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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1939)
• - * B « i * i ♦. PAGE 4 —— ! - Wildlifers "Im-Pail" State’s First Flammutated Screech Owl It must be embarrauinff for *nf expedition scientifically equipped equipped to cope with any situa tion, to find their important ete- tim drowned in their water bucket instead of caught in ft modem trap—especially when the victim is the first flaamulated screech ewl to be found in the state at Tex as! Such an incident occurred on the trip which the A. A II. wildlife student# made to the Guadalupe Mountains in Culberson (’ountjr. The students making up the pef« sonnel of the expedition were Milo Cbx, senior, Denison; Eugene Walker, senior, Llano; H. O. Berg feld, junior, San Antonio; Gilbert .R, Triesch, junior, San Antonio; Charles L. Lehmann, junior, Bren- ham; and Gavin G. Goodrich, jun k>r, Ft Worth. Dr. W. B Davis, Wild Life Department, headed the Croup. , . . ; (- The group camped Out the en tire time on a crest which was 2,800 feet above sea level. To reach camp with supplies neces sitated a two-to-three-hour climb this camp served as a base for operations which extended for miles In each direction. The Guadalupe Mountains are the termination of the Rocky Moun tains; consequently animals and birds peculiar to the Rocky ^Moun tains are found on Guadalupe. Black bears, qlk, and mountain trout were encountered. Among the rarer birds found was a Mex ican spotted owl, the first captur ed in Texas; and a cuckoo, the first recorded as an inhabitant of Guadalupe. The capture of the Mexican spot ted owl is a story m itself. Good rich and Lehmann left camp with . the determination to secure aa eagle. As the time went by, they became hopelessly loht. They were without food or water because they had planned on returning to camp after a short trip. Late the first afternoon they wandered into a bottle-neck canyon where they sa# some birds which they described pa “just like owls except they had black eyes.'* Thirty-six hours later they were found by other members of the encampment. They had wan dered twenty miles from camp. Then next day some of the group located the canyon and secured one of the birds which was later iden tified aa a Mexican spotted owl. — THE SUMMER BATTAUON They Should Be A.&M.’s Healthiest Students A. & M. Credit Union Is iA Going Concern" Thi A 4 M. Federal Credit Un ion, organised only about two nil a ago, is already a going conce n, according to Dr. Ide P. Trott ir, fits president. Purpose of the e iterprise is to encourage sav ing i mong members and to use these savings to supply the credit needd of a group at a reasonable rata * t interest. La ns are madt to members so that hey may meet any emergen cies < r for any “provideat or pro duct! t purpose'’. Membership is open to any college worker who pays the 25-cent entrance fee, pur chase i a $6 share ef stock, and whoa i appli' Htion receives an af final Live vote of the directors. The inten st rate is only I per cent per n orrth on unpaid balances. Con trol < f the Credit Union is is the memtyeigMp. Net earnings from inten it payments are used to build up a guarantee fund and to pay (fvidends which may equal as much as 6 per cent on share of stock. The business office of the local Credit! union is room 401 of the Agriculture Building. It la open Wednesday afternoons. The direc tors pf <the organisation are Dr. Trotti r, ; president; C. E. Bowles, vice-resident; Dr. G. W. Schlaaael- in, ckrk-retasurer; Dr. C. H. Wink sr and Ed L. Williams. Serv ing o hike loan committee are L. Gabbard, L. S. Paine, Uoyd Soitk, gnd Harry Boyer. The so- penrii sry committee is made up of W. M Simpson. Dr. W. E. Paul son, arid Dean F. C. Bolton. Selden W. Hrnslee is the assistant elerk- treasi|rer. Martin Starts Strong With Seaboard Here Great Progress Made velopment Of eum Chemicals than 20 years ago did the cbemikt* of the petroleum indus try o % e serious thought to the development of chemicals from re finery gases Amyl alcohol and its derivative, amyl acetate, were the FRIDAY, AUGUST ft, 1939 aboM by a Cup of Coffee, Is Experience of Al Shatce 99 By Reee Earl Cea The proverbial up-turn of the fiaak to animate- the victim of a Vw-flMM fkBttir' waa relegated, in all its life-saving’ renown, in favor of t cup of coffee drunk by Alfred J. Shawe, an A. 4 M. Arts and Science student now attend ing summer school here-—a near victim of the New London school- house catastrophe of yew before The Aggie stadium, which we associate with football games—the Band playing “Goodby to Texas the boys yelling “Come on, Army!”—is this aemeater the center of a new interest. An academic air now prevails; and instead of the crowd cheering the team on to victory, a very calm and weU-tnaanered class listens and takes note* each morning from W. L. Penberthy, intramural director, as ho lectures to his physical education dams on “The Organisation of Hbalth and Physical Education”. This class of Jtadenta is unique not] only In the fact that the [classroom is at the entrance bo the Aggie stadium, hut also because it's the only class at the A. 4 M. summer school that is<held outdoors Those in the picture above, are, left to right on the first row, Mina Rea Hughey, Lucille Holland, and Mrs. B. P. Sebesta. The bey on the back row is Joe Pritchett; and j QssQfe Ppermann, another student, didn't get in the picture. That’s “Mr. Penny” at the blackboard. Imagine sitting outaide and improving your sua tan at the same time that you’re absorbing knowledge! It’s an ideal set-up, ai d right up to date. Outdoor qlaaaes are gaining great popularity at schools and colleges all over the country. A. A M. “keeps up with the best of them!’’ two driacipal products to be pro duced oil a commercial basis. These were (seed in the formulation of •f’ there. Oct. 16; Roes Mrs. Roosevelt, Many Other Notables, Will Appear at N.T.S.T.C. Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the nation’s Pint Lady, will make s i f r her second lecture appearance on tae campus of North Texas State Teachers College Nevesnber 1 on the Drama Series l^ouiring th«r.- in March, 1M7, on “Problems of Youth," and “Relationship of the KaAvftdual to the (<> mm unity," Mrs. Roosevelt drew the largest crowd ever to attend a lecture of the col- WO* ! The engagement of Mr* Rxkhw veh brough the total reatures planned for this series during the coming school year to 29.' Pour other numbers were added/to the list recently. .Homer P. Rainey, president of the University of Tex- Paul L. Martin, class of ’89, who upon graduation this pest June signed a contract with the Sea board Life Insurance Corapemy of Houston snd is located st present in the College Station agency workipg with Ford Munnerlyn and his associates, really started out strong by leading the entire See- beard sales force for the month of July. t Martin is going through a train ing period in the local agency, with which he will be for the present. He will he at Camp W side mar during the latter, part of August for a week’s encampment with the Seaboard sales force. While in school Martin worked at the hospital, where he was one of “Mom" Clagborne’s "ntrbt har.d men”. He was a firat lieutenant of e us lacqu^rq whk-h brought new stan dards] of styls to the automotive indus __ by year the chemical sub- procesaed from refinery have increased until the list s hundred of compounds, are used chiefly as basic la for organic synthesis by msrican chemical industries, the varied substances that art commercial production, pe troleum chemists hkve created many! other products in the lab- oratoSy which will he produced commercially when and if research chemists can utilise them. Samples 4 thise compounds are made avail able ; for experimental at bed industries, i Second Session Of Scout ( amp Going < The second session of the Boy Scout camp for Bryan and College Station opened last Thursday. M. C Hughes, head of A. A M ’s Elec trical Engineering Department, Is camp director, and C. W. West assistant camp director. Every troop of Bryan and College Station is represented lb the camp. Hoogerhyde, acclaimed as thu world’s greatest a re her, will be there Nov. 15; Andrew Weaver of Wisconsin, Nov. ft; and Glenn Cunningham, world s foremost mil- er, will be there in Baeqmher. Artists on the drama schedule making return uiih*ranees are; Cornelia Otis Sklq^M Nov. 7; Ruth Bryan Owen Rhode, Feb. 14; and John Erskine. Other celebrities booked include William Beebe, scientist. Not. S; Company L Infantry term. Tvj© thousand and fire students for d and five stud pnid i their matriculation fees -i*- m cond semester of rammer school at North Texas State Teach ers College, a decrease of 726 stu dent^ from the firit-semester en rollment, it has been announced Channing Pollock, dramatist, Nov.; B * ni «i John G. N'Ha* poet ,o4 Ut- R ° ctf ° rJ - AIR CONDmONING— (Continued from page 1) technical nature, the program con tains subjects of a basic nature that everybody interested in the industry—mairafactureer, distrib utor, installation engineer, sales man, service and repair man, and even the customer for air-condi tioning equipment—will find to be interesting snd instinctive. The fan-testing laboratory of A. j|. 4 M., the only such equipment in the State, will b<> open for inspec tion and m operation for benefit of the visitors. Air-conditioning equipment will he on display. Out standing speakers win discuss many topics. They are as follows: / “Chemical Dehumidification" by Major W E. Stark, Bryan Heater Corp^ Cleveland, Ohio; “Importance of Air Condition" by Her be 11 Kuenen, Andmostat Corp., New York; discussion by H. E. Shugars, Barber-Coleman Co., “Air Conditioning for Human Comfort’’ by Prof. H. E. Degkr, University of Texas, Austin. "Research as Related to Air Con ditioning", Dr. Gieaoeke; with dis cussion by C. L. Kribs, consulting engineer, Dallas. “Heat Cats and Loss Calcula tions, Design Conditions snd Psy- chrometnr, by A. M Chase, York Ice Machinery Corp., Houston "Summer Heat Load Calcula tions for Commercial Establish ments", |b> R. A. (ionsales, an A. Shawe. Who at that time was serving aa a temporary bus driver for trie ill-fisted East-Texas school, declared in an interview that just a couple of minutes prior to the explosion, be had made his custo mary visit to the school for his bos. His wstch evidenced kis earli ness, and a cup of coffee seemed the logical way to spend s few in teevening minutes until j school turned out for the afternoon He stopped by a small cafe less than a Mock away from the steel-and- brick school building and ordered a nickel cup of cofft *•. J Loss than half the cup had been emptied, when a blast shook the little cafe and surrounding build- tings as V i lightning had struck nearby—then left the whole community In sev eral seconds of for. boding silence. 0 s e e e e.e Recalling to mind the gripping scene of the wreck as It appeared epon his arrival a moment after the blast, Shawe states that oaly the framework of that part of (he building under which the bas. mmi did not extehd remained standiig. All the root of the building had been demolished. It presented and unbelievably gruesome picture of twisted wreck age, in which had just been snuff ed the lives of 294 school children and teachers. Shawe asserts that the 296th victim might easily have beeg under the wreckage where only a few minutes earlier he had momentarily stopped, before chang ing his mind and going up-town for the “life-earing" cup of cof fee. ■» e • e e e e e His three uncles each had their yoqngest sons killed in the blast. Shawe, himself a youngest eon, missed death by a hair's breadth. J poet entry critic, Nov. Bt; Oliver St. John Gogarty, poet, Dec. 6; So© Yong, monologist and movie star. Dec. 19; William Lyons Phelps,' educator, Jan. 8; BhtMe Handing, j author, Feb. 12; Thinw Craven, art critic, Feb. 20; William Rose ! Benet, poet, Feb. 26; Jonathan' Daniels, author, K«-b 26,* Edward Monks, March 1;. Maurice Hin- i mu. author, Mandk J8; Alexander I McCurdy, organidt, and Plora Greenwood, harpist, April 11. The Claire Tree Majer Company will present three plays during the year and the College Little Theater will give six performance* on the series. 4 M. graduate, now of Airtemp Corp., Day tor. Ohio; discussion led by M. L. Brown, Dallas Air ( onditionkig Co. "Air Conditioning Equipment, its Functions snd Some Factors Influencing its Selection”, by R. U. Berry, General Electric Co, of Dallas. \ r i orviitioning Controls”, hy K Shugars. Barbed'olemsn Co, Rockford, I1L; discussion by Fred Rodgers, Minneapolis-Honey- wefit Gdi (>.. Dallas. ‘•Trouble Shooting Service Prob lems After Installation!*, by A. J. Rummel, San Antonio Public Ser- vko Co. IV banquet speaker for August 18 will be John Howatt, chief en gineer of the Bureau of Engineer ing, Board of Education, Chicago. J. 8. Hopper, C. W. Crawford, W. E. Long, and Dr. Glesecke, all of the A. 4 M. College staff, will preside mt the vsnoukj meetings during the three-day session - ■ »'T ■ ■ i nXAfr MMCiO—i L* (Continued from page 1) As stated in the hill, the appli cant must have been a resident of Texas for more than eight years. He or she, it applying for grad uate work, must hold a bachelor's degree from a college or university approved by the Southern Asso ciation of Colleges and Secondary Schools, or] some other equivalent agency. If applying for professio nal work the applicant must have completed his or her pre-professio nal requirsfinsnta. • “'Applicants may obtain official application blanks by writing Dean T. D. Brooks at College Station. When submitted, the blanks must be accompanied by an oftfeial transcript Sf all college and uni versity work done. No sward will be made to any applicant who plana to study for s master’s degree in aty field where such work is provided at Prairie AH appointments will be tenta tive until the applicant is accepted by the school of his choice and an official letter of acceptance from that school is received by the com mittee. The awards will he designed to M student for the in costs if tuition snd travel ry td secure graduate or instruction In pm out- of-state school not provided by a publicly supported institution for negroes ia(t,Irina.. Tor example: The mstriculstion’Yee for a course leading to a’ roaster of Science de gree at a state-supported school in Texas is $50 annually, hut the same course at an out-of-state school might be $200. In that case the sward would he $160. In the case of applicants for professional study, the committee decided that the amount of the grant would he considered aa in dividual eases, as the aid neces sary might run as high as $900. Trie successful applicants also will receive the cost of a round- trip ticket from their homes to the location of the college whore they grs aatspted. leas the cost of such a ticket from their homes to Prairie View and return. ? No funds are available for re imbursement for any expenses in curred by applicants prior to Sep tember 1, 1989; and all applicants for the long session of 1939-40 or the faguner session of 1940 are urged to file their applications at A. & M. Boy Elected Advertising Manager ‘ Nick Nance of Lometa, Texas, who waa a fourth-year agricultur al student of M M" Infantry at A. 4 M. this past year, has been eirckcd advertising manager of the j ear book to he published by the 67 collegians • employed by the Borden exhibit, “The Dairy World of Tomorrow", at the New York World’s Fair. 88 1/3% Dividends st End af Back f Months m Your Aotomobilr J. HORACE KRAFT State Farm leenrsncs Ce. ANNO The Ai Paul L. M To The College Statioi ' Of The Of ,4 SEABOARD LIFE HOUSTON, FORD MUNNERLYN.} Diet. Mgr. Sid • • A. H, McCetchcea CE CO. SECOND SUMMER LINTLESS COTTON ; BEING DEVELOPED HERE BV KILUIUGH Only two problems remain to he solved in the development of a “lintless" cotton, says D. T. KiU- ough, Chief agron.*enst of the Tex as Agricultural K.vpi rimsul: Sta tion. With the lintless cotton he hopes to supply the growing mar ket for cottonseed oB without in- tbe surplus of creasing lint. If the lintless Killough is agronomists ject, is developed cotton-growing of valuable fats, “Our and summer have iaing. For the last two months plant breeders at A. 4 M. have have been making mifneroua cross es of well-acclaimed tinted varie ties with our present lintless seed; and this fall and winter la going to tell the story," sal# Killough. v with which with federal to his pro give the i a new source and feed. 1 this spring r prom- Wi ' D. L. Lanford, '38, is with the Soil Conservation Service and is located at Marshall, Texaa. ♦ J PROM SULLIVAN HIS; ORCHESTRA FRIDAY, Uj 1939 HF SBISA HALL 9? SCRIP $1.10 ,1 rl - r j j j i it' jj- it .] ii. }• f i* '-mj: {»'• , SPONSORED BY ; BUHNER PRESS CLUB —