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, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 8, 1942 2275
NUMBER 29
Ina Ray Hutton Plays for Dance in Grove at 9 P M
Raine Meets
Directors In
Dallas Mon
Publicity Director
Praises Corps For
Impressions Made
Norman Raine, who was on the
campus last week to gather back
ground information for the screen
play for the Aggie film, will ar
rive in Dallas from New York
City Monday to have a conference
with the board of directors for the
picture, G. Byron Winstead, direc
tor of college publicity, said to
day.
According to Winstead, Raine has
the outline of his story completed
and will return to Hollywood from
Dallas to write the first draft, or
what is known as a “treatment”,
a complete but condensed version
of the screenplay. After this has
been approved by the producer, he
will begin work- on the shooting
script.
According to Winstead, Raine
was impressed by Aggieland
as a whole, so impressed that in
all sincerity he said, “I have
enough material right here on this
campus to write three motion pic
tures, and some day, when the war
is over and people will take such
motion pictures, I’m coming back
here and -vVrite a real story, not a
war story, but one of this great
institution as a center of educa
tion.” As an example of what
Raine meant, Winstead suggested
a story concerning the life of the
late Mark Frances, D. V. M., who
once saved the cattle industry of
Texas by his application of veter-
nary medicine.
“To the corps, cadet officers,
yell leaders, Battalion staff mem
bers, class officers, and each and
every man on this campus, I want
to extend my deepest thanks for
making Raine’s visit to the cam
pus such a success. Such a wel
come as the corps gave him, so
friendly and receptive were they
to him as a man, and so coopera
tive with his purpose here, that
I will forever be indebted to you,
the corps, without whose help the
entire spirit of the picture and
A. & M. might have been lost,”'
said Winstead.
He went on to say that his job
as director of publicity was so
very much easier because he knew
he could depend on “the boys” to
help him in every way. He cited
another example of this help from
the corps, Quentin Reynolds’ vist
last spring. “The Aggies showed
him a good time” he said, “and
everyone read the swell story
he wrote about us for Collier’s.”
Aggies Given Chance to Name Picture
Satisfaction Only Prize Being Offered
New Contest
HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO NAME A $750,000
MOTION PICTURE? If you would, then rally ’round
the old Aggie banner, boys, and kick in your best sug
gestion for a name for Walter Wanger’s forthcoming
picture about the spirit of Aggieland! The title “We’ve
Never Been Licked” is only temporary, for the benefit
of studio bookkeepers, and will be changed if a better
one is suggested. If the show is to be about Aggies,
then let the Aggies name it. Rack your fertile brains
now fellas, and let’s make this picture one hundred per
cent A. & M.! •
Fill out the slip below and turn it in to your first
sergeant. There isn’t a prize for the winner, but think
of the thrill of telling your friends, “I named that film!”
I
Title for picture .-
Your name Org
P. 0. Box - —
Good for $1.00
Pictured above is one of the last companies to scrub “Sully”. This
is the picture which won the Longhorn Snapshot contest for the
week. It was submitted by Henry Gilchrist, fish of A Engineers.
1906 ...A Year of Progress;
Four Dorms and A Natatorium
—by John Holman
1906 saw A. & M. sprouting into
an educational institution the likes
of which have never been equaled
in the history of the world. Four
dormitories dotted the Brazos
county prairie, and ten other col
lege buildings gave this place a
real “Skyline”. Pfeuffer, Foster,
Ross, and Gathwright were all in
their prime, the first two being
nearly new.
H. H. Harrington, husband of
Sully Ross’s daughter, was presi
dent of the school, and on the col
lege faculty were 57 professors.
Graduating that memorable year
were forty-six seniors, among
whom were John Ashton, P. L.
Downs, Jr., Elmer Carlyle (known
then for his motto’—“Blessings, on
him who invented sleep”), G. T.
Haltom better known as “Eggs”,
now dead but then an outstanding
figure on the campus, R. J. Potts
(Pottsy), now living in Waco, and
A. P. Rollins, now in Dallas. Rol
lins, at that time an outstanding
student, said he was “the only man
alive old enough to vote who had
never been kissed.” Wonder what
he’d say now.
That class was proud of the
fact that when they were fresh
man, a member of their class scor
ed the very first point A. & M.
ever made against Varsity (Texas
U.) in football, and members of
that class beat Texas for the first
tinie in the history of the school.
While fish, they succeeded in “tak
ing over” by licking the entire
corps upperclassmeij—juniors, sen
iors, and sophomores in an April 1
“cane rush” on what is now the
field artillery drill field.
Juniors on the campus in ’06
numbered forty-eight, and often
boasted of the fact that when they
were fish, the sophomores strap
ped them and drenched them. As
the Longhorn put it that year, the
sophomores (seniors then) had a
“devilishly cracking time at the
expense of trouser’s seats and the
college water supply.”
An even one-hundred sophomores,
including Joe Utay, formerly on
the board of directors, and one-
hundred-sixty fish completed the
cadet corps of three-hundred fifty-
four.
Scholastic standards had risen
slightly, and a grammar school
education was necessary for en
trance. Also the age limit had
been raised from to fifteen to six
teen years.
Campus visitors, few as they
were, were awed by the sight of
buildings which included the Tex
tile building; Chemistry-Veterinary
buildings “with four complete lab
oratories for enterprising stu
dents”; a three-hundred cow dairy
barn; five new prof’s homes; an
athletic stadium “open-air style”
which would seat six-hundred and
faced a newly graded athletic
park; and the “Shirley” a recrea
tion hall opened by the A. & M.
College Club.
That Longhorn boasted of the
(See YEAR OF ’09 page 4)
Dance Tonight Second Of
Summer Series Out in Open
Affair Semi-Formal Because of Popular
Request from Girls Who Will Attend Event
Ina Ray Hutton, the Blond bombshell, will bring her
famous orchestra to The Grove tonight at 9 for the second
big corps dance of this week-end.
Miss Hutton, formerly known for her all-girl band,
organized her present male orchestra this year because
“Although a girl band is easier to look at, the all-male band
is easier to listen.” The new organization made its debut
at New York’s famous Hotel Astor, where it broke the sea
son’s record for dinner and supper diners.
She and her orchestra have't
Grove’s Opening
Biggest Corps Hop
Of Summer School
A & M Gets
i Chance At
toured the most important vaude
ville houses in the country and
gained fame in musical comedy
with Lew Leslie in “Clowns in
Clover”, George White’s “Melo
dy”, and Flo Zeigfield’s last “Fol
lies”. Ina Ray also clicked in mo
tion pictures, in ballrooms, and
even her radio appearances have
won acclaim.
Singing songs, in the torchy man
ner—mindful of Dinah Shore, she
also puts on a good show with her
dancing about the bandstand.
Bobby Stephens announced that
due to requests from girls all
over the state, the dance tonight
will be semi-formal, leaving the
question of clothes up to the girl.
Ropes have been placed around
the slab to keep onlookers Horn
choking off the cooling breezes
the corps found so delightful last
night, and anyone who attended
the dance last night can attest to
this fact, says Stephens.
Top female orchestra leader in
the country, Ina Ray has chestnut
hair, blue eyes, 5 ft. 3 in. and
weighs 108 lbs. She was born in
Chicago March 13, 1917, and is not
married.
Since most boys will have dates,
and hence a short stag line, or
ganizations are asked by the Stud
ent Activities office to allow their
freshmen to attend the dance to
night without dates. This will be
left up to the organizations but
they are urged to comply with this
request as it will be to the corps
advantage because belter bands can
be obtained if a good showing is
made this week-end.
Deficient Students
Scarcer Than Ever
States Registrar
The total number of students on
the deficient list this semester is
much lower than it has been in the
last six years announced the reg
istrars office yesterday. In addi
tion to this, the percentage of those
deficient is also the smallest 'it
has been in the six preceeding
years.
Offering no reason for the
drop in deficiencies, R. G. Perry
man gave figures on the total num
ber of men on the deficiency list
for the last five years showing
987 on the list in the ’38-39 school.
year, 1,189 in the ’39-’40 session,
1,039 in ’40-’41, 1,173 in ’41-’42,
and 750 this semester. The list
showed a drop to a 14.9% defic
iency f^om an 18% average held
for the last five years.
In discord with general theory
the freshmen class is 10% less def
icient this semester than the
freshmen of last year, the report
stated.
Distribution of the total def
iciency list by schools did not vai’y
much with last years figures as
the engineering school led with
59% of the total deficient, with
the school of agriculture second
with 23%, liberal arts and sciences
13% the school of veterinary med
icine with 4% of the list.
The percentage of each schools
enrollment on the dean’s team
showed the engineers ahead with
17% of that schools enrollment
deficient. The school of liberal arts
and sciences annexed second with
15% as the agriculture school and
the school of veterinary medicine
showed 12 and 10 percent of each
schools enrollment on the defic
iency list.
Radet Kagers Will
Show Grand Finale
From Engr’s Show
The grand finale of the 1941-42
Engineers Show will be presented
by Kadet Kapers tonight at 7:00
in the Assembly Hall, states Dick
Jenkins, producer of the Saturday
night revels.
“The Slipstick Follies of 1942”
which was the title of last semest
er’s Engineers show had for its
finale an act presented by the
Architectural society in the form
of an Easter parade that had as
its models members^ of the archi
tectural society dressed up in most
ravishing costumes depiciting the
latest styles. By popular demand
this act has been brought back so
all the new freshmen as well as
the Aggie dates here this week
end can see an example of Aggie
versatility.
Ina Ray Hutton, whose orches
tra will play the dance tonight,
has been invited .to attend Kadet
Kapers and add the name of one
more celebrity to the long list of
those to grace the stage of this
Saturday night fun-fest.
As usual, tonight’s show will
feature singing, dancing, beautiful
girls galore, and contests in which
special prizes will be given to the
girls. “Elmer the poet” will be in
front of the footlights with a po
etic masterpiece rendered in his
own inimitable way.
Kadet Kapers is the Saturday
night free entertainment that has
been presented nearly every week
that school has been in session
for the entertainment of the corps.
The show features mostly Aggie
talent plus occasionally celebrities
that come to the campus. The idea
for a much needed entertainment
on the week-end that didn’t cost
anything was conceived by Dick
Jenkins, who enlivens every show
with his personality as master of
ceremonies.
Texas Co-op Institute
Wiil Hold 5th Meeting
With the development of co
operatives in Texas to be dicuss-
ed by state wide leaders the fifth
annual meeting of the Texas In
stitute for Co-operatives begin
ning Monday, August tenth and
running through noon Wednesday
August 12 promises to be one of
the biggest agricultural meetings
of its kind ever held here at A.
& M. , according to J. Wheeler
Barger head of the Department
of Agricultural Economics at the
college, who is chairman of the
Institute Program committee.
The addition of Miss Mary
Mims, extension specialist in or
ganization from Louisiana State
University, and Ezra Benson, exe
cutive secretary of the national
council of farmer co-operatives,
swells the fast growing roster of
guest speakers who will devote
the • major portion of their time
to discussing problems of the In-
stitue delegates.
The newly chartered Texas Fed
eration’ of Co-operatives will also
hold their first membership meet
ing during the Institute and dir
ectors will be elected to formulate
programs.
Informality Predomiated
As Adelene Koffman and
Fish Sullivan Vocalized
Last night the Grove, Aggie-
land’s newest nightspot, was for
mally opened by Curley Brient and
the new Aggieland orchestra.
Informality was a feature of
the biggest corps dance so far this
summer, according to Bobby Steph
ens, social secretary of the senior
class.
Featured by the Aggieland were
the voices of Adelene Koffman of
Houston, and Fish Sullivan, 3 Hq.
F. A., both of whom contributed
sweet melody and swing to the
evening entertainment.
Five saxaphones make up the
Aggieland’s woodwind section, and
they were featured in special
choruses to the delight of the
dancers. Also trumpet tricks by
Dick Altson, Bully McGregor, and
Wally Scott were popular, with
Freddie Nelson, Curley Brient,
Tom Inglis, Jack McGregor, Buck
Weirus, and R. C. Mallet all adding
to the danceable rhythms put out
by the Aggieland.
Previously known as “the slab”,
the new dance pavilion was gaily
decorated with soft lights, and a
new sound system made hearing
in all parts of the floor excellent.
Members of the orchestra pre
sented a floor show during the
evenings enterainment.
Named “The Grove” in contest
among students, the new pavillion
will later be equipped with tennis
nets, and possibly equipment for
roller skating. Last night, how
ever, it was solely a dancing spot,
and according to Stephens, every
one had a swell time.
Former Activities
Head Made Lieut
Lieut. Joe H. Skiles, former head
of Student Activities here, recent
ly received a commission in the
Army Air Force Reserve Technical
Corps and has been assigned to
duty at Saint Petersberg, Florida.
Before coming to A. & M. to ac
cept the position as head of Stu
dent Activities he was engaged as
attorney in Denton. He represent
ed Denton County two terms in
the Legislature and was active in
the Young Democratic state or
ganization.
Skiles is a graduate of North
Texas State Teachers College anf
received his law degree from Texas
university.
Band Wagon
Drugstore Voting In
This Area Can Get
Band National Spot
Word that the Aggieland Or
chestra has been placed on the list
of bands from thi,s area eligible
to be on the Fitch Band Wagon
broadcast from Dallas, September
13, was received here today by
Curley Brient, leader of the Ag
gieland.
Mail sent in from this area in
the last several months assured
the Aggieland of a chqpce to get
on this broadcast from Dallas next
month provided enough votes can
be turned in from this area during
the next two weeks.
Here is the way in which votes
may be turned in for the Aggie
land during the next 14 days:
Every time a purchase is made in
a drug store at the listed places
in this area of 25 cents or more
one vote may be cast for the Ag
gieland. That 25-cent purchase may
be of drinks, cigarettes, or any
thing that drug stores have in
stock, but it must be from a drug
store in this area.
• The following towns are the
main ones listed for the Dallas
area: Abilene, Big Spring, Breck-
enridge, Cisco, Denison, Fort
Worth, Henderson, Kilgore, Mid
land, Mineral Wells, Paris, Ranger,
Sherman, Sweetwater, Tyler, Ver
non, Weatherford, Wichita Falls,
and Waco. These are merely a
(See BAND WAGON, page 4)
ASME Dance Held
In Grove Aug 14
American Society of Mechanical
Engineers members will hold their
dance at “The Grove” on Friday
August 14, it was announced at a
joint meeting held with the I. Ae.
S, Thursday night.
At this meeting R. T. Shields, a
representative of the Dallas divi
sion of General Electric, was the
guest speaker. He presented a ser
ies of films, “The Inside of Arc
Welding” a picture designed for
the instruction of arc welders and
emphasized important points in
the art of welding. In addition to
these pictures a lantern slide ser
ies was presented covering the use
of electrical equipment in the avi
ation industry.
Ina Ray Hutton
ish music for the second summer corps dance to bo held in the
Grove” tonight at 9. The dance last night was acclaimed by Bobby
Stephens, social secretary, as the largest and most successful of
the summer.