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FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 15, 1944 THE BATTALION PAGE 3 Charles Weinbaum Stars as Cadets Register First Win of Season, 34-30 BATTALIONS Breaking into the win column - * for the first time this year, Coach Manning Smith’s Aggie cagers Wednesday night whipped the Bergstrom Field Flyers to the tune of 34-30. The Aggies took the lead in the opening minutes of the game and were never headed. Coach Smith put his third string into the game for the final minutes, and it was during this time that the Air Corps boys were able to make their strongest rally. High point man for the con test was Bill Staiger, Bergstrom Field forward who scored 15 points. He was followed by Char les Weinbaum of the Aggies who scored 10. Saturday night the Aggies will take on their third Service Team, when they tangle with the Cagers of the Ward Island Navy School from Corpus Christi. The game will get under way at 7:30, and the Cadets are due to be strengthened by the addition of several men from the football squad who have only recently reported for work outs. Of this group Cotton Howell, Jimmy Cushion, Hub Ellis, Morton Shefts, Tom Daniel, and Jim Par mer look like the most promising prospects. BOX SCORE AGGIES fg ft pf tp Cherno, f 1 0 3 2 Howell, f 1 0 1 2 Tucker, f 2 0 0 4 Cashion, f 0 0 0 0 Staiger, f 5 5 0 15 White, c 2 2 2 6 Ellis, c 0 0 0 0 McCormick, g 1 3 0 5 Nicholas, g 0 0 0 0 Sapp, g 2 1 1 3 Voss, g 0 0 0 0 Abrams 0 0 0 0 Blackstone, g 0 0 0 0 Fincannon, g 0 0 0 0 Totals 14 6 10 34 BERGSTROM fg ft pf tp F. Schneiders, f 0 0 1 0 Flanagan, c 2 1 2 6 Nicholey, f 0 1 0 1 Faris, g 2 3 0 7 Irish, g 0 0 3 0 Weinbaum, g 5 0 3 10 Ellett, g 0 0 1 0 G. Schniders, g 0 0 1 0 Bixler, g 0 0 0 0 Clifton, g 0 0 0 0 McCall, f 1 0 0 2 Plewacki, g 0 0 1 0 Totals 10 10 9 30 Halftime Score: Aggies 21, Berg strom 11. Free throws missed: Cherno, White, 3, Weinbaum, Staiger 3, Fa- ris, Nicholey 3. Officials: Beck and Ponthieux. There are about 200,000 known kinds of insects that attack forest trees. [CTORY BUY STAMPS Decentralized Officer Training Urged By Bolton Vice-President Talks to Bryan Rotary Club The old idea of a million men springing to arms is out of date, Dr. F. C. Bolton, vice-president and dean of Texas A. & M7. Col lege, told the Bryan Rotary Club at its luncheon Wednesday as he discussed trends in universal mili tary training. Dr. Bolton outlined present pro posed plans and advocated a sug gestion that a program of decen tralized officer training be carried out to meet the demand for offi cers that universal military train ing will create. Instead of expand ing West Point or Annapolis, train ing of officers should be portioned out to existing military schools in the various states, he said. As a result of military training, he declared, A. & M. men are more war conscious. Dr. Bolton empha sized that such training should be carried on for only one purpose, that of defense of the United States. Invocation was by D. B. Sweet and after the news summary by Joe Woolket, President Geo. M. Garrett thanked the Rural-Urban committee for getting out so many farmers for the meeting last week. New meember inducted by Oak McKenzie was Harrison Findley. C. A. Edge announced the avia tion meeting on Dec. 21, and J. E. Bethancourt announced a Commu nity Chest meeting at the court house for Friday night. The Rotary radio program at 6:15 p. m. Wed nesday night presented E. R. Alex ander in a discussion of “What Is a Good Citizen” and next week’s meetting will have a Christmas program, it was announced. Visiting Rotarians were W. T. Sprayberry of Brenham and John T. Baldwin of Huntsville and oth er visitors included J. Alton York, James W. Yarnell, C. H. Moseley, Ivan Langford and Norman An derson, the latter a student at A. && M. Consolidated school and a guest of the Youth Work commit tee. —GILCHRIST— Continued from Page 1 tinued, plans are being laid to establish from twenty-five to thir ty branch training centers for stu dents who are interested in ac quiring specific techniques in agriculture and engineering. The two-year schools will not be junior colleges, he said. They will not look forward to a college degree, and will offer the student only a minimum number of courses in civics, English, Mathematics, and history beyond the training in one certain technique. President Gilchrist predicted a much enlarged curriculum in Military Science for A. & M. af ter the war, in the event univer sal military training is adopted by the United States. FISH, FROGS, SOPHOMORES, JUNIORS, SENIORS COME ON ALL!! Let us do your Altering!! Look like the Military Gentleman You are when you go home for Xmas. A. & M. ALTERATION SHOP DO YOUR PART * BUY WAR BONDS By S. L. “Slim” Inzer Battalion Sports Editor Dean Kyle’s Sport Thrills Lloyd Gregory, sports editor of the Houston Post, recently paid a fitting tribute to E. J. Kyle, Dean Emeritus of Texas A. & M. Col lege. In his daily column, “Looking ’Em Over,” Gregory gave a little of the history of the Dean’s asso ciation with athletics here at Ag- gieland. He also quoted several parts from the recent editorial which appeared in the Battalion entitled, “Dean Kyle—A Great Ag gie.” The Houston columnist asked Dean Kyle to describe the great est sport thrill of his long and distinguished career. For the Ag gies who did not see this column in Wednesday’s Houston Post, we will reprint part of Gregory’s col umn. Dean Kyle listed as his biggest sport thrills: 1. When Louie Hamilton took the ball from kickoff in the Houston game against the University in 1909 and ran for a touchdown. Final score, A. & M. 23, Univer sity 0. 2. When little Herbie Smith, la ter killed in the service of his country, took a forward pass from Cotton Price, lateralled to John Kimbrough, and Kimbrough ran one foot within the sideline for a touchdown in the Sugar Bowl game, January, 1940. John was not moved out of his course one inch by two Tulane tacklers. 3. When Earl Smith took a for ward pass on a hideout play and made the first score against the University on Kyle Field on Thanksgiving Day, 1939. 4. When I (Kyle) broke the neck of a 175-pound white-tailed deer on the banks of the Nueces river at 12 steps on Dec. 1, 1944. Cotton Packaging Procedure Outlined The procedure for packaging all the research information on cot ton and getting it to the farmer in time has been outlined by a special cotton research committee appointed at the request of the Farm Bureau and the National Cotton Council, and the first order of business will be to select im portant facts from completed re search which can be put into im mediate use in improving the ef ficiency of cotton production, it was announced here today by H. P. Smith of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, a member of the committee. This material will be assembled by January 15, Mr. Smith said, and will be given to directors of Extension Services in the various cotton states for immediate use. Farmers will be urged to make use of this available data, and it has been estimated that a 20 per cent increase is possible through utili zation of the available information. The next meeting of the com mittee, to follow up the organi zation meeting recently held in Dallas, will be in January or February in New Orleans, Mr. Smith said. Other topics decided as essen tial to the study are as follows: 1. A statement of important problems in each field of cotton research work which must be faced immediately and in the near future. 2. Summary of current research work in progress. 3. Inventory and digest of com pleted research. 4. Summary of needs in the light of current and completed re search. 5. Develop organization ma chinery to stimulate an exchange of ideas by all interested parties. 6. Inventory of present re search facilities and development of facilities for specialized work on certain projects. The request for the cotton in formation was made at the October meeting of the Land Grant Col leges in Chicago. The committee was named at Chicago by the various Directors of the Agricul tural Experiment Stations in the Cotton Belt. The seven point pro gram outlined above is the latest development in the committee’s work. Members of the committee and their fields are: Soils, R. W. Cummings, North Carolina; Varieties, H. E. Dun- lavy, Oklahoma; cultural practices, D. G. Sturkie, Alabama; Diseases, G. M. Armstrong, South Carolina; Insect pests, Dwicht Isley, Arkan sas; Harvesting and processing, H. P. Smith, Texas; Cotton quality and utilization, M. E. Campbell, North Carolina; Marketing, F. J. Maverick County Completes Home Regardless of War The labor shortage didn’t stall Mrs. L. P. Yocham long in getting her unfinished home in the Rio Vista community of Maverick County completed. She confessed to County Home Demonstration Agent Magraret I. Britton that the situatoin worried her. For instance the carpenter failed to come back and finish the kitchen cabinet, and the painting and papering hadn’t been started. But she decided that worrying wasn’t even a first aid to the dif ficulty, so she figuratively rolled up her sleeves and took charge. Her husband contributed his bit by hanging the doors on the un finished cabinet, but from then on out the job was Mrs. Yocham’s. First she gave the cabinet a coat of white paint and placed red knobs and handles on the doors and drawers. The sink was in stalled and at the same time Mrs. Yocham was able to obtain a man to install two large windows. This done she papered the room, and painted the woodwork and the kitchen table white. After an electric stove had been set up the ensemble was completed with a set of red chairs which she had rebottomed with HongKong grass. Mrs. Britton says that these im provements made the kitchen “most attractive and much more efficient.” With this warm-up experience Mrs. Yocham proceeded to bring the remainder of the house into harmony. With the help of Mrs. W. M. Rizley, a fellow member of the Rio Vista home demonstration club, she papered the large living and dining rooms. Then the paint pot and brush came back into service while she painted the wood work. With versatility and unflag ging energy she reupholstered a sofa and two chairs, and papered and painted two large bedrooms. Although this achievement war ranted a rest, Mrs. Britton says that Mrs. Yocham didn’t quit. Her pet project is the local library where . she serves two days week ly as librarian. Juvenile books be ing needed, Mrs. Yocham devised an original method of obtaining funds to buy them. Welch, Mississippi; The place of cotton in farming, J. N. Jefferson, Louisiana. Other state represen tatives on the overall committee are N. I. Hancock, Tennessee; W. E. Stokes, Florida; B. M. King, Missouri; R. S. Hawkins, Arizona; R. P. Bledsoe, Georgia; B. A. Mad- son, California; Glen Staten, New Mexico with Clarence Dorman as chairman. Two Hundred Enjoy Brazos CountyA&M Club Xmas Party More than 200 persons enjoyed the Christmas party sponsored by the Brazos County A. & M. Club at Sbisa Hall Tuesday night. The party was given by the club in honor of the wives and sweet hearts of former students. the Mother’s Club and their hus bands. President J. E. Roberts presid ed and J. W. Rollins was toast master. Entertainment was furn ished by enlisted men from Bryan Field and by the a capella choir of Stephen F. Austin High School in Bryan, directed by Euel Porter. Principal address was made by Rev. Walter R. Willis of Bryan, and a message of thanks was read from Gen. J. A. Bethea of McClos- key hospital, Temple, for the robes presented the wounded Aggies un dergoing treatment there. Four more robes are to be provided in addition to those already deliver ed, and the Mothers Club was sew ing Aggie’s shields on the lapels of the robes. Those in attendance were high in their praise of the entertain ment features, the dinner served by the Mess Hall staff, and the oc casion long will remain in the memories of those present as a fine community fete. Extension Program Is Prevent Diseases Of Farm Animals Respiratory diseases in poultry result from specific infection, says S. A. Moore, poultry husbandman for the A. and M. College Exten sion Service. But poor ventilation, dampness, drafts, chilling and bad sanitation may influence the se verity of rate of spread once dis ease is present in a flock. Moore believes that since the number of vaccines and curative drugs are limited in scope a pre ventive program is the most de sirable. Accordingly, eradication of the infection from a farm is of the gratest importance. As many of the respiratory diseases are highly contagious it is difficult— often impossible—to prevent their spread except where different units of poultry are housed wide apart, or do not contact each other on range, he explains. Chickens are susceptible to a group of diseases referred to col lectively as colds and roup. The group includes larnygotracheitis, infectious bronchitis, and infectious coryza. Larnygotracheitis, which extends inflammation to both the larynx and trachea, is the only disease of the type for which a satisfactory vaccine is available. Drugs are of no value for any of the respiratory diseases except infectious coryza when the attack is not complicated, Moore says. Sulfathiazole in the feed at the rate of about one half per cent will prevent infeciton from devel oping. If used at the rate of one to one and one half per cent it will hasten recovery. Moore cautions that birds which have recovered from a respiratory disease should be considered as ASCE Banquet Will Be Held Tuesday In Sbisa at 7 p.m. The American Society of Civil Engineers will hold its banquet Tuesday, December 19, at 7:00 p. m. in Sbisa dining hall. Dr. A. A. Jakkula will be the guest speaker and will give a talk on the failure of the Tacoma-Narrows bridge. A moving picture show will also be given on its failure. All student civil engineers are invited and also anyone else wish ing to attend. Tickets are on sale in the main office of the Civil En gineering building. carriers even though they may appear healthy. Such birds will infect others which haven’t had the disease upon contact. This, Moore says, probably is the origin of the general belief that cold weather causes the trouble. New pullets usually are brought into the laying house in the late fall and come into contact with the carriers. Direct contact is neces sary for spread of an infection from carriers. 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