THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 10, 1943-
-THE BATTALION-
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TURRET TIPS
Squadron I
Nick Papas was introduced to a
WAAC Saturday night. He was
seen taking her to a movie in
Bryan Sunday. Yes, Papas is a
Texan, from Houston.
Gullible Ray Grose wants it made
known that he has “Lost all faith
in human nature.” So has Hitler,
Grose.
Rumor has it that Harry B.
Monsell will shave for the first
time in his life, this Saturday
starting promptly at one o'clock.
The public is invited, and a special
invitation is made to Horacio Ram
irez, who made one hundred on his
first aid test.
Notes from the Houston trip . .
. . Charles Donnelly used some of
his New Orleans “famous line for
women” with great success . . . .
Bill Butler claims the reason it
took him ten minutes to escort his
date to the door was, “She couldn’t
find her key” . . . Howard Pil-
kinton came to “Big H” with his
girl all the way from Pasadena,
which is ten miles from Houston,
in ten minutes. However, the re
turn trip took two hours and ten
minutes.
Also seen having a good time i|i
Houston were Douglas McDonald,
Ray Sims, Ramon McKinney,
Charles Oldfather, George Persons
and Sid Smith with his girl’s Cad
illac.
Squadron Conjmander Talmage
Errol Quick proved to be the sur
prise of the party. He is a mod
ern bluebeard. For details ask
Quick or the Rice Hotel .... Os
sie Fisher took his Montana room
mate R. A. Galt home with him.
They headed for Houston but due
to Fisher’s driving they never
made it. Cost “general repairs”
sixty-three dollars.
All that went to Houston had a
grand time. All conducted them
selves as gentlemen and were back
before 0600 Monday. This is a fine
example. Let’s keep it up, Squad
ron One. Monday morning the P.
E. teacher refreshed the boys with
the mile and six tenths road run.
We certainly miss the music in
the mess hall.
—ENGINEERS—
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chances to be escorted to the edge
of the Campus, and told to scram.
But what can they think of by way
of an advanced course in P.E. ?
What could follow push-ups, pull-
ups, and run? It can’t be more
push-ups and a four mile run! I
wonder! Hmm! But A. & M. is a
fine institution. We are already
quick-thinking, clear-headed, and
very bright engineers in addition
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RUDDER
DUST
by A/S Jack E. Shaw
Thinks seem to be in the food
fur changin these days. Zeke hap
pened by Foster (the cradle of de
mocracy) Hall tother nite an seen
a bunch of kittens busy catchin a
late snack. What things don’t hap
pen when squadron two turns their
back!
Shore dun injoyed mahself at
that there very special Press Club
git-to-gether we’all dun had with
the boys of the Battalion and rep-
reesentateevs of the other groups.
Ah told some of them there good
ol backwoods jokes, but the boys
didn’t seem to ketch on, cuz they
jest set there and made funny faces
at me.
Hearin a turribul ruckus a-goin
on in the next room, ah hurried
over and asked this partickoolar
yong gennulman why for he was
a-battin his haid agin the wall.
He jus sed, “Oh, ah’m jest a-lim-
berin up fur tomorrow’s math ex
am.” Ho hum!
Guess ah will hafta stop naow
to study a little and besides these
shoes are a-killin me!
The ACTD staff was brieved
at the loss of our capable Edi-
itor-in-chief, Raimund Alvarado^
who has advanced to Classifica
tion.
In the true Air Corps spirit, we
will carry on under the guidance
of our new chief, Alvin Cooter.
The members of the staff join
in wishing the best of luck to both
gentlemen.
to being perfect physical speci
mens. Any women with X or T gas
ration cards who are interested in
one of these Super-Duper creatures
will please contact any engineer
associate editor whose initials are
M. J. K. No lady, I don’t have my
halo yet—get that upon completion
of the course. Bye now.
“1st Sgt’s Guff”
D. K. Springwater
Let’s get on the Ball!
“Alright, alright, bend down,
fellas, and let’s see those bottoms
and elbows!” is the cry of platoon
Sgts. Esther and Vance every a.m.
in front of Spence Hall. It’s a new
style exercise. Its name, ‘policing’
When we first entered the Army
we thought ‘policing’ was a form
of guard duty but have since learn
ed otherwise. It seems that the
Army requires the grounds of a
military reservation to be as im
maculate as a destroyer’s deck and
disregards the comparative area,
therefore G.I.’s fall out each morn
ing especially for the function of
removing trash, papers, cigarette
butts and even paper-match sticks.
Of course we are so well trained
now that we no longer resent it
and desire a neat and orderly area
as a matter of personal pride. Oh,
sure, you’ll hear the fellows “bleed”
about it but you should hear them
when it isn’t clean!
With the campaign for a beau
tiful campus well under way, we
Engineers want our Company area
to be outstanding. Already we have
posted signs of pur own, made by
one of our boys, E. D. Dessert, in
his Shop period, requesting that
persons keep off the gr^ss and we
are providing for other means of
improving appearances.
Therefore, if we all try to re
member not to throw newspapers
about on the walks when we’re
through reading them and strip
down our cigarettes rather than
flip them away, we’ll have suc
ceeded to some degree in demon
strating our spirit of co-operation
and at the same time maintain a
fine lawn. It will be well worth the
effort.
In conformity with Section 81’s
latest fad for lip adornment, “Eau
Meau (Earl Merrill) was seen
about Spence Hall sporting a two-
dimensional cookie-duster, high
lighted with eyeshadow he swiped
from his lovely little wife . . .
Sgt. Sweatt now understands what
it is like to sweat over books and
reams of paper, along with the rest
of us. The Sergeant really puts
his all into boning up for his Mil
itary Science lectures and does a
fine job, too ... If Tynan would
only try to fall out on time, he’d
save Mother Cesspool a lot of
heartache . . . Our Honorable Ed
itor, Brad, and his bosom-buddy
Johnny Cornell were not on hand
to receive distinguished company
Monday night but have promised
that they will be “at home” over
the week-end . . . We wonder pre
cisely why Messrs. Bishop, Ep-
ACTD EDITORIAL STAFF
Alvin B. Cooter Editor-in-Chief
Jack E. Shaw Managing Editor
Fred J. Rosenthal Associate Editor
Alan E. Goldsmith Associate Editor
Max E. Stump Associate Editor
Joseph E. Platt Editor Squd. 2
Bill R. Peters Squd. 5 Editor
Lloyd Merwin Squd. 1 Editor
DUTY, HONOR,
AND COUNTRY
By A/S Alvin B. Cooter
In the past few days I have
been impressed by various opin-
ion| of members of this detach
ment. They impressed me in such
a way as to make me think, and
the more I thought I came to a
decision that wrong attitudes were
being formed about the army and
more so about the branch of the
service that we are now in. The
idle talkers have it that there is
nothing good in this man’s army,
and that we have been ‘done
wrong.’ The more I listen to con
versations of this type, the more
I am convinced of the ways that
most of us believe. It is strange
how one rotten apple can spoil a
complete case. It is these few rot
ten apples that we must weed out.
We are going to find that the
reapings of life are not handed
to us on a silver platter. There is a
price we will have to pay, and it
is going to be a large one. If one
does not want to pay for the gifts
he has received, he should bail-out
and call it quits. We have had
many priceless gifts given to us
by this country that people of
other nations wish that they could
have had. We have received them
too easily and are spoiled, but we
must come out of that state of
belief. In my way of thinking some
of us have not realized to this day
that we are at war.
Yes, we are at war, and the soon
er some of us let the fog lift from
our minds about this state of being
the better off we are going to be.
This war is no game, and we are
not playing just for the sport of
the thing. We are playing for
keeps. It is going ot be a hard
job to bring victory to our coun
try; it is going to be difficult to
pay the price for victory, but it
must be done, and we must be the
ones to do it. We say we have it
hard now, but I can assure any one
that each step will be a little
steeper, and a little rougher. When
things are really getting tough
we will look back at the days we
spent at A. & M. College, wish
ing we were having the easy tim
that we had then. There is a job
to be completed and there is no
use complaining. Let us carry forth
with more determination than ever.
Let us do the job that we signed
up to do, and do it well that may
return to our normal ways of liv
ing.
stein, Flesher and Weeks run to
Dallas and Houston every week.
They hold the record for passes
. . . Tough chit to Leo Groan for
that exam grade. It seems that the
instructor included an estimate of
Leo’s attitude in class. Really, Leo,
you ought to be courteous enough
to sleep with your eyes open, like
the rest of us . . .
Army Draft To Hit
Hard Among Major
League Top Hitters
NEW YORK—Babe Dahlgren of
the Phillies and Vernon (Junior)
Stephens of the St. Louis Browns,
making their hits count till their
draft boards count them in for
heavy hitting of another sort, still
are leading the batters in the ma
jor leagues.
Stephens left the Browns last
week to answer an induction call,
but found that he had a few more
days left and rejoined the club in
the east. His hitting has been up
and down since his return, but
Tuesday his average was .369, just
HART THROBS
Squadron V
As the evening shadows lengthen
across the campus at College Sta
tion,
Your weary reporter pauses for
a period for meditation,
But lo and behold, no inspiration.
And since no hint of thought
heaves to view,
The following idle prattle fcr
you.
(Ed. note—Who‘s calling from
the corn field?)
The bulk of the bull shot in the
Press Room this summer’s eve has
been about the weather, which, as
you know, is hot. The atmospheric
condition is better apreciated by
those P. E. lovers. That ever-lov
in’ subject was made more enjoy
able today by changing to sports.
Especially basketball—the way we
play it. Talk of playing to win,
our boys do it, and how! Take, for
instance, Jack R. Reed, commonly
known as “Slaughterhouse” by his
teammates. He pulls a neat little
stunt that should be adopted as
part of the training given com
mandos. He doesn’t use violence,
but he just jumps up in his op
ponent’s face making with horri
ble faces and blood curdling
screams. This tactic completely de
stroys his opponents morale, and,
as a consequence, the poor fel
low drops the ball which Reed
nimbly recovers. Nice, what?
Sergeant Paris’ new extended or
der drill class promises to be in
teresting. The Sarge himself prom
ises all the conditions of actual
warfare with ground strafing
planes, gas, opposing units, and all
the trimmings on a maneuver per
iod coming up soon. Here’s a tip,
fellas, get the old dogs limbered
up, this isn’t going to be any girl
scout nature jaunt.
We have a member of the Junior
Catapillar Club in our squadron,
boys. Mister Daniel Y. Burk yank
ed the rip cord on his chute to
day while getting out of an In-
terstuka. Dan’s mouth opened about
as wide as his chute did, and he
wasn’t laughing, either.
Robert Poindexter will from now
on out go by the name of “Sweet
ness.” His one and only address
es his letters that way, so we
should comply. (Ed. note — This
paper will not accept any respon
sibility for damages done to per
sons calling the above mentioned
Mister Poindexter by the above
mentioned nickname.
Anthony Emanuvelli is consid
ered an expert on one wheel land
ings. It isn’t his fault if the tail
wheel doesn’t hold the entire
weight of our Maytag Messers-
chmidt.
Our best wishes go to Allen J.
Winkler who will shortly join
another branch of the Air Corp
as a skeet instructor. He’s a crack
shot, so set ’em up in the other
alley, boys.
seven points under his mark of a
week ago. He still was far out in
front of his American League
rivals.
Dahlgren, who has been told he
probably would be called for in
duction in July, slipped one point
to .367, but also retained an ample
lead in the National League.
Dahlgren’s closest pursuer was
Stan Musial of the St. Louis Car
dinals, who increased his pace sev
en points to .352 and kept ahead
of his rapidly rising teammate,
Harry Walker, who had an aver
age of .348 Tuesday.
Oris Hockett of Cleveland con
tinued. the runner-up in the Amer
ican League with .343, a thirteen-
point rise over the last week.
In general the National League
hitting remained superior to that
of the American League. The tenth
batter in the senior circuit was
Lonnie Frey of Cincinnati with
.305, while the tenth in the Ameri
can was Doc Cramer of Detroit
with .247.
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PROP WASH
Squadron II
Each student in Flight 6 gave
an introductive speech in their first
English class. Thomas A. Smith
claims he was “dealt one off the
bottom” when he was sent to Tex
as. Edward O. Martin revealed
that he had played some pro base
ball and was also president of a
midwestern labor organization.
William C. Rice has two years’
credit at Iowa State College and
was on the school’s fast wrestling
team. If any one wants to know
the real value of their watch or
ring they may ask Mr. McGee. He
operated a retail jewelry store be
fore entering the service.
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214 South Main Bryan, Texas
Why the funny expressions on
the faces of the married men when
they were asked to turn in the
names and the addresses of their
wives if they lived in Bryan or
College Station?
What was this in the Aircrew
News about Squadron V working
hard to get the ribbons flying for
them again? Seems foolish to com
pete with “Terrible Two” doesn’t
it? Better be cautious and keep
marching like we were when the
ribbons were captured from V and
there will not be anything to worry
about.
Gordon C. Cuneo is represent
ing Squadron II on the Detach
ment Recreational Committee.
Hats off to the band members
who buckled down and held a
marching rehearsal on the old drill
field for an hour and a half last
Tuesday. The boys are creating a
marching band with good old fash
ioned sweat.
The news staff spent an inter
esting evening at the Press Club
meeting Wednesday. They enjoyed
meeting the members of The Bat
talion crew and talking over mu
tual problems.
Anyone having basketball ex
perience and wanting to join the
Squadron II team, please see Mr.
Gerald O. Anderson.
If the fellows in Squadron II
seem to be a little short-tempered
lately, you’ll have to excuse them
as they have just been exposed to
the master schedule. It seems as
though they can’t find any of the
much talked-of “free” time.
A LETTER FROM THE BEYOND
The following letter was received
this week from an Air Corps
Trainee who recently went from
A. & M. to a nearby classification
center:
Hello-
Well, we’ve been here for a week
now and most of us are through
Classification Section—had about
the usual number of G.D.O.’s
(Ground Duty Only). The doctors
here said that all the A. & M.
boys were in better (physical)
shape than any bunch that had
ever come into classification. That
makes us feel pretty good.
I get classified as a pilot. That
is what I asked for. They gave us
a stiff psychological (mental) test
which took seven hours. It covered
everything, and I mean physics
too, when I say that. I think about
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the first question on the test was
about the principle of Boyle’s Law
—then a lot of pulley questions,
seeds sliding down-hill, and air
plane physics too.
How is College Station coming
along? Okay, I hope—Tell all the
boys up there to “Stay on the
ball.”
Your friend,
Maybe there is something to
that Physics and P.y. after all.
BUT DOES HE TELL HIS
CUSTOMERS WHAT IT IS?
OCALA, Fla.—Preston Mills
helps Ocala citizens get meat with
out ration points. He offers regu
larly a choice selection of goph
ers.
“It makes a fine Sunday din
ner,” he declared.
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Servicemen on A. & M. Campus will find that
we have a beautiful selection of service jewelry. We
invite them to visit our store while in Bryan and
to select the pieces of jewelry they desire. We also (
have lovely gifts for the girl back home.
CALDWELL’S
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BRYAN
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equipment you need at the Student Co-op. Come by today and let
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