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NEWSPAPER OF
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
The Battalion
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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. VOLUME 41
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, DEC. 18, 1941
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NUMBER 42
Oleary Landslides to Junior Yell Leader Victory
Cotton Bowl Date Tickets,
Selling Slowly, Available
Student Ducats May be Had Till Noon
Saturday, Reserved Seats Until Dec 24
Date tickets for the Cotton Bowl game are now on sale
at the YMCA announces E. W. Hooker, secretary of the
athletic council. The date tickets and student tickets, selling
for $1.65 each, will be available until noon Saturday. These
tickets absolutely will not be available after the holidays
begin.
Reserved seat tickets, which
are on sale at the athletic of
fice, will be sold at college
until a week before the game.
These tickets sell for $2.50
and $4.40. There will be no
general admission tickets for
the game.
Junior and senior military stu
dents who desire to get tickets by
drawing on their January checKs
may do so by signing a promis
sory note for the tickets. These
notes may be obtained from the
students’ senior M.S. instructor,
who will certify that the cadet has
a contract.
Cotton Bowl officials expect a
near capacity crowd for the game.
Ticket sales over the country are
progressing steadily. According to
reports received by the athletic
office, 37,000 of the 45,000 seats
available at the Bowl had been sojd
Wednesday.
Sales for the student tickets are
not up to previous expectations, ac
cording to Hooker. At noon Wed
nesday, only 1200 student and dare
tickets had been sold. Hooker con
tributes the slow response on the
part of the cadets in part to the
war, as there was a noticeable
slump in ticket sales after the
United States declared war on Jap
an. Approximately 1500 of the
date and student tickets are still
on hand, but it is hoped that last
minute sales will account for the
bulk of these.
Who Says There Ain't
No Santa; Brazos Exes
Make Good Team’s $74
Meeting tne team at the train
ing table last night P. L. Downs,
Jr., president of the Brazos Coun
ty Ex-Students A. & M. club, pre
sented the team with the $74.60
which was stolen from them while
in Tacoma. Derace Moser who
lost $34 said, “Who said there
wasn’t any Santa Claus?” The
money was collected by S. A. (Doc)
Lipscomb, chairman of the athletic
committee of the club.
Members receiving the balance
of the money were Les Richardson
$6, Roy Bucek 60 cents, Maurice
(Cotton) Williams $15, A. J.* Mer
cer, $8, Cullen (Slick) Rogers $9
and Bill Sibley $2.
Competition Sought
By Ag Chess Team
The A. & M. Chess Team will
begin playing a number of chess
tournaments with other college
chess teams in January according
to Dr. E. P. Humbert, sponsor rf
the chess club.
Local Observer Watches Calm
Washington Become War City
By Charlie Babcock
Washington—the nerve center of
130,000,000 Americans, a city cram
med with diplomatic tradition and
history—forgot all of its beauti
ful lawn parties and social engage
ments the day of the Pearl Harbor
disaster. All individual indulgences
were disregarded and thousands
jumped without hesitation to place
the proverbial shoulder blade be
hind the proverbial wheel—patriot
ism!
The eye witness to the heart
warming scene was local resident
E. N. Holmgreen, business maanger
of the college, who was in the cap
ital on official college business.
“People in Washington were very
calm but also possessed a very dis-
LAST BATTALION
This will be the last issue
of The Battalion before the
Christmas holidays. The
first issue after the holidays
will be on Tuesday, January
6.
tinct under-current of determina
tion,” states Holmgreen.
It was a pleasant Sunday after
noon. Observer Holmgreen was at
tending the professional football
battle between the Washington
Redskins and Philadelphia Eagles.
He says that the 28,000 spectators
were kept at peace longer than the
rest of the nation, for the announ
cers refused to broadcast the pa
cific news until after the game was
over.
However, most of the fans realiz
ed that something serious was in
the air, for many high-ranking mili
tary and government officials were
being called from the game.
Once that the prospect of war
became eminent, Washington mov
ed swiftly in placing bridges and
important buildings under heavily
armed guard.
“When Monday morning came,”
Holmgreen observes, “all govern
ment structures were humming
with the activity of a veritable
bee hive, Committee meetings,
plans, projects, proposed bills—all
these were the concern of the
twentieth century Jeffersons, Ham-
iltons and Calhouns.”
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Christmas in this modern world has lost much of its signifi
cance because of a misunderstanding of its origin. Christmas is
usually attributed to Santa Claus or the birth of Christ. How
ever strange as it may seem, for mny years after the life of
Christ, the world did not celebrate Christmas.
The man who really started Christmas was born during the
barbarian invasion of Rome, in the town of Patara on the shore
of the Mediterranean. His father was a rich merchant whose
name was Epiphanes and his mother’s name was Johane. The
first son of those people was named Nicholas, which in the lang
uage of the parents meant both victory and people. This son
was to become the first man to originate the practice of giving
gifts at Christmas. Later Nicholas became a saint and was at
tributed with miraculous powers.
He became the benefactor of seamen, money lenders, mer
chants, farmers, children, and all humanity. Not only is this
worthy man remembered for Christmas, but a great many other
things as well. He is regarded as one of the three guardians of
Russia. He and St. Olaf have the honor of projecting Norway.
With St. Julian he watches over a good part of Italy. Hundreds
of small towns in Europe claim him as their patron.
The death of this satnt was recorded as the year 326 A.D. He
died after a long life as the Bishop of Myra, a defender of Chris
tianity at its most critical moment, and most important of all, the
true founding of Christmas giving.
Colonel Dunn is Guest Conductor For
Bryan Xmas Community Sing Tonight
Combining their efforts during the holiday season the Lamar
junior high and Stephen F. Austin high schools of Bryan will present
their annual Christmas community concert tonight at 7:15 under
the direction of Hugh Emerson, conductor of the bands and Colonel
R. J. Dunn, A. & M. bandmaster. The program will be given in the
Bryan high school auditorium and Emerson asks that any members of
the cadet corps who can attend do so. Admission is free.
Colonel Dunn will direct the high 4-'
Contracts For
New Dormitory
Furniture Awarded
Desks, Chairs, Dressers
To be of Wood; Equipment
Starts Arriving in 30 Days
Contracts have been let for the
furniture to be placed in the new
dormitories located on the north
end of the campus totaling around
$49,700. The contracts include beds,
desks, mattresses, study desks, and
chairs. The furniture will start ar
riving within 30 days Phil Norton,
college architect, stated, and will
continue arriving as fast as possi
ble so long as it does not interfere
with any defense contracts.
The beds will be Simmons beds
from Swann Sehullee in Austin, the
mattresses will be from the Taylor
Bedding Mefg. Co. in Taylor and
| the dressers will be made of birch
wood instead of metal and will be
furnished by Beckley School and
Church Furniture Co. of Houston.
Study desks will also be made of
birch wood and will come from W.
C. Hixon in Dallas.
Other contracts let this week in
cluded a $320 contract with Fred
Pontello of Houston for the laying
of a teraza floor on the first floor
on the electrical engineering build
ing. This floor will be laid during
the Christmas holidays.
Construction of four new wards
in the basement of the hospital is
nearing completion and will enlarge
the capacity of the plant by 30
beds.
Winner Leads Field With
118 Votes; O’Connor Next
Regular Committee Counts Votes After
Junior Class Holds Special Election Meet
Ted O’Leary, newly elected junior yell leader to replace
Jack Nagle, who has gone to the army, said last night after
he got the news, “I’m happy that I now have the thing that
I have wanted most in college.” O’Leary won with 118
votes, and was followed by James O’Connor with 54, Pat
Patterson with 29 votes and George Ferguson with 19 votes.
Members of the election"
committee found the four stu
dents eligible as set forth in
the rules published in The
Battalion last week. The votes
were cast at a meting of the
junior class in the Assembly
hall and were turned over to the
committee. The committee then
carried them to the corps head
quarters office where they were
counted and the results tabulated.
Russell Brient also filed his pe
tition for candidacy, but failed to
1 satisfy the 1.25 grade point re
quirement. His grade point ratio
was 1.10,
Each of the candidates present
ed to the committee a petition
signed by 200 students now enroll
ed in A. & M., and had been in
school for at least four continu
ous semesters and be in attendance
at the college during his fifth sem
ester. He must also have passed at
least three-fifths of his normal
course the previous semester.
The election committee was as
designated in the “Blue Book,”
Warren Ringgold, Dick Hervey,
Austin Nance, Vance Carrington,
Edward Roeder, Tom Gillis, Joe
Skiles, and Homer L. Heaton.
school band in their presentation
of “Everglades Sugar March” by
Sturchio and the “National An
them” by Key. This arrangement
of the anthem was written espec-
of “Keep ’Em Flying Week.”
“The army appreciates the whole
hearted support of the cadets,”
Culberson said.
Colonel R. J. Dunn
ially for the A. & M. band by
Colonel Dunn.
The program for the two bands
is as follows:—Lamar Program—
“Onward Christian Soldiers” by
Sullivan, “Deep River”, a folk
song, “Carry Me Back to Old Vir-
ginny,” by Bland, the Bulldog
quartette singing “I’ll Take You
Home Again Kathleen” by Vest-
dorf, a poem by Fibisch, and “Little
Anne Rooney” by Nolan.
The Stephen F. Austin program
will follow presenting “Yule Tid
ings” arranged by Schaefer, “Five
Favorite Yule-Tide Songs,” arrang
ed by Tobani. and “American Pa
trol,” by Meacham.
Wednesday, 2:25 p.m.-Whming Bombers
Give Aggies First Taste of Air Raid
Aggieland got its first taste of dive bombing at 2:35 P. M. Wed
nesday afternoon when eighteen planes from Ellington Field near
Houston attacked in a mock air raid. The planes circled low over
the old area and drill field and evidently scored many technical “hits”.
The raid continued intermittently for nearly an hour.
The demonstration was staged f
in conjunction with the War De
partment sponsored picture, “Keep
’Em Flying,” now showing at the
Bryan theaters. Co-sponsoring
and heartily endorcing this produc
tion is the American Legion, De
fense Guard, and other patriotic
organizations.
“Keep ’Em Flying,” staring Ab
bot and Costello, portrays the
work and spiirt of the Army Air
Corps as well as its humorous side.
The production will be showen
Wednesday and Thursday at the
usual prices.
Captain William H. Culberson,
in charge of the mobile resruiting
unit here, announced that the Air
Corps was dedicating today’s com
plimentary flight to the college in
order to reciprocate for the recent
ly issued proclamation by Cadet
Colonel Tom Gillis affirming the
support of A. & M. in observance
Three Exes Killed
Since Hawaii Attack
Major Clarence R. Davis, ’27,
Beaumont, Texas; 2nd Lieutenant
Arthur E. Gary, ’40, San Marcos,
Texas; and Captain James J. Back-
loupe, ’33, Ennis Texas, were the
first three Ex-Aggies to die in ac
tion since the attack on Pearl Har
bor.
College Employees
Serving School 25
Years Honored Fri
Nine A&M Staff Members
Will be Guests of Evening
At 6:30 Banquet in Sbisa
Nine employees of the college
who have completed 25 years of
service with the school will be hon
ored Friday night by a banquet
at 6:30 in Sbisa hall. In addi
tion to these employees, seven
others who were to be honored last
year will also celebrate a quarter
of a century of service. The ban
quet last year had to be postponed
because of the change made in the
Christmas holidays.
A. L. Darnell, M. P. Holleman,
S. C. Hoyle, R. E. Harper, E. B.
Reynolds, Cable Henry, and Sam
Steptoe will be the honorees whose
service will be celebrated this year
instead of last year.
The employees who have com
pleted their 25 years of service
this year are Miss Luck Brogdon,
F. B. Clark, V. L. Cory, J. B.
Dorman, Owen Garrigan, E. A.
Miller, Roland Nunn, M. T. Payne,
and O. W. Silvey.
J Lunceford
Signs to Play
For FA Ball
Negro Band
Also Schedules
Mar 7 Corps Dance
Jimmie Lunceford’s band has
been signed up for an appearance
at A. & M. March 6 and 7 to play
for the Field Artillery ball and
the corps dance following the ball.
Alden Cathey, social secretary, an
nounced yesterday.
Lunceford’s band was one of the
first American casualties of Eu
rope’s war blackout. The Lunce-
fordians were practically walking
up the gangplank when Lunceford
was informed that the guns of
Europe were thundering again and
his annual continental jazz tour
was scuttled. That is one reason
that the Aggie audience will be
able to hear Lunceford’s famous
“cats.”
In musical circles, Jimmie Lunce
ford is often referred to as “The
man Europe will never forget,”
Cathey states. This innuendo of
Lunceford’s European promenades
with his jazznocracy band, is some
thing that Americans can still
boast about because no orchestra
before or since, has exhausted the
critical superlatives in the same
manner.
The band has never yet played
a return engagement without
breaking the record which usually
is held by Lunceford’s band. His
recordings are year round sellers
and popular favorites because their
style carries wide appeal.
A&M Shows Six
Booths at Dallas
A. & M. will be represented in
the meeting of the American As
sociation for the Advancement of
Science to be held in Dallas dur
ing the week of December 29 to
January 3 with six booths at the
Baker Hotel. Four for the agricul
tural experiment station, and two
for the engineering experiment
station have been set aside for the
college.
Alabama’s Million Dollar Band Plans
Bright Show for Cotton Bowl Spectators
Tuscaloosa, Ala., Dec. 17.—Ala
bama university officials an
nounced today that Alabama’s
“million dollar band” would ac
company the Crimson Tide to the
Cotton Bowl game in Dallas and
furnish musical, moral, and vocal
support for Alabama in its New
Year’s Day game against A. &
M.
Recognized as one of the most
colorful college bands in the na
tion, Alabama’s red coated musi
cal group will be making its first
“bowl” appearance while the
Crimson Tide will be out for its
fourth victory in six post-season
classics. Alabama has a record
of three victories, one tie and one
loss in five previous Rose Bowl
games.
Alabama’s band gained the “mil
lion dollar” title at a football game
in Atlanta more than 15 years ago.
So the story goes, the Crimson
Tide was having one of its lean
years and Georgia Tech handed
Alabama a pretty bad walloping.
Vanity Fair Deadline
Extended to January
The. deadline for Senior Favor
ite and Vanity Fair sections for
the ’42 Longhorn has been extend
ed to January 6 in order that
seniors may have the Christmas
holidays in which to get their
pictures. Reservations must be
turned in to Ben Hancock, 218
No. 4 or Jack Grantham, 107 No.
10.
There will be no extension of
the deadline for club picture res
ervations to be turned in. These
must be in by December 20, Han
cock said.
But the ’Bama band put on its
usual brilliant half-time show and
in the eyes of one writer, “looked
like a million dollars.” And it’s
been the million dollar band ever
since.
Once dubbed the million dollar
band, the organiztaion has lived
up to its name in grand style
and under the direction of Carle-
ton K. Butler it has enhanced its
reputation of being the snappiest
band in Dixie. The standard mili
tary cadence is 120 steps per min
ute, but the ’Bama musicians
march at 175 steps per minute.
With but 90 members in the
organization, Alabama’s band is
outnumbered more than two-fold
by the 216 piece Teaxs A. & M.
musical group, but Cotton Bowl
fans can count on the crimson
coated Capstoners putting on a
good show New Year’s Day.