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.