DIAL 4-5444
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
The
attalion
DIAL 4-5444
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
US ADMINISTRATION BLDG. VOLUME 41
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 7, 1942
2275
NUMBER 93
Students Will Vacate All Dorms Two Weeks
Seniors Get
Last Annuals
Today at Ten
Junior’s Longhorns
Out Late Thursday
And All Day Friday
Longhorns for 1942 will be is
sued to seniors today. The distri
bution will begin at 10 o’clock this
morning, at which time the seniors
who have received their cards may
get their annuals in the basement
of the Administration building.
Cards were returned to first ser
geants on Wednesday, and seniors
were to get their cards from them!.
Annuals will be distributed to
juniors and those seniors who have
not turned in their receipt^ late
Thursday and Friday all day. The
other two classes will receive their
Longhorns from the same place
beginning at noon on Monday, May
11. It is imperative that this
schedule be followed because of
the printer’s shipping schedule.
Anyone who has lost his receipt
will have to go by Room 126, Ad
ministration Building and identify
himself to receive his annual on
Wednesday, May 13.
Passes To Be Given
For Baseball Games
The Executive Committee
has authorized seniors, juniors
and sophomores who are not on
the deficient student list, and
who will miss no quizzes, to
obtain passes to attend the
baseball games in Austin Fri
day and Saturday, May 8 and
9. On presentation of the ap
proved pass to the instructor,
the absences are not to count
as cuts.
Dancing Trio
War Department to
Get Three Seniors
After Graduation
The War Department again has
reached into the ranks of A. & M.
and selected three of the gradu
ating class to be commissioned in
the regular army rather than in
the officers reserve corps.
Of the several nominated by
Col. M. D. Welty, professor of
military science and tactics and
commandant, Turney W. Leonard,
Dallas; John B. Hancock, Corpus
Christi; and Hughes Seewald,
Amarillo, were the ones selected.
At the same time the list of
alternates who may be commis
sioned in the regular army from
the Eighth Corps area included
two more Texas Aggies, with Jack
Taylor, Aspermont; and Cornelius
B. Marsh, Amarillo, ranking sec
ond and third on the list. In event
that any of the other principals
in the area fail to pass their ex
aminations or refuse the commis
sions, then these two will step up
into the vacancies.
Leonard will go into the Infan
try, Hancock and Taylor into the
Field Artillery; Seewald into the
Cavalry; Marsh into the Coast
Artillery Corps.
Eleven Defense
Training Courses
Offered by A &M
Eleven Defense Management
Courses are being sponsored by
the Accounting and Statistics De
partment of A. & M. in coopera
tion with the United States Office
of Education. Included in the
group are both basic and advanced
courses of accounting and statis
tics. Men already employed in bus
iness, some of whom are A. & M.
graduates, are the instructors of
most of the courses.
The primary purpose of the
courses is to provide practical
training in the fields of business
administration in which there are
known shortages of trained men
and women in defense industries.
All courses are of colleeg level and
are designed to improve the quali
fications of employees in defense
industries. Registration for the
courses was held last Monday and
Tuesday, May 4 and 5, at the San
Jacinto High School. Between 500
and 600 people, some already em
ployed in defense industries and
others preparing to enter, have
enrolled. Classes are to be taught
at night, beginning on Monday,
May 11, and Tuesday, May 12, and
will meet two nights of each week.
No tuition is charged; the only
expense being that each student
must furnish his own text book
for the course in which he is en
rolled. Persons applying must be
planning on going into defense in
dustry however.
Snapped in the dressing room after the Cotton Pageant May 1
is a picture of the tap dancers who appeared in the show. They
are Helen Jean Atwood, Mirabeau Schlosser and Ruth Anne
Doud. They are TSCW students who came down for the occasion
of the eleventh annual Cotton Pageant. —Photo by Phil Crown
Senior Identification
Now in Progress Here
All students who will receive
commissions at the end of the
present school year were reporting
Wednesday to the second floor of
Ross Hall for fingerprinting.
The fingerprinting is scheduled
to continue through May 12. The
remaining schedule follows:
Cavalry—Thursday, May 7.
Chemical Warfare—Thursday,
May 7.
Engineers—Friday, May 8.
Signal Corps—Friday, May 8.
Those due to attend camp —
Monday, May 11.
Dormitory Assignments
Announcement has been made by the commandant’s office
of organization dormitory assignments for the summer semester.
Units will be assigned to the following halls:
Signal Corps Dorm No. 1
Chemical Warfare Dorm No. 3
Infantry Dorms No. 5, 7, 9, first 2 floors 11
Infantry Band top 2 floors Dorm No. 11
Coast Artillery Bizzell, Hart, and Mitchell Halls
Cavalry Law and Puryear Halls
Field Artillery Dorms No. 14, 15, 17
Field Artillery Band top 2 floors Dorm No. 16
Ordnance first 2 floors Dorm No. 16
Quartermaster Corps , top 2 floors Leggett Hall
Engineers Walton and P. G. Halls
Students not taking the advanced course in Military Science
will be assigned to Goodwin, Foster, Milner, and the first two
floors of Leggett Hall. The third floor of Milner will be occupied
by graduate students and the fourth floor by classified five-
year men in a regular five-yeai* course.
Dormitories No. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 will be assigned to
sailors and marines taking special courses.
Aggies On Air
Beginning Thurs
On Texas Stations
First Performance Features
A&M Concert Band and The
Singing Cadets of Aggieland
Aggies will take to the air again
in their own radio program, “The
Aggie Show” over the Texas State
network, beginning Thursday
night. The first program in the
new series will be carried by the
network from 7:15 to 7:45 p. m.
The Aggie Show is expected to
be a regular Thursday evening fea
ture of the statewide network.
First performance will feature
the A. & M. College Concert Band
and the Singing Cadets. Tentative
plans call for at least one number
by the “Five Werewolves from the
North Gate,” the Clambake jive
ensemble.
President T. O. Walton will ad
dress the statewide audience, ex
plaining the speed-up plan and
urging high school graduates to
make their plans to come to A. &
M. this June 1.
The Texas State Network is
composed of about eighteen sta
tions throughout the state, and is
affiliated with the Mutual Broad
casting System. The stations us
ually audible in ollege Station are
KFJZ, Fort Worth; KTEM, Tem
ple; WRR, Dallas; and| sometimes
KNOW, Austin, and WACO, Waco.
Reception here will depend largely
upon atmospheric conditions, said
Rosser, program director of
WTAW.
Cadets To Store Property
In A H Pavilion for Period
Storage Costs Cut Approximately in Half
By Arrangement; No Insurance Available
All cadets will be moved out of dormitories for the two
weeks between semesters in order that all halls may be re
novated, according to a statement from the commandant’s
office.
Storage facilities for students’ belongings will be made
available at the A. H. Pavilion. The Student Labor Office is
in charge of storage. All property f-
will be stored at the students risk,
as no insurance will be available.
Belongings may be stored starting
May 16 at 8 a.m., and the Pavilion
will be open May 17 and possibly
May 18 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Property may be received May 30
and 31 and June 1 between the
same hours. Charges will be about
one half of previous charges for
the summer vacation.
All halls are to be completely
renovated during the off period.
This will include fumigation of
mattresses and springs and a thor
ough clean-up of all rooms.
Cavalry Regiment Jrs
Hold Private Party
Following the Junior Prom Fri
day night, the juniors of the Cav
alry regiment will hold a private
party at Maggie Parker’s Tea
Room in Bryan. It was announced
by the committee in charge that
the party will last from two ’til ?.
Fish Drawings
Awarded Prizes
In Recent Contest
Winners in the freshman Engin
eering Drawing Contest, sponsor
ed by the Department of Engin
eering Drawing, have been an
nounced. The competition was
open to all freshmen engineering
drawing students. Prizes awarded
to the first place winners in each
of the different classes were vari
ous pieces of drafting equipment.
First place in Class A, pencil
drawing made with instruments,
was won by W. A. Billington. P.
S. Tani was awarded second place
and third place went to T. L.
Pochyla.
(See DRAWING, Page 6)
KKK Plans Laid
For Semester
Beginning June 1
Roming President Roberts
Vice-President Kelsey
Secretary Next Year
Plans' for 1 the coming year were
made by the Kream and Kow Klub
at Monday night’s meeting. A. L.
Darnell, professor of dairy hus
bandry announced that juniors and
seniors will begin work for places
on the National Dairy Cattle
Judging team as soon as the new
semester gets under way. The na
tional contest will be held at Mem
phis, Tennessee, next October.
This is the first time that jun
iors have been allowed to compete
in the contest, but since they will
graduate under the new year
around plan, Darnell announced
that he thought it was fair that
they should have a chance to make
the team. Sophomores who wish
to compete as juniors next semes
ter should sign up for Dairy Hus
bandry 303 next semester to be
eligible, Darnell stated.
Officers who were elected at the
meeting were John Roming, presi
dent, George Roberts, vice presi
dent, Joe Kelsey, secretary and
treasurer, Wayne Irwin, social sec
retary, M. B. Carpenter, reporter
and Tommy Jones, parliamentar
ian.
Travel Schedule
And Cotton Tour
WinnersAnnounced
Winners of the annual Texas A.
& M. College travel-study cotton
fellowships have been announced
and four senior students and Pro
fessor R. C. Potts, of the college
agronomy department, will leave
for a three-week tour of Tennes
see, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas
and then into Mexico. They will
leave here on Friday, May 7 and
complete the tour about June 1.
Winners this year were Eugene
D. Wilmeth, Ebony; F. G. Collard,
Oglesby; G. C. McGourik, Ivan-
hoe; and B. A. Waddle. Greenville.
(See TOUR, Page 6)
Junior Class Holds Its Annual
Banqaet and Prom Friday Night
The junior class will hold its
annual banquet and dance Friday
night in Sbisa hall. The banquet is
scheduled to begin at 8 p.m., with
the dance following at 10 p.m.
Juniors will wear No. 1 uniform
with shoulder strap—no saber
chain—to the banquet, and No. 1
uniform or civilian clothes to the
dance. This has been the custom
in the past.
Upon arriving at the banquet
room, juniors will be ushered to
their respective organization
places. They will be ushered by
sophomores from each organiza
tion. Arrangements are being com
pleted to serve 650 juniors and
guests at the banquet.
Tickets may be purchased from
First Sergeants in all organiza
tions. One ticket is good for both
the banquet and the dance. The
cost is $1.50.
Guests of the junior class will
be President T. O. Walton, Colonel
M. D. Welty, Dean F. C. Bolton,
and many others.
Boyd Raeburn will furnish mu
sic for both the banquet and the
dance. As a high school student
in the South Dakota town where
he was born, Raeburn won four
Boyd Raeburn
letters in sports, graduated as
Valedictorian with the highest
grades ever received in the school
—and won several scholarships.
At the University of Chicago,
Raeburn participated in collegiate
athletic activity, but after injur
ing a finger as catcher on the var
sity baseball team turned to mu
sic, Boyd had studied piano from
the age of six and had also taken
up saxophone and clarinet.
Organizing his own orchestra in
his sophomore year at U.C., he re
ceived such interesting commercial
offers that he became a profes
sional band leader. “Rhythms by
Raeburn” is now a by-word in
ballrooms, hotels, and theatres
throughout the country.
Starred at the famous Chez
Paree in Chicago for a record-
breaking two and a half months,
the Raeburn crew has also been
featured at the following spots:
the Congress Hotel in Chicago;
the Nicollet in Minneapolis; the
Peabody in Memphis; and the
Muehlebach in Kansas City.
Oh! What a Man
After 66 Years of Continuous Effort A&M
W ill Soon Release Its 1st All "A ” Graduate
It took 66 years to turn out the
near impossible but at last Texas
A. & M. college will graduate a
straight A student with the class
of 1942.
Tom S. Gillis is his name and he
hails from Fort Worth where he
made another enviable record while
in high) school there. Few are the
honors he has missed here since
he entered as a freshman and
signed up for a course in Liberal
Arts and he will climax those four
years of scholarship by delivering
the valedictory at the commence
ment exercises in Kyle Field sta
dium the evening of May 15. In
-all of his four years he was classed
as a distinguished student.
This year 'Gillis served as cadet
colonel in command of the entire
cadet corps and had been elected
editor of The Battalion, student
newspaper, but under the rules
could not hold both jobs so he
gave up the editorship.
However, he was not entirely
idle in his senior year for he was
chairman, Student Aid Fund Com
mittee and of the Student Elec
tions Committee; was listed in
“Who’s Who in American Colleges
and Universities” in both 1941 and
1942; was vice-president of the
Press Club; was a member of the
Ross Volunteers, crack military
drill organization; was a member
of the Student Welfare Committee
Math English Banquet
Takes Place Tonight
Awards will be presented to the
winners of the mathematics and
English contests at a banquet to
be held in honor of the contestants
at Sbisa Hall tonight at 6:30.
Forty-seven students were enter
ed in the math contest while 17
participated in the English con
test. Eight students were entered
in both contests.
and a director of the Economics
club; a member of the Fort Worth
Club, and the Accounting Society.
Meanwhile he collected the Sons
of the American Revolution Medal
for soldierly bearing and general
excellence; the Scholarship Honor
Society Medal and the student with
the highest scholastic average in
his class, an honor he also won as
a junior.
As a junior he was vice-presi
dent of his class; was a junior
editor of The Battalion, of the
Battalion Magazine and of the Ag
riculturist Magazine. He was a
master sergeant and sergeant
major of /he cadet corps; ’won the
Daughters of the American Revo
lution Medal as the Honor Man
of the Junior Class; The Scholar
ship Honor Society as the rank
ing man scholastically of his class;
won the Coast Artillery Corps As
sociation Medal as the most pro
ficient junior in that branch of
Reserve Officers Ttraining Corps
at the college; served as secre
tary-treasurer of the Fort Worth
Club; member of the Press Club,
-was secretary of the Student Aid
Fund Committee; secretary of the
Student Elections Committee;
member of the Accounting So
ciety, the Ross Volunteers and di
rector of the Economics Club.
In his sophomore year he was
elected as the best drilled man in
“B” Battery Coast Artillery and
was a member of the Economics
United States Army Air Force
Offering Navigation Training
The Navigator, who must be
taller than five feet and less than
six feet four inches, weigh more
than 105 pounds and less than 200,
is the “brains behind the bomber.”
He plots the ships course to dis
tant objectives and determines its
position at all times.
Navigation schools of the U. S.
Army Air Force for aviation ca
dets offer an unusual opportunity
to secure an excellent mathemati
cal education.
Following 9 weeks of fundi-
mental training, the future navi
gator has 15 weeks of drilling at
a navigation school then 5 weeks
of gunnery. After 29 weeks train
ing he becomes a second lieuten
ant in the U. S. Air Force and
draws $245 a month unless he
lives on an army post. During the
training period he draws $75 a
month, $1.00 a day subsistence,
clothing, quarters, etc., and a $10,-
000 government life insurance
policy.
The U. S. Air Force Examining
Board is scheduled to be at A. &
M. May 13 and 14, and applicants
must bring three letters of recom
mendation and a birth certificate
or a reasonable proof of age.
If the applicant wishes to enlist
in the U. S. Air Force he* may do
so and will be called immediately
or if he wishes to enlist in the U.
S. Air Force Reserve and ask for
non-deferred duty he may do so
and will be called as soon as facili
ties are available.
College students who wish to
complete their education can en
list in the air force reserve on a
deferred status and will not be
called until their graduation or
withdrawal from school unless the
emergency is such that the Sec
retary of War must call all future
aviation cadets.
Club, the Fort Worth Club, the
Press Club and the Accounting
Society, and served as vice-presi
dent of his class.
Gillis expects to be called to du
ty as a second lieutenant imme
diately upon graduation and has
made no plans to accept any of
the many offers of positions which
have been made him.
The best previous record was
made by A. P. Rollins, Jr., of
Dallas, who graduated in 1939
with a grade point ratio of 2.98
out of a perfect 3.00, and had but
one B in his civil engineering
course. Lt. Rollins is now in the
U. S. Army.
Gillis’ actual grade point aver
age, including two extra grade
points for freshman physical edu
cation, is 3.014 but can’t be better
than perfect so 3.000 is official.
He is currently engaged in com
piling a student handbook and has
been excused from attending class
es during the last two weeks so
that he can do this job. He has
taken extra work every semester
since his freshman year until this
year when other activities took
too much time and he has had to
carry less than the normal load.
Nevertheless he will graduate in.
June with seven excess hours.
Maj Alexander Takes
Place of Lieutenant
As Ordnance Head
Major Donald D. Alexander,
senior instructor in Ordnance, ar
rived on the campus May 2 to
take over instruction of Ordnance
military students. He was former
ly stationed at Aberdeen Proving
Ground, Maryland.
Lt. U. M. Alexander, Field Ar
tillery, had been ordnance instruc
tor until the War Department
could designate a senior instructor.