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Page 4- THE BATTALION Official Notices OFFICE OF THE COMMANDANT , CIRCULAR NO. 55: 1. The following changes in schedule of calls are announced effective 9 MAY 41 and 10 MAY 41, ONLY: lat Call Retreat 5:25 P. M. Assembly 5:29 P. M. Retreat 5:30 P. M. Mess Call Immediately after Retreat By order of Lt. Colonel WATSON. JOE E. DAVIS 1st Lt. Infantry Assistant Commandant JUNIOR M. E. STUDENTS There will be an important meeting of all junior M. E. students in Room 303, M. E. building at 7 o’clock Thursday night, May 8. It is extremely important that all juniors taking M. E. be there. CHANGE OF ADDRESS The Post Office Department requests that all students who do not plan to be here for the summer session, turn in their forwarding addresses NOW, dated the day they are to become effective. It is highly important that the forwarding address cards be filled out completely. It is ur- —FLOWERS— will beautifully express your love for your Mother on Mother’s Day • Seniors — the impor tance of the Senior Ring Dance requires the best Corsages . . . and for the best with prompt delivery call Phone 2-2400 WYATT’S Flower Shop Bryan Mother’s Day Sunday, May 11th Remember your Mother on “Her Day” with a charming, lasting gift. We have an outstanding assortment of gifts that will please every mother. Each gift wrapped in smart gift wrapping for you. . . No charge for this service. Watch her eyes shine when she sees HOLEPROOF Perfectly combined in Holeproof Hosiery . . . the beauty . . . the qual ity every mother loves! The newest correct shades. . . . We will help you select the proper col or and pack your gift in a gift box. 3 Pairs in Gift Box $2.85 2 Pairs in Gift Box $1.95 Single Pairs 79^ - $1.00 - $1.15 Visit our Ladies Acces sory Counter for Gift ideas. BAGS $1.95 to $2.95 GLOVES $1.00 to $1.95 ’KERCHIEFS 29^ - 500 - $1.00 r iTaldrop & (o “Two Convenient Stores” College Station - Bryan gently requested that those students who receive newspapers, magazines, or other periodicals notify the publisher at least four weeks in advance of change of ad dress. By doing this you will not miss any editions of your publications and greatly help the post office by eliminating this congestion of the mails. Convenient form cards for this purpose can be secured at the windows, free of charge. Patrons of the Main Office are warned that box keys must be turned in before you leave for the summer in order to receive your refund. To those students who will remain for the summer session: Box rent is due June 1 and by paying it before that date you will receive uninterrupted, effi cient service. ANNA V. SMITH, Postmaster. ENGLISH CONTEST The following have qualified for the English Contest examinations, which will be given on Thursday, May 15, 7 to 9:30 p. m., in the Library classroom: For the William Morriss English Con test for Sophomores: R. H. Benbow, Rus sell L. Chatham, D. B. Gofer Jr., O. L. Culberson, J. C. Denny, J. S. Durrell, W. J. Galloway, J. G. Goppert, Earl C. Hartman, R. R. Hidell, G. R. Thenn. For the F. M. Law English Contest for Freshmen: G. D. Boesch, R. H. Darr, David DuMars, Herbert Jacobson, D. F. Johnson, V. P. Kelly, D. S. Leventhal, O. G. McKee, K. C. Minter, Ross Staine, J. G. Swope, D. S. Ware, S. E. Young. Each examination will include a vocab ulary section, extemporaneous writing (with a considerable range of topics to choose from), and questions on course material. Copies of a circular listing the material to be reviewed in each course have been posted on bulletin boards 19 and 20 near the English office and at the door of Room 320 Ac. GEO. SUMMEY, Jr. COMMENCEMENT CALENDARS AVAILABLE Calendars have been prepared to ad vertise the A. & M. Commencement exercises on our campus and over the state. The First Sgt. of each organiza tion has been given 70 copies for distri bution in his organization. It is sug gested that students enclose one of these calendars in a letter home. If this is done, the state will be well covered. Ex tra copies may be secured at the Y. M. C. A. E. P. HUMBERT, Chairman Commencement Committee. INDUSTRIAL FILMS Industrial films available this week are: 1. AIR SCREW: a 16 mm. sound film showing the manufacture of propel lers in British aircraft factories. Time 20 min. 2. MORE GOODS FOR MORE PEO PLE WITH AUTOMATIC CONTROL: a sound film showing the advantages of automatic controls in industry. Time 25 min. 3. BUILDING THE PY-RECORD BREAKER: a sound film of the manu facture of an airplane. Time 35 min. 4. MOTION STUDY APPLIED TO FILING AND INDEXING SYSTEMS: a specialized silent film showing the prin ciples of motion study. Time 15 min. Film No. 1 will be shown Friday, May 9, and film No.' 2 will be shown Sat urday, May 10 at 10 a. m. in the base ment projection room of the M. E. Shops. Interested visitors are invited to see the films as part of the regular classroom instruction. Student Technical Societies or other departments are invited to ar range with us for the use of these films. The films are booked for an entire week and are ordinarily available on Monday through Saturday. INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT JUDSON, NEFF, Head MODEL AIRPLANE CONTEST All A. & M. boys that expect to enter the Model Airplane Contest on May 10th and 11th must register their models at the Aeronautical Engineering Building on Friday, May 9, 1941. Student Leaders (Continued from Page 1) president of the Bank for Coopera tives. At the First National bank, the cadets talked with F. M. Law, pres ident of the bank and also pres ident of the A. & M. board of di rectors, and John Scott, chairman of the bank’s board of directors. Next on the program was a visit with E. F. Gossett, president of the South Texas Commercial Na tional bank. The men were luncheon guests of Humble Oil Company President Harry C. Wiess, Board Chairman R. L. Blaffer, Personnel Director D. B. Harris and other directors in the dining room atop the Humble building. Motion Pictures Shown The cadets were shown the make up of a major oil-producing and refining firm through motion pic tures and talks by Mr. Wiess and Mr. Harris. At offices of the West Product ion company, the students confer red with Wesley West, vice pres ident. The A. & M. men then visited the Cotton Exchange building, where Lamar Fleming, president of An derson and Clayton, and Alston Clapp, vice president, explained the workings of the cotton form. Last on the itinerary was The Houston Post, where Publisher W. P. Hobby and Managing Editor Lloyd Gregory met the cadets and showed them the functioning of a metropolitan newspaper. Report of Col Becker “The things we’ve seen today,” METHODIST YOUNG PEOPLE A meeting of the Methodist Young peo ple’s Union will be held at the Meth odist Church, May 8, at 7:30 p. m. PRESIDENT’S RECEPTION The Deans, Directors, and faculty of the College and their wives are invited to the President’s Mothers Day Recep tion to be held on the President’s lawn at 8:00 Saturday evening. May 10. In in, in the Y. M. C. A. Lobby. Lay case of rain, the reception will be held IIIAIIII WE SPECIALIZE IN AMERICAN MOVEMENTS If the movement of your watch or clock is a for eign type that can’t be repaired—let us replace it with a fine American movement. Our repair work is most skillful, our prices considerate. VARNER’S Jewelry College - Bryan Campus Visitors (Continued from Page 1) Howard W. Barlow, the department will feature airplane construction and mechanics. Cadet Committee The eight cadets making up the Engineers’ Day committee, besides Bourn as chairman, include Edwin H. Ivey, Dallas, director of the chemical engineering division; Fred K. Nichols, Dallas, heading the electrical engineering division; La- Cadet Colonel Becker said, “have made us near-dizzy, and the things we have learned are as important as several weeks of classroom work.” All executives visited evidenced considerable interest in the uni formed cadets, most of whom will begin active duty with the army as second lieutenants following grad uation in June. The Agricultural Adjustment Administration has announced that a farmer can increase his acreage of tomatoes for canning this year without taking a loss in his Triple- A payments. Vere Brooks, Somerville, director of the architectural engineering di vision; Walter W. Sullivan, Fort Worth, guiding the aeronautical en gineering exhibits; Paschal Mar tin, Bryan, and J. C. McDuffie, San Antonio, directing the petro leum engineering division; George K. Carnes, Ferris, guiding the civil engineering displays, and John J. Walker, Crystal City, heading the mechanical engineering unit. A unique and unprecedented cli max to the Engineers’ day func tions will be the first musical com edy review in the history of the college. Sponsored by the Student Engi neering council, the show is made- up of seven skits, one presented by each of the engineering depart ments and will be staged in Guion hall Saturday night at 7 o’clock. Following the musical review and the annual reception at Pres ident T. O. Walton’s home, the Engineers’ day dance will be held in Sbisa hall with A1 Donahue and his orchestra playing for the func tion. Parents’ Day Functions Sunday will be double-packed with activities and thousands of Boot Day For Juniors When? MAY 12-13-14 Where? AGGIE CLEANERS North Gate What? BEST IN BOOTS Designed for Aggies Central Boot Co. 323 Alamo Plaza — San Antonio parents, most of whom will wit ness the previous day’s engineer ing show, will be honor guests at a full-dress, mounted review of the 6,500-member cadet corps at 10 a. m. Previous to the review the tra ditional ceremony of pinning flow ers on the lapels of cadets’ uni forms will take place. Mothers and sweethearts of the 57 organization commanders take part in this Ag gie custom. At 11:15 a. m. the corps and its guests will take part in a pro gram honoring mothers and fath ers in Kyle stadium, which will be followed by a picnic lunch. Sunday afternoon the dormitories will be open for inspection and at 2:30 the Ross Volunteers, crack military drill unit, will have their -THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1941 annual Mothers’ day exhibition drill. The weekend’s festivities will close with an hour-long concert by the A. & M. band beginning at 3:30 o’clock. Landscape Men to Be Garden Club Hosts College Station and Bryan Gar- dent club members will be guests of landscape art juniors and seniors at a presentation of colored movies and still pictures in the lecture room of the Petroleum Engineer ing building at 1:30 p. m. Friday. These pictures, taken this spring in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, show Southeastern flowers and flowering shrubs at their best. A fast game finished,..pause and After exercise, nothing is more pleasant than a refreshing pause with ice-cold Coca-Cola. Its taste is delicious; and a wel come, refreshed feeling always follows. So when you pause throughout the day, make it the pause that refreshes with ice-cold Coca-Cola. 5 < YOU TASTE ITS QUALITY Bottled under authority of The Coca-Cola Company by Bryan Coca-Cola Bottling Company GEORGE STEPHAN, President AGRONOMY SOCIETY C. H. McDowell, vice-director of 'the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station will speak to the Agronomy Society Thursday night at 7:30 in the Ag. En gineering Lecture Room on "THE VALUE OF RESEARCH TO TEXAS AGRICUL TURE.” Members of the Crops Team for the Fort Worth contest will also be an nounced. Everyone is urged to attend. A. I. Ch. E. LECTURE There will be a meeting of the A. I. Ch. E. tonight at 7:30 in the Petroleum Engineering lecture room. All members are urged to be present. CAMP COUNSELLORS Can secure employment for several boys as counsellors in Houston and Waco Y. M. C. A. summer camps. If you are interested, apply promptly at Y. M. C. A. on the campus. JOHN G. GAY A A U P The A A U P will meet — for the last time this year — in the parlor at Sbisa Hall on Thursday, May 8, at 7:30 p. m. Dean Brooks will speak on “Dom inant Objectives in Education, Obverse and Reverse.” Officers for next year will be elected. Refreshments will be served. PRE-MEDICAL SOCIETY Prof. Daniel Russell of the rural so ciology department will address the Pre- Medical Society tonight in the Biology Lecture Room at 7 o’clock. After the talk, plans for the club’s spring picnic will be discussed. NOTICE A special meeting has been called of the Ex-4-H Club by its president, Gra ham Purcell. The meeting will be to night at 7:30 in Room 135, A. & I. Build ing. The SMOKE of Slower-Burning Camels gives you EXTRA MILDNESS, EXTRA COOLNESS, EXTRA FLAVOR and 7&£ S/UOKES TffE 7WN6-/ t': NOTICE pe Francis Hall 5:10 Thursday afternoon to leave for barbecue at Mumford. PLEASE BE ON TIME. NOTICE If you have an appetite, forty cents, and a toleration for your colleagues, then you are invited to the Fellowship Lunch eon each Thursday in Sbisa Hall. ROY L. DONAHUE Chairman Classified FOR SALE—Complete furniture for four room room apartment. Includes Norge table top stove and innerspring mattress. R. D. Radeleff, 211 Foster Ave., College Hills Estates. RIDE—Round trip to Dallas. Leave col lege one o’clock Friday afternoon; leave Dallas six o’clock Sunday afternoon. 1939 Oldsmobile with radio. Price S2.00 round trip; $1.00 either way. See Gillespie at Room 113 No. 12, or McCullough at i^pm 120 No. 12. FOR SALE—1929 DeSoto 4-door sedan. Fine camp car in good condition. Price $60. Val Tomayko, Dallas County Project House or Room 10 Milner. RIDE FOR TWO TO AUSTIN—Laav- ing Saturday noon, returning Sunday night. 1940 Oldsmobile, radio equipped. See Tex Flynn, 57 Milner. FOR SALE—Chevrolet, 1934. Good run ning condition. $90. See Borer, Milner 10. LESS NICOTINE than the average of the 4 other largest-selling brands tested—less than any of them—according to independent scientific tests of the smoke itself TT’ROM George Washington to Washington U. it’s J. Camels for smoking pleasure at its best with less nicotine in the smoke. Flavor—you bet! Mildness—more than that: Camels give you extra mildness with less nicotine in the smoke. Obviously—it’s the smoke you smoke. No matter how much you smoke, you’ll welcome the change to flavorful Camels... the extra-mild ciga rette with less nicotine in the smoke. For convenience — economy—buy the Camel carton. CAMELS ARE THE SMOKE FOR ME. PLE/MTK | of flavor-and( J EXTRA MILD WITH LESS NICOTINE IN THE SMOKE X a t' am m ■SB 11 ip ■■ V ■ BY BURNING 25% SLOWER than the average of the 4 other largest-selling brands tested—slower than any of them—Camels also give you a smoking plus equal, on the average, to 5 EXTRA SMOKES PER PACK! R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, North Carolina Hi CAMEL : ' THE CIGARETTE OF COSTLIER TOBACCOS
