Wing Tips
SQUADRON III
MR. EKSTRAND—How many
nails does the little bridge have
that you so frequently visit ?
* * *
MR. RILEY—was very disap
pointed when he found out he
couldn’t fly these “Cubs” like they
do in the movies.
* * *
MR. HANSON—His face will
be reading—red—after the instruc
tor asked him to find the little
house that wasn’t there.
* * *
MR. MORGAN—found it rather
confusing when he came out of
the “Cumulus” and just couldn’t
find out where he was.
* * *
MR. PETER DELL—Bringing
that so called, “Gum” to his First
Aid Instructor. Gum-chewing—
what?
* * *
MR. DAVID BANCROFT—
What would he do if the mail ser
vice between Houston and College
Station were discontinued ?
—T. C. Cottrell
knowledge that is handed out in
class—is Mr. Neil Dodge’s motto.
He bid History goodbye this week
with a 97 AVERAGE term grade
to his credit.
* * *
MR. LEE SALTSBURG—Is pre
paring his speech for the career
in Public Speaking. English class
requires some practise, so the
boys are taking it like troopers.
* * *
THE HERMIT Mr. E. W.
Papik, alias the Pittsburgh Kid
has holed up in his room ever
since we arrived here and never
shows his handsome (?). Come
on out, ‘Pap’, she won’t mind if
you take a walk around the block!
—Clifford Gerry
SQUADRON IV
WALTER E. GREGORY—The
first case of love sickness struck
without warning last week after
meeting a real Texas cowgirl. The
only facts the reporter learned
was the fact that her father
owns a nice ranch close by and
that she is coming back.
* * *
HENRY THE NAVIGATOR—
Henry W. Clark Jr. was tempor
arily lost Monday while transfer
ring from School C to D. When
flight 44 picked him up he was
flying a Great Circle course from
room to room of the Agriculture
Building.
* * *
A/S LEO PARR, bugle boy, has
just announced the setting of the
date of his marriage to Miss Mar
garet Traynor of Enid, Oklahoma.
The date is June 7th, 1947. He
believes in getting a bid in early.
* * *
MASTER MIND—Don’t duck the
SQUADRON V
STINKO—What happened to
Mr. Alvin Miller during the last
Wing Ball? Physics in question
—does it smell badly to have lim-
burger spread on radiators with
windows all closed up, etc?
* * *
A/S LIGHTSTONE, PHILIP
Will have Honorable MRS.
LIGHTSTONE travel down with
honorable off-spring very soon.
(Gentlemen: An inspiration for
the great Master Mind will then
be accomplished.)
* * *
SHEMROSKE, ANTHONY —
One day a sudden gust of wind
will occur and then the “Great
Jughead”, through the experiment
and testing of falling body (Phys
ics) take place. The entire fea
ture will be sponsored by the Anti
cyclone Prevention and be kind to
your web footed friends commit
tee. (Falling bodies fall down.)
* * *
A/S FLOYD A. BUTLER-Of-
ficial title — “Wind Breaker”.
(Why?)
* * *
A-16—What goes on behind the
closed doors of room A-16? Why
is it that the locks on the doors
are always locked? (Mystery—
will be solved.)
—Roving reporter.
THURSDAY MORNING. JANUARY
EDITOR. Francis D. Wallace
Managing: Editors William A. Miller
Richard K. Brome
Feature Editors Hilary B. Mattingly I Lt. W. F. Moist
Sports Editors Windell W. Melton
Robert J. Kerrigan | A/S W. A. Miller
Music Editor Vincent Nonnemecher
Calendar Editor Howard E. Leap
Editorial Board
A/S F. D. Wallace
A /S R. K. Brome
ediate vicinity
a formal din-
you from your
ing served by
le.
ormal dinner
all the forks,
s necessary
course. Start
lid work in to-
Ithe forks will
he knives and
‘Foreign Correspondent” is the
feature attraction at the Campus
on Thursday and Friday. The
film stars Joel McCrea, Lorraine
Day, and George Sanders in an
exciting episode of an American
correspondent who is on the trail
of the • assasin of
diplomat. All across
important
Holland the
Squadron II Suspected
In Missing Guidon Case
“News” Reporter Uncovers Startling Facts
In Mystery of Squadron Four’s Standard
By Hilary B. Mattingly
With the departure of the
“Mighty Midgets” to San Anton
io, the mystery of missing guidons
grows even more dense, as the
disappearance of Squadron IV’s
guidon and newly acquired mess
ribbon was announced by Mr. C.
A. Deislinger, guidon bearer of
Squadron IV, last Monday night.
For some time many a guidon
has been reported missing from
various squadron orderly rooms,
and in some cases they were never
found and had to be replaced with
new ones. As far back as this
reporter was able to trace the mys
tery, we find the old Squadron IV
making off with the late Squad
ron IPs guidon when it left for
the SAACC some four months
ago.
The mystery deepened during
the latter part of Squadron IPs
stay here when it lost its guidon
two other times, and was unable
to find it on both occasions. Their
embarrassment reached a peak
one afternoon when they were
“Courtesy of Skyways Magazine”
Physics, phooey!
Squadron I. N. C. O.
Gets Staff Rating
It’s Staff Sergeant Ray A.
Hutchinson now.
The new rating for the tactical
LOUPOT’S
A Little Place . . .
... A Biff Savinff
non-commissioned officer of Squad
ron I came through Monday, re
warding his approximately ten
months of service with the 308th
College Training Detachment.
Sgt. Hutchinson is a veteran of
nearly four year’s service with the
army. He was a cadet for a time,
until his color-blindness caught
up with him. Now he contents
himself with guiding prospective
Beavers of the 308th along the Air
Crew training version of the
straight and narrow.
Stop In at
George’s
— for a
SANDWICH
COLD DRINK
Use the ’phone — Hear the Juke Box
GEORGE’S CONFECTIONERY
AT NEW “Y”
Bowling League
Gets Underway
u only in the
of statements
| knife may be
alad.
poth the right
—REGISTRATION-
(Continued from page 1)
ternoon, January 28 from 1:00 p.
m. until 5:00 p.m.
Cadets completing their school
work on Saturday will move their
NcVM!?m 1 --uTCBTitu t 5i— ir new ioom as -
In the words of the GI classicist|
it was a clear case of snafu.
And a bunch of sad Beavetiys,
musicians ended a hectic afteru
noon Sunday of almost, but no1
quite broadcasting.
Due, they thought, at 3 p.
for a half-hour (they
broadcast over station
tie supervision
hers Saturday
29, from 8:00
>n.
and corri-
neat and
III
the
Squadron I and Squadron
bowlers split the honors on
first two games of the opening
match of the Beaver Bowling
league at YMCA alleys Sunday
night, with the deciding lines left
to be rolled, while Squadron PV
won their three-game match by
default from Squadron V.
The Squadron I keglers posted
a 699 team score in the first game
against the 648 toppling of the
Squadron III team. In the second
game A/S Alvin E. Baker paced
the Squadron III men to a 686-661
win with a 154 game. A 155 score
by A/S Higgins, Squadron I, took
top scoring honors of the evening.
Squadron I and Squadron V met
last night.
The scores:
forced to receive the mess ribbon
on only the bare pole. On another
SQUADRON 1
Winder
132
- 138
occasion Squadron Ill’s guidon
Freeland
126
- 127
was reported missing, but turned
Henwood
147
- 131
up the next day in Squadron IPs
Erickson
139
- 131
orderly room.
Higgins
155
-
To date no light has shown on
Woodward
- 134
the present mystery, but it ap-
—
—
pears that the departure of Squad-
699
- 661
ron II last Tuesday will figure
in the solution. Even when this
SQUADRON II
mystery is solved, Squadron IV
Baker
146
- 154
will remain as the only squadron
Seaton
135
- 153
to ever have a ribbon missing
Adkius
118
-
along with the guidon. Just where
Frary
109
-
it is no one knows, but it looks
Milson
140
-
very much as though it will show
Plisco
- 128
up in San Antonio along with
Flynn
- 107
Squadron II. At any rate that is
Feyes
- 144
this reporter’s guess, what’s
—
—
yours ? ? ? ? ?
648
- 686
and still . sending solidly from
their performance at the Winf?
ball the night befftre, the orches>-
tra and the glee club rehearsf3d
heavily.
At 3 o’clock the Glee club hvar-
ried in breathless excitement to
Guion, only to be told to scrattn,
there was no broadcast scheduled.
Upon checking up on the glee
club’s report, A/S Joe Bossert,
leader of the orchestra, got a dif
ferent version. It would be a 15
minute broadcast, at 3:30 p. m.
At 3:29, promptly, the orches
tra arrived, lugging everythir g
but their own piano, and got s t
to give forth with some of the bes t
for the Texas ether. Only to 7 ie
informed by a station official th it
the all service show had been
broadcast at 3 p. m.
If you should see “Baldy Joe”
Bossert riding his musical pogo
stick down military walk at an 8
to the bar cadence, any kind of a
remark will go except one about
Sunday’s radio broadcast.
jirning for the
check out
thought)ndant’s Office
WTAW/ompany head-
ml
follows the culprit and his
gang. In the end the ring and
plot are revealed. A plane crash
almost prevents the story from
getting to the papers in the United
States. The picture is rather old
but it was' rated
came out.
The Lowdown: Thriller
good when
Next Battalic
To Press on
This issue of ,
will be the last on
rent semester due t
semester holidays
gin Friday afternooi
through the 4th, the
next issue. All news
should go in the
February 5th, shoul
Battalion office in r<
Administration Buil
noon Thursday, Febi
Camera Club Holds
Banquet at Sbisa
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OPENS 1:00 P.
A. and M.’s Camera Club held
its final social event of the semes
ter at Sbisa Banquet room Wed
nesday night, January 26, at 6
o clock, Claude Stone, president of
the club announced. J. B. Clark,
official college photograj>b'w..aj-ui.l
head of the Experinwives are invited to attend,
photographic laboratoj
the principal speaker f * * *
ing. His subject will SPECIAL SERVICE: ATTEN-
tific aspect of photo TION!!!!!
its part in research
A display of photos- AS A SPECIAL FEATURE OF
bv member n -e JT-XH E BEAVERETTES, THE
kicked and squirmed so much there
that the higher-ups finally had to
send him overseas to make him
happy. He was first sent to Khar
toum, in the Anglo-Egyptian Su
dan, and from there went to his
present station “somewhere in
Arabia.”
A/S Fulton is expecting a coup
le more of these patches to be
shipped in one of these days, but
it seems that his two room-mates
have a high priority and the wait
ing list is about so long after they
get theirs. Your request for one
of them probably won’t receive
much consideration, but the press
seen its duty and done it when
they heard that such an affair was
hanging around on one of the
misters’ blouses.
IN EUROPE
DEDICATED TO SQUADRON V
By
Wm. A. Miller
Here’s to five feet four Kelly,
Flight 52’s stalwart right guide
And here’s to six feet four Berrien
Who can’t keep up with Kelly’s
stride.
* * *
A salute to Joseph Fredricks,
He really is a peach.
He knows 11 types of clouds
With 10 examples of each.
* * *
Watch out there, Mr. Lerner
Don’t think you are the best
Just because you got a high mark
In your latest physics test.
* * *
Palms to the athlete of the year
Our own J. O. Knost
When the rest reach the finish line
He’s still at the post.
Who is that handsome lad
That tall lady-killer
Why no one else but
Commander A. H. Miller.
* * *
“One, two three, four”
To all the cadence is known
The rest of the flight follows the
leader’s
But Stallcup has his own!
* * *
We honor “Colonel” Williams
And to him we do decree
For his wide experience
An honorary B. S. degree.
* * *
Here’s to Mister Lightstone
So very fair and square,
Who would rather kill himself
Than cheat at solitaire.
INSIGNIFICANT ME!
By
F. D. Wallace
I was bom a long time ago. I
don’t weigh much although I am
quite old. I have seen a great
many people come and go in my
time. I don’t know who my par
ents were, but whoever they were,
they had done their job well.
In my many years, I have be
come a necessity to many; excite
ment to some and a goal to be
acquired by others. Fools have
killed and even die for me. Some
had cheated and many lost.
Just like every story there are
two sides to this one.
I have ftiade it possible for
many to marry, to buy homes,
paid for higher education, and
even help those less fortunate.
There are many things that I
have made possible, which are
too numerous to mention.
Although I have helped others,
I feel now that I would like to be
represented in a worthwhile cause
. . . for I am the American Dollar.
Let me help Uncle Sam buy
more bonds. Use me to buy the
necessary equipment, material and
supplies to speed up Victory. Let
me help prosecute this war so
that we may return home.
Forbidden has been an impor
tant word in occupied Europe. For
example, it is Verboten to cheer
prisoners, sing national songs,
listen to foreign broadcasts, read
un-German books, insult German
soldiers, talk to Jews. A “master
race” is naturally inclined to for
bid. It is also natural that a
master should have only contempt
for those he conquers. A Nazi
leaflet said: “There are no decent
Poles just as there are no decent
Jews,” and that belief brought
results. It is estimated that more
than 3,000,000 Jews have died in
Europe since 1939, and the Inter-
Allied Information Committee
states that of these, some 1,000,000
or more are Poles who have been
“slaughtered, starved or beaten
to death.”
Part of the doctrine of Leben-
sraum was to “organize great
forced migrations of inferior peo
ples. Posterity will be grateful
to us. The colonization of the
world by the most perfect race
is the wisdom of war.” Put into
practice that meant round-ups
mass arrests and massacres for
occupied Europe. In the winter
women and children were jammed
into cattle cars to be moved across
the continent to places more cor
venient to the Germans. Thousands
of them froze, were trampled un
derfoot or died of starvation on
the way.
It is easy enough to dismiss
atrocities as propaganda if you
have never seen them, but it is
not so easy to deny the facts.
German atrocities have been ord
ered, calculated and ruthless. The
Nazis have murdered and burned
when they though it was useful to
their plans, having denied “a de
cent respect to the opinions of
mankind.” And the record grows
as they retreat. In Russia, Rostov
reported more than 20,000 civil
ians “tortured, burned or buried
alive,” Kiev reported 50,000
machine-gunned and burned, Smol
ensk reported more than 135,000
persons “were killed by the enemy
by execution, starvation, neglect
Could I be sent to
War Bond Drive in
now—today?
the Fourth
your name
Commended On
Good Work Completed
For their splendid work in dec
orating the mess hall for the
Wing Ball, The Commanding Of-
WELCOMING COMMITTEE OF
THE BEAVERETTES WILL
PLAN TO MEET YOR WIFE, OR
SWEETHEART, IN THE EVENT
THAT YOU CANNOT MAKE
ARRANGEMENTS TO MEET
YOUR PARTY. FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL:
MRS. GALLING - 4-359.
MRS. TOM EVANS - 4-359.
MRS. R. RIESENMY - 4-6614.
MEETING-
EVENING.
EVERY TUESDAY
FIRST MEETING AT 6:00 P.
M. SECOND MEETING 8:00 P.
M. at the YMCA. All wives of
the Beavers are cordially invited.
There is no charge.
WASHINGTON O.P.
Pvt. Robert Ming, who recently
argued a case before the U. S.
Supreme Court on Illinois election
laws, is believed to be the first
EM to argue a case before the
nation’s highest tribunal. Pvt.
Ming, formerly a law professor
at Howard University and now
stationed at Basic Training Cen
ter No. 10, Greensboro, N. C., had
to get special permission from
his CO to appear in court. He
wore civies, since custom does
not permit attorneys to appear
before the Supreme Court in uni
form. Ming said the Sad Sack
was his favorite nonlegal reading
matter.
Maj. Gen. Frederick L. Anderson
Jr., chief of the VII Bomber
Command, told us that Allied
bomber attacks on Germany had
definitely cut Nazi fighter pro
duction 39 percent, and that the
bomb tonnage dropped would in
crease even though weather ob
scured the targets. In fact, he
said, new navigation aids are en
abling bombers to hit targets
through 25,000 feet of clouds.
The Bureau of the Budget has
given the Veterans Administration
top priority rating in acquiring
new Civil Service personnel. Just
as the load was starting to get
heavy for the VA, its headquarters
here and its more than 100 offices
around the country were hard hit
by the draft and by loss of em-
ficer commended the following
men:
Phillip N. Howell, Chairman,
Squadron 4; Clarence H. Nelms,
Artist, Squadron 4; Rudolph Hart,
Sq. 4; Gerald S. Mackey, Sq. 6;
Donald A. Landry, Sq. 5; L. J.
Brunette, Artist, Sq. 1.
The following men were com
mended for their part in arrang
ing housing facilities: Alvin H.
Miller, Squadron Commander, Sq.
5; James E. Murphy, Squadron
Commander, Sq. 4; and Ralph E.
Otto, 1st Sgt., Squadron 4.
or poisoning.” That is only part
of the total score which will be
added up after the United Na
tions are victorious.—Yank.
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KNOWN ONLY TO THE CON
TACT MEN. WATCH FOR THE
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EXTRA
There was a young man from Law
Hall
Who had a blind date for the Ball,
But when she got here
He said with a leer
“It’s not what I ordered at all.”
ployees who took other jobs. The
VA has already hired 922 vets of
this war and would take on an ad
ditional 4,000 if it could get them.
, . Regardless of the priorities
that might be set up in local em
ployment stabilization plans, the
War Manpower Commission says
honorably discharged servicemen
will be helped to find jobs of their
own choice.
Travel note: Since July, 1943
more soldiers have been shipped
overseas than have been inducted
in the Army. . . . The 555th Ser
vice Squadron of the Air Service
Command, first American-born
Chinese unit in the Army, will be
followed by two or three similar
units.—Yank.
LOUPOT’S
Watch Dog af th*
Affgiaa
“Courtesy of Skyways Magazine”
You’ll have to go now, Mabel. The wing ball is over.