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THE BATTALION
■SATURDAY, JAN. 13, 1940
Official Notices
All notice* should be sent to The
Battalion Office, 122 Administration Build-
In*. They should be typed and double-
spaced. The deadline for them is 4 :00 p. m.
ths day prior to the date of issue.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
January 13—Freshman Ball, Sbisa Hall,
9 p. m. to 12 midnight.
Jan. 15 to 18—Annual Dairy Manu
facturing Short Course.
Jan. 18 and 19—Polo Club benefit show
Assembly Hall, 7:00 p. m.
Jan. 25 and 26—Pre Medical Society
benefit show. Assembly Hall, 7:30 p. m.
Jan. 26—Sophomore Dance, Sbisa Hall,
9 p. m. to 1 a. m.
FLYING CLUB ESSAY CONTEST
Students who are interested in an
essay contest on “The Cultural Value of
Flying” are invited to read a notice that
has been posted on bulletin board 20 near
the English Office.
MASTERS’ DEGREES
Graduate students who expect to com
plete the requirements for the master of
science degree at the end of the current
semester should, if they have not done
so, file notice of such expectation in my
office without delay.
T. D. BROOKS
Dean of the Graduate School
CITY GARBAGE COLLECTION
The Civic Council of College Station
plans to begin the collection of garbage
within the city on February 1, 1940. The
collections will be made twice a week at
each house and place of business in the
city except those on the campus. Notice
is hereby given that bids for this work
will be opened Thursday evening, January
18, 1940. The council reserves the right to
reject any and all bids.
LONGHORN CLUB PICTURES
Space reservations for club pictures in
the 1940 Longhorn must be in by February
1. See Watson in room 203, hall 12.
VANITY FAIR PICTURES
Pictures for the “Vanity Fair" section
of the Longhorn must be in by February
1, 1940. All pictures must be turned in
to Mick Williams, 98 Law.
PERSONNEL LEAFLETS
All seniors and graduate students who
desire the individual personnel leaflets
who have not paid for same, are requested
to come by room 133, Administration
Building, not later than January 20. This
ASSILVVHLY
11 ALL
Saturday, Jan. 13
12:30
is necessary so that the order for cuts
on the pictures may be made in due time.
LUCIEN M. MORGAN, DIRECTOR
Placement Personnel Division
Association of Former Students
FRESHMAN BASKETBALL TRYOUTS
All freshmen interested in trying out
for the freshman basketball team should
report to Coach Manning Smith any after
noon this week after three o’clock in the
little gym.
LIGHTING RULE CHANGE
Pending the next revision of the Col
lege Regulations, the provisions of Para
graph 10, (a), Section IV, House Rules,
Page 38, are modified to include an addi
tional globe not to exceed 50 watts which
may be installed in each dormitory room
provided there is a built-in socket now
installed and available for this purpose.
COL. GEO. F. MOORE, Commandant
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMS
Civil Service examinations for student
aid in the following options will be held
today (Saturday, Jan. 13) at 8:30 a. m.
in the Petroleum Engineering lecture
room:
Agricultural Economics, Agronomy, Bio
logy, Forestry, Horticulture, Range Mana-
agement, Soils, Engineering.
All students who filed applications last
October to take this exam should be pre
sent.
Organizations
STUDENT WELFARE COMMITTEE
The meeting of the Student Welfare
Committee for the month of January will
be held on the 18th. All members are
requested to keep this date open in order
to attend.
DEAN F. C. BOLTON
STUDENT LIBRARY COMMITTEE
The monthly meeting of the Student
Library Committee will be held Sunday
afternoon, January 14, beginning at 2
p. m. in the office of the librarian. Dr.
T. F. Mayo. All members are urged to
be present.
POULTRY SCIENCE CLUB
All members of the Poultry Science
Club are requested to meet in front of
the Agricultural Engineering Building at
12:46 p. m„ Monday, January 15, to
have pictures made for the Longhorn.
SAN SABA CLUB
The San Saba A. & M. Club will hold
a meeting in room 103, Agriculture Build
ing, Monday night, Jan. 15, at 7:30. We
have some important business to take
up, and all members are urged to be
present.
LUTHERAN CLUB
The Lutheran Club will have a busi
ness meeting Sunday at 7:15 p. m. in the
Y parlor.
A. & M. WALTHER LEAGUE
The A. & M. Walther League will meet
in the Y chapel Sunday afternoon at 4
o’clock. Church services will be held at
5 o’clock.
GLEE CLUB
The regular meeting schedule of the
A. & M. Glee Club is as follows: Every
Monday night in the basement of the
old dining hall; every Tuesday night in
the radio room of the Y. M. C. A.; and
every Thursday night in the basement of
the old dining hall. Meetings will start
promptly at 6:30 after supper. There are
new songs and new engagements—rehear
sals are very important.
CHURCHES
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
St. Thomas Chapel. College
Rev. Roscoe Hauser Jr., Chaplain
8:30 a. m. Holy Communion
9:30 a. m. Coffee Club and Bible Class
10 :45 a. m. Morning Prayer and'sermon.
(1st Sundays - Holy Communion)
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
OF COLLEGE STATION
R. L. Brown, Pastor
9:45 a. m. Sunday School
10:50 a. m. Morning worship
6:45 p. m. Baptist Training Union
7:30 p. m. Evening worship
Wednesday—B. S. U. Council 6:45 p. m.;
prayer meeting 7 :30 p. m.; choir rehearsal
8:15 p. m. Student prayer meeting every
evening at 6 :45.
A. & M. CHURCH OF CHRIST
R. B. Sweet, Minister
9:45 a. m. Bible classes
10:45 a. m. Worship service
6:45 p. m. Young People’s meeting
7:30 p. m. Evening worship
Wednesday—Prayer meeting, 7:30 p. m.
A. & M. METHODIST CHURCH
James Carlin, Pastor
10:00 a. m. Church School
11:00 a. m. Morning worship
7:00 p. m. Epworth League meeting
7:45 p. m. Evening service
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Y. M. C. A. Chapel
Rev. Norman Anderson, Pastor
9:30 a. m. Sunday School
11:00 a. m. Morning worship
6:45 p. m. Young People’s League
7:45 p. m. Evening devotional and fel
lowship.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICE
Y. M. C. A. Parlor
11:00 a. m. Morning worship
LUTHERAN SERVICES
Y. M. C. A. Parlor
Rev. Kurt Hartman, Pastor
7:00 p. m. Evening worship
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
OF BRYAN
W. H. Andrew, Pastor
9:45 a. m. Sunday School
10:50 a. m. Morning worship
6:30 p. m. Baptist Training Union
7:30 p. m. Evening worship
Free busses for students leave both “Y’s’’
at 9:20 every Sunday morning.
COLLEGE AVE. BAPTIST CHURCH
OF BRYAN
R. C. White, Pastor.
9 :45 a. m. Sunday School.
11:00 a. m. Morning Worship.
6:20 p. m. Baptist Training Union.
7:30 p. m. Evening Worship.
Free bus for students leaves old “Y”,
Project House area, and street intersection
near new dormitories at 9:10, 9:15, and
9:20 respectively each Sunday morning, and
6:10, 6:15, and 6:20 respectively Sunday
evening.
Lost and Found
LOST: Brown pocketbook, with little
money but lots of identification. Please
return to room 420, hall 6, for reward.
—Tommy Davis.
LOST: A pair of shell-rimmed bi-focal
glasses. Lost Wednesday night. Reward.
Mrs. C. B. Campbell Phone 4-6574
LOST: A log log decitrig sliderule in
a log log decitrig duplex case. The name
W. F. Gammon is inside the flap of the
case. Liberal reward for returning it to
T. K. Hall at the A. & M. Press. No
questions will be asked.
Amnesia Victim—
(Continued from page 1)
—the track that brought in the A.
& M. angle that turned the trick.
Brandt, with O. A. McAlister,
corporation court clerk, and Pat
Hayes, his assistant, were question
ing Mitchell without result when
Brandt began talking football.
Mitchell then remembered he had
attended the Sugar Bowl game in
New Orleans and that he was
cheering for A. & M. He remem
bered he had seen A. & M. on the
gridiron many times, and found
he could name many of the famous
A. & M. plays and players.
Attended A. & M.
Then it came to him that he had
attended A. & M., studying there
for two years, dropping out two,
and returning to finish. He said
he believed he started to school
there the year Joel Hunt, out
standing Aggie football star, fin
ished.
That brought in the Aggies.
Chief Maddox and C. L. Bradley,
the latter superintendent of the
identification bureau and himself
an A. & M. man, got on the phone,
and soon Aggies were swarming
down on headquarters with year
books, student registers and other
such material.
More than 30 Aggies viewed and
questioned Mitchell before Thomp
son came in and provided the name.
Remembers Faculty
There was never any question
that the man had attended A. & M.
He knew the nicknames of the fac
ulty and many of the students, and
was particularly well versed on col
lege sports.
From the time his last name was
supplied, the field narrowed down
and the search through the year
books started again. A,student reg
ister supplied the name of the com
munity, White House, and tele
phone calls narrowed the field
further when it was learned that
there was a teacher in the White
House schools named Mitchell who
had been gone several weeks.
Victim. Still Vague
If anyone expected “everything
to come back” to Mitchell when
his identity was finally establish
ed he was disappointed.
Last night he still didn’t know
what business his father was in,
where his brother, Hubert Mitchell,
worked, or much about himself.
But he did recall that he had an
uncle who was killed in a storm.
Relatives are expected here to
day to return him to his home
and care for him until his memory
is completely restored.
Aggie Authors—
(Continued from page 1)
Texas A. & M. students over week
ends, on corps trips, during the
summer, or here at school would
make interesting reading matter
of interest to all. It is their sug
gestion that all entrants merely
sit down and write in their own
words about their most interest
ing experience, or experiences.
Clark and Sullivan wish to make
the book as typical of Texas A.
& M.’s college life as possible,
and at the same time make it as
full of genei'al appeal as possible;
they would like to have every para
graph carry a “punch.” Unless the
story is accompanied by a signed
request, fictitious names will be
used.
The book will be dedicated to
Texas A. & M., its traditions, and
what it stands for; it is Clark and
Sullivan’s sincere hope that coop
eration and every consideration
will be given by all in the turning
in of good clean papers.
Rules for -the contest are as
follows:
1. The story must be an actual
experience, and must be accom
panied by a signed statement to
that effect.
2. It can be of any length, pre
ferably of from 500 to 1,500 words.
3. It must have been turned
in by April 1, 1940.
4. The story must be typed or
written in ink.
5. Grammar and form will not
be considered in the judges’ deci
sion.
6. There shall be no discrimina
tion made against the use of A.
& M. slang; in fact, it is encourag
ed.
7. Every effort should be made
to make the story as interesting
as possible.
8. The writer’s name, campus
address, and home address shall
be included in the paper.
9. All stories, upon being turned
in, become the property of Clark
and Sullivan.
10. The judges’ decision will be
final.
Saturday, Jan. 13
6:30 & 8:30
To the person who ripped a coin parse
oat of a lady’s handbag: in room 225 Ad
ministration Building: Friday afternoon a-
bout 2:30: The key that was in this
coin purse is important to me, and I
should appreciate your patting it in an
envelope, addreeaed to 225 Administration
Building, and dropping it in the Faculty
Exchange mail. If you need tho money
any more than I do, I am willing to con-
tribate that much toward* charity. Please
return the key, at least.
When jurors were being drawn
at Olympia, Wash., for the trial
of William Cole, former state
patrol chief, charged with misuse
of funds, the first name pulled
from the box was that of Cole him
self.
Vice-Director of Experiment Station
Transferred To Lubbock February 1
Announcement has been made-
by A. B. Conner, director of the
Agricultural Experiment Station,
that R. E. Karper, vice-director
and agronomist, will, after Feb
ruary 1, make his headquarters at
the Lubbock Experiment Station
where he will be in charge of the
experimental work with grain sor
ghums at the several substations
in West Texas.
The new arrangement will en
able Mr. Karper to exercise closer
supervision over the breeding work
with grain sorghums, which has
now reached a stage where special
attention to field tests and obser
vations is required before new
strains which are being developed
are released to the public. This
move is in line with the long estab
lished policy of the Experiment
Station of conducting research in
the region where the results are to
be applied.
During the past 14 years, while
serving as vice-director of the sta
tion, Mr. Karper has utilized the
greenhouse and laboratory facili
ties at College Station in conduct
ing technical research on the cytol
ogy and genetics of sorghum. His
discoveries in this field have re
ceived national and international
recognition. They are cited in text
books dealing with plant breeding,
both in the United States and Eu
rope.
The 1936 Yearbook of the U.
S. Department of Agriculture,
which is a survey of genetic re
search with American crop plants,
Fish Prom—
(Continued from page 1)
Raine, chairman of the entertain
ment committee, forwarded special
invitations to the freshman classes
of Mary Hardin-Baylor College and
the Texas State College for Wo
men. From the latter came definite
acceptance of the invitation. Spe
cial busses carrying the students of
the sister school arrived from Den
ton last night at 10 p. m. These
same busses depart for Denton
some time Sunday. No dormitory
was vacated to accommodate the
guests arriving for the dance, and
it is supposed that these guests
are staying, mainly, in the Aggie-
land Inn, and in the tourist courts
and private homes on the campus.
All unsold tickets held by the
ticket salesmen will be turned in
by noon today, but tickets will be
sold at the door tonight for the
benefit of those who failed to pur
chase the same beforehand.
As is customary, an invitation
has been extended to the senior
class.
The highly colorful social season
for the year got under way last
night with the Marketing and Fi
nance Club Dance which was held
in Sbisa Hall. It was the first of
the scheduled proms, and lasted
from 9 til 12. The music was fur
nished by the Aggieland Orchestra.
According to club members the
occasion was a complete success.
This year’s attendance was an in
crease over that of last year, and
club members, their friends, and
dates experienced a most enjoy
able evening.
Athletic Council—
(Continued from page 1)
The number of varsity football
letters awarded equals the record
set in 1938 when 31 members of
that team lettered.
Those receiving varsity football
letters include William Audish, Joe
M. Boyd, Roy Bucek, William Buch
anan, William Conatser, William
Dawson, William Duncan, Henry
Hauser, Chai’les Henke, Odell Her
mann, Marland Jeffrey, Jack Kim
brough, and John Kimbrough,
Derace Moser, Ernest Pannell,
Walemon Price, Marion Pugh, Leon
Rahn, John Reeves, Edward Rob-
nett and Marshall Robnett, Chip
Routt, Martin Ruby, Herbert
Smith, Marshall Spivey, James
Sterling, James Thomason, Tommie
Vaughn, Euel Wesson, Joe White,
and Frank Wood.
Minor sports varsity “T’s” for
cross country were awarded to the
following: M. E. Hogan, Waco;
Vester Laney, Port Aransas; Alex
ander S. Walker, Leander; and
Eugene Wilmeth, Ebony.
•credits the Texas station with the
major part of the recent advances
made in the fundamental knowl
edge of inheritance in sorghum.
Mr. Karper will not be a new
comer to West Texas. He was su
perintendent of the Lubbock sta
tion from 1915 to 1925 and during
this period played an important
part in the development of this
area as one of the important agri
cultural regions of the state.
Mr. Karper and family have
lived on the campus for the past
15 years and have been active in
various local fields of endeavor.
Mr. Karper has been interested in
chamber of commerce work and
in other civic enterprises, while
Mrs. Karper has been active in
club work and in the Presbyter
ian church at college.
Federal Positions
Open to American
College Graduates
Applications Must Be
Filed With Civil Service
The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced an open
competitive examination for junior
professional assistant, at a salary
of $2,000 a year, the purpose of
which is to recruit young college
graduates for junior professional
and scientific positions in the fed
eral government.
Optional branches included in
the examination (all in the junior
grade) are administrative techni
cian, agricultural economist, ag
ronomist, animal breeder, archaeol
ogist, archivist, biologist (wildlife),
chemist, engineer, entomologist,
forester, geographer, information
assistant, legal assistant, librarian,
metallurgist, meteorologist, oleri-
culturist, plant breeder, poultry
husbandman, public welfare assist
ant, range examiner, rural sociolo
gist, social anthropologist, soil
scientist, statistician textile tech
nologist, veterinarian.
Applicants must have completed
a 4-year college course leading to
a bachelor’s degree with major
study in the field of the optional
subject chosen. Senior students, or
—for the legal assistant option—
law students, now in attendance at
institutions of recognized standing,
may be admitted to the examina
tion subject to their furnishing
during the existence of the eligi
ble register proof of completion of
the required course prior to July
1, 1940. Applicants must not have
passed their thirty-fifth birthday.
Applicants must be on file with
the U. S. Civil Service Commission
at Washington, D. C., not later
than February 5 if received from
states east of Colorado, and not
later thtan February 8 if received
from Colorado and states westward.
Full information may be ob
tained from Olin E. Teague, secre
tary of the U. S. Civil Service
Board of Examiners at the post
office (South Station) or from
the secretary of the U. S. Civil
Service Board of Examiners at any
first or second-class post office.
While several American institu
tions have royal charters, William
and Mary College is the only one
in the country which has a royal
coat of arms.
The University of Cincinnati re
cently received a sandstone frag
ment bearing amphibian footprints
250,000,000 years old.
While we’re on the subject, we
might as well pass on to you a
research report from the Univer
sity of California’s Dr. W. C. Don
ald. He says that college men of
this generation are taller, heavier
and rangier than those of the last
generation. But, says he, the col
lege woman is keeping pace with
this change, for she’s now taller
and has wider shoulders, narrower
hips and longer legs than the co
eds of previous classes.
Pretty soon collegians will be
giving Superman a real run for his
money!
The oil industry spent in Texas
last year $755,000,000 for leases,
royalties, payrolls, materials, sup
plies and taxes.
CORSAGE FOR THE FISH DANCE
Remember To Call
Us
“WE DELIVER”
J. COULTER SMITH
Phone Bryan 672 Bryan, Texas
Flivver Flying - 1
The air “flivver” market is look
ing up. So are aviation manufac
turers who are preparing to turn
out flying two-seaters at the rate
of one every 70 minutes.
Fliers like “flivver” planes. They
operate at four cents a mile, are
reasonably safe, and can be pur
chased for less than $2,000—on
installments.
More than half the nation’s
planes are in the “flivver” class.
In the first ten months of 1938,
more than 1,000 were manufac
tured. A drop in the bucket per
haps, but representing a 50 per
cent increase over 1935.
Lower prices, better value, and
the programs planned for student
training are responsible for the
growing interest. The develop
ment of flying fields and the use
of safety devices similar to those
used in larger ships also will do
much to stimulate the newly-awak
ened interest, it is believed. An
other help for amateur fliers will
be the development of planes with
folding wings, which may be
trundled along the highway from
the airport to the family garage.
Small planes equipped in this fash
ion are being used in Europe.
“Light planes” follow a more or
less standardized design. They’re
usually high-winged monoplanes
with four-cylinder, air-cooled en
gines of 40 to 65 horsepower, aver
aging 70 to 100 miles an hour
with cruising ranges of 350 to 500
miles. Framework is carbon and
chrome molybdenum steel. The
wings are shaped and straightened
with aluminum-nickel alloy “ribs.”
The whole structure is covered with
a mercerized cotton fabric which
is “doped” with cellulose acetate.
The four-cent-a-mile cost of op
eration covers: Depreciation, one
cent a mile; storage, 0.4 cent;
maintenance and overhauls, 0.8
cent; fuel, 0.8 cent; and insur
ance, one cent. These figures are
based on the assumption that the
average small plane will operate
500 hours a year, depreciating the
entire plane cost in three years.
Actually, most planes in this class,
barring accidents, are serviceable
much longer.
What’s New?
By treating unpollinated water
melon plants with naphthalene
acetic acid, agriculturists have
grown seedless melons without no
ticeably changing the texture or
flavor ... New idea for an auto
mobile license is a translucent col
ored plate illuminated by a light
School of Mines To
Hold Engineering
Society Meeting
The Texas section of the Society
for Promotion of Engineering Edu
cation will hold its annual meet
ing at the School of Mines at El
Paso, Texas, on March 22 and
23. H. E. Degler, of the Mechani
cal Engineering department at the
University of Texas, is to be chair
man of the Texas section. H. C.
Dillingham, professor of electrical
engineering at A. & M. is to be
the secretary.
The schools that are to be rep
resented are A. & M., Rice, Texas
University, Texas Tech, N.T.A.C.,
Texas A. & I., John Tarleton and
the School of Mines.
Two general sessions are to be
held. The first is to be held on
Friday and the second on Satur
day. A dinner will be held Friday
night. At present it is not known
who will speak, but it will prob
ably be someone from El Paso.
Conferences of the Electrical
Engineering, Chemical Engineer
ing, Civil Engineering, Drawing,
and Chemical, Mining, Petroleum
departments will be held at the
convention.
The national convention of the
S.P.E.E. was held at College Sta
tion in 1938.
•behind it ... A new wall plaster
having many characteristics of
wood is desgined for use in art
museums and other places where
nails are to be driven into walls
. . . An automobile gadget that
whistles when the gasoline tank is
being filled and stops whistling
just before the fuel reaches the
overflowing point may be standard
equipment on one or more of the
new 1940 car models . . . Newly
developed transparent lacquer gives
all-weather protection to polished
brass ... A crystalline compound
is said to make fabrics flame
proof, protecting rugs and up
holstery against cigarette bums.
Speeding the “Black”
Unique method for handling
powdered carbon black, essential
ingredient of rubber tires and ink,
has been developed after more
than two years of experiment. It
operates on the principle of a
vacuum cleaner.
In loading a cargo vessel the
black flows from tank cars into a
large hopper from which it is
drawn up to a centrifugal separa
tor by a rapid but gentle stream
of air.
In the separator the air is re
moved from the black, is returned
to a “dust remover,” cleaned and
discharged. The black flows by
gravity from the separator into
the hold of the ship. Method is
reversed for unloading, except that
the tank cars are moored on a
barge alongside the steamer, elim
inating the need for tide adjust
ments.
Rubber Fiber From Oil
Petroleum’s newest patented by
product is a stable rubber-like
fiber, said to make textile of
superior wearing resistance. Basis
of its manufacture is isobutylene,
a petroleum refinery gas produced
by the cracking process.
Oxygen, acids, and alkalis have
little deteriorating effect on the
new fabric, and it stands up under
repeated laundering, drying and
ironing. It is intended particular
ly for foundation garments and
textile fabrics where high elas
ticity is desired.
Home on the Range
Today’s tenderfoot cowman can
feel at home on the range in mod
ern trailer apartments equipped
with facilities for cooking, sleep
ing, and working. Federal range
examiners have increased the effi
ciency and effectiveness of their
work 25 per cent, it is estimated
since they’ve taken to trailers.
Operating expenses have been re
duced substantially.
Rolling homes enable examiners
to penetrate far into grazing dis
tricts, some of which are larger
than the entire State of Connecti
cut. They can stay on the job aa
long as provisions and gasoline
supplies last, thereby eliminating-
repeated round-trip journeys over
treacherous roads.
An electrical engineer has
caused a coffee pot to produce ra
dio music, which the Chicago Daily
News admits is quite a miracle,,
but thinks it would be a greater
miracle to cause the pot tp pro
duce a really good cup of coffee.
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Repair
STUDENT CO-OP
Phone No. 139
North Gate
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