3UR3DAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1941-
THE BATTALION
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House Bills Would Allow Airport, Dormitories, AAA Bldg
i & M Research Wool Scouring Plant
las Been In Operation For 21 Years
The research wood grading and
ouring laboratory, which is op-
•ated within the Division of Range
nimal Husbandry of the A. & M.
dlege Agricultural Experiment
tation, was established by an Act
: the Texas State Legislature in
119 at the request of the Execu-
ve Committee of the Texas Sheep
id Goat Raisers Association. This
jsearch scouring plant has been
■fin operation for 21 years, during
which period more than 225,000
pounds of wool samples have been
graded and scoured.
Reports covering the grading
and scouring tests have been fur
nished to patrons for their guidance
in ascertaining whether their wools
are being sold on the correct
shrinkage basis. These reports
not only show the wool grades of
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Moore, Arbuckle to
Attend Dairy Meeting
Professor A. V. Moore and Dr.
W. S. Arbuckle will represent the
dairy husbandry department at the
annual meeting of the Dairy Pro
ducts Institute which will be held
in San Antonio Feb. 24, 25, and 26.
The-meeting this year will fea
ture an ice cream scoring contest
which will be staged in cooperation
with the A. & M. dairy husbandry
dairy department.
Sample of ice cream from Texas
creameries will be entered and
judged on quality, composition,
pasteurization efficiency and oth
er factors.
the respective samples scoured, but
call attention to defects such as
breaks in the wool, etc., which tend
to lower the selling value. Further
more, as a result of this service,
it is possible for wool growers to
identfy the types of sheep that are
producing the highest yielding
fleeces.
Since the establishment of the
plant, estimated shrinkage of Tex
as wools have been lowered several
points. Leading Texas wool grow
ers have been generous enough to
credit this laboratory for this low
ered shrinkage figure, which has
resulted in an increased net av
erage yield of Texas wool.
The annual Texas wool product
ion (unscoured basis) at the time
of the establishment of the wool
scouring plant was around 15 mil
lion pounds. Today, the production
of Texas wool is above is above 80
million pounds annually,, an in
crease to more than five times
that of 1919. These Texas wools
ard estimated to have an average
shrinkage between 61 and 62 per
cent, although some wools shrink
as low as 56 percent and others as
high as 80 percent.
Until after the establishment of
the wool scouring plant, progres
sive sheepmen had no way of esti
mating the grades and shrinkages
of their respective clips. As a re
sult of this laboratory, which has
entailed a large annual saving to
them, growers of Texas wools have
at their disposal a set-up that is
equipped to render an increasingly
valuable service.
The wool grading and scouring
service is under the immediate sup
ervision of S. P. Davis, a grad
uate of the Lowell Textile School.
Mr, Davis has also completed a
full apprenticeship in wool grad
ing with the American Woolen
Company. He has been serving in
this capacity since 1928.
Introduced
Tuesday By
McDonald
Passage of Bill
Will Enable A&M to
Resume Dorm Work
Tuesday a bill was introduced in
the House of Representatives by
Rep. W. T. McDonald of Bryan,
which will, if enacted, enable the
board of directors of Texas A. &
M. College to acquire land for and
construct and operate airports for
the college and its branches, in con
nection with the teaching of aero
nautical engineering.
Another bill introduced by Mc
Donald would empower the college
to construct dormitories and an
agricultural office building, and al
so to acquire additional power and
steam plant equipment.
It is expected, if this second bill
passes, that work will be resumed
immediately on the dormitories,
for which contracts have been let
and ground broken, but on which
work has been held up due to a
question regarding the financing,
raised by State Auditor Tom King.
The Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration has made a loan and
agreed to accept bonds, but Audi
tor King has raised the question
of sufficient income to liquidate
them.
The authority to build an office
building, if granted, will solve the
problem of housing for the AAA
and other federal agencies now
housed on the campus. The RFC
also has made a loan for this and
plans were approved by AAA of
ficials at Washington, but prog
ress was held up by a ruling of
Attorney General Gerald Mlann
that special legislative authority
was required by the board of di
rectors before a building could be
erected for anything but educa
tional purposes. The plans for the
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Tonsorially and Pictorially Speaking, Faces Have
Always Been the Stock-in-Trade for One Joe Sosolik
By W. D. C. Jones
-fto America and settled in Ennis,-f An ardent golf player, Joe is a
Faces have always been the stock
in trade for genial Joe Sosolik who
knows the physiognomies of more
than 20,000 A. & M. cadets who
have posed in front of his portrait
camera for the past 22 years. Al
though it would border on the im
possible for him to remember all
the names of his thousands of cus
tomers, he seldom forgets a face
or fails to recognize an ex-Aggie
as such.
The walls of his studio are lined
with examples of his art, any one
of which is better proof of his
ability and advanced training than
a dictionary full of words. The
most striking picture of the thous
ands Joe has taken is a view of the
entire campus snapped from the
top of the observatory tower. “Be
lieve me, it was real work climb
ing that tower with one arm and
holding a big rotating camera un
der the other one!” said Joe. “When
I reached the top, I was nearly ex
hausted. However, the picture that
stands out in my mind more than
any other I have taken is the one
of President Roosevelt and Dr. T.
O. Walton—with their mouths wide
open and laughing as hard as they
could.” (The picture he had ref
erence to was taken during Pres
ident Roosevelt’s visit to the cam
pus in April, 1937.)
Joe was born January 11, 1892,
in Zlin, Czechoslovakia, where he
lived for 20 years. His education
consisted of the compulsory six-
year course which was all that was
offered and was equivalent to our
grammar and high school courses.
As an apprentice he studied bar-
bering at Zlim for three years with
no pay, as was the custom. Since
the training was gratis, his ser
vices as a beginner in the field
of barbering were necessarily free
of charge and limited to such cus
tomers as could be persuaded with
in range of his razor. The hours
were long—from 7:00 a. m. to 8
p. m.—and the work was difficult.
In September 1911, Joe came
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“An Aggie Institution’’
Dr. Joseph Dunner, Noted Lecturer,
To Speak at A. & M., in Bryan Sunday
Nazi-Purged Writer
Will Address Hillel
Club Here Sunday Night
Dr. Josef Dunner, lecturer, nov
elist, and war correspondent, will
be presented at an open forum lec
ture Sunday, Feb. 16 under the
auspices of the A. & M. Hillel club.
Dr. Dunner will discuss the “Fu
ture of American Democracy” in
the light of the present world crisis.
Dr. Dunner will speak in the
morning in Bryan at 11 a. m. at
the First Baptist church and again
on the campus at an open meeting
of the Hillel Club at 7:30 p. m.
Like Thomas Mann, Leon Feuch-
trwanger, and many others, Dr.
Dunner is a refugee of the Nazi
regime because of his exposure of
Nazism. As early as 1928 he wrote
a pamphlet entitled “What is Na
tional Socialism?” in which he pre
dicted the downfall of German dem
ocracy. As a result he had to flee
his native land when Hitler came
into power.
Dr. Josef Dunner
In 1937 he published a novel “If
I Forget Thee” describing student
life in Pre-Hitler Germany.
Dr. Dunner is now making his
fourth coast to coast American lec
ture tour speaking on the Euro
pean crisis. His present tour is
sponsored by the B’Nai Brith Hillel
Foundation of American colleges
and universities, and is offered
free to the public.
THE SOCIAL SEASON
STARTS SOON
Let us dress you to look
your best during the
1941 round of social
events.
L
Texas, where he established his
first barber shop. While there he
became interested (romantically)
in a local girl whom he later mar
ried. After a year in Ennis, he
moved to Bryan with his wife and
there plied his trade for five years.
When the war was declared in
1917, he enlisted in the United
States Army but received an hon
orable discharge after two months
of service because of a physical
ailment. His brother, who was a
photographer, interested Joe in the
business, and, as a result of this
and the tiring labor of standing
on his feet day after day as a bar
ber, he went to the Illinois College
of Photography in Effingham, In
diana, where he later received a de
gree as a portrait and commercial
photographer.
Returning to Bryan, he establish
ed a studio there in the fall of
1918, and remained in business for
two years, but found that business
was much better in College Sta
tion. His first location here was
called “The College Studio”, which
was located almost in the middle
of the street close to the present
location of the Aggieland Phar
macy. Fire razed the building, how
ever, in March, 1923, and he was
forced to find another studio. Dr.
W. B. Bizzell, then President of
the College, allowed him to work
in the basement of the Mechanical
Engineering Shops until 1925, at
which time he moved to the second
floor of the College Exchange
Store.
Tired by the apparently endless
incendiary plague, Joe moved to
his present location in the fire
proof building at the North Gate
in October, 1934, and he has since
almost become a tradition.
familiar figure on the Bryan Coun
try Club Golf Course and recent
ly won second place in the Annual
Invitation Open Golf Match there,
being defeated by only a few
points by Aggie Henry Hauser. He
also enjoys swimming and a game
of checkers or chess, but devotes
most of his spare time to golf
which is his main hobby.
His only child, Helen, who was
born in Bryan, recently reached
senior standing at the University
of Texas; but she is more interest
ed in her father’s profession and
intends to take professional cours
es in photography in the near fu
ture.
Don’t Forget Her!
You can still wire
flowers.
Also a select variety of
corsages for the week
end dances.
WYATT’S
Flower Shop
Bryan - Ph. 2-2400
North Gate
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201, 310, 401, and 406
AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING
301 and 304
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
310, 314, 321, 410, 423, 426, and 430
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AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING
201, 305 and 424
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AGRONOMY
105, 308, 315 and 418A
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ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
202, 307, 406, 407, 412, 416 and 418
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106, 212, 214
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CIVIL ENGINEERING
201, 305, 311
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HISTORY
105, 106
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HORTICULTURE
201
MATHEMATICS
109, 202, 203
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202, 212, 220, 304, 307, 313, 320, 323, 338, 403, 410
PETROLEUM ENGINEERING
204, 306, 308
PHYSICS
202 and 204
POULTRY HUSBANDRY
201
RURAL SOCIOLOGY
201, 204, 315, 415
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