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
122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. VOLUME 41 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. 30, 1941
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NUMBER 23
Aggie Clambakers
Featured attraction of the Aggie Clambake heard every Friday
afternoon over WTAW is the Aggieland Sextette. Here are four
of its members engaged in a little hot jive; they are left to right,
Rusty Brient, bass fiddle; Charles Bickley, clarinet; Tommy Nelson,
alto sax, and Bill Murphy, alto sax.
Clambake - A What-Have-You
Where Anything Can Happen
Wool, Serge
Become Reg
At 12 Today
Seniors May Wear
Khaki fereeches For
Formations, Drill
As a result of the sudden cold
snap here at College Station, the
regulations governing uniforms of
the A. and M. cadets have been re
vised and -will go into effect at
noon meal formation today.
An official memorandum issued
yesterday from the Commandants’
office stated that at noon meal for
mation, Thursday, October 30, 1941,
underclassmen will appear in No.
2 uniform consisting of woolen 0.
D. slacks and either woolen or cot
ton 0. D. shirts, optional to the
individual.
At meal formations only seniors
will he allowed to wear woolen
slacks, shirts optional, or hombay
or woolen breeches with boots.
Woolen slacks for seniors include
those gray elastique slacks that
were adopted as part of the senior
cadet’s uniform.
From the headquarters reserve
officers training corps comes the
official memonrandum prescribing
the regulation uniform for drill.
Cadets will be required to wear
No. 2 uniform with woolen 0. D.
trousers, cotton breecheis when
prescribed by senior instructors,
and woolen O.D. shirts.
Seniors only may wear woolen
O. D. trousers or bombay or wool
en 0. D. breeches with boots.
So far no orders have been issu
ed that will prevent the wearing
of the regulation bombay slacks
that have been regulation wear
up to this point for meal formations
and drill, to classes and in other
public places.
Hillel Establishes
Loan Fund to Be
Open to All Aggies
Through the generosity of Leo
J. Gaber, prominent business man
of Houston there has been estab
lished at A. & M. a new student
loan fund predicted to help many
Aggies over a difficult financial
“huddle”. The fund was named by
the A. & M. Hillel Club “The Ern
estine Gaber A. & M. Hillel Loan
Fund” in honor of Gaber’s mother.
While originally intended for
members of the Hillel Club, in a
spirit , of appreciation the Club has
voted to extend its use to every
Aggie who has a bona fide reason
for needing it.
The fund is to be administered
by the Hillel Council in co-opera
tion with Mrs. J. J. Taubenhaus of
the college museum. All that is re
quired of the borrower is that he
make out an application (not a
note) with one faculty reference
and that the loan be paid back in
one month. No interest will be
charged. In order to benefit the
largest number of students, no
more than five percent of the fund
will be loaned to any one individual.
By Tom Leland
Helen Jepson, the second A. &
M. Town Hall presentation of the
season, proved to be a tremendous
success, drawing an unusually
large amount of applause and ad
miration from the corps last night
in Guion Hall. Miss Jepson more
than lived up to her great repu
tation as a glamorous Metropoli
tan Opera soprano and “1941 style
pfima donna.”
Miss Jepson’s program consist
ed of arias and songs which appeal
ed to the interest of all music
lovers. Such famous composers as
Haydn, Schubert, Gounod, Debussy,
Ravel, Massenet, and many other
favorites were featured on the
program.
She was able to create such a
favorable impression because of
her firm belief that a singer
should never underestimate the
taste of her audience, and also
because of her familiarity with the
musical tastes of the American
public.
Brought up in an Ohio town, she
By Tom Journeay
Clambake, picnic at which clams
form the main dish—according to
our venerable old friend, Webster!
Clambake; a play, show, program,
or what have you, during which
anything or everything can happen
(and usually does). That’s the
showman’s definition of a clam
bake.
Perhaps by now you are wonder
ing why all the definitions of clam
bake. That’s the word used to de
scribe one of WTAW’s feature
programs, The Aggie Clambake
to be exact. This is a musical
clambake put on every Friday aft
ernoon for the entertainment of
the Aggies, and no one else. It’s
a program that interests the Ag
gies and no one else. Matter of
fact, it it the Aggies’ program.
The clams start baking round
about 4:30 and while they are
cooking there’s likely to be ’most
anything happening. By about
5:30 they’re done and so is every
one else!
At the present Freddie Nelson
Wilcox Named On
Retirement Board
Professor George B. Wilcox of
the education department was ap
pointed last week to a six-year
term on the Teacher Retirement
Board by Governor Coke Steven
son to replace Dr. C. N. Shaver.
Wilcox was nominated by mem
bers of the teacher retirement sys
tem. He received over 40 per cent
of the total votes cast, leading the
list of nominees by more than
1,000 votes.
Ballots were sent to approximate
ly 46,000 members of the retire
ment system. The three names
receiving the greatest number of
votes were then submitted to Gov.
Stevenson. He selected Wilcox
from the list as a member of the
seven-man board.
Professor Wilcox is a past presi
dent of the Texas State Teachers
Association.
gained her first knowledge of mu
sic through hearing phonograph
records of great artists in a music
store where she worked. Miss
Jepson said, “I have found that
the moment you sing down to an
audience, it is resented, and right
ly so,” she continued. “The pub
lic, whether it be in New York,
or in a small Texas town, still
has taste and appreciation, and is
entitled to hear the best a singer
has to offer. I try to give it to
them.”
The program last night qlearly
showed Miss Jepson to be correct in
this statement. She seemed to real
ly enjoy the music she was sing
ing and certainly had the gift of
projecting that enjoyment to every
member of the audience.
An excellent, faultless accom
paniment was given Miss Jepson
by Robert Wallenborn at the piano,
who arranged the program. Wal
lenborn also favored the audience
with an excellent rendition of three
piano solos which were extremely
well received by the listeners.
and his “Gut Bucket Five” are
the featured entertainers. The
rest of the time is taken up by
records of the newest vintage and
the whole show is tyled to fit
Aggie tastes, including the snap
py introductions of the Hit Parade
tunes of the week recorded by fav
orite bands and singers.
To see the “Gut Bucket Five”
in operation is a show in itself.
Maestro Freddie Nelson banging
out the melody of jam tunes and
occasional sweet ones on the black
and ivory, Maxey Hervey tripping
the traps with plenty of rhythm,
Rusty Briant beating the doghouse,
Dick Alston giving out with some
hot licks on the trumpet, and Char
ley Bichkley and Don Hackney hup-
plying the melody with the saxes.
The Aggie clambake is a pro
gram devoted completely to the
Aggies; it’s their program to do
what they want with. Chief chef
for the Clambake is John Rosser,
program director of WTAW.
Cjwgirl Queen And
Duchesses] |to‘Sparkle
Under Rodeo Spotlight
Beautiful cowgirl duchesses, a
famous cowgirl queen, Aggie bronc
busters and enthusiastic fans of the
West’s traditional principal past
time, all put together under the
A. H. pavillion roof will again make
up the annual Aggie rodeo.
The rodeo is sponsored each year
by the Saddle and Sirloin club and
will be presented this year on the
7 and 8 of November. Shorty Fuller
of D Troop Cavalry will reign as
king and as escort of Annabehe
Edwards of Big Spring, Texas, who
is to share the throne with Fuller
as Queen of the rodeo.
The court of the chosen king
and queen will consist of two dukes,
Jack Taylor of 3rd Hdq. Field Ar
tillery and David Shelton, Captain
of C Troop Cavalry, along with
seven cowgirl sponsors who are
to participate in the cowgirl spon
sors contest. The sponsors will be
Elizabeth Miller and Billie Lou
Thompson of Snyder, Texas, Jo
Morris, Patsy Morris and Billie
Marie Miller of Coleman, Texas,
Nita,. May Boyd of Abilene, and
Maxine Maier of Orange, Texas.
To the winner of the cowgirls
contest will go a large silver lov
ing cup presented by the Saddle
and Sirloin Club.
Houston Is Site Of
Latest A & M Course
Another defense training course
was begun in Houston October 20
in Industrial Safety with an en
rollment of 36 men. This is a
course in a series being offered
through the college to train men
in jobs essential to the national
defense program. A second course
in Industrial Safety was begun
Wednesday night.
J. T. L. McNew, head of the de
partment of civil engineering and
local director of the national de
fense courses, stated that plans
are being made to start courses in
hydraulics and strength of mater
ials about the first of December.
Both of these courses will be held
in Houston.
Helen Jepson Presentation Hailed As
Huge Success by Town Hall Audience
Arkansas Special Assured; Team
Send-off at Midnight Tonight
Campus Theater Swells
Student Aid Fund by $119
Money Accumulated Since Last March
From Tax on Passes Issued by Show
Ben S. Ferguson, owner of the
Campus Theater, announced Wed
nesday afternoon that he had turn
ed over to the student aid fund
$119 as the proceeds from the thea
ter’s pass fund.
“This vastly helpful contribution
is just one of several instances in
which Ferguson has assisted the
fund,” former chairman George
Fuermann, who received the check,
said. “The aid fund committee, to
gether with the cadet corps, is sin
cerely grateful to Ferguson for the
contribution which, like all of the
fund’s resources, will be used en
tirely to aid cadets in need of phys
ical assistance.”
Last March the Campus Theater
established a practice of adding a
five-cent charge to all passes, the
money being turned over to the
student aid fund.
Although, now modified by the
new federal defense tax, Fergus-
son announced that the practice
would be continued.
Tom Gillis, new aid fund chair
man, pointed out that work for the
current year was rapidly progress-
Scholarship Honor
Society Names 34
Junior Candidates
Thirty-four juniors are quali
fied for membership in the Schol
arship Honor Society this year, ac
cording to the list released by Jack
Taylor, president of the organiza
tion. These students represent the
upper 4% of their schools.
Of the group, sixteen are from
the school of engineering, twelve
are agricultural students, four rep
resent the school of arts and sci
ences, and 2 are taking veterinai’y
medicine.
Highest grade point average re
quired for membership is demanded
by the school of engineering with
a 2.57 average. Ai'ts and science
students must have a 2.37 average.
An average of 2.01 and 1.95 are
necessary for candidates taking
veterinary medicine and agricul
ture, respectively.
Any juniors who have the re
quired grade point average but
whose name has been omitted from
the list are asked to communicate
with the president of the society in
room 328, dorm 4.
Engineering students who are
qualified for membership are W.
M. Adkisson, S. R. Baen, J. A.
Baird, R. K. Barnard, W. Bever,
R. L. Chatham, J. C. Denney, W.
J. Callaway, J. G. Goppert, E. C.
Hartman, Guy Johnson, S. C. Kaf-
fer, A. H. Lynch, O. A. Nance, A.
J. Specia, and G. R. Thenn.
Eligible students from the school
of agriculture are P. L. Bell, P. M.
Bennett, A. Brown, W. B. Caraway,
W. W. Cardwell, D. M. Davis, J.
S. Durell, H. O. Kinkel, J. H. Mc
Allister, J. B. Miller, W. D. Park
er, and J. T. Pesek.
Representing the school of arts
and sciences are K. C. Bresnen, D.
B. Gofer, R. T. Green, and E. E.
McChesney.
T. E. DeVolin and J. B. Young
are candidates taking Veterinary
Medicine.
CE Students to Go
To Fort Worth Meet
Eighteen senior and junior civil
engineering students decided at a
meeting Tuesday night that they
would attend the fall meeting of the
Texas section, A.S.C.E. which will
be held in Fort Worth, October 31,
through November 1.
The society will meet in Monter
rey Friday and Saturday at which
time several geological papers, in
cluding one prepared by Turner,
will be read. The remainder of the
trip will be spent in a geological
study of Canon de las Cortinas.
ing and that an educational cam
paign would soon be under way in
The Battalion under Fuermann’s
sponsorship.
Although Fuermann was unable
to release the aid fund's balance
with the addition of the Campus
Theater donation, he announced
that Gillis would prepare a mid
semester financial report to be re
leased in the Battalion at an early
date.
The fund’s next meeting will be
held the first Tuesday in November
and at that time the names of the
two new junior representatives will
be announced.
Community Chest
Drive Starts Mon,
Lasts for Four Days
College Employees Asked
To Contribute Half Day’s
Pay; Brazos Budget $4,925
The annual College Community
Chest drive will be held for 1941-
42 on the first four days of No
vember. The Community Chest
collectors funds for various char
ity, health, and civic organizations
in the community of College Sta
tion and Brazos County. By mak
ing this collection, the college pro
hibits all other soliciting other
than that by schools and churches.
Through the generous response
to the committee’s appeal for funds
in past years the pro rata contri
bution solicited from each employee
of the college has never exceeded
the equivalent of one day’s pay.
However, the budget for 1941-42
presents a considerable reduction
from that of last year; therefore,
che committee is asking that every
employee contribute a half of one
day’s pay. In computing the
amount of one’s contribution, col
lege employees are asked to divide
their total salary by 720. From
these funds, the club feels that all
reasonable requests for aid can be
met.
The Community Chest budget
for this year is $4,925, a reduc
tion of almost one fourth of last
year’s budget. Approximately 49
per cent will go to charity, 27
per cent to civic organiaztions, and
24 per cent to college welfare.
Famed Bengal Guards
Abandoned by Backer
Millionaire H L Stark
The Bengal Guards, famous drum
and bugle corps marching unit of
the Orange, Texas high school, are
no more. Mr. H. J. L. Stark, mil
lionaire, philanthropist sponsor of
the unit announced to the girls
Monday night after their regular
practice session that he was re
moving his sponsorship of the
group because he had heard rumors
of an impending strike.
Thousands of Aggie fans saw
the Guards perform in the Sugar
Bowl on New Year’s day of 1940
when A. & M. played Tulane. The
girls accounted for themselves so
well that they were invited to
march at the Arkansas U. game
in College Station last fall where
they again thrilled the spectators
with their precision drill and music.
DEADLINE FOR
JUNIOR PICTURES
Oct. 28 thru Nov. 1—In
fantry.
Nov. 3 thru 6—Composite
Regiment.
Nov. 7 thru 11—Cavalry.
Nov. 11 thru 14—Coast Ar
tillery.
Nov. 17 thru 20—Engi
neers.
Train Tickets Available at Ten AM;
No Ducats for Sale in Little Rock
Enough students have decided to ride the train to Arkansas to
make a special possible. Juniors, seniors, and 132 members of the
Aggie band will follow the members of the football team who will
leave tonight on a regular train about midnight. The Aggie-Arkansas
game will be played in the Little Rock High School stadium in Little
Rock, Arkansas, Saturday afternoon.
As has been the tradition in the past the Corps will go to the
station to see the team off. A short yell practice lead by Skeen Staley
and J. O. Alexander, senior yelk
leaders, will be held.
Tickets
Tickets for those students riding
the train will be available at 10
a.m. this morning and those stu
dents who bought tickets but have
not received theirs can get them in
Harry Boyer’s office in Ross Hall
after that time.
The football team will return on
the train leaving Little Rock at 1
a.m. Sunday. Coaches will be add
ed to the train carrying other mem
bers of the corps to carry the team.
This train will return by noon Sun
day, leaving for the game Friday
at 7 p.m. The band and student
train will arrive in Little Rock at
seven-thirty a.m. Saturday, Lieut.
Joe E. Davis, assistant commandant
stated.
Authorized Absences
Juniors and seniors wanting au
thorized absences can secure them
by showing their ticket to the game
and filling out a pass to be stamp
ed in the commandants office be
fore leaving. These passes are
good from Friday noon until Mon
day.
Tickets will be on sale until 4
p.m. today but there will be no
student tickets available in Ar
kansas. The band will be seated in
individual seats in section G South
which is the student section of the
stadium. Captain R. L. Roberts, In
fantry, will be the tactical officer
in charge of the trip.
Band Finance
Money for sending the band is
being given by four sources; these
are the student activities fund, the
student concession fund, the ath
letic department, and the news
stand. The news stand is making
arrangements to give each of the
students on the train coming back
Sunday morning two ham sand
wiches and one cheese sandwich
t the train. This will be done
because there won’t be a chance
for the cadets to buy breakfast
Sunday morning.
Geology Students,
Profs on Mexico Trip
F. E. Turner, J. F. Smith, and L.
Toulman of the A. and M. Geol
ogy department, accompanied by
students Paul Graham, Arthur
Matson and Charles Nuel left Wed
nesday afternoon for Monterrey,
N. L., Mexico, where they will at
tend the thirteenth annual field
trip of the South Texas Geo
logical Socitey.
Gillis, Staley Visit
TCU; Present Flag
At Chapel Program
Strengthening of Relations
Object of Trip; Apologies
Extended for Flag Incident
Strengthening the relationship
between the T.C.U. student body
and the A. & M. Cadet corps, Ca
det Colonel Tom Gillis and Head
Yell Leader Skeen Staley appear
ed before a chapel meeting at T.
C.U. Wednesday morning to pres
ent to the Fort Worth school n
new banner to replace the one des
troyed by several Aggies on the
corps trip.
Gillis and Staley were the guests
of Colby D. Hall, dean of the un
iversity, and M. E. Sadler, presi
dent of the university, during the
early part of the morning.
Ronnie Brumbaugh, president of
the T.C.U. student body, introduc
ed Gillis, who gave a brief talk,
and in turn Gillis introduced Sta
ley. Gillis and Staley both ex
plained that the actions of the few
Aggies did not necessarily express
the sentiment of the entire corps.
Apologies were extended for the
incident, and the hope was mention
ed that the new banner might
stand as a symbol of a fine rela
tionship between the two schools.
Sonora Mothers
Add $110 to Fund
For Library Books
Dr. Thomas F. Mayo has re
ceived a contribution of $110 for
the library general reading fund
The contribution was made by the
A. & M. Mothers’ club of Sonora,.
Texas.
The general library reading fund
is used by the library for the pur
chasing of books and various classi
cal records for the library. These
books and records are purchased:
after being recommended by the
Student Library ommittee, a group
of Aggies.
For the past four years this fund
has been receiving contributions
from various Mothers’ clubs all over
the state.
'Chattanooga Choo Choo ’ Choo
Chooes to No 1 of Aggie Hits
The Aggie Hit Parade became
a fact at Saturday’s corps dance
when Toppy Pearce began in earn
est a campaign to determine the
likes and dislikes of his dancers
in order that he might know what
and how to play to best suit the
Aggies and their girl-friends.
His system functions around a
“Request Booth’ which he sets
up in front of the bandstand. Here
dancers may come at any time dur
ing a dance and make requests for
the band to play various tunes.
In addition there are several boys
who work in connection with the
booth, circulating among the danc
ers, interviewing them as to their
favorite tunes and other prefer
ences. This information is com
piled, and the results are the Ag
gie Hit Parade.
Too, the results of each corns
dance poll will be carried in The
Battalion column, Backwash. And
there, in a nutshell is the Aggie
Hit Parade.
Interviewers who obtained the
information for this week’s H;t
Parade include Gene Copeland, Dick
Weirus, George Ogdee, and Dick
Crutcher.
Jitterbugs and hep cats are on
the way out at Aggieland accord
ing to the poll taken. Seventy
per cent of all people interviewed
indicated a preference for sweet
music rather than swing. Among
the boys sweet music was even
more popular, getting a vote of
75 per cent.
But when it came to selecting
a favorite tune, the dancers weie
somewhat inconsistent. Numerous
interviewees who claimed to pre
fer sweet music, gave their favor-
its tune as “Chattanooga Choo
Choo” which is definitely a swing
tune. And in face of the decided
preference for sweet music, the
fact that the aforementioned tune
was selected as the universal fav
orite by both boys and girls does
seem strange.
The favorite tunes as told the
Hit Parade interviewers at the
corps dance were in order "Chatta
nooga Choo Choo,” “I Don’t Want
to Set the World On Fire,” and
“Jim.” Others receiving quite a
few votes were “Elmer’s Tune,”
“You and I,” and “Yes Indeed.”