The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 13, 1945, Image 1

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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.
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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.