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, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 5, 1943
2275
NUMBER 84
Nancy Swinford to Present
Town Hall Program Tonite
Noted Houston Singer Will Offer Variety
Of Numbers On Concert in Guion Hall at 8
Gracious Nancy Swinford, Houston soprano, will be
presented by the A. & M. Town Hall tonight at 8 o’clock
in Guion Hall, with a diversified concert program, together
with Ernst Hoffman, conductor of the Houston symphony
orchestra, who will accompany Mrs. Swinford at the piano.
Advance notices on the concert state that Miss Swin-
ford’s program will vary from classical selections from
Wagner’s Tannhauser to informal selections by German
and Manning. Miss Swinford will also include several pieces
from Schubert and Mozart together with a selection from
Miniature
Senior Rings
To Be Used
Rings to Be Given
To Sweethearts And
Mothers Cost $19
Official adoption of a miniature
A. & M. ring for the sweethearts,
wives or mothers of A. & M. grad
uates is under consideration by the
Ring Committee. A sample of
the miniature ring is on display
in the trophy case in the rotunda
of the Academic building.
Members of the ring committee
are seeking the opinion of the
Cadet Corps on the adoption of
the miniature rings which are
given to girls for engagement rings
or just as a sentimental ornament.
Any student eligible to purchase
the present official ring would
also be eligible to purchase a
miniature if he so desired. The
rings w<juld cost slightly under
twenty dollars. Under present
conditions at least 45 days would
be required for delivery of minia
ture rings ordered.
The Ring Committee is com
posed of the Presidents of the
Senior, Junior and Sophomore
Classes and other student members
appointed by them. The present
committee includes, Dap Suther
land, Walter Cardwell, G. C. Car-
others, Steve Kaffer, Jack Miller,
Sid Smith, Jack Orrick, Curtis
Zahn, Robert Phillips, Vance Car
rington, George Cbatfield, Ste
wart Cartwright, and John Lind
sey, students, and staff members
E. L. Angel, W. L. Penberthy, H.
L. Heaton, Ray Perryman and E.
E. McQuillen.
Decision on the miniature ring
must be made in the near future
so the Ring Committee would like
to know the wishes of the Cadet'
Corps, according to McQuillen.
Publicity Office Sends
642 Stories To
Seniors* Hometowns
Members of the Senior Class
who have never had their names
in a paper can rest assured their
record has been broken.
Members of the Senior Class who
have hoped to get their names in
their hometown newspaper at
least once before they die can rest
assured now, for that time has
come.
The Department of Information
and College Publications (Public
ity) has just completed the task
of breaking down the list of can
didates for degrees and sending a
story to each of the candidates’
home town paper.
Where there was no paper in
the town listed the story was sent
to the nearest town having a pa
per, or to the paper in the county
seat.
This year there were 642 names
on the list and it required stories
to over 600 newspapers in order
that the names of the candidates
should be sent to their home town,
and that included mailing to many
other states, the fartherest in the
United States being to Montpelier,
Vermont. The most distant point
was to the Panama Canal Zone.
California had more than any other
out-of-Texas state but Louisiana
was a close second, trailed by Ar
kansas and Oklahoma.
■f Puccini.
Singing as a soloist with the
Houston and Lake Charles sym
phony orchestra, Miss Swinford’s
power and brillance have won her
praise from prominent music crit
ics of Houston, Lake Charles, and
other southern cities. She received
all of her musical education in
Houston under the expert guidance
of Uriel Nespoli, former director
of the Houston symphony orches
tra; George Champton; the late
Ellison Van Hoose; s^nd at the
present is studying under Portia
Spencer, prominent Houston mus
ician.
One of Miss Swinford’s most
promising advanced selections is
the famous “Dove Sono-Recit and
Aria” from the famous “Marriage
of Figaro” by Mozart. In it, Miss
Swinford’s vibrant personality por
trays the despairing wife who
changes clothes with her maid,
that she may gain admittance to
the presence of her faithless hus
band and humbly try to regain his
love.
According to notices received
from other cities in Texas, Aggies
may rest assured that an evening
of prime entertainment is in store
for them at the concert, for, as a
Houston critic recently said, “Miss
Swinford’s voice is worth walking
many miles to hear.”
Fish Ball Plans
Announced; $400
Must Be Raised
Fish Must Buy Tickets
Now; Ball To Be Cancelled
If Tickets Sales Short
Filial plans have been made and
announced for the Fish Ball next
Saturday night by Charles McWill
iams, president of the Freshmen
class. All planning to attend should
buy their tickets at once, since $400
worth of tickets mush be sold by
Friday noon or the dance will not
be held Tickets will not be sold at
the door. The ball will start at 8
o’clock and tuxes can be worn by
Fish and Frogs.
Dormitory No. 15 will be open
for dates from 3 p.m. Saturday,
January 9 until Sunday, January
10 at 12 p.m. Reservations can be
made at Ross Hall starting next
Thursday.
W. L. Moore and Cliff White-
head are co-chairmen on the Ad
visory Committee. W. L. Terrell
is in charge of new area ticket sales
while Albert R. Orssinger is chair
man in charge of old area ticket
sales. Charles McWilliams is in
charge of the finance committee.
M. A. Coulter and J. K. Oliver will
handle the decorations.
Tickets may be obtained in the
New Area from the following
freshmen. Dormitory No. 1, W. L.
Terrell; No. 3, R. L. Clayton; No.
5, B. B. Clark and O. L. Taliffero;
No. 7, W. E. Wheeler; No. 9, J.
D. Swatzal; No. 11, C. L. Le Nor
man. Hart, Alex Dickie, G. A.
White, and T. B. Westbrook; Foster
A. B. Ruff; Bizzel, D. M. Woweth;
Goodwin, J. W. Johnson.
Tickets may be obtained in the
Old Area from the following fresh
men. Dormitory No. 14, W. C. Syl
vester; No. 15, M. C. Sultenfus;
No. 16, M. A. Coulter; No. 17, W.
M. Bennett; Walton, J. O. Whitting
ton; Mitchell, J. K. Oliver; Law
and Puryear, W. C. Enderby, P.
G. Hall, J. H. Landers; Milner and
Leggett, A. R. Orsinger.
Tickets must be sold in advance
because if the $400 cannot be raised
the freshmen class has no reserve
funds held over from previous
years as other classes have, said
McWilliams. He emphasized the
importance of securing tickets in
advance as the ball must be called
off if the $400 goal is not reached.
Transferred
Colonel J. K. Boles, senior instructor of the Field Artillery unit,
and noted marksman, has been transferred to duty with the War
Department at another station. Colonel Boles has been here as a
military instructor more than a year, coming here from Fort Sam
Houston in the latter part of 1941.
—Photo by U. S. Army Signal Corps
Hollywood Paper Tells What
Movie Makers Think of A & M
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 1—With'
butter bulging their pockets, hams
bursting their suitcase lids, and
bacon weighing down their trunks
Walter Wanger’s movie makers
came home from Texas today,
drawling about their adventures in
good eating.
They actually had the nerve to
tell their drooling friends they
were tired, tired unto death, of
eating porterhouse steaks. We felt
like poking ’em in the nose, every
one, from Anne Gyynne, who didn’t
even pay for her ham, to Director
John Rawlings, the citizen who was
weary of steaks, two inches thick,
Five weeks ago this movie com
pany left Hollywood diet of rabbit
food and maybe an egg apiece a
week with luck, and headed for
College Station, Texas, which is
half way between Houston and
Dallas, and which seems to be the
center of never-never land. Not
only do hams grow on every tree
and slabs of bacon pave the streets
but eggs are piled in cut glass
bowls on the corners with signs:
Help Yourself. Or so we gathered
from talking to Texas’ newest
boosters.
Real Campus Film
Director Rawlings, Miss Gwynne
Richard Quine, Martha O’Driscoll,
Noah Berry, Jr., William Frawley,
Harry Davenport and about 20
other hungry actors and techni
cians, went to Texas to put on film
the story of Texas A. and M., titled,
“We’ve Never Been Licked.” They
said they made about 80 per cent
of the picture on the campus, but
we don’t see how they could.
The rest of their report indicated
they’d spent most of their time
eating.
For extras they had the 6795 men
enrolled in the university, which is
noted for the fact that it has more
officers m the army now than has
West Point. Some 6500 army offi
cers, including 17 generals, are
Aggie grads.
So the movie is about this school
and the men it turns out and what
impressed the picture makers was
the fact that it takes 13 steers,
carved and roasted, to feed the stu
dent body every night. How many
tons of butter and cases of grade-
A eggs, the goggle-eyed Holly-
woodians never learned.
$13,000,000 Setting
The campus covers 4200 acres,
most of which seems to be devoted
to growing good things to eat.
There are 85 buildings on it and
all this adds up to the fact that
Wanger got a $13,000,000 movie
set, plus thousands of Texas hand
somest young men as extras, free.
The film, of course, will return
dividends to the state and the col
lege in the form of publicity that
no money could buy. So every
body’s happy.
Only untoward incident of the
expedition came when movie mak
ers, still mindful of their diet at
home, decided they wanted a couple
of thousand Texans to fill the
bleachers on the athletic field for
one shot. They spent $42.50 for a
full-page advertisement in the
Bryan Eagle, urging the towns
people to come out and get in
front o fthe cameras. The picture
people offered as lure a lunch con
sisting of barbecued chicken, salad,
buttered buns, sweet pickles and
non-alcholic punch. (The county is
dry.)
The citizens weren’t impressed.
They had chicken of their own
every night except when they had
beef steak. They had so much but
ter their wives actually used it to
make cakes. Their cellars were
full of pickles and as for no-kick
punch, they had that, too. Only
about 600 showed up—and they
weren’t hungry. The $700 worth
of food went begging.
Thousands of Beans
The Misses Gwynne and 0‘Dris-
coll had the 6795 cadets for boy
friends and when the company fin
ished shooting, the latter presented
the ladies with some of the finest
hams Texas ever produced. The
rest of the company brought its
pork and its cases of butter packed
in dry ice.
Director Rawlings was so im
pressed he signed up his sons,
Richard, 12, and David, 9, for fu
ture enrollment in Texas A. and
M., and brought them Aggie sweat
shirts to wear while eating ham.
Boy, bring us a lettuce sandwich
on whole wheat without butter—
and a first-class ticket to Texas.
Colonel J K Boles
Moved to Louisiana
Colonel J. K. Boles, senior in
structor of Field Artillery and
senior tactical officer for the
old area, leaves A. & M. next
Monday after a tour of duty here
of over a year. Colonel Boles goes
to Dallas first, to the 8th Serv
ice Command for further orders,
from whence he will proceed to
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to take
on his new assignment.
This new assignment. Com
manding Officer of the Louisiana
Interior Security District, makes
Colonel Boles the Artillery officer
representing the 8th Service Com
mand at that district.
Local Civilian
Defense Group
Meets Wednesday
State Official to Speak
On Public Safety Office
Roy Wade, War Duty Officer,
State Department of Public Safety,
Austin, Texas, will be present at
the regular meeting of the Civilian
Defense group at College Station
Texas, and will address the meet
ing on the activities of his office.
The meeting will be held in the
main lecture room of the Agricul
tural Engineering Building at 8
p.m., Wednesday, January 6, 1943.
Dr. Guy W. Adriance, Zone
Warden, College Hills area, and
his associates will put on a skit
illustrating some phase of first aid
or other activity directly related
to the work of the air raid warden
group.
Colonel M. D. Welty or some one
designated by him will be present
to discuss military protection of
public utilities and other civilian
institutions or equipment in event
of an emergency in Brazos County.
There will be some discussion of
plans for a surprise blackout in
Brazos County to be held perhaps
some time in February 1943.
Not only the Air Raid Warden
Committee but all Civilian Defense
committees at College Station are
invited to attend; also the general
public is invited.
Special invitations are being also
sent to the Civilian Defense group
in Bryan, Texas, to be present at
this meeting over which Dr. C. C.
Hedges will preside.
A special meeting of all College
Station Zone Wardens was held
last night in the Office of Chair
man of the Committee, Harry
Boyer, Room 4, Ross Hall.
4th Annual Feast
Of Presbyterians
Installs Leaders
The Fourth Annual Installation
Banquet of the Presbyterian Stu
dent Association was held last
night in the Sbisa Hall Banquet
Room beginning at 7:15.
In opening the program, Pro
fessor D. H. Reid gave the Offer
ing of Thanks, followed by an in
troduction of the guest by Rever
end Norman Anderson. After this
came “America the Beautiful”,
sung by the entire* group of 85 to
90 people.
Next came a list of reports of
the different committees of the
Student League, followed by anot
her song, “Abide With Me”.
Following this came the main
address by M. L. Cashion, sec
retary of the YMCA. After the
main speech of the evening came
the installation of the new officers
in charge of Rev. Anderson. Con
cluding the program was a bened
iction by the pastor.
New officers who will lead the
Presbyterian Students Association
for the coming year are Clinton
Medbery, president; Paul Wilhelm,
executive vice-president; John
Evans , program vice-president;
Phyllis McFadden, secretary; Dick
Belin, treasurer, and Frances Holl-
ingshead and Benton Taylor, social
chairmen.
Retiring officers for the respect
ive positions are Dwain Treadwell,
Mary Evelyn Anderson, Arvid K.
Hassinger, Florence Hollingshead,
Tom Leland, and Margaret Med
bery and Bill Delaney.
Town Hall Announces
Change Of Schedule
Of Singing Cadets
Town Hall Manager, John M.
Lawrence, has announced that The
Singing Cadets, originally sche
duled to appear March 15, will sing
for the Town Hall January 12. This
change was made as a result of
the uncertainity concerning the
status of the student body after
January 23.
Graduating Seniors
End Classes Jan 16
Classes for graduating seniors
will be ended Saturday, January,
16, at noon, according to a state
ment released by R. G. Perryman,
assistant registrar.
Perryman emphasized that all
other students, including seniors
not graduating, will be expected
to attend classes regularly until
January 23.
Yell Leaders to Be Elected
Tomorrow Night at 8 P M
Kuykendall, Pettit, and Brin Candidates;
Juniors and Sophs Meet in Assembly Hall
Junior yell leaders will be elected tomorrow night at
8 o’clock in the Assembly hall at a joint meeting of the
junior and sophomore classes, the Student Election Com
mittee disclosed late yesterday. Candidates for the position
and Dan Kuykendall, Joe Pettit, and Gordon Brin.
Following the election of the yell leaders, the juniors
will hold a short class meeting, without the sophomores,
during which the question of senior class rings will be
discussed.
Failure to elect junior yell leaders in the first general
Plans Complete For
Senior Ring Dance;
Set for January 15
Seniors Get Free Corps
Dance Ticket by Buying
Banquet Ring Dance Ticket
Bringing to a climax the year
1942-43 will be the Senior Ban
quet, followed by the Senior Ring
ceremony and dance set for Janu
ary 15. Following these festivities
on Friday night, there will be a
corps dance Saturday, January 16.
The Senior Banquet and the
dance committees have made final
plans for that week end and have
selected for the occasion the
orchestra of Barney Rapp, accord
ing to a statement made by Rocky
Sutherland, president of the Sen
ior class.
Besides the orchestra, Rapp has
in store for the dancers, Rudy
Wright, who will hold the vocal
spotlight, and the New England
ers Glee Club, who will comprise
the second feature of the orches
tra. Barney Rapp’s orchestra has
been playing since 1939 in Cin
cinnati’s most popular nightspot,
The Sign of the Drum, owned by
Rapp himself.
Chairmen of the various com
mittees have been named by Suth
erland, and are as follows: Ed
(Flash) Gordon, head of the com
mittee board, and also head of
the invitations committee; John
Lawrence, head of the program
committee; Adolph Specia, head of
the banquet committee; Jack
Baird, head of the favors com
mittee; and Moffet Adams, head
of the decorations committee.
Tickets for this weekend will be
of three types. The first ticket will
be for the Ring Dance itself; this
ticket will cost $1.50. The ticket
for the banquet is priced at $1.00,
and the corps dance pass will be
given free of charge if purchased
along with the two others. How
ever, if the other tickets are not
bought, the price for the corps
dance tickets will be the usual
$1.10; this price will be the same
for the undergraduate students.
These tickets for the Senior
Banquet, the Senior Ring Dance,
and the Corps Dance may be pur
chased beginning Friday of this
week, stated Sutherland yester
day.
Civil Service Opens
Jobs For Ag Seniors
‘election was due to a lack of in
terest displayed by both classes,
and by the reopening of the race
after only two candidates had
filed for the post Later, two
other candidates were disqualified
for the use of indecent language
at yell practice.
Cadet Colonel Walter Cardwell,
Senior Class President Dan R.
Sutherland, Senior Yell Leaders
Chuck Chalmers and Bob Hanby,
and other student leaders will be
on hand to help Junior Class Pres
ident Sid Smith and Sophomore
Class President Jack Orrick con
duct the meet.
Candidates will be introduced
to the classes, and will be allowed
to make short talks in their own
behalf, after which the two class
es will vote.
Kuykendall is a sophomore in
D Troop Cavalry and his home is
in Cherokee, Texas. Pettit, A In
fantry sophomore, is from Dallas,
and Brin, also from Dallas, is in
E Battery Field.
No Additional
Information Out
For Calling ERC
Sophomores, Freshmen
Subject to Call to Duty
After Close of Semester
No later information on the dates
for calling the ERC Juniors, sopho
mores or freshmen for active duty
have been received here by college
or military authorities, according to
F. C. Bolton, dean of the college.
The only information available
states the present Juniors will be
called to active status at the end
of the current semester, inducted
in the army, and allowed to contin
ue their education for one more
semester on a limited cadet set up
here at A. & M. as privates in the
army, but cadet officers on the cam
pus.
Present Sophomores and Fresh
men will, in the exact wording of
directives from the War Depart-
men (which do not constitute off
icial orders), be subject to call
after the current semester, about
Febauary 8.
Those cadets in the air force
reserve will be subject to call at
the complete discreation of the
Army Air Corps when they can be
immediately sent to training cen
ters.
Announcement of the opening of
two positions has been made by
the United States Civil Service
Commission, was the information
received by Dean E. J. Kyle, dean
of agriculture.
These two positions are those of
Assistant Lay Inspector in Slaugh
tering and meat packing establish
ments, and Agricultural Warehouse
Managers of cold and dry storage
in warehouses. The warehouse man
agers are needed to fill positions of
five different warehouse managers
with salaries ranging from $2000
to $4000. The annual pay for the
Assistant Lay Inspector is $1620.
Duties qualifications, and other
information pertaining to these
these jobs may be found on the
bulletin board outside of Room
301 Agricultural Building, and
further information may be had by
calling at the Agronomy Depart
ment in that building.
Spanish Club Meeting
To Be Held Tomorrow
Spanish Club members are urged
to be present at a meeting of that
organization tomorrow night at 8
o’clock in room 124 of the Aca
demic building. Dr. A1 B. Nelson,
professor of history, will speak to
the students upon the possibilities
for Spanish-speaking students in
Latin America.
A further communication from
the adjutant general’s office of the
War Department was recieved here
yesterday, but receipt of the mem
orandum was delayed, the actual
date it was written was believed
to have been prior to the directive
received December 29, according to
Bolton.
AIChE Banquet Held
Tomorrow Night
A. I. Ch. E .members are re
minded of the annual banquet of
the Institute, Wednesday night,
January 6 at 7:30 o’clock in the
banquet room of Sbisa Hall. All
members are urged to attend, as
election of officers will take place.
Aggie Exes Complete
Naval Air Training
Winged “0*s” Given
Lt. William G. Hauger, San An
tonio, Texas, former student at
A. & M., has been graduated with
the Brooks’ field aerial observer
class at San Antonio, and will soon
receive his winged “O’s” signify
ing adeptness in searching out the
secrets of camouflaged ground
units. Lt. Hauger had already
been commissioned recently at Of
ficer’s Candidate School.