DIAL 4-5444
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
The Batta lion
DIAL 4-5444
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
1SS ADMINISTRATION BLDG. VOLUME 41 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 7, 1942
2275
NUMBER 80
Students Will Get Excused Absences For
April 20-21 to Go Home and Talk to High
Schools; Executive Committee Approves
Lord Halifax Will Visit Campus
On April 15; Review Is Scheduled
British Diplomat Is Now Vacationing
As Guest of Klebergs on King Ranch
Lord Halifax, British Ambassador to the United
States, will visit A. &; M. on April 15. At the invitation of
President T. 0. Walton, the British minister will fly to
College Station from San Antonio.
Walton says, “I consider it a signal honor Lord
Halifax would interrupt his vacation in Texas to visit our
college.”
A review will be held Wednesday morning April 15
at 10 o’clock in honor of the famous diplomat who is spend
ing his vacation at the King Ranch as the guest of Bob
Kleberg. -*•
Over 200 Miles
Get Absences All
Day of April 21
Cadets who desire to go to the
high school from which they grad
uated to speak to the present sen
iors will be allowed excused absen
ces from classes for Monday, April
20, and until 1 o’clock Tuesday,
April 21, Tom Gillis, cadet colonel,
announced Monday. The absences
have been approved by the Execu
tive committee.
For those who live more than
200 miles from College Station
excused absences for all of April
21 will be granted also. The grad
uating seniors are to be urged
to attend A. & M. and enter for
the semester beginning June 1,
Gillis added.
Cards applying for the permis
sion to go home may be turned in
to organization first sergeants or
house masters any time after to-
April 15 Last
Order for Rings
For Senior Dance
Senior rings must be ordered in
the registrar’s office by April 15
if they are to be received in time
for the Senior Ring Dance, it was
announced by H. L. Heaton, the
registrar of the college yesterday.
Orders placed after 5 p.m. on that
date will not be received until aft
er the dance. The ring clerk will
be in the office only in the morn
ings except on April 15 on which
date she will be on duty all day.
So far this year 914 rings have
been ordered and 850 received.
Last year only 832 rings were sold
up to the same date. Ex-students
are still ordering rings, and some
of them date as far back as 1904.
Forty-eight rings have been sold
to exes this year.
After May 1, orders will be sent
off from the Registrar’s office on
the first of every month and the
rings will be received in approxi
mately 30 days. Rings returned for
adjustment will leave on the fif
teenth and be returned in approxi
mately two weeks.
Three A&M Seniors
Married in Baptist
Church Here Sun
Three weddings were performed
at the College Station First Bap
tist Church Sunday afternoon by
Rev. R. L. Brown, pastor of the
church.
In a double military wedding at
6:30 o’clock, Miss Doris Gorbet,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. G.
Gorbet of Bryan, became the bride
of L. A. Maddox, Jr., Miami, and
Miss Mary Jones, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. P. D. Jones, Bryan, was
married to J. W. Thompson, also
of Miami.
Miss Neva Mary Schorp, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Schorp
of Pearsall, became the bride of
A. E. White, Pearsall, at 3 o’clock
in a double ring ceremony.
A. & M. seniors forming the
military escort for the double wed
ding were Carl Jahnel, Canadian;
Warren Clepper, Briscoe; Dewey
Duncan, Copperas Cove; Clarence
Cunningham, Panhandle; Ternay
Neu, Commerce, and Evers Nel
son, Waco.
The guard of honor for the
Schorp-White ceremonies was Ray
Jarratt, Stephenville; Wayne C.
Rohrer, Galveston; L. R. Smith,
Fort Worth; M. H. Brown, Rock
wall; H. T. Chang, Honolulu, Ha
waii; Jack Jennings, Fredonia; A.
R. Nye, San Antonio; Alden Cath
ey, Fort Worth; and Billy Bolton,
Sulphur Springs.
All three of the grooms are sen
iors here at A. & M.
day. All cards must be completed
and turned in to the corps head
quarters office in Ross Hall by
Saturday, April 11.
Juniors on the corps staff will
select not more than three to visit
any high school. Selection will be
made on the basis of classification,
scholastic averages, and student
activities in which the cadet has
participated. No student who was
scholastically deficient at the mid
semester repoi’t of the current se
mester will be allowed to visit a
high school.
A banquet will be given in Sbisa
Hall, April 16, for those cadets
chosen in order to give them in
structions for the visits and to
Despite the war and emergency
conditions the Association of For
mer Students is planning to care
for a large number of ex-students
who are returning for the series
of class reunions to be held on the
campus this week-end, April 11-12.
Returning visitors will be quarter
ed in one of the new dormitories
on the campus and are asked to
report to the Y.M.C.A. Headquar
ters upon arrival for room assign
ments.
There will be two classes which
will be unable to hold their re
unions. The classes of 1932 and
1927 can not meet because of the
fact that so many of their mem
bers are in the armed forces or
engaged in vital jobs which are
Kream and Kow Klub
Cheese Sale Featured
Variety of Products
The Kream and Kow Klub’s
contribution to the second annual
Ag Day was a cheese sale and
dairy cattle show held at the
dairy barn Saturday afternoon.
In the college creamery a cheese
sale was held and many visitors
took advantage of the opportunity
to buy some of the more delicate
varities of cheese. Roquefort,
Chantell, Camembert, and Edam
were the most popular varities. M.
K. Soderquist, A. K. King and
Prof. A. V. Moore directed this
part of the show.
Dairy cattle were on display and
the exhibition was climaxed by the
cattle show at which the members
of the club were divided into teams
with each captained by a senior.
Report Must Be
Made to Registrar
Upon Returning
supply them with descriptive liter
ature.
The talks to the prospective stu
dents will be made in uniform and
names of those interested in at
tending A. & M. will be listed so
that they may receive catalogs of
thd college curriculum.
In order to receive their excused
absences from classes, students
will make a written report of their
visit to the high school to the Reg
istrar’s office on their return to
the college.
necessary to the war effort of the
nation. Except for these two class
es all reunions will be held begin
ning with the class of 1892.
The class of 1892 will celebrate
its Golden Anniversary, although
its ranks are badly thinned. At
least two members of the class are
expected to attend. Reservations
have already been received from
Dr. E. H. Sauvignet, Laredo, and
E. J. Altgelt, San Antonio. Also,
W. P. Ratchford of San Antonio
might be present for the meeting.
A full two days of activities are
planned for the homecoming week
end. Saturday afternoon the exes
will see the Aggie track and base
ball teams perform^ with the fea
ture being the baseball game with
Baylor. That evening the different
class parties and committee meet
ings will be held.
Sunday morning the annual
meeting of the Association of For
mer Students will be held in the
Y.M.C.A. chapel, and at noon the
joint faculty-former student-, sen
ior luncheon will be held.
By Ken Bresnen
Joining in a common effort to
make this year’s Parents’ Day the
greatest ever held at A. & M., the
engineers, agriculture students and
authorities of the college put forth
a special effort to show the Aggie
parents just what their sons are
attaining in the way of culture as
well as technical training.
In an address to students and
guests Sunday morning at Kyle
Field, President T. O. Walton
Kent Family And
A&M Give US Three
Brothers as Officers
The Kent family of Jasper, Tex
as is doing its part in the “all
out” war effort. A trio of brothers
—all ex-Aggies—are now in the
armed services of the United
States.
Lieut. Jeptha Kent, class of ’38,
has been sent to Harvard univer
sity for special study in electron
ics. Lieut. William Kent is acting
as an instructor in an officer’s
candidate school in Miami, Flor
ida. The third and youngest of the
brothers, Corporal John Lee Kent,
who was in school here from 1940-
42 is now in an officers training
school at Fort Benning and will
receive his commission there.
Fio Rito Signed
For Composite Ball
Ted Fio Rito has been engaged
to play for the Composite Regi
mental Ball on April 17. During
his stay at A. & M. he and his
band will live in the dormitories
as the guests of the regiment.
One of the unusual aspects of
Fio Rito’s coming is the fact that
he has invited any of the brass
men, that is trumpets or trom
bones in the Aggieland orchestra,
to sit in and play a few numbers
with the band. His reason for this
gesture is the fact tha,t he is al
ways interested in promising mu
sicians who are on the road up in
the field of dance music. Then
too he feels that this will also
help make the dance more inter
esting and bring it a little closer
home to those who are in attend
ance.
spoke of the tremendous task
which confronts many of the ex-
Aggies in the service and the mag
nificent way in which they are
meeting the duties imposed upon
them. He also pointed out that now
more than ever before A. & M.
will show to the world just what
that fighting Aggie spirit means.
The major point set forth in the
morning address was that some
politicians and some members of
labor and industry are holding back
the war effort by making excuses
for their inefficiency. “We don’t
want excuses, we want action,” said
Walton, as he referred to these
men as possible “Seventh Column
ists.” He suggested that the par
ents write to their congressmen
and senators and tell them to “Get
the job done, or get out and make
room for somebody who can.”
Saturday both the School of Ag
riculture and the Engineering
School had elaborate displays in
all departments in order to pro
vide for the visitors a sample of
the types of work done. Saturday
was the first time that Ag Day
and Engineers Day were consoli
dated. In the past the two schools
have selected different days dur
ing the second semester, but due
to the fact that there were thous-
US Army Air Corps
Announces Promotion
Of Royder & Johnson
The promotion of Captain Thom
as H. Royder to major and of First
Lieutenant Bernard G'. Johnson to
captain was announced this week
by the War Department.
Major Royder graduated from
A. & M. with a degree of bachelor
of science in Agriculture in 1926.
He is now on duty at Randolph
Field as commanding officer of
the 53rd School Squadron. »
Captain Johnson, who is now
Base Signal Officer at Will Rog
ers Field, Oklahoma City, gradu
ated here in 1937 in electrical en
gineering, after becoming Lieuten
ant Colonel in his senior year.
Formerly the Minister of Sup
plies in England and chief of pro
duction, Halifax has come to be
one of the most popular diplomats
ever to be sent to Washington.
He is reputed to be well versed
in the business of making friends,
and the suave Englishman has
gained great respect in diplomatic
circles in Washington.
Aside from being a statesman,
the viscount was formerly a lieu
tenant colonel in one of the Brit
ish regiments in India and at pres
ent holds an honorary colonelcy in
his old regiment. He holds degrees
from many of the outstanding
English universities, among them
Oxford’. Harvard and other Amer
ican colleges have bestowed hon
orary law degrees upon him.
Houston Mothers
Club Donates $50
To Reading Funds
The library has received a do
nation of fifty dollars from the
Houston A. & M. Mothers’ club
for the general reading fund. This
fund was created by the mothers
clubs throughout the states and
for the past four years books and
classical records have been fur
nished for the use of Aggies.
The books are selected by a
library committee of students and
through them the students are
able to make their choices of read
ing material.
ands of guests on the campus this
week end, an excellent turnout was
experienced by both shows.
Kadet Kapers and the Slipstick
Follies vied for first place in at
tendance at the early evening en
tertainment Saturday night. Both
Guion Hall and the Assembly Hall
were filled to capacity and the En
gineers put out the S.R.O. sign
during the early part of their pro
gram.
Following the two shows, Presi
dent and Mrs. Walton held an in
formal reception on the lawn of
the executive’s home and refresh
ments were served to parents and
friends of the cadets who attend
ed. During the evening the Concert
By Kieth Kirk
Zzzzz-splat-slosh — plink-don’t
get alarmed it isn’t a time bomb
that you hear but the two dough
nut machines in the Duncan Hall
bakery grinding out doughnuts for
the two mess halls at four a. m.
Every morning about that time
something is being made for the
corps to eat.
From taps til reveille they work
the whole night through. They
supply both dining halls with “gun
wadding” and “cush.”
Variety is the spice of life, and
with this in mind and the idea that
6000 men need something that is
nourishing and yet economical
enough for everyone, Emil
Schmidt, the head baker, sees to
it that no one gets “burned out”
on the bread and dessert he serves.
The various kinds of bread made
at the bakery in loaf form are
white, whole wheat, French, rais
in and rye bread. Then there are
white and whole wheat rolls, ham
burger buns, finger rolls, muffins,
City Election Is
To Be Held Today
In Mo Pac Station
Mayor Anderson To
Vacate in Anticipation
Of Going on Active Duty
Votes to fill seven offices of the
city of College Station will be cast
at the Missouri Pacific depot from
8 a.m. to 7 p.m. today. Candidates
for one of the offices are Ernest
Langford and E. L. Williams, who
are in the race for mayor.
Most of the offices of the city
will be filled at this election. That
of mayor is being vacated by Col
onel F. G'. Anderson in anticipa
tion of his being called into serv
ice by the army.
Five of the other offices to be
filled are five of the six places
on the city council, which has only
one of the present members, G. B.
Wilcox continuing in office. Can
didates for the positions are J. A.
Orr, T. A. Munson, T. W. Burns,
Lloyd Siriith, and W. D. Lloyd,
who run without opposition.
The seventh office is that of city
secretary, which is to be filled by
a write-in vote, as no candidate
filed for it before the deadline in
March.
Band, directed by Lt. Col. R. J.
Dunn, played classical and martial
music for the enjoyment of the
President’s guests.
Traditional Mother’s Day flow
er pinning ceremonies were held
at eight o’clock Easter morning
and presentations of best drilled
medals and other organizational
awards were made. At 10. a. m.
after presentation of regimental
and corps awards, the corps pass
ed in review as a salute to the
Mothers and Dads of all Aggies.
Reports from the subsistence de
partment disclosed that a total of
3469 guests partook of the turkey
dinner served in the mess halls.
See ACTIVITIES, Page 4)
doughnuts, fruited rolls and sweet
rolls. For dessert numerous var
ieties of fruit pies, meringue pies,
cookies, cakes (shortcake being a
favorite with the corps) puddings,
gelatin, cream puffs, and chocolate
eclairs are made.
The doughnut machines are by
no means the only educated mach
ines found in the bakery. A large
circular apparatus makes pies at
the rate of 480 an hour. Approx
imately 1250 pies are made for the
corps per meal.
Now one comes to the bread
making procedure. The whole pro
cess requires a total of seven hours
from the first mixing to the fin
ished loaf. First yeast, water, ice,
salt and milk are mixed together in
a mixer to form a sponge. From
the mixer the sponge is wheeled to
the fermentation room where it is
kept at exactly 78 degrees for four
hours. At the end of the four hours
the sponge is returned to the mix
er where more milk, flour and sugar
are added.
Basham’s Paper
Places First In
N A C A Contest
Jack Golden Gets
Special Mention For
Essay on Inventories
A paper submitted by Charles
Basham, senior accounting and
statistics student, entitled “Labor
Wage Systems” was recently se
lected as one of the winning pa
pers in a prize contest sponsored
by the Houston chapter of the Na
tional Association of Cost Ac
countants.
Jack E. Golden, also a senior
student in accounting and statis
tics was selected for special men
tion for his paper on “Last-In,
First-Out Inventory Basis.”
The contest was organized by
the Houston chapter this year, and
it plans to hold similar contests
each year. Accounting students
have been invited by the Houston
group to attend the meeting in
Houston April 15 when the win
ning papers will be presented.
Its membership is made up of
men from different professional
and industrial groups who are in
terested in the problems of indus
trial accounting. There are chap
ters in Houston and Dallas com
posing the Texas portion of the
36 in the United States. The asso
ciation has more than 9,000 mem
bers.
First Math Contest
Exams Are April 20
Preliminary examinations for
the freshman and sophomore
mathematics contests will be held
Monday, April 20, W. L. Porter,
head of the mathematics depart
ment announced Monday.
Three prizes are awarded in
each contest. The first and second
prizes in each contest are gold
watches, and third prize is $10.
In order to be eligible for the
sophomore contest, a sophomore
must be not .now be repeating a
sophomore mathematics course
nor have previously repeated such
a course. A freshman in order to
be eligible for the freshman con
test must not now be repeating a
freshman mathematics course nor,
have repeated such a course.
Donors of the prizes to be
awarded in the contests are first-
sophomore prize, J. Rutledge Hill,,
’13, Dallas; second sophomore
prize, Mathematics Department;
third place in the sophomore con
test, A. M. Waldrop, Jr., Bryan;
first and second freshman prize,
Robert F. Smith Award; and third
prize, freshman contest, Mathem
atics Club.
The well mixed dough is rolled
to the fermentation room for a
one hour siege. Terminating this
time the dough is hefted to a long
flat-topped table where it is cut
and weighed into fist-size balls.
These balls are placed on a wooden
shelved rack to be carried to the
moulder. Functioning as a carbon
dioxide, removing separating ma
chine, the molder leaves the dough
in cylindrical chunks about six
inches long. Here the baker twists
two of these rods together and
places them in each bread pan.
Now the bread pans are put in a
proof box, which is similar to the
fermentation room except the tem
perature is held at a different
level. An hour in the proof box
and the dough is ready for the
ovens.
Here are a couple of hot mach
ines. Each of the thermostatic
controlled ovens contains eight re
volving shelves which hold the
bread pans. Two little two-inch
(See BAKERS, Page 4)
Engagement Announced
Engagement of Miss Patricia Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Osborn S. Johnson of Bryan, to Captain C. G. Sory has been an
nounced. Captain Sory, an A. & M. graduate, is with the College
Military Department in the Field Artillery. The wedding will take
place on May 16.
Exes of ’92 Plan Golden Anniversary
For Aggie Homecoming this Weekend
Series of Activities Brings Large Crowd for Weekend
Life History of a Bun
Bakers Start Day at 4 am So
Toast Is Ready for Breakfast