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3 / Training School Continues <r The second week-long session of the Texas Rescue Training school, being held here, will open tomor row with an address by Jim Shaw, assistant ti'aining specialist of the Texas Department of Public Safe ty. The students of the second class will be greeted by Dr. David H. Morgan, A&M president; Dr. F^ank C. Bolton, president emeritus; and H. D. Beax'den, vice-director of the Texas Engineering Extension serv ice. Col. H. R. Brayton, who origi nated and still directs the firemen s training school, is in charge of the courses. The first session of the ti’aining school for civil defense rescue work ers over the state was held here Feb. 13-17. A continuous program of weekly classes is scheduled. On Camas with MaxQhvlman (Author of "Barefoot Boy With Cheek,” etc.) I’VE GOT NEWS FOR YOU It is my earnest hope that an occasional column of mine has pleased you enough to make you want to clip it out and keep it. 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Southern Reserve University Dr. Willard Hale kigafoos, head of the department of an thropology at Southern Reserve University and internationally known as an authority on primitive peoples, returned yesterday from a four year scientific expedition to the headwaters of the Amazon River. Among the many interesting mementos of his journey is his own head, shrunk to the size of a kumquat. He refused to reveal how his head shrinking was accomplished. “That’s for me to know and you to find out,” he said with a tiny, but saucy grin. Northern Reserve University Dr. Mandrill Gibbon, head of the department of zoology at Northern Reserve University and known to young and old for his work on primates, announced yesterday that he had received a grant of $80,000,000 for a twelve year study to determine precisely how much fun there is in a barrel of monkeys. Whatever the results of Dr. Gibbon’s researches, this much is already known: what’s more fun that a barrel of monkeys is a pack of Philip Morris. There’s zest and cheer in every puff, delight in every draw, content and well-being in every fleecy, flavorful cloudlet. And, what’s more, this merriest of cigarettes, king-size and regular, comes in the exclusive Philip Morris Snap-Open pack. A gentle tug on the tab and the package pops obligingly open. A gentle push on the open pack and it silently folds itself back, sealing in the savory vintage tobacco until you are ready to smoke again. Eastern Reserve University The annual meeting of the American Philological Institute, held last week at Eastern Reserve University, was enlivened by the reading of two divergent monographs concerning the origins of early Gothic “runes,” as letters of primitive alphabets are called. , ,, Dr. Tristram Lathrop Spleen, famed far and wide as the discoverer of the High German Consonant Shift, read a P^P e ^ in which he traced the origins of the Old Wendish ru ^e “pt” (pronounced “krahtz”) to the middle Lettic rune gr (pio- nounced “albert”). On the other hand, Dr. Richard Cummerbund Twonkey, who, as the whole world knows, translated The Pajama Game into Middle High Bactrian, contended in his paper that the Old Wendish rune “pt” derives from the Low Erse rune “mf (pronounced “gr”). Well, sir, the discussion grew so heated that Dr. Twonkey finally asked Dr. Spleen if he would like to step into the gym nasium and put on the gloves. Dr. Spleen accepted the challenge promptly, but the contest was never held because there w 7 eie no gloves in the gymnasium that would fit Dr. Jwonkey. (The reader is doubtless finding this hard to believe as Eastern Reserve University is celebrated the length and breadth of the land for the size of its glove collection. However, the reader is asked t® remember that Dr. Twonkey has extraordinarily small hands and arms. In fact, he spent the last war working in a small arms plant, where he received two Navy E Awards and w r as widely hailed as a “manly little chap.”) ©Max Shulman. 19j5 The makers of PHILIP MORRIS, sponsors of this column, urpe you. to get to' your tobacco store soon for your copy of MA.X SHULMA!\ REVISITED. The supply is limited. The Battalion The Editorial Policy of The Battalion Represents the Views of the Student Editors^ The Battalion, newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station, is published by stu dents four times a week during the regular school year. During the summer terms The Battalion is published twice a week, and during examination and vacation periods, once a week. Days of publication are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year, Tuesday and Thursday during the summer terms, and Thursday during examination and vacation periods. The Battalion is not published on the Wedne- a V immediately preceding Easter or Thanksgiving. Subscription rates are $3.50 per semester, $6.00 per school year, $7.00 per full year, or $1.00 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Entered an second-clan, matter at Post Office at College Station. Texas under the Act of Con gress of March 3, 1870. 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BOB BORISKIE, HARRI BAKER- Jon Kinslow Jerry Wizig Co-Editors Managing Editor Sports Editor News Editors City Editor Sports Writer Don Shepard, Ralph Cole Bill Fullerton I • Ronnie Greathouse - — Roger Coad, Welton Jones, John Warner, Jim Groves, Dick Rabe Reporters Mrs. Jo Ann Cocanougher Womens Editor Miss Betsy Burchard A&M Consolidated Correspondent Maurice Oban J A&M Consolidated Sports Correspondimt Claude Nussbaum, Romeo Chapa — - Advertising Salesmen Tom Syler - Circulation Manager Battalion Editorials Page 2 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1955 ‘Now, If I Today is the first day for filing for class officers and some other campus posts, and the filings will last a week. But if past years are any criterion, there will be very few people who are interested enough in the running of their school to Wander up to the student activities office hi Goodwin hall and file for election. Then, percentagewise, even fewer stu dents will be interested enough to vote in the elections. It’s rather amusing, in a way—there is no scarcity of people who sit in their dormi tory rooms or over a cup of coffee and com plain to the high heavens about the general state of affairs. Everybody knows them, and knows their line of ^reasoning: “If I were running this school, things would be different.” Yet they pass up their chance to help run the school, either through laziness, cow ardice, or indifference. Or maybe because they just like to complain. Everybody will agree that a school run entirely by students would have no academ ic rating at all, but everyone will also agree that the students should have some voice in things that concern them. When the high-up wheels who decide how things shall be start to make a decision concerning students, they look to the organ ized representative groups of students for advice. The student classes and groups such as the Student Senate and the Civilian Student Council are respected by the administrators of the college. As evidence, many recom mendations of these groups have been put into effect, and all of them have received careful consideration. Any student who has the desire and, in the opinion of his fellow students, the ability, can be a part of these student groups. All he has to do is be elected. Likewise, every student can have a small part in the school’s affairs, by choosing the? men he wants with his ballot. If the election system worked right, with lots of candidates and lots of voters, there would be no reason for anyone to say “now, if I were running this school . . He would be helping to run it. Cadet Slouch by James Earle m C£DI?tC. f TU 1 LAST W I vo wJre A Cl_E^)FO' nmutarv • CUT AGGIE WUY..V DAV f j UAG? VO' COT _ A MAI(2V FACE?"* Wi,r ^ ^ wCV a Tentative Dates Set For Physicals April 20, 21, and 22 have been These dates have not been con- tentatively set as dates for soph omores to take their contract phy sicals said Lt. Col. Dale F. McGee, adjutant. firmed yet and the military de partment may have to get the time back to early May, McGee said. Job Calls • Tuesday, Wednesday, March 22 and 23—Texas Electric Service Co.—spring and summer graduates with majors in electrical, mechani cal, and civil engineering, and ac counting and finance. 9 Wednesday, March 23—Texas Instruments, Inc.—electrical engi neers for development of transistor circuits; PhD or MS in electrical engineering, physics, or chemistry for research. • Wednesday, March 23—Ernst & Ernst will interview June and August graduates for junior ac countants. • Wednesday, March 23—Price Waterhouse & Co.—also junior ac countant positions. • Wednesday, Thursday—March 23 and 24 — Columbia - Southern Chemical Corp.—BS and MS de grees in chemistry, chemical engi neering, mechanical engineering, civil engineering. Will also inter view chemical engineering juniors for summer work on the morning of the 24th. • Wednesday, Thursday—March 23 and 24 — Sears, Roebuck and Company — Business administra tion, economics, agricultural eco nomics, accounting majors for the College Executive Training pro gram and the Accounting Training program. • Wednesday, Thursday—March 23 and 24—U. S. Army corps of engineers—civil, electrical and me chanical engineers, architecture majors for engineering 'work for design and construction of flood control dams and levees, army and air force bases, dredging of canals, etc. • Thursday, March 24 — Bur roughs corporation—business ad ministration and accounting ma jors. • Thursday, March 24 — Con sumers Power Co.—electrical engi neers for electric distribution engi neering, production and transmis sion, substation design and over head lines; mechanical and civil engineering for substation design, overhead lines and general gas en gineering. Also summer work for sophomore ME and EE. • Thursday, March 24—Texas Employers’ Insurance association— safety engineering work for me chanical, electrical, civil, and indus trial engineering majors. • Friday, March 25 — Lincoln laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—staff po sitions are aavilable for engineers, mathematicians, and physicists in a broad field of research and develop ment in communications, radar, and digital computer design and appli cations to large real-time control systems: electrical engineering, physics, mathematics. • Friday, March 25—Lone Star Gas company—Dallas—mechanical, civil chemical engineers to learn and be assigned jobs in distribution. Possible locations are Dallas, Fort Worth, Waco, and Greenville. Pe troleum engineers to leani and be assigned jobs connected with the drilling and operating wells to pro duce gas and crude oil. Location— the Southwest. ® Friday, March 25—Honolulu Oil corporation — petroleum engi neers for production engineering in the West Texas area. • Friday, March 25—Aluminum Corp. of America (Pittsburgh and Rockdale, Texas)—mechanical in dustrial, chemical, civil, electrical, industrial education and accounting for openings in plant engineering, production department, research department and sales department. • Friday, March 25 — N o r t h American Aviation, Inc. — Engi neering department—Los Angeles, Calif.—all degree levels for aero nautical, civil, electrical and me chanical engineers.