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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 5, 1945
—DISTRACTIONS- COMMANDANT—
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—TOWN HALL—
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sus the cats, and wowie, the rhythm
is rompin’!
Lowdown: Strictly on the solid
side.
CAMPUS—Showing Thursday
and Friday is “Follow the Boys”
with George Raft, Vera Zorina,
and several top bands such as
Freddie Slack and Dorsey. This is
a musical about the Hollywood en
tertainers that follow the boys
over-seas to make a dull life a lit-
le more interesting at least. It is
choke full of entertainment and
several tense situations develop
such as being torpedoed in the
middle of the ocean.
Lowdown: A good Musical with
top-notch bands.
Saturday is a double feature de
signed to scare the a dickens
out of you. The first feature is
“Shadow in the Night” with War
ner Baxter. This is one of th Crime
Doctor series and a good one at
that.
Lowdown: A killer-diller.
The second feature is “Crime By
Night” with Jane Wyman and
Jerome Cowen. This is a mystery
thriller designed on the “Thin-
Man” type, and is really a good
show with romance scattered
around between the murders.
Lowdown: A good “Didn’t Sleep
a Wink Last Nite” show.
Showing Sunday and Monday is
the “Seventh Cross” with Spencer
Tracy. This is an adaptation of
Anna Segher’s best seller, with the
main character portrayed by Spen
cer Tracy at his best. This is one
of the highly rated dramas of the
year. Tracy is one of seven fugi
tives who escape from the notorious
Westrofen concentration camp near
Mainz, Germany, in 1936. Woven
into the story is a poignant romance
between Tracy and a girl, who,
after knowing him 24 hours, is
willing to sacrifice her life to
make good his escape.
Lowdawn: Four bells plus.
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Davis, Platoon Sergeant; J. W.
Giebel, A. R. Newson, J. D. Roper,
J. B. Meadows.
Second Battalion Staff—Major
W. T. Cobb, Battalion Commander;
Captain C. A. Banker, Executive
Officer.
Non-commissioned officers: Mas
ter Sergeant K. M. Frazelle, Ser
geant Major.
Company “F”—Non-commission
ed officer: Corporal R. J. Luns
ford, E. R. Baugh, E. S. Brandt,
Q. M. Baker, G. P. Cavitt, Jack
Brashear, B. F. Scholl.
Third Battalion Staff—Captain
M. G. Boone, Executive Officer.
Non-commissioned officers: Mas
ter Sergeant R. Ferguson, Ser
geant Major; Technical Sergeant
R. W. Russell, Personnel Sergeant
Major.
Second Regimental Staff—Major
W. E. Davenport, Executive Offi
cer; Captain Cecil Kelty, Adjutant;
Captain C. W. Yeargain, Personnel
Officer.
Non-commissioned officers: Mas
ter Sergeant Edwin Olsen, Ser
geant Major.
First Battalion Staff—Major S.
Haggard, Battalion Commander.
Battery “A”—Non-commissioned
officers: Corporal J. L. Nygaard.
Battery “C”—First Lieutenant
M. Gibson, Platoon Leader.
Non-commissioned officers: Staff
Sergeants J. W. Stewart, A. W.
Bridges, Jr., Platoon Sergeants.
Second Battalion Staff—Non
commissioned officers: Staff Ser
geant W. C. Witt, Supply Ser-
gean.
—HUNTSVILLE DANCE—
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dance as it is expected that some
Cadets will not be able to get
dates at such a late date.
Arrangements have been made
by the Jackson Association so that
the cadets will have a place to stay
if they wish to remain in Hunts
ville overnight. Mattresses will be
furnished and placed in the gym
nasium after the dance for all
Aggies that wish to remain.
According to the Houstonian,
SHSTC school paper, the price for
the dance will be $1.20, couple or
stags, and there well be a refresh
ment booth in the gymnasium,
where soft drinks will be sold.
There will be busses leaving
from the Aggieland Inn at 7:56
a. m. and 2:10 p. m. Saturday, and
from Bryan at 3:20 in the after
noon. Those leaving from the Inn
will change busses in Navasota and
those from Bryan will change in
Madisonville. Tickets will be $1.67
one-way, and $3.05 round-trip.
Members of the Jackson Hall
Association have gone to a great
deal of trouble to make this an oc
casion that the Aggies will not
forget for a long time, and unless
as many cadets as possible attend,
the affair will not be a success.
—CHATHAM RETIRES—
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a Battalion reporter.
“Mr. Chatham has made an en
viable record. In his retirement I
extend him my sincere good wish
es,” Birdwell concluded.
Many letters of congratulations
have been received by Mr. Chat
ham both from the college staff,
former students and the general
public. Today’s Battalion is taking
special recognition of his long
and useful career of service to Tex
as A. & M. and is joined by many
out standing business firms in wish
ing Mr. Chatham the best of every
thing in his retirement.
They're here now! . . . the new, entirely
re-designed precision-built Sheaffer pens
and pencils!
Most of them are going to the men and
women in the Services overseas. Quantities
for civilians are very limited, but we will
take your reservations now.
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MOTHER’S DAY — MAY 13TH
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AGGIELAND STUDIO
25 Years Service to Aggieland
CASH-- Hight Prices Paid for
BOOKS — LAMPS
DRAWING INSTRUMENTS
COLLEGE BOOK STORE
B. W. BOBBITT, ’40
rear guard. After witnessing the
surrender of the Fascist Town
Council there, “Knick” and Belden
started across the valley to a twin
town a couple of miles away. As
they approached it, a young Ger
man advanced out of a culvert,
hands in the air and a white hand
kerchief in one of them. “I want
to surrender,” he said in German.
Knickerbocker, who spoke German,
answered “That’s fine and what is
this around your neck?” Without
waiting for a reply, he removed a
pair of fine field glasses from
around the Nazi’s neck. Twelve
other German soldiers joined the
first Nazi and gave themselves
up, together with rifles, a 30-cali-
bre machine gun, and many rounds
of ammunition.
The American Correspondent’s
pleasure was only exceeded by their
surprise. Later the German sol
diers explained that they had sur
rendered because “you ride in a
staff car, and you would be here
only if troops were ahead.” In real
ity, of course, American troops
were not yet there—were still sev
eral miles behind!”
When Knickerbocker comes to
lecture at Guion Hall, Tuesday,
April 17, he will not only give
an over-all picture of the war in
Sicily, Italy and France but will
season it with many anecdotes and
stories of personal adventures.
—CHATHAM—
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soon provided and after the new
Academic Building became avail-
ble ample space was provided for
the operation of the store. Since
lack of funds hampered the full
expansion, Mr. Chatham, with the
approval of President Bizzell, but
entirely on his own signature, and
as a personal loan, borrowed the
sum of $25,000 and thus was able
to meet the financial needs of his
expanding enterprise. Gradually
over a period of about 10 years
this loan was repaid from the
operations of the store.
At the beginning of World War
I, the college had many civilians
in training on the campus and was
in need of additional facilities to
take care of their shopping needs.
An additional exchange was open
ed to care for the exclusive needs
of this group. The building was a
large wooden structure located near
the present YMCA. Open from 7
a. m. to 10:30 p. m., every day, this
store was known as the Post Ex
change. This temporary structure
was closed at the end of World
War I.
Shortly before President Bizzell
left A .& M., authority was grant
ed to erect a store building large
enough to take care of the needs
of the student body of a rapidly
expanding institution, and in 1926
the store moved to its new quar
ters. Since the present building
was constructed, two additions have
been added to take care of the
expanding business.
Many changes in styles, buying
habits and customer reactions have
been noted by Mr. Chatham during
the more than a third of a century
he has managed The Exchange
Store. One definite policy that he
has followed is to have modern and
attractive fixtures to permit the
best display of his merchandise.
His fundamental demand has al
ways been that the merchandise
sold over the counters of the Ex
change Store be the best quality
obtainable. Most of the leading
manufacturers of the popular and
well known bi’ands are represented
in the Exchange Store’s history,
and in Mr. Chatham’s opinion his
policy of choosing the best products
has paid dividends over a long per
iod of time.
Out of the profits realized over
the 36 years of Mr. Chatham’s man
agement, the indebtedness of the
store has been liquidated, the pre
sent building paid for, inventories
built up and operating capital
furnished. Surplus funds have been
invested in the Corps of Cadets,
$2500 going for tennis courts in
one instance alone and on another
occasion $5000.00 was contributed
to the building of The Grove.
It has long been Mr. Chatham’s
policy and in this he is joined by
the college administration that sur
plus profits, if any are realized, be
returned to the students through
increased recreational facilities.
The operational requirements of a
firm as large as the Exchange
Store, of course, demand a sizeable
reserve fund for contingencies and
general operating funds.
Mr. Chatham’s most recent ex
perience has been to experience
again 1918 and see war training
return to the campus in the form
of thousands of servicemen, many
of whom found in the modern faci
lities of the Exchange Store inno
vations that would have opened the
eyes of their buddies of World War
I who also traded at “Chatham’s
Store.”
OFFICIAL NOTICES
Classified
CASH—Ceiling price for your car—any
make, any model. Bring your papers to
H L. Whitley, Studebaker Dealer, Phone
2-7009.
DR. GRADY HARRISON
Dentist
North Gate Phone 4-8854
FOUND—Identification bracelet bearing
the inscription “Irving Weitzler—No.
31,842,861. at Student Activities Office.
LOST—Gold Gruen wrist watch between
Sbisa and Dorm No .9 last Friday night,
March 23, flexible leather band. Reward of
$5.00. Please return to commandant’s of
fice or to Fish Wilson, Room 104, Dorm
No. 9. Graduation gift and has great
sentimental value.
FOR SALE1—One serge blouse and one
serge billed cap. Reasonably priced. See
Crabtree in Room 318, No. 7.
Announcements
DISTINGUISHED STUDENTS — Cita-
students who
Pall Semeste:
H.
L. Heaton,
Registrar.
STAFF MEMBERS
Work on the plaque honoring staff mem
bers who have gone into military service
is about completed. If there are any
additions to the list since it was first
submitted, please send the name and
branch of service to W. R. Horsley, Place
ment Office.
LOAN SCHOLARSHIP
The Foundation for Education in Eco
nomics of the American Bankers Asso
ciation has allotted one loan scholarship
of $250 for the year 1945-1946 to be
awarded to a student of this institution
majoring in some field of business or eco
nomics. Information concerning the terms
of the loan and blank forms of applica
tion may be secured from the undersigned.
T. D. BROOKS,
Dean, School of Arts and Sciences
Fees
ive, can
Third installment of Maintenanc
of $47.40 payable April 1-15, inclusr
be paici now.
hese fees include board $36.90, room
$7.30 and laundry $3.20 to May 26,
i and laundry $3.Z0 to May :
The Cashier of the Fiscal Department will
pt these fees from 8:00
accep
1:30
1945.
A.M. until
Commandants Office
OFFICE OF THE COMMANDANT
CIRCULAR NO. 48:
1, So much of Paragraph 10 (a), House
Rules, College Regulations, is amended to
ead as follows :
Students living two per room will not
exceed 260 watts per room. This wattage
can be distributed as desired, provided
100 watts,
rovided the
no lamp in the room exceeds 1(
2. Radios are authorized, pro
volume is so that it does not disturb oc
cupants of adjoining rooms. Outside aerials
re not authorized.
3. All rooms must be properly policed
each morning, including Sunday, and
kept clean throughout the day. Trash will
not be swept into the halls after 8:00
a.m. each day.
4. Bicycles will not be placed in cor
ridors or rooms of dormitories. They will
be parked in racks adjacent to dormitory
r in adjacent areas designated by Tac-
cal Officers.
5. Juniors and Seniors desiring to study
beyond Taps may burn their lights for
that purpose only. Freshmen and Sopho
mores may, with permission from their
company! officers, keep their light
urpose of study until midnight.
6. Window screens will be kept hooked
and not removed from their bearings.
7. Students will not go on the roof of
ny dormitory.
By order of Colonel WELTY:
JOE E. DAVIS
Major, Infantry,
Assistant Commandant.
OFFICE OF THE COMMANDANT
MEMORANDUM: To All Concerned
1. Students owning motor vehicles will
bmit their 1945 lici
sut
Comn
April
nui
mandant’s Office not later than
mber to
wil
th'
15
1945.
By order of the COMMANDANT:
JOE E. DAVIS
Major, Infantry,
Assistant Commandant.
OFFICE OF THE COMMANDANT
CIRCULAR NO. 48::
'ter, no individual who is not a
this ‘institution, properly reg-
to remain in
overnight unless approved l
the Commandant’s Office.
2. Organization Commanders will check
r see that all guests have signed in at
the Commandant’s Office before spendi
the night in the dormitory.
For The COMMANDANT:
JOE E. DAVIS
Major, Infantry,
Assistant Commandant.
Church Notices
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
R. L. Brown, Pastor
9:45 a. m. Sunday School
10:50 a. m. Morning Worship
5:00 p. m. Fellowship Hour
6:00 p. m. Training Union
7:00 p. m. Evening Worship
A cordial invitation is extended to all
who desire to worship with us.
COLLEGE AVE. BAPTIST CHURCH
203 N. College Ave.
J. H. Landes, Pastor
9:45 Sunday School
11:00 Morning Worship Service
6:15 Training Union
7:30 Evening Worship Service
THE FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Corner Twenty-Seventh and S. College
F. J. Smythe, Pastor
10 :00—Sunday School
11:00—Communion and Worship
6 :00—Recreation Hour
7 :00—Christian Youth Fellowship
8 :00—Communion and Sermon
A cordial welcome awaits all who
attend this church.
CHURCH OF CHRIST
R. B. Sweet, Pastor
Sunday, 9:45 Bible Classes; 10:45 the
Morning Worship; 7 p. m. the Evening
Worship.
Wednesday 7:15 p. m. the Prayer Meet
ing.
All are invited to attend all these serv
ices. You will be most welcome.
CATHOLIC STUDENTS
Sunday Masses 9:15 and 10:30 a. m.
Confession Saturday 6 :30 to 7:30 p. m.;
Sunday, before Mass.
ST. THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Rev. J. H. R. Farrell, Chaplain
Holy Communion—9 :00 a. m.
Coffee Club—9:30 a. m.
Church School—9:45 a. m.
1st and 3rd Sundays
Holy Communion—11:00 a. m.
2nd and 4th Sundays
Morning Prayer—11:00 a. m.
AMERICAN LUTHERAN
CONGREGATION
Y. M. C. A. Chapel, Campus
Kurt Hartman, Pastor
Sunday School at 9:45 a. m.
Student Bible Class and Discussion Per
iod at 9:45 a. m.
Divine Services 11:00 a. m.
A. & M. METHODIST CHURCH
AND WESLEY FOUNDATION
Rev. R. C. Terry
Sunday:
Church School—9:45 a. m.
Morning Worship—10:50 a. m.
Wesley Foundation—7 p. m.
Wednesday:
Choir Practice—6:45 p. m.
Wesley Fellowship and Midweek Devo
tional—7 p. m.
The A. and M. Methodist Church is one
block east of the Post Office at the North
Gate.
A. & M. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Norman Anderson, Pastor
Sunday School 9:45 in the Campus
Theatre. “By courtesy of the Management.”
Morning Worship 11:00 in the Campus
Theatre. “By courtesy of the Management.”
Student League 6 :30 in the Y. M. C. A.
Chapel.
Student Forum 7:30 in the Y. M. C. A.
Chapel.
—RECREATIONAL—
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money has been alloted the group
by the City of College Station, the
Kiwanis Club, the Methodist
Church, and the Mothers Club of
A. & M. Consolidated School, and
indications that several other or
ganizations will have allotments
to make in the near future, plan
ning for the summer work was
made easy for the group. Future
and permanent financing plans
were discussed and it was decided
that Col. Frank G. Anderson, Dr.
L. G. Jones, and L. D. Smith would
represent the group before the
City of College Station Council
and offer a plan for financing the
recreational program. The plan
was discussed in detail by the
group at the meeting.
A survey offered at the meeting
showed that there are one thousand
eight hundred and eighty four
young people and children in Col
lege Station of which one hundred
and one are Girl Scouts, sixty are
Boy Scouts and twenty six belong
to the A. & M. Consolidated School
football team. It was pointed out
that the community as a whole is
responsible for the manner in
which youth spends its recreation
and that the opportunities for
wholesome recreation other than
that offered by the churches, the
school and the Boy and Girl Scouts
is seriously limited in the commu
nity. .
Plans to start organized play
ground ball leagues in each sec
tion of the community were dis
cussed with the playground in each
section of the community tentative
ly laid out. The equipment of the
Consolidated School will serve one
area, the James Parkway in Col
lege Hills will serve another and
the site to serve the area towards
the north community as yet unde
cided.
The Kiwanis Club of College Sta
tion has planned to start softball
clubs at once, as well as church
activity in this direction. The coun
cil voted to buy any equipment
needed for summer play in softball,
volleyball, or tennis and it is plan
ned to have a big tournament later
in the season.
A skating rink and lighting of
the softball court at A. & M. Con
solidated School were two activities
that will be made available to the
community if final plans can be
carried through, it was voted.
The Play. Nights, held each Fri
day at the A. & M. Consolidated
School Gymnasium will continue
throughout the school term. The
High School and Eighth Grade stu
dents will be entertained next Fri
day, it was announced. The res
ponse to these play nights have
fulfilled the expectations of the
groups and clearly indicate that
a full recreational program must
be obtained for the city as soon
as possible.
All possible effort of the Coun
cil to obtain a director for the
summer activities will be made, it
was voted at the meeting. If a
director cannot be obtained the
program will be carried out by
part time instructors and volun
teer workers, until such time as
more help can be had.
If supervisors can be obtained
tennis play will be offered each
Saturday morning. Much of the
work on this part of the program
was completed at the meeting with
only the obtaining of supervisors
to be filled in.
The existing by-laws of the
Council are to be reworked and a
booklet prepared that will state
the aims of the organization so
that it can be presented to the
community in a convenient form.
Officers elected at the Monday
night meeting were: J. Gordon
Gay, chairman; vice-chairman, Col.
Frank G. Anderson; secretary, Mrs.
A. B. Stevens; treasurer, Mrs. H.
E. Burgess; activities chairman,
Mrs. H. K. Stephenson and W. L.
Penberthy; publicity, Mrs. G. B.
Winstead.
Members of the Council are: J.
T. L. McNew; Dr. L. G. Jones; Mrs.
D. W. Williams; L. D. Smith; W.
D. Bunting; E. D. Parnell, and
J. D. Prewitt.
—BUY WAR BONDS TODAY—
Horseshoes
By Dick Dillingham
The horseshoe tournament :is
drawing to a close finish now.
With only a few more games to
be played, the favorites have been
established in all the leagues.
There is still time for some of the
underdogs to come through and
there are still many exciting mo
ments in store.
D Co. took a match from H Co.
a week ago. D Co. won four games
and lost two in the match. The
H Co. men who won the only games
for their team were Baker and Ar-
buckle. They defeated Neely and
Threadgill in some games that
Neely and Threadgill always made
close, but Arbuckle and Baker
came out with the upper hand. In
the first game, Arbuckle hit the
mark some to give them a pretty
good lead, but H Co. had collected
enough one and two pointers that
they were in the lead when Thread
gill threw two straight ringers.
Arbuckle continued to lay them in
close and H Co. took the first
game. In the second game, Ar
buckle won the final points with a
ringer, but their win was all but
useless as D Co. had won the
match before their games were
over.
Meadows of D Co. and Brown
of H Co. were pitching it out close
on one court, while a heated match
between Woods of D Co. and Wal
lace of H Co. was also going. Mea
dows and his partner, Garretson,
came up fast after a slow start.
Meadows won the game when he
threw a ringer for the last three
points. Ringers really started fly
ing in the second games. This time
D Co. was not to be stopped.
A Co. defeated D Troop in all
games last Friday. The horsemen
were always pitching well, but
the infantrymen were doing just a
little better most of the time. A.
H. Miller, Leaslie and Neely show
ed sharp accuracy but infantrymen
like Terrance, Shavely and Slack
proved to be too much for them.
The games between Terrance and
Singletary and Leslie and Flal-
river were perhaps the closest in
the match. Leslie and Terrance had
some very close pitches at times.
H Co. came back after taking
it on the chin by the accurate D
Co. men, to beat F Co. in all the
games. Baker and Arbuckle won
their games again as they did
against D Co.
D Troop got a forfeit over the
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Paper Collection Day
For Scouts Is Saturday
Saturday, April 7, is paper col
lection day by the Boy Scouts of
College Station. Troop 102, 411 and
the Cub Scouts will collect paper
between 8:30 and 12 noon. Inas
much as the paper collection will
start at 8:30 it is requested that
anyone having paper will put it
out on the curb by 8:30. Depart
ments of the College and residents
can assist the collectors by tying
the paper with string into bundles
so that they will not fall apart
during transportation. This is the
last month of the Dwight D. Eisen-
hower^s World War II Shell Con
tainer Unit Award Contest. The
two troops and the cubs have col
lected over 38,000 pounds of paper
during the special drive. Thus far
25 boys in College Station have
qualified for the Unit Award.
Troop 102 has collected 16,506
pounds and troop 411, 14,500 lbs.
The cubs have collected over 8,000
pounds.
Band.
A Battery tok the Second Co.
Frogs into camp last Tuesday by
taking four games and losing two.
Guy, Omo and Darby of the Sec
ond Co. were pitching well, but
men like Smokier, Cecil and
Rhodes proved to be more than
the Frogs’ match. Guy clanged
four ringers around the pol^ in
his first game, but Rhodes and
Johnson more than matched them
to win their two straight victories.
The only loss the Batterymen suf
fered was at the hands of Omo
and Darby when they defeated Kel
so and Robiniwitz in two games.
The second game of this series was
an extremely close one. The game
was tied at a score of 20-20, when
Darby and Kelso put two in as
close as they could be. It was called
a tie and the game went on with
the Frogs taking the next two
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