DIAL 4-5444
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
The Battalion
DIAL 4-5444
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
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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
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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
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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
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