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THE BATTALION
Official Notices
MAY GRADUATES
A complete analysis of the records of
all May graduates has been made. The
seniors are requested to check with this
office not later than Saturday, April
27, to see that we are in agreement as
to the remaining degree requirements.
H. L. HEATON,
Assistant Registrar
JOBS FOR TYPISTS
office has several opening
This office has several openings
qualified typists. Interested students
are eligible for student employment
for
who
and
who can type 40 words per minute or
more are requested to report at their
first opportunity.
ORMOND R. SIMPSON, Chairman
Student Labor Committee
LECTURE ON AMERICAN ENGLISH
Students, College Station and Bryan
residents interested in hearing a discus
sion of American English by a first-rate
authority are invited to hear Professor
" pkii
be no admission charge.
After teaching one year in the Atlanta
(Georgia) Technical High School, Mr.
Malone held a two-year Carnegie Founda
tion appointment as exchange teacher in
Prussia. Since then he has taught at
Cornell, the University of Minnesota, and
His
is evidenced by the fact that he was one
of the founders of American Speech and
its managing editor from 1926 to 1932,
and that he i
editorial board.
litor
is still a member of
GEO. SUMMEY, JR.
STAFF INVITED TO LECTURE
The Department of English has invited
the staff of The Battalion to attend the
lecture on “American English” to be
given by Professor Kent Malone of Johns
Hopkins University at 7:30 Wednesday
in the Chemistry lecture room. There will
be no admission charge.
Every member of the staff is asked to
attend if possible.
THE EDITOR
CONCESSIONS
No concession has been or will be grant
ed for civilian clothing, uniforms, uniform
equipment, or boots. All concerned are
advised that no business firm or private
individual, civilian or student, will be al-
mer-
or pro
ject houses.
ORMOND R. SIMPSON, Chairman
Student Labor Committee
individual, civilian or student, will 1
lowed to sell the above-mentioned
chandise in the college dormitories or
NOTICE TO WATER USERS
All consumers of water on the north
side of the Campus, in College Park and
Oakwood are to have water meters
i^hth
in Oakwood are t
installed during the
month of Ma
ly, after
dered in
ood are
ing the
which all water bills will be rem
accordance with the amount of water
used.
To finance cost of meters, meter boxes,
fittings, installation costs, and cut-offs,
each property owner receiving services
is requested to call by the City Hall in
the Sosolik Building and make applica
tion for his choice in method of meeting
HOLICK’S
BOOTS
North Gate
the
1.
tap fees ; to-wit:
payment of $15.00 per meter, or
2. Payment of $1.60 per month in addi
tion to water bill for a period of 12
months; all property owners electing to
in cash should make such payment
May 1, 1940, as after that
ater
H P
sh s
on or before May
date only the deferred payment plan may
be elected.
pay
plan
CITY TAXES
All taxpayers of the city of College
Station will render their taxes for the
year 1940 beginning April 15th at the
City Office.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT FOR NEXT
TERM
All applicants for student employment
who expect to be employed during the
expect to be empioyea curing
:hool year 1940-41 must renew their ap
is at the Oi
t prior to tl
erm in June.
This notice applii
ons at the Office of Student Em-
school
plicatii
ployment prior to the end of the present
school J 1_ T
applies to both employed
and unemployed applicants for student
employment.
ORMOND R. SIMPSON, Chairman
Student Labor Committee
ENGLISH CONTEST
For the encouragement of superior work
President of
in English, Dr. F. M. Law, President of
the Board of Directors, is again offer
ing two cash prizes ($20 and $5), to be
rded on the basis of a competitive ex
nation to be given late in April or
May. Conditions of eligibility are
s: grade A in English 103 and
Distinguished Student rating, first semes
ter ; grade A or B in English 104 to
April 1, and satisfactory oral work in
the same course to April 15.
Mr. William Morriss of Dallas, an
alumnus who knows the value of good
English, is once more offering cash prizes
($20 and $5) for the purpose of encour
aging good work in our sophomore courses.
Conditions of eligibility are as follows:
grade A in English 203 or 231 and Dis
tinguished Student rating, first semester;
grade A or B in English 207, 210, or 232
to April 1 of the current semester, and
grade A on any course paper or book re
view that may be required in the Sopho
more course the student concerned is now
taking. If a student otherwise eligible
awa:
aminati-
early in
as follows:
ege
Students who were allowed to substitute
English 328 or other courses for the
work usually required may count the
elective course as an equivalent so far as
the English Contest is concerned. Students
r eligible are asked to give
their names promptly to their teachers in
order that projects for required papers
be promptly approved.
GEO. SUMMEY, JR.
GRADUATION UNIFORM
The following rule Is published for the
Information of candidates for degress at
the June Commencement:
“Advanced Course R.O.T.C. students who
are awarded degrees at the June Com
mencement are required to attend the
graduation exercises in Uniform No. 1,
and non-R.O.T.C. students are required
to attend in appropriate academic costume.
Students who do not provide themselves
with appropriate costume will not be
eligibe . to participate in the graduation
exercises.
The Exchange Store can arrange to get
caps and gowns to be rented for the oc- i
casion, provided orders are placed not
later than noon SATURDAY, APRIL 27.
There is no assurance that orders placed
after that date will arrive for Commence
ment. The Exchange Store does not re
quire a deposit at this time.
F. C. BOLTON, Dean
CAA Program—
(Continued from page 1)
gineering seniors under the direct
ion of Professor J. T. L. McNew,
are testing the soil so that it
might be oil stabilized when funds
permit. When this is done it will
make the field an “all weather”
airport.
The Kadet Aviation Co. under
the direction of T. H. Coffelt, pres
ident, has employed five expert
instructors as follows: Robert Putz,
Jim Laudeman, Arthur Anderson,
Douglas Beers, and 0. H. Cook,
an ex-Aggie of A Battery, Coast
Artillery. Robert B. Trimble is
mechanic and J. A. Colson is ground
man.
To take the flying course a stu
dent must be at least eighteen and
not more than 25 years of age. He
must have completed his freshman
year and must pass a rigid phy
sical examination.
The ground school is under the
supervision of W. I. Truettner, pro
fessor of mechanical engineering,
and meets at night, twice a week
in the M. E. building. The course
covers the history of flying, rules
and regulations, navigation, meteor
ology and parachutes. Under the
rules of the C. A. A., only forty
students may take the flying course
and these students were selected
from more than 250 applicants.
They receive a minimum of 35
hours and a maximum of 50 hours
flight instruction in addition to 72
hours class work.
It is the hopes of college author
ities and students that a perma
nent air corps may be established
here.
Organizations
AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY
There will be a meeting of the A. &
ronautical Society this evening at
o’clock in the basement of the
M. Aeronautical Society
seven o’clock in the 1
M. E. Shops. Plans for the contest on
’ Day will be arranged and all
to be
Mothers'
participants are requested to be pre
All students who are interested in as
sisting with the contest are cordially in
vited.
SCHOLARSHIP HONOR SOCIETY
There will be a very important meet
ing of the Scholarship Honor Society Wed
nesday evening at 7:00 in the Civil Engi
neering lecture room. All members are
asked to be present.
Classified
-A student lately purchased
the window of the
FOUND
some stamps at the window of the College
Station Post Office at the North Gate,
and then left the stamps and a sum of
money lying on the desk. We would like
for that boy to come by, identify himself,
and claim his property.
MRS. ANNA V. SMITH, Postmaster
LOST—A rhinestone evening bag trim-
led in gold, lost at the Cotton Ball. Re-
med ... „
ward for return to 81 Law.
WANTED—Passengers for Dallas. J
ing noon Saturday, in ’30 Studebake:
E. Crawford, 77 Milner, College
Leav-
C.
116.’
STYLED
with
distinction
/
SHIRTCRAFT
SHIRTS
There is true distinction in every inch
of their superb fabrics, in every stitch
of their careful tailoring. Come in
and see the smart new-season styles
and colorings just received.
$1.65 and $1.95
Lllaldrop&(8.
“Two Convenient Stores”
College Station — Bryan
Sodagalese—
(Continued from page 1)
But what about the soda sheets?
Do they like the work? “Some
do and some don’t,” was Flash’s
enigmatic reply. The man who
relieves Flash in the day time,
Stanford Gregg, was a little more
pointed. “It’s harder work than
most people think,” Stan said.
“More than that, we soda sheets
get bawled out for the most trivial
things—but most people are a
pleasure to wait on.”
Flash and Stan, by the way, do
their soda jerking at Lipscomb’s
Pharmacy and both claim that the
only important drawback to their
job is “getting used to standing
all day and half the night.” Actu
ally, the boys work about ten hours
a day—and every day.
But there’s more soda sheets at
College Station than those men
tioned above, and they all have their
troubles. Others at Lipscomb’s
are E. R. Pratka, Ted Grote, and
Paul Lowry—who says he’s work
ed up in the soda sheetin’ business.
At Casey’s Confectionery there’s
Jack Moore, Pete Blaylock, Nor
man Felty, Ted Rie, and Frank
Scanlin. George’s Confectionery has
Morris Walker, Elyzie Henry, and
Carl Tritchett. The crew at Aggie-
land Pharmacy includes W. R.
Scott, C, G. Wilson, and Oscar
Moffatt.
Fish-Game Dept.—
(Continued from page 1)
Davis, in charge of the depart
ment of instruction, will have
charge of a field course which
will center in Culberson County
in Trans-Peco, Texas. Students
will participate in such projects as
(1) cover mapping the county, (2)
determining the nature and distri
bution of the birds and mammals
of the area, (3) preparation of
study specimens, and (4) life-his
tory studies of selected animals.
This course, 300S, carries seven
semester hours of credit and will
cost the student approximately
$72.50, including registration fee,
board, lodging, and transportation
to and from College Station.
Both of these courses presuppose
a working knowledge of plants and
animals, equivalent at least to in
formation gained in basic courses
in Biology.
Students interested in signing
up for one or both of theses courses
should contact Dr. Davis as soon
as convenient as the enrollment is
limited to 8 in each course.
Plane-Makers Need
More Air Engineers
LOS ANGELES, April 21.—Jobs
are open here for aeronautical engi
neers.
“We now have 790 engineers on
the payroll, and we must raise that
figure to 900 by July 1,” Hall L.
Hibbard, chief engineer for the
Lockheed Aircraft corporation, said
Sunday. He indicated a similar sit
uation exists at other factories in
this area.
Hibbard insisted that this is not
due altogether to war orders, point
ing out that Engineer Harold J.
Geder, for instance, is working on
design for a 32-passenger plane
that may fly tail-first in 1945.
King Cotton May Become
A Drugstore Commodity
Aha! A new use for cotton—ice cream!
“What to do with the suplus cotton?” has been an increasingly
serious problem to the farmers of the South of recent years. Many
solutions—some practical, some “screwy”—have been suggested—by
scientists, highway engineers, Army and Navy inventors—and now
a Dallas chef comes along and suggests something unheard of before
and seemingly the screwiest of the lot; but actually his idea is
working with notable success.
Following is a feature from the-f
Sunday, April 21 issue of The
American Weekly, nationally syn
dicated news-magazine Sunday
newspaper section, which should
be of especial interest to the stu
dents and faculty of A. & M., not
only because of its unusual story,
but because it relates to work be
ing done right here and now by
the Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station at A. & M., and also quotes
one of A. & M.’s best-known ex
students, Burrus C. Jackson, Hills
boro postmaster.
•
Cotton has been cultivated in
the Southern States since pre-
Revolutionary days for its fibers,
which are woven into at least part
of the clothing we wear, used—in
the form of gun cotton—in ex
plosive shells, and rolled under the
surface of some of our finest high
ways. And now a 43-year-old
pastry chef has found a new use
for cotton—ice cream! His name
is Prosper Ingels.
This summer thousands of Amer
icans are .likely to taste this un
usual dish for the first time, at
the New York and San Francisco
World’s Fairs. They will find that
it is golden in color, smooth and
rich, and has a flavor vaguely like
butterscotch or walnut.
This ice cream contains about
15 per cent butterfat and is un
usually rich in vitamins B-l and
B-2, which makes it an excellent
health food. One of its principal
ingredients is cottonseed flour.
The flour, made by grinding up
the brown seeds which are mixed
with the cotton fibers when they
are removed from the boll, has
been analyzed as containing 54 per
cent protein and eight per cent
moisture.
Ingels, who is now employed by
a Dallas hotel, combines this flour
with milk and sugar in a secret
formula. Then he adds a flavor
ing which is also made from
the cotton plant.
A year and a half of experi
menting was spent on this formu
la. It was first served to the
public a few weeks ago at a ban
quet during the convention of the
Texas State Restaurant Associa
tion at Dallas. More than a
thousand restaurant men who tast
ed it gave it their overwhelming
approval.
Cotton ice cream may have far-
reaching economic implications.
For years the South has struggled
under the handicap of producing
more cotton than can be sold at a
worthwhile price to farmers. Sev
eral organizations have offered
cash prizes to any one who de
velops a plan for using up some of
this surplus. And though Prosper
Ingel’s discovery will not signifi
cantly reduce the thousands of
bales holding back the South’s
prosperity, it may lead to greater
things.
Perhaps, like the magical soy
bean, the cotton-seed has locked
within it possibilities almost as
wonderful.
Burrus Jackson of Hillsboro,
president of the Texas Cotton
Council, says: “The ice cream may
demonstrate the practicability of
cotton products for use in food
stuffs and induce manufacturers
and producers of all kinds of food
preparations to use some extract
from the cotton plant.
“The only chance for economic
stabilization of the South and a
profitable return to cotton plant
ers is the discovery of new uses
for cotton in industry. Cotton ice
cream is a step in the right di
rection.”
Several agricultural laboratories,
including the Experiment Stations
of the Texas Agricultural and Me
chanical College, are engaged in
extensive cultivation of the plant’s
many varieties in an effort to pro
duce a cotton plant without cot
ton. It is believed that there
may be a greater future in growing
cotton for its seeds, rather than
the fuzzy strands which means
“cotton” to the average man and
woman.
-TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1940
Barnyard Hop—
(Continued from page 1)
ting old Bessie in the elevator and
a few other complications.
This dance is considered by most
one of the best and most unique
of all the dances each year. Any
one who attended the dance last
year will confirm this statement.
The time will be 9:00 till 1,
and the place will be in the old
hayloft, on the third floor of the
Agricultural Engineering Building.
Scrip will be $1.00. Tickets may
be obtained from members of the
Agricultural Engineering Society
or at the dance.
Only 20 years old, Mariana Scott
is the University of Cincinnati’s
youngest candidate for a Ph.D.
degree.
Missouri Valley College has had
a 40 percent increase in enroll
ment in the last five years.
“Pee-Wee” football is now a
part of the intramural program at
Mississippi State College.
Dean C. E. Edmondson of Indiana
University is national faculty bil
liard champion.
Come In And See
Ole Loupot
He buys what you have
to sell and sells what you
want to buy.
Come in and meet him.
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