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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 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. VOLUME 42 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 9, 1942. 2275 NUMBER 4 Model Aviation Week to Be Held Here June 22-27; Prizes for Flying Contests Cadets Asked To Report Right Time Marshall Requests Schedule Followed Closely as Possible Juniors reporting to the Assem bly Hall for completing enlistment in the Enlisted Reserve Corps have been asked by Major L. W. Mar shall, in charge of the enlisting to report at the regular period set aside for them. All Juniors taking Junior Mili tary Science are required to en list. The schedule for the remainder of the enlistment period follows: Tuesday, June 9 8:00-9:00 a.m. Chemical Warfare Service Juniors. 9:00-10:00 a.m. % Section 502, F.A. M.S. 303. 10:00-11:00 a.m. Voluntary. 11:00-12:00 a.m. Section 501, Signal Corps, M.S. 305. 1:00-3:00 p.m. Chemical War fare Service Juniors. 3:00-5:00 p.m. Coast Artillery Corps Juniors. Wednesday, June 10 8:00-9:00 a.m. Voluntary. 9:00-10:00 a.m. % Section 501, F.A., M.S. 303. 10:00-11:00 a.m. Voluntary. 11:00.-12:00 a.m. % Section 500, Signal Corps, M.S. 3'05. 1:00-3:00 p.m. Chemical War fare Service Juniors. 3:00-5:00 p.m. Coast Artillery Corps Juniors. Thursday, June 11 8:00-9:00 a.m. Voluntary 9:00-10:00 a.m. Section 502, F.A., M.S. 303. 10:00-11:00 a.m. Voluntary. 11:00-12:00 a.m. % Section 501, Signal Corps, M.S. 30'5. 1:00-3:00 p.m. Chemical War fare Service Juniors. 3:00-5:00 p.m. Coast Artillery Corps Juniors. Friday, June 12 8:00-9:00 a.m. Voluntary. 9:00-10:00 a.m. Voluntary. 10:00-11:00 a.m. Voluntary. 11:00-12:00 a.m. % Section 500, Cavalry, M.S. 307. 1:00-5:00 p.m. All who failed to appear when scheduled. Saturday, June 13 8:00-12:00 a.m. All who failed to appear when scheduled. Monday, June 15 8:00-11:00 a.m. Voluntary. 11:00-12:00 a.m. Section, 500, Cavalry, M.S. 307. 1:00-5:00 p.m. All who failed to appear when scheduled. Model airplane enthusiasts will play a large role in Texas Avia tion Week meetings here June 22- 27, with several lectures and a series of cash contests arranged by Texas A. & M. College for visiting miniature plane-builders. Dr. Howard W. Barlow, head of the department of aeronautical engineering at Texas A. & M. College, has made arrangements for model-builders to be housed in student dormitories here during Aviation Week. Younger entrants in the model contests will be charged only for meals in the college mess-hall, at 35 cents per meal, while adult participants will be housed in a special dormitory for $3 daily, in cluding meals. “There is no age limit in the contests Friday and Saturday of Texas Aviation Week,” Dr. Bar- low said, and continued: “With the national model plane contest at Chicago cancelled be cause of the war, we hope to pre sent a contest here which will give Texas builders a chance for real competition. “In addition, lectures and dem onstrations which will be presented on the subject are well worth the time of any real model-plane en thusiast.” The model-builder schedule opens at 9 o’clock Wednesday, June 24, when airplane model instruction will be given throughout the day by various authorities. On Thursday morning Ed Burg- dorf of Houston, president of the Southwest Gas Model association, will serve as chairman at a model building session. The chief topic of discussion will be on deveolp- ment of airplane model clubs. Thursday afternoon, under the chairmanship of Chris Groneman, of the industrial education depart ment, instruction on model build ing will be held, with demontsra- tions. Friday morning brings the first of seven model contests, which will be held under American Model Welton Bunger In Training At Quantico Still another Texas A. & M. man has heeded the call of Uncle Sam’s fighting Leathernecks—Welton H. Bunger, Jr., has reported for of ficers’ training at the Marine Barracks in Quantico, Va., it was learned here today. Upon success fully completing a 10-weeks train ing course he will be commission ed a second lieutenant in the U. S. Marine Corps. association rules in junior, senior and open classes. The prize list totals $600. The first contest is for scale models, which will be judged for exactitude in scale dimensions and excellence of craftsmanship. First prize in each class is $10, ranging down to an eighth prize of $1. The remainder of the program is made up of flying contests. Fri day afternoon will bring indoor and outdoor rubber-powered model contests, with the prizes the same as for the scale models. The chief contest, for gas mod els, is scheduled for 9 o’clock Sat urday morning. Here the awards range from a $30 first prize in each class to a $1 fifteenth prize. Following the big gas model event will be the beauty gas model, stunt gas model and G Line gas model contests, each with a $10 first prize. There are no entry fees. ASCE Officials To Be Elected At Thursday Meeting All Civil Engineering Student’s Eligible to Join Regardless of Classification The Texas A. & M. Student Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers will open its activities for the summer session at which officers for the year will at which officers fo rthe year will be elected, J. C. Denney, president of the chapter, announced. The chapter is one of the oldest engineering societies on the cam pus, and is also one of the largest, despite the fact that the civil en gineering enrollment is much smaller than that in some of the other courses. The only require ment for membership in the so ciety is that the candidate be en rolled in school as a civil engineer ing student, and no restrictions are placed on freshmen members. Dues are $1 every two semesters; these dues entitle a member to at tend any function of the chapter or of tke parent society, to par ticipate in any activity of the chapter, and give him access to the various publications of the society. The club was active in campus affairs last year, and Denny plans even more activities for this year. Present plans include several bar becues, trips to the state conven tions, a trip to the national con vention, the presentation of sev- (See ASCE, Page 4) L D Boone, Student Activities Head, Replaces Joe Skiles By Doug Lancaster There’s a new man on the cam pus that not only the “fish,” but every Aggie, faculty member, prof, and member of the College Station population will want to meet. His name is L. D. Boone, and his hometown is Houston, but, although he has been here only two weeks, he is not “Fish” Boone. He is the acting manager of the Student Activities, taking the place of Joe Skiles, who accepted an officer’s commission and enter ed the army last month. Boone grew up in Fort Worth and later moved to Dallas, where he graduated from high school. He entered Rice Institute in 1932. During his college career, Boone was President of the Student As sociation, which has charge of all Agronomy Society First Meet Thursday The Agronomy Society will have its first meeting of the year Thursday night at 7:30 o’clock in the lecture room of the Agricul tural Engineering building. All old members are urged to be at this meeting, and all freshman agron omy majors are invited to be there. R. C. Potts, instructor in agron omy, will tell about the cotton tour just completed during the two weeks school was in recess. Plans for the coming year will also be discussed. social activities; he also served on the Hall Committee, an organiza tion designed to keep order in the halls. Another activity that kept him busy was his being business manager of the year book. After graduating from Rice in 1936, Boone accepted a position with the Goodrich firm, where he worked for three years in the sales and accounting department. He then transferred to the Bur roughs Adding Machine Company, where he worked in the sales and installation department. L. D. Boone, director of Stu dent Activities. “During the two weeks I have been here,” stated Boone, “I have found a very pleasant place to live. I know I will have a pleasant stay here at College Station. Ev eryone! has been very co-operative in every way possible. In my con tacts with the A. & M. boys I be lieve I have found there are no finer men than right here at Tex as A. & M. “The Student Activities is an organization open to all the Ag gies, and I hope they will take advantage of the facilities it of fers. Please feel free to come around to the office anytime, and I will be glad to talk over any thing concerning student activi ties or problems about them.” Boone has been here only a short time, but he is fast learning the ways and traditions of A. & M. which mould the character of every Aggie. Sergeant Thomas Made Staff Sergeant Sergeant Malcolm E. Thomas, sergeant-major of the military de partment, has been raised to the grade of staff sergeant, according to an announcement from head quarters of the Eighth Corps Area at Fort Sam Houston. Sergeant Thomas works in the adjutant's office in the military de partment. Coach Norton Receives Trophy Coach Homer H. Norton receives a trophy at College Night from Mike Haikin, sports editor of The Battalion, as a token of esteem from the corps of cadets hi appreciation of the work that he has done in winning three consecutive Southwest Conference Champ ionships in football for A. & M. If You Fail to Get a Copy Of The Batt, It Can Be Remedied If you fail to get your Battalion some of these mornings after an invigorating ten minutes of calis thenics, do not come running over to the Batt office with the inten tion of getting one or else! Re member, with only about 5000 copies to deliver three times week ly, Fletcher Asbury, Jr., circula tion manager of The Battalion, and the circulation staff have their hands full getting things organ ized. The first thing to do is to write your name and room number on Baptist Students Go to Conference Five Aggies left College Station yesterday to attend the annual South-wide Baptist Student Con ference at Ridgecrest, North Caro lina, to be held June 10-19. They were accompanied by Rev. and Mrs. R. L. Brown, pastor of the First Baptist Church of College Station. Aggies making the trip are Lewis Eberspacher, Charles Barn es, Oran Jones, Bob Wright and Garnet White. The conference is a gathering of Baptist college students from colleges in the entire South. ^ Juke Box Prom Opens Summer Program Last Saturday Night Saturday night marked the be ginning of the summer social sea son as the corps enjoyed the pop ular recordings of the Juke Box Prom. The popularity of this type of dance was proved by the large number of Aggies who attended. One problem the Juke Box Proms brought to the attention of those who attended was that of too many stags in proportion to the number of girls present. While the problem is yet to be solved, Social Secretary Bobby Stephens and L. D. Boone, director of Stu dent Activities are working on a plan whereby the number of stags will be limited. One suggested plan was that each stag must accompany a couple. Stephens states that any suggestions that might aid in solving the problem will be ap preciated. Whether or not freshmen will be allowed to attend without dates is left entirely up to the respective organizations. The frequency of the Juke Box Proms will be de cided by the enthusiasm of the corps. the back of the Batt card you got when you registered and give it to your first sergeant. Then if you don’t get your Batt, see the car rier boy who delivers the paper in your dorm. He’ll straighten things out for you and see that you get a paper. If it becomes necessary to change your address, notify both the carrier boy* of your old ad dress and of your new address and you won’t miss a single copy. The same thing applies to the Battalion magazine and the En gineer and Agriculturist maga zines. The circulation department is trying to see that every one that paid for a paper and magazine gets it with as little delay as pos sible. Your co-operation is needed. Lutheran Students Install Colwick As This Year’s President The A. and M. Lutheran Stu dent’s Association installed its of ficers for the year at their first meeting of this semester Sunday night. The following officers were installed after having been elected at the close of last semes ter: Rex Colwick, president; Ray mond Velinder, vice-president; and Raymond Eisenhauser, secretary- treasurer. The association works with the American Lutheran Church of Col lege Station under the direction of the Reverend Kurt Hartmann, and is a local branch of the Gulf States Region of the Lutheran Student’s Association of America. The purpose of the LSAA is to stimulate and sustain students in using the Bible, in regular church attendance, and frequent reception of Holy Communion. The national association was organized in 1922 and is celebrating its 20th anni versary this year. Crytography Club To Meet Tonight All students interested in cryp tography are urged to be present at the initial meeting of the crypt ography club tonight at 7:15 o’clock in room 213 of the Academic Build ing, according to Harry Kidd, pro fessor in the English department. The initial meeting tonight will in all probability determine the advisability of having the club function this summer as it has in the past, Kidd said. Final Arrangements For Longhorn Publication Made Class Section Photographs to Be Taken Starting June 15; Infantry Seniors First Jenkins Searching For Aggies With Dramatic Or Musical Abilities If you can sing, act, dance, play an instrument, or do anything in an entertainment way, Richard Jenkins, director of the Singing Cadets, is looking for you at his office in the Assembly Hall any day from 5 until 6 or from 7 until 8 o’clock. He will be glad to enroll you in the Singing Cadets or book you to appear on Kadet Kapers some Sat urday evening. It will be an ex cellent opportunity for you to im prove you latent abilities and help the campus entertainment program no end. Ring Committee Decides to Keep Old Crown Design Further Investigations To Be Made In Improving Design for Future Classes After careful consideration at a meeting held yesterday the sen ior ring committee decided not to accept the new style which had been proposed. It was believed by the members that the proposed changes would not help in keeping the ring from wearing. Those students who have order ed the new style ring for delivery July 1 will receive the old style ring if they don’t go to the reg istrar’s office and notify them that they do not desire an old style ring. Further investigations will be made, however, and work will con tinue on improving the ring for future classes. College Community Chest Contributes $1050 to USD Fund The College Station Community Chest, through whose offices con tributions to all charity, relief, and civic organizations are made, in its meeting last Friday night author ized a contribution of $1050 to the Brazos County United Service Or ganizations Fund, Dr. C. H. Wink ler, chairman, stated. A drive is on this week to reach the Brazos county quota of this nation-wide drive for funds to pro vide entertainment for the men in the armed services. ► Final arrangements for publica tion of the 1942 Longhorn have been made in spite of difficulties in obtaining printing and engrav ing materials, Johnny Longley, editor of the annual, announced Monday. The first meeting of the staff for this year will be held Thurs day evening at 7:30 o’clock in the Longhorn office in the base ment of the Administration build ing. Longley asked that that any one interested in working on the yearbook come to the meeting so that the staff can be organized. Pictures for the class sections this year will be taken according to classes and organizations. The schedule for pictures for the sen iors section will start with the Infantry Regiment on June 15. June 15-22 Infantry Regiment. June 23-29 Engineer Regiment. June 30-July 6 Cavalry Regiment July 7-13 Field Artillery Regi ment. July 14-20 Coast Artillery Regi ment. July 21-27 Composite Regiment. Anyone having random snap shots of the campus may turn them in at the Longhorn office. These pictures of the campus enhance the attractiveness of the annual greatly and any that are contri buted to the Longhorn will be ap preciated, Longley stated. Members of the classes ( who wish to use their last years class section picture may use them this year by going to the Aggieland Studio and arranging for the pic ture, Longley added. It should be done according to schedule. Horticultural Students Organize Summer Activities The Horticultural Society of Texas A. & M. met Thursday eve ning for the purpose of discussing plans for their activities during the coming year. Plans were discussed for a club house to be built on the horticul ture farm, a summer horticulture show featuring varieties of figs, peaches, plums, and grapes, and other fruits and vegetables. The show will be conducted by horticul ture seniors. Two members of the horticul ture Society will present an open forum at the club’s next meeting for discussion by the other mem bers. Benito Canales, graduate of the School of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry of Saltillo, Mexico, is one of the newest members of the society. Canales is at A. & M. for the purpose of taking graduate work in fruit and vegetable prod ucts. Radio Station WTA W’s Work Has Gained Wide Recognition By Tom Journeay “This program has come to you from College Station” are words familiar to listeners all over the state of Texas as well as to many listeners in other parts of the country. When those words are heard on any of the networks, it’s a sign that the production staff of WTAW, the A. & M. College radio station, is on the job. WTAW operates on 1150 kc. with 1,000 watts of power on a limited time basis only. The station’s fa cilities are used for making near ly all the “pick-ups” for networks when broadcasts are originated from the college as well as for the daily program put out over WTAW’s own transmitter. At 11:25 each week day an op erator at the transmitter throws WTAW’s carrier on the air for a 35-minute show. This daily broad cast features some of the best transcribed features obtainable, a recorded portion of popular music, and a five minute newesast with the news of Bryan and College Station and the college news as re ported by a member of The Bat talion staff. One of the most popular pro grams offered by WTAW is the Aggie Clambake, heard on Friday afternoon at 4:30. This program is just what its name implies—a clambake — where anything can happen—and usually does happen! The program features such stellar performers in this vicinity as the Werewolfs of the North Gate, pop ular swing five that gives out with music (after a fashion) that the Aggies seenl to like immensely. An invitation is offered to any who think that they may have tal ent in any of the several branches of radio broadcasting to come to the studios for an audition, ac cording to John Rosser, managing director of WTAW. There is an opportunity to gain much valuable experience by doing announcing, dramatic, musical or technical work on the station if at least some previous experience has been had.