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DIAL 4-5444 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION The Battalion 0 DIAL 4-5444 OFFICIAL newspaper OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. VOLUME 42 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 9, 1942 2275 NUMBER 16 * Work Begins On Outdoor Dance Floor Bandstand Added To Original Plans; Sound Equipment Arrives Actual construction on the new dance pavilion will begin within the next few days it was revealed by Business Manager E. N. Holm- green. The time needed for con struction will be fifteen working days. “I think we can count on having it finished by the first of August,” stated E. L. Angell. The contract for construction has been let to Clarence Andrews of Bryan and the only thing needed to begin actual work is President Walton’s signature. Plans are now being drafted for the construction of the band stand which will be located on the west side of the dance floor next to the old highway. The bandstand will be built in three tiers so that the space underneath can be used for storage of chairs, public address equipment, and roller skating equipment. Space to be occupied by the dance slab is 10,000 square feet This is slightly more dancing space than is afforded by the old mess hall. It will be constructed of steel reinforced concrete resting on a six inch sand cushion. Cost of the pavilion will be $2,510. P, G. Nor ton, college architect, is in charge of construction. Public address equipment arriv ed yesterday at the Student Ac tivities office. L. D. Boone, direc tor of student activities, stated that it is the finest equipment ob tainable consisting of six twelve inch loud speakers, a microphone, and an amplifier, all costing around $350. Business Manager Holmgree.n stated that salvage material for building a fence around the pavil ion is being sought since priorities prevent the obtaining of new ma terials. Funds for the construction of the slab are being furnished Ly the Exchange store. This money is part of the $5,000 fund taken from the profits of the store which is being used for general student welfare. Holmgreen revealed that this is well over 75% of alfprofits made during the past year by the Exchange store. New War Training Courses Launched The national Engineering, Sci ence and Management Defense Training program has recognized the nation’s new international status and changed its name to Engineering, Science and Manage ment War Training, it was an nounced today by Prof. J. T. L. McNew, institutional representa tive at A&M. Plans are being made to launch a series of new ESMWT courses, designed to train thousands of war workers—a hairline distinc tion from former defense workers —in September and October, soon after completion of current ESMDT courses. Already on the new list are the following courses, open without tu ition to all with necessary quali fications: Camp Sanitation, to be taught at College Station; Map Drafting, at Houston, Galveston, San Antonio and Fort Worth; Surveying and Mapping, at Houston; Materials Inspection, at Houston, Galveston and Beaumont; Mechanics of Ma terials, at Houston and Galves ton; Engineering Application of Trigonometry, at Fort Worth; Structural Drafting, at Houston, Beaumont, Galveston; Camp and Emergency Sanitation, at Bay- town; Introduction to Principles of Accounting, at Houston, Galves ton, Beaumont; Personnel Admin istration, at Houston; Case Studies and Personnel Administration, at Houston. The new courses, for'the most part, will last 16 weeks. My, What Pretty Legs Anonymous Camera Fan Submits First Winning Shot “Fish” Anonymous, address un known, is winner of last week’s Longhorn Snapshot Contest, John Longley, Longhorn editor, an nounced today. The winning cam era fan chose not to submit his name along with the photo. The prize winning snapshot is shown above. Longley urged students to turn in all pictures that may be used in the Campus section of the Long horn. Each picture has an equal chance to appear in the Longhorn, and the best turned in each week will win a one dollar prize. In ad dition, the winning picture will appear in the Battalion each week with the name of the winner. The rules of the contest are simple. The pictures are to cover happenings and incidents connect ed with the campus and are to be judged by Howard Berry of the Texas Guayule Is Not Sufficient To Merit Processing A total of only 2500 short tons of guayule shrub, the nation’s only presently-known source of vege table rubber, exist in the Trans- Pecos region of Texas, the report of a joint A. & M.-U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture investigation shows. The report, released in entirety yesterday, reveals that the 2500 tons of guayule, some of it in al- most-inaccessible spots, would, if processed, make between 200-250 tons of rubber. This amount is considered negli gible in view of the needs of war industry, leading the field party to recommend that no processing plant be established in the Big Bend section of Texas “unless re ported huge amounts of guayule in adjacent Mexico be made avail able.” On the other hand, the A&M- USDA field group was impressed by accounts of a processing plant operated in Marathon up to 1926, and the possibilities of establish ing future guayule plantations in the Trans-Pecos region, only spot in the United States where the shrub grows wild. photographic laboratory of the Ex periment Station. The contest is open to all students except staff and commercial photographers. Any number of pictures may be entered by any contestant. The contestant should turn in a glossy finished picture for each entry. Do not turn in negatives, as they can not be used and will be returned. Deadline for each week’s contest is noon Saturday. Pictures may be placed in the old and new “Y” for this purpose or may be turned in at the Student Activities Office in the Administration Building. En tries should be placed in an en velope and the name and address of the contestant placed on the outside. The decision of the judges is final and all picurtes submitted become the property of the Long horn. In case of ties, duplicate prizes will be awarded. Oil Up Your Wits; Here’s A Chance To Make Foolishness Pay Kadet Kapers will be run Sat urday night completely on the “Truth or Consequence” plan on the “Dr. I. Q.” idea, it was an nounced by Director Richard Jen kins today. It will be entirely an audience participation program with about $20.00 as prizes for the winners. Cigars will also be given as prizes to contestants. Winners must then do a trick or act of their own choosing or one of Jenkins choosing. An addi tional prize will be given to the person having the best act. The Kapers will be held as usual in the Assembly Hall and will start at 7 p.m. Merit System Exams Are Saturday at 9 am Examinations in connection with the positions offered by the Texas Merit System will be held July 11, starting at-9 a.m. All persons who have signed for the examination are to report to Guion Hall. All such tests given by the council are held at College Station at intervals in proportion with po sitions open at the time. Those who want further, information may write to the Texas Merit System Council in Austin or to the Rural Sociology department at the col lege. Orrick Defeats Mertz, Oakley for Soph Presidency Wyrick Becomes Vice-yexy Garrett Is Secretary As Thrash Is Made Treasurer Wednesday night, the sophomore class held a meeting in the Assem bly Hall to elect officers for the year. Jack Orrick, Beaumont, was chosen as president, defeating Marty Mertz and Bill Oakley in a fairly close election. Among those running for vice- president were Bill Armstrong, Marshall Gray, Ed Saper, G. B. Wyrick and Jack Willoughby. Wy rick, of San Antonio, was elected, and Bob Garrett, Fort Worth, was made secretary. Other officers were elected as follows: treasurer, Charlie Thrash, Beaumont; historian, Bob Forrest, Olney, 111.; and Harry Zeller and Gordon Brin as social welfare rep resentatives. The meeting was the most or derly one that has been held by any class in some time. The meet ing had to be called down once or twice, but on the whole it was well carried out. There was no other business carried on at the meeting as time was short and nothing was pressing for consideration. Amateur Show Entries Must Be Turned in Today Program Follows Yell Practice; Pie Eating Contest Held for Fish Final plans for the amateur show tomorrow were announced yesterday by J. E. Loupot, spon sor of the show. Those students who wish to participate must have their forms filled out in time for their first sergeants to turn them in before the deadline at 5 p.m. today. The program will begin with the band and yell leaders .taking part. Chuck Chalmers and Ted O’Leary will act as masters of ceremonies, asking questions on the quiz program and introducing the acts on the amateur program. Sophomores who wish to turn in questions to be used on the pro gram may do so by giving them to their top sergeants to be turned in at the commandant’s office. The Aggieland Inn is donating pies to be used in a pie eating contest in which one freshman from each organization will be al lowed to enter. The show will begin as soon as possible after mess Friday night so as to allow as much time as possible without interfering with Call to Quarters. The sponsor asks everyone to come out and make the program as big a success as possible, and other merchants are encouraged to contribute in every way possible to the show. Rural Women Rush First Aid Training Rural women of Texas are tak ing first aid and home nursing courses as rapidly as instructors can be procured, according to Hel en H. Swift, sociologist of the A. & M. Extension Service. The cour ses are sponsored by the 2,200 home demonstration clubs of Tex as. Courses are open to neighbors and friends as a wartime service. In one county alone it was re ported that 1,450 women had re ceived instruction and in another at least one member in seventy- five percent of the families of the county have studied first aid. Club mepabership has increased as a re sult of this work in many in stances, it is reported. Other ac tivities of rural club women in clude such things as keeping in touch with boys in the armed for ces and sponsoring and cooperat ing in community school lunch pro grams, according to Miss Swift. FamousExes Address Corpsjsecond Me Box In Kyle Field Stadium atll gf Classes Dismissed So That Cadets March to Assembly to Hear Experiences Lt. Col. John A. Hilger, ’32, who was second-in-command on Doolittle’s bombing mission to Toyko and Ensign George H. Gay, ’40, who sank a Japanese aircraft carrier and re mained afloat on a rubber life raft for many hours, will visit A. & M. Saturday morning. They will speak before the cadet corps on Kyle Field at 11 a.m. Classes will be dis missed, and the cadet corps will march to Kyle Field so that they may hear the two heroes. Lt. Col. Hilger will tell of his experiences in bombing Tokyo. They will arrive on the campus about 10 o’clock and will be the guests of their old organizations while on the Aggie Show Plays Over Network From Guion Hall Tonight Swing, Band Music, Singing Cadets Will Be Broadcas at 7:15 “The Aggie Show,” a network program produced by the WTAW production staff, featuring the A. & M. Band, the Singing Cadets and the Aggieland Orchestra, will be presented from the stage of Guion hall tonight at 7:15, states John Rosser, WTAW production director. The stations of the Texas State Network, one of the largest re gional networks, carries this pro gram every Thursday night from A. & M. Tonight’s program will feature the Singing Cadets under the di rection of Richard W. Jenkins and the “Five Werewolves from the North Gate” in a half hour broad cast designed to introduce listen ers to the Texas Aggies. The motion picture at Guion Hall will not start until. 7:45 to night because of the broadcast. The whole corps is invited to at tend the program, according to Rosser. Hanks Addresses Accounting Society About ArmySystem Captain Lester Hanks, senior in structor in the Quartermaster unit, was guest speaker at a meet ing of the' Accounting Society Tuesday night. The subject of Hanks’ talk was “A Comparison of Accounting Systems Used in the Quartermaster Corps With Those Used in Civilian Business.” “As the main function of the Quartermaster Corps is that of supplying other branches of the army, the Quartermaster Corps has evolved special systems of ac counting ‘tailor-made’ for each sub-function of supply, for exam ple purchase, storage, transporta tion and distribution,” Captain Hanks said. Main differences brought out and discussed between civilian and Q.M.C. accounting were: 1) Essentially, civilian account ing practice is concerned with monetary amounts of financial transactions whereas the Q.M.C. is largely concerned with unit am ounts in its Property-Supply ac counting system. Civilian account ants are interested in Profit and Loss while men performing ac counting functions in the Q.M.C. are interested in ascertaining that each unit of public property is ac counted for through each stage of supply from purchase to final dis tribution. 2) Sales-commissary and fiscal accounting systems, the other two systems used in the Q.M.C., have much in common with civilian ac counting systems even though no financial statements are made in the Quartermaster system. The system of internal check is not as complicated, yet is quite as effec tive, as that of civilian accounting. No periodic depreciation changes are made under the Q.M.C. system. Hanks also discussed operation of the Q.M.C. depot systems and operation of post exchanges. campus. Both Hilger and Gay were students in mechanical en gineering while at A. & M. Hil ger was in B Infantry which is the old company of Gen. George F. Moore and Jesse L. Easter- wood. Gay was in A Battery, Coast Artillery. After addressing the corps, the two will eat in the mess halls with the members of their old organizations. For a few hours after dinner, the boys in their old outfits will escort them about the campus. They will leave together some time during the afternoon. Lt. Col. Hilger An indication of the spirit of these two men was revealed by business manager E. N. Holm- green. President Walton had in vited them to A. & M. as guests of the college but they turned him down saying that they would rather visit with their old compan ies than to be entertained with official banquets. E. L. Angell, executive assis tant to the president, stated that the Navy would be invited to at tend the affair on Kyle Field Sat urday morning. Hilger bombed Tokyo three months ago. It was a vengeance flight because a month earlier the Navy announced the loss of his younger brother off the Java coast. He was graduated from A. & M. in 1932 and received his degree in mechanical engineering. After graduation, he received his wings from Randolph Field in 1934 and has been in the U. S. Air Corps on active service since that time. He is married and Mrs. Hil ger and their two-year-old daugh ter are now living in South Caro lina. Hilger received the Distin guished Service Cross and a pro motion for his flight over Tokyo. (See HILGER, Page 4) Use of Main Dining Hall Makes for Better Sound; Cooler Dancing Continuing the summer social season, Social Secretary Bobby Stephens has arranged for the second Juke Box Prom to take place Saturday at 9 p.m. Half of the main dining room of Sbisa Hall will be used to accommodate the dancers instead of the annex as in the past. Use of the main hall will afford more room and cooler dancing for the large crowd which is expected. Acoustics are also better in the main hall than in the annex. Admission will be 35 cents which will cover cost of space and rent of the sound equipment. The dance will be informal and last until mid night. Baptists Hold Three Dedication Services Sunday Outstanding Leaders Expected as Member^. Officially Open Church The new church building of the First Baptist Church in College Station will be dedicated on Sun day, July 12. Three services are being planned for the day. A num ber of outstanding Baptist leaders have accepted invitations to attend these services and participate in the dedication ceremonies. The new building was made pos sible by a donation from the Exe cutive Board of the Baptist Gen eral Convention of Texas and a loan negotiated by the Board. Fur niture and equipment have been furnished from a fund contributed by the members of the local con gregation, Baptist students, ex students and friends. Included in those who have ac cepted invitations to nttend the dedication ceremonies are Dr. W. W. Melton, executive secretary of the State Board; A. D. Foreman, president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas; R. A. Spring er, state treasurer, and Reverend J. W. Bill Marshall, state student secretary. The old church has been moved and reconditioned and is used for educational and recreational pur poses. The new church was opened for services on February 22 and the new furniture and equipment for the first time on June 7. Church Preferences Expressed in Survey More than half of the student body at A. & M. have expressed denominational preference for the Methodist and Baptist churches, it was revealed today by J. Gordon Gay, associate secretary of the college Y.M.C.A. Of the student body of 5,314, a total of 1,440 expressed preference for the Methodist church, and 1,- 313 for the Baptist. No cards were turned in to the Y.M.C.A. by 213, and 202 others showed no prefer ence for any creed. The tabulation of preferences: Methodist 1,440, Baptist 1,313, Presbyterian 570, Catholic 539, Episcopalian 344, Christian 260, Church of Christ 208, Lutheran 152, Jewish 144, Christian Science 57, Congregational 10, Greek Or thodox 10, Latter-Day Saints 8, Reformed Evangelical 16, Evan gelical 8, Reformed 3, Assembly of GFod 2, Freewill Baptist 2, Unitarian 2, Church of God 3, Ad ventist 1, Czech-Moravian 1, Naz- arene 1, Pentecost 2, Protestant 2, Quaker 1. LONGHORN SCHEDULE July 7 to 13, Field Artillery Seniors. July 14 to 20, Coast Artil lery Seniors. July .21 to 27, Composite Regiment Seniors.