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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1943
VOLUME 43—NUMBER 44
Recreational Activities of
Campus Listed In Folder
Folder Being Released by Student Activities
Office; Free to Service Men, Ags, Visitors
The Student Activities office of A. & M. College has
done a great deal for the benefit and welfare of the service
men and students on the campus. By puublishing a folder
composed of the college recreational activities, it has been of
assistance to everyone on the cam-'
pus in finding these places. In this
panphlet are stated the locations,
business hours, and prices of the
various places of entertainment.
Guion Hall Theater, a college-
owned motion picture house oper
ated by the Student Activities Of
fice, shows the latest screen at
tractions in four weekly programs.
Admission prices are 204 for adults
and 94 for children. Stage facilit
ies are frequently used for vaude
ville acts and Town Hall programs.
The hours of showing are from 1
p.m. to 9 p.m. on week days; how
ever, on Saturday the show is
open from 1 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.
All shows are over in time for
Call to Quarters.
The Gymnasium and the Physi
cal Education Department are
open for use of students and serv
icemen every day, including Satur
day and Sunday, from 8 a.m. to
evening mess call. Equipment for
use in the gymnasium may be
checked out at the P. E. office
in the gymnasium building. Tennis
courts are available at all times
except when in use by classes. The
P. L. Downs, Jr. swiming pool,
largest indoor natatorium in the
United States, is" open from 3 p.m.
to evening mess call.
The College Library invites you
to several types of recreation in
cluding periodicals, war informa
tion, travel, biography, fiction, and
technical works. It is furnished
with a collection of 105,000 books.
Kiest Lounge, located in dorm 2,
new area, has reading rooms,
lounge, rest rooms, radio, writing
tables, supplies, and newspapers.
It is maintained for the benefit
of servicemen and their wives, fam
ilies, and friends. Sailors and Ma
rines and their families will find
ping-pong, horseshoe pitching, and
other outdoor games, piano, phono
graph, reading rooms, and an in
formation bureau at the Navy Rec
reation Hall. Hospitality and serv
ice are the keynotes here.
College-owned and operated Ag-
gieland Inn acommodate college
guests, and the wives and families
of servicemen. It has 34 rooms and
a dining room, coffee shop, and a
terrace. This place is the Grey
hound Bus Terminal. Church serv
ices are held regularly at the Col
lege Station churches and at var
ious places on the campus. For
further information call YMCA.
Above mentioned are a few of
the recreational facilities located
on the campus. The folders listing
these places may be obtained from
the YMCA and Student Activities
Office. The folders will also be
distributed among the companies
of servicemen for their use in
finding entertainment.
Galveston Aggie-ex
Receives Second Lt.’s
Bars at Carlsbad, N.M.
Unique among schools of the
Army Air Forces is the navigation
school at the Carslbad Army Air
Field, Carlsbad, New Mexico.
Included among the graduates
was Second Lieutenant John Egert,
III, son of Mr. and Mrs. John
Egert, Jr., 2409 37th St., Galves
ton, Texas.
Lt. Egert recently received his
bombardier wings upon graduation
from the Victorville, Calif., A. A.
F.
All students at the Carlsbad
school—the only one of its kind—
are commissioned bombardiers who
come to Carlsbad to receive a
special intensified course in “dead
reckoning” navigation. With this
additional training they are able to
direct a plane to its objective and
also drop the bombs on the precise
spot most beneficial to the United
Nation’s war effort.
His wife is the former Nell L.
Horttor, Normangee, Texas.
He is a former student of the
Texas A. & M. College, College
Station, Texas.
Don Young
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Industrial Forestry
Division Has New
Chief in Don Young
Jefferson Man Has Had
Experience as District
Forester in Tex Service
The appointment of Don Young,
of Jefferson, as chief of the di
vision of industrial forestry for
the Texas A. and M. College Fo
rest Service has been announced
by Director W. E. White. Young
formerly served as district forest
er in charge of forest fire protec
tion activities for the Texas For
est Service in Northeast Texas.
The main activity of the indus
trial forestry division is to assist
timberland owners in working up
information designed to stimulate
better forestry practices, Director
White pointed out. Assistance is
rendered in marking timber for
cutting and holding woods demon
strations.
Young will work with the own
ers of some three million acres of
industrial forest land and with
timber dontractors and wood using
industries.
Through the assistance rendered
by this division of the Texas For
est Service in the past, approxi
mately two-thirds of the lands
owned by industries are under some
type of forest management, and
several companies have hired their
own foresters in order to prolong
their timber operations, the for
estry director said.
Before coming with the Texas
Forest Service in 1937, Young
worked for eight years with the
U. S. Forest Service in North Ca
rolina and Texas. He is a gradu
ate of Connecticut State College,
and holds a professional forestry
degree from the Yale School of
Forestry.
Wheat Smut Relief
Seen For Future
The heavy losses which Texas
wheat growers suffered a decade
ago from infestation of “stinking”
smut have been reduced to a mini
mum. According to E. A. Miller,
agronomist for the A. and M. Col
lege Extension Service, control was
achieved through seed treatment.
Oats and barley also are subject
to smut.
The chief symptoms of this fun
gus disease, are the darke_r green
color of the leaves and heads of
the plants, and the offensive odor
of the smutty heads. The diseased
kernels are filled with a sooty
powder consisting of millions of
spores. During threshing most of
the kernels pop open and the
spores are scattered over healthy
seed. If such seed is planted with
out being treated, the spores may
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The above cut is one of the Aggie Band as it was last semester.
The scene is in front of Sbisa Hall with the Band marching down
Military Walk.
Do You or Don’t You?
The question of a Final Ball
has been raised again, but this
time it is the question of wheth
er the Aggiee want the ball. A
great number of Aggies have let
it be known that they are plan
ning on leaving early with no
thought of the ball. Some of
these Aggies were the first to
ask if the ball was going to be
held, yet they are planning on
being the first to leave. Do you
want a Final Ball or don’t you?
Henry Tillet, 74 Milner, is in
charge of arrangements so let
him know your desires. The se
niors are anxious to have this
ball a success because it will be
the last one they will have. Let
your wishes be known, Aggies.
Lubbock Field Has
Aggie-ex as Head
Director of Training and second
in command of the Lubbock Army
Air Field twin-engine advanced
pilot school, 10 miles west of Tex
as Tech campus, is a former Ag
gie, Major William Jacob Moser
(no kin to Derrace Moser of foot
ball fame) from Dallas, Texas.
Major Moser received his re
serve commission in, 1932, when
he received his B. S. degree in bu
siness and economics. Later he de
cided on an aviation career and j
went through pilot training the
Randolph-Kelly field route, win
ning his wings early in 1935.
After two years active duty with
the Air Corps, LAAF’s new num
ber 2 man returned to Dallas and
became a partner and manager
in the insurance and real estate
firm founded by his brother, now
Capt. August C. Moser, Jr., pre
sently with a motorized field ar
tillery unit in North Africa. The
latter has been in active service
since the Texas National Guard
was federalized in 1940.
Called to active duty with the
Air Corps in August, 1941, Major
Moser served as an instructor and
squadron commander at Kelly
Field for more than a year. He
came to Lubbock’s twin-engine pi
lot school from Blackland Army
Air Field, near Waco, last Febru
ary and was a group commander
and director of flying until Tues
day, when he succeeded Lt. Col.
Howard D. Kenzie, a West Point
and Randolph-Kelly graduate who
has been sent to Fort Worth Army
Air field for transition training in
Liberator bombers. LAAF’s Ad
vance Trainer Bobcats are step
ping stones to heavy bombard
ment assignments.
Tickets For Town
Hall To Go On Sale
Tuesday, Sept. 14
Season Expected
To Be One Of The
Best At Aggieland
On September the 14th, the
tickets for the Town Hall pro
grams will be put on sale. They
will be $2.00 for Aggies and Ser
vicemen and College Staff and Re
sidents, $5.00.
A list of the performances to
be held this fall is as follows:
Bidu Sayao, soprano, October 19;
Carmen Amaya and her gypsy
dancers, November 18; the Singing
Cadets, December 14; Richard
Crooks, Tenor, January 20; Joseph
Dunniger, mind reader, February
8; the Philadelphia Opera, Febru
ary 21; Zino Francescatti, violin
ist, March 7; and the Houston
Symphony Orchestra.
Reserved tickets may be bought
beginning Tuesday and on any
day following at various booths
located on the campus. The YMCA
lobby and the Student Activities
Office will both have booths for
the selling of these tickets. There
can be no reservations taken by
telephone and no tickets will be
sold before Tuesday, September
14 th.
The programs are expected ta
attract large crowds of Service
men, Aggies, and civilians. Every
one is urged to buy his tickets in
advance to save time and trouble
at the last minute. This Town Hall
season is expected to be one of the
best ever to come to A. & M.
Ft. Worth and Hou.
Get Two Colonels
Colonel C. H. Caphton and Col
onel S. G. Harrison of the Military
Department here at A. & M. are
being transferred to service else
where.
Colonel Caphton, Infantry, will
be in charge of the R. O. T. C.
schools in Fort Worth and Colonel
Harrison, Field Artillery, will have
the same charge of the R. O. T. C.
schools in Houston.
Both of these men have seen
many years of active service in
the armed forces and here at A.
& M.
They are expected to leave on
Monday, the 13th of this .month.
DROPPING 1,000-POUNDERS
FROM P-40s
headhunter
speaks of
When a Naga
northern Burma
“double airplane which drops half
—BOOM”, he is referring to the
P-40s of the 10th Air Force which
carry 1,000-pound bombs.
This “B”-40 version of the
sturdy fighter has enabled it to do
a more thorough wrecking job on
Jap supply lines in the India-
Burma theatre, particularly on such
targets aS railroad bridges. Capt.
Luther Davis of the 10th Air Force
tells the story of the “B”?40 in
the October issue of AIR FORCE.
Former Ag Receives
Promotion to Colonel
Promotion of Lt. Col. Norman
L. "Callish to the rank of colonel
was announced at the Santa Anna,
California headquarters for Army
Air Forces Western Flying Train
ing Command, today.
A former student at A. & M.
Oregon State College, and U. C.
L. A., Col. Callish, after receiving
his primary and advanced training
at Randolph and Kelly fields, be
came a rated senior pilot and bom
bardier, being commissioned a sec
ond lieutenant in 1935. Formerly
director of flying at Mather Field,
California, Col. Callish, formerly
advance pilot training officer at
AAFWFTC, is now chief of the
pilot section, headquarters for all
the Army flying schools in the
West.
Aggies: Need Money
Students interested in work
ing with the sale of football
programs this season may come
by the Student Activities Office
between now and Wednesday,
September 15 to make applica
tion. From the group selected one
student will be appointed man
ager of the concession.
Hood County Tries
Sister Kenney’s
Polio Treatment
Lack of Facilities at
Local Hospitals Cause
Former Nurses to Help
With no hospital and no prac
ticing nurse in Hood County, there
was much concern recently when
three cases of poliomyelitis were
reported in the county. Fort Worth
hospitals were overcrowded, and an
epidemic threatened.
Forethought by the local chap
ter of the infantile paralysis
foundation and interest by home
demonstration club women helped
the county meet this situation.
Recently when a course in the
Sister Kenney method of treatment
of the malady was offered at a
Fort Worth hospital, Mrs. Myrtle
Negy, county home demonstration
agent and member of the local
chapter, got in touch with three
rural homemakers who formerly
had been nurses. Mrs. Ray Baker,
a member of the Hill County Home
Demonstration Club, agreed to go
to work with polio patients for
one week, studying the new me
thod of applying hot packs. Her
expenses were paid by the com
missioners court.
Meanwhile the county health
officer discussed the situation with
the Hood County Home Demonstra
tion Council. They obtained the
cooperation of community clubs
in raising $500' to take care of
Hood County victims of the di
sease who could not be admitted
to a nearby hospital. Mrs. Baker’s
services will be available if new
cases are reported, and her expen
ses will be defrayed form the lo
cal emergency fund. Already finan
cial assistance has been given to
families' of three children with the
disease.
To prepare for a possible epi
demic, Mrs. Baker gave a demon
stration of the Sister Kenney me
thod of treatment to 100 women
and girls of the county early in
August.
W. D. Scoates
Graduates As
Weather Cadet
William D. Scoates, College Sta
tion, was one of a large class of
weather cadets who were com
missioned and awarded certificates
of competence in advanced meteo
rology at the University of Chica
go September 6. The class, en
rolled in the University’s Institute
of Meteorology, included both ar
my and navy weather students.
The students were commissioned
by Lt. Col. James F. Thompson,
U. S. A. A. F., and were awarded
certificates by President Robert
M. Hutchins of the University of
Chicago. The candidates were pre
sented for commissions by their
commanding officer, Maj. William
H. Starbuck, and were presented
for certificates by Dr. Carl G.
Rossby, professor of metorology
at the University and chairman of
the committee in charge of all ci
vilian and military weather train
ing in the United States.
Prior to the graduation, at which
William A. M. Burden, special avi
ation assistant to the Secretary of
Commerce, was the speaker, the
cadets passed in review before
high ranking officers including
Brig. Gen. R. E. O’Neill, U. S. A.
A. F., and Rear Adm. A. C. Reed
of the Ninth Naval District
The class was the fifth to gra
duate in the nine-month advanced
course of the Institute of Meteor
ology, one of the five institutions
in the country giving this train
ing and the only one between the
I Atlantic and Pacific seaboards.
Kampus Kapers Presents
Mysterious Howard Tonite
Assembly Hall to be Scene of Presentation
At 6:15;Everyone on Campus Invited to Come
The Mysterious Howard will appear on Kampus Kapers
at 6:15 in the Assembly Hall as usual, Dick Jenkins has an
nounced. This will be the third appearance of Howard. He
was scheduled to present his show here near the first of the
semester, but due to conditions be-
Jack Teagarden to
Play for NavyDance
On September 18th
Tommy Dorsey Calls
Teagarden Best of •
Swing Trumpeteers
j.
Followers of Jack Teagarden,
who will bring his fomous orches
tra to A. & M. on Sept. 18, for
the Navy Dance through arrange
ments with Music Corporation of
America, can credit Vernon, Tex
as, with making Teagarden a
trombonist de luxe rather than a
trumpeter.
Jack Teagarden might have been
rated one of the top trumpet
players in the world rather than
tops on ,the trombone if the Ver
non, Texas, school band hadn’t
needed a trombonist rather than a
trumpeter.
Back in 1912, Jack preferred the
trumpet but his partent who were
the guiding lights of the Vernon
band, decided that a trombone was
needed more, so Jack took up the
slide instrument.
It’s easy to say that so and so
is the world’s greatest on a cer
tain instrument. Sometimes it
means something, .sometimes not.
However, when one of the out
standing instrumentalists in the
world says so about a rival on the
same instrument, that carries con
clusive value. Take the word of
Tommy Dorsey about Jack Tea
garden.
When Tommy and Jack were
making a record date with the fa
mous All-Star Swing Band, Ben
ny Goodman called on Dorsey for a
solo. Tommy refused, saying;
“Teagarden, here, is the best
swing man . . . . I just play cute
and pretty.”
New Courses
Announced By
Agronomy Dept.
A new course, Agronomy 435, in
Forage and Grain Production and
Grading is being offered by the
Department of Agronomy for the
benefit of Veterinary Science and
Agriculture students who are in
terested along this line. It will
cover a brief introduction to the
production, harvesting and com
mercial grading of the leading for
age and grain crops of the United
States according to Federal Stand
ards and farm use. This is a (1-0)
one credit course open to students
who have junior standing.
Two sections will be available.
One on Monday at 11 and the other
one on Friday at 11.
Students interested in more de
tailed information are invited to
come by the Department of Agron
omy office, room 300, Agriculture
building, for a conference.
yond his control, he was unable to
make it. However, those who have
seen the Mysterious Howard know
that he has a show that will be
worth going to.
The Mysterious Howard, whose
real name is Howard Campbell has
350 decks of cards but refused to
play poker. He claims that if he
got into a “little game” and won,
his co-players would claim he
cheated. On the other hand if he
lost, he would be called a bum
magician.
Campbell has been pulling wool
over the public’s eye ever since he
was 14 years. At that age his father
took him to see Blackstone the
Magician pull rabbits out of a hat
for a gullible audience. Blackstone
has passed on but Campbell still
is in the “hand-is-quicker-than-the-
eye” business.”
One of Campbell’s favorite
tricks is to swallow 50 needles,
then drink a half a gallon and
send down eight yards of thread.
He then pulls out the 50 needles
and the eight yards of thread, but
with the needles threaded. None
of his 350 decks are fixed. Camp
bell despises fixed cards and says
that no good magician uses them.
Mysterious Howard likes to show
his tricks to doctors and lawyers
because they are always properly
amazed and confused. His hardest
audience to please in children.
Besides Mysterious Howard, the
regular sing-song and games will
be on Kampus Kapers. At 8:30
in the grove, the weekly Juke Box
Prom will be held.
FIGHTER ACTION OVER SICILY
Axis air action over Sicily was
“feeble and futile,” writes Col.
Fred M. Dean, former CO of one
of the two Spitfire groups in the
AAF, in the October issue of AIR
FORCE. Colonel Dean, 26-year-old
member of the West Point Class
of ’38, tells how the Lufwaffe tail
ed off, from its peak over West
ern France, in Tunisia, Pantelleria
and Sicily. “The Nazi airman on
the defensive is a far different
fighte^. - compared to the German
flyer who has things his own way,’ 4
he states.
LISTEN TO
WTAW
Saturday, September 11
11:20 a. m. Musical Moments
11:25 a. m. Today’s Summary on
the Home Front
11:30 a. m. Our Neighbor, Mexico
—Dr. A1 B. Nelson
11:40 a. m. Special Broadcast
11:45 a. m. News Summary—Dr.
Ralph Steen
11:55 a. m. News—Interviews
12:00 a. m. Sign-Off
Sunday, September 12
8:30 a. m. Music by Master Com
posers
9:10 a. m. Let’s Go to Church
9:15 a.m. Hymns of All Church
es
9: 30 a. m. Sign-Off
Monday, September 13
6:02 a. m. Texas Farm and Home
Program, TQN; Horticulture
Dept.—R. F. Cain; Agricultural
Engineering—F. R. Jones
11:20 a. m. Musical Moments
11:25 a. m. Today’s Summary on
the Home Front
11:30 a. m. School of Engineering
11:40 a. m. Science News of the
Week
11:45 a. m. Singing Cadets
11:55 a. m. News—Interviews
12:00 a. m. Sign-Off
4:30 p. m. Voice of the Army
4:45 p. m. Swing Serenade
5:00 p. m. “Back the Attack”
5:30 p. m. Sign-Off