OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
DIAL 4-5444
The Battalion
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
DIAL 4-5444
ROOM 5 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. - VOLUME 42 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. 1, 1942
2275
NUMBER 49
Action Taken Toward Building of Student Union
Weeks Plays CAC Ball Tomorrow Night
Supper Formation Changed*
So Dance Can Start at Nine
Seniors, Juniors to Wear Number One
Woolens; Underclassmen, Number Two’s
“Let’s Go Dancin’ With Anson” will be the words on the
lips of 800 Coast Artillery dancers and their respective dates
tomorrow night from 9 till 1 o’clock when the first regimental
dance of the season will be held in the main ball room of Sbisa
Hall.
Anson Weeks brings his famous “Dancin’ With Anson”
orchestra to Sbisa for the third time to play for the Coast
"Artillery Regimental Ball.
Tech Exes Hold
Reunion for Game
Here This Saturday
Special Transportation,
Seating Being Arranged;
Registration Is in Sbisa
A reunion of Texas Tech Exes
h&s been planned for the conven
ience of football fans who will at
tend the Tech—A. & M. game this
week end. Special lunch tables,
tickets, seat sections, and train,
schedules have been arranged.
Registration hours for Texas
Tech Exes will be from 10:00 a. m.
to 1:00 p. m. October 3, in the
lounge of Sibsa dining hall. Meals
will be 50 cents with special tables
in Sibsa hall for Texas Tech Exes
and friends.
Section 106, on the 40 yard line
will be the Tech section, and tick
ets can either be reserved or bought
at the gate. Cupon book holders
from Tech may exchange their
tickets to this game for tickets in
the Texas Tech section.
Band Leader
Friday night retreat and super
formations have been moved up
an hour to enable the clearing of
the main dining hall for the dance,
according to an announcement from
the commandant’s office yesterday.
The retreat formation will be ob
served at 6:15 p. m. with mess
call immediately following, stated
the order issued by the comman
dant.
Ramps F, G, H, I, and J of Hart
hall will be vacated by cadets in
order to provide accomodations for
visiting girls attending the ball.
The usual charge of 50 cents per
guest will be assessed cadets wish
ing to reserve rooms for their
dates. This fee will cover cost of
matrons, maid service, and other
incidental expenses. The rooms will
be open for guests at 4:00 p. m.
Friday. Guests staying in the dorm
must be in by 3:00 a. m.
Wool To Be Worn
Uniform regulations have been
announced by the uniform com
mittee as follows. Juniors and
seniors will wear the number one
wool uniform. Sophomores, fresh
men and frogs will be required to
wear the number two winter uni-
As for train schedules, trains ^rm-which consists of wool OD
slacks and cotton shirt. The is-
ANSON WEEKS
Coast Receives
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Latest Equipment
Arrival of a full freight car load
of equipment for the Coast Artil
lery Corps to be unpacked today,
was announced by Lt. Col. A. J.
Bennett, adjutant.
Included in the car load of mil
itary equipment is a 40 millimeter
anti-aircraft gun complete with all
the latest accepted war depart
ment auxiliary detecting and aim
ing devices to function integrally
with the weapon.
This gun is the very latest used
in the army and will be used for
instructional purposes, states Col.
Bennett.
will leave Houston at 8:00 a. m.
and arrive at the College at 10:00
a. m. and leave College Station for
the return trip at 7:45 p. m. and
arrive in Houston at 9:30 p. m.
Dallas trains will leave there at
8:00 a. m. and arrive here at 12:15
p. m. and arrive in Dalas at 10:30
p. m.
Posch Tritomia Gives
Enough Milk in One
Year to Raise a Man
Enough milk to provide a new
born baby until he is old enough
to vote has been produced in only
one year by a registered Holstein
in the herd owned by A. & M., the
Holstein-Friesian Association of
America reports.
Posch Tritomia Lady Segis is this
cow’s name. Her year’s produc
tion is 17,286 pounds of milk with
583 pounds of butterfat. She was
milked three times a day.
suance of number one uniform for
freshmen, frogs and sophomores
would be impossible in this short
a time therefore the number two
uniform was prescribed by the
uniform committee.
The committee in charge of fa
vors announces that an innovation
in favors will be on deck with the
distribution of a small compact
in the form of a garrison cap. The
programs for the dance will be of
white leather with maroon tassels.
Band Leaders are Made not Born
Anson Weeks theory is that you
don’t have to come from a musical
family to be a band leader—but
it helps. It helps so much that al
though Anson has distinguished
himself as a composer, pianist,
conductor, and arranger, he never
received any musical instructio?!
outside of his own home until he
was 25, and already a succesful
orchestra leader.
Anson is a representative of
the third generation of the musical
(See COAST BALL, Page 6)
Gallant Aggie Wins
Silver Star inBurma
Major Julian M. Joplin, awarded
a silver star for gallantry by the
War Department for aiding the
evacuation of 5,000 wounded from
Burma, is the brother of Mrs. C.
W. Olive, 2807 Cain Boulevard.
Joplin made his home with his
sister for two years while he was
attending Texas A. & M. College.
Infantry Signs Boyd
Raeburn for Ball
Boyd Raeburn, popular young
maestro who appeared three times
on the campus last spring, has been
selected by the Infantry Ball
dance committee to play for the
Infantry Ball October 30.
Mai’vin McMullen, in charge of
the arrangements, said Raeburn
has proved so popular in the past,
the Infantry is fortunate in get
ting his band this year.
Raeburn played the Junior Prom,
Senior Ring dance, and the Final
Ball during the spring of this year.
Weeks to Be
Presented
At Town Hall
50 Cent War Stamp
Admits Purchaser
To Season Opener
Music by Anson Weeks- and his
well known orchestra will be pre
sented as the first Town Hall at
traction of this semester Friday
night in the main dining room of
Sbisa hall, states John Lawrence,
Town Hall manager.
That famous “Dancin’ With An
son” music will headline a long-
list of excellent Town Hall at
tractions that have been signed
for presentation to the corps dur
ing the next semester, states Law
rence.
As A. & M.’s first major contri
bution of this type to the national
war bonds and stamp drive, Law
rence announces, the admission to
the concei-t may be paid by the
purchase of a 50 cent war savings
stamp. This stamp can be pur
chased at the entrance to Sbisa
hall and need only be shown the
ticket taker to gain entrance for
the whole performance.
Summer tickets as well as the
new fall Town Hall tickets will, be
good for admission to the concert,
Lawrence added, as it was impos
sible to obtain a satisfactory dance
band for a concert this summer.
In addition to winning fame
for himself in the orchestra world
Anson Weeks, has provided the en
tertainment field with three other
notable successes.
One of Anson’s first proteges
was Bob Crosby, younger brother
of the famed Bing, although Bing
himself hadn’t achieved his present
success when Anson discovered Bob
and gave him a start with the
Weeks orchestra in San Francisco.
Xavier Cugat, the tango and
rhumba king, is another who owes
his start in music to Anson weeks,
as does Griff Williams. Both Cu
gat and Williams were at one time
members of the Weeks aggrega
tion.
Aggie Pickin's Returns to Air
Lanes with Ten Theater Passes
By Tom Journeay
“It’s 5 o’clock and time for Ag
gie Pickin’s.” Those are the words
that will be spoken by a WTAW
announcer tomorrow ’round about
the half way mark on the Aggie
Clambake, marking the return of
“Aggie Pickin’s” to the air.
For the benefit of the owners of
the new faces around the campus,
those fellows with the bright and
shiny stripe, we might mention that
the Aggie Clambake is one of the
regular broadcasts of the college
radio station, WTAW, that’s heard
each and every Friday afternoon
from 4:30 ’til 5:30.
On this Aggie Clambake any
thing can happen and invariably
does. At 5:00 the popular Aggie
hit parade, known as “Aggie
Pickin’s” hits the ether waves.
ducted by Bering with the some
what feeble aid of an announcer
sometimes known as “five-watt.”
“Aggie Pickin’s” is a program
for the entertainment and benefit
of the Aggies. Yep, that’s right,
we said benefit. By that we mean
that the management of the
Campus Theatre donates each week
ten theatre passes to be given
away to the winners of our pro
gram. As the radio announcers
say, “It’s lots of fun and there’s
nothing to it, all you do is tear off
the flap. . .”—matter of fact it’s
even easier than that.
Here’s how to win a pass: Write
the names of the three songs you
think are the most popular on the
campus—the ones that are played
most in the mgss hall and are
sung the most around the dorms,
This program was originated on a slip of paper, and either drop
about a year ago by Conrad Ber- it in a box on the bulletin board of
ing, staff news editor of WTAW, i the Academic building, or bring it
is now entering its third consecu-i by Room 253 Bizzell or, Room 54
tive semester. The show is con- Mitchell. That’s all there is to it!
Then, when Friday afternoon
comes along, tune in WTAW, or
come up to the studios in the second
floor of the YMCA, and join in
on the fun listening to the eight
most popular songs on the campus
in order that you arranged them.
If you were among the first ten
to correctly guess the top three
tunes, you’ll get a pass to the show
absolutely free that you can use
any time during the week follow
ing the brodcast.
In reality “Aggie Pickin’s” is
your Aggie Hit Parade, therefore
to make it an accurate parade of
the favorites of Aggieland, it’s
up to you. So before it’s too late,
get your song titles in and establish
yourself on the ground floor to re
ceive a pass to the Campus theatre.
Don’t forget, “Aggie Pickin’s”
returns to the air tomorrow after
noon at five, so join in the fun,
either beside your radio or at the
studio in person, with Conrad Ber
ing and “Five-watt” on WTAW.
Movie Producers
Arrive Tomorrow
To Start Work
To Film Shorts For
Distribution Among
South American Nations
Officials of “We’ve Never Been
Licked” will arrive on the campus
tomorrow to start preliminary work
prior to the actual filming of the
picture, announced G. Byran Win
stead, publicity director.
Jack Rawlins, Director of the
Walter Wanger production, will
head the list of the movie-town ag
gregation to confer with college
officials here on the movie.
Also with the group will be Alex
Golitzen, art director for the pic
ture and Company Manager Frank.
The publicity office also an
nounces that a short feature, pos
sibly the first in a series of shorts,
will be made here on the A. & M.
campus for distribution to the
Latin Americas to foster better
relations with those countries.
Jack Lieghter of the Motion Pic
ture Society for the Americas,
Hollywood branch of the Office of
Inter-American Affairs will arrive
on the campus with the group to
do research for the short.
The purpose of the shorts is to
introduce the Latin Americas with
the various phases of living in
this country, and Texas A. & M.
has been selected as a subject for
one of several of the pictures with
that in,mind. .
Next week more of the Walter
Wanger production staff will ar
rive on the campus to iron out and
decide several technical problems
such as obtaining necessary elec
tricity potential for the tremendous
flood lights used in the movie
making process, Winstead stated.
Development Fund Set Up
By Exes and Board Members
Activities Center Provides Gathering
Places, Every Form of Amusement for Corps
The first real step taken toward the building of a Stu
dent Activities Center or Union Building on the campus has
been taken this fall by Alumni of the College thru their or
ganization, the Association of Former Students. Long the
fond dream of both students and faculty the Activities Cen
ter has been designated as one of the greatest needs of the
corps.
Working in cooperation with the Board of Directors of
the College the Ex-Students have reorganized their financial
set-up and have established the Texas A.&M. College De
velopment Fund. Ex-Students and other friends of the Col
lege will be asked to make an annual gift to that fund, in
whatever amount each wishes and-
Corps Receives
Copies of Cadence
Over 2,000 copies of the Cadence,
freshmen guide book, have already
been distributed to frogs and fresh
men, states, Walter W. Cardwell,
cadet colonel today.
The Cadence is a hand book of
all the important essentials that
go into the making up of the corps
and traditions that surround the
67 year old school.
The Cadence will be issued to
frogs and freshmen today from
2 p. m. until 6 p. m. and also to
Seniors as long the present supply
lasts. A new shipment is expected
to arrive in the near future will
be issued to seniors first and then
to other upper classmen, Cardwell
states.
Longnecker Speaks
Herfe October 13
Dr. H. E. Longnecker of the
University of Pittsburg, Penn.,
will speak at A. & M. on Tuesday,
Oct. 13, on the subject of the For
mation of Animal Body Fats. Dr.
Longnecker is a graduate of Penn
sylvania State College and also
studied at the University of Liver
pool England, the University of
Cologne Germany and Queens Uni
versity, Canada, on a fellowship
from the National Research Coun
cil. Dr. Longnecker has been doing
research work on the chemistry
and physiology of fats, the rela
tion of the vitamin B complex to
fat metabolism fat splitting en
zymes and the biological synthesis
of Vitamin C.
All Cavalry Officers
Transferred to Reilly
Captain A. P. Utterback, Jr.,
senior instructor of the Cavalry
unit, Captain G. P. Valiant and
Lt. W. G. North, Jr., have been
ordered to Fort Reilly, Kansas.
Utterback and North will be as
signed to duty there at the Caval
ry Replacement Training Center.
Valiant will return to duty at A.
& M. after a three months period
of training there.
Replacing the present instructors
will be Capt. Harry O. Owens, Jr.,
a graduate of Culver, and Lt. Don
ald F. Issacson, a Kansas State
graduate who is coming here from
Fort Reilly.
in accordance with his ability.
Funds so given will be used to pro
vide the College and its student
bady with needed facilities for
which state or school funds are
not available.
A Real Student Center
The Student Activities Center is
visualized as more than the purely
social center common to the camp
uses of other large schools. These
would be provided but with added
facilities to fit the particular needs
of the natiou’s largest man’s school.
Extensive physical education and
intramural facilities, and various
other recreational features would
be included. Accommodations for
visiting parents and sweethearts
would be provided. Every effort
would be made to make the Center
the real heart of student life on
the campus.
Present plans call for the Center
to be built as a memorial to the
thousands of A. & M. men who
have served and are serving in the
armed forces of their country.
Final plans for the giant pro
ject will be determined by the
Board of Directors of the college
and its completion may be far in
the future. For the first time,
however, plans are under way to
lay real “Coin of the realm” on
the line for what in the past has
been only a beautiful dream, states
E. E. McQuillen, secretary of the
association.
Fifty Thousand as a Starter
Fifty Thousand has been set as
the Development Fund’s goal this
year, and the campaign among
Aggie Exes for that amount is
proceeding nicely, according to re
ports from the headquarters office
of the Ex-students Association in
the Administration building. Money
raised at this time will be placed
in War Bonds for the duration
and will then be available to launch
the Student Activities Center pro
ject.
The Board of Directors of the
Ex-students Association will hold
a called meeting on the campus
this week-end to discuss further
(See ACTIVITIES Page 6)
Wildlife Students
Return Bringing
Mexican Specimens
Spent Summer Camped On
Mexican Rivers Studying
Tropical Fish and Game
Bringing with it more than 5000
specimens of plants, birds, mam
mals, reptiles and fish for research
and teaching purposes, a group of
24 A. & M. students has returned
from a summer-long wildlife study
in Mexico.
Led by Professors W. B. Davis
and Cecil Reid of the college Fish
and Game department, the students
received credit for 18 semester
hours—4 in ornithology and 7 each
in stream surveys and field tech
nique—for work done on the trip.
Encampments were made on the
Rio Ramos, 40 miles south of Mon
terrey, at Rio Axtla near Tamuzan-
chale, and at Rio Frio in the moun
tains east of Mexico City, at an
elevation of 10,500 feet. Sub-camps
were established in localities rang
ing from Verz Cruz to Acapulco.
Alpine flora and fauna were
studied by one group on the high
mountains—Popocatepetl, Iztaeci-
huatl, Orizaba and Cofre de Pero
te—while others studied tropical
matters in the costal plains.
Numerous friends were made by
the Aggie party, and one branch
of the Mexican government is
planning to send students here for
training in wildlife management,
as a result of the party’s visit.
Making the trip were Fred Bled
soe, Edward W. Bonn, D. Homer
Buck, David Donaldson, William
Delaney, Lewis Follansbee, Harry
Gilber, W. Tommy Johnson, Bill
Leftwich, Tom D. Moore, John W.
McKamy, Ernest Powell, Ralph
Rusche, John R. Scott, George
Scruggs, Robert Shults, Stanley
Stegall, Ralph Stone, Edmond Talk,
E. Paul Thorne, Harry Turner,
Joe M. Vajdos, Sam Wheeler and
Matt Whisenhunt.
Famous Ag Band Has Thrilled
Football Spectators for 67 Years
By John Holman | Originating the year the college I organization, membership was
When Southwest Conference opened its doors, 1876, the Aggie limited only to boys taking In
football fans see the Texas Aggies band has continually grown, but fantry and Field Artillery mili-
play ball, a great many of them I in 1911, there were still only 16 tary science. Today, the band has
Above is shown the Aggie band in the uniforms
worn back in 1905. In the earlier days of the
college, each military organization had a pretty
feminine sponsor who was chosen by the mem
bers of the outfit and participated in all military
functions. The 1905 sponsor is shown with the
bandsmen.
enjoy the show between the halves
as much as they do the game.
Why? The reason perhaps lies in
the magnificence of the mighty
Aggie Band, the largest college
band in the world, and one of the
best.
musicians listed on its rolls. In
1925 that number had grown to
almost a hundred, with boys taken
from every organization on the
campus.
In 1939, the band was given a
dormitory of its own, and in re-
again split its ranks, but only
so far as living quarters are con
cerned.
Under the direction of Lt. Col.
Richard E. Dunn and his assistant,
Weldon Covington, this musical or-
(See BAND, Page 6)