DIAL 4-5444 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION The Battalion DIAL 4-5444 OFFICIAL newspaper OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. VOLUME 42 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 23, 1942 2275 NUMBER 10 New Civilian Pilot Plan Inaugurated Changes Increase Number of Pilots For Army and Navy With the demand for combat pilots and instructors^ growing steadily, the U. S. government has launched a new Civilian Pilot Training Program, starting July 1, that is expected to take up the slack, it was announced today by Dr. Howard W. Barlow, head of the aeronautical engineering de partment and CPT co-ordinator. Applications will be accepted immediately for the new program, Dr.. Barlow said. Enrollees in the new program must be between the ages of 18 and 3J and must pass a mental and physical test and the Civil Aeronautics Authority com mercial examination. Thousands of pilots with previ ous flight experience will be able to enter the new program at an advanced stage. Many thousands unable to pass the rigid aviation cadet examinations may be accept ed. Trainees who have taken CPT courses and joined the enlisted re serve will be called up for more training. Six courses will be given—ele mentary, secondary, cross-country, Link-instrument, instructor and flight officer. Approximately 50 percent of all trainees will be giv en at least four courses and in 24 to 40 weeks will be eligible for jobs . as civilian instructors—re leasing seasoned army pilots to combat service—service pilots or airline co-pilots.- Each stage of training tvill last 8 weeks, with subsistence, health and accident (insurance provided. The U. S. navy will furnish 20,- 000 enlisted reservists to. the new course, after which the majority of graduates will be assigned naval air stations for further combat training, Dr. Barlow said. The army, too, will utilize the new program to train instructors, glider pilots, co-pilots and ferry pilots. Application blanks may be se cured at aeronautical engineering department, or at any CAA office. Those who cannot be enrolled in classes starting July 1 will be giv en priority in later classes, Dr. Barlow said. Bill Parker, ’39 Killed in Far East In Airplane Crash Fortner Aggie Attended Paschall High, NT AC; Worked for Sun Oil Lt. W. (Bill) Parker, ’39, Fort Worth, has been killed in an aircraft accident in the Far East, the War Department has advised his motiher, Mrs. R. L. Parker. Parker was a graduate of Pas chal Hijgh in Fort Worth and at tended NTAC in Arlington before graduating here in chemical en- gineerinlg. Immediately after graduation, he went| to work with the Sun Oil CompanV at Chester, Pa. He was called til service a year ago, and was stationed at Edgewood Ar senal, Maryland, until last Novem ber when he sailed with the Third Chemica' Company for foreign service. He wils not a flier, and it is supposed that he was being moved from to post to another when the accident occurred. i Walton To Talk At Forestry Meeting Anothe r important sequence in the forestry conservation move ment in l|ast Texas will take place at Beauirotmt on July 1 when the Texas Fc restry Association gath ers for it| 28th annual meeting to '.sions on the part that Ties from the region is i the war, and the state hear disc: wood sup playing ii forestry ) irogram being developed to help m available use. Governc a list of take part announcec sociation Also mil ike continued wood crops for war and peacetime ir Coke Stevenson heads eight speakers who will on the one-day program, by Walter O’Neal, as- resident, Texarkana. |king < talks will be Dr'. Paul W. Scoggins In Navigation Training An American Axis-blasting bomber will one day follow the victory course charted by Aviation Cadet Paul W. Scoggins, 20, who is training today to become a “fingerman of the compass” in the current Army Air Force class for navigators here at the world’s largest multi-motor flying school. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam J. Scoggins, of Tioga, Texas, he is a graduate of Tioga High School, class of ’39. He is also an alumnus of Texas A. & M. where he signed up to become an Axis- smasher January 23, 1942. From Ellington Field he will go on to more advanced • schools for navigators. His training completed he will be commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Air Force Reserve and ordered to immediate active duty. T. O. Walpon, president, A. & M. College; 1. C. Dionne, publisher, Gulf Coas/t Lumberman, Houston; E. L. Kufth, president, Southland Paper Mills, Lufkin; E. O. Siecke, director, 1 Texas Forest Service, College tftation; and O. M. Stone, Jasper. Tile m;eting is being arranged by the Beaumont Chamber of Com merce ur der the direction of Clar ence DeBusk, who states that all sessions will be open to the pub lic. “Considerable attention is being focused Ion the meeting,” O’Neal said, “i i volume how Ion the hea seriousl view of ‘the enormous of timber being cut from pine ami hardwood timberlands in East Tecas and the question as to r the forests can withstand fy drain without becoming r depleted.” Two [Former Students At Stockton Field Douglas H. Rubinstein Jr., At lanta, Georgia, and Theo B. Jen nings, Rowlett, Texas, both for mer students of A. & M., will soon graduaie from the Air Force Ad vanced Flying School at Stockton Field, California, and receive their wings md commissions in the Air Force Reserve. Botl cadets will be placed on active duty upon graduation. Cadet Rubim tein attended Leihehau High School in Hawaii, and later came ;o the United States to con tinue nis education at Texas A. & M. Cdlege and Temple University in Philadelphia, Penn. Get Busy If You Haven’t Sent A Letter to the Band Wagon Have you written the Fitch Sum mer Band Wagon yet? If you can’t answer that question in the af firmative sit down right this, min ute and write a note to the show. The address is: Fitch Band Wagon 720 North Michigan Ave. Chicago, Illinois. All you have to say in this let ter is that in your opinion the Aggieland Orchestra, under the able baton of Curly Brient, is one of the best orchestras you have ever heard in this part v of the country. Tell the addressee of that letter that Texas A. & M. ought to be well-known not only for its cham pionship football and baseball teams, but also for the swell brand of?dance rhythms that Curly and his boys put out. If every Aggie writes that let ter to the Band Wagon, not to morrow but TODAY, the orchestra will have a chance for nation wide fame. Many, bands have been “made” by a single appearance on the coast to coast broadcast, so let’s all give the Aggieland the chance they have been waiting for, alhance for them to prove to the whole nation that here at A. & M. we can produce champions in all fields—on the gridiron, the dia mond, and the bandstand! What about that. Ole Army? Remodeling Of Milner Continues Leggett, Mitchell To Be Included In Work Program Remodeling of Milner Hall has gotten under way on a large scale with all the occupants moved into temporary quarters, E. N. Holm- green, business manager of the college, stated Monday. The board of directors and President Walton have wanted to renovate the old halls so that they will be on a par with the newer dorms constructed in recent years for a long time. Similar remodeling of Leggett and Mitchell Halls will be under taken provided the work on Milner is satisfactory. Difficulty is being experienced in obtaining all the necessary materials to complete the work due to priorities on vital products. The first two floors of Milner, the first part of the $20,000 re modeling job, is expected to be finished in 30 days, according vo Holmgreen. Civilian Defense School Will Turn Out Ninth Class Soon; Complete Course Given Continuing with its policy of complete cooperation with the de fense effort A. & M. is about to graduate its ninth class in Civilian Defense training, it was announced yesterday by Capt. Sam R. Mc- Innis, secretary of the Civilian De fense school. These graduates, rep resenting 17 different states, will go back to their communities as instructors in civilian defense. Lt. Col. H. R. Brayton is the head of the school here, with Capt. Eradication Of Grasshoppers In Plains Complete Grasshopper control work con tinued active in the South Plains area through the week ending June 13, with such good results obtained by some farmers that no further baiting will be needed, ac cording to Cameron Siddall, ento mologist of the A. and M. College Extension Service. Quoting from a report of Wil liam J. Spicer, field supervisor of the grasshopper control division, USDA, Denver, Colorado, who is working in the infested region, Sid dall says that while baiting activ ity seemed to be decreasing to some extent over the whole area, Lubbock, Hardeman and Child ress counties increased the output of bait over that of preceding weeks. This was due to ’hoppers moving in from other counties. About 2,000 tons of wet bait were mixed and spread in the Texas jeontrol area during the week end ing June 13. In the Lubbock area, Siddell ex plains, adult migratory grasshop pers made up about 65 per cent of the population, while in the vicinity of Plainview about 35 per cent had reached adult stage. In Dickens County, the adult popula tions have become so scattered that they number only about a nor mal population, whereas they numbered 50 per square yard two weeks ago. A survey of Hemphill County showed infestation by adults in numbers high enough to include that county in the control area. The ’hoppers, which moved in from the south, have caused marginal damage to wheat and cotton. Regardless of grasshoppers, Spicer reports crops “looking fine” over the south plains area, Siddall says. Wheat harvesting has be gun, and practically all of the cot ton is planted in the vicinity of Lubbock and 50 per cent of it is up. IAeS Sees Film On Streamlining At Meeting Thursday The film “Streamlining” was shown to over 100 members and guests of the Institute of Aero nautical Sciences at its meeting of last Friday, Steve Kaffer, acting chairman of the club stated. Kaffer asked that all members who have not voted in the election of officers for the club now being held to do so as soon as possible. Ballots may be received and cur rent dues paid at the Aei'onautical Engineering Office, Kaffer added. The picture depicted the history of aviation and the. development of the airplane. It was furnished the club through the courtesy of the Thompson Products Company. 184 Aggies Sign Up for Farm Work Those 184 patriotic Aggies who signed up in the Farm Labor Sup ply program will soon be working on the farms near College Station, Phil Alford, student manager of the movement has announced. At present there is a temporary slack period in the demand for farm labor, Alford pointed out. A demand for men to work this year’s crops will come in the near future, he added. The U. S. Employment Service in Bryan will turn their orders fox farm labor over to the college and they will be filled from the group which has signed up in the Farm Labor Supply program here. Large Quantities Of Nitric Acid May Be Released Quantities of nitric acid, vital ingredient of high explosives, may be released for war use if a new process of treating stainless steel proves commercially successful, says Dr. Herbert H. Uhlig of the General Electric Research Lab oratory. d(