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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
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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.
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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. •