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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, SATURDAY MORNING, AUG. 15, 1942 2275 NUMBER 32 Town Hall Feature Friday Miss Jean Dickenson will again appear in the Town Hall series. Her performance on the current Summer Town Hall program will be the highlight of the program being staged Friday from the plat form of Guion Hall, John Lawrence, Town Hall manager, states. G F Fountrel, ’98, Leaves $15,000 For Expanding Former Student Loan Fund 24 th Aggie Rodeo Big Success Student Activities Will Allocate Funds Wednesday Only Clubs Which Have Submitted Blanks Will be Considered Eligible for Money Wednesday, August 19 the Student Activities Commit tee will meet for the allocation of funds to clubs which have put in their applications. All clubs are requested to have their applications in by 5 o’clock Monday, August 17. The three forms required to be filled out are available at the Student Activities Office. Rough Riding Riders, Rope Wrangle Jingle and Jangle Under the threatening skies of Brazos county, the Saddle and Sirloin Club of Texas A. & M. presented the opening performance of their twepty-fourth annual genuine old- fashioned rodeo at the American Legion grounds in Bryan last night. Rough riding, bronc-busting’ tootin’ and rootin’ cow poking cowboys from the Panhandle to the Rio Grande, fought the best that Texas stockmen can produce for two and one-half hours before a record crowd of several thous and fans. With equipment donated by the Gulf Oil Corp., the Texas Prison System, and stock rounded up by Eugene Chaddock of Rockdale and Clyde Goen of Bryan, the Aggies produced one of the most entertaining rodeos ever presented. Construction Started On S S Roadway Laying of Cement Delayed Owing To Freezing Uncertainty A new road that will go through the North Gate is in the making under the nme of the New Sulphur Springs Road, said the Highway Department in Bryan. The work of laying the dirt foundation has been under way for the past two or three weeks but there is a pos sibility that the laying of the ce ment will be delayed for some time as the government is likely to freeze the metal braces and other materials that are essential to it. The highway is to come in from Highway 6 as a two-lane road and form a 380 foot circle close to the well tower by the Artillery Drill Field. It will continue from there to the Catholic Church, where it is to widen out into a 48-foot road to the railroad tracks. The new road is to be put directly over the old road with some conditioning and somewhat more foundation to balance it. It is the object of the Highway Department to make a boulevard of the highway, but there will be no center part to it. This was abandoned when it was found that the space that would be required to make the boulevard was more than was possible to get without moving some of the buildings that are now standing close by the old highway. Ensign Beard Visits HereBeforeDeparting V. B. Beard, class of ’42, who has just completed Naval flight training at Pensacola and has re ceived his commission as an ensign, is visiting on the campus. In L Infantry, Ensign Beard served a hitch in the Army before coming to A. & M., and left here during his junior year to join the Naval Air Corps. After visiting friends for a few days, he expects to leave for the Canal Zone, Republic of Panama. Jean Dickerson, gifted young so prano who will be heard here on the Summer Town Hall next Fri day evening was born in Montreal the daughter of an American min ing engineer and an American short-story writer. When Jean was about six months old, her family moved to New York for what turned out to be merely a stop-over en route to India where Jean’s father became manager of a mine at Churrah- mahisanj, about 150 miles from Calcutta. They left there when Jean was five or six years old, this time heading for London. “Our leaving India was quite an experience,” Jean said. “I was ill with the fever and the family had to get me out. But the first World War was just over, and all the English people in India were anx ious to get home. Naturally, they .were given the preference, so we had a very hard time getting pas sage. Finally we got on a small cattle boat that went to England, not through the Suez Canal but via South Africa. We had terrible weather—dirty weather, the sailors called it—and finally hit a mon soon. They had to stop the engines and the boat drifted for days. We were even listed as lost. It was ter- ' ribly exciting.” Eventually the Dickensons reach ed London. Then, along about Jean’s grammar school age, they returned to New York- Again not for long. They drifted out to San Francisco where Jean’s father had a new mining job. “In San Francisco,” says Jean, “a terrible thing happened. When we got to California, everything was so lovely that we bought a house—the darlingest little house with pink bathrooms and flowers G. F. Foutrel, ’98, of San An tonio, died July 7, 1941 leaving a bequest of some $15,000 to the Stu dent Loan Funds of the Associa tion of Former Students. In his senior year, Foutrel was a second lieutenant of B Company. He was a quiet, scholarly man, and didn’t miss a class reunion after his graduation. He yras one of the men that A. & M. can al ways look back on as one of their favored sons and have pride in the fact that he thought enough of —we all loved it dearly. But—we stayed in it exactly 28 days! Fath er was transferred to Denver, Col orado! We really should have known better than to buy any thing.” It was in Denver, when Jean was about 16 years old, that she first began to sing. She entered the Lament School of Music to study with Florence Hinman. This time, when the family again packed their trunks for the trip back to New York, Jean stood her ground. She stayed on and lived at the school. “Our stopping in Denver was lucky,” Jean says. “It is a mar velous place for training because they have so many semi-profes sional concerts and things like that, a student can get real ex perience. Denver is a very musical city and particularly good for young musicians.” When Jean graduated from La ment, with a Bachelor of Music degree, she had a career waiting for her in New York. You see, dm*- ing the holidays, she came on to New York to visit her family and during her stay was given several radio auditions. They were success ful and she was asked to stay on, but much to everyone’s dismay Jean insisted upon returning to Denver for her degree. George Engles of the National Broadcasting Company journeyed out to Denver to put Jean’s name on a contract, and while she was still ab school, she was heard on a weekly broadcast over the coast- to-coast network. After graduation she stepped right into several big commercial broadcasts at . Radio City. Jean was also sent to the West Coast for a series of broadcasts. his Alma Mater to leave a fund by which other students and am bitious boys may get a college ed ucation from it as he did, E. E. Mcguillen, director of former stu dents states. For the past 29 years Foutrel was associated with the Alamo Iron Works, San Antonio, for many years being the foreman of the Mill Supply Department. Several years before his death, he retired and became interested in tropholo- “When I went,” she said, “I swore I wouldn’t wear slacks or dai’k glasses, but in one week I went completely Hollywood. You just can’t help it,” she laughed. Her next trip brought her back to Denver, the city she was be ginning to consider her home town- That trip was for just one per formance in which she sang the role of Gilda in Verdi’s “Rigoletta.” When Jean got back to New York she was met at the train by a rep resentative of the NBC Artists Service with the news that she had been signed as featured sing er on the Sunday night “Ameri can Album of Familiar Music” program. Her voice—on a record ing—was one of 150 voices list ened to by the sponsors. They signed her up without even seeing her. Today she lives in a penthouse apartment with her mother and father, whom .she adores. The apartment is in the Chelsea dis trict of New York, with a wonder ful view of the North River docks. Her father paints as a hobby and her mother has gone back to writ ing short shories and serials. Miss Dickenson has been studying un der the direction of Maestro Cesare Sturani since her arrival in New York. In January 1940 she made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera House singing the role of Philine in “Mignon.” The fourth member of the fam ily is a Scpttje, named Ghillia Bria, which means “Handsome Boy” in Gaelic. “He sings and he’s stubborn,” Jean said. “He rules the house completely. We even send all the way to Denver for his par ticular kind of dog biscuits—Moth er has a firm conviction that he’d (See DICKENSON, Page 4) Members of the Student Activit-f ies Committee, are: Prof. D. W. Williams, Department of Animal Husbandry; G. B. Wilcox, Dept, of Education; Dean Bolton, Dean of the college; David Pinson, editor of The Agriculturist; John Law- erence, Town Hall manager; Bob by Stephens, social secretary; if. B. Gofer, Battalion editor; John Longley, Longhor editor; E. A. Gordon, editor of The Engineer magazine; William B. Harrison, senior representative of the stud ent activities committee; Sid Smith, junior representative of the student activities committee; and E. L. Angel, executive assist ant to the president of the col lege. Student appropriations will be made only to those clubs consid ered at this meeting. Men of Aggieland Go to Ellington To Complete Training Tlnjee Aggies are among the group of fliers who will receive their wings in the near future. The group will graduate from Elling ton field, and will include Jack W. Williams ’41, John C. Kerr ’40, and Tracy E. Smith ’40. William graduated from Munday High School in 1934. Before enter ing A. & M. he attended North Texas State Teachers college. He made a name for himself as a foot ball player in high school. John C. Kerr was an architect before entering the Air Corp. He graduated from A. & M. in 1940 with a bachelor of science degree. Kerr graduated from Amarillo High School before enrolling at A. & M. Tracy E. Smith graduated at the same time as Kerr. His home is in Corsicana. Before enrolling in the Air Corp he was working with an Oklahoma concern. While in college he lettered in football. Junior Picture Deadline Set For August Thirtieth August 30 will mark the last day the junior class can have their pictures made for the Longhorn, was the information released by Longhorn Editor John Longley to day. All juniors are asked to fol low the schedule in order to avoid the last minute rush. So far the percentage of proofs turned in has been very small. The above date is the deadline. Seniors are also reminded to get their senior favorite and vanity fair pictures in as four weeks are left until the deadline September 15. Any close up will do for the Sen ior Favorite. For vanity fair, a full length 8 by 10, evening gown pic ture will be required as well as a 5 by 7 full length street dress pic ture and a 5 by 7 close up. Dr Patric Henry To Speak in Bryan Tomorrow Morning Dr. Patric Henry of Fort Worth is to be the guest of the A. & M. class at the First Christian Church, of Bryan. It is to be a Rally Day for the class, according to Wayne Rosenberg, the class president. While he is here, Dr. Henry, secretary of mission work in the Texas Christian Church, hopes to formulate plans for helping to pro vide larger meeting quarters for this class. Sophomores And Freshmen Excluded At Juke Box Prom Except With Dates Sophomores as well as freshmen absolutely must have dates to at tend Juke Box proms, according to a ruling made by the Senior class at their last meeting. This rule will be^ enforced not only by the men on the door, but by the O. D’s. Tonight, the first Juke Box ever to be held in The Grove will be started promptly at nine. Dancing to the highest-paid orchestras in the country will be available for three hours for the total sum of thirty-five cents, says Bobby Stephens, social secretary of the senior class. Uniform for the dance will be number two, and the girls will wear street dresses. This insures a cooler, more enjoyable evening. New sound equipment, jnstallpd at a cost of nearly $400, will be used tonight for the first time, and is capable of delivering one record after the other for a solid 45 minutes without interruption through six high fideliyt speakers mounted on poles around the edge of the slab. Records of the latest hit songs played by America’s number one bands will pi’ovide the kind of music you want to hear, and there is no limit to the number of re quests. Records will be played over and over if that is what the danc ers want, but a varied program containing the best of those types Aggies enjoy will be played if no requests are made. Slips for re quests will be available at the bandstand. In case of rain, the Prom will be held in the old mess hall, but outside of moving indoors, it will have no affect on the dance. Sophomores can attend corps dances without dates. Fraffic Committee Authorizes Use Of Aced Parking Lot Group Points Out That Cars Can be Used On Week Ends if Not Parked Cadets will be allowed to park their cars on the parking lot be tween the mechanical engineering shops and the Academic building it was decided by the Campus Traf fic Committee in a recent meeting according to an announcement by Walter Cardwell, cadet colonel. Cadets living in the new area are reminded that they are expect ed to park their cars in the lot back of dorm 11, while those living in the old area will use the lot be hind dorm 14. It was brought out by the com mittee that cadets are allowed to drive their cars op the campus during weekends, but must not park on the streets. The committee emphasized that these restrictions would be strictly enforced, since much conjestion is caused by stu dent’s cars being parked in the streets. When corps dances are held in Sbisa Hall, cadets are authorized to park their cars on the parking lot next to the Academic building. The Campus Traffic Committee is composed of J. T. L. McNew, head of the civil engineering de partment; Captain Joe Davis, as sistant commandant; F. W. Hen- sel, head of the Landscape Art de- partment; Thomas E. Rattan, of the AAA; Walter Cardwell, cadet colonel; and John M. Mullins, ser geant major of the corps. Commanders Meeting Follows Steak Fry At Cashion Cabin A steak fry will be held Monday night at 6:15 at Cashion’s Cabin for all regimental, battalion, and organization commanders, said Walter Cardwell, cadet colonel. These men are especially urged to attend as the regular monthly meeting will immediately follow the supper. race to ribbon-roping was done or attempted by the boys from the banks of the Brazos, an even the kids of Bryan and College Station got to show off with their ponies. Porky Bridges, C Infantry, from Bronte, Texas, who was a big drawing card the last year’s rodeo, put on a show last night with his ribbon-roping and calf-roping, and Jimmie Winnie, Bill Law, Bill Braid, Charles Beasley, Vick Fred- erickson, and E- E. Roth tore around the arena on such fiery steeds as Head-In-Jones; Hurri- can, Cap Rock, Scar Neck, Old Man ©’Mountains, and Wagon Wheels. Miss Doodle Bug Teich thrilled the crowd with her excellent ex hibition of calf-roping, and Shorty Fuller, Tom Rogers, Jimmie Win nie, Ed Maier, Charlie Post, and Charles Beasley fought High Roll er, Dynamite, Head-In-Jones, Thunder Bolt, Done Gone, and Scar Neck, unsaddled and untamed. Former Gov. James V. Allred, in the senatorial race run-off with Senator W. Lee O’Daniel, opened the show with a short patriotic speech about the glories for which we fight. Tonight, the second program of the rodeo will be presented with the same gala retinue of bronc- bustin’, saddle-fighting, fearless cowboys dishing out the thrills at the rate of one per. Admission for the show is fifty- five cents for adults and ..twenty- five cents for children. Aggies are not considered as children. Judges were Aubrey Jones and Will Locke, Brazos county ranch ers. J J Speery Receives Doctor Philo Degree John Jerome Sperry of College Station received hi& doctor of phil- osphy degree from the University of Nebraska at the close of the summer session. Sperry’s major work was in the field of botany, and he was one of 257 graduates who completed' work during the summer at the U. of Nebraska, and one of six award ed doctor’s degree. gy- Don’t Buy A 10 Cent Movie Magazine, Read This Instead Jean Dickenson, Soprano, Will Appear on Summer Town Hall Action Scene From Rodeo Thrills and spills will take place again tonight in the arena at the twenty-fourth annual Aggie Rodeo held this year in Bryan at the American L egion Fair Grounds- There you will see performers ' on such wild steeds as Head In Jones, Hurrican, Cap Rock, Scar Neck, Old Man ©’Mountains, and Wagon Wheels. Students performing this year w ill be Porky Bridges, Jimmie Winnie, Bill Law, Bill Braid, Charles Beasley, Vick Fredrickson, and E. E. Roth. •