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ROOM 5, ADMINISTRATION BLDG. — VOLUME 42 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 14, 1943 2275 NUMBER 88
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
DIAL 4-5444
Fiscal Office Announces
$146.90 Next Semester Fee
First Installment Amounts to §67; Daily
Maintenance Rises 9^ Because of Food Costs
Entrance fees for next semester will be $67 and total
fees will be $146.90, announces the fiscal office. Due to in
creasing food prices the old rate of 69c per day will have
to be increased to 78c per day to meet expenses. Semester
fees are as folows: -f
Matriculation fee $ 25.00
Medical Service fee 5.00
Room Rent 20.00
Board 88.90
Laundry 8.00
Semester total $146.90
February fees plus matricula
tion and medical fees add up to
$67; March fees will be $35.90;
and April fees $44.
The fiscal department requests
that students remember dining
hall prices are raised or lowered
to meet current prices and that
the dining hall is operated on a
non-profit basis.
Enlistment Ban
On Stenographers
Lifted by Army
Must Have Good Speed On
Shorthand and Typing;
Pay Ranges Up to $138
Suspension of enlistments in the
United States Army has been lifted
to a limited degree in order to
furnish trained personnel for
stenographic work at headquar
ters, it was announced this week
by Eighth Service Command head
quarters, according to Pfc. Erwin
W. Kandeler, in charge of the
Army Recruiting and WAAC Re
cruiting Station in Bryan.
“The order authorizes this sta
tion to enlist men stenographers
38 to 50 years of age, who can
write shorthand ninety words per
minute and type fifty words per
minute,” Pvt. Kandeler stated.
“Men who are able to qualify for
either general or limited service
physically and with the iabove
qualifications may volunteer for
enlistment without regard to the
existing order prohibiting enlist
ments,” he declared.
Men so enlisted will be assigned
to Headquarters Detachment, and
will b» dispatched to Fort Meyer,
Virginia.
Although men enlisting under
this order are ranked as privates,
promotions are rapid and base
pay ranges up to $138 per month,
in addition to rations, quarters,
and numerous other benefits re
ceived by enlisted men. In addi
tion to base pay, soldiers, up to
and including the rank of sergeant
are entitled to monthly allowances
for their families.
Further details may be had by
calling at the Army Recruiting
and WAAC Recruiting Station,
Post Office Building, Bryan, Texas
or by calling 2-1220.
Senior Invitations
Have Just Arrived;
Distributed Today
Invitations have arrived here
from printers for the commence
ment exercises, according to
Dan R. Sutherland, president of
the Senior Class.
The Invitations will be available
at the Corps Headquarters office
starting at 9:00 this morning and
may be picked up there all during
today, states Sutherland.
The Senior banquet will be held
at 7:00 in the Sbisa hall annex to
morrow night and will be followed
by the traditional ring dance at
10:00 until 2:00 a. m.
All Seniors are urged to pick up
their invitations at the Corps Head
quarters as early as possible, fur
ther added Sutherland.
Scholarship Honor
Society Holds Final
Meeting- Tonight in Y
The Scholarship Honor Society
wil hold its final meeting of the
current semester tonight at 8:15
p.m. in the second floor lounge
of the old YMCA. Bill Galloway,
president of the Society, stated
that this will be a short but im
portant business meeting for the
purpose of deciding on the annual
awards given by the society. Gallo
way urged all members, juniors
and seniors to be present today.
Williams Appointed
Special Labor Agent
E. L. Williams, head of the de
partment of industrial education
at Texas A. & M. College, has re
ceived notice from the Uhited
States Department of Labor of his
appointment as a special agent of
that department.
He will perform work connected
with the National Committee for
the Conservation of Manpower in
War Industries, but most likely
will be the inspection of certain
assigned industries from the stand
point of safety, serving on advisory
committees, and promoting safety
programs.
Battalion Magazine
Issued This Week
The January Battalion maga
zines will be issued during the
latter part of this week, possibly
on Friday, according to John Hol
man, magazine editor. The maga
zines will be issued from the mail
ing room in the basement of the
administration building.
Handie-Talkie Is New Signal
Corps Weapon; Hand Moved
By Jack Keith
It’s new, it’s different, it has
the familiar “Walkie-Talkie” beat
on all counts. What is it, why the
new Signal Corps person to per
son radio, the Handie Talkie.
No bigger than the palms of
both of your hands put together,
so compact that it is easily car
ried in one hand, yet so efficient
that communications can be car
ried on in all kinds of conditions—
that’s the new Handie-Talkie. Of
course, the range is limited, but
it transmits far enough to carry
on point to point commands, and
is efficient enough to be always
dependable.
Modern warfare demands, in
communication, not so much sec
recy as speed and accuracy. For
merly, it was thought that radio
communication was useless to the
army unless messages were sent
to a code clerk to be put into a
complicated code, then sent out
over the air waves, and then
again decoded at the receiving
end. If the enemy picked up such
a message, he was often able to
decode the message, but only after
several hours. Nowadays, with
army maneuvers reduced to split
seconds by fast vehicles and pow
erful guns, a large part of the
radio “traffic” is handled by the
spoken word—without taking the
trouble to worry about codes.
With the use of the Handie-
Talkie a commander may issue
his orders to his men, regardless
of their position and regardless of
the disturbance that is going on,
and have them carried out before
knowledge of such orders will do
the enemy any good. Observation
posts may use the device to give
immediate reports on enemy move
ments, with the additional advan
tage of the observers being able
to move around without having
to string telephone wires behind
them for communication back to
the command post.
The Handie-Talkie was develop
ed in the Signal Corps laboratories
at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.
Their usefulness in the field has
been proven by our fighting forces,
and they are considered one of the
most potent modern weapons
against the enemy.
Ring Dance Highlights Senior Activities
Bob Latimer Made
Engineer Editor
By Acclimation
Succeeds Ed Gordon;
No Candidates Filed For
Post Until After Election
J. R. (Bob) Latimer, H Coast
Artillery junior, was chosen 1943
editor of the Engineer’s Magazine
Monday night by the Student Eng
ineers’ council. He was elected
by t acclamation, having no oppon
ents for the post.
In the general student election
held last December 15, no candi
dates filed for the office of editor
ship of either the Engineer or the
Agriculturist. Latimer, however,
filed for the post just before the
election date, and after being se
lected by the Student Engineer
council, his election becomes offic
ial.
“I am happy and proud to have
the job as editor of the Engineer,
and shall do my best to give the
corps the best possible magazine
next year,” said Latimer.
Army Meteorology
Courses Discussed
By Expert Here
All college students, whether in
the E.R.C. or not, have a possible
chance of becoming army air force
meteorologists to be stationed all
over the world. R. F. Davidson,
consultant of the University of
Chicago’s meteorology committee,
whose headquarters are the Dal
las 8th Sei’vice Command, was on
the campus yesterday to discuss
the meteorology courses offered
by the army air force.
Students are divided into three
classifications as follows:
Grade A: Age, 18-30, inclusive,
American citizen. Academic re
quirements: differential and in
tegral calculus, 1 year college
physics, and successful completion
2 years college. Course begins June
21, 1943, and lasts 8 months. Stat
us: Aviation cadet, ground crew,
U. S. Army Air Force. Pay: $75
per month plus $2.25 per day for
rations. After completion: com
missioned 2nd Lt. Course of study:
dynamic and synoptic meteorolo-_
gy, climatology, geography, and
other topics dealing with the
weather forecasting; also military
drill and exercise.
Group B: age, 18-30. Completion
of one year college, including col
lege algebra, trigonometry, and
analytics. Course begins March 1,
1943, and lasts 6 months, then
graduating students move into
Group A. Status: private. Pay $50
per month and $2.75 per day for
rations. Course: calculus, physics,
geography, cai’tography, history,
military drill, and exercise.
Group C: age, 18-21. High school
graduate, including algebra, plane
geometry, one year science. Class
beginning Feb. 1, 1943, and lasts
one year. Status: private and paid
as in Group B. Graduates move
into Group A and on to commis
sion. Course: freshman mathemat
ics and Group B courses.
The E.R.C. or R.O.T.C. physical
is sufficient for entrance.
Steps to enlist are:
1. Fill Aviation Cadet applica
tion.
2. Obtain transcript of educa
tion record, birth certificate, pass-
pqrt-size photograph, three let
ters of recommendation.
3. Request transfer from E.R.C.
to Army Air Force.
Davidson said the proper form
for requesting a transfer is to ad
dress the commanding general of
the Eighth Service Command in
Dallas and state your request and,
as Davidson strongly emphasized,
state your E.R.C. seriel number.
Davidson said students with less
than B’s in college math, physics,
and calculus would have very little
chance for the training. All papers
are sent to the University of Chi
cago, where they are classified
and students accepted or rejected.
The representative said the gradu
ating meteorologists would be scat
tered all over the world and would
see plenty of excitement.
Applications may be obtained in
the Deans’ offices.
Cavalry To
Compete In
Riding Meet
Annual Meet
Will Begin at 2:30
At Cavalry Stables
Tomorrow^ January 15, at the
Cavalry stables, beginning at 2:30
p. m., the annual 311th Cavalry
horsemanship competition will take
place. Jumping, galloping, trotting,
walking, and saddling will consti
tute the program—all done by sen
ior cadets in the Cavalry ROTC.
Performance of the rider counts
75% and that of the mount 25%
in the jumping competition. Accu
racy and thoroughness in saddling
will count 75% and speed 25%;
while judging for the gallop, trot,
and walk will be based on the Mili
tary Seat and performance of the
rider only. In the seat and hands
event the McClellan saddle and
snaffle bridle will be used. Riders
will keep the same mount through
out the program.
F. E. I. rules will govern the
competition. These rules are the
official rules used in International
Olympic competition.
Twelve seniors will compete for
the award which is a plaque with
a bronze horse and plate bearing
the name of the winner. The win
ner will also have his name placed
on a master trophy plaque, bear
ing names of winners for ten years
beginning in 1939, which will hang
in the trophy case.
The competing seniors are: K.
C. Bresnen, W. D. Braid, D. W.
Carlson, J. R. Fuller, V. D. Gillen,
J. S. Irving, Worth Parker, J. M.
Plyer, N. C. McGowan, A. C. Raley,
J. A. Winne, L. J. Woods.
Judges will be Lt. D. F. Isaacson,
Master Sergeant E. Seeger, and
in case of tie, Capt. H. O. Owen,
Jr., who will also be ringmaster.
The 311th Cavalry includes all
inactive or unassigned reserve of
ficers in the U. S. Army, of which
A. & M.’s cavalry unit is a part.
Captain Owen and Lt. Isaacson
say the public is invited to witness
the annual event tomorrow.
Horticulture Society
Elects New Officers
Monday night at the home of Dr.
Guy W. Adriance the Horticulture
Society held a steak-fry and busi
ness meeting. Officers were elect
ed for next semester and a pro
gram of card tricks, recorded mu
sic, and hypnotism was presented.
New officers elected were: T. J.
McLeish, president; A. D. Keith,
vice-president; C. Edwards, secre
tary-treasurer; and Bob Meredith,
reporter.
Airplane Films To Be
Shown at IAS Meeting
A film on Germany’s famous
pursuit ship, the Messerschmidt
109, and a film on Igor Sikorky’s
latest helicopter will be shown
tonight at a meeting of the In
stitute of Aeronautical Sciences
in the petroleum lecture room at
8 o’clock, according to Dr. Howard
Barlow, head of the department of
aero engineering.
Chevalier To Lecture
To Engineering Clubs
Col. Willard Chevalier, vice-pres
ident of the McGraw-Hill Publish
ing Company and editor of Busi
ness Week magazine, will address
a meeting of all engineer societies
tonight in the Chemistry lecture
room at 8 o’clock.
Col. Chevalier’s topic will be
“The Relation of an Officer to His
Men.” «
AIEE President Is
Elected Tonight
Tonight the American Institute
of Electrical Engineers will meet
immediately following Col. Cheva
lier’s address to all the engineers
to elect next semester’s officers in
the E. E. lecture room.
All members are urged to attend
the meeting as it will probably be
the last this semester.
1200 Hear Singing
Cadets Perform At
Town Hall Tuesday
Senior Class Will Start
Final Celebrations Friday
Program Consists of Wide
Variety of Selections;
Walter Jenkins, Soloist
Tuesday night, Aggieland’s Sing
ing Cadets presented a program
of classical and semi-classical songs
before a Town Hall audience of
approximately 1200 persons. Under
the direction of Richard Jenkins,
the Cadets had as theiy first Town
Hall guest artist, Walter R. Jen
kins, baritone, of Houston, who
was accompanied by Herbert Roh-
loff at the piano.
Selections included Malotte’s
“The Lord’s Prayer,” “The Ven
geance Song,” from the opera Rig-
oletto, “The Soldier Chorus” from
Faust, Friml’s “March of the Mus
keteers,” “The Battle of Jericho,”
“Set Down, Servant,” (spirituals),
“The Marine Hymn,” Elgar’s
“Land of Hope and Glory,” in
which Walter Jenkins was soloist,
“Auld Lang Syne,” dedicated to the
two five-year-men of the club who
are leaving, Tom H. Collins and
Marion Lyle, and a special arrange
ment of “The Spirit of Aggie-
land.”
Featured on the program was a
comedy rendition of “Der Fuehrer’s
Face,” soloing Ralph N. Green
berg, and a musical-narration num
ber, “This Is My Country,” with
Robert Shuffler as commentator.
Walter Jenkins sang Handel’s
immortal “Hear Me, Ye Winds and
Waves,” “My Prayer” by Squire,
and “The Road to Mandalay.”
Injected into the program was
“The Skunk Song” and “White
Christmas” by a group of eight
members of the club, and “Silent
Night, Holy Night” by the entire
group of 110 voices.
“Silver Taps” completed the pro
gram.
Hollis and Barker
Get Commissions
In U S Marine Corps
Edward Lee Barker, 22, of Croc
kett, and Ellis Allan Hollis, 20, of
Fort Worth were awarded the
“wings” of a Marine flier and
second lieutenants’ commissions in
the Marine Corps Reserve, it was
announced here this week.
During brief ceremonies, Cap
tain J. D. Price, USN, command
ant of the Jacksonville Naval Air
Station, presented the coveted Ma
rine “wings” to Barker and Hollis
and congratulated them upon com
pletion of flight training.
The young officers served in the
Royal Canadian Air Force before
entering Marine aviation and re
ported to Jacksonville last June.
Included in their training at
the Jacksonville air center were
many hours spent in classrooms
and in actual flight instruction.
Courses in communication, celes
tial navigation, gunnery and me
chanics were all a part of their
ground school training. Air Work
in various types of planes gave
them a thorough background in
aeronautics.
Barker is the son of Mrs. Mary
E. Barker, 608 North 6th Street,
Crockett. He attended Crockett
High School and Texas A. & M.
Hollis is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Percie Allen Hollis, 2824
Murphy Street, Fort Worth. He
attended Texas A. & M. and was
a football numeral man.
Uniform Allowances
Ready To Be Claimed
Uniform allowance checks for
seniors and juniors are ready for
distribution and can be obtained
from the Fiscal Office beginning
at 9 this morning, Thursday, Jan
uary 14, until 2:30.
Officers Guides Are
Ready for Distribution
Seniors who have ordered Offi
cers Guides may get them from
the Student Activities Office be
ginning this morning.
About 20 extra copies are on
hand, and these may be obtained
by any senior desiring one. Price
of these books is $2.25.
Commencement, Final Ball, Prexy’s
Reception Round Out Week’s Program
Tomorrow night, the Class of 1943 will bow out of
Aggieland’s social circles with their Ring Banquet and Dance
in the main dining room of Sbisa Hall from 7 until 9 and
from 10 until 2 a.m. Following the speech-making part of
the banquet program, while the music of Barney Rapp
plays softly, each senior and his escorts will ascend the steps
behind the huge ring and pause in its center. The young
lady then removes the senior’s class ring from his finger
and replaces it in the opposite position, with the ’43 toward
the end of.his finger.
This act signifies that the cadet has transformed from
Juniors Are
Urged To Buy
Prom Tickets
Wednesday Deadline
For Getting Ducats
Announces Latimer
Juniors desiring to purchase one
ticket good for the Junior Prom,
Banquet, and Final Ball should
do so before Wednesday, Bob Lat
imer, general chairman of the
Prom committee, said late yester
day. This- ticket costs $3.15 and
may be bought in the Corps Head
quarter office.
After next Wednesday individu
al tickets to each event only may
be had at a total cost of $4.15.
This includes the banquet ticket,
$1; Prom ticket, $1.50; and Final
Ball ticket, $1.65.
All of these tickets are good
either with or without a date, and
whether or not a date is brought
is up to the junior.
The Banquet and Prom will be
held Thursday night, January 21,
and the Final Ball Friday night,
January 22, instead of Friday and
Saturday as previously reported
in the Battalion.
Banquet time is 7 o’clock, Prom
time is 10 o’clock, and the Final
Ball will begin at 10 the following
night. Both dances will be over at
2 in the morning.
Music will be furnished by Cur
ley Brient and the Aggieland or
chestra.
Aggie Ex Appointed
Dallas OPA Manager
W. A. Orth, who received his
degree in architectural engineering
at Texas A. & M. in 1913, has been
appointed manager of the Dallas
District Office of the Office of
Price Administration opened Jan
uary 11.
Orth also attended Massachu
setts Institute of Technology in
Boston, and later was in charge
of a large building improvement
program at Texas A. & M. He
later became assistant to the Dal
las District Manager of Work
Projects Administration, and en
tered the service of OPA by trans
fer from the Federdl Works
Agency in June of 1942.
“■student to graduate, and he is
supposed to wear his ring as it
is placed forever after. The couple
then kiss and descend from the
ring down the front steps, and
return to their seats.
Barney Rapp and his New Eng
landers orchestra will begin at
10 p.m. and Ring Dance which
will last until 2.
The curtain will ring down on
the Class of 1943 at Texas A&M
with commencement exercises Fri
day and Saturday, January 22-23
and mark the first class to be
graduated under the speed-up
program in effect at the college
since last June. The current class,
numbering 642 young men, by at
tending school this past summer
have been able to complete their
college work one full semester
ahead of the normal time.
Commencement exercises will
open at 10:30 Friday morning
when the Rev. Marshall Steeie, *
D. D., pastor of the Highland Park
Methodist Church, Dallas, delivers
the baccalaureate sermon in Guion
Hall, the college chapel. That
afternoon all departments will be
open for inspection to the friends
and parents of the graduates.
That evening the commencement
processional will move down Mil
itary Walk to Guion Hall where
Neth L. Leachman, Dallas attor
ney and member of the Board of
Directors of the college, will de
liver the commencement address.
Cadet Lt. Col. William Gallo
way, of Throckmorton, will deliver
the valedictory. In his four years
at the college Galloway has made
but one grade as low as a B and
that was not made until the first
semester of his senior year. He
will receive the degree of bachelor
of science in mechanical engineer
ing with a grade point ratio of
2.9922 of a perfect 3.00.
Final Ball will be held Friday
night in Sbisa Hall following a
reception by Dr. T. O. Walton,
president, and Mrs. Walton in the
Y. M. C. A.
The school year will come to an
official close Saturday morning
when Final Review is held and the
seniors relinquish their commands
to the juniors. The review will
move at 10 o’clock.
Practically 100 per cent of the
graduates will report for addi
tional military training to complete
the work for their commissions
immediately after final review.
Former Students Get
Naval Aviation Wings
After Training Period
Dana and Stribling
Leave for Army Post
The Animal Husbandry Depart
ment has lost two of its teaching
staff to the Armed Forces. Barron
R. Dana, assistant professor for
the past five years, has received
his commission as Ensign in the
Navy and has entered the Naval
Training Station at Harvard Uni
versity.
Stanley C. Stribling, instructor
in the Animal Husbandry Depart
ment, has left for Officers Candi
date School, Marine Base, at Quan-
tico, Virginia.
Singing Cadets Elect
Officers at 8 Tonight
Awards will be presented and
next semester’s officers will be
elected in a meeting of the singing
cadets tonight at 8 o’clock at the
assembly hall, stated Dick Jenkins,
director of the cadets. Tonight’s
meeting is the last of the semester
and ice cream will be served, Jen
kins added.
Givens Carl Wilson and William
Phillips Greenwell, of Woodlake,
Texas, were commissioned ensigns
in the U. S. Naval Reserve and
were designated Naval Aviators
at the Naval Air Training Center,
Corpus Christi.
Immediately following the cere
mony, in which the graduates were
addressed by Rear Admiral Alfred
E. Montgomery, U.S.N., Comman
dant. Wilson, Greenwell and their
classmates pinned on their “Navy
Wings,” distinguishing mark of a
Naval Aviator.
Before coming here for train
ing, they received primary instruc
tions at the Naval Reserve Avia
tion Base, Dallas, Texas and was
transferred to Corpus Christi for
intermediate and advanced train
ing.
Their training at the Naval Air
Training Center here, largest in
the world, included an intensive
ground school course covering nav
igation, radio code, gunnery, and
other related subjects, together
with flight training in various
types of Navy plane*.