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DIAL 4-5444 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION The Battalion DIAL 4-5444 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION * « • Hi • % 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. VOLUME 41 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, MAR. 31, 1942 2275 NO. 77 Corps to Review for Naval Contingent This Evening Commandant of Corpus Air Base Will Receive Review Election for 3 Offices to Be Held Today Vannoy Files for Battalion Editor; Polls Will Be in Academic Rotunda Three Men Compete For Head of Student Paper and Magazine Tom Vannoy, Infantry Band, an nounced his intentions of running for the editorship of the Battalion Friday, March 27. Vannoy’s an nouncement makes him the third candidate to enter the race for this office. The other two candidates are Ken Bresnen, A Cavalry, and Brooks Gofer, F CAC. Vannoy is a junior in Chemical Engineering. Those candidates who are de clared eligible by the Student Elections committee will compete in the general election to be held in the Rotunda of the Academic building on Tuesday, April 14. In order to be eligible for the editor ship of the Battalion newspaper and magazine, a candidate must have worked for one year on The Battalion in some capacity which will enable him to edit the paper, have passed at least three fifths of the previous semester’s work, have a grade point average of 1.5, and in general show a record that is indicative of his ability to hold such an office without seriously impairing his college work. The first of the above require ments is determined by the Stu dent Activities committee and the information passed on to the Stu dent Elections committee who fin ally determine the candidate’s eli gibility. These committees will r meet sometime during the week between the deadline for filing and the election itself. Deadline for fil ing for the editorship has been set as Tuesday, April 7. As in the past years, the winner of the election will be the editor- in-chief of The Battalion news paper and also of the magazine. The editor-elect will take over his duties officially on June 1. Classified Juniors And 3 Year Men To Cast Votes Today Polls will be open in the rotunda of the Academic building today from 9 a. m. until 1 p. m. and from 4 p. m. to 6:30 p. m. for the election of the Town Hall Manager, Social Secretary and Longhorn Editor for the next long session beginning in June. Only classified juniors and men in their sixth consecutive semester at A. & M. will be eligible to vote in this election. In order to cast a bal lot the voter will be required to present his yellow receipt for reg istration in college the current se mester. The ballot for today’s election will appear as follows: Ballot For Junior Election For Town Hall Manager: John Lawerence W. M. (Bill) Adkisson W. F. (Bill) Dreiss Dwain Treadwell For Social Secretary: Bobby Stephens T. K. (Tommie) Pierce Harvey (Bum) Bright Jack B. Miller For Longhorn Editor H. O. Kunkel John Longley Members of the Student Elec tions Committee and officers of the Junior class will supervise the casting of ballots, but no candi date will be allowed to assist in this supervision. Ballots will be counted in the Corps Headquar ters office as soon as the polls close, and the winners will be an nounced in Thursday’s Battalion. Taster Rabbit’ Luke to Bring 2,800 Eggs Here on April 12 By Ken Bresnen The Easter Bunny will visit Col lege Station three days early this year as far as the local children are concerned. For the past sixteen years Luke Patranella, local mer chant, has played Peter Rabbit to hundreds of the egg hunters of this community by hiding thou sands of Easter Eggs in the vicin ity of the ravine adjacent to the old Karper home and the AAA of fices southwest of Dean Gilchrist’s home. Thursday, April 8, 2,800 eggs will be planted for the youngsters to forage out in their search for twelve prizes to be offered by lo cal merchants. The hunt is to begin at three in the afternoon. The twelve sought-after eggs will be painted with the names of the merchants who are donating the gifts. In order to receive the prize, the lucky finder has only to take the winning egg to the store of the merchant whose name appears on it. All children under the school age and those in the lower grades will be eligible to participate. The party will be supervised by Patranella and teachers of the A. & M. Con solidated school. Bigger and better is the princi ple upon which this fairy god father of the youngsters of the community has based his hunts KKK Initiation To Be Thursday Night The Kream and Kow Klub will have a meeting in the Creamery Lecture room Thursday night for the purpose of initiating new members. Other items on the pro- gram include the reports on plans for Dairy Day, the Cattleman’s Ball, and Benefit shows, and the discussion of these plans. Refresh ments will be served. each year. Following this princi ple, he has increased the number of eggs to be hidden this year by almost 1,000. Last year 1,860 eggs were supplied for the feat; this year the children’s Uncle Luke is offering 2,800. 'Pot of Gold’ To Total $24,000 Will Go to Contract Men The U. S. Mint hasn’t been transferred to Ross hall, but try to convince any junior or senior with an advanced contract that it wasn’t. Their reason: a total of approximately $24,000 is arriving within a day or two, payable in denominations of $22.50 to each junior and senior with a contract. According to Sergeant Beck, the checks should be here Wednesday, or a few days after that. Naval V-5 Men Here to Receive Student Interviews All Classes May Make Applications; Training Is Only for Air Reserve A detachment of three naval of ficers and an enlisted man arrived on the campus Monday to inter view applicants for class V-5 naval aviation training. They will see anyone interested, regardless of classification, in applying for the training until 6 o’clock today in the Y.M.C.A. A preliminary examination and physical exam will be given here. The Navy will furnish transporta tion for the applicants from Hous ton to Dallas and return, for the final examinations. The recruiting party is made up of Lt. J. A. Pierce, Lt. Wright, Lt. McMurrey, and yeoman Moore. Sophomores, juniors, and seniors enlisted now will be allowed to re- (See NAVAL V-5, Page 6) Contest Winners Of Forestry Awards Announced by Caudill Sophomore awards in a forestry motion picture title contest were announced yesterday by W. W. Caudill of the architecture depart ment. Awards were as follows: Rob ert H. Simpson, Christoval, first place; Charles A. Eberhardt, Cue- ro, second place; J. F. Gordon, Homer, La., third; Harold Fink, Houston, fourth; and John L. Col lier, Harlingen, fifth. Hello, Navq m j Hello, Navy. We’re glad you’re here. The Aggies are glad to welcome you men who, with us, in a few short months will be fighting our common foe. We are glad to see the bluejackets who will be destroying the enemy at sea while we will be doing the same job on land. We are glad to meet the men who are helping the United States win this war. Ross Volunteers Will Hold Festivities This Weekend For the first time in history, the Ross Volunteers will hold their annual festivities during the reg ular session of school instead of having special holidays set aside for them. Because of the fact that the spring vacation has been elim inated under the new speed up program, R. V.’s. will be held on April 3, 4 and 5 along with the Parent’s Day program. Friday night the Captain’s din ner dance will be held in Sbisa hall from eight until ten. The King’s Ball will be held in Sbisa from 11 p.m. until 2 a.m. The King for this year’s celebration is Bill Rob inson, E Field Artillery. Saturday a tea dance will be Cotton Ball Royalty g: The picture above was taken at T.S.C.W. when the committee from the Agronomy Society went there to pick their dates for the Cotton Ball. Standing in the upper left are E. G. Wilmeth, King of the Cotton Ball and Ernestine Ashe of Fort Worth, who will be Queen of the ball. Seated on the steps are the girls who will be in the Queen’s court and the Agronomy students who will be their dates. held at Maggie Parker’s Tea Room in Bryan from four until 6 p.m. A Corps dance will be held Satur day night in Sbisa hall. Sunday’s activities will include the presentation of a memorial wreath at the Lawerence Sullivan Ross Statue to take place at three in the afternoon, an exhibition drill and the captain’s presentation at 3:15 p.m. on the review field, and a competitive drill immediate ly following the exhibition. The Ross Volunteers were or ganized as an honorary drill or ganization in honor of the first president of the college, Lawer ence Sullivan Ross. Seventy-five men are appointed each year to bring the total strength of the company up to 150 men. Officers of the R. V. Company are as follows: Lewis Kercheville, captain, Max Jordan, second-in- command, C. B. Marsh and G. W. Haltom, platoon leaders, Austin Nance, first sergeant and Jimmy Cunningham and Henry King, platoon sergeants. Classes Suspended at 2 (/Clock; Walton Will Deliver Address Before Inspection The first contingent of 200 naval enlisted men will ar rive here this morning from Houston and Dallas at 9:53 and 12:10 o’clock, to receive the four months course in ele mentary radio work. The men have been ordered here from stations throughout the nation. They will proceed directly from the railroad station to the dormitories and later they will march to the review of the cadet corps on the old drill field, the president’s office stated. Captain Alva D. Bernhard, commanding officer of the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station, will arrive here about noon today aboard a naval plane to receive the review and to inspect the dormitories to be occupied by the naval per sonnel. President T. O. Walton will de liver a welcoming address to Cap tain Bernhard at the review, and Captain Bernhard will respond. Shortly after the review and in spection, he will return to South Texas. Classes will be suspended at 2 o’clock today to permit participa tion in the review by the cadet corps. It will be held as a practice review for the Parents’ Day review to be held Sunday morning, April 5. Khaki shirts and trousers will be worn at the review. Cadet offi cers will be allowed to wear breeches and boots. First call will be sounded at 2:35 p. m. Assembly will be at 2:40, and the Adjutants’ call will be sounded at 3 o’clock. The formation will be a line of regiments in line of battalions in column of masses. Order of the units in line will be the Band, Infantry Regiment, Field Artillery Regiment, Com posite Regiment, Cavalry Regi ment, Engineer Regiment, and the Coast Artillery Regiment. Aggie Papers Win In AIEE Meeting Two of the three papers receiv ing prizes at the local meeting of the American Institute of Electri cal Engineers in the Houston Y. W. C. A. were presented by Ag gies. N. F. Rode of the electrical engineering department presided at the meeting. Monroe A. Miller, Beeville, won first prize of $15 with his discus sion of the klystron. J. H. Bryant, Baird, and George Sumner, Fort Worth, took third place with their paper on the determination of the scale distribution of electrodyna mic voltmeters. Approximately thirty Aggies at tended the meeting. The next meeting is to be held April 17 in Houston also. The klystron is an ultra-high frequency device that is used as a part of the apparatus used in aircraft detection. It is able to tell accurately the number of planes approaching, their speed and di rection. Slipstick Follies of 1942 Climax Engineers’ Day of Events Saturday Ugly Contest Is Under Way as 11 Candidates File Entrants Will Meet On Y Steps Today At 1:45; Voting is Friday Eleven of A. & M.’s self sup posedly, ugliest boys have filed their names for the contest with Ed Clark and J. C. McDuffie who form the committee in charge of the contest. A $10 prize will be‘awarded the winner at the Engineers Day show Saturday night. A ballot will ap pear in Thursday’s Battalion and these will be marked and turned in through first sergeants by 6 p.m. Friday. The contest is being sponsored to promote interest in the coming engineer’s show. Candidates who have filed their names are Kyle Drake, D Field Artillery, Sol Mintz, G Coast Ar tillery, George Kemnitz, G Coast Artillery, George Williford, 2 Hq. Field Artillery, George “Profile” Ogdee, A Field Artillery, R. P. Burke, C Engineers, Ternay Nev, C Chem Warfare, L. B. (Butch) Tennison, C Field Artillery, J. B. Strother, K Infantry, R. C. Loom is, 2 Corps Headquarters, and Clarence “Boy I’m Ugly” Cunn ingham, C Chem Warfare. Some of the candidates names were turned in in person and oth ers are being backed in their race by their organizations. McDuffie stated that a great deal of interest was expected to develop in the race before the week was out. All entrants in the Ugly Boy contest will meet on the Y steps today at 1:45 for a group picture and will be presented to the corps at yell practice tonight. First Sergeants will turn the ballots for their organization in to the corps headquarters office Friday afternoon by 6 p.m. Haigh to Speak On TU Lands at 8 Slipstiek Follies of 1942, the second Engineer’s show will be the closing event of the coming Engineers day and will be staged in Guion hall Saturday night at 7:15 p.m. Each engineering society will put on a portion of the program lasting approximately 10 minutes. Joe Bourn will be master of cere monies. Bourn was a participant in the show last year and did im- mitations of President Roosevelt. Tickets may be bought from first sergeants through Friday and will be on sale at the Engineering exhibits Saturday and at Guion hall that night. The price of ad mission is 25 cents. This year’s production is bigger and better than the one last year, Ranson Kenny, D. Coast Artillery, states. Another feature of the show will be the introduction of the winner of the ugly boy contest. When the winner is presented he will be presented a prize of $10. “Freckles” the corp’s big bull Berte R. Haigh, assistant geol ogist in charge of University Lands, will speak on the subject “Story of Texas University dog was entered in the contest but Lands,” this evening at 8:15 in was declared ineligible by the Stu- the main lecture room of the Geol- dent Engineering council. They ogy-Petroleum Building, accord- stated that the contestants must ing to an announcement by C. L. be human beings able to walk up Baker, Head of the Geology De- to yell practice today. Freckles partment. The public is invited to was being entered by 2 Corps attend the lecture which will be Headquarters. j open to both students and faculty. Young Tells Experiences of 36 Years With United States Navy By Tom Vannoy Thirty-six years is a long time to stay on one job, but that is the record of A. John Young, chief boatswain’s mate, assigned to du ty here by the Navy in a connec tion with the newly-formed cour ses in elementary electricity to be taught here to naval enlisted men. In those 36 years, he visited all parts of the world. He saw serv ice on some 24 ships and stations in that time. Young enlisted at New York City in September, 1904, and serv ed continuously until February, 1921, when he was put on fleet reserve. During the World War, he was chief of a gun crew on the USS Wassaic between New Or leans and European ports, as part of the Armed Guard Service. In 1905, Young was on one of the ships that went to Cherbourg, France, to bring back the remains of Admiral John Paul Jones, Rev olutionary War hero, to Annapolis for reinterrment at the Naval (See EXI ERIENCES, Page el t