bob Russell, cadet major of the band. As Russell presents Miss Ashe a bouquet of flowers, the band will play the Alma Mater <'f T.S.C.W. The band will break up the let ters and form into two bands once more before leaving the field. For the parade in downtown Fort Worth Saturday morning, the Infantry Band will lead the corps to the Texas Hotel, remaining there until the Field Artillery regi ment has passed the reviewing stand. The Field Artillery band will follow the Chemical Warfare Battalion to the Texas Hotel and stop at the reviewing stand and play while the rest of the cadet corps marches by. The Field Ar tillery band will follow the Coast Artillery regiment to the end of the parade. Ag Engineers On KGKO at 6:45 Today The agricultural engineering sen iors will be featured on a broad cast from the State Fair at noon today over station KGKO while they are in Dallas on their annual fall inspection trip. At 6:45 a.m. Friday they again go on the the air as guests of station WFAA. Pearce Pleases Public; Corps Takes Own Music to Cow City; Aggieland Plays at Hotel Conversational Spanish Course Open To College Employees An opportunity for college em ployees and their families to study conversational Spanish under na tive instructors two nights a week is being offered by the department of modern languages for the first time this year. The language department, feeling the need for such a course on the campus, employed Xavier Fernan dez, a native of Peru, and O. A. Lo pez from Puerto Rico to teach the classes. Both instructors are stu dents at A. & M. and have taken several courses in Spanish here as well as in their native countries. They are helping pay their way through school by teaching the courses. Room 124 Academic building, has been reserved for the classes on Monday and Wednesday at 7:15 p. m. taught by Lopez, and on Tuesday and Thursday for the classes taught by Fernandez. Both sections have room for more pupils. Employees of the col lege and their families who are in terested in this course are urged to see C. B. Campbell of the depart ment of modern languages before it is too late to enter the classes. Jenkins Office To Open Monday The Assembly Hall will again bloom this coming Monday morn ing. Richard Jenkins, head of the Singing Cadets, will move his of fice into the Assembly Hall. Be sides his office, there will be a club room for use by all students most of the time. The club room will be used for discussions on any topic interesting to the students. The auditorium will be available to groups wishing to rehearse plays or activities of any type. Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights are reserved for the Singing Cadets. Jenkins urges that the student body attend these rehearsals. Wednes day nights are reserved for class meetings. Saturday Batts Delivered on Train The Saturday issue of The Bat talion will be distributed among the corps on the train while en route to Fort Worth. Approxi mately 1,000 copies will be taken to Denton to be distributed in the T.S.C.W. dormitories. Other copies will be placed about the lobbies of the Blackstone, Texas, and Worth Hotels in Fort Worth. The paper will be given to the students who do not go to Fort Worth in each of the post offices. For the convenience of all the persons who will attend the A. & M.-T. C. U. football game, a com plete roster of both teams will be featured in the issue. By Bob Nisbet When those fighting Aggies from A. & M. embark on a corps trip, their primary objective is to win a football game, but they go prepared also to do the ultimate in the way of making merry and having a good time. In this re spect half of their preparation consists in taking along Toppy Pearce’s Aggieland Orchestra to insure their having good dance music. Fort Worth, being no exception to the rule, will find the Aggieland playing their “Music As You Like It!” for the official Aggie after- the-game dance at the Texas hotel beginning at 9:00 p. m. and lasting until 1:00 p. m. The dance is un der the sponsorship of the Fort Worth A. & M. Former Students Association. Their first performance since their phenomenally successful ’41- ’42 debut two weekends ago, the Aggieland, Norma Jean et al, be gin their observance of student de sires by making use of infoma- tion secured through a trial edi tion of the Aggie Hit Parade at their first dance. Promised by Toppy Pearce, the Hit Parade will probably be started functioning in final form at Fort Worth dance and results published. But no Hit Parade is necessary to know that the orchestra’s vocal ist, the little blonde cutie with the tinkle in her voice and the twinkle in her eyes, is a huge success as far as the Aggies are concerned. Already Toppy Pearce is on the lookout for more good members for her to sing with the band. And Norma Jean will be on the band stand when Toppy downbeats the first time at the Texas Hotel in Fort Worth. Toppy Pearce’s Aggieland Brass Section Collegiate F F A Chooses Delegates At a special business meeting Tuesday night, the Collegiate FFA elected delegates to the National Convention and American Royal Livestock show to be held in Kan sas City October 20-23 inclusive. J. M. Carpenter, Buddy White, Bill Cook and John Shipley were selected as delegates to the conven • tion. Cecil Ballow was elected as iirst alternate. The delegation leaves Sunday, October 19; they will return Thursday to Fort Worth and the club will pay all expenses. Picture Deadline Extended for Seniors Deadline for Senior Class pic tures in the 1942 Longhorn has been extended until October 22 for those seniors who failed to have their pictures made at the v desig nated time, according to Editor Rusty Heitkamp. Any senior who desires to have his picture in the class section should attend to this matter at once, for Junior Class section pic tures will start the week of Octo ber 23-28, the period scheduled for Field Artillex-y juniors. Williamson County Club Elects Officers Don Carlson is the president of the Williamson County A. & M. Club for the coming year. He was elected at the meeting of the club Tuesday night. Other officers elected were Hey- wood Clemmons, vice president; George Dorrou, seerptarytreas urer; Social Chairman Warren Per cy; and Leo Pickhoff, reporter. Plans for Thanksgiving and Christmas dances were discussed by the 20 members present at the meeting. Round Table Club Plans Monday Meet The first meeting for the org anization of the Round Table Club will be held immediately after yell practice Monday night. Business to be taken into consideration will in elude a group discussion of a cur rent question, election of officers and decision on whether or not there should be a separate round table for freshmen. All interested students, including freshmen, are invited to attend. Library Music Room Now Open to Students The music room is again open for students who wish to take ad vantage of the collection of class ical records on the third floor of the library, announced T. F. Mayo, librarian. As a result of national defense priorities claims, the school has been unable to obtain the parts necessary to repair the phonograph which has been out of order over a month. Hours which the music room is open are the same as those of the library. From Monday through Fri day it is open between 8 a. m. and 10 p. m.; on Saturdays, from 8 until 12 noon; and on Sundays from 1 p. m. to 10 p. m. After 7 p. m. students must reserve the room in advance. Parade Starts Promptly After Arrival of Trains Long before dawn Saturday mor ning, six thousand Aggies will be stirring about in preparation for the first official corps trip of the year to Fort Worth. Breakfast will be served at 3:10 a.m. and immed iately afterwards all organizations will begin to form at their respec tive assembly points. At 4:00 troops will march to the vicinity of the Missouri Pacific station. The train will be run in two sections and at 4:10 and 4:25 respectively the two sections of the corps will bid farewell to Col lege Station and will set out on a two-day manifestation of Aggie spirit so that the people of Texas may know that A. & M. is not juat another school, but also an insti tution prepared to play a large part in national defense. The first section will arrive in Fort Worth at 9:35 a.m.; the sec ond at 9:50. Each unit will move immediately to the circus lot east of the Main street underpass which has been designated as the as sembly point. From the circus lot the corps will move up Main street to 5th Street; left on 5th Street to Houston Street; right on Hous ton street to Weatherford Street; right on Weatherford Street to the dismissal area of the various units. Colonel E. A. Keyes, Cavalry, Civilian Components Officer, 8th Corps Area, will receive the re view. Keyes is the head of all R.O. I.C. work in the Eighth Corps Area. The official uniform for the par ade and football game will be No. 1. At all other times on the trip, the No. 2 uniform may be worn. Students who do not have a blouse may wear civilian clothes, but should bring their yellow receipts to get through the gate into the Aggie section. Freshman W L White Killed in Plane Crash W. L. White, freshman at A. & M. College was killed Sunday morn ing in an airplane accident. White was a native of Iraan, Pecos coun ty. The funeral took place Monday morning. White was flying with a friend, E. G. Alexander, Sunday morning over Iraan when the plane Alex ander was flying suddenly devel oped motor trouble and crashed to the ground. White was killed out right, and Alexander was seriously injured; he had been staying in Dormitory 12, and had been play ing football on the freshman team. Municipal, Sanitary Experts Meet in Dec The second annual conference for municipal and sanitary engineers will be held at A. & M. December 3-4, according to an anonuncement made by E. L. Angell, assistant to the president of the college. Professor S. R. Wright of the college department of municipal and sanitary engineering will be in charge of the two-day meeting but will be aided by other members of the college staff and leading mun icipal engineers in handling the ins trumental work. A large portion of the meeting will be devoted to general discussion of problems brought on by the present emerg ency. Annual Agronomy Trip Movies Shown Motion pictures taken in tech- color on the tenth annual Cotton Fellowship tour were presented for the first time in public last week at the regular meeting of the Agronomy Society. Those making the tour last sum mer were Johnnie Robinson, E. R. Butler, and Ralph Hartgreaves, with the faculty representative,, Louis Thompson acting as camera man. The tour was sponsored in- connection with the annual Coc- ton Ball and pageant. The party left College Station last May 31 for Stoneville, Miss- At the Delta Experiment Station, near Stoneville, the boys studied the work being done in the various agronomic phases of southern ag riculture with special emphasis oil cotton. From Stoneville the party went on to New Orleans where they ob served practices and customs of the farmers in the Mississippi valley. Exes and Fort Worth City Fathers Extend Aggies Written Invitations The cadet corps has been ex-1 gang, because it may take a few tended a most cordial welcome from more than us old timers here to the city of Fort Worth to attend the T.C.U. football game and par ticipate in the corps parade in down town Fort Worth Saturday morning. The Fort Worth A. & M. Former Students Club extended the follow ing letter, signed by J. G. Allen, ’27, president: “All of Fort Worth joins us in urging you to be here on October 18th for the A. & M.-T.C.U. game. Of course, all of Fort Worth won’t be for us during the game, but except for that period of time, they are for you tooth and toenail. Those of you who have been here before for the same occasion know that old “Cow Town” can really open the gates. “Now, please don’t let us down, handle that jinx that is due to be buried this time so deep that he can never rise again. “How about it now? Can we count on every one of you?” From I. N. McCrary, mayor of the city, the following letter was received: “As mayor of the City of Fort Worth, it gives me a great deal of pleasure to extend to you a hearty invitation to visit our city on October 18. The occasion, I presume, you are acquainted with. If not, we—T. C. U.—hope 1 ..o beat the Aggies. “The City of Fort Worth will be glad to help you in any way we can when you stage your annual parade here, and we will be happy (See INVITATIONS, page 4)