The Pine, September 26, 1944.

              C h e # l 9 m e
yOL |3—NUMBER 55 PUBLISHED BY ASSOCIATED STUDENTS AT FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 26, 1944
Tombaugh Speaks
To Engineers
Mr C. 'V. Tombaugh, physics
iMtruct.T at ASTC last week ud-
-iressitl a meeting of the American
Institute of Klectrical Engineers
in phoenix.
Mr Tombaugh, who has been
connected with Lowell Observatory
for 15 years, said that the astron­omer,
contemplating the heavens,
was m the position of a man watch­ing
a druma for a second and then
b«Tng called ;n to figure out the
whole plot. Astronomers had so
little time, compared with cosmic
tiniB to make their investigations,
but they were making progress
with ihe aid of efficient tele­scopes.
He showed a number of
excellent slides to illustrate what
was being done at Lowell in this
field. He included photographs of
Pluto, almost hidden in a mass of
stars, and said that it was dis­covered
after thousands of photo­graph*
had been taken and care­fully
studied-
Will Have Charge
Of Motor Vehicles,
Teachers College
Joe K. Moore, resident of F la g­staff
a number of years, was ap­pointed
superintendent in charge
of all transportation and motor
vehicles i.t. Flags’Utff State Teach­ers
College, effective Saturday.
September 16, it was announced
this week by Acting President Tom
0. Bel I wood.
-Mr. Moore replaces John W.
Gibbs, who resigned recently and,
with his wife, left Sunday, Sep­tember
17, for the west coast, to
visit relatives before preceding to
Oregon where they expect to make
their home.
Mr. and Mrs. Moore and small
daughter, Cama Jo, will live in a
cottage on the campus adjacent to
the College garage. Preceding his
new appointment Mr. Moore had
been employed several years in the
Power Plant at the College.
Mr. and Mrs. Meredith Jones
have leased the Standard Oil Serv­ice
Station and ^jito court and
land of Mr. and Mrs. Moore located
on U. S. Highway 89 near Doney
Park, and will actively operate it.
Brothers Meet
"Somewhere" \
Out In Pacific
Two bruthera, one in the Ida-tines
and one in the Navy, both
stationed in the Pacific area met
Sunday, September 10, "some­where"
on an island in the “big
pond" for the first visit they had
had together since Christmas 1943
when :he boys were in the States
and fortunate enough to be invited
to the same home for dinner.
They are Pharmacist’s mate first
cla*.« Clenn Compton, USMC, and
Fireman first class George Comp­ton,
t'SN., sons of Mr. and Mrs.
Prank F. Compton.
Glenn who has been overseas
since March had just returned
from Saipan and his brother who
left i ■ -r overseas in June has been
on harbor control, duty in the cen­tral
Pacific area.
WAR NEWS
IN BRIEF
The American invasion of
1-alati continues, with Angaur
Wand c o n q u e r e d by Army
troops and the Marines on Pele-liu
advancing against heavy
■Japanese resistance. The Jap*
aneM- to date have lost more
than 7,000 men in the Palau
campaign. American casualties
have not been reported.
The pounding of the Philip­pine
by Admiral Halsey con­tinues;
the Japanese have re­ported
the fifth carrier raid
against the Philippine Islands,
*nd Admiral Nimitz reports
that the Japanese fleet has been
driven from that area.
I'nits of the Allied Airborne
Array which dropped on Holland
last week are trapped at Arn­hem
by German forces. A des-perate
drive by the British Sec­ond
Army to join the paratroops
has not been able to relieve the
situation yet.
The Soviet offensive to clear
the Baltic States has recon­quered
almost all of the Eatho-nia,
including its capital of Ka-hnn.
In the United States the
Presidential campaign has now
[oiled into high gear. Dewey
has completed his first cam­paign
tour to the west, and
President Roosevelt has made
his fiftt campaign 6peech.
HEP JACKETS
MANUAL
Glad to see you all. Here I am
back again trying to tell you what's
new in the music and entertain­ment
worlds.
To start things off, I might tell
you that Freddie Slack, who was
in that Academy Award winning
picture we saw the other night, has i
decided to break up his present ;
band. It seems that he wasn’t being '
paid what he thought he should,
so he ouit. Slack did a bit of time
in. the Navy awhile back. What his 1
future plans are, nobody knows.
Just a noti to the Great Lakes- ,
bound boys. There's a really aolid !
swing band beatin' it out back
there. "Tis claimed that there isn’t j
civie band in the country that
n top them. What could you ex- rt with such men a.s AI Jordan,
Dorsey trombone man; Austin,
Little, late of Herman's Herd; Moe i
Purtill, ex-Miller drummer; Lionel
Poruting, Spivak piano man, and
many others too numerous to men- :
tion. Leave it to the Navy to have ‘
the best (plug).
Just ten years ago this month,
things wore happening in the mus­ical
world. Benny Goodman put
out his first discs for Columbia.
Woody Herman was listed "A t I
Liberty’’ in the Musicians Direc-1
tory. Dorothy Lamour was singing
with Herbie Kay’s band (too bad'
she still isn’t). And little Ceasar
Petrillo was playing trombone in
the pit orchestra of the Chicago
Theatre. My how times have
changed.
I wish that Shaw man would
make up his niind. He now says
his orchestra, if and when it’s
formed, will be stock—eight brass,
five saxes, and four rnythm. I
don’t know what he’s going to do,
but I wish he'd hurry up and do it.
Record company* seem finally
to be wising up. At last they re­issued
some oldies. Victor has
finally started putting out some
stuff by the Duke. T. Dorsey, and
Major Glen Miller. T. D.’s waxings
include “Quite Please” and
“Friendship” while “Runnin’ Wild,”
"Frene8i," and “ Adois” are among
Major Miller's contributions. It's a
good deal!!'
Well, now comes the thing you’ve
all been waiting for (that is if
you knew about it.) BILLBOARD
magazine just published the results
of its First Annual G.I. Music
Popularity Pqll. Here are the re­sults.
Out of the many bands voted
for the big three were, HArry
James, Tommy Dorsey, and Glenn
Miller, in that order. Male vocal­ists
ended up, Bing Crosby, Frank
Sinatra, Dick Haymes. Female
vocalists getting the win, place,
and show positions respectfully
were Dinah Shore, Helen Forrest,
"and Ginny Simms. The Andrews
Sisters were first in singing
groups, followed closely by the Ink
Spots, and the Mills Brothers. And
of course Stan Kenton eased at a
victory as the most promising new
band. BILLBOARD conductcd hun­dreds
of polls all over the country
(their representative must have
missed Flag). The voters voted
solidly for a band that was loud
and sending— but one that could
go sweet when they felt in the
mood. The selection of Stan Ken-sn
as up and coming, may predict
hat post-war milfcical trends will
_e. I nope you all saw that short
at the Orpheum two Sundays ago!
Too bad it had to be cluttered up
w'Uh the other stuff, and also too
bad some of Kenton's better disc-igs
weren't played.
Now while talking about Ken­ton,
I guess I ’ll close, with a sad
note. Final dope has it that Stan
and his “ Artistry in Rhythm”
wtm’t start rockin’ the Palladium
Bandstand until November 2«th.
All you second semester men, just
pray it’s S. C. and not Texas.
N uff said.— Bev.
Dr. Ardrey Directs
A Cappella Choir
The famous A Capella Choir of
Arizona State Teachers College
will be reorganized this fall under
the direction of Dr. Eldon Ardrey.
This group, noted for its ap­pearance
each year at the Grand
Canyon during the Eastwr Sunrise
Services, brings together the vocal
talent of the student body into an
organization that includes a full
social and musical program for its
members.
Other musical organizations on
the campus are the College Band,
the College Orchestra, and the
Dance Orchestra. The band, under
the direction of J. Alfred Anderson
has just concluded a series of
twilight band concerts which prov­ed
to be among the most successful
activities of the semester. Mr.
Anderson promises to continue the
appearances of the band during the
fall semester.
The dance orchestra provides the
music for the weekly socials.
Musical organizations on the
campus are open to ly)th civilian
students and V-12 trainees.
Farewell C ou rtesy For
Y eom an Frank Durkee
A f'S a g u a r o C|ub Friday
Yeoman first class Frank Dur­kee,
who will leave Sept, 30 for
the Naval Training Station at San
Diego, was extended a farew;ell
courtesy by members of the ships
company of the V-12 unit at A ri­zona
State Teacher^ College F ri­day
night, September 15, when a
dinner dance was held at the Sa-guaro
Club.
Guests included Lt. Comdr. Ed­ward
L. Smith and mother, Mrs.
W. S. Smith, Lt. and Mrs. C. F.
Armstrong, Lt. and Mrs. M. J.
Ririe, Lt. and Mrs. H. D. Nichol­son,
Ens. Joseph Sullivan, Sp. A
1/c and Mrs. Peter Flaa, Sp. A
1/s and Mrs. David Edwin«, Chief
Sp. A and Mrs. Oliver Duffina, Ph.
afld Mrs. James Evans.
SK t i c Jack Caldwell, Mrs.
Gladys Wilson, Y 1/c Durkee and
Miss Daphne Lasslett, Mrs. Flor-rie
Dougherty, Mrs. J. J . MacDon­ald,
Mrs. Norman J. Paquette,
Mrs. Betty Biller, Miss Eleanor
Prochnow, Mrs. Mary' P. L*™8*
Sol Alexander, SK 2/c Pat 0 Con­nell
and Miss Betty Carter.
ARMY NAVY AW ARD
GOES TO STATE BAR
FOR WAR SERVICE
LOS ANG ELES, Sept. 2L— The
War and Navy Departments today
presented the State Bar of Cali­fornia
with certificates of appre­ciation
in recognition of the work
of California lawyers in behalf of
service men, veterans, and their
families.
Memuers of the State Bar and
affiliated associations gave free
service in more than 55,000 cases
since the program of the Navy De­partment,
the War Department,
and the California Bar began about
V year ago. In recent months the
number of free cases for service
personnel has increased from 100
to 300 per cent.
The presentations were made by-
Major Herbert E. Wenig, assistant
S taff Judge Advocate, Western
Defense Command, for the War
Department and by Commander S.
B. D. Wood, District Legal Officer,
Eleventh Naval District, for the
Navy Department. The Army cer­tificate
is signed by Secretaty of
War Henry L. Stimson and Maior
General Myron C. Cramer, judge
advocate general; and the Navy
certificate by Secretary of the
Navy James Forrestal, and Rear
I Admiral T. L. Gatch, judge advo-j
cate general of the Navy.
[ The certificates in recognition
— \jm> — _______ ______ -- __ — ............D
Wednesday of last weak "from the j State Bar declare -----
Reserve Officers ’ Indoctrination [ of time and professional services
Lt. Jeff M. Ferris
To New Assignment
Dormitories To Be
Ready For Civilians
Living quarters on the campus
for civilian students include Bury
Hall, Taylor Hall, and the Stone
Cottages on the south end of the
campus. Bury Hall will continue to
be used as a girls dormitory. Tay­lor
Hall, until recently occupied by
members of the Navy V-12 Unit,
will be vacated in time so that it
will become a residence hall for
civilian men.
Complete renovation and re­decoration
is planned for both
Bury and Taylor Halls.
Several double stone cottages
complete w-ith inside toilets and
shower facilities are being made
available for married veterans who
plan to return to college. Those
cottages are situated on the cam-
Sus within a few minuses walking
istance of the classrodw buildings.
School at the University of Ari
zona, Tucson, to spend seven days
leave with his wife and daughter,
Linda Louise. He will report to
San Francisco tomorrow, Septem­ber
23, for further assignment. His
wife and daughter will make their
home here at 72 Summit Avenue
for the duration.
Lt. Ferris was a Red Cross field
director at the Kingman Army A ir
Base prior to entering the Naval
Service and holds a Bachelor of
Arts degree from Arizona State
Teachers College at Flagstaff. He
graduated September 12 from the
Reserve Officers Indoctrination
School at Tucson.
Northern Arizona
M useum Studies
A rts A n d Science
The Museum of Northern A ri­zona
was founded in 1928 to tell
the Btory of northern Arizona. The
present building, completed in
1936, is located three miles north
of Flagstaff at the foot of the
San Francisco Peaks, and within
easy walking distance. The ex­hibits
and collections are devoted
principally to the arts and crafts
and material culture of the Hopi,
Navajo, Havasupai, and Yavapai
Indians: pottery, tools, implements,
and other artifacts of the pre­historic
Indians of the Flagstaff
area; birds, mammals, and plants;
meteorites; igneous and sediment­ary
rocks of the Grand Canyon
and Painted Desert; and vertebrate
and invertebrate fossils;—a total
of over 46,00 specimens. The li­brary
contains 2,600 books, 6,600
reprints, 1,100 lantern slides, 5,300
negatives, a"d 735 maps on the
archoeology, ethnology, geology
and natural history of the South­west.
The collections and library
are accessible to students upon re­quest,
and the staff of the Museum
is glad to assist students in every
possible way.
The work of the Museum for the
schools is threefold: (1) Two
traveling exhibitions of arts and
crafts called “Treasure Chests”
have been assembled for the use of
teachers of art in the public and
Indian schools of Northern Arizo­na
(Information on request); (2)
the Museum library has a special
collection of books on the teaching
of arts and crafts; and (3) the
Museum maintains at the Flag­staff
Public Library a picture file
of illustraUve material for the use
of teachers and students.
\ series of Bpecial exhibitions
... art or other timely subjects is
held at the Museum throughout
the summer months from May to
October. The Hopi Craftsman Ex­hibition
of arts and crafts of the
Hopi Indians, held annually the
first week in July, and the Junior
A r t Show for school children of
the 3rd through the 8th grades,
held annually In April, have been
postponed for the duration of the
Pastime Bowling
Alley Has Reopened
The Pastime Bowling Alley,
owned and operated by Oscar Lun-dahl,
will re-open tomorrow, Sat­urday,
September 23, for business
after being closed the past two
weeks for repairs and renovations.
Located in the basement of the
Masonic building, on North San
Francisco street, the alley Has
proved to be one of the most popu­lar
amusement places in the dty .
made by patriotic lawyers under
this plan has materially enhanced
the morale of the Army and Navy
and the success of the War
Effort."
Social Affairs For
Civilians And V-12
Frequent dances sponsoiftd joint­ly
by the civilian studenU and
V-12 trainees, which have proven
highly successful during the, last
semester, will continue accofding
to the coordinator of student activ­ities.
The coordinator. Dr. Ralph H.
Pryor, has promised a good or­chestra
for dances and it is ex­pected
that new as well as return­ing
students will find the Saturday
night dances in Ashurst Auditori­um
one of the most enjoyable so­cial
events of the week.
J. PFEIFER TELLS
ABOUT SOUTH SEAS
By Airmail,
From Somewhere Overseas
August 30th, 1944
Dear Mr. Gleason,
When I left school, you said you
jv ould like to hear from me and I
>ave not forgotten you, although
it has taken me quite some time to
pet settled enough to write any
letters. I have travelled marty
thousands of miles since I left
Flagstaff and this tropical heat is
a far cry from the snows and cold
I left behind in Arizona. I th ink I
have almost forgotten what snow
looks like by now. This is a life
very different from the one I had
while under the Navy V-12, but
now after a few months of sea
duty I am beginning to like it.
Someone once said that this salt
air gets in your blood and I am
enclined to agree with him.
What little time I have already
spent overseas has been an educa­tion
in itself. I have learned to do
business with the natives and have
even learned a few of their words.
We have landed in some places
that were very beautiful, somewhat
on the order of the pictures you
see in travel folders. A cohple of
the places resembled much the
background seen in those South
Sea island movies.
I will admit, this is more dan­gerous.
more by far, than by duty
tn Flagstaff. Now and then we
have a little argument with Tojo's
boys, but that is one thing I do not
worry a bout
I sunpose you are still enjoying
’la vie" at the Monte Vista and
still teaching Uncle Sam's boys
the finer point* of drafting and
descriptive geometry. Naturally I
would like to be back there in your
class again, b u t Fate seems to
have willed it otherwise.
I hops this letter finds you well
and that I may hear from you
soon.
Sincerely,
JA C K P F E IF E R .
S.K.8/c, U.8 .S. L.S.T. 22
% Fleet Post Office
San Francisco, Calif.
MISS RAGSDALE AIR
W A C WILLIAMS FIELD
Miss Althea Ragsdale, former
librarian, is now an A ir Wac and
is stationed at Willlaihs Field, A ri­zona.
"Silvery Moon" Theme For
Formal Dance Saturday Night
EX-LUMBERJACK IS
MARINE LIEUTENANT
QUANTICO, Va.. Sept. 21.— Ma­rine
Lieutenant Calvin Russell
Baker, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs.
Calvin R. Baker. Sr., of 1105
Douglas Avenue, Las Vegas. New
Mexico, has been graduated from
the Fifty-Second Reserve Officer
Candidate's Class, Marine Corps
School here.
Lieutenant Baker attended A ri­zona
State College, Flagstaff,
where he majored in history, prior
to enlisting in the Corps Ju ly 1,
1943. He joined the Officer Candi­date’s
Class April 1, 1944.
His brother, Private First Class
Henry’ M. Baker is also serving in
the Marine Corps.
With the possible exception of
the tremendous amount of work in ­volved
and the superb formals
vorn by the Buryites, the dance
at Bury Hall Saturday evening
was reminiscent of Saturday nights
at home in the living room when
Mom and Dad put cotton in their
ears and let the younger genera­tion
make a night of it.
Old Bury was scrubbed, waxed
id scintillating under a synthetic
moon on which the silhouette of
“boy meeting g irl" stood out
cfearly.
Bouquets of asters and gladiolas
with bowls of meek-eyed pansies
transformed the living room into a
fittin g background for the stary-eyed
gals and the wide-eyed V-
12ers who “tho the music stopped
they kept on dancing.”
A coke bar with plentv of iced
coke, potato chips and olives was
a popular spot and at twelve the
Navy established a beachhead at
Nick’s where Molony, Mike and
Anne “Dished O u t’’ hamburgers
like professionals.
A vote of thanks for Mrs. Buse
was proposed as the last reluc­tant
V-12er was literally pushed
out the door at 12:55 explaining
how he had been taught in the
Navyr “utilization of the smallest
bit of tim e.”
Clever programs showing the
same motif shown in the moon,
designed and executed by Mike and
Cullie, were handed out to the fo l­lowing
couples: Aileen Aiken and
Bryan Colberts, Melba Cullers and
Clarence Cullimore, Joyce Colter
and Roy Green, Gail Gibbs and
Dale Bradley, Mary’ Elizabeth Jack
and Beverly Molony, Carol Lun t
a n d ' Frank Landvatter, Genevieve
McDowell and K ing Frey, Anne
McNeil and Darryl Kaun, Velma
Swan and Bobby Black, Stella
Kavathas and Torrex.
James Meehan A /S
Writes About Storm
In The Northeast
The follow’ing is an excerpt from
letter written by James Meehan
A /S after his experience with the
recent storm which struck the
Coast of Northeastern United
States. He was a member of the
Meteorology class last semester
and wrote this for the special
benefit of the present class.
“I ’ve been thinking of writing
rou ever since the hurricane which
tas been traveling up the East
Coast hit us here in Asbury Park.
I thought maybe you'd be inter­ested
in getting a little first hand
information.
We weren't hit too hard here. A
lot of damage has been done and
quite a few people are homeless.
From what I hear over the radio
the damage has been pretty inten­sive
all up and down the Coast.
“I dqp’t think we were anywhere
near the center of the storm but
yesterday about 6:00 p. m. I tried
walking (against the w’ind without
much success. It was the first time
I ’ve been able to lean in an almost
horizontal plane without any vis­ible
means of support. The rain
was blown along horizontally to
the ground with such velocity that
it stung like a hail of small
pehblcs. The wind broke windww
without much trouble.
‘The Berkeley Hotel, where I'm
stationed, is located about 100
yards from the ocean. My room is
on the seventh floor facing away
from the sea. I spent most of my
evening hours last night across the
hall. We had a good view of the
ocean, which was really on the
rampage. The tides were so high
that huge waves broke about 200
yards upon the shore. Right in
whs* you might call our front
yard. There is a layer of sand
everywhere today.
"This morning^about 2:00 a. m.
my company was called out to
patrol the beaches. We were sup­posed
to look out for fires, electric­al
shorts, thieves and anything
else .we could find. The queerest
sight I saw in all the damage
caused by the storm w n s i j m r e
steel safe sitting in the street
about 75 yards from the nearest
building. Our classrooms, located
nearer the ocean, are shambles.
More fu n ! ■
“For two days preceding the
hurricane, the relative humidity
was, I guess, just about as high as
i t could g e t Clothes wouldn’t dry
and clothes left in the closets
would become damp. I ’d like to
have seen a barometer.
“ Right now there is a cool breeze
blowing. I t is raining a little. A ll
in all it was some experience and
1 hope I ’ve given you some idea
of what happened here.”
E. R. POWELL SERVES
IN INDIA THEATER
N EW D E L H I, IN D IA — For the
past nine months Edwin R. Powell
has served in the China Burma
India Theater of Operations. Cor­poral
Powell, who attended Arizo­na
State Teachers’ College, is the
son of Mrs. Ruth Powell of 1842
North Mitchell Avenue, Phoenix.
Prior to induction, Powell was em­ployed
as a photographer by the
W ar Department. Now he is at­tached
to an Ordnance u n it along
the Ledo Road, rugger highway
which American Engineers have
pushed through the iungles of
Assam, close on the hells or Lieut.
General Joseph W. Stilwell’s re­turn
march in to Burma.
ROSELLA PERRILL
REVIEWS LATEST
BOOK OF POETRY
This week, after much time and
trouble on our part, we brin g you
a review of a book of poetry. We
have the necessary permission
from all the big-wigs, and stuffed
shirts to quote some of the finer
parts from this book. We give you
a few excerpts from Jin g L.
Jangle’s latest volume of verse,
“Anyway I t Rhymes, Maybe.”
W A K E TO THE M O RN IN G
Soft o’er the darkness
Comes reveille.
We open our eyes
W ith cheerful glee.
We leap from our beds
As the Dugle blows
Reach out our arms—
The windows to close.
Soft in the darkness
Comes reveille
B ut we bury our heads
And snore with glee.
R H Y M E O F THE M O D ER N
PO E T .
I wish I was dead and buried and
gone to
Hello, I just heard a song to rhyme
with Mairsie Doats
Did you hear about the Italian who
froze hees oats
And wheat and barley and corn
breakfast dishes
That often go to feed the little
fishes
But you can’t catch them with that
kind of bait—
I t must have,been something I
Set Clocks Baclc
One Hour Oct. J
JO n October 1 Arisonans will
turn theii back one hour
to Mountain 8tandaid Tima, In
compliance with the law ptstsd
by the legislature « r t T * 2
year.