Texas A&M
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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
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ROOM 6, ADMINISTRATION BLDG. — VOLUME 42
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 16, 1943
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NUMBER 99
Classified Juniors May Buy Their 1945 Senior Rings
Longhorn Staff Begins
Work on Annual for 1944
Enrollment Of
250 Arrives For
Water Works Meet
1500 Copies Sold To Date; Price
Advances to $5.00 on February 22
Delegates Housed In
Vacant Ramps of Hart;
Banquet at Sbisa Tonight
Marvin McMillan announced to the Battalion yesterday
afternoon that there positively will be a Longhorn this
semester. Very near 1500 copies have been sold in advance
up to date.
Most of the organization commanders have returned
their receipt pamphlets, therefore all students who wish to
pay for a Longhorn may do so at the Student Activities of
fice in the basement of the Administration building.
Starting Monday, February 22,-f
the Longhorn price will advance to
$5, but those who have already
paid their $4 will not have to pay
any more.
Organization commanders who
have not yet turned in their Long
horn receipt books are requested
by the staff to turn them in to
Harry Saunders, A-6 Walton hall,
in the old area, and in the new
area to Marvin McMillan, 317,
dorm 9.
The Longhorn staff wishes to
express its appreciation to the or
ganization commanders and the
corps for making a 1943 Longhorn
possible, and they seriously intend
to do all they can to give the corps
the best annual possible, stated
the editor, Marvin McMillan, to
the Battalion.
Plans Made To
Enable Students
To Obtain Shoes
College Loses
Howard Berry To
Naval Air Corps
Eleven Years as Staff
Photographer Completed;
Founder of Camera Club
Howard Berry, staff photogra
pher for the Agricultural Extension
Service, has been called to active
service and will report to the naval
photography school in Pensacola,
Florida, March 1.
Although assigned to the Ag Ex
tension Service, Berry’s work has
included the publicity department,
athletic department, and the col
lege in general.
Berry majored in entomology at'
Mississippi State College, where he
was a free lance photographer. He
liked his hobby so, well that he took
it up for his life’s work instead of
entomology.
Number 17 Ration Stamp
Available From Mess Hall
When Needed By Cadets
Cadets may obtain their number
17 stamp, the stamp needed to
purchase a new pair of shoes since
the new shoe rationing program
went into effect last week, and a
certificate stating that the indivi
dual’s war ration book is filed in
the dining hall, according to an
announcement made yesterday af
ternoon by J. C. Hotard, super
visor of subsistance.
Those desiring to purchase a new
pair of shoes, should go to the
business office of Sbisa dining hall
and ask for their number 17 stamp.
Along with that stamp they will
be given a certificate stating that
the war ration book is at the din
ing hall and being used for the
students’ sugar ration.
“It is necessary for students to
have the certificate since shoe
clerks have been instructed they
must have the whole war ration
book before honoring the number
17 stamp,” stated Hotard.
The stamp and certificate will
be honored at any shoe dealer,
Hotard declared.
Camera Club To
Start Activities
The College Camera Club will
begin activities for the current se
mester tomorrow night, February
17 in the Y.M.C.A. chapel at 7:00
p. m. at which time officers will
be elected.
The Club has at its disposal an
equipped darkroom, a Solar 4x5 in.
condenser type enlarger. Member
ship is extended not only to Ag
gies but also to any person living
in the vicinity of College Station
or Bryan who is interested in some
phase of photography whether that
interest be in darkroom work or
merely the clicking of a camera
shutter on Sunday afternoons.
Since he has been at A. & M., he
has had pictures published in Col
lier’s, Saturday Evening Post, Time,
Look, Newsweek, Country Gentle
man, and many other national and
local magazines and newspapers.
Most of his publications have con
cerned A. & M.’s military science
department, the athletic depart
ment, and agricultural research re
ports.
Here at A. & M., Berry spon
sored the College Camera Club,
and took active part in most of
the meetings. He helped the club
obtain room in the tower of the
Petroleum Engineering building
for a darkroom.
“I am looking forward to life in
the Navy and expect to learn all
I can about naval photography. I
sincerely hope the College Camera
Club will continue its work and ex
pand in the years to come. When
the war is over, I hope to return
to my job here at A. & M.,” said
Berry to the Battalion yesterday.
Agronomy Grads Get
Officer Commissions
James E. Frierson and E. L.
Whiteley, both graduates of A &
M and Agronomy majors, visited
Dr. Ide P. Trotter Monday morn
ing on the way to their first as
signment as officers. They were
recently graduated from Officer
Candidate Schools.
Frierson was inducted at Ft.
Sill, Oklahoma, Dec. 3, 1941. He
served eight months in the Ha
waiian Islands and entered OCS
in November. He is now a 2nd
Lt. in the Medical Administrative
Corps.
Whiteley was doing graduate
work in Pasture Improvement at
North Carolina State before being
inducted. He was admitted to
OCS after some time at Camp
Wolters, Texas.
Bell County Club
Holds Meet Tomorrow
The Bell County Club will have
its first meeting of the present
Semester tomorrow night at 6:45
in room 205 of the Academic
Building.
All boys from Temple and sur
rounding territory are urged to
attend as officers will be elected
at this meeting. Also plans for
the semester will be outlined and
other important points concerning
the club will be discussed.
Naval Air Corps
Calls Geology Prof
Another member of the A. & M.
College faculty, Dr. F. E. Turner,
of the geology department, has
been ordered to active duty with
the armed services.
Dr. Turner has been commis
sioned a lieutenant in the U. S.
Navy and ordered to report to the
Naval Training Station at Holly
wood, Florida, March 13. He said
that he expected to be assigned to
cartography work after entering
upon active duty.
Two hundred and twenty-seven
delegates have registered with the
twenty-fifth annual Water Works
and Sewerage Short Course being
held at A. & M. College under the
auspices of the American Water
Works Association, State Board of
Health, State Board for Vocational
Education, and Texas A. & M. Col
lege, according to J. H. Sorrels,
assistant professor of municipal
and sanitary engineering.
Sorrels further stated that more
delegates to the school were com
ing in and that the final tally
would probably show over 250 dele
gates registered for the three-day
short school. He said that due to
the low college registration this
year, which left several dormitories
vacant, it had been possible to
house the delegates with very lit
tle trouble. The men are staying
in Ramps A, B, C, and D of Hart
Hall which were vacated by cadets
at the end of last semester.
Usually lasting four and one-
half days, the school this year was
streamlined to two and a half days,
since many men are engaged in
vital war and defense projects and
could not be present for the longer
period. Sorrels said that the school
consisted primarily of lectures and
discussions of water and sewerage
problems of Texas and the entire
nation. Defense leaders and army
engineering experts are among
those lecturing to the delegates,
discussing such problems as work
on army posts, defense projects,
and the priorities set-up. All A. &
M. students interested in these lec
tures are invited to attend, Sorrels
said.
The annual school banquet will
be held tonight at Sbisa hall ban
quet room at 7 p.m. with Dr. W.
B. Russ, Regional Medical Officer,
Office of Civilian Defense, as the
guest speaker. Dr. G'eo. W. Cox,
State Health Officer, will make the
presentation of awards, and offi
cers for the coming year will be
installed. Aggies and others not
connected with the school, desir
ing to attend the banquet can ob
tain tickets before noon today for
the price of $1.00 in the lobby of
the YMCA.
Bryan Rotary Club
Completes Plans On
New Program Series
Plans for the Institute of Inter
national Understandings, which is
being sponsored by the Rotary Club
of Bryan, have been completed.
Similar programs have been pro
moted with success by nearly 600
Rotary clubs in the United States.
Gerhart H. Seger will open the
series of four weekly addresses at
the forum to be held in the High
School Auditorium, Bryan, on Feb
ruary 16 at 8 p. m. His discussion
topic will be “Patterns of Coopera
tion for the Post-War World.”
Mr. Seger will, also address the
students of Bryan High School
Tuesday afternoon.
Agronomy Society
To Meet Wednesday
The Agronomy Society will hold
a meeting tomorrow at 6:45 in
Room 312 of the Agriculture build
ing. Officers will be elected and all
Agronomy majors are urged to be
present by the club officials.
Campus Study Club
Holds Meeting Today
The Campus Study Club will
meet in the lecture room of the
Animal Husbandry building at 3
o’clock today.
Dr. Luther Jones of the Agron
omy Department will speak on the
topic, “Why Plow?” and a film,
“The Heritage We Guard,” will be
shown.
Awright Fellas
The other day Hank Avery asked me to write a
few words concerning the attitude of our students to
ward the Physical Fitness Program. To date you men
have been grand in every respect and what would
normally have been a mighty hard job has been made
an interesting and pleasant one bacuse of the fine
cooperation you have given us.
I speak the sentiment of each and every member
of our staff when I say we welcome the opportunity
to work with you in this program because we are in
terested in you. We all need to be in much better physi
cal condition and what we do now will make the road
further on much smoother and easier and enable us to
render a greater service.
We have one objective and that is to toughen each
and every one of you to the extent that you will have
the confidence to face whatever may come with the
assurance that you are ready physically. We are going
to reach that objective.
We want your continued cooperation—we want
you to help us to help you—we want to abe able to look
you in the eyes at the end of the semester with the
knowledge that we have helped prepare you by our
program. We are going to work untiringly to make the
program beneficial and interesting.
We are loking forward with pleasure to our asso
ciation with you and your enthusiastic participation
in the program will be appreciated.
COME ON FELLAS—LETS GO.
W. L. Penberthy
Registrar’s Office Will
Take Orders Wednesday
First Junior Class in History of A&M
To Place Orders for Seniors Class Rings
All students now in school who are classified juniors
and have been on the campus for two or more semesters
may purchase a senior class ring beginning Wednesday Gus
Boesch, president of the Senior Class said late yesterday.
Seniors who ordered rings last fall, but who failed to
classify at the end of the past semester will be able to get
those rings when they arrive March 1.
This action was taken by the Ring Committe on the
"suggestion of E. E. McQuillen, sec-
Dean Kyle Writes
Articles on South
American Relations
Dean Kyle of the School of Ag
riculture has just had two ar
ticles published. In this month’s
“Cattleman” was to be found “Ag
ricultural Econopiy of Central and
South America.”
In “Science,” the standard scien
tific journal of the nation, Dean
Kyle’s “The Mission of the Land-
Grant Colleges in Promoting Our
Good Neighbor Policies Among the
Latin American Republics” received
wide attention, drawing over one
hundred letters from different sec
tions of the country.
Commandants Office
Issues Circular To
PreventRoomDamage
Dresser minors are not to be
dismantled from their positions on
the dresser, stated a circular from
the commandant’s office recently.
According to the circular,, tacti
cal officers on their next inspec
tion will report names of those
students who have dismantled the
dressers in . their rooms and these
students will be assessed demerits
for this expense, as well a being
held responsible for any expense
for lost parts of the dresser.
Navy V-l Plan
To Enlist Students
Here February 22
The Naval Procurement Group
will arrive at A. & M. Monday,
February 22nd to enlist 17-year-old
students who desire to join the
Navy’s V-l plan. The place for the
enlistment will be announced later.
It is important that students ex
pecting to enlist have their papers
in order. The three copies of the
parents’ release should be signed
before a Notary Public, and the
birth certificate should also carry
an official signature.
Extension Service
Reviews 1942 Cotton
Crop in Report Here
Texas was one of several states
which produced more cotton in 1942
than in the preceding year to make
up the U. S. Department of Agri
culture’s December 1 estimate of
a total crop in the belt of a little
less than 13,000,000 bales.
According to M. C. Jaynes, cot
ton work specialist for the A. and
M. College Extension Service,
Texas farmers increased their
acreage by 405,000 over the 8,-
118,000 acres planted in 1941.
Growing conditions, generally,
were good with high temperatures
in mid-summer keeping boll wee
vils in check. During September,
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Small Wonder ERG
Is Confused; Kong,
Bin Must Be Cause
His first name is Bin. His mid
dle name is Moon. His last name
is Ng.
His brother’s first name is Kong.
His brother’s middle name is Moon,
too. His brother’s last name is
Ng, too.
Bin Moon Ng is a Freshman in
the Signal Corps.
Kong Moon Ng is a Junior in
the Field Artillery.
They are Chinese.
It is a Chinese custom that they
give their last name first when
ever they speak, since they assume
that the last name is after all im
portant.
By an oversight, their names
were given to the school, the ERC
and to their draft boards as Mr.
Ng Moon Bin and Mr. Ng Moon
Kong; their father’s name was
given as Mr. Ng G. Foon!
It suddenly dawned on these
two students from San Antonio of
Chinese extraction that if they
want their names on diplomas,
commissions etcetera they must
straighten out a few things, so
they went to see Lieutenant Col
onel Bennett.
Colonel Bennett, after much
head-scratching, decided they must
get an affadavit, swear their name
is Bin Moon Ng and Kong Moon
Ng, then complicated forms must
be filled out and sent to Washing
ton and Washington men must
sign things and then everything
will be straight, but Mr. Ng and
his brother Mr. Ng will think
twice before they observe any
more Chinese customs—at least
about their names!
Air Combat Film
Featured at Aero
Sciences Club Meet
Air Force films showing the de
velopment and use of air-borne
combat units and paratroops will
be featured at the first meeting of
the student chapter of the Insti
tute of Aeronautical Sciences, Wed
nesday night at 7:30 in the Chem
istry lecture room.
These films, which will be shown
only at the Wednesday night meet
ing, were obtained through the
Army Air Force Materiel Center
at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio.
The films will be shown at 7:30
p.m. in the Chemistry lecture room.
Election of officers will take
place at 7:00 p.m. All members and
friends are invited to come.
ERC Rumors
Unfounded;
Nothing New
Reserves Will Be
Activated When
Soldiers Arrive
Contrary to rumors current at
the present date, the Enlisted Re
serve Corps will not be called out
and sent away next week, stated
Dean F. C. Bolton yesterday after
a flood of inquiries about when
the members of the ERC would be
“Complete details will be an
nounced to the corps the minute
they are received at this office
regarding the actual dates for the
army plan to go in effect,” an
nounced Bolton, and he urged that
unfounded rumors not be circulat
ed.
activated.
Bolton stated that the latest in
formation received here from of
ficial sources, does not alter the
original plan of the army with re
gard to activating the reserve.
Execution of the army’s plans are
contingent on the date the Army
Specialized Training Program is
put into operation at this school,
which in turn, stated Bolton, rests
with the date the army details
enlisted men to service here.
According to the information on
hand that will not occur before
March 1 added the college dean.
The plan briefly for enlisted re
servists is as follows, concluded
Bolton:
Contract juniors and seniors
will be called to active duty
and left here under few chan
ges until the end of the cur
rent semester.
All sophomores will remain
here until the end of the sem
ester.
All freshmen will be subject
to call and assignment to
training elsewhere on the date
the specialized training pro
gram is inaugurated here.
Accounting Society
Holds First Meeting
Of Current Semester
The A. & M. Accounting Society
will hold its’ first meeting for the
semester Wednesday night, Febru
ary 17th in the room 405, Agricul
ture Building. R. L. Boyles will call
the meeting to order at 6:45.
For the last time until 1945,
people living in the United States
and Canada will see an eclipse of
the moon when that body enters
the shadow of the earth on the
night of Friday, Feb. 19, said James
Stokley, of the General Electric
Research Laboratory, on the G-E
Science Forum.
The coming eclipse will not be
total, he explained, but more than
three-fourths of the lunar diameter
will be immersed in the terrestrial
shadow. The result, he explained,
will be a very strange looking
moon, since the eclipsed portion
will assume a coppery hue. This is
due to light which the earth’s at
mosphere bends into the shadow.
reary of the Former Student Asso
ciation and is due to the present
emergency speed-up program
which made the Class of 45 the
last group as a class to enter A.
& M. before the United States en
tered the war. Acting Registrar H.
L. Heaton was also a proponent
of the plan.
Primary motive for suggesting
some relaxation in the ring regu
lations was the compartively high
percent of seniors who failed to
clasify although they had ordered
rings, said McQuillen. As most of
this group were but a little short
of classification and because they
will not get an opportunity to go
to schol another semester, it was
decided that something should be
done to alleviate the situation.
Juniors’ rings will be of the
Class of ’45, and orders should be
in as soon after Wednesday as
possible as March 15 is the ab
solute deadline. A three dollar de
posit and classification is necessary
to order the ring, and they will
be delivered sometime late in
May. Senior rings already ordered
are still expected March 1.
Seniors who did not order rings
last fall becaus ethey knew they
would not be classified, may now
do so if they are classified as a
junior, under the new ruling, and
they may have “44” on their rings.
Orders wil be taken starting to
morrow morning at the ring win
dow of the Registrar’s office, and
can be placed every morning there
after until March 15, with the ex
ception of the few days around
March 1 during which time the
senior rings will be issued. No or
ders will be taken in the after
noons as long as they can be hand
led in the mornings.
Members of the Ring Commit
tee of the Senior Class present
were: Gus Boesch, class president;
Stewart Cartwright; Bob Latimer;
John Holman; George Chatfield
(junior member); John Lindsey;
Harry Saunders; Curtis Zohn; Mc
Quillen, Heaton, and E. L. Angell,
executive assistant to the president.
Vote on the ruling was unanimous.
Col Horne Speaks
For Marketing And
Finance Club Here
Tomorrow night at 7 in the
YMCA chapel the Marketing and
Finance club will hold its war dis
cussion meeting.
Col. O. D. Horne, of the Chemical
Warfare Service, will be the guest
speaker, reports program chairman
Micheal Schirm.
In its passage through the air lay
er blue waves are scattered, to
give the sky its blue color, and the
light that reaches the moon is red
dened.
Mr. Stokley said that, as always
at a lunar eclipse, the moon will
be full. At 12:03 a.m., EST, the
southeastern edge of the moon will
be noticeably dimmed, and then
the curved edge of the earth shad
ow will be seen upon it. Gradually
more and more lunar surface will
be covered until the maximum
eclipse is reached at 1:38 a.m.
After that the moon will gradually
emerge from the shadow,, leaving it
at 3:13 a.m., when the last part
will pass from the moon’s south
western limb.
Last Lunar Eclipse 'Till 1945
Given Star Gazers Friday Eve