DIAL 4-5444
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
The Battalion
DIAL 4-5444
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPEH
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG.
VOLUME 42
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 1, lp42
2275
NUMBER 26
Six Special Engineering
Research Units Started
Covers Aeronautical Engineering And
Marine Engineering Along WithOther Fields
Establishment of special research centers in six engi
neering fields is now under way at A. & M. in keeping with
the war program, Dean Gib Gilchrist, dean of the school of
Engineering, told the Kiwanis Club at their A. & M. lunch
eon at the Hotel Adolphus in Dallas Tuesday in his discus
sion of the future of engineering.
These centers are those of aeronautical engineering,
chemistry, highways and airport runways, marine engineer
ing and naval architecture, sanitary engineering and petrol
eum engineering.
The entire future of engineering both in Texas and in
^the nation, depends on the con-
Only Five Days
Left to Turn In
Dance Slab Name
With only five more days to
get entries into the dance slab
naming contest, entries continue
to pour into the Student Activities
Office.
Bobby Stephens, social secretary
of the senior class, urges everyone
with an idea for a name and who
has not already done so, to fill
in the entry blank with his selec
tion and turn it in as soon as
possible at room 126, Administra
tion building.
The winning name for the slab
will be announced at the opening
dance, Friday night, August 7.
Judges for the contest are Wal
ter Cardwell, cadet colonel; Brooks
Gofer, Battalion editor; John Long-,
ley, Longhorn editor; Dan R.
“Rocky” Sutherland, senior class
president; and Bobby Stephens.
Names received yesterday in
clude the “Heifer Ring”, “Hilger
Platform”, “Ag Arena”, “Cedar
Grove”, “Maroonstone Square”,
“Dance Lab”, “Tune Town”, “Star
light Ballroom”, “Aggiemat”, and
“The Slab.”
South Station Post
Office Moved From
Tennessee to Texas
If cadets in the old new area
haven’t been getting their due
share of the mails they can blame
it on the postal system belonging
to their uncle. However, all this
has been straightened out now as
a correction has just come through
official channels placing the South
Station of College Station bacjc in
Texas from Tennessee where it has
been in the Postal Guide since the
publication of the July, 1941 issue.
In case you wonder how the
move was accomplished or if you
have had your mail delayed don’t
blame the local post office clerks
or carriers as a look at the cur
rent * Postal Guide will show the
following:
18 College Stations, including
the one in Brazos County,
3 College Hills,
3 College Parks,
5 South Stations,
9 Oakwoods,
and 12 West Ends.
If you think this “ain’t con
fusin’ ” look at the numerous dif
ferent issues of stamps with which
the postal clerk must be familiar.
way
tinuance of our democratic
of life, said Gilchrist.
Aeronautical engineering start
ed two years ago, now has more
than 600 students enrolled in it.
A flight testing course is now an
elective and other progress along
this line includes the building of
an airport on the college property.
Gilchrist also told the Kiwanians
that of the 5,300 students enrolled
in the present semester some 2,759
are engineers. He also stated that
about 90 per cent of the spring
student body returned for the sum
mer semester.
Engineering schools of the state
have trained 10,000 students in the
engineering, science and manage
ment classes in the special courses
for which government funds were
supplied. The total allotment, he
added, is 18,000.
Club Picture Space
Reservations Must
Be in October 1
Reservations for clpb picture
space in the 1943 Longhorn must
be completed by October 1, 1942,
if they are to appear in the year
book.
Applications may be obtained at
the Student Activities office, room
126, Administration Building. The
application blank must be filled
out and all requirements of the
blank fulfilled before the reserva
tion is completed.
Clubs must make all arrange
ments with the photographers
themselves in order to have their
pictures made.
Hit Parade Contest
Featured Sat Night jg
Sbisa Hall will look down on the
last Juke Box Prom to be held
indoors this season Saturday night
when the corps starts stomping to
the recorded music of the na
tion’s top-notch bands.
Clearing up the much-talked
about question as to who must
bring dates, Bobby Stephens, soc
ial secretary of the senior class
said, “Sophomores are asked to
bring dates, but the rule will not
be enforced. However, freshmen
will be required to have dates for
admittance. 'I would also like to
urge everyone who is not a stud
ent but plans to attend to bring a
date if possible.”
A hit parade contest will be held
at the dance and the most popular
records will be played in the order
of their popularity.
Ace Script Writer Arrives At
America’s Ace Military Sclwo
Senior Class Holds Meeting
l To Discuss Dance Slab Rule
Group Will Also Decide on Senior Ring
Dance Date and Parents Day Activity
The Senior Class will hold an important meeting Mon
day night at 8:00 in the Assembly hall to approve a plan
to keep unpaying crowds away from the dance slab, stated
Dan R. “Rocky” Sutherland, Senior class president, today.
This meeting will be especially important due to the
nature of business transacted, according to Sutherland, and
a large representative number of Seniors should be present
to adequately make the decisions.
The main problem to be solved is that of keeping on
lookers at the dance slab a good distance away, in order to
allow plenty of air circulation for the dancers as well as to
reduce the possibility of “crashing”+-
Shown above are several mem
bers of the cadet corps as they
met Norman Reilly Raine as
he arrived Thursday night to
begin work on the script for
the new movie of Aggieland
and life here.
Top: from left to right are
Bernard Boothe, Bill Gallo
way, Norman Raine, Walter
Cardwell, Bob Hanby, and
Billie McKenzie. Bottom: Bob
Hanby introduces Raine to-the
cadet corps while Galloway
stands in the background.
Hanby made good his first
appearance as newly elected
senior yell leader.
—Special Photo by Phil Crown
• • •
the gate.
One plan that has been tentative
ly submitted calls for the whole
block that the dance slab is sit
uated on to be set off as a restrict
ed area on nights that the pavilion
is being used. There would be sev
eral officers of the day and police
sergeants to enforce the restric
tions with co-operation from the
commandant’s office.
Once a plan has been reached in
the meeting, it must be submitted
to Col. Welty for official approval.
Also to be discussed at the meet
ing Monday night will be the date
for the Senior Ring Dance and the
advisability of having a parents’
day this semester, stated Suther
land.
Guy Denton Gets
Silver Wings And
Glass Ends Course
Guy Denton, D Coast re
ceived the silver wings and a
Second Lieutenant’s Commission in
the Air Corps Reserve at gradua
tion ceremonies Sunday morning,
Jilly 26, showing that he has suc
cessfully completed the Air Force
Flying School Training at Luke
Field, Phoenix, Arizona.
Another Aggie, Bryan P. Glass,
Waco, now completing the second
leg of flying instructions at Good-
fellow Field, Army Air Force basic
flying school at San Angelo, will
shortly be ordered to an advanced
flying school where he will com
plete flight training required to
earn the wings of a flying second
lieutenant and eventual assign
ment to duty with America’s rap-
idly-expanding air armada.
Engineers Council
Elects J C Denney
President Monday
Jack Baird Made Secretary
At Meeting At Gilchrist
Home; Eng Day Discussed
The Student Engineers Council
met Wednesday night at the home
of Dean Gibb Gilchrist and elected
J. C. Denney president of the or
ganization for the session begin
ning June 1. Jack.Baird was elect
ed secretary treasurer of the
council.
The Council consist of three
students from the seven depart
ments of engineering on the cam
pus. The three members are the
president of the respective engi
neering department’s club, a jun
ior member, and a senior member
selected by Dean Gilchrist.
This year’s council consists of
*,he following members: Aeronau
tical Engineers are Steve Kaf-
fer, Jack Thomson, Jr., and Gene
Clark.
Members of the Council in Arch
itecture are Moffett Adams, Har
old A. Berry, and William O. Par
ker. Representing the Chemical
Engineers are J. H. Barratt, Jack
Hagan, and William Bever.
From the Civil Engineering De
partment are J. C. Denney, John
R. Ball, and Dan R. Sutherland.
The Electrical Engineers have Dan
Lansdon, Jack Keith, and Jack
A. Baird to represent them.
The Mechanical Engineers are
represented by T. J. Bolling, R. C.
Haltom, and W. J. Galloway. The
Petroleum Engineering Depart
ment is represented by W. H. Dor
an, C. A. Hinton, and Gene B.
(See ENG DAY, Page 4)
leven Aggie Exes Travel Within
United States and Get Commissions
Lieut. William E. Conatser, for
merly of Denison, has been trans
ferred from Camp Roberts, Cali
fornia, to Camp Adair, Oregon.
Lieutenant Conatser is the former
Aggie footballer. He recently com
pleted officers’ training school at
Fort Benning, Georgia.
Joe Windrow, Dallas, has been
promoted to first lieutenant in the
Coast 1 Artillery Antiaircraft at
Pearl Harbor where he has been
since last September. He was com
missioned after graduation at A.
& M. as a second lieutenant in
June 1941. He left immediately
after graduation for the West
Coast.
Corp. James R. Barker from
School Life, Times, Hobbies and Views From
Aggieland’s Newest Powerhouse, Yell Leader
By John Holman
That five foot five, one hundred
thirty pounds of dynamic “REST!
FISH!” that led the corps in their
reception for Norman Raine Thurs
day night was Aggieland’s latest
addition to the corps’ yell staff,
Bob Hanby.
Bob, born Robert Lee on Decem
ber 14, 1921, at Mesquite, isn’t
very big, but what there is of him
is terrific. The corps got its first
taste of that Wednesday night.
But what the corps doesn’t know is
that Bob was a four-year letter
man in high school football, cap
tained the team and was an all
district back his senior year, be
sides earning three basketball and
two baseball letters. On top of
that, he stayed in the upper fourth
of all his classes, and hasn’t drop
ped the habit since coming here.
He has a 1.95 grade point average
to prowe it.
Since coming to A. & M. to learn
something about agronomy, Bob’s
hair has started falling out, and
he really lets loose some blood
curdling curses on the misery of
baldheadedness.
The Major, (that’s what the boys
in his outfit, A Infantry, call him)
heads the staff of the first bat
talion of paddlefeet, and when he
first took over his duties as bat
talion commander at meal forma
tions, he had the entire Naval de
tachment laughing at his really
powerful “‘Talion, ‘ten shun!”
They just didn’t think he could do
it.
About his present job as senior
assistant yell leader, Bob says,
“Well, all my life I’d wanted to be
a yell leader at A. & M. When
Ted O'Leary quit, and some of the
boys put the proposition up to me
I was a little skeptical. But, I
wanted the job so took them up.”
When asked how he felt the first
time he looked into that sea of
faces known as the Aggie Twelfth
Man, Hanby simply said, “Good as
h !” He did express the regret,
however, that he hadn’t run for
the office last year, so that he
could have had the experience ac
quired by the juniors. He feels that
he could serve the corps better, but
as it is, he promises to do his best.
Bob is different from most Ag
gies in one respect. He absolutely
does not read the funny papers.
Not that he’s too high-faluting,
because he doesn’t like books eith
er, but he just can’t see anything
funny about the funnies. Let him
get hold of any old sports page,
though, and you’ll probably have
to drag him away. He really eats
them up!
I asked Bob what he wanted to
do when all this world mess is fin-
(See YELL LEADER, Page 4)
Dallas has been ordered to the
antiaircraft officers’ candidate
school at Camp Davis, North Caro
lina. Barber is a former student
of the A. & M. class of 1938 and
of Southern Methodist University:
He entered the service in April.
Capt. Percy J. Mims, graduate
of the class of 1932 has been pro
moted recently from first lieuten
ant to captain and made assistant
adjutant at Bolling Field, D. C.
Captain Mims is the former Arm
strong County Agent and married
the former Miss Margaret Duncan
of College Station.
Lieut. Ben F. Saluk has been
promoted to captain. Formerly a
resident of West, eighteen miles
north of Waco, he has been sta
tioned at Camp Bowie. He is now
on maneuvers in North Carolina.
Lieut. Richard R. Litsey, Jr., re
cently cabled his family in Sher
man that he is in Great Britain.
He attended A- & M. in 1938-39
and then entered the training given
flying cadets by examination. He
was graduated from class 41-H,
West Coast training center, on
October 31, 1941, and received his
commission as second lieutenant
and sent to McClellan Field, Cali-
(See OFFICERS, Page 4)
Life Guard Makes
Successful Hunter
There is an alert band of life
guards at the Lake Cliff Park pool
in Dallas these days.
Tuesday afternoon Guard A1
Boatman, North Texas State
Teachers College athlete, looked
down in the depths and saw a head
floating beneath the surface.
In a flash he hit the water in
a dive and brought up the head of
George Washington a $1.00 bill.
Raine’s Life Is English Boyhood,
Soldier* Seaman* andAcd Writer
By John Holman
If you are walking around the
campus and happen to run into a
man about thirty-five, of medium
stature, with wavy blonde hair and
a softj yet crisp voice, ten to one
it’s Norman Reilly Raine, ace Hol
lywood scenario and magazine fic
tion writer, who is on the campus
gathering background material for
the story for Walter Wanger’s
production tentatively titled “Am
erican Youth Has Never Been
Licked.”
Characters created Jby Jules Ver
ne could never have presented a
life story as exciting as this mas
ter of the world of imagination.
Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsyl
vania, of an American mother and
an English father, Rame was taken
to England when only one year
old. He returned to America thir
teen years later, an ordinary Eng
lish schoolboy.
When World Mess I broke out,
he joined the Canadian army and
became a captain in the Queen’s
Rangers, an infantry outfit. In
f918 he transferred to the Royal
Air Force, and again saw the soils
of Britain.
After the war, he returned to
this side of the “pond” and shipped
out of Montreal, Canada, as a com
mon seaman. For the next three
and one half years, he sailed the
seven seas, rubbed shoulders with
black men, yellow men, red men
and brown men; talked to Hindoos,
Voodoos, Mohammedans, Pagans,
Christians and any other kind you
can put your finger on.
With such a background, an im
agination, and the will to work,
Norman Reilly Raine turned to
writing. For two or three years he
worked, and worked hard, before
attempting to have his stories""pub
lished. When he did, though, the
old ball really started rolling.
He went to Washington state
over ten years ago to deliver a se
ries of lectures on fiction writing
at the University of Washington
He liked Pug6t Sound so well that
he and his wife stayed there.
Puget Sound offered the inspira
tion for the first of the “Tug Boat
Annie” stories, and since that time
more than twenty of this series
have appeared in the Saturday
Evening Post. Also in the Post
were the “Mr. Gallop” stories,
written about the same time a?
the “Tug Boat Annie” series.
In 1937 Raine was awarded thi
Motion Picture Academy of Arts
and Sciences’ golden “Oscar” foi
the best screen play of the year.
“The Life of Emile Zola.” From
his typewriter also came the script
for “The Adventures of Robin
Hood,” the story of “Elizabeth
and Essex,” which starred Bette
Davis and Errol Flynn, the im
mortal tale of “The Fighting 69th”
and of this streamlined version of
Maintenance Checks
For $7.50 Received
Maintainence checks for $7.50
have been received by the military
department for those taking first
year advanced military science and
who have contracts.
These checks which are for
maintainence during the month of
June and should be obtained im
mediately by the juniors from their
respective senior military science
instructor.
destruction called “World War II,”
Raine told the tale of the “Cap
tain of the Clouds” and “Eagle
Squadron,” the first the story of
Canada’s famous bush-pilots, the
second the story of the first Am
erican outfit in the R.A.F.
When asked about the time in
volved in the preparation of one
of these scripts, Raine said, “A
good job takes about three months,
one of which is spent in research,
the other two in actually writing
the story.”
He admitted he was a little
frightened by the reception given
him by the corps Thursday eve
ning, but he also got a whale of
a big kick out of it! I asked what
he thought of A. & M. He looked
around, grinned, and said simply,
“What do you think?”
Planning to be on the campus
about a week, he promised to cap
ture the real spirit of Aggieland
on which to base his story.
“I hope, and think, that every
Aggie that sees this picture will
say, ‘By gosh, that’s Texas A. &
M.,” Raine said. He will use John
Pasco’s “immortal” little book
“Fish Sergeant” for information
about the fish year.
Usually a finished script is a
prerequisite for the beginning of
production on a picture, but in this
case production will be rushed
ahead on a streamlined schedule,
and should be finished sometime
during the winter.
Raine, who’ is under personal
contract to Wanger, will work
right along with the cast and pro
duction crew when actual produc
tion begins. He said that about
forty per cent of the feature-
See RAINE, Page 4)