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\ 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. 29, 1942 2275 NUMBER 61 Completion of Education is Planned at Chicago Meet Infantry Ball Highlights Weekend Boyd Raeburn Orchestra Featured at Sbisa Hall Uniform Is Number One for Juniors and Seniors; Number Two for Underclassmen Friday mgiit from 9 until 1, the Infantry Regiment will hold its annual ball In Sbisa Hall with music provided by Boyd Raeburn, popular young maestro, and his orchestra. Uniform f©r the dance will be number one with khaki •■shirts and ties for juniors and sen iors, with the cloth belt or Sam Browne optional. Sophomores and freshmen must wear number two with wool slacks, khaki shirts, and black ties No one will be admitted to the dance Friday out of uniform. Supper formation Friday even ing will be moved up to 6:15 so that Infantry men and their dates will be able to get to the dance on time. “This will be the bigeest and best Infantry Ball yet,” said John Mullins, chairman in charge of ar rangements. Decorations for the ball will be “different” according to Clayton D’Avy, decorations chairman. Reatured will be a backdrop be hind the bandstand showing an Infantry Aggie chasing Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito. The ends of the ballroom will also be de corated. One end will feature a backdrop of the cammando course, while the other end will feature charging paddlefeet. Lighting will be furnished entirely by indirect lights arqund the edge of the dance floor. All over head lights will be turned out. Programs for the ball will be four by six inches, and will be white, tied together with blue leat her thongs. Tickets were issued to first sergeant’s last night. Sixteen TSCWites and their es corts chosen to represent A. & M. at the SMU game in Dallas November 6 will be guests of the Regiment at the ball Friday night. The Aggie Day Sweetheart will be announced at the ball Friday night. Raeburn’s orchestra is one of the most popular to come to the cam pus. Boyd first played here for the Composite Ball in 1941, and returned last spring to play the Senior Ring Dance, Junior Prom and Final Ball. Featured in the vocal spotlight will be Hal Derwin, crooner and swing guitarist, and Claude (Hey, Hey) Humphrey, the drummer- lunatic. Seniors Choose Aggie Sweetheart From TSCW Girls Winner Will Tie Made Public at Infantry Ball Friday Night in Sbisa Sixteen A. <& M. students, led by Cadet ColeneT'Walter Cardwell of LuTing, went to the Texas State Teachers CdHege for "Women yes terday afternoon to pick a sweet heart to be presentd between halves of the Nov. 7 'SMU-Aggie football game.. Sixteen TSCW students, four from the freshman, sophomores, junior, and senior .classes have been selected as nominees (Each nom inee was .selected by a respective class meeting. Senior selections are Misses Lil lian Hutchens and Peggy Love- lady, Fort Worth; Hava Robinson, Honey Grove:; and Mary Jane Trail, Kaufman. .Juniors are Misses Ruth Bayne Bishop and Judy Stubbs, San Antonio-, Marjorie Brewer, College Station; and Ruth Tilley, Shamrodk. Sophomores are Bar bara Cook, Little Rock, Ark.; Ann Gwin, Houston;; Marjorie Ann Mon aghan, Breekenridge;; and Bobbie Jo Sanford, Dallas. Freshmen nominees are Elaine O’Leavy, Houston; Mary Jone Brown, Fort "Worth - ; Pat Mooie, Kemp; Peggy Echols, Dallas. The TSCW nominees entertained the A. & M. jury with a dinner and dance Tnesday evening and will come to College Station to morrow where the winner will be announced at the Infantry Ball. They will remain for the A. & M.— Arkansas football game, hear H. V. Kaltenborn lecture, and attend the Corps Dance Saturday. Eight hundred tickets in Ownby Stadium next to the Aggie section, will be sold to TSCW students, be ginning Nov. 3 Students will be re sponsible for their own transport ation. The Dallas Retail Merchants As sociation is working on arrange ments for style shows and other entertainment to be given Satur day morning before the game. This is the fifth year in which an “Aggie Day Sweetheart” has been selected for the A. & M. upstate game in Dallas with the Mustangs of Southern Methodist University or in Fort Worth with the Horned Frogs of Texas Christian Univer sity. At the half of the Aggies’ game in North Texas each fall, the sweetheart from TSCW is es- corated on the football field by the Cadet Colonel of the A. & M. Corps and presented flowers by the Cadet M^jor of the A. & M. Band, follow ing band formations. As the sweet heart is presented, the Aggie Band usually plays TSCW’s “Alma Mater.” Miss Anna Ruth Ashe, Fort Worth sophomore, was selected as the 1941 sweetheart. New Field Artillery Officer Arrives Here Captain W. S. Faulk, recently assigned to A. & M., arrived at noon Tuesday from the Second Infantry Division of Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio. Captain Faulk will instruct Field Artillery and teach military science. r Rhythms by Raeburn 9 Maestro mum A&M Heads Attend Chicago Land Grant College Meeting Plans Are Being Made to Allow Finishing College Before Entering Fighting Forces *■ A definite plan is being made whereby any student in a school such as A. & M.. who is doing satisfactory work may complete his college education before being called to military service, President T. O. Walton stated in a telephone conversation with Dean Bolton last night. President Walton is attending a meeting of the Land- Grant College Association in Chicago. According to Dr. Walton plans are being developed to give the college student with Above is Boyd Raeburn, popular young orchestra leader, who will take the spotlight Friday night with his “Rhythms by Rae burn” for the Infantry Regimental ball. Kaltenborn Flies to College Station To Address Corps on War’s Progress H. V. Kaltenborn, ace news com mentator, will appear Saturday at 7:00 p.m. on the Toivn Hall program in Guion Hall. Kalten- born’s talk will be on current topics Dick Jenkins Teaches “Marching Along” to Corps in Mess Hall Today, at the noon meal, Rich ard Jenkins director of the Sing ing Cadets, will sing “parching Along” over the sound system in order that the corps may learn the tune to the song which they will sing just before the Arkansas game starts Saturday. Words to the song were printed in last Saturday’s Battalion and will be reprinted this Saturday. “I would like to urge the corps to learn these words, so that when we sing the song Saturday, every one will know what they are,” said Jenkins. Architecture Club Sees “New Horizons” “To New Horizons,” second in a series of films on city planning being offered by the Architecture department, will be shown to the Architectural Club tonight after yell practice in the Animal Indus tries lecture room. This film thrilled over five million people in the General Motors exhibit at the recent New York World’s Fair and is considered by critics to be one of the best technicolor films in its field. All members of the Architectural Club ai - e urged to*be present and visitors are welcome. pertaining to the war, especially the European phase of the strug gle from which he has recently returned. The analyst has seen first hand what the British are doing and the hardships and deprivations which they are suffering. Since time will be limited be cause of the corps dance which will follow the program, and be cause the management wishes to crowd into the available time as much of value as possible, the usual forum period of questions asked by the audience will be elim inated. Instead, those who have questions may write them on slips USS Iowa Largest Man-of-War Afloat of paper which will be passed out at the doors, and Kaltenborn will attempt to answer the questions from the slips. All seats for the lecture have been sold out, but a few more reserve seats will be made avail able by placing chairs in the aisles, according to John Lawrence, Town Hall manager. These additional seats will sell for $2.00. Cadets who do not have a season ticket will be admitted for $1.00. Kaltenborn’s appearance is be ing made possible thi-ough his flying by plane from New York to St. Lxmis from which city he will make his Friday evening broadcast. Immediately after his Friday broadcast, Kaltenborn will board a plane for Texas, arriv ing in College Station early Satur day. His appearance here is not one of a regularly scheduled series of lectures. Kaltenborn is coming from New York to College Sta tion expressly for the purpose of addressing the cadet corps. It is for this reason that the program s being held on a Saturday. On weekdays, the analyst makes a scheduled broadcast, therefore, Saturday is his only free day for traveling talks. Lawrence especially urges that all who plan to attend arrive early. The doors will be locked promptly at 7 o’clock and no one else will be admitted. Military Science Checks Are to Be Given Out Today Senior Instructors Will Issue $23 Pay for Three Months to Contract Men Military science checks for jun iors and seniors with contracts were received by the military de partment yesterday and will be distributed to senior instructors of the various units by noon today. Contract holders may obtain their checks from their senior instruc tors this afternopn and tomorrow. Each junior and senior will re ceive $23.00 at this time, in pay ment for the first quarter of the fiscal year 1943. This includes pay ment for the months of July, Au gust and September, a total of 92 days at the rate of 25tf per day. Previous payments were made about August 1 for the month of June to all those juniors who re ceived contracts on June 1. Total amount of the checks to be issued this week is $27,459.25. All students who received their contracts at a time other than the beginning of a semester and all others whose contracts are irreg ular in any way may obtain their checks in room 19, Ross Hall. Those men whose respective senior instructors have not received their checks may make inquiries about their checks in the same room. All such inquiries should be made aft er noon today. an opportunity to continue his education and at the same time prepare himself for most effective military service. Government of ficials urge students to stay in college until such time as they are needed in the armed services. They promise that adequate warning will Jbe given of any change in the policy affecting enlistments. Announcement of this, program will not be made until after Con- Your Longhorn Won’t Be Out Unless You Give Elbow Grease Want to get the inside dope on the 1943 Longhorn long before any one else sees it ? And would you like to help relieve a dangerous situation at the same time ? Then drop around to the Long horn office any Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, or Friday afternoon and lend them a little of your elbow grease—they need you and need you badly. The yearbook is run ning behind schedule because of a lack of help, and so if you want to get in on some good bull—that may lead to the editor’s chair and $55 per month your senior year— drop around and give the boys a hand. Remember, it’s your Longhorn! At press time the follow ing telegram was received at the office of the Dean of the College: “Dean Bolton: I strongly urge all students to with hold decision as to branch and service to enter until final approval of pending legislation afefcting lower ing of age of selectees, and and the announcement of the War Department’s pol icy, which will shortly fol low, defining status of stu dents in schools and colleges. (Signed) Edward W. Smith, Colonel, General Staff Corps, Executive for Reserve and ROTC affairs.” Women’s Club Has Book Review for Tomorrow’s Meet Reception and Social Hour to Follow; This Will be First Meeting “Texas a World’ in Itself,” by George Sessions Perry, will be re viewed by Mrs. W. H. Andrew Friday, October 30, in the Chapel of the YMCA at 3 p. m. This will mark the occasion of the first meeting this season of the College Women’s Social Club. A reception and social hour in the YMCA parlors will follow the program. All women whose husbands are employed by A. & M. are eligible for membership in the College Women’s Social Club. Mrs. T. O. Walton is president; Mrs. T. D. Brooks, vice-president; Mrs. J. E. Marsh, general chairman; Mrs. W. S. Flory, secretary; Mrs. A. B. Nelson, treasurer; and Mrs. John Ashton, reporter. This organization is divided into groups with various interests, each being responsible for the program of one meeting. Next Friday’s meeting will be in charge of the Circulating Library Group, of which Mrs. C. C. Doak is general chairman. The purpose of the club in gen eral is to promote acquaintance and friendship among the women of A.. & M. To make it easy for new comers to get acquainted, all mem bers are asked to pin a card, with their name and department, on their lapels. Slack-Clad TSCW Riflewomen Cause Notice in India Paper Greatest man-of-waj ever to be By Bill Jarnagin launched is the U. S. S. IOWA, | Way over in India there appeared 45,000-ton battleship wdiich went | two photos and an article in the down the ways at one of the Navy I “Sunday Statesman” about the yards recently. She will be driven j TSCW rifle team defeating A. & by General Electric geared-turbine M. Beneath the photos of the propulsion equipment. slack-ciad TSCW rifle members This vessel, first of six of the [ was the following: same class, was completed was completed seven months ahead of schedule through the united efforts of thousands of engineers and workmen. Her five sister ships, the New Jersey, Mis souri, Wisconsin, Illinois and Ken tucky, are being built at various yards throughout the country. “The rifle club is now one of the most popular activities of the State College for Women in Texas, U. S. A. The girls are becoming the firing line these girls are re ceiving targe}; tests. Incidentally, almost all young women in the United States have slacks for in formal wear these days. Right— A freshman member of the team and a beginner had trouble squint ing through the sights so she tied a scarf over one eye.” The newspaper clipping was re ceived from an ex-Aggie, R. Brace Brough, of D battery F. A., sopho- such good shots that they recently more in 1941. He bas been in India defeated a boy’s team from Texas eight months and was quite pleased Agricultural and,Military College to ran across the TSCW and A. a neighboring institution. Left—On i M. publicity. gress acts on the law extending selective service to those eighteen and nineteen years old. This law will be passed shortly after November 3. The armed services need trained officers and Dr. Walton expressed confidence that the War Depart ment will work out this plan so that students in an institution such as A. & M. can complete their education and at the same time receive the required military training. President T. O. Walton, Dean Gibb Gilchrist, Dean E. J. Kyle, T. R. Spence, engineering experi ment station, J. T. L. McNew, civil engineering department, H. H. Williamson, George Adams, and Miss Mildred Horton from the ex tension Service; A. B. Connor and O. H. McCowell, from the Experi ment Station, made up the A. & M. delegation for the meet. Dean Kyle wifi speak before the Land Grant meeting and also be fore the Teaching Research and Ex tension Divisions meeting also be ing held in Chicago this week. His subject for the Land Grant meet ing will be “The Mission of the Land Grant College in Promoting Our Good Neighbor Policies Among Latin American Republics”; his topic for the Research meeting be ing “Our Relations to Agricultural Economy of Latin American Coun tries and What it Means to Prop er World Stabilization at the Close of World War II”. At the close of the meetings in Chicago, Dean Kyle will go to Washington, D. C., to confer with Nelson Rockefeller concerning the government’s increasing the num ber of Scholarships for Latin American students in the United States, and with the Department of State regarding aid to Texas A. & M. in broadcasting the edu cational program with Latin Amer ican countries. Delegates to the Land Grant Conference are expected back in a few days. The Association of Land Grant Colleges and Universities is one of the most influencial educational organizations in the country and recommendations coming from their annual meetings usually have marked influence on the pol icies followed by American Col leges and universities. A&M Leads Other ' Colleges in Fruit Dehydration Work Again A. & M. establishes its lead in modern industries. With the largest enrollment in Agri culture and Veterinary Medicine in the United States and the sec ond largest enrollment in Engin eering, the College has recently become the leading institution in the dehydration of fruit and vege table products. Not content with being the lar gest military school in the nUited States, officials are attempting? aia process food for military and civil ian consumption. A. & M. will serve as a pilot plant for Texas and the southern United States. Shortage of containers and trans portation has brought about the rapid development of this new process. “Dehydration” explains Dr. G. W. Adriance of the Horti culture Department, “will reduce the weight of vegetables about j 90% and the bulk about 75%. The j essential constituents of food are . saved and the loss fr©m spoilage is reduced to a minimum.” Examinations Open For U S Employment Service Interviewers The Texas Merit Council has an nounced competitive examinations on November 22 for Interviewers in the United States Unemploy ment Service Requirements are college educa tion with one year’s experience as interviewer, or high school grad uate with two years experience in interviewing work. Application for the examination should be sent to Texas Merit Coun cil, Austin, Texas. Starting salar ies range from $1440 to $1800 per year. Abilene Club Holds T mportant Meeting: A meeting of the Abilene A. and M. has been announced by E. W. Berry, vice-president of the club, for tonight after yell prect- ice in room 107 of the Academic building. Berry urged that all mem bers be present at the meeting as very important plans will be dis cussed Club members are also reminded that a definite date for the club’s Longhorn picture will be an nounced at the meeting.