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PAGE 4 THE BATTALION THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1943 OFFICIAL NOTICES Announcements STUDENT EMPLOYMENT Those students expecting part-time em- the coming term are ployment during the vrged to fill an application or application renewal with the Placement Office before September 10. Placement rsley Office. The President’s Office has a very small number of invitations to Commencement on Sept. 17 for those boys who will call for them. SENIORS—On Wednesday, September 15 there will be posted on a Bulletin Board in the Administration Building a list of those seniors who have completed all the requirements for a degree and who are eligible to participate in seniors ements igible to pa: ent exercises. This bulletin will remain the Commence- posted throughout September 15-16-17 and every candidate is urged to consult it to determine his status. Commandants Office OFFICE OF THE COMMANDANT Circular No. 20: 1. Students returning for the FALL SE MESTER must pay their fees and sign up for their room through the COM MANDANT’S OFFICE and move to their new room assignment not later than noon, SATURDAY, SEPTEM BER 18, at which time all dormitories will be closed and locked. 2. DORMITORY ASSIGNMENTS FOR FALL SEMESTER, 1943: (a) Graduate students and students with Ci its and student Civilian clothes permits RAMP A, WALTON HALL. Other students not taking Mili- (d) (e) tary Science: RAMPS B. C, D, and E, WALTON HALL. Upperclassmen taking Military Science: RAMPS, G. H. I, J, and K, WALTON HALL. Second Semester students: DORM ITORIES 15 and 16. New students: DORMITORIES 14 and 17. 3. Those students now living in WAL TON HALL and DORMITORIES 15 and 16, must pay their fees and register through the COMMANDANT’S OFFICE not later than 5:00 P.M., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1943, in order to hold the room that they now occupy. Begining at 8:00 A.M., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1943, all other stu dents will pay fees and sign up for their new rooms. 4. All students will check out with their respective COMPANY HEADQUAR TERS before their departure from the CONSOLIDATED HIGH STUDENTS w “PUT YOUR JACK IN ONE OF THESE NEW ‘T/Htfot-i/AaeC JACKET ideas'' Triple Decker Sandwich Stripes... Multi-Colored Glens... High Colored Tones.•• Under-Grad has every thing you could ask for in alert, smart looking jackets. THE CRICKET JACKET IS ALSO AVAILABLE IN.., SIZES 12 TO 18 [jQaldropflg “Two Convenient Stores” College Station Bryan College and before moving from one room to another, in order that the TACTICAL OFFICERS may give them a clearance from the room that they have occupied during the present se mester. Before leaving the College or moving to their new room assignment, rooms will be left in a neat and or derly condition. This will include the cleaning of medicine cabinets and dresser drawers. Dresser drawers will ent from 5. The FISCAL OFFICE will receive fees from 8:00 A.M. until 1:00 P.M. each day, beginning at 8:00 A.M., WEDNES DAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1943. Fees must be paid before reporting to the COM MANDANT’S OFFICE for a room as signment. The attached Schedule of Fees is furnished for your information. By order of Colonel WELTY: JOE E. DAVIS Major, Infantry Assistant Commandant. Revised Expenses for Second Semester 1943-44 Matriculation fee (required) $ 25.00 Medical Service fee (required) 5.00 Room Rent 22.00 Board 99.95 Laundry 8.80 Student Activities fee (voluntary) 9.00* $169.75 Installment paying : The general expenses listed above may be paid in installments as follows: (a) First installment payable on en trance, September 24 and 25 to Fis cal Department: Matriculation fee (required)..$ 25.00 Medical Service fee (required) 6.00 Room rent to Nov. 6 7.65 Board tp Nov. 6 37.80 Laundry to Nov. 6 3.35 Student Activities fee (volun tary) 9.00 Total payable to Fiscal Dept $ 87.80 (р) Second installment payable Novem ber 1-6 To Fiscal Department: Room rent to Dec. 7 $ 5.30 Board to Dec. 7 26.05 Laundry to Dec. 7 2.30 Total payable to Fiscal Dept...$ 33.65 (с) Third installment payable Decem ber 1-7 To Fiscal Department: Room rent to Jan. 29 $ 9.05 Board to Jan. 29 36.10 Laundry to Jan. 29 3.15 Total payable to Fiscal Dept.—.$ 48.30 ♦Includes subscription to Battalion news paper and admission to Athletic contests for the semester and the following term or semester. Classified LOST — One pair Brown trousers, size 36, Laundry Mark, Standifer or J. W. S. 6. Gabardine Tonahill, —DORMS— (Continued From Page 1) form 8 a. m., until 1 p. m. each day beginning Wednesday, September 8 and lasting until the end of the semester, September 18. Fees must be paid before reporting to the commandant’s office for a room assignment. Expenses for the first semester, beginning on September 27th are listed as follows: Matriculation fee (required) $25.00. Medical Service Fee (required) $5.00. Room Rent $22.00. Board $99.95. Laundry $8.80. Student Activities Fee (Volun tary) $9.00. These costs amount to $169.75, and it will be noted that these costs are for the whole semester of four months. The Student Ac tivities Fee, incidentally, includes the Battalion subscription and ad mission to all athletic contests. These expenses may be divided into installments as they are usu ally done. The first installment is listed below: Matriculation Fee $25.00. Medical Service Fee $5.00. Room Rent to November 6 $7.65. Board to November 6 $37.80. Laundry to November 6 $3.35. Student Activities Fee $9.00. These fees must be paid by Sep tember 25 which is the final date for registration. There will be a second and third installment later in the semester. The second in stallment will total $33.65 pay able between November 1 and 6 while the third installment of $48.30 will be due between Decem ber 1 and 7. —CIRCLING— (Continued From Page 3) being the first one to formation Tuesday instead of the last one. Maybe Mr. Wyble wants to get the flight on the beam so Mr. Stark will let him go down to Ag- gieland? Mr. Owen “Mortician” McCarty of Flight 21 has been having troubles with his fellow flightmates. It seems that the lads can’t get over Mr. McCarty’s English speach on embalming. In Medical Aid he starts drooling everytime someone mentions cal- VICTORY BUY UNITED STATES WAR BONDS AND STAMPS * A.S.T.U. NEWS * ENGINEERS ARMY VET/ Just Ramblin’ AR/HV Paper Open To All In the past anyone with any thing to say of interest to the regiment has been invited to speak his piece through the ASTP NEWS. There are many who do not care to write regularly but who do occasionally have something to tell. Whether it is news of the day or COMMENT if this and that, we say bring it in. It can be left with your company editor or with ASTP Editor Bradley in Dorm one. COMMENT By BUCK Perhaps some of the stuff ap pearing in the ASTP NEWS is not quite up to Shakespeare or Homer, or maybe Benchley, but we readers feel that there is at least some slight originality to our newshawks work. Of course we realize that there are no more new plots and having to get out a paper three times a week is grueling but we were still surprised to come across so many phrases we’d seen before in the ACTD NEWS SECTION. The author didn’t mention his inspiration or perhaps Bob Bench- ley is just one of W. D. Wests pen names. That is probably it. The slight difference between the crude draft as it appeared in Benchley Beside Himself and the finished product in the “BAT” must be due to constant striving for improvement by the author. So when I heard a local GI de scribe the BAT os ‘‘Corney” I thought of our own ASTP NEWS. Shakespeare??? Well not exactly Corn? .... Well could be, but at least fresh corn. League Standings TEAM WIN LOSE % 3rd co. 4 0 1000 4th co. 3 1 750 2nd co. 1 3 250 5th co. 1 3 250 4th co. 1 SPORTS 3 250 By LOMAX The “Champs” won another ball game on Sunday evening last. The “Champs,” as we all know, are the Third Co. Engineers. Echoes of “luck,” “we wuz gypped,” etc., resound from t^»e halls of Dorm. 9 wherein reside the Ten in whom the trust for the athletic achie,vements of Co. 5 have so trustingly be misplaced. Let us have now, a moment of si lence in recognition of our bro ther Go’s misplaced trust. Seriously, however, both Holt and Deeter, pitchers for the 5th and 3rd Co’s respectively pitched bang-up games. Neither pitcher participated in the debating over the rules which lasted throughout the game. The final score for the game was 6-5 in favor of the third Co., Cot ton knocking in the winning run in the seventh with a beautiful sacrifice bunt. Band News About four weeks ago, the Re gimental ASTP Band held its first rehearsal at Sbisa Hall. The band, a voluntary group of GIs, gathered together under the direc tion of Lt. R. D. McClenathan to play for their ofn “amazement.” Soon after the band moved to the Band Room in Dorm 11 and there it began to shape into the present organization. As the War Department has not authorized ASTP Bands, all mu sic, equipment and instruments had to be obtained from outside sour- ling the ambulance. Mr. “Guy Lombardo’s drummer” Clark has been taken for a ride by his flight. The boys were demonstra ting first aid transportation and gave Mr. Clark the privilege of being the victim. We lose more men that way. Mr. Delambre, who was transferred from Flight 23 to Flight 27, says that nothing can happen in Flight 27 because they have those two lord and mas ters, Mr. Rick and Mr. Thomason, in their flight. Gee, we do feel for you, but we can’t reach you. After digging around for quite a while, I finally found out for the first time Flight 24 came through with flying colors—they all passed a test. Now isn’t thit nice. Wouldn’t their Physics prof be surprised to hear this. That’s all for now lads, be seeing you next week. Oh yes, I wonder who the little girl was that had to keep Mr. Per ry awake in the show last Satur- | day night . . . .Mmmmm ? Round By PRITCHARD Furlough time is past approach ing, and, truly typical of anything and everything connected with the Army, “01’ Man Rumor” is the advance agent. He’s really quite nice old guy; so for a few minutes, let’s speculate upon his origin and net worth. In order to explain him, we must describe him. He comes into his own upon the slightest provoca tion; for he is at once the friend, the hope and inspiration of every G. I. He needs no encouragement. On the contrary, he cannot be a- voided. He pops out of the most unexpected places and assumes the most fantastic shapes. In the morning, he will dash your last hope to the ground; and in the afternoon, he will lift you to the heights. His range of value runs the entire gamut from the things we want the least to the things we want the most. In his former shape, he becomes the most impos sible situation imagineable. This is no doubt in order to minimize the actuality when it does arrive, no matter how distasteful that may be. In his latter form, he re minds us of that beautiful Blonde (or was it a Brunette?) we left back home. He encourages us to hope that soon we’ll be able to check up and see if she is a Blonde or a Brunette. Maybe she’s a Red head! Anyway, he does become a ray of sunshine until, like a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he changes color and so do we. However, he’ll bounce back again before long, and you can depend upon it. Yes, he’s a brain-child, in the Army, of the Army. He is the special pet of each one of us. We like him, regardless of his shape; and so, we’ll hang on to him; He gives us something to think about, dramatizing an other wise routine existence; and when the shouting is all over, we can always look back and say, “Boy, that was a swell Rumor!” ces. The members of the band re hearse on their own time and since it is a voluntary group the band members are not ordered to attend rehearsals but nonetheless each member gives two nights a week over to practice. According to the men themselves they will derive a good deal of pleasure playing marches and short concert pieces during rehearsal. Three nights a week, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, the Band plays for Re treat Formation and as the men march into the mess hall. It has also played in the two parades held by the ASTP Unit. Although the band does not pre tend to have the polish of regular army bands it believes that it can and the record shows that it has projected a bit of spirit into Re treat Formations and Parades. The members have accomplished a great deal in the short time they have been together. While at present the band is composed of ASTP Trainees, it holds open an invitation for any sailor or marine who can play a musical instrument. They are in vited to attend rehearsals, Wed nesday evening at 1845 and Sun day evening at 1800. A roster of the band follows: Clarinets, Ashford, Downie, Mur ray, Stokes; Sax., Beardsley; Cor nets, Caldwell, Reiser, North; Horn, Diedrich; Baritone, Beyer, Boyd; Trombone, Wille, Deck; Bass, Peterson, Thomas; Drums, Flenniken, Emery; Cymbals, Burd- zinski; Leader, Arthur G. Park. Editor’s Comment: The above was submitted by Arthur Park who weilds the baton for the regi mental band. As is the case of people who get things done Park makes no mention of his own part in forming the band. We know of the work he has done, of the hours he has given and we want him to know that the entire regiment is behind him and proud of the band he and Lt. McClenathan have built up. LOUPOT’S A Little Place and a Big Saving! When in Doubt About Your Eyes or Your Glasses Consult DR. J. W. PAYNE Optometrist 109 S. Main Bryan Next to Palace Theatre Personalities Hugh M. Phillips Today we honor another of our graduating seniors, Hugh M. Phil lips. Hugh is a native of Gilmer, Texas, over in the East Texas pines, wher each year is held the famous East Texas Yamboree. Yams, by the way, i s the chief money making crop in and about Gil mer. Hugh is twen ty-three years old and a mem- ber of the class | of ’42. He was ^ a distinguished Agriculture student for one-and- a-half years before changing over to Veterinary Medicine. He com pleted his basic ROTC training as a member of C Troop Cavalry be fore joining the Army. Hugh was president of the Piney Woods Club, his home town club, and a member of the junior chapter of the AVMA while at A. & M. His favorite sports: hunting, fishing, and horseback riding, are his first loves, after that comes brown-eyed blondes. Once he caught a 12^ lb bass. Although his present ambition is to receive his degree, commis sion, and be shipped to England immediately, Hugh has dreams of an extensive mixed Veterinary practice in the piney woods of East Texas. The attraction to England is brought on by his many ex-Aggie friends that are stationed in the British Isles. Relatives in the Service: Hugh has two brothers and a brother- in-law in the Aremd Forces.' His in the Air Corps. HI brother Jim is a flight surgeon, and his younger brother, just out of high school, is a mechanic in the Air Corps. His brother-in-law, Capt. Jimmy Kendall, just back from North Africa, is a bombard ier on a flying fortress and has received the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters, The European campaign ribbon, and the Ameri can campaign ribbon. Now It Can Be Told Now that it is a thing of the past, the truth can be told about the Jr. American Veterinary Me dical Association’s annual Ball which was held last Saturday night. Dancing to the strains of the Bry an Field Orchestra in spacious Sbisa Hall, the dance was not on ly declared a success, but the best held -by the organization in many a year. The band really out-did itself and with cute dates a-plen ty, good music, good floor, re freshments, and professors and students alike joining in the spirit of the evening, it had to be a success. Never before has . this corner seen so many pretty girls at a dance of like size on the campus, which serves to prove that the vets aren’t so slow around the fairer sex especially when we al low for the fact that a goodly num ber of our most ardent swains, cas- sanovas, and lady killers were else where engaged for the evening. One of the things that added to the spirit and atmosphere of the oc casion immensely was the presence of so many of our own veterinary school professors. It was worth the price of the AVMA dues just to see them there with their wives and lady friends and having such a good time. Here’s to more such associations between students and professors in the vet. school. Faculty members and their wives present at the dance inclu ded: Dean and Mrs. R. P. Marstel- ler, Dr. and Mrs. John H. Millif, Dr. and Mrs. Wm. Banks, and Dr. and Mrs. Don Crippen. Also of the faculty present with their lady friends were: Drs. Caraway, Lutz, Morgan and Krewz. Of the mili tary personnel present were: Ma jor Charles D. Apple and Lt. Wm. L. Morgan of 2nd Co. ASTU 3800 (Army Vets) and their wives. The dance honored the graduating se niors who had the largest repre sentation at the affair. (This se nior class has more married men than any class in the history of the vet school.) Congratulations go to the hon ored seniors, to the officers of the Jr. AVMA (who made the arrange ments) and to all others who made the dance possible. \ — Hedge Hopping — (Continued From Page 3) their usual state of absolute no thingness, we bring forth the fol lowing little ditty, dreamed up while we were trying to grasp the fact that Napoleon got the hot-foot from Kaiser Bill while he was trying to prove that Newton’s law of molecular jitterbugging is proportional to the square root of the distance between the Atlas and Andes mountains. By A/S Lament , In History we’re told about World wars One and Two;' Aristocrats and diplomats And democrats, but few Such facts remain Within my brain. Of Phpsics little can be said In favorable vein. Thermal capacity, elasticity, Keep me in a strain. Two hours daily Spent, not gaily. In Mathematics formulae,. . . . Pythagorean theorem .... Angles acute, obtuse, and root . .. I just can’t seem to hear ’em. A situation Of frustration. Geography tells us the facts Of causes of the weather Temparature, humidity, And winds, but altogether I just can’t pass That “doggone” class. Time to get back to the booby hatch and crawl into the straight jacket, so g’bye, till next time. — EXHAUST — (Continued From Pag* S) I had flown a thousand hours And was sure to fly some more When suddenly I heard a knocking Sounded like some Ask Ask pop Ping, Popping like the very devil Just beneath my bomb bay door. Tis some Jerry thought I Seeking to improve his score I will use evasive tactics Even if he does get sore. Turning then I saw before me Blacker now then e’re before, Ask Ask bursting close and heavy Guess I’d beter turn so more. Opening wide I swung my bomb doors And to my surprise and horror Flashing fast and bright below me Were some ninety guns or more And above the shappel Screeching I remembered then the briefing When they told us with much. speaking That there were only three or four. Leveling then I made a bomb run Which was not a very long one For the varsity was on duty And I’d seen their work before. Then an engine coughed and clat tered And the blass around me shattered And I knew they had my number Just my number, nothing more. Then at last the bombs were tog gled And alone away I hobbled With some fifty-seven inches And a feathered number four. While outside like ducks migrating Was a flock of M. E.’s waiting Waiting all with itching fingers Just to finish up the score. I had lost my upper turrett And alone defenseless, worried, I was the saddest creature Mortal woman evere bore. And each bright tracer Coming nearer, ever nearer Mare my spirits sink within me, Just my spirits nothing more. Then at last to my elation, I caught up with my formation And the M. E.’s turned and left me By the tens and by the score. But my wings were tom and tat tered And nerves completely shattered And as far as I’m convemed, The War is o’er. ..._ow I find the joy of living And my secret I am giving To the rest of those among you Who might care to live some more. For my sinus starts to seeping, Every time the mention briefing, No More Flying! No More Mis sions! No More Combat! Nevermore!! Here is hoping tha the poem has proven interesting but we’ll have to end here. According to the altimeter, we are 90 feet under ground now. Get These Popular NEW RECORDS a, HASWELL'S “I HEARD YOU CRY LAST NIGHT”—Dick Haymes “BLUE RAIN”—by Glenn Miller “CABIN IN THE SKY”—by Benny Goodman “YOU’RE SO GOOD TO ME”—by Kay Kyser “IN THE BLUE OF THE EVENING”—Tommy Dorsey DECCA ... OKEH ... BLUE BIRD ... RCA VICTOR FINEST STATIONERY - - - LATEST FICTION and TECHNICAL BOOKS - ■ ■ GIFTS. HASWELL'S BOOK STORE - - - BRYAN - - -