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PAGE 4 THE BATTALION -THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1940 Scholarships Are Offered Best CAA Trained Students Student pilots from 382 out of the 435 colleges taking part in the Civil Aeronautics Authority’s civil ian pilot training program have already indicated their intention to participate in the national com petition for the $15,000 Shell Avia tion Scholarships and awards, it was announced today by Major Les ter D. Gardner, executive vice- president of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences. The nation’s three outstanding student pilots will be selected by means of an audit of their grades and by a nationwide flight compe tition on or about July 15. Seven regional elimination contests are to be held, after which the seven winners will compete for the three national scholarship awards at Washington, D. C., at a later date. The winner of the national com petition will receive a scholarship of $1,000 to be used for advance ment of his education along aero nautical lines. Students placing second and third will receive $750 and $500 scholarships, respective ly- Signed cards indicating a desire to compete have been received from student pilots as far away as Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico. Cards are still being received and to date more than 2,000 college students have expressed a desire to enter the competition. A total of 228 non-college student pilots have also expressed a desire to en ter the contest. Awards will be made on the basis of the student’s record in the gov ernment flight and ground courses and his ability to execute specified flight maneuvers with maximum precision and safety. Stunt flying will have no place in the competi tion to select the winners. Prov- Dr. Grady Harrison DENTIST North Gate Playboys Finding College Is Tougher CHICAGO, April 20.—Workadaj John has replaced Rowdy-dow Joe in the American collegiate scene, Dr. George A. Works, dean of stu dents at the University of Chicago, claims. American colleges, he said, are becoming tougher on the playboys who use collegiate life as a back drop for social rounds. He told the North Central Asso ciation of Colleges and Secondary Schools: “Colleges more and more object to being a dumping ground for aimless youth whose parents don’t know what else to do with them With money to spend and keen foi a social life, but with no objective either to learn or to earn, they are more and more recognized as a detriment to the progress of those who are eager for an education and are willing to work. “The mortality rate among them is heavy—that is, they do not gc on to graduation in as great per centage as the workers. And that is a definite handcap to the insti tution.” sion is made for expenses of final ists and semi-finalists. The university or college which is judged to have made the best record in training student pilots as a participant in the C. A. A. program will receive the Shell In tercollegiate Aviation Trophy. A similar award will be made to the flight school achieving the out standing flight training record in the United States. In the event that a sponsor organization has the best record, an additional award, to be known as the Shell Aviation Trophy, will be provided. The Shell scholarships and awards fund will provide cash awards for the flight instructors who train the seven student pilots who qualify for the finals of the competition, and engraved wrist watches will be given to the seven semi-finalists. Each of 49 con testants who compete in the seven regional elimination contests will receive a parchment certificate. HOUCK CLEANERS SLACKS—C & P 20*? BLOUSE—C & P 200 SUITS—C & P 400 AH Missing Buttons Replaced—Rips Sewed Free Bring or Send ’em Down No Double Creases North Gate—Green Neon Sign BEN YOUNGBLOOD, Mgr. Cash and Carry - ^4 U S E THAT REFRESHES Bottled under authority of The Coca-Cola Co. by BRYAN COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO., INC. A. & M. Speakers Are on Program At Educational Meet Several members of the teach ing and Extension Service staffs from A. & M. were speakers at the meeting of the Southwestern Regional Conference on Adult Edu cation held Thursday through Sat urday, April 18-20, in Austin. This organization is composed of educa tors from Texas, Louisiana, Okla homa, Arkansas and New Mexico, and is sponsored by the University if Texas and the American and Texas Adult Education Associa- ;ions. Among the speakers and discus sion leaders were H. H. William son, director of the Extension Service, who presided at the Thursday afternoon session, intro- iucing the first conference prob lem, “How Adult Education May Assist in the Solution of Problems sf Economic Self-Sufficiency”; W. 8. Odd, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, co-chairman of the Thursday afternoon discussion group of “The Tenant Farmer’ ; E. R. Alexander, director of the Department of Agricultural Edu- sation, leader of the Friday after noon symposium on “Problems of Economic Self-Sufficiency”. Miss Mildred Horton, vice-direc tor of the Cooperative Extension Service, and Miss Bess Edwards, assistant state home demonstra tion agent, led in the family-life discussions. Daniel Russell, head of the Rural Sociology Department, was co- chairman of the discussion group on “Recognition of Factors of Community Welfare”. C. C. Jobson Heads Lubbock Stock Show Charles C. Jobson, ’18, county agent at Lubbock was the busiest man in West Texas when he serv ing as superintendent of the South Plains Junior Fat Stock Show at Lubbock. The show was an unquali fied success attracting hundreds of exhibits and entries. Jobson is a veteran agricultural worker having been in the Exten sion Service of the A. & M. College for 17 years. He is one of several Jobson brothers, who include: T. S. Jobson, ’04, deceased; Hicks H. Jobson, ’08, Mesquite; W. A. Job- son, ’ll, Dallas; Harry H. Job- son, ’08, Mesquite; and Roy Job- son, ’18, deceased. The family home was at Mesquite. Jobson was a member of the 1918 class but received his degree in 1922, having dropped out several years during the World War. He served with Company F, 359th In fantry, 90th Division and saw action in the St. Mahiel Drive, and the Meuse Argonne Drive. Civil Service Offers Exam to Metallurgists The United States Civil Service Commission has announced open competitive examinations for asso ciate metallurgist (recovery) and (physical), $3,200 a year, and for assistant metallurgist (recovery) and (physical), $2,600 a year. Ap plications must be on file with the Commission’s office at Washing- 4*>n, D. C., not later than May 13 if received from states east of Colo rado, and not later than May 16, 1940, if received from Colorado and states westward. Applications must have complet ed a 4-year college course with major study in chemistry, physics, engineering, or metallurgy, and must have had certain professional metallurgical experience. Certain graduate study may be substituted for the experience. Applicants must not have passed their fifty- third birthday. Full information may be obtain ed from Olin E. Teague, secretary of the U. S. Civil Service Board of Examiners, at the post office in this city, or from the secretary of the U. S. Civil Service Board of Examiners at any first- or second- class post office. Rosser To Wed Dallas Girl —Parker Griffith Photo. ENGAGEMENT REVEALED.—Mr. and Mrs. Guy Lee Perkinson, 3508 McFarlin, announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Martha Gene Perkinson, and John Ousley Rosser of College Station and Dallas, son of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Rosser, 3712 Mockingbird Lane. The wedding will take place in June. The bride-elect was graduated from SMU and attended Pratt Institute in New York City. She is a member of Delta Gamma soror ity. Mr. Rosser was graduated from Terrell Preparatory School and SMU. He also studied at Harvard. He is di rector of radio station WTAW at Texas A. & M. College. DR. GLEISSNER, CATHOLIC PRIEST HERE, IS NEWMAN CLUB FOUNDER Since Father J. B. Gleissner ar-- rived in this section of the state in 1904, he has taken a lively inter est in the Aggies, and to him the Catholic students of the college are indebted for interest which has largely been responsible for the growth and progress of the local Catholic congregation. In 1904 a Newman Club was or ganized by him with five mem bers. For about six years, Mass was held on the fourth floor of the Academic Building in one of the classrooms, next in a more spacious room of the Civil Engineering Building. In 1926 the desire of the local congregation for a chapel at A. & M. was answered. In Novem ber of that year work was start ed, and on April 24, 1927, the new building was dedicated, with an audience of more than 3,000 at- -f-tending and high Mass being cele brated outdoors. At present the Catholic group at College Station numbers about 500, and it is their hope that some benefactor may donate sufficient funds to add to their church which is already pressed to capacity. The Aggies receive more than spiritual help from the Catholic Chapel, in that four or more stu dents are allowed to live there cheaply, as a guard to the build ing, forming a small cooperative project unit. Six Aggies have exchanged their uniforms for a cassock and are preparing for the priesthood. Services are held every Sunday morning at 9:30, and the evening services are at 7. On the first Friday of the month and on Holy Days Mass is held at 5:00 in the morning. Black-Coated Champion The champion Angus steer at the recent Houston Fat Stock Show was bred and shown by the Animal Husbandry Department of the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College. He was sold to Henke & Pillot of Houston for 25 cents per pound. The photograph was taken in the sales ring at the time of the auction at Houston and those standing behind the champion are D. W. Williams, head of the Animal Husbandry Department; J. W. Smith, meat supervisor and buyer for Henke Pillot; W. D. Sutherland, general manager for Henke & Pillot; and Terrell Stewart, beef cattle herdsman of the A. & M. Animal Husbandry Department. Photo by Borden—Houston. Two More Short Courses Approved The approval of two more short courses to be held at Texas A. & M. during the next two months has been announced by Col. Ike Ashbum, executive assistant to the president of the college. First to be held will be the Con ference on Surveying, which has been scheduled for May 20-21 with Prof. J. T. L. McNew of the Civil Engineering Department as chair man, and Prof. J. A. Orr, director. Approximately 60 engineers are expected to attend this two-day conference. The annual Cottonseed Oil Mill Operators’ Short Course will be held under the auspices of the chemistry and chemical engineer ing department of the college on June 17-21 with Prof. F. F. Bishop of that department at the college as chairman. Approximately 125 cottonseed oil mill men will at tend this short course. The dates of the annual Fire man’s Training School were also approved for July 18-August 2. R0TC Poloists Beat San Antonio JOB PROSPECTS BEST IN RECENT YEARS, SAYSAP The Aggie polo team recently emerged the winner in a close and exciting game which required two extra chukkers to settle it, beat ing San Antonio 6-5. San Antonio, with Kuykendall, a five-goal player, in the lineup, was all the Aggies could handle and at times much more. The game see-sawed back and forth only to end all even at the sixth. Neither team could score in the seventh. Finally in the second extra period Braid took a pass from Culbertson and with a slashing shot scored the winning tally. Kuykendall played up to his reputation and his defense held the Aggies in check throughout the game. Hicks starred on of fense for San Antonio. Braid and McDonald turned in the best games for A. & M. Parnell Selected To Judge Show E. D. Parnell, professor of poul try husbandry at Texas A. & M., has been named one of a commit tee of six to serve as judges for the annual Oklahoma State Fed eration of the American Poultry Association Poultry Show which will be held in Oklahoma City, Okla., Dec. 4-8, according to word received here by Prof. Parnell. The Oklahoma show, a state fi nanced exhibition, attracts approx imately 6,000 entries each year. This year will mark the first time in its history that any Texan has been selected to serve on the com mittee of judges, all of whom are members of the American Poultry Association. Other judges and their states who will serve with Mr. Parnell include John Kriner, Pennsylvania; Walter C. Young, Ohio; Louis Gra ham, Illinois; I. M. Asbjeld, South Dakota; and P. M. Pierce, Colora do. CHICAGO, April 21.—A definite improvement in the job prospects of 1940’s vast army of college and university graduates was re ported today. School placement officials—^bas ing their beliefs for the most part on employer inquiries—radiated a high degree of optimism in a sur vey by the Associated Press. More than 50 schools of higher learning contributed data. Their spokesman reports ranged from better prospects than in 1939 to the “best in recent years.” A few of the commentators, how ever, sounded a note of caution. Among them was Carl Lauterbach, vocational counselor of the college for men of the University of Rochester, who said: “There are definite indications that there is greater competition this year for technically trained men than there was last year. 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