Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1942)
» DIAL 4-5444 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION The Battalion DIAL 4-5444 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION IS ADMINISTRATION BLDG. VOLUME 41 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 16, 1942 2275 NUMBER 84 Gofer Elected Editor & Chalmers Head Yell Leader Halifax Fails ToMakeTrip; Weather Bad i Viscount Had Tea ! Date in Austin; Review Cancelled Lord Halifax was unable to visit the campus yesterday because of uncertain weather conditions. A storm was in progress between here and San Antonio and flight authorities advised against his making the trip by air which was the only means of transportation which would enable him to keep to his schedule as he was to be in Austin yesterday afternoon to at tend a tea given for him by Dr. Homer Rainey, president of Texas university. Because Lord Halifax would be unable to make the trip, the re view originally scheduled for Wed nesday was called off. Lord Hali fax, formerly minister of supplies in England and chief of produc tion, is spending his vacation at the King Ranch as guest of Bob Kleberg. In addition to being a states man, the viscount was formerly a lieutenant colonel in one of the British regiments in India and at present holds an honorary col onelcy in his old regiment. Several American colleges have awarded him honorary degrees in addition to the degrees awarded him by many English universities includ ing Oxford. Cotton Pageant Ducats Go on Sale In Agronomy Dept Tickets are now on sale for the Cotton Pageant in Room 300 Ag riculture Building in the Agron omy office. Reserved seat tickets are 50 cents and general admis sion tickets are 35 cents. Tickets to the Cotton Ball will be sold only at the door of the old mess hall. The Cotton Pageant will be held in Guion Hall instead of Sbisa Hall as was previously announced. Agronomy students who want tickets to the pageant to sell in the dormitories can get them from Mrs. Osborn S. Johnson in the Agronomy office. Politicians in Action Senior Class Valedictorian Chosen Tomorrow Ballotting All Day; Selection to Be Made From Ten Highest Men Balloting for valedictorian of the senior class will be held Fri day, April 17, in the rotunda of the Academic building between the hours of 8 a.m. to 12 noon, and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Selection of vale dictorian will be made from the 10 seniors having the highest grade point averages for their four years in college. Seniors ranking highest and who will be voted on follow, with their grade point averages: Above are the candidates in Tuesday’s general election. In the first row at the uper left hand cor ner are J. C. Denney, Bland Harrison, Ken Bresnen, Ted O’Leary, Chuck Chalmers and Brooks Cofer. Second row: Kieth Kirk, Sid Smith, Bill McKenzie, Marvin McMillan and J. B. Booth. Upper right: Brooks Cofer, Editor-elect, in action. Lower left: Chalmers expounds. Lower right: Skeen Staley, Head Yell Leader, leads the corps for the last time. —Photo by Sterizel Composite Regiment Dances to Sky Lined Saturday Music of Ted Fio Rito Tomorrow Night Soph Cattle Judges Match Skill Saturday Beginning at 8 o’clock Saturday morning the annual Sophomore Students Cattle Judging contest will be held at the dairy barn, it was announced by A. L. Darnell, professor of dairy husbandry. Eligible to compete in the con test are all agricultural students who have taken the course in Dairy Husbandry 202 this year. Orchestra Engaged For One Night Only Pearce Plays Sat Featuring Ted Fio Rito and his orchestra, the Signal and Chemical Warfare battalions will honor the seniors of their regiment at the fifth annual composite regimental ball this Friday night. Tentative plans for the dance indicate that the ball will be another successful entertainment for the composite boys an dtheir dates. The orchestra committee of J. A. Baird, v A. R. Campbell, S. W. Menczer and B. B. Pyeatt has en gaged Ted Fio Rito and his “Sky Lined Music” for the dance, but the Aggieland Orchestra will play for the corps dance the next night. One of the most famous maestri in the history of music, Ted is equally famous as a composer, having written over 85 hit tunes including “Now I L^y Me Down to Dream,” “Laugh, Clown, Laugh” and “Charley My Boy.” He and his orchestra recently com pleted a highly popular engage ment at the Blackhawk Restaur ant in Chicago, during which they started their latest radio' program for Mars Candy over NBC. Among other hotels and night clubs at which Ted and his orches tra have appeared are the Hotel New Yorker, Coconut Grove in Decorations Include Colored Lights On Revolving Glass Ball Decorations for the dance will be a large ball which has mirrors on it of different colors. Lights play on the ball as it revolves and a colorful effect is obtained. The decorations committee is composed of Ebensberger, Eb^nsberger, Hartmen, Massey, Ridenour and Smith. Other committees for the dance are the finance and invitations committees. William Bever and D. S. Landon are in charge of the finances, and Brandon, Burks, Cain and Wilkinson are in charge of the invitations. Los Angeles and the Palmer House in Chicago. Besides his “Skylined Music” Ted features “Candy” Can- dido, “The little man with a thous and voices,” and “The Three Chicks” and their “Power-diving Trombones.” Betty Grable was formerly a vocalist with Ted be fore she became an attraction to the movie magnates. Programs of white pig skin with maroon tassles will be given. Also, included in the program will be a list of the class of '42 of each battalion. W. M. Adkisson and D. G’. Griffin make up the committee responsible for the programs. Ag Journalism Students Attend Meet Eight students from the class in Agricultural Journalism taught by Dr. John Ashton attended the Southwestern Journalism Congress in Dallas April 8 through April 11. Students making the trip in cluded Jere A. Daniel, Glenn Mc- Gouirk, D. W- Michie, M. C. Pugh, E. H. Perry, E. C. Jones, C. W. Stafford, S. L. Shipman. Dr. John Ashton, W. C. Stone and Grady Elms accompanied the group as faculty representatives. Texas University Coeds Sing Classics and Popular Songs at Assembly Hall Before Cattlemen’s Ball Saddle, Sirloin And Kream, Kow Clubs To Be Entertained Highlighting the evening’s en tertainment for the Saddle and Sirloin and Kream and Kow Clubs will be a program in the Assem bly Hall Frioay night at 8 o’clock presenting the Texas university Girls’ Glee Club, which will be followed by the annual Cattle man’s Ball. Swing numbers, semi-classics, Mexican folk songs and specialty numbers will comprise the Glee Club’s program. Featured will be the girls’ quartet and Margaret Johnson, soloist. After the Assembly Hall pro gram the girls will be guests at the Cattlemen’s Ball to the music of the Prairie View Collegians. Texas University Girls’ Glee Club Tom S. Gillis 3.0000 Paul J. Wolfe 2.9803 Rufus B. Pearce 2.9436 George C. Sumner .... ....2.9428 Robert F. Keller 2.8527 Bradford Hardie ....2.7842 Roland Bing ....2,7730 Alton W. Sissom ....2.6423 Robert S. Crawford .. ....2.6198 Robert M. Warren .... ....2.6124 Only seniors wearing rings are eligible to vote. Dick Hervey, president of the senior class, urges all seniors to turn out so that a representative vote will be secured. Houston Quartet Another performance in the Ka- det Kapers series awaits Aggie land this Saturday night at 7:15 when Richard Jenkins, director of the Kapers, will present “The Houstonians,” which is the finest male quartet in this section of the country, according to Jenkins. Composing the quartet are Walter R. Jenkins, bass; Billy Triggs, baritone; Abner Lewis, Jr., second tenor and Lewis Brabelton Jr., first tenor, accompanied by Her bert Rohloff. Featuring music everyone knows, the program will be a prominent hour’s entertainment. “The Hous tonians,” all natives of Houston as their name implies, are widely known for their renditions of all types of melodies. The usual “Duke’s Mixture” of fun and frolic will also be on hand at the Assembly Hall Saturday night. Fifteen minutes of sing song, the contests, free cigars, love lessons, and just about any thing else the Aggies desire will be presented on the Kapers., “The Houstonians” are a must on any one’s entertainment list, and ca dets and guests are urged to come early and get a good seat for the evening’s hilarious activities. Denney - - Harrison Now In Runoff for Representative Smith Battles Thompson for Junior Rep On Student Activities Committee June 1 By Clyde C. Franklin Brooks Cofer and Chuck Chalmers were elected Editor of The Battalion and Head Yell Leader, respectively, at the student election held Tuesday in the Rotunda of the Acad emic Building. J. C. Denney is in the run off with Bland Harrison for the position of Senior Representative on the Student Activities Committee and Sid Smith is running with R. O. Thompson for Junior Representative on the Student Activities Committee. A run off is necessary since no candidate received a majority vote in the Junior and Senior Representative races. In the race for Battalion editor there were 1,016 votes cast with 436 going to Ken Bresnen and 580 to Cofer. Chal- won over Ted O’Leary re-'f- mers ceiving 825 votes to O’Leary’s 205 with 1,030 votes cast. Denney polled 437 votes to Har rison’s 397. Keith Kirk received 191 votes in 1,015 cast. Smith received 422 of 997 votes cast for Junior Representative and Thompson received 217. Lamar Haines polled 174 and Marvin Mc Millan 184. These votes were officially counted in the Corps Headquarters office in Ross Hall. Since there was not a majority vote in the Representatives races a runoff is Cofer necessary and will be held today from 8 a.m. until 12 noon and from 1 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. in the Ro tunda of the Academic Building. All students from freshmen to seniors will be eligible to vote and may vote by showing their Feb ruary registration receipts. Mem bers of the Student Elections Com mittee will officiate at the polls and votes will be counted after the election in the Corps Headquarters Office. The Election Committee urges every student to vote in this elec tion as only about 1,000 votes were cast in Tuesday’s election in spite of the fact that there are many more eligible voters than this. Vote early to avoid confusion. Singing Cadets Vocalize, Give Novelties on Town Hall Series By Ed Kingery The Singing Cadets, presented in their annual performance on Town Hall last Tuesday night, gave the corps and many residents of College Station an outstanding musical program. One hundred strong, the Cadets thrilled the au dience with their varied repertoire of songs old and new. Prominent on the hour and a half show were the renditions of “Loch Lomond,” “Blow, Trumpets, Blow,” “The Creation” and “This is my Country.” Opening with our national anthem, the Cadets con tinued with Gershwin’s “Strike Up the Band,” two Russian songs, negro spirituals and religious numbers, including “01’ Man Riv er” by Kern and the first three melodies mentioned above. During the intermission novelty and individual acts were present ed. Bernay Martin gave a tenor solo, the Mudcat Swingsters per formed, and Marion Lyle, the club’s pianist, as Madame Olga gave a highly humorous rendition of “The Kiss.” Continuing the regular program, the Cadets sang the “Battle of Jericho,” “All Day on the Prairie,” “Short’nin’ Bread,” two rounds, and closed with a group of patrio tic songs and the “Twelfth Man,” “Aggie War Hymn,” “Spirit of Aggieland” and “Taps.” Upholding the high level of last year’s Town Hall performance, the Singing Cadets proved their abil ity and talent on Tuesday night’s program. Boyd Raeburn Will Play for Juniors; Tickets Cost $1.50 Prom and Banquet To Be Held May 8; Favors Available Plans are rapidly nearing com pletion for the annual Junior Ban quet and Prom to be held Friday night, May 8 in Sbisa Hall, ac cording to Jack Miller, president of the Junior class. The music of Boyd Raeburn’s orchestra will be featured at the banquet, prom and the corps dance Saturday night. Tickets for the banquet and dance will be priced at $1.50 and will go on sale next week. Favors have already been ordered, but there will be a few extras avail able to juniors who did not order one. Committees working on arrange ments for the prom are as follows: finance, Eddie Jones; orchestra, John Longley; floor committee, Frank Litterst; programs and fav ors, Bill Black and Walter Card- well; tickets, Wade Keiser; deco rations, Earl Hartman, and ban quet, Frank Young. Boyd Raeburn’s orchestra is one of the newer bands to attain wide spread popularity. He played for the Composite Regiment Ball last year, and made quite a hit on the campus. Since that time Raeburn has been playing many of the more famous night spots and radio net works throughout the country, and he is recognized as one of the best of the up-and-coming young or chestras. Biology and Poultry Clubs View Films At Joint Meeting Tonight The Biology club will hold a joint meeting with the Poultry Science club tonight at which time a film on ovulation made at Kan sas State college will be shown. The making of this film caused the sacrifice of 25 hens. The pro cess of egg laying is shown step by step from the release of the yolk from the ovary into the ovi duct until the egg is laid. All inter ested in seeing this film are ex tended an invitation. The meeting will be held in the Biology Lec ture room of the Science Hall at 8:00 p. m. Press Club Banquet Is Next Wednesday Members of the A. & M. Press club will hold their annual ban quet Wednesday, April 22 at 6:30 p. m. in the annex of Sbisa Hall. At this meeting awards will be made to all editors and members, of the student publications staff. Ralph Criswell, president of the press club, will preside over the meeting to follow the banquet. President T. O. Walton has been asked to speak and Dean F. C. Bolton will make the awards. All editors will receive watches and all staff members will receive keys. A bronze key will be given to men who have served on the staff one year, a silver key for two years and a gold key for three years. Contributors to the editorial page will also be invited to attend the banquet. A complete list of those contributors and members of the staff will appear in a later issue of The Battalion. BayloFs Dean Jones To Speak at Banquet Dr. E. N. Jones, dean of Baylor university at Waco, and president elect of the College of Arts and Industries at Kingsville, will be the guest speaker at A. & M.’s spring banquet being held this year at Sbisa Hall on April 21. The banquet is an annual affair sponsored by the A. & M. Chapter of the American Association of University Professors and open to all who care to attend.