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VOLUME 42 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 2, 1943
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NUMBER 105
Jose Iturbi
To Give Town b
Hail Program
Pianist to Appear
Maxell 17; Replaces
Jessica Dragonette
Late last night, Jose Iturbi, in
ternationally famous pianist, ac
cepted an invitation to appear on
the Texas A. & M. Town Hall stage
Wednesday, March 17, according
to John Lindsey, student manager
of Town Hall.
Iturbi replaces Miss Jessica
Dragonette, who refused without
explanation to make her contract
ed College Station appearance.
Coast Artillery,
Signal, Engineer
Senior Photos Due
Must Be Turned in At
Student Activities Office
Not Later than Saturday
Seniors in the Signal Corps En
gineers, and Coast Artillery regi
ments may begin having class pic
tures for the Longhorn made to
day. Saturday is the deadline on
all these pictures. All are urged
to have pictures made as early as
possible to prevent rushing on
Friday and Saturday. Unless
proofs are selected within two days
after the picture is made, they
will be selected by the Aggieland
Studio.
Saturday is the last day that
Fish, Sophomores and Juniors may
go by Aggieland and'have old pic
tures put in the oLnghorn. No new
pictures will be made due to film
shortages unless they are made
somewhere else other than Aggie
land Studios. These people, how
ever, must first go by the Studios
to get the specifications for the
picture or they will not be used
in the 1944 Longhorn.
Community Singing
Session Doubles Its
Attendance This Week
Sunday night, the Sunday Sing
in the Assembly hall nearly dou
bled its attendance over last week,
Richard Jenkins, director of the
Singing Cadets said today.
The Sing, a community sing ses
sion during which only hymns are
sung, was begun last week. Al
though attendance was small, Jen
kins expressed the firm belief that
the Sunday Sings would soon be
one of the most popular activities
on the campus.
FBI Agent Talks
On Investigation
ureau’s Methods
Lecture Held Tomorrow
Night; To Be Open To
All Persons Interested
William Newman, special agent
for the Federal Bureau of Investi
gation, will discuss the Bureau’s
work at a meeting of the College
Station Civilian Defense organiza
tion Wednesday, March 3, at 7
p.m. in the Chemistry Lecture
room, the chairman of the police
committee, announced yesterday.
Following the talk by Newman,
W. E. Naylor, of the Texas De
partment of Public Safety, will
show some motion pictures on
civilian defense activities.
“The talk by Mr. Newman
should prove of interest to many
of the corps, and it will be over
in time to make Call to Quarters,”
said the chairman. “All persons in
Bryan or College interested in hear
ing this speaker and seeing the
films are cordially invited.”
New Farmer’s
Market Now Open
In College Hills
The College Station Farmers’
Market opens Tuesday morning at
8:00 in the brick building in Col
lege Hills Estates, formerly occu
pied by the Stockton Plumbing
Company.
Many farmers in this area have
been contacted and an adequate
supply of vegettables will be as
sured as soon as they are avail
able. Eggs, chickens, flowers, and
all the vegetables obtainable will
be for sale.
No Smoking Rules
To Be Inforced By
All Bryan Theaters
The Bryan Police Department,
working in coordination with the
S. P.’s and the M. P.’s of Bryan
Field and College Station, has is
sued an order that smoking will
not be allowed in the theaters of
Bryan. This order pertains to the
three theaters, namely, the Palace,
Queen, and the Dixie.
The “no smoking” law has been
in the list of state laws for some
time, but has not been enforced.
As these theaters are not fireproof
and with the coming of service
men, an enforcement must be made
so as to prevent a fire-trap if a
fire did break loose.
A violation of this rule will re
sult in the banishing of all service
men from these theaters. This rule
of “no smoking” applies to every-
Seniors May Get Rings
From Registrar Wednesday ii
Alphabetical Order to Prevail;
A-K Wednesday Morning; L-Z Afternoon
Senior class rings are in the Registrar's office and may
be had starting Wednesday morning at 8, acting Registrar
E. L. Heaton said late yesterday. These are the 1944 rings
that were ordered in the fall, and may be obtained by those
ordering them according to an alphabetical schedule.
According to Heaton there are
about 500 rings in this shipment,
and to cut down confusion and rush
in the Registrar’s office, those stu
dents whose last name begins with
A to K may get their rings Wed
nesday morning. Those whose name
begins with L to Z get their’s
Wednesday afternoon.
Those who have rings, but do
not have the money to get them
at the moment may get them any
time within 30 days as the Regis
trar can hold them that long.
According to the Registrar’s of
fice, “We are asking those boys
who have rings to come only at
the designated times, as only those
rings will be available then. This
Former Student
Now in Training
As Aerial Observer
Lt. John F. Rougagnac, a grad
uate of the class of '42, has been
selected for training as aerial ob
server at Brooks Field, San An
tonio. Prior to his selection he
served for seven months in the
air forces and attended the Officer
Training School at Miami Beach,
Florida.
Rougagnac was associated with
the City of Houston before enter
ing the air forces.
Agronomy Society
Holds Initiations
In Meeting Tomorrow
The Agronomy Society will meet
Wednesday night, March 3, at 7:00
for the purpose of initiating new
members. All students majoring in
Agronomy and those interested in
this type of work are especially
urged to be present, as participat
ing in initiation is necessary before
you can become a member of the
society.
A committee, composed of Karl
Wallace, Pat Carpenter, and Paul
Rosmand was appointed by Presi
dent Jack Barton to prepare the
initiation program, and fun for all
is expected. Roger Killingsworth
is supervising the work. Refresh
ments will be served.
is necessary to avoid the rush and
confusion of having all 500 boys
show up at 8 a.m. Wednesday.”
No orders will be taken for rings
all day Wednesday, but will be re
sumed Thursday and continue until
the deadline of March 15.
Classified juniors may also order
their rings again starting March
5th. The final deadline for ring
orders has been set as March 15,
the Registrar’s office announced.
More Proof of OCS
Toughness Revealed
In Letter From Ex
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A&M Laundry Keeps Aggies
In Clean Clothes at Low Cost
By Bill Jarnagin
No, A&M’s laundry doesn’t
have a bath tub of buttons taken
from our shirts; in fact, the pro
cess which our clothes go through
is one of the most careful and ef
ficient methods possible.
Every week approximately 16,-
400 pieces of clothing go through
the laundry, or about 800 bundles
each day. About 200 workers are
required to turn out our clothes
on schedule. The cost of our shirts
and pants run about three cents
each, pojnts out the foreman of
the building, Ed Whitten, while
commercial laundries charge from
10c to 15c per shirt.
Whitten said three typical A&M
laundry bundles, each containing
twenty-five pieces, were once taken
to an average Houston laundry,
where they charged $1.50 for each
of the three bundles. A&M’s charge
of only 50<£ a week for a 25-piece
bundle is probably the lowest rate
in any U. S. college.
Here’s the trip your laundry goes
on each week:
First the laundry bundles are
thrown from the delivery trucks
through a big window into a pile
in the rear of the laundry building.
From this pile 120 bundles are
laundered, making up a “lot”, and
about 6 or 7 lots are laundered
each day.
Each bundle is opened, the con
tents and laundry mark checked
by ten girl markers. Each garment,
as it is checked, is thrown on a
moving belt, which sends the
clothes down to two “separater”
girls. , Here the bundle is divided
into five or more sections — the
sheets, pillow slips, etc. in one div
ision; the khaki clothes in another;
the white shirts in one division;
the towels, sweat shirts, etc. in
another—and so on.
Seven big washing machines
take in the clothes, then three “ex
tractors”, or dryers, whirl out all
the water, except a little dampness,
These machines whirl with a vel
ocity of 750 rpm for about seven
minutes.
Next all the “flat work” sheets
handkerchiefs, pillow cases, etc.,
are sent through a series of steam-
heated cloth-covered rollers. Here
the damp pieces come out neatly
pressed and dried.
Ten “drying tumblers” are used
to furnish fluffy, soft drying for
towels, socks, and the like.
Thirty-two “hot head” pressers
take care of the miscellaneous gar
ments and pants. Four sets of es
pecially curved shirt pressers take
care of all the shirts in 4 steps.
A machine is used to press the
collar and cuffs, another machine
is used for the front, another for
the back, and another for the
sleeves.
Much like a big assembly plant,
the clothes make their way from
the marking girls, through A the
washers and dryers, across the
building through its respective
ironer, and on to the bundling de
partment.
Each ironer has a repair rack
upon which clothes needing mend
ing or buttons replaced are hung.
A girl from the mending depart
ment makes, gathers these clothes
and takes them back to be repair
ed. A special button attacher sews
on buttons in less than two seconds,
but the reason buttons are not so
frequently replaced as it seems
they should be is that under the
speedy assembly line it is often
impossible to even notice a missing
button.
The building department is in
four divisions, each with pigeon
holes arranged in alphabetical num
ber. Each cadets’ laundry slip is
clipped to its respective pigeon
hole, where his clothes are placed
checked, and wrapped.
Five stations disperse the laun
dry to the Aggies, sailors, ma
rines, and now the air corp cadets.
The following portion of a letter
received by the Agronomy Depart
ment from C. E. Butler, class of
’42, attending Officers Candidate
School at Ft. Benning, Ga., gives
further proof that OCS is no bed
of roses.
“This is going to have to be brief
because we aren’t given much time
to call our own—in fact, this is the
first letter I’ve written during the
middle of the week since getting
in the army.
“I didn’t realize what a picnic
A. & M. was until recently; we are
kept on the go continually from
6:30 a. m. until . . . Sometimes we
get off at 6:00 p. m. but four nights
each week we have study hall from
7:30 to 8:30; however, it's difficult
to finish in that length of time so
usually we finish up when we come
back to the barracks. Lights go out
at 10:00 except in the shower, so
any studying, letter writing, etc.,
is done there.
“Fortunately we have some real
ly good instructors — they know
their stuff and how to put it across.
I thought when I was taking 418
that Doc Jones had the world beat
on the use of charts and diagrams,'
but you should sit through some
of these lectures.
“There are 37 Aggies in this
company; most of the others with
the exception of one Tea-sipper
are damyankees. But the thing that
tops it all—we also have four ne
groes in the company. I’m not very
well acquainted with two of them
but the two I do know are well ed
ucated.
“By the way, Mr. Potts, peanut
butter is the backbone of the
Army.
“Sincerely,
Butler.”
Plans Under Way To
Train Engineers In
Special Fields Here
Officers will be here Wednesday
and Thursday to discuss plans for
the training of advanced engineer
ing specialists at A. & M., stated
Dean Gibb Gilchrist.
The plan would make A. & M.’s
facilities foj engineering education
available to the Army for instruct
ing selected groups of men who
have had basic engineering train
ing. The plan would probably bring
several hundred trainees to A. & M.
First Corps Dance
Of Spring Term
eld in Sbisa Hall
New Aggieland Band
Hailed As Success
By Attendance There
The first Corps Dance of this
tei’m, held in Sbisa Hall last Sat
urday night, was a great success
according to Rodney Brauchle, so
cial secretary of the Senior class.
The new system of arrangement of
the Aggieland Orchestra, under the
direction of Jack McGregor, creat
ed favorable comment among the
persons at the dance. According to
McGregor, this new plan allows
the Aggies to plan their dances
ahead, knowing just what sort of
piece is coming up next. “Our set
will consist of playing three or four
pieces straight, then having a lit
tle break to arrange the next of
two slow pieces, then a fast one,
then a break; two slow onec, one
fast one, and the break; and so
on,” said McGregor.
Due to gas rationing, war, and
the army, there was no dorm vacat
ed for Aggie dates. To conform
with the new C. Q. regulations the
dance was held from 8 until 11:30
in order to give the Aggies time
to get their dates home before call
to quarters. This new time will
also give the boys without dates
an hour before C. Q.
Regulations for Cadets were
number one or tux for the fish,
sophomores and juniors and civilian
clothes, tux, or number one being
reg for seniors.
STUDENT
EMPLOYMENT
“There is an urgent need
for students to handle the
many jobs that are now open
or will be open soon on the
campus. Eligibility require
ments have been relaxed un
der existing conditions. Re
gardless of your family in
come, if you need or want
work, please see the Place
ment Office as soon as pos
sible.”
Prexy Leaves For
Washington on Four-
Day Conference Trip
President T. O. Walton will leave
Wednesday for a four-day trip to
Washington, D.C., where he will
confer with Secretary of Agricul
ture Wickard. He will discuss the
general agriculture situation in
Texas.
Aggie Ex Promoted
To First Lieutenant
Second Lt. Lelon T. Camp, Q. M.
C., Officer in Charge of General
Supplies at the New Cumberland
Quartermaster Depot, New Cum
berland, Pa., was recently promoted
to first lieutenant.
Prior to being called for active
duty in June, 1942, Lt. Camp was
a member of the graduating class
of 1942 at the A. & M. College of
Texas.
Former Executive
Assistant Visits
Campus Yesterday
Colonel Ike Ashburn, director of
Houston’s Civilian Defense, was a
visitor on the campus yesterday.
He was formerly executive assist
ant to President T. O. Walton.
LONGHORN NOTICES
Signal Corps, Engineers, and Coast Artillery
Seniors. Deadline; Saturday, March 6.
Fish, Sophomores and Junior Class Pictures—(Old
Pictures) Deadline: March 8.
Senior Favorites
Cost: $1.50, 5x7 glossy print (close up). Deadline:
March 15.
Vanity Fair
Cost: $3.00. 5x7 glossy print (close up). 8x10 glos
sy print (full length with evening dress.) Deadline:
March 15.
Organizations
Cost: $15.00 per half page. Each club limited to
half page. Deadline for club reservation: March 6.
Notes
Aggieland can make no 5x7 copies of portraits due
to film shortage.
ThousandsofRumors Killed
Nothing New on E R C Call
Commandant's Office Spikes Gossip;
Definite Date Still Unknown to All
March 6 Deadline
Set For Longhorn’s
Club Reservations
Reservations Must Be
Placed With Student
Activities Office Here
, All clubs that went space in the
’44 Longhorn must come by the
Student Activities Office by Sat
urday, March 6 and make their res
ervations.
Each club is limited to one-half
page due to limited amount of
space this year. This one half page
will cost $15.00 and will include
the club’s members and roster. No
reservation will be accepted after
Saturday, since the club pictures
will have to be made next week,
according to Marvin McMillan,
Longhorn editor.
Company Funds
Must Be Placed In
Activities Office
All company funds collected thus
far must be deposited in the Stu
dent Activities before 5 o’clock,
March 3, stated the Commandant’s
Office. No more company funds
or funds for Regimental Dances
may be collected until further
authorization by the Commandants
Office.
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WTAW Sponsors
Special Program
For Home Gardeners
Home gardens throughout the
listening area of radio station
WTAW will be especially inter
ested in the program to be broad
cast from 11:30 to 11:45 a.m. to
day, because the care of young
garden plants will be discussed in
detail by A.&M. Horticulture De
partment experts, and announce
ment will be made of availability
of a complete set of instructions
for Victory gardening, it was an
nounced by J. J. Woolket, program
director.
“The A.&M. College is endeavor
ing to perform a service to all
those radio listeners who are serv
ed by our station, WTAW,” Wool
ket said. “And Tuesday’s program
will be full of good information
for the novice home gardener. The
series of gardening broadcasts has
been going on for some time, but
we have decided to make all the
previous information available in
simpe form to assist late starters
in properly preparing the ground,
planting the seed and caring for
young garden plants.
There is no new information con
cerning the activation of military
juniors and seniors, and any ru
mors as to the definite date of
activation are to be considered as
mere opinion or heresay without
any basis of fact whatsoever, the
Commandant’s office said late yes
terday.
Activation will take place only
when the War Department orders
such action, and although more def
inite information is expected soon,
nothing further is known at this
time.
College officials assure you that
there is no reason why such infor
mation should be withheld from
the Corps when it arrives, and that
until that time, nothing is at all
definite.
Students are urged by the Presi
dent’s office and the Commandant’s
office to continue studying as usual
as the academic part of your train
ing will go on just as it is whether
the Army comes down here or not.
Correspondent
Relates Narrow
Escapes of Ex
Action of A & M Ex
In Tunisia Reported
To Be Full of Danger
In special dispatches from the
Tunisian front, Ernie Pyle, cor
respondent to the Houston Press,
tells of the narrow escape of Major
Rollin “Satch” Elkins, Aggie-ex
and a professor of economics here
since his graduation in 1935. Major
Elkins arrived in North Africa in
command of a cavalry unit and
was stationed at a forward com
mand post when the recent Axis
push in Tunisia began. He was
traveling across semi-cultivated
desert land in the hasty retreat
westward when Pyle’s story be
gins.
“A friend of mine, Major Rollin
L. Elkins, of College Station,
Texas, had his half-track hit three
times by German shells. They were
standing still, cleaning a carbu
retor filter, when the third shell
hit. It set them on fire. Some of
the crew eventually got back safe
ly, but others are still missing.
Major Elkins said they could have
gotten clear back with the car
‘if the damned engine had only
kept running.” Pyle explains that
“Practically every vehicle reported
gasoline trouble that afternoon.”
While in A.&M. Elkins was an
outstanding student and active in
campus affairs. He was on the
staff of the Battalion and played
with the Aggieland Orchestra. He
had his reserve commission in the
Cavalry.
Position of India In War
Effort To Be Explained Here
The time was 20 years ago—
1923. The place was the Anklesvar
Bombay Presidency, India. A young
Ohio school teacher had just ar
rived to take up his new duties as
superintendent of a rural teachers’
training school. He was a man of
warm sympathy toward the strug
gles of farm people here and
abroad, keenly appreciative of their
problems. His first task was to
master the native languages and he
set out almost immediately on a
900 mile trip to north India to
study Hindi, which most nearly
approximates a national language.
For days he traveled by horse car
riage, pullman, motor bus, and
pony, struck by the curious amalga
mation of Eastern and Western
commerce and culture.
Eighteen years later—in Octo
ber, 1941, to be exact—the self
same Ohio school teacher sat at
lunch with Mahatma Gandhi and
reviewed the progress of the In
dian National Congress in its ef
forts to achieve the long-sought
goal of Indian independence. Here
there was mutual respect, for Will
Moomaw had come a long way
since he left the home farm in
Ohio. Not in a worldly fashion but
by virtue of his commonsense un
derstanding of Indian agriculture,
education, religion, people. Two
days before Pearl Harbor, Dr. Moo
maw sailed for America for one of
his periodic vacations.
Next Wednesday night at 7:00
o’clock Dr. Moomaw will appear be
fore the Economics Club in the Pe
troleum Engineering Lecture Room
to describe his impressions of the
position that India occupies in the
war. The title of his talk will be
“A Farmer Sees India.” Everyone
is invited to attend and ask ques
tions in the open forum that fol
lows.
Dr. Moomaw’s career eminently
qualifies him to interpret the atti
tudes of the masses of India’s huge
(See INDIA, Page 4)