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THE BATTALION
Official Notices
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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Friday, March 14, 8 p. m.—"The Artifi
cial Creation of Speech" by Dr. J. O.
Perrine demonstrating “Pedro the Voder”.
Mar. 14—"T" Club Dance—Sbisa Hall
—9 p.m. to 12 midnight.
Mar. 14—Rifle Team Benefit Show—
Assembly Hall.
Mar. 20—Faculty Dance—Sbisa Hall—
9 p.m. to 12 midnight.
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
For the information of any students
contemplating Civil Service examinations,
information has reached us from the Civil
Service Commission that the State of
Texas under the apportionment plan is
entitled to 2,878 positions and that only
1,817 are occupied.
This is simply a measure of the avail
ability of Civil Service places for quali
fied Texans.
GIBB GILCHRIST,
Dean of Engineering
APPLICATION PHOTOGRAPHS
Application size photographs which ac
company personnel leaflets are ready for
the following seniors. Please call for
these at Room 133, Administration Build
ing, at your earliest convenience.
Alvin Cowling, Jr.; Arthur L. Harris;
R. L. Harris; R. G. Hill; Thomas M.
Horne; Roy G. Roberts; V. B. Stubbs;
James P. Towns.
Placement Bureau
Association of Former Students
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PERSONNEL LEAFLETS
Printed personnel leaflets are ready for
the following seniors. Please call for these
at Room 133, Administration Building,
at your earliest convenience.
A. Cowling, Jr.; W. F. Cummer; W. R.
Ellis, Jr.; C. W. Geelan; J. H. Ham-
brick, Jr.; R. L. Harris, Jr.; R. G. Hill;
C. J. Hopper; T. M. Horne; L. H. John
son; W. O. Keller; M. Mascorro, Jr.;
C. C. Mathews; B. E. Netherland; J. F.
Rogers; W. M. Roundtree; J. R. Scott ;
V. B. Stubbs; R. J. Windrow.
Placement Bureau
Association of Former Students
PHYSICS MEETING
The physics colloquim will meet in room
39, physics building, March 11, 7:15 p.m.
Mr. L. G. Lapham will talk on “The
Development and Uses of the Ultracentri
fuge".
Physics Staff
CZECH STUDENTS
The picture for the Longhorn will be
remade Tuesday at 12:46 on the old
Y.M.C.A. steps. All be present because
this picture is to be released to many
Czech newspapers.
A. & M. Czech Club
PRESBYTERIAN STUDENTS
The Presbyterian Students League is
giving a party in the YMCA parlor this
Thursday, March IS, at 7:80. All Presby
terian students are invited.
TRI-STATE A. & M. CLUB
There will be a meeting of the Tri-
State A. & M. Club tonight at 7:00 in
the new “Y". Cigars will be served.
Does "Professor John Smith” mean to
you a name alphabetically listed in the
directory? If so, then discover for your
self that he is a regular guy this Thurs
day at the Fellowship Luncheon.
ROY L. DONAHUE, Chairman
Legal Notice
ORDINANCE NO. 56
AN ORDINANCE REPEALING ORDI
NANCE NO. 3; SETTING THE DATES
OF THE FISCAL YEAR; DESIGNATING
WHO SHALL PAY TAXES; NOTICE OF
TAX RENDITION; BOARD OF EQUALI
ZATION; ASSESSMENT ROLLS; FIX
ING THE TIME AND MANNER OF
PAYING AD VALOREM TAXES LEV
IED FOR THE USE AND BENEFIT OF
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUN
CIL OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STA
TION, TEXAS:
SECTION. 1. That Ordinance No. 3,
passed and approved by the City Coun
cil of College Station, Texas, on March
16, 1939, be and hereby is repealed.
SECTION II. The Fiscal Year of the
City of College Station, Texas, shall run
from January 1 to December 81, both
days inclusive.
SECTION III. Every person, partnership,
or corporation owning property within
the limits of the City shall, between Jan
uary 1 and April 80, of each year, hand
to the City Secretary, as ex-officio as
sessor and collector, a full and complete
sworn inventory of the property possessed
or controlled by him, her, or them, with
in said city limits on January 1, of the
current year.
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LIFE INSURANCE
$5,000
You pay only one monthly premium . . . other
premiums guaranteed if policy is issued 30 days be
fore entry into military service. No additional cost
to you during service or one year thereafter unless
you still want your policy. No deduction from pay.
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and mail.
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WALTER H. PECK
902 Dallas National
Bank Bldg.
Dallas, Texas
SECTION IV. The City Secretary may
send notices by mail to all known prop
erty owners of the City, calling their at
tention to their duty to make the rendi
tions referred to in Section III thereof.
SECTION V. The Board of Equalization,
as prescribed by law, shall be composed of
three commissioners to be appointed by
the City Council.
SECTION VI. After the assessment rolls
have been examined and approved by the
Board of Equalization, the City Secretary,
as ex-officio assessor and collector, may
give notice by mail to each property own
er, if his address is known, as to the
amount of his taxes due.
SECTION VII. The advalorem taxes here
after levied by the governing body of
the City of College Station, Texas, each
year shall become due on the first day of
October of the year for which the levy
is made and may be paid up to and includ
ing the following January 81, without pen
alty, after which date such taxes may be
paid in the manner and subject to
penalties and interest chargee as are pro
vided in Section IX hereof.
SECTION VIIL If any person shall pay,
on or before November thirtieth of the
year for which the levy is made, one half
of the city ad valorem taxes levied on
him or his property, then he shall have
until and including the thirtieth day of
the succeeding June, within which to pay
the other one-half of his said taxes with
out penalty or interest thereon, but if
the last one-balf is not so paid, then such
unpaid taxes shall become delinquent and
a penalty of 8% shall accrue, together
with interest at the rate of 6% per an
num from July 1st of that year.
SECTION IX. If any person fails or re
fuses to pay one-half of the city taxes
levied upon him or his property, on or
before the thirtieth day of November of
the year for which the levy or assessment
is made, then unless be pays all of said
taxes on or before the thirty-first day of
the succeeding January, the following
penalty shall be payable thereon, to-wit:
During the month of February one per
cent (1%) ; during the month of March,
two per cent (2%) ; April, three per cent
(3%) ; during the month of May, four
per cent (4%) ; during the month of
June, five per cent (6%) ; and on and
after the first day of July, eight per
cent (8%).
All city ad valorem taxes, unless one-half
(%) thereof have been paid on or before
November 80th, as hereinabove provided,
shall become delinquent if not paid prior to
February 1st of the year next succeeding
the year for which such taxes were levied
or assessed and shall bear interest at the
rate of six per cent (6%) per annum
from February 1st, the day of their de
linquency.
SECTION X. Unpaid 1940 taxes shall be
considered delinquent as of February 1,
1941, except where one-half was paid on
or before November 30, 1940, and shall
be paid and collected as is provided in
the foregoing sections, is so far as ap
plicable. To all delinquent taxes for
the assessment year 1939 and prior years
there shall be added, at the time of
collection, a penalty of eight per cent
(8%) and interest at the rate of six
per cent (6%) per annum from July 1st
of the year next succeeding the year of
the assessment or levy, the date of delin
quency.
Passed and approved this the 6th day of
March, 1941.
ATTEST:
SIDNEY L. LOVELESS
City Secretary
FRANK ANDERSON
Mayor
Classified
MODERN ROOM for week-end guests.
Double bed, adjacent bath. $1.00 per person
per day. 334 Foster, College Hills. Office
phone 4-6504.
LOST—Will the Aggie who borrowed a
bicycle without a brake Wednesday around
Dorm 5 please notify E. Schrenzel, No.
20, Milner.
FOR SALE—1932 Plymouth 4-door se
dan. Looks rotten, runs good and priced
right. 128 No. 11.
FOR RENT-—Large room, two double
beds—adjacent bath. Phone 4-7064.
FOR SALE—1934 Ford Coupe, good con
dition. $86.00. Box 2041, College Station,
Texas.
LOST—Campaign Hat with red cord
in YMCA lobby Saturday night. Usual
reward. W. W. Thomas, P.H. No. 1.
FOR SALE—Four-room house. Midway
addition. Call E. K. Spahr, 2-i459.
LOST—A brown overcoat at Hrdlicka’s
Saturday night after the corps dance,
to Hill in room 82
Return
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Pedro—
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say “extemporaneous,” for ex
ample. No telling what Pedro
might say if an inexperienced per
son sat down at the controls and
pressed the wrong keys—it might
sound something like the tonal
equivalent of the typographical
etaoin shrdlu, or maybe worse.
While Pedro looks complicated,
his component parts are relatively
simple. He is made up, with the
exception of the keys used to make
him talk, of parts used in furnish
ing telephone service. The way the
Voder talks sounds pretty simple,
too, to hear Dr. Perrine explain it.
According to Dr. Perrine, Pedro’s
voice is made up of two kinds of
sound, just as is human speech.
Pedro simply produces these two
sounds electrically, and they are
shaped by operating the proper
keys and controls. The trick is in
knowing which controls to operate
when.
During the lecture, Dr. Perrine
will touch on the significance of
the Voder as a step in serious tel
ephone research, for Pedro is not
just a toy for whiling away dull
hours in the laboratory. With the
means of artificially creating
speech at hand, according to Dr.
Perrine, there is speculation on the
possibility of doing so at a distant
point. It is possible that some day
the words spoken into a telephone
may be converted into narrow
bands of frequency simulating tel
egraph signals which, in turn, at
the distant end of the line, will
control electrical currents to re
create the words of the speaker.
Since telegraphic signals may be
transmitted over a much narrowed
band of frequencies than is re
quired for direct voice transmis
sion, sending of telephone messag
es by telegraphic means would in
crease the number of speech chan
nels over telephone lines by meth
ods different from the present car-
Left Overs From Field Ball
Track Team—
(Continued from Page 3)
style to take down third place
honors in the shot-put in the San
Antonio meet which Texas Uni
versity also annexed. Thomason
was beaten by Isham of South
west Texas Teachers College, and
Stokes of Howard Payne.
The tables were turned on Roy
Bucek, ace Aggie hurdler, when
Owens, who was second to the
cadet star in the Border Olympics
in the 120 yard hurdles, won by
five yards with a fast time of 14.4
seconds.
The San Antonio meet showed
that A. & M. had a vastly impro
ved team than the one than ran
in the Border Olympics. Although,
not taking any first places, the
Aggies came through with enough
second and third places to assure
them a fairly high place in the
standings. Among the cadet cin
der stars that showed to a great
advantage included “Bama” Smith,
Felix Bucek, Jimmie Knight,
Ralph Henderson, Pete Watkins,
and Howard Ricks.
Baylor Mascot—
(Continued from Page 1)
leader: when Little Joe stopped,
they stopped.
They steered him into an open
shed and hurriedly slammed the
door. But with a ferocious growl
and a mighty wallop of his right
paw, Mr. College knocked the door
down. His captors hastily scattered
in the proverbial four directions.
Around and around they went.
Finally Little Joe tired of his
rambling and walked back to his
cage.
Watchman Loren Grantham
slammed the lock in place and
clicked it shut.
“Oh boy,” they all rejoiced, “we
caught the bear.”
Youth Rally—
(Continued from Page 1)
dale Methodist church.
Address, Dr. W. Angie Smith,
pastor, First Methodist Church of
Dallas.
Benediction.
rier systems.
The questions raised by this
theorizing cannot be answered
now, Dr. Perrine says. Pedro, who
creates speech sounds very well,
is the first machine of its kind
in the world, and much experi
menting remains to be done. How
ever, Pedro does have a long and
varied ancestry, since a number of
attempts to produce speech by me
chanical means have been made,
dating back to l n 80.
Civil Service
Exams Announced
The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced exami
nations for the positions described
below. Applications will be accept
ed at the Commission’s Washington
office not later than the closing
dates specified. The salaries are
subject to a 3% percent retire
ment deduction.
Junior engineer, all branches of
engineering, $2,000 a year. This ex
amination has been announced be
cause of the increasing need for
junior engineers in national de
fense work. Qualified persons who
do not have eligible ratings under
previous junior engineer examina
tions held by the Commission within
the past year are urged to file
application at once. Applications
will be rated as received until
December 31, 1941. Except for the
admittance of a senior student un
der certain conditions, completion
of a college engineering course is
required.
Inspector, engineering mater
ials (aeronautical), with salaries
ranging from $1,620 to $2,600 a
year, Navy Department. Because
of the urgent need for qualified
persons, this examination is an
nounced with modified require
ments. Applicants may qualify in
the following options: Aircraft,
engines, mechanical parts, aircraft
propellers, instruments, tools and
gages, materials, and parachutes.
Applications will be rated as re
ceived until further notice.
Supervisor and assistant super
visor of Indian education in mural
painting and fine arts, $3,800 and
$2,300 a year, respectively, Indian
Field Service, Department of the
Interior. Specialized study in fine
arts or as an assistant or student
in a painter’s workshop including
practice in mural techniques is re
quired, as well as certain exper
ience in the field of fine arts. Ap
plications must be on file not later
than March 31, 1941.
Instructor, mobile laundry, va
rious grades, with salaries ranging
from $2,000 to $2,900 a year,
Quartermaster Corps, War Depart
ment. Applicants must have had
experience in actual laundry op
erations including the use of mod
ern washing and drying machinery
and the preparation of laundry so
lutions. Applications will be rated
as received until further notice.
Full information as to the re
quirements for these examinations,
and application forms may be ob
tained from College Station, Texas
and Bryan, Texas. Secretary of
the Board of U. S. Civil Service
Examiners, at the post office or
customhouse in this city, or from
From out of the files come
these shots taken at the Field
Artillery Ball, February 28.
Russ Morgan and his nation
ally famed dance orchestra
played for the ball, which was
the opening of Aggieland’s
1941 social season.
Miss Natalie Scott of Cor
sicana, above, receives a trom
bone lesson from Russ Mor
gan while her date, Jerry
Sparkman, Houston, holds the
music.
Hendrix Merrill and Mor
ris Anderson were snapped
with their dates while dancing
to “music in the Morgan Man
ner.”
Morgan also played for a
corps dance the night follow
ing the Ball.
\
the Secretary of the Board of U.
S. Civil Service Examiners at any
first or second class post office.
-TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1941
T.C.U. Pins SWC
Baseball Hopes On
Unseasoned Pitchers
If an inexperienced pitching staff
should come through, T. C. U. will
have one of the best baseball teams
in several seasons, Coach Walter
Roach reports. The Frog varsity
starts diamond workouts March 1.
Preston Thompson, Fort Worth
junior, is the only letter pitcher
on the squad. Others who will take
a fling at the mound duties are A.
J. Brumbaugh, Fort Worth, squad-
man from last year; Ross Vader-
kolk, Milwaukee, Wis., who lettered
at third base last season; Jack
Billingsley, Fort Worth, senior
basketballer who will be out for
baseball for the first time; and
sophomores Trotter Adams, Pan
handle, and Paul Landers, Garland.
Other positions will be filled
with inexperienced men. Ralph
Tankersley, Terrell, will be behind
home plate. Richard Allen, Fort
McKinney, both lettermen, will
cover first. Dennis Tankersley,
Terrell, Connie Sparks, Panhandle,
and Bill Crawford, Fort Worth, are
letterman outfielders.
Paul Sorrels, veteran Fort Worth
sandlot star, will be on third. Glenn
Cowart, Dallas, is a two-letter se
nior at short. Second base, for the
present, is wide open.
The National Research Council’s
committee on food and nutrition
says it will cost less than two-
thirds of one cent more to pro
duce “enriched bread” than ordi
nary white bread.
Self-supporting fraternity men
at the University of California at
Los Angeles are about as num
erous as self-supporting non-fra
ternity men.
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