The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, March 28, 1939, Image 5

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TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1939
THE BATTALION
PAGE 5
W. C. Morris Will
Direct Activities
During Show Da \
W. C. Morris, sonior eloOtricsl
engineer, hsm been named chair
man of the group of onfinterinf
students who will direct that acti-
ritie* of Engineering Day, Mir 13.
ESCORT OF AGGIE
SWEETHEART TO
TEXAS CHANGED
P. M. McKenna, who was selected
by the senior class officers to es
cort Madeline Campbell eti the
Texas Round Up, has announced
that dps to other conflicting out
side activities he will not be able
to attend. Bob Robinson, a senior
in the Coast Artillery, has be
asked to take his place.
The Tetas Round Up will t e held
this weekend. Robinson will go to
Auetin Thursday, and a practice
trjll be held that night to be fol-
Mired by a tvnquet.
j On the program for Friday is
the inauguration of the queen af
ter which the represeptativee from
the various schools wiH he ‘pre
sented to the Governor of Texas.
Clark and His Carole
' Each department in the
of engineering Is represen'
one student in the group,
departments will be
as follows: Mechanical
ing. Buddy Mandell; Civil
neering, Leroy Balser;
Engineering, L. W. Gregory; Archi
tectural Engineering, Hal Modeley ;
Petroleum Engineering, Tony Po-
lanovich; Chemical Engineering, A.
8. Witchell.
One o’clock. May It, Is thai time
and opening date of the Engfceer
ing Show held each year at A-' A
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RADIO |
REPAIRING
Parts and Tubes
STUDENT CO-OP
Phone College 139
North Gate
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M. The show takes place tkis year
on the Saturday afternoon follow
ing the Senior Ring Danes and
precedes the Mother’s Day ea
monies hMd on the following Sun
day. "All the engineering d,
ments will present demonstration*
covering the various phases of en
grneering taught in the School of
Engineering and give lectures to
accompany each demonstration that
not Beg explanatory. The lec
tares will be governed by a sche
dule during the course of the show
and no conflicts will occur to keep
the visitors from enjoying every
phape of the afternoon’s events.
Representatives from all the col
leges and universities in the South
west have bfen invited to attend
the Engineering Day aetiviti)'
Engineering firms ef Texas, Loui
na 4nd Oklahoma have been
aaked to send exhibits and repre
sentatives. DuPont and General
Electric are expected to place ex
hibits in the show.
The high points in the day’s ac
tivities will be the following de
monstrations: a working model
made of glass of an oil refining
unit; a drilling rig in operation; a
demonstration of the eff*ts 0 f
high voltage electricity; water pu
rifying methods; house design and
construction; smelting and mould
ing metals.
Jno-Yeah, That’s Correct-
Enough i To Make Marco
dotes
Marsh
Here is tha latest picture of dark Gsbis and Carol* Lombard, mads as
they attended the fight* in Los Angeles. Divorce of Gable by his wifs ia
Lag Vegas, Nev, paved way for mgrritge of the screen actor and u.«
bloods Carol*
College and Bryan Communities Made
One--Says 1910 Issue of Battalion
That history repeats itself b-f
shown by a copy of "The Bat
taHon” for June 10, 1910. On the
*
COME IN AND TRY OUR •
NEW SCALP TREATMENT
v BEFORE TIRE R. V. HOLIDAYS .
, Eight Chairs to Sonic You
Y. M. C. BARBER SHOP
front page of this nine-sheet pub
lication is a story on the new in-
terurban line recently completed
between College and Bryan. Ac
cording to the story. . the
congested condition of the school at
the present time will permit of
students living in the city while
they an easily attend to their al
lege duties.’’ Another paragraph
statu that “By virtu of the con
necting bands of stool, the two com
munities have become as one,
and ...”
The football tarn of AggMand
'was evdiently tbs “bull of the
'woods” at this liras, it sums from
another front page story. Eight
(fames were arranged for 1911, but
"It was the intention of the man
agement te have thru big oni-
IfMliH Mf ,nt College, but it
I seem* that several of these want
easfer piddags ... A. A M. has
romped on them so hard and a
I ofw-n that they have evidently con-
] traded a bad case of cold feet... ”
The schedule included, however,
such turns as Kentucky University,
Arkansas University, T. C. U
Tulane, an dthe University of Tex
as. The turn was very well dress
ed, abo. “The team will be equippi-l
next year with new union suits
designed for us by Coach Moran
An Aggie who's already exper--
bnced the travel and adventure
boot of us could hope for in an
entire hfetim^ who has indulged
b almost every hobby and pastime
under the sun—who can, if and
when he feeb In the moo4 for it,
(relate dosens of interesting anec-
of far-away lamb—is Jno
a™ hall Winston, commonly
known on the A. A M. campus as
“Sailor.” The nickname might im
ply that be b always eager to spin
a yarn; but the reverse b true, for
information for this article was ob
tained only by diligent question
bf
Though hb name b pronounced
"John," he insists that it correctly
*P< led “Jno." And though he’s
native Texan, hb home town being
Houston, be bad vbtted four Euro
pun capiuls and 10 state eapitab
before he’d even been to hb native
state’s capital.
Sailor b a graduate of Reagan
High School of Houston. He at
tained the rank of Eagle Scout,
Sad b now one of the mates of the
Bryan Sea Scout troop. After at
tending Cochrmn-Brymn prepara
tory school at Annapolb for a time,
be went to the Annapolb Naval |
Academy for 2V4 years, from June,
1933, to October, 19S&. But he “got
pai of it” after that long a time,
and quit on Oct. 9 of ’36. Thru
days later he waa down here at A.
A M.
He b an electrical engineer, and
expects to graduate thb June
Sailor was one of the managers of
the electrical eng inuring show on
Engineers' Day last yur.
Winston b s naval reserve of-
fber, an ensign in the engineer
division. He has bun bn active duty
several times, bat summer at Lake-
wood, New Jersey, where he room
ed with Captain Anton Heinen
Captain Heinen, by the way, has
g very attractive daughter with
a-TThr
n iruspn corTwiipounds
f inston Has Traveled
to Look Like an Amateur
reg-
b a tn* sailor—
in every prt," all
the United States
to IJassachu-
neatiou those in Eng-
and
ti^RE MUST BE
SOMETHING TO THIS
PIPE-SMOKING THAT IM
MISSING. WHAT IS IT?
HERE'S WHAT II
YOU'RE MISSING, FEUOW
_ PRINCE ALBERT.
THERE'S NO
OTHER TOBACCO
LIKE IT!
On the third page b a society
item, the headline of which reads
“C < o s Reception” and umiet 1^
"Little Men Delightfully Enter
tained by Miss Conway." It sums
that Miss Ray Conway, sponsor of
C Co., entertained the whole com
pany at the Fin Futher Club
House. That the occasion waa one
enjoyed by all b shown by the
fact that, “The entertainment was
a visual delight, and every arrange
ment was made for the pleasure of
the guests . . . The grand march
was {specially attractive . . . One
of the pretty futures of the march
was the forming of a Urge “C”
and while in line the guests gsvs
fifteen rahs for Company C and
as a pretty compliment to the
hostess the young men gave fifteen
rahs for the sponsor . .. The pro
gram consisting of waltxes and
two-steps was enjoyed te excellent
mu*ic which was accorded any
WINSTON
Sweden, Denmark,
lands. He bus ■
of letters' he’s re-
them just this yur.
*t interested in the
he says.
tha New York
a five-foot rattle-
A rattlesnake
ore bun heard of in
ling
India,
whole dre
ceived fro
Still be
women’
Winston
Times by
snake at
bad never
“lower Joi
of scrap
wine
dirigibb
ed and '
that dateful
relics are tkorth
mated,
value.
Winston baa traveled all over the
world, on tfyq Naval Academy cruise
as. well u I’on his own.* He has
been in 40 of the 48 states, and In
at laatt 2? foreign countries. He
has crossed the U. S. practically
every summer of hb life. (Hb dad
is a Southern Pacific official) On
the naval cruise be was photogra
pher for the Academy annual, and
he has stacks and stacks of inter
esting pictures to show of hb
travels.
, Says Winston, “I like Sweden
best of all the foreign countries I’ve
visited. (Igctdentally he’s of Swed-
iah blood.) While there I was enter
tained by the niece of King Gum
taws. 1> met her at an embassy
dance. The people there were swell
to me. They entertained me in
shifts, as tong as I could keep on
going. | S|>ent 36 sleepless hour*
before I realized that Sweden b
“the land ' of the midnight sun,”
then in thp six-*week summer per- \ |
iod when the sun didn’t set!”
Winston declared Moroco b the
filthiest ebuntory he vbited. He
has been i l thousands of interest
ing places, and can show picture*
and talk for hoes about the things
he’s sun In his five summers of
travel
“Sailor” fit tall, blond, gray-eyed,
and fussy-h*i r e<i. He lived in Mil
ner his firpt year here. He’s now
living in room 16 on the third flo>pr
of the “Y”! It’s a very coxy room,
well equipped with a radio, cwrioa
and souvteiirs, pictures, letter*,
books on every sort of subject,
kodak albums, and a
1
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MILDNESS
’-AND HOW. 1
COOL, SMOOTH
I {smoking
too!
TVERY paff of r ri nee Alb»rt l« filled with RICH,
1j RIPE TASTER good, full body that’s never
harsh, jdways HXTRA MILD! That’s ml smoking
joy in anybody’s pipe. No rawnesa to raiae hob with
your tongue. P, A/a gxclus v* “no-bite” process as
sure* all the fall, rich taste of choice tobaccos -
without annoying harshness to bite your tongue.
P. A. give* you a lot for your tobacco monay. Try
the big red pocket tin today.
lW ,«»*».«•*
SO MIL9-S0 TASTV
Smoke 20 fsegrent ptefub ef Pnsc* Albert^ If m
don't find it the BMlIowMt, p-p-r tol..c*o you
eves —eked, iwtawu the pockn tin with tho rast «f
t h* tot..,. •> te it tews at any dm* within « month from
this d.tstand wo wdl refund full parch*,* pr, c «, pies
poitag*. ( SigntJ) R. J. RoyuotAi Tobacco Compoay,
Win»ton-S*lcm, North C.rolma
t>* «f
At no extra
COST!
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Our
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clothes at ae extra
coat! Expert fit
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choice of fabrics
AGGIE
CLEANERS
R. C. RAPP, Prop.
lOorth Gat*
number of encores . . . The night
was ideal for dancing, the floor was
in fine form and everything com
btned to make this hospitality a
memorably pleasant one.”
On the edtiorial page Is a memo
rial to Pate Bittle, a popular
senior who died just beforo Com
mencement There are five other
resolutions in the paper regard
ing the death of Lieut Biddle.
On the sport page b an account
*f a game played for the intra
mural championship between B
and F Companies. The game was
won by the F Company “pill
handlers” but “The mixture was
one of slugs and errors, more vib
than Dukes, but containing more
original elements of fortune for the
F Company loggerheads ... F
Company fuddled the ball on sev
eral occasions J ,\ had not the B
Company flunkies played in a tipsy
throughoat the game the
Score might have been different
The support given Ashford
fras furfsceous . , . Watkins met
the ball with picnic raps on three
occasions . v . Griffin faced the
s,'leeching -pecies with dauntless
Courage ... the invindhie nine
are to be highly recommended.”
On the same page b
Trip to the Braxos
. two wagons, loaded with
Junior bughuntere* good things to
pat, hooey extractors, and jolly
boor, started out for the
bottomJ , . , pitched their
teats at about if p. m.... At about
11:30 the quartermaster sergeant,
with hb assistants, wars asked to
prepare dinner. However at l*
o’clock no dinner was ready—the
quartermaster sergeant with hb
is fpund to be in a
neighboring plum orchard stealing
plums. These officers were imme-
diately reduced in ranks ... Sbisa’s
name waa held high t. . Alter the
dinner smoke. Abbey was stfll down
in the’bottom of the k*
Ifreeser . . . The mosquitoes were
[terribly bad. It was here that we
Eppwright . . . After a few
more Pace canoe up with
eight-pourd* r. It was aiiracu-
looa, kaft. albk laasellgittog,
was found that Dutch Hokn w
in the river with a slide maki
fish bite ... Tha hot-air
n. Abbey and others got
hot that camp had to bo
niagasinse.
He has souvenirs, collection of colorful match fold-*
fabric, aid broken era.
He can also tall s great deal
about the sarlier days at A. 1 M.
He spent the first night he visited
here, in 1988, at 56 "Hollywood,’*
that being one of the makeshift
communitiep of tents and. small
frame buildings that many of the
Aggies lived in beforo Law and
Puryear Hills were erected to af
ford them dormitory rooms.
and dishes from the
nburg whiph crash-
up st Lakshurat on
ay day of 1937. These
9200, it b esti-
of their souvenir
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