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* DIAL 4-5444 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION T exas AsM College Th e B alion BI-WEEKLY STUDENT NEWSPAPER DEEP IN AGGIELAND TEXAS A. & M. 'VOLUME 44 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 13, 1945 NUMBER 64 Adler and Draper Captivate Town Hall Audience With Dash, Originality Famed Pair Receive Thunderous Applause At Finale After Initial Lukewarm Reception “Entertainment that is an orna-'t ment to the finest in music”—that is how Herman Devries of the Chicago Herald-Ameican describ ed the concert attraction featuring Paul Draper, the world’s supreme tap-dancer, and Larry Adler, equal ly supreme harmonica virtuoso, but those who attended the concert at Guion Hall Monday night have something to add to Mr. Devries comment. Not only is it entertain ment that is an ornament to the finest in music, but entertainment that is strictly American in style and setting. Adler began the concert by play ing the Star Spangled Banner, and this was followed by three num bers written by Mozart, Schumann and Bach. Romance in A Major was one of the pieces that he play ed so brilliantly. Few people rea lize how hard it is to develop a tone quality on the harmonica, and those that do realize it can appre ciate Adler’s playing even more than a person who just enjoys good music. Mr. Draper was well received in the second part of the concert af ter finishing first dance which was Gavotte, a light, gay dance which was composed by A. Thomas. Toccata, a dance that was meant to exhibit speed and brilliance on a key board did just as well with Mr. Draper’s feet. Due to the small ness of the stage at Guion Mr. Draper had to omit and rearrange some of his numbers, but despite this handicap hie sho\ved brilliant form and perfect coordination dur ing the whole performance. Part five of the program con sisted of Adler an(j Draper in a duet, which actually ended up in a request program for the audience. Mr. Adler asked the crowd if there were pny numbers in particu lar that they wished to hear, and a young lady on the front row mentioned the name of her favorite composer and asked if they could play one of his numbers. This was done in a most interesting fash ion which combined the talent of Mr. Adler with the skill of Mr. Draper into a most interesting number. After the intermission Adler played George Gershwin’s immor tal Rhapsody in Blue and was called back for . four encores all of which brought forth many rounds of applause from satisfied listeners. His first encore was supposed to be St. Louis Blues, but it was more of Blues in the Night sprinkled here and there with odd bits of The Blues. Seeing, that he couldn’t leave the stage after the round of applause that he had just received, he followed this number with Cole Porter’s Begin the Be- guine which also contained some of those low down hot-licks that have been made so famous by Johnny Mercer and Hogie Car- machiel in the last few years. Amid (See TOWN HALL, Page 3) Aggie Ex Awarded First Oak Leaf Cluster to Medal A former AAF basic flight in structor from San Angelo, Texas, First Lieutenant Edward R. Hay den, an Eighth Air Force fighter pilot, has been presented the first Oak Leaf Cluster to his Air Medal, previously awarded. A cluster is equivalent to another medal. The P-51 Mustang assistant flight (four aircraft) commander, received the decoration from Lieutenant Colonel Irwin H. Dreg- ne, of Viroqua, Wis., 357th Fighter Group commanding officer, at an outdoor ceremony. The citation read: “For exceptionally meritorious sex-vice in aerial flight over enemy occupied Continental Europe. The courage, coolness and skill dis played by this officer reflects great credit upon himself and the Ai*med Forces of the United States. The 357th Mustangmen have downed more than 470 German planes by air combat in less than 11 months. The pilots have knocked out over 50 on the ground. Lieutenant Hayden attended The Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College, before he enlisted in the AAF, Jan. 20, 1942. The flier served as a basic flight instructor, Enid, Okla., before as signment to the European Theater of Operations. Lieutenant Hayden’s wife, the former Miss Nelda Parish, and mother, Mrs. Chris R. Hayden, live at 52 West 25th St., San Angelo. Latin American Club Shows Brazil Movie The Latin American Club will hold its regular program Wednes day, February 14, at 7:15 in the Civil Engineering lecture room. A motion picture about Brazil will be shown. All those interested in Latin America are cordially invited by club members. CIVIL AIR PATROL MAKES TWO PROMOTIONS IN RANK Two members of the local Civil Air Patrol-Texas Forest Pati-ol squadron, Mrs. G. W. Bax-nes and Mrs. Ida W. Kernodle, both of Bry an, have been promoted to techni cal sergeants, Lt. Col. D. Harold Byrd, Texas CAP wing command er at Dallas, announced today. The two new sergeants were given ratings because of their work as administrative assistants on the Texas Forest Patrol staff, accord ing to Col. Byrd. They are now compiling reports on forest patrol flights made in East Texas. m WM 1 ym, f§r , > ,> Jag-™.* .. ~ ..... I ill 1 11181 l £— r-jgs&v'iqi * ■ 11 wfJi a P mIBI mtmm U wlil Singing Cadets to Perform At Huntsville P.O.W. Camp Saturday. Two Rio Grande City Exes Receive Honors in Battle Second Lt. Alfonso R. Ramix-ez and Flight Officer Hector S. Guer- i-ero, both Ex-Aggies from Rio Grande City, have taken up their duties with the Ai-my Air Forces fighting in Europe. Lt. Ramirez, the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Ramirez of Rio Grande City, is sta tioned with the 15th Air Force Liberator Bombardment Squadron somewhere in Italy. Trained as a Co-Pilot for a B-24 Libex-ator Bomber Lt. Ramirez has been serv ing with the Air Force since April 1, 1943. He received his commission at Eagle Pass AAF, on June 27, 1944. Up until a few months be fore he entered the service Lt. Ra mirez attended A. & M. Flight Officer H. S. Guerrero, also from Rio Grande City, received his first taste of aerial combat just a few weeks ago when the B-17 Flying Fortress on which he is navigator ran into a heavy flak bax-rage while on a bomting mis sion over Gex-many. Flight Officer Guerrero, who has been tx-ained in the latest methods of bomber de fense, stated that though he kept a sharp lookout for enemy fighters, the Luftwaffe didn’t give him an opportunity to test his skill. Guer- i-ero said the flak came so close that if the plane had just one more coat of paint that they would have been hit. Flying with the 32nd Bomber Group Guerrero wears the Distinguished Unit Citation which was recently awarded by the Pres ident to his outfit for exceptional action against the enemy. Guer rero, who attended A. & M. before entering the Air Corps has an older brother Elias who was a member of the class of 1941, and another brother Raul, who is in the class of 1947, is attending A. & M. at the present time. Valentine Here Again; Reason General Money Shortage Told Ah-h-h-h, sweet Valentine’s day which comes but once a year but when it comes, oh brother. Or would it be more appropriate to say, “Oh empty pocket book.” Yes, methinks it would be slightly bet ter; indeed, yes. To the slight few who are so lucky, fortunate, and otherwise so well off as to have money around the 14th of Febru ary each year, it is no problem whatsoever to get that big gift to make an impression on the lovely person of beautiful dreams. Some one once heard of a male who was classed in this category. It seems that he was afflicted with seven convertibles (each one of different color for the various days of the week) and seven girls for each car. My, my—sevens come natural to that boy. No wonder he had so much. But, on with the story. This lucky man’s name has probably been forgotten, but to make it more general, Osaki might be used. Everyone thought highly of him and he appeared to be a right smai-t fellow with all his bodily features where they should be. Naturally, then, he was a sure cinch for a man’s school such as A. & M., or so everybody thought. But there is just one thing that turned Osaki away from a great school and headed in the direction of guess what? Yes, folks, it hap pened again. For just one small reason - Aggieland lost an up and coming young man. But why? If he had come here, he would still have his seven cars, and all that he would be short would be the seven girls to go with each of his automobiles. Surely, he wouldn’t let anything so trivial as 49 women keep him from this school. After all, if he couldn’t fill his car with seven girls each day, he could al ways get seven boys here. In fact he could get as many as could pos sibly squeeze into the auto. So, it seems that we must look elsewhere for the reason that our hero, Osaki, went to a co-ed school. The seax-ch continued without end for many months. His daily actions were observed carefully and ex- tx-eme care was taken to hiake sure that nothing went unnoticed. His schedule for eating was noted, his schedule for going to school was noted, his schedule for sleeping was noted, his schedule for - - - wait a minute. His schedule for sleeping is from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. That’s it, that’s it, that’s the rea son he went to co-ed school. He just couldn’t fit going to a school where he had to get up at seven; so he went whex*e he could get up at eleven. Odd, isn’t it. So that is what is causing the price of those heart-shaped boxes of candy to go up in cost. Osaki is busy buying one of the largest for each of his friends and it is bid ding the price up here at A. & M. And so it goes. The rich get richer, the poor poorer, and the boys with the cars get the girls. Or do they? What have you got to say about that, Old Army. Promotion List to Be Announced Soon The promotion list for the new cadet officers and non-coms will be issued at an early date, said Ma jor Joe E. Davis, assistant com mandant, yestei’day.' Names of the returning seniors were sent in to the registrar last week and were just returned with the students’ grade point averages yestex’day, said Davis. Among other qualifications which will be taken into consideration in selecting the cadet officers will be the number of semesters on the campus, added Davis. All recom mendations are being turned in now and final selections will be announced at an eaxdy date. Musicians Interested In Aggieland Should See W. M. Turner Now The Aggieland orchestra is in dii’e need of two tenor Saxaphone players. Students who are inter ested are asked to call W. M. Turner at the Student Activities Office. Our traditional Aggieland Orchestra became an outstanding musical oi’ganization on the Cam pus last semester. They furnished the music for all the dances on the Campus and played several out of town engagements where They were well received. Turner is anxious to augment the orchestra with string section if he can find enough violin players in the cox-ps All violin players interested in playing in this ox-ganization are also asked to get in touch with Turner. Tickets Go On Sale For Kyle Banquet All tickets for the farewell din ner in Sbisa Hall the night of Feb. 22 honoring Guatemalan Am bassador and Mrs. E. J. Kyle must-be obtained by Feb. 20 so that seating arrangements may be made, Dr. Dan Russell, chairman of the ticket committee for the dinner, has announced. Hundreds of the former Dean of Agriculture’s former students, teaching colleagues, agricultural co-workers, diplomats and political officials from Washington, and just plain fxnends are expected to at tend the testimonial dinner. James Sullivan has charge of ticket sales in Bryan and advises he will be in Bryan evex - y day pre ceding the dinner. Reservations by Bryan friends of the Kyle family may be made by calling Mr. Sulli van, telephone number 4-4064. Dr. Russell said tickets may be secured at his office in the Agricul- tural building, or from Reed Mc Donald of the Agricultural Experi ment Station, Dale Weddington of the Extension Service, P. L. Downs, Jr., of the fiscal office in the Ad ministration building, C. E. Sand- stedt in the Civil Engineering building, or from Fx-ed R. Brison, also in the Agriculture building. Price of tickets is $1.25, with a special price of 75 cents to current students of the Texas A. & M. College. Singing Cadets and Aggieland Orchestra To Go to Huntsville The Aggieland Orchestxa and the Singing Cadets will go to the Pxnsoner of War Camp at Hunts ville this weekend to perform for the Army Personnel stationed there. The Singing Cadets will give a short program Saturday night at the dance which the Ax-my Personnel is having. Both oi’gani- zations will be guests of the camp for the night and are to be taken on a tour of the camp on Saturday afternoon. The two Cadet groups will leave the campus on an Army Bus at two o’clock Satui’day afternoon. The bus will pick the cadets up at the Assembly Hall. Texans Very Determined Says Gilchrist In Letter President’s Letter Addressed to Texas Servicemen Appears in Country Gentleman Marc Smith Urges New Students to Buy Longhorns Now Possibility of Annual , Next Year is Slight If Sales Fall Off Marc Smith, Editor of the Long horn, announced today that Sat urday is the deadline for ordering your Longhorn. Smith stated that there will be no extension of the date and students will be unable to get their subscriptions in after Saturday. The Longhorn subscrip tions have fallen far below the expectations of the Student Activ ities Office that decided to pub lish a year book this year, and un less more students obtain sub scriptions to this issue it is almost certain that there will be no more Longhorns published until the en rollment has increased enough to justify the cost of printing one. Smith said the school is expected to lose money on this issue unless more students subscribe to the book. All new freshmen are urged by Smith, to place their orders for the Longhorn with the Student Ac tivities office or Jerry Higgs, Del bert Runyon and Dwight McAnally. The price of the Longhorn is $5.00. Texans at home have a conscious ness of unity with the men on the battle fronts which has welded them “into an unbreakable deter mined - to - see - it - through home front,” President Gibb Gilchrist de clared in a letter addressed to Tex as servicemen which appeared in the February 1945 oversea edition of the Country Gentleman. This issue is going to the Army and Marine Corps and will be distrib uted free in combat areas all over the globe. The portion of the Febniary number devoted to Texas and Pres ident Gilchrist’s letter covers more than three large pages and caxries eight appropriate pictures. A pic ture of the Academic building fills the starting page with a cut-out for the title, salutation, by-line and a small portion of the type. Other scenes, like the contents of the letter, are “homey” of Tex as life and living, how ma and pa, and sis and bud are doing their bit; a Bunch of whiteface cattle on pas ture, junior boys and girls at Har- din-Simmons University helping out a farmer who was unable to secure cotton pickers; handling a flock of 700-800 turkeys; a girl turned cowhand on her father’s ranch; high school boys building farm buildings; and teen age girls practicing marksmanship. Lastly, there is an informal picture of the author. President Gilchrist gives Texas production totals for many crops feeding and clothing the unfortu- (See GILCHRIST, Page 3) Texas Engineer's Library Here Offers Students Timely, Appropriate Literature A Battalion Feature All of you no doubt are aware of the facts x’elating to the es tablishment of a Library at A. & M. College with funds appropria ted out of the Px’ofessional En gineers’ Fund. The wox’k of organi zing and establishing the library was stax-ted in January, 1943, when the librax’ian was employed. A separate building for this library is planned and will be constructed when times permit. At present, the library is located in rooms in the Mechanical Engineering Shops buildings where provisions have been made for ten to twelve thou sand volumes of books and about three thousand bound volumes of periodicals. Since the state legislature gave the Board of Registration permis sion to spend $60,000 of its accu mulated funds during the 1941-43 biennium, we now had only eight months, from January to August 31, in which to spend $60,000. By August 31, we had spent about $31,000 and with this we had pur chased some 6,000 books, about 2,000 volumes of back periodicals to complete the college library sets, or complete sets for this li- brary, and also several hundred maps and charts. We also placed subscriptions for over 300 technical magazines. The expenditure of about $33,000 left an unexpended balance of $27,000 which went back to the registered engineers fund. We purchased a vex-y good col lection of the most important en gineering books published since 1940, and many of the standard works prior to that date. We now subscribe to mox’e than 300 techni cal periodicals and these are to be kept and bound for reference use. The college in its agreement with the board of registration agreed to make its engineering collection of the general college library avail able to the registei’ed engineers through this libi’ary and the books, periodicals, and other materials of this collection amount to 10,288 volumes, with 6,008 bound periodi cals and 4,280 books. This will give us a collection of 18,000 to 20,000 volumes of books and periodicals. Ninety-five per cent of our books have been catalogued and propex-ly marked, our periodicals ax - e ax - ranged in alphabetical order, and we have an up-to-date list of our complete holdings. These books are listed in our card catalog, arranged in one alphabet by author, subject, and title, and are aiTanged in clas sification ox'der on the shelves. The college collection will be mex'ged with our collection within a short time, and the cards added to our catalog, and likewise their periodi cals added to ours. The libx’ary committee has de cided to have printed a catalog of our entire book collection. This catalog is in the process of com pilation now, and it will be ax - - ranged alphabetically by subject, and alphabetically by author under subject. This catalog will be pub lished as an Engineering Experi ment Station bulletin and distrib uted to all professional engineers. It is proposed that an annual sup plement be compiled to keep this list up-to-date. However, it should be made very clear that it is not necessax’y to know the exact title of a book before writing to the li brary for information. Write us the subject in which you are inter ested and we will suggest specific titles, if there are any books on your subject. If there have not been any books published, we are in a position to locate periodical articles through our index serv ices, government and state publi cations through their monthly lists, and last of all, through our pamphlet files and indexes. There are many lists and indexes and spe cial sources where a librai’ian may look for information depending upon the subject. We will mail books for a loan period of 30 days and if you desire the books for a longer time, just write for an extension. The college has a photostat machine set up in our quarters, and we are therefore able to photostat any magazine article and send it to you. There is a charge for this photostat serv ice, but the rates are a little less than those of commercial com panies. There is no chai’ge for the books, and the library will do a nominal amount of research, and the compilation of bibliographies and lists for the professional engi neers. the engineers through the medium of a quarterly publication, and we expect to have some of our new books mentioned from time to time in the various trade magazines of Texas and the Southwest. In haxxdling an inquiry for infor mation on a certain subject, we would refer to the card catalog for reference books which deal di rectly with the subject. We would also consult the books on related subjects to obtain from these any items which may refer to the sub ject in question. In addition to fur nishing books in which the subject is discussed, we would furnish a list of articles appearing in recent industrial and technical periodicals pertaining to the subject. If youf review of this list indicates that you may be interested in any of the ax'ticles, photostats of such ar ticles may be secured. All refer ence sources would be consulted in ox'der to satisfy your requests. Use Is Urged There ax-e published monthly two or three special publications that devote a portion or all of their space to the review of technical publications. These are the Tech nical Book Review Index and Spe cial Libraries, published by the Special Libraries Association, and the New Technical Books, published by the New York Public Library There are eight or ten other publi cations, some published monthly and some weekly that list books published and give brief reviews. Examples of these are Publishers Weekly, Retail Bookseller, and New York Times Book Review. We receive all of these publications and examine every one for new books and materials. All of our technical periodicals are checked for book reviews and all reviews are called to the Librarian’s atten tion. In addition to the sources mentioned, the library receives cir culars announcing new books from all of the major publishers and technical societies. Suggested book and periodical titles for purchase will be welcomed. It is hoped that students will use the facilities of the Texas Engi neers Library from borrowing | books to requesting bibliographies We expect to keep in touch with and other information.