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ROOM 5 ADMINISTRATION BLDG.—2275 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1943 VOLUME 43—NUMBER 45 Singing Cadets Need New Heaton Announces Schedule For Old Members for Coming Season students on 25th AggielancPs Singers Have Appeared All Over State At USO’s and Camps Alphabetical Order Arranged for Students To Make Schedules Teagarten Orch. ToPlayforKampus Kapers Sept. 18 Final Ball To Be Held Sept. 17; Del Valle Plays in Grove Good Sized Crowd Expected of Men Stationed on Campus Admission is $1.10 Per Optional Dress May Be Worn Friday From 9-1 The Singing Cadets are getting ready for another suc cessful season of entertainment. They are starting their fourth season under the direction of Richard Jenkins and it appears to be a very good one. Jenkins expects at least 25 boys+ from the club to return this com ing semester and sing with the group. This number is only a por tion of the number needed to bring the group up to standard and Jenkins is asking for more students for the group. In this season scedule, four big affairs are being arranged for the Sieging Cadets. At least three of these are week-end trips to towns in Texas. The Singing Ca dets will also make a Town Hall program on December 14. The first trip will be to Nacog doches on the week-end of October 10 to sing for the WAC’s at Ste phen F. Austin State Teachers College. This should be one of the best trips that the group has made in some time. Another trip will be made to San Antonio this fall and the third trip will be to East Texas and will include Tyler and Henderson during the week-end. The Town Hall appearance of the Singing Cadets is an annual event that is looked forward to by all persons who attend Town Hall and the Singing Cadets themselves. This year, their Town Hall pro gram will be on December 14. To be a member of the Singing Cadets, it is not necessary to be a soloist or to read music. All a person has to be able to do is to carry a tune along with the rest of the boys. Anyone who believes he can sing pretty well or who is interested should see Richard Jen kins in the near future. All who plan to become a Singing Cadet should arrange his schedule to have Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 4 to 5 off in the afternoon. A few will be allowed to make rehearsals only twice a week at this time. The Singing Cadets have - com pleted three highly successful sea sons under Richard Jenkins. They appeared in camps and cities throughout Texas. Their biggest trip was to Houston last Decem ber. There they entertained men at Camp Wallace and at the USO. They also sang with the Houston Symphony oh this trip. All in all, this next Season pro mises to be a very good one for the Singing Cadets. It Pays to Advertise in the Bat talion. Turn in your waste fats. A&M Radio Club To Feature 2nd Quiz Program Friday One-Act Play To Be Broadcast Wednesday Afternoon at 5:00 Friday afternoon over WTAW, the broadcast will feature the Ra dio Club’s quiz program with the Aggies’ best vs. some Bryan girls. The Radio Club will go on the air with a one-act play also this week. In the first quiz program on WTAW last Friday afternoon at 5:00, the Aggies won over the Bryan girls with a score of 525 to 425. The questions were those dealing with literature, history, ge ography, and current events. Each question, correctly answered count ed 100 points. Competing for the Bryan team were Misses Fred Key, Betty Jo Cook, Beth Johnson, Janet John son, Majorie Wipprecht, and Khaki Foster. The Aggie team consisted of Howard King, R. A. Noble, Isaac Kleinman, Randolph Blum- berg, and Herbert Ezekiel. Dr. Whiz, the quizmaster, was Harold Borofsky of A. & M. The announ cer was Billy Woolridge. A second quiz program is sche duled to go on the air Wednesday afternoon at 5:00. A 15-minute play entitled “Going Home” and written by Aron Levenstein will be broadcast at 5:00 Friday after noon. All students who are interested in appearing in one-act plays or on the quiz programs are invited to attend the *Club’s rehearsal at 5:00 this afternoon or .tomorrow night from 7:00 ’til 8:30. ASTU Member Is Married Saturday Robert B. Wilcox, ’44, was mar ried to Miss Helen Plasek in St. Mary’s Chapel last Saturday morn ing at 8:30. The bride is from College Station while Wilcox is from Houston. Mrs. Wilcox works in the Re gistrar’s office and her husband is a member of the A. S. T. U. ta king Veterinary Medicine. He is to graduate on September 25 of this year. AGGIES Who Are Bringing Glory to Old Glory At Atlanta, Georgia on August 25, it was announced that four more Aggie-exes have been assign ed to active duty with the fight ing Leatherneck Corps. All four are second lieutenants: Lonnie H Stern, Walter Earl Trantham, George C. Schleeter, and Jack H. Knowlan. They have been ordered to lead Marines in battle after suc cessfully completing the rugged officers’ training course at the fa mous Marine Base at Quantico, Virginia. Lt. Stern, 25, from Brenham re ceived a bachelor of science degree in engineering; he was a member of the cross country team for one year and of A. & M., R. O. T. C. in the Infantry for two years. Lt. Knowlan, 21, of Victoria received his degree in animal hus bandry. He was a member for two years of the college R. O. T. C. in the Cavalry. Lt. Schleeter, Jr., is from Hous ton, and he attended A. & M Col lege where he majored in account ing. He was in the coast artillery for two years and a member of the Glee Club. Lt. Trantham, 23, is from Me Allen, Texas. While at A. & M. he majored in languages, speaking Spanish, Portugese, French, and German and received a bachelor of arts degree in engineering. COURTLAND, Ala.—Horace L. Martin, a former student of Texas A. & M., 1941-42, is now receiving his basic flight training at the AAF Pilot School here. Cadet Martin, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Martin of Marlin, Texas, entered the Armed services in February of this year as an en listed man at Camp Buttner. He received his appointment as an aviation cadet in March. Following the completion of his instruction here, Aviation Cadet Martin will be assigned to an ad vanced flying school and on being graduated therefrom will receive the silver wings of a flying offi cer of the U. S. Army Air Forces. H. L. Heaton, Registrar, has re leased the following information regarding registration for se mester beginning September 25. For students currently enrolled, the official registration for the Second Semester will be fromi 8:00 a. m. to 3:00 p. m., Saturday, September 25. All students now enrolled and who are in good academic standing at the end of the Summer Semester will be al lowed to register as shown below. Assignment cards will be released to graduate and undergraduate students from the Assembly Hall in accordance with the following schedule: Saturday, September 25, 8:00 to 9:00—All students whose sur names begin with S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z. Saturday, September 25, 9:00 to 10:00—All students whose sur names begin with A, B, C, D. Saturdey, September 25, 10:00 to 11:00—All students whose sur- (See Registrar, page 4) Kampus Kapers will have one of its best shows this coming Sat urday night when Jack Teagarden will bring his orchestra to the stage of the Assembly Hall. Teagarden is in Aggieland this coming week-end to play for the Navy-Marine dance next Saturday night. 'Teagarden has one of the top-notch bands of the country and himself plays the trombone with the greatest of skill. This is not the first time that Kampus Kapers has had a famous band on its program. Last spring, Bob Strong and George Olsen play ed for Kampus Kapers audiences. This is Teagarden’s first visit to Aggieland. Even though the Aggies will not be here that week-end, Richard Jenkins expects a good sized crowd Saturday night. Everyone on the campus is invited to Kampus Ka pers. Every submarine contains three tons of tin. The last social ocasion of this semester will be the Final Ball on September 17th from 9 til 1,. It is to be held in the Grove this year for the first time. The place will be attractively decorated for the affair. The Del Valle Orch*estra is providing the music for the night. Two new additions have been made to the band since its appearance at the Freshman Ball and should prove to be good entertainment. The admission is $1.10 with or with out dates. All attending are urged to have a date down and bring her to the ball. This is strictly an Aggie affair; no others will be allowed to enter. Any Aggie-exes and their wives or dates are es pecially invited. It is to be either formal or informal. Plans have been made for a dormitory to be vacated, and the selected one will be announced at a later date. Henry Tillett, is in charge of arrangements for the ball and he says that it will be (See FINAL BALL, page 4) jr/iG£ Sec.L. O / 3 4- 5 6 / 2 3 4 5 6 7 & 9 /O II !Z /3< >4 15 16 !7 /a 19 10 2/ 22 23 24 26 .L.C. Sec.R-O.—— O / 2 3 4 6 <5 7 6 9 10 — ^ ^ Sec. Rr 0 / 2. 3 4 5 6 * — — i 70 _ l\ 22 ^3 24 25 26 GUION HALL—Shown above is the seating arrangement for this coming seasons Town Hall. The area inclosed by the heavy black line are reserved seats. Tickets can be bought at the Student Activities Office, YMCA, Lester’s Smart Shops in Bryan. Town Hall Season Tickets Now On Sale At $2 and $5 Varied Schedule of Entertainment To Be Presented; Large Crowds Expected Season tickets are on sale today for the Town Hall season at the following places: Student Activities Office, Y.M.C.A., and Lester’s Smart Shops’ in Bryan. The prices are $2.00 for Aggies and Servicemen and Invitations Invitations for the senior gra duation exercises, class of ”44, have been received by the Stu dent Activities Office. All seniors are urged to get these invitations as soon as pos sible. The receipt must be shown in order to get these invita- tions. New Agronomy Course Announced By Head of Dept. Beginning with the fall semes ter, an innovation will be made in the giving of an Agronomy course by Visual Education methods, Agronomy 415. Soil Seminar (1-0) Credit 1, for next semester will consist of sound films portraying the progress made in soil conser vation, green manure crops, soil conserving crops, benefits of or ganic matter, a comparison be tween legumes and non-legumes in soil improvement work and re cent developments in fertilizers and minor elements. The course meet ing Monday at 9:00 in Room 132, Animal Industries Building will carry one hour credit and will con sist of about forty minutes of mov ies and ten minutes of discussion at each period. At the close of the term a written examination will be given covering the things that are most pronounced and outstanding in Agronomic research and soil im provement. Half the questions will be made up by the instructor and the other half will be made up by students, each student submitting ten questions. In this way a co operative type of quiz will be given in the form of multiple choice somewhat after the manner of “Horse Sense” in our associated press papers. This will be an in novation in testing the value of one of the visual education meth ods. Expanded Timber Program Announced College Station. — Landowners in thirty-eight Texas counties will produce 1,584,000,000 board feet of lumber this year if they contri bute their proportionate share of the nation’s total needs. Announced several days ago, the expanded timber program will be headed by Allen F. Miller, member of the state USD A war board and supervisor of the four Texas Na tional Forests. His headquarters are at Houston. The expanded program, request ed by the War Production Board, is designed to give assistance to wood-using industries and land- owners in production of increased quantities of forest products for critical war needs. Of the $100,- 000,000 appropriated recently by Congress for expanding timber work, 60 per cent was allocated to eleven southern states, which are expected to produce 50 per cent of the nation’s total lumber this year. Texas normally pro duces 4.4 per cent of the total sup ply. Cooperating with the U. S. For est Service, Miller’s office with two field representatives will as sist landowners and mill operators in selective cutting methods and in making available stumpage suit able for war needs. In addition, they also will aid in solving equip ment, transportation and labor pro blems which interfere with maxi mum production. The commercial timber area of the state, which comprises east Texas counties, will be divided in to two districts with a project Fo rester and Timberman assigned to each. ► $5.00 for others. These tickets will be on sale until further notice. The entire program for the sea son has been announced by the Town Hall Committee through the Student Activities office. Eight varied presentations have been se lected, which make the programs much more entertaining. On the schedule are Bidu Sayao, Metropol itan soprano, October 19; Carmen Amaya and her group of gypsy dancers, November 18; the Sing ing Cadets on December 14; Rich ard Crooks, the Metropolitan Opera Tenor, will sing before the Town Hall audience on January 20; the mind reader, Joseph Dunninger, presents his show on February 8; the Philadelphia Opera on Febru ary 21, will feature modern dress and contemporary English com bined with the classics; Zino Fran- cescatti, and expert violinist, will be the featured artist on March 7; the Houston Symphony will end the season’s Town Hall programs with its seventh appearance before an Aggie audience. Registering Students To Get Game Tickets It was announced through the Student Activities Office today that all students who pay their student activities fee will be given tickets for all football games im mediately after registering on Sa turday, September 25. The tickets will be given out to these students in time to attend the first game of the season with Bryan Air Field, which will begin at 2:30 p. m. As many students as possible should pay this activities fee which amounts to $9, as it includes all football games and a subscription to the Battalion newspaper. The Student Activities Office al so asks every student to come in person to the office at the Admi nistration Building and leave here all room numbers for next semes ter. Everyone is urged to cooperate with the Student Activities Office in leaving his room number, as it is necessary that they have this, information. Turn in our scrap. Tuesday, September 14 11:15 a. m. Program sponsored by the D. A. R. 11:30 a. m. Current Economic Pro blems 11:40 a. m. Melody Spot 11:45 a. m. Chats to Texas Home makers 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 Wednesday, September 15 6:02 a. m. Texas Farm and Home Program, TQN; Poultry Hus- bandryJD. H. Reid; Triple-A 11:20 a. m. Musical Moment 11:25 a. m. Today’s Summary on the Home Front 11:30 a. m. Treasury Star Parade 11:45 a. m. Brazos Valley Farm and Home Program—Extension Service 11:55 a. m. Air Corps News 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