The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 24, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 20, 1943 Page: 1 of 4
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.CQiVIE'.TO AFTElt
DINNER DANCES
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SUxMMER SCHOOL
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STEPHENVILLE, TIP4S, TUESDAY, APRIL 20,1943
| The promised "Five and Ten Re-
|,yue,vcarii^oif in fine fashion Tues-
i day^nigh^The,cagt did very well,
> iuicT the;,audience was an appreci-
ative, pne;1r'jjack' Wilson, the floor-
-yyalker,.nqtjtb niention-judge, irate
w-Jiusbandj.pinaster of' ceremonies,
j, gnd otherwise chief-coofe-and-bot-
; tie-washer, r acquitted "himself well.
'' Peggy * Durham "and Roberta" Ro-
'< jbertson," good 'wisVcradkingv
1 gum.-chewiug: clerks.' We also dis-
t covered 1 thatv "Toopie" McColJuin
\ has the stuff -to put a song over.
*. She and her .three numbers, not for-
] getting hqr love, scene, .were quite
| ey,e and "ear-catching, Japk Moore's
!'characterization qf'tjie bookkeep-
er in Ioye with an theifess-vya^ vpvy
good. The\hi.t of t% shpw was his
proposal >nd, follow-up. The chor-
$ us number- werg beautiful, and the
I girls looked like a picture in their
1 evening dresses, , . 1 -
I" A\\ ip. all the program was far
| better than, even, the cast had* ex-
^ pected. It^is rtppdrejcl ov^r the
j campus that it was' the best show
jhat has' been-' put qri this year.
J;^Tr. Coffin and his chorus "did
'] themselves prqpd" an.d we say,
"more power'to them!"
Fine Arts Student
To Be Presented
r In Piam Recital
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The Fine Arts Department of
,1 John Tarleton College will present
.peter Hehderlite in a piano recital
■J fonight § p'clopjt in* .the little
auditorium. ■ *, '
i The pph{fc^4\|?w<? Jpversi of
| yited. -The. following program will
fl be pre^ent^tj;
I'Sonata "Op, ,13-.-—Beethoven
^ Arioso Bach
preludes in £ s^jjg G minor'"
'l 1 „_^L„p&cl}inaninoff
J Roaring 'and Night
I l Schumann
Potopafsp • (Militaire) .Chopin
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§Tarleton Alumnus
'May AlpoRppeive
Purple Jtleart Award
1 Dean -Davis recently rec<?iyed a
,^e|ter from .Jimmy Paul, an ex-
:Tarletonvstudent.Iii this letter was
a,clipping about Douglas Glover,
algo an ex-Tarleton student and
Jimmy's old" roommate.
pQi^glas Glqver, who is 22 years
pld apd radio technician aboard
Ithe Southern Comfort, 'a Flying
Fortress, yas at the raid of
Wilhelmshaven, one of the Nazis'
principal naval bases. The South-
ern Comfort has been shot at sq
piuch that, it has been able to make
£'pn}y $evpn of 16 raids.
|1 Douglas, Glover is a staff serg-
teant and enlisted in'the air forces
fin December, 1941. He has been in
| England since heing sent overseas
I with his ship. He. is a radio man
"and, gunner. Another^ gunner on
$he ship was killed in a raid over
Pgrp^py ^efore Oliver wa^ woun?
Lded. ' /' '
J,*' Glover, has vbeen decorated witty
f jbhe air medal, and it is expecte4
that he ,w||l also, receive the Pur^
^le Heart. /" " ^
' Qaryqjj, no^y at-
tending^ the University of Texas
!|nd who graduate^ fpom Tarleton
last.January,,was*visiting on the
, kmpus last/ week end. Carfqll is
\o be inducted iqto the Army today.
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CALENDAR
Tuesday, Ap'rU.SO—
J-"!Fac staff meeting. 7:00.
< Fine Arta 8:j9*i
Wed#ies4ayt;Aprtl 21—
Grassburr* atdff meeting, 7 iOO.
Grttniophiies, T. ;30,
'* Thursday, April it—
►; Retreat parade, 6:15.
Forum Movie: "Lives of a Bengal
£ancer," f $Q. '
k- Friday, A^rll 23-— .. 4 *
y pffic^p^'' anij NoorCom
C Monday, April 26—'
Aft^r dinner dat)C£, 6 545-7 :45.
Robert Kelley,
Tarleton Alumnus,.
Is Made Ensign
. Robert _ S. Eelley of Corpus
Christi graduated last week from*
the Nayal Air Training Center,
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Corpus Christi, and was commis-
sioned Ensign in the U, S, Naval
Reserye. Ensign Kelley attended
John Tarleton, Agvicultuv^l-College
and Texas Christian University.
The graduation ceremonies, at
which ]ie £nd other n^embprs of his
class received, their, commissions
apd Navy wings from Rear, Ad-
qijral A. E. Montgomery, IJSN,
Commandant of the Naval; Air
frajqiiig Center, Corpus Cfiristj,
Texas, marked the completion of
a long, intensive training course
qualifying him to take his place
with'tjie fleet.
, At Corpus .Christi, thp, larger
nayal air training center in the
world, he first passed rigid require-
ments of the basic and instrument
course^ and then went on to re-
ceive specialized instruction,!^ the
Navy's fast fighter places.
Dublin Rocleo
To Be Held
April 23j 24,25
The Dublin World's- Champion-,
sjiip Rodeo is to be held for three
days^beginhing April 23.
,c' Four performances will be given
during the show, beginning' Friday
njght at 8, Saturday afternoon at
2, Saturday night at 8, and Sunday
^ftgrpQOfi fX % o'plopjc, April 23, 24?
ancj 25. Tl>p rpd£0 stock \yilj
^ppear in this show as is used ii|
the Madison Square, Boston, Chi-
cago, and other national" show? of
the country. Everett polbuyn, gen-
eral manager of the Lightning" C.
Ranch? located some thirteen mile$
fronj Dublin, "will be the arena di-
rector. ,
Cowboys and cqwgirls qf nation-
al reputation will be- present thi^
year as in the past, together' with
qther entertainment features, tq
pit' tlieir skill at riding, biilldog-
ging and roping against the wild-:
est ro<|eo aijjpials tq b,e f^infj, any-
where in theu United States.
J. D. Killough, local Santa ,Fe
agent,t is in receipt of an announce--
ment from the general passenger
agent of the Santa Fe lines, to the
effect a ..new passenger schedule
will begin operating through Ste-
p^enyille on Sunday April 18th.
This new service will fre a through
train service between Brownwood
ai)d Kansas City, providing, pass-1
erjger, baggage and express ser-
vice. .
Train 28 will leave Brownwood
at 11:30 a. m., arriving in Fort
Worth at 4:15 p. m., and train,27
will .leave Fort Worth st 2 p. m.,
arriving in Brownwood-at 7 p'. m.
d^ily. These trains will stop at
Granbury, Stephenville, Dublin and
Comanche only. The schedule for
Stephenville north bound will ar-
rive here at 1:45 p. m., and south
bound will arrive here at 4:40 p. m.
This new service will provide a
long felt need, and will no 'doub,t
serve tq clear up some of 'the con-
gested travel conditipns « between-
Brownwood and Fort ^Vprth. gince
Can^p Bo^ie was established at
Brownwood, travel between Brro.wn-
wood and Fort Wqrth has increase
ed to the point where reservations
on existing train and bus schedules
has become a problem.
It is not knowji %yh^her or i^ot,
this new schedule will provide an-
other mail service fop Stephenville,
but the prssjjfli^tfp^ t^at sooner
q£ later mail service will be pro-
vided,
LIEUT. HULAN ROBERTSON *
STUDIES^ TO BE BOMBARDIER
Second Lieutenant Hulan .Rob-
ertson of Comanche^ Texas, hast
reported-to"-the-0arlsbad"-Army-'Air-
Field, Carlsbad, New Mexico,
where he will be a student jn the
Air Forces Central Instructors
School for Bombardiers. He is a
former student' of John Tarlqtop
Agricultural College.
Lieutenant Robertson/is, regular-
ly stationed at the Spriji£t
Texas, Bombarier School where he
is an Assistant Flight leader.
The Central Instructors School
coinbines "refresher" . courses in
Texas, Bornbar^ier School where he
techniques forked out in various
comrn'ands. Officers back from
cqfmb^t contribute
ie'nce!
turn to their home stations to give
cadet classes the benefit of their
course at CJ3IS.
Lieutenant Robertson's Ayjfe is
the former Fannie Belle Pledger qf
Tyler, Texas.
their exper-
Students in the school re-
Buy War ponds and Estajnps, ,
P, T- Classes Used to Meet pn Third
plopr of Administration Building
We complain about P. T. nowj
how wqul^ ^e. like it-if the
were still 011 tye thir4 |lfipr of the
Adnvip^|r^ti^n jjuildiji^ whsre
once was?, in 1-9l9r?2p, though
\yhen, the gym was on the- thir^
floor,, tfte i>Rl^ipg called-^he
4-gricultural ^jiildftig; It stilj
b.eafs, tjjat name $v<?r t^e efttran^e.
The Administration building waf
begun . during the' school term of
1918-'19 arid completed in 1919-'20.
It was not in use in 1920, however,
qf the Jack of heat, but
the equipment was purchased dur-'
ipg th^t t|ipe ^n4 was put in use
in, September, 1920. Mr. James F.
Cqx of Abilene Christian College
was dean here at the time the
building w^s begun.
The gymnasium took up all of
the rooms on the north side of the
third floor except the two encj
rooms. These rooms were stag^
roqpis, as the ,audlitqrium wa^
ii) cqinbjnation with the gympas7
ium. When the new gym was built
this flpor was converted into class
rooms.
During the first year the depart-
ipeiits qf agriculture, Mftlfigy, hte-
tpryf ,math{ and foreign, languages
yefe transferred frorn the Ecqno-
^iic^ Bufldjng; whicjj was ^ the only
classroom building on the campus
untjl that time. English, home( eco-
nomics, chemistry, &rt? and public
speaking "jyere stfll taught jn the
Economics ^uilding.
AVhat ig npw the Dean's office
was then'the business office. The
Deal's, sgcrej-ary's office was then
th,e De^ftY pffice. The regi?trar's
office-wa& in the Economic^ ppild-
ing in }yhafc is now ^ss Waljcer'^
otfice. *
The offices of Dean of Wflipen,
Dean of Men, and Registrar were
agricultural laboratories until the
pevf Agriculture building w^s'
i?uilt,
For tji,e first t>yq years, the li-
brary and . book store were' with
tfyp - bu^iqesi? off|jce ^nd were in
charge of one persoi^. As the li?
brary an4 'book stqre grpw it wag
moved to the west end of wh4£ is
08w the business offiee.-
Isi/t this confusing? Well,
Jffld better stop jjefqre I get
yqu sq tangled up that you won't
jfpow where tq gq for classes!
Lieut. W. S. (Billie) Borders
has arrived at home qn ^ fiirjough
fro^n j^ie 2o|je ^yhere lie has
been statjonejJ since January; 1042,
Lieutenant Borders will report for
duty/'at..Mitchell Field,' I^ng, Is-
la^d. ';-, . J
James E. Moser has begun ail in-
tensive training course qf study
ii^ avi^tiqn mechanics at A?nariUo
Army Air Field, which is one of
the newest schools in the Army
Air Forces Technical Training
Command^ - * • - '■
Sergeant Staggs Leaves For
Army Specialized Training Unit
" By BIIUCE NUCKOLLS
The .Tarleton Cadet Corps lost
one of its most' outstanding figures
last Friday when Walter M. Staggs
was promoted to First Sergeant
and transferred.to,A, & M. to en-
ter the Army Specialized Unit
there. ; /
First Sergeant Staggs is oj^e of
the few olcj linp soldiers still in
the seryice.' He belongs to the qld
school of' soldiers that worked
their way up through. the ranks.
He lived his work; he worked' with
the cadets from morning till night
—some, nights he even saw that
some of th$ boys went to be onr
time. Every ^adet that has served
under him .wiU always remember
how military he was, how hard he
drove the cadets trying1 to teach
them the fundamentals of close or-
der drill and theqry work. Much of
any success of the cadet corps or
of any individual cadet can be at-
tributed to First Sergeant Staggs*
.untiring efforts.
iftvst Sergeant Staggs entered
the epmy on January 28, 1921, and
has served continuously to the'
present time. ^ He h^s served in
Alaska, China, the Philippines, and
the Hawaiian Islands, He came to
Tarleton from the Ninth Infantry
at 'Fort Sam ■ Houston, August 1,
1941. He was promoted to Staff
Sergeant it> February of 1942 and
promoted to his present rank of
First Sergean^ March 14, 1943.
Tlie cadet vcorps. gave Sergeant
Staggs an engraved seventeen-jew-
el Gruen watplj as a token of its
friendship and a .going-a.way pres-
ent. First Sergeant Staggs, hard
as pails and tpu^h as- a boot, soft-
ened yp as he received the gift.
The 014 S$rg\ even choked up a
little as he made a short farewell
speech telling how much he regret-
ted leaving the .Tarleton Cadet
Corps.
Staff Sergeant Elling will take
the place of First Sergeant' Staggs.
Sergeant Elling has been in the
army seven years and came to Tar-
leton "from the Twenty-Third In-
fantry'^at Fort Sam Houston in
February of 1942. Sergeant Elling-
will have a hard time in, filling the,
place of Sergeant Staggs, but by
his 'past, record, and experience,
there is no doubt of his ability.
COTTONWEEK PROCLAMATION
- ' BY THE ,, .'}/ - *
Governor qf ^tate of Teius
TO ALL TO ^VHOM THESE PRESENTS SJKALL QOME;
WHERpAS, th,"^ Amerfcan people have jae^ recognizing
cotton as the outstanding agricultural product qf the nation
each year in.the observance of,a special'Cotton Week; and
' ' WHEREAS, during tills global war$ not only the Ameri-
' can,people*Tbut all'of the United ^iatea recpgnize cotton- aaa:
critibaf war material; and- ' ,
. WfflflEJAS, XThfe Statewide Cotton Gommittee of Texas,
- sponsors of the j^tional Cotton -Week program in'this State';
*• will.'conduct. a^ctunpai^ta jirg&,th&. gr cpttos' aavV1
allowed^by^'fawv ratfier . than the usu^f-consumption -pro-
gram) and ' ' , i
■ ' WHEREAS, cotton and cottonseed products aire so vital to
the, winning of the war and the peace that follows;" /
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Cok^ Stevensont sQovernor of 'the
" State of Texas, do hereby proclair^the'period from May V?
to May 22, 1943, as ' 1'
NATIONAL COTTON WEEK IN TEXAS
and call upon the cotton produce^ and all of the people of
Texas as a whole to join in the observance of this program
and assist in the effort to reach the desired'goal.
IN TESTIMONY'WHERE6F, I have hereunto' signedjny
name officially and caused the Seal, of Texas to be affixed
•' hereto, this the 30th day of March, A., D., 1943.'
(Signed)' 1 ' POKE R. STEVENSON,
1 Governor :pf Texas. •
IT HAPPENS ONOE
IN A LIFETIME
There comes a time in the lif§
of every club pledge when he be-
'gins to feel he really belongs. Ye?,
public initiation is that time, The
costumes for this social event of
the season were both picturesque
and unique. Wet ehambrays, long-
handles, blankets, tqwels, and par
jaijiag wjth accessqries of syrup,
my^terd, 31$ oatmeal made up the
majority of the ensembles. The
pledges dancejJ in the pec., Ifoll
under (tlie instruction^ qf the qld
members, later pairing off for the
pafade to towj).
- The gine S.era, Etern^^, and J).
S.T. pledged ?io pew me^erg;
hqwever, there were old members
who had pqt ^een publicly in|ti^te4.
The n,e^r members are as follows:
Owlp—BTaggie,,Corner, .Elizabeth
Scarbjrough; Tejag ^ Mary I^qu
Johnson.
Vikings—Tom Syf^n, B|U De^-
sop; Lords and Commoners—rEfartr
lett Styayhorh, Jack Jtloore, Pobby
Tooley( George Dixon, Bill Fe^gaji;
Silver Keys—rScotty Scott, Glepp
McFarland, Ed Clark.
Lps Caballerqs: Rpss Stuart,Ralph
Tidwell, James Garrett, Web
ejatt, Japie.s M^ddox, Phillip ^a
faster, J^iiton Lorenz, Riky God-
win; ^utphe^—I^arry Qore? Toi^-
qiy Smith, Duaine Garrett, P.
Jenkins, Hilton Steyenson, Oscar
Browning, and Carroll Butler.
Sc:
, Ji"m Whitacre has gone to Free-
port for a several days* visit with
ftis sister and tJF°tfl?r"in'l3w, Mr.
and Mys. ^qe Paryish, He went by
>vay of College' Sfate, where he
stopped to attend to business mat'
ters
A,
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THREE FACULTY
MEMBERS LEAVE
By MARY JO NEELY
Monday, April 12, Mr. Donald
Morton of the piugic department
ieft Tarleton in favor, of- Fort
Worth's Consolidated. IJe is a de-
tail draftsman there. It seenis that
there was a slight mistake. He
was studying'draftsmanship when
he was accused of drawing up plans
for the perfect bank robbery! Mr.
Morton taught piano; his wife will
take his place. We were sorry to
see him go, £ut i| Uncle Sarp needs
him—well, what more can, we say?
We. lost another member of the
Music Faculty on .Wednesday of
last week.,, Mr. Bluhm, band direc-
tor "and teacher "of violin, left for
Chicago, where he will work at the
Chrysler Flapt. Mrs. Bluhm is from
Chicago; they will live only about
a milq from the factory. He and
Mr. Morton * contributed a lot to
the jflljfty Qf tye Conservatory, but
if we are tp" preserve the right to
say what "*?e want to, to stjjdy- the
mqaic we want to, tq go to t^e
church of our choice, we ?nust .sac-
rifice.
^Cpach ITieljis^ leaves tomorrow
for. the £f£vy, -ge says that he is
not going-in a physical director,
but I can not' tell you what. Mili-
tary sepret. If you want to Jcnpw,
ask him. We will miss him'here at
Tarjeton, th,e t)oys especially. When
the war is pveiywp sha]l be expect-
ing hiip-'^ck tq keep the boy?
from getting'"sqft."
Nayal - Aviation Cadet" Wel^qn
Tuynbpw, "vyho fopipleted Ijis h^sic
tr^iping at'pallas iorj-th^Naya].
NITMB^E gi. ''
i- Upon the Coniril&ri4a,tfort p£ fhe ;
PMS&T and .£h'e 'approtvaf of Dgah
J. Thomas' Davis, the following
promotions were "announced Mon-
day,! April 12, 1943:
Robert Adcock was advanced to
the grade of Cadet Lieut. ^Colonel
Retired.
Jack Wilson was pronioted to
be , CadetJ Lieut. Colonel. Bryan
Austin and James Coleman bej-'
came Cadet Majors; while Dalton
Crawford, Curtis Daniels? Tom tie- '
watt; and Lawrence Gore became-1
Qadet Captains.
Carroll Butler was made Cadet
First Lieutenant; t Don - Polakoff,
Cadet Second Lt Vol.; Lloyd Wool-
ridge, Technical Sergeant; Charles
Fee,, Staff Sergeant; John Keller,
Grady Reid,' and Bartlett • Stray-
horn, Cadet Fjrst Sergeants.
Roy Huestis and Thomas Youpg
were advanced'to Cadet Corporals.
Seniors; Complete
Plans for Their
Graduation
The prpgram for, Tarleton gr^d-
u^tion exercises to,be held on Fri-
day?' May 21,; w^s adopted
meeting of the graduating-' senior^
held Thursday, April 15, .The high
schp6} s^piqrs wiil also receive their
diplomas at this program.
Because of„'the accelerated> pro-,
gram of the college this year, #19
usual .th|e^ prograni graduation
has been changed." These, aria 'liow
combined into" one1 main' program-
in which the ten hppor graduate^-
' wiltN't'aifP5I'n /r nrl: .- Tfmt-T?
Carter,' pastor of the'First' Metho-
dist Church, Stephenville, is tq" b^
the piain speajter.-
Jnvitetlond ,an,d prqgrams are
being furnished by the College. All'
graduating' .seniors are urg^d tp
see pean ferguson immediately to
tell hiip ho\y many ii^vitatiops they
want. This must be done before the
pfipting order c^n be sent out. .
Planq are also 'underway for the
presentation of a series of pjays
sponsored by the whole senior'
class. These plays are scheduled,
for the end of thjs §eifte§ter,
Youth pigcy
ANG^Q: U. S.
Three thousan4 ypijug English
men-, ^nd women spent two days
recently at Newcastle/ discussing
Anglq-American relations^ ?vnd
plying American speakers—head-
ed by Thomas Eliot of the Office
of War Information's .British of-
fice—with' exhaustive, .questions
about America. •
This Anglq-American Youth Con-
ference was sponsored by.tlie-Eng-
lish' Speaking Union arid' presided
over by the Lord Mayor-J of New-
castle. Ambassador'John'P., Win-
ant sent a message to the assemb-
lage,
"It is < a source of deep satisfac-
tipn tq me to' know that at such
a time you are holding^, an Anglo-
American Youth Conference to
discuss' problems that iface young
people everywhere in this war and
in the days of peace to come," Win-
ant told the group.—Office of War
Information, .
TARLETON ALUMNUS EDITS
SPECIAL engineer eojtion
The recent special Engineer is-
sue of , the ^'prospector," Texas
College of Mines weekly, had an
editorial staff head.ed by Charts
Steen, Tarleton student of 1939-
'40. Steen," a geology major and
senior at College of Mines, h$s
taken an unusualy active p rt in
student }if</ there, one of his most
interesting activities being the
writing of a regular cojunpi in the
college'paper.
Aid the war .effort-^-buy bonds- -
FOUND ,- ^
A pprse has been turned in
to the Registrar's Office 'coii-.
taining some • money. 0>vper
may have same upon identifica-
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