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The Battalion
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
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VOLUME 42
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 6, 1942
2275
NUMBER 51
Journalism Congress Will
Be Held Here October 15-171;
All Cadets Working “
On Publications
Entitled to Attend
The Southwestern Journalism
Congress and the Southwestern
Students’ Press Club will hold its
sixteenth annual meeting here at
A. & M. on October 15, 16, and 17,
it was announced by John Longley,
editor of the Longhorn and presi
dent of the Southwestern Students’
Press Club. All members of the
A. & MC Press Club will be priv
ileged to take part in the activi
ties on payment of a $1.00 regis
tration fee.
Purposes of this conference are
to allow journalism students and
students interested in student pub
lications in the Southwest to get
together to exchange ideas and
create good will, stated Longley.
Included in the conference will be
students from Baylor, Hardin-Sim-
mons, LSU, Oklahoma A. & M.,
Mary Hardin-Baylor, SMU, Texas
A. & M., TCU, TSCW, Texas Tech,
Tulane, Oklahoma Uiversity, and
Texas University.
Highlights of the conference will
be a banquet in Sbisa Hall, a
barbecue, and a dance at the
Grove. Principal speakers at the j
conference wil be Dr. John Ash
ton, Dr. T. O. Walton, Major James
E. Crown of the New Orleans
States, and Silas B. Ragsdale of
the Galveston News.
College Collection
Of Scrap Expected
To Be Over 200 Tons
A grand total of over 460,000
pounds of scrap metal is expected
to be sent by A. & M. and the
community of College Station to
the national salvage drive after the
conclusion of the scrap drive to be
held in College Station starting
today.
E. N. Holmgreen, college bus
iness manager, stated that 110,000
pounds had already started on its
way to American defense plants
and that another 100,000 pounds
had been assembled in the big
scrap pile behind the Petroleum
Building.
All persons in College Station
having available scrap are urged
by the Brazos County Salvage
Committee to take it to the nearest
public school where scrap bins
have been set up or to the scrap
pile behind the Petroleum Engi
neering Building as soon as pos
sible, Holmgreen added.
GovernorProclaims
October 4-10 Fire
Prevention Week
Coke Stevenson has formally
proclaimed October 4 to 10 as “Fire
Prevention Week” in Texas.
Citing the urgent necessity for
preventing fires during time of
war, Gov. Stevenson said, “the
production of materials essential to
the prosecution of the war by our
nation is taxing the capacity of in
dustrial plants, and curtailment of
production because of fire becomes
a menace to our own safety.”
The Governor called upon Tex
as citizens and various local or
ganizations to emphasize the dan
ger of fire and to encourage fire
prevention.
Commenting on Fire Prevention
Week, Marvin Hall, State Fire In
surance Commissioner, suggested
that every Texan accept individual
responsibility in adopting fire pre
vention measures at home and at
work.
“According to the official pro
clamation,” Hall said, “Fire Pre
vention Week has special signifi
cance this year. The defense of fac
tories, farms and homes against de
struction by accidental fires is es
sential to the war production pro
gram and conservation of vital re
sources.
“There is another reason why
we must devote more attention to
preventing fires. We are now re
ceiving dividends of lower insur
ance rates—the result of preventing
fires. In order to keep the low
fire insurance rates now in effect,
it will be necessary for us to pre
vent fires in the future.”
Agronomy Society To
Meet Thursday Night
There will be a meeting of the
Agronomy Society Thursday night
at 7:30 o’clock in the lecture room
of the ' Agricultural Engineering
building. Ceasar “Dutch” Hohn,
Extension Service Soil Conserva
tionist, will probably be the speak
er, but that has not been confirm
ed as yet, acording to Durwood
James, presidcent of the Society.
All Agronomy majors, minors and
those interested are requested to
be at the meeting.
College Airport
Receives $640,000
overnment Fund
Two Runways Will Be
Constructed, 5400 and
5000 Feet Long, Here
Easterwood Airport will move
into the Class 4 rating, 'as the re
sult of an appropriation of $640,-
000 which has been approved by
the Civil Aeronautics Administra
tion.
Word of this appropriation was
wired to T. O. Walton, president of
the college, last Thursday by Rep.
Luther A. Johnson, who has been
cooperating with college authori
ties in this project.
The funds will make possible the
construction of two concrete run
ways. One, which will catch 86
per cent of the normal breeze, will
be 5400 feet long, and the other
wil be 5000 feet in length. They
will make it possible for any planes
now being built to land or take
off from Easterwood.
The appropriation provides for
no buildings, but it is expected that
funds will be provided for this im
provement in later action by the
Civil Aeronautics Administration.
Government Seeks
Weather Experts
Uncle Sam is looking for men
and women—but especially the
gals—to go to work in the weather
bureau, College Station, Texas, sec
retary, local Board of U. S. Civil
Service examiners, announced to
day. Applicants should be at least
17 years old and have a high school
education or its equivalent. They’ll
have to pass a mechanical aptitude
test to qualify.
The fledgeing, weathermen (or
weatherwomen) will be known as
junior observers in meterology, and
will draw down $120 a month while
they’re in a three month’s course of
instruction on weather observing,
weather coding, and the plotting of
weather data on maps.
The ones who make the grade
in this training course may be
rapidly promoted, with duty in
Arkansas, Lousiana, Oklahoma,
Texas and New Mexico.
Applications can be obtained from
any first-or second-class post of
fice in Lousiana or Texas; the re
gional director, Tenth Civil Ser
vice Region Customhouse, New Or
leans; or from U. S. Post Office,
College Station, Texas.
Horse Show
To Be Held
Saturday
Events This Year
Will Include Cadet
Entries Exclusively
The annual Cavalry horse show
will be held Saturday afternoon
October 10, featuring riding, jump
ing and novelty events, stated Lt.
W. G. North, Cavalry instructor.
This year the show will be all
military, no civilians being allowed
participation, stated North.
Events for freshmen and sopho
more as well as open jumping
events for juniors and seniors will
be among the feature attractions
at the event next week end stated
North.
A system has been worked out
whereby each cavalry troop will
enter the same number for the
meet, also credit will be given to
the various troops. It is planned + o
use the outcome of the competitive
events between troops as one of
the competitive events between
troops as one of the deciding fact
ors on which troops get the colors.
Entries from the Field Artillery
will be included in the show also.
One of the favorite gag events
that has been staged in past years
will be included on the docket again
Saturday, states North. This event
is the pop race. Two : entries per
troop are allowed to enter the
contest. Each man and his opponent
start simultaneously mounting
bareback on a horse and riding
across the field where they jump
off and drink a bottle of pop
handed them by an assistant, jump
back on their horse and ride back
across the field. The rider that
does all this in the quickest time
wins the event.
Another gag event that always
provides a thrill is the musical
chair ride. A number of entrants
ride around the arena to the ac
companiment of lovely music. In
side the arena there have been
less in number of chairs, one
less in number than the riders
however. The bareback rider ride
until the music stops. Then they
all jump off and head for the near
est chair. One rider always loses
out on the chair and is eliminated
from the event. This process goes
on until the winner is finally de
termined.
WTAW, Despite an fumble Start, Now
Plays Important Part in Southwest Radio
Studios Will Be
Expanded When In
Administration Bldg
By Tom Journeay
Texas A. & M. entered the radio
business twenty years ago today.
On October 7, 1922 radio activities
began when a broadcasting sta
tion was built for experimental
purposes. For ten professors and
students used the apparatus to
send Morse code messages, and A.
& M. claims the distinction of
having broadcast the first athletic
event in the history of the world
when, in 1919, a football game was
put on the air here in code and re
ceived in Waco where the news
papers based their late stories on
the game.
WTAW today is a far cry from
the little sending set constructed
back in 1912 by students in the
Electrical Engineering department
for the* purposes of instructing
students here on the uses of radio.
Soon the station will be in opera
tion from brand new studios in
the Administration Building with
the latest equipment obtainable.
Radio Telephone Used in 1923
Use of radio telephone by WT
AW was first employed in 1922. In
1927 the present studios in the
YMCA were built with of course
many additions and frequent re
modelings to keep the equipment
up to date. In 1925 the power of
the station which had been 250
watts, was increased to 500 watts,
adding much territory to WTAW’s
primary coverage area. The sta
tion then went on the air regularly
twice a week in addition to broad
casting chapel services and athle
tic events. In the spring of 1926
the Extension service of the college
assumed responsibility of the pro
grams which they kept until 1939
when the running of the station
was turned over to the publicity
department of the college.
Credit Due to F. C. Bolton
Credit for the development and
establishment of the station is due
largely to Dean F. C. Bolton, who
at the time of the establisment of
the station was dean of the school
of engineering. Since the inaugura
tion of radio broadcasting activities
in 1922, Dean Bolton has given
much of his time to the radio sta
tion. At first largely an electrical
engineering labortary facility, WT
AW has steadily grown to the point
where today it is recognized
among the radio stations in the
south west as a true public ser
vice.
During the past twenty years
the station has had numerous dif
ferent broadcasting periods. At the
present time the station operates
from 11:25 a. m. until 12:00 noon
every week day, on Friday from
4:30 until 5 p. m. in addition, and
on Sunday from 8:30 until 9:30 a.
m.
Station Has New Transmitter
These broadcasts are actually
transmitted from the new 1000
watt Collins latest model commer
cial broadcast transmitter located
on the campus near a grove of
trees on the Houston highway. At
nearly any time the 220-foot ver
tical radiator is clearly visible from
the campus.
In addition to these broadcasts
which are aired over the regular
local transmitter, several other re
gular programs are put on for
various networks, and on any
special occasion worthy of broad
casting, a WTAW microphone is
not an uncommon sight. Every
morning at 6 the Texas Farm and
Home program is broadcast by the
three stations of the Texas Quality
network, the program originated
and produced from the WTAW lo
cal studios. On Thursday after
noon at 1:15, the Texas School of
the Air is broadcast from these
studios on the same network.
During the Spring of this year
I thirty-minute variety program
was inaugurated, likewise produced
by the WTAW staff and fed to the
16 station all-Texas hook-up of the
Texas State Network from the
stage of Guion hall every Thurs
day night. Tentative plans call for
the resumption of that series of
broadcasts as soon as details can
be worked out.
Winstead Directs Policies
G. Byron Winstead, Director of
Information and College publica
tions, formulates the policies on
which the station is run by the col
lege. The actual running of the
radio station is done by John O.
Rosser, Program director, who was
first employed here in that capaci
ty in 1939.
Local Station Was
First to Broadcast
Sports in World
Chief Engineer of the station,
and Technical Director for all mat
ters, is H. C. Dillingham, of the
Electrical Engineering Department.
Chief operator of the station is
Bob Loofburrow, Senior EE stu
dent. Also on the engineering staff
is Hardy B. Curry, EE Senior.
The program staff responsible
for the actual airing of all the
radio broadcasts is made up of
Dick Bolin, Harry Dillingham,
Richard Gottlieb, and Tom Jour
neay, announcers; and Conrad Ber-
ring, news editor. This staff is
constantly working with Rosser to
produce better and more varied
entertainment for WTAW listen
ers.
Move by First of Year
Probably by the first of the year,
the station will be operating from
its new studios on the third floor
of the administration building.
Those studios will be equipped with I
the latest technical equipment re-1
cently purchased and now await
ing installing in the new quarters.
This equipment will enable sev
eral different programs to be fed
simultaneously to any of several
different points, also intricate audi
tion, talk-back and other technical
features of latest design will be
provided making the new WTAW
one of the finest and most modem
radio plants in the entire nation.
Cadets Urged To
Have Class Pictures
Made for Longhorn
Organization Pictures
Be Made by November 1;
Club Deadline October 15
All freshmen, sophomores, and
juniors, who haven’t had their pic
tures made for the Longhorn as
yet, are urged to do so at the
earliest possible date, John Long-
Jey, editor, said Monday. The final
deadline has been set for October
15, and no individual pictures will
be made after that date.
As yet, very few freshmen,
sophomores, and juniors have had
their pictures made, so all who
haven’t will have to get them made
before October 15, as it will be
impossible to extend the deadline.
The deadline for all military or
ganization pictures has been set
for November 1, and all pictures
have to be in by that time. These
pictures are the ones made of
each organization dressed in num
ber one uniform.
Club reservations and- the rost
ers of the respective clubs have
to be in by the deadline on October
15. All clubs desiring to have the
club picture in the Longhorn must
make their own arangements for
having their pictures made. This
can be done by making arrange
ments with Joe Sosolik, of the
Aggieland Studio, official photo
grapher for the Longhorn.
None of these deadlines will be
extended, as they have already
been done so, and it would be im
possible to extend them further
and still get the Longhorn out on
time, Longley added. Therefore,
all individuals, clubs and military
organizations wishing to have pic
tures in the 1943 Longhorn, are re
quested to abide by the deadlines
stated above.
Officers Offer
Collegians Chance
To Enlist Reserves
Officers from the Army, Navy,
and Marine Corps will address the
Cadet Corps Officer Procurement
program here on the campus. They
will discuss the ways and means of
getting a college education and at
the same time finishing an educa
tion.
Among the various programs to
be discussed will be the V-l train
ing program as “democracy’s in
telligent and practical way of meet
ing America’s urgent needs for
thousands of young college train
ed officers without breaking down
our educational standards or for
getting future needs for trained
men for civilian life after the war
is won.”
These officers are well informed
on the role of the college man in
the war, having - discussed this
topic at other colleges, and they
will be able to answer any ques
tions in regard to it.
Robert Cummings Selected
For Lead in “Texas A&M”
Sulphur Springs
Road Ready For
Construction Work
Underpass Will Be Built
At Railroad Tracks To
Insure Safer Crossing
The Sulphur Springs road, which
runs from the highway through
the North Gate to the railroad
tracks, is now ready for grading
in an improvement program which
will make a two lane highway,
similar to the one at the East
Gate entrance, to relieve the traf
fic congestion in this area, E. N.
Holmgreen, business manager, an
nounced Monday.
Fences have been removed, wat
er and sewer pipes have been low
ered in preparation for the grad
ing operation. The paving of the
road will be held up until the
necesary materials can be secured,
and, for this reason, there is no
indication as to when the project
will be completed, Holmgreen, ad
ded.
In the future, an underpass will
be constructed at the railroad
tracks at the end of the road, to
make a safer and better crossing.
Scholarship Honor
Society Pictures May
Be Ordered This Week
Scholarship Honor Society mem
bers who wish to have a picture in
the organization section of the
Longhorn must pay a fee of 50
cents to J. H. McAllister, secre
tary-treasurer, in room 317 dorm
itory 7, it was announced today by
Bill Galloway, president of the
Scholarship Honor Society.
To be included in the club sec
tion, members must have their
pictures included in the class sec
tion of the Longhorn, McAllister,
stated. Galloway urged that mem
bers pay their dues and the 50
cent fee as soon as possible.
Gus White Injured
In Accident Sunday
Gus White, a freshman, was in
jured Sunday morning while walk
ing in the street in front of the
Aggieland Inn where he was struck
down by a passing automobile. He
was taken to the college hospital
where he was treated by Dr. P. A.
Woodard. Hospital attendants
stated that his injuries, although
painful, were not serious and that
he would probably be released from
the hospital shortly.
White’s left arm was caught by
the handle of the car door and he
was thrown to the ground. His
left arm was severely lacerated.
Several of the muscles were gash
ed and a tendon was torn loose.
He lost quite a bit of blood.
Anne Gwynne Will
Play Opposing- Lead
In Wanger Picture
Robert Cummings, youthful HoL
lywood star of “King’s Row”, has
been selected by Walter Wanger
and his staff to play the masculine
lead in the forthcoming Aggie film
tentatively titled, “Texas A. & M.”
Opposite Cummings will be a
Texas product, Miss Anne Gwynne,
formerly of San Antonio. Miss
Gwynne has been chosen for the
female lead by Wanger, who said
she was chosen because he thought
she would not only put fresh tal
ent into the film, but was as pro
mising a young star as there is in
Hollywood.
John Rawlins, director of the
picture, and several other Wanger
and Universal officials are now
on the campus absorbing Aggie
atmosphere and acquiring the pro
per technique of saying, “Fish
Rawlins is my name, sir!”
Writing the screen play is Nor
man Reilley Raine, ace scenarist
and creator of the Saturday Even
ing Post’s “Tugboat Anne” stories.
Long a minor actor in Holly
wood, Cummings has in the past
year come into his own, largely
through his successes with Dean
na Durbin.
Boards Warned
Against Taking
Necessary War Men
General J. Watt Page, State
Selective Service Director, today
cautioned all local boards against
withdrawing from war production
industries and transportationh ser
vices “necessary men” because
they happen to be without depend
ents. He said:
“If a registrant qualifies for oc
cupational deferment as a ‘neces
sary man’ under the provisions
of the Selective Service Regulations-
and any of the several National
Headquarters Occupational Bulle
tins, then he should be classified
II-A or II-B, depending upon the
character of the industry, even
though he is single, and married
men, not essentially employed, will
have to be used to fill the board’s
,call.
Org-anization Banquet
To Be Held in Sbisa
An organization, battalion and
regimental commanders banquet
will be held tomorrow evening at
7:45 o’clock in the banquet room
of Sbisa Hall, Cadet Colonel Wal
ter Cardwell announced Monday.
Cardwell urged that all organiza
tion commanders and housemasters
be present to discuss the business
that must be attended to.
Dean E J Kyle Styled as rr The
Fighting Dean of Texas Aggies ’
“The Fighting Dean of the Fight
ing Texas Aggies” is the new title
bestowed upon Dean E. J. Kyle by
the October issue of the “Country
Gentlemen”, one of the leading
agricultural journals of the na
tion.
In an illustrated feature the part
played by Dean Kyle in the mak
ing of the A. & M. as we know it
today, is widely portrayed.. As the
magazine stated, Dean Kyle has
been at Texas A. & M. for forty
article continued, but as more than
half of the Aggies do today, he
earned his own way through school.
Even in college, Kyle was not
without his share of distinction. He
won the positions of senior cap
tain, then the highest ranking of
ficer in the corps; president of the
Y.M.C.A.; president of his class;
and valedictorian. He even served
as commandant during the Spanish-
American ’ War.
In those days, the teaching of
six of his sixty-six years. The lit- agriculture was in its infancy and
tie town of Kyle, Texas, situated practically unheard of in the state
on the highway between Austin of Texas. To remedy this situation
and San Antonio received its name i became one of Dean Kyle’s ambi-
from Dean Kyle’s grandfather who tions and therefore, he studied
settled thereabouts in 1848. He agriculture at the University of
moved there from his native Mis- Cornell and received a degree of
sissippi after he was defeated in
his ambition to become governor.
I Master of Science in Agriculture
in 1902. After this he received
When the Civil War came, the the position of professor of horti-
five husky sons of Grandfather be- ; culture at A. & M.
He has the knack of inspiring vic
tory and in each of the five years
he has been boss of athletics dur
ing his teaching period at A. &
M. he produced a winning team.
There was a season four years
ago when civil war threatened Ag
gieland. The football team went
into a tail spin. The students were
in open rebellion; faculty members
were at loggerheads. Ex-students
were howling for a change in
coaches. And to completely make
things bad, the stadium bonds had
been in default for two years. At
this critical time Dean Kyle was
appointed chairman of athletics.
The results were the nationally
famous teams of Coach Homer
Norton.
Throughout the entire article
a fine tribute was paid to Dean
Kyle and the school. All through
the state he is called.
ame famous as the original “Fight- Two books published by Dean | icle concluded, the “most popular”
ing Kyles”. Edwin Jackson Kyle Kyle have also made him famous, . and “most useful citizen.” Friends
was one of the nine children of
Captain Ferg Kyle an grew up
in the town his father founded—
and hardly left it until his enroll
ment in A. & M. in 1896. Both he
and the college were twenty years
old.
The Kyles were well-to-do, the
“Agriculture in the Southwest” assert that he has hunting dates
and “Fundamentals of Farming with every filling station boy
and Farm Life”, which have be- j across the state of Texas a furth-
come part of the library of Texas j er illustration of his renown
high school boys throughout the
state.
In the field of athletics, Dean
Kyle has also won himself a place.
throughout the state. In every re
spect, he has truely earned his
reputation as the “Fighting Dean”
of the “Fighting Aggies”.