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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, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 18, 1942 2275 NUMBER 33 Departments Shifted About J In Administration Building Student Activities, Battalion Moved To Basement Floor Soon In the next week or so the Bat talion office and the Student Ac tivities offices will be moved to the basement of the Administration | Building, and will occupy the of fices vacated by the Department of Publicity and Information. This is the plan as set forth by Dean F. C. Bolton, Dean of the college. G. B. Winstead, head of the Pub licity Department, and his staff, were moved yesterday to the top floor of the Administration build ing. Also moving to the top floor of the Administration Building is the Extension Publications depart ment. The offices vacated by them will also be occupied by the Bat talion and Student Publications staffs. The business manager of the col lege, E. N. Holmgreen, and his of fices are to be moved to the first floor of the Administration Build ing, into the offices that are to be vacated by the Battalion and Stu dent Activities. It was also learned that the stu dios of WTAW might be placed on the top floor of the Administra tion building if it is possible to get the necessary equipment thru the priorities board. This is purely chance at this time, but because of the many interuptions that occur and the noise at the present loca tion in the YMCA, it is thought the move will be of great advantage to the programs that are put on. Dean Bolton said that these moves are being made so that the various departments will have more room than they have at pre sent and also to make them more convenient to the various offices surrounding them. In the case of moving of the WTAW studio, it is for better offices, more room, and greater quiet. Major J F Stephens Dies in California Major J. F. Stephens, former senior instructor in the Cavalry branch ROTC here at A. & M., succumbed August 12 after suf fering a heart attack at his home at Carmel by the Sea, California. After having served at A. & M. for three years, Major Stephens retired from active service in the army and left here about Nevem- ber last year. Juke Box Prom To Be Held in Grove Saturday Evening Featured this Saturday night at the Juke Box Prom to be held at the Grove from 9 until 12, will be a hit parade. All requests for the popular songs will be tabulated, and from the information gained an Aggie Hit Parade will be form ed, Bobby Stephens, social secre tary of the Senior class said Mon day. The price set for the Juke Box Prom is 35 cents per couple, and the number two uniform will be regulation for the dance. Sopho mores and freshmen will be re quired to have dates in order to attend any of the juke box proms, as was decided by the Senior class in a recent meeting, although soph omores may attend corps dances without dates. The new equipment, installed at the base of the bandstand, has provisions for playing music for forty-five minutes with out in terruption over six high fidelity speakers mounted on poles along the side of the dance floor that houses the bandstand. Provisions for records as well as microphone plugs have been in stalled in front of the bandstand where the sound amplifiers can be used for microphones for the voc alists as well as for records. Sophomore Dance Committees Chosen* Committee reports and other business relative to the Sophomore ball was transacted in a meeting Monday night by represenatives of the organizations on the cam pus acting as an arrangement committee on details preliminary to the ball, according to Jack Orrick, president of the Sophomores class who presided over the meet ing. Tentative arrangements call for Curley Brient and the Aggieland Orchestra to play for the dances which will be in The Grove either the first or second weekend in September. Another meeting of all the mem bers of the committees working out the details of the ball will be held probably the latter part of this week, in which final committee re ports will be heard. ommunity Dance To Be Saturday In Consolidated Gym Cadets, Sailors, Marines Invited to Attend Affair; Admission Price 50 Cents Second in a series of community social functions will be held this Saturday night in the A. & M. Consolidated School gymnasium. Dancing, bridge games, and other forms of recreational amusement have been planned by the A. & M. Consolidated Mother’s Club. Social activities will begin at 8:30, and the price of admission will be 50c for couples, and 25 cents for chil- dren. ! In order that everyone in the community may become better ac quainted, cadets, marines, saliors and wives or dates, as well as all other residents of College Station have been extended an invitation by members of the club to attend. These parties will provide an op portunity for opening new friend ships, and for bringing about a closer understaning between the various social which compose Col lege Station, states Mrs. G. Byron Winstead, president of the club. Funds secured from admission charges will be used to construct a system of sidewalks around the Consolidated school. Mrs. Winstead emphasizes the fast that this is to be a community affair, and all re venues will be used for the better ment and the beautification of the community. Workmen Needed At Pearl Harbor Another urgent appeal came to day for skilled artisans needed at once in the Navy yards at Pearl 'Harbor, according to College Sta tion, Texas, local civil service sec retary at the post office. Uncle Sam will pay wages from $.99 to $1.49 an hour for aircraft mechanics, aircraft instrument mechanics, blacksmiths, boilermak ers, boxmakers, coppersmiths, avia tion electricians, instruments mak ers joiners, outside machinists, bombsight mechanics, aviation met- lalsmiths, torpedo ordnancemen, pat ternmakers, riggers, shipfitters hnd shipwrights. Only men between the ages of 20 and 62 years will be accepted, 'except for helper positions where the minimum age is 18. First class transportation will be furnished from the home of the appointee to Pearl Harbor. No de pendents will be allowed to make the trip. SAE Chaptei Will Meet To Organize Society Will Be Of Value to All Cadets Joining Organization of a student branch of the Society of Automotive En gineers will be held tonight at 7 o’clock in room 109 of the M. E. building. The officers for the new club will be elected. W. I. Truct- tner, sponsor of the . group an nounced Monday. Society of Automotive Engineers is open to any student taking en gineering who is interested in air craft, Diesel, tank, tractor, or any type of internal combustion en gines. Since aircraft engines are being greatly stressed by the So ciety, aeronautical and mechanical engineers are especially urged to enroll. Twenty-nine Aggies have already enrolled in the organiza tion. The enrolled student receives each month the current issue of the S.A.E. Journal. He is welcome to attend all the monthly meetings of the Society where he has the authorities in industry talk on the latest technical developments. He also is entitled to the placement service of the society, which is in constant contact with over 500 manufacturers. Th student branch of the S.A.E. is a new organization at A. & M. The only other school in the South west which sponsors a similar or ganization is the University of Oklahoma. The object of the Society is to promote the Arts and Sciences and Standards and Engineering Prac tices connected with the design, construction and utilization of au tomotive apparatus, all forms of self-ptopelled mediums for trans portation of passengers or freight and internal combustion prime- movers. Y All Arrangements Made for United Science Contest Meeting to be Held In Chemistry Lecture Room Thursday Evening at 7 Final arrangements for the Unit ed Science Club contest to be held in the Chemistry lecture room at 1 o’clock Thursday night, have been made according to Keith Kirk, president, and Dr. C. C. Doak, sponsor of the club. All members who are in any of the 14 clubs making up the USC, and others who are interested are cordially invited to attend the meet. Sudents who have reclared their intention of submitting scientific papers in the contest are E. M. Gossett, J. A. Roming, J. F. Kel sey, W. G. Aldrige, L. L. Baily and E. H. Williams. Phil Alford, Collegiate Chapter F.F.A.; Otheil Erlund, Fish and Game Club and W. G. Gill, Geology Club have been chosen to act as the program committee for the contest. Awards will be given to the five men having the best papers, with medals to be given to the first and second place winners. The following clubs are mem bers of the U.S.C. and are eligible to participate in its activities: Bi ology, Pre-Med, Entomology, Fish and Game, Kream and Kow, Col legiate F.F.A., Agromony Society, Student Chapter A.M.A., Geology, Student Affiliate American Chem istry Society, Horticulture Society, Rural Sociology, Poultry Science and Institute of Aeronautical Sciences. Bennett to Speak To PetE Meeting Thurs E. O. Bennett, chief petroleum engineer with the Continental Oil Company, Ponca City, Oklahoma, will be the guest speaker at the Petroleum Engineering Club meet ing Thursday, August 20, at 7:30 o’clock in the petroleum engineer ing lecture room, Harold Vance head of the petroleum engineering department, stated Monday. Behind the Scenes in The Battalion News Office Typewriters Raced, Linotypes Clattered Yesterday So You Would Get Paper Today By John Holman Did you ever stop to think what goes on before the newsprint you are now reading can be delivered to you? Outside of what you see in the movies, did you ever stop to think that this newspaper is put out, not by machines as most people seem to think but by Ag gies like yourself? Well, maybe you have and may be you haven’t. If not, through the process that is re-enacted three times a week down in Room 122, Administration building. You have all passed by room 122 many times, probably have read the little Battalion sign hung over the door. This day, about 1 o’clock any Monday, Wednesday, or Fri day afternoon, the door is open. There in the middle of the floor is a desk with an Aggie behind it— either Tom Vannoy, Ken Bresnen, or Clyde Franklin—thumbing in dustriously through pages of copy, pecking at his typewriter, or just plain thinking. Anyway, we go in,' say hello to the man behind the desk (he’s cal led the managing editor for the next morning’s paper) and find ourselves a vacant desk plop down on to watch what all goes on. Between one and one-thirty, four or five more boys will drop in. Brooks Gofer, the editor-in-chief will probably be around, and Jack Hood will be there digging up dope for Backwash. A couple more will go directly to typewriters and start beating out stories they have al ready found. The others, usually not more than two or thi’ee, will stand around the managing editor’s desk while he checks over tips and assigns them stories to go after. These two or three men, usually freshmen and sophomores, run around the campus helter skelter chasing down rumors and leads, scratching the details down on an old piece of paper. Meanwhile, the managing editor is reading copy already turned in, usually the feature columns such as Backwash, Quotable Quotes, As the World Turns, or The Open For um—marking each error so that linotype operator in the printshop won’t have to decipher the stuff as he sets it. It is an accepted rule, that newspaper men don’t know how to type neatly. After reading all the copy he has he begins to write his “heads”, the headlines you see at the top of each article or story. Each one of these must be carefully worded because just so many letters will fill the line, and nothing is more hacking to the printshop men than to have to re-set something. During this process, if you get tired of the clack-clack of the type writers, you can go next door in to the student activities office where there is a never-ending bull session around Uncle Willie Stone’s desk. There is a constant turmoil about this bull session though, be cause it has a “personel turnover” of 100% about every ten minutes —and Mr. Stone sits there and keeps everybody talking at once! The process of assigning stories, and having them written up, goes on until about 4:30 in the after noon. At that time, junior editor’s, Tom Leland, Ben Taylor, Douglas Lancaster, or myself, start read ing what are known as “galley proofs”—proofs taken off the set type from the linotype. Mistakes are marked on the proof and are corrected by the linotype operator. Mike Haikin, sports editor, has put his page through the process almost as a seperate unit from the remainder of the paper, but by supper time, all copy is down, and the tired staff can go home, thru for the day—that is, all except the editor, managing editor, and a junior editor or two. They must go back to the printshop after sup per, where the rest of the proof is read, and the “dummy” (a plan of the paper’s layout made by the managing editor) is checked or changed, as the set-up requires. By this time, someone in the print shop is setting up the large headlines by hand, all of which must be proofed and corrected if necessary. When all this reading and correcting has been done, the paper is ready to be made-up. This means the placing of all type, heads, and cuts (pictures) in an iron frame which goes on the press —and during this making-up pro cess, the best bull of the day comes along. Printshop men are the “outbul- lingest” men alive, and cracks and puns are to be had cheap from about eight in the evening on. And here, too, is where the work of an unsung group of Aggie first show up—the advertising staff. They sweat and toil from morn ’til night making the paper a fin ancial success, and all for little or no credit. However, when the edi torial staff starts making-up, the ads are there. Afer each paper is made-up, a “page proof” is taken and read for mistakes. This is the third time every word in the sheet is read, but this is the last time also. At about 10:15, the press nms off the first four or five copies for a last minute check. The entire pa per is then scanned by the staff, but rarely ever is a mistake caught this late. After that it is up to the pressman. Forty-eight hundred and fifty copies roll from the press between the time that the first coyp comes off about 10:30 and quitting time sometime in the early morning. The Battalion then takes a trip to the bindery, where is folded and trimed, then tied into bundles to be delivered to the crops just seveneen hours after the official starting point. A day of rest, then the same thing over again—a pa per of the corps, by the corps, and for the corps. Jean Dickenson To Present Varied Town HallProgram Jean Dickenson, radio singer, and member of the Metropolitan Opera Company, who makes an appearance Friday night on the Town Hall Series, will give a pro gram varying from grand operatic arias to popular semi-classics. Miss Dickenson was one of the -most popular attractions of the 1940-41 Town Hall series and is •expected by the Town Hall man agement to duplicate her success Friday night. In addition to Miss Dickenson’s musical ability she possesses a '.charming personality which accom- )panies physical features which are not at all hard to look at. She has soft, dark, wavy hair, hazal eyes, and the kind of figure and carriage which most women struggle hard to achieve. Added to all this are a graciousness and vivacity of man ner that make friends for her eas ily- When asked what type of woman she considered most pleasing and attractive, she answered, “The woman who looks nice from all angles and the woman who smells nice.” Miss Dickenson fills the •first requirement without a doubt. As for the second, she is a firm believer in bath salts, light flow ery eau de cologue in summer and for herself, a slightly exotic per fume in cooler weather. WC Stone Goes To Oklahoma A&M W. C. Stone, assistant director of student activities, has accepted a position as supervisor of stud ent publications at Oklahoma A. & M., Stillwater. He will leave to assume his new duties in the next -few days. Stone, affectionately known as “Uncle Willie Cicero” to the boys at the Battalion and Student Act ivities office, has been directing student publications since coming here from Waco in September, 1940. He was teacher of journa lism and supervisor of Waco High’s student publications while there. He has had wide experiences as a teacher and newspaper man, and is a graduate of Baylor University. His home is in Waco. From behind his desk in the Student Activities office, he has always welcomed a “bull session” with any student who sought his conversation or advice, and his many friends here at A. & M. will certainly regret his leaving. Mrs. Stone and Billy will ac company Stone to his new home. Fred Dalby Selected As All-Around Cowboy Sat Deadline Set For Senior Favorites. For September 15 $3 Entry Fee Set For Vanity Fair Pictures, Includes Senior Favorite Deadline for pictures to be turn ed in for the Vanity Fair section and the Senior Favorite section of the Longhorn has been set for September 15, according to John Longley, editor of the Longhorn, and all seniors are requested to get their pictures in early. For Vanity Fair, a full length 8 by 10, evening gown picture will be required, as well as a 5 by 7 full length street dress picture, and a 5 by 7 close up. Prices for the Vanity Fair picture is $3, which also gives a free picture for the Senior Favorite section. Any close up will serve for the Senior Favorite section, with the price on this one at $1.50. Reservations for club pictures have to be made by October 1, Longley stated yesterday, and all the juniors are reminded that Au gust 30 is the deadline for pic tures for the junior class section of the Longhorn. New Order Does Away withNeckties During Daytime According j to an order issued from the Office of the Command ant Saturday, cadets are not re quired to wear the neck tie with their uniform while on duty dur ing the day on the campus. When away from the campus, at social events, during the presence of distinguished visitors on the campus, at retreat, during sup per, and in the evenings after supper, the neck ties must be worn. Cadets are authorized to wear the collars of their shirts unbut toned at the first button, when no ties are worn. The military department em phasized the fact that cadets in Bryan or on the highways must wear ties. Any time the cadet is out of his quarters between sup per and reveille the ties must be worn. This procedure of wearing ties only in the evenings is followed in the majority of the army camps. 288 Listed on New Distinguished List; 10 Have Straight A A total of 288 students at Texas A. & M. College classified as Dis tinguished Students during the second semester of the 1941-42 school year, and 10 of that number made no grade below an “A”, ac cording to a report issued this week by H. L. Heaon, acting re gistrar. Tom Gillis, Fort Worth, com pleted his four years at the College by making a seemingly impossible perfect “A” record for his entire career and thus became the first man in the 66-year history of the college to make such a retord. However, another possible “per fect score” is in the offing as Wil- lima J. Galloway, Throckmorton senior in mechanical engineering, now has three perfect years, or six semesters, behind him and needs but the current school year to tie the record set by Gillis. Students who made straight “A” records included: Joe W. Autrey, senior in agricultural engineering, Stephenville; Joe C. Beard, sopho more in libreal arts, Broaddus; Wil liam Bever, junior in chemical en gineering, Ft. Worth; Charles R. Hancock, junior in liberal arts, Corpus Christi; James' M. Robert son, freshman in chemical engine ering, Port Arthur; George H. Spencer, sophomore in liberal arts, Boerne; Gilbert M. Turner, Austin; Don W. Warren, Merkel; Gillis and Galloway. Vick Fredrickson Wins Saddle-Bronc Contest Trophy Results for the twenty-fourth annual Saddle and Sirloin Club Ro deo held Friday and Saturday in Bryan were announced yesterday by Marvin McMillan, director of the rodeo. Best all-around cowboy for the meet was Fred Dalby, of Asper- mont, who was awarded a sterling silver belt and buckle set by Hol land Jewelry Company of San An gelo. Saddle-bronc riding winner was Vick Fredrickson, who won a pair of spurs by Loupot’s. Two-day average for bareback bronc riding went to Shorty Ful ler, who was also awarded a silver belt and buckle. Two-day average for wild bull riding also went to Shorty Fuller, who also won the first honors in bare-back broncriding Friday night. Charlie Post won that event Saturday night. Fuller was award ed a headstall bridle by Fred Hall, Eden, Texas. Two-day average in wild mule racing was won by Fred Dalby, who also won the ribbon-roping contest and Saturday night’s first place in wild mule racing. Miller Barrier, Hull, won first place Saturday night in saddle- bronc riding, while Vick Fredrick son took honors Friday. Charlie Fuller, Colorado City, took the wild bull riding Friday night, while Tom Rogers won first Saturday night. Friday night winner in the wild mule race was Don Carlson, Georgetown, with Fred Dalby tak ing top honors Saturday. Receipts Friday night totaled over $400, and the crowd came back Saturday night, to see the biggest rodeo ever shown near here. Band Receives New Batons from Holick Formal presentation of the drum major’s batons will be made to Ben Schleider, Brenham, head drum major of the Aggie band, by Ed Holick of Holicks Boot Shop at the College Night activities in Septem ber, the first official yell practice of the year. Schleider is a captain in the Field Artillery Band. The other two band seniors to receive batons are E. B. Perry, Palestine, and Joe F. Gordon, Homer, Lousiana. Perry will be the drum major of the Infantry Band, and Gordon will lead the Field Art- tillery Band as drum major. Plans for the coming semester for the band have, as yet, not been scheduled, since all of the band members have not been able to get together, but the plans will be worked out in the near future at a band meeting that will take place at that time, according to information received from Bill Bucy, Brownwood, major- of the corps band. Ag Engineers to Hold Watermelon Feast and Plan Barnyard Frolic Student Society of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers will meet tonight at 7:15 outside the Agricultural Engineering build ing for the regular meeting, which will be a watermelon feast. The location of the meeting has been changed from Hensel Park, as previously announced, to the lawn of the Agricultural Engineering building. Important plans will be discussed and committees will be appointed for the Barnyard Frolic at the meeting. C Cavalry Goes On Overnight Manuevers Following a recently inaugurat ed policy of weekend hikes to give cadets a taste of actual field con ditions that they will meet when stationed at a cavalry post, the second of the Cavalry troops took their hike this weekend. C troop was the recipient of the grass burrs and tired muscles this weekend as they moved out south of Alexander’s place across Koppe bridge, on an extended man euver.