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, DEC. 17, 1942
2275
NUMBER 80
Booth, McMillan, Lindsey, Longley Elected
Special Cars For San Antonio Scheduled
Trains To Houston,
Dallas Leave Saturday
Angell Urges Cadets to Buy Tickets
Immediately; No Tickets on Regular Trains
Although no special train can be
run to San Antonio this week be
cause of the lack of an available
locomotive, special cars will be at
tached to the Southern Pacific
11:27 p.m. regular passenger train
Saturday night, E. L. Angell, ex
ecutive assistant to the president,
said yesterday.
Specials to Dallas and Houston
will leave College Station at 2 p.m.
Saturday, arriving in Houston and
Dallas at 4 and 6:15 respectively.
Angell urges that all students
planning on riding any of these
trains buy their tickets as early
as possible, especially if you are
going to San Antonio on the spe
cial section of the regular train.
This is necessary so the passenger
agent will know how many extra
cars will be required.
Students riding the Dallas or
Houston specials may return on
any regular train before Sunday,
December 27, but if they wait un
til that Sunday, they must return
on the specials.
Tickets can not be bought on the
regular Sunbeams Saturday, and
Angell asks that students do not
even try to buy tickets for the
Sunbeam, either north or south, as
some of the coaches are being
taken off of the Sunbeams for the
specials.
“The main thing we want now
is for those students planning to
go to San Antonio, or to Dallas or
Houston, to buy their tickets im
mediately,” he said.
Dallas Club To
Have Christmas
Dance December 23
December 23 in the Adolphus
Hotel ball room the Dallas A.&M.
club will hold a Christmas dance
for all Dallas Aggie residents and
friends. There are no dues in the
Dallas A.&M. club; all Aggies liv
ing in Dallas, are members. The
dance will be from 9:15 to 1
o'clock.
Mint Director
Urges Students
To Circulate Coins
States That Money
Hidden Away Is Taking
Needed Materials From Army
A shortage of critical metals of
the types used in coins has prompt
ed Nellie Taylor Ross, director of
the United States mint, to ask in a
letter to Dr. T. O. Walton, college
president, that the following mes
sage be put before the cadet corps:
“All of you have been reading,
I know, of the critical shortage in
this country of certain metals that
are now acutely needed for cart
ridges, ships, airplanes, the big
guns, and much other equipment
our fighting men must have to win
the war.
“In this connection I lay before
you a way in which you young peo
ple in the schools, in cooperation
with us of the Mint, can render a
service so important as really to
drive a shaft into the armor of the
Germans and the Japs; and that
is by assisting in our undertaking
to get back into circulation the
idle coins that are lying hidden in
piggy banks, sugar bowls, glass
jars, boxes and bureau drawers in
homes all over the country, tying
up priceless metals.
“The point is this—for every
penny or five-cent piece hidden
away, the Mint must use scarce
metals to make another to replace
it, so great is now the demand for
these small coins, especially for
the penny. Last year we made 1
billion 437 million pennies. Into
that one denomination alone, went
4600 tons of copper, not to men
tion the tin and zinc. All three of
those metals are now on the criti
cal list, sorely needed for war pur
poses.
“It appears that there is scarce
ly a family in the country in which
some member is not saving pen-
(See MINT, on Page 4)
Annual Christmas Dinner Will
Be Held Friday Evening at 7:15
Sbisa’s banquet hall will be the
scene of the A&M College Annual
Staff Christmas dinner to be given
tomorrow evening at 7:15 honor
ing employees that have served 25
years with the college, stated an
announcement made by the office
of the president yesterday.
Dr. F. M. Law, president of the
Board of Directors, will make the
presentation of the citations to all
the employees that have reached
their 25th year of continuous serv
ice to the college. Also presented
the honorees will be a walking cane
with an engraved A.M.C. close to
the handle.
Dr. T. O. Walton, college Presi
dent, will make his annual Christ
mas address to the employees. E.
L. Angell, assistant to the Presi
dent, will act as Master of Cere
monies, introducing the speakers
to the approximate 600 staff mem
bers expected.
Those employees who reached
their 25th year of service, honorees
at tomorrow evening’s banquet,
are: C. W. Burchard, O. L. Car
penter, W. D. Colson, J. F. Combs,
F. D. Fuller, O. P. Griffin, and
T. H. Haltom.
E. P. Humbert, D. L. Jones, C.
W. Lehmberg, W. E. Lewis, F. E.
Lichte, G. A. Long, C. M. Merritt,
G. R. McNiel, H. J. Reinhard, and
D. L. Weddington.
Longhorn Staff at Work
Part of the 1943 Longhorn staff in an unposed picture taken in the publications office. Seated, left
to right, are Johnny Longley, Editor; Russ Jones, Junior Editor; and Harry Saunders. Standing, is
Marvin McMillan, newly-elected editor.
Marshall Reassures Enlisted Reserves;
Nothing Definite on Call of Enlistees
States That Action
If Any, Will Be
Delayed Until Feb
“Members of the Enlisted Re
serve Corps should not believe any
statements made, possibly prema
turely, until confirmation through
official channels is obtained,” was
the reassuring statement made late
yesterday by Lieutenant Colonel L.
W. Marshall, recruiting officer, re
garding the war department an
nouncement that college reservists
would be called to active duty
“within a few weeks.”
It will be probably two weeks
before the enlistment papers of
the reservists sworn in here in the
ties, that college students in the
last several weeks can be sent in
to the Eighth Service Command
in Dallas and the War Department
in Washington. Then it will be a
process of several weeks more be
fore those papers can be properly
gone over, checked, and double
checked, and filed. After all these
processes are completed actual call
ing for active service will be con
sidered. Therefore, in all likelihood,
it will be well into February be
fore any possible action could be
taken on reservists enlisted here
recently, according to informed
sources.
There is a definite possibility,
according to announcements made
previously by Washington authori-
" OfficialConfirmation
Hasn’t Been Received
Here From War Dept
ERG after being taken in the army
might be reassigned to some col
lege, possibly at the same college
they were attending at the time
of their being called.
“The important point to bear in
mind at the present,” states Col
onel Marshall, “is that it doesn’t
seem logical that the army would
go to the trouble they have to re
cruit thousands of college students
just to call them to active service
immediately. It would be infinitely
simpler to induct them through se
lective service boards, saving all
ERC enlistment red tape.”
Annual Faculty and
Community Christmas
Tree to Be Held 24th
The annual faculty and commu
nity Christmas tree party, held tra
ditionally on the night before
Christmas, will again take place
this year, according to Mrs. P. G.
Haines, in charge of arrangements
for the party. This year the tree
will be in the Mess hall at 7:00
in the evening on December 24th.
No special program has been
planned; it will be an informal
affair with the singing of Christ
mas carols and a general commu
nity gathering to be enjoyed by
all who attend.
Waco Club Will
Issue Tickets Tonight
Tickets for the Waco A&M Club
party will be issued at the meeting
tonight at 8 o’clock in the Academic
building, room 110. All members
are urged to attend this meeting
as it will be difficult to obtain
tickets to the party other than to
night.
Health Should Be
Checked Constantly
It has been reliably estimated
that within a year approximately
one-third of the total number of
180,000 physicians in the United
States will have left their practice
to serve with the Army, Navy, or
Marine Corps. This deficiency in
medical attention available to the
general population will be even
greater than it appears on the sur
face inasmuch as a large number
of those remaining are not in active
practice due to old age, teaching
or public health activities, or full
time employment with industry.
Plainly, this situation develops a
problem for the physicians who
will remain at home, the solution
of which to some degree will be
in the hands of the general public,
according to Dr. Geo. W. Cox,
State Health Officer.
“There is no (desire to imply that
the family physician, now or later,
must not be summoned except in
dire need. In fact, there is a great-
(See HEALTH, on Page 4)
Mayo Thanks Mothers
Clubs for Donations
Dr. T. F. Mayo, librarian, said
in a statement to the Battalion
that he wished to express his ap
preciation to the Port Arthur
Beaumont, and Capitol A.&M.
Mothers’ clubs for their gifts to
the library. Through their gen
erosity the corps is able to enjoy
even more enlightening reading
material, which the Lirbary Com
mittee would ordinarily be unable
to procure, according to Dr. Mayo.
Christmas Trees Can
Be Obtained at YMCA
Military organizations which
have not yet had their Christmas
party may obtain Christmas trees
at the YMCA by signing them out
for the night of the party, stated
M. L. Cushion, secretatry of the
YMCA.
Since only 15 trees are avail
able, organizations are requested
to return the trees immediately
after their party so other organi
zations can use them.
Parker, Brauchle In
Run Off For Social Sec’y
Response Weak in General Election;
Jr Yell Leaders Elected Tonight at Eight
“Shorty” Booth has been elected head yell leader by a
vote of 472 to Billy McKenzie’s 193, announced the Student
Election Committee Tuesday night as the ballots were tab
ulated. Joe Dan Longley won over Bob Garrett for junior
representative of the Student Activities Committee by a
vote of 404 to 256.
Marvin McMillan edged out H. W. Sanders for Long
horn editor by 157 to 73 votes, while John H. Lindsey easily
took the majority over his two opponents, W. P. Kincy
and Edward Hiltpold with 144 votes to their combined 84.
Saddle and Sirloin
Elects New Officers
Marvin McMillan to be New
President for Coming Term
At the regular meeting of the
Saddle and Sirloin club held last
Tuesday night, Marvin McMillan,
Jr., H Infantry, was elected to serve
as president for the coming school
year as the club chose new offi
cers for next term. McMillan served
as secretary of the club this year,
and is the newly elected editor of
the 1944 Longhorn.
Other officers elected were: Wil
burn Hahn, vice-president; Victor
Lehmberg, secretary; Jim Mc-
Cutheon, treasurer; and Rusty Pe
ters, reporter. J. P. Miller was se
lected to be the Rodeo Director,
Vance Carrington to be Marshal,
and Johnny Zummo as Social Sec
retary.
Also at the meeting plans were
discussed concerning the freshman
and sophomore livestock judging
contests, and arrangements were
made for the Cattleman’s Ball.
Five Fire Department
Officers Hired Here
Five outstanding fire department
officers have been employed by the
Industrial Extension Training Serv
ice in cooperation with the State
Board for Vocational Education to
instruct the fire department train
ing programs held here at A&M.
The five instructors are: H. A.
Davis of El Paso; A. L. Rathke of
San Antonio; J. R. Dobson of Cor
pus Christi; J. R. Dickhout of Dal
las and R. E. Akin of Beaumont.
Dr K M Curts
Leaves for Duty
Dr. K. M. Curts, instructor in
Veterinary Anatomy, will leave to
day for active duty at Camp Wal
lace. He holds a second lieutenant
commission in the Coast Artillery
branch. Dr. Curts graduated from
A. & M. in 1940; he started as in
structor in veterinary anatomy in
September, 1941. During his senior
year, he was president of the Sing
ing Cadets.
OrdnanceApplications
Are Due December 19
As announced in Tuesday’s Bat
talion applications for contracts in
the Ordnance Department will be
accepted through December 19, ac
cording to Major Donald D. Alex
ander, senior instructor of ord
nance.
Juniors taking any engineering
course except Agriculture or In
dustrial Engineering are eligible
for ordnance commissions.
Bob Parker lacked a majority
vote in the race for Social Sec
retary with Rodney Braucle and
Ray H. Darr. Parker lead with
110 votes to Brauchle’s 89 and
Darr’s 30. Juniors will vote again
today for a run-off. Ballots will
be handled as previously done in
Juniors may vote today for
Social Secretary. Polls in the
Academic Building will be
open from 9 to 1 and from
2 to 6. September registra
tion slips must be presented.
the Academic building from 9 to
1 and 2 to 6:30. Juniors are urged
to take off a few seconds to vote
in this run-off, considering how
weak the twelfth man’s response
was to the primary elections in
general. September yellow regis
tration slips will be required again
for all junior voting.
The tabulated ballots show that
only 665 students from the whole
corps voted, while 230 of these
were juniors, meaning that from
the corps only one man out of ten
voted. Last year a total of 1,030
students voted.
Junior yell leaders will be elect
ed at a joint meeting of the sopho
more and junior classes tonight at
8 o’clock in the Assembly Hall.
Junior Prom Plans
Started; Committee
Chairmen Named
Date for the Junior Prom has
definitely been set and chairmen
for the various committees have
been appointed, announced Sid
Smith, president of the Junior
class late yesterday.
Those in charge of arrange
ments have set January 21 as the
definite date for the ball, said
Smith.
Bob Latimer has been appointed
as general chairman for the prom,
with the following heads to the
various committees: Jack Lindley,
banquet; Tom Inglis, dance; Doug
Broussard, programs and invita
tions; Steuart Cartwright, finance,
and Harry Saunders, decorations.
Juniors who would like to serve
on the committees are asked to
get in touch with the chairman of
the committee they would like to
be on. Smith urged haste, since
the programs must be printed soon.
Clubs Must Pay for
Longhorn Pictures
All student clubs and home town
clubs that have not paid for their
Longhorn pictures should do so
positively before January 1, stated
Johnny Longley, editor of the an
nual, yesterday. These payments
should be made to the Student Ac
tivity Office.