CORPS TRIP SPECIAL
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, SATURDAY MORNING, NOV. 15, 1941
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Aggies Risk Undefeated Record Against Rice Today
Moser, Sterling, Zapalac
Not in Ton Shape for Fray
Corps Trip Parade Will
Begin at 10 on Congress
Colonel Welty And
Houston Mayor Will
Review Cadet Corps
The traditional Aggie corps trip
parade will start this morning at
10 o’clock thru the streets of the
Bayou city. Colonel Maurice D.
Welty, commandant and P. M. S.
& T., and Neal Pickett, mayor of
Houston, will review the parade,
from the reviewing stand in front
of the Rice Hotel.
The corps will form in areas
designated each organization on
Congress Street as soon as the two
special trains arrive from College
Station. The parade will proceed
up Congress Street to Main and
thence South on Main past the re
viewing stand to Lamar Street.
Turning west on Lamar, each or
ganization will march to its respect
ive dismissal area on Smith, Brazos
or Bagby Street.
Order of march for today’s pa
rade is as follows: corps command
er and staff, Field Artillery Band,
Infantry Regiment, Field Artillery
Regiment, Composite Regiment, In
fantry Band, Cavalry Regiment,
Engineer Regiment and Coast Ar
tillery Regiment.
Aggie headquarters in Houston
for this week-end will be at the
City Auditorium located at the in
tersections of Louisiana, Texas and
Milam Strets. Busses to the Rice
stadium will leave from there.
A special train will leave Hous
ton tonight at 12:30 a. m. Other
trains will leave at 11:30 p. m.
tonight and at 8 a. m. and 1:30 p.
m. Sunday. Major Elwood and
Lieut. Williams will be tactical of
ficers in charge of the Sunday
trains.
Shepardson To
Open Dairyman’s
Short Course Here
Shepardson, Moore
Jennie Camp to Speak
First Short Course Day
Professor A. L. Darnell, of the
dairy husbandry department, will
direct the seventh annual Dairy
man’s Short Course which opens
Monday, November 17. Visiting
dairymen from all over the state
will be in attendance to hear talks
on modern dairy problems.
Visitors will register at the of
fice of the College Creamery at
8:00 a. m. C. N. Shepardson of
the dairy department will open the
short course at 9:00 a. m. with a
discussion of “Some of the Eco
nomic Problems of Dairying.” Fol
lowing Shepardson’s talk, A. V.
Moore will talk on “Problems in
ihe Care of Cream and Milk on the
Farm.” Other speakers will talk
on roughages, dairy equipment,
breeding, and sex control.
3§ill Sibleys
Shelton Opens
Personnel Talks
Jack Shelton of the Farm Credit
Administration will be the first of
a series of lecturers presented by
the Placement Service of the As
sociation of Former Students be
ginning Monday evening at 7:30 in
the Chemistry lecture room.
Following Shelton’s talk on how
to make yourself a better prospect
for employment will be James M.
Reynolds of the Soil Conservation
Service with advice as to what a
personnel officer looks for in a
job applicant.
Aggies
1941A & M ROSTER
No.
Player
Home Town
Pos.
Wt.
Ht.
10
Spivey, Marshall
Lufkin
WB
177
6.0
12
Pickett, Tom
Temple
WB
180
6.0
14
Rogers, Cullen
Mart
WB
185
6.0
16
Smith, Earl
Frisco City, Ala.
WB
170
5.11
18
Porter, Sam
Clebune
WB
180
5.10
20
Skarke, Dick
Schulenburg
BB
195
6.0
22
Zapalac, Willie
Bellville
BB
200
6.0
24
Roman, Lincoln
Houston
BB
185
6.0
26
Turner, Oscar
Ysleta
BB
175
5.8
30
Webster, Jake
Sweetwater
FB
185
5.11
31
Andricks, Dennis
Houston
FB
203
6.3
32
Andrews, Bill
Amarillo
FB
204
6.3
40
Williams, Bob
Eldorado
TB
170
6.9
42
Moser, Derace
Stephenville
TB
185
6.0
44
Daniels, Leo
Bryan
TB
170
5.11
45
Wade, Fount
Lexington
TB
185
5.11
50
Sibley, Bill
Abilene
C
185
5.10
51
Holder, Leonard
San Antonio
C
173
6.1
52
Mercer, Arthur
Temple
C
191
6.0
53
Williams, Maurice
Marlin
E
194
6.2
60
Richardson, Lester
Houston
G
195
5.11
61
Mulhollan, Roy
Belton
G
195
6.0
62
Maples, Weldon
Fort Worth
G-C
195
6.0
63
Bucek, Roy
Schulenburg
G
200
6.0
64
Bucek, Felix
Schulenburg
G
193
6.0
65
Miller, Charles
Belton
G
190
5.9
66
Wagner, Shelton
Yoakum
t G
191
6.0
67
Cure, Wayne
Gilliland
G
197
6.3
68
Motley, Zolus
Abilene
G
200
6.1
69
Knight, Jimmy
LaGrange
G
180
6.0
72
Dickey, Leonard
Alto
T
210
6.2
73
Tulis, Bob
Fort Worth
T
210
5.10
74
Ruby, Martin
Waco
T
215
6.3
75
Wesson, Euel
Temple
T
215
6.4
76
Montgomery, Jim
Moran
T
210
6.4
78
Swank, Jack
Dallas
T
210
6.3
81
Sterling, Jim
Panhandle
E
192
5.11
82
Simmons, Elvis
Somerville
E
205
6.3
83
Cowley, Harold
Freer
E
190
6.2
84
Levy, Daniel
Corsicana
E
193
6.2
85
Cox, Truman
Donna
E
180
6.3
86
Slaughter, Pete
Houston
E
175
6.2
87
Dawson, Jamie
Crockett
E
200
6.6
88
Henderson, Bill
Houston
E
205
6.4
89
Walters, Freddy
Lewisville
E
172
6.2
Ex 4-H Club
Will Send Boy
On Chicago Trip
Representative Will
Attend National Meet
At Chicago in December
At its last regular meeting the
A. & M. Ex 4-H Club appointed
a committee to determine the qual
ifications its members must pos
sess to be eligible for selection
as the club’s delegate to the Na
tional 4-H Congress to be held in
Chicago the week of December
1-7. '
This delegate will have an all-
expenses paid trip to the windy city
accompanied by L. L. Johnson and
J. W. Potts of the Extension Ser
vice. The three will leave Dallas
with the Texas State delegation of
fifty-five 4-H clubbers next Fri
day night.
The National Congress is an an
nual affair in which fifteen-hun
dred boys and girls from the Unit
ed States, Canada, Hawaii, Mexico,
and other neighboring territories
air their views and accomplish
ments of the past year. Plans are
formulated for the betterment of
farm life, and a complete program
of action for all 4-H Clubs is dis
cussed.
Arabia Temple Will Be Scene Of
Aggie Dance After Game With Owls
Furthering an already success
ful season, the Aggieland Orches
tra under Toppy Pearce will move
on to Houston with the Corps this
weekend to offer their “Music As
You Like It” to the Corps at the
official Aggie dance after the
game.
The orchestra, with charming
Norma Jean, everybody’s sweet
heart, will get in the groove at the
Arabia Temple in the Sam Hous
ton Coliseum at 9:00 p.m. and will
beat it out until 1:00 a.m.
Toppy and the orchestra have
enjoyed a phenomenally success
ful ’41 and ’42 seasonal debut at
increasingly successful corps dan
ces.
Another Aggie hit parade is on
schedule and will function through
out the entire dance. The Hit
Parades of former corps dances
have had exceptionally good re
sults.
Long the favorite orchestra of
more than a few Aggies and
others, the Aggieland was also the
pick of the Rice Dance Committee
which is sponsoring the dance.
Cadets Will Be
On North Side Of
Owl Stadium Today
The Aggies will be seated on the
north side of the stadium to wit
ness Saturday’s game against the
Rice Owls. The senior section will
extend from the 25 yard line to
the 50 yard line.
Cadet Colonel Tom Gillis and
nine other seniors have been in
Houston since Thursday night mak
ing all necessary arrangements for
the corps trip and football game.
Friday night they attended the
Rice bonfire festivities as repre
sentatives of the corps of cadets.
Agriculturist
Will Be Out Soon
Feature articles of the A. & M.
Agriculturist which will be issued
to the corps next week will be
“Training Saddle Horses,” and
“Latin-American Relations.”
Roland Bing, editor, said the
magazine should be in the hanos
of the students by Thursday.
“Snakes,” by R. M. Lynn, Ag
gie herptologist and veterinary
medicine student, is an articl-
which contains not only interest
ing facts but also educational ones
Another feature of the issue will
be “Shaky Beams,” a discussion of
what is wrong with agricultural
leadership.
NUMBER 30
Owls Expected to Rely on Sophomore
Stars Against Ags; Brumley May be Ready
By Mike Haikin
Battalion Sports Editors
Having fought their way up to the No. 1 spot of the
Southwest Conference, the Texas Aggies will attempt to
protect their perfect record for the season against a danger
ous in-and-out Rice Owl team this afternoon in Houston. An
anticipated crowd of some 30,000 football hungry fans are
expected to attend the game which starts at 2:30.
Aggies Crippled
For the first time in two years, the Aggie team will go
into the fray with three of their first string not in the peak
of condition. Triple-threat Derace Moser, the Cadet No. 1 back sustained
a slight ankle injury against S. M. U. last week. He missed the hard
workouts all week and is not expected to be in top shape for the
fracas. It’s a 50-50 chance that Moser will start today, but should he
•be out, Leo Daniels, flashy soph
omore ace, will take his place
Willie Zapalac also was hurt last
week, and Coach Homer Norton has
indicated that he may move Jake
Webster to the blocking back post
and insert Andy Andricks in Web
ster’s position. Marshall Spivey
one of the leading pass receivers
in this part of the country, will
start at the wingback spot.
Simmons To Start
The cadet line will also stand a
bit of revision on the part of Coach
Homer Norton. Jim Sterling, vic
ious blocking end, suffered a
shoulder injury against S. M. U
and may not start. In that cast
Boots Simmons will take his place
Bill Henderson will take over thi
other terminal and is expected to
be in the middle of things this af
ternoon. It may be remembered
that it was . this same Henderson
who drove the Owls dizzy on Kyk
Field last year with his great pass
snagging. This year he is biggei
and better and is a threat every
time he lays his hands on the ball
Another change in the Aggie
line will be at the tackle post
where Leonard Dickey, sensation-
all sophomore lineman will take
over Euel Wesson’s spot. The rest
(See OWLS, page 4)
Senior Team
Of Livestock
Judges Selected
Senior livestock judging team
prospects have been working tow
ard one goal this year; that of
winning the contest at the Inter
national Livestock Show. Under
the careful hand of coach I. F. Ed
wards and his assistant William
Warren, these boys have been en
gaging in longs hours of practice.
The winners and the six high
judges are Tommy Stuart, 93.65;
Jack Cleveland, 92.71; Victor Loef-
fler, 92.48; W. T. Berry, 92.13;
Gordon Grote, 91.48; and Jake
Hess, 91.42. Of these, five will
make up the team proper with the
sixth man as alternate.
The judging contests will be held
in Chicago November 29, followed
by a banquet on the 30th. The
group will leave Chicago December
2, and plan to arrive here about
midnight December 4.
The team has a high goal to
achieve in as much as last year’s
team walked off the field with the
second place banner firmly in hand.
Owls
1941 RICE ROSTER
Pass The Asoirin Please;
Forty-Five Thousand Grades
Mailed Out By Registrar Today
By Ken Bresnen
Forty-five thousand grades were
recorded by the registrar’s office
Friday night in preparation for
mailing the mid-semester reports
to the homes of 6500 cadets. Sixty
students working at top speed for
thirteen or fourteen hours make it
possible for the grades of A. & M.
students to be sent out faster than
those of any other college in the
country. ,
Shortly after registration is fin
ished, secretaries in the registrar’s
office begin to fill out the forms
on which the grades are sent out.
It would take one typist about forty
days to type all these reports in
blank. The blanks for the mid
semester reports and for the final
semester grades are all typed at
one time. Reports are made in
triplicate, the first copy being sent
to the student’s parents, the second,
to the deans of the various schools,
and the third to the files in the
registrar’s office.
The information on the report
blanks contains the student’s name,
the courses he is taking, and the
name and address of the person
to whom the grades are sent. The
heads of the departments are re
quired to have the grades in the
registrar’s office by nine o’clock
in the morning at which time clerks
begin to alphabetize them. This
process takes about seven hours.
Then students working in pairs
begin the recording of the grades
on the blanks. In order to prevent
errors in the records caused by mis
understanding, the clerk who calls
the grades uses a language all hi
own. Instead of calling letters, ht
calls words beginning with the
grade letter. The callers jargon
might sound like this: “Jone, J. A.
Engish 103, Cadillac; Math 101
Dodge; Biology 110, Buick; Chem
101, Ford; History 105, Auburn.
When the grades have been re
corded the blanks are torn apart,
One is placed in an envelope for
mailing, another is sent to the
•lean. A clerk adds up the hours
(See GRADES, page 2)
No. Player
Home Town
Pos.
Wt
Ht.
10. Buster Roach
Fort Worth
WB
145
6.9
11. Barron Ellis
Houston
WB
155
5.8
12. Joe Price
Newcastle
WB
175
5.11
14. Bud Ely
Eleetra
WB
170
5.11
15. Angus Smith
Rotan
WB
180
6.0
16. Willie Smelley
Lufkin
WB
165
5.10
18. Jim Deal
Cleveland, Ohio
WB
200
5.10
19. Harold Stockbridge
Houston
WB
161
5.10
20. Calvin McDougle
Corsicana
BB
180
5.11
22. Jack Everett
Putnam
BB
180
5.11
24. James Nall
Dallas
BB
180
5.10
30. Bob Brumley
Edinburg
FB
182
0.0
34. Gayle McLaughlin
Eleetra
FB
180
5.11
35. Don Stephens
Fort Worth
FB
180
5.11
39. Whitlock Zander
San Antonio
FB
181
6.0
43. Beecher Buff
Brady
TB
180
6.1
46. J. C. Dickson
Luling
TB
182
6.0
49. Dick Dwelle
Dallas
TB
173
5.11
50. Buck Sloan (Capt.)
Breckenridge'
C
180
6.1
51. Bill Blackburn
Houston
C
205
6.4
54. Jack Hinnant
Corpus Christ!
C
182
5.1 j
56. Jack Dearmore
Fort Worth
C
183
6.0
60. Bill Bagwell
Oklahoma City
G
190
5.11
61. Art Goforth
Wichita Falls
G
195
5.11
62. Bob Nowlin
Dallas
G
202
6.0
63. George Armstrong
Wichita Falls
G
190
6.1
64. Ted Brannon
Longview
G
192
6.1
65. Horace McHam
Fort Worth
G
185
6.11
66. Buddy Moore
San Antonio
G
175
5.11
67. Bob Looney
Conroe
G
185
5.7
68. Stone Quillan
San Antonio
G
175
5.9
90. Lindsey Bowen
McKinney
T
204
6.0
71. Charles Malmberg
Fprt Worth
T
200
6.1
72. Ralph Noble
Alice
T
210
6.0
73. Dave McCoy
Victoria
T
202
6.1
74. Billy Heard
Houston
T
215
6.2
76. Mitchell Sadler
Huntsville
T
205
6.2
78. Verlan Prichard
Wichita Falls
T
200
6.1
80. Clark Wells
Quanah
E
182
6.1
81. Ray Zimmerman
Houston
E
175
5.11
82. Ted Scruggs
Houston
E
178
6.1
83. Bob Tresch
Cleveland, Ohio
E
185
6.1
84. Weldon Humble
San Antonio
E
195
5.11
85. Jack Sims
Dallas
E
173
6.11
86. William Smellage
Waxahachie
E
185
5.11
87. Marvin DeWoody
Houston
E
190
6A
88. Wendell Garrett
Corpus Christi
E
190
5.11
89. Theo Chmelik
Richmond
E
185
6.1
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